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www.Ohio.com MTV covers the spectrum Leading nominees 'N Sync, Eminem come from onnncitp pnrlc A wat-Hc rprpmrrw cpf fnr pnf 7 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, July 27, 2000 A J1 1 1 Fmm ctaff snH unm rnrvirtc From staff and wire 4 i with 1 5 i V. XT' 'N Sync leads the pack with six nominations for MTV awards. Canton native Macy Gray received Adding to the mix are some surprise mentions for critically acclaimed artists, including Ai-mee Mann's Save Me from Magnolia, which received nominations for video for a film and editing. Others receiving two mentions each were Filter, Foo Fighters, Biork, R.E.M., Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Kid Rock, Toni Braxton and Limp Bizkit. Three of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's directorial efforts are up for awards: Korn's Falling Away From Me, Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff and the Limp Bizkit featuring Method Man collaboration N2 Gether Now.

In the international viewers choice categories, crossover rock star Shakira picked up nomina Magic for adults in kids books reports They may be at opposite ends of the pop spectrum, but 'N Sync and Eminem each landed six nominations to lead this year's crop of MTV Video Music Awards nominees. 'N Sync's Bye, Bye, Bye is nominated for video of the year against Eminem's The Real Slim Shady, Blink-182's All the Small Things, D'Angelo's Untitled and Red Hot Chili Peppers Califor-nication. The 'N Sync clip is also nominated for best group video, best dance video, best pop video, viewer's choice video and best choreography in a video. Other nominees with local ties are: Canton native Macy Gray (best female video and best new artist for I Try, best art direction and best cinematography for Do Something), Rocky River native Richard Patrick's band Filter (best art direction and best cinematography for Take a Picture), and former Clevelander Trent Rexnor's Nine Inch Nails (breakthrough video for Into the Void). The nominees were announced Tuesday in New York during a news conference hosted by MTV's Carson Daly.

Shawn and Marlon Wayans, who will host the awards show; MTV President Van Toffler and members of 'N Sync were on hand. 'N Sync, which features Dal-ton High School graduate Chris Kirkpatrick, will also perform at the awards, which will be held in New York City on Sept. 7. The top contenders reflect the diversity of today's musical Blossom Program will focus on 'outdoor' music Continued from Page Dl broke the record for instrumental score albums by selling nearly 26 million copies worldwide of his soundtrack for Titanic. Horner has some experience writing classical music as well.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has performed his score Spectral Shimmers. Sunday's program, performed by the Cleveland Orchestra and led by festival director Jahja Ling, will focus on music with an outdoor theme. Aaron Copland's Suite from Appalachian Spring will be performed, along with selections from Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. Can't you just hear those donkeys loping along? A well-loved classical work is on the program, too. Violinist Gil Shaham and cellist Jian Wang will collaborate in Brahms' Concerto for Violin and Cello.

Judging from Shaham's utterly charismatic performance of the Elgar Violin Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra in March, this performance is something to look forward to. This will be the Cleveland Orchestra debut for Wang, who is performing the Brahms work with Shaham in numerous settings in North and South America this season. They plan to record the work with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic. Here's a look at some of the activities that will be held at stations around the Blossom grounds before Sunday's concert. (For a complete list, see www.dayinthevalley.com, the park's Web site.) Performances p.m.

River Run chil- spectrum, pop singer Chris tina Aguilera, alternative rock mainstays Red Hot Chili Peppers, hard-rock veterans Metalli-ca and hip-hop artist Sisqo each grabbing five nominations. Britney Spears, Gray and singer D'Angelo each received four mentions. Competing with Eminem and Sync for video of the year are poppunk group Blink-182's All the Small Things, D'Angelo's Untitled (How Does It Feel) and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Califor-nication. The other nominees for the Viewer's Choice Award are Aguilera's What a Girl Wants, Spears' Oops! I Did It Again and Sisqo's Thong Song. Nominations for The Real Slim Shady, directed by Dr.

