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^ ^CURWURE & HfIRDWffRE EXCHANGE m4 COLLEGE MAIN NORTHGATE IN CS, TX (409) 846-1763 'Ml WE BOY SELL & "RENT NEW & USED HARDWARE & SOFTWARE Try before you buy We accept TAMU purchases orders SPECIAL: 486DX-133 (AMD) with 8 megs RAM, 1 meg PCI VIDEO CARD, 850 meg HARD DRIVE, 14" SVGA MONITOR, 4X CD-ROM, SB-16, 14.4 MODEM with voice. SPEAKERS. DOS 6.22. WINDOWS 3.11, KEYBOARD, MOUSE, ETC. ** faster than a P-90 ** s 1390.°° Welcome back fellow AGGIES!!! Page 4 • The Battalion _A_ggxei jfje Monday • January 22, B-CS moviegoers lose out on 'art' films I found a link be tween the duck billed platypus and Leaving Las Ve gas — you won’t see either in the Bryan- College Station area. Platypuses are in digenous to the river banks of eastern Aus- IHiaiHIHHWIHMlpiJinmHMWMWnWIHIHIHIHI t f#"- ‘ ; “Street Sounds is both inciting and : I spirited. A soimd the world <|u» emDrace.” I -Pete ScSget, vocalist.: s V Gospel, jazz, rap, rhythm and blues, civil and human rights songs, African chants, doo-wop, traditional and contemporary r rhythms and sounds. i | /->r An innovative variety for all ! hursday, January 25 7 to enjoy! 8:00 p.m. I Rudder Auditorium Tickets are on sale at the MSC Box Office-TAMU, or charge by phone at 845-1 234. New extended Box Office hours include Sat. 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Society Now accepting Aggie Bucks 1 http://www msc.tamu.edu/msc/opas/opas.html opas@tamu.edu „ ..GV Persons wilh disabilitiesjjjgyse 845^903 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability. 5l|^!ril^lBiUilHIHIHWIWBIBIBniBIHIHniHIHMmWI tralia and Tasmania, so don’t ex pect to see an elusive clan of web-footed, duck-billed mam mals scurrying down Texas Av enue anytime soon. On the same note, don’t ex pect to see Leaving Las Vegas on a movie screen anytime soon. It’s as if the Oscar-potential, critically acclaimed films like Ve gas aren’t native to B-CS either. If you don’t believe me, here’s a case in point: Within the last two weeks, Georgia, Othello and Dead Man Walk ing opened nationwide. These three films have opened up to at least moderate critical ac claim, with two of the films receiving Golden Globe nominations for their pri mary actors and actresses. Holding true to form, neither of the two B-CS theaters that stock current releases is showing these three films. Instead, the theaters are showing films such as Goldeneye, Jumanji, Sabrina and The American President. While none of these films are bad, they all were released well before the new year and have had at least a month run. Mean while, newer, quality films are passing the B-CS area by. So why are films like these passing us by? Randy Hester, director of corporate develop ment for Cinemark Theaters, which manages the Hollywood 16 theaters on State Highway 6, said “art films” such as Vegas L Othello] I GEORGIA leaving and Dead Man Walking have only moderate success as com pared to other films. “Family films do exceptionally well,” Hester said. “Action films do well because of the large number of students in the area.” Distributors also limit the number of films that are circu lated in each market. Some times, films like Vegas are limit ed to as few as one copy for cities like Houston or Dallas. So it looks like movie buffs are caught in a no-win situa tion. A glut of action and family films make it hard for these Ve- gas -type of films to get here, and the distributors make it al most impossible for a small market like B-CS to even geta shot at these films. If the right one doesn’t get you, the left one will. The problem is a perplexing one. There won’t be a mass pop ulation explosion that will turn B-CS into a booming metropolis, so the market won’t change any time soon. And the distributors, no doubt, won’t change their strategy because of its success. Hell, it got me to cross Houston three times this Christmas. There seems to be no imme diate solution to this precari ous situation. Meanwhile, movie fanatics will have to punish themselves by making all-day trips to Hous ton or Dallas for 12-hour movie marathons to catch all the films they want to see that aren’t showing in the Bryan-College Station area. Maybe something divine will happen and I’ll see Dead Man Walking in B-CS. It will probably be at about the same time that I finally catch a glimpse of that clan of platypuses. Wes Swift is a junior jour nalism major. 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