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■ EXTRAS Continued from page 5 something satisfying. Marble Slab has its own “Tasty Creations.” The fun isn’t just in the store; if you go to their Web site, you can even check out your ice cream profile. That’s right: Those clever “creamers” have discovered that the flavors you love might just say something about your personality. First-year business student Chris Pearrow considers himself a Marble Slab man. His favorite combination — “Sweet cream and gummy bears.” Jessica Reinicke, a Marble Slab employee, said gummy bears are a popular mix-in. The treats she sells often include cheesecake ice cream with strawberries, Raspberry Cheesecake from the “Tasty Creations” menu and birthday cake ice cream. Cold Stone employee Dan Asber said he sells a lot of cake batter ice cream and, the Cold Stone Original “Coffee Lovers Only.” So just how creative do customers get? Tyler DeFelice, a Marble Slab employee, said he once prepared peppermint ice cream with pineapple and cookie dough mix-ins. Megan Faulkner, a Cold Stone employee, said a customer once had her mix coffee and mint ice creams together and then add Butterfinger, Heath Bar and gummy bear mix-ins. Her fellow Cold Stone employee, Asber, said he once made a butter pecan, strawberry and French vanilla creation with raspberries, walnuts and gummy bears. Flavors aside, the second-most important ice cream concocting question is cup or cone. Fourth year art studio student Michael' DeFazio is a self-professed “cookies and cream or chocolate chip cookie dough kinda guy.” As for his container of choice, “Well, now that depends. If I’m with someone I get a cup so I don’t get it all over me, but if I’m by myself and can ai—a^— JASON STEELMAN / THE GAMECOCK At the Marble Slab on Gervais Street in the Vista, Ross Allen mixes in an assortment of candy into chocolate ice cream for a unique treat. A Marble Slab will soon be opening in the Russell House. enjoy the messy pleasures of the cone, then I will.” From wild mix-ins to candy encrusted waffle cones, the new wave of creameries has something for everyone and then some. So, the next time that craving hits, get creative and indulge — the possibilities are endless. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu '/ ■ DENIM Continued from page 5 there is perhaps no article of clothing more common to American households. They resemble America in their durability and indivisibility and remind us that we share one fashion trend with our fathers. My first pair of jeans constantly had a red handkerchief hanging out of the back pocket, because 1 thought I was Bruce Springsteen. Even now that I know I’m not, I can still sport a pair of jeans and pretend. HITS THEATRES EVERYWHERE SEPT. 17 ; f -j, MOVIE PREVIEW 0 Bernie Mac steps up to bat in ‘Mr. 3000’ By HANH NGUYEN KRT CAMPUS Comedian Bernie Mac, best known as the lovable curmudgeon on his self-titled Fox sitcom, tests the limits of his charisma in the baseball comedy “Mr. 3000.” Mac plays Stan Ross, a swaggering, loud-mouthed Brewers ballplayer who has little respect for his teammates, the press or even his fans. When he reaches his goal of 3,000 hits, he abandons his team by immediately retiring. While resting on his laurels, a middle-aged Ross discovers that due to a statistical error, three of his hits don’t count. Now, he’s back at bat to reclaim the title he’s been capitalizing on over the years. Unlike his onscreen persona, Bernie Mac is friendly without the brash posturing. At a prep junket for the film, he greets reporters with genuine glee, even teasing one about hoarding chocolate chip cookies. He’s obviously enjoying himself and sports a Braves jersey _ although he insists it’s for color coordination, not being a fan, _ with matching red Kangol hat and pants. The engaging and unfailingly polite actor credits his manners and humility to his mother. “My mama always told me, ‘Put some C-L on your A-S-S,”’ he says, relating how he was reprimanded after being caught singing a dirty song. “(She’d say,) ‘You’re going to be a man someday. Act like it.’” It’s advice that he’s carried over into his career. In his hit sitcom, it’s often a self-effacing Mac who learns a lesson after acting on some foolish impulse. Similarly, “Mr. 3000’s” Stan Ross has more than his share of foibles that he must overcome on his journey to maturity — not an easy task in the testosterone-filled world of ego, trash talking and womanizing. In his first leading role, Mac hopes he’ll hit a home run instead of striking out. “I said, ‘You know what? How you start is how you finish,”’ he explained. “I didn’t want to go over or under the top. I told them, ‘Take the dingaling jokes out.’” Although he decides not to go the raunchy route, Mac had definite opinions about his character’s romance with reporter Mo Collins, played by Angela Bassett. In the film, Mo fights her attraction to Stan after he’s treated her shabbily and instead pursues her career in journalism. Said Mac, “I want to show true black love, minority love. They don’t show us or put us in that position where we have to have a disagreement and then come back.” What the comedian loved mos about the film, however, was thi baseball, a sport that he playec seriously in the past. Directoi Charles Stone appreciated hi: star’s experience, feeling that x helped Stan’s physical emotional believability. “He’s quite a sportsman in hi: own right, just in general and ir the mindset,” said Stone. “(That was one of the things 1 was reall) impressed about with Bernie is tha he definitely brought the air of at athlete, of all the athletes I know and sort of the dialogue, tht mentality that an athlete wil have.” One particular quirk Mac bring: to his character is a signaturt “wiggle” that’s