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Simple Mind's V iu y Jim Kerr Doesn't Need His B ootie Smooched ‘There wasn’t a singer for the () until one night when I got drunk and ... Actually, we are still looking for a singer.” One would probably expect things much more pretentious to come from the mouth of Jim Kerr, the supposed lead singer of the United Kingdom’s provincial political band, Simple Minds. His environment nur­ tures such arrogance. Yet, this is really not the case. Well, maybe a little, but how can one not be a little pretentious when one tours for Amnesty International with the likes of U2, the folks who claim along with Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli to be bigger than ? Because he is not a cocky bastard like many of his contemporaries, his true appeal was wasted at recent college Q&A session in L.A., where he was promoting the band’s new , Real Life. The reporters seemed a lot more like groupies, trying to jerk off a big time star. While the juvenile journalists dropped to their knees, drooling all over his long Scottish argot, licking up his tales of life on the road and swallowing the load he had to say about Amnesty Inter­ national, it was much more interesting when he broke from their starry-eyed bob­ k bing and talked about real life. In these brief instances, he spoke of beer. While at home, it’s Guinness, but in the Un­ ited States, he drinks Corona. (‘That’s why I’m here... oh, and then there’s that album stuff.”) He spoke of artists he wished he could jam with. “Probably ... and Bob Mar- Please turn to pg.5A TODD FRANCE/Dtily Nexu.

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i Daily Nexus Hungarian Films As Eastern European countries continue to redefine their political and social realities, it's useful and revealing to take a look back at the way filmmakers anticipated (and perhaps influenced) the changes now taking place. The films from Hungary made during the 1980s, for example, were marked by impeccable crafting, technical brilliance, a strong sense of humanism and a subtle ability to thwart the deadening nature of totalitarianism.

Klaus Maria Brandauer in COLONEL REDL This quarter Arts & Lectures offers the Hungarian Spring Cinema Series, a select group of films by directors who managed to create great cinema under politically restrictive conditions. The series screens at Campbell Hall on Sunday nights at 8 PM and is presented as part of "Hungarian Spring 1991: A Cultural Festival in Santa Barbara."

The series begins on April 14 with C o lon el Red/. Director Istvan Szabo (M ephisto) spins a complex and powerful drama of ambition, betrayal and intrigue around the mystery- shrouded suicide of a high ranking military commander of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Other films in the series are Diary for My Children, the story of an orphaned young woman trying to survive in post-World War II Hungary, Time Stands Still, in which two boys rebel against the drabness of 1950s Hungary, and Angi Vera, the tale of an innocent nurse who is propelled into the very apparatus of the Communist Party.

Series tickets for the Hungarian Spring Cinema Series, at up to a 50 percent discount, are available in advance at UCSB Arts & Lectures Ticket Office and at the door. Single tickets are available at the door on Sunday evening? only, one hour Do You Know the Way to before showtime. Santa Fe?

published book Making Saints, which explores how the “World-class, the best, alpha Roman Catholic Church canonizes saints. As the Regents' and omega” Lecturer in Religious Studies, Woodward will give two free Is it possible (or a group to be described as public lectures, "What Is a Saint?" on Monday, April 8 at "hot"? Yes, indeed, especially when it comes to characterizing 4:30 PM in UCSB Girvetz Hall 1004 and "Landscapes of the sizzling Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Each year, Belief: Religious Faith in the Soviet Union and the United this ensemble of the "best and the brightest" of the classical States" « 1 Thursday, April 11 at 4:30 PM in the UCSB world goes on a national tour that leaves audiences, including University Center Pavilion. reviewers, dazzled and awed. The quintet performs at Campbell Hall on Tuesday, April 9 at 8 PM.

About last year's UCSB performance, Santa Barbara News-Press critic Daniel Kepi enthused, "It can be said without fear of challenge that the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is world-class, the best, alpha and omega."

The ensemble consists of cellist Carter Brey (a Santa Barbara favorite who returns for die fourth time); bassist and composer Edgar Meyer who is equally at home on the blue* On Sunday, April 7 at 4 PM in the Events Center, His grass as well as the dassical stage; violist Martha Strongin Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet will deliver a Katz; violinist James Buswell; and pianist Christopher major public address entitled "Freedom and Responsibility in O'Riley. the Global Community.* LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN FOR THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE ARTS & The program features Schubert's 'Trout" Quintet (filled with LECTURES TICKET OFFICE. Any remaining tickets will go on fresh and invigorating melodies) and the Ravel Sonata for sale the day of the address at 2 PM at the Events Center. Violin and Violoncello.

