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a loa Sweet puddings, shops full of stuff you don't want, or a top new band? Darcy Hurlord makes her choice ... h yes, junket. My Nan used to make that, long. long ago. The recipe IS simple: get some milk, add rennet to , and allow it to set. Once that's grate some nutmeg over the top and serve w1th a dollop of your best West Country clotted cream. Voila! A somewhat flavourless yet calcium rich pudding!

But before this turns into Cookery Corner, the word 'junket' has other meanings too.

More hedonistic ones, in fact, as according to The Junket, it also means 'a night on the town'.

The Junket themselves are a Kettering·based trio who found each other after many other failed bands.

They consist of Stave on bass.

Reuben on drums, and R1ck on guitars/vocals.

Even before the interview starts, they have gained bonus points, for Rick is wearing blue eyeshadow, and as we all know, eye makeup is cool.

Cool in appearance, but what about their listemng habits? Brace yourselves for disappointment here. "Our favourite bands are all the ones people hate!", Steve pronounces with a certa1n warped pride.

The Event coughs sympathetically and requests further enlightenment. The resulting list of long gone mdie luminaries IS as bewildering as it is impressiVe. Jacob's Mouse, anyone?

There's nothing obscure about their mus1c. however. The Junket are punk w1th tunes, and live they exude a brittle energy not often encountered these days. Unlike many bands,

they don't want to be perceived as 'the next big thing'. Wisely enough, they'd rather just creep up on you unawares. Says Rick.

'We always liked the 1dea of starting with a mini-album, and sort of building up gradually, rather than releasing a major debut album and then somehow having to follow that up.•

After only 18 months together, this approach seems to be paying off.

Having done a few showcase gigs in London and received interest from several labels, they signed to Deceptive, also known as the home of Elastica and Scarfo. At the moment they are a few dates into a three month tour to promote Stamina. their aptly titled new record. Much as they enjoy touring. it does have its trials, ma1nly when it comes to transport. "Our van keeps breaking down!" they whinge.

Touch1ngly enough , despite having their own technical troubles to contend w1th The Junket still

spare a thought for those more downtrodden members of soc1ety, who, unlike themselves, do not have the chance to use their talents to the full · 'Those blokes in Steps don't sing anything at all! If you listen to their album there's not a male vo1ce on it! They just do their, er, steps'' Profound utterances or nonsense? Whichever 1s true, life for The Junket is looking sweet ..

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Since the mid sixties Nail Young has produced a staggering number of albums covering several different genres including rock, folk and electronic music. Cited as an influence by the likes of Sonic Youth and Bernard Butler, he has also been hailed as 'The Godfather of Grunge' by a new generation of fans.

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Neil's first major success was with the band Buffalo Springfield.

He then joined supergroup Crosby, Stills, and Nash before starting out on a solo career.

He was backed on many of his greatest albums by Crazy Horse, the self-styled 'best garage rock band in the world'. Despite various excursions with other groups such as Pearl Jam, he has always returned to the 'Horse.

Sold a Few Records Then?

During his long career, Neil has released more than forty albums which have met with varying degrees of success.

Some have won awards; yet at one point his record company tried to sue him for producing 'non- commercial' music, and there are rumours of at least twenty unreleased albums.

airbrushed out of one of his nostrils!

So, what does the future hold?

No-one has ever been able to predict the path of Neil's eclectic and eccentric career.

Although over 50, he keeps on rocking with the best of them, and will probably continue to do so for a long, long, time.

In retrospect ... lt's better to burn out than to fade away...

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Harvest (1972) is generally considered to be the best album, but there are many other brilliant ones to choose from .

Ragged Glory and Weld in particular demonstrate his classic use of screaming feedback and epic guitar work-outs.

Did we mention powdered snot?

Despite writing anti-drugs lyrics such as The Needle and The Damage Done Nail has not always been a clean liver. His performance in the Martin Scorcese film The Last Waltz was only

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With the UNIU..E project and the demise of his record label Mowax )ames Lavelle has had a hectic year. Luke Turner speaks to the man himself verybody , in some way or another, has the desire to be recognised by society for their achievements. We all want to leave our mark on the world , to be respected for something we've done, be it in the world of business, artistic creation, or just by making life better for other people. And some of us may well achieve this end. to join the ranks of those who have left their marks on the history of art, music , literature. science or whatever their personal forte.

These 'recognised' people are often innovators; they have managed to do something that has made us sit up, pay attention and think, yes, this is different from the norm. Boundaries have been extended, the genre has been moved on.

A year ago this kind of high praise was being lavished on DJ , remixer and producer James Lavelle, founder of the pioneering Mowax record label that released albums by the likes of Money Mark.

Lavelle was being described by all and sundry as the saviour of modern music, with his co llaborative album Psyence Fiction that seemed to cross the genres, including hip-hop , indie; it even features a well put together string section.

However, James Lavelle himself doesn't feel that this praise has lasted: "I feel very confused , because when it was initially released it got very good reviews , but now people seem to have some sort of grudge against it. Everybody said that we had the album of the year, but when it came down to it we weren't even in the top twenty."

The reason for this miscarriage of justice is a mystery known only to the music industry and national press , though Lavelle himself feels that "People don't like the fact that I made the record ."

Part of the reason could be th at DJ Shadow, (the US DJ held in great esteem by nearly all who have come across his work) quickly removed himself fi from the promotional aspects of the release , and indeed did not accompany Lavelle on the NME tour which visited UEA in January.

Some interpreted this as being a rift within th e UNKLE camp, and doubted Lavelle's ability to perform the record live without the assistance of the Shadow's turntable mastery.

Lavelle feels that these suggestions are totally misplaced , as he has always been the man in control of the project as a whole: "Shadow's involvement was only going to be for one record. " This in no way detracts from the latter's influence on Psyence Fiction as a whole. The whole thing was very much a co llaborative effort , as Lavelle explains: "The way it was made is that we went to the studio and threw a load of samples in and Shadow

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started constructing the beats . You 'd throw in different ideas , and different techniques on the record would be championed by one or the other of us."

The various vocalists were incorporated in "a kind of filmic context. it was as though I was working with everybody else , trying to put a cast together. it was like Mike D was the big Hollywood star, Richard Ashcroft was the b-movie actor like Harvey Keitel. " Thorn Yorke was another collaborator, appearing on the recent single Rabit in the Headlights. lan 'King Monkey' was also asked to be on the record. As Lavelle explains: 'I had this thing with lan because I was really into the Stone Roses and the whole Reading thing [the horrific final gig] broke my heart and I wanted to bring him back, like a whole Pulp Fiction and John Travolta thing. When everyone thought he was f.. ked I'd bring him back.'

However, Brown was recording his own solo album . so his contribution to the Lavelle fo ld was only released last week, though he did make his first stage appearance since re lease from prison by singing live at the final NME show in London.

As for the NME events, Lavelle explains that there was no question of Shadow or all the sundry vocalists accompanying him: 'We didn't expect the vocalist to come, and I think that goes for any dance band. AsforShadow, he doesn't like touring , and he really burnt himself out he was too tired for thi s tour.'

In any case, DJing with Lavelle on the tour were the Scratch Perverts, longtime friends and a duo well known for their scratching expertise in many major British clubs.

He believes that their presence on the tour has greatly helped the UNKLE live sound: 'I wanted to see if we could get a gritty, slightly cl ubbier experience in the live shows, and I think that we have - you lose so much of that on the record.'

In many ways it seems that Lavelle has found the NME tour an ideal environment to help reassert himself and re lax following a year which saw the new prospect of more mainstream public exposure, and more painfully, the demise of Lavelle's own Mowax label. His increased presence in the press and public eye led many to assume that UNKLE had taken over, that Lavelle abandoned Mowax and its dependent artists.

Understandably he finds these accusations deeply offensive: 'I had the whole label collapse around me , and people want to accuse me of neglecting the other artists but

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they can f**k right off because they have no idea of what I've been through in the past year.' He describes how he was having to try to promote Pysence Fiction and keep track of the other artists whi le "people were being fired around me, and it really annoys me when the British music press go on about a problem within the Mowax label. There is a problem: Polygram totally destroyed it. it had nothing to do with my responsibilities.'

