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LIFE IN MUSIC
BY THE DAMEANS
STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN
Starting all over again, is gonna be rough
so rough, but we gonna make it.
Starting all over as friends, is gonna be tough
on us, but we gotta face it.
We lost what we had, that’s what hurt us so bad,
it set us back a thousand years.
But we gonna make it up, though I know it’s gonna be rough
to erase the hurt and tears.
Staring,' all over again, is gonna be hard
But I pray that the Lord, will help us make it.
Starting all over again, is gonna be slow
we both know, that we can make it.
We gotta take life as it comes, and never, never, never fuss
about who’s right or wrong, you still gotta take it.
It’s an uphill climb to the finish line,
But we’re gonna try just one more time.
by Phillip Mitchell
(c Muscle Shoals Sound Publ. BMI.)
Nobody likes to be burned. It’s a real bummer when you put a lot into
something or share a lot with someone and lose! You wind up with empty hands
or an empty heart as the pieces of a shattered love or dream or friendship lie
scattered about you. It’s at times like these that you feel so alone before the
whole world and you tremble all over at the thought of starting all over again.
Mel and Tim sing a catchy tune about “starting all over again.” It might be
about two friends who were apart for awhile or maybe a marriage that has gone
stale. It doesn’t really matter because the song has some wise insights into new
beginnings in general, whether it’s a new home in a new city, a new job, or even
a new attitude toward life after breaking up with a long-time steady.
“It’s gonna be rough.” That’s rather obvious when you’re starting off from point
zero. The road ahead seems black compared to what used to be. Everything was
going for you then, and now you doubt that it can ever be that way again. You
begin to wonder if it’s going to be worth the effort.
“Gonna be slow.” So slow - we get impatient and want the tough times at the
beginning to pass quickly because we’re afraid of them. But then we realize that
it takes time for anything to grow and so we wait and “take life as it comes.”
“We’re gonna make it.” We did it before and that should encourage us to
believe that we can do it again. We have to have confidence in ourselves - that
gut attitude that tells us that even though we may be down, we’re definitely not
out.
“I pray that the Lord will help us make it.” It’s a wise man who admits he
can’t do everything for himself, who admits he needs help. He looks to his God
for help, and why not? Hasn’t he come through before? Doesn’t he say he will
help anyone who asks? Isn’t it worth the trust?
“We’re gonna try just one more time.” Never give up. You can always get up
no matter how bad the fall or how great the loss. There can always be one more
time if you want it. The only alternative is despair and that’s certainly a
dead-end street.
The song is very strong on going on but it does not give a reason for doing it.
No one can face the hurt and tears of starting all over again without some reason
to hope that the future will indeed be better than the present.
All of us need something to hope for, someone to hope in. But hope is
difficult at times. It’s like living on Good Friday - all you see around you is
suffering and death.
Resurrection has been promised you but Easter Sunday seems so far off. The
person who lives by hope can accept the present because he has found his reason
for hoping, believes in it, and steps into the uncertain future because of it. Such
a person finds that with a little help he is sure to make it.
(Direct all correspondence to: The Dameans, St. Joseph’s Church, 216 Patton
Ave., P.O., Box 5188, Shreveport, La. 71105)
BUSY IN RETIREMENT -- Two Sisters in the Joliet, (Ill.) diocese work busily in
retirement projects. Sister Imelda, 77, (left) reupholsters a chair at the Wheaton
Franciscan convent. She discovered the second career after retiring as an accountant
for the Order. In the same convent. Sister Bernarda, 90, fixes a child’s doll. She was a
nursing supervisor before retiring. The two sisters are members of the Daughters of the
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. (NC Photo)
Pope-Prime Minister Discuss No. Ireland
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Violence-ridden Northern Ireland was the
focus of British Prime Minister Edward
Heath’s visit to Pope Paul VI Oct. 4.
Heath publicly avowed his
determination not only “to work for the
ending of violence in Northern Ireland”
but to achieve there “the peace and
IN 1974
justice for which Your Holiness hopes
and prays.”
The Pope publicly extended “our good
wishes to all those authorities who are
sincerely and patiently trying to solve this
problem without violence and in a
peaceful, just and fair way.”
Nowhere in the Pope’s address was
United Nations to Hold
Population Conference
By Kathleen McLaughlin
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NC) -
Preparations have started for a UN
sponsored world population conference
in 1974, designated by UN Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim as World
Population Year.
The conference -- for which the
General Assembly’s second (economic)
committee will decide the time and place
will be projected on the same scale and
import as the recent Stockholm
conference on the human environment.
