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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
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as
Fantine and Gina
Feliccia as Cosette.
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play is based on the
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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.
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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.