Thursday, July 1,1993
The Battalion
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On the range’
continued from page 4
Her research took about eight
years to complete and was com
prised of several data sources.
"1 researched government data,
sorvey data from the United States
Department of Agriculture, infor
mation on ranches from the Texas
Department of Agriculture and
personally interviewed women
ranchers and women in occupa-
lions as diverse as computer pro-
Dennis’
continued from page 4
ble), Mr. Wilson's unpredictable
and mischievous neighbor, never
intentionally bothers Mr. Wilson.
Itjustso happens that where ever
Dennis goes, he's an accident just
waiting to happen. Like the time
Dennis thinks he's helping out
poor Mr. Wilson by slinging an as
pirin down his throat with a huge
slingshot. He was only trying to
help.
What makes most people
weary about movies based on
(comic strips is whether there's
enough plot included to make the
jfilm worthwhile. With Christo
pher Lloyd playing the nameless
;Ihief, "Dennis the Menace" en
velopes together the typical good
versus evil plot with an array of
meticulously detailed pranks
planned by Dennis.
The result — a very pleasant
(family movie. However, when
Matthau's absent from the scene,
the movie gets stuck in a muddy
puddle of stupidity.
The plus to "Dennis the Men
ace" is the production style. Each
scene was very carefully played
gramming, veterinary medicine,
cattle fitting and reproductive
technology," she said.
Maret said she became involved
in the operation of a purebred cat
tle business.
It was at this time Maret spent
many hours out on the range re
searching through her own partici
pation activities.
"With modernization, women's
roles will become more diversified
and their employment will be paid
in the future," Maret said.
out to make the characters created
from this legendary comic strip
come alive. With slow, close-up
shots each scene takes on a life of
its own.
In one scene Dennis acciden
tally drops Mr. Wilson's false teeth
down the drain and replaces
them with two white pieces of
chicklet gum. When Mr. Wilson
opens his mouth and smiles, the
laughter built up inside you will
explode.
The counterpart to Matthau,
Mrs. Wilson (Joan Playwright) is
an outstanding addition to the
film and makes playing the under
standing wife look like a piece of
cake.
Yet, the rest of the cast fades
into the woodwork.
Dennis's father (Robert Stan
ton) succeeds at playing up the
Beaver Cleaver type dad, but he
comes across a little too dorky at
times. Lea Thompson plays a
wonderful '50s type mom, but her
character never solidifies.
"Dennis the Menace" is a must
see film for kids of all ages. But
don't waste your money if you're
not a fan of Matthau, because if it
weren't for him, this movie would
have "potential future rental"
written all over it.
Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise), a Harvard honors graduate, thought it was
a golden opportunity to work for The Firm/ but it could cost him his life.
‘The Firm’
continued from page 4
by-scene duplicate. Because of
time constraints, many parts of
the book were not included in the
screenplay - and it still clocks in at
just under two hours and forty-
five minutes long.
Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is
a young law school graduate who
turns down offers from several
large law firms in favor of one
from a small and relatively un
known firm in Memphis, Tenn.
The firm of Bend ini, Lambert and
Locke pays him a huge salary.
They also lease him a Mercedes,
pay off his student loans, and
arrange a mortgage for his first
home. Mitch and his wife Abby
(Jeanne Tripplehorn) are swept off
their feet by the job offer.
Mitch is young, intelligent, am
bitious, and "hungry" - exactly the
type the firm wants to recruit. En
ticed by the wealth and power the
firm offers him, Mitch accepts the
position eagerly and plunges into
a grueling routine. But he soon re
alizes that the firm is not what it
appears to be, and that leaving it
could be the last career choice he'll
ever make. The FBI wants him to
turn and help bust the firm, the
firm wants his silence, and Mitch
just wants out.
Cruise is perfect as Mitch
McDeere. He captures all the dri
ve and intensity of Grisham's fic
tional character, from the euphoria
and ambition of his initial days
with the firm to the terror that fol
lows. Avery Tolar (Gene Hack-
man), McDeere's cynical designat
ed "mentor," provides a wonder
ful contrast to McDeere's youthful
energy and enthusiasm. Jeanne
Tripplehorn plays the part of
Abby McDeere with the same skill
obvious in her earlier "Basic In
stinct" role.
"The Firm" is definitely going
to be one of the hottest movies
this summer, in more ways than
one. I can guarantee it. While the
movie was excellent, the theater
reached a mean temperature of
over 85 degrees and I was practi
cally dehydrated by the time the
film ended. If you're going to
watch it here in College Station,
don't forget your Gatorade.
Marley
continued from page 4
Marley's new album that passed
this test were "Joy and Blues,"
"World so Corrupt," and "Garden."
They all give off that gratified feel
ing of being on an island and jam
ming to the songs that groove by
themselves. Each song has a famil
iar drum beat which is the staple to
good reggae. Tied together with a
strong bass guitar, the music fas
tens together perfectly.
