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.i-lm \ Simon comes through again
By Angel* Came.        \   v ^ three from f,
Neil Simon can always be counted on
for funny lines delivered by endearing
characters, and in Only When I Laugh
he doesn't disappoint. The film was reworked by Simon from his not hugely
successful play. The Gingerbread Lady
(which   starred   Maureen   Stapieton).
It opens as a successful but alcoholic.
38-year-old    stage    actress,    Georgia
Hines (Marsha Mason), returns from 12
weeks in a sanitarium drying out. She
is 33 pounds lighter than the 'miserable
excuse for a human  being'- she was.
Two supportive but eccentric friends,
Toby Landau (Joan Hackett) and Jimmy
Perrino (James Coco) coddle ber in a
warm   homecoming.   Georgia's   high-
school daughter Polly (Kristy McNichol),
who has been living with her divorced
father   (now   remarried),   decides   she
wants  more  than  weekends with  her
mother and moves in despite her protestations: "I don't think I'm ready for
you yet.-" But by the time Polly unpacks.
Georgia quips, 'I know it's only been
four minutes, but I think we're getting
along beautifully."
Enter former love and playwright
David Lowe (David Dukes), who shared
her apartment for a year and a half before leaving her some months before.
Now he's written a play (called "Oniy
When I Laugh') about their stormy relationship and wants her to star. She accepts; the old embers are stirred in
her, but not in him, and the pain returns with predictable results.
Learning she can cope is what the
film is about. At one point, mother says
to daughter, 'When I grow up, I want to
be just like you," and grow up she
finally does.
Mason, a totally ingratiating and
honest actress, also brightened her
husband's Goodbye Girl and Chapter
Two. As the sober Georgia, her self-
deprecation is funny and touching. One
senses her struggle as a woman who be
gan drinking at 14, and had 'an unquenchable thirst" by the time she was
16. Her fear of intimacy is real. When
Mason is drunk, she is by turns raunchy,
belligerent, and penitent, yet never
loses her humanity
posals a week, three from faculty.'
She fears divorce tess than the inroads of
age on her face and body. Hackett
brings poignancy to her role with a
blend of haughtiness and insecurity.
Jimmy is an avowed homosexual and
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ses her humanity. J'™"Y " ^"T-if I dton't get a job
McNichol is_probably an overrated   "^ployed actor (If ^ *}&?!.-£
actress, whose television roles (she was
a young teen in the series Family)
may have suited her abilities better.
Her face often lacks expression except
when she smiles. She does have an explosive and convincing scene when she
confronts her sodden mother; and her
matter-of-factness emphasizes the point
that mother is child and child is adult,
but she seems so self-contained that
her need for mothering seems less than
pressing.
Simon's secondary characters are
memorable and flesh out the New York
milieu. Toby is a well-preserved 40-
year-old who "majored in beautiful'
at Michigan where she had '25 pro-
soon we can work the same corner, he
tells Ceorgia when she first returns^
His talent for friendship is great, but
the big part eludes him; he s even
-turned down for a hemorrhoid comrner-
cial ' Coco is wonderfully funny-self-
centered yet solicitous, loving yet
bitchy. ,.  ■
Only When I Laugh is not a realistic
or serious study of the rehabilitation of
an alcoholic; there are no AA meetings
or therapists about. It is an entertaining film full of sprightly dialogue you
won't hear anywhere else. Under the
direction of Glenn Jordan, characters
are revealed in spite of the brittle cleverness of the script.
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Bulldog pass defense victimized
Monday
C*U Fresno Octobers. 1961
By Jeff Domingues
Staff Writer
The San Jose Spartans did it quietly.
They did it without much flair. And
they did it for the most part without
Gerald Willhite. San  Jose SUte  used  the  accurate
The   Spartans,   however,   did   not arm   of   quarterback   Steve   Clarkson
need   the  talented  tailback.   Willhite to roll up 439 yards in the air to beat
was stymied bv the Bulldog front line the CSUF grtdders 65-33 in front of
to a mere 10 yards in the first half an ABC-TV regional audience.
