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Wednesday, July 27,1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 78, Issue 154 Student to recite at Pa. Lollapalooza Whoooo Waaaa by Andy Dugan The BC News physically kicked off the stage because the crowd didn't like A University student who re- what he said." cently won a poetry contest at a Lollapalooza concert has been Invited to perform in another Lol- lapalooza concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Daniel Gray competed against 25 other poets from around the country at the Lollapalooza con- cert in Columbus on July 19. Competitors came as far away as Los Angeles, New York, Pitts- burgh, and St. Louis to compete. "The poets competed through- out the day and the judges were picked by the audience," Gray said. "The winner was de- termined by whoever moved the audience the most. It's just a matter of performance." Gray said that upon winning "I know I'll be the poetry contest, he was per- competing again. sonally asked to compete in the July 30 Lolapalooza in Pitts- They asked my rap burgh, Pennsylvania group, 'Damn Noise,' "Liz Belile asked me to come back for the Pittsburgh concert, to perform there on a but it wasn't because I won in smaller stage." Columbus; you don't automatical- ly go if you win," Gray said. "I Daniel Cray know I'll be competing again. They asked my rap group, 'Damn Gray said his favorite part of Noise,' to perform there on a competing in the concert was smaller stage." getting to meet the Last Poets, a Gray explained that there was prominent poetry group in the no guarantee that he would be 1970's. able to recite his poetry to the en- "The best thing that happened tire audience at the concert even to me there was meeting the Last if he did win. Poets," Gray said. "They were so "They don't do that much any- down to earth. It was really cool. The BC Newt/Rebecca Holier I get to see them again in Pitts- more," Gray said. "Somebody over two hours but it is worth the thrill of having your feet dangle was up there once and he was burgh." The Raptor is the hot new roller coaster featured this summer at Cedar Point in Sandusky. Riders beware, the wait in line may last in the air as you speed over the loops and hills.

by Rebecca Caldwell shaken up to remember your BGNews Thrills and chills assured at experience on the Magnum BOT president XL-200, you can always take Who has the most track, the World's Roller Coaster Capital home the all too unflattering highest hills and the greatest picture that is automatically speed of anyone else in the now, the Switchback was the already given over 1 million taken of each rider and public- to be honored world? fastest coaster in the world in rides and is expected to give a ly displayed. Cedar Point its time." Among Cedar Point's million more by the end of its The Corkscrew, one of Cedar by Michael Zawackl With 11 rollercoasters. Cedar world-famous rollercoasters is first year. Point's oldest rollercoasters, The BG News Point has rightfully earned the the recently completed Raptor, "We have taken exit polls of has a track length of 2,050 feet "Judge Connally is the first title "Rollercoaster Capital of which spins its riders upside our guests, and found that the twisting over the Midway. Board of Trustees president African-American [graduate] to the World." down six times. Raptor is the highest rated rol- With the first hill reaching 85 Judge C. Ellen Connally will be have such a high honor as Board "When you build a roller- The Raptor stretches over lercoaster ever at Cedar feet, Corkscrew riders will run honored by the Cuyahoga County president," Williams said. " The coaster, good things happen." 