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2A Thursday, October 4,1984 Daily Nexus Movie Reviews Irreconcilable Differences Irreconcilable Differences'! “Unreconciled Plots” would smash and Albert is soon reading — and believing — his be a more appropriate title. The one thing this movie does press clippings. Lucy is understandably put off by this not suffer from is a lack of material. Indeed, director display of narcissism; she co-wrote the movie but receives i * Charles Shyer has given us a romantic comedy, a parable little credit. Interestingly enough, her response to Albert’s on the perils of success, an examination of the stresses a narcissism is to also grow increasingly self-occupied. Poor two-dareer marriage undergoes and a parody of Hollywood, Casey is left out in the cold. all in one picture. What is all the more frustrating is that The situation gets worse from then on. Albert and Lucy Shyer nearly manages to bring all of these elements into soon divorce and begin to use Casey to get back at each focus with one another. other. Each goes through various ups and downs; the only The actress of note here is Drew Barrymore (E.T.) who constant is their neglect of Casey. Finally she decides she’s gives an admirable performace as Casey Brodsky, a nine- had enough and files for divorce. year-old who is suing her parents for divorce. Barrymore By making his characters more shallow as they grow manages to be cute without seeming either obnoxious or more successful, Shyer undercuts the main plot of his film. precocious. Her performance as a young girl caught in a Albert and Lucy certainly serve as clear warnings for the tug-of-war between her parents is believable and touching; perils of success but do not resemble the people with whom I it is the best thing about Irreconcilable Differences. Ryan we began the movie. There’s no question of faulting Casey O’Neal and Shelley Long (“Cheers”) co-star as Casey’s for divorcing her parents — indeed, one wonders what took parents, Albert and Lucy Brodsky. Both give strong per her so long — but when the family is temporarily reunited formances and work especially well when on the screen at the end of the film, the scene carries with it no sense of apart from each other. Unfortunately, though, the emotional resolution. There is no real sympathy left for chemistry between O’Neal and Long just is not there. This either Albert or Lucy; we have been laughing too hard at n muss»: jsH k . m k -Sk*,. undercuts the film’s attempts at romantic comedy — only them. By making Albert and Lucy seem like stereotypes the break-up scenes have any fire. rather than two mixed-up people who have lost their way Gary Busey as Paul “Bear" Bryant As the film opens we see the beginnings of Casey’s and themselves, Shyer strengthens various subplots and divorce trial. Through a series of flashbacks we learn how gains some laughs but also removes much of the film’s the Brodskys came to be in this sorry mess. emotional impact. Two Hours of Soon after the arrival of Casey, the Brodsky’s ship also This is a shame, because the movie is still good, flaws and comes in. Albert gets his big chance to direct a film. It is a (Please turn to pg.7A, colJ2) ------Sunday Afternoon America’s most winning football coach might as well be NEXUS Sears’ most dependable car battery if we’re to judge the ARTS& man by the movie. The Bear, starring Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story) as Paul “Bear” Bryant and directed by Hot Fudge ENTERTAINMENT Richard Sarafian, flaunts the man as an American product |H izza: EDITORS: immortalizing him along with Chevys, Dodges, baseball, football, and the “Mom” we all picture sitting at home undae Sale! Shirley Tatum Any reg. size sundae only knitting, setting curfews, and annoying the feminists. t Hugh Haggerty Making a movie the Hollywood way about a great • i American football hero is a bit silly to begin with. Football

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\ 'Metropolis' Built On Fascist Foundations Editors note: This piece was written both as a response and threatening the lives of the workers’ children. Lucky for a complement to the review of Metropolis which appeared them, though, saintly Maria escapes and saves the in last week’s Arts section. children, with the help of the story’s Christ—figure, Freder Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis provoked the following (Son of evil Fredersen). comment from the New York Times: “It is a technical See, mindless mob? If you hadn’t revolted, your children marvel with feet of clay, a picture as soulless as the would not have been endangered. Revolution leads to manufactured woman of its story. Its scenes bristle with self-destruction. Ahh! The workers see the light. So. cinematic imagination, with hordes of men and women and Where’s the witch who told us to storm the machines? Off astounding stage settings. It is hardly a film to be judged by they run to find and burn her, at which point she turns back its narrative...” (March 27,1927) into a robot. The narrative, it