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Law student Emily Virgin and public policy senior Isaiah McCaslin are both on the ballot for the open seat in the Oklahoma State House of Representative. Tuesday’s election is a primary, and both students are seeking to seeking to the Democratic candidate for the Nov. 2 election. The open seat is for District 44, which includes the OU campus. McCaslin said one of the reasons why he is running is things being done at the Capitol today are not working. “We rank too high on tragedies like suicides, child abuse, and poverty, and we rank too low on the health of our citizens, the quality of our infrastructure, and the number of college graduates,” he said. “I am running to do something about this. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen overnight, but my ultimate goal is to be able to sit on my porch fifty years from now and know that my community is better because I got involved.” Virgin, who graduated with a degree in political science from OU in 2009, told The Daily in January she is following family footsteps into politics. Her grandfather, George Skinner, is a Cleveland County commissioner representing District 3.
“When you grow up around something, that’s what you end up loving,” Virgin said . “It’s really what I feel called to do. It’s my passion.” (Virgin did not respond to The Daily’s recent request for a follow-up interview.) Even in the midst of a budget crisis, McCaslin said the priority of many elected officials has been to push extremist laws and play political games. McCaslin’s resume includes serving in the U.S. Army Reserves, working full-time as a law office administrator and being on the board of the Norman Sustainability Network and OnTrac, which advocates for rail transit. “Previously I was an intern in the Norman City manager’s office where I researched policy issues,” he said. “This blend of business, government, and grassroots leadership experience will allow me to bring a fresh perspective to the Capitol.” McCaslin said he understands how different sectors of society can work together to make change. A few of the issues he would work on as a representative are expanding mass transit, attracting green jobs and renewable energy industries, restoring education funding, and protecting women’s rights, McCaslin said.
MORE DETAILS ON TUESDAY’S PRIMARIES Voting for the primary elections will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Oklahomans will be voting for candidates to fill the following positions; U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, state officers, judicial offices, district attorney, state senator, state representative, judicial retention and county offices. In the U.S. Senate, Oklahoma has two senators with one position up for election for a six-year term. Tom Coburn, the current state senator, is running for another term. Currently both State Senators for Oklahoma are Republicans, with two other Republicans, Evelyn L. Rogers and Lewis Kelly Spring running as well. Jim Rogers and Mark Myles are the registered Democrats running for State Senate and Ronald F. Dwyer and Stephen P. Wallace are running as Independent parties. Oklahoma state officers that are up for election will be for governor, lieutenant governor, state auditor and inspector, attorney general, state treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, commissioner of labor and insurance commissioner. Residents can go to www.ok.gov/elections to find their nearest polling place. - Ashley Horning/The Daily
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Lady Gaga performs her song “Telephone” with her backup dancers Tuesday night at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City.
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Lady Gaga impresses with monster performance her hit song “Telephone,” and moved them closer to the stage. Gaga also took time to talk several times about the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender community and the need to be a With nearly 20,000 screaming little monsters in the audience, supportive society. Gaga, along with wireless carrier and tour Lady Gaga brought her “Monster Ball” tour to the Oklahoma sponsor Virgin Mobile, donates $20,000 to her favorite charity for homeless LGBT youth as part of each show. City Ford Center Tuesday night. Lady Gaga has all the tools of a season staged performer. Gaga never disappointed. The monster mistress is an inAs she slowed her set down at the mid-way your-face whirlwind; combining theatrics, point to debut a new-to-some song, “You raw musical talent and fantastic choreogand I,” that may become another No. 1 hit for NOT ALL GAGA FOR LADY G raphy on her path to the elusive Monster her. As the piano lit on fire and she discussed Ball that she seemed destined to lead her the drunken male influences on her music, The controversial Westboro Baptist fans to. the setting provides for a very Elton JohnChurch stages a protest in Oklahoma The fans in particular were another acesque vibe. City. See Opinion, page 2. cessory to the show itself, with her fans From her stage presence to her vocals, dressed as extensions of the various coswhich she effortlessly displayed during tumes she’s worn in previous videos and “Teeth,” instrumental performances and her performances. Many of the better-dressed were stopped by dance routines, Gaga left it all out there for the world to see. other fans to take pictures. As the show wound down, crowd favorite songs, outfits and Gaga used every talent she had working over the crowd set pieces were brought to the stage, including