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Paris Oct. 3,1976 15C Maggie's Farm by John edmiston This week's movies: Futureworld now showing One of the most prolific of the several topical songwriters who surfaced in the mid 1960s was Phil Ochs, whose songs carried a message of protest and a lot of anger in those turbulent years of the Vietnam War. Soon after that war ended, Ochs did too. He died about three months ago in upstate New hanged himself. "Esquire" Magazine's contributing editor John Berendt wrote a moving and painful picture of Ochs in the October issue of the magazine.

For those of us who lived through the Sixties it will add to a memory of those times following the Kennedy assassination. OCHS EMERGED at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, along with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Eric Andersen, Richard Farina, and Dave Van Ronk. He and his songs, like "Love Me, I'm a Liberal," and "I Ain't Marching Anymore," were considered hymns of the anti-war and civil rights movements of those years. He was hailed as one of the left's leading troubadors. The would all get together in the Village back then for songfests, with one week Dylan singing his "Masters of War," and the next Ochs singing "Too Many Martyrs." Sure once I was young and impulsive I wore every conceivable pin.

Even went to Socialist meetings Learned all the old union hymns Ah, but I've grown older and wiser And that's why. I'm turnin' you in. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal. Barricade Music, Inc. Berendt's article is fascinating.

He Ochs songs had lyrics worth listening to ones that were simple and direct and made their point whether with a heavy or gentle touch. Ochs didn't care how they came across, just so they did. HE WAS the most radically committed performer of the Sixties, several steps beyond, Berendt writes, Jane Fonda and perhaps about even with Dick Gregory. He wrote topical songs of protest and was as happy singing them at the barricades in Chicago in 1968 as at Carnegie Hall in concert. He felt they could both stir emotions and, under the right circumstances, he hoped, even provoke action.

He was a witness for the defense in the Chicago Seven trial, and even attempted to play one of those songs for Judge Julius Hoffman, who refused to allow it. Unlike earlier topical writers like Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers and Joe Hill or Leadbelly, who suffered through deprivation in the Thirties and Forties, the topical singers of the Sixties were whites who had never been to Vietnam. quotes Guthrie as saying that "you can't write a good song about a dust storm or a whorehouse unless you been in one." These singers, Berendt writes, were just questioning the values of their own class, but still were keeping a great distance from the suffering. My favorite album of Ochs' is his "Pleasures of the Harbor," released in 1967. It.

was a brooding album which revealed a hopeless situation a matter of knowing that people just didn't care, and trying to show that he didn't care they didn't. THE TITLE song is lovely but the one Berendt quotes is probably the most telling. in the prison of your broken bed, you dribble in a dream and find a queen, and find a queen. But your sleep is sadly stolen by a face that is a stream That's Rowing out to you; She's flowing out to you. But I've had her; she's nothing.

1966,1968, Barricade Music. Ochs' last years were plagued with both wanting to die and wanting to recover. He left New York City finally last summer, moving in with his sister and playing his songs for his nephews as payment for every five card games he lost. One morning last April, Berendt writes, his 14-year-old nephew found a chair missing, and "saw the door to the bathroom shut tight with Phil's belt sticking out the top." This one's for Phil Ochs. I'm sorry he's gone.

Musical theater course MUSTANG COUNTRY Joel McCrea and Nika Mina track a renegade stallion through the majestic wilderness of the Canadian Rockies in "Mustang Country," a family entertainment picture showing at the 271 Drive-In. ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE Dianne Hull costars with Paul Le Mat in "Aloha, Bobby and Rose," contemporary tragedy of a pair of star- crossed lovers, attempting to out-race the police after an accidental shooting. Preview DALLAS "Once in a Lifetime," Kaufman and Hart's comedy about Hollywood when the "talkies" were introduced, will open Dallas Theater 18th season Oct: 5 at 8 p.m. The play will run five weeks in the Center's Kalita Humphreys Theater with performances at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays and at 5 and 8:30 p.m.