Waldheim emphasized that the
population conference will cover all
Film Classifications
A — Section I — Morally Unobjectionable for General Patronage
A — Section D — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults, Adolescents
A — Section Ul — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults
A — Section IV — Morally Unobjectionable for Adults, Reservations
B — Morally Objectionable in Part for All
C — Condemned
THE
RULING CLASS (AVCO
Embassy) . . .Peter O’Toole as an Upper Class
British Madman.
America has never had a Ruling Class to kick
around, so it is understandable if American
audiences do not quite appreciate this wild,
dense adaptation of the Peter Barnes play that
was so popular on the British stage and is
currently a screen smash in jolly old England.
For one thing, kicking the British upper class
around seems to be a frivolous pastime, and,
indeed, the Peers of the Realm are such an
obvious and easy target. Nonetheless, there is
such a good deal of malicious, delicious frontal
attack in THE RULING CLASS that, for the
first hour, at least, it is both gripping and
hilarious. The freewheeling acting of Peter
O'Toole as the fourteenth Earl of Gurney (the
thirteenth, Harry Andrews, accidentally hung
himself with a silken cord whilst dressed in a
cocked hat, admiral’s dress coat, tutu, and
longjohns) in an intense, madcap virtuoso
performance, and his support from William
Mervin, Coral Browne, and Alastair Sim as his
grubbing relatives, and Arthur Lowe as the
faithful but insolent family retainer, is superb.
The trouble is, THE RULING CLASS becomes
tedious and repetitive long before it runs out of
steam. Its two-and-a-half hour running time is
about an hour too long.
Director Medak, whose experience filming
JOE EGG has given him practice both in black
comedy and in adapting plays for the screen, is
at his best when he lets actors go. Of the many
demanding roles he has filled in movies, that of
the fourteenth Earl of Gurney has demanded
the most of O’Toole, and he has given his
utmost. Of the countless savvy English butlers
we have seen, perhaps Arthur Lowe’s Tucker is
the best. With a faint hint of W.C. Fields about
him, Lowe does not exactly steal, but he
certainly heightens every scene he is in.
There are problems with the film that reach
beyond its surface. Any film dealing in class
attack and featuring a lead character who
thinks he is God is asking for trouble, and THE
RULING CLASS will doubtless displease those
with rigid religious sensibilities. Yet religion
itself, perhaps surprisingly, does not come
under attack -- Jack Gurney’s insanity is a
classic case, even his confrontation with the
other “God” is a textbook study. The satirical
point here is in the madness and whom it
afflicts, not in its surface reference points.
Structural and theatrical problems also abound.
Any film which has its hero suddenly break
into a fully orchestrated and choreographed
(and lip-synched) romp through the “Varsity
Drag” and, later, “Dry Bones," is asking for
even more trouble. The mixture of styles,
however, is a sign of both Jack's dementia and
the film’s own brand of black comedy. That
Medak is unable to sustain or control all the
styles is simply unfortuante, but that he let it
go on for so long is almost forgiveable. (A—IV)
A SEPARATE PEACE (Paramount) Director
Larry Peerce has made a fine film of the
popular “campus cult” novel by John Knowles,
the story of prep school buddies trying to find
their way at an academy in New England. Using
a cast of mostly non-professionals (and virtually
all unknowns), Peerce has assembled a work
that is simultaneously realistic and dreamlike.
As Gene and his roommate-best friend Finny,
respectively, Parker Stevenson and John Heyl
are excellent and believeable. Their love-hate
friendship, told via flashback from Gene’s point
of view, is full of the pain and uncertainty of
adolescence, with an added tension owing to
the imminence of World War II service for the
prep graduates. The film is haunting in its
theme, full of feeling, and imbued with a
senstitivity to the time, place, and inhabitants
of the drama. (A—II)
THE HERO (Avco-Embassy) Richard Harris
stars as an aging footballer with feet of clay in
what might be described as a sentimentalized
version of THIS SPORTING LIFE. Made in
Israel in 1969, the banality of the script by
Wolf Mankowitz is exceeded only by the
ineptness of its direction by Harris (his first
stint behind the camera and fm the results
probably his last). Undoubtedly an honest (and
costly) mistake but unfortunately an
irredeemable one. (A—II)
CANCEL MY RESERVATION (Warner
Bros.) Bob Hope is an American institution
pushing seventh, and perhaps it is not unkind to
suggest that he has simply outgrown the
movies. The inspiration for his latest violence of
comedy - intrigue seems to have come from the
wastebasket of his television writers. Ill-suited
to the big theater screen and immediately
dating the picture are Hope’s wisecracks,
peppered with an occasional DOUBLE
ENTENDRE, which are meant to ridicule
famous personalities, sports teams and
television commercials, among other things.
