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EVENTSWomen’s Tennis The women’s tennis team is playing
against UT-Pan American at the John E. Hoff Courts from 2
to 4 p.m.
Robin Trower The talented guitarist will be showcasing
his skills at the House of Blues. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.,
and tickets range from $55 and up.
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newslineSPORTSTournament play opens up season for Cougar softball
The University of Houston will be hosting the Hilton Plaza
Invitational for women’s softball starting Feb. 11 at Cougar Softball
Stadium.
The Lady Cougars will have a chance to test their mettle as they
play in the three-day event. Schools participating in the invitational
include the University of Michigan, Ohio University, Southern Illinois
University and Stephen F. Austin State University.
Tickets for the event start at $8, with group packages available.
Please note that tickets purchased at the stadium on game days are
cash only. No ATMs are available on site. For more information, visit
the UH athletics website or call 713-462-6647.
— Julian Jimenez/The Daily Cougar
CAMPUS EVENTTranslators discuss ‘Second Sex’
Translators Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier will
be discussing their new unabridged translation of the book “The
Second Sex” in a lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15 in the
Rockwell Pavillion.
Written by the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in 1949,
“The Second Sex” discusses women’s cultural status within society.
Published in English in 1959, original translations of the work
were plagued with omissions and inaccuracies. Both Borde and
Malovany-Chevallier will discuss the diffi culties they encountered
while translating the new edition and the book’s relevance to
contemporary society.
For more information about the event, contact Elizabeth Gregory
— Julian Jimenez/The Daily Cougar
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“There will be many more persons over 50 and a large number under the age of 20,” Fernando Torres-Gil said to a group of about 60 people at the UH Hilton. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
Anna GallegosTHE DAILY COUGAR
A former assistant secretary for President Bill Clinton spoke on the increase of minority baby boomers in the US and its effect on younger generations Wednesday night.
Fernando Torres-Gil, an assis-tant secretary for aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Clinton
administration, spoke to a crowd of about 60 people at the University Hilton.
“Due to longevity, there will be more older people,” Torres-Gil said regarding future age projections. “There will be many more persons over 50 and a large number under the age of 20. The middle working population will have more persons to support.”
Greater longevity increasing the number of elderly Americans, debate on aff ordability expected
HEALTH INITIATIVE
Arte Publico takes book to the massesCougar News Service
UH’s Arte Publico Press is taking on childhood obesity one book and one fam-ily at a time.
Last year, APP’s wellness program,
¡Salud, familia!, published “I Kick the Ball / Pateo el balón,” a book by Gwendolyn Zepeda.
It is the program’s first publication in its efforts to combat obesity and related illnesses in the Latino youth.
Members of the press will be distrib-uting 5,000 free copies of the book to
families who take part in the Children At Risk Fourth Annual Nuestra Familia, Nuestra Salud Latino Children’s Health Fair on Sunday.
“With news about the extent to which obesity was permeating Latino
LECTURE
Aging issues only beginning
Rice rivalry taken to the court
The UH Cougars stretched their winning streak to 10 games when they caged the Rice Owls 71-51 on Thursday night at Hofheinz Pavilion. Read the full report from sports
reporter Lance Jaramillo on page 5 in The Daily Cougar’s Sports section.
| Aaron Cisneros/The Daily Cougar
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Torres-Gil defined this as a “new America” that will “come to fruition in 2050.”
Aside from speaking about the general American population, Torres-Gil pointed out that minor-ity groups with larger birth rates, especially Hispanics, will become the majority of the future aging population.
“By 2050, Latinos will be 30 percent of the whole US popula-tion,” Torres-Gil said. “The white, non-Hispanic population will have peaked in 2010.”
Due to the future shift in both age and ethnic demographics, Torres-Gil questioned the sustain-ability of the older population.
“It’s really about who pays, and who receives taxes and the ben-efits,” Torres-Gil said.
“In this upcoming session of Congress, there will be debate on can we afford them (baby boomers) or will they increase the national deficit.”
For one UH alumna, this is one of the most important aspects that the elderly should understand.
“Hopefully the baby boomers will be able to educate themselves and be aware of the different politi-cal aspects of life,” Jai Jones, who received a master’s in family and chil-dren in social work in 1999, said.
The monetary aspect will cause a backlash to the older population, Torres-Gil said.