Saturday afternoon. It  was  the   Pacific  Coast  Athletic
Association opener for both dubs.
Willhite was effectively controlled
by the Bulldog front line. Except for a
74-yard break-away touchdown run,
Willhite gained a total of one vard on
the ground. CSUF held him so well
that SJS head coach Jack Ehvay called
on the Heisman Trophy candidate only
11 times.
Clarkson was another story. The
Fresno pass defense has become a
liability. Cornerbacks Kent Paine and
Tim Washington were beaten consistently by SJ5 receivers Tim Kearse,
Stacey Bailev and Mervyn Fernandez
Clarkson used the three for six touchdown passes.
Most of Clarkson's 22 completions
involved plays in which the passer lofts
the ball high downfieid and the receiver
simply runs under it— timing patterns.
Almost without fail, CSUF defenders,
not to single out Paine and Washington,
never looked back for the ball, waiting
for the receiver to catch it.
The cornerbacks were played a short
distance off the line through most of the
first half and Kearse and Bailey, both
of whom have fine speed, were beating
the defenders into the open field.
Toward the end of the half the defenders moved off the ball about five or
seven yards to avoid getting beaten.
But to San Jose State's credit, Clarkson
went to the short passes, taking advantage of the Bulldogs' tactic of backpedalling.
The Bulldog defensive line did all It
could. Clarkson was under steady pressure from the rush all afternoon. A few
times he threw from a near-horizontal
position.
Fresno used a variety of blitz combinations against the Spartans but SJS
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The Bulldog defense bit the dust Saturday afternoon as CSUF lost to the San Jose State Spartans, 64-33.
Pronin on Poland
CSUF professor reports on life behind the Communist curtain
By Felicia Cousart
Staff Writer
Even though food and other basic
necessities are in short supply in Poland, standing in line for three to five
hours in front of the local stores is part
of the daily routine for the Polish peo-
pie.
Tourists visiting Poland, however,
have no problems at all with these
shortages.
CSUF professor Dr. Alexander
Pronin, who spent two months in Poland this past summer, said that while
the Polish people must scrimp and
bargain for their daily bread, the country's restaurants are always well-
stocked for foreign visitors.
'One thing TV (in the U.S.) did not
stress and did not report," Pronin
said, "is that tourists can always get
good meals in restaurants. They are
always open* for business.
Money, as always, is the key factor.
A good, hearty lunch may go for
' $1.50 and an equally satisfying dinner
may go for only $2, but the average
Polish worker only earns $25 to $30 a
month, Pronin said.
Pronin, who spent his time studying, traveling and collecting materials
from Poland, said that 'every transaction is carried out based on American dollars.'
To obtain a passport, for instance,
requires a $150 deposit in American
dollars in case the applicant fails to return to the country. If that happens,
the government confiscates the deposit.
'They all want American money regardless of how the people get it,'
Pronin said.
Poland's economy is in dire straits
in part because of its people. If an individual has anything that is in de
mand, he or she will sell it for a nice
profit to someone, who will in turn sell
the item to someone else.
Those little profits, however, are
used to purchase desired items from
others who are selling Jt is all an endless cycle.
The roots of this economic problem
can be traced to World War II, Pronin
said, when the Polish people were
united in their hatred of the German
army, which was then occupying Poland. The people all stole from the
Cermans.
'After the war, this mentality
stayed,* Pronin said. There are difficulties wfth the economy because they
believe it is not stealing, it is just
borrowing from themselves.'
To the Polish people,'stealing is
not bad, it's good,* he said. The result is a "perpetual barter trade. *
Not surprisingly, the black market
in Poland is flourishing. There are
never any shortages on the black mar-
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Alexander Pronin, an Instructor of Russian at CSUF,
displays approximately 20 pounds of  posters  and
brochures he brought back from Porand, Including
the flrtt Issue of the Polish Solidarity newspaper.