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A&E The Clackamas Print Wednesday, November 1,1995 ^7 'Les Miz’ visits Portland Jon Roberts Feature Editor Portland’s Broadway Theater Season put on Les Miserables for the last two weeks, at the Civic Auditorium. Les Miserables is one of the most well known plays in modern theater. Tickets for Les Miz have been sold out for the last three months. Les Miz is the story of a man named Jean Valjean, a man who is con victed of the crime of stealing and is sent to jail. He stole a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s daughter. Jean Valjean is released on parole after 19 years on the chain gang. He finds that life outside jail is hard, he is an outcast and can’t get a job or a place to stay because of his criminal record. The only person who will give Valjean a place to stay is the Bishop of Digne. Valjean repays the bish ops kindness by stealing some sil ver. Valjean is caught by the po lice and is brought before the Bishop. The Bishop lies for Valjean and says the silver was a gift and also gives Valjean two precious candlesticks. Valjean de cides to change his life, and jumps parole and creates a new life for himself. Eight years later Valjean has changed his name to Monsieur Madeleine and has become both a factory foreman and a mayor of The play is visually awesome. It has great sets throughout the play. The play makes use of a rotating stage which allows the play to change sets without bringing the curtain down. This allows for the play to move along fast. The play stared William Solo as Valjean, Ron Baker as Javert, Susie g nTMAlß ■» ÏJ Y"" McMonagle as Fantine and Gina Feliccia as Cosette. P OR- T t. 1S BROnSîfiV 1 The play was writ ten by Alain » THEATER‘SEASON , Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. The „LES tlISEiÓBLES play is based on the CIVIC AUDITORIUh novel by Victor Hugo. The music is by Claude-Michel Schonberg and the the town Montreuil-Sur-Mer. He lyrics are by Herbert Kretzmer. is a changed man, and he does his The impressive orchestral best to make himself a respectable score was by John Cameron. man. This play, in my opinion, is He is still a wanted man and one of the best modem plays, al is being pursued by the local con most as good as the Phantom of stable Javert. Throughout the the Opera. play, the action follows Valjean I have not seen many plays, through his life. He takes into his I have seen the Phantom, South household a young girl named Pacific, and high school plays. Cosette, who was the daughter of Les Miserables is on the top a worker named Fantine. He took of all these plays except the Phan Cosette in because he felt respon tom of the Opera, but it’s a close sible for Fantine’s death. second. WŒT u. New videos coming to stores in November Amy K. Hanson Managing Editor NEW TO VIDEO Batman Forever -PG-13- Vai Kilmer replaces Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne and Batman in this long-awaited se- quel. Jim Carrey stars as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face and Chris O’Donnell as Robin. This film is a massive array of sights and sounds. While You Were Sleeping - PG- 103 minutes- After Lucy (Sandra Bullock) rescues her dream date Peter (Peter Gallagher) from being hit by a train, she is mistaken at the hos- pital as Peter’s fiance. While Pe- ter is in a coma, Lucy meets and falls in love with Peter’s brother, Jack (Bill Pullman). Panther -R- 123 minutes- Directed by Mario Van Peebles, this movie is a “docu-drama” about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party in the Hie Perez Family -R- 135 minutes - Marisa Tomei (Only You) is Dottie Perez, a Cuban immigrant who, along with Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina), pre- tends to be part of a large family to enter America. Casper -PG- 98 minutes- Based on the comic, Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to life, try- ing hard to be a friend to Kat (Cathy Moriarty) and her father (Bill Pullman), ghost doctor. Tommy Boy -PG-13- 98 minutes- Saturday Night Live’s Chris Farley stars as a dim-wit ted college grad, reminiscent of Billy Madison, whose mission is to save his dad’s company. Tales From the Hood-R-98 minutes-Three teen-age gang- sters are told frightening tales by a sinister mortician, NEXT WEEK November 7- Mad Love- A tale of adventure, romance and the reality of life starring Drew Barrymore and Chris O’Donnell. Bad Boys- Comedic Miami detectives, Martin Lawrence arid Will Smith, try to solve a series of murders My Family- Esai Morales, Jimmy Smits and Edward James Olmos star in the story follow- ing three generations of a Latin family. ‘Nine Inch Nails’ and David Bowie rock the Rose Garden Amy K. Hanson Managing Editor Young and old came together last Wednesday night to see David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails in the first indoor concert in the new Rose Garden Arena. Thousands of people lined up outside the arena in the rain awaiting entrance to the concert. At the door each person was searched for safety purposes. One person said, “Is it a body cavity search.” The arena has five levels, so people were wandering to find their correct entrances. My hus band and I had general admission tickets, so we were on the floor. It was interesting to see the variety of people attending the concert. Some were dressed up in suit jackets, some in fishnets and