ENTER TAINMENT OF OUR TIMESBY JOHN MYERS

I THE MOVIE SCREEN"POCKET MONEY" POSSIBLY

BUMMER OF THE YEAR"Pocket Money" GPPaul Newman & Lee Marvin

With stars like Newman and

Marvin it would seem impos-sible for a film to be as bad as"Pocket Money", but bad it is.

The acting is good, the photo-graphy is good, but that isas far as it goes.

In this story of present-daycowboys on a jaunt in Mexicoto bring back cattle, the dialo-gue lacks tremendously, the

humor is pitiful, and the sup-porting cast fail miserably.

Newman is shot as a less-

than-brilliant cowboy sufferingfrom a severity of hard luck.Marvin is cast as his bravadopartner. Together, they try to

hold the Him together but atbest, let their audience enjoyalmost two hours of seeingthem in scene after scene ofdesert, dust town, and bore-dom.

The movie has all the humorof a funeral, all the excite-ment of a forest in fullgrowth, and all the plot of aham sandwich. The most re-warding attribute of the film is

the photography. The framesare beautifully balanced andoriginal in sequence. The hard

part is that there is very littleinterest in their content. Themost beautiful shot of the filmis the ending scene. It is beautyin lay out, content, and thefact that is the end of another wise shuddering ' bad

fUck.

"STRAW DOGS" TALE OFVIOLENCE

"Straw Dogs" RDustin Hoffman &

Susan GeorgeDirector: Sam Peckinpaw

The last 30 minutes of"Straw Dogs" is possibly themost violent footage of filmever shot. The film in its en-tirety is good. It portrays,once again, Peckinpaw's beliefin the need of violence.

Hoffman portrays an ex-tremely quiet, withdrawn per-sonality of a mathemeticianwho has run from conflictsuntil there is no where leftfor he and his wife to go ex-cept back to England to a simi-deserted farm on the outskirtsof a peaceful village.

The film builds a suspenseand drama. Susan George,Hoffman's film - wife, showsher talent in the role of aflirty, uncertain, immature woman who has run eith herhusband back to her home toface old loves and old hates.The theme of the movie brings

"COWBOYS" TO STARTLEJOHN WAYNE FANS

The Cowboys GPJohn Wayne

John Wayne fans will be

startled and delighted with his

latest flick, "The Cowboys."It is as different a film forhim as "Straw Dogs" was forDustin Hoffman.

Wayne cannot get away

from coming across as the

tough, hard, westerner in any

film he does. The major dif-ference in this tale of cow-poking is the back-up cast. Themajority are boys under the

age of 15. Wayne plays WilAnderson, a cattle rancherwho, due to a gold strike, has

lost all his hands at drivetime. He is forced to go to the

local school house and recruit

12 of the greenest ranch hands

ever to tend a calf.The first half of the film is

the usual sequence of traininggreen trail hands in theirduties, feeling out the per-sonalities of the boys, andlaying the set for the secondhalf of the film which is un-like anything since "Lord Ofthe Flys."

The major shock of themovie lies in the fact thatJohn Wayne, cowboy supreme,is killed middleways In his ownfilm. The second half of thefilm shows revenge carried out

by 12 children one would sure-ly not want to meet in the

traditional dark alley. The rolesof the children are expertlycarried out with frighteningreality. The murderers ofWayne are taken care of with

planning, ruthlessness, and skilllearned and improvised.

The film is humor, tragedy,and horrow put down withskill, impact,.and meaning. Itis different-,thoroughly entertaining flick.

out the evidence that without acertain amount of violence andstead-fastness in one's beliefs,inserted at given points in one'slives, the result can lead to astand from which there is nobacking down.

The acting of both Hoffmanand Miss George is brilliant.The setting is well chosen andthe photography is beautiful.Dialogue and supporting scriptgives depth and added meaningto the other wise pure violenceof the story.

"Straw Dogs" should be seenand thought over carefully. Itshould not be seen and for-gotten. It takes a deeper lookinto the entire story to be fullyfeared and appreciated.

BLACK UNLIMITED

DISCUSSES JACK AND

JILL FOUNDATION

This week's Black Unlimitedpresentation will feature Mrs.Juanita Smith, Vice-Presidentof Jack and Jill Foundationfrom Atlanta, Ga. as the specialguest.

Jack and Jill is a programset up for school age minoritygroup "under-achievers." It is

directed at minority males. Theboys qualifying for the "JackBe Quick" program are oneswho have shown special in-terest and ability in certain

fields of school work and whohave not developed due to the

lack of teaching facilities. Theboys qualifying for the pro-gram are sent to Howard Uni-versity during the summer totake specialized training.

Black Unlimited will discussgoals of the program. MrsSmith will discuss the facilitiesand draw-backs of the or-ganization and its performancerecord.

