Late African-Americans Remembered Trumpeter Bobby Bradford to Jazz up Tribute As Campus Community Honors Four Heroes

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•KING LEAR - the Shakespeare on Film series continues with this production from the former Soviet Union; with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich; UCSB Campbell Hall, 4 and 8 p.m.

•YOUTH BRIGADE, Xtra Large and Dirt (!) will perform at the Anaconda Theater Saturday •MUSICA ANTIQUA, Italian music from the 16th and 17th centuries, Karl Geiringer Hall, 8 p.m.

S u n d a y •UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS SERIES, featuring a program of Mendelssohn and Beethoven, at the Music Academy of the West, 4 p.m. m o n d a y •WIE HAT uns der zu weite Raum verdünnt. Plötzlich besinnen sich die Überflüsse. t u e s d a y •ASPECTS OF PAINTING IN LOS ANGELES, an art exhibition in • the College of Creative Studies Gallery, reception from 5 to 7 p.m.; runs through April 16

W e d n e s d a y •DAVE FOREMAN, the co-founder of the radical environmental group Earth First!, will present his m see views on the importance of story, environmental page 4A activism; UCSB Campbell Hall, p.m...... I 2 A Thursday, February 25,1993 ARTSWEEK Daily Nexus Super Freaky Grooves

Infectious Grooves has once again name yet, but we’re doing a four song trashed the music world with the release demo for labels this week. Hopefully if U of their second album, Sarsippius’ Ark. work out. ... I play guitar and sing. Infectious Grooves is a combination of AW: Do you enjoy working with the funk and metal that slams your head right other band members? through the wall. Their dance and thrash Siegel: Oh, I love it. Everybody’s prob­ style makes the Grooves some of the ably one of the best musicians I’ve ever harshest music today that you can still played with. shake your tail to. The band’s musicians AW: Who writes most of the music? are a virtual mosh pit, including Mike Siegel: On the first album it was mostly Muir and Robert Trujillo from Suicidal Robert and Mike and its sort of the same Tendencies, Adam Siegel from Excel and on the new album. But the third album, Dean Pleasants from Jane’s Addiction. which we already have written, is a com­ The album itself is full of freaky tunes with bination of the whole band. We all wrote the occasional commentary from Sarsip­ a lot of it pius, the band’s character mascot This A W: W here do you get the ideas to do the project is a lot different from anything stuff in between som e o f the songs with each of the band members has done be­ Sarsippius? fore, and the result is truly bizarre. Siegel: I came up with the character, the A rtsw eek : W hat w ere th e circu m stan ces way he looks for the albums, and Mike behind the formation of Infectious came up with the personality. Our friend, G ro o v es? Sarsippius, is the voice and die character. Adam Siegel: Everybody who decided to Ifs just a group effort play with Infectious Grooves wasn’t funk AW: Is there any one band member you Adam Siegel, Mike Muir, Robert Trujillo and Dean Pleasants (I to r). or soul, it was heavy stuff. like to party with? AW:Do you see Infectious Grooves as a Siegel: I probably hang out with Dean the crowd was a little too metal for my tastes. d ifferen t? side project or is it something more? most, but I like everybody a lot. On tour, Well, it wasn’t really metal, just old 30 and Siegel: Ifs different. I don’t play with Ex­ Siegel: No, I see it as a band. I think every­ Dean and I will go out to bars and look at 40-year-olds bringing their kids to see cel anymore, but the guys were close body does, too. We’re just in two bands, shops. Ifs probably because we were them. friends for eight to 10 years. Infectious is which keeps us busy. roommates on the first tour. AW: How was Infectious Grooves turning into more of a friendship thing AW: You don’t find that too difficult? AW: How did you like touring with receiv ed ? now, we feel more like a band and not a Siegel: No, it's really cool. Ozzy? Siegel: Not great in some cities, but not project. AW: Who do you play with now? Siegel: It was great, we played huge bad at all. AW: What do you do in your off time? Siegel: I’ve got a new band. There isn’t a places. I’m an