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Cook ae Moore Frolic

While ‘‘Beyond the Fringe” was
in New York, a delighted public
whiled away the hours speculating
on where its four talented progeni-
tors, a history teacher, a doctor,
a pianist, and an actor, would go
from there. The history teacher,
Alan Bennett, has gone contented-

ly back to teaching: history. ‘Dr.
Jonathan Miller has begun reading
his own publicity, and is involved
in regenerating British theatrics,
Pianist Dudley Moore and actor
Peter Cook are not the least bit
interested in Bfitish theatrics.
They are busy amusing them-
selves and, presumably, making
a mint at it, when what they. do
happens to amuse the public as
well. They froliced with Peter
Sellers in ‘After the Fox,’’ ap-
pear frequently on British T.V.,
and are currently to be seen at
the Bryn Mawr Theater in their
cinematic brainchild ‘‘Bedazzl-
ed.”

In ‘Bedazzled,’ a hamburger .

cook at Wimpy’s, Stanley Moon,
sells his soul to the Devil, cryp-
tically named George Spiggott, in
return to seven wishes. His ob-
jective is to make it with a wait-
ress, Margaret Spencer, whom he
adores. The script is based on,
along with Goethe, a story by
Cook and Moore, written for the
screen by Cook, given background
music by Moore, and starring Cook
and Moore. One suspects that they
must also be responsible for the
film’s publicity folder, which sug-
gests inviting local religious lead-
ers to a special screening of the
_movie to stress ‘modern conse-
quences of selling one’s soul to
the Devil.’’ .
After its plot is pinned down,

Culinary Quip

in -view of the mouth-
watering discussions of home-
cooked food that are heard in
many smokers, Sue Lautin
suagested that students might
be interested in trying pro-
fessors’ recipes. Would you



like this continued? - Ed. .

There’s one point on which the
whole student body agrees - Hot
Shoppes food is bad for the figure,
the morale and the health, Mrs.
Joan Stevens of the French De-
partment has offered one solution
to this problem: it’s called su-
premes de volaille with cherries,

A supreme is half a boned,

skinned chicken breast. Any good

butcher can prepare these, Have

him fix six supremes, and then

get hold of:

6 T butter

1 small chopped onion

1/2 cup chicken broth

2 t meat glaze (not necessary)

-1 cup port (should be good enough
to drink plain)

1 can pitted black cherries

2 t cornstarch

Preheat oven to 350 degrees,

In a heavy skillet, melt the
butter and brown lightly the six
supremes, As they brown, re-
move them and place them in a
single layer in a casserole, Cook
_ the onion in the butter until it
turns clear, Add broth, meat
glaze (if you have it), and port
to the onion and butter, and bring
it all to a simmer.

Drain the cherries, saving the
juice, and mix the cornstarch well
with a few tablespoons of the juice,
Add this to broth,
simmer, stirring constantly until
it turns clear and thickens (the

juice from the chicken will thin.

it out), Add cherries, simmer
for a minute more and then pour
the whole thing over the supremes,
Cover the casserole and cook for
wenty minutes,

a: § anyone has a recipe she would
like to share, or would like
know how to make a certain di
contact Sue Lantin in resend ores

onions, etc, and .

this. movie’s similarities to
‘¢Faust’”’ end abruptly, ‘‘Bedazzl-

ed” is filled with a. great deal of

enormously. silly humor’, acerbic .

satire, and general nonsense. Be-

- cause Cook and Moore imbue the

movie with the same irresponsible
comic sense that must have pos-
sessed them to write it, it suc-
ceeds almostly completely.
Cook’s Devil is a streamlined,

mod villain, who is as attractive

as sin, He approaches Moon
(Moore) as he is trying to hang
himself, holding a limp rope in
one hand and a manual on knot-
tying, open to ‘*Nooses,’? in the
other. After breezily overcom-
ing Moon’s reservations, he leads
him to the Inferno, a discotheque
and Spiggott’s headquarters, and
contracts for the soul. Among the
staff of the Inferno are delicious
personifications of the Seven Dead-
ly Sins. One of these, Lust, is
played by Raquel Welch, a living
symbol to publicity men the world
over, Her talent is apparent the
minute she comes onto the screen,
or at least nothing that is not then
apparent ever transpires. In ary
case, she is on-screen in all less
than 15 minutes. Miss Welch’s
gigantic billing’ in this movie is
rivaled only by - Vanessa Red-
grave’s in ‘*Blow-up.”’

