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RhvthnrBCTieWS FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1998 Massage facts Find out a little about the history, tools and health benefits of massage Emerald PAGE 9A Fear & Loathing’ Although the movie’s effects are great, anyone looking for plot should read the hook PAGE 10A Volume 99, Issue 161 ■ A benefit con cert for the Thurston Healing Fund will take place tonight at 9 at Hollywood Taxi, featuring Double-O-Seven, American Girls, Drive and Johnny Wilde & The Blue f Yonder, Cover is $4 at the door. The show is 21 and over. A second benefit, featuring Double O-Seven, Ameri can Girls, Drive, Short Round, Su pernaut and Marigold, will take place May 31 at 1 p.m in the Eugene Hilton Ballroom. The cover dona tion will be $5 at the door. Tony Case, one of the Thurston stu dents who was seriously injured during the shoot ing, is a member of Double-O-Sev en. He is currently at Sacred Heart Medical Center. ■ A matinee per formance of Two Gentlemen of Verona will bene fit Sexual Assault Support Services May 31 at 2 p.m. in Robinson The atre. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, and all pro ceeds will goto SASS. ■ Saturday Mar ket and the Com munity AIDS Con sortium will present the sev enth annual AIDS Action Celebra tion May 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. ■ The Phoenix Dance Company will perform ‘Camouflage,’a modem dance performance, May 30 and 31 at WOW Hall at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 in advance, $8 at the door. With finals week on the horizon, knowing how to give and receive a good massage can come in handy ZJ By Nicole Krueger Managing Editor he scent of raspberries hangs in f the air as you lie on your stom * " ach, eyes closed, and let reality drop away. Kneading hands glide across your oiled muscles, loos __ ening the knots and releasing the stress trapped there. School and work fade away, and with each slow breath you relax further ... you sink deeper ... deeper ... "Massage will space you out. It will send you floating away,” says Byron Hanks, a certified massage therapist and instructor. At Lane Community College, Hanks teaches the basic strokes of Swedish mas sage, a form that focuses on massage as a way of relaxing rather than healing specific physical ailments. He lauds the ability of massage to help release and reduce stress, a service many college students could use these days. Nancy Cogan, a physical therapist at the University Health Center, agrees. “A lot of times people just go, go, go, and they stay kind of keyed up the whole time,” she says. “The whole concept that you’re going to lie down, you’re going to re Turn to MASSAGE. Pace 8A AMANDA COWAN/Emerald UO student composes score for 1920s silent film Brian Me Whorterand his band willperform the score live at two showings of the movie Metropolis’ By Carl Yeh Freelance Editor The actors’ mouths move, but no sound comes out. However, this movie is far from silent. That’s because Brian McWhorter, a mu sic major, wrote an original score to accom pany this silent film — Fritz Lang’s 1926 “Metropolis.” McWhorter and his band will perform the score at two showings of “Metropolis,” tonight and Saturday night at 8 in 180 PLC. In “Metropolis,” the son of a factory owner leaves his privileged life in the city above to see the below-ground city inhab ited by slave-like factory workers. “‘Metropolis’ is a visually powerful film. It has a future cityscape where the factory owners live on the top level and the work ers are on the bottom,” said Vladimir Sol mon, the producer of the project. Solmon said “Metropolis” has influ enced other sci-fi cityscapes that are seen in movies such as “Blade Runner” and “Dark City.” “In spite of the fact that it’s over 70 years old, it still has an effect on movies today,” Solmon said. And although McWhorter’s score is com pletely original, the idea of writing another score for the movie is not. “The score has been redone a lot of times,” Solmon said. “I’m not even sure if the original still ex ists.” To write his score, McWhorter watched Turn to MOVIE, PagelOA COURTESY PHOTO The film ‘Metropolis’ will be shown twice this weekend in PLC.
