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EVANSVILLE, Ind. -— A Ken-
tucky Air National Guard transport
plane on a training mission
slammed nose-first ittto the ground,
burst into a fireball and skidded into
a motel and restaurant yesterday,
killing at least 16 people.

“It looked like Pearl Harbor,”
said Mark Whitehead, who lives
nearby and rushed to the crash site.

Five of the dead were members
of the Kentucky Air National
Guard‘s 123rd Tactical Airlift
Wing, who were on a pilot profi-
ciency training mission in the Lock—
heed C-l30 military transport
plane. Guard spokesman David Al-
tom said.

Lt. Col. David Moremzui. a
Guard spokesman, said the pilot-
instructor was “highly experienced
and had impeccable credentials.“

Moreman was visibly upset as he
viewed the crash site. “Inside, Id
like to find a room where I could
cry," he said.

Nine people were killed in the
hotel and two others were found

dead in the restaurant, said Rick
Woods, chief deputy coroner for
Vanderburgh County.

Fourteen people were admitted to
Evansville hospitals, said Christine
Terry, spokeswoman for the Van-
derburgh County Emergency Man-
agement Agency.

About one-fourth of the 24-hour
restaurant was destroyed by the im-
pact of the plane. Damage to the
four-story hotel was caused mainly
by fire. The plane was destroyed;
only the charred rear nidder was
recognizable.

JoJo's manager Dennis Serio said
the plane “came through the win-
dow. I got up and everyone was
running toward the door. Walls
were falling in, steel was all over
the place. Otte cook was knocked
down, tried to get up to get back to
the dish washer and just couldn‘t."

The accident marked the second
time in 4 l/2 years that a military
plane has crashed into a hotel in In
diana. On Oct. 20. 1987. If) people
died when a crippled Air Force
fighter jet crashed into the Ramada
Inn-Airport in Indianapolis. The pi-

lot managed to bail out before the
crash.

The Evansville airport was the
site of a crash in December I977
that killed the entire University of
Evansville basketball team. Twen-
ty-nine people including 14 players
and their coach died when a char-
tered DC-3 crashed in fog shortly
after takeoff.

The C-l30 Hercules is a work-
horse for the military, 21 medium-
range craft that carries mainly cargo
or people on a variety of missions.
The four-engine plane normally has
a crew of five. It has a wingspan of
132 feet and is ()7 feet long.

~Here is a list of the members of
the |23rd Tactical Airlift Wing.
Kentucky Air National, who were
killed iii the crash: Maj. Richard A.
Strzutg. 3‘), I’onds Knobs, Ind., as-
signed pilot: Capt. Warren I. Klin-
gatnan, 2‘). Louisville. Ky.. Co-
pilot; 2nd Lt. Vincent 1). Ytutcar,
25, Louisville. Ky.. co-pilot: Master
Sgt. William (T. Hawkins. ~ll.
(‘rcstwootL Ky.. loiitlinaster: Master
Sgt. John M. Medley, 38. Louis-
ville, Ky., flight engineer.

 

 

 

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Firefighters walk amid the fuselage from a Kentucky National Guard 0-130 transport plane that
slammed into the back of a restaurant near the Evansville, Ind, Regional Airport yesterday.

 

 

 

Philosophy junior Chuck Smith and friend Lara Hills tried to keep their 4—month-old beagle-mix pup, Macy. from prying gum off the
ground in front of Patterson Office Tower yesterday,

 

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Gov. Jones denies
UK of $46 million

By NICK COMER
Senior Staff Writer

FRANKFURT. Ky. — UK‘s pro-
posed (‘ommonwealth library fell
victim to a rough economic outlook
for the state yesterday as the gov-
cnior dcclittcd to recommend an-
thorization of a $46 tnillion bond is-
stic to fund its construction.

Btit the project could continue
close to schedule if the legislature
approves (lov. Brereton Jones~ rec-
ontmendation to authori/c UK to
Use 512 million iit private funds to
begin design of the building

"My reaction is. I‘m delighted
with the recoittmcndation in the
budget." said ITK President (‘harles
Wcthington.

Ile said the lack of the boitd l\\UC
could set the completion date of the
library back by “two or three
months." assuming the issue l.\ ap-
proved iii the 1994 budget.

