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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>Two films this week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512"><I>Moscow Volunteer Fire Department</I></FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#181512"> presents a special showing of<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Ladder 49 (PG13)</B></FONT></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#181512"> <BR>
Friday, March 4<BR>
7:00 pm<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000"><I>This event is part of the annual fund drive.<BR>
</I></FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#181512">Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door,<BR>
available</FONT> at BookPeople or Fire Station #3, <FONT COLOR="#181512">229 </FONT>Pintail Lane.<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#181512"><I><BR>
</I>This dramatic movie follows the Baltimore Firefighters as they save lives and property fighting fires.<BR>
The movie provides a very realistic portrayal of what it takes to be a firefighter.<BR>
<B>(See full text of press release below)<BR>
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</B></FONT><B>Academy Award Winner for Best Original Score<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Finding Neverland (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Saturday & Sunday, March 5 & 6<BR>
1:00/4:30/7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5 adults, $2 children 12 and younger<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday shows<BR>
<B>(See Review Below)<BR>
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<B>Closed for Spring Break<BR>
</B>March 11 – 18<BR>
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Also in March at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>Tarnation (NR)<BR>
</B>March 19 – 20<BR>
4:45/7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Sideways (R)<BR>
</B>March 25, 7:00 PM<BR>
March 26 – 27 4:15/7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adults, $2 children 12 and younger. <BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
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</TT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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University of Idaho presents<BR>
<H2>American Indian Film Festival<BR>
</H2><B>All events begin at 7:00 PM<BR>
FREE<BR>
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March 30 <BR>
<B>Ceremonial Opening<BR>
With Hearts & Hands & Bells<BR>
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March 31<BR>
<B><I>American Indian Graffiti<BR>
</I></B><BR>
April 1 <BR>
<B><I>Moccasin Flats</I> and <I>Chiefs<BR>
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April 2<BR>
<B>The Films of Shelly Niro<BR>
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</B>Coming in April 2005 at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<H2><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre<BR>
</I></H2>in conjunction with </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Helvetica"><B>new </B></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Helvetica"><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">fangled</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">stages</FONT></B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"><I>,<BR>
</I>presents the United States premiere of<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B><I>Random Acts of Love</I></B></FONT></FONT> <B>by Bruce Gooch<BR>
</B>Directed by Forrest Sears<BR>
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<B>April 6, 7, 8, & 9 at 7:30 pm<BR>
Matinee on April 9 at 2:00 pm<BR>
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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</B>Tickets now on sale, $15 adults and $9 seniors/students (plus applicable fees)<BR>
Tickets available at <I>BookPeople of Moscow </I>or <I>TicketsWest</I> <BR>
(www.ticketswest.com <http://www.ticketswest.com/> 800-325-SEAT, 208-885-7212).<BR>
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Forrest Sears, University of Idaho Professor Emeritus of Theatre, is working with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> to bring this production to the Palouse. Sears, in speaking about his former student Bruce Gooch, says, “Bruce’s new play, <I>Random Acts of Love</I>, is the most romantic, gripping and compelling of all his many fine scripts. For lovers of Shakespeare, it is a must. For those new to the bard, it will lure you into his works like nothing else I know.”<BR>
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Recognized as “<B>Outstanding New Play</B>” at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2004, <I>Random Acts of Love</I> features Bruce Gooch, a Uniontown native and University of Idaho alum, and Lynn Vogt, co-founders of Toronto-based <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><B>new </B></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">fangled</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">stages</FONT></B>.<BR>
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<U>Synopsis<BR>
</U>Having had the audacity to age, Victoria Daniels, played by Vogt, has been “let go” from her daytime drama. She ditches trash-for-cash television and agrees to star in a two-character play of Shakespeare’s greatest hits called <I>The Seven Ages of Love</I>. Confident in this decision for herself and her children, she runs head long into her co-star, Russell Thomas, played by Gooch, an actor with whom she had a passionate affair fifteen years earlier. They battle and brawl their way through rehearsals, threatening to ruin the show. <I>Random Acts of Love</I> links the past and present into a love story about the theatre, Shakespeare and second chances.<BR>
