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Show Page A2 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, January 1, 1999 See 'Life is Beautiful' for different perspective on Holocaust New Year's Day is a time for resolutions and new beginnings, and while I'm not presumptuous enough to tell you what your resolutions should be, I'd like to tell you one of plays and a lot of TV shows. Many of them are mediocre at best. Some of them, while STEPPifjtcUT well-mad- high-qualit- well-writte- Eric Snider light-hearte- low-bro- well-execute- d low standards, is inspiring. A farcical comedy, while technically worthless in terms of meaning or intelligence, can be very worthwhile if it makes you laugh, lifts your spirits and releases tension. I see a lot of movies, a lot of wonderful. Life is indeed beau- Guido":?; -- ; well-acte- d takes place during World War who is a II. Roberto Benigni comic legend in Italy plays for intense thematic elements. The horrors of the Holocaust are implied more than they are shown, though, , and there's not a bit of swear- ing or sex. It's an "art film," which means it's only in select theaters. Right now, it's at the. Broadway Centre at 300 S. State in Salt Lake City. Call ; PG-1- 3 ' for showtimes. See it now so you'll know what everyone is talking about at the Academy Awards in a , few months. THE MOVIE is truly beautiful, Guido's courtship in the first half is charming and sweet, and his devotion to his son in the second half is no less so. The film is quite funny in parts, very poignant in others. In fact, it is often both at the same time. By the end, feel you'll be in tears 359-211- , , ITS AN ITALIAN FILM (with English subtitles) that tiful and so is this movie. "Life is Beautiful" is rated Holocaust. What; it does is show one man's love and sacrifice for his son. In Roger Ebert's review, he made an excellent point: Guido is protecting his boy. If he had a gun, he would shoot the Nazis. If he had an army, he would attack them. But all he has is a sense of humor, and so that is his weapon. jight of the only advantages in life are his imagination, sense of humor and optimism,. He woos the woman of his dreams, and they have a very sweet, romantic r; courtship that results in mar-- , : riage and a son. Then they are sent to a con. centration camp. In order to Joshua from protect the horrors and atrocities sur rounding them, Guido tells , ., him the whole thing is a game. As they are being herded ontp, the crowded tr,ain to be taken, to the death c.amp,, Guido ..,,,,, makes a big show of hurrying to get on. "We got the last two tickets!" he tells his son. "Look how many people wanted to go to this place!" e, have cheap jokes and poor ideals. You see enough of this kind of stuff, and it makes seeing something GOOD a special treat. So I was very pleased to see a movie last week called "Life is Beautiful." Not only is it and wonderfully produced (even the background music is gorgeous), but it's also uplifting and moving. I'd like to tell you about it. mine. This year, I want to experiy ence more entertainment. I want to see things that are uplifting, inspiring and enriching. So much of entertainment, as you know, is fun and which is good but it can also be and dirty, which isn't so good. I don't think every movie or play needs to have some big Message, nor does it need to be "inspiring" in the traditional sense of the word. To me, anyand thing that is enjoyable, without stooping to a Jewish fellow named Jle is oiplple ifcaivwhose. 2 Eric D. Snider is an enter- tainment writer for The Daily Herald. ericsnider.com. and-you'-U ; ; Utah's economy should stay about the same in 1939, state says " The Associated Press - SALT LAKE CITY Utah's 1999 economy should continue to grow at about the same rate as it did in 1998, according to the state's Department of Workforce Services. Utah's economic "Although growth slowed in 1998, virtually all industries remain on solid ground," said Bob Gross, executive director of the department in a l III prepared statement. Gross project- ated. ed similar growth in 1999, "due to Unemployment is expected to the continuing attractiveness of increase from 3.7 percent in 1998 to Utah as a desirable place to do 3.9 percent in 1999. The rate was business." only 3.1 percent in 1997. The For the coming year, the departdepartment said declining ment is forecasting nonfarm growth to slow to 2.5 percent from 3 percent in 1998 and 4.2 percent in 1997. Economic growth exceeded 3 percent in 1998 for the 11th straight year and 300,000 new jobs were cre- - and high employment caused a peak in labor shortages in 1997 and the labor market reached an equilibrium in 1998. An average of 40,000 individuals were unemployed in 1998. J , r .s t i in the construe-tioThe state's growth industry dipped from 6.9 percent in 1997 to 4.3 percent in 1998. Growth in the manufacturing industry slowed to 1.3 percent, trade industries grew at 2.4 percent and the public sector grew at a rate of about 3 percent. Transportation .communication., and utility industries, finance insur-- , ance and real. estate and services all increased at a rate of between 3.5 per ! L t- -r t r i - ! cent and 3.9 percent. In 1999, a 4.3 percent growth in nonagricultural wages is expected. That is