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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Sideways (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, March 25<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, March 26 & 27<BR>
4:15/7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5 adults<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday shows<BR>
<B>(See Review Below)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2><I>Esther<BR>
</I></H2></FONT>Showing of videotaped performance of this original family musical<BR>
<B>March 26, 1:00 PM<BR>
FREE<BR>
(more information below)<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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University of Idaho presents<BR>
<H2>American Indian Film Festival<BR>
</H2><B>March 30</B> Ceremonial Opening<BR>
With Hearts & Hands & Bells<BR>
<B>March 31</B> American Indian Graffiti<BR>
<B>April 1</B> Moccasin Flats and Chiefs<BR>
<B>April 2</B> The Films of Shelly Niro<BR>
All events begin at <B>7:00 PM<BR>
FREE<BR>
(more information below)<BR>
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</B>ONE DAY ONLY-<BR>
<FONT SIZE="5"><B>Hotel Rwanda</B> (PG13)<BR>
</FONT><B>Sunday, April 3<BR>
1:30/4:15/7:00 PM<BR>
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Coming in April to the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
The U.S. premiere of a romantic comedy by Uniontown playwright, Bruce Gooch<BR>
<H2>Random Acts of Love<BR>
</H2>April 6 - 9, 7:30 PM<BR>
April 9, 2:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $15/adult, $9/senior or student<BR>
TicketsWest or BookPeople<BR>
<B>(more information below)<BR>
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<B>The Life Aquatic</B> (R)<BR>
April 10, 1:30/4:15/7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>An evening of Bluegrass</B> with<BR>
Steptoe<BR>
Blackberry Jam<BR>
South Hill Ramblers<BR>
April 15, 7:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $10/adult, $7/child under 13<BR>
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<B>A Series of Unfortunate Events</B> (PG)<BR>
April 16, 1:00/3:45/7:00 PM<BR>
April 17, 1:00/3:45<BR>
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Borah Symposium presents<BR>
<B>About Baghdad<BR>
</B>April 17, 7:00 PM<BR>
<B>FREE<BR>
(more information below)<BR>
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<B>A Very Long Engagement</B> (R)<BR>
April 22, 7:00 PM<BR>
April 23 - 24, 4:15/7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Born into Brothels</B> (NR)<BR>
April 29, 7:00 PM<BR>
April 30 - May 1, 4:45/7:00 PM<BR>
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Coming in May: The Sea Inside, Hard Goodbyes My Father, Lost Embrace.<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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<B>This week’s review-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Sideways<BR>
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Directed and written by Alexander Payne, based on the novel by Rex Pickett<BR>
Running time: 2 hours, 4 minutes<BR>
Rated R with the following advisory: This film contains nudity, strong sexuality and profanity. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times<BR>
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The specter of a disappointed life hangs over Alexander Payne's film ''Sideways,'' casting shadows so deep and so dark it's a wonder that the story's nearly broken hero hasn't drowned in them. <BR>
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But Miles, beautifully played by Paul Giamatti, hasn't yet been broken by his divorce, unpublished novels and the accumulation of everyday indignities that have helped make him the man he is. And therein lies the great cosmic joke of this heart-piercing film: without struggle and pain, Miles wouldn't be half the good and decent man he is, though he certainly might complain a little less, venture a little more. <BR>
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Directed by Mr. Payne, who adapted the screenplay with his longtime writing partner, Jim Taylor, from the book by Rex Pickett, ''Sideways” is about a man on the verge of saying uncle to life. The film opens with Miles taking off with his longtime friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) to the central California coast for an orchestrated week of wine, golf and camaraderie. <BR>
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Afterward, the two will motor back to reality, where Jack, a B-list actor and pretty boy fast on the fade, will marry for the first time. For Miles, eagerly waiting word on the fate of yet another manuscript, the week promises a much-needed respite from his day-to-day; for Jack, it's an excuse to beat a quick if temporary retreat from the future. <BR>
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That the two men may end up running in opposite directions is suggested as soon as they slam the car doors on the way toward their adventure. Eyes wild with excitement, Jack grabs a bottle of warm sparkling wine, pops the cork and in a single gesture turns a rarefied pleasure into a party-animal's aperitif. Although horror washes across him, Miles endures Jack's guzzling for a reason. <BR>
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A writer by vocation, a schoolteacher by profession, Miles maintains the posture of an initiate when it comes to wine. But there's an aspect of a grand passion underneath his tasting notes about color, smell and rim versus core, and it's clear that Miles, who shares Apollo's sense of order and reason, also secretly admires the wildness and chaos embodied by the Dionysus riding shotgun in his car. <BR>
