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Show Te enExamtrter The news page written by and for On The Net emmmazza http www standard net rMffggffT standard net - WeberDavis teens tx Phone: 625-421- Lakeside Review 7 1 776-495- 4 Thursday, February 19, 1998 I 1 ! 5 know why w celebrate it DIB By SARAH THOMPSON The Wedding Singer lives up to standards TX correspondent By SCOTT STEPHENS States. TX One thing that troubles a Utah traveler is the fact that life does exist outside of Utah - a very colorful life full of people, sights, and differences that make America the great nation it people had chance to vacation outside of Utah. Some have even had the experience of going outside the United Many corespondent It can still be done. Hollywood can produce a good romantic comedy. The Wedding which opened Feb. 13, is living proof of that. The film lives up to the over-useand rarely achieved, title of Romantic Comedy - a word that has not been put to good use since the movie n actor Roxanne, starring Steve Martin as the romantic. The Wedding Singer also has a few other firsts in the movie world, such as a rapping grandma. Drew Barrymore as the lovable, sweet and innocent character (shocking), and the overuse of eighties music - by choice. The Wedding Singer stars Adam Sandler as Robbie, a hip eighties wedding singer with a raunchy fiancee and a bad haircut, and Barrymore as waitress and Julia, an soon-to-b- e bride to Glenn Gulia. (Yes, all you geniuses out there predicted it, her name would be Mrs. Julia Gulia -i thats funny.) Robbie meets Julia w hile working his , musical magic at the wedding hall where she has just been hired, and they hit it k off. But Julia is over the creepy businessman, Glenn, who moonlights as a jerk and uses working late as his adulterous excuse. Robbie has the same problem and his fiancee goes, for lack of a better word, psycho. The movie takes many twists and turns and keeps you thinking as you journey down Wedding Singer lane. This mov ic will make you laugh, and some people might cry. The fact is, you will be entertained. Teens, call up that certain someone and go see The Wedding Smger. It will entertain teens and adults alike, so here's a wild idea; Go sec it with your parents. There's no shame in that. Singer, d, well-know- big-nos- out-of-to- love-struc- Scott Stephens, a sophomore at Korthrulge High Sihool, enjoys playing basketball, mountain bikmg and perfecting the alrcaily-pcrfebody, (llis onis.) is. But how great is a nation that has hundreds of different walks of life, yet an incredibly high rate of racism? Our nation has been known to so many as the land of opportunity, yet so many are denied opportunity because of the color of their skin. Bigots and hateful people are rising up stronger than ever, and it can be seen in the states, towns and neighborhoods we teens live in. The month of February is Black History Month. The question Americans should be asking themselves is why we need a month to recognize the color of a persons skin. Shouldn't we already know the history of a race that has had such a dominant part in the shaping of our couns, but try? If it isnt any other race, we should be learning about them in school, too. Not in just one month, but in everyday classes where all students get their valuable education. v Afncan-Amencan- I am a white, blond-haire- female teenager growing up in a residential community in Utah. Because I blend in with so many others in this state, 1 have never had to be in a situation where I am uncomfortable because of my racial appear- Accept" is a horrible word to use with human beings. Why should someone need acceptance because of the color of his or her skin? W'hether someone is black, white or brown, they should automatically be accepted in' to the category of a person. blue-eye- ance. Very few Caucasians in Utah have had to deal with discrimination, if any at all. Utah is set apart completely from the rest of the world. 1 have lived here my whole life, and have vacationed for long periods of time outside the state, and I've come to the conclusion that Utah can't accept racial differences. Recognizing the color of someone's skin or their background does not mean you have accepted them as an equal, it means youve simply seen their differences. sues. I fear that Amencans head is about to explode with ignorance. A teacher at a local high school called the events of Amistad unimportant and not interesting enough to be placed in a history text when he was asked about it by a student He claimed Hollywood exaggerated the events of the movie for entertainment ignorance that so many worship. Millions of men, women and children were taken from their homes to a foreign country, exploited, and then given the chance to return - only to find there was nothing left of their homes. Thats definitely not unimportant. Worshiping ignorance is how many people function in society today. If you ignore something so long, it finds a spot in the back of one's head along with the other untouched touchy is I agree that not everything can be be taught on a high school level, but classes never miss an event where the white man rises, conquers and becomes the hero, and Not long ago, I went with my family to Steven Spielberg's Amistad. I was very touched by this movie, not only because of the true events, but the true put into a text and leaves children proud to be an American. I have I tell and been through these classes, you I am not proud. I