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k. O penings ucsb art exhibitions Perhaps it’s the gloom of this June begin. weather, but I feel uninspired by the three To the viewers already familiar with the art exhibits that opened on campus artist, “ Works On Paper” is an interesting yesterday. How can you explain the still document on the development of Matisse’s emptiness of not something you don’t like, style. The Renoir bronze works achieve but of something that is just rather — dull? similarity in showing the familiarity of Realizing the tremendous significance of Renoir’s work with his model Renee Jolivet. the names Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri The eyes, lips, bottom-heavy stance and Matisse only reminds me of a print that broad hips of the larger-than-lifesize statue hangs above a friend’s couch. One-third of it “ Venus Victrix” are classically, if almost m m is comprised of five black lines making the boringly emphatic of Renoir’s more im­ portant works. The sculpture is significant S > s figure of a woman’s backside and the only thing on the right side of the drawing is the of Renoir’s three-dimensional move in his 1 ®Sgg artist’s signature — Picasso. Would the later life. It is difficult, however, to separate drawing have any real merit without that the hands of the artist with the idea in this I signature? exhibit, for Renoir’s hand is not alive in the I Renoir: Five Major Works and Henri flat pitted surface of “ Venus,” nor the rest Matisse: Works On Paper and Bronzes is a m m W B a m of this exhibit which was executed under his k m M â two-fold achievement and disappointment direction of Richard Guino because of the for the University Art Museum. It’s a great artist’s crippling arthritis. Pr^S;-s:ÎWîf:'.-''-'î privilege, both academically and leisurely, Also on campus at the Women’s Center W Ê m Ê m m Ë m ¡¡Ill s , V 'O '' j£Sv ; to have works of two of this century’s Gallery is the bronze, wood and marble masters on exhibit here at UCSB. But the sculptures of the Los Angeles-based artist, works that ore here signify not solely the Tara Potterveld. Ani-mater: generating life

! difficulty in borrowing important works, but is an interesting study in a variety of the lack of funding and support that one of sculpture textures. Though much of the the few accredited UC art museums suffers subject matter is the simplistic depiction of from. peasantry, the mythical quality is charming The significance of “ Matisse: Works on in some of the characters like “ Frog Paper” in part shows the process of Mother,” which has frogs crawling out of Matisse’s draftsmanship. Specifically, the the back of a bored seated woman, sym­ squeezing out of space and enlargement of bolizing birth, or “ Buddhist Snake Mother,” the interior backgrounds with detailed in which cobras similarly crawl out of the graphic-like patterning, see the shift in the back of an Indian woman gesturing a

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dream. Almost every teenage boy fantasizes about losing his WHO’S BIG NOW? virginity to an older woman, and through the Hanks character the males in the audience get to relive their youthful dreams., (By contemporary standards though, no studio would make a film about a 12-year-old girl who is transformed into a woman and then loses her virginity to an adult male, and is there some sort of Freudian significance to the title?). And if they could live their lives over, maybe, as does the younger side of the Hanks’ character, they would like computers more. The success so far of Big indicates that the producers have struck paydirt, attracting the yuppies with the fantasy angle and the kids with Tom Hanks. But aren’t you getting tired of WELCOME TO yuppies whining about how they wish they were not a bunch SANTA BARBARA of overachievers and could act like a Tom Hanks’ child in designer clothing, especially when this is the generation that spent the last decade living the motto: He who dies with the most toys wins. If you are really in that much of a mood for a Tom Hanks comedy, then find a neighbor with a VCR, use your money for a six-pack of a good beer and rent Bachelor Party. HORNS 4 BU LL M O N D A Y - THE BEST BU R G ER N TO W N A T THE BEST P R IC E N TO W N 11:30 A M TILL 9 P M TUESDAY - BIG CULL NIGHT - CLASSIC 6 0 S . 7 0 S . A N D 9 0 S D A N C E “Do you know what the différence between .250 and .300 is? M U S IC TO A C C O M P A N Y THE LARG EST D A N C E F LO O R M SAN TA B A R B A R A __ Twenty-five hits in a season. That’s one extra blooper, one W EDNESDAY - COUNTDOWN-PARTY TIL MPMGHT WITH THE more dying quail a week. One more dying quail and you’re in LATEST N D A N C E M U S IC A N D V D E O S . 5 F O R 1 DRINK PRICES AT 8 PM 21 ANDOVER, PUIS $H30 the Show.” O F F THE C O V E R WITH C O L L E G E O R A LU M N I D .

