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lncorpoiatingIOU magazine March 15, 1996 Truly, Madly, Juicy •Ilocirocl city ALAN RICKMAN SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT FAME
AND WHY HE HATES IT Interview inside Juice r11419sistne THEFT OF RESIDENTS' CASH GOES UNCHECKED FOR TWO YEARS Thousands stolen in hall mail scam TUOINT By MARTIN ARNOLD .1■11 Special investigation CHIEF REPORTER PLEASE HELP FREE MY DAD FROM JAIL THOUSANDS of pounds have been stolen from students at a hall of residence in a mail theft scam lasting more than two years. A Leeds Student investigation has discovered that students living at the Beckett Park campus repeatedly complained of valuable mail going missing - but they received little support from university officials. Many of the victims found that their bank cants. electronic equipment, compact discs and birthday cards containing cash failed to arrive, Inquiry Now police have launched an inquiry to find out what happened to the missing post after 16 incidents were reported in February alone . Detectives ■Alipe4:1 hank and credit cards taken from the mad have been used to steal cash from students' bank amounts. Andrew Salt. the students union's VP Beckett Park. said: "Our office has kept a complaints book whit* shows incidenis of mail Inss steaming mote than two years. However. despite being made aware of the problem in the mail room. the university failed to take arts decisive action." Nicola Stuart. a second year BEd Primary student who lived in Caedmon Hall at Beckett Park last year. claimed: "I was sent a bill for CDs that I never received or even ordered. It wasn't just a few of us - everyone suffered the same problem • and we tried to complain hut were told nothing could be done withotn proof. In the end D lit'VOrd redittct my mail to my borne address." Her claim was reinforced by Andrew Everingham. an infonnautai MURDER APPEAL: Law student Annabelle James is facing an uncertain future after her father's appeal against a Science student who also lived at Beckett Park last year. think there murder conviction was thrown out last week. She says his life sentence is a miscarriage of justice - but her light had hen complaints before I arrived tn September I 9444 because the to win his freedom and clear his name could cost her a university career Full story: pages 4 & 5 Plc: Nick Lee CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-7. Feature 12-13. Careers 14, Travel 15. Science 16, Consumer Affairs 17. Sport 19-24. Plus 16 page juice pullout magazine 2 1.VTitt5 $111►1ENT FnIty Mach 15 WIN News Repeat theft of uni computers Rolf Harris runs hall ball into debt Cash stolen STUDENT 'THIEVES who broke into a is an alarm system linked to ORGANISERS of Bodington than expected. His fee was tre.t..g 5tode,r1 r. an l udrtwn.lrld university building stole two university security. Hall's annual ball have been said to be "several thousand in mail scam Iludc40 computers just weeks after they A security review of the criticised for mismanagement pounds". Leeds 1/niver%it), LcrJr Andrew Page, a warden at CONTINUED FROM PAGE %le:ft-v[1'1111m 11t,retNity tad ..ttwt were replaced after a separate building has resulted in plans to and overspending. writes ■ Bodington Hall. said., "We aim . t.11c,•c..❑ w ,mil .Lr.• Ina! t.er.1. All robbery. write Zilia !hewn and install bars on all windows to Marian Birch. residential officer announced 0.t ,:i l.0, I,,Idr by 4 old(' a Emma Teasdale, strip any further break-ins. They have sold out the to break even throughout the on our first day that we I htll ..ail have 411 \ The computers were first Liz Kirkness from the service 1.000 tickets for the event at year." should not have valuables 1.1e.y le (111. Resident Jared Seth. stolen from Leeds University's stressed: "All clients' E23 per head but have failed sent to us in the mail as there Counselling Service on February information is completely to generate enough cash to studying English. said: ''It were problems with the Hall's Led{ Studint nr.vapvi 8. but soon after their confidential. No names or cover entertainment costs. sounds like had post." UM. t ni.ws11) Vision mismanagement. it's a lot of PO n1,t 137 replacement the new equipment addresses are on the computers The headline act. Aussie Detective inspector LEEDS was taken on March I , therefore absolutely no entertainer Rolf Harris, money to spend on a single act Graham Wilson claimed "We LSI [UN At present. the only security information was leaked " proved to be more expensive but I'll reserve judgement." are investigating incidents Editar and are now looking for Miro Rinse students who have left the Deport italuir Halls and may have had cards Sunr, or valuables taken." tarn 1411,0 Vice-Chancellor Geoff Hitchins said he regrets the %to, Irdti,ort lorn situation but stressed they had VI. Job, worked closely with the ..010211, WAIL.- police and Royal Mail- "The system of mail distribution Monks Rdildo, Solo drivers are has also been reviewed." Jemliftl Siam). w. 1:1111 He defended the university's inactivity "There Camel, Editor clime (.21...u-• was a marked increase in complaints about missing I mums! a Amara,. 'lung Mks mail over the past year. but it took a long time for a pattern to emerge." A man is helping police iven red light with their enquiries. Hs Ai ratvAirrm The university have now their cars at peak times contacted all of the residential MOTORISTS who share students asking them to report Moir Naar. could soon earn money and road priority if new CONSTRUCTION HEADACHE any incidents of valuable mail ars EAU proposals are put into practice. going missing this year. 1)44.4 01b4-41 (Ira MI ova The move is part of a Andrew Salt said: "We are hid to tackle peak hour very pleased that the incident SHARING has finally come to an end. congestion on some busy Many of the students will he roads to the city. Leeds able to claim compensation City Council is bidding for DRIVERS and the union will support £ 150.000 from the them as far as possible." European Union's 'Drive' I `-`' Picous Ldlt. . —7 eft•.••emio Ciare programme to reward TO EARN Christians help NSA 1,-, drivers who give others Prtmlucilm lifts at times of congestion. A CHRISTIAN group is Blarasor Stew If the bid is successful PRIORITY organising a series of events Kai Tom plans could be underway However not all to help combat exploitation Scame 141tor of the Third World. writes mad 40.s within 18 months. environmental campaign Council researchers are groups believe sharing lifts is Anna Dent. Faille National group Christian • also considering the benefits the solution for tackling road Aifildant Spurt Lull,, of Aid has teamed up with Paul Ituhaz.to,, creating special lanes on congestion. Jane Puzey from some main routes. The 'Transport 2000' claims that a LMU's Chaplaincy to 114 provide information about Masai/lb,* separate lanes for so-called such programmes are merely a 'High Occupancy Vehicles' small step in the right international debt, fair trade Travel Edbirr and the effects of First lipm P* irst would operate in a very direction: "We need to ► similar way to the familiar evaluate the whole way we World economic policies on Atimlong ninnies developing countries. 0-, bus lanes on many roads. travel, including the designs HEADACHE: Residents of Charles Morris Hall Pie: Jeff Shaw 1,44..11 According to Leeds City of roads and cities. Sharing They will he staffing v=1r 1...... council 76.5 per cent of cars can reduce the number of cars THL construction of a new Morris Halt claims: "It has stalls at the Beckett Park passing through Leeds city at peak times but it does not library extension has been interrupted my studies many campus and the City Site, Heard a good centre have only one address all problems of road causing a headache for times this term". starting today. where occupant. congestion." residents of nearby Charles But Deputy Librarian of the students can learn about poor story? Call the 'Free Wheelers' is one If these plans go ahead Morris Hall, writes Emma Edward Boyle library. Mr Hugh countries' problems, and buy organisation that would they will effect most student liawkaworth. Wellesley-Smith. shouting over third world goods from fair welcome such moves. They motorists, such as car-owner For the past month daily the noise of the pneumatic trading company Traidcraft. Newsdesk aim to match passengers and Donald Gough who says "In drilling and noise from heavy drills, said- "We have arranged A national Christian Aid drivers who are travelling on principle the plans have to be machinery has been disturbing the construction work so that campaign has so far the same routes. setting up a good thing, but I can students and library staff alike. there will be minimal noise for collected 6.000 signatures 0113 clubs for car-sharing in imagine it might become One first year Medical students during the April. Jun• of people interested in 2434727 student unions. pretty annoying.' student and resident of Charles and January exam periods," helping fight the problems. Want to *Weather news * Weather news * Weather news advertise? DJ at Back to Basics!!! Contact I he Let.ils :Oudot/ has teamed up with the Cavil 14c to send a budding potential talent all the way to the top. 