The Arts ‘Same Time Next Year’ successful, Buckley says By Shelley Stone Of The Print Clackamas Community College’s first dinner theater, held last Thursday, Feb. 23, was “a big success,” Dave Buckley, Associated Student Government advisor, said. The event was presented by ASG and consisted of a full-course chicken dinner and entertainment by the Repertoire Theater of America. The performance was the Broadway hit, “Same Time Next Year.” “It was really successful, the audience laughed a lot, ASG SUCCESS—The dinner theater held at the College last and the students did a great week was a resounding success, Activities Director Dave Buckley job of getting the dinner said. The show featured the Alpha-Omega Players touring com- together,” Buckley said, ad ding “The dinner theater was pany" Photo by Joel Miller experimental. We did the din Two movies in town By J. Dana Haynes Of The Print I was wrong, of course. Selleck’s a fine character actor. His Lassiter isn’t that much different than Thomas Magnum or Patrick O’Malley (from Selleck’s 1983 “High Road to China”). He’s tough, handsome, good with the ladies, brave and has a good sense of humor. Within that limited frame, Selleck is talented and fun to watch. Now, I’d like to see him do something else. ner program to entice people into coming. It was almost sold out in the first couple of days.” The ASG is considering holding another dinner theater, and is debating on what performance should ap pear. The price for the dinner was $6, which did not cover costs, Buckley said. The ASG spent more money to hire the group and purchase the food than ticket sales brought in. In the future, they may keep the price at $6 for students, and charge more for faculty, staff, and community members. “I’d like to offer more things for students. We had a really good community turn out, a lot of staff members, and some students. I would I highly recommended Rose Moyer and Washington Square theaters. “Yours” is the story of Claude Eastman, maestro of the New York Philharmonic, his lovely, young wife and Italian starlett Daniella, and violin virtuoso Max Stein. Sounds fairly dull and up-standing, doesn’t it? Fortunately (for the audience), Claude is played by mad man Dudley Moore (“Ten,” “Arthur”), Daniella by Nastassja Kinski (“Tess,” “Cat People”), and Max by Armand Assante, (“Private Benjamin,” “I, the Jury”). Moreover, Max is having an affair with the wife of another character (played by Albert Brooks, who was so good in the prologue to “The Twilight Zone”), Daniella knows about it, Claude thinks Daniella and Max are sleeping together, and so he does the obvious thing: He decides to kill his wife and best friend. Now that is a sex farce! The plot (based on a screenplay by Preston It’s such a joy to present two movies in one review with resounding applause for both. Such is the case with “Lassiter” and “Unfaithfully Yours.” One of the most enduring and endearing character-types in fiction is the gentleman rogue. “Lassiter,” star ring Tom Selleck, is a worthy addition If, on the other hand, your tastes to the list. run toward comedy, then “Unfaithful “Lassiter” is far from the most ly Yours” is the choice. original flick ever made. However, You know those advertisements since expecting originality from that show us a Before and After! Well, Hollywood is a lost cause, that flaw picture then an ad for How To Make A can probably be overlooked. Sex Farce. For the Before, see “Blame Nick Lassiter follows in the grand, it on Rio,” which manages to give us shadowy tradition of Raffles, the lots of nudity and double-entendres, Saint, Alexander Mundy, and John but no script, tissue-thin characters Roby. He’s a professional cat burglar and absolute predictability. who always looks like he just stepped Then, for the After, see “Un off the cover of “Gentlemen’s faithfully Yours,” currently playing at Quarterly.” Clackamas Town Center, Broadway, The story takes place in London, just prior to World War II. Scotland Yard and the FBI frame Lassiter with a fake armed robbery charge and blackmail him into stealing a shipment of unset diamonds from the German embassy. Standing in our hero’s way is a sadistic nazi courier, Countess Kari von Fursten, played by Lauren Hutton (“American Gigolo”) and a bull headed detective (Bob Hoskins) who plans on giving Lassiter 20-to-life even if he helps them out. “Lassiter” is truly lightweight fair. It combines elements of “To Catch a Thief/’ “The Sting,” and “Casa Blanca,” and adds slick action and pure-bad nazi’s (boo hiss) for a comic book-ish effect. Selleck is quite good. Like Robert Redford a decade or so ago, my initial reaction to Selleck was “Well, here’s another pretty boy with flexing biceps and perfect teeth. Too bad they don’t GENTLEMEN ROGUE—Nick Lassiter (Tom Selleck) at- have to act to get good roles.” tempts a getaway from trouble in 1930’s London in Page 4 have liked to see more students,” Buckley said. The ASG plans to send out a questionnaire to all who attended, asking for sugges tions on what kind of acts should be brought to the Col lege. Members of the staff who attended were enthusiastic about the event. “I thought it was excellent and pur friends who went along with us agreed. The actors were very professional and the dinner was delicious,” staff member Suzy Alexander said. Laurita Semke, another staff member added, “I hope they’ll have more. The students who served the food did a great job. The food was good and the play was ex cellent.” Sturges and written by Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson and Robert Klane) is spot-on, the timing (courtesy of the fine cast and director Howard Nieff) is slap-dash fast, and the humor broad and slapstick. The attitude of some film makers seems to be that sex farces consist of lots and lots of mammary glands, pro perly unclad, and nothing much else besides. Nonsense! A sex farce is a delicate thing, and to be funny it has to have scads of talent on and off screen, perfect timing and a sure-fire script as well as a few mammary glands, but there is very little nudity in “Yours.” Assante and Kinski are so perfectly sexy when fully clothed, none is need ed. “Unfaithfully Yours” is the fun niest movie I have seen in a good long time. More than once, the showing we attended was interrupted by applause t from the audience. When was the last time you saw that? “Lassiter,” co-starring Jane Seymour and Lauren Hutton, Clackamas Community College