As a spedal treat, the group will perform a new composition, For tickets or information,call Quintet, written by their very own Edgar Meyer, the 31-year- Arts & Lectures at 893-3535. old Southerner who speaks with a quiet drawl but plays with a speed, accuracy and articulation that is amazing. Meyer, who has composed five original works for the Santa Fe UCSB Chamber Music Festival, also records and performs with such artists as Hank Williams, Jr., Rosanne Cash and . Making Saints Senior writer and longtime religion editor for Newsweek M agazine, Kenneth Woodward has written stories ranging ARTS & LECTURES from televangelists' scandals to Papal visits. In mid-1988 he took a leave of absence from the weekly to write the just- Daily Nexus Thursday, April 4,1991 3 A

The big entertainment hotspot these days is the area in pany of Santa Barbara’s presentation of Utopia Limited, front of Cheeto Hall where all the campus tour robots one of G and S’ lesser-known musicals on Sat. at 8 p.m. o bring their happy little clusters of All-American, smiling and Sun. at 2 p.m.(That’s daylight savings time, you know, o o nuclear family units (just turn off the lights and watch so don’t forget to move your clock.)... Also of the theatri­ o K them glow) to tell them of the wonders of the UCSB Beer- cal vein, the Ensemble Theatre Company will present The acracy and how they will be coddled and spoon-fed Granny through April 14, call 962-8606 for the facts. ° throughout their soon-to-be college careers. Thus we ▲Their last band was better but this one’s hot too: have seen fit to call this the Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet, Strunz and Farah, who wowed UCSB a while ago are go­ Sweet Lies edition of Intermission although we promise ing to wow the Center Stage Theatre April 6 at 8 p.m. Tick­ c to tell the truth and nothing but. At least as far as our ets are $18 for non- society members, but just may be pathological little minds can decipher it ... worth it if you like hot latin ... Ad Vieile que Pourra, which Intermission sources say means “pigs in a ▲La artlsta es una pequena dlo*: The Women’s Cen­ blanket” in French, will work their Francophone wonders E ter is sponsoring Artistas Chicanas and they have told us at the Ojai Women’s Club in a performance of traditional, that Artistas Chicanas is not in fact Spanish for "Artistic you guessed it, French Music on Tuesday the 9th. Call 0 Chicks” but really means “Chicana Artists.” Damn, that 805-646-5163 and ask for Jean Claude for more info ... Spanish is sure a tough language to figure out. This sympo­ Yoko Ono Park in I.V. will be chuck full o’ music from 1 0 sium and exhibition of Chicana art is, according to secret to 6 p.m. Amnesty International UCSB presents The Re­ 0 /' K Intermission sources, very interesting and for lack of a marks, Chameleons and Dead Farmer. Word, we are with better word, good. It will be going on all month at various that. places on campus, so call the Women’s Center at 893-3778 for more information. ▲It ain’t art but ws’rs going to toll you about It any­ Et ▲Put on your dancing shoes and warm up your pipes: way: Sunday A p ril 7 at 4 p.m. the Dalai Lama is going to A student run production of the musical Caravan will be rock the Events Center. No, the Dalai Lama is not a new holding auditions for all roles Monday and Tuesday, April metal band from L.A. He is the spiritual and political fpp 8 and 9. This production is open to all students. That leader of the Tibetan people and was the recipient of the means you! Sign up outside the production office in •Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. Though he doesn’t play a cool Snidecor Hall.... HMS Utopia setting sail soon. The Lob- Kramer or tie scarves around the mic stands, this is not one ero Theatre is the host of the Gilbert and Sullivan Com­ to miss.

