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MUSIC
> 40 WATT CLUB (549-7871)
• Thursday: Jet By Day/The Gossip/Anaray.
• Friday: National Anthem/The Tom
Collins/Hayride.
• Saturday: Baile Latino w/ DJ Cartitos
Morales/DJ Big Revo.
• Monday: Aztec Radio/Bloo.
• Tuesday: Guru/Falling Up.
• Wednesday: Guff/Hunter-Gatherer/
American Mutts/Donkey Punch. An all-night
punk showcase featuring local and Atlanta tal
ent, if there’s such a thing as “punk talent.”
> ALLEN’S HAMBURGERS (543-8309)
• Thursday: Blake Bryant and Bryan Stone.
• Friday: Normaltown Flyers.
• Saturday: Mike Pulliam and Friends.
• Monday: Patrick Connell.
> ATHENS MUSIC FACTORY
(353-8820)
• Friday: Emma Gibbs Band/Kevn
Kinney/Adam Payne Band. Kinney and Payne
provide mellow opening support for the more
roots-rock sound of EGB. See tomorrow’s fea
ture on the headliner.
• Sunday: Carlton Owens Conspiracy.
• Monday: Don’t Know/Grippomatic.
• Tuesday: Hip-hop night.
> BOARS HEAD (369-3040)
• Thursday: Grasshopper. Folk-infused
almost-punk.
• Wednesday: Jason Fuller.
> CALEDONIA LOUNGE (549-5577)
• Thursday: Polemic/Crown Vic.
• Friday: Drive-By Truckers/Fatso. The
Truckers’ bruiser rock ’n’ country will have you
in just the shape Nashville needs.
• Saturday: Rock'A'Teens/Cafeteria.
• Tuesday: David Barbe/Patterson Hood.
• Wednesday: Parallel 13/The Hand/Youth In
Asia.
>- THE GEORGIA THEATRE (549-9918)
• Friday: Keller Williams.
• Saturday: Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Jacob
IFred Jazz Odyssey.
*► ONE LOVE MUSIC HALL (369-6958)
• Thursday: Lions From Zion/Nathan
Sheppard. Sheppard’s songwriting and
■singing are the stuff of local legend. He’s
-good, check it out.
*• Friday: The Subterraneans.
>- TASTY WORLD (543-0797)
• Thursday: Math/Ball Peen.
• Friday: The Woggles/Model Citizens.
• Saturday: “A Night of Pure Energy,” featur
ing Earth Collective/Pure Energy/PLA/Asaru.
• Monday: Drive South/Miss UGA Talent
Show.
• Tuesday: The Eskimos/The Routine
Felonies/The Rant.
• Wednesday: Available Jones.
> WILD WING CAFE (227-9464)
• Friday: Freak The Jones.
• Saturday: Soup.
• Monday: Open Mic Night. With DT’s Down
Under gone under, it’s good to see Wild Wing
has revived this tradition. There’s nothing
quite like getting drunk and listening to some
talentless fool get laughed at. Well, I guess
' there are a few things.
• Tuesday: Singer-Songwriter night.
• Wednesday: DJ SLK T.
— Jonathan Reed
VARIETY
> UNIVERSITY THEATER (542-8468)
• The Age of Discovery: The University’s pro
fessional Repertory Theater presents an origi
nal production of Joseph McDonough’s “The
Age of Discovery.” The story revolves around
a modern retelling of the Lewis and Clark
story with a comedic twist. The play will take
place in the Seney Stovall Theater (behind
the Varsity) Feb. 21-24 and Feb. 27-Mar. 2 at
8 p.m. There will also be a matinee on Feb.
25 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general
admission and $12 for students. Tickets are
available at the box office in the Fine Arts
Theater at the corner of Baldwin and
Lumpkin.
► UNIVERSITY UNION
(542-3981)
• Spalding Gray: Hailed as the “Master of
Monologue,” this innovative performer’s
career spans acting, writing and film. He will
present his new work, “Morning, Noon and
Night” at Hodgson Hall on Tuesday Feb. 20 at
8 p.m. Tickets are $12-$14 for general admis
sion and $6-$8 for students and are available
at the Tate Center Cashier’s Window.
