European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse 1 a i 1�?~x�?T Marathon runs out of steam in a Joe Bob Briggs goes to the drive in i kept waiting for Malcolm x to make it to the drive in Uritis realized the got Dang movie is 39 hours Long so you can to show the whole. Thing at a drive in before the Sun comes up. So i packed a Duffel bag full of food and enter gency supplies and settled in at my local Mega Cine Multi Barf plex ready to watch Malcolm mow Down the Weenie Whites. And it does no to take Long believe you me a cause even before the titles Start the voice of Malcolm is telling us what murderers and oppressors and slim eaters the White Man is and then they show the Rodney King tape Over and Over and Over again and in a thinking a fall right we Are Gonna see a major Bloodbath nine hours later in a still waiting for the movie to Start. They should called this sucker a com . I should of known something was seriously wrong when they did the big Kun flux klan House burning scene Back when Malcolm was living in Nebraska. Malcolm a House was attacked by the Only chapter of the Kkt in which even the horses Are ashamed of themselves. The horses Wear hoods just like the Kart members now those Are some evil klans persons. Actually it was even before that that i should of guessed something was out of whack Here a cause the very first scene has Spike Lee strutting around Boston in a Neon zoot suit tossing off one liners with Malcolm. And in a thinking a great Malcolm had a zoot suit Jitterbug sidekick who la burst into tears like All Good sidekicks do when Malcolm a Bullet a riddled body is sprawled on the floor at the so Spike tosses off one liners for about the first 12 hours of the movie and then he disappears. Van wishes. Al Vamoose of. He does the ultimate sidekick no no and fails to tie up the plot. Anyhow its still a great movie. For those of you who Haven to seen it yet it goes like this after we watch Rodney King get the Bej Abbors beat out of him Denzel Washington gets his hair straightened in a Barber shop and has flashbacks about the hooded horses of the Kkt breaking out the windows on his House. Time for the big Rossland dance Hall hoedown musical number then Denzel Malcolm aardvarks in a car with Sophia the Blond White girl with too much lipstick has a Flashback about his father being tied to the Railroad tracks by evil White racists like in a Dudley Doo right cartoon and run Over by a train and then the evil White insurance Man telling his mama that the insurance wont cover it because it was suicide. So he tells Sophia the White girl to kiss his foot and feed him. And she does. And so he has a lot of trouble telling the Black Virgin Nice girl Why he can t marry her but we All know Why a because the evil White girl gives him More sex. It starts to get Rea of Boring when in prison a Guy named Baines gives him drugs and teaches him All about Elijah Muhammad and How a god is Black a and a we Are the original Man from the tribe of Sha Bazz Quot and Quot the True nature of the White Man is wickedness Quot and a fall White men Are debt us and the Only Way to get out of a the prison of your mind is to swear off drugs liquor and White women and Pray to Mecca five times a Day a and then there Sall this shimmery Light and Elijah Muhammad appears in Spike Lee in his own Malcolm x. Denzel Malcolm a cell talking like an old jewish comedian and looking a lot like Ben Kingsley in Gandhi. And that evidently causes Denzel Malcolm to be Boring the rest of his life because we in really getting into the snooze fast part of the movie now. Whew great movie sort of like the Black Muslim godfather except he a the Only Guy who gets kitted. No breasts. Not even in the pre Muslim part four dead bodies. Three big dance numbers. This thing believe it or not is a musical one great machine gun scene. Great russian Roulette scene. Great prison hot Box sequence. Gratuitous Rev. Al Sharpton. Drive in Academy award nominations for Malcolm Denzel al Freeman or. As the Black Gandhi As it turns out the evil Black Gandhi Kate Vernon As the sex-cra2cd White girl Sophia screenwriters Spike Lee and Arnold Perl and especially Delroy Lindo As the West Indian gangster Archie. You la need to pack an overnight bag but. Three stars. Joe Bob says Check it out. Joe bobs advice to the hopeless Devil Alert the twilite drive in on Hyde Park Road just North of Highway 22 in Hyde Park Ontario was destroyed by a fire of Quot undetermined causes Quot on the night it was scheduled