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• — mmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmtamwmmmm Use your Bonk-in-The-Box cord or any other ATM card accepted by NETWORKS and CIRRUS at three different Bank-ln-The- WA ¥A Box locations. CiRRliS. WIN THIS ONE —— I USE THREE DIFFERENT BANK-IN-THE-BOX MACHINES BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 30. 1987, AND YOU COl EDWIN ANEW 198801 DSMOBIEECAI.AIS. Start now by usin^j MBC Bank-ln-The-Box locations often... (iet an entry form at any NBC facility. Simply bring in 3 monetary transaction receipts from 3 different Bank-ln-The-Box machines. Must be 18 year • or older. Enter as often as you wish. UNL Campus Facility IVTISP National Bank of Commerce All Lincoln Nebraska 402)472 4 )21 "■ a )i1Fn<si C( m.umn hwk. ' Dick Tracy series a minor classic GLASSY from Page 11 Ranger guy Hank Kimball on “Green Acres,” produced and stars in this chcapie filmed in Louisiana. He and Anthony Eislcy trek to an old shack in the swamp to investigate some murders. There’s a coven of witches, a warlock, elderly Burt Must and old horror-movic/TV show host Sey mour is in there somewhere. As late as 1980, in a galaxy far away, this film was playing as “Legend of Witch Hollow.” Drunken “Green Acres” theme whistles accompanied by dueling Pat Buttram impersona tions. It seemed funny at the time. Other movies available on Beta video include: “She Devils on W heels” (1968) Betty Connell, Ruby Tuesday. A friend told me recently, “There isa person that makes far worse films than Ed Wood Jr. ever made.” I must concur. The culprit’s name is Hcr schel Gordon Lewis, the first man to make gore films. With a spare $20,000 or $30,000, Hcrschcl cranked out insufferable swill like “2,000 Maniacs” and “Color Me Blood Red.” When it comes to filmmaking, H.G. just couldn’t do anything right. Nary live minutes into “She Devils on Wheels’ someone practically knocks the camera off the tripod. Our story concerns the Man-Eaters, a group of tough woman bikers who ride around taunting the studs and having sex while fully clothed. They utter immortal lines like “I’m gonna kill them dirty mothers” and “Now look here, scum-bum.” Lewis’s idea of humor reaches its peak when the Man-Eaters siring wire across a road and behead one of their enemies. Funny. “Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome” (1947) Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd. Here’s just one of numerous seri als or series of films that should be on TV. “Dick Tracy vs. Cucball” is perhaps the most ridiculous and un Tracy films will be realized for what they arc — fun, harmless little ch capics that arc halfway faithful to Chester Gould’s famous comic strip. Few of the real bad guys from the strip are used, though there are char acters with names, like Spitface, Filthy Flora and X-Ray. Our story begins at The Hangman’s Knot, where Gruesome (Boris Karloff in a rather strange and subdued role) plans crime with the aid of special gas bombs that temporarily freeze people. When Gruesome’s sidekick is hospitalized, Dick Tracy anticipates Gruesome’s attempt to contact him and and dis guises himself as the dirty little rat. Gruesome goes to the hospital and unwittingly tries to make off with our hero, but bit player Lex Barker (Hollywood’s Tarzan from ’49 to ’53) runs interference. Or as a local Dick Tracy fan put it, “Dick Tracy is nearly saved by Tarzan ... an inter esting concept, to say the least.” Several of RKO’s Dick Tracy films arc also available at Shopko stores for a nominal fee. UNlTBt) Presettis^ UnCe ferrogomo fr\iasl. tavemiper^O, ?39pm-0:3opm __^ Vince- will be Autographing photos m "the. Store. Stop to -t& discuss fluster Strategy vd'rihvincc. _ _ /£.' Wilson duJcynafhed K ml ftwHoafts uMafco m W. Ifiegioen await-to / ^S^/2 ludcy Whll a( Nebraska., Vince Was AamedL HP and l/Pl, AU. A«nericov\lnis5cnior Mac. i! Jn (?&? as <7«arlerback, he- led~(R/-./U2a»ns -to -toe 6uperfctxo( X/l/.