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Page 46 Austin. TVxas The utin Wriran Stalesman Thursday, April 25, 197 1 porie Review: A Closer Look at 'Sugarland Express' Texas Film Enthralls by Embellishing the Facts occurred during the original the situation. He is the most convincing as a Texas local, who really never handled any such matters in his life. Johnson is good as the low-key authority, the kindhearted man who realizes that the Poplins are really just young kids who don't comphrehend what they've gotten into. Atherton also does well as the desperate, but unflinching husband who moves at the command of his wife.

Spielberg's personal touches do enrich the movie with accurate and beautiful photography provided by the talented Vilmos Zsigmond Hiii ii MICHAEL SACKS, AS TEXAS PATROLMAN, IS KIDNAP VICTIM Ooldie Hawn and William Alherlon star as fugitive couple in "Sugarland Express" 'Non-Profit' Advice mi Arts Financing Seminar if SANDS Monday it Mti't lik RigM cow lor stat nta e4u TS Uottcortof Wits. 2 frtt ki(kkaUi Moil. Tkar. Mo cow ckir0 Mo. Sat.

chase. On May 2, 1969. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dent kidnaped and held at gun-point for 11 hours Patrolman Kenneth Crone during a 300-mile chase from Port Arthur to Wheelock (near Bryan).

Crone was forced to drive the couple in his patrol car with Dent in the front seat, and his wife. Ha Faye, in the back seat, both with guns trained on him. Department of Public Safety Major Jerry Miller, then a captain: and Crone's supervisor, began to follow the patrol car, ending with about SO cars of officers and many newsmen following, also. The chase at times reached 100 miles an hour. Dent demanded that Crone drive the couple to Wheelock so Ila Faye could visit her two children by a previous marriage, who were living at her father's house.

Several Texas lawmen and an FBI agent were sent to Dent's father-in-law's house during the chase. Dent offered to release Crone if the DPS would give him a 15-minute head start on the convoy of cars. Miller entered the front door. Spotting the officers he dived to the floor and the Hie Country Dinner PRESENTS Joseph Cotten IN The Reluctant Debutante the hilarious hit comedy BURNETT RD. N.

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April 23-27 i i i 504 E. ONLY The worlds of accounting and fine arts will come together in Austin Thursday and Friday in a seminar designed to cast light on the intricacies of financial management for arts organizations of the State of Texas under the joint sponsorship of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a state agency. Purpose of the seminar is to provide non-profit, cultural institutions with guidelines for making the most of their financial resources, according to the sponsors. It is designed to help museums, repertory theaters, symphony orchestras, dance companies, and art groups better understand their financial OlBBBBBBBW aiat tit VI At th It Mi Monday Thursday April 22nd 25th 29th, also May 2nd MEXICAN BUFFET QCe WITH THIS AD 99 ONE MEAL PER AO condition. The seminar will cover topics of practical information to aid arts management personnel to make the best possible use of their resources.

Presentations on budgeting techniques, bookkeeping and accounting methods, preparation of financial statements, and internal control procedures will be made by certified public accountants and management specialists who have extensive experience with nonprofit organizations, Co-chairmen of the event are Eugene Tschoepe, partner, Ernst Emst, Austin, and Maurice D. Coats, executive director of the Texas Commission on Arts and Humanities, Austin. will be singing, along with a girls quartet and ensemble. Selections will include numbers from "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and an assortment of pop and folk music. An exhibit of art work from sixth, seventh and eighth grade students will be on view in conjunction with the program.

A variety of work drawings, collages, paper batiks, crayon designs, pen and ink drawings, prints and mixed media will be on display, and awards will be given to the outstanding works in the exhibition. a run-down old Buick, which attracts the attention of young Texas Patrol Officer Maxwell Slide (Michael Sacks) who stops the vehicle for being a hazard to other cars. Panicking, Lou Jean leaps to -SUGAftLANO' A Universal picture in technicolor: produced bv Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown; directed bv Seven Spielberg; story by Spielberg. Hal a-rwraod and Matthew Robbins.

Fiinnino time: hour, 49 minutes. Siting: PG. At Twin Cinema Screen I. Lou Jean Poolin Goldie Hawn Captain Tanner Ben Johnson Slide Michael Sacks Clovis William Atherton Mrs- Loony Louise Latham the front seat and guns the car down the road, with Slide close behind. She loses control of the car and crashes into a tree.

When Slide approaches the scene to help the couple, Lou Jean grabs his gun and he is forced to the back seat of his patrol car, all the while reminding his captors of the felonies they are committing by kidnaping him. After the initial confusion wears off, the police realize that one of their own has been kidnaped and Highway Patrol Chief Captain Tanner (Ben Johnson) orders a chase to begin. The chase gradually attracts the attention of all in Texas and more than 200 patrol cars and newsmen pursue, with the townspeople lining the streets and cheering (both cops and fugitives) the heroes and anit-heroes. However, the wrong turns in the fictionalized version lie in the attempts to popularize the original story for audience hipe and appeal. In "The Sugarland Express" the Poplins and Slide eventually become friends (or more relaxed acquaintances) and even maintain a friendly running conversation with Capt.

Tanner. Facts to be known, the friendly atmosphere never TUES. SAT. DOUG SAHM and FRIENDS (With horn section) DANCING BODY SHOP The GEORGETTE DANTE "A return engagement by audience request." B. Shop Mgml "The most dynamic exotic oct I've had the pleasure of working with." Kathy Storr SHOWTIME 8:00 HAPPY HOUR 370t N.

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The company agreed to make some changes in the script, but the final draft had little resemblance to the actual occurrences. Granted that Spielberg saw the need to rework his story to attract an audience. But deliberate exploitation of a stereotype of Texans is more a put-off than an attraction. The enjoyment in the film comes from the characters, and the actors as they developed them. Miss Hawn is outstanding as the frenetic, naive gum-chewing Lou Jean, whose only goal is to retrieve her baby, and getting as many Texas Gold Stamps as possible.

