Point News, 1993 April 20

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MOVIE COD
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So “Indecent Proposal” finally
opened in Lexington Par*,, after
making more than $20 million in
its first weekend. 1 Whaf distin­guished
this week’s trek to the
; ino;we£^^
the film but theviewing experience
: ’itif the film,. Believe ii or not* the
ding dongs at thetheater actually
| put the film into the projector back-wards.
That’s right* backwards*
So during tfffij^eviews, the screen
::;would have a m^orimage whstt
:: was supposed tobe seen and there
would be no sound* What was
really amazing was that the theater
management took 5 minutes be* |
lore they even stopped the film to
fix it Pretty bright, huh?
The plot to ’“Indecent Proposal”
should sound pretty familiar to all of
. you TV T1M„. oh I mean TV6 fens
out there, Demi Moore and {gasp—}
Woody H anlon a ie :^ love
k -and & debt T>ey drive oat to Las
Vegas to win big backs but they lose
their proverbial shirts* During this
trip they meet billionaire Robert
• • • Refold who lusts oyeriMbcffe :and:.
offeis a million dollars for one night
of nooky (or k itnooide?). Moore and
Harrelson.first say'W* but quickly
change their mind because they want
money*;-^teraUi they believe that
they will be able tofoj^getabout what­ever
happens,
f £ Sort of sounds like oft-repeated on
TV6 honeymoon in Vegas,,” -huh?
There are ..some 3 illh en^« 1 ?^
there are no :Blyis: impersonators
<sorry!>, Second, where “Honey-mooo*
endswithNi<Ju>ta$Cagehook-ing
back ap with Sarah Jessica Parker*
this fUm is-only balf over* You see,
they caa’t put ibis ^ckiefice behind:
: dwnt: 'iJTie past: witb;Red£ord cbntin*
ues to haunt them because .Redford
never getsbut of their lives,.;:;.
OeneraStly peaking, the film isoJc*
bat I hiave;: a few comments, ; Fir&
who really believes that Demi would
evermarryWoody. I thought Woody
; WM:;an^^ Men’ CanY
Jump* and t don't think he is much
better here* Be is such a big dork on
the screen (e>g* his facial expression
during the sex scene with Rosie Perez
in'“White Men”) that I cannot take
him seriously. In this Him, they:
. slipped some:glasses on this man to
make him look older and more ma­ture*
ibiit he MS. isjust tryingto be a.
seri^;Woody front “Cheers” but
M s miserably* To say the least It j
was aa«^<fci»e for
by disbelief for this fifcn.
Second, this -film has; a.|slapped|
on the last second’’:ei^irig-:. - Wbat ^
that means is that the film;.mOyes.
arid develops .for:a hour, and aliall.
(and pretty well actaaliy) aod then
the Erector r e a ta that be must i
conclude the picture si about ten
minutes. So he n^cally. miakes;:
sure that every turns outoJc. in one
or two scenes. 1 hate this so much
in a film*. It is bad enough , that
nearly everything about (bis Sim is
predictable but is it too much to ask
thatttjeconciusimmakesomeiog^l
cal sense with the rest of the film?
Apparently it is.
Asfor positive notes, bothMoore
and Redford are convincing in their
roles. Thste is a nice touch of
comic refief through the attorney
friend of Harreison* He negotiated
the sex contract on the behalf of
Moore and Barrels on among other
things. And as I mentioned above,
: :the film moved at a good pke and
didt^tdr^gmuch. Most of the first
3/4thsof the fitoiiis u>ld effectively
through by narration of both Moore :
: :imd:Haxrelsoa*; Often ifcis & a tech*
niqtte used to cover up d^icrencies
in aplot, bat I think it worked here,
;:| -Overall,thefilmiso.ku.$20mil-lion-
plus inoneweekendO.K.? No*
but it is good enough to see once in
arrives on video in a few months* f!
INDECENT PROPOS AL
- Directed by Adrian Lyne
* Rated “R”
- Movie6odrates2TEDS out of
j fear
The Point News April 20,1993
Veteran Actor Gaiy Sloan to
star in Macbeth at SMC
Pianist Brian Ganz to perform two
concertos in evening concert on April 28
PIO
public information office
Gary Sloan, a veteran actor of both
stage and screen, will play the titlerole
in the upcoming production of Wil­liam
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at St.
Mary’s College.
The play opens at St. Mary’s Col­lege
on Thursday, April 22, and runs
April 22-25 and April 29-May 2. Per­formances
take place at 8pm except
Sundays at 2pm. A
post-play discussion
with the play’s direc­tor
and cast will fol­low
the Saturday,
April 24 perfor­mance.
