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1 to New Orleans on the Finger Lakes Canandaigua took on the spirit of Mardi Gras at a weekend benefit. 3C at a weekend benefit. 1 I I 'The Lion King roars into town Bv JACK GARNER MALE HIM CRITIC musical or comedy film, best song and best score). The music score, by Hans Zimmer, Elton John and Tim Rice, also has been nominated for four Oscars. Though The Lion King is Disney's 32nd feature-length cartoon, it's the first the company didn't adapt from an existing story.

It tells of a lion cub who learns about the responsibility that comes with being king. The Lion King also will be available in a deluxe boxed edition that includes a "making-of" video and a portfolio of lithographs. A Parental alert! The king of videos is expected in your neck of the jungle today, and your kids would love to pounce on it. For that matter, a heck of a lot of adults also liked The Lion King; that's how it became the fourth-largest box office hit of all time. The video version of Walt Disney's smash-hit animated feature is officially scheduled for release on Friday, but video insiders say most retailers should have the tapes on shelves today.

Though the film is list-priced at $26.99, various discount outlets, pharmacies and other stores have begun advertising it in the $16-17 range. In addition, Disney is including rebate coupons totaling $10, tied to Mattel and Pillsbury products. Disney's feature cartoon won three Golden Globe Awards (best laserdisc release is expected eventually. Also released this week will be Rhythm 4 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1995 Democrat (fhronidc TA iiLI. of the Pride Lands, a musical album includ-.

ing tracks cut from the film or inspired by the original music. It makes an 1 appropriate com- paniontothe soundtrack t---' album. A place at the table Black Americans have made rich contributions to the nations culinary heritage. A new cookbook explores this tradition. 6C Comics 5C Columns 4C Inside goes out 3C Movies 4C Horoscopes 4C Television 2C OH REVIEW a iff ftSJ -V" Glory day Today, Bruce Springsteen's long-awaited Greatest Hits is scheduled to hit local stores.

Here, he emotes during an MTV Unplugged performance. Corf) te or a 0 1W We thought he was born to run from greed, but Bruces new album is a blatant marketing move 7 Is 1 n'-v 4K Grammy watchers will love the catch-up factor while older fans will buy it for the new tracks. Brilliant marketing? Yes. But it's the sort of career calculation you'd expect of lesser artists like Garth Brooks, not the man who was once called the future of rock 'n' roll and made good on that boast. One wonders if, in taking this capital gain, Springsteen might be losing something much more valuable.

Tainted by the commercial considerations, such tunes as Badlands man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied till he rules and Brilliant Disguise have mercy on the man Who doubts what he's sure don't resonate with the same urgency or truthfulness as when they were released the first time. Is that you, Bruce, or just a brilliant disguise? The previously unreleased tracks also suffer from the mercenary mood. This Hard Land and Murder which have been previously available on expensive bootlegs, are good songs, but they're cheapened by their inclusion on an album called Greatest Hits. Why hold on to songs for so long just to throw them at the end of some cheesy project? Wouldn't it have made more sense for Springsteen to put together an album of live cuts, rarities and B-sides? Next to the MTV-friendly polish of such tunes as Dancing in the Dark, Hungry Heart (which sounds dreadful in this context) and Glory Days, Springsteen's gruff vocals on This Hard Land sound unfinished and out of place. The best new track is probably Secret Garden, which resides in the same dreamy soundscape as Walk Like a Man (from Tunnel of Love) and If I Should Fall Behind (from Lucky Town With lyrics about the emotional distance that the female protagonist keeps between her and her lovers, Springsteen has perceptively, caringly thrown his hat into the sexual politics ring.

As part of this stopgap project, however, Secret Garden only fuels the hunger for more insights from the most consistently brilliant songwriter of the rock era. As proven by the lackluster sales of his simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town albums, Springsteen is not the sales giant he once was. The subsequent 1992 tour, which didn't sell out in many venues, underscored the mortality of this legendary live act. Greatest Hits smacks of desperation, as Springsteen attempts to reclaim the top of the charts. And boosted by Grammy awareness, he should debut at No.

