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Wednesday, Feb.29,1984 The I Vol. 85, No. 71 .. Marshall Unlvenlty art·hen·on Huntington, WV 25701 MarshaH University's student newspaper

Getting acquainted first priority Nitzsch-ke· assumes office By Paul Carson the internal allocation and re-allocation of-resources, Special Correspondent both human and material." He said increasing the quality and diversity of Increasing the quality and diversity of academics academic programs must include first and foremost at Marshall University will be his overriding prior­ enhancing the quality and diversity of all current ity, according to incoming President Dr. Dale F. and future faculty. He said'this would require the Nitzschke. acquisition of substantial sums of additional money Nitzschke was introduced to area media and uni­ for faculty development to be used in support of versity faculty Tuesday during a press conference at faculty research and travel. WPBY-TV studios. Also present at the news confer­ He said endowments to support faculty improve­ ence were Acting President Saltl E. Clagg, Board of ment from private fund raising efforts must be Regents President John Saunders, Acting BOR increased. Chancellor William K. Simmons, and former Presi­ "The university must increase its efforts to esta~ dent Robert B. Hayes.· lish faculty chairs, particularly in those disciplines In hie opening address Nitzschke said his first having a ,major impact on the local economy, and priority would be getting to know the "territory". He having the potential of enhancing opportunities for said this means becoming acquainted with faculty, Huntington and the tri-etate area for economic diver­ students, classified staff, Institutional Board of sification," Nitzschke said Advisors, programs, and budgets. He said he pledged He said in order to enhance the quality and diver­ to West Virginia and especially the people of Hun­ sity of the Marshall student liody, for both the tradi­ tington the kind of leadership which recognizes the tional college age student and the adult, Marshall essential nature of the relationship between univer­ must find funds to provide additional types of stu­ sity and community. dent scholarships. "1 have seen the documents, read the reports, and · '.Nitzschke said he also would initiate a process to examined state and local planning statements,"· "be used for Marshall's 10 year comprehensive accred­ Nitzschke said. "Now what I need is first-hand itation review. He said the review is scheduled for the contact." 1985-86 academic year. ... However, Nitzschke said his short and long term Nitzschke said a major commitment will be made top priorty is increasing the quality and diversity of to expand the library's holdings as well as the quality academic programs at Marshall. He said this would and diversity of its services. -----L-l'lloto by- Boll ....., be accomplished through many different avenues. · "The ability of the university to significantly and "First of all there will be a very rigorous selfexami ­ positively impact the economy of the state of West New Marshall pretldent Dale F. Nltuchke made nation of all academic programs," Nitzschke said. Virginia," Nitzschke said, "is directly related to the hit first official appearanceon campu1 y.. terday "Thie will be designed to provide a solid process for See NITZSCHKE, Page 4 at a pre11 conference In Smith Hall. Anything better than nothing, says faculty member

\ By Mike Frtel professor of modern languages, said he is "not optim- weeks remaining in the legislative se88ion. Staff Writer istic" about the Legislature granting any pay raise. Coffey said he believes faculty favor the 10 percent. "It's anybody's guess as to what they wih do," said Jalary increase proposed by the Board of Regents. Despite the fact the Legislature has failed to Dolmetsch. "I would not wager any money on their "The governor's proposal, which is less than that approve salary increases for higher education (the Legislature's) actions. The Legislature has been of the BOR, but more than the 7.5 percent increaae faculty the past two years, Dr. William E. Coffey, notoriously negligent toward state and government proposed by Hartman and Davis, is the lowest prop­ professor of social studies, remains optimistic. employees in the past." osal we will accept," Coffey said. Coffey said he believes the Legislature will act on Dolmetech said he believes Marshall faculty would The West Virginia Education Association had said the salary proposals and grant an increase this year. settle for the 7 .5 percent increase proposed by Dele­ it would ask its members to strike if a pay raise was "(If no pay raise is gTanted), we will be at the bot­ gates Sue Davis and Pat Hartman, both D-Cabell. not granted to public school teachers. ButDolmetsch tom of the salary scal~50th place," he said. "I can't "I wouldn't say we would be happy with it, but said it is unlikely any Marshall faculty would strike predict how quickly that will erode the quality ofour something is better than nothing," he said. because of the lack of pay increases. However, he said educational PfOll'UD•." The Davie-Hartman bill was referred to the House a group offacuity members will travel to Charleston However, Dr. Chri•topher Dolmet•ch, uaietant Finance Committee where it rests with lees than two Thursday to lobby for the BOR proposal. _Students charge contest with discrimination lndlvtdual~honort · a, Richard Sulllvan transfer quarterback from Arizona. Staff Writer "We all know if this was a valid contest there would at the least be one black contestant," Christina ·roll In_for 4'hlill!~ Charges of racial discrimination concerning the Brown said in a letter published in Friday's ... ~ :· - - , -:· ~~ . --····~ "Mr. Athlete" contest held last week by the Little Parthenon. The hanora..-...tonlllfftfor...... Sieters of Alpha Tau Omega are "silly," according to "It wasn't the 'best athlete' contest," Miller said. .m eon---~ Thtl1dl11ft9 ,~ Mary Jo Miller, Springfield, Ohio senior and presi­ "It was the 'Mr. Athlete' contest. It was just done for eo.chAlckHucblMlyw dent of the organization. fun." cOIQh or h ,-r. Earttet t.av.me But a number of students, writing to The Par­ Miller said the contestants weren't chosen with thenon, complained that not one black athlete was formal criteria. "It was just who the girls knew in the ....cted - • flrtMeem .-otlon In -­ Southern OonfeNnee voting. · . included in the contest, even though some university sport." teams are up to 80 percent black. "What makes the lil' sisters think we, the students, Whtie pleaeed with hle hOnor, Hu...,Nld "Their contest wasn't run in a fair manner," Kevin will sit back and say nothing while they tack any he would ~red• Jt tor a· ptayw-of~ D. Hardy, Dunbar senior, said. " It was unfair for athlete on the board simply because they are their award for Evans. The &-foot-5 tenlor ftntehed them not to ask any black athletes to participate." friends, slighting the better and more deserving play­ third In that balloting. . , _ . In the contest, pictures of white male athletea from ers just to make a buck?" Brown said in her letter. But both agree that the lnc:IIYtdual honota.,.1 a number of varsity sports, including basketball and A black basketball player was asked to participate, leu Important than team•• goat 1hft wetkenct football, were posted. Contributions were solicited for Miller said, but the member who knew him didn't at the SC toum.ment TM top ..,ded Herd • each athlete. The winner was determined by a point arrange to have hie picture taken in time. system in which pennies were negative votes and Hardy said he thought the Little Sisters should will play noon Fm:t.y aQllnat Davidldn ..S. other currency was positive. apologize "to the athletes in general." • related etorlel, page 8. - . , The winner of the " Mr. Athlete" contest was a "It wasn't done intentionally," Miller said. "It white football player Dan Patterson, a junior college wasn't done to offend anyone." .------·~------· ------~-~ - --

2 ------Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1984 THE PARTHENON ' -Beyond MU From The Associated Press