Chamber Music and Childhood Fantasies As one ascends into adulthood, one passes certain course, gets out of the bed and fixes the record. olin, Martha Strongin Katz on viola, Carter Brey on cello, milestones as signs of oncoming maturity. From these The music that is playing, Bo’s favorite, is Bolero by Edgar Meyer on double bass and Christopher O’Riley on points on, sounds and images surrounding them will bring Maurice Ravel. Ravel’s music, which for the most part is piano, will also be playing Edgar Meyer’s Quintet and back a flood of memories. For our generation in particu­ veiy sexy, seems to be a recurring theme in the nudity of Bo Schubert’s Quintet in A Major for Piano and Strings. lar, seeing Bo Derek in the nude for the first time is one of Derek. The latter piece, nicknamed ‘Trout,” has a particular ap­ those milestones. As fate would have it, another one of Ravel’s works, So­ peal for this reporter. Many of us first experienced Mrs. Derek, sans vete- nata for Violin and Violoncello, will be the first of three The charm of this performance is that while these are ments, in Blake Edwards’ film, “10.” The scene that comes pieces performed by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival hip, they are not overplayed, unlike Bo Derek’s flesh. to mind is that in which Bo and Dudley Moore are having on Tuesday, April 9, at 8p.m. in Campbell Hall. Bo Derek, Tickets range from $16 to $12, or $14 to $10 for stu­ wild sexual intercourse and a randomly thrown pillow however, will not be there, only her lingering memory. dents. For more info, call 893-3535. knocks the needle off a record. At this Mpoint, Bo, naked of The five-piece group, consisting of James Buswell on vi­ — Denis Faye ■^* * 1 ON SCREEN THIS WEEK IN GOLETA METROPOLITAN THEATRES CINEMA TWIN FAIRVIEW TWIN noli i 6050 HOLLISTER AVE. 251 N. FAIRVIEW SPECIAL STUDENT $ ADMISSION PRICE A D M I T O N E 3.50 0 THIS PRICE IS VAUD FOR ANY SHOW, ANY TIME WITH STUDENT I. D. I 'I W I & to I * Ä s I ALEC KIM | BALDWIN BASINGER I fi fi * “...ranks

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Not Tonight Honey, I College have An Earache Until recently the British Earache has been EMF known only by a few avid heavy metal fans. Earache was EMI originally started as a hard-core label and throughout the years cultivated a sound in their bands known as “death EMF recently played at The Whiskey in LA, believe it or metal.” The U.S. label, Relativity, has now begun to issue not. Unfortunately, Intermission wasn’t there, so the only the Earache bands domestically and the question is thing we’ve got to go on as to the quality of this band is whether America will understand it? With band names their first release, Unbelievable. like Carcass, Cadaver, , Entombed and The disc has five songs. They are “Unbelievable — , I am certain that mainstream America will get Single Version”, “Unbelievable—Cin City Sex Mix,” “Un­ an earache from Earache. believable — Boot Lane Mix,” “Unbelievable — House The band Carcass has been an underground metal sen­ Mix,” “Unbelievable — Mix” and “EMF Live at sation for several years now but their records were very dif­ the Bilson.” Now get this — these are all the same song, ficult to find in stores. Now, this trio of ex-mortician stu­ but with different mixes. dents has issued its latest morbid release here in the States. It’s Godflesh It can be believed that EMF (short for Ecstacy Mother The music isfast, hard and loud and the vocals are unintel­ they are “not a metal band, and that will become more Fucker), heralded by many as “The New Kids on the ligible for the most part. clear when we (Godfiesh) tour the States.” Block, with an attitude”, is a good band. Unbelievable is a Although it is difficult to hear the lyrics in Carcass There is a steadily pounding beat, produced by a drum dam good song and the mixes are very loyal to their subti­ songs, we are fortunate enough to receive a lyric sheet with machine and a pounding bass, while the two focus tles. They are sexy, raunchy, hip-hoppy or whatnot, but the CD. Ifyou have a weak stomach I do not suggest read­ on producing as much feedback as possible. Godflesh is shelling out the clams for the same song five different ways ing the words to the songs. “Crepitating Bowel Erosion” somewhat similar to the New York band Cop Shoot Cop is to be questioned. So, ifyou are fanatically into that Man­ begins: ”Wart-encrusted sebaceous growth; Pustulating, and veiy early material by the Swans. chester sound, or a DJ, this disc comes highly recom­ bleeding piles are what I boast Scabby and blistered Justin’s vocals on often become blended mended. If not, wait for an EMF album, one that has at pectoral skin flakes away as my crushed bowels evacu­ in with the incorporated samples and the loudness of the least five different songs. ate much to my dismay ...” rest of the music, but this technique of production is what — Denis Faye Keep in mind, some of the Carcass songs are even more the Godflesh sound is all about. “I use my vocals mostly disgusting. for sounds rather than for the actual statements contained Unlike Carcass, the ’ band, Godflesh, in the lyrics,” says Justin. The words he writers are very W Let The Mad Rumpus Begin does not fall into the death speed metal of the Earache personal and do not reflect any certain dogma of the band. Disposible God Squad scene. Godflesh is much more of the slow and grinding In the year and a half since the release of Streetcleaner Entropic Carnival trip. In 1989 Godflesh released their record Streetcleaner in England, Godflesh has changed their sound a bit. Ac­ in the United Kingdom and it has only recently become cording to Justin, they have recently been incorporating a The Disposable God Squad are very poignant writers de­ available in the United States. However, this record is de­ lot of samples into their songs to “make the sound bigger.” spite the long windedness of their name and the title of finitely worth the wait. I recently spoke with the front-man The future of Godflesh definitely holds a lot of promise. their new album, Let the Mad Rumpus Begin. More than of Godflesh, . He called me from his They have re-signed to Earache Records and this month anything this album resembles REM and the Replace­ home in , England right before embarking on they will be releasing an exclusive seven-inch single on the ments in their leaner, hungrier days. If that weren’t their first concert tour of America. Seattle-based record label Sub Pop. During this tour of the enough to make you buy the album, I’U throw in the real Godflesh formed in 1988 immediately after Justin left USA they will also be stopping for a while in Chicago to re­ kicker — they cover that musical milestone of the late the band . Prior to that Justin was in Na­ cord a side project with AJ Jourgenson of the band seventies (or was it the early eighties), “Hot Child in the palm Death, the other band that Godflesh is assaulting Ministry. City.” If anyone can tell me who originally sang that song America with on their tour. The three-piece band came If you are tired of the same commercial dribble then be I’ll pull some strings I have at K-TEL to get you a job. together easil$since Justin had been in a band with his two sure to check out the hard and heavy sounds coming from *— Andrew Rice other fellow Birmingham residents while he was in Head the loudest label in England, Earache Records. Three of David. plays one of the guitars and G. bands from the label, Godflesh, Napalm Death and Noc- Christian Green attacks the ears with the bass. This leaves tumus, are storming through America right now and will Justin in charge of the machine programming, vocals and hit the Reseda Country Club in Los Angeles on April 20. the other guitar. Be at this show and dress casual for you are surely going to The music of Godflesh is very difficult to describe. In a be assaulted like never before. You may also want to bring way it is like easy-listening speed metal. While there is a earplugs to avoid a total Earache. World Beat metal sound to what Godfiesh does, Justin declares that — Marc Brown

