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Matt Haney/DN IWo-night rock fast hits Lincoln By Ann Stack Senior Reporter It’s not quite Woodstock, but it’s the closest thing you’ll find to a grand scale rock spec tacle in Lincoln this weekend. A two-night bill featuring eight local bands is looking to be one of the hottest events hap pening this Friday and Saturday, provided you won’t be at the high school swimming and div ing championships. The show is a benefit concert for Model United Nations, a student organization com prised of UNL and high school students. This is a group modeled on the actual United Na tions, said Elaine Leonard, the group’s secre tary and treasurer. “We’re an organization that does a simula tion of the United Nations at a conference ev ery spring,” she said. “We simulate two of the general assembly committees and one of the security councils.” The benefit show is to help Model UN cover the costs and expenses of the convention, which is being held March 12-15 in the Nebraska Union, she said. A great aspect of the show is the diversity of the bands involved. Every band is different, and both nights run the gamut of musical styles, so don’t expect to hear the same thing twice. There’s everything from rock to lounge to alt/ country. Friday night’s lineup consists of: Tony Lamar doing an acoustic set, and then later singing with his hard-rock group, Mondello, the jazzy, funky, hom-infused Kid Quarkstar and Omaha rockers Six Speed Universe. Saturday’s show features Blacklight Sun shine, the alt/rock/country group China Digs (along the lines of Uncle Tupelo), the punk edged bill-e-ROO-bin and the trippy lounge rockers SupaLounge. The man in charge of putting that bill to gether is UNL senior English and psychology major Calvin Webb. Webb is the driving force behind Spydrwebb Productions, a music-related company dedicated to the promotion of inde pendent local and national talent. He said the show was originally going to be just a one-night concert with his band, SupaLounge. However, he said he tries to pro duce at least one “full-scale local band fiasco” a year, and decided the time was right. He nar rowed the field down to about 14 bands before selecting the eclectic eight featured in the ben efit show. “I scouted out the local scene, and I wanted to pick bands that would be entertainers, con sidering it’s purely for exposure,” he said. “I also wanted to offer a diverse experience.” Webb began his business three years ago, after transferring to UNL from Michigan. He was a singer in three different bands there, and he began his company as a reaction to the treat ment his bands received. “That’s where my passion is—I wanted to give people the opportunity to emerge in the scene,” he said. “I want to give them the chance I never had. “I’m determined to help other bands suc ceed,” he said. “I mean, there are Billboard junkies and there are people like me — who’s to say who the Top 40 bands should be? Tell me who’s No. 41, or No. 141.” Another facet of Spydrwebb Productions is label representation. Webb represents three record labels: Deep South Records, Homegrown Music and Aware Records. Friday’s benefit show will be at the Wagon Train Project Space, 512 S. Seventh St., at 8 p.m. Admission is $4. Saturday’s show will be in the Nebraska Union’s Centennial Ballroom at 8 p.m. The cost for that show is $4, $3 with a student ID. Bizarre antics occur backstage on Grammy night By Larky McShane Associated Press NEW YORK — Backstage at the Graimhys: glitz, glamour, star-gazing. - Don’t believe it. Behind the scenes at the 39th annual awards Wednesday were artists hyping their J upcoming records, a scuffle between shutterbugs, silly questions and sillier an swers. This is the stuff you thankfully didn’t see during CBS’ three-hour televised ex travaganza. There was Jewel’s explanation for her see-through dress: “Sometimes I don’t know when to feel fear. Tomorrow I’ll be going, ' What was I thinking?”’ There was the most bizarre question of the night: Paul Anka, who wrote the theme for “The Tonight Show,” was asked by one reporter if he could have lived off the royal ties from that one song. “I would imagine,” he deadpanned, “it depends on how one lives.” Who s got a new album coming out? Anka. Herb Alpert. Steve Winwood. Seal. Aretha Franklin. Did any of them win Grammys this year? No, but that didn’t stop ‘em from plugging their products. It was 5:28 pjn. when the first winner thanked God for a Grammy. The envelope, please: It’s Keb’ Mo’, cited for best contem porary blues album. He was also the first winner to thank his mother. In a bizarre tableau moments later, Keb’ met the press just as fellow winner Hillary Rodham Clinton was about to arrive. A Se cret Service officer, oblivious to the ongo ing Q&A, boomed, “Ladies and gentlemen, the first lady is coming.” Grinning widely, Keb’ replied, “No prob lem,” and graciously surrendered the stage. The night’s first ugly incident occurred before a single celebrity sighting or award presentation. A slightly bemused publicist reported a scuffle between photographers battling for position inside the empty Madi son Square Garden. Harmonica great James Cotton had no trouble winning a Grammy for best tradi tional blues album. He did have trouble find ing a match for his cigarette in the smoke free Garden. Please see GRAMMYS on 14 Former ‘In Living Color’ stars miss their ‘Booty Call’ Photo couttesy of Columbia Pictures JAMIE FOXX stars as Buz, a wtaanber wltk little tine arlaMtlu far tact la the aav Jeff PaHack-eirecte# caaieily, “Baaty Call.” Sketch comedy-style capers wear thin on big screen By Jeff Randall Film Critic Two men, two women, one dog and a de stroyed condom could—if placed in the right hands — make for a good comedy. “Booty Call” has all of these things. All of them, that is, exgept for the right hands. Starring “In Living Color” alumni Jamie Foxx and Tommy Davidson, “Booty Call” had the potential to be an edgy and well-meaning satire on the current state of single life and the futility of relationships based solely on sexual ity. Instead, it degenerates to a series of before seen comic setups and haphazard deliveries that only hit their desired targets a few times. Bunz (Jamie Foxx) and Rushon (Tommy Davidson) are two swinging buddies who, much to Bunz’s chagrin, are being driven apart by — of all things—a woman. In the meantime, Rushon’s girlfriend of seven weeks, Nikki (Ihmala Jones), is contem plating whether or not to consummate their relationship. But she is worried that Rushon will try anything to impress Bunz, so she in vites her friend Lysterine (Vivica A. Fox) along on their date to keep both of the boys in line. nam As the date progresses, however, the two couples end up in separate rooms with the same ideas. Unfortunately, Rushan’s last condom is destroyed by Killa the dog (played convincingly by Killa the dog), and Bunz and Jamie are forced into the streets in search of rubberized protection. The rest of the film follows the series of mishaps and diversions that occur during their quest. The result is a disjointed and almost schizophrenic film that seems made up of in dividual sketches rather than a single script. Director Jeff Pollack, who is probably best known as executive producer and co-creator of television’s “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” has only one previous feature film under his belt, and it shows in this film. The camera wok is stationary to a fault, and the editing follows television’s long-established setup/punch line formula throughout the film. Davidson, who has earned his reputation through years of better-than-average stand-up and sketch comedy work, seems out of place in this sophomoric comedy. Please see BOOTY on 14 «t ■ Photo couotisy of Columbia Pictures TOMMY DAVIDSON stan as Daskee, Daaz* ■are aariMtlsas bat easily psnaaM frM la the aaw Jeff PeHack-tkacteS esaieOv, “Nasty Call.”