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Revelry fills holiday weekend
With All-Hallow’s Eve just around
the comer, costuming and treats may
be on the mind. The holiday weekend
is full of entertainment.
• Kelly Hunt plays at the Jones
Street Brewery in Omaha, 1316 Jones
St., tonight and tomorrow night. Each
show starts at 9:30
p.m. Tickets are $5
in advance, $6 the
day of the show.
• Tomorrow
night, the Bemis
| Gallery, 614 S.
1 lthSt.,housesthe
Halloween Ben
efit Bash. The idea
is to “BE SOME
BODY (else).”
The event starts at 7 p.m., with music
from the Twang Daddies. Prizes will
be given for costumes. Tickets are $25.
•Tonight at Knickerbockers, 901 O
St., check out The Billy’s and Kab.
Dwindle plays with Ezra Saturday night.
Both shows start at 10:15 p.m., and
cover is $3.
• Candlebox attacks Civic Audito
rium in Omaha with Sponge and Our
Lady Peace on Sunday. Dows open at
7:30 p.m., and tickets are $17.50.
•The Wannabes, touring in support
of its album “Popsucker,” plays at
Mudslide Slims, 1418 O St., Sunday
night. The show starts at 10 p.m., and
cover is about $3.
• The Hurricane, 1118 0 St., fea
tures several shows this weekend. To
night, check out the Secret Skin CD
Release Party with Janitor Bob. The
show starts at 10 p.m. Saturday, Side
show and Giant’s Chair take the stage
in a 10 p.m. show. Strutter, the KISS
tribute band, blows fire and rocks Mon
day night. And if you dress up like
KISS, you get in free. Doors open at 8
p.m.
• Peggy Myo-Young Choy per
forms “Dancing Outside the American
Dream: The History and Politics of
Asian Dance in America,” from 11
a.m. to noon in Room 304 of Mabel
Lee Hall, 14th and Vine streets. A
second performance, “Dancing in the
Steps of Masters: An Asian Perspec
tive on Dance,” takes place at the Lin
coln Women’s Club, 417 S. 14th St.,
from 24 pm. tomorrow.
• “Richard IIP’ wraps up this week
end at the Howell Theatre in the Temple
Building. The show starts at 8 pm.
More information is available from the
box office at 472-2073.
•Robin and Linda Williams and
Their Fine Group, regulars to the Prai
rie Home Companion, perform at First
Plymouth Church, 2000 D St., at 7
Sunday night. Tickets are $8 for adults,
$4 for children.
• “The Tender Land,” an opera
performed by students in UNL’s School
of Music, continues this weekend at the
Johnny Carson Theatre, with an 8 pm.
show each night and a 3 p.m. matinee
Sunday. Tickets are $8, $4 with a stu
dent ID.
• The Turtle Island String Quartet
plays at the Lied Center for Performing
Arts tomorrow night at 8. Tickets are
$20, $24 and $28, and half-price for
students.
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Create the
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Live Music!
Ham - 1pm
Oct 14 - Dave March
Oct 28 - Chris Sayre
Cartoonist s compelling,
dark tale carries film
By Patrick Hambrecht
Movie Critic
“Crumb” is a wonderful film, eas
ily one of the best movies of the year.
Currently playing at the Mary Riepma
Ross Film Theater, Terry Zwigoff s
documentarytells
the story of one of
America’s strang
est men with stun
ning naturalism.
“Crumb” is
Robert Crumb,
the most impor
tant underground
cartoonist of the
20th century. His
character “Fritz
the Cat” starred in the first X-rated
animated movie, directed by film
innovator Ralph Bakshi. The “Keep
on truckin’” design he created be
came as recognizable and overused
as Ziggy during the ’60s and ’70s.
During the six years in which
“Crumb” takes place, Crumb sneers
and whines through everyday life
with hilarious pathos. Savagely, he
guards his art from being exploited
by obnoxious businessmen and re
bukes amazing offers from entertain
ment leaders.
The ’60s visionary rails against
yuppies, society, urban sprawl, mod
em music, and briefly, everything
else.
A misanthrope with a self esteem
problem, Crumb’s constant facade as
a sneering nerd appears pathetic. He
snivels about how girls never liked
him, complains about his fans, and
then cackles about how women can’t
get enough of him — now that he’s
famous.
Crumb is one of the most comi
cally bitter, though oddly likable,
characters ever to appear in film.
But his grumbling demeanor ap
pears increasingly heroic as the film
shows how easily he could have gone
insane — like both his brothers.
Like modem contemporaries Dan
Clowes and Peter Bagge, Crumb’s
eccentric older brother taught and
molded him into a cartoonist.
The elder Charles Crumb is an
amazing artist who has been crippled
I
Film: “Crumb”
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Rating: R
Grade: A
Five words: American genius
rails against world
by his father, his peers and his own
sensitivity. Max Crumb is similarly
destroyed, becoming a destitute sex
offender.
Only Robert, propelled by his an
ger and indignation, escaped the
Crumb curse.
Now Charles Crumb, as the film
first shows him, is an imppteat,
drugged recluse, still living with his
mother. Max is an obsessive spiritual
hermit, performing excruciatingly
painful rites upon himself.
The mystery of what could have
warped and devastated the Crumb
artists so severely hangs over every
thing Robert does.
The real irony is that Crumb’s
artwork could actually be considered
inferior, compared to his brothers
Charles and Max. It is not his artistic
talent, but his ability to disguise his
sensitivity to the outside world that
allows Crumb to rise to greatness.
Y et the tragedy of the Crumb broth
ers is only one of many stories told in
Zwigoff’s movie. Woody Allen
would have been glad to write the
scenes between Crumb and the
women in his life, including his witty
wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
The controversies over Crumb’s
art are discussed at length in the
movie, and he is confronted by harsh
opinions from critics and feminists
alike.
This documentary is inescapably
dark, creepily suspenseful, humanis
tically uplifting — but above all,
authentic. Historically and psycho
logically dazzling, “Crumb” is the
most important movie about an
American family in years.
“Crumb” continues at the Ross
Theater today through Sunday and
Nov. 2 to Nov. 5.
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Swick
Continued from Page 11
writing published dozens of times
in several magazines and literary
journals.
But, Swick said, 13 years of
success hasn’t made the task of
writing an altogether easy one.
“Everything’s hard,” she said
with a laugh. “It’s hard to force
yourself to actually sit down and
do it.”
Ideas come easy, Swick said.
Finding a way to make those ideas
come together proves more diffi
cult.
“Once I start writing, I can work
with the characters and let the story
grow organically. But making what
they do turn into something be
yond the action, giving those char
acters meaning, that’s the hard
part.”
When giving advice to unpub
lished writers, Swick said, she tries
to encourage them to have pa
tience and faith in their work.
“You need to have reasonable
expectations, because it’s a pretty
long process. But if you believe in
what you are writing strongly
enough and work with what you
have, things will start happening
for you.”
