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( Jl Puppet Regime tackles tlie ?| * 1 * ? - impossibilities of love Members of Puppet Regime will be performing "Love, Sanity and Other Impossibilities" at 11:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Longstreet Theater. Puppet Regime is a student acting troupe. real life. Love deals with the problems EnfyVnTHIfnfVnTVTI ?f falling in and out of love as it llllSJUuLiHBMflJUriyJ tracks the life of Anna, a girl by CHRIS MULDROW born in ^ '70s who spent much of her early years imagining she The play, Love, Sanity and Other Dorothy from The Wizard ?f Impossibilities, hits Longstreet z' Theater today and Saturday at , S"T ? ?WS ^ St2SeS ?f 11-30 om e an denial as Anna experi' u i eiices rejection, over-indulgence, If you ve ever been in love, . ... L. . ' , ? , ' .. ... ... , f the just-friend phenomenon and a there s something in this play for \ , . , * i. c .. ., virtual plethora of other love-relatyou, senior Melissa Swick said. .... \ L e t e . .u ed life-changing events. In fact, if you ve ever thought c . %. D, ,, J ? Sp.ninr Minni Rlark'"hiirn oivpc about being in love, this play is foi Anna's character an enormous y?U- 5 amount of energy. And she s absolutely right. Blackburn said she gets a little Swick wrote the play for her bit scared playing a lead part which senior thesis and Puppet Regime, a requires almost constant interaction campus club devoted to the theater, with the audience, is bringing it to the stage. Her fear is not justified. She is The show is impressive as it mir- able to make the play a very perrors the trials and tribulations of sonal experience between the stage Hoffman, Garcia make By J.E. WILLIAMS lished as a man who looks out only Staff Writer for himself, so it's surprising when Bemie LaPlante is driving to his he answers the cries for help comex-wife's house to pick up his son. hig from the downed plane. His car stalls on a He rescues 54 people, including bridge during a Ga*e ^ey' P^yed by derstorm. A plane falls U fU / t Wh\/ E-\Al Geena Davis' a Prize" on him. IVIUV L nLVlLVV winning television There, in a nutshell, HerO reporter looking for is the initiating action a a a a an upbeat story. She of Stephen Frears' far- ^ thinks she has found cical, excellent new it in the search for the movie Hero. unknown "Angel of In the film, LaPlante, played by Flight 104." .u? i.. u:i? ? T-Tpr TV cfiitinn nffprc ^1 millir?n uic capuvauiigiy miaiiuui> i^usuii * T ""v,g *" "u,"v" Hoffman, is a sleazy low-life t0 ^ JJ1311 who can Prove he is toe crook who lies and steals from "angel by presenting the rescuer's everyone, even his own defense missing shoe, attorney when she is attempting to Enter John Bubber, played by plea-bargan for the delay of his Andy Garcia, a soft-spoken homesentencin". less veteran who obtains He is quickly and strongly estab- LaPlante s shoe in an unbelievable Last of the Mohicans School Ties Sneakers 1|! i Singles T?** Mr. Saturday Night i bOD HODertS Husbands and Wives T . Hero Opening Today 1492 Conquest of Paradise Under Seige WUSC-FM BY BARRY DRAKE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18,1992 7:30 P.M. RUSSELL HOUSE THEATRE A MULTI-MEDIA ^ ^ PRESENTATION: H M H H MUSIC AND MORE JL IVJU I ; FROM THE 70's Admission This program is paid for, in psrt, by stndcit sctivitics fees.. :i>u Carolina! gkeni f^f the disi ,. jPHI^^Br 1 cially si #; This anger s populati B - subject I IQK^I show h( IsM wor^ at harm in ino the < and the audience. when Anna is dragged between the 'bram Blackburn is joined on stage by girls, (Smith, Darlene Mann and movje an ensemble of five nlavers who Pamela Zeiolp.rl anrl the cnivs L ? ? - - i?j ? ? ?o?