3,790 feet of neon green track, Point," Norton said. through its loops and twists at Black Alumni Association of reception is to show her that we'- Steve Norton, Cedar Point its highest point standing 137 The tallest and fastest coas- a top speed of 48 mph coming Bowling Green State University re proud of her and that we sup- guest relations, said. feet above the ground. The ter at Cedar Point is the Mag- close enough to catch an inver- Sunday afternoon, July 31. A pri- port her in her decisions as Rollercoasters have been height of the Raptor track is num XL-200, completed in ted glimpse of passers-by. vate reception Board President." Cedar Point's claim to fame only one of the things that sets 1989. Its first hill rises 205 feet The Gemini, a wooden coas- In her honor Williams said the CCBAA was since the amusement park it apart from the others. Raptor and falls at a 60 degree angle of ter completed in 1978, has two will be held by started about five years ago by giant began 124 years ago, Nor- riders brave the coaster's top declination. If coaster en- trains racing side by side. the CCBAA's 23 University graduates who had ton said. speed of 57 mph with their feet thusiasts are still conscious The first hill drops its Gem- founding not been active in the Cleveland "Our first coaster was the dangling below in a seating after the first hill, barreling ini riders 124 feet at a top members. Con- alumni chapter and who were Switchback, built in 1892," style known as the inverted rol- through the strobe lighted tun- speed of 60 mph. nally was one African-American. Norton said. "It was 25 feet tall lercoaster. nel at a top speed of 72 mph One of the best things about of the chapter The CCBAA has established a and had a speed of 10 mph." The wait for the $12 million may induce cardiac infarction, the Gemini is that even with members in- growing scholarship endowment "This was considered lightn- rollercoaster might take about or so say various posted warn- the second longest track strumental In and annually gives African- ing speed then, because roller- 3 hours, but it is considered ing signs. Altogether the Mag- length, 3,935 feet, the line still the conception Connally American students from the coasters had been invented well worth It by those who have num snakes 5,106 feet in length manages to move quickly. of the CCBAA, Cuyahoga County area schol- just seven years prior," Norton ridden. along Lake Erie. Donald C. Williams, reception arships and awards, Williams said. "Even though this is slow Norton said the Raptor has However, if you are too See Coasters, page three. chairman, said. said. Fair offers activities by Andy Dugan The BC News Wood County Fairgrounds at the fair will start at 6:45 p.m. at 13800 West Poe Rd. in Bowling the Grandstand and will be fol- Preparations for the 121st an- Green. lowed by the Wood County Youth nual Wood County Fair taking Slpes said Wood County resi- Parade, the Eddie Boggs Show, place next week will include dents have always been suppor- and a teen dance dee-jayed by holding activities for community tive of the fair. Rob Thomas of 92.5 KISS-FM at members of all ages. "The people of Wood County the Annex Building. "The purpose of the fair is to are very receptive of the fair," Friday's lineup will Include get the community Involved, to Sipes said. "The attendance Kid's Day with the Junior Fair get all ages Involved," Jo Slpes, keeps increasing every year and exhibits, a tractor pull, a circus, vice-president of the Fair Board, there's always something to do. and the first day of the Science said. "It's a time for the commu- There's 90 acres to stroll, look, and Technology exhibition. nity to get together and see each eat, see, and do all day long. Saturday will have a horse pull, other and catch up on the good There are things happening a tug-of-war, steer wrestling and times and for the past year. It's a everywhere. You have to spend cattle roping. On Sunday, an an- time to remember that we're still some hours taking it all In." Last tique car and truck show will be all friends." The fair starts year, the fair attracted 125,000 planned as part of Family Day. The BC Ncwi/nic photo Thursday, August 4, and runs un- residents throughout the week. til Wednesday, August 10, at the The opening ceremonies for Sea Fair, page three. Everyone wants to get in on the action. Even this pig cannot wait for the start of the Wood County Fair, Various activities are available for participants of all ages and maybe even a few farm animals.