The flimsy story has Hope, the henpecked half
of a husband-wife TV talk-show team,
vacationing at his Arizona desert cottage and
falling victim to a land-grabbing scheme
hatched by murderous Ralph Bellamy and his
henchman Forrest Tucker. Wife Eva Marie Saint
races to Hope’s rescue and ultimately learns
that a woman’s place is in the home having
babies, not competing with her husband. Anne
Archer plays Bellamy’s fearful stepdaughter
who likes to hide in Hope’s empty bed; Henry
Darrow and Chief Dan George appear as
stubborn, cunning Indians who counsel Hope to
further their own interests. Doodles Weaver and
Keenan Wynn keep popping up as stupid, venal
cops bent on frustrating our paunchy hero. Paul
Bogart, who directed a very appealing Western
called SKIN GAME last year, slaps everything
together hurriedly here, and he employs some
dreadful process photography to speed the
action along. (A—II)
THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS
(Geneni) share the bodies of the young ladies
they slay: the pals serve choice cuts to the
ravenous customers in their luncheonette
(“Hey, Harry, what’s the secret recipe?”). The
mortician applies the make-up to the remains
and offers green stumps with the special funeral
services he orchestrates. This awful, amateurish
production coats its tongue-in-cheek
gruesomeness with excessively graphic views of
the murdered victims. What might have been
fun for horror buffs is transformed into a
generally low-grade, offensive bore for all. (B)
HAMMER (United Artists) is out to nail
down a place in the sun for himself. In the title
role, Fred Williamson (an ex-pro footballer who
liked to call himself “the Hammer”) loses his
job as a dockworker but finds promising
employment as a boxer under the wing of a
manger who turns crooked when the mob puts
the screws on him. When Hammer refused to
take a dive in The Big Fight, he is left to mop
up the mob in order to live in love, peace, and
happiness with ladyfair Vonetta McGee.
HAMMER owes its allegiance to the current
spate of black exploitation movies, but its
violence, sex, and overt racism are at least
somewhat subdued. All three elements are
present, however, and many folks, black and
white alike, might take offense to the phony
characterizations and mild sex fantasies
depicted on screen. (B)
RECENT FILM CLASSIFICATIONS
The Emigrants (Warner Bros.) - A-ll
The Doberman Gang (Dimension) - A—III
The Twilight People (Dimension) -- A-lll
Play It As It Lays (Universal) -- A-IV
Swingin’ Stewardesses (Hemisphere) -- C
Hammer (United Artists) -- C
aspects of the mounting demographic
problems throughout the world, and
added: “This includes, most
emphatically, moral ones.”
From the first involvement of the UN
in population matters, he noted, a
fundamental tenet has been that there
must be freedom of choice for individuals
to shape their family life according to
their beliefs and aspirations, and for
governments to follow policies most in
keeping with the physical and spiritual
welfare of their people.
Until the conference opens,
considerable effort will be focused on the
efforts of member countries to formulate
national population policies and programs
suited to their respective needs.
Dr. Antonio Carrillo Flores, former
minister of foreign affairs of Mexico, who
will serve as secretary-general of the
world population conference, will open
his office in the secretariat building at UN
headquarters here within the next few
weeks. He will serve under the Economic
and Social Council, under whose auspices
the population conference will take place.
Waldheim specified some of the major
issues that will be posed for delegates to
the world population conference.
“The dimensions of the problem are
well known,” he pointed out. “Each year
127 million children are born; each year
95 million come of school age, and each
year 19 million reach age 65. These totals
are likely to rise steeply in the years
ahead as more young adults swell the
ranks of potential parents, and improved
medical care advances life expectancy. At
two percent a year, the rate of world
population growth is now double the rate
in 1940. It may still rise.
“Each nation, each community, each
family must assess in detail how these
trends affect their hopes for higher living
standards, a better education, and greater
health and happiness.”
Concurrently, an increasing number of
governments have been demonstrating
awareness of demographic problems
through their requests to the UN’s Fund
for Population Activities (UNFPA) for
help with projects in that field. The
UNFPA that will direct the world
population year program and projects.
Rafael M. Salas of the Philippines is
executive director of that agency, which
had its inception in 1967 but became
operative only in 1970, with pledges of
$15.4 million from 24 countries.
