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, IOC— Mornjng News • Sunday, April 18,1999 NewReleases Video updates Roger Ebert's reviews Game of the week

Pamela Anderson Lee has trimmed her THE GMN& Coolboarders 3 assets. The "Bart) Wire" star has had MAKER: 989 Studios her sllteone Implants taken out. A spokesman for Lee told El the actress 's Ltfe' SYSTEM: Sony PlayStation £ "decided to have them removed, not SUGGESTED PMCB $40 ;; for any medical reasons... She just Sony hits the slopes with Coolboarders 3, the latest In-its wanted her body back to its natural popular snowboarding seriesT! state." - This game combines the fljal- No word yet on the implications on Lee's ism of a simulation game and Jhe career, built on playing a buxom, blonde high-flying theatrics of an arcade on television shows like "Baywatch" title. It gives fans of this burgeon- and the current "V.i.P." The actress is ing sport a chance to feel .what it's a giant on the Internet — some like to soar high over tresftps 145,000 Web pages use her image. and perform superhuman aerial stunts without^ evet .breaking a sweat— or a leg. ••* Best renters at Home Run Video The festivities are spread Jput over more than 30 courses orrsix The top ten video rentals for the week ending April 15 compiled from mountains, packed with rails, data from Home Run Video, 4 E. Liberty St., 236-5192, Savannah: ramps and obstacles as waoHy as a school bus and as dark as a 1. Ronin downed airliner. Boarders race 2. There's Something About Mary over rooftop^ through tunnels, 3. What Dreams May Come under bridges and across,. busy 4. Clay Pigeons roads while trying to avoid pine :'5i Pleasahtville .trees, jagged rocks and icy cliffs. As in most sports, speed iff an ,6vSnake£yes ; asset, but in snowboarding, ifs •/.Pecker '.'-./••>":''•.''.. . •• ': • • . • • '..".'.:••.'.. •.. : the ability to pull off complex 8. Rounders midair maneuvers that counts . 9. Practical Magic . the most Points are awarded /or 10. Living Out Loud performing combinations of flips, twists and grabs that, if actually Top video renters, nationally attempted by a real snowboarder, Last week's top five, compiled by Billboard: woufd cause his stomach to fall out through his mouth and get Savannah Morning News file photo 1. There's Something About Mary caught on his nose ring. A power meter accurately 2. The Waterboy "A Bug** Ute" to more than striking visuals — the film has a lot of wft that adult* wlU enjo* mimics the jumping. action of a 3,R6nin • • A BUG'S UFE(G) Pixar, the comput- Recommended for children as well ning down into drugs, fatigue and real snowboarder as he bends his 4; er animation studio that made "Toy ' as adults. Rating: *** despair Colm Meaney is the head of knees on the approach to a ramp, 5. Pleasantville Story," returns with another great- their car theft operation, Billy then springs off the lip. If he looking feature-length cartoon. This THE SIEGE (R) A thriller that bor- Crudup is an ex-con with a big times it right, he'll launch him- Ton video setters, turtfoualy one is about an aut colony held, in rows-from recent headlines to make mouth, Famke Janssen is the boss's self high into the air. If his timing Last week's top five, coinpiled by Billboard: thrall to grasshoppers, until the a story that hits uncomfortably close girlfriend but gets drunk and sleeps is off, he could be destined for a plucky little Flik (Dave Poley) to home. Arab terrorists blow up,tar-, around, and Martin Sheen is the cyn- face-plant 1; Tae-Bo Workout recruits some weird and wacky gets in New York, Denzel ical detective. A searing portrait of The arcade action is comple- 2. Ever After A Cinderella Story insects that he thinks are mercenar- Washington and Annette Bening the way gangs confuse their depravi- mented by realistic details that would rival any simulation. Night 3. The Rugrats Movie ies (actually, they're refugees from a lead the federal response, and when ty and racism with "upholding the flea circus). Wonderful visuals, lots martial law is declared, a general neighborhood." Rating: skiing features the subtle colors 4;Mulan . of wit Aimed more at a general fam- (iBruce Willis) runs roughshod over and dramatic shadows of a moon- ^; 101 Dalmations ily audience than the also entertain- the Constitution as he rounds up A MGOT a THE ROXBURY (PG-13) lit evening on the slopes. Even ing "Ante." Rating: Arab-Americans. The movievmakes Will Ferrell and Chris Rattan star, as the blinding effect of a .snow- an attempt to be balanced/"They Steve and Doug, the head-snapping storm is amazingly reproduced, SMON HRCH

