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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1995)
SNL premiere indicates humorless year ahead Nr.W H)Kk IAI'1 — Nations come anti go The hundred dol lar bill gets a fresh new look Then there’s "Saturday Night Live." hopelessly stuck in the post What about all the grand talk of bringing this 1970s relic into the '90s. of "reinventing” it for the new season? Sadly, that was "Saturday Night” jive That's the disappointing news from NBC's Studio HH. where "SN1.” launched its much-await ed. supposedly do-or-die 21st season Saturday night, with Marie! Hemingway as guest host The program served as an apt warm-up for the 1996 presiden tial campaign: empty promises of change. From the (),}. Simpson sketch whore '"Judge fto" orders lawyer “Johnnie Cot hran"' to der I are, "l.ivo from New York .!."' to the self-congratulating group huddle as the final credits roll. Saturday 's show was 'SNl.'' business as usual After all the hype, was it too much to hope for at least one gen uine surprise during the long, long 90 minutes7 In retrospei t. yes Oh. and was "SNl." even fun ny in its season opener? Not so's you’d noth e If anyone from producer la>rne Michaels on down really believes this is a different show from last April — or April 1976 - they're detosioned. Sure, there are new people on board, hut the show's the same old heap with just another coat of paint, traveling the same road, stu* k in the same nils Of course, this is hardly the first time Michaels Has promised great things, then failed to deliv er In fact, year after year he's like Lucy in the "Peanuts" strip, swearing she'll hold the football The viewer is Charlie Hrown. always falling for it This time the only auspicious sign comes from the freshman class of repertory players Although it's premature to rate the six rookies, one of them, Dar rell Hammond, is clearly a wel come addition thanks to his impersonation skills Ihis was a dead-on Ted Koppel in on other wise limp "Night line" send-up). As for the (leys crop of writers, they 're clearly saving their good stuff for later in the season Veteran player David Spade has been rewarded with a week ly feature that, on its first outing, could just as well have been part of "Weekend Update" (or. better yet. bagged! It was a five-minute monologue addressed to the Unnltfwtbvr. during which Spade cautioned. "You're coming off gay." Pointing to the much-pub Fished sketch of the anonymous terrorist, Spade likened his looks to those of Little Richard, "and that's not helping your 'straight case.' " The show's brightest elements' Mu sit al guest Blues Traveler, which traveled in at the last minute to sub for the dropout for merly known as Prince, and Hemingway, who displayed an unexpet ted gift for comedy Nei ther. of course, will l>e but k soon enough. Get A Higher Score with KAPLAN Ktptos I Ttrpff## Tr*i**ifc0 l#f III# A®CAT, l$AT GMAT. GIU. i»4 OAT ti fit most cusfomutd fltitlfe approach to Itif pf#pintJOW ever uecemoet z, 199515 at *OrT ifrtl S* i&?t i»w» ton s* I? 4 to nil to* January 81 mnm nil s* iv» ton -»* to* *** Tft*, -Hju to; to*! *«.' a? *1^ tjyto t#t3 t&u 5?/i; i;?o t'i 1 ic nj I JKfctn tym «*>«» Sc** 6p« ftp* £<** (5^ n Wmn *_•;/.• * ^ ■ *■ - - * ' * :*•«. >■ ■ -.*•« Oecembet 9.1995 GRi . W«B« IN* t» t«« *w» *471 1474 1411 in LlSBiJSsLJrLJteL frpen tpn &prn ft ill U-ji >77 it* J C1*mm an TIHIaf fart! Call Tatar! 1 -800-KAP-TEST <22ii> mi 13th *303 great research... *»» »* >MMl <nm< U law), «««,<, ».a*,;n M •« *n*n W1* i-wrt »j! m lw* ’H Imh <m( <H3> t« *9*.' ftjptm pkjmik! m enmnitKm 0* 4** t type (N cK*?ig*! ?** WM «» *fl0r. t¥«sofi of tn« < Mfigi Cdu!:l> <233* u\ 1K0 9m | r$ m% ?v»;ed ie 4 «,*Hf CJuMtmn Nv* C*i'4^14 » ' *tw*e vw ccOi * te* I «.MvJ - *%*» tft t* ■ -ijjn t*j IKJM WK'i-’^ *.T«1 *1 Ml QK^HlMl >'»Kt irst* M i »•«*«* rrm i ?$ iwmcwt-% e*4« »• tMt great results. Ijf t«« i iiftritti **o Kwri H 8?*4l*» (V £»* fM! 0* to wm% b# rm 9* i»t! I I L -► j Big livings when you bring in thn coupon! Two convenient locations: 51 0 East Broadway and 935 River Rd. 344 8070 w/Bottomless Coke for $5. FIND THINGS IN ODE CLASSIFIEDS (TICKETS. STUFF YOU LOST, BICYCLES. CARS, JOBS. ON CAMPUS OPPORTUNITIES. COMPUTERS. GREAT TRAVEL IDEAS. PEOPLE TO T RAVEL WITH, APARTMENTS, ROOMMATES, INFO ON MOVIES & LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT ) NATURAL BEVERAGES Tuesday, Oct 3 10:30-2:00 FREE in fhe Bookstore Lobby. All 16 oz Snapple Drinks & Teas 79<ea reg 90c 80 Effective from Oct 1 -31 TUICE DRINK UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
