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The Battalion Classifieds The Battalion ENTERTAINMENT 6 Thursday, June 15,1989 Annual Rock-n-Roll Auction this weekend HEU»WAfilfxr The Psychology Department at Texas A&M University is con ducting research on group dy namics and we need participants. We will pay you $30. for 6 hrs. of your time over a 6 weeks period. If interested, please call 845-4990 and ask for Michele, or sign up outside Room 347 in the Psychol ogy Building. Earn $500.-$600. or more weekly stuffing envelopes at home. No experience-for free information send self- addressed stamped envelope to: National, P.O. Box 7280, Dearborn, Mich. 48121. 159ttfn Domestic work & cooking needed Mon., Tues; Wed., & Fri., 3-6:30p.m.. 696-7414 after 5:30p.m. 156t06/15 Office Clerk: Deluxe Burger Bar. 8-5, Monday through Friday. 846-0928. 157t06/23 ATTENTION-HIRING! Government jobs-your area. $17,840.-$69,485. Call 1-602-838-8885, EXT. R4009. 157t06/16 Handy man needed-Experience necessary, 20 hrs./wk., tools & transportation a must 823-5469 157t06/23 Schlotzky’s is now accepting applications for the sum mer p/t evening 8c weekend shifts. Apply in person only between 2-5. 141 ttfn STARVING PHOTOGRAPHER WANTED TO DO MY WEDDING PICTURES. JULIE 846-3503 158t06/20 * SERVICES >■ \mm* * —mil miMiii in , ii‘i i i ' SKIN INFECTION STUDY G & S Studies, Inc. is participating in a study on acute skin infection. If you have one of the following conditions call G & S Studies. Eligible volunteers will be compensated. * infected blisters * infected cuts , * infected boils * infected scrapes * infected insect bites (“road rash”) G & S Studies, Inc. (close to campus) 846-5933 7611/31 Typing: Accurate, 95 wpm, reliable. Word Processor 7days a week. 776-4013. 157ttfn ON THE DOUBLE Professional V^ord Processing laser jet printing. Papers, resume, mdrge letters. 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Summer rates available. '764-070* or 696-4384. 116ttfn • ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL WORSHIP HOUR. ALL FAITHS CHAPEL. TUESDAY & THURSDAY. 12:15-12:45. 157t06/16 • FOR SALE Professional Racing Bike Fuji Team, excellent condi tion. $150.-, 845-9598 (EPB401, ask for Detlef) 159t06/l6 Honda Nighthawk-S 700cc. Excellent condition, 1 yr. old. Low mileage. Warranty. 847-0246. 153t06/16 PIANO FOR SALE- Responsible party wanted to as- . sume small monthly payments on piano. See locally. > Call credit manager 1-800-447-4266. 153i06/15 '85 SUZUKI 550L MINT CONDITION, 6000 MILES. NEW TIRE. & BATTERY. TODD 696-1967. 156t06/15 Proceeds raised from sixth KLOL-sponsored event to help in fight against AIDS By Keith Spera ENTERTAINMENT WRITER Rock-n-roll will be up for sale this Saturday night at the Summit in Houston during KLOL’s 6th Annual Rock-n-Roll Auction. The proceeds raised from the sale of rock-n-roll memorabilia, much of which was donated to the event by famous musicians, will go toward the fight against AIDS. As far as auctions go, this one promises to be interesting. Consider the celebrity guest auctioneers who will be on hand: Julian Lennon, Kiss’s Gene Simmons, Jessica Hahn, the members of the female rock Schedule of events 5:45 p.m. Julian Lennon cuts ribbon at The Summit entrance to open event. 6:00 p.m. Sale of table items begins in the Summit concourse area. 7:00 p.ra. Live music from The House of Lords. 7:45 p.m. Auction begins. 0:45 p.m. Intermission. 10:00 p.m. Live music from Molly Hatchet. 10:45 p.m. Live music from The Fabulous Thunderbirds. 