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Jimmy Dean' comes back again
By Lisa Magnino Assistant Producer Anne Stoll was being filmed in nearby Marfa. The Performance Network is a Performance Network, directs,
James Dean is a true explained, "Each of the characters Fortunately, this cast is capable superb venue for this play, as the production.
phenomena. Just think about how tells his own individual story, so of handling their roles. Most have entire story takes place in the Come Back to the Five a
many college students, born a the actors have a lot of room for performed before at the Performance drugstore, and no set changes are Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy DE
decade after his death, cover their their own interpretation. Network, and all are well known in required. Detroit's Johann a runs from July 30th throe
walls with posters of Dean. The story centers on a the Detroit area. Broughton designed the set and August 16th at the Performa
Ed Graczyk's play, Come Back transexual's return to her hometown Sandy Storer, an Ann Arbor fa- oversees the lighting, which, along Network, 408 W. Washingt
to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, for the twentieth anniversary of vorite, Laurie Johnson, Maggie with '50's music, are used to show Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursd
Jimmy Dean, now being yresented James Dean's death. While Wysocki, winner of the Golden the twenty-year flashback, from through Saturdays and 6:30 p
by the Performance Network, uses reuniting with other members of Nugget award, and Alicia Harris, a September 30, 1975, to the same Sundays. Tickets are $6
this manmyth as a vehicle for the McCarthy, Texas chapter of the past Comic Opera Guild performer day in 1955. Thursday and Sunday; $7Friday
exploring the intricate relationships James Dean Fan Club, they and University of Michigan theater David Hunsberger, an "Annie" Saturday. Seniors and stude
of old friends. reminisce back to 1955 when Giant student, are all cast members. award winner and regular at the receive a $2 discount.

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'La Bamba': good movie, great soundtrack

By Alan Paul
La Bamba is a flawed though
highly likable and enjoyable movie.
The music is fantastic and some of
the performances riveting.
However, Lou Diamond Phillips is
far from convincing as Ritchie
Valens, the pioneering rock star
who died in the same plane crash as
Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
Valens' life is certainly
deserving of the. Hollywood
treatment. From a dirt poor barrio

family, he became the first
Mexican-American rock star by
scoring three top 10 hits, "La
Bamba", "Donna", and "Come On,
Let's Go," by the age of 17.
Esai Morales steals the movie as
Valens ne'er-do-well brother whose
fall corresponded with Ritchie's
rise. Though sometimes a bit
overwrought, Morales succeeds in
creating a very real and touching
character. Rosana DeSoto is also
stirring to the point of melodrama

as Valens' hardworking mother who
always believed in him and felt his
rise and fall as her own.
However, the real star of La
Bamba is the soundtrack (available
on Slash). From the very first
scene, as Morales cruises his
vintage Indian chopper through the
California desert to the beat of Bo
Diddley's "Who do You Love", the
music is very good and it never
slows down.
Los Lobos perform all the

Valens' material and they do so in
the fine fashion you've come to
expect from one of America's finest
bands. Rather than trying to recreate
Valens' hits note for note, David
Hidalgo et. al. provide new vitality
and energy to the songs, making
them sound fresh, while retaining
the spirit of the originals. Los Lo-
bos also have a brief and hilarious
part as a mariachi band in a Tijuana
bordello.
Brian Setzer is convincing as

Eddie Cochran and turns in a
sizzling "Summertime Blues."
Marshall Crenshaw is a perfect
Buddy Holly, and Howard
Huntsberry turns in a stunning
version of Jackie Wilson's "Lonely
Teardrops."
La Bamba is engrossing and
entertaining. However, the bottom
line is that if you like the music,
you'll love the movie and if you
don't you'll probably find the
whole thing rather silly.


Rowdy Replacements ready to rock again ,

By Mike Rubin
This Wednesday, August 5
marks the rejuvenated return of
Minneapolis' mischievous
Replacements for their first area
show in over a year. With a new
guitarist in tow, and a calmer, more
mature attitude towards performing
(i.e. less booze), one might fear
that the band's St. Andrews Hall
appearance would be devoid of the

whiskey whoosh and vodka vroom
that made gigs like their set of
1984 performances at Joe's Star
Lounge so breatholyzingly and
change-devyingly amazing.
However, even without the
fifth-fueled fervor, the 'Mats have
enough of their own ion-distilled
spirit to rise to their foremost fiery
flannel form.
Last time they blew through

town, the band was much closer to
ultimate inebriation than divine
inspiration. Stumbling through an
April 1986 show at the Michigan
Theater, some of it without
guitarist/wacko Bob Stinson (who
was out having a good time and
forgot to show up on time,
resulting in an on stage "audition"
for guitar players), the band revealed
themselves to be going through the
"dry heaves" portion of their eight
year career.
The embarassing Ann Arbor
incident with Stinson was one of
several on his severe downhill slide
that culminated with the rest of the
group, including his bassist brother

Tommy, booting the alcoholic
axeman from the band.
While Bob went i n t o
rehabilitation, the band itself
struggled to recover. They recruited
Bob "Slim" Dunbar, a local
Minneapolis musician., to fill the
weighty shoes of the sometimes
diaper-clad Stinson, although the
group recorded their recent Sire LP
Pleased To Meet Me with Paul
Westerberg as the sole guitarist.
Pleased To Meet Me is the
group's second consecutive uneven
album since the band took the
plunge in 1985 and jumped from
independent Twin Tone to major
label Sire Records. While numbers



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like "Shooting Dirty Pool" and
"Nightclub Jitters" sound forced 4
compared to earlier chestnuts, and
"The Ledge" sounds positively
AOR/teflon slick, pure pop
sunbursts like "Alex Chilton" and
"Can't Hardly Wait" are still so
fog-liftingly good that you can't
help but sing along in the shower,
in the car, the party store as you
shop for a cheap case on a steamy
Saturday night.
And that's what the
Replacements are all about.
Throwing stones at the gulls on the
beach as they dive in Stuka
formation. Blasting the radio at
Motorhead levels as you drive
Nevada speed on a Michigan
highway, bugs committing
aerodynamic hari-kari on your
windshield.
The intangibles. {
The Replacements appear
Wednesday night at 10 at St.
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Detroit. Tickets are $12.50.
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