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MOVIE REVIEW
Audiences should avoid marking calendars for Wedding Date’ drivel
“THE WEDDING DATE”
★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
By MARJORIE RIDDLE
THE GAMECOCK
“Die Vfedding Date" bcres with its
predictable, lacking plot and
pathetically mdendevelrped
characters. The rcmaitic ocmedy
starring Debra Messing and Denmot
Milrcn^ will have viewers checking
their watches to see hew mrh lenger
th^ hae to sit in the theater ad
tdlaate this ercpty flick.
ftesdrg stars as Rt Ellis, a single
aid successful wcnan living in Naw
Ycrk who hires Milrcn^'s character,
Nick Maoer, to be her date fcr her
sister's Icncfcn weeding. Kat finds
Nick after seeing a macpziiie article he
wrote about being a male eexrt.
Not having seen ha: fanily &z two
jeers, die arrives weith Nick, ad her
fatdly beooiES instantaneously
anitten aer her charming, cfedlidily
handsale "boyfriend." He sippcsed
twist is thet Yet is still pining cuer her
femes: fiance Jeffrqr, vhctn de dated
fcr saen jears. Jeffry also heppHE to
be the best man in the watting.
ihe weak plot goes thrarji the
usual watting oelefcrations, indicting
the bachelor end bachekrette parties
and pre-wedding pacnics, and most of
the erats are, frenkLy, iraotful.
Suifaily Nick reali2ES his jcb as eaxrt
mi^it be turning into sanething more
tien business as he and Kat begin
leridng at each other in new aid
affecticnabswetys.
Pb fanily sarets epill out — ip
intil the "I cfcs" — Kat has to ocne to
hems with her pest with Jeffry and
1^ dsekping feeiincp fir: Nick.
In Milton's roile as Nick, he is a
mirror image of the character he
pdajed in 'Tty Best Friend's
wadding." Still charming, still
gorgeous, but the exact sate guy —
ally this time, he's basically a nale
pied .itntp.
Nick arri rat's agreaiait initially
is that Nick will crily be ha: cfcbe fix
the wedhng, but afba: a disarsim cf
hcwmrh extra he charges fix sex and
maty alcrhnlic beieragas laber, Nick
prrtyesHES into rat's "callbcy."
Somehow the concept was more
appealing ad less appalling in 'Hretty
Woman."
Massing should keep her comedic
talent sharp fix teladrdm, becase de
was dry, awkward and downright
Ixmxlfiss thrarjicut the majcrity cf
this mode.
The film is set fix the dirat.im in
Icndon, and most of the cast maibers
heue a British accent. Howewsr, out of
all cf rat's fanily — ha: sista:, ha:
sbpfalher and shi the slirftt aooait
efrihited by her nether — rat is the
chLy one without the accent. Has is
uBplainsd and UBettling— it is as if
rat was separated fran her fanily
since birth, not jest the stated two
ifflts.
Hie vast part about the spxadic
and holey plot is tie relatimtiiip
between Kat and Nick. Cfcmxious and
two-dimensional, Kat begins warning
ever the omsumate Nick, but the
audience wonders vfcy, because he, the
paideaxrt, is too gxd for ter.
Nick suddenly begins locking at her
in a different- nerrer, but viewers hare
no irfea vhy. There is no allusion to,
ncr dewing cf, wty this shift in their
affecUos ftr me antis: occurs.
Maries insist an lae being a few
exfiaged glanes and sevsal ds^g
anrersatiens ever tin course of nae
days, and "The Wedding Date" is ro
exception. Chfertirately, the fernula
tails miserably beceuse this pipetted
lore is in no bediseble cr
heartening.
If noriegcas wait a simsely
rcnaitic and truly cntedic film, th^r
will tare to lock elsewhere than 'The
Wfedding Date."
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Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in “The Wedding Date.”
CONCERT REVIEW
Rogue Wave barrels into Columbia
Show at New Brookland Tavern
★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
By JORDAN REDMOND
THE GAMECOCK
Reputable indie-rrxk has been hard
to crae by lately atarrl the* parts.
Die Cblrnbia market has been
saturated with tBenielxppsr nail pink
end flcar-pirhing netalacie, and
(bile thet satisfies a certain pcrtdm cf
the pcpuladcn, indi&arrk fas are turd
cf neking the neatly fcur-hcur trdc to
jnhciD cr AJata to SBe their taurr-ite
bends. Alrng cotes Hague Vtete, indie
sbrliiip haded by the negdith thab is
ab ftp, the Idcel responsible frr sme
cf the ncet irfluendal indieaDck nusic
cf the last 15 years. Riding hdi^i cn the
currat 'taer' cf arness ^masd by its
sfcfcut release 'Cut cf the aatw,"
Rogue wave played the New Brocklarri
ISvem last Wfechesday with Ttvo
clients end Cypress Wees.
GdUnhia cm be a fickle and
ccrBHjently videos ton, 33 it was
surprising to aae a aril id tumcut ipcn
mta-ing the deb. Ctdinfaia's Qpress
Rees was a cnple renp into its ret and
had the audisre fairly interested. The
grap's trend cf intrapactive, mid
baipjo indie-rock is a velcnie additim
to tie asQurbda rrusic scare, sc it's
grad to ase td^r are tfeueikpdrg a
fcUcwing. Bassist dfitt tenety is ac
arid sgperter cf iniierock past and
present; the irfluEnces of to la Hango,
IfcuamEnt aid Badro the Trim tin cteep
throreji the rrusic cf Qpress Rees,
ftweter, the keyboard was virtuaUy
imrdihle ad the set ran about. 15
minutes too Img, a there that would be
ooneistait tdrm^rut tde ni^rt.
He Caklari, C&lif., bend Ho
C&llats trek the stag; ret. Cues always
hare to fitjt ai rphdll tattle to arete
interesting, cqotiveting irusdc, but Afan
Sbgdersm (vacals/guitar/hamonica)
and Tyson tfogal (drurs/becking \reoals)
pillad it off well. SUphaeai was a
virtral Ctncr (bast lok-a-lile, hi: his
raqy trice was mrh rare ekin to Jay
Earrar tom to eaayne's farrite
Netra^cm and his dtaty arm. lysm
tfcgel's manic ckutming served to
propel toe bend dicing toe ttcre p
tstpo rutbers, all ams md hair flailirg
in a whirl ingrfaviti-. life style toet
broucfit to mind kniiral frcm toe
Mppets. He peek of their set cate
about 20 iranubes in, as Sbphenecn
brcte cut tte hamcnica fix a B±>
tylm-lite ballad, ftpefully, toese two
trahadxts catrh fire within tie indie
fclk sene becase to^t chrioELy pour a
let cf heart into their nusic. Ho
fhllants pilled fix 45 itimbes aid
lrrnte really nptifite.
the tine Regie Vfee tock the
stacp, sate in toe arfiane was alrea^t
incradihly win dwt frcm the cpening
barrfe' aely Imgtiy sets. The result was
pretty mrh vhat was spetad. Eirst cf
all, toe sengwriiingwas solid. Ey hxkcr
by crock, Rtgue Vhie is a band inbanb
cn wanting its vey into yajr heart.
Curing its best norcnts, the bEnd
ehibiis toe arpry sweet hantcnies cf
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