November 15,1984
ENTERTAINMENT
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The University Daily KANSAN
The Boss is back, and ticket sales are proving it
By CHRIS CLEARY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
After three years off the stage, "The Boss" is back.
And the three-year vacation hasn't seemed to dilute his following at all. Bruce Springsteen has been selling out his concerts across the country in record time.
Springsteen and the E Street Band will appear Monday night at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo.
RICK HILL, salesman at Omni Electronics, 540 Fireside Court, said the store sold out its 2,000 tickets in two and a half hours. Omni was the only place in Lawrence with Springsteen concert tickets available, and the tickets the tickets were sold to college-age people.
"The only thing comparable was the Van Halen concert in June," Hill said. "This was the biggest we've had to handle as far as people calling."
David Remsey, also a salesman for Omni,
said the store received 150 calls a day for a month before the tickets were available.
And it has been this way all over the country, said Diarmuid Quinn, manager of Columbia Records' College Department in New York. Springenstein has been selling out shows "before you can blink an eye."
"HE SOLD OUT 10 dates in New York in two hours," Quinn said. "He sold out seven dates in Los Angeles within a day."
Quinn said "Born in the USA," with a lively beat reminiscent of early 1960s rock'n'roll, had sold more than three and a half million copies.
Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
Life after midnight in the fast-food lane
By THERESA SCOTT
Staff Reporter
In the Sunday night stillness, a black cat silently stole across a darkened 23rd Street. The traffic lights blinked yellow at the intersections, and the street was deserted in both directions.
Everything was quie
But a solitary shop in the 500 block of the street had its interior lights on, indicating that some people still function at 1 a.m. The lights on a lone customer who was munching donuts and sipping coffee. The table in front of him was heaped with books and papers.
Chandra Tiranda, Kebayoran Jararta, Indonesia junior, was studying at Dunkin Donuts. 521 W. 23rd St. He wanted to do well on his sociology test the next day and said that the donut shop was the only place he could go at that hour.
"IT'S NOT ALWAYS quiet," he said, impatiently shuffling some papers, "but I enjoy studying here because it's quieter than my apartment."
Chala Sun, a Dunkin Donuts employee, works the graveyard shift from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. serving donuts and coffee. She said sleeps most of the day, at least until 3 p.m.
ALTHOUGH DAY does not attend classes at the University of Kansas this semester, she is working to pay for the rest of her education. She plans on taking one class next semester. "It will have to be early in the morning so I can go right after I get off work," she said. "That way I can stay awake."
"The hours aren't really a problem because most of my friends are busy during the day," she said. "I get Fridays and try not to feel left out on the other nights."
Day said that most of the customers stop by on their way to work in the morning. "Some students come in to study at night," she said, nodding toward Tiranda, "but not many come in after having gone out drinking. I mean, I wouldn't want to eat donuts after drinking beer, would you?" she said
At Vista Restaurant, 1527 W. 6th St., the food is not too sweet for late night party-goers.
"We have what we call the 'drunk rush' from 11:45 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the weekends," said Mark Caholf, operations manager of the store. "That's when all the
CATLOT WORKS the late shift, getting off after a.l.m. He said that the late night hours not really bother him. "I'm a nighttime person," he said.
He plan on enrolling as a freshman at
kU now semester, but he's not planning on
graduating.
"I like working here because I get to see all types of people, like old hags and drunks," he said. "It's a good opportunity to learn about human nature."
A COUPLE BLOCKS south and west, another crew is burning the midnight oil.
"Two cups of coffee to go." the traveler said, plunking some change on the counter. The hostess handed him the steaming cups, scooped up the change and smiled wearily. At 3 a.m., it's not always easy to keep that grin.
Sharon Downing, assistant manager and hostess at Villa Inn, 821 Iowa St. keeps herself going through the early morning routine. She likes coffee, a pot of coffee and a positive attitude.
"If you start by joking with the customers, things go a lot smoother," he bowed. "It depends on the person to handle the situation. It depends on the individual or group." she said.
