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An American Classic Overseas shorter than five foot four, anfl those who know me them back. First King started with “ Nobody By Larry Speer can therefore vouch for my personal safety. (Just Loves Me but My Mother,” adding a Rodney Foreign Correspondent ask them how tall I am.) Dangerfield-esque quip, “and she could be jiving Looking portly but nevertheless dapper in a too.” Next came the all-time classic “The Thrill is When I heard one of the top American blues acts gray suit, plaid vest, watchchain and gold Gone,” and lastly he served up a tune I think was of all time was to play at my small university in necklaces, King immediately began his patented called “Take Me Back,” complete with a posing Southwest England, I jumped at the chance to see version of the trademark tune “Let the Good and strutting imitation of the women who are him. Basketball practice, my film studies essay, Times Roll.” We were a frenzied, writhing, being begged by the men. and even Macbeth took a backseat to B.B. King singing mass of humanity on the floor that night, King’s status as an R&B legend is thoroughly that night. and he loved it, cheering us on to dance, scream established, but his rapport with a crowd is what Confused? I hope so, but fear not, as an ex and have fun. separates him from others. At times speaking to planation is forthcoming. I’m on the Education At any blues show there are inevitably at least the audience without a microphone, at others Abroad Program at the University of Exeter, six to eight improvised solos by various band personally handing out pins from the 1987 Devon County, England, and after a month of members per song, and this show was to be no European Tour and shaking hands, his act is British television, newspapers, food, etc. I was exception to that rule. Leading the way was King purely professional, with a touch of genuine af starved for anything American. Culture shock had himself, coaxing more emotion and feeling out of fection thrown in. set in, but a strong dose of the blues is a sure cure his guitar, a vintage 1958 black Gibson Les Paul, He is continually wiping his head and face with a for any minor inflammation of this sort. On than I have ever seen. large white towel, drinking pint glasses full of Tuesday, the 20th of October, B.B. King and his At times there was perfect silence while he water or pouring them on his head, and making a band provided just what the doctor ordered. played, beads of sweat on his forehead and streaks whole litany of faces at the band, the crowd, or A bit of background is in order at this point, so running down his face, and always that woebegone purely for reflective purposes. first elaboration and embellishment, then onward. and troubled look of a man in agony, in this case After a long round of band introductions, King played at Exeter’s Great Hall on his 1986 singing the blues. complete with hometown identifications like European Tour, receiving such acclaim that he Other times he wielded it like an axe, striking “Greenville, Tennessee, USA,” or “New Orleans, vowed to return. The show I caught came after the out hot chords and riffs like any heavy metalurgist Louisiana, USA,” King hands out another 150-200 final leg of the 1987 European tour had been power rocker I have ever seen. At no time was he pins, thanks the crowd, and exits with the Completed, a whirlwind trek across the United not working with the band, egging them on, following lines: “You’ve all been wonderful. I’m Kingdom which dragged him from Dublin, Ireland bringing out the kind of sound from a seven B.B. King, and this is Lucille, my guitar, and we to Edinburgh, Scotland and on across England. member group as only a master harmonizer and thank you.” Rather than ending his tour in London after two improviser can. And this from a man in his late Once again the saxophonist begins a round of sold-out shows, it was on to Exeter, the only fifties or even early sixties! “Mr. Beee Beee King! Mr. Beeee Beeee King!! university show of the tour, to fulfill a promise. The songs were all there, and the stage antics to MR. BJSEE MR. BEEE KING!!!” Naturally he The concert experience is a bit different here, go with them. First through a wild version of comes back, and the encores followed. First there beginning with an on-site bar subsidized by the “Caledonia,” then on to a perennial crowd was “Rock Me All Night Long,” followed by yet Guild of Students. After an obligatory pint or three favorite, “Ain’t Nobody’s Business but My Own.” another 10 minute jam session, more “Mr. Beee or four of Kronenbourg 1664 Lager, the students, King starts by speaking to the crowd: Beee Kings!” and finally a last word of thanks to myself included, are more than a little tanked, “Ya’all gonna help me out here OK? Fill in the everyone who worked on the tour, the crew, and oiled up, and ready to go. Sure, we were a drunken missing word. Suppose I go to church on Sunday, the audiences. mob, but isn’t that the way it should be? and don’t do nothing at all Monday but raise — ?” Through his last speech I felt the band members The Moral Majority’s worst nightmare, 2,000 Naturally the audience screamed “hell” louder were staring at King with a reverential sort of look drunken students, becomes B.B. King’s joyful than if we were witnessing a Jim and Tammy Fay in their eyes, while the crowd was entirely throng, cavorting about through the 10-minute Bakker recall, and B.B. called back “Ain’t spellbound. King himself seemed to play half as introductory jam by the backup band before the nobody’s business but my own....” minister and half as musical icon. Perhaps it was man’s grand entrance. King has never been one to The hits kept coming, as did the surprises. an act of stageplay, but when they finished a disappoint an audience with a lack of showman During “People Ask Me Why I Play the Blues,” bluesy rendition of “When the Saints Go Marchin ship, and tonight he was in top form. King kept the horn and saxophone section on its In” as the final number, I was convinced that the As he appeared at the back of the stage, a high- toes by calling for solos or quick bursts at the snap speech and song combination, along with the show pitched voice, belonging to the saxophone player, of a finger. At one point he had members of the I witnessed, lofted King to the highest realm of screams out, “Mr. Beee Beee King! Mr. Beee audience direct the band to play, putting the rock and roll sainthood. Beee King! Mr. Beee Beee King!” It was to be spotlights on a guy not more than ten feet away B.B. King is sure to be touring the good old USA repeated many times, but the sight and sound from me. soon after his return to the States. Don’t only combination brought the crowd surging forward; I My favorite group of songs was a medley of wistfully reach for an experience of this was safely pinned in the fourth row of a standing tunes describing ways men talk to women who magnitude — GET A TICKET AND LET THE room only crowd among a crowd of women all have shunned them, and the ways we try to get GOOD TIMES ROLL! /£ December 1, and December 3,1987 are the LAST TWO ISSUES OF THE DAILY NEXUS for 1987