“The baby boomers will confront
future shock just as they enter their old age,” Torres–Gil said. “They will face adversity in their old age (from future generations).”
While Torres-Gil may have painted a bleak picture, there are those who foresee the aging popu-lation in a positive light.
Second-year College of Social Work graduate student Sara White is concentrating on clinical geron-tology, which is the study of the process of aging on a physiological, social and psychological level.
“The (elderly) population is
exponentially growing, and it’s increasing so drastically. That’s where the jobs are going to be and those are the people that need the most assistance,” White said.
“To find long-term care solu-tions for elder adults is nearly impossible,” White continued, “but we (college students) can all use our voices to allocate funds for program development to satisfy the needs for the aging population.”
According to a UH news release, Torres-Gil is the associate director of the University of California’s Los
Angeles Center on Aging, and was appointed vice chairman on the National Council on Disability by President Barack Obama.
He earned a master’s and his doctorate in social policy, plan-ning and research from the Heller Graduate School in Public Policy at Brandeis University in 1976.
The program was co-sponsored by the Houston chapter of the National Hispanic Council on Aging.
AGINGcontinued from page 1
communities, in particular chil-dren, we knew we were going to respond by doing what we do best — publish books,” Nicolás Kanel-los, director of Arte Publico and a Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature, said in a UH news release.
“These books address the need for exercise, the need to take control of public spaces, parks and play-grounds; to promote good healthy eating; and get the messages not only to the kids, but also to the parents,” Kanellos said.
¡Salud, familia! is also taking its health message to the Internet and the airwaves via a public-service campaign.
APP also plans on publishing essays and is planning to compile research on Latino health.
All research will be published in a book written by leading health experts slated to come out later this year.
The program also plans on pub-lishing and distributing four more books.
APP has already handed out over 200,000 copies of Zepeda’s book.
The health fair begins at noon on Sunday at PlazAmericas (formerly Sharpstown Mall), 7500 Bellaire Blvd.
Immunizations, health screenings and registration assistance for CHIP and Medicaid will also be available.
PRESScontinued from page 1
Fernando Torres-Gil, a former assistant secretary in President Bill Clinton’s Department of Health and Human Services, spoke on the subject of the oncoming boom in America’s elderly population. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
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STAFF EDITORIAL
T he DNA of 31-year-old Anthony Garcia was matched to semen found in yogurt in Albuquerque,
N.M., the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
Police fi rst responded to a 911 call at an Albu-querque grocery store on Jan. 26 after a woman spit out a yogurt sample she was given from a store employee that she thought was instead a bodily fl uid.
As it turns out, the woman’s hunch was right. Forgive us for being appalled, but we can’t understand what would compel someone to do something like this in the fi rst place.
Worrying about servers spitting in one’s food has been a running joke between consumers for ages, but no one realistically expects for that to happen. Even more than that, we probably would’ve never thought that someone would have the audacity to hand out yogurt samples tainted with semen.
Finding saliva in your food is one thing, but fi nding semen is something on a completely dif-ferent level.
It’s unclear to us how this happened. We have no clue where the idea to mix bodily fl uids into food samples offered at the grocery store this man worked at came from. The actions that fol-lowed suit aren’t very clear — or even a desirable thought, either.
Since reports of the tainted yogurt have been released, more women have come forward claiming that they were given samples, too. Some claims even date back to December; however, there’s no way to prove that they were victims as well, police say.
Besides facing a potential charge for battery — which is only a misdemeanor charge — from the Albuquerque Police Department, this terrifi c specimen of humanity could face a federal felony charge for food tampering, the Associated Press reported.
Garcia was taken away in handcuffs — not for this disgusting act — but for an outstanding warrant for child molestation, kidnapping and bribery.
Employee-flavored yogurt not too tasty
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opinion EDITOR Andrew TaylorE-MAIL [email protected] www.thedailycougar.com/opinion
W ith 500 million users and counting, Facebook, the ultimate social networking site,
does many things well. The internet juggernaut has made
creator Mark Zuckerberg the world’s youngest billionaire. But perhaps, Facebook is best at destroying one’s privacy.
Every few months, Facebook comes up with a new app or feature to better connect and
improve the Facebook experience. There comes a point, however, when it becomes blatantly obvious that Facebook is exploit-ing its users for monetary gain.
Instant Personalization allows other websites access to your public Facebook information. This information includes your name, profi le picture, gender, networks, friends’ names and your friends’ public information. Only Facebook partner sites have access to this
information. These sites are personalized, based on information gathered from your Facebook.
