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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 27, 1991
EXCURSIONS
Elizabeth Taylor nearly collapses
Actress Elizabeth Taylor was ordered by her physician to stay in bed after nearly collapsing during a promotional tour for her latest perfume.
Taylor became dizzy and chilled Tuesday during a stop in Houston.
Hерсикий, Michael Morrison in a statement Wednesday that the Academy Award-winning actress had suffered from dehydration and exhaustion.
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Taylor, 59, is scheduled to marry construction worker Larry Fortensky next month.
Before becoming faint during a tea at a Houston department store, she chatted with fans, showed off Fortensky and accepted a pair of boods designed by fourth-generation bootmaker Rocky Carroll.
Singer backs Earth-smart cereal
Grateful Dead singer and guitarner Bob Wier is plugging two cereals he said would make "eating breakfast an environment."
Kamorest Crisp and Rainforest Granola are made with nuts that are grown in the Amazon rain forests, and some of the profits are donated to environmental groups.
Environmentalists are encouraging the people of the Amazon to harvest the indigenous products of their climbing forests in order to preserve them.
The Grateful Dead, the rock band born in San Francisco during the 1960s, long has been a supporter of rainforest preservation projects.
B.B. King still singing the blues
Blues great B.B. King returned this week to Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., where he got his nickname more than 40 years ago.
King, 66, on Sunday began three nights of performances at the B.A. King's Club on Beale. He played Monday and Tuesday nights.
B. B.King Among his bits are
King was nicknamed "The Beate Street Blues Boy" in the late 1940s. The name was shortened to "Blues Boy," then finally to "B.B."
Among his hits are "The Thrill Is Gone" and "Sweet Sixteen"
Jordan set for comedy debut
"Saturday Night Live" is bringing basketball's Michael Jordan to slam-dunk the competition when the venerable late-night program kicks off its 17th season this weekend.
But the Chicago Bulls guard warned at a news conference Monday that his acting experience is limited.
"I was in a play in the sixth grade, but I was a tree," he said. "It wasn't a major part."
Joining Jordan for tomorrow's show will be the rapl group "Public Enemy" and the show's regular cast, which includes two new
- From The Associated Press
Brad Tavlor, abrewer at Free State Brewery, 636 Massachusetts St., processes some of the 900 gallons of beer Free State brews weekly.
No dirndl? Go to Oktoberfest
By William Ramsey
Kansan staff writer
If you've got lederhosen or a dirndl, wear it.
In if you vegetarian hostess or a fair lady wear it.
But if these traditional German costumes aren't hanging in your closet, then just bring a healthy appetite and a taste for malt beverages.
Oktoberfest celebrations begin in the fall in both the United States and Germany, where the end of the harvest has been celebrated for years with a spread of Bavarian food and drink.
"They sing and they dance, and eat and eat and eat, and drink and drink and drink," said Annette Brill, a Liberty, MA teacher.
Oktoberfest costumes are lederhosen, traditional German leather shorts held up by cross suspenders, and the dirndl, a brightly colored dress with a tight bodice and full skirt. she said.
Brill said the celebration, which takes place during the last two weeks in September and ends the first weekend in October, includes plenty of accordions and folk music.
Tons of pretzels also are part of the festivities, Brill said. William Keel, associate professor and chairperson of Germanic languages and literature, said the holiday began in the early 1800s.
The original Oktoberfest was a huge wedding celebration in Munich, Germany, for a Bavarian princess, he said.
Hops and barley had just been harvested, Keel said. The end of September evolved as a good time for the German
"As long as people enjoy themselves, that's what it is all about. It's just a celebration of life."
William Kee
people to celebrate and drink beer.
"As long as people enjoy themselves, that's what it is all about." he said. "I'll just a celebration of good life."
But Oktoberfest is not a clear picture of what everyday German life is like, Keel said.
Some people don’t understand that the holiday is a cultural celebration and that costumes such as lederhosen and hats are appropriate.
"In America, it's become sort of the generic German festival"
"Keel said."
Only during the last 30 or 40 years have German-Americans across the country celebrated the beer-and-
bratwurst-filled holiday, he said.
Keel said the KU German Club's Oktoberfest has been a long-standing tradition.
Brill, secretary of the club, said the annual event on Oct. 4 was a chance for students to experience part of an ethnical culture.
"You don't have to know how to speak German," she said, "long as you have an interest in German culture, you're really comfortable."
Other Oktoberfest celebrations also are taking place in the area.
Bratwurst and knackwurst, which are traditional sausages, kurttoffelsalat (potato salad) and sauerkraut are also traditional.
Free State Brewery Co. 636 Massachusetts St., is celebrating Octoberfest Sep 9, 2016. This year
During the two-week period, the brewery will make an Oktoberfest beer which is a darker, heavier version of its regular Ad Astra Ale.
Live music is scheduled for Free State's beer garden
Wednesday through Saturday evenings during October
Another nearby celebration is the Germania Club of Kansas City's annual Octoberfest on Oct. 5. Beer is included in the ticket price, and a band will play polaks, waltzes and sing-alongs, among other types of music.
Keel recommended an Octoberfest in Herman, Mo., and said that Hays had planned festivities in the past.
Chili Peppers, Garcia offer creative albums
The Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are back and back with a vengeance.
