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Kings Productions, the world's #1 producer of entertainment, is holding The Zeros look like they might have been locked in a freezer at one point in their career. auditions for the 1992 season at GREAT AMERICA, Santa Clara, California. A variety of positions are available and a travel fee w ill be f a newspaper is printed, but doesn’t have any money, (perhaps right next to that fourth sense) is that Dramarama paid to employees who must travel more than 250 miles to the park. does it make a sound? Just something to ponder dur­ will be coming to the Ventura Concert Theatre on Satur­ SAN JOSE, CA — Sunday, December 1 ing the upcoming pre-Thanksgiving rush week. Oh, day, Nov. 30. But that’s not all. Opening the show will be San Jose Civic Light Opera Rehearsal H all, 1717 Technology Drive I most of these events offer a discount for Inside the Zeros, who, judging from their photo, have never 1 -3 p.m. Singers, Specialty Acts rs. stopped eating Pop Rocks. They must know a cheap morti­ 3*4 p.m. Dancers, Instrumentalists Wave 3*5 p.m. Technicians M usic: cian, but the look works for them. Showtime is at 9 p.m., so FRESNO, CA — Thursday, December 5 • Locals can see what happens as Jane’s Addiction gets a you’ll be missing the “ Golden Gills”, but hey, that Sophia W am or Theater, 1400 Fulton St. South African flavor when Tribe After Tribe brings its chick isn’t getting any cuter. Besides, tickets are only $15. 5- 6 p.m. Singers, Specialty Acts sound to The Pub Thursday, Nov. 21. Woodbuming Pro­ Theater: 5*7 p.m. Technicians ject, an extremely promising Santa Barbara band, is the Some little-known work called 6- 7 p.m. Dancers, Instrumentalists • The Wizard of Oz, or opener, so it should be a terrific musical night. Festivities maybe ... o f Oss, o r something, will be performed at the SAN JOSE, CA — Saturday, December 7 San Jose Civic Light Opera Rehearsal Hall begin at 8 p.m. and it’s free (sorry, Wavers, no discount). PCPA Theaterfest in some little-known town called Santa 1717 Technology Dr. • Santa Barbara’s Trinity Episcopal Church (quite a con­ Maria. L. Frank Baum (whoever that is) wrote this so- 10 a.m .-l 2 p.m. Singers, Specialty Acts cert venue, you know — die Doors played there, too) will called fantasy and now it’s a musical. Well, whatever. It 10a.m .*2p.m . Technicians plays Friday, Nov. 21 through Dec. 22 (that’s a long showl) 12-1 p.m. Dancers, Instrumentalists host the Fine Arts Brass Quintet and guest organist Owen Burdick. This whole music-at-the-Trinity Episcopal thing and tickets range from $17 to the low, low price o f $13. For additional information cal: Groat America Audition Hotline 408/988* 1776 seems very close to breaking that church and state separa­ • Anything Goes, a musical that takes place on an ocean Kings Productions 800/544*5464 tion. The program includes the music o f Bach, Gabrieli, liner, opens Friday, Nov. 22 at the Lobero Theatre. That’s KINGS ISLAND ■ KINGS DOMINION ■ CAROWINDS ■ GREAT AMERICA © Kings Productions Debussy and Gershwin. Is that Ira or Geoige? N o one’s re­ right, setyour course for adventure and your mind on a new ally sure. The answer will be given Friday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. romance, because these characters are hot! And, best of all, Tickets are $12, but only $8 for those few students who can love won’t hurt anymore. Tickets cost anywhere from $9.75 produce a good-looking reg card photo. for small farm animals to $26 for fully grown super-species. w w w w w „ • Something to keep stored 'in 'Bie back of your mind It’s exciting and new. Come aboard, they’re expecting you. Finding a Direction THE END Students Show Talent in One-Act Plays

IS NEAR... It’s once again time for stereotypes about the home­ the student-directed One “We are trying to less, especially that it’s just Act Plays at the Old Little about men,” she said. Theater. This quarter we get break stereotypes The act is broken into a There are two pieces, one about the about the series o f narrative scenes, aftermath of a dysfunctional homeless.” and follows a single mother’s descent from a family, the other about the God Bless A Child homeless. mildly strapped existence to R eunion, written by Da­ d ire c to r complete impoverishment. 