New videos worthy,
not worthy of renting
By Garry Beltz
Staff Reporter
There’s high visibility in the new
video releases forecast this week —
high amounts of quality comedy and
drama, scattered bits of bad cinema.
All new releases came out Wednes
day.
“8 Seconds”(PGM3)—This mov
ie is based on the true-life story of Lane
Frost, a man who reached internation
al fame through his uncanny talent of
bullriding.
Frost (Luke Perry) has no fear of
injury or death in this potentially dan
gerous sport, but meets greater con
flicts outsideof the arena in the form of
his married life, his father and the
sudden pressure of his fame.
The film is full of quality perform
ers (Cynthia Geary, Stephen Baldwin,
James Rebhom) and everyone — in
cluding Perry—does a wonderful job.
It’s worth renting, but have a hankie
handy.
“Greedy” (PG-13) — “Greedy’’
may be based on a play by Charles
Dickens, but don’t be fooled! This
movie will only fulfill small expecta
tions.
Featuring such performers as Kirk
Douglas, Michael J. Fox, and Phil
Hartman, “Greedy” is a portrait of
materialistic lust as the relatives of a
rich uncle (Douglas) all rush to suck up
to him in hopes of being named in his
will.
With an all-star cast with a no-star
plot, “Greedy” is cabbage for the mind.
“Serial Mom” (R)—The twisted
mind of John Waters comes home to
video! This time around, Waters at
tacks middle America, home of white
bread and idealistic thinking.
However, all is not happy in WASP
land. Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turn
er) has taken on to making obscene
phone calls and wasting various peo
ple around her, from a teacher who is
about to flunk one of her kids to a
disgruntled video customer who refus
es to rewind rented videotapes.
The film is full of deliciously horrid
black comedy from beginning to end,
and is well worth finding.
PICK-OF-THE-WEEK—There’s
plenty of comedy in the new releases,
so why not some older stuff? The team
of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon
(from “Grumpy Old Men”, still a new
release itself) did the delightful 1968
Neil Simon comedy “The Odd Cou
ple,” a film which eventually spawned
the successful television series star
ring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.
The performances and chemistry
between Matthau and Lemmon are
incredible, so if you liked “Grumpy
Old Men” — or enjoy comedy in
general—go find ‘The Odd Couple.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Music,
Luciano Pavarotti said, should have
no boundaries.
The tenor declared a Manhattan
subway station manager and two
other people winners of an essay
contest on opera.
As an experiment, Transit Au
thority employee Matthew Holland
is playing operatic music over the
public address system at his subway
stop near the Metropolitan Opera.
“Why not?” Pavarotti said in
Wednesday’s Daily News. “In Las
Vegas, they play it in the bath
rooms. Music should be every
where.”
The contest was sponsored by
London records. Pavarotti met Hol
land and the other winners Monday
at a Manhattan restaurant.
The winners received a 20-CD
set called “Opera Made Easy” and
featuring—who else?—Pavarotti.
Diamond Rio
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a pic ture in your mind,” he said. “When
you’re writing about things that are not
personal experiences, you have to be
like an actor by putting yourself in that
character.”
Roe said the process gave him a
“16th Avenue chill.”
“You really feel like you’ve turned
a corner and you actually feel like
you’ve drawn those good images with
words that cause people to see visions,
pictures, in their minds of their own
experiences.”
Once the song becomes personal to
the audience, Roe said, “it’s a hit.”
And a hit in country music today
means more than it did 20 or 30 years
ago with the revolution in country
music itself.
Three main things have changed
the face of country music, Diamond
Rio’s singer said.
“One—pop radio wasn’t pop radio
anymore. It really went into some
different genre and more focused ar
eas such as dance and rap,” he said.
People — even teens — didn’t have
any place to go.
“Two—country music was branch
ing out. It wasn’t so negative, it was
actually becoming a little more posi
tive. And (No. 3), we had some great
artists coming up at the same time.”
Diamond Rio has also gone a new
route by adding flair to its live perfor
mances.
“We want to have fun and we want
to show a bit of the different influences
of the people in our band,” Roe said.
Diamond Rio performs a variety of
music from bluegrass to Joe Walsh to
the Eagles. They were one of the con
tributing bands on “Common Thread:
The Songs of the Eagles.”
“A lot of country acts show influ
ence from rock and roll,” Roc said.
“We put in a lot more of the show
factor than traditional country shows.
There’s more than people standing up
there singing their album. Wc want it
lobe musically and visually pleasing.”
Country music has gone in a new
direction, but Roe said it would never
lose its roots.
“We’ll always have a song or two
on an album that’s traditional,” he
said. “One of our songs, ‘Gone Out of
My Mind,’ is a straight-ahead country
ballad about love gone bad.”
The fans of traditional country
music arc still alive. Roe said, but the
beauty of it is that musicians are able
todo more than just traditional country
ballads.
And the number of Diamond Rio
fans keeps growing — especially in
Nebraska. So, is there a better place to
perform than the Nebraska State Fair?
“We have a big following in Ne
braska. It’s our second- or third-largest
contingent of our fan base,” he said.
“We always love to come to Nebras
ka.”
Diamond Rio will be performing
with country group Sawyer Brown at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center on
Friday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20,
$17 and $14.
Noyes
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some of the works from the new Sep
tember exhibit, can be screened on to
T-shirts, he said.
The September exhibit, entitled
“Blue on Blue,” contains the works of
all featured artists of the Noyes gal
lery. The artists arc: Jo Brown, Larcy
Brown, Sally Buss, Dorothy Dane,
Robert Egan, Sharon Elbracht
Ohmberger, Dee Gaylord, B.A,
Gaylord, Jeani Gustafson, Mark Havla,
Nina Kusov, Nancy McClelland, Lois
Meysenburg. Marlene Meier, Sidney
Nagley, Faridun Negmat-Zoda, own
er Julia Noyes, Connie Segal 1, Ken
Wagner and Rodney Humpal.
The “Blue on Blue” exhibit does
not contain a rigid theme, Humpal
said, but it encourages the artists to
explore different directions.
“The artists arc free to wander
around the theme,” Humpal said.
The exhibit contains art work in
various shades of blue. Other works in
the exhibit aim to establish a blue
feeling with the viewer, Humpal said.
Humpal, who joined the Noyes
Gallery in April, said his works mainly
consisted of watercolors with bold pri
mary colors. His works have been
featured in The Coflee House and
galleries in Omaha.
Before joining the Noyes Gallery,
Humpal described himself as a part
time artist. With a family and a full
time job, Humpal said he did not think
He had the time to fully commit to his
art. Since April, Humpal has painted
nearly four paintings every month.
“Julia Noyes has been a really great
motivator,” Humpal said. “She has
encouraged me to paint more diverse
styles.”
‘‘The diversity in this gallery will
stun most people,” Humpal said.
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