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Beginning Mon., Wed., Thurs., 5-6 p.m. Advanced Mon., Wed., Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Tues.,Fri., 9-10:30 a.m. Moms to Be (for the Expectant Mother) Val Cowan Tues., 5-6 p.m. Weight Training Fastest way to PERFECTION! Tues., Thurs., 10-11 a.m., Scott Siemon Mon., Wed., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Leslie Shawver Racquetball - Dianna Archbold Taking registration now for Beginning Clinics, Juniors Classes & Lea Swimming Adult Lap Swim - daily 7-8 a.m., 12-1 p.m., 6-7 p.m. Call for more information 649-6670 Tootsie' is confused but enjoyable ' A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists only Tootsie When the movie "Nine to Five" came out nearly two years ago, I thought at the time that it looked like "McHale's Navy" set in an office building. In spite of the serious message in the picture, pic-ture, someone else must have noticed the sitcom overtones also. The movie is now a TV series. "Tootsie" also could lend itself to a situation comedy, though it has a higher level of quality than "Nine to Five." It is more deftly acted ac-ted and directed. I'm just not sure its ideas about sexual role-playing in today's society are very clear. Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, a veteran struggling actor in New York who has built up such a bristly reputation with direc- At the Cowboy tors that he can't get an acting ac-ting job. In desperation, he dresses in drag as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands a role as the tough, independent heroine of a popular hospital soap opera. "Dorothy" sets the show on its ear. "She" tells off the chauvinistic director (Dab-ney (Dab-ney Coleman) rebuffs the onset on-set flirting of her leading man (George Gaynes) and improvises militant dialogue in the middle of tapings, throwing away the namby-pamby namby-pamby sentiments in the script. On the surface, the message here is supposed to be a feminist one. A man for the first time encounters male chauvinism directed at him and rebels. In return, Dorsey gets an ironic reward. He becomes a national idol, but as "Dorothy," a woman! The message doesn't make sense, however, because Michael is the rebellious type in or out of pantyhose. In the early moments of the movie, we see him talking back to a director. As a trouble-making male actor, he becomes a pariah on Broadway. (Dorsey's agent calls him a "cult failure." But acting the same way as a woman, he becomes a hit, which tends to undermine the women's rights maxim that an aggressive man. is tolerated more than an aggressive woman. Another problem is that the picture portrays Michael, the pseudo-woman, soap, which is produced by a woman. To be fair, the story drops one hint that Michael is a bit of a male chauvinist. He manipulates his girlfriend, Garr, while trying to pursue Jessica Lange. But there's no sign that he comes to understand un-derstand his caddish behavior through his life as a The themes in "Tootsie" are unclear, or even subtly anti-feminist at times. But that aside, Hoffman gives a wonderful comic perform-ance. as more assertive than the real women in the movie. Throughout the story, he's a shown leading the way for a female, whether it's guiding a shrinking-violet acting student (Teri Garr) through a scene; lending more confidence con-fidence to his leading lady (Jessica Lange) ; or giving a feminist snin to the hospital woman, or that he behaves any better because of it. The themes in "Tootsie" are unclear, or even subtly anti-feminist at times. But that aside, Hoffman gives a wonderful comic performance. perfor-mance. He makes a surprisingly sur-prisingly striking woman. When you remember that 15 years ago, he set a new stan dard for leading men (short, gnomishly handsome, nasally-voiced), it would be appropriate if he set a new standard for leading ladies. His only major flaw is that his woman's voice is too transparent. It's a constipated con-stipated little whisper. Hoffman has one of the best all-round supporting casts in a movie this year. Jessica Lange handles a relatively lightweight role with down-to-earth likeability. Charles Durning, as her father, gets a crush on "Dorothy" and brings it off without a hint of the cheap laugh he's just a lonely, likeable guy who makes a ludicrous mistake. Sydney Pollack not only guides the movie with well-timed well-timed direction, but gives a nice comic performance as Dorsey's befuddled agent. And Bill Murray, in an un-publicized un-publicized role, turns