'Komedy' attacks with fun, laughs
Sit back, make yourself comfortable and think back to your high school years. While a good, nostalgic number of you may be sobbing right now, reminiscing about long-lost friends, the rest should concentrate on what actually happened in the classroom. And we're not talking academics.
Remember entertaining your biology class with the cold, slimy appendages of your dissected frog ... or Mr. Graves, the senile algebra teacher with the strange mirrors on his shoes?
20th Annual Folk Festival to rock Hill
One of the year's biggest and best area music events is taking place right here on campus tomorrow, when a stellar roster of folk artists converges on Hill Auditorium for the 20th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Featuring Nanci Griffith and Leon Redbone, the Festival is a fund-raiser benefit for the Ark.
Brooks' 'Mother' does not know best
Albert Brooks' new film, "Mother," is an entertaining but ultimately disappointing work that marks his first directorial effort since "Defending Your Life" (1991). Brooks stars with Debbie Reynolds in this examination of the complex dynamics that underlie familial connections.
Forever TV & me
Early in my first year at the University, I learned that a friend was raised without a TV in her home. Considering that she grew up with nine siblings, I pictured an energetic, pioneering family, like Lucille Ball's clan in "Cheaper by the Dozen." They might have even traded couch life for outdoor adventure, a la "Swiss Family Robinson" - if they weren't in Detroit. I could hardly imagine a childhood without the Flintstones, KITT, and Eddie Murphy's Gumby act.
'Beavis and Butt-head' soundtrack lacks, even for MTV
MTV has once again attempted to make a quick buck and the result is a movie based on the moronic hijinks of two of their biggest cash cows - Beavis and Butt-head. In the process, they also have managed to crank out a below-average soundtrack to accompany the two idiots in their buffoonery.
The music of this disc is a mix of different artists from across the alterna-rock/heavy metal spectrum and a splash of rap. In an effort at increasing the music's breadth, Mike Judge - the album's producer - also threw in Engelbert Humperdink and Isaac Hayes. The quality of the album is definitely improved by the addition of these songs.
'King' reigns over prime time
In the wake of "Beavis and Butt-head Do America" unexpectedly ruling the box office, every TV-watching soul in the country is expected to join one of the two warring camps: Those convinced that Mike Judge and his parade of stick figures are gleefully corrupting Little America, and those who think the jazz bassist-turned-animator is merely holding up a slightly warped mirror to its everyday horrors. "King Of The Hill," Mike Judge's network debut, presents a strong argument for the latter.
Choral Union makes Sunday appearance
The musical genius of Russian composers Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff will burst into Hill Auditorium this Sunday as the University Musical Society's Choral Union joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The evening of music's special guest will be vocal sensation Vladimir Popov, who will sing the baritone solo of "Cantata in Commemoration of Peter the Great." Also featured will be piano soloist Leif Ove Andsnes who will be accompanying the orchestra during Piano Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninoff.
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