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BY JUAN LOYA
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The Aggie Players Association invites audiences
participate in the unraveling of a mystery.
The mystery in the Aggie Players’ performance of
The Rimers of Eldritch,” ironically, is discovering
xactly what the mystery is.
Dr. Roger Schultz, the play’s director of the play
nd a theatre arts professor, said he can only reveal
latthe mystery in question revolves around a vague
at gruesome crime.
it’s like a dream,” Schultz said. “Not until the
lay is done do you find out exactly what happened,
jvho was the perpetrator and who was the victim.”
Using a non-linear structure, the play tells the sto-
o courtesy or the Bucufi of a bizarre crime in the small town of Eldritch and
jper Ralph Ibarra Cit ;omments on American values and the hypocrisies
nat accompany the community and organized reli-
jon. It also offers a departure from recent produc-
ions the Aggie Players have performed.
‘Last year we did Thorton Wilder’s ‘The Skin of
Our Teeth,'which by all accounts is a fun, optimistic
tiece, giving us a view of hope and the basic good of
nan,'’ Schultz said. “This Iplayj gives us a darker
iew, a more sinister view.”
The ensemble cast reflects the multi-faceted and
dream-like quality of the play.
Who: The Aggie Players
Association
What: Presents “The Rimers
of Eldritch”
When: Feb. 24 - 26 and
March 1-4 at 8 p.m.
Where: Rudder Forum
Cost: Adults $8; students and
seniors, $5.
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There are 17 characters in the piece, all of whom
remain onstage the majority of the play.
The play, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Lanford Wilson, was written in 1967 but offers a
timeless story that contemporary audiences can relate
to, Schultz said.
It was awarded the Vernon Rice Award that year
for the Best Off-Broadway Play of the Season.
The story shifts back and forth through spring,
summer, and autumn, but the exact time period the
play takes place is never established.
“It could have happened yesterday, a year ago, or
even 30 years ago,” Schultz said.
It is the play’s nondescript setting that makes the
story’s theme relevant to all audiences, Schultz said.
“Any place there is a community these things hap-'
pen,” he said. “Every community has their heroes and
myths, their standards and ethics, and their scapegoats.”
Performances run Thursday through Saturday this
week and next week, beginning at 8 p.m. at Rudder
Forum. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students
and seniors.
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False bid made for
Ventura’s Porsche
ST. PAUL, Minn.
(AP) — The win
ning Internet auc
tion bid for Gov.
Jesse Ventura’s
Porsche turned
out to be fake.
The $40,300
bid posted on the """ventura
eBay auction site
by Sunday's deadline came from
someone who goes by the screen
name Punkskaboy77. It turned out
he wasn't interested.
“Apparently, his claim was some
body had his password and made
that bid usinghis email address and
password," said Andrew Korf, a Web
site developer who organized the
auction after seeing the car at a deal-
People in the News
ership. “It's sort of disappointing.’’
EBay’s freewheeling format gen
erally leaves it up to the seller to de
termine which bids are legitimate.
Korf and his colleague Jonathan
McDonagh will sift through the lower
bids to determine who will get the
blue 1990 Porsche 911 Carrera 4.
Hasbro may make
JFK action figure
BOSTON (AP) — A John F.
Kennedy action figure in PT-109 fa
tigues will soon be part of a Gl Joe col
lector's series celebrating American
military heroes and famous battles.
The JFK figure will be the first of a
number of Kennedy products that will
be made under an agreement be
tween the Kennedy Library Founda
tion in Boston and Hasbro, maker of
Gl Joe, said Wayne Charness, a Has
bro spokesperson. The fatigue-clad
doll is shown using a knife to carve
a message into a coconut shell. Its
price is expected to be $30 to $35.
No release date has been set.
Hasbro is offering to donate roy
alties to the library foundation. Nei
ther Hasbro nor the foundation would
give a dollar figure.
Roseanne offends
transsexual lawyer
WELLINGTON,
New Zealand (AP)
— A transsexual
lawmaker from
New Zealand is
trying to keep her
interview with
talk show host
Roseanne off of
the air.