old Black Sabbath fan. The AW: Was that tour a good opening for Siegel: Just write music and do artwork. th e b a n d ? Occasionally I get out to County Line and Siegel: Yeah, it was good. We played a body board. Santa Barbara International Film Festival couple of our own shows that went over Infectious Grooves will perform at great — thousand seaters. the Ventura Theatre on Saturday, Jan. AW: Do you like being with Infectious 28 at 8 p.m. it S p e c ia l E v e n t - S e m i n a r it Grooves more than Excel, or is it just —Austin Sincock "How to make a feature film in a workshop and live to tell the tale..." Cajun Jazz Is Craziest Sat, Mardi , K ant, Santa Barbara Museum of Art When the Preservation Hall Jazz Band life. Ifs got a personality, a dialect, a cul­ 4 11 >0 $20 goes marching into the Lobero Theater ture, even a cuisine all its own, and in fact, tonight at 8 p.m., the saints will have to a real live gumbo from the Palace Cafe Panel discussion with: Producer, Director, Screenwriters, Cast run for cover because this gang will bring will be served at the show starting at 7 the house down! p.m. & Crew of "Confessions of a Marriage Junkie". The Preservation Hall Jazz Band does For those who aren’t familiar with the just what its name implies, keeping the passionate, Bacchanalian frenzy of New A feature film produced as an independent wild, joyous spirit of ragtime and genuine Orleans jazz — especially during this New Orleans jazz alive and kicking. And Mardi Gras week— the music of the Pre­ educational workshop. it has a set up that is pure Bourbon Street servation Hall Jazz Band will be a baptism clarinet, horns, banjo, stand-up bass and into a whole new wild and crazy attitude. is. If you didn’t make it to any bizarre cos­ Sponsored by: ^ V lD E o 7^ \ te Band is bringing its proud heritage tume parties, tonighfs show will more e Lobero Theater for the first time, than make up for it. Come see what the ' it't ihm reel thine' jng with its many followers, the spicy-hot, Cajun-crazy half of American [ feels that jazz “is the only truly culture has been brewing down South. 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music reviews Webster Hits A New Heights -s PROGM 0 .ARD Eddie Murphy Love's Alright Motown ☆ ☆ Eddie Murphy plays the congas, with the help of Trenten Gumbs, who co­ produces and writes most of the music, and fetches sandwiches. All because Murphy’s money made his aura strong, and his strong aura drew a coterie of friends and admirers. Or maybe they were just drawn to his money. It’s been said that money can buy anything. Eddie now has plenty, enough to hire some good producers and song writers. He probably bought enough sycophants to convince plots. Gumby, who knew better, is not him that despite Harlem Nights and heard from. It’s all yes-men and 12-steps B oom eran g , and the paternity and copyr­ and “I’m still young. How ’bout introduc­ ight lawsuits, he was still good. “You’re ing me to Brooke?” bad,” Emmanuel Lewis purred at Eddie as Emmanuel Lewis still hasn’t returned he borrowed the keys to the Countach. It his Countach, and he scrapes across the was just this kind of hiring policy and speed bump in the sweltenng Santa Mo­ aura-motivated career move that came to nica parking lot, lost on his way to the stu­ produce Love’s Alright, complete with dio, where he is later to find out he has all the proof that Eddie Murphy is still a been kicked off the recording of “Hey star. Joe.” It seems Eddie doesn’t feel Webster He hangs with the King of Pop. They has the swagger to pull off a Hendrix MI l hang well together, like your favorite cover. He always d id nave a feel for what matching pair of Nagels, the ones that the people want. “Fuck him. I’ll show match your new mauve Integra so well, him,” Lewis mutters. What? “Yes, sir,” he (acoustic folk with i n the shade of your track home. Oh, admit says, touching his pot belly deferentially. it. Your whole neighborhood. And your Eddie Murphy, it turns out, is a really a comedy edge) neighborhood is in lone with someone on good back-up singer, with the help of pro­ this sky-blue offering, be the icon dead or ducers Gumbs, Trenten and Jones. No alive. They already have it on Sony Mini- kidding here. Murphy is listed