Leeds Student October 23, 1998 www.leedsdotstudentco.uk Volume 29: Issue No.5
INTERVIEWS A trip to the temporary AND REVIEW Black Rock City - Nevada INSIDE JUICE SCAM F N POL CE PROBE Students warned after ANTI-FEES CAMPAIGN BACK IN DEMO MODE company is caught recruiting on campus
By KEVIN PITTMAN
A HIGH-PRESSURE sales firm has been touting cash-strapped students to sell its housing repair services - even though it is under police investigation for its sales techniques. And a former student worker has this week claimed that many of the new employees are sacked just days before they are due to be paid. Recruitment scouts from Midland Coating Ltd have been prowling both university campuses in Leeds to get students to work for the telephone sales section of the company. Local job centres took action yesterday, banning all advertisements from the company. Police and trading standards officials are investigating the company for hard-line sales techniques including persuading elderly people to pay thousands of pounds for unnecessary repair work. A Leeds University graduate, currently fighting for owed wages from the company who wishes to remain anonymous, revealed why they require such a high intake of students. "They need students to work as telephone canvassers to bring in the appointments for the sales reps to call 'OCCUPY OR FOREVER PAY YOUR FEES': Yesterday's LUU-Oacked protest makers its way through campus Pic: Dan Thubrun TURN TO PACE TWO, COLUMN ONE WILL HYDE PARK 'TRAFFIC-CALMING' SCHEME IMPROVE SAFETY? DETAILS ON PAGE 7 2 NEWS Leeds Student, Friday October 23 1998 Campaigners move in for vital fees battle ANThrees canipaigners hoped By JAMES MINER to parah st I .tells I oh ersits & MATT GENEVER after starling a 2-I-hour ILL-TREATED: Fiona Christie is suspicious about Midland occupation of the I .c s el Ten of the Stoner Coating's methods of employmonti ado iStliii)11 inlets sestently Butting has been barleadetl lot alterm en. the tteiupation. with only students But the protest was weakened being allowed in And this has by the poor turnout - with only angered some workers who believe around 50 people 'tailing up for the that they are being the ones to suffer. Investigations initial occupation. One stallmember, who did not And it was also marred by wish to he named, stormed: "I'm confrontations between students against tuition fees. along with a lot and staff who could not get Iii then ot members.ii staff. but occupying oft ices. these rooms is just not the way to into scam firm go about ft The protectors mei at the union steps at thrix o'clock and attempted "I have personally been put out CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE to canvas more support before of pocket because I couldn't get marching to the tees office. into my (Mice and that's hurling on. They ham an integral pan concerned with how soon she Politics finalist Penns. me. not the Government.- in the cot npiuts. With them could work: "While we were Brownhridge, who helped tirganis• There was a low kes security it could not function," travelling It the interview they the xtuixaion. said: 'The !successful presence throughout the protest. She claimed that mast of the Wile sit luting o Kit I it the winch nt.'s pull tax de1111.1IIstrx ions were started and the fees office was closed early new employees arc disposed of to other students on campus in Scotland by only a handful of slue to the threat of occupation. days hefore expecting payment. asking if thes were looking people and that is what we're tryang A spokesperson for Leeds -rhos will take on about thirty for wink. We picked up a few to emulate. Leeds has been at the University said: "A'e have many workers at once and then get rid Illtlfe student= en mute, During loretrom of student protests and we S■telitaillit.t. with students'eltheems if most a tea weeks later Nil the tntersletkrrt scented all that have to send a toes-sage out to shoss Iran the ininalusla si ■1 fluitu on lees, they 1100 11i1 Ve to pas them. mattered when and how fast I that were still fighting.- and the -AN 011 nt lite Maintenance This 'ma company that needs 10 could st an.- And LUU Comninmeations grant. we have Made ow position be taken out of business and Melanie ur Midland Officer Anna Richards said of the on the subject clear to our. students exposed tOr the way they treat Com tig. defended the company. occumaion "It is a soars. as we se aid %AA: tune dew evilytht ng pit:sit-de their statt and custitIllerS." iuguingthatthey were ereatine generated media cos erage and to minimise the effects of these Fiona Christie. studying for jobs flit people: "W hat 's wrong got the issue mater attention. measures on our students." maitre diploma at WU. with that? Wearer &fitig Ambits 'The campaign has achieved "We very much regret. therefore. was approached in the Student jobs. They need the money and viciones in the past and we just need the decision to take action. which Union har at the Beckett Park we Heed the staff." stall and students to work together will, inevitably. disrupt the service campus by company reps. "My ]an-Battlen. Vice-President to help us. If people want to come we are attempting to provide to instinct wasthere wassinnething of 0 roman:anon% at IMUSLI, down and join us. the occupation the vast majority of our 23.000 not right about it all. I was told explained her concern fir the will be going on for al Imea 24 hours.' students who have decided not to that d did not need to bother welfare of students who want But some of the protectors take part in this demonstration." filling int': telesma qualifamii ins to get a job: "We should of heen themselves were also dismayed at And t rilun felt that the rotten box in an application loon. and notified by this contorts if they the apparent student. apathy. One. was not as influential as the go rectors It didn't matter whether I had wanted to employee i.lur stutter*s known lb. Agun. interned: "Sh k IPnts had hoped. Christian .Hogshjerg, any previous expenence (wool," and come into our Unions to do are selfish - if they don't have to first year history student. said: "My she said. this. I urge all students to be very pay fees, they don't care_ It makes friends in Bodington, despite being She also coinmented on the careful until we can establish me sick that only 50 or so people apitra the the uthoduction of tuition urrprofessit mat conduct shown who and what this company is have turned up -tie othas just aren't fees, do not see the point in by the line and how they were up to." bothered" occupying.'
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SIX unlucky finalists are By CATHERINE BURT to secure the house. Shiv said: steadying themselves for more "It's like living in u fortress, we break-ins after being on the are all having insurance sorted .ire unplugging misers out. because one of us didn't have receiving end of three and decks from one of the any. Our house has been ruled hed roon is before my housemate burglaries in a month. with motion sensors. locks. grills The housemates have had to arrived and chivied them out." and our a 11111111MS been repaired. moos C their v aluables out their On all three occasions the police 'M have the whole range in secnots home in Brudenell Mount in ease have been contacted and the now. students were advised to fit locks the hurgldrs strike again. PC Andy Johnston. a ( r me Shis Bakraniu. studying on all doors. Prevention Officer at Milgurth This advice was followed, but rhy at Leeds University Police Station said: "We have had 'L\ c must he rich pickings, last Saturday the thieves eained a big problem with sneak in ht{1 to. re really paranoid now and access from the basement, Every burglaries, especially since the rootm was broken into and the so all our valuable possessions students have returned to Leeds. hove been moved out of the house. locks recommended by the police Over 40 sneakins happened in were smushed rn hull "The Police think it is the sante just August and September. each time and we thieves arc sure The unhappy finalists hate "The thieves just walk straight they will be hack again °set the knowing that the thieves have • in through the trout duw. ti's vital weekend, been into every room and could to use any bolt's or locks, even -This time we will he ready know exactly what other when you are in the house. The belongings are in Are house. even for ihem - maybe we Just need a thefts at Brudenell N,lount are couple of cricket hate'" though items were only stolen typical of this type of crime." The first burelary happened from the two rooms that are closest A ness scheme has been to the front door on September 26th, when the hack introduced h ..enttal Government door was forced open and ISSU A trail of CDs and belongings for basic crime prevention in city video players and a tele% ision was sett scattered up the corridor. areas. Police refer burgled houses were stolen but the thieves still made off with to "Care and Repair" a registered Then on October Itl, two men a collection of other CDs and charity who fit free locks and were practically caught in the act decks, strengthen doors. of robbing the house. Shiv said: Every effort has now been made 4 NEWS Leeds Student, Friday October 23 1998
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ALLERGAN Oxysept I Step with LC65 29.95 22.98 CIBA Vision 10/10 30.05 25.54 cist' slur ,,CB1 A NIF'DICAT. chiefs have hit back alter a report BY MATT GENEVER school lutist he treated equally and visino AO Sept 25.99 22.09 published this week claimed that they were Liltlt and we ate tee'} concerned about am biased against ethnic students. indications that this is not happening. I ecds Liniversity SL110411111 Medicine wits *PLUS ro an ethnic minorities, the figure 14 students "We are examining the data further through one it those given a hlackinark ht the oport that were finally admitted-to the course W:1. closer research and we have takcn iintradiM La alledgedly discriminating aeainsi students only 2 2'.; action to ensure good practice in qui ALLERGAN I roan i:L71.101 h•ikgrntIndti. The timveNity Liss sated that these differetkes opportunities.- Oxysept Saline 2.64 1.95 rite repon also concluded that LOCH and •1101 NI,Ili+114- ally significant" and that. Proli:ssor McManus. Mini LInivetsityPOOPI students ti nii sixth lorn1 iolleV•,.. or •.irkiiic c% L7)11711'1: was done 10 avoid discrimination London. used UCAS records fur adMiss'ittts la., haLk;....i.. mod-. a ere discriminated agani+1 A vid,c.1110-4.0 •■iiid: "The rya-wilt-al schools in 1996 and 1997 toerxrelt . When anti". rag it nleths.•Al s, lout, I reel, St.11(411,11N.letliellte attimelics the highest Ms research. Hut though some who* We his work is flawed, thin arestill But the rese.m.h...