From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #549 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, September 12 1999 Volume 04 : Number 549 * 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: ----------------- * re: Toronto Sun Articles (the full text of the Jewel one) [Mike Connell] * Republished "Woe To Live On" (RWTD) ISBN # [ABershaw@aol.com] * Re: Toronto Sun Articles [James McGarry ] * Jewel list policy: PLEASE post from your subscribed email address [Mike] * Article: Jewel at the Toronto International Film Festival [MelDerI@aol.] * I would like to trade my Shiva diva doo wop for some angelfood ["T®ï¤¥ ] * Jewel web thingy... [Diana Ruiz ] * Photo of Jewel at Toronto Film Festival [Zaria2@aol.com] * i am a new EDA member [Mel3236@aol.com] * Re: jewel-digest V4 #546 [LeFideal@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:30:42 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: * re: Toronto Sun Articles (the full text of the Jewel one) Here's the full text of the Toronto Sun article on Jewel in RWTD that FredSteve@aol mentioned..... Mike Jewel's shy but polished By BRUCE KIRKLAND Toronto Sun TORONTO -- Her voice hushed, her smile a little tentative and her pale cheeks aglow with girlish blush, Jewel charmed Toronto yesterday as she took a Ride With The Devil. The Ang Lee movie, which just played as a gala in the Toronto film festival, marks the singer-poet's film debut. Her remarkable performance opposite male leads Skeet Ulrich, Tobey Maguire and Jeffrey Wright is being touted as at least a revelation, probably a shock. Jewel had never acted in anything before, if you don't count one night playing Dorothy in a charity performance of The Wizard Of Oz in New York in 1995. Otherwise, she is seen on stages to deliver music and poetry, not dialogue. "It's a little different," Jewel told a Ride With The Devil press conference yesterday about performing a character, not a song. "It's a real different medium." She admitted she was terrified of being stripped of the confidence she exudes as a singer. Asked how she overcame that fear, she glanced at director Lee and whispered: "Ang!" Lee told reporters that Jewel was suggested for the major role by the movie's casting director. "I met with her and she was exactly right for the part. Then we spent a few months working together and, by the time I had to make the decision, I felt she was the best choice I had. "And it was a pleasure to work with her." Jewel is known for her optimistic songs on two multimillion-selling albums, her debut Pieces Of You and the follow-up Spirit. Her third release, all holiday songs, is scheduled for November. 'Something different' This film attracted her because of the evocative writing in James Schamus' script. "The role was something different from the southern belle," Jewel said. The tough-minded farm girl she plays must have seemed familiar, too. Raised on a farm in Alaska, Jewel knows that world. But repeatedly yesterday, she seemed reluctant to elaborate, choosing her words carefully, speaking so quietly that even a microphone had difficulty picking her up. She shrugged off suggestions that she brings a powerful female presence to an otherwise male-dominated war movie. Ride With The Devil is a U.S. Civil War saga in which Jewel plays a Missouri woman caught up in the lives of a group of pro-Confederate guerrilla fighters played by her co-stars. Schamus told the press conference that Jewel had one talent -- horseback riding -- that she did not get to use, which he found amusing. Especially considering that some of her co-stars, such as Maguire, kept falling off his steeds. "The real irony is that the best rider in the film is probably Jewel and we had to put her on a mule," Schamus said. Jewel laughed and confided: "I can't show my face to my father." 'Hands full' Jewel is also absent from the lush period music on the soundtrack. "I didn't have anything to do with the music," she said. "I had my hands full as an actor." Lee took Jewel through her panic period. "Obviously, I had never worked with a director before. I was horrified," she admitted about showing up on set the first day. "I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know where to focus, where to look, what to do. I didn't know anything about it." But help was steps away on set: "Ang was my life preserver which I clung to desperately. My job was to please Ang." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:44:49 EDT From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: * Republished "Woe To Live On" (RWTD) ISBN # In a message dated 9/11/99 10:41:37 PM, I wrote in part regarding the "Woe To Live On" book, which RWTD is based on: << If you'd like to track down the book, it was republished by No Exit Press in 1994 (after being out of print since its first publication in 1987). That ISBN # is 1-874061-24-6. This will actually be easier to find in the UK as thats where No Exit Press is located. I expect it to be republished here in the states, if it hasn't been already. You may want to check on that as well.