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2 Focus, The Battalion Thursday, May 7, 1981 THIS WEEK Movies Check theatres for specific times and prices. Movies subject to change without notice. All list ings are current through press time. Campus Theater 846-6512 P rivate Benjamin: Goldie Hawn plays a pampered golden girl who joins the Army to take advantage of condominiums, yachts and other luxuries prom ised her by a sly Army recruiter. She learns the hard way that she can make it on her own. Rated R. The Great Santini: Robert Duvall stars as a Vietnam vet who has no more wars to fight. So he tries to inflict his strict military standards on his family. Duvall was nominated for best actor in this one. Shown as dou ble feature with "Private Ben jamin." Rated R. Female Athletes: Women jock- types compete in the bump and grind, the high hurdle and many other contact sports. Posi tions include tight end, wide re ceiver and catcher. Great locker room scenes loaded with skin. A good film to see females in ac tion. Friday and Saturday at midnight. Rated X. Manor East 823-8300 Death Hunt: Lee Marvin is a Canadian Mountie and the man he's after on a murder charge is Charles Bronson. Also starring Angie Dickinson. Bet you thought it was one of those great cheapie flicks about the futuris- tic-but-chaotic world run by murderous killers commanding souped-up cars. Rated R. Excalibur: Based upon the legends of King Arthur. The movie covers all (read: too much) of the Arthurian legends. from his lusty daddy to the sword in the stone through Arthur's armageddon. This is a film of armored knights charg ing their way into a bloody bat tle. Directed by John Boorman. Rated R. All Night Long: An out-of- work business executive, Gene Hackman, sets out to break up a romance between his son and Barbara Streisand and ends up falling for her himself. Diane Ladd and Dennis Quaid also star. Directed by Claude Tra- mont. Rated R. American Pop: Four genera tions of American rock and roll shown through the animated story of one family. The film could have been good if director Ralph Bakshi had used more music and less plot. Also too much of the movie is just mov ing cartoon characters instead of fascinating animation. Friday and Saturday at midnight. Rated PG. MSC Box Office 845-2916 Piranhacon II: Piranhacon II is Aggie Cinema's year-end bad film festival. The following five movies will shown Friday in the Grove. See story on page 16. The Terror of Tiny Town: A short film — pun intended. This is a short Western about short people. Typical story line: hero, bad guy, pretty girl and feuding family. Westerns will never be the same — er, except maybe shorter. 8:50 p.m. Unrated. Can't Stop the Music: A disco- musical about singing and danc ing and more singing and danc ing. Alan Carr spent $25 million to produce and direct this extra vaganza starring the ever- popular Village People, Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner — so be prepared for anything. 9:50 p.m. Rated PG. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: A common American housewife is confronted by a bloodthirsty tomato crawling out of her gar bage disposal, and this is only the beginning. This movie is pure entertainment — comical, that is. It was named "World's Worst Vegtable Movie." 12:10 a.m. Rated PG. Roller Boogie: Roller-disco is the theme of this film starring Linda "Exorcist" Blair, a sweet young thing who teams up with the best skater on the boardwalk to win the roller-disco contest. Might be a good chance to see if Linda was really exorcised. 1:45 a.m. Rated PG. Iwas a Teenage Frankenstein: This one's the last of the Piranhacon series. Another de scendant of the infamous Baron Frankenstein attempts to clear his ancestor's name by carrying on experiments in the heart of Los Angeles. Starring Whit Bis- sel, Phyllis Coates and Gary Conway. 3:40 a.m. Unrated. Plitt Cinema I&II 846-6714 ances. Starring Nastasia Kinski and Peter Furth. Rated PG. Friday the 13th Part II: The gore continues as a psycho pathic murderer bumps off peo ple at the summer camp located across the lake from the camp in the first movie. Produced and directed by Steve Miner, who apparently didn't like summer camp when he was young. Rated R. See review on page 4. IVIeatballs: A much safer sum mer camp. This has a zany por trayal of a camp counselor, play ed by Bill Murray, and the wild actions of his campsters. Murray tries to do for summer camps what John Belushi did for frater nity houses. Friday and Satur day at midnight. Rated PG. Music Backstage: Thursday through Saturday is jazz, jazz and more jazz by Scrapple for $1.50 cover. Guests may eat dinner, or simp ly enjoy happy hour when draft beer is 35 cents, bar drinks are 75 . cents and all call drinks are half price. Grins: Hear Don Sanders Thursday for $1 cover. Then C.P.R. takes on the weekend with boogie music Friday and Saturday for $2.00. Happy hour is 4-7 p.m. weekdays. Lakeview: Tradition continues with Dennis Ivey and The Way- men playing country hits until midnight Thursday. Cover is $1 for women and $3 for men, with Lone Star draught beer 5tf a cup. Friday night there's no dance, but Saturday night two-step to Rick Elliot and Silver for a $3 Tess: Roman Polanski directs this adaptation of Thomas Har dy's boring "Tess of the d'Ur- bervilles," about a poor young woman whose beauty and pas sion, coupled with the revela tion that she is of noble descent, lead her into tragic circumst Kebels: Doug Day from Dallas plays everything from rock and roll to country Thursday through Saturday. No cover. Happy hour features half-price drinks Friday and Saturday. Rosewood function: Drink and dance to Stardust Thursday for $1 cover, or on Friday and Saturday for $2 cover. Two-for- one happy hour until 7 p.m. Texas Hall of Fame: Show off those cowboy boots Thursday night while kicking along with the Debonaires from Taylor un til midnight. $2 cover charge. Friday's band is Johnny Lyon and the Country Nu-Notes for a $2 cover. Saturday, dance to the country western music of Cher okee Rose for a $3 cover. Starlight Ballroom: Jerry Jeff Walker travels to Snook on Saturday, displaying his coun try outlaw style from 8 p.m.- 1 a.m. Also appearing is Mes quite. Advance tickets are $9 at Courts or $10 at the door. Etc. Graduation — Class of '81: Texas A&M University gradua tion is held in three separate ceremonies — Friday afternoon at 2 p.m., Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 9:00 a.m. If you don't want to attend the commencement in G. Rollie White Coliseum, watch it on television. KAMU, Channel 15, will carry live broadcasts of all three ceremonies. Final Review and Commis sioning: All the glory and preci sion of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets will be on display at Final Review, Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on the main drill field. Before the review, formal commission ing ceremonies for graduating cadets will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum at 1:30 p.m. Boot Dance: Corps of Cadets juniors can wear their senior boots for the first time at the annual Boot Dance Saturday night in the MSC, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. IVIother's Day: Sunday, May 10, is the day to show your mother how much you care. Send her the special Focus Mother's Day card on page 3, or why not reach out and touch her with a telephone call? focos Editor Cathy Saathoff Assistant Editor Debbie Nelson Staff writer Colette Hutchings Focus will accept any items submitted for publication, although the decision to publish lies solely with the editor. Deadline is 5 p.m. the Thursday before publication. A last-minute Mother's Day card. By Debbie Nelson 3 Buying a straw hat for summer. By Dana Smelser 4 Piranhacon is coming. By Colette Hutchings . On the cover: Heads will be spinning next week as Aggies take final exams. For many, it will be a last chance effort to pull grades up. Focus gives hints on how to survive the week, whether you plan to study or not. Art by Scott McCullar.