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.
