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VN ft itiM VV questions wingin' 7 I if ENTERTAINMENT Cf TRAVEL i i right into -w i Sunday, Juno 20. 1999 Section Quad-City Times summer Disney's Tarzan' animates a classic film v- By Renee Graham THE BOSTON GLOBE "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," is the second ouling for Mike Meyer's secret agent, who gets his inspiration from almost 40 years of James Bond movies. MGM's 19th Bond movie "The World is Not Enough," opens Nov. 19. Here is a primer to the characters in Austin.

Powers' world and their corresponding roots in James Bond film history: til JAMES B0HD SECRET AGENT: James Bond (Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan) has a licence to kill and a way with the women. THE BOSS: 'M' (Bernard Lee) is the NEW YORK It seems he has graced the screen forever swinging through the trees, fighting leopards and crocodiles, and emitting a scream to make the elephants stampede. Raised by apes, and believing he is one them, despite his hairless skin and loincloth, Tarzan is one of the most indelible images on film. Since 1918, just six years after Edgar Rice Burroughs sold his first version of the story, there have been more than 40 movies based on the character, from the silent "Tarzan of the Apes" to last year's "Tarzan and the Lost City" (which might have worked better with no dialogue). But "Tarzan" marks the first time the oft-told tale has been brought to feature-length animated life.

It was something Burroughs always wanted; he expressed his desires in a 1936 letter to his son. Any animated film of his most famous creation, Burroughs wrote, would have to "approximate Disney excellence." "Luckily we didn't get that letter until a few months ago, when the film was almost finished," joked Chris Buck, the film's codirector. "I'm pretty" confident this film will do more than -approximate Disney excellence." "Tarzan" is a Disney film, the studio's latest traditionally animated movie. With a curmundgeoniy leader of the British Secret Service. AUSTIN POWERS SECRET AGENT: Austin "Danger" Powers (Mike Myers) is a groovy '60s swinger charged with saving the world and his libido from Dr.

Evil. THE BOSS: Basil Exposition (Michael York) is the head of the Bntsh Ministry of Defense. GOOD GIRL: Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) Is a CIA agtint. GOOD GIRL: Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley) is Austin's new wife and fellow spy. VILLAIN: Dr.

Evil (Mike Meyers) is the Nehru-jacket-clad dictator bent on blackmail. GOOD GIRL: Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman in 'Goldfinger') is an ace pilot who joins Bond. GOOD GIRL: Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) is M's secretary and flirts with 007. Al AUSTIN 1 U- v. 7 Jf FELICITY NA SHAGWELL VILLAIN: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence in 'You Only Live Twice') is I I -V I the leader of SPEUTHfc, an international terrorist organization.

BAD GIRL: Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen in 'GoldenEye') is an assassin. "PUSSY GALORE I BAD GIRL: Ivana Humpulot (Kristen Johnston) is a randy Russian agent. BAD GIRL: Frau Farbis; Ina (Mmdy Sterling) is an anal-retentive German henchwoman. BAD GUY: Number 2 (Robert Wagner) is Dr. Evil's right hand henchman.

LITTLE GUY: Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) is a diminutive soundtrack by INSIDE BAD GIRL: Rosa Kleb (Lotte Lenya in 'From Russia with Love') is a uptight and motherly Russian assassin. BAD GUY: Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi in 'Thunderball') is a SPECTRE thug who helps Blofeld hijack nuclear warheads. LITTLE GUY: Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize in 'The Man with the Golden Gun') Is a tiny terror who tries to kill James Bond. SILENT KILLER: Oddjob (Harold Sakata in 'Goldfinger') is a formidable henchman who kills by tossing razor-edged bowler hats. MONEYPENNY version of ur.

fcvil. SILENT KILLER: Random Task (Joe Son) Nc is the impeccably dressed assassin who kills by throwing a shoo. BAD GIRL: Robin ODDJOB Phil Collins, it features the voice talents of Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan, Minnie Driver as Jane, and Glenn Close, Rosie O'Donnell, Nigel Hawthorne, Brian Blessed, Lance Henriksen, and Wayne Knight. Still, the film, Disney's big BAD GIRL: Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball') is a a Swallows (Gia Carides) is a sultry assassin with style. seductive 3 assassin.

