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Battalion GGIELIFE Page 5 » Friday, April 16, 1999 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS eeson describes Fe with Star Wars NEW YORK pe that had (AP) — Despite fans lined up to catch a two- minute trailer for the latest Star Wars in stallment, Liam Neeson says the movie is not changing his life. The 46-year- old Irishman hillips’sot: udingrock. i A&M Rec 'ids with-Movieline magazine he can everalyea rnember braving a dangerous Canadav ction of Belfast years ago to ethe original Star Wars. Then a ung theater actor, Neeson said found the film “breathtaking.” "Itp a simple story, yet with all e complexities of myth. The ^^""bhnology was so understated,” Mint, if v eson said. “I thought he eorge Lucas) was an amazing if brain /ector who had created this to- 4 lly believable world.” it' Thfet memory was part of what ade Neeson jump when offered e chance to meet Lucas in Lon- m two decades after Star Wars. Now he is playing the part of “ ii-Gon Jin, a Jedi master in the ““icoming Star Wars: Episode I The \antom Menace, set for release ’s-ange But asked whether being part another potential blockbuster *s changed him, Neeson said mply. “I’m 46 years of age. I’m nd wondt arrled with two kids. I love to fly- syesofar thfThat will never change. At the keeping. )d of the day, you know some- ing? It’s just a movie.” and anyone j ase three cteM ncy.. If." ns said Abrahams speaks at film festival MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jim Abrahams, who co-directed Naked Gun and Airplane, is ready to re veal his secrets to making people laugh. Rule No. 1? “Be funny.” Another rule is: “There are no rules.” “What makes one person laugh doesn’t make another per son laugh," Abrahams said. “Even with the rules, all you’re doing is taking your best guess." Abrahams, a Milwaukee native and University of Wisconsin-Madi- son graduate, will speak Sunday at the Great Wisconsin Film Fes tival. Abrahams said he is working on a couple of new scripts — his favorite part of the movie-making process. “If you have a bad day writing, no body cares. You push a button and it all goes away,” he said. “That’s re ally when the ideas first happen, and the rest of the time is the bat tle to get them up on the screen.” Rembrandt works found at market AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A secondhand book bought at a flea market turned out to be more than a worthwhile purchase when the owner found two sketches by Rembrandt be tween its pages. Local media reported Thurs day that after returning from the market, the buyer — whose name was not given — paged through her new $1 book and found three drawings valued at more than $50,000 total. Two of the sketches, which were not described, were original Rembrandts and a third was drawn by one of his students. An art expert authenticated them. Voters let Wright library stay open SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — The last major work designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Marin Coun ty’s main library, will stay open for now despite pressure to close it down to save money. The Marin County Library Com mission voted Wednesday night against recommending closure, opting instead to support a sales tax increase. The final decision is up to the county board of supervisors. The library, with its domed blue roof and tall spire, is the centerpiece of the civic center completed after Wright’s death in 1962. The architect regarded it as the heart of the project, for ever linking the “center of knowl edge” to the “center of govern ment.” “We’re heartened by the com missioner’s actions not to shut down this stunning facility,” said architect Marielle Rutherford. “But we’ll need to work hard to gain support for a sales tax in crease. It was Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision to have a library here, and it’s ours too.” The closing was proposed to help offset a $1.4 million deficit in the library system. 1 tokemons discouraged in New York schools t j(< PELHAM, N.Y. (AP) — kachu, Jigglypuff and the other utating monsters on the Poke- j|pn juggernaut are running into adblocks at grade schools aund the country. The hot-selling trading cards at capitalize on the Japanese rtoon phenomenon have been nned, restricted or discouraged some principals in New York, ;w Jersey, Washington and else- here because they are distract- gthe early-reading set. In Pelham, just north of New )rk City, all four grade schools ive come down in some fashion i the cards, which have sold in e millions since they came out January. “They seem to be the latest aze and the children are begin- ng to become obsessed by em,’’ said Gerard Finelli, the 'incipal at Colonial school. Finelli has banned trading be- iteen pupils “because some of irlyounger kids were getting ickered out of their more valu- )le cards.’’ The cards are banned entirely Prospect Hill school, where incipal Richard Limato said. We were having instances in hich the children were losing em and then getting very up- t.” 1 Kevin Wolski, a second-grader Colonial, has about 60 of the rds, a poster illustrating all 150 the sometimes cuddly, some- tnes scary monsters, a Pokemon Dmic book, a T-shirt and a pin. The 7-year-old does not bring his cards to school anymore be cause “the teachers don’t like it and the principal said he’d better not catch us trading.” Besides, he said, wide-eyed, “Somebody was stealing them!” Like millions of other kids, Kevin jumps out of bed to watch the Pokemon cartoon each morn ing and can converse rapidly and “The children are beginning to be come obsessed by them/' — Gerard Finelli prinicpal, Colonial School astutely about the details of the trading-card game. He tells about the goldfish Magikarp, who can evolve into the powerful sea serpent Gyara- dos; about Psyduck, whose pow ers increase “if he has a really bad headache”; and about Kadabra, “who can hypnotize lightning bolts when his eyes light up.” Kevin’s mother, Linda, has no objections to her son’.s new ob session, noting that the cards en courage kids to read, the game re quires some arithmetic skills, and the cartoon takes pains to teach lessons, “like making fun of the vanity of the villain.” Kevin’s father, Mike, likes that among the big-eyed human char acters, “boys and girls are equal ly powerful.” The Pokemon phenomenon originated in Japan three years ago as a Nintendo Game Boy game. Until recently, it was best- known for the cartoon episode that sent 700 Japanese viewers to hospitals when they reacted. Some with epilepsy-like spasms, to a scene that flashed bright colors in rapid succession. Undaunted, Pokemon quickly expanded into cartoons, comic books and the trading cards, which are made by Seattle-based Wizards of the Coast under a li cense from Nintendo. Wizards spokesperson Carol Rogalski said the targeted age for the cards was eight to preteen, but kids five and six have been col lecting the cards as well. “It’s just turned into this hottest thing,” she said, and the cards are headed for a fifth print ing. The rarest cards sell to collec tors for more than $50, but a starter set with 61 cards has a sug gested retail price of $7.99. Other packs have list prices of $2.79 to $9.99, but there have been markups to $20 or so, Rogalski said. Wizards also makes “Magic: The Gathering” cards, which sparked a federal lawsuit against the Bedford Central schools when some parents thought they were satanic and should not be allowed on school grounds. irf I WMl l r^0S j 0* TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY WATCH by SEIKO Someday all watches will be made this way. 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