This predatory behaviour by major labels such as Polygram has led James to revise his opinion of the music industry, and especially the present situation of major label dominance. 'They're like betting offices at the moment, all into footballers and racing drivers, ignoring the alternative sports. The major co mpanies can 't be bothered, they just want to find acts where the records are going to sell a couple of hundred thousand copies within two or three weeks ,' However, he believes that while this has caused deep short term damage, not least to himself, the end result will be beneficial to less mainstream artists: 'The major labels will become a lot more pop orientated because that's what they like, but in the next few years there 's going to be a good reaction against pop and the demand for alternative music is going to go back up. I think that people will sign to independent labels because they might not get as much money, but

it difficult to cope with the spotlight that was increasingly being turned upon the record label problems and his relationship with his collaborators. 'I'm only human. No-one really knows what it's like to open the pages of a magazine and be called an arsehole. Whatever people think about me, I am a sensitive person. I don't wake up the morning and think 'business business business'. They don't know what th e f.. k I'm like. Everyone just has a perception of a very small part of your life.'

But now James feels that he can put the past behind him and begin on new projects. The UNKLE 'idea' will probably release no more records.

Instead he intends to 'hibernate' for a while, to take stock and recuperate from the strange year that was 1998.

While James Lavelle has undoubtedly earned his place in the list of great musical innovators, the respect of his fans has been won at a price.

After UNKLE's set two members of the audience tell Lavelle how stun ning they thought UNKLE had been . How does this direct praise. from the people who really mean it, feel? "it's what keeps me going ," is the simple, but sincerely spoken, reply.

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they'll have a lot more freedom to do what they want.'

With this in mind Lavelle is attempting to restart the Mowax label so that he can give similarly minded non-mainstream artists a chance to achieve success .

As well as the end of Mowax Lavelle found

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~event5 To get romantic you need to find those songs that sweeOy sum up the luurve sensation. Jllex McGregor lends a helping hand ave you ever been in love with somebody who didn't return that love? lt couldn't stop you from loving them, from understanding them and forgiving them. So you brood and you pine, trying to keep your dignity as you sit upon the floor listening to sad songs.

Then some bright spark hits on the idea of sending your loved one a tune, for no other reason than at least then she'll know how you feel.

So you poll your friends to find the right song and they all reply with the same tired old gubbins: "Send her Sexual Healing', or "send her some opera".

Now I don't know about you, but it vexes me somewhat when people in this situation always say what they think they should, and not what they actually want to - this way they sound "cool".

Brown Eyed Girl may be the words they form but what they actually believe, what we all believe around the world, is that the only song to send your loved one is The Time Of My Life from Dirty Dancing. The imagery it inspires is universal.

What man in love does not long to be Patrick "Jenny Cassia" Swayze?

With dialogue such as "nobody puts baby in the corner", it's worthy of Shakespeare, and that bit at the end where Jonny leaps off the stage in slow motion even has the boys screaming as tears of joy cascade down their hitherto rigid faces. "Jump Jonny, jump! Leap for your life!" ' While listening to that song what lady wouldn't melt into a moist little ball?

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As for the realms of classical music, there's Beethoven. He proved that romantic music could heal rifts sometimes oceans in length.

Ludwig, you see, spent most of his life making his beloved's a misery, and all because of a misunderstanding.

She had tried to explain the reality, but Ludwig wouldn't listen - because of his anger that is, not his deafness. After Ludwig's death his bestest buddy, a man named Schindler, asked the composer's sweetheart whether she could ever forgive him. She replied: "How can you not forgive someone who wrote the Ode to Joy?" Would that work for us

possibly be doing the deed to. The Avengers Theme, for example. Yet this is deceptive, as the today, in the twentieth century, when we have argued with our lover?

They will turn to you once you have asked for forgiveness and say "how can you not forgive someone who has heard the Ode to Joy?" Romantic music has other applications, too. lt is essential to instil mood when we make sweet love, and there are many decisions a connoissoir of the romantic arts can make. For example, there is Nobody Does lt Better by Car1y Simon, or Getting Jiggy With lt by Will Smith.

But there is, of course, only one crown prince, and that is the floppy-fringed snuggle-bunny Bernard Butler. A man whose music is so unashamedly romantic that each song is like a loved-up version of Angels (a fine romantic tune in itself, if you like pies and the LCR). it's a wonder he can make it through a single verse

version for the film is an eleven-minute funked up orchestral jam. That's a full eleven minutes of kinky-boot lovin' sister.

Of course you can go too far. The theme from University Challenge will just frighten your loved one, and that's bad. Unless, of course, you like that kind of thing.

Other applications for music of the romantic ilk 1nclude one for the more devious and frisky among us. Saturate your loved one with music by attractive people so this way she will think you're attractive by association. There are, of course, drawbacks; you must know which people to use, as for every Huey there is a Jarvis Cocker.

Now I don't care what anyone says, he is a repugnant slime queen and if he wasn't famous and you saw him walking in the

lt's a wonder he c:aa make it through a single verse without barstiDg in to tears without bursting into tears and mumbling "hug me".

However, anyone who has ever stayed in Waveney Terrace will tell you that you're usually playing music to disguise the fact that you're making sweet love. The walls are so thin that you are constantly wondering if your neighbours can hear you whisper, "Down you go" into your partner's ear.

In this situation one must play tunes that you couldn't

street you would point him out to your mates so that they could join you in mocking him.

Along the same lines lovers may use Celine Dion's love theme from Titanic. However, from a guy's perspective Leonardo diCaprio is about as sexy as Brussel sprouts. I swear that if you planted diCaprio in the ground with some

favourable topsoil in ten weeks you'd have sprouts.

And don't even think of using Bryan Adams' Everything I Do, my friends, because this is just asking for trouble. Who among us would like to be thought of as Kevin "piece of lounge furniture" Costner. No wonder the Sheriff's men couldn't find Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest.

Kevin just blended into the trees.

Further to that it doesn't matter how much we all may love the song 500 Miles it's a sure bet that nobody fancies The Proclaimers. Could you imagine being in the Proclaimers and being considered the ugly one? The humiliation.

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f course, not everybody will be busy on Valentine's Day. So with that in mind here are three melodies which may help keep you from the pits of despair. Firstly, Ultravox with Vienna, a truly sensational eighties synth-rock power ballad featuring Midge "this means nothing to me" Ure. Secondly, there's Nirvana's Moist Vagina- for the Norfolk metal contingent. And finally, those kings of 1-wish-1-hadn't-got-upness, The Smiths. You can take your pick of songs but perhaps the best in melancholy is How Soon Is Now? We are indeed all human, and yes Moz, we do need to be loved.

Whatever music you choose for this Valentines day, make sure it's something you love. Play it from your heart and maybe, just maybe, someone will love you for it.

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A 'less indie-fied' second album from Choque Hosein and his band , the record sleeve showing them driving round Leeds in a leopardskin Mercedes.

You 'll probably hear their single Superfly and Blind all over the place, as they've even reached the dizzy heights of Mark and Lard's record-of-theweek , whatever that means. it's a bit like Lentil soup - you 're not exactly sure what's in it, what it's all about, or whether you really like it.

But you know some people do, somewhere.

And you won't get bored after your first mouthful.

Like a mellow Asian Dub Foundation or a more thoughtful Cornershop, Black Star Liner take Influences from a plethora of ethnic and musical origins , mix them up , add a bit of tongue-in-cheek politics and leave you something to stick in your CD player. They could be just another band on the ·crosscultural ' music wagon .

But the music is good , w d I've never really cared for labels anyway.

Lee Garner

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Hip hop should never be th1s mept : two small t1me British chumps churning out cheesey beats on a clapped out Yamaha keyboard while fourth-rate r'n'b nonentities whine incessantly in the foreground , like homes1ck monkeys lost at sea.

Some clown has deemed it necessary to slap a Parental Advisory label on the front , but with songs t1t1es like Baby This Love I Have, I'm sure you can see that this album will shock only those who are frightened of potato salad .

