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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<B>Wells Fargo Bank presents<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Robots (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Wednesday, August 10<BR>
1:00 PM<BR>
</B>$1/child under 13, $4/adult<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Mr. & Mrs. Smith (PG13)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, Saturday & Sunday, August 12, 13 & 14<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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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>AUDITIONS for Moscow Community Theater<BR>
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</B>Auditions for NOODLEHEAD, the Fall production of Moscow Community Theater, will take place <B>August 15th and 16th from 6:30 to 10 pm</B> at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center (KPAC), Main Street, Moscow, ID.?<BR>
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<B>NOODLEHEAD, an original musical by local resident Lisa Kliger, will be directed by Valerie McIlroy.</B> It is a tale of old Russia, part folk tale and part fairy tale, which will appeal to a wide audience. The cast call for ten men and four women ages 16 - 60, some of whom are required to sing and/or dance. Singers should be prepared to perform a piece of their own choice. There are also non-speaking roles for men, women and children.?<BR>
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There will be a separate call for several young female dancers.?<BR>
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The production will take place at the KPAC and the dates of performance are November 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th. For further information contact Valerie Mcilroy at 208-882-4119.<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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Coming in September-<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
<B><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
</I></B></FONT>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>
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</B>Tickets available at Moscow Farmers’ Market every Saturday<B> </B>and at <I>BookPeople of Moscow<BR>
</I><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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Fall 2005 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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<B>Batman Begins (PG13)<BR>
</B>Sept 2 - 4 at 4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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Sirius Idaho Theatre presents<BR>
<B>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
</B>Sept 8 - 10, 15 - 17 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Sept 10 & 17 at 2:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $15/adult, $10/senior, $5/student<BR>
Advance tickets at <I>BookPeople of Moscow<BR>
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<B>American Values: American Wilderness<BR>
</B>A documentary film with Christopher Reeve<BR>
Sept 18 at 5:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>Rock School<BR>
</B>A documentary film<BR>
Sept 23 - 25<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>m-pact in concert<BR>
</B>Sept 30 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets $12/adult, $6/student<BR>
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<B>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<BR>
</B>Oct 7 - 9<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert<BR>
</B>October 27 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student<BR>
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Moscow Community Theatre presents<BR>
<B>Noodlehead<BR>
</B>November 3 - 5, 10 - 12 at 7:30 PM<BR>
November 6 & 12 at 2:00 PM<BR>
$11/adult, $9/student or senior<BR>
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Coming attractions: My Summer of Love, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Mad<BR>
Hot Ballroom, March of the Penguins. Check web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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<B>This week’s reviews-<BR>
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</B><H2>Mr. and Mrs. Smith<BR>
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Directed by Doug Liman<BR>
Rated PG-13 for a great number of sequences of violence, intense action, sexual content, and brief strong language<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 52 minutes<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 is a kind of movie that consists of watching two people together on the screen. The plot is immaterial. What matters is the "chemistry," a term that once referred to a science but now refers to the heat we sense, or think we sense, between two movie stars. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have it, or I think they have it, in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and because they do, the movie works. If they did not, there'd be nothing to work with.<BR>
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The screenplay is a device to revive their marriage by placing them in mortal danger, while at the same time providing an excuse for elaborate gunfights and chase scenes. I learn from Variety that it was written by Simon Kinberg as his master's thesis at Columbia. If he had been studying chemistry instead of the cinema, he might have blown up the lab, but it wouldn't have been boring.<BR>
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Pitt and Jolie play John and Jane Smith, almost certainly not their real names, who met in Bogota "five or six" years ago, got married and settled down to a comfortable suburban lifestyle while not revealing to each other that they are both skilled assassins. John keeps his guns and money in a pit beneath the tool shed. Jane keeps her knives and other weapons in trays that slide out from under the oven.<BR>
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As the movie opens, they're in marriage counseling; the spark has gone out of their relationship. On a typical day, they set off separately to their jobs: He to kill three or four guys, she to pose as a dominatrix while snapping a guy's neck. Can you imagine Rock Hudson and Doris Day in this story? Gable and Lombard and Hepburn and Tracy have also been invoked, but given the violence in their lives, the casting I recommend is The Rock and Vin Diesel. In the opening scene, they could fight over who has to play Mrs. Smith.<BR>
