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Non-Ego jazz orchestra to inspire Zilher festival PaSe Entertainment Friday, September 7, 1984 Austin American-Statesman Section New album frees Hubbard's talent Page C3 Review i i 4 sO is conspiracy mJL mm tint- yZWj- a of bad ideas By PATRICK TAGGART American-Statesman Sff Night life Night life Is a guide to a variety ot music available in Austin tonight and Saturday. Pull an all-nighter They'll be playing in the balcony. They'll be playing in the ballroom. They'll be playing in the tavern. They will be playing, tn short, all over the Texas Union at the University of Texas in the course of Friday Gras, the first big party to drive a stake through the heart of freshmen's grade point averages.

The Ar-gyles, the Commandos, the Tail Gators, the Urge and Jeff Haese and Friends will be providing the music in and around the Texas Union. It all starts at 8 tonight Free. Royal treat Joe "King" Carrasco and the If Jf it In Down on Us is the Reefer Madness of conspiracy meory movies. St KSsC': T. I' ll V.

it .4 will be screened for the first time before a paying audience today at the Dobie Screen, The Dobie gets most of its business from the nearby student traffic at the University of Texas and if any group of viewers is to be drawn to this film, it will be students. It would be helpful if they brought along a well-developed sense of humor. Down on Us is predicated on the thesis that three rock idols of the late 1 960s Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were done in by1 Crown's new album. Border Town is due to be released soon, but for the time being, it will only be available in France and England. Bad news for the faithful fans.

On the other hand, we get to see the band live, a treat the Brits and the French are rarely uiai intnicM oi presiaenis, mcnara mxon. Believe it or not. that's not the funny part; AS WE LEARNED FROM such events as Watergate and the break-in of Daniel Ells-' Screenwriter Kevin Reynolds is dissatisfied with the final script for Red Dawn. The movie stars, from left, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell and Patrick Swayze, as youths who find their hometown occupied by Soviets and Cubans.

privy to. You can talk for hours about Carrasco's stage show, but nothing takes the place of actual ly seeing him do a half-gainer off a stack of speakers (how does he do JKC and company berg's psychiatrist's office, the theory isnt entirely crackpot All three musicians were' highly political, either by intent or by they reflected a youth at odds with a government consumed by the Vietnam Morrison, leader of the Doors, made no at--. tempt to hide his hatred of what he saw to be a warmongering government. Joplin merely represented that portion of the country that- felt left out of the mainstream, lonely and will be joined by everybody's favorite 16-year-old guitar whiz. Dark side of 'Red Dawn5 Movie's success fails to.

lighten writers dismay Charlie Sexton and the Sextones. At 9:30 tonight at Liberty Lunch. Tickets are $5 in advance, $6.50 at the door. Singing brakeman wrote later drafts from Reynolds' original. rebellious.

In any case. Nixon did have an enemies, list and entertainers were on it. Unfortunately for us, that does not save riter-produc- Even Hank Williams, were he er-director Larry Buchanan's film from still around to offer an opinion, would agree: Jimmie Rodgers is the real father of country music. staged concert sequences and spy meetings that look like clips from a Get Smart The Mississippi native blended G-M decided they wanted it for this summer. They approached me about directing it, but I was still working on Fandango." Fandango is the film Reynolds directed last year in West Texas.

More on that later.) "I did a major revision of Red Dawn that I liked even better than the original, but after that I had no control over it." WHEN REYNOLDS FINALLY saw Milius' re-write, he requested a meeting with the filmmaker to try to talk him out of the changes. He was unsuccessful. black and white folk music. nignimare. threw in a yodel and a vaga WHAT'S FUNNY, or what would be tunny bond's wanderlust, and made music that endures.

Since he made his last home in Kerrville, it's only appropriate that that By PATRICK TAGGART American-Statesman Staff Kevin Reynolds isn't the first screenwriter to have his work radically altered by a single-minded director. He's not even the first Texas writer to have that befall him. What's different about Reynolds is that his film is doing well at the box office. An author crying foul over a movie that is making money is a rarity anywhere. Even Larry McMurtry remained silent about director James L.

