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Arts ©Entertainment Friday, February 16, 1996 Page 9 Weekend delivers rock, film Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. The flowers have wilted, the candy has been eaten and everybody who didn’t get a valentine is still dis ' gusted with the world. But that doesn’t mean you have to ; stop loving entertainment. Here are a few options for weekend diversions, and they’re all Cupid-free, we prom ise. At Knickerbockers, 901 O St., fans will leam that wicker and weaving do not all baskets make when Rascal Bas ket and Scream Basket take the stage Saturday night with their rock ‘n’ roll show. Tonight the rock slot will be filled by Shithook and Red Max. Both shows start at 10:30 p.m. and have a $3 cover charge. The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14 St., will get a little bit of soul this weekend cour tesy of the Bel Airs from Columbia, Mo. Tonight’s and Saturday’s shows start at 9, and both have a $5 cover charge^ ir'y.liv! i -»*J r, * i -m t At Mudslide Slim’s, 1418 O St., For Against and Pat Bradley will rock the house tonight. The show starts at 10:30 p.m. and has a $3 cover charge. Down the road a piece, the Omaha Symphony will perform its Superpops Concert “Yours Forever... Broadway!” tonight and Saturday at the Orpheum Theater. The show will feature Bruce Hangen as conductor for a number of songp made famous on Broadway, in cluding selections from “Man of La Mancha,” “Les Miserables” and “A Chorus Line.” Both nights’ shows start at 8. Ticket prices range from $11 to $31. If music s not your thang, remem ber that spending time in the dark isn ’ t only a favorite pastime for those in the throes of love. That’s right, kids, we’re talking movies. Ellen DeGeneres (TV’s “Ellen”) makes her motion picture debut in “Mr. Wrong” as a woman who thinks she has found Mister Right, but she soon finds one can’t judge a book by the cover. Adam Sandler takes his hockey skills to the greens in “Happy Gilmore,” something sure to please the anything for-a-laugh crowd. For the kids, the musical “Muppet Treasure Island” also is opening with our usual cast of favorites—including Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and Gonzo — plus Tim Curry as the vile Long John Silver. (Ever seen a muppet sword fight? You will!) With the announcement of this year’s Academy Award nominees, “The Postman” is showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theatre. It has been nominated in five categories, includ ing Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Show times are Friday at 7 pm and 9:15 p.m., Saturday at 12:45 pm, 3 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m., 4:45 pm, 7 pm and 9:15 p.m. Tickets are $5.50, $4.50 for students and $3.50 for children, senior citizens and members of Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theatre. Have something to contribute to TGIF? Send Information to “TGIF,” c/o Dally Ne braskan Arts and Entertainment, 34 Ne braska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68588, or fax ns at 472-1761. TGIF Is com piled by the arts and entertainment staff. Academy to perform classics Famed orchestra to visit Lincoln for first time By Emily Wray Staff Reporter The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will bring interpretations of many classic works by great com posers to the Lied Center for Per forming Arts on Saturday night. The 8 p.m. performance, led by the academy ’ s artistic director Ken neth Sillito, will feature the 20-piece string ensemble playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major” and pieces by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Georg Philipp Telemann and Dmitri Shostakovich. “As I looked through the Lied programming history, I realized that the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has never appeared here,” said Bruce Marquis, the Lied Center’s executive director. “As one of the most recorded chamber orchestras in the world, I thought it was appropriate to invite them here.” The ensemble, founded in 1959 in Great Britain by Sir Neville Marriner, has more than 800 record ings to its credit, Marquis said. “They have recorded everything from the movie ‘Amadeus’ to liter ally hundreds of other pieces under the founding director,” he said. _. - The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is known for its exuberant, clear tones and is a world-renowned group, Marquis said. “We’re very excited. Ticket sales are already over 1,400 seats sold, and I think that represents a new high-water mark for chamber or chestras at the Lied. It definitely bodes well for the future,” Marquis said. People will come away from the concert with feelings of joy and Photo courtesy of the Lied Center Kijitneth Siliito, artistic director of the Academy of St. Martin in tne Fields, will lead the world-renowned stnng ensemble Saturday at the Lied Center. inspiration, he said. strings and music theory, will present „ , , r. . _ „ two pre-performance talks at the Lied Saturday s Lied Center per for- Center’s Steinhart Room at 7:05 p.m. mance wraps up the Academy of St. and 7*30 p m Martin in the Fields’ most recent Tickets'are $36, $32, $28 and tour- half-price for students with identifi Robert A. Emile, professor of cation. Fan feels kinship with Ozzy By Patrick Hambrecht Senior Reporter For Steve Jacobson, a senior ge ology major, hearingOzzy Osbourne sing changed his life. _ And