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Free when you have your stylus inspected at a SJ Shure Brothers Inc. 222 Hartrey Ave., Evanston, IL 60204 participating Shure dealer. kco Embassy Pictures and Ampersand Proudly Present: THE BELL TAR roe try Lontest 7J lie $500.00 Scholarship 2ND PRIZE $350.00 Scholarship 3RD PRIZE $150.00 Scholarship Additional Entrants will receive Honorable Mentions and a free copy of The Hell jar from Bantam Hooks. All other entries will receive a free color poster for the motion pic ture The lUll Jar from Avco Embassy Pic tures. 200 Poetry Contest Rules lii i he firl paer "1 leaves no bitter after-tast- e as saccharin is a strong, gutsy movie might. Instead, this about real people (loosely based on the J. P. Stevens Company's labor struggles). It is neither naively idealistic nor calculatingly tour addrr. mrH ar aardrl I'otr. IH tmlay scene or two that's sure to start people cheering. In some ways Sorma Rae is the sister oCRocky, a movie about the difference it makes when a person starts believing his life is worth something. It s a pleasure to see a movie where people are striving for a better life, not in the "I'm Okay-You'r- e Okay'" jarMe Decade, but where n gon of today's counts: in the heart and in the paycheck. a If you took Hollywood's word for the labor movement in America, you'd have to believe that capital is benevolent, paternalistic and understanding while labor is greedv. misguided and in need of restraint. With remarkably few exceptions, most recentU Sorma Rae, which deals with contemporaiv textile workers in the South, it's hard to find a movie with a kind word for unionism. Hollywood hates organized labor,, and it's a hate that was born with the industry. Right from the days of the after the turn of the century, movie-makeviewed unions with suspicion. Like olhei American industries, filmmakers assumed that labor had no rights except those granted through the generosity of the employer; w hile moguls soon learned there was money to be made singing the praises of working men as individuals, let those workers band with others and the tune suddenly changed. In Hollywood's boom years, before the Depression, the struggle to unionize American industry was riddled with violence. Newspapers preached the Red Menac e with a ferocity that would not be equalled until Mc Carthyism, and many people erroneously believed that unionism was synonymous with communism or anarchism. I he two decades following the turn of the century sau Wobblie Bill Hayward framed for kidnapone-reelei- s. town bent on turning exploited textile workers into forceful union people. But make no mistake. This is not a political polemic, it's a deeply moving film that's both funny and insightful. The dialogue by Frank and Rav etch fairly crac kles with the kind of craft that seems almost lost to movies today, and the actors all meet the challenge of the story with a wealth of invention. There's no faulting the performance of Sally Field, w ho is tough and sexy in this movie, or Ron Liebman, who finally has a charac ter his kind of quirkiness can enhance. Also first rate is Beau Bridges as Field's understanding husband. There are so many unexpec ted pleasures in this movie. For one thing, Norma Rae is a heroine with a past, a woman who's made more than her share- of mistakes, but she's learned from them. One reviewer damned that "whore with the heart of gold-- ' character as liberal conclesc nsion, but to my mind, it's a reality that's long overdue on the screen. Women with fully rounded lives rarely exist in movies. 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Sinlr 111 MoIUvxhkI CA 'Cltl'K Jar" Porlry (amtr. Amfrtat4 Ma(airir. C ... about a union organizer from New York who invades a small Southern 1ST PRIZE I Recent movies, lacking cynicism, have produced very few satisfying experiences. T hose that touch us emotionally, say Rocky , leave us feeling slightly embarrassed that we accepted the corn, and those that touch us intellectually, say Interiors, leave us feeling slightly annoyed that ue accepted the pretension. But we can now take heart . . . and mind to Sorma Rae, a refreshingly uncynical movie that celebrates the power each person has to better not only his (or her) own life, but the lives of everyone he knows. In its own way, Sorma Rae is a Pollyanna novie, but it Sorma Rae is ( rurrrnl m.nliti NORMA RaE, with Sally Field, Ron Liebman and Beau Bridges. Written by Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank. Jr. Directed by Martin Ritt propagandist. lassie novel by Svlvia Plalh is soon to be released as a major motion pic lure from Avco. Sl,OiHl.OO in sc holarships will he awarded as follows to the authors of the three most outstanding poems: I -J.: r is ping in Idaho, Joe Hill framed and exe c uted in Utah, Eugene Debs jailed in Chicago, Emma (ioldman deported. Workers weie stirring things up and employers had reason to want to maintain the- status quo. In that atmospheie it would have been impossible for anyone to produce a movie that eulogized organized labor; it would have been seen as a clirec threat to the structure ol the industry. Instead what was produced was a steady stream of movies that showed wolk-et,is either lazv oi misguided, union men as greedy arid corrupt and employers as ge nerous. Fairly typical ol the tune weie 7 he Loafer, about a lazy worker who - I s under-slanditig.m- d |
