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CONTENTS
this ISSUE: Bob Dylan
Oct. 15-29, 2010
Issue No.
35
EDITORMeta [email protected]
ADVERTISINGSheila [email protected]
DESIGNJordan HansenAlan Simmer
ROCK LEGEND BOB DYLAN TO PERFORM IN CEDAR FALLS
Ticket sales are brisk for the Oct. 24 performance at the McLeod Center.
www.cvpulse.com
7 message of hopeThe world-renowned African Children’s Choir will bring an inspirational performance to Cedar Falls on Oct. 2�.
8 new insightsPhotography exhibit at the Cedar rapids Museum of Art shines a spotlight on Chinese culture in modern times.
11 monster mashCarve a pumpkin and eat candy ’til your eyes pop out. The Quad City Botanical Center comes alive with Halloween.
14 no reservationsAnthony Bourdain’s newest book gets rave reviews for its no-holds-barred approach to the food industry.
17 Welcome to marsSinger-songwriter-producer Bruno Mars shows promise on his debut album, “Doo-Wops & Hooligans.”
22 it’s Cho timeA longtime advocate for social justice, comedian Margaret Cho forcefully confronts discrimination with blunt wit.
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After all, what can be said in the span of a few hundred words that could possibly encap-sulate the myriad feelings fans of all ages have of the protest rocker who survived an era his musical peers didn’t and who has the remark-able talent to reinvent himself multiple times over four decades yet still stay true to himself?
Maybe it’s all in the ticket sales. More than 2,500 of the 4,800 tickets available for Bob Dylan were sold after just a week, said Janelle Darst, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center marketing director.
“(Sales have) been really strong and con-sistent,” Darst said. “I think we’re on our way to selling out.”
Diehard fans, of course, already have their seats procured.
“I got my tickets right away,” said Rick Vanderwall of Cedar Falls, who has seen Dylan in concert twice. “The other two were both great shows, so I expect a lot from this one, too.”
Vanderwall, a guitarist and member of the
Cedar Valley Acoustic Guitar Association, said it’s Dylan’s writing that most appeals to him.
“I have my favorites I am hoping to hear, but I am open to new stuff, too. I am happy to hear whatever he wants to play,” Vanderwall wrote in an e-mail.
Others don’t see what all the fuss is about. Scott Cawelti of Cedar Falls saw Dylan per-form in 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden, and was unimpressed.
“It was just not good; no introductions, no personability, the same tempo, the same dy-namics,” he said.
Cawelti said he appreciates what Dylan has done for the American music scene but noted other artists like Leonard Cohen take the time to relate to their audiences on stage, and that’s what was missing in 2004.
Paul Conditt of Cedar Falls disagrees. He thinks the Cedar Falls concert will live up to his high expectations. Dylan, now 69, has been a musical legend for decades. His songs, such as “The Times They Are A-Changin’ “
and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” have been an-thems for the civil rights and antiwar move-ments, starting in the ‘60s. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed Dylan’s 1965 hit “Like A Rolling Stone” as No. 1 of the “500 Greatest Songs of all Time,” an eclectic collection of pop music spanning 50 years.
“First of all, Bob is a living legend and, as a music lover, I never want to miss such a good opportunity to see a true giant,” Conditt said. “Dylan is one of the most infl uential songwrit-ers for decades — and decades to come.
“His concerts have an aura that is palpable. I expect to be awed, emotionally moved and inspired.”
MUSIC ICON BOB DYLAN TO PLAY AT MCLEOD BY AMIE STEFFEN | PULSE STAFF WRITER
First, the folk musician/poet/’60s icon/one-time fi lmmaker/would-be prophet no longer does interviews, according to his people. Second, requesting publicity photos is akin to asking for an original copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And it’s rare these days that a news organization
is allowed to photograph Dylan’s concerts. But writing about the legendary Dylan, who will grace the Cedar Valley with a concert Oct. 24 at the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, is the toughest task of all.
LEFT: Bob Dylan performs at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in 2001.
CENTER: Bob Dylan is joined by Bruce Springsteen, right, during Dylan’s set for the 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bene� t concert in Cleveland.
RIGHT: More than 40 years after his emergence on the world music stage, Bob Dylan still strikes a chord with fans at a 2009 performance in Austin, Texas.
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Courier Communications and Gallagher-Blue-dorn Performing Arts Center are giving readers the chance to win two tickets to see Bob Dylan live at 8 p.m. Sunday Oct. 24 at GBPAC in Cedar Falls. Register to win at www.CVPulse.com by Oct. 20.
The winner will be selected Oct. 21 and contacted by e-mail and phone. No purchase necessary to play. Must be 18 years or older to participate.
Tickets: $48 for the public and $30 for UNI students, plus fees. Tickets can be purchased through any UNItix outlet, at www.unitix.uni.edu or by calling (319) 273-4TIX. All seats are reserved.
Read it: Dylan’s “The Witmark Demos” released on vinyl
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After all, what can be said in the span of a few hundred words that could possibly encap-sulate the myriad feelings fans of all ages have of the protest rocker who survived an era his musical peers didn’t and who has the remark-able talent to reinvent himself multiple times over four decades yet still stay true to himself?
Maybe it’s all in the ticket sales. More than 2,500 of the 4,800 tickets available for Bob Dylan were sold after just a week, said Janelle Darst, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center marketing director.
“(Sales have) been really strong and con-sistent,” Darst said. “I think we’re on our way to selling out.”
Diehard fans, of course, already have their seats procured.
“I got my tickets right away,” said Rick Vanderwall of Cedar Falls, who has seen Dylan in concert twice. “The other two were both great shows, so I expect a lot from this one, too.”
Vanderwall, a guitarist and member of the
Cedar Valley Acoustic Guitar Association, said it’s Dylan’s writing that most appeals to him.
“I have my favorites I am hoping to hear, but I am open to new stuff, too. I am happy to hear whatever he wants to play,” Vanderwall wrote in an e-mail.
Others don’t see what all the fuss is about. Scott Cawelti of Cedar Falls saw Dylan per-form in 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden, and was unimpressed.
“It was just not good; no introductions, no personability, the same tempo, the same dy-namics,” he said.
Cawelti said he appreciates what Dylan has done for the American music scene but noted other artists like Leonard Cohen take the time to relate to their audiences on stage, and that’s what was missing in 2004.