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The friends finally settle into a dumpy hotel in the faux-Danish tourist trap known as Solvang. There, amid trips to local wineries, they hook up with a sad-eyed waitress, Maya (Virginia Madsen), with whom Miles has a vague acquaintance, and a lusty wine pourer, Stephanie (Sandra Oh), whom Jack picks up along with some cases of wine. <BR>
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While Jack and Stephanie unceremoniously dispatch their clothes, Miles and Maya begin a slow, tentative dance. Miles leads by explaining his love of pinot noir, a notoriously difficult grape to cultivate that can nonetheless yield sublime delights; it's a delicate and rather precarious metaphor that Maya answers by looking deep into Miles's eyes, taking hold of one of his hands and baring herself to him completely. <BR>
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A small masterpiece, this exquisitely shaped scene shows just how far Mr. Payne has come as a director, especially of actors. It took courage to cast Mr. Giamatti in the central role, not because he isn't up to the challenge, but because he's neither pretty nor a star, two no-no's in the contemporary film industry. (It took similar daring to cast Mr. Church and Ms. Madsen, who each repay Mr. Payne's gift wonderfully.) But it takes more than courage to push actors to their limits of their talents, which Mr. Payne does here. You need to understand that the truth of both a human being and a screen performance doesn't exist only in grace and beauty, but in small fissures and cracks, in the tiny vein on Miles's forehead that throbs out the rhythm of his anguish. <BR>
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American movies are filled with actors who loudly beat their chests on their way to the Academy Awards. Although Miles throws a few tantrums, including an encounter with Jack in a dusty vineyard that begins with a comic flourish then pivots into sorrow, Mr. Giamatti doesn't indulge in the usual screen histrionics in ''Sideways.'' <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun Times<BR>
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"There was a tasting last night," Miles Raymond explains, on one of those alcoholic mornings that begin in the afternoon and strain eagerly toward the first drink. That's why he's a little shaky. He's not an alcoholic, you understand; he's an oenophile, which means he can continue to pronounce French wines long after most people would be unconscious. We realize he doesn't set the bar too high when he praises one vintage as "quaffable." No wonder his unpublished novel is titled The Day After Yesterday; for anyone who drinks a lot, that's what today always feels like.<BR>
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Miles is the hero of Alexander Payne's "Sideways," which is as lovable a movie as "Fargo," although in a completely different way. He's an English teacher in middle school whose marriage has failed, whose novel seems in the process of failing, whose mother apparently understands that when he visits her, it is because he loves her, and also because he needs to steal some of her money. Miles is not perfect, but the way Paul Giamatti plays him, we forgive him his trespasses, because he trespasses most of all against himself.<BR>
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Miles' friend Jack is getting married in a week. They would seem to have little in common. Jack is a big, blond, jovial man at the peak of fleshy middle-aged handsomeness, and Miles looks like -- well, if you know who Harvey Pekar is, that's who Giamatti played in his previous movie. But Jack and Miles have been friends since they were college roommates, and their friendship endures because together they add up to a relatively complete person.<BR>
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Miles, as the best man, wants to take Jack on a weeklong bachelor party in the California wine country, which makes perfect sense, because whatever an alcoholic says he is planning, at the basic level he is planning his drinking. Jack's addiction is to women. "My best man gift to you," he tells Miles, "will be to get you laid." Miles is so manifestly not layable that for him this would be less like a gift than an exercise program.<BR>
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Of course they meet two women. Maya (Virginia Madsen) is a waitress at a restaurant where Miles has often stopped in the past, to yearn but not touch. She's getting her graduate degree in horticulture, and is beautiful, in a kind way; you wonder why she would be attracted to Miles until you find out she was once married to a philosophy professor at Santa Barbara, which can send a woman down market in search of relief. The next day they meet Stephanie (Sandra Oh), a pour girl at a winery tasting room, and when it appears that the two women know each other, Jack seals the deal with a double date, swearing Miles to silence about the approaching marriage.<BR>
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The women are not plot conveniences, but elements in a complex romantic and even therapeutic process. Miles loves Maya and has for years, but cannot bring himself to make a move because romance requires precision and tact late at night, not Miles' peak time of day. Jack lusts after Stephanie, and casually, even cruelly, fakes love for her even as he cheats on his fiancée.<BR>
