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By Hanny Powell I
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Chic lived up to its name in appearance I
Friday evening as they performed before a 1
sparce Coliseum crowd, but their music was i
lacking that elegant flair.
The audience was obviously impressed by
the show put on by the four-member group,
with their eight-member backup group,
which included three violin players.
However the violins were for show only,
becau. ?they certainly added nothing to the
music, not like real studio strings would.
The lyrics to Chic's music is stereotypical
of all disco tunes: lyrically repetitive and
simple, a moving beat and nice harmony. If
not for the instrumental part of their music,
Chic would have been very boring.
The audience was thrilled with the Chic
hits "Le Freak," "Dance, Dance, Dance"
and their other chart-topping hits, but for
the most part, it was the lively stage show
that gave the audience their money's worth.
The most disappointing part of the
evening was when Gene Chandler took the
stage. Chandler was a misplaced night club
performer who should have been singing at
a small beach club instead of the awesome
Coliseum. Later that evening, the MC announced
Chandler would be performing at a
local club, which is where he should have
been in the first place, because he seemed to
be overwhelmed by both the number of
people and the size of the arena.
(jnandler pranced on stage and literally |
thrilled the audience with the movements of |
his long body; it certainly was not his music. I
He must have been on one hell of an ego trip, |
because it looked as if he thought he was the
After two y
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Charlton Heston may be in his an heroic
fifties, but it's doubtful that many ill-fated
men half his age would want to Down,
tangle with the award-winning
actor. The man is big, strapping, "I alw;
as healthy looking as anyone different
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credits his fitness to tennis, a game "I think
he plays better than many of its actors in
professionals, but there's no establish
disguising the fact that he works guess I'n
out in gymnasiums on a regular who does
basis. one of tl
There's also no disguising the who doe
fact that Heston looks a great deal that gn
younger than he really is. His perhaps,
auburn hair is mixed with gray fellows,
only on the sides, giving one the
impression that he's talking with a "But
distinguished man in his early-to somethir
mid forties. A professor perhaps, audienc<
given his eloquent use of the "becaus*
English language. you'd bel
Heston was in Atlanta recently to 0ne or
promote the opening of his latest chances,
film, The Mountain Men, in which think, yc
he makes his first screen ap- 0f gut re
pearance in more than two years, doesn't 1
The reason for his self-imposed like you
hiatus? "I iust didn't read nnt
anything I liked," he said, adding me. Bui
that after spending almost three Tyler, I <
decades in Hollywood, "a good
script is still the hardest thing to Hestoi
come by." Richelie
Heston admitted, however, that Mushete
in the case of The Mountain Men, Four Mi
the quality of the script was not were
what first brought about his in- beknnwr
terest. their pr(
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he said, "that one of the things that would b
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my son, Fraser, had written it." respond)
Heston confessed that he was howevei
concerned about the possibility of ment.
not liking the script when he first
learned that his son was writing it, "I di<
but after reading the final draft, he 1 'becaus
said, he was both relieved and both mo
delighted. than an;
He found the role of Bill Tyler, gave m
whom he describes as "a raucous, he adde
bad-smelling, illiterate fur trap- made t!
per/' to be refreshingly different would s
from any role he had previously partanc
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main event. Clouds could be seen formin{
around his head as his musical directo
began shouting out, "Gene Chandler, Gen<
Chandler, Gene Chandler," over and over a:
the "star" made his bows and encore bow!
at the end of his drawn-out act.
Probably the highlight of the entir
evening was when Cameo took to the stag*
If Cameo had put as much effort in thei
music as they did their stage antics, the
would have been a knock-out; as is, their ac
was only a technical decision. They were, i
Chic in Friday night'i.
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id as different as could be Heston consi
most recent part, that of of his most fasc
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as possible from what surround the pi
done," Heston explained.
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that, over the years, I've 0 Jvon?tKVf
ed some elbow room. I except as'that
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s biographical roles and stage v<-'"'slons
tes me chances that, appeared in w,
are denied to some of my misnaPOn
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b about every six pictures, formance had
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>u must look for some kind soon after he pi
sponse to the character. It
need to be a man who is Nothing so
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me, Bill Tyler is not like Men, however
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smoothly. Th<
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isketeers. The two pictures
filmed together, un- 44wind Rive
ist to the cast, and when Heston said. 4
xlucer, Alexander Salkind, picture was wi
ed that the second picture under, but it's
e assembled from footage calls a 'sof
from the first, virtually Mountain Men
member of the cast ? it does say
ed with a lawsuit. Heston, about. But I \*
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le I only worked 10 days on Jewel of the l
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yone else in the cast. That it is based) tc
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d with a laugh. "If they'd production b<
hree pictures out of it, I upset. The pi<
till have felt I had a good film Heston )
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typical a
l all honesty, the high point of the evening,
r Whereas Chic had a good stage show and
e fairly decent music, Cameo had a great
s stage act and good music with the only
s drawback being that you could only halfunderstand
what thev were saving.
e Cameo added sparkle to their act with a
?. very good choreographing session, inr
teresting costumes, a fog patch covering the
y stage, exploding flashes (that were both
:t shocking and blinding) and a smoking
n guitar. In reference to the guitar, if someone
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were playing me like that, I would probably
smoke too; he was sensational. Cameo was
truly a visibly exciting group; eventually
they will get their music up to an even par
with their stage movements and they will be
pure black dynamite.
Ecstasy, the lead group, was surprizingly
good for a lead-in group, as far as those
groups go. For the most part, Ecstasy did
nothing original, but they did do some pretty
good renditions of the Whispers' "When The
Beat Goes On and Kool & the Gang s Too
Hot," among other popular tunes. The one
song that was all Ecstasy, which will be
released in the next few weeks, was a so-so
song. Given time, exposure and experience,
Ecstasy has the potential to make it to the
top, or at least to a high plateau.
Overall the concert was drawn out and
boring, with long breaks between each
group. This caused the relatively calm
crowd to find way to enjoy themselves,
either by talking, consuming beer and/or
smoking some very funny smelling
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fights or police movements, which marred
the Isley Brothers concert a few weeks ago.
In comparing the three summer concerts
at the Coliseum, the Commodores were
undoubtably the best, with Chic coming in a
far second and the Isley Brothers bringing
up the bottom. The Commodores offered a
perfect blend between lyrics and music; the
Chic concert, if anything, was a little heavy
I on the lyrical side, and the Isley Brothers
I were too loud and overbearing with their
music.
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