friday, december 15, 1978
daily stopaskan
page 15
cosmic muffins
Debby Boone, Elvis Costello playing with each other
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Debbie Boone changes her image with a rip-roarin
chorus of "You could never light up my life you
impotent old fart."
By I.M. Pretentious
Elvis Costello to tour with Debby Boone? Sounds im
probable, but unconfirmed reports from our Canadian
bureau firmly suggest that this unlikely duo has already
begun rehearsals in the infamous Hudson Bay "Masked
Marauder" studios for an upcoming 36-city U.S. tour,
slated to begin in Omaha sometime this spring.
Highlights of the projected two-hour set are said to in
clude a stirring rendition of "Scarborough FairCanticle."
Costello and Boone are allegedly recruiting members of
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, who will join them
for the Hudson Bay rehearsals after the Revue has finished
their one-week stint at Caeser's Palace.
Stuff it Sid
When asked if his collaboration with Boone was an
endorsement of her adenoidal commerciality, Costello re
sponded: "If her art form has legitimacy, then it has to be
considered valid, and if you don't know what that means,
I'm certainly not going to tell you!"
Rumors that the Costello sessions have driven Boone
back in to the throes of caffeine addiction have been cate
gorically denied.
Meanwhile, Nick Lowe, Costello's producer, has
announced that contractural negotiations between
DeForest Kelly and the financeers of Star Trek-The
Movie have broken down and that Elvis will accept the
role of Dr. "Bones" McCoy.
Cat roast, cat roast
Elsewhere, Linda Ronstadt has made public her inten
tions to include a version of Ted Nugent's "Cat Roast
Fever" on her forthcoming Livin' In The Woods lp.
Nugent himself will not take part in the recording
sessions, but was reported to have given Peter Asher, Ron
stadt's manager, an address where royalty checks could be
mailed.
The Rolling Stoned plan to go ahead with their motion
picture version of Their Satanic Majesties Request, which
will feature brief guest appearances by each of .the Wee
Bee Gees, despite a billing dispute with the film's distri
butor, the Robert Stigwood Organization. Stigwood main
tains that Peter Frampton and John Travolta must receive
top billing, even though neither of these performers will
appear in the movie.
Stigwood commented: "If they (the Stoned and Wee
Bee Gees) aren't big enough to be satisfied with second
billing, RSO wants nothing to do with them. They don't
seem to realize that these contracts were drawn up long
before we started filming."
Jimi the Pooh
In other music news. Reprise Records has announced
that they will release yet another posthumous Jimi
Hendrix lp. A Reprise spokesman stated that, "although
the album will not contain any original music, as such, it
will include several previously unreleased recordings of
Hendrix and The Experience tuning up and running sound
checks." Coffin scratches, to the beat of Row, Row, Row
Your Boat, are also included on the new lp.
Twentieth Century Fox has begun production of a film
based on the life and times of Hendrix, due to premiere in
March. The motion picture will be shot on location in
Seattle and will feature Robin Trower in the lead role.
The Grateful Dead are reportedly working on a new
two-record set comprised entirely of Young Rascals
material. Jerry Garcia will co-produce the album with
Eddie Brigati and the Dead will perform two numbers
from the record during their February appearance on The
Mike Dougas Show. Mike's co-host will be Martin Mull.
New stuff: lotsa girl with big chest
By Meat Mayhem
Ferdy Silvergerg, His Most High and Exalted Holiness,
Our Light and Glory ; Potentate of the Tube, His Majestic
Emporer of Prime Time, and High Mucky-muck of the
National United Television System (NUTS) has announc
ed the new spring line-up of programs beginning in
January.
Silverberg, known as the "Butcher of Burbank," has al
ready cancelled NUTS' entire schedule, from sign-on to
sign -off.
tv di
inner
The cancellation is being called the greatest slaughter
since Genghis Khan exterminated the Scythians.
"Me boss," Silverberg said. "Me kill all shows. Me put
new stuff on."
When asked what direction television would be taking
in the new season, Silverberg replied, "Huh?" When told
what the question meant Silverberg said, "Me put on lotsa
girl with big chest, lotsa cartoon, lotsa shooting, lotsa girls
with big chest and big bum." Then Silverberg asked for
food and his handlers took him away.
Some of the programs on the new spring line-up look
like this:
Nun Too Soon- The continuing story of a former top
less waitress who joins a convent. The first episode deals
with Sister Bobby Sue's madcap attempts to talk Father
Spanky and the mother superior into starting a weekly
disco mass.
Flying Really High- The story of three stewardesses
and their wild attempts to score "really good stuff in
countries all over the world. In the first episode, Candy,
played by Carol Lynley, diverts a customs inspector's
attention by soaking her T-shirt with water and jogging
back and forth while Mindy (Adrienne Barbeau) and
Cindy (Joey Heatherton) smuggle a hundred kilos of
Maui Wowie through customs in their brassieres.