Instant Personalization is enabled on every Facebook account by default. Facebook provides plenty of information about what Instant Personalization is, but not a whole lot on how to turn it off. Disabling Instant Personalization is possible, even though it’s not exactly straightforward. And even if it’s turned off, your account and privacy are still at risk.
By agreeing to the terms of use — which every single Facebook account must agree to — one is essentially giving the OK for Facebook to use information in anyway they want.
Under the current terms of use Face-book retains all information, even from terminated accounts on back-up copies. That means every picture, every status update, every wallpost, every Facebook chat conversation — every single click on Facebook is stored and retained for a “reasonable amount of time,” even from
no-longer existing accounts. Facebook has inserted itself into many
of our lives; it’s nearly impossible to break away. Social networking and Facebook not only defi ne our generation, but shape and impact nearly everyone living in today’s world.
Things have boiled down to where Facebook is omnipresent. There is no escape from the stranglehold Facebook has on our personal information.
Facebook users uncomfortable with how little control they have over informa-tion they place on the Internet need to make wiser choices, carefully look over the terms of use when they’re next updated, and voice any concerns they have.
If we don’t declare and take back our intellectual property rights, there could be no end to what Facebook steals from us.
Zeke Barrera is a communications sophomore and may be reached at [email protected].
O n Thursday, the opinion section featured an article by Neimon James titled “Perry’s pro-life bill is
a sound solution.”Below are comments to the article that
were posted on www.thedailycougar.com
This bill is terrible. It’s the same schlock of victim blame that the whole anti-choice movement is about.
Abortion is not something that people like to do, or want to do, it is a hard deci-sion made in desperate situations, and when it is less accessible, people end up getting abortions in unsafe ways, causing more death and bodily destruction than necessary.
This bill makes abortions less acces-sible to low income people, because it puts a requirement for an extra procedure,
which low income people don’t have access to.
This bill will make low income people suffer if it is passed, and it is a general attack on women’s rights.
Handle: Poverty, Adoption, domestic violence, child abuse, starvation/hunger, childhood diseases and other pressing issues related to babies and young people before even talking about something like this.
-brenlaws
“Perry wants women to know that there are other options and a lot of support should a woman choose not to terminate her pregnancy.”
I’ll believe that when I stop seeing Republicans trying to cut social services. Doesn’t Perry know that these children
will be sucking up WIC, CHIP and SNAP benefi ts for the next 18 years. Where will the money come from if these 80,000 lives are added to to rolls of state and federal programs? And if these kids don’t get these social services, what kind of lives are they going to lead?
Oh well, it is better to ignore the issues of the current budget shortfall so we can focus on making that problem even worse. Because if people knew how screwed up Texas fi nances are, even while we have had the best economy in the U.S., they would remove their incompetent leaders from the state legislature and governor’s offi ce. Ignorance is bliss.
-Joshuaism
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overtime
FOOTBALLConference schedule unveiled
The Cougars will head to El Paso to do battle against UTEP on Oct. 1 to open up Conference USA play.
Afterward will be a three-game homestand when the Cougars host East Carolina on Oct. 8, Marshall on Oct. 22 and conclude with the Bayou Bucket against Rice on Oct. 29.
The next week the Cougars will head to Birming-ham, Ala., to match up with UAB. A week later UH will travel to New Orleans to play Tulane on Nov. 12.
The last home game of the season is a Nov. 19 duel with SMU. The regular season concludes Nov.
26 at Tulsa. — Cougar Sports Services
SOCCERUH gains three prospects
The Cougars added some depth with a trio of midfielders Tuesday.
Sharis Lachappelle is a senior at Johnson High School in San Antonio.
“She is regarded as one of the most talented and versatile players to come out of Texas in 2011,” head coach Susan Bush said in a release. “She can virtually play any position on the field and will be an immediate impact for the program. She is a natural leader, competitive — and has unlimited potential. Sharis will likely see time in the center of the field or possibly on the front line.”
Kelsey Zamora is a senior at Fort Bend Austin and can also play the forward position.
“She’s a spark plug with outstanding pace and drive to run at the opposing team’s defense,” Bush said. “She is a goal scorer who can strike the ball with both feet.”
The last prospect is Alexis Weaver, who is a senior at South Alaya High School in Chino, Calif.