(‘abinet Secretary Kevin llablc
indicated the botid issue would be
approved in MN.

“I would anticipate that tlltc
(‘oiniiionwcalth library! project
would be recommended for funding
in the next biennium," hc \tlltl.

\V’cthington estimated design and
constniction would each last about
IX months. \\llll any delay coining
between the phases.

l’tnil Willis. director of libi'aitcs

 

UK library
looking for
architects

By KELLEY POPHAM
ASSistant News EditOr

lTK I\ expected to kick off
a nationwide ad\crtisitig
campaign this yvcckcnd
searching for an tuchitcct to
design its new library. dc‘
spite (ioycrnor Brcrctoii
.loncs' refusal to support a
Mo million botid issue to
fund construction,
.»\d\crtiscincnts lll search

See DESIGN. Page 8

 

 

 

for I’K.

two years.

\tlltl t'Hll\lITlcllt‘ll could last

“\Vc don‘t want to rush out aitd
thtovv .i $58 million libriiy togeth-
Ll " ltc \tlltl

Willis estimated the completion
date tl\ Iatc I‘l‘l5 oi c.iily l‘l‘lti it
the bond l\\tlc' l.\ :tpprmcd in thc

See LIBRARY Page 8

Committee sends revised trustee reform bill to Senate floor

By NICK COMER
Senior Staff Writer

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill to
shake up the governing boards of
Kentucky’s public universities was
sent to the Senate yesterday with
some major revisions from the bill
that flew through the House two
weeks ago.

The revisions were made iii the
Senate Education Committee.
which voted 7-1 to approve the bill.

Half the states‘ current trustees
and regents, as well as appointed
members of the Council on Higher
Education. will have to be re-
appointed. according to the bill‘s
provisions. The original bill left
open the possibility of totally new
sets of appointed members on the
boards.

The bill‘s sponsor. Rep. limesto
Scorsone (D-l.exington), said the
bill retained incumbent board mem-
bers in an effort “to educate and or-

ient new board members."

Six of UK‘s 13 current appointed
tnistces would be required to be re-
appointed in order to meet the latt-
guage of the bill. Regents and trus-
tees selected by faculty. alumni and
students have to re-appointed, ac-
cording to the bill.

The bill calls for a seven-member
screening committee, which would
nominate three candidates for each
available position and the govemor
would appoint one of them. Nomi-

nations would be made 30 days
prior to the seat becoming available
unless the vacancy is unforeseen.

If the bill is passed into law.
UK‘s l3 appointed tnistccs would
autotnatically be nominees for the
seats arid the committce would
nominate 26 other candidates. Scon
sone said. The govcmor would dc-
cidc which six incumbents would be
re-apmintcd.

The bill would require members
of the screening committee to have

an undergraduate degree. No more
than two of the members could have
received an undergraduate degree
from the same university.

The bill provides for the screen-
ing committee to make the appoint-
mcnt if the governor docs ttot do so
within ()0 days of receiving the
nominations.

The screening committee mem-
bers would represent the state's sew
en Supreme (‘otitt districts. They
would be appoiiitcd to six-year

terms by the govemor and be con-
firmed by thc llotisc attd Senate.
The bill includes scvcial provi-
sions aimed at nepotism. l‘hc gov-
ernor would be prohibited froin
scIf—appottittncnt or appointment of
a spoiisc The bill also would pro-
hibit I'L‘ltlll\c\ of Illl\lt‘t‘\ from
working at thc \till‘lc‘ college
Another amendment to the bill
passed by tltc Ilt‘lhc‘ would require

See TRUSTEE. Page 8

UK must endure additional 5 percent budget cut, Jones says

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

I’RANKFORT. Ky. -— For the
first time since at least the l930s.
the amount of the state appropria-
tion for UK could be less than the
preceding year.

Gov. Brereton Jones delivered the
anticipated bad news last night in
his budget address to the (letteral

Assembly.

For UK — excluding the com-
munity colleges —— and the rest of
higher education. the bad news is a
5 percent cut in the UNI-()3 bud-
get.

UK aitd the other seven state uni-
versities would get a 3 percent in-
crease in funding for the second
year of the bictmiutn. ION-94.