5 vid Mamet and directed by The entire cast gives solid L is a B u o n o senior drama student Kath­ performances, notably Days Left To leen Wilson, is a me­ Wendy Gough as the lead lancholic but heartwarming W ilson’s direction and Julika Lackner, a sixth play about rediscovering a catches Mamet’s script grader who plays her Advertise father. where emotional tension daughter. The choreogra­ As the title implies, we are and restrained movement phy is tight, the stoiy ab­ amidst a reunion between a intercede. The acting is sorbing and the message in the father and daughter after a strong in creating that awk­ taxes our conscience to 20-year separation. Scott E. wardness, but Pnzant, play­ healthy levels of discomfort Daily Nexus Lawrence plays Bemie, a ing a woman close to her We can, however, ap­ 53-year-old recovering al­ own age, has an easier time pease our conscience to coholic who left Carol, with it than Lawrence, cast some extent at the door, I Be4 the end of the Quarter played by Yael Prizant, as a middle-aged man. where Buono asks that you *" ------when she was only four. In a slightly different bring a canned food dona­ Carol, now an adult, has genre, senior drama/ tion in recognition of “Give called upon Bemie in his psychology major Lisa a Damn, Give a Can” week sparse little apartment. Buono brings her own to support the homeless. Bemie, who has feared adaption to the boards, in this meeting, awkwardly God Bless a Child. W e are The student-directed meanders through a now full steam into socially One Act Plays begin to­ suppressed past with ill- conscious theatre, specifi­ night at the Old Little fitting anecdotes. A nervous cally the homeless problem. Theatre and run until this Carol endures his honest Buono’s intent is not merely Sunday, Nov. 24. Admis­ but superficial parlay. Fi­ to raise awareness, but to sion is free, and all shows nally, the ice begins to melt, dispel a few misguided no­ begin at 8 p.m. and the two divulge their tions about the problem. emotional needs. “We are frying to break —Christian Lincoln ENCORE staff Contributors Dylan Callaghan Assistant Editor Aaron Cappocchi DEADLINE IS Josh Elliott NOON 2 days prior Pax Wassermann Greg Dean Jenkins Editor Christian Lincoln to when you Jenn Myers want it to run! Brian Banks Ted Mills ¡ore interview Thursday, November 21,1991 3A

PEARLS Living AND • u MARLOWE In Color A NEW PLAY ADAPTED FROM THE STORIES OF TKeyah Keymah Draws RAYMOND CHANDLER H »an .iv ■ BY Barato** ■ Self-Expression in Her ROBERT G. EGAN NOVEM BER 15-16 One-Woman Show NOVEM BER 19-23 By Dylan Callaghan 8:00 PM NOVEMBER 17 AND 23 or two seasons r questions a n dfo 2:00 PM now, the cast of “In comments. F Living Color” — According to Keymah, STUDIO THEATRE one of Fox televi­ her performance draws NO LATE SEATING sion’s most successful at­ from such rich sources as STU D EN TS $ 7 .0 0 tempts at tickling America’s the work of Lily Tomlin, funny bone — has been fill­ Whoopie Goldberg and G EN ER A L $ 1 0 .0 0 ¿ÉSÉi:- ing file bill in the laughter poet Maya Angelou. Those BOX OFFICE department with it’s no- who expect the hyperactive 805-893-3535 ■ ¡ M M r x f S jokes-barred brand o f hu­ lunacy that defines L iv in g mor. Characters like Homey C o lo fs humor might find DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC ART the Clown, the gutter­ Keymah’s soft-spoken, arti­ mouthed children’s show culate professionalism a bit T’Keyah “Crystal” Keymah host who likes to hit kids o f a suprise. THEATRE at UCSB On Vanilla Ice: and say, “ Homey don't play In an interview with EN­ UNIVERSITY OF CALIF0R NIA • SANTA BARBARA that,” nave found popular­ CORE, Keymah discusses “I probably own less than 10 albums and, ity among television audi­ the business o f being true to I dare say, he’s not among them. ences. And Fire Marshall ourself, David Duke and On her interest in politics: Bob — the half-bald, pyro- er lack of Vanilla Ice al­ maniac fire marshall who al­ Sbums in her distinct style o f ‘7 come in and out” ways winds up torching the few words. location of his fire-safety de­ ENCORE : Is In L iv in g monstrations — has proven C o lo r the funniest tiling on to be just the type o f mad­ T V today? Keymah: No I don’t. man couch potatoes find Keymah: Oh, I don’t ENCORE: Would you funny. know. I imagine it is, and for care to? Thanks to this macabre whatitis. ...It’s a sketch var­ Keymah: No I wouldn’t. collection of nuts, the iety show that has no limits ENCORE: Why’s that? hugely Black cast o f the and, if it is the funniest Keymah: Because, I show has made quite a name thing, that’s why, because wouldn’t listen to them!... I for itself in one o f the first it’s not contained within a actually don’t own many al­ nationally successful Black box. N o one is