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i Chicago Tribune. Friday. July 1 5. 1 977 Section 2 7 MOTION PICTUUS MOTION FKTURU DOWNTOWN 1 fi Variety Punk fans get no hassle at disco with a difference FEATURES TOGETHER IN ONE DIG SHOW! MEN OF COURAGE RISK THEIR LIVES i fr TO CAPTURE A BRIDGE LOUSY BRIDGE! Thonter 'Late Night shows its tortured side THERE ARE SEVEN uninviting characters and one inviting New York apartment in "Our Late Night," a so-described sexual comedy that alter-natingly irritates and entertains weekends' at the Jane- Addams Theater. Wallace Shawn son of- the New editor, William Shawn has written' a one-act surreal fantasy of empty fif in a high-rise apartment party.

This is hardlyfresh ground, but he abstracts, it with diffused sexual images, and frustrated propositions that make several bitter points with style before ejaculating prematurely into the banality of the incomplete. Continuing his gusto for theatrical pain, Gary Houston has directed the versatile and attractive Steppenwolf Theater Company into a montage of restless discomfort, crazy comic bits, and outbursts, of real sadness. Alan Wilder is especially endearing as a Richard Dreyfuss sort of energy package who unravels into the logically ridiculous extension of locker room bragging. At its best, "Our Late Night" is the tortured underbelly of David Mamet's more innocent "Sex ual Perversity in Chicago." The rest, unfortunate ly, turns that bored torture on itself. Linda Winer 1 i ROBERT REDFORD JAMES CAAN RYAN O'NEAL GENE HACKMAN SEAN CONNERY LIV ULLMANN LAST.

DAYS! BURT LANCASTERCX on the radio (though Triad is giving punk an airing) and dance the night away, "I THINK PEOPLE are tired of regu- lar discos," says Noah Boudreau, who owns and manages La Mere with partner Tom Wroblewski. "They want a place to go where they can be comfortable and hear some new music. And they're tired of being asked for five pieces of identification, like a lot of discos do so they can keep out blacks and women. There are no hassles here." The goings-on at La Mere, which turned into a punk disco in May, are a collaboration between Boudreau and a few of his friends, Rick Faust, John Mo-Iini, and Mike Rivers. Rivers, Molini, and Faust work for Sounds Good Records, where they have access to all the latest punk music.

The record store has staged a couple of special events! including a fashion show' at the club. Other projects in the works include a punk newspaper, the La Mere Gabba-Gabba Gazette (the name stems from a punk rock song by the Ramones). It will include punk gossip, interviews with punk bands, and reports of sports from a punk punk rock rolls on, and La Mere rocks to the beat beginning around 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. The thrills come cheap the weekend cover charge is only $1 a per son, with no drink minimum.

Chances are, though, you'll work up a thirst. FROM TIIE STREET, La Mere Vipere at 2132 N. Halsted St. looks like any other storefront watering spa and meet-mart. Same goes for inside: bars on each of the club's two levels; a few flamingoes and palm trees here and there for tacky flash; some tables, chairs, and game machines upstairs; and a dance floor downstairs, presided over by a disk Jockey holed up in a ramshackle booth flubbed the Rhumba room.

But stop by on a weekend night firound 10:30 or maybe a little later and it becomes apparent that this is a disco with a difference. There's the matter of music, for instance. No Gloria Gaynor or Donna Summer pap for the La Mere crowd. Instead, decked out in getups that include leather, manacles, torn T-shirts held together with bunches of safety pins, and sleazy underwear, as well as more regulaf-stuff, couples of varying composi--tion records by Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, David Bowie, and the Dead Boys. What's happening here is punk.

And punk, with its own sound (called punk rock, generally unsophisticated and primitive, though there are exceptions) and stance (usually one of studied ugliness and rebelliousness) could be on the brink of happening with a vengeance. But for all the genre's mood of outrageous' ness, it's just plain fun, too, and the atmosphere at La Mere, Chicago's first punk disco, is pure party time. People can "dress weird, dance, tear records that don't ordinarily get played IN THE 1 1 BLAZIN6 WESTERN- DRAMA i a Two-day Greek jest The folks at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1017 N. La Salle St, are cooking things up in their parking lot From noon until dusk Saturday and Sunday, at the chruch grounds, church members will beholding "Two Fun-Packed Day at the Planka Things to see include boutiques, artwork, and live Greek and American entertainment. Admission is $1.

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