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With Scripts for Dead Again and the Upcoming Little Man Tate Under His Belt, UCSB Grad Scott Frank Has Found There's No Business Like Show Business. Page 4B
TODD FRANCIS/Duly Nora* 2B Friday, September 20,1991 ¡ore lletin ENCORE staff Editor______Brian Banks Assistant Editor______Jamie Reilly Contributors______Bonnie Bills Ed Brady Maxwell C. Donnelly Todd Francis Morgan Freeman Ross French Melissa Lalum Scott Lawrence Jamin O’Brien David Rosen Jason Ross J. Christaan Whalen
Widespread Panic will appear sans train at the Anaconda on Saturday, Sept. 21 along with the Blues Traveler«. The Anaconda will also feature G.G. Allin on Wednesday, Sept. 25 and Junior Movies, Music & Wells on Thursday, S< pt. 26. he duties o f an arts begin is generally a slow one England, Thea tre) Style: Blues Traveler and Other Expensive and entertainment for on-campus events, but • The Santa Barbara Civic Widespread Panic on Satur newspaper have there is still plenty to be seen Light Opera’s The King and day, G.G. Allin on Wednes rarely been de and heard around the area. I opens tonight at 8 p.m. at day and Junior Wells on Arts Mediums... T fined, so it is left to theOur poor pick for the Band That the Lobero Theatre. Thursday. souls responsible for the Would Never Get A Gig If It $19.50-$26. Through O c • Billy Squier appears at section to produce some Didn’t Have Someone Fam tober 20. the Ventura Concert We cover them all in ENCORE, thing which could, though ous In It is W oody Harrel- • Theatre Pacific’s Agnes Theatre on Tuesday at 8 and we’re always looking for nev^R never will, please every son’s (yes, Woody from o f G od ends its run Satur p.m. $22.50. body. With Encore, we tried “Cheers”) group, which day at 8 p.m. at the Center writers with an interest in to take a serious approach plays at the City Broiler on Stage. $7.50-$10.50. Finally, for those who entertainment that costs way too to the subject, while con Saturday. Coincidentally, M u sic want to get in the back-to- centrating on the local angle his band also gets the nod as • The “Art and All That school mood, there’s Mr. much money. If you fit the bill, see to each story. If you are the Dumbest Named. The Jazz” concert, featuring the Campus, George Carlin, at Brian or Jamie in the Nexus office pleased, great. If not — in Manly Moondog and the Gene Bertoncini Duo, takes the Ventura Concert the spirit of free speech — Three Kool Kats (get it? place tonight at 5:30 at the Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. underneath Storke Tower or call you can always write a Cool with a K, Cats with a Santa Barbara Museum o f and 10:30. Tickets are 893-2691 to sign up. Remember, letter. K) play at 8 p.m. Art. $5-$8. $23.50, but George’ll do you join now or be drafted later. The week before classes Theater (or, as they say in • I.V. Music, Anaconda up real good.
