w 7f 0 n C C ( COVER STORY BOOKS a Date rape Page 1 It is the most unexpected act of violence for women. It's hardly discussed, ignored by most men, yet can be even more traumatic an experience as rape by a stranger. But, what begins as a casual meeting with an acquaintance, as shown with the cover photo by Brian Masck, might lead to a sexual assault later in the evening. THEATFP I _:uc Improv Page 3 From the same company that brought you all those wonderful guys on the SCTV comedy show as well as many alumnae from Saturday Night, comes the National Touring troupe for Second City. Poetry Page 12 Just because some kinds of literature rhyme doesn't mean that it is boring. Here's a sampling of some recent poetry, including one imaginative com- bination of classic poems and comic books. RECORDS Folk tunes Page 13 Bruce Springsteen's latest release, Nebraska, ain't exactly the kind of thing we've come to expect from the Boss. But we gave it a listen anyway. CLASSICS - - Bohemia Page 14 All the way from the heart of Bohemia, the Prague Symphony Orchestra performs at Hill Auditorium Thursday. RANDS Cults Page 15 Find out what there is about a Cult Hero that makes for some of the better music in the area. MUSIC Wild woman Cult worship.. Page 6 Bonnie Hayes and her Wild Combo come to town next Tuesday. Some thoughts on her latest album and a preview of what to expect. THE LIST Happenings Page 7-10 Your guide to fun times for the coming week in Ann Arbor. Film capsules, music previews, theater Kozderka: Soloist with the Prague Symphony notes, and bar dates, all listed in a handy, dandy day- by-day schedule. Plus a roster of local restaurants. RESTAURANTS Seva Page 11 If you're not into meat, Seva's the place for you. There is vegetable fare for everyone, even enough to please those steak-and-potato fanatics. .~~ .~~~T h 1.:,...:............... Muddled movies To Weekend: Campus film regularly gets a bum rap from just about every media outlet in this area. Hordes of movie fans show up at the wrong auiditorium because of a University Record misprint, or at the wrong time because the announced at WCBN can't read the events info correctly. Cinema Guide refuses to print the film groups' blurbs unedited "for lack of space," but finds room for insipid reviews of such obscure filsm as Casablance, MASH, and Psycho. Rick Quackenbush and friends at the Ann Arbor News are so nearsighted that they can't see beyond the marquee of the Michigan Theatre: they rarely notice that there are also some good films playing on campus. But none of these minor calamities can compare to the damage that one uninformed, unprofessional Michigan Daily film critic does. After reading Christopher Potter's assessment of the current film scene (Weekend, 10/1/82) three words suffice to sum up his at- titude: ignorant and unashamed. Potter's main point is that film groups have largely ignored '30s and '40s Hollywood films outside of what he calls "Ann Arbor's Golden 40," popular well-worn titles that play every semester. Just one year ago during Septem- ber/October 1981, one finds that 29 other classics from that era were shown on campus that aren't on Potter's list-from VonSternberg's Blond Venus to Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, with plenty of films by Sturges, Capra, Curtiz, and Lubitsch thrown in. 29 in a 60-day period (not including selections from "the 40"), hardly constitutes neglect. Granted, by January/February 1982, the number of offbeat Hollywood films shown had dropped off from 29 to 19 (again, not in- cluding selections from "the 40"). Neglect? Potter says, "Nobody shows these films in Ann Arbor anymore.". I say, "Chris Potter doesn't do his homework." Potter concludes his article with a lament that certain of his favorite films are lying forever in film vaults. Films like Pride of the Yankeees, which Pot- ter may not have noticed played on campus 6/17/81. Films like The Post- man Always Rings Twice (1946), which probably slipped past the well informed Daily critic when 'it showed 5/15/81. Sure, that was last year. But I seriously doubt that either deserves to be dusted off every 2 or 3 years. Be patient. Cabin in the Sky will be here-if not this semester, maybe next. Or the next. I've saved the best part till last. Here's the part that really makes Pot- ter look utterly foolish. Potter fancies himself a Garbo fan, a fan who's really brokenhearted about that "You never see a Garbo film in Ann Arbor anymore." Potter goes on and on about it, particularly passionate that Garbo's greatest work-Queen Christina-should not be forsaken. Apparently Potter, blinded by his un- dying devotion to Garbo, didn't notice that three Garbo films have played on campus already this year (1/20/82, 6/2/82, 7/16/82). Or that Queen Christina comes to campus next