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51 alreadyknowwhatitislike H tocom pia intomy ziti why n ottrytodobetterwhenret rofadisundergroundeda ndslamdancingisdrunkd orksrubbingagainsteach othertosomeguytheywou ldcallafagbutspending$ 8.98onhisrecordsmakes asmuchsenseaseveryone Iß! andthingelseokmissbitc hwhatssolateaboutmysp ewcanyoushowmethene sh wsdontragthenlagcomed ownandbustsomefromth SJE esideyouneverheardanc ethisdanceorkisslancew hynotworkitshowyoucan hangandhelpoutthemore worthycausesartisamov ementsupportisweakiain ttooproudtobegareyout oochickenshittostandby yourstuffordoyouevenha veany 2A Thursday, April 21,1968 Daily Nexus U C S B ^ rts & Lectures Junebug Jabbo Jones: Black Folklore and Front Porch Wisdom Don't Start Me To Talking or I'll Tell Everything I Three lectures of special interest to students are Know: Sayings from the Life and Writings of coming up soon: tomorrow night marine environ Junebug Jabbo Jones, Volume I is the ample title mentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau will show films of a one-man show filled with the wit and wisdom and discuss his work; next Tuesday afternoon of the rural Black South, starring actor John Mexican novelist and Regents' Lecturer Elena O'Neal. An accomplished playwright, poet and Poniatowska will present a lecture on "Feminism, theater artist,-O'Neal will portray Junebug in Literature and Society: A Mexican Perspective"; UCSB's Main Theatre in two shows on Saturday, and on Tuesday evening counselor-author April 23 at 2 PM and 8 PM. Tickets are on sale Geneen Roth will give an inspirational presenta now. tion on "Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experi ence and Resolution of Eating Problems." Roth is Junebug Jabbo Jones is both narrator and main the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and character of the show, a moving concoction of Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and the tales and anecdotes that present an entertaining leader of successful and popular workshops that range of personalities, including a cheating plan help people overcome habits such as overeating tation owner, the pretty daughter of a preacher, or compulsive dieting. Says Roth, "We must cut and a broken-down disc jockey. The play is rich the cord between our body and our self-worth.... not only in characters, but also in vivid language. We've lost touch with what hunger feels like and "I was so broke I had to borrow eye water to cry how to differentiate it from other feelings." with," he tells us. Later he exclaims, "she was jigglin' things that I didn't know had muscles in And don't forget: there are only sevemmore ticket em. office shopping days until Frankenstein, so avoid the rush and buy your tickets now! The Ticket Of Junebug makes it clear that he is a storyteller, not fice is open from 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through a liar. The distinction? A liar covers up things, Friday. Student-priced tickets for the Guthrie whereas a storyteller uncovers things. June bug Theater's Frankenstein are $12, $10 and $8. (And I and his characters go about uncovering injustice that includes the thunder-and-lightening special on a plantation, in the boys locker room, at a effects, too.) John O’Neal lunch counter, in a jail cell — "just doing what needs to be did." A p r il As a student in the 1960s, John O'Neal was on the front lines of the civil rights movement, a 21 Panel Discussion with John O'Neal leader in the Student Non-violent Coordinating î 8 0 s " - * Committee. As he and other civil rights workers "Critical Condition: Black Theaterand the 1980s" Thu., Apr. 21 / 4 PM / Main Theatre. traveled around the South, they began collecting the stories and sayings, the "front porch wisdom" 21 Paisan of rural Blacks. In this sense, Don't Start Me To Roberto Rossellini's neo-realist film about WWII. Talking... is an oral history, as is Volume II (You Thu., Apr. 21 / 7 & 9:30 PM / Campbell Hall Can't Judge A Book By Looking At the Cover) 22 Jean-Michel Cousteau which deals with the urban Black experience. "Rediscovery of the World" O'Neal npw tours the country performing as Fri., Apr. 22/8 PM / Campbell Hall Junebug and visiting campuses as a guest lecturer. His visit to UCSB is co-sponsored with the Center 23 John O'Neal as Junebug Jabbo Jones for Black Studies and the Department of Dramatic "Don't Start Me to Talking..." Art. Sat., Apr. 23/2 & 8 PM / Main Theatre 24 Das Boot During his three-day visit to UCSB, O'Neal will Terror and adventure aboard a German U-boat. join actress Lillian Lehman and UCSB faculty in a Sun., Apr. 24 / 7 & 9:30 PM / Campbell Hall free panel discussion titled "Critical Condition: Jean-Michel Cousteau