Committee favors Court ruling limits Lebanon summit f acuity pay raises denial ·of funding possible soon CHARLESTON- College professors and WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court, in a BEIRUT, Lebanon- A Syrian-Lebanese sum­ instructora would receive 7.5 percent pay raises victory for the Reagan administration, ruled mit may begin this weekend in Damascus to under a bill approved unanimously Tuesday by Tuesday that the government may not cut off find a way to end the violence in Lebanon, the Senate Finance Committee. all aid to a college because it practices sex government sources said Tuesday. There were Sen. Keith Burdette, D-Wood, chief architect discrimination in a particular program. new reports that President Amin Gemayel was • of the pay raise bill, said it would provide at By a 6-3 vote~ the court gave a narrow ready to scrap Lebanon's pact with Israel as a least $6.2 million for faculty pay raises at interpretation of a 1972 federal law banning sex concession to Syria. state-supported colleges and universities. discrimination at colleges that receive federal Heavy artillery, rocket and machine-gun fire The legislation also would create a step­ aid. continued along the "green line" dividing Beirut schedule pay scale designed to equalize salaries The justices said the law mandates that funds into Christian and Moslem sectora, and police at comparable institutions throughout the state, be cut off only for the specific program that said six people were killed and 13 were he said. receives the federal aid. wounded. · The ti'aaic 7.5 percent raiaes would cost $4.7 The case has been one of the most closely Guerrillas fired on an Israeli army patrol in million, Burdette said, with another $1.5 million watched by women's·rights groups, who have southern Lebanon, and the Israeli military added for equalization. Another $300,000 was accused the administration of snubbing women command said in Tel Aviv that two soldier, included to bring baae-level instructors making and minority groups. were killed. \ less than $14,000 per year up to that minimum. The case pitted .the government against tiny In Jerusalem, two grenades exploded in the Maximum pay scales for professors at institu­ Grove City College in Grove City, Pa. doorway of a store on the main shopping street, tiona offering doctorate degrees (only faculty at The private, co-ed liberal arts college was injuring 21 people. Two Palestinian groups West Virginia University would qualify) would ordered under Title IX of the 1972 law to file a backed by Syria claimed responsibility for the be near $35,300 per year, after the 7.5 percent form with the Department of Education guaran­ attack. · pay raiaes are added. teeing it does not practice sex discrimination. At the United Nations in New York, France Grove City refused to provide the paperwork, called for a ceaae-fire throughout Lebanon and Hospital blll drafted even though it is on record as opposing proposed U.N. troops monitor the truce in the discrimination baaed on race or sex. Beirut area. The Security Council was expected CHARLESTON-The Senate Finance Com­ The only-form of aid the college receives from to vote_on the measure Wednesday. mittee finished work Tuesday on a bill turning Washington is in the form of federal grants to West Virginia University Medical Center over its stµdents to help defray their educatio'nal Iraq claims Iranian rout to a private corporation and authorizing con­ coats. struction of a new $6 million hospital on the Justice Byron R. White, in his opinion for the NICOSIA, Cyprus- Iraq said Tuesday it won Morgantown campus. Supreme Court, said the receipt of the grants the biggest victory of the 31h-year war by The committee spent two days working the "by some of Grove City's students does not crushing an Iranian attack and driving Iranian bill over, inserting provisions giving the Senate trigger institution-wide coverage under Title forces back across the border near the southern power to review and confirm appointments to IX." city of Basra. the 17-member board of directora that would Despite its decision that the government can't "Iraq's flag was hoisted at the last fortified oversee the new hospital. cut off all federal aid, the justices upheld the position held by the Iranians at the Iraqi Disputes over the board's membership - and 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and ruled, 9-0, village of al Beidha ... and all enemy forces who would make the appointments to it - led that Grove City must comply with the paper­ have been crushed except for those who surren­ to several hours of debate, ending with a work ordered by the Department of Education. dered," a battle commander said in a cable to decision to allow the governor to appoint moat Iraqi President Saddam Hu88ein. The contents of the members and give the Senate confirma­ of the cable were aired by the official Iraqi tion power. A similar bill that paased the House Volcker seeks support News Agency. of Delegates on Monday does not contain those Iran had no reports on action near Basra, provisions, however, and Senate leaders pre­ for larger deficit cuts Iraq's second largest city; Iraq said more than dicted that the i88uea would be settled in a 30,000 Iranians were killed in three days. conference committee. WASHINGTON- Federal Reserve Board The claims could not be independently veri­ The House bill on the WVU Hospital was Chairman Paul Volcker told the nation's gover­ fied. Western reporters are rarely allowed in the killed in the Senate Finance Committee when nors Tuesday that the federal deficit should be war zone. U.S. officials also could not verify the members voted unanimously to toss out the cut $50 billion a year to extricate the nation claims but have determined the fighting is House version and substitute their own. from an economic gridlock. escalating fast, said a State Department source Volcker also said President Reagan's call for in Washington who asked for anonymity. Tax unfair, Krishna& say a $100-billion down payment on the deficit is Iran reported a victory 90 miles north of "not very impressive" if the changes come Basra, at Iraq's Majnoon Island, five miles MOUNDSVILLE- Politics and religious per­ toward the end of the three-year period. from the border. Iran's official Islamic Republic secution are behind an $84,670 property tax bill Volcker's position put him in step with the News Agency said Iraqi soldiers fled after a levied on the sprawling Hare Krishna commun­ proposal before the National Governors' Associ­ bitter battle there. ity in Marshall County, sect leaders said ation winter meeting, which calls for deficit Tuesday. reductiohs of $143 billion over the next three Terrorist blast Injures 21 Krishna spokesman Art Villa said the tax bill yeara and $460 billion over five years. will be appealed to the Marshall County Circuit Volcker applauded the governors' attack on JERUSALEM- Two hand grenades exploded Court within.30 days. He claimed that the the deficit although he did not endorse the in the entrance to a blue jeans boutique on county sheriff and tax aHessor are harassing proposal before them today for final adoption. Jerusalem's main shopping street today, injur­ the sect because it isn't a "typical American Questioned about what level of deficit reduction ing 21 people, police and hospital officials said. religion." is needed, Volcker said: Police spokesman Rafi Levy said two of four The Krishnas' tax problems began last "The figure I have thrown out is an annual Soviet-made grenades placed in a box in front August when Marshall County Assessor Alfred rate of $50 billion. If you have a $100-billion of Avi's Boutique on Jaffa Road exploded. "Pinky" Clark announced that he was voiding program heavily weighted to the third year ... it Levy said several people were detained for the sect's religious tax exemption because, in may not be very impressive if very little is done questioning. No arrests were announced and no his opinion, the sprawling New Vrindaban in the first year," he said. group claimed responsibility. community was not used "exclusively for divine The governors approved the proposal on a The blast blew out the front window of the worship" and was therefore taxable. vote of 28-10. boutique, but merchandise inside the shop waB The assessor has set the value of the religious Reagan gave the governors little encourage­ intact. The owner, Avraham Hakkak, and two center - which includes two palaces, a gift ment that changes might be made this election customers were not hurt. shop, restaurant, 11 vacation homes, lodge, year when he met with them at the White Four Arabs and 17 Israeli Jews were injured kitchen and sewer system - at $6.5 million. House on Monday. by shrapnel or flying glass, according to The ornate central palace has become one of the "He very clearly stated that 1984 is not the hospital officials. state's biggest tourist attractions, drawing thou­ year to start a major campaign against the Most seriously hurt was a Lebanese man sands of visitors each year. deficit. It has to wait until after the election," wounded in the stomach, according to officials The Krishnas have appealed Clark's decision said Florida's Gov. Bob Graham, a Democrat, at Bikur Holim Hospital. The other injured on the religious tax exemption, and also have • after meeting with Reagan Monday. "That's a Arabs were Palestinians and at least two of challenged the $84,670 tax bill. very serious mistake." them were reported to be Israeli citizens. THE PARTHENON Wedne1day, Feb. 29, 1984 ------3 OP-inion West Virginia must recognize true priorities The current legislative session, House and something America can ill afford in a com­ Senate leaders agree, has been relatively petitive world economy. unproductive - even boring. This is equally true of West Virginia's place So far, only a few major pieces of legisla­ in the national and world economy. We need tion have been passed. One of these dealt to ensure that future development here will be with child abuse and neglect, an almost based on choices we make ourselves, and that instantaneous reaction to the alleged murder exploitive outside interests are balanced by Jeff of a St. Albans four-year-old by her mother. thoughtful policy-making in Charleston. It is heartening to see that state govern­ To accomplish this now and in the future, Seager ment can be so responsive to social problems, we need representatives who are intelligent yet sad to realize that some of the more com­ and aware, and who have more than a tem­ mon, ongoing concerns of West Virginians porary interest in the aspirations and needs compensation to all West Virginia's teachers, are still ignored. of our state. they will be making the best possible invest­ Ranking high on the list of concerns is the Such people can only come from within, ment in this state's social and economk need for quality education, and this abso­ and our current education system is the development. . lutely requires that we pay teachers a salary means for producing those people. If, however, we continue to let good educa­ commensurate with the demands placed Good teachers, therefore, are among our tors migrate to better-paying jobs elsewhere, upon them. most valuable resources. It is nothing short we will also continue to wallow in a political The constitution guarantees free public of criminal that we don't treat them as such. and economic quagmire. education for a reason. Uninformed people in If our representatives act now to grant fair Our priorities now will determine our a free society make half-baked decisions, opportunities in the future.

