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Friday, September 30, 1977 The Daily Tar Heel 3 October, 1977 Ampersand it MEL BROOKS' next movie is High Anxiety, a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock suspense dims with, of course, Brooks, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Lcaehman, Harvey Korman. Brooks not only is writer, producer, director and star . . . he also wrote the title song and sings it. Thus far Bnxks has spoofed monster movies (Young Frankenstein), silent films (Silent Movie), westerns (Blazing Saddles) and backstage musicals (The Producers). Time for Brooks to have a new or at least different idea. Elton, Irs a Little Bit Funny is the cutesy title of a book of David Nutter photo graphs of Elton and friends. Although pub lisher Viking Press says it's an "intimate" glimpse of Elton on and off stage with never-before-released pix, don't expect any real in side poop. Elton wrote the foreword himself, and the photo "captions" are really just Be rnie Tatipin song lyrics. Thereby keeping it all in the profitable family. Into the Sunset LETS SEE NOW. The way we hear it, the Chicago-based publishers uf Playboy feel that their also-Chicago-based spinoiT, Oui, has become too urbane, too sophisticated, too . . . New York. So they've moved Oui's editorial offices to Los Angeles, so that the magazine can get a little how you say? funkier. Zee French, zay are a funny people, n'est-ce pas? The Hustler offices are moving to L.A. too, but we refuse to believe that it's because their former h.q., Columbus, Ohio, was too urbane. Nor for that matter will we accept that bringing Hustler to Los Angeles will of itself make the magazine any funkier. Reprise Records, once the wax of Dean Martin, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and others, is being retired from active service by its parent, Warner Bros. Records, which will absorb all Reprise artists . . . except two. Frank Sinatra, who founded Reprise in the early Sixties, and Neil Young, who adam antly refused to leave. So Reprise will In visible for a while longer, but no new artists will be signed. Awww. . mm PTnTT TTTTTTT) 0 0 0 Once you've seen one bass player drool blood all over a stage, you've seen them all. Sam Gakvis Austin, Texas You seem to think all Kiss fans are morons. Thanks a lot! I have a B.S. in Behavioral Science and have still managed to enjoy all Kiss's albums and several of their concerts. Besides, 2,000,000 Kiss fans can't be wrong. Gene Pitts Fairfax, Massachusetts Oh, yes they can. Weirding I found this photograph of a really weird looking group and wondered if you could tell me anything about them. Maybe it's all a joke? Jux Dennis Utica, New York Nobody's laughing; the Spit Enz are now the Split I 'ps. The only thing we could learn was their country of origin; New Zealand, of course. 0) uenes Is it true that Art Carney and Lily Tomlin will star in a second movie together? Judy Martin Van Nuys. California Yes, a seiuel to The Late Show is planned, but it will have to wait until Lily finishes work on her television special, to air this fall. Settle a bet for me; a friend swears that Michael Murphy was once drummer with a Canadian group called Colonel Popcorn's Butter Band, but I say he was bass player with Steve Miller's old band. Gary Chi si k Sax Francisuo, California Both wrong. Michael Murphy was once Travis Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, a Monkees-style group of the 60s; that drummer with the Butter Band was Dennis Murphy, and Miller's original bass picker was Lonnie Turner. Sick & Tired I'm sick of all this technological nitpicking over Star Wars. I don't much care about sounds in space or energy weapons or the accuracy of their robots. I loved that movie, and why don't you write something about it? Mf.rri Lou Larson Newark, New Jersey Who needs another magazine? Don't you realize that there's a severe paper shortage? Everybody wants to start a new magazine, and it's always the same old stufT. Ampersand doesn't look any different from Rolling Stone, Phonograph Record, or for that matter The Music dig. Why bother us? 1'iiii.L Pun din Ceiiar Raimds, low I'd like to congratulate vou lor not hav ing Farrah Fawcctt Majors in your magazine. I'm so tired of her, I hope her hair falls out. SRAH Brio Skokie, Illinois Stop wasting our time w ilh your sentimental favorites. Crosby, Stills and Nash are old and fat and dull. Sam O'Hara Calves ion. Texas I saw your first issue, and it looks prelly good for a first issue. But then, so did Rolling Stone's first. Try to remember what you're here for, and stick to it. P.S. What are you here for? , Ron Miell University of Ohio Some ideas for interviews: Robert Redford (what's he done for wild animals lately?); Joan Bacz (whatever happened to social commitment?); J.D. Salinger (what's the author of Catcher in the Rre really like?); some body rcsxmsil)lc for network programming (why do all variety shows, sitcoms, action series, etc. look exactly alike?). Carole Eddy Flint. Michigan Cee, thanks. Write to us! We will lend a sympathetic ear, offer free advice, and, you lucky devils, we'll actually write back. But only if we like your letter. We have some standards. Send those cards and letters to & Out the Other, 1474 N. Kings Road. Ims Angeles, CA MXi9. Split Enz: A flash in the pun Kissing Off Thank God, someone has at last seen fit to expose Kiss for the vicious dolts they are. I've been a little amused, but more often hor rified, at the way magazines bend over back wards to say nice things about them just because they're successful. The emperor has no clothes; thanks for noticing. Marty Cali.an Memphis, Tennessee You phony liberated scum-sucking trolls, you aren't fit to kiss the feet of Kiss, but they don't need you and your crummy rag, they managed to sell billions of records without you, and they'll just keep right on, so go ahead and say terrible things about them, the true Kiss fans will know the truth. Carter Johnson Cleveland, Ohio i r n Tr ft PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER University Mall(91 9) 929-5555 OPEN 10-9 MONDAY-SATURDAY University Square 133 W. Franklin St. OPEN 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. Phone 929-2425
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