The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 10, 1980, Page Page 11, Image 15
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By JHI Jones
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j&ver warned mio an unfamiliar
bar to discover
you're the only one in the
place without a cowboy hat?
Or perhaps you decided
impulsively to drop in that
new bar evervone's been
talking about and you found
that everyone forgot to
'Although Easy's <
an adaptable, bai
student, it does set
fraternity orientatic
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iiieuuuii yuu u ltxi iikc a
thug in your blue jeans and
risk social disgrace by ordering
a Bud ? even if you
did pay $1.50 for it?
It doesn't take too long to
discover that bars ? like
people ? have personalities
and there are some you'd
just as soon avoid. The
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Columbia bars is to help
eliminate some of the
guesswork and "wasted"
evenings we've all experienced.
Easy's, located on Bluff
Road behind Williams-Brice
Stadium is probably still
better known as Mulligan's.
The bar itself hasn't changed
very much under its new
management and name.
Local b
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Greene Streets, formerly
corner of Greene and Harden
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advertis
By David Baker
Flm Critic
Tony Bill's directorial
debut, My Bodyguard, is one
of those "little" movies that
I'd just as soon put off
reviewing for another month
or two. But by that time, I'm
sure the picture will have
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in the sky where Hollywood's
unassuming failures go to
die in peace, away from the
ear-splitting kabooms of
such mega-bombs as 1941,
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Easy's (or Mulligan's) is
still a private club with
memberships available for
(CM A Li
r?.w. n lucuiucnMuu purchased
now is good until
August, 1981 and guests are
welcome. Memberships are
non-transferable.
The atmosphere at Easy's
is still very similar to that of
the "old Mulligan's." A
can be considered
' for almost any
im to have a strong
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sprawling, four-sided bar
manages to dominate the
warehouse-style building.
Seating is none-too-plentiful,
but no one seems to mind.
The crowd tends to
congregate around the small
dance floor, where disc
jockeys keep a steady flow of
rock, disco and shag music
flowing.
A smaller room adjacent
to the dance floor contains a
few pool tables, and more
importantly, a little space to
breathe.
Disc jockey shows are a
nightly attraction at Easy's,
with a fairly diverse list of
"special events" planned.
Included are bands (The
Zazzoff Boys, the Hot Nuts,
etc.), Ladies Nights, wine
ar hosts
iners
a Wilson
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the Coal Company, near the
streets has built a reputation
iard fall
ser's 'sic
Can't Stop the Music and The
Blues Brothers.
Amazingly enough (I
didn't think anyone was that
gullible anymore), several
major critics have been
quick to heap praise on My
Bodyguard and several of
their more glowing comments
are featured
prominently in the movie's
advertising campaign,
which is highly reminiscent
? almost plagiaristic ? of
the one used to sell last
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and cheese parties, wet Tshirt
contests and other
luivi v^jiuig cvcuia,
The addition of a
restaurant is a new feature.
The one at Easy's serves
lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
and dinner from 6 p.m. to 1
a.m.
Drink prices at Easy's are
about average, with most
domestic bottled beer going
for 90 cents and bar drinks
for $2.25. A daily happy hour
from 3:30 to 8 p.m. is an
added attraction and a real
break on prices.
Although Easy's is
definitely a bar catering to
USC students, its clientele
seems to change as the
evening progresses. Rock
music dominates the early
hours, bringing with it the
usual rock-bar patrons. As
time progresses, the rock
melds into disco and one
notices an entirely different
mass of faces. By 11 p.m.,
shag and beach music
abound, and with it, (you
guessed it) the Greeks.
Although Easy's can be
considered an adaptable bar
for almost any student, it
does seem to have a strong
fraternity orientation. So if
you're not into the "Greek
scene," plan to go early .in
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uie evening or iaice aiong a
fellow "independent."
for bringing quality entertain:
In the past year, Greene St
Delbert McClinton, Savoy Bi
Columbians who attended th<
hearing some very fine music
During periods when c
unavailable, Greene Streets 1
tertainment from the pool of 1
one can go mere on almost ai
good band.
The bread and butter of tav<
s short
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year's sleeper hit, Breuuing
Away.
Indeed, My ks oayguard
seems to have been cut from
the same cloth as Peter
Yates* Oscar-winner. Both
films are set in the Midwest
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vui cuNing w u y in
Bloomington, Indiana, My
Bodyguard in Chicago), both
deal with teenage boys
coming of age and both were
financed by 20th CenturyFox.
