14B - The Michigan Daily Weekend Maga e - Thursday, September 19, 1996 0 O 0 The Michigan DailPVeeketfd' Maga2 3 Entertainment News Old man Eastwood expecting; Oasis announces its future [Community Feature Maize Maze craze comes to Dearborn Film d Clint Eastwood is a daddy-to-be! The 66-year- old actor and his wife Dina Ruiz, a California TV anchor are expecting their first ;child in January. Although it is Ruiz's first baby, Eastwood has three children from previous relationships. V TV personality Greg Kinnear plans to leave NflC's "Later" to follow a career in film instead. The actor made his decision after receiving a role in the upcoming film "Old Friends," in which he will star opposite Jack Nicholson. Last year, Kinnear launched his new career with the film "Sabrina," starring Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond. Kinnear's final episode was taped on Sept. 18. / You better work. Winona Ryder is currently training six hours a day for a role in her next film. Starring opposite Sigourney Weaver, the young actress will take on the part of an android in "Alien: Resurrection," the fourth "Alien" film that is due next summer. Also, look for Ryder this November to star in "The Crucible" with Daniel Day-Lewis. Hmmm ... "Alien" and "The Crucible." Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum! V Director Carroll Ballard really did not want his new film "Fly Away Home" to be rated G. After all, who wants to see a G movie? So instead, he added lots of nudity in order to make it a heart- warming triple X tale of a father, his daughter and her geese. Just kidding! But Ballard did add a few swear words to get a PG. Music V Oasis is expected to announce their future plans at a hastily-arranged press conference in London, following the cancellation of a series of forthcoming overseas tour dates. The confer- ence, likely to be held on Sept. 26, will explain the reasons behind cancelling the remaining five dates of their U.S. tour and a European tour, which was due to start in Dusseldorf on September 26, with four more U.S. dates planned for November. Ignition, Oasis' management team said, "Noel and Liam are spending time together and getting over their jetlag. Unfortunately, the band will not be touring in the foreseeable future but in every other respect will continue to function as a band." The band's third album is expected to be released next spring. V On the same day that Oasis' future was thrown into doubt, Bush completed work on their second album. It was mastered at London's Abbey Road Studio last Thursday and is set for a possible worldwide release by MCA around Thanksgiving. Soundgarden is touring in Europe this month - they will kick off an American tour Nov. 23. V Just days after his family held a private funeral for him in Brooklyn, rapper Tupac Shakur will be remembered by his peers in the rap community. Death Row Records, Shakur's label, announced yesterday that a memorial service will be held today in Los Angeles. As might be expected given Skakur's violent death, security will be tight. V Soundgarden has begun their own headlining tour in Glasgow, Scotland with a show at Barrowlands. The tour -24 European shows have been announced thus far - will take the band through Spain, England, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Finland and Norway and will wrap up on Oct. 18 at the Icestadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Then it's back to the U.S.; the group kicks off a 23-show North American tour Nov. 6 and will even be com- ing through Detroit. Meanwhile, the group's third video, for "Blow Up the Outside World," will be directed by Devo's Gerry Casale. / Green Day's dedicated fans can quench their thirst for the band's music by tracking down a rare live EP that's just now coming to the U.S. in very limited quantities. The seven-song disc, "Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking," was recorded live in Tokyo, Prague and St. Petersburg in early 1996 and is a limited-pressing, international and Japan-only collector's item that contains the tracks, "Armatage Shanks' "Brain Stew / Jaded," a cover of the Operation Ivy song, "Knowledge,' "Basket Case," "She," "Walking Contradiction" and a spe- cial unreleased bonus track sung by Tre called "Dominated Love Slave," which can be found only on the true Japanese version. The EP was released in late July in Japan, Australia and selected markets in Europe only. By Stephanie Jo Klein Daily Staff Reporter DEARBORN - Corn is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Detroit. Lately, however, people near the Motor City are quite literally lost in it. Since it opened Aug. 16, the Lincoln- Mercury Amazing Maize Maze has attracted the attention of thousands of people, luring them into a cornfield labryinth for an old-fashioned good time and a good cause - cancer research. The maze, stretched over a quarter-mil- lion square feet of land owned by the Ford Motor Land Development Corporation, was conceived by Harvesting A Cure, a Metro Detroit charity which does cancer fund raising. The group's founder, Ed Wizner, said he thought of the maze last year as a way to get ordinary people to donate money to cancer research. When he brainstormed the project last September, Wizner had already had his fill of stuffier fund-raising activities like black-tie events and expensive golf