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Rams Advance in ECAC...P. 12 Rams Advance In ECAC...P. 12 US. Postage ifAID Bronx. New Permil No 7iO8 Thursday, Non Profi February 28,1980 Volume 62 Number 6 ADHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK 'Films Mirror Our Society' Judith Crist: A Look At The Seventies by Leslie Mantrone said, speaking of Allen's portrayal of an in- Speaking at last Tuesday's American Age dependent woman. Crist noted the evolution lecture, noted film critic Judith Crist took a of the Woody Allen character "that started retrospective look at the Seventies and the as a Schmuck" into "the new ma:i of the "films that have changed the way we look at Eighties, a warm self-confident mar looking movies." for relationship and [who] at last can admit Crist believes films should be a "mirror to emotions. The 'soft' man is here.' image of our society" and they should "look Talking about television, Crist cilled the ahead and to the past and tell a universal evolution of the made-for-televisicn movie truth of the progress we're making." She "one of the most important things ol the past called Robert Altman's Nashville the "great- ten years. We ought to be keenly aware that it est film of the Seventies. If I had my way, I'd is to television that the small, intin ate [art] 'ugsUy's Forctd I• **•*• put it into a time capsule," Crist said. film has gone. Here is where the new film- The critic priased A Clockwork Orange for maker has his land of opportunity.' its technical achievement and also because of Television, Crist said, "is becoming a form its "message, its really clear look at the trend that on occasion deserves to be call:d an art edges of our society." She cited Linsey An- form." Illustrating the quality of the medi- fire Guts Nearby Block derson'sd Oh Lucky Man as another success- um, Crist noted the television version of The ful film view of contemporary society. Crist •Godfather, calling it the "ultimate gangster Besides Pugsley's, nine other businesses noted the importance of the film version of movie. I don't think there will ev:r be an- by Herman Eberfcudt were affected by the fire. These businesses in- Cabaret, calling it a successful interweaving other." | Pugsley's Pizzeria, a restaurant popular cluded a discotheque, the Poe Park Tavern, a of musical realism and a film within a film. It "Having skimmed over the pas:," Crist Fordham University students at Rose beauty parlor, a luncheonette, a tire repair was the first time a stage work was trans- said as she opened the floor to cuestions, , was among ten businesses struck by a store, a T.V. repair shop, two small food ferred to screen "to become much the better "Want to know about the presen?" With re early last Sunday morning. The fire, stores, and the dry cleaning store. Harr said for the process," she said. that, leaning comfortably on the podium, hich has been termed "suspicious" by a some of the businesses had already been in Crist said in Annie Hall Woody Allen "has Crist gave her opinions on several current lew York City Fire Department official, touch with their insurance companies but told us two things terribly important for the films and commented on some of the recent amaged a row of businesses on Kingsbridge they would not know for a while how many Eighties." Oscar nominations. oad near the Grand Concourse. of them will try to reopen their stores. "Go back and look at those women," she She called Apocalypse Now a 'magnif- Pugsley's, which had only recently relocat- icent film—important and most exciting," I on Kingsbridge Road after moving from but only for the first hour and lorty-five I location at Briggs Avenue and 194th minutes. She said it would have been a great [treet, was among four businesses damaged film "if I could chop it off before Marlon y water and smoke during the fire. Six other Brando territory. I think that Martin Sheen usinesses on the block were completely gut- Student Service Directors deserves an Oscar," she said. tid by the flames. By Monday, however, All That Jazz, Crist said, "is nbt on my 'ugsley's had reopened at its old Briggs Ave- list. Fosse has just not shown enough growth ue address. for me. It is one of the most self-critical films The fire apparently started in a dry clean- Form New Advisory Board .. .terribly uninvolving. r's shop on the block about 1:00 A.M., ac- "I was glad to see Peter Sellers nominat- I ; to Lois Harr, a spokesperson for the ed," Crist said of his performance! in Being 'ordham Bedford Community Coalition. by Carolyn Farrar There. "The satire was fresh, original and taordinc to Harr, the fire may have been