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“Just above the city....way above average Daily Nexus Thursday, November 19,1987 3A Drama Dept. One Act Plays Gospel Concert Three one-act plays directed by senior population, regimentation and the com The UCSB Gospel Choir, under the directing student Miriam Schalit will be munication gap surround its basic wry direction of Richard Heard, will present a presented by the UCSB Department of comment on the nature of the two sexes. fall concert this Sunday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. in Dramatic Art tonight through this Saturday, Leonard Melfi’s Birdbath will complete Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. Admission is Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. in the University’s Old the evening’s three play bill. A young un free. Little Theatre. successful poet meets a young unbright The choir’s recent performances have John Guare’s The Loveliest Afternoon of virginal girl while they are both working at included concerts at the First Baptist ■the Year is a brilliantly funny, often bizarre an all-night cafeteria and what develops is a Church in Carpenteria, Goleta Baptist and continually entertaining short play that boy-meets-girl love story unlike any other. Church, Westmont College and San Luis was first presented at off-off Broadway’s Obispo Men’s Colony. In the winter and Caffe Cino. Absurdist in style, it achieves a Richard Schreiber has designed settings spring, they will be presenting concerts in lively theatrically with simplest of means. for all three plays with lighting designed by the Los Angeles area. Camera Obscura by Robert Patrick is a Cris Carusi. The program will feature “We Come to science fiction look at a computer matched Admission is free and patrons are Have Church” by Thomas Adams, “Say couple who meet via long distance TV reminded that there is no late seating in the Amen” by Clarence Eggleton, “Call on overtones of totalitarianism, over Old Little Theatre. /£ Jesus” by Kurt Carr. /£ Fall’s Dance Concert Indian Musicians at UCSB A modern dance concert featuring the work choreographed and peformed by Kate Shri Amar Nath, one of India’s finest flute scendental Meditation Movement. work of 35 dancers and six choreographers Pease. Peformed to the music of Jan virtuosos, will perform live in concert along Gandharva music is a discipline of Vedic will be the final offering of the UCSB Garbarek, Pease’s “Calypso’s Lament” with three other noted Indian musicians at Science, the science of life, to create Department of Dramatic Art, Division of shows the Greek mythological character, Maharishi’s Festival of Music for World balance in nature, eliminate stress in the Dance’s fall season. Calypso’s reaction to the loss of her love. Peace to be held this Saturday, Nov. 21 at 8 atmosphere, and produce a healthy in DANSCENES ’87, directed by Alice Dancer Rocky Angelini will be featured in p.m. in Lotte Lehmann concert hall. fluence for the individual and peace for the Condodina, will be presented by the UCSB Delila Moseley’s “Encounter.” Based on the The musicians are all expert in the world family. It upholds the natural Division of Dance at 8 p.m., tonight through story “Death in Venice,” this dance por melodies of Gandharva Veda, the classical rhythms that prevail at different times Saturday, Nov. 21 in the University’s Main trays the contrast between a young innocent music of ancient Vedic civilization. This throughout the day and night. Theatre. Seven dances by faculty boy, representing life and beauty, and an music has never been performed outside of Gandharva music makes a precious choreographers Valerie Huston, Delila older man obsessed with his vision of the India before. The concert is being contribution to the creation of world peace Moseley, Tonia Shimin and student youth. presented simultaneously in 300 cities and is — the use of sound, melody, and rhythm to choreographers Mery Grace Castelo, Addie “Gargoyles,” choreographed by Mery sponsored by Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, the restore balance and harmony in the mind, Hilgard and Kate Pease will be featured. Garce Castelo, is based on images provoked National Federation of Asian Indian body, behavior, and environment. A seven foot hanging sculpture, by the Gothic sculptures found atop the Organizations in America, and the Tran- To hasten the onset of world peace, “Swinging Lady” by California artist cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. While Maharishi Schools of Gandharva Music are Robert Howard, will serve as a focal point seen initially as gruesome and grotesque, being established throughout the world and for Addie Hilgard’s “Pendulum.” these sculptures are also imbued with great courses will be offered in this beautiful Choreographed to the music of the Bach pathos and piteousness. The sound score is a science and art of creating balance in Lute Suites for five dancers, “Pendulum” collage of 13th, 18th and 20th century nature through music. explores both the confinement and the composers including J.S. Bach and Peter The residents of Santa Barbara are in freedom inherent to a swing that is con Maxwell Davies. vited to come with their friends and family structed on stage by the dancers. Valerie Huston has created a satirical to enjoy an evening of Gandharva music and “Monologues for Three,” a work for three work for six women set to American folk participate in creating harmony in world dancers created by Tonia Shimin, evolves music. Movement sources for the piece have consciousness. for