10-E THE PLAIN DEALER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1994 Page, Plant hold 'Unledded' reunion By NEIL STRAUSS NEW YORK TIMES In the 1970s, Led Zeppelin almost single-handedly gave rock 'n' roll not a bad name, but a worse name. It added "heavy" to the lexicon of adjectives used to describe rock music, developed a reputation for wild, destructive hotel parties, raked in larger percentages of profits than any band before: it and turned an uncompromisingly long song, the eightminute "Stairway to Heaven," into the most popular tune on radio. years after the quartet broke as a result of the -related death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's music remains a backdrop to the high school years of teen-agers everywhere. The group's classic guitar riffs have been hammered indelibly not just into the music of many rap and rock bands but the consciousness of anybody who has ever been near a sound system in the last three decades. This year, Led Zeppelin's guitarist, Jimmy Page, and singer, Robert Plant, reunited for their first long-term project since 1980.
The two performed new arrangements of a dozen Led Zeppelin songs and a handful of new pieces in Morocco, Wales and London for an MTV "Unplugged" special called "No Quarter: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page Unledded." The special, which had its premiere in October, was MTV's highest-rated "Unplugged" episode ever. An album of music recorded for "Unplugged," not all of which made the broadcast, has been released by Atlantic Records. In February, after a decade of rumors and requests, the pair plans to follow in the footsteps of other temporarily disbanded groups like Pink Floyd and the Eagles and embark on what is bound to be a highly lucrative world tour. "Some great blob called public opinion kept demanding that me and Jimmy do something together again," Plant said, lighting a stick of White Light Pentekel incense in his Manhattan hotel room. "So the only thing we had to consider was, can we do it Once we found out we could, certain things in me were born Only Plant's creased face displays his age.
At 47, he can get away with wearing the same crown of long, cascading golden curls and the same type of leather pants that he wore decades ago. Page, at 50 and dressed in all black to match his billowing hair, smiled impishly and continued Plant's thought: "It's not a ques- Entertainment, Film Performance Directory ADULT MOVIES 16500 LOEWS 3 New Releases $6.00 BARGAIN FIRST RUN POLICY BEREA 201 Berea, Front OH St. 234-4300 "THE (R) "JUNIOR" (PG-13) "THE SWAN PRINCESS" 7:10 FICTION" 9:20 (R) CEDAR LEE Cedar Free and After Lee 6 Roads PM 321-8232 BARGAIN 'TIL. $2 EVERY TUES FICTION" LIKE A WOMAN" "SHAWSHANK" "SECOND "CLERKS" "BEANS OF EGYPT" (R) ENDS THURS. ABOUT IT" (PG-13) CENTER MAYFIELD Warr.
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slu*tty Madonna! She is the rascally scamp that just about all the world is sick to death of. What better time, then, for the not-sofoxy Fox network to unload "Madonna: Innocence Lost," a cheerfully lousy movie airing at 8 tonight (WJW Channel 8). Like the two movies on Roseanne and Tom Arnold that aired, and bombed, earlier this year (one on Fox), "Innocence" is an unauthorized biography, a gossipy peep-show designed to titillate and I tease, much as Madonna designed herself. By this account, though, Madonna's life has not been marked by what could pass even on television for high drama. Nor low drama, either.
SEE Madonna wander aimlessly around the streets of Manhattan except it's really Toronto! SEE Madonna stomp out of a Paris disco when patrons try to stuff money into her scanty frock! SEE Madonna suffer with INFECTED WISDOM TEETH and cry for her long-lost mommy! The film can best be enjoyed as an unintentional and campy comedy. As played by Terumi Matthews, who looks more like a young Patti Lupone. than Madonna, the lusty sprite is an obsessively ambitious rebel who stomps her way to the top and uses her body as a weapon, and all those other cliches, but who deep inside remains something of a fragile child. Gosh. Naturally, the story is told in flashbacks, opening.
with Madonna at a pivotal moment in her career: She is about to sing "Like a Virgin" on the nationally televised MTV Music Awards. Who among us can forget where he or she was at that incandescently magical moment? (Let's see was I sleeping in bed, or did I conk out on the couch?) But before this milestone can be recreated for the film, Madonna slumps off into a rueful reverie TV REVIEW 4, 'Madonna: Innocence Lost' NEW YORK TIMES Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, left, and Robert Plant have reunited for an MTV "Unplugged" special and new album, and plan to tour in February. The pair are shown during a 1975 performance. tion of us going back. It's a question of coming together and going forward doing something which maybe people can relate to down the line and plagiarize from us again." From its inception in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a smug, co*cky and undeniably talented band, and it still shows in Plant and Page's demeanor.