exempt from bums. I probably own less variety shows. T’Keyah it. than 10 albums and, I dare “ Crystal” Keymah, one o f ENCORE: Is the show say, he’s not among them. the show’s feature players, kind o f a family operation? ENCORE: Do you be­ is known most for her por­ Keymah: Oh, very much lieve in God? trayals o f the inquisitive so. I don’t think it can help Keymah: Yes. I believe in little girl “Cryssy” who but spill over into the a creator. A higher eneigy. wants to know why all the performance. ENCORE: Do you be­ dolls are white, and the ENCORE: What’s it like lieve in George Bush? more brash “Shewanda being on that show right Keymah: D o I believe in Harvey,” co-hostess o f the now? George Bush? Let’s say I be­ animated talk show “G o on Keymah: It’s very inter­ lieve there is a George Bush. Girll” esting. Being with come­ ENCORE: Describe your In addition to being one dians all day will drive you sense o f humor. o f the stars o f a hit show, mad, and that’s what it’s Keymah: Reality based. Keymah boasts a college de­ like. It’s being in a room ENCORE: Are you inter­ gree in theatre and — su- with comedians all day. It's ested in politics? prise, suprise — business. funny. It’s like being in a Keymah: I come in and At the Fabulous Westin Kauai! Already the young enter­ playground. ou t tainer has a book and a pos­ ENCORE: W h a t is ENCORE: If you could sible cable special on the TK eyah’s idea o f success? meet David Duke, what loin KCQR's horizon. Keymah: Accomplishing would you say to him? In her one-woman show, what you want without los­ Keymah: Nothing really. Mark De Anda Sc David Hefferman which will be performed in ing yourself. I wouldn’t have anything to Campbell Hall Monday, ENCORE: Do you con­ say to him. I don’t think he’s for a quality vacation for two! N ov. 25, Keymah fuses sider yourself a serious any different from a whole poetry, a menagerie o f dra­ performer? heck o f a lot o f people who Including: matic characters and com­ Keymah: I consider my­ would just prefer not to say edy into a totally unique self a serious person and I what they think. 7 days/6 nights at the Westin Kauai Resort self-expression. The perfor­ bring myself to my perfor­ ENCORE: Do you read mance will be immediately mance, so I guess tiie an­ the cartoon strip Peanuts? and Round Trip Airfare followed by a reception in swer would be yes. the Multicultural Center ENCORE: Do you own Keymah: N ot on a regu­ where she will be available any Vanilla Ice albums? lar basis, I must say. 5 GRAND PRIZE W INNERS

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Comedy Isn’t Pretty, and the Actletes at Comedy Sportz Prove That It Isn’t Easy, Either. But Even They Don’t Know Quite How to Define It. By Josh Elliott

s a rule, it’s impossible to explain, two ideas that make any audience go home even for those gifted enough to happy and ready to tell a Mend — audi­ perform it You can sit down with ence involvement and the thrill o f immi­ Athe closest and brightest of nent on-stage collapse. Improv can only Mends, and they might not still under­ exist with an audience that is focused on stand the concept after the simplest o f the show, one that is willing and able to explanations. give the suggestions and responses neces­ “You see, it’s a comedy thing,” you sary to create uniquely fascinating improv might begin, “but it’s not stand-up. It’s im- theater. The fact that the performers on prov, that is, improvisational comedy, and stage could ‘bom b” at any moment is the it’s a group show. There are these two sadistic appeal o f the genre, but an appeal teams, see, and the people are called act­ nonetheless. letes, and...” At this point, the blank stares “W e’re absolutely living on the edge,” and glassy eyes are testament enough that Kramer explained. “ I mean, you’re talking Comedy Sportz, Santa Barbara’s only con­ about a two-hour show without one pre­ sistently performing comedy troupe, has pared line when you hit the stage. That’s done wonders even staying in business why the audience can make or break the these last six months, let alone drawing show. I think (the audience) appreciates sellout crowds to its intimate late-night the fact that what they’re seeing is being setting at Tony Roma’s on State Street created only for them right before their Explaining their work is a task that team eyes.” co-founders Gary Kramer and Dave Kess­ Such, then, is the zen o f improv. Much ler struggle with on a daily basis. ALAN RTTARVDnly Nexus like a “soul surfer” and his quest for the “Yikes,” Kramer said, half-expecting a Comedy Sportz can be seen every Friday and Saturday at 10:00 p,m, “perfect” wave, there exists a zen uniquely glazed look in return. “You can explain it fitted to the experience of improv, of spon­ for hours and they won’t get i t It’s some­ making and timing, said, ‘No, I want to do The owner loved the idea, and wanted taneous creation. thing that can only be really understood if this live.’ So, they split off and the Zuckere them the next week. Impossible, they said, “ If motorcycle mechanics can have a it’s seen, and they still might not get it after came back to Milwaukee and made Ken­ but they could start in eight weeks. zen, then so can improv,” Kessler said. that.” When asked for his explanation, it’s tucky Fried Theater, and they used all o f For the next eight weeks, the two slept, “First, I think that there has to be 100 per­ evident that he enjoys this question about Dick’s stuff; but they were partners, so he ate and breathed this infant of a show, can­ cent commitment to whatever you’re do­ as much as he likes carrying a ton of bricks. couldn’t do anything. Then they went off vassing Westmont College, Santa Barbara ing on stage. You have to be completely But, he attempts it as a labor o f love. and made hundreds o f millions o f dollars. City College and UCSB looking for either open to any situation — in a sense, you “Comedy Sportz is improvisation on And there’s Dick, working in his father’s motivated, young improv experimenters or have to dare to be stupid.” Astro-Turf It’s a combination o f ah, well, steel factory.” masochists, depending on their point of “One thing we tell our new people and it’s improvisational comedy performed as Chudnow then saw Keith Johnstone, a view. remind our old ones is that, for you to com­ if it’s a sporting event," he tenuously be­ drama professor at the University o f Cal­ “W e showed them a couple videotapes, pletely understand what it is w e’re doing, gins. “Where two teams o f actletes, obvi­ gary, who taught his students improv but those don’t tell much of anything ab­ you’ve got to be big about it,” Kramer in­ ously a combination of ‘actor’ and ‘ath­ games as a way o f teaching theater. He out the show,” Kramer remembered. “So terrupted. “ If you’re going to fail, fail big, lete,’ square o ff in games and scenes cho­ liked the idea so much, according to we had to convince them it would go off because to fail weakly is truly pathetic.” sen by themselves and the audience to Kramer, that he decided to build a show ar­ without a hitch, that it would be bigger “You also have to be open to bombing score points in a competition for laughs. A ound it, centered in Milwaukee. Thus, than anything they’d ever done.” on stage or a change in a scene,” Kessler referee is there to keep them in line, to call Comedy Sportz (the “z” is a Chudnow cre­ That, if anything, was much easier said continued. “ I think, we both think, that if fouls and penalties, to keep track o f the ation) was bom. than done. H ow do you explain the games improv has a zen, then it’s openness and score, to move the show along and to soli­ The first “expansion team” came about to people who could only understand total commitment to yourself and your cit audience suggestions and volunteers.” in 1985 in Madison, Wisconsin, and in­ them through hands-on experience? How craft.” “But, once you get into i f it gets really, volved mainly college students from the could you explain “Game-o-matic,” where There they were — Gary Kramer and really complex.” University of Wisconsin. One o f these was one team takes audience suggestions and Dave Kessler and their ragtag bunch o f im­ O f course, “actletes” and referees and Kramer’s older brother Jeff, who then then has only 30 seconds to create a com­ prov rookies, staring at a packed, fouls, when talked o f in terms o f a night on brought it to San Jose with Mends. Other plete and utterly entertaining game for an standing-room-only crowd on opening the town, would bring, well, glazed looks groups spawned in cities like Washington, ever-cynical audience? night six months ago. The two had done from all involved. But that’s nothing when D.C., Kansas City and Chicago, which has O r train established actors in the game the show “a million times,” but this was you consider what the unenlightened since grown to the present number o f 20 “Forward-Reverse,” where two teammates their show. bunch in Milwaukee eight years ago must teams. It was Kramer’s experience in San must not only create a