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Courtesy of Black Top Records
Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets will perform today at the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
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Award-winning blues band to perform
musical repertoire at Zoo Bar concert
From Staff Reports
“Thru the Years — A Retrospec
tive” is the theme of the latest album
and lour by blues band Anson
Funderburgh and The Rockets featur
ing Sam Myers.
The album chronicles the music
career of Black Top Record’s first
recording artists.
Anson and The Rockets’ recording
career began in 1981 with “Talk To
You By Hand,’’and extended through
albums such as 1982’s “She Knocks
Me Out,” 1984’s “My Love Is Here
To Stay” and 1987’s“Sins”
Earlier this month, the Texas band
received a W.C. Handy Award in
Memphis, Tenn.,for“Best Blues Band
of the Year.”
The band will perform today from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Zoo Bar, 136N.
14th St. There is a S5 cover charge.
Movie captures dark side
of four salesmen who get
into high-stakes challenge
“Glenngarry Glenn Ross”
By Jo Bradsky
Staff Reporter
Night. Survival. Trains. Shadows.
Desperation. Criminal. “Glenngarry
Glenn Ross” (Plaza 3) captures the
side of man that erupts when he is
backed into a comer.
Each character in this movie uses
his own measure to fight his way out.
There is not one leading role, but five.
Each of the actors plays an integral
part in expanding this movie beyond
the parameters of an average screen
play.
The mood starts when al 1 four sales
men must sell recycled leads before
they can get their hands on the gold,
the Glenngarry leads.
The stakes are high. The first prize
is a car, second prize is a set of steak
knives, and the third is unemploy
ment The pressure builds when get
ting clients to sign on the dotted line
proves impossible.
The Mitch and Murray real estate
representative, Blake (Alec Baldwin,
“Hunt for Red October”) intimidates
the salesmen with his scare tactics
throughout the movie, even though he
is not seen after the first 1 /2 hour of the
film.
Richard Roma (A1 Pacino,
“Scarface”) is the only character able
to remove himself from the salesman
role when appropriate. Pacino’s con
trary-to-public-opinion philosophy
often adds comedic relief to over
whelming scenes.
The classic salesman of the old
school, Shelly “the Machine” Levine
(Jack Lemmon, “The Odd Couple”)
cannot give his ill daughter the health
care needed when his losing streak
doesn’t pick up.
David Moss (Ed Harris, “The
Abyss”) dwells in his discontent and
attempts to bring everyone down with
him. Moss is a turtle on his back, who
gets,stepped on instead of flipped
over.
The nice guy of real estate sales,
George Aarono (Alan Arkin, “Ed
ward Scissorhands”) becomes disil
lusioned by life when making a sale
becomes a question of his manhood.
Arkin’s regression in character,
accompanied with Pacino’s sarcastic
tone, incorporates humor in the script
that portrays the pressure and con
stant tension of fighting for survival.
The majority of the shots in this
movie are close and quick. This de
mands the attention of the audience
and focuses the intent and emotion of
the often sporadic, back-and-forth
dialogue.
The harsh, biting language is a
little offensive and damaging, butcriti
cal to every scene.
“Glcnngarry Glenn Ross,” just
under two hours, ends with a satisfy
ing plot development, yet leaves the
viewer suspended by the unsaid.
Cole
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you’re out of cash/Hey mom, I need a
ride back home.
“ .. . Every time that your heart
breaks/You swear you won’t make
, the same mistakes/But hey baby, that’s
the way itgoes/First your money, then
• your clothes.”
Like most of Cole’s down-to-earth
songs on this block of ballads, “Right
There Now,” “It Comes Around” and
“A Place in the Line” reminisce about
high school days, small towns and the
fate of pretty girls.
A number of supporting musicians
have found their place in line on Cole ’ s
album. Among them arc included
Little Feat pianist Billy Payne and
Damn Yankees’ Tommy Shaw on
vocals.
Included in the lineup is co-pro
ducer and pianist James Newton
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Howard, who can rip off some mean
ebony-and-ivory runsand Sam Lianas,
who deserves honorable mention for
his background vocals on “Just An
other Night.”
“Just Another Night" mimicks the
rhythmic piano-rocking gaitof a Bruce
Hornsby hit. Listen closely and you
can hear Mike Finnegan’s organ runs.
Finncgah, one of the most invigorat
ing organ blues players around, toured
for years with Crosby, Stillsand Nash.
“I wanted to take a new approach
to recording,” he said. “Instead of
doing a bunch of songs all in rush, I’d
record one or two ... I do the basic
tracks and then sit back and work out
the embellishments.”
Certainly, nothing is wrong with
his “new approach,"except fans might
wonder how Cole will sound per
forming live, instead of pre-recorded,
if it ever comes down to touring.
— Jill O'Brien
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hitched
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22 Hawkeye
29 Carriage
29 Hard age?
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36 “Amores" poet
39 Capital of
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41 Merida morsel
43 Persian poet
44 Actor Martin
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68 Cockneys
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13 Heavenly being:
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24 Crowded city, to
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26 The long or
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27 Oman man
26 Writer Wolfe
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31 Site of a Christie
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33 Kind of smasher
34 “City of the
Kings"
35 Soviet sea
37-chamber
40 Garfunkel or
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48 Donkey: Fr.
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Trek"
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followers
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ballet
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