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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B>Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club present<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Two Brothers (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Wednesday, July 27<BR>
1:00 PM<BR>
</B>$1/child under 13, $4/adult<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>My Town</B></FONT></FONT>, a film by Michael Hayes<BR>
<B>Thursday, July 28<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult, $3/student or senior<BR>
<B>(See press release below)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 29, 30 & 31<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5 adult, $2 child under 13<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showing<BR>
<B>(see REVIEW below)<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5">Tickets for <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> <BR>
</FONT>available at Moscow Farmers’ Market this Saturday<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
</FONT><H2><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
</I></H2>by Martin McDonagh<BR>
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Directed by Forrest Sears<BR>
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<B>September 8-10 & 15-17 at 7:30 pm<BR>
September 10 & 17 at 2:00 pm<BR>
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</B>Performances at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
<B><BR>
</B>Tickets available at Moscow Farmers’ Market every Saturday through the end of August<B> </B>and at <I>BookPeople of Moscow </I>beginning August 1, 2005<BR>
<B>$15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students<BR>
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Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, in western Ireland, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as extraordinarily funny as it is horrific. <BR>
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<I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> received four Tony Awards in 1998.<BR>
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For more information about the play or to sign up as an usher for one performance, email John Dickinson <johnd@moscow.com> 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><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>“MY TOWN”<BR>
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On <B>Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 PM</B>, the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre will hold an encore showing of the film, "My Town". 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 President 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 screening will be followed by a panel discussion including Roy Atwood, President of New Saint Andrews College; Joe Keim Campbell, WSU Professor of Philosophy; Barbara Richardson Crouch, Director of the Latah Economic Development Council; and Dean Stewart, Pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church. The roundtable discussion will be moderated by Jack Miller, UI Professor of Law.<BR>
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Tickets are $5, general admission and $3, seniors and students. Proceeds from the screening will benefit the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.<BR>
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For more information, call 208-882-4127.<BR>
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Coming next month to the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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Tom and JoAnn Trail present<BR>
<B>Because of Winn Dixie (PG)<BR>
</B>Aug 3 at 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Star Wars Episode III (PG13)<BR>
</B>Aug 5 - 7 at 7:00 PM<BR>
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Wells Fargo Bank presents<BR>
<B>Robots (PG)<BR>
</B>Aug 10 at 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Mr. & Mrs. Smith (PG13)<BR>
</B>Aug 12 - 14 at 7:00 PM<BR>
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Gritman Medical Center presents<BR>
<B>Madagascar (PG)<BR>
</B>Aug 17 at 1:00 PM<BR>
Aug 18 - 21 at 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Howl’s Moving Castle (PG)<BR>
</B>Aug 26 - 28 at 4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<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, Gritman Medical Center<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger. <BR>
<B>Wednesday matinee prices</B>: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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<B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><H2>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<BR>
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Directed by Garth Jennings; written by Douglas Adams and Karey Kirkpatrick, based on the book by Douglas Adams<BR>
Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has gentle scares, fantastical monsters and some zap gun action. <BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 43 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<BR>
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Douglas Adams fans: don't panic. The long-awaited feature film based on the inspired radio show (and subsequent spin-offs) is a respectable tribute to the creation of the late British author and absurdist. <BR>
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To those not acquainted with the story that launched a cottage industry (novels, a TV series, records, etc.), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" begins with the demolition of Earth and ends on a quest to find the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything, or at least a better definition of the question. <BR>
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Bathrobed Brit Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) survives the abrupt Armageddon thanks to his intergalactic hitchhiker buddy Ford Prefect (a loose and understated Mos Def) and an improbable streak of luck, both good and bad. <BR>
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Arthur gets a tour of a galaxy ruled by bureaucratic pettiness and guided by the grace of coincidence and infinite improbability while the interactive, animated Hitchhiker's Guide (which sounds like Stephen Fry) patiently explains the finer points of intergalactic culture.<BR>
