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ENTERTAINMENTpage 9 Technique • Friday, June 8, 2007 • 9 TECH AVOIDS TRANS FATS BASEBALL DISAPPOINTS Tech makes it a priority to avoid trans The baseball team failed to secure a ENTERTAINMENT fat in all dining hall foods in an effort berth into the NCAAs for the first to keep meals healthy. Page 7 time since 1999. Page 12 Technique • Friday, June 8, 2007 Dick in a Box star rises to fame on big screen Andy Samberg snags title role in first all-SNL film, Hot Rod By Lindsay Deal said that these three guys he was to Goldwyn, a number of actors (Ian McShane) and his brother Kevin then we’re ashamed and embarrassed. Entertainment Editor working with were really funny and and directors were considered, but (Jorma Taccone). This movie celebrates that lameness... that I should look at them for SNL... Samberg’s enthusiasm for the role Rod has grown up believing that awkwardness,” Schaffer said. You may not know the name Andy so I did,” Michaels said. stuck out. that his father, a stuntman for Evil According to Michaels, Hot Rod Samberg, but you probably know a He signed the Lonely Island guys “When Andy Samberg, who was Knievel, died in his prime, so Rod is a physical comedy with a decidedly thing or two about the Saturday Night to create digital shorts for the show, in his first season on SNL read it, he is convinced he has bravery in his American vibe. Live (SNL) digital short “Dick in a and in 2005 Samberg was added to went to Lorne [Michaels] and said, blood. “It’s a sort of uniquely American Box” (the notable spoof of an early- the SNL cast while Taccone and ‘I love this script and I really want When his stepfather gets sick kind of comedy because most other ‘90s R&B band featuring Samberg Schaffer became part of the team to do it,’” Goldwyn said. and requires a $50,000 operation, cultures would try to sneak some- and Justin Timberlake). of SNL writers. And he got it. In the Rod takes it upon himself to raise thing worthwhile into the mix. I’m Samberg, currently in his second “This was the first time that ex- role of Rod Kimble, the money by attempting his biggest a big fan of physical comedy. As a season as an SNL cast member, is clusively SNL talent was hired to Samberg plays stunt ever—jumping his motocross writer, you spend forever getting the now making his debut on the silver make a movie, with a regular cast an unemployed, bike over 15 buses—one more than exact word, the perfect humorous screen in what may be the first-ever member as the star, a guy who self-proclaimed Evel Knievel himself ever did. But dialogue, and then somebody runs all-SNL film, Hot Rod. He plays is exclusively an SNL director stuntman liv- he only wants Frank to get better so into a wall, and you’re laughing twice title character and stuntman Rod and a writer from the show,” ing at home he can kick his ass, thereby earning as hard,” Michaels said. But after Kimble; sharing the limelight with Producer John Goldwyn said. w i t h h i s his stepfather’s respect. watching the film, you have to won- Samberg are his friends Jorma Tac- The movie, originally written mother Marie With a Napoleon Dynamite feel, der if Michaels is gently implying cone, who stars as Rod’s brother for Will Ferrell, was easily adapted (Sissy Spacek), the set and costumes of Hot Rod are that only Americans have a sense of Kevin, and Akiva Schaffer, who to the strengths of Sam- his abusive intentionally unexciting, often pay- humor unrefined enough to find the directs the film. berg when it became stepfather ing tribute to the fashion nightmare contrived slapstick comedy of Hot Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone apparent that Ferrell Frank that was the ‘80s. Rod entertaining, with its 20-plus have been friends since attending was completely “It’s kind of enhanced mediocrity, stunts and what is likely the longest middle school together in Berkeley, booked. an interesting blandness... a stylized fall in cinematic history. Calif. In 2000 the trio began writ- Accord- nothingness. It does have a bit of “It was the smartest dumb movie ing, directing and producing their ing a ‘70s-’80s feel to it, a kind of we could make. It was so goofy,” signature blend of comedy on their stuck-in-the-past-ness that Schaffer said. website www.thelonelyisland.com. shows up in the de- He hopes that one day Hot Rod (In case you were wondering, the cor,” said will have a place among the comedy name comes from an apartment Stephen classics that have inspired the Lonely they shared, which they called Altman, Island guys, including Ace Ventura, “The Lonely Island.”) t h e Caddyshack, and Airplane!. Lofty When writing skits for f i l m’s aspirations for sure, but if the group’s the MTV Music Awards, p r o - base of Internet fans shows anywhere the Lonely Island crew met duction near the level of interest they have up with Jimmy Fallon, who designer. for “Dick in a Box,” (currently the passed their name along to “Everyone carries an awkward number five all-time most watched SNL creator Lorne Michaels. 