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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1969)
nniiiitiiifiiiiiniiiiin Weekend Review By CHRIS HOUGLUM Of the Emerald There’s a mighty offensive film packing them in at Oakway Cinema these days. A side-split ter called “Three in the Attic.” Supersaturated with gray ema nations— paean to man-child horseplay, that much-lauded as pect of fraternity life. Held over by popular demand. JESUS. Dig this (it'll keep ya laugh ing, I swear to God). We zoom in on this self-satisfied stud (Christopher Jones) who is Champion Make-Out Artist of the Theta Chi chapter of a small Eastern men’s college. Had fifty women by the time he was a sophomore, and now commands the unbounded respect of his brothers. Do you think they maybe have an honorary plaque with his name on it in the house living room? A perpetual possi bility, the way this guy moves. Ethnic Girl Friends Anyway, we have this too-cute, super cool, baby-faced superstud moving in on three girls from a neighboring women’s college. Yvette Mimieux is Target. One, followed in rapid succession by Maggie Thrett (a lovely Ne gress with a honeyed Southern accent and a predilection for calling our hero "boy ’), and Judy Pace, a Jewish semi-hippie who manages to play down her inhibitions and give way to her ID. But that isn’t all. Do you know what’s most beautiful about this situation? Our boy can give the time to all three of these lovelies without falling prey to that plague of fraterni ties worldwide — conscience. You know—no desire to settle down (that involves responsi bility, which is anathema); only the bill to maintain some kind of momentum through gratifica tion. Beautifully simple. ‘Generosity Plus’ So a day to day routine emer ges as Jones digs in lor the longest period of artifically-con structed adolescence in history. Prove your masculinity in ap proved fashion: lift a few with the boys, be cool with the girls until they really WANT it, at which time you may GIVE it to them—an exercise in virtue, of course. Generosity plus. But this lovely vision crum bles. Alas. In a pretty up-beat sequence, our three female put-upons, who have previously acted in the manner of little girls whose cra niums are filled with cotton candy, find out that Superfrat is not the exclusive property of anybody. They put their heads together. They hatch a plot. And they wind up imprisoning the darling of Theta Chi in the attic of their campus residence. With the idea of giving him everything he wants until he is —-ER—used up. Fraternity Ideal It would be really great if they left this embodiment of the fraternity ideal in his make shift prison until he promised to join the Youth International Party, foresake his sports jack et for a turtleneck sweater and his cordovans for Jesus sneakers, honor and venerate Steppen - wolf, and resist the draft. As it turns out, however, the dean of women gets wind of the deal, our hostage is freed (after i • TV Rentals (weekly or monthly) • Top Service (all makes) See us at 1680 W. 11th Ave. IU.,1 SJ. RADIO & T.V. SERVICE Call 345-4823 a few complications ensue and he spends some time in the hospital), and things wind up pretty ducky. Jones joins up with Mimieux on something of a permanent basis, and it may be conjectured that he will be come an exec and do everything society demands of him. This depressing prospect is perhaps the most cheerful as pect of a movie which features lines like “Seven nights a week? You’re lucky it didn’t fall off, honey.” Jones and his female co-stars slip easily into their re spective roles, but indulge in so much horseplay that they emerge looking less like profes sional actors than a series of poses. Perhaps this whole film is just a pose. And you’d better like it that way. If you can’t laugh at THIS film, you’re SICK. The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished Monday thru Friday, Septem ber to May, except during exam and vacation periods. Bi-weekly June thru the first week of August, once a week the last three weeks of August, by the Publications Board of the Pniversity of Oregon. Second-class postage paid at Eu gene, Oregon 97403. Subscription rates $9 per year, $3.50 per term. & .Special Sanitation TO ATTEND A SIGNIFICANT, RAPID READING PRESENTATION FRIDAY SATURDAY 7:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. CENTRAL LANE YMCA 2055 Patternson St. <§velwiHlocd READING DYNAMICS Division of Dynamic Education Centers 868 E. 13th Ph. 344-3154 r ft * t fe ft & ft' & i sfr' »• $ R e s, lr» •yV £* S I 4 rt. *r j“V; ■V f' fc\ £ I a' Two Pizza Parlors H (at the same location) Pizza Parlor On the Banks of the Willamette or... Sing Along In the Rollicking Atmosphere of (tWro , Pizza 5 Parlor 4006 Franklin Blvd. For Pizza to Go Call 726-4415 * ,-j :S :<« vv:. r>; sJ Csy.; r-4? ■ V'M 4 ■ " *• 75 jg
