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This Week in USC History
Nov. 13, 1996 - Smashing Pumpkins performed in the
Carolina Colliseum. The highlight of the perfomance
was a recently added member, Jimmy Chamberlain.
Exhibit educates about AIDS
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Walt Hanclosky Special to The Gamecock
One of Hanclosky’s photographs in the “Friends in AID: Portrait of an Epidemic”
depicts Leslie, a pediatric nurse, caring for a yot ng AIDS patient.
by Meredith Key
The Gamecock
The South Carolina State Museum is of
fering Columbia residents and USC students a
look at a new perspective on the AIDS virus
in its new exhibit, “Friends in AID: Portrait of
an Epidemic.”
The exhibit, funded in part by Edmund Bu
jalski and by American Disease Management,
offers a fresh look at AIDS in hopes of ridding
the virus of its plagued stereotype — the gay
man’s disease.
The display takes a more upbeat ap
proach to the disease by showing that some of
its victims haven’t given up hope yet. It also
shows that the disease is very serious but not
always fatal.
The exhibit displays more than 50 pho
tographs taken by USC’s media arts professor
Dr. Walt Hanclosky. Hanclosky’s photographs
show the variety of people who are HIV pos
itive or have the AIDS virus.
The patients include people who have got
ten the disease from unprotected sex, drug use
or their parents.
The images displayed include AIDS edu
cators, fundraisers, health-care workers and
practitioners of alternative forms of medicine.
Robin Waites, the museum’s Chief Cura
tor of Art, said this exhibit can help people
better understand the disease.
“I think that this can realiy put a face to
the disease, which is universal, and in doing
that, it can foster a better understanding of it.”
Even without a connection to the virus,
“this is a really strong body of work. Artisti
cally, these images are fantastic black-and
white portraits,” Waites said.
The CD-ROM part of the exhibit includes
quotes and stories from media figures about
the effects of this epidemic on the world to
day. It also includes interviews with each of
the people
seen in the Hanclosky’s 50 photographs.
The CD-ROM depicts the disease in a non
traditional way, hoping to further education
about AIDS.
Another focus of the exhibit is the effects
of AIDS on the community. Instead of turning
their noses up at the disease, many people
are looking for better ways to raise money for
finding a cure.
“Now people are more open to alternative
forms of medicine. They are more creative
about how to raise money to help people in
need,” Waites said.
This new project reflects South Carolina’s
concern for this fatal disease.
The photographs and the interactive CD
ROM are two of the many ways activists are
helping to educate South Carolina residents
about the AIDS virus.
The exhibit is both uplifting and long over
due. It’s located on the fourth floor of the State
Museum on Gervais Street.
World AIDS Day is observed on the first
of December. In recognition, the State Mu
seum will offer a wide variety of exhibits on
Dec. 2.
For more information, visit www.muse
um.state.sc.us.
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♦
Dezeray s Hammer
hits home with CD
by Phil Watson
The Gamecock
•Ct i3r out of
Dezeray’s Hammer’s new album,
“Mortified,” is a 10-song collection of
slightly above average pop.
The Upstate band’s new CD is the
kind of album that can be listened to
the whole way through with out notic
ing the music is actually playing.
There are no songs that are a tor
ture to listen to, but there are also no
standout hits.
The songs flow smoothly with
little difference between styles.
“Mortified” is overall pleasant.
Aaron Wliisnant sounds a little bit like
Jim Creeggan, singer for the Barenaked
Ladies. With the pleasant vocals and
a steady beat, Dezeray’s Hammer is
enjoyable.
Most of the songs are easygoing
and have fairly deep lyrics. The words
in the songs are the most redeeming
quality of the album. In many of to
day’s pop albums, the lyrics are repet
itive and nonsensical.
Dezeray’s Hammer strives to im
prove upon these lyrical shortcomings
by putting actual thought into their
lyrics, which is a nice break from most
modern day mainstream pop.
One of the deepest songs on the al
bum is “She Levels Me.” This third
track is the kind of song all guys (and
some girls) can relate to.
