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The Red and Black
Wednesday, October II, IIM
Entertainment
Spook about
town tonight
By JOE SCHWARTZ
RH ind Mark KnirrUkiMnl Mttor
Halloween is a perfect
time to be as bizarre as you
want without any fear of
embarrassment But as with
any event such as this,
planning is important
Where you go on Halloween
is at least as important as
what you wear
Tonight should be pretty
strange no matter where you
go, but some places will have
people that are trying harder
than others. A lot of bars in
town are having cash prize
costume contests where
participants can earn
anything from a bit of extra
spending money to a small
fortune
The place in town with the
most money up for grabs is
O'Malley's, where the best
costume picks up a $500
prize There will also be a
band there playing Jacksons
covers, but the real reason to
attend is to either take a shot
at the prizes or to see all the
costumes of the people that
are trying tor them
Running a respectable
second is the Mad Hatter
with a costume contest with
a first prize of $250 The
drinks will be big and the
admission is just $2
Then there are the places
that will be more laid back
but will still be doling out
money to encourage a well
dressed crowd Sparky's will
have the Frigidaires playing
and will toss $50 to the best
costume as well as having
runner-up prizes. So if yours
is a good costume but not an
incredible one you can still
go home with something
There's also a lot going on
at the Odyssey. A top $25
prize will go out to both the
best male and the best
female costumes with the
real highlight of the evening
being a 50 cent beer special
Then there are the non-
materialistic Halloween
hashes in which all you can
expect to get is drunk This
puritian Halloween attitude
will be at the SO Watt Uptown
where Go Van Go will per
form to a crowd that should
appear strange even by Watt
standards
The Uptown Lounge will
be having drink specials and
music by The Squalls.
Oglethorpe House is
having a party in the
basement There will be a
cover of $1.50 for couples and
‘Broad Street’ best with eyes closed
$1 for singles Russell Hall is
having a party on the third
floor, and as it’s a zoo
anyway, this one will
probably be pretty
unrestrained.
There will be a street
dance downtown that starts
with a ping pong ball drop at
6:30 p.m The band playing
at the dance is The Edge
Robert Mri.ee The Red and Black
So if you don't have
anything to do on Halloween
it's your own fault.
Something is going on
almost everywhere ant)
there's still time to put
together a decent costume
Just be in at a reasonable
hour and have your mom
look over all your candy
before you eat any.
A review of "Give My Regards to Broad Street." starring
Paul and Linda McCartney. Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach.
Directed by Peter Webb A 20th Century Fox release. Now
showing at the Georgia Square Mall cinemas
By JOE SCHWARTZ
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Paul McCartney is a great musician, and he can act as
well But he apparently can’t write a decent screenplay and
this is where "Give My Regards to Broad Street” falls apart
The premise of the film is simple enough the master tapes
to Paul's new album are missing and if they aren't found by
midnight there will tremendous legal repercussions
On the surface that's fine, but the subplots are too few and
too minor to fill in the 100 minute gap between the opening
song and the closing one McCartney fills the void with
music Lots of music He re-recorded a number of old Beatles
and Wings songs and they're inserted throughout the film
but the movie just rolls from one song to the next and it
seems that the only reason there is a film at all is to patch
these songs together
In at least half of the film McCartney is singing, and every
song is played In its entirety This is great if you really love
McCartney because the music is fantastic and his remakes
are well done But if you don't think that Paul is Lord God
Almighty then you may get a bit bored with "Broad Street ’’
Although McCartney used some of his more commercial
songs in the picture, as opposed to some of his better, often
overlooked ones, he still managed to produce a great
soundtrack Of the twelve songs in the film there are three
new ones, all of which are exceptional
The musicians involved are like a Who’s Who in the
recording industry Among them are Dave Edmunds. David
Gilmore, Eric Stewart, Ringo Starr and John Paul Jones
The logic is flimsy throughout the picture If you've just
finished recording an album, why record some more songs' 1
If we re really getting in on Paul McCartney's life, why is
everything done in one take’ And if this master tape is worth
six million pounds t$10 million) why don't they rearrange
their busy schedules to look for the person that has it?
Enough with the screenplay and on to the film itself The
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OCTOBER 24-31.