Dre and Philip Atwell and produced by Chris Paladino, include mentions for best male video, rap video and video direction. Dr. Dre was also nominated in the rap category for Forgot About Dre, which features Eminem and was directed and produced by Atwell and Paladino, respectively. Dr. Dre and Eminem will compete with DMX's Party Up, Jay-Z featuring U.G.K's Big Pirn-pin and Eve and Faith Evans' Love Is Blind.

Others receiving multiple nominations included Blink-182, Aaliyah, Destiny's Child and British band Supergrass, each of whom is up for three awards. Supergrass' Pumping on Your Stereo is up for breakthrough video against Blur's Coffee TV, the Chemical Brothers' Let Forever Be, Bjork's All Is Full of Love and Nine Inch Nails' Into the Void. DETAILS Event: Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area 25th Anniversary Concert Where: Blossom Music Center, 1145 W. Steels Comers Road, Cuyahoga Falls. When: Preconcert activities begin at 4:30 p.m.; concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Concert tickets are for the pavilion, $15 for the lawn. (Group discounts available.) Preconcert activities free to ticket-holders. Lawn admission free for children underage 5 and $10 for children age 6-12. Pavilion seats $12 for children age 12 and under. Information: Orchestra tickets at 1-800-686-1141; information from the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area at 440-546-5995.

dren's performance. p.m. Iroko Drum Dance, music and dance of West Africa and the Caribbean. Wohali Thunder, Native American song and dance. p.m.

Akron Pan Groove Steel Drum Band, performing music of the Caribbean islands. Attractions From 4:30 to 7 p.m.: Cuyahoga Valley Farming Heritage, an old farm tool display, plus farm tunes sung by Greg Candel. Tina Bergmann and Bryan Thomas singing old-time traditional and Celtic music. Birds of Prey, an exhibit of live hawks and other birds from the Lake Erie Nature Science Center. A craft area to make canal-boats from Styrofoam blocks and wooden pegs.

A craft area to create stick Euppets of animals of the Cuya-oga Valley. Put a large pot of water on to boil for cooking the fettuccine. Heat 1 teaspoon of the olive oil in a small pan over medium heat. Add the pine nuts and cook, stirring frequently, until lightly browned. Place the browned pine nuts on a paper towel and set aside.

Place the dried tomatoes in a small bowl. Pourthe cup of boiling water over them and let them stand until tender. Then drain the tomatoes, reserving the liquid to add later. Coarsely chop the soaked tomatoes and set aside. Heat the remaining olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat.

Add the garlic, chopped tomatoes, salt, pepper, chili flakes, basil and thyme. Cook, stirring frequently, until the garlic is lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Add to the pan the liquid that was left after the tomatoes were drained, and reduce slightly. (You should have about a cup of sauce.) Meanwhile, cook the fettuccine al dente according to package directions. Drain thoroughly and toss with the sauce.

Top each serving with 1 tablespoon of the pine nuts and 2 tablespoons of the Parmesan cheese. Makes 4 servings. Epic Records four MTV award nominations. tions from MTV Latin America's Northern and Southern service for Ojos Asi. Also nominated in the Northern service were Moenia's Manto Estelar, La Ley's Aqui and Aleks Syntek's Tu Necesitas, while the Southern service nominated Illya Kury-aki's Coolo, Diego Torres' Donde Van, Gustavo Cerati's Paseo In-moral and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs' la Vida.

MTV Southeast Asia's nominees included True Faith's (A wit Para) San Kanya, Lo's Evening News, Achmand Dhani Andra Ramadhan's Pee Fa Party, while MTV Russia hailed Chichernia's Zhara, Detsl's VecherinJcia and Mummii Troll's Bez Obmana. The 17th annual MTV Video -J Knight RiddcrTribune Leni Sommer enjoys children's books. She read Lord of the RingsXa a blind friend. over and over. "Then I discovered C.S.

Lewis." As an adult, when he isn't reading nonfiction (lately, economics and politics), Rudin still reads Tolkien, Lewis and Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote science-fiction for both young and older adults. "A children's book is a book with a slightly smaller vocabulary, no sex and no graphic violence," he said. "What surprises me is that there would be any reason for adults not to enjoy them." Dissenting view Ah, but some can always find reason. "These aren't books for adults," sniffed New York Times pundit William Safire in a recent column.

