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Monday. March 6, 2000
THE BATTALION
Page 5
Drill practice
SALLIE TURNER/Thr Battalion
Matthew De Soto, a member of the Neville High School Junior
ROTC in Monroe, La., practices his drills Saturday on Duncan Drill
Field. De Soto and other high-school students took part in the 7th
Annual Navy Junior ROTC Field Meet, hosted by the A&M Navy/Ma
rine ROTC and the Corps of Cadets.
People in the News
HESTON
Comedies fall flat at box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Less than
stellar openings provided little to laugh
about for the new comedies that hit the
screens this weekend, according to indus
try estimates Sunday.
The top box office spot was locked up
for a third week by The Whole Nine Yards,
with $7.3 million in ticket sales.
The top new comedies were The Next
Best Thing, starring Madonna, which took
second place with $6 million, and Drown
ing Mona with Bette Midler, which took
fourth with $5.9 million.
By comparison, the comedy Analyze
Tim opened on the same weekend last year
with $18.4 million.
More than half the films in the top 10
were comedies, and die audience just was
n't large enough to go around, said Paul Der-
garabedian of Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.
1. The Whole Nine Yards,
$7.3 million.
2. The Next Best Thing, $6 million.
3. My Dog Skip, $5.94 million.
4. Drowning Mona, $5.9 million.
5. (tie) Pitch Black, $5 million.
5. (tie) Snow Day, $5 million.
7. Reindeer Games, $4.8 million.
8. Wonder Boys, $4.2 million.
9. American Beauty, $4.1 million.
10. The Cider House Rules,
$4.05 million.
Qoidetx ‘Key National Honor Society
Meeting
Tuesday, March 7th
8:30 p.m. MSC 206
Heston cancels
appearance
DENVER (AP)
— Charlton He
ston has can
celed a planned
appearance at
the kickoff of a
campaign for a
crackdown on
gun crime.
The actor
and leader of the NRA had
agreed to share the stage with
James Brady of Handgun Control
at Monday’s public-awareness
kickoff for Colorado Project Exile,
a federal-state crackdown on
gun-related crime.
“We were trying to get his
schedule cleared up and it
looked like that goal had been
accomplished a couple of days
ago, and other commitments
overtook us,” NRA spokesper
son Bill Powers said late Friday.
Brady was President Rea
gan’s press secretary when he
was shot during a 1981 assas
sination attempt on the presi
dent and now uses a wheelchair.
Tom Mauser, whose son
Daniel was killed in the
Columbine High School mas
sacre last year, also signed on to
the project.
Roberts speaks
on Southern charm
NEW YORK
(AP) — Julia
Roberts is
proud to be a
Southern girl.
The Smyrna,
Ga., native told
the New York
Daily News for
Sunday’s edi
tions that her
Southern background
tests in two ways.”
“Good manners and care tak
ing. I say, ‘Please, thank you, sir,
ma’am.’ I think I’m polite, I love
to cook dinner, and I keep the toi
let scrubbed.”
Roberts’ new movie, Erin
Brockovich, opens in theaters Fri
day. It is based on the true sto
ry of a single mother who comes
across a case involving a high in
cidence of cancer in a small
town while working as a clerk in
a Southern California law office.
“Erin is tenacious and com-
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pletely believes in the idea of
justice, that good will always pre
vail,” Roberts said.
Couric to televise
cancer screening
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — “To
day” show host Katie Couric
took a camera crew along as she
underwent a recent colonoscopy,
a screening test for cancer.
The procedure will be shown
Monday and Tuesday on the NBC
morning show as part of a week-
long series on colon cancer.
Couric, 43, who was given a
mild sedative for the test, dis
cusses what is happening
throughout.
“We’re showing it to demonstrate
that there’s no reason people
should be scared,” executive pro
ducer Jeff Zucker told The Philadel
phia Inquirer for Sunday’s editions.
“We try to do it with tremen
dous sensitivity. We don’t show
a lot of her colon. We’re not go
ing to gross anybody out."
Couric’s husband, NBC legal
commentator Jay Monahan, died
of colon cancer two years ago.
Hanks prepares
for Cast Away
MEMPHIS,
Tenn. (AP) — A
slimmer Tom
Hanks is due in
Memphis next
month to film
parts of a
movie in which
he plays an is
land castaway,
a spokesperson said.
Hanks plays a workaholic Fed
eral Express executive who sur
vives a plane crash and is
stranded alone on a small island
in the film Cast Away a 20th Cen
tury Fox and DreamWorks stu
dios production with Robert Ze
meckis directing.
While on the remote island,
Hanks has to “completely trans
form himself both physically and
emotionally in order to survive
his circumstance,” Russell said.
The film began production in
early 1999 with scenes in Los
Angeles and Moscow, but it had
to take an eight-month break
while Hanks lost more than 40
pounds to give his character a
gaunt look when he returned to
civilization.
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