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CMA
reveals
2003
award
hopefuls
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
0n ♦ Entertainer of the
Year:
Brooks & Dunn, Kenny
Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby
Keith, Tim McGraw.
♦Female Vocalist:
Terri Clark, Alison Krauss,
Patty Loveless, Martina
McBride, Dolly Parton.
♦Male Vocalist:
Kenny Chesney, Alan
Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim
McGraw, Brad Paisley, George
Strait.
♦Horizon Award:
Gary Allan, Buddy Jewell,
Joe Nichols, Blake Shelton,
Darryl Worley.
♦Vocal Group:
Alabama, Diamond Rio,
Dixie Chicks, Lonestar, Rascal
Flatts.
♦Single of the Year:
“Beer For My Horses, ” Toby
Keith duet with Willie Nelson,
produced by James
Stroud/Toby Keith;
“Celebrity,” Brad Paisley, pro
duced by Frank Rogers; “Have
You Forgotten?” Darryl
Worley; produced by Frank
Rogers/James Stroud; “Hurt,”
Johnny Cash, produced by
Rick Rubin; “Three Wooden
Crosses,” Randy Travis, pro
duced by Kyle Lehning.
♦ Musician of the Year:
Jerry Douglas, dobro; Paul
Franklin .steel guitar; Aubrie
Haynie, fiddle/mandolin;
Brent Mason, guitar; Randy
Scruggs, guitar.
♦Album of the Year:
“American IV: The Man
Comes Around” Johnny Cash,
produced by Rick Rubin, Lost
Highway Records; “Home”
Dixie Chicks, produced by
Dixie Chicks/Lloyd Maines;
“Man With A Memory” Joe
Nichols, produced by Brent
Rowan; “Tim McGraw And
The Dancehall Doctors” Tim
McGraw/Dancehall Doctors,
produced by Byron
Gallimore/Tim McGraw/
Darran Smith; “Unleashed”
Toby Keith, produced by
James Stroud/Toby Keith.
♦ Music Video of the
Year:
“Beer For My Horses” Toby
Keith duet with Willie Nelson,
directed by Michael Salomon;
% “Celebrity” Brad Paisley, di
rected by Peter Zavadil;
“Concrete Angel” Martina
McBride, directed by Robert
Deaton/George J. Flanigen IV;
“Hurt” Johnny Cash, directed
by Mark Romanek; “Red Dirt
Road’ Brooks & Dunn, direct
ed by Steven Goldmann.
♦vocai tvenior the
Year:
Toby Keith duet with Willie
Nelson “Beer For My Horses";
Alan Jackson and Jimmy
Buffett “It’s Five O’clock
Somewhere”; Kid Rock featur
ing Sheryl Crow “Picture”;
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band featur
ing Johnny Cash “Tears in the
Holston River”; Tracy Byrd
■k (with Andy Griggs,
™ Montgomery Gentry and Blake
Shelton) “The Truth About
Men.”
♦Song of the Year:
“Beer For My Horses” Toby
Keith/Scotty Emerick;
“Celebrity” Brad Paisley;
“Have You Forgotten?” Darryl
Worley/Wynn Varble; “Red
Dirt Road” Kix Brooks/
Ronnie Dun; “Three Wooden
grosses” Doug Johnspn/Kim
Williams.
Fall “Classic” Films Schedule
Reprising last year’s successful film series, Carolina Productions
is again showing “classics” and critically acclaimed movies on
Monday and Tuesday nights in the Russell House Theater. This
fall’s schedule includes some of the latest films that were shown
in limited release at theaters as well as favorites such as “The
Matrix.” Show times are Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m.
SEPT. 8-9 Adaptation
SEPT.15-16 The Hours
SEPT. 22-23 The Matrix
SEPT. 29-30 The Real Cancun
OCT. 6-7 The Pianist
OCT. 21-22 Far From Heaven
OCT. 27-28 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
NOV. 3-4 Bowling For Columbine
NOV. 10-11 Talk to Her
NOV. 17-18 American History X
DEC. 1-2 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
‘Animal House’ cast
reflects on 25 years
of raucous frat life
BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - Maybe you
were the beer-belching omni
vore Bluto, the fun-loving yet re
sponsible Katy, the smooth
ladies’ man Otter, the cackling
anarchist D-Day or the geeky ro
mantic Pinto.
And you probably remember .
someone like the priggish ROTC
horseman Neidermeyer or the
snooty Southern belle Babs.
Worst-case scenario: You
crossed paths with the blockhead
authoritarian Dean Wormer who
declares, “The time has come for
someone to put his foot down.
And that foot... is me.”
In honor of the 25th anniver
sary of “Animal House,”
Universal Studios Home Video
is releasing on Tuesday a new
DVD package set subtitled
“Double Secret Probation
Edition,” a reference to Dean
Wormer’s covert fraternity
house punishment. The disc also
includes a “mockumentary”
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The studio held a reunion on
Hollywood Boulevard for the
cast and crew last week to recre
ate the comedy’s parade climax,
complete with a cake float, a live
elephant, cheerleaders and a per
formance of “Shout” by Otis Day
and the Knights.
