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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january entertainment editor Morley 6977307 things go from bad to worse for Cage with in a scene from red Rock modern Day Western emerges As neat thriller by Christopher Harris the Globe and mail the setting of this modern Day Western has been on the screen Many times before the generic Little nondescript in every particular except for the mountains loom ing on the a place where everybody talks Tough and acts rough and keeps two or three guns within easy the cast of is unmistakably familiar the enigmatic wanderer from out of the corrupt the scheming the renegade surprising Given the stereotypical elements that director John Dahl and his co writing brother Rick have used to construct red Rock its sur prising the result is a neat Little thrill dressed up in Cowboy noir cloth its a Little too neat Here and and it plunges into some rather Muddy gothic ism for the Cli yet it remains a respectable piece of entertainment that veers convincingly Between the comic and the dark and the hapless hero of the piece played by the Ever reliable movie review red Rock West starring Nicolas Dennis Hopper and Lara Flynn Boyle vital parental accompaniment of toys Nicolas is a Guy who honed his sense of bad timing and ill Luck to an infallibly Sharp a Texas Roughneck on hard Hes taken his old White Caddie and headed North to the potentially More promising oilfields of what he finds int the work he had in mind an old leg from his Days As a Marine in Beirut during the 1983 suicide bombing of the Barracks keeps him off the he finds a whole mess of trouble that gets More and More in sanely complicated in the 48 hours that arriving penniless in the town of red Michael pops into the local bar to inquire about the mistaking him for another texan Hes been hands him and explains the Best Way to kill his wife Michael is desperate for but he knows whats right and whats right is to pocket the Bills but inform the wife of her peril As he Heads out of he does and discovers the sexually alluring Suzanne int at All the Surprise comes when she Dou Bles the handing Michael to snuff out Wayne Suzanne is played by Lara Flynn who wastes a potentially Rich role by devoting All her screen time to a lot of Flint eyed because of the wild convolutions of plot that its not possible to say More except that things go from bad to worse for the is played by Den Nis who gives yet another Brilliant take on the Al american this a bullying paranoiac with a twisted sense of he theres style to spare in red Rock but with its twin Peak Sish soundtrack and its Devo Tion to ankle High camera the film suffers from a style that by the Dahl Brothers deserve credit for having breathed life into what could have been a straight for Mula Thomson news service Columbus Centennial Centre 410 de Salaberry every monday Early Bird Bonanza Nevada Bingo empty House in 41 Jackpot i of a v Lucky 7 in 24 Bingo m53bi 6693048 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Stephen Ostick pop music writer local Bluegrass Flat picker Slavek Hanzlik is going Back to where it All not Hanzlik last name is a clue that he int heading to Kentucky Bluegrass Home to the lilting acoustic music Hes so fond in the who is about to release his second is returning to his czech Republic which spawned the unlikely love affair with Bluegrass that has endured for most of his 36 its unlikely not Only because Bluegrass was born an Ocean away from his boyhood Home in but also because the Lack of experienced pickers there forced him underground to study his i didst know How to learn said who spoke last week before leaving to perform in Chicago in route to the czech not Many people All we had was a Bunch of worn out and we had to guess How to play from what we heard on it was but i had a big appetite for it changed my started spending half my time playing after a fou year stay in he eventually worked his Way to Winnipeg in since he has issued one 1991s Spring in the old and has established a reputation As a Topflight acoustic he attracted such respected american names As Banjo Star Bela fiddle player Stuart Duncan and bassist Mark Schatz for that first last he called them Back to a Nashville studio for summer his second which he expects to release independently this week available locally at homemade the 13 tracks on solstice Are All in i was Only interested in playing traditional North american Hanzlik but As i started my time spent in Europe started showing i found it to Combine different european and Irish the past 12 months Haven been entirely Lucky for a european tour fell and Chicago flying fish records reneged after founder Bruce Kaplan died on a commitment to pay for Hanzlik second the Label distributed his As work kept him away from Winnipeg for weeks at a time in Eastern Canada and while Hanzlik says his czech trip is Only he rates the chances no better than 5050 that hell still Call Winnipeg Home a year from Bluegrass int and you often have to work 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Shenandoah live until i die Clay Walker is it Over yet Wynonna wild one Faith Hill state of mind Clint Black the boys and me Sawyer Brown shed give anything boy Howdy Dwight Yoakam John Deere Green Joe Diffie jazz Randal Millroy Bauer bound for Europe Stefan Bauers concert this saturday night at the West end cultural Centre is significant on two the first is the company Hes former Winnipeg pianist Bernie Senensky is coming Back from Toronto for the along with Ace Sticks Man Barry bassist Gilles Fournier shores the local the second is that after this we wont be seeing Bauer for a after a show in the quartet Heads to where Jim Vivian replaces Fournier for several after Bauer is off to Europe for a takes to the concert stage in Germany again and debuts in recording plans next Spring he will travel again to this time to the German Label in collaboration with the state radio service will feature Bauers Mallet playing in a set of works written for the occasion by the rising German composer bandleader Klaus an International Allstar aggregate booked for the session includes revered English based trumpeter Kenny rising american violinist Mark and the superlative Bass and Drums pairing of Mark Dresser and Gerry two players Best known for their tenure with Anthony Bauer said in a recent interview that hell play the Wood toned not the Metal keyed on the the Marimba is used to smart effect in his coming Marimba is actually my favorite but its so much harder to choral work Koenigs own compositions Arent always portable forthcoming on enja is the song of inspired by the song of Solomon and using a 15piece orchestra and the 35 voices of the Montreal jubilation gospel although Bauer and Koenig have played together the new project originated Between enja Boss Matthias Winckelmann and wars jazz department Ulrich coming Home actually began As a War recording for radio broadcast Bauers band subsequently bought the rights for compact disc and available soon a variety of transatlantic headaches with his German Label meant that coming Home was initially available locally Only on while the discs lingered in a european most of those problems have since been and a limited number of discs should be available soon through Bauers new Winnipeg of Bauers association with Senensky began in when both worked with visiting saxophonist Gary Bartz at the jazz Winnipeg Senensky liked what he heard so that Bauer was soon off to Toronto for a week of gigs at Georges Spaghetti House with Senensky working with Romberg and Neil sundays answer Bauer ;