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April 8, 1996
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Deep Blue Something
returns to promote Home
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D eep Blue Something is returning
to College Station tonight to pro
mote its first album, Home. The
group is on the first leg of a tour that
will take it from Texas to the West
Coast and then to Europe.
The Dixie Theatre and KHLR-103.9
d are sponsoring the show at Denim
and Diamonds. Last October, Deep
Blue Something made a trip to Col-
Station when it played at 3rd
Floor Cantina.
Toby Pipes, guitarist and vocalist for
the band, said the band had a lot of fun.
“Last time, there were a lot of peo
ple,” Pipes said. “Hopefully, this time
it will be pretty cool as well.”
Deep Blue Something hails from
Denton, where the members met at the
University of North Texas. Pipe’s
brother Todd is the lead vocalist and
bassist; Kirk Tatom is the guitarist,
and John Kirtland is the drummer.
Success has been kind to Deep Blue
Something. Fueled by its first single,
’Breakfast at Tiffanys,” the band has
risen to the top of the charts faster
an it anticipated.
Pipes said he did not expect “Break-
it at Tiffanys” to be in rotation as
ig as it has.
“We thought it would take longer
than it has to be successful,” Pipes
d. “‘Breakfast at Tiffanys’ has last-
almost a full year, and we expected
to be on our fourth single by now.”
The band’s second single, “Halo,” is
starting to receive air play, and Pipes
said the band finished a video for the
song a month ago.
“It is being played on VH-1 now,”
Pipes said. “We had a good time, and it
was coo,1. It depends on the director,
fat we were lucky because we had
somebody that was really laid back.”
The group is coming off of a two-week
stint of rest and relaxation. Pipes said the
rest was needed, but the band members
are starting to get a little bored.
“We are used to being out on the
road,” Pipes said. “After a while, we
are ready to get back out. It kind of
aicks to just sit around.”
The group has played outside of its
native Texas. Pipes said no matter
where the band plays, it can find fans
who are from Texas.
“Everyone has this thing about
Texas like it is in its own world,” Pipes
said. “But we’ve found that Texas,
Massachusetts and New York are the
coolest areas. Everyone thinks Texas
is not hip, but when we get out they
see that it can be hip. It seems like no
Matter where you are, people who are
Stew Milne, The Battai.ion
Todd Pipes, vocalist and bassist of Deep Blue Something, plays at 3rd Floor Can
tina during a concert last October.
from Texas stick to their own groups.”
Pipes said the band is ready to play
in Europe.
“We will be in Europe until Septem
ber or October,” Pipes said. “The CD is
doing well in other countries. We ex
pected to do a lot better in Europe be
cause of the type of music we play.”
While in Europe, the group will play
in a variety of music festivals. Pipes
said that while the band is trying to
branch out to other audiences, it still
enjoys playing for college crowds.
“I don’t see us in an arena tour for
another year,” Pipes said, “so we have
something to look forward to.”
Cher and Palminteri create
unique chemistry in Faithful
Chaz Palminteri plays Tony, a hitman hired to kill Margaret (Cher), in Faithful.
Movie Review
Faithful
Starring Cher, Ryan O’Neal and
Palminteri
Directed by Paul Matursky
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* *★* (out of five)
By Amber Clark
The Battalion
Although the old adage “Money can’t
buy happiness” may hold true, it can
hire a hit man to off your wife.
Based on Chazz Palminteri’s play by
the same title, Faithful involves a rich
New York City couple marking 20
years of not-so-blissful marriage.
Jack (Ryan O’Neal) runs the largest
trucking business in the area and
spends his money frivolously. Mean
while, his manic depressive wife, Mar
garet (Cher), is a prisoner in their huge
estate where neither therapy nor pills
can mask her husband’s infidelity.
Enter the hired hit man, Toni
(Palminteri). Breaking into Margaret
and Jack’s home, Tony unknowdngly in
terrupts her attempted suicide. He ties
her to a rolling desk chair, and thus be
gins their strange relationship.
Margaret takes advantage of Tony’s
bumbling, but streetwise, attitude to
discover that her husband has hired
Tony to dispose of her for her $5 million
life insurance policy. As they wait for a
phone call signal from Jack, Margaret
finds that the coarse Tony is also quite
fragile and vulnerable, as evidenced by
numerous frantic calls to his therapist.
The two soon discover they
share a strong attraction, albeit
mostly sexual, and the conspira
cy changes.
The entertaining dialogue be
tween Margaret and Tony, which
forms the core of Faithful, is reflec
tive of the talents of Cher and
Palminteri. With this chemistry,
the two create an engaging presen
tation that is typically limited to a
live performance, thus demonstrat
ing the play’s successful adaptation to
the big screen.
Cher convincingly portrays a severe
ly depressed wife devoted to a husband
who has neglected her for two decades.
She also effectively communicates that
a woman does not need to be young,
blonde, nor surgically enhanced in or
der to be beautiful. This inner beauty,
wisdom and strength is of course what
attracts Tuny and escapes Jack.
Palminteri convincingly plays Tony
as a tough-talking Italian hit man who
continually exposes his inner confu
sion. Throughout the film, this wise
guy image is broken down as Tony’s
more humane side emerges through
Margaret’s understanding.
As a major figure wdth minimal dia
logue, the bloated O’Neal is fantastic as
Jack, the arrogant and aging husband
in the midst of some sort of midlife cri
sis. He is stereotypical of the selfish
husband concerned mostly with pleas
ing himself, his big-breasted mistress
and his wife — in that order.
Faithful is a wonderfully enter
taining and complex film. With
strong performances, an engaging
script and artful direction, Faithful is
both insightful and enjoyable.
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