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Show 5W T i i' u E x n m i w u r The news page written by and for k re- nd we Dr- - On The Met csk'ifjma--i WeberDavis teens ity or www http standard net tif?,'llirls' ''1! wi,ll txstandard net - . Phone: 625-421- 4 ty, 776-495- 1 ! Thursday, July 23, 1998 id iy. ot Teens explain why guys go: id or it To impress girls, said Clearfield High junior. "They want to show their sensitive side, said Angela Banach, Clearfield. High senior. To impress chicks and show their inner woman, said Travis Nutley, a senior at Bonneville High School. "Some go to see what their girlfriends are raving about. Others go to see the girls, said Kelli Cottrell, Clearfield High junior. To check the girls out, said Samantha McClurg, Clearfield High sophomore. Your date makes you go . . . obligation, said Jason Taukiuvea, a junior, at Bonneville High School. Because thats where the ladies are, says Jay Banner, a Bonneville High junior. Because theyre on a date, said Amy Ellsworth, Clearfield High senior, Because they know that girls will go with them to see it, said Jessica Jem I. kins, Clearfield High sophomore. I go for the popcorn, said Eric Faulkner, a sophomore at Bonneville High School. To be with their girlfriends, said Lisha Ellsworth, a 1998 Clearfield High graduate. Because they want to be with the girl thats going, said Suzy Eddy, Clear-- , field High senior. To please their girlfriends, said Sara Hummed, Clearfield High sopho- more. Because they are the only good movies. I hate violence, said Jeff God- Mandi-Marquard- m ic Singer Garth Brooks puts on wild show er Pt 'g i-f- s, n- - ai By JULIE ANN GROSSHANS TX X4ri 0 A' . ' u, tY,t ty- - 1 a A0 I 'YS&: 1 correspondent one can that Brooks is the king of country. So it was no surprise that 65,000 people bought tickets for the four Salt Lake shows, which sold out in three hours. Knowing Brooks was coming was coming was one thing, but to also hear that Trisha Yearwood would be the opening act made this a concert not to miss. Two teenage girls, me and a friend, headed to the Delta Center for the time of our lives -but nothing was bound to go perfectly. The first of many situations was discovering an hour before the concert that the final Sunday show was scheduled tp start at 7 o'clock, not 8 oclock. After hitjung every red light from Trolley to the Square to a parking lot semi-cloDelta Center, we finally made it to our first row, upper bowl seats. Not too bad, if you ask me. Just as Tnsha Yearwood was about to enter her third song, we hit a confusion with our seats, leaving us standing with nowhere to sit. A few minutes later a couple of nice security men relocated us to sit on Press Row, last row, lower No ft" . A- - I ' -'- ed I jlj f Lj r A c ? r Lj L u a Aa I, se Illustration By SCOTT STEPHENS TX correspondent todays society, there many things that be explained, and as mere teens we cannot be expected to be able to understand why or how these things happen. But one thing is certain. These unexplainable phenomena, if you will, are all around us - things like the rising number or orange construction barrels and the shrinkage of road work being done, or the increasing number of teens turning their hair that platinum blond color, making a group of normal teens look like a bunch of albinos. These things are possibly paranormal, but there is one mysterious activity that tops the list - those fun little bags of hormones called guys are going to chick flicks more than ever. Coincidence? I think not. Hopefully the answer to this question can be found, and with the help of my partner Mr. Keyboard we can got to the middle of this horrendous new trend. It wont be easy, because we all know that the mind of an adolescent is twisted and sometimes not all there, so we must In Suer, the scats were softer, but we lost a great view and I was stuck looking at the back of some mans head. Worst of all, the whole time we were missing Yearwood. - After Trisha Yearwoods final song, How Do I live, we decided to go back upstairs and complain, which was one of the best things we did all night. Somehow my friend and I were then seated 15 rows from the floor in the lower bowl. I forgot about complaining but I was still mad because the first scats WERE ours. ,,f Just to let you know, even though we didnt SEE Trisha Yearwood, she sounded great. My friend and I decided since we missed most of Tnsha Yearwood and because of all the troubles, we deserved something. Backstage passes maybe crossed the back of our minds. It didnt happen though. 9 he began Garth Brooks. The lights ent down, the stage rose and out came artxiwboy playing a white piano. But where was Garth? Suddenly he came out of, the piano, making the crowd go wild. rom the beginning Brooks told the atiflicncc that we would hear 90 percent old stuff and some new songs such as M wo Pina Coladas. The reason for all old stuff was because "thats what lxouglU us to the dance, he said. 1 le sang songs such as Billy Joels and his own "Baton Rouge Jind "Unanswered Prayers." -.Jlalfway through Brooks show, .3 rrsha Yearwood appeared again to sing "In Anothers Lyes, and also Jbetr-duc- t, j u song. "Walkaway Joe. et g ,i Guy movies get By MATT! HOWARD ' TX correspondent ;.Tx. CHAT . "Check out the mystery moderator and 'IXPs online chat session, 8 p.m. each on StandardNLT at lAVcdnesday Iwww standard net. Next weeks topic: '5Jne more month until were back in liool! How do you fed about that? - t u " H H lj Tho Dottorr. ' I S guy movies get all this fiak for being mindless and repetitive, girl movies are considered high entertainment. I don't know why this is. The movie I was about to see was "City of Angels," which turned out to be the most flaming chick movie 1 have ever seen in my life, but I'm getting ahead of myself. While I was sitting m that theater, my legs taking up the entire seat in front of me, 1 was exposed to girl movie after girl movie. I watched the same story unfold over and over. There are a few basic girl movies. The first and by far most obnoxious arc Teenagers in Love movies. You know the ones. Here's the plop Two young people