Congratulations, Coach Rick Huckabay, for winning Southern Conference Coach of the Year/ A TO little sisters .accused of ignoring black athletes Editor: . When I asked her what criteria they used she said, prime example. Out of fourteen players eleven of they just asked people they knew. I then asked her, them are black. . This letter refers to the Mr. Athlete contest, the did they ask any black athletes. Her reply was, they -Therefore, I would like to bring attention to this act Little Sisters of the Maltese Cross (Alpha Tau were going to ask them, but they ran out of time. of discrimination and suggest to Alpha Tau Omegll Omega) sponsored. The contest consisted of seven Fraternity and their Little Sisters if they cannot take contestants who represented each sport apd no one is I believe this is how people at Marshall show their time to be responsible in their activity, they should black. lack of acknowledgment toward black students. This not conduct such activities. When I first saw the poster with the contestants' is just another area where they attempt to exclude the pictures, I wondered why there were not any black presence of black students despite the fact that in the Sincerely, athletes represented. Therefore I asked one of the area of sports we make up 50 percent of the partici­ Kevin Hardy vnul'lg ladies who were sponsoring the contest, why? pants in this program. Our basketball team is a Senior Winner of Mr. AJhlete contest might not be best MU athlete Editor: The first reason is the contestants selected to ney was not necessarily the best athlete this season. represent each of the areas of each of the different Secondly, if one wanted to be technical, anyone In view of the recent Mr. Athlete Contest that was sports that exist here on Marshall University's cam­ wanting to select an athlete properly in such a con­ held in the lobby of the Memorial Student Center on pus does not necessarily represent the outstanding in test would logically take a cross selection of the ath­ Tuesday, February 21, 1984, sponsored by the Alpha his career in basketball this season; not trying to take letes that exist here on the campus. The ratio of Tau Omega's Little Sisters, 1 felt that the contest was away from Don Tumey's efforts because he always blacks' to whites' participation in aports should alao very poorly done for various reasons. was outstanding in his efforts this season. But Tur- be represented. My final reason for writing this letter is to quote the young lady who was working the table when she was "' Sorority women say escorts appreciated approached as to why there was not a black athlete represented in the contest. She stated, "There wu Editor: We would like to thank the men of the Pi Kappa and not enough time to ask blacks." We would like to respond to the past articles and Lambda Chi Alphii fraternities for their thoughtful­ Well, how much time does it take one person to ask letters to the editor concerning recent crime on cam­ ness and hope that the opinion of another sorority another person in the limelight like LaVerne Evans, pus and the escort services of the Pi Kappa Alpha member would not make you discontinue the escort Larry Fourqurean, or Sam Henry or anyone else here and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternities. service. on campus in football, basketball, or soccer and other One sorority member's opinion on the fraternities' competitive sports to answAr a question whether he motives does not speak out for all Greek women on Sincerely, would represent his particular sport? campus. Kelly James We agree that fraternity men have other things Mary Beth Tinney Sincerely, they could do at 9 o'clock than walk girls home. We Kathy Eakle Connie Jonea believe that these men are doing this because they do SU8an McCamey care about the safety of the women on Marshall's Deborah Frederickson campus. Delta Zeta Sorority members The Parthenon Founded 1896 Letters Polley Corrections Editor ______Patricia Proctor The Parthenon welcomes letters concern­ Managing Editor _____ Greg Friel Errors that appear in The Parthenon may Newt Editor _____ Edgar Simpson ing the Marshall University community. All be brought to the attention of the editors by Sport• Editor _____ Leskie Pinson letters to the editor must be signed and calling 696-6696 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 Wire Editor ______Jeff Seager include the address and telephone number p.m. on weekdays. Any errors that appear in Photo Editor ______Tami Miracle of the author. The Parthenon will be corrected on Page 3 Special Correapondent __ Paul Carson Letters must be typed and no longer than as soon as possible after the error is Advlaer ______Betsy B. Cook 200 words. The Parthenon reserves the right discovered. Production Manager __ Dorothy Clark to edit letters. Advertl1lng Manager _ Mitch Goodman 4 ------·------Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1984 THE PARTHENON Governor's proposal just political, says SGA By Burgette LH Eplln Christopher L Swindell, Logan jun­ using this proposal as a political ploy term effects. He said, "the Legislature Staff Writer ior and Student Senate President, said to pacify the state and teachers by needs to get back to economic policies he believes the fact that raises are finally giving " well overdue" pay and adopt a business climate condu­ Although Student Government being set in motion from a budget sur­ increases. cive to drawing industry... to provide the tax base to ensure the raises for members agree that the salary plus shows "what Charleston thinks Michael L. Queen, Clarkshurg junior increase proposed by Gov. Jay Rocke­ about teachers." teachers." and Student Body President, made a feller for teachen and school staff is He compared the bill to a Band-Aid used to patch a long-existing problem. resolution on behalfofMarchall at the Brison said the proposed increase is necessary and long overdue, mixed Board of Regents-West Virginia A88o­ feelings exist about the proposal itself. necessary and vital to West Virginia. Swindell said that Rockefeller only ciation of Student Government con­ Marshall is "losing quality teachers Rockefeller proposed a 7 percent to 10 proposed it because he realizes that vention in January. He stated the percent increase and plans t(> use a $29 semester by semester from the lack of "he's blown it. The teachers should WVASG should support any teacher money. The state's only hope lies in million budget surplus from 1983 to have a raise long before now." and staff pay raises. help fund the move. The Legislature keeping these teachers in state, which bu not approved the bill yet but it Michael L. Brison, South Charleston Swindell, who agrees with Queen, is difficult to do when they are under­ should pau, according to Del. Patricia junior and Student Body Vice Presi­ said the Legislature is "being near­ paid. The only salvation we have lies in 0 . Hartman, D-Cabell. dent, said he believes Rockefeller is sighted and failing to look at the long- higher education." Internship applicatrons due Thursday Plans set By Dawn Johnson ties, an application fee, a housing Scholarship applications are evalu­ Staff Writer security deposit and an apartment ated by an internal review committee maintenance fee are additional costs and decisions are based on merit by The Washington Center has an for the program. student's ranking in four categories: for journey internship program for students who A limited amount of scholarship personal qualities, career related quali­ would like a chance to work in their money is awarded from the center to ties, educational strengths and skills. choeen field before graduation, Linda eligible students. Current funds are A student must score at least60.6 on , to Cap_itol D. Olesen, aaaistant director of the available for minority students, stu­ a 100 point rating scale of the catego­ Career Planning and Placement Cen­ dents in particular placement areas, ries to be eligible for a scholarship. The By Janice Bon• ter, said. students who are dependents of deadline for summer position applica­ Statt Writer "The purpoae of internships is to pro­ employees for the Quaker Oats Com­ tions is March 1 and the deadline for vide career related experiences," pany or its subsidiaries and students fall positions is April 16. Higher Education isaues will be Olesen said. from selected states and colleges. The internships help students deter­ the topic for a faculty, staff and stu­ The center, which is located in Qualifications for the scholarships mine if they are "in the field they wish dent delegation the legislature Washington, D.C., provides its services include: to be in" by allowing them a chance to Thursday, Dr. William E. Coffey, to students &Cl'OBI the nation. -Submission of a regular completed see what working in their chosen pro­ Professor of social studies, said. Olsen said attending the center is program application two weeks before fession will be like, Olsen said. The delegates will meet with "juat like attending another school" the deadline of the term. For more information students may representatives of Wayne and and there are fees which have to be -Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and come by the Career Planning and Cabell counties in the House paid. Initial fees are for housing and live during the internship in Washing­ Placement Center or contact Linda Finance Committee and chairmen the program itaelfwhile student activi- ton Center housing or no-cost housing. Olesen at 696-2370. of the House and Senate Education Committees. For people who can provide their own transportation, Nltzschke------there will be a meeting at 11:30 a.m. enhanced, not diminished, my respect ,cs and the university should strive to with Senate President Warren From Page 1 for governing boards," Nitzschke said. be the best it realistically can be given McGraw, D-Wyoming, in his office, overall quality of the institution, deter­ "There is no acceptable alternative to a the available resources. He said the Coffey said. A limited size group will mined in large part by the quality ofits good• solid lay governing board for program must be under the complete speak with House Speaker Clyde library." higher education." control ofthe university and must oper­ See, D-Hardy, in his· office at Nitzschke said he would be remiss if He said he believes his somewhat ate within its assigned budget. approximately 3 p.m. he did not reflect on his relationship controversial and direct dealings with Concerning the movement in the Buses leave at 11 a.m. from the with governing boards. He said there the board ofregents in other states has community for a new football stadium Memorial Student Center and Dele­ could be no denying that the record resulted in an abnormally high degree Nitzschke said he was in complete SUJ>­ gates will return at approximately shows he has not always been in com­ of understanding and appreciation for port of the statement Clagg released 3:30 p.m., Coffey said. plete harmony with such boards. the "next to impoSBible job" governing last week which said procedures and Interested students may contact "However, there also can be no deny­ boards are expected to perform. priorities must be followed involving the student government office and ing that regardless of that fact, the On the subject of intercollegiate university construction. However, he faculty members may contact essential nature of such a body to athletics Nitzschke said his position declined to comment on projects Coffey. higher education, in my eyes at least, has been clear from the beginning. He already named on the university's has by virtue of these confrontations said he supports intercollegiate athlet- priority list. ------, r------WIGGINS HERD fans ... SPECIAL Go to the Southern Conference Tournament in Style! Ham 'n' Cheese Sandwich 01 ff Marshall Frys or Homemade I 0 7C O Imprinted Onion Rings, , #11JLlfll Campuswear Choice of soft drinkn Wednesday Special Stationers only $2.09 , e,;., Coupon Morgans 41JDfll. Oft'er Good onlY "ith coupon Beef Toatada $l 4th Ave. & Hal Greer Blvd 50 ~ Expires 3-4-84 1945 5th Ave. only ~•1 & Refried Beana • ~------.:------1-2: .:_tr: _2 l!_M_:n.L_ - ~ i::.ee_!·!!4__ THE ••••••• For Sale •• •• EPISCOPAL 198 4 F ORD Thunderbird, 0 •••••••• MR. - •••••••• miles. 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By Burgetta Eplln By Pamela McCalll1ter Staff Writer Staff Writer Marshall University was not repres­ Dr. Thomas W. Walker, an Ohio Uni­ ented at Friday's Governor's Advisory versity professor, will lecture on the Council of Students meeting in "Crisis in Central America" Thursday Charleston. from 6:30-9 p.m:in-Harria Hall's Room Although Student Body President 134. Michael L. Queen was in Charleston at Gov. Jay Rockefeller's bequest to Walker's lecture will include an exa­ attend the meeting, Queen did not stay: minination of American foreign policy The meeting, for all state college and in this region and a diacl188ion of the university student body presidents, Nicaraguan revolution's aftermath in was scheduled for 3 p.m. At 3:45 p.m., _ Central America and the problems Queen said he left because Rockefeller faced in building more stable govern­ had not yet arrived. ments there, according to Charlee F. Gruber, a88istant profe880r of social "How many times has education studies. taken a back seat? This wasn't the first nor the second, but the third time you were late and very late at that," Queen Walker will diacuas American media said in a letter being sent to Rockefeller coverage of the political and military today to explain Marshall's absence. conflict in Central America too, Gruber - -r .. said. "I see this as nothing le88 than rude . and inconsiderate on your part," Walker has made seven trips to Nica­ Queen said in the letter. "We went to ragua and countries bordering it since Charleston with good intentions and Up the down ata/rcaae 1979. He has written and edit.eel books came home angered and_h~miliat.ed. I and articles on Nicaragua and is co­ wonder how many times you have con­ Looking down from atop the new addition to the Science Bulldlng, thl1 chairman of the Latin American Stu­ sistently been late for senior citizen etalrwell lay, covered up to to ltl 1tepe In 1now. The footprtnte are a dies Association, an academic and groups or meetings with religious portent of what winter could offer etudentl next yNr on their way to profe88ional group which is involved leaders. cla11 or a lab In MU'• newnt 1tructure. · in making policy recommendations on "I also questiog the validity of the Central Ameri~. Advisory Council. Why hasn't it ever been called together before you intro­ duce legislation so you could ade­ quately and sincerely see how the Chaplain to sp~ak at Newman Center students will react before the fact? It is meaningless to meet and diecUBS issues By Therna Hanak pus Minister for Marshall;& Catholic Newman Center. These prayera will you have already taken sides on one Staff Writer community, said. focus on Scripture readinp. way or the other, and I question your Other topics, in the order of their On Thursdays, at 8:15 a.m., there sincerity in calling meetings such as Fr. Jeremiah Cullinane,1the Catholic presentation, will be the advent of will be ecumenical morning prayers Friday's. Chaplain at the University of Charles­ church, spiritual and secular values, with the St. Augustine Mission. socio-economic issues, contemporary ton, will be presenting a series of lec­ John Brant, vice-president of the "Governor, I realiu you are a busy ture• on Wednesdays during Lent, moral issues and prayer-the path to man," Queen's letter continued. "How­ Holiness, according to Bradford. There Newman Association, will be conduct­ beginning at 8 p.m. March 7, in the ing Stations of the Croes, on Monday ever, educaµon is the future of West Marshall Newman Center. will be no lecture presented on March Virginia, and my advice to you is that 14, because of spring break, but they evenings at 8:30, followed by MaBS at education should raise on your priority The first lecture, based on the con­ will resume on March 21. 9:10, according to Bradford. list. Listen and not just hear what cept offaith, will be followed by a MaBS Other Lenten activities will be morn­ These additions to the weekly eche­ administrators, educators, and stu­ at 9:10 p.m., with a distribution of ing prayer beginning at 7:30 a.m. Mon­ dule will not interrupt regular activi­ dents have to say." ashes, Tim Bradford, Associate Cam- days, Wednesdays and Fridays at the ties, Bradford said. Support the March of Dimes BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION

