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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1991)
T Page 4 The Battalion 102 Church St. College Station^ Texas 77840 APPETIZERS Shrimp or Clam Oreganate } 4.95 Stuffed Mushrooms $ 3.95 Fried Calamari *3.95 Fried Cheese $ 3.50 Fried Zucchini *2.95 Fried Appetizer Plate *4.95 Garlic and Cheese Bread *1.50 SOUPS & SALAD House Salad Rosalie's Chef Salad Antipasto Mediterranean Pasta Salad Country Italian Soup Slumlord gets taste of his own medicine and more in 'The Super' By Martha Rice The Battalion LUNCH SPECIAL 11-2 p.m. PASTA DISHES $3.95 PASTA DISHES CHOOSE ONE PASTA AND ONE SAUCE, ALL PISHES COME WITH HOUSE SALAD AND BREAD Linguini Angel Hair Fettuccine Spaghetti Fusilli Penne Meat Sauce Marinara Meatballs Italian Sausage Alfredo Carbonara Red or White Clam Tomatoe *4.25/ $ 5.95 *3.95/*5.25 *4.25/ *5.95 *4.25/ *5.95 *4.50/ *6.25 *4.50/ *6.25 *4.75/ *6.50 *3.95/ *5.00 ENTREES AFTER 5 P.M. “The Super," unfortunately, is not that super. This fish-out-of-water comedy, which opened Friday, has a few laughs, mainly due to its star, Joe Pesci, last seen as the menacing burglar Al in the crowd-pleasing Christmas sensation "Home Alone." Pesci plays Louis Kritski, a sec ond-generation slumlord whose building, a birthday gift from his father Big Lou (Vincent Gardenia), is far below city code. Pesci is wonderful as Kritski, rushing from apartment to apartment in the opening scenes of the film, ranting about tenants who break things and are late with the rent. But the day takes a turn for the worst as a beautiful lawyer, the object of Kritski's pick-up lines throughout the rest of the film, meets him outside the building and tells him that he is being sued for code violations. Kritski-is a bit scared, but Big Lou tells his son not to worry - the city never gets convictions on code violation suits - except for this time. The judge in Kritski's case wants to teach him a lesson. She sentences him to live in his own apartment house until everything wrong with the building is re paired. Why doesn't Kritski just fix the place? Well, how could that en hance the plot? Big Lou, who has promised Kritski buildings and millions of dollars in his will, swears to dis own him if he gives in to the de mands of his tenants. Instead, Big Lou councils his son to soothe his soon-to-be neighbors, giving them nothing and getting them to drop the case. Kritski moves into the building and the fun begins. Really, there are a few genuinely funny mo ments. Cursing and infuriated with the filthy apartment, Kritski experiences everything from the Slumlord Louie Kritski (Joe Pesci) finds his sink exploding to his shiny, red corvette, armed with an alarm, be ing stripped overnight. Marlon, played by Reuben Blades, is constantly trying to hus tle money from Kritski, and tricks him into thinking he is a better basketball player than any of the neighborhood guys. The resulting blacktop matches are worth watching. The movie progresses, and ALL ENTREES SERVED WITH SALAD AND SAUTEED ZUCCHINI Music Review Chicken Piccatta *6.95 Chicken with Wine & Herbs *7.25 Chicken Parmesan *5.95 Eggplant Parmesan Shrimp or Clams Oreganate *5.95 *7.95 Calamari and Marinara Sauce *6.95 Cannelloni with Torpatoe Sauce *6.95 Sax quartet gives dynamic performance By Margaret Coltxnan The Battalion Put away any anti-saxophone prejudice and prepare for a musi cal revolution. The sax is no longer limited to sensual Bolero passages, and no music is safe from the Harvey Pit tel Saxophone Quartet. Monday night's program ranged from Baroque to Broad way, with dynamic performances from each player. Pittel, along with Vincent Gnojek, Roger Greenberg and Todd Oxford, exploited the pos sibilities of the sax family, as well as commentating a whirlwind his tory of the sax and its develop ment. The Quartet's sonorous musi- cality and exciting presentation meant an extraordinarily enter taining evening. Pittel's rare com mand of circular breathing - in haling through the nose while ex haling through the mouth - made for uninterrupted melodies that held the audience in awe. The smooth, heavy bass notes in the Rags were uncomfortable. possibly because of years of hear ing Joplin on the piano, and there were a few faulty notes in Pittel's arrangement of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor," but these slight problems could scarcely detract from the evening. Oxford has come a long way since undergraduate days at The University of Texas, and he is one to keep an eye on. Each player presented particular favorite solos which were not on the program, and they are to be lauded for their individual and collective musical ly. 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Continental Airlines alone is responsible for fulfillment of this offer American Express assumes no liability for Continental Airlines' performance. © 1991 American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc, Continued from page 3 has had sex with other wome: not realize that his sexual par ner for more than 20 yearsisi:! fact a man? And that's a question that the play doesw completely answer. In the real life story, the map, Bernard Bouriscot, was suppo) edly' a virgin before hemettn; butterfly. Their physical relatic ship lasted only a few n during their 20-year affair. Physically, Gallimard neve saw his partner totally nude® I til the end of the play wheniii all saw him nude, and this was! why many people wereoffende; and left the theater. Otherslef earlier because of a prolong kiss between the two men. Near the end of the play,al ter Tiling makes the transit® from woman to man, Gallimait makes a similar transition into: woman, and commits suicide.:: is tough to decipher whether a kills himself in his mind orinif ality (one could argue it doesr, matter). In real life the man: still alive and living in Paris. So the play comes full ciri Although Gallimard saw himst as Pinkerton, he was actually tk|| butterfly, emotionally andsext; ally used by a stronger personal ity. And little Tiling was not! helpless, devoted butterfly,bt more like Pinkerton, whowasi: command of the situation an: humiliated his lover. Graeme Malcolm andespt cially Francis Jue as Filingpe: formed wonderfully in the lea; roles. Jue was so convincing as: woman that a friend of min: who had no previous knowledp of the play believed it was real; a woman until the transform; tion, despite many subtle an; not-so-sublte hints that tk woman was in fact a man. This marvelous and captiva:- ing play was the first smash sit- cess to be written by David Her ry Hwang. Ironically, becaust the play has been such a succe; he is now moderately wealth and his wife has divorced hin because she doesn't thinksudi success suits their needs. It just goes to show that will all the problems of modern sot: ety, and decades after "Madam: Butterfly" first premiered,stl the biggest problems of mankin: and womankind are trying t; understand, and learn respe; for, each other. Aggie Players Continued from page 3 show and at points, it become: annoying, even distracting. Bui it is different and if it had beer the only/ abnormality, itwotiUl not have worked. Upon first sight, the set of M production provokes though and intrigue. It ties in well wll the modern thrills incorporate; in the show, however, there nev er seems to be a connectiontoi these differences and the play Other audience members com mented on the harshness of it all These were really the onl; problems that haunted theshov The audience hung on ever), word of the action-packed come dy/. Each movement clicked life clockwork and it is importanttil watch every area of the stage,®! you might miss something. The reality of the of the Jew ish and Christian conflict inter twined into the story forces yo® mind to really consider wh: : Shakespeare is trying to say The stereotypes are portrayed;: they are truly felt, while thehai: and disbelief in each other's re/ gion is very obvious. Ready for a change from * ordinary? Then "The Mercha' of Venice" is ready for you.