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ENROLLMENT," .4 OR IF A STUDENT WITHDRAWS PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP. NO REFUNDS WILL BE MADE THE DAY OF A WORKSHOP. COST PER WORSHOP: KAC MEMBERS: $10 NON-MEMBERS: $0 !f!''T WWW JW"T1 Sleeper Shawshank by AMBER McKEE Record staff writer The Shawshank Redemption Starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows Directed by Frank Darabont Castle Rock Entertainment 1994 Of all the movies nominated for Best Picture for this year's Academy Awards, The Shawshank Redemption was probably the nearest miss. - Of course, Forrest Gump swept the awards from Tom Hanks on down on Monday night. The only thing left standing stand-ing was Disney's songsmith Tim Rice, who swept Best Song for the umpteenth time, albeit with the help of Elton John. Which is a darn shame, because Shawshank just suffers from a little PR problem. The name is a mouthful and nobody knows much about the film. Those who do know it is about a prison, which sounds like about as much fun as a kick in the head. I find myself wondering why the publicity team didn't pull Stephen King's name out of their . hats. It's not a well known fact that the screenplay, which was co-written by King and director Frank Darabont, is based on King's novella, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." Perhaps actors Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman don't have the star power of Gump 's Hanks and Sally Field. However both provide solidly entertaining performances per-formances in this little gem of a , story about a MaihY banker con- . victed of murder and sentenced to life in prison at Shawshank. Robbins plays the banker Andrew Dufresne, who is befriended by con Ellis "Red" Redding (Freeman). Condemned to spend his life among the . rough-and-tumble, uneducated and uncultured convicts in Shawshank, Dufresne sets about trying to better his circumstances. At first, he lacks success, and is victimized by some of the Bride shows good and evil in the fairer sex by MELINDA DOTO Record guest writer The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Bantam BooksDoubleday Paperback $6.50 How about some fun, light reading that leaves room for heavy contemplation? Margaret Atwood plays with many of the dichotomies of life in her latest novel, The Robber Bride. . The story revolves around the lives of three women, Tony, Charis, and Roz, and their relationship rela-tionship with the conniving seductress Zenia. Everyone, including readers, loves to hate . HSU a. JLL A custom family home on a .90 acre creekside lot with vaulted wood ceilings, massive stone fireplaces, a two-story solarium, large master bedroom suite, gourmet kitchen, oak trim throughout and much, much more. Fully landscaped. Approx. 4,200 sq.ft. $395,000 by owner. Scott Orchard 649-5976 B INDIVIDUAL B TRUSTS B PARTNERSHIPS ' B CORPORATIONS B ACCOUNTING B TAX PLANNING B. DANILOFF & ASSOC. BONNIE DANILOFF, E.A. , Enrolled Agent Tel: (801) 649-6878 Fax: (801) 649-6896 """" -Y V !j r J.' ,N i - C Tim Robbins, shown here in The Hudsucker Proxy, stars as convict Andrew Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, a movie based on Stephen King's novella. rougher elements, particularly by a nasty gang called "The Girls." Still, Dufresne who maintains his innocence refuses to be brought down and asks Red, who is known "as a man who gets, things," to procure a rock hammer ham-mer for him. Dufresne takes up his former hobby of rock hounding, hound-ing, and he and Red strike up a friendship. Robbins plays kind of a straight-faced Kevin Costner roll in this an enigmatic young genius, who thrives on his ability to help others climb above their stations in life. , At one point Dufresne launches launch-es into a letter-writing campaign -to the state legislature for library funding. Six years later, after writing a letter a week, he gets his-wish and the audience gets an important insight into his character. charac-ter. It is Freeman, however, who stands out in The Shawshank Redemption, as a middle-aged man who is doing time for the crimes he committed in his youth. Zenia. She is at once friend, giving each woman something they desperately need, and enemy, taking what each loves most (their men). Atwood is at her best, capturing readers by unfolding the novel as a mystery. Zenia, -thought dead, appears at the trendy restaurant Toxique (giving a clue as to who is made of toxic material) much to the dismay of the three central characters. What is reality? Is it what we most want to believe is truth? Unravelling the characters' lives