For all their supposed 'underground' populanty and influence. Desert Eagle Discs have created a soulless vacuum of repetitive twaddle that gets closer to dogfood than it does to cutting edge sound .

Indeed . this is an album so bland that I can guarantee it will be played in every cheap clothes

Contaminated With Bass Waterfront, Januar y 26 Tuesday night. The bright lights and commercial sounds which spill from Ikon and Liquid filter through the streets.

But tonight we 're somewhere darker. Somewhere more sinister, where brutal gangsta rap fights for supremacy with the drum & bass that batters the ears. No one is safe.

This is ... the Waterfront.

Old Skool society lure you upstairs, where they mercilessly 'contaminate with bass'.

OK, OK, so Norwich isn't renowned for its scratch hip-hop, trip-hop, or break beats , but tonight one of UEA's newest societies continue their quest to turn the popular music venue into an underworld of brutal sounds.

Their last club night, on a Wednesday, attracted more than 150 people, but tonight the turn out is disappointing (they seem to have lost about 120 people). However, the Head Honcho slipped me some cash to be generous, so we 'll say 35 . Or

maybe there was a brilliant turn out. they were JUSt well hidden .

But hey, what do numbers matter anyway? (They contribute to atmosphere perhaps?)

Regard less , Old Skool Society have managed to drag out some damn good DJs such as ED Rush and Adam F. They mix sounds such as KRS One and the more popular Beastie Boys, engaging in some 'mean scratchi n' and displaying some top calibre hip-hop.

With NWA, Public Enemy and Ice T emerging from the darkness to inflict some 'brutal pain on the eardrum, mutha f'*ka' (or something).

'Contaminated With Bass' seems to have all the ingredients to make an impact on the Waterfront.

But the fact that there are never more than six people on the dancefloor puts a dampner on things, even if these few have enough presence to fill the floor.

With music which kicks more ass than Jackie Chan on speed , all Old Skool need are more punters to create one hell of a night. But it seems that the prospect of cheaper drinks at other clubs on a Tuesday night is a more appealing prospect for many students.

Lee McNico/1

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All in all , about as 'phat' as my arse and twice as Thorn Dunn hairy .

Blueroom Released More Signs Of Life Remember Tricky Disco? Well, the creator of the first track on this techno compilation certainly does - there's beeps and beats all over the shop, and all in the best possible taste .

Unfortunately the rest of the album doesn 't continue in the same vein . flitting from dub to ambient to techno, and crippled by compilation disease - more duff tracks than good ones.

Th at's not to say the album is terrible. Th ere are some fantastic tracks , like Drone by Subtonal. remniscent of Aphex Twin 's more melodic moments of madness . or Piece by X-Dream. where breakbeats and amb1ent floaty synths meet 1n styl e.

But much of this album is totally forgettable , and more boring than bangin ' -nice as background music. but not that great to listen to.

There's some nice crop-wcle inspired art on the sleeve though ...

More Signs of Life? If only 1t was intelligent life ..

Stephen Quirke

The Kynd Shakedown A gu1tar driven pop f1ve-piece consisting of two brothers and a nasal vocalist. What an original concept. If there 's one thing this country's music scene has been crying out for this past few years, it's bands like The Kynd. No , really ..

The problem with this band is not that it's all been done before, but that it's all been done much better before, and there's little to distinguish them from every other indie wannabie support band. it's difficult to imagine how they'll make the impact that the more successful exploiters of this musical formula have done. However, on a positive note, Shakedown shows that The Kynd have material that is bound to get the fi rst few rows of a Robbie Williams gig mashing away happily enough (not that that's much of a compliment).

Pl us if yo u buy the CD you get a cool Phi/ Stephan. ballbearing game for free!

Fungus Oh, good old punk.

Singers who want to be Billie Joe out of Green Day, one and a half minute 8 -sides, and in this case an attempt at an 'interesting' piece of lead guitar which spectacu larly fails.

Don't buy it.

Unless you are a collector of GO's by entirely mediocre punk bands.

Which is unlikely.

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ldlewild When I Argue I See Shapes An American college radio band?

The pop cousins The Offspring never knew they had? Or just a Scottish Symposium?

Whichever label you wish to attach to th is band, the fact remains that When I Argue... is an excellent pop/ punk song, and contains more of singer Roddy Woomble's oddball lyrics.

Great stuff.

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This single has the usual swirley guitars and 70s organ sounds wh ich come thrashing in after a mess of sampled voices tell us that the end of the world is nigh.

The tune is rather compelling, and despite its rather eccentric lyrics and, er. .. shall we say 'interesting' title, Disco Machine Gun is sure to be a hit.

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There lt Is MIIJ)ONNA RaV of Light WILL SMITH Big Willie Style

Crank th is up and it's like a big cheesy grin beaming out at you, bubbling over with dopey whacked-out beats and an infectious bassline.

555 is deliciously funky , and with its Primalsesque breed of jazz fusion has more than a little soul, without losing any of its freshness. Like a A/ex Pol/ock fizzy sweety.

Gene As Good As lt Gets 'I could have been a contender' thinks Martin Rossiter as he assesses the current music scene. Instead he's peddling this, the latest offering from Gene. it's not a bad song really - it begins promisingly and has a pleasant enough tune with some nice pianoey bits, but it's simply uninspired indie fodder that pro more.

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Probably the most talked about TV k1ss of all t1me the tonsil hockey between James T Ku1< and Lt Uhura of the Starship Enterpnse made television history as the first ever Interracial screen snog Possibly the most interest1ng th1ng about Star Trek.

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1rector Griff1n Dunne's omiSSIOn of certain vital Ingredients unfortunately leaves thi s cinemati C pot1on far from workmg its spell. The film concerns the lives. loves and trou bles of two sisters (K1dman and Bullock) who born into a long line of witches possess the powers of sorcery but are den1ed the happ1ness of a lastmg love Add to t111s an anc1ent family curse. two com1c aged aunts. a handsome detect1ve, commun1ty un1ty and two cute k1ds and you have . the perfect rec1pe for a quality romantiC comedy or cheesy ch1ck flick? Sadly no.

Not only is Kidman unconv1nc1ng as the rebel wild-child bu t Bullock's sorrow persecution and quest for normality s1m1larly lack depth and believab ility Th e tale also becomes disconcertingly confused as 1t tries to mcorporate a touch of road mov1e travelling , a smattering of thriller tens1on , hints of horror film demonic possess1ons and a handful of'g1rl power'. Such fragmentation of narrallve, charactensat1on and style make for uncomfortable v1ewmg. Even the quality cast including D1ane W1est and Stockard Channing , who do provide endeanng portrayals of two 'good witch ' sisters - can not save Practical Magic from being a disappointment. Th e final product is a movie which, despite its pretty houses, momen ts of humour (brief though they are) and Bullock's cutesy cardigan collecllon , held my attention for all the wro ng reasons and JUSt left me wondenng , "Why is it so bad?"

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8. Make the two friends get together before the hero and heroine do.

Inevitably the two budd ies usually have more in common than the hero and heroine do, and so make the perfect couple. They usually manage to get together with far less fuss than the main pairing, and always seem to spend less on the1r wedding and have less tasteful flower arrangements. Sometimes you 're left wondenng why the film makers didn't make the story about them in the first place. But then you realise that Ryan and eo-star aren't halfway interesting enough to be supporting cast.

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lentine's day is upon us again, and he cinemas are waiting expectantly or all those love starved girlies to ead on down to their nearest mulitplex to lose themselves in the lives and loves of their favourite stars. Yet if romantic flicks are only for chicks, why is it that Hollywood churns them out so often and with such big name stars? This month alone sees A-listers like Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) , Brad Pitt (Meet Joe Black) and Jennifer Aniston (The Object of My Affection) mooning about on the big screen chasing after various potential life partners. Well , one of the reasons we see them so often is that they are so goddamn easy to make. In fact , there seem to be 10 fail-safe rules for making a romantic film and ensuring that you set the hearts of all the nation's girls a flutter. And, you guessed it, for the benefit of all the would be film makers out there, here they are:

1. Get Meg Ryan to star.

Like anything that rhymes is poetry, anything that has Meg Ryan in it is a love story. Or so it seems.

