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Friday, February 11,1994
The Ba italion
Page 5
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lassie takes stage Tuesday
By Jennifer Gressett
The Battalion
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Bown.
I First produced by the Theatre
ftuild in 1943, Oklahoma! owes
its success to the collaboration
mf two men. Freeing themselves
■rom the traditional route,
Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Rlammerstein altered the
Rrocess of creating a Broadway
I musical.
Rather than first writing the
Kmisic and then creating the
Hyrics, the partners reversed the
Rrocess for Oklahoma!. This al-
■owed Hammerstein to create
Rharacters more in touch with
Hheir personalities and circum-
■tances — free from existing
Constraints.
I This alteration was also seen
Hn the choreography of the mu-
Rical. Whereas common Broad-
||tvay dance was an entertaining
Rreak in the storyline, Okla-
Rioma! used dance in an effort to
further the plot.
What accounts for the musi
cal's success and enduring pop
ularity half a century later?
"It's a very comfortable
show, both for the cast and the
Middle American audience,"
said Steven Sondheim, the pre
mier contemporary creator of
Broadway's musicals.
However, Max Wilk, who
published the first complete sto
ry of Oklahoma!, had a more
emotional explanation.
Oklahoma! arrived toward
the end of the darkest winter
ever — literally as well as figu
ratively, since there was a
wartime brownout in New York
City, Wilk said. Lights were
partially eliminated tnroughout
the city to prevent enemy air
raiders in the darker hours.
"At a time when boys where
being shipped out overseas
every day and you didn't know
if you were ever coming back,
(Oklahoma!) told you that there
was something to come back to.
It assured you that there would
be a life, and that it would be a
good one," he said.
Oklahoma! will be playing
Tuesday, Feb. 15, in Rudder Au
ditorium at 8 p.m. For ticket in
formation, call the MSC Box Of
fice at 845-1234.
Oklahomal's classic characters "Ado Annie" and "Will Parker"
can be seen in Rudder Auditorium Tuesday night.
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■BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Realism got the
head table, escapism wasn't on the A-list, and
the host — Hollywood — barely got invited to
its own party.
■Steven Spielberg will either get his Oskar
(thanks to Schindler) or run the risk of becom
ing the Buffalo Bills of directors.
■Academy Award voters this year honored
seemingly uncommercial storylines and the
lalgest beneficiary was Steven Spielberg's
Holocaust drama "Schindler's List," which re
reived a leading 12 Oscar nominations
Wednesday. Its nominations include best pic-
e and best director.
Other films receiving multiple nominations
lude the New Zealand drama "The Piano"
the IRA story "In the Name of the Fa-
r," both among the five best picture
minees.
Ijust one traditional Hollywood studio re-
>ase, the stylish thriller "The Fugitive,"
arned nominations in more than one top
aiegory.
■"This is a very special moment for all of us
vho have dedicated ourselves to this subject,"
Jpielberg said of "Schindler's List." / 'The
s of 12 nominations was overwhelming."
'Schindler's List" chronicles businessman
ar Schindler's efforts to rescue and employ
ncentration camp prisoners in a factory
aking intentionally unusable Nazi mu
nitions.
At a running time of three hours and filmed
mostly in black and white, the movie was nev
er expected to be a commercial hit.
In addition to best picture and director,
"Schindler's List" was nominated for best ac
tor for Liam Neeson (who played Schindler)
and supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes (who
played sadistic Nazi commandant Amon
Goeth).
Spielberg's "Jurassic Park," the highest-
grossing release in movie history collected
three nominations in technical categories.
"Philadelphia," the first big studio film
about AIDS, got five nominations, including
best actor for Tom Hanks and best original
screenplay. "In the Name of the Father," a lit
tle-seen account of a falsely convicted Irish
rebel Gerry Conlon, received seven nomina
tions, including best picture and best actor for
Daniel Day-Lewis.
Robin Williams' cross-dressing perfor
mance in the hugely successful "Mrs. Doubt-
fire" was overlooked. "Sleepless in Seattle" re
ceived just two nominations.
In the best picture category, the nominees
were "Schindler's List," "The Fugitive," "In
the Name of the Father," "The Piano" and
"The Remains of the Day."
For best director, Spielberg will face "The
Piano" maker Jane Campion, only the second
woman to be nominated in the category (Lina
Wertmuller lost for 1976's "Seven Beauties").
Also nominated for director were Jim Sheridan
for "In the Name of the Father," James Ivory
for "The Remains of the
Day" and Robert Altman for
"Short Cuts."
Spielberg was blanked in
his previous three directorial
nominations for "Close En
counters of the Third Kind,"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
and "E.T. — the Extra-Ter
restrial."
Also nominated for best
actor were Anthony Hopkins
for his role as the butler
Stevens in "The Remains of the Day" and Lau
rence Fishburne for playing the abusive Ike
Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It."
"I'm just delighted," Fishburne said. "I'm
happy, not only for myself but for (co-star)
Angela Bassett."
The best actress selections were Miss Bas
sett for singer Tina Turner in "What's Love
Got to Do With It"; Stockard Channing as soci
ety wife Quisa Kittredge from "Six Degrees of
Separation"; Holly Hunter as the mute mail
order bride Ada in "The Piano"; Emma
Thompson for housekeeper Miss Kenton in
"The Remains of the Day," and Debra Winger
as dying writer Jcy Gresham in "Shadow-
lands."
Miss Hunter ("The Firm") and Miss
Thompson ("In the Name of the Father") were
also nominated for supporting actress, the first
time two performers received dual nomina
tions in the same year.
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Continued from Page 4
The well-polished set, good film color
quality and the appearances of a number of
the Miami Dolphins including Dan Marino
again reiterates that Warner Brothers did not
cut too many corners while making this film.
This is indeed a definite factor in its appeal.
The musical choices along with Carrey's
rhythmically comical body motions keep the
humor flowing, allowing breathing room
without losing the laughs. Usually, writers
scared of losing the comical flow will choke
the audience with bad jokes, hokey extras or
too much clumsiness.
Yet another of Ace Ventura's laughable at-,
tributes are the props and wardrobe. I have
never seen such an assorted collection of
Hawaiian shirts. Carrey's beat-up blue mus
cle car also builds the character.
Indeed, with all of the industry's recent
goof-ups, trying to convert TV shows and
characters to the big screen (i.e. Coneheads) ,
I understand why this movie has been met
with much criticism. But this is one TV per
sonality who survives and even flourishes in
the move to movies.
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