University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 26, 1991
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Wednesday
Kill Whitey and Joe Worker, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Thursday
That Statue Moved and Steal Mary, SUA free concert, 7 p.m. on Campanile Hill.
Special Beat, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Fridav
- Lonnie Ray's Blues Jam, The Jazzzhaus, 9261/2 Massachusetts St.
Midwest Music Camp performance, 8 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murpah Hall.
Ipso Facto, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hamshire St.
Massachusetts St
Id Explosion, The Jazzhaus, 926 $ _{1/2} $
Midwest Music Camp performance Show Choir and Jazz Ensembles. 7 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Saturday
Baghdad Jones, The Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire St.
Wild Cards, the Jazhaws, 92%/
Michauxhaets St.
Kirk, the Postoses, the Crossing,
618 W. 12th St.
Vilmion Litton, Bellis, 611 Vermont
■ Midwest Music Camp performance, senior high chairs and symphony orchestras at 11 a.m. and senior high concert hall for music students in Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall.
Monday
- Open mike night, The Bottleneck. *
737 New Hampshire St.
618 W. 12th St.
Tuesday
Blues Jam, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
12th St.
Karaoke, The Crossing, 618 W.
Midwest Music Camp performance, 8 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Boring characters unoriginal writing sink 'Dying Young'
By Amy Robinson Kansan movie reviewer
When all else fails, my most vivid memories of "Dying Young" will be blank walls and canned peaches.
. will remember the blank walls because the dying young man Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) is working toward a doctorate in art history but has no art on his walls. Stark gray walls in poorly lit rooms give his apartment a feel of gloom and despair.
I'll remember canned peaches because Hilary O'Neill (Julia Roberts) does the canning. I suppose it makes her look domestic. But where did a woman from Oakland come from? Do anyone can fruit when they didn't have a garden and could get fresh produce any time?
Hilary is so concerned with Victor's health that she puts him on a diet including ginseng and snake skin powder and herotherapy. No wonder he doesn't eat.
The plot of "Dying Young" is simple and resembles "Pretty Woman," Victor, who has leukemia, hires Hilary to take care of him during his chemotherapy. After a visit with the patient's history lesson, Victor decides to take Hilary on a vacation in a picturesque seaside town. They play house.
One admirable thing about "Dying Young" is that it doesn't back away from the most unpleasant aspects of it. The problem is that the chemotherapy are there in detail.
I won't give away anymore of the plot, except to say that it isn't particularly original.
Campbell Scott was in 1990's film about the effect of AIDS on the gay community, "Longtime Companion," which is a superior film in all respects. In "Dying Young," Scott is stiff and serious; he rarely smiles for more than a split second. He is a good actor in a limited role.
and knows that they don't necessarily last. He says that he is still working on his doctoral dissertation, but we never see this.
Julia Roberts displays her considerable charm and talent in a not particularly difficult role. Her Hilyer is, like Vivian in "Pretty Woman," self-conscious about her lower-class roots and lack of education.
In "Pretty Woman," Edward and Vivian sit in a park reading from a book of Shakespeare and then go to the opera. In "Dying Young," Victor tries to teach Hilary about art history.
In "Pretty Woman," they go to a snooty restaurant. In "Dying Young," the lead characters visit another snooty restaurant.
Hilary and Victor struck me as a particularly unconvincing screen couple. When they go on a date, they can't find a place they both like.
Leukemia brings them together. Hilary wants someone who needs her and Victor wants someone who is energetic and alive.
Victor has lost all his friends. Be has been through remissions before
If you like this sort of thing, go and cry your eyes out.
Joel Schumacher directed "Dying Young". Richard Friedenberg wrote the screenplay, adapted from Marti Leimbach's novel. Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, Vincent D'Onofrio and Ellen Burstyn co-star.
Tobacco industry scientists say smoking deadly
ing there's controversy is the same as saying there's controversy over the shape of the Earth." said K. Michael Cummings, a senior research scientist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Buffalo, N.Y.
risk factor associated with a variety of diseases.
However, he said it did not know whether smoking caused disease.
But Cummings, in his article in the journal's July issue, charged that the tobacco industry was using the research-sponsoring council as a public relations vehicle intended to foster a false impression.
Walker Merryman, vice president of the group that represents the tobacco industry, said the Tobacco Institute had long said smoking was a
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