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The Montana Kaimin Weekly Arts and Entertainment Guide • September 3__9,1996 ?>«*»«€> U*ue! ►University Theatre gets a facelift ►Benigni strikes back ►New music from Sebadoh, Figgs and more ►Expanded calendar On the air with KBOA 2 Eye Spy, Wednesday, September 4, 1996 More coffee please, I’m working and look for live music It’s 9:30 a.m. here in the peutic “Days of Our Lives” sessions in the office, you are reviews and book reviews in Kaimin’s second-floor office the future. You’ll notice the and I just poured my first cup able to read the first issue of Eye Spy. comics below this column, of coffee of the day. It doesn’t which will be a regular fea taste all that good, but at this What exactly is Eye Spy? At the end of last spring ture in Eye Spy. Everybody point it doesn’t really matter loves to laugh, and the two because it’s being used for semester, I thought it would be beneficial to expand our strips we’ve chosen are guar pure stimulance, kick-starting anteed to put at a brain trying to wake- least a smirk on up in time for the start your face. “Rubes” is of the semester. It’s becoming more pop b* Brian Hurlbut M organ Sturges also Labor Day, a day ular every day, pos Eye Spy Editor Eye Spy Columnist when irony rules sessing some of the because most people ;Bm m HurlhuC. same sarcastic wit aren’t even working. that made the “Far Deadline is at noon, A ndy Smetanka Justin Grigg Side” so huge. You’ll and what a few of us Eye Spy Writer Eye Spy Designer also find “The Deep here at the Kaimin End” quite funny. It was cre have been working on this arts coverage to give our read ated by the University of Ross Jeffcoat summer is almost ready to be ers a comprehensive guide to Lee Douglas Arizona’s Chad Strawderman On-line Guru shipped off to the presses. events happening on campus Eye Spy Writer and he was looking for some Nothing like working up to and around town, presented exposure, so we decided to ' the last minute, but hey, in a less ‘newsy’ format. You that’s what journalism is all should be able to pick up Eye help him out. Go ahead and laugh. about, right? Spy every Tuesday and plan This is only the first issue, e y e s p y is a publication of the Montana Kaimin, The last few weeks have what you want to do for the been a blur, and many events week, and that’s our goal. and we’ll do nothing but get and is distributed every Tuesday, except holidays have happened that almost You’ll notice some cool better as the semester trudges when we decide to put it out any time we want to. delayed publication. One things we’ve done to give the along. We hope to have some contests where readers can We’U gladly accept any letters, suggestions or com writer quit, one is missing-in- section a more magazine-type feel. The most obvious is the actually win something they ments, although we reserve the right to do nothing action, and one is still playing the thespian somewhere in color. We debated on whether can use, and look for a stu with them. For further information contact us at Ohio, leaving myself and or not to use color, but ulti dent-writing issue as well, Room 206, School of Journalism, University of some quick recruits to put mately decided that we might showcasing some of the talent Montana, Missoula, MT 59801. (406)243-4310. this thing together. But those as well go for it. After all, here at the University. So things always look better in read it, study it, memorize it, Reach us on the internet at [email protected], are behind us now, and because of the tremendous color. but most of all enjoy it. or check out our ultra-cool web page dedication of certain individu You’ll notice many more Signing off with an empty http://www.umt.edu/Kaimin. als, along with many thera CD reviews, a movie review, cup... The Deep End by: Chad Strawderman Rubes® By Leigh Rubin The Deep End by: Chad Strawderman 1 J a 1 I EM ll ] III \ 'w‘*e#"wlR 1 ( m jP ii ■jJOfiflr i w l \ V Z 3 D — » “I’m in the mood for a little treat, son. KAIMIN ONLINE to S S S " How'd you like some baskin' robins?" temporarily off-line Eye Spy, Wednesday, Septem bers 1996 Benigni’s performance energizes ‘Monster’ Gretchen Schwartz where everybody trips. This ment of a madman with a for Eye Spy is the apartment Loris chainsaw, an aggressive per sneaks out of every morning vert and a lover of female oberto Benigni to begin his more influential mannequins. Loris is com plays the nega-pro- tripping, and even the land pletely unaware that he is tagonist as he trips lord can’t seem to pass the deterrent for the serial hisR way into a series of mis through the various rooms killer the police are search construed scenarios, sweep without getting his toe ing for. In fact, Loris doesn’t ing up the title of the mon caught on something on the even acknowledge the exis ster in the film of the same floor. tence of the killer at all name. “The Monster” is until the mob is staking him directed by Benigni and co out in front of his own written with Vincenzo apartment building. Cerami. Italian actor and Flicks But you see right away director Benigni (who you that Loris is not without might have seen in Night on vice (when defined as some Earth, Son of Pink Panther, II Mostro plays sort of depraved conduct), Johnny Steccino , or Down nightly at 5 p.m. a t . but it seems so mild and by Law ) plays Loris, the completely obvious in con man who is referred to as the Crystal Theatre, trast to an elusive serial both “the dead man in the located at 515 S. killer. He tricks the land telegram” and the “Mozart H iggins Ave. lord, steals newspapers anZjpE1 Copyright 19% CRFP, Inc. of vice” in the film. Loris’s oodles of cheap convenience THE SUSPECT (Benigni) and the detective (Nicoletta Braschi)cel- first title is self-inflicted in store items, and he leers at ebrate after having successfully stuffed their coats with merchan his attempt to evade a debt dise and fooled an intricate store security system. owed to clock merchants, Loris claims that he women de retro. The audi and the second questionable doesn’t quite get the vice of ence seems to be on Loris’s on, save the perceptive love given the chance, we’ll title comes from the police things. With raised inflec side because of the compara interest, Jessica, in this wild speak for you Loris, we’ll officer and methodical psy tion, he reads vice president tive justification (something and hilarious monster chase. sound our empathetic whoop chiatrist who are hot on his on paper and then asks “the like the lesser evil) of his His crimes of thievery for all the passive trippers tumultuous trail. president of vice?” (in vices, because of his endear and lust are displayed in a of the world. You’re not The police mistake Loris Italian, of course). He later ing state of oblivion, and most obvious way for the tricking us and as of yet, it’s for a local serial killer, who says that he doesn’t like the because we are allowed to audience and then presented not a national crime not to “vice of it.” It makes sense watch. drinks sour milk and disem again by the most miscon be self-aware. that he would not under “Let me carry all your bodies his victims. I’ll risk struing police force. In this So whoop it up loudly at stand the word vice— when dummies,” Loris says at one giving away the first six way, the audience may act the Crystal Theater any defined as one who acts in point. This could be one minutes of the film by say as the silent and greatly night this week at 5 p.m., the place of another interesting way to describe ing bad tenant and sticky amused emancipators, par because the seating is spa because he isn’t at all aware the ride he has unknowing finger he may be, but mur doning all of Loris’s tricks cious and the acoustics are of what he is doing as he taken the other characters derer he is not.