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Then he gave the 50 or so listeners a show that they could tell their friends about Kmmn finished ixti tjy one song Indore he asked for requests from the audience Kinnev polite Iv declined requests from the l.ynyrd Skvriyrd uitalog, adding "You know, I wrote fr»<e bird.-' Kinney decided to pick his own songs for the rest of ihe evening, making up his song list as he went along He borrowed heavily from his Imnd's catalog, augmenting the list with his solo work He didn't go far before stopping in the middle of "MacDougals Blues ' and asking "Is it too ear ly in the evening for a story’" Before the evening was over, Kin ney had stopped asking the audi ence for permission to tell stones, and the audience leaned forward in their seats each time he began another one He told about visiting New York und mugging a man by a<ci dent He told about interviewing Meat loaf (the musician, not the dinner dish) while working for an underground newspaper He told about working at Arby's for three weeks, a story that was too good to ruin by wondering whether it was true His songs leaned toward polit ical. philosophy al tunes and direi t. honest tales of the down trodden and outcast It was sto rytelling in song, showcasing the storytellers' ability to explain our world and help us understand ourselves while entertaining all the while Gotta Move On" was an ode to I ho homeless and a reminder lhal 'they're not iust hungry and lonely around Christmas " "Midwestern Blues" told of a young man's attempt to escape his blue collar, small town life and find a promised land "S< aired but Smarter” promised pistic r for those out of work and out of hope. His asides lightened the mood considerably. Topics included mythology about the American South ("You know, the war did end They have Volvos there, too ") and the Ramones (who Kinney said have been the best I>and in the world fora while, hut the music industry refuses to acknowledge them.) After more than an hour and a half, the show ended There was no show business ending, no high volume, high energy encore to bring the audience to a fever pitch. The concert ended with one more heartfelt song, one more funny story and one plea to remember the tilings in life that are important. 1 he crowd filed out into the street. A woman on the sidewalk asked if anybody could spare some change Coins dropped into her hand. Their sound echoed the power of storytelling. SUMMER Continued from Page 7 atonal independent company jock ey for the best release dales, stiver ing clear of blockbusters and scurrying for less crowded week ends. Similarly themed films rarely open on the same weekend, since they typically tannibalizeeach oth er s audience. 1 he action films Blown Away and Chur and Present Danger, for instance, are separat ed by more than a month And the Westerns Mawnck and Wyatt harp will open May 20 and June 24. respectively. Release dates are changed only under extraordinary cirt uinstancus. Keanu Reeves' Speed was moved up from Aug. 5 to June 10 after it tested strongly to preview audi ences Arnold Schwarzenegger's True Les. on the other hand, had to be pushed Iwck from July 1 to July 15 because it simply could not be completed on time. With release dates drawing clos er with every passing minute, dins, tors are under enormous pressure as they finish tin- post production" on tJieir movies. For many, filming may have ended months ago — but there is so much more to a movie than cranking the cameras. "My schedule is: When I'm awake. I'm working." says Chuck Russell. the din*<:lor of The Musk Due in theaters Juiy 2‘), the come dy stars Jim Carrey (Are Ventura) as a man whose features give new meaning to the expression eve-[Kip ping; The film includes a variety of special effects that transform Car rey's face into a three-dimensional cartoon. "The final stages of post produc tion are vital to mv film." Russell says. "To a special-effects film, it can make or break a film. There's a lot of pressure ." Some 60 people are involved in the film's final preparation. In addition to supervising edit ing, Russell is overseeing the title design, working on the soundtrack and coordinating clips for the com ing attractions advertisements. The Musk was originally sched uled for release in August until executives at New Line Cinema saw an early version of the film. “They said. ‘The good news is we love the movie. The bad news is we want it sooner, Russell recalls. "We're going to («• finishing the opticals (effects) right up to the release." Unlike / Love Trouble and The Musk, Wagons East is better off show n to audiences well before its official release date The wagon train is a comedy, and Hol lywood finds test screenings help tighten comic timing and cut jokes that don't work With a computer editing team of up to 15 with some technicians working all night director Peter Markle has cut the film from three hours 15 minutes to two hours 30 minutes and hopes to cut some more. "The film will play longer than a ftO-minuto comedy," Markle savs Just how long it plays may have something to do with the test audi ence reaction, Wagons hast star John Candy died on the film's Mexican set with the movie mostly completed. He had yet to finish one scene that was rewritten for other characters. Six words of Candy's dialogue will be recorded by another actor. 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