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Entertainment Tuesday, May 11,1 999 (S The Pantagraph VtdJj) People Get to work Before they became famous, they had crummy jobs, too cept for me and this rat, and he was staring me down in the middle of this futuristic building. Later on, I proceeded to get (an electric shock) while trying to fix a milk machine." Daniel Fogelberg, mover tar, do the whole thing. I'm just not a tough guy to begin with." Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies: "Probably working at Wendy's. I was employee of the month, July 1985. It wasn't that bad, actually.

I had one job where I was busing tables. I worked at a place called Bobby Rabinos, the Place for Ribs, and I worked one day. It was sooo depressing that I quit. Talking to these neurotic waitresses and completely depressed people who tell you all their troubles. When you're 14 years old, busing tables and all these middle- aged women are unloading their baggage on you, it's 'OK, this is not a good Munky, guitarist for Korn: "I'd go to pick up a dozen sandwiches and soups that this deli made, and I'd go inside office buildings and try to make them buy the sandwiches.

It was the worst. You know that these people don't want to buy anything. They'd buy them sometimes just because they felt bad for you. That was the worst." Ross Godfrey, Morcheeba: "I worked at a fish and chips shop for two weeks. I got fired for charging everyone the same price.

It didn't matter what they bought, I just charged them the same price. That was probably the worst job." Faith Hill: "I worked at McDonald's for two weeks. Fries, burgers, cash register I did it all. I hated it. I hate to say that.

God bless the people that work there. Maybe it was just the McDonald's that I worked at. It was hard." Michael Bolton: "I worked at a car wash when I was 17. 1 remember I wanted to buy my girlfriend a gift, and it was right before Christmas. I didn't have any money and a friend of my father owned a car wash.

I did that gig for three weeks. It just had nothing to do with anything I wanted to do. I was just so removed from everything I loved and what I wanted to do with my life." Steve Perry, Cherry Poppin Daddies: "I used to fill vending machines inside IBM, taking out day-old Dolly Madison cakes and putting in new ones and stuff like that. This IBM was high-tech, and one night I saw the biggest rat you've ever seen in the middle of the hall. The place was deserted ex- By MICHAEL MEHLE Scripps Howard News Service Summer is drawing near, school is coming to an end, and, it's time to get a job.

Mind you, there's nothing sexy about the minimum wage opportunities that await this year's batch of teens seeking steady employment for the first time. As the Barenaked Ladies sing in a paean about bad jobs ranging from forestry to retail: "Never is enough. I never want to do that stuff." But it's also a rite of passage, and everyone has had a bad job or two. Even musicians who now get paid big bucks being on stage or in the studio have flipped burgers or dug ditches sometime in their lives. We asked some of them to relate their least-favorite jobs: Brian Setzer: "It's got to be a tie: I worked at a pizzeria when I was 15 or 16, and I was just scrubbing the floors and scrubbing all the plates.

And the melted cheese wouldn't come off the dishes, so you would just go crazy trying to clean them. And another bad job I had was working with my dad in construction, and I just physically could not cut it. All the big guys were laughing at me, 'Setzer, is that your Yanni: "I imagine when I was 20 years old and singing in bars with my rock 'n' roll band. Those days were the bottom of the barrel, playing at a local bar somewhere in Minneapolis. I can't remember (the bars') names it's probably selective amnesia." Marc Cohn: "Busboy at Victoria Station in Cleveland, Ohio.

That was pretty bad." Joe Perry, Aerosmith: "I'd have to say when I worked in a foundry. None of the guys around me spoke English, and I used to come home with 15 pounds of black soot up my nose and in my pants. It was pretty dirty work. I used to get burned a lot because I had to pour metal into molds and stuff." Rob Thomas, matchbox 20: "Roofing was no good for me, especially in Florida in the summer. And I used to deliver beds for a living, driving a truck.

That was no fun. But roofing was the worst. We did the whole thing. We'd strip down the old shingles, lay down the Joan Kennedy hospitalized BOSTON Joan Kennedy, the ex-wife of Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, was hospitalized after what was described as a mild heart attack. Mrs. Kennedy, 62, fell ill Friday. She underwent tests at Massachusetts General Hospital and was scheduled Monday to have an angioplasty to determine what further treatment was necessary, said her son Rep. Patrick J.

Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy, who was divorced from the senator in 1983, has described herself as a recovering alcoholic and has spent time in a number of rehabilitation programs following arrests for drunken driving. Patrick Kennedy said in a statement that he spent Mother's Day weekend with his mother in the hospital and he expected his brother, Ted Kennedy and his sister, Kara, to join them. Mrs.

Kennedy is expected to stay in the hospital the rest of the week. New single from the Beatles LONDON A previously unreleased single by the Beatles will be put out later this year, along with refurbished versions of the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack and movie. The single is about three minutes long and features all four Beatles singing, said Geoff Baker, a spokesman for Paul McCartney and Apple Records. He wouldn't disclose other details about the song Monday. The 87-minute movie "Yellow Submarine," first released in 1968, is being restored and given a remixed soundtrack, Baker said.

