-PAGElO January 26, 1999 Join the Web page craze for free: Learn three nutrition myths andJ8 n John C. Roemer shows you how get ~en Foot Pole's Insider sco~p Contemplate the soul of casserole D1scover DreamWorks' dynam1c20 12 and meet the "Subway General" FE~TURES team and walk that Thin Red Line [insert name here] appy Semester, and welcome to [insert name here]. For those among you who are new to the contest. here's a brief run-down: Each week, I present you, the campus community. with an original contest (or what passes for originality, anyway). Upon reading the contest, you take it upon yourself to enter. and 1 choose the winner from a throng of entrants, each having submitted a witty and thought-provoking en­ try to the contest. Once a winner is chosen, the winning entry is printed in the following issue, and the next comest is proposed. The winner and runners-up receive prizes of dubious cleanliness and questionable legal origin. Note that these pri7..es are valued for their kitsch, and any attempt to extract meaning or actual value from these prizes\\ ill be met with derisive laughter, an incredulous look and a stem "You knew what you were gelling into read the fine print." Contest One is actually somewhat original-ish. 1 must give credit to my best friend from 7~~> grade. and to Mike the Intern. Janice, my Prince of Egypt: Dream Works Pictures I Katzenberg: courtesy Prem1crc best friend from 71h grade, once despaired that people often begin Two Princes: Moses commands attention in a scene from the animated Biblical epic The Prince of maxims and leave them hanging, unfinished. l believe her example Egypt, produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg (inset) and the team from DreamWorks SKG. was "A bird in the hand .. .''which led to "I hate when they don't finish it! A bird in the hand WHAT?" Now, older and wiser, we know that a bird in the hand is just plain unsanitary. MIRACLE WORKERS I must also thank Mike the Intern for assisting in dragging this to the forefront of my mind. While both of us were falling asleep at An In-Depth Interview With Jeffrey Katzenberg and our computers one day, we overheard someone say, "Well, idle hands... " and leave it hanging. This caused Mike the Intern to query, the Team Behind the Biblical Epic The Prince of Egypt "Idle hands what?" To which I replied something brilliant, like "Idle hands are bad" or something. Well, in our sleep-deprived states, VICTORY MARASIGAN thus began a round of endings for the unftnished adage. The only Retriever Weekly Staff 'Writer Editor's noti~ J$~'8~e.was published in incomplete two I can remember are ''Empty minds are the devil's dollhouse" fonn in IIH!FDIII liibllr.':B: 1998 issue of The Retriever and "Idle hands are the devil's Playstation." After removing our­ ress junkets are a necessary Weekly. selves from the floor and composing ourselves (as this was the fun­ evil in the film industry. niest thing we'd ever heard -and it sometimes still is), we had PSince publicity tours are usu­ market an animated movie that fea­ concoctions, Dream Works SKG co­ some coffee to wake up. ally run by the marketing depart­ tures death, slavery and more death? founder (and Prince of Egypt pro­ So this week's contest is for you to ftnish those maxims. You ments of the movie studios them­ As I entered the Sequoia Restaurant ducer) Jeffrey Katzenberg made his may use these, or you may come up with others. Here arc some to selves, the press who are invited for in Georgetown to meet with the entrance. He wasn ·t hard to spot. lin ish: interviews with the filmmakers are filmmakers, I got the sense that this Dressed all in black, with wire­ really just free messengers meant to was a question they still weren't rimmed glasses and thinning black D Haste makes ... spread "the good word." sure how to answer. hair, the diminutive bigwig practi­ 0 Nice guys always ... In the case of DreamWorks This leg of The Prince ofEgypt's cally had a sign on him that said 0 The grass is always greener ... SKG's tour for the animated film wqrldwide PR tour began, in true "I'm one of the most important 0 Waste not. .. The Prince of Egypt, there was a industry fashion, with a quick but people in Hollywood." (That, by the 0 A penny saved ... definite sense of urgency in the pro­ tasty wine-and-dine. After the way, is the truth. Katzenberg has n Don't count your chickens ... ceedings. The film is, after all, a $70 guests had taken in a generous meal 0 A watched pot. .. million dollar gan1ble. How do you of chicken, roast beef and potato see EGYPT. page 19 rJ Don't put all your eggs ... n A teaspoon of sugar ... r'J Curiosity killed ... Ultimate Cerebral Fitness Test These arc jumping off points for you. but feel free to think of from CHESS. page 1 your O\\'n maxims as well. You rna} submit as many as you like. but each maxim \\ill be treated as a separate entry. Beale. the team·, vice president, The \\inner of this contest \\ill receive a polka album (that"s describes the trophy as one that ALBUM. as in '"not-so-compact disc'"). entitled'"Stan Wolo\\tC and \\asn't created to go home on a the Pollm Chips" and supplied b} The Great Sabato. \\hO has the plane. "At about five feet tall. it luck or stumbling over these things from time to time. The runners \\Ouldn't fit in one of the overhead up 'A-ill, uh. rccctve bags of buttered microwave popcorn. (Yeah. bins on the plane ba(;k. We tried to that's tl. Then they'll come a-runnin'.) hu) it a scat on the plane .. :· \ et the team's goals stretch be­ Entric~ must be received by next Friday at 10 a.m. in The Retriet·u Wt•ekl,\ yond the destrc to bnng home tO\\­ office, UC 214. or via e-mail at jsicill @gl.umbc.edu. Please include your cring trophies. Many of the top real name, and your phone number or your e-mail address, and $100 for players at:e very serious about mak­ me. because T'm broke. Oh, all right. T"tl waive the $100. But that's only ing cbcss their career. In addition, because it's the first contest. In case you're not familiar with the fine print. thc team hopes one day to have an this is where I rant. and only a select group of people actually read it, on-campus office, and a place to lx:causc they expect to find legal jargon. I don't do legal jargon. because it's prohibited in Nevada Funhennore. children under the age of 10 arc store their cquipmcnt. 1 not permitted. No livestock allowed. and you must be this tall to enter the With an incr':'~ ;'-1c amount of contest. 'Jiw Rl'tril'l'l'f l\h... kfy b not responsible for any injuries sustained support f1 he admit.istrat<on. in the reading of the paper. and claims no responsibilit) for children you particular1J ~r. Hrabow,.l:i. the s:t) \\e fathered We didn't, and it you could define '"is."" we'd be most chess team is hopmg to share ItS Photo Courtc") olthc L MBC Ch,·" "I c.. grateful. Conquering Heroes: The victors surround chess team facUltY ~ee CHESS. page 1/ advisor Dr. Alan T. Sherman and their battleground. .