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Adoption
Top photo:
Rows of grape vines
adorn the hilly landscape
at the Messina Hof
winery.
Bottom photo:
A stone statue was se
lected for the artwork to
be placed on next year’s
bottles of Messina Hof
wine.
— Photos by John Williams
Local vineyard grows in tradition
By Larry Whitfill
The Battalion
If a little adventure without
a lot of travel appeals to your
summer budget, Messina Hof
Wine Cellar may be your an
swer for a weekend getaway.
Located three miles off the
east bypass down Old Reliance
Road, Messina Hof offers many
activities and is filled with a
rich, wine-making history.
Matt Tumulty, a tour guide
for Messina Hof, said the win
ery was created in 1977 when
Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo
planted their first experimental
vines.
“The agriculturists at A&M
and other planters in the area
never believed that a wine
vineyard could grow in this
area of Texas,” Tumulty said.
“Paul and Merrill proved them
wrong.”
In 1983, the little vineyard
produced 13,000 gallons of
wine and in 1993, production
reached 85,000 gallons, he said.
However, not all the grapes
come from the Bryan vineyard,
Tumulty said.
“We have small areas all
over the state,” he said. “We
grow various grapes in the ar
eas of Texas that are best suit
ed for that particular type of
grape.”
Wine making is a long
standing tradition in the
Bonarrigo family, Tumulty
said.
“The oldest son in each gen
eration is named Paul, and he
becomes the wine maker for
that generation,” he said.
The respective ancestral
homes of the Paul and Merrill
— Messina, Sicily and Hof,
Germany — gave the winery its
name, Tumulty said.
Harvesting of Messina Hofs
grapes is also a very traditional
practice.
Debbie Hale, designer
events sales manager, said
summer harvest is the biggest
event of Messina Hofs year.
“Hundreds of people usually
come out, and in past years
we’ve had to turn people away,'
Hale said.
It was common practice in
Sicily to have friends of the
vintner come to the vineyard
and help harvest the grapes,
she said.
Please see Winery/Pagei
Place your bets on ‘Maverick*
By Jennifer Gressett
The Battalion
Yabba Dabba Yudi
‘Flintstones’ drops like a rock
“Maverick”
Starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Janies Garner
Directed by Richard Donner
Rated PG
Playing at Hollywood U.S.A.
With the back-to-back releases of “Tombstone,” “Bad Girls,” “The Cowboy
Way,” and “Wyatt Earp,” summer film audiences may soon grow western-
weary. It’s a good thing that the first one out of summer’s gate has a gam
bling twist to it.
Mel Gibspn, Jodie Foster and James Garner are the stars of “Maverick,” a
western comedy based on Garner’s TV series (1957 - 1962) about a gambler,
Brett Maverick. Although Gibson was born only a year after the series be
gan, he takes over the film role of Maverick with ease.
Set deep in the pioneer trails between the Colorado River and the Grand
Canyon, the opening scene permits the first glimpse of Gibson’s character.
And oooh, even with sideburns and a cowboy hat — on top of a mule, no less
— Gibson is a hunk.
As the gambling Maverick, his character is on a mission. And that is to
come up with the $3,000 he needs to enter “the big game,” a high stakes pok
er match taking place on a Mississippi riverboat. It is along the way that he
runs into Annabelle Bransford (Foster), yet another gambler trying to make
it to the big game. And from the time they meet, they create a spark that
will keep audiences rolling out of their seats.
Premiere magazine says Maverick “has given Gibson a rich vein to work,
combining dry wit, physical bravado, and frequent self-deprecation.”
But it is Foster who shines through in this movie, proving to audiences
she is, indeed, a diverse actress. After her previous roles in “The Accused”
“Silence of the Lambs,” and “Little Man Tate,” this role as a mischievous
belle was quite a step for her.
“Dramas are draining, but comedy’s draining too,” Foster said. “With a
comedy you have to do so much more coverage. So by the end you’re just ex
hausted because, you don’t realize it, but you’ve been ‘happy’ all day.”
And happy is what you’ll be when you walk away from this flick. So grab
your card deck and get ready to learn a few tricks, cause the summer’s funni
est western, so far, is a real winner.