The coy, kooky one has starred in a seemingly endless string of films of the soppy variety and teams up with her Sleepless in Seattle eo-star Tom Hanks again for February's You Got Mail, where the two strike up a romance over the interne!. Even romantic films that don't have Ryan in have female stars pretending to be her. She succeeds because she's pretty and cute without being sexy (sexy girls and romance don't go together). She's also blonde and therefore she's dizzy and kinda odd, giving hope to all those incredibly ordinary girls who describe themselves as 'a bit weird'. Yes, they could get a boyfriend

too.

Oh, and make sure you give her a job in publishing or journalism for the sensitive , but intelligent and independent part.

2 . Get a emotionally retarded/promiscuous boyfriend/husband.

The main obstacle in the path of the hero usually works in finance , wears bad jackets and can 't keep his hands to himself. The boyfriends in The Wedding Singer, French Kiss and Two Girls and a Guy all have problems being monogamous and so don't deserve the wondrous Ryanesque character who wou ldn't dream of cheating on her boyfriend.

At least not without telling him first, as in Sleepless in Seattle where she leaves fiance Bill Pullman for a Tom Hanks she hasn't even met.

Now that's gotta be bad for your confidence.

3. Get a weedy musician/architect love interest, preferably with bad hair.

To get the girls all you need to do is get a job in an architectural firm . Even a menial position will do, a la Sieve Martin in House Sitter. A musician (a guitar player or singer, obviously - never a drummer or ukulele player) is alright as well , as he can serenade the star. See So I Married an Axe Murderer and The Wedding Singer.

Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Kevin Kline and Adam Sandler all desperately need a trip to a good hairdressers, but perhaps their odd mop heads make them more appealing . Somehow. Possibly.

4. Have a run in with the law.

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If you want to take this rule to an extreme you can make one of the characters a criminal, as in French Kiss and House Sitter (Kevin Kline and Goldie Hawn respectively play con artists) or Out of Sight which sees George Clooney as a bank robber - he was probably an

architect in a former life . Otherwise just have a minor arrestable offence like murder (see this month's Practical Magic) or illegal aliens, like Gerard Oepardieu in Green Card, who got to marry Andie McDowell just for the sake of his visa.

Now there's a new tactic.

5. Give one of the characters a tragic past.

In addition to the architect part, the star can become more attractive if he has a dark and tragic past. A dead wife (Sleepless in Seatt/e) , an unpleasant childhood (French Kiss) or, at a pinch, something dodgy and political (Casablanca) wil l all make him irresistible to the women. lt proves , you see, in case the haircut wasn 't evidence enough , that he is truly sensitive and loving , which means he is ultimately fated to be eternally happy. Ain't the movies great?

Of course, to be really deserving the hero could have a tragedy du ring the fi lm, like Four Weddings and a Funeral, where the funeral provides a handy opportunity for Hugh Grant to show his feminine side. And for Andie MacDowell to stop smiling ,

6 . Give the hero a chauvinist friend who wears bad clothes and eats a lot.

The hero's best friend usually does nothing but talk about women and give advice which obviously doesn't work as he is still single and extremely sad. They should offer dispensable gems like, "Women look for a good butt" (Rob Reiner in Sleepless in Seattle) and, "All I really want is someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alrighf (Alien Covert in The Wedding Singer) . Usually a comedy outlet, so if nothing funny happens the scriptwriter can just take the piss out of the best friend . Put them in a silly hat or a horrible jacket, with a bag of crisps and you have a winning combination . Moustaches and beards both make for a good laugh as well.

7. Give the heroine a friend who sleeps around.

Done to good effect in When Harry Met Sally and The Wedding Singer (to name but a few) , the girlie buddy is there to act as a bad example. She wears short skirts , ,dates married men and talks about 'the clock ticking' a lot.

However, our heavenly star wouldn't dream of doing anything so evil as sleeping with a guy on first date!

But for the smut content she has to hear about it

9 . Play Louis .llrmstrong and Harry Connick Jr. songs all the way through.

With a nickname like satchel mouth and a directory of slushy songs to his name, Louis Armstrong is an essential ingredient for the truly romantic flick. No matter how bad the film , the songs are always classy , and sometimes enough to make you forget the inertia of the rest of what's on the screen. Harry Connick Jr has earned a name for himself by pretty much singing the same songs, but with more orchestra. it Had to be You has to be playing at some stage to prove the point of the film to your audience in case they're losing the thread.

10. Stick in an overbearing parent.

This is so important they even made a whole film about it! Father of the Bride had Sieve Martin as the eponymous grumpy old git who endears himself to the audience by hating his daughter's boyfriend. Easy enough really. The misguided parent features in So I Married an Axe Murderer (where they go the who le way and have both parents misbehaving) , and disapproving parents pop up in everything from Whi!e You Were Sleeping to Romeo & Juliet. Well , I guess it wouldn 't be a plot if our heroes didn't have some obstacle to overcome, just a lot of pointless dialogue and meaningless snags. Hang on a sec, that rings a bell. .....

Words from the pen of Rebecca Barrett

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shooting up st ars With weD docwneated tragedies as weD as excesses BoDywood's drug culture is always attractiag atteatioa. Jldam Claapman takes a look at a few films stars who've beea caught up with the tide of addictioa t's one of the oldest stories in the business. egocentricity. While this might be a necessary Young star, blown away by the glamour, attribute for an actor, it is sometimes pushed to attention and inflated ego of Hollywood ludicrous extremes. Film companies hire staff falls prey to the dangers of drugs and whose sole purpose is to pander to every whim alcohol. In fact, since Marilyn Monroe and vanity of the star in an effort to make them as overdosed on a mixture of alcohol and happy as possible while the producers are making money out of them. All this is combined with barbiturates in 1962 it has been a matter of course for each new generation of film stars to have massive media interest. Newspapers, magazines enough alcoholics and drug addicts to fill a small and entertainment programs are continually thirsty hospital. This problem has been highlighted in for a •scoop" on the latest Hollywood idol in order recent cases involving well-known stars; Christian to grab viewers or readers and the image which Slater, Aobert Downey Jr. and, more tragically, enters public conciousness is often far from the Saturday Night Live impresario Chris Farley, who truth. Hype sells, and it is often hard, when faced died early last year from an overdose. with such adoration, to distinguish the line This is, of course, nothing new, and could, in itself, between truth and fiction. be part of the problem. Cut-throat Island star lt is perhaps even harder to deal with the almost Matthew Modine recently drew attention to this inevitable rejection that is part and parcel of the point. "There's a long history of drugs in whole Hollywood spectacle. Faced with box-office Hollywood," he said, "We learned about it from the ·oblivion and another media darling on the scene people we looked up to, from our mentors, our many stars turn to drugs as a short-term solution parents. And it's more prevalent than I think to their problems. Aobert Downey Jr. reached the high point of his career at 26 when he was anyone realises. • The difference between today's stars and nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the lead rote yesterday's does not, in 1992's Chapfin. He however, seem commented at the time that to be the stars everything else that followed themselves. that moment would pale in Drugs are now comparison. Never a more easily truer word was available and, in spoken. His the quest for a follow-up films greater thrill, they have were poorly increased in potency, received and his making the potential for career, never boxoverdose all the more likely. office gold, was put on standby when he was The source of the problem seems to be the nature arrested in a cocaine and heroin bust by the L.APD of the industry itself. Driven by ever-increasing in the summer of 1996. He has only recently been budgets, profits and the eternal search for the released.

•next big thing", film companies treat their stars as The treatment Downey Jr received while in jail, however, is notable for the •excursions• he was a commodity. The situation this creates is simple and rests mainly on how this treatment affects the allowed to make in order to carry on with film psychology of the stars themselves. projects. 11 was held that the losses that the film The defining characteristic of most Hollywood company would suffer would be too great if he stars, as interviewers will tell you, is a certain were made to stay in jail. One has to wonder - -----whether such 'star' treatment only exacerbates the original problem.