-oiopiled by Pi prionty to ensuring 'hat procedines tor itN_Ttalln2 argued that cork= hang Chris McManus on hehalt of the the Council ..tadents are impartial. fair and obiccio c cone tams I hat certain groups of ', discriminated mama. of Heads of Medical Schools CH MS ) has We believe the measures we hate taken The university spokesperson continuer!: nxeised crincign lOrnot taking into LA Insider:0 ion to identify and eliminate any potential bias .Then remotes att emecrn ahout why appiteatto tailors such as GCSE results and predictions unmatched by anti inediral school in the counin.." , from ethnic minorities are less likely to tae of A-Level results. The upon was commis.sioned by the CHM S Figures were compiled h) comparing MAS shonitsted by medical schools in gentra• after their had been concern that the applications "It may he that students frinn ethnic minorities figures for people applying to do medicine proces+ Writ only iliseri int nuied against students arc disadvantaged h) lower CiCSE grades tit itese against records of those who were actually front wane backgrounds but also ilicadv untaged by lower A-Level predictions than theiractual accepted into the cultist:. them when they did apply. performance merits. We w ill he addressol. I cnnunDSION And the repon showed that although 27A% Professor Stephen Tomlinson. Executive ways of responding positively to thesepruNeas opTIC,ASS of medical applicants to Leeds Univcrsiiv were Secretery of (-HMS. said: "All applicants to Leeds Student, Friday October 23 1998 NEWS 5 University apology over wage bungle 'long overdue' Library bosses brought to book A LIBRARIAN working for By ANGUS MONTGOMERY the Brother-ton Library- had & PAUL CONROY to threaten legal action before he was paid. Douglas Polley. a second coati act r year Geophysics studernat 1..txds When Di iuglas consulted his University. was owed almost solicitors. he was informed that £500 in unpaid wages for his the university was acting illegally work an a student security ragger by withhotdinf his wages without over the summer. giving an official reason. And the university this week He was then ads iced to admitted they had made an threaten legal action through an emir" but hoped that the 'situation industrial tribunal and a summons had been resolved. from the small claims court. Douglas was lirq told that The disgruntled student set he would he paid on a weekly a legal date of Tuesday t",th basis,. But the day before he was October for the wages to be paid first due to he paid his contract into his hank account_ along with arrived. stating that he would unauthorised overdraft charges get his money on a monthly hasis. that he rixeived after the cheques By this time he hattalready had bounced. drawn cheques on his account. The university paid the nanny expecting the wages had been owed to Douglas lour hours paid in "I was in severe financial before the end of the legal difficulties." he moaned. deadline When he complained about "I am truly amazed. They this. there was confusion over knew I v. as an undereraduatc whether Human Resources or student, they knew I was the Brotherlon Library should desperate tier money and yet they take rti sponsihi ity. still wouldn't speed up my wages. Everitualls Human Resources 'They didn't even pay me at the agreed to write to Douglas's bank end 'if die month as my contract explaining that the situation he stated.- was in was the till iversity's fault. A spokesperson tot the -The letter they sent w as Unis ersity explained.: "The appalling. They forgot to sign university has around 8.000 it. it was full if veiling mistakes people on its payroll and and it didn't make clear that it fill'stACN will was their mistake and ma mine.- occasionally occur, After comptatning to the head "WC s cr, much regret the it Human Resource, II ‘4 as error with Mr Paullev's pay agreed he would be paid a week cheque but believe the situation earlier than his monthly contract has now been recta-led In Mr stated Paalte y's complete satisfaction.-' However, when the day came Rut Douglas still believes his for Douglas to receive his wages treatment in t he hand, of t he nothing appeared. By the end of university• was "patronising and the month Douglas had nothing stib.standard" after being placed to show For his efforts, in a ti"iinpitid and di Ifieti I t "I definitely should have been position:- paid by then under my monthly,: A-PAULLEY-ING BEHAVIOUR: Douglas had to threaten legal procedures before officials coughed up Thieves take note bag found A ITIENILSTRI finalist had a lucky escape By EVE MOM say cameras have been "on the cards- when her stolen lecture notes were discovered in that area tor some (nne. scattered in hushes by A friend. caoline., chequebook arid course notes Claire Vogeli.. Welfare Officer at LUU Leeds University student. Camline Ward were found the following day by helpful friend said: "All students need !CP he aware of the had a rucksack full of lecture notes and her Martin Rosen. on an early morning run near danger of crime which a imis coat) campus cheque hook stolen from her car. the scene. attracts. If you have a ear. try never to leave The theft happened after she had parked Despite retrieving the notes, which included anything in view while you are parked." Ivrea LMLI's Beckett Park campus whilst imporiaut practical results, Caroline was still repurled the incident to the police training for the LUU cross country team, worried by the incident- who were helpful but said that dimwits very The resintrerful thieves used a screwdriver -You never think it's going to happen to lofts they could do. to line ripen a window of the Mem / Chiliman you.'" she said. "It's horrible to think of "It 's been a terrible week." Caroline and make off with the student's Reebok someone going through yont stuff. I couldn't complained. -A few days affix this my parents, hag. which contained a watch, pencil case sleep afterwards:- who also live in Leeds. had their car stolen. and calculator. Security stall at the Beckett Park campus "I don't think things can get much worse."
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...... llummoui NEWS Leeds Student, Friday October 23 1998 Flashers' double hit TWO flashers hate been plaguing By MATT GENEVER street lighting in the area. and women in Hyde Park this week. arc to have a women's safety Both incidents happened on But now the terrified student campaign this year. Woodhouse Abair in broad daylight has sowed to take extra precautions "But it is different when it but appear to he unrelated. when walking through the park happens in broad daylight and it ( hi .fuesdity afternoon a man in after the traumatic event: "I'll be can often be difficult for a woman his fifties ran up to a female student. getting a personal alarm now and to know how to react when she is who does not wish to he named. walk in with other people if I can." flashed at." and then flashed in front of her. And In a separate incident on And a spokesperson for West I She had been walking alone to Monday morning, a man in his late Yorkshire Police added: "Women her four o'clock lecture when she twenties wit...seen openly flashing should a oid short cuts in dark. was accosted by the man. just off. IlyCle park road. quiet and unlit areas and carry "The man just ran up to me These two incidents has e now personal alarms with them. holding himself', then res ealed sparked concern among union '11 they ever feel that they are eserylhing when became towards under threat or being followed. me." she explained. Lucy' Raoul!. WOmen 's Officer they should head for an area with "There were two girls behind at LULT, was worried about the plenty of people. him. but they conkin't see what he threat to women walking through "If they still feel threatened they was doing. II was very intirnidating H' de Park. should has e no hesitation in and really shook on up." "We has e been calling for better enntacting the police."
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Stlidiltt ,houlan't has: Kt 1....11111C hi'l.,n15.,.!111r. dr:1111r 111LILIC 111...:11,111111.1 accept he.I. Iles has 4: CA 1 he '.loom. had (.1 pu-s, 1111C h1111 1(i .1C 111.311t1 the ler:tics • 11 it sla.OldS The students colic hided 7 -In the kitchen. the ..ink had come away is appalling. It's criminal the from the wall Nil that the water was dripping t-15 a week for this place - (lion n onto, the el...oil:its. meter in the c. he I, robbed " .... ...... Leeds Student, Friday October 23 1998 NEWS 7 It's Radio Ha-Ha on day one Our Joe's out A RADIATION scare delayed By CATHERINE BURT broadcast hinny. Nos vie can't the start of broadcasting at go over a 10 watts limit and so for the count Leeds Student Radio by almost received a safety- letter from our reception is not as good as eight hours last Friday. the I nivemity Radiation Service. It could he." 1:VIIMEat foul-thirty came Fears were raised over 'sticky Birch. Station A University spokesperson a little closer to home for out possible dangers caused by the Manager said: "We can said: "We have been assured 1.N11'mm:hunt last week, wrires LSR transmitter situated on understand why he is worried by the Cuiversity Radiation t ;entona Poland James Raillie flats by one but voicing it the day before Protection and Safely Service Joe Bridle. who studied student living underneath it. hmadcasting caused its massive that the level of exposure would Rosiness anti Managernemdid 'The tenant. who does not problems. he well within the regained safety Leeds proud winning four wish to be named, was concerned "We couldn't set up our standard." episodes of Countdown in a about the radiation levels frequencies and bass lines on LS R is currently row and eventually fusing the generated and refused to allow Thursday as planned and leasing broadcasting on 107.4FM until fifth to Valerie. at middle-aged Pic: lain Pybus LSR to broadcast until he this till Friday affected the first mid-November. house wife. 0' Cnaluell •• 11, •••••47*, mrultra, sticffilithy words as sexual'. *ix II1SCS., Ulltlak. and even •I:trtr jiW insists that he is not fowl-mouthed. but them again. apt xiirolly he will say anything for eight letters. Traffic scheme Chance to land design job A iCli of wasteground may go: hin t! ! - L. haiie to put their new ideas into action. 