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Pop star 's latest song is NEW YORK — "VHl's Diyas reportedly dedicated to the plight of the Live *99" — which aired live from . Kosovo Albanian refugees; All proceeds New York's Beacon Theatre 'on from the single "?" Tuesday—was a literal expose in will go toward helping the hundreds of diva-ness. There was supposedly thousands of ethnic Albanians who have - a hear cat-fight during rehearsals fled or been driven out of their homes In between Tina Turner -and Kosovo, Jackson told the London Mirror, wannabe diva . There "the TV footage just breaks my heart.-It's TOM >mY AMD TW were; wardrobe, changes dmiing just horrifying." mSs'^Echo." Tom Potty's long jour- each commercial break and an. A- ney through (Americana takes a list of invited guests that ranged detour down melancholy side roads from Donald Trump to Armafld on his 14tli . Back; with his Assante and Claudia Schiffeiv Best-solera at Disc Jockey ' longtime supporting cast, the Tina Turner opened the show The top ten CDs for the week ending April 15 compiled from data from Heartbreakers, for their first full- — rather fittingly — with, an Disc Jockey in Savannah Mall, 927-7113,Savannah: blown collaboration in eight years, inspired performance of "Simply Petty unveils an album where the The Best" (She was received the playing is typically top-notch, the .most enthusiastically by,Jhe. THte , ...... ArtW 1. Family Values Tour'98 Various artists organic jangle rich and familiar. crowd.) Turner also pulled;off Unlike the Florida rocker's latest what may have been the coolest 2. Soundtrack: The Matrix Various artists two records — "Wildflowers"' arid yet authoritative conceit arrival 3. The Slim Shady LP "Songs and Music From 'She's the ever—pulling up in a limo just as 4. Fanmall. TLC ; One,' "which toyed with a crisp the band began the first s6ng, 5,400Degreez Juvenile .power pop sound — "Echo" is back then calmly strutting through .the 6.1 Am... MAS to earth, with instrumentation and front doors, through the lobby 7. Follow the Leader Kom arrangements that are lean but and down the main aisle to join potent Petty's weathered eloquence the group on stage. 8.E.LE. 1 9. Candyass Orgy serves him well on tracks both A soulful "Let's Stay TogetBer" 10.100% Ginuwine Ginuwine world-weary ("Echo") and upbeat followed and Elton John .then ("Won't Last Long"), and the made the first of several unnec.- Heartbreakers make gloriously vivid essary appearances — joining BWboani's hot 100 singles: Top 10 noise on songs like "About to Give Smnttfi Morr*» N*wt fli« photo Turner for a duet of "The Bitijh is THta . . Out" There's ft haziness about the WKhMs 14thafcum — "ftjho" — beingratoaMd, itinabttamajor Back." f, 1. TLC album that begs to be misinterpret- ptayw on the rock scww (John seemed more Hit?? a 2. Believe Cher ed as listlessness, and many of these party-crasher here than a 4eg- 3. Every Morning .SugarRay . . tunes are delivered with a startling- endary rocker. Dueling on a s^ng 4. What's it Gonna Be?! Busta Rhymes ly heavy heart, but ultimately "Echo" to his slick, harmony-filled, beat- actual heft, by current mainstream with a diva or two may have Heen 5. Kiss Me . Sixpence None The Richer is a rewarding reverberation. Rating: heavy . Nashville standards, from the steel- OK, but he had more stage Ome On his third CD with vocal part- soaked "Strong Enough to Cry" to than some of the women.) - . 6. Heartbreak Hotel ners Chauncey Hannibal, Terrell husband Jon Randall's "On This Cher joined Turner for a mis- 7.1 Still Believe Marian Carey MUOOUS ARTISTS: "Original Phillips 'and Eric Williams, Riley Bed" and Kim Ridley's rock-edged ing rendition of "Proud Mfiry." 8. Angel of Mine Monica Soundtrack Go." The soundtrack to provides nasty romance; boasts "Here I Go Again." Even "Maybe Not and later went solo for an efier- 9. C'estLaVie BWftched the black comedy "Go" Is loaded about Benjamins, set to modern soul Tonight," a big, made-for-radio duet getic performance of "If I Cquld 10. Slide Goo Goo Dolls with a similar (nix of new arid estab- chords; Zapp-style vocoder tricks ("I ballad with Sammy Kershaw, Turn Back Time." « lished talent: Last year's one-hit Got What You On"); and mesmerizing exhibits taste and restraint Jokingly referring to herself as The Billboard 200 top : Top 10 wonder Natalie Imbruglia makes a samples. The only thing finer than Throughout the set, the crisp, the "Lazarus of ," Cher bid for long-term respect with the snagging the Jacksons' "Can You understated arrangements favor then apparently llp-synchedjier 1W* MM perfunctory "Troubled by the Way Feel It" for his own cocky, lean- country character over pop fluff, and way through her No. 1 'hit 1.1 Am ... We Came Together," which isn't as devices is inducing to Morgan is at her most winning; By "Believe." Although the audi- 2. Fanmall TLC wretched as her detractors might play coy and sexy on his simmering, turns tough and tender, she uses her ence didn't seem to mind that it 3.... Baby One More Time have hoped. Score 1. Fatboy Slim funny "Girlfriend/Boyfriend" duet been-around-the-j)lock maturity 'to may have been pre-record€