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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>Dear Frankie (PG13)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, June 17<BR>
7:00 PM & 9:30 PM<BR>
Sunday, June 19<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adults, $2/children 12 and under<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday shows<BR>
<B>(See Review below)<BR>
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</B>WonderWorks presents <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Cool Cat<BR>
</H2></FONT>by Elizabeth Eagles, with music by Dan Bukvich<BR>
<B>Saturday, June 18<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets- $6, children under 3 years are free<BR>
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On Saturday, June 18, at 7:30 PM, Wonder Works will present “Cool Cat,”<BR>
written and directed by Elizabeth Eagles with music by Dan Bukvich. This<BR>
premier evening of theatre, music, and dance features the Gemberling<BR>
Brothers, guest choreographer Greg Halloran, and dancers from the University<BR>
of Idaho Center for Dance and Spectrum II Dance Studio. Tickets are $6 for<BR>
adults. Children under age 3 are free. Tickets can be purchased at<BR>
BookPeople prior to the performance or at the door.<BR>
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A silent art auction will take place in the lobby of the theater before the<BR>
performance and during intermission.<BR>
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<B>Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
</B><H2>Summer Matinee Series<BR>
</H2><U>Thanks to the following Wednesday matinee sponsors:<BR>
</U>Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club, Tom & JoAnn Trail, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo Bank<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Wednesday, June 22<BR>
1:00 & 3:15 PM<BR>
</B>$1/ages 12 and under, $4/ages 13 and over<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="5">Moscow Documentary Film Premieres at Kenworthy<BR>
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The premiere showing of the documentary film, “<B>My Town</B>,” is scheduled for <B>7pm on Thursday, June 23</B>, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center in downtown Moscow. The 70 minute film by Washington State University Associate Professor Michael Hayes focuses on the cultural clash in Moscow involving Christ Church Pastor Doug Wilson.<BR>
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In the film Hayes includes interviews with Wilson, his brother Evan Wilson, New St. Andrews College Dean Roy Atwood, as well as community representatives including JoAnn Muneta, Bill London, and Rosemary Huskey. Hayes also includes film of Wilson’s history conference and the controversy regarding Wilson’s pamphlet, “Southern Slavery As It Was.”<BR>
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The suggested donation price for tickets for the premiere are $5, with $3 suggested for seniors, students, and those on fixed income.<BR>
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The premiere is sponsored by the Auntie Establishment and Brother Carl radio show which is heard on Moscow radio station KRFP-FM. Moscow writer Joan Opyr, who appears as Auntie Establishment, explained that all proceeds from the premiere will be donated in support of community radio.<BR>
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Questions about the premiere may be directed to Opyr at 882-6640 or by email to <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>auntiestablishment@hotmail.com<BR>
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<B>June at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>Melinda & Melinda (PG13)<BR>
</B>June 24, 7:00 PM<BR>
June 25, 4:45/7:00/9:15 PM<BR>
June 26, 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Fat Albert (PG)<BR>
</B>Wednesday, June 29<BR>
1:00 & 3:15 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming this summer</B>: Ala Zingara, Racing Stripes, Napoleon Dynamite, Millions, Two Brothers, Because of Winn Dixie, Robots<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger. <BR>
Wednesday matinee prices: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round 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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<B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Dear Frankie (PG13)<BR>
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</H2></FONT>Directed by Shona Auerbach<BR>
Starring Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Sharon Small, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans<BR>
Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes<BR>
Rated PG-13: This film contains some vulgar language.<BR>
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<I><U>As reviewed by Peter Travers writing for Rolling Stone Magazine<BR>
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</U></I></B>Gerard Butler hid his looks behind a mask and disfiguring makeup in The Phantom of the Opera. But onscreen in Dear Frankie, Butler shows sensitivity as well as star quality. He plays a Scottish sailor hired by Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) to pretend he's the father of her son Frankie (Jake McElhone), a deaf nine-year-old living outside Glasgow who knows his crewman dad only from letters, delivered from an ever-traveling cargo ship. In truth, Lizzie writes the letters to protect Frankie from his dad's real identity. What could have been a sentimental train wreck emerges as a funny and touching portrait of three bruised people. First-time director Shona Auerbach refuses to blunt the edges of Andrea Gibb's script. A former photographer, Auerbach shows us the lived-in Scotland, not the postcard version. She does the same favor for the actors. Mortimer uncovers long-buried feelings in Lizzie. And Butler is quietly devastating in his scenes with McElhone, a real find. The film is unhurried, unslick and easy to hold dear.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Gene Seymour writing for Newsday<BR>
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</U></I></B>Tender, gritty little story, set in Scotland, is about a deaf boy (Jack McElhone) who gets letters from his seafaring "father" that are actually written by his mother (Emily Mortimer). Events beyond her control force her to find a real person to stand in for the fake dad.<BR>
