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-m -me 'W -fc jV-'-rV'J A--V snuotu nu ras-sw oat it ms 1 FOCUS ON FUNC Living- Sports 12-13: 14-ltf REVIEW Silver Bullet: Low-caliber but good fun Out By Ciena heller Nmta 9uff Wriur 1ICrtrl'V4' i h-A Silver Bullet is a lightweight chiller that teemi a bit out of place this season with the likes of of place "1 By Ron Carter tf nf tr Agnes of God Jag tumn hue Mot only docs it have a summer-movie fed despite a climax on Halloween it is also more a drive-in movie a honor flick for teens with enough conventional suspense and blood to occasionally interrupt a back-seat petting set lion -ih Something sinister is loosed on sleepy little Talker's Mills a monster who quickly and bloodily dispatches a railroad worker a pregnant and abandoned lover considering suicide a slov-enly florist and a boy who stays out too late to fly his kite rV Because the murders occur on or about the date of the full moon the monster is obviously of the Lon Chaney variety though only the three heroes pick up on this telling coincidence Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story' Corny' DC Cab) whose goofy looks have grown exag-- gerated with fat plays Uncle Red a happy-go- lucky lush who is every dream The nephew in this case is newcomer Corey Haim as Marty Coslaw a young paraplegic who Stevie Ray Vaughan should be the blues ized jvheelchairs lovingly built by his unde 1 Completing the trio is Megan Follows starring in her first picture as older sister Jane Vaughan IS trying to be all Special effects are downplayed here with em- Back to basics: By Jins Witten I NwwwSwa Staff Wrilar Your own private radio: I had lived in Springfield for more than couple of yean before I discovered the city had a radio station that could be found at 89-point- 1 on your FM diaL Tm still not sure how I discovered the station But it probably 7 came during one of those latoat-night excursions down the radio dial that has you stopping every time you hear something remotely doae to what you like And it was a very nice surprise The station operated by Wittenberg University students under the call letters WUSO is a throwback to when underground FM rock I radio was bucking the overstylized Top 40 of AM WUSO is so underground it broadcasts from a basement cm the Wittenbeig cam- pus featuring a good mix of oldies progressive rode and typical collegiate irreverence 1 an alternative to said station manager Krista May "FM is all Top 40 now College radio in general where you can hear things like the Dead Milkmen Electric Pmce and Raszefarae is an WUSO which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year re- cently came back on the air full-force after its normally haphazard summer schedule And if you were wondering little has changed The many student DJs (90 in all) range from those who have a knack for radio to those who probably have a knack for accounting' As for the play list it contains more than a few cuts a commercial station handle "WUSO has always been controversial" said May "The people who run it aw controversial why were only 10 watts- "You can barely pick us up at the mail But sometimes we make it out to the highway where it's flat and you can pick us up all the way out to South Two prime weekly programs are the Friday night music special A (three hours of David Bowie beginning at 9 mn this week) and the WUSO top 20 countdown (Sundays 9 pjn to midnight) You have to realize the WUSO top 20 is unlike most Only there will you find Joey Miserable A the Worms performing The Worm Song 1 i fL 'i things to all people on Soul to phasis on developing relationships Jane and her 1 dependent brother have a typically stormy one JOUI ana ne tails in tne while Unde Red in keeping Marty from giving prOCeSS Aji'V in to his handicap learns to live for something more than his ever-present bottle of Wild i 'i: Turkey On his latest album Soul to Soul Texas guU -i tarist Stevie Ray Vaughan strays often from the traditional blues that have won him critical ao I claim and a measure of popular acceptance and -i explores the more commercial world of rock -f i' He should have stayed with the blues Vaughan's first two albums Texas Flood and Couldn't Stand the Weather were major blues I performances that lured the listener into the mu- sic brought him to an emotional peak and left i him spent and content His effort is adequate V-'- Look at Utile Sister is a nice rock roll song Together the three caned out each other's complete with a tinkling piano accompaniment bortcomings and manage to discover and in-and