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Show Arts 8 Entertainment The Forum n IfWv 31 U L (Oj! ffi: W'hit si kaom colorful compilation of the WowesdAy, November B Tonight welcomes the groups best work. Taste Your Kiss features spastic energy of the Jon BLues twelve to Sweet Loretta origiEqhosION Spoto town as ho tours in support of nals, combining the best of his new album, Now I Got their eclectic sound with d Worry. This new release takes intense, grooves. to back his Each blues number Spencer perfectly caproots, due in part to his recent tures the groups essence as study with the great R.L. they take their listeners Burnside. While his name through a musical roller-coastride of sights, sounds and proclaims his explosive style, he lives up to the tag with moods. adrenaline-pumpin- g To celebrate the CDs sets of honest punk rock blues. See release, Sweet Loretta will be them tonight at DV8. hosting a two-da- y jubilation Also making an appearNov. 15 and Friday, Saturday, ance in town tonight is the Nov. 16. The festivities kick recently recovered Scott off Friday evening with a live Weiland with Stone TEMpLe performance at the Zephyr Pflup. Playing in Orem at the Club with special guests, the Dave McKay Center, STP will Sun Masons. be performing numbers from The revelry continues their new release, Tiny Saturday with an appearance Music... Songs From The at Blockbuster Music (2107 Vatican Gift Shop. South 700 East) from 5 p.m., when members of Sweet Loretta will be on hand to XIiurDAy; November 11 The H.O.R.D.E. invasion autograph copies of Taste continues with an encore per- Your Kiss and photographs. formance tonight by luspo Each person who purchases IOOT- If you were one of the a CD during the signing will - few to miss receive free performance at H.O.R.D.E., you admission to their show at now have yet another oppor- the Ashbury Pub (22 East tunity to catch the act that 100 South) later that night. In addition to the many say stole the show with their percussive jams and promise of fine perforgood-fegroove. Their new mances, Sweet Loretta shows album, Remember, features 14 their appreciation for their g tracks sure to strong and growing fan base have you on your feet and in by holding a drawing for free the aisles of Kingsbury Hall merchandise, offering free admission to anyone weartonight. Closer to home and a bit ing a Sweet Loretta more sedate, Czech poet and setting the price of both MlRpsLAy IlohUB makes an evenings' celebrations at at Nunemaker $3 appearance only per night. Place at 8 p.m. tonight with a Both nights promise to reading and discussion of his be memorable as Sweet works. A renowned, pub- Loretta kicks their groovelished research immunologist, intensive sound into high Holub has written numerous gear, leading audience membooks of poetry and essays bers on a musical tour not to since the late 50s. He is con- be missed. sidered to be the Czech Republics most important SAiuipAY, Noyembx 15 and of one If you read last weeks its poet leading scientists. Locals Only column, you know who these guys are, so fttfoAYr November B take the opportunity to expeSalt Lake Citys premiere rience all the things I wrote funk and soul band, Sweej about first hand as Tlffi is LOitPITA, proud to jAckMONONS perform announce the release of their tonight at Liquid Joes. debut CD, Taste Your Kiss, a Power sets filled with intense guitar, keyboard and If your club or organizapercussive jams promise a tion has an event they g experience. would like In our calenfeel-goo- er 3-- - this-summe- rs el dance-inspirin- heart-stoppin- dar, dates G descriptions must be submitted two weeks in advance. private club for members 1996 Now Movie Holds Audiences For mm fT November 13 Wednesday jRm-Son- by Cindy Bradley Forum staff writer Mel Gibson stars in Ransom for acclaimed director Ron Howard in this riveting tale of a fiercely independent business tycoon who takes matters into his own hands when his son is kidnapped. Ransom is a very intense, him. The film draws you in on an emotional level, you can actually feel the brutality and the intensity of having to deal with your child being kidnapped. Mel Gibson plays Tom Mullen, a wealthy corporate executive used, to mediating tough business deals ana doing things his own way. Mullen, rich and successful with a beautiful wife named Kate (Rene Russo) and a son named Sean, soon finds his Fifth n which could result in the not only the victims of a not penthouse-lif- so wonder- wrong, Mullen appears on television to announce he is turning the kidnappers demand for $2 million into a bounty on their heads. It is a very intense film that has you wondering if he is making the right decision. The movie is over two hours, but it is worth every minute. I found this film to be exciting and I highly recommend it to movie-goer- s who are into an edgy, intensely powerful film. same title which starred Glenn Ford, Donna Reed and Leslie Nielsen. Director Ron was Howard, however, unaware of that film until only weeks before shooting began. His primary interest in the project was to create a film in which the story followed e . ful. Things come down crashing when Sean is abducted by desperate criminals and held for ran- self-mad- powerful. The Ransom script was based on a 1956 film of the . Avenue crime, but the criminals as well. The character Tom Mullen e is a millionaire, used to making hard decisions and taking gambles. But, when his only son is abducted and the FBI ransom drop goes death of his son. Mullen proceeds with his plan to get his son back safely. Watching this movie along with other critics, you could easily determine they were caught up in the intensity of this film. There were also a few humorous story lines added to the film. I found this film to be very exciting and 4; 1 a ! (U f f 1 A. s ,?r som. After an FBI rescue operation fails, Mullen engineers a dangerous countermeasure in a last chance effort to bring his boy back to safety. With his sons life hanging precariously in the balance, his wife is terrified by his shocking plan, Mel Gibson and Rene Russo star as Tom and Kate Mullen who face the unthinkable when their young son is kidnapped, photo provided byLorey Sebastian Visits Westminster by Holly Millerberg Forum staff writer I thought you said nobody goes to these things, I heard somebody behind me remark in amazement, as on Oct. 29, students, faculty and members of the community packed the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, Courage Theater to hear the words of this years Anne Newman Sutton Weeks, Distinguished Visiting Poet, John Ashbery. Filling nearly all of the 265 seats m the theater, as well as all of the floor room on the aisle stairs, those in attendance sipped wine, ate cheese and crackers and waited for the thoughts and expressions that have won so many awards, to come from the lips of the man who created them. The evening began with Associate Professor of English and director of the poetry Katharine series, Coles announcing that the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series had again received a generous endowment for $250,000. While this news was met with great enthusiasm, Coles said that, What really brought you tonight is the poems, here The words on the page. John Ashberys poem; require the poet and the read er to leap from image to image word to word, Coles said And while he has been writ ing and is recognized for hii works for over 20 years Ashbery remains, a younj avant garde original. As Ashbery climbed th See Poet page 7 |