scene’s entire text, “I’d never seen anything like it,” Kramer have thought when Comedy Sportz per­ Jose with his brother’s newly formed but be able to, at a moment’s notice, navi­ reflected. “ I was reffing that night, and I formed for the first time. troupe that planted the seeds o f the gate their way backward through their jumped on stage to start the show, and the Comedy Sportz was originally the present-day Santa Barbara team. just-invented dialogue? audience cheered for, like, 30 seconds. I brainchild of Dick Chudnow who, prior to “ I knew Comedy Sportz could work — Or explain the concept of a referee, who blew the whistle to begin, and they just formation o f the show, was a partner with it had been done for eight years,” Kramer would not only “judge” their perfor­ went crazy. ‘Oh my God, I have to wait for the Zucker brothers, o f A irp la n e! and said. “W e (he and Kessler) didn’t know mances, but also call penalties and fouls them,’ I thought.” Naked G u n fame. The three were in M il­ Santa Barbara, but we figured it could that would, among other things, force a “And from that point, after seeing and waukee, overseeing their own show, Ken­ work here, too. We knew what it would team o ff the stage in disgrace or make a hearing that, it was easy. I thought, ‘W e’re tucky Fried Theater. The Zuckers then de­ take.” performer wear a paper bag over his head if here, and we’re not going anywhere.’ cided they wanted to do movies, but Chud­ Which brought them space-hunting to they in any way offended the ref or the au­ Comedy Sportz, right there, I think, had now would not hear of it. Santa Barbara. They'd been here for only dience? This is obviously not a run-of-the- arrived.” “The Zuckers wanted to go to California an hour before walking fatefully into Tony mill comedy show, which seems to be its and do films,” says Kramer with a laugh. Roma’s, which would be celebrating its appeal. Even if they couldn’t explain what it was “But Dick, with all his great decision­ one-year anniversary the following week. Comedy Sportz successfully unites the that had arrived. ritic’s w ee Thursday, November 21,1991 5 A

■ MUSIC REVIEWS Acid House Beat Plagues U2’s Latest Achtung Baby Found What I’m Looking U2 For.” Island Records Don’t get me wrong, if I hat’s with the acid were to never again hear house beat? that familiar snare cadence and Bono’s lame cry, “this W song is not a rebel song,” I U2's latest ef­ wouldn’t shed a tear. It’s fort, which will much better for a band to undoubtedly sell millions experiment and fail than to based solely on their mega­ band reputation, sounds wallow in the formulaic mud of bands like the like they traded in their Smithereens, Bryan Adams trusty-dusty Motown al­ or H eart But U2 should be bums for the flash o f Man­ chester acts like The Stone far above emulating fad bands like Jesus Jones, The Roses. “Unlike Joshua Stone Roses, Ride, EM F or Achtung Baby, their first completely studio effort Tree, ... the pol­ any o f those other dung- reeking, sample-ridden, no­ since 1987’s enormous ished studio effects soul, British twits you hear Joshua Tree, is saturated are the foundation bleeding through the beer- with entirely unoriginal a n d cluttered stained walls ofneariy every disco/club/house/ Isla Vista apartment whatever you call ’em beats death of A ch tu n g Lyrically, the album re­ more at home with wanking B a b y .” calls U2’s darker past, as no-talent bands like The Bono steps down from his Charlatans than in the ranks o f a band like U2. Un­ oft-criticized soap box to ex­ plore and question personal like Joshua Tree, or any other album for that matter, emotions as he did on U2 In Review: plete with a screaming one- 1981's which is held together by O ctober. note guitar solo made fam­ In fact, it is his own lyric good songwriting and ous by guitarist The Edge. that says it best “ Give me simply glazed with produc­ The Unforgettable “Even Better Than the Real one more chance/ and tion, die polished studio ef­ Thing” and “Who’s Gonna you’ll be satisfied.” In other fects are the foundation and dbtober (1981) Fire (1984) Ride Your Wild Horses” are words, don’t rush to pick cluttered death o f A chtun g also competent efforts, but Baby. this one up. Buy it used or War (1983) I the bottom line is that none tape it from one of your The album isn’t a com­ o f the songs on A chtun g nerdy friends who stayed up plete failure. Noteworthy is lUnd^tSilill^ll Rattle a)êÊÈÈtSmÊÉÎÊÊË. Baby possess the stirring and bought it Monday at “Acrobat,” a noisy piece re­ power of tunes like “Surren­ midnight. calling the bewildering Red Sky (1983)1 Achtung BMMMM m I der” or “I Still Haven’t — Gregory Dean Jenkins ethereal power o f The Un­ forgettable Fire and com-

