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Kaplan prepa ration has helped over one friends and make obnoxious com Coming to America: if if it if you million students onto t he ments idetrack. giving them think Eddie Murphy is God ★ ★ if you »skills and confidence ★ if deadly dull or just not worth don’t. finish strong. If you're faci ng the SAT. six dollars The Great Outdoors and Crocodile iCT, GMAT. ORE. LSAT. if if if a lot of fun, especially in Dundee 2: bad movies at the drive-in. IfCAX or professional tests like the Bar orCRA summer The movies get ★ but the drive-in gets exams, call Stanley H. Kaplan. These athletes had if if ir ir a classic or great stuff, ★ ★ ★. io tra ia to beat t heir com» but not always the best way to kill a License to Drive: that’s nice. petition. Maybe there’s a JpssonittftioryOo. summer night The Moderns: Perfect. ★ ★ ★ ★ Red Heat: former Nexus editor in 1KAPLAN Bambi: Rumors abound that Disney chief Steve Elzer was at the world exists only to perpetuate white, male- premiere. He wasn’t impressed. ★ ★ dominated cultural images. But I like Who Framed Roger Rabbit: enough this movie and besides, it made me cry. has been said about this film already, ★ ★ ★ if there is still some little kid in just go see it. ★ ★ ★ ENROLLING NOWI you, it if if ir if you consider yourself The Best of the Animation Festival: an adult. the perfect way to experience a Visit us Big: Big business is very wise, transformed summer night (closes at at our center, beware big promotional lies. ★ ★ the Vic this Thursday). ★ ★ ★ 6464 Hollister, #7, Big Business: Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler in the old evil twin plot. Nobody —compiled by Adam Liebowitz Goleta, CA 93117. Or call us Be against days, evenings or weekends. silence: STIFFED AGAIN Our phone number: speak out (805) 685-5767. is the Victoria St. opening of King Lear. If you've been "A very strange film,’’ says Liebowitz, raped. with Molly Ringwald, Woody Allen, Burgess Meredith, and Norman Mailer. Don’t ask; you know the story (please); just go see it. Finally drama will come to life again on campus with Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse (pictured here), opening at the Main Theatre this Friday. Pinter is modern drama and this production will JEAN- LUC GODARD'S be brought here by UCSB’s Theatre Artists Group. Talk about expertise; KING LE HR this is the fifth Pinter play performed by July 22-28 • 9:30 Nightly & 5:15 Sun TAG. (Separate Admission) After a sleeper of a week — besides Victoria St. Theater • 33 W. Victoria • 965-1886 more loogie spewing by punkette Ramona (alias Beth Allen) reporting on the only event this week, see page 3A — we have more film stars in our eyes METROPOLITAN SANTA BARBARA I think this week we’ll have to thank with A Man Facing Southeast tomorrow THEATRES CORP TW IN DRIVE-IN Adam L., resident film watcher for at Campbell. Have you ever felt like an desecrating our criticism value with alien? n iT © M ovie Hotline 963-9503 j Great Outdoors 8:30 stars. But that’s okay because the new Yes summer has seemed to turn into Beetlejuice guy, Michael Singer is MIA; he’ll return something about movies, unless you 10 GRANADA » ■ A R LIN G TO N This bill Wad Er Thur only next week with a fishy review. (You too can handle jazz weaklings. This one is 1216 State St, S.B. 963-1671 i 1317 State St, S.B. 966-9382 Die Herd (R) can see the preview for A Fish Called for the initiable kind hearted. The Coming to 8:16; Frl Er Sat also 12 Wanda tonight at Campbell.) Besides Montreux Band and new age pianist America (R) Off Limits (R) Die Hard (R) 10:30 what you’ll really want to see this week superstar Liz Story 11:46,2:16,5,7:46,10:30 WETTh 