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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
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Web site celebrates the art of failure
The Associated Press
SCARSDALE, N.Y.— If at first you don't succeed, try the Web site failuremag.com.
A new Web magazine called Failure, launched Monday from a three-story house in Scarsdale, gives visitors the chance to vote on which dud tastes better—New Coke or Crystal Pepsi. There's an article about Breakfast Mates, Kellogg's doomed attempt to sell milk and cereal in one package. And at the Failure Store, anyone brave enough to wear it can buy a T-shirt that literally says failure all over it. But Dickson Zucker said
But founder Jason Zasky said
Failure was all about success.
We're not out to critique. We're not out to make failure a personal issue. Actually, I think we write about winners because those are the people out there taking risks, making things happen, even if they fail."
"This is not a site for losers," he said. "We're not out to judge people.
The online magazine does tackle some weighty subjects. The first issue has a long article, complete with maps, about the most monumental failure of the past two millenniums—the defeat of the Moors in 732 by Charlemagne's grandfather, Charles Martel. Author Jack Stesney said that by blocking Arab influence, the battle set civilization back 200 years.
Another complex and perhaps controversial piece is promised for a future issue: "The Failure of Christianity."
Visitors can help predict — sight unseen — which movies opening each week will be turkeys. One of this week's titles seems all too appropriate for failuremag.com; the Amy Hecklering film "Loser."
The site also celebrates — if that's the word — "This Day in Failure." For July 17, it's the 1981 collapse of two walkways at a Kansas City, Mo., hotel, which killed 114 people.
"Some of the shorter, quick-hit content is a little more lighthearted," Zasky said. "But for the most part we're not even talking about things that simply failed. In general, the issues are not that black and white.
"Most of the people we write about are really successful and failure is just a part of their life,"
Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer gaze out the window in a scene from *What Lies Beneath*. The movie opens Friday. Contributed photo.
he says. "The biggest failure is not trying."
Zasky seems unworried about running out of failures to write about.
Zasky, 30, and his partner, Kathleen Ervin, 34, expect to make a success of Failure, and they're not talking about the kind of Internet success that includes lots of financial losses and a magical stock offering.
"We've already produced content that could last several months," he said. "We have so many ideas it's unbelievable." A story will be coming soon about the $1 coin, he said. And the new-products guy will be watching as Heinz brings green ketchup to market.
Pfeiffer surfaces in movie What Lies Beneath
Review
By David Germain AP Entertainment Writer
Now for the real scary movie.
Last summer, you couldn't toss a package of Junior Mints in a movie lobby without beaning someone rushing in to see The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, or The Haunting.
Other than the parody Scary Movie, the Michelle Pfeiffer-Harrison Ford ghost tale What Lies Beneath pretty much has the market cornered on things that go bump in the theater this summer.
Good thing it's a decent movie. Though there are some awkward plot contrivances and too many cheap scares, What Lies Beneath has enough chills and twists to satisfy viewers in need of a fright fix.
Though Ford gets top billing, What Lies Beneath is Pfeiffer's film. She's terrific in a role that lets her roam from mousy spouse to voyeuristic neighbor, amateur sleuth to ghost conjurer, and finally, possessed seductress to terrified victim.
prilliant university professor preoccupied with his research.
Pfeiffer plays Claire Spencer, a doting wife and mother with way too much time on her hands now that her daughter has gone off to college. Husband Norman, played by Ford, is loving but neglectful, a
Rattling around the Spencer's gorgeous lakeside house in New England, Claire begins seeing and hearing things. She senses something sinister, and suspects it's connected to the strange doings between the bickering new couple next door. Claire embarks on a *Rear Window* stakeout, not realizing until later that the mystery lies not beneath the roof of her standofffish neighbors, but her own. Norman's
Visions appear: a face in the lake, a young woman's reflection in a bathtub that keeps filling to the brim by itself. In a nod to Alfred Hitchcock's flair for suspense, director Robert Zemecki stages a good share of What Lies Beneath takes place in and around the tub and shower, a la Psycho.
dalliance with a missing student has come home to roost.
"Are we hoping the ghost has to go to the potty?" asks Claire's buddy Jody, played by Diana Scarwid, as
the two conduct a seance in the bathroom with a Ouia board.
Caught up in his work, Norman thinks Claire has gone flaky and sends her to a shrink.
Claire tells the doctor that her husband is hopes the good doctor will pack her with Prozac or lithium so he can live out his life in peace.
In keeping with the notion that what you don't see often is scarier than what you do, the movie takes a low-key approach to visuals...
The movie sashays too often into empty scarifying; the ominous, horror score builds tension that abruptly fades away without any payoff.
The movie's overlong ending might have gained impact with a nip and tuck. But its layer of rising climaxes has punch and a couple of mild surprises—mainly about what brought back the ghost to haunt the Spencers.
Ford's performance runs deeper and darker than the actor has gone in a long while. Scarwid provides fine support as Claire's saucy pal, and James Remar broods nicely as the Spencers' neighbor, who contributes one truly hilarious sight gag.
This is Pfeiffer's picture, from its watery opening to its wistful, somber conclusion.
What Lies Beneath, distributed by DreamWorks, runs 130 minutes and is rated PG-13.
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