Mike and Sam ponder our Summer in the City takes Pretzel Boy and Sideshow Weather: Unseasonable INSIDE existence on the Red Planet readers to Godfrey's in Charlie quiz those who feel temperatures will reach the and the posslblitles of Bowling Green. they are worthy with early high 70s. Temperatures extraterrestrial life In the 80s trivia Those who dare should resume into the mid big black void we call outer v Page 3. should read on. 80s by the end of the week. space. •■Page 2. ••PageS. The Editorial Page The BG News page two Wednesday, July 27,1994 IMNTTOWE IT 1 TMI5 £PA REPORT CRITICAL Of gCMP The BG News MKUl CLEAR . stem** SMOKE MUST BE WITHDRAWN! "A Commitment to Excellence"

Michael Zawacki editor-in-chief

Glen Lubbert managing editor

Paul Evans THEY MUSTM K AUCW ID MANIPULATE FOLKS WITH BAD photo editor SCIENCE. FAULTY STATISTICS AND ULTERIOR MOTIVES! / Generation X is a negative label

yy e are the products of the Baby Boomers. We are Generation X. But what does that mean and how does that label yiwGaufBOtwSt define us. Basically, a Generation X'er is a college educated twenty-something individual who can't get a job or is stuck in a dead-end nowwhere job where the com- Martians: Keep your appendix! mon phrase is: "Do you want fries with that?" The News believes this label is a negative stereo- Sniff, miff. What's that smell? to unlocking the Doors to your type given to us by such dictators of popular culture It's like somethings burning. Oh Inner Beauty? as MTV. my God, it's two burnt-out news- What if your appendix was We are depicted in their trite television shows to paper columnists sitting in the beneficial In expanding your be traveling down a dead end street, lost on the edge Union! Run! Runawayl mind? What If everyone solved of poverty with nowhere to go but farther into the the Mysteries of the Appendix vast void of despair and disappointment. Sam: Well, I don't have any and it resulted in a thousand Such feelings and visions of Generation X are ideas. Don't you have any ideas? years of Lasting Peace, just like prevalent in current music and art. Mike: Nooo. Urn, we can write Nostradamus said? about our cat. This could stop the Baseball What is sad is that both our generation and the old- Sam: Uh, no. We can write Strike! er generations are accepting this label as an excuse about how the U.S. should end the Not impressed yet? Okay, what for our actions and our situation. We are seen as a trade embargo against Cuba so if the Martians told us that by us- Now, how would we kill time on Our major fear is they'd tell us ing your appendix properly, you bitter generation. But are we bitter because of our we won't have to go up to Windsor the Red Planet? We're sure something we really didn't want would become irresistable to the situation or because a stereotype has been handed for good cigars. NASA would force us to conduct to know. For Instance, "You down to us, that we are expected us to fail at our Mike: Nooo. Let me ask you opposite sex? Huh? You'd want to some of their dumb experiments Earthllngs of course understand know that, wouldn't you? lives. this: If you could choose the (Yes, Houston! Guppies can have the Importance of keeping your manner of your own death, what Sam and Mike go to Mars, and The label of Generation X is not something which sex in weightlessness. Can we go appendix In?" by the time we splash down, should be aspired to by college graduates. We put too would it be? now?). But when the testing is Sam; I'd like to have a piano Imagine if that seemingly use- you're all laying outside the much time, effort and money into education and done, we'd go meet the natives. Union, scanning charts from 100 higher learning. dropped on my head. Why? less thing hanging on your small This week's column Is about Let us refute you before you Intestine was the key to happi- level biology books, and rubbing Such a label is degrading, plain and simple. our upcoming visit to Mars. even say it. Of course there is life ness and knowledge and bliss and each other's lower bellies. We deserve much more than that. Our roommate Jim - his contri- on other planets. You know, it's really witty things to say at par- This is information we'd want We deserve some sort of recognition which is re- bution to our household is a sub- pretty stinking arrogant to think ties, or something? to share with all of you! flective of the intelligent, talented and resourceful scription to Newsweek. This Our Creator would make all these Or maybe It isn't. Hmmm. human beings that we are. week's cover screams "To Walk planets and solar systems and Wouldn't you be horrified? We What people, both of our generation and of other On Mars." place living creatures on only are. One of us