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Show 4 . 'Alices Elesfauranf': anvvliing you wanf. BY JAXE COTTRELL Entertainment Writer "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant." So goes the popular song by Arlo Guthrie. Guth-rie. But here's the thing: you can't really. Anything you want is pretty far TStr" , ,lln.i..r,. V i 3 . ' from the reaches of anyone in Arthur Perm's new release, wluch features Arlo Guthrie as himself in the droll chronicle of what he calls "the Alice's Restaurant Mas-sacree." Mas-sacree." As a matter of fact, anything you want could be anything to the restaurant gang - who, inci-dentally, inci-dentally, are real people in the town of Stockbridge, Mass. Alice and Ray Brock and their friends don't know what they want; to them "anything you want" could be something or nothing, less or more, tomorrow or the next day. Whatever it is, they're looking for it, and through the estranged confusion of their search wanders Arlo, a dispassionate but concerned con-cerned human being. He projects, a walking paradox, through the bewilderment of the restaurant crowd, beaming his way into the collective psyche of the under-30 generation. Watching and Waiting Arlo represents a change from the groping character often used Arlo Guthrie stars in "Alice's Restaurant." The film is based nit, song of the same name. to typify people his aee- He doesn't grope; he waits. As he and his girl observe the inflame in-flame of a pottery kiln, he e tures his own attitude ol is nence: "Makes you wonder r, your thing is, doesn't it?" Against the backgrounds mor and pathos created ij-; domestic conflict between and Ray, and the wild adve of the restaurant enterprise,-: moves through his life. He lives in the Right Xu : is moved by the classic be family loyalty and the fiesi: cere friendship. For Arlo, i is no obligation in mere asp ance. His stimulus is leelc-the leelc-the moral motivation to take: of what you love. And all the while he tsrc Waiting out the labored of his father, to whom ne e with surface detackc: "Woody." Waiting for the d" Unknown to manifest W:: form of his draft notice, fc for life to come to him. Amazingly Passive The passivity of this cto-is cto-is amazing, both in the ctt: of his troubled generation c the immediate surra Stockbridge and the escap the restaurant psoPle- chaotic event is taking around him, Arlo re-elusive re-elusive identity in his ic from it. Though Arlo seems mm ' tented in his waiting than -and Ray do in their searching, his quiet rtf mcre pathetic. If there all difficulties comes M&fc a personality, -that is but if the retention is tive approach to iwf" it seems strained. Unanswered Que6 The question of Arlo's ; ture whether Us Mfeisrealorfe mechanism) - & j, i in the film. Tne w to wonder whether the W, has something or serenity the solution or other false start. The question is Jefttt goer to decide for Lows Arlo J, times humorous, son breaking chain of inginconection taurant, where anyft".: may be just around , a hundred miles away- . |