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THREE freshers were subjected to a terrifying ordeal after a gang of youths attacked them just yards from their hall of residence. Gun muggers writes Sharon Milo& Joanne Delimy, Laura Smith and Johtnehan Yardley. all students at LMU. sustained serious injuries that required immediate medical attention after PRIESTS ON THE RUN the unprovoked attack. The II perpetrators. thought to be around 17 years old. struck as the trio were walking home to Kirkstall Brewery Flats. They approached the students striketh Muhl Fitta and started verbally intimidating them. When the students ignored A FRESHER had a gun held to his neck by a gang their remarks the thugs punched of youths in the latest of a series of armed attacks one of the girls. on students in recent weeks. The attackers then punched Sam Barton. a Media and kicked Ihcir s iciiinsin the head and stomach, The offenders Technology student at GUN ATTACK ran off when help arrived from LMU. was walking home at the nearby Bridge Inn. 1Ipm last Thursday when ON FRESHER Joanne said: "It has shocked he was confronted by two me as I did not expect something young males outside like this would have happened a AS HE WALKS few yards from the hall's petrol station tin entrance, on the main road and in Meanwood Road. a well lit area. One of them produced a BACK HOME, "1 now feel really unsafe gun and forced the first year to when I see people on that road - hand over his walkman. incident to Police. I'm scared it might he our of Sam described how the Security otticers at the ball them " terrifying incident unfolded: "I of residence were also had been to the Old Bar with informed and offered some friend: and on the was assistance. home I saw two lads, with two Although obviously Gatesmash girls also hanging around" shak u. Sam did manage to The young men, who used lake Nome consolation (ruin DRUNK party animals left a scarves to conceal their faces, the incident: as he handed huge bill this week after approached Sam and user the walkman. he cheekily bursting into a student house on persisently asked him for managed to take out and Friday thinking a party was in money. conceal the tape he had been full swing. writes George listening to. Rutter Pushed This is the latest in a spate Second year Paul Mandeville But when he claimed he of gun attacks on students in was disturbed by a knock at the had none. he was pushed Leeds. Two weeks ago a group door at 3am and, thinking it was around and then hacked up of footba 1 I supporters were housentate returning from a against a wall. threatened by a gunman at the night out. opened the door. "One of them pulled out a Skyrack pub in Heading ley the w rong But the visitors turned out to gun, I think it was an air after they cheered be four unknown drunks, who pistol. and put it up against my team. In another incident. a group pushed passed Paul demanding neck. They'd noticed my of students walking through to be let into the party they earphones and told me to give believed was going on. them my w all: man They kept Hyde Park were accosted by a group of youths and The four went into Ben's on at me. so I had to go along threatened with a gun, while in downstairs room and began with it". chanting 'Blue Army'. while After the ordeal, Sum the same area a pair of playing his £3,000 trumpet, returned to his flat at teenagers were seen taking potshots at a bus. which they then smashed. They SugarwelI Court to report the caused extensive damage and stole several items. including an assortment of coins Paul had collected on travels around the world, before he managed to throw them out. STICKY SITUATION A STUDENT from Leeds people at this university." he Pool boost found herself in a sticky said. situation last week when she Katherine has learned her CAMPAIGNERS for a new returned to her car to find the lesson and says, -I now walk campus swimming pool received locks had all been to uni%ersity which is better a boost at last week's LUU superglued, writes Sophie for me and the environment." Annual General Meeting, writes Mallow. David Smith. Katherine Harrison. a Students voted to mandate the postgraduate student, was union to put pressure On parked close to the Earth Cheers! university officials in bidding for Sciences Department at RUN THE WORLD: The chaplaincy team go through their paces Pic: Paul Shelley the new sports facility. Leeds University when the A I MOUE sports drink They also agreed to pass a formula has been designed WANTED: anyone BY EMMA TvASOALE 550 members iS over 60 years culprits struck. new union constitution, radically in it joint venture between looking to work off LINA- BIANI old and thinks it'll be great Luckily they did not glue altering LUU's internal structure fun." the car's hoot luck so both Leeds universities, Pool, taking in the ring road and procedures. that winter tom - in He added: "If you feel Katherine was able to get in writes Allison Phillips. before finishing at the Town But motions to mount a the name of charity. you cannot run the full 13 to her ear. The new sports drink, to Hall. priority campaign for free beer, Leeds University miles. a relay team can he The geology student says he called • Marathade', is So far the team consists and to give DJ Carl Cox the title chaplaincy is organising a organised where each whoever did the deed was designed to rehydrate of three chaplains, four -Honorary President' of the member runs four miles." very 'glued up' on locks - athletes more quickly than 13-mile marathon in students and three members union for his services to students, To sign up contact the they had done such a good current products. Leeds and they are still of staff. were comfortably overturned. chaplaincy, where you can job the locks had to be totally The research has been looking for another 10 Simon Robinson from the The AGM achieved the also find out details about replaced. This cost the carried out over the past students to compete in university chaplaincy says: quorum of more than five training runs and schedules. unimpressed student £60. three years and with a their charity run. "No matter how out of hundred members fur the second The money raised is A spokesman for patent on the name already Runners will be on their condition or ancient you are time in two years, even though hoped to exceed £3,000 and university secunty blames the secured a hacker is now marks on July 14. The route you should be able to run it being sought to promote it. the pre-meeting-build-up was hit will be &mated to Christian gooey deed on students. starts at the International "One of our team by personal conflicts between Aid and St Georges Crypt. "There arc lots of childish rnenthers of Exec. 3 4 I FI DS STUDFS:T Fr,Li 1%1An-h 15. 1046 News viewpoint FRESHER FIGHTS TO FREE HER FATHER Leeds Student ventures forth each week to gauge your opinions and uncover your hidden secrets... Do you agree that paying I:10 to watch the Bruno-Tyson fight is exploiting the viewer's rights, as Sky TV is a pre-paid package deal? Please free
"It's blood motley for blood sport. though f tit is a hit steep by the two seconds that Bruno Is going to last ' Ben Whalley, 2nd year English and Music . my father 1 think it is day light robbery. but Ill still he watching the fight of the century, because like Bruno. fin u sucker for punishment."
