Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net
Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
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Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!
Charity Alert: Make a resolution as Summer approaches to click on The Hunger Site every day.
In The Community: Check out Hockaday Museum of Art's online preview of the 4th Annual Spring for Glacier Auction on May 25, 2007 in Glacier National Park! Jeff Walker's formal opening was fun -- avid Walker collector Bernie from Big Sandy showed up to see his stuff, as did Jeff and his wife Julie.
Media Watch: Another movie in another theater, with a REAL audience. This time it was Georgia Rule, starring the still - controversial but excellent Jane Fonda and long-time screen actor Lindsay Lohan, who has yet to see her 25th birthday. The audience repeatedly laughed out loud at the mention of "blow job," "boner," and other such things, but the story was supposed to be about alcoholism and child abuse. Former comedy director Garry Marshall and his screenwriter never got close to the devastating reality about those extremely serious matters. Desperate Housewives co-star Felicity Huffman looked like she COULD be Fonda's daughter in a number of scenes, but a lot of visual magic was made with large-lensed sunglasses. I didn't even recognize Cary Elwes as the loathsome stepfather, and the rest of the cast did OK too. Lohan's career is in danger from the celebrity meat-grinder -- she doesn't need to feed the ever-hungry publicity machine if she just does her job. THAT is tough enough! Another big writing flaw was setting the story in a supposedly "Mormon" community. The young male lead's future "mission" was the only plot point which justified THAT, but it was almost irrelevant. Unfaithfulness to his absent fiance was much more important. The filmakers would have done better without even naming a local church or religion -- there was almost no verisimilitude in their depiction of what a Mormon community is like, in Idaho, or anywhere else. Whatever -- from the box-office lists, it looks like 10 times more people paid to see Spider Man III rather than Georgia Rule.
Theater/Theatre: Maribor, Slovenija -- Workshop improvisation for dancers and musicians June 22 – June 27, 2007 Katie Duck (dance) Wilbert de Joode (music – counter bass) -- Workshop takes place daily from 11:00 to 15:00 / Performance at the end of the workshop period by the workshop participant. UNION building, Partizanska cesta 5, 2000 Maribor (in the city center) -- rooms Zelena dvorana 2nd floor and V 2 in the basement. You can apply and pay on arrival. However, the number of participants is limited to 10 dancers and 5 musicians. We suggest you apply in advance by email in order to insure your place in the workshop. You need to take care for your accommodations. We will gladly assist you with making reservations.
To register and for more information go to: zulk@zulk.sli
More information about the artists: www.katiedauck.com / http://www.doek.org/wDeJoode.html
This workshop is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ljubljana, JSKD, Plesna izba Maribor, JSKD OI Maribor and KPC Narodni dom Maribor.
