ariety of talent to visit UT Special Events Center
■ University of Texas Spe-
I Events Center has several
■mances lined up for Feb-
,ary The acts are diverse,
rturng everything from tricky
isketball to a Broadway musi-
l.fThey include:
THS: ROYAL LIPIZZAN STAL-
ONS — Some of the world's
ostbeautiful horses will perform
3 p.m. on Feb. 4, in a family
Bntation of expert horseman-
liThe natural intelligence and
ility of these European horses
to enhances the show. The
Eutiful white Lipizzan is an aris-
;rat among horses, and is fa-
ousforits endurance, strength,
«ec and jumping ability. The
jrses have a long history, dating
ack :o 1798 when the Austrian
ivernment founded a private
ud farm to breed cavalry
irses. Lipizzans are usually
>rn black, and change color
»over a period of six to 10
K until reaching their final
tii color.
Tickets are $4.50, $5.50 and
5,50 with a half-price discount
illT students, senior citizens
Bhose under 12.
JHE WIZ — This Broadway
Beal, which has been called
(whole new kind of fantasy,"
Bs to the SEC Feb. 7 at 8
.m. it is a different look at “The
feard of Oz" which includes
■ emerald lights, the Wizard
>a‘ cool dude” and the Tin Man
as a "mean” tap dancer. Seguin
native Deborah Malone plays
Dorothy. The play has won seven
Tony Awards, in addition to the
Grammy Award as the Best Cast
Show Album.
Tickets are $7 and $10, with a
$2 discount on the $10 tickets for
UT students and children 12 and
under.
THE HARLEM GLOBETROT
TERS — These basketball magi
cians will play at 7:30 p.m. on
Feb. 8. For over 50 years the
Globetrotters have entertained
people of all ages with their ball
handling skills, exciting basket
ball and court comedy. They have
been called “the world’s greatest
family entertainment” because
they seem to draw their energy
from the fans, joking with them
and always involving a few un
suspecting ones in the action. And
they have quite a number of long
time fans, who will marvel that
somehow the team has improved.
Tickets are $4.50, $5.50 and
$6.50, with a $1.50 discount for
those 12 and under.
BOSTON — On their concert
swing through Texas, this rock
group will be at the SEC Feb. 9 at
8 p.m. They began as a band of
unknowns who recorded a tape
on their own and marketed it very
successfully: within three weeks
the album, “More Than a Feel
ing,” was gold. Their second al
bum, “Don’t Look Back,” proved
that the group was not about to
slow down. Their popularity rests
greatly on their ability to produce
hard rock music that is rich in
rhythm and melody.
Tickets for Boston were sold
out the first day of sales.
FRED WARING AND THE
YOUNG PENNSYLVANIANS —
This all-new Fred Waring Show is
called “More About Love,” as he
leads his famous choral group
through an evening of love songs
Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Besides vo
cals, the show features dramatic
lighting, elegant costumes and
good choreography. The group is
in the midst of a 40-state tour this
year, which is Waring’s 63rd year
in show business. Of the show,
he says, “It’s more about love ex
pressed through all kinds of
music, and most of all, it’s fun.”
Ticket prices are $6 and $7,
with a $2 discount for senior citi
zens, UT students and juniors
(under 16).
DOC SEVERINSEN — The
famous trumpeter will appear at
the SEC at 7 p.m. on Feb. 25.
Severinsen is the musical con
ductor on the “Tonight Show,”
and every weeknight he
entertains millions of viewers with
his horn playing and frequent jok
ing. He has performed with the
best — Tommy Dorsey, Charley
Batt and Benny Goodman — and
he is among them. Severinsen
will be performing on the SEC’s
smaller, more intimate stage set
ting.
Ticket prices are $6, $7 and$8.
Tickets may be purchased at
the SEC box office or by phone.
For phone orders, call the Ticket
Charge Line (512-447-6060) and
charge the tickets with a VISA or
MasterCharge card.
