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1 The Battalion i < 3, 199T ts SIDAY ation andJy 3^ 1996 sis so derstarM-™ - ^ sets of his GGIE a psyj i Collogo thtiti ona for anxi-l 1 J, ciety, we I nlertainment : LANCE The Last Curtain Call Freudian Slip members perform last shows iifc. Wmi. Reynolds Reynolds may lose bme to debt STUART, Fla. (AP) — Burl leynolds kept his waterfront home ihen he and Loni Anderson divorced «o years ago. it now he nld lose it to tebanlc Bankers _ u$tCo. of in; Baitai roNjIifornia rkground) «lforfore- esdaV. ® ure , ' J . .ednesday, /ior, San-ijimjng the le way tn^orhasn't responsd.”ia(jehis might bej,516 y an anxi-^nthly mort- at provohtjge payment since August. Reynolds' spokesman Joe Sutton ast experi-iimed "a cash flow problem'' and lent Coun-iid it would be resolved within ? sufferedeedays. of perfor-., . , , ■lasses, shakur's sex abuse tone1a4? llviction Upheld eir future NEW YORK (AP) — A judge re- ormance;” «dto throw out the sex abuse tpproach-fictions of rapper Tupac Shakur instead of 1 ^^ 5 roa d manager over a disclo- - minutey'dbat a police officer on the case organi£e JSSUS P en ded for misconduct, ■ygtemati- defense attorney claimed that ty lowing of Officer Craig McKer- io's30-day suspension would ■ ive allowed the defense to chal- ■ his credibility. ^ But State Supreme Court Justice iniel Fitzgerald, who presided at elrial, said the officer was a mi- witness and his suspension for Sduty misconduct was not rele- mtto their case. Shakur, 24, and Charles Fuller, i were convicted of groping Molding a 20-year-old woman tile three others forced her to dorm sex acts. Shakur got up to 4 1/2 years in son but remains out on $1.4 mil- hbail. led Nails kard gets approval )film at high school SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Di- dor Ron Howard has done what rormeister Wes Craven couldn't 'dal ie , ! tc/ at oa rmoVigq L 80 >6. nos klaces Rings Inklets \S' Iry felry on-Sat Jnoi approval to make a movie at WaRosa High School. The city school board Tuesday unimously approved a permit Howard to film at the school ay24-25. Howard will pay the strict $5,000. Howard is directing Inventing (Motts, about two families wing up in a small Midwestern min the 1950s, the district said. The board rejected Craven's offer 130,000 to shoot Scary Movie be- w the script contained profanity 1 scenes of mutilated teen-agers. ply. By Amy Collier The Battalion D uring a perfor mance at the Big Stinkin’ Interna tional Improv Festival in Austin last week, Jeff “Jethro” Nolen and Damaso Rodriguez, members of the improvisation- al comedy troupe Freudian Slip, had to deal with an unex pected surprise. While their characters were arguing, a red, heart-shaped balloon floated through the air and landed behind Rodriguez’s head. The audi ence started laughing. Instead of letting the balloon distract his per formance, Nolen acted like he had fallen in love with Rodriguez. “It was incredibly funny that this balloon changed the scene so much,” Nolen said, “be cause the scene was not headed into that whole gay-love thing before the balloon came on stage.” Members of Freudian Slip have learned to handle unexpected surprises like the balloon since they started performing in Fall 1993. The final performances for Freudian Slip are tonight and tomorrow night in Rudder Theatre at 9. Almost all of the original mem bers of Freudian Slip are coming to A&M for the performances. “May 4th will be an event that books will be written about,” Nolen said. Five members of Freudian Slip are graduat ing next week, and only one original member of the improv troupe, Eric Pargac, a junior jour nalism major, will remain. Rehearsals will be held in the summer and fall to replace the grad uating performers. “May 4th is the end of the original cast tour of Freudian Slip,” Pargac said. Members of Freudian Slip look back at their performance years with fond memories and hu morous stories. The troupe began many years ago when a group of Aggie Players would perform informally after their Aggie Player Association meetings. In the fall of 1993, the students decided to take the performances to another level when they began performing at events such as MSC Open House and Festifall. The troupe, originally called The Improvisa- tional Comedy Troupe sponsored by the Aggie Players, eventually began to perform in Ru mours Coffee Haus and Deli for free. The shows rose in popularity, and the troupe eventually changed its name to Freudian Slip. Freudian Slip became so popular that it was forced to move to Rudder Forum, and eventual ly, it moved to Rudder Theatre and began to charge admission for its shows. “When we started charging,” Nolen said, “we realized we had an obligation to ensure the quality of our shows.” To improve the quality of its shows, Freudi an Slip traveled to Chicago twice to study at Del Close and Charna Halpern’s Improv Olympic Theater. Close and Halpern wrote “Truth in Come dy,” a book considered to be the Bible of im- provisational comedy, and they have also coached actors Bill Murray and Chris Farley and actress Gilda Radner. "What I got out of college was Freudian Slip. Freudian Slip was my major." — JEFF “JETHRO” NOLEN member of Freudian Slip It was in the windy city that the members learned a new type of improv. “Over the years, we’ve transformed from short-form, game-oriented improv to long-form, complex structures,” Nolen said. The members have worked on long-form im prov so much (they rehearse nine hours a week) that when they attended the improv festival last week, they were highly acclaimed by people such as Saturday Night Live’s David Koechner and Gary Austin, acting coach for Helen Hunt and Harrison Ford. Pargac said the group was flattered to be commended at the festival. He said it has taken a lot of hard work to reach such recognition. “We’re perfectionists,” Pargac said. “Even when we think we’ve had a bad show, the audi ence still loves it.” Pargac said people do not understand why the members of Freudian Slip spend so many hours rehearsing. “It’s not something we mind doing because we love it so much,” he said. Nolen said the troupe could have never done well in Bryan-College Station if it were not for its audience. “I’m really pleased that something like Freudian Slip could succeed in Bryan-College Station — a community not known for its sup port of the arts,” Nolen said. “We couldn’t do it without the support of the students.” Most of the graduating members of Freudi an Slip plan to move to Chicago to continue improv comedy. “Chicago is the center of improv,” Nolen said. “It is where improv started. What we made at A&M is not something that’s going to just end on May 4th.” He said he does not care about the degree he is receiving from A&M. “What I got out of college was Freudian Slip,” Nolen said. “Freudian Slip was my major.” Freudian Slip is performing tonight and Maria,/ News Editor dr DITOR i >hics Editor ior ison, Eleanor sndra S. 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