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Show _ The Salt Lake Tribune CALENDAR Friday January 5, 1996 Poe: seme toward women. obsessive mer and about lu inatics in gen ral He res easily/it makes hi 4t me “Tt was a gorgeous place, but those school-bus Mormons took one look at my Sex Pistols T-shirt From Provo To Princeton The darker @ Continued from E-1 friend whose Brigham Young University to help build its burgeoning film de- partment. The Emmy Award-win ning di orked at BYL from 1975 to 1989 It was an interesting time with Tad andhis family,’ said Charles Metten, a professor of theater and film at BYU. “He did agreat deal to advance the film and theatrical department Metten also got to know the Danielewski family, including daughter Annie, who wasattend ing junior high school She was bright, alive and very articulate.” he said. “My memo ries are verypositive and warm Danielewski was lured away from New York City because he worked with e being signed by Atlantic's rn Records la bel nt back [to Out of loyalty I Detroit], and he had changed completely.” Poe said. “He had into the studio Poe escaped to Los Angeles The future as Orwellianrat-trap, courtesy of Terry Gilliam’s devious mind an P, Means THE S, LT LAKE TRIBUNE Director Gilliam's Twelve is a fever dream of a movie, a boldly hallucinogenicthriller that makes Gilliam’s “Brazil look downright tame The moviestarts in the grim future, after a viral outbreak has killed most of humanityanddriven the few survivors underground. Thescientists in control occasionally send a “volunteer,” like poor James Cole (Bruce Willis), aboveground to pick up specimenssothe virus can be studied Onone mission, Cole is sent net up but back — to 1996, just before a terrorist group called the Army of the 12 Monkeys is believed to havereleasedthe virus. Unfortunately, Cole lands in 1990 andis throwninto a Baltimoreinsaneasylum whennoonebelieves his predictions of imminent doom. In the loony bin, Cole meets another inmate, Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), the maniacal sonof a genetic scientist (Christopher Plummer). a ery against male violence Entire Famicy!" ee et “MORE DISNEY MAGIC!" Roe Brewingion, AMERICAN URI = Kidsday StatReporters, HEWSDAY/KIDSDAY Poe helped organize punk con certs and, for the moment, life Yonatuan TareeTa OMAS Cole's bosses whisk him for ward to 1996, where he finds Goines forming the Army of the 12 Monkeys — becauseCole sug- gested it back in 1990. (See how time travel can mess up your whole day?) Cole kidnaps Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), the shrink whotreated himin Baltimore, andtries to convince her that the impending apocalypseisn’t just a delusion. “You won't think I'm crazy when people start dying next month,” hetells her. Gilliam, the former MontyPython” animator who made “Braail” and “The Fisher King drenches “Twelve Monkeys” in Orwellian atmospherics. Cole's future is a steel-encased wasteland of wiring andvideo screens. in which humans must doubleseal themselves in rubber and plastic before walking on the sur- face. The present isn't muchprettier, as Gilliam — working off a densely layered script by David Peoples (“Unforgiven”) and Janet Peoples — finds dank and can handle Willis gives a quietly internal performance, depicting Cole as divorced. And Poe. then 16, made another change: She ventured back to New York City, alone. She took squatter’s rights in a build ing on the Lower when we were really young, there was this lack of continuity. a sense of isolation,” said Poe, adding that belonging to bands gives her a sense of community. fighting we hung onto each other more tics than a squirrel eating espresso beans. Our Disney Picture East Side his head. Stowe exhibits cool in in the midst of this madness, then becomes convineingly paranoid when Railly begins to believe Cole's story. The movie's most ar resting performance is by Pitt with brown contact lenses and a haircut hedid himself, displaying BRD Revere { Because we moved so much someone who seems to be con structing a giant jigsaw puzzle in telligence as the one sane person (ADIO RE TWORKS “YOU WILL LOVE THIS FILM! A THRILLE do, but we're still friends. palpable, as if madness were a vi rus contracted whenpeople learn more about the future than they She is scheduled 29 in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake I finally put together a group group yuldn't be of musicians that I happier with,’ she said “GREAT Fun For THE State University in Columbus I still have friends there,” Poe said of Provo. “They live a com. pletely different lifestyle than | darkness in modern mental wards and on skid row. The bleakness makes the characters’ naranoia late in January. to open for Lenny Kravitz on Jan the spot. Several landed on “Hello.” including “Trigger Happy smoothed out. Then her parents stoke Twelve Monkeys she said. “The ongs themselves hav newlife and I e doing these songs live Poe, is excited about her first national tour, which will begin where she experiencedaburst of creativity. Songs were written on there. It was either Provo or Ohic Gilliam’s ‘Twelve Monkeys’ Is a Weird, Wired-Up Look at Days of Future, Past and a goodbye, I’m ot I feel a lot more and he started bringing baggage didn’t want to raise his children Cole (Bruce Willis) travels back to 1996 in search of a deadlyvirus in “Twelve Monkeys.” album's Away” fades out, P with a burst of raucou turned into a complete hustler The energy in the room changed Jack,” the conclusion Not all the songs are dark though. There is a sense of fun on Hello Moments after Fly and leaving New York City for Tad Danielewski, was hired by “Hello written for a mother had died a few weeks before POF Utah Poe's father. the late filmmaker images of fade into the final song, the mel ancholy “Fly Away.” and hated my guts.”’ “My broth er was a year older, and instead of for dear life When I look back on that period of my life, I shoulc have been scared. The divorce was very traumatizing. But by the same to. ken, I was 16 and here was my SPECIAL ADODE An All ney eouaee Adventure! first taste of freedom. It was not until much later that those feelings I should have had came out In spite of Poe's circumstances In “Twelve Monkeys” (rated R for violence and language), Terry Gilliam bends time, space and plot devices in ways that may con fuse but will certainly amaze. Gil liam proves himself a visionary she earned her high-school diplo ma and, eventually, a full scholarship to Princeton University where the seed for “Hello” was planted filmmakerwhois eitherout ofhis The album combines the works of Poe with eight co-writers and mind, or sees something in the fu ture that the rest of us — merci was accidental and difficult. She fully for our psyches — haven't three producers, which Poe said also received a lesson in human nature from a co-writer she had latched onto yet CARMIKE CARMIKE 12 REDWOOD RO 90TH SOUTH CARMIKE AZ: HECK THEATER H OME ALL SOUTH HOWTIMES STARSHIP. 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