Show ft 9PPP Tho Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday August 27 1998 — Page 19 ONE BIG HAPPY Country with a kick Shania breaking barriers IT EXPRESSES KAUTX ORIS A OR EMOTION CULTURE RCFLECnONQrE OR TIME ALL GREAT ART MAKES A STATEMENT u NEW YORK (AP) — She looks about country as the Manhattan skyline Skin-tigblack leather pants cut low to expose her belly button A ted iribbon of fabric stntegical- ly placed above her bare midriff Thick chestnut hair cascading down her back But Shania Twain who wore the above ensemble for her recent Roiling Stone cover shoot is adamant that she's more Nashville than New York consider myself a country artist” she says ‘That music was always such a big part of me growing up I loved Stevie Wonder and the Carpenters but Willie Nelson and Dolly Parian were just as big an influence “You've to got to fit somewhere and for the sake Canadian of fitting I’m country” die continues “I have no complaints about thaL The challenge is to go beyond thaL" The Rolling Stone cover released in August is AP photo that in her success of handling challenge part am became the first female country ariist on the Country singer Shania Twain porforms during a soki-oconcert in 8udbury Ontario May 29 to kick off har cover since Dolly Paiton in 1980 a distinction she's Drat world tour quite proud to claim “It's hard to break free of the mold to try and But one recent story did get under her skin a transcend labels” she says “It’s just difficult to da piece detailing how “Snooty Shania" can't stand When I can I consider it a triumph somehow for her fans me M “I love my fans” she said Her first world tour which started in North AmerThe exposure has also convinced TWain to abanica in May is mother triumph don her upstate New York home for a new place in When tickets went on sale for her Detroit show Switzerland Her New York neighbors are "wonderthey were gone in 29 minutes — a rate matched ful sweet and normal” she said “But it's tough previously by The Who and Metallic! being recognized at the grocery store” The critics were wowed too One reviewer said Only five yean ago TWain could do all her shopthe current queen of country put on n show “that ping unimpeded waa more Patti Smith than Patty Loveless” — a Her 1993 debut album disappeared quickly but it comparison was still the year that changed her life: She met By midsummer Twain’s single You’re Still The Lange in June and they married six months later One had crossed over everywhere: No 2 on the Working with her husband she struck platinum Billboard Top 40 No 1 on adult contemporary Na — 12 rimes over — with her follow-u- p The Woman 1 on country in heavy rotation at mellow VH1 and in Me It sold 10 million copies in the United States its hipper sibling MTV a sales figure hit by only five other women: Carole Her across the board success her flesh-bariKing Whitney Houston Mariah Carey Celine Dion videos and her collaboration with husband (and and Alania Morissette Leppard producer) Robert “Mutt” Lange have Come On Over has sold more than 4 million raffled some feathers in copies in nine months Twain says the numbers the way TWain likes it while impressive don’t mean all that much to her “I was at ooe time trying to convince people that “I don’t pay much attention to the charts" she it’s valid to be original and unique” she says says “It’s like the stock market I can't sit there and laughing “That means not being traditional but it watch the stock market If you put too much emphaalao means not being ran of the mill sis on it you set younelf up for disappointment" “I just go about things my own way” It has worked Elsewhere in country music Twain was Billboard’s No 1 country artist in AWARDS: The 1998 International Bluegrass 1996 and captured a best country album Grammy Music Awards will be handed out Oct 22 at the that same year for The Woman in Me Her latest Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville Ky Up album Come On Over was another chart-toppfor the top award of Entertainer of the Year are Blue And the tour is selling out Highway Lonesome River Band the Del McCoury Bud Ricky Skaggs ft Kentucky Thunder and Ilbd Blit Twain's success hastteated fcdme proMetn ht CATHY CflOOTC SOOMNE amore sMT6ooor(E SUNORCMSOOM4E U0RT& i kuiwmtummzmeA Uhl THE PRMtC Of A NCM SEA30H OF "EMR&CNM UUVC-UP- & FOR TOC NEW LAWN tEOPf FMU MN0UE1TC i 1 ut BEETLE BAILEY HAGAR THE HORRIBLE ng ex-D- ef PEANUTS er — like becoming s topic for the supermarket “I take most of it with grain of salt: ’Shania and Mutt divorcing or unhappy or whatever”’ she says “We laugh about it because it’s so for from