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By LHkle Pinson "The rings are ordered," he said. Staff Writer "I've designed them and they will be made to those specifications. I patt­ Being named the Southern Confer­ erned it after the Final Four ring I have ence coach of the year has left Rick from LSU and the North Carolina Hucldabay with mixed emotions. national-championship ring." "I'm proud to receive the award and The money for the team members' it makes me happy that the people saw rings comes from an awards fund in fit to vote that way," the MU coach the Athletic Department. There is a aaid. "But I would trade it for the limit on the amount of money that can player-of-the-year award for LaVerne be spent. .r Evans." Regarding his honor, Huckabay said Evans finished third in that voting he wanted to give the praise to assist­ behind The Citadel's Regan Truesdale ant coaches Dan Bell, Henry Dicker­ and Willie White of UT-C, Huckabay son and Johnny Lyles. aaid that finish can be attributed to two "The award should be given to the factor11. four of us, those assistants deserve it as much as I do," Huckabay said. '.'I "First, the way thllt I coach held him would say they do more for the team back; the fact that he didn't play 40 than any assistant coaches in the minutes a game," he said. "I said I country." would play everyone and when you do Huckabay once said that at LSU he that you take away from the exposure was the "hardest-working assistant in of someone who might be a star." the country." He wants his assistants Huckabay said that if Evans filled to realize that they carry a lot of clout the same role Truesdale does for The on the team. Citadel, his scoring would be increased "If one of the assistants comes in anywhere from five to eight points a here and says one ofthe players should game. He finished the regular season be run off then that player is gone," he with a 20.1 average; second in the said. "I wouldn't question the decision league to Truesdale's 22.4. and the team knows that." Huckabay said the second reason Huckabay and the rest of the staff was the "regionalization" of the vot­ will be putting in some new wrinkles in ing. "There are not as many votes in preparation for the this weekend's SC this area as down in the Carolinas, tournament. that is a factor," he said. "We won't be making any major The voting is done by the Southern changes but there are some little things Conference Sports Media Association. I would like to put in, some late-game "Of coune I like to think in the back situations and maybe some inbound of my mind that I am a good coach, but plays," Qe said. "I saw something on to tell the truth I don't think about television last night that I want us to things like this that much," Huckabay try to do. It's almost what we are doing , said. "The main thing is the team and now but there's just a little bit I would winning a championship." like to add." Marshall opens the tournament The Herd completed its first regular­ Photo by Todd Meel< season championship Saturday by noon Friday against Davidson. The beating Davidson, 66~. The matter of winner of that game will advance to Rick Huckabay may not have been able to lead hl1 tNm through the ••son picking a championship ring has play the victor of The Citadel­ with hl1 eye• closed but he did good enough • Job to be named the top already been taken care of. • Appalachian State contest. coach In the Southem Conferenc,. At hlI left I• a11l1tant coach Dan Bell. Dream game sees MU take NCAA title SEATTLE, WA. (AP) --The Marshall University Marshall's LaVerne Evans, who lead the Herd Thundering Herd's Cinderella story is complete after with 26 points, said, "At halftime all the guys knew last night's 80-79 thriller in the Kingdome over the we had a chance, but no one dared to say it. It was like highly favored North Carolina Tar Heels in the it would've jinxed ourselves or something." finals of the NCAA tournment. The second half was business as usual, as the Tar Marshall's Don Turney hit a 15-foot jumper at the Heels' lead fluctuated between eight and 13 points. It final buzzer to cap a 14-4 rally in the final three appeared North Carolina would claim its second J. Shep minutes of the game. championship in three years - until the the final To say the Herd was a longshot to win the NCAA three minutes. Brown tournament ia an understatement, but it was a posi­ Marshall jumped an the Carolina's lead with some tion that first-year coach Rick Huckabay enjoyed. key buckets by Evans and David Wade, and some "We took on all the games with the attitude that we timely steals by Jeff Battle. Marshall pulled withjn rebounded for the Herd. had nothing to lose, but everything to gain - and it three, 79-76. After Battle took the pass and crossed halfcourt, worked," Huckabay said. An Evans jumper put Marshall just one point Marshall called its final timeout with 23 seconds left. Marshall pulled off five tournament wins by behind, 79-78, with 49 seconds to play. North Carol­ Marshall's offense was patient, almost too patient. spreads of not more than five points, including Satur­ ina coach Dean Smith gestured frantically to his UNC's Buzz Peterson deflected an Ervin bounce pass day's overtime triumph over Georgetown, which put team as he saw the Tar Heels' lead dwindle. off Evans chest that appeared to be heading out of the Herd in the finals. Carolina broke through Marshall's demon press, bounds with three seconds remaining. But in a mad The top-ranked Tar Heels owned the first five min­ and began to set up for a stall. scramble for the ball Turney saved it and put up a utes of the game, taking off on a commanding 16-4 But the Herd's Sam Ervin fouled Brad Daughtery, desperation shot for the winning basket. tear, but the Herd woke up and held its own through­ and the Tar Heels were at the line shooting a one-and­ And then my alarm clock woke me. It was 7 a.m. out the first half and went to the locker room with an one with 30 seconds left. and time to get ready for class. Wouldn't it be nice if eight-point deficit, 41-33. Daughtery missed missed his first shot and Wade dreams came true.

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The The Model Security Council, a pro­ possibility that the Learning Disabil­ to Nell Bailey, dean of student affairs. banquet is sponsored by student life. gram designed to educate college stu­ ity Program be funded by state funds. The Parthenon and the ChiefJustice The Marshall J azz ensemble was dents concerning the workings of the Also, the committee recommended that awarded $630 for t r a nsporta t ion were jointly awarded $424 for Par­ United Nations, was awarded $252 to the Hall Advisory Councils purchase a expenses to the Romanian Jazz Festi­ send delegates to the Jackson's Mill telephone answering service for the thenon sports reporters and a member val this summer. of the Chief Justice staff to attend the conference. The award will cover the housekeeping staff instead of using Southern Conference Tournament in Omicron Delta Kappa was awarded cost of registration. }JERF funds. Asheville, N.C., March 3-5. The award $360 for six members to attend the The Public R elations Student The committee rejected a proposal to will cover travel and hotel expenses. national ODK convention in Bir­ Society of America was awarded $220 purchase a direct access telephone tape mingham, Ala., March 23-25. The to send delegates to the National system. Bailey said the system will go Munchcon IV was awa.rded $575 in award will cover the costs of registra­ · PRSSA conference in Washington, into operation in the upq,ming aca­ travel expenses for two guest lecturers. tion and travel expenses. D.C., in March. demic year. "We required a more Lawrence Watt-Evans, a novelist, and The Home Economics ABSociation Kermos, the Student Potters Guild, refined budget," she said. . Pediatric surgeon brings Learning laboratory gives med school needed skills student nurses experience By Helen Matheny By Linda Goldman added. However, moat of techniques One of the most important things to Staff Writer Staff Writer are practiced on mannequins. remember working with children, is Only "dummies" get shots, have Brown eaid the mannequins are details, Wolfe said. "You have to be their temperatures and blood pree­ cadavers that have been caated j.n After three years of searching the sure nothing slips by." A minor envir­ sure taken and are given baths, by rubber. The mannequins are very School of Medicine has acquired a cer­ onmental change for an adult could be student nurses in the Learning expensive but aleo very life-like, she tified pediatric surgeon. meaningless, but it could be a catas­ Laboratory. said. All of them are given names. Dr. Stephen A. Wolfe is certified by trophe for a child. The learning lab in Prichard Hall Many details are involved in per­ the American Board of Surgery in both Another aspect Wolfe said has to be is where nursing students learn and forming theae taska, according to general surgery and pediatric surgery, considered. is social iBBue. "We don't practice these and other techniques Brown_ Therefore, all students' Wolfe has only been at Marshall four deal just with children. We deal with before administering them to people work must be checked by instructors months. He has brought with him a parents and families. We deal with the in hospitals, according to Rebecca S. before the students go to the hospi­ specialization in the treatment of whole emotional environment." Brown, instructor in the School of tals. NevertheleBB, she said students children. Wolf said he operates on newborns, Nursing. are leas anxioua about treating peo­ "He is a tremendous asset to a very infants and young children. He has Brown is a part-time instructor in ple in hospitals when they have distinctive part of surgery," Dr. Robert performed surgery on an infant weigh­ the learning lab. She said the lab practiced on mannequins. L. Bradley, professor and chairman of ing less than one kilogram. Wolfe said gives " bands-on" experience to The Leaming Lab also conaiats of surgery, said. Bradley said Wolfe's although it might be easier to become freshmen and sophomores, which reading and audiovisual rooms. responsibilities include teaching med­ emotionally attached to children he prepares them for work in the hospi­ Brown has two graduate students ical students and residents, research tries not to do it. tals. She added that freshmen spend and one work-study student helping and clinical practice in the commun­ their second semester working in her with these sections. ity, southern West Virginia and sur­ "I enjoy working with little children and young kids better because of the the hospitals and sophomores work "Nursing students are very relia­ rounding areas. in hospitals for the semester plus an ble," she said. They always return Wolfe said before pediatric surgery rewards and positive feedback caring for little children rather than old folks. additional year. the books to the reading room. She was available here, children had to be Freshmen are required to spend a added that sometimes the students taken to Morgantown, Columbus or I don't have to worry about my patients going out drinking and smoking." certain amount of assigned time in~ are given reading asaignments. Cincinnati. "We provide quality care the lab while sophomores choose Brown said instructors sometimes as well as any place else and bring The national pediatric organization did a study 10 years ago which deter­ their own schedules. Student nurses make video tapes of themselves in them (children ) home," Wolfe said. working toward their bachelor's the audiovisual section to use as "We are developing a situation where mined 400-450 pediatric surgeons were needed in the country. There are pres­ degree also may use the lab teaching instruments. Video tapes any general surgerical problem can be equipment. also are uaed to teach the students to taken care of in Huntington." ently 425 certified pediatricians, Wolfe said. The number could increase as Most of the materials and equip­ communicate correctly. The stu­ Bradley said,"Children are not just ment uaed in the iab are like those dents are filmed as they listen to miniature adults. Their problems are practice styles change. Strict limitations are placed on stu­ used in hospitals, Brown said. Some another person speaking. Then, dif ferent, and their bodies often dents wanting to be pediatric surgeons. of the materials are provided by the they are allowed to view themselves respond quite differently to disease. School of Nursing, and hospitals on the tape. Wolfe will provide expert care to child­ Only 16 are turned out per year in North America. He said this year there sometimes donate certain equip­ The Leaming Lab gives students ren with a wide variety of surgerical ment. a chance to get to know one another problems." are four or five applicants for each of these positions. With this equipment, the students and to study together,according to Wolf said children have a wide var­ learn to perform injections, intrav­ Brown. iety of diseases that adults do not have. Exclusively 'involved with children enous fusions, catheterizations and Brown said she feels that the lab "You can't read about them in a book. for five and a half years, Wolf pre­ enemas, Brown said. They also is a service to both Marshall Univer­ It takes learning, training and expe­ viously taught at the University ofChi ­ learn the correct procedures for sity and the Huntington community rience to know how to handle them." cago. He received his M.D. degree from making beds, giving baths, chang­ because its equipment is sometimes For example, because some children New York Medical College and per­ ing dressings, opening gauze pack­ loaned to both. Also, students do are born with the structural ability to formed his residency in general ages and administering medicine. their hospital training in some of have an Inguinal hernia, Wolfe said it surgery at the Mayo Graduate School Some of these techniques, such as the Huntington hospitals, and some was the most common surgery done by of Medicine. Wolfe !ilsO practiced pedi­ making beds, are practiced by stu­ students acquire nursing· jobs in pediatric surgeons in the United atric surgery at the Children's Hospi• dents on other individuals, she these hospitals after graduating. States. tal of Michigan.