1 1: 0; ti, 11'01 'St; haN.e teamed up with Leeds City Council to t• • for Hyde Park create a Student 1)evelooment Programme. And 1.?41li students in has': the chance to help•redevelop the derelict Alexandra Park, producing designs for the arca and gy MICHELLE CHAPEL ovastoorig the development process from start to linish. & REBECCA SMITH Teresa Eyelby, VP Student and C'emintunity Affairs, said: -Instead 1F1 lust producing designs that will r utty ever be seen by 1-1 I)E PARK will become a their tutor and 1101 he produced. a few lucky students have the 20ttpit torte in a 1:400,INNI bid chance tit design something for the area in question and see it become reality." to improve traffic and Any wanting further information on the project can call pedestrian safety, Teresa on 21to $4444. &Mem caw, iI1 Hyde Park are among the worst in l _eats. with 42 pi;destriaiis ht ispitalised in the last five scar. A sprikeyers. ri lot Leeds Cily Council caul: ''‘Ae tan-keyed the ti Neste Noel escape ol Leeds send this area was tact-ail-Le-a as ha'. toe higher than expected accident rates. "Vie have spoken tont:my people including residents. CI immunity groups, emergency services and from courses has operators. The fact that there are several sehtaas in the area also Fyou're fed up of being the turkey when it comes to Christmas make it a prime candidate." etiquette, then you might have a chance to change your ways The programme will include could he for you, writes Zoe Goldman. speed humps, mini-roundabouts. Park Lane College are teaching a range of four handy width restrictions. road closures Christmas courses to propel you into the full Christmas and a tine way system ro slow traffic. spirit. The sessions will reveal how In look good for the festive Ilk- announcement oldie plans season; decorating a Christmas cake; decorating your home ndlovos a three year consultation for 11w testis. e season and buying the right computer as a present. period_ There were concerns that If however you are feeling a little 'plump' after too many drivers n tight try to ,is 4 'lathe new generous helpings of turkey and Christmas pudding.a series iratt•ciliated areas by using of active Wilms will he available consisting of activities such untreated roads such as Victoria as self-defence: slim for spring and aerobics. 16•Iail. Roy al Park Rriad and Hyde Anyone wanting further details for the courses on offer. Park Road. contact Rio King all Park lame College on 0113 211r 23411, lit aft attempt to ieetity this, rn,-.1sor4-s introdnced on N. Ictoria road 111 VP..16 and paii Ill cad a ill its al'.i he• Bided in Me vibe the but students a ho h 113 11:s dt: P.111, ',A' the move as a noisatiLe Big chance for -X dam Illemord, _'old Year Iiiterounmal History And Politics student at Leeds Cniversay said -There's constant u-rtfric ity,le Park and an Cilll'ibt j0' riding pail-dem. All the joyriders w ill just budding bards see rigid humps as it challenge." !Mark Sperry, Business WORDS WORTH wannabes nom have iltc chance to see theiv words Haspitatity and Management Fie.slio- in print. writes Geoutut P$ dotal al LMLI, said: "They sitottlil he Leeds students are being called on to rise to the challenge alter di iing something to Inv up traffic. 13■.‘■on! Cianintinieutantslaunehedtheir aniateur tory competition. not slira it down. it's a had idea. Entry is fax oil' charge and poems can cover any subject as long Taxis will he much mow expen_sive as they have not been previously published. if the meter's running in slower panel of poets will choose one writer from each North East town traffic." who will subsequently have their work puhlikhed in an anthology Construction work inn the main 01 the regions Ve_7.0. winners will also receive a copy of the Famk. pnejectisduetostaf to early 1999, If You want to represent Leeds. send y.our odes (20 lines max.) to: BYWORD. I Yorke Street. Burnley, Bit I I- !NE by October 30. Jim.' is expected at take six numths. NO WHERE TO HYDE: Traffic measures are being implemented to reduce accidents Pic: Golly Fox
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...... COMMENT Leeds Student, Friday October 23 1998
Leeds Student World leaders finally stand up to the A brave last hurrah but will It's payback it really make
Ms week the any difference? process Of bringing the LEON BERDICHEVSKY ruthless former THE build-up has been gradual and almost Chilean dictator to justiceT finally began. painstaking. Will they. won't they. will they, ,tugusto Pinochet was won't they? If they do. when will it he, how arrested in London and May long will it last. and what does the Future be extradited to Spain to really hold? face charges of torture. No Fin not talking about Karl and Sarah in genocide and terrorism. Neighbours. but the other much-heralded The issue may also be dealt event set to deeply affect every single one of is ith mast& of the goyeinment as us. The occupation. Chilean exiles in Britain plan to commence a private prosecution Yesterday at 3pm, around 50 students finally against the man who caused them moved into the central administrative block at so much suffering. Leeds University putting into action all the Meanwhile in Chile, them are words spouted at too many meetings over the leas of an increasing polarisation of the political spectrum which past few v.eeks. might be detrimental to the And so now the real test comes. Is this country as a whole.. Pinochet's protest the beginning of a revitalised campaign arrest has demonstrated that even to prolong the burning embers of the anti-fees though hide is unwilling to lobby'? Will other student unions not vet properly deal with its in mu Itiu ills past. the world will not allow affiliated to the 'Can't. Pay. Won't Pay' injustices and crimes of the mos! movement suddenly get swept along as sinister nature to he ignotrd. momentum gathers? The lithe of September, 197.3 Or is the pervading sense of anti-climax and will forever he a day that divides 'closing the stable door after the horse has Chile, It is on this day that Augusto Pinochet. acting took lull stride when Pinuchet She (Willed. "I was arrested. Many Lacroix make any muse bolted' all too real? Commander General at the time, stepped down and Patricio They slapped may lace and towards justice in Chile Whatever the interest generated by LUU's pirated a coup to oust the Aviwin was democratically blindfolded me and raced me increasingly difficult. latest move. there is still no escaping the government of president Salvador elected as the next prmident. through the city. I was taken to the During the dictatorship, a teii As in most capitalist schemes. Villa onmaldi where I was told to constitution was passed which slightly farcical element to the manner and Allende, This marked the first day of a dictatorship that would last Chile was, and unfortunately still strip and was tortured with declared judicial immunity forth thought given to the latest campaign. inure than 17 years and which is . a country where the rich get electric shocks on a number of of those involved in the 'war' ia The valid reasons put forward by those would see thousands of people richer and the poor get poorer. twvasions throughout that night. term used by the Chilean right- students not in support of the protests meant tortured and killed. Pincx:hefs government obviously They put an electrode in my wing to describe the coup and its the focus of proposed action w as shifted away Approximately one thousand favoured the trimmer and it is this vagina and then it was sonipletely events that took place thereafter) group of people who recently impossible to think while the Also written in the new from lecture theatres. people disappeared aos dexaparecitios)and many are stilt detrainstrated their outrage at shock was going in." constitution was Pincher s But while it was also widely acknowledged As a result if the torture appointment of seseral %maim that the University was not the principal Doctor Cassidy went though for life, including himself. enemy, its faculties and staff have now become many years of depression and Although Chile's governmont the primary target. Not entirely logical. Torture and systematic genocide will be insomnia. Now at 61 she is ready is democratically elected, its hi give evidence in any court democraa.:y is merely a mask Ale Of ckiltrNe the upcoming national seen as crimes that go beyond borders action. "There is it desperate need laws importance must be demonstrations will help concentrate attention to see justice done. There are a ha passed through the senate which where it is needed most. and that is central of people who feel that to let in turn is controlled by all of government. nissing today. Thousarnis More Pinuchet go would he Pinochct's hand-picked senators Pinochet's must by bunting the But in the meantime, is confronting fled Chile in starch ofrefuge in monstrous," she said. all of whom will be there fur other countries. Spanish and British flags at their There is a great disparity It will be interesting to see university staff already sympathetic to the Technically speaking, this day respialike embassies in Santiago. between those who support how things unfold in Chile in the cause, really the order of the day? shows a break froth the eapital441 Chile. Pinochel and those who oppose forthcoming weeks. Within the They already know the issues, the debate. dern-ratteally elected socialist Meanwhile Pita ichet 's him. It is for this reason. for fear government there has already the problems students are going to face now government to a dictatorship opponents are rejoicing that iiithe consequences of a been signs of dissidence. The finally .a significant attempt is they have the extra burden of tuition priding itself on Its open market politically polarised nation. that Socialist Pany i PS) have subtly capitalist economy. Vet although being made to punish the former Chile has turnixl a blind eye to the slated that they agree with the fees.Shutting them out may not exactly help. the regime has been praised dictator. Sheila Cassidy. now a a[rot ores of the past. One cannot arrest whereas the Christian Dismissing the occupation as a token abroad for revitalising an British doctor. was arrested after solely blame Pinochet's Deinucialw party (DC) has gesture would he wrong, and unfair to those economy previously taken fin treating a man with a bullet opponents for an apparent lack of already showed Ilnodietthir involved who clearly do feel their ways and dead, Chile's economy really only wound who was trying to escape. effort to bring him to justice. support. The president methods could work. And LUU's resolution to fight fees, and indeed the abolition of the grant to the bitter end is utterly laudable. I'm a hit worried about I think we have But they too must recognise the strength of DOES BRITAIN HAVE all the news that he's jurisdiction, if a support to build on the action is not as yet been a guest of British leader there. and has maybe gone for good. Margaret Thatcher. The did that they After all. how many of those invoked are THE RIGHT TO BRING fact that we used him in should be actually newly-arrived first years paying, or the Falklands war more to the point, not paying their tuition is accountable lees? FOREIGN DICTATORS depressing but somehow overseas too The answer, it would seem. is very few and you kind of expect it in that perhaps is the ultimate flaw in the fight. TO JUSTICE? Tim Rickmt ale the modern age Jennifer Simmons PhD. Sociology Second Year, Ingion and Lingusims
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09.01) Meet outside the Victoria Quarter to discuss tactics. H hat is it that these socialites actually do in the day'' Well. they must act those petted skirts from somewhere, which means that probably the wisest activity to begin 14 lift is shopping. Mil-Mi....shopping. The opening of 11arvey Nichols a yew ago was simply the icing on the cake for 'Leeds the shopper's paradise.' The array tel clothes shops is so impressive that Its almost impitssible to know is here to start. So why not stan with the biggest?
