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The Neiahborhoods Boston bar in 'neighb By TINA JOWERS 3 Staff Writer j Music lovers will be 'hoodwinked' once again at / Rockafella's on Friday night Boston's hard rockin' ? band, The Neighborhoods, will play at the Devine * Street club as part of a tour sponsored by Miller Lite 1 Genuine Draft Band Network. The Hoods have been constantly packing Rock- ? afella's for years. The band originally formed at the < end of the '70s and steadily progressed through one j EP and three LP's, the last being Hoodwinked, which t is now on the Atlantic Records label, t A Neighborhoods show features hard driving orig- 1 inals reminiscent of early '80s rock bands such as 1 Aerosmith. The band has also been known to cover a ? ? ? 1 r A rrnr nn^ 1 wide range 01 oiner oanas irom At/uv, iu iup. i The band's original members played together until f this past year when Hoodwinked was picked up by s Atlantic. The LP was originally recorded on a Roadrunner/Emergo and featured Dave Minehan on s lead vocals and guitar, Lee Harrington on vocals and r bass and Mike Quaglia playing drums. Carl Coletti replaced Quaglia on drums and the LP c was remixed, repackaged and two songs were re- c placed for the major label debut on Atlantic this past f year. F The group has gotten a lot of support from major bands around the country. Brad Whitford of Aeros- f< mith produced Hoodwinked. The Neighborhoods li have also opened shows and toured with David c Bowie, Cheaptrick and Aerosmith. Future plans in- x elude a tour with Bowie's band Tin Machine. ii The Hoods' first recording was an EP called Fire ? " " J- ?1 1 .u. cr. I t) fl is Coming. Kesuess Kecorus reieascu we ium i^r, u III iii^iii n| nil U | ^i^^Brn ^WIIIII IITOSHIB ffl? T2200SX ! 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The first single the band ever released, "Prettiest Girl," has been re-recorded for the Atlantic version of Hoodwinked. Hoodwinked features an energetic mixture of >ongs ranging from the nostalgic Evil Knievil about , i i .1? i < <? i uvy o viiuuiiuvAi uciu iu uic mure msignuui, Danaa ityled "Love Holiday." "King of Rats" emphasizes he electricity generated by Minehan's powerful guiar and forceful lyrics. The three-piece group is mown for their vigorous stage performance and their ock solid sound. Spontaneity is also a trademark of The Neighborloods. The members seem to have a natural instinct or the mood of a crowd and this is evident in every how. Songlists are altered to adjust to the desires md state of mind of the audience, which always reults in a forceful, energetic performance of solid ock V roll. Opening the show on Friday will be Finger, a runchy guitar driven band from Raleigh, N.C., acording to Art Boerke of Rockafella's. 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Movie} not ex By LEE CLONTZ Staff Writer For most Americans, Pat Ha rington created the quintessenti superintendent as Schneider ( One Day at a Time way bac when trash TV was still enjoyabl< Fear not, Mr. Harrington, yo title is safe, for try as he migl Joe Pesci somehow manages make his portrayal of the title rc in The Super as forgettable Bonnie Franklin's acting career. The Super is the second featu from Largo Entertainment, wl struck out earlier in the summ with the slightly entertaining, b horribly moronic Point Break. T1 time, the concept is better (thouj surfing FBI agents isn't too hard top), with Pesci playing Lou Kritski, a slumlord forced to li in his own building under hou arrest for failing to maintain Somehow, despite a valiant a tempt by Pesci, the movie fails amuse. This is not to say that Ti Super, the second collaboration director/producer team: Rod Dani and Charles Gordon (their fii film together was the similar forgettable K-9), is without mei Pesci, who lifted Home Aloi above the level of the average k movie, while stealing the she from the irritating Macaul; Culkin in the process, is a tr mendous actor, but he never seer to get a handle on his slumlo character. He's charming, b never funny. A large part of the problem li Acting By JONATHAN J. JAMISON Staff Writer Fantastic. It's the only way describe the production of tl Broadway musical, South Pari} on iuesday night It is being performed on stage the Town Theatre on Sumter Stre through October 26 and it's a gre rendition of the famed