(GDR artists in concert | at Peretz School May 4 Internationally-acclaimed GDR artists, pianist Aberhard Reb- ling (top) and singer Lin Juldati are scheduled to appear in concert May 4, 8 p.m. at the Peretz School Auditorium, 47th and Ash in Vancouver. The concert, in tribute to Anne Frank with whom Juldati was imprisoned by the Nazis, is the first ever appearance in Canada for the two who have toured ex- - Boulevard . Nights is \ tensively in Europe and Asia. 3 bs J AUUC Kobzar Dancers presents 4th Annual Hutzul Night ‘a repeat performance of ‘A Bukovinian Wedding’ Ukrainian Hall 805 East Pender St., Van. May 5 Cocktaiis 6 p.m. Dinner7 p.m. $10 Ticket Information: 876-1701 THE COMPLETE / TRAVEL SERVICE/ | We will professionally look after all your travel needs. We specialize in tickets, tours, passports, permits and-reservations. Call us today — for prompt personalized service. Z SS GLOBE TOURS — 2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. 253-1221 “Shoot. me, shoot me, baby, shoot me, killer,’ and ‘‘Tie me toa tree and handcuff me’’— teenagers today are dancing to those lyrics. And they spent $5 million to see The Warriors the first week it open- ed. Some say the film is the cause of teen gang killings. But maybe that’s a cop-out, a way of avoiding the more frightening possibility that The Warriors is only a symptom of an already flourishing cultural taste. : Hollywood has already dubbed this ‘‘the year of the gang: film.’’ due from Warner Brothers; Orion Pictures will offer The Wanderers and Over The Edge and Universal is guilty of ripping off Chicano gang life with a film entitled Walk Proud. The films are not all the same. Some are supposedly more ‘‘sen- sitive’? and one concentrates on middle class gangs in the suburbs.: But however you slice it, the trend is clear: the switchblade is drawn. A U.S. National Mental Health study found that the suicide rate of 15-19 year-olds over the past two decades has increased 192 percent. Drugs account for some, but as often it’s a deep pessimism about the worthlessness of education, the futility of sear- ching for meaningful work and the sense of bewilderment about the future. In The Warriors, the characters are on the far side of futility: The Institute. of » ‘Warriors’ — Hollywood’: : grim vision of the future poster ads (before they-were remov- ed) announced ‘‘these are the ar- mies of the night.’’ But they look more like .the armies of the dead, with the underground pallor of most of the whites and the bizarre painted faces of one of the gangs. The thinly-defined characters and what little there is of a plot appear in brief interludes between the slug fests. The audience seems to wait through them to cheer the punches; this, it seems is what they came for. Hit him over the head with a bat. Yeah. But gang members didn’t make The Warriors. Sol Yurick wrote the novel on which the film was based in the mid-60’s using his studies of New York gangs. But his involve- ment was an outsider. Maybe that explains why the characters are so underdeveloped. ‘The distance from the inner feel- ings of the characters accounts: for the film’s effect as a fantasy car- toon. The most obvious example is the use of the exaggerated big mouth of the black woman disc jockey who announces the battle scores. As with all the others, she isn’t a person — we never see her whole face — but a tool, a stereotype, a fantasy of those who made the film. The subways, the buildings and the streets, like the characters, are bizarrely empty as though a neutron bomb has left the structures stan- ding. An eerie feeling begins — that — The Warriors is not a cartoon rip- off but a horrifying and convincing vision of the future as Hollywood sees it. > a Maybe it’s not the violence itself that is offending critics and causing the fights in the theatres, but the sense of hopelessness about the film, the failure to show any glim- mer of alternatives, and the glorification of the idea that hurting others is the only way to ease your own pain. ad —Pamela Dougla Pacific News Service MAY DAY | GREETINGS| see us for fine imports from the USSR | | GLOBAL IMPORTS | 2677 E. Hastings — Vancouver - : : & ¢ May Day Greetings to all our friends and supporters Bnei for May Day reading — | ) * Haymarket Revisited by William J. Adelman, $3.25 * Labor’s Untold Story by Richard Boyer_.and Herbert Morais, $4.95 * U.S. Labor Unions Today, by A. Mkrtchian, $2.95 * So Long Partner, by Fred Wright, $4.50 * Lenin on Trade Unions, $3.95 = : : ~ People’s Co-Op Bookstore — 323 W. Pender, Van. — 685-5836 May Day Greetings Bargain Music Society Don’t Miss Our 6th Aniiual SPRING CONCERT AND DANCE = featuring Tom Hawken and Bargain at Half the Price - Dance to the music of Spare Change and the Keyboard Stylings of Bob Wishinski SURREY ARTS CENTRE 8 p.m. Friday, May 4 . oo ae te [FA ‘Ve WAY” Bia ae Yas ga \ i a $3.50 Tickets: 596-9738, 299-8162, 526-1309 _or at Co-op Books PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 27, 1979—Pagt