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Show C-4 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 20-23, 2018 A change of face BE A LOCAL HERO TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The Sundance Film Festival comes into town, taking over local businesses, art galleries, hotels and more throughout Main Street last Monday morning. Tom Smallwood of Vision Graphics hangs a Sundance Film Festival ‘18 Store sticker sign on the front door of Park City Mercantile. The local business moved out of its space to make room for the festival store. Volunteer for a local non-profit Continued from C-1 ‘Futile’ comes to Sundance buffoons and marginally functional comedic film buffs out there (myself included): Filmmaker and Sundance veteran David Wain has brought us a quite absorbing piece of work concerning the life and times of Doug Kenney, the brilliant and troubled satirist whose creative notions helped turn “old school” on its head. Adapted from Josh Karp’s book of the same name, “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” not unlike its subject, shows little if any fear as it attempts to get inside the heads of Kenney and his co-conspirators as they entertain the re-shuffling of the collective deck – while shipping, without prejudice, Hope and Benny and The New York Times crossword puzzle ACROSS 1 Mike who was the 2017 N.B.A. Coach of the Year 8 Presidential advisory grp. 11 Covers 18 Worked on some screenwriting? 19 Major work 21 Like the French directors Eric Rohmer and Jean-Luc Godard 22 Poseur 23 Kid’s creation out of pillows 24 Kind of elephant 25 Last monarch of the House of Stuart 26 Destructive sort 29 Photographer Adams 30 Lines in geometry 31 Android’s counterpart 32 ____ Xtra (soda) 34 Scoundrel 36 Worked from home? 39 Cease communication 41 Bug-studying org. 42 Steinbeck novella set in La Paz 46 Topic for Sun Tzu 47 Has as a tenant 49 Shakespearean king 50 Retired chat service 51 Military term of address 52 Perry of fashion 53 “I knew that would happen!” 58 “Twelfth Night” twin 62 Thin pancake 63 Spa treatment 64 Flowery 66 ____ Nation (record label for Jay-Z and J. Cole) 67 Illegal interference … or what can be found in this puzzle’s 1st, 3rd, 7th, 15th, 19th and 21st rows? 71 Stewbum 72 Noted brand of guitars 73 Use an ice pack on 74 What a conductor might conduct 75 Online admin 77 Where a big bowl is found 79 Indication to bow slowly, say 80 Creator of the “Planet Money” podcast 82 Like a boiled lobster 83 Buoy 85 Poe ode 89 Nicknamed 90 Largest moon in the solar system 91 Got down 92 Discharges 94 Reasons for sneezin’ 95 They might be backless 97 Fan favorite 98 Frequent Twitter poster 99 Thick hairstyle 103 For the case at hand 105 Hooded cloak 109 Home to the historic Moana Hotel 110 Connecticut city near New Haven 112 ____ speak 113 Kind of race 115 Dum-dums 116 In ____ (entirely) 117 Bit of advice before taking off? 118 Evasive basketball move 119 Brooding sort “SUPREME INTELLIGENCE” By Joel Fagliano Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 18 22 26 11 20 28 31 36 43 44 37 12 32 38 45 46 52 53 68 71 72 75 47 54 55 92 103 58 118 120 Häagen-Dazs alternative DOWN 1 Big name in Scotch 2 Appliance brand 3 Word before goat or state 4 Sporks have small ones 5 Suffix with crap 6 Bird bills 7 Now there’s a thought! 8 Sign by a pool 9 Features of monarch butterfly wings 10 Add salt to, maybe 11 Santa ____ 12 Former Buick sedans 13 “Victory is mine!” 14 Covered with water 15 Sleek fabrics 16 Closest to base? 17 Dry, as wine 20 Daze 27 Jessica of “The Illusionist” 28 Empty 33 Chocolate purchase 35 Language with six tones 36 180s 37 Dallas pro 83 84 107 108 106 44 45 46 48 50 54 55 56 57 59 60 61 63 65 68 69 70 76 78 99 112 113 116 117 119 38 39 40 42 43 102 94 105 111 101 74 98 115 61 90 93 110 60 79 89 97 104 59 66 70 82 88 35 41 65 78 81 96 57 73 87 91 95 56 64 77 80 86 17 48 69 76 16 51 63 67 15 34 40 50 62 14 29 33 39 49 13 21 24 27 30 85 10 23 25 42 9 19 Limit on what can be charged “All right, let’s play!” Butcher’s stock Nickname for Springsteen Comics superhero with filedoff horns Joins forces? Run off Actor Wheaton Prefix with -nomial Joins forces Insurance giant whose name begins with a silent letter Spoke tediously, with “on” Just for laughs Marble marvel Cuban province where the Castros were born Found (in) Nail-polish remover Trivia venue Margarine container Sign of wind on water Range that’s home to the Mark Twain National Forest Unit of 74-Across It stands for January Raiders’ org. 100 109 114 120 79 81 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 93 94 96 98 99 100 101 102 104 106 107 108 110 111 114 Big name in chips Hamlet’s plot in “Hamlet” “To what ____?” Bill Italian castle town Advance warning Nancy Drew’s boyfriend “Finally!” Roman Empire invader Part of S.S.N.: Abbr. Wrap tightly Looks for purchases Crested ____ (Colorado ski resort) Like Santa’s suit on Dec. 26 Short-story writer Bret The slightest margin Shows nervousness, in a way Taking action Kids’ character who says, “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day” What has casts of thousands? Hair-removal brand Grate stuff Potent venom source “____-haw!” the boys off to studio system heaven. Will Forte seems the perfect choice as Doug Kenney, the psychological loner who comes out of an Ohio Catholic prep school to enter Harvard College with a Midas touch for the consciousness-expanding one-liner. Everyone (except Doug himself) loves and adores this blue-eyed blond with the subtle knack to create out of whole cloth. It must have been exhilarating to tell the story of a genesis of such bandwidth. And, every step of the way, it works. With his extraordinary ensemble cast in tow (Since “Ex Machina,” I can’t get enough of Domhnhall Gleeson), David Wain is on the complex mission of making art by portraying genius and serendipity in a food fight. Prior to the likes of John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner succumbing to the Kenney magnetic field, however, there are those who coalesced around Doug’s light in the castle that housed the century-old Harvard Lampoon. Therein lays the field upon which the initial seeds were sown. And it would be from there that tiny shoots would break through to the sunlight and, yet once more, re-shuffle the culture. Following graduation, it would be the “National Lampoon” emerging in a cloud of stardust to completely shapeshift the magazine landscape. Then would arrive “Animal House” and “Caddyshack” and the paradigm, which hadn’t stopped jiggling since the previous quake, would shift once again. For Doug, the euphoria that surrounded the former would not carry over to the latter. But that’s a story to be told on the big screen once you’re settled in your seat at the Festival. You even get to check out the view from Hanapepe Point on the Garden Isle of Kauai. David Wain brilliantly hopscotches the outer-actual on his way to the inner-real in a manner few filmmakers dare to tread. To be invited along as the creative license of the figurative gets to the bottom of the emotional plane is transformative. The cosmology that chased Doug Kenney from Ohio to Kauai and, in between, shaped what many consider the most influential comedy force of the last 50 years is one that, indeed, needed to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” an entry in the Sundance Film Festival Premieres program, is scheduled to screen at the following times and locations: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 9:30 p.m., Eccles Center Thursday, Jan. 25, 8:30 a.m., The MARC Friday, Jan. 26, 11:59 p.m., Tower Theatre, Salt Lake Saturday, Jan. 27, 6 p.m., Temple Theater |