12-year-old around inside them. video on Youtube.com), the film is “I got a call from Jimmy. He When it peeks out every now and likely to be a big hit. Photo exhibit opens at the High Sudoku puzzle Annie Leibovitz’s images on display 6 9 8 By Emily Chambers Michael Moore’s film crew. Leibovitz’s professional work but Opinions Editor But the exhibit is not all serious. also includes personal snapshots of 8 3 Across the room from the aforemen- her friends and family. The first photograph on the left tioned group portraits there are two “The revelation of the exhibit is wall of the High Museum of Art’s shots of very famous movie stars the personal work, which has never 3 5 1 exhibition of Annie Leibovitz’s pho- (“actor” would be a stretch). R2D2 been seen before...These personal tography is of a woman clad in a full photos are grouped throughout bodysuit of black leather. Potential the exhibit to show that her private 5 4 7 perversions and fetishes aside, the “...once you go life affected her professional work,” image seems oddly relaxed. Leibovitz Cox said. 1 9 8 manages to utilize a studio setting through the show The personal snapshots, which and a rather sensual wardrobe choice and start to try are smaller and predominantly without appearing pornographic black and white images, show both 4 9 1 5 or tense, instead highlighting the and compute the the highs and lows of Leibovitz’s flowing pose of her subject and the different people in family life. evident comfort of the setting. In impressively honest frames, 4 1 That graphic image is one of front of her camera, Leibovitz presents both the birth of the many shots in the exhibit from it’s quite amazing, her daughter Sarah, and the descent Leibovitz’s time working for Vanity and eventual death of her companion 5 7 2 Fair magazine, a period that can be because it’s such a and lover Susan Sontag due to a recalled for producing famous photos wide array.” prolonged battle with cancer. of Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and the “The ‘snapshots’ are a style of 3 2 9 7 very pregnant Demi Moore. Julian Cox photography that I have always “I think what’s interesting there, done. I have been taking report- once you go through the show and Curator of Photography, age-type pictures my whole life,” Unfortunately, the landscapes, to contradict the personal focus start to try and compute the differ- High Museum of Art Leibovitz said in a press release the final photographs of the exhibit, brought in by the inclusion of her ent people in front of her camera, it’s from the High. are slightly disappointing, especially family photos. quite amazing, because it’s such a and one of the battle droids from Cox described some of the chal- compared to the rest of her work. Despite the disappointing last wide array,” said Julian Cox, Curator George Lucas’s Attack of the Clones lenges she faced when designing the While her skill remains evident images, the final impression of the of Photography at the High. had the privilege of appearing in exhibit. “There are a number of large throughout the exhibit, the final exhibit is a positive one. Leibovitz There are photographs of the front of Leibovitz’s camera, and their scale, sort of billboard size black and frames seem out of focus and im- “is so well known, and has been at Bush cabinet ironically placed side metallic portraits add levity to the white photographs, and those were personal. the top of her field for 35 years,” Cox by side with a similar image, not of vast collection of photographs. hard to place because they are so big, Ending on these frames, with said, and the exhibit is a tribute to a presidential staff, but instead of The exhibit highlights not only and dominated the space.” their absence of humanity, seems her excellence..