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8 / Collegian
Entertainment
Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Cat play cast selected
for campus production
By B.L. Gilbert
Entertainment Editor
The NE Playhouse production of Cat On A
Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams was cast
Thursday, Jan. 16, and will be directed by
Larry Cure a guest director from Martin High
School in Arlington.
Cure directed All My Sons for NE Players
last year and was asked to return to direct the
play of his choice this spring.
“I have always wanted to direct Cat On A
Hot Tin Roof because I love the play,” Cure
said.
Cure has taught and directed at a high
school level for 16 years and looks forward to
the challenge of directing this play for college
students.
“I really enjoyed directing at a higher
level; it’s a change of pace from high school,”
Cure said.
Bryan Pullin, drama major, will serve as
stage manager and will perform as one of the
plantation servants.
The lead roles are Brick, played by James
L. Smith, and Margaret, performed by Shannon
Clark, also Big Mama, played by GlendaUlmer,
and Big Daddy, played by Phil Nixon.
Other cast members include Pullin, Jessica
Nixon, Deana Farris-Peltz, Mark Mcpherson,
Kent Rhodes and Clay Marshall.
“I’m very excited about the potential; I
feel like we have a good chemistry between the
students,” Cure said.
The performance is set to open Monday,
March 2, and runs through Friday, March 6, in
NE Playhouse.
at exhibit reception
By B.L. Gilbert
Entertainment Editor
NW Campus art department held an artist’s
reception Tuesday, Jan. 21, for the Alumni
Jnwational Exhibition to ntn until Friday,
Feb. 14 m the art gallery
Eduardo Aguilar,NW associate professor
of fine arts, and Don Sweetland, part-time art
instructor of 3-Ddesign, chose former TCJC
students to be involved in the exhibit
“AU thealumniintheexhibitareinvolved
in art or are continuing their education in the:
art fkM Our decision was based on the work
they did here, as well as the work they are
producing now,” Sweetiandsaid,
Alumni attending the opening were Kelly
Holmes-Early with several eclectic works,
and Sharon Mielke with a selection of her
ceramics and sculptures.
Brent Roden has two of his most recent
pieces of bis mixed media works hanging,
■ and Anna Nielsen has a sample of her pastels
Helga Stein and Robin Pope are also
featured in the exhibit
"Taking classes from Eduardo helped me
express great colots and feelings. It is great
to be here sharing it today ” Nielsen said.
Alumni TnvitationalExhibition was created
to show the current students what previous
artstudents arecapableof and their successes.
"It isbeneficial for art students to see what
other students have done and where their
education has taken the m * Sweetland said.
Movie review
Canyon grand
By B.L. Gilbert
Entertainment Editor
“I felt like a fly on the ass of a cow chewing its cud by the side of the road
as you drive by at 70 miles an hour,” Simon (Danny Glover) said of his trip
to the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon confirms the fears of the individual who realizes he is not
the ultimate master of his destination. An elemental power, symbolized by
the watchful eye of the constant circling helicopters, concedes the petty
decisions to the individual: what street to drive down or where to go jogging
each morning. Yet we are at the mercy of the decisions of others around us
and the preset destination we happen to be brought into this world to fulfill.
Grand Canyon allows the viewer to identify and adapt an individual
message casting an intertwining cross section of characters from L.A.’s
populous.
Simon is a kind tow-truck operator close to his sister, a single mother of
two, whose lives are regularly disrupted with innercity violence. Mack
(Kevin Kline) and his wife Claire (Mary McConnell) are a middle-class
family facing marital problems and feelings of loss when their son leaves for
camp. Mack confronts his own mortality when his car breaks down in a bad
part of town, and his wife is searching for the good in the world.
Animpassionate, successful movie producer (Steve Martin) is concerned
with money and the art of making money and only briefly realizes what
emotional joy he may be missing when he is shot in the leg.
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this film flows gently from scene to
scene, piecing together the different worlds of each character with some
graphic details to grab the audience's attention. The movie does not attempt
to give the answers but rather various points of view.
Grand Canyon provokes reflection of self worth and asks the individual
to see himself as well as a part of a totality.
Student's thesis scripted
into major motion picture
By Amy Reynolds
(CPS) — When Amanda Silver
started thinking about ideas for her
master’s thesis, she had no idea it
would turn into a movie, let alone a
successful one.
Silver, who wrote the screen-
play to Hollywood Pictures’ The
Hand That Rocks The Cradle,
graduated with her master’s in
screenwriting from the University
of Southern California film school
in 1989.
The school requires screen-
writing students to write a script as
their thesis.
“ I wanted to write a thriller,”
Silver says.
Playing with the theme of
Shakespeare’s Othello, a play she
“thought would make a great
thriller,” Silver decided to focus
her thesis “on how one’s own doubt
could be (his or her) worst enemy.”
“My husband suggested using
two women... and the nanny came
about as a device to get proximity,”
she says, “to get someone close
enough to prey on someone else’s
self-doubt.”
That is the premise to the film,
which features Rebecca DeMomay
as the nanny, Peyton Flanders. After
the death of her husband and miscar-
riage of her baby, Flanders tries to
start a “new” life—a life that already
belongs to Claire Bartel, played by
Annablla Sciorra, a working woman
and devoted mother and wife.
The project took Silver two se-
mesters to complete — one to de-
velop the idea and one to write it. The
transformation from thesis to movie
came about “because I got very
lucky,” she says.
Silver’s husband, Rick Jaffa, pro-
duced the film and helped with the
rewriting process. Jaffa and Silver’s
own connections as a past executive
assistant at Tri-Star Pictures and at
Paramount Pictures helped her land a
deal to turn the thesis into a film.
“My (success) story is espe-
cially exciting to people struggling
in film school,” she says, because
itshows that people can succeed in
“the struggle to become an artist.”
So far, interviews with audi-
ences after they watched the movie,
called exit polls, are showing a
high approval rate — 93 percent
say they liked the film. Most nota-
bly, the under 25 crowd has proved
most responsive.
“It’s a roller coaster ride,” Sil-
ver says. “People have fun while
they’re watching the movie. The
other thing is that everyone can
project his own self-doubts. That’s
why Peyton is so scary to people.”
Silver is now working on an-
other screenplay, a comedy/drama
about the modeling business.
Her advice to young writers:
“Write from the heart, don’t write
what you think other people want.
... If you want it bad enough, you
can get there.”
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