a trio of solos developed from each derived from Ms. Huston’s personal Tickets are $25, $15, and $12 for students performers personal qualities. The piece movement shorthand for classical ballet and senior citizens and are available at the will be enhanced by scenic effects created combinations. door. For further information, contact the from a painting by Hilary Brace. Transcendental Meditation Center at 962- The gray stone streets of Barcelona have L.K. Strasburg serves as lighting director 8916. inspired Delila Mosely to choreograph for DANSCENES ’87 and Claremarie The concert is being sponsored by the “Made in the Shade.” This jazz piece for ten Verheyen is costume director. Transcendental Meditation movement in dancers will be peformed to the music of Tickets for DANCENES ’87 are available conjunction with Gharativa Vidya Bhavan Stacy Q and Peter Gabriel. at the Arts and Lectures Box Office or by and the National Federation of Asian Indian Homer’s The Odyssey has inspired a solo calling 961-3535. / ’L Organizations in America. /£ m -MTR íWSSHJS Í2E» • ■ *• ■v áv Ktf.- gl L &3&Í&
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Mary Cassatt was a popular Arts Writer exposure. “In recent years the Art Museum has not shown American artist who once abroad stayed in France to keep an much work done before the Second World War,” said association with the French group. Her charming portrait of AMERICAN REFLECTIONS, a collection of over fifty Museum Director David Farmer, “yet this period is gaining a young girl, “Smiling Sara,” shows how the French examples of American painting, is currently on view at the increasing respect as a rich and creative time for painting in technique affected her work quite positively, with soft pastel University Art Museum. The exhibition concentrates on the America.” colors to complement her concern with line, form, and period between the Civil and Second World Wars, chronicling Corlette Walker, an Arts lecturer and authority on composition. The immensely popular Theodore Robinson, the movement of American artists away from the British American Painting here at UCSB commented that “this type who studied with the famous French Impressionist, Monet, portrait tradition, toward landscape painting-, which even of art has always been extremely popular, but more among shows with his elegant “La Debacle” a refined style nearly tually evolved into the French-influenced school of American the middle class. You may not see it in many magazines and indistinguishable from his French contemporaries. Childe Hassam and John Twachtman were two other ar Impressionists. catalogs, but if you were to go into homes where people own The collection, from the galleries of the Claremont art you’d see it is what everybody buys. It’s very attractive tists who trained extensively in France, and like Cassatt and work that doesn’t require Robinson, their painting shows how affected they were by the any knowledge of modern French school. “It so happened that the training was much art to appreciate. You can more advanced in France, so the French artists were just respond to it.” probably better at that time. Robinson was a student of The earlier paintings in Monet’s, Twachtman studied with Sisely,' Hassam worked the exhibit show the 19th with some prominent French painters, so the work was century artists’ very direct directly related, and the American school wasn’t very dif approach to both portraits ferent,” Walker said. Hassam’s “Model Disrobing” is and landscape, including another example of the American concern with form being works by George Inness, perfectly complemented by color and depth to bring out more Jasper Cropsey, and William emotion than the earlier human subject works. Keith. These paintings are a tribute to the fresh, idyllic The collection has an overwhelmingly beautiful and op beauty of a young America timistic feel to it, rich in colors and textures that try to give whose vast countryside life to the paintings. “The Americans were driven by the offered endless material to same ideals as the French artists,” explained Walker, “It capture. Inness’ “Midfield was a middle class reaction to the cities, a desire to get away Landscape” uses a very from the industrialization and out in the country, back to intimate and informal tone nature. So the American work is all very golden, almost that both conveys the purity sentimental.” Julie Tucker and Diane Swain reflect on art for Art History I of the subject and charac- Though later paintings of the early 20th century rejected ■ terizes the attitude of much European style and looked back to American urban life, the of the work at that time. Likewise, Keith’s “California desire that drove the movement has the same need to Landscape” offers a celebration of a land untainted by celebrate the simple beauty of American life. Different UCSB Arts & Lectures humanity, illustrated with a rich texture that gives life to the style, same intention. So the key to appreciating the exhibit painting. overall is to first place yourself in the right time frame: post- UCSB Campbell Hall at 8 PM. Thursday, November 19 Other artists of a slightly later generation included Elihu Civil War America trying to move away from a restrictive In a whirlwind tale of mistaken Vedder, John La Farge and Elliot Daingerfield, whose style and to open up to the pure beauty of the country. identities and never-missed technique offered a more literary, romantic view. La Examine the differences in approach and technique between opportunities for costume Farge’s “Psyche” and Daingerfield’s “Offshore Wind” have the various works, without concentrationg on the similarity changes, Rosanna Arquette (as a their base in a more classical regard for the human figure of themes. If you’re not turned off by the homage to these bored housewife with amnesia) that intends to convey timeless human ideals of beauty. simple ideals, an excellent background in the awakening of and pop star Madonna (as a The main thrust of the exhibit lies in the paintings of the an American style can be attained through December 13 at free-spirited drifter, the sought- American Impressionists. Many of these artists had the University Art Museum. /£ after Susan) embark on a curious chase in an ever more curious Call for a free brochure-. 