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ENTERTAINMENT
Osbournes TV's newest family
The Prince of Darkness reaches out to a new generation of music consumers with nothing more than the reality of his own family.
The new reality-based MTV comedy The Osbournes stars Ozzy Osbourne and the members of his clan as the not-so-typical family next door. The half-hour show, which airs at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, focuses on the lives of Ozzy; Sharon, his workaholic wife and manager; Kelly, the 17-year-old spiky haired daughter; Jack, the rebellious 16-year-old whose drug use is common family knowledge; Melinda, the nanny; and Aimee, the rarely seen older daughter.
Oh yes, and a veritable menagerie of pets, which are featured doing what pets do best — mainly sleeping, pooping, peeing and playing — in the Osbourne's palatial home.
In the first six episodes, The Osbournes has rapidly added fans, enticed by scenes of neighbor rivalries, curfew debates and Ozzy's
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Curtis told us.
"The funniest thing was Sharon throwing a rotten ham through her neighbors' window because they were playing loud music," Sara McManus, Omaha, Neb., freshman, said.
current tour.
McManus said she and her friends started watching the show almost by accident as it followed MTV's The Real World, but continued to watch because of the new approach to reality television.
"The show works because the are not the average family, and they seem more real when it is the whole family," McManus said. "On The Real World people seem to be concerned with giving a certain image of themselves."
blunt expletive-filled conversations.
Other fans watch for the interesting way the family reacts to each other, as well as their
"The fact that they say the "f" word all the time and still love each other breaks all stereotypes of the normal family," Erin Wessling, Denver sophomore, said. "This is the classic family only if you were fed Black Sabbath through an I.V. since birth."
While fans come back to watch the Osbournes on TV each week, local Lawrence music stores said they hadn't seen an increased interest in Ozzy's music.
Steve Wilson, manager of Kief's Downtown Music. 823 Massachusetts St., said he had not found a need to stock anything more than the used selection of Ozzy's music already featured.
"The godfather of metal on his own TV show leads to a lot of interesting discussions, but he is not prime college material." Wilson said.
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Contact Brune at mbrune@kensan.com. This story was edited by Angela Cox.
ODDITIES
Despite criminal past, resident wins election
OAK CREEK, Colo. — Newly elected Mayor Kathy Rodeman has been arrested more than a dozen times, admits having tried cocaine and marijuana, and recently wrestled a man to the ground in a bar fight.
But Rodeman, whose nickname is Cargo, insists that her past won't get in the way of her ability to govern this town of 800 people 110 miles northwest of Denver.
"I've made my share of mistakes. I'm not perfect," said Rodeman, a 30-year resident. "But I don't judge others. I don't think I'm better than anyone, but I know no one's better than me."
Rodeman's past didn't seem to bother town residents, who gave her 64 percent of the vote last week to defeat incumbent Deb VanGundy.
"They voted for what I believe in, not for my run-ins with cops," said Rodeman.
Rodeman's critics say her criminal past makes it difficult to take her seriously.
"This has just labeled us as the scum bucket of the county," said Calvin Morrow, who lost a bid for mayor a few years ago.
"I don't minimize my behavior but I
am not a bad guy," Rodeman said.
Safecrackers confident old safe can be opened
MEDFORD, Ore. — A bank safe locked shut for decades has been sent to a convention of expert safecrackers in Nevada who say they're confident they can open the rusted, century-old box.
Organizers of the Safe and Vault Technicians Convention, meeting this week in Reno, Nev., were among security specialists across the nation and in Canada all on the right side of the law who contacted museum curator Barbara Hegne asking for a crack at the safe.
The two-chamber safe was installed in the basement of the First State Bank of Eagle Point in 1911, and remained there until 1954. It was donated last year to the Eagle Point Museum by a private collector who only had one of the combinations.
Some offered to open the chamber for a fee; others just wanted to handle the unusual "cannonball" safe, she said. The 2,000-pound safe got its name from the spherical shape of the upper chest, created to prevent outlaws from using explosives to blow it open.
RAWK SNOB
indigenous percussion and the slinky bass lines are perfect for laid-back evenings on the front porch.
There is some very cool guitar work on the album as well, with riffs that meld eastern tones with rockabilly attitude to make the heads bob and the martinis spill. And if space-age pop explorations of rock and jazz alone don't sound enticing, shrieking spider monkeys, toucans and assorted humming insects make vocal cameos throughout the album.
The band of dogs who later cut "Jingle Bells" often site this record as breaking significant barriers for animal recording artists.
Though I've never seen the film this music accompanies, Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party (Motel Records 1995) is a fascinating reissue of a 60s soundtrack that is every bit as bizarre as its title. Expanding upon the classic garage-psych equation of drums, organ, and bass, Vampyros Lesbos is a moderately-paced freak-out adorned with fuzz-drenched baritone guitars, armies of sitars droning in unison, and echoing, ghost-like vocal pyrotechnics. Basically, it's exactly the kind of sound you would expect from a haunted mansion filled with mischievous lesbian vampires. While it drags from time to time — and hey, it's a soundtrack, after all — Vampyros Lesbos is topnotch background music that is both novel and musically worthwhile.
When spring fever is sending your musical appetite over the edge, the far-out space-lounge sounds of the 60s can make excellent listening. But the moment anyone tries to tell anyone else how "money" they are, this Rawkobis is pulling the plug.
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