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This is a listing of the events
open to the public in the Columbia
area the weekend of Nov. 2 ? 4.
. Cockfest ? Williams-Brice
Stadium. The annual pep rally,
postponed from Homecoming, will
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feature comedian Paul Rodriquez,
emcee Henry Cho, the USC
marching band and the football
team. Tickets are $3 for adults, $2
for students and $7 for a family
ticket (two adults and two
children).
Parents Weekend ? Highlights
of the weekend include an
English tea on Friday at McKissick
Museum from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., a
Dessert Cabaret with student entertainment
in the Russell House
Ballroom at 8 p.m., the USC vs.
Florida State game Saturday at
noon and the annual Parents Association
breakfast with Arthur
Smith at 9 p.m. in the Russell
House lobby.
Greenstreets ? 1101
Harden St. NAJEE will perform
Friday. Tickets are $17. Freedom
of Expression will perform Saturday,
and Gene Dyke's Big Band
will perform Sunday. The cover
charge is $3 per person for each
event.
The Punchline ? 634
Harden St. Friday and Saturday
Tark Mavhrrrv will nerform at 8
p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Tickets are
$8.
Rockafellas ? 2112 Devine
St. Friday, the Swimming Pool Q's
will perform. Tickets are $6. Saturday,
the Hostages will perform for
$4 per person. Both shows begin at
10 p.m.
Township Auditorium ?
1703 Taylor St. Saturday, college
dance groups from the Southeast
will participate in Stompfest '90, a
stepshow to raise money for a minority
scholarship at USC. Tickets
are $7 and will be sold at noon the
day of the show.
Trustus Theater ? Friday
and Saturday, the* play Talking
With will continue at 8 p.m. Friday
at 11:15 p.m. the one-man show
Drinking in America will run. Sunday,
Step on a Crack will play at 3
p.m. Ticket prices are $12.50 and
$6.25 for Talking With, and $5 and
$2.50 for the other two shows.
Golden Spur ? Friday and
Saturday is Club Spur from 8 p.m.
to midnight. There is no cover
charge.
Club 638 ? This weekend
will feature disc jockey Dave
Riddle, alternative music and dancing.
There will be no cover charge
before midnight and $1 after
midnight
# The Cockpit ? Friday, Joint
Effort will perform, and Saturday
will feature the Throwstones.
Cover is $3 for those over 21 and
$5 for those under 21.
Rhythms ? On Friday, there
will be a free seafood buffet and
music from Odis Goodwin and the
Rockin' Castenettes. Phase Two
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fan. I actually shell out $24.95 for
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for Pet Semetary, and for these of- M
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with the screen adaptations. So to
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lakers.
What they essentially do is take
nly the plot from King's work,
'hich would be dandy if Stephen
king's plots were worth a flapdoole,
but most of them are not. A
toron could think of the plots for
Christine (demented car runs down
mocent bystanders) or Cujo (raid
dog runs down innocent bysmders).
It is what King does with
nese premises mai maxes nis
ooks worth reading.
Hollywood has not learned this
et and continues cranking out
Ling movies once or twice a year,
'he latest example is Graveyard
hift, which is the 22nd movie
ased on a King work.
It is a dreadful retelling of a
tory in King's short story collecion,
Night Shift. This is the third
novie made from that anthology,
ollowing Children of the Corn
nd Maximum Overdrive.
Like the other two works, Graryard
Shift comes from a source
o short for a movie to be based
i. The story in the book was abjt
ten pages long. The premise,
hich is about a working crew
leaning out the cellar of a ware3use
only to find giant, mutated
its, was chilling at times.
The movie has taken the very
isic plot and added its own input,
eating an hour and a half long
ature. It adds a heapload of charters
(the original story was from
e point of view of only one charter),
some cutesy twists (like
iming ine location uacnman
[ills, after King's pseudonym, Rilard
Bachman) and in the end
eates a mishmash that has very
ttle similarity to the work it is
ised upon.
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King has little input on what
transpires on screen, and as a result,
the movie suffers. Ralph Singleton
directs Graveyard Shift and
makes it the typical horror movie
where each character, one by one,
serves as rat-bait to the mutant
viinan.
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In the News: Ozzy Osbourne
experiences yet another battle in
the rockers-getting-sued war. Osbourne
and CBS Records are both
being sued for responsibility of the
suicides of two Georgia teenagers
in 1988. The suits claim that the
subliminal phrase "Why try, why
try, get the gun and try it" in the
song "Suicide Solution" caused the
16- and 17-year-old boys to kill
themselves.
On the other side of the law,
both Stevie Nicks and Aerosmith's
Joe Perry are contemplating
suits against the Star tabloid
for a story that claimed that Nicks
was pregnant with Perry's child.
Both Nicks and Perry, who is married
were quick to issue denials.
Five days before the start of 2
Live Crew's trial on obscenity
k charges, the Florida record store
f owner who was tried for selling
the band's album As Nasty As
They Want to Be was convicted on
obscenity charges. What effect the
band's now successful defense will
have on that conviction is
unknown.
Former Ramone's bassist Dee
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show off his tatoos. A deputy inspector
with the police was reported
to have said Ramone would
likely get off with a fine, rather
than a possible one-year jail term.
Legendary R&B singer Curtis
Mayfield, who was paralyzed after
a 500-pound lighting bank crashed
onto him at an outdoor concert on
Aug. 13, is recovering from
surgery to stabilize his neck. Doctors
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permanent, although they are reported
to believe it is unlikely that
he will regain movement from the
waist down.
Gregg Allman will play a guest
villain on the syndicated television
show Superboy.
Actor Morgan Freeman has been
approached to play the role of
blues legend Muddy Waters in an
upcoming film on the musician's
life. Freeman has said that his
plans are undetermined.
In the Studio: Bryan Adams
pulled a mid-recording switch of
producers during his sixth studio
album from Bob Clearmountain
to Mutt Lange. Lange co-wrote
many of the songs on the album,
which should be out in March.
Rappers De la Soul's album, De
la Soul is Dead, will contain
twenty-two tracks, and the first
single is due for release around the
first of the year.
Sting is working on the final
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