11:30 p.m. The AH-Star Celeb rity Jam. Midnight. The event closes. All times are subject to change. Contact KLOL-FM in Houston for more information. band Vixen, MTV VJ Kevin Seal, Jon Butcher, Henry Lee Summer, Christopher Otcasek and KLOL’s air staff. The items to be auctioned off in clude autographed guitars from the Grateful Dead and the Traveling Wilburys, boxing gloves signed by David Lee Roth, gold records of John Lennon’s Imagine and Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV, stage clothes worn by Eddie Van Halen and Billy Idol, tour jackets and a trip to Los Angeles to attend a special re cording session with Tom Petty. One of the more unusual items being offered for sale is a 40-foot brassiere that was used in a contro versial KLOL promotion. The bra was hung from a billboard beside one of Houston’s busier freeways and aroused a great public outcry. Scheduled to help auction the item is the likewise controversial Jes sica Hahn, the former church secre tary whose alledged tryst with tele vangelist Jim Bakker led to Bakker’s PTL ministry. However, this is not just an auc tion — it is also a concert. Texas’s own Fabulous Thun derbirds, as well as Molly Hatchet and The House of Lords, will per form throughout the evening. Following The Fabulous Thun derbirds’ set, an all-star celebrity jam, which may feature any or all of the guest auctioneers and band members who have participated in the auction, will cap off the night. While prices for the auction items may reach into the hundreds or even thousands of dollars, several hun dred “table items,” which include au tographed LPs, CDs and tour passes, will be on sale for prices ranging from $1 to $50. There is no charge for general ad mission seating or Summit parking for this event. Anyone wishing to bid on an auc tion item is required to purchase a bidder’s pass for $3, which also enti tles the bearer to a reserved seat on the floor of the Summit. Last year’s auction raised over $40,000, which was donated to the The Fabulous Thunderbirds National Network of Runaway and Youth Services. The proceeds from this year’s auction will go to The Bering Com munity Service Foundation, a non profit organization that provides services for those suffering from AIDS. This year’s event is being under written by KLOL-FM (101.1) Budweiser, with assistance from Continental Airlines. What does God need with the new ‘Star Trek’ film? Chuck Lovejoy ENTERTAINMENT WRITER The pivotal question of “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” is the deity- defying Captain Kirk’s quip: “What does God need with a starship?” In the movie’s (semi-)climactic scene, Capt. Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Mr. Spock and Zybok (the insane Vulcan rebel who initiates the voyage — a search for God — after hijacking the Enterprise) stand in front of a glowing blue head that, strangely enough, resembles the computer-en hanced statue on the cover of New Order’s Technique album. During the scene, “God” tells Zy bok that he needs a starship to help him spread his power throughout the universe, leading a quizzical Kirk to retort: “Excuse me, but what does God need with a starship?” “God” ’s answer to Kirk comes in the form of a pair of lightning bolts that send him soaring. Even though the specter in the lat est visual voyage of the Enterprise doesn’t answer Kirk’s question, at least not the way Kirk wanted it done, an answer might be found in a parallel question: “Why was this movie made?” To be completely honest, I can’t begin to understand why the group we all collectively know as the Enter prise’s crew, all breathing and think ing humans (despite their charac ters), consented to make this weak excuse for a “Star Trek” adventure. Or maybe I can think of a motive or two: money shortages, boredom, midlife crises. The interactions between the starship’s crewmembers has always been the main attraction of “Star Trek,” both the movie and television series. But other than this standard friendly (and sometimes quite emo tional) bantering between the char acters, “Star Trek V” contains little else worth putting in the captain’s log. Action-packed are two words that do not describe trek five. Three am bassadors (one Terran, one Klingon, one Romulan) to a dustbowl of a planet are kidnapped, the Enter prise (complete with its usual physi cal difficulties) goes to rescue them and is hijacked, and suddenly it’s over the vastness of the Milky Way and through the Great Barrier to “God” ’s house we go. Of course, this