/ ? & ~ J ~ q ucstic have the challenge of changing (James Carmine and John Weaver) Robbins characters, attitudes and emotions in a "bitch session." style \ every scene. Emotion charges the room as pennsyl It is a challenge in which they each side gets more and more 0f the fi pass with flying colors. vehement about what they hate g0k ^ Ensemble member Julie Smith about the other sex. Robert! said the show is supposed to be The play does an excellent job of spreads both painful and funny, and the exposing the idiosyncracies in values ensemble creates a dymanic tension everyone and is definitely worth Qne between those two emotions with seeing. techniai ease. The show will play at Longstreet aiounc} One of the ensemble's most sue- Theater today and Saturday at cessful and funny scenes comes 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $2. PIP 'Hero' extraordinary coincidence. burning plane with a black eye and Bubber is immediately lionized a broken arm. by the media and public and Her character is supposed to be becomes a fake saviour opening a battleground of hard-nosed jour- O everyone's hearts. nalism and human emotion, but Initially, it would seem the main Davis handles this dichotomy awkstory is about how the real hero, a wardly. Worse, she becomes a il|i vulgar, cynical scumbag, attempts moon-eyed school when she falls t to thwart a fake hero, Hero is real- for Bubber. Wim ly a scrutiny of the creation of a Garcia should finally achieve the media hero and his subsequent recognition he deserves with acceptance by the public. Bubber. Though quiet and gentle, Gale's station tries to milk he is a commanding presence in Bubber and the rescue for every- every scene. thing it is worth, including a reen- Not surprisingly, though, the N actment of the crash by the actual film belongs to Hoffman. He is passengers. livid and acerbic as the sleazy The main performances are two thief. js|< for three, with Davis' being the In a time when politicians are one which doesn't gel. She is failing as crowd-pleasers, it is almost too elegant in every scene, refreshing to see a movie succeed even when she is trapped in the with intelligent wit. R.E.M.'s new release N< an 'Automatic' success By JODY TATE be simple and profound as in ferent, if Staff Writer "Everybody Hurts," a song des- From There are many words to tined for Pop-hell. It's an okay murmur describe R.E.M.'s stunning new tune, but the words fail to live up Chronic album, Automatic For the People, 10 die me'?dy. ^ to the si but only one captures its essence: ^ son? "Star Me Kitten crystal excellent. avoided my every try to understand emergei Compared to the clone-likeword Stipe Stipe s music vomited out by record MUSIC REVIEW utters or what the with companies today, this CD d i? at hec^ reSt ?* ?Ut sticks out like a beautiful sore K. . . the band could be one can i_ Aiitnnuitir fnr thp Pponlp thinlfino thp ri?f U1UII1D. *"? High points of the album ^ Other than Univers are more numerous titan I canmHm^?Bthose two slight Georgia single out here. "Try Not to shortcomings, band to i Breathe" and the simple "New Automatic foi the People and tional | Orleans Instrumental No. 1" are a RE.M. rose above my high expec- nence. must, including "Man on the tations. Their Moon" Peter Buck, Bill Berry, Mike through, All three struck me as achieve- Mi,ls ^ Micheal Stipe have defi- effort wi ments for the band, as well as nitely changed their maturing glorious "Sweetness Follows" and "Find the sound. Reckonir River," my two favorites. Some say they have floundered and ther At times Micheal Stine's new- in tbeir recent success, but Others Pageant found vocal clarity tries lyrically to believe ^ have only Srown dif~ "Monty < Win a $1 PERSOI* To enter the co shoe logos an( W / Swm entry form a y 2) ~ 4) drawing will b W <T*k ^ ^ first correct en K ilyLg, 2/7\ CTA3 ?EN at P 1 3b Roberts'parodies lit-wing political views ^PHEN BROWN than hope. Musical numbers suet "iter as "This Land is Your Land" rim >hy Brown only