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Kentucky Kernel

 

Tim
WIESENHAHN

PHILADELPHIA —— Only in the
anything-can-happen-world of the
Looney Toons and the NCAA Tour-
nament could defeat come at the
hands of the 21 of hearts.

Every Saturday morning, Bugs
Bunny beat his animated foe Yose-
mitte Sam in Black Jack with only
one card -— the 21 of hearts. One
could only assume that Duke center
Christian Laettner must have seen
that episode at least once. For Satur-
day night as his Blue Devils beat
the Wildcats 104-103 in NCAA
East Region final, Laettner too.
played the 21 of hearts.

Christian Laettner is the most out—
standing player this side of the East
Region He is the all-time leading
scorer in the NCAA Tournament.
Against UK, he made his 10 free-
throw attempts, his 10 field-goal at~
tempts and his one three-point at—
tempt. His score card said 21 at-
tempts taken and 21 attempts made.
The Iong-anned critter had rolled
the 21 of hearts. Had it been Bugs
on the Spectrum floor, Sam may
have yelled, “i hate that varmit."

Yosemite Sam was the root‘ness,

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KAREN BALLARD/Kerr‘el Stall

Ron and Liz Cross were among many Kentucky lans who cheered on the Cats from Two Keys Tavern-
Saturday. UK's road to the Final Four ended when they lost in overtime to the Duke Blue Devils.

toot’ness hombre this side of the
Pecos. Against Bugs, he laid down
a jack and 10 and called the rascally
rabbit. Sam laughed with a smug-
ness only a-soon-to—Iose ’toon dis-
plays. Sam, however, had reason to
gloat. He had a near-flawless hand.

But Sam could not win. Bugs al-
ways was free from fault or defect.

Bugs Bunny is an Oscar-winning
rabbit. He made everything work.
Countless gags pulled, and count-
less gags pulled off.

“Ain‘t I stink'r?" Bugs asked.

Against Sam, he stood on one
card — the 21 of hearts. The same
card that Laettner played to trump
the near flawless play of UK’s Sean
Woods.

See NCAA, Page 5

 

By ANGELA JONES
Senior Staff Writer

In preparing for last night’s per-
formance, Karen Finley made
some unusual demands.

Only hours before curtain call,
student assistants scavenged
around Lexington for the props
that would compose the entire
stage set for the performance art—
ist's show.

“Sometimes it just happens that
way," said Finley, 36. “I like mak»
ing (the performance) sitc<
specific.“

While Finley’s attitude yester-
day afternoon was casual, the sub-
ject matter of last night‘s piece,
“We Keep Our Victims Ready."
was not.

To a full house of 864 at Memo-
rial Hall, Finley revealed social in-
justices including discrimination,
rape and incest.

“I think the things that are hap—
pening in the world are happening
to all of us, and we‘re all responsi-
ble," the Chicago native said in an
interview.

The performance, sponsored by
Student Activities Board, the
Women's Studies program,
WRFL~FM. the Department of
Theatre and the experimental vid-
eo/media laboratory, was part of
Women’s History Month.

Unique to contemporary perfor-
mance art, Finley smears various
foods on her body to communicate
her message.

In an interview prior to her per-
formance, Finley explained the
symbolism of the chocolate, red
candies and alfalfa sprouts she

 

Performance artist
condems injustices

used in her UK performance.

“The chocolate is how women
are shit on. The candies are how
they‘re loved for it," she said.

Finley used the sprouts to repre-
sent sperm; tinsel was women’s
beauty.

“It‘s like. even though all this
happens to her, she still knows
how to dress for dinner," Finley
said. “I think there‘s something
beautiful in that."

lit an almost—mantra state, Fin-
ley became possessed during her
perfonnance by several characters
who had been abused by society.

One of the characters was a
suburban mother with three sons
who slaved double shifts as a
waitress. Pregnant with a girl, she
wears girdles to hide her bulging
stomach, fearing she may loose
her job because her body is “a lit-
tle too unappctizing."

The mother miscarries because
she is forced to work during the
latter months of pregnancy.

As an AIDS patient, Finley atl-
dresses the problem of discrimina-
tion in the health-care industry.