1. It will be a hollow victory, however, from the former integrity artist who used to be more concerned with making great music and doing right by his fans. By MICHAEL CORCORAN DALLAS MORNING NEWS Integrity. The word is not often used in association with musical superstars, but it's a tag that's been applied to Bruce Springsteen throughout his insanely fruitful career. The icon of rugged sensitivity has long fought the good fight, going that extra yard and that extra hour for his fans while stiff-arming the millions of dollars that have been offered for the use of his songs in commercials.

When he burst onto the scene in a big way in 1975, landing on the cover of both Time and Newsweek, Springsteen was likened to the proud, struggling heroes of many of his songs. Finding strength in the blue-collar ethic and simple friendships that last a lifetime, he was a man of values that ran much deeper than the usual music business method of operations. Bruce Springsteen and his manager, Jon Landau, have long resisted caving in to the Greatest Hits cash cow, seeing such compilations as just a ruse to get fans to buy the music again. But today, record stores will be lined with albums that show Springsteen wearing his Born to Run outfit, in his back-to-the-camera Bom in the U.S.A pose, hawking songs that have been run into the ground and four never-before-released tracks that sound like leftovers. The highway's jammed wit broken heroes, and Bruce Springsteen has seemingly picked up his Street Band again so he can cruise in the car-pool lane.

An even bigger shot to Springsteen's repute as an "integrity art ist" is that the release of Greatest Hits was timed to capitalize on tomorrow's Grammy Awards. Tomorrow should be Bruce's night, as he'll perform the Oscar-winning Streets of Philadelphia, which is expected to win the Grammy for record of the year. And Thursday, record-store cash registers will make a ring that sounds like "Spring-Steen!" If not for Greatest Hits, the song would be available only on the Philadelphia soundtrack album: Team Bruce has made its product much more desirable by packaging the song with other familiar tunes. 0 -J (61 MTV Ncrwirkr. He may be a dummy, but for anesthesia students he's a knockout Km Mil arm is an olive tone and the flap of skin that covers his throat is a rich shade of toffee.

Cobbled together from medical model parts, this dummy is helping medical students learn how to anesthetize patients. "Here they can be allowed to make mistakes and see the consequences of their mistakes," says Dr. Denham S. Ward, chairman of anesthesiology at UR. The university bought the training aid last summer, becoming only the second medical center in the nation to obtain a Loral Data Systems human patient simulator.

Despite its odd color scheme, the dummy can seem eerily lifelike Put an ear to its chest and you can hear a heartbeat. Through a stethoscope, you can hear air passing through the dummy's "lungs." Computer chips with speakers generate the noises. The head and throat are anatomically correct so students can practice inserting breathing tubes. If they pry too hard with the laryngoscope in order to accomplish the tricky maneuver, they hear a loud click from the mouth; that would be the sound of teeth breaking in a real patient. And pulses can be felt in the neck and left wrist.

The dummy is attached to $185,000 worth of high-tech computer equipment and electrical DUNLMY, PAGE 4C By DIANA LOUISE CARTER MAI WRITER A wall of anesthesia monitors beeps and glows. The patient's chest wheezes as it rises and falls. Three medical students one in scrubs, one in sweats and one in a fashionable black jumper crowd between the patient's head and the wall of equipment. From that cramped position, the trio bats at questions an instructor pitches at them: What should they do about the patient's rapidly dropping blood pressure? The three seniors in the University of Rochester's medical school each suggest ways to manipulate the anesthesia drugs. But when the patient fails to rally, the instructor suggests notifying the surgeon.

There could be internal bleeding. Meanwhile, the constant "beep, beep, beep," of one of the monitors slows to a "Bee-up bee-up bee-up." And Dr. Alice Basford, clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology, starts fidgeting. "Any anesthesiologist would wake up out of a sound sleep," says Basford, using a stage whisper so she won't interrupt the lesson. The beeping means the patient's blood is losing oxygen; if this were real, he'd be blue by now.

Instead, his face and hair are pink, his chest is peach, his left ANNETTE I.EIN This won't hurt a bit Using University of Rochester's computerized dummy, medical students (from left) Arthur Ticknor, Kirsten Frcderiksen and Bernadette Clement are taught Iww to administer anesthesia by instructor Andrew Lee and Dr. Denham S. Ward..