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Arts & Entertainment Mi~gets invadEfES 2 7 2001 shows Shifty Liebowitz Chtcago! how to 'Drive The Car.' COLUMBIA Back Pa~LLEGE LWRARY Buddy Guy's still on track, despite delay would be ready around March of this By Molly Moonen year. Staff Writer At a Feb. 6 South Loop Planning Board meeting, Cameron and club The future home of Buddy Guy's General Manager Kevin Blinkel pre­ Legends, the world famous nightclub, is sented plans for a four-story bui !ding nothing more than a vacant lot at the for the site. Those plans include not comer of Balbo and Wabash Avenues. only the blues club, but also office El Taco Loco has been torn down and a space, a pool hall and a banquet room. parking lot has taken its place. This The first noor of the building will be week CTI Inc., a construction-testi ng the main n oor of the club, whi ch will company, is drill ing to see what li es open into a mezzanine level and bal­ beneath the concrete. cony with dressing rooms and pool The City of Chicago requires that all tables. Above the club will be office building s ites go through a battery of space, as wi ll the top half of the fourth tests to ensure that the basements do not Ooor. The fourth Ooor will also include cave from the pressure of the soft clay an open deck and banquet area. The on which the city o f Chicago is built. kitchen will be in the basement. This is the second ro und of testing the According to Dan McCarthy, owner of site has gone through since the ground CTI, the site is undergoing tests for a proved too soft for the original plans. 12-story building, although it may never Buddy Guy's Legends is currently at be that large. 8th Street and Wabash Avenue, just a "The building will only have four sto­ block away from where the new club ries," said Barbara Lynne, executive will be built. The c lub lost its lease after director of the 'ear South Planning an anonymous donor gave the land to Board. " With the idea that if they Columbia for a new student center. [Buddy Guy's] ever wanted to make it Scon Cameron, Buddy Guy spokesper­ an income-producing building, the Donme Seals, JriChronicle son and personal manager to the club's Fox Drilling Company breaks ground on the future site of Buddy Guy's Legends, next to the owner, originally sa id the new club See Buddy Guy's, page 2 623 S. Wabash building. Theater department mourns death of prominent instructor Within months of the death ofJohn Murbach, another respected teacher dies unexpectedly By Ryan Adair nearl y 14 years, also served as the artistic department, knew de Maat for o ver 40 The death of de Maat is the second blow director for the Second City Training years and worked with him on several for the Theater department this academic Managing/News Ed itor Center, the world-renowned school spe­ occasions, both at Second City and year. In December, during Columbia's c ializing in the art of improvisation. Columbia. He credited de Maat as a holiday break, John Murbach, another Martin de Maat, 52, an artist-in-resi­ Originally from the Chicago area, de teacher who always took the extra time artist-in-residence, who speciali zed in dence in the Theater department died on Maat took an interest in performing at an for those in his class. scenic design and instruction, passed Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Cabrini Medical early age and exercised his talents in chil­ "Students adored him," Patinkin said. away as well. Center in New York, where he was under­ dren's shows under the direction of his " He was incredibly kind, supportive, Osborne-Mon noted that after losing going treatment for pneumo nia. aunt, Josephine Foresberg, a well-known helpful and a real gentleman." two prominent members of its faculty, the He was best known as the teacher who improvisation instructor who taught dur­ Susan Osbome-Mon, an instructor in Theater department is undergoing a peri­ inspired the careers of " Saturday Night ing the inception of Second City. the Theater department, echoed that de od of great shock Live" performers Chris Farley, Tina Fey De Maat began studying improvisation Maat always showed continual support "There's no way to replace these guys," and Tim Meadows, Sean P. Hayes of at age 9 and joined Second Ci ty as a dish­ for his students. she said. " People like that don't come "Will and Grace" and Kelly Leonard, the washer in his late teens. He worked many " Marty took on a very parental role with along everyday." producer of Second City. odd jobs in the box office whi le taking everyone in his class," she said. " l ie was A memorial service for de Maat was De Maat, who taught several im provi­ classes at the center. always extremely generous with his stu­ held over the weekend at the Second City sation and acting classes at Columbia for Sheldo n Patinkin, chair of the Theater dents; he reall y went to bat for them." Theater. lie is survived by his sister Patty. Columbia alumnus returns to college to screen first feature youth tailed Gn:ener G ~:lSS Productions. Its mission " as to By Sarah Schmidlin expose filmmaking to inncr-citv kid:;, to sho" the 1\!alit) of what Staff Writer goes into a fi lm and to de-glamorize tht: industr~ . ''All the g uns. violence and drugs,"· :VIolckn remarked. ·· ... " e wanted to deprogram kids." At the screening of his first feature fi lm " Love Through fundrais ing the program raised about $20.000 Relations," last Tuesday, Columbia graduate Delvin to produce a short fi lm called. '"The Case or the Stolen Molden told the audience to expect, "a delightful story Watch.·· The movie. in 16-mm format. was based on a with d ramatic twists about a family dealing with rela­ script written by an 11-year-old. Only 15 minutes long, tionships." the production of the film represented the participation "We wanted to challenge the audience to think," of 15 kids from the program. Molden said. Greener Grass helped to put six minority students "I was trying to show people in rea l relationships deal­ through Dan Decker's film school. ing with real issues," Molden elaborated in an interview. "It came out great," Molden said. '"It won llonorable "Probably 75 percent of the time there are real issues Mention at the Chicago International Film Fes1iva l and at the between real couples. I wanted to show these couples Colum bia Fi lm Festiva l in Ohio. Then it got picked up working out a problem, show the d ifferences between in Los /\ngcles and ran for three months on an inde­ people and how they work through them." pendent cable access station." A 1992 graduate of Columbia's Film department, Molden is very serious when he talks about screen­ Molden thoughtfully remembers that one of his teachers, Sheila Bocchine/Chronicle writ ing development. After he received his deg ree from Dan Curran, who taught Molden's Film Tech II course, Col umbia alumnus and fi lmmaker, Delvin Molden, at the Columbia, his second bachelo r's, he attended classes at "had a sense of teaching us not to have boundaries in cre­ the Screenwriting Group, studying under Dan Decker. ativity." premiere screening of his new film, "Love Relations." "Dan taught the art of storytelling," Mo lden stressed, From this, Molden realized his desire to "push the mar­ in town, ' Biankman' and 'Mo' Money.' The PA carries "and the structure of screenwriting. Because knowing ket and almost break it." everything and gets coffee." Molden said he remembers how to come up w ith the story is the art, it's what After graduation Molden put in his time at the bonom hearing, 'Get the PA! ' quite often. expresses you." doing what he ca lled grunt work. " I basically paid my dues with that," he said. " I was a PA (production assistant] on a (George] Molden started a non-profit prog ram fo r inner-city See Screening, page 2 Tilman film, and had a couple gigs on features that were s ~ ~3~~~s and Notes lfJIJ p' s 34 • • • ~1ze-wmnmg wnter presents . ~! ;;rp~;'J!Ji"Nl New Studio Ch1cago playwright Lydia R. Diamond has been selected as the 2000-2001 winner of the Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwnt1ng , for her play "The Gift Horse." The piece will be presented at Columbia's New Studio Theater. 72 E. 11th St. Feb. 28 through March 11 . Tickets are $5. Call (312) 344-6126 for information and reserva­ tions.