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The Legend Slows
A s the summer of mega-concerts KRS-1 lays down several reggae-influenced /\ comes to an end, Santa Barbara lyrical rhymes. will be treated to a well planned Ziggy, his brother Stephen and his sisters reggae/hip-hop show tonight at Cedella and Sharon all wrote or co-wrote the County Bowl. Ziggy Marley and the every song on the new album, with the ex Melody Makers haye.beeo.pai.red with.hip- ception of the two written by their father. hop artist Queen Latifah to prove reggae With this new hip-hop and R&B flavor, and. rap can coexist and complement each many seem to he wondering whether .or not other. the Melody Makers are capable o f carrying The Melody Makers’ latest album, Jah- on their father’s inspirational message. mekya, has fused reggae with R& B vocals But the controversy surrounding the and rap tracks, a combination which has group has not stopped them from deliver existed for years. More often than not, rap ing conscious enlightening music for the has sampled and borrowed from reggae to people’s benefit; This is evident in the improve or heighten a new sound. For ex tracks “Jah is True and Perfect” and “Rain ample, on Boogie Down Productions’ 1986 bow Country,” written by Bob Marley. release, “Criminal Minded,” singer/rapper — Jamin O ’Brien
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By Morgan Freeman, Staff Writer
t was January, 1981 and Scott Frank, a senior film hottest pen in Hollywood. studies major at UCSB, was glued to his television D ead Aga in has been leading the box offices nationwide set, shocked and bemused as he watched the for three weeks and appears primed for a healthy foil run. events o f the Iran hostage crisis unfold. “ H e’S hot,” said UCSB Film Studies Professor Paul La InundatedI by newscasts from around the globe, the zarus, sounding more than a little proud. After all, it was in 21-year-old was struck with an interesting idea for a diffe Lazarus’ advanced screenwriting course in the winter of rent kind o f newspaper column, one based on the observa ’82, that the story for Little Man Tate developed. tions of an enfant savant, Lazarus, whose 41 years in the film industry include ex kid, a brilliant kid, who made sense of what was going ecutive positions at Warner Bros., United Artists and Col Couscous Baba Shish onin the world. 1.. I thought it would make a great column umbia, became quite close with Frank while L itile M an Poulet Ganouj Taouk for a newspaper,” Frank recalled during a phone interview Tate was written and rewritten Hummus “ Scott is one o f the only people that I have met who R ack o f Scam pi Halibut last week. Escargot Lamb Provençale By Fall Quarter ’81, the idea had evolved into a feature knew as a freshman what he wanted to do,” Lazarus said. Salmon screenplay to be written for film studies 188B, Advanced “He came to my office and said ‘I want to be a screenwriter’ Scallops & Artichoke Screenwriting. and we worked together for four years.” Scam pi Entrecote Apricot Salad Now, nearly ten years and 75 rewrites later, L ittle M an Frank, in turn, is equally complimentary toward his for French Tate is heading for the big screen. The film stars Jodie Fos mer teacher. “ He has had a great effect on my success,” he ter — who is also making her debut in the director’s chair— said. Moroccan and is scheduled to open nationwide on Oct 9. It was Lazarus’ screen writing course and job advice Mediterranean But the production and upcoming release o f L ittle M an which pried open the iron doors o f Hollywood for Frank, Cuisine Tate is only one facet of Frank’s success story. Also, the au who headed south soon after his graduation in 1982. Tak thor o f Dead Again, an original thriller about reincarna ing along the Little Man Tate script, which won top honors 18 W. Figueroa, tion starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh (Henry V ), Downtown SB, the 31-year-old finds himself holding what may well be the See FRANK, p.8B Between Chapala and State “THE HOME OF THE ^ * v r SUIZA < VERY GENEROUS ACAPULCO C U IS IN E ^^ % DRINKS” v". ‘ _ _ Famous for a quarter of a century: a im S m m •Fresh Fish •Fresh Cut Steaks GRAND OPENING SPECIAL •Fresh Daily Features We Offer: In-House Dining, Patio Dining and Take-Out. —3 Bars Under One Roof—