as a Disc. After all, it co-stars mo’ stars than Backup Singer on every track of this al­ you can hand a Pepsi to. bum. He is at the top of each list and Em­ There’s Garth and Hammer. Herbie H., manuel only knows who does the leads. It Stevie W., Pendergrass, Bon Cougar Mel- can only be guessed this is what is meant lenjovi, McCartney and Elton. T h e Em­ at the bottom of each list by “Recorded manuel. That Social Securitized, many- By.” Example: “Recorded by Andre Jack- voted entitlement-sucker next door son, Kaz Masumoto and Keith Evans at bought it because it features Julio. Ju lio - Bubblehill Studios.” Murphy’s music is fadUng-Iglesias. Murphy knows what administered by Pushy Publishing. kills them. These are just some of the Conspicuously absent was Ice Cube, names that surface for second helpings in who rang in with congrats from the ranch the first song, “Yeah,” on Eddie Murphy’s ofthatguy who “Never metaman I didn’t new investment like.” So many people came by the studio “Cuteness” is a study in the results of that it was compared to the “Hook” set. lyrical composure from the mutterings of This was encouraging, until P e o p le maga­ yes-men. “Look at all the things I got, zine interviewed the wrong guy. “Let’s all Look at all the bags of gold, there’s no de­ remember what a shithole that fantasy- nying I got a lot, but I’ll give you every­ land was. ... And I can’t believe you’re thing that I g o t...” He’s going to have to asking me these questions with all the keep giving it to them, or someone might pain and suffering in the world,” Sinead stop to tell him his future’s about as bright O’Connor said, pursing her lip implants as Uehling’s. His last album failed. His for the camera. movies are falsetto action with stolen —Dan Hilldale ‘Sufferbus’ Is Masterful Masters of Reality Guitarman Goss and bassist Googe are Sunrise on the Sufferbus also credentialed hipsters, with a 10-year Chrysalis history of associations in the New York alternative rock scene. ☆ ☆ ☆ With cuts ranging from misguided and They call themselves the Masters of Re­ misogynistic ballads to almost-Zep guitar ality, and their new album is called Su n ­ heavies, the Masters can change it up. rise on the Sufferbus. They have defiantly One of the best songs on the album, “Tilt- chosen to print the silhouette of a bicycle- A-Whirl” reminisces over the lost deluxe pedaling rabbit on their cover. Those are attraction park days of youth and is intri- their bads. Right as you are about to un­ guingly snobbish. Other tunes like “Jody plug you find out that their debut single Sings” and “Madonna” are tweaked and “She Got Me” is clawing its way up the romantically redundant college/altemative charts. Bearing in mind that the Masters are Maybe they’re just the midterm- inspired by the grandaddies of classic duressed Undergraduates of Reality. rock, like Zeppelin and Black Sab, their What we have on “Sunrise on the Suf­ listener can contextualize their random ferbus” is a self-proclaimed and con­ nature. They are definitely writing their scious revamping of classic rock by a own credo. Whether they are effective scene-smart threesome. 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Dorsey, each of these men has had said, describing what it John Birks on people everywhere. would have been like to “Dizzy” Gillespie Tribute coordinator have pure genius captured A and Thurgood Marshall.Lester Monts, a music pro­ on film instead of just Though they held very dif­ fessor as well as the dean vinyl. “I don’t think he ferent occupations, each of undergraduate affairs, would have ended up like of these Black leaders — emphasized that the Elvis Presley at all — he the tennis star, the com­ works of these leaders was way too smart for poser, the jazz trumpeter have had incredibly far- that.” and the Supreme Court reaching effects. “It’s Daniels also stressed justice, respectively — amazing that I can stand the fact that it is still a broke down racial barriers here today as a dean at a struggle for African- and redefined,the roles of major university, when I Americans who make val­ African-Americans in this grew up in a segregated uable contributions to society. Arkansas. But people like society to get the recogni­ These four