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If you did not order the '03 Aggieland as a fee option Anniversary Gala Eric Ortmann, a junior economics major and when you registered for TwoSpy Fall '02 classes, you may (/GrCfest- rfsjOorv* a long-time fan of TwoSpy, said TwoSpy's mnsi order one in the Student Continued from page 3 cal exploits get more impressive with each song Media business office, 015 "They are constantly reinventing themselves," Reed McDonald Building. ■ With its new disc, "Kool ot Yaw Gnorw ( Wrong he said. "This is reflected in their music. WhenI $30 plus tax. (Cash, Check, Way to Look)" being launched today in a CD listen to their CD or attend their concerts, I'm Aggie Bucks, VISA, Tii to be cinnouncx^cl release party and show at Club Concept, MasterCard, Discover, blown away by how they always get better with For mi>ro in(orm.ittf)n, omoll ( 'lirlstlno A^tillar cma&vllarC^or l-twlx McLawhon said the lyrics aim to have a positive American Express) each song. 1 saw them open for Flickerstick or t all Q7Q-345-4551 message and good impact on their listeners. recently and they were incredible. It is amazinjio "A lot of musicians tend to glorify pain and see how far they have come in such a short period suffering by writing lyrics about ordeals they Fifteen Years of Enrickin^ Diversi t\j: of time. It is very inspiring." Aggieland 2003 never even had," McLawhon said. "The lyrics that Loftis said the members of TwoSpy are in the Raising tke Bar of Excellence I mostly write about are about how stupid I can be sometimes. We also like to be truthful and origi­ band for the music. nal in our music.” “We don't care a lot about the money at this Weidlich said he is a strong believer in the the­ point," he said. "If I had enough money to pay ology that it is not the end result that is important, bills and buy CD's then it’s enough for me.The but the path taken to get there. dream and goal is to do something that we love "It's really all about the process of gaining and get appreciated for it. We just hope peoplegei experience to where you want to be, in whatever something out of our music, w hether they cometo you are doing," he said. "In the beginning you see us perform or listen to our CD." write and play music for yourself. After being in TwoSpy will launch its new album at Club the band for a while, we have all realized that we Concept tonight, and will be part of the local have to write for the whole band. Since we have band showcase, which begins at 8 p.m. all become in tuned to each others’ musical tal­ TwoSpy is scheduled to appear onstage at mid ents, the composing process has just been flowing night. The band will also be a guest on 103.9 together lately." F.M. at 1:30 p.m. today. Better Ingredients • Better Pizza ‘Gods and Generals’ gives a ednesday Sped whitewashed historical account W Mu nonactors (including a grinning Turner himself), - .v By Roger Moore who never know quite where to look or how to 1 Extra Large KRT CAMPUS look when the camera is rolling. An awful lot of public servants and ex-public To suffer. To sacrifice. To endure. servants turn up in cameos. Phil Gramm, George Flopping To somehow sit through three and a half hours Allen and Robert Byrd are there. Surely there of “Gods and Generals,” the hackwork Civil War was a role for the least repentant Southern apolo­ gist of them all, Trent Lott? MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY "prequel" to the 1993 historical embarrassment SATURDAY SUNDAY titled “Gettysburg.” Maxwell's racial myopia is patronizing. But 1 LARGE 2 LARGE 1 EX-LARGE 1 LARGE PICKYOUR SIDE LATE NIGHT LATE NIGHT his worst sin is his slack storytelling. He set out LARGE LARGE LARGE We few, we unhappy few, grimace through the 1-TOPPING 1-TOPPING 2-TOPPING 2TOPPING 1-TOPPING & 2 liter drink 1 TOPPING 1 TOPPING molasses-on-grits Southern accents, shake our to make "Gettysburg" for Turner TV and then AND 1 SIDE had the film released into theaters at an inter­ $C 99 $|2 99 $8« $1 1 99 $|2 78 99 $A 99 heads at the historical revisionism and snort at after 1 Opm after 10pm pu/delivery pu/delivery • pu/delivery minable length. That story, at least, seemed to pu/only ® ^ll,® 1 1 “ pu/delivery pu/delivery pu/delivery the static dullness of this endless, flaccid adapta­ tion of