Jacobson Pnnr>ort is just one of the many thousands Preview Of fans planning to see Osbourne perform tonight at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, 1804 Capitol Ave. “This friend of my brother’s had these disco lights hooked up to his stereo,” Jacobson said. “And when the First opening chords of Osbourne singing ‘Iron Man’ with Black Sabbath came on, I felt myself empowered by what I felt to be an evil yet powerful force. And that was pretty cool. I was prob ably 7 or 8 at the time.” The influence of Osbourne, how ever, stayed with Jacobson long af ter the stereo had been turned off. “Later, ‘Iron Man’ was the one song I used to play over and over in my head, in situations that required energetic action, or violence,” he said. Jacobson’s new-found power was soon put to the test in a fight outside a local swimming pool in LaVista. “This kid started pushing my friend Jimmy Wallar and my brother Paul, and I tried to run him down on my bicycle,” Jacobson said. “I popped a wheel ie and tried to land on him, and I felt like I was Iron Man, but it didn’t really work. “He just grabbed the handlebars, and I managed to maintain my bal ance,” the Ozzy fan said. “Then I jumped off and he punched me in the ear. And I was too much of a wuss to hit back because of my Chris tian upbringing.” After Ozzy Osbourne quit Black Sabbath and pursued a solo career, he became an even larger part of Jacobson’s life. “All of my friends would walk on that path up to LaVista Junior High, and we’d all smoke cigarettes. Ev erybody wore Ozzy T-shirts, or Dio, or maybe Iron Maiden. “I was an Ozzy fan but to a lesser degree than others. Many people claimed he was supernatural. My friend Brian Caccaveri said he bit the heads off white doves in con cert.” But magical or not, Osbourne mesmerized Jacobson’s peer group. “Ozzy was just kind of a stud,” Jacobson said, “because he was dark and wore cool costumes, like evil looking capes. Ozzy’s songs talked about ‘going off the rails on a crazy See OZZY on 10 Professor displays 50 pieces By Fred Poyner Art Critic Work spanning a 35-year period for UNL professor James Eisentrager is now on display at the Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History. A selection of 50 oil, acrylic and pastel paintings, as well as lithographs and drawings, conveys how this Nebraskan artist has interpreted the role of art as object while incorpo rating the impact of surround ing physical environments on the individual. Acrylics such as “Cru #5” document Eisentrager’s fas cination with linear order, with color serving as the liberating force for the medium and the artist. While these works are reminiscent of Morris Louis’ stripe paintings, they purpose fully leave out the symmetry of Louis’ arrangements. Shown together as a group, the Nolan and E.W. titled paintings arc purposeful in the . ideas they invoke such as the topography of the land as seen from above, bits of colorful data moving through a flow chart, or the diagram of an electrical schematic. Another factor working in favor of Eisentrager’s later works is the interplay of the objects within the Gallery space. “E.W. #6,” with its rep etition of the square through line and color, intersects with the diagonals of the room on both the individual level and collectively with the other works alongside. A lyrical quality seems to infuse many of these paint ings, with the artist as both the composer and the song. They describe features of the Ne braskan landscape in one mo ment and the compartmental ization of modem life in the next. Eisentrager has been a pro fessor with UNL’s Art and Art History Department since 1969. His work has appeared in many exhibitions including the Joslyn Biennial at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha and at the Haydon Gallery in Lin coln. The Gallery of the Depart ment of Art and Art History is located at 102 Richards Hall, at Stadium Drive and T St. Einstrager’s work will be on display through Feb. 28. Glass Menagene lacks any excitement By Brian Priesman Theater Critic Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” has been called a clas sic. For the UNL Department of Theater and Dance, classic riiust mean boring. It started out well enough. As the play opens, the audience meets Tom Wingfield, a merchant marine reflecting on his life in St. Louis and the events that led up to him leaving home. Patrick Tuttle does a wonderful job as the desper ate young man, trapped by responsi bility to his mother and sister. Tuttle ably captures the inner tur moil of Tom as he struggles against his mother’snit-pickingand his love for his sister. But after meeting Tom, the play drags, lacking any energy. Kathy Dudley tried to capture the faded Southern belle needed to play Amanda Wingfield, the overbear ing and obnoxious mother. But she was too charming to sympathize with Tom. Dudley also looked too young to be the mother of two children in their 20s. Laura Wingfield, played by Laura Holman, is a shy and sensitive girl. Holman was almost too shy, cover ing any energy and love in Laura. Holman played much of Laura to the ground and over her shoulders as she tried to avoid eye contact with others. Unfortunately, this drowned much of Holman ’ s voice and hid her eyes and face from the audience. When she did show her eyes, her volume and her energy increased a thousand-fold and took the focus off of Laura’s limp. Jonas Cohen, as Jim O’Connor, See MENAGERIE on 10