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LIFESTYLE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
September 28,1994
INSIGHT
Kerouac
Revisited
Terese Farmen	
INSIGHT
'Pomes all sizes'
Jack Kerouac
in a fantasy world beat
fastidious to the human spirit,
goblins and human ghosts,
babes with Pome insight,
understanding the rhythm,
crack, brush with mentality
in a wondrous sequence
in analysis of tupper babes
and cafe flirts.
So you wrote
"NOT EVEN WORD FETTERED"
and lines of contextual
breeze:
"Juju beads on Zen Manual-
My knees are cold"
words as distant as suns orbiting around your philosophy,
an entire order of mock followers:
musicians and poets in pride:
Gary Snyder reminisced
"at same time a constant surprise ...
always something happening
with the words. ... the mind
And better friend. Ginsberg
wanted to believe
"his writing was a sacred
practice as he himself
prayed"
and you yourself deciphering
enlightenment,
O' Jack, O' lantern souls,
fare friend lo would-be-deranged
conception of art in form of
alphabet soup
"There is no sin—
I know perfectly well
where I am"
in archive, book end junctions
supporting Shelley, Poc and
Crane
romantic to your own delusion
or truth enchantment with nature,
animal, human, the like.
"A rock like space.
it doesn't move," in so many
words,
thus to be a literary genius
in an ego bubble burst at
eradication,
tears mourning the loss of a
free spirit—
a moment of impeccable silence
to the Mecca brain of modern poc try—
disregarded by scholars as
hasty, rebellious, unruly
they were afraid to look in
your eyes—
mirrors reflecting their own
arrogance.
"If I do nothing, nothing
does"
the circle continues even after death.
influence still prominent
among members who understand the outline duration of
life-span and energy.
You know time is not;
"Time is extinct since it will
have, has, nothing to change,
nothing to fill its empty form,"
you wondered why you were,
are a segment of circle novelty,
"You've been enlightened all
along."
Murder by Movie
INSIGHT
Hollywood has succeeded to produce the most vile piece of cinema
this year. Warner Bros., most recent
release. Trial by Jury, found its way
into the sludge of motion picture garbage. The film literally reeks with
weak story plots and sloppy acting.
The director must have been asleep
throughout most of the scenes.
With a capable cast made up of
Armand Assante (77ie Mambo Kings).
Gabriel Byrn (Cool World), Joanne
Whally-Kilmer (Willow) and William
Hurt {Broadcast News), nothing could
have possibly gone wrong. But the
film still found a way to be really bad
despite the acting abilities.
William Hurt must be desperate for
work. This movie was the dog of his
career, even next to Mr. Wonderful
starring Hurt and Matt Dillion.
Well, here's the breakdown anyway.
The film begins with a hit on a Mafia
snitch staying in a hotel (how original). The snitch, of course, is the key
witness in the trial against Rusty
Parone (played by Assante). Paronc
is a heavy hitting godfather in a New
York mob. who kills people just to see
them die.
Dan Graham (played by Byrn) is the
district attorney whose career is riding
on whether or noi he can put Parone
away. Graham blackmails Parone's
uncle, who is already in prison, with
compromising photos of him and a
young blonde inmate doing the over
the back mambo in the prison balh-
The movie finally goes to court
where Valerie Alston (played by
Kilmer) is introduced. Although she
is a single mother and a small business owner, which could get her out
of jury duty, she opts not to. Instead
she gives a patriotic speech about her
duty as a citizen to>$crye on a jury
and find the truth.
Immediately Parone, Graham and a
jury member find themselves at-,
traded to Ms. Alston.
Hey, Kilmer is good looking, but
come on, she's not enough to make
Mafia godfathers lose what's left of
their minds.
Soon after the trial begins, Paronc
has Tommy Veecy (played by Hurt)
put the squeeze on a jury member.
Veecy is a dirty ex-cop who works for
Parone.
Veecy chooses Alston to intimidate,
because of course he is immediately
attracted to her primordial emanations. Veecy explains to Alston that
unless she votes to acquit Parone. her
son is dead (again, how original).
