The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 23

1 Mit ettarkgte (Observer Friday January 12 1990 lha Mit Cdatte (Observer Friday January 12 1990 DAVID ALLAN COE David Allan Coe is an ex-con and a self-described long-haired redneck He's been called an overbearing braggart as well as a sharp writer of some complex country songs He'll likely exhibit some of his best and worst tendencies tonight at the Palomino Club in a show that should be anything but boring Kathy I Night David Allan Coe 1030 pm today Palomino Club 9607 Albemarle Rd $8 in advance 810 at the door 568-6104 1:30 pm to 1 am today Private club DAVID ALLAN COE to 1 David Allan Coe is an ex-con and a self- Jescribed long-haired redneck He's been harp writer of some complex country songs an overbearing braggart as well as a He'll likely exhibit some of his best and worst tendencies tonight at the Palomino Club in 'avid Allan Coe today a show that should be anything but boring Kathy I laight 1030 pm Palomino Club 9607 Al- zemarie Rd 98 in advance 910 at the door 568-6104 130 nt today Private club CRITIC'S PICKS More Music Television ideo Section 4i dr ''54A () 17 i' ricl -7 l''' 011 ii 4-- i 414604404m ection 4421161166644 0 -6 414" 14 isZ 14-'''' el 414111 1 4 CRITIC'S PICKS 1-A l-rt tl'i- A -t A -104 is c'' a tAt' At 4': -te i'1 0044'4 4: 1 it -o' 5 '''-'A ssi---71 A --t -s 4: (1- 'a 4 att '1'''I'' 1 C'''''1-' 1 1' '1 '''i'''- 1 -i's'eiY A 541 4 '11': US1C 1 At: -'N fe t'l '44: 4-4- I 1 4 p- A fl'''-' "04-e'4' P' -1- 10 '10 I I IA iih -10 It1 4 it i '1 1 -v a' kt 1 --r-m--: cT 2 Iii- ge iiiP ti 'FL pis iAi 7 0 IPNE ''''41 tliP cg ''ce di' 4' vTh 8 044714 ilk te -41 ok -t 1 (--N-- m------ i 76eAi'-t''4A' '11'77 '1ii41' it r''''''''-1' et 7 1 I 1 i 1 1 1 TNIv'i V''-'i' 'f--t Ai' lii: 44 iN wk ri A 7 41 ft 4 i' it t3 LEZ -0 -f' 'i i 4k i4- --4 r77''t r'f -'A it i '1- -f op el :1 (4 irt1-11 -'ii 4 '-'4'''' krk: '4 it ill ore Music $-- -) 15 t'! --6 '5 iiort 'iv A- A314-444 40 -t 0 11 Ili 70-A4 f-a '1" 1 1 'e '-'i- 7z: -i -4 q' AA 4 --ryr4t ii 't: k'ItC re re: '''-'1'-' 'I' 4- 41 -3 ')-0---- :7: 10 'it'F Ett- kw -44' El 7' Y'rial 1- 'i '-'4 A E''-'11 i 't 44 i'' ok 4' --vA' 0Ai---4 i-4f 'Nr''' i 7'-- '4 ''11 ar'': I 'c) -toIt: e'- A''''w e''t'3 111- I -5: A- --4--1 orle 4 4 1 tti tt t- I 'f 4: 4 4 4 ii Jr- 4 we" t-c--1 t- 14 4 '5Alifa' ''21 4 004 Ai' e- -4 -i 4- i I It '1'''r-E -4 r'11-524'" i' i-' 4 -i 4 ft- EA -31 A Etwt04-1 't "'V 4 1 4''' C'' '1(0bAtillifil' 51 it' '2:" P': 11 4 Nz'SYiC1'rZ 7 4n 4: -trwiq0 'AN -1---t 1 iltelA01 il t7 VAI 'ir' A 1 AP ft: '''''4 At Itk'rtile1tr A O'''' I Ae114' tg- -p 4' te il 4) iErti'''t A' 1 1 l'Ikt rf -e el A' 4-t: i' 't 4-'111'1 EA A 4: pi (t-E4' 7 7 -0- 4204 4 ii- 54' s-tP! 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VERDI'S REQUIEM Composer Giuseppe Verdi was hardly what you would call an orthodox churchgoer From the age of 7 as an acolyte he spent more time listening to the organist 010-07f- than to requests for holy wa- ter during mass It should z14' come as no surprise then that his setting of the man Catholic Requiem Mass is a little different It sounds more like an op era and that may be one reason its performance was forbidden in church for S5 years The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte will present ferdi Verdi's Requiem Saturday night at Ovens Auditorium Music director Mary Nell Saunders has brought in big-name operatic talent for soloists: John Cheek Mary Shearer Jane Sha ulis and Jianyi Zhang They'll be accompanied by the I 30-voice choir and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Natalie Shelpuk 815 pm Saturday Ovens Auditorium 2700 Independence Blvd to $16 discounts available for students and senior citizens 378-8883 9 am to 5:30 pm weekdays noon-5 pm Saturdays VERDI'S REQUIEM IS Composer Giuseppe Verdi was hardly what you would call an orthodox churchgoer From the age of 7 as an acolyte