wednesday, march 17, 2004
the university daily kansan
entertainment
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Rock star Love tried for drugs
The Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Rock star Courtney Love showed up two hours late yesterday for a hearing on drug charges and was scolded by the judge after talking out of turn in court.
Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, won a delay of the preliminary hearing after arguing that witnesses needed to be brought in from out of state and that he had not received drug samples for testing.
But the brief proceeding was marked by interjections from Love, who claimed to have prescriptions for the drugs and at another point seemed to fire and immediately rehire her lawyer.
"I have the pill bottles on me," she said.
At another point she said to her attorney, "You're fired."
at attorney,
"Miss Love, you're not doing
yourself any favors," Superior
Court Judge Elden Fox said.
"Rehired," Love said.
Love, former lead singer of the group Hole, is charged with illegal possession of the painkiller hydrocodone and oxycodone.
She was arrested in October after allegedly trying to break into the Los Angeles home of a former boyfriend.
Police found the drugs later when paramedics were called to her house after Love suffered a drug overdose.
The judge rescheduled the preliminary hearing for April 15.
Documentary examines female roles in cinema
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Nancy Savoca's movies pick up where Martin Scorsese's and Francis Ford Coppola's films leave off, according to film historian Emanuel Levy.
They portray immigrant life on a grand scale, while Savoca — whose 1989 debut *True Love* about a skittish young Italian-American couple getting married made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival — offers "a view from the kitchen." Levy says in the Independent Film Channel's *In the Company of Women*.
Savoca is one of several directors profiled in the cable network's new 90-minute documentary airing 7 p.m. tomorrow.
It's part history lesson, part movie montage and part dialogue about women's roles in front of and behind the camera, told from the perspective of women in the business including Jodie Foster and Susan Sarandon.
"It's a very rare holiday still for men to be given the opportunity to go into a woman's psyche and see the world and the existential experience of life through her eyes," actress Tilda Swinton said during the documentary.
Directors Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg focused specifically on independent films, but didn't make a documentary thatashed Hollywood — even though few female directors get to make mainstream, big-budget films.
"We focused on independent
"It is a very rare holiday still for men to be given the opportunity to go into a woman's psyche and see the world and the existential experience of life through her
films essentially by default. In doing our research, it's where most women's careers were fostered and developed. Also, it's where women were greeted on an open playing field," Klainberg said.
eyes.
Tilda Swinton
Actress
Klainberg and Reticker's film took a comprehensive and interesting look at women in the film business, though sometimes the documentary seemed to be taking on too much and the directors would have been better served by a narrower focus.
If they came to any conclusions, Reticker said, "It's that we want more. More, more, more from women."
Klainberg and Reticker begin with the 1970s, when the women's movement coincided with a film boom, and more women attended film school.
Those graduates burst onto the scene in the 1980s with characterdriven stories and an alternative viewpoint.
"With the advent of Jaws and Star Wars, Hollywood was moving toward these big blockbuster
films, and there was suddenly this space in the independent film world to create these stories," Reticker said.
They point to Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan.
The 1985 film starred Madonna in all her 1980s blacklace glory, and showed that a story centered on two female protagonists could appeal to the masses.
It's one of the most successful independent films to date, grossing $27.4 million.
Sexuality is easily the most discussed topic in the documentary. The film Go Fish featuring lesbian couples in everyday life complete with graphic sex scenes is juxtaposed with Gyllenhaal's performance as the submissive half of an S&M relationship in Secretary.
Several "indie queens" are featured, including Lili Taylor, Parker Posey and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Using sexuality as a tool is tricky and confusing for women, and the documentary captures that.
Rosie Perez offers an anecdote about how refreshing it was to work with a female director because there was no sexual tension.
The idea of beauty, intrinsically tied to sexuality, is also discussed, peppersed with scenes from Nicole Holofcener's 2001 film Lovely and Amazing, and Savoca's 1991 film Dogfight.
Directors and actresses speak candidly about body image, nude scenes, age and the tendency to glorify sex scenes.
'Apprentice' rules in primetime TV
NEW YORK—If Regis Philbin once "saved" ABC, Donald Trump has certain bragging rights at NBC.
The Associated Press
In two months, The Apprentice has made a huge difference on Thursday nights for NBC, an evening the network was worried about because of the impending conclusion of Friends.
Last week was typical: The Apprentice was No. 6 in weekly primetime ratings, with 19.2 million viewers, despite competing against television's most popular program, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
By running The Apprentice for
a full hour and moving Will & Grace to 8:30, it enables NBC to avoid its off-repeated problem of putting two struggling comedies on the Thursday schedule.
Partly as a result, NBC has been able to win or stay competitive among viewers aged 18 to 49. For the full week, American Idol pushed Fox to first over NBC in that demographic.
NBC will still have to deal with a Thursday night without Friends next season, but Trump has made that prospect less scary. NBC has already locked up Trump to appear in two more seasons.
In what passes for an average week in TV viewing, the networks stacked up in their common
pecking order: CBS in first, averaging 12 million viewers (7.8 rating, 13 share).
NBC was next with 10.2 million (6.9, 11), Fox had 9.5 million (5.9, 10), ABC7.7 million (5.1, 8), UPN 3.3 million (2.3, 4), the WB 3.2 million (2.2, 3) and Pax TV 1 million (0.7, 1).
NBC's Nightly News won the evening news ratings race, averaging 10.4 million viewers (7.1 rating, 14 share).
ABC's World News Tonight had 10 million (6.9, 14) and the CBS Evening News had 7.5 million (5.3, 10).
A ratings point represents 1,084,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated
108. 4 million TV homes.The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of March 8-14, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 27.4 million; American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 24.6 million; Survivor: All-Stars, CBS, 22.6 million; American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 22 million; Without a Trace, CBS, 19.7 million; The Apprentice, NBC, 19.2 million; Everybody Loves Raymond, CBS, 16.7 million; Friends, NBC, 16.6 million; Cold Case, CBS, 15.9 million; Will & Grace, NBC, 15.6 million.
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