influential tion they deserve, despite figures will be honored on “It's am azin g th a t I efforts like Black History campus this Friday at a tri­ month. “Look at Holly­ bute performance featur­ o n stand here wood, for instance, and ing the Bobby Bradford toli^asiid& ttat how it tends to serve itself Jazz Ensemble. Consider­ and its own interests,” he * * m m ing that they made contri­ said, explaining that butions in very different African-Americans aren’t l i f e spheres of American life, yet considered a part of each of these men could that community, contrary quite well be honored ■ A ikansas/ to its self-professed liberal individually. -Lester Monts views. But according to orga­ “Spike Lee was right nizer Charles Long, a pro­ Thurgood Marshall have when he said that he had fessor of Black Studies made that possible.” no reason to expect any­ and Religious Studies, “it A trumpet player him­ thing from [the Academy] makes sense to honor self, Lester Monts also for his work on [the bio­ them together because counts Dizzy Gillespie as a graphy of Malcolm X],” they’ve all died recently, major influence. Gillespie, Daniels said. and within a short time of together with fellow jazz However, Professor each other.” masters like Thelonious Long maintains that as Long said that he will Monk and Miles Davis, long as socially prominent personally recognize each was one of the founding African-Americans are leader in a eulogy on Fri­ fathers of the rhythmic alive and making contri­ day. Indeed, this tribute and atonal bebop style of butions, “they are doing will be much more than jazz that set the music the work they feel they just a free jazz show. In world on its ear in the early should be doing, and that honor of Dorsey — who ’50s. work is its own reward.” was a prolific and ex­ Black Studies Professor tremely influential gospel and jazz history demigod The Bobby Bradford composer— former UCSB Douglas Daniels said that Jazz Ensemble mill per­ Gospel Choir Director giants like Gillespie com­ form in Lotte Lehman Diane White will perform pletely rearranged the face Concert Hall on Friday, his masterpiece “Precious of American culture. Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. This Armed with a trumpet, Bobby Bradford and his jazz ensemble will play Lord,” and the other “Just imagine if Gilles­ show is free, seated on a their respects to four African-American leaders Friday in Lotte Lehmann. speakers will give spoken pie had made some good first come, first serve testament to the emotional movies when he was really b a sis. Oaktown Gangsta by Martin Boer formula, perfected by Too Short and King Tee, which includes heavy bass and re­ f you want hard and angry laxed stoney raps. Besides 2Pac, the al­ gangsta rap, 2Pac is as hard as bum is filled with cameos from his homies they come, talking more head Ice Cube, Ice-T, Deadly Threat, Live I than Rush Limbaugh. His new Squad, Naughty By Nature and Digital album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... on Underground. TNT Records is yet another lethal chapter In “Something 2 Die 4” he declares that of the Los Angeles/Oakland contingent’s freedom is something to die for— not jea­ steady infiltration of rap music. But it’s lousy or drugs or a bottle of juice — like not only hard, it is deep. the late Latasha Harlins. On other tracks First assaulted by the police in down­ he raps about the pains of single-mother town Oakland — for jaywalking — and parenting, the ghetto streets resembling then nationally berated by the then-vice jail, post-King L.A. and other politically president of the United States after a “right” issues. Texas state trooper was killed by a teena­ But 2Pac also quickly jumps onto the ger who was listening to 2Pac’s first al­ misogynist-rap bandwagon by calling all bum, 2Pacalypse Now, 2Pac has been women “hoes” and “punk bitches.” We janked into the national spotlight. While won’t even ask what “Got ya runnin’ like this album answers his critics with vio­ a fag” means. But he then drops a rhyme, lence, he simultaneously offers the Black “Keep Ya’ Head Up," in which he drops community encouragement. so much knowledge about the treatment Much of 2Pac’s political consciousness of women in our society that we have