“We have no«fault car insu~
rance. Why can't we have no-
fault health insurance?" she
asked. “Because we care more
about cars than we do people."

Several times during her perfor-
mance, Finley cracked jokes
about Sen. Jesse Helms, who sug-
gested, for political reasons, that
her art not receive federal funding
in 1990.

“To me lamb fries are much
more shocking (than her work)."
she said in her prologue, “It Was
Only Art." “I mean, do you cut it

 

 

‘My country ’tis of thee' -— Artist Karen Finley performed last
night to a sold-out crowd at Memorial Hall. Finley's piece dealt
with the oppression of women, minorities and gays and lesbians.

with a knife or just let it squirt in
your mouth. I had lamb fries in my
dreams.“

Finley. along with three other
artists who used strong sexual im—
ages in their art, were denied
grants from the National Endow—

 

JEFF BURLEW lKernal Staff

merit for the Arts. All four are
suing the govemment for infring-
ing on their first amendment free
dom of expressron.

Finley capitalized on that free-

See FINLEY. Page 10

 

 

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Monday. March 3d 1m

5 rightn hPiladelphia

Students chear on Cats
until unbelievable end

By RICHARD MCCORMICK
Contributing Writer

”Oh, God. Oh. God. Oh, God."

That was electrical engineering
graduate student Jay Bryant‘s reac-
tion to what some will call the
greatest game in NCAA tournament
history.

Hundreds of UK students in Me
morial Coliseum Saturday night
shared Bryant’s disbelief.

As two screens showed all the ac-
tion and Cawood Ledford called it
for them, these students cheered on
their beloved Wildcats until the hit-
ter end.

When Sean Woods hit a three-
pomter to tie the game, the (on
seum went crazy. Then when
Woods hit a shot in overtime to give
UK a 103—102 lead With two set-
onds left, no one could stand still.

High-fives were exchanged. Peo-
ple were screaming and jumping up
and down, preparing themselves for
the Final Four.

Then, when Christian Laettner hit
the shot, a deafening silence over-
took the gymnasium. Many students
fought back tears, while others just

TOURNAMENT

stood still, mouths agape, staring
blankly at the screen. Nobody
could A- or even wanted .. to be-
lieve what had happened.

“I thought we had it won and that
Duke had used all it‘s miracles,"
continued Bryant after the shock
had worn off somewhat.

“It was a great season and incred-
ible that they went so far in their
only chance," he said of IPK‘s scn—
tors. "If anybody deserved to win.
it was us."

The result of the game wasn‘t the
only thing that upset UK fans.

“I thought that CBS‘s coverage
was biased." Bryant said. "And the
refs were also.“

“Yeah, the refs stunk.‘~ a passer—
by proclaimed.

Political groups endorse
Good, November for SGA

By JOE BRAUN
Editorial EdliOl

Two Student Government Associ-
ation candidates last night received
boosts to their presidential quests
from two campus political action
committees.

The ( I reek
Political Action
Committee en-
dorsed senior
Pete November
and the LFniyer-
sity Political
Action (‘ommit-
tee threw its
support behind
senior Reed
Good.

David ilaslcr. President of the
Student ()rgani/ation Association.
announced UPAC‘s decision last
night in the free speech area.

The UPAC committee
Good because he “was honest and
knowledgable." Hasier said.

“If he didn‘t know the answer to it
question he told us he didn‘t know.
but he gave us the impression he
would earnestly search for the an
swer." he said.

(iPAC co-chairman Brian Morrt
son said the organization’s decision
was “well over 50 percent" in favor
of November.

Morrison noted that some of the
committee‘s members cast votes for
non-greek candidates.

GPAC co~chairwoman Melissa
Browne said the casting of votes for
non-greeks helps to strengthen
GPAC‘s endorsement.

“It indicates GPAC is doing it‘s
job. It shows that everyone judged
them equally.” she said.

Several GPAC delegates said ill-
tle debate occurred before a vote

GOOD

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said he and \lt'.‘ presidential run
ning mate .Iill (‘ranston want to tel-
t‘y’lst' st‘litllc tlit‘t‘titigs.