Paul Mandeville. 2nd year International Politics.
think it is a very clever HY WARRENom Lisat prison idea. If I owned Sky TV. I'd do the saute. People FIRST YEAR law student Annabelle will watch the match James has started working on her despite the f 10." first real legal case but it has little to do with exam grades or an improved Simon Beamish, 2nd year international Politics. CV - because Annabelle is fighting for her dad's freedom. The Leeds University student is launching a desperate campaign to release her father "I do agree that it is after his appeal against a life sentence for exploitation, but if will be worth it to see two sweaty murder was thrown out last week. tton men fight it out in the ring" And she is facing massive financial costs which could mean she will be forced to leave Co
te university.
Pe Catherine Franks, 1st year Economics and Cohn James was jailed two years ago after he
Social History. was found guilty of killing millionaire business associate David Martin in 1992. Pics: But Annabelle and her family, who have Compiled by already spent huge sums of money on his appeal, Emma Teesdale and Zina Bunni are sure he is the victim of a miscarriage of 411••=111•11■justice, NOT SO HAPPY FAMILY: Annabelle with her father, mother and younger brother. They point out that the case against him relied exclusively on could have put forward our new Annabelle is not deterred essay on miscarriages of justice. I forensic evidence after no evidence at the appeal, but the however, although she admits the wrote about my father and think witnesses, murder weapon or a judges just wouldn't listen. I'm campaign work could affect her got a little carried away!" RAPID REPRODUCTION body were intend. absolutely devastated". finances and her academic work: Annabelle, who has even Friends of Mr Martin are Now she plans to launch a "Financially I'm stuck. I've spent studied Appeal Coun processes (No Rabbits Required) even willing to testify that they full scale campaign producing my student loan, but I've got as part of her first year course. have seen hint after the alleged posters, leaflets and T-shirts to nothing to lose, My flatmates are feels her dad is concerned that murder took place_ gain public support. If necessary all behind me and people I have she finishes her course, but for "I'm convinced of my she will take the case to the talked to so far understand my now the priority is to see him father's innocence," Annabelle European Court. grievance" freed: "If it is the last thing I do I said. -The day of the murder was "There is much more to the Kate Walters, who knows will get him out of there." just like a normal day, I sat down case than meets the eye." she Annabelle from home and is also with him watching TV. professed, in contrast to the view studying in Leeds, backed her "I have also studied the case of Detective Chief Inspector friend all the way: "Annabelle is from a legal perspective and I am David Blair. the head of the very determined and I will convinced that my father is a murder investigation who insists support her in any way I can," victim of injustice." that the appeal proved that the One of the major challenges However the accumulated orignial decision of the court was for Annabelle will be combining evidence and Annabelle's correct. He said: "Much is still her academic work with the • Disk Output to laver & full Colour • Setf Serve Black & White Copying determination to see her father unknown about the campaign: "I intend to find a • Typesetting/ Design • Lazer Colour Copying freed failed to influence the circumstances of this murder, balance between both. Currently • Binding • Self Serve Mac and PC judges' decision at the Appeal notably the whereabouts of I. have had few academic David Martin's remains." problems - I had to write an • Electronic & Offset Printing • Large formal Colour Output Court in London: "I wish we MISSING ,MAN , Id • Nan Copying - Posters & Displays • T Shirt • Mugs etc Smart bus stop talks dirty Nightclub attack on fresher A DIRTY worded prank you fucking walk ),,ti lazy POLICE were called to The suddenly appeared and punched alppagreplMes supposedly committed by students mans?". Tequila Society's bash last week me in the head." She was knocked your print matters from Leeds has achieved celebrity Josie McHugh from Leeds after one reveller was attacked and backwards off a platform and states, writes Ali MacArthur. Metro said: "It is very sad when taken to hospital suffering from landed on her head on the UNIVERSITY BRANCH CITY BRANCH The lastest issue of Loaded something like this happens." concotsionaerfies Tim Daffy . dancefloor below. magazine describes how an However she added: "People have Clare Jones, a first year student "1hit my head on the floor and innovative talking bus-stop in the assumed that students tampered at Leeds University, was dancing that's the last thing I remember city centre was allegedly with the message. but there is no at the Planet Earth party when she until I carne round in hospital." tampered with by student:. evidence to support this." was punched in the face by a man. Clare was taken to the LGI and The story tells how instead of Even Jim draper. the boffin The attacker appeared to come treated for concussion. hearing timetable information, who invented the talking from nowhere. "There was no The attacker made a quick get Internet: [email protected] shocked passengers using the timetable, admitted "there was a reason for it." she said. "there was away as bouncers could not find machine were asked "Why don't minor hiccup" a bit of jostling and then he him in the club. . 41 Fri 41441: 111MIIMI1-
ron• News LEEDS STUDENT Endo. March IS I∎ FROM A LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER Too many cooks spoil Irish visit
A CATERING dispute has BY EMMA TEMIMI.11 broken out following the visit of 7JNA Beset the Irish President Mary Robinson to Leeds last week. bracket catering." Leeds University bosses have The Vice-Chancellor and been criticised for bringing in Catering Manager are advertising nutside caterers to help with the for a Specialist Chef. for future official lunch. snubbing the events, so there will be no need to university's own caterers, which bong in extra help provides food in the refectery. The President toured the city, oth. Leeds Secretary of Phil Bia- visited the Irish Centre and public service union Unison. members of the large Irish claimed: "The university caterers community of Leeds. She was did a trial run tin a preparation finally greeted in the Civic Hall did not come up to dish. but it by the Lord Mayor of Leeds. sctatch." Councillor Peggy White. The Carl Potter, Director of Irish Ambassador. Ted Busing on Residential and Commercial was also present, amongst various Services at Leeds University. guests of the Lord Mbyte .aid. "We wete very pressed for This gesture was made with time as in lot of events were regards to the. peace proeetss, and taking place. and were short all the major cities she visited staffed so we needed the extra gave a newt courteous reception. help.- One of the diners commented: He added: "The majority of "The serving was good but the catering staff were involved in the food was pretty bland to be preparation. so as to gain some COLN valuable experience in top JAMES /mOctiir FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Annabelle James outside her idepartment Plc: Nick Leo TOP NOSH IN LEEDS?: Mary Robinson and guests at the Civic Hall
ef41 &eh 374,41e4a, I WAS still at school when my either was arrested and subsequently convicted of same situation. All Inv friends at home knew my father. wunlering his they knew 'how ridiculous the whole friend David Martin. At first we thing was. But then I was suddenly in a new were all convinced that it was a silly mistake that would be sorted nut as soon as the town, with new people, and had to prove myself again. Studying Law is something I have investigation got underway. especially after it always wanted to do. but my father's conviction was reveakel to us that the alleged victim had really persuaded been seen by several wituesses after the murder MC to think that maybe I could make a difference. Unfortunately, it was said to have taken plate. However, it struck is a tease of a little fish in a big pond and I must admit to me soon after that the Crown Preeccutirm feeli Service was simply not interested in the ng totally let down by the system. evidence that clearly indicated my father People ellen ask me if f feel hitter At the 'resilient. with the failed appeal only a week innocence: namely that sightings of David Martin. the lack of forensic evidence and the behind us. my emotions are too raw to define impossible time scale in which the mu nler was Yes, t do fed hind. angry, fnetrated and want in do all I can do to get my father released. but supposed to have taken place. They had targeted my father, a practice commonly recognised by the ovemding feeling is a sense of despair and misery, as my father. an innocent man, is going lawyers. and all evidence was manipulated to he in prison around his guilt. for the rest of his life. At the moment I desperately need help to get Starting university is supposed to be a new start - a time a to find youreelf. Hut it has been this campaign to the European Couns of Justice. 'Hawk quit hard for me to move on. knowing my father. and all the rest of my family are truck in the 1144+.4ellt
FALLING DOWN pay for part-time work is L3.36. A BROKEN nose Aind black ryes A NEW national survey has were all one student could condemned the wages of most part which was considered inadequate- "They take us too much for remember of a night ten Iwo -time workers, write !Jiro Burma & granted. employers seem to forget weeks ago, write Zino Bunn- 1 Einnui Trosdale. that we do have college work to do EMIlta An enquiry by the Low Pay While walking down some Unit has shown that students who besides pulling pints." said studeni stairs, friends Jo Pryee and Gail are working part-time to Charlotte Gregory. a forma Sltral stumbled together and won supplement ;heir grants are getting bar tender. Rebecca Ryan. 'Welfare somersaulting down the stairs. a raw deal. Security immediately look the Almost one in three vacancies Secretary at LUU. said: "There is a pair to hoepital where Jo's injuries advertised in the region's Job great danger of employers were dealt with, luckily Gad was Centres offer wages below the exeloiting their student staff, it only shaken and bruised. income support level. The average appears lobe a worrying trend."