09.10 1.2.00: Haute culture in the Henry Moore Both very impressed with the Harvey Nichols doorman. Not only does he have a very line hat. but tic also remains cheerful despite the fact that we keep approaching the door and not coming in. In see whether he works in the same way as an automatic door. He does.
09.20 Enter Harvey Nicks. Notice that the only people who look like the sort of people we were expecting to see are actually the staff. All of We flag down a taxi and dt- the customers look just like us. We wander round, but feel intimidated. Approach a member of staff to ask about their views on 'the Knightsbridge of the North' but are informed that they are not `really pumping.' We are not allowed to answer questions and we have to go through their press office. How London. How Rama:. Is this an omen for our venture? Will we be snubbed and sneered at forecourt of a lG for a whole 24 hours? We bloody well hope not. of fine art. Pretentious. us? 9.50 Spread our net wider and begin to explore the other shops. Wow. 12.45 Kookai. Ted Baker, Pied a Terre. Karen Millen. Vicky Martin. The list OK, we've done shopping. we've done culture, nowLET'S ha DO of fantastic rand friendly) shops is endless, LUNCH! Cafe in Seine is our caters of choice. and a tasty Rile p Shop assistant in Morgan explains that new businesses see Leeds it is too. Down near the Corn Exchange twherrelse) 11. s 5 "411 as the best coy to invest in. and that investment brings further Interior. it cosy lay out. and friendly staff. Now think who would! investment. Other staff ;scree that of all the northern cities. Leeds is Tara eat? by far the most swinging. and that its hest feature is its ability to be After much deliberation we share a bucket of modeswerinid .4rtiarir) tit classy without being pretentious. Harvey Nichols, chew on that. followed by fish. chips. and mushy peas - how post- modem_ To ft off we each have an Amaretto Lane - and not Just because the fliC 12.00 says lt.'s what all the fashionable people are drinking _ slot After a remarkably successful morning of shopping 1 we could get that is the reason, but just taste one to see why. used to this). we decide to stop broadening our wardrobes and start broadening our minds. Where better to do this than at the Henry 14. 15 Moore Institute. which houses some rather impressive modern art. *wash and 14.15: Pampering, preening and polishing at Now Its time to get down to the hard work. In need of a Allow ourselves to feel oh so smug its we think of those poor brush up'. we head hack to the County Arcade swinging our 51u Penelope's Secret unentiehtencd shoppers our there whilst we are supping on the nectar hugs. to settle down to an afternoon of manicures. massages.
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e TOP UTUM. N days when the Union (not too far away) or the Royal Park FIVE 66Agrass is dewed and the silk Roundhay Park may be known to you On cold but sunny nside a chestnut shell..." because its one of the biggest of the bunch. Erm I think that's enough of that In the summer it often has concerts or Autumn days, what primary school classic. festivals but it's still a nice place to visit in the But the point is that even though autumn autumn. If you get too cold you can always THIS signals the start of freezing cold weather it go toTropical World to warm up and see could be better than a can also be very sunny too (well the butterflies. flowers. plants arid animals. sometimes).These are perfect conditions for Temple Ncwsham. A mansion taking part in that age old pastime of going surrounded by lots of nice fields, this park WEEK stroll in the park... for a walk in the park. area is also another venue for summer OK, so maybe the idea conjures up festivals likeV98. Have a walk and then go images ofVictorian ladies with parasols in and look round the house. crinoline dresses. However the principle is There's also Burley Recreation Ground the samegetting a bit of fresh unpolluted air which I was surprised to discover one day. Movies probably to recover from a hangover Whilst walking down Cardigan Road I saw There's lots to do in the parks even if you some people appearing out of an alley, which I. Saving haven't done some of the I found led to a Private Ryan activities for a number of Remember to look far bridge and then 2. Lock Stock & 2 years,Ilke climbing trees and this large park Smoking Barrels collecting conkers or squirrels and observe the with swings sycamore helicoptor lovely Autumnal colours (you're not too 3. Armageddon propellors. of the leaves old, honestly). You could also do There are 4. The Horse Whisperer activites to keep you warm also a whole host 5, X Files the Movie such as well, going rollerblading or playing of little parks slotted in between housing - football or jogging. Remember also to look areas so there's always one that's handy for for squirrels and observe the lovely you.With Halloween coming up the parks autumnal colours of the leaves on the trees. may be a bit of a spooky place to go when it. So where are all these wonderful sites of gets closer to evening.You never know who Albums fun and activity? First off, the park most or what could be lurking in the shadows. likely to be known by students is Hyde Park However on Bonfire Night the bigger I. MANIC STREET k's got a bad reputation at night but in the parks offer free bonfires and firework PREACHERS day it's fine. displays for the public which are well worth This is my truth There's a skate park. tennis courts, grass a visit. • tell me yours areas to play football on, paths for aimless So parks.The rustling of the leaves. wandering and wooden exercise equipment watching the world go by in peace and 2. SAVAGE GARDEN that looks as rf it was first used for training tranquility. No I haven't been taking drugs. It's Savage Garden people for the World Wars. Plus, if you get better than staring at four walls for the 3. THE CORRS too tired and in need of refreshment you whole season. So take the first dry Talk On Corners hardly need to walk a stone's throw before opportunity to get out in the park before you reach a pub at one of the corners of the the rain sets in for good. 4. STEPS park. the Hyde Park. Feast & Firkin. The Srep One
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But while young Aaron is off been snowed under by the weight of munching helium and Billie is out circumstance, by split-ups and hang- wallowing in her hormones, Flick Badly Drawn Boy - EP3 ups and the pressing pressure of are doing 'life stuff' and being all (XL) others. pensive and mature. - Despite soanng into the stratosphere This debut. tainted by tragedy, Twice as eclectic in 15 n entices as with angels wings on one of the finest drifting and feeling its way through, is Psyence Fiction (where we last heard singles of the decade ("Yes") McAlmont accessible. but not to everyone.'Drag'. BOB) wanted to be in 60.this EP is has yet to be left alone to ascend on his with it's soft distortion,and the own terms. Lennon-esque'The End' melts down nothing short of miraculous. BDB chandelier, it typifies an emotional apparent reason slipping into this liquid into the way-existenual 'Maybe mix up the obvious Mo'Wax Until now.A Little Communication is an flamboyance that McAlmont exploits mass of melody, so wrong and Someday'. and you're finally rocked to trappings with a bit of country, early album created to accommodate and throughout.The title track is almost disorientating, that point where pop sleep with a lullaby for restless nights New Wave and the kind of b-sides enshrine the shimmering, enigmatic unbearably exquisite.a silvery frost of becomes something intangible and ('Some Other Day').The more Beck might make if he bothered with presence of McAlment Pop Star, and even electronic licks. a melody so haunting and airborne, making the avant-garde energetic tracks,'Freezer Burnt', anything as mundane as a producer. if his sartorial splendour has been sublime like icicles on your spine. absolutely redundant with a quick cool 'Anthem' and forthcoming single stripped down he still oozes a special. McAlmont tortured by unreturned wink. release'There You Goo' provoke James . Sit Down '98 natural glamour. phone calls to his elusive object of desire. McAlmont's new album, his real comparisons to The Smashing (Fontana) It's an album that is as sonically It doses with the astonishing 'After debut. is a romantic. modernist POP Pumpkins and Radiohead - not without succulent and adventvrous and Youth'. essentially pastiche of half of album, each movement contrived with all reason, and hardly a criticism. Proof, if it were needed, that you can't ostentatious and tremulous as the voice Prince &The Revolution's Parade it the magnificent artifice of true theatre. it is built forThe outrageously dramatic Flick are not happy bunnies, but polish a turdiames stick their nevertheless transcends this debt.all at Minutely crafted like microchips. yet fluid there's real lust in their hate. It's lurnpen anthem into the Apollo 440 singfe'Honey' is a case in point a slo-mo once affected. conceited, ornate, elegant. and easy like runny honey off a teaspoon melancholic and moody. and infectious blender. and make rc sound even pirouette of G-FuniciPaisley Park sonically poised and obtuse.a gallery of As perfect as possible. Each second in its cynicism. more dated than the original That old synthetics, one huge glittering crescendo found sounds scattered over lascivious savoured. Jane Arthy "there's always been a dance as intricate and dazzling as a crystal funk.and then - half way through for no Oliver Craner element" argument won't work any more, guys. woul n t be • ame • or Inking MUSIC ALBUM you'd mistakenly popped on one of MUSIC UVE Portishead - PNYC your dad's 70s albums instead of one (Go Beat) by a neve'up-and-coming 90s act'. The THIRTY DAYS It's all here: infectious harmonies and Swell DUCHESS OF Three previous singles and an aid b- Montrose OUT guitars, catchy-yet-immediately- YORK side, live from the Roseland Ballroom Avenue Sony forgettable tunes, utterly LEEDS gig of last year. But any chance to meaningless lyrics ("Sometimes hear Beth kick all those half-arsed apologies are painful/And I didn't soulless trip-hop imitators Into Barrel-scraping levels mean to make you cry" - 'Leaving In Americans. But good.That's submission (hello. Sneaker limps) as The Morning'). It's a wonder they she switches from little-girl-lost to of imitation didn't name the album after a o turn up for the books. snarling rock beast and back in an seemingly far more appropriate song instant. is always welcome.Worth it HE KLF once proclaimed, title:'Yesterday's Return'. Mostly, it HEY'RE American, they play for the fiery 'Sour-Times', as Beth all music can only be the sounds like a combination of a music which in parts at least screams herself hoarse over a sum or part total of what humourless Silver Sun and OCS. and could be described as rock barrage of feedback whilst the T T has gone before...There is no we all know how innovative they harmony at the end. and frontman, Dave Freel, looks orchestra vainly tries to catch up. point in searching for are. There's even one of those sneaky like he could be a guest on Jerry originality." The Montrose But it's when the 'Avenue venture 'hidden' tracks at the ehd, the Springer. Gel - Catching Ants Avenue have clearly taken this into more earnest territory that it concept of which was (possibly) OK, so I admit that the bare bones as their mantra: this is a band really goes pear-shaped. 