I l 7 Vi /H $$$$ DOES YOUR STUDENT ORGANIZATION NEED MONEY? $$$$ Its time for eligible student organizations to request funding for the 2000-2001 academic year. APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 14 4:30 P.M. STUDENT FINANCE CENTER, 217 MSC vX Please see the Student Organization Finance Center for more details. Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for 1999-2000 Undergraduate Students Blake Ashley Altman Douglas Keith Anthis Amanda Anna Arriaga Gwen DaLynn Barker Nolan Edward Barkhouse Eric Michael Berger Marla Jan Bevel Latoya Marie Black Casey C. 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Keller Mirmira Srinivas Rangarao MacGregor McCooey Stephenson Thomas Brandon Sullivan AGGIELIFE Page 6 THE BATTALION Keeping the Faith Starring Edward Norton and Ben Stiller Directed by * Edward Norton Edward Norton has, in the space of a few short years, proved himself as one of the most talented actors in Hol lywood. By taking some of the most controversial and daring roles to come the silver screen, Norton has displayed a fiery intensity and passion for his work. With Keeping the Faith. Norton displays yet another side, showcasing his incredible sense of comic timing by going head-to-head with Ben Stiller and Jenna Elfman. It seems like everyone who knows anything about this movie thinks it sounds like a well-known joke. A priest, a rabbi and a girl. I la, ha — I heard this one. But that is as far away from the truth as a person could be. Norton, in his directorial debut (if one omits the changes he made in the edit ing room to American History X), crafts a wonderfully sweet romantic comedy while making some good points about being tolerant of unfa miliar views. It is pretty obvious how this movie is going to progress from the pre views, but the best and most surpris ing thing is that all the material from the trailers happens in the first 30 minutes, leaving an hour and a half of hilarious surprises coupled with strong performances. Norton works his magic again, managing to make his character into someone we could expect to actually meet, not some surreal character on the big screen. Stiller has seldom done better, but it is Elfman who steals the show by foregoing her typi cal off-the-wall Dharma-ish character in favor of power suits and a biting sense of humor. Elfman has never looked sexier nor has she ever done a better job of acting. This sweet and romantic movie throws in a weird mix of physical comedy at just the right moments to make a familiar story seem new and fresh. That is not to say that this movie is flawless. Norton seems to have had a hard time deciding what he w anted to cut, so the movie lasts a little more than two hours. Also, it is easy to understand that with pulling triple duty by serving as producer, di rector and star Norton would not be on camera as much as his two coun terparts, but his character could have added another level to the movie had he decided to fully explore it. These are minor details though. DALLAS (/ 'orth couple w piet in an inter Russia and U.S. Attomi day, call in t foreign iptfo-conspira Named in th( iced}, 37, and v )thii'i l oil Wr business ma and Ha sia, and B( eedys wer pie panel re ist the live, exploitation ol il| pomograpl 'oggins said |s. They are luit appear;: udge. A de imment aile; m service th ibscribers to n the ages o PHOTO COURTESY OF TOU (L to R): Jake Schram Ben Stiller), a rabbi, and Brian Kilkenny 1 ward Norton), a priest, are involved in a complicated lovetnarj their old friend Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman. not pictured) comesf into their lives in Keeping the Faith. What is important here is that this film is witty and real in a w ay few re cent films have been. Its message of blurring religious and racial lines and loving everyone no matter what also Rules of Engagement Starring Tommy Lee Jones anti Samuel L. Jackson Directed by William Fried kin Rules of Engagement is an intense thriller. How ever, there are times when being an intense thriller is not enough. At some point, a human element must enter the ilm — why else would a person going to sit in a dark theater for two hours? Engagement does a masterful job of building tension, but much of it is empty tension because at no point in the film is the viewer given a reason to care what happens to Samuel L. Jackson or Tommy Lee Jones. Taking parts of familiar stories and putting them together to create something “new,†this movie is Top Gun meets A Few Good Men. Colonel Childers (Jackson) is a career Marine sent to rescue an am bassador from an embassy under siege in the Mid dle East. Innocent civilians are killed in the process, and Childers faces a court martial. The issue boils down to whether the civilians were armed. Called into to defend him is Colonel Hodges (Jones), a lifelong buddy who was saved by Childers in Viet nam. How quaint. This movie has the elements to succeed. It has two great established actors, a nearly legendary di rector and a strong plot. So what goes wrong? It all starts with director William Friedkin (The French Connection. The Exorcist) who ruled the *70s. Somehow' Friedkin has lost his touch, failing to connect with his characters and thereby making it