Sounds as clean ing the mess floors with my t oothbrush th is morning my sergeant was having a look at th is issue's centre spread all about the London Film Festival and the movie pages which have the latest on this season 's fi m s. There's a fantastic two page feat ure on Supergrass1 if you like that kind of doped up stuff. lnter@ctive reviews 8/aderunner, the game of the film . lt should be great for my target practice. There 's also a tab guide to the best on the small screen this fortnight. The food and drink section gi ves you the lowdown on chocolate desserts no use to me with my G.l. diet. I'd love to stick around and read the singles reviews but I've got guns to shoot, army drills to shout and plenty of lunging straw bags with my bayonnet. You can rest assured that there's more than enough to distract you from looming deadlines and libraries or in my case cleaning the officers boots with my own spit.
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editl'on Green Trainspotting (featuring extra scenes), The Event is giving away a special soundtracK package ' eaturing botll tpe original soundtrack and '\he green reversion featuri'ng lggy Po David Bowie, Goldie,. Sleeper and · co't.ir,tless olhe 'top of tHe range artists. rf thaf isn ·t enough the wipner will be entered in.fo a national I competition and could win a ~xt me y limited 70s style sports bag con ainln g·,~ stacks M Trainspotting goodies. • All you have to do is tell us what the colour on the original posters? Put your answers. cl marked with Trainspotting Competition"', on a postcard along your name, school, and contact number in our box by the Stewards Cabin in Union House by Wednesday, December 3. Good luck! Editor-in-chief: Jane Kirby Editor: Catherine Jones Husic Editor: Paul Stokes Assistant Husic Editor: James Tapsfield Design a nd Screen Editor: John Spacey Assistant Screen Editor: Dian Goodman TV&Radio Editor: Amy Pierce lnter@ctive Editor: Stuart Dredge Arts Editor: James Graham Advertising Hanager: Amy Ki ngswell Contributing Writers: Mary Guy, lmogen Rose· Smith, Rachel Johnson, Kirsten Hale, James Wolfe, Tom Harberd , Lucas Psillakis, Nick Welsh, Dan Brigden , Max Dunbar, Mo Herdman , Johnny Messias, Neill Johnslone, Debbi Marco, Lee McNicoll, Paul Pearshouse, Kelly Mora
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ailing from Philadelphia, new three piece The Interpreters have got the legacy of Rocky and Will Smith to shrug off, but with a fistful of tight adrenaline rush songs the band look set to become the city's biggest export. Drawing comparisons to The Jam and The Kinks , Herschel Gaer, Palsy Palladino and Branko Jakominich had only been together a month when they found themselves the subject of a fierce bidding war between New York's finest record labels. With the style and confidence of another era, The Interpreters signed to Volcano and moved to London last spring to record their self-produced debut album, Back In The U.S.S.A. The band have also just completed a coast to coast American tour to great reviews and public acclaim. Says Herschel, "We had people following us from gig to gig like we were the new Grateful Dead or something. I think folks just got into the show." The live experience is something for which the band have received glowing reports and on which much of their appeal is based. MTV and the NME have described them as, "a frenzied dynamo of energy" and, "scissorkicking, windmilling-guitar high jinks." So is this their favourite aspect of pop stardom? "We write great songs and are living up to our boyhood fantasies so yeah, we enjoy ourselves on stage. You're not playing rock 'n' roll unless you break a sweat!" What else is evident is a confidence in themselves (not to be confused with Oasis-esque arrogance), and a belief of breaking free from the
boxes in which the media seek to place them. "You've got to push the music out, take the stuff you love and make it new." A similar vein runs through talk of musical influences, "We don't like talking about our influences cos the minute you do you're associated with them for life. We're just a rock 'n' roll band." With talk of the future, Herschel is cautious yet optimistic, "So many of my ambitions have come true that I'm wary of wishing for whafs going to happen next. We're all just enjoying the moment.. ." their debut album making great waves
in America , it looks like a Spring release will herald a gulf stream tsunami. The Interpreters are also on tour around the country this month, so try and catch them before they start playing binocular-friendly, Wembley based warehouses.
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In the red corner: Shaggy 2 Dope, the Insane Clown Posse, and a wide variety of swear words. In the blue corner: }ames Tapsfield and The Event. Let the games begin !I merica is a ve ry strange place . She holds within her borders some of the most extreme opposites on the planet. On the one hand we have LA with its coke snorting decadence; on the other the Bible Belt with its fundamentalist Christians and puritanical moral stance. An illustration of the power of these forces within America is the recent controversy over Disney World's plans to hold a homosexual day. A religious group called th e Southern Baptists, which has some 14 million members, threatened a boycott on all things Disney if the event was not cancelled . This had a great deal of media coverage and people started looking around to see if there were any other dubious skeletons in Disney's closet. They found the Insane Clown Posse , who were signed to Disney's subsidiary Hollywood Records. Six hours after the release of ICP's major label debut, The Great Milenko, the record was recalled and Disney denied all knowledge of ICP. But any publicity is good publicity. Despite only being on sale for six hours the record entered the chart at number 63, and the press coverage made ICP a household name. Having paid the band for the record and financed the publicity, Hollywood Records now found themselves obliged to sell the rights to a sure-fire chart hit. Island Records eventually emerged as the buyer. ''They were a bunch of pansy bitches," says Shaggy 2 Dope in his thick Detroit accent, "But I don't mind 'cos I got paid
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twice for the same f•"in' record. I'm a f• ••in' millionaire now." it's not difficult to see what conservative America found objectionable about the Insane Clown Posse. They wear evil looking clown make-up 24 hours a day. They have fans who are often fanatical to the extent of listening to nothing apart from ICP, and the live shows are ritualistic, violent affairs. Then there is the description of the music, "Serial killer
serial killers", and explicit nature of the lyrics .- One of the more memorable lines runs something like , "Your son's smoking crack and your daughter's making money lying on her back." Finally, and for the likes of the Southern Baptists, perhaps most disconcertingly, there is a strong ideological thread running through ICP's spiel which borders on the religious. They call it the Dark Carnival. ICP started off as a Detroit gang called Inter City Posse. As a sm all gang with only about ten members they regularly got beaten up by other gangs. When Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope released their first EP as Inter City Posse they became better known , but this apparently angered the other gangs who beat them up even more frequently , ''They knew we were a bunch of weak bitches." Then Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope were touched by the Dark Carnival , "it's kind of our re ligion , but it's not a religion at all. it's what we believe in and what we talk about. You can't just walk up to an old lady and punch her in th e face and steal her car.
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The first was Carnival of Carnage, which provided an introduction to the Dark Carnival. Then came Ringmaster, "That was about how when you die all your evil doing takes form into a guy you have to battle. Mother Theresa's Ringmaster was probably the size of an ant - she's like: 'Get the f••• out of here you little bitch!' For Charles Manson , the Ringmaster's probably the size of the Jolly Green Giant - it's going to be wh ipping Charlie Manson's ass for millenniums." The sixth joker's card will signify the end, although Shaggy 2 Dope seemed singularly unwilling to predict exactly what of. "lt might be the end of the world , it might be the end of ICP - it might be the end of you . I don't r· •in' know." Cynics would say that ICP are affecting their image to make a lot of money. Shaggy 2 Dope has a very clear rep ly, "I say this to all those people ... I say 'f••• off', that's what I say. When we first started out it didn't seem like such a good idea to have that image. People were like 'You've got clown make up on and you're saying that stupid stuff, you'll never make it. Take off the make-up and say something else and maybe you 'll sell some records.' Now we're big time stars in America everybody's like, 'the only reason why you 're so popular is 'cos you've got make-up on and you 're saying that stuff.' Y'know, make up your f***in ' minds. Tell me this to my face and I'll f***in' punch you in the lips, you know what I'm saying?" Fair enough . Over the next few months we are going to be hearing quite a lot from the Insane Clown Posse. Whether their brash rap/metal formula is going to be quite such sweet medicine for the British audience, however, remains to be seen .
