Show TT m ijiUlffliW 3L aSm iA Utah Thursday August 13 1998 The Humid Journal Log ONE BIQ HAPPY tOUKNOML NASHVILLE Tend (AP) — For ill their fame sad riches country music singers Alia Jacksod sad LeAnn Rimes have lost little luster alter failiag to be nomiaated for hi award by the Country Music Association this year The CMA Awards to be haaded out Seat 23 at the Grand Oie Opry House are considered country music's most prestigious Just being nominated can indicate a career is on the upswing For Jackson who has garnered 40 CMA nominations and six awards since 1990 being snubbed is an abrupt change The blond singer of ‘‘Chattahoochee and “Gone Country" had been nominated for the top award of Entertainer of the Year each 1992 — he Won in 1993 — and for male year vocalist every year since 1991 Rimes 16 who rose to fame in 1996 with her Patsy Cline soundalike hit “Blue” was nominated for a total of five CMA awwds in 1996 Hid 1997 including best female vocalist last year But she has never won How could two of die industry's artists i CATHY HOU 0K SUM! VOtf SCANNED fORNElWT CHNNSE! 7 SOU 6UMCE6! HOUND 1HE war eEffiSo r —Page 21 Sorting out Country Music Association award snubs WHS LOTS OF tlKNOGflt W kte I JUST SPENT I MEEK UENRlt- MO 10 MOT horry about AND WHMT MW RUINED IT UPON!! -- top-selli- fail to get a single nomination this year? The answers are with die 6100 country music industry BEETLE BAILEY workers who are CMA members and pick the nominees and winners For best entertainer voters are supposed to choose “the act displaying the greatest competence in all aspects of the entertainment field” including performance quality of records and staging public acceptance attitude leadership and overedicontribution to the Country Music image” The criteria on the CMA ballot for best nude and female vocalist are a little simpler: “individual musical performance on records or in person” In reality the nominees are selected on die basis mix of talent commercial suc of a cess popularity and CMA voters' loyalty to artists in whom they have a stake Rimes' career was built on the teen and teen-ag-e girls don't nominate or vote for the CMA On the other hand there art plenty of women in the music industry in their 30s and 40s who have lots in common with singers like Lee Ann Womack Martina McBride Trisha Yearwood Faith Hill and Patty Loveless who are nominated for best female vocalist And these industry workers have a voice in who gets recognized by die CMA The unusu handling of Rimes' hit “How do 1 “in-pers- hard-to-defi- HAQAR THE HORRIBLE sfe$&2T’ J live" may give an insight into what sways a CMA vote Rimes recorded “How do I Live" for the movie “Con Air” but it was rejected and Yearwood was brought in to record it All the same Curb Records dpclucdI to release Rimes' rendition Yearwood got the country hit while Rimes got a pop smash But taking a competing record of the same song to pop radio may have caused resent- ment against Rimes among some CMA voters Alan Jackson's streak of CMA nominations ends as he enjoys great success with “I'll Go On Loving You” the first single from a new album “Believe me 1 don't see this as any kind of a carter problem" said Fletcher Foster of Arista Records Jackson's record label “A lot of it is the result of things like the timing of his album releases and his deciding to take a break from touring" Other country bigshots have had gaps in nominations with little harm to their careers George Strait wasn't nominated for best entertainer from 1992-9- 3 and Reba McEudre suddenly slopped getting i nations for best entertainer and female Vocalist in 1996 “With Alan last year was just a slow time” said Michael McCall who writes about country music for the Los Angeles Times and The Nashville “He almost completely stopped touring He was between albums and didn't have any singles on the radio for a time Everybody else in the entertainer and male singer categories was active except for Vince GilL" Jackson also separated from his wife for a time though they have since reconciled and there is no Indication me split influenced voters Gill who also sat out much of the year and got divorced still got nominated for beat entertainer and male vocalist The difference is probably that Gill is much mare Visible around Nashville During his layoff he