"These are children's books." His subject: Who deserved a top literary prize more: J.K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series, or Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, for his translation of the Old English epic Beowulf! Tips for houseguests Never ask if you may bring a pet. However, if your host suggests that you bring it, go ahead. If your pet is invited, make sure it behaves and that you clean up after it. Share your arrival and departure plans with your host and be sure you inform him or her in advance of other plans you have made for your visit.

If you plan to take your host and hostess out to dinner during your stay, discuss it ahead of time rather than surprising them at the last minute. You also might want to bring a meal or cook a meal yourself during the visit. Try to take everything you need with you. If you must borrow, return the article as soon as you can and in good shape. i 1 Wim median Chris Rock, who hosted last year's awards' show, Marlon Wayans said: "Thanks for the pressure.

Why don't you just call us the "Less Talented Wayans Brothers'?" Shawn Wayans chimed in: "Chris Rock does what he does, and we do what we do. We'll be fine." Marlon added: "Chris has people scared to come. Jennifer (Lopez) and her (expletive) want to beat him up." come to acknowledge the adult audience for children's books. The Children's Book Council, a trade league representing publishers of children's books, issues an annual list of titles that also appeal to adults. Harry, meanwhile, has cast a spell over more than one adult who otherwise might never read a children's book.

"I didn't even read the Tolkien books as a kid, partly because my brother read them," said Amy Boardman Hunt, who works for a public relations company and has a 20-month-old daughter. "I figured they were too dorky." Recently, her book club chose three of the Harry Potter titles. "I'd always heard they were cute," she said. "But I didn't think I'd ever sit down and read them. "I just raced through them." She describes the books as "the Rocky and Bullwinkle of fiction: They appeal equally to kids and adults." Hero's quest Classic children's tales share certain qualities, said Leni Sommer, an occupational therapist and special education teacher.

"If you've read Tolkien's essay On Fairy-Stories or Josepn Campbell's books on myth, these tales are all about the hero's quest the boy in humble surroundings, not knowing who he is," a situation that equally fits Dorothy in Kansas, Bilbo Bag-gins in the Shire or Harry Potter, the geeky kid who doesn't fit in among the Muggles. "Children's literature more often feeds the optimist in me," said homemaker Dawn Draheim. "Adult literature so often is dark and cynical, whereas children's literature is not necessarily brighter, but with more of a sense of hope. "The kids always win." Post agreed. A helping hand is always appreciated.

"We recently had a nephew visit. He was so thoughtful. He'd do the dishes before I even got to them," said the great-granddaughter-in-law of Emily Post and author of the 16th edition of Emily Post's Etiquette. "He wouldn't sit around and say 'What could I He'd just do it." There also is the matter of a gift. "Gifts are always appropriate," said Donald Montgomery, a chef and artist in New York who for years has rented summer homes in Fire Island and the Hamptons.

"Most people bring wines. Flowers are always gooa, too." Thank-you notes after the stay are mandatory. "That's a tradition that hopefully hasn't gone away," Post said. "Try to do it as soon as possible." Montgomery cautioned that this, after all, is summer. Everyone should be having fun: "Relax," he said, "and have a good time." Music Awards will air live at 8 p.m.

Sept. 7 from New York's Radio City Music Hall. Last year's ceremony was held at the famed Metropolitan Opera House. "Legend has it Marilyn Manson left some large, spikea object in some unnamed diva's dressing room, so we were politely asked not to come back again," Toffler joked. When the Wayans brothers were asked how they felt about following in the footsteps of co Guess which author won Sa-fire's vote? "Let us not exalt Harry Potter as a cultural icon," he wrote.

While endorsing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland as classics fit for adult or child, he condemned the Potter series as "more than a little waste of adult time." Resurgence But if adults are wasting their time on the Potter books, they are wasting it "with a passion," said Jennifer Anglin, who operates the Enchanted Forest -Books for Children. Anglin divides adult fans of children's literature into several categories. "There are the picture-book followers, who love the illustrations by Mem Fox and Jane Dyer, Tasha Tudor, William Joyce, the Ion Scieszka and Lane Smith books. "Then there is a resurgence among early 30-year-olds who don't nave children yet, who are rereading things from their childhood Is for Betsy, the Carolyn Haywood book, Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, and Nancy Drew. These are wonderful books to bring back childhood, and they share them with spouses who were not read to.