T H U R S D A Y • B U C K N IG H T -B U C K M O N STER B ESTS. B U C K L O N G 6 L A N D S . B U C K W ELL DRIN KS A N D A B U C K C O V E R . Crash Davis has learned the hard way that baseball is a N O W D O Y O U SEE W H Y W E C A U . IT B U C K N IG H T .. game of inches. Ten years in the minor leagues and he’s only F R ID A Y - C O M E D Y N IG HT - THE G R A D U A T E A N D B O B Z A N Y 20 dingers away from becoming the all-time minor league NTERPRISES PRESENT THE 608 ZANY COMEDY OUTLET. LIVE STAN D U P C O M E D Y F O R EV E R YO N E 18 A N D O V E R . The ads for the new Tom Hanks’ comedy Big are big, and home run champ. Crash doesn’t want the Sporting News to SHOW STARTS AT 930. ITS THE ONLY UVE COMEDY IN SANTA BARBARA... with a big picture of the star sporting a big grin, this movie know if he should reach this “ dubious achievement,” though, S A T U R D A Y -T H E PARTY IS B A C K . C O U N T D O W N A T 8 P M WITH 5 FO R seems to promise big laughs. There are even some big name 1 DRIN K PRIC ES A N D D A N C IN G A L L N IG H T F O R THOSE 21 ANDOVER. critics saying Big is worth your big (count them, $6) bucks. by Jesse Engdahl SU N D A Y -TEEN NIGHT-WE OPEN OUR DOORS. PUT UP THE But for all its hype and big concept 12-year-old becomes a 35- ALCOHOL AND PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR THOSE UN D ER 19. O P E N F R O M 8 P M TILL 1 A M . C O V E R IS $5130 year-old comedy prospects, Big washes out to a medium. because the only place he ever wanted to leave his mark was BETTER THAN A M O V E ...... As summer movie fare, Big delivers exactly what it the majors — “ the Show.” 935 EMBARCADERO DEL NORTE ISLA VISTA, CALIFORNIA 93117 promises. The laughs are of the big yuck-yuck variety, In Bud Durham, Kevin Costner plays Crash almost too mostly coming from Porky ’s-style food dribbling or relying perfectly; the movie’s only real suspense is how co-star on the idea that it is supposed to be a good time to watch a 35- Susan Sarandon (Annie) can resist him. He’s too old, too good year-old man act like an eight-year-old. There are times and too experienced (in ball, life and love) for the rest of the A-ball Durham (South Carolina) Bulls, where he’s been by Adam Liebowitz brought to straighten out the mind and pitches of Ebby, the when these antics work, especially in the scenes between 21-year-old who can throw at 95-plus mph but “ couldn’t hit WELL THEN Hanks and his 12-year-old best friend. The buddy moments water if he fell out of a boat.” MAKE YOUR APARTMENT have a nice balance of character and laughter, probably Durham is presented beautifully as the sleeply little MORE LIKE HOME because in these moments, Hanks knows how to act as a man- baseball town where the American Dream can flourish with child. However, in his solo scene-stealing moments, Hanks hot dogs and Cracker Jacks. Yet the most interesting and seems more like a three-year-old who has been transformed beautiful member of the town is a woman who, after wor­ and the idea gets old fast. shiping everything from Buddha to Jesus to Mushrooms, has Tom Hanks’ comedy career has always been on the hit and settled on Metaphysics and the Church of Baseball. Every miss. He was at his funniest in the sitcom “ Bosom Buddies,” season, Annie Savoy takes one member of the team under her where his comic antics seemed well framed on the small wing and into her bed, and every season that player has the screen. His silver-screen ventures have definitely had their best year of his career. Then he goes on, usually to the Show, ups and downs (remember The Man with One Red Shoe?) and she waits for the next season to begin. Just guess who with his first outing, Bachelor Party, being his best. That will finally be Annie’s match. film looked to be just another entry in the wacky night, bad First, however, Costner’s got to turn Annie down because ALL “ COMFORTS” AVAILABLE AT LO W sex comedy genre, except that Hanks was funny — a fact he doesn’t want to be part of any ritual or considered along “STARVING STUDENT” RATES several producers have since been trying to bank on. with someone as stupid as Ebby. Annie is smart and sexy and In Big, Hank’s goofy antics might have seemed funnier if not the least bit jaded, just an optimistic realist who wants to Summer they were not so wrapped up in the film’s big-time production give more than she receives. Costner is smart and sexy and Discount values. Big is a summertime ice cream treat the way Three very jaded; after 10 years as a piece of baseball equipment, Item Monthly Rate Men and a Baby was a Christmas-time greeting card. The he’s not going to play his love life that way. cinematography is cheerful and has lots of swooping worthy Here, baseball is a metaphor for life — a game with rules VCR $ 35 $ 87 of a rollercoaster with dramatic pull-ins and emotional pull­ that’s subject to individuals with relative personalities, Color TV 25 62 backs. Not to mention that everyone has great apartments, where you’re worth what you produce on the field no matter Microwave 18 45 dresses out of fashion magazines and never has a hair out of how you manage. Costner illustrates the confusion when he Refrigerator 45 place. All of which is fine for light comedy (or is that lite- at once tries to teach Ebby that the only thing that matters is 18 the Show, “ where you never carry your own bags, every Answering Machine 18 45 comedy?) and we do want to get our money’s worth out of the admission price. But these same visual candy treats make hotel has room service, and the women have great legs and Computer 135 335 any character jokes, or worse yet, any of the emotional brains,” and yet introduces him to a guy who hit .376 at moments seem saccharine. Louisville but never “ made it” because he didn’t get that one ^rentalnetwork) 6530"B P ard all * 685-71 If anything, Big is for the yuppies a combination extra blooper a week. masturbation fantasy and an if-I-had-it-to-do-all-over-again Bull Durham is a great “ summer movie” because it’s got all the elements down — it’s sweet, sexy, funny, insightful, sarcastic and slightly screwball with great timing, flow and chemistry. Costner will no doubt be God until the next Tom Cruise movie, and Sarandon is getting hotter with age. The baseball is fun, the jokes are sharp and the sex is pretty sexy (a lot sexier than most shit around this year). If you liked Moonstruck, The Witches of Eastwick or North Dallas Forty, it’s another thumbs up.

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