The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 11, 1991 - Page 9
'People
Dancing!a
People Dancing proves with sur-
real charm that they are a more
than just A Lot of Talk. In their
concert this weekend, choreogra-
pher Whitley Setrakian (airborne
above) continues her innovative
combination of text and dance. "A
lot of Talk" will be performed Jan-
'iary 11-13 at the Performance Net-
Work. The troupe will debut the
.conclusion of Mother and Child
Were Saved, a haunting medita-
tion on the history of midwifery.
;Setrakian will reprise her interpre-
htion of Shakespeare's Twelfth
RNight, combining contemporary
cynicism with timeless wit. The
concert also promises Setrakian's
vacky humor and personalized
physicality. Tickets are $10, $8 for
students and seniors at the
Michigan Theater Box Office.
Showtime is 8:00 p.m. tonight
through Saturday and a matinee
2:00 p.m. on Sunday.
RECORDS
Continued from page 7
style of her predecessor while the
clearly mechanical drum pattern
fights her all of the way. This for-
mula yields an excitingly different
sub-genre for McIntosh to play with,
abstractly fascinating to listen to
without the kitschy disco romanti-
cism of a certain few members of his
competition.
Distinctly great tracks on the
aptly titled Look How Long include
"Love's Got Me," charging vital
new pacing into classic hooks and
composition with a drum track rem-
iniscent of "The Funky Drummer."
The song ends with an obvious
pointer to fab producers Foster and
McElroy, sampling En Vogue's
"Hold On."
And "Hold Tight," midway
through the album,. is an absolute
Loose Ends classic. Belying its
steady pace, the sensuous groove
simply saunters through the speakers
with a slow, stubborn piano line and
a harmonious chanting of the cho-
rus, "Hold tight to your dreams/
your time... will come." McIntosh
chooses captivating sounds to build
his song up: his own idiosyncratic
singing voice, the sound of sea gull
from "Pacific State," his backup
singers and trumpeter Byron Wallen.
As the groove forms with a simply
hypnotic power, Wallen's solo
dances over its steady heartbeat so
scantily that it burns. At long last,
Loose Ends is back. Look How
Long it took, but listen: it was
worth the wait.
-Forrest Green III
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PONFIRE
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Olo. Without ever knowing it,
Sherman McCoy is nominated and
seconded.
e De Palma's film sheds the so-
cially attuned pose of Wolfe's novel:
realism is eighty-sixed as if this
were a warehouse clearing on social
relevance. Whatever was prophetic
and insightful in Wolfe's book about
New York and urban reality is lost
De Palma opts for a heavy-handed
"Tumor that never works. Wolfe's
sly, undercutting satire is trans-
formed into a subconscious contest
tb see which character can come
4cross as the biggest imbecile. Mc-
coy's wife, Judy (Kim Cattral),
whines her way through the film as
if she had perpetual P.M.S. And
Griffith's southern twang grows so
grating that it too prompts the ques-
on: why does Sherman ever bother
ith her in the first place? If the an-
swer is sex, then never has a man
#aid so high nor so aggravating a
price for knowledge in the biblical
tense.
As for the rest of the cast, only
Hanks eludes the overbearing and
rolly humorless tendencies that in-
t the performances. Falling from
Wall Street prestige to incarceration
a Bronx courthouse, Hank's be-
;sildered glare is worth more than
any of the previous hype that De
ilma works so hard to create. When
ha returns to his Park Avenue pad
(&vhich is the size of a small mu-
gum) after his arrest, Sherman finds
a black-tie gala in progress. His
Life, serving hors d'oeuvres, an-
Obunces that she is divorcing him -
'fter the party, that is. Sherman fi-
Wally erupts in a kind of funny, fed-
p, gun-toting frenzy that brightens
te film for the first and only time.
Hank's Sherman is a fitting
victim, yet the ambivalence that he
should have embodied - his yearly
cash haul isn't far from the GNP of
certain third world nations, and he is
iver out to do anything but protect
himself- is whitewashed. He comes
*0 t smelling far too rosy as the re-
stlt of the unintentional forfeiture
on the part of the rest of the cast: the
Eolective garish New York elite and
transparent social rectifiers. Sherman
the least offensive, least carica-
tured figure in the film.
The penchant to judge De
Palma's latest film in comparison
with Wolfe's novel is probably un-
rair. Fortunately, the film is bad
*eenough on its own to warrant the
mbuse. And, in this case, it may be
an advantage to haveread Wolfe's
Took before entering the theater: the
daughter of the novel proves more
iteresting than anything that hap-
jens on screen.
In the wake of all the hyperbole,
fudge White's (Morgan Freeman)
ea at the end to "be decent" is like
drying to impose morality on Heckle
Sand Jeckle. The characters are too far
tone to be redeemed. This film, in
e end, is a cartoon, but audiences
could be better served catching The
impsons (yes, even re-runs) than
t ekking out to see The Bonfire of
(le Vanities.
THE BONFIRE OF THE
VANITIES is being shown at
rhowcase.
AI
SANDUSKY, OHIO:
Friday, Jan. 4
Cedar Point
Park Attractions Office
Rehearsal Studios
Registration: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
COLUMBUS, OHIO:
Thursday, Jan. 10
Ohio State University
Drake Union
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
BEREA, OHIO:
Friday, Jan. 11
Baldwin-Wallace College
Kulas Musical Arts Building
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN:
Monday, Jan. 14
University of Michigan
Michigan Union - Anderson Room
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN:
Tuesday, Jan. 15
Central Michigan University
Norvall C. Bovee University Center
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN:
Wednesday, Jan. 16
University Inn
1100 Trowbridge Rd. (Rts. 496 & 127)
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN:
Thursday, Jan. 17
Western Michigan University
Dalton Center, School of Music
(Park at Miller Auditorium)
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
JSICIANS
RFORMERS
CHNICIANS
DECATUR, ILLINOIS:
Tuesday, Jan. 22
Millikin University
Richards Treat University Center
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA:
Wednesday, Jan. 23
Indiana University
Memorial Union - Solarium
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
MUNCIE, INDIANA:
Thursday, Jan. 24
Signature Inn
Corner of McGalliard
& Bethel Rds.
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO:
Friday, Jan. 25
Bowling Green State University
University Union - Ohio Suite
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
PITTSBURGH, PA:
Monday, Jan. 28
Point Park College
Studio #4,
Registration: 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
KENT, OHIO:
Tuesday, Jan. 29
Kent State University
Student Center - Third Floor
Registration: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
SANDUSKY, OHIO:
Wednesday, Jan. 30
Cedar Point
Park Attractions Office
Rehearsal Studios
Registration: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
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