to comes from his family’s influence. His reconsider just where he stands. mother, a high-ranking member of the “Since we all came from a woman, and Black Panthers, was pregnant with him got our name from a woman, I wonder when she was sent to jail but, acting as her why we take from our women, rape our own attorney, won her case. His god­ women. Do we hate our women? I think father is famed Panther Geronimo Pratt its time to kill for our women, heal our and his stepfather Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Af­ women, be real to our women, and if we ter having grown up in the Bronx, Balti­ don’t, we’ll have a race of babies that will more and Oakland, coupled with his po­ hate the ladies. And since a man can’t litical credentials, 2Pac has become one make one — he has no right to tell a wo­ of the most significant and credible of the man when and where to create one. I underground rappers. know you’re fed up ladies.” In “Souljah’s Revenge” 2Pac asks 2Pac is coming to Santa Barbara, “who’s the biggest gang in the city?” Not along with Yo-Yo, to throw a benefit the Bloods or Crips, but the “police ... concert for the Casa Rosa, a shelter for fuck ’em.” Since, as he explains, “they all battered women and the Omega Girls wear the same colors, cany guns, stick Club. The show will be on Sunday, Feb. together and lie together.” 2Pac then asks 28, 6 p.m. at the Casa De La Raza. The “What the fuck does Quayle know about event is sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta 2Pac’s 2 come 2 La Casa de la Raza in 3 days. what young Black males need?” sorority, A.S. Student Lobby and the Ke- 2Pac uses the classic Oaktown groove vanzaa Committee. Daily Nexus ARTSWEEK Thursday, February 25,1993 5 A

Poor Ophelia, She’s Dead

by Aaron Santell rying to keep commemorates important your feet diy, you events of the country's his­ carefully step tory, from the era of Lenin T from one brown and Stalin to the recent re­ stone to the next through a volutionary changes ex­ narrow winding passage of perienced under Gorba­ soft light and white cur­ chev and Yeltsin. tains. The rocks wobble “It’s such an essence of underfoot as you glance Eastern Europe,” com­ down into the water and mented UCSB student Lu­ then beyond at your shim­ cie Zivny, an art studio mering reflection below. major who hails from Cze­ Images distract you on the choslovakia. “The style of video monitors hanging socialist realism, criticiz­ overhead. A woman floats ing old and new regimes, is slowly on the screen, half similar in Czechoslovakia submerged in a wet flow­ and Poland.” ing mix of colors and re­ The nonsanctioned fracted light. Sleeping, posters present a rare op­ drowning or disoriented, portunity to see social cri­ she gasps for air with ticism and political events ___ i closed eyes, floating in a in Russia through the eyes almost considered deathly bliss. She is sus­ of native artists. normal.” pended in a pleasant “Hie Russian posters CAF— one of the few, if CAF exhibits: A dream — or dark night­ and Schimerfs installa­ not the only place in Santa view o f a gallery, mare — of the sublime. tion are a must-see,” Barbara where large in­ including a O p h elia , a recent video UCSB art studio graduate stallations are erected— is painting by Mark installation by UCSB art Saam Gabbay said at the a nonprofit contemporary Stock and photos instructor Katy Schimert, opening last weekend. arts organization, sup­ is currently showing at the “Schimerfs piece is defi­ by Nic Nicosia ported by the National En­ (top); Katy Contemporary Arts Forum nitely the best.” dowment for the Arts, Ca­ in an exhibit called “Love The installation by lifornia Arts Council, the Schim ert's and Other Fatal Attrac­ Schimert uses the tragic city of Santa Barbara, the exhibit entitled tions.” The exhibit, which love story of Hamlet and Santa Barbara Arts Com­ ‘Ophelia’ deals with love and other Ophelia and an intercon­ mission, foundations, cor­ (middle); a piece intimate relationships, nected assortment of icons porations and over 800 from the ‘Love also features toned black to focus on the societal members. and Other Fatal and white works from constraints which confine Attractions' Texas photographer Nic Ophelia and her struggle CAF