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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2006
THE QUICK
speed reads for your
entertainment needs
MOVIES
'GLORY ROAD'
It's like "Hoosiers" and
"Miracle" all in one. page 6
'TRISTAN AND ISOLDE'
The same old tragic love story
with no surprises, page 7
'MATCH POINT'
Allen serves up a perfect return
to form in newest film, page 8
'... MUSLIM WORLD'
No laughs to be found in this
terrible flop-umentary. page 8
ALBUMS *
CAT POWER
You could call this album "Cat
Power in Memphis." page 6
HOOVERVILLE
Depression-era country fails to
captivate listeners, page 6
ELECTRIC SIX
Trashy band takes it to the
limits of good taste, page 7
dive recommends
[ MAXIMO PARK
'A CERTAIN TRIGGER' ]
This record deserved far more
mentions on best-of lists. Franz be
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post-punk with passionate lyrics, set
ting anew standard in the genre.
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Familiar story
strikes a chord
in ‘Glory Road’
BY JACKIE RANDELL
STAFF WRITER
“Glory Road” is wrapped in all
of the cliches that might make the
package appear unattractive.
It’s the story of the racial ten
sion of the ’6os that haunts our col
lective history.
It’s the story of the underdog
excelling against all odds.
And it’s the story of a game that
turned out to be much more than
a game.
But underneath all of the recog
nizable wrapping, director James
Gartner tells a great story —one
that’s worth telling over and over
again.
Based on the true story of the
1966 Texas Western NCAA nation
al champions, “Glory Road” follows
the path of the first all-black start
ing lineup in college basketball.
When Coach Don Haskins (Josh
Lucas) arrives in El Paso, Texas,
where football reigns, he finds a
negligible allotment for basketball
recruiting.
But when he realizes that the
least sought-after players are also
the best players if he’s willing
to ignore racial boundaries he
breaks an unspoken rule in the
South and sets the plot in motion.
Haskins finds his national cham
pions at recruitment camps and
steel mills in Detroit and in the
South Bronx. When he merges his
players’jazzy street style with “fun-
Diversions
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'GLORY ROAD'
★★★★
damental defensive basketball,” he
produces a winning combination.
Derek Luke of “Friday Night
Lights” and “Antwone Fisher” plays
the smooth-talking Bobby Joe Hill
whose ego is one of the first hurdles
Haskins has to overcome in his
attempts to build a cohesive team
out of 12 very different individu
als. i
Sound familiar?
Jon Voight plays Kentucky’s
beloved Coach Adolph Rupp. He
might have been too villainous an
actor to cast as Haskins’ antithesis.
Rupp comes off as overly bigoted
and arrogant.
Kentucky fans won’t be pleased
by the depiction of Rupp or the
outcome of the game, which has
been called the greatest upset in
the history of college basketball.
It’s also been called the most
important game in the history of
basketball, period.
Predictable as the outcome may
be, “Glory Road” documents a
turning point in the game’s histo
ry, which will be especially attrac
tive to viewers on blue-bleeding
Tobacco Road.
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Cat Power is the greatest
BY BEN PITTARD
ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Following is an open letter to
Chan Marshall.
I am deeply in love with you, Cat
Power. Your albums have always
carried a certain emotional reso
nance, an “I-have-a-secret” mys
tique that intrigues my soul and
breaks my heart.
Considering how ridiculously
cute your entire aesthetic is, it’s
only accented by that certain
world-weary naivete that your
records always display.
You believe in love, and the
realization that sometimes it isn’t
there. But let me assure you, Cat
Power: My love is real.
The first time I saw the cover
to your new album, The Greatest,
I was more than a little miffed.
The chain and medallion adorn
ing the sleeve at first looked like
bling from the thumbnail shot.
You don’t need to make me worry
like that.
Of course, on closer examina
tion I realized that the charms were
boxing gloves, just like the ones
that Corey Matthews’ dad won in
the Navy in that episode of “Boy
Hooverville a dusty, dismal mess
BY MARGARET HAIR
SENIOR WRITER
Herbert Hoover won the presi
dency in 1928 by promising a
chicken in every pot and a car in
every garage.
That guaranteed that prosper
ity did not work out the way he
had planned.
Hoover got something of a legacy,
with a considerably large dam and
countless Depression-Era shanty
towns bearing his name.
From that background, from the
destitution of depressed men and
the music they played while work
and food eluded them, comes the
inspiration for the local country
music act, Hooverville.
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irkirk
Meets World.”
Your seventh record reminds me
of Dusty Springfield, which seems
appropriate enough given that The
Greatest was recorded in Memphis,
Tenn.
The carefree indie singer-song
writer that I’ve grown accustomed
to has made way for a dirty alt
country chic that makes for what in
many ways seems to be your most
mature record to date.
Your voice is just as beautiful as
it always was, smoky and sexy with
a quiet reserve that hides what lies
beneath the surface of your sad
eyes.
The style of songwriting on the
album is undeniably the sound of
Memphis country. With tracks like
the title opener —with its hushed
piano accompanied by a heart
wrenching string section your
arrangements recall a lonely down
trodden town wrought with liquor
and bad love affairs.
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HOOVERVILLE
FOLLOW THAT TRAIL OF DUST
BACK HOME
kirk
On Hooverville’s second album,
Follow That Trail of Dust Back
Home, the Americana-steeped
quartet is out to give country with a
conscience a lift of folksy rock, blue
grass roots and honky-tonk.
And for the first few tracks,
with a solid down-home feel,
varied moods and solid fiddle
playing —a staple that can make
or break any small-town country
lament Hooverville’s sound
works just fine.
“Carrying This Heartache” is
an upbeat and palatable opening
track, quickly followed by a bouncy
Southern-rock number, “Another
Sweet Dawn.”
But by the end of a relentlessly
generic harmonica solo on “Honey”
only the fourth track the nov
elty is wearing thin.
Past the reasonably catchy “Oh,
loilg ®ar Mpri
The country-blues motif that
permeates the album works
perfectly for your soulful voice,
soundtracking a day of rain and
heartache.
However, the album at times
struggles to grab my attention the
way your previous albums did.
There are no immediate rock
numbers like “Free,” but really,
that’s not the point here, is it?
Album closer “Love and
Communication” is a powerful and
mournful love song that is a con
stant walk of emotion.
Simultaneously strong and vul
nerable, a guitar intro crashes in as
a steady string section swells and
you croon about the love you might
have had.
You are tired and lonely and
your new record shows it. Memphis
is hard on a lot of people. But that
doesn’t mean you haven’t gone and
recorded some of the best material
of your career.
Cat Power, no matter what any
one says, you’ll always be the great
est to me.
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Kentucky!” there isn’t much of a
reason to listen to the rest of the
album.
While the members of Hooverville
haven’t written songs that are unlis
tenable or downright bad, they have
written songs that melt into a single
themed country drone.
There are a couple of decent
offerings in the last two tracks, but
by this point listeners will have
either stopped listening or stopped
paying attention.
Hooverville wants to conjure up
the country music of years gone by,
and never makes it clear why they
want to do that.
The group gives as much tradi
tional and heartfelt twang as they’ve
got in them, but the front-porch
effect is lost in crystal clear, mod
ern-day studio production.
Follow That Trail of Dust Back
Home doesn’t fall on its face quite
as hard as the Hoover presidency,
but it does flatline into depres
sion.
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