“This decision is personally pairi-

fit! to me because of my involve-
ment. interest aitd cotnmitmcnt to
higher education." said Jones. a for-
mer UK trustee. “It is. however. the
right decision under the circum-
stances. Aitd I will do everything lll
my power to more than make tip for
this in the second bicnniutn of our
administration."

There was little good news iii the
budget for higher education. which

receives about 1* percent of state
appropriations.

Two coitiiitiiiiily collcgc building
projects wcrc the ottly oncs rccoin~
tnendcd for state dollars - btit only
for design money, The projects arc
for ttcw buildings at A\Il|t'lll(l and
Hazard coiiimnnity colleges.

The UK library project Wih given
the green light to proceed. biit only
with the private funds the school

has raised on ll.\ own

I'm l‘MZ—‘ll ciit comes on the
heels of a pci'inancitl 5 percent cut
in the tall. That cut was about Sll
million for the lcxiiigton (‘ampus
and the Albert B. (‘handlcr Medical
(‘cntcii The community colleges
were forced to cut $4 million.

Both cuts coiitbincd have the ele
fcct ot a lil pctccnl cut III the lll'\l
ycai of thc biennium. l'hc nct coin-

bincd ciit iiftci the second \car in
thc bicnnnini v oiild bc 7 percent
“Ihc ditliciilty lll llll\ onc rcallv
l\ caiiscd by having tyyo ‘ percent
cuts iti oiii appropriation so closc
togcthci," \llltl I'K I’rcsidcitt
(‘harlcs \Vcthington. ” l ltat makes it
much more ditliciilt to managc."

The total \l‘tlL‘ appropriation for

See FUNDING, Page 8

 

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Wildcats face Auburn this weekend without
sophomore guard Carlos Toomer.

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Brown Bag Theatre continues today with

Art Videos presented by The Contemporary
Center for Art. Bring your lunch and enjoy it ‘
at 1 pm. in 107 Fine Arts Building. t

Melanie Griffith,
Michael Douglas
star in ‘Shining.’
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Stat! reports
Football

Recruiting coordinator Tommy Limbaugh said UK filled arty
holes that needed filling Wednesday on national signing day.

“In our first two years, we felt we had an overall need for team
speed." said Limbaugh. “Now we‘ve moved to another step iii our
program. This recruiting season has been one in which positional
needs were the priority.

Following is a list of UK football‘s 1992 recruiting class.

-Jim Brown. DE. 6-3. 270. Hudson Valley (NY) Community
College

'Alonzo Browning. WR, 6-3. 210. City College of San Francisco
ODaymon Carter, RB. 6-2. 200. Henderson ( Ky.) Henderson
County

.Howard Carter Jr.. DE, 0-4. 240. Coffeyville (Kan)
Community College

dsaac Curtis 111, SE. 6-4. [80. Cincinnati Roger Bacon

-Chris Davis. DT. 6-7. 261. Roanoke (Ala.) llzuidley

oTravls Evans. TE, 6-6. 235. Mount Rainer (Md) (ilen Mills
°Robert Harris. TE. 6-4, 230. City College of San Francisco
°DeAnthony Honaker. 0116-1. 315. l’ikevillc (Ky) High

-Billy Lofton. DT. 6-3. 290. Chowan (N.C.) Community(‘ollege
-Pete Matthews. LB. 6-2 215. Zanesville (Ohio) High
-Raymond McLaurin. RB, 6-1. 180. Radcliff (Ky) North Hardin
°Quincy Murdock. OT. 6-3. 300. Amelia (Ohio) High

°Mike Schellenlrerger. LB. 6-0. 212, Louisville (Ky) St. Xavier
~Jaysuma Simms. WR, 5-10. 155. Providence tKy.) Webster
County

'Jefi‘ Speedy. QB. 6-2. 185. Franklin t'lenn.) Brentwood

-Chris Ward. LB. 6-5. 235. Decatur tt in.) Southwest l)eKalb
Olimerson Wells. LB. 6-3. 225,1’aducah (Ky) 'l'ilghtnan

°Frank Williams. DB. 5—11. 165. Decatur ii iii.) Southwest
DeKalb

~Michael Woodl‘ork. RB. 6-3. 225. l’adticali tKy.) 'l'ilghtnaii
OEric Wright. LB, 5—10. 205. Massillon (Ohio) Washington
°Randy Wyatt. WR. 5-10. 162. Louisville (transfer)

Gymnastics

The UK gymnastics team. rebounding frorn an impressive perfor-
mance against defending national champion Alabama. will have
twice as tnuch competition on its hands tonight at Memorial Coli-
seum.