The message being sent out is that you are above the law if you have been nominated for an Academy Award and have made a couple of critically acclaimed films. So it's little wonder that actors such as Downey Jr. feel that they have complete control over the drugs they take. the rationale being; if I can manipulate the law, then why not everything else in my life?

That is not to say that it is impossible to counter the effects of drugs and alcohol, both professionally and psychologically, as Downey Jr is trying to prove with his relatively wholesome role in the soon to be released Two Girls and a Guy. Other actors have attempted to do the same with varying degrees of success. After her initial success in ET. Drew Barrymore was notoriously using drugs regularly from the age of eight. By the time she reached puberty she was addicted, her career was in the toilet and she was in and out of rehab. After experiencing the dubious joys of a Hollywood you.th, she has succeeded in completel y transforming herself through roles in Batman Forever (1995), Scream (1996) and the Wedding Singer (1998), and is now a box-office draw again.

A more tenuous example is Christian Slater, who was recently released

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from jail after being convicted of attacking a police officer in a drug-related incident. In publie, at least, he has repented and has gone on to make the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998) which, with eo-stars like Cameron Diaz, looks set to be a success. This is seen by pundits as a vital step forward in a career that, since his heyday in the early 1990s, has floundered between luke-warm romantic comedies and ill-judged action films.

Time will tell whether he has actually recovered from his drug problem or whether it is the creation of media hype and industry whitewash.

Like it or not, the problem is not going to go away.

While Hollywood stars are idolised by millions and actors like Marilyn Monroe and River Phoenix are turned into icons by the media, the film industry shows no signs of doing anything about it. While it outwardly supports stars who fall foul of the taw and expresses concern when they enter rehab, the financial side of the industry is inevitably more pressing. A $100 million film teeters precariously on the image and exposure given to it's star and unless he or she captures the public imagination, the film company faces huge tosses. That, though, Is the nature of the beast. This business is all show.

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Initially rejected from the film course at the University of Texas in Austin, Robert Rodriguez won critical acclaim with his 16mm short Bedhead which went on to win a significant number of awards at film festivals across the wor1d. These included a prestigious award at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The most amazing aspect of this short film was that the cast consisted largely of his nine other siblings. He went on to make El Mariachl at film school, a feature length movie made for $7000 and shot in just 20 days!

exactly the same cast. His most recent hit The Faculty penned by Scream-scribe Kevin Williamson has also gone down well Stateside, a thriller where students find themselv·es slaughtered by alien-possessed teachers at their high school!

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El Mariachi came to the attention of the powerful Hollywood agency ICM who signed him. Not long after, Colombia expressed interest and offered him a two year writing and directing deal. Whilst at Colombia he was given the opportunity of re-editing El Mariachi which went on to win best film at the Sundance Festival and the Panorama Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Since then he has worked with major Hollywood stars Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Harvey Keitel in vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn. Indeed, he has just finished shooting Full Tilt Boogie with almost

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!?®<S~®\5 CSO~Du\5®[?0 []>[}&J~&JfS0@[]iJp afJ~o~~ From the makers of Street Rghter and Resident (Tutor?) Evil2 comes ... Stroot Rghtertor Kids! Pocket Fighters is a beat 'em up game featuring players from other fighting games like Wsrzsrd, Dark Stalkers and Street Fighter 3, all deformed Into that cute Japanese-style baby look. The characters you may have heard of: baby Ryu, baby Ken, baby Chun U, not-so-baby Zangief, baby Hsien Ko, baby Morrigan, etc.

So the theme may not be to everybody's liking (who would you rather be: Bruce Lee lookalike Forrest law or baby Ryu?), but Image aside, this is a good game.

Any Stroot Rghter game is good. This, however, is a simpler version of the Street Fighter series, which could be the starting point for a whole new generation of Stroot Rghterfans. The gameplay is simple, effectively rewarding and mad to watch! When you pull off a combo in this game, which is very simple to do, the character will go into a quick changing routine and flashes a new outfit for each attack. Ken will start with a punch and finish off astride a horse kicking with its back legs! Where the massive horse comes from is quite a mystery, but there we go. For experienced Stroot Rghter players, this is a good distraction but the good stuff is in the Street Fighter Collection 1 that includes Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, or wait for the upcoming, amazing Stroot Fighter Alpha 3. This game is for kids and beginners.

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ta es from the With the pressures of the modern age increasingly taking their toll on the globe's artistic communities, Paul Stokes spo ke to P~ul Ma son, acting Chief Execu tive o f London's South Bank, about their unique contribution to British art ften art1sts. espec1ally the temperamental ones. will con1pla1n that not only does no-one understand them. but they have nowhere to work. Many will s1te noisy neighbours as the cause. others the lack of v1be. and a few misguided cases wi ll say that their li ves are far too co mfortable and th ey wish they co uld go somewhere where it wasn't.

On paper the idea of getting all these type s into on e place seems not only unlikely, but the recipe for disaster.

The thought of gentle poets and quiet philosophers inhabiting the same space as a 30 piece orchestra or a bustling drama company holding a work shop session with 50 ten year aids might lead you to think that the artistic quarters would be wrought with tension and the occasional conflict. However as anyone who's ever been to Paris' Left Bank wi ll testify, this couldn 't be further from the truth. The area, as with many populated by artists, is extremely peaceful and relaxed. This may be in part due to the fact that the modern artist, be it painter, composer, actor or trumpet player, is, thanks to perpetually shrinking funds for the arts, busy working in order to make ends meet. But is also down to fact that there seems to be a greater understanding in such places. People watch and listen before making criticisms , unlike the rest of the world where the increasing trend to consumerisation and pre-packaged culture means that if the audience's attention isn't grabbed in the first five seconds, then it never will be.

Perhaps because of the increasing commercialisation of culture, it seems that artistic areas are more relevant than ever. Not only do they provide some degree of shelter for people wanting to experiment with or develop artistic works, but they also serve as focal points , capable of attracting attention where an individual work or performance would end up as merely a tiny drop in the mass-media ocean .

Unfortunately, owing to the nature of such places, they are rare and often not permanent fixtures.

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The South Bank is London s answer to the art1st1c call. it is a state-led initiative that prov1des a vanety of d1fferent art1stic resources in the Centre of London. Nest11ng. as the name wou ld suggest, on the south side of the Thames just opposite Charring Cross and Theatre Land beyond it. the South Bank ce ntre includes a ra nge of hall s, performance areas and gallery space along with th e prerequisite number of coffee shops and cafes , all wrapped up in a som ewhat curious looking concrete shell th at often earns criticism from residents and visitors alike. Anyone from UEA, however, would hardly bat an eye lid at the less than sparing use of the old hard stuff.

The foundations for the Centre were established with the construction of the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations in 1951 .

We're always trying to push the frontiers After some changes to the hall itself in the early 60s attention turned to the construction of more resources and by the end of the decade The Queen Elizabeth 11 Hall, the Puree\\ Rooms and the Hayward Gallery were all challenging the southward looking London diorama. Along with its unique look and resources , the South Bank has also enjoyed a unique system of control.

Remain ing under the Greater London Council until it was disbanded 1986, after a short period under direct Arts Council control , the South Bank centre was given its independence in 1988 as a charitable trust. Paul Mason, the centre's Financial Director and current acting-Chief Executive, believes that this arrangement does allow the centre a certain amount of room for manoeuvre, although they are still funded by and accountable to the Council. "We have to answer to the Arts council for the sort of programmes we're putting

on he explwns. 'The Arts Council does g1ve us a s1zeable subs1dy and part of that subs1dy IS to put on artistic events which perhaps wouldn't get put on in the ma1nstream. So, for instance, we put on contemporary music whe re some orchestras wouldn't be abl e to put it on because they couldn 't afford to, so the Arts Council does get something back for the money it gives us in that way."

Although 80% of the productions that go on in the halls are organised by outside promoters, th e Centre itself does take a very active roll in artistic development, particularly with complete control over the contemporary work which is shown in the Hayward Gallery.

