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Showtime! Cable television presents R-rated movies at home By HARRY ESTEVE Of the Emerald Sex has always played a leading role in the entertain ment business, and in the case of today’s TV programming you get what you pay for. The advent of subscription cable services has added a new dimension to family television viewing — namely nudity and explicit lovemaking scenes. Last fall, Teleprompter of Oregon showed a series of un edited movies on a Eugene commercial cable channel as part of an advertising campaign for Showtime, its adverti sement-free subscription ser vice. One of the movies shown was “10," a film that won fame for fledgling actress Bo Derek with a long scene of her in the buff. “10" contained several shorter nude scenes — most of them filmed through leading actor Dudley Moore's tele scope. Eugene's response to the programming was “pre dictable," says Tele prompter’s marketing director George Thorry. After the cam paign, requests for new sub scriptions soared, while com plaints were “minimal." Subscribers are undoubtedly attracted to Showtime’s uncut and uninterrupted R-rated movies — not necessarily their sexual content — because Graphic by Souix Anderson “most of the good movies produced are R-rated," Thorry says. Teleprompter never screens the movies it shows, Thorry says. “We don’t preview them first. We pay Showtime for that product and run what they give us.” Complaints usually concern the time certain movies are shown, rather than their con tent, Thorry says. “We try to show adult R-rated movies later in the evening," he explains, "but we can't go too late." Most complaints have been from parents with children who are worried that their kids may be viewing "adult entertain ment” at too young an age. "Lock-out” devices that some parents install to insure the living room TV remains off at certain hours can be purchased at electronics stores. “For as many complaints as we get for unsuitable material, we have an equal amount of requests for heavier stuff." That does not mean televised X-rated features are on their way, Thorry says. The movie-rating system has become more liberal about what it allows in an R-rated produc tion, but Teleprompter's “mid dle-of-the-road" may not be everybody’s idea of suitable family entertainment. Last year, the showing of "Coming Home,” a movie about a crippled Vietnam war veteran, caught flak for its graphic lovemaking scenes. On this month’s Showtime schedule is a movie called "Sex on the Run”, a grade-B box-office flop that features countless nude scenes, including a lesbian love-scene between three nuns. According to a brochure published by the Federal Com munications Commission, sub scription television services such as Showtime are free to transmit any previously-shown movies. The Eugene Cable Television Commission, the local regulatory body, also has little control over Showtime’s content. "We are mainly a complaint handling agency,” says com mission chairer Carol Baker. "Regulating television con tent begins to get fuzzy,” Baker says. "Especially where the First Amendment is con cerned." According to Baker, the com mission has received only one programming complaint in recent months, that over the showing of "Apocalypse Now," an award-winning movie about the Vietnam war. The complaint concerned the graphic violence depicted in some scenes. There have been no recent complaints over sexual content, she says. OSU warehouse will store genetic plant material CORVALLIS (AP) - A $1.8 million building that will store genetic material cloned from fruits, nuts and other crops is scheduled to open during dedication ceremonies Wed nesday, said U S. Agriculture Department officials. THOM McAN IS TALKING OPPORTUNITY!! Thom McAn, leader in the field of footwear merchandising offers excellent opportunities for graduates interested in the field of retail management. We've built an ever-expanding organization of over 1200 stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Our plans are to add 300 more stores over the next three years. This planned growth along with our present need for talented people spells OPPORTUNITY— • to enter our management training program • to receive promotions based entirely on performance • to receive an excellent earnings and benefit package. To find out more about our nationwide opportunities to enter our "Fast Track” management training program contact your placement office or send resume to: DAN WOOD 1213 S. VAN NESS SANTA ANA, CA 92707 A company representative will be interviewing on campus: APRIL 28, 1981 'flvcmvVh5:AY\_ A Division of Melville Corp. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer The $1.8 million Northwest Plant Germplasm Repository, the first of 12 such facilities to be built, will be used to collect and distribute germplasm, a genetic material taken from other plants and used to grow new ones. Horticulturist Otto Jahn, repository curator, said plants such as fruit and nut trees are grown from other plants, not from seeds, to make sure they have the same combination of genes. The germplasm is obtained from crop plants that are produced, or cloned, from other plants using techniques like grafting or tissue culturing, Jahn said. In Corvallis, the repository will be a national storehouse for small fruits such as strawberries and raspberries and for pears, filberts, hops and mint. The Corvallis repository was built with Agriculture Depart ment funds on land owned by the Oregon Agricultural Exper iment Station, which conducts research for Oregon State University’s agricultural school. It is located two miles south east of Corvallis on the university’s Lewis-Brown Farm. Ceremonies will begin at 1:30 p.m. and will include a tour of the repository. ASUO candidates to address forum The candidates in this week’s student government elections will address students’ concerns in a candidates’ forum in EMU, Room 167 at 12:30 p.m. today. The emphasis of the forum will be the problems of the ASUO programs, according to ASUO vice president Peg Peo ples, who is coordinating this week's elections. “There has been a lot of em MARKETING ASSISTANT RETAIL & FOODSERVICE Due to expansion, Ore-lda Foods, Inc., one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing frozen food companies, has excellent opportunities for Mar keting Assistants at our Company headquarters in Boise, Idaho. These positions involve training in all aspects of marketing. We are looking for MBA’s with up to two years of related work experience in either retail or foodservice marketing. We will con sider individuals with a permanent resident visa. Competitive salary, liberal benefits, and paid reloca tion provided. Send resume (including salary histo ry) to RUDY SANTOS, EMPLOYMENT MANAGER, ORE-IDA FOODS, INC., P.O. BOX 10, BOISE, IDAHO 83707. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/H/V phasis put on funding prob lems” during the campaign so far, Peoples says. However, she says the new ASUO administra tion will spend very little of its term of office dealing with the Legislature, which is expected to end its session early next fall. Candidates for ASUO pre sident, the Incidental Fee Com mittee, the Student University Affairs Board, the EMU Board and the Oregon Student Public Interest Group s local board of directors are expected to ad dress the forum, Peoples says. University of California, Santa Cruz JOIN A WILDLANDS RESEARCH TEAM In the Mountain West or Canada • Wildlife Research • Wildlands Research SUMMER 1981 Field Courses, 5 Units FALL 1981 Field Quarter, 15 Units Phone (408) 429-2822 or write: WILDLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE Cardiff House University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064
