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School of Music presents faculty members In recital. Renowned N Check reviews of new syndicated television programs
pianist Prof. Anton Nel performs Prokofiev's "Sonata, Op. 119" with when Daily Arts TV/New Media staff writers present
cellist Erling Blondal Begtsson. Also featured: the North American "Simmering in Syndication."
premiere of Sibelius' "Theme and variations for solo cello,"
Debussy's "Sonata in d minor," and Rachmaninoff's "Sonata, Op.
19." Mendelssohn Theater. 8 p.m. Free.Wednesday
October 28, 1998
MTV
campus
Chris Cousino
Daily Arts Writer
Joining with the radio-worshipedj
Eve 6, Third Eye Blind treks across
the country with MTV's Campus
Invasion, a musical interactive festi-
val that plans to make stops at more
than 20 college campuses this fall,
and the University of Michigan is
one to be graced by MTV's presence.
Today, the folks at MTV have
many plans for students as their
daytime music extravaganza rolls
into Ann Arbor. With the wide array
of activities, surprisingly, the festi-
val is absolutely free. It takes place
on the North Campus Diag, near the
Bell Tower beginning at 10 a.m.
David Cohn, senior vice president
for marketing at MTV; said, "A col-
lege tour is a great way for us to
connect with ou audience across
We country.
And MTV does know their audi-
ence, judging from last fall's riotous
turnout at Touchdown Cafe for a
Real World casting call. Possibly
one ofthe day's most popular events
will be another of these casting
calls, where students will beable to
make audition tapes and talk with
casting directors of "The Real
World" and "Road Rules"
The University's own LSA senior
Lindsay Brien took part in MTV's
long-running saga this past season.
You too may one day know what it
is like to be in "The Real World."
Aside from your chance at
becoming the next Puck, MTV bol-
sters a sneak peek at some of the
most recent videos from a plethora
of popular artists in the new music
tent. While watching Mariah Carey
st loose and reveal to her ex-hus-
and what he's missing in her latest
video assault, students may want to
check out the experimental music
tent that contains a variety of com-
puter generated music experiences.
While all these interactive music
festivities run through the day, don't
forget about the intense wanings of
Stephen Jenkins and the rest ofThird
Eye Blind as the group is likely to
'rform its numerous pop chart hits
such as "How's It Going to Be" and
its recent summer ditty, "Jumper"
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at
Hill Auditorium.
Seeing Glenn as a'Hero'
By Michael Galloway
TV/New Media Editor
Tomorrow, John Glenn, the second man and first
American in orbit, will return to space and become
the oldest person ever to travel into space. But
tonight, PBS will give people a chance to see him as
more than the historical epithets. "John Glenn:
American Hero" will focus
on Glenn's life before the
famous Mercury flight, his
John Glenn: desire to return to space and
J e NASA's future goals.
American Blaine Baggett, the writer
Hero and executive producer of
PBS "American Hero," spent six
Tonight at 8 months searching through
NASA's old files and films,
besides doing a personal
interview with Glenn, to cre-
ate this documentary. In a
recent interview, Baggett
revealed his own motivations
and visions for the project.
"Well, step back. I've been involved with pro-
grams about the space program for a long time,"
Baggett said. "I did a series called 'Spaceflight.'
About 15 years ago, I was a finalist for the first jour-
nalist in space program for NASA. Newsweek came
to us in the spring and said how would you like to
do a show on John Glenn and team-up and work
with him. And I said, 'Oh, absolutely."'
Being a finalist for the first journalist in space
program - a project that was abandoned after the
Challenger explosion - makes him something of
an expert about the space program. Of course, he's
still a rookie next to Glenn.
"I've interviewed him twice now," Baggett said.
"He's a very disarming man. He's very polite. Test
pilot-like in the sense that he answers questions
without a lot of emotion. He likes to deal with tech-
nical details ... He doesn't give you quick sound
bites. He sees all kinds of connections with things
that he's saying, and he's very thoughtful."
Besides doing a second interview for his new
documentary, Baggett tried to find never-before or
rarely seen clips about Glenn and the space pro-
gram.