Sacks is also excellent as the patrolman, not quite tough enough to act with authority in 8 SKYLINE I "OVER 29" CLUB Singles Couples Public "over 29" Invited Tie, Please Music by RIVER CITY pttpki "TAURUS ZODIAC BALL" Comio Friday ROY ROBBINS THI AVAIIABIES 836-9915 PUD OiMor 6:00 Till 10:00 TILL 6.00 p.m. AUSTIN'S FINEST COUHTRY-WESTIRK OAKCE CLUE prtsiittt JESS DEMAINE and the COUNTRY MUSIC REVUE MIXED DRINKS 1 10TTLEO BEER FRIDAY APRIL 26 8:00 P.M. SHOW AND DANCE Presents NELSON HATTERS, RIVER CITY INN, DISCOUNT RECORDS. Wheatfield AN EXCITING COUNTRY ROCK GROUP FROM HOUSTON. JOIN US! MB 1 11-11 Custom Cooking rmmmmmammmmmmei FEATURING AT lUNCh tne RAGTIME PIANO OF BRUCE FAUICONER THIS WEEK TOWHES VAN ZAtlDT and By SUSAN WHITE Amusements Staff Following the latest fad of using Texas bounty and color, another movie-about-Texas, "The Sugarland Express" is now in the theaters, regaling the audiences with its colloquial humor and tragedy about a true event that occurred in 1969.

Director Steven Spielberg has developed a fiction-based-on-fact film with all the dramatic twists and pathos that so beguiled the audiences in "Bonnie and Clyde." But fact and fiction become a bone of contention when placed side by side in the cops-and-fugitives thriller. For fact has been glossed and glittered until the fiction seems incredible. The story spins-off from an actual kidnaping of a Texas Highway Patrolman in 1969 by couple who ran from police when stopped for a traffic violation in Port Arthur. Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) helped her husband Clovis (William Atherton) escape from a minimum security prison so they could get their child, Baby Langston, taken from them by the welfare department. The baby, now in Sugarland, had been removed from her custody because she was declared an "unfit mother" while she had been in prison a few months earlier.

The Poplins catch a ride from an elderly couple driving Local Show Examines Black Life "Black American Sun," a locally-produced program with a news-magazine format, premieres Thursday at 10 p.m., on KLRN-TV, Channel 9. Interviews, entertainment and human interest spots are all a part of this program about the "Black American experience." One portion of the show, "Classified Black," profiles "people who have something to say but seldom get the opportunity," and another brief segment is set aside for public announcements of general interest. This week's interview focuses on Dr. Walter Faggett, director of the Bexar County Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation in San Antonio. Other guests are Volma Overton, president of the Austin chapter of the NAACP; and Judy and Willie Adams, guitarists and vocalists.

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Nelson, principal. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell New York City; Will Armatta, partner, Arthur Andersen and Houston, and Robert McCaig, partner, Ernst Ernst, Fort Worth, more John B. High tower, president. Associated Councils of the Arts, located in New York City, will be the luncheon speaker on Thursday. Approximately 40 invited management representatives from local arts organizations across the State of Texas are expected to attend the seminar at the Sheraton Crest Inn, 111 E.

1st St. Also on exhibit will be some of the best articles done by students in the applied technology dspartment. Leather, cooper tooling, string art and decoupage work will be showcased, and ribbons will be given for first and second places in each craft category. After the program, refreshments will be served by the home living department. These Del Valle Fine Arts Festival events are open to the public without charge.

The final program, scheduled for Monday night, will be given by the Smith and Popham Elementary Choirs. it weren't for the 4,000 volunteers who do everything from soliciting merchandise to answering telephones on the air. And, the hundreds of items up for bid come from area businessmen and merchants who believe strongly enough in the importance of public television to dig into their inventory and contribute an item for sale. gJijwerS Will Do Brahms Requiem SAN MARCOS The Kantorei Singers of Southwest Texas State University will perform a German Requiem by Johannes Brahms at the San Marcos Academy Robinson Christian Center Thursday. The 8 p.m.

program, conducted by Carol Smith, will be sung in English. presents a concert at the University Presbyterian Church. For her winning performance, Mrs. May played Messiaen's "Outbursts of Joy" and Bach's Passacaglia in Minor." Mrs. May is a junior who is pursuing the bachelor's of arts degree in Plan II (liberal arts), but who is also studying organ at UT with Dr.

Frank N. Speller, associate professor of music. a KLRN Auction Begins May 5 CATFISH FEAST All tot liliciom toUen tried cattish, coll slaw, frenk bits. Ml (ml I hot hush yoattis yon can at. Tour taionio toenails.

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The home living department will stage a fashion show featuring seventh and eighth grade students modeling a variety of garments they have made. Included will be pant suits, dresses, halter tops, blouses and slacks. Some of the girls will also serve as hostesses at the reception after the program. The Del Valle Mid-School choirs and ensemble will perform a concert of popular music on this program. Three choirs seventh and eighth grade girls choir, seventh and eighth grade mixed choir and a mixed choir of sixth-graders Voice Recital Tonight Eldon Black, candidate for the doctor of musical arts degree at the University of Texas, will present a voice recital Thursday in partial fulfillment of degree requirements.

The bass recital will begin at 8 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall, and is open to the public free of charge. Black received the bachelor of music degree from North Texas State University where he also received the master of music education degree. He has served as associate professor and coordinator of the music division at Angelor State University since 1954. Selections on the program will include vocal works by Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Poulenc, Debussy, Ravel and Leila LeClercq, a local composer.

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