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entertaii Comn Emoti By SAM I.. IKVIN Gamecock Staff Writer When the Commodores and The Emotions came to Columbia for a concert last Sunday night, the Carolina Coliseum was packed to party. Every "brickhouse" in town showed up dressed to kill, and the show on stage was just as interesting. Tilings got underwav is niinnioc late with The Emotions. Wanda, Sheila, and Pam Hutchinson wore matching chiffon dresses, and displayed a strut that outdid every "brickhouse" in the audience. The arena was on its feet with the first song "Rejoice," and remained standing for one solid hour. The aisles were packed with dancing sardines as the trio belted out favorites including "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love," "Flowers," "Slip Away" and their current single "Don't Ask My Neighbors." Sheila, who had just been discharged from the hospital after a car accident, pulled all the UIUilKUIC oiupo W illi (1 M)IU |JC*I " formance of "How Can You Stop Loving Someone," in which she burst into tears replete with hanky in hand. Till: III) TO THE IIOl'SE nearly blew off when the group roared into the finale rendition of "Best Of My Love," the platinum simile that has marin thorn thn imi "'I' selling female group of the year. The overall volume was entirely too loud, however, and the mixed favored the backup which overf Valentino i nvt?s s You Mu^t be "| Yeah*, nay RocrY\Qt"e,l t SO yot Ltroy. jJvRobcc m ? Tf? lii / ? . Cute ament IIUUUI es?, ions shin nftU/ProH tho olnnunnf ltJ u |/V ?( V? HIV VIVVJUVIHIJ V.1 1^^ iSliailgCl IU llll harmony that is the untouchable Sunday night, trademark of The Emotions. It is a wonder that my glasses didn't A MISS BUK shatter on some of Sheila's am- was held in plified high notes. promotional gi After the "warm up," everyone winner was bro seemed worn out and deaf. Then, in bathing suit forty-five minutes later, The ping to the fina Commodores literally exploded group's most onto the stage and the audience "Brickhouse." bounded to its feet again. Although cajoling to get tl the performance was equally along, electrifying, people eventually sat After the nine down because of what had to be Commodores lei sheer exhaustion nnHionno the entire show THE NATURAL CHARISMA of former seemed lead singler Lionel Ritchie led the physical attra show through hits including "1 Feel miration for tr Sanctified," "Sweet Love," evidence. It wa "Fancy Dancer" and "Just To Be but from now < Close To You." For "Easy," ears please. Ritchie was provided a white grand piano to play while singing to the audience's ecstatic response. Guitarist Thomas McClary hammed it up with antics around the stane while hnssisf Wnn.ilH I .a Pread played the shy one. When at the keyboards, Milan Williams wore giant glasses a la Elton John and drummer Walter Orange occassionally came out front to sing lead. Trumpet player William King played as loud as he could, but again, the backup overpowered most of his displays. Kver since The Chicago SunTimes called The Commodores one of the "best kept secrets" of the industry, the word has been spreading through the grapevine; the group was certainly no wBBf^BSbM By JAN I'HK K what ( amccock Staff Writer Altlv sppn i The world's greatest lover might just have fragi ' been reborn on the screen in Ken Russell's Rt lavishly overdone "Valentino," now showing at "To Bush River Mall Cinema. tenti Opening with the hysteria caused by myst Valentino's death, the movie shows throngs of Ther bereaved fans storming the funeral parlor scre< while a parade of exotic mourners pass through natu it. does Each scene of the film gives a fragment of of V ?qq?<? havt you Finished^ 1 ^ J Vfc (y\oo\f\o\ your j "?/ e. stuff m ? fc CT7T\ I ^ f p A late arriving ICmotion still thrilled the crowd s Carolina Coliseum Sunda night, singing such hits a 2 capacity crowd "Rejoice," and their biggei !.:< t>n?a /\f ? - mi, ncsi ui my i.ove." The big event of the nighi KHOUSK Contest however, was the pel ihis area as a formanee of the Commodore mmick, and the who literally "exploited" out ught onstage, clad the stage, with the audienc to do a little bum- finally seating themselve le rendition of the after several songs from shee popular song, exhaustion. It took very little le audience to sing ty-minute set, The ft an overwhelmed unusual aspect of was that no perto be idolized for iction; only adue talent was in is a jam up party, an, cotton for the llg||.jBMT3ZMIW vi v mBBFur . 1 \ ^k!II|;? - - A l - \ flHBWl Valentine and the Twenties were like. VALEN" augh it should,Russell, however, does not first fragn 1 to mind how factually accurate these The whole ments are. Rudolph N issell, director of other notables like Valentin mmy" and "The Boyfriend," unin- immigrant onally perhaps, leaves much of the has a flair :ery surrounding Valentino unanswered, ages come efore it is his view of Valentino's off- shar#? :i w ?n sexuality and his excessive and volatile tuxedo pot re that is seen. Because of this, Russell but is inex not give us an altogether accurate picture leaving alentino. II | | BtrtRavi I \ C finished?) \ fS y HH ' is |^Q|h&H^ . >t ||^^i^My^~~^8^KIKl H^BHr WBi s BBH ki o s e HR0jHOT 2 -jaggy* BBHBBra jl' JM^^D r HBf^H^sMaSL ?w?li8P^ w ETv: ' '-jfflS y-v*# Stephen McCormach THE GAMECOCK # una Stephen McCormack THE GAMECOCK 1'INO WAS A DANCKK and, from the ^ lent of his life, we see him dancing. movie is a showcase for dance and lureyev's dancing ability. o, played by Nureyev, is an Italian m and taxi dancer in New York and for dazzling women. Women of all to the tea parlor where he works to altz and stuff dollar hills into his kets. He knows how to use women, :plicably dominated by them. New York after an unsuccessful See VALENTINO, page H? u 1 "Hoscoe Harvey" is one of two cartoon series that will be run in The (iamecock for the rest of this semester. The series is created and drawn by a team, Griffin Cupstid and Hen Hast, l>oth students at USC. "Koscoe" will be seen each Monday in The Gamecock. Another series, developed by Glenn llawls, assisted by Hill Douglas, will appear in each Thursday's edition. )