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A Note in Passing

Rick "Dickie Lugnuts" Honaker passed away at home from an undisclosed illness recently. Most recently a booking agent for the Cooler Lounge, he also booked local bands for the Boston and many other local venues.


A memorial and benefit is being organized for his daughter at the Cooler Lounge, 1905 N. Decatur Blvd., December 3. Plans include a number of local bands performing, barbecue and your basic, local-music-scene wake. To get more information or to volunteer to perform, e-mail [email protected].


Services are November 17 at Desert Memorial, 1111 N. Las Vegas Blvd.




Martin Stein









And How Bad Is It to See Men Wearing Makeup Anyway?


Maxim magazine recently leveled its sights at our hometown's favorite band, The Killers, labeling the band as something of a joke. The

reasons? How about the Killers complaining that the Bravery ripped off the Killers while the Killers have themselves ripped off Duran Duran? Also cited are Brandon Flower's expenses in the eye-liner department when the money might be better spent on music-related costs. We here at the Weekly are just happy to see the laddies' mag avoiding mimicing Stuff or FHM.




Martin Stein









LOCAL CD



Frank Klepacki



Virtual Control (2.5 stars)


Ten tracks of electronic techno make up the third album from this local video-game composer and ex-drummer for Home Cookin'. Far more exciting than any real-time strategy game, the disc suffers slightly from an overreliance on synths but still has a good variety of beats.




Martin Stein








DVDs



The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection (NR) (5 stars)


$89.95


The famously bespectacled silent-era comedian Harold Lloyd was the equal to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in every way except in the esteem he was held by future generations, thanks to a decision to keep control of how his pictures would be exhibited. Instead of watching his gags butchered to fit the demands of TV, Lloyd kept his best-known titles locked in a vault. He didn't live long enough to witness the exquisite restorations compiled in this seven-disc package, but a new generation of fans will benefit from his foresight. The nearly three dozen features, shorts and historical featurettes have many highlights, including Safety Last! where Lloyd hangs precariously from the face of a giant clock. The commentary track adds great insight into Lloyd's inventive gags, stunts and repertory company. It's a delight from start to finish.



The Edukators (R) (4 stars)


$29.95


The lesson to be learned from this provocative and often funny black comedy from Austrian director Hans Weingartner is that terrorism is best left to the pros. The target of a home invasion spoils the plans of a trio of amateur anarchists by coming home early and short-circuiting their latest act of symbolic vandalism. Because the man can identify the female member of the group, they decide to kidnap him and ... and ... well, not being violent sorts, they really don't know what to do. The gang escapes to a mountain cabin where their captive tests their resolve by revealing his own radical background. It's an intellectual exercise, to be sure, but one that plays out in one of the most picturesque settings on Earth, and never forgets to entertain as well as "educate."



Fantasy Island: The Complete First Season (NR) (2 stars)


$49.95


In large part, the history of television in the '70s can be reduced to four words: "De plane! De plane!" ... six, if you count, "Boss! Boss!" Each week on this inexplicably popular anthology series, a plane carrying a new group of fantasy-seekers would arrive at a resort on a mysterious Pacific paradise, where they were greeted by Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) and his diminutive assistant, Tattoo (Herve Villechaize). The '70s overflowed with such romantic hokum as Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Love, American Style, which starred veteran actors on the down-slopes of their careers and cutesy-pie newcomers looking for a first big break. This DVD includes the series' first 14 episodes and the original television movie on which it was based.




Gary Dretzka


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