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Mo ll y Ringwald (left) stars in Sixteen Can­ dles, a gentle corned y from the writer of Na­ tional Lampoon's Vaca­ tion. J ames Garner in Tank (right) is a mean army man with his n your Winter (83/84) issue THE LAST own vintage World War 11 Sherman tank. I you had an article on the up­ STARFIGHTER coming movie /cmum (I'm always A 11 Earthling kid tackles aware not to prejudge, but that some outer-space denizens .. 4 tille struck me as a winner). At any rate, the reason for my letter is article-writer Zan Stewart's flames e ngu lf cars, Lance Guest (below, wi th remark "but there hasn't been a FIRESTARTER houses. and people video game) stars as a fi lm which at once explores our in Fi restarter (below), young Earthling who future and our distant past." Stf/Jhen King's story 6 from Stephen King's finds himself enmeshed stars Drew Barrymore . . ... bestseller. Drew Barry• Now, I'll admit that 2001: A more is the girl with Space Odyssey must have been be­ the fearsome fire power. yond ma n y people, but what does Mr. Stewart think it was STREETS OF FIRE about? It explores human intel­ New star Michael Pare ligence and man's destiny. What - his O\,m - stars as could draw history (pre-history in Walter Hill's latest epic ... 8 l orn Cody in the first and yet-to-come) closer together? of three Wal1e r Hill epics, Streets of Fire. Perhaps Ringo Starr in another caveman role? I m ight suggest the books TANK 2001: A Space Odyssey, and its J ames Garner hits the road sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two, both by in one helluva machine .. 10 Arthur C. Clarke; and especially The M aking of Kubrick 's 2001, The Lonely Guy Contest Winner! edited by Jerome Agel, and The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. t' had hoped that all cmrics in ou r Lonely Guy Contest would be SIXTEEN A reader snide and silly, as \.\as our conr est entreaty. hut after reading through No address given CANDLES W everv scrap of paper, 11 ,,a:, ob,ious 1ha1 some of you took us Molly Ringwaltl sparkles llieriously!?' was interested to read about in teenage talf ...... For1unately for our lives and our sanity. ~Ornt· of you we11: snide and silly. Our I The l onely Guy; I'm one of the 12 first place Lonely Guy 1s Tony R azz.ini of S1. Cloud State U niversity, St. nine or ten people in this coun­ Cloud. M inncsoia, who wrote: "(Yes, I am a lonely guy because) I go to the c.omputcr room herea1 SCSU and listen io1he girls moan when their computer try who loved Pennies from progr,t1n1, don'1 work." For his eavesdropping lonelin(•ss. ~1 r. Razzini receives a Heaven, and I'm glad Steve Mar­ COMING SOON 1ri1l 10 Loo; Angeles for one. a screening o f Tht lont/y Gt1y(forone). and assorted tin is still trying to do something FiinLI i11 the wings ...... 14 otht"r lonely prizes as detailed in our last issue besides T he j erk. Don't get me In addirion to our winner, we have l'.... o runners-up ...,ho deserve Dishonor· wrong, I liked The j erk ... but I .tble Mc:.-n tion- no prizes, just our gro.uitudc Kevin Davis of Kearney State, like / l ove Lucy reruns, too. Ec­ Nebraska. is a lonely guy because "\\hcnev~r I go ou1 with girls 1hey always tell lectic taste and all that. I wish me they nc\cr kiss on the last date." David Laing of ~1,Jwaukee, \\'isconsin him well - and your magazine, OUR COVER <.:omplains that " l drive do,\n one-way streets the wrong way just to get some· too. I just wish it came out more Michael Pare stars in Streets of one to v.·a\t· .tt me:-." often. Fire, photographed by Stephen \\'c.· mourn for so many of you whose pct ferns clu,.d, and whose parents have fun

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movie script is a recipe, a schedule of ingredients and proportions. If A the pages are going LO produce a feast, those ingredients have to be top choice and their preparation must be care­ ful. In the case of Tiu! Last Starfighter, the chefs are so proud of their methodology they won't tell a soul about the close details of their cookery: Tiu Last Starfighter is the most secretive production in Hollywood since the last Star Wars installment, at least. "The computer graphics for this fi lm have seven-and-a-haIf times greater resolu­ tion than has been seen before," says pro­ ducer Gary Adelson. "Some of the special effects sequences were actually shot before any of the live action photography was be­ gun. There's a full year of work on the special effects alone. That's about all I can tell you." Tiu Last Starfighter is concocted from an imaginative leap o utwa rd. ,,_An arcade-type outer space blast-the-attacking-aliens game becomes a training device for the "real" thing - good , old-fashioned good-vs-evil The loverJ are Lance Guest and Catherine intergalactic warfare. Space armadas a re laid waste. Alien blood washes starship in­ Mary Stewart (top). That's Guest again (above right) with a decidedly alien creature teriors like Red Mountain Burgundy at a (veteran actor Dan O'Herlihy under the fraternity bash. Creatures, weird to the scales). The futuristic vehicle (above left) is Nth degree, pitch high-tech tussles while Centauri's "car-space ship," Centauri being the fates of galaxies hinge on the precision Robert Preston. timing of fast-as-light, bogglingly destruc­ tive weapon blasts. In short, nothing like as Steven Spielberg, J ohn Carpenter and the J ane Austen novel you had to read in othe rs. They also include some promising Survey of Eng. Lit. young unknowns, ala War Games, and Drawn into the struggle, unaware and Robert Preston, who prepped for his role even un willingly, is an Ea11h boy from the as the trickster Centauri through years of boondocks. In the great tradition of epics playing friendly and deceptive types - and mythology, he overcomes his reluc­ J ulie Andrews' manager/ confidante in tance and grows into the role of hero. Ini­ Victor/ Victoria being the latest in a string tially he's shanghied into heroism by a that runs back to The Music Man. magical trickster, an intergalactic con man. "We wrote the part with Presto n in appeal that audiences should easily iden­ Then he decides, on his own under the mind," says producer Adelson. "We were tify with. They're the ordinary people who press of battle, that life is wonhless unless extremely happy when he agreed to do the find themselves in extraordinary c ir­ he chooses a path of honor. T he story's picture." cumstances, through which they learn that threads can be traced back to all sorts of Lance Guest is the hero, Alex. In his they're actually quite special people. Since popular and classical works; those who very first big screen role (he had a small nearly all of us believe, no matter what our have enjoyed such as Lord of the Rings, Star pan in Halloween II ), the personable new­ surroundings, that we're secretly very spe­ Wars, Tht Nitbelungenlied and various comer gets to va porize the forces of evil. cial, the roles should provoke a lot of Greek myths, not to mention American Not a bad start. His sweetheart, Maggie, cheering. comic books, wi ll sense some deep played by Catherine Mary Stewart, en­ The d irector is someone moviegoers similarities in J onathan Betuel's screenplay. cou rages Alex to use his talents so he can have mainly seen behind a mask. Nick Cas­ T hat's the recipe, in compressed form. go places. But Maggie never dreams that tle is the son of Nick Castle, Sr., a well­ The ingredients include a young director the places will be whole star systems away known film and television choreographer. drawn from the USC Whiz-Kids film from their rural trailer park. Both Guest An actor by age eight, performing in A11y- school background that has produced such and Stewart have a fresh, wusel-haired (Continued 011 page 11)

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as "The Shop." In addition to the cash, the students, played by David Keith (An Officer and A Gentleman) and Dynasty's Heather Locklear, pick up extra-sensory powers and some hot genes that enable Charlie (Drew Barrymo re), the daughter they eventually produce, to torch at will anyone or anything that makes her angr y. The Shopkeepers see young Charlie as a prime candidate for some further experiments, FIRE.STARTER and their efforts to capture and eventually BY ANTHONY DE CURTIS eliminate her and her father provide the core of Firestarters suspenseful action. ,s ometimes it takes her half an hour to In addition to Barrymo re, Keith a nd cry, sometimes ..." Director Mark Locklear, Fi,·estarter features three Lester's voice trails off ho pefully. Academy Award-winners for Best Actor/ Lester is huddled with producer Frank Actress: George C. Scott, Art Carney and Capra, Jr. in the forty-degree cold on the Louise Fletcher. Scott plays J o hn Rainbird, set of Firestarter in Wilmington, North a d eranged hit-man for the Shop who Carolina. T he subject of this confab is the yearns to achieve a kind of spiritual union adorable (the word comes instinctively at with Charlie by bashing her brains in. Car­ this point, as if it were her title) Drew Bar­ ney and Fletcher portray a trusting farm rymore, who charmed the world in her couple who shelter Charlie and her father, starring role in £ . T. - The Extra-Terrestrial. Andy, as they Aee the Shop's murderous Lester has had nothing but good things to pursuit. Martin Sheen, who recently por­ Drew Barrymore (top right) has the gift and say about Drew, but tonight, as the produc­ trayed J o hn F. Ke n nedy in the BC the curse offir e - one look from her, and tion comes within a week o r so of wrap­ miniseries Kenmdy, appears as the Shop's flames envelop her unlucky victim (top left). ping ... well, no one wants any difficulties genial administrator. Her parents (David Keith and Heather to arise now. Director Mark Lester is delighted with Locklear, above), were themselves victims of Yet Drew's initial problem drawing tears these casting coups. "We have people that secret government experiments, and now re­ for what Lester describes as a "very emo­ we never imagined would ever be in the negade agents are after their "talented" tional scene" puts her in very good com­ movie, people like George Scott, Manin daughter. pany on this set. Nobody's doing much Sheen and Art Carney," he points out en­ weeping over this $15 million production, thusiastically. "T his became a much classier a combination guru and glamour-boy which after more than two months of project· because we had this great talent in wrestler. "And we've come up with some shooting in a location virtually virgin to it. The cast is beyond what I had expected things that've never been done before. filmmaking, is both within budget and when I started the film. Because it was so Like the suit that the stunt people get into within four days of the original sc hedule. expensive to do the e ffects, we thought for their full body burns. We've actually In fact, spirits around here couldn't be that we wouldn't be able to afford a large cut the suit down to about one quarter the higher. cast. But everyone was so confident in the size that it normally is. When you see a full Based on the best-sell ing novel by script that they raised the budget and put body burn in the movies, Lhe suits are al­ Stephen King (author of Carrie, The Shin­ more stars in." ways so big and bulky, it looks like the guy ing and The Dead Zone), Firestarter boasts This film's effects, however, will defin­ is twelve times his normal size! For this both an all-star cast and fire effects of a itely give the stars a run for their money. film, we got it down so that the suits are scope and dimension that haven't been en­ Special effects for Firestarter were •handled approximately an eighth to a q uarter of an countered since General She rman used the by J eff J arvis and Mike Wood, who have inch thick. We've been able to achieve as South as a site for some epic incendiary collaborated on such eye-stunners as Pol­ much as a minute and fon y seconds of scenes during the Civil War. The script by tergeist and Amityville JD. Firestarter's de­ burn time before we have to get the man Stanley Mann (The Collector; Omen II) sticks mands presented the two with a real chal­ o ut. closely to King's riveting story of two col­ lenge. "Mike and myself have tried to de­ "We've also developed face masks from lege students who, to earn some extra velop some new, interesting, and different molds of the actors that we put over the bucks, participate in a drug-related exper­ ways o f burning people a nd burning suit, so you can look through the fire and iment secretly funded by the sinister De­ houses down," Jarvis reports with under­ actually see some facial characte ristics. partment of Scientific Inte lligence, a stated cool. He is a large, broad man whose And there are a number of gels that have C. I.A.-like government agency referred to silvery gray hair and beard make him seem been inve nted to help protect the stunt