No. 17 UK (43 overall, l-l Southeastem Conference) plays host
to both Ohio State and No. 6 Florida in a triangular meet.

Ohio State (6-1) retunis ll gymnasts frotn last year‘s rerun. which
finished third in the NCAA Eastem Regional. Florida (5-(). l-()
SEC) scored 192.35 all around last week iii a four tezun meet with
West Virginia. Michigan State and Minnesota.

Tennis

The UK men‘s tennis team has a full slate this weekend.

Several players are already in Minneapolis competing iii the Roles
Invitational, the second leg of the Volvo Collegiate (irand Slam
The UK contingent includes the Top 10 doubles team of freshmen
David Culley and Jason Yeager.

No. ‘1 UK (3-0) returns to the Commonwealth tor a cross.state ri-
valry Sunday when it faces U of l. at Louisville. Ky,

Swimming and Diving

The men's turd women’s swim learns are spending the weekend in
Tuscaloosa. Ala. to compete iii the SEC (‘hzunpionships

UK is trying to improve upon last year‘s penortnance in which
both the men and women finished seventh.

The lady Katfish (7-3 overall. 1-3 SliC) expect strong showings
from juniors Wendy Hipskind and Julie Robbins. who both llil\L‘
had solid showings in past SliC Championships.

The Katfish (54. 0-2) are hoping that freshman Andrew Aitken
and junior Jamie Smawley will lead the way.

Defending champs
visit Kats tonight

By ERNEST L. WRENTMORE
Statl Writer

Displayed oil the front of Ten-
nessee‘s media guide is the tri-
sidc of 'lhompson-Boling Are-
na, the home of the Lady
Volunteers. On the arena floor is
a circus-type atmosphere corn-
plete with an elephant. a show
horse. trapewe artists and. of
course. the defending national
champion Lady Vols.

"'l'he Greatest Show In Worn-
en‘s Basketball" is printed at the
bottom of the guide.

But where is Pat Summitt'.’

This is a pertinent question
because she is the only women‘s
basketball coach to win three na.
tional championships — wiri-
niug titles in 1987. ’8‘) and ")1.

She's still around. so don’t get
excited. Summitt is itr her 18th
year of coaching the Lady Vols
turd cart be found on the back
cover of the media guide with
two of her assistant coaches, All
three are dressed iti glitzy silver
and red ring-leader costumes.
accompanied by red top hats,

At W years old. Sinnttiitt‘s rc-
sutne is lengthy:

° three NCAA
ships.

(‘hampioti-

'Naismith College Coach of

the Year in 1987 and 1989.
°0|ympic medals as a coach
and a player.

0’1‘he Lady Vols have been in
seven of the last 15 final fours.

'12very player that has com-
pleted her eligibility under Surn-
mitt has graduated.

Summitt also has UK ties.

I'K coach Sharon Fanning
served as a graduate assistant to
Summitt at Tennessee in 1975.
but they knew each other before
their partnership

“In college. she went to Ten-
nessee as a grad student the year
before 1 did." l‘iilllllllg said.
'llien. when I got the job at 'l'en~
nessee~('liattantmga. she turd 1
were both first-year coaches and
were very lucky to be head

coaches at 22 or 23 three years
of age."

At UT, Fannirig‘s teams accu-
mulated a 180-120 record. 111-
eluding five consecutive South-
eni Conference chzunpionships.
l‘lulllle was nominated for Ko-
dak National Coach of the Year
in 1984 and was Southern Coti-
ferenee Coach of the year in '84
arid ‘85.

While Suminitt continued to
build the strongest progrzun in
women‘s basketball. Fanning
was hired by Kentucky 111 1987
Hunting has posted a 81-57
record Wlllt the Lady Kats.

Both coaches have the stunc
philosophy today they did 17
years ago 7 defense is the prior—
itv.