Georgina Beyer, who began life as
George, said Wednesday she felt de
graded by the interview conducted
Jan. 29 because Roseanne had not
stuck to the agreed questions. Bey
er would not detail the offending
questions but described them as
“tacky.”
She has refused to sign a con
sent form allowing her interview to be
aired, and she has written to the pro
ducers, requesting that the interview
be taken out.
“I understand that as the first
transsexual (lawmaker) there will be
a lot of media interest and I am hap
py to talk about my journey, but I feit
belittled,” she said.
Beyer, a former male prosti
tute, was elected to Parliament
last November.
Officials with the “Roseanne”
show did not immediately return a
message left Wednesday.
Page 5
Carlos Santana nabs
eight Grammy Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carlos
Santana, who first gained fame a gener
ation ago with a searing guitar perfor
mance at Woodstock, capped a tri
umphant comeback Wednesday with a
record-tying eight Grammy Awards.
The 52-year-old guitarist’s multi
platinum Supernatural won album of the
year. His first No. 1 single, “Smooth,”
capped a sweep of the major Grammys
by winning song and record of the year.
Santana tied
Michael Jack
son’s 1983
record of most
Grammys on a
single night.
“Music is
the vehicle for
the magic of
healing,” he
said upon ac
cepting the al
bum of the year
trophy, “and the
music oiSupernatural was a sign and de
signed to bring unity and harmony.”
To a standing ovation, Santana per
formed “Smooth” just before winning
his final award. He kissed singer Rob
Thomas at the end.
Only a lack of a writing credit for
“Smooth” prevented a record-breaking
perfonnance by Santana. The song of die
year trophy went to Thomas and Itaal Shnr.
“I want to thank Santana for taking
this song to the moon,” Shur said.
Another nominee whose career be
gan in the 1960s, Cher, won her first
(irammy for dance recording. She en
joyed her biggest commercial success
last year with the hit single “Believe.”
In a mild upset, Christina Aguilera
beat out her fellow teen queen and for
mer Mousketeer, Britney Spears, for
the Grammy as best new artist. Even
she was surprised.
“Oh my God, you guys,” she said. “I
seriously do not have a speech prepared
whatsoever. I’m shaking right now.”
Feuding soul divas TLC picked up
two Grammys — for best rhythm V
blues performance by a group for their
frank put-down of men, “No Scrubs,”
and best R&B album for Fanmail. “No
Scrubs” was also named best R&B song.
Sting sprang an upset in the male
pop vocal category with a victory for
“Brand New Day,” beating out
younger, Latin-influenced singers Marc
Anthony and Ricky Martin. Sting also
won for pop album.
“1 felt the talent I was up against was
extraordinary,” said Sting, who also won
for pop album. “1 have 14 Grammys now
and a very
large mantle-
piece.” I
Eminem
won two
awards, fqr
best rap solo
performance
and best rap
album. 3
Two ’70s
icons took
home their
first trophies
ever: love god Barry White’s “Staying
Power” won best male R&B performance
and Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” was hon
ored as best metal perfonnance.
Country’s leading ladies, the Dixie !
Chicks and Shania Twain, won two
Grammys apiece. George Jones, who
had a near-fatal traffic wreck last year,
won male country' vocal for “Choices.”
“We all feel really lucky,” Dixie
Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said
backstage. “The second album oh a
major label and to have both of them
acknowledged by the Grammys is un
believable.”
Tony Bennett, a familiar winner in the
traditional pop vocal performance cate
gory, was honored w'ith his ninth Granv
my for his tribute to Duke Ellington.
“This is for all the people who don’t
have running water or electricity,” said
Santana, a native of Mexico. “If 1 could
do it, you could do it.”
Santana also won lor rock perfor
mance by a duo or group with vocal, pop
performance by a duo or group with ver-
eal, pop instrumental performance, pop
collaboration with vocals and rock in
strumental performance.
“This is for all the
people who don't have
running water or
electricity. If I could do
if you could do it.”
— Carlos Santana
Grammy award winner
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