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Alexander Payne has made four wonderful movies: "Citizen Ruth," "Election," the Jack Nicholson tragicomedy "About Schmidt," and now this. He finds plots that service his characters, instead of limiting them. The characters are played not by the first actors you would think of casting, but by actors who will prevent you from ever being able to imagine anyone else in their roles. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sam Adams writing for the Philadelphia City Paper<BR>
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Just as it's never too late to change your life for the better, your life is never so screwed up you can't make it worse. That's the semi-inspirational message of Alexander Payne's Sideways, a midlife-crisis comedy which is at once gentle and acute, comforting and terrifying. The split personality makes sense, since at first glance, its pair of wine-country weekenders couldn't be more mismatched. Miles (Paul Giamatti) is a glum, nervous schoolteacher and unpublished novelist; Jack (Thomas Haden Church) is a sun-baked soap-opera actor who's spending the last week before his impending marriage with Miles in the Santa Ynez Valley, shuttling between vineyards and rundown steakhouses with killer wine lists. <BR>
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In movies about male friendship, women inevitably take a back seat, but if the women in Sideways don't get equal time, Payne never treats them like props or plot fixtures. Along with co-writer Jim Taylor, Payne has the knack of giving you the feeling you've walked in on something that's been going on for years, like Miles' long-standing crush on Maya (Virginia Madsen), a pretty waitress at one of those oenophile steak shacks. When Jack goads Miles into asking her out, it's Miles' fantasy come true, but the flesh-and-blood awkwardness of a relationship neither one is ready for quickly takes hold. Jack has no difficulty jumping into bed with Stephanie (Sandra Oh), a winery bartender, but their no-strings-attached sexual relationship gets tangled when Jack discovers she has a young son. Men may be surprised by Jack's self-destructive response to this sudden turn, but I imagine women will be more likely to nod their heads. <BR>
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The film's extended wine metaphor comes to a head when Miles, whose disdain for Merlot verges on pathological, explains his love of the pinot grape: it's delicate, persnickety and grows only with great care—which makes it, of course, a lot like Miles himself. But as Maya reminds him, on a night when their inhibitions almost fall, there's a moment when wine peaks, when it's as good as it's ever going to get. As she talks, the background around her seems to drop away; the focus softens, and Miles stares rapt, and you can feel him falling in love—not just with her, but with her wisdom. Seizing the moment isn't Miles' forte: It takes Maya to point out that the title of his unpublished novel, The Day After Yesterday, is just a complicated way of saying "today." But every moment in Sideways is worth seizing. <BR>
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In some ways, Sideways is a modest movie; ambition too great would ill suit its characters. But it's hardly a modest achievement when real life finds its way onto the screen, even less so when it stays still long enough for you to take a long, soft look at it.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><B>FREE showing of videotaped performance of the family musical, <I>Esther</I></B>.<BR>
</FONT><B>Saturday, March 26, 1:00 PM<BR>
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ESTHER was performed by the Moscow Community Theatre in May of 2003. It is an original musical based on the biblical story, with script, music and lyrics by Myron Schreck. The musical was directed by Jerry Schutz and produced by Cathy Brinkerhoff. It stars Alice Bolin as Esther, Chris Eisele as Haman, and Nick Henderson as the King. The costumes were designed by Liz Brandt, and the choreography was by Lorraine Person, of Festival Dance. The cast, crew, and musicians are filled with local residents. <BR>
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The video of ESTHER is also a local production. It was taped and edited by Dan Moyer of After Image Visual Services, in Moscow. An audio compact disc was recorded by Joel M. Abbott of Audio Production Services, also in Moscow. The performances were recorded live at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.<BR>
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ESTHER tells the story of young orphan in Persia who, either by fortune or by divine intervention, becomes Queen. The King of Persia, at the time, was Achashvayrosh. The biblical story begins with the King banishing his wife for refusing to dance at one of his parties. Then the King has a beauty contest to select the new queen. At the same time, Haman, one of the King's ministers, is trying to increase his political power and remove his enemies, which include the tribe of Yehudeem. Esther captivates the King with her beauty and her intelligence. She has kept it a secret that she is a member of the tribe of Yehudeem. The plot reaches a crisis when Haman obtains a royal decree to kill the Yehudeem, and Esther must find a way to save her people. The musical contains a dozen original songs that represent diverse styles and convey the various themes of the story: love, hope, freedom, nostalgia, the nature of evil, and the power of faith. <BR>
