The Commercial Appeal du lieu suivant : Memphis, Tennessee • 39

me Saturday June 22 2002 SECTION i THE Commercial Appeal -V-' A it'J il i 'siWi JON ML SPARKS CA EYE TOM WAITER TeteviskxVRadio Bloody epic spills precious history Red Cold mean to make you fed guilty about not giving blood if you're the not-raving kind that is Its just that whenyou see how bfood is used and how it is continually in short supply you realize what a shirker you've been The series takes us through impact on religion commerce and popular culture as well as medicine Blood metaphors abound: Blood brother blood feud blood money a young blood blood sport bloodline blood hound blood bath bloodsucker bloodthirsty Pretty gruesome for the most part Dotrt shy away from 1 A monster from outer space (Stitch) makes waves with a Hawaiian girl (Lilo) and her older sister in Disney's Ltio a Stitch This tala of a dysfunctional family maintains the warmth of animated classics Memphis sweats with pride: not the pits! Procter Old Spice Red Zone deodorant which will apparently do anything for publicity has determined the sweatiest cities in the country The findings were based on the average high temperature and humidity during June July and August in the 50 cities reviewed Based on this the company estimated the sweat produced by walking one hour each day The glowing winners: San Antonio Dallas Ft Worth New Orleans Houston West Rrim Beach Fla Orlando and Memphis The five least sweaty cities: Barrow Alaska San Francisco Seattle San Diego and Los Angeles The wages of (gulp) sin A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison police said Oswaldo Martinez accused of murdering judge Harmodio Mariscal on June 5 during a failed robbery in Panama City was captured last week after fleeing to neighboring Costa Rica Her Excellency Jolie is the only ambassador I deal with who has her own fan clubi" Secretary of State Colin Powell during an appearance with UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie to spotlight the plight of refugees Reported in The Washington Post Pendl me In! Supermodel Cindy Crawford is considering taking a multi mi llion-dollar trip into space with Russian cosmonauts 1 would go if I could be there and back in a she 0WH11 Stitch feels Dumbo Peter Pan The lion King and so on but never lias a intentionally modem Le dysfunctional as the one the first animated feature film to include a social worker as a major character This observation is not intended to scare moviegoers away nor to suggest that Disney has abandoned the classic themes of i like a classic fairy tales and folklore for talk show psychobabble Rather the writer-director team of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlols has managed to produce a sly sassy feature that feels totally fresh in its clever humor hip design and convincing characterizations yet recalls in its warmth the classic Disney animations of decades ago lilo Stitch also is reminiscent See LILO E4 'fi trV-3: i r- (Not all the Kubrick references are simply evocative a scene in whidi the herofe eyelids are held See REPORT E5 Fresh sly Lilo MOVIE REVIEW idbASMrib Rated PC for Lite's antisocial behavior Stitch's saliva and mild sci-fi action By libs iiMan Walt Disney films are filled with orphans broken homes and 1 musing parents thinkBomH MOVIE REVIEW Rated PG-13 for violence and adult 1 hedussQgomenipiascom The dark sensibility of Stanley Kubrick continues to inform foe science fiction of Steven a development that will fans longing for die we-are-not-alone reassurance of Close Encounters of the Third Kind or the escapist spectacle of Jurassic Park but will please those ready for another challenging AJ -type mmlnattnn nf Hie paradrariral -isolation inherent in an increasingly plugged-in high-tech society Like last yeark long-in-gestation AL Artificial Intelligence which the late Kubrick handed off to disturbing and somehow spooky future a setting made all the HOT SOUNDS i'l I I I i I i I 4 I I i i It i i i I If this series just because most associations with the word "blood are less than sunny In Part 1 Sunday we learn the first bfood transfusion took place in 1667 in France when a doctor transfused a bfood into a madman Didn't work We foam that during his final illness doctors bled about half of George bfood from him Until well into the 19th Century bloodletting was seen as a cure for just about everything Blood types were discovered Just in time for blood to be transfused safely during Warid War I Part 2 (die second hour Sunday) shows how war spurred advances in and transfusing blood Warn also saw great success in the Plasma for Britain campaign in die United States Dr Charles Drew the man in own blood because as a black man he was barred from doing so Part 3 discusses blood tainted by hepatitis and the AIDS virus in some of the blood products provided to surgery patients and hemophiliacs In die United