Black Theater and the 1980s" today at 4 PM in 26 Elena Poniatowska, Regents' Lecturer the Main Theatre. Tomorrow (Friday) at noon he Mexican feminism, literature and society. will give a free mini-performance as Junebug in Tue., Apr. 26/4 PM / Girvetz 1004 FRANKENSTEIN the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Auditorium. He 26 Geneen Roth will visit campus classes and entertain young stu A lecture on conquering eating disorders. dents at Franklin Elementary School as well. Fol Tue., Apr. 26/8 PM / Campbell Hall lowing each performance of Don't Start Me To Talking... he will participate in a discussion with 27 Open rehearsal: Anthony de Mare the audience. Hear a concert pianist prepare for the stage. Wed., Apr. 27/7 PM / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall 28 Anthony de Mare, piano Tickets to are $10 for Don't Start Me To Talking... An award-winning pianist plays new works. the general public, $7 for UCSB students. Buy Thu., Apr. 28/8 PM / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall your tickets now, at the A&L Ticket Office in Building 402. To charge by phone (minimum 30/1 Frankenstein order $10), call 961-3535. The Guthrie Theater in a classic Gothic tale. Sat., Apr. 30/8 PM / Campbell Hall Sun., May 1 / 2 & 8 PM / Campbell Hall Buy Frankenstein tickets now. Tkkets/Charge by Phone: 961-3535 Daily Nexus Thursday, April 21,1988 3A Jabbin’ With Junebug GO BOWUNG THIS WEEKEND JON: Well, it’s home. It’s not pretty deep. I ’m in New only my particular home; Orleans. I too have a need AUTOMATIC SCORERS it’s the home of Afro- for water and so I have dig a “ In the absence American people in this well, but the water table in f of things to do, country, and it’s the base New Orleans is only about Only at Orchid Bowl from which we will have six inches. But wherever you Fun St Easy to Use! people do each whatever influence we will are you have to dig in your other.” have. Because of our par particular place to get at the All You Do Is Bowl ticular relationship and our water. But when you get that Computerized Scoring peculiar history here, we water, your water will do the have an especially im same that my water does for portant role to play. me. OPEN 24 HOURS Just as the condition of What that metaphor people nearest to the bottom meant to say was that we of the social pyramid raises can’t get to the universal ORCHID BOWL close to UCSB the tendency of the whole truth without going through Hwy 101 at N. Fairview social pyramid to raise and the particulars of our own their conditions change, so circumstance. Just like 5925 Calle Real, Goleta 967-0128 changes the conditions of the performing, you can’t make whole society. If we are to do a universal character an effective job of making a without making a particular more humane just society in character. You have to be this country, and through somebody in particular. If I DESTINED TO BE ACLASSIC- that in the world, an tell Laurie’s particular truth THE BEST OF THE SEASON. especially important role and really get to her story -loyce Hauser WNBC RADIO has to be played by the Black then I will be at the truth for people and the means are not all humankind. But I can The most stylish thriller in a long time! in these urban centers. only do it by a particular Wonderfully directed and acted ” N: You’re also giving a truth. -leffrey Lyons SNEAK PREVIEWS Junebug Jabbo Jones has John O’Neal: Oh yeah. We lecture here entitled Let me speak some en "No lover of mystery or suspense should a message for you. He’s got tell stories all the time. We “ Critical Condition: Black couragement to you. One of miss 'LADY IN WHITE.’ It will keep you in some tales of truth about the don’t recognize it as what Theatre.” What is that my great idols is Pete Seger. common folk. He’s the we’re doing. I bet you there’s critical condition? In a concert he sang a mounting suspense right through the storyteller from the past that a whole bunch of stories JON: I didn’t invent that historical song about the film’s chilling climax.” your present has been about UC Santa Barbara. title. I suspect what it sort of founding of the republic and -Stu Levin ENTERTAINMENT REPORT missing. He’s not a liar, who And part of the task of implies is that there has there was a verse about the he explains is “ somebody becoming a UCSB student is been a decline in the number writing of the Declaration of who covers things up.” He’s learning what those stories of performing groups that Independence. The verse in the business of “ un are so that you can tell your identify themselves as Black went “ Wasn’t that a time, a covering things.” version of them. So I think and that aim to serve the time to try the souls of men.