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ISSUES
To wtpo oat oil bod momorict
of mistakes mode in post review*,
lot's begin by correcting my lost
series of flobs; namely, “The
Good, The Bod. The Ugly."
First end worst, Lee Von Cleef
ployed "The Bad." And he was.'
Bod bocease he fulfilled his as
signment by shooting an old
former, bod because he next shot
the son of that former, and worst
because he then shot his employ
er who hired the shooting in the
first place. .
THE NEXT heaviest heavy was
not even mentioned among the
stars. In fact, he should hove
been labeled the Ugly, after
smearing the screen with his
scarred face and crossed eyes.
At any rate, this heavy, bounced
off the walls by Eli Wallach, was
not, I repeat not, "The Ugly."
Eli Wallach, In the role of Toco,
does play “The Ugly."
Last and least, Clint Eastwood
was “The Good.”
“P. J."
It naturally follows that a
private detective who, in the
beginning minutes of the film,
takes (or attempt* to take) to
bed a wife which isn't' his, in
exchange for money which very
soon is taken by his creditors,
must go by the name of “P. J.”
Peter Joseph
the part.
GEORGE P
two-fisted, fi
tective. Gayle
girl.
Raymond Bu
is the head of
dollar business
girl's . . . er . . .
wouldn’t fit
ARD is P. J., a
n, broke, de-
unnicut is the
the bad guy,
a multi-million
He is also the
employer. These
three characters, in addition to
Peppard's creditors, form the
major action of the movie.
There seems to be some sort
of renaissance of certain types
of films these days.
WESTERNS are coming alive
again, if only for MATURE AU-
Aggie ‘Jock’ Makes
Haul At Racetrack
Did you know there Is a "jock”
at Aggieland?
No, his name is not Hargett,
Housley, or Hobbs; his name is
Johnny Cox. He doesn't ride long
horns, he rides horses.
The dark-haired young jockey,
a junior Animal Science major
from Spice wood, has been riding
racehorses for about six years.
“I usually ride every weekend
during the spring and summer,"
said Johnny, who rides at race
tracks throughout the state.
On any given weekend, you may
find the 118-pound jockey racing
at Goliad, Fredericksburg, Uvalde
or any one of several other Quar
ter horse and Thoroughbred
tracks in Texas.
“During the summer, I run at
Ruidosa, New Mexico,” the soft-
spoken young man remarked.
Ruidoso is the home of the All-
American Futurity, the world's
richest horse race, held every
Labor Day. The annual purse is
more than 8400,000.
Last summer Johnny rode 28
winners and tied for fourth place
among approximately 50 jockeys
at Ruidoso. He usually make*
about seven rides per day on a
typical, three-day racing week
end.
One weekend in the summer of
1986, be rode the winner in the
t?6,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred
Futurity. This thrill was eclipsed
a week later with the winning
ride in the 888,000 Rainbow
Futurity.
However, not all is winning and
glory. Earlier this month, he
drove almost 350 miles to Laredo
for a weekend of races, but they
were called off because of rain.
Although he has never been ser
iously injured, there have been
some close calls.
At Seguin one weekend, the
horse Johnny was riding fell m
the heavy track mud and broke a
leg. The animal had to be des
troyed.
"I was lucky,” he said with a
smile, "all I got was a face full
of mud."
At Fredericksburg, he was taken
to the hospital twice in two days
after racing accidents.
Last year, a horse Johnny was
riding fell during a race and the
young jockey was run over by
several other horpes that had
been behind him. Luckily, he was
uninjured.
"I’ve stepped off Several horses
when I saw there wak going to be
a wreck,” he said, "hut I haven't
had any spills yet this year.”
>
So if you happen to be at a
racetrack some weekend, listen to
the announcer's list of jockeys.
You may hear the name of a fel
low Aggie, Johnny Cox.
DIENCES Consider "The Pro
fessionals,” Rough Night in
Jericho.” “Firecreek,” and "The
Apaloosa.”
The other type, in the Bogart
Detective style, fits this film.
Paul Newman as "Harper" and
Frank Sinatra as “Tony Rome”
have laid the foundation. “P. J.”
is the icing on the cake.
The story line is not new. Pep-
pard is hired as bodyguard to
Miss Hunnicut. For this, be is
paid a hundred dollars a day,
expenses, and fringe benefits,
provided by Miss Hunnicut Also
for this, he is shot-gunned,
threatened, and wiped out twice.