director Nancy exhibit (bottom). Nacosa’s “Love and Lust” between two opposing Doll said she hopes the A ll o f the CAF series, paintings from the poles of existence. forum can continue to “Butlers in Love” series by “Because of her social maintain an active rela­ exhibits are free San Francisco artist Mark deviations, Ophelia trans­ tionship with the univer­ to the public. The Stock, as well as works by gresses into lunacy, sui­ sity. “One of our inten­ galleries are Ilene Seaglove and Cindy cide, death and the tions is to serve as an addi­ located a t 653 Evans. eventual/acceptable re­ tional resource to UCSB,” Paseo Nuevo, Apart from these main turn of her image and body she said. “We try to bring second floor. exhibitions in the Klaus- to nature,” writes new and challenging art to Hours are 10 ner Gallery, CAF also fea­ Schimert. “I chose the sub­ the community and we a.m. to 5 p.m., tures “John Walker: Small ject of romantic love be­ hope the community in­ Tuesday through Paintings” in the Norton cause it is a split state in cludes the university. We Saturday. Photos Gallery and Russian Post­ which conflicting beha­ can provide students with by April Capll. ers in the Partridge Li­ vior and unaccountable contemporary art in a vari­ brary. The Russian exhibit feelings are acceptable and ety of forms.” 6A Thursday, February 25,1993 ARTSWEEK Daily Nexus

film reviews Western Love Jon Amiel’s S om m ersby is as flowing, smooth and full of passion as romance novel coverboy Fabio’s hair. This predictable yet intense story starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere is told with beautifully photographed images, superb acting and a penetrating soundtrack by Oingo Boinger Danny Elfman. S om m ersby is a romance set in the South after the Ci­ vil War. The opening scene has Jack Sommersby (Gere) trekking through the snowy northern wilderness, filmed so majestically that it conjures up a fear of the elements, akin to the intensity of reading Jack London’s T o B u ild A F ire. After six years of fighting, Jack makes his way home where he finds things just a tittle bit off. His dog doesn’t remember him. Curiously enough his feet have shrunk by two shoe sizes. But his change in personality, de­ corum and increased capacity to love is what is most ap­ parent to his family, mends and enemies. Like most epic tales of romance, S om m ersby is filled with dramatic parallelisms that, in their obviousness, illi­ cit Cheshire grins. A newly seeded tobacco field full of sweaty men and women toiling between the soil and sun is intercut with a scene of Jack and Laurel toiling in a more pleasurable way between the sheets. Parasitic hog- worms invade Sommersby’s crops while three “wise” transient men pass through with knowledge that threatens to destroy Jack’s world. It is Gere and Foster’s restrained and powerful acting In Sommersby, Laurel (Jodie Foster) beckons Jack (Richard Gere) for a mouthful. It's beautiful. styles that ultimately anchor S om m ersby , keeping the viewer engaged lest he or she should have time to float in thought and mock its potential cheese factor. The dearth of jobs awaiting college graduates screams stormy night after he’s been home for a few months. Gere’s character is a perfect match for his acting abil­ freedom to youthful, eager and curious faces. Unable to S om m ersby does not take a lot of thought to enjoy, ity, and two time Oscar winner Foster is superb as ever. penetrate society’s bureaucracies with firm roots (house, but remains enjoyable. It places the spectator in a medi­ They work beautifully together and create tasteful erotic spouse, children, etc.) the 20-somethings can greedily tative state for two hours of contemplation on the vari­ love scenes that blow the gratuitous skin shots found in embrace the search for self, explore different cultures ous aspects of life that this film touches on; from true most movies today out of the picture. and experience intense places. love, family, marriage, neighbors and honesty, to mur­ Although S om m ersby is a period piece set in the “I remember how we used to be — all rich and stupid der, theft and Homer. South after the Civil War, its love story is virtually a meta­ and now we’re broke and the house is falling