he spent more time listening to the organist than to requests for holy wa- ter dunng mass It should E'A r' A'2A -4 come as no surprise then 14' k'4E that his setting of the Ro- man Catholic Requiem a 1 iN Mass a lttle different 77-f17 -1 iii ''ft 'tItr'! It sounds more like an op- -'--I era and that may be one reason its performance was 7 Th forbidden in church for years The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte will present Verdi Verdi's Requiem Saturday tig ht at Ovens Auditorium Music director vlary Nell Saunders has brought in big name )peratic talent lent for soloists Cheek Mary hearer Jane Shaulis and Jianyi Zhang They'll )e accompanied by the I 30-voice choir and the Natalie Shelpuk 2harlotte Symphony Orchestra lance Blvd 98 to 916 discounts available for students and 1715 pm Saturday Ovens Auditorium 2700 Indepen- enior citizens 378-8883 9 cm to 5:30 pm weekdays loon-5 pm Saturdays 'THE SIMPSONS' Its the best cartoon to hit prime time since "The Flintstones" "The Simpsons" that wacky animated family from "The Tracy Ullman Show" gets its own prime-time slot on Fox starting Sunday Watch it and be part of the trend the cartoon recently had its own Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on a Open Fire" and is the opening act for "The War of the Roses" 'THE SIMPSONS' IN It's the best cartoon to hit pnme tune ince The Flintstones" "The Simpsons" that vacky animated family from The Tracy Ull- nan Show" gets its own prime time slot on 7ox starting Sunday Watch it and be part of he trend the cartoon recently had its own 7hristmas special "Simpsons Roasting on a )pen Fire" and is the opening act for "The Var of the Roses" Caroline Beyrau Details: "The Simpson" 8:30 pm WCCB (channel 18) Caroline Beyrau etails: "The Simpson" 830 pm WOCB (channel 18) Warner bros Tight-lipped Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) and ever-patient Hoke (Morgan Freeman) her driver are the stars of "Driving Miss Daisy" I A For Charlotte And Playwright Everything's Coming Up Daisies Movie Runs As Smooth As A Classic Car REVIEW 'DO THE RIGHT THING' i The summer's most heatedly controversial film has become the winter's coolest video: Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" has been issued by MCA at $8995 -cyS Some critics complained it NT encouraged violence (not a true though it didn 1 I 1 I courage vtolence with heart- 4 warming solutions) and had '1 an ambiguous ominous 4 ending (true) Most people 1 fw''-: thought it a provocative richly populated film about an Italian pizzeria in a black Brooklyn neighborhood where racial tension builds Spike Lee to a feral climax No one is spared the writer-director's harsh eye: not the white pizzeria owner a goodhearted man with a racist streak (Danny Aiello) or the black neighborhood agitator (Giancarlo Esposito) or the lazy irresponsible delivery-man (Lee himself) with an illegitimate child he hardly knows Enjoy the burnished look of Ernest Dickerson's photography and a cast that includes Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Joie Lee (Spike's sister) and John Turturro (A note: Davis and Dee will present "A Tribute To Dr Martin Luther King Jr" Saturday at Queens College) 'DO THE RIGHT THING' III The summer most heatedly controversial ilm has become the winter's coolest video: pike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" has been is sued by MCA at $8995 Some critics complained it vtr- encouraged violence (not tiafi true though it didn't dis- Driving Miss Daisy Stars: Morgan Freeman Jessica Tandy Dan Aykroyd Director: Bruce Beresford Screenplay: Alfred Uhry (from his play) Rating: PG (mild profanity) -Excellent -Good -Fair Poor No Stars -Unacceptable By TONY BROWN Theater Writer ilS a play Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss 4 1 Daisy" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 The acclaimed movie version began '1 1 accumulating