As P. J. acts as the trusty
bodyguard, Burr takes his rela
tives, wife, and mistress to the
lovely island of St Christian in
Jamaica. Always alert and on
the job, P. J. shoots a threaten
ing villain.
HOWEVER, so as not to dis
appoint the audience and reveal
P. J. as a sterling character who
always wins out in the end. we
find that the villain is not really
a villain, but an employee of
Burr. More important, we dis
cover that the gun he pointed
at Peppard was unloaded.
Thus, P. J. finds himself a mur
derer.
Dauntless character that he is,
he has the victim's body dug up
and shipped to the doorstep of
Burr.
In his attempt throughout the
remainder of the movie to cathart
his pities and fears about the
man he murdered, P. J.* gets the
shaft.
First, he goes to the “Gay
Caballero.” Gay, of course, re
fers not to the general atmos
phere of the club but to the gen
eral character of its patrons
I’EPPARI) ivalks in. looks
down the bar at fifteen different
kinds of brass knuckles, oversise,
barbed rings, and other unfriend-1
ly devices. And although our de
tective tries to look friendly as
he leaves, the patrons take of
fense. P. J. takes a beating, and
is thrown out with the trash.
Eventually, however, he ends
his plight and solves the crime.
THIS IS where the movie be
gins to look like a twentieth-
century western. Peppard walks
out. leaving his trusty revolver,
like many of his possessions, to
his creditors.
I tbink Sinatra was better in
"Tony Rome.” I think Paul New
man was two steps ahead of
Sinatra in "Haipar.’*
But I wouldn’t mind having
P. J. on my team, too.
THE
Thursday, February 29, 1988
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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ARMY RECRUITER
Army 1st. Lt. Oscar Johnson explains the advantages of
joining Officers Candidate School. The OCS recruiters were
at the Memorial Student Center Monday through Wednes- t
day.
TODAY
The Mid - Ceoaty
Clab will make plans for an
Easter party at 7:80 p.m. la Room
2C of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
The Feet Worth Hometown
CleS Will see a football game film
at 7:80 pjn. in Room 2D of the
Memorial Student Center.
The Garland Hometown Clab
will have picture' retakes made
for the Aggieland at 7:80 p.m.
on the steps of Che Memorial
Student Center.
The Aestia Hometown Clab
will meet et 7:80 p.m. in Room
SB of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Board
The Mechanical
Seminar Program will hear John
Payne, senior mechanical engi
neer for the Shell Development
Co. in Houston, speak about re
search related to drilling oil wells
at 10 a.m. la Room 803 of Permier
Hall.
The Department ef Meteorol
ogy will present a seminar on
diurnal oscillations bf-*the tropo
spheric wind field above a low-
level jet ■ The seminar will be
conducted by Dr. Owen E. Thomp
son, instructor in the Department
of Atmospheric Science at the
University of Missouri located at
Columbia at 3 p.m. in Room 145
of the Physics Buildisg
Four Aggie Students Start
New Executive Sales Club
Four Tsxas AAM students are
building self-confidence, poeitive
otulooks and college finances.
They recently formed the South,
weetam Executive Saloe Club
which includes students who work
for a Nashville publisher aa sum
mer salesmen of Bible reference
books
, "There's more to It than that,
though,” emphasised Carl Stan-
itsky, an AAM management grad
uate student from Heame.
Stanitxky la president of the
club sponsored by Dr. James U.
McNeal, head of AAM's Manage
ment Department
A two-year award-winning par
ticipant of the program, Stanitxky
believes in it liks fish believe in
water.
“Involvement forms a fellow
to stand on his own, learn to han-
dlo his own financial problems,
mast and get along with people
and have a poeitive attitude about
things,” the 28-year-old student
remarked.
Stanltaky, Richard Weathers of
Richardson, Don Earnst of Dallas
and Adel R. Marouf of Lebanon
recruit high school and college
students. Southwestern Publishing
■ends them to Nsehvillo for a
week of sales training after
spring semester clafeee end. Af
terwards, volunteers work areas
sway from home "because the
idea is to help a fellow learn to
stand on his own feet,” Stanitxky
explained.
In three months work, students
often lay aside enough money to
see them through the following
school year, besides accruing per
sonal benefits.
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