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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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Gritman Medical Center presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Madagascar (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Wednesday, August 17<BR>
1:00 PM<BR>
</B>$4 adults/$1 children under 13<BR>
<B>Thursday - Sunday, August 18 - 21<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adults, $2/children under 13<BR>
<B>(see REVIEW below)<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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Howl’s Moving Castle (PG)<BR>
</B>Friday, Saturday & Sunday, August 26, 27 & 28<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5">Is your KFS punch card running low?</FONT><B> <BR>
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</B><U>Purchase a new KFS pass at the Moscow Farmers’ Market this Saturday.</U> <BR>
Available at the <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> ironing board, where you can also purchase tickets for the first show of the 2005-06 season.<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><B><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
</I></B></FONT></FONT>by Martin McDonagh<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#993300"><FONT SIZE="4">"The most wickedly, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist</FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#993300"><FONT SIZE="4">on either side of the Irish Sea..." The New York Times<BR>
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</FONT><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> received four Tony Awards in 1998.<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>
508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho<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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For more information about the play or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I>, <BR>
contact John Dickinson at 208-301-4361 or <johnd@moscow.com> <BR>
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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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
<B>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
By Martin McDonagh<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 </I>and the Moscow Farmers’ Market<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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</U></FONT><B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><H2>Madagascar<BR>
</H2>DreamWorks Animation presents a film directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath. Written by Mark Burton and Billy Frolick. <BR>
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Cast:<BR>
featuring the voices of:<BR>
Alex the Lion: Ben Stiller<BR>
Marty the Zebra: Chris Rock<BR>
Melman the Giraffe: David Schwimmer<BR>
Gloria the Hippo: Jada Pinkett Smith<BR>
Julian: Sacha Baron Cohen<BR>
Maurice: Cedric the Entertainer<BR>
Mort: Andy Richter<BR>
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Running time: 1 hour, 26 minutes. <BR>
Rated PG: mildly vulgar language, crude humor, and some serious themes.<BR>
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<B><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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One of the fundamental philosophical questions of our time is why Goofy is a person and Pluto is a dog. <BR>
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>From their earliest days when Mickey Mouse was still in black and white, cartoons have created a divide between animals who are animals and animals who are human in the sense that they speak, sing, have personalities and are voiced by actors. <BR>
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Now comes "Madagascar," an amusing animated comedy that has something very tricky going on. What happens if the human side of a cartoon animal is only, as they say, a veneer of civilization? Consider Alex the Lion. In the Central Park Zoo, he's a star, singing "New York, New York" and looking forward to school field trips because he likes to show off for his audiences. <BR>
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Alex (voice by Ben Stiller) lives the good life in the zoo, dining on prime steaks every day, courtesy of his keepers. His friends include Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith). If Alex likes it in the zoo, Marty has wanderlust. He wants to break out and live free. One night he escapes from the zoo, and his three friends catch up with him just as he's about to board a train for Connecticut, acting on bad advice from the giraffe, who has informed him that is where "the wild can be found." <BR>
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The animals are captured, crated up and shipped off aboard a cargo ship to a wild animal refuge in Africa. On the way, a mutiny by rebellious penguins leads to them being swept off the deck, and washed ashore in Madagascar. <BR>
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They're back in the wild, all right, but without survival training. The local population, primarily a colony of lemurs, is ruled by King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen) and his right-paw-man Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer). Some of the locals think maybe the New Yorkers are obnoxious tourists, even though Alex stages his zoo act, much in the same sense captured prisoners of war entertain the commandant. Then the intriguing problem of the human/animal divide comes into play. Alex misses his daily stacks of sirloin and porterhouse. He is a meat-eater. He eats steak. "Which is you," Marty the Zebra is warned. At one point, driven wild by hunger, Alex even tries to take a bite out of Marty's butt. <BR>
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This is the kind of anarchy that always lingers under the surface of animal cartoons. How would Goofy feel if Pluto wanted to marry one of his daughters? However, the movie is much too safe to follow its paradoxes to their logical conclusion, and that's probably just as well. <BR>
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"Madagascar" is funny, especially at the beginning, and good-looking in a retro cartoon way, but in a world where the stakes have been raised by "Finding Nemo," "Shrek" and "The Incredibles," it's a throwback to a more conventional kind of animated entertainment. It'll be fun for the smaller kids, but there's not the needed crossover appeal for their parents. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Mich LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle <BR>
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"Madagascar" is an animated film that's the usual modern mix of high spirits and irreverence, with a fast-moving story and lots of half-funny cultural references designed to go over the kiddies' heads and amuse the adults. Those things make it tolerable. <BR>
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What makes it good is that the story is a kind of parable that suggests some seriousness beneath the surface, even sadness. Within the limits of a film meant for kids, "Madagascar" is an honest movie. It sets up a premise, about animals escaping from a zoo, and follows through on it, presenting uncomfortable little moments of truth along the way. The humor is not just zaniness. It follows, naturally, from the depiction of creatures under stress -- in this case, a zebra, a lion, a giraffe and a hippopotamus. <BR>
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"Madagascar" invites the audience to look at a zoo as a kind of jail. <BR>
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The filmmakers waste no time. The zebra breaks out; his friends follow, and next thing they know, they are each in a packing crate and, thanks to some animal rights activists, on their way back to the wild. Again, behind the sight gag of the animals in their respective crates is a touch of seriousness. When the zebra wakes up and finds himself crated, it's a little like the buried-alive scene from "The Vanishing." <BR>
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In another animated film, making it to the wild might have been the place to end it, with the sound track cranked and the fade out coming as the animals troop off into the sunset. <BR>
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Not here. In "Madagascar," things are just getting started. The wild is all about survival, and although "Madagascar" makes the struggle for survival funny, it doesn't make it any less bleak. The four animals, having been raised in captivity, are confronted by a world in which everybody seems to be eating each other, and it's appalling. <BR>
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"Madagascar" isn't deep and would have no business being deep. But that it keeps one foot in reality is enough to keep us guessing. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Sean Axmaker writing for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<BR>
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Showbiz lion Alex, the merchandised-to-the-mane king of the Central Park Zoo, loves living in the Big Apple: the feel of cement, the sounds of cars and sirens, the black night sky where helicopter spotlights are the closest you get to starlight. His best friend, Marty the zebra, longs for the legendary open plains. <BR>
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When Marty escapes to sample the wild (of Connecticut, via Grand Central Station, of course), the ensuing city adventure of Alex and his buddies, Melman the hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the hippo, is misinterpreted as a cry for escape, the furthest thing from their minds. Shipped off to an animal preserve in Kenya, they wind up (due to the "Great Escape" shenanigans of a hilarious platoon of penguins) washing ashore in Madagascar.<BR>
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Alex is no predator, he's a ham who lives for the spotlight, but he succumbs to his primal instincts in the wild (the marvelously animated sequences suggest a giant housecat in the feral fever of play) and his best friends start to look an awful lot like dinner on the hoof. It's the film's basic conflict -- instinct versus individual choice -- and it comes through with what I like to call the "Iron Giant" moral: "You are who you choose to be."<BR>
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Slim on plot but fat with furiously paced gags, "Madagascar" is a routine story enlivened by location, color, exotic landscapes and a cascade of comic flourishes. <BR>
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For the adults in the audience, there is a non-stop barrage of cultural references, from "American Beauty" and "Silence of the Lambs" to "The Twilight Zone" and "National Geographic" TV specials.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. 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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