is compacted plot scenario, but there really is little else that happens in the film. The re mainder of the film’s scenes are used primarily for character devel opment. And excuse me for saying so, but the crew’s personalities have been strongly established since, oh, the middle of the 1960s or so. Visual effects problems also ham per the film. v In the opening scene, a thin, nim ble, wiry, and silhouetted figure is climbing the face of a cliff in Yosem- ite National Park. But the climber is revealed to be Kirk: stiff, middle- aged and portly. There is also the problem of Spock’s jet boots, which seem to hold him perfectly still at times, but at others cause him to float around like ghosts in low budget horror movies. At one point you can even see the shadow of the mechanical arm hold ing him aloft. One trademark of the “Star Trek” series has been its superior outer space sequences. But corners seem to have been cut on “The Final Fron tier” — the starship images don’t ap pear as clear as they used to. Still, one shot of the Federation’s home base space station orbiting Earth is up to par with its predecessors. Perhaps the biggest annoyance of the entire movie is “God.” After it is finally established that the glowing head isn’t God (thanks to Kirk), the subject is dropped. The dialogue hints that the apparition was a figure of Zybok’s crazed imagi nation, but no concrete explanation in TMe I^IKOKJL F^OMTI^F* is ever offered. If the creation was from imagina tion, I offer this question (also with out an answer): Why did a creature emerge from Zybok’s mind and not from the mind of some other ma niacal, brainwashing, pointy-eared alien? There is also the matter of Zybok’s heritage. In a plot twist seemingly straight out of the plotlines of “Dal las,” Zybok is revealed as Spock’s half brother as an excuse for why Spock didn’t blast him when he had the chance to do so. If the “Star Trek” actors are lucky, they will wake up tomorrow to find this movie a dream. I must admit, though, that the film is saved by the character devel opment, even though it all but kills the plot and makes the direction of Kirk (William Shatner to the 20th century) seem sluggish. As Zybok is trying to brainwash the starship’s triumvirate of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, we are allowed to view haunting visions creeping around the memories of McCoy and Spock. We see how Dr. McCoy per formed euthanasia on his pain- drowned terminally ill father, only to see a cure for Father McCoy’s ill ness discovered a short time later. We also see Spock’s birth, and how his Vulcan father was disappointed that Spock had inherited some of his human mother’s characteristics. One powerful scene occurs when the Klingons are about to vaporize Kirk, and Spock convinces the kid napped Klingon ambassador to stoj the attack with the statemem, “Damn you, you will try.” For thost of you who don’t know, Sped picked up this manner of speech in the “colorful metaphor”-riddei! fourth movie adventure. There is also the sentimental scene after Kirk’s rescue from the glowing head, which was laseredbf Spock. Kirk tells Spock that he thought he was about to die. Spool replies, “You couldn’t have died- you weren’t alone,” a satisfying wrap-up to the earlier revelation that Kirk had always believed he would die while alone. What about the other four cren characters: Uhura, Chekov, Scotty and Sulu? Aside from cute one-liners, they are virtually ignored throughout the film. This is perhaps the mosttrajic of the film’s flaws, because I’ve al ways thought Scotty’s warm person’ ality or Chekov’s butchering of the English language with his Russian accent were far more interesting than anything Kirk has ever had to say. But the heartfelt revelations ol the other three and the sentimental ending consisting of only them sit ting around a campfire singing ii enough —barely — to make “Star Trek V” enjoyable. Not very good- just enjoyable. But I’m sure all trekkies will lx happy to hear that there probablr will be