Paul Conditt of Cedar Falls disagrees. He thinks the Cedar Falls concert will live up to his high expectations. Dylan, now 69, has been a musical legend for decades. His songs, such as “The Times They Are A-Changin’ “
and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” have been an-thems for the civil rights and antiwar move-ments, starting in the ‘60s. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed Dylan’s 1965 hit “Like A Rolling Stone” as No. 1 of the “500 Greatest Songs of all Time,” an eclectic collection of pop music spanning 50 years.
“First of all, Bob is a living legend and, as a music lover, I never want to miss such a good opportunity to see a true giant,” Conditt said. “Dylan is one of the most infl uential songwrit-ers for decades — and decades to come.
“His concerts have an aura that is palpable. I expect to be awed, emotionally moved and inspired.”
MUSIC ICON BOB DYLAN TO PLAY AT MCLEOD BY AMIE STEFFEN | PULSE STAFF WRITER
First, the folk musician/poet/’60s icon/one-time fi lmmaker/would-be prophet no longer does interviews, according to his people. Second, requesting publicity photos is akin to asking for an original copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And it’s rare these days that a news organization
is allowed to photograph Dylan’s concerts. But writing about the legendary Dylan, who will grace the Cedar Valley with a concert Oct. 24 at the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, is the toughest task of all.
LEFT: Bob Dylan performs at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in 2001.
CENTER: Bob Dylan is joined by Bruce Springsteen, right, during Dylan’s set for the 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bene� t concert in Cleveland.
RIGHT: More than 40 years after his emergence on the world music stage, Bob Dylan still strikes a chord with fans at a 2009 performance in Austin, Texas.
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Courier Communications and Gallagher-Blue-dorn Performing Arts Center are giving readers the chance to win two tickets to see Bob Dylan live at 8 p.m. Sunday Oct. 24 at GBPAC in Cedar Falls. Register to win at www.CVPulse.com by Oct. 20.
The winner will be selected Oct. 21 and contacted by e-mail and phone. No purchase necessary to play. Must be 18 years or older to participate.
Tickets: $48 for the public and $30 for UNI students, plus fees. Tickets can be purchased through any UNItix outlet, at www.unitix.uni.edu or by calling (319) 273-4TIX. All seats are reserved.
Read it: Dylan’s “The Witmark Demos” released on vinyl
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BY SUE WILLETT | FOR PULSE MAGAZINE
n spite of the tragedy that has marred their young lives, the youngsters of the African Children’s Choir are radi-
ant with hope, musically gifted and won-derfully entertaining.
The world-renowned choir will per-form at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at Trinity Bible Church in Cedar Falls. Trav-eling to share their music, their hope and their future, the African Children’s Choir is changing lives.
“This choir is made up of some of the neediest and most vulnerable children in their countries,” said Mark Holton, Trinity Bible assistant pastor who organized the event. ”Many have lost one or both par-ents due to poverty or disease. Participating in the African Children’s Choir helps these children break free from the everyday cy-cle of hopelessness.”
The choir aims to raise awareness of the needs of destitute and orphaned chil-dren in Africa and to raise funds for con-tinued development and support of the
African Children’s Choir Programs. The group has performed at the White House and on “The Ellen Show,” “The David Let-terman Show” and “Oprah.” Once choir members have completed a concert tour, they return to their homelands with the tools necessary for bettering their futures.
“The children melt the hearts of audi-ences with their charming smiles, beauti-ful voices and lively African songs, dances and costumes,” said Deborah Scott, North American choir operations director. “The program features well-loved children’s songs, traditional spirituals and contempo-rary tunes.”
Three choirs are traveling around the U.S., Canada and Europe. On average, 23 children make up each choir. The choir coming to Cedar Falls is the 40th African Children’s Choir that has formed over the past 20 years.
Children selected to tour with the choir spend five months at the Choir Training Academy in Kampala, Uganda. Here the children’s personalities and talents emerge as they settle into their new routines with
the knowledge that they are loved and cared for.
Sekajja John Paul from Kampala, Ugan-da, is a former choir member who lost his parents as a young child. He now travels with Choir 37 as an adult chaperone. Be-coming a member of the choir changed his life.
“I got confidence to speak to people,” he said. “My knowledge about the world greatly improved. Becoming a member of the choir opened up the world and I felt loved, like I had a bigger family.”
Raising funds through concert tours al-lows the African Children’s Choirs to pro-vide 8,000 children with education and school meals. The opportunity to sponsor a child will be available during the Cedar Falls event.
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27• Trinity Bible Church, 125 Orchard Drive,
Cedar Falls• Free admission • (319) 277-1377
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“T he Witmark Demos” are seeing their first commercial release on four LP 180-gram vinyl nearly five decades after they
were first recorded. Listening to the 47 original recordings on “The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964,” one can trace Bob Dylan’s dramatic growth as a songwriter from early traditionally styled songs like “Man On the Street” and “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie” through the social commentary of “Blowin’ in the Wind, “The Times They Are A Changin’” and “Masters of War,” and the groundbreaking lyrical genius of “Mr. Tambourine Man.”
All of these songs, as well as the others on
previously released volumes, were written — and their subsequent demos recorded — before Dylan turned 24 years old.
Among the many gems found in this new re-lease are 15 previously unreleased Dylan songs, including the plaintive “Ballad for a Friend” and the civil rights era-inspired “Long Ago, Far Away” and “The Death of Emmett Till.”
The new volume also features a deluxe booklet with in-depth liner notes by noted music historian Colin Escott and rare photographs of Dylan captured during the same period as these early recordings.
— www.sonymusicdigital.com
LP 1Man on the Street (Fragment)Hard Times in New York TownPoor Boy BluesBallad for a FriendRambling, Gambling WillieTalking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre BluesStanding on the HighwayMan on the StreetBlowin’ in the WindLong Ago, Far AwayA Hard Rain’s A-Gonna FallTomorrow Is a Long TimeThe Death of Emmett Till
LP 2Let Me Die in My FootstepsBallad of Hollis BrownQuit Your Low Down WaysBaby, I’m in the Mood for YouBound to Lose, Bound to WinAll Over YouI’d Hate to Be You on That Dreadful DayLong Time Gone Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid BluesMasters of WarOxford Town Farewell
LP 3Don’t Think Twice, It’s All RightWalkin’ Down the LineI Shall Be FreeBob Dylan’s BluesBob Dylan’s DreamBoots of Spanish LeatherWalls of Red WingGirl From the North CountrySeven CursesHero BluesWhatcha Gonna Do?Gypsy Lou
LP 4Ain’t Gonna GrieveJohn BrownOnly a HoboWhen the Ship Comes InThe Times They Are A-Changin’Paths of VictoryGuess I’m Doing FineBaby Let Me Follow You DownMama, You Been on My MindMr. Tambourine ManI’ll Keep It With Mine
THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 9: THE WITMARK DEMOS: 1962-1964 19 OCTOBER
TRACK LIST In 1969 at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival in England, thousands clamored for a spot to see Bob Dylan perform.
