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Show Page A2 Thursday, January 10, liHf P.uk ReorH liy l!( rli: l Ti ('( 12 If; li; J J.I f ;i I., i Cil mi III! pn I Ik I .1 up lot III, III! PI. M, Si I (I.-Ih( (I.-Ih( dpi dpi pil dpi dir ; . I J urn liil S('( pel i ( ISM urn Ail h,i (lot mil con cur Ks( S (! pro I'CJI woi (Icil C(ll con M coi' C(ll C(ll i)( tni; Tlx! (Ye of I. S' ('( ecu cd 'al sily dcu inn lor, see seel lieir Park City has to expand with the Film Festival Everybody wants to be popular. But there's such a thing as beini; too popular. If you don't believe us, take a look at the United States Film Festival in Park City. More people than ever before have swarmed into Park City during the last two years since the event has fallen under the astute guidance of the Sundance Institute. Early estimates say that box office revenues last week were 30 percent above 1985's record-breaking figures. That is both a triumph and a challenge. At the awards presentation Saturday night, one festival official noted with weary jubilation that the event is getting so big the organizers would have to find bigger and better facilities. Deseret News film critic Chris Hicks wrote that the only on-ly consistent complaint he heard was about shows being sold out. The reason, in part, he contended, is that the theaters are rather small. The lack of space here has been an underlying concern for the last two or three festivals. But with the festival growing attendance, it is more important than ever we show that Park City can grow with it. It's important because the Park City festival is not just important for the town, but for filmmakers. As one director noted last weekend, a small community of filmmakers film-makers comes alive in Park City every year at festival time. They can actually walk down the street and routinely bump into their colleagues. Park City offers the best of both worlds to filmmakers. It offers the intimacy of a small-town event, yet the festival is also accessible to a fairly large metropolitan population in Salt Lake City that can see independent films and spread the word about them. That delicate balance is threatened if Park City doesn't solve its space problem. Editorial That's not to say our theaters are bad for being small. It makes no sense to build big showplaces that would be tilled only at festival time. But we need to find or build facilities that can expand to meet the times when the town fills up with people. As soon as possible. Park City should sit down with Sundance Institute officials and find out exactly what they need the kind of halls, the type of seating, their needs for projection equipment and acoustics. (We also need to upgrade our parking, for more reasons than this.) - ' Next, we should consider how we can use the public and private facilities available to us. With the talk these days of remodeling the Memorial Building or the Carl Winters Middle School, the festival should also be a part of those plans. We should ask what can be done with Prospector Pro-spector Square, The Yarrow, the Ramada Hotel or the prospective Snow Creek convention center. In particular, the historic Egyptian Theatre should remain re-main the centerpiece of festival activity. But perhaps repeat showings can avoid overcrowded situations there. The film festival is one of Park City's two annual cultural events the other is the Art Festival in the summer. sum-mer. The town has had consistent support from festival officials and out-of-state moviemakers. But they need a helping hand from us to make the festival work. If we start now. Park City an independent indepen-dent in its own right will continue to be the home base for independent film. A message from the far side; revelations of a 30-year-old hy Mark Walsh Like most people, I try to stay in shape. Lately, though, I've bf .i z bit more persistent in my efforts at maintaining my fitness in the face of advancing age I've tried to keep abreast of the latest developments in the fields of nutrition and physiology in hopes of slowing the in' vitable effects of aging. I've had some success in th se ellorts, too; I can claim the health and fitness of a 2. year-old no small consolation to a man of my years By the way, I just celebrated my 30th birthday. That may not seem so old to some of you, but I can sense something slipping away, something I'll not have again. A gap is opening between me and the state average age of 18.4 years. Thirty used to delineate the boundary between a relatively carefree youth and the slide into retirement. Am I making too much of a fuss over this particular birthday? birth-day? What makes me older besides the gray hairs and slightly foggier memory? I really don't feel decrepit, most of the time except those days after over-loading on bump skiing or certain controlled substances. The brain and knees seem to break down first under the sustained abuse of a seasonal lifestyle. But even that is falling by the w ayside now. Just in the last year I have married, started a full-time, full-time, year-round job. I own a house, a car, truck dog and cat, and may soon be raising a small addition to mv own family. Big changes come down fast. In short I'm getting settled in ... or tied down (on the bad days) I can remember not so long ago when 30 was a distant milestone, too far off to be imagined or concerned with but now it is here and it is just another dav; the years are starhng to roll together, building a perilous momentum momen-tum of thejr own. I'm starting to feel the pressure of not having enough time for the things I want to do. Unscheduled summers used to drag on interminably in a humid langor followed As I See it by the endless round of school days junior high, high school, college. And only when I had collected these various diplomas did I venture out West to play in these celebrated mountain snows. I'm still here, eight years later. The names are the same, only my focus has changed. The storm-days that once were waited for impatiently are now not so appreciated. I know the driving will be torturous and my work day will be that much harder. The winters here seem to be becoming increasingly protracted. Snow and cold encroach on either end of the ihree-month hiatus of spring-summer-fall. The garden is susceptible to a killing frost even during this lull from June to August. And I will prepare for another winter in a calculatedly militant manner: winterizing the truck, weatherizing the house against the oncoming onslaught and building cordwood stockpiles against the chill. I'll continue my duel with the implacable season and enroaching middle age with whatever resolve and wit I can conserve. And when I least expect it, I will be dazzled dazzl-ed by the stunning clarity at altitude ... jetstream cloud-play cloud-play ... light and shadow on a cornice wave ... or a sudden sud-den spring in my running stride. On the far side of 30, the small revelations are the most ou can hope for. As I See It is a guestcolumn that is open to anyone who has a point of view on issues that affect Park City or its residents. A guest column should be typewritten, double-spaced and no more than four pages in length. It must be delivered in person or by mail to the Record's offices at 1670 Bonanza Dr.. Prospector Square, before 5 p.m. Monday. The Park Record reserves the right to edit material that is libelous or in bad taste. In light of the recent tragedy aboard the space shuttle Challenger, do you think civ ilians should be allowed aboard future flights? Would you go? w $ John Lane Sure, I think so. It's just a thing that happened and they shouldn't shut down the program pro-gram because of an incident. Keith Bronstein Yes. Send me. I'll go. 1 2 l -.jsS' J Marie Kosenbloom Why not? Sure, I'd go. You take your chances every day when you get in your car. 7 i j .an, 4 1 . mji Martha Kittredge Absolutely. My interest isn't there, but if it was,' I wouldn't let this stop me. I': :v ,i -; l i . ! ! Kmily Kliason Yea, I do. But I think they should take more precautions precau-tions next time. It seems to me they have gotten more casual. I'd go. Merodee Burns Yes, if they can find out why it happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. Yeah, I'd go. I'm risky. The Park Record (USPS 0037-8370) is published weekly by the News Record Publishing Co., Inc. Second-class postage in Park City, UT 84060 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Park Record, 1670 Bonanza Dr Suite 202 P.O. 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