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I--- j. O-. 'h 10 Prt 21, 1973 MOVIE REVIEW fLcti flngtlcg Gimtt performance by a pop music group. Nothing in "Wattstax," musically or cinemtically, even remotely approaches that high quality. DENNIS HUNT singing than strutting around in his gold chain shirt.

The Sly Stone, and the Who sequences in "Woodstock" are the standards by which to judge a screen Pryor Highlight of of merit from tha Staple Singers and Rufus Thomas, who frolics around in a pink suit with knee-length pants singing "The Breakdown" and "The Funky Chicken." The other performances range from tolerable to tedious. The most resounding dud is Isaac Hayes, whose act is mostly pageantry. He is less concerned with mum GE NOMINATED FOR iL-if iM I minimi innaiaiii ii maliianaBlimn niMimilim nj III I lllllllillllinniiiii )ptWMCBBMAP01 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE BEST ACTRESS LIZA MINNELLI BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR JOEL GREY BEST DIRECTOR BOB FOSSE BEST ART DIRECTION BEST SCREENPLAY BEST FILM EDITING 1 i ii. i mil mmun mmmummmmm ALEXANDER SALKINO presents STEPHEN SEBERG JAMES MASON CURT JURGENS in "KILL" -Written and Directed by ROM AIN GARY, With DANIEL EMILFORK and IMAURO PARENT! JOSE MARIA CAFFARELL and introducing CARLOS MONTOYA with tha participation of HENRI GARON -Music by BERTO P1SANO and JACQUES CHAUMONT (Editions Genera) Muse-Rome) Director of Photography EDMONO RICHARD FwmitiPmdurertlYA SALKIND-Produced bv ALEXANDER SALKIND EASTMANCOLOR BEST MUSICAL SCORE BEST SOUND A Pfcll I licai uncMAiuviiwrni pujs a JftttViss -She's got it AT THEATRES AND DRIVE-INS NEAR YOU. MuMacrcnkacrvi.cMMiLi2a Minnelli Michael York Helmut Griem" Caba ret Marisa Btrenson Fritz Wepper -Joel 'Emcee MkJoe Masleroff MkJohn Kinder MFred Ebb SXvittm4 CSar.Harold Prince Bob Fosse iJiy Allen John Ebb Feuer M8ob Fosse iwio CJO The curse NUtAVSII STARTS TODAY PALACE Downtown LA.

624-6271 SPKCIAL MIDNIGHT HOWS mi. SAT. UK. NEW VIEW Hollywood 464-1149 WILTERN Los Angeles 387-6147 CENTURY Drive-In 1 inglewood 673 compton orive-in compton bdB-ass SOUTH GATE Drive In Southgate 564 NOW PLAYING AT THESE '''''Pacific theatres PARADISE Westchester 776-0300 CARMAR Montebello 723-2133 MIRADA-La Mlrada-521-9980 ENCINO Encino 784-8233 T0WNE Long Beach 422-1221 1NMAL C1NIHA THKATRCe' FASHIGN CENTER CINEMA 2 Northridge 993 SOUTH BAY CINEMA 2 Redondo Beach 370-6398 Collage are edited together in hel-ter skelter fashion and there is no narrator to bring clarity to the chaos, Though the results are less than captivating, Stuart's only recpurse was to mix in a lot of noncon-cert footage. The inept-ness of most of the numbers indicates that if he had devoted the entire film to concert it would have been a complete disaster.

There are performances Tickets Available! mmrm-worn. LAST PERFORMANCE! LAST TIME TONIGHT 8:30 p.m.! LESSYLPHIDES Everett, Brock, Rodriguez, Prinz GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE Gregory; Kivitt PILLAR OF FIRE Wilson, Young, Paredes RODEO Sarry, Carter TICKETS S9.007.00..005.004JOO Program Casts sublect to change. TICKETS NOW! at Music Center, all Mutual Agencies; Pacific Stereo, 637 S. Hill; Wa. MUSIC CENTER int'M' DOROTHY CHANDLER.

626.7211. PAVILION "EXTRAORDINARY" Ray loynd, Herald Examiner ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'S H1X1.TKN(' A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM HY WIUJAM SHAKKSPEARK UHrXTRDBY PETER BROOK Designed by Seliy Jacobs Music by Richard Peaslee with the Actors 1 Felix Mendelssohn NOW THRU MAR 3 CENTER THEATRE GROUP MUSIC CENTER AHMANS0N THEM RE ROBERT FRYER. Managing Director Tickets on sale at the Ahmanson Theatre Box Offices, 135 N. Grand Los Angeles, Ca. 90012 and all agencies.

Student tickets at $2 50. I.D. required. FOR INFORMATION CALL (213) 626-7211. Eves, at 8:30.

Thurs. and Sat. Mats, at 2:30. No performances Sunday. Music of lalo Schifrin Villa-loboi, Ginostera SUN.

FEB. 25, 7:30 PM Special Group Rate for Choirs MUSIC CENTERPAVILION Folk Songs of the New World A joyous adventure In choral music for young people 2 performance! SAT.MAR. 17,10 41 1AM MARK TAPER FORUM l.a:s happiest musical hit 1 iGurtms HUNTINGTON HARTFORD THEATRE 1613 VINE ST. HOLLYWOOD 90028 Tickets 462-6666 Music of lalo Schifrin, VJU.l.k.. Wattstax The highlights of "Watts tax," a documentary centered around a seven-hour 66ul music concert, are the hilarious 'bits by black comedian Richard Pryor, vviho wasn't even in the show.

The fact that he figures prominently in the film but was not part of the concert is not surprising since about half the film, which opens today ci-tywide, has nothing to do with the concert. iThe event was staged last summer in the Coliseum and was attended by 100,000 people, nearly all of whom were black. For a dollar admission fee, they were entertained by aft impressive group of artists, including Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Albert King, the Bar-Kays, Carla Thomas, Ru-fiis Thomas and Luther Ingram. All- record for Stax Records, which organized and largely financed the concert. Several organizations in Watts shared the proceeds from the concert and will receive a percentage of the film's profits.

Instead of a standard concert documentary, director and coproducer Mel Stuart has fashioned a cinematic collage of songs and chitchat. He intercuts musical performances with interviews of ghetto residents who speak from such diverse locations as restaurants, barber shops and street corners. All are champions of that haughty motto, "Black is Beautiful," and passionately convey the often neglected fact that ghetto people, too, have pride and digni- This is a fragmented, skittery film that does not have enough moments of interest and hilarity to offset the stretches of boredom that occur when an interviewee lapses into rhetoric or a singer lumbers through a number. The interviews and music OPERATION BOOTSTRAP PRESENTS BLACK MUSIC 73 AT THE SHRINE AUDITORIUM FEB. 24, 8:30 P.M.

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