Within these
similarities lies the reason
why My Bodyguard leaves
me cold: the movie was
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cutcuiuieu iu in; a steeper.
When a movie dares to
come straight at us,
proclaiming itself to be an
unheralded diamond-in-therough,
it deprives us of the
right to discover it for
ourselves This takes th#? fnn
out of the whole process.
Perhaps I could forgive
My Bodyguard its smugness
had it been as perceptive,
well-acted and fast-paced as
Breaking Away, but every
single one of the movie's
theses ring false and the film
as a whole is stupefyingly
pompous and utterly dull.
A 15-year-old boy, Clifford
Peache (Chris Makepeace).
moves to Chicago and, upon
enrolling in a public school
there, discovers that the
halls and restrooms are
teeming with bullies, led by
a brat named Moody (Matt
Dillon). To alleviate this
problem, Cliff convinces an
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Persons enjoy the b
ment to Columbia.
reels has attracted the likes of
own and other touring bands.
;ir shows got the priviledge of
in a club-type atmosphere,
ut-of-town entertainment is
las been able to book good enocal
talent. It's safe to say that
ly night and hear a reasonably
irn business, of course, is drink
of
oal
allegedly psycopathic
classmate (Adam Baldwin),
who is rumored to be a
murderer, to act as his
bodyguard.
The ploy works well at
first, but Moody is no jerk, so
he soon goes out and hires an
even bigger bodyguard to
take care of Cliff's protector.
Things get even more
preposterous from there, but
I shall spare you the details.
Rest assured, however,
that every conflict is ironed
out, every bully gets his
comeuppance and, in the
end, every character is just
a little bit wiser from the
experience. No matter how
illogically this is accomplished,
it nonethel^s is
done.
At fade out, the viewer
feels as if he has been
watching someone buy a
fragile little Christmas gift,
take it home, tie it up in a
pretty red ribbon and place
it PVPr so pflrpfnllv nnH*?r th?
tree. The problem with My
Bodyguard is that its
dramatic conceits are too
brittle to be handled even
tha| much without shattering
into a million pieces.
Steel, on the other hand, is
a big, lumbering, seeminelv
unbreakable mock-adventure
film in which every
character's stance is
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have any room to grow or
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sales. Greene Streets is open 4 p.m. until 2 a.m. Monday
through Friday and 4 p.m. until 12 a.m. on Saturdays to
comply with Blue Laws. Happy hour is from 4 p.m. until 7
p.m.
According to Greene Streets employee George Belton,
Monday and Tuesday nights are devoted to jazz music while
rock bands usually perform Wednesday through Saturday.
but occasionally Bluegrass bands are brought in on these
nights. The music usually begins around 9:30 p.m. For those
interested in table games, Bel ton said Greene Streets also
offers backgammon, pinball machines, and bumper pool.
c AZgtlwtica
Dvmark chevalier
Summer murals
Murals used to spring up in post offices and government
buildings like clock-work. Generally they would
span the ceilings, or encircle you in wide narrative
bands about halfway down the wall. Most possessed a
kind of fluid stylized realism, a la Thomas Hart Benton, |
and most depicted the geographical and industrial j
character of the region. They functioned, in many
respects, like the great stained glass windows of the
Gothic era, for both strove not only to decorate, but to
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The heyday of post office murals has long past, yet
within the last few years, there has clearly been a
Renaissance of sorts in mural painting. The ever j
evolving skylines of our industrial centers have created
large windowless walls, which were once covered by
other, since departed buildings. These "voids" in the ]
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artist, and some of the results have been quite sur- 1
prising.
There is, for instance, the gentleman that paints
illusionistic buildings on buildings, complete with trim, j
doors and windows. Sometimes they match the real
architecture, and other times thev recreate a nnst stvl*
or design.
Social themes still emerge in the mural, often focusing j
on cultural ancestry or ethnic identity. Bold, abstract
graphic designs can be found most anywhere, and
illusionist, near photorealist scenes have begun to appear.
Although evaluation of murals is based on the same
aesthetic criteria as the other visual arts, the real trick
of the successful mural is its integration with the arrhitprtnrnl
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muralist cannot simply paint what he wants in a given
space, he must coordinate what he wants, with what the
space will allow.
Over the summer months, two new murals have appeared
in Columbia, neither of which display any understanding
of the above notion. Both were executed by
Ralph Waldrop, a Columbia artist who calls himself
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