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TA. fones calls
decision ‘100
percent victory ’

By Sara E. Spears
Staff Writer

The Student Government Associa-
tion Senate approved a $207,245 bud-
get last night in the body's first full
meeting of the 1994-95 school year.

SGA Comptroller Jason Harris said
the budget passed because of the execu-
tive branch’s “hard work with the Sen—
ate.”

“I thought we presented a fair and
balanced budget,” Harris said.

SGA President T.A. Jones called the

final budget decision a “100

 

 

back before the Senate later

 

percent victo .” - in the ear to re uest more
The currziit allocation Ilade funding, for the piloject.
for Senate funding, V Controversy also arose
$63,820, is nearly $7,000 SGA’; Senate about SGA office renova—
more than last year’s Senate approves tions, which were allocated
allocation and almost dou— nominees ortbe $4,000.
ble the originally proposed SGAjudicial Jones said these renova—
budget of $35,000, which hoard. tions would include tearin
was passed during the sum— See stay, down the outside wall of the
mer by the interim Senate. Page 2, SGA office.
Three new allocations Heather Hennel, Senate

 

were introduced last night.
UK Expose, an SGA-s onsored student
newsletter, was given 4,000. The sec-
ond new program, Call and Ride and
Live, a student drunk drivin preven-
tion program that had been udgeted
$5,000, was dropped from the budget.
Several senators uestioned allocat-
ing money for the drunk driving pre-
vention program because Ted Lahren,
the sponsor of the program, might be

Pro Tempore, said she
believed students would rather see their
money spent for more worthwhile
causes.

After debate, the money for renova-
tion was approved.

There also was controversy sur—
rounding the purchase of pagers for
Jones, SGA vice president Benny Ray
Bailey and Freshman Representative
Council chairman Jeff Phelps.

WEATHER Today, mostly

sunny, high near 80,- tonight,
clear, low in mid— 50s; tomor-

row,

DMEENG AlONB The UK theatre

deparment starts its season tonight with

risque’ drag queen satire. See story, page 3.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY

passes $207,245 budget

clear, high in mid-80s.

  

Jones said the pagers were “rented"
from UK, which already owns them.
The monthly fee for the pagers, $21 for
all three, is paid from student funds.

Senator at Large Alan Aja proposed
the allocation of an additional $7,200
for the creation of a separate scholar-
ship fund.

“This fund is for students and will
help students, that’s why I brought it to
the table toni ht," Aja said.

Also, the 5,000 ranted for SGA
Constitutional Sciiolarships was
reduced to $3,000, allowing the

remaining $2,000 to be divided equally
between FRC, which had no budget
last year, and the SGA Speaker’s
Bureau.

Student fees composed the majori
of the budget, totalling $130,000. Rev—
enue from campus directories totaled
$15,000, and state funds came to
$11,801.

 

 

Facility may ease
llll parking woes

By Carrie Morrison
Senior Stafl Writer

Students and faculty may have
lost a combined total of263 park—
ing spaces this year, but officers at
UK’s Parking and Transportation
Services have not fallen asleep at
the wheel.

Don Thornton, director of that
office, yesterday discussed plans
for a parking structure built on the
site of the American Warehouse
building, a former tobacco plant
near the corner of South Lime—
stone Street and Euclid Avenue.

Completion of the structure is
projected for April 30, 1996. Park-
ing officials hope to gain 1,000
new parking spaces with the struc-
ture, Thornton said.

Parking at the structure will be
payable on an hourly basis. The
rates will be “comparable to exist-
in rates” at local parking garages,
T ornton said.

Thornton said he is unsure who
-— faculty, students or University
employees - will be able to use
the facility.

“The utilization has not been
determined at this point,” he said.
Thornton acknowledged, howev-
er, the new structure could hold
the cars of students, employees,
faculty and/or visitors.

“Regardless of what the mix (of
users) is in this facility, it’s certain-
ly going to free up other spaces,”
he said. “We see it as a benefit to
all user oups, including investors
in the niversity.

“We do an excellent job of
bringing visitors to cam us, but
we’re trying to accomm ate their

needs better when it comes to
parking.”