AP FILE PHOTO
BY SUE WILLETT | FOR PULSE MAGAZINE
n spite of the tragedy that has marred their young lives, the youngsters of the African Children’s Choir are radi-
ant with hope, musically gifted and won-derfully entertaining.
The world-renowned choir will per-form at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at Trinity Bible Church in Cedar Falls. Trav-eling to share their music, their hope and their future, the African Children’s Choir is changing lives.
“This choir is made up of some of the neediest and most vulnerable children in their countries,” said Mark Holton, Trinity Bible assistant pastor who organized the event. ”Many have lost one or both par-ents due to poverty or disease. Participating in the African Children’s Choir helps these children break free from the everyday cy-cle of hopelessness.”
The choir aims to raise awareness of the needs of destitute and orphaned chil-dren in Africa and to raise funds for con-tinued development and support of the
African Children’s Choir Programs. The group has performed at the White House and on “The Ellen Show,” “The David Let-terman Show” and “Oprah.” Once choir members have completed a concert tour, they return to their homelands with the tools necessary for bettering their futures.
“The children melt the hearts of audi-ences with their charming smiles, beauti-ful voices and lively African songs, dances and costumes,” said Deborah Scott, North American choir operations director. “The program features well-loved children’s songs, traditional spirituals and contempo-rary tunes.”
Three choirs are traveling around the U.S., Canada and Europe. On average, 23 children make up each choir. The choir coming to Cedar Falls is the 40th African Children’s Choir that has formed over the past 20 years.
Children selected to tour with the choir spend five months at the Choir Training Academy in Kampala, Uganda. Here the children’s personalities and talents emerge as they settle into their new routines with
the knowledge that they are loved and cared for.
Sekajja John Paul from Kampala, Ugan-da, is a former choir member who lost his parents as a young child. He now travels with Choir 37 as an adult chaperone. Be-coming a member of the choir changed his life.
“I got confidence to speak to people,” he said. “My knowledge about the world greatly improved. Becoming a member of the choir opened up the world and I felt loved, like I had a bigger family.”
Raising funds through concert tours al-lows the African Children’s Choirs to pro-vide 8,000 children with education and school meals. The opportunity to sponsor a child will be available during the Cedar Falls event.
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27• Trinity Bible Church, 125 Orchard Drive,
Cedar Falls• Free admission • (319) 277-1377
COUR
TESY
PHO
TOS
Choir gives new life to African children 27 OCTOBER
PERFORMANCE
ARTS & CULTURE
2010
“T he Witmark Demos” are seeing their first commercial release on four LP 180-gram vinyl nearly five decades after they
were first recorded. Listening to the 47 original recordings on “The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964,” one can trace Bob Dylan’s dramatic growth as a songwriter from early traditionally styled songs like “Man On the Street” and “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie” through the social commentary of “Blowin’ in the Wind, “The Times They Are A Changin’” and “Masters of War,” and the groundbreaking lyrical genius of “Mr. Tambourine Man.”
All of these songs, as well as the others on
previously released volumes, were written — and their subsequent demos recorded — before Dylan turned 24 years old.
Among the many gems found in this new re-lease are 15 previously unreleased Dylan songs, including the plaintive “Ballad for a Friend” and the civil rights era-inspired “Long Ago, Far Away” and “The Death of Emmett Till.”
The new volume also features a deluxe booklet with in-depth liner notes by noted music historian Colin Escott and rare photographs of Dylan captured during the same period as these early recordings.
— www.sonymusicdigital.com
LP 1Man on the Street (Fragment)Hard Times in New York TownPoor Boy BluesBallad for a FriendRambling, Gambling WillieTalking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre BluesStanding on the HighwayMan on the StreetBlowin’ in the WindLong Ago, Far AwayA Hard Rain’s A-Gonna FallTomorrow Is a Long TimeThe Death of Emmett Till
LP 2Let Me Die in My FootstepsBallad of Hollis BrownQuit Your Low Down WaysBaby, I’m in the Mood for YouBound to Lose, Bound to WinAll Over YouI’d Hate to Be You on That Dreadful DayLong Time Gone Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid BluesMasters of WarOxford Town Farewell
LP 3Don’t Think Twice, It’s All RightWalkin’ Down the LineI Shall Be FreeBob Dylan’s BluesBob Dylan’s DreamBoots of Spanish LeatherWalls of Red WingGirl From the North CountrySeven CursesHero BluesWhatcha Gonna Do?Gypsy Lou
LP 4Ain’t Gonna GrieveJohn BrownOnly a HoboWhen the Ship Comes InThe Times They Are A-Changin’Paths of VictoryGuess I’m Doing FineBaby Let Me Follow You DownMama, You Been on My MindMr. Tambourine ManI’ll Keep It With Mine
THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 9: THE WITMARK DEMOS: 1962-1964 19 OCTOBER
TRACK LIST In 1969 at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival in England, thousands clamored for a spot to see Bob Dylan perform.
AP FILE PHOTO
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THE WASHINGTON POST | STORY AND PHOTO
famous necklace of hundreds of diamonds, including nine rare blue diamonds, was installed recently
at the National Museum of Natural History. And just like its neighbor, the Hope Diamond, the jewelry has an in-triguing history.
Standing in the gem vault at the museum, with a security guard watching the proceed-ings, Jeffrey Post, the cu-rator of the N a t i o n a l Gem Collec-tion, opened a white box c o n t a i n i n g what is known to gemologists and jewelers as the Cullinan Dia-mond Necklace.
The silver neck-lace has an elabo-rate bow motif, the 251 diamonds curving into the loops and then the ribbon-shaped arms. An oval-shaped pendant with a 2.6-carat blue diamond drops from the center of the bow, part of the 5.32-carat total of blues.
“This is typical of the Edwardian time period where jewelry had bows and a lacy appearance,” Post said. The necklace was made around 1910.
These are the latest priceless gems given to the museum, and this gift was specifically arranged by an anonymous donor from Cali-fornia to coincide with the institution’s 100th anniversary.
“If it weren’t for the Hope Diamond, this would rank as one of the greatest gifts the
museum has received,” Post said. “But the piece has a great history because of Cullinan.”
