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Ent-2002-03-15.Pdf (752.9Kb) ENTERTAINMENTpage 21 Technique • Friday, March 15, 2002 • 21 Gravity dragging you? What’s the Buzz? You might like the Jennifer Nettles That’s what the Technique asked the ENTERTAINMENT Band’s new release entitled Gravity: baseball team’s junior catcher Tyler Drag me Down. They’re playing Parker in a new question-and-answer Technique • Friday, March 15, 2002 Eddie’s Attic tomorrow. Page 23 column in Sports. Page 29 It’s ‘Showtime’ for De Niro and Murphy Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro take comedic antics to the crime scene in director Tom Dey’s dangerously funny new cop-action spoof Showtime. William Shatner also makes an appearance as none other than himself. By Chris Webb holds a boot camp, so that the Staff Writer officers can “properly” jump onto car hoods and test for drugs. Of Film: Showtime course, TJ Hooker never had to Studio: Warner Bros. deal with the reality of car repair Starring: Robert De Niro, or as Preston explains, “There’s Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo a reason why cops don’t taste MPAA Rating: PG-13 cocaine, it could be cyanide.” Rating: yyy 1/2 In further hopes of making Preston a bigger star, the pro- Eddie Murphy and Robert ducers replace his land yacht for De Niro put on a badge and a jet-black Hummer and con- lay on the laughs in Showtime. vert his living room into a ad- The movie is a lampoon of TV vertisement for Ikea. Their hands shows such as Miami Vice and even renovate the police station movies like the Lethal Weapon from a grungy mess of papers series. into a slick office with chic com- Mitch Preston (De Niro) is puter desks and a confessional a “by the book” 26-year veter- for one-on-one time with the an detective with a penchant TV audience. for pottery. While on a drug Nevertheless, Preston takes bust, a media helicopter swarms no pleasure in the changes that in creating confusion and a have become imposed upon his deadly gun battle. In the midst life. He grudgingly accepts the of battle, the drug dealer, played torture if only to keep from get- by rapper Mos Def, pulls out a ting fired. The best lines in the gargantuan gun that fires ura- movie come from his witty com- nium-depleted bullets. In a race ments about the “realness” of thing in the movie might be the to catch the fleeing dealer, Pre- the whole situation. gun. The movie isn’t that bad, ston gets entangled with a me- The movie could have picked the gun is just that good. Imag- dia cameraman. He shoots the up the jokes and run with them ine if someone carried around a camera in disgust. for a few more laughs. Shatner bazooka the size of a machine In trouble with the police was superb as himself, but a few gun. Even though De Niro in- for destroying the camera, Pre- more cameos would have gone a forms the audience that real cops ston is forced to participate in long way to pick up some of the don’t have gun battles or see the reality-based cop show duller moments. Perhaps Judge exploding cars, this spoof is full “Showtime.” His new partner, Reinhold could have appeared of them. Critically, this is also Officer Trey Sellers (Eddie to reprise his Beverly Hills Cop the worst part of the film. In the Murphy), is an incompetent role. process of making a cop spoof show-off more concerned with Showtime isn’t a bad movie, the writers fell into the same his struggling movie career than but it isn’t the sidesplitting com- traps of cars explosions and bank catching criminals. The remain- edy that its talent warrants. The robberies. That shouldn’t dis- der of the movie involves the result relies too much on the tract you from seeing the movie. two police officers’ quest to comedic talents of Robert De You will like this movie if find the gun. Only steps be- Niro, known far more for his you watch any kind of cop show hind them trail producer Chase dramatic acting. Eddie Murphy just to laugh at their stupidity. Renzi (Rene Russo) and a cap- plays essentially the same jokes This movie will suit you per- tive TV audience. throughout the movie. There are fectly. Expect this movie to be The best parts of the movie only so many times that his in- the major blockbuster of the Photos courtesy WARNER BROS. PICTURES are found when Renzi tries to tentionally poor acting resonates weekend. If you can, wait until Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro (top) are the stars in the reality-based television make Preston into a cop star. into a laugh. your friends see it to gauge their show called ‘Showtime’ in the new movie of the same name. Rene Russo and William