1997_05 The Daily Collegian May 1997

              THE DAILY
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Thursday, May 1,1997
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Movie Review
SNL alumnus Mike Myers shines in spy spoof
By James M. Ward
The Daily Collegian
"Austin Powers: Interna¬
tional Man of Mystery" is a one
joke movie — but it's such a
goaty, well-executed joke that it
sustains its comic pace through
out its nearly 90 minute running
lime.
Mike Myers, the movie's
writer and star, has crafted an af¬
fectionate parody of the 1960s
secret agent genre (e.g. Bond.
Flint and Helm) that only mis¬
steps when it lapses into some
"Dumb and Dumber"- style
bathroom humor.
Myers obviously loves and
knows a lot about the spy mov¬
ies of the 1960s — "Austin Pow¬
ers' is full of in-jokes and good-
hearted jabs al those venerable
movies, including one o\ the
funniest villains in recent
movie history: Alotta Fagina
(remember Pussv Galore in
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Austin
Powers
Rated PG-13
88 minutes
Starring:,
Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley,
Michael York & Mimi Rogers
Directed by: Jay Roach
Written by: Mike Myers
Starts tomorrow at Broadway
Faire 10 & UA Northgate,
Fresno; Regency 6, Clovis.
"Goldfinger"?).
Powers is the ultimate 60s spy.
He has the flair of James Bond and
really bad teeth like Mick Jagger.
The film celebrates a time when ex¬
pressions of individuality, love and
an flourished.
Oh, and people "shagged" a lot!
The movie opens in 1967. where
the debonair, British secret agent
Austin Powers is locked in a battle
with Dr. Evil, a megalomaniac bad
guy who wants to take over the
world.
But when Powers foils his plan.
Evil decides to have himself put in
a cryogenic deep freeze and shot
into space.
Powers, ever the dedicated su¬
per agent, volunteers to be frecze-
dricd as well, so he can be thawed
oyt to do battle when Dr. Evil re¬
turns to Terra Firma.
But when both men are de¬
frosted 30 years later, they find
times have changed.
Powers is horrified to find out
lhat "anonymous, unpro¬
tected sex and one-night
stands with any 'Bird'
you want" aren't in vogue
anymore.
And Dr. Evil can't
seem to grasp the fact that
its more profitable con¬
trolling multi-national
companies than destroy*
ing the world (something,
unfortunatcl), Rupert
Murdoch understands
completely).
Myers plays both Pow¬
ers and Evil, the movie's
bad guy with a gusto and
all-out irreverence (though the sight
of Myers in a pair of Union Jack
Jockey underwear was qaite fright¬
ening and stomach turning).
Myers isn't afraid of looking ri¬
diculous in the movie — it looks
like a Chia Pet was grafted onto his
chest and left to grow — and he
has a God-awful set of brownish-
teetb (as one character said "You
just don't understand. You could be
a British sex-symbol in the 60s with
bad teeth.")
The movie features a top-notch
supporting cast that includes Rob¬
ert Wagner (as Dr. Evil's right hand
man No. 2). Elizabeth Hurley, look¬
ing terrific in a black, all-leather
outfit, as Powers' sidekick and
Michael York as the head of the
British Secret Service.
Director Jay Roach and Myers
perfectly capture the look and feel
of the 60s spy movies — right down
to the silly looking jump suits that
evil-doer's minions always wear in
the secret lab and the awful Nehru
jackets the bad guys don.
The movie reaches its comic-
high point when Dr. Evil attends a
father-son encounter group, "facili¬
tated" by Carrie Fisher, and shares
his criminal background and how
he plans 10 "liquidate" his son.
"Austin Powers," unlike any re¬
cent movies by "Saturday Night
Luc" alumni (can someone please
shoot David Spade. Chris Farley
and Adam Sandler so they won't
make any more movies!!) has a
definite comic lone and outlook.
To borrow a phrase from ihe^
retro 60s dialect of Austin Powers,
the movie is "shag-a-delic baby."
Photo Courtesy of New Line Cinema
Mike Myers proves once again that he is a master ladies man in
the new comedy "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery."
Don Y forget to vote!
ASI Elections are
Tuesday,
Wednesday
& Thursday
Clinton
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ition and room and board cost just
under $28,000 per year in 1996, put
her on a separate path from her par¬
ents, who both graduated from Yale
Law School after undergraduate
work at elite eastern schools. The
president went to Georgetown Uni-
Congratulations
Phi Mu!
This year, Phu Mu
Sorority has raised
$4,794.54 for Valley
Children's Hospital.
Way to go Phi Mu.
versity in Washington and Mrs
Clinton attended Welleslcy College
outside Boston.
Chelsea is now in her last
year at Sidwcll Friends School,
an exclusive private school in
Washington.
She entered Sidwcll as a second
semester eighth grader in January.
1993 when her father was inaugu¬
rated for his first term as president.
The Clintons have carefully
sheltered Chelsea from media atten¬
tion, but the public caught glimpses
of her during last year's election
campaign and during a trip she re¬
cently took with her mother.
Blood
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"This service is essential to the
life saving work lhat goes on in our
region's hospitals," Welty wrote.
The campus blood drives, have
been a way to encourage people to
donate blood on a regular basis.
"We do the blood drives here so
that people will not just donate to¬
day, but also in the future at the
Blood Center," Fiorentino said.
For further information about
donating blood, call Trisha Studt at
224-9000, extension 124.
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