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jewel-digest        Thursday, September 9 1999        Volume 04 : Number 543




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                               Today's Subjects:
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  * Re: Other artists who will appear in the Ride With The DevilSoundtrack!  [Jwlfan112@aol.c]
  * Jewel themes for win95                                  [Skye585@aol.com]
  * RWTD New Information!                                 [Jwlfan112@aol.com]
  * Spirit Tour Tapes...                                     [Nubbay@aol.com]
  * I wanna go to sessions (duh)  [Lindsey L Chute <lindseyc@student.umass.e]
  * EDA COVER TAPE 2                                       [MAXMOUZE@aol.com]
  * Pittsburgh Concert                                   [Spirit2877@aol.com]

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:25:20 EDT
From: Jwlfan112@aol.com
Subject: * Re: Other artists who will appear in the Ride With The DevilSoundtrack!

This would be the article.. I was too lazy before to find it (from the Kansas
City Star):


Celtic contribution

In addition to being shot in our area, Ang Lee's "Ride With the Devil" will
feature music by several local Celtic music stalwarts.

For the wedding scene that kicks off the Civil War drama, Roger Landes
(mandolin), John Whelan (accordion), Van McCloud (guitar) and Kelly Werts
(fiddle) appear on camera as members of a band entertaining guests.

The music was pre-recorded by Landes, Whelan, Werts and Jeff Dover (on
percussion).

Singer Connie Dover reports she was approached in early June by the film's
music supervisor, Alex Steyermark (a veteran of Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm" and
numerous Spike Lee films), and asked to recommend musicians and tunes for the
party scene.

A few weeks earlier Dover and her Celtic colleagues had entertained cast and
crew on the film's Pattonsburg, Mo., set with a lunchtime concert, turning
many of the moviemakers into fans.

Though she's being credited as a "music consultant," Dover didn't get to
perform on celluloid.

"No ladies would have performed with a band back then," she said. "A genteel
family would have contracted with (the) best musicians in the area, but they
all would have been men. Ang Lee wanted authenticity."

The musicians perform a reel called "Uncle Joe's," which Dover said was based
on a Scottish tune called "Miss McCloud" that found its way into Missouri's
folk music repertoire.

"Not only is the tune authentic, but the players had authentic instruments,"
she said. "John played an accordion manufactured in 1860, and although
Roger's mandolin was built in 1870, it was identical to the model used during
the war."

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:45:01 EDT
From: Skye585@aol.com
Subject: * Jewel themes for win95

There are two Jewel desktop themes you can download at themeworld.com.  The
address is:  http://www.themeworld.com/music14.shtml

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:40:55 EDT
From: Jwlfan112@aol.com
Subject: * RWTD New Information!

Well, here's a bunch of information I got for Jay Johnson's Jewel Page about
RWTD.. He compiled all the articles from his local paper concerning the
movie, and I snipped all the non-Jewel stuff and compiled it here:

The Director's Authenticity

"Ang Lee, a well-known stickler for authenticity in his films ("Sense and
Sensibility," "The Ice Storm"), has given each actor a reading list of five
or six books about the period. Those include Huckleberry Finn and a history
of the Confederate war in the west, Schamus said. Cast members -- among them
Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire and pop singer Jewel -- will also take field
trips to historic sites on both sides of the state line. "

Costume Designer Talks About Jewel

"For TV's "Scarlett," a miniseries sequel to "Gone With the Wind," Allen had
to come up with 123 full costumes for the title character. She hasn't had
nearly that sort of challenge costuming pop singer Jewel, the principal
female performer in "Ride With the Devil," who plays a farm girl who has
romances with two of the film's main characters, played by Skeet Ulrich and
Tobey Maguire.

"Jewel's character exhibits a striking sense of simplicity -- very unfussy
dresses, with clean lines," Allen said. "But she's very feminine, and it's
really nice to work with an actress with such a wonderful figure."

On Why 'Ride' Will Be A Box Office Smash

"The Jewel-ers: Pop singer Jewel makes her acting debut in the film and will
no doubt bring her fans along for the ride.
Don't underestimate her following. Jewel's first and only CD has sold in
excess of 6 million copies, and she sang the National Anthem at this year's
Super Bowl. And her new volume of poetry, A Night Without Armour, just
debuted at No. 16 on The New York Times best-seller list.

If only a quarter of the people who snatched up the album or bought the book
go to see her in the movie, "Ride With the Devil" should enjoy healthy box
office.

Moreover, Jewel has emerged as a down-home sex symbol (check out the Web
sites devoted to her, like the one that declares her "Goddess of the Spirit
and Youth").

So there's considerable curiosity as to how she will negotiate this career
shift. And even if some moviegoers show up in the anticipation that she'll
fall on her face, they still have to pay to get in, right?"