“Alexis has an incredible burst of speed in her first step,” Bush said.
“She has the ability to compete for time anywhere on the field in the fall of 2011.”
— Cougar Sports Services
SWIMMING & DIVINGLonghorns top UH
The Cougars put forth a valiant effort against No. 4-ranked Texas at the third annual Sprint for the Cure but fell short 77-60.
As a consolation, the event was able to raise $1000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer.
“It’s so important to us that we put on this fund-raiser,” swimming head coach Mark Taylor said.
“We’re so pleased with the money raised, but even more importantly we’re happy to help spread awareness about this disease that affects so many of us.”
— Cougar Sports Services
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
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Cougarssearching for cure to end skid
UH soars over Owls, extends streak to 10
Joachim ClarkeTHE DAILY COUGAR
In the midst of a fi ve-game losing streak the Cougars return home looking for answers. UH will take on the Tulane Green Wave on Saturday at home, in what equates to a must-win game if the Cougars want to become a threat in Conference USA.
The Cougars (11-11, 3-6 C-USA) have struggled as of late, giving away late leads. Four of the fi ve losses were by margins of fi ve points or less.
Senior guard Adam Brown — who leads the team with 14.1 points per game — said the team must crank up the intensity in the closing minutes.
“I think we’re playing great basketball,” Brown said. “We just have to fi nish out. I feel like we can compete with all the teams in our conference but we just have to focus our attention on the end of the game.”
Tulane (12-11, 2-8) can perhaps relate to the Cougars’ struggle. Going 10-3 against non-conference oppo-nents and posting wins in its fi rst two conference games, the Green Wave looked to be a serious contender in C-USA earlier in the season.
The Wave’s strong start is now a distant memory, as its produc-tion has dropped drastically since then. Tulane comes into Saturday’s matchup riding an eight-game losing streak.
The Cougars, however, know that a victory Saturday will not come easily.
Senior forward Maurice McNeil said it would be a mistake to under-estimate Tulane.
“They’re going to be hungry too,” McNeil said.
“We’re going to have to make them match our energy.”
The game starts at 4 p.m. Satur-day at Hofheinz Pavilion. The game will be broadcast on 790 AM KBME.
Lance Jaramillo THE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars throttled cross-town rival Rice 71-51 to remain perfect in conference play Thursday at Hofheinz Pavilion.
Cougar point guard Porsche Landry roared down the court and weaved through the lane at will, pouring in 22 points on 10-17 shooting to fuel the UH (19-4, 10-0 in Conference USA) attack that never trailed in the game.
“I felt like P got us going,” head coach Todd Buchanan said. “Our transition game came back to life, and that was the thing I was most frustrated with.”
The Owls (14-10, 6-4 ) were limited to 35 percent shooting, thanks in large part to the tough defense played in the middle by UH. The Cougars’ defensive effort was sparked by the emotional leader of the night — cen-ter Zalika Dyson.
Dyson — recovering from a knee injury that took her season away a year ago — dominated her 12 minutes on the court with career highs in scoring and rebounding. She recorded eight points, nine rebounds and a block to feed the speedy UH guards in fast break opportunities.
“I felt good today,” Dyson said. “I feel happy about the way we’ve played, and
sometimes you have to step up. I had a lot of heart today because it’s Rice, of course, and I never know which game is going to be my last one.”
When both teams came out after half-time, the Landry and Dyson show took over, doubling UH’s lead to 20 by the fi nal buzzer. Landry’s penetration and Dyson’s three put-back layups brought life to the announced crowd of 627 after a stagnant fi rst half. The team fed off Dyson’s energy off the bench.
“When she came in to the game I felt she changed the game,” Buchanan said. “It wasn’t just about her play, it was also her emotion and her heart.
“She got the crowd in to it. It looked like everybody in the building was going to sleep and I felt like she was completely the difference.”
UH opened with a 8-0 lead that they maintained through a defensive struggle in the fi rst half. Brittney Scott led the effort in the fi rst with her pressure on Rice’s interior defense by hitting contested shots in the lane. Landry followed her lead in the second half, and the Cougars rolled.
The Cougars look to continue their success in C-USA against East Carolina at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Hofheinz Pavilion. The game will be televised on ESPN2.
