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Show Entertainment. SALT FLAT NEWS, MARCH; 1972 11 Movies Ho" & Sewage In an age of synthetic Hollywood happenings, sound stages and publicity pulling stunts, reality on the screen is rare indeed, Even rarer is full color cinema, shot live and without a script, bringing theater goers a living, breathing world.. The movie "Ra" Expeditions (actually two were started) is Heavy seas sweep over the deck of Ra II, nearly swamping a crewabout adventuresome men a man. The boat rode so low that the stern was awash most of the crew from seven different na- time and barnacles began growing on the deck itself! author tions, a captain-narrato- r, and sponsor Thor Heyerdahl, and a tiny reed boat 'Ra" (after the moters who engineer publicity Book de-and sensational advertising for Egyptian Sun God) built from t their own gain, and draw thousigns found on Pyramid walls and constructed of .twelve tons of sands to their fold. Revolt Into The Style: Pop Ethiopian papyrus. Melly is a British pop music ' The screen comes alive with Arts by George Melly, a Dou-bleda- y critic who sees it all and comAnchor Original, ments with razor-lik- e insight. His crew, captain and boat setting out on a two month, three thousand N. Y. $1 .95, paperback writing has the grace, the style, mile Atlantic crossing, the object the wit that only a master of the Recently in Salt Lake newsto prove that ancient Mediterlanguage can produce. His inranean civilizations could have ac- papers there has appeared a rash sights into pop culture are revelaof letters to the editor about the complished the same to make tory like an open pit' mine. Why contact with the peoples of Cen- morally corrupting nature of rock do the kids go for pop? "Because the add rock tral and South America and music, especially it offers the key to the instant which seems to be a thinly stuff, the passport to the Polynesia. veiled propaganda for pot, hash, golden life, d The of. the "Ra" of Now, where everyone and hard drugs. The music the country scenes and nobody grows shows beautiful is Expeditions many is of rolling waves, stormy seas, and kids listen to, it seems, crawling old." History? Tradition? Forget fresh ocean breezes so different with subversive poison that it, says pop culture. The kids purwould promulgate all of their sue from metal skinned space travela "fanatic rejection of the worst habits. Rock fans have been ers encapsulated in a microcosm and equally obsessive worin their defense, in past, of digits, dials, and flashing lights. rather sparse of the present." because they don't ship Should the old timers panic, The men of the "Ra" are alive. part, perhaps, read newspapers. Anyway, everycall the cops, give lectures, stamp They, go swimming in the sea, seems to under twenty-fiv- e out rock? Don't worry, says walk on deck, and dimb the mast body know instinctively that you can't to lower the sail in contrast believe Melly, the pattern is clear. As read. you anything soon as pop gets to be profitable with our spacemen walking stiff On the other hand, pop music and limbed on the moon, wearing life gains broad acceptance, it is in its many forms is something taken over by the establishment. support backpacks and metallic can fall back on. Rock, rock you Bill or Elvis, bubbles that hide their faces. Haley, or The Roland blues, Nash'n roll, rhythm The filmed oceanic expedition ling Stones (everybody who gets & western, and country ville, rich takes us back to another age, a pop music except blast out from radio the producing rockability soon sell out to will Beatles) time when man came to grips stations as standard fare. the establishment, go respectable, with his environment firsthand. When Elvis came to the salt mellow, and soft. Then they die. It's all as it might have been a the house; Start a new red hot musical trend he packed palace startpast, except for one meanwhile, up the street, the and you get rich. Once your hose ling fact: pollution. Heyerdahl drew fifteen hundred is deep into that golden mash, speaks with alarm as he describes symphony seristart gulping, and pretty soon the floating debris and clotted oil establishment type patrons, to Mahler and you attending ously you get fat, lose your original globules found almost every day mindful of their duty Beethoven, drive and zap! Then the fad dies of their crossing. as since after all, the and the taxpayers, The Hollywood sets and pubpulsating masses of new conscious legislature has kids culture coming up through junior licity stunts may yet determine cover to $160,000 appropriated await the opportunschool the future of films, and as life high Maestro's wages and tuxedo the sometimes mirrors art, the future ity to discover some new group, could ex- or rentals. Melly George some writhing, screaming of man. The prospect of man all. it plain demigod to emerge from the someday exploring his own world music and pop culture, inPop in a spacesuit, complete with artiunderground and lead them away disk jocks, postrecords, ducting like the Hamelin piper. ficial life support system, is a T shirts and the like, are the ers, Gosh, that's what happened to strange but by ho means impos- reflected of our rapidly image sible vision. The alternative is Rudy Vallee, Frank Sinatra and especially its Elvis! If society, changing you want to understand man learning to control his polluIt is Kulture for the kids what takes the youth. place of the ballet tion, to keep the oceans unclut- and the working man, neither of and symphony for the adolescent tered and the crisp salt air whom are admitted to the Alta dean . . . but is there a demand? Club. Booted out into the gutter, mass, read this book. Reviewed by Bookworm Maxwell Smart pop finds its champions in pro Review film-worl- ..; - ... You are entering Utah from the west . . . you have just gone thru a state where everything is legal and now you are in Utah where almost everything is illegal. And you hear the cry . . . 'how can we stimulate tourism if you can't do anything' ... I take the position that that fact alone is a -- tremendous stimulous to tourism -- ... ... U-le- ... I mean . . . it's just about time the world woke up to the fact that people take vacations to do nothing! How long is it going to take humanity to realize that dad is taking off from the hot sweatty office so he can do nothing . . . how many tourists take their long awaited two weeks . . . only to dash out of the freeway fighting the thundering hoards for twelve hours a day at 75 miles per hour only to die for five hours in a dingy green wallpapered motel room to prepare him for another twelve hours on the freeway at 75 miles per I say let's adverhour tise . . . 'everything is illegal in Utah try it, you'll like it.' A on every main billboard huge , . . road leading into Utah 'it is to dance on Sunday in Utah . . . unless you dance with the same sex! It is illegal to play punchboards in Utah' if you pay to participate it is illegal to in Utah unless it's for play bingo charity (isn't it always?) It is illegal to receive birth control information in Utah . . . (another game of chance to play!) It is illegal to buy a single drink at a public saloon . . . (SOooo . . . buy the bottle... and take another chance) Thank God for Commissioner Barker and Atty. Gen. Vernon Romney . . . but let's get the word out to the world . . . nothing is legal in so come and relax! Utah What is wrong with the Utah ... Tourist and Publidty ... Coun- I want Lee Jorganson to have the legislature appropriate new funds for a brand new brochure (pamphlet) all in simple glorious white . . with the words . . . 'relax . . . there's nothing to do in Utah! Afterall . . . what the hell's a vacation for??????? cil dial 860 mil-leniu- m trans-Atlant- Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! ic I to ill DON'T MISS ANY MORE DEADLINES SAME DAY SERVICE WHILE YOU WAIT OR LEAVE IT. . OVER NIGHT SERVICE BOOKS, THESIS, RESUMES, NOTES OFFSET PRINTING M PER COPY FOR ALL OVER 100 OF AN ORIGINAL OUR HOURS - 8:00 A.M. - 8:00 P.M. Monday thru Thursday 8:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Friday mm w photo by R. GoWbargv Revolution or evolution? According tto musicologist George Melly, rock music is' about to join the stone age. Saturday mm lit NEWS & 224 SOUTH f i v ( 1 300 EAST 363-496- 3 |