the fire-shooting through her nearly two hour and fifteen minute set, and the Oklahoma City crowd ate it up. The mosh pit bounced along in bra and panties and the large squid who stripped various pieces unison during the whole show to the driving beat of the incred- of a green dress during “Paparazzi.” Her influences are obvious, but Gaga is no slouch. Right now ible live band that backed her. she is the world’s biggest music star and she makes no apology The louder the crowd became, the harder and louder Gaga for her antics. performed. “When they asked you how the Lady Gaga show was...,” Gaga “I used to not be brave, you made me brave,” she said during said breathlessly near the end of the show. “Tell ‘em we burned one of her breaks to interact with her fans. It was during one of the place to the fuckin’ ground!” those interactions she called a fan in the audience as prelude to
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This Saturday, local youth groups and the United Way will host the first annual “Stuff the Bus” campaign, a school-supply donation program for low-income, Pre-K through 12th grade students in the area. Raising money and collecting school supplies for Norman’s less fortunate children, the big event will be kid-friendly with face painting and visits from special guests from the OU men’s and women’s gymnastic teams, and OU men’s soccer team, said Emily Furney, director of the children and youth council for the United Way. “We are trying to make it a fun, carnival-type event,” she said. “We have got a Norman public school bus out there and we are hoping to collect enough school supplies to stuff the entire bus on Saturday.” The youth groups involved in the program, the Norman Interact Clubs of Norman North, Norman High and the United Way Teen Advisers of Norman, are also collecting supplies at various drop-off points in the community from now until Saturday for those that cannot attend the event. A backpack full of supplies to fulfill one student’s needs costs $30. The goal of this year’s “Stuff the Bus” is to provide enough support for 425 students. The campaign this year ties in with the United Way’s ABC School Supply program, which circulates school supplies to families in the community that couldn’t purchase them, Furney said. “We are hoping this weekend people will come out to the event, donate some school supplies, meet the athletes, and hopefully stuff the bus,” she said. The event lasts from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the Sooner Mall parking lot.
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OU’s official Twitter account slow to gain student followers KATHERINE BORGERDING The Oklahoma Daily
An average day for a college student: sit down at the computer in labs or at home, make a few choice clicks to open. Instead of opening Office Word, D2L or e-mail, he or she will zoom straight to the words of Welcome To Facebook on its homepage. Devoting copious amounts of time, social networking is a large part of one’s collegiate social life. Seeing its potential, OU has made strides to get its bid in when it comes to social networking, developing a Twitter account and Facebook page. One is doing better than the other.
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“We want students, prospective students, faculty, staff, alumni and fans to feel pluggedin and heard,” said Kam Stocks, web communications spokesman, in an e-mail. OU’s attempts to keep students connected through the social networking site Twitter is slow-paced in gathering new followers. The Twitter account, @UofOklahoma, is operated by the web communications office. Stocks said the Twitter page is connected to the OU Facebook page. When statuses are posted on Facebook, they are reposted on Twitter. “Twitter gives us a great opportunity to listen to what students have to say about OU and share that with others,” Stocks said. “We love for students to drive the conversation about their university. You get to decide the
importance of the information.” While OU has 4,593 followers on Twitter, its Facebook presence is much larger at 105,020 fans on the fan page. In a poll taken this week, OU students said overwhelmingly that they do not follow the OU Twitter account and most said they do not use Twitter at all. An anonymous student said he finds Twitter to be obnoxious and he doesn’t see the point of it. Civil engineering senior, Daniel Ferrufino said that he has never used Twitter.
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“I don’t even know what Twitter is, I know its like Facebook but I’ve never used it,” Ferrufino said. Also having never used Twitter, Diana Hernandez, petroleum engineering graduate student, said she prefers Facebook. Stocks and his team in the web communications office have plans to change this attitude and make Twitter more applicable to students. “We’ve had success integrating our social networks. We’ll run contests for Twitter or YouTube on our Facebook SEE TWITTER, PAGE 2
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more than three times the legal limit, when he caused the collision on Interstate 235 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Country prosecutors said. He had driven more than 3 miles in the wrong direction on I-235 before causing one car to crash and colliding head on with another. Madison, a passenger in the second car, was killed on impact, according to state troopers. Madison, 24, was returning from a concert at Riverwind Casino in Norman. She was an African and African-American Studies senior. The 2010 Jazz in June event was dedicated to her memory.