Good responded by asking the
members of the audience if they
"w‘alilcd to \\;tltil ll two-hotirdtingv
meeting on tclcy l\li1l1 "

In his statements, (iood stressed
the idea that "SGA .iIrcady con
tained a firm. strong foundation.

It just tends to loose touch of it‘s
real goal . the needs of all stu»
dents."

All of the candidates agreed that
student mandatory health insurance
must not be permitted.

Answering Kentucky Kernel re»
porter Bobby King‘s question about
“trimming the lat at SGA." candi»
dates expressed different ideas.

Nowmbcr said he believed i",\
celsior should be plated under the

NOVEMBER

See GPAC. Page 10

Clinton acknowledges smoking marijuana as Oxford student

By JOHN KING
Associated Press

NEW YORK _- Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clin-
ton acknowledgcd for the first time
yesterday experimenting with mari-
juana “a time or two" while attend-
ing Oxford University as in Rhodes
Scholar more than 20 years ago.

Former California Gov. Jerry
Brown, Clinton‘s lone challenger

for the nomination, said “No" when
asked during a joint television ap-
pearance with Clinton whether he
has ever violated drug laws.

“Why don’t you lay off this
stuff," Brown added. “What you
did 20 years ago is not relevant.“

Over the last two years, Clinton
has been asked numerous times
whether he ever used drugs. He
elaborately avoided a direct an<
swcr, saying he never violated state

or federal laws.

Yesterday, a reporter noted how
he told the New York Daily News
he never violated “the laws of my
country" and asked if he ever violat-
ed intcrnationai drug laws.

“When I was in England I experi-
mented Willi marijuana a time or
two and didn't like it," the Arkansas
governor said. “I didn't inhale and I
didn‘t try it again." (‘linton was at
Oxford from 1068 to l970.

In the last presidential campaign.
Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore ir. and
former Ariiona Gov. Bruce Babbitt
acknowledged smoking marijuana
in their youth. Other candidates de-
nied ever trying the drug.

Questions about marijuana use
among public officials arose in late
1087 when Douglas (iinsburg wrth»
drew his Supreme Court nomina-
tion after disclosing he had smoked
marijuana wnh his students at liar

vard University.

Yesterday's disclosure marks the
first time the presidential race in-
cludcd people of the generation that
grew up with recreational drug use

In an interview with (‘BS‘s "l ‘p
To The Minute“ program. (‘Iinton
said he made the disclosure be
cause “no one had ever asked me
the direct question before .. and I
really do believe that ptiblit‘ people
really do hayc a right to some pii

vacy."

Askcd if he knew he was break
ing Tinglish lays when he smoked
marijuana. (‘linton said. "I .issumcd
it was against the law. but w hcn we
got there they told us that .is long as
we did it inside our apartments or
whatever nobody would l1;l\\|t‘ us

But I was not into that '

(‘linton‘s acknowledgment \s .ts

See CLINTON Page 10

 

. SPORTS

 

UK TODAY

 

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Michigan defeats Ohio State at Rupp Arena,
securing a berth in the Final Four. Story,

88.1.

 

A live debate between UK’s Student
Government Association presidential
candidates airs at 8 pm. on WRFL-FM,

Tommy Chong
brings his comedy
act to Lexington.
Story, Page 3.

 

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Sports ............................. 4
Viewpoint ....................... 8
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ART 8: MOVIES

Monday 3/30

0 SAB Movie: 'Manon of the Spring'
(France); free; St. Center, Center Theater;
7:30pm: call 7-8867

0 Exhibit: 'A Private Resim,‘ by Joyce Gar-
ner, The Headley-Whitney Museum; exhib-
it runs thru 4/5; call 255-6653

0 Exhibit: 'Inspirations,’ Contenporary art
and religion; Transylvania U.. Morgan Gal-
lery; thru 4/10

0 Exhibit: Works by Matt Phillips; UK An
Museum; thru 4/12

0 Exhibit: Robert Tharsing, New Works;
Galbreath Gallery; thru 4/25

0 Exhibit: James Rosenquist, 'Welcome to
the Water Planet'; UK Art Museum; thru 5/
10

- Exhibit: Louis Zoellar Bickett, ‘Going
Gently: An Installation Concerning a
Friend Who Died'; free; Rasdall Art Gal-
lery, Student Center; thru 4/23

