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By Charles Lieurance
Senior Reporter
I guess rap and hip-hop music hasn't
really caught on in Lincoln yet: I was
the only one in the theater for "Krush
Groove" the other night, and the two
other people I know who saw it said
they had been the only ones at their
showing too.
Movie Review
My first instinct would be to say that
maybe no one was there because the
movie was awful. But, surprisingly, it
wasn't all that bad for a music exploi
tation film. So it must be the music.
Michael Schultz, the director of
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e prairie
"Krush Groove," has done an admira
ble job with a tired plot. Anyone who's
seen any of the old Elvis mcvies knows
this one by heart.
Two enterprising young men, one
black and one white, start a small
record company called Krush Groove in
the heart of New York, run into eco
nomic difficulties, get in trouble with a
loan shark, have a big rap contest, get
out of trouble with a loan shark and
make a lot of money.
There's a girl, of course (Sheila E.,
no less), and two brothers in conflict.
The filmmaker sternly reprimands in
stitutions like schools, banks and
churches for their closed minds.
Schultz does resuscitate some of
this material, though. For instance, the
school sequence is a piece of inspired
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black humor. The rap group The Fat
Boys are in a class called "fetal pig." As
the teacher tries to name the parts of
the pig in a typical monotone, the Fat
Boys are barbecuing one of the speci
mens over a bunsen burner.
It's disgusting and very funny.
Rap is sort of the American equival
ent of the British Two Tone movement
of the late 1970s. Two Tone was an
attempt to combine Jamaican ska and
reggae with punk rock to create a polit
ical vision of racial unity and activism.
Likewise, rap incorporates street corner
soul, funk and hardcore punk to similar
ends.
It is refreshing to see a movie that
consciously attempts to avoid any racial
stereotypes. My big fear going into the
movie was that the white players would
be bank tellers, stuffed shirts and pro
genitors of an uncool culture.
Schultz paints his picture carefully,
and the only divisions in the movie are
between the cool and the uncool or
"def ' and not "def," as the film puts it
Sheila E., Prince's protege who plays
herself, proves to be a very competent
actress. She exudes a sultry toughness
entirely her own. The other players are
mostly just musicians being themselves.
Run-DMC, the godfather of rap, Kurtis
Blow, Jam Master J, The Fat Boys and
Beastie Boys all turn in great songs and
fill the screen with wit and style.
Perhaps the most interesting group
was the Beastie Boys, suburban white
kids rapping to hardcoreheavy metal
riffs. The Beastie Boys' "She's on it"
and The Fat Boys' ode to gluttony, "All
You Can Eat," were highlights of the
soundtrack.
Music that was once traditionally
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"black" finally is becoming a central won't be in the lone prairie much
part of all urban culture. longer, but score the soundtrack at all
That is, urban culture everywhere costs,
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West part of reading series
Poet Kathleene West continues the
John H. Ames Reading Series with a
poetry reading Thursday.
The reading will be in the Bennett
Martin Public Library's Heritage room
on the third floor.
West has published five volumes of
poetry and has had her poems included
in seven anthologies. Her latest book,
"Water Witching," was published in
1984 while she was aFulbright Scholar
in Iceland.
This program is part of a series of
events to increase public awareness of
the rich literary and artiste heritage of
Nebraska as reflected in the Heritage
Room collection, say library officials.
The Nebraska Literary Heritage
Association, the event's sponsor, is try
ing to raise $300,000 to establish the
Heritage Room Endowment fund. The
money would match a $100,000 chal
lenge grant from the National Endow
ment for the Humanities. For more
information, call the Heritage Room,
435-2146.
Hungarian performance is sold out
The Hungarian State Symphony
Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. Friday,
in Kimball Hall.
The performance will be a Jelinek
Memorial Concert offered as a presen
tation of the UNLKimball Perfor
mance Series. Tickets to the concert
are sold out.
The Hungarian State Symphony
Orchestra is directed by Adam Fischer,
frequent conductor of major European
Symphony orchestras and music direc
tor of the Freiburg Theater in West
Germany. Fischer made his U.S. opera
debut conducting the San Francisco
Opera's production of "Don Giovanni"
in 1981, and two years later made his
U.S. orchestral debut conducting the
Boston Symphony.
The program for the concert will
include works by Bela Bartok, Zoltan
Kodaly and Franz Liszt.
'Old Times' tryouts set
Auditions for "Old Times" by Harold
Pinter will be next week in the Gallery
Theatre at the Lincoln Community Play
house, 2500 South 56th St.
Open tryouts will be from 7:30 to 9:30
p.m. Monday and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday. Call backs will be held on
Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
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to portray a married couple and an old
friend who are gathered to share drinks,
memories and illusions.
Director Lindsay Reading Korth said,
"The play smolders between passions
that lurk in the group's 'old times' and
the polite social pleasantries required
by the occasion. Actors interested in
exploring the powers which drive us
through, into and out of relationships,
are encouraged to audition."
The show will be the second produc
tion of the Gallery Theatre season. The
first, "Fool for Love" plays Thursday to
Sunday in the Gallery. "Old Times" will
be performed Jan 9-12.
Scripts can be checked out through
the Lincoln Community Playhouse Box
Office. A $3 deposit is required. Call
489-9608 for details.
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