more so than the You know why people on this generations, have to start realizing is that we are the It then quietly asks "Scientists one. Pretty egocentric of you. other (as only one of us has his planet probably are subjected to Can Get Us There, But Do We appendix), granted, but the hor- getting their appendices re- doctors, lawyers, construction workers, secreteries Now before any of you smar- and business people of tomorrow. We will produce Dare?" to which we say, "Hell ror is still there. moved? Not because they are in yeah, this will kill thirty column tles from the Astronomy De- any kind of medical danger. Hell the next generation that will carry on what we have inches. Let's go!" partment start sending us your e- Seriously! No one knows any- no! It's just another way that the started But what will happen if we do not have the rnail, yeah, we know about the thing about the appendix! What if man tries to keep us down. Earth- confidence to start anything new? What will be left to (We know what you're thinking Viking missions. Scanned the the Martians are right? What if lings and Martians unite to fight pass down to our children? "Oh great, just what I don't need: surface of Mars, took pictures, it's really important? What if it the man. We are tomorrow's future and if we accept today Another op-ed piece where the blah, blah, blah, didn't find life. keeps you healthy? Or what if it's This much we know: We know that we will not succeed, then we have already failed. author merely re-writes an arti- Well, the Viking ships didn't loaded with prozac? we may never get to Mars. cle from a mainstream pub- look underground, did they? And we know this Martian- lication and passes it off as origi- Huh? Not only are we removing each Appendix Conspiracy Theory has nal thought." Continuing on... others' appendicies (not we, as in gotten us our quota of thirty col- To which we say, "Oh no, you Sam and Mike, but we as in the umn inches. For that, we're have us confused with former BG So we're imagining we're Human Race), those of us who happy. The BG News Staff News columnist James Walters." under the surface of Mars, swap- still have ours may not be using To which you say, "Oh that's ping stories with the natives. them to their full and powerful And we know it's time to go on a Quest for the Lost Appendix, so reporur SamMelendez right. Carry on boys.") Hopefully, we'd learn things potential. from each other. by next week we'll both have an reporur Mike Cook We did some research on our What If we get to Mars and all appendix, which would be spec- destination. Page 44 of News- reporur Rebecca CaldweU the Martians want to talk about Is tacular timing, because you of weekreads, and we quote, "Mars Us: No, not Three of a kind reporur Andrew Buskey beats two pairs. the Importance of "getting in course know the importance of reporur Andy Dugan has Earthlike seasons" (foot- next week, don't you? ball?) and the average surface touch with your appendix." No, reporur Lclitia Ferric rr we haven't been drinking! temperature is -67 degrees F Them: Would you like to read copy editor Rahphia Jemison about our cure for cancer and (you can write your own Olscamp Next Week Our Final Column. copy editor Becky Holzer Joke In the provided space:) AIDS? What If getting in tune with Sam Melendez and Mike Cook So that's good enough for us, to Us: The key to prolonging the your appendix would give you a are weekly columnists for The BG he BG News Editorial Of the spaceship! To the Millenium freshness of ground coffee is to Higher Level of Consciousness, News. E-mail them this second: Falcon! keep it in the freezer. or something? What if it's the key mcook2iiandy.bgsu.edu editor 372-6966 managing editor 372-2603 assistant managing editor 372-6968 What is your favorite roller coaster? news editor 372-2952 city editor 372-6968 sports editor 372-2602 editorial 372-2604 204 West Hall Bowling Green State University tf\ **^ ■ Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0726 -M' [email protected]

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summer. ...-■ The BG News encourages its readers to notify the paper of any errors in stories or photograph descriptions. Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of die student body, faculty or University administration. Opinions expressed in "The Racer at Paramount's Kings Island, because It goes "The Thunderbolt at Kenny- "The Raptor at Cedar Point, "The Racer at Paramount's columns, cartoons and letters are not necessarily those of The BG backwards. We went on the wood Park in Pittsburgh. You al- because your feet are just dan- Kings Island and the Magnum at News. Letters intended for publication must be between 200-300 backwards one and I've never most hit your head going down gllng. You could just drop at any Cedar Point. Because of the words long, typed and include the writer's name, phone number and been on a better ride." the cliff." time." speed and the height" University affiliation, if any. The BG News reserves the right to edit Joe Romano Scott Lantz Kara Williams Heather Spencer any and all letters. Senior Senior Junior Grad Student Political Science Construction Management Hospitality Management English and Spanish The BG News Wednesday, July 27,1994 page three Bike tour Godfrey's: servin* up breakfast connects Now, if we had to choose a chicken on a bed of rice and of, cern. Your main concern is the stage," sure, go ahead. meal to eat at Godfrey's, it would course, hamburgers and other cream puffs. They're huge! A Muzak version of "Get Back Si******* be breakfast. Not that their lun- sandwiches. They're as big as softballs! And Honky Cat" was playing on the BG with ches and dinners are bad, be- It's all pretty tasty. Some food mmmm are they good, and ooh sound system, but we probably cause they certainly are not. But (roast beef platter) is tastier than are they sloppy. And that's what wouldn't have noticed unless their breakfasts just rock the others (fried chicken dinner), but dessert is all about, isn't It? Eric hadn't pointed it out, so dont cities house, baby. Go check it out, es- overall, it's all pretty good. Observations while waiting for hold that against Godfrey's. Be- by Andy Dugan pecially the $2.39 Breakfast Spe- Getting full? Well, take some of the check... cause when the check comes, The BC News cial. that home in a Styrofoam box, It's family restaurant decor, you'll be pleasantly surprised. with Mike Cook But if you show up for lunch or because we're going to the des- meaning wood paneling and w & SamMelendez dinner, you should confront the sert bar. forest green and little lamps that Or if you have a Food Town In an effort to build a trail Spectacular Soup, Salad and Des- The stock rotates at the God- hang from the ceiling with red Preferred Shopper Card, you'll connecting Bowling Green sert Bar and Buffet, or whatever frey's dessert bar. Different lamp shades on them. laugh out loud when you read the to Rudolph and North Bal- types of pies and cakes and cook- check. You'll feel like you've timore, the Wood County "So, do you have a Food Town they call it. This thing makes our It's a good quality restaurant. knees knock. Perhaps that's go- ies and other goodies are always We wouldn't call it a hot place to pulled a quick one on the man. Park District and the Black Preferred Shopper card yet?" we present. And while that's all fine Swamp Bicycling Society are asked anytime we get too ing a bit too far, but we certainly bring a first or second date, but and good, it is not your main con- are presenting the fourth- close to Food Town. "No," we re- do enjoy it. once you reach that "comfortable As we did. We went the other day when annual Good Ole Summer- ply In unison so it would be easier time Bicycle Tour. to write about in the newspaper, they were serving up bean soup. Eric seemed to like it. "The purpose of the event "Cant we just buy our stuff with- Is to promote the Slippery out filling out any of your silly We skipped the soup to concen- trate on the salad bar, which was Elm Trail," Andrew Kal- forms? Can't you see we're frus- mar, director of the tour, trated writers?" in rare form on this magical night. The cheese looked good, said. "This trail wUl con- But recently we've seen the nect BG with North Balti- light. the cherry tomatoes were just rolling off our plates, and they more." The rails-to-trails Our buddy Eric says to us the project will span a 13-mile other night, "You know, you get had two types of pasta salad and they were yummy, thank you. length of abandoned rail- yourself one of them Food Town road corridor between cards and you get a Buy One Get We'll get to the dessert bar later, as we don't want to ruin our North Baltimore and Bowl- One Free deal over at God- ing Green. frey's." appetites. Kalmar said the tour, So we pat Eric on the head and Being a family restaurant, they serve family restaurant type which is sponsored by the drag him and his discount card Black Swamp Bicycling So- over to Godfrey's. After all, we food. (According to Webster's Dictionary, a family restaurant is ciety, the Wood County gotta eat. And after all, our editor Park District, Friends of wanted this feature about thirty defined as any restaurant you can take your grandparents to, the Wood County Park Dis- hours ago. trict, Cycle Werks of Bowl- When will the Food Town card and they'll enjoy it because grandparent-targeted restaurant ing Green, and Rapid Print- work at