>> I've been informed that, YES, this has been republished & can be found from most major book distributers. The new ISBN # is 0671001361. This is likely the easier ordering # in most of the world, although UK folks may want to check both, as the No Exit Press version will not be an import & will possibly cost less for them. Alan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:36:46 -0400 (EDT) From: James McGarry Subject: * Re: Toronto Sun Articles On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 Fredsteve@aol.com wrote: > Here are links to a couple of articles that appeared in the Toronto Sun > today. One talks about Jewel specifically and the other about the movie and > Ang Lee. > > Jewel Shy But Polished: http://www.canoe.ca/FilmFestToronto99/sep12_fest1.html > Civil War Adventure: http://www.canoe.ca/FilmFestToronto99/sept12_fest.html She's on the front cover as well. Its one of the best Jewel pics I've seen, she looks more like a younger Lenedra than in any other picture I've seen. The article is quite good, in that Bruce Kirkland says that she was "raised" in Alaska and that he knew about her acting experience in "The Wizard of Oz"... ..and the irony of her being the best rider in the cast, but having to have her ride the mule... James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth." - - Will Rogers ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:53:37 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: * Jewel list policy: PLEASE post from your subscribed email address Hi folks :-) Just want you all to know something. This only has to do with any of you who have more than one email address. Due to the (at times) high amount of spam and other garbage sent to the Jewel@smoe list by non-subscribed email addresses, I've had a policy in effect that I've never really publicized, but I guess it's time I do. Simply because I generally don't have the time to deal with the junk email that comes in to Jewel@smoe, I've set up my email filters to automatically delete most posts sent in from these non-subscribed addresses. There ARE times I do have the time to go through these "deleted" posts, but it is becoming rarer and rarer. So, what this of course means is that if you send an email to Jewel@smoe.org from a non-subscribed address, the odds are near 100% it will not make it to the list. To avoid this, you'll either have to ensure you send in posts from your subscribed address or, if you wish you can subscribe your other address(s) to one of the low volume versions of the Jewel list, namely Jewel-digest, or Jewel-news. For more information on how to subscribe to one of the other versions of the Jewel list, send an email to eda-info@smoe.org and you'll get an automated reply. Please note, you are NOT missing anything if you are subscribed to the regular/loose-mail version and are not subscribed to Jewel-digest or Jewel-news. 100% of the emails that you get from the regular version are published in the jewel-digest, and 99.9% of the posts that go through to the Jewel-news list come from the regular jewel@smoe list. Mike - Jewel list owner * If you are new to the Jewel list and need a helping hand, * or have a burning question about Jewel and/or the list, * The Jewel/EveryDay Angels List Homepage & Guide is at: * http://www.quackquack.net/jewel * Many basic/common Jewel and list questions can be answered there :-) * * If you can't find the answer on the page have any list related * questions, please feel free to email me at ducksoup@quackquack.net * or you can IM me on either of the AOL names below: * DuckOfPrey or WhyADuck55 and/on AOL or AOL Instant Messenger ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:54:25 EDT From: MelDerI@aol.com Subject: * Article: Jewel at the Toronto International Film Festival Hey EDA's, There was an article of Jewel in my newspaper today about her at the Toronto International Film Festival. It has a picture of her arriving at the première of Ride With The Devil and she has on this blue frilly shirt with the caption "Jewel wowed the crowds at the première screening of Ride With The Devil at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday". I typed up the article for all of you, just because I'm so nice. :) Jewel Sets Pulses Racing The news conference for Ride With The Devil results in a session of good old-fashioned star gazing. Maybe most men just have a hard time talking to Jewel. And who can blame them? Sporting a sheer white top with a plunging neckline, a fashion choice enhanced by the dark-coloured bra she wore underneath, the Alaska-born folk diva swanned into a standing- room-only media scrum yesterday to promote her movie debut at the 24th Toronto International Film Festival. One could almost hear the collective sound of male jaws dropping as the former coffeehouse vixen checker her lacquered nails and gazed into the middle distance as if to say, "Well?" Jewel, it should be pointed out, no longer needs to announce herself when she walks into a room. She merely sucks all the available oxygen out of it and waits for people -- men, anyway -- to asphyxiate on their self-consciousness. Born Jewel Kilcher, she is not shy about her sexuality, even if it seems at odds with the crunchy, post-hippie persona that led her out of obscurity as a 19-year-old minstrel. As Vogue magazine has noted, she is probably the first fold singer to go onstage in four-inch heels and a miniskirt -- "the Mariah Carey of folk." Yesterday, she went with blue hip-huggers, but the effect was just as eye-popping. Even amid the glitter of the festival's Armani set she cut a wide swath. On the face of it, this was a news conference for director Ang Lee's American Civil War drama, Ride With The Devil in which the singer plays a young Confederate widow named Sue Lee Shelley. But the subtext of this hourlong session had more to do with old-fashioned star gazing. "I know you've probably heard this question to death," apologized one young swain from the media, who finished his harmless query with an almost frightened