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik," is the latest addition to the band's anthology of illusionary lyrics and frenzed rushes of heavy guitar playing.
For those who have never heard Chili Peppers songs, they are a fast-paced journey into the thoughts and feelings of band members Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante, Chad Smith and Flea.
The album, "BSSM", is no exception to the rule, with the group throw in some Kleids and the group throw in some
unusual twists to their already unusual sound.
"Breaking the Girl," is a decidedly different sound from the on-the-brink-of-screaming that characterizes Kiedis's singing. The song offers Kiedis a chance to prove that he can deliver the band's message through a variety of lyrical ranges.
Even on the slower songs, the band delivers the hard-driving sound that isn't quite heavy metal but that definitely flirts with that musical genre.
Their sound, oddly enough, meshes with the sudden staccato of verse that comprises the lyrics of the quartet's songs.
My name is peace
This is my hour
Can I get
Just a little bit of power
Although the band brandishes the exploits of inequality in "The Power of Equality," sexual references are included throughout the remainder of the album.
From "Give it Away," to "Sir Psycho Sexy," lead singer Kiels lends a raw sexual energy to the music which borders on deliberate sleaziness.
The ability of the Chili Peppers to mold their already spicy style to a newer, more personal sound makes "BSSM" the band's finest album yet.
ine Jerry Garcia Band
The Jerry Garcia Band
Many musicians fall under the classification of talented, but few deserve to be called great.
Jerry Garcia is one of these "great" musicians.
Whether you like the music of the Grateful Dead, Garcia's best known band, is incidental. The band's music has a universal appeal that even the most avoid anti-Dead Heads will find enjoyable.
Garcia and his crew have assembled a collection of songs reminiscent of music from the early to mid-70s. From musicians such as Peter Tosh to Bob Dylan's socially conscious ballads, the band covers these old favorites in a respectable but unique
Garcia's self-titled band is a testament to the Snow-haired guitar god's musical genius.
fashion.
The lengthy guitar solos are characteristic Grateful Dead fare. But it is an injustice to the members of the Jerry Garcia Band to make such compar-
it is this band's ability to take old classics such as Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue," and give it a musically imaginative perspective.
One of the best songs on the album is a remake of the John Lennon and Paul McCartney classic, "Dear Prudence." The band takes the originally short song and transforms it into a phenomenal 11 minutes and 41 seconds. Nowhere along the way are you bored. Garcia and band take this already captivating song to a new level of musical greatness with this soulful rendition.
It's a journey well worth the trip, no matter how long and strange it's been.
The album is filled with musically mastered remakes that make Garcia appear as some sort of Zen master, leading his band on a journey toward musical perfection.
Reviews by Kristine Curley
Night Life in Lawrence
Cry Out will open for Killer Bees tonight at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire. Cover charge is $5. Kinky Friedman will perform from 6 to 10 tomorrow night. Cover charge will be $6. Goodfoot and Baghdad Jones will perform after 8. Cover charge will be $4.
That Status Moved will perform tonight and tomorrow night at the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2
Massachusetts St. Cover charge is $3.
Chip and Jeff will perform tonight and tomorrow night at Benchwarmers, 1601 W. 23rd St.
"Drowning By Numbers" will be shown at 15.7 and 9:30tonight and tomorrow at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Also showing are "Animation Festival" at 7:15, 8:15, 9:30tonight and tomorrow, and "Twisted Toons" at midnight tonight and tomorrow. Tickets are $3 before p.m. $4 for students. $4.50 for adults after 6 p.m.
The Backsliders will perform tonight and tomorrow night at Just a Playhouse, 806 W.
24th St.
Student Union Activities will show "Awakenings" at 7 and 9:30 tonight and tomorrow night at Wooldorf Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2.50. "Heavy Metal" will be shown at midnight tonight and tomorrow night.
"Freddy's Dead" and "Pure Luck" will be shown at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 tonight and 2:45,
5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 tomorrow at Cinema Twin, 3110 Iowa St. Tickets are $3 before 6 p.m.
and $4.50 after 6 p.m.
"Hot Shots" will be shown at 5, 7:25 and 9:45 tonight and 2:20, 5, 7:25 and 9:45 tomorrow at Dickinson Theatres, 2339 Iowa St. Also showing are "Time Bomb" at 5, 7 and 9 tonight and 2:25, 5, 7 and 9 tomorrow. "Doe Hollywood" at 4:35, 7:15 and 9:45 tonight and 2:30, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:45 tomorrow. "The Fisher King" at 4:30, 7:10 and 9:45 tonight and 1:50, 4:35, 7:15 and 9:45 tomorrow. "Deceived" at 4:35, 7:10 and 9:50 tonight and 2:15, 4:35, 7 and 9:50 tomorrow, and "Dead Again" at 4:50, 7:05 and 9:30 tonight and 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 tomorrow.
*Necessary Roughness* will be shown at 15.17, 15.25, 9.30 tonight at the Varsity Theatre
1015 Massachusetts St., and at a24.5, 15.5, 17.5, 9.30 tomorrow.
PRE-MED STUDENTS
Mrs Una Creditor, KUMC
Associate Dean of Admissions will be on campus to talk individually with students
Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991 10 am-3 pm
Thursday, Oct 10, 1991 10am-3pm
Please call 864-3667 to make an appointment