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Film lover
chooses
teaching
By Anne Steyer
Senior Reporter
Despite his secondary education
major, Trevor McArthur is all wrapped
up in film.
McArthur, 26, a senior at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he
plans on teaching high school English
or history, but his greatest passion is
the movies.
“1 get into movies the way some
people get into sports,” he said.
“I like those types of wild films
with no intellectual aspect, but other
times I like dry documentaries that no
one else would find interesting.”
He said his interest in mindless
action films is not limited to the hard
core action, but also the apparent lack
of intellectual premise. McArthur said
he tends to look for substance in most
every film—even the ones Sylvester
Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger
make.
“It may be over-intellectualizing,
but you can see important things m
cheap movies,” he said.
“(Take for example) the ‘Termi
nator.’ It’s mostly a shoot-em-up
movie but you’ve got an underlying
current—people turning to machines
for help, then machines turning on
people—you just pepper the premise
with a lot of action to keep the audi
ence ftrmrgfcttingbored:**
Interest in film runs in the family,
M c Arthur said, although he’s not sure
his family is all that different from
others.
“1 suppose we’ve been just as in
terested as anyone else, but we have
had more opportunity.”
That opportunity came through
McArthur’s father and grandfather’s
involvement in the Starkweather case
in the 1950s.
Both were attorneys for Card Ann
Fugate, and throughout the case they
met various Hollywood people who
were vying for movie and television
rights to Fugate’s story.
Terrence Malick, the man who lat
er went on to make “Badlands,” a film
loosely based on the Starkweather
murdering spree, was me such per
son.
But despite these possible connec
tions — which could have led to op
portunities in the film industry —
McArthur dismisses the notion that he
felt obligated to pursue film as a ca
reer.
“Obviously if didn’t make me have
to be into film—but it increased my
interest."
He said his interest in filmmaking
actually developed when his parents
bought a video camera.
McArthur and his friends began
making short films.
“It was a lot of fun," he said.
The films showed a pretty good
grasp of the elements of movies, he
Hawking gets personal in
follow-up to best seller
Stephen Hawking
“Black Holes and Baby Universes
and Other Essays”
Bantam Books
‘Son of Time?
As it is, his new book is called
nothing of the sort. Instead it’s “Black
Holes and Baby Universes and Other
Essays” and for fans of the Nobel
Prize-winning scientist it’s something
of a revelation.
It’s not the science in the book that
will make it sell, but something far
more important in the age of pop
figures: The essays in the book, when
taken together, offer a self-portrait of
the man who has captured the imagi
nation of the world.
Confined to a wheelchair, Hawk
ing dominates the public conception
onheoretical physics. He is the “bril
liant mind” trapped in a “defective
body.”
But the Hawking that emerges from
these essays is something else entire
ly.
Humorous, insightful and tireless
ly rational, Hawking appears as the
personalitv behind the romantic im
age. He ernes everything within his
considerable power to puncture the
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The latest book by this world re
nowned theoretical physicist could be
titled “A Brief History of Stephen
Hawking.”
His earlier book, “A Brief History
of Time,” remained on the New York
Times best-seller list for 53 weeks
and has been translated into 33 lan
guages.
But as Hawking himself says, in
the essay “A Brief History of A Brief
History* — included in this latest
book:
“I feel I can hardly write a sequel
to “A Brief History of Time.” What
would I call it? ‘A Longer History of
Time?’ ‘Beyond the End of Time?’
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Trevor McArthur is really Into films. The UNL student attended the Telluride Him Festival in
Colorado Sept. 3-6.
said, and a knowledge of the ways that
films were put together.
McArthur said ne hasn’t had much
time for filmmaking since he “decid
ed to go ahead and graduate.”
“But since my brother is in film
school, I have the thought that some
day 1 might go work with him.”
His younger brother, Jeff, 22, at
tends film school at New York Uni
versity. McArthur said he could have
gone to film school, but opted instead
to attend UNL.
“I don't know, maybe I chickened
out. Maybe being a full-time artist
Flood of music
takes you away from real life. Maybe
I was just kind of scared.”
But he didn’t allow his interest to
wane, and he worked for the Univer
sity Program Council’s International
Films Committee. He then spent four
years working at the Mary Riepma
Rom Theatre.
His job at the Ross Theatre piqued
his interest in Colorado’s Telluride
Film Festival, he said. Much like the
Cannes film Festival in France, Tellu
ride is a showcase for new films, both
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Tim Kasher of the Omaha band Slowdown Virginia sings to the crowd gathered at the
Pinewood Bowl In Pioneers Park Sunday afternoon during “Floodfest 93. Kasher’s band
opened the event at 11 a.m., two hours after the scheduled starting time.
Band’s long
tour to hit
Peony Park
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
Seattle rock band Alice in Chains
will break free and hit the stage at
Peony Park’s Royal Grove on Tues
day night.
Alice in Chains is still touring in
support of its sophomore album “Dirt.”
Mary Kohl, Alice in Chains’ asso
ciate manager, said the concert may
include songs from the band’s up
coming EP “Jar of Flies,” as well as
tracks from the band’s first album
“Facelift.”
“They may throw in a couple of
new things. I’m not sure,” Kohl said.
The band will feature the newest
“link” in the Chains when bassist
Mike Inez takes the stage. Inez, who
formerly played with Ozzy Osbourne,
replaces Mike Starr, who left the band
in January. Inez will join guitarist
Jerry Cantrell, drummer Sean Kinney
and lead singer Layne Stanley for
Tuesday’s concert.
While the band has reached musi
cal stardom with “Dirt” and the single
“Would?,” Kohl said the band mem
bers have not changed.
“They’re just like regular folks,”
she said. “They live in Seattle. They
work hard.”
Because the release of “Dirt”
occured at the height of what, many
called “Seattle Mania,” the band has
had to walk in the trenches of a band
wagon of successful grunge bands,
she said.
Kohl said the band became agitat
ed with the “alternative rage," but not
as much as some of the Seattle bands.
“Whdn it got into the fashion mag
azines, they thought it was funny,"
Kohl said. “They didn’t get caught in
it too much. I think Pearl Jam got the
brunt of it.”
While the Seattle scene seems to
have become a mass marketing ploy,
Kohl said the musicians are still loyal
to their hometown.
“Except for Mike (Inez), every
body else was bom and raised in
Seattle," she said. “It’s a very tight
community."
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