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Rock, country music highlight summer
By Dawn Brunke
Staff Reporter
Sunday will mark the beginning for
Lincoln and Omaha’s summer con
cert season.
In the next week-and-a-half, four
tours will roll though the heartland,
much to the delight of Nebraska music
lovers.
Sunday’s concert will team up
Cheap Trick and Loverboy at Ak-Sar
Ben in Omaha. Both bands reached
their heyday in the ’ 80s but have man
aged to hold on to both themselves
and the music.
Cheap Trick is well known for their
remake of Elvis’ “Don’t Be Cruel,” as
well as popular hits “The Flame” and
“Surrender.” One of Loverboy’s big
gest hits is “Hot Girls in Love,” and
other smashes include “Notorious” and
“This Could Be the Night.”
Tickets for this show on June 11
are $20.25, and the music starts at 7
p.m. Come early because it is general
admission seating, which amounts to
first come, first served.
The Righteous Brothers will also
be traveling to Omaha, and will be
playing on Tuesday, June 13, at the
Orpheum Theatre.
The Righteous Brothers are per
haps best known for their songs “Un
chained Melody,” (heard in the movie
“Ghost”) and “You Lost That Lovin’
Feeling” (popularized by “Top Gun”).
Tickets for Tuesday’s show are
going for between $26.50 to $46, with
reserved seating (more expensive tick
ets mean better seats) with an 8 p.m.
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starting time.
The concerts start coming to Lin
coln on Thursday, June 15, as the
Beach Boys and Christopher Cross
kick ofT the June concert series in
Pinewood Bowl.
Christopher Cross’ soothing voice
hascrooned soft tunes including“Sail
ing” and “Think of Laura.”
The Beach Boys have been together
in different variations for over 30 years.
Their music, though ever changing
and adapting in subject matter, has
been true to rock n* roll.
The Beach Boys arc on tour to
promote their latest album “Summer
In Paradise.” But their hour-and-45
minute set will have over 30 hit songs
including “Kokomo,” “Surfin ’ US A,”
“Little Deuce Coupe,” “Help Me
Rhonda,” and “California Girls.”
Tickets for this show are S25, and
Christopher Cross will open the show
at 7:30 p.m.
Tracy Lawrence and Patty Love
less are the second act in the Pin
ewood Bowl’s concert series. They
will be taking the stage June 17.
Tracy Lawrence was named new
male vocalist of the year by the Acad
emy of Country Music, and is cur
rently supporting his latest album
“Alibis.”
He and his band are best known for
the songs “The Good Die Young” and I
“We Don’t Love Here Anymore.”
Patty Loveless is also supporting a '
new album, “When Angels Fly.” She
is best known for the songs “Blame It £
On Your Heart,” “How Can I Help £
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The Beach Boys are one of several concerts coming to the Lincoln-Omaha area over the next
couple of weeks.
wen Know Who I Am.”
Patty will start off the show off at
:30 p.m., tickets for this show are $20.
Tickets for all of these shows are
vailable at all Ticketmaster locations
nd at the Pershing Box Office,
’ickets for the Pinewood Bowl con
certs are available at Pinewood Bowl
on the day of show for cash only.
Also, for the.Pinewood Bowl con
certs, it is “lawn seating,” which means
no actual seats will be available. Blan
kets, cushions and sleeping bags will
be allowed in, but no lawn chairs,
recording devices or umbrellas will
be allowed in.
Also, no food, beverages or con
tainers/coolers will be allowed into
Pinewood Bowl. There will be food
and beverages available for sale at the
concerts.
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Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep star in the romantic drama
“The Bridges of Madison County”
Waller’s popular love story
romantic, beautiful on screen
By Ann Stack
Staff Reporter
“The Bridges of Madison
County” is the story of two star
crossed, middle-aged lovers set in
rural Iowa in 1965.
Meryl Streep (“Death Becomes
Her”) stars as Francesca Johnson,
a lonely Italian housewife whose
family is away at the state fair for
five days. Clint Eastwood
(“Unforgiven”) plays Robert
Kincaid, a National Geographic
magazine photographer sent to
photograph MadisoaCounty’s cov
ered bridges. He stops at
Francesca’s house to ask for direc
tions. She shows him the bridge;
and he shows her how to love again.
What follows in the next four
days is not just a steamy love affair
between two strangers, but a
reawakening, both sexual and spiri
tual, for Francesca. She discovers
feelings she thought were longdead
Movie: “The Bridges of Madi
son County”
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Meryl
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Rating: PG-13
Grade: B+ §
Five Words: Rorrfance blooms
in beautiful film
with the help of Kincaid, the worldly
photographer from Seattle who lacks
world-class sophistication.
Streep puts on an outstanding per
formance as the housewife who once
had dreams and now has a responsi
bility. to her family. As Francesca
Johnson, she is torn between follow
ing her one true love and protecting
her family from small-town gossip
and ridicule.
Eastwood does a surprisingly good
job of becomingthe loner/lover that is
Robert Kincaid. He portrays
Kincaid as the thoughtful, shy yet
sexy, quietly defiant vagabond that
Robert James Waller had intended
when he created Robert Kincaid.
It’s hard to picture Dirty Harry
spouting off W.B. Yeats and pick
ing wild flowers, but he manages
to give a convincing performance.
Eastwood also directs and co
produces the film, which was shot
on location in Winterset, Iowa.
The movie definitely has more
life to its leading characters than
the book, thanks to the chemistry
between Streep and Eastwood. But
the film drags horribly in the
middle. At least in the book you
can skip those parts.
All in all, this is a good film
with a serious message about rela
tionships and morality that view
ers must interpret for themselves.
Note: the ending is a real*,
tearjerker so be sure to bring plenty
of Kleenex.