On the wings of 'Dove' The highly acclaimed Miramax drama "The Wings of the Dove" con- tinues its engagement at the Michigan Theater. Adapted from the Herny James classic, "Wings" stars Helena Bonham Carter and Linus Roache as partners in love and in the betrayal of a dying American heiress (Alison Elliott). Directed by lain Softley, the film screens tonight at 7 and 9:15. Admission is $5. Wednesday November 26, 1997 5 T'raveler journeys to Detroit, leaves behind unforgettable show By Reilly Brennan Daily Arts Writer As I stood inches away from the fat man himself at The State Theatre, I realized why Blues Traveler is not just a good band, but a great band. Popper, who leads the band on vocals, Chan Kinchla on guitar, Brendan Hill on drums and Bob Sheehan on bass make up the barroom ragamuffins. The band that once was a New York City maybe-so is now coming off a stint of opening for The Rolling Stones and the lease of its new album "Straight On ill Morning." John Popper delighted the crowd with not only his stage banter, but his amazing ability to play harmonica and pull his three other bandmates together. The show actually benefited from the Detroit venue, and not Hill Auditorium, where Blues Traveler has played a pumber of shows in the past. ooking around, it seemed as if this were a Ted Nugent show, not a so-called sub- urban, - white-baseball- hat-kid band. To ughed - ski n enthusiasm could be felt from both the four on-stage and the eclectic crowd. The fight that devel- @ped in front of the stage during the first set added flavor and excitement, as well as that dangerous element that made me feel happy I was in Detroit seeing a rock band. The foursome seemed to play off the older, .,Oature audience, as the long, enduring show was a non-stop, cigarette-smoking romp that left my ,legs feeling like mushy potatoes and my throat as dry as Popper's wit. Admittedly, until "Go Outside and Drive," the performance was off to a blah beginning. But once Kinchla began those gorgeous notes, 1, along with a few thpusand others in attendance, knew it was time to get serious. During this song, it became obvious even to casual observer that Popper keeps inside his mouth a parakeet, a bag 0I marshmallows and an experienced wood-chip- ping machine. Simply dumfounded with his virtuosity, the crowd seemed taken aback and panting for more at the same time. More they got, as the legendary "Mountains Win Again" from BT's hit album "Four" came out eventually and sounded decidedly different from its studio counterpart. The hard-blues influence can't be felt on all of Traveler's album efforts - not the case Sunday evening. "Brother John," was a constant theme throughout the first set, as it was teased throughout and sand- wiched nearly four songs, including the rare gem. "Optimistic Thought." Just when the crowd seemed to forget about the "Brother John" that was played probably - 30 minutes earli- er, Popper brought everything back in perspective, singing along with "fthe masses. Another highlight of the set was the 1 n c r e d i b I e "Mulling It Over." True, a common REVIEW BT tune live, but Sunday's excerpt Blues Traveler seemed a step above the norm. Each State Theatre, Detroit member had his own Nov. 23, 1997 moment in the spot- light, as Popper would turn to each member give the signal for solo- ing. Hill, Sheehan and Kinchla obliged, and as a result, "Mulling It Over" became the most cohesive effort of the band during the first set. As the first set was characterized by more groovy jams, sing-alongs and dance favorites, such as "Run Around," the second was less commercial, more back-to-the- roots playing. The band members addressed the crowd as they emerged from behind the stage, explaining that Detroit "has always been good to us" For the city's support, out came the acoustic instru- ments and the appropriate barstools. The foursome played four songs in this media, beginning with a never-before-heard-in-acoustic "Life Is." The concert favorite, "Imagine," was up next, set- ting the tone for the first part of the set as a mellow, put-your-arms-around-your-girlfriend moment that the crowd loved. The acoustic "100 Years" was a personal favorite of mine, as the gentle twang of the acoustic guitars and basses made my eyes nearly droopy. The wake-up call began soon enough, when the acoustic stuff was taken away and the real metal reap- peared. This very long second set absolutely went through the ceiling. New tunes were sprinkled in here and there, such as "Carolina Blues" and "Canadian Rose," both off "Straight On Till Morning". A fiery "Johnny and the Devil" and "New York Prophesy" showcased Blues Traveler's ability to play above the average jam formula of intermittent guitar solos and average bass lines. Kinchla, back with shorter hair, danced around stage for the entire set, making goofy faces but allow- ing his guitar to speak for itself. Popper and Kinchla seemed to complement each other quite well, something I've never seen them do as well before. Frequently the two would stare at each other's eyes, not instruments, to concentrate on the beat. This performance was almost too much. The only down-side was the "Hook" encore that bled with radio-commercialism. Many were hoping for an epic "Crystal Flame" that never came. The show solidified BT's place on my top 10 list of favorite bands, and definitely should not be missed the next time the band plays in Ann Arbor or Detroit. Elijah Wood and Christina Ricci keep warm In Ang Lee's brilliant "The Ice Storm." 