seems, was confusing. The original Meanwhile Christ/Freder is doing battle with Rotwang German print had been cut and adapted for American on the roof of the cathedral, while horrified Father’s hair release, resulting in a version which confused viewers with turns white as he looks on from below (his concern redeems plot while delighting them with wonderful images. Critic him). Rotwang plunges to his death, setting the stage for Arthur Lpnnig has noted “to enjoy the film one must ob- the ultimate reconciliation. Christ and Maria embrace on • serve but never think.” the roof (Rejoice!). Then an orderly horde of docile Unfortunately, the same holds true for Giorgio Moroder’s Ersatz-Maria celebrates a temporary triumph workers arrives to make peace with Father Capital on the reconstructed and adapted version of Lang’s film. He has over the working class. cathedral steps. Maria urges Freder to play mediating added a pop score featuring contributions by Pat Benatar, presented as a sermon. Saintly Maria preaches to mindless savior, and the film ends as he obligingly induces labor’s Bonnie Tyler, Billy Squier, and others. The combination is hordes in the underground city. She tells them the story of representative Grot to shake hands with Father. Harmony totally incongruous, bewildering. The juxtaposition of Pat Babel: bnce upon a time mindless hordes were forced by rules. Benatar’s voice and Lang’s images jar the senses. cruel masters to build a tower. The eggheads in charge So. The message is clear, blatant, protofascist. Is that . So? Why not sit back and enjoy the show? So I tried. And failed to tell the slaves what they were building — there was all? Maybe there’s more to the story. Maybe something failed. The film set me to brooding. I brooded for a few days no mediation between head and hands. So one day the about the cost of that kind of harmony. The sermon says and then went back and saw it again. Again, I was amazed masses rose up and tore the tower down. Civilization was love will overcome the opposition of head and hands, elite by the images. But did they have anything to do with the destroyed. See, children? Revolution is wrong. It can only and masses. How? score? With the narrative? With the latent content of the lead to self-destruction. The rear solution to conflict is It’s not so mysterious. Take the example of good vs bad. film? coming soon, coming in the form of a mediator, a savior The conflict between saintly Maria and her satanic double The central issue in the film is conflict. Class conflict. who will overcome the division between head and hands by is solved by means of the physical liquidation of the person Social, political, economic conflict. The reality of Germany means of the heart. The horde agrees to wait for the labelled evil. Eliminate one half of an opposition, and the in the nineteen twenties is represented, discussed in the messiah, and the story moves on to the illustration of this problem disappears. Find the evil witch. Burn her. Find the film. Real conflicts are presented and then resolved in truth. mad scientist. Kill him. Harmony rules. fashion. Saintly Maria is captured and replaced by her satanic So why the coupling with a contemporary score? Why this Lang sets up a series of oppositions: capital/labor, head/- twin sister controlled by mad scientist Rotwang, employed message in an up-to-date package? Forget it. To enjoy the hands, up/down, clever elite/mindless masses, good/bad, by the evil ruler of Metropolis, Joh Fredersen. Satanic film one must observe but never think. So don’t. saintly Maria/satanic ersatz-Maria. Once the battle lines Maria, wanton whore and Circean witch, transforms the At what cost? What do you have to eliminate to be able to are drawn, the moralizing sets in. Conflict, it is suggested, masses under her spell into a mindless raging beast whose harmonize the sound track with the film? What do you have is bad. Political revolt results inevitably in the senseless thrashing destroys the barriers protecting to forget? Maybe the context in which the film was made. self-destruction of those who protest. The message is civilization from barbarian chaos. 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Local Music Ait Review — No B & W In The Colours Spiritual Works In UCen The hour that never comes. That is the figurative tran slation of the title to The Colours new five song LP, Details Currently on display in the UCen Gallery are works on at Thirteen. In its dramatic sense, it is most likely that the paper by Randy Sommer, a recent MFA recipient from thirteenth hour will never come. But for this music and its UCSB. assemblage of details, the hour approaches. Although its Sommer works in a highly imaginative and colorful style. sound is somewhat virginal, all five cuts are well arranged The pieces are more drawings than anything else, but and performed by this locally born four piece group. Its worked in rich combinations of pastel, gouache, acrylic, innocence is a little repetitive yet is distinctly solicitous. charcoal, colored pencil