“There is no one I admire
more lll terms ot the defense that
Pat has ptit on the floor consis-
tently." l-anutng said. “I‘m a de~
lL‘ltsch type. get iti your face.
don‘t let anybody out work you.
push yotttsclt to the littiit. rtl'
ways hL‘llt'\L‘ you can win type
of person ”

I'K (ll-‘1. 4-2) could lie its
best Sl;(‘ start by detcattng lllc
Lady Vols tonight. l‘he Kats
were picked to finish Will in the
league. but l‘illllllllg. who is nev-
cr shy about where she wants
trorn the program. didn‘t buy
into it.

"We‘re working here to burld
a program that is consistently iii
the ’l‘op III." Fanning said. “Yes.
we're trying to w III the SFC and
NCAA championships "

tinder Fanning. I'K is winless
against Tennessee and Fanning
has a hunting desire to defeat her
fonncr mentor.

“She‘s been a trrend and has
always been w tiling to talk about
basketball or w hatcwr. but when
it comes down to competing.
there‘s nobody tn the country I’d
rather beat than l’at."

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GAME NOTES

Kentucky (15- 5) vs. Auburn (10- 9)
Tomorrow, ‘74 00 p. m. '

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THE SERIES
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Statt reports

'l‘liel‘hli-i'aiikcd [PK basketball
team will try to shake its current
funk tomorrow when they play the
Auburn l‘igcrs at Faves Memorial
Coliseum.

Adding to the situation is that
sophomore guard (‘at‘los 'l‘ooincr
has been suspended indefinitely for
id] unspecified notation of team
rules

Brit with or witliotit lootncL l'ls'
still has Auburn to deal with.

lhe (Kits (1.5-5 o\ciall. 5-1
Southeastern Conference) liayc lost
three of their last four games

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tlteir worst setback of the season. a
74-53 loss at Ioutsiana State. It) the
[SI1 game. l'K‘s usually dett thrce~
pottit shooting went awry ’l‘he (‘ttts
connected on only eight ot 4-1
threes.

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the same problem as | 'K and is try
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[he l'igcis also ha\e dropped three
ot tottt lhe ligcrs most recent \‘ic-
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‘Shining Through’i IS an opaque spy thriller

By JOHN DYER FORT
Assistant Arts Editor

My older sister was a fanatic
Nancy Drew fan when we were
kids. She had a large collection of
those yellow, cardboard-bound vol-
umes with the colorful, illustrated
covers. For those who don’t know,
Nancy Drew was a teenage sleuth;
she was pretty, smart, public-
spirited, plucky, helpful and man-
nerly. Nancy had a relentless stub-
born streak — like a tireless blood-
hound — that made her a natural
detective.

I wound up reading Nancy Drew
instead of the Hardy Boys, mainly
by default but also because I
thought the Hardy Boys were
chumps. Underneath her plucky ex-
terior lurked a detecting genius with
amazing powers of intuition con-
cerning the dark inner workings of
the sinister criminal mind.

“Shining Through" is a film with
a bad personality disorder. It’s a
people-pleaser that manically bus-
ies itself assuming various roles,
styles and personalities hoping to
hit on one that may please the view-
er.

What we have here is a passion-
ate Love Story, 3 TALE of WAR, a
riveting DRAMA of EPIC PRO-
PORTIONS, a spy thriller, a 19405-
era Hollywood Big Screen combi-
nation of All-the-Above!!

Melanie Griffith is Linda Voss, a
half-Irish, half-Jewish girl from
Queens, looking for work as a sec—
retary in Manhattan. During her in-
terview at a high-class law firm she
is informed that they usually hire
Vassar grads only for their secretar-
ial pool. Nancy Drew, I mean, Lin-
da Voss gives them a good, sound
telling off: Vassar snobs aren’t
what made America great, it was
the hard-working immigrants with
good Old World values, by gosh.

Proudly stomping out, Voss then
comes to the aid of an old immi-
grant German office cleaner who
has made a mess in the reception
area. While all the Vassar grads are
practically climbing the walls to
protect their Lord and Taylor patent
leather heels, Voss calms the now-
hysten'cal woman with a few words
in German and restores order.
Guess what? Voss ends up getting
the job. That’s good old American
pluck.

