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The Guilfordian November 7,1997 Callie's Paw shakes off cold BY ICELTON G. GOFER Staff Writer It was cold, but the members of Callie's Paw were hot. It was Thursday, 9 p.m. and the natives of Bryan Hall were restless. The balconies began to fill with study-deprived students, all ready to give up academics for the week in lieu of the promise of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Well, the promise of rock 'n roll anyway. The four-member band, Kari Sevier (percussion and vocals), Ben Graham (guitar and vocals), Ben Marks (drums), and Paul Zechinati (bass and vocals), has recently taken some time off. The Thurs day-night show was their first in almost two weeks. However, like the heart grows fonder, distance must make the music grow stronger. The band literally didn't miss a beat. Made up early for All Hal lows Eve, Callie's Paw took the stage dressed as cousin-lovin' outtakes from "Deliverance." After a few monitor problems, guitarist Ben Graham an nounced to the crowd, "We're gonna shake that Quaker ass!" One can only assume there was no "De liverance" pun intended. The band opened with "Creep Like a Cat" and moved on to "Play ing Hans-Olo," my personal favor ite. In the middle of this song Gra ham and Marks rotated to differ ent instruments, Graham setting aside his guitar to play drums and Marks moving to Sevier's percus- Looking for two credits? The Guilfordian practicum (GST 221) is open to all students, regardless of experience. We'll teach you everything you need to know, and it's a great way to build your resume. Contact Jeff Jeske at x 2216 for more information. — Features sion circle to help out there. In between the songs "Kiss and Smile" and "Happy and Afloat," Zechinati and Sevier ap peased an eager audience member by singing a duet of an Irish folk song. However that might sound to those not present, be assured that Graham and Marks added the necessary spice to make it more conducive to their rock 'n roll spirit. While some onlookers watched from the balconies, stay ing close to the warmth of their rooms, a crowd of foggy-breathed people with happy feet gathered to dance front row. It's amazing what good music can do for your Callie's Paw rests before endurance to the elements. At one point Sevier even offered her gloves to members of the audience. With other songs like "Slam Dunk," "Grass Stains," and "Huck leberry Finn," Callie's Paw kept the crowd shakin' their Quaker asses despite the cold. Their CD is due out soon and is certain to remain true to their awesome live shows. Keep your eyes and ears open for its release. Carter and Morscheck ♦This week: "Boogie Nights," now playing at Janus BY JON ATI IAN CARTER Features Film Critic The very subject of "Boogie Nights," the pornography industry, is enough to turn away many po tential viewers. The film is dis turbing. Not disturbing in a good way, but disturbing in a way that makes you feel unclean alter it's over. In the year 1977, teenager Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) is discovered at a nightclub by adult filmmaker Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who gives him the chance to be a star. Eddie takes the job and runs away from his dismal home life to become Dirk Diggler, porno ac tor. He believes that his acting can help people in their own relation ships. When Dirk joins up with Jack, the cast and crew of his movies be come a successful, though not alto gether happy, family. Jack is a fa ther figure and Amber Waves (get it?), played by Julianne Moore, is an unsettlingly motherly porn queen. Dirk leaves them when he thinks they're holding him back and the family falls apart. He eventually re alizes his mistake and rejoins the family, saving everyone else. The movie perfectly catches the time period, the place, and the in ner workings of the porno industry (well, to the best of my knowledge). It also has outstanding acting. It might help set off Mark Wahlberg's career and save Burt Reynolds's. Although the movie about the characters focuses on dealing with their depressing lives, their growth is handled awkwardly. Dirk's per sonality changes in an unrealistically short time; he's idealistic in one scene and bitter in the next. Some characters, such as Dirk's father and Rodriguez the nightclub owner, have potential for development but are ignored. There are too many char acters and not enough time to give them all adequate attention. If pornography's your deal, or you like stories about people with pathetic lives, go ahead and see the movie. If not, you should definitely think twice before going to "Boogie Nights." Georgia Dodson BY PETER MORSCHECK Features Film Critic 1977 to 1985, the film shows how the lives of many involved in the under ground world of pornography, drugs, and sex were changed by the Reagan years and the advent of direct-to-video marketing. The film stars a remarkable Mark Wahlberg (ex-rapper "Marky Mark" last seen in "Fear") as Eddie Adams, who parlays an unusually large piece of equip ment (13 inches!) and love for acting into a life as Dirk Higgler, a John Holmes knockoff and most sucessful adult movie star of the seventies. Burt Reynolds stars as his mentor, the premiere director of adult films who longs to legitimize the art through strong stories and acting. His primary ambition? To so mesmerize the audience that, "When they spurt out that joy juice they gotta set in it 'til the story ends." While it may not initially sound like a grade A movie, di rector Paul Thomas Anderson manages to show us how a dozen different characters living in a world of seventies' cocaine, sex, and excess either escape from or are destroyed by that world in the 1980s. The second hour turns as harsh and difficult to watch as the first was enjoyable as different characters are jailed, commit sui cide, or otherwise suffer for their work, which society has long re jected. Ten times better than last year's "The People vs. Larry Flynt," the moral of the both seri ous and very funny "Boogie Nights" is that the pornography industry, while lucrative, is de structive in the long term to all involved. That several characters return to the art circa 1985 even knowing this, is sad and touching. 7 "Boogie Nights" chronicles the rise and fall of a work ing class kid who becomes an adult film superstar. Fro m
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