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Notables Eagle Park Slim, blues guitar, will be at the Saturday Market, Saturday, )une 2, at 1 p.m. Following that at 2:30 p.m. will be the Freedom jazz Quintet from South Eugene High, and David Banks playing guitar at 4 p.m. Jim Page, an internationally acclaimed folk musician and poet, will be at the W.O.W. Hall, Saturday, June 2, at 9 p.m. Tickets are available at the EMU Main Desk, and are $4 in advance, $5 on the day of the show. "Ghostbusters" the new Ivan Reitman comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and Sigourney Weaver, will open at the National Theater in Eugene on june 8. Photographs, paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, and jewelry are included in this year's annual Master of Fine Arts candidates' exhibi tion held at the University art museum through June 10. A closing reception with the 18 artists in attendance will be held from 2-4 p.m. at the museum on June 10. Laurie Anderson will play her wry and creative brand of music at the Hult's Silva Hall on Sunday, June 3, at 8 p.m. Tickets to the concert of this innovative perfor mance artist are $11.50 and $12.50. Bonnie Raitt will be at the Hult on June 12 at 8 p.m., and Johnny Mathis performs there June 16. Tom Sharpe, hailed by many as England's funniest novelist, has invaded America. Three of the bestselling author's novels, "Wilt,” "The Throwback” and "Vintage Stuff," will soon be in bookstores everywhere. The internationally acclaimed Bach Festival brings back maestro Helmuth Rilling to town. For the second year, the festival takes up part residence in the Silva Con cert HaN from June 25 through July 8. The festival has 22 free concerts out of the 40 it has scheduled for this summer, according to Festival coordinator Ffenriet ta Heiny. movies Thrill factory does it again "Just the same, only different." Screen writer William Goldman is to be credited for coining that seemingly paradoxical phrase. He used it to describe the film studio policy of remaking last month's smash, striving to cap ture the essential ingredients to guarantee success, while at the same time making it different enough to be better. The phrase can just as easily be applied to the new Lucas Spielberg thrill factory produc tion — the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" sequel, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." The thrills, the chills, the mile-a minute pace, the exotic loca tions and the self-effacing humor are packaged in new wrapping, but they're all there. This sequel would be more ac curately tagged as a "prequel." It takes place before "Raiders" — in 1935 to be precise. The place is Shanghai, where In diana Jones (Harrison Ford) prepares to sell his latest ar cheological find to a most eager client. Typically, pandemonium breaks out in a technically spellbinding barroom brawl which unites Indy with nightclub -singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw). With the help of Indy's young sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy Quan), the three escape — they think — into a waiting plane (look for a cameo appearance by Dan Akroyd in this scene). Of course their troubles are merely beginning and in no time Indy and company are trekking off to rescue a sacred stone and the kidnapped children of a poor Indian village. (Yes, they are in India here. Don't ask me how they got there, it's much too complicated.) It isn't plot that matters, however. It's the brilliantly stag ed action, the death-defying stunts and the breakneck pace of the film that sells the tickets, and “Temple of Doom" has plenty of that. If nothing else, Spielberg is a master craftsman when it comes to injecting ex citement into a film, and he tackles this one with vigor. “Temple of Doom" goes by so fast that you never notice the plausibility gaps. “Raiders" may have been the first of the Indiana Jones films, but I think "Temple of Doom" is a slight improvement. "Raiders" had the pace and the thrills all right, but by the end I felt more tired than exhilarated, and I was disappointed by the "hand of Cod" ending. When I go to see macho adventure, I want the hero to solve his own problems. Screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (close friends of Lucas) overcome this problem by and large. Indy still needs a li tle help, but it certainly isn't on so grand a scale, and the real work is all done by him anyway. And, despite the plot's creaks and groans, this film builds bet ter. The last half hour is literally an action free-for-all where anything goes and each suc ceeding adventure tops the last. A major new problem comes up in this film, however. In mak ing the bad guys seem real bad, Spielberg and friends present an almost sadistic situation that is way out of line with the tone of the picture. The scene show ing a man slowly lowered into a pit of lava and then burning to death screaming is a little too much. Along the same lines the bad guys are revealed to be child slavers of a particularly brutal nature. Spielberg and friends spare us nothing in this sadistic indulgence — one that seems too out of hand at times. Spielberg attempts to make amends in a positive, upbeat conclusion that works if only for the exuberance of the ecstatic children Indiana Jones has rescued. However dark the film gets (and it gets real dark), we all know that Spielberg and Lucas would never let the bad guys win, and true to form, they don't. "Temple of Doom" is en joyable, if mindless, entertain ment. Willie may not exhibit the independent spunk of Marion Ravenwood, and the Indian cult slavers, however nasty, are no Nazis, but this film overcomes its hard-to-swallow premise, and delights, dazzles and entertains. If nothing else, this is a supreme achievement in logistics. Plays at West 11th Tri-Cinema with no discounts at all. Sean Axmaker Staff The Friday Edition is the Emerald arts and entertainment supplement. It's published - weekly thoughout the school year. Editor.Angela Allen Morgan Assistant Editor.Kim Carlson Copy Editor.Mary Backen Production..Mic hael Clapp, Kathy Gallagher, Mark Pynes DUCKS! THE STUFFED BAKED POTATOES ARE HERE! (choose mom cue sojumptious toppings i bv Xamtnmjer 7em/S - "great burners, omelettes ...and more " downstairs at tht* Sth St Pu.blic Market ^German AUTO BCRVICK Since 1963 VWs - MERCEDES - BMWs DATSCJN - TOYOTA - AUDI Reliable Service For Your Foreign Auto 342 2912 2025 Franklin Blvd MAIL YOUR SURVEY TODAY! 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