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Science fiction only in that the science is pure fiction, Adams' comedy is sci-farce with an epic sweep, a juvenile love of silly names, and a droll take on creationism (which is at least as plausible an explanation of life as we know it in "The Matrix," and much funnier than the Bible).<BR>
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Sam Rockwell is perhaps too much of a good thing as the manic Zaphod Beeblebrox, the larcenous delinquent of a galactic president who is walking proof that two heads are not necessarily better than one. Otherwise, the distinctly British flavor of dry absurdity and philosophical whimsy is only slightly Americanized in its big-screen translation.<BR>
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It's a pleasure to see and hear so much wit in a big-budget comedy, and the fine British cast of supporting actors makes every bon mot a tasty verbal morsel.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" could not have been an easy movie to make. Even aside from the technical challenges of bringing a science fiction universe to the screen, there's the problem of a story that doesn't quite cohere. The characters change their goals from scene to scene, and the only thing that holds the movie together is the dazzle of individual episodes. <BR>
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If this dazzle were merely technological, the movie would start unraveling after an amusing 45 minutes. But it doesn't. The movie hangs together and gets by with more than a margin of goodwill because the dazzle it offers is one of the mind. And although everyone connected with the film deserves credit, including director Garth Jennings, the mind that we unquestionably encounter in "Hitchiker's" is that of Douglas Adams, the late sci-fi author and creator of the "Hitchhiker" series. <BR>
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It's a singular consciousness -- wildly imaginative, humane, playful and deflating of all pretense. Audiences will be won over from the first sequence, in which dolphins keep trying to warn humans that the Earth is about to be demolished. Finally they give up and leave the earth, saying "So long, and thanks for all the fish," which becomes the title of the old-time music hall number that runs under the credits. <BR>
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It's the end of the world, and no one knows it. The earth is about to be obliterated to make way for an intergalactic superhighway, but in the meantime, everyone goes about their mundane concerns, including Arthur. Arthur, a brooding sensitive soul, becomes one of the lucky ones, when his friend Ford, secretly an alien, arranges for them to be lifted up to a spaceship seconds before the big bang. <BR>
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In the course of their travels, they run into Trillian, whom Arthur once tried to pick up, and her new boyfriend, Zaphod, the flamboyant and utterly superficial president of the galaxy. Zaphod is scouring the galaxy for the secret of the universe, but that's just the movie's transparently flimsy pretext for keeping the story in motion. In "Hitchhiker's," it's not about the big picture, and it's not about wondering how it will end. It's about the moment-to-moment. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times<BR>
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In the hugely likable, long-awaited film of Douglas Adams's ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' the world comes to an end not just with a bang, but also with something of a shrug. <BR>
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Adams's ever-expanding ''Hitchhiker'' universe began in 1978 as a BBC radio series that went on to spawn a novel, still more radio episodes, albums, a television series, four more novels (the author called the books ''a trilogy in five parts''), a stage play, comics and a computer game. For years, Adams and various would-be collaborators tried to add a movie to this list, but only after the writer died of a heart attack in May 2001 at age 49 did the project start to take real shape. Among the directors approached was Spike Jonze, an inspired choice given that all his films feel as if they take place on another planet. He demurred, but recommended two British music video and commercial directors who work under the impossibly severe name Hammer and Tongs. <BR>
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Hammer and Tongs are actually Garth Jennings, who directed ''Hitchhiker,'' and Nick Goldsmith, who served as one of the film's producers. Mr. Jennings and Mr. Goldsmith have held onto a genuine sense of childlike wonder, which works as a nice corrective to what might otherwise come across as an overabundance of hip. <BR>
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Artless, casually knowing and deeply goofy, the first ''Hitchhiker'' book may have been hip at one time, but what stands out today is just how much Adams seemed to have been enjoying himself. (It is a condition of hip never to admit to be having a good time.) The novel is zany, but its humor is remarkably unstrained and, for the most part, the same goes for the movie. ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' the name of the travel book Ford lends Arthur and which furnishes loads of practical information about the universe, has on its cover the legend ''Don't panic.'' Mr. Jennings seems to have absorbed this sound advice. <BR>
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When he blew up the planet in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' Douglas Adams knew that despite everything, there were a few things about human beings worth keeping -- friendship, laughter and, of course, those exceedingly useful opposable thumbs. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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<B><I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I></B>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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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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