Godfrey's? Well, the ing, will be held in conjunc- rules are scribbled in magic food is served, like fish dinners and salad bars.) tion with North Baltimore's marker on a piece of poster Good Ole Summertime fes- board taped to the door. Go look So Godfrey's serves up the fish dinners, and other family fare tival, the biking event's yourself, as the rules are kind of namesake. such as veal, roast beef sand- Tkt BC Ncwi/P.ul Eva complicated. But it is buy one, "It got its name because get one free, and that's nothing to wiches, BBQ ribs, steak and Dessert anyone? Godfrey's offers a dessert bar to tempt the sweet tooth and to challenge the waist- shrimp, fried chicken dinners, line. Among the delicacies are cheesecake, cream puffs and pie. the tour begins in North shake a stick at. Baltimore and it is going on at the same time the fes- tival is," Kalmar said. Fair Kalmar said 162 partici- Continued from page one. pants showed up for but year's event to cover dis- ages 60 and older between 8 am. tances of 31, 62, or 100 There will also be parimutuel and 7 p.m., a pie auction, and an miles. harness races, a stock football Uhlman's Back to School Style competition, and music by Bound Show. "About 30 of the riders took on the 100 mile course, for Jubilee, John Patrick, and On Wednesday, the State which surprised me," Kal- Most Wanted. Highway Patrol will hold a rein- mar said. "We expect a Quilt Day will be the theme on actment of a car accident caused comparable number this Monday as the fair hosts a quilt by drunk driving at the Grand- year." show and auction, more tractor stand. The fair will close with a pulling, harness racing, and mu- Registration the day of hog-calling and catch-a-pig the ride will be from 7 until sic by Tony Packo's Cake Walkln' contest..Mud volleyball and the 9 am. in Shelter #2 at the Jazz Band. Tuesday will host free World's Largest Demolition Village Park in North Bal- admission for senior citizens Derby will also be on hand. timore. Registration cost is $10, which includes lunch Bowling Green State University and a commemorative Slip- 1994 Football Schedeute pery Elm Trail water bottle or lapel pin. Route maps, rest stops, Sept 1 at NC State 7:00 and route patrol will also be Sept 10 at Akron 6:00 on hand during the tours. SCPT 17 NAW (FAMLY DAY/MILmm Y DAY /HALL or FAUE DAY)-. 1 .-00 All riders are required to Sept 24 at Eastern Mtehican 4:00 wear a helmet to be eligible Oct 1 at Cincinnati 7:00 to participate in this tour. OCT 8 OHO (HOMCCOMWO)...... 1:00 For more information, con- Oct 15 at Toledo 7:00 tact the Wood County Park OCT 22 BALL STATE (OBOUP DAY/VARSITY BQ DAY) 1*0 District at 18729 Mercer OCT 29 MIAMI (PARENTS DAY) 1:00 Road, Bowling Green, Ohio, Nov 5 at Kent 1:00 The BG Newi/Mlchacl Zawa The Troika may not be on the grand scale that the coasters are, but it still comes through with the or call (419) 353-1897. thrills. Cedar Point has a number of other fast paced rides which are a nice diversion from the big coasters. Home Away F $'*r Coasters 21 $20 Continued from page one. with 56 rides. 10 water slides. satisfy the wants of their guests, 18 "Cedar Point sets the stan- What makes Cedar Point Norton said. The Mean Streak, a wooden coas- dards for the industry," Norton different from other amusement "We evaluate our guests, we ter like the Gemini, reaches a top said. "We are the top attended parks is Uial the. nave liieir own look at other parks and we look at 15 $15 speed of 65 mph but has the seasonal amusement park in the planning department. what is actually able to be built to longest track length of any coas- world, with 3.6 million guests in determine what needs to be ; w 12 * ter in the park at 5,428 feet. 1993." This allows Cedar Point to done," Norton said. Next to the Magnum, the Mean If the rollercoasters do not Streak has the highest hill, climb- bring the guests, other enter- 9 ing to 161 feet. tainment options are available. *9 Like the Raptor, the Mean Norton said Cedar Point has a 6 Streak draws quite a crowd and wide variety of choices for a va- the wait may take up to 3 hours. riety of visitors. GROUNDS f OR THOUGHT However, unlike, the Raptor, the "We have seven live shows a 3 wait may not be worth it. day, six days a week," Norton Although wooden coasters said. 0. . sometimes feel faster, the Mean "We also have 13 rides built Streak doesn't have the twists specifically for children in Kid- 'Chair Bench General Kent UT Akron Eailem NC Cincinnati and loops that Raptor-like coas- dyland." Re*. Rw. Admiuion Ml Slakt ters are famous for. With almost 125 years under its In addition to the live shows, belt, Cedar Point is still on top of and the children's area, Cedar Football Ticket Pricing 1994 Season I the amusement park industry Point has Soak City, which offers