Phil Collins, the man that made the swingin' music: 5E 1 SWALLOWS ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD i.j 4i IV 21 VOLPE VANESSA Jf it' iy k-4 KENSINGTON if ibS Sourcea: Austin Powers: New Line Cinema. James Bond. Danjaq, MGM UA Dennis Bolt, Mann (Calif Independent Journal Thar's gold in them thar Black Hills the area's hidden Finding ASSOCIATED PRESS ary Chapin Carpenter Greatest hits with a twist NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Leave it to Mary Chapin Carpenter to take something as hackneyed as a greatest hits album and make it intriguing. On the new "Party Doll and Other Favorites" album, Carpenter dipped into the vaults for some surprises.

For instance, "Can't Take Love for Granted" is a rocking performance from "The Late Show With David Let-terman," with Letterman's introduction included. "Down at the Twist Shout" comes from Super Bowl XXXI, where Carpenter performed, and is superior to the familiar single. Title song "Party Doll" is a vulnerable tune written by well-known sensitive New Age guy Mick Jagger. Another of the 17 selections is a number from a John Lennon tribute album that's become a wedding standard. There's even an occasional original version of a greatest hit here and there.

"My manager calls it a box set without the box," Carpenter said with a laugh. "I didn't want some generic greatest hits package." Carpenter, 41, a native of Princeton, N.J., hit It big in 1991. She has crafted breezy hit singles like Up and Kiss Me." She has made deeply felt concept albums like "Stones ill the Road." And she introduced stellar singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams to the mainstream via her hit version of Williams' "Passionate Kisses." -Tired at the end of a day of interviews at a Nashville studio, Carpenter rallied to promote her new album and tour. On the "Party Doll" album, you fol- low John Lennon's "Grow Old With Me" with "He Thinks He'll Keep Her. The first is a hymn of marital devotion, and the latter is about a woman getting 'out of a stifling marriage.

Was that intended as an editorial comment? Carpenter: (groans loudly) No, no. Sequencing is the bane of my existence! I almost got to the point where I felt like drawing them out of a hat. 21 understand you resisted the idea of a compilation album. Why? Carpenter: I kind of resisted at first. A lot of record companies put out greatest hits on artists who've had one or two records out, and then the next record is a greatest hits album.

I was confused by that. It seemed to point at some demise of an artist or something. I didn't want to have anything to do with it, if that's what it meant. I just thought, there's a way to do this that's not formula. And that's when I started rustling through the files and saying, 'What have we got 3 "Passionate Kisses" is included on the CD, of course.

Do you ever feel guilty at having that hit instead of Lucinda Williams, who wrote it and is an artist who deserves more recognition? Carpenter: There's no justice in this world, is there? You know, that's how I feel about it. I feel privileged to have been able to sing that song and inhabit it. I certainly think that her profile has grown by leaps and bounds and cartwheels, but let's face it many more people need to know about Lucinda Williams than know about her. If a greatest hits compilation doesn't signal the demise of an artist, it should at least signal a new beginning. When will you have a new album and where are you going musically? Carpenter: (guffaws) I hadn't even thought about that! I sort of figure you don't really know until you get there.

It takes me, on the average historically, 12,000 years to make a record. You know, slow and steady. I'm always writing. When it's time to make a new record, I guess I will. I don't mean to sound flaky, it's just that, right now, all I'm thinking is "Well, I'm going to go on And then, Shawn Colvin and I have talked for years about doing a duet record.

There's tons of stuff that I want to do, and I've just got to get my butt in gear and do it. You 're going to ruin Mick Jagger's image by reminding everybody he can write such a sensitive song. Carpenter: Absolutely. Jerry (Hall, his estranged wife) will have to ask for mormoney. entry in the summer movie sweepstakes, wasn't something Buck or codirector Kevin Lima were originally interested in pursuing.

