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Haunted houses scare Lincoln
as spooky holiday approaches
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As Halloween nears,
students get scared on
campus and through
out the city.
By Patrick Miner
; StaffReporter
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The Halloween season is upon us
again, which means it is time to stock
up on candy and visit as many haunted
houses as possible. This year, Lincoln
has a several choices of both.
Premiering this year, there will be
a haunted house right on campus. Al
pha Phi sorority and Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity win present Nightmare on R
Street at the Phi Gamma Delta frater
nity house, 1425 R St. The house will
contain attractions, such as the ball
room of terror and a spinning room.
The attraction will run from Oct. 29
through Oct. 31, from 7 p.m. to mid
night. Admission is $2 or two cans of
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ship and law enforcement assistance!
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Wednesday to Sunday. The hours arelj|
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Another attraction at Grandpa vf
John’s is The Dead Zone,complete I
with an electric chair and Dr. Sicko,
who tries to perform “surgery” on those
who walk by.
“This is a very big college event,
due to thejive action,” representative
Dean Lambert said. “Dr. Sicko will
be performing surgery every night.”
The price for The Dead Zone is $5, jj
and is open Wednesday through Sat-8
urday from 7 pjn. to 11 pjn„ and Oct. 9
27,30, and 31 from 7 pjn. to 9 p.m. m
y Other events this year include the®
Chamber of Terror, presented by the®
Lincoln Jaycees and 102.7-FM®
(KFRX), 1023 O St. It runs Tuesday,®
Wednesday and Thursday nights from®
7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., Fridays and Sat- I
urdays from 7:30 to 12 and 7:30 p.m. H
to midnight on Halloween.
Musical revue delivers
energetic mix of tunes
By Emily Wray :
Music Critic r „
‘Ain’t Misbehavin’1
offered the works of
two performers from
two eras.
A scratchy record of piano mu
sic played offstage. Then, the pia
nist walked out of the shadows to
an upright piano, picking up the tune
where die record left off.
That scene introduced audience
members at the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts to “Ain’t
Misbehavin’.” Last weekend’s per
formance opened the show’s tour
with excitement and energy.
The musical revue featured
pieces that Fats Waller either com
posed or performed. Martha Reeves
and the Vandellas performed with
four other angers, a pianist and a
band ensemble.
Spanning 2ftyearsof music, two
styles were presented. The first half
was uptown, pieces that Waller
wrote for,white, upper-class audi
ences, while the second Half focused
on downtown tunes, songs played
for black audiences.
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Although the first tunes com
bined fun and an underlying sexu- r
ality, they seemed safe. The per
formers had a good time with the
songs and the audience, yet seemed
to be holding back. This attitude
was intentional and fitted uptown
music perfectly.
“Honeysuckle Rose,” sung by.
Lynn Randolph and Martha Reeves,
was an example of this attitude. The
piano was swinging and the voices
complimented the piano nicely.
Each could have performed alone,
but voices and piano made a choice
to work together. The familiar song
sounded good, but still seemed safe.
“The Jitterbug Waltz,” per
formed by die company, gave audi
ence members a hint of what was to
come in the second half, with per
formers doing a historically accu
rate impression of the jitterbug. The
composition also showed what hap
pens (hiring the last dance. Some
people in the production get swept
away in the moment and some
don’t, resulting in comedy.
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Cigarettes star on silver screen
Hollywood films set anti-smoking advocates on fire
NEW YORK (AP) — The brash
young Wall Streeter flicks a flame to
light his wife’s cigarette, then plucks
one from the pack for himself. He next
stretches across a table and gets his
father-in-law’s cigar going.
The billowing smoke isn’t confined
to Hollywood’s new romantic comedy
“She’s the One.” Such box-office stal
warts as John Travolta, Bruce Willis,
and Whoopi Goldberg all puff through
their recent films.
Despite legions of Americans
who’ve kicked the habit, smoking on
the silver screen has not diminished
since the surgeon general first linked
cigarettes to cancer, heart disease and
other ailments 3!4 decades ago, two
studies show.
In a society that’s banned smoking
from many public places, kicked the
Marlboro Man off roadside billboards
and determined secondhand smoke is
a health hazard, the celluloid behavior
can seem strikingly out of kilter.
Filmmakers insist the cigars and
cigarettes are just props, a way to de
fine tough or rebellious characters,
enhance romantic scenes or evoke ear
lier eras when smoking was common.
But anti-smoking advocates fume
that Hollywood, willfully or not, is
glamorizing cigarettes. They note that
TV shows have largely given up to
bacco and suggest that more imagina
tive ways exist to summon nostalgia—
tailfin Cadillacs and Nehi grape soda,
for two examples.
Moreover, the on-screen haze is
reviving concerns the tobacco indus
try is paying for its products to appear
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If they simply showed tobacco use
realistically, that would be a gigantic
step forward from the current situation”
Dr. &TANTON Glanz
University of California professor of medicine
in movies. Such “hidden advertising”
would violate the long-standing federal
requirement that tobacco ads include
the surgeon general’s warning that
smoking is hazardous to health.
“At the very least, (filmmakers) are
being grossly irresponsible,” asserted
Stanton Glantz, a University of Cali
fornia professor of medicine who has
chronicled Hollywood’s habit.
Glantz, in a random sampling of
scenes from 62 top-grossing films re
leased from 1960 to 1990, found that
overall tobacco use in movies remained
level over three decades. And even
though smoking by the lead characters
dropped somewhat, it was still three
times that of real people in similar de
mographic groups—65 percent to 19
percent, by Glantz’s reckoning in 1994.
A more recent study, by die Ameri
can Lung Association, looked at 133
films released in 1994 and 1995. It
found that 102 pf them, 77 percent,
featured characters either smoking or
holding tobacco products. And com
pared to TV, the lung association said,
feature films are five times more likely
to depict tobacco use.
“If they singly showed tobacco use
realistically, that would be agigantic
step forward from the current situa
tion,” Glantzsaid.
Smoke abounds in an AP sampling
of nearly a dozen recent films:
■ In “The Bridges of Madison
County,” Meryl Streep, as a lonely farm
wife, accepts a cigarette from Clint
Eastwood, a roaming magazine pho
tographer, in a smoldering prelude to .
their taboo passion. Film publicist
Marco Barla says smoking was faith
ful to the best-selling bode and addi
tionally helped set the scene in the
1960s.
■ In “Corrina, Corrina,” also set
in ah earlier time, a cigarette dangles
from Whoopi Goldberg’s lip the mo
ment she steps off the bus in her role
as a sassy nanny. And she chain
smokes her way though an att-female
road trip in “Boys on the Side.”
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food. Sponsors of the event include
101.9-FM, (The Edge) Pizza Hut,
Linweld, Coca-Cola, Armstrong Fur
niture, Omaha World-Herald, Moose’s
Tooth, Isco Inc., Bodega’s Alley, Papa
John’s and bw-3.
“With sponsors like the ones we
have attracted for this event, we are
expecting a huge turnout,” sophomore
mechanical engineering major and Phi
Gamma Delta haunted house chairman
Jason Jacobi said.
Creating and designing a haunted
house can be a very big production,
Jacobi said.
“We are happy with the way things
are going so far,” he said.
The Ride of Terror, established by
the Sertoma Club of Lincoln,, is pre
sented this year at Grandpa John’s
Pumpkin Patch, 4801 NW Highway
34. The Ride of Terror is a hayrack ride
that will include surprises from the sur
rounding fields.
The Sertoma Club is donating funds
from The Ride of Terror to several
community projects. Beneficiaries in
clude West Lincoln Elementary, high