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STRANGER THAN
FICTION
Ferrell’s first drama still funny
By SCOTT REID
sreid@randb.com
Will Ferrell can make
almost anyone laugh. He has
been doing it for years.
His loud, in-your-face slap
stick in some of the last 10
years’ funniest comedies
(and his former gig on
“Saturday Night Live”)
makes him the go-to guy for
ridiculous humor.
Like Jim Carrey, Robin
Williams and Steve Martin, it
was only a matter of time
before Ferrell tried his hand
at drama.
And time is of the essence
in his new movie, “Stranger
Than Fiction,” directed by
Marc Forster.
Ferrell plays Harold Crick,
an IRS agent who lives a
strictly regimented and bor
ing life.
He plans every daily action
down to the second. That is,
until his life begins being nar
rated by a woman with a
British accent.
The woman is Kay Eiffel
(Emma Thompson), an
author who has struggled to
find a way to kill her charac
ter, Crick, for the past 10
years.
With his demise imminent,
Crick begins to change his life.
With the help of a litera
ture professor played by
Dustin Hoffman, he searches
for Eiffel in order to persuade
her not to kill him.
“Stranger Than Fiction” is
still funny, even as a drama.
The humor is more subtle
and relies more on the script
than ad-libbed humor like in
his earlier movies.
The movie serves as a
reminder of the pleasures of
life that we can miss out on
when we live by our wrist-
watches.
Crick learns how pleasura
ble life can be when he is not
defined by his work. He dis
covers what many people
knew all along, like the great
ness of cookies and the fun in
playing the guitar.
The narration of “Stranger
Than Fiction” is comparable
to movies like “Adaptation”
and “Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind,” but “Fiction”
has a stronger cast and fun
nier moments.
There are some large holes
in the script, however. We
never learn of Crick’s back
ground, for example, and
how his life became a pattern
of numbers and seconds.
But this lack of back
ground is forgivable due to
the fast-paced nature of the
story and the likability of the
characters.
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Stranger
than
Fiction
Grade: B+
Verdict: “Stranger than Fiction” is
a funny look at life and staying
sane.
Volleyball winless
in final home games
By LAWRENCE CONNEFF
lconneff@uga.edu
A couple of slow starts
may have been the Georgia
volleyball team’s undoing as
it came up winless in the final
matches of the SEC season.
Tennessee’s 3-0 win
Friday night was Georgia’s
seventh straight loss to the
Lady Vols, while Kentucky
was able to make it four in a
row over the Volley Dogs
with a sweep on Sunday.
In both matches, the
Bulldogs (6-22, 2-16 SEC)
found themselves playing
catch-up right away after
losing the first game by a
rather wide margin.
“We couldn’t get into a
good rhythm offensively, and
we made a lot of errors,”
junior setter Chelsea Young
said.
Those errors led to their
opponents going on five-and
six-point runs and putting
the early games out of reach.
After trailing for the dura
tion of game one on Friday,
Georgia finally got its
offense going and was able
to trade points with the
Volunteers in the final two
games. When it came to
crunch time, the Vols (18-9,
9-9) managed to pull away
from the Bulldogs.
Sophomore outside hitter
Maria Taylor led all players
with 22 kills, while Young fin
ished with 31 assists.
The team fell in an even
deeper hole on Sunday, as
the Wildcats (17-9, 10-8)
cruised to 30-11 and 30-17
finals in the first two games
of the match. By the time
Georgia began converting
on offense in game three, it
was simply too late.
“We saw glimpses of a
consistent offense in game
two, but it really took until
game three to get into a bat
tle with them,” head coach
Steffi Legall said. “In this
league, you can’t make the
unforced errors we’ve been
making. It’s just so hard to
get all of those points back
against a good team.”
Men’s basketball blows out Southern
By SAM STEINBERG
ssteinber@randb.com
Coach Dennis Felton was
smiling as Georgia ran
Southern out of Stegeman in
a season-opening 97-37 win.
“It was one of those games
that turned out precisely as
we planned it. That’s good. It
is not always that easy,”
Felton said.
The 60-point margin of vic
tory is the largest at home
since Georgia defeated
Whittier College 122-62 on
Dec. 2, 1979.
Before the game, Felton
entered the student section
for some highfives to pump
up the crowd and the energy
carried through the game.
In the first two and a half
minutes, the Bulldogs stole
the ball four times to jump
out to a 11-3 lead. By halftime,
the Bulldogs had firm control
with a 50-14 lead.
“We really wanted to come
out and set the tempo not only
for the game, but for the rest of
the season,” sophomore guard
Mike Mercer said. “We wanted
to show people that we are for
real and that the Georgia
defense is a championship
defense.”
The Bulldogs forced 35
Jaguar turnovers which led to
51 points.
“Our main thing was to
have a lot of intensity, be real
ly relentless on the ball and
create a lot of turnovers,”
sophomore center Rashaad
Singleton said.
The Bulldogs finished with
21 steals and out-rebounded
Southern 44 to 29.
“We really, really wanted to
be disruptive with our
defense,” Felton said. “I don’t
think we could have played
much better. We played awful
ly well.”
On the offensive side of the
ball, Mercer finished with 21
points but was 0-6 from
beyond the three-point arc.
“I can’t make every shot I
put up. Everybody has their
slump days,” Mercer said.
Sophomore Billy
Humphrey led all scorers with
23 points and shot 7-8 in
three-point field goals.
As a team Georgia had five
players with double digits in
the points column.
Georgia cruised to victory
without two suspended play
ers. Junior guard Charming
Toney sat out the contest due
to academic issues from the
summer, while center Takais
Brown is still serving an indef
inite suspension for academ
ics as well.
“He’s got to come to grips
that he is here to be a student
first. He’s got to be a student
in order be a basketball play
er,” Felton said. “He is a very
good, strong, athletic, low-post
player. It sure would be great
for us to have him.”
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Dogs’ key
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was win the first four or five
minutes. They did that.
Every four or five minutes
there was a challenge and
we answered them.”
The second half saw the
Lady Dogs have no trouble
with Rutgers’ full-court
pressure early, and an
8-0 Georgia run in the
beginning of the half
pushed the Bulldogs to a
51-42 lead.
The Scarlet Knights
refused to go down easily
though, taking a three-
point lead with less than
four minutes to play.
In response the
Bulldogs switched to a
smaller lineup, and the
results were immediate.
The lineup allowed the
Lady Dogs to get to the
free throw line, where per
fect shooting sealed the
game.
Freshman guard Ashley
Houts, who has shown
improvement every time
she has taken the court,
had a coming-out party,
ending the game with 18
points and seven assists.
Senior Janese Hardrick
matched her 18 points.
Freshman Angel Robinson
and senior Cori Chambers
each also scored in the
double digits.
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