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L The Battalion IFESTYLES Japanese director laces dancing shoes NEW YORK (AP) — Are you ready to rumba? Just when it was safe to step back onto the Macarena-free dance floor, a new ballroom danc ing craze threatens to make the mambo and fox trot hip again. Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s new movie about an office worker turned competitive dancer — “Shall We Dance?’’ — has already swept tsunami-style through his native island. And now the quiet-spoken director, who parts his hair con servatively to the side and avoids direct eye contact, has set his wire- rimmed sights on this continent. “I saw the same reaction here in the United States as I did in Japan,” Suo says, before adding slyly: “I know a lot of people who started ballroom dancing after this movie.” Time to lace up those danc ing shoes. With a script finely balanced between humor and sentimentali ty, Suo’s film recalls the magic of older, classic movies — before special effects and splatter flicks took center stage. 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But you can not imagine the horror my life became as I was sub merged in the dark and des perate world of the College Marketing Representative. Among the jobs I have held in the music business, working for Atlantic Records is the one that stands out the most. The college rep acts as the record company’s eyes, ears and mouthpiece on campus and in the community. My duties included promoting new releases, which involved creating displays, hosting parties and orchestrating contests. I was also active in the promotion of live shows. Among the grueling tasks involved were taking artists to dinner, schmoozing radio personalities and helping band members negotiate their way from the backstage party to the hotel party. Challenging work, indeed. Working the music business is not all backstage passes, post-show parties and popsicles with Poe. As a college representative, the joy of eating road side enchiladas with Bad Religion and working with the likes of Stone Temple Pilots, Jewel, 7 Year Bitch and Tori Amos was offset by working disasters such as Solution a.d. When Solution a.d., a talented band, came to town, I learned what a disappointing business the recording industry can be. After weeks of promo tion in record stores and lifestyle shops, ordering promotional tapes, arranging for Waterloo Records to put the album on sale and creating coupons to give away with the tapes, only 23 people showed up. After working the room, I learned that 10 had won tickets on the radio, and another six were friends of the band. I had hoped to hit the stage during a jam and throw the tapes to a frenzied crowd, who would fight over them like rabid dogs. Instead, nobody got out of their chairs. While working with touring artists is a big part of the job, the main focus of the college rep is to distribute promotional items to create “buzz.” And, as time wore on, the unforeseen side effects of promotion began to surface. The fun of rolling joints with 7 Mary 3 was replaced by a helpless desperation. The record company squeezed in an unexpected promotion as my apartment becamea warehouse of promotional items. The Fed-Ex guy was at my apartment five times a week with box after box of promotional materials. After a few months on the job, literally every cabinet and closet, and half the living room were filled with limited issue vinyl, posters, cardboard cutouts and soon-to-be-released albums. I started giving the excess to friends and drop- pers-by; then classmates, the girls in the apartment manager’s office, the Fed-Ex guy. Soon I saw my house parties as mere chances to unload cassettes and album flats. Eventually I was giving stuff to everybody I met i f' l | — cab drivers, strangers on the street, a delivery boy who didn’t speak English. It was surprising how many more people admitted to liking Hootie and the Blowfish when they found out I had 35 copies of Fair Weather Johnson that I wanted out of my apartment. I I Working the music business is not all backstage passes, post- ^ show parties and popsicles with Poe. Beyond the fun and excitement of being involved in the world of music, my time as a college rep had other benefits. The friends I made on the job (it is tough to make friends when you control the guest list and can buy drinks on your expense account) have resulted in invites to recording sessions, festivals such as South by Southwest in Austin and Jazzfest in New Orleans, and countless parties and dinners. I have never had more fun at work than on the vari ous jobs I have held in the music business. While jobs can be difficult to come by, many get started as College Marketing Representatives. Those interested in explor ing a career in this field or just looking for something fun to do should contact the college department at a major label to see if they could use a representative at Texas A&M. Rock on. Tina Continued From Page 3 The performance at the City Stages Festival is an indicator of the band’s increasing presence in the South. From the very beginning, however, their