Shatner (as himself) Sadly enough, the coolest reaction. William Shatner (bottom) are the producers trying to weave a tale of TV gold. Minogue continues Australian invasion By Kimberly Rieck tastes are fickle, the fad ended, Touring Rent Staff Writer and Minogue became a virtual unknown again in the United show delights Artist: Kylie Minogue States. Label: Capitol Records Despite the fact that Minogue Title: Fever had lost her popularity in Ameri- crowds at Fox Tracks: 12 ca, she continued to rise in popu- Rating: yyy larity with worldwide audiences. By Bryan Basamanowicz The former Neighbours star re- Assistant Entertainment Editor It appears that every few years leased eight albums in addition the U.S. pop scene reaches out to to her greatest hits collection and It’s been six years since Rent a specific culture and grants a few a live album. Minogue has had opened off Broadway. Ironically, just of the culture’s superstars their over 30 hit singles and sold over hours before the first cast took their 15 minutes of fame. It was not 30 million records. In Australia, positions on the stage for the show long ago that the Latin pop scene she’s their answer to Madonna or debut in January of 1996, Rent’s writer had a heavy impact in pop music. Janet Jackson. Like Madonna and and composer, Jonathan Larson, died Before that, European pop was Jackson, she has acted in numer- suddenly on account of an undiagnosed all the rage on MTV. Now it ous films and collaborated with aortic aneurysm. appears that the newest fad has numerous international pop stars Since its creator’s untimely death at come full circle from the 1980s. like Robbie Williams and the Pet 35, Rent has earned the late Larson a Back then, Kylie Minogue was Shop Boys. Pulitzer Prize for Drama, four Tony singing “Loco-motion,” which In 2000, U.S. audiences once Awards (including Best Musical), and dominated the charts in 1987. again heard the Kylie’s name when a $5 million deal with Miramax for During that time, Crocodile she performed ABBA’s “Danc- movie rights, attracting the interest of Dundee movies were also enor- ing Queen” and her song “On A directors such as Spike Lee. By Steve Shaw / CAPITOL RECORDS mously popular with audiences. Night Like This” in front of over See Rent, page 22 Incredibly popular and successful in her homeland, Australian pop Then Americans proved that their princess Kylie Minogue is attempting to find an American niche. See Kylie, page 24 22 • Friday, March 15, 2002 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT cess have been brought along for gela Wendt and Tony Award-nom- Rent from page 21 the show’s run in Atlanta. inated choreographer Marlies Yearby. Paul Clay, stage designer for on- The acoustics of the Fox The- In addition to Larson’s own fame, Broadway sets for Rent has brought atre are stretched to their peak per- Rent has also launched the careers his vision to the Fox. The stage at a formance via the efforts of sound of many of its original Broadway glance seems to just be a loud as- designer Steve C. Kennedy whose cast members. Jesse Martin launched Broadway credentials include Cats, from his role as Collins in the orig- Starlight Express, Song and Dance, and The Phantom of the Opera. inal Broadway show into a role on It’s an outrageously NBC’s hit series Law and Order as The cast of this touring produc- detective Ed Green. Taye Diggs fun procession of loud tion is full of a rightfully aspiring energetic team of musicians and ac- (Broadway’s Benny) went on to land music, loud acting, major roles in films such as How tors that keep the energy of the show Stella Got Her Groove Back and Go, and explosive visual well afloat. Notable performances include those of many debuting stage and is also starring in the upcoming decadence... within film adaptation of Chicago along- actors such as Krystal L. Washing- side Catherine Zeta-Jones and Ri- an intelligent and ton (Mimi) and Kevin Spencer (Rog- chard Gere. deeply moving theme er), each of whom make convincing Six years after the fact, Rent is no contributions to their characters. less an extravagant experience to have. Atlanta is one of the first stops On stage, it’s an outrageously fun on a tour that has almost three months procession of loud music, loud act- sembly of randomness. However, left to it so some of the actors haven’t ing and explosive visual decadence, as soon as the actors start supplying quite yet broken into their roles en- all situated within an intelligent and and applying the stage design with tirely, yet the overall energy of the deeply moving theme.
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