'Keep On cool once but got annoying by the of Swell may not be particularly enticing This is pop of the hard-nosed variety-. that makes even Cast look The Road' is a painfully dire mix of time you bought your third album but Swell aren't about bare bones. Swell all mixed up. it starts with the end groundbreaking. grating vocals and strings, with such with one lurking there insidiously. are about what's been layered on top. and ends with the start and the Whether the rock music of the inspiringly motivational lyrics as "All On 'Start Again' they gleefully chirp, Layers of passion. angst. emotion and vocals sound alien CO the guitars. But '70s (think the Dazed and Confused it takes is timelYou've got to keep "You won't find another one like heartache. they combine to make the perfect soundtrack) actually deserved to on the road...Things will work out me!" And, in a way. they're right... But still.no one seems to care. Five sound of "bubble thrash". Lazy guitars ever be simulated is debatable. To fine." Think 'Cheer Up. Charlie' you'll find many. albums of sublime melancholy and are displaced by thrash-skate-punk- its credit(?), Thirty Days Out achieves from Willy Wonka with lots of added brooding introspection down the line rock guitars and etchy brit pop a skyscraping level of imitation.You drums and a Beach Boys-style Katherine Lewis and Swell are still playing in the half full vocals. back room of a pub. Commercial success has eluded Swell, with them Moa - Joy and Pain keyboard and Rick Astley's drum never quite being able to shake off the (Tommy Box) MUSIC ALBUM machine over the top.This will lead to two consequences.You will be 'Arnenca's best kept secret tag.This isn't so much of a shame as an injustice,a Musically innovative without being very sick, but you will also have a fair Adamski ADAMSKI'S dreadful oversight on our part self-consciously weird. Pasted idea of what to expect from THING But back to the gig. Swell are together from all the best bits of the Adamski's thing (ahem). Ladies and • relaxed, unfazed by the small recent past, resulting in sleekyfeline zu gentlemen, the days of 'Killer' are attendance.The music.on the other pop. Moa adds her voice - Billie officially not repeated on this album. hand, is far from relaxedThe guitars are Holiday goes Miss Kier - to the The Enya-style strings of 'Climbing edgy and dark, the drums are unfeasibly swoony-pop-electro to make a Up' don't really provide life-affirming -..• Sky-scraping levels of loud and the songs are bleak.soul- velvety sound, inspiration, yet the chorus could be irritation an anthem, and one with immense chilling slices of perfection. 'Oh My My' is gentle, soothing and Paul Welter - Brand New Start pogo potential. had the lyrics not OU know what this album is been "Climbing up from when you gorgeous, like the Velvet Underground (Island) meeting Arab Strap. Current single going to sound like.You're had fuck-Jack-sha". Despite Adamski's attempts at And they get worse."You walk 'Make Up Your Mind' takes all of pop's So much for a brand new start Paul: it y already expecting the style changes (from the Muzak- you do conventions and mutates them, leaving sounds just like your old stuff. buzzing and the beeping, the behind your genitalia. why do moulded 'Piccadilly Circus' to the us with four minutes of paranoid Nowadays he is reduced to cliched breakbeats and the prominent that?" enquires the'Ski-ster over the more radio friendly 'Ascendere Verso claustrophobia. bass lines, the bizarre samples soft percussion patterns of 'Antibody' La Cima'), there is NOTHING dribbles, that is his "Brand New "Some of you have been too kind and the bastardisation of as the millenium bug arrives early and redeeming about this album. Anyone Start" To think it was only a couple of and some of you haven't been kind keyboards. And you're not going makes his computers give out given a bit of studio time could have years ago he pronounced himself enough so we're going;" deadpans Freel to buy this album, because no constipated beeping sounds. Not done better.Track eleven goes by the "The Changing Man" How little did before leaving the stage, and it's a fair one will touch Adamski's Thing even Geno Washington's vocals on name of 'Champagne or Real Pain?' he know. comment. Seek and cherish Swell before (tee hee) with a very long stick. 'God's Teeth' are safe from R2-D2's Adamski's Thing' Real pain, mate Put studio invasion, with the little fella they get really fed up and we lose them Robin Parker and Ed Roger Think of Massive Attack's dark, sultry it away. bass. Fair enough. Now imagine your chittering to himself throughout the altogether. Fiona Smalley five year old brother attacking a track. Jo Dickinson •
VIDEO DRAMA VIDEO DRAMA The 15 Titanic 12 CERT. CERTIFICATE Rainmaker GENERA'. GENERAL RELEASE RELEASE Yet another John Record-breaking tale of Grisham courtroom drama romance and tragedy OW can you tell when a lawyer is lying? His lips ' T'S handkerchiefs at the ready Hare moving! Hardehar, for the long-awaited video but this is Matt Damon's wry Irelease of James Cameron's comment on his future multi Oscar-winning tearjerker. profession in The Rainmaker, The film follows the fortunes of as he passes his Bar exam and rugged young artist Jack (Leonardo comes to grips with the DiCaprio) and the frustrated upper realities of the legal system. class Rose (Kate Winslet), who fall in love aboard the maiden voyage of the Based on John Grisham's doomed ship Titanic_ bestselling novel and directed by Much of the film's interest comes Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather, with the fact that Cameron spent a Dracula), The Rainmaker is the record £200 million on it The latest in the line of American spectacular cinematic achievement that courtroom dramas. was the result of his slavish attention to DISNEY attempts CO keep her identity secret tunes. Matt Damon stars as Rudy detail is undeniable: whether he should FILM whilst proving herself a VVar Hero, and The characterisation is strong. Bailer, a poverty stricken law be trivialising the tragedy with such a thus regain her all important Family Mulan is an engaging focal figure and student, who starts to work for a heavy focus upon a whirlwind romance U Honour Aided by obligatory wise- Shan-Yu represents the scariest bad guy corrupt law firm in order to pay Mulan from Disney in ages, while in Mushu remains open to debate. CERTIFICATE cracking sidekicks, a cricket and a his tuition.When the FBI close dragon called Mushu (the voice of Murphy constantly strives, without ever GENERAL down the company Damon sets up Eddie Murphy), our spunky kung-fu quite succeeding, to eclipse Robin in business for himself with Danny RELEASE tomboy manages to pull her William's genie in Aladdin. DeVito.After ambulance chasing to commanding officer, Li-Shang. and The proto-feminist issues in Mulan win insurance claim clients, Damon Girl Power Disney style annoy the Hun leader, Shan-Yu, the film are delicately shaded so that the film finds himself squaring up to the set in ancient China resolving itself in a thoroughly edifying remains a fairly one-dimensional moral evil multinational insurance climax. fable, although the more lasting residue companies in a bid to keep his of female empowerment is strong principles. Love interest is 0 it's China's turn to have it's s you'd expect. Disney doesn't thanks to the legend's careful provided by Claire Danes (Romeo history re-written by the disappoint in the animation modernisation. and Juliet). a battered wife who 5arbitrary magic wand of Astakes:Ancient China is a However, it seems inevitable that Damon takes it upon himself to Uncle Walt, is it? Well, in Mulan, beautiful wash of pastels and water Disney's global merchandising machine protect, killing her husband in the Disney has chosen to tackle a colours that contrasts nicely with the will steamroller over any carefully laid process. traditional Chinese legend which icy fields of war. sense of cultural responsibility and. as sees our eponymous heroine as a The scene of the marauding Hun so often in the past, render Mulan's HIS film throws up a host of bit of a social misfit who, destined horde rumbling across the snowy social implications irrelevant That said. intriguing plot opportunities for an uncertain place in peaks takes on the epic grandeur of the film is classic Magic Kingdom fayre. T then completely fails to pursue patriarchal society, dons her old Lawrence ofArabio. and the whole effect an emotional and charmingly woven any of them, opting instead for the man's battle armour and thunders of the film is one long intoxicating yarn. mundaneities of a one-man- off to fight the Hun. rollercoaster ride, ornamented nicely Pete Culyer against-the-multinationals The plot revolves around Mulan's with some trademark insanely catchy courtroom drama. Unfortunately. it's all been done before. Danny DiCaprio andWinslet perform more MUSICAL the Leeds Arts Centre, remains HE first half was smooth and DeVito is an amusing foil but than competently, while the typically faithful to the original text. The plot reasonably captivating. However criminally underused. and Damon's devilish Billy Zane receives the chagrin surrounds the jealously obsessive T the first part of the second - spur of the moment murder of of the audience for his portrayal of Phantom civic Phantom as he seeks to satisfy his inexplicably appeared to descend Danes' husband Is bizarrely VVinslet's fiancee. love for the beautiful Christine. and into pantomime as the cast failed to forgotten. resulting In frustrated Titanic is beautifully filmed, factually of the THEATRE forces her beloved Raoul to come get to grips with the essential audience expectations. accurate and tragically compelling. On to her rescue. uncovering of the Phantom. However. Damon's acting is the other hand many will argue that Several of the acting protagonists This is all in all a decent credible, while Coppola's direction Cameron's script is fatally flawed and Opera come through with much credit, the production, with general fluency and is reassuringly solid. Grisham fans fundamentally misguided. That performances of Phoebe Smith as some decent performances. It won't be too disappointed with something of its cinematic majesty is Non-musical adaptation Christine, Monica Brown as perhaps disappoints because the this film, although it has nothing to lost on its conversion to the small Madame Giry, and Michael audience come imagining the distinguish it from the others. Even screen is inevitable, yet this will remain a Brooksbank as the Phantom brilliant West End musical, with all Claire Danes' performance hugely popular tale of romance played EEP beneath the Paris impressing in particular. its memorable songs and classic exhibits none of the screen out against a background of acute Opera House lurks the However, this is at once tragedy. presence seen in Romeo and Juliet tragedy. D mysterious, masked juxtaposed by some actors clearly Consequently the lack of music If courtroom drama is your bag Phantom. Deep beneath the out of their depth. most notably and strong local accents take it Michael Barker then rent this film, but we think Leeds Civic Theatre lurk the Patrick Forde as Raoul who, with his away from many people's ideal, and there's more suspense in Perry future acting careers of several unconvincing gestures and thick leave a sense of disappointment Maats tonhogh.Wu atch out for the baseball of the cast of Malcolm Brown's Yorkshire accent, utterly fails to amongst the audience Someone bat adaptation of Gaston Leroux's portray the romantic French saviour send for Michael Crawford. classic, as immortalised by Michael Claire Pointer and Jo Francis This new version, performed by Crawford In the 1980s. Michael Barker
The best part of the opera was Peter Bronder, playing Alexander. OPERA DRAMA without a doubt the puppet show who not only looked constipated accompanying the overture. Dolls every time he started to sing, but dressed as soldiers and kings also seemed to be shouting out II re THE enthusiastically battered each other much of the music, rather than above a screen which was then GRAND singing. pastore -lowered to reveal the five small The plot involves the conflict children operating the puppets. I between love and duty.There is spent the rest of the performance much soul-searching and repetitive watching these extras as they Melodramatic warbling restrains. But not too happily played the sheep of the rnain surprisingly.true iove wins out in the character. the shepherd Amyntas. end. sung by soprano Rebecca Caine. Opera North has a good ET me begin by admitting reputation. and everyone should go that I know very little about AINE'S strong voice was welt- and see an opera at some point in opera. but as the daughter marched by Mar,. Heprty, L wilt) the lives, just for the totally different of a music lecturer, I was C musical experience However, this dragged along to a frw when I rwtidtiction of II Pr Pait0f.: Is w.• C1 ..110Y, n i vrcIn hI ,10t 01, • to Start.