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Whatever makes you happy••• on a Saturday night Various Artists Nothing to Lose OST Nothing to Lose is the soundtrack from the new · film staring Tim Robbins of Shawshank Redemption tame. How can I put this? I hated it! Whether this is because I haven't seen the film yet, or because I'm prejudiced against groups who call themselves Oat Nigga Daz of tha Dogg Pound. I don't know. Either way. the only tracks I found half bearable were Coolie's number one hit C U When You Get There and Des'ree's contrastingly soft Crazy Maze. The album is full of ·gang land' music and earns itself a parental advisory label because of the men talking over a background of incessant beats who think that it's cool to refer to women as "Bitch" and lack any ability to find any innuendo for sex . If you like this rappy , sweary. 'brothers in the hood' kind of music then you may very well like this album. However if you prefer music that takes a little talent to produce, take heed of my warning : DON'T BUY IT- YOU 'VE GOT EVERYTHING TO Debbi Marco LOSE!
Redwood Colourblind This is one of those albums which stands up, hits you between the eyes, allows you to recover then whacks you again so you're left wondering if that's really it. Redwood contrast heavier. loud songs against slow. melancholy ones centred around Alistair Cowan's moving vocals. Essentially a rock album, it certainly rocks at times, but also contains songs which seem like they want to make a strong entrance. but crawl in quietly. The short sharp Powertrip is (dare I say it?) a powertrip. Lasting only two and half minutes , its riffs and baselines grab you by the throat and leave you completely satisfied. Unfortunately not all the tracks are as immediate . Memorabilia is far from memorable, and Cowan's voice can get tiring. However, the beautifully powerful Outside and Morphine make up for this, making it a decent album. Improving with time and volume, Colourblind has some hard-hitting songs, even if they don't all make an impact. it's surprising, but those few sparks set the whole album alight. Lee Me Nico/1
The Freestyle Files 3 is a little boy making his school play debut. Not quite sure of where he's going at first , he's mumbling his lines and chewing h1s lip until he spots h1s parents in the audience . Following their imperceptible nods of encouragement, he then gives a blindmg performance , culminating with his transformation into a beautiful butterfly accompanied by a background of unparalleled pyrotechnics, or however the cliche ends. Following its stunted beginning , this sprawling collection goes on to move from the ludicrous to the genius in its efforts to project a hard hitting array of heavy beat belters and mellow kook ambience. The oddest tracks are clearly Coldcut's contemporary jazz synthesiser and a Gary Numan meets Krattwerk style Space Invaders are Smoking Grass, which is disconcerting, if nothing else. The rest of the CD is ideal for armchair head nodders , with enough variation in tempo to prevent repetitive strain injury, and enough diversity in style to please all but the most insular. While some gems are polished , and others are still uncut and dirty, a few of the tracks don't pull their weight. This is plainly shameful. as it would not have taken much more work to make this one of the best examples of the variety of dance Nei/1 Johnstone available at the moment.
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Meredith Brooks I Need Though not quite as catchy as her massive hit Bitch, Brooks still retains the Alanis Morrisette feel with her gritty guitar rifts and slicing lyrics. The B-side offers nothing but a poor remix of Bitch. Overall you're probably better off spending your cash on a few pints down the pub.
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n post-Britpop Britain, no one's quite sure what 'alternative' music is any more , if it exists at all. Once upon a time , it was easily defined: music made by pale young men with jangly guitars, to be listened to by angst-ridden adolescents in the privacy of their bedrooms. Every so often a group like The Smiths might dent the lower reaches of the charts with an anaemic ditty, but otherwise the British chart scene was a place for anodyne soul and airbrushed stadium rock, where Elton , Annie, George and all their adult orientated rock chums ruled the roost. Even at the height of baggy, to most of the population Stone Roses were a type of decoration, and Happy Mondays were what happened when their boss was off sick. British teenagers' tastes went ignored by the conceited majority. it was grim . For all its faults, it was Britpop that changed all
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that. For one thing , it dragged indie music kicking and screaming into the limelight, bringing young guitar bands to the attention of an immensely bigger audience than they could have ever expected before. Young bands were suddenly competing for the higher chart positions, popping up on just about every TV programme going , and even making the News at Ten on one notable occasion. Genuine pop personalities emerged , so recognisable that they had no need of surnames: Damon , Justine, Liam , Jarvis, Louise (Wener, not Nurding), and a barrage of chart-snagging tunes were released, such as Common People, Parklife and, especially, Alright. For those of us who made up the Britpop generation, Alright was our song . Like Supergrass, we were young, we were free , and we certainly did keep our teeth nice and clean, at least most of the time. The fresh-faced Oxford threesome had already released three sparkling singles before Alrighfs Chas'n'Dave-tastic plink-plonk piano and wholesome video made them instant heroes. Even your gran was whistling along with it, like the rest of the country. Beloved by Smash Hits and
Melody Maker alike, Gaz, Mickey and Danny were a pop phenomenon. But inevitably the rot set in, as a wave of pitiful generic Britpop bands leapt enthusiastically onto the bandwagon. The main icons of the scene opted out: Oasis became enormo-dome Rock Gods , Blur disappeared and then reappeared as lo-fi slackers, and Jarvis courted tabloid notoriety before restyling himself as a greasy pensioner. And Supergrass? They went away, chilled out, had babies, and returned earlier this year with In it For The Money, which according to the critics displayed a more mature musical direction. In short, the chirpy kids of Alright had grown up. So the legend goes anyway, which is why we're sat here in a plush Nottingham hotel drinking free lager and chatting about a whole range of subjects, ranging from the serious, through to the downright silly. There was supposed to __......_ _. be a gig .... later, but it's been abruptly cancelled after drummer Danny broke his hand last night in a freak accident. He claims he punched a car in an outbreak of road rage , though official rumour has it that he shut his hand in a door; a profoundly less rock'n'roll injury. The band are understandably downcast at having to call off the whole tour, but are nevertheless willing to talk in a manner that belies their press reputation as inarticulate stoners.