every one of his lines into zingers. (He's Dorsey's WASPy roommate like Tony Roberts to Hoffman's Woody Allen.) In disguise or not, "Tootsie" "Toot-sie" is one of the year's best comedies. Taj brings back 'the people's music' Taj Mahal who will be performing two shows at the Cowboy Bar Jan. 18 is not your average recording artist. ar-tist. Most musicians these days look at records first and foremost as a means to make money. For such blatantly commercial artists, ar-tists, the quantity of vinyl ; they move is just about all V that matters. They long ago abandoned musical ethics or firm sense of artistic vision in a merciless pursuit of' limosines, mansions with ' swimming pools and all the decadent finery which pop' superstardom affords. : Taj Mahal isn't like most) recording, artists.. Heplay and sings exactly what' he I wants, commercial reper-: cussions be damned. A soulful, full-voiced singer and master of such instruments as guitar, piano, banjo, upright bass and mandolin, Mahal loves the music he makes on its own terms, regardless of how much money it will bring in. As he told an interviewer recently, "I love to play music and if I'm going to play as a free musician and do what I want, I have to accept ac-cept that my records might not sell over 100,000 copies big deal! I don't need to fight for any big pieces of pie. I don't care about parading around in front of cameras and sitting on the hood of a new Rolls Royce. I just love to play music." The music Taj loves to play is the music of the 1 people. All people. Taj embraces just about every kind of ethnic music that's ever been created. His many albums, such as "Music Fuh Ya," "The Natch'l Blues" and "Happy to Be Just Like I Am," are full of everything from Appalachian Ap-palachian folk tunes to Carribean and African chants to rock 'n' roll to the blues. Taj is more than just a singer and musician although he's extremely capable in those capacities. He's a musicologist; an archivist. But he does it all without making his work seem like a boring rehash of history. As "New York Times" critic Stephen Holden assessed it, "Taj Mahal is a musical ar-cheologist ar-cheologist who does more than preserve history. He makes it contemporary." Taj's diverse musical tastes can be traced to his childhood in Springfield, Mass. W5SSJSv: " ' ' ' Z. f 'fi i yvff:-:-x-:: f . . ... . ..... According to a recent profile in "Frets" magazine, "Taj's father was a composerarranger com-poserarranger who had an archival record collection of jazz, blues and big band classics, and Taj helped to wear out the wax on all of them. Taj's mother was a school teacher and gospel singer who tried to get her son interested in classical piano. But that only lasted a couple of weeks, as strains of boogie woogie started rolling from the fingers that were supposed to be practicing Bethoven. Taj's mother was similarly distressed when her son latched onto a guitar and began bending notes. 'She was a pretty sophisticated lady,' Taj says, 'and she wasn't too interested in-terested in me howlin' the blues. So I had to go underground.' un-derground.' "While attending college at the University of Massachusetts, Mahal became deeply involved in the Boston folk music scene, hearing and meeting such artists as Elizabeth Cotten, Jessie Fuller, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Dave Van Ronk, Rev. Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt, among others. "Those experiences inspired in-spired Taj to work on becoming an accomplished folk-blues fingerpicker. During his last years of college, Taj began playing some gigs ... 'Toward the end of college, music was pushing on me pretty hard,' recalls Taj, 'but I still finished my degree so I'd have something to fall back on in case I didn't make it as a professional musician.' Taj Mahal "In 1965 Taj moved to Los Angeles and soon carved a niche for himself at the Ashgrove, one of the hottest clubs in town at that time. But it was hardly a case of being instantly accepted for his musical ability. Taj explains, ex-plains, 'I was the doorman, the chief cook and bottle washer, announcer, light man, and then sometimes I got to open the shows when the first act didn't show up. I did that for about three years, and I got to play piano, harmonica, and a little lit-tle guitar with some really great musicians: Lightnin' Hopkins, Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachel, Bukka White, Jesse Fuller all those guys. I also met Ry Cooder there and we ended up doing a lot of work together.' "Taj's