Voss winds up as secretary to Ed
Leland (Michael Douglas). a seri-

ous, deep but handsome man that
strikes fear into the hearts of ordi-
nary secretaries. Griffith wins him
over with that simple, pure-girl
style that just can‘t be denied. The
two become passionate lovers until
the bombing of Pearl Harbor ends
the dream affair.

Douglas, as it turns out, is a colo-
nel in Army intelligence, who must
leave. He tries to make the break
clean, but you know how that goes.
Griffith pines away at various
U.S.O. functions waiting for her
soldier boy to come home.

In some of the comiest dialogue
heard since “Love Story," Griffith
tells Douglas: “What's a war for if
not to hold on to the things you
love."

Later, Griffith says, “What do
you want from me?”

Douglas: “I want you to stop feel-
ing sorry for yourself.”

Griffith: “You want me to stop
feeling. Like you."

When Douglas returns to the
States Griffith becomes his army
secretary. One day, as G iffith
brings in coffee to a high level in-
telligence meeting, Dougm reveals
that their top spy in Berlin has been
killed. Certain documents in his
possession indicated that the Ger-
mans were building a cruise mis—
sile, but now they don’t know
where the production plant could
be.

Douglas informs the group that a
replacement is needed immediately
to find out where the plant is before
the missile is perfected. But who?

From the back of the room, Grif-
fith puts down her stenography pad
and picks up her battle standard.
She volunteers. As she sees it, with
her perfect German, she is the natu-
ral choice.

At first, Douglas won’t let her do
it. But with that Nancy Drew deter-
mination, Griffith persuades him.
She just knows she‘s right and for
once in her measly life she wants to
do something that means some-
thing.

Griffith leaves for Berlin, ex-
plaining “I was trained in micro-
film, hidden in a purse that made up
in form what it lacked in function.

Besides that, it was all guts."

In Berlin, Griffith shows her
purse/camera to another woman,
also a spy, telling her it's “Ameri-
can spy stuff.”

Douglas and Griffith are instruct-
ed to act like mannequins for their
many big screen close ups. Unfortu-
nately, they manage this too well.

The film‘s producers are sure
they have a topical pot-boiler that
can’t fail at the box office. The
modern heroine is very ’90s; the
Nazis are the perennial enemy we
love to hate (especially since Glos—
nost); World War II is still Ameri-
ca’s God-given global permission
slip to feel morally superior; and
the ’40s are about the only decade
left without any historical guilt (ex-
cepting, of course, the execution of
the Rosenbergs and the mass incar-
ceration of the Japanese in Califor-
nia).

In a way, we should be sympa-
thetic to Hollyworxl. It‘s getting
hard to come up with a movie that
won't offend one group or another.
Cowboys and Indians are out and
portraying women and minorities as
less than human is a stubbornly dy-
ing pastitne.

Hollywood has taken to playing it
safe, but even warm, squeczy, feel-
good safe subjects are running out.
Tragic fatal diseases, sexual orien-
tation, coming-of-age, social con-
sciousness, nuclear power, nuclear
arms. the environment —— Holly-
wood has tried them all with vary-
ing degrees of box office success.

Now the latest bright idea from
studio thinkers and fortune tellers is
causing Hollywood to turn back the
hands of time and portray itself in a
happier light — the golden, gravy
days of the 19405. Big stars, big
drama, big screen, big box office
draw. Elegant, grandiose, over-
wrought, dramatic and large scale.
These were the things that trans-
formed Hollywood into Tinsel
Town. Investors are hoping these
things will pay off in the 19908.

What the Film “Dead Again" did
successfully in 1991, “Shining
Through” and director David Selt-
zer fail to do: breath new life into
Hollywood’s famous old-fashioned
Big Screen style. To hedge the bet,
they also sweeten the plot pot with
several wholesome ingredients: big
stars Griffith, Michael Douglas and
John Gielgud; a love story between
a plucky, moral immigrant girl from
Queens and a handsome, driven

 

 

PHOTO COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith star as two lovers caught in war-time espionage in the new film,
“Shining Through." Griffith plays a secretary who becomes an American spy in Nazi Germany.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

Griffith manages to conceal herself in Berlin as the nanny of a widowed German officer played by Liam
Neeson. Neeson has secret plans for a new missle that could turn the war to Nazi favor.

