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Show Thursday, May 9, 1996 THE DAILY HERALD, Prove, Utah — Page D7 Hootie, pals try to get pastfirst album Non-heroes are blundering into the movies, critic says By KIRA L. BILLIK Associated Press Writer By BARRY KOLTNOW Orange County Registerr NEW YORK — Bassist Dean Felber of the phenomenally successful band Hootie and the Blow- Hollywood once made a movie about Alexander Graham Beli inventor of the telephone. Another movie was made about electricity guru Thomas Edison and still another about French scientist Louis Pasteur. The Wright Brothers and Charles Lindbergh have had their lives chronicled on the big screen. There were films made about Mohandas Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ fish walked into a New York hotel room carrying a botile of juice and a copy of The New York Times. Ashe poured his drink overice, afadio tuned to a local rock station began to play the band’s latest hit, “Tithe.” Felber nearly knocked over his glass in his haste to switch it off. It’s a telling gesture about how ready the band is to move pastits multiplatinum debut, “Cracked Rear View,” and that’s why their second album,“Fairweather Johnson,” is coming out so closely on the heels ofthe first During a break in their exhaustive two-year tour supporting “Cracked Rear View,” they rested Sgt. Alvin York, the most deco- > on Bermuda and wrote 30 songs, - 14 of which madeit on the new album. Hootie’s debut is still firmly "ensconced in the top 20 of Biliboard’s album charts, and “Time” , is still all over radio and MTV. With “Fairweather” just released, the band, which wonthe best new artist Grammy this year, could find itself in competition with itself. But booming singer Darius Rucker’s not worried. “We just wanted to put another record out because we had music,” he said. “We just didn’t really feel the need to wait.” The new albumis an altogether darker affair; it begins with the * moumful “Be the One,” which - Rucker has dubbed his favorite. Songs such as “Fool” and the lovely cello- and mandolin-laced “Tootie” reinforce the quiet, introspective vibe “Sad Caper,” which pairs an upbeat melody with downbeat lyrics, remembers 2 failed relationship. “I said before this record I was going to write a song about a relationship that worked and [ guess 4 mneverin one, so 1 couldn't do * Ruckersaid with a chuckle. “When I'm Lonely” may be self-explanatory, but Rucker says it’s not necessarily accurate. “T guess | like being lonely,” he said. “I've discovered being alone really helps me be creative. I love myalone time — | think like it even more now because I don’t get muchofit.” Rucker, in olive green corduroys, navy pullover, and USC Gamecocks baseball cap, twiddled a corkscrew as he spoke. He’s always ready with a laugh, a contrast to the morelaid-back, deliberii ate Felber. There is one silly part amidst * $ the seriousness; the title track is a & hilarious, two-minute rant at fairs weather sports fans that comes SS courtesy of guitarist Mark Bryan and drummer Jim “Soni” Sonefeld. “We hate thai,” Rucker said. i've been a (Miami) Dolphin fan i since °70 — I can remember being AP Photo ee 4 and 5 pulling for the Doiphins. The one thing you hate if you're a true sports fan is a fair-weather fan.” Rucker calls “Fairweather” a rock record as opposedto the definite pop feel of “Cracked Rear Eeee ne ee eeete “Cracked View.” The band, from left, includes: Dean Feiber, ionSoneted Darius Rucker and Mark Bryan. it. Slumpingforus is going to have te be in our eyes — we've already made our album, so we've already succeeded.” These guys are fearless. When it’s peinted out that winning’ the a nerve. “Writing songs is kind oflike Best New Artist Grammyis thore having a baby, *Ruckersaid. “You View,”partly because ofthe strong often than not the kiss of death, created that thing (and) it’s like when people say your baby’s ugly. influence REM has had on the Ruckersaid: band — especially on the tune “SillyLittie Pop Song.” The album, Ruckersays,is less radiofriendly than its predecessor, 39 he’srealistic aboutits chances. “This record’s not going to do nearly as well as ‘Cracked Rear View,’ ” he said. “That's a phe- nomenonthat people are still ask- ing, ‘Why?’ We're still asking why. We've made the best record we could have made and really don’t care what happensafter. 'm going to go out and playa lot of showsthis summerand have fun.” Felber used a sports metaphor (the guys are sports junkies) to discount the “sophomore slump”the“If you hit 55 home runs your rookie year, you're going to have a sophomore slump,” he said with a laugh. “We're not worried about “Tt wasn’t the award that did whatever happened to them — they did it to themselves or hadit done to them. That Grammy didn’t make them not have a career or whatever happened to them; it’s whattheydid after that. “You can’t fault winning a Grammy for anything,” he said with a jaugh. And they take ontheir critics, who've made Hootie and the Blowfish the band they love to hate, with aplomb “We didn’t ask for what happened to ‘Cracked Rear View’ to happen,” Ruckersaid. “It’s so funny how personally some critics take us. 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SOT 8 MTS ae 2:15 4:25 6:35 9:05 UGS Pubs prietyr BEKO" x) z Mother's Day Bruneh a it burts. “It’s not so much the people that say the record’s bad -— it’s the people that just hate us so much that they have todis us in an article about somebody else that’s got nothing to do with us. Those are the people that I don’t understand.” 7:30 9:50 Sat. & Sun. 1:30 3:30 5:30 7 ouMMANL 6) Come pint ut Poe Baron Sunday. Many 12th Free parking play pop tunes ... make you that angry? I don’t understand that, because we're so harmless.” But sometimesthe criticismhits rated soldier of World War I, and Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War II, both had movies made based ontheirlives. Sports heroes such as Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Jim Thorpe have had inspirational movies made about them. So, too, for Gens. Patton, Custer and MacArthur. Think of any real-life hero and Hollywood probably has made a movie Apparently, Hollywood has run out of heroes. istopher Darden announced last week that he will co-write and co-produce a movie based on his best-selling book about the OJ Simpson case, “In Contempt.” Darden, one of the prosecutors in the controversial murdertrial, is certainly a hero to some people. butis he really deserving ofa feature film abouthis life? He did not even come up with a cute saying during the trial. such as “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” A movie hero should have some memorablelines to say. You can't give all the good lines to the villain. Besides. a movie hero probably should win in the end, too. Audiences expectthat. But I guess if they can make a movie about George Armstrong Custer, they can make one about Christopher Darden. They both blundered their way into the history books — Custer when he miscalculated the enemy's strength. And Darden oh, where do we start? The point is: Why are they mak ing this film, and where are we headedifthis film is made? Does Marcia Clark get her own feature film? Does Johnnie Cochran? How about Robert Shapiro and Judge Lance Ito? Why not offer movie contracts to F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian and even Mark Fuhrman? Hey, let's make a feature film about every body connected with the OJ Simpsoncase, from Kato Kaelin to Kato the dog. I certainly can’t wait tostand in line to watch the Rosa Lopez story unfoid on the silver screen Before you start rolling your eyes and dismissing my complaint as beingsilly, consider that Divine Brown is mulling over featurefilm offers That's right, the street hooker who got caught with actor Hugh Grant's pants down is considering a film career. She already revealed last week that she has made an hour-long porn video re-enacting the infamous incident. Without Grant's involvement this time, of course. And what monumental accomplishment got her a film career? 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