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THE GAMECOCK ♦ Monday, October 8, 2001 CONTACT US ^ I I h . \/l I \ THEY SAID IT ■ | ■ 1 i m/| | / % MONTAIGNE: “All the fame you Story ideas? Questions? Comments? | | | A I W | | / should look for in life is to Writeusatgamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com B B B—A V B B A » have lived it quietly.” a day in the life of A CARNEY BY ASHLEY VAUGHAN THE GAMECOCK Every year near the begin ning of October, they serve you elephant ears, candy ap ples, com dogs and cotton can dy. They operate the rides. They run the games. They are the backbone of South Caroli na’s State Fair. But do you re ally know who they are? The fair’s employees come from all over the country. Some, such as Mildred Scott, live in Columbia and work at the fair only when it comes to town. Scott works in the Grand Marketplace at USC during the day and at the fair in the late afternoon. Asiim Day, who works in one of the many game booths, also lives in Columbia, where he is a painter. During his first two years with the fair, he was on the road for six months at a time. He got to visit dozens of cities, including Jack sonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; and New Orleans, La. “I got to meet a lot of people. I love people,” he said. Now, he works only when the fair comes to Columbia, but his fa vorite part of the job is the same: “I get to see people that I haven’t seen in a long time.” Other fair employees trav elacross the United States and Canada with the fair. Angie Simpson, originally from Or lando, Fla., a manager of a mini-donut stand, has been traveling with the fair 17 years. “A few generations of my family, including my brother and sister, have worked for the fair,” she said. Simpson said she met her hus band when they were both working at the fair. A novice game manager who wouldn’t give his name also follows the fair from city to city. Unlike Simpson, he’s new to the life of a carnival worker. For two months, he’s been working at a game in which players test their strength by pounding a ma chine with a sledgehammer. He plans to move back to his hometown of Winnipeg, Cana da, after the fair’s last stop at Mobile, Ala. “I am just doing it for the experience, and then . I will go back to school at the University of Manitoba,” he said. Despite having varied back grounds, hometowns and ex periences, the fair employees agree the pay and long hours could be better. Day and Simp son work 12- to 15-hour days with short breaks. “Some days, I work from six to 12, closing time, or I come in at nine o’clock in the morn ing and work til 12 o’clock at night,” Day said. He said he ♦ CARNEY, SEE PAGE 9 Top: Young ones play festival games to win prizes, mainly stuffed animals. Above: The largest ferris wheel to be bound to a trailer Is housed at the State Fair for its duration. It takes 14 hours to disassemble, photos by candi hauglum THE CHARTS Top 10 movies Figures are for the weekend of October 5-7. MOVIE BOX OFFICE 1. Training Day$24.2 million 2. Serendipity$14 million 3. Don't Say a Word $10 million 4. Zooiander _ $9.9 million 5. Joy Ride $7,4 million 6. Max Keeble’s... $5.5 million 7. Hearts in Atlantis $5.4 million 8. Hardball$3.7 million 9. The Others $3 million 10. Rush Hour 2 $1.8 million Top 10 albums Figures are for the week of September 30 - October 7. TITLE ARTIST 1. The BlueprintJay-Z 2. Songs in A Minor Alicia Keys 3. Totally Hits 2001Various 4. A Day Without RainEnya 5. Silver Side UpNickelback 6. SatelliteP.O.D. 7. [Hybrid Theory] Linkin Park 8. Break the Cycle Staind 9.8701Usher 10. Now 7 Various Emmys postponed after American retaliation BY LYNN ELBER AP TELEVISION WRITER The Emmy Awards telecast, de layed three weeks by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was called off Sunday after the United States and Britain launched a military attack in Afghanistan. Whether the show would be rescheduled was unresolved. If this year's show is never held, it would be the first cancellation in the Emmys' 53-year history. "We turned on our TVs again, and here it was a war action again," said Jim Chabin, presi dent of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which presents the awards. "We thought this is not the time to have a celebration, as much as we wanted to do it." The announcement was made as host Ellen DeGeneres was re hearsing on stage at the Shrine Auditorium. Outside, workers soon began rolling up the red car pet, removing floral displays and carting off oversized decorative statuettes. There were no Emmy security concerns, only questions of whether it was appropriate to stage the program under the circum stances, Chabin said. "It's a sacri fice we gladly make for the coun try," he said. "There will be another time for another awards show." The decision was made after of ficials with the television acade my and CBS, which was to air the show, consulted with other net works and TV industry members. "We are not at this point call ing it a cancellation. We are look ing into all the options," said Bryce Zabel, chairman of the academy. "We have had very lit tle time to think about this." If the show isn't rescheduled, Zabel said they would get the tro phies to winners "even if we have to drive them over to someone's house and shake hands with them." The television industry had grappled in the weeks since the at tack with the propriety of holding a celebration such as the Emmys, which would have been the first major awards show to go ahead. The Recording Academy canceled its 2nd Annual Latin Grammys, which had been scheduled the day of the terrorist attacks. The Television Academy and CBS had hoped that a three-week delay from the original Emmy air date of Sept. 16, and a muted, more solemn ceremony would be seen as acceptable. Virtually all of the nominees and presenters had reaffirmed their willingness to take part in the ceremony after revisions were announced, including less glam our and celebration. Emmy organizers asked par ticipants to cut back on red-car pet arrival fanfare and forgo showy gowns and tuxedoes in fa vor of business attire. Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite was in vited to help set a serious tone, and the ceremony was to include tributes to heroes and victims of the attacks. In deference to East Coast based nominees, part of the pre sentation of 27 awards was to take place in a Manhattan studio. The bicoastal Emmy broadcast was the first in more than two decades. The 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards were called off Sunday following the United States’ retaliatory attacks on the Taliban In Afghanistan. It is not known when, or if, the ceremony will be rescheduled, photo by michael goulding/krt campus