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back to New York alone. Bailey was
scheduled to fly home on a tiny six
passenger plane. The thought of the
turbulent ride in the tiny aircraft
scared the hell out of him, so he
decided to accompany Perlman on
her drive home.
They got along well.
Perlman called Nikkanen about
Bailey when she got home because
they had been looking for a cello
player.
“Who in the heck is that?” was
Nikkanen’s response. “Who’s ever
heard of the name Zuill?”
Despite Nikkanen’s early doubt,
he was able to get together with
Bailey, and the two got along well.
“Musicians always say they’re
going to get together and write, but
they never do,” Nikkanen said.
But the trio did get together and
found that its music worked.
“We not only liked one another as
people, but the music was there,”
Perlman said.
Bailey said a musician could
have extraordinary talent and a good
relationship with the other musicians
but still not fit into a group.
“You have to have the same
vibe,” he said.
Bailey found music to be his first
love at age 4 and took cello lessons
from Loran Stephenson of the
national Symphony Orchestra. He
later graduated from the Julliard
School master’s degree program.
Bailey now does recitals throughout
the country and recently finished a
tour promoting peace in the Middle
East.
Nikkanen also made his musical
debut at a young age. When he was
12, he performed at Carnegie Hall
with the New York Symphony. He
also played with the New York
Philharmonic and graduated from
Julliard in 1986.
Perlman has been playing the
piano since she was 6 and also
attended Julliard. She studied art his
tory at Brown University and made
many concert appearances.
While at Brown, Perlman was
faced with a situation that threatened
her future as a pianist. She developed
chronic rheumatoid arthritis, which
forced her to quit playing for five
years.
During this time, she said she
came to many conclusions in her life.
“I knew I may not ever be 100
percent again, but I knew I wouldn’t
Concert Preview jbi.
The Facts WbMI
Who: Perlman-Nikkanen-Bailey
Where: Johnny Carson Theater on Tuesday,
Lied Center for Performing Arts on Friday.
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday and Friday
Cost: $24, half-price for students
The Skinny: Trio presents impassioned music.
be happy if I didn’t try to get back,”
sheshid.
She did regain her strength and
learned from her experience that she
was meant to play the piano.
“You can’t know how much you
love something until it is taken
away,” she said.
Being able to perform and make
a living playing music is a dream
come true for all three musicians.
Bailey compared playing his
cello to walking.
He learned to do it so long ago
that he forgets learning how. It just
comes naturally.
He is amazed by the fact that he
actually makes a living playing his
instrument.
“I have to pinch myself every
day,” he said. “I’ve been dreaming
about this since I was 10.”
u
Their job is their job. This is my job and
hobby. Even if I were a doctor or lawyer, I
would still go home and practice
Navah Perlman
pianist
Nikkanen said he always
dreamed of one day playing profes
sionally, but the fact that he was real
ly doing it didn't sink in until a few
years after college.
“You do it and find a way to get
by,” he said. “But it doesn’t get real
until you actually realize you are
making a living doing it.”
Perlman shared their sentiments
by comparing her attitude toward her
occupation to the attitudes of friends.
“Their job is their job. This is my
job and hobby,” she said. “Even if I
were a doctor or lawyer, I would still
go home and practice.”
Musicians such as Perlman,
Nikkanen and Bailey don 't just wake
up one morning and decide they
want to be professional artists.
“Artists are people who have
known what they wanted to do their
entire lives,” Perlman said.
The three take time out of their
individual performance schedules to
get together and perform two to four
weeks out of the year.
The Lied Center is a scheduled
stop for the group this year. Tonight,
the trio will perform chamber pieces
by Beethoven and Schubert in the
Johnny Carson Theater. Friday night,
it will accompany the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s Symphony
Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s
Concerto in C Major. Both perfor
mances are at 8 p.m.
Attending their performance is a
promise to hear experienced musi
cians who play with a passion - the
three musicians clearly share a life
long love for music.
Teen flick- torture
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for the uninterested
■ High school dances,
preppy girls, star jocks and
nerdy neighbors make up
“Drive Me Crazy.”
By Samuel McKewon
Senior staff writer
“Drive Me Crazy” borrows its
title from Britney Spears’ song, so,
really, how good could it be?
The answer: It’s not as good as the
rest of the teen movie fare that’s come
out this year.
“Drive Me Crazy” feels like the
millionth movie that ended with a big
dance as its conclusion in 1999, but.
really it’s only about the eighth.
Still, that’s not a good thing.
About the only truly redeeming fac
tor to this movie is its length (95 min
utes), which prevents the torture from
lasting any longer than it really has
to.
Torture, at least the kind of high
school social torture that seems to
dominate the lives of teen-age girls,
is the main subject of “Drive Me
Crazy.”
It stars Melissa Joan Hart (she
plays that witch on TGIF ABC, OK?)
as Nicole Maris, a preppy, peppy,
proper gal who only put together the
biggest dance her high school’s ever
seen. Now, she only needs a date, and
the star jock she wants isn’t taking the
bait. /
So, to make him jealous, (because
apparently, he’s capable of such feel
ing) she starts to date her next-door
neighbor, Chase Hammond (Adrian
Grenief with a look straight out of
‘‘Welcome Back Kotter”), who just*
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eral girlfriend dropped him for a col
lege activist.
Chase plays the liberal role, too, a
misfit to Nicole’s super-popular per
sona. They’re supposed to hate each
other, but that’s never really estab
lished, only that they hang in different
cliques. Either way, it isn’t very sig
nificant.
Along the way, sparks fly, the two
come to like each other, there’s a dou
ble crossing, a misunderstanding and,
i -■
Him Review
Ida facts
Title: “Drive Me Crazy”
Director: John Schultz
Rating: PG-13 (booze use, Grenier
rips off exactly one f-bomb)
Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian
Grenier
Grade: D
Five Words: Lives up to its title
finally, the big dance. Do these two
end up together? Does bacon have
grease?
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The difference is in the execution and
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“She’s All That” scores in both those
areas at least some of the time. “Drive
Me Crazy” puts up a goose egg.
Consider, for example, the sub
plot that has one of Chase’s friends
drive drunk kids home as part of a
safe ride program. In what world do
parents, or cops, for that matter, allow
this type of behavior to happen?
Showing high schoolers drinking is
one thing, providing them with a sup
port system, complete with trans
portation, is quite another.
Parents, in fact, play quite a large
role in the movie, even though they’re
not in the movie much at all. There
are three major plot twists for these
characters and not 30 lines of dia
logue between them.
The list goes on and on. “Drive
Me Crazy” doesn’t do the necessary
work to have a villain but creates one
anyway, for reasons unexplained. I
still thought the so-called bad girl
was a decent person by the end, and I
was confused as to whether her
actions in the movie were intended
cruelly or not.
“Drive Me Crazy” has nothing
going for it. I wish it would have.
Hart is pleasing enough as a lead
actress, and Grenier has likable easi
ness about his performance.
But they play characters smart
enough to belong in another movie,
preferably one that didn’t play the
same Britney Spears song over and
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