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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 25-27, 2005 The Park Record C-6 OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Deer Valley business address, located on Valley Lake. Amenities include restaurant with outside deck, on site security, easy access, large parking lot and wonderful views. Available now 519 RSF, 520 RSF, 1316 RSF, 1391 RSF. 2 months free rent-great rate. Please call Annabel North Star Real Estate 801-322-3120 or 801-879-5237 PARK CITY REAL ESTATE AND YOU Craig Reece, CRS THE THRILL OF THE HUNT You have diligently followed you realtor's advice, getting preapproved for a mortgage loan (so you know how much house you can afford) and collecting sufficient cash for a down payment and closing costs. Now comes the exciting part - searching for the perfect property that will become your new home. Working closely with your realtor can make house-hunting an enjoyable adventure. An experienced realtor will not waste your time showing you properties with undesirable aspects. Instead, he or she will help you focus on the houses that will best meet your requirements. You will give your agent invaluable input if you prepare a written House Hunt Checklist with three categories. In the first category, specify "Must-have" features. For example, you won't settle for anything less than 2,000 square feet, and your family can't do without three bedrooms, two full ba throoms and a yard for your beloved lerrier. The second category should be a list of "Love to have" features - a swimming pool, extra storage space, a three-car garage - things that would make the house extremely desirable to you. In the third category, specify "Won't live with" features that might include too much traffic noise from the street or n poorly rated school district. Your checklist will help your realtor guide your search, so every house you take the time to visit is a potential home! For rock solid advice on buying or selling real estate, call Craig Reece at 435-647-6017 or toll free at 1-800-553-4666. Craig has been a full time Park City resident since 1973 and a full-rime real estate agent since 1978. Prudential Utah Rial Etutt www.DeerValleySpeclallst.com Cralg@DeerValleySpecialist.com (435) 647-8017 • (435) 649-7171 (800) 553-4666 l n * OfHc* Park 1200 Tuk Aranua, l l d g B Tf,e Prudential a n d ® a f e registered service marks of The Prwtefib.il Insurance Company ol Park Otj , UT M«0 America. Equal housing opportunity Each company ndepcfldenBy ovrfwd and operated. Capitalism thrives: Monopoly turns 70 By BROOKE ADAMS MediaNews Group Wire Service Planes, trains and submarines. Elevators and tree houses. On balance beams and while hanging upside down. But the one place Monopoly has been played most often? Home sweet home, where many future entrepreneurs learn their first lessons in capitalism: Buy early, build big. America's most popular board game turns 70 this year and, despite the ubiquity of Nintendo and PlayStation, it has lost little of its appeal. Jeff Thomas, 30, of Beaver, Utah, remembers learning to play when he was 5. By 15, he had bought his first vintage edition of Monopoly - a 1950-60 version - at an antiques store. His collection, amassed through yard sales and Christmas pleadings, now totals about 30 different versions of Monopoly. Among them: a Hong Kong edition in Chinese and English and a special Utah version made by USAopoly in 1998 that features the state Capitol in the coveted Boardwalk slot and Temple Square at Park Place. Thomas' rarest edition was made in the 1940s and has separate boxes for the board and game pieces. His specialty editions - Marvel Comics, Simpsons and Star Wars - all feature special themed playing pieces. The NASCAR version, for instance, includes a car, a wheel and a steering wheel. Of course, Thomas always likes to be the same thing when he plays: the race car. "It looks cool," says Thomas, whose longest game lasted five hours. "It is one of the old-fashioned cars and it looks pretty fast." As far as properties, he'll take St. Charles place any day. "It is one you can get on a Chance," Thomas says. For Thomas, the lure of the game is "collecting money." "And of course, you have to collect the properties to get money. Maybe it is a dream to be a property owner," he says. In this respect, Monopoly is a lot like life. "I usually try to be the first one to build houses and that usually helps me win," says Thomas, who in real life is coowner of just one property - Milford Gift & Games, where his Monopoly collection lines display shelves. That is the only crossover between the real world and game world for Thomas, who works a day job as a teller for Wells Fargo in Milford, Utah. But, "I don't like being the banker when I play Monopoly," he says. "It's too much work."' Toy analyst Chris Byrne, widely known for his TV appearances as "The Toy Guy," says the idea of building a business conglomerate - even one composed of plastic hotels - is ingrained in the American psyche. "The whole concept of becoming rich and putting people out of business is very Donald Trump," Byrne says. It was the lack of work, actually, that paved the way for Monopoly. Hasbro Games, which owns Monopoly, credits Charles Darrow, an unemployed heating* sales representative from Philadelphia, as the father of Monopoly. In 1934, Darrow approached Parker Brothers with a handmade version of the game. The country was in the midst of the Depression and Darrow figured the chance to strike it rich - with paper money and little thumb-nail size houses, anyway - might appeal to everyday Americans. It had, after all. Please see Game, C-8 Final 'Star Wars' sets three-, four-day record LOS ANGELES (AP) Moviegoers have turned out in full force for the final chapter of the "Star Wars" saga, which took in $158.5 million since its opening to shatter three-day and four-day box office records. "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" grossed $124.7 million from Thursday to Saturday, according to studio estimates Sunday. That's higher than the three-day record set by the first "Spider-Man," which took in $114.8 million in May 2002 - though "Star Wars" had a lower Friday-Sunday take ($108.5 million) than the Tobcy Maguire film. "Revenge of the Silh" rang in a whopping $50 million on its opening Thursday, a single-day record boosted by eagerly anticipated midnight showings, and its total receipts since then beat the fourday $134.3 million opening of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." The George Lucas film has also grossed $144.7 million overseas for a total of $303 million worldwide. "The reaction to the movie is absolutely spectacular," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution at Twentieth Century Fox. Last weekend's box office champ, "Monster-in-Law," which marked Jane Fonda's return to the big screen as Jennifer Lopez's villainous prospective mother-in-law. slipped to a distant second with $14.4 million, a 38 percent drop. The Will Ferrell soccer comedy "Kicking & Screaming" took in $10.5 million to finish third. Theater owners, studios and marketing partners were pleased to see "'Star Wars" jump-start the summer movie season. "It's a very strong start to what will hopefully be a very strong summer," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. The Adam Sandier-Chris Rock remake of "The Longest Yard" and the animated zoo tale "Madagascar" open in wide release during Memorial Day weekend, traditionally one of the busiest movie viewing times of the year. But "Star Wars" - which has sold an average of eight tickets per second online at Fandango.com - could remain at the top of the box office despite the competition. "I think we have a shot to be No. 1 next week even with two giant pictures coming out," Snyder said. The third and final installment in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy chronicles the transformation of the heroic Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalkcr into the villainous Darth Vader. Studio exit surveys showed the audience - usually dominated by men for sci-fi films - was 58 percent male and 42 percent female, with nearly half the viewers under age 25, Snyder said. "Revenge of the Sith" is the first "Star Wars" film to earn a PG-13 rating. The first five films were rated PG. Considered by critics to be the most entertaining of the prequel trilogy, it easily outperformed "Episode I - The Phantom Menace" and "Episode II - Attack of the Clones." which grossed $64.8 million and $80 million, respectively, in their opening weekends. 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