961-3535. world. In Conjunction with the Exhibit The University Art Museum will be 2:45: Kay Keninger, Curator of room Arts 1426. presenting a special day of events in Collections, The Galleries of the American Reflections is on view conjunction with their current exhibit Claremont Colleges, and the through December 13 in the Main American Reflections. exhibition’s organizer, will present a Gallery of the University Art Museum. Come to the Museum, located in the slide lecture, “American Reflections: Parking on campus is FREE Arts Building, on Saturday, Nov. 21 for Behind the Scenes,” in room Arts 1426, weekends. The Museum and room 1425 three free events, open to the public. across the courtyard from the Museum are wheelchair accessible. 7 ! entrance. 2 pm: A docent tour of the exhibition 3:30: Dr. Corlette Rossiter Walker, The Store, located inside the H)hNSC€N0 > 87 American Reflections, part of the Lecturer, Art History Department, Museum, will be open. 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It is music that is in alliance music performed by some of the 8 PM with natural law. It upholds the finest musicians from India, the LOTTE LEHMANN CONCERT HALL S a t 21 Gatos de Amor natural rhythms that prevail at land of the Veda. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Wed. 25 • Fri 27 • Sat 28 Teaze & The Midnights different times throughout the day CAMPUS SANTA BARBARA Come with your family and Happy Hour Free Pasta Bar & Light Jazz Mon-Fri 58 pm and n ig h t friends and participate in creating Lunch 11:30-2; Dinner 5-9 pm Gandharva music makes a harmony in world consciousness. 27 W. Canon Perdido • Between State and Chapala • At the Bistro Downtown • 965-7733 • Sponsored by the Ministry of Celebrations and Fulfillment of Maharishi’s World Government of the Age of Enlightenment ly Nexus Thursday, November 19,1987 5A Guest Lecturer’s Book Reviewed New Directions from China A Girl from Hunan (1986), frëedom of expression in the young farmhand runs directed by Xie Fei and Wu Chinese cinema. Married to away. Xiao Xiao gives birth The Struggle Upward Lan, will conclude Arts and a child-husband in a remote and because the child is a Editor’s Note: This review of John A. Vert,” is a striking motif: Lectures’ fall film series, village in the Hunan son, she is forgiven and Williams’ most recent novel, Jacob’s When the top of the sun sank beneath the New Directions in Film, this providence, 18-year-old Xiao accepted by the family as Ladder is run in conjunction with the sea, for the length of time it takes to blink an Sunday night, Nov. 22 at 8 Xiao befriends a hired farm well as the whole of feudal author’s lecture about the book scheduled eye, the universe was suddenly illuminated p.m. in Campbell Hall. laborer. Their friendship society. It symbolizes both for tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 20 at noon in the by the blinding silver-green light that raced Xie Fei and Wu Lan’s develops into a sexual affair, the beauty of individuality UCen Pavillion. Williams’ talk is presented in pursuit of the fading red and orange glow, adaptation of Xiao, Xiao, and Xiao Xiao becomes an d th e drastically by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee, flared mightily, and then winked out. No Shen Congwen’s 1929 novel, pregnant. Afraid that their destructive force of feudal the departments of Black Studies and imagined sound could have accompanied is an example of the new love affair will be exposed, tradition. /Ç. English, and UCSB Associated Students. the spectacle. The evening breezes rush in from the ocean and rage “through the fringed leaves of the banana trees” with a sound “like a Michael Sragow, By S.M. Wenrick sudden downpour of rain.” Williams gently The San Francisco Examiner Arts Writer greets the reader at the narrative’s Jay Carr, Boston Globe beginning. The bulkier part of the narrative is much "CAPTIVATING." John A. Williams’ Jacob’s Ladder (his Janet Masiin, The New York Times eleventh novel) is about opposite forces, in more distant. Conversations tend to be this case African independence versus formal, perhaps emphasizing the fact that American imperialism. Chuma Fasseke, there is another language, an African one, "RAPTUROUSLY the president of a tiny West African nation, that is not being used. Peppered between the GOOD." is a man very much aware of his history. His cordial, even tone of the dialogue, however, Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times childhood friend, Jake Henry, is a U.S. are astute observations. At a bar at which army major, trying to forget his past. The some subtle politicking is going on, the "ENTRANCING." two are pitted against each other in a plot sound of a woman in silk stockings crossing Pauline Keel, The New Yorker involving covert politicking and delicate her legs is surprising. One senses that maneuvers that leave the long fingers of Williams is an experienced journalist. He U.S. foreign policy looking very sticky in observes closely and writes sparingly. Wish You Were Here! deed. . There are awkardly humorous passages Williams’ method is also a reunion of too, if only because the Civil Rights of 1966 FRI. NOV. 20 • 7 & 8:50 NIGHTLY • & SUN. at 1:40, 3:30 & 5:15 opposites. His poetry is beautiful, com or so now seems so primitive. One comes up VICTORIA ST. THEATER • 33 W VICTORIA • 965-1886 pelling and magical. It comes from the soul, against the underestimation of black and beckons from the coast of Africa. The Americans in general and the patronization “Green Flash” which French filmmaker of Jake in particular: METROPOLITAN ARLINGTON 1117 SM* XU. MM3» Eric Rohmer has explored in “Le Rayon “... all that’s left is for that plant to have THEATRES CORP an accident, and you can take off for back Hail, Hail Rock Er Roll m e Movie Hotline 963-9503 5 . 7 :3 0 .1 0 ; S u n ateo 1 .3 :3 0 home in Harlem.” “I live in Maryland,” Jake snapped. “I know. Just a way of speaking.” GRANADA FIESTA FOUR RIVIERA If there is any irony in the antagonism be Huawx.u.wi-wi P it State S . U . HM 7I1 IM U lw ikM n Sam,U.WS-*lB tween Africans and Afro-Americans in Jacob’s Ladder it is bitter. One wonders Suspect Death Wish IV Whales of August 0:10.7:00.10:20 0. 0.10 0:15.7:10,0:06 why brother cannot freely embrace brother, Sat fr Sun also 12:06,2:36 S a t i r S u n a ls o 2 ,4 S a t f r S u n 1 :4 6 .3 :3 0 why the U.S. has used Jack so mercilessly, Fatal Attraction Weeds and why Africa cannot be left to its own 6.7:36.10:06 6:16,7:46.10 S a t O S u n a ls o 1 2 :4 6 ,3 determined leaders. Everyone has their Sat O Sun also 12.2:20 PLAZA DE ORO fingers in the pie, and politics is a huge Running Man Hello Again IWIMwdW«r,U.