8 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 3, 1999 Hewitt's 4 s0 a Time of' tri pe By Patrick Lee For the Daily "Time of Your Life" is like a bad trip that just never ends. The show drags on as we watch another story- line involving another beautiful young sex symbol trying to be more than just that. What were creators Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman thinking when they wrote the script for the pilot? Maybe something along the lines of, let's make a cute show, one with a starwho is adorable and lovable, yet also deep. And just who could pull off playing this 'T role? l None other than Jennifer lie of Love Hewitt, Your Life who overnight No Stars has become Fon beloved of Mondays at58rp.x teenagers every- where. Hewitt, who plays Sarah Merrin, is trans- planted from San Francisco to New York in search of her father in a spin-off of the Fox hit drama series "Party of Five." The opening scene begins with Sarah at the New York airport wait- ing for her luggage. As she twirls her hair around her finger, Sarah sponta- neously starts to blab her life story to a stranger. Of course, this guy takes Sarah's dumbwitted conversation and openness as flirtation and proceeds to make a graphic pass at her. The audience sees this coming a mile away, but she of course doesn't, in fact she doesn't notice much of any- thing. As beautiful as Sarah is, how dumb can she be? She's from San Francisco, not some small hick town. She should know that its not safe to approach and talk to random men in 'NHL 2000' skates with real players, foreign teams NHL 2000 EA SPORTS PlayStation We want Stanley back. Fortunately., "NHL 2000" provides Red Wings fans unwilling to wait for the playoffs with their own chance to go for the Cup. Just juice up the PlayStation, take command of Detroit, draw up your lines and begin the quest to bring the most-prized tro- phy in sports back to its rightful home in Hockeytown. 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So lace up yotsr skates and see if you can cut it with the NHUs best: -Matthew Barret 'Dead' role is a family affair for Arquette Jennifer Love Hewitt leaves for the "Party" for a for much lower form of the airport. Throughout the show, she continues to yap at anyone who comes near her. If this is suppose to win the audience over and make them love her, guess again. She instead comes off as insipid and annoying. A cab ride later, we find Sarah in front of her mother's old apartment building in the East Village. Her mother has passed on, but used to live there when Sarah was born and when she was a struggling actress. Sarah walks around the building with a twinkle in her eye. How cute. She meets a random stranger named Romy (Jennifer Garner), a struggling actress, and ends up sleeping on her couch. Once again, who in their right mind would stay with a total stranger. This is New York and its the '90s. Let's face it, New Yorkers aren't exactly known for their hospitality. Moving along, Sarah magically finds her dad, who is a rich man involved in theater. Using her sex appeal and by saying she's with the band, Sarah crashes a black tie event that her dad will be attending. In this scene, we are not only dazzled by Sarah's slinky dress, but also by her singing. Which reminds me, her album is currently on sale. In an encounter with her dad at the urinal, we learn that he is not her father. What a bummer. Sarah runs away and is left babbling, "I'm trying to figure out who I am." Sarah contiues on with her search. She returns to her apartment and gets wasted at a party in the building. She befriends a guitarist (Jonathan Schaech), who uses another bad cliche and says. "You can be whoev- er you want to be, from here on out. Invent yourself" Another round of drinks and a few bad lines later, Sarah finds herself arrested for jumping a subway turn- stile. This hopefully will prove to be a turning point as Sarah realizes she doesn't want to be a' sorority girl from the suburbs. And to make it even worse, there is a random guest appearance by Rosic O'Donnell, who couldn't be anymore obnoxious. In the end, Hewitt and her new life lack character, surprise or little of anything else. And yes, she still sucks as a songstress. The real down- fall of "Time of Your Life" is that it's an utter waste of time. The Allentown Morning Call The role of a young woman whose father is stricken hit close to home for Patricia Arquette. In the Martin Scorsese-directed "Bringing Out the Dead," now to movie theaters, Arquette plays Mary Burke, whose father goes into cardiac arrest and is rescued by an EMS paramedic played by Nicolas Cage, Arquette's hus- band. It's the first film the couple have made together. Arquette says she couldn't shake the character of Mary. "I didn't want to shake my character, really, because my dad was in the hospital while we were making this movie and my mom passed away, like, six months before." Arquette's father Lewis was hospital- ized for a liver transplant when he developed pancreatitis. "So, I had to express something, you know. And the character (Mary) was expressive and nonexpressive enough in that way frus- trated and internal. That was something I needed to do. So, I couldn't have got- ten rid of this character if I wanted to. That was hard not to have a break from it. "I'd go there (to the hospital) and my dad would betied up and he'd try to pull his tubes out. And then I'd go to work and I'd have to shoot that scene. And it was just so weird, this paralleling in my starts to die and my dad started getting better. So, it split off there." Arquette says "Bringing Out the Dead" has a "rebellious, raw punk-kind of energy _ troublemaker energy," con- veyed through dark humor, fast-paced editing, swirls of color, and a rock 'n' rap soundtrack. "The acting is really pure in this movie and it's so subtle: and convincing, even though what he (Cage) is going through is not subtle at all. I was just so moved by his performance," says Arquette. The film's depiction of an edgy EMS squad is not that far from what Arquette has observed. "It's a hard business to be in. They get paid very little. I really thank God for those guys. Those guys want to be heroes. And that's a, good thing. They're like superheroes." Chicago native Arquette identified with her character Mary in other ways. "I grew up in a Los Angeles neighbor- hood like this neighborhood (New York's Hell's Kitchen). "Half my friends are dead you know, strung-out, killed, shot or in jail. My life, I was never a junkie or anything, but my life was not all that different, either, when I was younger. (But) I did- n't have that kind of argumentative rela- tionship with my parents." A trh, nhtrG death Amnuette Couatestoft'ara ,to: Patricia Arquette stars as Mary in 'Dead,' wanted to have handled differently with her. "As close as we were, there's always going to be regret about things vo might have done differently, Just hav to come to terms with that." Arquette has been active in the cause for the prevention and awareness of women's breast cancer, which claimed her mother's life. "Every year it's more and more cases. It's becoming epidemic. You really halve to look at what's happening in our world," says Arquette. Arquette, 31, who has a son, Enzo, 7, attributes the fact that she and her f siblings are actors to the family's acting gene. Rosanna ("Sugar Town." 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