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Page 2E THE BATTALION r MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1977 Campus events offer variety anrl Dr. Edear T. Beddingfield will speak on natic r- By MARY ALICE YVOODHAMS Hiittillioii Slilff Y'ariety: That’s what the on-campus films, performers, plays and events for fall ’77 have to offer. Aggie Cinema’s selection includes “The Shootist” (next weekend), an Alfred Hitchcock festival and a James Bond Festival. Robert Redford fans will enjoy “The Sting” and “All the Presi dent’s Men.” Other films include “Murder by Death,” “Blazing Saddles,” "Silent Movie,” “Rocky,” and “Network.” The commit tee will show more than 40 films this semester. Arts Committee brings “Les Diaboliques” on September 12, followed by “The Battle of Algiers,” “The Lower Depths,” “Naza- rin, ” “Cries and Whispers,” “The Sorrow and the Pity,” and “Women in Love.” Cepheid Variable’s lineup includes such classics as “Zombies on Broadway,” “Carrie,” “The Blob,” “The Omen,” “I Married a Witch,” “Vampyr” and “Phantom of the Paradise. ” Great Issues will sponsor an abortion debate, plus a discussion of the Karen Quinlan case by Paul Armstrong. Rep. James C. Gorman and Dr. Edgar T. Beddingfield will speak on national health insurance in a program co-sponsored by Political Forum. “Is Intelligence Genetically and Racially Determined?” is the topic of a debate by Goldsby and Shockley. And, in late November, Dr. Michael DeBakey will present a lecture on re search in medicine. The Opera and Performing Arts Society will sponsor the Philharmonia Hungarica, guitarist Julian Bream, and the Houston Ballet this semester. Political Forum’s speakers include Nikki Van Hightower, from Houston, Barry Goldwater, Jr., Sen. Walter Mengden, U.S. Rep. Henry Gonzales and Joe Greenhill, Texas Supreme Court chief justice. Town Hall opens the Concert season with B.J. Thomas on Sept. 9. Also coming this fall are the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, a Broadway Musical entitled Robber Bridegroom, the Texas A&M Symphonic Band, a singing group called Firefall, the Atlanta Rhythm Section, and — for Bonfire — Ronnie Milsap with Asleep at the Wheel. 'Professional Irishm wants to work forevei There s great joy United Press International HOLLYWOOD — Pat O’Brien, everybody’s favorite Irish uncle, is celebrating his 78th birthday by working in his 90th motion picture. He pufifed a cigar the other day between sips of brandy and vowed he’ll never retire. “I tried it two years ago,” he said. “It lasted six weeks. After 58 years in show business the urge to work is just too strong.” Pat plays Burt Reynolds’ father in “The End,” a film that reunites the grand old man with Myrna Loy. They costarred 46 years ago in “Consolation Marriage. ” “That was in 1931, Pat said. “A good year for me. My wife, Eloise, and I were married in 1931. Best thing I ever did. I brought her out of retirement 18 years ago and we’ve been working in summer stock to gether ever since. “We tour around the country these days doing Hotline to Heaven.’ It was especially written for us. ing you make don’t say that ‘as ‘stuijl WHY STARVE IN YOUR ROOM? 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As for the monitoring that will go on this new school year, PTA President Grace Baisinger said, “No other group has mounted such a concerted effort as ours and we expect positive re sponse from all the television net works as a result.” Monitors have been trained dur ing 13 regional sessions during the last two months. The tabulations on violence will be sent to local television stations, along with a letter telling why the trained viewer feels a program is ob- jectional. “We re not trying to do away with violence on television altogether, as some persons have accused us of do ing,” Mrs. Baisinger said. “We just want it brought down to an acceptable level.” The PTA campaign against vio lence on television has brought a re sponse from the networks. The three major ones have said there will be less gratuitous violence in this fall’s line-up. “But they didn’t invite us to their preview showings, so we still really don’t know,” Mrs. Baisinger said. The PTA campaign also has brought some response from televi sion advertisers. Some are joining the anti-violence movement. Many national and regional ad vertisers have put out policy state ments forbidding their ads to be used during shows that feature crime, horror or other types of vio lence. Some have banned ads in any television show considered to be violent. Some have held their bans to shows with “excessive” or “un due” violence. Mrs. Baisinger said simply turn ing off the television set is not the answer. “Television can be a constructive learning method if only it is used correctly,” she said. TOKYO &TOK HOUSE “WELCOME BACK AGGIES” Specializing in: HIBACHI STEAKS CHINESE DISHES Tuesday thru Thursday “FEAST FOR AGGIES’’ CLUB TOKYO Open 5 p.m.-10 p.m Closed Monday 822-1301 2025 Texas Avenue Bryan Located in Townshire Shopping Center I'm an extrovert andllU And I think that affJ turned. \ do a curtain speed J performance. It’s like op,, » in the kitchen withfrie^ “Working together is, „ Elmsr and myself. !W R daughter, Kathleen, £ " about six plays with i 1 O’Brien has a very J tionship with the AnieJ His disarming charm string of anecdotes wherever he appears. Str« proach him as they wouljl treasured friend. " "Maybe it’s becaused I've played over the ye® I ve played enough pit ordained. At theendofm with the audience I tell, hear confessions in tk, lobby. “As a young lad at!! \ Academy I studied for 4 I and came pretty dose to I ders. “Truth of the matters I played parts with badw I four times. There wusFii I in The Fighting 69tli, I Father Dunn,’ ‘AngelsI I Faces’ and ‘Fireball.’ “People still thinklplai Flannigan in‘BoysTown. Spencer Tracy who wasoi dearest and oldest frit, joined the Navy togetherl. World War. “Jimmy Cagney constant contact with eai We’ve known one anotkf years. Did you know we born in 1899. A vintage J tors — Bogart and Ast born that year too.” O’Brien speaks fondlyi but he lives in the pre*- memory is faultless andl razor sharp. E “Burt Reynolds asked J his father in this picture “He’s also directing it. Hi colorful guy I didn’t thinl;! out to be a sensitive, low4 tor. “The first day on thesel big shamrock on the d# dressing room. Inside the poster of a leprechaun anc of Irish whisky. A signal come Paddy Boy — May IT Rise Up to Meet Your “I was deeply toiicl even playing an Irishmanii jture.” Pat, although a native waukee, makes the pilgri Ireland every other yea touchy about the term pit Irishman.” But he wears a w Glaudagh, an early Irishfel hand and is deeply distuiwj unrelenting political strife in Ireland. His loyalties, like hisfnj run deep. 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