This song exemplifies what makes
Dezeray’s Hammers’ lyrics better than
most bands’.
The album has the typical pop
sounds, but the lyrics are unique to the
band.
An assorted sound and varying tem
pos add to a few of this band’s merits.
Dezeray’s Hammer has undergone
many changes since thier debut.
The other band members include,
Kenny Hogan on drums and Chris
Fracisco on base.
The 10 songs on “Mortified” are
arranged well. The album is pleasing
the whole way through.
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecocks potiight@hotmail.com.
Lifehouse gives listeners
more of the same sounds
by Adam McAllister
The Gamecock
ft ft OUT OF ft ft ft ft
As listeners, we have come to
expect a certain quality from modem
rock and roll. We hear it everyday
' on pop radio with its similar and re
hashed melody echoing throughout.
Lifehouse and their latest release,
“No Name Face,” is no different. Track
after track, there is the feeling that we
have heard this somewhere before from
a band that most likely does it better.
The lyrics are a throwback to
Matchbox Twenty’s style, whereas Ja
son Wade’s vocals, as good as they are,
rotate through those of Live, Vertical
Horizon and other top 40 flavors.
The disc is enjoyable, however the
lyrics keep the music on the level of
contemporary sounds.
Upbeat songs such as “Sick Cycle
Carousel,” as well as the slower paced
“Trying”, highlight the album. Despite
their radio potential sound, the lack of
a unique voice hurts the band as a
whole.
There is an attempt for alternative
taste on “Cling and Clatter,” but the
experiment falls short into sections of
mindless noise.
Certain gems shine through and are
worth the price of admission but might
not deserve your full attention.
“No Name Face” is best summed
up by Lifehouse’s own sentence
from “Only One” — “Everytliing looks
quite the same.”
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com.
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Phillip V. Caruso Special To The Gamecock
Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.) stands up to a challenge from Billy Sunday (Robert DeNiro), a
Master Chief who is certain the rigorous dive program is no place for Carl.
Despite acting, ‘Honor’
not worthy of salute
by Adam McAllister
The Gamecock
OUT OF
In “Men of Honor,” the latest release from 20th Cen
tury Fox, audiences bear witness to the life and times of
real life hero Carl Brashear, played by Cuba Gooding Jr.
Brashear grew up working the land of a black sharecrop
ping family in Kentucky during the 1940s.
He was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps, a
fate his hard-working father tried to relieve from his son.
Young Brashear was forced to promise
to maKe a oeuer me ror rumsen, ultimately
making good by joining the U.S. Navy. This
better life, however, was quickly halted.
Despite newly desegregated aimed forces,
Brashear was confined to cooking and clean
ing for white sailors. He was bound to dream
of what he could be until he broke rank, de
fipd order: and comnelled officers to realize
his true capability in the water. '
This one act of defiance, which amounted to only a
brisk swim off a naval boat, led Brashear down a path that
no one of his background or character had ever
achieved.
Brashear soon had his sights set on his goal to become
Master Chief, the Navy’s highest rank.
This little known search and rescue job took only
the best, known as Navy Divers, and trained them 300 feet
underwater, connected solely with a hose for air.
Not only was this job for the best, in the Navy’s eyes
it wasn’t a job for a black man.
Brashear would have to call on every ounce of ambi
$
:ion and every drop of inspiration to even be accepted
into such a program.
His motivation came in the form of the hardheaded,
iard-drinking Master Chief Billy Sunday (Robert DeNiro).
Sunday, determined to fail Brashear, challenged him
it every comer.
Director George Tillman Jr. follows up his last hit,
‘Soul Food,” with an ambitious, well-shot film, albeit ladi
ng in certain areas.
With two Academy Award winners at the top of the
fill, “Men of Honor” seems headed for high praise from
» critics.
ueiwonas spawned muiupie mis m
the past year in movies like “Analyze This”
with Billy Crystal, and Gooding has shown his
talent since his high profile role in “Jerry
Maguire.”
However, the acting isn’t what fault
ed this film.
In his first feature script, Scott Mar
shall Smith has pulled out all the stops found more in CBS
movies of the week than in Hollywood.
