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Show B5 WWW.NETXNEWS.NET MONDAY • NOVEMBER 6 • 2006 Theater department honors their vows In theaters this week Harsh Times - Christian Bale meets Training Day. > The Return - A horror movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Wait, not The Grudge 2? m Stranger Than Fiction - As we all know, any comedy with Will Ferrell is gold. Stranger Ihon Fiction Courtesy Photos/yahoo.com New on DVD Cars (Widescreen Edition) - A good gift for your brats. The West Wing: Season 7 - In case the first six seasons weren't sufficient. The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1 - Buy it or "sleep with the fishes." Albert Mitchell/NetXNew5 (Left to right) Sisters Amnesia, Mary and Hubert cook up a special treat in Nonsense. Musical Nunsense (op (en \ Homecoming Bonuses N&.By The College Times Staff ^ dance filled with easy BYU students. j ' ^tw i1 • *'' j • 8 5 ' 7 If you meet someone special, you've still got time for a winter .. wedding. V: 6 If feels just like being back at Orem High., Everyone pretends they nave school pride. ^ A great way to support the football team. Free crap. It's the only turnout the basketball team will see Coast Nuns pleading with the public to donate to a most worthy cause. After Sister Julia Child Eleanor Takahashi poisons a large number of Life Writer the convent, the few that On Thursday, Oct. 27, the are left must find some way Utah Valley State College to raise the needed funds to Theater Department opened bury the last four deceased its first play of the season, sisters, who up until the a musical by Dan Goggin event, had been residing in entitled Nunsense. Centered the convent freezer. -Nunaround a mock fundraiser, sense is a witty comedy that the "Little Sisters of Hoborelies heavily on pop culture ken," played by some of the references and the absurdity finest actresses UVSC has of the remaining nuns repreto offer, are a group of East sented by its cast. fflu/ichl review Courtesy Photos/amazon.com s The Student Government has a justified reason to --.'•'-> blow UVSC : ; ' ^ money, -\i:;: Last chance t o - , dress trashy before it really gets cold. i Your illegitimate \ kid gets info '; activities free of • charge. the right note This group of actresses consists of four talented UVSC drama students, who display a wide range of vocal ability, and Laura Gamer, a performing artist who has worked in Utah for over 30 years. In the role of the Reverend Mother-Sister Mary, Garner successfully exhibits the stern demeanor of a controlling authority figure. She landed a victory with her brief depiction of an accidental drug-induced euphoria, which was a risky and tempting portrayal of the powerful figure gone astray. The gifted Kiki Shakespeare-Thompson brought attitude and an unbelievable voice to the role of Reverend Mother's right-hand nun. Sister Hubert. In the one of the show's closing songs, Shakespeare-Thompson takes center stage to unearth the audience with her brilliantly compelling and soulful voice. See NUNSENSE • B8 . What do you have to lose? Looking on the positive side of failure Erik Frederickson Life Writer Everybody has dreams of being the best at something. How many of us actually believe we can do it and work until we get to that point, ignoring the people that tell you that you can't do it? Whether your dream is to be the best basketball player in the world, the best author, artist, singer, dancer, and I could go on forever, it's possible, but not without hard work and perseverance. Most people know the Michael Jordan story, but I'm going to tell it one more time. Jordan's first experience with organized basketball: He had to deal with being cut from his high school basketball team. Now think, if then, he just said, "Maybe basketball isn't for me." What would this world be like without Michael Jordan? Sure, Jordan is blessed with a ridiculous athletic ability, but what if, after being cut from the team, he gave up? Now he is the standard of excellence that all athletes measure themselves by. How about J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books? She was dealt rejection after rejection before the first Harry Potter book was ever published. When it was published, she sold it for $4,000. Although she wrote her first book at the age of 6, she was a teacher for many years. Then, after the birth of her daughter and a divorce, she finally finished the first of many Harry Potter books. With all of those rejections, think if she would have just given up on it and had gone back to teaching. What would the world be like without Harry Potter! He may as well be a real person with all of the phenomenon that surrounds these books. Thanks to J.K. Rowling's determination and wild imagination, these books and movies are now a global success. Then there was this skinny, little white kid that thought he could rap. Maybe you've heard the name Eminem. He grew up constantly being humiliated and beaten up in a predominantly black community, wanting to be a rapper. His first album Infinite did nothing. He only sold 1,000 copies out of the trunk of his car. But he kept at it, and in 1997, he took second place at the Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif, where a guy named Dr. Dre heard him. And the rest is history. Sure, it would be easy to just say, "Well, these people are extremely talented and they were bound to be great," but these people also failed time and time again. They were told they weren't good enough and that they couldn't cut it. Well, they only let their failures fuel them to the place they are today. So, why not go for that unachievable goal? Courtesy Photo/geocities.com/mjlove7s8i You never know what could happen. Young, predetermined failure, Michael Jordan. |