apart and phor for the 20-something-generation’s place in society. I’ve never been so happy,” says Laurel to Jack on a —Allison Dunn Slater Pumps Up the Feeling I can’t quite pinpoint what particular quality Un­ nuns at the S t Francis Children’s Home where he grew tamed Heart holds that makes it so dam likable. It is a up an orphan. They spoke of a mighty baboon king that tightly directed, well acted, beautifully shot, humorous, gave his veiy own heart to the small boy whose parents poignant film filled with heart. It is as frill of heart as a ba­ were killed in the jungle. Since he was four years old he boon king hiring atop Mount Kilimanjaro. was sickly and weak, and as a result isolated from child­ Pausing between sniffles I got the sense that my emo­ ren his own age. “People were so used to tiying to stay tions were being toyed with. Panic. Fear. Bewilderment. away from me that they always stayed away. I never got How had my attention been so mercilessly gripped by close to anyone,” he says. another cheezy teenage romance? Having been snapped His silence almost dooms him to a life of solitude. Un­ back to my senses by the first-rate quality material ap­ til Caroline gets to know him. “I got to know him. It pearing on the screen I can honestly say that this film is makes sense. I don’t make sense. He doesn’t make sense. refreshing, humorous, beautiful and definitely different. Together we make sense,” says Caroline. OK, OK this Untamed Heart is an offbeat love story whose main film does dip into the oozy, warm cheesy realm. But it characters are young working class adults — not teena­ does it well. gers. Marisa Tomei, nominated in the best supporting ac­ “Jim’s Bakeiy and Coffee Shop,” is a lively, well decor­ tress categoiy for her role in My Cousin Vinny, stars as ated set where you can almost smell the cigarette smoke Caroline, a waitress working at “Jim’s Bakeiy and Coffee mixing with the fragrant grease high above the patrons’ Shop,” who has just been dumped by her most recent in a heads. It is also full of grease balls. Two guys named Bill long string of boyfriends. Christian Slater (sigh) stars as sit side by side on the counter stools sipping coffee from GET CA$H Adam, a silent type with hidden intelligence, and a love their personalized coffee cups each emblazoned with FOR USED COMPACT DISCS! of literature and music that, if readily apparent, would “Bill,” of course. They speak of a man named Bobby Las • Highest prices paid! surely melt any woman’s heart. “Whenever life doesn’t Vegas that slid on a dead squirrel and demolished his agree with me I lie down and play these records and the bike. Hmmm ... interesting. No one who sees this film • We’ll give you instant cash! rain stops falling,” Adam says to Caroline. • You’ll get unlimited 10% discounts forever! could foiget the two scurrilous men from Caroline’s past OK, so that sounds cheesy, but read on. The charac­ who hassle her with an unbelievable fervor. And there is • Large collection? W e'll come to you! ters are solidly constructed; they have strong psychologi­ a bright, witty and tough waitress portrayed by Rosie cal profiles and actions that speak louder than words. Perez. Tomei’s performance is fabulous and Slater’s is magical. Director Tony Bill does a brilliant job directing Un­ morninglory Adam’s intuitive, twitching, like-he’s-sniffing-you man­ tamed Heart. The actors provide virtually perfect perfor­ nerisms belonging to a wild, speechless animal are meta­ I mances; the camera moves poetically and the script is J morphosed before the viewer’s eyes into a speaking, well written. Accompanying the beautiful picture is an uWe’\l Recycle Your Musíc” warm and real human being. exciting sound track of original score, modem music and Downtown *1218 State Street* 966-0266 Watching Slater’s character develop is a pleasure. the always wonderful Nat King Cole. *51 Isla Vista *910 Embarcadero del Norte • 968-4665 Adam gains strength from a personal myth created by the —Allison Dunn