After Thomas Cullinan, the famed South African explorer, bought the Premier Dia-mond Mine in South Africa, his workers dis-covered a humongous diamond, which had a total weight of 3,106.75 carats before it was
cut and polished. “It was the largest rough diamond ever
discovered,” Post said. Cullinan pre-
sented the mas-sive diamond
to King Ed-ward VII for his birthday.
In honor of his own k n i g h t -hood in 1910, Cul-
linan com-miss ioned the necklace for his wife,
Annie, and the nine blue
diamonds repre-sented the nine
pieces that were cut from the original stone. The necklace was be-
queathed to each first daughter in each genera-
tion. “In the early 1980s, the
great-granddaughter, Anne Rob-inson, got in touch with Stephen Silver and sold him the heirloom. Then Silver sold the necklace to another owner, who
is donating it to us,” Post said. Ever since the Cullinan necklace was dis-
played at the Smithsonian in 1994, Post has had his fingers crossed that the rare piece would come his way. “The collection has built on itself. Once it became as prominent as it has done, people wanted to be a part of it,” he said.
Cullinan Necklace installed at Natural History museum
DIAMONDS
251
CARATS IN PENDANT
2.6
TOTAL BLUE CARATS
5.32
ARTS & CULTURE
2010
T he Cedar Rapids Museum of Art will present “China: Insights. New Photography from the People’s Republic” through Jan. 2.
The exhibition brings together the work of seven photographers from mainland China, each of whom have undertaken the creation of a long-term docu-mentation of one or more aspects of Chinese culture that reflects something new about today’s China.
Themes include rural Catholicism, matrilineal cul-ture in an agrarian setting, the population shift from country to city, prostitution, gender and identity, ty-pologies of urban citizenry and the emergence of a thriving pop/club scene.
The CRMA also will present a lecture series in con-junction with the exhibition. The series includes:
Thursday, Oct. 21: “Embracing a New Century: Life in Today’s China” with Mount Mercy University associ-ate professor Edy Parsons.
Thursday, Nov. 1�: “Chinese Village Operas and Peasant Values” with University of Iowa professor David Arkush.
Thursday, Dec. 2: “Finding Contemporary Art in Chi-na: Nanjing, Beijing and Shanghai” with Leslie Wright, director of the Grinnell College Faulconer Gallery.
All lectures are free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the CRMA Auditorium. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Satur-day and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Extended hours and free general admission are from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thurs-day. For more information, visit www.crma.org.
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THE WASHINGTON POST | STORY AND PHOTO
famous necklace of hundreds of diamonds, including nine rare blue diamonds, was installed recently
at the National Museum of Natural History. And just like its neighbor, the Hope Diamond, the jewelry has an in-triguing history.
Standing in the gem vault at the museum, with a security guard watching the proceed-ings, Jeffrey Post, the cu-rator of the N a t i o n a l Gem Collec-tion, opened a white box c o n t a i n i n g what is known to gemologists and jewelers as the Cullinan Dia-mond Necklace.
The silver neck-lace has an elabo-rate bow motif, the 251 diamonds curving into the loops and then the ribbon-shaped arms. An oval-shaped pendant with a 2.6-carat blue diamond drops from the center of the bow, part of the 5.32-carat total of blues.
“This is typical of the Edwardian time period where jewelry had bows and a lacy appearance,” Post said. The necklace was made around 1910.
These are the latest priceless gems given to the museum, and this gift was specifically arranged by an anonymous donor from Cali-fornia to coincide with the institution’s 100th anniversary.
“If it weren’t for the Hope Diamond, this would rank as one of the greatest gifts the
museum has received,” Post said. “But the piece has a great history because of Cullinan.”
After Thomas Cullinan, the famed South African explorer, bought the Premier Dia-mond Mine in South Africa, his workers dis-covered a humongous diamond, which had a total weight of 3,106.75 carats before it was
cut and polished. “It was the largest rough diamond ever
discovered,” Post said. Cullinan pre-
sented the mas-sive diamond
to King Ed-ward VII for his birthday.
In honor of his own k n i g h t -hood in 1910, Cul-
linan com-miss ioned the necklace for his wife,
Annie, and the nine blue
diamonds repre-sented the nine
pieces that were cut from the original stone. The necklace was be-
queathed to each first daughter in each genera-
tion. “In the early 1980s, the
great-granddaughter, Anne Rob-inson, got in touch with Stephen Silver and sold him the heirloom. Then Silver sold the necklace to another owner, who
is donating it to us,” Post said. Ever since the Cullinan necklace was dis-
played at the Smithsonian in 1994, Post has had his fingers crossed that the rare piece would come his way. “The collection has built on itself. Once it became as prominent as it has done, people wanted to be a part of it,” he said.
Cullinan Necklace installed at Natural History museum
DIAMONDS
251
CARATS IN PENDANT
2.6
TOTAL BLUE CARATS
5.32
The Lampost Theatre in Cedar Falls has announced dates for its performances of the musical theater “Pyrates.”
Performances are set for Oct. 22-24 and 29-30, and Nov. 5-7. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7 p.m., and Sunday shows take place at 2 p.m.
lampost theatre20� W. Seerley Blvd, Cedar Falls.
(319) 2��-�03�; www.lampost.com.
Quad City Botanical Center celebrates fall
Lampost to perform ‘pyrates’ musical
Elmo & friends drop anchor in davenport
Where can your imagination take you? How about to Davenport, where Sesame Street Live will pres-ent “1-2-3 Imagine! With Elmo & Friends” on Tuesday and Wednes-day, Nov. 23 and 24, at the Adler Theatre.
This imagination-inspired musi-cal begins as Sesame Street’s mail carrier, Sam, stops by to deliver spe-cial postcards from far-away places. When Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and friends wish to visit the exciting locations, Sam shares her secret on how they can — it’s as easy as counting “1-2-3 Imagine!”
E r n i e ’ s imagination takes him to the high seas
to captain the Good Ship Rubber Duckie, Elmo dances to the rhythm of the African rainforest and Bert meets an octopus who has the blues.
Performances are at 7 p.m. Nov. 23 and 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Nov. 24. For more information, visit www.sesamestreetlive.com.
tickets: $13 to $55. (�00) ��5-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.
I t’s a Pumpkin Extravaganza at the Quad City Botanical Center for the month of October. Special pumpkin-related events take place each
Sunday afternoon in October from 1 to 4 p.m. in the outdoor gardens and event canopy. Sunday events are free with paid admission.
Throughout the month, fi nd your way through the hay bale maze. Locally grown pumpkins are for sale and displayed in the gardens .
tHeAteR
Pumpkin patch
quad City Botanical Center2525 �th Ave., rock Island, Ill.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday
(309) �9�-0991; www.qcgardens.com
On Sunday, Oct. 1�, try out the mummy wrap contest, hear scary stories, create a monster mask, and make your own life-size monster and yummy treat.