¡ S f e Los Clasicos ile Cuba i Silvio Rodriguez Hip Hop Warner Bros.

David Byrne has been stepping back from the limelight Uve Hardcore Worldwide in the last few years, using his respected position in popu­ Boogie Down Productions lar music to try to promote lesser-known genres of music Delicious Vinyl which he finds interesting. In doing so, he conned Warner Bros, into believing that it was worth their while to release My favorite live album has to be Cheap Trick’s Live at a series of which were essentially compilations of The Seventies are musically remembered mostly for Budokan, but BDP’s new Live Hardcore Worldwideis a Byrne’s favorite tunes from throughout Latin America. such miserable slop as the Bee Gees, Walter Murphy and close second. Hie previous albums have been very very, yes, that the Big Apple Bapd and ABBA. Lenny Kravitz’s new al­ Hip-hop’s never been a live medium, partially due to means very good. Damn good. David Byrne has great taste bum Mama Said is a tribute to the less reviled side of that lip-syncers like Nilla and Hamma, but more due to the fact in music. That is until now. decade. that rappers can’t play in a lot of places (like here) due to From the press information on Silvio Rodriguez, Cuba’s Mama Said draws its inspiration from guys like Jimmy the rap-violence knee-jerks. So it’s exciting to listen in on biggest musical sensation, one would think that he is a Hendrix, George Clinton and Stevie Wonder, leaving KRS-ONE live; his audience knows his lyrics as well as he cross between Pablo Neruda, Che Guevara and all the her­ John Travolta sitting in the gutter asking “Who are these does. oes of all the Latin American combined. Yeah, dudes?” Word. I am with this album. But Live Hardcore Worl­ sure he sings about , but the guy is a crooner. and Soul Gods is who, Johnny. Disco is dead! dwide has a couple of drawbacks. KRS gets pretty excited Even in Spanish, a language which is pretty flattering to For those of you who just can’t wait for the new Guns N’ on stage, and when he does, a lot of his trademark relaxed crooning, Silvio’s songs ring hollow. Crooning about the Roses album to come out, Slash, like that other Seventies phrasing is lost. And although there are some twenty-odd revolution sounds about as silly as Tom Jones frying to icon, herpes, keeps popping up^ll over the place, includ­ songs, few go over three minutes, hardly enough time to sing about life in Compton, ing on this album. Also, Sean Ono Lennon (Oh no, Len­ work up a sweat. Minor problems with what is otherwise a If you want to hear a lot of good Latin tunes, buy non), plays piano on one piece. landmark album. Byrne’s other compilations. Ifyou want to see what hap­ Despite these rather desperate attempts at cashing in on Now if only certain wack fake suckas in the Program pens when you cross Perry Como with Menudo, buy this other people’s fame, Kravitz’ second album is a very fine Board would get off their asses and book crews like this, one. stroll down nostalgia lane and well worth a listen. we’d get to see this in the flesh... but that’s another story. — Andrew Rice — Andrew Rice — Doug Arellanes