6 T H E MO V IE MAGAZINE An All-Star Cast Brings Stephen King's Firestarter to Blazing Life

peo ple, so we can burn peo ple with a ished Raiders II when they contacted me sky with torrents o f flames and fire-balls minimum amount of fire-retardant clothes for the project. I read the scr ipt and hunled hundreds of feet across the set to on. They can do it with their open skin." realized that we did have some huge prob­ crash in thunderous explosion against the Glenn Randall . whose credits include lems. And it was a chal lenge. I've been in mansion house. Star Wars, Raiders of till' Lost Ark, and£. T. , is the business Lwemy-three years and have No stranger to such violent cinematic an intensely soft-spoken man whose m ild seen almost everything and do ne almost atmospheres, Mark Lester exudes an im­ manner a nd blend-into-the-woodwork everything. I'm a lways looking for some­ pressive calm amid the firestorm. Lester, looks belie a fami liarity with danger that thing new and different. T he creative as­ an intense, distracted man with longish would make r.fr. T shudder. He is the man pect of the business is what appeals Lo me black hair swept back from his face and who had to devise the movie's pyrotechnic at this stage of my career. We got some perpetually darting eyes, made his reputa­ stunts as well as assemble a crew capable or very unusual shots for this movie. We've tion with such action-packed extravaganzas passing these trials of fire. " Normally set­ been able to come up ,~iLh some things that as R oller Boogie, Stunt.I and Closs of / 984, ting people on fire is a s1um in itself," have not bee n pUL on film before. I'm well but it was the multidimensional quality of Randall explains. "But we've bee n incor­ pleased." Stephen Ki ng's novel that made him de­ porating other stunts that involve no! only Fimtartn; o pening May 11 , was filmed cide that Firestarter, which was originally the actual stunt, but the fire as well. We're entirely in North Carolina. with the bulk of conceived as a vehicle for John Carpenter, was the right project for him. "I was given Firestarter by (executive producer) Dino De Laurentiis to read, and it was the first Stephen King book I'd read," Lester states. "And I loved it. It works on so many differ- em levels: as a great love stor y, as a thriller, as suspense, as a supernatural study. That's what attracted me, the book itself." Lester's belief in the essential power of King's story is so strong that he is not at all concerned that Firestarter's eye-boggling ef­ fects will overwhelm its more emotional aspects. " It does separate in my mind, the e ffects portion of the film and the dra­ matic portion of the fi lm," the director admits. "But without the human relation­ ships a nd characters, the effects never work. We've seen so many effects in movies, and often the human story is lost. So in this I wanted Lo make sure that the human sto ry is there and that people love the chai-aclers and are involved especially with the leads. Andy and Charlie. I wanted to make sure that the love story between the father and daughter was the central George C. Scott (above left), Art Carney and focus, so when the effects came they wo uld Louise Fletcher (above, with Drew Barry­ be a plus Lo the whole movie." more), all Academy Award winners, star in Lester is convinced that the topical qual­ Firestarter. Director Mark Lester (far left) ity of Firesta rter is also o ne of its great and producer Frank Capra,Jr. (near left) strengths. ·-rm a very poliLically involved confer on location in North Carolina. perso n myself, so that aspea of the story reall y interested me," he comments. the shooting Laking place on the 258- "While the movie works on the entertain­ year-old, 12,000-acre Orto n Plamation. ment level. I also kept in that social aspect Producer Frank Capra, J r., an unpretenti­ that was in 1he book, which involves the ous lord of the manor who wanders the set civil libenies of people, and government with a glad hand and easy smile - and a agencies and their use of people for re­ watchful eye - rega rds the spectacular search in ways those people do n't know Orton site, which lies on an intercoastal about. All those issues that are in the book waterway and formerly was a rice planta­ and that made it such a popular best seller, tion, as a real find. ·•we looked a long time we kept those in the movie, though they're before we found this place." he recalls. very subtly done. I think people who are "We looked in Mexico, we looked in Rome, looking for that will find it in the movie." we looked in Texas and in and around Asked what he'd like his audiences to Lo uisiana. When we finally found this feel as they leave the theater after seeing place, which was a combination of seeing a Fi restarter, Lester re p Iie s, " I hope they'll picture of it on the cover of a magazine leave on an upbeat note because we tried and tracking it down through the Film 10 keep it away from being a really grue­ Commission of onh Carolina, we came some film. I think they'll be very excited d r"awing people on cable , taging high here and said. 'This is perfect fo r us!'" [he begins to laugh] and anxiously awaiting falls. catapult shot , a lot of various gags A full-size replica of the enormous plan­ the sequel, Firestarter II, o r maybe Firestop­ 1ha1 are usually tricky enough without the tation house a nd stables was erected for per, uh, directed by Richard Fleischer!" additional problems of puuing people in the production, and a pond was dug into After more than two months on location burn suits." This degree of anis1ic chal­ the grounds. On this night of shooting, the and with a final week of heavy shooting lenge is a good pan of what drew Randall gloomy, heavily forested plantation bore left, Mark Lester is c racking jokes. T hings 10 F1restarur in the first place: ·· I'd just fin- brooding witness as the stables lit the night must be going well.

fll E MO V IE MAGAZI N E STEVEN VAUGHAN/SfPA PRESS TM brooding, smolderingface ofMu:hael Michael Pare Stars in Pare (above left) as Mro Tom Cody, mythu:al creation of veteran action director Walter Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Hill (above). Streets of Fire harlcens baclc to one ofHill 's biggest hits, The Warriors: B y D A V I N S E A Y both films ta~ place in tMir own time, neitJaer past, present, nor future, wMre n elevated train roars through the rock and roll singer (played by Diane Lane Western legend combines with fiery urban squalid city in the dead of night. of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish fame) by a madness (below). A From somewhere a woman's voice, gang of bizarre bikers. Diane Lane (opposite), who debuted as tM hoarse and world weary, talks on, as if only "The following story takes place in the precociously adorable young girl in A Little to herself. "My brother's name is Tom," she Other World," writes Hill and co-scenarist Romance, has grown up; sM's a roclc & roa says, "Tom Cody." Whiskey and coffee Larry Gross on the very first page of the singer, Tom Cody's former lover, whom M blunt the edge in her voice. "H e was com­ film's script, "a far-off place where genres must rescue from a gang ofleatMr-jacketed plicated. A lo t more complicated than collide - in this case, futuristic Fantasy motorcycle buaies. people thought. He had a lot of backbone meets the Western, gets married and has at a time when it was kind of scarce ..." As Rock and Roll babies ..." On that same she speaks a lone figure hangs o n the page is a couplet fro m t he Bruce overhead straps of the subway car. H e Springsteen tune from which the movie wears a long coat and a chambray shirt draws its name. " I live now o n ly with and at his side is a battered suitcase. strangers," howls The Boss, " I talk only to Thus Walter Hill introduces, with all the strangers - I walk with angels that have no portentous significance his directorial skills place - Streets of Fire ..." No one could can muster, the m ythic lead of his latest ever accuse Wa lter Hill of not knowing film , Streets of Fire, the first in a project­ exactly the kind o f movie he has in mind. ed film trilogy titled The Adventures of Tom Hill need ed a face, a personality to Cody. Subsequent installments have been match h is consuming vision of the ultimate dubbed Tht Far City a nd Cody's Return. action hero. T he search for an actor to Cody is, from the get-go, a character con­ portray, project a nd embody Tom Cody siderably larger than life - a kind of Dirty stopped dead at the clean lines o f Michael Harryrfravis Bickle concoction with liberal Pare's jaw. doses of Brando and Dean added for the "He had the right quality," Hill says. " He appropriate smolder a.nd menace. was the only person I found who was right Streets of Fire takes Hill full circle, be­ for the part ... a striking combination of yond the gritty black h umor of his biggest toughness and innocence." hit 48 HRS., past the queasy bloodletting It takes some kind of toughness to en­ of Southern Comfort and Long Riders, hark­ du re the scorching set on the San Fer­ ing all the way back to an especially grip­ nando Valley backlot where the shooting of ping modern urban nightmare called The Streets of Fire is in its fi nal week. To speed Warriors. Hill's first directorial effort (he up the schedule, the entire set, six blocks started out as a screenwriter), The Warriors of carefully detailed New York City streets, told the tale of roving, rival street gangs complete with elevated train tracks and a and sported speed-editing, street talk and full-scale movie marquee, has been roofed a surfeit of spectacular violence. Billed as a over with an enormo us expanse of plastic "rock and roll action fantasy," Streets of Fire tarp to allow night shooting during the takes place in some gloomy, dirty future day. and revolves around the kidnapping of a In the midst of this sweltering chaos

