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Features Editor: Lisa Toth lisatoth@dailyemeraId.com Thursday, October 18,2001 Win Tickets! The Pulse Costume Contest is on! It will take place Wednesday, Oct. 3t from 4 to 6 p.m. in the EMU Amphitheater. The grand prize will be tickets to see ‘The Rocky Horror Show’at the McDonald Theatre that night. It will be a defining moment in your life. Look for more details in future issues of the ODE. ■ David Lynch’s latest film offers more questions than it does answers ^ MOVIE REVIEW ‘Mulholland Drive’ ★ ★ M ■'> By Mason West Oregon Daily Emerald m m Mulholland Drive” is like a * HH Rubik's cube: Some peo ■VII pie will love to spend IVI hours figuring it out , and others will get pissed off and throw it away. The newest film from writer/di rector David Lynch ("Lost High way,” “Twin Peaks”) is a puzzle with an unknown number of solu tions. The ambiguity is lost after Lynch turns reality on its head halfway through the film. The pleasure of this movie is not in watching it but in piecing together fragments that Lynch presents. The story revolves around a road in both physical and allegorical ways. The title is associated with Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, where the story takes place, but it is also about a journey that has some hints of linear progression — though not in the way the film is disclosed. The film opens with a car crash on Mulholland Drive, and a woman named Rita survives. After the crash, she wanders to an apart ment that is not her own. It turns out to be owned by an aging movie star whose young niece. Betty, is coming to stay while she pursues her fledgling acting career. When the two women meet. Betty doesn't suspect anything is wrong and thinks Rita is another one of her aunt’s guests. However, Turn to Mulholland. page 6 Michael is back — and not playing basketball OK, so I really wanted to start out this week’s mu sic news wrap-up with some info about the new Michael Jackson album. Unfortu nately, the Gloved One is still keeping an airtight lid over the proceedings, and news has been scarce — apart from the fact that you can see the unimpressive al bum cover hanging on the walls of Face The Music. . However, Jackson fans should be re joicing this week, as his hi muDi aui.' cessful solo al bums were re released Depper Tuesday.'“Off “Dangerous” are all digitally re mastered and contain bonus tracks. “Bad” contains two previously unreleased songs, plus a Spanish version of “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” but most people will proba bly be more excited about the new In Stereo the Wall,” “Thriller,” “Bad”and fangled “Thriller.” It has the demo version of “Billie Jean,” two unre leased songs and a new mix of “Thriller” with an extra verse in cluded in Vincent Price’s rap! Furthermore, Jackson’s recent tribute concerts will be airing on CBS on Nov. 13. Ladies and gentle men, it’s a great time to be a Michael Jackson fan. No Doubt fans may still vividly remember the wait between their last two albums. What was it, four, five years? Anyway, the band, per haps wishing to avoid a repeat of that embarrassing situation, will be releasing the follow-up to last year’s “Return of Saturn” on Dec. 18. “Rock Steady” was helped by a slew of producers, including Nellee Hooper (Bjork), Sly & Rob bie (reggae masterminds), William Orbit (Blur knob-twiddler and ge nius behind Madonna’s “Ray of Light”) and Ric Ocasek (ex-Cars frontman and current Weezer pro ducer). Oh yeah, Prince produced and played on a song as well. Speaking of Prince, the Purple One will be releasing his new al bum, “The Rainbow Children,” on Nov. 30. The album will be his first since his high-profile conversion to being a Jehovah’s Witness. Pre Turn to Depper, page 7 Courtesy Photo The ‘Real Game of Life,’ disease, drug addiction and divorce included, offers a new twist to the classic Milton Bradley game. ‘Real Life’ game offers sex, drugs, war ■ Chris Pender believes life is about more than pink and blue colored pegs in a plastic car, so he redesigned the old game to fit new times By Anne Le Chevaliier Oregon Daily Emerald Sitting under a white tent on 13th Avenue on Wednesday at the ASUO Street Faire, local vendor Chris Pender was selling a game based on personal experiences — and it’s even called “Real Life.” In the Milton Bradley version, “The Game of Life,” every player receives a car, job, spouse, child and re Real Life, is not so easy. Role a one on the first throw of the dice, and the game is over. The player has been aborted. Land on the war square, role a six, and the game is over for everybody. There has been a nuclear war. Wearing a tie-dye shirt, Pender, who grew up dur ing the Vietnam War, said he enjoyed the original ver sion, but he remembers thinking, “Why isn’t war (in cluded) in this game called ‘life’?” Thus, when Pender created his parody in 1997, he added the missing ingredient: a complex dose of the modem world. While theplayer faces poverty, addic tions, diseases and death, he or she can also gain in Turn to ‘Real Life’,-page 7
