Labels: Trend spreading across nation
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many major record companies.
However, she has refused all of
them.
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies are
another group with an indepen
dent record label. While DiFran
co’s company is based in New
York, her home state, the Cherry
Poppin’ Daddies are based in
Eugene, a sign that independent
music labels are spreading
throughout the nation.
Formed by lead singer Steve
Perry, known on stage as M.C.
Large Drink, the group’s label,
Space Age Bachelor Pad
Records, was created in 1989 so
they wouldn’t have to be under
the control of someone outside
the band.
The group enjoy’s success
from the wide variety of styles
they use in their music, ranging
from swing to ska to classical.
They are also known for their
horn section.
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies were
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Cherry Poppin’ Daddies have a Eugene-based independent label.
formed in Eugene in 1989. Since
then, they have released three
albums and performed across
the country. Other members of
the band include Darren Cas
sidy, bass; Sean Flannery, tenor
sax ; Adam Glogauer, drums;
Scott Hall, alto sax; Dana Heit
man, trumpet; and Jason Moss,
guitar.
They will perform tonight at
WOW Hall at 9:30 as part of the
Coming Out Swingin’ tour. Join
ing the group will be ska band
Let’s Go Bowling and ska-punk
band Reel Big Fish. Tickets are
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reporter. The other two are so traumatized by their
experience in the school that they murder one of
the guards. The lawyer becomes the prosecuting
attorney in their trial, and he feigns incompetency
in an attempt to get them acquitted.
When the priest is called as a witness at the
murderers’ trial, the audience doesn't know what
to expect. Will he tell the truth and condemn the
men he watched grow up, or will he lie, defying
everything he believes in to protect the boys,
whose actions are justifiable in his eyes? What the
priest does is as much expected as it is a surprise.
The film’s narration, delivered by Patric, is pre
tentious and faux prosaic. It sounds pseudo-deep
and tells way too much.
The film-maker, Barry Levinson, has a good
touch with actors. In his best works, “Diner” and
"Rain Man,” he elicited good performances from
actors that you’d least expect them from (Tom
Cruise and Mickey Rourke). He does this with
“Sleepers” too. However, he relies on Scorsessian
techniques for film-making, which would be fine
if this reliance amounted to something, but it
doesn’t. It seems Levinson figured the best way to
make this film was to make it move as quickly as
possible.
“Sleepers” is an interesting story; Its elements
work well together and for a two-and-a-half hour
film, it moves quickly. But its problem is that, to
the audience, whether the men are acquitted or
not doesn’t really seem to matter; nothing hangs in
the balance. The story merely unfolds without
payoff— in the end, the audience doesn’t feel suc
cess or failure. The end just happens.
Another big problem is that we see the guard,
played by Kevin Bacon, killed in a brutal and vio
lent act. Even considering how traumatized the
murderers are, the guard’s death is also traumatic,
making the murder harder to accept.
It’s interesting that homosexual rape is becom
ing a popular method of provoking sympathy for
violent characters, such as Marcellus Wallace in
“Pulp Fiction.” It seems that regular violence
doesn’t bother people as much anymore — audi
ences have grown accustomed to torture, so one of
the few acts that will get them steamed is rape.
Altogether, this film’s flaws are mostly in its
script. If there was some weight behind the issues
it presents, the film might be more than an
unformed lump, but there isn’t. So, that’s what
“Sleepers” is; a pretty good-looking unformed
lump. It’s not bad, just meaningless, and the sad
part is it didn’t have to be.
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