black garb and many in street clothes and NIN t-shirts. The concert began a little af ter 7:30 p.m. with the four-man band Prick. As soon as they started playing the crowd surfing began. Having never heard Prick before and anticipating the Nine Inch Nails segment of the con cert, I wasn’t too impressed. Nine Inch Nails on the other hand put on a spectacular perfor mance. The majority of songs played were off of “The Downward Spiral,” including “March of the Pigs,” “Closer,” “The Becoming” and “Eraser.” The backdrop was nothing ex traordinary, just lots of smoke and lights. In one song they used short bursts of bright light, reminiscent of an electrocution, to emphasize the lyrics. After toe Nine Inch Nails set, there was an instrumental in terlude with a projection of swarming bees, a heap of crawl ing worms and flying geese. Nine Inch Nails returned to toe stage with David Bowie clad in light colored ’80s garb. His gui tarist was dressed in leopard print, holding a fuschia guitar. . Bowie performed Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” and “Reptile” with Trent Reznor. This segment of the concert was pretty good, consid ering what was to come. When Nine Inch Nails left, Bowie took control of the stage. Hawaiian authors speak at CCC Dan Anderson Staff Writer Two esteemed authors of Hawaiian descent, Kathleen Tyau and Graham “Sandy” Salisbury, spoke and read from their writings Wednesday night in the Gregory Forum. Tyau’s first novel, A Little Too Much is Enough, is a de tailed first-story account of a Chinese-Hawaiian family’s ex perience; the fictional family mirrors Tyau’s own family in many w'ays. “There are voices speaking out all at once,” Tyau explained. “I wanted to write a book that seemed real, about the is land experience,” Tyau stated. “It’s a rather untraditional novel, and not even a traditional col lection of stories. It’s held to gether by a theme, and orches trated so that all the scenes are related.” Tyau moved from Hawaii to Oregon to attend Louis and Clark College in Portland and decided to stay here. “I felt like a fish out of water on the mainland,” Tyau said, “and did for years. Writing this book helped me feel as though I belong, wherever I go.” Much of the book revolves around food. “Food turned into a vehicle for getting to the real story,” Tyau explained. “Hawai- ians love to eat.” Sandy Salisbury grew up in Hawaii, a descendant of European missionaries who landed in the island in the 1820’s. He moved to Vermont to attend college, and settled in Oregon because he “loves the scenery and toe people” and because if he were in Hawaii, he “would be a bum, doing noth ing but surfing and having fun.” “I write for adolescents, mostly from a father-son rela tionship, and relationships among friends,” Salisbury said. “My heart has always been with young people who seem ne glected, or lost.” His first novel, Blue Skin of the Sea, is a novel for adoles cents about Hawaii. His latest work, Under the Blood-Red Sun, has been nominated for toe Or egon Institute of Literary Arts awards this November. He believes that good fic tion should be “a kind of mir ror, a place to stop, to look at ourselves.” He hopes his stories provide a positive experience for youths. “ A good experience lived vicariously is better than no good experience lived at all.” The Friends of the Library collected donations at the door. Proceeds will benefit media ser vices. His set was a big let down, after Nine Inch Nails wound the audi- ence up with strong rhythm and lyrics. Trent Reznor sang with a clear voice, full of force. Bowie on the other hand sounded washed up and many people abruptly began to leave. As for the matchup of this concert, Bowie would have been better off with a more mellow band to back him, as would Nine Inch Nails have been better with another. Bowie needs to go back to the ’80s and “Dancing in the Streets” with Mick Jagger. Over all, Nine Inch Nails gets four stars Bowie gets one. ‘Now and Then’ a big waste of time Josh Kehler Photography Editor When I first heard this movie, “Now and Then,” de scribed as “Stand By Me” for girls, I thought it would be fun to see. But it wasn’t what it was cracked up to be. The movie takes place in some little hick town in the Bible belt of America. The 90 minute movie can be summarized into one sentence. But because I want to express my mind I’m go ing to waste my time and yours. Four pre-pubescent girls run ning around on their stupid bell dingin’, basket-carryin’, banana- seated bikes. This is definitely a “chick flick” to the bone. All you liberal feminists will love this movie if you liked Thelma and Louise. The movie dealt with some good topics, but it didn’t make up for the lack of acting experience. Demi Moore was ex ceptional as always. Rita Wilson on the other hand was less then decent. Melanie Griffith’s voice was annoying, and I can’t stand watching her walk with her overly surgically augmented breasts. There were cool cameos by other famous people, but they don’t matter or alter the movie enough for me to waste my time typing. If you’re a middle-aged woman and you’ve seen “Bridges of Madison County” 90 million times and are getting bored with it, I recommend you see “Now and Then.” If you’re a guy, don’t see it. There’s not enough fast cars, big guns and beautiful women in this movie to hold the attention of a member of toe National Grass Growers Association.