11:46,2.4:30,7:16,9:30 1 No passes or group sales F-Tu 12:30,2:40,6,7:40,10:10 Thur* M idnight Premiere Who Framed “ Big Top Pee Wee” Roger Rebbit (PG) FIESTA FOUR 12/5:20.4:46,7:10,9:30 6060 Hollister Ave., Goleta 967-9447 License to Drive (PG13) 916 State St, S.B. 963-0781 A recent ad campaign for Rambo III Wed Er Thur only Dead Pool (R) tried to convince the women of America 1:16,3:30,5:46,8,10:16 Dead Pool (R) 3:30,5:46,8,10 2.4,6,8:16,10:16 Sat Er Sun aleo 1:30 that Sylvester Stallone was a senstive No passes or group sales No passes or group sales but authoritative man who they should Bambi (6) Who Fremed BONE 1,2:30,4,6:30,7 admire. But... Separate admiaeion required | Roger Rebbit (PG) Big Business (PG) I 3.6:16.7:30,9:» At a recent party Stallone’s com 9; Thur only 10:15 Sat Er Sun also 1 panion was model Dena Goodmanson, Separate admission required Thur preview 8:30 a woman taller and considerably The M odem s “ Fleh Called Wanda“ 7.9:30 FAIRVIEW younger than the stumpy, sullen star of Sat Er Sun aleo 2:06,4:30 Midnight Run (R) 251 N. Fairview, Goleta 967-0744 Rocky fame. 12,2:30,6,7:30,10 < ■ PLAZA DE ORO No paeees or group sales “ How do you spell Goodmanson?," a Big (PG) Coming to S. Stallo n e reporter wanted to know. 349 Hitchcock Way, S.B. 682-4936 1,3:16.650.7:46,10 Americe (PG) 1,3:16.6 :» . 0.10:16 “It’s spelled S-L-U-T,” Stallone Arthur 2, On GOLETA replied, “ She’s my whore." The Rocks (PG) Bembi (G) of contention WfrTh only 3:20,0:30,0,10:10 11.1.3,6.7 ‘ Separata admission required —Spyed from SPY magazine. Bull Durhem (R) Big (PG) Phantasm II 3:10,6:20.7:40.9:60 6:15,7:30,9:30 WErTh only 9:30 Sat £r Sun also 1 Separata admission required No passes or group sales 1:15,3:15 -j The Lobero Theatre Foundation Presents: P R EM IER ES OPENING FRIDAY SWAP MEETII COOL J A Z Z Granada Fairview Arlington 907 S. Kellogg, Goleta BIG TOP PEE WEE (PG) ARTHUR II, ON THE ROCKS THE 12.2,4,6,8,10 9:30 BIG TOP PEE WEE 964-9050 No passes or group sales Midnight Wednesday Evenings S.B. Drive-in 4:30-10 pm d W T Piaza Fiesta BAND CADDYSHACK II FEATURING DAROL ANGER. CADDYSHACKII (PG) 8:30; Fri Er Sat also 11:46 FISH CALLED WANDA 3:15,5:20,7:30,9:40 BEETLEJUICE 8:30 7 am to 4 pm BARBARA NIG6IE, MICHAEL MANRING Sat Er Sun also 1:10 10 and MIKE MARSHALL No passes or group sales LIZ STORY The Show Remains The Same FRIDAY. JULY 22-8 PM at all the other theaters at the LOBERO THEATRE 963-0761 Wednesday live music July 20,1988 3A their drummer, behind such a huge drum set was kind The Ramones show at The Graduate last Sunday of weird — but for what they had to work with, un Ramona Ramones was more like a party than a “concert” (small club, familiar equipment and all, these guys rocked. The friendly atmosphere and lack of skinheads) and was Lazy Cowgirls are the Ramones, 10 years ago... one of the funnest shows I’ve ever been to. Of course, The Adolescents came on next to remind us why being highly intoxicated and hyped-up to see my they’ve broken up so many times. Tony has left and favorite band may have left me slightly biased. Un Rikk Agnew is now on vocals, with little brother Frank fortunately, not everyone who went was as en on guitar. The highlights of their set were old songs, thusiastic as I was. It wasn't until after the show that I their newer stuff being a little slower and weaker. heard about a passive friend of mine getting forcibly Finally, as the afternoon wore on (this was a 2 p.m. dragged and thrown outside — for spitting — the Sunday matinee show!), the Ramones took over, bouncers ripping off his shirt in the process, and a complete with smoke machines and went from one Ramones-roadie kicking him in the head when he fell tune to a 1-2-3-4-nother fast and tight.