University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 22, 1991
Arts and Entertainment
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Sentimental performances may reap Oscars
Kevin Costner, left, and Graham Greene, on the white horse, may ride home with Academy Awards on Monday night for their directing and acting efforts in the epic "Dances with Wolves."
The Oscar award is 13.5 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds. It is cast in Britannia metal and electroplated with gold. It costs about $200.
By David Small
Special to the Kansan
The 63rd annual Academy Awards will be broadcast Monday night to more than a billion television viewers worldwide.
Why wait until Monday?
Live, from the University of Kansas — the 1990 Guide to the Oscars — the individuals and films that will take home the 8-pound, 13-inch tall statuettes (as well as a look at the nominees who deserve to win but will not, and some of the films and performers snubbed from nominations)
The 4,830 member Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences awards ceremony usually begins with the category of best supporting actress — as good a place as any to begin Oscar predictions.
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Lorraine Bracco deserves the Oscar for her compelling portrayal in "GoodDellas" of a woman who not only manages a man, but also his life.
Whoopi Goldberg, however, is on the comeback trail following a series of film disappointments ("Burglar," "Telephone" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash"). She will receive the sentiments that she is "missing in the 'Ghost' as a charlatan psychic who helps Patrick Swaze's character, a ghost, out of a bind
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The best supporting actor award will mimic the supporting actress category and will honor another emotional favorite.
Al Pacino, a previous ninniee (but never a winner), will take the prize home for an almost unrecoognizable performance as Big Boy Caprice in the Disney extravaganza "Dick Tracy."
It is Joe Pesci who should walk off the stage with the Oscar for his dynamic portrayal of an out-of-conference Sicilian mobster in "Good Callas."
Finding the best actress of 1990 is a difficult task, but Julia Roberts makes the choice one steeper.
Roberts's "cuties" performance in the mega-hit "Pretty Woman" contributed to the success of the film, but he did not receive any company as her fellow nonnéeses.
Perennial award-winner and nominee Neryl Streep offers yet another diverse experience for the viewing audience in "Postcards from the Edge." It was not, however, on a par with past endeavors.
Kathy Bates ("Misery"), Joanne Woodard "Wood," and Mrs. Bridges" and Anjela Huston ("The Grifters") are the real contenders.
Joanne Woodward will win out to her rousing portrayal as the repressed wife of an attorney in post-Depression Kansas City.
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Gerard Depardieu's performance as the swashbuckling title character in "Cyrano de Bergerac" is the hands-down winner for the best actor category. The voters, however, will pick an actor in a foreign-language film
Jeremy Irons' sardonic Claus Van Bulow (from "Reversal of Fortune") will give Robert D尼ro's performance in 'Awakenings' a run for its life, and he will also provide for his uplifting portrayal of a man who, through the wonder of modern
medicine and hope, experiences life after years of no animation.
A challenger vs. a champ – Kevin Costner's directorial debut for “Dances with Wolves” is magnificent and provides strong competition to best veteran director Martin Scorsese for his vibrant yet disturbing look at life in the mfaf (“Good-Fellas”).
Commercialism always has stuck its foot in the door of the Academy Awards but never to the extent it has this year. The nominations of Julia Roberts (beast actress), and "Ghost"
And the winner of the best picture of 1990 is . . . "Ghost?"
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for best picture, are blatant examples of Academy voters being swayed by box office receipts. The presence of Jerry Zucker's fantasy on the ballot crowded out such deserving films as "Avalon" and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge."
Awakenings" is based on the real-life accounts of Oliver Sack's work and his success in achieving what was thought to be unachievable: Offering "life" to patients stricken with the "sleeping epidemic" of AIDS. The film Williams are a remarkable team guided by an extremely capable Penny Marshall. The film's story, however, tends to drag.
The third installment of the Corleone epic, "The Godfather, Part III," is a disappointment and inferior to its predecessors. While parts I and II were not well received in 1972 and 1974 respectively, 1990 will not be the year for part III.
Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas," an adaptation of the novel "Wise Guys," is the best film of 1990. This sordid tale of Henry Hill's ascent and descent into the mob is the most realistic gangster movie ever to appear on screen. The ensemble cast of Robert De Niro, Ray Liappa (Hill), Joe Pescio, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Servino tells the story of a mafia family's involvement in crime (cinema) in the 1969 Luthana heist) and their downfall from drug trafficking.
"Dances with Wolves" is just the sort of movie Academy voters like to crown as best picture — a film with epic beauty and a cause. Kevin Coster directs himself and a fine supporting cast in a depiction of the Sioux Indian way of life, for once offering a look at the American Indian from the American Indian's point of view.
The Oscar will go to this film because the Academy will not be able to resist the socially conscious message Costner gives or the accomplishments of a first time director (a 1980s best picture, "Ordinary People," which was Robert Redford's directorial debut).
Friday
CALENDAR
Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival, 2 p.m., Murphy Hall, free.
■ "The Jung Book," SUA Movie, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, $2.50.
Jazz Festival, Concert, 7:30 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall,
halls at 214 Murphy Hall.
Caribe, 9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire St., $5.
**Jbeat the 'Clock'** 9:30 p.m., *The Beat* 98% of Massachusetts Street, $1.30 each on the Roads.; **SUN Movie midnight**, Woodford Theater, Kansas City; **National** $2.50.
Saturday
■ Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival, all day, Murphy Hall, free.
■ Jazz Festival Concert. 7:30 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall,
hallitc at 214 Murphy Hall.
- "Star Wars," SUA Mobile, 4 p.m.
* "Woodland Auditorium," Kusano Press,
3 p.m.
