Arts & Entertainment
jP ilm series off to dangerous, enticing start
By John Payne
Staff Reporter
The Sheldon Film Theater’s
“Dangerous Loves” series gets under
way with the enticing “The Summer
of Miss Forbes,” the provocative 1988
movie from Mexican Director Jamie
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Hermosillo. It is one of five Spanish
films based on stories by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
“The Summer of Miss Forbes”
concerns the spoiled prepubescent sons
of a wealthy Mexican writer. When
he and his wife plan a six-week pleas
ure cruise to escape their demanding
children, Miss Forbes, a stem Ger
man governess, is hired to look after
the mischievous little brats.
Over the course of 1 1/2 months,
Miss Forbes (Hanna Schygulla), trans
forms the once-tranquil household into
a military boot camp where “stars”
are given out for proper behavior and
taken away for tardiness at the break
fast table or unshined shoes. She even
substitutes their summer recreation
with math and physics.
The boys are awakened nightly by
the clangs and moans of the nocturnal
Miss Forbes, a very different woman
indeed. At night, when the children
are in bed, Miss Forbes likes to get
very drunk, bake German pastries and
parade around the house in her scanti
est lingerie. She alternates between
viewing erotic movies and thumbing
through art books devoted entirely to
Greek phallic sculptures, all the while
calling out the name of the children’s
diving instructor, Aquiles.
The boys (Alexis Castanares and
Victor Villalobos) are so fed up with
their iron-fisted governess that they
eventually devise a plan to do away
with her and return to their summer
fun.
Although it may sound like a typi
cal drama, “The Summer of Miss
Forbes’’ actually is a complex char
acter study of the highest order.
Marquez’s screenplay is fresh and
uncon vcntional, delv ing deep into the
sometimes indistinguishable areas of
pleasure and pain.
Lacking the standard Hollywood
good looks, Shygulla is eminently
more interesting to watch, creatine a
disturbed, yet often likable woman.
The splendid coastal scenery only
adds to the appeal of the film, as
cinematographer Derubin Jacome’s
roving eye captures the serenity of
Mexico that Miss Forbes cannot sec.
“The Summer of Miss Forbes”
can be seen at the Sheldon Film Thea
ter at 7 tonight, and at 1 and 7 p.m.
Saturday.
Courtesy of Sheldon Theater
Hanna Schygulla stars as German governess Miss Forbes in “The Summer of Miss Forbes.”
Bands show untapped musical resources exist
by mick uyer
Senior Editor
Here’s another provocative, accu
rate and concise list of live music in
Lincoln for the following week. No
biases here. Honest.
Alternative:
Sunday, Never Ending Burning
Nerve Ending Magic Show and Such
Sweet Thunder will play at Duffy’s,
1412 O St.
Never Ending Burning Nerve
Ending Magic Show is a power, psy
chedelic blues trio from Kearney. A
great band.
Such Sweet Thunder is a Keamey
based, electric, alternative, folk out
fit, featuring clean, wound-up, spangle
guitar, resonant, aching vocals and a
torrential rhythm downpour of bass
and drums. The group leaves Sept. 1
for a musical tour in Europe. Con
gratuiations.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll sav it
again; there are bands in the area that
arc just as good, if not better than the
bands on MTV’s 120 minutes every
Sunday night. Such Sweet Thunder’s
good news just is more damaging
evidence that Lincoln is an untapped
musical resource. Any of you hungry
record companies reading this?
Tuesday, Craig Nietfeld and Na
tional People’s Gang will play at
Duffy’s.
Craig Nietfeld, a local musician,
will open the show with a solo per
formance.
National People’s Gang is an up
beat, funky, rock ‘n’ roll band from
Los Angeles.
Wednesday, Helios Creed will play
at Duffy’s.
Jazz/Blues:
Tonight and Saturday, Wayne
loups and Zydecajun will play at
Bourbon Street, 200 N. 70th St.
Wayne Toups and Zydecajun plays
a blend of rollicking zydeco and
straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll that lends
itself well to uninhibited dancing. This
group has knocked out Lincoln audi
ences at the Flatwater and Haymarket
festivals.
Tonight and Saturday, The Bel
Airs will play at the Zoo Bar, 136 N.
14th St.
From Columbia, Mo., the Bel-Airs
play a suck, up-beat brand of Kansas
City rhythm and blues.
Saturday, The C Street Gypsies
will play ’60s-stylc electric blues at
The Mountains, 311 S. Ill h St.
Monday, Mothers Big Band will
play at Bourbon Street.
Monday, Amethyst will play at the
Zoo Bar.
Amethyst plays a variety of
women’s music, featuring elements
of jazz, blues and acoustic folk.
Tuesday, the Tablerockcrs, fea
turing Annette Murrell, will play at
the Zoo Bar.
Wednesday and Thursday, the
Silent Partners will play sizzling-hot
Texas blues at Bourbon Street.
Wednesday and Thursday, Char
lie Musselwhite will play at the Zoo
Bar.
Charlie Musselwhite is one of the
greatest harmonica players alive.
Period. His style of playing is influ
enced by all the sounds he heard
growing up in Memphis -- country,
blues, gospel and rock.
Thursday, Fusion Force will play
jazz at Julio’s, 132 S. 13th St.
Rock:
Tonight, Travis Wagner will play
at the Mountains.
Tonight and Saturday, Project S
will play at Chesterfield’s, Lower Level
245 N. 13th St.
Tonight through Sunday, the Sandy
Creek Band will play at the Prospec
tor, 640 W. Van Dorn Sl
Tonight and Saturday, Headwind
will play at Sweep Left, 815 O St.