Thornton noted that even
thou h the new structure is need-
ed, t is year’s new lottery system
of student permits has worked
very well in alleviating the pres-
sure for more student spaces.

The lottery allows students to
be in the running for parkin close
to their campus housin all year
long. The system has eliminated
long lines and will take many cars
out of the overcrowded “K” and
“E” lots in the stadium, he said.

The structure would displace
some organizations currently
using offices in the American
Warehouse. The Physical Plant
Division trucking offices are in the
buildin , as is storage space for the
Kentuc Geological Survey.

“There’s a long list of people
who have storage items in here,”
project manager David Kaiser said
of the American Warehouse.

Ken Clevidence, director of
campus procurement and con-
struction, will be in charge of relo—
cating the building’s employees
and stored equi ment.

Right now, eaders of the pro—
ject are still in the process of
selecting an architect and robably
will not make a decision ibr three
more weeks.

Thornton explained the archi-
tectural criteria.

“We’ll certainly want someone
to address the aesthetics issue,
security, access to the facility —
both pedestrian and vehicular,” he
said.

“This is really going to be a
new venture for us.”

 

 

 

 

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"I THE H00? Psychology senior Greg Stacker plays basketball yesterday afternoon hehind Farm—
house social fraternity house.

Expert says healing racism begins within

 

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mammary.”
for Healing Racism, speaks by it for thrusting American society

yesterday evening in the Old Student Center heater.

 

What is remarkable about this phe-
nomenon, he said, is that it springs
largely from within the oppressed rather
than the oppressor.

“We’ve come full circle since Plessy
versus Ferguson," Rutstein said. It was
in this 1896 Supreme Court case that
the “separate but equal" concept of
racial division was put into play.

Though the court did away with this
principle when it called for the desegre—

ation of ublic schools in 1954, many

lacks andpwhites alike would argue that
fundamental racism remains entrenched
in the American consciousness.

“Now we see a grassroots movement
toward separatism,” Rutstein etiplained.
“Blacks, Latinos, American In ians
are tired of saying ‘yes’ when they want
to say ‘no,’ tired of being the tools of
tokenism. It’s painful.”

The na ging pain of racism comes
from psycSological wounds, such as a
feeling of inferiority and self-hate, Rut—
stein said.

Without killing the virus that caused
the wound — racism — little else can be
done.

Feeding the virus, he said, is denial.

See RACISM on 2

First steps include
overcoming denial,
respecting others

By Tyrone Beason
Senior Stafl" Writer

One of the many ironies that trou-
ble race relations expert Nathan Rut-
stein is this: Where racial segregation
is concerned, America has gone far
and nowhere at all.

There is a sense among racial theo-
rists like Rutstein that members of
o pressed racial groups, namely
bliicks, no longer have faith in human
oneness or in the leaders who claim to
champion that ideal.

This lack of confidence, said Rut-
stein, who established the Institute for
the Healing of Racism, is symptomatic
of what he believes is the erosion of
the “American soul.”

In a speech last night at the Student
Center, Rutstein blamed the persis-
tence of racism and the trauma created

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — US. Marines
assigned to a potential Haiti invasion force began
training yesterday on a Puerto Rican island amid
new tal in Washington of a U.S.~led intervention
in Haiti.

In all, 1,800 Marines are practicing to evacuate
the estimated 3,500 American civilians in Haiti,
officials said.

"One wa or the other, the de facto government
is going to lie leaving," Secretary of State Warren
Christopher said. “Their days are definitely num-
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The Clinton administration in recent days has
been more overt in alluding to an invasion to dis-
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Cuba, ".8. talks suspended

NEW YORK — After a brief meeting yester—
day, the United States and Cuba temporarily sus—
pended talks on stemming the Cuban refugee exo-
dus, and Cuba’s chief delegate flew back to Havana
for consultations.

Negotiations are expected to resume in New
York, possibly tomorrow. The delay in the talks,
which began one week ago, indicates there will be
no quick or easy solution to the refugee crisis that
has bedeviled the United States.

