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jfsjij i n. -rsr i "5 .4 2 -The Sioux City Journal, Friday. March 28, 1 997 'Selena's' a glossy valentine to late Tejano singer By Bruce R. Miller Journal staff writer On a scale of four stars, "Selena" gets: of lives. Rated PG.

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CO no Minimum. (Yr (f There's not much to learn from the reverential biography "Selena." The late Tejano singer loved pep-peroni pizza (and could eat a medium by designed most of her stage clothes and couldn't speak much Spanish. People magazine articles have revealed much more. What most people want to know is what happened in the relationship between Selena and her gun-toting fan club president. Rather than explain the situation, the headline-making confrontation is covered in fast-moving news reports.

In an effort to please the growing legion of followers (and Selena's family who produced the film), the murder is little more than a footnote to the minutiae. Had Selena not been killed, it's unlikely anyone would have been f80(n 766-LIM( WcdaingiPromiAirpmBirthdviAiinlvcrirtciNew Bby IKE'S BINGO SAT. NIGHT SPECIAL MARCH 29th FROM SIOUX CITY DRIVE 10 MILES TO PLAY 21 $200.00 DOLLAR GAMES FOR $16.00 rally, she succeeded, winning the love of journalists everywhere. The rift scene marrying a man dad disapproves of is dispensed with almost as quickly as the death, giving "Selena" the look of a video made to be sold in the singer's boutique. Writerdirector Gregory Nava clearly knows where his loyalties lie.

But to homogenize Selena so thoroughly is wrong. All Mexican-American singers aren't Vikki Carr. Luckily, Nava gave the role to Jennifer Lopez, an incandescent actress who moves well and, with more lipstick than RuPaul, looks a lot like Selena, too. She's up for the film that never is (although tears never fall when she cries) without tarnishing the image that Selena's family has taken pains to polish. "Selena" isn't another "La Bam-ba" or "What's Love Got to Do With It." It's a love song to a woman who barely lived long enough to realize the impact she had on millions I interested in a mm aooui ner me.

as i talented as she may have been, the "Mexican Madonna" lived a rela- tively normal life. Rhi c.mo with hpr hmthp.r nnd a COMPARED TO DRIVING 35 MILES TO PLAY 15 $175.00 DOLLAR GAMES FOR $20.00 sister, was pushed into show biz by her father and fell in love with a guy who hung with the wrong crowd. When she journeyed to Mexico to sing for the folks who helped make her a chart topper, dad (Edward James Olmos in a revision of his "Stand and Deliver" persona) worried that they might turn on her as they did him years earlier. Instead, hugs and kisses all around made her an instant hit and a draw for thousands. When the mobs filled an outdoor BUY THE GUARANTEED $500.00 GAME GET A $1,000.00 GAME FREE 232-9261 1-29 N.

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Library dinner Friends of the South Sioux City Public Library will present a dinner program with Roger Welsch. Welsch is nationally known for his CBS Sunday Morning series "Postcards from Nebraska," in which he offers essays on rural and small town life on the plains. The event will be April 3 at the Marina Inn in South Sioux City. Social hour is at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the program. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased at the South Sioux City Public Library or at the South Sioux City Hy Vcc store, or by calling 494-7545.

Proceeds from the dinner program will go toward furnishings and computer software for the children's section of the South Sioux City Library. Faculty recital Drs. James and Kathryn March will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Eppley Auditorium at Morningside College. The program will commemorate the life and music of Johannes Brahms as April 3 marks the 100th anniversary of his death.

The Marches will perform the complete 2 1 Hungarian dances for four-hand piano. The dances, which utilize Hungarian folk music and Gypsy themes, represent some of the most lightheartcd, tuneful music written by the composer. The recital is part of the Academic and Cultural Arts Series offered at the college. The recital is free and open to the public. VMao Purchate REI (ot rrt Sjtk To The Risen Lamb 1 -m hJ of lesser I 1 ar-AP BZ 1 1 I Li Imt 1 tw mm visit Must im ne btm UXM March 30 Y.

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