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day, December 14, 1034 Daily Ncbraskan Pago 17 x. ; up r ) C i I L' 'OF Blue Eyes' to tell Mo life ctoxy Ha EEtr New Report Sin atra, whose career stretches LOS ANGELES Frank Sin a- over more than 60 years and tra said Thursday he would tell includes more than 50 films as his life story in a six-hour, multi- well as countless hit records and million dollar television series concerts, told reporters "I intend "warts and alL" to put down what happened in His younger daughter, Tina my life, or maybe most of it." Sinatra, who will produce the ser- He said he might make a per ies, said, "I don t think dad is Sonal appearance in the tail-end interested in a whitewash. I want of the series, his guts, his heart and his souL I "How can you play yourself from hope this will be the definitive the age of five when you're 49 story." years old," he said amid laughter. Eic&srd Gere chrta with Gslien GSrl Dks Lane. 0 H&ia ceur&ey of brttin Gangsters, lovers dance through 'Cotton Club' WA, Pagse ne (( Ppirr7 ,..ITrn Paperback! used In J3L WANTED: Literature clawei 1 I i .LLviCpf (Including Detective, ', . ! ' W" nn,..nr, Fiction, and Children. N REWARD: literature). I JTv9 30 Of C0VCr Street Ivelol J O Price! Gunny'aMall O 13tiL "Q"1153l7f f? :: , . . . J' Dd5y Neferasiaa Kwisr Editors I type "mobster's dame" to Remar's sneering gangster. This film reeks of Fr&ncb Ford Coppola. His influence is present That's American film," said one in the beautiful cinematography, irwr of "Cotton Club" on the in the use of natural whtin0 in - - - wna Way out of the theater. "It's "Flash- the terse scripting and in the sur tlance' and Godfather. " rea!nes3 of this flm. f So it is. While a lower-class man At first, The Cotton Club" liances his way out of Harlem and seemed only a glossy gangster Into love, a bevy of mobsters blast genre remake - but as the twin bach others brains out. And plots developed it became evi liichard Gere plays, once again, dent Coppola was trying to breach Richard Gere, dazzling the dames tradition. The plot's multiple lev while he blows his own horn. els made us wonder when the I Based on a pictorial history of story line would take off what .the Cotton Club, the film ortensi- were we waiting for? The movie jjbly tells the tale of the Club in its shifts gears, so to speak, at the ft .inn o l x Jii . 1 1 a.1 1 t i5-ouneyui4y ana ine people in cnu uiu me purpose ana pian and around it its exclusively become clear. Perhaps if Coppola black performers and exclusively had integrated the surreal ele- white patrons and their guns and ment of the film sooner, it would puppets. Such a point of view is have seemed more cohesive, artificial, however, and only pos- "The Cotton Club" is worth see- sible in retrospection. ing. It may be hard to tell if it's a While watching the film, one love story, a mobster bash or a can discern no central, tangible social commentary, but whatever focus; though about half the it is, it sure is pretty. scenes take place in the Cotton Club and the film ends there, the club functions only as a set It has no life of its own and the story is not about it. The film is about fiVera Cicero and the mobster she works for, Dutch Schultz. !'j It's about the tap dancing Sandman Williams and his sing ling flower, Lila Rose Oliver. And fRichard Gere, trumpet player turned actor. And violence the pother bond besides the Cotton sCiub which all these people share. Even love is brutal at the Cot ton Club. Vera Cicero is alter nately beaten and bossed around y Gere and James Remar. who ?lays the "Dutchman" with raunchy relish. Diane Lane plays Cicero with the same joyful .abandon. She's the perfect arch- MVMuia.m f"ia !'-! rn'ir'tsvm pin- ' . f aweww. BMWfflw pr - w m,.r p'""-l m ' mm ' iY.mmi kfci. nimnril fc, mn - fnJ if L.mira, 4 -tvI I - --n'MtrkW IL-iw, mm-n S hr 11 nrr.yj ktiMMiJ hern r ) n n iJ !. mm TIRED OF TME SANE OLD DHJVEStY FOOD? j J 3 ll .Lisa Lzsi MON.-SAT. 1 1 AM-1 1 PM SUNDAY 1 PM-1 1 PM TTOTA V :;;:;:::::::::'f: lU f , SPECIAL NOTICE TO TSTVIA EUFFS1 lEDRASKATniUIA Test your knowledge of Ne braska with this game con taining 1,030 questions in 6 categories: GEOGRAPHY OMAHA HISTORY LINCOLN PEOPLE SPOUTS Available- Tor $15. 7 a t r- ii $ D rr,ii?:.ic'4.... i.o' 1 F 1 t a o 0 a c o a u Q-ith. mBsjz 'mj& o r i via I Is !j 'Aii V'." ' r ! : T j. 1 I I -ta Mrt n vl " :: :: :-' -1 ..1.', ..: -. P yyy. ' wiiiiiiiirtiiiiii.iNi'.iiiii.i hihmii' ii i' i ijiii i i ii i ::-:::;:::::x:: ' aaivS:::;: L i- 3 CZJ LZkssJI I wd nwZJ LZIZLJ lZZ-j IZ-.,. LZciJ L1,',".J ZZl'Zl EZ, . .' "J fZIZJ d.