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2B A&E February 15, 1996 Disney Energized For Spring Break TOP Box Office Hits • An alien encounter with a five- scream climax, a 55-mph water-slide WEEKEND cross plummet and a 13-story fall in a shaky CROSS TO DATE WKS hotel elevator are just some of the newest World thrills 1 $10.6 BLACK SHEEP awaiting college students during Paramount, Chris Farley $10.6 l Spring Break '96. And some student discounts add 2 $8.4 THE JUROR to the adventure. February 11 through April 16, $8.4 Columbia, Demi Moore l students can spend all day at any one Disney theme park for $26 ($11 off 3 $8.1 MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS regular admission), then play all night Hollywood, Dreyfuss $31.2 3 free on Pleasure Island — home of Planet Hollywood — with a wild street party, seven hot nightclubs, plus 4 $3.9 BED OF ROSES confetti and fireworks at midnight. To New Line, Christian Slater $11.5 2 receive a total savings of more than $27, students must present a valid 5 $3.9 WHITE SQUALL college ID card when purchasing the Hollywood, $3.9 special ticket Other Disney savings for college students include: a second night at 6 $3.6 DEAD MAN WALKING Pleasure Island for $10.95 and, with Gramercy, Susan Sarandon $10.0 purchase of the Disney Break ticket. a $10 ticket to one of Disney's three 7 $2.9 12 MONKEYS tbemed water parks — Blizzard Universal, $49.3 Beach, Typhoon Lagoon or River Country (where regular admission is $23.95). 8 $2.5 FROM DUSK TILL DAWN For information about Walt Dimension, $21.6 Disney World Resort, call (407) 824- 4321. 9 $2.3 / One of the many watersUdea at Disney's three premier water parks. TriStar, $88.9 8 Not Only A Fishing Lure, But A Band As Well 10 $2.2 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Columbia, Emma Thompson $21.2 8

11 $2.2 EYE FOR AN EYE Paramount, $22.8

12 $2.1 GRUMPIER OLD MEN Warner Bros., $65.6

13 $1.6 LEAVING LAS VEGAS United Artists, $11.5 15

|14 $1.6 TOY STORY Walt Disney, Animated $ 179.4 11

]15 $1.2 SCREAMERS Triumph, Peter Weller $5.1

|16 $1.2 RESTORATION Miramax, Robert Downey Jr. $1.8

|17 $1.2 HEAT Warner Bros., $63.3 8 The Spookfloaters. By Barry Metz consistently influence one another with their Featuring band members Mike Holmes Contributing Writer extemporizations. on vocals and rhythm guitar. Malt Jones on 18 $1.0 SABRINA With an ever-growing number of fans, the drum and percussion, Dan Hamilton on lead Paramount, Harris&n Ford $50.4 8 The Spook Boaters are not just a Spook Floaters have taken one generation's guitar and vocals and Scott Camder on baas, band, but also "vampires at night." music and helped to expose to another gen- this band creates magnificent sets of impro- Road nips are a major part of this eration of old and new audiences. Having cov- visations! music. It's not unusual for these \9 $0.9 WAITING TO EXHALE band's schedule, so band members ered Grateful Dead songs as well as Bob guys to go off into a 15 to 20 minute jam for really only get to socialize at night If Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan just to their fans and really get the bouse rockin'. 20th Century Fox, Angela Bassett $62.2 these guys creep into your favorite name a few, the band has been combining The Spook Floaters aren't justs rock core hangout, get ready for some great more of their own original material into their band, because Daces of jazz and biuet-ass can tunes. shows. At first members expressed concern also be heard in their sty*- of play With this 20 $0.9 SEVEN This Cincinnati-based band came that audiences wouldn't respond as well, but kind of fusion, the Spook Floaters will always New Line, $93.1 20 together seven years ago with seven the truth is that fans loved then tunes just as have the opportunity to incorporate new members and have since undenjone much. With a tentative release of an upcom- sounds into their music and keep fans com- guile a few changes. For instance, they ing CD this year, die real flavor of this band ing back for more. simplified their name by shortening will finally be able to be beard by all types of Catch the Spook Floaters who will con- it to just die Spook Floaters — statt- music lovers. tinue to breathe new life into all their shows, ing off they ran under the moniker The Aside from their CD, seeing this band whether the songs happen to be s blast from Riverrunt Spook Floaters. They felt perform live and bow spontaneous they are, die past or one of today's fresh new styles the name change would be easier for you'll hear new music every night whether that they've written. Truly that's what music _ _ their tans to remember. The band also it be a cover tune or one of their originals. is all about; keeping creativity alive far mu- WILMINGTON 910-791-6678 changed their line-up — now a quar- The Spook Floaters feel that music is univer- sic lovers. J-RJ tet They are a tightly-knit group who sal and has no color barrier

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