Mini-Bio With Plot Info.

"In less than five years, she has gone from waitress to coffee-shop folk
singer to multimillion-selling recording artist. She sang the national anthem
at this year's Super Bowl.

Just last month she hit the best-seller lists with Nights Without Armor, a
collection of her poems.

And next spring she will make her motion-picture debut in director Ang Lee's
Civil War drama, "Ride With the Devil," which last week completed principal
photography in the Kansas City area.

But the blond, blue-eyed pop icon known as Jewel doesn't want to be
remembered for any of that.

"Even the arts are secondary in my life," the 24-year-old said recently as
she stretched out on the carpeted floor of an office adjacent to "Ride With
the Devil's" indoor set in a Central Industrial District warehouse.

"It's my profession, sure, but it's not rocket science. In the end, I think
of myself as a humanitarian. I hope when it's all over, my fame is as a
spokesman for causes."

She did in fact found a social-service agency early this year. Is there no
end to this woman's ambitions?

Of course it may not be ambition that drives Jewel as much as a craving for
adventure. Her life reads like a novel: born Jewel Kilcher to hippie parents,
raised on an Alaskan homestead without electricity or running water,
performing music with her father in taverns.

Then, while still a teen-ager, she headed for Southern California, living out
of her van and performing her songs in small San Diego clubs.

She was discovered and recorded an album ("Pieces of You") that quickly found
its way to the budget bin. Undeterred, she went on a one-woman city-to-city
tour to promote the CD, organizing fans to call radio stations and request
her songs.

It worked. Fueled by the single "Who Will Save Your Soul?" and a couple of
key TV appearances that allowed people to get a glimpse of Jewel's onstage
charisma, "Pieces of You" got a second wind and went on to sell more than 6
million copies.

But now, Jewel said, "I've become very bored with music. I've always done
lots of things: sculpture, marble carving, dance. I've devoted four years of
my life to music, but I reached a point where it was no longer a challenge. I
was dying of boredom.

"I really need challenges," she said, fiddling with the long, blond hair
extensions she wears as Sue Lee, a hard-luck Missouri farm girl during the
Civil War. "I don't feel alive unless I'm taking chances."

Part of that chance-taking involves inciting passionate responses from the
public, both pro and con. To her fans, she's a guitar-strumming folkie
prophet. They design adoring Web sites in her honor.

To her detractors she is "the world's luckiest waitress" who, thanks to good
fortune and her undeniable sexual charisma, has parlayed the musical musings
of an introspective teen-ager into an entertainment empire. To them also, her
new book of poetry provides an irresistible target: a bunch of youthful
musings on aging, love, sex and jealousy.

Jewel said that she wrote the poems as a way of getting in touch with her
feelings and that until a publisher expressed interest in them, she had no
intention of seeing them in print.

"I knew I was setting myself up for criticism," she said. "But who cares?
Emily Bronte was criticized ... and her work was brilliant. If I'm afraid of
failure, then I'm not being sufficiently challenged."

Her most recent challenge is movie acting. Although she had little experience
and no formal training, director Lee saw something in Jewel that his Civil
War film needed.

"She had a period upbringing and a period look," he said over a lunch in the
production's mess tent. "She's even got period teeth."

(Told of this remark about her orthodontically challenged smile, Jewel
laughed and said, "Whoever thought my teeth would get me work?")

Lee continued: "Also, this is very much a boy's story, and I could see that
Jewel had a sexual dominance that would let her hold her own with all these
young men. I think people are going to be very happy with her work."

Not that it was easy. Jewel may give the impression of supreme
self-confidence, but her baptism in movie acting was traumatic.

"I was the greenest," she said. "I showed up not knowing what it meant to hit
my mark or to play to the camera. I had to relearn how to walk, to talk, to
get rid of all my modern mannerisms. I had to realize that my face would be
20 feet tall on the screen and that a little would go a long way."

Panic dominated her first couple of days on the set.

"I knew I was in real trouble," she said. "I was in tears. But Ang knew how
to calm me. He's a really quiet person, and I appreciated that. I don't work
well with a tyrant. But Ang and the guys have all been patient.

"What I finally realized is that to perform music, I pitch myself up to a
real high, then walk out on stage keeping that rocket-booster level up for
two hours. Afterward I'm absolutely hollow; there's nothing left.

"But in the movies you have to deliver that intensity again and again over an
entire day of filming. I had to learn to pace myself. But after the first
couple of days, I started getting the hang of it."

Then there was the collaborative nature of film. Jewel said that when she
tours, she usually travels alone, setting her own schedule. But a movie set
is like an army on the move. There's a lot of hurry-up-and-wait while all the
elements vital to a scene are put in place.