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For more information about the play, visit the web site of <B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre </I></B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Finding Neverland<BR>
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Directed by Marc Forster; written by David Magee, based on the play ''The Man Who Was Peter Pan'' by Allan Knee; <BR>
Running Time: 1hr, 48 minutes<BR>
''Finding Neverland'' is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). The film contains a genteel death scene, demure suggestions of adult intimacy and some mild pirate action. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Mark Sells writing for the Oregon Herald<BR>
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Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, the Darling children and their adventure to Neverland with Tinkerbell and the nefarious Captain Hook. But how many know the story of J.M. Barrie, the eccentric author of the whimsical tale? And better yet, how many know how the famed classic came to life? <BR>
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Adapted from the Allan Knee stage play, "The Man Who Was Peter Pan," "Finding Neverland" represents a fictional account of Barrie's creative life and the inspirations that helped bring "Peter Pan" to the stage. Playfully heartwarming, it features another phenomenal performance by Johnny Depp in the leading role. For, in "Finding Neverland," the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction are blurred, leaving behind a magical, wondrous world where anything is possible, if you just believe. <BR>
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"Finding Neverland" is first and foremost a fictional depiction of the evolution of "Peter Pan." While many of the characters and situations are real, the actual timing and specifics are played with and altered in a way that elevates a static, verbatim translation into a magical, inspiring one. This is terrific, adaptive screenwriting by David Magee, expanding on the Allan Knee play, which exists predominantly as a series of conversations between Barrie and the Davies' boys. Most noticeably, the script elaborates on the relationship between James Barrie and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies - creating an atypical romance, one that emphasizes need and friendship over expressive and active love. This took a leap of faith because the reality is that their romance began while Sylvia's husband Arthur was still alive. And despite skepticism about Barrie's involvement with his wife and children, Arthur actually became friends with Barrie. In fact, Barrie even stayed by Arthur's bedside until his death in 1907. <BR>
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Directed by Marc Forster, known for "Monster's Ball" and "Everything Put Together," "Finding Neverland" is the perfect blend of reality and fantasy, tragedy and triumph, laughter and tears. In much the same way as Barrie infused imagination and whimsy into "Peter Pan," the film reciprocates by infusing imagination and whimsy into Barrie's life story. <BR>
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Coming off another successful year, which included both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, Johnny Depp once again shines, this time as Scottish playwright, J.M. Barrie. Depp is perfectly at home as Barrie, someone who easily slips into the role because of his own boyish looks and childhood spirit. And his embodiment of Barrie comes across as a fluid, natural extension of his own personality. <BR>
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"Peter Pan, Or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" celebrated its 100th anniversary. And "Finding Neverland" is an appropriate spin on the classic story that has been made and re-made hundreds of times. But unlike a simple telling of the spriteful tail, it delves into Barrie's life to re-invent itself with a different twist, all the while capturing the spontaneous joy and affection of the beloved original. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times<BR>
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Steeped in melancholy, the strange story of J.M. Barrie, the Victorian who wrote ''Peter Pan,'' has the makings of a marvelous tale and one doozy of a case history. Born in Scotland in 1860, Barrie was a playwright and novelist who, after meeting a family stuffed with young boys, created in 1904 a classic of children's literature. In the years since, ''Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'' has been revisited numerous times, as in the splendid 1952 Disney animation, and has become an emblem for everlasting youth, both healthy and less so. <BR>
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As Barrie in ''Finding Neverland,'' a handsome-looking film about the writer and his unripe inspirations, the actor Johnny Depp neither soars nor crashes, but moseys forward with vague purpose and actorly restraint. Based on the play by Allan Knee, ''The Man Who Was Peter Pan,'' and directed by Marc Forster, the film mainly concerns the period during which Barrie met and befriended Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her brood of boys. Adrift in a marriage with a former actress (Radha Mitchell) with whom he enjoyed neither friendship nor bedroom intimacy, Barrie took to the Davies family like a famished man. What began as play-dates in the park soon evolved into a grand passion. <BR>
