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Back in Black
‘School of Rock’ throws comedian Jack Black into a musical, family-oriented film
By James Hissong
THE BATTALION
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In the beginning I
was kind of a big
loser, just living at
my mom’s.”
—jack Black
musician and comedian
name that rhyme. Jack Black is one of those few
individuals.
Black’s latest film, “School of Rock,” direct-
by Richard Linklater, comes to theaters
nationwide today and offers fans of the funny
a new angle
of humor.
The movie
ows Black to
exploit both his
medic and
ousical abilities.
He stars as
Dewey Finn, a
raising gui-
t with delu-
tof grandeur,
ed out of his
and desper-
for work,
Dewey imperson
ates a substitute teacher and turns a fifth-grade
class of high achievers into high-voltage rockers.
To portray his class, several kids were cast as
ack’s costars as well as his back-up musicians.
As a result, this movie has been deemed more of
afamilyfilm and required Black to approach his
responsibilities as an actor in a new manner.
“I couldn't drop any f-bombs, but 1 had a
ad time,” Black said. "We rocked the hard
:k,”
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
teled “School of Rock” “the most unlikely
great movie of the year.” In his review,
Gleiberman said past images of Black fall by the
wayside alter watching his latest performance.
“Hereaches deep inside his riffing, struffing
head-banging self to give the single most joyful
performance I’ve seen all year,” he said.
Jack Black’s roots are grounded in onstage
productions, but as time passed he found himself
making appearances on the small screen in
Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Jack Black, in a scene from "School of Rock," teaches his class the roots of rock V roll. The movie, featuring
Black in a family-friendly manner, releases nationwide in theaters today.
shows such as “The X-files” and “Touched by an
Angel.”
While he did not comment on whether his
recent popularity and growing cult followings
are the direct responses of being fingered by a
holy being, he did say that his rise to success was
not immediate.
“In the beginning I was kind of a big loser,
just living at my mom’s,” Black said. “Then I
started getting music and acting gigs. I did a lit
tle telemarketing and was awful at it.”
The variety of Jack's talents have led his
career to grow into an odd merging of movies
and music. Promotions for his latest cinema
releases have his face plastered on billboards and
Web sites, but screaming fans also fill packed
auditoriums to witness Black as one of two front
men for the self-proclaimed “greatest band in the
world” — Tenacious D.
For Black, starring in a family film was a step
away from his usual screwball comedy genre. He
questioned Mike White’s script but ultimately
decided it was something he needed to do.
He was skeptical about making a family
movie but when he thought back on family films
like “The Bad News Bears” and “Willy Wonka,”
he sought to make an equally immortal film in
the family genre.
“It's like Mike (White) wrote this script and if
the script was a car, he pulled up in a Ferrari that
was built for me,” Black said. “So, I got in it and
I was like, ‘I know how to drive this thing. I
know what to do. I’m gonna take it over some
bunny hops and I’m gonna Boor it and push the
nitro button you didn’t even know about under
the dash.”
Living in College Station is slightly out of the
Hollywood loop, but if ‘bunny hop' means
improvisational comedy routines and ‘nitro but
ton’ is slang for a super-rocking soundtrack, then
Black says he and the crew are up to par.
While “School of Rock” features a soundtrack
with a number of established rockers including
AC/DC, Cream, Led Zepplin, The Doors and The
Ramones, the title track is an original song per
formed by Black and his backup mini-musicians.
The group has already played together several
times attempting to promote the film, and Black
claims that the musical talent these kids express
often steals the show.
“I played everything you see me play except
the guitar solos,” he said. “Well, I played the
crappy ones, but I'm not a good soloist. We hired
kids that were kind of prodigies. If you’re 10
years old and you can play, you’re pretty much a
prodigy as far as I’m concerned.”
The film and its soundtrack are enjoying suc
cess now, but Black explained that capturing
rocking material with kids was nearly a scientif
ic process.
“We made sure that parents weren’t on the
set,” said Black. “They had to be in a room far
away where they could watch what was going on,
through a camera. I’ve discovered you can't rock
in front of your parents. You can rock but you
can’t rock hard. I wanted to rock hard with them,
but when you’ve got your mom right there, how
can you rock?”
The future for this movie musician and his
famous eyebrows — which he says he works out
everyday — is far from certain.
Currently, he and Kyle Glas are working on
bringing the story and sound of their band,
Tenacious D, to the big screen. “Tenacious D: In
the Pick of Destiny” is set for release in the win
ter of 2004. Beyond that. Black’s career is wide
open.
“I try not to dwell on what the future holds,”
Black said. “I just follow my nose, like the Fruit
Loops’ toucan.”
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Grammy winning Jazz singer
takes on the fight against illiteracy
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Jazz singer Al Jarreau says a recent
encounter with a man who couldn’t read increased his motivation to
help to stamp out illiteracy.
The five-time Grammy winner was selling a car to the man, who
asked him till out the paperwork because he couldn’t read.
1 was shocked,” Jarreau said Tuesday after reading to children at
tie Long Beach Main Library.
There are people who can’t read a map, can’t read a job appli-
ation, can’t read a sign to get where they need to go.... It’s just sin-
il, especially in a nation where education is free.”
Jarreau, 63, read Chris Raschka’s “Charlie Parker Played Be
op" to a group of third graders. He brought the story of a saxo
phone-playing boy to life by singing the sounds of different types of
saxophones.
The reading was part of a literacy program sponsored by the
erizon Foundation, and Jarreau volunteers as the group’s
Literacy Champion.”
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
The singer also donates a portion of proceeds from his latest
album, “All I Got,” to the program.
“I have been supporting the fight for better literacy skills since the
1960s when I was in college,” Jarreau said.
Motely Crue bassist sues Vans,
skateboarding magazine over image use
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has sued
a skateboarding magazine and the Vans shoe company for alleged
ly using his image in an ad without his permission.
Sixx, whose real name is Franklin C. Feranna, said in the lawsuit
filed Tuesday that the defendants used photographs of him with pro
skater Tony Trujillo at a San Francisco ceremony, which Thrasher
magazine organized and Vans sponsored.
Sixx said he agreed to present Trujillo with a “Skater of the Year”
award at the December 2002 ceremony because he knew Trujillo
was a Motley Crue fan.
The 44-year-old musician said he was surprised to see photos
taken at the ceremony in an ad for Trujillo’s signature Vans shoes.
The photo also showed a marquee with the words i “Thrasher
Magazine’s Skater of the Year Tony Trujillo.”
The lawsuit said the ad appeared in Revolver, Maxim, Stuff, FHM,
Blender, and Alternative Press.
Hercules, Xena sue Universal Studios
to recover money from syndication
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hercules and Xena are joining forces in
a lawsuit against Universal Studios over pay.
“Xena: Warrior Princess” star Lucy Lawless and “Hercules” star
Kevin Sorbo filed separate breach-of-contract lawsuits Tuesday
accusing the company of denying them money from the adjusted
gross receipts of their syndicated shows.
Sorbo and Lawless said they had agreements with Universal enti
tling them to a percentage of the receipts, but that Universal has
improperly reduced the receipts and increased distribution expens
es and production costs to deny them the money.
Lawless said she was entitled to 5 percent, and Sorbo said he
was entitled to 8 percent.
Universal spokesman Jim Benson said the company hadn’t seen
the lawsuits and doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
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