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'cue (3am£cocR Rocky Horror from page 8 the film, is on his way to New York after a two-day celebra tion in Las Vegas marking the film’s 25th anniversary. He ^vants to be on hand for a new production of his original play on Nov. 15. The film was recently released on DVD and continues to play around the country to packed houses, where fans dress as their favorite chafacters, act out scenes and reach the fevered, ritualistic pitch of a tent revival meeting where every one’s saved and no one cares. O’Brien says he always loved the old sci-fi B-movies “be cause of the unconscious humor invested in them.” “Today we get slasher movies, which I don’t approve of — Tarantino kind of journeys which are, I think, brutalizing and thoroughly reprehensible,” he says. “But in those days, horror had just a little touch of irony and cynicism invested in the journey. The tongue was in the cheek. People played it as straight down the line as they possibly could, but it never disregarded morals or ethics.” In the early 1970s, O’Brien was a struggling actor and musician, admittedly boring people to tears with his three chord songs. (He got his start in show business as a stunt rid er and can be seen in “Casino Royale.”) * EMI asked him to play at a Christmas party, and he wrote “Science Frction Double Feature,” which he would one day sing over “Rocky Horror’s” opening credits. Meanwhile, he had just been turned down for the role of Herod in “Jesus Christ Superstar.” With time on his hands and the germ of an idea from “Sci ence Fiction Double Feature,” he began to put “Rocky Horror” together. He soon landed a job in a Sam Shepard play, but kept working on “Rocky” in his spare time. What was supposed to be a quick run at a 60-seat theater turned into a six-year run at a 500-seat theater, a brief stint on Broadway and a feature film. O’Brien says the film works on several levels. “One, it’s cheap, cheerful, trashy, joyous entertainment,” he says. “But if it was just that, it wouldn’t have the longevity. And then it’s slightly liberating; it gives hope and joy to people who are in a state of flux in their understanding of gender and their place in society. But that’s not enough, because that would be just playing to special-interest groups.” The final key, he says, is mythology. “It’s the eternal fairy tale,” he says. “It’s a root myth, a retelling of a story which is almost in the psyche by now. And I think that really is what gives it its ability to continue to en tertain on a deeper level, on a subconscious level.” The only message he ever wanted to convey was that “at least they spent their dough to get entertained, and they did for once. It’s not worthy; it’s not a high-brow, intellectual journey. It’s a very simplistic journey and perhaps probably the best time you can ever have in a theater, I think. You know, that’s part of its joy.” Being typecast as Riff Raff was never a problem, he says, because he was always cast by body type. “I’m an ex ceptionally skinny, strange-looking individual — I know that nature didn’t make me look like Pierce Brosnan — and as a result one does always get typecast, but it’s always better to be typecast than to be miscast, and to be miscast is a dread ful state of affairs for everybody. And so one will always be slightly typecast. I mean, we want our heroes to look like he roes, don’t we? And we want our baddies to kind of look like baddies, and I generally get cast in the grimy, baddie kind of role.” He recently starred as the famous 18th-century castrato Farinelli in the play “One God, One Farinelli” in London and has appeared in such films as “Ever After,” “Spice Wrrld” and “Dark City.” Among his upcoming films are “Dungeons and Dragons” and “Mumbo Jumbo.” The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotfight@hotmail.com. BWP2 from page 8 to oblivion. It is during this time that they lose track of roughly a four-hour period. The remainder of the movie is \ omprised of the group editing the cam era footage trying to discover what hap pened in those lost four hours. Although none of what occurs is tru ly frightening or suspenseful, the movie does become a slight mystery. Skillful ly added to this mystery is the super natural as the tale of the Blair Witch be 1 gins to unfold in the present. Addition ally, the directors added visions and dreams to the plot, giving the movie the feel of a Marilyn Manson video. Finally, when the movie comes con vulsively to a stop, the audience is no more aware of what truly happened dur ing those lost four hours than they were when they entered the theater. Several possibilities and contradic tions emeige because of discrepancies found in the videos. The line between reality and imagination is then washed away as the videos present two different stories, which both contradict what the characters experience and remem ber. Overall, the story adds little to the genre that classic movies such as “The Exorcist” easily achieved decades ago. However, the differences between the “supposed” reality of the movie and the questions the videos raise warrant an at tempt by the directors to make the au dience think. This attempt is completely success ful, and gives a movie with a good con cept, but poor execution, a memorable aspect. Unfortunately, viewers still prob ably won’t understand it days later. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotiightOhotmaiLcom. Are you concerned about the Earth’s environment? Are you still searching for the ideal major? Then check out the department of Geological Sciences’ BS degree with a concentration in Environmental Geosciences! Our courses cover such subjects as: Global Environmental Change Coastal & Oceanic Environments Groundwater Contamination Geologic Hazards Environmental Hydrology Environmental Field Geology Earth Resource Management Our courses get you outside to see the Earth in action. We have an excellent faculty/student ratio, and there are exciting research opportunities available to our majors. Curious? Find out more! Call our Undergraduate Director (777-4530) or visit our web page at www.geol.sc.edu --;_ . - - ■ —-— Dark Angel from page 8 his credits include “Aliens” and “The Abyss”) and Egiee’s TV expertise. Eglee, who has worked the shows “Moonlighting,” “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue,” was eager to team with Cameron but hesitant about tackling an unfamiliar genre. “I said, ‘Chick, that’s a plus,”’ Cameron recalled. “I’ve found his torically that some of the best science fiction is written by people who don’t write science fiction, because they come to it with a fresh eye and don’t make any assumptions.” Besides, Cameron said, creating sci fi for television necessarily involves changes. “You can’t do spaceships and ro bots and giant ‘Independence Day’ vehicles hovering over Manhattan,” Cameron said. “You have to scale it down to the size of a human close-up, really; that’s where it lives and breathes.” “Dark Angel” has its share of spe cial effects. The two-hour pilot episode reportedly was budgeted at $10 million, and although it came in for somewhat less, still cost considerably more than other pilots. “There’s truth in advertising: Jim Cameron’s name is on the show and that creates a set of expectations.in the au- , dience’s mind, and we need to be able to deliver on that,” Eglee said. The weekly budget has been reined in, Cameron said without naming a fig ure, but it “scales” to the premiere episode. “We didn’t want to do something that was flash-in-the-pan on the pilot and then couldn’t deliver after that... It should look about the same,” he said. “Dark Angel” is filmed in Vancouver, Canada. While Max copes with trying to save the world, how much pressure is there on box-office king Cameron to make his maiden television venture a winner? “Dark Angel” has yet to match its Oct. 3 debut when it drew about 17 mil lion viewers against the first presiden tial debate, but it is performing re spectably for Fox. “I don’t feel that much pres sure,” Cameron said. “I do my best with everything I do. (A series) is a very dif ferent thing than a movie, where you just fire it off like a missile and it either' hits or it doesn’t and it’s all over by mid day Saturday. - “With this, we’re not going to know where it’s at for a long time.” The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotlight@hotmaa.com. AAAS fashion show kicks off Black Cultural Week with style Zeina Makky The Gamecock The Annual AAAS fashion show, host ed by SG President Jotaka Eaddy and ad vertising senior Malik Husser, took place Monday night at the Russell House Ball room. The show marks the beginning of Black Cultural Week. The purpose of the fashion show is to raise canned goods that will be donat ed to the Oliver Gospel Mission. The show started late because oiga nizers wanted everyone to be present in the ballroom before sending the models out there. “Months of preparation have been necessary in order to get ready for the show,” AAAS President Aisha Taylor said. There were 85 male and female mod els who had trained for weeks and whose “walks” were more like choreographed steps. They had more interaction between the models than at usual fashion shows, parading on the runway to the sounds of rap and R&B music. The models wore different styles of outfits: business suits, casual wear, modem wear, evening wear. The only cri teria to be part of the show was to be pre pared to “be dedicated and work hard” and put forth “a lot of commitment,” Tay lor said. “Months of preparation have been necessary in order to get ready for the show.” Aisha Taylor AAAS President V The outfits presented in the finale were designed and made by AAAS mem bers such as fashion coordinators Nicky Frierson, a psychology graduating senior, and Shadonna Edwards, a chemistry se nior. There were more people at the event than expected, and the organizers had to bring in extra chairs. In between each scene, Eaddy and Husser introduced the sequences with humorous anecdotes, and asked for audi ence participation. Husser shouted to the crowd, “There any smart, fine, sophisti cated brothers here?” The crowd laughed and cheered at their jokes, and also at the models, es pecially the male models—the crowd’s population was mostly female. They went crazy when two male models started to rip off their flannel shirts before casting them away. The female models earned a lot of cheers, as well. A lot of the crowd came to support their daughters, sons or roommates who were part of the show. This kind of success pleased Taylor. “Anything that is a success makes me happy. My goal as the president of A AAS is to make every enterprise a success,” Taylor said. This past year there about 300 peo ple attended and “it was a great success ... we hope this year will be as good, if not better,” she said. Taylor said as a senior student and president of an organization,it was hard to run this event, but Taylor didn’t want to take all the credit. “It is hard to balance, yes, but it is hard for everyone here,” she said. The fashion show is not the only thing AAAS will be doing this semester. They will participate in the Greek step show at the Carolina Coliseum on Nov. 10th. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com. 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