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book review STUDENT East Meets West RUSH! $10 by Martin Boer per ticket Do Zen and yen mix? 30 minutes prior to show Japan’s rich traditional heritage combined with a dense technological infrastructure has produced a mysti­ cal nation with many subtleties and ironies foreign to the visitor. And to monks riding the Metro. Santa Barbaran Pico Iyer, son of UCSB Religious Stu­ dies Lecturer Nandini Iyer, decided to live within the ris­ 3 /7 Sun. ing sun’s cultural contradictions for a simple reason. “I wanted to put a daydream to the test: the vision I always CatuiiBai C orps® cherished of living simply and alone, in some foreign Civic Light Opera s UNLEASHED, land, unknown.” EPIDEMIC, Aware of both Japan’s technological dominance, as T rib a l C orruption well its Buddhist groundings, Iyer began his journey ex­ ^ 9 6 6 -2 3 2 4 pecting'nothing, and, perhaps, everything. Thus, T h e 3 /9 Tues. Lady and The Monk was bom. Granada Theatre SIC K O F IT ALL, “If this imaginative Japan existed only in my mind, I 1216 State Street wanted to know that soon, and so be free of the illusion, BIOHAZARD, FEAR FACTORY, forever. Yet if there were truly moments in Japan that Now thru March 14 took me back to a home as distantly recalled as the house together. MANSON in which I was bom, I wanted to know that, too,” Iyer Iyer is immediately drawn to Sachiko because she rep­ writes. resents everything society wants her to be — polite, 3/31 Uled. And so begins a Westerner’s portrait of the East, a proper, well-educated, artistic, musical, etc.— but at the BRD MANNERS transcendental journey comparable to Thoreau’s stay at same time she dreams of escaping the “collective script” UPBEAT Walden Pond. Iyer has written a truly graceful and beaut­ of a country where everybody seems to act and think iful book that begins as a diary of time spent in Japan and alike. + Sykeeimt tftuet is transformed into a remarkably perceptive sociological While Sachiko dutifully performs intricate tea cere­ 4/11 Sun. text on the human experience. monies, nurses her children and awaits her husband’s His descriptions are simply poetic. “In the chiir first midnight returns, she also dreams of meeting the band NUISANCE A-Ha and leaving the country. light, when some places look exhausted and others seem 5/12 UJed. reborn, Kyoto seemed always a miracle of early morning “She sensed she was a traitor to Japan’s values and she hopes.” knew that excommunication here was quite literally a BOLT THROVE* “Inside a spotless antechamber, we sipped some pi­ fate worse than death (since death at least involved the WSINCABNATE, quant apple juice, in tiny tumblers, fresh as mountain preservation of honor).” BENEDICTION, water.” Her love for the pop band A-Ha and her devotion to TR1WW. CORRUPTION Although he had originally hoped to be alone on his other nations seem to Iyer “the quintessential Japanese journey to Japan, local hospitality and the comradery of balancing act... to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, We are available for travelers quickly produce a number of friends and, even­ and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all Dances & Private tually, exciting escapades. His stay began in a Buddhist the while that is an illusion.” Party RENTALS. temple with two monks, an eunuch and an albino. A In The Lady and The M onk, Iyer mixes the wisdom of short while after his arrival, he meets many Californians the Orient with Western philosophy, bridging the geo­ Also check-out the who are attracted to the beauty and tradition of Japan, as graphy between the two. It is not just about Sachiko, or NEW ROCKPILE well as romantics looking for the perfect submissive wife. Kyoto; it is a beautiful account of how unique every cul­ RECORDS upstairs. His biggest find is Sachiko, a cosmopolitan wife/ ture is, despite McDonald’s and MTV. Sachiko’s inner mother who has never left Japan, but is infatuated with conflict between her sense of duty and her dreams com­ Ticket* Avail, duu the West. Their relationship gets off to a trying start, as bine with Iyer’s realizations of his own cultural baggage/ and at the new ROCKPILE her English is almost as poor as his Japanese. But in no bias to lay the foundations for an excellent voyage into location inside The Anaconda time the duo end up trekking all across the countryside human emotion. > 935 Emb. Del Nate. U* Vota 685-3112

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