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CENTRE DAILY TIMES ARTSENTERTAINMENT Thursday March 31 1983 PAGE 2 7 Take Your Pick of 3 Mysteries Ml IIAE1 SEIII Book Review REE (X BOALSB or reservations 466 6241 Catch a a good egg' Classified Stars 407 few 237 0003 DANCE eaturing PAST CENTRE DAILY TIMES 352 College Ave CINEMA THE LICK GARDEN THE MOVIES SCREENING ROOM STATE ROWLAND ORIVE IN BENNER PIKE PERCH UZZ The sleuth in Poul Drum's goat" (Pantheon $295 is Detective Inspector Morck No he's not from Ork with the Danish fuzz Morck and his assistant Einarsen are sent to a small town in West Jutland to investigate the brutal killing of a nurse The scapegoat nf the title is the local Peeping Tom who is big on cheesecake Danish and who is badgered into confessing to the murder encountered in dance Whatever the shortcomings in the dance Catherine uses abstract images portable balls of fire flying pineapples multi symbolic objects and a computer drawn dancer in an amazing display most of it in the first 20 minutes of the work The most stunning technological breakthrough here is the computer drawn dancer a see through three dimensional figure with the shape murdered Since Jocelyn is a prime suspect she has to get involved in the investigation There is another murder There is love And there is Jocelyn badmouthing her way to the solution and I hope into a starring role in at least one sequel ARCNA PLX CASINO US 322 3 Mi East of State College Dinners Daily 510 ptn Lunches 11:30 am 2 pm GARDEN MIEN 297 0012 hair raising episode in a slaughter house and back to the Stadium for a confrontation with the bad guy behind all the shenanigans (which include a plot on lifei (irxxl stuff this especially now at spring training time 10 Oscar Nominations Including Best Picture TOOTSIE (PG) Nightly 7 45 9:45 attract attention to your classified ad just good fccdj rmsiu 'd fun Over 20 cuts of 8 different Seafood Salad Bar and Complete Bar Service Eddie Macon is running for his life Kirk Douglas John Schneider EDDIE MACONS RUN (PG) Nightly8 10 PAWS IN THE AUDITIONS: Actor James Coco is up to his whiskers in felines at New Plymouth Theater as local cats with a knack for the theatrical turned out to audition for two minor roles in the Broadway revival of Take It with The production set to open Monday stars Jason Robards Elizabeth Wilson Colleen Dewhurst Coco and two of these pussycats (AP Laserphoto) Entertainment 10 pm 1 am Upstairs Happy Hour 9 pm 10 pm members guests welcome Like it's really totallyfun you know? SPRING BREAK (R) Nightly 7:459:45 He had to save the Black Teri Garr Woody Strode THE BLACK STALLION RETURNS (PG) Nightly 7:45 9:45 u6 Adventure at evefy turn Tom Selleck Bess Armstrong HIGH ROAD TO CHINA (PG) Nightly 8 10 It's time to feel good again Jason Robards Marsha Mason MAX DUGAN RETURNS (PG) Nightly 0 10 They weren't looking for a fight They were looking to belong THE OUTSIDERS (PG) Nightly 8 10 available in three sizes Call CDT Classifieds at 238 5000 for a star in your ad bring rpaximum results Nightly 8 10 Sat Sun 2 4 6 8 10 Sat Sun $150 until 5 Richard Pryor Jackie Gleason in Jane Dentinger teaches acting in Manhattan She also has appeared in Off Broadway theater So it's natural that her first novel Murder on (Doubleday $1195) should be set in the theater The heroine here is Jocelyn O'Koarke an actress who just got her first part in a Broadway play Everybody connected with the play is extremely professional with the exception of Harriet Weldon the leading lady who just happens to be married to the show's money man Harriet combines lack of talent with lack of niceness in rather monumen tal proportions She also gets herself for your Easter Candy 5 Oscar Nominations Including Best Actress Meryl Streep CHOICE (R) Nightly 7 9:30 It is 195': The Yankees are play ing the (the Philadelphia A's that is in Yankee Stadium Kizzuto is on third Charlie Keller is on first Mel Allen is doing the play by play: bottom of the eighth Yankees trail by two runs The Bombers are hoping for a little of the old five o'clock lightning with Mickey Mantie at the plate What happens next in William O'clock Light ning" (St Martin's Press $5 95) is