‘Cape Fear’ and ‘JFK’ top this week’s video releases
sy Gerry Beltz
Staff Reporter
#1. “Cape Fear” starring Robert DeNiro,
Nick Nolle, and Jessica Lange.
It is not difficult to see why this movie,
directed by Martin Scorsese, has soared to the
top of the list this week. A truly riveting tale
about a recently rehabilitated DeNiro that venge
fully torments his former psychiatrist (Nolle)
and his already instable family life with vicious
mind games. A visually stunning picture and a
rollercoaster ride from beginning to end.
•2. “JFK” starring Kevin Costner, Donald
Sutherland and Kevin Bacon.
•3. “Father of the Bride” starring Steve
Martin and Diane Keaton.
A movie that is both heartwarming and
hilarious, it tells of the joys and frustrations a
father deals with as his daughter plans for her
wedding. Particularly funny is a guest appear
ance by Martin Short as a wedding coordinator.
•4. “Freejack” starring Emilio Estevez, Mick
Jagger, Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins.
•5. “My Girl” starring Macaulay Culkin,
Dan Aykroyd and newcomer Anna Chlumsky.
•6. “Curly Sue” starring James Belushi,
Kelly Lynch and newcomer Alisan Porter.
•7. “Highlander 2: The Quickening” star
ring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery.
•8. “For the Boys” starring Bette Midler and
James Caan.
•9. “The Butcher’s Wife” starring Demi
Moore and Jeff Daniels.
• 10. “Frankieand Johnny” starring A1 Pacino
and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Wrestle
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event of the entire evening (for the
testosterone-powered occupants of the
auditorium) was when Miss
Lcalherface, doing the ring announce
ments in her skintight outfit, was re
placed by some “announcer trainee”
that sounded like a sure-fire candidate
for “geck-of-the-wcck.”
In the second match of the evening,
Skinner (ugly, hairy guy who spit
tobacco juice) battled Crush (large,
muscular and wore an outfit that
looked like it belonged on a Starburst
commercial) in a contest marred by
the cheating ways of Skinner, which
gave him the upper hand.
For example, Skinner threw Crush
out onto the floor area surrounding
the ring and attempted to slam Crush’s
face into the steel steps at the comer
of the ring. Fortunately for Crush, he
managed to slam nis hand into the
steps just before impact and suffered
no facial contact whatsoever.
However, he reacted as though his
face was actually in pain!
Could that have been... FAKE?!?
Nah, that would just make them look
like stupid men in tights (excuse me,
stupid men in the required uniform,
shades of “The Breakfast Club”).
It would be Crush, however, that
won this match by attempting to crush
(snicker) Skinner’s skull with his bare
hands. It looked like a really painful
Vulcan mind meld, but whatever
works.
Another interesting part of the
evening was the intercontinental title
match between Bret “Hitman" Hart
(the current I-C champion) and Shawn
Michaels, accompanied to ringside
by his manager Sensational Sherri.
Hart was decked out in black and
fluorescent pink, and Michaels was a
bit more extravagant, including ear
rings and a jacket that had “I’M TOO
SEXY FOR THIS CROWD" embla
zoned across the back.
I guess no one had the heart to tell
him that this particular song is quite
done and over with, even on the
bubble-gum rock stations.
What was particularly amusing
during this match was the attention
that the male members of the audi
ence were paying to Sherri. To quote
Dennis Miller, “Why are we paying
so much attention to this Rose Bowl
float with a sag cart?”
During this match, I noticed aphysi
cal reaction that I had never noticed
before. The harder you stomp your
foot when hitting or headbutting some
one, the more damage it does to the
opponent Maybe if I had taken up
wrestling in high school, I would un
derstand these things better.
After intermission, the geek-of
the-week was gone, and Miss Tan
ning Salon 1992 was back (probably
due to bomb threats). The male mem
bers of the crowd suddenly seemed
more attentive to what was going on
than before.
The last match of the evenmg, the
main event, pitted some big dude
called Pap Shango (remember the
huge voodoo guy from the James Bond
movie “Live and Let Die”? He looked
like that, but with a pot belly) against
the Ultimate Warrior (muscularly
packed, impervious to pain, shook
like he downed one too many bowls of
chocolate-frosted sugar bombs).
The crowd loved the Warrior. In
fact, one person got so excited by the
match that he was carried out of the
arena by three ring security officials.
He probably thought that the wres
tlers were faking the voodoo magic
occurring in the ring.
No joke here; the Warrior was
stomping Shango like a narc at a biker
rally when Shango suddenly grabbed
his magic wand (a stick with old ropes
tied to it) and started shaking it in the
general direction of the Warrior, who
collapsed in pain.
Well, that was it, a night of profes
sional wrestling. I knew that, after all
I had been through, it would have to
be something really important and
pressing to keep me away from the
next event.
But tasks like cleaning out toe jam
just cannot be ignored in today’s day
and age.
Bdtz is a senior language-arts education
major and a Daily Nebraskan staff reporter
and columnist.
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