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ATTENTION ALL TRADITION KEEPERS!
FREE your mind with a FREE meal.
Finals Dinner Thursday, Dec.13 | Adams Alumni Center Stop by anytime between 5 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Caterer extraordinaire Steve Maceli will dish up gourmet cuisine so mouthwatering your finals stress will vanish. Choose meat or veggie lasagna with salad and bread sticks, followed by an irresistible dessert. Relax with a free shoulder massage and take home your very own stress ball. PSVR to sean@ku.edu or call 864-9779 by D
RSVP to saa@ku.edu or call 864-9779 by Dec.11
(If you haven't already received your Tradition Keeper benefits package, you can pick it up at dinner)
Stop by the Adams Alumni Center at 1266 Oread Avenue if you'd like to become a Tradition Keeper. Finals Dinner is one of the many benefits of membership.
First clue that Behind Enemy Lines isn't a good movie! It stars Owen Wilson, an actor whose star power is as bright as a burnt-out light bulb.
Second clue that Behind Enemy Lines isn't a good movie: Did I mention Owen Wilson?
'Behind Enemy Lines' missing ingredients of great action flicks
Whoever decided to cast Wilson to star opposite screen legend Gene Hackman deserves to have the taste slapped out of his mouth. Wilson, an actor not worthy even to star in one of those cheesy local commercials, is the hero in Behind Enemy Lines. He's an Air Force pilot so cunning that he's able to take on an entire army of Bosnian Serbs all by himself.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
*Behind Enemy Lines* gives us Wilson as Burnett, an American Naval pilot stationed on an aircraft carrier near Bosnia. It's during the Bosnian civil war and Burnett is part of NATO's effort to stop the fighting.
During a routine reconnaissance mission, Burnett and fellow pilot Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) fly off course to investigate a peculiar radar sighting and stumble upon evidence that the Serbs have slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians.
stop the righting.
It has been seven years since Burnett joined the service and he still hasn't seen any action. Feeling burnt out and bored, Burnett requests his discharge. Hackman plays the ship's commander, Admiral Reigant, who agrees to cooperate as long as Burnett agrees to stay on for two more weeks.
The Serbs quickly identify the American aircraft and shoot it down to avoid news of the mass slaughtering from getting out. Burnett and Stackhouse eject from the plane before it crashes, but the hostile Serbian army is in hot pursuit.
Commentary
Brandon Stinnett
Movie reviewer
jaylayakansan.com
The Serbs quickly capture and execute Stackhouse, while Burnett hides in the nearby woods.
Then comes one of the most laughable scenes in recent film history. The Serbs don't know that Burnett was on the plane. He could lay low and radio for help without risking capture. All he has to do is stay quiet.
Instead, after witnessing his friend's murder, Burnett screams out a loud, "Noooo0," which, of course, attracts the Serbs' attention, igniting a full-fledge manhunt.
This would result in certain death for most men, but Burnett is able to elude round after round of gunfire from hundreds of fast-chasing Serbian soldiers.
hissing Scream He spends the rest of the movie
locked in a deadly game of chess, trying desperately to avoid capture and make it to a safety zone so he can be rescued by American soldiers. Blah, blah, Yawn, Yawn.
Burnett's rescue is complicated by NATO leaders' reluctance to send more soldiers into Bosnia out of fear that it would cause the fighting to escalate.
It's difficult to ever really get into Behind Enemy Lines. Aside from some nifty camera work and a couple of decent action sequences, it's a dull movie that rarely achieves even a slight level of suspense.
The best action movies make you care about the characters. You root for their success and identify with their struggles. Remember Bruce Willis in Die Hard? Now that was an action hero, Owen Wilson is a wannabe, a goofball who doesn't have one heroic bone in his body.
Contact Stinnett at 864-4810
Great movie of the week: Batman. Michael Keaton dons the bat suit in Tim Burton's 1989 film, the first and best in the recent Batman series. Burton introduces a more serious tone for the caped-crusader and Keaton portrays the most believable Bruce Wayne/Batman character to date. Kim Basinger as sexy photojournalist Vicky Vale is the series' most enticing love interest. But the real scene-s stealer, of course, is Jack Nicholson As The Joker. After Batman, this series went straight to hell.
Joker. After Batman, this series
Bad movie of the week: All the other Batman films. Batman Returns took even a darker tone than its infinitely superior predecessor. That in itself is not a bad thing, but *Returns* fails miserably to match the first film's sense of adventure. Val Kilmer took over as Batman in the uninspired *Batman Forever*, which adopted a much lighter tone for the series. And George Clooney replaced Kilmer in 1999's *Batman and Robin*, easily the weakest of the four, an utter disaster that tramples on the legacy of Burton's original creation.
LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR
Tonight
Rocket Fuel Is The Key with A Stored Northwest and Fifth Ticket Fraud, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., 8 o.m.
chusets St., 10 p.m.
G-13, Raoul's Velvet Room, 815 New
Hamshire St., 10 p.m.
Tomorrow
Snazzy, the Jazzhawz, 926 1/2 Mass-
achusetts St. 10.p.m.
Hampshire St., 10 p.m.
