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Ever,_/, Friday and Saturday night 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Must present NU student ID ^ " vestions? E-mail us at: nuonwheels@unl.edu Otfeo Michel Lemieux-Victor Pilon Creation The ancient myth of lost love is re-created in a stunning new multi-media work. Friday, Jan. 28, 8pm Saturday, Jan. 29, 8pm Lied Center for Performing Arts Lincoln, NE Tickets: 472-4747 or . 1-800-432-3231 BoxOffice:ll:00AM-5:30FM M-F Website: www.unl.edu/Ued/ TEN YEARS \Uwnnlrn UedCenterpro?ammnQissi«xx1edby#»lihendsolLiedai*Jgnnfcta»l»NalioralEndoiinienttorlheAils, llCHTHSKH MftAmenca Arts Aianoe and tie Nebraska Arts Court All events are made posstte by the Lied Performance "*•»**“ -Ln^ Fuid vtich has been established in memory ot Ernst F Lied and his parents, Ernst M. and Ida K. Lied. ‘Down to You ’ fails miserably By Samuel McKewon Senior editor There must be an unwritten rule somewhere in Hollywood that absolutely requires the early movie sea son to include a completely worthless romantic comedy. But these vehicles exist, possibly as the sole beacon of movie light for teen age girls, none of whom should be let anywhere near die latest one, “Down to You.” This is not simply a bad film. It is awesome in its badness. For one thing, comedy is a generous term for a movie with zero laughs within it. Romantic is a sketchy adjective, too, as the two leads, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles, generate enough heat to freeze solid a rack of lamb. No. Where “Down to You” belongs is in the “disbelief” genre as in, “I sat in disbelief as I stared at the screen, my brain shut off, completely detached from die events.” As a sum of its parts, this movie is too bizarre to visualize. Among its more colorful asser tions: ■ That a 20-year-old college stu dent (Zak Orth) could not only be cast in, but direct his own line of epic porno graphic films, to be shot on location in New York, where live animals and hun dreds of extras are used without so much as a peep from the police. Then, that the same 20-year-old would ascend to become a nationwide speaker on censorship and art and get whisked away on a major university tour, all in the course of two years. Then, that the porn star is able to afford a million-dollar penthouse in Manhattan and throw constant lavish parties there, all while being on the uni versity tour, talking about censorship and art and taking time out of his day to stroll around Central Park in a foil length mink coat, talking like Macbeth. ■ That Prinze’s character considers the mink-coat guy to be his best friend. ■ That a girl (Selma Blair) would drop out of MIT to be in these films. ■ That Prinze’s character would be capable of receiving a job at a four-star restaurant after dropping out of culi nary school. ■ That another miscellaneous friend (Shawn Hatosy) would become a physical therapist and then have sex with his elderly patients. ■ That there is a person in this world that looks, acts and talks just like Jim Morrison. Guess what his name is in the movie? Jim Morrison. Oh, hilari ous. ■ That somehow, these people, along with the other drug and sex addicts this movie offers, provide a highly accurate picture of collegiate life. Starting to get the picture? There is a story around all of this, as Prinze’s A1 and Stiles’ Imogen meet in a bar (he’s a junior in college, she’s a freshman) and hit it off. When summer hits, she goes away to France, he stays in New York to cook with his dad (Henry Winkler), and when she comes back, things have changed. Well, not really. Imogen gets into pot, and while A1 sticks around to help freeze the rack of lamb, they are both tempted by others. Imogen starts to worry about get ting pregnant. So one of them has an affair. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the one who had an affair was also the same person who was afraid of getting preg nant? Heavy stuff. own to You STARS: Julia Stiles, | H | Freddie Prinze Jr. DIRECTOR: Kris Issacsor 11m RATING: PG-13 (drug use the assertion that i pornography as a living is : a perfectly typical thing for a 20-year old to do.) JH GRADE: F FIVE WORDS: Breaks siltil new ground in badness. This movie is filled with inexplica ble things that go above and beyond the obvious flaws. There are, for example, several entirely useless shots of chil dren literally beaming at our two main characters. What are these scenes supposed to signify? That grade-school children plan their day waiting for beautiful peo ple like Prinze and Stiles to walk by so they can beam at them? The same question might go for the boy in a grocery store who chooses to throw a toy airplane at Prinze, then cackles at him like a demon elf. What is this, “The Omen”? Other fascinations await you. It is the first movie in a long while, probably since I was a beaming child, where my brain shut completely off while view ing. Had flaming antelopes come gal loping across the screen, I would not have been surprised or taken it as a shift in the film’s tone. It’s good to note that the writer director of “Down to You,” Kris Issacson, got his start directing public service announcements. It’s time to go back, Kris. Please God, send him back. 'Affair’ casts gloom throughout film By Samuel McKewon Senior editor “The End of the Affair” is a movie that drips with misery; its opening line reads, “This is a diary of hate,” and it doesn’t get much happier from there. Things that are typically happy occur along the way - a married woman in World War II London (Julianne Moore) decides to have an affair with a writer (Ralph Fiennes) she truly loves. This could be happy. But it is really, really not. No, We find out as the movie begins, the affair did not end well. The woman, Sarah Miles (Moore), left her beau, Morris Bendrix (Fiennes), without much notice. In fact, she never saw him again after he nearly died from a bomb blast in a hotel. And Bendrix is left to wonder why. He begins to find his answer two years later when he runs into Sarah’s husband, Henry (Stephen Rea), a sullen, joyless man who enjoys long walks in the cold rain. Henry fears his wife is up to something, confides in Bendrix and Bendrix hires a private detective - not only for Henry’s sake, but for his own. Over the weeks, his answer comes. He meets Sarah again. The private investigator (Ian Hart) and his son dig through Sarah’s past life enough to uncover a priest and a hid Lourtesy Fnoto den secret that holds the key to the end of the affair. Adapted from a 1951 Graham Greene novel, “The End of the Affair’’ is a well-directed film by Neil Jordan, best known for “Interview with the Vampire” and “The Crying Please see AFFAIR on 13 Spring SCCC Study Abroad Extravaganza Connecting the World! 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