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FEATURES
November 1,1979 Hilltopper Page 3
Chorus Sings for the Church the People Built
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Apocalypse Now: Replacement of Mock Heroics
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—Kevin Phinney
November 5
November 4
November 3
November 2
November 1
Sunday
Saturday
Friday
November 9
November 8
November 7
Any Wednesday.
Saturday
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Thursday
November 6
Ghosts, goblins, and lots of pies highlighted a highly successful Halloween carnival.
Bob Cartwright models one of his own creations.
Monday
November 10
“CROP: The Community Hunger
Appeal of Church World Ser-
vice.” Center for Creative Mi-
nistry provides outlet for the ex-
pression of CROP’S two major
goals: to make aware and to
help. 7:30 p.m. at the Center.
Opening night of “Light Up the
Sky” at Mary Moody Northen
Theatre. Continues through the
18th of November.
The Cobras, local blues and funk,
perform at the Armadillo to-
night at 9 p.m. $3.
Intramural Football on field be-
hind Union.
jungle, the ear-shattering drone of
mortar fire, and a sense of reality
so vivid that one can almost smell
the destruction.
Sheen, who had a heart attack
during the filming, is better than
he has ever been on screen. His is
a stark portrayal of obsession, a
man driven at first by duty, then
curiosity, and finally, passion.
No better choice than Marlon
Brando for the demented Kurtz
could have been made. Brando ex-
udes power and madness, and his
confrontation with Capt. Willard
at the film’s climax will probably
win both nominations for an Os-
car.
Although the picture is marred
by some decidedly poor editing (it
runs 2% hours), and its message is
obscured by muddled scripting,
, “Apocalypse Now” will still send
chills up the spines of those who
remember what the Viet Nam war
did to the American psyche.
For all its problems, “Apoca-
lypse Now” is undoubtedly the de-
finitive film on Viet Nam. In terms
of movie-making Francis Ford
Coppola has broken many bar-
riers, but in an important way he
has followed suit in making a war
film that shows that the only real
spoils of war are human lives.
Monday Night Football—ReUnion
8 p.m.
Film—“Man of La Mancha” 7:30
p.m. Moody Hall 300.
Choral Concert at Teresa Hall 8
p.m.
All Saint’s Day. (Pray to your fa-
vorite saint.)
Christian Fellowship—Andre Hall.
7 p.m.
First Hydrogen bomb exploded on
this day in 1952.
Coffeehouse—ReUnion, 8 p.m.
Seminar—Academy of Science 101
Fleck Hall 7:30 p.m.
Coffeehouse—ReUnion 8 p.m.
Christian Fellowship—Andre Hall
7 p.m.
Two weeks till Thanksgiving!!!
Attention!!
Submit all Fiction, Poems &
Creative Prose to
Hilltopper C/M 715
for placement in
Every Man magazine.
weekends. “The interesting thing by Simon & Garfunkle, “Scarbor-
about this church is that the people ough Fair” and “Bridge Over
L . .A
built the church all by themselves
—and it’s already paid for,” ex-
plained Brother Gerald.
Bishop Harris was present at the
dedication and said that “no ca-
thedral’s dedication had heard
more beautiful music.”
“The kids just glowed in the
dark when they heard that,” said
Brother Gerald.
Both the Hilltopper Chorale and
the Omni Singers will perform in
Teresa Hall, Sunday, November 4.
“It starts at 7 p.m. because there’s
a play going on that night,” said
Brother Gerald. “Hopefully they’ll
delay the curtain for the people in
the chorus and we’ll keep the con-
cert to an hour.”
A few of the selections on the
program at this Fall Pop Concert
include two songs made popular
sweeping tragedy of Viet Nam.
Set in late 1969, Martin Sheen
plays military assassin Captain
Willard, commissioned to kill the
mad Colonel Walter Kurtz (Mar-
lon Brando), who has gone AWOL
and set himself up as a god among
the natives of Cambodia. High-
ranking members of the military
want him dead because news of his
defection would make decidedly
bad press. “Apocalypse Now”
chronicles Willard’s trip upriver,
through the heart of the war, to
find his victim. What he encoun-
ters is as close to Hell on Earth as
any man could ever see.