The Apache Corporation announced a $1-million donation to OU’s Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, to create the Apache Petrophysics Research Center. Petrophysics is the study of rocks, pores and fluids and the characterization of fluid flow through permeable media. “This investment will be used to expand the existing measurement capacity within OU’s graduate research laboratory and develop new capabilities in micro- to nano-scale imaging of rock fabric, improving fluid flow measurement in ultra-low permeable rock, providing new instrumentation and automating lab data collection and archiving,” said Carl Sondergeld, associate dean of the Mewbourne school. Apache Corporation is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company.
FORMER SOONER STAR RETURNS FOR FOOTBALL CAMP Heisman runner-up Adrian Peterson will return to Norman to coach 15 young football players. Fifteen students from the Seeworth Academy in Oklahoma City will be instructed by the Vikings running back. Campers will receive a t-shirt and autographed photo. The camp begins at 3 p.m. Friday, July 23, at the Everest Training Center across from the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
NORMAN MAN FACES MURDER CHARGES IN STUDENT DEATH A 22-year-old Norman man was charged with second-degree murder for the traffic collision that killed jazz singer Ashlee Madison on April 17. Justin Taylor Hill had a blood-alcohol level of .222,
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page to help promote all three,” Stocks said. “We stick with Twitter - tweeting and re-tweeting all the time to let people know that we’re really listening. I think persistence and crosspromotion is the key to growing your social networks.” Yet there are a number of students who do follow the site. One student polled was in favor of Twitter and liked the site because she could text what she wanted to post immediately. “I think people prefer Facebook because it’s more than just a microblogging tool,” Stocks said. “Some people prefer to have all those tools at their disposal. Some prefer the simplicity of micro-blogging. Facebook also has the nostalgia factor, being able to keep up with old friends and classmates.” Most major colleges at OU also maintain their own Twitter and Facebook pages. Among them are Price College of Business, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Rainbolt College of Education and School of International and Area Studies. Although the ratio of followers to fans reflects that of the university’s. Each college has a distinct difference in numbers and overall Facebook comes out ahead.
“Even given those goals, in the legislature we’re going to deal with many issues, and all of them are important and interconnected,” he said. McCaslin said he would approach all of these issues through a philosophy of sustainability. “Sustainability is not just about the environment. It is fundamentally about preparing for the future and preparing for change,” he said. “It’s about ensuring everyone has an opportunity for a high quality of life. It’s about making sure the way we raise and spend money is tenable over the long term. It’s about ensuring that we don’t overextend our resources. It’s about making sure that we have access to the things that make our lives possible, like good jobs, strong families, healthy food, and a built environment that encourages all of these things.” At age 18, McCaslin moved to Los Angeles to volunteer with a mission that operates many poverty-fight efforts. “I saw some of the worst living conditions in the developed world,” he said. “This taught me how important it is to have a strong community that watches out for people in hard times, not just for the needy, but for all of us.”
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Is Sarah Palin the new Shakespeare? Ignore media bias: The former Alaska governor is the soul of wit Here we go again. The liberal media has to get all up in our guts about Sarah Palin doing something stupid. How many times are we going to do this, people? Don’t we have better things to do? I sure hope so. The last thing we need the news to focus on is how stupid Sarah Palin is. The oil spill isn’t fixed yet. The economy is tanking again. We are still fighting in the Middle East. There are newsworthy events every- MARK where and the new media POTTS need to focus on those. If they focus solely on how ridiculously ignorant Sarah Palin is, we’ll never get the information we need in order to know about the world around us. I’m defending Palin here because it isn’t fair for her to hear constantly how her brain operates at a first-grade level. That has to be hard on a person. It would be like a super hot model going up to a fat guy and flashing her vagina and saying, “You ain’t
getting this.” He knows that. Stop taunting him. Much like Sarah Palin knows that if she was up against a platypus in a “See Who Can Solve Their Multiplication Tables Faster” competition, she could lose. That type of abuse is not fair. She said something stupid. Big surprise. Did you honestly think she would never say something stupid again? There’s no reason to make a big deal of this. And we change the English language all the time. We’re cool with Southerners inventing new words and changing the way you should use them. We’re cool with people from Boston replacing “-r” with “-aw.” Why not let her just make up her own words? Proper English is for erudite elitists and the British. So Palin, I say go for it. Compare yourself to Shakespeare, an incredibly smart master of the English language. You too are an incredibly smart master of the English language, at least the version you created. -Mark Potts is a journalism graduate student.
