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H^HHSHsBBi^S^^Hi^^n^^BiH^^HINi^^liiji&'l^lK--1 L;- ir ' "-' -fj-*-*"'" '- ' ' ; .j~ -:.'T-?'-j''- .-'-r-^ \r^y^ '--^-'r-y' J 'V"''"'.? . MeHnHnn^^^Bi *v iirnF^pT^^ez" ?>Vi*-i^f \y^i-: -j^v: 4:r-t^-pi\.: :>;v.. CgggB^Pv ;:?^||^^gS^^QHgo?^P f' 8AW:-:ji#yi>^y jjWHl^^^c \ %;->:':i^^?g^^M:v;->^ Alfstars in concert Thursday ni DeNiro is exc in grueling wai By David Baker hero, De Nil tnieriammant Editor Subtle idiOS] The Deer Hunter has been nominated for character ai nine Academy Awards ? Best Picture, Best shows unde Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting spiration to Actor (Christopher Walken), Best Sup- and the vie> porting Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Niro's best i Director, Best Cinematography, Best milks it for a Editing, Best Original Screenplay and Best man to beat f Sound. It won Michael Cimino the Golden Matching 1 fllnho A\ir'irH f/\?* D/u<t 1 novwv unuiu iwi uciii L/iictiui mm 11 was l'ne changes named Best Picture of 1978 by the New York through in i Film Critics Association. almost unbe Each of these honors is well deserved, make them a because The Deer Hunter IS an excellent time we see one of the most grueling a draining films that I have e film. It just isn't a very enjoyable one. In frightening s fact, The Deer Hunter is one of the most his face wh grueling and most emotionally draining happening to films that I have ever seen. It's also without weeks. I hav question THE most depressing. If it was but I cannot Cimino's intention to make a film about the the film's end uuer tuuuty ot mankind, he has succeeded The rest of greatly. are simph The Deer Hunter is the story of three achievement friends ? Michael (De Niro), Nick Perhaps th (Walken) and Steven (John Savage). All film, thouf live in a small Pennsylvania town and all screenplay work together in the same steel mill. In their Washburn, I. spare time, they and three other friends go Redeker). It deer hunting. great deal o \A7l, v ?- ' much me Him ujtciw, n is oieven s weo- mrough epig ding day. Nick is the best man and Michael the characte is the life of the reception. The next day, the never to the f three men are to leave for Vietnam and by with visual the time they return, everything in their grandly in ty lives will have changed. explores deej Cimino has very neatly divided the film th<? nf i ? into three separate sections ? the wedding, are forced to the war and the war's aftermath. Every The Deer character in the movie undergoes a drastic anyone who t change in each of the three sections, most of is important, them changes for the worse. Watching the 'commentary movie is like watching three of your best may not like friends slowly dying. can see it an As Michael, the film's Superman-like probably mac oy james noKosny QamecocK Stall Writer "Basically we are called a blues ba everything we play isn't blues. We play roc and different branches of blues. We apprc music in the traditional way a blues band do< as best you can, all the time, for the people.'" Allstars' rhythm guitarist Steve Bliley. This appears to be the overall attitude of tl group. They are a peoples band. They're not t ii ior me money, "it 1 don't do my best, mai can't explain what it does to me. I feel like myself, the band and most importantly, t down," said guitarist Dick Green. Individually, the Allstars are excellent mi Lucile Schoettle has one of the most p electrifying voices I've ever heard. (No, going to say anything about Janis Joplin). D is remarkable on the harmonica. He runs an stage playing his heart out as if each show last. Steve Riggs is the perfect bass player, h tries to steal the stapp v*?t vrm 1? 0 ?, J jr VU Uiwajro Ml there. Paul Hammond appears to be just aboi asleep at the drums, but he never misses Steve Bliley is a perfect second guitarist f j Geen. He doesn't try to out play or steal the s from Dick (which would be very hard to d( Vi Green is the band's leader, whose guitar worl surpassed by his intense stage theatrica am 5#"* relations. ellent ISBJlasI : movie ?wmmsssMf v. o is fascinating to watch. The yncracies he works into his 111111 * id the strength his character & ' fv, *J? r pressure serve as an inboth his friends on the screen vers in the audience. It's De * >h, is Deric Washburn's Bj|li||j (from a story by Cimino, .ouis Garfinkel and Quinn K. f I EKSWh is almost literary in that a HHflj f the action is foreshadowed rammatic hints in several of lines. is detailed, but x)int of being boring. It is filled metaphors and succeeds - - ?*jgjlj| ing together the three rituals it H . . )ly ? the weddinu. the hunt and - T \ tussian roulette which the men I participate in as POWs. Hunter should be seen by he can It both as a work of art and as a 'K on the war in Vietnam. You what it has to say, but if you d not be touched by it, you're flf le of stone. 01 ff* performances ?ur audiences Tho Ornnrt nlotic catiarol r\( ? ji iiv I 9 A j/iuj' O OV V Vs A CI * Ui IfAllUVIJ' fT O tCI 13 till 1 V^*J> y li couple of old Who and Beatles songs, some Bobby nd. But Blues Band, and just about a little something from k, swing everyone. The manner in which the music is >ach our presented is unique. I had a feeling that individually is. 4Do it the musical interests of the members of the band said the were different. "Paul is into soul, Dick likes '60s British, I like blues and rock, Doug likes swing, so le whole what we have is a wide cross section of influences just in it which we feel flow easily together,'' explained Bliley. n, I just The crowd's reaction to the band was hard to believe. : I've let Dancing, drinking, and a number of nponlp rpmnuino W. -- I 1 * he tans, shirts were a few of the activities that could be seen going on in the Spur on this remarkable evening. isicians nwprf l" Wayne Doleski wrote in his preview article in the I'm not 26 'ssue Gamecock that "the Allstars can la on^y ^ appreciated by seeing them perform >und the live" He should have added that when you do see .. them, you will know for sure that rock 'n' roll is here , 1S to stay. The Allstars don't play to the crowd, they ow he% play FOR the crowd. jt to fall e^se can be sai<* about this considerate. hp~t tainted. har(* working band who all, in one way or or r^k an?ther said, "We love it here, you people are crazy, ootl ffht ^ope we can come back." If you like to party, if ) J? . you like rock 'n' roll and if you like performers who c is onl ^ive 100^ every night and are more than willing to . X chat with the audience, you'll love the Allstars. If you crow get a chance, go see them. They're amazing! v. y . . ; . . .. . .. ' IKSlS IBhHb v^Bhb if" l l:lm:i^ ; Hfek UBB9 K^ wninee Robert DeNiro