Since then, its resources have grown to
commitments from 50 governments in
1972, estimated to reach between $40
million and $50 million by the end of the
current year. Assistance provided to
countries appealing for aid on
demographic projects ranges from a
reliable census of population, to>
family-planning clinics and contraceptive
materials, to construction of buildings,
including housing for training personnel.
there a hint of his previous strictures
against aspects of Britian’s behavior in
Northern Ireland, such as internment of
suspected terrorists without trial and the
use of violence in restoring order.
He noted, “with satisfaction, the part
played by Great Britain on the
international level, especially by her
membership in world-wide
organizations.” He called down God’s
favor on “every initiative which she may
undertake for the benefit of the less
fortunate members of the human
family.”
The Pope and the prime minister then
plunged into a private conference of
about an hour. This is considerably longer
than the Pope usually confers with visiting
statesmen.
Heath, in his public response to the
Pope’s welcome emphasized the
limitations of political action, especially
in a democracy.
“We can do certain things. We can try
to set certain changes in motion. But in
the end we must return to the
responsibility of the individual and of the
family. This remains the cornerstone of
our civilization.”
At the exchange of gifts, Heath’s
musicianship was the keynote. Pope Paul
gave him a 32-volume photostatic edition
of the complete musical works of the
16th-century Italian composer Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina. Heath gave Pope
Paul some recordings of Masses by Franz
Joseph Haydn, and one record of music
conducted by himself.
POPE AND PRIME MINISTER - Pope Paul and British Prime Minister Edward Heath
exchange gifts during a meeting at the Vatican recently. Their talks centered on the
problems of violence-ridden Northern Ireland. (NC Photo)
TV Movies
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 - 9:00 p.m. (ABC)
- THE ODD COUPLE (1968) - Two men
separated from their wives and sharing an
apartment discover what incompatability is all
about: one is obsessively neat (Jack Lemmon)
and the other is a compulsive slob (Walter
Matthau). The story is a nice twist on the
adjustments that people have to make in life as
well as marriage. Both principles demonstrate
the built-in advantages for comedy that come
from teaming a disparate pair and they are
well-supported by a nicely balanced cast.
Director Gene Sacs relies totally, and for good
reason, upon Neil Simon’s hilarious script
which he adapted from his own long-running
Broadway play. One of the year’s most
enjoyable comedies. (A-lll)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 - 8:30 p.m.
(ABC) - GOODNIGHT, MY LOVE -
90-minute TV film really stretches for novelty
in casting 3’10” Michael Dunn as half of a
detective team (the other half, taller if not any
better, is Richard Boone) walking through a
dreadfully campy “Maltese Falcon-type” flick.
Forget it.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 - 8:30 p.m.
(ABC) -- A GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY
--. . .is not necessarily THE Great American
Tragedy, but there is a chunck of solid drama in
this contemporary story about an aerospace
engineer who is laid off and fears the loss of his
self-respect, family’s love, and other sundry and
traumatic items. George Kennedy is the worried
man, Vera Miles is his wife, and Kevin
McCarthy, William Windom, and Sallie
Shockley add their acting weight.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 9:00 p.m.
(CBS) - THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE
(1969) - Sudsy, sentimental Hollywood soap
opera, with Kim Novae as a young starlet
caught up in her first major role, portraying a
legendary actress who met a tragic death. The
movie is almost a text-book case of bad film
making, full of the worst sort of Hollywood’s
self-adulation and myth-making disguised as
expose. Peter Finch is the romantic has-been
Hollywood director, once in love with Lylah
Clare, who coaches young Miss Novak in hte
dead actress's screen reincarnation. She is so
convincing, and spends so much time trying to
“get into” her role, that Miss Novak becomes
the object of untoward interest on Finch’s part.
Enter more “tragedy.” (B)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 - 9:00 p.
(NBC) - FOOL’S PARADE (1971) -
lovable ex-cons James Stewart, Strother Mar
and Kurt Russell want to do is take 1
$25,000 Jimmy earned in prison (during \
Depression, no less) and quietly set up 1
General Store Strother has been drawing up
inventory for during those long years on 1
rock pile. But greedy prist
c a p tain-preacher-Old Testament-ty pe-avent
George Kennedy doesn’t want those no-good
to have that money, so he 1) hires gunrr
Mike Kellin and 2) plots with the local ba
president to deprive the three of their doll
and their lives. Alas poor Jimmy and friends <
chased pretty much across the entire Soi
and, even worse, aging madam Anne Baxter gt
her “house” boat blown up in her excitemc
over all that money. One suspects that direcl
Andrew McLaglen was after a cornball-cam
spoof of something or other and, truth to ti
there are some occasionally funny momen
but it all turns out looking like a spoof
McLaglen himself. (A-lll)