A Palin by any other name would no doubt speak just as incorrectly America’s favorite “Mama Grizzly” is back in the news, not for the angry growls she makes toward illegal immigrants and oil regulators, but for the tweets she’s chirped involving one of history’s greatest writers. Sarah Palin has not only received flak for using incorrect words in her Twitter posts, but has also started a Twitter movement. Like George W. Bush, the magician of making up words, she shook it off. She went on to say she’d coined new words because it was fun, just like William Shakespeare. She tweeted, “‘Refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!’” As much as I dislike hearing about the ex-governor of Canada’s benign growth, the “Shakespalin” movement is generating hilarious re-writes of some of Shakespeare’s works as if they were written in Palin’s English. Like this one: But soft? What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and I can see Russia from my house. But it has to stop. I only recognize one other talking head’s admission to the dictionary, and is Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness.”
The English language is a living language, proven by the new additions inspired by the Internet. But these people who taught us new ways to apply the words “epic fail” ever compare their submissions to the great Shakespeare? Of course not. Shakespeare is a famed literary icon whose works have been studied by generations of readers. It frightens me to think of the things Palin could teach in our schools, if ever given the opportunity. Sure, making up new LUKE words is fun. I do it all ATKINSON the time. Like “litertrocity.” As in, you betcha seeing Palin change the English language would be an atrocity to literature. Palin’s words should stay where we all believe (and hope) they stay: the Internet. She is the poor player that struts and frets her hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: they are Tweets told by an idiot, full of sound and funny, signifying nothing. -Luke Atkinson is a broadcast and electionic media senior.
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Westboro protestors go gaga for Gaga in Oklahoma City Lady Gaga was in Oklahoma City Tuesday night, and it brought out all sorts of crazy, delusional, egotistical and irrational people. Her loving fans were also there. The crazy people were members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. If you don’t know, this church is famous for protesting soldiers’ funerals due to the fact that, according to Westboro, the soldiers fight for a country that supports homosexuality and thus they are “burning in Hell.” The group, founded by Fred Phelps and consisting of mostly his family, also hate most other religions. Lady Gaga, on the other hand, is a musician with a knack for the-
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atrics. She knows how to create controversy, be it religious imagery in her music videos or her rather uncomfortable looking outfits. She sings about dancing, loving one another, being in love and Spanish men. She attracts a large audience consisting of all types of people, including a large gay fan base. This is where Westboro comes in. They just had to show up and cause a commotion, letting everyone know that seeing a woman dress in jagged and leathery clothing singing about telephones will send them to a fiery afterlife. Shirley Phelps-Roper, one of the Westboro’s leaders,
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said, “If you go in there, follow her lead, you’ll just go to Hell with her. She teaches rebellion and God takes a dim view of that.” Doesn’t God take a dim view on hate speech? The Bible does not preach hate, yet that is all Westboro does. Look at their signs. “God hates Gaga,” “Pray for more dead soldiers,” and “God hates you.” How is this reflective of Christianity? Isn’t this the opposite of everything the Bible stands for? It is people like Westboro who make Christians look like hypocrites, people who supposedly preach love yet show nothing but condemnation.
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Is ‘Up’ or ‘Wall-E’ the superior animated flick? Emotional connection makes ‘Up’ better
Robots better than old men in Pixar films
Disney/Pixar’s “Wall-E” and “Up” are great films in their own right, sharing the same core themes of loneliness and overcoming sadness with the power of love and friendship. Of course, it’s an extremely hard endeavor to claim one film as better than the other, so I tried to approach it like “Sophie’s Choice,” just animated and cuter with no Nazis. After serious deliberation, I had to go with “Up” because of its close and grounded relationship to its audience, which trumps “Wall-E’s” heavy environmental scolding. Sorry cute robot, the fleshy OSIZIMETE ones win. Disney movies always AKEN’OVA address serious problems subtly in order to connect with all age groups, especially children. But with “Up,” the connection is extremely direct without any filtering to appeal to their targeted children’s demographic. With the four-minute-long “married life” montage, “Up” maps out the ups and downs of any life through the relationship of Carl and Ellie, and leaves a bold thesis statement that stays with older viewers after watching the film. Although life might not turn out the way you planned it and is full of disappointments, all that matters is you have someone who loves you.