or magazine ink. Sommer’s The smoothness of the vocal blend is probably the most imagery is tied closely to the natural works, but seems attractive aspect of this record. Four of the five tracks are more concerned with its spiritual properties than its led by lead guitarist Andy Logan, also the primary physical. songwriter. The music itself maintains a very folksy The show’s highlight is the series of small pieces grouped resonance, light on drums, heavy on treble tones. It is a together as #25. They are presented identically: their cleaner, clearer child of the new psychedelic, trend that has general tea-stain cast in delicate confetti print borders, captured the popular music market. To this contention mounted on black paper with a seismographic row of vocalist Logan claims, “We’re more or less members of the scribbled lines below each seeming to register their in same camp, but we’ve turned it on its head.” Although the dividual intensity. Magazine prints are pulled into ghostly resulting clarity is more satisfying, it is also demystifying. impressions of turkeys, costumed dancers, nude figures. On the band’s lighter, more melodic sound, rhythm A nice publicity shot of The Colours Each image is transfixed by a single line which functions guitarist John Hussey comments, “These days, music has much the same as the sighting in a rifle or a camera as a got to be more powerful, it’s got to be much hotter. We want point of reference. Linking the divergent images are to combine beautiful music with that intensity.” Un recurrent spheres and pyramids, both universal symbols of fortunately, the record does not capture as adequately as it New Directions Continues unity and balance. Sommer seems to be diagramming might the intensity desired byjts players. But given the wee psychic as well as pictoral states. age of the band (formed in summer of ‘82) and its vocal and Some of the larger, more highly colored pieces demon musical potential, the intensity sought is entirely probable. with 'Sisters'------— - strate a lyric sense of burgeoning organic life. Hints of The most outstandingly mature track on the record is mushroom caps, #20, myrtle blossoms,#22, or fuschia buds, entitled “Long Distance.” It melds aggressive, satisfying Sisters or The Balance of Happiness, a film by German #19, can be easily recognized. In these works, Sommer rhythm guitar work with a lead guitar that is melodic and director Margarette von Trotta, is the story of the obsessed, demonstrates a fine, strong hand, the long thrusting strokes fluid. Interestingly, the lead vocal on this cut is (well) possessive and eventually destructive relationship between echoing the dynamic impetus to growth. When Sommer performed by rhythm guitarist John Hussey, although his Maria (Jutta Lampe), an icy and efficient executive moves closer to out-and-out representation, a fanciful, elfin performance is not the most enduring ingredient of the secretary, and her younger sister Anna (Gudrun Gabriel), quality emerges. The recognizable bird and insect forms of tune. Dan Knauss’ drumming takes a more predominant a biochemistry student. Maria supports Anna and does all #’s 15 and 16 bring to mind a droll vision of Thumbelina’s position in the mix, which adds depth and force to the in the cooking and cleaning in the apartment they share. Anna tiny kingdom. strumental strength of the piece. Bassist Mike Magrisi is given to dreamy, self-tortured musings which she In the absence of nature-related forms, dense, pleasantly provides consistent and developed backing vocals records in a diary alongside photographs of the agonized “off” pastels deepen to a more somber intensity. The rich throughout the entire record. There is a marvelously faces ofgargoyles and other sculptures. reds of #23 engulf the lone, leaf-like shapes suspended surprising twenty-second insert on the album, just “To manipulate genes and not to be able to deal with against a surface fraught with motion — it is as if a strong preceeding “Long Distance.” The blurb is an a capella love,” Anna writes. She tells Maria she wants to leave her wind just blew across, clearing the picture lane. The deep, Gregorian chant that, according to Hussey, translates as, studies, but Maria pushes her to continue. When the son of mysterious blues of #’s 11, 12 and 13 leave all earthiness “O mysterious world.” It is an excellent audio-ambush for the boss falls in love with Maria, Anna feels jealous and entirely. the listener unawares. betrayed. The power struggle between the two women With the music world at large in mind, the musicians continues until it reaches a violent climax. Two ambitious works are #2 and #24. #24 is worked in themselves expressed a desire to project a positive image. The rest of the film loses some of the dramatic scribbles and fine splatters of pigment. Small forms As Andy Logan says, “I just want to make somebody momentum it had built as it shows Maria’s attempts to deal scattered across the surface bring to mind those employed happy, which a lot of the music today doesn’t seem to be with the situation, but it sustains a curious nightmare by Miro. #2 is wetter spattering over a mosaic-like doing.” — Angela M. Whiting quality that has a certain emotional logic. background pattern. The viewer’s eye is reminded of Louise Nevelson’s boxed assemblage sculptures by the The film will be shown Sunday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in shallow, compartmentalized space. 