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Theresa Riley
The Pendulum
Michael Keaton plays Carter
Hayes in Pacific Heights. His
acting is better than his role of a
tenant who specializes in
^oming the landlord. But his
is no better than anything else
about the movie, which proves to
^ a disappointment.
Mel^ie Griffith and Matthew
iodine portray Patti Parker and
^rake Goodman, an unmarried
ct^ple who buy and restore an old
Victorian house. Their ability to
*nake the house payment depended
on renting out the two apartments
on the first floor of their house.
They take great care to get an
application and a credit history
from prospective tenants, with the
exception of Carter Hayes. It’s
hard to believe they were that
stupid.
Carter lied to Drake about
having talked with Patti about the
apartment and she lets Drake know
|t. Carter gave a line about his
job being top secret so he offered
hif* lawyer as a reference. He said
his job paid for rent, credit cards,
and other expenses so he didn't
^ven-personal-line of credit.-He
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"Don’t even
bother renting
the video when it
comes out.”
offered to pay the rent six months
in advance, $6,000, along with the
$1,500 deposit. He only had
about $2,400 in his wallet so he
promised to have his bank wire
the $7,500 in the morning.
The lawyer reference didn't
check out. the money was not
wired and Carter moved in before
he was given a key. At that point
I wondered how much longer I
would be wasting my time
watching my predictions come
true.
Patti never liked Carter from
the start and eventually Drake
grew to hate him. Carter distuited
the other tenants, caused problems
with the police, and eventually
made Drake hit him. This was all
. part of Carter'5 business. He.gci&
landlords so angry they beat him
up and then Carter slaps them
-with a civil suit. He had
preVio.^ won payments that
included fhv^^^ysing he was
renting.
Patti and Drake lti^„bout
this business eventually, buk*^
had no legal rights, according ti^
California law as presented in the
movie, to evict him without due
process. By the time eviction day
came along. Carter had totally
destroyed the aparunent's interior
and moved onto his next victim.
Patti, who never came across
as a strong person, decided to hunt
Carter down for revenge. She so
easily found leads to his
whereabouts and so easily got into
his hotel room. She knew how to
screw up his whole operation in a
matter of minutes. She was so
proud of what she did she even left
a clue.
Of course she doesn't notify
the police. Of course Carter wants
his own revenge and breaks into
his old apartment. Of course
there's a struggle and of course
Carter dies.
Don't even bother renting the
video-when it comes out-
Concert will revive
Christmas spirit
Amber Fritz
The Pendulum
For most Elon students,
Christmas has begun to seem far
away. Unfortunately, the joy and
anticipation of the holiday season
is currently buried beneath the
large piles of work that must be
completed before the end of the
semester.
At 8:00 p.m. on Nov. 30 and
Dec. 1, Dr. Stephen Ten Eyck,
director of Elon's choral
department will come to the
rescue. His latest concert creation,
"Make We Joy Now In This
Place", will provide a refreshing
break from the end of the semester
blues by reviving the spirit of
Christmas.
"Make We Joy Now In This
Place" will not only feature Elon's
Concert Choir and Chamber
Singers, it will also include
performances by Elon College's
Dance and Brass Ensembles. A
medieval Father Christmas, played
by Dr. Claire Myers, will add to
the evening by leading the
festivities.
This particular concert is
based on the ancient tradition of
revelling which began in pagan
limes. In those times, people
believed that they were living in a
period of darkness after the arrival
of the winter solstice, the shortest
day of the year.
From the time of the winter
solstice through January 6, those
people would participate in a
combination of merry making,
singing, and dancing in order to
drive the darkness of winter away.
That combination was called
revelling.
"Make We Joy Now In This
Place" is designed to recapture the
joyous mood created by revelling.
"We're all collectively trying to
drive the dark away and bring in
the light," Ten Eyck remarked.
In the days of old, everyone
took part in the revels and this
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Marked for Death
is simple rehash
.Darren Benfer
Pendulum
Now Id's s.. In sicven
Seagal's first film, Abo.^
Law, he played a policeman wii»
single-handedly killed a group of
bad guys using his karate skills.
In his second film, Hard To Kill,
he was supposed to be dead, but
came back to life and then killed a
group of bad guys, single-
handedly, using his karate skills.
So, just what do you expect
his third and latest film to be
about? Yes. You guessed it
Steven Seagal's latest film,
Marked For Death, is a simple
re-hash of his previous films.
Seagal plays a policeman who
decides to take some time off and
visit his family after a tough drug
bust. The only problem is the bad
guys don’t take vacations and they
TOme after him. The bad guys then and notbiJig- pore. The
hurt jS.eagals jij.we,..which re^ly^'^^^ ^
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Darren
Benfer
upsets him. ai^ he gets a crazy
look in his eyCi.
revenge. Seagal then prv-^ceds to
break arms and legs in the
horrible of ways until he... Well, I
won't reveal the ending. Those of
you who have seen Seagal's
previous two films know what
happens.
In Marked For Death, it
seems the film's makers have
simply taken the script from
Seagal’s first films, changed the
names, added a little more violence
and started filming. Marked For
Death is violence for violence’s