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[Friday, January 29,1999 'Out of Sight' Out of sight by Chris Richter Staff Writer The goal of this column is to introduce the reader to films I find entertaining, that the reader might not have seen and that are available on video. Judging by the box office totals, not many people saw my favorite movie from last year. The video pick of the week is Steven Soderbergh's "Out Of Sight." Soderbergh is one of the first independent filmmakers to achieve sue ~ 1 1 _ tu l * ? J reaa uxi a larger seme V sex, lies ana videotape"). "Out of Sight" stars George Clooney as Jack Foley, a smooth, confident bank robber who has a little bit of a bumbling streak in him. While escaping from prison with the help of his friend Buddy (Ving Rhames), he kidnaps Karen Sisco, a federal marshal played by Jennifer Lopez. The film focuses on the relationship (or desire for one) between Foley and Sisco. The two characters are drawn together by their thoughts of "what might have been" had they met Entertainers j , masses, drive ' by Frazier Moore Associated Press Ml?w vnoi/ "tn,.. -i. *IJU if i viux?- mc yiipiiuiiipuuu M What other culture would anoint a d guy!" like it matters. Neal Gabler kn( clownish, roly-poly Simmons: He's en a nation bathed in hot and cold runn lis waste time on someone who doesn But it goes a little further. Gabler taken us beyond passive audience sta has become art," he says, "so that th( each other." What happens when all of us Tickk explores such questions in his new b Entertainment Conquered Reality. ? Welcome to the world of post-reality!) "Entertainment drives the econoi conventional entertainment, Fm also 1 form in our own lives, so that we buy cl and we use a certain toothpaste, all c we want to project as entertainers pt ence of others ? and ourselves, as we So it's one for the money, two fo don't step on my Air Jordans! "But Fm no prophet of doom," saj and-pepper beard who wrote the spier sip, Power and the Culture of Celebrit cheer "I don't say, 'Entertainment deh ues.' I love entertainment!" Still, expect no happy ending in "1 ATJV flnifW fW frvr thA rvrnklami! ehofr fm 'JVWV**, ?Vi "W*" J/?VV?VA?k? V**v?? V4' staged by sensation. A cultural historian, Gabler has t] doing so, he upends some popular ass For one thing, he disputes the not of society's ills. Television, he says, "is revolution, not the cause of it. And what about that common com} ering has somehow shamed itself in t ana, Monica-and-Bill and other realment hasn't compromised journalism, < pioneered mass entertainment. But here's perhaps the book's bij parents and busybody virtuecrats, TV Springer* don't inevitably trigger mor On the contrary, says Gabler, viewc entertainment isn't only as American harshest detractors?a democratic Bro an ongoing declaration of independen shirts. I kwi BTS rSVal k li'iwItlwM wJl" 1 under different circumstances. Mixed in with this is a plot involving a diamond heist from a Michael Milkenlike character played by Albert Brooks. Chemistry makes this movie. I never really understood what cntics meant when they talked about chemistiy between two actors. I knew what it was but couldn't see for myself. Lopez and Clooney have a kind of chemistry in this film that will make people sit up and recognize its greatness in years to come. Fate brings the characters together, but not in the way they both want. The rest of the cast is perfect, making each character memorable. Soderbergh's direction is far from conventional, as he makes jumps in time in a similar way to "Pulp Fiction," but with a decidedly different, original effect. He also uses ffeeze-ffames and unconventional editing to keep the viewer on edge. Just go see the movie; you won't be disappointed. Samuel L. Jackson makes a cameo, and there's even a character named White-boy Bob. What more could you ask for? I amuse the mr t TV economy f a Richard Simmons fascinates me. iet guru who's fiat? He's this fat little >ws full well why America embraces tertaining. As he would have to be. In tag entertainment, why would any of 't amuse us? says our entertainment whirlpool has lie and absorbed us into the act "Life S two are now indistinguishable from ook "Life the Movie," subtitled "How Starring Everyone." (Rolling! Action! ny," Gabler says. "But while I mean talking about the way we want to perothes, we buy a car, we live in a house, if which contribute to the image that irforming our own lives for the audi11" r the show, and ? uh-uh, honey ? rs uamer, a dapper man witn a satttdid Walter Winchell biography "Gosjr * He also radiates unapologetic good >ases us and destroys our cultural valife the Movie." Nor, for that matter, op up in a society when reason is upOe presence of mind to look back. By umptions. ion that television is to blame for all a subset of the larger entertainment >laint that the