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\Im _ 1 i Mer enieriains By Jessica Baggette Kier, an impersonator of artists like Billy Joe Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne, preser taining show at the Golden Spur Thursday and He reached his audience through casual rappo asking questions to keep the audience constant! A talented and versatile musician, Kier achi< with a piano, an acoustic guitar and a harmoni nr. urr.miMJ mc snow wun me song Mind" by James Taylor. Kier also sang some original tunes that were of the show. "This song is dedicated to m; guidance counselor," he said. The song, "Setting Me Straight," is about ; has doubtful considerations of gaining a college said, "When the guidance counselor tells you tl are not college material, it is time to go out and be a real person. " Kier played a few Elton John tunes includin the Jets," "Rocket Man" and "Your Song." tivated the audience with a hilarious imp* Waylon's and Willie's "Mammas, Don't Let Grow Up to be Cowboys." HE ALSO portrayed Bob Dylan and Neil You same well-known country tune. During the course of the show, "the Boss!" ingsteen!" was periodically screamed out from Kier replied, "The Boss will be here momentai just pulling in." He performed a fantastic and < ingsteen classic called "Thunder Road." Receptive to the audience, Kier took requests c of the concert. Included were Joel's "Piano Man Cinematic Arts From Staff Reports Four films by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, and a sequel of one of his most diabolical movies will be shown at the Russell House Theatre Feb. 6-11 by the Cinematic Arts Committee. Two of Hitchcock's lesser-known ? but no less interesting? works, "Under Capricorn" and"I Confess," will begin the Hitchcock Festival Feb. 6, followed by "The Wrong Man" Feb. 7, "Rebecca" Feb. 8 and a so-called sequel to a Hitchcock classic that ir ar% i? t r?? * ion* uscii rsycno n an a orings DacK Anthony Perkins as the crazed murderer Norman Bates Feb. 9-11. The first three films in the festival will be shown free. 'Lunch of Our Lives Soap Opera al By John Vaughan Friday, when the plates had been cleared fr< and the chattering crowd had buzzed out of tt The Passion Players let their collective breath o\ whew! They made no effort to control the collectivt followed. The five performers struggled to describe how playing their live lunchtime soar* onem namr - m "k? I B ' ' m _ *t:flPR^..' >:'|*S - r'>"-" /:-; ? - o ^ You don't expect me to believe that? 'Lunch of Our Lives' is being presented to the lunc ?L A. A . . ? ?Jm* Brr wdB crowd with n , iisiv mw S&ftfc, 1 x Jl N: ? a student who W diploma. Kier ^i, *' uit maybe you fl find a job and I g "Benny and .mJPIiSSSi He later cap- ^ srsonation of Your Babies ng singing the Sounds like.... Kier delighted the crowds at tl or "Do Sprthe audience. altered a verse to amuse the rily, his jet is weird crowd for a Thursday ni energetic Spr- smile. Cause he knows that it' and forget about class for a \\ luring one set " in which he KIER PLAYED old and far ; Committee to "UNDER CAPRICORN" (1949) stars one of Hitchcock's favorite cool blondes, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotton. The film is best known for its exhilerating camera movements and its use of the camera to cross real and symbolic barriers. Strained domestic tensions and skeletons in the closet make this film closer to Hitchcock's suspense-filled "Mamie" than any other of his well-known pictures. "Under Capricorn" will be shown only at 7 p.m. and will be followed at 9:30 p.m. by "I Confess" (1953), starring Montgomery Clift. This brooding V50s star portrays a priest on trial for a murder he didn't commit. He knows the identity of the real killer, but is bound by his religious oaths not to reveal the t 'Scarlett's' reci sold-out audiences at Scarlei 3m the tables Center. ic restaurant, it with a deep "WE HOPED people woul know it would be like this," ; whoop! that head. "I just can't believe it," sai they felt after "It's pretty incredible," agi ly before two The show, called "The Lun . H| H -v--; SlllS IBm^ ^' ^W-->Tr. ; ;^tlS' - . fl| ! itime crowds at Scarlett's on Fridays. linmenT