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City Lights shines with diverse films

By Tiffany Stochel · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12:18 a.m.

"King Kong," "The Bride of Frankenstein," "Safety Last" and "Playtime" will be presented at this season's City Lights festival. "City Lights is a free film series open to the public and University community. It shows 16 mm prints of cinema that rarely find their way to the big screen," said graduate student Drew Todd, co-founder of City Lights.

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Hungarian pianist to perform recital

By Joseph S. Pete · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12:17 a.m.

Peter Pertis, a former soloist with the Hungarian philharmonic, will give a guest recital at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Recital Hall. A graduate of the Bela Batok Conservatory of Music, Pertis has toured Eastern and Western Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia. Now giving master's degree classes, he has served as artist in residence at the Musashino Music Academy in Tokyo and the University of Hartford.

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Dining with a master of the theater

By Gabriel Lewin · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12:16 a.m.

I found out last spring that Athol Fugard was to visit IU this fall, but I was not quite prepared for meeting this paragon of modern theater. Fugard came to campus as the Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor, and his visit coincided with the purchase and exhibit of his notes and manuscripts at the Lilly Library, as well as the release of a book about his works by English professor Albert Wertheim.

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Jazz concert a smooth blend of ethnic sounds

By Justin Dohoney · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12:15 a.m.

Four men quietly took the stage Tuesday night at the TIS Music Shop as the small crowd mulled about the store, browsing through CDs and waiting for the concert to begin. With no introduction, the four embraced their instruments and broke into their first number. The audience's attention quickly shifted to the stage, and the seats were immediately filled. Thus began the two hour set of IU alumnus Kyle Quass and his band, as they delved into their own unique style of jazz music.

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Immature, quirky style still works for Presidents

By Jason Gaddis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

In the early '90s, Seattle had a horde of bands eager to take part in the grunge revolution. Appealing to a pissed-off generation, these bands sang about everything from teen spirit to school violence to black-hole suns. Then The Presidents of the United States of America came along parading kitties and peaches, a band whose anthem was "We're Not Gonna Make It."

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Fight Club

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This David Fincher masterwork could go down as the most misunderstood film of the \'90s, with critics claiming it has fascist leanings and audiences not caring to go the extra mile to comprehend the reality of Tyler Durden. And even though the film basically flopped, Twentieth Century Fox pulled out all the stops on the DVD, making it a definite must-have.

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Full of pep

By Aline Mendelsohn · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

She's done it again. In the '80s, Madonna was the trendsetting dance pop singer. In the '90s, she became much harder to classify, because with each new album, she went through a major transformation. Erotica was racy, Bedtime Stories pouty. She pulled off Broadway with the "Evita" soundtrack and quieted her harshest critics with the breakthrough electronica collection Ray of Light.

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Any Given Sunday: Special Edition Director's Cut

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Oliver Stone's football epic, starring Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, was met with mixed reviews last winter when it opened in theaters. Now it has been released on DVD with about seven minutes of additional Stone staples -- gratuitous sex, drugs and violence. And of course these qualities never hinder a film.

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The Dark Crystal

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Jim Henson will forever be remembered for Kermit the Frog, but it is his 1982 work "The Dark Crystal" that might very well be the defining moment of his career.

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Pumpkins' last disc awesome

By Jason Gaddis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Virgin Records and the Smashing Pumpkins have never gotten along. But this time, the Pumpkins have the last laugh. They decided to release 25 vinyl copies of Machina II / the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music to a select group of friends and fans, encouraging mass bootlegging.

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Cam'ron's sophomore effort profane

By Kenneth Durril · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Profane from the beginning, Cam'ron's S.D.E. sets an urban reality or suburban fantasy of a violent New York City and candid sexual speech. This sophomore record is consistent but has no high-profile songs such as "Horse and Carriage," a BET favorite that featured Mase at his prime.

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Technology envy 101

By Jen Wagner · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Make a little more room in the U-Haul, mom. Along with their sheets, clothes and funky wall decorations, students are now moving decadent home entertainment centers, souped-up computers and expensive video game systems into their dorm rooms, apartments and houses.

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Boogie Nights

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

\"Boogie Nights," easily one of the most incendiary films of the '90s, hits the DVD format for the second time in a pristine anamorphic transfer, chock full of supplemental materials.

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The Matrix

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Take the red pill or the blue pill? Buy the videocassette or the DVD version of "The Matrix"? It's a tough choice, but for everyone who is still surfing the Internet trying to find Morpheus, DVD is the only way to go. The DVD version, which was released before the videocassette version, is jam-packed with extra little goodies.

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The last laugh

By Kate Lewis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Saturday night was bittersweet for both the audience and performers. About 50 people gathered in the IMU cafeteria to watch the very last performance of the Pumpernickel improv troupe, and they were thoroughly impressed. The group, which formed in 1994, does Chicago-style comedy games similar to those seen on "Whose Line is it Anyway?". Saturday's final performance made the audience laugh, cry and, in the end, they were sorry to see the group go.

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Osborne's latest effort darker, less passionate than 'Relish'

By Kate Lewis · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Joan Osborne is an excellent musician. Her 1995 release Relish produced the tepid "One of Us" for radio airplay, but the rest of the album was much stronger. So her eagerly anticipated follow-up had big shoes to fill. Unfortunately, Righteous Love leaves much to be desired.

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USA: How low can you go?

By Jeff Schogol · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

I hope that the Screen Actors Guild goes on strike. Then we'd be spared crap like USA's new original series "The War Next Door" (9 p.m. Sunday), representing the latest offensive in the network's war on good t

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The Sweet Hereafter

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

This 1997 Atom Egoyan masterpiece on the slow destruction of the workings of a small town stands as one of the great films of the 1990s. New Line fully recognized this and gave it the best DVD treatment it could.

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Rating DVD quality

By Chris Sikich · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Movie studios have yet to fully figure out the possibilities of DVD, but they are getting there.

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Cheap dates

By Eden Kerr Perkinson · Thursday, Sept. 28,2000 12 a.m.

Face it, you're flat broke. It's OK, we all are. But does that mean that as students we don't deserve the finest weekend entertainment out there? Does that mean we don't get the chance to impress dates with our creativity and romanticism? Basically, does that mean that our dating scene should be confined to Friday and Saturday night keggers because the $3 plastic cup fee is the most we can splurge? I think not.

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