The Michigan Daily- Thursday, January 24,1991- Page 7
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FUN AND SUN FOR SPRING BREAK
Ocean front rooms from $99
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Contact: Adam 930-6198
MARDIGRAS IN NEW ORLEANS 1
roundtrip ticket Feb 7-10 call Debbie 769-
5503.
ORIENT SPECIALS: Bangkok fr. $1120,
Hong Kong fr. $955, Osaka fr. $944, Seoul
fr. $973, Singapore fr. $1158, Taipei fr. $933,
Tokyo fr. $898. REGENCY TRAVEL 209
S. State 665-6122. Ask for Dan.
SKI UP NORTH ! Indian River Motel wel-
comes you! 4 hours north on I-75. Apart-
ments and cabins with kitchenettes avail.
Boyne Highlands and Nubs Nob ski are as
nearby. Call (616)238-7406 for info and
W;reservations.
SPRING BREAK- BOOK 'EM NOW
Discount rates- Acapulco, Bahamas,
Cancun, Jamaica from $464
Conlin/Faber Travel
Liberty & Maynard/ S.Univ. by Washtenaw
I 769-9011 or 769-9680
SPRING BREAK-DAYTONA BEACH,
Ocean front hotel, party daily w/us. $79.50/
per person, quad, full 7 nights, central loca-
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.800-835-1041 for reservations.
SPRING BREAK IN BARBADOS
,Rent cottage that sleeps 3 for $400/wk. Call
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Complete Packages from $499. Discounts
and freebies included. Limited space
available, so CALL NOW! Lisa 662-1271 or
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STUDENT TRAVEL BREAKS AT
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ROUND-TRIP TKT: Det. Metro-San Diego
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ANNOIJNCEM ENTS
Danny Elfman
Music for a Darkened
Theatre: Film and Television
Music Volume One
MCA
Not since the days of Hitchcock
soundtrack ace Bernard Herrmann
- or perhaps Star Wars-era John
Williams - has one film music
composer so commanded the mo-
ment on the Hollywood scene as
Danny Elfman. Only five years af-
ter scoring for his first major film,
the relative newcomer now finds
his soundtracks in demand for what
seems to be all the biggest events
of the hour - from 1989's mega-
hype Batman to 1990's Dick
Tracy, and even the theme for
TV's The Simpsons.
But the most surprising aspect
of this erstwhile rocker's success
- you'll probably remember the
fire-haired singer as the video-
friendly leader of nutty new-wavers
Oingo Boingo - is the way he has
almost singlehandedly brought the
traditional sound of full-orchestra
scoring back into vogue these
days, despite the disturbing recent
trend toward shoe-horning inciden-
tal pop hits onto movie sound-
tracks in search of lucrative MTV
video tie-ins.
Prince fans will remember that
Elfman's dark, grand melodrama
justifiably squeezed the Purple
One's mostly incongruous pop out
of the final cut for Batman, and an
eight-minute excerpt of it is
featured among the 17 scores sam-
pled on Music for a Darkened The-
atre, Elfman's first film-music
compilation.
The 70-minute CD also presents
score material that was either
slighted itself in cinematic release
(Scrooged), or never widely
distributed (such as music for
Elfman's brother's 1980 cult film
Forbidden Zone). Although its
tracks are arranged in a sequence
that lends itself less to a coherent
listening experience than to point-
ing up contrasts, the tailored vari-
ety of Elfman's efforts is surpris-
ing, ranging from slapstick animal
comedy (such as the accordion on
Hot to Trot) to horror (the blended
chants and tribal drums of Night-
breed) and road-rally blues (found
in the Ry Cooder-like slide guitar
and saloon piano for Midnight
Run).
But Elfman's greatest affinity
throughout is to the almost
expressionistic extremes offered by
classic orchestra. His weighty
melodramatic turns (Batman,
Darkman, Tracy) dangle wonder-
fully on the verge of an almost
comic grand-ness. It is in whimsi-
cal films like Beetlejuice and the
two Pee Wee flicks (both directed
by primary patron Tim Burton,
whose recent fairy-tale Edward
Scissorhands received a master-
fully music-box treatment worth
looking for on Volume Two) that
Elfman seems most comfortable
with his range.
In the context of an actual
cartoon, such as his classic theme
for The Simpsons, Elfman can
apply the whole set of sound codes
found in orchestra to make music a
special effect in ways forgotten
since the days of Carl Stalling's
classic Bugs Bunny scores. And as
soon as you catch the allusions to
Herrmann, Gershwin and Satie on
other cuts, you may find that
Elfman had already pointed them
out to you in his succinct and
useful liner notes.
Elfman's Music is not just an
indispensable reference for film
composers, but also a economical
memory trigger for fans of these
various films - and, more impor-
tantly, an assertion that film music
can still be made to create moods
as well as money.
Michael Paul Fischer
Danny Elfman is destined to be the John Williams of the '90s, and he
likes to play with toys, too.
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RECORDS
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doesn't allow the songs to attain
the level of catchiness of most
house music, there is more going
on here than meets the ear. With
each listening, one will notice new
things hidden in the mix. Such a
level of subtlety may not be ap-
preciated or realized in distracting
dance clubs, but Digital Dump
comes across well when cranked
up loud at home.
Sometimes it's difficult to tell
if the Jackofficers are mocking
dance music or saluting it. Even
their very name could indicate that
they think electronic music is, as
the old guy from the movie Fame
put it, musical masturbation. Of
course, these are the same people
who named their other band the
Butthole Surfers. And if they don't
like dance music, they sure went
to an awful lot of trouble to come
up with a record that's better than
most of it. But in the end, who
knows? These guys do have a
strange sense of humor. And who
cares? As the song "Love-O-
Matic" says, "Feel the music in
your gut/ get up and move your
butt."- M
-Mike Molitor
FLIGHT
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that Dafoe, Glover and Rosanna
Arquette are eager to ruin .their
reputations. Arquette plays Callie,
and is the most solid example of the
poor way Intruder is put together.
She would be perfect for role of love
interest of a guy who has nothing to
live for, but she can act, and the
script doesn't provide enough char-
acter for her to get a hand on. Flight
of the Intruder does have some
interesting special effects and gives
the viewer an idea of what our planes
are up against in kaq.
See FLIGHT at Showcase.
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Zoo
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during the first act that, by the
second, became so amorphous as
to signal her character's destruc-
tive drug habit and sense of self
defeat. In watching both player's
natural motions and intonations, I
was able to suspend my disbelief
all the way into their dorm room.
All discourse flowed with the
verisimilitude of natural conversa-
tion. In addition, intimate atmo-
sphere of the small audience al-
lowed for a communication of that
cramped dorm room effect.
Aside from its combination of
funny and grave situations, and
sardonic dialogue that really hits the
mark,The Zoo Zoo, Chronicles did
not simply come across as a tale of
four women grappling with politics,
death, sexuality, and love. The fervor
of Bryant's play is derived not only
from the talents of the performers
and the director, but in its lack of
contextual boundaries.
THE ZOO ZOO CHRONICLES
plays again this weekend at the
Performance Network, tonight
through Saturday at 8 p.m. and
Sunday at 6:30. Tickets are $7 for
students and seniors.
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