Yes coming to Civic
Popular art-rock supergroup Yes is
starting a national fall tour and will
make its first Omaha appearance since
1984 at the Civic Auditorium Arena
on Nov. 14.
Yes has just released a new album,
“The Big Generator,” and the first
single from the album, “Love Will
Find The Way,” is on Billboard’s Tod
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Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance
are now on sale. Tickets arc general
admission and cost $16.25. Ticket
outlets for the show are the Civic
Auditorium, Younkers ticket centers,
Tix, Pickles and Homers. Charge
orders can be made by phone at (402)
342-7107. Mail orders, accompanied
by a money order, may be sent to the
Omaha Civic Auditorium, P.O. Box
719, Omaha, Neb. 68101.
For furthe information, call the
Civic Auditorium at 444-4750.
Exhibit explores human head
I he Richards Hall Art Department
Gallery has announced an exhibition
entitled “Looking Ahead,” which
opens Sunday.
Included are two works each from
17 artists exploring the subject of the
human head. A variety of media,
combined with personal style and
technique, are used to present the art
ists’ unique vision of the head.
The artists have selected various
angles and attitudes on which to focus,
from frontal views and profiles to
enlarged facial features. Styles range
from traditional to expressionistic.
The exhibition runs through Nov.
11. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday thorough Thursday.
There will be a reception from 7 to 9
p.m. Oct. 30.
A romance? or a fantasy?
BRIDE from Page 6
that engage him. After all, the hero
and heroine are daffy, flower-smell
ing air heads who would have been
laughed off any serious playground in
America.
"The Princess Bride," from a best
selling novel by William Goldman
("Magic,""Marathon Man,""Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), has
a meager storyline. Buttercup and
Westley fall into a medeival swoon
over one another, Westley goes a
sailing and is apparently killed by
pirates, and Buttercup is chosen from
the women of the fair kingdom of
Loren to marry the evil Prince
Humperdmk.
Buttercup resists, probably be
cause she realizes she’ll have to go
through the rest of her life as Butter
cup Humperdinck. But since she
thinks she has nothing to live for since
Westley’s death, she gives herself
over to morose somnambulcnce and
becomes engaged. Westley
returns, is taken from her again and
after a few unlikely plot twists of the
fairy-tale variety, they arc forever
reunited. With a storyline this stock,
the cameos, beasts, rogues and minor
heroes arc crucial. But the
beasts in this movie are third-rate, and
the characters who arc to help Butter
cup and Westley realize their
thwarted love arc, for the most part,
only cute and tend to leap to necessary
conclusions before they arc given
enough information to do so. This
would be funny if the movie were built
to accommodate such absurdities, but
it isn’t.
At one point, Mandy Patinkin, as
the soddy Spanish swordsman who
initially kidnaps Buttercup from the
evil Prince Humperdinck, realizes
that Humperdinck’s henchman Count
Rugen (played with gleeful serious
ness by Christopher Guest) is the man
who killed his father. From all infor
mation given the audience, he
couldn’t possibly know this when he
does. It’s a large flaw in a whole reel
of flawed celluloid.
“The Princess Bride” suffers from
not knowing whut it wants to be when
it grows up — an adult romantic
comedy ora WaltDisncy fantasy. And
then there’s that Mel Brooks strain.
There’s nothing wrong with creating a
unique genreof film, but this is just too
much of a hodgepodge.
To be fair, “The Princess Bride”
has its moments. Andre the Giant and
Patinkin are perfectly lovable as out
laws with hearts of gold, and Christo
pher Guest plays a six-fingered me
dieval sadist without ever once giving
himself away as a comedian. No
winking. No mugging for the camera.
It would be nice if the same could
be said for Billy Crystal, Carol Kane
and Peter Cook, who go for the cheap
est gags just to make sure the camera
recognizes them.
It’s hard to say just where Reiner
could have gone with this movie to
make it succeed. Any further into
medieval satire and you step on the
classic iocs of “Monty Python’s In
Search of the Holy Grail.” Any further
into medieval romantic comedy and
you compete against films like “A
Lion in Winter.” A little further into
fantasy land and Reiner would have
been better off tacking a “G” rating on
this and selling it to the kids.
This precious paean to painless
ness might have made for some great
movie tie-in Christmas toys.
Shorts
The next Joslyn After Hours art
program will tour the Union Pacific
Historical Museum’s permanent col
lection of art and artifacts, and a trav
eling exhibition of photographs.
Joslyn After Hours is the Joslyn Art
Museum’s art appreciation group for
business and professional peers. After
Hours sponsors programs that dis
cover art collections and exhibitions
at the Joslyn and at local art centers
and corporations.
The October 22 program runs from
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Union
Pacific Railroad Co.’s headquarters
building is located at 1416 Dodge St.
Reservations can be made by calling
342-3300.
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