From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V5 #16 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, January 13 2000 Volume 05 : Number 016 * 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 "what's new" * 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 V5 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- * NJC: Quantum physics and Minnesota EDAs? ["twilightdewdrop" ] * New Jewel Interview - Long Post ["Boyd, Brian D (CAP, CARD)" ] * Ride With The Devil Soundtrack trade/offer [JewelJKfan@aol.com] * NJC : Steve Poltz tabs ["Emilie" ] * Steve Poltz and Jewel tabs ["ola svärdh" ] * Jewel's drool all over Poltzie! [MelDerI@aol.com] * CMAs & The Crossing Guard (Oz TV) ["Jess Smith" ] * Angelfood Contest [JewelAng@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:41:00 -0600 From: "twilightdewdrop" Subject: * NJC: Quantum physics and Minnesota EDAs? Hi again all... Just a couple of questions and I'll set you on your angelic journey's again..lol First off, has anyone read that book that Jewel was reading call 'Shrodinger's Kittens'? It's by John Gribben and about quantum physics. I'm going to pick up a copy and see if it's any good. Secondly, I don't know if I asked this before but are there any EDA's in Minnesota or am I the only one freezing my wings off? LOL Happy yodeling, Amy :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:25:18 +1300 From: "Stace" Subject: * song for a winter's night Hey Eda's! Just updating you all on the supposed Jewel/Sarah version of "Song for a Winter's Night". I downloaded the song from Napster and under artist it said "Jewel and Sarah McLachlan". But unfortunately i think the person who named the file got it wrong. I'll explain why. On listening to this Jewel/Sarah version i was disapointed. I couldn't hear Jewel at all, unless she was singing in the background, you can't tell. And it kinda sounds like the song is cut short at the end too. This version is 2.27 minutes long right? Well, on another little trip to napster i decided to search for songs by Sarah (on her own). Suprise suprise, one of the songs that came up was "song for a winter's night" (no mention of Jewel under artist), the difference being that this version was over 3 minutes long. I downloaded the Sarah on her own version today... and get this... it's exactly the same song! ie it's the same file, only longer. And i can't hear Jewel in the extra bit either... so unfortunetely the person who has this "Jewel and Sarah" version, got it wrong :( Who knows, maybe there is an actual duet version with Jewel, but it's definetely not the one on Napster. Hope that clears things up :) Staci McFly xxoo - - the kiwi angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:27:42 -0500 From: "Boyd, Brian D (CAP, CARD)" Subject: * New Jewel Interview - Long Post Hello EDAs I'm pretty new to the list, but thought I would contribute. I have access to an exceptionally large news database and have permission to reprint for 'educational' purposes. The EDA list is used to educate Jewel fans, ao as long as I credit the source, then I am within the copyright laws! So, here goes... ENTERTAINMENT POLISHING ACT Dave Larsen DAYTON DAILY NEWS 01/09/2000 Dayton Daily News CITY Page 1C (Copyright 2000) Can Jewel shine in a (silver) screen setting? TORONTO - Rumors circulated that Jewel acted like a diva on the set of her film debut, Ride With the Devil. One published report said that the pop singer frequently retreated to her trailer and wouldn't eat lunch with her fellow cast and crew members. She did so at the behest of the film's director, Ang Lee. `Ang had me eat lunch separate from everybody, because I couldn't get back into character as easy as the other guys,' Jewel said during an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival. `As much as there were people around me, I was really having to struggle.' The Grammy-nominated singer makes her movie debut in the epic Civil War drama as Sue Lee Shelley, a young widow who comes between two childhood friends fighting for the pro-Southern Bushwhackers, played by accomplished actors Skeet Ulrich and Tobey Maguire. Adapted from Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, Ride With the Devil opened Friday at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs. Jewel had no professional acting experience, but Lee felt she was right for the film's only female role because of her intelligence and personality. `Can she act? I spent about three months observing and participating in her acting lessons, doing screen tests,' Lee said. `Finally, after all the meetings with the other actresses, I said she's the risk I want to take. It's not really a great risk because that part doesn't carry the movie. It's not like Tobey's part.' The Taiwan-born director, whose credits include the acclaimed films Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm, gave Jewel very simple and direct instructions. He spent an extra hour a day working with her on her character and accent. `The first