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Friday, Oct. 5 Bowie Dozes Tonight' 6,8,10,8’ 12 Some of it is true — what you’ve been hearing. David *2<>o Bowie has created a flop. Now I believe what the man behind the Leopold’s counter meant by, “Don’t bother.”. The new release, Tonight, is a harsh disappointmeant to • Cam pbell fans. Bowie throws out his usual originality and flavor in exchange for a production of bland and mediocre tunes. Sorry, but it’s just too soon after Boy George for a song entitled, “Twirl and Tumble.” Though most of the tracks start out with interesting chord schemes, they end up turning repetitive and too predic table. Even Bowie’s voice, usually exciting and varied, becomes boring. There just isn’t any pizazz to those old collaborations with Iggy Pop. Tonight’s only diversity An outrageous new comedy from the creators of comes from an old Beach Boys ballad entitled “God Only “Police Academy” and the Knows (what I’d do without you)” in which Bowie sings a star of “Splash.” Julio Iglesias charade of pain and agony. Bowie, however, can’t be blamed entirely for the dull writing and arrangement of the albums nine tracks. Perhaps the best two songs on the album are the only two Bowie wrote exclusively (“Blue Jean” and “Loving the becoming. And perhaps expectations are what make this Alien”). Though “Blue Jean” isn’t what was expected from album hard to swallow (much less, enjoy). If so, Bowie’s Bowie after his hits from the “Let’s Dance” album, com attempt of showing his many faces here is a musical SATURDAY OCT. 6 pared to Tonight the single is sure-fire for the pop hit it is failure. , , „ _ „ ■ . CAMPBELL HALL — Laurie McCullough 6,8,10,12 • *2.00 SPONSORED BY ZBT Claude Bolling Fuses Jazz & Classical

T A K E A S T U D Y BREAKI $ For those who would give a bit of Jazz a listen but shy away from the complexities of “classical” music, there is a ORCHID BOWL fusion going on that you don’t have to protest against. Fusion is the word borrowed from the physics world in the OPEN 24 HRS seventies to describe the blending of jazz and rock styles. Since then musicians have experimented with several other Relax, Unwind - Have Fun! mixtures of styles. But there is no one who has .become Let Loose - Go Bowling! more popular in fusing the styles of jazz and “classical” Billiards and Videos music as pianist Claude Bolling. His first attempt at such musical alchemy was his very popular Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio. Now, several albums later, Bolling has OPEN LANES ALL WEEKEND written a very similar piece of music entitled Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio. And as in his first album with in ternationally famous flutist Jean-Pierre. Rampal, Bolling ORCHID BOWL - GALLEON ROOM has again collaborated with another high caliber 5925 Calle Real • Goleta • 967-0128 “classical” musician, Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma has done several recordings and has performed with major sym

A student bites a teacher. phonies throughout the country. However this is probably his first attempt at such a diversified style of music as The school psychologist goes berserk. Bolling’s Classical/Jazz fusion. The substitute teacher is a certified lunatic. Within the first few minutes of listening to the Suite For Cello and Jazz Piano Trio you begin to realize that it is And students graduate who can’t read or write. neither “classical” music nor Jazz. In fact the first movement, “Baroque in Rhythm,” starts off in a peculiar, yet recognizable, “classical” style with only the cello and It’s Monday morning at JFK High. piano. Soon after this introduction the upright bass (played by Marc Michel) and the drums (played by Jean-Luc Dayan) enter with a grooving jazz rhythm transforming the previous style into a swinging jazz piece. The Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio is a series of movements that basically stay true to the idea of the fusion of the two musical styles. At times, though, this is not en tirely convincing since it is missing the necessary element of jazz improvisation (excluding an occasional “fill” from the piano). This is easily understandable when one recognizes that Yo-Yo Ma probably has had no background whatsoever in jazz improvisation during his very traditional musical upbringing. The album does show the highly developed compositional technique that Claude Bolling has mastered. He has drawn (Please turn topg.7A, col.l)

