University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 3, 1991
Arts and Entertainment
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Omega last thing in outdoor music party
Group sponsors its 10th festival
Map to Omega X
Kansan staff writer
By Benjamin W. Allen
Omega 1991
It is the last letter in the Greek alphabet, and it may be the last chance for a wild time this year.
Omero/197
The Committee for the Preservation of Wild Life in Lawrence is host of the 10th anniversary of the spring outdoor music festival originally known as Megakeggar and for the fifth year known as Omega
This year the festival will be today and tommorow on the land of Daryl Petitefish west of Clinton Lake and with 2 area bands and 11 acoustic acts.
Camping Friday night at the festival is encouraged.
Kathy Brown, one of the organizers
of the festival, said it is always lot
of fun.
"It's especially a good time if people like the Lawrence music scene, live music and the outdoors," she said. "Every year we get more and more people come to it."
Brown said that easily 2,000 people were at the event last year when the committee cleared $7,400, which it donated to Wildcare and the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association.
The proceeds from last year's festival was the single largest donation for Wildcare, which takes care of injured or orphaned wild animals.
Brown said all proceeds from this year's festival would be donated to Wildcare since they had lost their financing.
Entrance to the festival costs $12
for both days or $8 for each day.
The festival was originally known as Megakeggar because of the large amounts of beer consumed at the festival.
Entrance to the Megagekgar festival meant a ticket for all the beer you could drink, but when the liquor laws permit it, you can buy it to a purely musical format to attract
an audience.
Its new name, Omega, may, or may not have any special meaning.
"You know," Brown said,
"Megakeggar, Omega, you figure it out."
Cathy Morris, Lawrence sophomore, said she had been attending the festival on and off since it began.
“It’s definitely a Lawrence tradition” she said “the great thing about it is that there is no $5-year-old book from the 1970s.” “It’s just students putting it together.”
Morris said one of the best aspects of the festival was the feeling of total abandonment it gave.
"There's no boyfriends, no responsibilities and no bills. It's just a total release."
Brown said the timing of the festival was good for KU students.
"Omega is good for all those students under stress," she said. "It's just a good way to take a break and release the tension building up for finals."
The committee is encouraging the audience to be environmentally conscious by providing recycling bins for recyclable materials, placing their glass, aluminum and trash.
Dos and Don'ts from the commit- lee:
Although there will be food available to buy, do bring more food and water than you think you'll need and adequate shelter if you plan to camp.
■ Wear sturdy shoes. It is an outdoor festival and you never know what you're going to step on.
- Don't make fires; the committee will provide community fire pits.
- Don't trespass.
■ The committee said don't litter, and if you're a smoker and your butt's on the ground, your butt's on the line. In its brochure the committee said, "Violators will be flogged by the Burly Rampage patrol."
Absolutely no pets.
New series performers and dates announced
Kansan staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
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The University Concert,
Chamber Music and New Directions series will not only provide programs for concert goers, but organizers say that they hope it enriches the community as well.
Charla Jenkins, public relations performing arts director, said that Liz Lerman and the Dance Exchange, and R. Carlos Nakai would be among the performers giving presentations in addition to audition concerts to the Lawrence community and fine arts students.
"Performers like it too, because it helps them remember why they are doing this in the first place." "It' is kind of a two-way street."
The KU Concert Series includes:
- Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano, and Jerry Hadley, tenor.
Sept. 28.
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico Oct. 15.
Northern Sinfonia, Barry
Tuckwell, conductor, Yung Uck
Kim, violin soloist, Jan. 24, 1992.
Joshua Bell, violinist, Feb. 7.
Garth Fagan Dance, April 8, 1992.
1992. New York City Opera National Company in "Tosca." March 2, 1992.
The Chamber Music Series includes;
Aequalis, a percussion, cello and piano trio, Nov. 12.
- Cavani String Quartet, Sept. 15.
- Turtle Island String Quartet, Oct. 6.
The Musicians of Swanne Alley, authentic instrument sextet, April 2, 1992.
The New Directions Series includes:
R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flute, Sept. 19.
■ Liz Lerman and The Dance Exchange in "The Good Jew?" a work commissioned in part by KU, Nov. 1 and 2
Spalding Gray, Feb. 24 and 25, 1992.
Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir, March 19, 1992.
National Theatre of the Deaf in "Treasure Island," Feb. 18, 1992.
Tulsa Ballet Theatre in "The Nutcracker," Dec. 12.
Special events include:
'A Kiss Before Dying'is simply one more gore-by -numbers film
By Kristine Curley
Special to the Kansan
Do movie-makers think that movie audiences today want to see mindless, gory and poorly acted screenplays?
Judging from the factory-line-produced movies that Hollywood has been churning out, the blockbuster's quality is
"AKiss Before Dying," starring Matt Dillon and Young, is a primary example of this amateur's talent.
Writer-director James Dearden shames himself and his craft by butchering this film adaptation of the novel by Ira Lea. The film is about power-hungry psycho Johnny Corliss (Dillon), who kills his wealthy girlfriend Dory Carlson (Young) after he discovers she is in love with a cut off from her family's fortune. The rest of Corliss covering his tracks and becoming involved with Carlsson's twin sister, Ellen, in order to get a piece of the family money.
The somewhat interesting plot is desecrated by poor acting and the shoddy film techniques used to create suspense. The "Psycho"-sounding music in the scene in which Ellen confronts Johnny with his evil doings is cheery, and more prone to create laughs than suspense.
Poorly-written dialogue sometimes can be given new life by effective character portrayals.
Sometimes. But not in this case.
Dillon's deranged character is not a sex-
For example, when Young's character asks him why he's watching her sleep, he tells her he doesn't want to take advantage of her because she looked so peaceful sleeping. Please! Dillon just can't manage to make lines like that seem believable.
Dillon, unlike his partner, Young, has the potential to learn to act in these more serious roles. She, on the other hand, is so abominal in her performance as twins Ellen and Dory that it is questionable whether those were doubles that acted in her previous movies.
Young should not be pitted simply because she must play two roles. Her first character is killed within the first five minutes, and all her friends are killed. To complete her metamorphosis from Dory into Elena
Unfortunately, Dillon doesn't seem capable of playing both sides of Corliss' personality. He is most convincing as Corliss when he shows his character's dark nature. He fumbles in trying to convey the charm that masks his villainous tendencies.
unally-motivated psychotic like some of the more recent crops of movie lunatics, such as James Gumb, the seamstress of human skin, in "Silence of the Lams." Dillon's Corliss is money-motivated and not necessarily concerned with the sexual exploitation of his toys to its toys with their minds and uses deceptive tactics to persuade them to do what he wants.
Young walks through her performance like a zombie on depressants and delivers her lines in monotone. Her face is virtually expressionless.
Horrificly violent scenes in which we see more blood than necessary are placed throughout the movie. The scene of Dory's body splattering on the floor of city hall, spraying passers-by with blood, is disgusting and proves that this movie must rely on cheap thrills rather than creativity to shock the audience.
Dianne Ladd as Corliss's mother and Max von Sydow as Thor Carlsson, the influential baron father to Ellen and Dory, give the only performances that could be considered acting. Maybe there is some truth to the old saying that things get better with age. If that's the case, maybe Young should wait another 15 years before she tries acting again.
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Maybe there is some truth to the old saying that things get better with age. If that's the case, maybe Young should wait another 15 years before she tries acting again.
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