UTIASTUM,IT hydkoMard,K.I.m, Comment & Analysis
OPINION VIEW HIT Time to right the FLOW T E :ELT scales of k 's the limit as the justice u tic are the onl he British legal system, we are osers in t e Big Fight T told, is the best B1 Ptl f. GoLnsnirrn answer is simple: greed People • • should he able to pay their in the world. It has a subsenption for Sky Spoils and long, and supposedly RU N° and get what they paid for. proud tradition of Tyson will slug Money - from gamblers or it out this commercial sponsors - has impartiality. always played an important role Bweekend - but it in sport, especially boxing. But Everyone is equal doesn't matter who this fight is becoming just before the law. wins. British sports fans another sad example of the already know the result power of the media's money in Yet the scales of British 1090s' sport. Massive justice have tilted against They know they've been corporations- like Munloch's Sky one Leeds student. Rightly dealt a knockout blow TV colonise great sporting by Sky TV before the events and figures and that feed The or wrongly. Annabelle like parasites off the loyalty of James believes her father boxers even step into the ring. their fans. has been falsely convicted If Britain's satellite dish- Sky will charge existing of murder and has taken it owning public give in to the Sky Sports subscribers f 15 greedy promoters of Saturday Don King and upon herself to fight to see the match exclusively night's Bruno-Tyson fight, they single-handedly to clear at 4am on Sunday morning. will be endorsing a practice that Mike Tyson his name. The case against If the people of Britain allow is both immoral and unfair. True the unholy alliance between sports fans will suffer in the shake their him is at best Rupert Murdoch. the global long-term, and it is in their circumstantial. No body media baron, and Don King. the interest that the light should be moneymaker .hock-Haired boxing promoter, boycotted has been found, there is no the opportunity to foist this Many Sky subscribers murder weapon and the itutrageous scheme upon them bought their dish on the promise 'victim' has since been then the Bruno-Tyson light will of the chance to see the fights of sighted by independent Bruno. Prince Naseem and the Big Fight - Eubank etc. having decided that witnesses: enough the price of the dish was worth build up begins. 011ie Blanc. a sporting occasion could be in reasonable doubt for an it All of a sudden they're being second year English Literature the offing, this does not justify whatever its student. who will be watching Sky trying to start the practice appeal to he heard. asked to pay more - doesn't this sound like a breach of contract? the fight. said: "It's shit. I got of making a killing on every Despite these facts attractions - Leeds Student quizzed Sky Sky because they'd bought up comparable occasion. It's the Annabelle's case was TV and they did their best to all the events I wanted to watch. thin end of the wedge: what if dismissed out of hand by the should be evade the issue, perhaps but now they're just abusing you had to pay to watch the FA their monopoly. I'd pay £50 to Cup Final? appeal judge. without even because Don King's huge fee boycotted has given them no choice. see Bruno knock Tyson out, but It is the public's considering the evidence. Though if King's scheme works One for the record pay-per-view is worse than Don responsibility to nip this in the To add insult to injury. he the first step down a slippery successfully in financial terms, King's hair". bud. They can begin by not Annabelle's commitment to slope to pay-per-view tyranny. more and more events could be This ploy is cold and Don King must know he's on pandering to Don King's whims the campaign means she is Pay-per-view backers talk of shown in this manner. manipulative, and everybody to a winner. Tyson is a legend. and not paying their L15. "lf knows this. Boxing legend and this fight rates as one of the they started charging for the FA putting her university degree the need to cater for market The technique is both simple forces. The question that must and cynical: first you get the Henry Cooper has said he will biggest sporting spectacles of Cup people would jack Sky in jeopardy. and is facing he asked is what market force viewer addicted to the product, watch the fight for free when it the decade_ What's more, Bruno in", said David Lippert. financial ruin. She will get is paying Frank Bruno S6 and then you get them hooked is repeated rather than pay £15 will never have a better second year Geology student no recompense or support million, Mike Tyson S30 so they're prepared to pay to see it when he should be in opportunity to beat Tyson. who and committed sports fan. bed. but Henry's getting on a bit from the authorities. million and most ridiculously. because they cannot face up to has not been properly tested Yes. the Big Fight - whatever Don King $15 million. The missing the event and there will be a lot of since his imprisonment. its attractions - should be The crown will not help tier television sets turning on as the Although a great British boycotted. financially. There is something wrong when tycoons like Kevin Alter the distress that are deliberately 8 lir 1.7 Pjlsi hops' that you will take me Maxwell can get legal aid to was caused by the controversial in order to considerations on board. Perhaps in fight their case and a law Union Debating provoke this argument. future your reporters will stop to Society's proposal of the student can not . For those individuals I am writing to complain about the think before making damaging motion "This house that were upset by last If criminal justice system is article that appeared in last week's allegations about figures of national helieves the IRA are week's motion I to restore its lost credibility Leeds Student centrefold. Although I importance. justified". I would like apologise but in future I then it must look after the wholeheartedly agree that Judy to make it quite clear suggest that you vome Finningan should indeed be a James Bishop ordinary citizen. that the motions and argue your point of centrefold model, I was most angered What Annabelle deserves is proposed in no way view rather than trying by the fact that she was portrayed as financial support and a fair actually express the to undermine our an ugly, has-been alcoholic. Next time you're sitting in hearing. sentiment of the society. credibility by saying that Furthermore. Richard Madeley was rush hour watching the big fight its members or our we believe everything Justice must not only be made to seem better than Nick Ross, why not put pen to paper in that sponsors . we propose or say done. but seen to he done. which is patently not the case. indignant, loony fashion that For those that within the Chamber of I would like your newspaper to comes so easily to students? misunderstand the debated. It is after all make a formal apology to the fans of nature of the debating perfectly legitimate to Write to: Judy. who is more than life Leeds Student newspaper society. it exists as a play the devil's advocate personified to me, which will be Leeds University Onion forum for free speech in certain circumstances printed in the next issue your PO Box 157 See full story and informed argument. of tabloid. LEEDS LS1 1UH pages 4 & 5 The motions proposed Alistair Hill Fax: (0113) 246 7953. This letter is entirely serious, and e-mail: csiatisaw,gps.leed.s.se.ati.1 6 Comment & Analysis LEEDS sTeoeNi. fritia,Nsif. is, Nets Tim Gallagh Enough opinionated opinion to opine on for the whole wee .... Fast masters End of the oad INT the Fart Show second series, has RGET boy for the solo driver, Within 18 on BBC2 brilliant? replaced Ham' Unfortunately. I'm Enfield and Iltrt.0, racers. Forget months there will exist on some Leeds roads special not the outs one to and Ntortimer as the S ill nday lanes in which you can think so. Students staple for college motorists. The onIs drive of there is unions up and down wits to impersonate F the country are Wit), do students biggest problem on the more than one person i the car, thus penalising horsing with the ruin perfect') PIXKI road at the moment is show's copied) shows by solo drivers, those the solo driver. And about time too. catchphrasess repeating thejokes selfish