"When I was first approached with the material, I thought, i don't want to make this I don't want to do a Tarzan said Buck, during an interview in a hotel smack-dab in an urban jungle otherwise known as mid-town Manhattan. "I had Johnny Weiss-muller so stuck in my mind. But when we went back to the book and found there was a wealth of material for this to be done in animation, we wondered why anyone hadn't done this before." Burroughs himself tried and failed in the 1930s, the height of cinema's Tarzan fever. The first film, the 1918 "Tarzan of the Apes" (starring Elmo Lincoln) was fairly faithful to Bur-roughs's book, but it wasn't until 1932's "Tarzan, the Ape Man," starring former Olympic swimming champ Weissmuller, that the story really began to swing. It took extraordinary liberties with Burroughs's novel, but it was a welcome, entertaining respite from the doldrums of Depression-era America.

Weissmuller's semiliterate, clean-cut, well-sculpted man of the wild became an instant icon, spawning several sequels including "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934), which introduced Maureen O'Sullivan's Jane; "Tarzan Finds His Son," in which Tarzan and Jane complete a jungle adoption of an abandoned child named Boy played by too-cute Johnny Sheffield; and "Tarzan's New York Adventure," which found Tarzan trying to negotiate indoor plumbing and rush-hour traffic while searching for his kidnapped son. The enterprise proved so successful it's second only to Dracula as filmdom's favorite suject that other actors such as Buster Crabbe, Lex Barker, and Jock Mahoney donned the loincloth. treasures is pretty easy By Dave Matheney MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL STAR TRIBUNE Our horses followed the trail as it wound along the forest floor. Dust rose in the beams of sunlight slanting through the pines.

What little sound we made was muffled by brown drifts of pine needles. The little girl on the pony ahead, her back ramrod straight, helmet cinched under her chin, was doing exactly what she had been told by our guides. She did not let her pony get too close to the horse ahead, nor did she let it indulge in the casual eating of trailside greenery. I grinned down at her determined back. She gave me somebody to feel superior to about horseback riding.

Everything I know about horses I learned on rides I've taken at Blue Bell Stables in Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. (Well, that and watching cowboys in the movies.) My heroes have always been cowboys, and they still are, but I basically let Blue Bell do the heavy lifting. And there never seem to be runaway stagecoaches for me to rescue, just this dreamlike movement through the forest. After seven summertime stays in the Black Hills, some for as long as five weeks, I am not an expert on all the fun stuff that MLt KMUTO Mount Rushmore looms over the Black Hills of South Dakota, drawing millions of visitors each year. The faces look especially good in the morning sun.

a family could do there in a day or two, but my wife, Jean, and I have done quite a few of them. Phil Lampert, who heads the Custer State Park Resort likes to point out that there are lots of things you can do and places to go for those who have just one or two days in the Black Hills. There are, of course, the concessions such as Blue Bell's trail rides, which his company operates; there are also trails to be hiked and places to see. So let's saddle 'em up and move 'em out. First, the must-see features: Mount Rushmore This is the one place that most people who have been anywhere near the Black Hills have already seen.

No matter, the four immense stone faces are always magnificent, always moving. With 2.7 VISIT Please turn to Page 4E 'Phantom Menace' pulls another fast one Even "George of the Jungle is very loosely based on Tarzan. LOS ANGELES 20th Century Fox's "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace" easily dispatched the $300 million speed record Tuesday as it Dew past that box office benchmark in 28 days more than two weeks earlier than "Titanic," which took 44 days. "Phantom" now holds the speed record at every $50 million increment from $100 million to $300 million, reaching those plateaus in fewer Other entries include 1984's assured to break the record at the $350 million mark as well in view of the film's recent performance and solid hold. It took in a hearty $25.6 million in its fourth weekend while slipping a slim 22 percent, all in the face of the huge debut from New Line's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." "Titanic" holds the speed record at the $350 million mark with 58 days, which gives "Phantom" a wide berth of 30 davs to cross $50 mil If deadly serious but enjoyable days than any other film.

"Greystoke: The Leg-f end of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" and 1981's laughable, soft-porn "Tarzan. the Ape Man," memorable only for its obsession with what Tarzan and Jane really did "Phantom" is all but i ft lion and set the pace at that level. "Phantom" will be joining a very select group of films, those that have grossed more than $350 million in their first run. In addition to "Titanic" million), they include "E.T." ($359.2 million) and "Jurassic Park" ($.357 million). The Hollywood Reporter ANIMATED Please turn to Pagcj6E.