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Entertainment Editor Cameraman.
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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,"
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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
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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
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\ 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
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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
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script for . z r r ifij
mer. The iMlffifeltp
11 weeks, |^pteggB
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' 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.
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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
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over a versifier a
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consistent, overall, the impr
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vague day.
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(seven albums ra
ry White's and B-plus from I
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>atest with but he can turn a
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m is of the
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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
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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 \
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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.'
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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.
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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
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