Brooks' radical revision of Terms of Endearment. But, commercial and artistic can be vastly different. REYNOLDS' FILM IS Red Dawn. It was directed by John Milius and the credits say "Screenplay by Kevin Reynolds and John Milius." The two never worked in collaboration, however, when Reynolds turned his screenplay over to the filmmakers his input ended. Milius' name appears because he Reynolds is.

furious about the way in which his vision was realized on screen. hated it," Reynolds said in a recent phone interview. "He (Milius) changed the whole thrust of the picture." Milius declined to comment on changes he made in the original Red Dawn script To know Reynolds, the bright and normally circumspect son of the president of Baylor University, is to know that his disappointment with the finished film runs deep. THE STORY BEGINS in 1979 when when Reynolds took his original script for Red Dawn and a film he had made at the prestigious University of Southern California film school to an old college friend who now works as an agent at William Morris. The agent signed him on, and the Red Dawn screenplay soon had a buyer, executive producer Sidney Beckerman.

"I continued to play with the script for a couple of years until last summer, when M- town should host the third annual Jimmie Rodgers Jubilee, a celebration that will mark what would have been Rodgers' 87th birthday. On the schedule are yo- deling contests, lots of music and if it didn't involve more than an hour and a' half of our time, is the film's dreadfully low energy level. Buchanan, who produced or directed 19 films for American International Pictures, that campy B-movie distributor of the '60s and early 70s. puts his actors in static situations and keeps them there. There's no movement in this film, even during con-, cert sequences, and the camera never becomes anything but the most dispassionate, distanced observer.

But the funny part is the acting, which truly runs the gamut. Do not expect to see the three great rock stars, by the way; they are played to varying degrees of success by Gregory Allen Chatman (Hendrix). Riba MeryT (Joplin) and Bryan Wolf (Morrison). Pressed to explain how his version differed from Milius', Reynolds invoked the name of William Golding, author of the sobering British novel, Lord of the Flies. "I had always loved that book, and to me Red Dawn was an opportunity to address a similar theme.

To me, it Red Dawn) was a story about how these young people are thrown into the crucible of war and change from children to savages," Reynolds ex-Se Reynolds, CI a street dance that runs from 8 to midnight featuring Jimmie Gil- more. In Kerrville at the Old Kerrville Depot on North Street from 4 p.m. to midnight Satur day. Admission is SI. Hubbard caught live It's a homecoming of sorts; Rav Wvlie Hubbard and band coming back to Soap Creek Saloon, where they recorded their Mobile society pN" 7: latest album.

Caught In the Act Hubbard and the band (which also Includes blues guitarist Bugs Chatman's Hendrix is professional enough, and Meryl's Joplin is a success that" comes from beyond the feather boas and foul language. She creates the only character that audiences are likely to care about Wolf may look the part of a strung out MorrK son, but his line reading is terrible and his-stage presence no better. The only character who fares worse is the French monk who speaks with a Brooklyn accent. Down on Us. rated for frequent nudity and nrnfanitv at Dnhif From the new Blue Moon Cafe to thun-derbirds on the Guaranty Finance Co.

building, art deco returns to vogue after nearly 40 years In the architecture outer limits. Show World Henderson and fiddlervocalist Mandy Mercier) rolled the tapes on a hot night last June, and i caught some of great songs. Anyone who was at that show will want to be at this one. Who knows, it may turn into Volume Two. At 9:30 tonight at Soap Creek.

S6 cover. Car songs Performance art takes shape at Austin gallery Turn off that MTV! Forget about that long-form video pro- erammine. Oet up, get oui ana hear some real oeoDle on a real stage (remember, just like the eood davs). to be specmc. go out and see the Cars, who are headlining their biggest tour ever behind their hit album.