«14Wt 6 :4 0 .8 .1 «ro:io 5:46.7:46.9:46 bloody mess in this world of power plants Sat ir Sun atoo 1:10.3:20 Sat ir Sun also 1:46.3:46 and electricity, lights which may eventually Made in Heaven Princess Bride 5 :» . 0:30; SErS also 1 :» drown out the Green Flash, seen by “only ' 5:16,7:30.0:46 S a t to S u n a ls o 1 ,3 Russkles God-given people.” One wonders also why 7 :3 6 ; S t r S 3:36 the energy for ideological struggle is to be Fatal Beauty mustered, when big Uncle Sam ihakes it his 6 :» . 9 .2 0 : S t r S ateo V .» business to be everywhere at once, and Hiding Out CINEMA FAIRVIEW 7 :26 . S t r S ateo 3 : * capitalism pervades. Williams has no final m u oKiiii'fco.Motow-ue M l 1 hiw iw , take H J - t m answers but he has set forth a compelling ■ Boom story with a base in his own experiments in Less Than Zero 6:311.7:46.10 Africa as a Newsweek correspondent 20 7 :3 0 .0 :» Sat to Sun also 1,3:15 Author John A. Williams S a t to S u n atoo 1 :3 0 .3 :3 0 ,6 :3 0 3M S. M on to t, Moto MMMS years ago. Hello Marylou, Fatal Attraction Like Father 7 .0 :1 6 Prom Night II Sat to Sun also 2:30,4:46 5 :» . 7 :» . 0:30 Like Son Sat to Sun also 1:30,3:30 7 :1 5 . » :» A Last Desperate Adventure Sat to Sun also 1:15,3:15.5:16 SWAP MEET éUSNfeXHM tlt mistaken identities and MISSION Arts and Lectures’ hit fall one regardless of your 907 S. 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Her hair changes with every illustration of the superfluity of everything Arts Writer club in elaborate costumes and manicured scene. Downey (The Pickup Artist) delivers is provided by Mr. Wells (Nicholas Pryor), cars. The scene is Christmas, which the most impressive performance as the battling his own tennis machine and The American dream is shot to hell. showcases more than ever the excess of cocky aspirant to his parents’ dreams going surrounded by hundreds of neon-yellow Decadence is the password, and the god of Hollywood. Less Than Zero kicks off with a down. He hits rock bottom in a grotesque balls in his backyard. The forms of excess gluttony will have his due: death. lavish “Pink Christmas” party at Alana’s, and realistic way. which afflict the younger .generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the in a style unimaginable even to Gatsby. This is a stylish film. The lighting by however, his son in particular, are not so revelries of his Lost Generation is tame There is an ice rink outdoors, with icebergs theater and opera lighting designer Barbara funny. compared to the explosion that is Less Than floating in the Olympic-size swimming pool, Ling is stunning. Director Kanievska says Less Than Zero is a heavy film and one Zero. “When I read the book,” said and a twenty-foot pink Christmas tree or the mood is created by “very bright, definitely for a mature audience, but it is not screenplay writer Harley Peyton, “I namented with seventeen tiny TV monitors. saturated colors... there’s a slightly trashy, bereft of a lighter touch. When Blair and thought, ‘it’s The Great Gatsby in 1984 with If Brazil was a wild journey into a strange Hollywood element of neon everywhere.” Clay are carried away by passion, for drugs’ — that was my glib summation of world, Less Than Zero shares some of the Natural lighting is rare, and most of the example, they are literally parked in the what I wanted to do.” He and director same visual ideas, but this is perhaps more action is nocturnal. Impeccably tight fast lane. Christmas Eve with the Easton Marek Kanievska, backed by a brillant frightening; the three protagonists are editing combined with surreal coloring family approaches the absurd as the scene team of technicians, have created a media readily identifiable as people of our creates a tension in the pit of one’s stomach cuts from Clay’s dad playing the piano and extravaganza beyond mere decadence. generation. which remains until film’s end. his mother slowly ingesting martinis to Clay The spectacle depicts the ruin of a part of The three; Andrew McCarthy as Clay The music is obtrusive at all the right and Blair’s frantic sex in the hall. The Western civilization. Beverly Hills is a Easton, Jami Gertz as Blair, and Robert moments. Thomas Newman (Desperately humor is nevertheless fleeting, their canker which should be amputated from the Downey, Jr. as Julian Wells; are Seeking Susan, The Lost Boys) creates masochistic playground shortly becoming rest of the nation. superexcellent in their roles. Clay was the superb sound here. The Bangles’ version of tragedy in Palm Springs. The film, based on Bret Easton Ellis’ 1985 narrator in the novel, and here is the “Hazy Shade of Winter” (P. Simon) is “You don’t look happy,” Clay tells Blair novel of the same title, is a huge, shiny, straight kid with a straight tie whose face exceptional. “Time, time, time, what’s at the start. She flashes her teeth and asks, larger-than-life nightmare. The rich kids of flinches according to the tension in the become of me?” they chant, as Clay is “But do I look good?” Almost everyone cruising up a palm-lined street toward home “looks” good in this film, but in the end, the for a visit. “feel-good” society is roundly blasted. The It is strange that British-born director chic American dream has gone awry when Kanievska makes his American debut so parents wish their children “Merry boldly. He liked the story, he says, “because Christmas” through closed doors, or don’t it’s extreme...(it) happens on Hollywood’s wish it at all. doorstep.” The novel, in that sense, was Less Than Zero, or drugs in high society, destined for film, and he successfully pulls is another in a series of “issue oriented” all artistic stops to match the urgency and television and film projects for producer hopelessness of Ellis’ work. The tense Jon Avnet, whose The Burning Bed won photography, flashy lighting, and rapid awards for its attack on wife abuse. It is pace bring home the novel’s desperate edge. accompanied by a disclaimer of sorts, a One cannot pause to think, and the film itself short, stark anti-drug ad message just is in a way a drug trip.” This is no social before the film itself. Large white words satire, but a bold attack, a scathing burn on flashed on the screen at the Cinema on upper-class L. A. morality. Hollister: “Crack: the thrill can kill.” That The key hére: excess, excess until a the drug maintains its seduction after the major expiation is required, and the victim film seems improbable. Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr. and Andrew McCarthy amount to "Less than Zero." Rocky’s Horror Tradition A Romantic Ferry Ride
