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Student directors to showcase work held captive by the Great ' Depression, and it earned Wallace recognition for her will ingness to undertake a touchy and painful situation. Winters’ first production at USC was “The Hamlet Project,” the one-man version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. Craig Miller, a graduate fine arts student, will direct David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.” In this Hollywood satire, Bobby Gould (played by Andrew DeWitt) and Charlie Fox (played by Stephen Cone), two film company executives, discover the “deal to end all deals” in an intriguing and surprising way. Using the attractive Karen (played by Fannie Hungerford) as an object of a silly bet, Gould and Fox soon learn they should be careful with their bets. “This play is all about power and manipulation,” Miller said. “It is a look at the movie business through the eyes of those who run it. They are cliched, predictable and ever needy for the next buck.” Mamet has written tri umphant works for both screen and stage. Some of his success es include “The Untouchables,” “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “The Spanish Prisoner.” “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek” will run April 20-22, and “Speed-the-Plow” will run April 26-28. Both will be at 8 p.m. at Longstreet Theatre. Admission is free. “This play is all about power and manipulation, it is a look at the movie business through the eyes of those who run it.” CRAIG MILLER DIRECTOR OF “SPEED-THE-PLOW” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com SCARED? Confidential Information i P Planned Parenthood 803-256-4908 (We^AwM AN HISTORIC RESIDENCE Efficiency $485 One Bedroom $545 Two Bedroom $580 Rent includes all utilities and cable TV. All rates quoted are month to month. (Leases available, prices subject to change) Located across from the University Of South Carolina Horseshoe and the State Capital, Cornell Arms offers the premier location for downtown living. 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Maintenance 794-2948 Fax 794-0017 www.riverbendapts.com BRIEFLY Fox to bid farewell to ‘Ally McBeal’ LOS ANGELES (AP) - “Ally McBeal,” the Emmy-winning TV series that set feminists spinning with its depiction of a flighty, man-hungry attorney, is ending its five-year run on Fox, the network said. Creator David E. Kelley made the announcement on the set Wednesday. “There were tears. It was emotional,” said Chris Alexander, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox Television. The final episode of the series, which had slipped in the rat ings, will air May 20. “It’s sad to say goodbye to something you love, even when perhaps it is time,” Kelley said in a statement. Kelley, one of Hollywood’s most prolific TV writer-pro ducers, had a hand in creating most of the scripts. The show re flected his offbeat, often dark sense of humor and romance. It . won the best comedy series Emmy in 1999. “I always thought the series would end after six years,” he said then. Fox and Kelley decided against another year as the rat ings fell. The show, which once scored close to the top 20, re cently finished 43rd in the rat ings. Bratt, co-star wed in San Francisco LOS ANGELES (AP) - Benjamin Bratt has married his “Pinero” co-star Talisa Soto. The ceremony took place Saturday in San Francisco, where Bratt was raised and owns a home, publicist Ina Treciokas said Tuesday. Bratt, 38, and Soto, 35, were wed “at an intimate family gathering, a day that perfectly celebrated their love and hap piness,” Treciokas said in a statement. She offered no de tails. They co-starred in the 2001 film about hard-living Puerto Rican poet-playwright Miguel Pinero, who died of cirrhosis at 41 in 1988. It’s the first marriage for Bratt, who dated Julia Roberts for nearly four years until their breakup last year. He co-starred on the NBC legal drama “Law & Order.” His films include “The River Wild,” “Traffic” and “Miss Congeniality.” Soto has appeared in “The Mambo Kings,” “Spy Hard” and the “Mortal Kombat” movies. Grammer to give voice to cartoon rat NEW YORK (AP) - Kelsey Grammer is taking a second job in television — as an animated rat. The “Frasier” star’s produc tion company is making a new cartoon, “Gary the Rat,” that will debut on TNN next year. Grammer will provide the voice of the lead character. Gary is described as a New York attorney so evil that one day he wakes up and he’s no longer human. “He becomes the most sought-after lawyer once it is discovered he is actually a rat,” Grammer said Tuesday. The cable network is hoping to launch a prime-time night of cartoons next year. It has ac quired the rights to “The Ren & Stimpy Show” and hopes to per suade its creator to make more episodes. Also in production is “Stripperella," a cartoon from “Spider-Man” creator Stan Lee that features Pamela Anderson as a stripper who moonlights as a superhero. Singer considers film role as Puccini SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (AP) —Spanish tenor Placido Domingo says he dreams of starring in a film about Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Domingo sees the film as fo cusing on Puccini’s adult life, when the composer wrote his most celebrated operas includ ing “La Boheme,” “Madame Butterfly” and “Turandot,” which was unfinished when he died in 1924. “It would take a lot of time,” Domingo told a news confer ence Monday in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. “That is why I think about whether to do it or not.” Domingo said he has a heavy schedule this year, including a June 27 concert of The Three Tenors with Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti before a World Cup event in Yokohama, Japan. Domingo was in Santo Domingo for a performance at the National Theater. Walters discusses sexism struggles NEW YORK (AP) — Television’s best-known interviewer once had to wait until the fourth question to talk. When Barbara Walters was paired with Frank McGee on the “Today” show in 1971, McGee insisted — and NBC management agreed — that he would ask the first three ques tions in any hard news inter view before Waiters could talk, she said. vv lien ivicuee uieu ui cancer in 1974, NBC talked to Walters about who would be named as the show’s new host, and she corrected them: “Co-host.” “Since then, every woman on morning programs has been a co-host, and more power to them,” Walters said Tuesday at a luncheon held by the American Women in Radio and Television. Walters said she once asked to do a news special on the fem inist movement and was told bluntly that no one would be in terested. She endured another un pleasant pairing with a male co host, Harry Reasoner, on “The ABC Evening News” before reaching her prime as an inter viewer on the network. “I had the opportunity to do the most important thing, and that was prove myself to my self,” she said. “It has been, for me, a career beyond my dreams.” BY VANESSA CAOILE THE GAMECOCK Theatre South Carolina’s Directors’ Shqwcase will feature two contemporary plays, “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek” and “Speed-the-Plow,” over the next two weekends. Two students will each direct the plays, which are two of the more successful plays of the 20th century. Jerry Winters, a graduate di recting student, will direct “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek,” a drama by Naomi Wallace. The play centers on two teenagers