part of shooting is problematic because she's inexperienced and she's working with some of the most talented young American actors, and they're all very experienced,' Lee said. `But once she would overcome that stage and re-pace herself with the shooting schedule - it's another profession - she's quite good and she's very devoted to the part.' Born Jewel Kilcher , the 25-year-old singer-songwriter-poet was raised in Alaska and discovered at San Diego's Innerchange coffeehouse, where she was performing to standing-room-only crowds. Her 1995 debut album, Pieces of You, has sold more than 10 million copies. Her second album, 1998's Spirit, has sold more than 4 million copies. In November, she released a top-selling Christmas album, Joy: A Holiday Collection. Casually attired in dark gray khaki pants and a loose blue T- shirt, with a diamond-studded cross around her neck, Jewel was pleasant and laughed easily. She was honest about her ability as an actress and didn't seem at all like those rumors portrayed her. To prepare for her role, Jewel took the unique approach of writing several songs from Sue Lee's perspective. One of her compositions, What's Simple Is True, plays over the film's end credits. `I was not a trained actress,' Jewel said. `I didn't have any method skills at getting into character. You're trying to get to an emotional place in yourself, and you want the quickest route to it, and my most established path is music. When I sing I immediately feel an emotion I'm singing about. It immediately overwhelms me.' Jewel needed to convey the unspoken emotions of her character, who loses a lover and has a baby over the course of the film. `I couldn't count on the dialogue to get me there in the movie,' she said. `I had to come in with that. So the best way for me to do it was I wrote a song about losing, and it just put me in that mood immediately. And I was able to walk in with it.' Working without the benefit of an audience was difficult for the fledgling actress. `I've been in front of an audience my whole life, and my whole show's been geared on reading a crowd,' she said. `I have a lot of skill at reading a crowd, and what I give them is relative to what they're needing and wanting. I didn't have a crowd. I would have been better at theater, probably. I feed off of a crowd. My humor and my spontaneity really come from a live interaction of having a new audience to impress every night and having to be fresh every night.' As Lee indicated, another problem was readjusting her body clock. Jewel typically performs in the evening, giving her all in a two- hour burst. Film shoots begin as early as 5 a.m. and can stretch on for 14 or more hours, depending on the production schedule. `I was spent by noon every day on the film, because I was used to this sort of different pacing,' she said. `Ang's the one that actually noticed this different rhythm about me. He took me aside and said you need to go longer, slower burn. That's just something I hadn't thought about, and it really changed everything for me.' Lee also taught Jewel little things, like to keep her chin down and not move her hands or eyes a lot, because such movements look exaggerated on the screen. `Technically, that's stuff you just pick up,' Ulrich said. `That's no big deal. You can work through that. But the thing about her performance is that it doesn't stand apart from the film, and that's why it works.' Ulrich, whose credits include As Good As It Gets and Scream, speculated that an actress of some prestige or stature might have overdone that part and made it something more than the film. `I learned very early on with Ang that you can trust him,' Ulrich said. `He's not doing things on a whim. He's not casting celebrities because they're celebrities. He's casting the people that he wants to do the part because he sees something in them that's right.' Acting has always been part of Jewel's plan. Her agency contracts cover film as well as music, but she waited until she had successfully established one career before embarking on another. Ride With the Devil is more than she could have ever hoped for in a first role. `I don't think many people ever get that kind of opportunity,' Jewel said. `To work with someone like Ang, to work with a cast like I did and to work with such a good script that was so artistic. You don't get more than that.' However, her fame added to the pressure of the production. `I've had my whole life to get good at music,' Jewel said. `I didn't have to learn in front of people, more than a drunk person in a bar. . . . I have to learn this in the public eye.' Reviews have been favorable of Jewel's performance. Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote that `crooning poetess Jewel acquits herself pleasantly in her film debut.' Variety said she `suggests a calm, determined confidence.' Still, Jewel doesn't expect her transition from music to film to be an easy one. `I think the criticism will be just and unjust,' she said. `To say that I'm good at music, much less acting, at age 25 would be absurd. I don't think you're really great at a craft until you're about 50, and I plan to take a lot of hits until then.' Brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:11:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Subject: * RE: jewel at scranton lilith fair > From: JusAgapAd@aol.com > Subject: * jewel at scranton lilith fair > > another thing that i just thought of. > > i was browsing the old lilith fair sight and was > starting to feel nostalgic. > I almost passed out when I saw they had put video > clips up from past shows at > the different venues. When I played Jewel's I > remebered what a great set she > did in scranton pa that 13th of august. So my > question is- did any eda go to > that lilth fair in 97'? It was one of the best > concerts that I ever went to > and was wondering if there was any tapes floating > around of it? > sarah > I went to that show. What a great one it was! I drove out from NJ for it. Well worth the trip, except for the rain all night. I've been looking for a tape of that show for a long while. As I recall, that was the only show from the Lillith Fair that year that never really surfaced. If anyone has it, I'd be real interested in trading for it as well. I have a bunch to trade. Check out my sites and lists at: http://www.agevision.com/cgi-bin/display.pl http://www.agevision.com/freeze-out Jeff Angel Who Just Arrived Here From The Coast ===== Live: http://www.agevision.com/cgi-bin/display.pl Studio: http://www.agevision.com/freeze-out "when asked if you care about the world's problems, look deeply into the eyes of he that asks you, he will not ask you again." - B. Dylan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:18:31 EST From: JewelJKfan@aol.com Subject: * Ride With The Devil Soundtrack trade/offer hey guyz, I have an additional copy of RWTD. I bought it 2 days ago, it's unrapped but it hasn't been played nor taken out of the case as soon as I got it I put it my "Untouchable Jewel Stuff" box so it's safe, it's in mint condition. So if anyone wants it I'll sell for $10 bucks thats only because i've had it for 2 days and I paid $16 for it. But i can go for a better offer or even a groovy trade. thanks guyz! With Love, Michelle *Polish Angel* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:30:38 +0100 From: "Emilie" Subject: * NJC : Steve Poltz tabs Hi I got tabs for most of the songs of One Left Shoe on my site. http://www.multimania.com/stevepoltz Take Care Emilie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:03:56 PST From: "ola svärdh" Subject: * Steve Poltz and Jewel tabs Hi I´ve posted once before I think about my tab page and now I´m doing it again. I´ve got Jewel and Steve Poltz tabs. Album and non album songs. And a few Rugburns tabs. http://www.surf.to/jeweltab Ola _______________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:35:18 EST From: MelDerI@aol.com Subject: * Jewel's drool all over Poltzie! Hey EDA's, There were 2 pics in last week's Star magazine of Jewel spitting water all over Steve. I believe it was from the Boston benefit concert they put on for Toys for Tots. That's what the magazine said. Anyways, the pictures of Jewel aren't the most flattering, considering she has water coming every which way outta her mouth. Brita anyone? :) Melissa the angel who hates to drive. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:10:52 PST From: "Jess Smith" Subject: * CMAs & The Crossing Guard (Oz TV) Hi guys, Just a quick note to let all you Australian EDAs (that don't already know) that the 33rd Anual Country Music Awards (Jewel sings a duet with Merle Haggard) will be airing this Sunday (the 16th) on channel 7 at 3pm (VIC), 2pm (QLD) or 2:30pm (SA). Don't know about anywhere else, you'll have to check your guides. Also, 'The Crossing Guard', the movie that Jewel wrote 'Emily' for, will be on the same night on Channel 7 at 8:30pm, if you're interested. Take care and happy viewing, Jess ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:09:14 EST From: JewelAng@aol.com Subject: * Angelfood Contest Hi Angels, I posted this about a week or so go. It's still going on because not many people went to the website to enter the contest. Last contest I had there was A LOT more people who signed up. Here what's you do: Go to the new version of my poetry site at . Then put your favorite quotes on my message board. Also you must sign my guesbook. I will cross refrence. (Construtive critizism is wanted!, tell me what the page needs) I will then pick a winner. The winner will be the person who put in a quote that I liked the best. The winner will then get my two favorite angelfood tapes at the moment. The tapes: "Filling Tiny Spaces" (Rugburns and Jewel complation) "Jewel Rocks the Paradise" Website!! http://www.angelfire.com/yt/rebecca Thanks Angels, Rebecca "It is the dead Not the living who make the greatest demands. We die forever..." ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V5 #16 **************************