By Timm Doolen
Special to The Battalion
“The Flintstones”
Starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis and Rosie O’Dm
nell
Directed by Brian Levant
Rated PG
Playing at Schulman VI and Post Oak III
About halfway through “The Flintstones,” til
women and children on Bedrock’s main street begi:
fleeing in terror. A giant, flying creature casts a shat
ow over the shops and screaming citizens, and thei
leaves a gigantic bird dropping on a Stone-Age auto®
bile.
Unfortunately this scene is a perfect metaphorii
many ways for the most hyped film of the summer. No:
only are these unfunny jokes peppered throughout tk
film, but after watching it you feel like the car —abj
stander enduring something surprisingly unpleasant.
In the movie version of the ‘60s cartoon, the “evei)
thing-made-out-of-stone-doesn’t-it-look-so-cool” sets an
meticulously recreated for the big screen, but the per
sonality, warmth and humor of the animated charat
ters are missing.
The plot is so transparent it’s almost not worth es-
plaining — Fred becomes an executive and a coworkt:
tries to use Fred’s lack of intelligence to embezzle cot
pany funds.
All the actors, especially John Goodman as Fred, are
perfectly suited to their roles, but the weak script lets
the actors down. With more than 30 writers and sever
al rejected scripts during the nine years it took to bring
Please see Flintstones/PageS
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McBee
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radio station, Aggie 96, she co
hosted the Rock and Rockelle
morning show for one year.
Toward the end of that year,
plans for HomeFront News
were starting to brew at VPI
Communications, Inc. in Bryan.
Oddly enough, McBee said
she had no intention of staying
in the Bryan-College Station
area long-term or becoming in
volved in television newscast
ing.
“I had just turned down a TV
reporting job to come to Texas,”
she explained.
But rolling with the punches
and being in the right place at
the right time paid off for
McBee.
“I just happened to be here
(at VPI) to voice a commercial,”
McBee said.
“They (VPI) said they were
getting a program together and
wondered if I’d be interested.
From the planning stages on, I
was in on it.”
After three years, McBee ad
mits she is gradually becoming
a “transplanted Texan.”
And apparently the trans
plant “took.” McBee will marry
a Texan, Randy Martell, in Sep
tember.
Restoration of a house built
in the 1950s also occupies much
of their time on the weekends,
she said. And she spends
“every other waking hour” plan
ning her upcoming wedding.
Looking ahead, McBee said
she hopes to see HomeFront
News continue to improve.
“I’m really lucky,” she said.
“I love what I’m doing, and it’s
exactly what I want to be do-
xng.
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Orchestra since 1963 and has performed from Europe to South
America.
The A&M festival is funded in part through a grant by Bra
zos Valley Medical Center.
Pat Cornehson, executive director of the medical center, says
the event has improved every year since its beginning, and has
been a worthwhile investment since the corporation began
funding it in 1990.
“It’s been probably one of the most noticeable things we’ve
ever done,” Cornehson said. “They do an excellent job, and
we’re very pleased with the quality - they seem to get better
every year.”
“It’s kind of neat having a chamber series come to town that
is your own chamber series,” she said.
Rose remembers the very first performance, and the encour
aging words that were given to him by then-Dean of Liberal
Arts Daniel Fallon.
“He said, ‘You know, if you get 50 people out, it will be a suc
cess.’ We got 100,” Rose said.
Every year the audiences grow and the festival improves,
Rose said, citing this years’ addition of the orchestral perfor
mance conducted by Shostakovich.
Despite the expectations surrounding the orchestra, Rose
said the festival nevertheless will center around chamber mu
sic, with the stage moved closer to the audience to create a
more intimate setting.
“(Chamber music) is designed more for a room than a concert
hall, and two to nine players generally perform,” Rose said.
“People think of chamber music as being more intimate - com
parable to jazz, except improvisation is not (played).”
“Chamber music is very special — it’s a musical dialogue ex
changing feelings and emotions. The audience gets drawn into
that.” \ ■ /-i
Rose said after each Monday performance, the audience will
have the opportunity to meet with the artists in Rudder Exhibit
Hall, and tickets are on sale at the Rudder MSC Box Office.
“It’s an exciting time,” Tomatz said. “During the summer
you get to meet artists from all over the world, and it’s a very
exciting prospect.”
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