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iiiTiiiic"iatatataa Levon Helm revives P.p.rttyrtti,,,.,,f?tr,,lii_ttr_.., memory of the Band Wilfrid Laurier Uni- versity media instruc- tors Wilhelm E. Nassau and John Durst will dis- play a selected collec- tion of color. pho- tographs taken recently at various Near Eastern locations. The display will be shown in the WLU Con- course Art Gallery from Feb. 24 to March 6. _ In addition. a special. free event will be held Feb. 25 in Room IE1 of the arts building. begin- The next free noon concert at First United Church will feature or- ganist James Bard from St, John's Lutheran Church in Waterloo. Noon hour concert The idol-makers generally have been managers and promoters who havehoth exploited and manipulat- ed the musical tastes of successive generations of teen-agers. Most rock 'n' roll idols have been made, not born The movie The ldolmaker IS set specifically in the late '505 and early '605, a post-Elvis, pre- Beatles period when images more than genuine musical talent made stars of a host of unknowns who fairly quickly faded back into obs- curity. But the process of idol-making in the popular-music business proba- bly hasn't changed all that much. and certainly the manager-star re- lationship today is frequently characterized by the same conflict of ambitions and rebellion/that is dramatically depicted in The Idol- maker, In the picture the character of the manager. whose unrealized ambitions for stardom himself are channelled into the ruthless crea- tion of stardom for others, ts por- trayed with compelling energy by Ray Sharkey. The movie links itself closely to the actual career of Bob Marcucm. the man who made Frankie Avalon and Fabian the idols of a brief era Sharkey's dominating perfor- mance recently earned him a Gol- den Globe best-actor award and would appear to be a strong con- tender for an Academy Award no- mination. For anyone who can recall the era which the picture is depicting. The Idolmaker is rich in nostalgia, The concert will be By VICTOR STANTON [do/maker is highly entertaining held from 12:15 pm. to 12:45 p.m, at the church on the corner of King and William Sts. on Tuesday. Feb. 17, Lunch is available at a nominal charge. ning at 7:30 pm. It will be highlighted by Near Eastern Kaleidoscope, a multi-media event. Near Eastern Kaleido- scope is a wide screen: extravaganza utilizing nine projectors. the uni- versity's new Compu- terized unit which pro- vides dramatic dissolves the stereophonic sound, programmed by Werner Lindschinger of the au- dio-visual department, The presentation will include " .000 color slides taken by Mr. Nassau. There's a romantic subplot in the movie -- involving the manager and the editor of a national teen magazine A that's a little bit too pat, and essentially is superfluous to what the picture is all about But the part of the editor is engagingly portrayed by another screen no- vice. Tovah Feldshuh The ldolmaker appears at the same time as The Jazz Singer V which also. supposedly, offers a be hind-the-scenes look at star-mah- mg - and while lacking both the high musical profile and the stel- lar-name cast of the latter movie. The ldolmaker is a dramatically richer picture by far But, in its drama and In tts music It has appeal for a much wnder an (thence Indeed, one might qulbble about the picture's musxcal content - original songs composed by Jeff Barry - being slanted more to- wards contemporary audiences than actually reflecting the popu- lar hits of 20 years ago The movie may lack the big names that would give It blockbus- ter potential. but It generally (I! one overlooks a microphone that drops into view during one scene) IS a well-crafted and highly enter- taming film As the Avalon and Fabian fi- gures, newcomers Paul Land and Peter Gallagher do a nice job of characterizing that type of pack- aged star Gallagher makes a so- mewhat stronger dramatic 1mpres- mm as Caesare ll e Fabian, that should result m his getting other major movie roles He also does his own singing in The ldolmaker and shows considerable competen- ce in that area as well. '!itjiiii"tre head of audio-visual re- sources at the univer- sity. and Mr, Durst dur- ing their past summer trip to Egypt and Israel The slides include such famous sites as Caesarea Maritima. Jerusalem. Bethlehem, Nazereth, Lake Galilee and the Jordan Valley in Israel. as well as Cairo, Luxor and the Valley of the Dead in Egypt. The evening concludes with a showing of the Paramount film, Death On The Nile. starring Mia Farrow, Bette Davis, Peter Ustinov. David Niven and Maggie Smith. A short film pertain- ing to recent archeologi- cal finds in the Middle East also will be pre- sented. _ By Erich Rautenbach It was that familiar slap of the backbeat and lazy southern drawl when Levon Helm took to the stage and introduced his band, The Cate Brothers - "some good ol' boys from Arkansas" - last Thursday at the Waterloo Motor Inn It was the very same Levon Helm that frove the rhythm section of the now legendary Band from the days of Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks, on through the years backing up Bob Dylan. and then made famous with his gravelly voice as they achieved in- ternational superstar status' for themselves Helm and the very R & B - oriented Cate Brothers. featuring Earle and Ernie Cate on guitar and key- boards respectively. Ron Boll on bass and Terry Cagle on drums, took what started out as a luke- warm crowd and turned the cold winter's night into a southern boogie dancefest. The first half of the two-set show highlighted a fistfull of alltime greats including Watermelon Time In Georgia, a rollicking version of Sweet Geor- gia Brown and Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues Helm and Cagle played note for note in duet. set- ting up a rhythmic foundation that can only be com- pared to groups like Tower of Power and the Average White Band, and only let up when Helm swapped his sticks for the harmonica. treating the Vinnie Vacarri (Ray Sharkey) demonstrates the singing style he taught to two young men to make them top rock stars. in "The Idolmaker." crowd to an evocative style of playing that comple- mented his voice perfectly. Reinforcing his reputation as one of the finest gentlemen in the rock business. Helm did not disap- point those fans who had come out only to hear. once again. some of their favorite Band songs. Closing off the first set with The Weight as a teaser. he came back with such classics as Up On Cripple Creek and Ophelia and then picked up the mandolin fdr an extended rabble-rousing version of Rag Mamma Rag, "Levon is not only a star." said Eoff between sets. "he is a legend in his own time. a real musician's musician." . A highlight of the evening were the almost flawless five-part harmonies used in many of the choruses. once again giving Band fans a reason to close their eyes and reminisce. Though most of the show consisted of old stan- dards and rehashed Band hits. it was not an evening of nostalgia alone, but more a statement from an old salt who refuses to rest on his laurels. one continual- ly looking to the future. "it's never too late to start again." said the slight- ly built, unassuming Helm, "and even though I'm no technical virtuoso. I just get out there, follow the boys and play by ear I let my ears do the walking, ..