'Paternity' by Pat Higgins Knows A.D Loves Smokey and the Bandit
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Wednesday. October 14, 1931 page 10 daily nebraskan Fishy fifties fad wiggles way into bar, competitor's bellies By Casey McCabe with a beer. Tarter sauce, lemons and salt were provided on the candle-li- t table. One of the 195 CPs strangest campus fads Once over the initial skepticism about is staging a comeback. eating live fish, the main problem for the Sponsored by Lincoln nightspot P.O. night was getting the goldfish in the mouth Pears, the challenge of live goldfish as the elusive little carassius auratus often will be a missed their mark. swallowing regular Monday night MB w f contest in hopes that the fad will wiggle its Taking the first place prize of $50 in way into the hearts of local competitors. P.O. Pears spending money was John The idea was brought to Lincoln by Tomczyk, who downed 26 goldfish to Pears' General Manager Rick Clarke. Clarke finish ahead of a second place tie between worked in San Diego at Foggy's Notion, Jack Melott and Janet Brelin who swallow- part of the same chain that runs P.O. Pears, ed 25 apiece. Tomczyk's reaction to having where the goldfish eating contests were 25 goldfish in his stomach? "I'm still successful. hungry," he said. Brelin decided to take third place honors rather than engage in an eat-o- ff for second place. "At least they're not swim- ming around," she said. "But my stomach 9 nightlife still doesn't feel so good." h Assistant Manager Mary Jo OXJrady said she doesn't anticipate much fallout on the The rules are simple. Whoever eats quite possible inhumane aspects of goldfish eat- the most in 30 seconds wins. Ten goldfish she P.O. Pears has already are in a of water ing, though says goldfish placed pitcher received one from a UNL pro- must the gold- complaint and each contestant scoop fessor the nature the contest. swallow them concerning of fish out of each pitcher and out that the fish used before on to the next one. And as OXJrady points going are feeder fish, meaning if they don't go Clarke reminds the participants be- eager down the gullet of some college student, fore "no chewing" is allowed. starting, they will likely be turned over to a pihrana The Monday night debut of the contest or similar carnivorous creature. said. Nine was a success, Clarke competit- According to Clarke, the Monday night X ors were cheered on by a fervently curious contests may only last a few weeks before crowd and the spotlights of television the novelty wears off. At that point he KMTV. cameras from Omaha's plans to introduce new contests and rotate Recognizing some hesitation on the them similarly. And it's more good news Photo by Dav Bent faces of the participants as they donned for those of you who thought you'd missed in first live their bibs, Clarke gave a demonstration by the 50s; Clarke's next idea involves putting John Tomczyk demonstrates the form that earned him first place the swallowing a handful of the slippery a Volkswagen on the dance floor and goldfish swallowing contest at P.O. Pears Monday night. The winning effort was 26 critters himself and washing them down seeing how many people can pile in. goldfish in 30 seconds. Reynolds mimicks own self-imag-e in 'Paternity' By Pat Higgins knows a.d loves Smokey and the Bandit. The high- who inadvertently stumbles into Evans office which brow crowd, of course, wouldn't deign to have any- leads to a wild line of questioning. is an with an Paternity amusing movie unlikely thing to do with Reynolds. Beverly D'Angelo, who was hilarious in the short-ru-n that is both funnier and more serious premise than Reynolds plays Buddy Evans, manager of Madison Honky Tonk Freeway, plays Maggie, a classic starv- Burt fare. typical Reynolds Square Garden, coming up on his 44th birthday and ing artist working as a waitress. Maggie needs big bucks, facing a mid-lif-e crisis. Someone should have given to go to France for her studies, so she takes Evans up Evans a copy of Passages by Gail Sheehy. Instead, on his offer. Maggie also plans on no emotional involve- Evans' friends (played by sit-co- m veterans Paul Dooley ment; but guess what happens, sports fans. and Norman Fell) decide to inform Evans that he is Paternity switches gears as Evans callousness is less miserable because he lacks a wife and children. How- funny the more pregnant Maggie becomes. The ending ever, Evans claims to be having a fabulous time shoot- is wholesomely romantic, which is kind of a surprise Reynolds wants to be taken seriously as an artiste, ing baskets at the Garden, checking