Chillin'At The Vic With His Film Fest. What's His Name? Do Ya Know It's Spike... Spike... SPKE Yo yo, Money, is it the shoes? Is it the goat? The t-shirts? The Brooklyn Dodgers cap? Is that what makes you so cool? Is it that high-flyin' def- defyin' 360-degree spinnin' Malcom X necklace I've seen you sportin' on Arsenio? Is it the ultra-hip Black conscience politically-hip tip you preach and teach not onlyln your inter­ views but in all the films you've made? Is it those skinny legs. Tell me it's the skinny legs. Is it the P.E. videos you pro­ duced, the Spin magazine you just edited and interviewed Ed­ die in? Is it The Michael "Air Ior­ dan" Nike commercials? The new store ... Spike's Joint? Yo duuuude, button flied? $5.50 to see check out two ba­ Mook, you came from No­ dass flicks like that? where, man. I know you're Then Tuesday and Wednes­ Brooklyn bred and did the NYU day The Vic clique'll sport the thang, but Homes before you, School Daze/She's Gotta Have It there was no such thing as a double-dip. righteous young Black man like Did you know that School yourself dominating the pop Daze was Columbia Pictures' charts of the movie biz like most profitable flick that year? you've done. That's the truth, Ruth. How Baby we wuz lucky if a brotha many cars Columbia get you, scored a starring role and you're Mars? talkin' directing the mothafucka Remember M ars, man? In n' shit? Aw yeah give it to me! B&W! Yo, that's what started it Word is, The Victoria Street all. Even Tone Loc stole that bad Week The Arts Part O' The Daily Nexus for September28-33,1990 "The keep those calls & letters cornin' issue" Theatre's gonna give it to me girl and sold more records than and Hard with a Spike Lee Film "We Are The World." Did he cut Fest. Believe that hype, Spike! you in on any of that? INSIDE: You've only put out four movies It don't matter man. The Os­ and look see what they're doing cars don't matter, the critics, C71 Mary's out here in the whitest of white that "brother" on the Washing­ ^ Danish bread communities, G. ton Post who says you're an in­ Bustin' with the double fea­ stigator. Yo instigate this. Black Clothes tures, The Vic's blastin' both The Vic knows what's up: Famous barrels with your new jazz flick You bad, you nationwide, you Mo' Better Blues and The Mon­ Spike, you Hype. ster that made us Believe: Do The It's the glasses, isn't it. Tell me Right Thing. Is they insane? it's the glasses. Have they been smokin' that reefer? Who wouldn't spend — Tony Pierce TODD FRANQS/Dâily Noun 2 A Thursday, September 27,1990 Daily Nexus On the Film Front- Complcmcnting the performing arts program is our International Cinema series, which begins this Sunday, September 30 with Powwow Highway. Jonathan Wacks (co-producer of Repo Man) directs this modern-day road movie, which stars Gary Farmer as Philbcrt, the gentle giant in search of his warriorhood in a 1964 Buick Wildcat. His disillusioned driving companion is Buddy Red Bow (A. Martinez), the aggressive activist working to protect the interests of his Cheyenne people. Series tickets for the International Cinema series, at a 50 percent discount, are available in advance at the UCSB Arts &. Lectures Ticket Office and at the door. Single tickets ($5 general, $3 UCSB students) may be purchased at the door only, one hour before showtime. The second film in the series, Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain, Thursday, October 4, is a sword and sorcery tale set in the beautiful land of Zu. Hong Kong director Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues) has packed monsters, sages, ghosts, demons and wizards into the film with a bounty of imaginative motifs and mythic turns. Please note: the film’s dialogue is in Mandarin with English subtitles. Arts & Lectures Wants You Arts for Your Sake Looking for something to do? A change of pace The second half of October features the wonderful from waiting in half-mile long lines for scheduling National Theater of the Deaf (October 16) changes, book buying or bicycle registration? performing One More Spring, the story of a band of UCSB Arts &. Lectures can be your haven from the Depression-era survivors making do in New York’s daily grinds and pressures of college life. During Central Park. The theater company uses speech and these next three school quarters, we’re offering expressive sign language to communicate in an some of the finest performing arts, lectures and extraordinary way. film available anywhere in the country. The Turtle Island String Quartet (October 18) . Arts & Lectures programming brings to campus plays jazz mixed with everything from rock to both well-established as well as bright, up-and- bluegrass to African rhythms. When they cut loose coming artists from around the world. The wide- don’t miss their rendition of “Crossroads.” And ranging events include both fine traditional works pianist Gustavo Romero (October 26) is only 25 but in music, dance and theater as well as thought- has wowed ’em in Europe and on the East Coast and provoking pieces that may very well become has a knack for winning challenging competitions, tomorrow’s classics. like last year’s prestigious Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Switzerland. W hat’s in store for Fall Quarter? A lot of entertainment. The skillful traditional gamelan In November don’t miss “Star Trek’s” Patrick music and dance by the Children of Bali Stewart (November 17) performing a dramatic Coming Lecture (October 2) opens the Arts & Lectures performing reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol When it comes to First Amendment rights, Village arts season. Part of the Festival of Indonesia, an 18- (last year’s show sold out). Raices Musicales or Voice columnist Nat Hentoff is considered to be month celebration in the United States, Children Musical Roots (November 7) highlights the varied one of the foremost authorities. He delivers the of Bali will perform solos and group dances sounds of the Hispanic Southwest and Mexico. Find lecture The Ethics of Equality: The Free Speech ranging from the joyous Mapaed, the welcoming out what’s so funny about things falling apart when Movement Has Been Reversed Where It Started — On opening procession, to the Baris, a warrior dance in the Joe Goode Performance Group (November 14) College Campuses Friday, October 5 at 2:30 PM in which a youngster uses stylized postures and facial does the Disaster Series, a look at what happens UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. Hentoff is expressions to imitate a fierce soldier. Janger, a when personal upheavals and natural disasters particularly concerned with the rights of love story, combines dance, singing and story, meet. Americans to think, write and speak freely. In his the boys moving in biash, comic fashion, the girls lecture at UCSB, he will discuss the assault on delicately with undulating arm movements. These Discover a true American hero when Missouri freedom of speech throughout the country, are contemporary dances, not artifacts of the past, Repertory Theatre presents Woody Guthrie's particularly what is taking place on college constantly evolving expressions of a vibrant and American Song, a musical look at the man who campuses where the growth of speech codes has enduring culture. endured the hard years of the Depression but sparked much heated debate. Speech codes are created songs that inspired and honored our designed to prevent abusive language and verbal That’s only the beginning. There’s the energized American heritage- attacks upon minority groups, but the use of such modern dance and a cappella boppin’ and rockin’ of codes raises questions about restricting freedom of ISO and The Bobs (October 6); classic and speech. The lecture, which is part of the Issues for contemporary sounds played on acoustic Brazilian A word to the wise: Many of these events will sell the 1990 series Ethics and Morality in the United instruments by Joel Nascimento and the Brazilian out; don’t put off buying tickets or you may wind up Suites, is free and open to the public. Sextet (October 9); and the masterful harmonies of out in the cold. the Angeles String Quartet (October 12). UCSB Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday . 27 28 29 m 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 Powwow Highway C h ild re n o l B a li . Zu: Warriors From Nal Hen lo ll ISO and The BOBS 8 P M 8 P M Ihe Magic Mountain 2:30 PM/Free 8 P M ARTS & LECTURES Campbell Hall Campbell Hall 8 P M Lobe Lehmann Campbell Hall C am pbell H a ll C oncert H a ll For tickets or information coll: 893-3535 Daily Nexus Thirsty Thursday, September 27,1990 3 A p.m., famed Nexus illustra­ you by the good people over tickle their ivories at the Pub, Hey! Art’s News tor Drew Martin and his at Thirsty Thursday. Friday in support of his ninth band will be rocking the Free Jazz Tomorrow album Edge Of The World. Storke Plaza next Thursday house on Sabado. They're The good people over at Maybe he only plays beach October 4th at around 11:30 opening for somebody, so the UCen snagged Portland colleges.