I .- Dada plays at the Blind Pig tonight. Remember the song "Goin' to Doeyland"? Well, Dada is back to promote its latest CD. Doors open at 9:30 p.m, and tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Tickets can be bought at the Michigan Union Ticket Office. Ulre£du~rx al Toinorrow h Daily Arts: 9 Check out the Daily Arts review of the new Robert DeNiro flick, "Ronin," as well as a feature about its director John Frankenheimer. Tuesday September 29, 1998 9 'Felicity's' By Eri Podoisky Daily Arts Writer What do the pink Power Ranger, Janeane Garofalo, and a girl with hair to rival that of any Noxzema poster child have in common? "Felicity" boasts all three and much, much more. As any faithful WB watcher knows from the barrage of advertising, "Felicity," the latest addition to the utrt network's arsenal of teen-queen dramas, premieres tonight at 9 p.m. The WB execs would have you believe that "Felicity" is a show you shouldn't miss. They're right. We meet the title character, Felicity Porter (Keri Russell), on the day of her high school graduation. She's been the shy girl in the corner for her entire high school career, but on this final day she gets up the courage to ask the most popular guy in her cl to sign her yearbook. He writes something so pi ound that Felicity is forced to reevaluate her entire life. She decides, against her parents' wishes, to give up her plans for Stanford and pre-med and follow a heartthrob, Ben Covington (Scott Speedman), to the University of New York. It sounds corny and melodramatic, but the show's strong writing and acting make it somehow college life inspires Wrestling slams into Joe Louis Arena By Gabe Seitit Daily Arts Writer Surprisingly, more than nine mil- lion viewers - a staggering number - tune in every Monday night to professional wrestling. Many of us grew up watching the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) back in the day when Hulk Hogan was as popular as Mom's apple pie. Hogan's persona, not his wrestling abilities, appealed to all of us during those adolescent years. We ate our vita- mins, said our prayers and exercised so that we could all be fellow Hulkamaniacs. It was good, clean entertainment. WWF Raw is War ** USA Mondays at 9 p.m. Hogan has since defected to the WWF's biggest rival organization, W o r I d Championship Wrestling (WCW), but that doesn't matter. The WWF is new now. Very few of the house- hold names are still there, bar- Felicity WB Tuesdays at 9 p.m. believable. It helps that nei- ther Felicity nor Ben are paper cut-out characters. Instead, they're more like people in progress - and isn't that what we're all here for? To find ourselves in this big mess called college is the ultimate goal, and watching Felicity and company under- take that gargantuan task over the course of this television season is a welcome prospect. Upon arriving in New York, Felicity moves in to her dorm and meets her resident advi- "General Hospital" or any other soap opera. The only difference is that you don't get the love triangles, botched marriages, possessions and people being reincarnated. Instead. you have guys issuing threats and later kicking the tar out of each other. And just like a soap opera. it is easy to get hooked on the theatrics. With the monthly WWF Pay-Per- View special airing last night, titled "In Your House: Breakout," expect a gigantic evening planned for the upcoming Detroit match. The past six months have seen WWF owner Vince McMahon attempt to snatch the belt away from current title hold- er "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. McMahon doesn't have any actual reason to take the belt away; he just doesn't like him. Austin has been a tremendous crowd favorite, and has answered every challenge. But there was a time in the early '90s when the WWF was the show that everyone could love. Kids had their favorite wrestler to root for, whether it was Hogan, Slim Jim spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior or Andre the Giant. But professional wrestling is about television ratings, and with the influx of former WWF wrestlers defecting to the rival WCW organization, changes had to be made. Storylines have gotten cruder and language only found in a Steven Bochco show was put in. But five million viewers can't be wrong. Consequently, the WWF's ratings soared into the lead. Nevertheless, a wrestling event is quite a show to watch, with thou- sands of screaming fans, beer thrown everywhere and an occasional chair being tossed around. Once in a while, a wrestler might come out of the audience. You can watch it on televi- sion tonight, but why do that when you can see it live? Macho Man, Hogan and Ultimate Warrior (or the 13th man to take on the role) may now reside in the WCW, but how can that compare with midgets, bikini contests and co- ed tag team matches? Only on "Raw is War" can you find such a thing. Oooooooo yeaaaahh! Whooops. Wrong wrestling federation. Courtesy ot Touchstone Television Scott Speedman, Kerl Russell and Scott Foley star In "Felicity," WB's new college drama. sor, Noel Crane (Scott Foley, a "Dawson's Creek" refugee). Noel is full of helpful advice and never misses a :hance to chat with Felicity, whose confusion over ier situation quickly makes it clear that she is any- :hing but