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halloween partyA costume contest, candy hunt, and awards for the best scarecrow are set for the big party on Sunday, Oct. 31.
There will be pumpkin carving for older kids and pumpkin painting for younger children on Sunday, Oct. 2�. Each fam-ily will receive a free pumpkin to carve.
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Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids will pres-ent the photographic work of senior lecturer of art Da-vid Van Allen during a special exhibit, “Photographs: Assembled Portraits,” through Nov. 10 at the Janalyn Hanson White Gallery.
The Janalyn Hanson White Gallery is in lower McAu-ley Hall on the Mount Mercy University campus.
Hours: � to � p.m. Monday through Friday or by appointment. Call (319) 3�3-�213.
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V isitors will be delighted by 40 children’s book illustrations on view at the James & Meryl Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls from Saturday, Oct. 30, through Sunday, Jan. 16.
Hundreds of children’s book illustrators from across the country compete to be featured in this Society of Illustrator’s exhibit, “The Original Art 2010: New Works from the Society of Illustrators, New York.”
Founded in 1980 by illustrator and art director Dilys Evans, this annual exhibit showcases the original art from the year’s best children’s books.
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Celebrating its 30th year, “The Original Art” features 122 books chosen from 650 entries submitted nationwide, which were selected by a jury of outstanding illustrators, art directors and editors. Annually, gold and silver medals are awarded to three chosen books. The event is free and open to the public. Hearst Center for the Arts 30� West Seerley Blvd.; (319) 2�3-���1; www.hearstartscenter.com � a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, � a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, 1 to � p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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‘medium Raw’ a well-done memoir
Anthony Bourdain’s newest book, “Me-dium Raw,” is a mixture of his usual ingre-dients — part rant, part food industry insight and part personal memoir.
As usual, Bourdain, of Travel Channel’s “No Reservations” series, doesn’t hold back the snark for those he perceives as villains. He also praises a few heroes. What is most impressive about reading this book, published in June, is his prescient warning about sliding food industry standards and companies that push those standards to turn a profit at the expense of public health and food safety.
In the wake of the salmonella-tainted eggs, it would have been entertaining to see Bourdain follow through on his punishment for food industry leaders who are “spinning the wheel where it is not unlikely” they serve tainted food. His suggested treatment is not fit for publication, and DeCoster Egg owner Austin “Jack” DeCoster should be thankful it would violate several U.S. and international laws.
What led Bourdain to this condemnation also was an indictment of American eating habits that have created an unhealthy appe-tite for cheap meat.
The means of keeping meat cheap and profitable include treating with ammonia scraps of meat that previously were tossed because of the likelihood of E. coli contami-nation. It’s old news for those who are famil-iar with the documented cruelties and filth of factory farms, but Bourdain’s warnings aren’t a political screed against “Big Food” and meat. They are suggestions that we don’t need to eat a pound of meat at every meal and a lament over the loss of his beloved cheap hamburger.
The book has a mix of Bourdain’s person-al experiences from before he found televi-sion fame, which contrasts nicely with expe-riences from his current life as married and a first-time father.
He touches little on his ongoing television series but humbly admits he can no longer call himself a “chef,” having left the trench-es to write and do other things after his first book won him fame.
He has plenty of new material for the famil-iar fan, but first-time readers wouldn’t need to read his previous books to enjoy it, too.
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Jerry Lee Lewis to headline 2011 Surf dance party
The king of rockabilly will ap-pear at the 2011 Winter Dance Party at the Surf Ballroom. Jerry Lee Lewis is the headlining artist for the Winter Dance Party, sched-uled Feb. 2-5, 2011. Advance tickets for the event go on sale at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.19. Lewis is scheduled to appear during the Saturday evening concert on Feb. 5.
Lewis was one of the musicians who created rock ’n’ roll in Mem-phis, Tenn., at Sun Records in the 1950s, and at nearly 75 years old is still going strong. Lewis is still touted today as the “wild man” of rock ’n’ roll. He is best known for his piano-pounding hits from the late ‘50s, including “Whole Lot-ta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire.”
Although he didn’t write many of the songs he performed, he transformed them into unin-
hibited, rowdy rock ’n’ roll that he proudly called “the devil’s music.”
In 1986, Lewis became one of the fi rst to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
tickets: www.surfballroom.com and (��1) 35�-�151 beginning at � a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19.
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The Beatles tribute band 1964: The Tribute is coming to the Adler Theatre in Davenport for one night only Sat-urday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m. The world’s best Beatles tribute band will take its audience on a fantastic trip back to the era of the rock legends who will live in our hearts for-ever.
Rolling Stone magazine has named 1964 the “Number One Beatles Tribute Show on Earth.”
The group consistently sells out major con-
cert venues around the world. In 2006, the band sold out the prestigious Carnegie Hall in
New York for a record-breaking seventh time.
With a breathtaking ability to become the Fab Four, 1964 re-cre-ates an early ’60s live Beatles concert down to the smallest details, such as authentic clothing,
instruments, hairstyles and on-stage banter.
tickets: $31.50 at the Adler Theatre Box Offi ce, Ticketmaster.com and (�00) ��5-3000.
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dallas brass to blow over Cedar Rapids
I nternational instrumental sensation Dallas Brass will bring its dynamic and stirring performance to the Water-
loo West High School auditorium at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, and the US Cellular Cen-ter at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22.
The performances will feature band stu-dents from Waterloo and Cedar Rapids schools, respectively.
Founded in 1983 by Michael Levine, Dal-las Brass is one of America’s most acclaimed
music ensembles. Composed of fi ve brass players and a percussionist, the group projects an enormous range of style and emotion.
The Brass has appeared with numerous orchestras nationwide, including the Cincin-nati and New York Pops, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and on stages across Europe and Asia.
tickets: Waterloo: $10 at the door.Cedar rapids: (319) 5�0-2301
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The release of Bruno Mars’ de-but album fi nds the singer-songwriter-producer in the spotlight for both good and bad.
He’s already scored hits co-writ-ing and producing Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” B.o.B’s “Nothin’ on You” and “Billionaire” with Travie Mc-Coy, and has a No. 1 song on his own with “Just The Way You Are.”
Mars also faces a felony drug charge after he was allegedly found in pos-session of cocaine in a Las Vegas bathroom recently.
The drug charge has temporarily overshadowed his musical success, but his album, “Doo-Wops & Hooli-gans,” should put the focus back on his sweet songs.
