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Stallone's Driven hardly stellar
By Cássio Furtado
jayplay@kansan.com
jayplay movie critic
If you like Indy racing, watch a real Indy race on television. If you like good movies, don't go to Driven.
I regret that I did.
Jimmy Blye (Kip Pardue), left, shakes hands with race teammate Memo Moreno (Cristian de la Fuente), while Cathy Gina Gershan), looks on during scene from Sylvester Stallone's new film, *Driven*. Contributed photo
But I went for you, good Jayplay reader, so you wouldn't spend your scarce money and precious time going to this celebration of clichés and stereotypes when it opens nation-wide tomorrow.
Blye's rival is current champion Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger) who is breaking up with his girlfriend, Sophia Simone (Estella Warren).
Guess where Simone finds comfort after breaking up with Brandenburg?
Sylvester Stallone plays Joe Tanto, a retired CART racing champion who comes back to his team to help promising rookie Jimmy Blye (Kip Pardue) get back his focus and win a championship.
No need for a second guess. In Blye's arms.
The astonishing blonde starts traveling with Blye for races, and her feelings toward Brandenburg and Blye agitate the racetrack environment.
As for Stallone, he plays his usual role — a loser.
lanto retired after an accident, and comes back to pay a debt of honor to team owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds).
This debt, never much explained, makes Tanto a puppet in Henry's hands.
The plot is underthought, underdeveloped and full of clichés.
There are cars crossing the finish line at basi
cally the same time, an old driver returns to help a rookie, and a girl comes between the two contenders for the season's title.
Stallone's new movie could have been great. The newest disappointment in Stallone's disastrous career does have a great soundtrack and awesome footage of real CART races.
Why director Renny Harilin, who directed Cliffhanger, one of Stallone's previous fall-
ures, couldn't think of a better plot is unknown
dress, comfort him and I can give you a tip, because I had the guts to stay until they showed the credits. *Driven* was written by none other than Sylvester Stallone. *Driven* resembles Tom Cruise's *Days of Thunder*, but it's much worse.
If you're planning to watch a movie this week end, try something better.
- Edited by Megan Phelps
TV series easily hook viewers
By Nicole Roche
Jayplay writer
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It is down to the final four contestants on the hit TV show Survivor, and Brent Stevens, Wichita sophomore, is hooked.
Next to him, Lisa Chesnutt,
Minneapolis, Minn., freshman,
tries to hide the fact she is crying.
As classes draw to a close, so do the television series some students watch regularly, if not religiously.
"If you had watched this up 'til now you would understand." Stevens said. "This part is really emotional."
Like millions of viewers,
Stevens eagerly awaits the two-
hour final episode, which airs
Mav 3 on CBS channels 5 and 13.
Stevens started watching Survivor this season and became addicted.
"It's almost disgusting how strongly you can feel towards a character you haven't ever met or spoken to," Stevens said. "At least these are actual people, so you can relate to them that much more."
Stevens sometimes gets calls from friends during the commercials so they can "check in" to see what happened on the show.
"Some of our other close friends who don't watch the show soff at us when they hear how serious our conversations can get," he said.
Strong competition for CBS's Survivor is NBC's Friends, which also airs at 7 p.m. Thursday nights.
Laura Jones, Canton, Illinois junior, and her roommate Cindy Yeo, Jakarta, Indonesia, freshman, are faithful Friends followers.
"Cindy has some of the shows memorized," said Jones, who has been watching the show for more than four years.
Both women said they looke forward to the season finale, scheduled for May 17 on channels 8 and 14.
"Someone is always breaking up or getting engaged on the season finale," Yeo said. "You always know something big is going to happen."
Jones said she had some predictions for the season's final episode.
"This whole season has been foreshadowing Monica and Chandler's wedding," Jones said. "And, Ross and Rachel are
going to get back together... or at least they are going to kiss."
Trishia Nelson, Eden Prairie, Minn., freshman, said she started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a friend three seasons ago.
"Now I've got the entire 10th floor of McCollum watching it with me." she said.
The season finale for Buffy is slated for May 22 on Channel 3.
Nelson said part of the excitement of the season finale was not knowing what it was going to be about.
"They haven't shown the previews yet for the season finale of Buffy," she said. "It could go a lot of ways because they left the storyline very open."
Stevens said he thought he knows where the Survivor story line was going to end.
"I think Colby's going to win," he said. "But I hope that he doesn't, because his winning has sort of been obvious from the beginning."
Stevens said he expected his friends would do something big for the season finale of Survivor.
"I guarantee we'll have a party," he said.
TODAY'S SHOWTIMES
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