baseball drama Down on the field Mantle takes a swing and a miss and then "going going that ballis gone! Into the upper deck in left fn Jrf Ballantine Blast nr Mickey Mantle l'p in Section 21 however it's sheer murder At thesame moment that Mantle's bat connects with Alex fastball a Bed trailing congressman named "Hex Simmons takes a bullet in the neck from a man he thought he had driven to suicide '1 he murder of the congressman brings in the cops in the person of (apt Aioysius Murphy of Bronxhomicide as well as Russ Garrett a lonner hot baseball prosx ct him self who now is working for the commissioner of baseball 'I he hunt takes Garrett to Kansas City for a country Tavern 815 cemftuxo DRIVE Z3T IO49 Every riday Night at the STATE COLLEGE VW139 Barnard St West College Ave A ull Line of AMERICAN STANDARD Plumbing ixtures Including: fixtures fittings Church toilet seats bathtubs lavatories See your local plumber or call Houts your wholesale distributor at 238 6701 and movements of a human dancer This animation was done by Rebecca Allen of the New York Institute of Technology using the kind of images you sometimes see in auto commercials on TV but in motion with moveable extremities Taken further this technique even tually ought' to produce space age robot group dances or perhaps even interactions with filmed living dan cers Catherine makes allusions to the fourth century martyr St Catherine but its setting is entirely with a modern day family grappling with problems of greed lust overconsumption and ego The family members descend to a tor turechamber asylum then return to their chaotic anxiety ridden lives (somehow a very New York type of theme) A gilded finale is genuine main line Tharp bowing out in a flash of fireworks to the original rock score by David Byrne of Talking Heads Here at last the ragamuffin style gives way to more coherent group dances by the Tharp more reminis cent from her Jeffrey and American Ballet Theater efforts But by then Catherine has long since developed a flat tire and not even the ecstatic press releases and reviews out of New York can save it from the self destruct button DONKEY KONG PARKING 1800 Atherton St 237 2444 PAC MAN 74 rxON 4 7 8:30 10 SPRING OPENING I RI SAT SUN 7 Hop on down to today in the CENTRE DAILY TIMES Duffy Cuiwru WLUikwury pa We offer Prime Rib riday and Saturday only because we buy it fresh on riday morning for your enjoyment Let uf serve you Prime Rib this weekend wXmwmmmhm 10 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture TOOTSIE (PG) Nightly 8 10 JjPG) Co Hit 4 Cheech and Chong in "Things Are Tough All MAX DUGAN DETI I UKTe Twyla Tharp Dancers Litter Stage By PAUL HERTELENDY Knight Ridder Newspapers You can pack away that trusty tutu young lady a whole new vogue of sloppy Joe dancing afoot Nowadays post modern dancers in New York play commercial theaters and bring the backstage front stage Their costumes look like warmup togs and their settings end up strewn with junk and garbage in deliberate attempts to demystify dance The performers often move like amateurs and their gyrations look almost unrehearsed The magic of dance has given way to the litter of dance quite literally Twyla Tharp epitomizes this un made up naturalness It has been an evolving process with its roots in her jazz dance troupe whose biggest early hit had juve mles painting graffiti on the walls during tne dances Now she is back with a 75 inute dance drama "The Catherine which is a simplistic nuclear protest piece reminiscent of that understated Californian bumper sticker nuclear war can ruin your whole Having seen it I find myself saying to Twyla and her dance company litter! This is one of the most revolution ary and certainly most elaborate creations by this priestess of evolutionary pop dance and one of the first made for TV productions This production differs greatly from the one shown at New Winter Garden a couple of years ago It now has some of the most sophisticated video animation 9:30 fir fcjr 1 1 1 JHvU3V xcA 1 1 CINEMA 7:45 9:45 'vna ji'ii i IflKuw zvmdl six A 4 I IW UKZWWB i A jy '2 IB 3 1 I al 3 i ML wM I jWi MM Bk K4 Lj IM tlMM KISaBSiTflH 7 ynic ARNA PLX CASINO Houts.