They enjoy being rock superstars and exercising all the privileges that come with the title. Plant and Page sometimes seem like overgrown children. Over the course of a two-hour interview, Plant continually teased Page, Page tried to outjest Plant, and both engaged in sexual boasting, referred to things only they understood, and snickered at each other's comments like two best friends in the back row of a school classroom. "Working with Robert and Jimmy was like getting a divorced, Alex couple Coletti, back the together," "Unplugged" producer. "It was a fragile, very tentative thing at first.
The slightest upset could have ruined it." But after they became immersed in the project, Plant and Page renewed their bond. In fact, the pair, who said they had written enough new songs together for a second album, talked as if they had no intention of returning to their spotty solo careers. -4a "Who knows what will. happen?" Plant exclaimed, adding a sardonic comment about two light-metal bands of the 1980s. "We could end up bashing it out like Heart until the very end, or we could be like Motley Crue and suddenly come out with kneehigh boots and stick our tongues out and think we're somebody else." This is not the first time Plant and Page's musical paths have crossed since the demise of Led Zeppelin.
The two occasionally appeared on each other's solo albums and played together at two one-shot reunion concerts Live Aid in 1985 and an Atlantic Records party in 1988. Though Plant and Page did not want to talk about the genesis of "Unledded," Coletti explained: "Originally, we were just going to do an 'Unplugged' with Robert, and we hoped that he would agree to get Jimmy to do a few songs. But then his manager took the initiative, got these guys together and made it Plant seems reluctant to accept that he is himself an aging rocker and fading sex symbol. Asked if middle age has dampened his well-documented enthusiasm for the physical pleasures, Plant responded, "I think I could actually live the way I'm living now without He paused, realized what he was saying and added, "For about another half an hour." recalling how it came to be. 31 At first Matthews narrates the film with lines like, "When I finally lost my virginity, I consid" ered it a career move." But the' narration tends to peter out, we're left on our own.
"Innocence" Lost" has the awkward and. abrupt choppiness of a film was meant to be much longer but' then got hastily whittled down. One character, a Hispanic man who befriends Madonna, barely gets to say "buenos dias" before disappearing without a trace. Defying her father's wishes! that she attend a local college, young Madonna Ciccone leaves her native Detroit for New York City and wangles her way into auditions for a dance company. She' also must contend with a lascivi-' ous landlord, a dumpy and what she considers a degrad-.
ing job at a doughnut shop. "Ciccone, how many times do I have to tell you," barks the up-. tight shop manager, "one squeeze. per doughnut!" But that great humanitarian, wants. everybody to have extra goo.
From the doughnut shop, she stumbles upward, getting a job as" a nude model in a photography: class. She has sex with the profes-1 sor in a darkroom, quits the dance: company when the director gives' her too many orders can't do it; your and seduces a year-old boy was bored," she, explains). And so it goes through misadventures until we arrive: full circle back at the MTV Awards. The film is without any serious merit, but it will serve a purpose. if it gets low ratings like the Roseanne movies did: Network execu-: tives will think twice before thorizing another dumbunauthorized biography.
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Am I being a prude, or is something wrong here? I need help with this. Too Conservative in Fla. DEAR TOO CONSERVATIVE In answer to your questions: (1) you are not a prude, and (2) something is indeed wrong. Had your friend's daughter been reared to be accustomed to family nudity, it would be a different story. To be introduced to nudity at the age of 15 is something else.
Today, a 15-year-old is more of a woman than a child. To suddenly see her father nude could be upsetting and possibly sexually stimulating. I vote to deep-six the idea. It's a bummer. DEAR ANN LANDERS: I am 32 and have had three miscarriages.
My husband and I have been married for 10 years, and we are very eager to have a family. If, however, it is not to be, we will deal with it. ANN The problem LANDERS is my motherin-law. She is forever asking, "Have you seen the doctor lately?" and "When are you going to try again?" These ANN LANDERS questions make my blood boil. I have to clench my fists to keep from blowing up.
My mother, on the other hand, is my rock. She understands how hard it is for me to face the continuing disappointment and has never said a word. My husband has had it with the insensitivity of his mother and has told her to lay off. She already has a grandchild from her other son, so it's not as if there will be no heir. Ann, please tell all in -laws and parents that it hurts when they pressure their children to have a WHO DOES THE MOST WATCHED NEWS ANCHOR IN THE WORLD TALK TO AFTER HE FINISHES WORLD NEWS TONIGHT? THE MOST WATCHED NEWS ANCHOR IN CLEVELAND.
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was a problem until recently. It seems she has been talking great deal to our children about: religion (hers), and they are becoming terribly confused. My husband is upset and wants. me to find another sitter. I hate to do this because the children love? her so.
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