The Hayward, which shows works from 1900 onwards , is particularly influential in showing new or less well known works and also at encouraging an audience to come and see them . "All works are shown in a contemporary context," explains Paul Mason, "So even if we show something from the turn of the century, we always try to show it in a context which is contemporary to the current period. Also in the Hayward Gallery we have several exhibitions a year which are specially for new, living artists. So we're always trying to push the frontiers ."

The same is also true of the South Bank centre's own productions in the concert halls, where in dance, literature and music the centre tries to "put on events which are outside of the mainstream."

Although these productions are not governed by the same contemporary rule as the Gallery, Paul Mason explains, "it can be Mozart [for example],

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We'll try to explore with Mozart the authentic issues and try to put those sort of th ings on ."

To help develop these kind of endeavou rs, the South Bank has resident en sembles, two resident orchestras. th e London Philharmon ic and Philamonia. several associated ensembles for period music, a writer 1n res1dence who IS usually a poet, and for some exhibitions an artist in residence. ong with the production of works and erformances that will keep it re levan t and cutting edge, the South Bank's other major concern, like so many artistic communities, is to attract an audi ence to appreciate their efforts .

To help keep people coming to the centre, the South Bank has developed a rigid structure for staging events. This not only allows audience members to

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an development with our audiences , which is most important," Explains Mason. "By structuring our artistic year and having different things on at different times- we have a dance season , a contemporary dance season, a ballet season , the more challenging exhibitions in the summer - we try to get audiences used to themes and seasons so they know , 'ah its summer there must be something which will stimulate us in the Hayward Gallery.' By planning it we 're trying to get audiences used to what we 're doing , so they'll plan to come.'' Underlying these efforts to en~ourage development and audiences at the South Bank is the notion of making the arts accessible. Many other artistic areas or venu es have learnt the hard way that it is no longer practical, or indeed desirable, to be deeply elitist all the time. Fortunately the South Bank have been aware of this fact for a long time, as Paul Mason explains, "We do about 1000 events in the concerts hall in a year. One night you could come and it would be a middle class audience paying 拢50 a ticket for the Vienna Philharmonic; th e next night it would be a jazz night in festival hall with a completely different audience . We try to make the hall accessible to both those kinds of audience and sometimes we try to mix them. So through o varied programme, one thing we try to do is to challenge accessibility."

The futu re of the South Bank's buildings is cu rrently being hotl y debated (parti cu larl y on the arts pages of the broadsheets) due to a recent plan to demolish some of the halls and galleries th at has ra1secl strong opinions on all sides.

"We're a long way from being f1rm at the moment.路 expla1ns Paul Mason. "There isn路t a preferred option at the moment." He 1sn't. however. surpnsed by the strong reaction so far to the process "You can路t move on this site Without someone having an op1nion on what should be done with it. it's good to have it. because if you something by stealth you end up falling flat on you r face because someone pipes up and says. 'you can't do that we don't wan t it.' You're better to have discussed it out in the open first, and that' s what we' re trying to do." Whatever th e outcome , one thing seems certain for the tim e being , and that's the South Bank Centre's futu re.

As Paul Mason says, "There's always something going on and its always alive with something happening.''

So long as that remains the case the future of artistic community seems assured.

~evenT) Preview: Sleuth Theatre Royal Appearing at Norw1ch s Theatre Royal from now till Saturday, February 6 Mobll Touring Theatre presents the class1c thnller from Anthony Shaffer: Sleuth Sleuth stars actor and TV veteran Peter Bowles (To The Manor Bom) and film regular M1chael Maloney (Truly Madly Deeply, Hamlet, Henry ~ and IS the story of an ageing writer and h s developing obsession with en~gmatic new neighbour M le Tindle (Maloney) Want1ng to recapture past glories Andrew (Bowles) becomes entangled With Mile 1n a fatal web of dominance chance and psychology.

But how much can they trust each other In a game where the perfect cnme requ1res also the perfect murder and the perfect body? At tums both comiC and chill ng, Sleuth pr nts an exam1nat1on of soc1ety s understand ng of obSElSSion with n an nventive plot structure des gned to eep you gues ng nght up to the last m1nute Can there be a VICtor m such a game and, 1f so who w11 be the VICtim?

F rst performed 1n 1970 Sleuth ran for over 2000 performances 1n the We I End and on Broadway and th1s new product1on prom1ses to bnng West End theatre to NorWich So if you are lookmg for a suspenseful evemng th1s m1ght JUSt be for you Tickets start at £3.

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Ethan Coen Gates of Eden Known up until now as one half of the Coen brothers directorial team (Fargo, The Big Lebowskt) , Gates of Eden marks Ethan Coen's arrival on the literary scene, if not quite with a bang, then, at least, with enough noise to be worth noting.

His collection of short stories is an impressive debut, but this is perhaps unsurprising given Coen's history as a visual 'storyteller'.

Like his movies, these stories are sharply observed analyses of the world seen through the eyes of hicks, mobsters, and even Jewish schoolboys.

Each story pulls you into the character's mind and you can't help but go along for the ride .

Coen's ability to persuade his readers to suspend their disbelief and enter his writing is combined with his obvious talent for observation - which marks him out as having a real future as a writer.

In Gates of Eden, Coen balances comedy and the surreal with the dark and occasionally disturbing.

His ability to send up established writers, like Chandler and Hammet, demonstrates a good understanding of the short story form, but his most appealing work is when he strikes out in his own direction.

Coen brings a humour and tenderness to his stories that invites comparisons to Allan Bennet's handling of language, yet belies the complexity of a sometimes dark subject matter.

A more fitting comparison might, therefore, be the recent works of Mqrtin Amis (Heavy Water and Night Train in particular) . An appealing and imaginative collection, Gates of Eden is worth owning and makes you wonder what Coen could do with a full novel. An accomplished debut.

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Eric Thompson The Adventures of Dougal Dougal's fu rther adventures are recorded by the late Eric Thompson, father of actress Emma. He was the scrjpt writer and voice of the surreal kiddies' show The Magic Roundabout, and therefore no one is more qualified to write the Adventures of Dougal as he is. Doug~l. the embittered shaggy dog and his not so clever friends, Florence, Emintrude, and Zebedee get into all manner of scrapes in these stories. Fans of the TV show will no doubt know what to expect: ridiculous humour at its best. To say that some of the stories are plain bizarre would be an understatement.

In one of his adventures, Dougal and comrades venture off on a search for the missing magic moustache of their friend Zebedee, which has been stolen by a crow. In another, Dougal and Co. wreak havoc in foreign lands as they embark on a round the world trip on a magic carpet. However, the unfortunate people visited don't seem to think that a great big shaggy dog and his friends travelling on a flying carpet driven by a turbaned guide called George from Lancashire is a bit weird! The characters in the book give you feeling that if the teletubbies could say anything comprehensible, then they would sound like the Roundabout bunch. Perhaps it shows what a forward thinking man Thompson was. That aside, for the most part this is quite a funny book. Some stories are better than others and they can become quite tedious. Even Thompson 's child-like wit cannot rescue the reader from a lapse of interest. Much of it is ridiculous and plain silly, but how could it be anything else?

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Charlie Higson Friday, January 29, VIsiting Writers Until recently, the only thing to do on a Friday night was to stay in and watch the Fast Show. Last Friday night was, however, most definitely the time to brave the cold and begin the rehabilitation into society by venturing out. Fortunately for the Fast Show obsessed, and indeed anyone just looking for a witty and entertaining evening, they only had to venture as far as Lecture Theatre One, as former EAS student and Fast Show creator Charlie Higson opened the 1999 Visiting Writers festival.

Starting with a reading from a short story called Suck on This (though Higson subsequently believes he should have called it Four Rea~ that documents the attempts of a film crew

fast to shoot a New York street scene in Bolton and the attempts of a method acting extra to get noticed, Higson already had the audience giggling and smirking with his fluid storytelling. But it was with an extract from his latest novel Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen that he achieved outright side-splitting laughter, by detailing his narrator's meeting with a naked tennis player after crashing into his garden.