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The video is suitable for the entire family. It runs for approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes. The showing is free and open to the public. <BR>
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<H2>UI American Indian Film Fest March 30-April 2<BR>
</H2><B>Includes Post-Screening Dialogues<BR>
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</B>MOSCOW, Idaho -- Northwest Native American writer Sherman Alexie's latest film effort "49?" will be shown as part of the University of Idaho's American Indian Film Festival March 30 through April 2 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow.<BR>
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<B>All shows begin at 7 p.m.; admission is free and discussions follow the shows.<BR>
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The series is sponsored by UI American Indian Studies Program, Idaho Humanities Council and UI President’s Diversity Initiative Grant. The ceremonial opening Wednesday, March 30, includes a welcome by a tribal elder and keynote messages from UI Professor Georgia Johnson and Washington State University Professor Michael Hays.<BR>
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The schedule of films is:<BR>
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-- <U>Wednesday, March 30, 7:00 PM<BR>
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</U>"<B>With Hearts, Hands and Bells: The Story of the Sister Building on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation</B>," documentary written by Georgia Grady Johnson, directed and produced by Michael Hayes. It depicts life from the late 19th century to the present at the Catholic missionary school in Desmet.<BR>
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-- <U>Thursday, March 31, 7:00 PM<BR>
</U>"<B>American Indian Graffiti</B>," co-directed and written by Steven Judd (Choctaw) and Tvli Jacob (Choctaw/Kiowa); set in contemporary Oklahoma, the ensemble drama tells about the intertwining lives of four Native Americans. It’s a story about friendships that falter, dreams that come true, families that fall apart, and the struggle to survive. <BR>
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-- <U>Friday, April 1, 7:00 PM<BR>
</U>"<B>Moccasin Flats</B>," directed by Randy Redroad (Cherokee). A Native youth is caught between his chance at a college education and his conflict with the "home boys." This gritty drama depicts urban and rural Indian communities across North America.<BR>
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"<B>Chiefs</B>," directed by Daniel Junge, this documentary shows how basketball provides youth with a sense of belonging and camaraderie, a means of achieving victory, and an opportunity to explore life off the reservation. <BR>
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"<B>49?</B>" directed by Sherman Alexie, a short six-minute film on the dance tradition called the 49.<BR>
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-- <U>Saturday, April 2, 7:00 PM<BR>
</U>The Experimental Films of Mohawk Filmmaker Shelly Niro, from Niagra Falls, New York and currently living in Brantford, Ontario. Storytelling through film and installation art, Niro creates roles for native women that give them a voice of strength and community. Her work addresses questions of identity. <BR>
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"<B>It Starts with a Whisper</B>" follows a young Iroquois woman who has grown up on a reservation and her decision about which path to follow in life. <BR>
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"<B>Overweight with Crooked Teeth</B>" frames issues of Native identity by reversing Native stereotypes.<BR>
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"<B>Honey Moccasin</B>," an all-Native comedy-thriller, is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine native identity in the 1990s. Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, the melodrama, performance art, cable access, and “whodunit” unfold. <BR>
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"<B>The Shirt</B>" is an experimental video featuring Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie that uses the tee-shirt to express history and irony.<BR>
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"Our mission is to bring Native-made films to our region in order to deepen our understanding of contemporary Indian life and strengthen intercultural relationships," said Janis Johnson, festival organizer and assistant professor of American Indian Studies at UI. "One of the most compelling ways to tell American Indian stories is through film. This year’s festival includes independent films with a focus on the challenges Native young people face.”<BR>
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<I>Friday daytime showings are possible for school groups by arrangement with Johnson, <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>janjohn@uidaho.edu</U></FONT>, (208) 885-6156 or (208) 743-1222. <BR>
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</B><I>Tickets now on sale</I>-<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 the romantic comedy,<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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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>