The 24-year-old shows his range, promise, tastes and talents on the record. Working with his writing-producing team known collectively as The Smeezingtons, Mars (born Peter Hernandez in Hawaii) offers
up a little reggae, a little rock and lots of catchy pop hooks.
Most of all, he’s romantic, singing about love, devotion and the perfect girl on most of the album’s tracks. He’s sexy with it like D’Angelo on the reggae-tinged “Our First Time,” sweet on “Just the Way You Are” and the equally poppy “Marry You,” and sassy on the groovy, gui-tar-heavy “Runaway Baby.”
He’s also clever and silly, singing about “chillin’ in my Snuggie” on “The Lazy Song.”
Damian Marley joins in on the drinking song “Liquor Store Blues,” and Mars brings his falsetto to a rocking reunion with B.o.B. and Cee Lo Green on “The Other Side.”
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The look of the world is stunning, but it’s also interactive. Pulling on stray threads might reveal hidden areas. When Kirby literally goes
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Release date: oct. 17. For: nintendo wii.
Directed by Shinji Mikami, the creator of the “Resident Evil” series, “Vanquish” is a sci-fi shooter of epic propor-tions with a fast, fl uid and frenetic combat system and an engaging and immersive story line.
The story takes place on a vast space station in a near-future world where nations war over the planet’s remain-ing energy resources. Against this backdrop, players take the role of Sam Gideon, a government agent kitted out with a futuristic battle suit. A versatile fi ghter with a huge arsenal of weaponry at his disposal, Sam also has an ar-ray of martial arts skills that he can use to take down his
robot enemies.Sam is the ultimate weapon, donning a futuristic battle
suit of destructive fi repower and superhuman speed and agility.
Fight your way through the enormous, open environ-ments of the space station. The most advanced, futuristic city in the skies becomes home to the action.
“Vanquish” will rate players on a variety of statistics, rewarding them for quick refl exes and strategic think-ing, ensuring they will want to play the levels again and again.
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Star Wars: force Unleashed iiWith all-new devastat-ing Force powers and the ability to dual-wield lightsabers, Starkiller, Darth Vader’s fugitive apprentice, cuts a swath through deadly new enemies across exciting worlds from the “Star Wars” fi lms — all in his desperate search for answers to his past.dS, PC, PS3, wii, X360; oct. 26.
fable iiiEmbark on an epic adventure where the race for the crown is only the beginning of the spectacular journey. Five decades have passed since the events of “Fable II,” and Albion has matured into an industrial revolution.PC, X360; oct. 26.
fallout: new vegasBattle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, running into a col-orful cast of characters, power-hungry factions and mutated creatures in the follow-up to “Fallout 3.”PC, PS3, X360; oct. 19.
Rock band 3The game features an ever-expanding song list from every era of rock ’n’ roll history. New features include new set list search functionality, the addition of three-part harmonies and a keyboard peripheral.dS, PS3, wii, X360; oct. 26.
Crafting mamaJoin Mama and her for-mula of addictive, stylus-based activities as you sew, mold, paint, cut and much more. “Craft-ing Mama” features �0 different craft projects.dS; oct. 26.
Kirby’s fi rst console platform game since the Nintendo 64 days introduces a new look based on animated yarn and a world of cloth and tex-tiles. The approach is woven directly into the game play and allows the ever-morphing Kirby to take on a variety of new forms.
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“It dries faster,” she said, tug-ging at a curl behind her ear.
Mainly, though, she’s happy to have hair. Af-ter being diag-nosed with breast cancer last year, Tierney, 45, had surgery and che-motherapy, dropping out of NBC’s “Parenthood” to do ev-erything necessary to get well.
But now, Tierney is back on television in ABC’s “The Whole Truth.” Lau-ren Graham replaced her in “Parenthood,” leaving Tierney free to take a role that was actually written for her.
Tom Donaghy created the character of Kathryn Peale, the no-nonsense lead pros-ecutor who matches wits with friend and ad-versary Jimmy Brogan (Rob Morrow), with Tierney in mind. Donaghy and Tierney have known each other since college, but she was committed to “Parenthood,” so he cast Joely Richardson.
Then real life intervened. While Tierney was fi nishing treatment and acting in a play in New York, Richardson asked to be re-leased from “The Whole Truth.”
“Joely’s life was fairly complicated,” ex-ecutive producer Jonathan Littman told TV critics when ABC introduced “The Whole Truth” in August. Richardson’s mother is ac-tress Vanessa Redgrave, and three members of that family — Joely’s sister, Natasha Rich-ardson; her uncle, Corin Redgrave; and her aunt, Lynn Redgrave — had died within 14 months of one another.
“It was the right thing to do, to let her go
and deal with that,” Littman said. “The tim-ing worked out great, because then Maura was available and able to do it.”
Tierney spent nine years as tough nurse Abby Cunningham on “ER,” leaving in 2008.
“I wasn’t really thinking about doing an-other (TV) show,” she said. “But I really re-sponded to the character that Tom wrote, I guess because (he) wrote it for me.”
Donaghy created the role in response to “a lot of female characters on television that weren’t strong in the way that I understand how women can be strong and also femi-nine,” he said.
“I knew Maura had the elegance, and we keep saying this word ’wit,’ so I wrote it with her talents in mind, never thinking she would be available. So it’s quite a gift that she is.”
Added Tierney, “My ego’s not involved there at all. But I thought she was a really, really appealing character ... and funny. And it was interesting to fi nd a character that had such sort of a great sense of humor, yet was so driven.”
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COMEDIAN MARGARET CHO MIXES LAUGHS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
argaret Cho, who broke ground with a short-lived show about an Asian-Amer-ican family, has found her way back to the medium that
wasn’t ready to embrace her 16 years ago. Appearing now on Lifetime’s “Drop Dead Diva”
and recently booted from ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” the 41-year-old actress whose stand-up comedy
about her Korean family led to 1994’s “All-American Girl” has returned to prime-time TV with the same tongue-in-cheek hilarity
that has kept her in the spotlight for nearly 20 years. Cho also is back on the road with her “Cho Dependent Tour.”
She is as serious as she is comical — famous for addressing the pressure she felt in 1994 to adjust her weight and her Asian-ness to be more palatable for network executives and audiences.
AS A LONGTIME ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, HER COMEDY FORCEFULLY CONFRONTS HOMOPHOBIA, RACISM AND OTHER DISCRIMINATION WITH WITTY, BLUNT DERISION.
She also talks frankly about sex with men and women, employing descriptive candor meant to make audiences squirm a bit.