of obviously different backgrounds are thrown together and fall in "like" with one another. Various villainous adults attempt to get between them, they stare into each others eyes a lot and sneak mind-numbin- g j i - An ostrich's is ',1 Jhan I I bigger its brain. " all take all precautions necessary. Remember, the spoof is out there. (Spoof: n. A composition that imitates somebodys style in a similar way.) Welcome to the TX. Files. Why would some guy go to see a movie with no plot to think of, and the only thing keeping romance? the movie together is the There are three mam causes for this oddity to of the causes. happen, women being Before I begin, for all of you out there who have been lucky enough to avoid chick flicks, a brief definition is in order. Any movie that causes women to cry uncontrollably, ask that certain someone to hold them, or if a woman has seen it more than once - thcres'a good chance that its a chick flick. If any of these symptoms happen during an obviously unchick flick, then that , movie is probably starring Bob Sagct or the Olsen twins. latest movie. So, now you know why those guys are huddled in the back comer praying for the movie to end so they can go and try to pick up on some women during the after v , movie-mingl- e outside session. Reason 2 two-thir- Now there are some guys out there who are not losers (theoretically), they have girlfriends, or for our older readers, they are married (my condolences). This is probably the most painful, and the worse case, to watch when it comes to chick flicks. Women can control guys, its as simple as that. When women, especially cute women, tell a guy to jump, he says how high while in mid-ai- r. Yes, its true, those poor souls you see trailing a female, you know the ones, they have a kind of look about them, and Im gonna their eyes look like a dogs when its getting tied to the tree for the night. Dont laugh at these poor souls, they cannot help it It's impossible to fight against, and if you do find yourself mocking these men you will have the what goes around comes around" curse put upon you, and you will one day find yourself in the same boat. dry-hea- Reason 1 Ilow many teenage guys out there would like io meet some girls? (Majonty of hands raise.) This desire for female companionship is the first cause for guys to go to a chick flick; because, no matter how hard everyone wants to disbelieve the fact that guys actually do have a brain, it is not true. Guys (myself included) know that girls like to get a gioup of "girlfriends and go see the the flak, girl around behind everyones back. At the end they talk about how much m love they are, even though theyve spent approximately two hours together, and how life just isnt worth living without each other. Maybe Im just a terrible cynic, but it seems to me that the first 8 years of one's life is a pretty small part of it. I cant imagine thinking that I'd sacrifice another 60 or so years of living, breathing and eating Arbys just because I think Im in love with some girl. Lven if it is Claire Danes. The other basic chick flick mold goes as follows: The story follows a spunky, witty, pretty, intelligent professional woman as she looks for the perfect man out there. She meets someone, they hate each other for the first hour and half of the film. In the last half hour they realize that they are in intense love. They get married or just have an alTair and one of them dies. Everyone bawls. The girls cry because of the intense emotional impact of the film, the guys cry because they just wasted two hours of their precious t.mc - time that could have been spent napping. The third is the musical. My junior high drama teacher introduced the musical as the one movie genre that was completely invented by American filmmakers Bragging about this is like the English bragging about the Spice Girls. Nu(T said. Now don't misunderstand me here. I have no problems with girl movies as V - A all those movies are the same , the nerve of that girl! She actually has a point, though. Guy movies are the same thing every time, too. The hero of the story, a p ridiculously muscular superhcrocyborg destroys several city blocks and millions of dollars worth of property and forms a meaningless relationship with a supermodel while p attempting to stop an crime bossmegalomaniuc who is almost always played by Dennis Hopper. Its a good formula, and it doesnt need to be tampered with. Just like she doesnt care if all the romantic comedies arc the same, I don't care if all action movies arc the same. I still love them. W hy, then, do guy movies get so much garbage from critics while a pile ot overdone sap like "City of Angels" gets four stars1 I think theres a problem w ith the way things arc going these days when the biggest budget T cenagers In Love movie ever made won approximately 78 billion academy awards tins last year (Titanic)and just about the best action movie I've ever seen was nominated for best editing (Face Off). If this isnt enough of a slap in the face IT LOST TO TITAN 1C." ' Jiltin' I hmartl, a 1997 graduate of ex-co- over-the-to- long as I, a guy, dont get dragged to one. 1 understand that lemales find them immensely entertaining and fulfilling, and that's cool by me. I'm just pointing out that it makes no sense to me why. But back to sitting in the movie theater. Somehow, I dont know why, maybe to preserve the sanity of the members of the audience possessing a Y chromosome, a guy movie trailer made it into the reel. I got really excited and sat up m my chair as things blew heroes made clever up, square-jawe- d and an attractive, woman ran away from scantily-cla- d things and screamed. I turned to my 4 date and said, Wow, that looks COOOOOL, and she LAUGHED At, ME. Then she went on to tcli me that onc-lmer- s, OR COPY A See FUCKS4 movies get the awards 1 See SOUND 4 t TEEN TAKES4 Its just another example of strange phenomena bowl. ,4 ,4 See by CHANTHY DEWEESETX correspondent Wi d m flat, tun die High si r hi.s hohbwt are uHwv and sletpun; He also make r Li mauon nun ies He adtk d the ! to his name uhout a ear ago He m eleomes at scaapegoat a aol com. a |