umerous impers BrJ I I I rjg Hfl lly J| ngfc j| j| le Golden Spur Thursday and Friday nights with his upbea audience: "Well, It's a prettty with a light vei ght and the manager gives me a Believer." s me that they're coming to see -lust by playing 'hile. " and the reaction i humorous, persoi niliar classics, and ended one set tion as well as or ^ ? - i present tiitcnc name since it was given to him in a P confession. a The film uses black-and-white V photography for austerity and the actors P even speak in subdued, repressed tones to a ad$ to that atmosphere. According to film c critic William Rothman, author of "The r Murderous Gaze," a book about five Hit- f chcock films, the story is a thinly veiled tl allegory of McCarthyism and the blacklist, F an interesting point for students who were't even born in the '50s but always have been F curious about the days of former Sen. ( Eugene McCarthy's infamous red-baiting F tactics. n Hitchcocks's 1956 film "The Wrong si kvt ?? >> i? -i ? ? - ? ivian win ue snown reo. / at / and 9:30 eiving much medi tt's in the Holiday Inn City focus of a surprisi sion Players ? al they've been som< d be interested, but we didn't cairt U/anHa II i t o rtiobinn V- ? - ? 1 Ht suaf wj the idea around w d Debra Leopard. pair began toyinj eed Robert Hooker. looked into chant ch of Our Lives," has been the That was last fa idea. Three months 1; fessional acting t disbelief and glee wire services, two "It still hasn't ? THE SHOW is tional soap opera all played for lai thrown in. The action is cei ruthless owner (L backstabbing in (Meadows), a mt seductress (Hite) < Planned origins Friday in Februar; ' ? iluii u was doosicc BHHBHHBUBHH |s Cameras, reporl li the first episode, a E$ out, hotel official: THE PASSION event snowballed. || I was picked up nex m j ^ The Columbia Re ' Ql Photo by Mary Ann Holli* What does this 1 "Well," Hite sa five through nine I 4 onations --- -- PP% I Photo by Bryant Smith it show. "sion of The Monkey's hit, ''Daydream a few notes, the audience recognized a song, resulted in a trip down memory lane. Kier's nabic style shined through his characterizaiginal tunes. ock films i.m. Exciting, spiraling camera movements nd the superb acting of Henry Fonda and 'era Miles make this movie "a masterliece," according to Rothman. The movie is semi-documentary based on the true story if a New York musician falsely accused of obbery. The most famous sequence of this ilm occurs when the camera plunges through he narrow opening of a cell-door to reveal "onda as prisoner. IITCHCOCK'S CLASSIC "Rebecca" 1940) starring Laurence Olivier and Joan ontaine is the filmmaker's first Americanlade movie, and will hp chr?wn a Tim tory is one of the few adaptations Hitchcock See "Hitchcock," page 11 a attention ng amount of media attention, and The Pas1 current or former USC students ? admit jwhat amazed. is born when Beth Meadows began tossing ith friends Glenn Rawls and Hite. The latter 5 with possible storylines, while Meadows es of actually producing such a show. 11, and the concept seemed... well, just a fun iter, the five friends had formed a local proroupe and were agog with a mixture of as their "idea" became a news story on both national networks and USA Today. sunk in yet," Leopard said. a 2^-minute parody filled with the conveningredients of sex, intrigue and romance ? ighs with a bit of audience participation itered in a fictitious radio station whprp sopaid) is surrounded in love triangles and volving a dippy on-air psychologist ;ek accountant (Rawls), a double-dealing md a high-rolling young stud (Hooker). illy as a four-part mini-series to run every / at noon, the show received so much atten1 to two performance times the week before :ers and almost 300 people were on hand for nd the remainder of the run is virtually sold 5 said. I Players say they're amazed at how the First reported in the Gamecock, the story t by United Press International, The State, cord, the Associated Press, The Carolina lagazine," ABC Radio, USA Today and i has been able to confirm if anything like jr Lives" has been tried before. mean for the future of the show? lid with a grin, "we planned out episodes he other night."