Monday, February 6, 1934
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GtSnesis live: Entertainment is back
ByEandyWymore
To play a couple of hit songs under an elaborate
light setup is not the hardest thing for a band to do
these days. More and more it seems the quality of
entertainment at concerts is diminishing.
Friday night in Omaha, Phil Collins and Genesis
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packed house at the Civic Auditorium, and they did
incorporate the use of a spectacular light show (so
spectacular in fact, that the show had to be moved
from Lincoln to Omaha when it was found the ceil
ing at the Bob Devaney Sports Center wouldn't hold
all the rigging) the crowd was more than enter
tained. "We've never been to this neck of the woods
before," said Collins with an overplayed red-neck
drawl only minutes into the show. And it was from
this point that Collins began running banter with
the audience.
And they loved it.
When the band fired up, the audience began sing
ing along with Collins, clapping, whistling and cheer
ing. When the music stopped, the hall fell silent. The
sell-out crowd hung on every word that came out of
Collins's mouth.
It's too bad Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks (the
other two members of Genesis) played their hearts
out but remained second fiddle to the front man's
'Hot Dog' is downhill
all the way
Winter Camp
Hot Dog Th Movie, directed by Peter Markle: screenplay by Mike
Marvin; produced by Edward S. Feldman (or Columbia Films. At the Cinema
1 & 2, 13th and P streets and East Park 3, 66th and O streets. Rated R.
Dun O'Callahan David Naughton
Harkin Banks Patrick Houser
Sunny . Tracy W. Smith
Sylvia.. .... ....... ... . .......... ......... Shannon Tweed
By Scott Ahlstisad
About the best thing that can be said about Hot
Dog The Movie is that the chances for a sequel are
slim.
The ad campaign for this winter sex-fun bonanza
proclaims "there's more to do in snow than ski," and
therein lies the film's major flaw.
Film
Review
Filmed in Squaw Valley, Calif., the movie fea
tures some of the finest skiing footage ever filmed.
But producer Edward S. Feldman and director
Peter Markle couldn't leave well enough alone. To
cash in on the teenage market, Feldman and Markle
inserted a montage of nude scenes. The film could
just as easily have been named Hot Tub.
The plot, like the acting, is basic. Harkin Banks
(Patrick Houser) comes from a small town in Idaho
to take on the best in the professional freestyle cir
cuit. Along the way, he picks up the sassy, saucy
tongued Sunny.
Once in Squaw Valley, Harkin hooks up with the
notorious Rat Pack. A group of American skiers
(with the exception of the Japanese downhiller
Kendo, played by James Saiku), the Rat Pack is
trying to earn their place in the European-dominated
world of freestyle skiing.
The European contingent is lead by Rudy (John
Patrick Reger), the Darth Vader of the slopes. Har
m s and Rudy's one-on-one match-up, and the duel
between the Rat Pack and the Europeans are the
focus of the film's action.
The key to watching a comedy (and I use the word
loosely) of this sort is not to exDect any serious
I acting because you wont find any. David Naughton
,f American Werewolf in London fame as the head
lf the Rat Pack adds much-needed professionalism
i to the movie, but he too gets lost in a series of mean
ingless dialogues.
! Another problem with the movie is the character
udy. As a bad guy, he just doesn't cut it. His villainy,
jfKe his accent, is overplayed. If Oscars were given
or bad accents this guy would already have his
acceptance speech written.
I jn general, stereotypes are overused. From the
Austrians and their "unds" (as in "und roodee iz a
?.adt by") to Kendo and his Karate-style dancing,
darkle has opted to use this one-dimensional view
gather than give any depth to the characters.
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losing that "live" quality at times.
Foregoing an opening act enabled Genesis to play
almost everything they've recorded within the last
live years. Although the crowd sounded pleased
when Collins announced early-on they would be
doing a lot of their older material, they were the new
SOnS,such 33 "That,s AH." "Mama," "Illegal Alien"
and House By the Sea" that drew the most attent
ion. An encore of "Turn It On Again," spliced with some
golden oldies that read like a history-of-rock lesson,
brought the crowd to a peak along with the band.
Collins and Genesis did a terrific job of bringing
entertainment back into concerts.
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Thursday, February 23
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A spellbinding drama about a young nun who
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mysteriously murdered. Starring Peggy Cass
and Susan Strasberg.
Master Harold & The Boys and Agnes of God
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