She promises more of the same, with new material about her fam-ily and living part time in a small town outside Atlanta where “Drop Dead Diva” is shot. On the show, she plays Teri Lee, the assistant to a young attorney who shares a body with the spirit of a dead model.
But after hours, she plays Margaret, the bold advocate for gay marriage who is living in an area popular with Tea Party activists.
“I guess I was put in this situation so I could write about it,” she said.
Cho has found it hard to reconcile how townsfolk can be so welcoming and gracious while still displaying “real ugli-ness” about gay people. “There’s distrust of progressives and liberals in general,” she said.
Weighty social matters have long been a part of her stand-up act. She plays on stereotypes about Asian people for laughs, but is really trying to raise consciousness about a kind of racism that she believes is less blatant than what other
underrepresented minorities may face. “It’s more about non-inclusion,” she said. “Like we don’t
somehow matter. I have a consciousness about race, that it is really more important to talk about it and confront invisibility. Stereotypes are preferable to invisibility.”
Having a stage and a microphone to deploy her brand of defi -ant humor is still a dream come true for Cho.
“I’m lucky and love what I do,” she said. MCT PHOTO
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aura Tierney likes her new pixie hair-cut.
“It dries faster,” she said, tug-ging at a curl behind her ear.
Mainly, though, she’s happy to have hair. Af-ter being diag-nosed with breast cancer last year, Tierney, 45, had surgery and che-motherapy, dropping out of NBC’s “Parenthood” to do ev-erything necessary to get well.
But now, Tierney is back on television in ABC’s “The Whole Truth.” Lau-ren Graham replaced her in “Parenthood,” leaving Tierney free to take a role that was actually written for her.
Tom Donaghy created the character of Kathryn Peale, the no-nonsense lead pros-ecutor who matches wits with friend and ad-versary Jimmy Brogan (Rob Morrow), with Tierney in mind. Donaghy and Tierney have known each other since college, but she was committed to “Parenthood,” so he cast Joely Richardson.
Then real life intervened. While Tierney was fi nishing treatment and acting in a play in New York, Richardson asked to be re-leased from “The Whole Truth.”
“Joely’s life was fairly complicated,” ex-ecutive producer Jonathan Littman told TV critics when ABC introduced “The Whole Truth” in August. Richardson’s mother is ac-tress Vanessa Redgrave, and three members of that family — Joely’s sister, Natasha Rich-ardson; her uncle, Corin Redgrave; and her aunt, Lynn Redgrave — had died within 14 months of one another.
“It was the right thing to do, to let her go
and deal with that,” Littman said. “The tim-ing worked out great, because then Maura was available and able to do it.”
Tierney spent nine years as tough nurse Abby Cunningham on “ER,” leaving in 2008.
“I wasn’t really thinking about doing an-other (TV) show,” she said. “But I really re-sponded to the character that Tom wrote, I guess because (he) wrote it for me.”
Donaghy created the role in response to “a lot of female characters on television that weren’t strong in the way that I understand how women can be strong and also femi-nine,” he said.
“I knew Maura had the elegance, and we keep saying this word ’wit,’ so I wrote it with her talents in mind, never thinking she would be available. So it’s quite a gift that she is.”
Added Tierney, “My ego’s not involved there at all. But I thought she was a really, really appealing character ... and funny. And it was interesting to fi nd a character that had such sort of a great sense of humor, yet was so driven.”
MCT
PHO
TO
THE WHOLE TRUTH • ABC, 9 p.m.
Wednesdays • abc.com/
thewholetruth
COMEDIAN MARGARET CHO MIXES LAUGHS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
argaret Cho, who broke ground with a short-lived show about an Asian-Amer-ican family, has found her way back to the medium that
wasn’t ready to embrace her 16 years ago. Appearing now on Lifetime’s “Drop Dead Diva”
and recently booted from ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” the 41-year-old actress whose stand-up comedy
about her Korean family led to 1994’s “All-American Girl” has returned to prime-time TV with the same tongue-in-cheek hilarity
that has kept her in the spotlight for nearly 20 years. Cho also is back on the road with her “Cho Dependent Tour.”
She is as serious as she is comical — famous for addressing the pressure she felt in 1994 to adjust her weight and her Asian-ness to be more palatable for network executives and audiences.
AS A LONGTIME ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, HER COMEDY FORCEFULLY CONFRONTS HOMOPHOBIA, RACISM AND OTHER DISCRIMINATION WITH WITTY, BLUNT DERISION.
She also talks frankly about sex with men and women, employing descriptive candor meant to make audiences squirm a bit.
She promises more of the same, with new material about her fam-ily and living part time in a small town outside Atlanta where “Drop Dead Diva” is shot. On the show, she plays Teri Lee, the assistant to a young attorney who shares a body with the spirit of a dead model.
But after hours, she plays Margaret, the bold advocate for gay marriage who is living in an area popular with Tea Party activists.
“I guess I was put in this situation so I could write about it,” she said.
Cho has found it hard to reconcile how townsfolk can be so welcoming and gracious while still displaying “real ugli-ness” about gay people. “There’s distrust of progressives and liberals in general,” she said.
Weighty social matters have long been a part of her stand-up act. She plays on stereotypes about Asian people for laughs, but is really trying to raise consciousness about a kind of racism that she believes is less blatant than what other
underrepresented minorities may face. “It’s more about non-inclusion,” she said. “Like we don’t
somehow matter. I have a consciousness about race, that it is really more important to talk about it and confront invisibility. Stereotypes are preferable to invisibility.”
Having a stage and a microphone to deploy her brand of defi -ant humor is still a dream come true for Cho.
“I’m lucky and love what I do,” she said. MCT PHOTO
TELEVISION
2010
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Three people are touched by death in different ways. George (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (Cecile de France), a French journalist, has a near-death experi-ence that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might — or must — exist in the hereafter.
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Spooky hauntings are once again the main course in this Para-mount Pictures follow-up to Oren Peli’s wildly successful super-natural thriller, “Paranormal Activity.”
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Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA’s top agents but the secrets they know just made them the agency’s top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cun-ning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive.
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CONVICTION
“Conviction” is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for mur-der and sentenced to life in prison in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction.
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GET YOUR FLICK ON
FILM & DVD
2010
HEREAFTER
Three people are touched by death in different ways. George (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (Cecile de France), a French journalist, has a near-death experi-ence that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might — or must — exist in the hereafter.
22 OCTOBER
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2
Spooky hauntings are once again the main course in this Para-mount Pictures follow-up to Oren Peli’s wildly successful super-natural thriller, “Paranormal Activity.”
