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Show PROPS IN THE SPOTLIGHT THE ‘FRESH AIR’ OUT HERE AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER’S TAKE Props usedin the trailers that open the Sundance Film Festival's screenings this year are on displayat Bibliotect. 329 W. Pierpont Ave. (240 South), Salt LakeCity. The main prop is a restored '30s-era Motiograph carbon- are 35mm movieprojector, which is the “star” of the three In a weekthat featuredState ofthe State and Does NPR's culture connoisseur State of the Union addresses, it is only fitting to hear what “An American Daughter” has tosay. read all those boo idy one-minutefilms. The trailers were conceived i y's byfilmmakers, some of them from Utah, who receives a first-rate production by Pioneer Theatre Companyanddirector Charles Morey. The adult-themed comedy/dramaplays tonight at 8 and Saturdayat 2 and 8 p.m., at Pioneer really havetime to atchall those moviesandlisten to all those CDs for herdailyradio proy gram “Fresh Air”? Find.out on politics, feminism andfamilies have workedasfestival volunteers handling film prints and projectors. The exhibit runs through Feb.6. For more, see continuation ofstory on page F-6. Terry Gross rstein’s self-described angry play PageF as the Philadelphia sedtalk-showhost brings her Tieachane to Utah for a Sundance interview on Memorial Theatre, 1340 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets. 581-6961. CALENDAR YOUR GUIDE m@COMICS, F-10 TO fol, ENTERTAINMENT & TELEVISION LISTINGS, F-11_ @ RESTAURANT REVIEW, F-13. FRIDAY m ANN LANDERS, F-7 JANUARY22, 1999 RE BY BRANDON GRIGGS Rubbernecking in Park City The Sundance Film Festival begins in earnest today in Park City, with piggyback fest Slamdance to follow Saturday. Be- tweenthe twofilm festivals, scores of actors, directors and musicians will be seen prowling ParkCity’s streets, restaurants, theaters and ski slopes. A few brave ones may even venture down into Salt Lake. Moststars hide under baseball caps and sunglasses, but keep your eyes peeled and your neck moving, and chancesare you'll spy somebody famous. Letthe celebrity-spotting begin! The Rick Egan/TheSalt Lake Tribune roster of ogleable notables expectedin town this weekincludes: Writer-director James Merendino came backto Salt Lake City to film “SLC Punk” in 1997 elesoyies ace @ Aciress Laura Dern. @ Actress Isabella Rossellini. jinger-songwriter Lyle Lovett. Actress Glenn Close. @ Singer-songwriter John Hiatt. Actress Jacqueline Bisset. ctress Mary Louise Parker. Producer Matt Salinger, son of reclusive author J.D. Salinger. W Actor Jason Priestley. lympic ski hero Jonny Moseley. ie Henry Winkler (“Happy @ Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. Actor Peter Berg (“Chicago Hope”). ia Tec ctress Rosanna Arquette. ilm critic Roger Ebert @ Actress Ally Sheedy @ Musician John Taylor (Duran Duran). Creek”) @ Actress Rosie Perez. ‘ inger-songwriter Duncan Sheik @Actress Julie Delpy (“Before Sun. a 7 Actor William H. Macy("Fargo"). tressJaneane Garofalo. @Actor Tony Goldwyn(“Ghost”). W Actress Mercedes Ruehl (“The Fisher aa ) = ctor Scott Wolf ("Partyof Five") Direct John Waters. inger-actor Mac Davis : ‘ormerDallas Cowboys football coach Barry Switzer (huh?) ' _ i Musician-composer Stewart Copeland (The Police). @ Director Robert Altman. ctress Liv Tyler. ctor Courtney B. Vance. mactor HarveyKeitel ctress Bebe Neuwirth (“Cheers”). Salt Lake City at age 7 andleft shortly after graduat- ing from Judge Memorial High Schoolin 1985(the ear the movie takesplace). { t “I don’t necessarily think Salt LakeCityis anybet- h a connec y ctor-director Tim Roth. . _W Actress Katie Holmes(“Dawson's rise”), The film fes tival' S SEAN P, ti 10Ns MEANS x ter or worse e place in the world,” ‘s than an: y other hee said. “I like that I lived there, that I rebelled there. I said sawa lot of movies about Los Angeles and New York — that’s not America to me. I livedin Salt Lake City, Utah.” THE SAUL LABE TRIBUNE Those fretting about what the Olympics scandal Merendino’s film, which has its West Coast pre_miere at 6:30 tonight at Park City’s Eccles Theatre, will do to Salt Lake City’s squeaky-clean image will follows Stevo (played by “Scream” star Matthew Lil- the SundanceFilm Festival ‘The 12,000-plus moviegoersattending the '99festi- Utah graduate whospendshis days partying, beating up rednecks, scoring pot, making beer runs to Wyo- val (which goes into full gear today) will see scream ing punks, radical vegetarians and avant-gardefilm- offbeat characters — such as Stevo’s drug-hating writer and director of “SLC Punk!,” a chronicle of thecity’s mid-1980s punk-rock scene. ‘Thad a hard time convincing peoplethat this was true,” Merendino said. “Look, in Middle