<B>$15 adults and $9 seniors/students</B> (plus applicable fees)<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 encounter 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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During their visit to the Palouse in April, Bruce Gooch and Lynn Vogt are offering an <B>audition workshop</B> for actors on <B>Thursday, April 7 from 2:30 – 5:00 pm</B>, at the <I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre</I>. Gooch and Vogt will work with ten students. Additional seating is available for observers. <BR>
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Lynn and Bruce audition for their livelihood up to 10 times a week. They know what casting directors are looking for in film, TV, stage and commercials. They coach actors for individual auditions. They will teach what you need to know about auditions, from walking into the room to walking out. Observers of this workshop will gain almost as much as the participants on stage. Anyone interested in learning more about the life and livelihood of an actor should plan to attend.<BR>
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For more information about the play, audition workshop, or to sign up as an usher for one performance, call Pam Palmer at 883-3741 or 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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Borah Symposium presents “About Baghdad”<BR>
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</B>The Borah Symposium this year, "Voices of Peace," is planned for April 17-April 20, 2005. The community kick-off event is a screening of the documentary "About Baghdad" and meeting with the co-producer, Adam Shapiro. The film is free and open to the public, 7:00 pm, April 17. The documentary, 'About Baghdad' is an hour and 30 minute documentary, shot in totality in Baghdad in July 2003 (3 months into the occupation), and thus it reveals a quite interesting place in time. <BR>
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"About Baghdad" received numerous accolades and prestigious recognition; The New York Times stated that it "manages to present a true diversity of opinion. . . emotionally and intellectually challenging." It won Best Documentary at the Big Apple Film Festival 2004 <I>(NY), the </I>Official Selection of IDFA 2004<I> (Amsterdam), </I> Montreal World Film Festival --Official selection, Festival do Rio 2004 (Rio de Janeiro), International Film Festival of Human Rights of Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Girona & Viranoz)<B> </B><I>and now it will be showing in <B>Moscow, Idaho</B>.</I> <BR>
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<I>About Baghdad</I> is an independent film of eyewitness testimony about and from Iraqi people. The documentary portrays a yearning for peace, reflections on the complexity of the conditions for peace, and in essence portrays a drama that is still unfolding. In July 2003, Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to see what has become of his city after wars, sanctions, decades of oppression and violence, and now presence of foreign power. <BR>
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<B>The documentary will be introduced by one of its producers; Adam Shapiro (Please note the change form Dr. Rania Masri who regrettably is unable to attend)</B> Comments and conversation with Co-Producer Adam Shapiro, currently a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at American University in Washington, DC. He holds an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and an MA in Politics from New York University.<BR>
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, Adam is a founding member of InCounter Productions, which produced the film "About Baghdad" (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>www.aboutbaghdad.com</U></FONT>), a documentary filmed in Baghdad, Iraq in July 2003. Adam co-produced and co-directed the film, and was in Iraq as part of the on-location film crew. His current film project is focusing on Darfur (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>www.darfurfilm.org</U></FONT>), where he filmed in October/November 2004. The documentary film is due to be completed in March 2005.<BR>
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Previously Adam served in numerous capacities for Seeds of Peace, notably as the first Director of the Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem, where he oversaw all youth programs in the region. He also worked as a consultant for Civic Forum - a Jerusalem-based Palestinian NGO working on developing civil society and democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Adam has traveled the region extensively and in addition to the West Bank has lived and worked in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus and Iraq. Additionally, he has organized youth conferences in Villars, Switzerland and Prague, Czech Republic.<BR>
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Adam has spoken widely about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and about the post-war occupation of Iraq, appearing at universities and other public forums throughout the United States and the Middle East, and has been a guest on many television and radio programs and interviewed for newspaper articles, including CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Pacifica Radio and the New York Times. He has also published articles in The Nation.<BR>
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For more information about the film and to view the film trailer please visit the website at www.AboutBaghdad.com <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.aboutbaghdad.com/</U></FONT>> <BR>
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