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THURSOAY OCTOBER 14 8 RM. 687-5000 FREE PRESS' EVENT At Noon On Day Of Sno 10W. vUtt; HEEKIV Stargazing from backstage By Edward Klopfenstein OnfffOn D«*V Cmet*ki Walk upstairs in the Mill Camp Saloon, past where the band plays, and you'll discover one person's inside connection to the national music scene That's where Mill Camp Pro duction Assistant Geraldine Peabody works The attic office is insulated with eight-by-ten glossies of Steven Stills, foe (lack er and Foreigner. "Those are cool." site said, but the Robert Plant shot on her desk is her prize possession. "I'm working my butt off try ing to (meet him), and I've gotten zero." she said. The former lead singer of Led Zeppelin will be playing the Hull Center tonight. Peabodv has third row tickets that will probably still make her feel like she’s watching the show from Cleveland. 'Tin going to have to sneak around and try to find him,” she said. oiitt assunitfs nt? win ms muy* inn at The Milton, It's all spec - ulation based on foot work and phone time, as is much of her work fide k stage people like her are the true movers and shakers of the music world And sometimes all the shaking in the world doesn't do a hit of gccod. she said When Steven Stills came to the Mill Camp, Peabody '-pent hours setting up interviews, only to gel a few paragraphs in The Regis ter-Guard bet ause the Grateful Dead c ame the same weekend. "It was like |esus hud com# hac k or something. The Dead got all the press, and we got very lit tle." she said Peabody entered the music world fresh out of the University last April when she took on a 500-hour internship at the Mill Camp Saloon At the end of Icily, she was hired per manently As production assistant, Peabody does a lot of the1 behind the- sc enes cone.ert work that brings Icand and audience togeth er. In a single day, she'll book a group, fax offers to another, ac.t as the Mill Camp's publicist, check ticket sales and even pic k up some Tunis "I really thought the Tunis stuck out." she said about Steven Stills' spec ial request “Does he eat Turns because he's stressed out. or because he thought the food was going to be bad, or why wouldn't he have his own Turns anyway?" Contracts for most artists include a rider, which is list of special requests for little extras to make the artist feel comfort able. "I always go through the rid ers to see who wants a certain ANOV TULLlonO*’ m* Geraldine Peabody, a University graduate, enjoys the fruits of her labor as the Production Assistant at the Mil Camp Saloon. kind of tea or a special kind of honey or so many cases of beer, and we're supposed to provide it for them," she said. The rook group Little Feet, for instance, wanted 72 towels pro vided in their dressing room. The towels had to bo a certain brand and a certain size or else the group wouldn't perform. "I read a rider where (a band) wanted a dressing room with so many chairs, a table with a bowl of fruit, a hear skin rug and all this other kind of stuff, which I think is a little bit much,” she said. Still new to the scene. Peabody said she realizes that there is a lot mom work to a concert than meets the eye. Roadies, the guys who build up and take down a musician's equipment each night, represent jiart of the hack stage culture revolving around each musi cian's one-night shows. Most of the roadies that come with the hands to the Mill Camp seem to have the same genetic code: Unload the truck, set up the instruments, parts in town and return to load the truck back up. The fans also take on a differ ent hue on her side of the tick et. "Sometimes people are just really strange Their expectations of a show and what they see are two different things. That kind of bothers me." said Peabody. "They expect so and so to sing a song and they expect me to answer why he didn't do it." Many new bands think music will be their gold mine, Peabody said, but they don't realize how much it costs to put on a concert. “You really aren't going to make a lot of money unless you're very good and you work a lot of years at it." she said. ”1 just read an article about Nirvana. They were really dis appointed, thinking it would he really different on the road than it really is. There making OK money, but the media pressure and everything else is too much for them," she said. It was the local music scene that pointed her in the direction of management. During Mo Jo Nixon's January performance at Good Times she was so close to the stage that he asked her to hold up his music, for him because lie couldn't remember the lyrics to his next song. “I realized at that time that I really wanted to do some music stuff." she said with a mile-wide smile. No matter how you cut it though, the real father to Peabody's musical sense is Hubert Plant. "All I want to do is shake his hand and say. Tin so glad to meet you. I’ve been such a big fan. and here’s some stuff, could you please sign itShe dream ily continues for another couple of sentences until she starts talk ing about her husband. She met him through an ad she placed in tied Zeppelin's fanzine. Drew and Geraldine exchanged letters and Led Zep pelin interviews for months before he entered the Universi ty's law program one year ago. The couple was married last August. "I just w-ant to meet (Robert Plant). I mean, that's all 1 want. That's it. And I've spent so much money on this man. an incredi ble amount of money, maybe even one of his millions that he has. hut this is all I want to ask for," she said. "That's all 1 want." MALICE Continued from Page 5A would have been better than finding out the way he did. Andy's wife Tracy (Kidman) has a few skele ton's in her closet, and there are a couple of skele ton's she claimed to have, but didn't. Aside from her secrets the pair seein in love and happy, the only thing they want is children. Then comes the rape and the pain. A number of female students at Andy's college am raped. Soon Andy is a suspect. While he is grappling with this Tracy is stricken by a mysterious illness. Enter Ur. fed Hill (Baldwin), he’s handsome, he's suave, he's rather shady. )ed is a high school acquaintance of Andy's, the captain of the football team who got all the girls. Though Andy recognizes him, he does not recognize Andy. Jod is a cocky, yet brilliant, young surgeon, who has recently moved to town, after having been turned down for the head surgeon position. Of course, he offers to help Tracy with her med ical problems. And the nightmare begins During emergency surgery on Tracy. Jed removes her Ixith of her ovaries. In order lo perform the procedure he had to get permission from Andy, which makes Andy an accomplice to her sterilization in Tra cy's mind. Any deeper and the movie would be ruined. Pullman's face is familiar to everyone, but peo ple probably have a hard time putting a name it. His character in Malice is much like the character he played in Singles if that character had played a bigger role. His acting is strong, and he is balanced by Baldwin, whose character is evil but seems like Wally Cleaver compared to Kidman's character. Kidman is excellent in the role as Tracy, her facial expressions at times border on being psychotic. Director Harold Becker does a fine job of creat ing a suspenseful thriller that also serves as a warn ing to health insurance companies not to settle out of court. Tracy leaves Andy, and one by one the lies she told him come back to haunt her. Next time you meet someone who intersts you be sure to ask them if their parents are stil around.
