Show Page The Utah Statesman 12 Monday November 16 1981 Entertainment 0 X 63SE-- ' 0 'immm jis? o 0 Teddy Roebuck (Eric Roberts) engages in some after dinner conversation with Nita Man" Spacek) in a scene from "Raggedy Longley (Sissy 'Raggedy Man' is no raggedy film by VV Keith Thomas discovers that his girl up and got married She feels sorry for him and a very tender three-daromance blossoms The romance is cut short by the ripple of vicious small town gossip and by the sick pranks of Calvin and Arnold Triplett Instead of aiding the war effort Calvin and Arnold drink beer all day and play cruel jokes on children After being turned down by Nita for a date and seeing her involvement with Teddy they plot their revenge Interwoven among all these threads is the mysterious “raggedy man" How he fits aland why he fits in makes for the surprise am y FREE FAMILY CONCERT pt the internationally acclaimed FrciIicci spectacular Yugoslavian Dance Production MONDAY NOV 16 1981 8 00 pm USU SPECTRUM ( a in Mf Jik) Lv' Op' t 5" ‘d A flash of lightning ripped sky exthrough the rain-sweposing the cloaked form of a horribly disfigured man A moment later the skies again light up the “raggedy man" has vanished like a ghost as though he had never been in Nita’s yard staring at her darkened house The year is 1944 The only people the war has left behind in Gregory Texas are working women the very young the very old the crippled and the insane Oscar winner Sissy Spacek plays Nita Longley a divorced mother of two who four years prior left her husband Harry (Sam Shepard) after she caught him cozying it up with a dance girl at a sleazy bar Taking her sons she heads for Gregory Texas where she lands a switchboard operator’s job paying a cool $55 a month Dissatisfied with her job due to the irregular hours and lack of time with her children she seeks to transfer to a better job within the phone company John Rigby Nita’s less than honest boss wrongly convinces her that she can’t transfer because her job has been “frozen" due to the needs of the war effort Enter Teddy Roebuck (Eric Roberts) a sailor fresh from boot camp on a four-da- y liberty While hitchhiking through Texas on his way home to Oklahoma he stops at the Gregory phone company to phone ahead to his girl Nita overhears his conversation when he ‘ ' D :k' wwttiv V iw (M ending of the year Making their film debut are two young actors — Thomas and Carey Hollis Jr -- wkof Nita Longlcy’s sons Harry and Henry Tlcj not only perform well but provide the tyja-comic relief that only children can adequate! deliver f Sissy Spacek showed she can do more its imitate Loretta Lynn and has emerged iMali own With Raggedy Man she has grown frost litde girl into a woman and we can expect more greatness from her in coming years Raggedy Man not only perfectly depicts the quality of life in a small Texas town during WW II but takes a variety of emotional tions and funnels them into explosive interactions that will turn the Raggedy Man into a blockbuster and keep you on the edge of your seat HEWLETT Cir PACKARD C CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPUTER SCIENTISTS MECHANICAL ENGINEERS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS a leading designer and manufacturer of instrumentation and computational products Challenging positions exist in divisions in California Oregon Idaho Washington Colorado Pennsylvania New Jersey and Massachusetts Corporate Laboratories in Palo Alto and in Sales offices throughoid the United States Hewlett-Packar- d is TECHNICAL CAMPUS INTERVIEWS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 1S31 IF INTERESTED PLEASE SIGN UP AT THE PLACEMENT CENTER OVERFLOW SIGNUP AVAILABLE |