ARTS Tuesday, July 16, 1985 4 The Michigan Doily Page 8 Highlights from a history maki the competition wasn't so heavy. By John Logie The "New Attitude" Award - Sting has completely re-tooled his ap- ATURDAY'S Live Aid concert proach, performing with Branford has already generated seventy Marsalis and Phil Collins as an ex- million dollars to feed the world's cellent pop-jazz artist. Marsalis' starving peoples. The promoters are saxophone work lent a wispy, elegiac almost -ertainly going to release feel to "Roxanne" and "Every Breath videos and records to generate more You Take." money for this most worthy of causes. The "Pamplona" Award for These "Live Aid Awards" may help Reckless Endangerment of Audience potential consumers find their way. Members - U2 leader Bono, for Most Emotional - Bob Geldof of the gesturing to front-row women to join Boomtown Rats, who put more into a him for a slow dance. He set off a mad semi-inappropriate rendition of "I scramble which verged on mass Don't Like Mondays" than he ever hysteria and looked quite painful. U2 has, and declared mid-set that he was also has the distinction of being the having "...the happiest day of my only band to overrun its time limit. life." Most Astounding Crowd Reaction - Best Beatle Cover - Elvis Queen, who managed to generate a Costello's "All You Need is Love" was semi-choreographed variety of fist- a revelation. He brought the tempo thrusts and swaying from a deafening down and made the message urgent. Wembley crowd. The "Back in Black" Award - Who Tightest Set - David Bowie, who else but Black Sabbath? Ozzy was in top form from the word go. Osbourne and the band reunited for Many performers needed one or two "Iron Man" and "Paranoid" and songs to build up steam, which is a proved themselves to be as exciting a problem since each act was alotted "reunion act" as any of the others five songs, tops. Bowie managed to who re-formed for the show. reach his performance peak two Worst Timing - Whoever seconds into "TVC-15" and sustain it scheduled Run-D.M.C. directly again- for the next four songs. Thomas Dolby st Sting and Phil Collins. In addition to provided terrific keyboard work. being the hottest New York rap act in Worst Glitch - The Who blinked out the country, and the only scatch act in right in the middle of "My the show, Run-D.M.C. happens to be Generation." Those pesky satellites. black, the same color as the majority The second half of their performance of the starving people that this event was terrific, especially "Love Reign was created for. I don't know why so Over Me." few black performers were included Best Quote - Madonna, for, "I'm in this event. The least the promoters not taking shit off today." on national could do would be to acknowledge that television and radio, after male fans Sting and Phil are going to be on T.V., responded to her statement that her and out Run-D.M.C. in a soot where coat would not be removed in sym- I I Mick Jagger and Tina Turner rehearse for their dazzling duet, Saturday in Philadelphia. pathy for the overbaked fans. While later, and could have censored the back-up singing by the rumor-busting Madonna was biting back tears when remark, but didn't. foursome. Early in the day it was; she said this, the quote, and her Der- Worst Beatle Cover - Paul McCar- suggested that George Harrison, formance, showed guts and a sense of tney, Bob Geldof, David Bowie, Alison Ringo Starr, and Julian Lennon might humor that prove there's a lot more to Moyet, and Pete Townshend's ren- join Paul for a semi-Beatles reunion. Madonna than meets the eye. Bravo dition of "Let it Be." The highlight of Best Finale - The Wembley all- also to ABC radio, which ran Madon- this song was Townshend goosing na's set on tape-delay several hours McCartney. The lowlight was the See LIVE AID, Page9 Far-fetched plot appeals to all ages By Ron Schechter ACK to the Future produced by Steven Spielberg and Lidirected by Robert Zemeckis is packed with adven- ture, comedy, romance, and suspense, making it easily the summer's best film. It contains something audiences do not expect from a Spielberg production: depth. Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly, a high-school senior in a small Northern California town. He is a typical child of the '80s, complete with designer clothing, Walk- man, skateboard, and electric guitar. But what is atypical about Marty is his friendship with an eccentric scientific genius, Dr. Emmet Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd. Dr. Brown is the inventor of many strange gadgets, in- cluding an automatic dog food dispenser for his canine companion, Einstein. His piece de resistance, however, is a spectacular time machine built from a DeLorean sports car. The machine runs on plutonium stolen from Libyan terrorists, and when it hits 88 mph is travels, as the mad doctor puts it; "outatime." One night Marty is accidently propelled back to the year 1955, where he is out of place with his down vest and digital alarm-watch. Here Marty meets his teenage arents-to-be, who will never actually become his parents if his presence prevents them from falling in love and marrying. The fact that Marty's "mother" is enamored of him and oblivious to the boy she is "destined" to marry creates serious problems f or the time traveller, who is in danger of never having existed. The rest of the story con- cerns Marty's hilarious efforts to arrange his parents' Dr. Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd) does strange things to a meeting and his attempt to get "back to the future" in a DeLorean in 'Back to the Future.' time machine that has run out of plutonium fuel. Twnety-four-year-old Michael J. Fox is convincing in his role as a teenager caught ina time warp. An excellent screenplay, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, provides Fox with just the right lines for his outstanding performace. Fox is already well known for his role in NBC's series Family Ties, but I expect the young actor to appear in many films in the future (no pun intended). . Christopher Lloyd id first-rate as the eccentric Dr. Brown. Lloyd, whose experience as the off-the-wall character in Taxi no doubt helped his performance in Back to the Future, plays a refreshingly new kind of mad scientist. Unlike the typical one-dimensional lunatic so commmon in science fiction films, Dr. Brown is a more sensitive, human character. Crispin Glover is superb both as the henpecked husband and the meek, bullied teenager. Lea Thompson is stunning in her role as the wide-eyed teeny-bopper in hot pursuit of her future son, and is convincing as Marty's 1985 mother as well. Back to the Future, although produced by Steven Spielberg, is not a typical Spielberg production. Absent from the film are the fuzzy (or scaly) little creatures which made the producer famous, and the audience is spared the usual onslaught of cuteness. Another refreshing change is that in this film the machine, although playing an important role, does not dominate the screen, and the actors shine asa result. Finally, Back to the Future is different from its predecessors in that viewers of all ages will enjoy it. Children will love the special effects and chase scenes, while adults will appreciate the film's philosophical nature.