On his way to Cambodia, Wil-
lard meets a general whose favor-
ite pastimes include surfing down
beaches against incoming Viet
Cong fire and dropping napalm on
a village heavily populated by ci-
vilians. Soon, he joins forces with
a boat crew assigned to take him
upriver. The boat is manned by a
suspicious skipper, a stoned Cali-
fornia beach bum (played bril-
liantly by Sam Bottoms), and sev-
eral other draftees who divide their
time equally between horseplay
and psychosis.
The intensity of “Apocalypse
Now” is overwhelming. In several
scenes the acute realism and atten-
tion to detail is staggering. There
is the awesome hush of a dense
University Picnic—Zilker Park.
Stay tuned for details.
FIRST basketball game of the sea-
son for the male varsity. Con-
frontation with Paul Quinn
College in Austin.
At the Armadillo, Sonny Rolling
displays his best tenor jazz sax
talent at 9 p.m. Tickets $6.50 in
advance, $7.50 at the door.
“Yes, the chorus is going to
sing, but first let me tell you about
our past triumphs!” said Brother
Gerald Muller, director of the
choir. He was talking about the
praise and warmth that has sur-
rounded the Hilltopper Chorale
and Omni Singers during their lat-
est public appearance.
The chorus sang recently at a
ceremony for Archbishop Flores
in San Antonio. “He was very
pleased and so was the audi-
ence,” said Brother Gerald. “They
thought they’d died and gone to
heaven it was so good.”
After their engagement in San
Antonio, the chorus went to Pflu-
gerville to sing at the dedication of
Father Peter Cortez’s church, St.
Elizabeth’s. Father Pete is the su-
pervisor of the Oblates in Andre
Hall and goes out to his church on
“Apocalypse Now” is no John
Wayne movie. There are no scenes
blaing with rockets’ red glare, im-
petuous acts of heroism, or even
the traditional girl getting carried
away into the sunset at the end. It
is instead an unflinching look at
the insanity of the Viet Nam war
and its participants. Martin Sheen,
the film’s lead actor, offers, “it’s
the first film that has taken the
war and shaken it in our faces.”
Replacing the mock heroics of
Hollywood’s war epics are scenes
brutal in their reality: young boys
losing arms and legs, homeless re-
fugees with nowhere to turn, offi-
cers unable to weild power effec-
tively or mad from its influence,
and a small part of the world
where chaos reigns supreme.
“Apocalypse Now” is all of those
things, done in a style that is both
bombastic in its scope and subtle
in its revelations.
Francis Ford Coppola, the direc-
tor of “The Godfather” and its se-
quel, “Godfather, Part II,” has
spent his entire personal fortune
and over six years working on
“Apocalypse Now,” and his effort
shows in nearly every frame. All
the elements seem to be chosen for
a specific reason, to create a speci-
fic mood. Every nuance, from
lighting angles to the soundtrack,
adds depth to the powerful and
The Austin Symphony has a 20th
Century Celebration tonight
at the Municipal Auditorium.
Starts at 8 p.m. with prices
ranging from $3.50-$8.50. Bern-
stein’s unforgettable music from
“West Side Story” is included.
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A
A
Troubled Waters,” and two songs
from the play West Side Story,
“Maria” and “America.” Other
popular songs on the program are,
“Aquarius—Let the Sun Shine
In,” from Hair, the theme from
the movie Brother Sun, Sister
Moon, selections from Man of La
Mancha, “Do Re Mi” from The
Sound of Music, and “Lullaby of
Birdland.” “We’re also doing two
silly songs, one by the guy who
wrote ‘Vatican Rag.’ ”
The free concert will also in-
clude a few classical pieces, Mo-
zart’s “Ave Verum,” Arcadelt’s
“Ave Maria,” and Bach’s “Glory
to God.” “This is high class stuff,”
insisted Brother Gerald. “This ain’t
your run-of-the-mill slop.” The
chorus will also sing “Death Shall
Not Destroy,” “Soon I Will Be
Done,” a Negro Spiritual, and
“Great Day.”
—Teresa Salamone
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” continues at the Gas-
light Theatre till Nov. 17. Times
are Wednesday-Sunday at 8
p.m. Prices: Wednesday, Thurs-
day and Sunday—$3.50; Friday
and Saturday—$4.50.
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