at on the list of topics for discussion are the sales figures for In it For The Money, which apparently sold less copies than its predecessor, I Should Coca. Gaz hastens to disagree, citing the fact that it sold more copies world-wide, but that it just sold less over here. Why's that then? "A bit of a shitty tour didn't help: we just came out of the studio after one rehearsal and did it. We're not particularly interested in sales figures anyway. We're more interested in just making the records and seeing what happens afterwards. " Some press reports have suggested that the band's dislike for promotional duties also hampered In it For The Money's sales, which is a possibility despite Mickey's protests. Whatever the reason , in this country at least it underperformed , slumping recently to the low-sixties in the chart. When you consider that Be Here Now will probably stick around for the next two years or so, it seems even more of an injustice. All -in-all, it's a quality album with a much fuller sound than I Should Coca, and contrary to some peoples' expectations it didn't jettison the pop sensibilities that made their debut such a success. Those in doubt should listen to Late In The Day, and wonder how it managed to only barely limp into
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the top twenty recently. The album's re laxed feel is due to th e increased freedom in the studio, as Gaz explains: 'We were given a lot of freedom, so we could do what we wanted. There was no pressure, in fact it was enjoyable! it was basically left up to us: if we made any mistakes it was down to us." Surprisingly, Supergrass' record company, Parlophone, were apparently not breathing down their necks in the studio expecting a second album full of Alrighfs , although Gaz admits, "I'm sure they would have loved it if we had!" Instead, all it took was a listen to a couple of embryonic tracks in the studio to convince Parlophone that Supergrass could be safely left to their own devices without fear that they were about to make an unsellable Bulgarian nose-flute concept album . Although it's not such a bad idea .. . it's become the accepted truth that In it For The Money is a more mature album than its predecessor, although this ignores the fact that in places, I Should Coca was hardly the adolescent barrel of laughs that it's often assumed to be. "We never said this is our mature album, but we have changed in between the two. it's a natural progression . I Should Coca was right at the time, but songs Alright • • - - -...... likewere
written about being 14 and getting your first lay, getting drunk and riding around on buses - stuff like that, which all seems a bit silly now we've grown up!" At one time , Alright looked likely to become a millstone around Supergrass' youthful necks. Anthem for a generation it might have been , but its relentless chirpiness could grate on the nerves when you heard it on the radio for the sixth time that hour. Although people might be turned on to the band after hearing it, was this such a good thing if they expected their other songs to sound just like it? Radiohead went through a similiar process with Creep, Alrighfs polar opposite in terms of mood, and both bands actually stopped playing the songs live for a while. However, like Radiohead, Supergrass have come to terms with the song's success, which is perhaps another sign of the maturing process. Gaz: "You can't really get fed up with it, because you just have to realise that you 've lost it. it belongs to anyone who wants to play it now. We did stop doing it for a while, but it's such a good song to play live that we've started again ." it was around the time that Alright was in the charts that Supergrass famously toyed with the idea of making a television series with Stephen Spielberg, before rejecting it. Rumoured to be a nineties version of the Monkees, the band are philosophical now about why they couldn 't do it. Mickey: "it was the wrong time for us. We hadn't even released our second album!" Danny: "Because we were completely unknown over there , it would've been 'Steven Spielburg's English band', and we wouldn 't have had any clout at all." Although it was a baffling move at the time, with hindsight the logic is crystal-clear. Afte r all, as
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Mickey points out, how could Supergrass make a show about being in a band when they hadn't yet had time to experience what being a proper band was all about?! The bottom line is that for Supergrass, it's always been more important to be respected for the ir music rather than anything else. Hence the relaxed attitude towards marketing, lack of interest in sales figures, and a defiant aim not to be known more for their night· time exploits. Okay, so it might bring them sell-out dates at Earl's Court, but then Gaz can step out of his front door without being stalked by reporters. He knows he's taken the right choice, at least for his group.
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he respect in wh ich Supergrass are held by their fellow musicians is obvious too. Have you ever wondered why you never see bands slagging them off in the press? In December they'll be supporting Oasis in their London dates, and unlike many groups they've got no wish to slag off the brothers Gallagher, professing only respect and admiration . it's an interesting pairing, considering that both bands emerged at the time of Britpop. 1t could be argued that Oasis were never part of the movement, at least musically. Where other bands (including Supergrass) took inspiration from the Kinks and the Small Faces, Oasis were plundering the Beatles and T-Rex. However, the Britpop scene was responsible for giving both bands the chance to appeal to a wider audience, which is something Mickey gracefully admits: "lt did expose us to a wider audience I suppose, although we never actively courted it like some other bands did. I mean, we never ever admitted to if Gaz chimes in: "We never really knew what it was about. People are always going to say you sound like this band or that band, but Britpop was just some wanky journalists really. We weren't trying to fit into a movement - we were just being ourselves!" Supergrass' cynicism on this score is understandable, and even though they claim not to read the press, they're obviously wellacquainted with the way the British weekly music press works. With the pressure on to find new and
more exciting bands, sometimes creating a scene. is an easy way to make sense of it all. Before Britpop, Supergrass were briefly lumped in with a scene called the New Wave of New Wave (NWONW), which was started by the NME and featured now well-known bands such as Elastica, Sleeper, Ash, and a host of now-forgotten groups too. Anyone remember These Animal Men? Tiny Monroe? S*M*A*S*H? Thought not. The point is that such scenes inevitably contain good and bad bands, and the good will always rise above the boundaries of such categorisation, as Supergrass have done. But enough philosophising: as a popular group, Supergrass are supposed to have views on a wide range of contemporary issues, so let's try them. How about drugs? With Noel being recently carpeted for his "outrageous" (© Daily Mail) comments on Ecstacy, what do Supergrass reckon to the issue of drug use? Although they only speak what most of us are th inking, theirs are the sort of views that are guaranteed to set your average Tory columnist - - - - · frothing at the mouth with apoplectic fury : Gaz: I think we've done our fair share. Drugs are part of so many people's lives that a lot of people just don't think about it." Which is pretty much Noel's 'cup-of-tea' argument if you think about it. Whether you prefer amphetamines in your Typhoo or not, it seems bizarre that governments have been allowed to get away with sweeping the views of much of their electorate under the carpet, with no view on drugs allowed to be spoken unless it's completely negative. As a result, teenagers ignore the advice given by figures in authority, take the odd Ecstacy tablet, and sometimes die as a result. Rather than blame their own dangerously blinkered policy, this leads to the government simply continuing to clamp down on any talk of legalised drug use, which is why it's so important when stars like Oasis say their piece, and Supergrass appear on the cover of the Big Issue with the ubiquitous Howard Marks.
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John's tribute single, which you may have. heard on the radio recently : "No one really picked up on the fact that he put one of his own songs on the A-side, with Candle In The Wind on the B-Side. I think that's just bad really ." Not that he's dismissing the grief of the many millions of people who were touched by Diana's death , but it's perfectly true that if Elton had meant an entirely unselfish tribute, shouldn't he have released it as a one-track single? Then again, including one of his own tracks is a handy way of advertising his new album to millions of people ... Such dodgy dealings are unthinkable to Supergrass, and whether you share their opinions or not, it's good to see someone daring to criticize 'the People's Ballad'. Still, with no tribute records in sight, the future is rosy for Supergrass. Fame is treating them well, so what does the future hold? As far as the next album goes, they're not sure:
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anted for offences such as rape , use of drugs and sodomy, director Roman Polanski fled the US 20 years ago, but now, wi th his career as shaky as ever, Polanski seems to be making the move to cut a deal with US law enforcement and return to his short but glamorous career in Hollywood. The case was re-opened by the LA district attorney last week, and talks will undoubtedly be lengthy. Polanski might want to consider heading to Britain as the national industry re-emerges. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the British film industry as a whole turned a cool £91 million profit in
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everyone IS insane and nothing IS fair. Courage Under Fire (1996) An undeservedly ignored film in which Meg Ryan gets angry and shoots at a few people. From Here to Eternity (1953) Best known for the famous beach scene with Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster. Oh, and Frank Smatra can act, but it's hard to take him seriously. Glory (1989) Whites and blacks and racial tension and the American Civil War. Maybe a little too melodramatic. The Great Escape (1963) lngemous, brotherly and noble Allied POWs versus those naughty Nazis. Is it humanly possible for Steve McQueen to be more cool? M*A•s•w (1970) Wacky surgeons break the rules as much as they like as long as the job gets done. Great, but really episodic. No wonder it made a good TV show. 1941 (1979) The com manding officer cries at the cinema while watch1ng Dumbo. Even Steven Spielberg can make a turkey.
