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Are you seeing anyone? Or do you have an antiusura relationship w ith .. i Inside: Spice Girls Alumnus Success Story Star Wars Feedback Jamiroquai ¿ k e A s c t J v - » KEVIN GLEASON/Dafly Nexus... 2 A Thursday, February 6,1997 Daily Nexus that tight with the group. Basically, he was a valu able employee, but he’s THE DAILY NEXUS’ 1997 not Jabba’s kid brother as the scene sort of paints I b e s t I "UCSB READERSHIP POLL him as. ^w O F UCSB 1997 ^ Mike: About Boba Fett ^ READERSHIP P O LL* ^ being added ... H ’ e T i i M A C a p Marc: Yeah. Boba Fett staring into the camera for a full five seconds was Y o u r R o cf 1 cheese with a capital “C.” luur D v d i i Artsweek: So, Davia ^ DAILY NEXUST what did you think? You’ve got to let us know! Hosted by your host, Davia: Well, I’ve always loved Star Wars. It was Rules: 1. NO PHOTOCOPIED BALLOTS. 2. Ballots must be dropped off at the Dally Nexus Jason Sattler just great to see it on the Ad Office, underneath Storke Tower, by Wednesday, February 19, at 5pm. 3. The "Best Of’ Issue big screen; that was the will be published on Friday, February 28. 4 . ONE Ballot per person. 5. Ballots must be filled out with reasonable completeness. Ballots with less than half of the blanks filled will be recycled with Prepare to qualify. reason I went alacrity. 6. NOTE: The Nexus' 'Best of UCSB' is intended to be a good-natured contest among Everyone and their mother can claim Artsweek: So what did you think ab business groups and others in the community. In other words, this is not a cutthroat competition that they have some expertise concerning out Leia’s makeup? I hate to sound like whose results are somehow of deep and lasting significance. Please do not take it as such. the Star Wars trilogy. If you haven’t seen Joan Rivers here (1 imitate Joan Rivers’ 7. Decisions of Ballot referees are final. the trilogy a few times, odds are you’ve voice), but I think that was the most a 1. Best 3 a .m . Activity - found better things to do than me and the dated thing in the movie. rest of the idiots who watch Seinfeld and Davia: Why are you asking me about b 2. Best Asian Food order light at a fast food joint. the makeup? (She pauses.) But I did no b 3. Best Atmosphere in I.V. But if you want to be on my Star Wars tice that she looked more made-up than panel, you have to have actually been one she seemed in the past. But, the screen is b 4. Best Bar of the first in line at the Arlington Theater so much laiger than the television screen we are used to seeing her on. I did think b 5. Best BBQ Joint last weekend to catch the “Special Edi tion” version of this epic film. that it is cool to look and see that even 20 b 6. Best Beach £ : The five I found who produced ticket years ago a woman could be powerful. I Q." IO Ü stubs from no later than Sunday night like that and I think she’s a good role b 7. Best Bike Shop were: Mike Ball, Nexus news editor and, model. b 8. Best Bookstore ' CO ■ unbeknownst to either of us, my twin I love the way she can kick those guys’ brother; Marc Valles, opinion editor and asses. b 9. Best Breakfast Place sophomoric wonder; Davia Gray, fea Chris: She does kick ass. t H b tures editor and the appointed antagonist A rtsw eek: So Chris. General b 10. Best Brush-off Lines > v * in this interview; Chris Koch, AP wire thoughts? (0 " b 11. Best Burger editor and that one guy who actually Chris: I thought from a Star Wars fan’s 3 J knows how to use the office Macintosh, point of view, as someone who owns the b 12. Best Burrito j Q ■ commonly refered to as “The Mac”; and movies and seen them repeatedly, the CD ■ me. special effects were great. The enhance b 13. Best Car Repair Shop LJL \ Just assume that before I say anything ments like the Jabba thing were done ab b 14. Best Cheap Beer CO ■ in this dialogue I clear my throat or drool. out as well as they could have been done. ( J ■ That will make it more ninny. Especially with the circumstances that b 15. Best Class to Sleep Through (/> ■ Artsweek: Just for purposes of clarifi Jabba was formerly a human and