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For more information, please call 229-4652 or 229A651 ^ Lions Gatea-o and PlLMSvy Present a Special Advance Screening Wednesday, November 10,1999 at 8:00 p.m. Rudder Theater College Station, TX 77844 Pick up your free tickets at: Rudder Box Office Attention JUNIORS Applications are now being accepted for the Master of Physical Therapy Program at Angelo State University MPT IfiiW 3 The 3+3 MPT Program allows admission after completion of your junior year ASU’s inaugural MPT class will begin July/August of 2000 Scholarships covering tuition and fees are available to qualified students To Become a Part of ASU’s Inaugural MPT Class, College Juniors Must: Have completed 90 semester credit hours of undergraduate work by June 30, 2000 Angelo State University is one of Texas’ premier regional universities. Located in scenic and historic San Angelo, ASU offers a pleasant learning environment where personal attention and mentoring enhance the educational experience for students. Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale o Have a minimum grade of B in all PT prerequisites Submit admission materials to the ASU Graduate Office by January 15, 2000 Have completed 75 observation or employment hours in 3 different areas of clinical practice by March 15,2000 For additional information concerning admission or the MPT Program, contact the ASU Graduate Office at 915-942-2169 or Physical Therapy Department at 915-942-2545. Have taken the GRE Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. angelo.edu/dept/physther Email: graduate.school@angelo.edu A MEMBER OF THE TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY Page 6 • Wednesday. November 10, 1999 A GGIELIFE ‘Aftershock’ destroys New Yor Tie Battalior LOS ANGELES (AP) — Let’s face it, movie makers and televi sion producers love to beat up on New York City. It’s been stomped on by a giant lizard, swallowed by a tidal wave and smashed by an asteroid. Now CBS is shaking and rattling it in “Aftershock: Earthquake in New York,” airing Sunday and Tbesday. “Aftershock” opens in Manhat tan with joggers in Central Park,, street vendors in Times Square and workers grabbing coffee on their way to work. Hours later, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake crumbles the city. The story follows an only-in- New-York cast of characters through the debris of what was once their city as they struggle to survive unimaginable devastation. There’s a struggling ballerina (Jennifer Garner of Fox’s “Time of Your Life”) who, after diving for cov er from falling bricks, finds romance with a cabbie (Armageddon alum nus Frederick Weller). Then there’s the defense attorney (Lisa Nicole Carson of “Ally McBeal”), who survives the quake in a subway tunnel with her just- found-innocent-of-murder-but-real- ly-guilty client. To round out the cast, there is a feuding mayor (Charles Dutton of “Oz”) and fire chief (Tom Skerritt of “Picket Fences”) as well as a trans planted California couple, apparent ly the only two people who remem bered to stand in a doorway during a quake. The standout performance, though, is Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, who portrays the mayor's mother. She spends much of the movie trapped underneath a wood en beam of a destroyed church, preaching salvation to a street tough. Even with limited dialogue and mobility, she turns out her typical quality performance. “Aftershock” is a story posed to be fun — the Big ting cored. But this efforttaj; too seriously, focusing the characters’ relationshij than their struggle to survivi suit is too many loose ends credits roll. Under the direction of lomon, who flooded a smal Hard Rain and created a wonderland in The Abyss, quake wreaks uncomfort, tic destruction on the dty. The Guggenheim lapses, the World Tade twin towers tilt, the Empi Building crumbles andRi Center is buried under nil Street is flattened, the Bridge snaps and the Statue erty takes a nosedive into It's television disaster, best, eclipsing its 70s pn “Earthquake,” which Los Angeles. P 4 Jerry Seinfeld, Jessica Sklar announce engage^ A, NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Seinfeld, television's con summate sitcom bachelor for nine years, is taking the real-life plunge with a woman who dumped her new husband for him. The comedian reportedly popped the question to Jessica Sklar last week end during a romantic dinner out. Seinfield spokesperson Elizabeth Clark would only confirm yesterday that the two are engaged and “very happy. ” Sklar, who works for a public-rela- seinfeld tions firm, hooked up with Seinfeld in August 1998, soon after returning from her three-week texa sophomo honevmoon It ih with Eric \ederlander, aR:iffensive linerr producer. 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