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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Lied Center Presents A New Directions Series Event
Sankai Juku
"Shijima (The Darkness Calms Down in Space) is a work that never ceases to astonish and entertain. You will not see anything else quite like it."
8:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
October 13,1993
Lied Center
Tickets on sale at the Lied Center Box Office (B64-8ATS); Murphy Hall Box Office (B64-3982); public $16 and $14, KU; Haskell and K-12 students $8 and $7, senior citizens and other students $15 and $13; and SUA faculty $15. The SUA office, Kansas Union; phone orders can be made using MasterCard or VISA; all seats reserved.
Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance, KU Student Senate, and the Kansas University Endowment Association Special thanks to this year's *Yervant Impartor* Partners, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kell's Audio and Music Showcase, ShareScreen, and Commerce Bank Trustee.
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Movie ticket prices up to $7.50
Video rental is cheap alternative
The Associated Press
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — "Jurassic Park" may have broken the all-time box-office record, but it owea lot of its financial success to soaring ticket prices.
With movie patrons faced with $7.50 admissions in some cities and the average ticket costing more than $5, this summer's "Jurassic Park" grosses are misleading. Both 1939's "Gone With the Wind" and 1982's "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" totaled more admissions in domestic theaters.
become fashionable, and one studio chief said that ticket prices must come down or the industry will suffer. The theater owners, meanwhile, said they lower their prices as soon as the studios give them better deals on movie rentals.
Thanks to the rising prices, discount theaters — called "dollar houses" in industry parlance — suddenly have
What makes the ticket prices more remarkable is that the trend in home video runs completely in the opposite direction. Not too long ago, video renters had to join a club—often at $50
"Movies are too expensive right now," said Tom Pollock, representative for the MCA Motion Picture Group, whose Universal Pictures produced "Jurassic Park."
The exhibitors say that if Hollywood is serious about holding down ticket prices, it needs to start leading by example.
-- and pay several more dollars for each tape rented. These days, clubs are nonexistent and thousands of tapes can be rented for just $1.
declined from 21.6 million a week to a little more than 18 million a week.
Since 1979, movie ticket prices have more than doubled, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, outpacing inflation. At the same time, movie admissions have
When a theater shows a film, it pays a share of every admission back to the producing studio. The percentages, called "terms", are determined on a film-by-film basis, and the trend is for the theaters to keep less and the studios more.
Indeed, one recent film had some of the worst terms around: It was Pollock's own "Jurassic Park."
WEIRD: Answering-machine confession
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...Leave your confession and we'll get back to you
Francis Perlmutter, who had inadvertently confessed to murder in St. Paul, Minn., in June when he left a message on an answering machine, told reporters who were questioning him just after his arrest. "I don't know what's going to happen now. This is my first murder."
Family that drinks together stays together
Testifying in Conway, S.C., in April on behalf of her brother, who was ultimately convicted of criminal negligence in the drowning death of a woman despite his being severely intoxicated at the time, Janet Kolba-sook told the court her brother was dear to her: "We're a tight family. We're all alcoholics."
i give you my word
In April, Edward Blagden, 64, was brought before taxi cab regulators in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on a customer's complaint that Blagden had locked him in the trunk of the taxi when he didn't pay the fare. Blagden ultimate-
lost his license, but not before he begged the hearing board: "I promise you, I won't put anybody in the trunk."
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Adel Arnold, 49, the oldest of five women who had been arrested in July 1992 for a topless protest against Ontario nudity laws that allow men to be shirtless but not women, won the case with her argument that women's breasts are not necessarily objects of sexual desire: "They're hanging down on my waist. What's sexy about that?"
Hey, I like the guy but...
U. S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks of Austin, Texas, in June ruled against former U.S. attorney general Dick Thornburgh and his 1991 U.S. Senate campaign organization in a finance matter, rejecting Thornburg's testimony as not "particularly credible" but added in a footnote that he "regrets his finding as (he) has the utmost respect" for Thornburgh.
What's 590 murders between friends?
Convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, imprisoned in Huntsville,
Texas, told an Associated Press reporter in July that he actually made up tales about his involvement in the nearly 600 murders to which he had confessed. Lucas, who is now serving life sentences for 10 murders, said that once he got started making up confessions he couldn't stop: "I just didn't have any willpower."
Anything to declare?
A judge in Los Angeles sentenced Yu-tie Chen, 27, of Taiwan, to 30 days in jail in September after federal agents found 52 snakes illegally in his possession as he attempted to board a flight home from Los Angeles International Airport. Most were found in a carry-on bag, but 18 were strapped to his biceps and ankles.
Forgot to do the dishes
Christopher Howard, 25, was arrested in Haines City, Fla., in August after police responded to his call reporting that a burglar was trying to break into his house. When the officers arrived, Howard led them around the house looking for the alleged burglar, but apparently forgot that he had left on the dining room table a ceramic plate containing cocaine, which the officers soon discovered.
Visa U.S.A. Inc. 1993