Landry’s 22 points pace Cougars for seventh in a row over Rice
Forward Brittany Mason contributed a solid performance, chipping in for nine points, seven rebounds, one assist and one steal in the Cougars’ 71-51 win. The Cougars will rest for two days before hosting ECU on Sunday at Hofheinz Pavilion for a nationally-televised contest. | Aaron Cisneros/The Daily Cougar
SOFTBALL
Cougars attempt to start season with big swingGilbert RequenaTHE DAILY COUGAR
The 2011 season gets underway this weekend as the Cougars host the Houston Hilton Plaza Invitational at Cougar Softball Stadium.
The Cougars will participate in the invitational with No. 8 Michigan, Southern Illinois, Ohio and Stephen F. Austin as part of the weekend schedule of games.
“We’re mentally focused and ready to go,” catcher Melissa Gregson said. “We’re
ready for the season to get underway.”The Cougars open up play at 5 p.m.
against Michigan. The last time these two teams squared off in 2009, the Cougars defeated the Wolverines 3-2.
Play continues into Saturday against the Southern Illinois Salukis at 1 p.m., followed by a game against the Ohio Bobcats at 3 p.m.
Last season, the Cougars were 20-18 in doubleheaders, with an 8-11 record in the fi rst game and a 12-7 record in the second game.
The tournament wraps up at 1 p.m.
Sunday against the Stephen F. Austin Lum-berjacks. The Lumberjacks are the reigning Southland Conference champions.
“Everything that we do from here on out sets the tone for the rest of the season,” pitcher Donna Bourgeois said. “We might not win every single game, but we’re going to go in thinking that we’re going to win every single game.
“We have the best coaches, we have the best talent, so why shouldn’t we go and win?”
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ON CAMPUS
Honors documentary hits ‘Home’Terence Yung THE DAILY COUGAR
The Honors College hosted a screening of Rebecca Camissa’s HBO documentary “Which Way Home” on Thursday afternoon. It tells the story of the perilous journey many Latin American immigrants make, with one twist — these migrants are young people, none of them beyond their teens, some of them younger. The stories are so personal that they encourage empathy.
“This documentary about immigration is part of a series of documentaries about immigration sponsored by The Center for the Americas at the University of Hous-ton,” Latin American scholar Lois Parkinson Zamora said. “We bring the documentary makers to talk about the documentaries — that is what makes the series special,”
The documentary offers a new perspective for the discourse on immigration by looking at the impe-tus for leaving the homeland. Some of them appear to be stereotypical cases. Enter Jairo, whose mother died and has since lost his livelihood. He’s been living a meager existence. To escape the streets, he comes to Texas to fi nd a job. But the story is not black and white.
Jairo isn’t here to make money, leave and spend it back in Mexico. His ultimate hope is to be able to afford an education.
Others are motivated to bridge familial divisions. Just nine years old at the time of the documentary, Jose tells his story. He wants to be with his
mother who works in America, so he hops on a bus with a smuggler, who takes him to another smuggler, who takes him to yet another smuggler who takes him to a lady.
The lady jumps ship when authorities storm the vehicle. He is shown answering questions in a detention facility.
Some of them might have done drugs and stolen things. We might call them criminals. We might see them as immoral and unethical. This documentary, though, turns that wisdom on its head. Yurico is one such character. He has been down that alley.
He isn’t like the hardened thieves and the drug addicts. He wants change. He wants a better environ-ment than the streets he lives in. So what does he do? He hops on a train to go to the land of opportunity, the US, and hopes for the best.
Many times, they don’t survive. Poignantly, two of them don’t live to tell about their journey. Rosario and Eloy, who are cousins, were discovered in the hands of the indiscriminate desert where they, like many unnamed before them, fall vic-tim to the danger of their quest. Their parents tell their stories. Rosario, the oldest of the pair, was just sixteen years old.
“This documentary should affect UH students,” Zamora said. “Because immigration is our most important civil rights issue now in the US.”
The goal is, as Zamora remarks, to make UH students “more aware of the need for the US to devise an immigration policy that works for
everyone concerned: immigrants and their families in the US, and workers and companies in the US.”
Ultimately, the documentary participates and changes the nature of discourse on immigration. Americans view the issue as a pre-dominantly political one.
But Camissa’s documentary reminds us that there are civil, cul-tural, social and personal concerns that are just as — if not more — important. They are the difference between life and death.
