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Comedian a success
Steve "ain't" White was
spontaneous and hilarious
b Crai: Cam i bell
The Collegian
"'Cause Snickers satisfies
you...now really, does anyone
ever come home really horny and
say...Oh man, I need a Snickers!"
Steve White put on a
hilarious show Friday night at
Bruno's. After appearing on
shows such as MTV Half Hour
Comedy /four, Comic Strip
Live, Showtime at the Apollo
and many others, he came to our
campus.
Steve joked about his name,
Steve White, saying "his middle
name must be ain't." He also
brought the audience into his act
by either dealing with hecklers or
purposely talking to members of
the audience and bringing them
on stage.
White was raised around
talent. He attended Roosevelt
High School with celebrities
such as Julius Erving, Chuck D
from Public Enemy, and Eddie
Murphy. He worked on a radio
show with Chuck D and says
Eddie Murphy was funnier when
he was still in school.
While attending a community
college where he was an
accounting major, White began
his comedy career. His debut
performance killed the audience,
and he soon became a regular.
Although he has a bachelors
degree in accounting, White has
entertained full-time because
"having something to fall back
on leads to failure in one field."
Along with his stand-up
career, White has been in
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numerous films. He has appeared
in Coming to America with
Eddie Murphy, Ford Fairlane
with Andrew Dice Clay (whom
he says is actually the most
passive guy off stage), Do The
Right Thing, Mo Better Blues
and Jungle Fever. Most of those
films were directed by Spike Lee
and White says he can't say one
bad thing about him (Lee): "He's
a good director, great
businessman, and a real person."
When asked about other
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plans are to have a son and
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Steve White's stand-up is
spontaneous and hilarious, and
his acting career is now leading
him into a career as a director. If
you missed him at Bruno's, look
for him in Spike Lee's next film
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Film
plot
Barton Fink is a
dark comedy
Paul Plisiewicz
The Collegian
Barton Fink is a dark comedy
about a blocked writer in 1941
Hollywood from director Joel
Coen (Blood Simple, Miller's
Crossing, Raising Arizona). The
film is at once humorous,
depressing, horrifying and
satirical.
Barton Fink (John Turturro),
is a left-wing New York
playwright whose concerns lie
solely with establishing artistic
integrity as he creates what he
thinks theater should be: theater
"of and about and for the
common man."
In order to support his artistic
crusade, Fink accepts an offer
from Capital Pictures to write
screenplays. The revolutionary
writer cannot get started on his
first assignment - a wrestling
picture for Wallace Beny.
Coen uses this premise to
satirize every level of Hollywood,
from the disillusioned writer to
the vulgarian studiohead Mr.
Lipnick (Michael Lerner). The
entire film achieves an
atmosphere of amusement in a
peculiar and macabre way.
The hotel in which Fink stays
is inhabited by an overzealous
desk clerk, a cadaverous elevator
operator and a likeable insurance
salesman named Charlie
Meadows (John Goodman).
The only other visible life in
the hotel is the wallpaper that
continually peels itself from the
walls. The halls are endless and
desolate and the slow journeys of
full
twists
the camera through them are
mystical and eerie. A sense of
imminent danger pervades
throughout.
Due to his inability to write,
Fink employs the help of his
idol, W.P. Mayhew. Mayhew
wastes no time in showing Fink
that he's a had been; he engages
more in angry boozing and sex
with his secretary (Judy Davis)
than he does in his work. Fink is
frustrated even further.
The writer's interest in the
common man is revealed to be
only an abstraction when he
refuses to listen to Meadows. As
Fink alienates himself from the
common man, he is thrust into a
bizarre love triangle and winds up
a murder suspect. Meanwhile, his
script remains unfinished while
the studio head still admires his
artistic muse.
After more startling plot
twists, Fink miraculously begins
writing. In a fit of inspiration, he
creates what he feels to be his
most important work. The script
is vehemently rejected, and Fink
is cast off as an artsy hack who
doesn't know what Hollywood is
about.
Barton Fink is full of
surprising plot twists, allusions,
impressive camera work and an
amazing, almost surreal,
atmosphere. The film took three
of the top prizes at the 1991
Cannes Film Festival, including
best picture, best director and best
actor (Turturro). It is now
showing at the Plaza Theatre in
the West Erie Plaza.
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