the truth" Names In as serial killer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio is out as the serial killer in American Psycho The Titanic star in search of an encore and the independent stu- dio Lions Gate Films couldn’t agree on a starting dale the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News reported Tuesday citing unidentified sources spokeswoman Guagenri said only that the actor is scheduled to begin filming The Beach in January interest in The American Psycho an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel mule hradtinra two months sga Director Mary Harron ( Shot DiCaprio’s Andy Warhol) was ousted when DiCaprio got involved but she has been asked to return “As for as I know they would like me to come back which is great” she said Presley wins REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME tNTLU6NT YOU HAVCBAPSYESj AMD BAB TASTE tion As an example there are two obvious tinea of play in fob six-spa- de contract what are they and which is the better? West leads foe heart queen Counting his losers and finding some only in clubs declarer thought he needed a 2 club split So he won with foe heart ace drew tramps and played two rounds of clubs However East happily took two tricks in foe suit to defeat foe slam Now let's count winaere There 2-- "Wt don’t Dw to um ehtmtoab on too animals I'm going to uso Ms bumpot to scare tot teas toward Scamp's toR wtrere toayTI Jump off Into ’V the Internet in memory of her mother Among the 300 items mi sale is the handwritten score to Ian’s 1975 hit song “At Seventeen” along with one of her guitars and her first drafts of many songs Proceeds will go to a memorial Currie Grant a former Army buddy of Presley’s made false statements flat were repeated and fund at Vermont's Goddard Colused as the source for the book Child Bride: The Untold Story of lege the alma mater of Ian's Priscilla Beaulieu Presley by mother Pearl Wadoff Suzanne Finstad Ms Presley has long assured the world she was a virgin when she married The King Grant was ordered to pay $75000 Ms Presley had sued for at least $10 million Ms Finstad wasn't sued Grant could not be located Tuesday “I am very pleased that I have been vindicated by this judgment” Ms Presley said in Ian goes While fighting multiple sclero- sis she earned an undergraduate degree and a master's in play-wrighti- She from the school died last year “Goddard kept my mother alive and healthy longer than she would have been without them" Ian said Tuesday Ian 47 scored her first hit in 1967 with Society's Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking) Her 1975 album Between the Lines went high-tec- h platinum Tenn (AP) — Singer-songwritJanis Ian is going higMech for an auction via The auction will begin Sept 15 The Internet address is wwwsongscomjanisianauction er Calif (AP) If you read a beginner’s book the author will recommend that declarer count top tricks in a notramp contract but losers when in a suit contract All well and good but when there is a tramp suit it is a good idea to count winners as welL Sometimes this will point you ii the right direc- H0JHEYUUSTA4AK& UKS Presley Superior Court Judge Daniel A Cuny ruled Aug 19 that Lavera NASHVILLE BuPhHHo Alder THese make Me look XVU LOOK — Priscilla Presley won $75000 in a defamation lawsuit against a man who claimed they had an affair before she married Elvis Win at bridge HOW ABOUT THfS PAtPfOO MOWS judgment MONICA SANTA MERRY CHRISTMAS: Vince Gill will have a new Christmas album out this year It’s called Breath of Heaven and is due Cor release on Sept 8 He’ll also host the Country Music Association awards show on Sept 23 the news DiCaprio out MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM lymeOut are 11: six spades two hearts two diamonds and one club Therefore one more trick is sired This could come from but a 2 split is only a 40 North Kl 3 A K 9 A 9 7 4 2-- percent shot If the missing diamonds split 4-- 3 — a 62 percent probability — dummy’s fifth diamond can be established And if the diamonds don’t behave declarer can fall back on the dubs This is foe right line: Win with foe heart ace play a diamond to dummy's king raff a diamond in hand return to dummy with a tramp and raff another diamond in hand Have they split 4-If not draw tramps and play for the 2-2 club break But when the do divide favorably draw tramps play a club to dummy’s ace and can foe king-si- x of ma-- forest a 99 East a I 4 3 V 9 9 9 4 3 VQJ19 4 9T Q I I J 7 J 19 KQ AQ 3 IS S 7 OAK 3 ISIS Vulnerable: East-We- st 37 monds discarding two Count losers and winners OlSSSbyNEA toe dab 19 Opening lead: v Q |