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t Entertainment ? Ca.. _ aTuaei ~ up above to get & f By MIKE ROMATOWSKI angle shots Entertainment Editor Cameraman. Tavlnr wrntp th*? A use General Studies the play last sum class has just finished taping filming has taken an original movie which will with many of I be aired on Columbia Cable members putting i Television next week. 20 hours per wee project. "It's a v The movie, Crosswinds, is consuming thing," the creation of thp 19. ?fnHpntc 'Wonoo MVVUiWV tYCl JfUU in Independent Study 299, their other classes ( which is taught by Dr. with, too." Franklin Ashley. CCTV will broadcast Crosswinds on channel 4 at 8 p.m. on Dec. 17. The hour-long, full-color //Th . f production is about "a 1 ucsl cincfnr'o mU< ^ ^ ^ - - A ? ?I u.u^vi v.uii-\.i ?viuui ia viii duuui me ci the way down, while his we wife's acting career is going up," according to script- experience writer Bill Taylor. quality e Taylor also plays the lead nient. role of Tripp Rollins, the 1 singer who finds his life rushing in the opposite direction of his wife, Brandy TAYLOR ALSO (portrayed in the film by praise for Ash] Natalie Picow). teamed with Dean the College of EVERY ASPECT of the Studies to get th movie, including writing, underway. "He's t directing, producing, singing, guy who will cut s instrumentation and from Hollywood to camera-work, is done by minute problem students. Anna Alevera does said Taylor. "He ^ dLl J* - - * \ me directing, wmie Sheila much into th< * Corley serves as producer. Everything we kr The other members of the movie-making class often double-up on learned from him.' their contributions; Todd Holli"s. .u for example, Ashl who als served both as an actor and a the , has wrU musician. Jim Fielder was articies for TV < both editor and cameraman, we? as azi while Coy Sanders was a Playboy Sport cameraman and actor. Yorker. He also : the senior editor Taylor described one dlapper. scene which was filmed in downtown Columbia: "In this scene Coy is beating me "The best thing up in an alley. Then, as I was class is that we gel laying there with fake blood experience with all over my face, he climbed equipment," Ta By MARK PLATTE Editor Village Voice Rock Music Critic Robert probably thought he was doing all of us a favo recently published Christgau's Record Guide, v compilation of nearly 3,000 mini-record review albums of the 1970s. But Christgau never counted on several outstan in nis dook wnicn, retailing at $9.95 in paperback 1 nothing more than offer a glimpse of one man': tastes. Christgau gives us capsule views of some of th< worst of the 1970s, complete with letter grades ran A-plus to E-minus ("an organically conceived m, that repays repeated listening with a sense of hoi (ana nf thn .MW u? W1V V will, UV.V.UI Jlllg IU UU1 ICVICWC1J THE PROBLEM is that the reviews are never < typical of one kind of listening audience (metropc York), and more often than not, are composed of s " criticism that the average reader is confused by C comments. how can (Jhristgau have the nerve to grade Ban Greatest Hits as an A-minus when The Who's The Alright earns a B? Can the Bee Gees' Bee Gees Gre 5me high,as a p, script for . z r r ifij mer. The iMlffifeltp 11 weeks, |^pteggB lie class tefSilillfi n close to ;k on the |^nflH| ery time- , ' ' he said, e has all to contend Men had high plained. "This fi) ley, who highest quality pc Varney of General MANY SCEN1 le project film were shot he kind of and at various 1 hortacall Columbia. Also, discuss a Mercedes, a $50 with us," and $250,000 h s puts so secured through 3 class, sets. Genera low about provides the tap we've cameras; the stu provide everythir music for the i o arts in recently recor< ton