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Encode != 'Bone Collector' No. 1 at box office | ns, f * 1“Haase ooHaantedB5H,’‘ Wan er Bros., $7.7 million, 2,710 loca tions, $2,846 average, $28 miUion, two weeks. 3. The B&chekr," New Line, $75 million, 2522 locations, $2,966 av erage; $75 million, one week. 4. “The insider,” Buena Vista, $6.7 million, 1,809 locations, $3,711 av erage, $6.7 million, one week. 5. The Best Mart,” Universal, $4.3 million, 1390 locations, $3365 av erage, $24 million, three weeks.' 6, “Double Jeopardy,” Paramount, $43 railfion, 2,722 locations, $1390 average, $1043 million, seven weeks. 7. “American Beauty,” Dream Wbrks, $33 million, 1353 loca lions, $2,141 average, $58.9 mil lion, eight weeks. 8. ‘Tbe Sixth Sense," Buena Vista, $3.1 million, 1,8G2 locations, $1,738 average, $264 million, 14 weeks. 9. “Musk of the Heart," Miramax, $2.8 million, 1353 locations, $2,085 average, $7.7 million, two weeks 10. "Fight Chib” Fox, $2.4 mil lion, 1,603 locations. $1312 aver age, $31.9 million, four weeks. Hill from page 2 never used in the shows themselves. Sadly, Music From and Inspired By the TV series King of the-Hill does ii i FSVerse the trend. Popuiar covers abound, with country vets Travis Tritt, Brooks and Dunn and Deana Carter re making classic rockers and altema-kids Tonic and the Old 97’s redoing coun try classics. Willie Nelson and haith Hill even remake themselves, with Nelson singing a duet with Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath on “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” and a soulless Hill desperate ly trying to dramatize “Piece of My Heart.” Sound confusing? It’s not, really. Trill and Brooks and Dunn do about as well as could be expected with Geoige Thorogood’s “Move It On Over” and Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind,” re spectively, and Tonic and the Old 97’s shine. But Carter’s “Free Failin’” only echoes Tom Petty without improving him, and original offerings from the Barenaked Ladies and Sheryl Crow are listenable, but not memorable. And when the actual “King of the Hill” cast attempts three numbers, well, so much for feel-good fun. Or fun at all.. Special to The Gamecock Fight Club from page 3 monastery where Tyler and his cronies wage a guerrilla war on civilization. This analogy comes through in many places. Tltis is a Dim where the one-lin ers are more like loans. The very" way in which aspirants are tested is taken straight from Zen Buddhism. It is said that The Buddha’s final words lo his followers were: “Work out your own salvation for yourselves.” These words ring true in “Fight Club,” with a critique of cult mentality and blind deviance as explicit and master ful as its critique of consumer culture and its effects upon our lives. The true evil in the film isn’t Tyler. It’s his army of followers and their slave mentality. That an educated individual would perceive this film as an apology of any kind makes me laugh. Truly, “Fight Club” invokes and proclaims a kind of desperate nihilism as a response to the ills of our society. But it is nihilism redeemed by love. It is a nihilism wherein a man rejects the values and images in which he was made (be they God’s or Calvin Klein’s), and recreates himself out of the scars and ashes. Most importantly, it is a ni hilism that is overcome. Fight Club is not an apology for fascism. It is a Ni etzschian cry of affirmation. More im portantly, it’s just a film, albeit one that 1 wholeheartedly commend. Star Wars' Queen Amidala adjusting to life at Harvard by Mark Kennedy Associated press New York — Natalie Portman is go ing to hate herself in the morning. naie ner self because there are dirty jeans and un read books pil ing up in her dorm room. Hate herself because she is here, hundreds of miles away, curled up on a sofa answering kjuvjuviu. “It’s so overwhelming. I have to go home after this and just cry over how much work I have,” said the 18-year-, oid college freshman, her eyes rolling heavenward. “I’m having the most amazing, amaz ing, amazing time. But it’s really hard: balancing everything, taking care of your self, setting your own limits, scheduling fqi yourself,” she said. “And on top of that, you have to balance doing, like, your housework, too — which was never a part of the equation! All of a sudden, you have to do laundry and clean your sheets and vacuum and wash the toilets.” 1 hat s an image: Natalie Portman, the star of the summer’s biggest smash hit and one of Hollywood’s most sought after young actresses, getting busy with a bathroom scrubber. And why not? Af ter all, that, too, is Portman, a teen-ager who rises to announce she needs “a pot ty break” or who preemptively apolo gizes for her “stinky feet” upon shed ding her Guccis. “I’m just trying to be true to who I am and not let anyone define me ex cept for myself,” she said. “I’m not try ing to have a magazine call me the ‘It Girl.’” Perhaps “Lit Girl” would be better. Portman might have ruled a planet in the “Star Wars” prequel, but now she just wants to be one more stressed-out frosh lugging books across the quad. “I’ve been so lucky to have these opportunities, but we have a way of mak ing movie stars not mortal. We have a way of making them images rather than people, and they’re human beings,” she said. “They’re extraordinary at what they do, but so is my father, who is a doc tor, and no one ever freaked out about meeting him. No one would ever shake shaking his hand, but people meet me and they’ll shake and they’ll cry and that’s weird — and that’s wrong.” Keeping Portman sane are her new college pals: the youngest speaker at the Million Man March; a cellist who has worked with Yo-Yo Ma; the poet-slash artist down the hall; her roommate, a star tennis player. “You should hear these kids! ” she said. “I mean, these people are just all so fantastic in their own right that, you know, nothing 1 do is that impressive to them that they’d be overly interested in me.” Portman is as cagey as she is self deprecating. She’s a vegetarian, a straight A student, a teetotaler and an adamant nonsmoker. Drugs? Don’t even think about it. “I don’t like it when people just as sume they can smoke around me or do drugs around me,” she said. “1 think probably people view me as a goody goody, which isn’t necessarily true. 1 mean, I’m a human being. I’m not an angel.” There are areas, though, that Port man feels uncomfortable discussing. She shies away from referring to her home town on New York’s Long Island, and the gossipy details of her life at Harvard University aren’t easily forthcoming. She’s even registered under a different namp at srhnnl “There’s a great mystery to Natal ie,” director Wayne Wang said. “We’re very close on one level, but also there’s a great mystery about her. 1 think it’s a certain kind of control that she has, a certain maturity.” Portman just laughs it off. The se crecy, she says, gives her insulation, while the pseudonym — borrowed from her maternal grandmother — offers a de gree of anonymity when she’s not act ing. “I'm not trying to hide,” Portman insists. “I’m not trying to have a split life here. In no way am I trying to be two different people. I’m not Superman — I’m the same person. I don’t act differently when I’m in my different worlds.” PORTMAN