Sally Young satirica romp Twelve inch phalluses, clog-dancing and a man in a nappy. SALLY YOUNG tracks down Matthew Booth to find out what's going on at the Playhouse this month
'VE JUST seen the all the satyrs have got erect phalluses promotional poster for The because they're young and virile.The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus and one who leads is knocking on, he Icannot fail to be struck by needs a bit of Viagra. I think!" the sight of a middle-aged man That's enough about phalluses for in a bright orange romper suit the moment or I'll never finish my and a penis of donkey-size dinner.What about the plot? As proportions dangling down to Matthew explains, the play begins in his knees. I've also read the 1906 in Egypt where some advisory statement which Egyptologists are looking for accompanies this image: forgotten plays and poetry. Their "WARNING:The satyrs' search unleashes the spirit of Apollo excitement takes a highly visible and the Chief Satyr who is also a and phallic form which, though Tracker. someone who looks for playful and celebratory, could stolen cattle. apparently.The man cause offense." responsible for this heinous crime of The blatant shock tactics have stealing the herd, it transpires, is worked on me (always a sucker for Hermes, a man in a nappy. advertising ploys) and I am already "He's a baby who's grown to intrigued by the play's content as I manhood in five days. He has a baby arrive at the West Yorkshire mentality, but the body of a man,- Playhouse to talk to Matthew Booth. Now this I can relate to,-He's one of the actors in the play. slaughtered all the cattle. cut them all Matthew Booth has a smaller part up and made this lyre from an upside- 'The one who leads is knocking on, he needs a bit of Viagra, I think?' than the man splashed across the down tortoise and the strings from posters, but not. I am assured, in the the gut of the cattle. So that was the trouser department.The lucky man first musical instrument." parts of the dialogue to rhyme with Northern Broadsides productions of but If people have a thing about that. gets to act out every bloke's dream Later the play moves into the actual places in Leeds. Richard the Third and Romeo and Juliet.. then don't come and see it because every night as he straps on a twelve- present day and Matthew leaves his "When the play was performed at He had been with the theatre they'll get offended. But they inch penis to play a virile satyr. twelve-incher behind (they just don't The National Theatre in London it company for two years, before which shouldn't get offended because it's "In Greek mythology, satyrs were make them like that any more)to play had lots of references to the South he was a mechanic."I was a part-time Greek mythology, it's not gratuitous there at the birth of everything: they a football hooligan. Bank. but now we've moved to Leeds mechanic and I came home after a or dirty. it's just an honest, Northern drank the first wine, they (eft the first "I've got to have my head shaved, some of the lines have been changed really bad day, sat down and wrote a play." fire burn, they were there when the actually. I'm not looking forward to to rhyme with the River Aire cheeky letter to Barry (Rutter. the After the play run ends. how do first musical instrument was played." that. Grade one, so that'll be instead?' director), more or less saying I you follow up on such a unique explains Matthew. So this would interesting. I'm a typical football So. tracking cattle and rhyming wanted a job. I'd been a member of production? "I'm going to get on to account for their visible signs of hooligan: football shirt, jeans. bother couplets aside, was there anything the National Youth Theatre for three my agent and try and get some work! 'excitement. -Well the guy on the boots." else you had to master to play a years and he got in touch and invited Some television wold be nice, or poster has a dangly phallus, but The plot sounds a little happy-go-lucky satyr?"011 yes, clog- me to an audition in London, casting pantomime Anything really, actors are confusing, to say the least, as dancing." Clog-dancing? "Yes, it's Romeo and Juliet. So I went across and just trying to keep working and I'm Matthew admits,"It is very great, I really enjoy it. For the first got the Ob./hitting is what I've always lucky because I've worked for two complicated Its not when week I was the worst clog-dancer in wanted co do and being a mechanic years solidly now. which doesn't you watch it, but it is to the world They gave me these clogs wasn't.There's no comparison!' usually happen" explain" and I was slipping and sliding all over He thinks the play will definitely So there you have it: a bawdy The play was written by the place-You have to learn to stand appeal to students."It's so funny. an Northern comedy flavoured with a Leeds-born Tony Harrison up in them first before you can even absolute scream, and so accessible as generous serving of Greek and is set in rhyming start to dance" well.There're lots of references to mythology. It sounds like a scream. couplets. Harrison has Matthew has previously clog- toilet humour. If people can get over Go with a big group of friends. Just actually re-worded some danced his way through two other these big nobs, then they re all right. don't take your Auntie Mabel.