Zamora comments that the series “emphasizes ‘documentary diplomacy’; that is, the increasing importance of video advocacy as a tool for social justice.” She says, “We’ve seen the power of visual media in the recent events in Cairo, Tunisia, and before, in Iran. In short, this documentary shows the dire circumstances of children who leave Honduras and make their way on foot through Guatemala to Mexico, then jump on trains to try to make it to the US.”
Rebecca Camissa’s documentary challenges us to look ourselves in the mirror and re-evaluate our stereotypes and our policies. Can we justify a policy that separates families? Can we refuse Yurico the chance to live in a better environ-ment? Can we say that all migrants from south of the border found with contraband are smugglers, thieves and drug addicts? Can we deny a child the opportunity to pursue an education?
playlistplaylist » » The weekend is here playlist
I t’s Friday, Coogs, which means that another long week is behind us. For some, this was the week in which the fi rst of many all-
nighters were pulled, the fi rst tests of the semester were admin-istered and the fi rst batch of lengthy essays were due. We know the feeling, folks. Here’s a playlist of songs to pull you out of that horribly-long-week slump. Don’t forget to have fun — that’s what they invented the weekend for. — Mary Baak
Girls With AccentsFences
Don’t Let Me Sleep in My ShoesEzra Holbrook
Pursuit of HappinessKiD CuDi
After HoursWe Are Scien-tists
Dancing ShoesArctic Mon-keys
We Don’t Want Your BodyStars
No PauseGirl Talk
The Way We Get BySpoon
Kids Chiddy Bang
Time to PretendMGMT
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Ryan PophamTHE DAILY COUGAR
Though Channing Tatum has received a lot of criticism for seem-ingly sub-par acting skills, he is a well-spoken and friendly individual in conversation. When speaking to him about his newest fi lm, “The Eagle,” he was not at all like the char-acters we’ve seen him portray in the past. In fact, he is more relaxed and engaging than one would think.
With his character Marcus Aquila in “The Eagle,” Tatum strays away from his usual castings — like those in the romantic drama “Dear John,” and the fi rst two installments in the “Step Up” series — and into a more serious, heroic role as a young Roman soldier seeking honor.
“As an actor, I really want to do as many different things that I can,” Tatum said. “I think that helps you stretch and grow — being a young actor and not having a lot of experi-ence when I started, I’ve had to do a lot of learning on set.
“My two favorite movies are Braveheart and Gladiator, so I’ve always dreamed of doing something in this world, with the themes of honor and duty and absolute faith in a responsibility to one’s country are themes that I’ve always enjoyed.”
Tatum explained that director and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald provided accuracy and realism to the role.
“Kevin is the reason I was really drawn to the project,” he said. “I thought ‘Touching The Void,’ ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and ‘State of
Play’ were some of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. With (Mac-donald) doing a Roman epic, I was fi rst in line. I really sought out the project and Kevin — he’s so specifi c in what he really wants.”
Filming on-location in Hungary and Scotland provided two extremes in the amount of diffi culty for the fi lm crew.
“Hungary was fairly simple,” Tatum said. “I mean, we were there for about fi ve weeks, we shot pretty much the entire fi rst half of the movie there.”
The highlands in Scotland were completely different, however.
“If you’ve ever been to Scotland, you know not to go in
the winter and to not go to the highlands,” he said. “It was pretty grueling. I’ve never been in such an intense situation. We were basically the coldest and wettest we’ve ever been — and it was something we had to look forward to every day.”
Despite the filming difficulties, Tatum fared particularly well with his co-stars Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong — all of whom he learned from. He had nothing but positive things to say about working alongside experi-enced and standard-driven actors.
“(Donald Sutherland) is a true legend,” Tatum said. “The most beautiful thing about Donald and some of the other older actors I’ve gotten to work with is that they still really love it. He’s been acting longer than I’ve been alive — I mean, he’s been in things like ‘The Dirty Dozen’ and ‘M.A.S.H.’ He’s one of these guys who’s been doing it for so long and hasn’t got-ten jaded, he’s got a passion for it.
“It’s a great example for a younger actor like myself,” he said. “If you don’t love it, you can get completely complacent. To watch him after every take go up to the director and wanna make it better — that’s Donald Sutherland — he’s so passionate about what he does, he needs it to be great. That’s a note that anyone can take in anything that they do.”
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Channing Tatum stars in the Roman epic adventure ‘The Eagle,’ a Focus Features fi lm directed by Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald. | Courtesy of Focus Features
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