ENTERTAINMENTpage 17 Technique • Friday, November 22, 2002 • 17 Hungry for noodles? Can’t keep ‘em down Check out the review of Noodle, the The players on the offensive line keep ENTERTAINMENT trendy Asian cuisine restaurant in getting hurt, but that doesn’t stop the Midtown. Page 22 team. Page 29 Technique • Friday, November 22, 2002 Ice Cube represents the ‘hood in a Christmas Friday film Art Seavey sits down with stars Ice Cube and Mike Epps to chat about the making of the newest Friday installment By Art Seavey napped.” Contributing Writer The Friday idea is the brainchild of Ice Cube, so of course he returns Title: Friday After Next to reprise the role of Craig Jones. Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Originally named O’Shea Jackson, Witherspoon, Don Curry Ice Cube himself did not create his Director: Marcu Raboy current alias. “My brother gave [me] Running time: 93 minutes that name a long time ago. But he Rating: R was clownin’,” he recalled. His broth- er, who is nine years older, would It’s the night before Christmas always have girlfriends calling the Eve and Craig Jones wakes up only house. Cube would often intercept to discover a “janky” Santa stealing the calls and smoothly parley with his presents and the rent money. It them before his brother would pick is back to usual in the hood again, up. where Craig and his cousin Day- One day his brother was joking Day have returned for a third in- with him on the couch and kept stallment of the Friday series with talking about how Cube thought of Friday After Next. himself as too cool. The name Ice The two are forced to come up Cube came up, and it stuck. “I kept with rent money by Christmas Eve it, now I go around clownin’ him… or they will be kicked out of their ‘Look what I done did with that.’” apartment. Craig’s father has ob- Mike Epps also reprises his role tained jobs for them as rent-a-cops as Day-Day. Epps was a regular co- at the local strip mall. John Wither- median in Atlanta for many years. spoon and Don Curry return as the Cube discovered him at the Come- fathers of Craig and Day-Day, re- dy Store in Los Angeles. Both Cube spectively. The older pair has opened and Epps were recently in the area up Bros. BBQ restaurant in the same promoting their movie and took time strip mall. “It tastes so good, makes out to speak with the Technique. By Tracy Bennett / NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS © 2002 you wanna slap your Momma,” the Epps takes on another small role Mr. Jones (John Witherspoon, center) doesn’t know what to do with Day-Day (Mike Epps, left) and Craig (Ice slogan goes. at the end of the film. “Ice Cube just Cube) after they’ve attacked him, thinking he was the “Santa Claus Bandit” that robbed their apartment. Also on the strip is the newly asked me if I wanted to do some- opened Pimp ‘n Ho’s clothing store. thing different.” He was transformed Friday After Next is different from Then New Line Cinema came to Christmas ideas he could incorpo- It is staffed by possibly the most into a trigger-happy geriatric with a the first two Friday movies. Cube him with a release date of Novem- rate into the movie. “I was thinking hilarious character,Money Mike, shotgun. Epps executes a lively por- wanted it to be able to stand alone. ber 22. This sparked an idea. about all the people I remember played by Katt Williams, and his trayal. And, of course, there is the Christ- “I was like, ‘Man you know what? getting their house broken into correspondent Donna, played by “[Cube] said, ‘Meet this guy up mas theme. “We had the story, with We never really had no Christmas around the holiday season.” He K.D. Aubert. She plays the love in- here and try this mask on.’ Man I Craig and Day-Day. I had that apart- ‘hood movie at all.’ This is the per- thought nothing would be funnier terest of Craig. Aubert played a role ended up being in there for four ment situation, the Brother’s BBQ, fect opportunity because it gives Fri- than starting the movie off with a in The Scorpion King, and serves as hours.” The prosthetics scared him the strip-mall security, all that was day kind of a new facelift in a way.” co-host for the MTV show “Kid- the first time he looked in a mirror. going on in my head.” Cube said. From there, Cube reviewed See Friday, page 18 Take a cheap trip to Paris by visiting the High Museum’s new exhibit By Sara Cames Beraud, which portrays exactly how ry. Opinions Editor lavishly rich Parisians