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The Sacramento Bee Friday October-19 1984 Weekend Scene 1 3 Hank Williams Jr takes his fame in vain By David Barton Special to the Bee tyle that has cost him more than one marriage and killed his father The irony however seemed lost on his audience of 3800 who hooted PISCQUNTAOMISSIONS 1VMYONI across the stage and the band floundered into the conclusion of Led Many More If those at the concert heard a ringing in their ears as they went home it the volume loud as the show was It was the sound of Hank Williams Sr spinning wildly in his grave the back-to-back acoustic pairing of two new songs and The first is a cynically comic-talking blues piece that recommends violence as a solution to differences of opinion while the second is a whining patronizing quasi-protest song that condemns violent crime That the two are sung by the same man is a crime against both logic and decency xie on My Never and dozens of others but the poorly mixed eight-man band managed a few energetic flashes usually on Hank Williams songs such as So Lonesome I Could the rewed-up It on (Junior pointing out the similarity between it and the later Around the and tarted up with a ridiculously flaccid disco beat During this finale Junior took off his shirt and pounded absent-mindedly on a tom-tom drum before shooting off an air rifle from atop the piano as two band members UNITED ARTISTS THEATRES BARG MATINEES DAILY 3 Shows Start Prior 5PM Ex SunHoli 922 7158 Sacramento ARDEN FAIR MAU 1ARDENFAIR0 I HE MUSIC WAS little more than adequate on gratingly average songs such as "Old Habits" "CRIMES OF PASSION' 1 00-3 1 5-5 40 "GREMLINS 12 oo- os-8 to "RED DAWN 1-55-6 oo-io os "EXTERMINATOR II 115-4-45-815 "THE EVIL THAT MIN 00' 2 55-6 25-9 55 "IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES 12 45-3 05 TAKE A BREAK WEEKEND "AMADEUS" 30-9 35 "BUCKAROO GREMLINS 5 40-7-50-10 OO KARATE KICr 5-407 55-10 05 LAST STARFIGHTIR 615-9 SO ROMANCING THE STONE too DREAMSCAPE 6 00-9-30 EXTERMINATOR II 50 MADISON 4 THEATRES WV334-157 961 9795 or 96Citrus Hghtt SUNRISE MALI Shon Ctr "INDIANA 10 30-12 45-3 00-5-15-10 30 "CRIMES OF PASSION 10 30-12-45-300-5-15-7 30-9 45 "PURPLE 10 45-100-3 15-5 25-7 35-9-45 'THE WOMAN IN RED 0-45-2 25-6-05-10 00 TOP SECRET 12 35-4 15-8 00 HORROR PICTURE SHOW" LET THERE 8E ROCK" FLOYD THE WALL" From the erectors of "Fast Times at Ridgemont even foster It's casual A imiVKSAL Pkture 1984 UnpoCrfjF SfwAm Mr QOobusy riSiK SO 1 BmmiwH 6 D' 13 SI Plus PURPLE RAIN (R) Opens 6-30 FORTY NINER 6 oml ts Plus KARATE KID (PG) Opens 6:30 DELUXE ROOM FOR 2 NIGHTS ELEGANT DINNER AND BRUNCH FOR 2 PER ROOM PER NIGHT Music Review approval of the celebrated in ode to excess the huge hit repeated mentions of Jim Beam liquor throughout the show made one wonder if this tour was in fact sponsored by the distillery as Jovan had sponsored the Stones Perhaps the ugliest and clearest example of contradictions in pursuit of audience approval was THIS WttKiNO IN SAP AMtXTQ LIVE THEATER COMEDY TONIGHT 'STAOEDOOR "CHEATERS" By Michael Jacobs Friday Saturday 8:30 pm Admission $600 Sacramento Inn Plaza Phone 927-0041 SACRAMENTO THEATRE CO FINAL WtIKINO "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST" THUR-SAT 8 PM SUN 2 PM A 7 PM CABARET THEATRE "THE RAVEN" AND OTHER IMAGES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE THUR-SAT 8 PM SUN 7 PM 443-6722 BOX OFFICE 1STH CHAUTAUQUA PLAYERS "AGNES OF GOD" EXTENDED! 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