22 OCTOBER
RED
Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA’s top agents but the secrets they know just made them the agency’s top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cun-ning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive.
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Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corpo-rate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to redefine their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
CONVICTION
“Conviction” is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for mur-der and sentenced to life in prison in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction.
15 OCTOBER
22 OCTOBER
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Guggenheim has three children with actress Elisabeth Shue; all attend private school (something he’s open about in “Su-perman”). And they sure aren’t living off their father’s nonfic-tion film business. “I do a television pilot every year,” Guggenheim said, “and the pilot, which takes two months, covers 10 months of my expenses. The documentaries, which take more than 10 months of the year, pay for two months.”
His latest pilot is CBS’ “The Defenders” with Jim Belushi. He talked with John Anderson at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Q. Everyone agrees that the school systems are a mess, but why did you want to open this can of worms?
A. I remember, in 1968 I was a kid living in Washington, D.C., and I asked my mom, “Why am I taking a bus across the Potomac, 40 minutes into Virginia, to go to school?” And my mom said, “Because the schools in D.C. are broken.” Forty years later, I’m taking my kids to school in our minivan and driving past three public schools. Our schools are still broken. But when Participant Media and Diane Weyer-mann asked me to do this film, I initially said, “No, it’s too complex, it’s a quagmire, a story-telling quagmire.” And then I started seeing the schools I was passing in the corner of my eye, and thinking, “What about those kids?”
Q. Since “Superman” premiered at Sundance in January, there have been several films and TV reports that cover some of the same areas as you — charter schools, alternative education, the teachers’ unions, even Harlem
Children’s Zone founder Geoffrey Canada. You worry about that?
A. No, it worried us when we were making “An Inconvenient Truth” that there were some other projects that had the same statistics that we had. But I think with this film, it’s a good sign. Education issues are in the zeitgeist. When you’re making a movie like this, you want to feel like you’re riding a wave and that maybe your movie will help the wave crest.
Q. It’s a great title.
A. My producer and partner, Leslie Chilcott, came up with it, but it refers to something (Har-lem Children’s Zone president) Geoffrey Canada says, that when he was a boy, the saddest day of his life was when his mom told him Super-man wasn’t real, because it meant there was nobody powerful enough to come and save his
neighborhood. So it fits: There’s this fantasy that schools are going to get better on their own.
Q. Don’t a lot of people assume that bad neighborhoods mean bad parents mean bad students?
A. That question comes up at every screen-ing — “What about the parents?” When I made my first doc (“The First Year”) I’d see these passionate teachers make such progress. And then the kid would go home and the TV was on, they didn’t do their homework, they didn’t have a good breakfast, and they’d get to school and be three steps back. And that was a real problem. What’s changed is that there is a new group of reformers who say, “That’s real, but it’s no longer an excuse.” They address the is-sue by having longer school days, more school days and making school the most important thing in their students’ lives.
Guggenheim opens up on ‘Waiting for Superman’
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Daisy and her father (top photo) and Francisco and his mother (bottom photo) are shown in scenes from “Waiting for Superman.”
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DAVIS GUGGENHEIM DIRECTED WHAT PROBABLY WAS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCUMENTARY OF THE PAST 20 YEARS — “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH” — AND WON AN OSCAR FOR DOING IT. HIS NEW FILM, “WAITING FOR SUPERMAN,” COULD DO FOR THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM WHAT “TRUTH” DID FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
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ANSWERSGuggenheim has three children with actress Elisabeth Shue; all attend private school (something he’s open about in “Su-perman”). And they sure aren’t living off their father’s nonfic-tion film business. “I do a television pilot every year,” Guggenheim said, “and the pilot, which takes two months, covers 10 months of my expenses. The documentaries, which take more than 10 months of the year, pay for two months.”
His latest pilot is CBS’ “The Defenders” with Jim Belushi. He talked with John Anderson at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Q. Everyone agrees that the school systems are a mess, but why did you want to open this can of worms?
A. I remember, in 1968 I was a kid living in Washington, D.C., and I asked my mom, “Why am I taking a bus across the Potomac, 40 minutes into Virginia, to go to school?” And my mom said, “Because the schools in D.C. are broken.” Forty years later, I’m taking my kids to school in our minivan and driving past three public schools. Our schools are still broken. But when Participant Media and Diane Weyer-mann asked me to do this film, I initially said, “No, it’s too complex, it’s a quagmire, a story-telling quagmire.” And then I started seeing the schools I was passing in the corner of my eye, and thinking, “What about those kids?”
Q. Since “Superman” premiered at Sundance in January, there have been several films and TV reports that cover some of the same areas as you — charter schools, alternative education, the teachers’ unions, even Harlem
Children’s Zone founder Geoffrey Canada. You worry about that?
A. No, it worried us when we were making “An Inconvenient Truth” that there were some other projects that had the same statistics that we had. But I think with this film, it’s a good sign. Education issues are in the zeitgeist. When you’re making a movie like this, you want to feel like you’re riding a wave and that maybe your movie will help the wave crest.
Q. It’s a great title.
A. My producer and partner, Leslie Chilcott, came up with it, but it refers to something (Har-lem Children’s Zone president) Geoffrey Canada says, that when he was a boy, the saddest day of his life was when his mom told him Super-man wasn’t real, because it meant there was nobody powerful enough to come and save his
neighborhood. So it fits: There’s this fantasy that schools are going to get better on their own.
Q. Don’t a lot of people assume that bad neighborhoods mean bad parents mean bad students?
A. That question comes up at every screen-ing — “What about the parents?” When I made my first doc (“The First Year”) I’d see these passionate teachers make such progress. And then the kid would go home and the TV was on, they didn’t do their homework, they didn’t have a good breakfast, and they’d get to school and be three steps back. And that was a real problem. What’s changed is that there is a new group of reformers who say, “That’s real, but it’s no longer an excuse.” They address the is-sue by having longer school days, more school days and making school the most important thing in their students’ lives.
Guggenheim opens up on ‘Waiting for Superman’
AP PHOTO / PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Daisy and her father (top photo) and Francisco and his mother (bottom photo) are shown in scenes from “Waiting for Superman.”
MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
DAVIS GUGGENHEIM DIRECTED WHAT PROBABLY WAS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCUMENTARY OF THE PAST 20 YEARS — “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH” — AND WON AN OSCAR FOR DOING IT. HIS NEW FILM, “WAITING FOR SUPERMAN,” COULD DO FOR THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM WHAT “TRUTH” DID FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
DAVID GUGGENHEIM
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