Tickets canbe pur­chased
at the door or
in advance and cost
$5 general admis­sion,
$3.50 for stu­dents
and senior citi­zens.
For tickets, call
the college box office Garv
at 301-862-0243.
Sloan, a well-known actor with a
huge classical repertoire, has per­formed
in numerous Shakespearean
productions, including “Richard HI,”
“Romeo and Juliet,” and “A
Midsummer’s Night Dream.” He has
also appeared in such varied produc­tions
as “The Glass Menagerie,” “K-
2,” and Sleuth” and in the day time
soap operas “The Guiding Light,” “As
the world turns,” and Search for To­morrow.”
“We’re blessed to have such a well-established
actor,” says Michael-Ellis
Tolaydo, the play’s director, “who can
pass on to students what theater in the
professional world is actually like.”
Tolaydo, himself a veteran of the
theater, has performed in and directed
many productions at the Shakespeare
Theater at the Folger. For this produc­tion,
he has stage a very non-tradi-tional
version of “Macbeth” that takes
place some time in the future. Also, he
has cast several of the male characters
to be played by women and women
and, in doing so, hopes to investigate
some of the gender issues in the play.
For those not familiar with the play,
“Macbeth” tells the story of a highly
imaginative, ambitious, and con­science-
stricken nobleman whose
character is revealed through his driv­ing
ambition. When the opportunity
forpower is presented to him. he com­mits
his first crime. Later, he is forced
into utter degradation in order to con­ceal
that first evil step.
The play raises
questions about why
societies collapse and
what happens when
they do. Tolaydo
hopes to address these
issues and to explore
such questions as “Is
evil natural?” and “Is
good created to pro-tectoneselffromevil?”
But don’t expect any
answers. Tolaydo
promises only to raise
Sioan the questions and ex­plore
them.
Serving as technical director and
scenic/lighting designer for the play is
David W. Fura.
Performing in theplay are St. Mary’s
students Catheryn J. Brockett, Garrett
Brown, Jenelle Brown, Walter J. J.
Bartas, Anne Caston, Rae A.
Edmonson III, Bill Gillett, Chris
Hiliard, Kevin Hollenbeck, Mark K.
Koscielniak, Rachel Lawrence, Erin
E. Madden, Elizabeth Pickard,
Caroline Reich, Edna Reidesel, Kerry
Richards, Eric Schoen, Kevin Stanton,
Bryant J. Stukes, Jill Magee Susarrey,
and Steve Wannall.
Also performing in the play are
community members Nancy Leary,
Jonathan Osborne, andDominic Vote.
St. Mary’s students on the technical
crew include Amy Forsberg, costume
designer, Kimberly Owens, assistant
stage manager, David M. Smith,
sistant lighting designer; Marta
Suarez, assistant stage manager, and
Tamara Swanson, stage manager.
PIO
public information office
Brian Ganz, an internationally
acclaimed pianist, will neat audi­ences
to a rare musical experience
when he performs tow concertos
during his final evening concert of
the spring season at St. Mary’s
College on Wednesday, April 28,
at 8pm in Montgomery Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the
public.
For his evening recital, Ganz will
perform Rachmaninoffs “Second
Piano Concerto” and Mozart’s “Pi­ano
Concerto #20 in D Minor,” K.
466. Playing with Ganz will be Brian Ganz
pianist Xak Bjerken, a colleague of
Ganz from the Peabody Conserva­tory,
who will perform the piano
reduction of the orchestral score for
both concertos.
Ganz, who serves as head of the
college’s piano faculty, is the win­ner
of several major international
piano competitions. In 1989, he won
the Marguerite Long-Jacques
Thibaud international piano com­petition
in Paris and, in 1991, he
received the Silver Medal at the
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium inter­national
piano competition.
For more information on this and
other music programs at St. Mary’s
College, call 301-862-0231.
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The Mid-Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, a professional ensemble featuring the renowned conductor and
violinist Yuval Waldman, performed a concert titled The Legacy o f Thomas Jefferson, featuring some of
the works from the Jefferson Library at Monticello last Thursday, April 15,1993. The program
featuredAmerican Revolutionary songs, Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major, Folari’s New Work for Tibetan
Instruments and Orchestra, and McKinley’s Eight Minatures for Trumpet, Basoon, and Strings. Concert
seerers Brooks Scoville and Chris Heun raved, “I laughed, I cried. It was better than Cats. I’m going to
see it again and again and again.”