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Features ^Wednesday, July 1, 1987 3 Summe 1 Review ~ Aykroyd makes /By STEVE COPPOCK JR. Staff Reporter After seeing Dragnet, the 1 movie update of" the TV scries, one is sure of just this fact: Dan Aykroyd is detective Sgt. Joe Friday. i1 After spending years behind 1 the spcctre of his early partner, the late John Belushi, Aykroyd finally gets a film that puts him i' firmly in control, with his uncan ny ability to mimic people. While the last 20 minutes of Dragnet drags between jokes as action gets in the way of the I Jk humor, the tnovic as a whole is i enjoyable. t Aykroyd's Friday is the nephew of the original Joe Friday, played in the Dragnet TV show by the late Jack Webb. Friday is issued a less than by-thebook partner, Pep Streebek (Tom Hanks), to investigate a series of } crimes attributed to an organiza tion called PAGAN (People Against Goodness and 1 Normalcy). Waters tr< By ANDY BECHTEL V Features Kditoi ^ "By the way, which one's Pink?" t ? Pink Floyd, "Have Twelve years after the release of t Pink Floyd fans might be asking the Roger Waters, former bass songwriter for the British band, is his former bandmates' plan to rest without him. In a statement issued this past rr for Waters said the legal battle ov Pink Floyd name remains ip the despite reports that the action hac The statement also said lawyers c i i f ^ ---| The Gamecock S"i ; THE GAMECOCK ia the student news('f f paper of the University of South Carolina t : and is published three times a week on I ^ : Mondavo, Wednesday*! and l-ridays during; y(,' the fall and spring semesters and weekly Jr on Wednesdays during both summer sessions, with the exception of university f# * holidays and examination periods. M Opinions expressed in THE GAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of THE GAMECOCK. 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There are no SNL people this time around, and Hanks never comes close to stealing a scene from Aykroyd. Half the fun of Friday is how oubled as decision in the c The statement nounced plans c a Cigar" (1975) mer Nick Masor The three are re< hat song, many started schedulir : same question. Pink Floyd. list /vocalist/ The statemen seeing red over other Pink Floyc irrect the group under that nam songwriter and p as well as the le; innth atfr?rn<*vc Rut P.ilmnnr 'er rights to the as "Wish You V British courts, and "Time," di 1 been dropped. "We've alwa> io not expect a was right," he tc OT V Mi ft i ? 4^^ V S # 0,1 f"h' m E fi fi B m ?* ?~ A ^ WIMV1VV ' Our Rich Vanilla Ice Cre; W our Delicious Cherry T 'Cherry Pie* taste. Add a A plump J WOW! W< : ?^'cl $ * IT'S HUGE! | (JSC UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE "Your Partner In Education" SBSSBBB wmmam I [?g lies par jjjjf XBP^ 3jHL^;. ' mw '\wHrvfK Friday (Dan Aykroyd) and Stn Dragnet. ultra-square he is in action and word; Streebek only further highlights Friday's conservatism. Hanks does have a few moments, but Aykroyd eclipses him in the end. feud over ase until 1988. was released in response to the an>f guitarist David Gilmour, drum1 and keyboardist Richard Wright. :ording an album and have already ig fall tour dates under the name of t from the Waters camp said the 1 members have no right to perform e because Waters was "the major iroducer of the (Pink Floyd) albums ad singer and creative force." co-writer of Pink Floyd songs such /ere Here," "Comfortably Numb" sputes this claim. 's intended to reform when the time )ld Rock Express, a Canadian music Usurer JJCOUrON OPEN TODAY 11AM TILL 10PM ontd Chirr* ? Sundae!! I im Piled Hiflh, topped with opping w/an Old fashion little whipped cream and a @ cherry ... ^ DW! WOW! J IJ% LIMIT 2 SUNDAES PFR COUPON M I COUPON EXPIRES J EA- 7/8/87 H PERSON PORTABLE WITH EVEH FEATURE YOU Extra-Large / Cassette J Ribbon f Centering i a j n^nn S aij i! . ? 1 4c only " ^ | .... ,i i i Small ami li.'lit ? !? iil'Ii i<>> an \ iinv\vh?'i<- lit 11 < < i .in . it ta< In-<>i i-m i r. ltri<'f?'ilM' Willi l??i|ll li lt "\t I Of li<l !