arts CMJ New Music Awards: By JEFF BUSS Collegian Arts Writer College radio now is at a curious floor repairing loose wires Saturday stage in its evolution. It has a new- night at The College Music Jour found power that has helped bring nal's 1985 New Music Awards held such groups as Tears For Fears, at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Simple Minds and.U2 into the mains- R.E.M., who won the Album of the tream; yet, it still can lead any Year award for 1984's Reckoning, listener from a state of enthusiasm repeated the feat this year with the to that of confusion and back in the moaning impressionism of Fables of small time of a mudclled station the Reconstruction. Song of the identification. Big names in New Year went to U2's "(Pride) In the Music found themselves amused Name of Love," from the group's ~w~~r:. ~"°~;. :~,"~ , 1 A ••,' 8§1e4,4 '" • ,A` George Clinton's Some of my Best Jokes Are Friends won the Best R & B Album at the College Music Journal's New Music Awards Saturday night at the Beacon Theatre. Clinton gave his.acceptance speech in verse, using it as a political forum to condemn apartheid. Caldwell still writes about life as it truly is By STRAT DOUTHAT Associated Press Writer ATLANTA Like Ty Ty Wal den, the unforgettable farmer in God's Little Acre, Erskine Cald well has spent most of his life digging for gold. , Literary gold, that is. "I've written 50 books and had 150 short stories published," the 82-year-old author observed dur ing a recent visit to his home state. "Right now I'm working on my autobiography." Caldwell made several public appearances in Atlanta, the guest of the Dekalb County Library As sociation. At one time, however, Atlanta's librarians got together to castigate this controversial na tive son. Their criticism was part of the protest that erupted after the 1932 publication of Tobacco Road, Caldwell's first novel. The story, a stark, salty portrait of life among impoverished Georgia sharecrop pers, was told in earthy and sex ually explicit language considered outrageous at• the time. "For a while my mother used to beg me not to come home because she feared for my life," Caldwell recalled, chuckling. The son of a Presbyterian min ister, Caldwell grew up near Au gusta in the early decades of the century. "In those days hunger, disease and lack of education were central factors of life in rural Georgia," he said. "I got a good look at these conditions, first hand, after I took a job as a driver for a country doctor who made visits out in the Countryside. I saw people eating clay to fill their stomachs and I entered tiny shacks with dirt floors that had as many as 15 people living inside." It was Caldwell's fictionalized account of. these conditions, mostly among the South's "white trash," that created the furor. But he had not been prepared for such an outcry. "I thought I had depicted life as I had seen it, observed and felt it. I finally decided I was being taken to task for something some people simply didn't want to know about," the author recalled. R.E.M., Tears For Fears and U 2 get biggest awards in Beacon Theatre show and disoriented by such distractions as a curtain that wouldn't go up and roadies who scampered close to the li . Caldwell later collaborated with famed photographer Margaret Bourke-White, to whom he was married at the time, to produce You Have Seen Their Faces, a documentary of the Southern sharecropper's plight. An emasculated, comedic ver sion of Tobacco Road first ap peared on Broadway in the early 19305. God's Little Acre was made into a movie two decades later. The two novels eventually were printed in 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. However, none of Caldwell's lat er works received the public atten tion of his first two books and some critics called him a literary cu riosity, a "flash in the pail." Over the years Caldwell clearly stated his negative feelings for critics, and other writers as well. "I don't like the company of writers," he told an Atlanta audi ence last month. "All they ever want to talk about is their books; and, as for the critics, they are the eunuchs or the procurers of the business of literature, as far as I am concerned." Caldwell also said he considers himself to be an American writer, as opposed to a Southern, or Georgia writer. Beyond that, he prefers not to be labeled. "I do not consider myself to be a member of any cult of literature nor a candidate for a classical school or an angrily complacent coterie," he added. "As the word itself has become defined in my own mind, literature implies the graceful treading along a pre scribed course and a slavish con formity to the sensibilities of prejudiced minds "For that reason, alone, I have no desire to belong to that commu nity and be obligated to abide by its rules and regulations, for I am not quiet spoken and I do not have a velvet touch. In fact, I behave like a heavy,banded boilermaker in the literary field. I like to ham mer, hammer, hammer and make all the noise I can." If anything, he wants to be re membered as a story teller. "And, if there is such a thing as the art of story telling, I must admit a devo tion to it." 4 , 1 4 - V - s?'