Section B • Page 6
The University Daily Kansar
Friday, December 4, 1998
Entertainment
Wandering the Web
This week's Web Wanderings is devoted to that time in the semester that we all love finals. So instead of flipping on the television during break time, surf the Web and check out these sites.
www.teachhealth.com
www.learnhealth.org
Stressed out about finals? This site gives information on how to cope with unbearable stress.
Take the self-test to see just how much stress you are under.
www.lilluminatus.com/fun/
agogo/index.html
Need a pick-me-up? This site is completely devoted to coffee. Discover new recipes that will keep you up for those late night cram or study sessions.
www.slackers.com
Yes, this site really exists. And it's run by a bunch of self-proclaimed slackers. So if you're looking for a little break from studying, around this site and meet other slackers.
www.thissucks.com
This is one site that will enable you to let out all your frustrations. Its purpose is to let people voice their likes and dislikes about companies, products and services. Go ahead...let it all out!
CONCERTCALENDAR
Jason Benavides/KANSAN
Tonight:
Bambino's Italian Cafe:
Ernesto Valenza
The Bottleneck: Einstein Electric
The Jazzhaus: Tim Mahone and the Meanies
Tomorrow night:
Bambino's Italian Cafe:
Melvin Litton
The Bottleneck: The Band that Saved the World
The Jazzhaus: Jesse Jackson Five
Body of history buried deep within Lawrence cemeteries
The Bottleneck: Swing Set
Replay Lounge: Dismemberment Plan
Oak Hill Cemetery, 1605 Oak Hill Ave., is one of many cemeteries included in a self-guided tour brochure for those interested in historic cemeteries. Some notables buried at Oak Hill include the grandparents of Langston Hughes and former KU basketball coach "Phog" Allen. Photo by Joseph Griffin/KANSAN
By Chris Fickett
Kansan staff writer
Some people find walking through cemeteries creepy, but in Lawrence and other cities across the state, convention bureaus are getting calls from people wanting information about historic cemeteries.
Jennifer Carter, marketing manager with the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, said that some tourists passing through Lawrence were interested in genealogy or just enjoyed walking through old cemeteries.
To assist these tourists through their visits of Lawrence cemeteries, the convention bureau has created a self-guided tour brochure, which lists information about five historic cemeteries in Lawrence.
The brochures are part of the convention bureau's plan to attract visitors to Lawrence through its history, Carter said.
Carter also said that other convention bureaus in Kansas received calls from tourists interested in cemeteries.
"There are a lot of people who search out cemeteries when they go places," she said.
Last year, the convention bureau released self-guided tour brochures about Quantrill's Raid, the Santa Fe and Oregon trails and historic homes in West Lawrence.
One Lawrence cemetery included in the self-guided tour brochure is Oak Hill Cemetery, 1605 Oak Hill Ave.
Those buried at Oak Hill include the grandparents of poet Langston Hughes, University of Kansas benefactors J.B. and Elizabeth Watkins and Forrest "Phog" Allen, former KU basketball coach.
The cemetery is also the burial place of more than 50 victims of Quantrill's Raid and is home to a granite memorial to the victims of the raid.
Oak Hill is also the burial place of many Kansas abolitionists and territorial founders, including Kansas' first territorial governor, Wilson B. Shannon, and the state's first governor, Charles Robinson.
Because of the number of people buried at Oak Hill Cemetery who were influential in Kansas' founding, William Allen White, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Emporia Gazette, once said that the cemetery was the Arlington Cemetery of Kansas.
Another historic cemetery on the tour is the Memorial Park Cemetery, 1517 E. 15th
Memorial Park Cemetery is the burial place of James Naismith, the founder of basketball and the University's first basketball coach.
One other cemetery included in the tour brochure with KU ties is the Pioneer Cemetery, which is located at Irving Hill Road and Iowa Street.
Pioneer Cemetery is the burial place of some of the first settlers of Mount Oread and was the burial place for more than 180 men who were killed in Quanttrill's Raid. Most of the soldiers were reburied at Oak Hill Cemetery.
The other cemeteries on the tour are the Davis Cemetery and the Haskell Children's Cemetery.
New Psycho faces battle to top original
Hitchcock's thriller a classic film despite critics' early rejection
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Unfold numbers of women refused to step in a shower after seeing Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic thriller, *Psycho*.
The scene was one of the first movies to graphically depict a murder. While the camera cut from Janet Leigh's face to her stomach to the hacking knife held by the unknown figure on the other side of the shower curtain, viewers felt the horror with each cut. And because the editing was so adept, the camera never really lingered on any one aspect of the killing.
The film can boast other distinctions: it was Hitchcock's only horror movie and his biggest moneymaker, and it is the only film in history to be remade scene-by-scene.
The new 1988 Psycho, is said to differ
from the original black-and-white film only by being in color and by using, of course, different actors. It reaches U.S. theaters today.
The remake is the work of Gus Van San, a director of oursry. mod
estly budgeted movies such as Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho until last year's Good Will Hunting made him bankable.
Van Sant, who in 1960 was a 13-year-old in Louisville, Ky., was given the option to remake a movie from Universal's film library and he chose *Psycho*, with the proviso that he would reproduce the film exactly as Hitchcock had made it.
preparing a film for Audrey Hepburn. When the project with Hepburn fell through, he considered *Psycho*, based on a grisly murder case in Wisconsin. The purchase price: a paltry $9,000.
"I didn't start out to make an important movie," Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut in conversations that became the book *Hitchcock*.
Some fans of horror movies aren't sold on the remake of this classic.
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"I thought I could have fun with this subject and this situation. The picture cost $800,000. It was an experiment in this sense: Could I make a feature film under the same conditions as a television show? I used a television crew to shoot it very quickly," he said.
In 1959, Hitchcock became interested in a book called Psycho, by Robert Bloch, because of a favorable review in The New York Times. But he was busy editing North by Northwest and
After one failed script, Joseph Stefano delivered a version that won Hitchcock's approval but not Paramount Pictures' approval. Hitchcock's home studio agreed to release the film but declined to finance it, considering the subject matter too grim. The director's own company paid the bills.
Hitchcock spiked only once during the filming. The shower scene involved 71 or 78 setups, according to different sources, and consumed seven days.
Many critics panned the movie
The director's mastersy evoked terror without any view of the knife striking the body.
Many Cliches penetrate in "Psycho is plainly a gimmick movie whose suspense depends on a single, specific twist." grumbled Neueske.
"I think the film is a reflection of a most unpleasant mind, a mean, sly, sadistic little mind," sniffed Dwight McDonald.
"A blot on an honorable career,"
scoffed The New York Times.
York Times.
But the movie also received favorable reviews and praise from the industry as well. Said film-maker Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show):
"Probably the most visual, most
cinematic picture he ever made."
The opening box-office also was positive: $15 million. That's small change by today's standards, but in 1960, when the average ticket price was 75 cents, Psycho was a blockbuster. Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest and other Hitchcock hits may have grossed more, but Psycho was more profitable because of the low production costs.
Hitchcock, Leigh, cinematographer John L. Russell and art directors Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy were nominated for Academy Awards. Anthony Perkins was not. Hitchcock wired him: "I am ashamed of your fellow actors."
None of the film's nominees won Oscars.
Paramount's snub of *Psycho* prompted Hitchcock's move to Universal, where he became very rich with television as well as features. Universal acquired the rights to *Psycho*, resulting in three sequels starring Perkins and now the copycat version.
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