STANDING STRONG FOR 1,536 DAYS — THE FIGHT'S NOT OYER YET SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 2, 1999 THE DETROIT VOL. 4 NO. 45 75 CENTS S undayTo u r n a l PUBLISHED BY LOCKED-OUT ETROIT NEWSPAPER WORKERS ©TDSJ SPORTS It's lights out for Tiger Stadium. There was no better place to watch a major league baseball game than Tiger Stadium, says Rich Shook. P ag e 28. CITY & STATE The owner of the Macomb Daily, the Royal Oak Daily Tribune and the Oakland Journal photo by GEORGE WALDMAN Press has put the subur­ An air of normalcy returns to the campus of Wayne State University on Wednesday after a tentative contract agreement was ban Detroit daily newspa­ reached. pers up for sale.P ag e 4. ENTERTAINMENT An animated autoworker Short order from Detroit is the key player in a new comedy Wayne State teachers get cont set to debut in midseason on NBC. P a g e8. By Michael Betzold vote Oct. 6-7 on whether to accept themuch discussion by the university Journal S taff Writer settlement. They will hear details at about various proposals, but “nothing t took a one-day strike anda aunion meeting scheduled for thishad gone on the table,” according to INDEX second 34-minute strike' to do Monday.it, union local president Marlyne Kilbey. but Wayne State University fac­ The three-year contract calls for That changed when the walkout Classifieds Page 22 ulty members succeeded in get­pay raises of 4 percent a year. It alsooccurred. By 6:34 a.m., a tentative I ting a tentative agreement on callsa new for new hires to receive a sign­agreement was reached. Classes Crossword Page 23 contract that union leaders hope willup package for membership in thewere held as scheduled Wednesday Entertainment Page 8 begin to reverse what they call anunion, which is optional at Wayneand will continue to be held until the “anti-union climate” on campus. State. ratification vote. Movie Guide Page 19 Members of the WSU unit of the Until AAUP-AFT members set up A one-day strike on Sept. 16 also American Association of Universitypicket lines at 6 a.m. Wednesday atwas “essential” in getting a new con- Opinion Page 6 Professors (AAUP) and the American various campus work sites, 16 hours Sports Page 28 Federation of Teachers (AFT) will of last-ditch bargaining had produced SeeWSU, Page 4 PAGE 10 SEPTEMBER 26, 1999 rating guide O see it now § wait for the video 03 read a book instead just opened recent openings “The Adventures of Sebastian This ‘Beauty’ is no beast Cole”O Adrian Grenier’s perfor­ mance as the title character saves “The Adventures of Sebastian Cole” “American Beauty” O from lapsing into run-of-the-mill com-By Matt Black ing-of-age stuff. He’s a gutsy kid, andSpecial to the Journal Grenier convinces us that there’s his is the first important something going on behind the eyes Hollywood movie of 1999. in Sebastian’s pouty, aggrieved face. It’s a brilliant black comedy We’re willing to believe that while he of emptiness and sadness may not have figured things out yet,T with certain Oscar nominations for he eventually will. R. M.— Black Kevin Spacey as a man who hates “For the Love of the Game”O the life he’s living and drops out, Detroit Tiger fans had no hope of hav­and for Annette Bening as his anx­ ing a division champion for the finalious wife, who figures if she lives in year of Tiger Stadium. But there’s the right house and gets the gar­ solace in highly entertaining baseball dening right and sells enough real fantasy “For Love of the Game.” estate, the aching vacuum in her Directed by Detroit native, horror life will be filled. Caught in the film maverick and now mainstream middle is their alienated teen-age filmmaker Sam Raimi, “Game” agree­ daughter (Thora Birch), whose dis­ ably ushers Kevin Costner back to gust maxes out when her loose-can- Touchstone Pictures the diamond where he shined so non dad gets a crush on her cheer- brightly in “Bull Durham” and “Field Loren Dean as psychologist Dr. Mumford dispenses advice to the likes of Sophie leading girlfriend, leading her to (Hope Davis) in a town of the same name in the movie also of the same name. of Dreams.” PG-13.