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Still, it’s exciting several shots of Larry Bertlemann and F i e s t a 4 enough to watch the liquid tightrope walkers Dave Smith breaking the latest frontier by 916 state Street risk their lives and bones. The sport is acrobatically taking off into the air. So they GENE WILDER'S 963-0781 6:30,7:30.9:30 competitive and tough and comes across as have conquered one half of the elements and straight and honest; in the world of surfing, one half of the world: wonder when the other m cheating neither counts nor works. More half is to follow. There don’t seem to be any than just a sport, it’s a way of life, and limits. ------Matthias Rosenthal "7 4 e » I077 Metropolis... 7:46, 9:46 ■■■ (Pnntinued(Continued frfrom pg.3A) 5 3 U “R e d it's casual. (Continued from pg.6) The name of the savior who came to mediate by means of liquidation—all whom he called evil. D aily from many sources of in 7:00,9:00 fluence in jazz and History is dark. History is evil. Forget it. Sit back and F relax. Enjoy the show. Turn up the volume. 2044 Alameda Padre Serra “classical” music but one Near Santa Barbara Mission PG can see a heavy influence On the other hand — I enjoyed the film — as a visual from George Gershwin, a spectacle, of course. Fantastic stuff. And Benatar—what a composer who was fusing voice! Sends chills down my spine. And Moroder — the ANOTHER styles when Bolling was still man’s a marketing genius, “Tlie reaction among young a young boy. Suite for Cello people in our tests has been absolutely fantastic. I declare COUNTRY and Jazz Piano Trio is just as this film as the time from which silent movies are no longer enjoyable as Bolling’s flute silent.” L.A. Times — 5/19/84, V/2) A different kind of game. Think of it — the great films of history as image bank for suite. In fact the two are Live Stage very alike, with a simple MTV. Trash the old scores, bring in new ones, or even old ** WarGames MGM/UA ITO! switch of lead in ones. 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TICKETS ON SALE TODAY The Fixx "Reach The Beach," UCSB the time they joined The was enough to stir the in Oram appeared on the new cage yourself away — that Sunday Oc,t. 28 8 p.m., The Fixx with special Police tour, in fact, they had terest of Screen Gems/EMI Tina Turner LP as backup you can show your deep already been through one Music, producer Rupert vocalists and in down feelings rather than guest make their first appearance at the name change (from Por Hine, manager Geoff Jukes strumentalists. Cumin and expressing only what people Events Center since their inception in 1983. traits) , one record company, and MCA Records in Lon West-Oram also performed want you to say. If you could Tickets go on sale TODAY at the A.S. Ticket one manager and one tour, don. Soon all the pieces were in two Turner videos. adopt that position on a Office, Morninglory Music (I.V.) and the aborted in mid-stream. in place. The group called semi-permanent basis, you’d Arlington Box Office. Prices are set at $12/- Cy Cumin (now 26) was itself The Fixx to evoke The new Fixx LP is, ac be isolating yourself less and bora in Wimbledon, England “having a goal, a strong cording to Cumin, “about isolating others less.” undergrads an $13/general. (near London) to an Irish sense of purpose in life,” personal visions I’ve had Catholic stock broker father Cumin explains. about isolation and society’s It is hard to believe that a and an Algerian Jewish By January 1984, The Fixx rules, about the superficial band so accustomed to mother, a French teacher/- had completed their ex public self and the deeper performing before MCA Records’ The Fixx “Our second album, Reach poet who had been im tended tour with The Police, emotional self. The new thousands would be so made their mark on the U.S. The Beach, was about prisoned by the Germans Reach The Beach had been position we’ve found our concerned with isolation. rock scene in 1983 in sheer wallowing around in the during World War II. While certified a platinum seller selves in because of the Yet it is exactly that in defiance of every then- demands of institutions and Cy was studying at an ultra and MTV had three of their band’s success gives us trospection and concern for current trend in imported not understanding the conservative Jesuit school, videos in heavy rotation. The more confidence to delve the feeling of the audience British music. While ABC direction to go. The title he met Adam Woods. Woods, Fixx returned to England to into the emotions of the more that has set The Fixx heads stressed fashion and Marilyn Phantoms concerns people several years older than Cy, record Phantoms. Then Cy private self. We can show and hearts above so many went for the visually who don’t communicate. was attending drama school Cumin and Jamie West- people that you don’t have to bands. outrageous, The Fixx ap You never really know them, with Cy’s older sister. Adam pealed to the intelligence of but inside you feel them and Cy began writing stage their audience. The Fixx destroying themselves.” plays together. Adam would were rewarded with a first The philosophies and in direct the plays and Cy album, Shuttered Room, spirations by which Cumin would act in them. Mean that stayed