LYCEUM COMMITTEEPRESENTS ELEO

POM ARE DANCE COMPANYNorth Carolina Central Uni-

versity's Lyceum Committeewill present a free concert bythe Eleo Pomare Dance Com-

pany at 8:15 p.m., Thursday,March 9, at B. N. Duke Audi-torium.

The dance company, which

is directed by Eleo Pomare,is a predominantly Negrogroup dedicated to erasing"confining stereotypes of Ne-

gro or Primitive dance."In 1961, Pomare won a

John Hay Whitney Fellowshipto Europe. Like many Negroartists before him, he was to

receive recognition abroad be-

fore achieving success in theUnited States. From 1962-1964, his newly formed Euro-pean Company performed in

Germany, Holland, Denmark,Sweden, and Norway.

On his return to the UnitedStates in 1965, Pomare revivedand expanded his AmericanDance Company which hastoured since throughout the

country. Among the com-pany's notable successes has

been "Blues for the Jungle,"created as a tribute to Harlemand performed on a uniqueninety-minute TV special forNational Educational Televi-sion.

In 1967, Pomare helpedcreate New York City's firstDance Mobile, serving as its

choreographer and artistic di-rector. In 1968 he foundeda Dance Workshop which isnow affiliated with his com-pany's notable successes hasbeen "Blues for the Jungle,"created as a tribute to Harlem

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Breaklight is one of thefinest volumes of poetry tocome out in the past ten years.It is the most powerful exam-ple of problems facing thevarious races of people in asingular section of the world todate. The authors making upthis anthology are poets inevery sense of the word. Theirwritings carry the ready from

primevil to present with tend-erness, humor, and tragedy. Noone could read this collectionof works without feeling emo-tion building mention all theexcellent works within thisextremely unusual volume.But, some of the major onesthat come to mind includeEpitaph by Dennis Scott inwhich he relates the death of aslave'"It was long agoAnd what can we recall of a

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'Shaft' Sequel 'The Big Bamboo' Rolls in N. Y.MGM has placed the sequel

to "Shaft", titled "The BigBamBoo!" before the camerason location in New York Citywith Roger Lewis and ErnestTidyman producing. GordonParks, who directed the phe-nominally sucessful "Shaft",and Richard Roundtree, whostarred in the title role, arecombining talents once againas director and star in theSterling Silliphant-Roger Lewispresentation.

The screenplay of "The BigBamBoo!" is by Ernest Tidy-man, who created the characterof the Harlem private detective, John Shaft, in his popu-lar novel. As with its predeces-

sor, "The Big BamBoo!" fea-tures a predominately Blackcast of performers, as well asan appreciable number ofBlack technicians and key crewmembers behind the camerasincluding Harry Howard, the

film's editor and Lee Bost,

head of the sound department.In addition to Roundtree,

Moses Gunn and Drew Bundini

Brown (one of Muhammad

Ali's trainers), who were in

"Shaft" and who will reprisetheir roles in "The Big Bam-

Boo!" the new film also intro-

duces Wally Taylor, KathieImrie, Julius W. Harris and

Rosilind Miles. The movie has

a projected 10-week shootingschedule in New York.

"ONE FLEW OVER THECUCKOO'S NEST"

CHAPEL HILL - Univer-sity of North Carolina senior

Richard Downing spends agood portion of his leisuretime at Butner Hospital. Buthe isn't there for therapy orto study psychology,of Richard has* been visitingButner to talk to people inhopes of bringing more realityto the play, "One Flew Over

the Cuckoo's Nest," which he

is directing here."Cuckoo's Nest," Dale Was-

serman' s adaptation of the KenKeasey novel, is about a "de-vilish" rogue who takes over amental hospital during a shortsentence there, and accom-plishes what the medical pro-

fession has been unable to do

for 12 years -- he makes anIndian, presumed deaf anddumb, talk.

Later, he leads a revolt sothat the inmates can watchthe World Series on television

University And College Dramatic Artsand arranges a rollicking mid-night party complete withliquor and girls.

A dramatic arts major,Richard is* the first under-graduate student to direct amajor Carolina Playmakers'production. Usually, Play-makers' productions are di-

rected by faculty members of

the Dramatic Art Department.Last year, however, the

Drama Department decided to

choose two undergraduates to

direct major productions^and performed on a uniqueninety-minute TV special forNational Educational Televi-sion.

In 1967, Pomare helpedcreate New York City's first

Dance Mobile, serving as its

choreographer and artistic di-

rector. In 1968 he foundeda Dance Workshop which is

now affiliated with his com-pany and provides training in

dramatic dance and live per-

formance experience for ta-lented dancers.

Later this month, the EleoPomare Company will be theonly American dance company

participating in the biennialAdelaide Festival, the Austra-

lian Government, and the Aus-tralian Elizabethan TheatreTrust.

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