• rrA I4 I , , A r • .N; 4r Brian Eno-produced album The Un forgettable Fire. Against such com petition as Talking Hgads, Dire Straits, R.E.M. and U 2, Tears For Fears won Group of the Year while Tina Turner and Bryan Ferry re ceived Best Female Artist and Best Male Solo Artist. Including such diverse acts as Miles Davis and Motley Crue, fi nalists were chosen by the tally of ballots given by CMJ, one of college radio's trade publications, to 7,000 media and music executives in re cords, retail, radio, live entertain ment, television and video. The winners were the finalists with the greatest number of accumulated votes. Hosted by Cheech and Chong, the show was full of technical problems, but the botches gave the presenta tion the spontaneous energy that is so evident in campus radio pro gramming today. Even with the loss of the sound on Tom Lloyd's bass during a song, the Del Fuegos, who performed between the awards, ex cellently played their ragged tromp ing songs, treating the Beacon Theatre like a huge bar. After an audience complaint about the sound, comedian Steven Wright, who presented the Best Comedy Album Award, coolly replied, "Lis ten louder." Presenters also deviated from the cue card dialogue and stiff compo sure of, such established award shows as the Grammys. The group Full Force sang the nominations for Best Jazz Album in four-part har mony and Country-Western / Folk act NRBQ literally stopped the show by sliding a Cabbage Patch doll underneath a stick while the song "Limbo Rock" played on a tape recorder. The winners were just as eccen tric in their acceptances. Andy War hol was made part of the CMJ Hall of Fame, having, among other things, been credited with helping the Velvet Underground gets its cult following by showcasing the group in his multi-media traveling show, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. When his name was ,announced, Warhol came out dressed in pi6ces Director Jack O'Brien sees Americans fit for classical roles By MICHAEL KUCHWARA AP Drama Writer NEW YORK . Picking the right plays is a perennial problem for regional theaters. Jack O'Brien, the puckish artistic director of San Die go's Old Globe Theater, thinks he has found the right balance as his Tony award-winning company prepares for its next 50 years Take this season, which for the Old Globe begins in late November. O'Brien will mix George Ber nard Shaw, a down-home country musical that was a Broadway success, a comedy from New Zealand called Bert and Maisy, two plays by American writers and Spokesong, an Irish play set in a Belfast bicycle shop. He'll save Shakespeare, as well as the world premiere of a comedy by young playwright Stephen Metcalfe, for next sum mer. Despite the diversity, it's a juggling act that Hines leaps onto screen in diverse films By 808 THOMAS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES Gregory Hines strolled down the oceanfront Venice walkway, pausing to admire the well dressed man playing a Strauss waltz by rubbing his finger on an assem blage of brandy glasses. Then he nodded to the bearded man who wore a towel as a turban and sang and played guitar while rol lerskating through the beach crowd. "He used to carry a loudspeaker on his back, but the cops made him stop," Hines explained. He led his visitor to a table at a sidewalk cafe and ordered fruit juice and soup. "I love Venice," said the dancer actor as he studied the passing pa rade of muscle men, bathing beau ties, tourists and bums. "That is where I was a hippie." That was in 1973-78, when Gregory Hines dropped out of a dancing ca reer that had occupied virtually his entire life. "I was 27 years old," said Hines. "I don't remember when I wasn't in show business. First I worked with my brother, Maurice, as the Hines Kids. Then our father joined us and we toured as Hines, Hines and Dad. Finally my brother and I worked together, but we didn't get along. Nothing as violent as we played in The Cotton Club; we just couldn't agree. So we split up. "It was a real eye-opener when I became a hippie. All my life, some one always took care of me my manager, my mother, my agent, my father. Suddenly, I was on my own. It was a scary period in my life." of black leg warmers, took the award and simply left. After win ning the Best Comedy Album Award for his record E = MO , , Emo Phil lips gave credit to the people who realized the potential of his child like, wide-eyed humor. "I would also like to thank the people at Epic Records who, less than a year ago, raw a struggling young performe r. . . and had the vision and the dream to save themselves. . . a tax dodge " Other winners included 40 Best Video and Creme • Best Street Album King of Rock, Run D.M.C. _ _ • Best Producer T-Bone Bur nett • Best Jazz Album Touch, Stanley Jordan • Best Hard Rock Album Inva sion of Your Privacy, Ratt • Best R & B Album Some of My Best Jokes are Friends, George Clinton o Best Live Act U 2 o Best Soundtrack Return of the Living Dead es Best Folk Album Suzanne Vega, Suzanne Vega • Best Country Album Rhythm and 'Romance, Roseanne Cash • • Best Reggae Album Working Wonders, Judy Mowatt • Best Songwriter Knopfler . • Debut Artist of the Year Katrina and the Waves