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Ticket Sales Thursday April 27 4pm-8pm ACCT MGMT Friday April 28 4pm-7pm MATH MGMT Friday April 28 6pm-8pm INFO FINC ECON Sunday April 30 2pm-6pm ALL CLASSES Monday May 1 4pm-Close ALL CLASSES AGGIELIFE Page 4 THE BATTALION Tuesday, ► today, May 2,2000 Frequency Starring: Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel Directed by: Gregory Hoblit Frequency is an outstanding thriller filled with strong performances and clever writing. Part sci ence fiction, part mystery and part drama, this movie is one of those films that actually delivers on the promises made in its trailer. Frank Sullivan (Quaid) is a lire fighter who died in a warehouse fire in 1969. John Sullivan (Caviezel), his son, now a policeman, finds Frank’s old ham radio in 1999. A natural phenomenon al lows the two to communicate through the radio, even though they exist 30 years apart. This communication changes the past, and sud denly everything is different for John in the present. He finds that he must solve crimes that are more than 30 years old while facing a danger in the present. It is a very intelligent thriller that welcomes the thinking person. However, it does not try to go over audiences’ heads. Director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear, Fallen) continues his string of big screen hits with his best film yet. He manages to balance all of this story’s many elements and build tension with a subtlety that is sublime. The story itself is amazing. The theme of a get ting a second chance is great and the careful atten tion to detail is also impressive. However, this movie would not work without the great performances by Quaid and Caviezel. Quaid is one of the most underrated actors w orking. and he delivers the goods in this film, tumingii of his most illustrious performances. Ca\ iezel, w ho turned in a star-making perfe mance in The Thin Red Line, shows that he is dr niteh one of the up-and-comers in movies. ■HUH. Jliii v-'WT • 11 is e\ cry emotion is evident in his face,an(li ([} enn is Qu< makes the audience feel what he feels without^ ^ a serial killer mg a word “It works on th / / i (///i v/m is one of the most original and® in it, it3 gent thrillers to be released in a long time. It del" ers the suspense, but more importantly, it delive the emotion. fhis mo\ ie works because, in the end, view® L an abandoned f really care about what happens to the character! 3 million. [7-57 losangele I named buoyant a tew movies. U-57I was Nort week, taking in SC Sunday. The movie Final weekend : The Flintstones comedy based on dace with $10.8 m The sci-fi tale F lion. Jim Caviezel (Grade: A-) lows the two to communicate through the radio, the great performances by Quaid and C aviezel. even though they exist 30 years apart. Quaid is one of the most underrated actors working. Actors who appear in commercials go on first major walkout in 12 years LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actors mum of $478 for a day’s work. Actors want to extend the flat fee from cable te who star in TV and radio commercials also get "pay-per-play” residuals of the networks. went on strike Monday, demanding a roughly $50 to $120 each time a spot airs The current fee structure dates from i * ♦ i — i nca. .1 '/la. .. i a n/^ vr LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actors who star in TV and radio commercials went on strike Monday, demanding a bigger cut from the booming cable mar ket, in the first major I loilywood walk out in 12 years. Chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, corporate greed has got to go,” hundreds gathered in a Los Angeles park and marched past Wilshire Boulevard ad agencies. Sever al hundred striking actors also rallied in New York City. The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, representing about 135,000 actors, authorized the strike. Celebrities lent support to the com mercial actors on both coasts. “Actors are the nicest people in the world, and they always give away the store,” Richard Dreyfuss said at a ral ly in New York. “It’s a habit we’ve got to stop.” The walkout centers on the pay struc ture for commercials. TV commercials oJTer actors a mini mum of $478 for a day’s work. Actors also get “pay-per-play” residuals of roughly $50 to $ 120 each time a spot airs on network television. When it comes to cable TV commercials, however, actors receive only a flat fee of $1,000 or less for each 13-week run. “Actors are the nicest people in the world and they always give away the store.” — Richard Dreyfuss Actor Now, with two-thirds of all TV ads now being made for cable, actors are de manding that pay-per-play be extended to cable as well: Advertisers, however. want to extend the Hat fee from cable to the networks The current fee structure dates from the 1950s and ’60s, when ABC, NBC and CBS claimed up to 95 percent of the audience. Nowadays, six networks fight for 50 percent of the audience, while cable and satellite channels claim the rest. SAG members last went on strike in 1988, a walkout that lasted three weeks. That also was the year of I lollywood's last major strike, the Writers Guild of America’s 22-week w alkout, which cost the industry an estimated $500 million. Ad agencies have been stockpiling commercials and will run some existing# ads longer. They said they will also pro duce new commercials using nonunion actors or union members w illing to work under the agencies’ terms. That scares Ernest Logan, a young Los Angeles actor who supports the strike but is worried. “It’s scary because I know there’s nonunion actors waiting to jump on it,” he Said. Make foreign places seem a little less foreign. Join sixdegrees, where you can meet people in the places you will be traveling and stay in touch with those I you know, while you're there. And to help you in your travels, the ■HI first 1,000 members who join the sixdegrees TravelClub 2000 will receive a free Fodor's upCLOSE travel guide. You'll also be entered sixdegrees* W ' n ° ne ^ WO ^ ree tr '* DS ^ rom TripHub.com. Go to :—— www.sixdegrees.com and get connected. www.sixdegrees.com ^ People in the News the same time,” sai( of distribution for f Where the Heai Next weekend summer blockbust MatlMcOn ^starring Russ “This is the cal Bakker pitches autobiography GREENSBORO, N.C.(AP)- mer televangelist Jim BaHiuniversal's head c preached, prophesied and pitch his autobiography, / IVas Wrong, about 300 people at a church. Bakker, his wife, Lori Bakker,: his daughter, Tammy Sue Bate took turns touting their ministr? helping ex-gang members in Los 1 geles ghettos; counseling worn emotionally scarred by abort) and saving lost souls in prise where Jim Bakker served fiveyei for bilking his PTL ministries of lions of dollars. Bakker talked about deceit forgiveness and the rarity of hisp lie appearances these days. He he turns down nearly all speaking vitations but came to the nominational Christ Coven Church on Sunday as a favoi Derek Floyd, a former PTL singers Christ Covenant’s minister of mus “I decided I would never step public life again, but God hah other plan for me," Bakker saihht ing a meandering GOMlhute'spee; an, president of bo “The summer star movies every weel Viva Rock Vegc predecessor The f first three days. “That’s what 1 on the evils of talkingUfMnucti W #1 RATED #1 RATED PHONE #1 RATED Fi G TaV Mechanical Engineer Position Schlumberger in Sugar Land, IX is looking Ion Mechanical Engineer to join our team. The Engineer will be involved in the complete "craiit to grave' product development cycle of oilfielJ equipment geared towards the completionol new wells. Requirements: • A Master's or Ph. Din Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or Aerospace Engineering • Summer or Coop experience in Mechanical Engineering tasks is a strong plus. 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