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Meteor Movie
Menagerie ***
By Howard Armistead, Jim
Patrick Fant
Faithful Meteor readers take
heed! Before you is the most carefully researched master- piece in the paper. Next year
when this volume is syndicated world-wide, remember, you saw it here first. So, without further ado, here is a guide to the movies that interest VES students the most.
The largest grossing moving at the box office this year is "E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial" by
Steven Spielburg. This reviewer thought he should have been paid to see it, instead of the other way around. "E.T." was full of the drippy, sickening sentim- mentality little kids, pre-pube-
scents, and little old ladies love. The movie lacks skin and a cou- ple of good action sequences. Who cares about an ugly little creature? The Academy A wards didn't. "E.T."'s most prestigious
Oscar was for Best Musical Score. Whoopee! Go by the album and don't waste your time
on the movie. *
Next on the hit list is the film, "High Road to China" with Tom Selleck. Unfortunately, I got talked into going to this disaster
by my girlfriend and her friend. The movie was a waste. Every fe- male in the whole theatre from age 8 to 80 spent the two hours drooling over Tom. After the first half hour I crashed; I had had enough.
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·ir Forget It
Next on the agenda is "The
Year of Living Dangerously," a pretty good effort. Although slow in a few scenes, the plot does move fairly quickly and has some unexpected twists. All in
girls, peeking into girls locker rooms, visiting a prostitute, and delivering pizza to a willing lady
.whose boyfriend is away.
· The movie was filled with pop song's from last year's list which filled the "script." Sappiness runs rampant until we reach a tear-jerking conclusion, which is a low in the movie. Overall, the production was one step or so
above your average skin flick. "Bad Boys" is one ~ft!fbe~t
action movies of the year. Sean Penn comes across as the total bad boy. He portrays a desperate juvenile delinquent in Chicago. He finally gets busted and put in the toughest cell block for juveniles. There he rearranges several faces with a pillowcase full of Coke cans.
Several good suspense scenes
make it an easy movie to sit
through. If you are bored one night, go see it; that is if you're
not afraid of b l o o d . * * * * The "Lords of Discipline" is a
fantastic movie if you have not read the book. If you have read the book, it causes you to draw too many comparisons between the two.
The movie shows the hard knocks of hazing that exist in a military school. It is the struggle
of a black boy, who is the first negro to enter C.M.I. (Carolina Military Institute,) against the
Ten, a powerful group of ten seniors who run disliked fresh- men out of the school. The black boy survives with the help of the movie's hero, a senior private who was assigned to watch over him by his superior. The only thing the movie lacks is the feminine touch which exists in the book.
So, next time you get bored, and are looking for something to do on a weekend around VES or at home, grab your wench and head out to the movies.
The Hazard By Daryl Dymond
4 March 1983
Bishops Men leave VES
12:15; McDonald's stop; Randy leaves wallet at school; Leave Lynchburg 1:00; Sleeptime;
Reach Abingdon, VA- 2 more hours; Road sign tells Hazard 30 ' miles; Main Street greets us with billboard advertisement;
lJp the hill to the Morton's - ,-· Ted is having a fit! Turkey feast 1-··
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all it was a pretty {~od flick.
ready to eat upon arrival; quick changes for TV interview- have
to reach the "peak" of the moun- tain- Ted now having a seizure! Everybody has cameraitesl Dill
and Tommy play Weatherman - an interview with Chris on major league baseball; Miss D "cracks up" under pressure! It's time, camera rolling, hit it! Allan gets "electric chair" next - "My Dad made me do it" Group sings
a few notes; Tommy selected for closeup - on music!; 20 minutes edited to a 2 minute release; Everyone gathered around TV · 11:!>0 News · here we are - "Modern Minstrels...
5 March 1983
-9 AM Waffle irons churning out
breakfast;rehearsalat10;check out churches for Sunday; make stop at billboard for group pic- ture; Lunch hour · decking out for first performance at Hazard Nursing Home- piano provides a few sour notes, as does the pianist! Concert over · exit for Morton Farm; Canoe race - Bat-
tles VS Mortons; Volleyball, football horses, "wool" and bak· ed beans! Bonfire lights up late volleyball game; Fatigue sets in - head for home; Excitement not over· midnight ride for John and Randy!
6 March 1983 ·Chowtimeat9AM;Rehearsalat 10; Provide pre-service at Methodist church · run up hill to First Presbyterian · Miss D
"jams" out an organ postlude; Spaghetti dinner at local elemen- tary school; mellow out before big concert; Sam picks on 12-string in the sun; a voice is heard · Do y'all know it's 2:30? Concert at 3:001 Record broken for fastest change and driving to
church! Concert a "smashing suc- cess" - Edward delights the crowd · "non-whistlers" provide
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Bishop's Men Headline for comic relief! Weight-lifting
until dinner; a little time to tune into afternoon performance · Awesome! Evening basketball fun - Bishops Men make super team - Hazard can't come close! Ted plays first real game with a
steal and a basket! Hit the showers; still hungry; Allan and Chris have milkshake attack! Unfortunately, they "attacked" the kitchen!
7 March 1983
- Breakfast hot at 8:30: time to get "psyched" for Hazard High
concert;-resistance dressing up -casual attire agreed upon; HHS Choir and Band file into class at 10:30 - Girls respond as if wit- nessing an "Elvis" concerti
Wade and Allan a "screaming success"; HHS choir perform for us; groups combine for some
selections; Encore called for - Allan and Wade take the stage - girls agree they were "Meant to Be"!Goodbyesafterlunch;group splits for Spring Break! Van leaves with finger-print motto: BISHOPS MEN ROCK HAZARD IN HALF!
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The titillating previews you
have seen for "Flashdance" are not at all accurate. The lead ac- tress (so memorable I forgot her name) has a definite character problem. She is a welder, a
dancer, a Virgin, and a slut. A good example of her un-
believability is a scene where she goes to confession and breaks in- to tears over thinking about sex. That same night, on a "first" date she almost scares her boss out of the apartment by casually re- moving her clothes, while they are talking. You can guess what follows.
Manoli, don't get your hopes up; there are no skin scenes. On the whole this movie is a mind-
less attempt to catch your in- terest by filling the screen with pulsating buttocks; it doesn't work. Maybe if you were drunk..
"The Last American Virgin", a cheaply made teenage sex com- edy creates a new low for teeny- bopper porn. The sporadic plot follows three guys and a girl. This sorry state of affairs doesn't keep these three young men from engaging in the sort of dumb behavior that's standard in this kind of film. Examples of their behavior involve picking up
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