"One of the things I am proudest of in terms of
the clips for the program is that I went and spent a
week down in NASA's archives and film vault,
going through footage that people don't normally
go through. I found a lot of really wonderful things
that I think will eventually ... be seeing the light of
day for the first time in years." Emphasizing the less
cites tf
In 1941, John Glenn was 20 years old, and now, the 77-year-old preps for a historic mission to space.
emphasized facets of Glenn's life was part of
Baggett's goal behind the documentary.
"I wanted to show the real - the entire fellow,"
Baggett said, "his entire life in the sense of not just
the Mercury flight or the (upcoming) shuttle flight
but also what's made this man tick."
Baggett said he expects the effects of space trav-
el on a man of Glenn's age will further our efforts
into going to Mars, a two-year round trip journey
that will have debilitating effects on someone of all
ages. "American Hero" will also discuss the
manned flight to Mars goal of NASA as well as the
new space station, a football field-sized structure
that will take 45 separate shuttle flights to fully con-
struct.
But the real focus of "American Hero" will be on
Glenn, the man who lives up to that name. The doc-
umentary will be a look at his life and on the 77-
year-old's eagerness to see the final frontier once
more. With Baggett in the cockpit and Glenn in the
cargo bay, metaphorically, "American Hero" is
almost sure to be worthwhile.
And so 'B5' comes to an end
By Gabe Smith
Daily Arts Writer
Watching "Babylon 5" is a lot like
eating college dorm food - you don't
know what to
-'expect. But a
deeper investiga-
tion will equate
Babylon 5 "Babylon 5" to a
full course meal at
*** Gratzi. There are
TNT so many different
Tonight at 10 p. items that will sat-
isfy the appetite
but won't fulfill
the empty stom-
ach.
"Babylon 5" is
one of those quiet,
underrated shows
that typically goes unnoticed by view-
ers, media, etc. But "B5" has garnered
its own cult following, and has quietly
turned into one of the highest rated
shows on TNT.
For five long years, the Babylon 5
space station has attempted to keep the
peace in the galaxy. After all this time,
"Babylon 5," the brainchild of creator J.
Michael Straczynski and conceptual
consultant Harlan Ellison (creator of the
original series Star Trek's "City on the
Edge of Forever"), has finally been
decommissioned, and the series will
come to an end. The first of the final
five episodes of "Babylon 5" will begin
broadcasting starting tonight at 10 p.m.,
and will continue every Wednesday until
Nov. 25. TNT also has scheduled a two-
hour movie titled "River of Souls"
which fits chronologically in the series.
In a nutshell, Babylon 5 is the last of
the surviving Babylon stations. It was
the only station that managed to stay in
one piece. The first four had either been
blown up, taken back in time, or had
other mean and asundry things done to
them. Its job was to mediate conflict in
a warring galaxy. For a while the station
was commanded by Capt. Jeffrey
Sinclair (Michael O'Hare). Later, he
found out that he was some sort of god-
like figure and had to leave the station.
On came Captain John Sheridan (Bruce
Boxleitner) to commandeer the show
the rest of the way.
Character introductions aside,
though, "Babylon 5" is wrapping up as
various characters are either exiting the
station, or taking new paths. Tonight's
episode reveals the final path taken by
Ambassador Londo Mollari (Peter
Jurasik). Londo represents the Centauri
people, a race of aliens with great
perms. The Centauri were a race of
imperial people who had long enslaved
the Nam, a race of reptilian creatures
without any hair but somehow better
looking. Now Nam and Centauri are at
Courtesy ofTNT
Richard Biggs, Jerry Doyle, Martin Sheen, Tracy Scoggins and Jeff Conaway star In
"River of Souls: A Babylon 5 Adventure."
peace, but the Centauri inexplicably are
guilty of attacking Alliance shipping
lanes which produces an armed conflict
between the Alliance and Centauri.
Londo returns from the station to his
homeworld to find answers. Instead, he
finds more than he bargained, and atrap
waiting for him.
Unfortunately for fans, the damage
has been done. Just as the opening
phrase of each episode states "And so it
begins," so will "Babylon 5" end, and
with it goes one of the better shows on
television today.
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