what her name suggests. It's fairly obvi- us, even in their first meeting, that Noel is inter- sted in Felicity in a way that RAs ought not to be unless the rules of conduct for resident advisors s erent in the wild and crazy city that never 1le s). Like so much of the show, it's predictable that a trange love triangle is in the works, and that it i be just one triangle of many. We all know that rime time television thrives on all sorts of emo- :ional tension, and much of the time it doesn't york or becomes irritating (attention, Kevin Vlliamson!). "Felicity" is different. It's pre- dictable, but even the predictability of it is fasci- nating. There's so much in this show waiting to be explored - how the cliches are stacked up and torn down and the formulaic plot devices tossed in at every opportunity function to bring otherwise bland, stereotypical characters into vivid three- dimensional life. The fourth main character is Julie Emrick (Amy Jo Johnson) as Felicity's new friend who wastes not a moment before inadvertently creating a tense situation between Ben and Felicity. Again, the show doesn't treat this with kid gloves or overblown cliches. Instead, Felicity is unafraid to speak her mind and tells Ben exactly how she's feeling - and it sounds completely nat- ural. Janeane Garofalo lends her vocal talent in an unbilled cameo as the voice of Felicity's ex-French tutor/pen pal. They write letters back and forth using cassette tapes rshe show's voiceover fram- ing device, yet another element that could easily have been botched but instead comes across as inspired. Two, three, four years ago, you may have been Felicity, crying in her first lecture because she thinks that coming to New York was a huge mis- take. You may have been that popular guy who wrote something in somebody's yearbook and had no idea what the ramifications would be. Yo~u may have been that person sitting in class wondering what everyone else is thinking. Or maybe you've gone through your time here at the University without being any of those things. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't matter. "Felicity" has something with which we're all familiar. It's a wholly engrossing portrayal of those first wondrous moments of college. What matters is that it sends the other new shows of the season back to high school and graduates to a standard of television totally unexpected from the little network that could. ring the likes of "The Undertaker" Guys such as "Kane," "Vader," "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and "The Rock" now take center stage. Sound silly? It is. But the WWF has also brought in actual wrestlers such as Ken Shamrock and Dan Severn (who reside in Coldwater, Michigan) from the Ultimate Fighting Championships. Mark Henry, a for- mer Olympic weightlifter for the United States, is now a member of the "Nation," a group of militant African American wrestlers. "Monday Night Raw," WWF's Monday night program, airs 9-11 p.m. on the USA network, but wrestling fans in the state of Michigan will be happy as the WWF will invade Detroit's Joe Louis Arena for a live taping. The next night, "Raw" will invade the Breslin Center in East Lansing, three days after Michigan's trouncing of the Spartans. It's difficult to take the WWF for what it is - a giant show not unlike Graham is golden in 'Guy' By Matthew Barrett and Aaron Rich Daily Arts Writers Let's face it. There aren't enough movies about birds. But from the depths of this dark abyss comes "Paulie" the story of a talking bird. Not since the chatty swine from "Babe" has an animal movie packed such a potent punch. Jennifer Aniston, known New On more for her magazine spreads Video This than her talent, stars as a love week struck-lass in "The Object Of My Affection." It's your classic hot, straight girl falls in love with your hot, homosexual guy story. She gets pregnant; problems ensue. Like many things once buoyant, her career is going down with Jack Dawson. Jeremy Irons stars as a British colonial in Hong Kong around the time of the reunification with China in "The Chinese Box." Directed by Wayne Wang, the film is sure to be a hit with both art house and action fans alike. And then there's Heather Graham. Even the name makes you feel like you're a child of the rainbow. From swing dancing in "Swingers" to skating around Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights," the actress has etched a permanent place in movie-babe history. Those who were disappointed by the limitations of her role in "Lost In Space" will be pleased to see that Golden Grahams is back in action in "Two Girls and a Guy." Starring opposite a freshly rehabbed Robert Downey, Jr. and Natasha Wagner, Graham plays the seductive blonde in this erotic threesome. The film finds Downey in a awkward predica- ment when his two girls discover that he has been two-timing them like a dirty dog. The real-life convict gives a strikingly true-to- life performance as a pathological liar suffering I -II L Courtesy of reaniWorls Cheecht Mann gives us the bird. Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures leather "Golden" Graham gets sweeter than sugar in "Two Girls and a Guy." Can you not go a day without the Daily? Have no fear! 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