SIDE from the dicks with the Northern Broadsides Sun God's splendour and basic and there is too much (which are, incidentally, cast obviously enjoying Tony arrogance effectively. emphasis on noise rather than A very big, very erect and Harrison's Irreverent rhyming But the performances, music, which leaves the prominent) The Trackers of couplets however adequate, and the audience aurally annoyed. Oxyrynchus fuses joyous Trackers belongs rightly to provocative costumes cannot Trackers is a funny clog-hopping Satyrs. ancient the ensemble, a rowdy mix of hide the play's deficiencies. It experience, though how much Greek poetry and a lot of accents, whines and fears, and is disjointed and lop-sided, this is due to 12 inch noise. is centred on the rampant filled with tenuous links from members and how much to As a spectacle, the play, Satyrs quest to find Apollo's past to present. inventive energy is open for directed by Barrie Rutter (Conrad Nelson) lost herd, Comparison of the Satyrs' debate. who also performs Sileries' Their reward is, inevitably, plight to modern-day no-hope Judge for yourself, wireoed weariness buote, Nelson himself is youth is one example, There diligtoitly. is boisterous, especially impressive, his are at&o production' problems Scott Langharn energetic and fast-moving, performance suggesting the - the lighting is inescapably Book Binders Is the Booker really dedicated to good literature, or is not out to reward certain types of writing, ignoring anything experimental or new? PHIL HANLON kicks the sacrificial cow
N Tuesday night, it is nominated before the annual Booker The judges seem so be fairly suspect as well Douglas Hurd. a man who Prize for what is served under the most justly hated be the supposed to woman of this century. He is the chair ctional novel of best fi of the committee. His justification for the year. The novels come from being on the panel? He writes thrillers. all over the United Kingdom Thrillers with the most turgid. leaden III (and usually the prose. Nigella Lawson, once again Commonwealth): Beryl famous for being related to a Tory Bainbridge, Julian Barnes, fuckwit, is a food journalist That's right, Martin Booth, Patrick McCabe, she writes about food. Obviously a Ian McEwan, and Magnus Mills prime candidate to judge Britain's best known literary award The others? Well, make up the shortlist. the sort of literati that you hear about This is the 30th year of the Booker now and again.And they all live in prize. apparently Britain's best known London or Oxford. No coincidence literary award.This is probably due to that writers who live in and around the fact that it is Britain's only known London are being judged by people literary award. as seen by the 125 who live in and around London. It could entries this year, including the first be said that there is some bitter internet submission, all chasing for the regionalism being expressed here. L20.000 prize and Infinite glory. Patrick McCabe Is from Ireland after all. The judging panel is made up of But Breakfast On Pluto is not as good as Douglas Hurd (remember him?). 4Y Ion McEwon his 1992 nominated effort, The Butcher ■ Valentine Cunningham - English . -_alne Boy.This could easily be tokenism Now professor at Corpus Christi. Oxford: that's stronger than regionalism. former Booker winner Penelope And what's this business about the Fitzgerald; Miriam Gross, Literary editor Commonwealth?The Commonwealth of r he Sunday Telegraph. and Nigella Lawson. daughter of Nigel, who is comes from an embarrassing age in Britain's history, one of Rals,'comedy' apparently a journalist and a food "The Booker re-emphasises old art-forms, creating a tradition of placidness"
writer. play-on-words of other people's The Booker prize was set up In cultures and benevolent dictatorships of 1968 to raise merit and reward writers. enure races. It is two years till another as well as to increase book sales. millennium and yet the Booker is still Funnily enough. the sponsors, Booker stuck in a Kipling-esque Ideologue of plc are a food distribution company. pride and nationalism. Martin BoothBooth (obviously Nothing to do with books at all. suffering pre-prize nerves) But does the Booker prize actually HROUGHOUT the years. the same novelists crop up time and matter? It seems to be the complete the Booker prize. where the same exude the warming middle-class dangerous mission.- There is no teaser time again. Beryl Bainbridge. antithesis of what It set out to T people meet up each year (with the sad bonhomie and erudition expected of a for him to feel this way as the choice Timothy Mo, Ian McEwan. Iris Murdoch. promote:the aforementioned raising exception of Iris Murdoch) to see Booker winner. not that hard.A couple of years age Salmon Rushdie.Thomas Keneally, the merit of writers in the public eye. which of them is going to be that year's - The Booker prize has become David Lodge and William Trevor have the KLF attempted to disrupt the With the exception of Patrick winner. institutionalised In a way that is totally appeared on the shorthsts over and Turner prize for art (another McCabe. all the authors on the shortlist When James Kellman won in 1994 over, appearing to be nominated with against what it should be. Instead of monolithic institution) by offering come from Southern England (McCabe with How Late It was, How Late, there promoting new artforms, it re- twice the prize money to the worse is from Ireland).With the exception of the publication of every new novel. was uproar. It was the general emphasises old ones, creating a piece of art. Naturally it was the Magnus Mills, all the writers are authors Now, there is no doubting their literary consensus that a book with the word tradition of placidness. Douglas Hurd Turner winner.To do something like of many previously published acclaimed prowess. they are some of the greatest 'fuck' in so many times could not said of his position this year that he this with the Booker prize would be novels.And four of the writers, a writers around. But it shows that there possibly be the winner. But it could felt like."a young subaltern selected to like trying to wake a sloth with a massive proportion, have been is some sort of club building up around well have been because it did not lead a platoon on a particularly loudhailer - utterly pointless.
1988: 1990: 1993: 1995 Peter Carey A.S Byatt Roddy Doyle Pat Barker Oscar and Lucinda Possession (Chatto & Windus) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha The Ghost Road (Viking) Rollo!l (Faber and Faber) (Secker and Warburg) 1991: 1996 ° 1989: Ben Okri 1994: Graham Swift Kazuo Ishiguro The Famished Road (Cape) James Kelman Last Orders (Picador) of past The Remains of the Day How Late it Was, How Late (Faber and Faber) 1992: (Secker and Warburg) 1997 Michael Ondaatje Arundhati Roy winners The English Patient The God of Small Things (Bloomsbury) (Flamingo)
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BOOKER BOOKER BOOKER Restraint MAGNUS England, JULIAN Amsterdam BARNES of MILLS England IAN MCEWAN Flamingo, £9.99 Cape, E 1 5.99 Cape, £14.99 Beasts ODDS 811E ODDS 9/2 ODDS 2/1 Strange men and skanky A book, strangely Sharp but cliched story caravans enough, all about England of a woman and her men
ET in the depths of Scotland, The Restraint of ULIAN Barnes's England, England is a book, AN McEwan takes you through a story Beasts is all about Tarn and Ritchie, two unsurprisingly, about England.To be slightly which cascades on the page in a myriad of 5 decidedly work-shy blokes who get more specific, it's about England's I ideas and surprises. dispatched to England by their tyrannical boss. Jrelationship with its history. His characters are diverse and yet somehow their Not only have they been sent to England of all places, which It concerns a somewhat eccentric business mogul, Sir personalities and principles converge. He starts off with appears to be the stuff of their worst nightmares, to add to Jack Pitman, and his "project" which is to build a replica of Molly, whose presence you're aware of throughout the their misery they've also been saddled with a new foreman England and all its tourist attractions on the Isle of Wight. story.This is despite the fact that the novel opens with her whose main aim would appear to be, horror of horrors, to cremation. Together with a creative team, he picks a list of things ensure that they work hard. It is her tragic demise from a wild journo and love kitten associated with England and transports them across the This is an absolutely amazing debut novel which thoroughly caused by an alzheimer's-like disease (never mentioned in Solent.The Tower of London, Harrods, cream teas, deserves to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Never before the novel by name), which starts a snowball effect ending Manchester United and even - Sir Jack's greatest triumph - have I read a book so compulsively that you could completely with the other character's downfalls. the royal family are all found in this micro-England theme finish it from cover to cover within the space of a few hours. park. Vernon Halliday (newspaper editor extrordinaire) and The humour is darkly comic. It would be impossible not to Clive Linley (a hot shot composer) were both, at one point laugh throughout as we watch how the three vastly different However, whilst the new "England, England" park or another, Molly's lovers and are also close friends. Her characters must band together and learn how to cope with flourishes."Old England" falls into disrepair and is ruined death leads them into making a euthanasia pact, the each other within the confines of their scabby caravan.The only because it is no longer visited.The worrying aspect of the consequences of which neither could have foreseen. book is that it all seems so believable How many visitors to thing that unites them is their love of beer and lack of money McEwan's novel twists and turns through Vernon and to buy It with. the replica of Michaelangelo's David realise that they have Clive's lives but. somehow at some point everything speeds Though sometimes verging upon the ndiculous.the not seen the genuine article and then how many of those up.Vernon decides to publish some of Molly's photos which character's way of dealing with clients., albeit always accidental, who actually realise will actively seek out the original? compromise a leading politician (also her ex-lover) , is unsavoury to say the least. However, it is told in such a For many tourists, history us more an exercise in believing that this will be the greatest achievement of his deadpan way that you are bound to find it all absolutely entertainment than enlightenment Why bother travelling career and the saviour of his dwindling paper.What he hilarious even when it is repeated a second and even third for hours from London to see Stonehenge when, on The actually does is fire himself.When Clive decides to ignore a rime. Island, you can see a perfect replica just 10 minutes by black potentially serious assault, in favour of his own egotism, his We are presented with characters who appear to learn cab from your hotel?The fact that the site itself has obsessive behaviour means he will never finish his nothing from their past actions and mistakes.You can't help but significance has no meaning to visitors to the theme park — symphony, not the way It should be done, anyhow. feel like the characters have been in these situations before. they have seen Stonehenge and can write a postcard home The novel is certainly a good read, McEwan's style is easy. However, this does not make them any the less appealing. In saying so. witty and sharp and its pace is slow enough to be a light fact their complete ineptness in seemingly every area of life is In writing England, England. Barnes has created a witty read but fast enough for it not to be boring. However, it is what ensures that this novel is absolutely unforgettable and believable book that also challenges the reader to think the ending which seems to let things down. It's lust that little This is a book that is well worth reading if you have a spare more about their attitude to their country and about bit too contrived and the ending is a little cliched. few hours and it is guaranteed that you'll never again look at a people's attitudes cowards their past. It is obvious why thus is a booker nominee but, it may just fence without wondering what us buried beneath rt. fall short of being a winner.