By Kent Silveira Santa Barbaran who has seen Rocky more sings, “Open your eyes/ day for night/ look than 130 times, explained that the movie By Philip Hall what you done to me/ open your heart/ stay A rts W riter Arts Writer was released in 1975 and was such a bomb tonight/ no woman could mean so much to that the actors involved sold all of their me.” It is very easy to get lost in the mood “It’s incredibly strange and just about rights away. On midnight, April 1, a theater Ever since the early days of his old band, created by the album because it deals with a equally entertaining.” in Greenwich village “ran what they called Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry has been one of subject that is close to the heart of every — random audience participant just after the worst movie ever made. It was Rocky the more influential artists in contemporary human being — the joys and heartaches of seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Horror and it was the perfect time for it, the music, and after a two year hiatus, he has love. Because everybody has had at least the first time right place at the right time. Because ’77 in recorded a new album. “Bete Noire,” is a some experience with love, songs such as Greenwich Village was the punk explosion series of nine songs about the joys and “Day for Night” and “Kiss and Tell” tend to “Where’s your neck?” and “Hey Frankie, in America and the punks just ate it up.” depressions of love, a theme that was also arouse feelings of empathy in the listener. what’s your favorite hi-protein drink?!” Do Wayne, although second at the Fiesta to the focus of Ferry’s last release, the hyp While love is the predominant theme of these questions sound familiar? Well, for Chris Ambler (who has seen the film 281 notizing “Boys and Girls.” the album, a majority of the songs on it have those who have seen The Rocky Horror times) has been a regular goer here in Santa As in previous albums, Bryan Ferry’s an unhappy ambiance. In “The name of the Picture Show around the right crowd they Barbara for more than two years. In that style is considerably different from most Game,” “Seven Deadly Sins” and “The will. These and many others are all part of a time he has observed that the average age mainstream musicians. Having a con Right Stuff” are negative without being ritual that has been performed by countless of those attending is between 14 and 16, and stantly evolving musical idiom, Ferry, as in truly depressing. fans for almost a decade. How has this truly a complete change of the participating “Boys and Girls,” doesn’t limit himself to To do justice to “Bete Noire” it is im lousy movie managed to attract so many crowd has occurred about three times. This one backing band, but instead, he engaged portant to listen to the album more than young (and not so young) adolescents, in a indicated that the movie focuses its appeal the talents of a number of musicians to back once. It is one of a very select group of cult-like fashion? Before going into all that, to a select audience but with a continual him. Notable among these performers is the albums that seems to grow better with each I would like to give all the “virgins” out turnover. When asked what he thought the former lead guitarist of the Smiths, Johnny listening. If you liked “Boys and Girls,” or there a brief history of one of the worst specific appeal of this film to that age group Marr. Marr, who used to write all the music Roxy Music’s “Avalon,” or if you’re just movies of all time. was, Wayne replied, “It’s Friday night at for the Smiths, collaborated with Ferry on tired of “the same old shit,” then “Bete Originally a musical theater show (en midnight, and they don’t want to go home the song “The Right Stuff,” the first single Noire” may well be worth your while. titled the Rocky Horror Show) Rocky was because it’s a drag to be home in bed on to be released from the album. Another originally designed to lampoon the old Friday night. I’d rather have them here technique that Ferry exploits effectively is science fiction movies of the 50s by way of than out on the street doing drugs. ’ ’ the use of female back-up vocalists to songs and the introduction of some sexual The pull is not the movie itself but the contrast with, and complement, his vocals. identity twists. The plot goes something ritual shouting and yelling that goes with it. “Bete Noire” is basically a mellow roughly like this: Brad and Janet are on It has become an underground cult album, but with a definite, underlying their honeymoon when, on a dark and rainy movement with people like Wayne hanging rhythm that serves to establish a feeling night their car breaks down and they are around to help teach the younger members carried thoroughout. Songs such as “The forced to take shelter in a spooky looking all of the fun things to shout at the screen. Right Stuff” and “Seven Deadly Sins” use a castle. To their dismay, Brad and Janet And everything requires a precise timing combination of programmed drum tracks discover that they have inadvertently because the lines are set up so that the and funky guitar riffs to create an up-tempo managed to strand themselves in the middle characters on screen will seem to be dance rhythm. These songs are alternated of a group of alien transvestites from the responding to the audience. Many of the with songs such as “The Name of the planet Transexual who have been stationed phrases are probably enough to make Eddie Game,” and “Zamba,” songs that are here to observe Earth. Their leader is Dr. Murphy blush, but one example would be slower and more sedate to create an album Frank N. Furter (played by Tim Curry) who when Brad and Janet are shown in separate that captures some of the intense feelings of introduces the rather naive couple to some but identical rooms to shout “Same set, love. not so innocent ritual practices of his people, different lighting, what a cheap movie!” The thing that makes “Bete Noire” such as well as a 6-foot, blonde haired, blue-eyed Many will play with the screen itself, such an outstanding album is the fact that a mood being of Furter’s own creation (who as during a scene where the picture revolves is created in the very first song, “Limbo,” becomes of particular interest to Janet) around and around people will rush to the and is sustained throughout the record. named Rocky. 