mon- th! Good work Chris. --Michael Frieson Ann Arbor FIlm Co-op Oct. 14 Reggae To Weekend: Krell's preview of the Rita Marley concert in the October 1 Weekend Magazine was disgusting and in very poor taste. The article, questionably entitled "Reggae lives," dwelled on the death of Bob (Marley) with lines such as "... isn't that pushing it, a little, singing about what killed your husband?" Fur- thermore, if it wasn't bad jokes about Bob, it was negative criticism of Rita without giving her a chance. Everyone at Hill Auditorium Satur- day night witnessed Rita Marley proving Krell's preview wrong. In my mind and many others, Bob Marley will live forever. And after seeing Rita, most will feel the same way about her. It's a shame a few of us will continue to dwell on the past. -TonJones Oct.3 By Rob Weisberg W E'VE GOT rock 'n' roll bands in this town-Non-Fiction, Steve Nardella's band, Ragnar Kvaran, the Gene Pool Band-and they're all good. Bands like The Flexibles and Destroy All Monsters are pleasant when they're around. Newer folk like It Play, VVT, and Euthanasia strive to defy creeping conservative trends. But there is only one rock 'n' roll band that brings people to their feet every time they hit the stage, and the name of that band is the Cult Heroes. The Cult Heroes are hot, and they know it. They didn't plan it any other way. They had a gig in Detroit a few days after the band was formed-with only a few hours of practice behind them. Soon they had a manager in Gary Dimitrie, and a 45 ("The Prince" and "The Showgirl" backed with "Berlin Wall"). They have received favorable reviews from many of the major music magazines; even Variety praised their "high decibel drive." Dimitrie's making sure people know about them too. Any rock 'n' roll gig in town is bound to have a few people in at- tendance with Cult Heroes t-shirts or buttons. And Dimitrie has booked the band on several east coast tours to help establish a national following. Onstage they look like a band trying to be stars. In front of stocky and tough- looking drummer Larry Steele, who joined the group after the original drummer, kept fainting, punkishly coif- fured guitarist James Conway wails out riffs that contradict his usual sedateness offstage. Bassist Bradely Northrup is identifiable by his painted camouflage pants and dangling head- band-he was supposedly the first rock and roll star in Ann Arbor to don those now-cliched vestiments, for what that's worth. They all provide support for the focus of the band, lead singer Hiawatha Baily. Baily, a rather lanky black man with straight steel-woolish hair, tries to keep the audience's attention by wearing skin-tight suits and snaking to his impassioned elucidations. The Cult Heroes' music definitely follows in the straight-ahead rock 'n' roll footsteps of the '60s Detroit bands. Indeed, when they first appeared on the scene four years ago they were the only decent band playing in that vein that wasn't loaded with oldtimers: Bands like Destroy All Monsters with the Stooges' Ron Asheton and MC5's Mike Davis or Sonic Rendezvous Band with ex-Stooge Scott Asheton and ex- Rational Scott Morgan (who ironically has helped write several songs for the Heroes and recently appeared with them on stage) were great, but only the Heroes were young the way rock 'n' roll stars are meant to be. They parlayed their youth and energy into a good local following while beginning to branch out lyrically and musically, taking care not to cater specifically to one audience. "People like to categorize bands," notes Baily, anticipating the previous paragraph. The Heroes don't want to be easily categorized, partially because, as Baily says, they "want to be more than just a cult band." Thus at a Cult Heroes show you may hear a few songs and say to yourself, 'oh, that's what they sound like'-until the gears sud- denly shift. Lyrically the same is true-listening to the post-modernist teenage laments of their recent single ("American Story" b/w "Don't Like It") you'd think they were aiming dead on at the high school audience. Theprevious single, though, speaks to a broader contingent. "You're grandmother could listen to it," says Steele. Which brings to mind a question: What does a person think if he or she only knows the Heroes through one of their singles? The band feels that the listener probably won't have much of an idea of what the Heroes are about. "Our singles don't really represent what we sound like," says Baily. To help remedy this problem, the Heroes have decided to release a six-song EP sometime around Christime. "To get out of your region you need something more than just singles," says Dimitrie. "Singles had, their day a few-years ago," adds Northrup. "Now, unless you're Joan Jett or something and you're in the top-40 they're not wor- th it." The