► ATHENA GRAND OPERA COMPANY
(357-4444)
• La Boheme: Puccini’s classic opera of tragic
love comes alive this weekend as the Athena
Grand Opera Company presents “La
Boheme." The performance will be Friday and
Sunday in the Classic Center Theater at 8
p.m. Tickets are $15-$20 for students and
$20-545 for non-students.
> TOWN & GOWN PLAYERS
(208-8696)
• The Town & Gown second stage season
presents “The Duchess of Malfi.” The produc
tion will be at the Athens Community Theater
Feb. 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a mati
nee on Saturday at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $5
for general admission.
— Kyle Minshew
Top picks for who should’ve
received Oscar nominations
By GARDNER LINN
glinn@randb.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the 2001
Oscar nominations on Tuesday, and as usual, the list generates endless
debate over the relative worth of the films and filmmakers nominated.
Every movie fan has favorites he feels have been slighted by the
Academy, and we here at The Red & Black are no exception.
So, here’s what the nominees should have been:
Best Picture
1. “Almost Famous”
2. “Traffic”
3. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
4. “Requiem for a Dream”
5. “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Back in September, I said that
Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobio-
graphical “Almost Famous”
was the best movie of the
year. It still is. No movie cap
tured what it feels like to be young,
smart and in love better than this one.
Steven Soderbergh used all of his considerable
technical skills to make “Traffic,” a political epic told
in intensely personal terms. >
Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger” was what “The
Phantom Menace” should have been. Darren
Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream” was the most
intense filmgoing experience I had all year. The Coen
brothers’ “O Brother” was the year’s most transcendent
comedy.
Best Director
1. Steven Soderbergh, “Traffic”
2. Ang Lee, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’
3. Cameron Crowe, “Almost Famous”
4. Darren Aronofsky, “Requiem for a Dream’
5. Lars von Trier, “Dancer in the Dark”
pitch-perfect teenage longing, confusion and precocious wisdom.
Crudup gave a pair of excellent, overlooked performances showing
he has unlimited range and real movie-star charisma, even when play
ing a heroin addict named F— head.
Best Actress
1. Ellen Burstyn, “Requiem for a Dream”
2. Bjork, “Dancer in the Dark”
3. Zhang Ziyi, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
4. Renee Zellweger, “Nurse Betty”
5. Julia Roberts, “Erin Brockovich”
Burstyn’s performance as a Brooklyn mother who
descends into the hell of addiction (and doesn’t come
back) was scarier and braver and more frightening
than any other performance last year.
Bjork showed that some rock stars actually can
3 act — her final a cappella song might have been
the best five minutes of film I saw all last year.
Ziyi made a stunning American debut,
proving that female action stars can be
strong and sexy without resorting to
“Charlie’s Angels”-style jiggle tactics.
Zellweger finally found a part that
suited her apple-pie personality in the
cracked-fairy tale “Nurse Betty.”
And, yes, Roberts really did give
one of the best performances of
her career in “Erin Brockovich,”
push-up bras or not.
SPECIAL | The Red a Black
A Russell Crowe in
“Gladiator.”
The Academy usually nominates the director of four out of the five
Best Picture nominees, leaving a space open for a dark horse (Stephen
Daldry this year, Spike Jonze last year).
Why not only nominate Soderbergh once then? “Traffic” was the
best directing job of the year, so nominate him for that and give anoth
er movie the honor of being nominated.
Director Lee used the skills he developed on intimate dramas like
“The Ice Storm” to make one of the best, most romantic martial arts
epics ever made.
Crowe coupled his wonderful script with a perfect cast to evoke the
’70s rock world.
Aronofsky made THE film-school movie of the year, throwing in
every camera trick he knew without sacrificing real emotion.
And von Trier showed us one possible future of cinema with his
shot-on-digital verite musical.
Best Actor
1. Russell Crowe, “Gladiator”
2. Benicio Del Toro, “Traffic”
3. Tom Hanks, “Cast Away”
4. Patrick Rigit, “Almost Famous”
5. Billy Crudup, “Almost Famous” and “Jesus’ Son”
Crowe deserves this, not only because he deserved it for “L.A.