70s rocker, Meat Loaf, screen and begin to act like they are spin “Limbo,” my favorite song on the album, makes an appearance as Frankie’s (very) ning the picture themselves. Viewers who creates, as the title suggests, an almost late ex, Eddie. Thrown into this mish-mash have never seen the film before (collec otherworldly mood with its blend of “stream are occasional narrational comments by a tively called “virgins”) are even given the of consciousness” lyrics and a surrealistic very annoying man who apparently has had opportunity to take part in the virgin ritual sense of the music. his neck removed. Toss in an investigative’ that Wayne and company lead each week In the chorus of “Day for Night,” Ferry professor, a creepy pair of incestuous just prior to the show. siblings named Riff-raff and Magenta, as For a select few (selected by what is hard well as song and dance numbers (including to say) the ultimate fun comes in dressing Be against Women's Center: the classic “Time Warp” ) and you should be up as their favorite “Rocky” character and silence: 961-3778 hopelessly confused as to what I’m talking acting out the film as it occurs on screen. about. These people are generally not the 14-16 speak out Campus Police: 961-3446 But that’s OK because the plot has nothing crowd but are comprised more of the S.B. Rape Crisis Center: at all to do with what has made this movie regulars who have been at it for a while. If you've been 569-CALL what it is. Wayne Collinsworth, a 21-year-old (See ROCKY, p.7A) raped.______Daily Nexus Thursday, November 19,1987 7A Music Department Offers a Full Upcoming Calendar UCSB’s Prisms — New important to pay tribute to a “To call Villa-Lobos a Bachian counterpoint. ’ ’ Hall. trombonist Patrick Schultz, Music Ensemble will present man who is considered one of prolific composer is an This program will feature The program will include Quadrabones, a trombone a free concert, under the the great composers of the understatement — he “Bachianas Brasilerias No. Michael Combs’ “An quartet which performs both direction of David Mont Americas and a driving composed more than 2,000 5 ’’ an d “ Bachianas tiphon,” George Philip classical and jazz literature gomery and Paul Century, force in ‘musical works including operas, Brasileiras No. 6,” as well as Telemann’s “Canoic Sonata throughout Southern tomorrow night, Nov. 20 at 8 nationalism.’ His music ballets, chamber music, other works, among them No. 1 in G Major,” Charles California, and the Festival p.m. in Lotte Lehmann embraced a wide spectrum choruses, piano and guitar “Prole do Bebe,’’ Delaney’s “Montemalaga,” Brass Quartet, a Ventura- Concert Hall. of musical styles allowing pieces, concertos, and songs. “Distribution des Fleurs,” Carlos Chavez’s “Toccata,” based ensemble which The program will feature for influence of native “A great admirer of J.S. “Quintet,” “Trio,” and William Kraft’s “Trio for performs frequently in the “Music of Heitor-Villa Brazilian ‘tribal’ music of Bach, he wrote a series of “Duo.” Percussion” and Vic Firth’s tricounties area. Lobos,” celebrating the the Amazon, popular dance nine works titled ‘Bachianas Performers include “Encore in Jazz.” centenary of his birth (1887). music of Rio de Janeiro and Brasileiras’ in which soprano Carol Williams, The ensemble features The program includes Assistant director Century the prevalent trends of Brazilian melody and guitarist Paul Century, Kevin Brown, Philip Con works by David Cope, says, “We feel that it is European art music. rhythm are subjected to violinists Catharine Clune nolly, Scott Cunningham, Gabriel Faure, Ralph and Molly Dustin, violist Michael Figueroa, Kirsten Vaughan Williams, Chick 10, played the lead role of Frankie this Amy Himmell, flutists Tracy Larson, Brian Lease, Darren Corea and Giovanni evening and described the experience by Harris and Ann Stimson, Potter, Veronica Rocha, Gabrieli. The concert will ROCKY saying “at first it is very embarasSing, but clarinetist Andrea Mc Andrew Saenz, Kurt also feature the West Coast as you go on you get to enjoy it, when you go Farland, bassoonist Donald Schlegel, Alan U’Ren, premiere of G.D. Cruse’s (Continued from p.6A) up and take off your cape how people yell Emmons, cellist Julie Michael Weaver and Owen “Three Sonatas.” Written in Kathy and Scottie Beckstrand have been and scream. You know that they’re yelling McGinnis, harpist Wendy Wolfson. A 1780, these are the only doing Rocky for a while, in fact the first and screaming at the screen but you can Harris, and pianists Kary pieces to have been time they saw Rocky at the Fiesta was the always think it’s you.” Kramer and John McGin- The UCSB department of originally scored for brass last night of their honeymoon. They come . Jenny Redo, a freshman at UCSB from ness. A music will present David instruments in the early from Camarillo up to Santa Barbara just for Berkeley, and Belinda Braunstein, another Hartman, bass trombone, in classic era. The Rocky, because the Fiesta is “the only UCSB student played Janet and Magenta, The UCSB Percussion a graduate recital this arrangement for this theater that plays Rocky between here and respectively. They described the Fiesta Ensemble, directed by Sunday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. in program is by Jeffrey San Francisco.” Kathy has tended to take show as being “pretty tame. You don’t have Gregory Goodall, will Lotte Lehmann Concert Reynolds, member of the her role quite seriously having come from a to worry about being thrashed on here. present a free concert on Hall. Los Angeles Philharmonic professional acting background and she Because at Berkeley you walk out of the Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. in He will be assisted by and director of the Moravian hopes to get people together to rehearse theater smelling horribly.” Lotte Lehmann Concert pianist Vicki Kirsch, tenor Trombone choir. A with specific blocking and timing for the I noticed that the overwhelming