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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>Goal! The Dream Begins (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, August 3, 4 & 5<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Sunday, August 6<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM</B> <BR>
$5/adult, $3/child under 13<BR>
KFS pass accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
<B>(See movie review below)<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>Water (PG-13)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>August 10, 11 & 12<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
August 13<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> announces<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="5"><B>Auditions</B></FONT><B> for the World Premiere of<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#800080"><H2><I>Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress<BR>
</I></H2></FONT><B>By Gregory Fletcher<BR>
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Winner of the 2005 Mark Twain Award for Comic Playwriting<BR>
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Directed by Stan Brown<BR>
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<B>Monday, August 14<BR>
6:00 – 8:00 pm<BR>
</B>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
<B>To schedule appointment, call Pam at 208.596.2270 or email ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
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One contemporary piece for auditions<BR>
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Four characters<BR>
2M (25-45), 2W (35-50)<BR>
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After years of perseverance and rejection letters, undiscovered playwright Christopher Post asks for a sign from the universe confirming that he’s on the right path. The signs flood in, each contradicting the next. When Christopher runs into an old college buddy who works for role model and star playwright Ward Edington, Christopher begins sneaking, stealing, hiding, conniving, teasing, fighting, and his life continues to snowball from there. Saving his marriage and career will be the hardest rewrite of his life. A romantic dramedy laced with farce and cows.<BR>
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<B>Copy of the script available for preview at BookPeople of Moscow.<BR>
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Non-equity stipend for actors<BR>
Housing provided<BR>
Four week rehearsals start August 20<BR>
Six performances, September 21 – 30<BR>
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www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com<BR>
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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.<BR>
Tax-deductible donations are appreciated!<BR>
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Pamela Palmer, Managing Artistic Director<BR>
<B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre<BR>
</I></B>P.O. Box 8762<BR>
Moscow, Idaho 83843<BR>
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August 1, 2006<BR>
<B>For immediate release:<BR>
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On <B>Friday, August 25</B> the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre and NorthWest Public Radio will join together for a very special night at the movies.<BR>
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The fun will begin at 6:30 PM with live music featuring Moscow's own Charlie Sutton and Ben Walden, food, prizes, and a <B>screening of the new Robert Altman film, A Prairie Home Companion</B> at 8:00 PM.<BR>
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The event will be held at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre and proceeds will be shared equally with Northwest Public Radio.<BR>
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"We are very excited about this event," says Tom Hungate from NorthWest Public Radio. It will be a great time on a Friday night to support two worthwhile community groups." This is a match made on the Palouse, says Julie Ketchum, executive director of KPAC.<BR>
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Tickets for the event are $20 and are on sale at Bookpeople in Moscow and Brused Books in Pullman. Tickets may be charged to Visa or MC by calling 882-4127.<BR>
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For more information, visit www.kenworthy.org or nwpr.org.<BR>
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<B>Coming in August at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre:</B> <BR>
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<B>An Inconvenient Truth (PG)<BR>
</B>August 17-19, 7:00 PM<BR>
August 20, 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
Panel discussion Aug. 20, 8:45 PM<BR>
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KPAC & NWPR present<BR>
<B>A Prairie Home Companion Benefit<BR>
</B>August 25, 6:30 PM<BR>
$20/general admission<BR>
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<B>A Prairie Home Companion (PG-13)<BR>
</B>August 26, 7:00 PM<BR>
August 27, 4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming in September:</B> <BR>
Superman Returns; <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $3/child 12 or younger<BR>
Wednesday matinee prices: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger<BR>
KFS series pass prices: $30/10 films, $75/30 films. KFS pass good only for Sunday movies.<BR>
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For more information on movies, events, rental rates, and/or to download a schedule, visit our website at www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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This week’s movie review-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Goal: The Dream Begins<BR>
</H2></FONT>Directed by Danny Cannon<BR>
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Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A hint of sex, a whiff of drugs and an avalanche of corn. Plus, this movie contains brawling soccer players and rowdy pubgoers.<BR>
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Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by G. Allen Johnson writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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"Goal! The Dream Begins" is almost a foreign film: It is about soccer, which is the world's most popular sport, but which most Americans think is just something nifty for their middle school kids to play; it tells the story of a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles who has a special talent; and it takes place mostly in England.<BR>
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Yet it is the best American-made sports film since "Miracle." It's a pitch-perfect achievement by director Danny Cannon, a skilled professional ("Judge Dredd," "CSI: Miami") not known for his artistry.<BR>
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If you didn’t get excited about the World Cup in Germany, this movie, with lots of soccer action filmed during actual Premier League games, plenty of time spent in the pubs and cameo appearances by such soccer stars as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Alan Shearer, will make you wish you had.<BR>