Treadwater, Post-Punk, and the Monks R e a l L ove Raise M erid ian Lisa Stansfield Stoervedriver Monks of Doom Arista Records A&M Records Baited Breath Productions There is no doubt that Lisa Stansfield has a terrific voice. Did you ever get the feeling when you’re listening to a When the alternative-music world was rocked (OK, Her debut single two years ago, “A ll Around the World,” new album that this might just become your new favorite wobbled) by the breakup of college-radio darlings Camper showed that she had a special way with phrasing that gave band? That you could listen to it over and over forever and Van Beethoven, no one knew what to expect. that song’s chorus the melancholic edge that made u so never get tired o f it? Well, if you’ve never had this feeling, or Rising from these ashes with all eyes on them come the popular. if you have and want to feel it again, have I got a group for Monks o f Doom, a wild and unpredictable band made up Overlong at 63 minutes, Stansfield’s second album, R eal you. o f Camper alumni. Love, finds the singer treading musical water. Swervedriver is an English quartet from Essex. Their new The Monks are mainly a twin-guitar band, but mando­ album Raise is a compilation o f their two previous EP’s so lins, accordions and organs also pop up in their songs — If Stansfield has a weakness, it is her collaborators. Co­ it’s nothing new in the UK. Over here, though, it maybe just they end up sounding like nothing you’ve heard before. The writers and producers Ian Devany and Andy Morris frame what you’ve been waiting for. best description comes from the band itself — they say Stansfield’s voice in lush ’70s-style arrangements, all Swervedriver’s sound differs from the rest o f the music they’re like “Captain Beefheart meets Led Zeppelin at the sweeping strings and wah-wah rhythm guitars, but she coming our way across the Atlantic. While the prevailing home of Nino Rota but everybody gets paranoid and goes never has anything of interest to sing about trend on the British scene is funk/dance/hip-hop/pop a la home early.” M eridian, their third album, is a vivid, oddball tapestry Lyrics on R ea l L ov e range from the pedestrian to the Happy Mondays and EMF, Swervedriver takes after a band o f noise. Although it frequently suffers from a muddy pro­ trite. However, the music saves the day on a few songs. The like Ride. The central attractions of such a band are a pair of duction far too common among independent records, it is punchy “Soul Deep,” a paean to feel-good self- noisy guitars swimming and swooping around each other an album that demands attention. This is not background improvement, has an indulgent, sunny texture that is curi­ with vocals laid gently over the top. Ride, though a very music — the songs are just too interesting, too distinctive ously reminiscent o f the incidental music on the Saturday good band, has a tendency towards an annoying drone. and too strange to ignore. Night Fever soundtrack. The British kitchen-sink scenario Swervedriver, however, pulls o ff this impressive trick per­ The 15 songs on M eridian are all extreme in one way or o f “All Woman” replaces the rest o f the album's pillow talk fectly. They never get old or boring. another— there are no sappy love songs, no dumb rock n’ with a little working-class drama, and Stansfield does an Every track on Raise is memorable and beautiful. The roll cliches. Instead, there are warpealy titled songs like admirable job bringing to life lyrics that, if not patronizing, simple/complex rhyme scheme in “Deep Seat” is subtle but “Argentine Dilemma,” with choruses sung in Spanish. at least seem dated. pretty. The guitar on “Lead M e Where You D are...” seems to lift out of the speakers and float around in your head for “Turn It On Him self’ is probably the album’s best cut, with Given a good solid song, like Cole Porter’s “Down in the hours. Especially interesting are “Feel So Real” and “Sand­ its heavy and growling guitar riffs, but check out “The Depths” from the recent Red, Hot & Blue compilation, blasted,” which feel like two parts o f the same message, Traveler” for a taste o f reggae-gone-to-hell-and-back- Stansfield knows what to do. It comes as a disappointment with similar lyrics but completely different and distinct me­ again. that Real Love’s overwhelmingly mediocre ballads give her lodic arrangements. The Monks of Doom w ill perform at The Pub this Sa­ mature voice so little to work with. One would hate to see Buy this album now. This is the future o f music. Don't be turday, Nov. 23, at 8p.m. Tickets are only $5, with local Stansfield become Whitney Houston. left behind. blues act Earl opening —Ted Mills —Aaron Cappocchi —Aaron Cappocchj 6A Thursday, November 21,1991 ore lü t lc ’s m ic e ATTO RN EY FREE PHONE .CONSULTATION TOM GRIFFIN 805-966-1123

