By Bill Morrissette
portswOlch Form.n Spartan in New Job Donald Perry, a native of Fall River and a graduate of Bishop Stang High School, has been appointed to the football coaching staff at Northeastern University. He will be involved mostly with the offensive line and with recruiting. He earned nine letters while competing in football, basketball, baseball and track at Stang in the late sixties. In his four years at University of Bridge-
port he was a tight end on that school's football· team. He played on teams that compiled a 303 record, including a 22-game win streak. 'Perry goes to Northeastern from Boston University, which posted an 8-1-1 record last season and shared the championship of the Yankee Conference. He received his master's degree in physical education in 1975 from Springfield College.
About New Bedford High Coaching Posts Bob Liljedahl has been appointed head coach olF football at New Bedford High School. He succeeds Bruce McPherson, who resigned last month to become and director of health physical. education in the Melrose Public Schools system and head coach of football at Melrose High School. Liljedahl has been line coach under McPherson for the past eight years. Still vacant at New Bedford High School is the post of head coach of basketball, to replace John Pacheco, who resigned after the 1979-80 season. Reportedly, the leading candidates for the position are Marc Letendre, a former Fall Riverite now with the New Bedford publie schools system, Ed Rodrigues
and Ron Lomba, the latter two natives of New Bedford. Letendre is head coach of baseball at Bishop Connolly High School, where his wife, Michelle, is athletic director. He has been assistant coach under McPherson for the past three years as well as junior varsity mentor. Rodrigues, like Letendre is a graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, considered one of the finest guards ever at the Crimson school, was the fresh-' men coach last year. Lomba also has strong credentials and is presently an instructor at the Julius Erving basketball camp in Amherst. He has conducted several very successful all-star basketball tournaments in New Bedford.
New Conference Alignment There will be a change in divisional alignments for the 198081 basketball season in the Southeastern Mass. Conference. Division One, which formerly had nine teams, will have only six, Attleboro, Barnsta.ble, Durfee, New Bedford, Somerset, and Taunton. Connolly, Dartmouth and Fairhaven move from Division One to join Falmouth, Feehan and Wareham in Division Two. Division Three will be made up of Coyle-Cassidy, Stang, Old Rochester, New Bedford VokeTech, Dennis-Yarmouth and Holy Family while Division Four will have Seekonk, Bourne, Diman Yoke, Dighton-Rehoboth, Case and Westport. Although there will be interdivisional games, the new alignment may spell the end of the intense intra-city rivalry that has developed over the past few years between Connolly and Durfee, which are not scheduled to meet in inter-division play. Presumably, a home-and-home set between two can be arranged but the incentive wou:ld not be the same as when both were vying for the Division One crown.
ter and spring, was recently congratulated by Governor King in the course of a visit with his father to Beacon Hill. It will be remembered that Chris dropped a controversial decision in the Olympic trials final, after winning several New England titles.
Entering this week, the final one of the regular season, Kennedy was setting the pace in the Bristol County CYO Baseball League with 13 wins, eight losses and one tie for 27 points. North was only one point off the pace with 12 victories, seven losses and two ties for 26 points. Next were Maplewood, 10-8-2, 22 points; South End 8-13-1, 17 points; Somerset 7-11-1, 15 points; Central 6-9-1, 13 points. Barring unforeseen developments the post season playoffs should be underway by now. In the quarter-finals the team finishing third meets the sixth place team and fourth opposes fifth in best-of-three sets. First and second place finishes automatically advance to the First Semis.
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Chris 'McDonald, the Fall River CYO heavyweight who made an impressive showing the past win-
ten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."-Benjamin Franklin
tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for general viewingj PC-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescentsj A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification {given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanationl: C-condemned.
NEW YORK (NC) - "Sure, I knew there were things there that might make an average audience restless, but I said to hell with them. I wasn't going to strip the message away. The Catholic audience is my audience." William P. Blatty, author of "The Exorcist," was talking about his movie "Twinkle, Twinkle, 'Killer' Kane." Written and directed by Blatty, the film is set in an experimental facility to rehabilitate Marine officers who have either suffered mental breakdowns or are feigning the symptoms to avoid combat - the time is the late 60s. A new psychiatrist, Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach), arrives to take command, but the unit medical officer (Ed Flanders) sees at once that Kane may be more disturbed than any of his charges. Disturbed or not, however, Kane is filled with desperate zeal to help the men entrusted to him and he shows extraordinary forbearance towards them, even when Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who refused to go on a moon mission, baits him unmercifully. Life is absurd, says Cutshaw, madness is the natural condition, and he challenges Kane to prove otherwise. The confrontation is the heart of Blatty's film.
scare silly those who get a warm glow from the religious symbolism of "The Empire Strikes Back." Why did he write the film? "If it is possible, besides entertaining people, to illumine them to give the slightest insight into the way life is - if it is possible to do something apostolic, that is - I say, why not? What I wanted to do here was to confront the existence of evil and to offer a message of hope." But isn't confronting evil a risky way to offer a message of hope? "Well," he answered, "when we haven't faced the problem of evil fully, there is, I think, something wrong with our faith. "My movie has some dark and violent moments. But the world itself is dark and violent. The only trace of hope is, as Chesterton put it, th'at there exists a creature who looks around and says, this is wrong. "And whence comes this impulse in men and women? The characters of Kane and Cutshaw are aspects of myself. Cutshaw is the doubter, the mocker. Kane is the soothing father with all the Thomistic answers." Why did he choose to direct the movie himself? "To protect it." One aspect of "Kane" that Blatty was especially concerned about protecting, he said, was the resolution on its theme. It was a resolution meant to embody a very personal, non-Thomistic proof of God's existence that had immense significance to ,Blatty himself: "The only real answer to the mystery of evil is an act of love. That was the theme of 'The Exorcist,' and that's the theme of 'Kane' too. "If this picture works commercially, then the doors, the gates will be open to making motion pictures that deal with God and God-related issues." New Films "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie" (Universal): This second film by the oomedy team of Cheech and Chong is as objectionable as the first - drugs, foul language, crude sexual references - and is further marred by a plot that takes it nowhere. R,B
A poor Lebanese boy from Brooklyn, Blatty gained his education through scholarships to Brooklyn Prep and Georgetown, and he gave every impression that he was a man acutely aware of debts to be paid and promises to be kept. "The Hunter" (paramount): In an age in which certain Catholic writers, filmmakers and Steve McQueen plays a bounty intellectuals (not excluding some hunter hired by bail bondsmen theologians) seem anxious to to bring back clients who have distance themselves from the jumped bail. McQueen is good, church, Blatty, whose worldly but the movie is slipshod, with success has been enormous, an excess of plot threads never seems to have no interest in pulled together. Its violence playing the more secular-than- dQesn't fit its otherwise humorous style. PG, A3 thou game. "Raise the Titanic" (AFD): He has invested more than $2 million of his own money in his involves an attempt to raise the moody, superbly acted movie in . great ship to obtain precious which characters talk about such metal stored in a vault, a metal things as the existence of God, that will fuel a foolproof defense original sin, the horrifying mys- system that no missile can penetery of evil, the possibility of a trate. Naturally the Russians get good act, and other unabashed- into the act. Everything about ly Catholic concerns. . this film is unbelievably bad. 'It It is all done in a sometimes is to be avoided at all costs. brutally realistic style likely to PG, A2
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