"Fantasy still has a huge following, apart from the Harry Potter books. They say, 'I'm hooked. Now what shall I They read the Golden Compass trilogy by Philip Pullman and the Chronicles of Narnia." Adults buy 85 percent of all children's books, mostly for children. But certain writers have always seemed as much adult as children's authors: Mark Twain, for example, or L. Frank Baum, E.B.

White, Lewis Carroll, the ubiquitous Lewis, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling. And there are adults who simply prefer children's literature. The publishing industry has Never expect your host to wait on you hand and foot. Help out around the house by making your own bed, picking up around your room and offering to help prepare meals, clear the table and clean up in the kitchen. Be sure to maintain an immaculate bedroom and be tidy in the bathroom.

Don't use more than your share of hot water or dirty any towels but your own. Conform to the habits of the family with whom you are staving. That means taking meals at their hours and coming in and going to bed according to the schedule arranged by the host. Emily Post's Entertaining by Peggy Post "Pitching in is always nice," Griscom said. "If you borrow the car and you notice the car needs gas, it might be nice to fill up the tank.

Or offer to run an errand." It's not just children buying Harry Potter. Industry knows appeal By Bill Marvel Dallas Morning News DALLAS: Some of the children who waited impatiently in line this month to buy the latest Harry Potter adventure might have seemed a bit. um, tall. Hardly childlike at all. That's because they weren't children.

They weren't accompanied by children. They weren't even buying books for children. They were adults, and they were buying and reading Harry Potter for themselves. It has been known in the book business for a long time that a lot of adults prefer children's books. They pass over the latest Bret Easton Ellis or Joyce Carol Oates or John Grisharn to read and reread the Anne of Green Gables series, the Little House on the Prairie books, C.S.

Lewis' Narnia Chronicles or J.R.R. Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings. And now, of course, Harry Potter. For example, John Rudin, a Nortel mathematician and statistician, recently awaited a copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire via Federal Express from Ama20n.com. He said adults are reading Harry Potter for the same reasons they read any good fiction: "Good plot, interesting characters, an intriguing mystery." When he was a child, Rudin read as a child: Win-nie-the-Pooh, Superman comic books, Dr.

Seuss. By fourth grade, he had discovered the Danny Dunn science-fiction series in his school library. At 13, a friend gave him The Hobbit by Tolkien. "I took it with me on a four-day Boy Scout camp-out," Rudin said. "It rained and rained.

I just fell in love with it and read it Guests Agreed-upon schedule helps host in planning Continued from Page Dl Post's Entertaining. Post, who entertains often, says the best guests are charming, helpful, conscientious and adaptable. And, just as important, clear about their intentions. "Communication is key," she said. Examples: Guests must share arrival and departure plans and keep to them.

If you say you're leaving Sunday afternoon, don't leave Sunday morning (your host might have planned a special diversion or meal) or stay an extra night. If you need to meet friends or family during your stay, inform your host in advance and determine the best day and time for the visit so as not to disrupt your host's Tomato pasta dish needs right amount of pepper The recipe for "Light" Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta in yesterday's Cook It Light column by Jeanne Jones listed the wrong amount of freshly ground black pepper. The correct amount is 1 teaspoon. The error was made by the writer. The correct recipe is reprinted below.

"UGHT" SUN-PRIED TOMATO PASTA 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided use Vt cup pine nuts 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes, not in oil 1 cup boiling water 5 garlic cloves, pressed or minced tsp.salt 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper Vi tsp. red chili flakes Vi tsp. dried basil, crushed Vi tsp.

dried thyme, crushed Va lb. fettuccine noodles V2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese The best guests go with the flow. They respect their hosts' home and privacy. They bring laughter, conversation and a good bottle of wine. And they help around the house.

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