 

 

Tuesday 3/31

- Performance: Room 22 Jazz Ensemble;
free; SCFA Recital Hall; 8pm; call 7-4929
- Multicultural Movies: 'To Sleep with An-
ger,‘ starring Danny Glover; free; 4pm;
M.L. King Cultural Center; call 7-4068

Wednesday 4/1

0 SAB Movie: 'The Addams Family'; $2 for
students; St. Center Worsham Theater;
7:15 and 10pm; call 7-8867

- Recital: Scott County Choral Program;
free; SCFA Recital Hall and Concert Hall;
7pm; call 7-4929

Thursday 4/2

- SAB Movie: 'The Addams Family'; $2 for
students; St. Center Worsham Theater;
7:15 and 10pm; call 7-8867

0 Performance: Love, Lust, and Lunch with
UK Commonwealth; free; Old St. Center
Theater; 12:30pm; call 7-4425

- Senior Citizens Concert Series: UK Jazz
Ensemble; free; SCFA Recital Hall; 2pm;
call 7-4929

Friday 4/3

- SAB Movie: 'The Addams Family'; $2 for
students; St. Center Worsham Theater;
7:15 and 10pm; call 7-8867

0 Exhibit: Gallery Series-Music of Ives and
Mendelssohn; free; M.I. King Library-
North, Peal Gallery; noon

- Chamber Music Society: 'The Manhattan
String Quartet; $10; SCFA Recital Hall;
8pm; call 7-4929

Saturday 4/4

- SAB Movie: ”The Addams Family‘; $2 for
students; St. Center Worsham Theater;
7:15 and 10pm; call 7-8867

- SAB Movie: 'Notorious,‘ (USA); free; St.
Center, Center Theater; 3pm; call 7-8867

Sunday 4/5

. SPOTLIGHT JAZZ: DIANNE REEVES:
$12-Students, $18-general public; Memori-
aI Hall; 8pm; call 7-TICS for tickets or 7-
8867 for info.

- SAB Movie: 'The Addams Family‘; $2 for
students; St. Center Worsham Theater;
4pm; call 7-8867

. Center Sunday Series: Lexungton Com-
munity Orchestra; free; SCFA Recital Hall;
3pm; call 7-4929

0 Performance: An Evening of Cello Music,
Thaddeus Brys; free; SCFA Recital Hall;
8pm; call 7-4929

0 Concord Trio: Daniel Mason-violin, Ben-
jamin Karp-cello, Lucien Stark-piano; free;
SCFA Recital Hall; 8pm; call 7-4929

0 University Art Museum: Kadar Holocaust
exhibition; SCFA Recital Hall; 2pm; call 7-
4929

0 Exhibit: Gyorgy Kadar, 'Survivor of
Death, Witness to Life'; UK Art Museum,
SCFA; thru 5/17

 

 

 

 

‘ WEEKLY MEETINGS

Monday 3/30
0 Weekly Meetings: Ailo'do-Beginner Class-
es; Alumni Gym, loft; 8:30pm; call 269-
4305

~Weekly meetings: UK Ultimate Frisbee;
free; Stolfield; 5:30pm; call 8-2686

Tuesday 3/31

0 Weekly meetings: Chess Club; free; St.
Center; 5:30-10pm; call 887-2574

- Weekly meetings: Catholic Newman
Center Open Student Meeting; free; New-
man Center, Apt. 8; 11am; call 255-8566
0 Weekly meetings: UK Ballroom Dance
Society; $5 per semester; Barker Hall.
dance studio; 7-9pm; call 277-0664

0 Weekly meetings: 'Totally Tuesday!‘ Free
dnner, worship. and fellowship, United
Methodist Student Center; free; 508 C0-
lumbia Ave.; dinner-6:45pm, worship-
7:30pm; call 254-0250

0 Weekly meetings: UK Ultimate Frisbee;
free; Seaton Center Gym; 10pm—midnight;
call 8-2686

- Weekly meetings: Society for Creative
Anachronism; free; Old St. Center, room
117; 7-9PM: call 255-2100, ext. 562

