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Focus, The Battalion J“ Friday, March 12, 1982 J Making of a Major Hollywood Musical." Ten-year- old Aileen Quinn plays the title role. The special will air at 8:10 p.m. Wednesday. KAMU-TV celebrating this month KAMU, along with public television stations across the country, will celebrate Festival Nights for 16 nights in March. Saturday was the first day of special presentations featuring American talent and institu tions. The festival ends March 21. Among the programs fea tured on KAMU is "Lights' Camera! 'Annie'!: The Making of a Hollywood Musical" on Wednesday. The program pro vides a benind-the-scenes look at the making of the new music al based on the Broadway play- Lavish production numbers for the musical, some including all 36 Radio City Music HaU Rockettes, required special logistics. The search for an actress to play Annie took 10 months and covered 20 American cities. Nine semi-finalists were chosen from over 8,000 hopefuls, and three of those made screen tests with Daddy Warbucks, played by Albert Finney. Aileen Quinn of Yardley, Public television goes Hollywood's newest presentation, "Lights! Pennsylvania, was chosen to play the precoaous orphan in the film, which should be re behind the scenes of musical in a special Camera! 'Annie!': The leased nationally early this summer. Also coming up on KAMU-TV in early April is the annual auc tion, which will be preceeded by a pre-auction showing March 26 and 27 at Post Oak Mall. KAMU-FM will celebrate its fifth anniversary March 30. It's good? They're lying by doi ooscur If anybody tells you "Liar's Moon" is a good movie, a cloud will pass over the moon. A liar's moon is one obscured douds or fog. The movie is jred by a doudy plot and foggy direction. And in the case of the show ing at Schulman Six, blurry focus. If the movie itself wasn't enough to give the audience a headache, someone in the pro jection room was playing with the focus knob throughout the film. The overall effect was nausea. "Liar's Moon" is reminiscent of several low-budget movies about the decadence of life in the South. The kind of movie people go see just because it was filmed Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 truth about Liar's Moon near where they live — in this case around Houston. Remember "Ode to Billie Joe?" There's even a bridge in this movie. Remember "Bonnie and Clyde?" Car chases, gunfire, bullies. The cliches are all here: whore with a heart of gold, the well- meaning midwife, chase scenes, the blood-and-money hungry private detective and the inno cent young couple who prevail over all the undesirables. Teen heartthrob Matt Dillon plays an All-American Boy ham pered in his quest for The Girl by the fact that Her Father Is Ricn and his isn't. Cindy Fisher is The Girl, a beautiful, naive nymphet who is willing to give up The Good Life, such as it was in 1949, for love. They're just so wonderful you could gag. But let's be realis tic. People just aren't that neato- keen in real life. The rouge and lipstick bill for this film — they used a yucky shade of pink — probably accounted for 25 percent of the budget, with the rest going to pay for old cars and useless acting lessons. Singer Hoyt Axton, as Dil lon's bather, is the exception. Axton put down his guitar to portray the hard-working, understanding father who ends up being the only nice guy in the movie. Except for his Rosie- “77ie light of a good character surpasseth the light of the sun.” From the Beha i Sacred Wrings the Baha’i Faith# For Information Call: 693-3657 779-8823 Cheeked Son, of course. Still, Texans come off looking like backwoods hicks with over- active glands and idealistic vi sions of A Better Life. But no, not for these folks; past sins come back to haunt. The story is as full of twists and turns as the country roads it occurs on. You may think you've got it down early in the movie, but don't make hasty conclusions. Instead, if your feet carry you to "Liar's Moon," make a hasty retreat. — Cathy Saathoff