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ff I Thyrcday, November 3, 1CC3 DalSy Ncbrcskan Pcg3 11 rood looks, outweigh .good soiinol"ori MTV First Music Television revamped the music industry. The ctaant HI rvllo business end the record industry were strengthened and revitalized by the new murle and f::.:cj MTV brought to Ills. Then MTV became- an inte-rU pert of minions of viewer's TV tiir.s. The tkr.e that was ones spent watching mindless eit-coms can now be spent watching mindless, nevertheless entertaining videos whereas before they would be doomed to small bars beeauea their sound wrs neither orHl nor ban kable. A short while co, record companies would not take very many chances with unknowns. MTV has changed ell that. Rock 'n' roll is sexist. Men sing about cruel women, worsen they wart to ma, dumb women, etc. Of course there are exceptions but MTV tends to stretch the sexist implications in a song to it's outer limits, . i I f ) 1 Continued on Pg3 13 jT' MTV is now an institution. It decides directly or indirectly which groups and songs will become hll-acts", ' n The first aftershock of the MTV explosion has been and -increasingly continues to be an undue emphasis on a band's visual aspect A driveling musical hack lilce Michael Bolton can now succeed, obviously net because of his unorigi nal borish music, but because he has a nice butt and looks mean and homy. Many groups now succeed because of appearance, Coppola . . . Ccntisred ficra Prs 10 adolescent and parochial. There is noth ing wrong with that. However Coppola seems to have a wider and bawdier sense of what it takes to make a good film, not just a high powered, two-cimcr.tio-nalthrder. For'-.thcii !whownr"'': "Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy , Dean Jimmy Dean," you will re cognise similar produc tion techniques using one-way mirrors and see through scrim to show the merging of time and place which enhances, ct- flcient for the narrative. When two scenes that re- ; late but take place at dif ferent locations are filmed in the sar.e time and place, the point is made in half the time. The l;:;.tmi b l3 arti ficial with a Cm r.eir cp- : preach. The tcrchy &nd ' e! music track features the jazay blues cf cravelly voiced Tom 7aiis and Crystal Gayle. Great stuE, - A good movie reviewer should ask three things of a fJm: 1. What is the story? (he should stay away from this o much as pesaiila), 2. XJcs the story presented well? And 3. Vcs the story worth terir.- . - Jud;;Jn frcn thh cri teria, "One From The Heart succeeds in every" way. It was a f.Im waiting toberr.i5. : Ti ' f"-"i !i t " T put te:;t!;:r rr i rad iates a LLrJ"cf preten- ' tb-rr.::;, ;I.le!i xrlrX -crr!:li c.ir.7 ci:.e cccl led to i:st. --e 1 AI3 rt-rrir Il-rry J t. j v.. J cr- i; v; w: 1 1; te-;-:;t . W . m TfAT fl .a i '.ti Ait? Sr 1 JS: : i . '-.- 'Mr S' v;.. , : I 1 -M- yjg 1 Vhlle it has helped break many new and exciting acts Into the spotlight, e.g. the Stray Qsts and The FLxx, MTV also has created a market for the unorig inal (good-looking) coat tail grabbers. If MTV had been setting the standards in 1C37 when Janis Joplin was rearing her ugly head above the crowd, she never would have made it Che was a brilliant voc&liet and musician, but she was pain fully plain and probably would have made an unappealing video." That's one complaint I have about MTV it's too appearance oriented. Another is sexism, and to a certain extent, racism. There is no question that there is a lack of black videos on MTV. MTV claims many black groups dent play the type of rock they feature. They donY say that many white groups who have heavy rotation videos dont play the "New Music" MTV claims to solely play. " , ' There can also be no doubt that MTV is sexist, and not just because rock, 'n' roll is sexist, a3 bubbly, spunky video jockey Martha Quinn stated in a Daily Nebraskan interview. MTV pushes sexism to new heights, and MTV may do more in damaging the status of women in our society than any other ele ment on television. it ir hi if'-4 . Friday 'i 0 P.M.-1 A.M. Johnny's Lcunr;3 231 Perl; Blvd. Mu:;3 by THE rODZL CiTEEN CLUB C3.E0 in cdvencil ; FaiE l:ugs to tiviTm r :d VS TT TT -7 .-7 "A TXTn i' ) T TTs- . r K, fi,:r - Vi . -vs- , 'A . r 1 riht Hido liiD Red ; PARTY ' ' ' U $5.95 plus tag , S . ( $, FREE Cookia with each T-Shirt l WfP Wfxh for ipecials with our T-Shirts fpvf c D D I i E S v .! tV ,v- IT .J 4 f 4-' i- ' i ! Wr; !