2B - The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. Magazine - Thursday, October 28, 1999 0 ab m .. Aftk l v 0 The Michigan Daily - eekend, etc. Ma ww.travelociW .com Travelling overseas is often long and strenuous - even before the actual departure. Travelocity.com tries to reduce some of of the hastle and anxiety involved in finding a convenient and inexpensive vacation plan. The site searches and lists flights from all the major (and a lot of the minor) airlines as well as packages to many exotic locations. The trips offered on Travelocity.com are not just limited to flights; hotel, car rental and cruise reservations can also be made from the Website. Upon registration, one can even sign up for a "Fare Watcher" e-mail that sends alerts of vacation and flight specials. With the power of this site, who needs a travel agent? 1st blind player wins big on Jeopardy" together at last. Zou Zou's, Chelsea. 8 p. m. Free. 433-4226. "Halloween Concert" Creepy symphon- ic music to get you in pysched for Sunday. Pease Audotorium, Ypsilanti. 7:30 p. m. $6. 487-4380. Reverend Right Time Flint's funk band with 9 funky members. Rick's Cafe. 611 Church St. $3. 996-2747. The Suicide Machines Hardcore punk at its best. St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit. 6 p. m. 313-961-MELT. JTHEATER TGirls We Have Known See Thursday. TBA. V. (and other naughty words) The'RC Players present the works of multiple female writers on stage. 8 p.m. RC Auditorium, East Quad. $5, 3 students. Three Days of Rain See Thursday. 8 p.m. Footloose See Thursday A LTERNA TIVES Gesture and Contemporary Painting Exhibit Examines the use of gesture in painting. 11-5 pm. Warren M. Robbins Center for Graduate Studies, Art and Architecture Building. El Caminoville Exhibit Los Angeles artist Mike Rogers explores the demise of the American dream incorpo- rating photographs, sculpture, and video. Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, Art and Architecture Building. Muppets From Space (1999) Another wacky adventure for Jim Henson's pup- pets. Quality 16, Jackson and Wagner. 10 & 11 a.m. Free. The Rocky Horror Picture Show See Fri. 12:00 a.m. Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War (1999) A video documentary that looks at the roots of the Yugoslav conflict. Michigan Theater Screening Room, 603 E. Liberty St. 1 p.m. $3. After Life (1999) Souls spend time in limbo while waiting to enter heaven. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St. 4:30 p.m. Sugartown See Thurs. 7 p.m. Nosferatu (1922) F. W. Murnau gives the silent treatment to Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty. 9 p.m. MUSIC Buzzcocks w/ Down By Law. Get a buzz off of punk-rock. St. Andrews Hall, Detroit. 8 p. m. DJ John King Spend your Halloween on the dance floor. Rick's Cafe. Orquestra Ibrahim Ferrer & Ruben Gonzalez y su Grupo Several members of the critically acclaimed Buena Vista Social Club play Cuban music. Hill Audotorium, 825 N. University. $14- $32. 8 p. m. 764-8350. Buena Vista Social Club Vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer and pianist Ruben Gonzalez come together to blend their musical talents. 8 p.m. Hill Auditorium. $14-32. The Washington Post Eddie Timanus launches into John Belushi's famous monologue from "'Animal House," one of several clas- sic movie bits he has memorized start' to finish, like many in his generation. "Over? It's not over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Gathered around him in a sports bar in Sterling, Timanus's family and friends nod. They've heard it a mil- lion times. Anyway, they're not here for comedy. They're here to watch Timanus, for the second night in a row, demolish two opponents on tele- vision's "Jeopardy!" In the afterglow of his second SI2,000-plus game-show victory, which they watch on a television set in the noisy bar, his pals plot to slip him the dinner check. Timanus, a sportswriter for USA Today, pays them no mind; he's simultaneously commenting on the musical selec- tions in the jukeboxes and monitor- ing a dozen ballgames being broad- cast throughout the room. Oh, and he's totally blind. The 31-year-old Reston man is the first blind contestant in the 16-year history of the syndicated TV show. But Timanus is not just a contestant: In two days of taping in August. he rattled off five straight victories, rolling up nearly S70,000 in win- nings and advancing to the coveted "Tournament of Champions" in the spring-a feat accomplished by only about half a dozen of the 400 contes- tants w ho appear on the show each year. Timanus's fourth appearance airs Monday night (Channel 7, 7:30 p.m.).