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GLADD Awards recognize new Showtime hit Queer as Folk

NEW YORK - The film “Wonder Boys” and the TV show “Queer as Folk” are among the nominees for the 12th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation each year honors people and projects in the media and entertainment for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. GLAAD plans to give special recognition to the CBS reality show “Survivor,” which featured openly gay corporate trainer Richard Hatch, and NBC’s “The West Wing,” which regularly addresses discrimination issues against gays and lesbians. The awards will take place in four ceremonies to be held in New York on April 16; in Los Angeles on April 28; in Washington, D.C., on May 12; and in San Francisco on June 9. Blair Witch prequel for 2002 LOS ANGELES - There will be a third “Blair Witch” movie, despite lackluster interest in last fall’s second installment of the horror franchise. Artisan Entertainment plans to go ahead with a “Blair Witch” prequel, said Amir Malin, who heads the independent distributor that acquired “The Blair Witch Project” at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. After the movie became a sensation that summer, Artisan announced it would release a sequel in late 2000 and the prequel by fall of 2001.

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ODonnell trades talk show for Broadway

NEW YORK - The hand-lettered sign bobbing in the balcony said it all: “Rosie, You R My Barbra.” Rosie O’Donnell may not be Barbra Streisand - O’Donnell’s own idol - but the talk-show queen conquered the crowd Tuesday night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre where she joined the cast of “Seussical,” Broadway’s musical celebration of Dr. Seuss, for a four-week run. O’Donnell, playing the Cat in the Hat, faced an adoring, celebrity-sprinkled audience that included Jennifer Love Hewitt and Reba McEntire, as well as staff from the star’s daily television show.

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Inner Balance

Matt Treadwell
January 18, 2001

W hen she’s looking for a place to turn from the pressures of everyday life, Kristy Mietelka looks to her inner self for relief.

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Play offers insight into minds of American men

Juliana Keeping
January 18, 2001

Five chuavinists and a supremely confused dumpee will grace Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre stage this weekend.These six characters, all played and written by Robert Dubac, will perform in “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?” Friday through Sunday.“The show is a way to show women that we’re more compassionate than they think we are,” Dubac said.

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13 Days missiles all but fizzled

Vince Estes
January 18, 2001

There’s a line in Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” that refers to Americans as thinking nothing is important unless they’ve made a movie about it.Two things about the Cuban Missile Crisis: It is important, and they did make a movie about it.

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Gomezs Hotline revisits old tunes for new album

Dan Julian
January 17, 2001

Gomez “Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline” (Virgin Records) Gomez not only went to the same high school as the Beatles, but could have very easily been blood brothers who smoked cigarettes and played poker with each other every Friday night.

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Concert to benefit group

Dan Julian
January 16, 2001

English senior Amanda McClintock was a little nervous Friday night at Lower Level Records, 611 E. Grand River Ave., Suite 100, when she heard that one of the bands performing at a benefit show for “Students for a Free Tibet” was having trouble locating one of its members. That fear was quickly diminished when 9:00 p.m.

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Cafe offers opportunity for U to express through music, poetry

Juliana Keeping
January 16, 2001

Next time MSU students are looking for a place to meet new people while enjoying a variety of music and spoken word entertainment, they don’t have to look any further than Thursday nights at Cafe Latte, 110 Charles St. Singers and spoken word poets may form the basis of Open Mic Night, but graphic design senior Edmund Balde, who coordinates the evening each week, said the cafe is open to many forms of expression. “We’re not limited to music and spoken word, though,” he said.

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Behind the scenes

Matt Treadwell
January 12, 2001

The performance never stops at MSU’s Wharton Center, and isn’t confined to the stage. Every day is a new act for the house management staff, which ensures the show goes on in front of the curtain as well as behind.Assistant House Manager Melissa Byers led the house troops during Wednesday’s performance of “Cabaret,” which plays at Wharton through Sunday as part of the center’s annual Broadway series.“It’s really more of a team effort,” Byers said.

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Tapestry expresses history of area residents

Shaun Byron
January 12, 2001

A local artist has decided to take the idea behind family quilts and heirlooms and weave a history encompassing the greater Lansing community instead.Nancy McRay, a fiber artist, is putting together a room-sized tapestry she hopes will reflect society as it is today.

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Siblings provide laughter in O Brother

Vince Estes
January 12, 2001

Remember your high school English teachers’ warnings that, without a solid understanding of such classics as “Romeo and Juliet,” “Great Expectations” and “The Odyssey,” you wouldn’t catch most of the vital literary references in today’s pop culture? Turns out they were right. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, help prove the point with their latest trip through weirdness, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the film stars the ever-grizzled George Clooney as fast-talking, well-spoken convict Ulysses Everett McGill.

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Resolve this!

Matt Treadwell
January 11, 2001

Holly Herzog kicked off 2001 vowing to better her disposition for the new year.The anthropology sophomore’s intentions were threefold - exercise regularly, stop smoking and be nicer to people.More than a week into the new millennium, Herzog has yet to master her resolutions.

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U can find out latest in E.L. entertainment without going outside

Dan Julian
January 11, 2001

MSU students can now find out what’s happening at their favorite club, when the latest blockbuster is being released or what the hottest CD is with the click of their mouse. LansingVibe.com is a company that started last fall and advertises local events such as bar specials, movie times and concerts online. “LansingVibe is an excellent site to see what\'s going on in the Lansing area, especially if you are looking for an East Lansing bar,” MSU journalism senior Dan DeCapua said.

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Best of Blurgood for all

Dan Julian
January 10, 2001

Blur The Best Of Virgin Records Brit-pop veterans Blur have proven themselves to be one of the brightest and best groups in their genre, but their success soars much farther than the adrenaline-packed Song 2, which is still played frequently during warm-ups at most high school and college hockey games. “The Best Of” was put together with their fans in mind - all the songs complimenting the next as the album flows along without a single downfall. “There’s No Other Way” is driven by a catchy blues riff, then molds itself into a great Top 40 tune.

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MTV: All talk, no walk

Matt Treadwell
January 9, 2001

All hail MTV. But you won’t hear me doing it.The mega-hip music network begins its yearlong “Fight For Your Rights: Take a Stand Against Discrimination” campaign Wednesday evening.

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Center offers month of excitement to U

Shaun Byron
January 8, 2001

The Wharton Center will be showcasing talent ranging from a Broadway touring company to the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma this month.The Broadway musical Cabaret, which received four Tony Awards in 1998, will be performing Tuesday through Jan.