If I wanted to cry within the first few minutes of an opening act, I’d masochistically insert “Up” into my DVD player. But real life is gloomy enough. If I turn to the news, I can watch media mad men spouting off terms such as “the money shot” while documenting the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. And with that in mind, a movie that montages from sweet innocent youth to orthopedics and last rites does little to lift my oil-slicked spirits. This is where “Wall-E” zooms into view. From HELEN DiRENZOthe moment I hit play, the movie is optimistic GRANT and endearing. Sure, we’ve destroyed the planet and made it barren wasteland to be cleaned by robots while what’s left of humanity takes a big corporate-sponsored exodus into space, but what a way to go. Forget the D.I.Y. balloons tied to some old house and grumpy old man-types. I want to go to the stars, a place where glorious robot love can be expressed properly with space dancing and showtunes of old. I need only to look to the robots for comfort. By trade, he’s a lonely Waste Allocation Load Lifter with a pet cockroach to keep him company while she, an
Even with the emotional “married life” montage in the first 15 minutes of the movie, ”Up” doesn’t lose the attention of its viewers. Whereas in “Wall-E,” as soon as the first humans are introduced, it feels like a completely different movie. The first half of “Wall-E” played like a silent film and gave the audience a chance to get to know Wall-E as he navigated a lifeless earth. But as soon as he heads into space, we aren’t interested, despite the evil ship and overweight humans; we just want to see EVE re-united with Wall-E and the rest is just debris that clogs the movement of the story. Finally, as much as I loved “Wall-E,” there was just a disconnection I felt with the heavy handedness of its environmentally-friendly message. After seeing the film, I spoke to another Nigerian friend about how much we liked the movie. He pointed out to me that the whole concept of taking care of the environment and recycling was not as pressing and dire of an issue in Africa as it is in the U.S.. With all of its political and social issues, environmental concerns take a backseat. Although it was a bold statement about America’s wasteful consumerist nature, it separated its audience leaving a few feeling left out. The message of “Up,” on the other hand, is universal and can be appreciated anywhere it is screened around the world. -Osizimete Aken’ova is a film and video studies senior.
Drama students stage ‘Modern Millie’ HELEN DIRENZO-GRANT The Oklahoma Daily
The School of Drama is giving its students an indepth look at what it takes to produce a musical. The 2010 Young Producers production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” takes students behindthe-scenes while they act in the play. Set in New York City in the ’20s, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life. Discovering 1920s-era New York to be a city of intrigue and jazz, Millie’s story swings into dance numbers and a full score of songs. “‘Young Producers’ gives our older students an opPHOTO PROVIDED BY SAM SCOTT portunity to sing, dance, act and become much more LEFT TO RIGHT: Callie Cabbiness, Margaret Vittitow, involved in the other areas of putting the show toGrace Anne Marcum (as Millie) and Dru Chilson gether,” executive director Jennifer Baker said. “They rehearse for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” as Kelsey also get involved in marketing, set design, costumes Bennett calls from offstage Wednesday afternoon. The and other behind-the-scenes aspects of the theater. show debuts July 29 at the Sooner Theatre. We want them to have a well-rounded understanding of what it takes to put on a theater production.” “I think it helps develop teamwork and sense of caThe students do background research and charac- maraderie between cast mates.” Adams said. “It gives ter development by delving into historical accounts, the students a vested interest in the entire process.” said Brandon Adams, stage manager for “Thoroughly Jennifer Pearson, an incoming freshman from Modern Millie.” In order to dePurcell High School, said she velop their characters, students is obsessed with vintage 1920s IF YOU’RE GOING... researched prohibition laws to glamor and will be in the enunderstand how their characsemble as a singing and dancing What: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” ters would react when going to a “flapper.” Initially drawn to actWhen: 7:30 p.m. July 29; 2 p.m and speakeasy. ing, Pearson discovered that she 7:30 p.m. July 30-31; 2 p.m. Aug. 1 In addition to the daily classes, enjoyed set design. She will enter Where: Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main which focus on performance, OU’s School of Drama this fall to Street students also stay after-hours study scenic design. Cost: Adults $10.00 to work on set design, props, “We all work really hard at costumes and other techniChildren 12 and under $5.00 this,” Pearson said. “We all get cal aspects of the production. Tickets: Call 321-9600 or uy online up early in the morning to work There are three committees. The at www.soonertheatre.org on this and put on a great show. marketing committee works on We are all excited about it and we marketing and public relations, love doing this.” while the technical committee is responsible for the Pearson said she thinks it’s important that the production’s lighting and sound. The prop and cos- community get involved in helping young children tume committee acquires the necessary props and interested in the arts, and theatre in particular, so assembles the costumes. they have the opportunity to grow their creativity.
Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, is on a classified mission. Throw in a tendency to shoot first and investigate later, and EVE is a plant-hunting pod of awesomeness. And Wall-E is her short circuit-style knight in interchangeable armor. When these robots rise above their programming and share a spark of love - that hand-holding moment of interconnection they learned through watching our long lost movies — their reaction to this discovery prompts those they’ve encountered to realize that life isn’t about wandering through life in a state of mindless consumption. Rather, the interplay between Wall-E and EVE suggest to onlookers that the meaning of life is to do more than just survive; it’s to experience the act of living while finding shared purpose. Also, it is discovered, that given 700 years to recuperate, life isn’t so bad back there on Earth. And in a scene strangely reminiscent of the Bowman Star-Child from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” it’s uplifting to see the infantile humans file out of their starship and stand on their own two feet, ready to take back their collective destinies and steward their planet into recovery. Plus, robots are infinitely more useful to this end than talking dogs, the random stray child or a house tethered to an obscene amount of balloons. -Helen DiRenzo-Grant is a journalism junior.
2010 SUMMER FILMS DISAPPOINT Ah, summer. Traditionally it’s the best bland summer is the fact that these time for movies because kids are out of huge movies are failing at epic proporschool and the weather is hot. There’s tions. Some of the most anticipated no better time to go and plop yourself movies of the summer (“Clash of the down in the nearest air-conditioned Titans,” “Jonah Hex,” “Prince Of Persia”) theater to watch the latest blockbuster. have failed to live up to a fraction of However, if you were to do that in the their initial hype. Now, it has been speculated that past two months, chances are that you’d be left unfulfilled and light in the wal- this may be due to the down-trodden let. With the exception of two or three economy or that people just aren’t intergreat films, this summer has been full ested in those types of movies anymore. of disappointments on the silver screen. The main problem is that Hollywood is “Why?” you may ask. Well, I am here to quickly becoming more and more shalinform you and shed some light on the low. Original ideas are becoming scarcer predicament in which Hollywood has by the minute. I’m not saying that writers and directors found itself. need to come up with The “summer” genre features good their own completely acting, amazing action sequences, original ideas for solid plots and targets the age 16 to scripts; but that mov30 years old demographic. Examples ies are just starting of these movies would be “Star Wars,” to look, sound and “Terminator 2” and “Jurassic Park.” most of all feel the It would be unfair to compare same. Moviegoers this summer with last, seeing might not notice it that “Transformers 2,” “The Hurt WOODY while watching the Locker,” “Terminator: Salvation” and TOMS actual film, but a lot “Inglorious Basterds” were released of ideas, scenes and all within a couple months. But 2008 had “Iron Man” and “The Dark Knight.” actors are just being recycled over and 2007 yielded “Spiderman 3,” “Bourne over (prime example: Michael Cera, do Ultimatum” and “Transformers.” In 2006, a different role, man). This summer’s lull in quality films is a there was “Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” “X-Men 3” and “The warning to the industry that something has to be done — for a lack of better Da Vinci Code.” You get the picture. The past three words — to pull its head out of its ass. summers have featured numerous Hopefully something happens soon films that are still talked about today because, I don’t know about you, but as some of the best movies ever. Yet, in I’m pretty tired of watching the same 2010, we’ve seen only two worthwhile guys run, jump, shoot, roll and scream films of the summer genre, “Iron Man 2” all over the screen while their scantily and “Inception” (“Toy Story 3” was great, clad girl is idiotically getting herself into but can’t really be thrown into the same unnecessary trouble. genre as the previous films). -Woody Toms is a film and video studies The most alarming aspect of this junior.