America. turn purple when they find out what's on screen at makers — all within a seagull’s flight of the Great Salt Lake “It’s very easy to rebel in Salt Lake — there's so much to rebel against,” said James Merendino, the Notthat Utah’s “dominant culture” (that all-pur- lard), a blue-haired punk rocker and University of ming and espousing anarchy. Merendino based his roommate Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian), head-shop proprietor Trish (Annabeth Gish) and black-haired eritend Sandy (Jennifer Lien) — on people he knew. this happens. After I was done with this film, I was pose euphemism for The Church of Jesus Christ of talking to a lot of bands — and theywere saying Salt figures elsewhere, hesaid. “I don't believethe film is necessarilya statement about the need to rebel in Salt Lake City — it's a statement that all youth need to rebel in general. 1 just happened tolive in Salt Lake when my youth rebellion happened,” said Merendino, who moved to the hip musicofthetime.” Returning in 1997 to make his movie, Merendino as surprised at how much Salt Lake City has changed. “It’s more of a cosmopolitan town than whenI was growing up,” hesaid. “WhenI was growing up, there wasa pretty hip underground. WhenI Latter-day Saints) is any more stifling than authority LakeCity was oneof their core audiences for alot of - 3 ee Jeff Winograd and Ivar Zeile created this year’s Sundance promotional trailer. came back, I was really quite surprised to see how that had spread. Peoplearen'tas resistant to new ideas as they were then — notthat they wereparticu- larly resistant even then.” . Onenewideain that undergroundis the movement called Straight Edge. The combination of hardcore music and teetotaling vegan philosophyis seen in an —_18-minute documentary, “sXe.” (The short plays ahead of the documentary “The Legacy; Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons whose first pening is at See SUNDANCE, Page F-6 ctor Aidan Quinn. GSinger-actor Dwight Yoakam. MenIn Tights @ Actor Chris Noth(Law and Order”) ctress Helen Mirren. ctor Erie Stoltz, ®@ Actress Rose McGowan (‘Scream’) a ctor Matthew Lillard (“Scream’’) The funnyside ofballet ctress Ileana Douglas. @ Actors Jonathon Schaech and Steve Zahn(“That Thing You Do!”). @ Actor Dustin Hoffman. ctor Bryan Brown ("FX"). @ Actor Stephen Rea (“The Crying Game") Actress Gina Gershon ("Showgirls"), ctor Alec Baldwin. ctor Luke Wilson(Home Fries"). ®BActor-director Robert Redford(of | course!) And our personal favorite BY HELEN FORSBERG THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE Les Ballets ti Trockadero de Monte Carlo performedin Salt LakeCity a decadeago, andnot much has been heard fromthemsince. At least notin theseparts. But, yes, the Trocks — the all-male satirical actor dancetroupe knownfor toe-dancing in tutus — Frank Gorshin, The Riddler from TV's are still around, They return to the Capitol “Batman”! | Clint Eastwood, that icon of rugged movie macho, has lent his name to a new line of golf apparel, Publicity photos for theTe hamacollection show Clint modeling crisp poloshirts and sweaters. The squinty-eyed star, fa sty her duds Silhoaoeces DirtyHictyantl even, = dons... (shudder)... a cardigan. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will perform Wednesdayat 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Times: “The company's sumingthat they arefunnysimply byvirtueof being men in tutus.” Via telephone from New York, where the companyis based, Dobrin said: “Thestaying powerof the companyis that it is entertaining Somehow we have maintained its fresh. saythat, But reviewsof the past 18 months, time for the Trocks (130 performance himself has retired from thestage. ‘The mere tie director Tory Dobrin, associated with the company since 1980, Of course, they alw Do You Feel Fashionable, Punk? We've raised eyebrowsat the news that York history. The Trocks have moved beyond ness, But things have changedfor the 25-year-old troupe. “Beforeit was primarily made upof dancers who werevery, very funny and not very strong technically,” said Drobin, who ‘Theatrefor a performance Wednesdaynight Theyarebetterthanever, accordingto artis oO in The New clowningis much moresubtle now, and morea matterof poking funat ballet conventions and worldwidein 1998), support theclaim Takea review Sept, 18, 19977, in The Times of London: “Petipa’s ‘Paquita’ shows how much standards of performance have im: provedsince the Trocks last appearedherein fact that they could do somethings en pointe as excitingto the audience The Trocks of old offered what Dobrin de. scribes as “renegade-type performances Today, the 14 membersof L#sBallets Trock 1988." And onAug. 6, 1997, fromJennifer Dunning See THE TROCK, Page F-4 |