Indeed the loudest laugh came with the tennis player's stinging indictment of all the 'arseholes' in the world. What Friday night affirmed is that Charlie Higson is far more than just a catchphrase writer, but in fact one of the most important forces in contemporary British comedy. Higson is the first of an eclectic group of visiting writers who will be speaking this semester. Along with UEA's own Max Sebald who reads from his critically acclaimed works next Tuesday in the Studio, Ali Smith, writer of Free Love and Other Stories and this years Creative Writing fellow follows on Tuesday, February 16.

Simon Armitage , the popular poet recently commission to record the wonders of the Millennium Dome reads on Tuesday, February 23, while later highlights of the season include another UEA 'old boy' the 1998 Booker Prize winner, lan McEwan who revisits Lecture Theatre One on Wednesday, March 10. Tickets for future events will be available on the door priced £2 with a UEA or SU card.

Klaus Estop Next Is sue: Charlie Higson speaks to The Event

What?

Baby Sitting

Baby sitting? You can't mean looking after children ... Er••• Oh, I get lt, one of the artists at the notorious Sensattons exhibition had lots of ltfe-llke sculptured babies, except they were hideously warped with legs In the wrong place, genitals for faces that soft of thing?

Sounds like you ve bean In the sun for too long Well H not that, then perhaps you .._. 80tM new wave of young aru.ta who are so young that they're been 'baby-eat' by the art1at1c eetabllshment?

What about your medication, have you been taking it?

No? Er.. I don t know, some kind of avant-garde composer Is writing mualc In the same key

as crying babies?

You couldn I be more wrong. You could try but you would fa1 to 1ncrease your wrongness Tell me then, for goodness' sakes, how Is beby sitting art?

Well 1t's not so much art 1tself, but et es hoped that baby sitting w11 make art more popular

How? Will Nannies across Britain be required to show their charges a statutory number of Monet's works?

Now we're be1ng silly, aren t we?

Sorry, please go on.

Well. the London Philharmonic Will be prov1d1ng a free serv1ce to look after ch1ldren, so the1r parents can sill enJOY the concert Without Interruption or shelling out for a siXth former who 11 empty their fndge en one even ng Oh they're running a creche.

No. not at all. They're calling t a m nding erv ce Sounds like a creche.

Well 1t 1s really, but the f1ve to mne ye r ods 1t s a1med at will be kept entertamed w1th a JUmor vers on of the adult performance. w1th mus1c stones and unhke the mam show • the chance to have a go themselves•

So Is it art? Well 1t means more people will be able to go to concerts and who knows. wh e they're there one of xt Mozart' Now w 11 the r sprogs m ght turn out to be th you ng me a lullaby?

The adventures of other Magic Roundabout favourites are also available

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Love may well be in the air but what about your stomach? Nicole Fortmann has some suggestions for edible aphrodisiacs that will make things go with a bang ...

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ood and sex are two things which go together like, well ... fish and chips, for want of a better metaphor. An enticing and delicious meal can arouse our senses of taste, smell, touch and sight.

Complimented by soft lighting, good music and the right atmosphere, a well prepared meal can be the ideal prelude to lurve. But beware: too much and all you 'll feel like doing is sleeping - or puking on your lover in the throes of passion.

For centuries certain foods and drinks have been thought to possess aphrodisiac qualities, stimulating far more than just the tastebuds.

Certain ingredients , like Rhino horn, are a trifle hard to obtain, but the good news is that many are available from your local supermarket, so with a little help from The Event you can cook up a passion-enhancing meal for your loved one this Valentine's Day.

Oysters Oysters, along with other forms of shellfish, have long been considered to be aphrodisiacs. A word of warning, however: make sure your oysters are nice and fresh. Giving your loved one food poisoni ng will not make yo u very popular, to say the least. Traditionally oysters are eaten raw and swallowed down in one gulp but if you don't fancy letting slimy oysters slip down your throat then why not try Oyster Patties. You will need :

Ready made pastry, Oysters, 1/4 oz plain flour, 1/2 oz butter, 2 fl oz single cream, 1/2 tsp lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Roll out the pastry (you can make your own , but if you're feeling lazy you can buy it frozen in a packet) , cut out six circles using a round pastry cutter, and place in a patty tin. Then cook in an

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oven preheated to 220 C for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile , open the oysters , remove them from their shells and cut them into small pieces. Place the liquid into a saucepan with the flour and butter, season , then bring to the boil and simmer for three minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the cream, lemon juice and oysters. Heat gently for five minutes then pour into the hot pastry cases and serve.

llsparagus A suitably seductive (and somewhat phallic) accompaniment to your oysters is asparagus, but beware: it can turn your urine green! To cook your asparagus Malaysian style you will need:

1 tsp of soy sauce Finely chopped root ginger, 1/2 crushed garlic clove, Oil, 1/2 lb Asparagus, sliced, 1/4 pint single cream, 1 tsp cornflour, Pinch of salt.

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Several drinks are believed

Romans believed that asses' milk rubbed onto the genitals twice daily had rather beneficial effects. Many liqueurs developed in old monasteries are rumoured to be aphrodisiacs - although why celibate monks required aphrodisiacs is something of a mystery. One such concoction, containing Benedictine is "Angel Lips". Simply stir together two parts Benedictine to one part Baileys Cream and serve over ice .

Of course you don't have to use all these aphrodisiacs to produce a romantic meal ; with a little imagination any food can be sexy, even spaghetti bolognese. Just think of Lady and the Tramp!

Heat the oil in a frying pan , add the soy sauce, ginger and garlic, then fry the asparagus for two minutes. Cover and steam until the asparagus is tender. Meanwhile, mix the cream , cornflour and salt in a bowl over a pan of hot water until it starts to thicken. When the asparagus is ready, pour the cream sauce over it and serve.

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Desserts For pudding there are two aphrodisiacs to choose from: strawberries, or, perhaps the best of all , chocolate. Strawberries, as well as being delicious, actually increase the blood flow to the penis. They need little preparation and are best dipped in whipped cream , or melted chocolate, and fed to your partner by hand.

If you prefer chocolate as a dessert, then chocolate mousse is easy to make and has the added bonus that it need not necessarily be eaten off a plate ... You will need:

4 oz plain dessert chocolate, 2 eggs (separated), 1 tbsp rum, 2 heaped teaspoons of whipped cream.

Two naked lovers (optional).

Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water until it is smooth and liquid. Beat in the egg yolks and add them to the chocolate whilst it is still hot, whisking thoroughly. Stir in the whipped cream and rum and leave the mixture to cool for fifteen minutes. Beat the egg whites until they are stiff and gently

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Heat the frying pan with a little bit of oil or butter.

The trick with cooking the pancakes is to make sure the pan is well greased . Rub it with a little butter or oil after each pancake.

When the pan is very hot, pour in some of the batter. Swirl the pan around as you tip the mixture in. You will need enough to coat the bottom.

After a few minutes the edges will start to come away from the sides of the pan, and bubbles will appear on the surface, which means the pancake is ready to be flipped. Either slide a fish slice under to turn it, or try throwing it up in the air and catching.

Beware of other people in the kitchen , the ceiling and cat - all are in danger at this point.

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The most comprehensive guide to what's on around Norwich this fortnight Who else has the acting skills of a living skeleton?

PRINCE OF EGYPT If this film had a modern setting 11 would be about a corrupt Arab businessman selling guns and drugs. However, it's really a superbly animated retelling of the story of Moses .

ABC ANTZ I wonder if CGI ants get burnt by giant CGI magnifying glasses in the podgy hands of giant CGI children?

Disturbing stuff, when you think about it.

BABE: PIG IN THE CITY Rumour on the interne! has it that the third film will be entitled, Babe: Night of the Butchers, and feature a rampaging sausage maker that stalks our porcine hero. Possibly.

LITTLE VOICE Celebrity cockney Michael Caine does his geezer thing in this comedy drama about the rise and fall of an introverted singer, played by Jane Horrocks.

