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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
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formance of "How Can You Stop
Loving Someone," in which she
burst into tears replete with hanky
in hand.
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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
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selling female group of the year.
The overall volume was entirely
too loud, however, and the mixed
favored the backup which overf
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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;
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By JAN I'HK K what
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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
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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
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be idolized for
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1 to mind how factually accurate these The whole
ments are. Rudolph N
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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.
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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
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"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.
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