DOWNING USUALLY SLEEPES until
but she still has time to see her
children.
However Joel Rosenberg, St. Louis sophomore, said that he often goes a couple days without any sleep while working as a supervisor at Perkins Cake & Steak, 1711 W. 23rd Street. "I use motivation and drive to keep myself awake. It's all a state of mind," he said. "I also function better when I'm busy."
Craig Thompson, seated at the counter shook his head and chuckled. "I can't believe he could always be as energetic as this," he said. "He must be nervous."
Thompson, a computer science teaching assistant, was busy grading the latest test taken by his students. "I don't come here all that often," he said. "I just need some caffeine so that I don't goof up on these papers." He turned back to the exams, muttering to himself. "Much better Margaret, much better."
JUST ACROSS the parking lot from Perkins, Stacey Smith, West Port, Mo. senator, was busy using phone orders at a store in the Southridge Plaza shopping center.
"Good evening, Pizza Shuttle. Can you hold please?" Click.
"Good evening, Pizza Shuttle. Can you hold please?" Click
Click. "Okay. You wanted one sausage and mushroom. Can I have your name and address please... Kappa Sig house, that's 1045 Emery, right?" Your pizza will be in about 15 minutes. Thank you!"
Smith works until 2 or 3 a.m. four days a week, but she has found that working these hours really has not affected her studies.
In a rare respite from the barrage of phone calls, Smith wistfully mused,
"Maybe it would be nice to stay home sometime and have a bubble bath."
"IT'S NOT REALLY a problem," she said. "I just have to discipline myself more and plan my time better. I get more tired from studying than I do from working." she chattered, while jumping to answer another phone call.
Three lines on the phone lit up and the clamor resumed.
'Amadeus' shows Mozart in new light
By ERIKA BLACKSHER
Staff Reporter
"Amadeus." Rated PG. Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge. Running time of two hours and 40 minutes. Playing at the Hillcrest Theatre, Ninth and Iowa streets.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a pink tinted wig, rolling about on the floor with a young woman and behaving like a wanton, giggling buffoon — the image is far from that of the white, marble bust sitting on the grand piano.
But in "Amadeus," that's just how the musical genius is portrayed, and the effect is
shocking and successful. The two-hour and 40 minute movie keeps the viewer humored with Mozart's antics and attentive with the audience. Then there's the flashbacks of a bitter, auctional, old man.
Positioned in front of an old piano and a concerned priest, the invalid man, Antonio Salieri, played perfectly by F. Murray Abraham, told the story of his envy and hatred for the conceited, rebellious child prodigy and of his plot to kill him.
Scenes of him as a child show him praying that divine generosity will give him the genius needed to fulfill his one and only desire — to be immortalized for his musical contribution to the world.
Salieri's musical talent finally gets him a job as the court composer for Emperor Joseph II, the emperor of Vienna. And at a party at the emperor's palace, the anxious Salieri gets his first opportunity to see the reknowned Mozart.
EXPECTING A LOFTY, serious, young genius. Saliere is stunned when he first see Mozart. A love for the frivolous, a highpitched giggle and a boyish face make up a vulgar Mozart, played by Tom Hulce, that's completely unexpected.
Surprised and disgusted that God should plant divine talent in such a "bratty boy." Salieri wonders in amazement what God could be up to. And hearing the young man play the piano only reinforces his bewilderment.
Mozart's need for money is his downfall.
Mozart's back to Mozart he says. To quiet his nagging wife, he takes a job writing an opera of death for a masked phantom. But it hurts to write the piece, he says. It's even killing him. Mozart spends his most moments feverfully dictating the notes of the opera to Salierr, unknown to Mozart that the court composer is the masked man.
The audience can't help but feel sorry for the delusioned old man as he is rolled through the corridors of the mental ward, screaming about his lousy lot in life. Yet, one can really feel sorry for a man who tries to cheat his way out of the mediocre herd.