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ENTERTAINMENT 6
Thursday, June 15,1989
Annual Rock-n-Roll Auction this weekend
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ducting research on group dy
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We will pay you $30. for 6 hrs. of
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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
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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.