"I'm not used to team sports," she said. "But on this film there are so many
young guys running around. It's like being in school again."

In retrospect, Jewel said, it might have been easier to do something lighter
for her first movie -- perhaps a romantic comedy.

"This film is really dramatic, and it puts Sue Lee through the wringer. Lots
of crying."

"Ride With the Devil" opens with Sue Lee's marriage, attended by local boys
Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich). The newly married Sue Lee
flirts with Jack Bull.

When next we encounter Jewel's character, the Civil War has been raging for a
year. Sue Lee is now a widow, living on a farm near Jack Bull and Jake's
winter hideout. She initiates an affair with Jack Bull, by whom she has a
baby. When that romance ends badly, the unwed mother finds herself being
nudged into yet another relationship, this time with the naive Jake, who
knows a lot about killing but nothing about women.

"Sue Lee is incredibly brazen for her time and place," Jewel said. "She's
savvy to the politics of her circumstances. She understands her place as a
woman and how she'll have to use her wiles to get what she needs. You know,
during that time, widows were considered incredibly intriguing because they
actually knew about sex."

But Sue Lee is essentially an unhappy figure -- in Jewel's words, "half woman
and half child" -- whose dreams collapse as she is reduced to a refugee
dependent on the charity of others.

Jewel even wrote a song for Sue Lee, one she performs only for herself. "It
was an exercise to help me get in character. It's a sad song that really
isolated her emotions, her feelings of loss."

Just how well does she pull off this challenge? Jewel so far has refused to
watch herself on screen, fearing she's be too intimated by the experience.
But members of the "Ride With the Devil" crew who have seen a rough cut of
the film report that her performance is quite good, and that she more than
holds her own with her more experienced do-stars.

Next month, her boredom with music apparently behind her, Jewel is scheduled
to go into the studio to record her second CD. (Watch for a release in the
fall.) And she's keeping her eyes open for more acting gigs, praising
director Lee for making her first film experience pleasurable.

"Ang's very nurturing," she said. "He really cared about my development as an
actress -- I mean beyond this particular movie."

And increasingly, she said, she's devoting more time to Higher Ground for
Humanity, the advocacy agency she founded earlier this year.

"It's an umbrella organization that coordinates programs and provides support
for a wide variety of environmental and humanitarian efforts," Jewel said.
"You get more done with a united front."

Asked how she can juggle so many different careers, Jewel shrugs.

"I trust my own rhythm. I've always tended to do more than one thing at a
time. And I was taught never to believe my own press."

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:55:08 EDT
From: Nubbay@aol.com
Subject: * Spirit Tour Tapes...

Does anyone have any tapes with "Do You Want To Play", "Weeping Tree", "Only
Wanna Be Loved By You", "Does Anyone Believe In Love ?" or "Happy Endings"
 From The 'Spirit Tour' ???
zac

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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lindsey L Chute <lindseyc@student.umass.edu>
Subject: * I wanna go to sessions (duh)

If anyone wants me to be their guest...I will...
Just wanted you all to know.
I'm 19, I go to Umass, English major, Blonde hair, I sing and play guitar.
I was on Storytellers(the "hands" question--I know I was really
nervous...)...I know you are now thinking "then why should she
get to go to this"  But I need a chance to try to talk to the big JK....I
gave her a recording of a song that I wrote.  Steve told me he thinks she
listened to it.  I think he was drunk and didn't know what he was talking
about, but either way I'd like to ask her about it.  Just a thought....
I would be giving up classes on Tuesday to do this so if anyone wants to
give this angel a ticket let me know asap so I can make up
something to tell my professors  ;) ...well...I'd be really happy. :)
- -lindsey
- -a hopeful angel

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:53:59 EDT
From: MAXMOUZE@aol.com
Subject: * EDA COVER TAPE 2

Segueing from Mike Carmona's post, I just want to tell everyone who is new to
the list that the latest project was the "Every Day Angel Cover Tape #2".
The first one was put out in 1997, and the second one is coming out in 1999.
It has soooo many talented EDAs on it and it is a wonderful listen.  Right
now, the only copies being made are for those who actually participated on
the tape but pretty soon, it's going to be included in the Angelfood Bank.
So, soon, everyone will be able to get their own copy!

- -- Mark

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:56:16 EDT
From: Spirit2877@aol.com
Subject: * Pittsburgh Concert

Hey everyone, it's Linds. :o) Just wonderin if anyone has a recording, audio
(preferably) or visual, of the Pittsburgh concert that she did here in
August. If you do please e-mail me at Spirit2877@aol.com, I've been trying to
find a copy for awhile. I don't have much to trade, but I'd love to work
something out. :o)
         ~Linds
The Hippie Angel

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