out- ings. "I was looking for new and interest- ing ideas to raise money for the cause;' said Wizner, a 1984 University graduate and current project manager for Ford. "I turned on NPR one night while dri- ving home and heard an interview with two crazy guys from a cornfield in the middle of nowhere, Penn.," he said. The "crazy guys" had created the world's largest maze and raised money for charity in the process. By the time Wizner looked out his Dearborn office window a few days later and saw a large Ford-owned farm, the seeds of the idea began to ger- minate and the Amazing Maize Maze was born. Wizner's brainchild will be entered into next year's "Guinness Book of World Records" as the "world's largest maze." What appears now on the 5 1/2 acre land parcel is due in large part to the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford, which donated most of the start up costs. The goal of raising $1 million for cancer research, Wizner said, is being accomplished through good will and volunteerism. Instead of costly hired help, the four recipient organizations supplied free volunteers to run the maze each weekend. TicketMaster eliminated surcharges on tickets for the event. Even the corn will yield a profit when it is sold at harvest time as cattle feed. The maze in Dearborn is an interesting enigma - a rural attraction on the border of an urban area, stuck between an office complex and a shopping center. Once you enter the maze, however, you will forget you're even remotely close to Boston Market or Borders Books and Music. . When you first enter the maze, you will feel very small against the 10-foot high green stalks. The rustling of the leaves and the gentle notes of piped-in music may inspire you so that you want to move to the country or burst into tunes from "Oklahoma!" And as you look over the whole field, the prospect of making your way through the huge, automobile-shaped maze may even make you dizzy. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the automobile, the field is cut into the design of a quadracycle, Ford's first car. The dif- ferent parts of the car are tied off with color-coded ribbons to help maze-goers find their way through from the seat to the headlights. Every person is given a map as they enter, but since the map is not com- pleted, the challenge is to fill in the miss- ing pieces and make it through the maze. in this overhead view of the Malze Maze It's easy to see its theme of the i I .1 JOIN"rE MERCURY RECORDS CI#O "fresh mea.".~ w MALAMUD Continued from Page 6B highlights his belief that emotion and desire are simply not enough. As he told one of his writing classes, "To achieve it is very hard work." One does not have to be a fellow craftsperson to enjoy Malamud's mus- ings, however.. His "Paris Review" interview is included in "Talking Horse," and it fully demonstrates Malamud's warmth and humor. When interviewer Daniel Stern asked Malamud to comment on suffering, Malamud deadpanned, "I'm against it, but when it occurs, why waste the expe- rience?" And of his style, Malamud quipped, "My style flows from the fin- gers. The eye and ear approve or amend." Sections of "Talking Horse" also address the issue of the Jewish tradition in American literature, as well as pro- viding Malamud's viewpoints on some of his most famous colleagues - Updike, Bellow, Roth and Mailer. Finally Malamud reflects on his literary predecessors, anyone from Tolstoy to Hawthorne to Henry James. Especially interesting is his defense of Hemingway, who is now more often maligned than praised, in the essay "The Writer in the Modern World." In that essay, Malamud gives one of his most explicit artistic statements; a statement which shows, thattunlike fel- low Bennington colleague and fiction master, the late John Gardner, Malamud did not overemphasize the moral duties of the writer. But he did, on occasions like these, subtly hint at them: "It will be his task (the writer's) to scout the area of hope, explore possi- bility, and in doing so, create a vision of life so dignified, whole and lovely that it will lead humanity to a changed con- ception of itself. This I conceive to be the true function of the writer and his art." At the conclusion of the aforemen- tioned "Paris Review" dialogue, Malamud was asked if he wanted to add anything in regards to what the art of writing has meant in his life. Malamud replied, "I'd be to moved to say." Thankfully, "Talking Horse" makes an answer unnnecessary. A reading of these pieces makes it undeniably clear: Malamud's labor and love for literature, have been and will be surpassed by only a very select few. Liz Stanton, project manager for the American Maze Company, the company that designed and created the maze, said busy maze days look magical. When teams compete against each other, she said, they carry colored flags to set apart their teams. "You see flags floating through the cornfield, each with their own personal- ity" Stanton said. "Some bounce quick- ly through the maze, and others go slowly, walking until they hit a dead end and then they turn around. It's just fun." If it sounds corny, don't worry. It is. But, you'll have a great time. For those who feel guilty giving up precious study time to play in a field, they can still learn a little while wander- ing the rows of corn. 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