bastards who The Leeds rush hour has Cris% a-0.000k over and over and stupidly sit one person suits )ou sir" and over. I'm dreading to -does my hum look the next butch of a car, creating 34680 cars enter the big in this?" ring freshen who'll he massive traffic jams acrusa bars rim proudly sporting and complaining about city daily, 75% have Darlington to Dover. Paul Whitehouse T- the number of vehicles The show, now going shirts. Suits you? I on the road. one dnver per car strong in its don't think wt, Solo drivers make the doubled in length in the last csact same journey into ten years. There are now their crappy 9-5 jobs every 34.680 can entering the city every single day. 75 per cent day. using exactly the same of which have only one driver route. They know to leave per car. the house at precisely Such heavy car use has 07:28 to catch the filter on environmental implications. the lights at the top of the The more cars there are, the load. They drive company more poisonous lead and cars, ring radio phone-ins atmosphere-damaging carbon from their mobiles and dioxide pumped into the air. always. always travel on Which is a worry if you're in Friends of the Earth. but the their own. Solo drivers planet's probably riot going to clog up the roads. so that if cave in during my life and so you want to make a pricing or timetable control. worked what do 1 care? What will Thus Leeds buses, like those out that journey before nine o'clock happen within my lifetime. Driving in Leeds is a in the test of the country. are the best possibly within the next ten in the morning, you have headache and, while Leeds now pricy and confusing. solution to the problem year,' is the road network will to leave two hours earlier may not have the worst traffic Apart from the catching is for solo drivers to is the g.ze. grind to a halt under the strain , tohby itiakiiig *mil a hiss than planned. problem in the clammy, unlike the bus, there aren't really any share their cars, then it allow hcionosetuals heing barred of ever-increasing car Yet, despite the collapse of other cities. it has no public other options for getting about can't be that difficult a from the ;Imre(' Ii ayes? ('urter! ownership and this could Britain's road network being transport to speak of. London town. A fate similar to that of problem to solve. The ..i.illing lesels in the ri to s make visiting your mates a tad largely their fault because of has a brilliant. comprehensive, the buses awaits the trains and basic hindrance to the / ,ore so has that come the tricky. their anal refusal to offer lifts subsidised public transport ur cycle in Leeds, what there plans is the selfish, nest war,. conscription Which is a shame because to colleagues. solo drivers network, and Manchester and is no provision for cycle lanes, pathetic and anti- .1 distinct driving is great. Cars are co cannot reconcile their anti- Sheffield both have tram is about as safe as trying to gel social commuters who cin II the guy cuiranunii) smart - fast. sexy, cool - just social commuting with the Systems to ease their traffic served in the Old Bar on a cannot bear in listen has any sense, it'll hold huge amount of time wasted ask Jeremy Clarkson. Driving problems. Wednesday night. to Chris Es any with onto its exemption from a car is all about winding driving to work. Instead they In their rush to sell So people use their cars to anyone else. Leeds' pining up because. if down the roof, putting the get stuck in traffic. sound their whatever they could lay their get in and out of the city. and plans do not go far I:: coms,aiptnm is ininxitieLkl. stereo on full blast and racing horns and make abusive calls hands on, the Tories flogged duty get snarled up in huge enough - if commuters be in the front of its. off into the sunset, The reality to the Cones Hotline. off the bus service as traffic jams. won't share their cars on I" "MIC is unfortunately about a Happily. in Leeds at least, hundreds of separate if the brains trust that is their way into work, they straight ihe end of the road is in sight million miles from this idyll. franchises with no central Leeds City Council have should be made to walk.
IEN democracy began there members' annual slick sound-bites of Rachel Faulkner and impassioned tones. -Asking students to wewere wise bearded intellectuals reports came under the Bruce Hartley. voting in favour of their pay for their education is like asking who knew what was best for scrutiny. Questions respective motions to reinstate the job title turkeys to pay for Christmas!" Ancient Greece. Then the mother of all ranged from alleged 'General Secretary' and adopt the new With logic like that she couldn't lose tiarliaments gave us great men of state so support for Huth ut- constitution. Unfortunately no one had because. as regular villain of the piece Brittama ruled the waves. By 1996 Tahrir to the web of noticed that the two directly contradict Michael Savage had already progress has come as far as turkeys and deceit spun in his report ACK one another. nor that. if Faulkner should controversially pointed out, "Students at cheap tarts, jousts over job titles, disc. to. doubtless given time. A weekly sketch of .ffittlent politic eventually manage to out-smooth Hartley this university are not stupid." The jockeys running for president and the why he had signally in the battle of the spin doctors, the new massive sound of an aeroplane then promise of holidays and cash to anyone failed to put sugar in under a series heavy blows he was General Secretary of UM) - the face and roared from the speakers in the hall for no who can he bottleful turning up. someone s tea a couple of s car. ago. rescued by a call to speed things up - voice of the union - will be one Gary particular reason. It was a prompt for the More than five hundred fell for the Now, Young may have spent this year from, of all people, his arch enemy Bouch day's more absurd motions. front LUU's bait at last week's Annual General drilling his union constitution through Young. a bit like the Joker creeping back That, however, was mere private campaign to eradicate Third World Meeting. making it quorate for the second pet sile's heads like a psychopathic dentist, to untie Bataan because he feels a touch members' business compared to the day's poverty to its rejection of Dl Carl Cox as time in two years and ensuring LIJU held but not even he deserved such blatant guilty. main dish, a debate of galactic Honorary President to its adoption of trite its reputation as the last bastion of the sniping from a single. orchestrated firing However, not even Young's legendary proportions that splits the student some simple homespun philosophy: democratic ideal. Sceptics and cynics of squad. This particular group, which comic timing could explain why the community down the middle of every "Substances from the earth/Es (sic( crust this claim should just look at the Facts: includes NUS gladiator Jonny Jacobs, is union spends £1 I .000 a year on toilet union in the land. The proposal that Clare must not systematically increase in within minutes the student body had known for pursuing its own hidden paper, and it was left to Gary Bouch, two Mason and Becea Ryan are "fit and sexy" nature." rolled hack fierce opposition and agenda shall now be exposed to the world days into his status as Communications was still to come, but first it was 'free It was clearly time for the last of the determined to open the curtains of the for what it really is: the Martin Young Secretary-elect, to provide the genuine education' again, divided along the usual raffles, which some say is the only glue Riley Smith Hall. and shortly after, Appreciation Society_ comedy with a speech that consisted battle lines of shallow Blairite eamensts that holds union democracy together. in the election for chair of the Its leading member is of course entirely of the words "It's quite good against naive leftwing irritants with very When 499 people didn't win £500 the meeting, Martin Young lost by Richard Malach. Administration really... I think it's quite good." Some loud voices. Not surprisingly, this awful truth dawned on them: they'd been 200 votes to seven - Secretary. who was soon on the ropes cheap cad then spoiled it by suggesting particular opposition pitched Rachel duped into a game they were always clearly a fair reflection himself when a Socialist Worker Student this was u bad omen for the union's ability Faulkner against Clare Mason, but with hound to lose. Worse than that. it was of public opinion. called from the balcony: "Why did you to communicate nest year. On the things evenly poised there was a dramatic their fault for turning up and allowing Indeed. Young was cull my friend a cheap tan'!" Possibly she contrary. one can be sure it will be quite twist: enter Debbie Jones. former members of Exec - who'd almost torn the soon under objected to the use of 'cheap' as an VW- Women's Officer and chair of the AGM apart with their past bickering - to concentrated fire expression of capitalist exploitation, but The student parliament was alive and meeting. 