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Buddy-cop mix serves up hefty portion of action By Gerry Beltz film Critic If your adrenalin is running low, have no fear. “Bad Boys” are in the house. Usingthe familiar buddy-cop recipe mixed with healthy amounts of action and more action, “Bad Boys” offers some tasty mor sels to please your palate. What’s surprising is the “Bad Boys” script was originally intended for Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz. We can all be thankful that they were busy making some other project fail miserably so Will Smith and Martin Lawrence could step in and make “Bad Boys” a success. Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) is a married man with a Volvo, while Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) is a swinging single guy with a sports car and a trust fund. Both, however, are loose cannons with their guns and their one-liners. The heroin from their latest bust has just been hijacked out of the police evidence room. With only four days before the entire department is shut down, these two guys have to crack the case. The sole witness will only speak with Lowrey, but Marcus ends up having to im personate Lowrey, and vice versa. The role-switching takes a backseat to all the action and snappy chemistry. That’s what really helps this film work—the undeniable chemistry between Smith and Lawrence. It would have been nice to have a little more Smith and a little less Lawrence to even out the scales a bit. The tolerance level for Lawrence’s antics can only be pushed so far. There’s a ton of action, too. The gun fights and fistfights abound throughout the film, and should please even the most finicky action junkies. Unfortunately, it takes a little while for the action to start rolling. But once it starts, it doesn’t slow down. The Facts Film: “Bad Boys” Director: Michael Bay Stars: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith Rating: R Grade: B+ Five Words: No shortage of action, laughs. Sight for sore eyes Jay Calderon Designer Mossimo Gianuili appeared at The Buckleat Gateway Mali Saturday. His line of sportswear, including hats and T-shirts, is hugely popular with young people. Cable show will be live in Lincoln From Staff Reports “Breakfast Time” in Lincoln will mean more than soggy cereal and lukewarm coffee this week. Cable network fX will broadcast live from five different Lincoln sites for its “Breakfast Time” morning news and in formation show, producer Larry Hochberg said in a telephone interview. Hochberg described “Breakfast Time” as ft youngej show for people who4idn't grow up with the “Today Snow” or “Good Morning America.” Lincoln will share this week’s spot light with Philadelphia and the New York metropolitan area, Hochberg said. Be tween eight and 10 minutes of the two hour program will be broadcast from Lin coln each day. This morning’s program will feature Duncan Aviation. Hochberg said he planned on focusing on Duncan’s busi ness of manufacturing planes for celebri ties and private corporations. Other sites this week wi 11 include North east High School, Yankee Hill Brick Com pany and Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue. The decision to broadcast from Lin coln was in part made because of fX’s availability in the area’s cable system, Hochberg said. “Breakfast Time” airs on fX, Cablevision channel 38, from 6 to 8 a.m.. Manson band seeks change By Joel Strauch Senior Reporter The roaring thrash of Danzig will invade the Omaha Civic Audi torium tonight, but opening act Marilyn Manson may stir up the most controversy. The band has met with protest since the release of its 1994 debut album, “Portrait of an American Family.” Though sometimes viewed as a group of Satan-worshipers and drug-users, the band members say what they’re really after is a social revolution. Lead singer Mr. Manson said in a telephone interview that the band’s music and lyrics promoted indi viduality. “America is a fascist place,” he said. “We need to make some changes. We want people to live in fear of Christianity and televi sion.” Marilyn Manson’s methods for change and their onstage antics have a lot of people living in fear al ready. Opening for Nine Inch Nails in Salt Lake City last fall, Manson ripped pages out of “The Book of Mormon” and threw them into the audience. Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor, whose Nothing label car ries Marilyn Manson. At a Dec. 27 concert in Jackson ville, Fla., Manson was arrested for violation of adult entertainment. “What I was arrested for was taking my clothes off, and then set ting fire to the stage,” Manson said. The charges were eventually dropped, he said. Manson doesn’t regret his outrageous performances. He said audiences wanted honesty. “Whatever I feel like doing, I’ll do,” he said. “I’m responsible enough to take the consequences for my actions.” Manson said performing was an outlet for his excess emotion., “I’ll saveeverythingthat’sinme on any given day — lust, hatred, compassion — for my live perfor mance,” Manson said. “It’s a ritual where the power of that emotion can really be tapped into if you share it with the audience.” Marilyn Manson recently fin ished filming its second video for MTV, but Manson said the band didn’t want to rely on MTV to make or break them. “I like doing videos, but we take the underground approach of tour ing to getting our name out there,” he said. “We plan on be;- ~ around for a long time; we don’t .ittobe the MTV flavor of the week.” The band plans to tour through the summer while they work on their new album and actively search for revolution. Music is the proper medium to use to change peoples’ minds, Manson said. “If Mussolini or Hitler were alive today, they’d be rock stars. If anybody’s going to make a change, it’s got to be through music.” Courtesy of Nothing Records Marilyn Manson will open for Danzig tonight.