the point spreads after all of the bent humor. which is why he alternates his highly commercial good with the union men, and being "the most eligible David Steinberg directed and should be credited for old boy formula movies with attempts at something a bachelor in New York," as he modestly asserts. the New York sense of humor in Paternity. Particularly bit more thought-provokin- g (such as The End). This is Evans is finally convinced of the biological impera- droll are running jokes concerning Evans' inability to basically analogous to Reggie Jackson wanting to be tive to reproduce, but he is too cold of a fish to do it keep plants alive, and a tour of New York that ignores appreciated for his fielding rather than home runs. At conventionally ije. love, marriage, house in suburbs. boring landmarks like the United Nations, and con- least give Reynolds credit for trying though. Instead, he decides upon a strictly business proposit- centrates on the fine points of hospital food with the In Paternity, Reynolds is poking fun at his own ion; hiring a surrogate mother with, as is frequently re- overriding advice to avoid Jersey hospitals. Plus, the image, as he plays an anti-her- o with lines on his face, peated, "no emotional involvement." only car chase has New Yorks safest and slowest rather than the Jesus of cool that he usually portrays. Evans then auditions a series of women for the job cabbie crawling along below the speed limit. This will be- with probably hurt Paternity at the box office, the typical reaction being stunned disbelief. The For the lack of car chases alone plus a lot of laughs, cause it won't appeal to the basic drive-i- n audience that highlight here is Lauren Hutton as an interior decorator Paternity is worth seeing. Bisset andBergen lack rapport in inane film By Chuck Lieurance There is a point when admittedly, Bisset rises to her where they are caught somewhere between Neil Simon fullest abilities, but only when she is far from dealing and Alan Alda's The Four Seasons, What George Cukor (Philadelphia Story, Adam's Rib, My is amusing is with the Bergen character. When she meets a young only amusing because it so hammed to Fair Lady) has been responsible for training such death that an great reporter from The Rolling Stone (played by this year's audience couldn't but with actresses as Katherine Hepburn and Greta Garbo. Why, help giggle embarrassment model of Richard Gere), Bisset as the unprolific but One the then, has he forced Jacqueline Bisset and Candice gets feeling that the only times the actors very talented writer is intensely moving, trying to stay come off well is Bergen to overact and gesture like untalented when they are not being what Cukor high uninvolved but losing her defenses slowly. desired school amateurs in his latest film, Rich and Famous? them to be. Bisset can only act well here when Bisset and this are the she reporter only two characters insists on bringing her own personality the that don't react one another through to with either whines or muddle, and drops her Katherine Hepburn routine. But moans. Candice is orgasmic Bergen completely inarticu- this only leads to further inconsistencies, as the same 0uDlC!7D and a level late, screeching overacting at of unbearable character appears to be a completely different charact- reuisrj obnoxiousness. er from one scene to the next. the Bisset Perhaps character comes off better One can believe because Cukor saw Katherine hardly that the character that has Bisset and Bergen spend most of the movie with something of Hepburn in selfishly whined and hooted high-necke- through the first hour of their hands at their sides and her. He dresses her in d dresses and pushes uselessly dangling shifting the film is also the character that becomes wise and from to in a fashion that would embar- her hair back into a bun in the "perfect Hepburn weight leg leg style. profound in the end. Bergen had all the wisdom rass even innocuous school But Bisset doesn't come off as and these of a the most prep performance Hepburn, truck stop waitress, to the where selfishly-intentione- d efforts up point Cukor felt of Charlie's Aunt, on the director's part just she needed to have make a more in order to be her friend's Cukor takes most of his technique from theater, but her into clown. savior. he has chosen to enlist actresses who are obviously Hotwise, the film's intentions are almost indecipher- No one in Rich and Famous seems to know quite uncomfortable with stage mannerisms. Bisset and able. Where one expects two friends to discover them- who Aey are or why they are where are.