business of news-gathhe age of O.J. Simpson, Princess Dilife melodramas? Not so. EntertainGrabler argues. It was journalism that mest insight. Despite the outcry of ' series like "South Park" and "Jerry al decline and national decay. * support of rude, crude and lowbrow as apple pie, it's pie in the face of its nx cheer aimed at society's bluenoses; ce against Old World-brand stuffed eiw Italian f College students express themselves in a variety of ways. One of these ways is fashion. ?i Fashion 1 can give us insights into people's ideas, mu sical tastes, I sonalities. B Students here eluding Nataha Cappuccio , wake Fashion Sense , , r up late tor class, throw on some wild pants, a sweatshirt and a hat, and head to class. We work out, then run to the grocery store in the same clothes. Being a world traveler, I realized that Americans dress fairly casually compared with people in other areas of the world. I also understood, after transferring here from the University of Massachusetts, that the availability of At only 5 feet 4 inches, Ole Miss minutes in Wednesday's game a Little Rock, Ark., scored three poi Midseason by David Bauder Associated Press NEW YORK ? It might have been a littlp ton pnrlv to Hpplarp tho tploin'oioo season a failure. An unexpected string of midseason success stories has buoyed the spirits of broadcasters. The latest was the debut of "Dilbert," which on Monday night achieved the highest ratings for a comedy in UPN's four-year history. NBC's uplifting "Providence" is off to a faster start than any NBC drama since "ER," Fox is pleased with its animated comedy The PJs," and CBS has so far successfully cloned "60 Minutes" on Wednesday nights. core! ashion i: many different companies is quite 1: ited. For example, Columbia has no ] nana Republic, Abercrombie & Fi or J. Crew, and the list goes on. I started to wonder where peo bought interesting, original and i signer clothes in this area. So I wen1 someone who I knew would underst? what fashion is all about and who o sidprs annparanpp vprv imnnrfant Fa to Pauluzzi is a professor of Italian 1; guage and film here at USC. Born Italy, he says that he, along wi most Italian people, places heavy e phasis on appearance and fashion general. Pauluzzi described how in It ians don't go out of their houses in di clothes to run to the store. Here in 1 United States, it's not unusual for sor one to get covered in grease repairi his or her car and then head to the stc "Italy has such a high populati density that people are forced in ea others' faces all the time," Pauluzzi sa "Therefore, Deoole fulfill a need upkeeping a neat, clean, updated loo He also saidthat beauty charges 1 spirit and has many payoffs. I rea A Sean Rayford Photo Editor freshman Jason Harrison played 17 igainst USC. The point guard from nts in the losing effort. replacemei All this has quieted, at least for no1 all the talk about the exodus of vie\ ers that had grown louder with lackluster fall season. arni_ _ _i iL-j i. i_ i < i me snows mai launcnea tnis mi< season all have one thing in commo: Generally speaking, they're excellei shows," UPN programming chief To: Nunan said. "These shows all have a original voice to them, and they're i unusual quality." But the initial success might ah force executives to rethink the wisdoi of launching dozens of new shows eac September, overwhelming viewers wit options. "Everybody knew they were con ing," said Sandy Grushow, president ( Twentieth Centuiy Fox Television. "Wh Aerobic Ir /'**'*' Cour: Januar ::: i in the Campus Recreati training course fo instructor. This c< theoretical and pi ( At the complet opportunity to a\ Program. This preparation to p C.. To sign i nspired b c im- couldn't agree more; all you have ti Ba- do is look at the beauty in Italy's past tch Italians have a history of really appre ciating beauty. Michelangelo, da Vine pie and Donatello are remembered am de - cherished today by the entire world fo t to their stunning^and exquisite works ind Italians truly have a tradition of beau on- ty that can be represented simply ii us- the way they dress, an- I asked Pauluzzi how he could keej in a truly Italian look here in South Car ith olina. m- "Italian males have a tough tim( in here in South Carolina because then is very little choice; women have fai al- more choice. There are no stores hen rty geared specifically to the middle-clas: ;he salary, that provide clothes that express ne- and contain the cultural markings o: ng Italy." ire. Pauluzzi said that in Italy he car ion buy a stylish, high-quality jacket foi ich around $200, as opposed to here ir dd, America where a similar jacket woulc by cost around $700. k." I can feel his pain as I, too, wish Co he lumbia provided more as far as shop lly ping is concerned. I mean, it would b( f] Columbia's fashionabb m God bless Victoria's Secret witl its indigo-washed bootleg