From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #728 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, December 6 1999 Volume 04 : Number 728 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "Presence" * OR * go to the Atlantic Records site at http://www.atlantic-records.com * and go to the "On Tour" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V4 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- * New Website "Happy Endings" [Nubbay@aol.com] * New Jewel Video soon? [PointeRose@aol.com] * Canada Concert? [Chicabug530@cs.com] * Jewel Video ["Stace" ] * Christmas Albums - from sonicnet [Fredsteve@aol.com] * Re: Jewel on TNT (plus VH1 , FOX Family ???) ["Joe P. Shenk" ] * MTV aired "Jewel's Interview from Hell" [Kyle Adema ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:15:38 EST From: Nubbay@aol.com Subject: * New Website "Happy Endings" Hey Guys ! Go Visit My Website "Happy Endings" I would muchly appreciate it, and please sign the guestbook ! *>http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/sidekick/273/ Love And Jewel, Zac ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:25:50 EST From: PointeRose@aol.com Subject: * New Jewel Video soon? Hey all. Okay, I have this friend who's a senior at NYU. She's majoring in film, and at the present time, she's a gopher for a bunch of production companies, I believe. Well, during Thanksgiving, she and I talked, and the discussion turned to Jewel. I mentioned how i had seen her on the Today Show and all, and then she said that she was going to be helping out with a new video for her in a few weeks/months. New single? Anyone know? Alan? Mike? Someone? :-) Take care, have a nice day, and smile Melissa Anne (\o/) *Honey Angel* (\o/) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:07:14 EST From: Chicabug530@cs.com Subject: * Canada Concert? Hey everyone, my aunt was in Canada over the weekend and she said that last night there was a televised Jewel concert. She said it was on really late like 1 am and lasted for a couple of hours. Now I didn't know if it was a Canadian thing or if is was here too. Anyway it doesn't really matter where it was at, but my aunt said it was really really good. It was a full length concert and the works, lol and it's just killing me that I didn't see it. So if anybody knows anything about this, and taped it, PLEASE e-mail me back. I would pay postage and everything! lol I'm dieing here. So, please anyone who knows anything about this, please e-mail me. Thanks, - -Brandy Gemini Angel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:11:29 +1300 From: "Stace" Subject: * Jewel Video Hey Angels! What's this video i keep reading about? (is it called "Jewel : A Life = Uncommon" or am i mistaken?) It sounds like it must be REALLY good, and = i want it! I can't wait to see her in the bars, and singing with Poltz, = wow, it'll be soo good! Anyone know where i can get it in New Zealand? = Any info would be greatly appreciated :) Cheers, Staci McFly - the kiwi angel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:05:48 EST From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: * Christmas Albums - from sonicnet hi angels there was an article about the various christmas albums that are out this year (wow there's LOTS of them). they mentioned jewel in a VERY positive light. here's the excerpt: But it's Brooks' new Magic of Christmas and Jewel's Joy: A Holiday Collection that are keeping cash registers ringing louder than sleigh bells, they said. Brooks (garth) debuted at #13 on this week's Billboard 200 albums chart, while Jewel's album sits at #43 in its fourth week on the chart. The folk-pop singer/actress' disc features religious songs backed by choral and orchestral arrangements as well as originals, including a song she wrote in Latin, "Gloria" (RealAudio excerpt), and a Christmas version of her hit single "Hands" (RealAudio excerpt). "The Jewel album seems to be far and away the most popular holiday release," said Howard Krumholtz, rock buyer at Tower Records on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. another article on the same topic said that her album would likely be the best selling of the season. thought you'd be interested. cya steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 20:18:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Joe P. Shenk" Subject: * Re: Jewel on TNT (plus VH1 , FOX Family ???) Thanks , Katie ! I had been wanting to post this for about a week , and here's the perfect chance ! Whatever happened to the Christmas specials with Jewel that were supposed to be coming up on both the FOX Family Channel , and also on VH1 ? Were they cancelled ? Does anyone have an update on these Jewel Christmas specials ? Thanks a lot ! the lonely angel on long island , --Joe ===== joeshenk@yahoo.com My Home Page (Currently on KOSOVO ,etc.) : http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/congress/8420 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:09:55 