MEET JOE BLACK Brad Pitt in an ego-trip as death.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Joseph Fiennes is the bard, Gwyneth Paltrow is his bird. Comedy date movie that might appeal to both sexes.

SMALL SOLDIERS Re-telling of the strange events that lead to a crack team of midgets being recruited into the SAS. Maybe.

STAR TREK: INSURRECTION Inter-galactic franchise antics from the latest crew of the Enterprise.

Top action and effects make this a rather enjoyable film . Watch out for the evil face-lift aliens.

VERY BAD THINGS Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz in a so-so drama about a stag night in Vegas that begins to go wrong when the stripper ends up dead on the floor.

ODEON ENEMY OF THE STATE The NRA , America's most secret spy-organisation , chase Will Smith , probably because of the costumes he got away with wearing in The Fresh Prince. A rather corking thriller.

Incidentally, Will Smith appeared in my mate's dream the other night, along with Quincey off the telly. Spooky stuff.

MULAN This Disney oriental epic is still running . Never doubt the power of the Mouse!

Incidentally, Mickey Mouse is getting an image change for the millennium, possibly even a voice change.

THE PARENT TRAP Disney live-action flicks often tend to be more sickly-sweet than their animated counterparts.

This one is no exception .

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PRACTICAL MAGIC Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman use magic to pull their blokes. As if that was ever necessary.

PRINCE VALIANT Medieval antics in this lame live-action child's-flick, with Joanna Lumley as a Queen.

LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS Thursday February 4, 7.00pm Ignore Vinnie Jones, and concentrate instead on the stylish camera work and pacy directing.

Very cool British humour.

ELIZABETH Friday, February 5, 9.00pm Concentrates on the early life of the first Queen Liz, with added bonus gothic bits.

EMMA I GREAT EXPECTATIONS Sunday February 7, 7.00pm I 9.00pm Double costume drama frock shock.

Two American literary classics are shown here for your delectation.

STAR TREK: INSURRECTION Baldy captain Picard gets himself a lovely lady, only to find out that she's 900 years old, Doh! The intergalactic romance is backed up by shiny android shenanigans from Data.

STEP MOM Susan Sarandon watches as Julia Roberts struggles to bring up her two kids. Drama with an extra booster jab of sentimentality. Strictly chicks only.

RIEN NE VA PLUS Tuesday, February 2 • Thursday February 4, 5.45pm , Tuesday February 2, 2.30pm.

Hitchcock homage in this French comedy thriller.

Two con artists are pitched against each other by the mysterious Monsieur K. A SOLDIERS DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES Tuesday, February 2 ·Thursday February 4, 8.15pm, Thursday February 4, 2.30pm Merchant Ivory strikes again . Covering three periods in a family's history, from their carefree days in 1960s Paris to the harsh realities of an American 1970s high school.

SMOKE Tuesday, February 9, 9.00pm Harvey Keitel and William Hurt are coughing.

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Thursday, February 11, 7.00pm Flying limbs a go-go in Spielberg's top World War Two shocker.

STILL CRAZY Friday, February 12, 9.00pm British comedy that pleased the critics. A Spinal· Tap-esque story of a rock band reforming .

DIRTY DANCING Sunday, February 14, 7.00pm The chick-flick to end all chick-flicks returns on the day that all chicks love best. Chicks all round, really .

SWINGERS Tuesday, February 16, 9.00pm Superb American comedy that nobody except me seems to have seen. So here's your chance to change that. Please?

FUNNY GAMES Friday February 5, Saturday 6 and Monday 8, 5.45pm Tuesday February 9 • Thursday February 11 , 8.15pm Hard-hitting drama about violence in modern life, following a family lakeside summer holiday.

LITTLE VOICE Friday Febuary 5, Saturday 6 and Monday 8, 8.15pm Tuesday February 9 • Thursday February 11 , 5.45pm. Tuesday February ·9, 2.30pm Based on Jim Cartwight's stage hit, Jane Horrocks stars alongside Ewan McGreggor as a painfully shy singer with a stunning voice.

Look out for Michael Caine doing his Cockney thing.

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HENRY FOOL February, Friday 12 and Saturday 13, at 8.15pm Monday February 15, 5.30pm Black comedy in which Henry, a intellectual drifter changes the life of an American garbage man and his small town family.

THE RIDE JIZDA Monday February 15, 8.15pm Part of the Check film season, a road movie shot by the director in just a few weeks.

Gained cult status amongst the nation's youth.

SMALL SOLDIERS This deadly toy flick seems to be showing everywhere at the moment. 11 is rather cool though.

Rumour has it Tom Hanks is up for an Oscar for this one. Spielbergs W.W.II epic uses camera work based on documentary footage shot during the actual landings, as well as rather a large amount of gore and ketchup. The story, which follows a uni'ts attempt to find Private Ryan, whose brothers have all been killed in action, and bring him back safely.

The action scenes are gripping, whilst the script keeps the sentimentality light, and the realism heavy.

ANTZ February, Saturday 13 · February Wednesday 17, Friday 19-Saturday 20, 2.30pm Woody Alien, Sly Stallone and Sharon Stone play the parts of computer generated ants in a film that will probably be lost on most kids.

So go and see it yourself then.

THE BACK BAR KISSED Monday, February 8, 6.30pm (Canada I 1996) No point in beating about the bush here, this is all about necrophilia and fondling the dead .

Actually, it's quite a moving film , except for the corpses obviously.

THE SWEET HEREAFTER Monday, February 15, 6.30pm (Canada I 1997) Moving, compassionate story about a lawyer who see opportunity in the tragedies that befall a small mountain town .

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AID A THEATRE ROYAL, OPERA This production of Verdi 's classic tale of love and rivalry has a cast of over 70, with a 50 peice orchestra.

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MELTDOWN WATERFRONT, CLUB Saturday's regular slot for DJ Paul Fayers. in the studio, AS PURE AS SOUL, with Motown, Phily Atlantic and Sax. 9pm-2am £4/3.50 PUNCH AND JUDY PUPPET THEATRE, PLAY A brief history of the peice preceeds a performance of everyone's favourite comedy about domestic violence. 2.30pm

MIRROR LORE UEA STUDIO, PLAY Jaqui Chan in a one woman performance celebrating the art of the wandering storyteller 7.30pm £6/£3.50 CHAINS ON VELVET WATERFRONT, CLUB. Metal, goth, grunge and industrial from UEA's Deviant Soc. 1Opm- 2am, now alternate Thursdays 10.00-02.00 £2 before 11 pm £2.50 after.

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'SKINT' IN FEBRUARY TOUR WATERFRONT, CLUB Featuring Ropeman, DJ Danielsan and DJ Sparky Lighthouse, all live.

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THE NUTCRACKER THEATRE ROYAL, BALLET The St Petersburg Ballet have 50 dancers with this latest production of Tchaikovsky's most famous ballet scores . Runs till Saturday, February 20, 7.30pm. Tickets £19/£17£13/£4.50

TOMMY TIERNAN + JASON BYRNE NORWICH ARTS CENTRE, COMEDY Two Irish circuit talents hit the newly refurbished Arts Centre.

8.30pm £5/£7

SONIC ARTS 11: HYBRID WORLDS UEA MUSIC CENTRE, CONCERT Electroacoustic music with Ex-UEA Dominic Kelly 7.30pm £6/£5/£3.

CLUB FLINT RICK'S PLACE, CLUB £2 before 11 pm GORGEOUS MANHATIANS,CLUB Happy House club night.

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UNDERGROUND MOJO'S, CLUB Lo-Fi and indie night.

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A NIGHT FOR DISCERNING ADULTS RICK'S PLACE, CLUB £3 with flyers before 11 pm DANCE CLUB MANHATIANS, CLUB 9pm-4am £5

All SMITH UEA-STUDIO, TALK A 1999 writing fellow, Ali Smith's new collection of short stories, Love and Other Stories is due to be published in March.

7.00 pm MINISTRY OF SOUND DJ'S UEA LCR, CLUB With the Problem Kids, Mari<y Williamson + Rocky + Martin Harrod.

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