mountains, people escaping from a POW camp, and the inevitable emotional redemption of the formerly committed Nazi. Unfortunately, JeanJacques Annaud wanted more than your average Hollywood fi lm , so we are shown repeated examples of the saintliness of the Tibetans and the error of Western ways, as Pitt's Nazi gym teacher boasts about his Olympic gold medal. The scenes between Pitt and Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk (the Dalai Lama at 14} are quite horribly sentimental. They save one another from loneliness, and bad macho Brad learns about love and friendship . This is all rather amusingly simple in an obviously big budg et film . Sadly, this is another example of Hollywood tryi ng to tackle 'issues' and fai ling miserably. Hopefully Martin Scorsese's Kundun, which also covers the life of the Dalai Lama, will prove to be Mo Herdman more intellectual fare.
1996 (that's pre-Fully Monty but postTrainspotting, mind you} and a significant improvement on the £1Omillion loss in 1995. Tibetan monk Penor Rinpoche has announced that he has concluded that muttering action hero Steven Seagal is, in fact, the reincarnated spirit of Buddhist sage Chung-rag DorJe. Seagal first met Rinpoche in 1996 when the monk was highly impressed by Seagal's aura. Not surprisingly, the announcement has upset and/or confused many devout Buddhists. Writer/director Quentin Tarantino got into a row at a posh restaurant with producer Don Murphy, after Murphy said some highly unflattering things about the making of Natural Born Killers. Tarantino and Murphy first clashed on the set of NBK over Tarantino's screenplay, which ended up as the basis for he Oliver Stone film, but was never filmed itself. The fight was described as everyth1 ng from a brawl to a bout of slapping. Nice.
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decide, rather than face the possibility of manslaughter charges, to dump the body off the end of the pier, and tell no-one. A year later they retum to the spot only to discover that someone else knows their secret. Cue lots of psychological drama and tension.
8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG The chances are that real gangsters are not as stupid as Hollywood would sometimes have us imagine. Otherwise they wouldn't be gangsters, they'd be prisoners or corpses. Yet, for the plot line of 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag to work, somebody would have to be unbelievably dumb. The Idea here Is 1hat some minor Mafioso (Joe
Pesci) has to transport, yes you guessed it, eight heads in a duffel bag. All of this is meant to be absolutely hilarious in a black comedy sort of way.
THE BORROWERS lt would be nice to believe that my ability to lose things was due to little four inch people who live "'ltt onrlo~r the floorboards. Borrowers is a kids movie, adapted from classic children's book by Mary Norton, and it's time to suspend your disbelief. So, it concerns these little people and the adventures they get up to when the family on which they survive decide to move house. Given the Hollywood treatment, this is bound to be a bit cloyingly sweet, but bearable. Certainly something to do if you need to entertain children for a few hours.
NIGHT STAND appear to be in grave danger of experiencing an 80s revival. One Night Stand should definitely have been an end of the 80s film, preferably with a full cast of ageing brat
pack actors. 11 considers the price we pay for infidelity and the need to remember the importance of marriage and love. But it also deals with the monotony of monogamy and frustrations of matrimony. The central character is played by Wesley Snipes - which should be enough of a waming signal to anyone who might be expecting this film to be good.
Also winging your way soon: Cop/and, starring Sly Stallone, and Pierce Brosnan reprises his role as James Bond In Tomo"ow Never Dies. January promises Starshlp Troopers, a tale of galactic war between humans and a load of big bugs. Also watch out for Devll's Advocate, where AI Paclno gets to taunt KeanuR..v.. for two hours (oh lucky man).
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As British films like The Full Monty take the world by storm, the London Film Festival is becoming an event to rival any in Europe. Johnny Messias says it's attracting some of the best talent in the world, such as the world's fave Alien basher Sigourney Weaver. hen it comes to film the local council to show the picture. Tickets were described as reportedly changing hands for £150 outside, and Deliverancefestivals, London isn't meets-athe first name to trip off inside the level of expectancy was ludicrous, the tongue. Cannes, of considering the unwatchable piece of LSD filmgrizzlycourse, hosts the making on the screen. There has been a whiff of bear, festival that everybody's heard of, with an Hopkins controversy ever since, with Larry Clark's Kids (a unlikely mix of French style, Hollywood Union film last month) opening 'there in 1996, while wheeler-dealers and Barry Norman. this years likely candidate, Boogie Nights centred Venice and Berlin have real clout too, and around the 1970's porno industry: prepare over in Arizona, Robert Redford runs a for "Marky" Mark Wahlberg's 13-inch right old shindig called Sundance, where 'special effect'. young independent film-makers are thrust into One of the best traditions at the LFF is the the spotlight. But London? it's not widely known surprise film . You pay £7.50, probably queu• or celebrated, but each year an assortment of for two hours for the privilege, sit down, anc international film talent cram into London's wait to see what masterpiece unfolds on th( Southbank and West End to show their latest screen. There is an element of bitterness wares, and give the public a glimpse of the here, because two years ago we were ) movers and the shakers. subjected to an atrocity of modern cinema, namely Johnny Mnemonic: Hands-up In it's 41st year, the London festival offers film anyone who would give up two good, screenings; without the competition that goes on at Cannes. it can attract anyone from Martin Earth-hours to watch Keanu Reeves, in a Scorsese to Gerard Depardieu, but the cyberpunk movie, 'supported' by Dolph Lungren will irritate you as the repressed billionaire with a atmosphere is odd: it's as if they were only there the Christ like serial killer? Since then, the festival endless supply of handy survival hints. Baldwin tor just another talkshow fly-by. Often the stars should be hung up on a rack of parma hams, and has a new director, Adrian Wooton, and has arrive unannounced at Leicester Square, to drop Elle Macpherson, as the wife/lover, is barely reflected the upturn in British film-making in its in on their buddies and support their own projects. program. They choose a relatively low profile Britanimated enough to carry her breasts from scene to scene. The highlight is a top-rate, bear attack ~ This scrum of punters, paparazzis and film for the opening night: a version of George primaddonas is one the main pleasJres of the and maul sequence. Avoid like Benidorm. Orwell's semievent. autobiographical Keep The Aspidistra Flying with Sylvesier Stallone joins a cast of heavyweights Where else do you get such a casual glimpse of Helena Bonham Carter and Richard E Grant, (Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta) in celebrity, for the price of a £6 film ticket? lt's a rare which was never likely to send ripples of James Mangold's police corruption drama Copland, chance to see a movie introduced by the director, excitement to film tans. So far, it has set the tone. which will divide opinions, but is worth a look. or star, and then Watch out, also, tor a little thriller called challenge them ~----------------------~-------....._ Breakdown. Don't be put off by the presence with your of Kurt Russell, who with wife Kathleen questions Quinlan, is hijacked by a gang of redneck afterwards. thieves, whilst driving through Americas' London has a Route 66. This is a crackerjack mainstream veritable banquet of thriller with edgy camerawork, tense situations, Sigourney on the film that made her famous films to choose from. Whether it's 1997 and great incidental music. small and personal from India, has not been a good vintage for launching major European art-house fare, or medium-sized new films. Sadly, new pictures from Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Hollywood; it's all there. You need to try you r hen the movies are uninspiring, it falls to luck, and see the films that haven't been Quentin Tarantino came around too late to add the one-off events to give the festival shouted about to find the real gems. From their international clout to the line-up. some real oom-pa-pa. Over the past New Zealand, Heavenly Creatures with There has been plenty of good popcorn fodder three years, some of the best moments have been Kale Winslet and the searing Maori drama which you can expect to see released in the interviews with the likes of Luc Besson, Terry coming weeks Hollywood's monster-mash will Once Were Warriors were two of the Gilliam and Mike Figgis. This year, the organisers smaller films on show a couple of years continue with Mimic. This one has hordes of were lucky to attract to some very big names, back, several months before their British mutated insects munching on New Yorkers, before breaking the European feel of The Guardian releases. Sometimes the festival offers a plucky entomologist, Mira Sorvino (from Mighty interview series. This year, possibly the biggest chance to see movies, not showing was Sigourney Weaver. Although the Alien Aphrodite) gets out her bug spray. Expect all the elsewhere. At the height of the usual B-movie cliches, but atmospheric direction franchise has made her name, she has enjoyed a brouhaha whipped-up by Oliver from Guellermo Del Toro, will make this an ideal varied and accomplished career. She came to Stone's Natural Born Killers in 1995, Friday night out early next year. The Edge, which London to discuss those achievements, and teams up Anthony Hopkins with Alec Baldwin, promote her two new films, The Ice Storm and the organisers of the festival were granted a special license from would certainly not be a pleasant night. Best Alien:Resurrection.