The object of Moon’s affec-
tions is played with great appeal
by Eleanor Bron. She used to be
the little girl who shared Sofia
Loren’s peregrinations in ‘‘Two
Women,.”? She has grown. She,
Cook, and Moore all figure in the
realizations of Moon’s wishes. As
these progress, one sees more and
more that this movie is a caval-
cade of parodies of recent British
movies. Moore .becomes a pop

‘singer in a segment in which Cook.

sings the title song, ahd looks
hysterically like the hero of ‘‘Priv-
ilege.’”? Cook as an Oxford Don,

and his wife, Miss Bron, entertain |

an undergraduate Moore on an af-
ternoon’s idyll with powerful over-
tones of ‘‘Accident.’’ The morgue
in which Miss Bron fends off an
amorous police inspector might

“be a ‘*Loved One” reject. Inci-

dentally, the theory that this en-
tire movie is a parody of Richard
Burton’s ‘‘Dr. Faustus’’ is false;
in fact, the opposite may be closer
to the truth,

However, this is not only a pa-
rade of parodies; it has real orig-
inality as well. The best of the
vignettes has Cook and Moore as
nuns of an order called Leaping
Bodelians, whose lore is soexten-
sive and so uproarious as to defy
comparison or description. Be-
tween wishes, Cook and Moore
chat and become friends, and Cook
gives a captivating account of his
life and times as Lucifer, before
and since the fall. They also have
a whale of a time contriving the
sort of mischief that makes up
Cook’s day.

This kind of zaniness is dan-

gerous, and occasionally Cook and ~

Moore allow themselves too much
of it, Even with the polishing of
Stanley Donen’s subtle direction,
some of ‘*Bedazzled’’ reveals it-
self as plain bad taste. God’s
omnipresence is fair game for
quips, but it is too much when
Cook is nervous about changing his
trousers. It is reasonably funny

“when Moore is caught wishing to be

a ‘*fly on the wall,’’ but the ensu-
ing ‘‘Loved One’’ sequence be-
comes a tasteless parody on a
tasteless model. It is enchanting
that the Almighty should be a res-
onant voice echoing in a giant, airy
greenhouse, but too much that
Cook should grudgingly eat dirt
for him. Spots like these are hope-
fully not signs that the humor that
allows them is passing its prime
and getting overripe. Thorns and
all, this is such a delightful rose,

isn, ‘would be sad to think of it as —

the last. Mary Laura Gibbs

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: Ee PRUE SOR. OP ee BS Ss oe ae age

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2nd Fret
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Main-Point —
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The Trauma
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**‘Doctor Doolittle’
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‘‘Elvira Madigan’’
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‘¢Berserk!’’
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“Dr. Faustus’’
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*‘Closely Watched Trains’’
163rd Annual Exhibition of Academy of
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‘‘American Art Today,” continuing until

March 3 (Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m;

Sunday 1-5 p.m.; closed Mondays --
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- FRIDAY, MARCH 1 ;

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Peter Cook keeps an eye on Dudley Moore as he arrives at a convent as the result of one of his
wishes in his-:contract with Lucifer,

~~-~Guide To The Perplexed——~

8:15 p.m. Debussy Commemorative C on-
cert, Charles Engel and Company,
Clothier ‘Hall, Swarthmore College

‘Albert Herring’’ by Benjamin Brit-
ten, Mitten Hall, Temple University

8:30 p.m. Philadelphia—premieres of
Michel de Ghelderode’s ‘‘Escuriel’’
and Harold Pinter’s ‘‘The Lover,”
Annenberg School Auditorium, Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania (tickets: $1,
students; $2, general)

Phil Ochs and the Jim Kweskin Jug
Band, the Academy of Music (tickets:
$2.50 - 4,50)

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

6:30 p.m. Basketball, Haverford vs,
Swarthmore, Haverford Gymnasium

8:15 p.m. ‘*Albert Herring’’ by Benjamin
Britten, Mitten Hall, Temple Uni-
versity :

8:30 p.m. Norman Mailer, speaking at
YM-YWHA, Philadelphia
‘*Escuriel’’? and ‘‘The Lover’’ (see
Friday)

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

11:00 a.m. Jewish Discussion Group, dis-
cussing the works of Buber, oe
others

3:00 p.m. Japanese Songs and Dances,
cosponsored by the Japanese Society
and the Philadelphia Civic Center,
at the Center (admission free)
“Escuriel” and ‘‘The Lover’’ (see
Friday)

3:30 p.m. Batten House tea

8:15 p.m. Michael Raloff, editor and poet,

speaking on the poetry of Nelly
Sachs, Stokes, Haverford

TUESDAY, MARCH 5

10:40 a.m. American Arts Trio will givea
concert of Chamber Music, Roberts
Hall, Haverford

7:15 p.m. Arts Council Film: ‘Ashes
and Diamonds’’ (1958), Biology Lec-
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8:30 p.m. Dr, Luis Sampedro, speaking
on ‘*Economic Planning in Spain,’’
Common Room, Goodhart

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
7:30 p.m. Scottish and Folk Dancing,
BMC Gym

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 |
8:00 p.m. “Three Men On a Horse”
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