—Michelle take up with the drug-dealing boy Banks next door. The role seems custom-made for “American Beauty” sees its crum­ Spacey, whose flair for cool mockerybling protagonists as figures of pity“ Mumford” S still showing is activated once he becomes a rene­as well as scorn. Beauty, especially In its low-key way, “Mumford” gade from the system and gets to inner beauty, is exactly what nonedraws you into its small-town comment sardonically on the hollowof them knows. Nobody is connectedAmerican celebration of common- inanity of what he only recently to anybody else. The film sympa­ sensical virtues with a warmly held important. Bening ratchets upthizes with their express ride to a engaging ensemble performance “An Ideal Husband”PG-13. — M. the wife’s anxiety into a degree of suburban hell disguised as a rose that begins in a send-up of film noir Black hysteria that makes her seem dan­garden and brought into pitiless and ends up seeming a missive “Austin Powers: The Spy Who gerous, too. It would have been focus by an opening aerial shot thatfrom a mellowed-out Preston Shagged Me”PG-13. — M. Banks enough if the film had simply skew­zooms down on their tract like anSturges. This time, though, it’s “The Blair Witch Project”R. — ered the soul-starving false gods ofX-ray. Spacey and Bening ignite Lawrence Kasdan who’s celebrating M. Banks materialism. But Sam Mendes, who their roles, delivering memorable a screenful of gentle eccentrics who “Entrapment”PG-13 — M. Black makes a winning debut on the grand-slam performances and the bounce their problems off a thera­ “In Too Deep”R'. — M. Black strength of his ability to project others add to the stinging hilaritypist named Mumford in a town “The Iron Giant”PG. — M. Banks darkness in Broadway’s revival ofin this terrific start to the fall sea­ “The Muse”PG-13. — M. Black “Cabaret,” takes things further. son. See MOVIES, Page 20 “Notting Hill”PG-13. — M. Black “Outside Providence”R. — M. Black “Runaway Bride”PG. — M. Banks “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”PG -13 — corpse found next to railroad tracksturned upside down when it’s local “The Sixth Sense”PG-13. — M. M. Black in Spanish Harlem, which forces an team is chosen to play a televised Black “The 13th Warrior”R. — M. Black independent, street-smart police­ exhibition game against the New “Stir of Echoes”R. — M. Banks “Wild Wild West”PG-13. — M. woman to team put with a brilliant York Rangers. R. “Tarzan”G. — M. Black Banks but bed-ridden forensics expert in “Plunkett and Macleane”The “The Thomas Crown Affair”R. — order to solve the murder. R. story of the notorious and charis­ M. Banks “Drive Me Crazy”Melissa Joan matic 18th Century highwaymen “Trick”R. — M. Black Hart and Adrien Grenier star in this who cut a thieving swath through comedy about a teenage girl and boyEnglish society. R. “A Dog of Flanders”PG. — L. who have grown up next door to“Sugar one Town”A funny and Miller another but have never made a lovepoignant film that explores in detail “The Astronaut’s Wife”R. — Lisa “Chill Factor”R. — M. Black connection. When longtime friendsthe Los Angeles music scene in all Miller “Inspector Gadget”PG. — M. and neighbors gather for their highits ambitious treachery. R. “Bowfinger”PG-13. — M. Black Banks school’s centennial celebration, they“Three Kings”George Clooney, “Deep Blue Sea”R. — M. Banks “Love Stinks”R. — L. Miller realize they were meant for each Mark Wahlberg and rapper Ice Cube “Drop Dead Gorgeous”PG-13. — “The Mummy”PG-13. — M. Black other all along. PG-13. star in this drama about a small “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and M. Banks “Guinevere”A May-September group of adventurous American sol­ “Eyes Wide Shut”R. — M. Black Uncut” R. — M. Banks romance with an edge-a young diers in Iraq at the end of the “Instinct”R. — M. Black woman with a lot of questions and Persian Gulf War who are deter­ “Mickey Blue Eyes”PG-13. — M. an older man with too few answers, mined to steal a huge cache of gold Banks coming attractionsand their unlikely bond. R. reputed to be hidden somewhere “Mystery Men”PG-13. — M. Black “Lucie Aubrac”A true story about near their desert base. When they “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The “The Bone Collector”Denzel French Resistance members in Lyon find a map that they believe will Phantom Menace”PG. — M. Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen during World War II. R. lead them to the gold, they embark Banks Latifah and Ed O’Neil star in this “Mystery, Alaska”A comedy about on a quest that leads them to unex­ “Stigmata”R. — M. Black drama about a gruesomely mutilateda hockey-obsessed Alaskan town pected discoveries. R. ■* ' ' % -V ' SEPTEMBER 26, 1999 PAGE 11 ;: . • . V < , - C , -tA \?«d . -7 ' %£y \ , * j For fall TV season, art imitates life By John Crook muses. “And there’s that boundary TVData News Service (between) privacy and work, because elevision is getting more we do dig into my life a lot of times and more like life.