majority shows. of people pointed out that the secret behind When asked about the future of Rocky, Rocky is that it is a chance to cut loose, to be Women’s Art: Quilts Scott responded by indicating that the ever someone you’re not for a night. And this was An exhibition of contemporary California pressions of their personalities as well as present teen crowd along with the con definitely an excited and enthusiastic crowd quilts will open at the UCSB Women’s strong design statements. tinuing guiding regulars, such as himself, a as one could well imagine by Mark Scholz’ Center Art Gallery next Monday, Nov 23. The public is invited to an opening 29-year old technical support specialist and comment “Just put me down for some Entitled “Quilts Redefined,” the show in reception next Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 5 p.m. Kathy, who works for TV station KBAA in quote, I don’t care you can make it up. I just cludes the work of twenty-two quilt artists to 7 p.m. Glendale, will continue to keep the movie want to be in the newspaper. ” from San Diego to Sebastapol. The Women’s Center will show two films going as an underground favorite. He Curator for the exhibition is Santa Bar related to the exhibition. On Monday, Nov. compared it to the “Star Trek” phenomenon The overwhelming majority see Rocky as bara quilter Jan Inouye. Before moving to 23 at noon and 3 p.m., “Quilts in Women’s pointing out that there is a large cross-over “a great way to release all your hostilities” Santa Barbara last year, Inouye lived in Lives” will be screened. Inouye will lead crowd between the two movements. as well as “a total rush.” And as Star Trek Berkeley; she has been a member of the discussion following the noon showing. On Mike Aswad, a San Marcos High School had a message revolving around peace and East Bay Heritage Quilters for 15 years. Thursday, January 7, “Hearts and Hands: student who has seen the show a com unity, so does Rocky give its enthusiasts a The quilts Inouye has selected for A Social History of 19th Century Women and paratively mild 35 times and performed for challenge not to just dream it, but to be it. A exhibition at the Women’s Center were Quilts” will be shown at noon and 3 p.m. designed to be wall-hung. They are smaller than standard quilts made for beds. The Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 a.m., contemporary quilts also differ from Monday through Friday. The exhibition Keys to rape prevention: traditional motifs like the schoolhouse and continues through Dec. 21; it will reopen to basket patterns but approach these un the public Jan. 4-8 following UCSB’s holiday awareness. Intuition, conventionally. closure. Inouye, who personally knows the For additional information, please con assertiveness quilters, sees ^their work as clear ex tact Susan Gwynne at 961-3778 A
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To üy flottolc* TroJlS LoMywillait Hm*eH«n 8A Thursday, November 19,1987 Daily Nexus • *0 • PUB • PUB • PUB • PUB • PUB • PUB PUB* PUB • PUB • PUB c m a 3 • O. ■a Novelist • The Last Pub Nite c CD 0B 3 CL H John H. Williams • of the Quarter c 00 0B 3 O. *0 Tomorrow Night • is TonightI! c CD OB 3 with special guests 0. ■V • c CD OB 3 0. •o • c CO 0B 3 a. m *0 • c CD 0B 3 a. ■ m ! ■o • c 00 OB 3 a. m ■a • c 00 OB 3 m a. # • ■o 00 c 3 OB a. ■o • m m c 00 OB 3 a. ■o • c 00 OB 3 01 "0 • All ages are welcomed c 00 Show starts at 8 pm — come early OB 3 John A. Williams will speak at UCSB Friday, Nov. 20 at noon at the a. and Remember, It's FREEH Il ■o • c UCen Pavilion. Acclaimed as a novelist, journalist, and playwright, and • and • and • and « and • and and • and • and • and • OB Williams will talk about his latest work, Jacob’s Ladder, a novel of foreign intrigue. Williams is known as one of the foremost practitioners of the writer’s craft. He has published nearly a dozen novels, and his powerful novel of UCen — A Celebration the 60s, The Man Who Cried I Am, was a significant work of the time. The body of work of Mr. Williams includes fiction, non-fiction, drama and numerous articles. His new work combines Williams’ background of Culture in history and politics, his skills as an editor and journalist, and his formidable talent as a story teller. An adventurous tale of international Are you interested in showcasing the talent, history, food, art, politics, Jacob’s Ladder already has been welcomed with critical ac literature, crafts, etc. of you heritage? Come see A Celebration of claim. Culture next quarter! Coming on January 26, 27 and 28, presented by Among the prestigious awards accorded his work are: The American The University Center. See Nexus classifieds for more information. Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation; the New Jersey Council on the Arts; The National Endowment for the Arts; and the Richard Wright-Jacques Roumain Award. He has been appointed Exxon Visiting Professor at New York University; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cooper Union; Guest Writer at Sarah Lawrence College;,, OTP® fl gEE&K (MMiPDHifl and Regents Lecturer at UCSB. Mr. Williams makes his home in Teaneck, New Jersey, and teaches at New York University. OTP® 1FBI1I This event is sponsored by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee, The Department of Black Studies, The Department of English, and A.S. IT S THE PEAPililiil Program Board.
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And if you are a reallg good kid, Liaison Coordinator you might even get a candy cone!!! A.S. Program Board is accepting applications for a security and $1.50 for 2 prints $.50 a reprint liaison coordinator. If you are interested in working at concerts, lec tures, Pub and Comedy nights, and are interested in working with security personnel, then this could be the job for you. Applications are due Nov. 23 and you can pick them up in the A.S. Program Board Office. Interviews will be held Nov. 24 between 3-6 p.m. What Do YOU Want? What bands would you like to see play on campus Winter Quarter? t /i What lecturers would you like to listen to during Winter Quarter? What films would you like to see during Winter Quarter? A.S. Program Board wants your input. Come to the ASPB office on the third loor of the UCen and put your ideas in our suggestion box. We want to know what you are thinking!
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