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Show JUM DIXIE SUN January Tf&utte TQzttteca 1 by Sandy Pulse f- - - i1 'V weeks movie review takes a look at the newest comedy film starring Chevy Chase. The movie is called PROBMODERN LEMS and is now playing at the DIXIE This Theatre. MODERN PROB- is LEMS definitely what the name implies; a comical look at some modern problems most of us are fortunate enough to avoid. But in the movie, Chevy Chase is not so lucky. Chase plays an air flight controller. His is played by Mary Kay Place. They are the best of friends. She is also friends with live-iChases girl is played who friend, by Patty Arbonville. As life starts to fall apart, so does Chevy. In addition to scraping the paint on his new car, and breaking the f the minute it decides to rain. Chase finds himself driving the down freeway behind a truck full of nuclear waste. With sunthe roof, he and his car are ex-wi- n sun-roo- now-broke- n in bathed radiation. Not realizing this, Chevy continues to go on with life at its complicated pace. His live-igirl friend moves out and then he runs into her at a party with another guy. As the movie goes on, Chase begins to realize some unusual powers that he has n attained. Well, the use of his powers makes this an always humorous and sometimes touching comedy. As in all of his movies, Chevy wins in the end, and leaves you laughing all the way out of the theatre. Also starring in MODERN PROB LEMS is Dabney Coleman who plays a slightly looney author and psychiatrist, who is a bit The movie is rated PG and is well worth the money to see. Chevy Chase is excellently funny as a semiordinary everyday person who is faced with MODERN nuclear ntJ Blondie: Music Will Wake Up The 1980s I tnink music is going to become less of a tranquilizer for the masses and become more of a message carrier like it was in the 1960 s, James Destri, keyboard man of the rock group Blondie, predicts. Blondie drummer Clement Burke compares it to a record playing over and over. I mean its cyclical and the same sound is heard again and again. Destri and Burke explained the cycles in an interview with the "Erlanger Rock Classics To Come radio series, sponsored by Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company. The 80s are the 60s all over again. We have a conservadve regime in office again, and youth is going to wake up again, Destri says. Destri explains this return to the 60s as part of a never-endincycle. He describes this unique evolution that he believes will take place in the next 10 years. Music is going to have a very strong influence again, he said. The leading artists coming out of this new wave genre are going to start making music that 13 and kids will live to. Music will become a philosophy again as it did in the 60s. Burke also sees a repetition in the sound. The thing thats happening to music now is the black influence," he says. The mixture of black and electronic meeting somewhere in the middle is what well continue to hear for the next few years." In fact, Destri and Burke say that Blondies roots are black. I dont think there would have been a Blondie if there wasnt a Supremes or a Motown sound," Destri says. Obviously, the Blondie sound has changed, but I think that was necessary because of the imitators or emulators, Burke adds. There was a tremendous backlash in new wave music and, instead of people trying to be original, theyre trying to copy what is proven He sees Blondie as a pot group in what we assimilate various styles and incorporate them into the Blondie sound. But Blondie has never been a typical rock g hit-wis- true-meltin- g :dj BillLbard s Toi t g" ieii 1. Foreigner 2. ACDC ece rar$ orti es 3. Journey FOUR FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK ESCAPE zal 4. Olivia an 5. Stevie Nicks d-- n oV did Dr lif' PHYSICAL Newtonjohn BELLA DONNA TATTOO YOU 6. Rolling Stones 7. Bob Seger NINE TONIGHT HI INFIDELITY 8. 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Why Do Fools Fall In Love I. Dont Stop Believing Journey 3. Waiting for a Friend Foiling Stones Billy Joel 1. Shes Got a Way Bob Seger i. Feel like a Number Air Supply 3. Sweet Dreams Dan Fogleberg 7. Leader of the Band Rick Springfield 3. Love is Alright Tonight Kenny Rogers ). Through the Years Barry Manilow ). Somewhere Down the Road 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. band. The band has had an identity crisis of sorts because former Playboy model and lead vocalist Deborah Harry is generally considered to be Blondie. "Would the Rolling Stones have been any less a band if they were called The Big Lips, which is Mick Jaggers biggest trait?" Destri wonders in reply to questions about the effect of the confusion. Everything has worked out for Blondie as we had pictured in our wildest fantasies, Burke sa)s. We were prepared for whats happened over the past five years, so we took for granted how popular Debbie would become. "In fact, Destri asserted, "Debbie became such a label that we were instantly recognized. Destri contends that the attention Debbie Harry got helped not only the band's popularity, but the other band members' private lives. I can go outside my house, which is as big as Debbies, and play around and nobody bothers me, Destri says. But Debbie cant even leave her house sometimes because someone will always be there. So we accept eveiything that's happened. What has happened is success after success and the groups expansion into movies (Union City Blue and Roadie), and the sound track for the movie American Gigolo. The title song from that movie, Call Me, was Billboard magazines number one single of 1980. American Gigolo was a big step for us, and came at a time when we needed it, Burke says, We hope to do more with movies in the future, perhaps the life story of the band. The expanding horizons of Blondie have caused the group to become, like most groups, a business. tightly-ruBlondie exists as a corporation now, not just a rock and roll band playing purely for fun in the streets on Saturday night, Destri says. Were all share holders with secretaries and the whole thing. I can wake up in the morning and say Im a songwriter and keyboard player or say Im treasurer of this corporation and ask myself which I am going to be today. Its all very weird. n news flasL witn REBEL RICK by Dave Despain 36 LOOK FOR IMPORTANT NEWS FLASHES EACH WEEK WITH REBEL RICK, THE NEWEST MEMBER OF 1 HE KRDC STAFF. , |