r!for!I! Columbia recordi ten many G'wide, as nes like Thus, after and New work, the student serves as se finisl for San- on television. The to arrange for ? by South Educational Tele about the now, however, ; hand&-on broadcast will b - quality enough for their ylor ex- hard work. n. line n( a B-plus actually which is given an Christgau Consider this n r with his *s _an *mPr vhich is a u-;uefny Jon 1 s of rock v0ice t"an anyon kitschy doomsayi ding flaws but rm disappoii form, does apparently literal 3 personal sle0P's Dark over a versifier a e best and as Pretender and > 1C r,*r> ?*/>n ?vi \rtrt n igingfrom asterpiece Tor in the CHRISTGAU, if an and as a critic, he snippets of sarcj consistent, overall, the impr litan New talking about. He uch vague day. hristgau's He does mix sor (seven albums ra ry White's and B-plus from I f Kids Are or his 12-album H >atest with but he can turn a 4* ? m um bet i :T0[ ^BHB|WjP >| ibers of Dr. Franklin Ashley's Independent Study class m is of the fAt* ... v....x. . tw Uic ^downtown J $ s reward JlllSKI - KUwi months of Dr Fran e views Tht be better than Dan Fogelberg's Souvenfrs B) and Joh undeserved C-minus? For any< eview of Jackson Browne's The Pretender: tinent to 1 essive record but a lot of the time I hate average re ^andau has gotten more out of Browne's Voice buy i e knew was thorp Th#? shnllm*7r?<?ce! nf hio rouiou/c Kv _ .. ... ^ . ?av waaM>av WW *(V?JkJ VA IUO I V IV W O ing and sentimental sexism is well-known, live-in pari ited as well in his depth of craft. How can te people mistake a received metaphor like ciIRISTG/ Silent Gate for interesting poetry or gush Yorkers wl apable of such rhyming-dictionary pairings suggested Ice Cream Vendor (the colloquial term, JB, rPviW nf \ V ntt "7 nice to glai to say this tything, is a master of entertaining writing his voice t i should be. Most of his reviews are merely better Elt< asm linked with half-hearted humor but omniverou Af,niAM in 4U?4 L- 1 ?L-l *_ - - ? ' ' 1 cooiuu is umi lie Kiiuws wnai ne s oaiances^c claims to listen to music about 20 hours per if he really The advi ne of the hard-rockers such as Led Zeppelin friend to d< ited: B-ollls. A. A-minus. R-nlus R f\nli ic vftn looifo . W J I > ) V f*"" ; "" 'VM?V. ,ed Zeppelin III to In Through the Out Door) his or her lolling Stones review (mostly A's and B's) certainly v round and review Helen Reddy (average: wrote it for :orTV discuss a scene from 'Crosswinds.' JK^ ^HffiS0EB^^K^S:v^y>:: S^iSSi:::: ? ^8 Brv ' ^ JSttm klin Ashley i 1970s n Denver (nothing higher than a B-minus.) >ne planning to pay money for this book, it's per ealize that a Village Voice audience is not an ading sampling. Most people who read the Village the paper not for the editorial content or the music it rather for the advertisements seeking bisexual ners with a strong penchant for S&M. kl T ic flnnrlw nnnJnrln,. U:~ 1: ? .v vivunj puuuvi lug u ilia cIUUICUCC UI 1NCW tio will more than likely r, )t buy the albums he has are the best of the 1970s Sut will enjoy reading his .hose records. The same is true of this book! It's ice through but who gives Christy i ;T;? authority about Billy Joel-."Despite the Chnpinesque turns a|fpq u/hon ho triac Ja rtnt ""i-? ? -.. . ..?/? aiv uivo ivf get lautuua, nc miliVCS <1 >n John than Leo Sayer ? he's got that same s hummability. But when he is (was) good, Elton 1) off the smarm with camp, while Billy makes as wants people to believe the words. Yuck." ce here is to pick up this book while waiting for a ) some serious book-buying and put it down before It certainly may reinforce what one thinks about favorite or least favorite albums, but it just as ,.111 i_4~ i ii?i?- i __?? * ^ mi lijiui ltue anu inai s oasicauy wnai unristgau ' vx