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There's a cool, gray overlay to "Dear Frankie" that effectively neutralizes any impulse to extract gratuitous tears. Certainly, the premise of Andrea Gibb's script all but begs for the usual "It Will Touch Your Heart" blurbs.<BR>
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An intelligent, hearing-impaired 9-year-old boy (Jack McElhone), residing in a Scottish seaside town with his mother (Emily Mortimer) and grandmother (Mary Riggans), lives for each letter he gets from his father, who's supposedly sailing the world on a merchant ship.<BR>
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But the letters, even their richly detailed accounts of equatorial sunsets, are actually written and posted by his mother, who's been on the run from his real - and abusive - dad.<BR>
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Imagine her surprise when the boy finds out that a ship bearing the same name as the one in the letters is about to dock in their port. Now, she has to frantically find someone to go along with her story and, with a neighbor's help, finds a brooding, weathered seaman (Gerard Butler) with "no past, no family" to pretend to be father to her son.<BR>
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"Dear Frankie" never conspicuously begs for your empathy and neither does Mortimer, who carefully metes out her character's skittish mannerisms. Butler, McElhone and the rest of the cast are comparably, admirably settled into what would, under more moist conditions, come across as hackneyed and maudlin. Their composure, along with that of director Shona Auerbach, enables "Dear Frankie" to earn whatever heart-touching epithets it's destined to attract.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Michael O'Sullivan writing for the Washington Post <BR>
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I'm a SUCKER for daddy movies. <BR>
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I can trace the onset of my hypersensitivity to such films (meaning I get misty-eyed and inarticulate anywhere near stories revolving around the relationship between a father and child, especially a boy) to the birth of my own son 5 1/2 years ago. The first symptoms became apparent barely eight months later, during a screening of the 2000 sci-fi thriller "Frequency," which concerns a man who has stumbled upon the ability to communicate with -- sniffle, sniffle -- his dead father through ham radio.<BR>
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Now what was I saying? <BR>
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Oh, yes. Since then, this condition has flared up almost every time I watch something dealing with the bond between a boy and his dad, with the notable exception of garbage like the execrable "Son of the Mask." Look, I said I was susceptible, not stupid. <BR>
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Recently it hit me again during a screening of "Dear Frankie." Set in Scotland, the surprisingly charming tale centers on a cute 9-year-old boy, Frankie (Jack McElhone), whose mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), has been on the run from the boy's father for years, ever since the old man hit Frankie hard enough to make the boy go deaf. (Wait. Before you say anything, I <I>know</I> it's manipulative. And I don't care.) <BR>
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All these years, Lizzie has been sheltering Frankie, who, having been too young at the time of the incident, never learned the truth about his father's abuse. Thanks to the fake letters that Lizzie has been writing to Frankie from his absent "father," who Frankie thinks is a globe-trotting seaman aboard a cargo ship, Frankie still has a good relationship with his imaginary parent. The problem is that dad's ship is actually about to come in, docking in Frankie's town any day now -- without, of course, dad on it. <BR>
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Enter the fake father (Gerard Butler), a stranger Lizzie hires to act as Frankie's daddy for a day, courtesy of a recommendation from Lizzie's boss in the fish-and-chips shop (Sharon Small). Wouldn't you know it? The stranger turns out not just to be great with the kid (after some initial awkwardness that could be explained away by the fact that he hasn't seen his "son" in eight years), but to be tall, dark and handsome, too. Something for Frankie and something for mommy. <BR>
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I know, I know: way too easy. <BR>
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Actually, it isn't. I'm pleased to report that, within this overly familiar trope, there's plenty of room for small surprises, not the least of which are delightful, understated performances all around. Guided by Shona Auerbach's sensitive direction, screenwriter Andrea Gibb's story steers well clear of happy-ever-after-land, while still managing to promise a brighter, if less starry-eyed, future for the protagonists. <BR>
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Be forewarned, though. For all but the stone-hearted, it's just too darn hard to resist saying "awww" every time Frankie hugs the man hired to play his daddy. There's something about the special connection shared by a boy and his father (even a fake one), and the quiet way "Dear Frankie" plucks that sweet tune, that just may make a sucker out of you. <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><U>Kenworthy Film Society Passes on sale<BR>
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<B>Kenworthy Film Society pass prices will increase on July 1</B> to $30 for a 10-punch card and $75 for a $30-punch card. <BR>
That's still only $3.00 and $2.50 per movie, respectively -- the best deal on movies in Moscow.<BR>
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Why are prices increasing? Specifically, because the cost of film shipping has increased. <BR>
Generally, because the cost of doing business has increased.<BR>
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<B>Passes can be purchased at the current prices through June 30, 2005, so get yours now.<BR>
</B>Passes are available at BookPeople and at the Kenworthy box office during regular showtimes.<BR>
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Thanks for your continued support of independent and foreign films on the Palouse!<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
</U></FONT>Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT>To speak with a KPAC staff member, <BR>
call (208) 882-4127<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:kpac@moscow.com<BR>
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