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Copland (USA) 1997 Dir: James Mangold Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Sylvester Stallone Stunning array of old-s<tlool talent. A sort of mafia family cum police precinct in itself. Stallone trying to return to serious, low-key acting. So called intrigue corruption plot was never convincing enough, or intriguing to sustain the film. The ole boys don't give us anything new here, though Liotta gives a decent turn as betrayed friend of Sherriff Stallone. Stallone does a quiet, effective job as the deaf sherriff. The actor who's usual field is weaponry does a lot of suggestion with his eyes and gives a stikingly convincing portrayal of the passive, dead-beat sheffif who's decent at the core. A missed opportunity because the atmosphere built up by indepently spirited director Mangold, never matches the conspiracy plot which is too trivial and at time baffling.
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Striding in, she makes an immediaie impact. Weaver is 5"11, and today has red-tinted hair, to frame her famously angular face. She would make an intimidating interviewee: she is very animated, almost leaping out of her chair on one occasion, and answers any off the wall questions with a studied poise, befitting her East-Coast education. In her early theatre days, Weaver made her mark, (and felt most at ease), as a comedy actress. In one note-worthy role, her character had a fondness for keeping hedgehogs near her genitals, and feeding them under the dinner table. These shenanigans made for a welcome departure from her
weaponry to take on hordes of magnificent critters; but it was Second Officer Ripley, who made the film. She was in command, resourceful, determined, and a strong mother figure for the orphan Newt. Sigourney found it amusing, how after saving Newt, in an epic, acid-splattered ding-dong with the alien Queen at the end of the second film, the kid was casually pronounced dead before the opening credits had even rolled in the third movie. Life just ~in't fair, it seems, in the xenomorph slaying business.Sigourney Weaver's tough physicality shines through in much of her work. In 1988 She was Oscar nominated as Dian
stultifying Ripley on death experience studying Fosseyin drama at Yale. Gorillas in The Mist. Again she played a Perhaps it goes without saying, that on leaving, maternal character, who by sheer grit and she was advised she had no talent, and would ingenuity battles all those lining up against her. never make it! Fast-forward to 1978, and she had Amazingly, in the same year she was also this "enormous camera" being thrust in her face on nominated as best supporting actress in the romantic comedy, Working Girl, playing Melanie the set of Ridley Scat's little space movie, Alien. Griffith's corporate slave-driver boss. Her stature, As a classically trained actress, she remembers and reputation as a serious actress, has kept away feeling that "science fiction was beneath me". On the romantic comedy scripts, which is something the set, it was a tree-for-all, with experienced actors like John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Koto, she regrets, but is busy putting right: this year she improvising much of their dialogue, and creating is doing two "rom-coms" in a row. Taking a major the team atmosphere which translated so well to role in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm this year, gave her a chance to return to the 1970's, when she was a the screen. Sigourney Weaver picked up what was required of student. She plays Janey, a decadent woman who a film actress, on the job, but wasn't prepared tor reflects the changing society of the time, marked publicity when it came out. Embarrassed by the by the shaming of Richard Nixon. When she lived genre anyway, she hired a PR agent with specific in that period, Weaver-was politically active, "like orders: Sigourney Weaver is completely all the students were". At Stanford University, she campaigned against academic research into unavailable. When she emerged, Ripley-like, from chemical weapons. Her strong political convictions her self-imposed cocoon, Alien had become a have stayed with her: she has campaigned on massive hit, and her film career was on its way. environmental issues, but prefers to do so without he has become something of a feminist icon publicity. The Ice Storm is already gathering after her reprisal of Ripley in James acclaim, and is tipped to make an impact at next Cameron's sequei'Aiiens' in 1986. They years Oscar ceremony. it will be certainly be a lot quieter than her othe·r new release. packed the screen with a hangar-load of hi-tech When a character flings herself into molten iron, whilst her chest is. popped open by a chirpy little xenomorph, you expect the worst. You'd be wrong. Alien: Resurrection opens this week, and Weaver didn't want to say much about the matter. Except that the script has given her a very different Ellen Ripley to play. "As far as I was concern~d;' says Sigourney, "I was dead and quite happy being
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Alien sequels have a stamp of quality not generally associated with the genre. Test screenings for the new film, have gone so well Stateside, that 20th Century Fox are already trying to commit her to a fifth movie. Rest assured, she certainly won't entertain any "Predator Versus Aliens" script ideas: "lt sounds more like a video game to me!" She knows her own mind, and is in a position to guide her career as never before. Whether it be serious roles, more Xenomorphs, or the comedy she loves, Sigourney Weaver can make her choice. Those Yale Drama teachers obviously knew what to say.
Mimic USA (1997) Dir: Guerlermo Del Toro Starring Mira Sorvino, Hollywood's biblical plague of monsters continues with Mimic. Oscar winning actress Mira Sorvino plays an entymologist big on her insects. To save New York's children from a mystery epidemic, spread by cockroaches, she creates a super bug, to hunt the carriers. In a brand new twist on the genre, tampering with mother nature causes a humongous mutation, and minor characters everywhere start reading their last rites, so's they can place themselves in mind-numbingly obvious danger. Giant locust things start eating people. They cr.eep up on you like Humphrey Bogart in an alleyway; being genetically adapted to look like humans (but only in very low, film noir lighting). Yup, this is B-movie territory, mapped out in the Bovril-dark surrounds of NY's subwa~ system. Small-time actors are munched on, in ways suitable for the 15 certificate (no meitings or close-up guttings, sorry). Sorvino emerges as the stong-minded heroine (gasp!), and director Del Toro does a solid job of cranking up the tension. As monster-fests go: it ain't as hilarious as "Anaconda" or as dull as "The Relic": and ~ob Bottin's bug designs are pretty tasty (cinematically, that is). [Expected early 1998].
