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TOM DUPREE
Vicious rumors
DOVER KLAM
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Somebody. I forget who but it might
have been David Merrick, once said that if
anyone wanted to train to be a critic, he
should stand on a street corner and push
old ladies in front of buses.
This horrible attitude fostered, no
doubt, by repeated drubbings at the
typewriters of critics presupposes
several things:
o That a critic speaks for. instead of
to, his readership, and therefore can
expect his likes and dislikes to be
translated into mass action;
o that a critic knows more than you
do or he wouldn’t be a critic;
o that by virtue of his being a critic
he commands instant respect and is
therefore a dangerous man, and
o because he goes around criticizing
things, he’s probably a nasty person to
boot.
By these standards, 1 don’t think I
want to come on as a critic. I’m not really
sure I’m a critic anyway. However, if you
look at the concept of criticism another
way, 1 do claim to be a critic. Sure.
You’re a critic as well. All God’s chillun
are critics.
A critic is someone who likes some
things and doesn’t like other things.
Someone who goes to a movie instead of
watching Let’s Make A Deal on teevee is
practicing criticism. The only difference
between you and me is that 1 get to write
down why I passed up Monty Hall.
As to what right I have to be here
writing while you’re there reading, I think
I have certain qualifications, to wit:
• I know what I like and why 1 like it.
• I own a typewriter.
• My native tongue is English.
And that’s it, Ducky.
Sometimes I like strange things for
strange reasons. I love monster movies
and I’ve probably seen hundreds of them,
but off hand I can’t even remember one
which I thought was a Good Film (Roger
Corman fans, please do not write). My
favorite regular teevee show is Dragnet,
possibly because I always know what I’m
getting when I sit down to watch it, and
therefore I’m never disappointed. Oh, 1
like my share of Arty Stuff, too, but
frankly, just between you and me, some
of it bores the absolute hell out of me.
Bet you never thought you’d hear A
Critic say that, <,h?
U.S. resolves
major issue
TOKYO (UPI) - The
United Sates returned Okinawa
and the 72 other Ryukyu
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ccremoney that Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew said resolved
“the last major issue” of World
War II
Sometimes my taste runs along
superficial lines (I saw WILD IN THE
STREETS five times), but I can get into
something deeply, too, enough to think
Howell Raines is wrong when, in the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he makes
fun of people who go around discussing
the theological significance of 2001. I
think he’s wrong because that aspect of
the film was there I saw it.
I guess my main tenet is that if
something is fun, it’s worth your time. If
a film or teevee show can educate us as
well, show us something which we hadn’t
seen or in a way we hadn’t seen it, that’s
to its credit and it’s worth more because
of that added dimension.
But if something even fails to be fun,
if it’s a chore with no apparent aesthetic-
reward, if you wind up going because you
want others to know you’ve gone, then
forget it. Don’t waste your time. And if it
masquerades as fun or even art when it
isn’t, that’s the worst crime of all, and I’ll
be offended and angry.
1 can be moved, too, I cried when 1
saw LOVE STORY. But I don’t think I
was crying for the same reason the other
people were crying.
I’m excitable, I can’t wait for the
release of the now-in-production
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE
APES so I can find out how 20th
Century-Fox will keep the series going
after killing off all the main characters.
All I’m saying really is that you
shouldn’t take any critic, especially me.
too seriously, even though I was quite
serious when I said that. There are too
many Richard Nixons and Mao Tse-tungs
around for you to worry over the John
Simons and Robert Brusteins and all the
other critics who are far more somber
than the very media they are writing
about.
And, since you are all critics
yourselves, I’m sure you realize that
there’s no course in Nastiness one must
pass in order to criticize. Even if I made it
to a street corner in Athens, the bus
drivers here would stop before I got in a
good shove.
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TUESDAY, MAY 16
5:30 p.m. — Soccer Club
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6:15-8:15 p.m. — Campus
Crusade leadership training class.
Contact Becky Pelletier (2-6253)
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8 p.m. — Vietnam Veterans
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