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Santiago (Mexican actor Kuno Becker) has lived illegally in Los Angeles, where he and his father (Tony Plana) are lawn caretakers (Santiago has another job as a cook in a Chinese restaurant). They live with his grandmother (Miriam Colon) and Santiago's younger brother (Jorge Cevera).<BR>
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Santiago's future looks pretty drab ("The American Dream is winning the Lotto," his little brother observes), and his only outlet is when he plays for the neighborhood soccer club. During a game -- one in which he uses a torn cardboard box as shin pads -- he is noticed by a former English soccer player and scout, Glen (Stephen Dillane), who is in L.A. visiting his daughter. Although Glen is out of the soccer business, he tells Santiago he can get him a tryout for Newcastle of the English Premier League.<BR>
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Santiago, against his father's wishes, flies to England (to do that, he has to sneak back into Mexico and fly out of Mexico City) and Glen calls in some favors. Santiago tries desperately to make the reserve team and to impress his coach (the gruffly ironic Marcel Iures, a Romanian actor who is wonderful here).<BR>
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"Goal!" has two major factors working in its favor: A likable young star, and authenticity. Much of it was filmed in Newcastle and at its famous stadium, St. James' Park. Cannon, who grew up in Britain and was a soccer fan, obviously knows this territory and layers the film with several nice little touches.<BR>
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The movie was a hit in England, where it was released last October, and apparently there are two sequels in the works. It's easy to see why. "Goal!" hits the back of the net and is an early candidate for the funnest movie of the summer.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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"Goal! The Dream Begins" is a rags-to-riches sports saga containing all the usual elements, arranged in the usual ways, and yet it's surprisingly effective. We have the kid from Mexico who dreams of soccer stardom, his impoverished life in Los Angeles as an undocumented immigrant, his dad who scorns soccer, his grandmother who believes in him, the scout who gets him a tryout with a top British team, the superstar who befriends him, and even a pretty nurse. There is also a great deal of soccer, some of it looking real, some of it not.<BR>
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The movie works because it is, above all, sincere. It's not sports by the numbers. The starring performance by Kuno Becker is convincing and dimensional and we begin to care for him. He plays Santiago Munez, a busboy in a Los Angeles Chinese restaurant, who plays in an after-work soccer league so deprived that he wears cardboard shin protectors. Then he's spotted by a former soccer pro (Stephen Dillane), who tells him he has potential, and arranges for him to get a tryout with Newcastle United.<BR>
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That would however involve an air ticket to England. Santiago has some money saved, but his dad (Tony Plana) nicks it to buy a pickup truck and start his own landscaping business. This is cruel, but perhaps more practical than betting the money on a future in soccer. Santiago's grandmother (Miriam Colon) says she hasn't worked for a lifetime without having some savings, and pays for him to fly to London out of Mexico City -- a wise precaution, since he has no American passport or identity.<BR>
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In Newcastle, Santiago undergoes a rough initiation at the hands of the hardened soccer pros, gets his first experience of soccer in the mud, and almost loses his place on the team because of his asthma. What saves him is an accidental friendship with the team's superstar Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola), a party animal. How the season turns out and how Santiago fares I will leave for you to discover, not only in this movie, but in "Goal! 2: Living the Dream," which comes out later this year, and in "Goal! 3," scheduled for 2007. The fact that "Goal! 4" is not in pre-production will soon, I am sure, be remedied.<BR>
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Before "Goal!" began, I moaned to a colleague that I was dreading the screening. Any movie named "Goal!" that needs an exclamation mark seems to be protesting too much, and the words "The Dream Begins" suggest that the snores will shortly follow. I see an average of one sports movie a month in which an underdog overcomes the odds in order to earn their exclamation mark. I know all about the grizzled coaches, the mean teammates, the dad who doesn't understand and the girl who does.<BR>
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I was surprised, then, to find myself enjoying the movie almost from the beginning. It had some of the human reality of Gregory Nava's work in movies like "Mi Familia" and the PBS series "American Family." Not the depth or beauty, to be sure, but the feeling for a culture and family ties. And Kuno Becker, a Mexican star of films and TV and three English-language films little released in America, has not only star quality but something more rare, likability. He makes us want his character to succeed.<BR>
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Where possible, the director Danny Cannon sidesteps some of the clichés. We suspect Santiago's father may be proud of his son after all, but are unprepared for the way that plays out, and how Santiago's toughness is both the right and wrong choice. We know all about the understanding Irish nurse Roz (Anna Friel), except that she will have insight and understanding. We are relieved, in a way, to be spared an obligatory sex scene. And it is interesting that the boss of the Newcastle United team is not made into your standard Bob Hoskins or Colm Meany role, but is written as a German and cast with a Romanian, Marcel Iures.<BR>
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"Goal! The Dream Begins" is a good and caring work, with more human detail than we should expect. Specifically, it is more about Santiago's life as a young man than it is about who wins the big match. There's a subtext about immigrants in America that is timely right now, and a certain sadness in his father's conviction that some people are intended to be rich and others poor, and that the Munez family should be content and grateful to be poor. Santiago is not content, but he is driven not so much by ambition as by pure and absolute love of soccer, and that gives the movie a purity that shines through.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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<I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
</B>208-882-4127<BR>
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</B>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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