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Nighthawks to play Drumstick
The Nighthawks, one of the nation's
premier white R & B rock bands, will be
at the Drumstick tonight.
The five-man combo from Washing
ton, D.C., has earned a reputation as
one of the best touring bands on the
road today. Led by Mark Wenner on
harmonica and vocals and Jim Thackery
on lead guitar, the band has opened
concerts for George Thorogood and the
Destroyers and B. B. King.
With the release of their new album,
"Hot Spot," The Nighthawks have
evolved from a straight blues band, to
playing, early rock 'n' roll and rocka
billy. The group has been together for
eleven years, and on recent tours they
have sold out every performance.
Admission is $6 in advance and $7 at
the door. The show starts at 9:30.
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Movie's routines wear thin
DEAD from Page 10
First, there is the star of the movie,
Cuzack, who plays a character a great
deal like the one he played in "The
Sure Thing." This time, however, he is
in high school, not a freshman at
college.
Then there is the Booger character,
originally from "Risky Business," and
reprised later" in raunchier form in
v'Revenge of the Nerds."
Then there is the suburban surreal
ist nightmare motif, which has a long
tradition, originating in the 1970s
somewhere, and most recently displayed
in "Back To The Future." The mother of
Cuzack's family is continually coming
up with new, disgusting recipes, which
she earnestly tries out on her captive
family.
In one scene, she scoops out green
goo which looks nearly identical to the
slime that was on Bill Murray's space
suit in "Ghostbusters." Cuzack watches
as it crawls off the plate.
In another scene she serves boiled
bacon, which somehow comes out with
the same sick bluish-green tint.
Then there is the fat nerd living next
door. And Cuzack's precocious younger
brother is building a space shuttle
among other things. There are the
Taiwanese guys in a car who are always
challenging him to race. There is the
paperboy who is continually coming to
collect money.
And then there is poor David Ogden
Stiers, the father, who looks as pained
by the part he is playing as by the
nightmare around him.
There is the French foreign" exchange
student who lives next door with the
fat nerd and his mother.
And of course, there is always the
jerk and his lost love.
Everything in this movie moves in a
continual cycle, just like the change of
seasons. When one comic motif is over,
we move on to the next one, over and
over again, with relatively little story
progression.
At times the nightmare becomes so
disgusting it ceases to be even vaguely
amusing and is simply gross. Now and
then a genuine laugh pops out, although
this is the exception rather than the
rule.
The big argument I had with the
people I saw the movie with was, first,
whether to stay or not (they decided to
stay, and second, whether this movie
was worth paying any money to see or
not. They contended it was worth about
50 cents that is what they needed to
be paid to sit through it.
I disagree. I argued that it was worth
50 cents to pay to see. I feel it has
genuine entertainment value, but it is
so meager, I can't recommend you
waste your time watching it unless you
are really bored.
It is not a complete loss: Cuzack is
genuinely funny despite his surround
ings, and I thought the paperboy gag
actually worked most of the time.
In the end, the film comes out
resembling a very, very long half-hour
sitcom. The only problem with this one
is that you can't turn off the TV.
Film filled with action
COMMANDO from Page 11
The bad guys in this film were great,
and evil to the core. The main one,
Bennet (Vernon Wells), is a former
member of Matrix's unit that was
kicked out because he "liked killing
too much."
There is also the weasely Sully (David
Patrick Kelly) who was the gang member
who shot the big cheese in "The War
riors" Matrix gives us ludicrous line
number five or six before dropping
Sully off a cliff.
The main drawing card of this movie
was the action, with Schwarzenegger
flexing every visible muscle on his
body, but humor, intentional or not,
carried the movie.
The best funny line came at the end
when Matrix ripped a steaming heater
pipe from the wall and speared Bennet
with it.
He screwed up his face and said
"Why don't you let off some steam,
Bennet."
There were, as I said, about 14 other
lines like that.
The best acting job in this movie is
the performance put in by Rae Dawn
Chong, known for her role in "Quest for
Fire." Chong was put in for comic relief
(the director admitted this), but she
handled her part well. She gives it
depth and exhibits some acting skill
that I hope gets her out of movies like
this. She even kept her clothes on the
whole time.
Although I recommend this movie
strongly, don't expect a cinema mas
terpiece. It is bad by film standards,
but it is entertaining. For commercial
films you can't ask more than that. The
parody aspects of this movie make it
worth the evening admission pricer
Cards and Letters
We find Chris McCubbin and his nology) "aggressively annoying." His
music reviews (to use his own termi- reviews have been on the decline since
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day one, climaxing in his recent Star
ship slaughter (Daily Nebraskan, Oct.
14).
Let's get the story straight: Sting
and Pink Floyd are in completely oppo
site universes. We appreciate both
groups but let's not draw comparisons
between the two. As for Starship, they
have put out consistently good music
since McCubbin was in diapers. I
wonder if McCubbin is aware that
Motley Crue has recently put out a'song
that sounds suspiciously like Browns
ville station. He might be interested in
this as most of his negative criticism
rests on useless comparisons.
Not all of us appreciate The Dead
Kennedy's and Van Camp Beethoven,
just as we do not all feel that music has
to contain profound social statements
to be good. Reviewers like McCubbin
have rejected good music since Elvis in
the 50s and the Beatles in the 60s.
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