impossible for the audience to connect with them either. Now Friedkin still knows how to edit scenes creating tension between Jackson and prosecutor Guy Pearce. He also uses humor, staging a fight make it a slightlp deeper| ^ ^ ^|^ most other romantic com AM n uj|l spent I found him ii district jut ihington and I rt after both i sc one betw ecu the two leads that inuilws-^luith shouts ( heavy breathing than a lamaze clas.Yet,ltB ^Lbrations entire parts of the story out and chooses toil them b\ ha\ ing them answered by a typed^ show n at the end of thp movie. Jackson and Jones have never beenmoi I heir lines sound trite, and they never realj explore their characters, making one feelitf only real treat in this film is Pearce, wi pie will remember from LA. Confidential^ formance us the tough-but-fair proseeutoi on part of the movie. lems. however, I Rules nt Engaycment is a to\m\)\e mot none during the ti Us share ofmomeni^. (tnc thine is certain liioW While H4shii the root of any great movie is a compd\\^s® ce ; his motln w'ith equally compelling characters.Unfoit^P,'^ ves to the tins film has neither. (Grade: C-) ^BtiMoore, the j i ■Gallagher sen Mrlington, to si Tng held in tl rIt was as ifh llidown and sp Insive back,†aid ‘I didn’t hea ■sical response priate.†iBefore readin Irtroom, Gall mingtoboth p bursts. He sai News in Brief Art Fest 2000 to announce winners The MSC Visual Arts Com mittee, an organization that prides itself on increasing stu dent awareness of the visual arts, has given creative stu dents an outlet for their talent through Art Fest 2000. Students who are artisti cally creative were encour aged to enter the Visual Arts Committee’s festival to see how their works stack up against the competition. This student-run art com petition concludes today with the announcement of the win ners in six categories: com puter-generated art, painting, drawing, photo, mixed media and sculpture. A reception will follow the award ceremony. The works are judged by members of the art communi ty outside the University. Ateieszka Miodnicka, a ju nior biology and psychology major, and the director of pro gramming for the Visual Arts Committee said that this com petition is a great opportunity for students. "Since A&M isn’t exactly strong in the arts, this compe tition is good for students who are creative and artistic, but don’t have any other outlet," Miodnicka said. The reception following the ceremony will be held Friday from 5 - 7 p.m. at the Visual Arts Gallery located on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center. Fox defends ‘Multimillion NFW YORK (AP) Fox had con cluded that there was little it could have done to prevent the public relations fiasco that followed “Who Wants to Marry' a Mul timillionaire.†Burned by the revelation that wealthy groom Rick Rockwell had a restraining or der issued against him in 1991 by a former fiancee, the TV network hired a law firm to probe whether it could have done anything more to check into his background. The law (inn found that the show's pro ducer, Next Entertainment, hired a private in vestigator and search firm to check Rock well's record before the show aired. Fox spokesperson JeffDeRome said Wednesday. But the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibited the disclosure of embar rassing events that had occurred more than seven years earlier, except for crim inal convictions, DeRome said. Because of the law, producers and Fox depended on Rockwell to let them know if there was anything in his background they should know — and the restraining dnesday night Washington’s il sentence. [“When that h ted and so bla theju ubbocl >ok for order didn't come up, hesaiM has said he considered the ew-tote sent v history†and “somewhat ofat* when it occurred.†No one at Fox will losetkil punished for their role ins special, DeRome said. The wedding drew tremendoS but launched an immediate deM 1 propriety of a TV network brokeii® riage between two strangers. R his bride, Darva Conger,quick marriage and Fox has vowed up® anything like it again. “Case closed,†DeRomes clear to us now how it happene it happened. I guess everyone it 1 ftose home he has learned something.†; 0 n Wednes Heading into a ratings 'J F e d Hicks or month in May, Fox has clear jF e d r °bbery v down. It has scheduled specialsej UFOs, the paranormal and fm[:EP erson ove ^ show outtakes. As promised,! steered clear of police chases J landing animals. LUBBOCK, ‘ Jnvicted of kill id suspected two other wc s of Lubbock James Hicks bion of robbing raised from $5 Jcause of his viction, Lubboc torney Clay Abl aEi utsamgz 725B University Drive 4-6 PM SUN Apr 16 6-9 PM 9PM- MID 8-10 PM Rhys 208 Prac Test #1 Webb/Hardy Rhys 202 CH.27 Chem 107 Ch. 9,12 MON Apr 17 Rhys 208 Prac Test #2 Webb/Hardy Rhys 202 CH.28 10- MID 6-8 PM 8-10 PM Chem 228 Ch.24 Gene 301 Chem 107 Ch. 13 Chem 228 Ch.25 10- MID Math 152 Review I Ch6m 238 LAB CHEM 101 WED Apr 19 6-8 PM Chem 101 Ch. 10 Gene 301 Math 152 Review II TUES Apr 18 Rhys 208 Prac Test #3 Rhys 202 CH.29 & Prac Test WED Apr 19 Chem 107 Prac. Test Brown Chem 228 Harding Gene 301 Gene 301 Ellison THUR APT 20 Math 152 Review III Rhys 202 Prac. Test Chem 107 Prac. 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