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iwt eiMMgli dancing to enjoy
By JefHTlIlcox and other thought-provoking ques-
VVliat, you may ask, is the biggest tions- Pitchford seems to have tried
cause of teenagers' sexual irrespon- combining the chemistry of the old
sibility? According to the minister in James Dean films with th.it. nf the
Footloose, it's dancing. Dancing?Yes,
dancing. Praise the Lord and amen
rcctloccj bsct in Beaumont, Utah,
a typical Podunk, U.SA town where
the residents are about as exciting
as a white sale at Sears.
The highly moral citizens of Beau
mont, under the divine guidance of
the Keverend bhaw Moore (John
LithrowS. have outlawed rorkV mil
music and dancing. Enter Ren Mc-
Corrr.ick (Kevin Bacon) fresh from
Chicago and bursting with wicked
ideas that are sure to lead him to
eternal damnation. Ren likes rock
music and worse, he likes to dance.
Ren is determined to get the citi-
zens oi ucaumonc to aance and
have fun and in the end, you guessed
it, the kids get to have a dance. In
the meantime, Ren has to win over
the Reverend's tempting daughter,
Ariel (Lori Singer), beat up the town
punks, teach a Beaumont boy to
dance, go to school, get falsely accus-
ed of dealing drug3, cope with his
tatner leaving nis motner ana a
bunch of other highly moralistic
questions that tend to bog down the
movie.
I was really excited to go see Foot
loose. I'd seen the promos for the
movie on MTV. From the promos, I
expected to see a movie with lots of
dancing and a good story, some
thing along the lines of Flashdance.
What I got to see was a very predic
table movie with little dancing and a
sappy story.
Even though the ads tried to make
Footloose look like a male version of
Flashdance, the two aren't even
comparable. Footloose is only trying
to cash in on Flaskdance's financial
success.
The movie's basic problem is that
it's too predictable. Even though the
movie is set in 1C34 it reeks of the
1950s. The screenplay was written
by Dean Pitchford and he seems to
have tried to put too much into the
story, including laws, book burning,
cirlfriend abuse, the Moral Maioritv
Television
The Everly Brothers reunited late
last year after a decade-long schism.
The result was a very satisfying HBO
televised concert, and the promise of
new Everly discs. Everly Brothers'
Rock 'n 'Roll Odyssey (8 p.m. on Chan
nel 12) documents the duo's pheno
menal career. It is being shown as part
of Nebraska ETVs latest fund-raising
festival
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The music was soquiet, so monoto- two bodies captured all attention,
nous in its rhythms that it eventually This is a hungry season in Nebraska
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The movie also generated those
questions of improbability. How
could a town outlaw rock music and
dancing and never be questioned
that they're violating the Constitu
tion? The best thing about the movie is
the cast. Bacon, oreviouslv of Diner.
nas some great moves and gives a
Sood performance as Ren.
umgow tries to be convincing as
the fire-and-brimstone preacher,
but just doesn't cut it, probably
because I don't like fire-and-brimstone
preachers.
Singer, of Fame fame, was nice to
!,ok at and Save the movie some of
its more enjoyable moments, but I
had trouble with her character. If
the minister was so concerned with
not letting his daughter dance or
listen to rock music because it was
immoral then why did he let her
dress llke the whore of Babylon and
wear more makeup than Boy George?
rroDaDiy tne most enjoyable char
acter in the movie was Willard
(Christopher Penn), the only per
son in Beaumont to befriend Ren.
Ren teaching Willard to dance is
Probably the best part of the entire
movie except for the opening credits.
Wlat little dancing there is in the
movie is good, but there isn't enough
of it. The movie is made out to look
like a dance extravaganza, but
there's only two good dance scenes.
Lynne Taylor-Corbett was the cho
reographer and did a good job on
the few dance scenes there were.
The opening credits are enjoyable
a bunch of feet dancing to Kenny
Loggins' driving title song, "Foot
loose." It makes you want to get up
and dance. I wish the rest of the
movie was the same way. Footloose
had the makings of a good movie,-
but because of its drawbacks, ends
up running like a very long MTV
video and is about exciting as a
rerun of Solid Gold.
ins a four-night engagement at the
Film Theatre today. Two films by Kon
rad Wolf, Mama Fm Alive (7 p.m.) and
Solo Sunday (9 p.m.), will be screened
today.
At the Kimball '
The Alvin Ailey Dance Company
wraps up a three-day stint in the Reci
tal Hall. Numbers tonight include
"Suite Otis" "Treading," "Song Without
Words" and "Revelations." The show
begins at 8 p.m. The box office reports
that tickets for tonight's performance
are sold out.
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