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The geography of that passion remains inexact. Barrie loved the boys and some of the boys loved him, and it was a relationship that provided giggles and gossip. The idea that a grown man would be smitten by children sounds alarming to contemporary ears. But well-to-do Victorians shrouded their progeny in sentimentality (the poor dispatched theirs to factories and fields) and there exists no evidence that Barrie's interest in the boys was anything other than chastely romantic. At the same time, his attentions were undeniably instrumental. The boys inspired Barrie to create his greatest, most lasting work and he stayed closely involved in their lives until death <BR>
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Like so many holiday movies with Academy Award aspirations, ''Finding Neverland'' is the kind of film where even the smallest crack has been sealed. Instead of real quirks, strange habits, moments of everyday gas, gurgle and grunting, movies like this give us sumptuous production design, meticulous costumes and stories meant to leave us dewy-eyed and thoughtful, if never actually disturbed. J.M. Barrie was a genius of sorts, a richly complex man who carved out a separate realm with the Davieses that helped shelter him from the storms inside and out. But ''Peter Pan'' wasn't just a fanciful story about charming children; it was also about Barrie's own desire to never grow up, a yearning that the filmmakers chalk up to the banal desire of an adult trying to hold onto his imagination. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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Moscow Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Department Press Release<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#181512">For Immediate Release: 14 February 2005<BR>
Contact: Volunteer Bob Wakefield, 882.5939, e-mail: <colbob@moscow.com><BR>
Susan S. Franko, <I>PageDesign</I>, 208.882.2601 <sfranko@moscow.com><BR>
Note: <B>Digital Images Available</B> from Franko<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Ladder 49</B></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#181512"> Movie for Moscow Volunteer Fire Department<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512">The Moscow Volunteer Fire Department, as part of its annual fund drive, is proud to present a special showing of<I> Ladder 49</I>, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center on <B>March 4, 2005, at 7:00 pm</B>. This dramatic movie follows the Baltimore Firefighters as they save lives and property fighting fires. The movie provides a very realistic portrayal of what it takes to be a firefighter.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512">Tickets are available from the receptionist at Station Three, 229 Pintail Lane, adjacent to Highway 95-north during business hours; BookPeople in downtown Moscow, or one of your friendly firefighters or EMTs. One of the 86 volunteers may be your neighbor; you may obtain your ticket from him or her. Tickets are $10.00 in advance, $12.00 at the door. There are only 300 seats available, so purchase accordingly. If you cannot attend, but wish to contribute, please visit Station Three or mail your check to: Moscow Volunteer Fire Department, 229 Pintail Lane, Moscow ID 83843.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512">In 2004, your firefighters and EMTs volunteered for 8,335 hours of training– a determined commitment. Support of a paid department comparable to Moscow’s City and Rural organization would cost taxpayers approximately 3.5 million dollars. The training and performance record of your volunteer department is essential to maintaining the Class Three insurance rating obtained through a focused effort of preparedness. That rating means lower insurance premiums for residents and businesses. <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512">The performance record of Moscow’s city and rural volunteer department is comparable to many paid departments. The more than 4,500 hours donated to the community for responses to fire and ambulance calls in 2004, is in addition to these volunteers’ training hours.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512">The volunteers’ budget supports the resident program, which is building the foundation of our growing accredited training program. The availability of these residents at night increases our response times to nighttime calls. Twenty-six University of Idaho students volunteer for the department, meet the training hours standard, and keep up with their university responsibilities. The upkeep of Station One, downtown, is also funded by the volunteers’ budget.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#181512">Our budget depends on fund raising. As you depend on us, we depend on you. Please join us at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center to support and honor Moscow’s firefighters and EMTs. Your ticket purchase will help us reach our goal of $70,000.<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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