- He was born in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of an itinerant radio disc jockey. From his earliest days, he liked to "watch" game shows with his mother, Terri. As a 6-year-old listen- ing to the old Art Fleming-hosted "Jeopardy!" Timanus recalls telling her, "The Daily Double squares are orange with yellow stripes, right, Mom?" His disability--he lost his sight to retinal tumors at age 3-hasn't slowed him at all. Near the end of his the final square on the board. a Daily Double. Instantly. he calculates exactly how much hel need to win the game outright, before Final Jeopardy. And he does. In 1992, Timanus hooked up vvith USA Today, where he compiles the paper's Coaches' Top 25 college foot- ball and basketball polls. He also writes the Friday college football roundup, plus feature articles on a variety of sports. "I learned how to type verv, very early." he said. -'And I 'watch' a lot of games. It's kind of knowing what to listen for.". He does most of his reporting by phone but occasionally covers a game in person, mainly lacrosse. His father accompanies him, providing play-by-play and keeping statistics. Timanus uses a computer program that speaks, allowing him to hear when he's typed or downloaded from the Internet. As "'Jeopardy!" fans know, the game can be difficult for even top- notch trivia buffs. Timanus had been trying to make the cut for years, tak- ing the written test four times before being invited to a second round of tryouts last year. Timanus survived that round and a series of interviews. The producers wanted him, but in December some of the show's coordinators returned to this area because they .wanted to see if he could handle the buzzer contestants must use, and find out whether he'd need special accommo- dations. "I said if I just had a Braille list of the categories, I'd be fine," Timanus said. For Final Jeopardy. he typed his answers on a keyboard. The only accommodation produc- ers made for Timanus-besides the Braille listings-was to eliminate video-related questions. And because contestants can't buzz in until Trebek finishes reading the questions, being able to see the board was only a slight advantage to Timanus's competition. "He's remarkable, and he's such a nice guy," said Laine Sutte'&, spokes- woman for the show, 4dding that Timanus won more money than any- one else has this season. Famke Janssen and Geoffrey Rush in Warner Brothers' macabre thriller, "Hc V. (and other naughty words) See Friday. 8 p.m. Three Days of Rain See Thursday. 8 p.m. Footloose See Thursday A LTERNA TIVES El Caminoville Exhibit See Friday. Gesture and Contemporary Painting Exhibit See Friday. Phantom Menace to Society St Thursay Saturday CAMPUS CINEMA Con Ja Nai (1999) An eclectic festival of Japanese animation. MLB 3. 10 p.m. Free. THEA TER Girls We Have Known See Thursday. 7 pm. Sunday CAMPUS CINEMA Muppets From Space See Sat. I 11 a.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fri. 10 p.m. After Life See Sat. 5 & 7:30 p.n MUSIC Paul Finkbeiner's Jazz Jam Sess name says it all. Bird of Paradi< S. Ashley. Free. 9 p. m. 662-83: Michael Shelata Keyboard co with his own pop creations.I 312 S. State. Free. 10 a. m. 76: THEA TER Three Days of Rain See Thursda p.m. Footloose See Thursday ALTERNATIVES Adventures in Autumn: "Mythic Skies & Mesmerizing Science" 4 "Native American Skies." Natur History Museum. Monday CAMPUS CINEMA After Life See Sat. 7 & 9:30 p.nr Yellow Submarine See Friday. MUSIC Public Enemy Old-school rap tha loved in middle-school. St. Andre Hall, Detroit. 8 p. m. courtesy of Miramax FlIms Gloria Estafan and Meryl Streep in Wes Craven's "Music of the Heart."