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ATLANTA—Ticket* to Elvis
Costello's show Saturday were
by far the toughest to obtain of
the still-new year. On top of
that, for those of us lucky
enough to get tickets weeks
ago. there was a three hour
wait in an intermittent mon
soon to get in. (The Agora
Ballroom has many rotten
seats, and it's worth lining up
in the rain to avoid them.)
Eventually, though, it all
paid off Elvis treated his fans
to a fine if characteristically
short) performance, displaying
the awesome power that made
him a hero to begin with.
Onstage
.Surprisingly, the night was a
success before Costello ever
took the stage The Rubinoos
were superb, the altogether too
rare opening act that gives the
headliner a good fight
The Rubinoos (pronounced
roo-bin-ooze) is a four man
group from Berkely. Ca..
playing with the combined
sense of joy and rebellion that
created rock and roll two
decades ago
Costello's crowds arc at least
partly composed of idiots in
safety pins and black leather,
who incorrectly believe that
Elvis is punk rock They had
no idea what to make of the
Rubinoos. who offered them a
dose of 60's-flavored rock
ranging from the early Beatles
to power pop. with hard rock
thrown in for good measure.
The middle of the set shone
as the Rubinoos dealt up three
classic covers in a row—the
Beatles' “Please Please Me."
the Ventures' “ Walk Don't
Run" and Tommy James and
tin* Shondells' “1 Think We're
Alone Now." Each further
confused the Idiots Who
Thought They Were At A Punk
Rock Show
One highlight of the Rubin
oos' hour was ‘‘I Wanna Be
Your Boyfriend." a shouting
anthem saturated with the
spirit of rock and roll romance
With any luck at all and a little
bit of justice around here, the
Rubinoos won't languish in
obscurity for long
Obscurity is a problem that
Elvis Costello no longer has to
worry about By now almost
everyone knows that he (real
name—Declan McManus) is
not a Presley impersonator,
but a gut-crunching British
rock and roller
Costello, not exactly re-
knowned for lengthy perfor
mances. played for the expect
ed 70 minutes, but each one
was intense He ripped through
19 selections, showcasing cuts
from Armed Forces, his new
album and This Year’s Model,
his previous one
Some of the new material
worked well, and some didn't
“Oliver's Army." backed on
the LP with the stately chords
of a grand piano, suffered little
from the substitution of soar
ing guitar "Green Shirt." on
the other hand, was even more
listless than the studio version
Throughout the set. Costel
lo's band, the Attractions, was
tight and crisp- more so than
they were last May. Steve
Naive, whose name alone
deserves stardom, was consis
tently on the mark on the
Karfisa organ, adding fullness
to rnc(o|in'« stark sound
Although he didn't do "Ali
son," his most famous song,
he did cover much of his better
material, particularly "Lip
Service," "Pump It Up." “No
Action" and "The Beat." all
from This Year's Model.
The night's finest song was
"Radio Radio." Costello's
scathing attack on the world of
Top 40 One line says it all
“ The radio is in the hands of
such a lot of fools trying to
anesthetize the way that you
feel.”
He introduced the song by
telling the crowd "We been here
all day and we been listening
to the radio And if you think
that Toto and Foreigner are
where it’s at. then there's
something seriously wrong
with you."
That, of course, is what Elvis
is all about—a shouting,
angered, embittered reaffirm
ation of the brutal power and
force of rock and roll. When he
first broke loose, he stunned us
with an intensity and force that
we could not ignore We still
can't.
Sex films draw ire
(CPS) Teachers are usually
given free rein in selecting
materials for instruction -un
less. of course, the instruction
al material turns out to he
X-rated films
In two recent cases, profes
sors were denied further use of
the “dirty' movies-which were
of necessity part of the
curriculum—by school or local
authorities At the University
of West Florida. Professor
Churchill Roberts showed
"Deep Throat " in the course of
teaching obscenity law Stu
dents were to decide if the film
was obscene. Apparently. Pen
sacola law had already decided
it was. Local police confiscated
the film, and the judge ordered
it destroyed
The Florida Supreme Court,
though, is considering an
appeal against the seizure,
which Roberts' lawyer George
Estess says violated Roberts'
rights of free speech, due
process, and property. But
according to the Chronicle of
Higher Education. Assistant
Attorney General Randy
Schwartz argued that seizure
was legal
Similarly, at the University
of Texas-Austin. English pro
fessor Joseph Kruppa is mad
because he can’t get any
X-rated films for his "Eroti
cism in Literature" class. "I
needed to get X-rated films for
my class 1 couldn't get them
on campus because of an
unwritten law that probably
goes all the way to the
president's office." he told the
Dail\ Texan. The administra
lion agreed, sort of. Richard
Heller, coordinator of student
activities, admitted the dean of
students' office had adopted a
policy against showing X-rated
movies
Meanwhile, two campus film
societies, both run by profes
sors. are feeling the long arm
of the law Maryland Univer
sity's Company Cinema Tech
showed an uncut version of
"Bel Ami" last fall, and after
chastisement from the Mary
land State Censor Board, is
expecting prosecution from the
State’s Attorney.
The University of Cincin
nati’s Film Society, though,
didn’t even want to take a
chance. They scheduled a
showing of "The Devil in Miss
Jones." but decided to cancel
when they learned that city
vice squad officers were
planning to attend
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