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Who said art continued from Simple cover belonged locked Continued from p.lA ley. I would like to be in a room with him and just play. My away behind brother saw him perform and said it was like he was in another world.” closed doors? In this list he included Jim Morrison (just like everyone else and their mother) whom he also included as an influ­ ence. He didn’t mention any desire to jam with any of his Intermission other influences, Velvet Underground, the gems of the punk scene and, most of all, his father. paparazzi “My Father had certain values. He showed us that the world begins at the end of the street, it doesn’t end there.” Even in answering the many questions that were tailor- photographer made for pretentious rock stars, Jim kept the air of just a guy in a band that likes to do nice stuff. wAlter trEgo “We aren’t up there (on stage) with the answers; we are up there with the questions, and if people don’t like it, caught these UCSB there are another 29 albums on the charts.” A little cocky, but not pretentious. “Some artists have a power— they can really say some­ students, a thing. Then they look out and say ‘Pepsi-Cola’ ... that’s a shame.” flagrante, with the A little lofty, but not pretentious. “I respect (rap music), but I don’t identify with it. I’m from ... To me it’s geographically a music of the funky art around ghetto. I respect it but I don’t own it. I like melody and singers.” campus. Our A little ill-informed, but not pretentious. Sadly, most of the journalists at the session probably condolences to the walked away thinking, “Golly, I just shook hands with Jim Kerr, the lead singer of Simple Minds. Boy, am I chic!” They fantasized that night of the Land of Big Time Enter­ family of the guy tainment Reporting that they were coming to. They didn’t understand that this was one guy living a life, a real life. who got run over “It doesn’t matter if you are a fucking astronaut, every­ one has a real life,” said Jim Kerr. by the little red — Denis Faye wagon at Creative Studies. Bringing Tribe After Tribe ! you the news as it happens- Beats It has always acted like it was afraid of the drums. Sure they sometimes let their drummers go wild, Intermission. but for the most part rock drummers are condemned to laying down the back beat while that great rock-n-roll pa­ ragon, the guitar god, basks in gloiy. Enter Tribe After Tribe, a South African band who will perform in Storke Plaza at Noon on Monday, April 8 in support of the human rights organization, Amnesty Inter­ national. Tribe After Tribe, who play what they call Afro- Acid Rock, combine the guitar fury of Acid rock with Afri­ can Rhythms. Drummer/percussionist P.K., the man behind the stand-up drum set, is ironically the only member of the band not from Africa. In fact he’s from L.A., but hey, what the hell, rhythm is a state of mind, not a place. The remain­ ing two members of the band, Robbi Rob and Robby Whitelaw, recently moved to Los Angeles after things be­ came a little to hot for them in South Africa due to their an­ noying (in the eyes of the police) habit of speaking out against apartheid and other mjustices while performing in front of thousands of people. On many occasions they have been shut down by the police (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?) during concerts and finally Tribe After Tribe decided that maybe they should take a little vacation from home before they got a full-length guided tour of the South African prison system. — Andrew Rice The Video Guy on Red Meat & Virgins, in a Dead Cow Literary Sense that is Taking another drag off his smoke, Trout looked up at of a guy trying to sneak into a Catholic school to visit this me and said, “I don’t eat red meat any more.” T h e chick he digs. “What in the: wide world of sports are you talking ab­ "Would he still eat Two very famous people star in this film. Linnea Qui­ l out?” I demanded. Video salmon- which is, gley (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama, I Taking another healthy slam from his St. Ides 40-ounce Party Nerds) acts her little shirt off. And because of this, malt-liquor beverage, Trout looked over at me and said, technically, red meat, her Larty “Bud” Melmans got a bundle of screen time. The “Red meat is a thing of the past for me — no more.” Guy you know." other famous person is Burt Ward. Yes, Robin himself This just wasn’t registering in my head. All I could think takes off the tights and dons a suit to become the strict reli­ of were the nights; when after slurping down a few beers, gious dad who is really into S&M. And get this, he only really great beers, like Keystone, The Trout and me, Hie he still eat salmon — which is, technically, red meat, you makes six Batman references. This beats out the two other Video Guy, would stumble down to the local Sloppy Bur­ know. overly referred to icons in this film, Elvis and Lambada. ger outlet and slap down a few Elvis Deluxes. The Elvis Taking another bite of his candy bar, a Greasy Ruth, Tr­ There are two brilliant quotes in this film. Deluxe is two slabs of lightly buttered, 100-percent, out looked diagonally at me and said, “Red meat isn’t “Let’s get in there and slurp up a little poontang.” And United-States-of-American, pure beef, done up medium- healthy.” of course, “Oh yeah? Well, what do you have in mind? Mr. raw. You slide that on a nice white bun with a little Dijon, “Oh,” I said, turning back to "Studs” and Potato Chip up the Butt?” lettuce, onion, garlic, pineapple, veal, two eggs, a quart of opening my second bag of Fritos, “Maybe you are right” Art. milk, pickles, bacon and some more lettuce, and you are And while we are on the topic of bad meat, let’s have a On The Video Guy Mondo Movie Beer-o-Meter, I gave all set. little peekola at this week’s choice film, Virgin High, Virgin High a 9. It was funny. I liked it But it had a defi­ So, Trout was going to give that up. Why? What could where, and I quote from the poster, “School is in, rules are nite lack of “John Sununus,” if you get the picture. Work he be thinking? Did he think that the killing of turkeys out, and eveiybody gets to make it.” on the boob count, boys. and lobsters was more humane than cow killing? Would It is the bizarre, ironic and downright Hitchcockian tale This is The Video Guy saying, “I feel good.” 0 A Thursday, April 4,1991 Daily Nexus