primary stronghold has been in the heartland. Schlieske said the band’s popularity is strongest in the Midwest. “But whenever we’ve come to the South, we’ve had a great response,” she said. “People seem to take to us immediately, and our main goal is to give them a great show and establish a good reputation so that we can keep coming back.” Tina and the B-Side Movement has played in College Station before, opening for Little Sister (now called Sister Seven), another female-led band. Dixie Theater owner Willie Bennett said that despite the fact they played only a short opening set, they made a definite impression. “I don’t want to say that Tina stole the show, but she definitely gave Little Sister a run for their money,” Bennett said. Schlieske looks forward to returning to Bryan, and said she hopes to build a strong fan base. “I love college towns, because they’re an entirely dif ferent world than in the big cities,” she said. “College towns are enthusiastic and very loyal. You definitely have to feel the place out at first, but once a college crowd gets into you, they won’t let go. We have several in the midwest that are really supportive, and we hope we can get in good with the crowd down there.” I People In The News Madonna Madonna learns lesson in mothering NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna’s apartment might have great views of Central Park, but those win dows could get her — and her daughter — in trouble. The Material Mom hasn’t installed childproof guards in the window frames since the birth of daughter Lourdes. New York City requires that windows in homes with small children be protected with the steel, cage-like bars, which block kids from crawling out. It’s no joke in this city of high- rises. In 1995, 46 kids fell from apartment windows and five died. Guitarist Eric Clapton’s 4-year-old son was killed in a fall from a 53rd floor penthouse in 1991. City Councilman Kenneth Fisher noticed the lack of win dow guards in Madonna’s fifth- floor apartment in a recent newspaper photo that showed 8- month-old Lourdes peering out side from her nanny’s lap. “I sent a letter to Madonna congratulating her on her beauti ful baby and said that in no time at all she’s going to be toddling around. It wasn’t too soon to start thinking about putting up window guards,” he said. The city’s health department, which enforces the law, followed up with a letter Wednesday. Madonna, the landlord or the building management could face a fine up to $1,000 if the guards aren’t installed. Madonna’s publicist did not return a call for comment Wednesday. Former president fears D.C distrust PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Gerald Ford, who took over the White House when public confi dence in the president seemed nonexistent, says he thinks trust in Washington is waning again. Ford became the only non- elected president in U.S. history when he succeeded Richard Nixon, who resigned in the after- math of the Watergate burglary 25 years ago this week. “Watergate and all the subse quent things that took place made the American people very unhappy. That incident destroyed pub lic confidence in the White House and the federal govern ment,” Ford told The Desert Sun newspaper. “At the present time, I think we’ve had some deterioration in public confidence in both the White House and the Congress, which is very tragic,” he said. “I hope the leadership in both the White House and Congress will turn that around.” Baseball legend donates to gym YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Tommy Lasorda and his wife, Jo, are giving the city $500,000 to help pay for a gymnasium named after their late son. The gym will be renamed the Thomas Lasorda Jr. Field House. “It’s an honor to be a part of this city. It’s a beautiful and pro- JoesH harl gressive city,” said the former Los Angeles Dodgers manager, who was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame three months ago. The City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to rename the?- month-old gym after Tommy “Spunky” Lasorda Jr., who was 33 when he died of AIDS in 1991 The Lasordas live in neighboring Fullerton. Bush, Quayle make public appearance im SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - It was billed as a “Republican family reunion,” but it was more of a fly by for former President Bush anil his vice president, Dan Quayle. Bush and Quayle worked dif ferent parts of the crowd at their first joint public appear ance since leaving office. The two did get together at pri vate receptions with GOP lead ers and the fund-raiser’s s/iiil >fa S | aeto Lean Bush organizers. The organizers of the $250- dollar-a-plate affair, attended by 400 guests, planned to have Quayle and his former boss together for dinner, said Jess Yescalis, spokesman for the Arizona Republican Party. But Quayle, who now lives in Arizona, had a private engagement and couldn’t stay. Still, Bush had kind words fot his absent ex-running mate. “What an unfair pounding h f took from that national media which I can now say I can’t stand, Bush said. “I salute him.” toot]-, ater
