The University Daily Kansan Thursday, November 9, 2000
Misc.
Section B • Page 6
CRAZY CONTESTS FRIDAYS
This Friday
Dirty Dancing Contest
"Hollar" has already reached No.1 in Britain, where the Spice Girls remain popular.
Virgin records has shipped 500,000 advance copies of the album to stores — a modest figure for a group with record sales of 38 million copies worldwide.
Since then, Ginger Spice, aka Geri Halliwell, left the group in 1998. The remaining four took a break while Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) and Melanie B (Scary Spice) got married and had children (Melanie B is getting a divorce). They also pursued solo projects.
Spice Girls take shot at reclaiming fan base
Associated Press
The Spice Girls burst onto the American pop scene in late 1996 with the bouncy dance hit, "Wannabe." Although dismissed by some critics as forgettable, their album, *Spice*, went on to sell millions of copies. So did their next album, *Spice World*.
NEW YORK — How long does it take before Spices get stale?
"They can't stay making records for little kids all of their lives," Jerkins said of the women, all in their mid-20s. "That's what Britney and 'N Sync and Christina (Agulilera) are there for now. The Spice Girls have to keep reinventing themselves and taking themselves to a different level."
The new album's first single, "Holler," has a midtempo groove that could appeal to both adult contemporary and pop radio outlets.
The U.S. recording industry will find out this week when the Spice Girls return with their third album, Forever. One of the best-selling pop acts in the world just two years ago, the group's profile has waned since it went on hiatus.
"People move on to something new very fast," said producer Rodney Jerkins, who worked on six tracks of the new album. "You can't leave your fans hanging for too long, because they will find something new to grab on to."
In response to the changing landscape, the Spice Girls have tried to redefine themselves. They've stopped using their Spice nicknames, toned down their outlandish clothes and attempted to gain credibility by working with superproducers.
For many of the Spice Girls' core fan base — preteen girls — that something has been teen idols such as Brittany Spears and 'N Sync.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Peddle
5 Messy eaters
Command to sled dogs
14 Zone
15 Classic Tierney film
16 At some prior life
17 Single-handed
19 Ski tow
20 Duck in cartoons
21 Ashe and Shea
23 Departs
25 Jogging pace
26 Do ghost work
29 Appleseed
32 Where the victor comes out
35 Vincent Milton
38 Low points
39 Small bill
40 Angler's need
41 Parch clerics
41 Bottom-line figure
42 Product to mine
43 barefoot
44 Powhose
45 Geological time period
48 ___ bear
49 Egress
51 Fly high
53 Party supervisor
57 Take a drink
61 Mobile starter?
62 Not expurgated
64 Follow menacingly
66 Germ
67 Jekyll's after age
68 Saturizes
69 Catch sight of
DOWN
1 King Ibn ___ of Saudi Arabia
2 Man with a toy cube
3 Be inclined?
4 Layered pasta dish
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5 Playground ride
6 Crane, NC
7 Imaging enders
8 "The Roaring Camp"
9 author Harte
10 Anwar of Egypt
11 Gesture
12 Casual look?
13 Con game
13 That girl's
14 Aperture for cars
15 Drivie stuff
16 Meager
17 King of Jesue
17 Love deeply
18 Indomitable
19 Gem State
19 Climber's devices
19 Upright
19 Upholstery
19 Holy woman
19 Carmine or crimson
20 Radioactivity u
44 Long-winded
46 Make visible
48 Scottish caps
50 Structural
band
52 Piggy comments
53 Liquid asset
54 Long or Newton
Not taken in by
58 Final Four org.
59 Pager sound
50 Small whirlpool
53 Wapiti
MOST KU STUDENTS DRINK MODERATELY OR NOT AT ALL 0-5 DRINKS WHEN TheyParty*
About one drink per hour over a 5 hour period
80% of KU students use a designated driver.
- Based on survey responses from 1,459 KU students. Survey administered by the KU Office of Institutional Research & Planning (2000).
WELLNESS
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NEWSWEEK
The lovable "Billy Elliot," about an 11-year-old dancer, launches the film careers of the amazing young actor Jamie Bell and celebrated stage director Stephen Daldry. Already a smash in Britain, it may be the biggest sleeper since "The Full Monty."
Billy Elliot is an 11-year-old English coal miner's son with an unexpected gift, and passion, for ballet. It's a name you will remember, and not just because the movie "Billy Elliot" bears his moniker. As played by a wonderful 13-year-old newcomer named Jamie Bell, he may be the most endearing prepubescent hero since the disarming Swedish waif in "My Life as a Dog" 15 years ago. And this delightful film, with its surprising depth charges of emotion, has the feel of a movie that's going to lodge itself in the public's affections for a long time to come.
FALL'S MUST-SEE FILM!
To say that "Billy Elliot" is a crowd pleaser is a no-brainer, but it doesn't do the movie justice,
and it doesn't convey just how passionately audiences take this small English film to heart. In Britain, where it was No.1 its opening weekend, it surpassed the opening numbers for "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and almost equaled those for "The Full Monty"-the two most successful British films to date. The London critics have been raving, and even the hippest moviegoers have been spotted dabbing their eyes with hankies as they emerge from Billy's excellent adventure.-A movie so artfully made, so deeply charming, so heartfelt, it's not only pointless to resist, it's damn near impossible. -David Ansen
Billy Elliot
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