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Ozzy to appear in Erie
If you're a metal head who's sick of road-tripping to
Pittsburgh or Cleveland for those big-name shows, take heed:
the Erie Civic Center is about to get uglier than any Panthers
bcnch-clearer. The reason? Ozzy Osbourne, the PMRC's
greatest nightmare, screeches into town for an 8 p.m. show
Saturday, Feb. 1.
Touring on the heels of No More Tears, which has
revitalized his career through its hit title track and the follow-up
"Mama, I'm Coming Home," Ozzy has broken things up
during his latest shows, pairing up new material with classic
tracks dating back to his days with Black Sabbath. The
combination must be working; his October appearance in
Cleveland sold out in only 35 minutes.
Reserved seats for next week's show are still available,
however; running for $17.75 in advance and $19.25 the day of
the show.
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Freejack
Acting and directing
by Rick Kastan
The Collegian
Freejack, the new science
fiction movie from director Geoff
Murphy, begins with a terrible
shot of Emelio Estevez's fat,
half-clad ass and then, not only
never recovers, but amazingly
proceeds to get even worse. This
is another terrible disappointment
for a genre that seems to contain
a great many disappointments.
The movies are built around
people wanting to escape from
the rigors of everyday life. Sci-fi
adds another dimension to that
concept; it lakes you to places
that can only exist in your
imagination. This makes sci-fi a
great place to find output from
directors of great imagination and
Hare.
Unfortunately, for every
classic like Blade Runner you
will find a dozen duds like
Baltlestar Gallactica (remember
THAT?) or Dune. Sadly, Freejack
falls into this latter category.
Our hero is Alex Furlong
(Estevez), an up-and-coming race
car driver who, during the race of
his career, crashes and
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(seemingly) dies, leaving behind
his girlfriend, played by the
(supposedly) beautiful and
terribly talentless Renee Russo.
I say he "seemingly" dies
because his body is never found.
The reason for this is that, at the
moment of the crash, Alex's body
is "jacked" 18 years into the
future by Mick Jaggcr, who
works for an evil company headed
by Anthony Hopkins.
Hopkins plans to erase Alex's
mind and sell his body so that
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another mind can be implanted
into it. Apparently, this is a
pretty usual occurrence in the
future, with the ruling-class rich
often ordering up young new
bodies when theirs no longer
want to keep going (kind of like
plastic surgery without the
knife).
The only problem with this
procedure is the slim chance of
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flops
not up to par
will be
with
held in
one of the subjects escaping and
thus becoming a "Freejack”,
which, of course, is exactly what
Alex does.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit,
the story had definite potential
(even though I couldn't
understand why it was exactly
that Alex had to find this guy
instead of just haulin' his butt
out of there —what's he going to
do, ask the guy if maybe he could
find a replacement?). The
problem here is with the general
lack of talent both in front of and
behind the camera.
The chubby, child-like
Estevez has never really tried to
pretend that he has anything by
way of talent. Sadly, what he
lacks in acting skills he docs not
make up for in machismo, so
therefore he makes a really
wimpy hero. The same goes for
Russo, who I found very
unattractive to look at and whose
acting could likewise put fish to
sleep.
Also contributing to the
fiasco is Jagger, as the leader of
the bad guys, who looks like he's
lost and just walks around staring
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