a killer sax sola vocal on the wolfuh kuIer: tune sounds a lot like Johnny Winter and the Lillie effort is made to ronceal the werewolfs guitar work blends well with the rest of the band and overall the film another unam-v However many of the tunes on Soul to Soul bous adaptation of a Steyen King horror story particularly Say What are merely founds- on novdette Soul to Soul though is merely a mish-mash of tions for guitar gymnastics Vauxhan 'I- aSM Cycled the Werewolf (screenplay by King conflicting styles that oilers a little of everything on to the world that hTis a great guitarist The world knows the heroics are houkh containing an occasional obscenity and very little of substance y-- kX'iV- Mn tlx I'i and sometimes graphic violence Silver Bullet is prefect entertainment for the older kids and it Vaughan is at his best on original material He writes and performs slow blues with a style that season to open By Jias Hay -i5 rWjritav 'V: course there are avamplea among his sonatas find him in repose in a reflective attitude that is and symphonies also that might be regarded as uncommon in him" he said its equals but for me the Fourth has its own He admits that he has had the work in his incomparable stature" repertoire quite some time and one of my Even while acknowledging that comparisons first performances of it was with Lorin Maaxd can be invidious Gutierrez insists that "the pi and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1979" Hondo Gutierrez who will be heard as piano soloist in Saturday opening concert of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra's 41st season says the work he'll be playing here is one of his fhvorites He likes it so much that not long after his appearance here be performing the same work with the Berlin Philharmonic "The Beethoven Fourth Concerto has always been ooe of my he said in a telephone conversation Tuesday from 'the office of his miMw in New York City "In my opinion it is the Fourth that -stands apart even if one had to choose according to own standards" he said Gutienes bases that opinion on "its nobility its lyricism and its inspiration especially in the slow and however short second i "This concerto along with his violin concerto to me represent the two towering examides of achievement as a creative artist Of That was not long sfter Gutierrez began his career in 1970 with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in which he played the Bfhmaninnff Third Concerto "Actually rd had one earlier professional appearance with the Ssn Randaco Orchestra under Josef Krips in 196S but the appearance with Mdita and Los Angdes was die lint on a regular muon nrocram" he explained That (os Angeles performance came in the lime year in which he was presented the silver rti ja the TschaikoVsky International Competitions in Moscow Yet he says it was not his second-place finish there that launched his career but rather his cn gagement in Los Angeles JJZAS A The Springfield Symphony Orches- tra kicks off a new season with a concert at 8:19 pjn Saturday at North High School the symphony's new home Pianist Honda Gutierrez will be the guest artist for a program that will include works by Handel Beethoven Schubert The second program in the series win be Nov 16 OUT OF YOUR COURD Hill's Department Store will hold its Uth annual Pumpkin Hunt at 9:30 ajn Saturday in the parking lot of its Upper Valley Pike store Children ages 4 to 10 will be able to search for candy-filled pumpkins hidden in piles of straw There also will be gifts for younger ano writing in this concerto anticipates the piano works of Chopin and some of the other romantics for its filigree and ornamentation in foe first movement" becomes somewhat more of what we might call the kind of writing broken up as it is into different meters almost Chopinesque or Lisztian" -v Gutierrez likewise he finds the -Beethoven Fourth to be "really a unique piece of writing even within all of his output for its usually think at Beethoven as atop the mountains fighting the gods but in this work we 8m CARTER on Page 10 See PIANIST on Page 10 I ri 1S -i rt 'A' S5- hi I 1 vTTTT li' i -j i pO V-ft JaUar tiafae tt Daytaa Lectare Beriea 1 Eatkar WUlaae i Memorial Hall 10 1 ErL MONDAY iirocL 21 -WrisriHaBAudit (rdabBMdaaiwillMtfeilMMaShi "My Fair Lady" laCbnwdia Dinner Theater ptacn-1 mS tte 8rhfltM NcwkSw li Ihrouth Oct 31 la Ski olnSwr (Sal in mc Cuhunl Center Sir the Art Owloaji vi naan to lawnaiaM to- throufh Oet 20l 1" 1 to amallag Own puUcakrljr ISm at aaa FaS VMiaa 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