2B - Thursday, December 3, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2B - Thursday, December 3, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom IPHONE APP -n I- CHAD OCHOCINCO EXPERIENCE Want to know more about Chad Ocho- cinco, the "most interesting football player," according to the app named after him? In this narcissistic app endorsed by Ochocinco himself, you can lust at can- did pictures of him, ask him for advice ('don't ask ... for an autograph please!!") or indulge the stalker in you and follow his whereabouts. Perfecto. I NTERWEB EAVESDROPPING (727): I plan on offering nudes to any guy that wants to give me notes from the past five weeks of class Tila Tequila: Did U guys know that at www.TilasHotSpotDating. com we have a room called "FART ROOM?" lol #4realz ppl go in there and do their thing! HAHA!, Today, I found out that the person FML sending me secret love letters was actually my dad, who felt sorry for me. FML H igh Five A notable Ann Arborite gives five answers to a curious question. COURTESY oFDiNE Travis Rimando aka DJ Pone Second-year University Law student What are your five favorite records to scratch on the turntables? 5. AC/DC - "Back in Black": I like to sound like Rick Rubin on a 1986 Beastie Boys record. Full of guitars. 4. Run DMC - "Here We Go (Live At The Funhouse)": This is a live perfor- mance by Run DMC - there are a bunch of different parts to scratch on it. 3. Run DMC - "Peter Piper": Jam-Master Jay made this song by DJing. Now DJs like to scratch it. 2. Jive Rhythm Trax - "122 BPM": Not really a record I scratch, it's a record to scratch to. DJ Jazzy Jeff uses it on He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper. 1. Fab 5 Freddy - "Change The Beat": Almost every DJ knows the sounds on this record but no one knows they came from this record. It's the famous "Ahh fresh." You can hear it scratched on Herbie Hancock's "Rockit." ONLINE GAMES OF THE WEEK MEMORY MATRIX "Memory Matrix" will test both your abilities of spatial recall and your abilities to waste time. You're shown a pattern of red squares on a grid for only a few seconds, then asked to recreate it yourself. As you progress, both the grid size and the number of red squares increase. But for a game that merely asks you to remember something, "Matrix" is surprisingly addictive. Find it at: http://tinyurl.com/play-memory-matrix THECOMPANYOFMYSELF You're a tiny pixilated man in what may or may not be an 8-bit suit - it's hard to tell. This simple level-based platformer comes with a pretty cool twist: To get through several lev- els, you will need to create copies of yourself and run them through the levels in very specific patterns. The game is sadly short, and the ending is ridiculous, but the cool premise and style make it well worth playthingthrough once. Find it at: http://tinyurl.com/play-the-company-of-myself TRAILER REVII DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM There's some very clever editing matum," the new French action filt there's not a single word of dialogue t who love watching explosions but ha other than Englishbetween those e> looks like it's just a giant ad for par really fast and jumping off tall build all that French. The Fellowship of the 'U'alum's script Angus Fletcher awarded $30,000 grant for his screenplay 'Sand Dogs' By JENNIFER XU Daily Arts Writer Michigan alumnus Angus Fletcher (class of '98) has just become the envy of screenwriters everywhere, nabbing him- self, along with writing partner Vineet Dewan, an esteemed Nicholl Fellowship for his screenplay "Sand Dogs." Out of a record 6,380 scripts submitted to the fellowship, five were selected this year by volunteer Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members to receive a $30,000 grant. In celebration, Fletcher spent seven days rubbing shoulders with Hollywood elite during the week of the offical awards ceremony. "It's basically a whole week of you being celebrated," Fletcher said. "You spend a couple days surrounded by people respon- sible for the greatest movies ever made in the past 40, 50 years. At dinner we were sitting next to the guy who made 'Beverly Hills Cop,' which blew my mind when I was a child." "Everyone you look at is sort of a hero," he added. "All these people say very nice things about you and your head gets real large." Awarded to new writers who haven't sold a screenplay for more than $5,000, the Nicholl Fellowship operates under the Academy of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, otherwise known as the Acade- my. The Fellowship is known for being the most prestigious screenwriting competi- tion in the nation. Notable Nicholl fellows from the past are now heavyweights in the industry. The group including Susan- nah Grant ("Erin Brockovich"), Mike Rich ("Finding Forrester") and Andrew Mar- lowe ("Air Force One"). "The Nicholl Fellowship started when a woman named Gee Nicholl - the widow of Don Nicholl. a TV writer best known for 'The Jeffersons' and 'Three's Com- pany' - brought the idea of helping new writers to the Academy in 1985," Greg Beal, director of the Nicholl Fellowship, said. "There have now been 113 writers who have won the award. This is the 24th year of the Fellowship." Fletcher's own initiation into the film industry started a little more humbly. "A couple years ago, Vineet won a lot of awards for a very good short film called 'Clear Cut, Simple,' " Fletcher said. "I saw the movie and I was very impressed with his work, and we talked for a little bit and we made a connection." For the next year, Fletcher and Dewan would work together on the script now known as "Sand Dogs." "I would write a draft and Vineet would take the draft and make changes ... Each of us would add different things. I'm more interested in plot and he's more interested in design and detail," Fletcher said. "We kind of kicked it back and forth like a ping pong ball." Fletcher and Dewan originally intend- ed to submit "Sand Dogs" to the Sundance Screenwriting Contest, but missed the deadline for this year. "We thought, 'The Nicholl is such a big fellowship we probably don't have a chance of winning, but we should give it a shot,'" Fletcher said. A few months ago, Fletcher and Dewan were notified by Beal of their finalist standing. Since then, it's all been a dream. They've been bombarded by e-mails from production companies that want to sign them and phone calls from agents and managers who want to represent them. "Sand Dogs," the winning screenplay, is about a young, idealistic American who travels to the highly volatile war zone of Gaza as a Red Cross ambulance driver. He befriends a slightly older Palestinian and starts taking part in border crossings, eventually getting sucked into a smug- gling ring. Although neither writer had direct experience with the story's events, both Fletcher and Dewan were attracted to the concept of an outsider entering into a world about which he knows nothing. "Because I'm originally from England, I'm an American, but I'm also watching it from the outside. I think when you're outside a culture you think you can fix it because you think you know things that people in the culture don't see," Fletcher said. "But the situations are so complicated that the more you get involved, the more you find yourself compromising your own ideals," he added. "I was attracted by the fact that a good person wants to help people but he gets put in a situation where the more he gets involved,.the more he's forced to compro- mise." Reception to the script has been over- whelmingly positive. "It's a thriller, a war movie, a charac- ter study - it was described last night at the awards ceremony as a coming-of-age story," Beal said. "Believe it nor not, my major (at Michi- gan) was actually cellular and molecular See NICHOLL FELLOWSHIP, Page 4B 0 iJht Midhjgan faill) PPR E S EN T TakeYour CAREER InA NEW DIRECTION! Try a health care career in CHIROPRACTIC, MASSAGE THERAPY, ACUPUNCTURE or ORIENTAL MEDICINE. 6 6 6 SICK OF THE DORMS? CAN'T FIND A PLACE TO LIVE? Visit michigandaily.com/classifieds to see all of the great houses and apartments Ann Arbor has to offer on a convenient map! Also be sure to check out the Classified Pages for other great properties.