jean; As an exchange student fron England, am finding it extremeh difficult t< ^find shop: with th< kind o clothes ! like. I admii I've onlj been to the ? . _ Columbian* Katy Evans Centre s( Columnist c L far (though T nroc nn. able to find a pair of women's indigo washed 501's, which distressed me somewhat), but there's a whole genre of clothing that's missing: the "going out" section. Unfortunately, everything in the Victoria's Secret catalog is far too ex pensive for a meager student budget especially if I want to go away for spring break, so I'm having to survive on the few items of clothing I brought ovei with me. I left my vast collection of "going-out" clothes at home in order to keep the suitcase to a manageable weight But it's a good thing I did leave them at home; I think people would stare at me too much if I ever ventured its add boos iv, did everybody know they were coming? v- . Well, they weren't competing with 50 a other shows." A midseason start enables networks d- to promote the shows one at a time, a: which Nunan said particularly it helped "Dilbert." m January is truly prime time: Winin ter forces more viewers indoors, and if light post-holiday advertising gives networks extra time to tout their own pro>0 grams, said Gene DeWitt of DeWitt Mem dia, an advertising buying firm, h Hollywood's tradition of starting h most shows in the fall-is largely dictated by advertisers. TV executives ani nounce a fall schedule in May so ad)f vertisers can buy commercial time on y what they think will be hot shows. istructor Train se Held Fridays \ / 29th-April 16th 1 -3 PM Blatt P. E. Center '*%. 0 f* on Fitness Programs is ? _ :t ? M. '- ?? * (anyone interested in c ?mprehensive course w 'actical components of ion of the course, stuck jply for employment wil i course will also provic ass a national primary jp call Sara Morgan Page 7 y beauty 0 nice to have more variety because it - seems there's a demand for it among ~ students. Columbia just got an Old j Navy, and it seems to be doing exr tremely well. Also, on any given day, students wear Abercrombie shirts, Urban Outfitter's dresses and Banana Re1 public hats. If so many USC students are native to South Carolina, where do 3 they go to buy these clothes? I think Columbia's economy j would benefit greatly from adding such t stores, even if people had to drive a r while to get to them. Stores like Ver aaue aiiu vjriuigiu rummii iiiuat UKCiy wouldn't do well here because there f isn't a high demand for them. However, there are many people here who are ^ i " very fashion-conscious and want more European styles to migrate here from Europe and the big cities. Not all of us are fashionably loud or care to dress prim and proper everyday; however, looking good can never ; really feel bad. ; niaht life J X XAX V f reserved 1 to wear them here in Columbia. My first s! taste of Columbia's night life was two 1 Thursdays ago when we went to Rafters I (I was warned of the cheesiness factor, y but actually I really liked it). Anyf way, my point is that I felt like a com) plete freak dressed in my pencil skirt -? OTI/^ Q lrtnlt i'+vor\r\!r nn*?/Jnlr> T Un/1 n m/\? 3 cum u-mcn otiappj scuiuais. i nau a uuii mal cotton/lycra top on that I would f wear during the day, and in England I I would have felt "dressed down," but t here I felt like a tart. j My question is this: Why doesn't ; anyone get dressed up to go out at night? i Where is the 4-inch heel brigade? If you ) go to England, you see girls wobbling t into student union bars wearing just enough to cover their "bits" (even during the freezing winter months), but no ; one thinks it's strange. ; I'm not suggesting that every girl - dress like a complete slapper, but just with a bit more finesse sometimes. It's ; fun; trust me. My solution is that Columbia needs , the following shops: Morgan, Kookai, j Next, TopShop, Oasis, River Island, ; Dolcis, Faith and many more I can't think of right now. I know all these names mean nothi ing to most of you, but believe me, Columbia's night life would reach a whole i new level just by introducing these shops L to Columbiana Centre. [ ;t to ratings None of last September's shows can be called hits, despite critical praise for "Sportsnight," "Will & Grace" and "Cupid." "We are all to some extent a prisoner of the system that has been in place for so long," said Lloyd Braun, chairman of Buena Vista Television Production. Lately, that tradition has eroded. ?A or: u:u? j-fawouii o aiiu iviii^ ui tilt; IIIII are two shows that successfully launched the last few winters. CBS's "Becker" was an early-season replacement that last week made Nielsen Media Research's top 10 for the first time. ling Program % offering an 8 week becoming an aerobic ill focus on both the aerobic instruction. ;nts will have the th the USC Aerobic ie the necessary certification exam. it 777-4687