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nly those who spent the last year or so In a galaxy far, far away will fail to know that this Is no documentary on looomotive serial numbers. Tralnspottlng, the creation of the holy trinity of Danny Boyle, John Hedge and Andrew Macdonald, who also gave the world Shallow Grave and the current stormer A Life Less Ordinary, Is a tale of losers, junkies and nutters set on the streets of gritty Edinburgh. Lush puppy Ewan McGregor stars as Mark Renton, whose disintegrating relationship with his friends and family is charted through the film. Robert Carlyle, Jenny Lee M'ller and Kelly MacDonald play nohopers careering towards selfdestruction - will Renton join them tn the giant cesspit that Js their fate? Adapted from lrvine Welsh's bestselling novel, and having won or been nominated for nearly every mov1e acoolade under the sun, Tramspotting Is one of those mustsee, fiVe star movies. Humorous, surreal and disturbing, it stands as one of the most Innovative movies of the 90's and a major factor in the re)uvlnation of the Bntish film industry. The soundtrack is also fantastic,
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out there that is shocking, horrific, and even criminal: the recent arrest of 31 people in America's biggest Internet anti-child pornography 'sting' operation contests to that Sleaze on the Net IS not limited to those with
questionable sexual predilections, however. Every aspect of 'alternative' culture can be found on-line with a little effort. Howard Marks' homepage (www.weaveworld.co.uk/howardmarks) offers exhaustive archives of newspaper reports of his highly entertaining trial and eventual imprisonment, and this issue of High Times (www.hightimes.com) includes a detailed rev1ew of Amsterdam's famed coffeeshops. Those wishing to explore the weird world of chemical experience should try The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension (www.deoxy.org), a massive site
incorporating everything from Mexican mushrooms to psychedelic screen savers, as well as a huge links-page. Or, see the man himself. and v1sit Tim Leary's very own webpage (www.leary.com). Hyperrea/ (www.hyperreal.org), is another curious site, and includes a detailed and unbiased drug •nformat1on page. On the more bizarre side, The Fascist New World Order Homepage (www.calyx.com/fascist.html) is a site that offers some truly disturbing links to ultra right-wing organisations, perhaps the most entertaining being The Right Side (www.rtside.com), a 'wholesome' conservative American site existing to "counter the economic socialism and cultural Marxism out there on the Net - the most ridiculed, spoofed, AND imitated site on the Web." As the FNWOH says: ''They're All Around Us ... So let's keep an eye on what they're doing." Talking of which, and now firmly into X-Files (www.thex-files.com) territory, BlackOps (www.cruzJo.com/blackops) has an interesting A to Z of conspiracy theories, while www.conspire.com describes more recent cover-ups and assasinations. OK, that's enough for now. Happy surfing!
Th eo umn that know Its eh ratable or ntsatlons•.. he Web is often VIewed 1n terms of either entertainment or information. On the one hand there are reviews, fan pages, and we1rdness and wonder galore. On the other, the Net IS a seemingly hmiUess source of informatiOn, prospective essay materi~ , employment ,.-,(21!~~ information and even home shopping. In th1s sea of plenty though, perhaps we should paraphrase JFK and, "Ask not what the Web can do for you, but what you can do for the Web," for many charities have found a home on the intemet. Informative sites, access to a mass audience and the wonder of credit card donat1ons means it has never been easier to give. A good place to start is with the fairly omprehensive list of UK Charities supplied by TOC H (http://pitch.phon.ucl.ac.ukl home/dave!TOC_H!Charitlesl). From here it is possible to link to the home pages of several major chan• es such as Greenpeace (www.greenpeace.org), NSPCC (www.nspcc.org.uk) and Oxfam (www.oneworld.org/oxfamlindex.html). Other sites that are worth looking at are Amnesty (www.amnesty.org) which includes reams of mformat1on and even downloads relating to current campa•gns. The RSPCAs1te, (www.rspca.org.uk) is similarly stuffed with information and a very useful section on looking after your own pets and how to help if you find an animal in need. Another worthwhile organisation, particularly Important at this time of year, is The Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Fund (www.gt-ormond-st· hospital.org.uk). As well as information and a credit card donat1on facility the page there 1s also a guest book where you can leave messages for the in-patients. UNICEF (www.oneworld.org/unicef) has got into the seasonal spirit and is offering people the chance to send virtual Christmas cards to increase · awareness of the organisation, or you can even order the old fashioned paper type and give money that way.Other current events are also well L-:-...;;;..,...;;_ __,..;;;..~__;;_j publicised across the Net. BBC's Children in Need event is accompanied by a colourful, fluffy looking web page, (www.bbc.eo.uk/cinlindex/shtml) that gives information about regional events, lists of available merchandise and of course details of making those all important donations (on a specially secured site) In the field of charities, the Net proves that it can be a beneficial social institution. Amy Pierce
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Only third, and many of the same complaints can be levelled at this as with Cadbury's attempt. Moderately chocolate, but still not enough. it's texture was firm and bubbly, but did not leave one feeling satisfied. Not worth even 99p.
Aero Mint Chocolate Mousse, Slp. l portions. Awful. Very minty, but I've had a better kick from smoking a Consulate, and I don't like Consulates. lt was airy and bubbly, so the Aero manufacturers, Nestle, have fulfilled those criteria of a chocolate mousse. Unfortunately they have failed to fulfil any of the other criteria. Lets hope that Aero build up enough air to take their packaged minty brown tarts somewhere else.
The dearest of our choices, yet only second. "With added Cream" it stated in bold letters on the label, so we dived in teaspoons at the ready, with some trepidation. Creamy it was too, almost too creamy. If I wanted a foamy Dairy Milk, this is what I would buy. But to call it a chocolate mousse is somewhat of a falsity. Light and fluffy , yet with too much of a hint of liquidity for my liking, it rated second best for its fullness in the palate.
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Mousse 99p. 6 portions. This particular mousse, surprisingly, came top in our tasting of five brands of chocolate mousse. The mousse texture was reasonably light and fluffy, though, as with all of the mousses it tasted manufactured and unnatural. The element which stood out in this mousse was its chocolatiness: it tasted of good quality chocolate, even if the ingredients suggested otherwise. Appearance was reasonable , the confusing aspect of the test being that even when one is apparently buying chocolate mousse one gets that extra bit of cream ·for .free, like unwanted sloppy seconds. However, taking into consideration price and comparing it to a proper chocolate mousse, this was the best.
Help me! For Gods sake, if you are going to eat a chocolate mousse then eat one, do not eat this. lt seemed to be struggling to imitate the flavour of chocolate, and failed miserably. lt may not have any nasty calories in it, but good old Sainsbury's have managed to replace enough nasty additives for every calorie they took away. As a chef, it makes me want to weep when I taste this. As if it's not bad enough having to wade through five pots of this bland slop, they also have the nerve to try and pass it off as chocolate mousse. Ed Moses
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Everyone talks about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Ragu and Dolmlo try to convince us that their products are the genuine article, the real McCoy.But what do the people of this sun-kissed region really eatt Fish and Seafood Meat, especially lamb and pork, is often eaten, but the advantage of living by the sea is an abundant supply of fresh seafood. Swordfish is often used to make kebabs, cod is salted for Portuguese bacalao bass and grey mullet are grilled and dressed with lemon juice and olive oil, whilst squid and cuttlefish are battered and fried for calamari. Fish roe is used to make the creamy taramasalata.