performed at the Grand Ole Opry nearly every weekend and he's active in charities He has always been generous about supporting other performers by appearing on their records something that sits well with CMA Voters with a stake in those careers And die popular Gill is the longtime host of die CMA Awards — 1998 will make his seventh consecutive year “Alan tends not to be as active and visible when he's taking breaks” Foster said How ‘Stella’ loses her groove Movie review ByBarnVoortwn flnrfalrtU a ecnppi nowarq news oefvioe PEANUTS IP VOUR P&l IY0 15 A 6IAUUH4Y DON'T YOU 5AYDEAE5TPENffcL' Pi 0RWKUN6 PENPAL'? AND THEN SI6N IT AffECTlONAfElV Y0UR5' tent with the smart grounded (albeit grooveless) corporate trader we see in the first half hour Director Kevin Rodney Salliven’s picture of It’s puzzling ertnAWrinr ttay McMillan's other Jamaica is as UnMemithed as his view of Stella and “Waiting toExhale” which was her wardrobe: flowers everywhere no poverty no a touring treatise on risterhood and disappointing tourists There's barely even any conflict men Women flocked to the movie vetrion by the teeming with the exception of the Jamaican hunk’s mother McKfilfions But the movie adaptation of McMilwho is Stella’s age and not about to give die two lan’s “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” has none lovers her blessing But once the hunk’s mother is of the stormy pride and passion of the first movie introduced poof! the disappears which is what Stella (Angela Bassett) is a kind of poster girl for with aU the movie’s potential conflicts the successful executive of die ’90s happens Stella’s two listen present a problem or two but She's a stylish fantastically beautiful working then poof! the problems are forgotten And when a mother who sends her ion off to spend t fatal illness is introduced — poof! — even that is with his father and promptly slips into a font She’s under the nig lost her taste for foa and food and she can barely virtually swept are of real hilarity: Regina King moments Then get herself off the couch to run her usual is hysterical as Stella's spirited sitter (her story mile In other words Stella has lost her groove than Stel As she’s moping around her magnificent home in would have been much more one of her designer dresses she sees an ad on TV la's) and Whoopi has acme very fanny lines scare die white people” is my personal promoting Jamaica as a prime vacation spot Before ("Don't But favorite) Whoopi is also the movie's vehicle to communicate die Meaning of Life and she’s called upon to say a line or two that throws the movie into mother emotional hemisphere As if dun weren't enough Sullivan can't resist Jamaican hunk flkye Diggs) and presto year-dsome completely gratuitous nudity which is artfully Stella’s got her groove back! It’s not the age difference that bothered me She staged but it reinforces die surface attraction that drtiset like a fashion model and she’s in great contradicts Sadia’s intense intelligence And then Sullivan lets the movie go on and on a s and there's never n question (as there was Nicholson in “As Good As It Gets” and Beat- foil hour after Stella has safely found her groove ty in “Bui worth") about what the Jamaican hunk and all semblance of conflict has been resolved The sees in Stella It’s just that Stella's retrieval of her one dung dm makes the last hour bearable is that groove ii totally dependent on her surrendering her everyone every shot every article of dothing and and it's self to this youthfol every camera ingle is beautiful “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” is to gag a feminist d Names In the show said die movie is in the hands of die producer and director Connery feels the suspense LONDON (AP) — Scan Coa- nery is feeling the suspense over “the Avengers" along with movie critics who won't even get a sneak preview before die movie CLOSE TO HOME REAL LIFE ADVENTURES ILL UT MNW 4AM JflMf ft I &7Ne6AY'M&WBttoH CtiJOKEO MYHAA 7D I ffT c&rmnoAt NteANO 6AADVAL WDfDJT AT LUNCH ii DIDN'T VW?( D v news opens Friday Connery who plays die villain Sir Angnst De Wynter in the remake of the stylish '60s TV "At this stage they know more 1 do” Connery told well-kno- n £$2 die heart ace After ruffing how would you continue? 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