Jacque Janssen, arts/features editor
University Daliv Kansan / Friday. April 29. 1988
Arts & Entertainment
11
DANCE! DANCE!
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
About 20 peanut, pretzel and popcorn dancers sat in a ring trying to hear the voice of their leader over the din of Senate debate on Wednesday at the state Capitol in Topeka.
Candi Baker, leader of the children's troupes, raised her voice to give her dancers a few more instructions before they went to apply their make-up.
"If you make a mistake, don't worry about it. You've never performed before in a place this strange," she said. "Stand quietly with your partner, listen and do not socks. This place is exciting, so have fun."
But they were back in a few minutes to
The kids scattered, leaving the rotunda empty.
dance their interpretation of a Japanese folk tale, "The Eight-Forked Dragon," in celebration of International Dance Week.
Baker said that her dance troupes were part of a week-long series of dances performed in the Capitol in conjunction with Governor. Mike Hayden's declaration of April 24-30 as Dance Week in Kansas, Other groups included the Washburn Dancers, the Prairie Wind Dancers, the 4-5-6 Speed-Up Company, members of the Lawrence School of Ballet and the University Dance Company.
Doug McMinney, member of the Prairie Wind Dancers and an assistant to the Popcorn Dancers, said the performance company had recruited him. He said he liked working with the children.
Above left, Doug McMinny plays the mischievous prince banished from heaven in the folktale "The Eight-Forked Dragon." Left, Laura Marshall and Dawn Sattilaro listen to a few words from their teacher. Above, Suzanne Sattilaro and Becky Welsh turn a sheet of plastic into a river during the folktale. All of the dancers performed at the Capitol rotunda in Topeka on Wednesday. (All photographs are by Sue Schellie/KANSAN)
'Unholy' ain't dog from hell
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
I dedicate my last film review of the semester to Joe Bob Briggs, the drive-in movie critic of Grapevine, Texas, the man whose style I emulate today.
Speaking of waking up and finding a nest of snakes in your lap, after seeing "The Unholy," I can't decide which is worse: having your hands nailed to an altar while this Terror Dog feeds you some wart it ripped off its neck, or watchcome girl get nekid right before your eyes then you sotta tell her to get dressed cause you're a priest.
You can decide for yourself while you watch this extravaganza of Devil Fu that was playing at the Hillecrest Theaters until they dumped it cause it wasn't makin any money, but it's worth a trip to KC.
The dear is that the Devil decides to pick on this one church in New Orleans ever Easter. When the priest prays overnight in the church on Good Friday, the Devil beams in this red-haired demon wobea wear an eid given by him to tempt the priest and when he don't give she fillets his throat wide open with her Dragon Lady fingerclaws.
After a couple of murders, Hal Holbrook the archbishop figgers on closin the church down. But then this Fr. Michael guy falls off the 17th floor of this hotel and don't even get a bruise so the archbishop assigns him to the murder church heins he is so tough.
Fr. Michael musta watched too much "Hell Town" cause he decides to track down the priest killer so he can send him to confession or something. He keeps gettin roughup by up this gear wearing upside-down crosses for earrings until somebody shines the light of the Lord on his head and talks him into dressing up in his Superprentist oufit. Then Fr. Michael gives that old Devil a run for his money.
We got eight breasts. Six quarters of blood. Two wet T-shirts. Two exploding bodies. One disembowlment. Gratuitous guy hit by a car. No Kung Fu but we got human sacrifice Fu. German Sheard Fu. Tornado Fu. Padded cell Fu. Dissolving eyes Fu. Flying stained glass Fu. Dream sequence Fu. Flaming hard card Fu. Dentist drill Fu. Dry ice Feu. Spontaneous combustion Fu. And two midguts that look like them underground mutants in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" after they peel their faces off.
Kansan Academy Award nominations for Nicole Froster as the red-haired babe donate for knifex to make the beast with two backs with Superpriest in his own church; Trevor Howard as Blind Fri. Silva the Saturbator for talkn five straight minutes without clearin the mucus from his throat; and the extra playin the hotel manager who stops Superpriest from savin a suicide long enough to say "I don't want any blood in this hotel, OK"
Three stars. Kev Bob says check it out.
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