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(Above) The Calm Before the Storm: Robert De Niro (left), as Max Cady, pays a casual visit to Nick Nolte’s Sam Bowden. (At left) Cady is the menacing madman who terrorizes the Bowden family. I FILM REVIEW Scorsese’s Life Lessons p i z z a presents... THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON w it h Cape Fear Director Tackles Guilt and Betrayal (Again) this The jock of this shock is Robert DeNiro, who delivers ev­ C m t F tm . Stanine Robert D e N ao, Nick N olle, Jessica Lange, JuKette Lewis, Joe Dan ery bit o f the anticipated creepiness into Max Cady, an ex- ad Baker, R obot Mitchum, Gregory Peck. Edited by Thelma Sdroonmxker. Screenplay by Wesley Stack. Produced by Barbara De Roa. Directed by Mutin Scorsese. con seeking revenge on his ex-lawyer. Cady’s conviction 14 years earlier might have been avoided with a bit more help from attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte, looking quite thin Martin Scorsese may be America’s greatest filmmaker, after beefy turns in Q&A and Another 48 Hours), but that’s but the anointment is a mixed blessing. N ow that the direc­ just the tip o f Nolte’s guilt-laden iceberg. Cady's harassing tor has produced three decades of cinematic vibranee brings Bowden’s problems with his w ife and daughter to (Mean Streets and Taxi Driver in the ’70s, R agin g B u ll \\ tiie surface. Cady is not the only one Bowden may have and The Last Temptation o f Christ in the ’80s, and G ood - betrayed. Fellas in the ’90s), he is expected to top himself with each This is familiar territory for Scorsese, who once saddled effort. even Jesus Christ with equally strong doses o f guilt and er­ Is Scorsese concerned? His latest, a remake o f the 1962 ror. Cady’s revenge gives Scorsese an opportunity to un­ thriller Cape Fear, would suggest no t The man, who never leash jolts at a breakneck pace. His longtime editor Thelma Ei» met a camera angfohe did not love, seems Shoonmaker is as much a star of the film as to have accepted the fact that trying to top DeNiro or Nolte, in a role with low profile himself would be an almost-impossible and huge payoff. The film speeds along in task. Others have tried, and failed. It perfect thriller style, slowed only by the would be foolish to waste the effort. three character-advancing dialogues Instead, Scorsese is content with simply which prove most valuable to the piece. holding on to the title. Cape Fear does not D eNiro and Nolte make for interesting re-establish Scorsese’s importance in the counterparts: Cady, whose emotions and way that G oodFellas did a year ago. The motives are practically worn on his sleeve, film is fine, an effective edge-of-the-seater and Bowden, who — even in his confes­ His wish for life granted, the Visible Man takes his first which never relents from its accelerated sions — seems to be hiding something. All steps into the real world — not suspecting that most people, upon seeing him, would either pace and sharp edits. But it’s no master­ the more intriguing is that Bowden is the faint or throw up. piece, and it’s unfair to expect one every good guy. time Scorsese gets behind a camera. But Scorsese’s good guys are never Scorsese has never had a box-office clean. From Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle to blockbuster, and the obvious comparisons GoodFellas1 Henry Hill, his protagonists his latest will draw to another 1991 thriller always get their hands a little dirty. Bow­ could give the impression that Scorsese Martin Scorsese den’s climactic act o f washing his hands HEY UCSB! has finally made one for the masses. But holds more than a little symbolism. He is Cape Fear has none o f the high-gloss thrills that made Si­ clean for the time being. And Scorsese, who puts his repu­ lence of the lambs a crowd-pleaser. There are no shrieks tation at risk with every effort, has come away clean. For that turn into smiles here, just wide-open jaws which get the time being. ROC If wider as the film progresses. —Brian Banks copy readers are currently ban g sought by the Nexus. Good writing, editing, spelling EVERY and grammar skills needed. Experience is helpful, but not required. A Presents... FREE MEMBERSHIP THURSDAY M P E O ^ v - $1 OFF ANY RENTAL 6545 Pardall Rd., CALVIN Isla Vista, CA & HOBBES w/this com ic MIGHT 968-6059 By Bill Watterson void w/other offer