Heartbeat Oty. It's a rare chance to see Ric Ocasek and company oerformine live. Granted, some fans mieht miss the video pyro technics so evident on You Might Think. But on we otner nana. what could be better than seeing five men dome what tney go best? The Cars will be with Wang -'iv- V.I I Chune at 8 o.m.

iaturaay ai me South Park Meadows. Tickets are $14.25. other way of looking at it "is as a challenge. "Remember the Battle of the Alamo? Well, like Travis. I've drawn the line and asked these artists to.step over the line with me, if they dare." THOSE WHO HAVE MET Amdur's challenge Include Tom Giebink (video artist), Diana Prechter (choreographer).

Stephen Marsh (electronic musician and former member of the band Terminal Mind). Jerri Kunz (fashion and interior designer). T. Paul Hernandez (monumental concrete sculptor), Siddig Khan (photographer), and even Amdur himself (painter and sculptor). In all, there will be 18 artists represented in the show, ranging from well-known, mainstream performers to more experimental types.

Their works will be performed at half-hour intervals in both the front and back half of the gallery. Diana Prechter's piece, a dancenarrative "ostentatiously titled Swan Lake" will feature two dancers (Prechter and Suzanne Kelley) on a 4-by-8-foot platform. Inspired by the awesome corps de ballet of the real Swan Lake, it will reflect Prechter's fascination with continuous movement It is also her first dance choreographed by computer (she is a programmer as well as a dancer). TOM GIEB1NKS Video Slalom, inspired by the Olympics, will feature banks of video monitors that simulate the corridors, turns, and crashes of a Nastar downhill ski race, without the snow, of course. "There wonl be a dull moment" says Amdur.

"We'll have a lot of visual excitement in Party music By SIDNEY BRAMMER Special to the American-Statesman Performance artist Laurie Anderson's recent Austin appearance was a milestone for some Austin artists. For David Amdur, proprietor of the Amdur Gallery, the commercial and critical success of that production was a motivating force behind his decision to produce tonight's performance art show, The Line is Drawn." Amdur believes Austin is ready to see more performance art and not just that of nationally known stars like Anderson. Performance art is a multidisciplinary approach that is usually practiced by visual artists who want to perform their creative ideas on a stage before an audience. Earlier this year. Amdur's Conceptual Art Show packed his converted storefront gallery, which is nestled between two tire companies on East Fifth Street "WE MADE SHI IN a donation box near the front door before I could even start charging admission!" Amdur says.

But commercial success is not his only objective. The common thread that connects the disparate talents he has assembled for The Line is Dra wn is "their desire to entertain and provoke serious thought" Like most artists who measure the success of their art on the communication of an idea, performance artists equate personal success with mainstream success the goal is to reach people. "These artists more in a parallel line to my own course," says Amdur. "That's one way of looking at the title of the show." An The name of the club is Li- hertv. but the showbill might bet ter be described as Reckless Abandon.

The Austin Chronicle and radio station KTXZ-AM are celebrating their third and First anniversaries, respectively, and they've lined up a bunch ot bands S'a Photo by iv 6owin Bella Sue Martin finishes her work. Fear of Frying, at Amdur Gallery. the front and auditory excitement in the the charm of performance art is in the ex to do the party up ngnu lane a deeo breath and repeat this bill three times: Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue, Charlie Sexton and the Sextones, the Opti- Although the Amdur is not actually a buy- The Line is Dra wn will be presented at er's gallery, several pieces related to the tonight at Amdur Gallery. 307 Fifth program will be displayed for sale through St. Admission is S5.

Art works related to c.mkor i iti- ntw-M ran nniv own the nerformance will remain on view mystics and Secret Six. All this, and break-dancing crews, too. At 9 30 Saturday at Liberty Lunch. Jfi cover. yit, tlitst IkVW J.

tonight however. Like theater and music, through September. John T. Davis.