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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 9,1998
Hispanic American Leadership Organization
Ballet Folklorico
Come celebrate the culture of Mexican dancing and music.
Friday,
October 9, 1998
12:00 p.m. at the
Kansas Union
Love Sees No Color Experiences in Interracial Dating
A panel discussion on interracial dating and relationships
Panel members representing:
Asian American Student Union
Black Student Union
First Nations Student Organization
Hispanic American Leadership Organization
Moderated by:
Robert Rodriguez
Academic Coordinator McNairs Scholars Program
Academic Coordinator McNairs Scholars Program
Tuesday, October 13, 1998 at 6:30 p.m.
Multicultural Resource Center (located between Military Science Building and Summerfield Hall)
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Nation/World
Holier than thou comedy sells its soul to be correct
By Jeremy M. Doherty
Kansan staff writer
Iiked Eddie Murphy better when his movies were crude and sexist.
It's surely a sign of the impending apocalypse when parents can cart their kids off to a Murphy flick without worrying. His latest offering, Holy Man, is warm and fuzzy to the point of banality.
That's fine, of course. The last thing we need is another movie in which characters pepper each sem-
tence with at least three uses of the Fword. That approach, too often disguised as "realistic" and "gritty," helped cheapen such movies as Clay Pigeons, Primary Colors and Good Will Hunting. The situation changes with Murphy.
HOLY MAN
The situation changes with Murphy. If Beverly Hills Cop saw
in a last-ditch attempt to revive the sagging ratings of a home shopping network, Jeff Goldblum (Ricky), right, decides to put an itinerant guru, Eddie Murphy ("G"), on the air in the movie *Holy Man*. Contributed photo
HOLT MAN
Kansas rating: ** out of *****
Running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Rated: "PG" for less pro-fanity than an NYPD Blue episode
him elevating off-color language to the level of poetry, the newer, cleaner Murphy films find him reducing the language to homogenized drivel. In both Holy Man and last summer's Dr. Dolfite, the comedian looks lost amid all the family-values pabulum.
Murphy is "G." a bald fellow who wanders around Los Angeles in a Jesus robe and sandals. Two hard-edged yuppies (Goldblum and Kelly Preston) take pity on this evidently homeless man who gushes truisms that are normally encountered only in fortune cookies.
As it turns out, Goldblum is the manager of a financially struggling home shopping network that specializes in
When "G" waltzes onto the set and urges viewers to abstain from overpriced goods, he kicks off a
Barbara Hershey (Marcella), left, and Jesse Bradford (Billy) star in the movie A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. Contributed photo
For the most part, the laughs in *Holy Man* are small, polite and politically correct. The movie's message, an invasive media shatters human relationships and emotions, is well intended but hardly insightful. Basically, what we have here is a poor man's *Truman Show*.
nationwide phenomenon. Folks everywhere respond to his message of media-free living. Dogs and cats begin to live peacefully. And the network's profits sail into the stratosphere.
However, Holy Man coughs up enough crowd-pleasing silliness that it undoubtedly will be a hit. If not, there's always Boomerang II.
Artsy movie paints dull picture
Kansan movie critic
By Jeremy M. Doherty
Watching A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is like listening to Paul McCartney's post-Beatles albums. In each case, you know that the artist is capable of so much more.
After their success in the early 1990s with Howards End and The Remains of the Day, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant are in a rut. Their films about Thomas Jefferson and Pablo Picasso crashed at the box office and suffered from a potent dose of art-house pretentiousness.
Now they present A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, a bland, aimless exercise in TV-movie theatrics. Set in the '60s and '70s, the movie finds the "Merchant Ivory" team spinning its wheels in a pointless, flat story about family relationships and sexual awakening.
Kris Kristofferson, wooden as ever,
stars as Bill Willis, an American
writer and World War II veteran who
has moved his family to Paris. Nights
in the French city are spent playing
cards and sipping cocktails with his
wife (Barbara Hershey) and other
rich American jet setters.
The movie focuses on Willis' children, Channe (Leelee Sobieski) and Billy (Jesse Bradford), whose American upbringing has kept the two emotionally detached from their peers.
Channe finds a soulmate in Francis (Anthony Roth Costanzo), a lad with a soprano that would put Julie Andrews to shame. While their hip-pie teachers read them beat poetry, Channe and Francis attend sexually tinged operas and annoy everyone within a 10-yard radius.
But Channe's father, suffering from a weak heart and a steel plate in his noggin, decides to move the family back to the United States so he can die
A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES
Kansan rating: **out of ******
Running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
Rated: "R" for profanity and one
shell of sorgancy
How shocking.
in good old American surroundings.
But his kids are no better off.
Channe. separated from Francis,
begins to experiment with sex, and
Billy turns into a couch potato.
Like many "Merchant Ivory" movies, this one has a tossed-salad feel; it's a medley of nuanced characters, metaphors and social mantras that barely stick together. Ivory dances around the edges as if he were afraid to give his story any momentum. He forgets that the only thing worse than an overblown Hollywood flick is a snobbish art flick.
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October 12
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