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chides ip ensuring that he M arc Cohn is an engag­ » . t- d w *- *■ x' * Skanking Pickle is not dismissed as “just ing effort from the stqrt Never has a better Marlowe been played by anyone, and another singer/ with the blues/gospel bal­ this includes Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell and Elliot Let’s Go Bowling songwriter.” With his new­ lad, “Walking In Mem­ Gould. Despite his unmuscidar appearance, Jason Cottle est release, M a rc Cohn, he phis.” It not only deals portrays the character so well in Pearls and Marlowe that 12/1 Sunday establishes more than that with the city as a physical the audience completely forgets his physicality. Loud and MIGHTY Cohn has travelled place, but also as a spir­ arrogant at the proper points and calm and considerable at quite a long road on his itual safehaven, a histori­ the others, he is, by far, the truest Marlowe. DIAMONDS way to personal musical cal monument to the musi­ The rest of the play doesn’t pale in comparison. In fact, if freedom, beginning m cal legends (such as Elvis) anything, it reinforces it. The set design is absolutely bril­ w/Mutabaruka Cleveland in the ’70s, lis­ it has housed. The song liant The constant change o f scenes requires a fairly skele- tening to and worshipping that made the album po­ tonic set, thus most o f the setting is left to the imagination 809 Band the likes of Mitchell, pular among mainstream o f the audience. In fact, the only props, other than the cos­ M arc Cohn 12/6 Friday Browne and his idol, Van audiences, it serves as a tumes, are a few chairs, a table on wheels and a cigarette Morrison. The youngest of houses at New York’s signature for the compila­ lighter. Even the use o f real cigarettes was avoided, giving MARY’S DANISH four boys, he began his China Club. But it wasn’t tion. Other notable tracks an effective aesthetic to the entire performance. w /E le v e n musical career singing and enough to keep him from include the touching The amalgamation o f two Raymond Chandler stories playing Ray Charles’ pursuing his wish to write “Silver Thunderbird,” into one play succeeds magnificently. Narrators describe “W hafd I Say,” and then and produce his own “Saving The Best For Last” the barren set using Chandler’s words, evoking the cool, 12/7 Saturday progressed through the music. and “Perfect Love,” featur­ surreptitious feeling of his classic crime novels. It’s a smart normal high-school-band Cohn left the band and ing a guest appearance by move to keep Chandler’s description, one o f the best parts DE LA SOUL stages to form his own began writing and doing another of Cohn’s influ­ o f his stories. This, in addition to the very witty dialogue, 12/13 Friday group, The Supreme vocal demos o f his songs, ences, James Taylor. makes Pearls and Marlowe one o f the best adaptations of Court. The band special­ o f which he wrote over 50 But it is Cohn’s balance Chandler’s w ork to a popular medium w e have yet seen. SAM KINISON ized in reworking covers in the 18-month period af­ o f heartfelt lyrics and sub­ Pearls and Marlowe plays Thursday and Friday at 8 in different musical genres ter quitting The Supreme tly fluid piano-playing that p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. Call 893-3535 for UPCOMING SHOWS — one o f his favorites was Court. H e sent a demo make this album one of the information. 12/30 Dread Zeppelin a Big Band rendition of the tape to Atlantic Records, year’s most overlooked / —Bill Mathleson Beatles’ “You Got To Hide and then to other labels, pieces, and make Cohn an Your Love Away” and but it was Atlantic that re­ artist worth seeing in his “She’s A Woman.” They sponded first and most performance Saturday garnered a cult following, enthusiastically. night at 9 p.m. in the Ven­ TICKET INFO: 685-5901 and Cohn suddenly found Atlantic set him up with tura Theater. himself playing to sold-out a number of talented —Josh Elliott Recycle This 40 IHN. FREMDES 9 9 . 9 8A Thursday, November 21,1991 Daily NexuS ^ AS PROGRAM BOARD m rtitk a rtf A oom e T CB

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