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IFESTYLES
Friday ■ Saturday
Septembers I September6
Blue Note All Stars, a local blues
band, is playing at the Blues Facto
ry at 9 p.m.
Canvas, an alternative band, is play
ing at Cow Hop at 9 p.m.
The MSC Film Society presents The
Creature from the Black Lagoon in
3-D at Rudder Theater at 9:30 p.m.
Michael McAllister, an acoustic
musician from Austin, is playing at
Sweet Eugene’s House of Java at
9 p.m.
Shine, a pop/rock band from
Austin, is playing at Crooked Path
Ale House at 9:30 p.m.
Soulhat, a rock band from Austin, is
playing with Jazztop, a local rock
band, at Dixie Theatre at 9:30 p.m.
Soulhat
Storyville, a rock band from
Austin, is playing with Walkin
Cane Mark, a rhythm and blues
band from Cincinnati, Ohio, at 3rd
Floor Cantina.
The Texas Twisters, a
country/rock band, is playing at
Fitzwilly’s at 9:30 p.m.
David Trout, a comedian/musician,
is playing at Chelsea Street Pub and
Grill at 9 p.m.
Big Otis, a Motown and blues band
from Houston, is playing at the
Blues Factory at 9 p.m.
David Gate, a local alternative
rock musician, is playing at Cow
Hop at 9 p.m.
Killer Bees, a reggae band from
Austin, is playing with The Sus
pects, a ska band from Houston, at
Dixie Theatre at 9:30 p.m.
Michael E. Johnson of Killer Bees
Hamilton Loomis and the Prime
Time Players, a blues band from
Houston, is playing at 3rd Floor
Cantina at 9:30 p.m.
John Reyna and Tubie Pushee, a
music group, is playing at Fitzwilly’s
at 9:30 p.m.
David Trout, a comedian/musician,
is playing at Chelsea Street Pub and
Grill at 9 p.m.
Watsons, a folk music band, is play
ing at Crooked Path Ale House at
9:30 p.m.
The Woodies, an acoustic rock band
from Austin, is playing at Sweet Eu
gene’s House of Java at 9 p.m.
Friday • September 5,199]
Silverstone flick carries
too much baggage
Excess Baggage
Starring Alicia Silverstone
and Benicio Del Toro
Directed by Marco Brambilla
Playing at Hollywood 16
Rated PG-13
1/2 (out of five)
By Aaron Meier
Staff writer
A licia Silverstone once graced
the cover of Entertainment
Weekly with the catchy
headline, “A Star is Made.” She
now can appear in the magazine’s
regular feature, “Can This Career
be Saved?”
In her latest disaster film — ex
cuse me — disaster of a film, Excess
Baggage, Silverstone tries to return
to comedy and fails miserably.
The material passing for the plot
in this movie starts with Emily T.
Hope (Silverstone), a prime candi
date for “Poor Little Rich Girl of the
Year,” faking her own kidnapping to
get the attention of her father.
In a twist of fate only possible
in horrifically bad movies, Emily’s
car, with her in the trunk, is stolen
by Vincent (Benicio Del Toro). The
next hour and a half sends the
viewer on a ride as exciting as the
merry-go-round at KMart.
Excess Baggage features Silver
stone running around in a tight-
fitting T-shirt that gives her nip
ples a real workout. No less than
four times are her areolae thrust
on the screen. No wonder the
movie has “excess” in the title.
As in all her films, her perfor
mance reeks. One minute she is a
little girl sobbing mindlessly, the
next she tries to pull off the
“tough-as-nails” act while sippim
on scotch. ,1
As Vincent, Del Toro looks like
he is suffering from yellow jaun-j|
dice. His skin looks pale green ana
his eyes have circles darker thaiy
Silverstone’s overdone mascara.?]
The character of Vincent is trivia}
and one-dimensional, andheisjl
the most interestingcharacteriiH
the film. \\
Bordering on pedophilia, Ex-1
cess Baggage flirts with a juvenil|
love affair between Emily andVin-
cent. Every time the two loversap
pear on the screen, images ofAmj
Fisher and Joey Buttafuococome
to mind. With at least a 15 yeardif
ference between them, love scene
in the film are prosecutable undei
federal law.
The only redeeming facet ofE
cess Baggage is the directing. Mar
co Brambilla seems to have a tal
ent for using the camera in a
variety of ways. He uses unique
angles that look impressive on thi
screen. 1 lopefully next time, he
can find material worthy of him.
Excess Baggage is the first film
to be released by First Kiss Pro
ductions, Silverstone’s production
company. Judging by the qualitye
movies Silverstone has been pro
ducing lately, Silverstone’s "first |
kiss” should be her last.
Alicia Silverstone plays wealthy
Emily Hope in Excess Baggage.
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