8 THE MOVIE MA GAZINE Mic hael Pa r e sits calm ly sm oking a "Of course I'm lucky," Pare admits, while Marlboro, watching Walter Hill set up yet around him crew and extras slog through a nother take of a shot they have been their jobs like penitants in hell. "I'm the laboring over all afternoon. The 24-year­ luckiest guy I know." Biographical details old actor is, incredibly, dressed in heavy bear out the assertion. Born in Brooklyn, suede britches and a long-sleeved woolen eighth in a line of ten children, Michael's undershirt - Tom Cody's costume and a ear liest ambition was in a field far from horrifying reminder of the pr ice stardom acting. "I went to the Culinary Institute in some times exacts. Pa re seems to mind Hyde Park," he explains, "because that was neither the gruelling heat nor the hurry­ the first real job I had after my father died up-and-wait pace on the set. He has ap­ and I got out of high school. It was some­ parently wound some internal clock to half thing I could do and get at least a middle­ speed , his lids at half mast over pale blue class income. But I never considered it my eyes, his blond hair occasionally re-ruffled life's work." by a harried make-up woman. He seems to Well, maybe. If cooking was a temporary be saving himself up, holding himself in gig, Pare certainly took it seriously. He careful reserve, forcing himself to move, graduated from the Institute with a cook­ talk and react with slow deliberation. T he ing degree and quickly landed a series of really felt the pressure, but in the end, impression created is striking and a little apprenticeship jobs that would in time cer­ being able to get up on stage and let loose, unsettling - it's uncertain whethe r Michael tainly have resuked in full-Aedged chef­ it al l fell together." Apparently it didn't fall Pare is about to explode or fall asleep. dom. At 21 he became an assistant baker at together far enough. One of the most sub­ "Walter has a vivid picture of what he New York's tres chic Tavern on the Green. stantial embarrassments of the '83 fil m sea­ wants," Pare obser ves, pu ll ing the final It was Just about then that Opportunity son, Eddie and the Cruisers per ished despite cloud of smoke from the Mar lboro a nd knocked, or rather ta pped. a massive publicity cam paign, but Pare expelling it into the saturated air. "T here's hardly went down with the ship. Even be­ never a question of 'do I have what he fore the movie's release he'd been cast for needs.' You wouldn't be he re if you d idn't." "Streets of Fire is a both Streets of Fire ("Saw him in Eddie and He has a point. T he reason Pare is here the Cruisers," Hill says tersely; "Met a few is precisely because Hill saw in his classi­ rock fs roll fab'/e," times. Talked. That was enough for me.") cally c hisled features a nd tightly self­ Hill says, "in tM sense as well as a co-starring spot in Undercouer, contained presence the ma kings of a an Australian effort d irected by David Ste­ genuine American hero - Hill's own de­ that tM situation and vens of A Town Lilte Alice fame. "I play a cided ly j aundiced ve rsion of the right New York promotion man in the 1920s stuff Pare, even on first impressions, is totems oft~ film are who goes Down Under to sell corsets," uniquely qualified to fit Tom Cody's boots. identical with tM con­ Pare ex plains, while stage hands roll a He broods and Aares with all the panache fire-engine-red , chopped and channeled of a Matt Dillon or Richard Gere, resem­ cerns of most rock fs Mercury onto the set. "Undercouer is a kind bling , albeit slightly, a consider ably of Cary Grant and Doris Day screwball younger and healthier Nick Nolte with a rol songs." comed y and it was a lot of fun to make." touch of down-home Gerard Depardieu. Hill summons him 10 the set. Climbing " I was waiting in a bar fo r m y girl­ into the Mere, Pare waits for his cue, then friend," he recounts, "when I felt a tap on jumps out and strides through a collection my shoulder.'' Beckoning him to stardom of vintage '51 bullet-nose Studebakers, was a New York-based talent scout who decked out to look like 21st Century squad eventually put the rather bewildered Pare cars. He glares menacingly at the camera in touch with the late legendary agent lens and Hill cries "cut." J oyce Selznick. "She helped me get acting One gets the impression that Pare is not lesson~;· he explains. "I quit cooking and as interested in keeping his private life gave myself a year to make it as an actor." private as many a more established and Even someone with Pare's phenomenal wary fi lm star might be. What he does with good luck can hardly be expected to hit the his off-camera hours seems calcu lated to big time in 12 short months. It took two be quite normal and average. "I spend full years before he landed a supporting time with my wife," he says with a shrug. role in a sho rt-lived T V series called "Sometimes we go out with friends. Some- Crealest A~can Hero, where he stayed for times we stay at home and watch TV." another year-and-a-half, leaping in a single Michael met Lisa, a law student who works bound over the obligatory acting hurdles as an assistant in the Los Angeles D.A.'s of o ff-off-Broadway, soap o pe ras and office, in New York. "She was a blind date comme rcials. " It was a good experience," for my brother Terrance, who writes ro­ he allows. "I learned how to hit my mark mance novels for a living. We were mar­ a nd get to m ake-up and ward robe on ried two years ago and moved out to Hol­ time." lywood. Whe n she finishes school we'll He also, it seems, learned how to project find a little place in upstate New York." a considerable on-camera appeal. Writer/ It all sounas quite, well, idyll ic, but one director Martin Davidson, spotting Pare on wonders whether Pare, given his current Greatest American H ero, recognized the status as a bankable property, will ever former sous-chef's natural talent at convey­ have the chance to indulge his bucolic ing all man ner of alluring and dangerous dreams. If, as seems certain, Streets of Fire undercurrents and cast him in the title role is another Walter Hill hit, Pa re will be of the turgid rock a nd roll melod rama caught up in the destiny of Tom Cody for called Eddie and the Cruisers. " It was a big the foreseeable future when the film opens gamble for both of us," Pare confides. "I June 8. It's a fate that suits him well.

T HE MO V I E M AGAZ I N E 9 The two stars - Sherman's finest vin­ Zack, Bil ly and Sara. tage armament (above, crushing a car Tank.\ high-spirited action is perfect­ and at least one brick building), and ly suited LO the talents of J ames Car­ James Garner (inset left) as the Sergeant ner. The durable and char ismatic leading Major who restores the World War II mobile man, known to millions as T V's Bree destroyer and then finds good use for it. Maverick and Jim Rockford, is hi mself no stranger to the role of military man. When one of the sheriff's deputies roughs Some of Garner's best-remembered films. up the girl, Zack retaliates by beating the including The Great E,rnpe, Sayonara and Where Does deputy senseless. The Americaniz.ation of Emily. featured the James Garner Drive His Tank? Buclton then strikes back at Zack by ar­ actor as a wise-cracking American in resting his son Billy in a trumped-up drug uniform. Anywhere He Wants To! bust. When Billy is finally sentenced to the Shirley J ones has been one of America's state prison farm, Zack decides he's had most wholesome actresses since the Fifties. B y C H R I S MORRIS enough of Southern justice and moves his own arn1.a 1neru into action. ames Garner is tank jockey Zack Carey Zack Carey's vengeful tank raid on the in Irwin Yablans' forthcoming produc­ Clemmonsville jail is just the beginning of J tion Tank, directed by Marvin J . an uproarious. explosi\'e cross-country Chomsky from a screenplay by Dan Gor­ chase which pits the crazed Sheriff Buel­ don. It's a plum role for Garner. Carey is a Lon and his minions against the armor-clad tough, acid-tongued professional soldier firepower of the Sherman tank manned by with some sturdy, o ld-fashioned ideas about love, duty, family and honor. He ar­ rives at his new post, Fort Clemmons in ,rranlt was just a jo): h will be a great the rural South, with his wife L~Donna .l. little pan for me," Jenilee Harrison (Shirley J ones) and his son Billy (C. says of her role as the 17-year-old pros­ Thomas Howell), daydreaming of his im­ titute Sara. "The best thing for me was minent retirement. His arrival at the fort wearing absolutely no makeup. with my attracts some immediate attention - afte1· hair up on top of my head in a all, it isn't every officer who arrives on base pon)1ail. They only cared about my act­ with a completely restored tank in tow. ing, they didn't care how I looked." A T he tank is Zack's hobby; it's been pain­ welcome relief for the actress after her to protect himself. James Garner has stakingly reconditioned over the past fif­ stint on ABC's Thrus Company and her made himself a star, nobody else has teen years. Asked why anyone would wanl "surf chick" role in the TV movie, done it. He never got out of line, never a Sherman tank, he replies, "Because the Malibu, where much fuss was made dictated anybody else's job." odds against accidentally shooting yourself over appearance. Tank spent those three months on lo­ while cleaning it are incredible." "James Garner is great, we became cation in Georgia. "in some small The trouble starts for Zack Carey when good friends," she says enthusiastically. towns, and we worked six days a week," he leaves the base one night and drives to "We played cards every night for three Ms. Harrison remembers. And how was neighboring Clemmonsville in search of a months. We played Jerry's Rules. Jerry Georgia? "A lot of red clay," she says cold beer and a friendly alternative to the is his chiropractor. It's a great card succinctly. dull pleasures of the officers' club. In a game.'' When asked about her career after Clemmonsville roadhouse, he strikes up a As for the near legendary difficulty Tank, Ms. Harrison replies, "I take it conversation with Sara Uenilee Harrison). of star Garner, Harrison is clearly on day by day. I plan on being in this busi­ a young prostitute who works for the local Garner's side. "He takes an authorita­ ness my whole life." vice lord, Sheriff Buelton (G. D. Spradlin). tive position many times. but that's just J udith Sinu

