The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 3, 1991 - Page 7
CHANNEL Z
For all you Trekkies out there
who are salivating in anticipation
of this Friday's release of Star
Trek VI: The Trouble With
Geriatrics, you might want to
check out the abominable Star
Trek V: The Final Frontier (9
p.m., CBS), which features a 90-
year-old Leonard Nimoy riding
around on anti-gravity boots and
the great Kirkism, "If you want
to kill me, kill me now, you
Klingon bastards!"
*ROBE
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beauty through his camera lens. The
thoughtful screenplay, adapted by
Brian Moore from his novel, clearly
presents the action and never at-
tempts to impose modern social at-
titudes (as Michael Blake did so lib-
erally in his screenplay for Wolves)
on the story.
The entire cast does well, except
for Bluteau as Father Laforgue.
Although Bluteau successfully
conveys the strict Puritanical side
of his character, he never fully re-
veals the spiritual dilemma under-
neath. Nevertheless, Robe succeeds
both as a drama of ideas and as an ac-
tion film. Too bad Bruce Beresford
isn't as good looking as Kevin
Costner. Maybe then they'd give
*him an Oscar.
BLACK ROBE is playing at the Ann
Arbor I &2.
V.'.
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revolutionary now," Paretsky said.
Sisters in Crime has helped to
evoke change, Paretsky continued, so
that publishers are now "seeking
out new women writers in a way
that they never have before," while
it also has helped create a network
of support for women writers.
Paretsky said that tonight's lec-
ture might explore "the ways in
which social opinion can be mus-
tered to make us afraid to speak, so
that we really do not need govern-
ment censorship to silence us - we
censor ourselves out of shame or
fear." Paretsky said that she may
also discuss the evolving portraits
of women in fiction.
SARA PARETSKY will be lecturing
tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel
Auditorium. Student tickets are $5
at the door. Call 760-0500 for more
info.
RECORDS
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erything about the song sounds like
a Morissey song, or for that matter,
like any other light-pop-passing-as-
alternative band. The chord progres-
sion is rehashed, the vocal melody is
extremely cheesy and the overall ef-
fect is uselessness. The band intro-
duces the song as being for all the
grandma's out there. I would cer-
tainly agree.
-Skot Beal
Europe
Prisoners in Paradise
Epic
With the release of the smash hit
"The Final Countdown" in 1986,
Europe encountered a problem. How
could the band ever top such a
strong, original, infectious song?
Only bands of a very high caliber can
continue to top, or at least equal,
previous work with every new song.
The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and
Guns N' Roses have all done it -
you might say it's what separates
the men from the boys, the true tal-
ent from the flashes-in-the-pan.
Not only did The Final Count-
down yield the anthem of the same
title, but also "Rock the Night,"
and the sweet ballad "Carrie."
With Europe's next album, Out of
This World, in 1988, the band stuck
with its keyboard-heavy formula,
but this time failed. The album
wasn't bad, but it wasn't accepted in
the new world of LA bands and
grungy, garage-type GN'R guitars.
It was time for Europe to rethink
its strategy.
So, three years later, Europe
gives us Prisoners in Paradise. This
album is quite a surprise. The tor-
nado of keyboards isn't completely
gone, but the sound is intermingled
with a tough, guitar-driven fury
that camouflages the distinct "Eu-
rope" sound. After a first listen,
you won't know what to think. But
if you give the album a chance,
you'll notice many strengths.
"All or Nothing," "Halfway to
Heaven," "Homeland" and "Got
Your Mind in the Gutter" are great
rock songs that just take a little
getting used to, simply because
they're not songs you'd expect from
a band as innocent as Europe used to
seem. The guys have grown up on
this album, and if those songs don't
prove it, the beautiful "Prisoners in
Paradise" will reveal with no doubt
Europe's new musical maturity. I
can't say that Europe has topped The
Final Countdown, but only because
we're talking apples and oranges.
-Kristen Knudsen
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