Arts ^Entertainment
Friday, December 1, 1995 Page 9
Gerry Beltz
First shot
hurled in
pizza war
The name’s
Beltz. I’m a pizza
delivery driver.
The job’s never
been easy: terrible
road conditions,
late hours and un
grateful custom
ers.
But things are
about to get
worse. Much,
mucn worse.
Employees of a newly-opened
pizza place were seen recently in the
parking lot of a rival pizza place, pass
ing out employment fliers to the driv
ers of that establishment.
That’s how something like this al
ways starts.
They were there for recruitment, to
try to draw people over to their side
of the lines and support their cause.
Thus the lines are drawn for the
inevitable pizza war.
It always starts with something
subtle like that, but the pebble has hit
the water, and the ripples shall even
tually be felt all over the pizza
snarfing pond.
Next lies the “innocent prank”
stage, where pizza places deluge one
another with prank calls for massive
piles of pizzas to be delivered to local
Jenny Craig locations.
C Hies will bum, world powers will
rise and fall, and still the pizza war
shall escalate.
The point of no return will come
when that one timid pizza driver —
the one who has always spoken softly
and done his/her job well — whips out
a hand cannon and blows away a rival
pizza person.
After that, there will be no more
innocent souls.
I have already begun to prepare for
the ensuing apocalyptic hostilities. My
’83 Ford Mustang is at the garage,
getting refitted for the troubled times
ahead.
Instead of a sunroof, I now have a
turreted Vulcan machine gun loaded
with incendiary ammo. My rusty
tailpipe hides a flaming oil jet, and the
front of the car sports a ramplate and
laser-guided rockets.
Other features include a radar sys
tem, targeting computer, wheelguards,
and fireproof armor on all sides.
No longer can I just wear my pizza
shirt and shorts to work; something
with a bit more beef is necessary. My
body armor is on order. Already wait
ing for me in my closet is my battle
vest and assorted weaponry: Bowie
knife, white phosphorous grenades
and a machine gun with laser scope
and armor-piercing ammo.
Thus rises the sun on the new era
of pizza deliveries.
The early morning sun ascends
over the eastern horizon, adding a
subtle brightness to the exhaust fumes
hanging in the air. Bullet casings,
burned cheese and dried crusts lay
strewn about by the roadside, and
those immortal words are spoken.
“I love the smell of a super supreme
pizza in the morning; the smell of vic
tory.”
Beltz is a senior English education major
and a Dally Nebraskan Arts & Entertain
ment senior reporter.
Step it up
Renowned Hoedowners dance Saturday
By Jeff Randall
Senior Reporter
If you weren’t still asleep or out basting the
turkey Thanksgiving morning, chances are you
were watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade.
And if you were watching the parade, you
probably saw the Heartland Hoedowners.
But just in case you missed this Elkhom-based
dance group’s performance, you’ll have a chance
to make up for it Saturday when the Heartland
Hoedowners provide halftime entertainment at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center during the
Ameritas Classic. The group will perform their
award-winning routine “Can-Can.”
Since its inception eight years ago, the
Hoedowners have won several awards and com
petitions, as well as performed throughout the
Midwest and the rest of the country. The group
was founded and continues to be run by Rennae
Bosco-Stouder, the owner of Rennae’s School of
Dance.
The 80-member troupe is comprised entirely
of girls ranging in age from six to 18, and has
made a name for itself with its well-performed
dance routines.
One of the group’s members is Maegan
McArdle, a freshman business education major.
McArdle said the Hoedowners provided her
with good experiences.
“You get to know people, you learn to coop
erate, and you get a lot of experience performing
in front of people,” she said.
Sally Banghart, mother of Heartland
Hoedowners Lauren and Megan Banghart, agreed
with McArdle.
“Being part of the group and performing has
been very exciting for the girls, especially when
they see the crowd response.
“Not only that, they stick together and help
each other out a lot. It’s just a good experience.”
But with that fun comes a lot of hard work.
Banghart said that before competitions, the group
will spend four hours nightly in rehearsals for
months at a time.
“Sometimes, it takes up a lot of time for the
girls and us,” she said. “But I think they feel it’s
worth it. I know I do.”
Sharon Van Fleet, who works as a booking
agent for the group, said Saturday’s halftime per
formance was the result of sending a tape to a
representative for UNL, and the rest is history.
“We try to perform all over the state, and we
figured that this would give us a chance to per
form in front of a big home-state crowd.”
Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films
Community activist Kathleen Saadat, right, enjoys a welcome moment of levity in
“Ballot Measure 9.”
Documentary divides beliefs
By Fred Poyner
Him critic
For a documentary, “Ballot Measure 9,” cur
rently showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, is a narrow study of human nature with
gay and lesbian rights as the focus of heated de
bate.
Director Heather MacDonald relies on the un
--- folding testimony of both
MOVie sides inv°lved in Oregon’s
D . 1992 proposed measure to
KeVieW deny state’s rights to homo
sexuals.
The film, comprised of
footage shot over an eight
month period, travels around
the state and chronicles the
actions and reactions of sup
porters on both sides of the
-1 issue.
Scenes of anti-gay activity — including death
L ' i'#- --
threats, harassment, distortion of facts and
firebombing — paint an ugly picture of Oregon.
After seeing this film, one may not look at Or
egon — or Colorado, where a similar measure
passed when put to a vote — in the same light
again.
As a comment on the ideal of fairness most
would like to see practiced in America, the film
tries to make the conflict a clear-cut, black-and
white issue; favoring the proposal’s opponents
but showing how both sides attempt to influence
public opinion.
One point against MacDonald as a director is
that she glosses over the threat AIDS poses to
everyone, regardless of where they stand on the
initiative. Her bias, at times, is obvious.
Will similar measures be put to the test in the
future? Probably. And that’s exactly why the is
sue, like the film, remains unresolved.
“Ballot Measure 9” continues at the Ross Fri
day and Saturday.
‘Postcards’ paints plains pictures
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Nebraska dancers captured moving pictures
of the prairie on “Postcards from Nebraska” at
the Howell Theatre Thursday night.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln students,
faculty and alumni presented their collection of
Nebraska-inspired dance and tributes to retiring
dance professor Dee Hughes.
Many of the dances were choreographed by
senior dance majors. Out of these, Jennifer
Clyne’s “Prelude in Fugue” showed creativity and
picture-perfect scenes.
Clyne’s choreography showed an emphasis on
control and variety, which was also depicted by
the Spanish and guitar music.
Excellent, simple costuming added to the pic
tures, especially during “Songs of the Grass
lands,” where dancers dressed as pioneer men and
women whirled across the stage.
The three-part dance, choreographed by
Hughes, stepped out of the pictures of Nebraska
history books. In long skirts and overalls, danc
ers kicked up their heels to the high-tempo mu
sic of Aaron Copland.
Several metronomes kept the tempo during
“Borrowed Time,” a piece choreographed by
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Lincoln alive
with activities
this weekend
It’s the last weekend before students start
cramming for finals, and Lincoln is alive with
fun stuff to do.
• Local bands Sideshow, Mineral, Polecat
and Wash play at the Wagon Train Project, 512
T.J[JT.f—.... S. Seventh Street, at 8
p.m. tonight. Admission
H 1 is $4.
• The UNL Wind
1| I Ensemble presents a re
L I cital tonight at 8 in
Kimball Recital Hall.
Sunday, the Oratorio
Chorus and the Univer
sity Orchestra perform at
3 p.m. at Kimball. Both
concerts are free.
• The Comhusker Marching Band per
forms at the Lied Center for Performing Arts
Saturday night at 8. Tickets are S10 for adults,
half-price for students.
• Fall Dance ’95, “Postcards from Ne
braska,” continues this weekend at the Howell
Theatre, 12th and R streets. Show times arc 8
p.m. tonight and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $6 for students, $7 for faculty, staff
and senior citizens and $9 for the general pub
lic.
Have something to contribute to TGIF? Send
information to “TGIF,” DN Arts & Entertainment,
34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE
68588, or fax 472-1761. Deadline for publica
tion is 2 p.m. Wednesday, and publication is
not guaranteed. TGIF is compiled by Cliff A.
Hicks.
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Theatrix goes nuts;
uses entire theater
in ‘Insanity’ show
By Gerry Beltz
Senior Reporter
Theatrix is going crazy.
Lanie Robertson’s “The Insanity of Mary
Girard” opens tonight at the Studio Theatre,
located on the third floor of the Temple Build
ing, 12th and R Streets.
Director William M. Cover II, a senior the
ater major, says the audience will face five
large iron doors upon entrance, and the 80
minute production will be staged throughout
the entire theater.
“They will be in the surrounding audience
seating and in the main playing portion of the
theater,” Cover said.
The play, which follows an innocent
woman’s fall into insanity after being com
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