Unfortunately, this story of inspiration tries too hard
for its own good and winds up leaving the viewer be
hind, wallowing in grandiose stories of Brashear’s rise and
acceptance.
Major relationships develop somewhere offscreen, and
the passage of time seems almost non-existent.
Let’s hope Smith has more to offer in his future pro
jects because “Honor” is dead in the water.
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecockspotJight@hotmail.com.
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‘Angel’ adaption
deserves a look
by Kamille Bostick
The Gamecock
Accord
ing to the
character
Eugene
Gant, “You
have to feel
things to un
derstand
them,” or you can watch the Ket
ti Frings adaptation of the Thomas
Wolfe novel, “Look Homeward, An
gel,” and achieve a similar result.
Directed by Robert Leonard in his
last production before his December
retirement, Theatre South Carolina’s
presentation of “Look Homeward, An
gel” is a wonderful mix of entertain
ment and heartbreak.
The production takes its audi
ence through a variety of emotions
from amusement to sympathy. Audi
ence members will laugh, ciy and some
times do both.
The opening scene has a lot of
action and humor, allowing the per
sonalities of all the characters to shine.
The play opens with the daughter
getting her home’s boarders together,
then the audience is introduced to her
drunken father and embarassed moth
er.
bet in the town or Altamont, N.L.,
in the fall of 1916, “Look Homeward,
Angel” presents the trials of the Gant
family as they struggle to stay a fami
ly, but more importantly as they “try
and love one another.”
Outwardly, it’s a coming of age sto
ry of a Southern family, but the themes
and the troubles are universal.
The plot centers around Eliza Gant
(Sarah Barker), the well-intentioned,
business-minded mother who can’t
seem to let go as she leads her family.
Family members include the drunk
en, discontented father, W.O. Gant
(Richard Jennings); their restless, star
ry-eyed son, Eugene (Stephen Cone);
and his detached brother Ben (Drew
Bates). They are all pushed to the
breaking point where they must de
cide to either move on or hold on.
“Look Homeward, Angel” fully
captures the characters and brings them
beautifully and believably to the stage.
The cast combines seasoned actors
and actresses as well as some fairly new
faces.
The actors give convincing per
formances on a set designed by Anita
Tripathi that creatively and master
fully resembles the landscape the au
thor intended to convey.
Leonard researched the set by vis
iting 48 Spruce St. in Asheville, N.C.
During his visit, he invisioned the char
acters and how they would perform.
“Our intent is to create a threa
trial authenticity that will stimulate
your imaginations to experience real
life on the stage tonight and hold it for
ever incorruptible, perhaps even more
real than the real thing,” Leonard said.
Lighting designer Charles Pogue
orchestrated beautifully arranged
scenes. The lighting techniques re
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last scene, a spotlight was placed on
Eugene Gant (Cone) so that only his
face was visible. The light turns into a
train light in the end.
The delightful and lively group is
completed with Margo Regan (Mrs.
“Fatty” Pert), Fannie Hungerford (He
len Gant Barton), Braxton Williams
(Hugh Barton), Larry McMullen (Will
Pentland), Richie Gross (Jake Clatt),
Ann Dreher (Ms. Clatt), Jillian Owens
(Florry Mangle), Julia Johnston (Mrs.
Snowden), Tim Donahue (Mr. Farrel),
Wendy Mauritz (Miss Brown), Alicia
Atkins (Laura James), Jim Patterson
(Dr. Maguire), Charles Curra (Tarkin
ton), Erica Tobolski (Madame Eliza
beth), and Andrew Dewitt (Luke Gant).
“Look Homeward, Angel” will be
performed at Drayton Hall until Sun
day, Nov. 19. Curtain times are 8 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday. For more information, contact
the Theater Department ticket office
at 777-2551 or 777-2552.
Theatre South Carolina will pre
sent the South Carolina premiere of
the David Lan adaptation of “Ghetto”
by Joshua Sobol in Longstreet Theatre
Feb. 16-25.
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecockspotlight@hatmail.com.