band feels that singles have lost their appeal and thus aren't being bought anymore, so even though an EP involves a much larger investment the return is likely to be proportionally larger. Besides, explains Baily, an EP is "bigger (than a 7"), easier to package, fits in the racks at the record store better; you can put more artwork in it, more songs in it, stick more pic- tures on the cover . . ." And give people a better idea of what you can do. "We'd like it to be primarily a sampler of what we sound like," says Northrup. The record, like the previous two singles that represent all the band has recorded, will be released on the groups' own label. Doing it themselves reflects both the desire of the group to work on their own terms as well as the more practical problem of getting a deal with a larger label. "We may eventually have other ban- ds on the label," adds Baily. Such a move would be far from unpreceden- ted-bands from the Beatles to the Dead Kennedys have had varying degrees of success in such endeavors. Record distributors, says Dimitrie, like the Heroes because "they are very interested in bands that appear to have everything together and we've got it together." Good distribution may make all the difference: If you'rea band or a small label, you can't do it by yourself, but if you work out a deal with someone like Rough Trade-a label very familiar both to independent record dealers and buyers-your record is bound to appear in every major market here and possibly even abroad, with an instant stamp of credibility courtesy of the distributor's name on the lable. They'll also get the record to college and independent radio stations most likely to make good use of it-they've got statistics on hand that few bands have the resources to compile on their own. Of course to distribute a record you have to have music to put on it, and so far the Heroes have laid down four demo tracks and should be back in the studio soon working on two new songs. The band hasn't decided yet whether to use an outside producer,-although Baily says they've talked to a couple. The band is wary of bringing someone in because, as Baily says, "we've seen what producers have done with other bands. They like to put in a lot of their own ideas," he says, thereby posing a threat to the Heroes' proclaimed goal of sounding the way they want to sound. On the other hand, as Baily mentions, "you need someone in between the band and the engineer" in the studio to insure that each side knows what the other wants to do. Baily suggesfs that the Heroes therefore may bring in someone as a go-between who won't be a producer per se. The band's willingness to take this big plunge into the market was en- couraged by the success of their tour of the east coast and the southeast this summer. They didn't really make money-no one does on tour-but they did make some good impressions. "They asked us back everywhere," says Steele.. They even got the Eurodisco new wave-chic trendies at New York's Danceteria on their feet. "We'd been there the night before and seen a band play, and people just stood and watched," says Steele, citing a common fear-of-the-new phenomena that afflicts the I does Ann Arbor deserve credit fo In light of t progress one ha they'll want to sta where they're h getting more tha month. Though don't think of our We're a national Ann Arbor." Th given the idea thought. Support has dwindled in have been arounc demise of one Bookie's Club 8 places like the St Arbor. Not that great before, bu "The scene was pared to what it good. You used Detroit and hang some bands. N( many bands." A around are more move on, mak establish any kind Then again, "Relocation is sc you build up a : and if you relocal the following," a again virtually fr head for somepla get lost in the shu New York bands, So the Cult He with us here in A little while longe crack the marke pop. Whether the do with how we solidify their follk extensively after waters of the we time. They talk ab that sort of thing, do practice regul the notes right bt which is more tha of bands. 1 delivery-he sing oddity-and stage enough to keep tr bling any other ba they can put the i they'll become r heroes. Wee kend Assistant Editor.................Ben Ticho sity year and is avilable for free at many locations around the campus and the city. Vol. I, Issue 4 Friday, October 15. 1982 Weekend is edited and managed by students onW the staff of The Michigan Daily-at 420 Maynard, Ann Weekend, (313) 763-0379 and 763-0371; Michigan Magazine Editors ............ Richard Campbell Arbor, Michigan, 48109. It appears in the Friday Daily, 764-0552; Circulation, 764-0558; Display Ad- Michael Huget edition of the Daily every week during the Univer- vertismg,764-0554. 2 Weekend/October 15, 1982 common fear-of-the-new phenomena 15 Weeke