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: * SF Chronicle reviews RWTD Singer Jewel's Screen Debut Is a Gem Pop star plays Civil War widow in 'Ride With the Devil' Ruthe Stein, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, December 5, 1999 ©1999 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/12/0 5/PK86344.DTL Madonna, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra and even Bob Dylan and Fabian have tried it -- with varying success. Now it is Jewel's turn to test whether the magic that has catapulted her to fame in the music world translates to the silver screen. The trick is to disappear into a character so audiences forget they are watching a popular singer. Sinatra pulled this off some of the time; Madonna has yet to. In "Ride With the Devil," Jewel is surprisingly effective at turning herself into a Civil War widow who is part Scarlett O'Hara, part Melanie Wilkes. One reason Jewel is believable on film may be the period costumes, which are a far cry from the low-cut T-shirts, jean jackets and leather trousers her fans are used to seeing her wear. Jewel, 25, studied acting in boarding school and had an inkling she'd be able to finesse a movie role. Still, it was no sure thing. "I definitely like a challenge, but picking such a hard dramatic role for my first movie was like jumping into the deep end of the pool," she says, sipping tea late one morning. "It was horrifying. Oh f--, I was worried. It took years off my life. At the same time, I loved the perversity of knowing there is a lot at stake and if you pull it off, it's good, and if you don't, you're screwed." Her speaking voice has the same lilting, honey tone heard on her best-selling albums, "Pieces of You" and "Spirit," and on her new release, "Joy: A Holiday Collection." With her oval face and long, straight blond hair, she resembles Helen Hunt, if Hunt ate three square meals a day. Jewel has that rare ability, especially for a celebrity, of being right there, thoughtfully answering each question with no apparent desire to be somewhere else. Or maybe she really is a good actress. Pushing herself to do something outside her field would have been a lot easier if her CDs weren't all over record stores, she says. "That kind of courage pre-fame is real easy, because if you fall on your ass, who cares? But fame is an odd creature. It has a life of its own and an influence on you, which is a force to be reckoned with. "When you're famous and you fail, it's in front of the whole world. The world does not value growth over perfection. People are very unforgiving, and that causes self-censorship. It makes you go, 'Ooh, I've got to be safe and stick with what I know.' I knew I might look bad, and knowing that, I went ahead and did it because otherwise you die creatively." Jewel had been looking to make a movie, but the timing had to be right so it wouldn't interfere with her recording or touring schedule. Just as a window of opportunity opened, her agents were approached by Avy Kaufman, casting director for "Ride With the Devil." "I'm way over 40, so I didn't know who Jewel was," says Ang Lee, the film's director, who is best known for "Sense and Sensibility." Kaufman sent him Jewel's music videos as well as a tape of her playing Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" as a teenager. Meeting with Jewel, Lee made it clear she would have to take acting lessons for three months before any casting decision was made. "I was very frank with her. She was so devoted to the possibility of acting in this movie, she agreed to the lessons." This proved to be more stressful than she thought. "I was touring and taking acting lessons in between," Jewel recalls. "I had some days where I went, 'I'm going to be all right' and other days where it was like 'Uh, I can't get out of bed.' " Lee suggested she take up tai chi as a way to relax and get into the role. "He could see I wasn't real grounded at that time of my life. All of a sudden I was famous and I had a stalker during that time and I was working with this brilliant director, who really intimidated me. The tai chi was just to get me settled." Even with all that going on, Lee's instincts told him Jewel was up to the role. "Her part doesn't require her to carry the movie, so I didn't think it was such a big risk," he says. It could be a risk with a payoff if her legion of fans, most of them young women, rush to see her in "Ride With the Devil." The film stars Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich, who are not hot enough yet to get people into theaters on the strength of their names. However, as the film's screenwriter, James Schamus, points out: "Being a star in one area is no guarantee of ticket sales in another." He admires Jewel for her willingness to "completely erase her rock-star personality on the set. She worked like a maniac on this movie. You don't see people work like that too often." The first few weeks on the set, "Jewel was pretty