'Storm" s ch1l11ng genius makes it No. 1 By Michael Zilberman Daily Arts Writer "The lee Storm" could have been so bad so easily. It comes on as one of those family-falling-apart-over-a-weekend dra- mas, wherein our squirms of embarrassed recognition tend to substitute for cathartic shudders. It proceeds to mope and mean- der and provide no character development whatsoever.And it's _thebestfilmofth the best film of the year'. m Directed by Ang Th Lee ("Sense And Sensibility"), "The Ice Storm" isa series of heart-breakingly beautiful vignettes of one Connecticut fam- ily's winter of 1973 - several postcards from several edges. The father is caught up in a meaningless fling with a neighbor; the mother quietly traipses off into catatonic seclusion; the 14-year-old daughter's libido wanders about; and the stoner son is in love with a girl named Libitz. That, in short, is as much in the way of conventional plotting as we get up until the film's very last minutes. Instead, we are left to observe - to spy on every painful detail of the pill-popping, shoplifting and clumsy sex until the sheer amount of information we received makes it impossible to stay impartial. The film's gorgeously droll gimmick is to place it all against the titular mix- ture of rain, sleet and ice, a snapshot of nature's indecision. The setting is achingly perfect in its ultimate plastici- ty -- does it stand for anything in par- ticular? Should it? Meanwhile, trains stand frozen, rows of icicles line slip- pery suburban porches and every twig looks encased in glass; and tempting as it is to draw convenient parallels between this and the deep freeze falling over the relationships in the film, the beauty of the backdrop lies precisely in how self-sufficient it, in fact, remains. It is difficult to talk about "The Ice Storm" without picking it apart into indi- vidual scenes, each one a litmus test of sorts: What will stick with you will tell E he more about you than the film. Will it be a troubled young boy balancing on a icy springboard above a dark empty pool? A woman curling up into a fetal position on a ridiculous waterbed after cold-hearted- ly destroying both a marriage and an affair? Two teen-agers concocting a brand of a new, improved bongwater? Ang Lee leaves the film open on every possible endand the V I E W fact that it still holds together is nothing a Ice Storm short of a miracle. What might help it **** A is the genuine At Ann Arbor 1 & 2 respect Lee seems to have for his flawed heroes. In its scenes of various preteen mischief, "The Ice Storm" is what "Kids" might have been, were it swept clean of director Larry Clark's leering sensibilities. On its "adult" side, the film looks past pet rocks and Astroturf into the confused, paranoid heart of the '70s. Kevin Kline exudes ineffectiveness as the beleaguered husband; he is doing a more honest, less streamlined variation on his character from "The Big Chill." Sigourney Weaver and Joan Allen pro- vide two sufficiently icy foils, but in the end, "The Ice Storm" belongs to the kids. Christina Ricci, whom we watched grow up from "Addams Family," gives a full- star performance here - she is a woman torn between two men, after all, and the fact that one of the men is still playing with his G.1. Joe, ends up only adding absurd poignancy. Elijah Wood, as a kid who might or might not be a science genius (we are given some hints attesting to that, each one weirder than the other), almost upsets the balance of "The Ice Storm" because we want to see more of him for most of the film. And we do, in a quietly devastating coda that ties everyone's pain and confu- sion into one knot - the film breaks off immediately afterward, leaving us with David Bowie's "I Can't Read" over a scroll of credits. There is no lesson to be derived from "The Ice Storm," and that, strangely enough, is a part of its genius. Blues Traveler played a great show Sunday in Detroit Hall, NWO, drop kicks reign at Palace By Steve Paruszklewicz and Gabriel Smith aly Arts Writers It was the chance of a lifetime. Sixty wrestlers were lined up for a shot at becoming the No. I contender against the World Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Champion of the World. The only thing separating each man from his destiny were the 59 others. This battle royale was the highlight of Sunday evening at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The 60-man, three-ring 1-out brawl, lovingly titled "World ar 3,"lasted only an hour, but the four title bouts, two special stipulation matches and grudge matches made for an hour of total chaos. Most striking about the evening was that the event, billed as a 60-man bout, was actually only comprised of 59 wrestlers. Most noticeably absent from the melee was New World Order mem- ber and Detroit native Kevin Nash, who was considered a heavy favorite to win he title shot. The New World Order, for those not in the know, is the WCW-cre- atedbad-boy gang, which has threat- ened the fine upstanding wrestlers that make up the rest of the WCW. University alumni the Steiner Brothers successfully defended their first pay-per-view title match against the British duo of Dave Taylor and Steve Regal. Taylor and Regal were dispatched ,uickly by the immense Steiners. WAn other high profile match was the Ric Flair/Curt Hennig match for the United States Heavyweight title. This match, to Flair, was much more than } just for Hennig's belt - it was revenge for the humiliation that he suffered at the hands of Hennig earlier this year. The match was a "no disqualification" iU The.yr uminer " Over 1,000 undergraduate and graduate courses " Housing rates as low as $100 per six-week session Glacier gets pummeled by a merciless Meng at WCW's World War 3 on Sunday night. PAUL TALANIAN/Daily over for the easy pin. This battle royale was easily the most exciting part of the night. The rules were simple: a wrestler was eliminated from the contest by being thrown over group of Mexican wrestlers, were elimi- nated right off the bat. The Giant easily proved his dominance by eliminating five wrestlers in about five seconds. Team play also benefited, as was "Hulk" Hogan, the final combatant in the contest for his very belt. Hogan helped to dispatch DDP, and was about to do the same to the Giant, when a figure slid down a rope from the ceiling. He was .P-frac - tinc the 6 -ntwefln --- Session I: May 18-June 26 Session 11: june 29-August 7 On-line Bulletin http://www.nyu.edu/summer/ For a free Summer Bulletin: E-mail: summer98.ad@nyu.edu Fax or mail the coupon below. m i/lli!