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Yukihiro Takahashi -
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Anyone who has followed The Yellow
Magic Orchestra shouldn't be surprised
at the direction Yukihiro Takahashi
has taken on his latest solo albuni, but I
bet you'll be taken aback by the degree.
On Neuromantic, Takahashi's flirtation
with Roxy Music has blossomed into a
full-blown infatuation.
Oh, that Roxy Music had lately done
their heritage as much justice as this

disc does. Phil Manzanera and Andy
Mackay, for their part, turn in some of
their best performances in various ap-
pearances on Neuromantic:
The strange (and sort of scary) part
is that Takahashi and his finely trained
synthesizers beat them at their own
game as often as not, turning out some
grandeloquently sombre faked-oboe
solos and some patented screaming-in-
a-closet faked-guitar solos that best the
originals by an embarrassing long shot.

Throughout, Takahashi captures
Roxy's stylishly romantic mystique
and sublimely unlikely musical eclec-
ticism to a tee.
This was probably how Flesh - Blood
was supposed to sound. Too bad that it
didn't. In the strange atemporal space
that Roxy Music inhabit, Neuromantic
is definitely ahead of its time.
-Mark Dighton

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Coleman undergoes treatment

NEW YORK (AP) - Gary Coleman,
14-year-old star of television's
"Diff'rent Strokes," has begun rejec-
ting a kidney that was transplanted
nine years ago and has been put on a
new dialysis treatment, the National
Kidney Foundation said yesterday.
The treatment will allow Coleman to
avoid time-consuming trips to the
hospital and continue his career, and it
might-even enable him to grow past his
current 3-foot-10, a doctor said.
Spokeswoman Gigi Altieri said doc-
tors would watch Coleman's progress
on the dialysis, wait to see if he grows
and then eventually give him a new
transplant. She said there was no rush
for a new transplant.
The treatment is called continuous,
ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. It
means Coleman will undergo around-
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the-clock kidney dialysis without
having to be hooked to machinery at a
hospital three times a week.
Instead, the actor will wear a small
bag attached to his stomach to hold the
solution that cleanses wastes from the
body. The bag is changed about every
six hours. A successful kidney tran-
splant eliminates the need for dialysis.
The new treatment became
necessary after Coleman's body began
rejecting the kidney that was tran-
splanted when he was 5.
Drugs he had taken to help his body
accept the kidney - but which stunted
his growth - will no longer be needed.
It is possible he will grow again, his
doctor said.
"Some have experienced growth and
some, not at all," said Dr. Richard Fine
of the UCLA Center for Health Scien-
ces. "We will just have to wait and see
with Gary."
Sue Coleman, the young actor's
mother, said the new treatment does
not affect his work schedule.
Coleman is the National Kidney
Foundation's "gift of life chairman."
He does public service announcements
for the organization.
According to the foundation, there
are 59,078 dialysi$ treatment patients in
the country, including 4,484 receiving
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Escapism
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movies,
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effects filled game of Dungeons and
Dragons.
For general audiences, Disney is re-
leasingeBambi,wthe quintessential
animated film, while the Broadway
musical Annie will sing its way into the
hearts and pocketbooks of summer
audiences.
Comedy relief will be provided by
Steve Martin wandering in and out of
old movies in Dead Men Don't Wear
Plaid and Gene Wilder and Gilda Rad-
ner will star in Hanky Panky, billed as
a comedy-thriller. Soggy Bottom,
U.S.A., a "fast paced comedy about a
wild and wacky romp in the swamp"
according to the press release, will un-
doubtedly cheer up those people that
missed Porky's.
These escapist films fairly over-
whelm the few films that will try and
pique an audience's intelligence. The
World According to Garp, Diner, Paul
Mazursky's Tempest are some of those
movies that should be as interesting as
they are entertaining.
The anticipation of big bucks at the
box-office is almost too tempting for
producers to pass up. Audiences are
just going to have to settle for some fup
out of the sun during this year's flock of
summer films.

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