As the castmates reminisced
about the antics a quarter-cen
tury ago that led to one of
Hollywood’s most enduring
comedies, most agreed that
“Animal House” became popu
lar because people could see
parts of themselves in its array
of lovers, losers, jocks, preppies
and wannabes.
The most sympathetic of them
all was Flounder, said the now
slim Stephen Furst - who played
the portly, shy newbie. “He was
the guy who just wants to be like
everybody else and just isn’t
quite as cool as everybody else.
But it was great because the only
requirement of being a Delta
was wanting to belong.”
The Deltas, of course, were
the fictional fraternity that put
the “animal” in “Animal
House,” a group of relentless
partiers who sacrificed their dig
nity, grade-point averages and
millions of brain cells on an al
tar dedicated to loose women,
booze and bad taste.
When the low-budget film de
buted in the summer of 1978,
most of the people involved in its
creation expected it to vanish
quickly.
“I don’t think any of us had a
clue,” said Karen Allen, who
went on to “Raiders of the Lost
Ark” and “Starman” after mak
ing her breakthrough as Katy in
“Animal House.” “When I did
the film, it was me thinking,
‘Well, I could get a job in a book
store or I could do this film to
support myself for the next cou
ple of months.’”
“Animal House,” promoted
under the banner of the National
Lampoon comedy magazine,
went on to earn $141.6 million at
the box office and inspired
countless imitators, including
the short-lived TV series “Delta
House” and a legion of oft-re
peated catch phrases.
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Neidermeyer’s barked insult
“You are all worthless and
weak!” in its song “We’re Not
Gonna Take It” and the title
comes from John Belushi’s ral
lying cry as Bluto.
Scenes of that same drunken
speech — which includes the re
mark: “Was it over when the
Germans bombed Peprl Harbor?
... NO!” — has become a staple
on the scoreboard screen of any
sports stadium where the home
town team is losing.
“Animal House” did not in
vent the schoolhouse comedy
but it took the format to new
highs by sinking to new lows.
“The movie came out and
complemented the culture,
which was in a very anti-au
thoritarian state of mind,” said
Peter Riegert, who played the
moral-equivocator Boon.
“Vietnam had just ended three
years earlier and the culture was
changing rapidly, rapidly, rapid
ly and rejecting its former skin,
its more conservative skin.
That’s what the movie was
about. It’s about the rejection of
uniformed foolish authority.”
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SHOW REVIEW
New band, veterans rock
New Brookland Tavern
SKELTON, BEN WALKER RADIO,
AND MADISON FAIR
New Brookland Tavern
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BY BRIE WALLACE
THE GAMECOCK
A trio of local artists took the
stage at the New Brookland
Tavern Monday night, delivering
an evening of solid pop-rock tunes.
Two local singer-songwriters, Ben
Walker and Eric Skelton, brought
their bands to the stage, opening
for the evening’s headliner,
Madison Fair.
Upstart band Skelton made its
debut Monday night. The group
features Eric Skelton on lead vo
cals, Chandler Carriker on bass,
Chuck Tomlinson on drums, and
Matt Simpkins on electric guitar.
Despite only practicing two times
before last night’s show, the band
was warmly received by the local
audience. Skelton brought a laid
back, acoustic vibe to the music,
while Simpkins accented the
tunes with a more electric dy
namic. The group also slipped into
three-part harmony at times,
which further augmented its
sound and added to the Skelton ex
perience.
The group obviously works
well together. “I walked into the
room to practice with these guys
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shortcomings and regrets, he still
holds out hope for the future.
“Loneliness Knows My Name”
is a strong debut for Patrick Park
that shows his depth as a lyricist
as well as his mastery of song
writing. Park might know loneli
ness all too well, but he sure
makes good company.
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PHOTO'BY SARAH WINFORD/THE GAMECOCK
Bassist Blake Rodchester, drummer Chris Carroll and vocalist.
Justin Register of Madison Fair perform Monday night.
and it was like, bam! We had an
instant chemistry, and it really
mixed well,” Carriker said.
With its strong acoustic-based
sound, the quartet really engaged
the crowd. If you missed the
band’s debut, no worries. Carriker
said the band is “ready to rock
Columbia.”
Second on stage, Ben Walker
Radio engaged the crowd with its.
lyrics on love and life. Singer Ben
Walker’s emotional vocals pro
pelled the group’s heartfelt tunes
and turned the band’s somewhat
unrefined guitar strumming into
something endearing.
“I am mostly influenced by the
artists I’m surrounded with,”
Walker said. “Almost every night
I’jn out watching other musicians,
especially local musicians, and
they all inspire me to write.”
The night’s headlining act
Madison Fair capped off the
evening with a pop-influenced set
of upbeat romantic songs. The
band has generated a local buzz,
and it will be exciting to see
where its peppy rock talents take
it in the future, especially con
sidering that rock station WARQ
FM has added the band’s new sin
gle, “Beautiful Story,” to its ro
tation.
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