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Beatles not dead in Lincoln
'Strawberry fields ' are forever on Holm 's KZUMshow
By Stew Magnuson
Senior Reporter
Hardy Holm runs his fingers across
the KZl'M operating board, searching
for the Braille label to turn up the
cassette deck. "Twist and Shout" by
the Beatles blares through the studio
speaker. It's the 23rd anniversary of the
release of "Meet the Beatles," and it's
also Friday night at 8, time for "Straw
berry Fields Forever," Lincoln's only
Beatles show, on KZUM, 89.5 or 99.3
FM.
Holm has been doing the show for
nearly two years, but has been a Beatles
fan since the release of "Stg. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club." Holm knew about
the Beatles before the 'Sgt. Pepper'
album. He first saw the band on the
Jack Parr show in 1 903 but "just didn't
get into them," he said.
"In junior high, everyone was listen
ing to the Beat les. No one was listening
to bands like the Kinks. I had to listen
to something different. But when 'Sgt.
Pepper's' came out, I said, 'Hey, these
guys aro good. I don't care if everybody
does like them.' "
"Strawberry Fields Forever" doesn't
include just the Beatles. Holm said he
plays recent solo material, interviews,
songs written by the Beatles for other
people and anything related to the
Beatles. For example, on last Friday's
show, he played three tracks from
Jackie Lomax, a little-known Beatle
discovery on the Apple label, whose
album was produced by George Harri
son. One song, "Sour Milk Sea," in
cluded guest musicians Harrison, Paul
McCartney and Eric Clapton.
Holm attributes the Beatles' lasting
popularity to their wide variety of
sounds and willingness to experiment,
although he thinks Beat les enthusiasm
is fading.
"Like side two of 'Sgt. Pepper's.' It
starts off with a sitar and Indian music,
then goes right into 'When I'm 04,' a
1920s-style song. It was such an odd
transition. I think the Beatles were
saying, 'Anything's all right, as long as
you try hard and work on it.' . . .And
they wanted rock 'n' roll to be serious,
not just kid's music."
Holm, blind since age 13, uses Braille
notes and marks his LPs and casettes
in Braille.
Holm can be heard on other stations,
too. Holm is a local folk singer and
songwriter, and recently recorded a
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song with his singing partner, Dave
Neuman. "The Ballad of Oral Roberts"
has gotten airplay on Lincoln's KLMS
and Omaha's KEZO and KOIL. The song
is about TV evangelist Oral Robert's
recent plea for $4.5 million. If Roberts
doesn't get the money by March, he
claims God will take him to heaven.
"It's a silly song we recorded in the
basement one day It's very topical,
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so we took it to Don Glaze on KLMS and
he played it. It's about the crazy,
fundamental idiocy of these right-wing
TV preachers. . . . It's really the
ultimate excess."
The song is recorded under the
names Lonesome Dave and Hardly Ever
Holm. The duet has no plans to put the
song on vinyl, but is sending tapes to
the Dr. Demento show.
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Actress Jessica Lange and
her playwright beau Sam
Shepard stopped in Lincoln
last week and stayed overnight at
the Hilton. Employees at the hotel
said Lange was traveling incognito
in dark sunglasses with her shaggy
sheep dog.
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Kay Orr: Slandered?
Supporters of Governor Kay
Orr were incensed when they read
the rather vitriolic remarks I made
about her inaugural ball gown, hair
style and grumpy face in last week's
column. One Orr fan called and
demanded that I print a retraction.
I wonder what they expected to
read about her in a gossip column.
Superlatives that praised her and
made comparisons to Mother
Teresa, perhaps? Well, just so
the Orr cronies don't sue me for
libel, here goes. Kay, you're a fine
Republican with perfectly styled
hair, decorous taste in clothes and a
great political platform that's almost
as structured as the coif on your
head
Shultz's tattooed tiger tush
The State Departmenfcontinues
to remain mum about whether
Secretary of State George Shultz
has a tiger tattoo on his left buttock.
According to the British magazine
The Spectator, friends of Shultz
claim that he had a tiger, the
mascot of his alma mater Princeton,
tattooed on his tushie when he was
in college. Both Newsweek and The
Washington Post tried to get the
truth out of the State Department,
but they declined to answer.
"I'm just not in the position to
comment," State Department spokes
person Phyllis OaHiley told re
porters. I guess they feel that Georgie's
buns are nobody's business but his
now. But what position was George
in when he got the tatto, Phyllis?