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HOUSEMATES were relaxing in their front room when twit men knocked at the from door asking Cospeak to 'Martin' They barged in claiming he They shot a owed them money and quickly became abusive. They picked up a stereo and one said he had a sun. A female student protested that it was her stereo, and one of the intruders said: "Rough her up." Her friend stepped in and was punched in the face. with the two men making off with the stereo. for a joke The men were both asian. One was 5'6". of slim build, about 22. with short dark hair PRANKSTERS shot its Alive Joists SCARED FOR HIS LIFE: and a dark puffer jacket. The themselves in the foot Jos White thought he was the other was 5'8". of stocky this week when their "I called the police straight victim of a drive-by shooting hued, in his early 20s. 'joke' gun attack on a away but they didn't find a bullet so fortunately it must Pic: Willem Jaspert fellow student have been a blank." said Joe, a Delph Lane, Woodhouse backfired. Computer Studies student at early hours of March 12 Residents or Vaughan Leeds University. A THIEF a house via House at Bodington "I didn't feet anything so I a secured hack door and went fired blank shots at a first didn't realise I'd been shot at at first but there was a loud bang into various rooms stealing year as part or a practical so I worked out what had electrical items. joke aimed at students from happened. It took a while to One of the residents was another house - but the woken by the noise, sink in that someone had got up smiles were wiped off their and saw the suspect. actually fired a gun at me hue I He follnwed him to Back faces when police were was really shaken up by it." Quarry Mount. where the called by the terrified suspect kit stolen properly on victim. Perpetrators the street covered with a The police failed to find the leather jacket. Pranksters perpetrators* who had sped off The man was while,about 15 Jos White, who says he was by the time they arrived, but stun and in his mid to late "never so scared in his life", they are treating the incident as 2.0e He had short spikey was walking home on hall's -serious". mousy hair. a pock-marked driveway when a red Polo car, Joe had no idea that the blue face and was wearing believed to be the pranksters' incident was a "jape gone jeans and a black blouson own. pulled up beside him. wrong" and says that he On your Blocks jacket Suddenly one of the doesn't think it was very funny. "It was a really stupid thing Compiled by Shiraz Lalani passengers leaned out of the window and shouted: to do and while its not made "Tonight's not your lucky me really seared to go outit night." before pointing a gun has made me less sure of A FREE pair of OFF and tiring at him. Leeds." CAMPUS DOZY BURGLAR miLtlitEtuLl A dozy burglar who attempted to break Into a /Li Berlin dub through an air conditioning pipe fell asleep and was arrested when he was heard snoring. SCENE OF THE CRIME: Shooting occurred at Bodington Hail LONELY LOVE A newly-wed couple made RARE BIRDS HYDE love in theircar in a lay-by sunglasses worth upto in Germany - because HYDE Park was the scene of an guests wouldn't leave and ornithological extravanganta let them be alone together this week, as hundreds of exotic IN PARK winter visitors flocked to Leeds' MUPPET THEFT leafy suburbs for a slap-up feed. Waxwings arc rare winter miles Alex Haniman. visitors t Thieves raided an Last Saturday afternoon. sightings of such numbers are exhibition of original Jim Leeds University Zoology very rare indeed. Henson Moppet figures in student William Horsnall William, an amateur Germany, stealing Bert spotted 21X) Waxwings perched ornithologist. was delighted and Ernie worth £80,000. high in the Park's trees. with his discovery: "It made my £89 day." Plus win a trip to the 1996 Olympics SPIDERMAN The tents, normally residents of Scandinavia and the former With Fresh Vision Contact Lenses & Solutions A thief look his pet Soviet Union. only move this tarantula to a vet's - then far west when food is.scarce or • .4 'ratable on a ltmiled range of lenses abandoned it after stealing the winter weather is too severe. £l00 cash from a drawer at Mr Ffennet. spokesperson (a sr v ER Sit Y) the surgery in Devon. for the RSPB. said: "This is the 0 best year for Waxwings in this country since the winter of Compiled by 1962163, they are being sighted OPTICIANS Emma Teasdate and in numbers never seen before. It Zina Bunni EXCITED SPOTTER: William is a once in a lifetime Lovker Ground Floor, Union Buildings. Leeds University Horsnall Pic: Mike Pryce speetaele.' Pizza Milano is now open every day from 12pm-4am
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Britain's biggest weekly student newspaper is a quarter of a century old. To celebrate, we present the news that node the headlines 25 years ago. This librarians week: March 19, 1911 ANGRY academics are investigating a disturbing FREE DRINKING trend which is threatening to disrupt the hallowed QUEEN AT CHARLES halls of a university !thrall. On two consecutive its NANCY 511. ; MORRIS mornings last week an VISITS CITY unfortunate cleaner was read, "I couldn't wait You is today being Ti !FRE v.d.1.. irce tver harles Know it." SECURITY sickened to find human tightened around Leeds for the Mori'. 1,t•1 So far no concrete action has faeces in a wastepaper visit by the Queen A het; John Sint!!1,...1 been taken to try and catch what basket in Leeds University's The purpose of the Royal prosltedtaawr then library staff have labelled the Brotherton Library. trip is to officially open the produce for "Phantom Dumper" The findings have left staff multi-million pound Royal It was arranged by Tony As Mr Pinfield pointed out, shocked and appalled. Assistant Arinotuirs museum. Nicholson, the Yorkshire fast "Short of DNA testing, what arc Librarian Steven Pinfield is Events began last week howler. who is a sales we supposed to do?" He added taking a dim view of the affair. with a service of blessing for representative for the company. that the offenders, when caught, -We arc disgusted," he said. "In Mr Nicholson was a guest ,It would be subject to strict knights dressed in armour at all the time I've been working Leeds parish Church. the Charles Morris Hall formal disciplinary action. here I've never seen anything dinner last term and expressed Finalist Dave McDermott civic leaders and Commons like it. Frankly. it's sick." Speaker Betty Roothroyd were amazement at the lack of true saw the matter as a bit of a joke: The deposits, both found in among those Yorkshire draught hoer in the -Excuse Use pun. but it takes the the English section. come only bar. Ile then arranged a visit with piss really. I can see how at that weeks after a similar incident in permanently house the his boss and his beer. time in the evening, with barely the Modern History area. Armourics collection formerly Mr Nicholson said: "I am anyone around, it would be easy DISPLAY OF FAITH: Sikh society demonstrate their talent for The culprit of the later based at the Tower of London. delighted at the response - I think to do something like this martial arts as part of LMUSU's Cultural Week last week. Other offering was thoughtful enough will open its doors to the the Perhaps he was seeing how studerits enjoyed iL- events included displays and stalls by the Jewish, Hellenic to leave is note: "Ha! Hal." it public on March 30. 1CotriplIkad by Allison Phillipsi and Islamic societies and the Christian Union much he could act away with."
