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‘Sylvia’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Although oAly 100 minutes in length, the film drags — not be cause it lacks in quality, but as a result of its intensity. Anticipating the inevitable conclusion, the au dience spends the film waiting for Plath’s death, wracked by her in ner-strife just as she was, just as anxious for an escape from the emotionally-charged assault. “Sylvia” takes a cold, realistic look at the life of one of modem lit erature’s most troubled writers. The winter-ravaged landscape and conflicted characters create an in tense portrait of a woman en veloped by an inescapable soli tude. Plath remains a writer both sustained and destroyed by her fractured mind, always “dying” and yet creating lines compelling ly alive and real. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm. sc. edu > Cobain CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 toapoor to afford canvas. None is titled or signed, though he wrote a birthday message in red ink on the frame of one. “Love Kurt,” it ends. According to Leland Cobain, 80, Kurt could draw well from the time he was 6, and Leland’s wife, Iris, an amateur painter herself, encouraged him and taught him. “fie come over the house one day and he had a picture of Mickey Mouse. He said, ‘Grandpa, look what I drew,’” Leland recalled. “I said, ‘You didn’t draw that, you traced it.’ He got mad and said, ‘You give me a piece of paper and I’ll draw it again.’ And he sat down and drew it again.” Hunter recalls that Cobain was a good art student, that he took most assignments seriously and, when he didn’t feel like partici pating, he would sit at his desk and read, which Hunter didn’t mind. After Cobain’s death, Hunter found a striking picture Cobain had done in class of a sperm turn ing into a fetus in 12 steps. He thought about auctioning the pic ture off to raise money for a Kurt Cobain scholarship for Weatherwax High art students. Instead, Kurt’s mother, Wendy, asked to have it. In ex change, Nirvana’s management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment, donates $3,000 to $5,000 for the scholarship every year. Of course, some of Cobain’s vi sual art can be seen more readi ly. The cover of “Incesticide” is one of his paintings. He also de signed the cover of “Nevermind,” which shows a baby boy swim ming underwater after a dollar bill, and the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” which shows a pep rally gone wrong. Said Hunter: “The art he had within him did as much for the music as the music did for the art.” Hula dancing turns mainstream BY KATE SANTICH KRT CAMPUS Before the chanting can begin, before the praying and the danc ing and the gourd-drumming, Sue Kerzisnik must rearrange her liv ing room furniture. She wouldn’t want a hula dancer tripping over the ottoman and doing a face plant into the fireplace. Her 1940s Windermere, Fla., cottage makes for a crowded hula school, but the Salem Lutheran Church, where the students usu ally conduct their sessions, is booked this evening. So Sue’s place will have to do. “Heavenly father,” teacher Kawehi Punahele begins, “we are thankful for the time we come to gether to do what we like to do best. We also remember who our source is. You give us our joy. You lead us down our path.” This is a Christian hula school — or halau, as the Hawaiians say, not that being Hawaiian is a pre requisite. In fact, the 42-year-old I Punahele and his wife, Kamai, are definitely on the short list. The 30 some students enrolled at the mo ment are an ethnic and spiritual potpourri — Lutherans, Catholics, Baptists, Vietnamese, German, Puerto Rican — or some combina tion of the above. It doesn’t matter. In their hearts, they’re Hawaiians, and they’re family. “People don’t exactly look at me and think, ‘Ah, hula!”’ says 39-year old Eric Einsmann of Orlando, Fla., a conservative-looking guy who works for an electrical-supply com pany. “I’m not even remotely Hawaiian. I’ve never even been there. But it’s a fascinating cul ture.” Take hula, itself, a dance most mainlanders associate with grass skirts and coconut-shell bras. In ancient times, hula evolved from the martial arts and was used in temples as a tribute to the gods. Now, though, it has a more eso teric and philosophical definition. “Hula is life,” Punahele says. “It is the way you wake up in the morning, the way you go through work, the way you come together in gatherings like this.” It is a sa cred connection to the culture through sound and movement. At his day job in the mainte nance department of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Punahele sur rounds himself with pictures of hula dancers — a memento of his homeland and strength of spirit. “It reminds me that this boy from the middle of the ocean came all the way over here and planted roots,” says Punahele, who has been teaching hula for 12 years. His students range in age from 8-year-old Isaac Worth, a blond haired kid in cargo shorts, to 74 year-old Patti Hawn, whom the oth ers call “tutu” — or grandmother — as a sign of respect. She moved to Honolulu in the 1960s when her husband, a soldier, was sent to Vietnam. But she has done more hula dancing in the five months since she joined the Orlando halau than she ever did on the island. 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