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morninglory Everybody has an opinion. Some, like mine, are more their ads, Siegel simply ------m u sic—« important than others. Likewise, everybody sees movies. makes all of his positive. SANTA BARBARA • 966-0266 1218 State Street Some, like the NC-17 kind, are better than others. And If you happen to catch Open 10*10 Daily. 10-6 Sundays everybody forms opinions about all these movies in their “The Today Show’s” Gene ISLA VISTA • 968-4665 910 Embarcadero del Norte spare time. But would you believe there are actually peo­ Shalit, remember — he is Open 10-10 Daily. 12-8 Sundays ple out there who get paid for this? not a cartoon; he only looks m They’re called critics. They went to college, to grad like one. The Yosemite Sam school, and to the DeVry Institute just to learn how to look-a-like brings enthu­ form an opinion about the movies they see. Some even siasm and vigor to his took summer courses to learn how to translate their re­ poorly written critiques. He views into a certain number of stars. There are hundreds of seems to have a fixation on Intermission professional movie critics in America, and some are defi­ Coining phrases to convey commends nitely better than others. his opinion, like this review H elen E. The ones with the highest profile, those seen on televi­ of Kevin Costner’s Dances sion, are often the worst. In their quest to describe the With Wolves: “Kevin’ll be Shamus, for plot, show a clip, and smile a whole lot in a span of two mi­ dancing with Oscar!” Or losing her nutes, these critics usually forget to add a little something this evaluation of Jessica about their opinion. This leads to the invention of a critic’s Tandy’s performance in keys in “system,” 1-4 stars, Thumbs Up or Down, Beer-o-Meter or Driving Miss Daisy: “Jes- Cam pbell a scale from 1-10. sica’ll be driving with H all. Way to The most inane use of these is by ABC’s Gary Franklin. Oscar 1” The longtime Los Angeles reviewer has made a living off But what these solo acts go! rating movies on his "Franklin Scale,” a complex system fail to realize is that the which grants his favorites a whole point of forming an 10, his second-favorites a 9, opinion about a film is hav­ his third-favorites an 8, and ing someone to disagree so on. Sometimes, when a with it. With this in mind, it movie is terribly made and is no surprise that the finest nobody else likes it, Frank­ critics on television are also lin will be extra-kind, giving the most popular — Siskel the film a 10+. Most ridicul­ & Ebert. ous is his 9+. Nine plus What sets these guys what? Give it 10, dammit! apart from their collegues Other L.A. television dar­ (aside from their really lings include David Shee­ bland sweaters) is their will­ han of NBC and Steve ingness to argue and defend Kmetko of CBS. Sheehan’s their reviews. It is not un­ system is to label a film, such common to see some major- as his titling The Hard league insults flung on the Way Fairly Amusing. The “Siskel & Ebert” show. In acting? The writing? The di­ addition, they actually recting? It’s fairly amusing! make good points and de­ And Kmetko’s problem monstrate a thorough (aside from the fact that it is knowledge of the film in­ hard to tell him apart from dustry and its histoiy. the other Ken doll-looking, They are complete oppo­ suspender-wearing, thirty­ sites: Siskel, the tall balding something anchors on CBS) one who never likes a movie is that he has about as many with the words “destruc­ facial expressions as a car­ tion,” “co-ed,” or “mutant” rot. He delivers positive and in the title, and Ebert, the negative reviews with the overweight lug o’ fun who same lack of enthusiasm, never hesitates to give any of making it very apparent that the American Ninja mo­ he is simply reading off cue vies the traditional Thumbs cards. Up. They are often called You might recognize Joel the most powerful critics in Siegel’s name from the num­ the country; fans revel in ber of times it appears on their comments; stars movie ads. The “Good tremble at the thought of a Morning America” critic bad notice. They are what seems to be on a quest to ap­ all film critics should be — pear in the newspapers feisty know-it-alls who more often than Norman maintain that their opinions Schwarzkopf. And since are always right.- film studios aren’t real big on putting bad reviews on — Brian Banks