Helen Morrissey Andy Kelk Lucia Das Neves
BOOKER BOOKER BOOKER fiereft_k c Ca b egp Breakfast PATRICK Master BERYL Industry MARTIN BOOTH McCABE BAINBRIDGE DEW! LEWIS on Pluto Picador Georgie Duckworth of Souls £6.99 15.99, Odds 6/1 E14.99. ODDS 6/4 ODDS 10/1 Gender and Ireland Posh drinks to fall over Brit in communist and combine in '70s London with post-Communist Russia 1______ATRICK 'Pussy' Braden is sitting in his flat in ALWAYS thought that the purpose of the Booker T is Alexander Bayliss' 80th birthday. He Kilburn writing his life story. 20 years ago, he prize was to award best British fiction of the year, so I wakes up in the house where he has lived pescaped the drudgery of Ireland for the glitz !ask myself, what is Master Georgie doing in the with Frosya and Trofim for the past 20 shortlict? Beryl Bainbridge has already won the and glamour of the neon London nightlife. 'years. But Alexander does not share the same The audience for his memoirs is his mysterious Whitbread prize with her previous work, as well as being nominated for many other prizes. Could it be that it is nationality as Frosya or Trofim. He is British, psychiatrist Dr Terrence.The content is the escape from they are Russian. In the early 1950s,Alexander his broken foster mother,Whiskers Braden and his therefore her name rather than her latest novel that has was arrested for spying and sent to a gulag for arrival in London so he can realise his transformation been shortlisted? from slum dwelling gutter-child to glittered-up Master Georgie is meant to be intriguing and compelling. It is 20 years. Presumed dead by the British transgendered rentboy debutante. narrated by three protagonists, a young orphaned girl, a Doctor government, he is forgotten about, but is But all around him though is the fear and terror of of geology and a boy that doesn't really seem CO have an identity. released in the 1970s, only to find that he has the Irish Troubles. It Is the '70s after all. However, Pussy All we know is that he used to eat fire and steal ducks_These nothing in common with the British and has is on an inevitable one-way trip into the heart of the characters all have affiliations with another protagonist, he who everything in common with Russia and the violence that he thought he had left behind for the takes the title of the book, Master Georgie.The book seems to Russians-Taken in by Frosya, his best friend's throw many questions around George's identity such as his business men and the skirts. daughter he becomes the adored Breakfast On Pluto is a headspinning, dizzy ride sexuality and how strong his relationships really are with these characters? But the problem lies in this sketchiness, we cannot schoolmaster of her (and now his) village. through a fractured imagination. Juxtaposing Pussy's But now it is the 1990s. and Communism has gone. the sweet-smelling, kitty-cute nail ramblings with some grasp onto this person. Bainbridge finds this exciting. demanding gulags abolished.As he wanders the village, saying hello to astonishingly evil torture and execution scenes her reader to ask "Who really knew Master Georgie?", but by the end of the book. the more apparent question becomes, who his friends, he reminisces about his past in the camp and (courtesy of various nationalist and republican factions). village: more than half his life spent In Russia, McCabe shows the times to be terrible and really cares? The narrative structure is appaling, as one character takes His cousin has found out chat he Is alive, and frightening In an unusual way, giving new reasons to endeavours to contact him in relation to an inheritance. shock and reinforce the violence. over the narration from another. we wonder how much time has passed.This book has no concept of time.At one moment Myrtle This forces Alexander to take control of his life for the first The actual writing is probably the zenith of McCabe's ume and make a highly-charged decision. career - beautiful lyrical passages with an intrinsic (the orphaned girl) is twelve, the next she is forty. well maybe not forty. but as the reader we can never quite fathom out what is Taking his birthday as a starting point, Booth traces his rhythm and style. fictional character (possibly based on a real person?) from One of McCabe's earlier novels was nominated for going on, where we are or what time it Is. the hardships of the gulag. working down dangerous mines, the Booker Prize in 1992 - The Butcher Boy That book It tries to draw contrasts between the affluent life the Hardy soldiers the filth, misery and abuse, to the realisation of finding made McCabe famous and Breakfast On Pluto is likely to family have in Liverpool and the hardships the expenenced in the Crimea. But these contrasts lust seemed to home and contentment In a small rural village. cement his reputation. if only because it is similar to his The contrast of the squalor of the prison camp to the previous triumph by centring on a tormented soul in an disappear amongst a mass of meaningless Beryl Bainbridge is already a very successful woman, but if she beauty of the countryside is well realised, showing two unusual and unnatural world. ant, wins this years Booker prize.( will be nothing short of aspects of Communism. rather than the usual pro and industry of Souls astounded. Master Georgie should be avoided not awarded. tirades.Told in a languid, dreamy prose Phil Hanlon shows the myriad aspects of human life laid bare. Lauren Pushkin Phil Hanlon
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decade ago. say cut and then straight away they ODD Haynes could most d probably be described as "I think it's an amazingly rich period of start acting all macho" He pulls himself up the most controversial music that has been blocked out of in his seat, flexes his muscles and lowers director of the moment. cultural memory." he says."There were no his voice by two octaves."dribbles a His new film Velvet books on Glam RockWhen I went out to basketball, thump the crew ' hey mans Goldmine has not only torn do the research it was strange. there were woh! yeah!"' He laughs and then remits Tcritics in two, but it has also upset so many thousands of books on punk and to his gentle manner...These actors David Bowie, who has refused to grunge. but nothing on glitter rock and [McGregor and Rhys Meyers] would jun lend his music or name to the film, this sparked off a bigger interest within stay in the moment_ touching each °then as well as a million screaming, me.'Wow, why? Has this whole era hair, they were really mature and sewn teenybopping, McGregor fans who brought about amnesia? What's it all which was great" It seems.) tell him. are used to seeing him In roles to about?'" McGregor adopted his character of Wild boost his modern day sex symbol am just as bemused as he is. but with even more conviction than he was image,Yet meeting Haynes makes already knowing the answer he begins to me wonder why he is so explain:" think there were just a lot of controversial, is it because this film interesting reasons why, the sexuality intends to break conventions, or is it being a major part of it." because. as an independent director, I ask him how he feels this exploration he refuses to prostitute himself to a of sexuality will affect a modern day formulaic Hollywood system? audience:"That's going to be the trick. From his first actions I can see that that's going to be the challenge because here is a director with strong ideas and the film is getting such a huge build up." passions. One who refuses to let people He emphasises the 'huge'. try and dilute these Ideas In any shape or "I really thought America would find it form. It is clear from the outset of hardest to grasp, but that has proved not conversation that this is a man who to be the case at all. I have been getting a knows what he is about and what is lot of support. So perhaps it is only important to him. Europe who refuse adamantly to deal with "It's always harder to maintain that his film. Critics over here have compared supposed to. Although "supposed to creative control.That's everything to the film to Absolute Beginners. the Bowie moon the audience". he managed ED me.You couldn't be a good director if you film that had audiences walking out of it all improvise the script and ended up going gave up that control for money" over the continent But Haynes is the full Monty. Haynes enlightens me Seeing Haynes sitting here in front of passionately ready to defend us whilst laughing,"Yes• it was amazing hoe me totally immersed. talking about Velvet Europeans. Especially when it comes to quick he was able to adapt his role Goldmine, I begin to see that this film isn't their acting skills. McGregor's character CurtWildles just about controversy, it is more about "These actors would probably be very evidently been constructed from the Rtes Haynes' views of the world His different from American actors.These of lggy Pop and Lou Reed whereas Brian determination to shed light onto those actors were so incredibly committed to Slade, played by Jonathan Rhys fleyemis things that others have tried to squeeze the gay themes in the film. A lot of • nothing short of David Bowie. Critics law out of our worldview.To reproduce a actors:' he says, talking about American already started CO throw the heat at fascination with glam rock that had ones but without wanting to hurt anyone's Haynes implying his characters are impregnated itself in Haynes almost a feelings."would do a gay scene and you'd unoriginal in content yet far from any
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atoographical truth. Nonetheless. Haynes aback by my first viewing. I really do urge that you see every day it didn't tell you Ilt'htell not let these critics get away people who are intrigued at all to see rt.., how to think, but I was able to reach a 10E nuethed. relax and just let it take you, its a very of people" But did he feel that it was his • "I think people forget_ what they don't unusual film. its not like anything that responsibility to use film to voice his le rant to think about is that these artists at you've seen before, whether you like it or feelings about sexuality or to educate t~ ire time were constructing themselves, not, I think I can say that pretty certainty." those who were unnerved by the'citheri" ry miring from other people and creasing But I ask him could he not say that about "No. For a start I don't know what Itilleese pretty hire ideals. Iggy was just as all his films? Gay Cinema is. Gay characters and Gay ,i,t:Itich putting on a show as Bowie was, themes have definitely been a part of my hate what really fascinates that's what it's A L kit - he begins,"is a medium films. and obviously a part of my life. But it teeny all about" He reveals that his film W imithat has an amazing power on isn't the only thing 1 think about when oneructed his own characters in the our imaginations." He takes me am making films." Once again he attacks ''lame way that David Bowie created Ziggy back to his early childhood." From a very the glossy Hollywood wort& tandust "It wasn't about being original, it young age film was very important to me. " I've never really created classic role rae about +eking prototypes and icons I would just freak out over a movie." it is models or gay characters. I've never really nom the past and repackaging them and this effect that Haynes wishes to produce made films that instruct you how to be from his films, he wants people to listen gay in the classic good way. you know the to what. he has to say, he wants to kind of Hollywood fashion to construct address ''ideas about society and culture the perfect gay character." thought which some people would call nature:' Todd Haynes will not be swayed, he He tries to finds the words to express will not let people hijack his words and himself. try to tell him what he really means. He "I wanted to get into critiquing about will not forfeit his talents to a Hollywood would find it what I thought was:' he pauses."Fucked system driven by money. Here is a man up.' Safe his last film definitely seems to who is full of belief. The controversy explore what is:It/eked up" in the world, surrounding his latest release Velvet it to grasp" (other critics would even argue that the C,oldmine, could neither mar his filmic film itself was "lucked up"). but whatever career or stop him from making films that ligtreating these ultra plastic glitter rock one feels, Haynes reveals that the he feels passionately about. Haynes' very e,us.This was nay raw material, response to this film was immense. Apart independence could be what makes him ler inething that was already a fiction." In from being nominated for The so respected amongst his colleagues e t pis way Haynes managed to bring about a Independent Spire Award and winning the could jump on the band wagon of critics i"Irri"that would be glarn rock and not just Seattle Amencan frldeperrelen tAward. it also and compare Haynes to other Directors. tit bout earn rock:' "became this film that so many people even call him the Orson Welles of the rest It brings about no surprise that Haynes respected. People came up to me and nineties, the man struggling against the iesirants many people to see this film and told me how much it meant to them and system. but that would just reduce a man roe/hats more to see it in its own right. It is that's amazing." of great talent and great passion to no ee project which he has put so much Being able to give voice to his views more than half of an inseparable couplet iZenergy into and so much of himself. and opinions wee( informed. a very But he is not. In fact just like his film Velvet ea "But I do understand, if I went to see precious gift. He agreed unquestionably, Goldmine should be viewed on In own je his film as someone who loves this era, "re) very lucky, Safe, for example, was a terms. Haynes stands alone, as a man in Whit music. I would probably be taken very difficult feature. It was not a movie his own right_ • Vo-
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