Inan Encore Interview, Mike D, Ad-Rock and Mca Discuss

■WM mRsaWKSjSe: m w m m »«$£ m m l ü h h H M 3 & INAN ENCORE INTERVIEW, PAT STULL/Dftily Ne*u> MIKE D, AD-ROCK AND MCA DISCUSS THE NEW ALBUM, THEIR EXTENDED LAYOFF AND THE HIP-HOP POTENTIAL OF NIRVANA. PAGE 4A 2 A Thursday, April 16,1992 ■BOOK REVIEW Anarchy in the U.K. New Book Traces Roots of Punk Phenomenon o future!” screamed the crass, leering Johnny Rot Featured are numerous interviews and commentaries ten at the end of “God Save the Queen,” the sec from a wide assortment of pop stars including Chrissie ond vitriolic single from London’s infamous Sex Hynde, Siouxsie Sioux, Billy Idol, Adam Ant and Morris N Pistols. Hie song emerged at a crucial time during sey —all of whom experienced the British punk scene firs the Queen’s Jubilee in 1977, when the majority of die Brit thand and lived to tell about it. ish population blindly and buoyandy celebrated Queen Savage emphasizes the scheming antics of Malcolm Elizabeth’s 25 years on the throne. Oblivious to the devas McLaren, the shrewd and manipulative art school tating economic recession that left nearly 1 million unem dropout-turned entrepreneur who was ultimately respon ployed that year, the British people had no idea that they sible for tiie Sex Pistols’ audacious assault on the staid, were celebrating the veiy institution that contributed to conservative British population. These legendary market Britain’s economic disaster. ing tactics are all hilariously described, though McLaren England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock emerges as a corrupt Fagin-like father figure who used the and Beyond is a fascinating new book about the Punk Sex Pistols as media pawns in his merchandising scheme to movement that exploded in the mid-seventies as an angry shove Punk rock down the throats of the masses. reaction to Britain’s conservative political and social cli The author clearly believes that Punk merits a place in mate. Former rock journalist Jon Savage devotes a rather the annals of popular culture, and in the tradition of Greil lengthy 600 pages to the evolution of the Punk phenome Marcus’ Lipstick Traces, England’s Dreaming attempts to non, beginning with its roots in the anarchist rhetoric of the condense decades into one concise volume. For this rea „1968 student uprising in Paris and terminating with the son, the book often becomes cluttered with unnecessary rather sudden demise of the media-obsessed Sex Pistols in trivialities. 1978. Nevertheless, England’s Dreaming succeeds as a well- In between, England’s Dreaming leaves no subject un written and complete document of the entire Punk era. treated. With a sassy, staccato writing style that reads like Savage does a remarkable job of tying together music, poli an extended Melody Maker article (i.e. there are a lot of tics and popular culture, allowing England’s Dreaming to big, pretty words), Savage tackles such diverse topics as emerge as much more than just another look back at the ex anarchist politics, the British recording industry, Punk plosive era that brought Anarchy to the U.K. This dapper gent, Jon Savage, explores Punk fashion and the rival American Punk scene centered ar in his latest book, England’s Dreaming. ound the nightclub CBGB’s in New York. —Andy Bailey This Week at The Anaconda (From left) Groove-rockers Phish play tonight with Widespread Panic; Hardcore stalwart Social Distortion headlines Saturday night. 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Sponsored b y the Sponsoredbythe Cound o n International Cound on Mematlonal Educational Exchange, Educational Exchange Council Travel & Council Travel & Counseling and Career Counseling and Career Not a Player S e r v ic e s S e r v ic e s DRINK Filmmaker Michael Tolkin Finds Success DRIVE { WITH With a Cynical View of Hollywood GET A DATE VjTHE LAW By Denis Faye TAM Feeling Kinda Pasty? ¡ 10 Tans like the feelies.” ducer of Drugstore Cowboy for This was a rather and sex, lies and video I $35 w/Ad sudden comment tape) read the screenplay I (30 min. max) __ I Michael Tolkin and encouraged him to ex I exp. 5/15/92 968-3384 6576 Trigo Rd., Isla Vistai made in the middle of nam pand it into a feature film. ing off his favorite writers. It With the backing of Wechs- took him a second to ex ler and several others, he Thursday plain that his train of made his directorial debut April 16th thought had moved on from with The Rapture. authors to bands that he en Thefilm’s strong religious at 8:00pm joyed. He liked the Feelies. comment attracted a strange Look at screenwriter/ collection of critics. I.V. Theatre novelist/director/joumalist “When it came out, it had Tolkin’s life, and every as attackers and supporters,” $3.50 pect of it seems to have this Tolkin said. “The suppor leap-first-and- tell-people- ters liked it because it sup JFKThe Story That Won’t Co Aumy' about-it-later approach. His Kimberly Cullen (left) and Mimi Rogers In ported a need for religion or first profession was that of a Sponsored by: Royal Residence filmmaker Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture. it portrayed a cold universe of San Nicolas Hall journalist. Despite die fact in which God was the that he has had articles pub job as the story editor of the spotlight. But what did enemy.” lished in The Village Voice endearing television sitcom, Tolkin do with the money “The attackers said it was Friday, April 1 7 ,1.V. Theatre and the Los Angeles Times, “Delta House.” It was with he made from his screenp either blasphemous or it he felt that he didn’t have this spinoff of A n im a l lay? He wrote a book that was religious propaganda. 7, 9 & 11pm what it took to be successful House that Tolkin got the would make a biting state The symmetry was $3 w/canned food, ¿.50 w/out in the realm. opportunity to work with ment on that previously interesting.” “I did a profile on the au the likes of Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned stupidity in pre Tolkin didn’t intend for thor Tom McGwin,” Tolkin and John Hughes. He takes viously mentioned quintes the movie to be a traditional said. “It was an amiable pro pride in his work on this sential Hollywood. He narrative. It is a personal Beauty file until my editors helped show. titled it The Player. film, allowing only for per The most beautiful -pv and the to make it less amiable. “I learned about movie For some strange reason, sonal interpretation. If The love story ever told. (McGwin) wasn’t too making and helped to de Hollywood decided it liked Player is an attack on Hol Beast happy about it. ... I didn’t stroy a TV series,” he said. being viewed in such a cyni lywood, The Rapture es Sponsored by: American Institute of have the stomach to go on Meanwhile, “The Spiel cal light. It liked it so much, capes it. Chemical Engineers & A.S. Underwrite mugging people like that.” berg side got angrier from it bought the rights to the “Younger audiences So, in 1978, he up and 1978 to 1985,” at what book, and made a movie. don’t know what films can moved to Los Angeles with Tolkin described as “stupid Robert Altman directed it, it be. They (the studios) train Tw o 1 2 ” the ideas of becoming the ity.” It was at this point that stars Tim Robbins and Hol the audience to be united in Cheese Pizzas next “Fassbinder and Spiel he sold the screenplay of lywood likes i t A lot. a feeling; they give us a fo r o n ly berg.” The general audi that skateboarding epic Somewhere in between scapegoat $ Q 9 9 ences in the USA do not Gleaming The Cube. the writing of The Player “In The Rapture there is 57 + tax have much of an apprecia There is an irony here, in and the making of the mo no scapegoat” he added. P X ZZA Additional Toppings Extra tion for German Art that some might consider vie, Michael Tolkin did “You are left alone with presents... with this ad Cinema, therefore “Holly this film to be quintessential another one of his 180-de- yourself and that makes THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON wood was not into the Fass Hollywood — a vehicle in gree turns.

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