lived and en- While the show contains many tertained. The room in which these impressive works of art, it is also The High Museum has truly paintings are displayed is modeled designed to convey to the viewer a outdone itself with its exhibit Paris after what a parlor in a wealthy per- sense of what it was like to live in in the Age of Impressionism: Master- son’s home would look like. Paris during the 19th century when works from the Musee d’Orsay. While Life in Paris was not all parties many of these artists were painting. the museum’s permanent collection and expensive living, though. Oth- Paris in the Age of Impressionism ful- may leave something to be desired, er artists of the time depicted the fills this role admirably, showing the visiting exhibits have been con- loneliness of the life of the poor, the the viewer many photographs of the tinually well conceived, designed, drug addiction of many, and the day and explaining the historical and executed. The Paris exhibit fea- more hardened side of life. value of many of the paintings. tures many Impressionist works that It also has a large section on the have never left France before and is construction of many famous Paris the largest collection of works from landmarks, including the Eiffel the Musee d’Orsay to ever be in the The Paris exhibit...is Tower. This portion of the exhibit United States, making this show truly demonstrates the industrial nature extraordinary. the largest collection of Paris during this time, giving the The exhibit opens with a charm- of works from the viewer a deeper understanding of ing mock Paris sidewalk, complete how revolutionary many of the Im- with street-lamps and benches. The Musee d’Orsay to pressionists were. Despite being sur- first painting in the collection is a ever be in the United rounded by a world that was based Monet called Rue Montorgueil, Par- on precision and progress, they were is, Festival of June 30, 1878. This States, making this able to paint in a way that seeming- work portrays an outpouring of show...extraordinary. ly defied those goals. French patriotism, very appropri- The show closes with the paint- ate for opening this Franco-centric ers who marked the end of the Im- program. pressionist era and began the The next element of the exhibit One work that does this perfect- transition to the modernism of the portrays what the lives of the wealthy ly is Edgar Degas’s The Absinthe 20th century. Paul Cezanne, an art- was like during this time. While Drinker—perhaps the most famous ist often thought to typify these many of the Impressionists focused piece in this exhibit. This piece has changes, is featured prominently in on landscape work, others painted long been considered one of the most this part of the exhibit with his paint- life figures. Among those whose works moving and memorable works in ings Apples and Oranges and Bath- are featured in this part of the ex- the history of art, as it portrays per- ers. While his work was disregarded Jean Schormans / © Photo RMN hibit are James Tissot, Edgar Degas fectly the isolation and melancholy during his lifetime, it is now cele- “Lighting of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Exposition Universelle,” painted and Edouard Manet. The center- that marred the lives of many every- by Georges Garen in 1889, is visiting the High from the Musee d’Orsay. piece of the room is A Party, by Jean day people during the 19th centu- See Paris, page 19 18 • Friday, November 22, 2002 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT He is scheduled to tour with such can’t be no uptight filmmaking.” with smoke and everything pertain- for his return. “I always hope he Friday from page 17 heavy-weights as Bruce Bruce and Cube would often set the scene by ing to it, this film takes a sabbatical. comes back…I always see if he wan- D.L. Hughley. playing Playstation 2 and eating BBQ “With this one it wasn’t time to na come back.” ghetto Santa Claus breaking into With a plentitude of talent, it with the actors and crew on the set. slow down the movie—why slow The question is asked if there is a Craig and Day-Day’s apartment. seems like it would be cumbersome “[I] just make it a thing where ev- down the movie and sit around and reason why he hasn’t come back. Cube always brings new come- getting work done. Cube described erybody’s having a good time.” let everybody…get high and be high. “Because God made it that way so I dic talent to the screen.