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Cinemas Cinema Twin Q Metro Four S. B. County Bowl Fairview Twin O Granada Theater Anaconda Theater A Peek At the Area’s e Arlington Theater o Plaza de Oro Lobero Theater Cinemas Reveals Muck Carnaval Behind the Front Doors e Fiesta Five o Victoria Theater o Riviera Theater Zelo s stones go, it’s one of the oldest. The emperor has ,. / % no clothes, it is agreed. But who should tell him? i m I A The majesty and pageantry are there as always, but X . A . the man is bare. H e is naked and, presumably, al ways will be. It’s an old story, but one that is being played out in Santa Barbara movie theaters. The film palaces are as extravagant as ever, from the spectacle o f the Arlington to the hilltop beauty of the Riviera. But these venues have nomovies. Cur rently, filmgoers have few pleasures^once they’ve gotten past the house’s architecture. Behind the elegant facades are generic studio blockbusters booked in as many as three theaters in a 10-mile radius. And, sadly, things appear to be getting worse. How did SB become the SiBeria for films? Located only 100 miles from Hollywood, one would think that releases would be diverse and exciting. Instead, Santa Barbara thea ter owners have followed the Tinseltown trend o f mindless and predictable filmmaking. Call it formula film booking. The “biggest” movie gets the biggest screen, plus a couple of smaller ones. A week later, there’s a new star of the screen, and thatfilm is placed in a couple o f other theaters. The los ers? Independent filmmakers, probably. Santa Barbara filmgoers, definitely. Santa Barbara moviegoers have 21 There are 21 screens in the Santa Barbara area, and the screens from which to choose, but four Metropolitan Theater Company owns 20 o f them. In addi of the best are located within one block tion to being a monopoly breakup waiting to happen, MTC of each other on State Street. The Arling controls what the Santa Barbara audience watches, ton (interior, above) usuaUy gets the whether it's Terminator 2 and R o b in H o o d on 20 percent of “event” movies, while the Granada 3 their screens (as they have been for the last 10 weeks) or in (right) is one of the MTC’s top duplexes. expensive independent films sharing one screen. (Cur rently, the controversial P a ris is B u rning is the only small- budgeted indie playing in SB.) It’s certainly a shame that the M T C s theaters aren’t put to The remaining seven MTC screens are divided between better use. Everyone should be forced to see in a film in the four locations, the most prominent situated high on the Ri Arlington at least once in their life, especially those unfamil viera among sprawling estates and the Brooks photography iar with the few extraordinary movie houses still running in school. The Riviera Theater is difficult to find, but it seems Hollywood and New York. The Arlington is the top theater to be the only place to find a somewhat unconventional film in the area, and its large screen and top sound (though still on an M TC screen. Barton Fink and Jungle Fever have no sign of TH X coming this way) make it the place to see a played the Riviera this summer, and the theater can boast major film. such unheralded alums as Jesus of Montreal, Metropoli tan, and Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. The problem for the Arlington managers comes in book Ah, but there is life beyond MTC. The Victoria Street The ing films. Predicting what movie will be a blockbuster is like ater, conveniently located on Victoria Street, has only one shooting pool with a rope. A year ago, while G h ost was in screen, but that’s like saying the Sistene Chapel had only the opening week o f its $200 million run, the Arlington was one ceiling. The Vic offers the most consistently original showing Days o f Thunder, which was already faltering after choices for filmgoers alienated by the Hollywood machine’s only a few weeks. And even though Home A lone set box of tired and true formulas. W ith so many good “small” films fice records last winter, the Arlington was mired in a six- searching fora screen in the area, the Vic often only shows a week run of The Godfather Part III, a film that earned most film for one or two weeks. It’s a shame that the MTC o f its income during its first tw o weeks. After that, the M TC couldn’t be more liberal in their booking choices to give people had the answer to the oft-asked question, “What if these films the exposure they deserve. they played a film and nobody showed up?” UCSB’s Campbell Hall and Isla Vista Theater are per Around the junior circuit, the booking lists o f such State iodic alternatives for independent filmgoing. But there is no Street staples as the Granada 3, the Metro 4 and the Fiesta 5 business like the blockbuster business, and the M TC con read like the lower half of the “W ho’s Ahead at the Box Of tinues to strategically place big films in big places. With fice?” charts on “Entertainment Tonight” O f the three, the fewer people going to the movies these days, however, Granada is the finest looking. Located across the street from somebody had better get this emperor some new clothes be the Arlington, it seems to have picked up some of the charm fore things get even colder. and extravagance of its legendary neighbor. —Brian Banks Friday, September 20,1991 7B Friday Saturday Night