scratched with bitter irony as the campaignei ace. verbally caresses the crowds. cultural elite of the Gore Vidal Plays the libera 3od left-wing has achieved candidate who Roberts is deter t fulfilling revenge through mined to unseat. Vidal carefull) am Robbin's auspicious draws his character to portray the rial debut, Bob toughness of experi , a scathing par- I f r\\/ir- nT\/ITIM ence ancl inte?rit) , unra-conser-MQVIE REVIEW is a gloriously Bob Roberts progressive in the film created out 4 .JL. modem-day politica -rooted anger at ^ realm, nal state of the Tim Robbins, whe ind the brainwashing tech- appeared in Roberi politicians have used, espe- Altman's The Player, a satire or nee the '60s. superficial Hollywood, originall) film will most certainly created Bob Roberts as a sketch foi egments of the American "Saturday Night Live." But wher on but, hey, if liberals are he saw the possibilities for an all ed to broadcasts of talk out assault on the big screen, he >st Rush Limbaugh on net- jumped at the chance to write filiates each night, I see no direct and star in the film, a finely crafted film mock- The film's major strong point is conservative wing. also its weakness. Robbin's left :ed, Bob Roberts is just a win? hias is both a joy for libera but it does bring up a valid audiences and an enigma for any in of art imitating life. one not Privy to the reasons whj i uses a quasi-documentary someone would oppose such a can :o chronicle the 1990 didate. Robbins barely plays vania senatorial campaign Roberts as a person at all, anc ctional right-wing character without any semblence of sensitivi oberts. Robbins plays the candidate loses effective > as an opportunist who motivations for his actions anc hatred by creating false instead becomes a broad caricature Robbins' style is fierce anc of Roberts' propaganda direct, and Bob Roberts succeeds jes is to twist folk songs on almost every level. Most of all to promote hatred rather made me think. Concert Calendar* ct. 10 A Night of Black Comedy ; : Township Auditorium Columbia, S.C. _ Tickets start 8:00 Dm at SrSttJO CT3fir~Victor Borgc^^ Township Auditonj>frt ' &?5%sww- .nnGoliirnhiar^Gry^JU*^ .: x <* 8.00 pm \ ,at $i9.7T> ot? 2 5 KJ SS/Trlxterl ar^H^fst^Pjj^sy^t^ : Carolina Colise jm #.::-::: . \ - Columbia. S p. S1i 50 Piaffe' 7:^ P :.;:;:fc^,v-,-^':' 511 3via^j|ames Ta^^^Q"*)J J . Roger] Center ^SKgW^?*?" Golun bla, S.C. AJat$25.00 ov. 18 Bruc< > Springsteen X X. Charlotte Coliseum/ v Charlotte, N.C. 7:30 pm . $25.00 Ti'cljie* Skqo on sale Satur^v at^JO a.m. dv. 22 G^rth Breaks / /Carol! ia Coliseum Colun bla, S.C. fl7*00 Ticket 5 qo on sale Saturday at 9 a.m. Kristin Buehlman/The Gamecoct< not so markedly better. Those looking for a remake ol an unintelligible jangly Green or Out of Time will have to in ^ _ . _ . ^ look elsewhere. Towr,{ U ~" Jf" This CD will lddenl) In A enchant newcomers cleat M to R.E.M. and ice o! jreassert the devotion voice iK^^B of longtime follow1991' 5 f. ers from the faster Time paced social comoientary ? of ? "Ignoreland" to the ity ol memorable piano and i bai p H lingering lyrics ol interna- y W f "Nightswimming." 3romi- ^ i This CD will probably not reach the same success on new influences shine the pop charts as their past two, but such as their recent joint remember. Led Zeppelin only had a th the Trogs, as does their few songs make it into the Top 40 past. The country flavor of of their day. Does that mean ig shows up in many songs they're bad? I_ I- V /*. ? ?"> !- X T _ A - J 'a! n 1 iT e is a mm or uje s men ino. /auu nenner is k..n.ivr. to them all, especially But it or borrow it. Just listen to Got a Raw Deal." it and enjoy it. I certainly did. 00 Gift Certificate at iAL BEST SPORTS >ntest, identify these 5 athletic I 1 fill-out vour answers on an t PERSONAL BEST. 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