0 Weekly meetings: Tuesday Evening Fel-
lowship; free; Koinoinia House, 412 Rose
St.: 8pm; call 255-7096

SPOTLIG [1'1“ ()N All

Wednesday 4/2

0 Weekly meetings: Canterbury Fellow-
ship, Holy Communion; St. Augustine's
Chapel; 5:30pm: call 254-3726

- Weekly meetings: Encounter; free; New
St. Center, room 205; 7pm; call 276-2362
0 Weekly meetings: S.A.V.E. meeting; free;
Old St. Center, room 309; 7pm

- Weekly Meetings: Writer's Bloc Meeting;
I free: Old St. Center, room 1 17; 5-7pm; call
MEMORIAL HALL 7-6976

 

A me 5TH - Weekly Meetings: Aikido-Beginner Class-
8 P M es; Alumni Gym, loft; 8:30pm; call 269-
4305
photo by Jeff Katz Thursday 4’2

 

 

- Soap Opera: 'Common Wealth: Passion

in the Bluegrass', performed by UK stu-

dents; Old St. Center, Center Theater;

12:30pm

0 Weekly meetings: Canterbury Club-

Episcopal Student Fellowship; St. Augus-

tine's Chapel; 6:30-7:30pm; call 254-3726

- Weekly meetings: Catholic Newman

Center Night; Newman Center; 7:30-

8:30pm; call 255-8566

. Weekly meetings: Bible Stu , United
Sunday 4/5 Methodist Student Center; fret): 508 Co-

- Project: 2nd Annual Cardboard City; Stu- lumbia Ave.; 8pm; call 254-0250

dent Center Parking Lot; afternoon; call 0 Weekly meetings: UK Ultimate Frisbee;

253-1484 or 233-3259 free; Stolfield; 5:30pm; call 8-2686

0 Weekly meetings: 'Thursday Nite Live';

free; 502 Columbia Av.-UK; 7:30pm; call

233-0313

- Weekly meetings: SAB Spotlight Jazz

Committee; free; Old St. Center. room

203; call 7-8867

- Meeting: The Institute for the Healing of

SPECIAL EVENTS

 

 

 

Tuesday 3/31
. FOUR WEEK, EIGHT WEEK AND
FALL REGISTRATION BEGINS AND
RUNS THROUGH 4114- CONTACT

Thursday 4/2
. Program: Institute for the Healing of Ra-
cism, speaker: Rayla Smoot, 'Internalized
Racism'; free; Student Center, Room 111;

Monday 3/30
- Volunteer: UK Student Center, many op-
portunities availablel; call 257-8785 to find
out how you can help!

YOUR DEAN'S OFFICE OR PROGRAM call 7-1405
OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION

0 Seminar: Graduate Student Seminar on
Research Grant Proposal Development;
148 Chem-Phys BIg.; 3:30-5:30pm; call 7-
2861

 
  
  

  

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concernlng Racism; free; Old St. Center, room 111;
a 6:30-8:30pm: call 7-1405

"'9'“, Friday 443
Who 0 Radio: 'Pop Odyssey- the best in British,
Died Australian, New Zealander, and American

. alternative pop music; free; on WRFL,
Artlst 88.1; 8pm; call 7-WRFL
LOUlS Blckett Saturday 4/4

0 Weekly meetings: Catholic Sunday
Mass; free; Newman Center; 6pm; call
255-8566

Sunday 4/5

0 Weekly meetings: Canterbury Fellow-
ship, Holy Communion; free; St. Augus-
tine's Chapel; 10:30am and 5:30pm; call
254-3726

0 Weekly meetings: Catholic Sunday
Mass; free; Newman Center; 9 and
11:303m, 5 and 8:30pm; call 255-8566

- Weekly meetings: Spaghetti Dinner, AII-

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo by Louis Zoellsr Bickett

 

 

U-Can-Eat; $2; Newman Center; 6pm; call
MEETINGS 8: LECTURES 255-8566

 

 

Monday 3/30

0 Meeting: UK Sierra Club Meeting; free;
New Student Center, room 205; 7:30pm;
call 272-6240

Wednesday 4/1

- Meeting: Miskatonic Student Union; free;
Old St. Center, room 113; 6pm; call 231 -
5182