to show Back draft. Fire chief Pete Mccrary said he thought the fire was caused by an electrical storm but we re not so sure. The twilite built in 1952, May or May not be rebuilt. The owners Haven to decided. Dominic Bernardo of Anchorage Alaska reminds us that without eternal vigilance it could happen Here. Bear Joe Bob i am a dumb dude who actually worked al a drive in theater 10 years ago. It has been subsequently demolished but 1 still carry fond memories of my four seasons there. If you ask me the movies they show today Are lame compared to maniac or done to answer the phone. Back in my Day Henry portrait of a serial killer was the usual fare. Child s play 2 is garbage compared to Sleazy trash like Don t answer the. Phone. Maybe in a just old fashioned but Freddy Krueger eats it next to sex crimes and commonplace violence like that depicted in maniac. The drive in is a culture that will Rise again. In my experience i found that the people who owned drive ins mismanaged them and ignored the potential of outdoor Cinema. There is an enormous audience for drive ins. In no time at All a new Breed of modern outdoor Heaters will Rise from the ruins. Guy More Chico Calif. Bear Guy a _ forty drive ins have reopened in the last four years and there Are still indoor Heaters that wont show he 11 Raiser. There a still a lot of Hope. Creators Syndicate Happy Welcome to Clinton and the democratic party Linda Ellef Ibee line is always open 2t4 36b-z3ui. The peaceful Transfer of Power in the unit cd states of America took place this past week once More. There is no greater show on Earth. How could there be if its True that democracy Isnit so much in the voting As it is in Ihry counting its also True that democracy Isnit passing the Torch its How you pass the Torch. This is Ameri Ca. Nobody 1 mean nobody docs it better. Sony to say i Wasny to in Washington this inauguration Day. I get the feeling i was the Only one. Did no to the democrats throwing some kind of a party 1 looks like everybody was there. You a think they Hadnot seen the White House in 12 years. I sat at Home watching the whole thing on television still trying to adjust to the fact the presidents younger than i am by two years but still its younger. How did this happen How did we go from at these presidents my fathers age or older to one younger than me personally i intend to think of Bill Cinton As Quot around my own he s cart mainly of my generation a which Means 1 have absolutely no trouble adjusting to the Leader of the free world stopping a fellow on the Street As he recently did with the words Quot to my Man Quot no trouble at All. This May also explain Why i enjoyed this inauguration More than others 1 recall. Democrats have their problems they May spend too much they May Promise too much and they May regularly shoot themselves in their collective foot but they sure do have better taste in music. Among those performing during the inaugural festivities were Wynton Marsalis Taj mahal Bill Monroe Little peat Bob Weir of the grateful dead Etta James al Grech Michelle shocked buckwheat zydeco asleep at the wheel and the Mccoy Tyner Trio. And Barbara Streisand Well alright. And so Long Wayne Newton. Clinton was said to have read Many old inaugural speeches As part of his preparation but they say lie drafted most of this speech himself. Modern presidents usually find that Little if anything they say in their inaugural address gets remembered past that nights newscast. And with cause How Many lines from inaugural addresses can you recall of sure you May remember Kennedy so ask not what your country can do for you Quot line and of dry so the Only thing we have to fear is fear itself they were both democrats i Point output do you remember who said a in a land of great wealth Fanti lies must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land Rich in Harvest children must not go hungry in a land of Healing Pira cies neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars Young people must be taught to read and that was from Lyndon Johnson in 1965, and the Only better one i Ever heard was Johnson a other inaugural address this one he made from Andrews Afu outside Washington on that november Day in j963 when Lee Harvey Oswald made him president of the United states. The shortest a inaugural address on record. A i will do my Best Quot Johnson said a that is All i can do. I ask for your help a and words and music. Democrats do it belter. King Poa ufos Syndicate january 24, 1993 sunday Page 21 f