Student directors of the Fordham Deli, the understated. And the beauty of it; was that 'accidental." She said an "allegedly intoxi- Ramskellar, the Print Shop and the Commu- Peter Sellers did not falter once." ated man" may have accidentally started the nications Shop have organized an eight- Crist thought Just Tell Me tifhat You ire, which spread when it struck chemicals member committee to solve mutual prob- Want with Alan King and Ali McG|raw was a torcd in thy business. One man was injured lems. The Fordham Student Advisory Board "smart, savvy, vicious and rotteji-hearted II the fiie. The man, Marvin Ayers, 56, of was designed "to bring Fordham's student movie." She called the Alan King character a Anthony Avenue in The Bronx, was services together as a more united body," superb comic accomplishment. Bu|. she said, fumed over 40 percent of his body and was said Deli director Marie O'Neill, CBA'80. "The surprise was Ali McGraw [fo|] her flair i to lacobi Hospital for treatment after "It will help to work out problems that we all and sophistication and her performance." feing rescued from the (lames. face daily." About the movie Ten, Crist sajd, "1 en- According to Captain R. McBride of The board consists of Liz Kelly, CBA'80, joyed that! Among other things, it{ really of- tngine Company 48, one of the fire houses and John Murphy, FC '81, of the Deli; Ram- fered one of the most compassionate Pat responded to the fire, "twenty-four skellar managers Sal Lia, FC'82, and Tony portraits of a homosexual in a m<,Wie that I jcompanies responded eventually" to the Marciano, FC'82; Print Shop director Tracey have seen." blaze. He had no further infor- Schaefer, FC'81; and Nick Aquilo, CBA'80, Her favorite film of the past yeat, she said, mation, however, to reveal about the fire. director of the Communications Shop. Assis- was Breaking Away. She has a "slight sus- c fire left almost an entire block of tant Dean of the College of Business Admin- picion" that it might win an Oscar. "All 1 bridge Road burned but, according to istration Wiley M. Mangum is the faculty have to do is think about Breaking A way that > the owner of the building which housed representative and the board will also include it makes me feel good. A most stylish film. lthe businesses intends to "salvage what's an executive member of the United Student Far superior to a number of other films." ^salvageable and rebuild what he can." But Government, who will be named later. Crist was especially pleased with ['aul Doo- •owner, Seymour Glanell, said he had O'Neill feels the board is "necessary." Assistant Dean of Students Machado lcy's performance as the father. de no decisions yet about the property. There has been a positive response to the Answering a question about pornographic w«-' haven't made any plans yet," he said, group from the administration as well. "It's Machado hopes it can grow into a "con- films, Crist said, "I really thinkj everyone commenting he wanted to hear from his in- a pretty good idea," said Assistant Dean of sumer advocacy group where students can should sec one. You owe it to youfself to see I make their suggestions to the student services a pornographic film so you know \fhat we are 'urance company before making any decision Students Michael Machado. "This group is "out the future of the block, different from most clubs. They can get to- •board." He "encourages the board to talking about. I happen to find them ugly "nrr said a meeting of the businessmen af- gether, compare notes and discuss their com- take on that focus. I hope the students get and boring," she said. But she continued, "I I'ectcd by the fj was to be held Wednesday mon concerns." The group met last Friday behind it," he said. believe pornographic films have their place in re our society for the adults that enjol' them." K'u. A Wednesday night meeting of the with Machado, Dean of Students Joseph Some student response indicates the op- n"ed Kingsbridge Merchants Association McGowan and Associate Dean of Students portunity to discuss common problems is not Following the lecture, Crist talked for sev- eral hours with students at a recefjtion in her also planned to dbcusTthe fireTn'd the MaryMowrey-Raddock. Machado feels the "•— Continued on page 5 Prospects for rebuilding. croup has "great potential." honor. 2/THE RAM/THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1980 Friday, February 29,1980 semester's Carolyn Mas concert and Intercollegiate Accounting Society will welcome. There will be more lion<J On Campus: present Ken Doyle, a partner in the should be as good.
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