on the IT.S. and other band members while, Cy was also honing his charts for almost a year and Adam Woods (drums), poetry skills on the side. a second, platinum album — Jamie West-Oram (guitars) Eventually, Adam Woods Reach The Beach which and Rupert Greenall and Cy Cumin opted for remained in the Top 10 of the (keyboards) live and create music over drama and American album charts for are more than what one formed a group with Adam 10 weeks and in the Top 100 might expect from rock on drums and Cy on piano. for 40 weeks. The Fixx also musicians. Their songs have Sometime later they were became known for five songs concerned nuclear war, the joined by Rupert Greenall, — “One Thing Leads To dangers of conformity, and described by Cy as a Another” (which went to even (in Phantom’s song “keyboard wizard, a won number four and was on the “Less Cities’’) the derful chap, a true English chart for 18 weeks), “Saved destruction of Beirut. Says eccentric,” and Jamie West- By Zero” (which went to #20 vocalist/lyricist Cy Cumin Oram “ a stunning on the national singles about the preoccupations in technician with a range of chart), “Red Skies” and his songs, “Rock gives sounds that enabled me to “Stand Or Fall” (which people a why in a society concentrate on my lyrics.” became standards on MTV), that’s a what. Society tells us (While not a full member of “Deeper and Deeper” all where we are and what The Fixx, Danny K. Brown (which went top two on the we’ve got to be. But the why has played bass on one track , AOR airplay charts though it — the emotional reason for on Reach The Beach, on the was never released as a doing things — is missing.” entire Phantoms LP and is single). And The Fixx were It was the combination of accompanying them on tour rewarded with the opening The Fixx’ preoccupations, for the second year). spot on tour with The Police. its sound and its compelling The group recorded an The result is that, with the stage performances that original song, “ Lost release this summer of their brought the group to the Planes,” which was released third album, Phantoms, attention of The Police. Says on the tiny 101 Records. Says produced once again by FBI Agency founder and Adam Woods, “They only Rupert Hine, The Fixx have president Ian Copeland pressed 1,000 copies, which finally ascended to the level (brother of Stewart sold out immediately.” It of headliners on their first Copeland of The Police), world tour. “When I first heard a tape of “Our first album, Shut The Fixx, I flipped out. The Sommer Initiates Art Gallery's Alumni Series tered Room, came from the Police chose them out of my fact that I spent a lot of time 67 ether bands to be its Change is in the air and as the university settles down for one-man show Randy Sommer, which is part of the Alumni at home and wondered how support group. Initially, The a new academic year, it is being persued in the University Series sponsored by the A.S. Program Board. This exhibit many other people came Fi^i were to do four or five Center. As the building itself is being restored with new consisting of 25 works on paper is a dynamic grouping of home and locked themselves dates. They did thirty! ” coats of paint, the UCen Art Gallery emerges with its own organic-abstract “symbols” which will continue to be on away with a TV set,” ex As is usually the case, The rejuvenated style under the leadership of Chip Rowley, display through October 6. The following exhibit on view as plains Cy Cumin, lead Fixx did not come easily to UCen Art Gallery Director for the 1984-85 academic year. of Oct. 9-20 will provide selected works of student singer/lyricist of The Fixx. their “sudden success.” By Currently on view and opening this season’s exhibitions is a photography. A reception will open the show from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 9. Also upcoming on November 10 will be a show, “Neoyork” which is sponsored by the University Art Museum with participation from the College of Creative Studies gallery and the UCen gallery. For further in Duck Club Migrates Back To The Pub formation about the UCen gallery, drop by UCen 2253 or contact the A.S. Program Board. The date to submit entries for the Photo-Show has been extended to Friday October 5th. Please submit 3-5 works between 9 am and 12 noon to the Program Board Office Secretary UCen room 3167. Once again the A.S. Program Board is proud to bring another dance filled evening In the Pub. Tonight the Duck Club returns! A Special That’s right you saw their first performance at the Thanks To Storke Plaza Dance now, tonight, look forward to All Of You Who another powerful show. If you missed the excitement Helped With The last week you know you can’t miss this one! Bring your Cyndi Lauper friends, the fun starts at 8:30 pm and get ready to start your weekend early. Concert

From left to right: Greg Brallier (Guitar/Vocals), Tim Freind Program Board Meetings are held every (Drums), Tod Yeager (Bass Guitar/Vocals), and Brian Howard Monday at 5 p.m. in the UCen Meeting ( Guitar/Vocals ). Room 2 — All are welcome.