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Monday, August 27, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5B y n Take a night off — at the movie A&M graduate still doodling around WI Wilh n 'bers in WadJ: 'S diversl s a&m; and has c oniniitt( ( iwo sepaq as," she s moreeit »e areas, is have I*. iys Drai m Broil., hton Bti; ome Lih tlyschedi II inten* irst wed i'seasoned mcert ops: at the III By LESLIE HEFFNER Reporter Coming Attractions: “Splash,” “Terms of Endearment,” “Footloo se,” “Moscow on the Hudson.” These are among the movies on Aggie Cinema’s tentative fall lineup. Aggie Cinema is a Memorial Student Center committee that shows movies in Rudder Theater for the students, faculty and staff of Texas A&M. Chairman Mike Gardner says the main goal of the organization for the coming year is to increase mem bership. “A lot of people (about 100) come to the first few meetings,” Gardner says, “but they don’t keep coming back.” He says he feels that people don’t continue because they don’t feel they are involved in the organi zation. Next year things will be different, he says. The first change, he says, is that all members will nave a voice in se lection of the Films. Another change is opening more leadership posi tions. Any cinema member will be el igible to become coordinator of the committee’s part in MSG Open House, MSG All-Night Fair, or MSG Discovery Day, Gardner says. Another cinema goal is to present movies the Aggies will be interested in, Gardner says. “We’ve got a really good schedule for the fall,” he says. “I’m really excited.” Next fall, movies will be shown on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Campus favorites are designated for Wednesdays. He says these are movies that have been shown previously and had a good re sponse. Friday and Saturday nights, pop ular movies such as “Footloose” will be shown. International films (“Entre Nois,” “Autumn Sonata,” and many others) are scheduled for Sundays. Other items tentatively planned for the fall include two film festivals. Gardner says a Hitchcock festival and a Woody Allen festival are scheduled for October and Novem ber, respectively. The festivals will include three or four films played on a Sunday afternoon. If the festivals are successful, Gardner says, the cin ema will present one every month starting spring semester. The cinema is also planning a spe cial promotion called Nuclear Week for the fall, Gardner says. “China Syndrome”,“Silkwood” and “Atomic Cafe” will be shown on Wednesday night of that week. Aggie Cinema is a completely stu dent-run enterprise, except for one job. A hired projectionist is required by Rudder Theater, Gardner says. “I think the Aggie Cinema is in credibly successful,” Gardner says.“- Sometimes on a popular movie night, consisting of three showings, we have over 2,000 patrons.” JP fouston a \S preside i ihe Lone: ■ven plac Bear’ movie premiere to be benefit United Press International aving e world z of the Iw range fa ts and fa dents. $e del hold! dual pefa P< miere of “The Bear,” a movie chro- niding the life of the late University of Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, will be held Sept. 20 and benefit the American Paralysis Association. Kent Waldrep, a former Texas Christian University running back who was paralyzed as a result of a tackle in a 1974 game against Ala bama, said Embassy Pictures would donate about $250,000 from the Bir mingham premiere to the APA. The research foundation was founded five years ago by Waldrep, who is its president. He said during a news conference Thursday at Le gion Field, where he was injured, that premiere proceeds would go to ward a Bear Bryant Fund. Ben Collier, an APA board mem ber and chairman of the board of National Industries in Montgomery, presented Waldrep with a $15,000 check representing the sale of the first VIP table for premiere patrons. “This fund will bring in the dol lars necessary for the research to get us out these wheelchairs,” Waldrep said. “It’s going to be through events like this premiere that we’re going to whip this thing.” Bryant and Gov. George Wallace, who was paralyzed in a 1972 assassi nation attempt, were both honorary APA directors. Waldrep said he and Bryant became close friends follow ing Waldrep’s spinal cord injury on Oct. 26, 1974. “It was so special that he took the time to pursue a close relationship with me,” Waldrep said. “He was that way from the time of the acci dent until his death, always calling me on the phone, filling me in on what the team was doing, keeping up with how I was getting along.” Bryant died at the age of 69 in January 1983, about three weeks af ter retiring from coaching following a Liberty Bowl win over Illinois, a re cord 323rd career victory. After the coach’s death, his family and movie producer Larry Spangler disagreed on aspects of the filming of “The Bear.” As a result, most of the movie was filmed at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta instead of at Ala bama. Part of the disagreement report edly concerned the selection of actor Gary Busey to play Bryant. Waldrep, who saw the movie at a Dallas screening last week, said Busey did as good a job as anyone could por traying