Soon after her visit with Veecy,
REVIEW GURU
f   *
Assante and Whalley-Kilmer
Parone makes a second visit. He tells
her to make sure she votes to acquit
or she will see her son dead. After a
barrage of threats, Parone must have
gotten exited because he then proceeds to rape Alston. He then escapes
her building by hiding in a trash can
carried out by a couple of garbage
men, (what an appropriate image for
this film).
Alston, too frightened to go to the
police, takes a shower instead. She
shows up for the last day of jury duly
anyway. After two seconds, 11 jurors
find Paronc guilty. But Alsione, out
of fear, pronounces that Paronc did
noi receive a fair trial and that Graham is infringing on his civil rights.
Alstonc then proceeds to convince
some of the jurors lhat maybe she's
right. She even turns ihe jurors
against each other. In a confusing
moment, il would appear that Alston
was taking pleasure in causing doubt.
The verdict: A hung jury. Paronc is
set free.
Alston then receives a visit from
Veecy; he has fallen in love and wants
her forgiveness. But instead of rushing into his arms, she takes a ride with
him to talk about her problems.
Through this they become friends.
Paronc decides thai he must have
Alston killed. His hench men go after her and drag her to the woods, but
before she is smoked,Veecy comes
crashing through the trees like a gun
totting Robin Hood killing all the bad
guys. Until one of them gets up and
shoots him back, bye-bye ye drunken
hero.
Alston, in a fit of revenge, calls
Parone (somehow she got the number), and makes a date. She shows
up at his secret hideaway dressed in
a slinky silk dress and red lipstick.
She proceeds to seduce Paronc. who
is of course accepting. Paronc goes
on to ask Alston if she enjoyed it the
other night. Alston says yes. and they
continue to swallow each other.
Kilmer! Act a little disgusted.
star in Trial By Jury.
For some reason, during the throes
of passion, Parone decides to suffocate her with his hands. She is then
able to get to her purse, open it, pull
out an ice pick and stab him not once,
not twice but six times. Parone still
manages one last attempt to throttle
her but he falls over instead. Can this
climactic scene get any cheesier?
Thank the high heavens it can't, because a happy ending sneaks in there
somewhere and the dam thing is finally over.
This putrid remake has nothing on
the original, except for maybe the
amount of chest hair on Parone.
American justice is blind and so was
the movie studio. A film like this deserves a warning to Ihe weak at heart
and lo people wilh laslc.
Judgment is for the audience. Guru
Says: Don't waste your time, study
instead.
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MOVIE TRIVIA
CONTEST
Every week Insight hosts a movie trivia contest. The winner will
receive two movie tickets. Just answer each question, go to the
McKee Fisk Building and drop your slip in the box right outside
Room 238. A winner will be drawn every Friday and notified that
night. If you don't answer all the questions, that's O.K. Drop it by
anyway.
NAME: ___
1. Which Trial by Jury stars were not born in the United Slates?
(circle all lhat apply)
a. Armand Assante   b. Gabriel Byrn   c. Joanne Whally-Kilmer
d.William Hurt
2. Who were the two main stars in courtroom drama Suspect?
a. Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan b. Cher and Harrison Ford
c. Cher and Dennis Quaid d. Captain and Tenille
3. Which film stared Al Pacino as a boisterous attorney?
a. Scent of a Woman b. Dog Day Afternoon c. And Justice forAll
d Scarface
4. Which actress played the defense attorney in the film Jagged Edge?
a. Glenn Close   b. Meryl Streep  c. Kim Basinger  d. Melanie
Griffith
5. In the film A Place in the Sun, what object did prosecutor Raymond
Burr crash down in the court room?
a. his fist   b. an oar  c. a lead pipe  d. the defendant  e. a gavel
6. Which actor or actress did not star in ihc film Legal Eagles!
a. Debra Winger  b. Robert Redford  c. Paul Newman  d. Daryl
Hannah
7. In the film Presumed Innocent what weapon was used to kill Greta
Scacchi?
a. a rope   b. a candlestick  c. a lead pipe  d. a hammer
Congratulations to last
week's winner!
KIM BACA
Last week's
were:
I.e. Cyborg
2.d. telephone booth
3. a. underground
4. c. Cherry 2000
5. b. Jack the Ripper
6. c. HAL
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