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ith the radio licence smaller budget of under 000 a week, sure i know what all the DJc are up to. whereas quick to point out he is making irregular broadcasts from Hyde Eddie comes in weekly and deals with the Dream fan club: -Penn in Leeds up for record companies and promotions." Park Corner. It has now developed a FM that much. When I grabs, the battle for Chris turns out to be a friendly bloke. His to get phoned up and vet cult following among 18-30 year olds the airwaves is well side-kick and respected colleague, who prefers certain records, which I and a recent issue of the Yorkshire to be known simply as Eddie, comes out with played for other pirate r and truly on. Evening Post put the listenership in the the occasional sporadic outburst hut, for the WAlthough the hype about the most pan. Chris is very much the dominant one Chris Jenkinson is ki region of 600,000. during the course of our 'chat'. He talks as fast Dream is always on the applicants has been considerable, Nevertheless information about the as his mouth will let him but is always careful talent: "If a potential DI there has been little coverage of the 'Dream team' remains thin on the ground not to give too much away. "In a way Dream doesn't seem to be up to late application made by Leeds- to say the least. So it was with a mixture of happened by accident," Chris explains. "We put to do guest spots to cites based pirate radio station, Dream curiosity and trepidation that I went to meet on a promotional dub night in Chapeltown to practice more and on Chris Jenkinson and Eddie 'The Egg', the Road which had a good turnout but lost us the finally manages to get a FM. elusive main men behind the whole outfit. licence. Some time later I was offered the who can't mix well don This should conic as no surprise as As we recline in Chris' plush and extremely opportunity to start a radio station which was not for lone as Chris *AA there has always been a distinct aura of tidy flat, I try to find out what it is the enigmatic completely new territory I didn't know a great but if sornoine is a mall mystery surrounding Dream's actions. duo actually does. deal about it but I decided to give it a go. It was Mike Morrison fur exit slow progress at first and we learned everything mix, People are listenin The station has relied mainly upon "I set up Dream tour year. ago," blurts out Chris proudly. "You could say I am the the hard way but we know a lot about it now " it's not the mixing, then word of mouth to spread its reputation managing director. I virtually run or supervise Dream was far tnim tieing an overnight your personality," as the 'Kiss of the North'. the only every area, But Eddie is the real technical success. It was six nutria's before any real To say Chris it a hit radio station dedicated to playing dance wizard behind it all He deals with the music interest started to show and a good couple of would be an understates years before it came to be "renowned all over conversation he has hap music 24 hours a day. Dream started side of it. I often ask Eddie's advice but have to make quick decisions a lot of the time and make Yorkshire and probably all over the country". has needed little or no p out as a small operation relying on an But Dream now attracts many of the big name that it is As soon as the even Oh; "You name it. we've had it," boasts Chris. brought up he suddenly "Carl ('ox three times. Sven Vath. Todd Terry. careful not to give too n and the trigger international people largely from actually making a direct record companies. I don't-know all the anises by name like Eddie sloes, I Just know what I like. We also use guest spots and new `It's big moi Ws. We like giving people a chance and have launched many careers," Among the IN DJs whose careers have news and been given a helping hand by Dream are Tony Walker. who is now a resident at 'Love want to say To Be' in Sheffield and also works at 'Eastern Bloc Records' near the Corn Exchange, and to ruin our Mark Turner, another 'Eastern Bloc' man and a resident at The Orbit. oursel ves We are wort What undoubtedly sets Dream FM apart who are bidding fordo from other radio stations is its whole-hearted it, there is a strong pot dedication to dunce music - you certainly won't then be taken over byl hear any Britpop pouring out of the their produces an article wit speakers_ Dream was quick to capitalise on the who are applying but t dance explosion which started in 1989 with the me who the company! 'Sumner of Love'. With the city's club/hers go to a dance itation, I getting 'all luvved up' in various nightspots return as a pirate radift around Leeds. it was inevitable that the sounds big news and we dm I of dance music would eventually spill onto the of turn to ruin whaled airwaves. involved" Although Dream was very techno-orientated If Dream do get the in the beginning. it now plays everything from have to make the tram ambient to acid jazz. "I think what's great about station to a commerol Dream is that unlike some saatiorm, it pirate station but silo concentrates on specific styles rather than just have had to run more the commercial side of dance," enthuses Tony business and work to The Dream team Walker. "It caters for all areas." 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The await equivalent of e looks like he is rather honest and hassle-free life. of Art. It's enjoyable - I have a based design company, but after Galax) - it's been struggling with Despite misgivings he agrees to room where I go. It gives me a just two years Rickman quit and done a thousand speak for a few minutes, answering break." Rickman lives with his moved to RADA. where he worked times before but an in a slow soft drawl that forces you partner. Rima Horton. an as a dresser for the likes of Ralph still makes you feel overwhelming to hang on every word. This is a economics teacher whom he met at Richardson and Nigel Hawthorne. warm inside. desire to man who thinks carefully about a local amateur dramatics society He stayed there for two years Hdisappear. This is one of each answer before easing it out. when in his early 20s. He has a before eventually joining the Royal Owen Gibson reviews the singles' on long enough to make listening an strange loyalty to London: he has Shakespeare Company, working page 3. Britain's most successful arduous and painful task. If you lived there all his life and probably with Richard Wilson (of One Foot actors, a Hollywood imagine the way someone talks always will. I ask if he's not in the Grave fame) at the Bush celebrity and BAFTA award- when they're chewing gum and tempted to step out and explore the Theatre. Rickman got his big break winner: a man with a feeling sleepy. you're close to when, in 1985. he played the powerful and threatening realising what Rickman sounds devilish seducer Vicomte de top album like. He uses his hands a lot - the Valmonte in Les Liaisons reputation. Yet as he glances only indication there are emotions `I took one look Dangereuses. On stage he showed Underworld- Second Toughest tin the infants round uncomfortably while in his answers - and has the charisma and glamour and made thinior Boys Own) sipping his drink. glass interviewee technique down to an his reputation as the perfect clutched tightly. he appears art form. He gives nothing ass. at Method villain. It is this mysterious edge Cu Then came films. Rickman Effottlely eeltxne, so insecure 1 almost feel one moment you're Rickman that makes him seem landed the role of the German beIng atee.kti by sorry for him. This is Alan almost devilish. What link is acting and villain in the first Die Hard, raging teiimix_the rrxt Rickman, the quiet superstar known about his enigmatic performing so spectacularly that you're mange:dote is who longs for the anonymity character is rarely made public. He closed the book critics claimed he stole the show kraals Omni n' tem. won't volunteer that he was horn in from lead actor Bruce Willis. Such fame won't allow. London to Welsh parents. Or that acclaim should perhaps have A stunning, inventive Rickman doesn't like being and downright his father was a painter and very quickly' established him as one of asked questions and aux-some album. rarely decorator who died when Rickman Hollywood's leading actors. Yet gives interviews. He believes was eight:, or that three years later then. as now, he remained outside very strongly in keeping his he won a scholarship to a west world outside the capital. His the celebrity limelight, often Album review% on page 3 private life to himself. "I think London school where he was to answer is simple. blunt and to the preferring supporting parts to the it's unfair on one's family to discover his love, and talent, for point. "My whole life's been in higher-profile roles. see themselves written about in art. At 17 he went to the Royal London - born and schooled." This Even so he has never been a College of Art. showing the kind of is all he will say on the subject and stranger to succesa, deservedly the newspapers." he begins. his pale-gold, piercing eyes warn winning a BAFTA award for his "They have their own lives to dedication that suggested he would top movie become an artist. not an actor. me not to push the line of role in Anthony Minghella's Truly- live. so why should they be "That isn't really an issue." he questioning and. as I smile hack Madly Deeply, the British answer dragged into this?" points out. "I aril an actor and that's nervously. I realise why Rickman to Ghost. It was through this film Trainspoiling (IS) In Rickman's vocabulary. few all there is to it." He pauses and has been so successful playing that I, like so many. first tell in Sall the top movie words are regarded as ruder than looks down to his glass. He seems villainous characters - his sheer love with the man, and now I'm around at the moment. 'journalism'. if he had a deep dark irritated and I wait for more... and I presence and powerful stare are face-to-face with him I have to ask You might be getting past with lots of skeletons in the wait... and eventually he slowly enough to scare any would-be hero. whether he's sympathetic towards bored cf reading about cupboard that might explain why: and cautiously adds- "I do still I don't stand a chance. the character he played. If eiven the it but you'll never tire but instead he seems to have led a paint. I went to the Royal College After college there was a Soho- chance, would lie too return from of watching a; if you haven't seen it yet. do so now.