Saturdays. The cast of 51 performers for the comedy is under the direction of Ryland Merkey. DTC resident professional actors Ken Latimer, Mona Pursley and Randolph Tallman star as a trio of vaudevillians determined to cash in on their "once in a lifetime" chance for Holly wood success. Six more plays will be staged by the Theater Center in. its Kalita Humphreys Theater this season, in-, eluding "Scapino" Nov.

16; Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," Jan. 11; the musical "Something's Afoot," Feb. 22; "Equus" May 31 (still pending release after world premiere April 19) and "Absurd Person Singular," an Alan Ayck- bourns' comedy, July 12. Season ticket subscriptions for the DTC may be obtained by calling (214) 526-8920. Reservations for "Once in a Lifetime" are available through the DTC box office (214) 526-8857.

The Center is located at 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. "Futureworld" highlights the films set for Paris marquees this week. A shiny new Delos, playground for the world's wealthy and powerful, reconstructed from the chaos created in Michael Crichton's "Westworld," will be seen at The Grand this week. THE FILM stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill and Yul In the film the adult playworld of Delos has reopened, following the deadly breakdown of robots which caused the deaths of many vacationers in "Westworld." Fonda is a newspaper reporter and Ms. Danner is a TV commentator assigned by their communications group to investigate the new operation because many of the world's most powerful leaders go there to relax.

At first they see a magnificently complex computerized operation where each guest's imagination is fulfilled. But soon, the reporters realize everything is just too perfect. Starting Friday at The Grand is another too-perfect world, the world of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," starring Best Actor Jack Nicholson and Best Actress Louise Fletcher. NICHOLSON is a free- spirited rogue who takes over the ward of a mental hospital by a combination of gall and ingenuity. Based upon Ken Kesey's celebrated novel, the film was produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas.

The film and the novel uses a metaphorical framwork, that of the madhouse to symbolize the individual against the system. "Young Erotic Fannie Hill" is the Saturday midnight show. At the Plaza, Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair star in the first and probably the classic of now several films dealing with demon possession. Starting Friday will be "Survive," a movie based on the true exploits of a South American rugby team which was forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive a plane crash in the Andes Mountains. The incident occurred in 1972.

ONLY 16 persons out of 45 managed to survive several days of brutal weather with little food in one of the most gripping stories of human suffering and courage ever told. At Cinema Al Pacino stars in another true-life incident concerning an August, 1972 bank robbery in Brooklyn by a pair of amateur criminals. Their plans go awry, the police arrive almost immediately, the bank becomes a fortress and its employees hostages. Pacino plays the slightly mad leader the robbers. The cast also includes Charles Durning, John Cazale, Sully Boyar, Chris Sarandpn and Susan Peretz.

STARTING Friday will be one of the best madcap comedies ever released "Silent Movie," with Mel Brooks by Mel Brooks. Now showing at Cinema II is "Gus," a Walt Disney 1'eature about a Yugoslavian mule who kicks 100-yard field goals. Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway and Edward Asner star. Amusements ie calendar FUTUREWORLD Peter Fonda is Chuck Browning, an investigative reporter, and Blythe Danrier is Tracy Ballard, a top TV commentator whose communications group sends them to cover events at Delos, a new resort for the wealthy, recreated from the robot-caused havoc of "West- world." They encounter more than they bargained for in a film now showing at The Grand. Musical Theatre, a continuing education course to be offered by Paris Junior f.

College, will begin on Monday, from 7 to 9 p.m. in I. the Music Building, with Charles Stephens, PJC music instructor, to teach i the course each Monday night for eight weeks. Fee is $20, to be paid one week in advance in the PJC Con- Film castings announced LOS ANGELES (AP) Film castings: Sidney Poitier will direct and star with Bill Cosby in a sequel to "Let's Do It Again" for First Artists and Warner Bros. Art Carney joins Billy Dee Williams in "Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime," a World Premiere Movie for NBC.

