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features Battalion/Page \l June 15,1f COME BREAKFAST WITH US !! I COUPOi'JI PRESE.T T.IIS coura'j m WEEKtlfiY, BEUffiJ 9 AM AND II AM. • CHOICE OF ORANGE OR GRAPEFRUIT JUICE • FRESHLY BAKED KOLACHE • CUP OF OUR HOT, FRESH COFFE ALL FOR ONLY 95F offer expires AUGUST 27, 1932, ■DBBHBHHCOUPaiHBBHBHi OPEN DAILY MON - FRI 9 TO 5PM Around the Corner from the MSC Post Office “E.T.” full of innocence, deserves to be summer hit by Eric Truax Battalion Reviewer Imagine that you are explor ing a planet 3 million light-years from your home when you are suddenly discovered by the planet’s natives. Your shipmates escape with the spacecraft, but they have left you behind — left alone in an alien environment, extremely frightened of the cre atures chasing you, and faced with the prospect of never seeing your home again. The planet is Earth, though, not Tau Ceti VI, and the cast away is “E.T. The Extra- Terrestrial,” a wonderfully re freshing new film from produc er/director Steven Spielberg who makes it up to us after assaulting our senses with the unnecessarily gruesome “Pol tergeist.” The story, by Melissa Mathi- son (who co-wrote “The Black Stallion 41 ), soon has the marooned extra-terrestrial disc overed and befriended by Elliot, a 10-year-old whose father has recently run out on his mother and whose siblings both have worlds of their own. He keeps the E.T. in his bedroom closet where he brings it food and Review teaches it about Earth. A tele pathic empathy soon forms be tween the two which is first sug gested in a hilarious scene in which E.T. is looking for some thing to eat and finds and drinks several beers. Elliot is in class ab out to dissect frogs when he be gins to feel quite drunk and, acting on a whim, begins to re lease all the alien-looking frogs. Elliot, of course, is very soon escorted back home. Soon he learns of E.T.’s increasing homesickness and his desire to return home, and must face the possibility of his closest friend leaving him in his sterile, sub urban world. The child actors are absolute ly marvelous, never ringing false, particularly Henry Tho mas as Elliot. Dee Wallace also fares well as Elliot’s somewhat rattled mother trying to keep her family’s life together. Spiel berg also succeeds with his mil- lion-dollar alien, the E.T. He’s short, squat, and tends to wad dle when he walks, but one is always able to see a warm, intelli gent being in this creature whose eyes are reportably a cross between Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. Those people expecting a se quel to “Close Encounters,” or light shows similar to those found in it, will find little to com pare between the two. Some may find E.T.’s spaceship more than vaguely reminiscent of the ships from Spielberg’s previous encounter film. Beyond * though, the qualities oftlit films remain distinctlyditfi “E.T.” is a story about like love and innocencevid out in an artificial adult Only the children are ever to truly understand theEI his needs. The adults, whed finally see the E.T., petti only an alien to be keptalivtjfesraeli i studied as an oddity. Brian pc “E.T.” has manyofthetjlied Be ities of, and really quite relay and bles, the classic children’smlth Pale* “The Little Prince." The tpfthe Le der, magic, and innott irenewi which make “The LittlePti® The so timeless also serve to “E.T.” a movie destined come a classic for all ages;s Israeli an sic which is sometimes fy rian tank sometimes sad, and at tjpesday, quite exhilarating. It is eti thing a summer movieshoultl and deserves to be one of biggest box-office hits in y« bgleh International contest visits U.S. Suing 1 li thei: ire on Is A P; Israeli tr Mississippi hosts ‘ballet Olympics fimete Culpepper Plaza — Next to Games Galore & /Z/ United Press International JACKSON, Miss. — The Mis sissippi capital, known for mag nolias and an occasional Miss America, is sprucing up for scrutiny by the once-foreign world of ballet. For only the second time in its history, the United States is the host of the International Ballet Competition June 20 through July 4, and for the second time, Jackson is the host city. Twenty-five Americans and 60 other competitors from 18 countries will vie for gold, silver and bronze medals and prize money totalling $50,000. “At first Los Angeles tried to get the thing together, followed by Denver, New York and Phi ladelphia,” IBC executive dire ctor William Leighton said. “But they never could get the financ ing. I don’t know why here and nowhere else, but the business- merwiecided this really is a won derful thing and we really want to do it here.” The competitions, sometimes called the “Olympics of Dance,” began in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1964. Because of the artistic suc cess and prestige of this event, similar competitions were estab lished in Moscow in 1969 and in Tokyo in 1976. The list of medal winners from the three cities includes such names as Mikhail Barysh nikov, Fernando Bujones, Alex ander Godunov, Ivan Nagy and Martine van Hamel. An artistic Iron Curtain was cracked last summer, when a predominantly Russian jury made Amanda McKerrow, 17, the first American to win a gold medal in Moscow. mobile homes, the IBCss nizers must have feltthatif could just get past this fintti petition, the rest would be They were, in more ways I one, all wet. Shortly after the final | when all on stage was sweet] and light, backstage grumf about whose IBC it really erupted into a full-scale ft office war. lestinia anese ian in gThe n |lTime ived ir t to Si invasion 3<»C IX JC IX 1C 30C SANDWICH SHOP 2Tn 2 FOR 1 Something Else Hair Salon TUESDAY ALL DAY 2 Schmaltz Sandwiches for Price of 1 Welcome’s Back Students “I know it’s a cliche,” said Leighton, “but these are nothing less than the ballet stars of tomorrow.” The first time Jackson held an IBC, the organizers had just eight weeks to dig out and dry out after the worst flood in the city’s history. The downtown area was inundated that dis astrous Easter Sunday in 1979 as the Pearl River overflowed its banks. As a result, the group Ir New York and Philadelpbiic chose Jackson in the first] severed its relationship will city. The Jackson backers, c bravura that shocked manjl the time, proclaimed theym host the IBC on their own “I never could undersli what the confusion was Leighton said. “You can od football team, but youcantt football. At this point, thf] [ikland opoldi Arge trow, gentir Britai nothing that precludes sonitmigentir else from having an IBC battles oi pnds, Quietly uui ueuucm™ ^ ^ Friday - Saturday All Day A Schmaltz — Tea and Chips Special Hair Cuts 8 00 (cutomy) Lash & Brow Dye 5 00 (Reg. 3.52) for only Phone In Orders 693-8276 $068 M-F 8-7 Sat. 8-12:00 no appointment necessary 404 E. University »!C==X!C 693-9877 The Red Cross aided 6,100 people, many of whom were re ndered homeless — and many of whom were counted on for the $750,000 needed to pull off the IBC. But pull it off Jackson did, reaching back for the spirit of forebears who survived Civil War burnings. The event attracted 73 com petitors from 18 countries and a distinguished jury cochaired by America’s Robert Jeffrey and the Soviet Union’s Sophia Golovkina, director of the Bol shoi Ballet School. In those hectic days of final fund-raising, when many of the city’s monied were living in but delibenn however, the Mississippi ca[ has spent the past three strengthening its grip o event. Jackson and Varna off became sister cities recently, ited by their love of dance, Ji son won official U.S, sam for its IBC in a bill House and Senate and si] President Reagan. A mol |the sui [e Brit lesiden 'It’s ovei ptorshij. i Mass Jiere i jentir Jseizure toonstra The local support 11^ fielding accolades from national m the first time around hash busy coming up with thei million budgeted for i|c month’s competition. 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