1997_10 The Daily Collegian October 1997

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Friday, October 3,1997
Bits &
Pieces
with David Childers
Cloning, anyone?: My condo¬
lences to those who had to make the
tough decision between the Prince
(yes, I am a rebel) concert, the
Duncan Sheik/Abra Moore concert,
and the football game.
You get what you pay for:
Speaking of "barely breathing." I
think that maybe the Fresno Fair
should go back to charging for their
concerts. I mean, who can we ex¬
pect to sec next year. Dolly Parton?
No contest: Granted, I think
that Abra's single "Four leaf clover"
is pretty darn groovy, and I am sure
that Prince (there I go again, some¬
body call the "freak police") will
put on quite a high-caliber show.
but it is about lime that this town
started living and dying with Bull¬
dog Football. For the majority of
you that missed it. that was a HUGE
upset of Utah in front of an ESPN
crowd last night.
Cancellation notice: No.
* Urkel, you can relax. Your show is
f still alive, for some dumb reason
But Goldfinger cancelled tonight's
show at the Rainbow for reasons
unknown. But that is still no rea¬
son to watch ''Family Matters." I
would rather stay home and rent
Deliverance."
Surprise: The Gregory Hines
Show (Fridays. CBS), though, has
exceeded my non-existant expecta¬
tions. Hines is just charming
enough on screen, the son (Bran¬
don Hammond) is as splendid as he
was in the remarkably-good
"Soulfood." and the divorced
couple that are both still friends of
Hines' on the show are flat out hi¬
larious. Tape it and give it a look.
Guarded Optimism: I would
agree that Oliver Stone's "U-Turn"
looks very interesting from what I
have seen. The only problem is that
the worst movie ever made -
Stone's "Natural B6rn Killers" -
also looked very interesting from
the trailers. I won't hold my breath,
but at least it has Billy Bob
Thornton.
Mini-Woodstock: The Dave
Matthews Band, The Smashing
Pumpkins, Metallica, Blues Trav¬
eler, Alanis Morissette, Lou Reed
and Neil Young at the Shoreline
Amphitheater. It ain't free, but it
sure should be worth the price of
admission. Plus, it is a benefit con¬
cert for a special school for disabled
students that Neil Young's son goes
to.
What an album: If you have
not heard anything other than
"Semi-charmed Life" off of the
Third Eye Blind album, you are
only cheating yourself. Nothing
against the first sfhgle, but the rest
of the album is much different and
much better.
David Childers is a liberal stud¬
ies major^and The Collegian's en¬
tertainment guru. You can e-mail
him at dchild@psnw.com
'Girls' intrigues right
up until the ending
ACROSS
By David Childers
The Daily Collegian
As of late the IRS has become
the whipping boy of choice in the
federal government, as senate hear¬
ings and television news magazines
have lined up in huge numbers to
take their respective shots at the
agency.
However, if the premise behind
the new action-thriller "Kiss the
Girls" were ever played out in real
life, the FBI would be wishing for
such easy treatment.
Imagine this, your daughter or
girlfriend or wife has been ab¬
ducted, along with several other
young women, by a "serial lover" -
a sociopath who is obsessed with
beautiful women. Your local police
department makes the case its top
priority, and the FBI comes in to
lead the investigation.
You are expecting top-notch po¬
lice work. To make things even bet¬
ter, a big-city forensic psychologist
(Danny Glover) shows up to lend
his extensive experience and intel¬
ligence to the investigation.
After days or weeks of waiting,
after all of the stress and terror and
fear of playing the waiting game,
you finally get word that the actual
perpetrator has been apprehended.
The magic link? The genius
piece of police work that led to the
capture?
Handwriting. One of the people
closest to the investigation from the
very beginning has suddenly been
found to have identical handwrit¬
ing to the suspect. Now that is ri¬
diculous.
No. it is more than ridiculous. If
this was the Los Angeles Police
Department we were talking about
I could believe it. Heck, if it were
the LAPD, I could believe that one
of the officers was the suspect and
couldn't even capture himself.
It was such an outright disap¬
pointment, seeming as the movie up
until that point was very, very in¬
triguing. There were plot twists and
turns and unexpected developments
and basically all of the elements of
a good suspense film.
Glover is quickly becoming to
intelligent and savvy police offic¬
ers what Harvey Keitel has become
to corrupt and slovenly police of¬
ficers. If "Kiss the Girls" looks and
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Rated R
120 minutes
Starring: Morgan
Freeman, Ashley Judd.
Cary Efwes
Directed by:Gary
Fleder
Screenplay by: David
Klass
feels like a less-powerful version of
"Seven," Glover can be thanked for
that.
The remaining performances,
for lack of substantial opportunity,
are really nothing to speak of.
Ashley Judd is fairly convincing as
a victim who somehow escapes
from the psychopath, but her char¬
acter is written in a confusing man¬
ner where she goes from emotional
giant to emotional midget in a mat¬
ter of minutes for no apparent rea¬
son.
Had the ending been a little more
convincing, it could have been a
different situation. Or. maybe the
ending simply exposed ,what was
already an unraveling ball of yarn.
Perhaps the problem does not lie
so much in "Kiss the Girls" as with
a category that is experiencing
heavy flooding. Dark, unpredict¬
able cop movies arc everywhere
and therefore it becomes increas¬
ingly hard to find a fresh angle.
Unless, of course, you go^with
the handwriting scenario. I don't
think I am the only one who has
trouble believing that Glover's
character is sharp enough to tap a
national database of chemical sales
and narrow the field down to one
suspect - but never noticed that one
of the investigators and the suspect
both happen to write like a girl.
There was a television show that
once offered up examples like this
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award-winning cop show or a riv¬
eting hospital drama. It was a com¬
edy — and an extra-campy one at
that.
Come on. you remember. The
professor could build a short-wave
radio out of a coconut and a piece
of Juicy Fruit - but he couldn't patch
up a small hole on a boat.
There you have it, the perfect
quote from the media to run on the
commercials for "Kiss the Girls."
"Kiss the Girls is the Gilligan s
Island of this fall's movie offerings"
says David Childers of The Daily
Collegian.
That is probably as likely to hap¬
pen as the LAPD actually convict¬
ing a suspect.
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