Bryant. “I think he did the role justice,”- Waldrep said. “He was under tre mendous pressure, playing a legend. Who could play Bear Bryant? To his family and friends, that’s not going to be Coach up there on the screen, but we will always have our special memories of him that no one else will.” Waldrep, 30, also said he didn’t agree with critics who believe Span gler’s version of Bryant won’t reveal any of his human faults. “I think a lot of people don’t think he was a human being,” Waldrep said. “Bryant was a bit bigger than the average person. But the film is about more than that. It’s about the love he had for people, God and country. “I can’t think of any film like it, except ‘Rocky,’ and that was about human determination. ‘The Bear’ is the story of a man who was bigger than life. It’s a story about building character.” The $8 million film directed by Richard Sarafian was financed by Worldwide Capital Management Inc. of Dallas and will be released Sept. 28 to 700 theaters in the South and West, with plans to release it to another 700 in the East and Midwest on Nov. 16. A second premiere is scheduled for Sept. 21 in Memphis, Tenn., where Bryant coached his last game in the 1982 Liberty Bowl. By RENEE HARRELL Reporter From doing cartoons about “Gi- gags” for The Battalion to illustrat ing “Monica the Computer Mouse,” Brad Foster has done plenty oi drawing, but he’s still learning. “It gets easier as it goes along,” says Foster, a freelance illustrator and writer now living in Irving. “I’m still a beginner in my business. The more I do, the more I learn.” Foster, a 1977 Texas A&M grad uate, got his degree in architecture here before he went to study art at the University of Texas for two years. After that, he says, he ran out of money and had to get a job. So, the aspiring young artist turned to cleaning furniture for a living. That’s when he decided it was time to start freelancing. “I just quit my job and started doing it,” Foster recalls. “I had al ways wanted to do it, so, I just started doing what I really wanted to do. I’ve been freelancing for about three years.” Foster, who did the cartoon “Tales of the Gigags” for The Battal ion for two years, likes to illustrate children’s books because he can use a wide range of styles. “I’m really into children’s books and things because I get to do more illustrations in my own style,” Foster says. A turtle and a ladybug are the main characters in a book Foster is working on. The book is the third in a four-part series that instructs el- ememtary teachers on how to teach students about computers. “I’ve done drawings for an ama teur magazine, a cartoon for this or that and just all sorts of strange things,” Foster says. “Most of my work isn’t very realistic. It’s boring to do realistic work. You can just take a picture to get realistic. I like the abs tract because it lets me have some fun with it.” Foster says he likes what he is doing. “I’m doing the same things as I did in school, but now I’m getting E aid for it,” Foster says. “I’m doing a >t more science fiction today.” Cathy Rylander, a freelance graphic artist who works in the MSC print and copy shop, says Foster’s style has changed since his days at Texas A&M. She remembers Foster from MSC Cepheid Variable, a stu dent science fiction committee. “He does a lot of science fiction work,” Rylander says. “He was al ways doing posters for everybody. He did a lot of posters for Aggie Cinema and Cepheid Variable. I’m sure a lot of it they asked him to do, but he did a lot of them for recre ation—All Night Fair and Free U. He was my idol.” Evidence of the many posters he did at Texas A&M still hangs in the MSC print and copy shop. “We take down a lot of the posters after a while,” Rylander says. “Some of his are never coming down.” Foster is still doing artwork for Texas A&M. He did a program Foster is still doing art work for Texas A&M. He did a program cover last spring for AggieCon, the annual Texas A&M sci ence fiction convention. For the past three years he has also done a full color air brush poster for Aggie Cinema. cover last spring for AggieCon, the annual Texas A&M science fiction convention. For the past three years he has also done a full color air brush poster for Aggie Cinema, an MSC committee that shows movies. John Fairey, a Texas A&M envi ronmental design professor, remem bers when Foster came to back to Texas A&M for a visit. “He came back a few years ago and showed me some of his work,” Fairey says. “I remember it was very good.” Foster says his design classes at Texas A&M helped his style. “Design c lass helped me because it’s art related,” Foster says. “Eve rything you do affects you.” “I remember I really couldn’t draw very well when I got in college. Since there wasn’t an art department at Texas A&M, I got more art in struction just by doing it. Everybody always needed posters and flyers. I did bizarre, science fictiony weird things. I got to do so many different things. ” When remembering his days at Texas A&M, Foster says, “College was a party compared to the real world. If you missed a class, you were paying for it. But, if you miss your job, you get in more trouble. 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