Fruit Lemon juice is used to dress salads, meats and seafood, quince cooked into a sweet jammy paste in Cyprus and Spain (where it is often eaten with cheese), whilst melon and figs are often served with Parma ham as a starter in Italy. Fresh, chilled watermelon is the perfect foil to the scorching heat. Grapes are eaten on their own, dried into raisins or used to make wine and vinegar.
Herbs and spices Oregano is used to garnish pizza, and basil to make pesto sauce in Italy. The Greeks often use dill, mint and oregano in dips, sauces and dressings, whilst spices, notably cinnamon, cumin and coriander seeds are used in the Middle East.
OUves and oUve oU Olives are eaten on the ir own and combined into salads, sauces and dips such as the French tapenade. Luxurious, aromatic olive oil is used throughout the region , particularly as a dressing and to give smoothness to dips and soups.
Rice and grains Rice is used for Spanish paella, Italian risottos and Turkish pilaffs. Chickpeas are pureed to make hoummous, a classic Middle Eastern dip, beans feature in Italian soups and the French cassoulet, and broad beans are stewed in Egypt to make ful medames.
Wheat products Bread is eaten at most meals, used to accompany meats and vegetables or soak up sauces, and also as a snack. What pasta is a staple in Italy but also features in dishes from Spain to Greece. Cracked wheat may take the form of couscous in France and North Africa or bulghur wheat in Turkey and Lebanon , where it is the main ingredient of the salad tabbouleh. Lucas Psltlakls
At the close of UEA 's lit erary festival, Tom Harberd gave Tom Stoppard the third degree ... What made you start writ in g? Well. aft er I had been on the paper a wh ile, like a lot of people of my age, I though t, we ll y' know, leave thiS behind . I tho ught 11 would be great if I could become a nove list, or a playwright or something. When I start ed doing it , plays we re exciting, there was a lot of tension, so a lot of people of my gene ration who earlier might have written novels we re writing plays. How did you feel about the f ilm '!daptation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead? I did it myself. because I had to make sure 11 was OK I was the only person qualified to wreak such havoc with 11.
Did you always want to be a writer ? In a sense I did , but when I left school I was really pleased to be a reporter. I liked the 1dea of working on a newspaper. Actually. I have to say. f hc.d a great t1me.
Who is your favourite writer? I don't have such a thmg. Th ere路s no league tab le, it's not such a tidy worl d.
Arcad1a, I JUSt thought that chaos mathematiCS was a very good metaphor for somethmg. Why did you c hoose to translate Chekov 's The Sea gum Peter Hall asked me to do it. He was domg a produc tion and directors like to have their own text. Do you think that Creative Writing can be taught? I definitely think it's something th at ca n be stimulated and enco uraged.
If you could have a conversation with absolutely anybody, who would it be? it's a bit late now, but Mohammed Ali wo uld definitely be one, along w1 th Bob Dylan. And 1t's defi nitely too late for lsiah Berlin .
Why did you deci de to talk at UEA? Chns B1gsby (organ1ser of the International Li terary Festival at UEA) has been asking me for ages. I've also got a son who lives near Norw1ch
Do you think that the current surge of interest in Wilde says anything about our society? Well. the whole th ing of ce nte naries and anniversanes tends to sl1ghtly distort people's bas1c scheme of thmgs. I th ink that Wilde is an au th entic hero. He was quite a brave man. Wh en yo u read abou t him, the thing that strikes you mos t IS th at he was actu ally a good man, with no mallgnity . He wasn' t very nice to h1s wi fe, but still he comes over as a good man. A won derful wri ter.
How do you view the futu re of the t heatre and can it continue to compete against ot her media? 11 seems to have got through penods where 11 had less chance than it has now When television
In Arcadia. you mix romanticism with science. Did yo u feel that it was important for art to tackle scientific ideas? 11 would be nice to say yes Tile truth IS, one is JUSt grateful for any idea for a play. In the case of he vis1t of Tom Stoppard bri ngs th is year's International Literary Festival to a fitting and somewhat intnguing conc lusion. Although much of the discussion is devoted to his latest play, The In vention of Love, which rece ntly opened at the National Theatre . Stoppard has much to revea l about the importance and nature of theatre. Despite his self-e ffacing style and tendency to accuse himself of garrulousness, it is clea r that in the 30 yea rs since Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stopp ard has developed deeply-held beliefs about his writing wh ich he is willing to share with a crowded Lecture Theatre 1. lt comes as a surprise to learn that a man whose plays demand such intellectual involvement left school at 17 and still regrets 111s lack of a umversity education . Whi le he doesn't set out to be demanding. his belief that a play is not the end product of ideas but that ideas should be the end product of a play seems to be the key to his intelligent style. Stoppard's love of the theatre seems to stem from the fact that 1t doesn't yield all its secrets, and that each performance is an unrepeatable experience. Desp1 te the ce rebral reputation of his work, he is very clear that all his plays are , in a sense, comedies. As he says w1th a wry smile, "Laughter IS the sound of comprehension - but not when a joke's being told'" Next time a Stoppard play comes to Norwich. it will be well wo rth putting your understanding to the test. James Wolfe
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hings not to do when you are a character in a horror novel a) never ente1 strange US towns in the middle of nowhere that have even slightly ominous-sounding names; b) do not p1ck up any hitch hikers with even slightly fo rebodi ng names: and c) if you do pick up a hitch hike r do not under any ci rcums tances sleep wi th them. St1ck to these three simple guidelines and your chances of survival pass the 50 percent mark with ease. Trucker Josh Spiller. the main character in Munel Gray's second novel Furnace. pulls into a secluded suburban enclave called , surpnsingly enough, Furnace. Then. after running over a small ch1ld in very bizarre Circumstances. he proceeds to p1ck up a waif-l1ke hitcher called Gnffin. Now, you wou ld have thought that the boy would have watched enough ep1sodes of the X-Files to have at some point seen a b1g neon s1gn flashing 'dodgy路. Apparently not though . By the t1me Josh real1ses he's not actually going men tal and that
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BOT STUFF Hitting the news racks in Norwich next week is Mustard, a spanking new magazine by UEA students and designed at Norwich Art College. Bacchus, last year's student magazine, is now good and buried. Rising from the ashes, Mustard promises to be 'witty, irreverent and fun to read', whilst still maintaining the ability to comment on more serious issues. The first issue's features include topics suc;;h as; the ins and outs of shagging your housemates, how easy it is to pull sixth formers in Norwich, and a competition to reveal the tweediest lecturer at UEA (front runners include a Dr Chad of MUS and a Prof. Sear1e of HIS) . Mustard comes out on December 8.
lnbt&nlely, althoc9' Sonle waa an utmost prot. . .onal throughout. her atlilude failed to rub off caat ~- Slnltta \¥88 not how we \1'81'1nembenKI her, and she sang little better than l""a'v enage. The awful blonde wig she wore did litUe to improve her lacklustre stage presence either. The other stars who were promised failed to materialise and we were left with enthuslaistic but very average understudies. All in all, the evening could never be described as anything better than mediocre. lt certainly had ita highlights, such as the grand finale from Dirty Dancing, but generally the bad outweighed the good. The show would certainly have been improved by a better selection of songs, instead of the endless monotonous ballads. Perhaps if Sinitta had sung So Macho the evening would have been more entertaining! Rsche/Johnson
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TEMPTRESS MOON Thu rs. Nov 27 at 2.30pm Wed, Nov 26 at 5.45pm Thurs . Nov 27 to Sat, Nov 29 at 8.15pm Chinese drama set on the eve of the 1911 revolution .