Concert Houses Prove That in Santa Barbara, The Week Doesn't End
t’s Friday night You’ve watched the MTV Music Awards for the sixth time. You’ve raided the re frigerator, searching for just the right edible to sati I ate your hunger and your boredom. You’ve trimmed your nails and filed them to perfection. You’ve even trimmed your dog’s nails. N ow what? Aha!! An inspiration. You drag out the patriotic shoes and the metallic blue ball and psyche yourself out for a fun- filled evening of ... bowling!! NOT!!! Really, now. This is Santa Barbara and if you’re bored, there’s something for you to do — and not just on Friday, but on any night o f the week. W e’re talking music. Music is perhaps the best cure for boredom in the world. So check it out— bands are playing, rhythms are pounding, fingers are snapping, people are dancing, bodies are sweating. And you could be there! For a relatively small town, Santa Barbara breeds a lot of talented musicians and has many unique places where such talent is showcased. There is something for everyone. Whether you are a mellow sophisticate out for an evening at the symphony or a hardcore headbanger out to rock and roll— or somewhere m between— there is a club or theater out there with your ears in mind. Local bands with sounds ranging from hickish to hard core can be seen on any given night o f the week at several downtown clubs. Carnival, Shake, ZelO, the Beach Shack, and the Brewhouse Grill are all good places to catch a little live rock and roll or dance while a disc jockey spins the & tunes. As far as bands go, check out some o f the local favo rites like the wacky, offbeat band Spencer the Gardener (ru mor has it that Spencer really is a gardener), mellow rockers Toad the Wet Sprocket, or metal-heads Bad Neighbor. Re ggae fans can shake their dreads to the sounds of locals Cru cial DBC or The Itch. Only a few local industrial bands (Re mission and Scar Tissue come to mind) are any good, but Urge! night at Zelo on Mondays —: featuring a good indust rial, add-house dance mix -— Is cool for those; o f you 'who are sick o f dancing to ridiculous Top 40 music. Unfortunately, there is no concert arena large enough to attract the biggest names in rock and roll to Santa Barbara, but who needs them anyway? Harder Stadium has hosted some big shows, the last being a free concert featuring Jane’s Addiction in 1989. Big names in rock and roll usually play at the Santa Barbara County Bowl (an outdoor amphitheater which is fun, but not very pleasing acoustically). Tins past year, the County Bowl hosted such big names as the Black Crowes, Morissey, Steel Pulse, JimmyBuffett, and Elvis Costello.. The Ventura Concert Theatre is an excellent concert house, although it is an hour from Santa Barbara and the management has a tendency to kick folks out for no appa- > rent reason. It has managed to steal some good acts from Santa Barbara’s stages, most likely because o f its size and central location. Past Ventura Theatre shows include The Pixies, Faith N o More, the Divynls, Jesus and Mary Chain, Dread Zeppelin, Devo, and a plethora o f other alternative rock bands. UCSB’s own Pub hosted some amazing shows last year, including Mr. Bungle, the Travelling Dingleberries (mem bers of Fishbone), Bob Mould and locals Ugly Kid Joe. (As sociated Students Program Board promises to sell tickets in 3 advance this year so that you don’t get killed before you even get to the slam pit) Isla Vista’s own Anaconda Theatre (formerly The Gradu ate) is perhaps the Pub’s biggest competition. Since its re birth early this year, the Anaconda has hosted quite a few crowd-pleasing bands. Fugazi, Alice in Chains, M y Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Yellowman, and countiess local bands have graced the stages o f this potentially hip club. If its new managers can stay afloat financially, look forward to > some killer shows there this year. For those of you who like to sit down at concerts, the Santa Barbara Symphony will begin its season this month under the baton of conductor Varujan Kojian. The sym phony usually performs in the interesting yet sappy Arling ton Theater and provides a good show for classical music lovers. So get dressed up, grab a date, and tune in to some Berlioz. Jazz lovers can whet their musical palates at SOhO, a downtown restaurant with an atmosphere so chic it’s cheezy. Despite its ultra-trendiness, SOhO does offer some o f the best in local jazz talent and decent food. The Lobero Theatre often hosts excellent jazz, blues, and classical con certs — this is another grab-a-date kind o f place, expensive x but worth it If you’re feeling mellow and cheap, put on your baggy jeans and go to the Green Dragon, a downtown coffee house. It is very likely that you’ll hear a good acoustic, jazz, or blues set while you sip your rich cup o f coffee. Ahhhhh... In case you’ve missed the point, M T V is nice, but your community has many musical experiences to offer. So get out of the house and get into the groove. (I’d chat some more, but Headbanger’s Ball is about to start. I just love that Riki Rachtman.) —Bonnie Billi 8B Friday, September 20,1991 UCSB Department of Music FRANK: Screenplay Read Again