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Not satisfied with an admittedly great film festival, the ing one. promoters of the Santa Barbara Film Festival also took Our favorite foreign movie was certainly La Femme Ni­ credit for ending the drought in their press release, a kita, which The New Yorker called “The end of French doubtful claim but one that cannot be entirely denied. film as we know it.” Probably, as the movie does turn its It was fun though. Not only were there plenty of top- back on much of the French film tradition, but Heavy quality international films — challenging films of the type Metal was stolen from the French, and seeing this movie that MTC usually either avoids altogether or banishes to reminded us of that magazine’s early days. the Riviera—there were also plenty of stars and near-stars The best of the domestic stuff at the festival was called willing to talk about what makes them go, and what they Sketches, but it will be released this fall as Hold Me Tight. do to make the movies go. Neal Israel, the director, and Jonathan Silverman (who We skipped the opening ceremonies, since it was acted in Weekend at Bernie’s among others) were both mostly a “parade the stars in front of the local camera” there for the screening and took some time to talk to us event, punctuated with a made-for-HBO movie. (The mo­ afterwards. vie, The Josephine Baker Story is no great piece of film- There were a couple disappointments. A Row of making, but the material makes it worth watching Crows, with John Beck, seemed like a made-for-TV special anyway.) until near the end, when a token sex scene clued us all that The first event for us was a seminar entitled "How to this movie was intended for adults. Nothing in the plot Make a Documentary Movie.” The self-absorbed ste­ supported that notion though. reotypical director didn’t show up, instead the speakers Charlton Heston starred in Crucifer of Blood, which were all working-class movie producers who sat down really was made for TV. It’s unclear why they brought it and talked about the nuts and bolts. The group included here, though Charlton and his son came along. The movie The the Oscar-winning Chuck Workman, who did the sequ­ was directed by Heston’s son, much like Bill Keene’s son ence for this year’s Oscar show in which actors described draws Family Circus once in a while. We can hardly be­ their first filmgoing experience. Workman is also a prof at grudge the public a chance to see Charlton live though, USC, and the audience had the feel of a class, an interest­ and many plainly enjoyed it. UCSB We can’t go without men­ tioning the people. Obvi­ ously, a film fest is a lot more fim than renting a stack of Gospel videos, and the big screen is only one part of the difference. The crowd was a lot of Choir $ £ ¿3 fun, and seemed to grow together in a sort of dark, anonymous fashion. The Directed by Diane White volunteers were very Art ran into madness as friendly; movie lovers serv­ : J ï t è ; ing art rather than com­ ched midnight, at merce lovers selling tickets. I on Saturday night A refreshing change. ■ - Two movies hit the late Saturday, April 6, 2 P.M. - night screen at this year’s ! Anisq' Oyo' Park, Isla Vista festival, Daniel Peterson’s bunch of stuff) mpvic ! Girlfriend from Hell, and Rock n’Roll High School James Forever, as well as Dean Stockwell neyard. The first was actu­ i Zalman King movie, Blue ’ \ One of the biggest benefits of hitting a film festival, as Sponsored by the IVAJCSB Community Relations Center ally a very fun, very funny Movie, Blue. . opposed to just going to the movies, is the opportunity to S horror-comedy; the sec- || This movie surpasses meet, rub elbows with, ask embarrassing questions of, and ond was an awful, horrible the recent ypate of generally feel closer to the talent that makes the movies go. film that was fun anyway. I comedy-horror because it The best chance this particular festival offered was the Before I start talking ab- ; avoids parody, the j Evening with Dean Stockwell, starring the guy who plays H E Y UCSB! - out how great a movie driving force behind most A1 in Quantum Leap. MidkightMadness is, ip see late at Stockwell was open and down to Earth, in spite of the KTYD 99.9 AMD ORCHID BOWL PRESENT spite of i|i||^^$ihould on your cable chan- ] efforts made by the festival interviewer to force Stockwell admit that the director : instead of bringing in into admitting his pretensions to ‘art.’ Fortunately, in ad­ ‘ went the same high S absurd elements fromdition to watching him give funny answers to stupid ques­ school I did. In fact, we classic horror movies, this I tions on stage, we also got a few minutes ‘alone’ with him know one or two of the movie ttip ’ gags set « at the party afterwards. ROCK . saste people— he told me within the framework of But first, we had to sit through Married to the Mob, a he used to date Caria the film, gags that draw a . movie which starred Michelle Pfieffer, but was carried by Bacjtiel and I thought lot out of real life made Stockwell as Tony “The Tiger” Russo. Carried so well that "Wow” though I couldn’t slapstick. he was nominated for an Oscar. Carried so well that few nr remember: people noticed the gaping narrative gaps, especially at the what she Ipoked ifee. The Beneyard was no- end. But it is a really good where near as well made, The movie led to the natural, first question which Dean movie, and tf y o u were to though it does stick to a anticipated, so that no one had to actually ask, "What was compare what he did to his consistent story-line, it like kissing Michelle Pfeiffer?” His response? “It was budget, you’dfraVéto ad­ something meny big- neat. Really neat.” Of course, what else could he have e i m . mit it is a great movie. budget movies fail to do. It said? Peterson made this for does have some veiy funny Since Stockwell played a role in ’s Blue only $500,000, about 1 moments, though it tries to Velvet, and since his best friend Dennis Hopper directed EVERY percent of what it takes to take itself very seriously. Colors — a movie which went through some of the con­ make a mediocre movie No matter. troversy New Jack City is surrounded by now—we asked like Ghosf: Wbatmade this movie a him about the controversy surrounding violence in mo­ THURSDAY What really carries this film festival gem was the vies that has once again reared its ugly head. movie lit»« acting of audienceP Having sat "I felt it (Blue Velvet) was a film dealing with subcon­ MIGHT Liane Curtis in the lead through the opening festi­ scious violence, conflict within the self.... That is very dif­ role. She transforms from val cradiis about a million ferent than social violence.” 9:30 - MIDMIGHT a funny, geeky, super-shy times, the crowd started Stockwell refuses to go see the Rambo genre of movie, girl on a blind date, to a whistlingthe national an- believing that the revenge — justified killing — is danger­ • All you can Bowl for $10/person funny, sexy, randy, devfl- them to fill in the excessive ous on a social level. • KTYD DJ plays rock videos possessed woman with an sfindee. The kind of violence in Lynch’s movie appeals to him attitude ip effectively that Prom there it just got more, “It’s provocative, it mixes things up inside you, but • Prizes from you wonder if they really wilder, the crowd doing a you don’t get swept up.” CO M PA CT used two different actres­ running commentary on What about the mafia movies though? After all, Stock- is n ses. She isn’t Kathy Bates the dialogue and special well’s Tony “The Tiger” Russo character is a mobster. HU w V f Isla Vista yet, but she does deserve effects. Pretty much every­ ‘Tony is a ‘tongue in cheek’ character, I think you can «.TAPE STORE more attention than shell one joined in, and no one sense that. I don’t think that films affect the Mafia worth a • 99< Beer get front this straight-to- seemed offended. Fortu­ shit. They don’t give a shit what we do.” video release. nately, tiie director didn’t The real problem with film violence is with underpin • Domino's Pizza Specials Hopefully she’ll get it show up as the crowd con­ vileged groups, Stockwell said, with few roads to success, too. According to Peter­ signed any character who these people may be more susceptible to the glorification son, she’ll be appearing in got too sensitive for the of violence. ORCH /D BOW L an upcoming Roger Cor- idpjwa fr iM K 'ly'tin man (original Little Shop ghouls. 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