Friday, April 5, 1996 What pictures most inspire Mr. Rogers? Jessie Jackson? LACMA relinquishes the role of curator in ‘Talking Pictures: People Speak About the Photographs That Speak to Them’By Kristin Fiore Daily Bruin Contributor If you could create your own photography exhibit, what pictures would you choose? Most would pass over the obscure, esoteric […]
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Dinner party has death on main menu
Friday, April 5, 1996 By Lael Loewenstein Daily Bruin Contributor There’s an intriguing premise to Stacy Title’s wicked satire: What if a group of liberal intellectuals decided to rid the world of small-minded folks, among them bigots, fascists and anti-environmentalists? A coterie of Iowa grad students host a weekly dinner party, regularly inviting a new […]
Hopper’s passions flow wild in film
Friday, April 5, 1996 By Dina Gachman Daily Bruin Contributor It’s not easy being typecast as the villain or the tough guy in films. At least not for Dennis Hopper. "It seems like all I get are the heavies  the bad guys," he says. "Most of them are pretty badly written, so I end […]
Industrial music pioneer Skrew still not a household name
Friday, April 5, 1996 Band leader Grossman insists performance, not popularity is main concern success not a major concern for group By John Sabatini Daily Bruin Contributor While Ministry and Nine Inch Nails have made industrial music a household phrase over the past few years, Skrew, one of industrial’s founding fathers, has gone largely unnoticed. […]
Benefit hopes to be music to the ears of children in India
Friday, April 5, 1996 By Cheryl Klein Daily Bruin Contributor Dr. L. Subramaniam knows that not all childhoods are as happy as his was. "My parents were so loving and caring," he says, speaking fondly of his youth in India. But he is acutely aware of the problems that persist in India today. Many of […]
Sex, life and flirting with disaster
Thursday, April 4, 1996 By Dina Gachman Daily Bruin Contributor Most of the time, reality is the strangest place to be, something the recently released comedy, "Flirting With Disaster," proves. Sex, marriage and family take on many strange forms in the film. Written and directed by David Russell, "Flirting With Disaster" follows Mel Coplin (Ben […]
Iron Maiden test strength of heavy metal
Thursday, April 4, 1996 By John Sabatini Daily Bruin Contributor During the 1980s, Iron Maiden dominated the wildly popular heavy metal scene with flashy guitar strokes, impressive pyrotechnics and the band’s morbid mascot, Eddie T. Head. But with their return to the U.S. for the first time in four years, the metal icons have discovered […]