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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 31 2005 - January 3, 2006 C-9 The Park Record 'Country Boys' to air on KUED Seven years after the triumph of "The Farmer's Wife," David Sutherland returns to PBS with a major new work: "Country Boys," a moving portrait of the trials and triumphs of Chris Johnson and Cody Perkins, two teenaged boys coming of age in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian hills. Filmed over three years (19992002), "Country Boys" tracks the dramatic stories of Chris and Cody from ages 15 to 18. Sutherland's new film bears witness to the boys' struggles to overcome the poverty and family dysfunction of their childhood in a quest for a brighter future. Airing on KUED-Channel 7 Monday-Wednesday, Jan. 9-11 at 9 p.m., "Country Boys" also offers unexpected insights into a forgotten corner of rural America that is at once isolated and connected, a landscape dotted with roughshod trailer homes and wired with DSL. ''While this new film tells the very specific story of two boys growing up in one remote part of America," says filmmaker Sutherland, "it also tells a universal story about the awkward yet essential journey through adolescence we all mlist make." Cody Perkins is an orphan. His mother's postpartum suicide left the infant boy in the care of his father, who, 12 years later, killed his seventh wife before turning the gun on himself. Bounced around among relatives he "barely knew, Cody eventually chose to live with his former step-grandmother, Liz McGuire, who took the troubled boy into her home. Offering unconditional love and strict maternal guidance. Liz helps transform Cody from an angry, depressed child into a compassionate young adult. Chris Johnson lives in a rundown trailer in a Kentucky "holler" with his mother. Sheila, a high school dropout who cleans hotel rooms for a living, and his father, Randall, an alcoholic with terminal cirrhosis of the liver. With his mother often absent and his father lost in an alcoholic haze, Chris is thrust into the role of both mother and father - cooking, cleaning, and taking care of his younger siblings. He also supports the family with the monthly Social Security disability check he receives for his learning disorders. "Country Boys" begins in the autumn of 1999, when Chris and Cody begin attending the David School, an alternative high school for troubled teens in David, Kentucky. The school is the center of the boys' daily life and the crucible for their struggle to find meaning and direction in their lives. Cody finds a new sense of belonging, not only in his home life with Liz but moves out, leaving Chris behind through his heavy metal band, his with his father and forcing him to faith in God and his relationship work virtually full-time at Taco Bell with his girlfriend, Jessica Riddle, to support them. whose parents become a second As the boys enter their senior family for him. year, their lives and hopes take draFor Chris Johnson, the struggle matically different directions. to find his sense of purpose proves Chris has moved out of his father's more intense and difficult. Chris is home. Burdened with expenses torn • between his devotion to his and no longer eligible for Social family and his desire to get an edu- Security, he drops out of school cation and escape the poverty that entirely. surrounds him. "I've always had Cody, meanwhile, continues to trouble in school. It started when I do well in his studies. To his surwas in first grade," remembers prise, he is chosen valedictorian of Chris. "They figured a behavior dis- his class and is surrounded by famorder unit would be better for me, ily - his maternal grandparents, which only made me worse. My Liz and her daughter, Jessica and mom tried to home school me, but the Riddles. "If it wasn't for all she couldn't cope with it. I never these people," says Cody, in his turned in any work. I never did any- graduation address, "I would never thing. Two years later, I decide to go have realized why I needed to eduback to school. The only problem cate myself. Never quit chasing was they were passing me without your dreams, they may or may not telling me. In other words, I had like come true, but at least you had a a seventh grade education, and I was dream to chase." in high school." "David Sutherland's exceptionDespite his best intentions, a al film is really the story of the series of family crises keen interven- American dream seen though the ing, leading to extended absences eyes of two boys about to become from school, plummeting grades and men," says Michael Sullivan, expulsion. As Cody and Chris Frontline's executive producer for attend classes and work to start a special projects. "It is an intimate school choir, a friendship begins to journey through that exhilarating develop between them. The choir twilight of adolescence ... It is a and its success boost Chris' self-con- story for everyone who remembers fidence, giving him a renewed sense what it was like to be young." of direction. But at his moment of Frontline's "Country Boys" airs triumph, the grim realities of his • on KUED-Channel 7 Mondayfamily life intrude again. His mother Wednesday, Jan. 9-11, at 9p.m. ! S i StLuke s Episcopal Church Intellectual & Spiritual Freedom! 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Don Johnson thing like in the work to evening and come in a Single-note essential oils that can (1980s) TV show, but it's very laid wide variety of styles from shirt- be worn individually or layered depending on your mood are waists to wraps." back." he says. another way to personalize your •Jeans will continue to be an Also for spring, nautical influences set sail with stripes, white important part of a woman's perfume. jackets and accessories like rope wardrobe, she says. "Indie jeans Using aromatherapy as a tool belts from both high-end compa- labels are very hot. It has become for health and well-being will nies like Gucci as well as special- a lifestyle choice that when you continue, as will 'color therapy, don't have to dress up for work or she says. ty stores like J.Crew." Women who don't have time Premium denim continues to another occasion, you wear for a full manicure are going to be a big trend, with a change in jeans." silhouette and color. 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This look "has been is doing a contemporary collec- right now, but by spring be ready v;popular on the runways and is tion for American men and for bright, fun colors, as well as unow moving into mass fashion," women; Norma Kamali has nude, buff nails.'' designed a line for Spiegel; and Thoreson says. The rock 'n'roll theme extends Badgiey Mischka is making a Accessories to shirts, which will feature bright lower-priced group of evening Karen Giberson. president of patterns and asymmetrical motifs wear. the Accessories Council: from companies like Missoni in The Western looks are still ridNicole Miller, fashion designbut.on-downs, wovens and knits. er: ing the fashion range. "Don't Thoreson leaves guys with one Fabrics are big news with this throw away the boots yet," other thing to ponder: the return New York-based designer. "I've Giberson says. of the mustache. 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