Thursday 4/2

0 Meeting: ACS Meeting: Paul Fsgan, E.l.
DuPont de Nemours and Co., Inc, 'Metal
Complexes of Buckminsterlullerene'; free;
Chem-Phys Bldg, room 137; 8pm

0 Lecture: Dr. David Westnest, UK School
of Biological Sciences; tree; Room MN563;
lecture-3pm. refreshments-25m

 

  

Monday 3/30 Thursday 412 - Weekly meetings: University Praise Ser-
. Campus Rec.: Softball League Play Be- . UK Baseball: BatCats vs Eastern KY; at vice; "99: 502 Columbia Av.-UK; 11am:
Friday 4/3 gins; $20 per team; Seaton Center; call 7- Eastern KY; 3pm 03" 233'0313 . .
0 Meeting: Mark Lovell. Dept. of Chemistry, 6584 ’ “’99le Meetings: AIkido-Beginner Class-
'Ouantitation and Use of Laser Microprobe - UK Baseball: BatCats vs Western KY; at Saturday 4/4 ”t AlumnI Gym, '0"? 1pm; ca" 2694305
Mass Spectrometry in the Evaluation of Western KY; 29m 0 UK Baseball: BatCats vs Arkansas (2);
the Toxic Element Hypothesis of Alzhei- ° Campus Rec.: ENVY Deadline for Intramu- Lexington- Shively Field; 1pm
mer’s Disease'; free; Chem-Phys Bldg, ral Tennis Doubles; Seaton Center, Room . Rugby: Rugby Team vs Eastern Ky;

 

room 137; 4pm-Iecture, 3:30pm- 145 Rugby Field; 1pm
refreshments ' Campus ROG-I ENVY Deadline for Intramu- 0 Lacrosse: Lacrosse Club vs Eartham; La-

ral Tennis Mixed Doubles; Seaton Center, crosse Field; 3pm DUE TO RECENT BUDGET REDUC-
Saturday 4/4 Room 145 TIONS, THIS WILL BE THE LAST

- REGIONAL UNDERGRADUATE ' Campus Re“ EnW Deadline ‘0' '“lramu‘ Sunday 4/5
POSTER COMPETITION. Chem-Physics ral Golf Doubles; Seaton Center. Room
Bl , Room 137; 3:3 m 145
9 0p - Softball: Women's Softball Club vs Union
College; Woodland Field; 3pm

WEEK THE CAMPUS CALENDAR WILL
- UK Baseball: BatCats vs Arkansas; Lex- RUN 'N THE KENTUCKY KERNEL'
. _ . . _ HOWEVER, PLEASE CONTINUE TO
Ington Shively Field, 2pm

. . SUBMIT YOUR EVENTS TO THE STU-
- Lacrosse. Lacrosse Club vs Wright-
Patterson A F B: Lacrosse Field: 1pm DENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. THIS IN-

' ' ' ' FORMATION WILL BE DISTRIBUTED

Tuesday 3,31 TO VARIOUS UNIVERSITY DEPART-
- UK Baseball: BatCats vs Wright State: MENTS'
Lexington-Shively Field; 3pm

 

 

 

 

 

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Tommy Chong finds success (again) as solo act

By HUNTER HAYES
Arts Editor

Thinking of Cheech and Chong
apart is like trying to imagine a Yin
without a Yang: The two compli-
ment each other so well that it is al-
most impossible to separate them.

From 1969 until the pair split up
more than five years ago, Tommy
Chong played the laid-back, half-
Chinese hippie to Richard “Cheech"
Marin‘s energetic Mexican. The
team appeared in six feature films
and on another half dozen gold al-
bums, including the best-selling
comedy album of all time. 1972‘s
Big Barnbu and the Grammy
Award-winning Los Cochinos the
following year.

The pair’s first film, “Up In
Smoke" was made for approximate-
ly $2 million and grossed $104 mil-
lion worldwide. A string of sequels
followed in the early ’803, which
proved that they were capable of
maintaining their status as major
stars rather than the cult icons they
had been labelled.

