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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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Student does marketing
homework — the hard waiit
Keith McPhail
Senior finance major
G iving away CDs,
posters and concert
tickets may sound like
fun and games. 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.
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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.”
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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
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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.”
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