Manhattan lawyer; World War II as
the backdrop; international espion-
age and intrigue; the Nazis as the
bad guys; even a little bit of humor.

Cook it up and serve it in your [0—

Hard Rock Cafe wrestles with upstart

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK -— It almost sounds
like a sci-fi thriller. The Hard Rock
takes on Planet Hollywood in a turf
war for Manhattan‘s glitzy 57th
Street.

Before the battle ends. it‘s likely
to be repeated in some two-dozen
other cities, mostly tourist destina—
tions, where there already exists a
Hard Rock Cafe.

“Their theme is music. Our
theme is movies. I don't think

we're taking away business from
them or they're taking away from
us “ said Caroline Knop, a hostess
at upstart competitor Planet Holly-
wood.

The battle between the co-
founder of the 20-year-old rock ’n'
roll restaurant giant, the Hard Rock
Cafe, and Planet Hollywood has an
incestuous twist.

Robert Earl, chief executive of
Planet Hollywood, also manages
Hard Rock holdings for Rank Or-
ganization — a company that owns
half of the rock empire, including

the 57th Street business.

Hard Rock co-founder Peter Mor-
ton claims in a suit filed in federal
court in Los Angeles last week that
Planet Hollywood copied his idea
with “a chain of highly publicized
entertainment-music-themed restau-
rants similar but of substantially
lower quality."

Morton and investors seek $250
million in actual damages and $500
million in punitive damages from
Rank Organization.

Among Morton’s restaurants are

Hard Rocks in Los Angeles, New
Orleans and Chicago.

Earl did not return a telephone
message left at his Florida office.
His employees said they could not
discuss the lawsuit.

Similarities and considerable dif-
ferences exist in the two restau-
rants, whcre people wait in line an
hour or more on busy nights.

Both sell T-shirts and other mer-
chandisc, and they lure tourists with
the prospect of seeing celebrities.

The customer finds Rambo's

cal theater and what do you have?
In the case of “Shining Through,"
the result is a bland Nancy-Drew-
sleuth-and-Harlequin-romance

stew. This gruel is watery, tasteless

and unbelievable.

"Shining Through," rated ”R,"
is showing at Lexington Green and
Man 0' War Movies 8 cinemas.

Planet Hollywood

knives just inside the front door.
The menu is larger than Hard
Rock's.

People walk from room to room
viewing the exhibits, many of them
at eye level, as if they are in a mu-
scum.

A set of handcuffs from “9 1/2
Weeks,“ Billy Crystal’s saddle
from “City Slickers" and Rocky‘s
yellow robe hang from walls.

At the Hard Rock, customers

mostly view, from a distance, what
has been called the biggest collec-

 

 

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Woodhill Shopping Center,
266-6891, John Michael Mont-
gomery and Young Country to-
night and Saturday night. Cov-
er is $2.

~Batchclor’s, 815 Euclid
Ave, 268-0001, Nobody Knows
tonight and tomorrow night.
Cover is $7.

-Breedings, 509 N. Main,
255-2822, Born Cross-Eyed to-
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row night. Cover is $3 both nights.

-Cheapside Bar, 131 Cheapside
St., 254-0046, Kelly Ritchie Band
tonight and tomorrow night. Cover
is $3.

-Comedy On Broadway, 144 N.
Broadway, 254-5653, Legendary
Wid tonight and tomorrow night.
Cover is $6 tonight; $8 Saturday
night.

oLynagh’s Music Emporium,
University Plaza at the corner of
Euclid and Woodland Avenues,
255-6614, Greg Hanson and the
American Reggae Band tonight;
Groovezilla and Skeleton Crew to-
marrow night. Cover is $3 both
nights.

~Two Keys Tavern, 333 S. Lime-
stone St., 254-5000, Nervous Mel-

vin and the Mistakes, tonight
and tomorrow night. Cover is

$3.

-Wrocklage, 36] W. Short St.,
231-7655, Lily Ports and Strict-
ly Wet tonight; Candy Says and
Longnecks tomorrow night.
Cover is $5.

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