look. "Sorry," he gulped. For her part, she seemed willing to play the modesty card with perfunctory conviction: "It's a real difficult medium," she said of screen acting. "I definitely had to gain a whole different set of skills to do the film." Did she feel confident? "No." What has helped her overcome her nervousness? "Ang," she said, smiling at the genial Taiwan-born director of The Ice Storm, Sense And Sensibility and The Wedding Banquet. He sat next to her on the podium, along with male members of the cast including Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright and Tobey Maguire. At the very least, Jewel's appearance here added the first blush of big-league American celebrity to the festival, which runs through next weekend. Even in a year in which the talents pools includes Robin Williams and Elton John, Jewel shares that rare air of truly famous. The surest sign of that was glimpsed outside the festival's Park Hyatt Hotel headquarters, where a gaggle of young girls waited for their heroine. Jewel's debut album Pieces Of You has sold more than 10 million copies since its release in 1995 and her book of poems, A Night Without Armor, was also a runaway bestseller. It's chock-a-block with the sort of dewy, undergraduate verse that would make a Hallmark writer blush but has set her up as the Elizabeth Barrett Browning of the Gap generation. Whether she'll enjoy such smooth passage into cinema remains to be seen. Her performance in Ride With The Devil, in which she plays a hard-luck war bride who loses two men to battle then woos a third (played by Maguire), was preceded by rampant industry rumours that she was "difficult" to work with. According to Entertainment Weekly, she "irked fellow actors by strumming a guitar on the set and addressing crew members in a high-pitched baby voice." One source said she "spoke to people like trash. 'Oh, can I please have a glass of water!' She'd use that tone and then she'd turn to somebody and go, 'See, that's how you have to talk to them.' " According to reports, Lee invested a lot of time in his young star. He hired an acting coach for her, rehearsed one-on-one with her. After three months of testing her skills, he decided to give her the job. New conferences, of course, are not for airing a movie's dirty laundry or expressing doubts -- they're a marketing vehicle. Right on cue, Lee said this was the best cast he'd ever worked with, Jewel included. And screenwriter and producer James Schamus added that "the real irony here is that the best rider in the movie was Jewel -- and she had to ride a mule." All the while, Jewel gazed dreamily into middle space. Or was that just a bored smirk? It doesn't really matter. What matters is that she looked great and said the right things in response. She said she "didn't know what the heck I was doing" during those first weeks on the set. She said that "Ang was like my life preserver that I clung to desperately." She also said she tried to do her best because she didn't want to "disappoint all the guys." And when somebody asked what kind of a role she had in selecting the movie's music (she sings a version of Aura Lee with Skeet Ulrich), she batted her big brown eyes and said: "I didn't have anything to do with the music. I had my plate full just trying to get the acting right." Spoken like a true little trouper. That's it. I also have Jewel's parts of the press conference on tape and an interview of her just as she arriving at the Festival. Melissa the angel who hates to drive. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:27:19 -0500 From: "T®ï¤¥ G" Subject: * I would like to trade my Shiva diva doo wop for some angelfood I have Shiva diva doo wop and im willing to make a copy and trade it for a copy of "save the linolium" any interested EDAs can contact me at Trixy@world-net.net for more information :) *** words can crush things that are unseen*** Trixy EDA 0:) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:36:31 -0700 From: Diana Ruiz Subject: * Jewel web thingy... Hey, I was wondering if anyone was planning on taping the Jewel web concert thing (whatever it is) on Oct 9th. If so...Please email me...Thanks! {\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, 12 Sep 1999 14:14:44 EDT From: Zaria2@aol.com Subject: * Photo of Jewel at Toronto Film Festival Hi! I have a photo of Jewel from the festival, so if you want to see it, email me. I'll send out a mass email with it sometime tonight then. - -Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:14:14 EDT From: Mel3236@aol.com Subject: * i am a new EDA member hey everybugy! my name is melissa and i am 11yrs old. i live in PA. i just joined EDA but i couldn't figure it out how to send EDA mail..but with the help of my friend Meline... i figured it out! i LOVE jewel i think she is the world's best singer! well g/g TTYL bye! --MeLiSsA-- the sweet angel O: ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:39:43 EDT From: LeFideal@aol.com Subject: * Re: jewel-digest V4 #546 i was just wondering if anyone has good photos of jewel up close and personal, like at concerts, or meet and greets, stuff like that, i want to make a portfolio of just pictures of her, and artwork ive done, but ive only seen her in concert once(this july, wahoo!) and i was too far away to take pictures, anyways, if you can help me out just email me at LeFideal@aol.com, i will of course pay for the copies, return postage, etc...... alie the faerie princess angel ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #549 ***************************