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Halloween Party. Join in the fun on Halloween Night
when we’ll have magicians to amaze you from 6 to
10 p.m. and surprises to astound you. ♦ A Costume
Contest at 9:30 will award the best dressed guise or
ghoul with a certificate valued at $250 from T>i.*riON
sportswear. So scare up your friends and come hobnob
with the goblins at Bennigan’s this Halloween!
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Come Dance to The Music of
R&B Band
‘ULTRASONIC’
at
HOMECOMING DANCE ‘84
also featuring discjockey
Walter Allen Jr.
Saturday, Nov. 3,9 p.m. • 1 a.m.
TATE STUDENT CENTER
Georgia Hall
$2.00 Student w/ I.D.
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VOTE FOR MISS HOMECOMING
1984!
October 30 - November l
Vote at these places: Graduate Studies, TATE
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The Homecoming Court from left to right is Kathy
Hollis, Nancy Wadley, Becki Cook, Robin Clark,
and Jody Jenkins.
Paul McCartney
direction is mediocre Although Paul seems natural and
interesting between songs, during them it’* like tlie director
pointed a camera at him and walked away Except, of
course, during the excruciating “Silly Love Songs" video, in
which the entire band is painted up to look like white cats and
performs while a breakdancer takes center stage Boo.
The song is good, but only if you close your eyes The entire
segment should never have gone farther than the cutting
room floor
Then there’s Ringo He just can't act, he can’t even portray
himself. Every line he utters is canned and horrible.
Fortunately, he is the only sour note in the cast, as the rest
of them jo fine. Even Linda
To sum it up the picture has a lot of little problems that
unbiased audiences will be hard pressed to overlook But to
the legions of McCartney fans it's great. It's McCartney
‘ Wilt Alternative ’ is
a howl and a half
By JOE CAFIERO
KC .nd Black SI. 11 Writer
Something "had brought them together and by some
strange fusion of incompatibility had turned them into a
catalyst for disaster ”
That's how one of the characters in Tom Sharpe's novel
The Wilt Alternative, describes the novel's central
characters. Henry and Eva Wilt.
Sharpe creates a number of characters who are
deranged misfits and psychotic nincompoops; con
sequently his novel quickly becomes a comedy of
harrowing errors with everyone running bizarrely afoul of
everyone else
Henry Wilt is a frail, hassled little guy in his mid-
thirties He heads the liberal studies department of an
English vocational-technical school The main task of
liberal studies is to give culture to day-release ap
prentices Hordes of lusty, hell-raising louts descend on
the Tech, as it is called, at various times of the day to
quarrel, make dirty jokes and traumatize their teachers.
The young barbarians sadly lack the most basic level of
intelligence and manners
Wilt spends most of his time at the Tech in board
meetings trying to convince other administrators that the
liberal studies department has a right to exist Every day
at the Tech is a tribulation for the poor fellow
Henry's many years at the Tech have hardened him.
Unfortunately, things aren't much better for him at hime.
After a hard day at the Tech he must return to his
quadruplets, his wife Eva, and, worst of all, Eva's en
thusiasms.
Eva seems to be a member of every self-help and do-it-
yourself club in the United Kingdom Eva’s latest pet
project is the organic toilet The toilet is designed, very
poorly, to derive methane from excrement — the methane
to be used as natural gas to cut electrical expenses
Eva considers the toilet her moral duty during a time of
energy crisis One of Eva's past experiments was Touch
Therapy, a euphemism for a weird neighbor's lesbian
advances
Eva is a large, ambitious, cheery woman with lots of
energy All she lacks is a brain
Henry, on the other hand is small and feeble But he’s
smart Too smart for his own good, in fact He knows it’s
hopeless to fight the cruel senseless world, so he simply
ignores it, hoping it will leave him alone Poor guy It
never does
Henry seems cursed When he finally convinces Eva
that the organic toilet may be a mistake, she turns around
and rents their attic room to a terrorist
Henry also couldn't help but blame Eva for his near
castration by a rose bush Henry had gone out drinking
with Peter Braintree to tell him he was falling in love with
Gudrun, even though, at that time, Wilt had only seen her
from a distance And well. Henry got a bit drunk, stopped
on the side of the road to urinate on his way home,
managed somehow to slip and fall into a rosebush, and
several thorns kind of urnm ..
But you just have to read the book Sharpe will cripple
you with laughter Just a page or two should be enough to
get you howling.
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