The album had six songs by the Beatles and seven instrumental tracks from the film score by George Martin, the group's produc- er. The remixed version will drop the instrumentals and replace them with previously released Beatles tracks, Baker said. 'Queen' missed movies first time around NE YORK Natalie Portman was far from a "Star Wars" fan when she landed the role of Queen Amidala in the latest installment. "I was born in Israel and I lived there for my first three years," said the 17-year-old Long Islander. "By the time I got to the United States, all the films had already come out.

So I missed it the first time around." Portman plays a queen who resists invasion of her country in "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace." She said Sunday that she plays a "strong female character that's really good for girls. She has this unembarrassed idealism." Portman also appeared in "The Professional." Bisset portrays Mary in new movie MUNICH, Germany Jacqueline Bisset plays Mary and Armin Mueller Stahl is Joseph in a new made-for-TV movie about the life of Jesus. Filming began Monday in Morocco, said the Kirch media group, which is financing the movie with several other European broadcasters. The movie will be shown on several European networks and on CBS in the United States. The title role in "The Bible Jesus" is being played by an American, 25-year-old Jeremy Sisto.

The two-part movie is the latest in a project that began in 1993 to film the entire Bible. Ten episodes based on the Old Testament have been completed with stars including Richard Harris, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper and Klaus Maria Brandauer. From Pantagraph wire services Jones, Savage Garden: "Pushing trolleys (supermarket buggies) for an hour and a half. I got a job at a supermarket, and they asked me to start that day. I did it for an hour and a half and I quit, and instead of taking an hour and a half wages, I took a bottle of Coke on the way out.

I got embarrassed because school friends kept laughing at me, and I kept knocking into little old ladies and knocking over potted plants because I couldn't control all of the carts." Dan Fogelberg: "I moved furniture my freshman summer in college in Peoria, 111. I was really small then. Really skinny. I was playing music and smoking dope. I was not a bulky fellow.

They would put two of us college kids on a full Allied truck, and the big beefy drivers wouldn't get off their damn trucks. It was insanity. I'd come home at night, and I couldn't even eat. I was so tired, my mom would put food in front of me and I'd just go to sleep and sleep for 16 hours. That was the summer I said, 'I'm going to be a Dan furniture Michael car I'- Bolton, washer Let us entertain you every Friday in the Steppin' Out section China concert Clapton planning alcohol-free New Year's Eve LONDON (AP) Eric Clapton is planning a New Year's Eve party for people who don't want to greet the millennium in an alcoholic haze.

Clapton, who stopped drinking almost 12 years ago and also battled drug addiction, told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday that he will play with a band during the invitation-only party, which will be held at an undisclosed location in the English countryside. "We devised this little thing where we put on a dance," he said. "It's all very secret. It's like a little gathering of people who don't drink anymore." The guitarist best-known for the classic rock song "Layla" said the idea was prompted by past New Year's Eves, which he called "the worst night of the year for people who don't drink." Last year, Clapton opened a non-profit rehabilitation clinic on the Caribbean Island of Antigua.

He told the BBC he also has worked as an unpaid volunteer at the Priory Clinic in London, a rehabilitation facility. COMPACT PROSIGNIA-Windows '98 Mhz Symphony cancels BOSTON (AP) Fearful of growing instability in China after NATO's accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has reportedly canceled two concerts in Beijing. The orchestra planned four performances in Japan and two performances in China to celebrate Seiji Ozawa's 25th anniversary as music director. After a final performance scheduled for Monday in Osaka, Japan, the BSO was to perform Wednesday and Thursday in Beijing, with the second performance attended by Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and President Jiang Zemin. But Makoto Morita, a spokesman for Osaka's Festival Hall, where the symphony was to play Monday, said Sunday the trip 2.1 feS8.8 internnotfem.

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Bloomington 'Odd Couple' tryouts this weekend to China was canceled because of instability in that country. Telephone calls to orchestra officials in Boston were not immediately returned Sunday. Yugoslav media reported three people were killed when NATO missiles struck the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday. More than 20 were injured. On Sunday, demonstrators hurled rocks and debris into the U.S.

Embassy in China, trapping American diplomats inside their compound in a second day of protests. Morita said the symphony's schedule after the Osaka performance was uncertain, but tour officials would look into additional performances in Japan. It was unclear when the BSO would return to the United States. the main desk of the Lincoln Public Library. Production dates for the play are July 9 to July 17.

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Matrix 2hrs. 15 min. Never Been Kissed 1 hr. 47 min. The Out-of-Towners 1 hr.

31 min. Pushing Tin 2 hrs. 4 min. Shakespeare in Love 2 hrs. 1 min.

She's All That 1 hr. 37 min. Stepmom 2 hrs. 4 min. 10 Things I Hate 1 hr.

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