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Thursday, October 20, 1978
THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY—PAGE 3
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Mov/e Review
Hassles
Her role is small as Tar as time
goes, but the tremendous emotion
and sensitivity she portrays when
she visits Billy in prison is un-
forgetable.
The rebellious American Jimmy
Booth, played by Randy Quaid,
comes across like a TV tough. He
continually plays the big-shot and
plans a couple of escapes until he
is beaten senseless by the guards
and sent to the mental ward.
Veteran English actor John
Hurtis Max, portrays a character
who lives from fix to fix in a drug-
ged consciousness that finally
destroys him.
But “Midnight Express”, which
opens Friday in Dallas, goes
beyond Billy Hayes and his fellow
prisoners. Its impact and impor-
tance is not what happened to
each of them. Its point is not, as
some will try to make it, a state-
ment pro or con about drugs.
Its importance is the fact that
the story it tells is still happening.
People throughout the world are
locked in jails for minor offenses
and forgotten, to survive only
through their own physical and
mental toughness. Many don’t.
“My hope," Hayes said Tues-
day, the third anni versary of his
return to New York, “is that
‘Midnight Express’ will shake
people up and propel them to do
something for all the men and
women who are still locked up in
stinking hell-holes around the
world.”
Forty-three days after the film
was given critical acclaim at the
1978 Cannes Film Festival, the
United States and Turkey entered
into formal prisoner exchanges.
'Express' Shows
Photo by STEPHEN CROTHERS
Irene Miracle and Billy Hayes
ANDY HOWELL
Special Writer
Billy Hayes was ar-
tn Turkey trying to smuggle
two kilos of hashish out of the
Istanbul airport. He was
sentenced to four-and-a-half years
for possession. After serving all
but 53 days of his sentence, he was
retried by the Turkish court and
this time sentenced to 30 years.
There once was an anti-drug an-
nouncement on television that
said, "Remember when you get
busted over there you’re in for the
hassle of your life."
“Midnight Express" is the true
story of Billy Hayes’ "hassle,” but
the brutality of the story gives the
word a new and frightening mean-
ing. Maybe "brutality" is even the
wrong word. Sadistic cruelty
would better describe the treat-
ment of the prisoners. Life in
Istanbul’s filthy Sagmalcilar
prison is graphically depicted. The
injustice of a system that says a
man is guilty until he proves his
innocence is poignantly shown.
Brad Davis as Billy is exciting.
The exhausting performance he
gives in his first feature film is one
of great insight and compassion.
Billy’s pain, frustration and
futility can be felt by the audience
in what should be an award-
winning performance.
Irene Miracle, as Billy’s
girlfriend Susan, is a newcomer.
Opera Premiere Begins
For 'Reformed Drunkard'
Robin Geist
. . . opera star in "The Reformed Drunkard"
Photo by JOHN HARRISON
The NT Opera Workshop will present
two different castings of “The Reformed
Drunkard,” a one-act comic opera, at
7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday in the
Music Recital Hall.
“The Reformed Drunkard” is about a
wine-bottler and merchant, Mathurin, in
a small. mid-l8th century village in a
French province. Mathurin is a guilty
drunkard whose long-suffering wife,
Mathurine, secretly plots to reform him
MATHURIN IS portrayed by Robin
Geist, Ardmore, Pa., sophomore, in
Thursday’s performance and by Richard
Jackson, San Antonio senior, on Satur-
day. Mathurine is played by Mary Kelly,
Pasadena graduate student, and by Phyl-
lis Bush, Grand Junction, Colo.,
graduate student.
The play is directed by Thomas Holli-
day of the music faculty. Holliday
translated the original script from old
French libretto to the new English ver-
sion.
Musical assistant Rodney Menn,
Franklin senior, will accompany the
opera on piano. Sets and costumes are
arranged by technical assistant Jay
Trimble, Denton graduate student, and
Ms. Bush.
"THE REFORMED Drunkard” is an
opera of comedy and romance. The
original script is by Louis Anseaume,
and the music is by Christoph Willibald
Gluck.
"T his is the best group I have ever had
to work with," Holliday said of the ac-
tors and actresses, student singers in his
first and second levels of opera.
“I believe the audience will be
astounded. They are very inventive and
imaginative on stage," he said.
Outtakes
Token Mime Theatre To Perform in Courtyard
The art of pantomime will be set to
music at noon today in the Union
Courtyard.
The Token Mime Theatre will attempt
to communicate to the audience through
human bodily movement combined with
music.
Tim Walsh, Denton graduate student,
who organized the group, said, “The
Union Courtyard is a great setting to
have presentations of this sort.”
Walsh will play Irish flute music for
the skits and Denise Morris, Euless
junior, will dance.
The pantomimes will be presented by
Art Davis, Fort Worth senior, who
wrote the music and by Ellen Mahoney
and Carol Weideman of Fort Worth
who work for the Hip Pocket Theater in
Fort Worth.
Lyceum Airs Brooks' Film
"Young FTankenstein," a comedy
film, will be shown at 7 and 9:30 p.m. to-
day and Friday in The Lyceum.
Mel Brooks is the director of the
movie; Gene Wilder plays Dr. Frankens-
tein; Marty Feldman is the doctor’s as-
sistant; Cioris Leachman plays the
housekeeper; Madeline Kahn is Wilder’s
fiancee; and Peter Boyle is the oversized,
mentally deficient monster.
Admission to the movie, which is
rated PG, is 75 cents with an NT ID.
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Kelsey, Rick. The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1978, newspaper, October 26, 1978; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003689/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.