Confidential” and “The Insider,” but rather because he gave the big
comball epic “Gladiator” a human soul and became a movie star in the
process.
The Academy nominated Del Toro for Best Supporting Actor, but
he’s not supporting anybody — he’s the wounded heart of “Traffic.”
Tom Hanks delivered a moving, restrained performance in the just-
OK “Cast Away.”
Newcomer Fugit played director Cameron Crowe’s alter-ego with
Best Supporting Actor
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Almost Famous”
2. Morgan Freeman, “Nurse Betty”
3. Tommy Davidson,“Bamboozled”
4. Willem Dafoe, “Shadow of the Vampire”
5. Jack Black, “High Fidelity” and “Jesus’ Son”
By far, the hardest category to narrow down. Del Toro should win
the Oscar easily, but he’s more of a lead actor in my taste, so that
leaves the field open for Hoffman, the best supporting actor working
today period. He should win for his inhabitation of rock writer Lester
Bangs.
Freeman’s love-struck hit man comes in a close second.
Davidson’s portrayal of a man slowly, angrily awakening to the reali
ty of how he’s being used was powerful stuff that he didn’t get to show
off in “Booty Call.”
Dafoe’s scary and sympathetic vampire-actor Max Schreck was a
great performance in an average movie.
And Black’s two wacky sidekick roles were both bitterly painful and
painfully funny — he deserves better than “Saving Silverman.”
Best Supporting Actress
1. Michelle Yeoh, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
2. -Kate Hudson, “Almost Famous”
3. Frances McDormand, “Almost Famous”
4. Erika Christenson, “Traffic”
5. Jada Pinkett-Smith, “Bamboozled”
Yeoh kicked ass and articulated the pain of unrequited love — you
didn’t even need the subtitles, because she said everything with her
eyes.
Hudson and McDormand, as the women who shaped the
protagonist’s ideas, performed a mesmerizing psychological tug-of-war.
Christensen gave the year’s second-best portrayal of addiction (see
Burstyn above).
And Pinkett-Smith was the voice of reason and anger in Spike Lee’s
uneven satire.
The Real Oscar Contenders Are ...
Best Picture
“Chocolat”
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon”
“Erin Brockovich”
“Gladiator”
“Traffic”
Best Director
Stephen Daldry, “Billy Elliot”
Ang Lee, “Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon”
Ridley Scott, “Gladiator”
Steven Soderbergh, “Erin
Brockovich”
Steven Soderbergh, “Traffic”
Best Actress
Joan Allen, “The Contender”
Juliette Binoche, “Chocolat”
Ellen Burstyn, “Requiem for a
Dream”
Laura Linney, “You Can Count
on Me”
Julia Roberts, “Erin
Brockovich”
Best Actor
Javier Bardem, “Before Night
Falls”
Russell Crowe, “Gladiator”
Tom Hanks, “Cast Away”
Ed Harris, “Pollock”
Geoffrey Rush, “Quills”
Best Supporting Actor
Jeff Bridges, “The Contender”
Willem Dafoe, “Shadow of the
Vampire”
Benicio Del Toro, “Traffic”
Albert Finney, “Erin
Brockovich”
Best Supporting Actress
Joaquin Phoenix, “Gladiator”
Judi Dench, “Chocolat”
Marcia Gay Harden, “Pollock”
Kate Hudson, “Almost
Famous”
Frances McDormand, “Almost
Famous”
Julie Walters, “Billy
Elliot”
SPECIAL | The Red a Black
A Cameron Crowds’ “Almost Famous” was nominated in
only one category - best supporting actress.
Not all movies can be picked for Oscars, but they deserve something
By GARDNER LINN
glinn@randb.com
And now, to honor the movies that don’t get
the recognition they deserve from Oscar, The
Red & Black presents the Second Annual
AltemAwards:
Best Bad Movie: “Dracula 2000.”
Worst Good Movie: “Shadow of the Vampire.”