another historical novel about America’s support much of that length. "Gods and Northgate Post Oak Square Center ■ « vr^ax a ■ ca ■ ■ ■ c; defining conflict. Generals" is just funereal, as Maxwell didn't 601 University Dr. 100 Harvey Rd., Suite D 1700 Rock Prairie PBS entrusted “The Civil War" to Ken Burns. know what parts of Jeff Shaara's book to leave 979-846-3600 979-764-7272 Ted Turner, who makes cameos in these bloated- out. He stages Christmas-carol singing, parlor 979-680-0508 corpse reenactment movies, gave the job to piano-playing, visit after visit to the hospital tent: Sunday: 1 1 a.am. - midnight Ronald F. Maxwell. And Maxwell, a TV movie and even a USO show (actually, CS0) that has Monday - Wednesday: 1 t a.m. - 1 director with no ear for dialogue that isn't over everything but Bob "The South Will Rise Again Hope. The photography is flat and colorless, save Thursday: 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. the top and no eye for the sort of visual poetry these stories demand, is plainly not up to the job. for a wintry gray re-creation of the December Friday & Saturday: 1 1 a.m. - 3 a. "Gods and Generals" is as laughably drawly 1862 Battle of Freciericksburg. as a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon and as animated as "Gettysburg" benefited from a few standout a daguerreotype. performances, especially Lang in his earlier role It's the story of Stonewall Jackson, his rise and’the late Richard Jordan, in a riveting and from religious fanatic artillery teacher at the emotional sequence during Pickett's Charge.lt Virginia Military Institute to legendary hero of also had the idiotically miscast Martin Sheen as Bull Run and immortal icon of Chancellorsville. Robert E. Lee and Tom Berenger, as General Stephen Lang, who made a splendid Gen. George Longstreet, sharing the screen with a godawful longsleeifes ★ sweats + auto decals ^novelties + Pickett in "Gettysburg," is given center stage and fake beard that had a mind of its own. The beards a decent beard for this role as Robert E. Lee's are better here, and Robert Duvall makes a per­ "right arm." If only he’d been given compelling fectly convincing Robert E. Lee. But Lee is in things to say. the background for too much of the tale. And "I regard the crime of desertion as a sin there isn't an emotional moment in this. against the Army of the Lord," he preaches. He There is some historical foundation for utters oaths about "our sacred war of independ­ showing Southerners who wanted to end slav­ ence," moons over his absent wife and professes ery, of slaves utterly devoted to their masters. to want an end to slavery to his new black cook, But using anecdotes like that to justify the "Uncle" Jim Lewis (Frankie Faison). film's general whitewashing of history is The "S" word is hard to come by in this end­ patronizing and wrong. less epic, just as Abraham Lincoln is forever the Thanks to Ken Burns, we know how people unseen, offstage villain of the piece. Only when talked and looked and thought during the Civil Joshua Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels), returning as War. He reminded us that even then, people kites' the Bowdoin College teacher-turned-Union offi­ what the war was about. Thankfully, it willbetlie cer, shows up is the ugly source of the struggle PBS version of the war that will stick in the pub­ correctly articulated. And he does so in a speech lic mind. And Ronald F. Maxwell can go backto so arch as to draw more eye-rolling than tears. cable where he belongs. It would probably take a staggering budget and a director like Kubrick to pull off this huge GODS AND GENERALS tale on a grand canvas. As it is, the movie, like 1 star (out of 5) Maxwell's "Gettysburg," is heavily reliant on Cast: Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Civil War re-enactors, who fill the screen with Daniels, Mira Sorvino. thousands of men marching, firing and charging. Director: Ronald F. Maxwell. These scenes are vivid and realistic to a fault Running time: 3 hours, 58 minutes, including until you notice the expressionless faces of the intermission.

PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMP'' across Prom Dillard's Robert Duvall, center, stars as Gen. Robert E. Lee, in Ted Turner Pictures' sweeping epic “Gods and Generals.