Two's Company, Three's Illegal- A comedy about two
college coeds and their roommate, a young man who must
pretend to be a St. Bernard in order to stay in' the apart
ment. In the first show Brendy and Wendy have to explain
to Mr. Beanbaum. the manager, why and how Prince reads
the morning paper, uses the bathroom and drives a '69
VW.
Mv Mother the Phone A comedy about a young
nuclear physicist whose mother dies and is reincarnated as
a Princess push-button telephone. The first episode intro
duces Sid (Stanlev Mvron Maiidleman) as he deals with
calls from Mom '(Roddy MacDowelh at three in the
morning reminding him to "dress warm." Mom also says
thimis like. "I wish' I could make ou some chicken soup."
and '"My son. the atonik bomb maker. You could have
been a doctor like our brother. Milton.
Star Xc nls A'scieiue-liction entr . it is the continu
ing adventure of a little hand of cosmic diets who search
the universe for the perfect omlet. In the first episode
Glaarn, an alien being from the planet Woomph who looks
a bit like a yak wearing a tu-tu, captures the Nerds
(Andromedan for omlet-seekers) and threatens to turn
them all into a thick brown liquid unless they find him
some girls.
Free Clinic- A medical drama series about a idealistic
young doctor who runs a free clinic in Toledo. In episode
one Dr. Ague learns that his nurse has contracted a pox,
talks a wino out of getting a sex-change operation and
convinces a streetwalker to give up the trade and go into
the aluminum siding business.
Return to Escape from Gilligan Island- The zany
adventures of the Minnow's crew resume, as the castaways
must be evacuated when the island's volcano threatens to
erupt. The laughs continue as michevious Gilligan acci
dentally ignites the rescue plane's fuel line, sending all
aboard to a fiery doom (End of series). Bob Denver, Alan
Hale star.
Andy Gibb: Dermatologist- Undaunted by the failure
of David Cassidy: Man Undercover, this series takes a fun
poke at other people's faces. In the first episode, Carol
comes in to have her boil lanced and it's instant romance
for Andy. Valerie Bartanelli guest stars.
Lifeline- The continuing story of Paul Anka's hysterectomy.
Rhythm-and-blues great Ray Charles was tragical
ly electrocuted by a malfuctioning microphone
Thursday night during an outdoor concert in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
During one of his most famous numbers,
Georgia, a stagehand inadvertantly flipped a control
switch, sending nearly a million volts of electricity
through his body.
The singer's traditional dark glasses fell from his
face and caught in his shirt. His body went rigid, his
eyes bugged out and he screamed, "I can see, I can
see!
Charles then fell motionless to the floor.
Zager, Evans plan reunion in 2525
Despite its floundering budget, PUPC (Programs Under
Permanent Consideration) has announced it will indeed
hold a major concert in the God Diviney Sports Complex
yet this semester.
Billed as "Zager and Evans: The Reunion," the show is
hoped to make up for the lack of concert bookings earlier
this fall. Though missing some of the luster of last year's
Crosby, Stills, and Nash, or Fleetwood Mac appearances,
PUPC spokesman Garvey Giggles said the show should be
another in a line of blockbusters.
enterainment scraps
"Hey, it's not like they were unknowns or anything,"
said Giggles. "They had a really big hit back in seventy
something. The kids love 'em and they're from Lincoln
as well, folks always come out to hear local boys who've
done well."
Zager and Evans burst onto the music world with the
gold record. "In the Year 2525" in 1970, and proceeded
to fall radpidly into obscurity. According to the reunited
duo's manager, Morse Coder, their concert set will consist
of a 90-minute rendition of "2525."
"You've got to give the crowd what it wants," Coder
said.
According to Giggles, negotiations with such artists as
Wings, Led Zeppelin and The Who broke down after it
was learned their salary demands were "somewhere above
the three figure neighborhood."
Tickets for the Dec. 22 Zager and Evans performance
are $5.50, $10.50, and $22.50 for limited view seats.
Appearing with the duo will be UNL English professors
reading poetry.
The Sounds of Silence will be the next event at the
Pinball Recital Hall.
Sponsored by the Lincoln Zen Society, the concert will
feature no music, drama, dance or performers, but instead
asks the audience to sit still in total silence for the 60
minute duration.
"This is something new in Lincoln," said director Don
Maudlin. "I just hope the residents here aren't too back
wards, pig-headed or ignorant not to recognize this as
a legitimate art form."
Now being screened at the Seldom Film Theatre is the
Academy Award winning short piece, Le Bateau de Wille
(Steamboat Willie).
The 1928 classic animation feature was directed by W.
Disney, and marked the film debut of M. Mouse. Accord
ing to Seldom Film Director Adnal Fadely "this might
just be the highlight of our film season."
"Are we to look at this as just a trite, pointless piece
of American cartoon fluff?" mused Fadely. "Or as the
symbol of the underlying current that caused the ripples
in a wave of socialistic misgivings in the Kafkaesque pol
itical setting that spawned totalitarian unrest in our pre
Depression pseudo-facist American state?"
"Either way. it's a heck of a film." said Fadely.
Now showing with Steamboat Willie is Ingmar
Bergman's Cries and Whispers.