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% Page 7 - February 25, 1985 Entertainment THE GAMECOCK ' v ; $*:#-; &$$&& is?M& V ? lC* J 'V ,? v* .... //>/{>;V- . i-.jt%*f ^^;v'i%v? <^Ltv?SI/ ? 'l^SBeiSgfaM^Bfc^.. ^k-2? jHj ; 1 VH - y */ja lAL 'Sure Thing?' Free preview of i By Andy Duncan A free preview showing of Rob Reiner's new comedy "The Sure Thing" will be given tomorrow night at Richland Mall. Sponsored by the Carolina Program Union, the show starts at 8 p.m. Students can pick up free passes at the table in front ' of the CPU office on the second floor of Russell House today and tomorrow from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Passes may also be picked up in the office until 5 p.m. each day. C..-? -T-u : ? .u- J ... ? * JUIl I lllllg !!> lilt! .I'L'OIIU MOVii directed by Keiner, most famous as Mike the Meathead on television's "All in the Family." His 1984 directing debut was "This Is Spinal Tap," a mock documentary about a scatterbrained heavy-metal band ^ that earned both rave reviews and a devoted following. R, 4t9Hwmr 9 m 1 ij| gift; 8 JR ' 'Sjfe - " . m Partners in crime v Harvey Korman it Hedlay Lamarrandfyfel Brooks it tha gcvernoi will be shown in tha Ruttoll Haute Theatre Wednetday and Thurtd Vf- " ' i:- . * '0J&&-',2SjfeS2&i Z** . 4i-t v - nsk qVA .. >. v ?. vn. 1 I^SHI"?=^1------ r ' * r< % n *' Jd3S/& I i!*"^* r \ .,? ? ' riP\A/ Rpinpr film co www BtWIOIVFI I III I I Vll/ Like "This Is Spinal Tap," "The Sure Thing" has an offbeat plot and relative unknowns in the leads. The story concerns two Ivy League freshmen who inadvertently find themselves sharing the ride on a trip to the West Coast during Christinas holidays. Walter "Gib" Gibson (John Cusack) is a party animal obsessed with sex and junk food, while Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) is a studious ail-American type, the movie focuses on the uneasy relationship between these two opposites on the way to California. The "sure thing" of the title is a girl Gib's friend in California promises to fix him up with. She's played by Nicollette Sheridan, a former Cosmopolitan covergirl who was most recently seen on the ill-fated TV show "Paper Dolls." By Hobert U Uonnor Rock's scream queen has rei result is surprisingly positive and positively sophomoric on album. Pat Benatar and "Tropiec time when the scampy vocalis her newfound baby daughter a guitarist Neil Geraldo. Long c successful artists in pop musi< four Grammy awards), Benata "Tropico" is her best. Howi ??r? I!"!" - ? :t-v'v. j imiv in uwu III It^aiU IU "Tropico" attempts to di 8^V?Hn3^AfluM Benatar's irritating and bitchy replace it with softer tur produced songs, but it fai "Love Is A Battlefield" was tl v^:- * :'v? ; : BE what Benatar hoped to achievi after four boring albums. ?5S3S^ISl|J^SSj "TROPICO" IS heavy ' < Geraldo's experimcntive tink striving to remember that her ^ _ H need to wake up the deceased. image in leather mini-skirts i happily married mother, but 1 ~s - " - ?> -J*"* refuses to change. "We Belong," Benatar's date, is easily her most beauti tune is the instrumental factc r in "Blazing Saddias,' which s?PP?sed role change. Her v av at 4-30 7 *md QUI n m used for the wron8 reasons, i ay at 4.30. 7 and 9.30 p.m. strumCnt of "We Belong." ( ' dard lyrics cannot overshadow ''V^i- :' . ...:.. .V ' : ' i ''' I i, V,"' ' Gib (John Cusack) floats V; ' contentedly in the company __ of his dream girl (Nicollette ;^ Sheridan) in Rob Reiner's new t for tomorrow i ne supporting cast includes such familiar faces as Viveca Lindfors, who plays the eccentric Prof. Taub. Moviegoers may remember her as Aunt Bedelia, who met a grisly fate at the rotting hands of her late father in George Romero's "Creepshow." Reiner, the son of actor-writer-director Carl Reiner, has nothing but praise for the performances of Cusack and Zuniga. "I'd love to work with them both again," he said. "Of course, they will both probably become big stars and most likely won't take my calls anymore." Reiner was a member of the improvisational comedy group The Committee and a writer for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" before taking the role of Archie Bunker's sonin-law in 1971 u/hirVi umn hirv> ... - - . - , ?* "V/II II IwllllllY), natar effort dull spotlight. ("We belong to the light; we urned, and the belong to the thunder.') on two songs "Painted Desert" continues this delicate, the rest of the nearly fragile vocal mood. This nrooosed third sinale also nrn >" arrive at a Pe's *>at from the depths of raunch rock, t is revelling in Like a" l'ie *ongs on "Tropico," "Painted nd marriage to Desert" is lean on lyrical originality, ineof the most Regardless, it's a much-needed detour from : (she has won '?er usual routine. r's fifth album ;ver, that says Side one hardly evokes the same fascinapast efforts. l'on- "diamond Field" spotlights Myron Grombacher's drums. The background srobe itself of v?cals are interesting, but the storyline is r cimnprino and tragic. "Temporary Heroes" tries out a new lesandwelU rnd' >"d "Lovc '? The Ice Age" is Is. Last year's rorgetlable. he beginning of : on "Tropico" SIDE TWO BEGINS with the mindless "Ooh Ooh. Song.", Benatar and husband nave a n8*"1 OI wrmng songs that mean oil' husband ... , ' ff f er!no ,.nd Pat he Outlaw Blues" also suffers from the voice does not sophomoric pen of Neil Gcraldo. The tough girl may exist as a "Suburban King," "A Crazy World Like Jenatar's music This" and "Takin* li Back" are horrific. "Suburban King" is an atrocious display of terrible writing. Benatar's band, including best single to Charlie Giordano on keyboards and Roger fill pffnrt TK<* ^ ? 1 * * * .v. ...v ^upps on oass, should not have to waste its >r in Benatar's time on this trash. oice, too long s the lovely in- "Tropico" offers Pat at her best in terms jeneraliy stan- of vocalization. However, "Tropico" is one i her best vocal big mistake.