JO T H E MOVIE MA G A Z I N E when she rose to stardom as the singing star of the film versions of Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Carousel. She graduated from girl-next-door roles to her lauer-day identification as everybody's fa­ vorite Mom via her stint in I he long­ running TV ·series The Partridge Family, which co-starred her real-life stepson David Cassidy. But those accustomed to 1he Ro unding o ut Ta11k's cast a re a master A little family get-together -ShirkyJon es squeaky-clean Shirley Jones may be in for screen villain and a vivacious young ac­ (center)joins Harrison, Garner, C. Thomas a shock: Screenwriter Dan Gordon has tress. G.D. Spradlin is a superb and well­ Howell and the tanlt - for a joyous homecom­ conceived the distaff Carey as a tough, traveled screen heavy. If a pan demands a ing after a very tough journey. sometimes tart-tongued Army wi fe . menacing Southern or oULhwestern type, C. Thomas Howell comes LO his role as Spradlin is the man for the job. The Chomsky, a veteran director whose credits Billy Carey fresh from his starring debut square-jawed , steely-eyed actor is well­ include some of the most noteworthy TV as Ponyboy Curtis in Francis Ford Coppo­ known to connoisseurs of movie evil as the films of recent years: Holocaust, R oots a nd la's film of S.E. H inton's The Outsiders. Ta11k hard-nosed coaches in North Dallas Forty hiside the Third Reich (for which he won the is only Tommy Howell's third film (his first a nd One on One, the corrupt I evada prestigious Director's Guild Award for best screen role was as one of Henry Thomas' senator in The CodfatlU'r Part II, and the director). bike-riding buddies in E.T. ). but he's al­ grim general who dispatches Marlon The Georgia locations serve as a colorful ready getting a chance to display his ver­ Brando's assassin in Aporaly/JSP Now. backdrop for a brightly variegated story. satil ity - the fast-paced action of this cur­ Tank marks the screen debu1 of J enilee Tank, opening March 16, offers audiences rent project is in marked contrast 10 Cop­ Harrison, bu1 she should be nn stranger 10 intimate family drama, raucous comedy, pola's introspecti\'e drama. fans of 1he lo ng-running TV comedy and, most of all, full-tilt action, much of it Not that Tommy Howell isn't at home Three's Company. The blo nde. curvaceous supplied by its eponymous centerpiece. As with action. His dad, Chris Howell, is a actress was prominemly featured on the Zack Carey's Sherman slogs toward the well-known stunt man, and Tommy him­ show as the bubble-headed roommate of state line at the climax of the film, crowds self is quite the cowboy- he was Cal ifornia John Riuer and Joyce DeWin. of onlookers roar - a response that's sure J unior Rodeo Association Champion in Tanks solid cast is put through their LO be duplicated in movie houses around 1979. sometimes exhausting paces by Marvin the country. THEIAST SfARFIGHTER (C011tinuedfrom page 4) thi11g Goes, the younger Castle was a film school buddy ofJ ohn Carpenter. They saw The Resurrection of Bronco Billy, a project on which they combined talents, win an Oscar in the "shon subject" division. Castle later assisted Carpenter with the ahead-of-its­ time science fiction movie Dark Star and, also with Carpenter, co-wrote the Kun Russell-sta rring Escape from New York. The masked role? Castle was seen (and yet not seen) as the psycho killer in Halloween. The in-kitchen mysteries connected to the preparation o f The Last Starfigliter con­ cern, and I quote the only material avail­ able to the press at present, " ... a facility 1hat can fully utilize the most powerful graphic soft1v,tre ever written, for the most sho rt-lived " How did they do that?" im­ Robert Preston (above, with Lance Guest) powerful computer that has ever been pression. For the first time, whole blocks of plays an intergalactic con man - a sort of built. combined with an extremely high mo\'ie time are going to be high-resolution Music Man in Outer Space. The film's pro­ level of man-machine interaction." computer graphics, thanks to what's called ducer, Gary Adelson (abo ve left), is proud of Digital Productions. a n independent the Digital Computer Scene Simulation his movie's technical achievements in special company headed by J ohn Whitney. Jr. and Process. What appears on the screen will effects -which have remained top secret. Gary Demos, has been tabbed to make the have come directly from the mind of the battles among the stars come alive. Until programmer/ artist, with the substantial aid the inner circle of Tiu Last Starfighter's now, computer-aided images have been lit­ of a $6.5 mill ion CRAY IS/ l000 computer. makers: T he costumes for the alie ns are tle snippets here and there - the rugged Compared to the secrecy surrounding the wei rd and whimsical creations of a bolts that spin down on a Chevy truck their work at Digital Productions, Demos master costume designer named Robert emblem, to cite one often-seen example. and Whitney make the people in charge of Fletcher and the space battle sequences are Rathe r frequently, computer-generated Russia's missile programs seem like com­ going to be a step beyond anything ever images have been pan of a live action pulsive blabbermouths. At this point only done before. It could be a feast. The Last scene. a minor overlay intended 10 create a two things are conclusively known outside Starfighter opens June 22.

T HE MOVIE MAGAZINE II Si.xtee11 Candles, "a typical teenager off the set. But when she acts, she's charming and interesting to look at on film. You get the camera in close and there are e ver­ changing, subtle expressions going on un­ derneath the surface. She has a face on which emotions play. Meryl Streep has that

Teenage Agony and Ecstacy, parents' car. A Rabbit is so cute - a white Rabbit convertible." From the Writer of Ringwald has earned her car. She's been National Lampoon's Vacation performing since she was 4, singing with her father's Great Pacific J azz Band. She B Y MIKE BYGRAVE played one of the orphans in the West Coast production of Annie a nd later be­ hat's the worst thing tha t can came a regular o n TV's Facts of Life. But it happen LO a teenager? According was her role as J ohn Cassavetes' daughter W Lo Molly Ringwald , having the in Paul Mazursky's The Tempest which put whole family forget your sixteenth birth­ her career into overdrive. Since then, she's day may not be the worst, but it comes made a couple of T V movies and the sci-fi c!Oje, That just happens to be the plot of epic S/1acelnmter: Adventure in the Forbidden Ringwald's new film , Sixteen Candles, o pen­ Zone. Sixteen Candles is one of two fi lms ing May 11 , and a subject close to her heart about teenagers in Chicago being made in real life. Her own sixteenth birthday is back-to-back by writer-director J o hn in February, 1984. Hughes, both sta rring Ringwald. kind of face, where you see three or four "Sixteen is so major. Expecially if you "J ohn says he basically writes about emotions going on as she says one sen­ live in Southe rn California, like l do, teenagers because he fi nds them mo re in­ tence, and Molly has it too. T here's more where you really can't go anywhere with­ teresti ng than adults, and I think that's to her acting than just the words." out driving. Turning sixteen and getting great," Ringwald says. "Sixtee11 Candles will Ringwald acknowledges he r life has been your driver's license is really like getting remind people what it's like LO be a teen­ extraordinary, but says she never missed your freedom." ager again. Whe n I read the script I "having a normal childhood. I think I've No o ne is likely Lo forget Ringwald's thought, 'yes. this is exactly how it is to be gained much more than I've missed. I birthday. Indeed, some mo nths prior LO 16." ' haven't had to waste half my life figur ing the event, negotiations were under way as Although she's been working most of out what I want to do. I've been able to do to what kind of car she would receive as her young life, Ringwald is the opposite of something sooner than most people and, if her present. " I want a Rabbit but my par­ a "stage kid." She's fresh, unspoiled and, I don't want LO keep doing it forever, at ents want me to get a BMW. I don't want a according to the highly regarded character least I've had the choice and I kno,,' what BMW because it'll look like I'm d riving my actor Paul Dooley, who plays he r father in it's like." Her fi lm work has introduced her to other things besides acting. For Tempest she spent two months in G reece and a month in Rome ("the first time I'd ever been abroad"). Wo rking in Canada and meeting French-Canadians on Spacehunter led to her current interest in studying French. "I'm going to a French school now and I hope to learn enough so that, when it's time for me to think about college, I could go to a college in Paris." Ringwald credits the support of her fam­ ily with helping her to keep a perspective (Continued on page 14)

It's M oily Ringwald's sixteenth birthday, but she has to spend it as a member of her sis­ ter's wedding party (above). Michael Schoefjler (top left and left, with Molly and writer/director John Hughes) helps her cele­ brate more romantically. Paul Dooley (oppo­ site, above) is her harried father - ifhe loo/cs familiar, it's because he played Dennis Christopher's harriedfather in Breaking Away.

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Conan, King of T hieves, Part ff is Guild Navigator for Dune (and in full battle d ress down in E.T. himself in past credits). Mr. Mexico, clanging and sweating Rambaldi has con structed for and, well, battling. Only two Conan If a god that meta­ stars return from the first Conan morphoses into a winged, - Arnold Schwarzenegger (with clawed , nasty beast. h is costarring muscles). and A handsome remake of a ven­ Mako, who plays the wizened erable American film looms in wizard narrat0r. New faces in­ the distance. Brewsters M illions, clude bizarrely un ique singer which has enjoyed six previous Grace J ones, who plays Zula, a versio ns (the fu·st in 1914, the last warrior. Ms. J ones has already in 1961 ), will be remade this year laid several Slllntmen low with by director Walter Hill an d pro­ Arnold Schwarzenegger, his pectorals and his sneer as they w ill her enthusiastic and all-too­ ducer J oel Silver (who collabo­ appear in Conan, King o/Thieves, Part II. realistic whamm in g, thumping rated on 48 HRS. and Streets of and poleaxing. Another warrior Fire). For those unfamiliar with in the world who knows she's red tape, a n d assorted other is former basketball star Wilt Brewsters lo ng history, it is the about to d ie. Unwi lling to j ust nightmares, and it stars Jonathan Chamberlain, who plays Bom­ tale o f a young man who, in leave in peace, she arranges LO Pryce and Kim Greist as two in­ baata, guard ian of a young order to inherit a vast fortune, have her soul transferred to the nocents abroad in t his plot, woman Conan is sent to fetch. must give away or throw away body of gorgeous Victoria Ten­ which also includes Robert De­ Like the first, Conan ff involves a S30 million in 30 days. (In the nant (Winds of 1"hr), daughter of N iro, Monty Python's Michael quest, thieves and other lowlife, earlier versions, the sum was $1 a stablehand, but there's a hitch Palin, Katherine Helmond (Soaf,) a nd supernatural elements, full million ; the new edition has been in the switch and Lily ends up a nd Ian Holm (the latter two ap­ of crypts and labyrinths, forests adjusted for a few decades' in fla­ inside auorney Steve Ma rtin. peared in Time Bandits as the and deserts and grungy folk, all t io n .) T h e film , scripted by Carl Reiner directs Phil Robin­ ogre's wife and Napo leon. re­ directed by Ric hard Fleischer Timothy Harris and Herschel son's screenplay. specti vely). T he comic fantasy, from a script by Stanley Mann Weingrod, will be shot on loca­ Brazil, which title has nothing fdming in England , is produced (who a lso wrote Firestarter, de­ tion in San Francisco for even­ much to do with tha t country. by Arno n Milchan ... who is tailed elsewhere in this issue). tual release around C hristmas sounds like 1984 as seen thro ugh also producing Legend, an "epic Conan and Dune are operating 1984. And who will play Brews­ Monty Pytho n - since Python romance in primeval time," side by side in Mexico, and there ter this time? Maybe Bill Murray, animator/ director Te1-ry Gilliam peopled (and a nima led ) with are at least three major overlaps maybe not. is d irect0r a nd cowriter (with dragons, fairies, elves, uni­ - producer Raffae lla De Lau­ All of M e is definitely not a re­ famous playwright To m Stop­ corns and sorcerers. The screen­ rentiis, publicist Anne Strick .. . make, but the theme may sound pard a nd C harles McKeown ). play by William Hjortsberg will and Carlo Rambaldi, who familiar to famasy addicts. Lily B razil, we·re told, is a twisted be directed by Ridley Scou created giant sandworms and the Tomlin plays the richest woman look at paternal governments. (Alim, Blade Runner). Judith Sims

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