Continued from p.4B It's a new season fo r the at the UCSB Corwin Awards, he went in search Frank Thrills With Dead University Symphony of a screenwriting job. Probably the biggest surprise in Scott Shakespeare great again, the British wun- “When he first got to Los and a new conductor Frank’s screenplay for D ea d Ag a in comes derkind has made an old fashioned Angeles he called me and before the film's action even begins. As thriller for a new generation. The odes to Camilla Kolchinsky said he got offered a job do the opening credits roll, the audience Hitchcock are obvious but welcome dis (graduate o f the Moscow and Leningrad ing research — not writing reads that Frank’s script is an original one tractions, and his achievements on both Conservatories, conductor o f many — and that it only pays $150 — shocking indeed, considering the lack sides o f the camera (he also stars along major European orchestras) per week,” Lazarus said. o f quality work coming from the minds of with wife Emma Thompson) will no “He asked me what he H ollywood’s writers. doubt evoke new comparisons with should do. He said he Instrumentalists It’s a fact made even more startling by Welles. couldn’t get by on $150 per the expert work that Frank and director Branagh is Mike Church, an L.A. pri are invited to join Mme. Kolchinsky week. Kenneth Branagh have created. In a vate eye put in chaige of a woman who in an exciting year o f music making. “I told him to take the job world where the best screenplays nor can’t remember her past The only memo and get another one at mally come from the umpteenth adapta ries she can recall are those o f a 1940s Rehearsals: Mondays at 7 p.m. night,” Lazarus continued. tion o f a novelist’s classic, a bold original couple whose spectacular love affair en “It would get him a way to Wednesdays at 3 p.m. work should be celebrated. ded with her murder and his execution for show Tatei" to people in the the crime. It seems that those memories in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall And that is exactly what Branagh has film industry. done. S h ru g g in g off early comparisons to Auditions and placement at “He took tiie job and gave Olivier after his H enry V made filmed See D E A D , p.9B first rehearsal out endless copies of T a te " Monday, September 30. Lazarus said. But although well-received in Holly Frank’s research job, copies stantly being asked to take to direct one o f his own sto wood, nobody seemed in o f Tate had spent most of over projects and do re ries the way he had envi terested in producing it. . the decade floating around writes,” Lazarus said, “and sioned it, he was very satis Still, Frank’s writing was the major studios in he’s being offered obscene fied with both Foster and impressive, and he landed a Hollywood. amounts of money.” Branagh’s interpretations of job as a staff writer at Para $100,000 per week for re his scripts, “i was very mount Pictures — with a he film was nearly writes is tiie going rate. lucky,” he said. “ It’s a mira starting salaiy o f $100,000 produced by “The first two days (doing cle if they stick to your per year plus an additional Twentieth Centuiy rewrites) he sat at the type script You write rose and $100,000 if one o f his scripts Fox in 1984, and writer and couldn’t move they film a tulip.” were produced. wasS scheduled to be di his hands,” Lazarus said. During the production of It was at Paramount that rected by Joe Dante. H ow “He couldn’t accept the Tate, “ (Foster) worked very Frank saw his first story ever, the company dropped concept that he’s worth so closely with me and re come to life. Plain Clothes, the project when corporate much.” spected the script,” Frank a 1988 comedy directed by execs couldn’t reach an Frank declined to reveal said: “Any changes we made Martha Coolidge (Valley agreement with Diane Kea what he was paid for L ittle together.” Girl, Real Genius) gave ton, who was asking $2 mil M an Tate or Dead Again, And with the p r o d u c tio ^ ^ ^ _ Frank national exposure lion to star in the film. The but Lazarus said that, what o f Dead Again, “Branagjj^Hfli j - r — even though, as Lazarus re film continued on its lonely ever the amount. “ H e has wanted to change nothing/^^ calls, “it bombed.” rounds through not been spoiled. He’s Frank said. “The script and But getting Tate made Hollywood. bought a house and in dialogue remained the UC Santa Barbara wasn’t quite as easy. Since But