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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B><U>Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday<BR>
</U>The U.S. premiere of a romantic comedy by Uniontown playwright, Bruce Gooch<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>
presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Random Acts of Love</B></FONT></FONT></I> <B>by Bruce Gooch<BR>
</B>Directed by Forrest Sears<BR>
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<B>Opening night- Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30 pm<BR>
</B>Sponsored by <I>Above the Rim</I> Gallery and <I>One World Café<BR>
</I>Reception following the show at <I>One World Café<BR>
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Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm<BR>
</B>Sponsored by <I>Moscow Realty </I>and <I>Casa de Lopez<BR>
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<B>Friday, April 8, 7:30 pm<BR>
</B>Sponsored by <I>Wells Fargo</I>, Main Moscow Branch<BR>
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<B>Saturday, April 9 at 2:00 pm<BR>
</B>Sponsored by <I>Latah County Title Company<BR>
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<B>Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 pm<BR>
</B>Sponsored by the Itani family<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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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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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, <B>“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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<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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<B>Preview night</B>, sponsored by <I>Moscow Civic Association http://www.moscowcivic.org</I> is <B>Tuesday, April 5th</B>. <BR>
Reception at 6:30 pm, performance at 7:30 pm. Talk-back with the actors (and playwright) after the show.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Audition workshop</B> for actors<BR>
</FONT></FONT><B>Thursday, April 7, 2:30 – 5:00 pm<BR>
FREE admission<BR>
</B>For anyone interested in learning more about the life and livelihood of an actor.<BR>
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Lynn Vogt and Bruce Gooch, professional actors from Toronto, 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. Gooch and Vogt will work with ten students. Observers will gain almost as much as the participants on stage and are encouraged 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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<B>This Sunday only-<BR>
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Kenworthy Film Society presents<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>The Life Aquatic (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Sunday, April 10<BR>
1:30/4:15/7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5 adults<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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<B>Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
</B><BR>
<B>An evening of Bluegrass music</B> with<BR>
the Spokane-based band, South Hill Ramblers, and local favorites, Blackberry Jam and Steptoe<BR>
April 15, 7:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $10/adult, $7/child under 13<BR>
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The concert is a fund-raiser for future bluegrass concerts at the Kenworthy.<BR>
Tickets $10/adult, $7/child 12 or younger<BR>
Available April 1 at BookPeople of Moscow.<BR>
Tickets may also be purchased with Visa or MasterCard by calling the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre at 208-882-4127.<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>Also in April at the Kenworthy-<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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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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<B>This week’s review-<BR>
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<H2>The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou<BR>
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Directed by Wes Anderson; written by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach<BR>
Running time: 118 minutes.<BR>
Rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has swearing, some partial nudity and a few scenes of bloodshed. This film contains nudity, cartoonlike violence and sexual situations.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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Onscreen, Bill Murray has the deep revolving sadness of a man who expects to be treated like a hero, while possessing none of the qualities that would command such a reaction. This incongruity -- this disconnect between self- conception and reality -- has always been at the source of his comedy, but it's also what makes him more than simply funny. Even as we laugh, we recognize the bitterness and disenchantment as genuine. Who could have guessed, when Murray was in his 20s, that he'd grow into the best comic exemplar of middle-aged misery since W.C. Fields? <BR>
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In "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," director Wes Anderson takes Murray -- an emissary from the land of prose -- and drops him into a poetic landscape. "The Life Aquatic" is a children's book of a movie, with the interior logic of a dream, full of vibrant colors and fantastic visuals. And in the midst of it, keeping all of it from flying away, is Murray, with his sad-sack, satiric face, playing an undersea documentarian going through a personal and professional crisis. <BR>
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The film is often quite funny, but there are no bits and no punch lines. Laughing at any point makes about equal sense. "Sorry I didn't acknowledge your existence all those years," Steve tells the man who might be his son. "It won't happen again." The low-key comic style lets the audience notice the absurdity, while allowing the actors to play the emotions straight. Thus Murray and Wilson are able to achieve a father-son poignancy in their interaction, even though most of their scenes are intentionally and faintly ridiculous. <BR>
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Murray's scenes with Cate Blanchett work similarly. She plays a virtual parody of a crusading journalist, a five-months-pregnant magazine writer interviewing Steve for a "cover story," a prospect that fills him with hope and paranoia. Their conversations satirize the tortured dance of celebrities and reporters. Yet "The Life Aquatic" also takes us into the pain of a working woman, on her own, pregnant by a married lover. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by A. O. Scott writing for the New York Times<BR>
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''The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,'' based on a script by Mr. Anderson and Noah Baumbach conjures up an imaginary world that encompasses wild ocean-faring technologies and fanciful species of computer-animated fish. Rather than tacking toward the shore of realism, Mr. Anderson blithely heads for the open sea of self-indulgent make-believe. As someone who was more annoyed than charmed by ''Tenenbaums,'' I should have been completely exasperated with ''The Life Aquatic,'' with its wispy story and wonder-cabinet production design, but to my surprise I found it mostly delightful. <BR>
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Some of this has to do with Bill Murray, who occupies nearly every frame of the picture, usually sighing and frowning right in the middle of the screen. Mr. Anderson favors static, head-on compositions stuffed with beguiling details, and Mr. Murray holds still for him, allowing the audience's eyes to peruse his carefully arranged surroundings. <BR>
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The actor's quiet, downcast presence modulates the antic busyness that encircles him, and his performance is a triumph of comic minimalism. Like Gene Hackman's Royal Tenenbaum, Mr. Murray's Steve Zissou is a flawed, solipsistic patriarch, though his defining emotion is not intemperate anger but a vague, wistful tristesse. His doughy face fringed by a grizzled Ernest Hemingway beard and topped by a red watch cap, Mr. Murray turns tiny gestures and sly, off-beat line readings into a deadpan tour-de-force, at once utterly ridiculous and curiously touching. <BR>
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Zissou is a famous ocean explorer whose undersea adventures have less to do with scientific research than with pop-culture branding. He makes movies, administers a vast fan club, and keeps his eye out for merchandising opportunities. <BR>
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In my ideal cinémathèque, ''The Life Aquatic'' would play on a permanent double bill with ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.'' Mr. Anderson and Stephen Hillenburg, Mr. Squarepants's creator, share not only a taste for nautical nonsense, but also a willingness to carry the banner of unfettered imaginative silliness into battle against the tyranny of maturity.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<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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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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