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ACROSS THE NATION

then he found his way into the Prison for pizza boxing arena, where brutality was not only condoned but ex- PITTSBURGH - Two teen-agers pected and richly rewarded," who ambushed and killed a pizza Givens writes in the September delivery man for $100, then ate issue of Playboy magazine. the pizza, were sentenced to life One of their many fights ended July 2 7 19 9 4 in prison without parole. when Tyson knocked Givens IFOUR Dorian Lamore was convicted across the room with what he June 28 of first-degree murder in later called "the best punch I've the 1993 slaying of Jay Weiss. ever thrown In my life." Flying saucer or pizza dough? Phillip Foxx was convicted of Tyson and Glvens divorced in second-degree murder. Both are 1988 after eight months of mar- 16. riage. He was later convicted of Foxx tried to apologize Mon- rape and Is serving a six-year day, but Judge Robert Dauer cut sentence. him off and asked, "Were you sorry then, or Just sorry now?" All the right moves Foxx said his mother was dead and he lived In an abandoned CHICAGO - Writers? Don't building because he was es- ask David Gef fen about writers. tranged from his father. "The fact that someone writes Dauer said that was no excuse. a good book doesn't mean their "People without parents dont all ideas for the movie are good," , kill people." said Geffen, whose company is Weiss' brother, John, also re- producing the film version of fused Foxx's apology, saying: "Interview with the Vampire.'* "Sorry isn't going to bring him Author Anne Rice and many of back." her fans have complained about Authorities say Foxx and La- the casting of wholesome Tom more ordered pizza and soda, Cruise as the vampire Lestat. But then ambushed Weiss and deliv- Geffen says in an interview in ery man Paul Puhac in a narrow the September issue of Playboy street, shooting both men and magazine that the critics are just taking about $100 from Puhac. batty. Weiss wasnt working that night "People were outraged when He had stopped in for cigarettes Vivien Leigh was cast in the role and volunteered to ride with Pu- of Scarlett O'Hara. Today, It is hac. unthinkable that anybody else Is the price right? could have played it," he said. Callous for tender NEW YORK - Come on Down! The company that produces "The Price is Right" is for sale. NEW YORK - Americans are Mark Goodson Productions has growing more dishonest than hired investment banker Lazard ever in their pursuit of a buck, Freres to contact buyers willing Money Magazine says. to spend between $100 million The survey in the magazine's and $200 million, The Wall Street August issue also found that Journal reported today. young people were more di- The Journal reported that La- shonest than old, men more than zard has targeted Sony as a po- women and rich more than poor. tential buyer. Neither Lazard nor Twenty-four percent of re- the family-owned production spondents said they wouldn't The BG Newt/Paul Evans company would comment public- correct a waiter who underchar- Kelly Wray, of Campus Pollyeyes pizza, tosses bis dough crust Into the air as he prepares for the professional ly, the paper said. ged them. In a similar poll con- pizza tossing contest at Bowling Green's second-annual pizza fest on Saturday. Goodson has earned a mention ducted In 1987, only 15 percent of in the Guinness Book of Records respondents said they wouldn't for producing a record 39,500 TV correct the waiter. THEY shows. In its prime time. Good- Nine percent said they'd keep son was a cash cow, making the cash if they found a wallet SAID IT money so quickly that when containing $1,000. In the 1987 EEBLCIE RIBBON PHOTOS Goodson died at age 77 in 1992, survey, 4 percent said they'd Forbes magazine estimated his keep the money. People between "She's a very reckless woman. It's her plot, worth at $450 million. the ages of 18 and 34 were 10 In the 1950s, it dominated times more likely to keep the her ploy, to dissolve my reputation in the morning television with game money than people 65 and older. LET THE EXPERTS community." shows including "Password," The survey found nearly a John Wayne Bobbin "Concentration," and "I've Got a third of respondents said they'd Secret" Later staples included cheat on their Income taxes. on his former fiancee, Kristina Elliott "Family Feud," and "To Tell the The rich seemed especially Truth." fond of tax fraud. 