All three songs sound tradi
tional, yet original at the same
time. Tlaere's a little of Papa Bob
Marley sound dispersed through
out these songs, but Ziggy adds a
lot of his own modern style to re
main distinctive.
The problem with the rest of
the album is that the songs sound
like common pop music. They are
dry, repetitious, and annoying.
There's nothing worse than lis
tening to a song over and over
again until you finally get so irri
tated, you're forced- to turn it off.
Reggae music deserves to be
turned up, not off.
With the exception of the three
excellent songs in "Joy and Blues,"
Ziggy tried hard to make some
thing different, and failed to make
it sound as good as plain old reg
gae. Sometimes things are better if
you just leave it alone.
Like the old saying says, if it
ain't broke, don't fix it.
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(Soundtrack
continued from page 4
best of "Last Action Hero" has al
ready been heard.
The soundtrack's best is not
spectacular, earth-shattering stuff.
There is nothing particularly new.
AC/DC leads off the sound
track with "Big Gun." It may not
be fair LCF say that all AC/DC
songs sound the same, but one
wouldn't know it from hearing
"Big Gun." There's nothing wrong
with the piece, but it seems awful
ly familiar, especially after a quick
listen to "Thunderstruck" off the
1990 album "The Razor's Edge."
Next is "What the Hell Have I,"
the first of two songs by Alice in
Chains and probably the best ef
fort on the soundtrack. The Indian
sitar-like sound in the melody is
distinctive and creates an interest
ing twist of Alice in Chains' style.
Megadeth's offering, "Angry
Again," follows "What the Hell
Have I." Except for the chorus, the
lyrics are rendered in speech, not
song. The use of this technique
will be familiar to the Megadeth
listener who has heard "Sweating
Bullets" from the "Countdown to
Extinction" album.
However, "Angry Again" has a
distinct enough melody that it
avoids the "this sounds like all
their other songs" syndrome.
"Real World" by Queensryche
will not shock anyone who has lis
tened to their "Empire" album.
Imagine "Silent Lucidity" with a
small burst of adrenaline at the
end. If you like the direction
Queensryche went with "Empire,"
you should like "Real World."
Aside from those, and a live
version of Aerosmith's "Dream
On," there is little else worth lis
tening to on the album.
Anthrax' "Poison My Eyes,"
with its drunken-karaoke-class
vocals, is not likely to create any
additional Anthrax fans.
Def Leppard continues its
downward spiral with more pim
ply-faced teenager music in the
form of "Two Steps Behind," a
song of incredibly cliched lyrics
and dime-a-dozen power ballad
melodies.
Tesla's effort is fair, but cheesy,
blow seriously can one treat the
theme song of a movie targeted at
an audience too young for drivers
licenses?
Fishbone's "Swim" is an unintel
ligible jumble of words and tunes
and Cypress Hill's rap song "Cock
the Hammer" seems out of place
among its heavy-metal company.
The "Last Action Hero" sound
track is not an album to enjoy as a
whole; listening to it is rather like
listening to the radio.
As a collection of singles, the
album is worth its price for a few
good tunes. However, cassette lis
teners could wear out their rewind
buttons on this soundtrack.
From days of 'Apocalypse Now/ Fishburne matures as an actor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Lawrence Fishburne's star
status appears to be confirmed with the laudato
ry reviews for "What's Love Got to Do With It,"
in which he plays Ike Turner to Angela Bassett's
Tina Turner.
Fishburne, 31, refers to "Apocalypse Now"
as the most formative event of his life. Geor
gia-born and reared in Brooklyn, N.Y., he start
ed acting professionally at 10. He never had an
acting lesson, but he landed a three-year stand
on a soap opera, "One Life to Live." At 12, he
appeared in his first film, "Cornbread, Earl
and Me."
Two years later, Fishburne was chosen by
Francis Coppola to play Clean, a teen-age sol
dier high on grass in "Apocalypse Now." As
chronicled in the documentary "Hearts of
Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," the
Philippines location was as dramatic as the
movie itself. A typhoon destroyed the sets,
Coppola had a breakdown, Martin Sheen suf
fered a heart attack, Marlon Brando pulled his
very ample weight.
"Everyone went a little crazy, including
me," Fishburne said. "I was smoking reefer,
like everyone else. My mother was there, but
she couldn't control me so she called in the big
guns, my father.
"Everybody in the company referred to him
as 'The Jailer,' but all he had to do was say, 'OK,
that's enough of that/ and I'd come around."
Fishburne aged several years during the 18
months, and he returned enlightened by ob
serving pros such as Coppola, Brando, Sheen
and Robert Duvall. Soon he was playing ma
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"The Cotton Club" and "Gardens of Stone."
The actor's star quality went undiscovered
until his powerful, Tony-winning performance
in August Wilson's "Two Trains Running." Then
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"Boys N the Hood." The first-time director, John
Singleton, had been a production assistant on
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When "Boyz" appeared at the Cannes Film
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