David Leitermari's dulls
ville? International Dull Folks Unlimit
ed named talk-show king David
Letterman "The Dullest American
in 1986 " according to the New York
'Buffalo' roams at UNO
"American Buffalo," the critically
acclaimed play by David Mamet and
1976 winner of the Obie Award for best
off-Broadway play, will be presented at
UNO's Studio Theatre Wednesday
through Sunday at 8 p.m. The award
winning play is considered a modern
classic for its metaphoric themes and
poetic vulgarities.
The play takes place in Donny
Dubrow's Chicago junkshop. Donny,
who doubles as entrepreneur and fence,
is played by James Devney, who is new
to the midlands from Los Angeles,
Calif. He has done extensive work in
regional theater and film. His film
credits include "Hammett," "Frances"
and "Middleman."
Walter Cole, alias "Teach," claims to
be a businessman while secretly
contemplating robbery. Teach is played
by Kevin Barratt, a graduate of Dana
College who is pursuing a master of
arts degree at UNO. He performed in
UNO's 1985-86 productions of "Romeo
and Juliet" and "Galileo." The role of
Teach has been played by such notable
actors as Robert Duvall and Al Pacino.
Bobby, the naive drug addict played
by Garie Lewis, is a friend of Donny's. A
Times.
"What more can be said of a TV
host who can't get on the air until
midnight and whose schtick is a
stupid pet trick?" said J.D. Stew
art, chairman of the Rochester,
N.Y., based group of yawners.
The surprising runners up in
cluded advice columnist Ann Lan
ders, Pee Wee Herman and
Joan Rivers, and comic-strip
character Beetle Bailey.
Prince Eddie wimps out
England's Prince Edward
shocked the Brits when he announ
ced that he had decided to quit the
Royal Marines because he simply
didn't like the twisted ankle, black
eye and bloody nose he received in
training. According to the Fleet
Street tabloids, Edward's always
been considered a "mum's boy" by
many of our friends across the
Atlantic.
Trash flash: Babylon on
film?
Kenneth Anger, the underground-film
master who penned the
definitive gossip book "Hollywood
Babylon," plans to turn the tawdry
tome into a musical for the silver
screen.
"I will supervise it," Anger told
People magazine. "I should be dir
ecting it myself, but it is a musical
and Julien Temple ("Absolute
Beginners") is good at making every
one jump around,"
Anger said he would like John
Candy to play Fatty Arbuckle
and Modonna to portray Jean
Harlowe.
"Hollywood Babylon" is perhaps
the most incisive look at the seamy
side of Tinseltown ever written. In
it, you learn about such world
shattering news as Joan Craw
ford's secret nude photos and Sfl
Mineo's penchant for brutal S&M
sessions complete with needle-and-thread
"suture sex."
Don Johnson's rape
Speaking of Sal Mineo, "Miami
Vice" star Don Johnson is in an
uproar over a biography a woman is
writing about his (Johnson's) life.
The reason? A rather explicit photo
of Johnson and Mineo in a contro
versial rape scene from the play
"Fortune and Men's Eyes" is included
in the book. Author Diana Al
bright told the Boston Herald that
Johnson has been asking friends not
to talk to her because of the photo
and rumors in the book that he's
bisexual. Johnson says he's currently
dating an unidentified member of
the Pointer Sisters.
regionally recognized comedian, Lewis
attended Westmar College in LeMars,
Iowa.
The play's director, Brent Noel, a
graduate student in the Department of
Dramatic Arts and business manager
for the department, explained the
production as "rich in dichotomies
such as business vs. friendship, legit
imate business vs. theft and honesty versus
'buffaloing.' Much of the plot is based
on the possession of a buffalo nickel,
which also is a dichotomy: heads vs.
tails."
UNO's rendition of the junk-shop
setting is unique: Everything in it is for
sale to the audience. After each
performance the audience Ls invited to
browse among the "hidden treasures."
Items sold will be marked, and buyers
may claim them after Sunday's perfor
mance. In designing the set, dramatic
arts sought to "break the traditional
barriers of the actoraudience relation
ship," Noel said.
Tickets are $5 general admission
and $4 for students and senior citizens
and are available at the UNO Box Office
in the lower level of Arts and Sciences
Hall. For reservations call the Box
Office, 554-2335.