arts
Actress Goldie Hawn uses
laughter to fight image
Goldie Hawn is one of
Hollywood’s brightest stars.
Since the beginning of her na
tional career, as a dancer on
“Laugh In,” she has been one
of America’s favorite come
diennes.
“Laugh In” was not the
beginning of Hawn’s career
though, “I got a head start by
being bom into a very colorful
family,” she said. “My father’s
a musician whose family came
to this country when there were
still 13 colonies. In feet, his
great-great-great-great... how
Winter production
announces company
A view of Christianity and
Christians as outsiders and
“athiests” in ancient Rome is
the theme of Clackamas Com
munity College’s theater
department presentation of
Bernard Shaw’s “Androcles
and the Lion.” The play,
directed by communications
and theater arts chairman Jack
Shields, is based on the ancient
fable concerning the friendship
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Costuming
Properties
Sound
Lights
between a Roman Christian and
a lion.
The play is set just before
the year 100 A.D. and the
costuming and properties
crews have been conducting
extensive
research
to
guarantee historical accuracy in
clothing, arms and armor. This
has identified that there may be
a basis of truth in the legend.
The case and crew are ex
tensive and the list is as follows:
Roberta Ellsworth
David Harvey
Lynn Myers
w/Dianna Hardy
Charissa Smith
Donald Williams
Roger Nuffer
Jody Sherrill
Steven Berglund
w/Ed Degrauw
Etta Leonard
Victor Toman
Diana Bauer
Joseph Schenck
Patrick Sterling
Kristin Black
Terrie Kemp
Joe Maher
Sean Carlson
Jim Nicodemus
Robert Ems
Brett Bigham
Denise Schwehr
Eileen McDonald-Ferguson
Joe Maher
Ed Degrauw
Joe Schenck
.Brett Bigham
Roberta Ellsworth
Dianna Hardy
Lynn Myers
Charissa Smith
Soldiers.........................................................................Ed Degrauw
David Harvey
Donald Williams
Roger Nuffer
Lion
Androcles
Megaera
Centurion
Captain
Lavinia
Beggar
Lentulus
Nfetellus
Spintho
Ferrovius
The Ox Driver
The Call Slave
The Editor Of the Gladiators
The Nfenagerie Keeper
Retiarius
Secutor
The Emperor.
Christians.....
College offers film nights
The Associated Student
Government of Clackamas
Community College will offer
two films for viewing this week.
They will also run a baby pic
ture contest through Feb. 2.
Poltergiest: This 1982
release produced by Steven
Spielberg will be shown this Fri
day in the CC Mall at 7:30. Ad
mission will be $ 1.00 and ASG
will supply the popcorn.
The Incredible Shrinking
Man: This classic sci-fi film will
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be shown Jan. 13 in the
Fireside Lounge. The film starts
at 1:00 p.m. and there is no
admission.
Baby Picture Contest: Cur
rently enrolled students at the
College are asked to submit
baby pictures of themselves or
friends who are attending col
lege here. The deadline for
photos is Feb. 2 and the picture
must have been taken before
the age of four. Bring pictures
to the Student Activities Office
in the CC Mall.
many ‘greats’ are we up to? . .
. grandfather was the youngest
signer of the Declaration of In
dependence.”
Following in her family
footsteps, Hawn became the
youngest student at Takoma
Park, Maryland, School of
Dance. By die time she was 17
she was teaching ballet in her
own dancing school. “I also
handled all the business
details,” she said. “But in other
respects I was a slow starter,”
she said, “I was very, very flat
chested. And shy with boys. I
ran with a bad crowd for a
while, smoking cigarettes,
wearing eyeliner, looking
tough . . . and stiff kept my
reputation. That’s how shy I
was.”
Throughout her early
career—from ballet dancing at
10, playing Juliet in a regional
theater production at 16 and at
18 struggling in New York City
as an actress/dancer, Hawn
never forgot that the best way
to make points was through
laughter.
“You have to laugh at
your own weaknesses,” she
said, “Because the alternative
is no use at all. Laughter opens
up people. It breaks down
walls, ft’s our best weapon
against the ugliness we en
counter in the world.”
Laughter was also the key
to Goldie’s eventual success.
After dancing in several New
York Productions and even
starring in a forgetable Walt
Disney picture she was hired to
dance on “Laugh In” and to
announce an occasional skit.
That’s when Hawn’s talent
to make people laugh came in
to public view. During a reher-
sal she blew a simple introduc
tion three times and then burst
into giggles. The producer liked
Goldie Hawn
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.
her catchy laugh and from everyone else. Sometimes I
there on the challenge was to feel klutzy and little girlish but
make Goldie laugh spon there are other times when I
feel sophisticated ... In a
taneously.
Week after week they kept femine rather than a funny
dreaming up new ways to way.”
This “blonde” image con
distract Goldie while she was in
front of the camera. They even tinued to follow her even
had meetings on the subject. though she starred in some of
Every week she knew that the most intelligent comedies of
something strange would hap the pastyears. “Shampoo”and
pen but she never knew what.
“Foul Play” among them.
Of course this constant
giggling, her big eyes and
Following this Hawn
girlish face immediately started the project of starring
established her in the public’s and producing the international
eye as a so called “dumb hit of “Private Benjamin. ” After
blonde.” This was an image this blockbuster Hollywood
she would carry through most could no longer consider her
of her career. Even with the
“just a pretty fece.” She had
Oscar she won for her screen proven herself.
debut in “Cactus Flower” in
She is currently starring
1969 people still did not take with Burt Reynolds in “Best
her seriously.
Friends” and is working on a
‘Tm smarter than people new movie, “Protocal.”
give me credit for,” she said, “I
“Performing,” she said,
have moods and levels, like “(is) a natural part of my life.”
Benatar musses hair, hardens
voice for “Get Nervous” album
By F. T. Morris
Of The Print
I think I can say that this
has been a good year for
women singers and not have
the statement disputed; nearly
all the records released by
women this year have been
critical and commercial suc
cesses.
“Get Nervous” is the title
of the latest Pat Benatar
release, and the cover alone is
worth the money. For years
Benatar has complained about
her
“pretty-girl-who-
can-sing” reputation (her ex-
act words); on this album she
fights to alter that sterotype by
posing in funny and extremely
unattractive ways on the front
and back cover.
While her opera-trained
voice is still pretty, she sings
much tougher here. The only
complaint I’ve had about
Benatar is her constant jerking
at the end of notes, that high,
teary sound that Tanya Tucker
has turned into her trademark
(and a bit of a joke, too).
Benatar tosses that habit out
the window for the most part
and concentrates on perfecting
her tuff-chick persona. The
voice still soars, but in a much
coarser style.
Which leads to my major
dislike concerning “Get Ner
vous.” To compliment her
angrier singing, the band has
roughened up considerably.
They have even added a
Doors-like keyboard player,
Charlie Giordano. Of course,
some will find this a positive
quality, but I never claimed to
dike screeching guitars. The
harder sound is well done ,
though; it may not be my kind
of music, but at least they
know what they’re doing
(which is more than I can say
for most heavy metal musi
cians) . The only disappoint
ment is the fervered guitar solo
in “Shadows of the Night;”
this song is beautiful and
unexpectedly compassionate,
but it certainly isn’t loud
enough or wild enough to
merit this solo, which seems
almost like an afterthought.
“Get Nervous” probably
won’t make Pat Benatar
haters into fans, but fans
should enjoy it. It says nothing
that hasn’t been said before
and isn’t too courageous, but
there is comfort jn its
familiarity.
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