Di lomats say Cuba may be trying to prolong
the ta ks to pressure the United States into tackling
U.S.-Cuban relations and the devastating US.
economic embargo against Cuba.

Simpson witness goes to jail

LOS ANGELES — A witness who says his life
is in danger if he testifies before a grand jury inves-
tigating O.J. Simpson’s best friend was jailed for
contempt yesterday by a judge who told him he can
talk or stay behind bars.

The grand jury is investigating Al “AC.” Cowl—
ings, who drove Simpson on a bizarre flight from

olice in a Ford Bronco that ended in the football

ero’s arrest. The witness, John M. Dunton is will-
ing to remain in jail “as long as necessary” to save
his life, his lawyer said. Dunton and his lawyer
have refused to say who Dunton fears or why.

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Michael and lisa on MW tonight

NEW YORK —— The network that gave the
world Beavis and Butt—head has scored another
coup: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley-
Jackson are booked for tonight’s
11th annual MTV Video Music
Awards show.

The pair will take the stage
tonight at Radio City Music Hall
to kick off the live program, said a
source close to the production who
spoke on condition of not being
identified.

The newlyweds will do an
introductory bit, then turn over
the stage to Roseanne, hostess of the program.

Enrollment
shows increase

By Perry Brothers
News Editor

 

Jackson

Despite decreased state funding, UK boasts a
modest increase in enrollment this year, officials
announced yesterday.

Preliminary figures estimate total enrollment of
24,360 students on the Lexington Campus and at
the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center. This num—
ber is up 3 percent from last year’s total.

“The increase is modest, but it is very much in
line with what we had hoped and planned for," UK
President Charles W’ethingon said yesterday.

VVethington said the niversity has met two
goals this year with stable enrollment figures and
increased academic quality.

This year, a record 82 National Merit Scholars,
135 Governor’s Scholars and 106 high school vale-
dictorians are enrolled at UK. The average ACT
24.9 is four points higher than the national average
of 20.8.

Also bolstered this semester is the number of
black students attending classes on the Lexington
Campus, both in undergraduate and graduate pro—
grams.

“We’ve been working now for several years to
increase our African-American enrollment,"
Wethin on said. "And we will exceed 1,100 here
for the first time ever.”

Decreased state fundin appeared to have had a
negative effect on the niversity’s Community
College System, however.

The total enrollment in community colleges this
year, 46,200, is down by 2,170 students from last
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“Denial is a carefully concealed
mental maneuver that springs
from shame,” Rutstein said. “We
all have it.”

He said it is vital that white
people in America make them—
selves aware of their role in the
movement of 'race relations, to
condemn not only overt acts of
racism but confront the personal,
seemin ly innocent, betrayals of
unity t at occur much more fre-
quently.

One way to do this, he told
about 50 people gathered for the
lecture, is to develop “penetrative
sight.” In other words, one must
learn to recognize other people’s
reality, see beyond the nervous
laugher and half smiles that veil
volumes of painful racist experi-
ences.

Continuing, Rutstein encour-
aged the audience members to
behave as if they were part of an
extended family.

Racial oneness is a fine ideal, he
said. But real unity takes action.

Rutstein will offer more
specifics today at Institute for the
Healing of Racism workshop. The
free workshop will begin at 2 pm.
in the Student Center Small Ball-
room and is open to the public.

Rutstein’s institute is really a
s stem of principles built around
the sharing of personal ex eri—
ences and feelings and in- epth
discussion of the causes of racism.

Michael Razeeq, a librarian at
the College of Engineerin , said
Rutstein’s messa e shou d be
taken with the un erstanding that
not all blacks fall to insecurity and
self—hate. Many blacks, he said,
respond in opposite ways.

“Not only have we survived,”
Razeeq said, “we have flourished.”

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By Jenniter Smith
Stafl Writer

After much controversy and
confusion, four of the five Student
Government Association judicial
board nominees were approved
unanimously last night during the
first full Senate meetin .'

David Stringer, Micielle Slone,
Brandon Voelker and Walter
Zausch were approved to fill four
of the five vacant board slots.

