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PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Sarah Polley stars In the new horror film “Dawn of the Dead.” After a zombie epidemic takes over the world, the few remaining survivors hide out In a suburban mail. “Dawn” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 and innovative shots. Screenplay writer James Gunn adds genuine humor to the film, which is rare for a horror flick. Gunn develops the characters in the film well, causing the audience to sympa thize with their seemingly hope less situation. Like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” in the fall, “Dawn of the Dead” is pumping new blood into the horror scene and helping to steer the genre away from teen slasher films. Considering the success of current remakes, we can likely expect more revamped horror classics to find their way onto the big screen in the near fu ture. As for “Dawn of the Dead,” do not rule out the possibilities of nightmares after viewing. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu Fashion CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 minous skirt and a shrunken, clinging jacket or blazer are es sential pieces. Above the ankle pants can be worn loose and laid-back or with a slimmer flit. They look trendy with ballet flats a la Audrey Hepburn as well as with pretty kit ten heels or sexy stilettos, which can be worn with a slimmer pant. Full skirts should come in at the waist, creating a womanly fig ure. This feminine look is drawn straight from the 1950s. Use a slen der belt to help accentuate the waist and wear either pointy flats or strappy sling backs. As for the jacket, what you wear underneath matters. A pret ty camisole-like top or basic shirt that comes to the waistline is ap Surf Yourself For more information about USC’s Fashion Board, visit www.hrsm.sc.edu propriate. Since these jackets will show wrists and decolletage, jew elry can be bold. Speaking of accessories, if you can’t invest in any trendy clothes this season, then accessories can update your look instantly and on a budget. Pearls, cocktail rings re sembling that of a certain Latina pop diva, more linear chandelier earrings, peep-toe shoes, chain-han dle bags, purses with gold hard ware, metallic shoes and bags, plat form sandals and crocodile or alli gator skin accessories are all big. While classic pearls are elegant and classy, create an original look by wearing layers of pearls in dif ferent colors around your neck, wrist, ankle or waist. Crocodile skin bags are also hot and still tame enough to pair with a basic outfit during the day. This spring and summer, fash ion is meant to be vivacious, so al low yourself some freedom with your style. If you have a love of fashion, the Fashion Board of USC is inviting new members and has two meet ings left in the semester. 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A limited number of Senate seats are available in the following colleges: HRTM Journalism & Mass Communication Social Work Medical School Business Administration Nursing Education Public Health Music University Committees Academic Responsibility Health Services Advisory Honorary Degrees Religious Affairs Historical Horseshoe Restoration Orientation Athletic Advisory Registration Safety Board of Student Publications and Parking Communications Retention Student-Trustee Liaison Curricula and Courses Scholarship and Financial Aid Freshman Council Advisors Minority Affairs Board Safety Board International Affairs Board » For a complete listing and the application visit our website at www.sg.sc.edu ‘The O. C. ’ makes waves as TV’s guilty pleasure I can’t pinpoint the day I fell in love with “The O.C.” I never want ed to. The show, as a whole, just sounds dumb. Rich teens with rich parents and rich problems and a deeply rich set of writers who manage to boggle our minds DAVID STAGG with a lexicon Third-year . , media arts none of us have student bothered to tap into in our years of learning the English language. Admittedly, it’s not verbose in the “Frasier” sense of the word, but the show is so witty, so point ed, so exact and to the point, that after nearly every gem of a con versation, you sit there — amazed—memorizing bits of the dialogue hoping that maybe — just maybe — you’ll remember an exchange and use it in your everyday conversation. Ironically enough, the title doesn’t even make sense. One more reason to hate the show. “The Orange County.” Somewhere in there, there’s a predicate nominative and a sub ject noun and a pejorative verb and a bad case of acne that sends English majors, linguists and columnists who love the TV show spinning in their graves (read: couches). It’s the English language in a blender. It only makes sense then that the plots of the show sometimes feel like they’ve been through a Dienaer. Kanaom student meets former over dosee in a thera py session and falls for him; oblivious to the fact that she has a boyfriend and everything she does (namely spend copious amounts of time with the friend from therapy) would be grounds for the boyfriend to be upset. High school kid falls for his ex-girlfriend’s (incredibly at tractive) mother and begins hav ing copious amounts of sex with her as the mother’s ex boyfriend (the current boyfriend’s roommate’s grandfather) be gins making booty calls that she would fulfill literally seconds PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Benjamin McKenzie stars as Ryan In the hit show, “The O.C.” after the high schooler ends the “relationship.” You can’t even use pronouns to describe anything. There are too many shes, hes and theys. If it sounds confusing, it just might be. It very well may be far-fetched. But to me, it’s every Wednesday night, and I understand it. I mean, I