ABC LA CONFID ENTIAL Kevin Spacey leads a strong ensemble cast, in a film following corruption in th e LAPD in the early 1950s. MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett try to break up th e engagement of Roberts' best frie nd. Nasty people . Or are th ey? A LIFE LESS ORDINARY Ewan McG regor and Cameron Diaz fa ll in love over a good bout of karaoke. No, that's not a euphe mism, we mean ka raoke. NOTHING TO LOSE Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins star as yet another mismatched pair who are fo rced to go on the road together. G.l. JANE Demi Moore shaves off all her hair and gets pushed about a bit by some mi litary types. WILDE Stephen Fry stars as the late Victorian wit who's part al to a bit of Bosie.
ODEON FACE/OFF Nicholas Cage and John Travolta swap faces and go on the ra mpage around Los An geles. As you do. HERCULES Yet another legend gets the Disney treatment as the myth of Hercules is made unrecognisable. TH E FULL MONTY Robert Carlyle heads a bunch of unemployed steelworkers who decide to strip fo r a living . Don't be shy lads , get yer kit off.
THE FIFTH ELEMENT Friday , Nov 28 at 11pm Bruce Willis and Milia Jovovich set about saving the universe with the help of a large blue woman.
SCR EAM Thursday, November 27 Horro r flick that acknowledges all the clich es of the genre before presenting them to you for the zillionth time.
TH E MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Sat, Nov 29 at 2.30pm and Sun , Nov 30 at 5pm Yul Brynner, Steve McOueen and Charles Bronson lead a gang of hired gunfighters.
THE CHAMBER Friday, November 28 Yet another adaptation of a John Grisham nove l. Surprisingly, it prominently features a lawyer.
WILDE Tu e, Dec 2 and Sun, Dec 7 at 2.30pm Mon. Dec 1 to Wed, Dec 3 at 5.45pm Thurs . Dec 4 and Sat, Dec 6 at 8. 15pm Stephen Fry stars as the poet who experienced a rath er bad fall from grace.
THE EXORCIST Monday, December 1 70s horror with a young girl becoming possessed by th e Devil and projectil e vomitin g a lot. Pleasant.
GROSSE POINTE BLANK Thurs . Dec 4 at 2.30pm Thurs . Dec 4 to Sat, Dec 6 at 5.45pm . Mon. Dec 1 to Wed, Dec 3 at 8. 15pm. John Cusack plays an assassin in great need of therapy. LAST TANGO IN PARIS Sunday, Dec 7 at 7.30pm and Fri . Dec 5 at 11pm. Marlon Brando gets out the butter for a slightly pervy contintental effort. RIDICULE Sun, Dec 7 at 5pm Idle ari stocrats spend th eir ti me insulting each other. MRS BROWN Tues. Dec 9 at 2.30pm Mon . Dec 8 to Tu es. Dec 9 at 5.45pm Judi Dench and Billy Con nolly wa lk around lots of cold ca stles and don't jump into bed with each other.
UNION FILMS INDIANA JONES TRIPLE BILL Wednesday, November 26 All th ree Harrison Ford/Steven Spielberg films in a completely free showing from Nightline .
FARGO Tuesday, December 2 A Coen brothers dark comedy in which dire financial straits drive a man to getti ng his wife kidnapped. ONE FI NE DAY Thursday, December 4 George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer don't get on but then they do and everything's alright in the end. THE LOST WORLD Friday, December 5 Jurassic Park was a good laugh, so Steven Spielberg has basically remade it into this blockbuster from last summer. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Tuesday, December 9 Tim Burton brings us a tale of Christians under threat from the fo rces of evil. THE DEVIL'S OWN Thursday, December 11 Brad Pitt plays a terrorist in the Oiri sh Republ ican Army who gets involved with Harrison Ford's very nice family. MEN IN BLACK Friday, December 12 Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith protect the
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NORWICH PLAYHOUSE THE TEMPEST Thurs. Nov 27- Sat, Nov 29 at7.30pm Th e Playhouse re-opens specially fo r the latest production from the UEA Drama Society, The Tempest. And thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can watch it on Saturday night on the Intern et. The address is www.nirvanet.net. £5
UEA STUDIO THREE SISTERS & ALL FRIENDS TOGETHER Thurs. Dec 4 - Sun, Dec 7 UEA Drama students new production includes two Chekhov pi eces with a modern tw ist. £6/£3.50
THE CHAPLAINCY UEA CHAPLAINCY CAROL SERVICE Thursday, December 4, 5.15pm With the Rev. Rosemary Wake/in FREE
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CLUB RETRO Saturday, November 29 £3 adv. RETRO SPECIAL Monday, December 8 ABBA tribute band Bjom Again are back! £5 adv. stud./ £10 adv.
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HELL FOR LEATHER Wednesdays Goth, indie, metal, and alternative. 1Opm-2am £1 stud. before 11 / £ 2 after
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MORE MEDICINE Mondays The Student Social. 1Opm-2am £1 stud. before 11 / £2 after
BLACK GRAPE Monday, December 1 it's gonna be a happy Monday! SOLD OUT
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ESTEEM Tuesdays Gay night. 9pm-2am £2
JUICE Saturdays Uplifting house & garage. 10pm-3am Girls £2.50 before 11/ £5 after Lads £3.50 before 11 / £5 after
PLEASURE Thursdays FREE with flyers before 11/ £2 after DECADENCE Fridays Over 20s KLASS Saturdays Over 20s
ZOO PURE SWING Wednesdays Uplifting swing for the people of Norwich. 9pm-2am FREE GORGEOUS Fridays Happy House club night. 9pm-4am £5
SIGN 0 ' THE TIMES Friday, December 5 & 12 80's nostalgia club. £4/ £3.50/ £3
KON SUPER PUB Wednesdays A regular club night, with live bands and pub prices. 8pm-midnight FREE
sunday 30th november 6pm & 9pm tickets: £3.00 - £10.00
THE EVENT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1997
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DREADZONE THE HEN +SUPPORT
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NO~ Sat 29th
MB11
2o.oo£8.00adv
£3adv
club RETRO featuring 70s disco set
O:'GM ll
Sat 13th
£9adv
MISS MONEYPENNY'S
/JC M 11 Mon 1st
BLACK GRAPE
sold out £2adv
Tue 2nd ~pm
2 .30 £3!UEAJd
STEREOPHONIC$
MERENGADA Iatin band 9pm·12
Wed 3rd
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
£8.50adv
SPARKS Fri 5th
LIGHTNING SEEDS Mon 8th
RETRO XMAS with BJORN AGAIN
sold out
22.00-06.00 £12/£1 Od SUB price £5
Wed 10th
£12.50adv
Sun 14th
£8adv
the SAWDOCTORS MACHINEHEAD + Entombed
JTue 20thUA
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£7 .50adv
NME MILLER BRAT TOUR feat STEREOPHONICS + 3 GUEST ACTS
Sat 7th
£1 Oadv
UFO with Michael Schenker, Phil Mogg, Paul Raymond, Pete Way, Simon Wright
M RCH' ·
SUN 7th
£10adv
BLUTONES Tickets from Union Finance Office, weekdays, 11am·3.30pm. Prices quoted are student advance prices
NEW YEARS EVE