The fifth nominee, Gerald
Coleman, was not present at the
meetin . Jones said Coleman
would e brought up for Senate
approval at a later date. Coleman
could not be reached for com-
ment.

Last night’s appointments ran
smoothly compared to the tumul-
tuous few hours following Jones’
initial announcement of the nomi-
nees Tuesday.

After Jones’ list of possible jus-
tices were released, Senator Pro
Tempore Heather Hennel voiced
her concern over nominee Pete

FCC may check

radio contact
fiom stadium

By Lance Williams
Associate Editor

The two sets of old airplanes
that soared across Commonwealth
Stadium before the start of the
UK—University of Louisville game
Saturday caused more noise than
just some loud roars.

Officials at Blue Grass Airport
said there may have been illegal
radio communications between
the planes and event officials.

Joe Spivens, a controller at the
airport, said all communication
with aircraft in this area must be
through the control tower at the
airport.

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November.

Hennel said November, a for-
mer SGA president, could not
separate politics and personal mat-
ters. Consequently, November
declined his nomination.

Fifth- ear architecture student
\Valter gausch was nominated in
November’s place.

“TA. and I had discussed (the
position) before. He went ahead
and interviewed me for it today,”
Zausch said.

Several of the senators com li-
mented Zausch, who is presi ent
of the College of Architecture
Student Council.

“He has been the hub (of the
council),” College of Architecture
Senator Scott Noble said. “He’s
really made things happen.”

Voelker’s nomination was
another cause of confusion Tues-
day when Jones announced him to
serve as a temporary justice.

According to the SGA constitu-
tion,Jones may appoint an interim
justice only in the summer when
an actual justice cannot be reached

some unauthorized communica-
tion between someone on the
ground and the pilots.

Airport officials questioned
some of the participants, and the
Federal Communications Com-
mission should make a decision
today on whether to investigate
the incident, he said.

Spivens said the problem prob-
ably occurred because ofa lack of
knowledge about the regulations,
instead of an intentional act.

“Maybe there was an assum -
tion that it had been set up,” e
said.

The planes that flew over the
stadium were from the Aviation
Herita e Air Show, which was
bein field over the weekend in
Clar County, Ind.

UK Air Force ROTC com—
mander Col. Crai Koontz said
ROTC helped wit the airshow
and may have helped with the sta-
dium maneuver.

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to render a decision.

Jones then asked Voelker to
serve as a regular justice on the
board.

“T.A. decided I was compe-
tent,” said Voelker, a former sena—
tor at Iar e. “We just need to sit
down an talk. We had not really
gotten together.”

Greg Watkins, chairman of the
SGA appropriations and revenue
committee, said Voelker is a very
hard worker and thinks things out
very well.

Jay Ingle, one of the remaining
justices, advised the Senate last
night on what he thought made a
good justice.

“They need to be impartial,
open-minded and decide things
for the benefit of student govern-
ment and not themselves,” he said.

The Senate briefl questioned
all the nominees on their familiar-
ity with the SGA constitution.

It is the judicial board’s job to
interpret the constitution when
problems arise within student gov—
emment.

(tame tlyhy causing noise .

tacted UK about the possibility of

flying the planes over the stadium.
Koontz said any roblems with

the airport probablay were more

miscommunication than any
intentional slight of Blue Grass
Airport

Most of the work for the air-
show and the flyover at Common-
wealth was done by volunteers,
and everyone may not have known
the correct procedure, he said.

Koontz said there was an air—
show volunteer at the stadium giv-
ing the planes information about
when to fly over the field.

The H overs were supposed to
be coor inated with the songs
being played b the UK band,
Koontz said, an only someone at
the stadium would know what was
going on.

“When you do air lane fly-
overs, it is a very compl)ex thing,”
Koontz said.

“You can’t do it without some-
one at the event.”

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Students'
play ideas
considered

By Ernest Jasmin
Arts Editor

This year, the theater depart-
ment is sponsoring a series of UK
Studio Productions in an attempt
to give students more creative
input into what plays the depart-
ment will produce.

The series will consist of 12
plays, six in the fall and six in the
spring, that have been chosen by
UK students.