Lucas CD ■ B 16. Best Class to Wake Up For c ■ cation, does anyone in this room claim decided to change it. - o ■ allegiance to die Dark Side of the Force? Otherwise, I think concerning Jabba’s b 17. Best Club CD I Chris: Well, you go faster on the Dark apparent weakness in the first film, you ^ ; Side. You go farther in life. have to remember that it’s supposed to be b 18. Best Coffeehouse Artsweek: Are things really easier on a few years between Star Wars and The j Q ■ 19. Best Graffiti 20. Best Hair Salon CD 2 21. Best I.V. Park 22, Best Lines to Get in Front of the Keg w. ■ 23. Best (ocal Band s : b 24. Best Men's Bathroom cn2 25. Best Mexican Food CD 2 T 3 _ 26. Best Music Store C " 3 ; 27. Best One-Liners CD " o ■ 28. Best Pasta Place 29. Best Pizza o " the Dark Side? Empire Strikes Back. During that time, 30. Best Place to Get Free Food < ■ Chris: Yoda says so. it’s possible that the pressure on Han to 31. Best Place to Have Sex on Campus Without Getting Caught CO 2 Artsweek: Let’s Just go around the pay off his debts was growing greater as 3 _ room and get your reaction to the re X ■ Jabba got more powerfal. 32. Best Place to People-Watch CD ■ vamped version of Star Wars now in Artsweek: How about the addition of ¿L. ■ theaters. 33. Best Place to See a Concert Tom Cruise as Maverick into the Death CD a Mike: It’s just great to see it back on the Star scene, did that add anything for you 34. Best Place to Shop s z Z big screen — excellent movie, no real guys? complaints. 35. Best Place to Sleep Outdoors O Z Chris: I thought it was a little overdone 4-» ■ Artsweek: Did it feel like you were and sad to see them play off the success of 36. Best Place to Watch the Sunset t watching a new movie at all? Jerry Maguire. = ■ Mike: It didn’t really seem that diffe T30- Mike: Of course the risk is that the mo 37. Best Professor c ■ rent because the one real addition, the vie will now be banned in Germany (due Jabba the Hut scene, really didn’t change 38. Best Radio Station to that country’s problem with Scientol . a ■ things veiy much. It didn’t take anything ogy, a movement Cruise aligns himself 39. Best Restaurant (When Parents Pay for It) ■o Z away or add anything. The really im with). c _ proved part was die Death Star dc^fight Artsweek: OK. Here’s what I’m say 40. Best Sandwich Shop CO ■ 4-» ! sequence... ing: Ben Kenobi does not get killed. He Artsweek: Let’s not give away what 41. Best Surf Shop 3 " uses Voder’s anger to transcend. Right? cD ■ happens with the Death Star, dll right? Marc: No. Ben Kenobi is dead. 42. Best Surf Spot Mike: Even if I’m not sure what hap Chris: He’s now part of the Force. i r - pens, it’s still way better in the new Artsweek: OK, whatever. So why does 43. Best Time to Go Grocery Shopping version. his body disappear? I just want to bring 44. Best Vegetarian Food Marc: I have to disagree with what up one more thing and that’s how the Mike said. new version plays up the relationship 45. Best Video Shop (Artsweek begins going “oooooh between Han and Chewie more as man oooooh” and looking around trying to 46. Best View and dog. stir up tension.) Davia: They are friends. They love each 47. Best Way to Break Up Marc: The added Jabba scenes create other. some pretty serious subplot problems for Artsweek: Do you think there were 48. Best Way to Get Tar Off Feet the later movies. any “treats” involved with Chewie Artsweek: Problems such as... 49. Best Ways to Avoid Studying learning how to fly the Millennium Marc: Jabba comes off as a complete Falcon? 50. Best Women’s Bathroom wuss and so Han in the second movie Mike: Well, understand what the rela wouldn’t have such a great sense of tionship is here. Han used to be in the Im urgency to leave Hoth. This is going to perial Academy and didn’t like the way Nam e: C h e c k O n e - leave people wondering — what in the they were treating Chewie. hell happened to Jabba during the second Marc: Chewbacca was a.slave. Address: □ S t u d e n t movie to make him such a bad-ass? Chris: The Empire officially has no □ S t a f f Artsweek: / see what you are saying, problem with slavery.