Last year, when preparing for the
release of “Far Out Man," in which
Chong starred without his partner
but with his wife, Shelby. and
daughter, Rae Dawn, he decided to
hit the stand-up circuit.

“Rodney King got his ass
whipped the same time I went on-
stage and got my ass whipped,"
Chong said.

How did it feel to the comedian,
testing the waters as a solo stand-tip
comedian for the first time?

“Like an ass whipping," he said,

laughing.

Chong‘s comedy act features
many routines from the heyday of
Cheech and Chong, plus musical
bits and political humor.

“I'll tell you," Chong said, “a
comedy act is just like a wedding:
Something old. something new,
something borrowed, something
blue. A lot of blue."

Once labelled a “subversive
vaudevillian," half of “the Laurel
and Hardy of the Marijuana Gener-
ation.” and a “renegade performer,"
Chong knows where he stands with
his audience.

“I guess I’m a doper. A dope co-
median,” the 53—year-old Vancou-
ver. Canada native said. “1 do a lot
of dope jokes. That‘s managed to
keep me off the major networks."

Chong said that most of the peo-
ple who have come to his stand-up
act are long-time Cheech and
Chong fans, but that doesn‘t ex-
clude the possibility of gaining a
new audience.

“Most of the people who have
been coming to the shows know
what I do,” he said. “There‘s a
place in Boston where they didn‘t
know, but they found out in a big
hurry."

Chong says his act has escaped
any anti-drug backlash, despite the
fact that some people now feel
dope jokes are dated and have no
place in the ’905.

That‘s because these people sim-
ply don‘t attend his shows, Chong
said.

“They're usually the ones who
write about the show. The poor re-

viewers, they can’t understand why
anybody would want to be back in
the ‘80s But I‘m back further than
that I'm actually back in the '60s
That‘s one reason, too, that this
is working so well for me. I‘m so
old I’m new again."

Chong said he hoped his success
as a stand-up comedian might lead
to a Cheech and Chong reunion, but
die-hard fans should not hold their
breath for a full reunion.

“l was hoping it would (hap~
pen)," Chong said. “But (Cheech
Marin) came to see me in New
York and he said ‘have a good
time, have a nice day, but I‘m not
going to do this shit anymore.‘ "

Although the legend in the pair‘s
history states that Marin fled to
Vancouver to escape the Vietnam
War draft and the two met in
Chong’s improvisational troupe,
The City Works, Chong said this is
not exactly what happened.

“Well, Cheech, he likes to let
everybody think he’s a Mexican but
he’s really Iranian,” Chong said.
“We met right after the revolution.
He was Ieaming English and he
came down to where I was working
as an improvisational actor, and he
wanted to improve his English so
he joined the acting thing. And he‘s
done really well. You can’t even
hear his accent anymore."

Prior to teaming with Marin in
Vancouver, Chong was a member
of the Motown recording group
Bobby and the Vancouvers, which
performed with several renowned
musicians. Chong also discovered
the Jackson Five.

Chong currently is working on
another album, one that will blend
comedy and music — something
that worked so well for Cheech and
Chong.

“In fact I‘m going to be putting
out an album pretty quick — or a
CD or (Digital Audio Tape),“
Chong said. “It‘s going to be
like the old Cheech and Chong al-
bums: It's going to be a little music
and a lot of comedy. I‘ve been
working on it. I‘ve got it almost fin-
ished. I just need to get some time
off to finish it up and it’s there.“

And will he be making more mo-
vies soon?

“Yeah,” Chong said. “Actually
I’m working on a couple of movies.
Cheech and I will probably do an-
other movie, and I‘ve been working
on this detective thriller with this
gorgeous blonde I‘ve been living
with."

His wife?

“Yeah,” he added with a laugh.

When Chong brings his comedy
act to Lexington tonight and tomor-
row at Comedy On Broadway, he
said that audiences should cxpect
anything to happen.

“You never know what‘s going to
happen in the show,“ he said. “I get
weird friends that pop in now and
then. You never know who’s going
to pop in. But I guess in Lexington
you don‘t have to worry about that
too much."