Best Supporting Actors Not Mentioned Above:
Tim Blake Nelson, “O Brother, Where Art
Thou?”; Savion Glover, “Bamboozled”; Fred
WiUard, “Best in Show”; Peter Stormare,
“Dancer in the Dark”; Joaquin Phoenix,
“Gladiator” and “Quills.”
Best Comedic Duo: (Tie) Jack Black and
Todd Louiso, “High Fidelity”; Jackie Chan and
Owen Wilson, “Shanghai Noon.”
Best Benicio Del Toro Performance Not in “Traffic": “The Way of the
Gun.”
Best Superhero: Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), “X-Men.”
Best Supervillain: Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), “Unbreakable.”
Funniest Claymation Chicken: Babs (Jane Horrocks), “Chicken Run.”
SPECIAL | The Red a Black
▲ Babs from
“Chicken Run”
deserves funniest
claymation chick.
Least Funny Claymation Chicken: Rocky Rhodes (Mel Gibson),
“Chicken Run.”
Best Job Description in a Movie’s End Credits: Refrigerator Puppeteer,
“Requiem for a Dream.”
Best Use of a Song That’s Not “Tiny Dancer”: The Pixies’ “I’ve Been
Tired” in the comic-book shop sequence in “Unbreakable.”
Worst Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, the man who unleashed “Gone in
Sixty Seconds” and “Coyote Ugly” on the world.
Actor with Widest Gap between Best Movie Starred In and Worst
Movie Starred In: John Goodman, who appeared in both “O Brother,
Where Art Thou?” and “Coyote Ugly.”
Most Interesting Failed Experiment: Mike Figgis’ “Timecode.”
Biggest Waste of Talent: “Mission: Impossible 2,” which had stars
Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames and Anthony Hopkins,
director John Woo and screenwriter Robert Towne (“Chinatown”) and
stiff turned out crappy.
Best Song: Bjork’s “I’ve Seen it All” from “Dancer in the Dark.”
Best Performance by a Non-Icelandic Rock Star: Mos Def,
“Bamboozled.”
Best Movie That the Academy Won’t Recognize Because it Played
Once in Thailand in 1998 Or Something Equally Ridiculous: “Croupier.”
Pants-Wettingly Funniest Comedy: “Best in Show.”
Pants-Wettingly Funniest Drama: the “emotional” scenes in “Coyote
Ugly.”
MOVIES
> BEECHWOOD (546-1011)
• Cast Away (PG-13) 4 (add'l time Fri.-Sun. at
1 p.m.) I nearly did a spit-take last weekend
during SNL when they did a bit with Wilson the
Volleyball. Those thieving bastards stole that
from us. I tell ya, there are spies everywhere.
No one is safe.
• Chocolat (PG-13) 4:20, 7:30, 9:55 (add’l
l\me Fri.-Sun. at 1:45 p.m.)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (PG-13)
2:05, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 p.m. Simply breathtak
ing. Yes, there are subtitles and the plot is
ragged and predictable, but the action scenes
are so beautiful you’ll get choked up.
• Hannibal (R) (Fri.-Sun. at 1:15) 4:10, 7,
9:35 p.m. The good doctor is back and is
pissed off because The Food Network
wouldn’t give him his own show. Sure, they
told him it was because they were terrified
they might be eaten. Just know that behind
the scenes it was all politics.
• 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? (PG-13) 2:15,
4:35, 7:15,9:35 p.m.
• Recess: School’s Out (G) 3:20, 5:20, 7:20,
9:20 p.m. (add’l time Fri.-Sun. at 1:25 p.m.)
• Save the Last Dance (PG-13) 2:25, 4:50,
7:25, 9:50 p.m. This could possibly be your
last chance to see a movie about a teenage
girl who is destined to dance before Britney
Spears makes her big film debut in a movie
just like it sometime next year. I’m sure her
performance will be so amazing that
Hollywood will say to itself, “Wow, we can’t top
that.”
• Saving Silverman (PG-13) 3:25, 5:35, 7:45,
9:40 p.m (add’l time Fri-Sun. at 1:25 p.m.)
This film is an interesting mix of actors who
are quickly becoming stars (Amanda Peet,
Jack Black and Steve Zahn) and actors who
will one day be selling maps to help tourists
find where they live (Jason Biggs and urn, urn,
let’s see...) Well, I guess it’s not really a mix
at all. Never mind.