through flashbacks, readers learn Tony, Charis, and Roz's pitiable stories separately it is Atwood who ties them together, literally through Zenia, figuratively with universal themes: " if 17 YEARS EXPERIENCE CALIFARIZ SPECIALIST ALL STATE & MULTI-STATE YEAR-ROUND SERVICE COMPLIANCE PROBLEMS pleases despite name Cinema Early in the movie he makes a trip (one of many over the course of the film) to the parole board, his desire for freedom evident in his eyes. After assuring them he has definitely been rehabilitated and is sorry for his crime, he is soundly rejected for parole. Which, after a while, seems like not such a bad deal. In prison, he's important a kind of specialty importer. He's well fed, relatively safe, provided he stays out of the way of Capt. Hadley (Clancy Brown), the head prison guard. In fact, when it comes right down to it, he wouldn't know what to do with himself if he got out. One of the things the movie does successfully is turn a dirty old prison full of hardened criminals crimi-nals into a "safe" environment full of individuals, who despite their crimes have their good Stephenson's Snow Crash a foray into computer sci-fi by ANDY RYDER ; Record guest writer Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson , Bantam Spedra 1992 Paperback As someone with Internet access and an interest in cool tech- ' nology, I require myself to read various cyberpunk sci-fi novels so I can be pretentious and have little in-jokes to share with all : the other two people who have read them. ( So far, I've finished off Neuromancer by William Gibson, MirrorshadesThe Cyberpunk Anthology edited by Bruce Sterling, and Snow Crash. Snow Crash's main plus is that cyber- ; punk literature is becoming too ostentatious and heavy-handed, and this book uses a sense of humor, and actually some insight into theology (or mythology, depending on your beliefs.) Yes. ; Educational, as well as entertaining. , ! The novel takes place in Los Angeles around 2010; the main ' character is Hiro Protagonist you just know this book is going I to have a lot of truly horrid puns whose business card says "Last of the freelance hackers; Greatest sword fighter in the - i world; Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation; Specializing in ! software-related intel (music, movies & microcode.)" " ; s ! : Stephenson originally wrote the novel as a graphic novel V ! (that's a comic book for grown-ups), but it fell through and so he J wrote it again in more standard prose. Some parts make me think J a graphic version would be better; it would be good to explain j various parts of the Metaverse, which is a virtual reality-style ' world. ! The name of the novel comes from a colloquial term for how it looks when your computer goes down. In this novel, it's a 'i computer virus that can infect people who stare at computers too j long. Well, considering that I've been typing on this computer . for about an hour, I may be prime infection material. I If you think Snow Crash is a book about skiing, you will ? probably be disappointed; but for those who enjoy quirky science 1 fiction, I would recommend it. I hope Stephenson's newest book, The Diamond Age, lives up to its predecessor. Andy Ryder is a computer and sci-fi aficionado as well as a ! student at Treasure Mountain Middle School. . . Review points, their dreams and ambr-tions. ambr-tions. - The real criminals, Shawshank says, are the warden (Bob Gunton) and Hadley, who abuse the system every bit as much as they abuse the criminals within it. In one of the opening scenes Hadley beats to death a fresh convict, whom the other inmates have baited into crying by "fishing." "fish-ing." Don't be fooled. While Shawshank has its feel-good moments, it is also at times a very violent, sad movie, and is rated R accordingly. However, it also has a terrific ending which is immensely satisfying satis-fying and great performances by character actors whose faces you've seen in a thousand . movies. In fact, with a little more publicity, pub-licity, it could easily have been another Forrest Gump. Good vs. Evil (isn't a little of each in all of us?) Love vs. Hate (which do they feel most for Zenia?) Friend vs. Enemy (scary thought) Reality vs. Fantasy (didn't they, at first, want to believe her?) Healthy vs. Co-dependent (toxic) relationships relation-ships This last theme resonates with a question Atwood seems to be asking throughout her novel: Can someone, or some outside source really ruin a healthy relationship or is some- ' thing, at the core, already deficient? Inside our hearts we all know the answer Learn to live it. j |