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1999 Coming Out Week Events
9 Sunday, Oct. 10
Open & Affirming Service - 10:30am
Friends Congregational Church, UCC
jj Monday, Oct. 11
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
Video Presentation - 321 YMCA, 3:30
PFLAG Open House - 7pm
Friends Congregational Church, UCC
J Tuesday, Oct. 12
g GLBTA Ribbons - 10am-2pm
Rudder Fountain
g Video Presentation - 321 YMCA, 3:30
CandleLight Vigil - YMCA Steps, 7pm
II Wednesday, Oct. 13
Allies Come Out - 10am-2pm, Rudder Ftn.
E Video Presentation - 321 YMCA, 3:30
Thursday, Oct. 14
Video Presentation - 321 YMCA, 3:30
GLBTA Meeting - 144 Koldus, 7pm
“Coming Out Issues”
Friday, Oct. 15
OPEN HOUSE - Gender Issues
Education Services - YMCA 211A
Saturday, Oct. 16
Out at the Club - 308 N. Bryan 9pm-?
Sunday, Oct. 17
“Come, Come, Whoever you are”- 10:30am
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
COW
Gender Issues Education Services
845-1107
GLCTA
For more detailed information and
daily updates,
please look at the web site.
http://stulife.tamu.edu/gies/COW
or http://glbta.tamu.edu
The Women’s Week 2000 Committee is seeking students, faculty
and staff to engage in a campus-wide conversation on gender.
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Lunch
Would you like to express your opinions/perceptions of gender issues on
campus? Are you interested in discussing your ideas and opinions with
students, faculty, staff, and administrators to help bring about any needed
changes?
Based on your interest, lunches will be scheduled throughout the semes
ter to discuss these important issues. From those who respond, individu
als will be randomly chosen to attend the lunches. Our goal is to create
an atmosphere where students, faculty, staff, and administrators can openly
discuss both problems and triumphs of gender issues on this campus
If interested, please contact us at
wweek.OO@provost.tamu.edu
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kimberly
Peirce’s riveting debut feature.
Boys Don’t Cry, Pedro Almod
ovar’s All About My Mother and
Kevin Smith’s Dogma, the story of
two renegade angels, were among
the selections at the 37th New
York Film Festival.
Twenty-six feature films were
scheduled during the two-week
festival, including Topsy-TUrvy, di
rected by Mike Leigh; Being John
Malkovich, directed by Spike
Jonze; Holy Smoke, directed by
Jane Campion; and Felicia's Jour
ney, directed by Atom Egoyan.
An animated Japanese film.
Princess Mononoke, directed by
Hayao Miyazaki, was billed as a
special attraction. The film fea
tures the voices of Minnie Driver,
Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Billy
Bob Thornton, Jada Pinkett Smith
and Gillian Anderson.
Featured as a film festival ret
rospective was Michael Powell’s
The Edge of the World. The movie
was not a hit with British audi
ences when it was released in
1937, although it has since won
critical acclaim.
The British Film Institute re
cently made a new print of the
black-and-white film, which tells
the story of a desolate fishing com
munity struggling to survive and
of two families who suffer great
heartache. The film was shot on
the remote island of Foula in the
North Sea.
The directors answered ques
tions from the media following
press screenings of their films.
Here are highlights from those
press conferences.
Boys Don’t Cry is based on the
real-life story of Brandon Teena,
who was born as Teena Brandon
but who was able to pass herself
off as an attractive young man.
Director Kimberly Peirce spent
five and one-half years collecting
information about Brandon, who
was raped and murdered in a small
town in Nebraska after her true
identity was revealed. It took
Peirce, who co-wrote the script,
three years to find the right actress
to play Brandon. After hundreds of
interviews, she chose 25-year-old
Hilary Swank, who wore her hus
band’s clothes to the audition.
Swank cropped her hair short to
play the role. She also “lived as a
boy for four weeks," the director
said.
The film is “probably as close
to the emotional truth as I could
come," Peirce said following a
press screening. Her research in
cluded visiting the town where
Brandon was murdered, attend
ing the trial of the two men ac
cused of the killing and talking to
Brandon’s friends.
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moved by it,” Swank said, whose
credits include television’s "Bev
erly Hills 90210.”
From her first day on the set,
she assumed the character of
Brandon Tenna, not allowing the
cast and crew to see her as herself.
“It was very, very important for
me to pass as a boy,” Swank said.
Chloe Sevigny, who plays
Swank's lover in the film, re
marked, “I still can’t see her as a
girl. It still freaks me out.”
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Kimberly Peirce and starring Hi
lary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter
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Barbarosa and 1997’s Wag The Dog. Nelson has
also performed multiple duets, including “To All the
Girls I’ve Loved Before” with Latin star Julio Iglesias.
Nelson said the material for his music comes from
his life experiences and observations.
“The hard lessons I’ve hoped I’ve learned from
somebody else, although it didn’t exactly work out
that way,” Nelson said.
Over the many years he has been playing music,
Nelson said he can relate how his music affects oth
ers to how other people’s music has affected him.
“I’ve been really influenced by other people’s mu
sic all my life,” Nelson said.
“I listened and learned and decided this is where
I wanted to go and what I wanted to do, and I fol
lowed this girl and that guy and those folks. I’ve just
kind of been driving along with all these people —
my heroes.”
In addition to a long and illustrious career, Nel
son has committed himself to helping several char
ities, most notably Farm Aid. Farm Aid is a Nelson-
founded organization that raisestsmejlot iB
American issues. ^ iau. ■
"Farm Aid is to keep people thinkin^L;
plight of the American farmer,” Nelson sal aute
On Friday, Nelson will continue to raisei»r
charities by playing in College Station atabeneBLaurc
MDA held by Phi Delta Theta.
“We’re glad to be there,” Nelson said.“lli(|
goes well and those folks get a great deelolinj
gether, and I’m glad to be a part of it.”
As well as his annual Farm Aid benefit,!
also holds an annual fourth of July picnictif
brate Texas. According \o Nelson, p\ayiw?,ml<
playing at home.
“Anywhere in Texas are folks I grewupwii
ing music,” Nelson said. “Most of mylife.eve!
I was 20 years old, I’ve been traveling around
ly in Texas.” : Ift I
And what advice does Nelson, steeped inth I
es of five decades of country music, have for it! I
gie crowd, many of whom have barely reachedT
gal drinking age?
“Drink moderately,” Nelson said. “That’S
hard problem to learn with drinking is modera®|
I’m speaking from experience.”
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