22 —The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Dec. 7,1983 arts 'Thriller' video: k r By RON SKLAR Collegian Stall Writer -Among other things, 1983 will be remembered as the year of the music video. JThese high-energy, quick-edited, vastly creative promo tional clips from the record companies proved that sight will sell a record as well as sound. The most innovative accomplishment of this infant industry to date premiered this past weekend on MTV: Michael Jackson’s 15-minute “Thriller” video. video review All things considered, Michael Jackson, that rootin’- toptin’ stringbean of a blithe spirit, was probably the nfusic news of 1983. While MTV was criticized for not j* OTSIMA&jrj ® : • ® •m . • $ NEW IDEAS FOR P CHRISTMAS G © 'W o * '# if if A MICHAEL’S JW CLOTHING CO. « Corner of Fraser St. & Colder Way 238-4050^* X . Holiday Hours-Mon-Fri til 8:30 • fill r r Sat til 5:00 r n p .;6 Michael Jackson's new short film introduces a new dimension in video playing videos by black artists, Jackson’s video clips “Billie Jean” and “Beat It” were consistently on video playlists. Jackson wowed everyone, regardless of their musical taste. His video clip “Beat It” won the first-ever “Best Video Clip” award and he has succeeded in crossing over, or being accepted by white as well as black audi ences. Now, with the ‘Thriller” video, Jackson introduces a new dimension in music video: dialogue and storyline, while the music takes a back seat." This was seen to some extent in the Paul McCartney-Michael Jackson mega collaboration “Say Say Say,” but the technique was polished and defined in “Thriller.” “Thriller” is every Vincent Price movie you’ve ever seen, with a bit of John Carpenter and Tony Perkins thrown in just for the heck of it. It’s filled with wonderful, campy fun that Saturday matinee tongue-in-cheek horror that is so obviously lacking from today’s slash-em ups. The twist here is the addition of Michael’s song, complete with a wicked beat and his incredible dancing. ]'tide % © • • Directed by John Landis (“American Werewolf in London,” “Animal House”), “Thriller” is the first video clip to be longer than the average three to five minutes, but the video is so fast-paced and action-packed that you wonder where the time went. Without giving too much away, Jackson turns into an American werewolf in video Lionel Richie finds greener grass without Commodores By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer Lionel Richie’s solo career, he says, “puts a tingle in my life.” He says, “It is not oh, yeah. It is like YEAH! “When I go on stage now, I get a little jitter,” Richie said. “I like that. After 15 years with the Com modores, I forgot what that word nervous was about. I was a little bit jaded, almost bored, because of the routine. Now I find myself thinking before I go on stage, what it is I’m supposed to do.” In the late summer of 1981, the top 10 best-selling pop records charts included “Lady, You Bring Me Up” by the Commodores, Lion el Richie lead singer, writer and co- • producer; “I Don’t Need You” by Kenny Rogers, produced by Lione.l Richie; and “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Richie, written and produced by Lionel Richie as the title song of the movie of the same name. Richie said he told his manager, Ken Kragen, to make him a legend. Then he thought that the legends are all dead and maybe he’d better pull back from his flurry of activ ity. After a 1982 U.S. tour with the Commodores, during . which Mo town released his first solo album, “Lionel Richie,” Richie separated land, and this video even has credits rolling at the end. MTV broadcast “Thriller" every three hours through-i out the past weekend, but this video will be around for a* long time to come, possibly oven in your neighborhood , theater as a short subject. In all probability, “Thriller’ll will be nominated for an Oscar (“Best Short Subject”)^, ' -1 I from the Commodores The past year was spent in plan ning, he said, “in the coming to gether of Lionel Richie, solo artist.” He made only a few ap pearances before his current tour, such as singing with Diana Ross at the Grammy'Awards show. “I had to find band members that expressed the warmth of what I do and exude that feeling on stage and transmit it off stage,” he said. “Audiences can see if you’ve spent some time and thought:” The 48-city tour started Sept. 16 in Toledo, after four days at Lake Tahoe, Nev., and runs through Dec. 19, with the last three weeks in Hong Kong, Japan and Hawaii. Richie’s second solo LP for Mo town, “Can’t Slow Down,” came out in October, and is now No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. The first single, “All Night Long,” released in September, has gone to No. 1 on both the Billboard pop and soul singles charts. “I’m going on the R and B and the pop charts at the exact same time and the numbers are almost the same,” Richie said. “That’s what you want. That started happening as far back as ‘Sail On’ and ‘Still’ by the Commodores. “There are some black acts that have to be in the top 10 on the R and B charts to get onto the pop charts and sometimes they still don’t get over,’,’ he said. “I’ve been lucky.” This year Richie won a Grammy for best male pop vocal perfor- 1 mance for “Truly,” his third solo “ single. In 1981, he was nominated for five Grammys and in 1980 for , two. He thought he might win that'.! year as the writer of “Lady” for Kenny Rogers, but Christopher > Cross swept the field. “Lady” is the biggest seller Richie has written. . He has the most success compos-; j ing when he isn’t really trying, i 1 Richie said. On the Today Show in' " New York, noodlihg at the piano, he came up with a new tune. He wrote “Three Times a Lady” while mus ing about a Frank Sinatra-type— song. Romantic ballads come easi est, he said. His first solo album " was mellow. There’s more variety ~ on the new one. “All Night Long” ' has a calypso beat. Richie called his successes over- ;-: whelming. “There’s a difference ;; between a dream and a blessing,” - he added. “This is beyond my wild est dream now. If I weren’t reli gious by now, this would make me believe. “This is a business,” he said. “That’s well and clear. This is my first solo tour, but I’ve been in the business a long time and New York', has been good to me.” comics, etc. peanuts* . ■ > bloom count I ! 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K xi- l/A The Penn State Thespians are now accepting applications for Staff Positions for their spring musical: “ANYTHING GOES” available positions: Props Costume Designer Public Relations Director Stage Manager and all crews MESSIAH Sunday Dec. 11 nhower itorium JjiOOpn Sponsored by: Office of Religious Affairs - Nitlany Valley Symphony VyA Lutheran Campus Ministry Across 1 Wipes up 6 Sabot 10 Former premier of the USSR 11 Sheeplike 13 Rower 14 Minister. 16 Firetail 18 Fence 19 Suit 20 Grumble 22 Cobb 23 Chess pieces 24 Candid 26 Western football team 27 Clemency 29 Nape of the neck 31 Some 32 Monsieur 33 Neglects 36 That thing 37 Theater box 39 Inferior rubber 40 Hookworm 43 Wolframite 44 Sketch 45 Adeps 47 Russian veto 48 Cheers Down 1 Infamy 2 Writ 3 Indian madder 4 Tender 5 Notch 6 Gee 7 Cry of revelry 8 Dickens character 9 Fillet 10 Convulsive cries 12 Collars 15 Eucharistic plate 17 Wagon 21 Chinese unit of distance 23 Pertaining to madness 25 Sign of the zodiac 26 Sport 27 Fresco 28 Hospital’s resident doctor 30 Showy yellow moth 32 Choral composition 34 Volcanic tuff 35 Fair 37 Malines 38 Snappish 41 Hawthorn 42 Prior 46 Railway The Daily Collegia Wednesday, Dec. 7, 198 Crossword (answers in Thursday's classifieds)
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