“Essentially, anyone who wants
to do a studio production just sub-
mits their idea to the front office
and you can do it,” said Chris Car—
rier, who directs the first of the
plays. This play, “Theodora: She—
Bitch of Byzantium,” opens
tonight at 8 p.m. in the Briggs
Theater.

Students interested in having
plays considered for production
may do so by submitting their pro—
posals to Mike Friedman, the
series coordinator.

The plays currently being con—
sidered are experimental in nature
and even include original works by
UK students, Friedman said.

“They tend to be plays that
aren’t often seen but are worth
seeing,” he said.

Mostly theater students have
submitted ideas when similar
series have been produced in the
past; but any student may submit
an idea this year, he said.

There is one stipulation, how-
ever. Although the department
will accept proposals from any stu-
dent, proposals must be complete
with a director in mind; and the
director must have taken directing
classes through the department.

The remaining 11 shows will be
shown in either Briggs Theater or
the newly renovated, black box
theater.

About $10,000 was spent to add
a new lighting grid, redo the floor,
add drapes and make other
changes needed to make the the—
ater usable, Friedman said.

Friedman noted that although
he has received more submissions
than there is space for, there are
plenty of places on campus that
are ideal for student productions.
He encourages students to pursue
their ideas with or without depart-
ment assistance.

The deadline for submissions
for this semester is 5 p.m. tomor-
row. No deadline has been set yet
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‘Tbeodora: Sbe—Biteb of Byzantium ’ opens tonigbt

By Ernest Jasmin
. Arts Editor

he theatre department will
kick off its studio season
tonight with “Theodora:

She-Bitch of Byzantium,” a risque'
drag queen satire that takes place in
ancient Rome.

It will be the first of 12 free
plays that will be shown this school
year. The studio series consists of
plays that may be submitted to the
theatre department for considera—
tion by anyone on campus. After
the idea is submitted and a director
is chosen, an audition is posted.

“Theodora: She-Bitch of Byzan-
tium” was submitted by leading
man Jay Aubrey, who lays
Theodora. He contacted hris
Carrier, who graduated from the
theatre department last year. The
play was written by playwright
Charles Busch and is a satire of
“Theodora,” written by Victorien
Sardou in the late 19th century.

Busch, who is also known for
writing “Vampire Lesbians of
Sodom” and “Psycho Beach
Party,” was drawn to the
original Theodora
because he admired the
works of noted 19th
century French actress
Sarah Bernhardt.

He was also drawn to
the idea of playing her
part as leading lady in a
revamped version of the
original play. The result
was his second play.
This production was
first performed at the
Limbo Lounge in New
York in June 1984.

The new version par-
odies the older play,
which was much more
serious in nature.

“The late 19th cen-
tury version would have
been a very serious,
probably extremely
melodramatic (play) of
whatever the style was
at the time,” Carrier
said. “But it’s supposed
to be a historic account
of this actual woman,
Theodora.”

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the levity of the original pla . It is a
sexually suggestive spoof t at fea-
tures actors in drag and erotic
dance.

For example, actor

drag playing this queen. It’s risque
and all that; but ifyou really listen
and really look at it, there are no
swear words . There’s really
nothing beyond sug-

 

Johnathan Steppe is cast
in the role of Justinian,
the corrupt ruler of the
Byzantine empire.

“He’s a very pervert-
ed man,” Steppe said.
“He enjoys being the
king because he gets to
use everyone exactly
how he wants.”

In fact, he does use
anyone, like Toso his
“love slave,” who is
played by Nathaniel
Orr.

“I was part of the
prize that (Justinian)
won in a battle,” Orr
said. “Now I am his lit-
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gestion, innuendo and
some skimpy cos—
tumes.”

The play is free, and
student designers cre-
ated the set without a
budget. Still, audiences
should expect a quality
production, Carrier
said.

“The quality of the

roduction is quite
liigh, and every one of
the actors has leading
roles in main stage
shows,” Carrier said.
“This will be as good a
show as most of the
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he basically delights in
me; and gou get to see a lot of that
on stage.

Despite some of the sexual
innuendo, Carrier said the play is
not so controversial as it might
seem.