awards even before it officially i 0- opened in New York and Los Angeles last 've --6 "4A month For one old Jewish fellow on his way out that's pretty good" Uhry said in a December 1" 4'1--1 telephone interview from his Manhattan i home lk A touring version of the hit off-Broadway play will visit Ovens Auditorium for three nights beginning Jan 22 before going to Co- i I lumbia for one performance Jan 25 The movie opens today in Charlotte The success of both Uhry said had to do Alfred Uhry with being Jewish and growing up in the South "Well I'm a fellow and I'm Jewish but I'm not old" said Uhry 53 "I have my own perspective having grown up Jewish in the South" The story set in Uhry's hometown of Atlanta begins when Miss Daisy Werthan a 72-year-old Jewish widow drives a new 1948 Packard into a See EVERYTHING'S Page 8C v'4 i ''''61rt '''c' 1 4 aP i 104 te 141:3" I Alt By LAWRENCE TOPPMAN Movie Writer lit RIVING MISS DAISY" is 3 as exquisitely wrought as a -A-4' diamond teardrop It moves surefootedly through 25 years of its characters' lives like a dancer performing an intricate ballet en pointe without making a false step Tight-lipped Daisy Werthan and ever-patient Hoke her driver are familiar to anyone who knows elderly Southerners Yet their relationship full of false starts and unexpected turns takes you places you don't expect to go Screenwriter Alfred Uhry adapted his own Pulitzer-winning play He sticks to the theme of racial respect but picks other subjects en route: the assimilation of religious minorities the terror brought by encroaching senility Most mov Lawrence Toppman les show how people act or feel but this one shows just as clearly how they think and makes those thoughts dramatic The only physical excitement comes during the opening credits when Daisy (Jessica Tandy) backs See DRIVING Page 8C lt ermykk4 sNt41110- 't ti 411 0" i 4 te afeiAka: ir I f0-4TA': 'Vt" tr! 0010900fr 1 1- "vt Nnom ki r- C) Ice Capades Glide In With Barbie In Tow l's 'f kr- ''''t- 1 t' 11 14'1: 4' s's'' 4 '1 '01i '''i 5 er 4 is 1' 47 4'4 Ei1 0 0 r- 4k 1 i' -) '''t i :1 1 'TTT111 i 1 1' it i 1'414 ry ''41 T'itY ill rrrtl -rrt 0 A tv yo-d44-tevi-1--4' 4 Matthew Broderick in "Glory" 0 you secretly yearn for escapades but feel you have outgrown such conduct Ice Ca- pades may be your show as it has been for more than I 65 million fans around the globe You'll get the chance to at least watch other people's escapades on ice when Ice Capades comes to the Charlotte Coliseum Wednesday through next Sunday The 1990 Capades launches the show's 50th season with a theme of "Salute to Hollywood" Featured on ice this time around will be Barbie the world's most famous doll and The Super Mario Brothers right out of Nintendo And of course there'll be dance champions adagio artists comedians and precision skaters As always sets will be lavish: a winter dreamland the world of Nintendo rockin' with Barbie a chess fantasy a movieland make-believe This 50th anniversary edition of Ice Capades calls for almost 250 costumes at a cost estimated at more than a half-million dollars Ice Capades claims the most lavish wardrobes in the entertainment world Shows are 7:30 pm Wednesday through Friday noon 4 and 8 pm Jan 20 2 and 6 pm Jan 21 at the Charlotte Coliseum 100 Paul Buck Blvd (off Tyvola Road West) $8 $950 1050 and $16 reserved seating (Tickets are half-price on opening night Wednesday) Tickets available at area Ticketron outlets or at Coliseum box office: 357-4738 or 357-4739 10 am-5 pm weekdays 10 am until showtime on day of event To charge tickets by phone: (800) 543-3041 9 am-I 0 pm weekdays 9 am-6 pm Saturdays 10 am-6 pm Sundays George Fitzpatrick Black Soldiers Get Their Due In Authentic 'Glory' Page 4C Don Henley Tom Petty Prince Dominate Grammy Nominations Page 9C Ice Capades Featured in this 50th anniversary edition of Ice Capades are The Super Mario Brothers right out of Nintendo.