From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #373 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Saturday, July 11 1998 Volume 03 : Number 373 * If you wish to unsubscribe, 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: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" 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 V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- MTV fanatic comments/ Poetry contest question [HRENB@aol.com] Jewel mention in a HANSON vid?? ["Foolish Games" ] Video Angelfood [Nubbay@aol.com] Can anyone name this Jewel song? [MAXMOUZE@aol.com] NJC: Mia Johnson [EDAxJewel@aol.com] I wanna go to Bearsville!!!!!!!! [ZZdeMosq@aol.com] Jewel opens up for KC Star - Full Text [Charlie Watkins Subject: Jewel mention in a HANSON vid?? I was just watchin Total Request (had to get my Carson fix for today, *LOL* I won't see him all weekend!) Anyway, River by Hanson came on, and uh, I was *small voice* watching it (can you tell I'm just a tiny bit embarrassed?).....and....you know how it has that thing on Titanic at the beginning, well, it had it on the end too,m and I could have sworn the guy said "What about Jewel??" And the old lady Rose was like..."No.....I don't have any of her CDs.....I like Hanson...." Have we already discussed this?? Maybe I missed it cause Hotmail was being it's usually bitchy (I always refer to Hotmail as a she) self.....deleting my mail.....the nerve....heehee. Oh yeah, I scored a cool as crap ANWA poster from Waldens.....all ya gotta do is ask!! :) Love you all, Marisa the angel with a band that is currently drummerless and has no name....in other words is in pretty sad shape..... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:17:58 EDT From: Nubbay@aol.com Subject: Video Angelfood Does Anyone Know Of Some Video Angelfood Sites Or Anyone Have Video Angelfood ? thanx, Zac ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 22:19:12 EDT From: MAXMOUZE@aol.com Subject: Can anyone name this Jewel song? Hey I was thinking about a Jewel song that goes "I love you I love you too Good night" or something like that. Does anyone know which song this is? I know it's on one of my tapes but I completely forgot what the title was. - -- Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:25:43 EDT From: EDAxJewel@aol.com Subject: NJC: Mia Johnson Hey Angels, Has anyone from the Philadelphia area heard of Mia Johnson? She's a really talented performer who I've seen twice at Steel City Coffe House in Phoenixville, PA. I was just wondering. She has a CD out called Access, it's really good. Anyway, I have to go. C-ya. Peace. Love, The Poetic Angel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:13:00 EDT From: ZZdeMosq@aol.com Subject: I wanna go to Bearsville!!!!!!!! EDAs, Well I really would. But I have yet to find a lift. THe only stickler is that I have to leave on Saturday morning instead of Friday night. I'm in NYC so if anyone is travelling north (Long Islanders too) I'm on the way. If no one out there can fit me, can someone please provide info on getting there by train/bus. If anyone is going this way, I'll be glad to be a riding buddy. Mail me privately if you can help. Thanks guys. Pete ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 22:24:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Charlie Watkins Subject: Jewel opens up for KC Star - Full Text One Jewel; many facets By ROBERT W. BUTLER - Movie Editor Date: 07/05/98 00:01 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." 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." All content © 1998 The Kansas City Star Chopped Liver (Charlie) watkins@selway.umt.edu Share publicly, flame privately, " 'Cause anyone can start a conflict it's harder yet to disregard it ". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:36:49 EDT From: AliKat4001@aol.com Subject: NJC: Re: jewel-digest V3 #372 about this poetry everyone would like to see, does it have to be inspired by jewel, i mean i have poetry but it is not inspired by jewel, if anyone is interested in reading my poetry email me at alikat4001@aol.com ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #373 ***************************