raw," Ulrich says. "She didn't know what was going on when it came to technique. She didn't even know what a mark was," he adds, referring to where actors are supposed to stand. But she caught on quickly. Ulrich thinks it helped that she seems in some ways like her character, Sue Lee, a shy Southern woman who comes into her own when she has to fend for herself during the grueling war years. "Civil War widows became quite notorious by 1862-63," Schamus explains. "Because they were sexually aware, they realized that in order to survive and get through the battle, they really had to go out there and attract husbands. There was a kind of sexuality and assertiveness these women had going after their next guy. They began to address men in public and introduce themselves -- all things that were quite shocking at the time." Jewel nails her character's sexuality, and there were other ways in which she could relate to Sue Lee. "I was raised on the land. I was raised to be feminine, but not in the kind of contrived way where you are playing a game of seducing men," she says. "But I have never lost a husband; I have never slept with a man who ended up dying right afterward." She also never wore a corset before she had to squeeze into one for her role. Like all self-respecting 19th century women, Sue Lee wouldn't have gone out without one. "That was a hard part about the movie for me. The corset was so tight, I couldn't breathe when I bent over. I wanted to die," Jewel recalls. Everything else about making a movie appealed to her, however, and she would like to do it again, although writing songs and singing take precedence. "Music allows you to talk directly to people. No other art medium does that. I can actually tell people what I think. I can get in front of kids and say, 'Don't lose hope' or 'Gee, I feel like s--.' " Next time, she would like to be in a contemporary film. But she isn't rushing into anything. "One of the nice things about the position I'm in is that I don't have to be an actress," Jewel says. "I don't need the money, so I don't have to take parts I don't want. It's a purely creative endeavor. That's a luxury most actors don't have. I can wait and be real picky." 'RIDE WITH THE DEVIL' The movie opens December 17 at Bay Area theaters. ©1999 San Francisco Chronicle Page 54 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:21:52 -0800 From: Jewel Fan Subject: * Jewel talks about cranberries! Hey Everyone!! Just want to tell everyone to check this website out! It has Jewel talking about The Cranberries. It may be old but I dunno. www.zombieguide.com It's pretty funny, lol! see ya! =) {\O/} /_\ Diana an EDA FOREVER!! "Might as well smile, 'cause there's no point in being mean, guess that's just, What you get, When you forget to dream" *Nikos* ~Jewel~ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:11:56 -0800 (PST) From: Kyle Adema Subject: * MTV aired "Jewel's Interview from Hell" As most of you know, last year Kurt Loder did a Fifteen questions thing with Jewel for MTV 1515. One of the questions that they chose not to air (but did write an article about on their website about) was a question about a line in one of Jewels poems. Kurt criticized her for using "casualty" when he thought it should have been "casualness". Anyway, MTV aired this today on show called MTV UNCENSORED, the segment of the show was INTERVIEWS FROM HELL. It was great to see Jewel bitch Kurt out(I hate that snob). Anyway, check it out if ya get the chance, since MTV re-airs everything like 400 times i'm sure it'll be on again soon. Later, Kyle ===== So Close To Heaven: Kyle's Jewel Page http://soclosetoheaven.tripod.com/ Kyle Adema Photography http://ademaphotography.tripod.com/ "Our fears are not undefeatable by their nature, but by our approach." - Jewel Kilcher ________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 02:05:02 -0600 From: Khanh Duong Subject: * Good to be back . . . Hi there angels. I don't post often, so most of you won't know me. Anways, I've been gone for a week because I had to attend a funeral in California, my grandfathers. Yes it was a sad, strrange funeral, because it was Buddhist. We spent about 20,000 on the funeral, getting priests and a piece of land and casket and all, so it's ben rough. I forgot to send my 10 bucks for the HGH card thingy, so I will soon. They won't accept cash, so I gotta run to Kroger and make out a money order. How's the project going so far, I'm too lazy to read all those digests. I got to watch Sessions before I left town and it was great! Jewel looks great in leather pants(hehehe). Anyways, someone just tell me what's been happening. Later angels. Jim the Yo-Yo throwin, freakish actin angel(I guess that's a good name for myself) "Jewel went to the well, of jew, hahahaha, thats soooooooo funny, ok, the jew went to the well" - Jewel on Kilborn IM ME: JimBobWae8 Mail me at: sugamney@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #728 ***************************