Show The Salt Lake Tribune D7 19 1987 February Thursday The commentary continues for DK singer Jello Biafra By Sue Cumming9 Los Angeles Daily News - The have disbanded but the LOS ANGELES Dead er musicians and artists” he said saying that the case has links with the religious right “The Jimmy Swag-garwould like to see this as the first in a series of dominos that leads to biology text books being censored” ts Ken-ned- outra- geous punk group’s demise hasn’t silenced spokesman and lead singer Jello Biafra's political commentary A few days before a court date in Los Angeles and more than a week before Biafra’s spoken-wor- d performance last Saturday night — he was in fine form “Some of what I do is poetry and some of it borders on stand-u- p comehe said of his new dy timing-wise- ” solo role “Plus I’ve wound up becoming a professional mouth right now whether I like it or not” What Biafra who was born Eric Boucher is most likely to talk about these days is his legal problems They began in 1985 while the Kennedys were recording their album Biafra read a Penthouse magazine article on Swiss surrealist painter HR Giger who won an Academy Award for designing special effects for the movie “Alien” One Giger painting with a highly sexual landscape inspired Biafra’s own work "We were bogged down with recording” he said When he saw the painting “a concept- album fell into my lap Here was consumer culture on parade right there on canvas here was what we do to each other when the price is right” The landscape was reproduced for a poster insert in "Frankenchrist” a move almost guaranteed to cause the group trouble That trouble came last daughspring when the ter of Simi Valley resident Mary Sierra bought a copy of the album for her brother This prompted Sierra to file a complaint with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office Sierra could not be reached for comment this week In place of a conventional warning "Fran-kenchris- Biafra promises that if necessary he will appeal to the California Supreme Court aware that the litigation could last years Already the battle has taken its toll in the break-u- p of his band and the of near-dissoluti- 1 71 t” I Mich film A Michi- group gan State University known for its pornographic movies has turned to religion In a copyright story Tuesday the student newspaper at MSU reported that Box Office Spectaculars is offering “Nite Song” — a Christian movie — as this week's featured film Bob Murawski leader of the student-run film group said it is not trying to change its image He told the State News that Box Office Spectaculars merely wants to show the movies that attract the most viewers If J‘Nite Song” is successful the group “might not show porn again” Mgrgwski said although “Deep Throat” and "The Devil in Miss H “I think what we have bee s- eing is a slow imposition of ct rate martial law” he said “Slowly but surely you whittle away what kind of H f rights people have how much protection they have from surveillance how 'f bum were tracks with titles like “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” and "California Uber Alles" which implicitly criticized i- Jerry Brown then-Go- v "Without a recording project at the moment Biafra is concentrating on spoken-wor- d performances Ask him a question and he’ll issue a ULUU II m f II II ft! much information they get through standard media You’ll notice there’s less and less hard news in papers today including your own” aJVV I that read “Warning: The inside fold-oto this record cover is a work of art by HR Giger that some people may find shocking repulsive or offensive Life can sometimes be that way” The poster has since been removed from copies of the album In a preliminary hearing on the charge last week the Dead Kennedys’ lawyers attempted to convince the judge that the allegations were a violation of the group’s freedom of speech The judge denied that motion and set a March 25 trial date Biafra sees the case as a political issue “The prosecutors would like to see the conviction used to prosecute oth- ut Jones” — both porno films — are on the weekend calendar The group last year raised the ire of university administrators women’s organizations and Christian groups when it began weekly showfilms ings of The debate reached its peak last spring when Murawski announced the creation of "Spartan School for Sex” a film touted as an romp starring MSU students After a year-lon- g legal battle university officials obtained a court injunction halting the showing of that movie before discovering the film was a hoax Fully clothed shots of students standing on campus were spliced between sex scenes from other films I I 0 (R) 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:20 9:40 In Stereo 4890 SO 278-47- 1 130 315 A Some fight for money Some fight for glory He's fighting for his son's love o “From The Hip” acai 7:10 9:10 5766 m cTrjoouifiJ MANNTHCATNCS TODAY AT KMMftf 7WEASTAT S 5:00 4 10i00 SOUTH 0 SO 9AtM ! 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