Tonight through Sunday, Finest
Hour will play at Oscars, 800 O St.
Tonight Through Sunday, the Sandy
Creek Band will play at the Prospec
tor, 640 W. Van Dom Sl
After 16 years, Joffrey Ballet returns
to present performance of ‘Lacrymosa ’
By Julie Naughton
Senior Reporter_
After a 16-year absence, the Joffrey
Ballet is returning to the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln.
And in honor of the first season of
the Lied Center for Performing Arts,
the company is premiering a new
ballet.
“Lacrymosa,” a ballet commis
sioned by the Lied Center, will make
its world premiere at 8 tonight. The
ballet was choreographed by a 21
ycar-old Joffrey dancer, Edward Sti
erle.
Hecrealed the ballet by expanding
a solo that he choreographed for the
junior men’s division of the Interna
tional Ballet Competition in 1986.
According to Karen Hart Under
wood, marketing and promotion co
ordinator for the Lied Center, the
ballet deals with accepting death. Hart
Underwood said Stierle created the
ballet in honor of Robert Joffrey, and
began working on it shortly bclore
Joffrey’s death.
“Joffrey was very ill, and it looked
like they were going to lose him,”
Hart Underwood said. “This had a
big impact on Stierle. This ballet is
his tribute to Robert Joffrey.”
Stierle finished the ballet after
Jolfrcy s deatn.
The company also will perform
“Lacrymosa” at its performances in
Chicago, Los Angeles and Berkeley,
Calif. Each lime “Lacrymosa” is
performed, the Lied Center will re
ceive credit for funding the ballet.
The funds for creating the ballet
came from an anonymous donor. The
donor requested that his funds be used
to commission a ballet for the Lied
Center’s first season.
After the funds were donated, Hart
Underwood said, the Lied Center’s
associate director for audience and
program development, Sheila Grif
fin, and the center’s interim director,
Woody Varner, got in touch with the
Jeffrey Ballet Company. The com
pany took it from there, she said.
“It’s a very intense process, to
create a ballet,” Hart Underwood said.
“But it’s a way for a performing arts
center to make a contribution to art. ’ ’
The Joffrey will have four per
formances, two evening performances
and two matinees. The evening per
formances will be tonight and at 8
p.m. Saturday, and the matinees will
DC ul l p.m. omuiuuy uiiu ounuay.
There will be different dances
performed at the evening and the
matinee performances.
At the evening performances,
“Italian Suite,” “Lacrymosa” -
which Sticrlc will dance in - and “La
Sacrc du Prinlemps” will be per
formed.
At the matinee performances,
“Billy the Kid,” “Monotones I and
II” and “Suite Saint Saens” will be
performed.
Each dance in the ballet is a Lin
coln premiere.
The Joffrey Ballet, under the artis
tic direction of Gerald Arpino, is
opening its national tour with its
appearance at the Lied Center.
Tickets for the performances still
arc available and may be purchased at
the Lied Center Box Office. Tickets
for the evening performances are S24,
$20 and $14, and the matinee ticket
prices are $22, $18 and $12. Tickets
for UNL students and youth under 18
are half-price.
Hart Underwood said that the
general response to the ballet has
been “very positive.”
“We’ve had a good response in
ticket sales, and they’ve especially
picked up this week,” she said.
TWISTERS:
1. Midnight Oil - “Blue Sky
Mining”
2. M.C. Hammer - “Please Ham
mer, Don’t Hurt ’Em’’
3. Technotronic - “Pump Up the
Jam”
4. Motley Crue - “Dr. Feelgood’ ’
5. Paula Abdul - “Forever Your
Girl”
6. Young MC - “Stone Cold
Rhymin’”’
7. Janet Jackson - “Rhythm Na
tion 1814”
8. They Might Be Giants- “Flood”
9. Phil Collins - “But Seriously”
10. Eric Clapton - “Journeyman”
PROJECT IMPORT:
1. Mudhoney — “Boiled Beef and
Rotting Teeth”
2. The Cult - “Electric Mixes”
3. Ride--“Ride”
4. The Pale Saints - “The Com
forts of Madness”
5. Nine Inch Nails - “Pretty Hate
Machine”
6. Red Temple Spirits — “Lhasa”
7. Electronic - ‘‘Electromix”
8. The Cramps - “Bikini Girls
With Machine Guns”
9. Galaxie 500 - “On Fire”
10. Tackhead - “Live”
KRNU:
1. They Might Be Giants -- “Flood’ ’
2. Renegade Sound Wave - “Bit
ing My Nails”
3. Eleventh Dream Day — “Beet”
4. Nine Inch Nails - “Pretty Hate
Machine”
5. Peter Murphy - “Deep”
6. Dramarama - “Stuck in Won
deram aland”
7. Charlie Burton and the Hiccups
- “Green Cheese”
8. Herbert Gronemeyer- “What’s
All This?”
9. The Children - “The Children ’’
10. The Primitives - “Pure”
KFMQ:
1. Midnight Oil - “Blue Sky
Mining”
2. Smithereens - “Smithereens 11”
3. Alannah Myles - “Alannah
Myles”
4. Tesla - “The Great Radio
Controversy”
5. Eric Clapton - “Journeyman”
6. Rush - r‘Presto”
7. Whitesnake - “Slip of the
Tongue”
8. Phil Collins - “But Seriously”
9. Aerosmith - “Pump”
10. Enuff Z'nuff-“Enuff Z’nuff”