States 90 percent of severe hemophiliacs were infected by hepatitis HIV or both People began questioning the safety of this supply and the slowness of the blood establishment in responding to and fixing die problem Part 4 takes us through die past 15 yean how the supply was made safe again and now blood is collected both here and in India die need for blood continues See TV E3 TOP VIDEOS ON MTV 1 Wkhout Me Eminem 2 Down Ass Chick lekdto SHem Nkkefoadt SaEre A I Need a CM Diddy Usher Sftn Gonna Be Alright (rented jcnriMf Lopez SOUND BITE much more glamorous being on the barricades with a handkerchief over your nose throwing rocks than it is for me to be standing here in a suit though it not my U2 singer Bono after lobbying French president Jacques Chirac to increase Ms country Third World aid With Minority Report Steven Spielberg continues on the risky "mature1' path he began with AJ Item Cruise stars as a detective whom visionaries peg as a future murderer morei bleached In its waking nightmare quality 1 a world that recalls die fantas New York of Kubrickfc Eyes Wi Shut as much as anything In GA wry My yard a weed patch ifls a habitatl Our daily Web Games for your handheld: httpJlwwwmonkeystonecom You are SO CA EYE thanks Mel Davey Sr far moving this along: You are SO Memphis when you realize that never get home if you were to observe the rule of one car-length for each 10 mph Contributions from Rich Olcott and our press services Leave messages far CA EYE at 529-2810 or E-mail sparks Qgomemphiscom aonKtmKsxom hnpAtMflMgomemphHAOflV luff City The Bluff City Backsliders Yellow Dog Records In a town with more bhies bands than you can shake a poikpie hat at the Bfoff City BacksUden truly stands 1999 uiloMeajiffl event at BhiesHallanBeafeSueeLIhe time country and early blues The outfit tually settled on a large inchkies Jason Freeman on Mark Lemhouse on slide 1 BILLBOARD CHARTS jsortof string-band style the record is a true nostalgia trip reminiscent of recent bands such as Squirrel Nut Zppera and the Asylum Street Spankers (Man Fd like to see that triple bilL) TheBadoliden jump out of thereto on die album opener Howiirf YhtTs 44 Blues a track that gets its tension the fact that the crack rhythm sec-feel like itfe in control of the HOT SINGLES 1MrftoHerreNely 2 Without Me Eminem LAofAAshsti Need A GW (PartOneX Diddy (featuring Usher A Loon) Sb Oh flby Cam'ron (featuring Jueb Santana) A The MkkMe Emmy Eat World 7 A Thousand Miles Vanessa Carlton I Hero Chad Kroeger (featuring Josey Scott) II Addkhve Tlulh Hurts (featuring Rafcim) 101 fin Gama Be Alright Jennifer lopez (featuring Nari Comptod torn a nasonal sample of RMS HpOffc QOlBGto QOfflpiBd Mid DM" sided by SpundScaq radio phre and montaradiadto by Broadcast Data Sys- also even- tribute to without ever sounding As for the rest of the personnel 4 'Ashanti Ashanti 7 Soundtrack Brother Where Ait Thou 7 Mekuv "No Shoes No Shirt No Ftabkms Kenny Chaney "life Goes Oa Done! Jones IOLletGc Awii Lsyjpie Qsnpled than nsttonst sreres of SMRDOnQOnCBACDnWOlNPnr vidad by SoundScaa BILLBOARD MAGAZINE CHART LEADERS HOT RABHIP-tfOP SINGLE: Oh Boy Cam'ron (featuring Juelz Santona) TOP RABMP-HOP ALBUM: "Ihe Eminem Show" Eminem HOT COUNTRY SINGLE TRACK: Living And thing MfefiGeoige Strait TOP C0UN1RY ALBUM: Soundbadc Brother Where Ait Thou? TOP VR)EO RENTAL: Harry Potter and tie Sorcemi Stone TOP VDCO SALE Hany Roger and the Sorcerer Stone TOP DVD SALE: Harry Palter and the Sorcerer Stone TOP KID VIDEO: Scooby-Doo Original Mysteries Oanplnf tom nfonnd rid ikVa ptayAentedurts forced or Mi maybe iwithMsridereoup lead vocals momentstoi iGraberonman- the sfidevokef Lemhouse dolin and kazoo Mike Powers on trombone CTint the Handy Three was a finalist at this yearv Whgner on fiddle John Stubblefield on bas Adam national Blues Challenge and who wifi release his WbodardonkeysandSteveBamatonpercussfon own soto record cm YHfow Dog later this summer Though 1m the Backsliders can shift through Throuiout the record Lemhouse provides some an astonishing array of styles sometimes within of the tastiest bit really standing out as he duels the same song for its debut CD on its YfeQow Dog with the other soloists on the doang track acover labeL the banahas chosen to lean toward the blues atSLeepJckmEstes Everybody lb Make A skfo of things City the disc lea- ChangeSometime tures foe band's takes on a dozen early pre-war The Bluff City Backsliders will play the WEVL- (oftenpre-WDiki War blues tunes by the likes of FM 90 Summer Concert tonight at die Young Qiaife Patton WC Handy and periiaps the bandk Avenue DeiL most obvious musical ancestors die Memphis Jug Markjonian TOP ALBUMS 1 The Eminem Shovy Eminem 2 "Untouchables Korn 3 Totaly Hits 2002 Various Artists 4 "Sticks And Stone" New Found Glory 5 Diddy A Bad Boy Records Root We Inverted me I Various Mats rfiao -yv wyr ltfjdtosiiianail'toai NiWi ar A- r- llTf iji mrnff fX.