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Show SECTION SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 17. EDITOR 62- Doug Fox 344 2546 dfoxheraldextra.com - 3 r MICHAEL I 2008 SOHNAssociated Press seen prior to the screening o his film "CSNY Deja Vu" during the Berlinale film festival in Berlin, Germany, on Neil Young is V Feb. 8. I . id Infighting, politics as V v Young, band tout tour film CRAIG DILGER Daily Herald dance with the Old Glory Vintage Dancers at Center Stage Performing Arts social dance. Studio in Orem on Tuesday. Old Glory Vintage Dancers is a troupe that puts on displays of Civil War-er- a Kimberli Grant and her husband, Tom Grant, Ryan Pearson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vintage dance dance PARK CITY With his two bandmates and their autocratic leader gathered around a dining table, David Crosby is telling a George Bush joke. "Don't you think it'd be a good idea," he says, chuckling, "if we had a law that said you can't have control of nuclear weapons unless you can pronounce the word nuclear? I'm just asking." Neil Young stares intensely at his jovial bandmate and strangely for a guy who wrote a song called "Let's Impeach the President" reprimands him. "That comment is a polarizing comment," Young says harshly. "It doesn't have to do with the grass roots of the country in the Midwest. It takes people and separates them." Despite assorted health scares and surgeries that come with passing 60 (and decades of rocker excess), things are as they always were with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. In a half hour conversation, Graham Nash mostly sits quietly and listens. Stephen Stills, just a Rediscover the charm and energy ofalostera DAILY I What: A dance company that performs historical HERALD all thanks to famous O.K. gunfighter Doc that women in hoop on the arm of men tails and top hats, are turning into a fixture at balls and other social events in Utah Valley. Alpine resident Kimberli Grant is not a descendant of the Old West's most famous gunslinging dentist, or an O.K. Corral reenac-toBut Grant, 46, who owns and operates Old Glory Vintage Dancers with her husband, Tom, was living in Georgia when, about 13 years ago, she got involved with a friend in the restoration of a historical mansion. Not just any historical mansion, but the Holliday Dorsey Fife House in FayetteviUe, Ga. Peach State native Doc never lived there himself, but his cousins did, so you can see where the house gets its notoriety. ' "To raise funds to restore the house we would have balls, 1850s balls," Grant said. "I made myself War dances from the South and other settings. The company also provides dance instruction at social events and teaches classes at Center Stage Performing pre-Civ- il It's few weeks after having prostate cancer surgery, laughs loudly and interjects with jokes. As in their music, Crosby and Young guide the discussion, alternating perspectives and sometimes clashing. The four gathered at the recent Sundance Film Festival to promote a new movie, "CSNY Deja Vu," that tracks their 2006 tour playing songs from Young's "Living With War" album. (It also recently played at the Berlin Film Arts Studio I On the it. -- Y in Orem. Web: r. Festival.) Young directed the documen- See Vintage Dancers Cody Clark -- tary under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey. And as he does in jousting with Crosby, he seems to thrive on the rancor that resulted' from the tour. Fans entered arenas around the country apparently expecting "Our House" and "Teach Your Children." Instead, they got Old Glory iter a beautiful ball gown and made Tom a tailcoat, waistcoat and cravat. With each ball, I would make another dress," The Grants began to do some War dances of the popular at the balls and picked them up so well that they were invited to join the dance team of the Stately Oaks Plantation in Historical Jonesboro, a Colonial pre-Civ- il Kimberli Grant Tom and Kimberli Grant in September 2007. period attire in See DANCE, C2 us 2 YOUNG, C4 With the writers strike settled, we can take stock of what we learned Frazier Moore THE TV" GARY HEAssociated Press writer Elizabeth Page right and other members of the Writers Guild of America picket NBC headquarters in New York on Nov. 5, 2007. The necessity of writers was brought home during their previous strike, in 1988, when NBC head Brandon TV scripts and shoot Tartikoff struck back by threatening to unearth decades-ol- d them again. "American Revivals," he was going to call them. It never came to that. ABC ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Now that we're done celebrating the end of the writers strike, it's time to cart the empties out to the curb, clear our heads, and take stock of what we learned the past three months. Above all, we learned that writers are important to television. This is no scoop, but it was never so evident to most of us before. Maybe that's because, as viewers, we typically overlook writers. We do it in the same spirit we set aside our knowledge that Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman aren't really neighbors on Wisteria Lane. Or that all those people on "Lost" aren't stranded in the middle of nowhere. Or that the droll, British-borHugh Laurie isn't a cranky American doctor with a limp. n TV scripts and shoot The same "willing suspension of decades-oldisbelief" that enables an audience them again. "American Revivals," he was going to call them. to buy into a comedy or drama It never came to that. also calls for our fooling ourselves Nor did it this time, of course. into thinking that the action is charThe networks had too many other determined by the acters. ways to plug the holes. For instance, all those reality Even lots of TV series that are shows. Like "My Dad is Better labeled "unscripted" or "reality" have writers behind the scenes, as than Your Dad," which, premier-in- g we were also reminded during the Monday on NBC, pits dads strike. The fact that they aren't against one another in idiotic stunts ostensibly to win their kids' members of the Writers Guild of America and therefore weren't approval. Grown men bobbing for snakes on strike doesn't mean what they do isn't writing. And the fact that or. wallowing in green goo in front of their Jamilies, not to menthey may toil in total anonymity this ill serves the tion America doesn't make them any less essential to a project that officially dignity of fatherhood. But fathers are fated to play the fool on TV. denies they exist. We didn't need the strike to tell The necessity of writers was us that. brought home during their previThe networks have seized on ous strike, in 1988, when NBC head Brandon Tartikoff struck back by threatening to unearth See STRIKE, C6 d |