get it. I may not live in Orange County (although I’m from a city that is a rapidly grow ing suburb with a beach within an hour), but I connect with them. Their languages speak beyond cultural boundaries. Their char acters speak to me, and if you’d let them, they’d speak to you, too. So what if I haven’t overdosed? Or started a fight at my guardian’s father’s high-end “Man of the Year” acceptance party? Or had sex with my ex-girl friend’s mother? I know they’re just reaching out to be loved, and I am there, ev ery Wednesday night at nine, playing their psychologist; only with our relationship, I’m the one on the couch, but doing the lis tening God, I want to hate the show. I never wanted to like a TV show anyway, especially one that, af ter taking a good, long look at myself, I guess I don’t really re late to after all. But maybe that’s the beauty of it: It takes you away from all your problems. It’s like legal drug-taking. I wouldn’t tread around the word “addiction” when it comes to watching the show. When all is said and done, “The O.C.” will still be there for me. Whether my friends get mad at me, or I missed a class, or I for got to turn in my homework, I’ll always know I’ve got Ryan and Seth and Summer and Marissa to turn to. I never wanted to love them, but their pull is undeni able. And now, to deny “The O.C.” would be to deny a small part of me. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu Joan Rivers fights back with new show BY OCTAVIO ROCA KRT CAMPUS There are a lot of funny women —then there’s Joan Rivers. Irreverent and iconoclastic, def initely not politically correct, cos metically enhanced and improba bly glamorous, the trailblazing comedienne was there before Ellen and before Rosie, before Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin, almost before Phyllis Diller and Carol Burnett. She’s still here. Her one-wom an show, “Can We Talk?” is her latest frontal assault on movie stars, politicians and whoever else stands in the way of her crystal clear social wisdom. Throughout her four-decades and-counting career, Rivers made the parents of baby boomers laugh on the old Ed Sullivan Show, emerged as a dangerously hip comic on her 1965 debut on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” She later gathered around her a whole new cult with her own late-night hosting duties, and is now a hit on college cam puses with kids who get her fresh, toxic humor perhaps better than anyone else. “I’ve always been cutting edge,” Rivers says in her trademark raspy, rushed delivery. “It’s always been that way. You have to re member I’m always on Howard Stem,” she adds, referring to the re cently censored radio host, “and I play colleges all the time. They get me.” Rivers started as a shlump but became an elegant, bona fide babe in her forties: She has an in-your face honesty about plastic surgery. “I’d rather get out of an old car with a new face than get out of new car with an old face.” It doesn’t faze Rivers that the .celebrity Web site www.awfulplas ticsurgery.com has named her the “third scariest-looking celebrity” (after New York socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein and “Can’t Stop the Music” star Bruce Jenner). “I haven’t had that much done.” Rivers is at least 70 — “You want to know my real birthday? You find it” — and a grandmoth er. “But I’m not grandma sitting at home with a book. When people come up and ask me, ‘Aren’t you thrilled to be a “bubba”?’ I ask them: ‘What is your problem?”’ She was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky, in Brooklyn on June 8, 1933. Her first taste of the stage came when she was at Barnard College, where she starred in al most all their student productions and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. On her own after her 1958 di vorce, Rivers committed herself to show business and never looked back. She married Edgar Rosenberg in 1964. Their daughter I-— ' Melissa made Rivers “the happi est woman” when she gave birth to Edgar Cooper Endicott, Rivers’ first grandson, in 2000. Rivers’ several lives — “I think of it as one long, long career. I’m hanging by a thread” — include these highlights: an early stint on “Second City” and writing jobs with “Candid Camera,” stand-up gigs in Greenwich V illage and all * over the Borscht Belt, a small part in 1%9’s “The Swimmer” opposite Burt Lancaster, a regular column for the Chicago Tribune, national prominence after her first “Tonight Show” appearance, then her own “Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” that helped launch the Fox Network in 1986. As a charter officer of the Fashion Police and scourge of the red carpet at the Oscars, Rivers says, “I was the first to ask, ‘What are you wearing?’ And now ev erybody does it. I think every de signer in America should dress me for free.” When Rivers’ husband, Edgar died in 1987, she threw herself into r both show business and social ac tivism, becoming national spokeswoman for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and speaking out for civil rights. “Seriously now, this gay mar riage debate,” she says, “How dare they? It is insane that with two men you can’t get on his health plan and he can’t get on yours, that you can’t make life decisions. How dare anyone decide against that?” “Besides,” she adds, now in her stage persona, “why should straights be the only ones to en dure the hell of divorce?” ■e( -fruFrifo TREE! Mean Bean Soft Taco we do things different... .—- .1 Quick! Healthy! fresh! 934 Harden St/765-0188 valid through +/1QO+ ~ on<*toer customer PRESENT COUPON & ST&DENT ID Birkenstock® blow-out at preseason prices BASIC RESOLE FOR $24*/REG. $32* offer good through 3/31104 (recorking extra) t 2005 Devine Street I F|U[ POINTS I 799*4996 ki im jj j ,niij'j