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Sorry. Lost my train of thought. Anyway, John and Jane individually receive instructions to travel to a remote desert location in the Southwest and take out a mysterious target. They travel there separately, only to discover that their targets are each other. It's one of those situations where they could tell each other, but then they'd have to kill each other. "If you two stay together, you're dead," says Eddie (Vince Vaughn) another tough guy, who lives at home with his mother because it's convenient and she cooks good and on and on.<BR>
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The question becomes: Do John and Jane kill each other like the professionals they are, or do they team up to save their lives? The solution to this dilemma requires them to have a fight that reminded me of the showdown between Uma Thurman and Daryl Hannah in "Kill Bill Vol. 2." After physical violence which should theoretically have broken every bone in both their beautiful bodies, they get so excited that, yes, they have sex, which in their case seems to involve both the martial and marital arts.<BR>
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The movie pauses from time to time for more sessions with the marriage counselor, during which it appears that professional killing is good for their relationship. After we get our money's worth of action, their problems are resolved, more or less. Although many lives have been lost, the marriage is saved.<BR>
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None of this matters at all. What makes the movie work is that Pitt and Jolie have fun together on the screen, and they're able to find a rhythm that allows them to be understated and amused even during the most alarming developments. There are many ways that John and Jane Smith could have been played awkwardly, or out of synch, but the actors understand the material and hold themselves at just the right distance from it; we understand this is not really an action picture, but a movie star romance in which the action picture serves as a location.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Jon Niccum writing for the Lawrence (KS) Journal-World<BR>
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John Smith (Brad Pitt) sits before a therapist and begins to vent about his wife, Jane (Angelina Jolie). “There’s this huge space between us that’s filling up with everything we don’t say to each other. What’s that called?”<BR>
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“Marriage,” the therapist replies.<BR>
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The problems the Smiths are going through in their fifth year of togetherness (actually the sixth year, Jane constantly corrects) is typical of most couples. John views his wife as a control freak; Jane considers her husband uncommunicative and aloof.<BR>
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This relationship is complicated by the fact that they are both shadowy assassins for hire who work for competing firms — and neither knows the truth about the other.<BR>
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“Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is a fine wedding between salient humor and energetic action. Director Doug Liman proves the perfect choice for this project, having handled comedy (“Swingers”), comedy-action (“Go”) and straight-up action (“The Bourne Identity”).<BR>
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He makes great sport of blending the Smiths’ amoral job duties with their faux suburban lifestyle. Jane stores her weapons in a high-tech display case that pops out of her oven. John doesn’t try to conceal lipstick on his collar when he returns from work; he tries to hide bloodstains.<BR>
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Liman’s utter lack of sentimentality gives the film its dramatic weight. These aren’t nice people; they’re remorseless killers pretending to be nice people.<BR>
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In a scene at a neighbor’s dinner party, Jane accidentally ends up holding a friend’s baby on her lap. A more conventional picture would have shown John observing the scene and having it strike some kind of emotional chord. Instead, he views it the same way she does: It’s as comfortable as if she were holding a urinating porcupine.<BR>
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Adding to the fish-out-of-water aura is Liman’s old “Swinger’s” pal Vince Vaughn, who shows up as one of John’s agency buddies. It’s a quintessential Vaughn role: a fast-talking, loud-mouthed, goofball hipster. Only this time he’s a pathetic bachelor living with his mom in a home packed with all types of deadly assassin gear.<BR>
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But despite Liman’s obvious contributions, this isn’t really a director’s movie. It’s more a throwback to the era of pure star power.<BR>
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It’s no surprise the couple that launched 1,000 tabloids started dating after they made the movie. They’re too cool and beautiful not to be together, and their chemistry is undeniable onscreen. This helps the film immensely because the plot line gives plenty of reasons for the Smiths to dissolve their marriage — both legally and mortally — yet the audience needs to pull for them to remain a couple.<BR>
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What makes the movie unique is that when these killers discover their respective secrets, it doesn’t necessarily alter their relationship.<BR>
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They get into the same types of arguments. Only now instead of spats involving the color of the new drapes, they concern things like who should be the one driving the car and who should take shooting duties when being chased on the freeway by machine-gun blasting assailants.<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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