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QIIAISIITI pi BY DOUG BELL looking empl Mm cntk (Adrienne Barl ?? - our internatn Swamp Thing has drawn a (Louis Jourdan good deal of attention locally faced thugs (v because of the fact that it remember con was filmed in and around the no good for mai swamps near Charleston, is an explosion But that, for me, is just scientist somel ctiiuiuci icitauii iui UIS111V1115 jjuicui the film. Who wants to see potion. The the natural glory of their spends the rest native state debased in a playing the title trifling horror film? This is one Story: In a laboratory of movie that do< some sort of experimental to transcend it camp-station (which is, if I as flat as an 8 1 remember correctly, doing As it was mad something for the good of budget, it mankind), a handsome pyrotechnics t young scientist develops The charactei some strange potion that board stereo brings about enormous Barbeau's growth or transformation, damsel in n..- (Vt 1 t Wiur< \ Tniirrfnn'c cr vol nuru V AWJ rrnrr?) uuuiuuil U Ul falls Immediately in love heel, complet with a newly-arrived, good- hat and a heart The Spongetones' sh< Band Accer "Twist and Shout!" chants the crowd and the rumble usually increases to a roar before the four of them can scramble back onto the stage for what has become one of the traditional encore numbers of the Spongetones. It was one night in 1979 that a group of Charlotte musicians got together and "just for fun" played some music by the Beatles and others from the 1960s. Encouraged from the beginning by favorable crowd response, the group that became the Spongetones dug into the recent musical past to develop the act that has become one of the best and most popular in the area. The Spongetones will play at the Golden Spur tomorrow night. The name, "The Spongetones," means "whatever you want it to mean," according to the group. And inside this almost threeyear period, that name has become 1 synonomous wiui guuu iuumu. The Spongetones say they "have fun" playing the music of the Beatles, the Kinks, CAROLINA WOME CLINIC ' Preanancv Testinq ' Abortion Counseling and Services Pregnancy can be detected before missing p Birth Control Counseling and Pills * Pap Test and other Female Problems 2009 Hampton St., Colui 803-256-0128 turejridt oyee-expert The "Thing" himself jeau). Enter differs from the classic anal villain movie "Things" of ) and his pug- yesteryear?for the worse, /ho are, if I From King Kong on down, rectly, up to one is first struck by the ikind). There monster's super-human in which the savagery, and then later iow comes in touched by the emergence with his own within the beast of some result? He near-human feelings. But ? ? i.1 n 1 _ _ _ ot me movie me awamp iiimg is oniy a role. transformed human, and the comic book secret potion works mainly esn't attempt to magnify a person's true 5 source: it is character. /2 by 11 page. At any rate, "it" tuns into le on a small a colossal sap. Still in love has no with Barbeau, the Swamp ;o enliven it. Thing is all lovesickness and rs are card- no menace (except to types, from deserving bad guys); his dead-serious self-pitying tears erode what distress to heroic "noble savage" lave French stature he might have had e with black and make for an unbearably to match. dull monster in the bargain. >w is full of nostalgia. ifc THr^ct/nl rsirt the Doors, the Monkees, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Herman's Hermits and other musicians of the '60s. "It's like going back to our roots," says guitarist Pat Walters. In addition to musical detail, the in struments and certain costume touches ? sometimes white shirts with skinny black ties, sometimes shiny black suits, * sometimes white suits with red rose knutnnniai<<u< nnmhina tn cot tho ctaUf* fft) UVUtUI&llIV'I W WlllMlltV w uvv ?-?iv *v? a nostalgia trip. Pat Walters plays keyboards as well af guitar for the group. "I enjoy playing the type of music people really respond to," h( says. "The Spongetones started out as something we liked and has become mon fulfilling than I ever imagined." Jamie Hoover splits the guitar work wit! lirnUyvMn AM KA nlotfC f Vw VYctnci a. v/ii uv.i.aaiviu, nc aiou piujo u? recorder. Hoover is also an active recor< producer and recording engineer. Steve Stoeckel, bass player for the band bears a resemblence to Paul McCartney see'TONKS. page! :N'S Sportswear & S Custom Printing ft >0nod Transfers and Let Special Carolina D Tibia, S.C. 2767 Rosewood or. \ Phone 254-9380 5 Mln. y- u/edrvucla^/ JliJU I i nimTt?Tini'ii *ed Down MMMHW' flK IT JBfcgriB " . . >/ .'/../ I think the movie's best character is an awkward WMi -Vv'v S??SI?1 youth named Jude (Reggie Batts ). He is obviously < ^ ^!-:..-'VJ; thrown in to supply humor ( fl T - _ : and to guide Adrienne W Barbeau through the swamps), but his subdued, B- - -- : '-" peculiarly timed delivery is fl . surprisingly tresn compared \. to the mechanical rantings it of the rest of the cast. Swamp Thing's a mixture j ' ??11 l?Sl?^fttl| of comedy and action (you j !; M couldn't call it horror) is half-hearted. Its weaknesses can probably be traced to a poor script and an indecisive - 1 director (Wes Craven). Still, M . ' |p . . ,r' ; . ., ; / ^ the kids in the row behind me S|i| ^ Sfl? ; /., I? seemed to enjoy it well H:';V r ; v; v.;?.v.: ? '.-/'.-V enougn, or mayue tney were laughing at my head nodding \ fgj |l|pil I? ljl!'WS&m, in near sleep in front of them. Buchwald Gets Laid BY CHKIS HANDAL primaries might receive. He i Book Critic One to Senator Howard throug Baker: Was hi Art Buchwald is laid back "While you were visiting becoir in Washington. Actually, his the Sioux Indians, our chief An< latest book is entitled Laid presented you with a techni Back in Washington and it's headdress and made you an seem another collection ol his nonorary memoer oj ine oe an newspaper pieces, which are tribe. 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