Dante, Lazarus said, vested money in his wife’s same." Frank attributes “wrapped his arms around business.” Branagh’s strict conformity the project,” and took Tate Frank married fashion to the script to the director’s to Warner Bros., where he designer Jennifer Joanou, “respect for the written had shaken the box offices sister o f director Phil Joa word,” acquired during his with the $150 million block nou (1/2: Rattle and Hum, years on tiie stage. buster G rem lins a year ear State of Grace) three years Aside from his relation lier. The studio, however, ago in Santa Barbara, and ship with Lazarus, Frank was not very receptive, and the two are expecting a child also attributes his -new decided to take a pass. in early spring. found success to UCSB’s After a number of years in W ith Little Man Tate film studies department. limbo, Tate canie into the and D e a d A g a in com hands o f Jodie Foster, who pleted, Frank is currently L L r i 1 he great thing fell in love with the story. collaborating with writer “ about (UCSB’s) And then, Lazarus said, she William Goldman (T h e film department took it to Orion Pictures Princess Bride) on a medi is it’s so small with one stipulation: “She cal thriller, Dam ages, for (that) it’s interdisciplinaiy,” said she would only make it Rob Reiner’s production Frank said. UCSB’s prog if she were allowed to di company, Castle Rock. ram includes courses in film rect.” Orion agreed and Frank also has his sights theory, aesthetics and his Tate’s wheels finally began on writing and directing his tory, as well as courses in to roll. own film — The Big Wow. production and technology. Frank is currently w ork “ It’s a film noir about art,” ‘The (UCSB) students ing under Creative Artists he said. are forced to read and Associates, considered one Lazarus is optimistic ab write,” Frank said, adding o f the largest film agencies out Frank’s future. “H e has that many other university in Los Angeles and sud a clear vision (and) he wants film programs lack cou rsg^ BOWLING denly, it seems, everyone to put his vision on the centered on reading orw i^^F who is anyone in Holly screen. 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THE UCSB DEPARTMENT O F DRAMATIC ART FRANK: Hot Hand in Hollywood announces open auditions for allU C SB students Continued from p.8B for the Fall production of ily on production technol ogy. “Students get no liter PEARLS AND MARLOWE ary background at other a new play by Robert G. Egan based on the stories o f Raymond Chandler schools,” he said. “The other schools make techni Sunday and Monday cians whose films have no points of view and no September 22 and 23-7-10 PM stories.” Audition Information and Sign-Ups Kathy Carnahan, an ad Snidecor Hall - Room 1603 ministrative assistant in UCSB’s film studies depart ment, recalls the growth o f Frank’s project. “I typed Little Man Tate for (Frank) when he was a student,” she remembered. “ I loved it. STUDENT There was something spe cial about that screenplay.” “I told him he would SURVIVAL never sell it with that title but he said, ‘I’m going to keep it,” ’ Carnahan said. “ He sure did.” TIPS: And as for Film Studies 188B, Frank got an A. 1. Listen to lots of music. There will be an exclu sive advance screening of 2. Sell us your used CD's, Little Man Tate on O ctob er 3 at Santa Barbara’s Gra Cassettes and LP's. nada Theater, where Frank will be in attendance. A ll 3. Tape your favorite CD's. revenues from ticket sales 4. Play the blues when you ($5, available at Asso DAVID ROSEN/Daily Nexu» ciated Students ticket of fail a test. fice) w ill go into the UCSB “Scott (Frank) is one of the only people that I have met who knew as a Student Film Production freshman what he wanted to do,” said UCSB Film Studies Professor Paul 5. Save money by shopping Fund. Lazarus. Since then, three of Frank’s scripts have been filmed. at Morninglory Music. which should come as no Even Robin Williams, per ing. But he captures the surprise. Branagh has as fect as a foul-mouthed ex most suspense during the #EAD sembled fine British actors psychiatrist, borrows — but contemporary color scenes, Continued from p.8B Thompson and Derek Ja does not steal — scenes. in which the actors play out morninglory come from a past life, and cobi for the other major the twists and turns o f Church may be the reincar roles, as well as dependable The black-and-white ’40s Frank’s work. It’s a definite usic—- nated other half of the American actors Andy Gar sequences give Branagh the original. doomed marriage. cia and Campbell Scott in opportunity to display his Santa Barbara Isla V ista supporting appearances. talent for exciting filmmak —Brian Banks The cast is excellent, 1218 State Street 910 Emb. del Norte 966-0266 968-4665 Recycle Yo>ixr N exus ■ (33 B l
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