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THE BATTAL
The movie Enough hits
to home for many women
By Melissa Stephenson
THE BATTALION
If a man seems too good to be true, he proba
bly is. Enough, starring Jennifer Lopez and Billy
Campbell utilizes this theme as the premise, and
puts a dramatic spin on the common issue ot
domestic violence.
The plot is simple: a woman marries the man
of her dreams. After the honeymoon ends, he
turns out to be unfaithful and abusive, she
escapes with their daughter, and he pursues
relentlessly.
Aside from the fighting to the death part, this
scenario is all too familiar tor many women.
Three to four million American women are
reported as being battered each year by their
husbands or partners. Experts estimate every
woman has between a one-in-three and a one-in-
four chance of being physically assaulted by a
partner or ex-partner during her lifetime.
Sara Mendez, director of Phoebe's Home, the
local shelter for victims of domestic violence
and their children, knows the reality of these sta
tistics all too well. In 2001, Phoebe’s Home
served 1,300 men, women and children that had
been victims of domestic violence in
Bryan/College Station and the surrounding
counties. She says movies help promote aware
ness of domestic violence as a problem by por
traying real-life situations that might open the
eyes of people in abusive relationships.
“People watching the movie might see someone
in a relationship just like the one they are in and
realize they need to get help also,” Mendez said.
Jennifer Lopez also recognized the reality of
the storyline and focused on the feeling a
woman in this situation might have.
“She finds herself in an abusive relationship
with a child and has to go on the run,” Lopez
said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
So many women go through this in real life, hut
I think, on so many different levels, women in
relationships, we have a tendency to give our
selves away so much. The whole message of the
movie is that you can take your power back. You
can gain control again.”
In Enough, Lopez’s character. Slim, is able to
leave the abusive relationship, but this does not
stop her husband (Campbell) from tracking her
down and threatening her. In reality, 70 percent
of domestic violence happens after the woman
leaves the relationship. Slim does not go to the
police or to a shelter; instead she attempts to
rebuild her life on her own agenda.
Mendez, of course, would disagree with this
aspect of the movie and would recommend for
the abused woman to get help from some kind of
authority. Nevertheless, Mendez agrees that it
would not have made for an exciting plot if Slim
just went to a shelter and found refuge.
Approximately 61 percent of female victims fail
to call the police out of fear their case will not
be taken seriously.
The inability to live in safety is what forces
Slim to realize her only option is to kill him
before he kills her or harms her child. Homicide
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can take control over your life, maybe notto
extreme level, hut you can take control by:
ing you have had enough and are going to:
breaking the patterns and pull away.”
On the subject of fighting back. Mendez
people that work with victims ot domestic
lence recognize it does happen, but do
advise anyone to combat violence withr
violence. The case worker should assist vie
that come to the shelter with other legal r
and counseling.
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people know it can be done ... it takes a
hard work emotionally and in this casep
ly but it’s about giving hope and that is
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Joel checks himself into
psychiatric hospital
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for cptYiipil micrrmrluct
NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Joel has checked him
self into a substance abuse and psychiatric hos
pital for a "personal problem," his record label
said Wednesday.
The 53-year-old, Grammy-winning singer-song-
writer is staying at Silver Hill Hospital in New
Canaan, Conn. Joel's stay was first reported in
Wednesday's edition of The Advocate of
Stamford.
A brief statement released by Columbia
Records said: "Billy Joel recently checked him
self into Silver Hill Hospital for a planned 10-
day stay to deal with a specific and personal
problem that had recently developed."
"Joel scheduled his stay in Silver Hill several
weeks ago and expects to leave in a few days,
as planned."
The Advocate, citing unidentified sources, said
the singer was receiving counseling at Silver
Hill's chemical dependency treatment center.
A spokeswoman for the singer, Claire Mercuri,
declined to comment on the kind of treatment
Joel is receiving.
Joel, whose hits include "Piano Man," "Just
the Way You Are" "Only the Good Die
Young'"and "Uptown Girl," in March resched
uled a joint tour with Elton John, saying he was
ill. The tour is to begin again in September.
A review in The New York Times of a show
shortly before the postponement described
him as rambling and bellowing, and said Joel
"seemed to have ingested something quite a
bit stronger than cough syrup."
He was placed under a doctor's supervision
for acute laryngitis, inflamed vocal cords and an
upper-respiratory infection, according to Sony
Entertainment's Billy Joel Web site, www.bil-
lyjoel.com.
Mercuri said Joel's stay at Silver Hill would
not affect his fall tour.
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misconduct for allegedly gyrating agains
rity guard at a concert, pleaded no ^
Wednesday to being a disorderly p ers
assault and battery. .,
Clarkston District Judge Gerald r.
ordered Manson, whose name is ® ria ^ (
to pay fines and costs totaling $4,000. A
test plea is not an admission of guilt- ,
' ' ruling was
Afterward, Manson said the
adding, "It's a victory for art." . •.
Security guard Joshua Keasler was wo r.
the stage during Manson's July 30, 2 0
formance at the DTE Energy Music Thea
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neck. . e(( |
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look and macabre lyrics, sat s '* e ^ t ^ w0( f
Wednesday's 15-minute hearing. . uC
without his trademark maK
black suit,
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Assistant Oakland County Prose ^ rneI i!
Frazee III said, "I think further P un T\ ell c;
warranted, given the conduct of the o e
and to act as a deterrent." ^
Defense attorney Walter PiszczatowsKi
sentence was appropriate. i tc "he^
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"We are very satisfied with the results,
Keasler also has filed a federal * aW , su ' t x ^ | g|
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33-year-old rocker, accusing him °f SL—
and intentional infliction of emotional dis j
After the hearing, Manson wa . s : n H?
civil suit filed m
hearing,
papers notifying him ot a civu sun .
York state court by a security guard accU cer t
of similar behavior at an Aug. 9, 2001 co
Long Island. . • a |
Similar allegations also are containea ^
suit filed against Manson by a securl ^ ° ne apii*i
lowing an Oct. 27, 2000 concert in M ,nn J
"He's going to vigorously defend ag ^
the civil actions that have been
Piszczatowski said.
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