performance, and recording schedule filled up during the '70s, and besides recording LPs for Columbia, " Warner Brothers, and Crystal Clear Records, Taj scored the music for 'Sounder,' 'Soun-der,' also appearing in that film and in the TV biography of Scott Joplin. "Among Taj's lesser known credits are consecutive con-secutive victories in the frailing banjo competition at the Topanga ( Canyon Fiddlers Fid-dlers Contest 'After the judges heard 'Cripple Creek' 50 times, I guess I sounded pretty good,' he muses." Tickets for his performances performan-ces at the Cowboy Bar Jan. 18 will be $12 at the door but are available in advance for $10 at the Cosmic Aeroplane, Smokey's Records, all ZCMI locations and the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City as well as at the Cowboy Bar liquor store. Showtimes will be 7 : 30 and 10:30 p.m. For reservations and further information, call 649-4146. i by Rick Lanman Origins of Schloss Vollrads JL Several weeks ago I was discussing imported impor-ted wines with a novice wine drinker and the subject of Schloss Vollrads came up. He had been served Schloss Vollrads at dinner one evening and in subsequent conversations had been told it was a French Rhine wine. Others have mentioned this well-known wine in recent months and we might take this opportunity oppor-tunity to clear up a number of confusions surrounding it. Schloss Vollrads is actually a German Rhine wine from an area known as the Rheingau that encompasses most of the Rhine River in Germany. The Rhine is often confused with the Rhone, hence the comment that Schloss Vollrads was a French wine. Both rivers begin in Switzerland, though at that point the similarities end. The headwaters of the Rhone are near the Swiss-Italian border in southern Switzerland, Swit-zerland, not far from the famous Jungfrau peak. The Rhone flows west for a time and then south toward the Mediterranean. The Rhine, however, begins in northern Switzerland and flows north toward the North Sea, unusual in that few rivers flow due north. Along the Rhine, in Germany, sits the small town of Winkel and here one finds the famous Schloss Vollrads. There is actually an estate of Schloss Vollrads and it is one of the few unified tracts of vineyard country on the river. Amid the vineyards is an imposing castle, also referred to as Schloss Vollrads, complete com-plete with a five-story tower. For many years the castle was approachable only across a drawbridge. While a permanent bridge is in place today, the castle, which includes in-cludes a private museum, is often closed. Still, even when the castle is closed, there is a great deal to see at Schloss Vollrads. The castle is surrounded by a moat that holds resident swans always willing to per form. Nearby are numerous sheds where the wine is made and the famous Grey House. The house was built in the 17th Century and rebuilt in 1908. The house and winery are owned by the Greiffenclau family, which has lived in the area since the 14th Century and is one of the oldest wine clans in the country. Your main purpose in visiting Schloss Vollrads is, of course, to drink the wine. They are enormous, fruity wines with a golden bouquet and perfumy nose. Made entirely from Riesling grapes grown on just under 100 acres, these wines are prized by wine drinkers the world over. The Schloss Vollrads vineyards are among the three largest privately-owned vineyards in Germany. Ger-many. The best wine comes from a section known as Schlossberg-Marienberg. Schloss. Vollrads uses a rather unusual method of identifying its wine, though the system is similar to that used by the equally-famous equally-famous Schloss Johannisberg: the colored foils on the bottle top will tell you what wine you are drinking. A simple Qualitatswein will have a green foil top, the Kabinett sports a blue. The late-harvest wines are even more colorful. A superior Kabinett will have blue foil with two gold stripes while the Spatlese wines show either solid pink or pink with two stripes. White foil with gold stripes is used for Auslese wines, solid gold for the Beerenauslese wines and finally a gold foil cap with an imprint of the castle goes on the Trokenbeerenauslese wine. The wines themselves are quite fruity and riot as delicate as the Mosels. Somewhat complex, they are given to absorbing noses and lower alcoholic content. The late harvest varietals are, of course, higher in residual sugar and lower in alcohol. Generally the wines are priced from 110 to $20 a bottle and are available at the Trolley Square wine store. |