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College Station, Texas
CADET SLOUCH
La! ATT ^]2yovember 13, 1970 Making the films
‘C. C/ has little going for it
by Jim Earle
“That’s the most noncommittal football sign I’ve ever
seen!”
By BOB STUMP
The sun shines hard upon the
California highway, heating the
pavement to an unbearable in
tensity. Down the road go three
easy riders on choppers that glide
like skates on ice. In all their
primeval glory, one of the freaks
turns out to be none other than
Joe Namath of the New York
Jets, on his summer vacation and
letting his all hang out in his
first movie. Indeed, he may have
hung it out a little too far and
lost it.
Football is a game that is won
with a hit-to-kill attitude, and Na
math seems to have carried this
philosophy over into acting as
he goes play-by-play fashion
through the rudiments of acting
that the drama coach told him
about the last minute before
shooting. I hope that after doing
“C. C. and Company” Namath
decides to stick with football, be
cause as an actor he comes across
like mom’s burnt, green apple pie.
As C. C. Ryder, the infamous
Hells Angel type, Namath slips
and slides through the role along
side Ann Margaret like an ele
phant courting a gazello. The
plot develops around the ever
present danger of Namath’s old
cycle gang, the “Heads,” whose
endeared contempt for the out
side world is displayed by a three
wheeled cycle sporting a toilet on
the back end. They don’t really
use the thing, of course, but it
certainly serves to shake up the
establishment types and put a lot
of laughs into the show.
Numbers in
on the cable.
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7:30 3 (5)
Edge of Night
Playschool (PBS)
Comer Pyle
Playschool (PlBS)
Town Talk
University
Instructional
Dark Shadows
Bewitched
What’s New
(NET)
General Hospital
Misterogers’
N eighborhood
(NET)
CBS News
Playschool (PBS)
(Repeat)
Evening News
Playschool (PBS)
(Repeat)
Brady Bunch
University
Instructional
Nanny and the
Professor
Civilisation (PBS)
Movie—Man’s
Favorite Sport
8:30 15
9:00 15
(12) The Nader Report
(PBS)
(12) This Week
(12) Our Vanishing
Wilderness (PBS)
9:30
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(12) The Film Scene
(PBS)
10:00
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(5) Final News
10:30
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(5) Tom Jones
11:30
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(5) Alfred Hitchcock
WEEKEND FOOTBALL
SATURDAY
1:00
3
(5) NCAA Game—
to be announced
SUNDAY
1:00
3
(5) San Francisco vs.
Houston
4:00
3
(5) Gene Stallings
Show
10:30
3
(5) Movie—The
Brotherhood
MONDAY
2:30
3
(5) Edge of night
15
(12) Sesame Street
(PBS)
3:00
3
(5) Gomer Pyle
3:30
3
(5) Town Talk
15
(12) University
Instructional
4:00
3
(5)
Dark Shadows
4:30
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(5)
Bewitched
15
(12)
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(NET)
5:00
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General Hospital
15
(12)
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(NET)
5:30
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(5)
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15
(12)
Sesame Street
(PBS)
6:00
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(5)
Evening News
6:30
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(5)
Gunsmoke
15
(12)
Campus and
Community
Today
7:00
15
(12)
Southern
Perspective
(SEN)
7:30
3
(5)
Here’s Lucy
8:00
3
(5)
Mayberry RED
15
(12)
Soul (NET)
8:30
3
(5)
Doris Day
9:00
3
(5)
Carol Burnett
15
(12)
Speaking Freely
(SEN)
10:30
3
(6)
Final News
10:30
3
(5)
to be announced
11:30
3
(5)
Movie—Over the
Hill, Gang
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(Located Beside Casa Chapultepec)
How the “Heads” ever like his
style is beyond comprehension,
for Namath doesn’t show any of
the traits common to a gang mem
ber other than his shaggy hair.
In fact, he is just the opposite,
radiating the character of a man
you would expect to find peering
at you through rimmed spectacles
from behind the counter of your
friendly neighborhood grocery
store and saying very nicely,
“Thank you. Come again, please.”
The producer, however, cast
Namath as a cool one, gave him
some very corny lines to read,
built a Goliath sex image around
him, and finally made him out in
the end as the proverbial bad
guy gone straight.
The show has three things go
ing for it: Ann Margret, Namath
and groovy looking motorcycles.
Fortunately, these are enough to
save it from total extinction. Na
math and Miss Margret go
through a scene together in the
raw that comes across neatly with
the soundtrack and rather good
camera shots.
Outside of the name people
that star in it, however, “C.C.
and Company” is just another
second-rate flick which doesn’t
have much character as a movie.
The typical cycle show scenes
predominate, like the gang cruis
ing down the roads, the gang
getting plowed under on cheap
beer and, the gang busting up an
establishment cycle race. There
is plenty of abandon and free sex
between the twenty-odd guys and
the gang’s four girls.
Namath never seems to get
with the part he is cast in. You
get the impression of a real nice
guy who is totally out of whack
with himself hanging around with
all those tribal bums. He gets
better after he takes uj> living
with Ann Margret. But if you
can imagine what Truman Capote
would look like trying to act as
a football player and then as a
coach, you will have some idea
of the problems Namath encoun
ters in this show.
Former students
to elect board
A&M former students will elect
a new board of directors for the
55,000-member Association of
Former Students during the an
nual fall board and council meet
ing this weekend.
Board members meet Friday
and the council session is sched
uled Saturday morning.
A nominating committee report
will be given by Ford D. Albrit
ton Jr. of Bryan at the council
meeting.
Association Executive Director
Richard (Buck) Weirus noted the
16-member board is elected by the
council and the council is select
ed by the full membership by
mail ballot this month.
All new officers take their po
sitions on Jan. 1.
Fish honor fraternity
to meet next Tuesday
The A&M Freshman honor fra
ternity, Phi Eta Sigma, will hold
its first general meeting Tuesday
at 7:30 p.m. in room 113 of the
Biology Building.
All members initiated last
spring are urged to attend if pos
sible.
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