* "The Jungle Book," SUA Mobile, 7 p.m.
* "Kusano Press," Adventure Island,
Kusano Press, 2:50 p.m.
L.A. Rambers and Black Cat Bone,
9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New
Hampshire, $3.
Sunday
**Beat The Clock**, 9:30 p.m. *The Jazzhaus, 928/2 Massachusetts*, $3
"Revenge of the Nerds," SUA Movie, midnight, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, $2.50
■ "The Jungle Book," SUA Movie, 2 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, $2.50
**Inge Theatre** “Pot-Pouri”
“Cloud Nine” 8 p.m. Inge
Theatre, Murphy Hall, tickets at Murphy
Hall Box Office
Tad and Paw, 9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., advance tickets $8.
Monday
- SUA Gallery, Jazz & Blues Photographs, through Saturday, Kansas Union. free
**inge Theatre** “Pot-Pouri Productions”; “Victims of Dame” 8 p.m. *Inge Theatre*, Murphy Hall, tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office.
*"Housekeeping," SUA Movie, 7 p.m.
Wooldrift Auditorium, Kansas Union, $
*Iinge Theatre "Pet-Pourier Productions"
*"The Tears of The Gods," 8 p.m. Iinge Theatre, Murphy Hall, tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office.
Open Mike, 9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., free.
Tuesday
Treat Her Right and Mongol Beach Park, 9:30 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. $4.
Wednesday
"Housekeeping," SUA Movie, 7.pm. Woodruff Audition, Kansas Union, $2 New Directions Series, Urban Bush Women, 8 p.m., Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St, tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office and SUA Office.
**Inge Theatre** “Pot-Pouri Theatre” “The Story in Frank,” 8 p.m. Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall, tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office.
Visiting Artists Series: Yoshi and Brenda Ishikawa, bassoon and piano, 8 p.m. Swallowback剧院 Hall, free.
■ "The Earth is not Fragile," SUA Lecture, James Lovelock, 8 p.m., Kansas Union Ballroom, free.
New Duncan Imperials and Goober and the Peas, 9:30 p.m. The Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St., $3.
Thursday
**Inge. Theatre. "Pot-Pourri. Productions." The Colored Museum. 8 p.m., Inge. Theatre, Murphy Hall, tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office.**
■ "Housekeeping;" SUA Movie, 7 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, $2.
Battle of the Bands featuring MTV VJ Pauly Shore, 7.15 p.m., Hoch Auditorium, tickets at SAU Office.
Sons of Rex, 9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., $3.
KU theater series to stage five plays
Arts and Features Briefs
"Pot-Pourri Productions," the University Theatre's annual series of student-directed plays, will be staged Sunday through March 29 in the William Ingle In theatre in Murphy Hall.
Five dramas will be presented this year, with a different play offered each night except for one play that will run both Thursday and March 29. Dramas in the 1991 "Pot-Pourri Prodromus" are.
"□Cloud Nine," a political farset in Africa in 1880 that looks at often-hypocritical Victorian morality, directed by Sarah Becker, theater doctoral student, to be presented Sunday.
■ "Victims of Duty," a mysterious story of a man's journey into his own mind, directed by Ken Willard, the author's student, to be presented Monday.
■ "The Tears of God," a lyrically romantic play about a strong Appalachian family and their land, directed by Rick Mundy, the theater doctoral student, to be presented Tuesday.
one story in Frank," a tale that weaves realism, absurdity and ritual into the story of a Kansas family told through the eyes of a young man, written by KU graduate Marcus Richey and directed by John Abrahamson, Holton senior, to be presented Wednesday.
- "The Colored Museum," a series of scenes with acerbic humor that observe how African-Americans look at themselves and their values, directed by LeWan Alexander, instructor of theater and film, and Andrew Turner, Lenexa senior, to be presented Thursday and March 29.
Festival features guest jazz artists
Jazz-fusion drummer Peter Erskine and vocalist Mavis Rivers are headlining the 14th Annual Jayhawk Introductory Festival at KU Campus and tomorrow.
Along with the daytime sessions in Murphy Hall, the festival will feature evening jazz concerts at 7:30 p.m. in the Arts Pavilion. Attendees will ensembles and special guest artists.
Rivers, who has had a long career as a jazz vocalist, will be featured in an online lecture of bass I, conducted by Dan Gailey, assistant professor of jazz studies.
Erskine has been involved with many jazz-fusion ensembles, including Weather Report. whose album was distributed to, a Grammy Award.
He will be in concert tomorrow night also with KU Jazz Ensemble I.
night, also with KU Jazz Ehsemble I. The annual jazz festival will also offer students the opportunity to attend school and college jazz ensembles and the Strategic Air Command jazz band from Offutt Air Force Base in Nabla, Omaha.
General admission tickets for the jazz festival are $5 and on sale at the KU Band Office, 214 Murphy Hall.
Troupe to present belief-based works
The Urban Bush Women, led by artistic director Jawarya Wille Jo Zollar, will perform as part of the KU New Directions series at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Founded in 1984 by Zollar, a Kansas City, Mo., native, Urban Bush Women uses movement, live music and a cappella vocalizations to preach about the importance of people's transformation of suffering into the bittersweet joy of survival.
Urban Bush Women presents works rooted in African-American folklore and religious traditions while performing choreography created by Zollar in collaboration with her company.
Joining the seven-member company for the KU performance will be Junior "Gabu" Wedderburn, a Jamaican drummer and reggae artist who leads the New York-based group Ancient Vibrations.
tickets for the concert are on sale at Murphy Hall Box Office and Liberty Hall, and student tickets also are available at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. All tickets are general admission.
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