a sixth adventure for the fn- terprise crew. I don’t think there’s any way on Earth they would let this fiasco be their swan song. Around Town Emiliano’s Live Music Brazos Landing Brazos Landing is at Northgate. Everyone is admitted. Beer, wine and mixed drinks are served. For more information, call 846-3497. Friday — Quizumba. Brazilian dance music. Starts at 10 p.m. $4 cover. Saturday — Spy vs. Spy. Reg gae. Starts at 10 p.m. $4 cover. Cow Hop Annex Next to the restaurant at North- gate. Those 18 and older ad mitted. Alcohol served to legal drinkers. Call 696-5522 for more information. Thursday — Borrowed Tym. Top 40. Starts at 10 p.m. $2 cover. Friday — For Crying Out Loud. Original rock. Starts at 10 p.m. $2 cover. Big A1 and the Saints. Blues. Starts at 10 p.m. $2 cover. In Bryan at 502 W. 25th St. Beer, wine and set-ups served. Call 775- 9539 for more information. Saturday — David Lee Garza y los Musicales. Spanish and coun try variety. $7 cover before 9 p.m.; $8 cover after 9 p.m. Frank’s Bar and Grill In College Station at 503 E. Uni versity Drive. All ages are ad mitted. Beer, wine and liquor are served to legal drinkers. Call 846- 5388 for more information. Saturday — Don Pope. Jazz. Starts at 9:30 p.m. $3 cover after 10 p.m. Kay’s Cabaret At Post Oak Mall. Those 18 and over are admitted. Beer, wine and liquor served to legal drink ers. For more information, call 696-9191. Saturday — To be announced. Begins at 9:30 p.m. No cover. The Mercury Bar At 313 S. College in the Skaggs shopping center. Those 18 and over are admitted, and beer, li- uor and wine are served to legal rinkers. For more information, call 846-MERC (846-6372). Thursday — The Insatiables. Progressive rock. Starts at 10 p.m. $3 cover. Movies All movies and showtimes are provided by the theaters and are subject to change. There may also be admission restrictions con cerning coupons and VIP passes. Cinema Three Located at 315 College Ave. in the Skaggs Shopping Center. Call 693-2796 for more information. Indiana Jones and the Last Cru sade. Rated PG-13. Showtimes are 1:30, 4:10, 7:00 and 9:45. Renegades. Rated R. Showtimes are 2:00, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:30. Ends today. Starts Friday: Scandal. Post Oak Three Located in the Post Oak Mall. Call 693-2796 for more information. Field Of Dreams Rated PG. Showtimes are 2:15, 4:25, 7:15 and 9:25. No Holds Barred. Rated PG-13. Showtimes are 2:25, 4:35, 7:25 and 9:35. Road House. Rated R. Showtimes are 2:00, 4:20, 7:00 and 9:20. Schulman Six In Bryan at 2002 E. 29th Street. Call 7/5-2643 for more informa tion about which features are “dollar movies.” See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Rated R. Showtimes are 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:55. Dead Calm Rated R. Showtimes are 2:10, 4:40, 7:05 and 9:30. Ends today. Chances Are. Rated PG. Show- times are 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:35. Dream Team. Rated PG-13. Showtimes are 2:15, 4:45, 7:00 and 9:35. Fletch Lives. Rated PG-13. Show- times are 2:20, 4:30, 7:10 and 9:25. K-9. Rated PG. Showtimes are 2:05,4:35, 7:00 and 9:45. Starts Friday: Say Anything. Plaza Three In College Station at 226 South west Parkway. Call 693-2457 for more information. Major League. Rated R. Show- times are 2.T0, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:35. Pink Cadillac. Rated R. Show- times are 2:15, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:30. Ends today. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Rated PG. Showtimes are 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 and 9:45. Starts Friday: Dead Poets So ciety. Manor East Three In Bryan in the Manor East Mall Call 823-8300 for more informa tion. Pet Sematary. Rated R. Show- times are 2:10, 4:40, 7:15 p.m and 9:30 p.m. See You In the Morning. Rated PG-13. Showtimes are 2:20,4:35, 7:20 and 9:45. Rainman. Rated R. Showtimes are 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 and 9:45. Starts Friday: Ghostbusters 2, Pink Cadillac.