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any heavy metal guitarist in the country, sio
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into the expert guitarist world of Steve bat
Vai by playing without writing any lyrics, l'k
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showing his style is a rough copy of Vai gu
without any originality. rec
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SHI Star-studde
HBy SUSAN GOODWIN
Staff Writer
With names
such as Michael
Caine, Carol
Burnett,
Christopher sgi
Reeve, John il
Ritter, Mary
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Nicolette Shcridan,
Mark-Linn .
Baker and Julie Dl
you _ ^
know the movie
just has to be
good.
And it is.
"Noises Off," an undere
but nonetheless wonderful c
that successfully combines
dialogue with physical
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the Capitol Restaurant Tracks this week:
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arfnal nnfp it'c a fun 3. Mariah Carev - 'Hero*
,0 take a da.e. The food J :?ggrnvice
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owls. II you like greasy 9. Janet Jackson -'If
;ruff server or a smoke- 10. Janet Jackson - "Again"
d give the cafe a try.
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ister.
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technical side of the guitar down. He j.
; mastered the art of moving his fingers v
oss the fretboard as fast as any other j
itarist. Music isn't supposed to be all
hnical, though. Music is supposed to
infused with feeling. Saraceno's music ^
? all of the feeling of a two-day-old (
under corpse.
[lather than use his music to create ten- a
n and emotion through a mixture of v
mce and sound, Saraceno continually e
Tels through every song on the album ^
e every second has to be tilled with 11
torted single notes twisted through his 1
itar's whammy bar and his home
ording studio. Ihe
low point of "Plaid" comes when s
raceno attempts to play a blues song. I
2ss he wanted to live up to his name, t
:d comedy an of
proves once again that the c
"Smuckers" philosophy is still
valid approach to movie-making.
And with all the "Fatal Instinc
and "Loaded Weapon Is" out the
j||^ such a comedic triumph is a w
come relief.
The 1992 movie centers on
llliP the blood, sweat and tears that gc
into putting on a play. Mostly \
Michael Caine works his theai
^ cal magic once again as the fri
trated yet amiable director who
first seen in a mental state just t
side of neurosis when his sh<
opens on Broadway.
His duress is easily explained
xposed his thoughts wander back to t
omedv thne when he first tried to pull i
; witty show together: about 1 a.m. on i
satire. day a was ^rst performed.
The following are the top 20 albums sold at
Tracks this week:
1. Pearl Jam - 'Vs."
2. Hootie and the Blowfish - "Kootchypop"
3. Meatloaf - "Bat Out Of Hell II"
4. 10,000 Maniacs - "MTV Unplugged"
5. The Cure - "Paris'-Live
6. Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese
Dream"
7. Nirvana - "In Utero"
8. Rush - "Counterpart"
9. Blind Melon - "Blind Melon"
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11. Spin Doctors - 'Pocket Full of
Kryptonite" *
12. Melissa Etheridae -'Yes I Am" '6
13. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna ^
Go My Way?" i
14. Xscape - "Hummin' Comin' at Cha " ^
15. Cypress Hill - "Black Sunday" x
16. Dr. Dre - "Chronic" j
17. Easy E - "It's On"
18. Gin Blossoms - 'New Miserable
Experience" .*
19. Billy Joel - "River of Dreams"
20. Vanous Artist - "Judgement Day" g
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h bad hair
/Inch his parents got from a Peter Fonda
liker movie. "A Little More Cream,
lease" features Saraceno's dad on hartionica
and supports my theory that musial
inepitiude runs in the family.
Papa Saraceno blows his harp with as
ittle feeling as his son picks the guitar,
le doesn't seem to have bis heart in the
veak single notes he plays, just like
unior Saraceno's single notes are cold
nd shallow.
I would do a song-by-song rundown of
he album, but all the other songs sound
he sound. I listened to Saraceno on tape,
ind 1 honestly had a hard time telling
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r had started. His press" material claims
te has lots of unique riffs, which may be
rue. I'm pretty sure that he only played
hree of them on "Plaid."
Dweezil Zappa apparently praised
laraceno as the kind of guitarist who is
o good you can punch him.
I just want to punch him for boring me
o death for 30 minutes.
f-the-wall must
)1' The first act of the play runs
a about as smoothly as a car without
shock absorbers,
ts" The set doesn't work right, the
re, fix-it-all stagehand Mark-Linn Bakel
er hasn't had any sleep in two days
and the cast stumbles through its
all lines, the British accents and every>es
thing else.
the In short, the show is headed for
disaster and a run highlighted by an
tri- ill-fated matinee, where the fictionus
al cast is at its worst and the actors
is are at their best.
his What I really noticed in this film,
3w and consequently what makes it
work, is the acting. All the actors
as know what's funny about their
he characters and portray them accordihe
ingly.
lite Carol Burnett shines as the overthe-hill
actress. John Ritter is equally
entertaining as an excessive talker
who never completes his verbal
thoughts. And Christopher Reeve
makes an impressive portrayal as
the actor who asks questions about
everything and gets nosebleeds any
time there is violence on the set.
In fact, 1 could go through the
entire cast and say similar things
about each member. The truth is
that they're all funny.
Willi all its pluses, the movie has
only one drawback. No one has
ever heard of it.
"Noises Off' fits into the releaseit-in-two-cities-and-ship-it-straight
to-video category. Most movies
find themselves, as this one has, as
one-copy Blockbuster bombs.
ine oniy way 11 survives amia
the 2,000 copies of "The Bodyguard"
is by word of mouth, which
was how I came to see it.
It's true that it may not be as
glossy or as pumped up as its
"Loaded" counterparts. And it's not
a complete rip-off of some hit
thriller. c