play, whi( has a setting on two South Pacif islands during World War n. The musical itself won two P litzer Awards and was on Broai way for almost five years. It's pr duction at the Town Theatre cou ME SEE AT WE'VE YOU! seshoe) 799-3594 Ull? urger Deluxe, &c?ke , 29(i iixe for only m* t ; on??????? i ? a -nut me out? flout, vit to win; >k them in. 1 Universalist [>f Columbia is you for service iy, 11:00am. nore information. trom, Minister allst Fellowship of Columbia mbla. South Carolina 29205 , title ri xtetly's in the direction. Daniel should rc_ ceive an award for Comedy Most it- Likely to Produce Motion Sickal ness. Throughout the movie, he atjn tempts shots from points-of-view ;k that are, at their best, irritating and 5. totally distracting at their worst, ur Viewers will spend half of the film it, trying to figure out exactly what to Daniel was trying to film, since he ile shows a consistent inability to as keep anything in frame for any length of time. re The supporting cast isn't any to help. Vincent Gardenia (Little er Shop of Horrors, Moonstruck) >ut plays Big Lou, a bigot who resents lis his son's arrest gh His character attempts to libtr\ e.rflle his son from "nricnn" IV/ ? ? ie through a genuinely bizarre ve scheme that is never fully se explained. it. Ruben Blades is the typical it- "street hustler with a heart of to gold," although his character goes nowhere. Lastly, a supposed ro\e mance between Kritski and, of strangely enough, his prosecutor, iel played with moderate appeal by -st Madolyn Smith Osborne (All of ly Me, Funny Farm), is completely it. ignored during the last portion of ne the film, and is never resolved nor id commented iipon. >w The music also steals away from ay the comedy. In an attempt to proe duce a streetwise, hip-hop sound, ns the producers succeed in making rd half of the jokes incomprehensible, ut while drowning out all background action in the remaining scenes, es All of the problems leave Pesci pacifies a J |||?eaterpeypt have won an award also. The performances of the actors and actresses were simply phenoie menal ? especially the part of ic Ngana played by Little Miss Jena Strange. The charismatic 6-yearat old didn't have many lines to reet cite, but she conducted herself so at well that she looked like a :h ^ *Cc T 9 ^orr Low-Co Aboil p Plat 256CJ = Concerned Infc \nmT~ ImtiSlm eh HHMfl 199 I Plus, $51 HHmH BuESMB ? lie uper9 with a lot of weight to carry on his shoulders, considering the fact that this is his first starring role. He is simply unable to support such a burden and his performance withers accordingly. Pesci is an excellent supporting actor, as his welldeserved Oscar for Goodfellas shows. However, as versatile as he is, he is only effective in moderation. As one would expect, the film cops out toward the ending, while showing that all of poverty's problems can be relieved by exterminators and painted fire escapes instead of jobs. The ending, supposedly ironic, pushes the moral that stealing is not only OK, but that it is also quite neighborly. The final nail in The Super's coffin is a truly hideous rap song, written and performed by a foulmouthed youth, named Tito, who befriends Kritski. The song assumes both that the viewer needs a recap of the movie s events in verse form, and that people think that sampling Pesci's voice is funny. It is not and neither is the rest of the film. For what it's worth, Pesci remains an extremely funny man who makes this film nearly watchable at points. Still, he seems to be missing something integral. He's never a convincing superintendent. He may need a pack of cigarettes twisted into the sleeve of his shirts like real superintendents have. At any rate, The Super is a disappointment, and Schneider would be appalled. udience v professional. The part that really made the play was the character namp.H Bloody Mary, which was played by Nancy Shane. This character made the musical humorous by using slangs and broken English. Tickets for students are $10. >nfidential Pregnancy Test ounseling iplete GYN Exam st Birth Control tion Service ined Parenthood" 4908 >rmcd Affordable eck out the NEW ^ \ >2 winter clothing ' line-up NOW! tg % 9 to $100 off on select models! j|^ Campus Y*kk B*. Shop " B -"mr | 616 Harden St 256-0557 fc and 2719 Broad River Rd. 798-7799 ? m~TUNE-UP J K nly $19.95 w/coupon | Zg jj^