The Michigan Daily - Saturday, August 6, 1983 - Page 11 Hunter's latest falls s-hort members of Bruce Springsteen's E- By Larry Dean Street Band in the rhythm section, and was boosted by a healthy bit of help Ian Hunter-'All of the Good from temporary Mott guitarist and Ones Are Taken' former Spider From Mars Mick Ron- son. Sparked by "Just Another Night," (Columbia) "Cleveland Rocks," "Bastard," and A LL OF THE Good Ones Are Taken "When the Daylight Comes," was released with little or no Schizophrenic soared high on a last- hoopla. Hell, even I didn't know it was ditch-effort feeling, something that out until I read a review in another rock permeated every groove on the album rag! And that person treated Hunter's and made it apparent that Hunter was new LP with little or no respect - and giving it his all. what there was was begrudgingly All of the Good Ones Are Taken is not given. But All of the Good Ones Are like that. It has its golden moments - Taken is an album to take notice of for a like Mick Ronson's sole appearance on few reasons - unfortunately, not all of the album, the searing solo guitar in them good. "Death 'n' Glory Boys" - but overall, This is Hunter's sixth solo studio it is too contrived and uneven to stand album (exempting a wonderful live up as an Ian Hunter album. collection, Welcome to the Club), and The music on All of the Good Ones his biggest bid yet for commercial suc- Are Taken fluctuates between good and cess. His maiden group, Mott the derivative. The title song, which is Hoople, was famous for being able to inlcluded in two versions - one at the fill up the Albert Hall for concert ap- beginning of the album, and one at the pearances, but never selling many end - is a great Ian Hunter tune about albums - until David Bowie came lost love. The first version has fine along and offered them their only true tenor sax by Clarence Clemons ( from hit single stateside, "All the Young the E-Street Band) and is significantly Dudes." livelier than the second, which is a Until now, Hunter's most successful more controlled and reticent version. solo effort has been You're Never Alone "Fun" tries to copy the enthusiasm With A Schizophrenic, which featured generated by "Cleveland Rocks," but A selection of campus film highlights lost souls and voted most-likely-to-be- The Shining crucified by his hebrew class. John (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Kubrick's version of Stephan King's Terry Jones, and the rest of the circus novel is void of any real characters, play the usual assortment of Romans, but the film works to some extent lepers, mothers, and counter-counter- thanks to the frightening final reel. revolutionaries, including Otto and Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrence, his suicide squad. (Sunday, August 7; ex-English teacher and alcoholic who Michigan Theatre, 5:30, 7:15, 9:00). accepts the job of caretaker at the --compiled by Richard Campbell - Overlook Hotel during the off-season. -_-_ - As the long months of winter stretch out, Jack gets a case of cabin-fever and starts terrorizing his wife, ineptly J INDIVIDUAL THEATRES played by Shelly Duvall, and son. s'^ "' Meanwhile, the hotel begins to have $2.00 WED, SAT, SUN SHOWS TIL 6:00 flashbacks, scaring the heck out of all. (Saturday, August 6; Lorch Hall, 7:30, 9:40). * (R) C mp sSAT SUN 1:103:105:107 109:10 Films WOODY ALLEN FILM FESTIVAL The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975) Director Huston has taken the Rudyard Kipling short story and by embellishing it with detail and in- sight, has produced a rousing adven- ture. Sean Connery and Michael Caine star as two happy-go-lucky soldiers of fortune in 19th century India who run off to become kings of Khafiristan. With a superlative vignette by Christopher Plummer as Kipling and Saeed Jaffery, last seen in Gandhi, as Private Billyfish. (Saturday, August 6; Auditorium A, 7:30, 9:45). Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) Though not the best Monty Python film, it is still better than nothing. (R) There's just a smattering of the crazed, nonsensical humor for which SAT SUN- the troupe is best known, but lots of "ANNIE" 3:40 6:55 10:10 funny sitcomish jabs at religous fanaticism. Graham Chapman plays "MAN" 1:50 5:15 8:30 Brian, new found idol to hundreds of goes in the wrong direction and ends up like every other mundane, teenage an- them - Hunter could do far better than this! Ian Hunter has always been one of rock and roll's prime icons. He has prompted a scourge of contemporary fans who admire him for his honesty - after all, who else would write a song like Mott's "Ballad of Mott," with the lines: You know all the tales we tell, you know the band so well/And still I feel, somehow, we let you down./We went off somewhere on the way/And now I see we have to pay, /The Rock 'n' Roll circus is in town. Such openness can be the death of an artist and on All of the Good Ones style to break through with that honesty. The cover says it all: there's Ian, without his traditional sunglasses, for all to see. But his eyes are avoiding ours, and the picture is from (of all things) a video. Ian Hunter cannot survive through contradictions. The final point is driven home in the context of a poem written by Hunter for Mott producer Guy Stevens, which is reprinted on All of the Good Ones' inner sleeve: I'll be rehearsing tomorrow at S.LR. /Still tryin to be your superstar. Ian Hunter doesn't need to be one of those. 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