inspired by two o his favorite ballplayers, Hall o Famer Rod Carew and Pittsburgf Pirates’ Roberto Clemente. “In sports, there’s an individua arrogancy (sic) ... That’s one o: those intimidation things,” he said. “That’s where the wigglt came from, and the wiggle i: about confidence. The wiggl«fc about T don’t care who’s on mound. I can hit you. You car throw it in my face. You can throw it at my head, but we’ll meet again.’” “Mr. 3000” wiggles up to the plate starting Friday. Reality TV employs tight security to protect shows before premieres By CARY DARLING KRT CAMPUS When it comes to keeping mum, the CIA and FBI could take some pointers from a few other three letter organizations: CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. With the rapid rise of reality TV — specifically those shows in which a humiliated and emotionally battered contestant is eliminated and sent home in shame every week — the networks have a vested interest in throwing a veil over who gets the boot until the program airs. No suspense, no show, no ad revenue. Loose lips sink viewership. But it’s anywhere from several weeks to months between taping and airing. So the networks do what they must — from making the contestants and crew members sign contracts owing their financial souls if they blab, to convincing local governments to block off air space around remote filming locations — to ensure that there are no leaks on the reality-TV cruise to ratings success. Even just talking ABOUT the process of secrecy is off-limits for some; representatives from such shows as “The Bachelor” and “The Apprentice” decided that discretion is the better part of TV valor and elected not to answer questions regarding their practices. The networks’ ploys seem to be working. So far, despite the increasing numbers of programs and contestants, there’ve been no major gaffes. But with a new edition of “The Apprentice” under way on NBC, Mark Cuban’s “The Benefactor” on ABC and a new season of “Survivor” ramping up Thursday on CBS, the networks have to pray that their luck holds and contestants stay quiet. “When you’ve got a $5 million fine over your head, it’s silly that you would talk,” says Joe Borgenicht, co author of the just-released “The Reality TV Handbook,” a guide to how to survive on a reality show, from forming alliances to eating sheep eyeballs. But Colleen Sullivan, a vice president of publicity at CBS who spent several weeks wjth the cast and crew of the latest edition of “Survivor” on the Pacific island of Vanuatu, says there’s more to it than simply threatening contestants with things like having to forfeit their winnings, pay a steep fine and live on mac-and-cheese for the rest of their miserable, little lives. “Everybody signs confidentiality agreements,” says Sullivan, who notes that the penalty for breaking a “Survivor” contract is $5 million, “but at the end of the day, it’s an agreement of everybody involved beyond the contestants. There’s a crew of 300-plus people who’ve done a lot of hard work, there’s a certain pride that th^^ secrets remain secret.” But “Survivor” producers count on a little more than pride. To keep their filming spot — always a remote, foreign location — hidden from prying paparazzi eyes, they employ a security team and utilize areas of the country that are for their shooting purposes only. Then those who are kicked off “Survivor” don’t go home right away. Producers keep them away from civilization. Rhode Island’s Jeanne Hebert, who got exiled from “Survivor: The Amazon” after 15 days of the 39-day shoot, told the Providence Journal that she and the other contestants not needed for the final “tribal council” went off on a three-week Som|^ American vacation at CBS’ expei^^P At Showtime’s “The American Candidate,” the winner of which will run for the presidency of the United States, contestants are billeted in a hotel with no cell phone or computer, according to USA Today. The paper also reports that contestants are taking seven weeks off work in exchange for a $500-a-week stipend and the chance to win $200,000. Punk legend Johnny Ramone dies of prostate cancer at 5 5 The Associated Press Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band “The Ramones,” has died at age 55. Ramone died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, his publicist said. He had battled prostate cancer for five years, and was hospitalized in June at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Ramone, born John Cummings, was one of the original members of the Ramones, whose hit so^K< “I Wanna Be Sedated” an*. “Blitzkrieg Bop,” among others, earned the band induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The band’s singer, Joey Ramone, whose real name was Jeff Hyman, died in 2001 ol lymphatic cancer. Bassist DeeDee Ramone, who was born Douglas Colvin, died from a drug overdose in 2002. Johnny Ramone founded “The Ramones” in 1974 with Joey Ramone, DeeDee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, the only surviving member of the original band. A tribute concert and cancel, research fund-raiser was h^B Sunday in Los Angeles to celebra.* the band’s 30th anniversary. It featured performances by Los Angeles punk band X, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Henry Rollins and others. Along with his wife, Linda Cummings, Johnny Ramone was surrounded at his death by friends Eddie and Jill Vedder, and Rob and Sherrie Zombie. Other friends who gathered at his Los Angeles home included Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo and Talia Shire. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Johnny Ramone, guitarist for “The Ramones”, died Wednesday at the age of 55. Tommy Ramone, the drummer for the band, is the only surviving member of the original band.