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If you have ever enjoyed Lynyrd Skynyrd, y
rprtainlv like their new album. If vou have
liked them or have never heard them, you
should give this final album a try. You may w
what you hear.
"Street Survivors," Skynyrd's sixth albun
masterpiece of southern-style rock-n-roll. W
addition of Steve Gaines, an excellent guitar
vocalist, the band was on its way to bigger anc
tilings. However, mis new aiuum was n
several days after the tragic crash involvi
entire band, which destroyed the future of
Skynyrd.
Lead singer Ronnie van-Zant, Steve Gai
guitar and vocals, back-up vocalist Cassie Gail
Dean Kilpatrick were killed in the crash. The
industry lias lost a gr'?at deal of talent because
tragic accident.
"Street Survivors ' is by no means
Skvnvurd's best albur. but it should not ha^
their last.
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BY IIKMIY <;IU:I:N
(iaini'coi'k Staff Writer
"Hobby Deerfield" is a love story which
avoids some but by no means all of the
mistakes to w hich love stories in general are
\ ulnerable. The film is made with class but
not with soapsuds, and the ending is sad but
not mawkish or sentimental.
Yet "Hobby Dierfield" is drawn out
somehow it seen s much longer than two
hours - and the plot wears a little thin.
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way of a semi-cliche: "It was a good movie,
hut I would not want to see it again."
Advertisements for this film, which is
playing at Richland Mall Theatre, ask,
'Who is Bobby Deerfield?" The man in
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The best way to listen to any ?
Skynyrd is to put it on the beginnin
start the turntable, kick off your s
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never
really T1IK FIRST SONG on "Stre<
ell like "What's Your Name" which was
^ Kossington and van Zant. A goot
11, is u ballad, this song is fairly typica
ith the group's other works. Taking adv
ist and lyrics, Rossington provides soni
1 better guitar. This cut shows the 11
eleased capabilities of the band, as it contai
ing the section.
Lynyrd
The second song, "That Smell,
ines ? long rock-n-roll cut. The message
lies and let anyone ever tell you that Skyr
; music lyrics) is similar to one of their m
e of the "The Needle and The Spoon.
Collins and van Zant, the song has i
Lynyrd stretching lead solos by Collins,
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question is an American race-car driver,
living and working in Europe . This man
Deerfield, played very well by A1 Pacino,
has accomplished early in life what most
men are still dreaming about in old age.
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with his French girlfriend. He is famous:
when Deerfield appears in public he wears
dark glasses so that he won't be recognized
and mobbed. He makes television commercials,
putting his stamp of approval on a
certain kind of watch in the same way that
jocks like Joe Namath endorse popcorn
poppers, and he poses for pictures with
glamorous women in the shadow of the
Eiffel Tower. Deerfield's good looks don't
hurt him, either.
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He proves he can the group's best. Four
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lossy, not to<
Yet his life is empty. He is entirely out for
himself and has no ties with anybody or
anything. Deerfield is a man without a past.
Mirly in the movie his brother comes to
Paris for a visit and tries to rolive old limes
with Bobby, all to no avail. Deerfield
remembers nothing, it seems, of his
childhood. Doesn't he remember that he
used to do a terrific imitation of Mae West?
Deerfield's face is a blank, shielded by his
dark glasses. "Dir'< we live in separate
houses?" he asks his brother. The meeting
ends in frustration.
KVKN' 1I1S PARISIAN M1STKKSS cannot
seem to arouse any passion or lire in
Deerfield. As he is about to leave the
apartment one day, she puts her arms
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members of the Skynyrd entourage
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around him and whispers, "You're perfect,"
looking lovingly into his face.
"Where's; my watch?" says Deerfield by
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The turning point in Deerfield's life comes
when he visits a friend, in the hospital
because of injuries suffered in a racing
accident. While at the hospital he meets a
beautiful, crazy patient, Lillian (Marthe
Keller), who is everything that Deerfield is
not.
DKKItFlELl) SKKMS to have no
imagination, while Lillian makes up fantastic
stories on the spur of the moment.
Deerfield never laughs, but Lillian has u
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