The Fred Waring Group
i DONALD SUTHERLAND portrays a San Francisco health
.fi inspector who finds himself virtually alone in a battle against
jjts alien organisms in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
MOVIES
‘Body Snatchers’ combines fear, humor
By Vernon Scott
United Press International
The fine art of terror has reached almost scientific
status by moviemakers these days as evidenced in
the latest horror film, "Invasion of the Body Snatch
ers,” which is scaring the daylights out of millions.
Each scream, shiver and revulsed reaction is sa
vored by Philip Kaufman, who directed the remake
of the 1956 movie which became a cult film.
Kaufman, a bearded 42-year-old ex-Chicagoan
with a whimsical sense of humor, turned to movies
after a fiddle-footed career as novelist, math teacher
in Italy and Greece and tractor driver in Israel
among other things.
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” involves crea
tures from another planet who arrive on earth and
duplicate human beings through the growth of mys
teriously ugly pods. Once the human duplicate is
complete and taken over by the aliens, the original
body becomes dust and is disposed of in trash col
lectors.
Kaufman clearly enjoyed himself working with
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Leonard
Nimoy. Almost every scene is fraught with unalloyed
terror, frequently infused with contrasting humor.
Kaufman is new to horror films, which are a dis
tinct genre different from, say, the old Alfred Hitch
cock suspense movies and the recent wave of oc
cult pictures.
“Fear is a religious feeling,” Kaufman said on a
recent trip to Hollywood from his San Francisco
home. “Religion isn’t as strong as it once was, so
there is a demand for scary films by people who
miss the old fears.”
He singled out “The Exorcist,” “The Omen,”
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Jaws” as
examples of enormously successful films which
mesmerized and frightened hundreds of millions of
persons around the world.
“The Body Snatchers,’ unlike the others, does not
deal with the occult. God and the devil are not
played off against one another. Neither, for that mat
ter, are good and evil.
“I tried to create an old-fashioned horror picture,”
Kaufman said. “I wanted audiences to respond in
theaters with laughs and screams and shouts. And
that’s what they’ve been doing.
“The really scary element is the fact that crea
tures from a dying planet are actually taking over
human bodies. There’s suspense in not knowing
which humans are walking around as aliens. It
makes for universal paranoia in the cast and audi
ence as well. I like to think that at the end of the film
each person in the theater turns to the person sitting
next to him and wonders.”
Kaufman and his cinematographer, Michael
Chapman, saw dozens of black and white “B” de
tective movies of the 1940s seeking to recapture
unadorned horror — night scenes, shadows, un
identified “things” crawling in the dark.
"They were awfully wordy,” Kaufman reported,
“but the images and camera angles haven’t been
equalled in recent years. The darkness and mystery
and shadows all created an atmosphere of fright.
The ‘look’ of a film must make the audience feel they
are immediately and personally involved or jeopar
dized by what they see and hear on the screen. This
is a much more subtle and delicate climate than
simply shock value. Too many contemporary horror
pictures rely on blowing off heads and shocking
scenes of gore.”
There is gore aplenty in “Invasion of the Body
Snatchers,” but it is often tempered by humor.
Kaufman has his own private joke in one of the very
first scenes. The camera zeroes in on a priest
swinging on a child's swing in a park. One is led to
believe the priest will be a key figure in the picture,
especially in view of the fact that the clergyman is
played by Robert Duvall.
But Duvall is never seen again. Nor is the priest’s
presence ever explained. Kaufman chuckled when
asked why he included this nonsequitur in his
movie.
“Bobby Duvall and I are old friends,” he said. “He
starred in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid’
which I directed. And he happened to be in San
Franciso when I was doing The Body Snatchers.’
“A lot of people ask me about the priest. Look at it
this way: almost all the recent horror pictures
needed a priest to tell the audience they are going to
have a religious experience, Hollywood style.”
Kaufman departed considerably from the original
script of “Body Snatchers” which starred Kevin
McCarthy in Sutherland’s protagonist role.
“I saw the original in 1956,” Kaufman said, “and
was haunted by it and moved by it. We follow some
of the plot line but the characters and events are
different. We eliminated the narration and added
humor. Our ending is different — audiences are left
with the feeling that the earth is taken over by alien
beings from another galaxy. And that, my friend, is
scary.”
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