2000 Yards Out with Dropoff and Professing Sila, Coco Loco Mexican Cafe,
943 Massachusetts St., 10 p.m.
E-Double, Brown Bear Brewing Co.,
729 Massachusetts St., 10:30 p.m.
Band That Saved The World CD Release Party, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., 8 p.m. Majestics Rhythm Revue, the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St., 10 p.m.
Simplexity, Raoul's Velvet Room, 815
New Hampshire St., 10 p.m.
Saturday
Saturday Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., 8 p.m.
Sunday
Tuesday
Sunday
Daniel Johnston with the Roundups, T he Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., 10 p.m.
Monday
M16 with the Dolemite and Sense of
Self. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire
St., 8 p.m.
Wednesday
Rock "A"Teens with the Electricities,
The Bottlehouse, 737 New Hampshire
St. 8.p.m.
Weekly Specials
Tear this out and pin it up all week so you'll never miss a special!
ASTROS
CADILLAC RANCH
BADA BING
$2.50 16oz. dom. bottles
EMERSON BIGGINS
Coco Loco
$2.25 Dos Equis pints
$1 bottled beers
Live dancing
$1 big beers &
$1 double wells
$3 premium draft,
$3.50 frozen Margaritas
$2.00 Jaeger shots
Live dancing
$2.50 pitchers, $2 wells,
retro night
$3.75 pitchers
$2.50 16oz. dom. bottles
$2.00 Jaeger shots Live dancing
$1 anything
$2 bloody marys/screwdrivers
$1.00 bottled beers
HARBOUR LIGHTS
$1 shots, Male Revue and Female Anateur Night
$2 domestic bottles.
2 for 1 Margaritas Great Specials
World Class Dance Party World Class Dance Party
$.75 draws, $1.50 dom liters,
$2.25 almost anything,
$4.75 Biggin's size margaritas on the rocks
JACK FLANIGANS
JAYHAWK CAFE
$1.50 u-call-it, DJ & dancing,
ladies nite w/ coupon on p.3B
$3.00 Coronas
$1.50 Miller High Life bottles.
$3.00 22oz. Rolling Rocks
$1 Capt. Morgan, Retro Dance Night, $2.50 Big Beer
$1 bottled beers Live dancing
$2 Wells
$3 Biggin's size Labatts draws
$3.00 Biggin's size Shiner Bock
2 for 1 margaritas
$2.00 Boulevards
$1 Busch & Miller Hi Life cans, $1.50 wells, $2.75 doubles, live music
$1.50 big beers,
$2.00 wells
$2.00 Rolling Rock longnecks
$2.75 Long Island Ice Tea, free pool
$2 domestic bottles, $3 Captain/Jim Beam drinks
J.B. STOUTS
JET LAG LOUNGE
$1 dom draws, $1.50 micro draws,
$1.75 premium draws
$3 Stoli drinks
105.9 Lazer Dance Party
$2.00 pints, $1.00 refills,
$1.50 wells
$1.50 Miller Draft Pints
$2.50 Mirco Brew Draft Pints
$5 pitchers, choose winning team = free dinner buffet
$3 Biggin's size Bud Lt.
OLD CHICAGO
$1.50 Bud/Bud LT. pints
$1.75 dom. bottles, $3.25 micro beer liters, $3.75 premium liters
$2.00 Bud & Bud Light pint draws
$1.50 Bud / Lt bottles,
$2.00 180 & Bacardi
$2.99 big beers
$2.25 Dom. Fat Boys
SIN Night, $1.50 Bud/Bud Lt.
Pints, Free Pool, DJ, Dancing
$6.95 margarita pitchers
$2 Coronas, $5 tacos
$1.50 big beers, $4.00 200z
Lancome Iced Teas
$2.00 Red Bull & Vodka
Simplexity
$2.00 well drinks
RAOUL'S VELVET ROOM
$2 Mexican Beers
$1 bottled beers
Live dancing
$1 anything
No Cover for Ladies
Ride the bus to ALL KU home games
NASCAR party during $2.50 160z Bud & Bud Lt race. $2.16oz buds Draw/Lt bottles
WEDNESDAY
home games
Home football games
$2.00 Boulevard draft pints
$2 Smirnoff Ice / Twisters
Bobby Keys
$2.50 Jackaritas, $3.50 S
Hurricanes D/U/Dancing
$2.50 Boulevard Draft Pints
$2.25 Margaritas
$2.50 imports
2 for 1 on most drinks
$2.50 20 oz. Coors Lt
$3 premium bottles, $2.75 call drinks, $4 double calls
SET EM UP JACK'S
$2.00 house wines, wells,
domestic beers
$2.50 20 oz. Miller Lt
$2 big beers
$.25 wings
Karaoke!
$3.00 Martinis /
Cosmopolitans
$1.50 import drafts
$1 anything!
$1.75 all Dom. Beer Bottles
$2 Margaritas & Coronas.
$1.50 25 oz. big beers
$2.00 pints domestic and micros
2 for 1 burgers and $2.00 domestic big beers
$5 pitchers Bud & Bud Lt.
import night $2.00 import and micro beers
$432oz Bud & Bud Lt,
$2.25 Rolling Rock and Captain Morgan drinks
$2.00 Boulevard pints
$2.00 double calls,
$2.00 domestic bottles,
$.30 wings
Check out Kansan.com for more drink, food and entertainment specials with profiles of Lawrence's bars and restaurants.
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