Tommy Chong will perform at
Comedy On Broadway. 144 N.
Broadway, tonight and tomorrow at
7:30 and 9:30. For ticket informa-
tion, ca11254-5653.

Cable offers more of the same: reruns

When cable TV began its boom
in the early 19803, I was excited.
(That is, I was excited about cable
before I had it.) Instead of having
three or four bad channels to chose
from in every city, we viewers
would have 30 or 40 bad ones.

In other words, a vast treasure
trove of trash would be at our dispo-
sal. That might not sound great, but
to this viewer, it was wonderful, be-
cause more TV meant one thing.

More reruns.

Reruns of everything — from
“Lucy” to “Mary Tyler Moore" to
“All in the Family" to “Wild Wild
West“ to anything else you can
think of —- would be available to
the viewing public. With dozens of
channels and hundreds of hours to
fill, surely everything that‘s ever
been on TV would be available to
us. Variety, I hoped, would be cable
TV‘s buzzword.

Unfortunately, it didn‘t work out
that way. Flip around the dial today
and, by and large. you'll find many
of the same shows all over the
place.

And nine times out of IO, the re-
runs you’ll see the most are the
shows you didn‘t want to see once,
let alone dozens of times for the rest
of your life.

Here‘s a good example: “Grow-
ing Pains“ is an extremely popular
show in syndication right now. And,
until the end of this season, it’s also
a prime time network show. Forget
about whether you think it's a good
show or not for just a moment.

The point is, it‘s been a prime
time show for the last seven years
and yet it’s syndicated in almost
every TV market in the country. It‘s

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possible to see a “Growing Pains"
episode in syndication that you just
saw last year in prime time.

The same is true of “Who‘s The
Boss," “Night Court," and several
other shows that either are still on
the air or just recently left the
prime time airwaves.

But you can’t see classic sitcoms
at all. “All in the Family," one of
the best TV programs of all~time,
can be seen at about 4:30 in the
morning on Ted Turner‘s Supchta-
tion.

As far as I know, II can‘t be seen
anywhere else at any time. I'm not
sure why.

A CBS retrospective special
about the show that aired last year
got big ratings — so much so that
the network actually re-ran “All in
the Family“ episodes from I971 in
prime time.

People still think the show is fun
ny, but you just can‘t see it.

On most cable systems, you can‘t
see “The Mary Tyler Moore Show“
at all. My cable company doesn’t
have one single station that shows
it. I can, however, see “Mr. Belve-
dere" two or three times a day on
various stations.

You may be saying to yourself,
“So what —— TV stations show what
the public likes. If ‘Growing Pains‘
or ‘Who‘s The Boss‘ is on twice a
day, it‘s because the audience

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wants to see that.“

That's a compelling argument.
But TV stations and even national
networks don‘t always succeed in
figuring out what audiences want.
One of the best situation comedies
television has produced, “The Andy
Griffith Show," violates every TV
norm. But it’s been one of the most
popular shows on TV for the past
30 years.

Most of its episodes are in black
and white. which many “experts”
say audiences hate (hence the need
for colorizcd movies). It‘s old, and
doesn’t have any of the current
slang or modem-day references
needed for success.

There‘s no sex, no insult humor.
no half-baked misunderstandings (a
la “Three's Company) and no one
liners. It’s a show about a bunch of
warm, likable people who lead reg—
ular lives. And it’s one of the funni-
est shows that‘s ever been made.

And it survives, even though oth-
er black and white shows are taken
off the air. At one point, “I Love
Lucy" was everywhere on the dial.
You couldn't have cable without
having the chance to see “Lucy"
three or four times a day.

Was that too much Lucy‘.‘ Per-
haps. But today. you‘re lucky if you
can see “I Love Lucy," which is 40
years old, once a day. The same is
true of “The Honeymooners."

Aside from “Andy,“ black and
white reruns on commercial TV are
dying. Commercial TV is moving
toward tabloid journalism shows,
inexpensive game shows, and
made-for-syndication sitcoms that
never aired on any network.

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today and, by and
large, you‘ll find many
of the same shows all
over the place. And
nine times out of 10,
the reruns you'll see
the most are the shows
you didn't want to see
once, let alone dozens
of times for the rest of