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By Steve Knopper
SPRING BREAK MAY BE
more than three months away, but
vacation packages may soon be
gone.
Mary Kay Black, owner of
Complete Travel on Packard St.,
said arranging a spring break
vacation will be extremely difficult
by Thanksgiving, and there will be
"nothing left" by December 1.
Spring break begins on February
21, and runs until March 2.
"Students wait until the last
minute," said Black. "I don't know
how you can educate them (to plan
ahead)." By December 1, she said,
students will be unable to "get
anywhere warm," such as Florida or
the Bahamas. Even now there's
"hardly anything left."
Jeanette Koustenis, Vacation
Travel Agent at Faber Travel on
Liberty St., said smart students are
already planning their vacations. A
Faber package to Freeport,
Bahamas, which can hold 120
people, is already half-filled, said
Koustenis.
Koustenis said the most popular
spring break vacation spots at Faber
are the Bahamas, Jamaica and
Aculpoco. Sharon Chauvin, a
Travel Agent at Boersma Travel in
Nickels Arcade, said students like to
go "someplace warm, or out west
to ski." Chauvin said in addition to
Ft. Lauderdale and the Bahamas,
California, New York, Hawaii and
Denver are popular among students.
Chauvin said planning a trip
closer to spring break, for example,
in January, "would be extremely
difficult... because most everything
is sold out."
Koustenis said the only things
left toward January and Febuary are
"not anything most students want
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people. I wanted to be my own
man. I wanted to be free. Mass
communiactions seemed like the
way to go. I graduated with a degree
and was unemployed... I lucked into
writing documentaries, which led to
writing and film directing, which
led to writing film, directing and
producing, which led to my own
television series, which led to me
being the head of documentary
productions.
D: It seems that documentaries are
such a serious thing for such a
funny guy.
B: There's always a serious side,
you know. I was always funny. I
made people laugh, even when we
were doing documentaries.
D: Isn't it a big jump from
documentaries to comedy? What
was the thinking involved?
B: I felt like number one. I felt like
I had done it all on TV. I did all the
things that I started out to do... It
was fun and great, but work was
becoming like a carbon copy. I was
starting to go into personal reruns;
doing the same kind of shows over
and over again. It was enough of
that and wanted to change it. And
besides, I wasn't getting rich. I was
making a good income, but I
wasn't getting rich.
D: Who was your main influence
to go into comedy?
B: Really, my father. My father
was a vaudville comedian so
comedy was a very important
Ingredient in my homelife. That's
where I get all the humor... He got
me to be comedy oriented. He was
really the big influence in my life.
D: Do you have any mentors beside
your father?
B: Not really. I guess everybody
sort of getsinto you: It's like
making a stew. One guy's a potato,
one guy's a pea, one guy's a carrot.
You put it together.:. and you
become a stew and then you add
your own ingredients. I think I was
a one-of-a-kind. I see a lot of guys
who do me. They do that sort of
observational comedy that I started.
I think a lot of guys would say me,
but I don't think I could say,
anybody.
D: What are your 'ingredients'?
B: I find the humor in the everyday
little stuff that was ignored all
those years. All those things like
driving a car, opening a door,
seeing a stupid sign, or listening to
dumb things people say. I turn it
around. I sort of take the logical to
point were it becomes illogical.
D: How do you account for your
success?
B: You know, I'm not really sure. I
think a lot of it has to do with
being at the right place at the right
time. I broke in and there hadn't
been new comedians in about seven
years. People were going throught
the horrible sixties. It seems that
they wanted it and so few guys were
doing it. I broke loose. Then a
trickle started after me... and led to
an avalanche. Everywhere you turn
around, there are comedians.
D: If you were thinking of
becoming a comedian today, instead
of when you did, would you still go
into it with all this competition
going on?
B: Yeah. When I started I didn't
know what was out there. I had no
idea whether there was fifty or five
thousand.
D: You have been on TV many,
many times, but how is it having
your own show?
B: It's the best. It's the difference
between renting a car from Hertz
and buying the one you want. It's a
big, big difference.
D: Hard work?
B: Yes. Remember when I told you
I never wanted a nine-to-five job?
Well, I got one now. I go in nine
in the morning and leave five in the
morning.
D: What about concerts?
B: I love them, especially colleges.
They're brighter. They haven't
gotten dumb yet. What happens is
that after college, you become
dumb at times. When you get out
into the main stream, it washes
away some of your brain.
D: Why do you think people pay
money to see you perform?
B: If you go to a doctor, and he
gives you something to take away
the pain, you pay him. If you go to
a concert, you are actually paying
the person on the stage to take you
a way from all types of problems
and troubles of yourself and the
world for however long he is on
stage... and it's worth it. S
to spend money on... nothing
affordable."
Chris Luskin, a consultant at
Complete Travel, said, "Florida is
filling up already for Ft. Lauderdale
and Daytona Beach," adding that
there are only 25 spots left for
Freeport.
According to Luskin, students
generally travel in groups of four to
eight. Complete Travel offers
round-trip plane fare, including
hotel accomodations and meals, for
$409 per person, for a group of four
students. Chauvin said Boersma
offers domestic deals for air fare and
hotels ranging from $239 to $299.
Koustenis said Faber coordinates
the Freeport trip for $369,
including plane fare and hotels, but
not meals.
In the past, Complete Travel has
coordinated many trips for large
groups, Luskin said, but this year
there are few big groups so far. Last
year, she said, group skiing was
popular. Chauvin said trips home
for Thanksgiving and Christmas are
"more individual," but there are
more groups for spring break. There
are no University-sponsored group
vacations for next semester's
vacation, however.
Chauvin said an eager few
students have been planning trips
over spring break for the "last two
or three months." If you haven't
started yet, your time is running
out.
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