Previous to the awards ceremony, winners were announced in the fol lowing categories _ . • Magazine of the Year Spin • Best Commercial Radio Sta tion WLIR, Long Island • Best College Radio Station KUSF, University of San Francisco • Journalist of the Year Rob ert Christgau, Village Voice • Best Blues Album Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor • Best DJ Albert 0., WBCN Boston, Mass. After the awards, R.E.M. played some acoustic numbers, which in- doesn't allow him to slight the production of plays by world-class playwrights, especially William Shakespeare. "Its audiences expect the Globe to do a large chunk of classical work every year," says O'Bri en, parked on a couch in the dark lobby of the Algonquin Hotel during one of his annual whirl wind visits to New York. "Most regional theaters do some occasionally. But every year we perform at least two Shakespeares, not to mention Moliere, Wycherley, Sheridan or any of those kids." The Old Globe was started by a group of ama teur actors in 1935 in San Diego's Balboa Park. They found the perfect home a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theater built for the Califor nia Pacific International Exposition. In half a century that amateur operation has evolved into a year-round, three-theater complex with more than 50,000 subscribers and an annual budget of more than $6.5 million. That time seems long ago. Hines has since become a Broadway star (Eubie, Sophisticated Ladies), a Las Vegas headliner and now is enjoying a growing film career. Praised for last year's The Cotton Club, he co stars with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Columbia Pictures' White Nights and is currently filming MGM UA's Run ning Scared with Billy Crystal. White Nights provides Hines' great est opportunity, both as dancer and actor. He portrays an American dancer who has defected to the Soviet Union because of disillusionment with the Vietnam War. He has potent scenes with Baryshnikov and with Isabella Rossellini, who plays Hines' Russian wife. "The movie changed my work hab its," the dancer remarked. "All my life I have tapped only when I had to; I never trained. But then I saw Mike practicing ballet every day when we were in London. Twyla (Tharp, who choreographed the film) told me, `Put on your tap ,shoes every day,' and I followed her advice. Now I get up every morning and do some tap ping." Hines, who said he was ejected from a ballet class after one lesson when he was 9 years old, was fas cinated by Baryshnikov's technique. Before filming started, the pair spent three weeks together in a dance stu dio. "We danced, improvised, jumped, pushed, joked and laughed, and we videotaped it all," Hines recalled. "By the end of the three weeks we had the basis for a preci sion dance. "I taught him to do a little tap, and he taught me how to drink vodka." "Cry," Godley Magic The Best Male Solo Artist award went to Bryan Ferry. Ina videotaped acceptance speech, Ferry talked about how Boys and Girls had turned out to be a very special album in his career. Ferry was originally with the British group Roxy Music, which was a major influence for many later bands. eluded a strumming "Driver 8" and a ballad-like "All I Have to do is Dream" and then came back out and performed a short electric set that featured murky versions of "Can't Get There From Here" and "Feeling Gravity's Pull." It was during the Athens, Ga. group's per formance, which finished with Mi- Gregory Hines, who displayed his acting returns to the screen in White Nights. Running Scared is a different kind of teaming. He and Billy Crystal, a former comic from Saturday Night Live, play Chicago cops who get involved in the drug scene in Key West, Fla. "It's hard working with Billy, be cause everything he, says is funny," said Hines. "I laugh so hard it's painful. It gets so bad in a scene I have to walk away from him. He could do 15 minutes of jokes on this." He held up a ketchup bottle. Hines, 39, prepared himself for both films. Before White Nights, he and Isabella Rossellini spent five days in the Soviet Union to experience what living there would be like. For Run ning Scared he went on night patrols Monday, Nov. 11, 1985 MEINIE O'Brien first arrived at the Old Globe in 1969 to direct Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. He became artistic director in 1981. In between, he has directed on Broadway, including the 1976 revival of Porgy and Bess. "What I found out when I took over was that America's classical resources were shrinking because of money and because of just how bloody hard the classics are to do," he says. O'Brien thinks American actors are the best in the world, capable of, being more exciting in classical plays than their British cousins. To prove his point, he put American actors like Marsha Mason, John Lithgow, Jane Alexander, Robert Foxworth, David Ogden Stiers and Antho ny Zerbe in classical roles usually considered English territory. And these actors keep coming back, he says, because the Globe is one of the few places in the country where they can go every year and play these challenging roles. The Daily Collegian :4.:•::1« tt11:4,%:.V; * t; '' ; ; ; l4l l. 7 7ir, 1 . ::::•:: i 11 / , elf t :..: MI/ tel4y P.I" oiii /// chael Stipe singing a lilting a cappella version of "Moon River," that one realized the potential of the college radio network and what it had already accomplished. When Joey Ramone got up to present the Best Street Band, he simply said, "This is really the only awards show that, matters." and tap•dancing talent in Cotton Club, with undercover Chicago police Little remains of Hine's bohemian period, except for three tiny gold rings in his left ear and a flock of memories. He came to Venice during a period of upset; not only had he severed his family ties, he was also undergoing a divorce. He threw away his tap shoes, let his hair grow, dabbled in drugs. During the Venice period he met his current wife, Pamela Koslow, and his life began to take more direction. In 1978, he returned to New York, and his brother, Maurice, helped him get a job in a Broadway-bound revue, The Last Minstrel Show. It folded in Philadelphia, but Hines found more shows and he hasn't stopped working. -;......;::.....:.:i....: .. ff .,-. -f ! . ! e;-..z...0 , * . -t. : 0 . . ' , ‘ ~ s. . 7q.. .;/4..4. .i 1.. 4 : ./:,..4:, .m.....,,1y ../,7!:1 m , _ i I ~, , Rich Banasyak gets Into the action at the Delta Gamma Anchor Splash yesterday as he is thrown Into the water by (from left) Rich Lepow, Eric Gelman, Joel Weinberg and Marc Weinberg. Greek splash benefits the blind By COLBY STONG Collegian Staff Writer Yesterday's Delta Gamma sorority Anchor Splash, which featured a day of swimming, splashing and the Tas manian Yahoo, was witnessed by over 500 people, including 50 compet ing fraternities and sororities, all for the benefit of the blind. The number of people who attended the event at the McCoy Natatorium and the spirit shown throughout the day were very gratifying, said Sarah Boughton, the sorority's social chair woman. "I looked up in the stands and it was packed," Boughton said. "When you get there and see all the people, you know how important it is. It really gives us incentive." All proceeds for the Anchor Splash will be donated for sight conservation and aid to the blind, Boughton said. The Anchor Splash consisted, of five events, each counting as 20 percent for the final judging. The events were a bathing beauty parade, a freestyle swimming race, a medley race, an intertube race called the "Tasmanian Yahoo" and a spirit competition. The winning entry for the parade was Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, 322 Fraternity Row, who raised $177 for the event, Boughton said. Frater nity and sorority members dressed up in costumes such as bikinis am' grass skirts, and the men promenad ed around the pool. Pictures of the participants were displayed in the HUB last week. Cans were set beside each picture to collect donations and the can with the most donations won. The medley race included a combi nation of the breaststroke, the but terfly, the freestyle and the backstroke. Each swimming team consisted of five members. The spirit competition points were awarded to the fraternity or sorority with the highest percentage of mem bers attending the event. The first place overall sorority was Delta Delta Delta. The overall win ning fraternity was Sigma Pi, 303 Fraternity Row. Sigma Pi fraternity member Keith Kennedy (senior-animal bioscience), who represented the 'fraternity as its cannibal-like bathing beauty, said his team was prepared for the event. "We really tried to put in a strong effort," Kennedy said. He added that Sigma Pi competing members had been practicing for the swimming races a few times earlier in the week. Delta Gamma also raised money with donations from alumni and par ent groups and by canning downtown and selling raffle tickets. Boughton said the sorority expects to have raised around $6,500. Last year's Anchor Splash raised $5,400. The Anchor Splash, a national phi- ifita Li EDUCATIONAL N CENTER TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS 5I CE 1938 Don't forget to attend the OPEN HOUSE FOR SPEED-READING at Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center tomorrow evening from 7:30-9p.m. Special discount offered for SHK alumni 444 East College Ave. State College, Pa. 16801 (814) 238.1423 a growing part of State College 1V Supply 238.6021 ACORN )232 S. Allen lanthropy for Delta Gamma, is in its versity students. Each of the candi 17th year at the University. Boughton dates were inter viewed and said the University's chapter last randomly picked for the scholarship, year raised the highest amount of she said. money from the over 100 chapters Boughton said the main goal of the nationwide. festivities was to beat last year's total As a result of the efforts, two $9OO and to make sure everybody had a scholarships were given to blind Uni- good time. SAVE FOOD WAREHOUSE The EVERYDAY * THESE "BONUS BUYS" ARE ON SALE THRU SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 * SAVE 700:L8 Metzger Jumbo Located on Benner Pike, Behind the Nittany Mall SHOP TUESDAY THRU SATURDAY 9:00 AM TO 9:00 PM SHOP SUNDAY NOON TO 5:00 PM - CLOSED ON MONDAY owest food prices you'll find OTHERMARK ARGEETS $2 59 CH • LB. 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