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Show WASATCH Pt ee MOUNTAIN TIMES TOWER ENTERTAINMENT | THEATRE WVIDEOWCD-ROM WPREVUE MAGAZINE 876 Last 900 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84105 Sally A Smith Phone: WOMAN’S is PLACE IN PRINT PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE Starts July 21 So popular, we had to bring it back the geous, whacked-outir nd Mormon ideology director of Rubin and Ed. It’s a hilarious look at all that's weird and wonderful in the land of Zion were written PICTURE BRIDE Starts July 28 She then realized that during her entire education, she had been required to read only one book by a female author. “I became concerned that a lack of gender balance gives young women a_ strong that message women don’t count,” Smith said. So, in 1987, she opened A Place Bookstore’ Audience Award — “Best Dramatic Feature” 1995 Sundance Film Fest ival. B ack in the early nineteen hundreds, marriag en migrant ers in Hawaii were frequently arranged with omen through the mail. Sometimes however, the photos sent to entice a bride into Marriage were not truthful. This is an enchanting and inspired portrayal of Hawaii's plantation era directed by Kayo Llatta, and masterfully lensed by Claudio Rocha (of Like Water For Chocolate fame.) on Foothill Blvd. in Salt Lake City. “I just have my little corner of the world that I have control over and I decided to address this issue,” she said in a interview. an Wasatch Mountain going to die at my desk. It wasn’t dream to have a bookstore.” my But after explaining endlessly to educators and others that there was a body of writing by women that was largely being ignored in schools and elsewhere, she began to imagine a bookstore. to envision this room full of books about women, by women, for women People would walk in and say, wow, this is about women?” When young women are in the midst of making the right of passage to womanhood, they are forced, too often, in public education to read about boys and men. They should also be reading about girls and women, Smith noted. “As a young woman, I knew what it was like to be inside Holden Caulfield’s Jhead or Huckleberry Finn’s head . . . But there is a different experience growing up female and male.” Conversely, boys should be exposed to the works of women, she said. “And young men should know what it is like to get inside a woman’s head.” Smith has met with success. A Woman’s Place has expanded to four locations, including one in Park City. Sally credits her husband, PARK CITY FILM SERIES Times Smith says it was her goal to be English teacher for life. “I was “I started Lee, 801-328-1659 FARINELLI Starts July 7 a high school English teacher in Salt Lake City in the 1980s, Sally Smith saw that none of the Woman’s Tar eee Academy Award Nominee for "Best Foreign Language Film.” Farinelli is stunningly beautiful both visually and musically. It is based on the legendary 17th century castrati opera superstar, whose sublime voice could span three and a half octaves, and whose beauty seduced all of Europe irected by Gerard Corbiau A: books in the curriculum by women. 801-328-1645 eo mo oo with ‘the business acumen that keeps A Woman’s Place a going concern. “He believed in it from the very beginning. Some people see that as Sally Smith at A Woman's Place Bookstore. irony, but I don’t. I don’t see anything wrong with men and women working toward common goals.” I some cities, men are taboo in women’s bookstores. American Civil Liberties Union awarded Smith its First Amendment Award, for her efforts to preserve freedom of speech. Among the reasons Smith received the award was But the pro- prietor of A Woman’s Place says men are not only welcome her determination but some of her best customers. But although A Woman’s Place has been successful, the battle is uphill. Independent bookstores, like other small businesses are under in Draper. “It was a miserable good feeling, experience because minded people. We the people don’t have It was a year-and-a-half ago that officials from Crescent View Elementary School removed students art work from Smith’s Draper store to go through. of Draper to agree siege and being pushed out of business by large retail bookstore chains. “People don’t realize that when they buy a book from their local bookstore, they are casting a vote.” Only about 20 percent of the books printed each year comprise about 80 percent of sales, Smith explained. It’s the other 80 percent of the books that don’t sell as well that she worries about. The ones not necessarily carried by the big chains. “Every time a small bookstore closes, so does a small, not to take certain books off the shelves during a fiasco independent press. This is happening all over the place . Its different than where you buy your shoes, because books are about ideas and these are the ideas that won’t get printed.” Recently, the Utah chapter of the PAGE with are But it left me with a a freedom-loving, fair- something because she carried to defend books it.” on gay and lesbian issues. “I called the ACLU, but I wish I had called the police. It was illegal what they had done. The art work didn’t belong to them, it belonged to the kids,” she said. he incident hit the headlines. Smith refused to remove any books from her store. And the people of Draper reacted. ‘I can say that we got a lot of phone calls, letters and art work. And it was almost 100 percent positive, Smith recalls. “It was a miserable experience to go through. But it left me with a good feeling, because the people of Draper are a freedom-loving, fair-minded people. We don’t have to agree with something 5 to defend it.” @ Brings TOWER THEATRE FILMS to Park City. Park City Library and Education Center Auditorium at 1255 Park Avenue Screening times 8:00 p.m. (unless otherwise indicated) Tickets are $5 per person, $4 for seniors or students, or $45 for a season subscription of ten films. In conjunction with the Park City Film Series, A Film Studies Course will be offered through the University of Utah Division of Continuing Education. Call 645-UOFU for course information. The Box Office opens at 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 7:30 P.M. Allegro Non Troppo One of the should fantastic Ravel's best classic animated films everyone see, along the lines of Fantasia — musical score — Stravinski’s Firebird, Bolero. Directed by Bruno Bozetto. SATURDAY, JULY 8, 7:30 P.M. Ruben and Ed Written, produced, and directed by Salt Lake City’s Trent Harris. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 7:30 P.M. ed Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski starring Irene Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, the final in the film trilogy beginning with “Blue and “White.” FRIDAY, JULY 23, 7:30 P.M. A Silent Film T.B.A. Scored by the Park City International Chamber Music Society. [ts Park City Arts Cownet! The Park City Film Series is sponsored by the Park City Arts Council, a non-profit cultural arts organization. |