• Sweet November (PG-13) 2:10, 4:45, 7:10,
9:45 p.m. OK, it’s not November, and no
romantic comedy featuring Keanu is “sweet.”
• Traffic (R) 8:30 p.m. If you haven’t seen this
yet, you might as well, since it’s probably
going to win several Academy Awards, which
means they’ll rerelease it in theaters and
eventually you’ll cave in and go anyway.
Come on, you know you want to.
• The Wedding Planner (PG-13) 3:10, 5:25,
7:35, 9:45 p.m. (add’l time Fri.-Sun at 1 p.m.)
> CARMIKE 12 (354-0584)
• Cast Away (PG-13) 1:15, 4:05, 7, 9:55 p.m.
• Double Take (PG-13) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:15,
9:20 p.m.
• Down to Eartn (PG-13) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05.
7:15, 9:20 p.m. Finally, a movie based on all
those amazingly insightful jokes about how
white people and black people are different.
Still, Chris Rock may be able to save this
movie.
• Hannibal (R) 1:15, 4, 7, 9:45 p.m.
• Recess: School’s Out (G) 1:20, 3:20, 5:25,
7:20, 9:15 p.m. Oh, good Disney has a new
animated film. Gee, I hope this doesn't mean
that they’re done making sequels of movies
that were originally based on children’s sto
ries. I was so looking forward to “Pocahontas
IV: White People Give Us Back Our Land.”
• Save the Last Dance (PG-13) 1:30, 4:30,
7:15, 9:40 p.m.
• Saving Silverman (PG-13) 1:10, 3:15, 5:20,
7:30, 9:55 p.m. In 10 years, kids are going to
look at Jason Biggs with the same sad pitying
expression that we give to the guy who played
“Pee Wee” on “Porky’s.”
• Snatch (R) 1:45, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55 p.m.
• Sweet November (PG-13) 1:35, 4:15, 7:05,
9:30 p.m. This is Keanu’s big chance to once
and for all prove he can suck just as much in
a romance as in a comedy, action film, horror
movie, Shakespeare adaptation, independent
film riffing off Shakespeare, etc...
• Valentine (R) 1, 3:10, 5:15, 7:25, 9:45 p.m.
My dream is to make enough money so that I
can support Denise Richards and she won’t
have to keep showing the world what a bad
actress she is. At least not until her looks go,
anyway. .
• The Wedding Planner (PG-13) 2, 4:45,
7:10, 9:35 p.m.
> COMMERCE DRIVE-IN (335-2486)
• Hannibal (R) 8 p.m. Nothing says “I love
you" quite as eloquently as carving up a dude
who’s been bothering your girl friend and serv
ing him up as a gourmet entree’. FAB-YOU-
LUSS! Who says real romance is dead?
• The Wedding Planner (PG-13) 8 p.m.
• What Women Want (PG-13) 8 p.m.
> GEORGIA THEATRE (549-9918)
• Tue.: Shadow of the Vampire (R) 7, 10
p.m. Willem Dafoe is great in this movie.
Unfortunately he’s the only thing that is.
• Wed.: State And Main (R) 7, 10 p.m.
Remember the episode of “The Simpsons”
when a movie studio decides to film
“Radioactive Man: The Movie" in Springfield.
Well, this movie is a lot like that. Looks really
funny.
> FLICKER THEATRE (546-0039)
• Sat.: Before Mickie Mouse (NR) 8:30 p.m.
A documentary about early animation way
back before there was an ACME or a giant
theme park built in the swamp outside
Orlando.
> TATE STUDENT CENTER (542-5584)
• Thurs.: American Movie (R) 3, 5:15, 7p.m.
This should be a cool night. Check out Jeffrey
Whitfield’s article for details.
• Fri.-Sun.: Best in Show (PG-13) 3, 5:15,
7:30, 9:45 p.m. (add’l time at midnight Fri. and
Sat.).
• Mon: Chungking Express (PG-13) 3, 5:15,
7:30, 9:45 p.m.
- Steven Clark