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The Univaculty Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 30, 2000
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Holiday sites offer festivity
As the chipmunks say, Christmas,
Christmas time is here. And I know a lot of
you are sick of it, and I know it's not really
PC, but I dig it. People (or at least non-related
people) try to be nicer to each other, and
more people are happy and think about the
good things — such as presents, ham and a
nice warm fire.
To give equal representation, I'll mention a few festive sites. The first is www.religious tolerance.org/winter_solstice.htm
— an informative site, with background info on the earliest December
A great site on Ramadan is islam.org/ramadan, where you can watch daily cybercerts of prayers and read excerpts from holy texts about fasting.
celebrations and every festival from today.
For the Jewish, there's an online dreidel. Grab some peppermint candy (or peppermint snacks if you're my family), and spin like mad. The site, www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/hanukkah, also has designs for constructing real dreidels.
Those of you who don't like Christmas may still get a kick out of www.nstorm.com. The purveyors of online games have a couple of holiday-themed games. Two words: elf bowling. And for the 2000 season, they've added elf shuffleboard. The games are rather addictive.
As George Carlin said, one of the best things to come out of religion is the music. A nicely designed site, www.checkuto.ns.ca/~ai251/xcarol.html has the lyrics to every Christmas carol I could think of.
And for both of you who have read this far, kansan.com is looking for people to help put together the site next semester. If you're interested, swing by 111 Stauffer-Flint to pick up an application and sign up for an interview.
And have a happy holiday, everyone. God (Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, whatever) bless us, every one.
Hookkins is a Gresham, Ore., senior in journalism.
Movie Line
102 Dalmatians; A live-action sequel to the 1996 live-action movie 101 Dalmatians; Glenn Close stars once again as Cruella De Vil, an evil lover recently released from prison who wants to make a coat out of Dalmatian puppies. Cruella scours the streets of Paris, trying desperately to kidnap enough Dalmatians for her coat, in this sharp-witted comic adventure. At Southwind 12, 3433 Iowa St.
The 6th Day. Set in a future world in which cattle, fish and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal — that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Opens tomorrow at Southwind 1.2.
Almost Famous, Writer/Director Cameron Crow brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semi-autobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. At Plaza 6. 2339 S. Iowa St.
Bedazzled. A fiery romantic comedy about a bored and boring computer programmer (Brendan Fraser) who is in love with a woman in his office. He makes a deal with the devil to get his dream girl, At Plaza 6.
Best in Show. Christopher Guest brings his unique brand of lunacy to the screen with another mockumentary in the tradition of Weiting for Guffman. This one is about purebreddog owners feverishly competing for their pets to be named "Best in Show" at the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. At Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.
Billy Elliot, Billy Ellot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in northeast England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal-miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother's piano out of loneliness. One day Billy notices a ballet class nearby, intrigued, he begins practicing and taking lessons from Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Waltles), a touch-minded teacher. At Plaza 6.
Blair Witch 2. The sequel to the 1999 thriller. The videotape, which is the premise of the first Blair Witch — which has now been viewed by millions of people — has created curiosity and a huge tourist industry surrounding both the legend and the woods in Burkittsville, Md. One local entrepreneur, hiding a past as a patient in a mental institution, creates The Blair Witch Hunt, an adventure tour of the haunted woods which he advertises on the Internet. At Plaza 6.
Bounce. In this inspirational story of chance romance, Wyneth Paltrow plays Abbey Janello, the young widow of a plane crash victim. Living a lonely life outside L.A., Abby is swept off her feet when she meets Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck), a successful advertising executive. However, when Buddy reveals that he once gave up his seat on a plane that later crashed, the two realize that they have a deeper connection. At Southwind 12.
Charlie's Angels. In this remake of the popular 1970s television show, the three angels — Dylan (Drew Barrymore), Natalie (Cameron Diaz) and Alex (Lucy Liu) — are called to duty by their flirtatious boss, Bosley (Bill Murray), to intervene in the kiddingapp of a well-known millionaire. The film has been updated from the original TV show: the angels are now called "women" (not "little girls") in the Introductory voice-over, and they concentrate on strength and martial arts when they fight criminals because they no longer carry guns. At SouthWind 12. Dancer in the Dark. The story concerns Selma (Bjork), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working in a factory, as well as performing other odd jobs, to save enough money to pay for an operation that will cure Gene's disease. To pass the time, Selma fantasizes that her own life is a musical, one in which her friends join her in sweeping song-and-dance routines. At Liberty Hall.
- Based on survey responses from 1,459 KU students. Survey administered by the KU Office of Institutional Research & Planning (2000).
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