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count on a muddy distorted It In; Still of the night. Here I go Gumball is one band that offers ses the need for change be- this music isn't really for guitar, staight ahead bass and again and Is this love? off of the superficial foot-stumping cause change is good! This thinking, anyway. This album drums and songs which deal the Whitesnake album; and pleasures, but originality is a comes as such a paradox as the Is good for filling up silence, with either wanting love, fall- Now you're gone, Fool for your sticky situation. band continues to emulate but even then there wouldn't be ing in love, making love, loss- loving andThe deeper the love With their 1994 release, "Re- their obvious idols throughout much of anything to listen to. ing love or some combination from their last album Slip Of volution on Ice," Gumball un- the album. This gumball has lost its flavor. of the above. And if your really The Tounge. leashes a pseudo- "Breath Away," a song about lucky, singer David Coverdale The Greatest Hits album also grunge/fratemity-band sound halfway through the album, might manage to slip his contains a few never release that crosses the likes Nirvana, has a refreshingly new twist to --Andy Dugan patented "Oooh Baby," some- tracks including one called Cracker, and just about every their sound after five songs of where into the song. Some may Sweet lady luck from the Slip other band in between. the same pattern. Here the say they're sexist. Yeah, they of the Tounge sessions. It of The generous bass put out by band sounds like....well, they may be but that doesn't change course features the virtuosity percussionist Joel Spiegel and sound like Gumball! The song the fact that they are, and have of guitarist Steve Vai who, in bassist Eric Vermilion give that follows, "Gone to the Whltesnake'a Greatest Hits always been, a hard rock and my opinion, took Slip of the Gumball its heavy characteris- Moon," Is equally respectable Whltesnake roll band. Tounge to a higher plane of tics, while vocalist/guitarist In music, but those lyr- Gef fen Records Coverdale has remained the guitar existance. Don Fleming and keyboar- ics...whoah: '"floating through only original band member. Word has it that Whitesnake dist/guitarist Malcolm Riviera hazy night, When I told my friend Paul Over the bands three album is currently performing in Fin- counter with the lighter tones shadowed by pale moonlight, that I had received White- history. The Snake has gone land, Denmark, Germany, Slo- for an Interesting balance of I can tell you now, snake's Greatest Hits in the through a number of guitarists vakia and Holland so it may be the college rock sound, but it is that you are a cow." mail he said ina very sarcastic and other band members which awhile before they return to nothing new. It seems that as the album tone, "Hey cool.Whitesnake have given each album a par- tour in the U.S. Gumball borrows heavily progresses, the music some- dude." He explained that ticular sound and feel. In a Until that time Snake fans, from today's alternative what matures, but those child- Whitesnake was one of the sense, no two albums are alike. this may be the only thing that groups, throwing pieces of this like lyrics plague the group bands all the metal-heads in his The great thing about the will sate your appetite. and that together in hopes of with a continual aura of imma- high school headbanged to. new Greatest hits release is presenting something on the turity and carelessness. cutting edge. They end up Needless to say I was hurt. that it contains all of the best —Michael Zawackl The album, like a life cycle, I'm proud to admit I like songs from the three previous sounding a lot like any band reaches a peak with its middle "The Snake" and they don't de- albums that I'm sure all White- that struggles for individuality songs, and then regresses back serve the same stereotypical snake fans have already taken but lacks the strength or inge- to its mundane and unoriginal glam band image of similar and copied onto their own Gumboil nuity to actually do it. beginnings by the album's last performers from that time blank tape. Now we can here Gumball The disc's first song, "Revo- song,"She's as Beautiful as a period. Whitesnake delivers a the best tracks thanks to the Columbia lution on the Rocks," sounds Foot.". certain amount of consistancy wonders of CD technology. incredibly close to Cracker's On sits listening to this and in their songs that few other Such tracks include: Love ain't There is something to be said sound a couple of years ago. wonders,'Now where have I bands can compare to. With a no stanger, Slide it in andSIotv about the name of a rock band With a Ramones-like drum pat- heard this before?" Don't Whitesnake album you can an' easy off of the album Slide and the music they make. tern rolling, Gumball expres- bother trying to think about it, Classifieds

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