*.( |lll |>|M *41 Mil li lull i ill II l ki'vlxjunl |ilu- 11 il i-i 'Mat miial < 1< >? svnilxil>. aillninal K |ia|M'l IIIM-Il v-y 1 < MIJKTvV -llli -*TI|it f.llilll.itiil kr\ t | and n'fx-al kiA lm .ill t liarai Iitand C?iiH'liun> Kwii a lunlt in ^ f t alciilaini < IjH t.iii--mi M in t l?all?-ri.-> J ody tiln Jmmj sflfcWlh/ | ^ ''' ^ l '&ss& ;ebek (Tom Hanks) ?re looking for < Aykroyd, SNL writer Alan 7u/pihpl nr?H Tom V/T q nl/ wrote the script. Mankiewicz makes his directorial debut after playing script doctor to James Bond and Superman projects, Pink Flo magazine. "It's unfortunate that want to be part of the group. It's ri to think he has the right to stop us m .1 i ~i t i mis. riuyu lias always uecn Roger Waters," he said. Meanwhile, Waters has release 1 album, Radio K.A.O.S., his first w three years. Like his other solo LI Cons of Hitchhiking, the new rel< album. Waters begins a 28-city tour / vidence, R.l. A conecrt at The Oi scheduled for Sept. 2. In addition to solo material, backup band will play Pink Floyd cuts from The Dark Side of the u/?ii i ;i/? , rr mii. inv. i inrw i mjru unm 1 COME WHAT Wl rnn i I r vjiv individual le; security syst laundry facil NO s With 30, 6( All Fall Leases Que lUrrzuri | //JmJmagementI 111 L ther I IM ELECTRONIC !Y TYPEWRITER I'll EVER NEED! gjfl / Built-in virat* VifiV ,/ Correction lOAnlU/ Sy&,eni / Urwlertirm>g |gTOMATICALLY TYPES IN ta MFFERENT TYPE FACES: is in x.itii'I | * rtA Qj ,s ;?n ..*.!???i? U* There's I <i I'ic .1 t ypcs l yle i . that offi ^ ^ ' I r I Thorn c n ... V IA/UDI C ? ' " ' ' \ ( wtOTM memory erase an I t\ rxxieiE paraqrapl 1 * fi ( ikko" character ? i f?'.J ' and clear handle ar i, IV c W- jf m * clues at the scene of the grime in and he has a good touch for comedy. The verdict on Dragnet is that despite some last-minute unevenness, it is a funny diversion. yd name ( Roger doesn't show will be a m diculous for him effects, slide she using the name. Gilmour has s; more than just songs on the toi could result in t i his second solo time, playing so ork in more than P, The Pros and Waters' last \v :ase is a concept Cut, released in n ? ' -l : * I\.CIUIUS SctlU 11 \ug. 14 in Fro- album, despite i nni in Atlanta is Before beginn and Wright, Gi Waters and his such as The Dre songs, including sion guitarist w Moon and The and Bryan Fcrr of the 1970s, the Face, in 1984 at Ijee I'VE GOT fOU! ttses swimming p< ;em sleeping & s ities full furniture W PRE-LEASING i UMMER AND FAl 1, 90 Day Summer Le ilify For FREE Beac) Columbia's Newest Concept In Student Living ?NYV I HSS W^l 30G ; never been an electronic typewriter ?rs you so much for so little othirxj like it at It hi price that features a bOOO character htt oH correction mornory arid "Word-Out" correction to entire word with one touch Other features iocIikW' h and line indentation, automatic: carnage return a 96 otfce keytx>ard. half backspace key. one touch lab sci . express backspace margin release key and a built in vl lid cover \ lassies Review ' QKirrr'/zhn //c' is galactic goof By STKVK COPPOCK JR. Stuff Reporter Watching M c 1 Brooks' Spaceballs evokes the feeling of watching a famed performer's last agonizing moments. He is the only one who doesn't notice his heyday is over, and he stands alone onstage in front of empty seats. Brooks seatter-gun style humor of one-liners, puns and sight gags once had more hits than misses. Also, the story was unpredictable. But taking on a combination of ziar wars ana me wizard oj uz proves to be more than Brooks and his co-writers can handle. The jokes are stretched so thin, they should be used on Bob Hope's television specials. To discuss Spaceballs further would bring more undeserved at tention to this epic mess. ;ontinues ulti-media extravaganza with sound ws and huge props. : a i i 1 ~ * ^ ? 1 n' i. i-i i rtiu ne emu piaiib iu piay riiiK rioyu jr with Mason and Wright, which wo bands on the road at the same me of the same songs. 'ork with Pink Floyd was The Final early 1983. 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