See Movie round•tp. page 2f) We take a look at the Die Hard (1988): This is the film which first moody one's films so brought Rickman to the wider far... public eye. He plays the arch- U■•11 villain to Bruce Willis' Shock Shock Shock hardman hero. A slightly Lim (1987) unreliable Kraut accent doesn't top book prevent out Al from thoroughly stealing the show from Willis Robert fatten -Stielliing playing the svelte but nasty the Black Cat Hans Gruber. O A spy novel in a league The January Man of its own. Littell's novel portrays the z (1988) clash between the CC Mafia. native Indians, Quigley Down Under the FBI and es-Gulf War veterans. E (1990) plays an evil ranch Reminiscent of a Rickman owner in 19th century Al in a pensive mood (and his jimjams) as P L O'Hara Martin Seoretav film 07 who's nasty plans arc thwarted with the understated mannerisms of the she's having an aftair with by Torn Selleck's sharp Close My Eyes (1990) characters contrasting with intermittent am. shooting Quigley. Long black Incest test with C Ilse ()Well her own brother (Owen). episodes of violence, Rickman's quiet suffering boots and open necked shirts and Saskia Reeves. Rickman gives his character much i Rickman in swashbuckling make Rickman's character plays Reeves' husband who Rebecca Howard's review page 6 form in An Awfully gig seedily attractive gradually becomes aware that dignity. Adventure t4 INTERVIEW 2/3
Publicity-shy pussycat or aloof primadonna? In a rare interview Alan Rickman - the star who hates the limelight talks to JENNIFER MATTHEWS
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the dead to he with hi, loved one ' enthusiastically about his latest "I don't think 1 would want io come work. a new film by Neil Jordan, hack - it's not our place to meddle Michael Collins. which promises to with this kind of thing." he replies a display: his ability to the full. little bemused, having thought long If you've never seen Rickman and hard. "In the film my character act before then Sense and wanted to move on, but most of all Sensibility, showing at cinemas he wanted his widow to get on with nationwide, is an ideal starting her life and find love. She wouldn't point: he plays Colonel Brandon let him go so he came back to help and is truly magnificent. His her. I think the film implied he was performance proves that, far from hard done by - but he wasn't. being stereotyped as a villain. Anyway, why would I want to come Rickman is a unique and versatile back?" actor who captures audiences' After Truly Madly Deeply hearts in all he does Rickman played a number of less While contemporaries talk well-known roles, before once again endlessly about their ideas on the art stealing the limelight, this time from of acting. Rickman chooses to give Kevin Costner, as the Sheriff of little away. "I do have a theory but Nottingham in Robin flood.' Prince wouldn't even talk about it because of Thieves. For that role he grew his it looks stupid in print .. It's nut that hair and a beard and looked dashing 1 am being closed, hie you can't and sexy, holding an odd fascination interpret your instincts by for women all over the world. He'd explaining. I took one look at come a long way from RADA. but Stanislayski's work on 'the Method' working for the film industry and closed the book very quickly." carried its own price - one subject This simple philosophy hides a he doesn't mind talking about. "My considerable talent. Rickman's tile now is chaotic and eccentric. I breadth of range is almost do lint take my work seriously. I unrivalled and, in an industry full prefer the certainty of the theatre - of egos, his refreshing modesty films want you to drop everything sets him apart From the crowd. As and start toniome.v." he gets up to go. I can't help Perhaps influenced by this. feeling like I've invaded his Rickman took a break from acting privacy. his childlike insecurity last year, directing A Winter's makes you feel guilty for asking Guest, a commitment which brought him so many questions. But as he the unwanted publicity chores of slopes off he looks over his interviews and public speaking. shoulder and gives a smile that Promoting his own work was a reassures me I haven't overstepped nightmare but, as he discovered, it's the mark. Then he finally gets his all pan of the job. Acting, though. is wish and disappears into the his real passion and he talks background. Rickman in mean and moody mode as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility His performance is magnificent.
Lost in the City of Lights The Poet (1995) older man as the sensitive and Truly. Madly, Deeply (1991): suffering Colonel Brandon. He An unexpectedly successful British (1993) manages to effortlessly out-dash Hugh film in which Rickman turns in a Sense and Sensibility Grant and newcomer Greg Wise in beautifully judged performance as the riding boots and a long coat and is boyfriend back from the dead. Fallen Angel 2 (1993) (1996): rewarded with marriage to leading Rickman manages to suggest the Rickman teams up with various other lady of the moment. Kate Winslet. churucter's flaws as well as his luvvies to appear in Emma Mesmer (1994) although she is clearly far too young attractions in a gently comic Tliontpson's acclaimed adaptation of lie pertormance alongside heavyweight lane Austen's novel. He confirms his An Awfully Big Adventure linage as the iniellieent woman's ideal Brit actress, Juliet Sievenson. (1995): Wier highlights: This odd. dark t Sense and Sensibility isn't Robin Hood: Prince of about it theatrical Rickinaii's first literary adaptation Thieves (1991): company presided over He was also in the BBC's RiCkfnal; isle cartipm, it by a iyreanical Hugh production of Trollope's Dorchester up and itt:t11 to going right over Grant came as a hit of Towers, a 19th century clerical tale the top as the villainous Sheriff of a shock to fans of the its better than it sounds. honest). Nottingham, At least his mad hair and latter after the upbeat Rickman plays the the slimy Mr verging on the dement&