Bill Macy, husband of TV's "Maude," set to costar with Carney and Lily Tomlin in "The Late Show," produced by Robert Altman and directed by Robert Benton. Susan Swift, an 11-year-old Houston girl, will play the title role in "Audrey Rose," a thriller from Robert Wise for United Artists. tinuing Education Office. The course objective will be to study thoroughly PJC's Fall musical, and the State Fair musical, which the class will attend. Content will include casting, costumes, sets, salary, orchestra and how the musical is put together.

Class members will be invited to all rehearsals of "Oklahoma!" including the final dress rehearsal and performance. The fee does not include musical tickets, but class members will be eligible for student rates on tickets for the PJC musical, Stephens said. Reservations for the course or more information may be obtained by calling the PJC Continuing Education Office, 785-7661, extension 145. NOW SHOWING AT An Extraordinary Adventure into the Unknown SHADOW OF THE DRIVE INI HAWK OPEN WEEKENDS overs and Enjoy Your Football Season With Us Longhorn Club Holiday Inn member: and their guest. membership available.

Noon Sunday GRAND Now showing through Thursday: "Future World" (PG) Starts Friday: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," (R) Saturday midnight show: "Young Erotic Fannie Hill" PLAZA Now showing through Monday: "The Exorcist," (R) Closed Tuesday through Thursday Starts Friday: "Survive" (R) CINEMA I Nowshowing: "Dog Day Afternoon," (R) Starts Friday: "Silent Movie" CINEMA II Nowshowing: "Gus" (G) 271 DRIVE-IN This weekend: "Shadow and the Hawk" and "Aloha Bobby and Rose" Next Weekend: "Mustang Country" and "Other Side of the Mountain" Have you read it? DOG DAY AFTERNOON John Cazale and Al Pacino, who were both in "The Godfather," now star in 'Dog Day Afternoon" as amateur bank robbers on an incredible heist. The film is now showing at Cinema I. "NANTUCKET WOMAN," by Diana Gaine Kezia Coffin was the scandal of old Nantucket. She lived in the 18th Century as if it were the 20th. In 1740 whaling was the lifeblood of the island and the community was run by Quaker elders.

Women were meant to have children, pray and wait for their husbands to return from sea. Kezia didn't. When her husband, fifteen years older than she, shipped out to sea on a long voyage, she decided to be a merchant herself. The town was shocked by her clothes and her way of living. She soon made a fortune, and started to see the rest of the world and how it lived.

There really was a Kezia Coffin and this book is based on a Senator to make acting debut LOS ANGELES (AP) Georgia state senator Julian Hond will make his debut as a film actor in a Warner Kros. film based on the life of race driver Wendell Scott. Bond will portray a young lawyer working for voter registration in the South during the 1960s. memoir left behind by her daughter. "FOR THEM THAT TRESPASS," by Erncsl Raymond Set against the romantic backdrop of England in the early 1900s, this is the story of Christopher Drew, a noted dramatist and poet and also a model husband and father.

He has everything that life can offer, but he still remembers, when as a young man, he had an affair with a prostitute in London. She is killed by a jealous lover, an innocent man is convicted of the crime, and Christopher is afraid his career will be destroyed if he revels the truth. So he keeps silent. Now, years later, he is tortured by these memories and by fear he will lose his family and place in society if he unlocks the secret door to a scandalous past. The outcome is quite interesting.

"A LiF GOOI) THE SAM j. ERV1N 1 bib'grajjhy of J. Ervin of North Carolina. Remembered as the foxy and witty gentleman quoting Shakespeare and the Bible in the Watergate hearing rooms, Sam Ervin is much more than that. He is an enigma who has become an American folk hero.

Good reading. MARGARET BAKER, Director GRAND I SHOWS- SUN. FREE SPIRIT Jack Nicholson plays a free spirited rogue who takes over the a ward of a mental hospital in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" which begins Friday at the Grand Theater. l-CINEMA-2 WHERE' WESTWORLD" STOPPED FUTUREWORLD BEGINS! Friday 2605 CtARKSviLlE CINEMA I Sat. 9:00 Sun.

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