between 2 percent and 2.5 higher than projected inflationand is just slightly higher growth ary than the 4.2 percent growth in 1998, when the average income was $26,40Q ,, annually. According to 1997 figures, Utah's salaries are about 85 percent of the national average. n per,-cen- t Democratic leaders decry Utah's rising crime rate The Associated Press State Democratic leaders are alarmed that Utah crime rates are on the rise even as crime rates drop nationally. SALT LAKE CITY Democratic legislators met at the Capitol Wednesday to hear from law enforcement and judicial officials about Utah's growing crime problem, as reflected in the FBI's recent Uniform Crime Report. The report showed that crimes of all kinds are dropping nationally, but Utah is drastically out of step, having moved from 21st in the nation FIRST Continued from A 1 across town earlier Thursday, Aubrey Jeffreys, 8, learned how to keep her balance on ice at The Peaks. She had never ice skated before Thursday night. Aubrey placed first one foot and then the other into her mother Karen Jeffreys' lap. Her mom laced up the skates. Then, Aubrey stood up and lifted her feet up and down in a touchdown dance. OLater, she was zipping around the rink just like she was zooming on the roller skates she is used to. "She was scared to death earlier this week," Karen Jeffreys said. "Once she found she could walk in the skates, she was OK." The Jeffreys family was among about 400 people who whizzed to tunes during one of the night's r skating sessions. More than 1,300 people went to the rink early this week, said Bill Bridges, company presi- counter-clockwis- e two-hou- LEADERS Continued from At and implications for the future of the city," Billings said. Growth affects a myriad of issues that concern residents and city officials alike, including roads, water, fire, police and will have long-ter- long-reachin- g air quality. Blair said with more people moving into the area, more situations are emergency bound to occur. Tf we want to be proactive, we've got to start looking down the road and start planning right now for what kind of services we are going to have to be giving in a year or two," he said, in 1993 for number of crimes per capita to ninth in the country in 1997. That's higher than many of the country's most urbanized states, including California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. In every category but robbery, officials said, Utah's numbers were worse in 1997 than they were in 1993. "I believe we do have a crisis in the state of Utah," said Michael Hutchings, a retired 3rd District Court judge from Salt Lake. "I believe more people are being robbed, raped, murdered and victim About 2,500 people attended the city's ized than need to be." Hutchings cited the example of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has succeeded in reducing crime by 50 percent, and challenged legislators to make a real commitment to reduce crime. Right now, he said, most state criminal justice agencies are merely "coordinating mediocrity." Craig Dearden, state public safety commissioner, suggested the problem has to do with Utah's high numbers of juve niles. "We have the lowest average age of any state in the v -- u union," Dearden said. Others agreed that juvenile crime is a major part of Utah's problem,' arid ' that the best place to concentrate" "state resources would be in schools and early prevention programs. Additional jail beds are also needed, officials said, because many Utah criminals, both juvenile and adult, end up back on the street on the day they're, arrested. , We don do, a very good job of putting people in prison and we don't keep them' there very "long," said; Salt" Lake City' Police Ch'ref ftub'e'n Ortega.'' "Our recidivism rate is incredible." Bob Wilson, University of "( dent, as he paused helping people with skates. Blades weren't just on skates Thursday. Balloon swords and scabbards adorned the waists of children in a tent of children's activities. Jesse Slater, 10, was proud of his sword. He dressed as "Braveheart" for Halloween. "Because I like war," he said. Sword making is relatively simple demonstrated Leland Gamett, 50, of Provo. He twisted poodles and hats. Tou twist it, twist it, do that three times," Gamett said. City fire officials are looking at perhaps distributing the fire stations more evenly; right now, stations one and three are only a mile and a half apart, Blair said. Crime A homicide at Club Omni a few weeks ago deemed as possibly gang-relate- d by police has city officials worried about crime and safety issues. "We are a safe city. But we've got to work hard to maintain that status," Billings said. Coincidentally, the city will be kicking off a special Community Oriented Police (COP) program next week. The goal is to empower neighborhoods and develop a working n " at the Wallace F. Bennetf Federal Building, 125 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Pete Cannon, who is in charge of the protest, said no specific group is sponsoring the event. People are invited to come take a stand against? Clinton, support impeachment and make their opinions known. For more information, calf Cannon at 796-882- 1 THE LWLY HERALD 1555 North Freedom. 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