“It’s controversial on the sur—
face,” he said. “You look at the
main character, and it’s a man in

shows, including two
midnight shows, during the play’s
three—day run.

The audience should expect
wilder erformances at the later
shows, arrier said.

“The midnight show should be
really wild and tons of fun, and the
actors kind of let it all go,” he said.

 

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"commuter-aloe) — ltlco loll

When Vince Bell sin “I sure wish that I was
dead,” it’s not the soun of some overly sensitive
singer-songwriter bleatin about his angst; it’s a
man who has peered over e precipice and lived to
tell about it.

While “Phoenix” is plenty strong enough to fly
on its own, it‘s difficult to discuss the son without
telling Bell’s story. He was an up-an -coming
Texas troubadour when he almost'was killed in a
car accident 10 years ago. After coming out of a
coma, Bell needed to learn how to walk again.

The music falls somewhere in the country-folk
spectrum. Bell’s agreeably weathered voice sounds
like someone who dropped by to tell you some sto-
ries over a beer or two and the songwriting bears
up under repeated listening.

— By Eric Fidler, Associated Press

Plugged In (Pyramid/Rhino) - Ilavo
Edmund:

Dave Edmunds’ “Plu ged In” cooks as though
it was made by a tight litt e rock band that has mas—
tered blues, rockabilly, soul and strai htforward
power pop. It is clean and crisp enoug to be the
work of a cadre of scurrying producers, engineers
and other specialists.

With an array of compressors, effects processors
and equalizers — not to mention four Gibsons, a
Martin and a Fender Telecaster —— he pulls off a
rare stunt. He makes technology sound personal.

Edmunds ends “Plug ed In” with “Sabre Dance
’94,” a manic, revampe version of his early 19705
instrumental that sounds as though he collapsed
from exhaustion immediately afterward.

Throw in the Cajun-spiced “It Doesn’t Really
Matter” and a ballad that allows Edmunds to et
serious, and “Plugged In” turns out to be a doubly
personal effort. Not only does it cover the Dave
Edmunds musical spectrum, but he did it all him-
self... and gets all the credit.

— By Robert W Trott, Assoa'ated Press

EllMclips

Movies showing in Lexington theaters this weekend

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

starting tomorrow.
Airheads Metalheads take over a radio sta-
tion. PG-13
Andre Little girl befriends talented sea
lion.PG
Angels in the A small boy prays tor angels to help
Outlield his baseball team. PG.
Black Beauty A timeless tale of a girl and her
horse. G
Camp Kids run their own summer camp.
Nowhere
Clear Agent helps declare war in Latin
and Present American drug trade in Tom Clancy
Omar thriller. PG-13
. Young boy takes stand in Grisham
The Cllent adaptation. PG-13
The Color of Erotic thriller starring Bruce Willis. Fl
Lilli“
Dazed a. Retro-70s high school students
Confused come of age. Ft
The Comedy based on pro-historic car-
Flinstones toon. PG
Forrest Dim-witted man gains tame through
Gump positive attitude. PG-13
Good Man to Sean Connery plays a doctorTGT-
Attica 13.
1 Love Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts play
Trouble dueling reporters. PG
In the Army Pauly Shore goofs oil in the army.
Now PG
it Could Hap- Cop wins lottery and splits it with
pen to You waitress. PG
Little 19305 comedy makes it to the '90s.
Rascals PG .
The Lion Young Lion reclaims throne after
King long exile. G
The Mask Boring banker tinds powers in magi-
cal mask. PG-13
Maverick Mel Gibson plays a gambler who
meets his match. PG
, Two kids set up father with a prosti-
Mllk Monet tute. PG-ta
Natural Born Psychotic couple becomes famous
Killers in media feeding trenzy. R
"9“ Karate Trilogy continues — this time with

K” karate girl. PG.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sirens A controversial painter otters sacrili-
gious painting to a church. R
Cop matches wits with an insane
39"" bus bomber. Fl
Trial by Jury William Hurt stars as hitman. Ft
True Lies Secret agent hides his identity trom
wite. R
John Candy stars in post mortem