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The Bond that ties
Pierce Brosnan is the fifth actor to play Ian
Flemming's character, James Bond.
(George Lazenby, who is not listed, starred
in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.)
Sean Connery
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Roger Moore
Connery starred
as Bond in Dr.
No, From Russia
With Love,
Goldfinger,
Thunderball, You
Only Live Twice,
Diamonds are
Forever and
Never Say Never
Again.
Moore starred as
Bond in Live and
Let Die, The Man
With the Golden
Gun, The Spy
Who Loved Me,
Moonraker, For
Your Eyes Only,
Octopussy and A
View to a Kill.
MOVJI: REVIiM j
Goldeneye
Starring Pierce Brosnan
and Famke Janssen
Directed by Martin
Campbell
Rated R
Playing at Hollywppdi 16
**** (out of
Dalton starred as
Bond in The
Living Daylights
and Licence to
Kill.
Timothy Dalton
By Amy Uptmor
The Battaiion
Believe the hype.
The release of Golden
eye, Pierce Brosnan’s first
try at James Bond and the
first Bond movie of the
’90s, has received hype
that was previously only
given to Batman.
And it deserves it.
Goldeneye is brilliant, a
true return to the classic
style of action movies that
Bond made famous with
the likes of Goldfinger and
Dr. No.
The plot is typical. Bond
is assigned to track down
and destroy a Russian
weapons satellite known as
Goldeneye. In the process,
he hops from one glorious
location to another, with a
woman always in hand, and
with his BMW and trade
mark toys supplied to him,
once again, by the infamous
Q (Desmond Llewelyn).
But this Bond movie is
not quite the same. For
starters, all of 007’s assign
ments are handed down by
M, his new, tough female
boss (Judi Dench). M is one
tough cookie and is one of
the few women in the histo
ry of the series to render
him all but speechless.
And Bond’s woman, Na
talya (Izabella Scorupco), is
not your usual Bbnd
woman. Sure, she’s beauti
ful and powerful and shoots
people, but here’s the twist
— she’s intelligent. Need
less to say, Bond finds him
self relieved that he’s drag-
Brosnan
ging a former Soviet com
puter programmer with him
around the world rather
than his ordinary flings.
The female enemy is as
eccentric as ever. Xenia
Onatopp (Famke Janssen)
is a fantastic, cold-blooded
killer who gets quite a thrill
— literally — out of making
people die.
But Bond must face more
than the usual enemies. His
old counterpart, agent 006,
comes back to haunt him as
a Russian ally, and the loy
alties between the friend
and the mission is tested.
And, of course, there’s a
whole new Bond. Brosnan
delivers a smooth perfor
mance, filling the very big
shoes of his predecessors
with ease. Brosnan is not
quite as suave a Bond as
Sean Connery, nor is his
portrayal as arrogantly
British as lioger Moore.
But the happy medium
he finds between the two
portrayals makes foraso
phisticated, sarcastic Boni
A worthy successor to the
role has finally been fomdi;
The action sequences!
Goldeneye are amongthe
best a Bond movie has
ever seen.
’The opening scene,®
pi etc with Bond free-fab
right into the cockpito'si
airplane and maneuver
it straight out of disasn
incredible. It’scomplt;; !
unbelievable, but then '
again, James Bond can! f
anything.
Goldeneye is a return! r
the classic form of action I
movies. The action is bril l
liant, and the characters^
intriguing.The plot mysterj
ously unwinds itself invini
tage Bond form.
Put Timothy Dalton far]
far out of your memory.
There’s a new Bond intw.
and his performance has
brought Bond movies bad
to their “golden” days.
Inner City Blues illustrates depth of Gaye's abseno
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I awoke at 6:30, got dressed and
went downstairs for breakfast.
I was a fourth grader, ready to
take on the world. When my fa
ther saw me in the kitchen, he
asked me, “Son, have you ever
heard of Marvin Gaye?”
“Sure,” I said, thinking I was a
music expert. “He’s that guy that
sings ‘Sexual Healing.’”
At that point, that was all
Gaye was to me — a soul crooner
with an odd name who sang the
sex song that I giggled about
when I heard it on the radio.
Gaye died the night before af
ter a dispute with his father
turned deadly, and his father shot
him. Upon learning about his
death, I had no appreciation for
the man or his music.
I was too young to appreciate
“Let’s Get It On,” “How Sweet It
Is” and “Mercy Mercy Me (The
Ecology).” I was unaware of how
Gaye almost singlehandedly
changed the face of soul music.
Sure, I had heard “I Heard It
Through The Grapevine” and liked
it, but it was just a popular “oldie.”
But Marvin was more than “I
Heard It Through The Grapevine.”
With “What’s Going On” and the
lyrics “Brother brother, there are
far too many of you dying,” Gaye
captured the essence of the civil
rights movement in an eloquence
not matched before or since.
His influence on socially-
conscious artists from Tracy
Chapman to Public
Enemy is a testa
ment to his stature
as a songwriter.
As a sort of intended
bridge between the
generation gaps, in
comes Inner City Blues,
an album, video and
MTV special as a trib
ute to the man and his
music. With artists as
diverse as Bono,
Madonna and Digable Planets,
the entire spectrum of Gaye’s in
fluence is finally apparent.
But what the album also
shows is just how far ahead of his
time Gaye was. In comparison to
today's top soul artists, Gaye is
still the king.
Today’s fascination with new-
jack hip-hop elements in tradi
tional soul threatens to ruin a
Gaye
classic style —the
style that Gaye per
formed and perietal^
Montell Jordan is
merely a cheap knock
off of R. Kelly, who
a bad imitation of
Aaron Hall, and the)
all rip off A1 Green,
Otis Redding and.ot
course, Marvin Gajc
Who knows what
else Gaye could have I
accomplished if his life hadn’tl»|
cut so tragically short? Perhapsl
could’ve shown the new jacksof |
soul a thing or two about what
music is really about. Because
some of them just don’t knowut|
Gaye did — they don’t seem to
know what’s going on.
Rob Clark is a sen
journalism Mj
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