don't like the fact that it takes Hollywood and millions of dollars to get people to realize that America, the home of the free and the brave, has a huge closet of skeletons, and many of those skeletons are the bodies of people who died for an unknown land and unknown reasons. That is the reason why we need something like Black History Month to recognize the color of a persons skin. Sarah Thompson, a senior at Roy High Si hool, likes to fu irn, read and hang out . ith her friends. She's also a sno w boarder. ct All about TX. Tver feel like writing a letter about the articles you sec here in the TX. section? Maybe you have a story idea for us, or youd like more information about becoming a IX. correspondent yourself. A good way to communicate with us is through our web site. We can be found at www. standard net (our TX. On us The Net address) and you can at Lx a standard net. The TX. mystery moderator also shows up every Wednesday at 8 pm. to run the chatroom, which you can join at www standard net. Next Wednesday's topic will be: What's your preference? Vegan, vegetarian, meat-eateI or more information about the TX. 4. section, call r? 625-421- Tho Bottom CaOCDG Making a million is an easy, By MATH HOWARD TX comispondent got a Ive It's a tough one, and I know that I share it with just about every person on the planet, but its been the cause of much mental torment and anguish. Here it is; I hate steady jobs, but I want to be loaded. Tough, no? Add that to the fact that I pretty much lack any shred of ambition and that I barely passed my college classes last quarter, and you may be thinking, That kid has as much chance of as I have of being comfortably well-obeing the first male member of an cabaret in Pennsylvania. Well, I've got news for you, Mr. I have it all planned Doubly-pantout, and there's a million w ith my name on it. Think about it . . . there's a lot of dough out there. Take Bill Gates for example. He makes a lot of money. I don't know exactly how much, but I've heard that one of his maids makes roughly 76 spaquitrillion every year. With people raking in that much, who would miss a measly million, nght? ff all-gi- 1 s. Mickey Mouse's Latin name is Michael Musculus. c I've got it all laid out, my p plan to hit it big: 1 . 5 rite a legal thriller. This has got to be cake. There's a set formula for your average legal thriller, and nowhere docs it require any sort of skill at writing. The formula goes as g follows: 1 hink of a legal word, add the in front of it, title. and you have an Throw in a sickenmgly idealistic and ethical handsome young lawyer upstart, a crime boss of some sort, and a seductive love interest andor wife. Cast some rising new hunky actor m the lead and you've got a blockbuster. 2. Write a book. I don't have any set idea on this, but I'm thinking of writing a book about the path of least resistance: Mooch OIT the System - How to Get What You Want With Minimal Lflbrt. At 12 bucks a pop. 3. Play professional basketball. OK, so at first you're probably saying that there is no possible way I have the talent to make it into the NBA. You're absolutely nght. But then again, who needs talent? All I need to do is build up an outrageous image and become the next NBA Bad Boy." Rodmans calmed down, Shaq has lost whatever it was that was appealing m his glory days, and everyone is sick and tired of watching Jordan win. The time is right for a new supcrstarwcirdo for the media to exploit. 1 ! fC catchy-soundin- self-hel- process 0-st- ep theyve been doing. Take Puff Daddy for example. 1 le hasn't written an original song yet, and hes a huge-- o megastar. Once Ive got a song together, I hire a bunch of dancing girls to be in the background, and film a lot of scenes of me in a boat with them while being chased by the authorities. Theres one problem - I'm white. But I'm not looking for a thing here, I want to be a flash in the pan Bottom line is, even though everyone hales him, Vanilla Ice is rich. in a massive, worldwide 6. corporation in a poker game. I think this one is fairly 7. N rite a hugely successful syndicated humor column that millions will read and adore. Write several best-sellbooks. All by blatantly ripping off Dave Barrys wniing style. 8. Start a new book phenomenon . . . Theater Thrillers. Ihcsc would be novels set suspenseful, action-packein the cutthroat business world of Movie Theaters. I've got a story idea all worked out for my first one. When a rising and ambitious young usher joins a prestigious new theater group, he uncovers a huge plot by leaden of the corporation to raise popcorn prices another quarter. While running for his life, he makes an alliance with an attractive concession-stan- d worker and romance ensues The climax long-lastin- p 4. Become a This would take even less effort than playing pro ball. Recently Ive started to watch a little bit of VCW wrestling. Oh, be quiet, it's not like you've never done anything you're ashamed of. But anyhow. Im not looking to be a star or anything. I just want to be that c guy that gets beat on every single week. I think the public would love to see some tall skinny punk get whaled on by the big stars, for a no-nam- salary. 5. Make a rap video. This is so easy I can't believe everyone isn't doing it. (OK, so maybe they arc ) All I have to do is find some obscure song from the '70s or 80s and rap over it. If you look at all the new R&B artists" (I use that term V L RY loosely) that's all g d See MILLION'S |
