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Show 10 -- ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DIXIE SUN Artist Feature: Fine arts major gets opportunities WRITERS continued from page 9 years and finished ahead of David Letterman's "Late Show" in one key demographic group in the quarterly Nielsens. Letterman promptly reached a side deal with the union that allowed him to go back to work with his writers ("I know what you're thinking," Letterman cracked during his first monologue. "You're thinking: This crap is written?"), and Jay Leno and others returned to the air with makeshift shows. Ratings also have surged for new reality shows, which are not affected by the strike because they are produced without scripts. NBC, battered all season in the Nielsens, racked up big numbers three times in a week this month with the debuts of "American Gladiator," "The Biggest Loser 5" and "The Celebrity Apprentice." "NBC has had a real hot streak with our reality shows since the new writes her own music and hopes to one day Singer Natalie Ward, a freshman fine arts major from Ivins, release a CD of her work. it changed my life, Ward BY ASHLEY BLAKE During her junior year, Dixie Sun Staff Writer Everyone has basic hobbies and interests, but for Natalie Ward, singing is life. Ward, a freshman fine arts major from Ivins, has been singing since she was 2 years old in her LDS church Primary. When she was three she sang in a group called the Sunshine Generation for a year. Then she sang with her family until age 8. At age 10 she was in the play Grease singing as one of the angels in the song Beauty School Dropout. Besides her singing abilities, Ward started playing the piano at age 8 and the violin at 11. Ward said she still keeps up with the piano but has given the violin up for now. When she was 15 she started attending Tuacahn High School, a private school specializing in performing arts. While attending Tuacahn she had the opportunity to be in the productions of 42nd Street and Les Miserables, participating in the ensemble. she was able to play the main role in Children of Eden as a soprano story teller. While at Tuacahn she was also in the Madrigals performance group for two years. Continuing on that same path, she joined the Dixie State College Chamber Chorus and Rebel Chorus last year. Ward now has formed her own church music called the group of kids Daughters of Light. Ward said the group mostly sings Christmas music during the holidays. She had the opportunity last summer to go on a European Tour with her vocal teacher, Terry Lamoreaux. On the tour she was able to travel to Norway and London. In London she recorded a demo with famous composer Alan Hawkshaw and in Norway she performed in two concerts. Ward said there were about people in the audience while she sung her solo. The chance I got to go to Norway was such a great opportunity for me to perform in front of people, and 3 200-30- 0 said. Its something that I did all on my own, and I learned there is so much more out there. Other than singing, Ward has quite a remarkable story in her past. Ward was adopted by Lynn and Kathy Ward before she was born. Its been a difficult trial growing up not knowing my actual biological parents, Ward said. Youre different than everyone year," says Tom Bierbaum, the network's research boss. "Viewers are hungering for alternatives" to the steadily increasing numbers of reruns on network schedules, he adds. The worry among some writers is that viewers who immerse themselves in reality programs during the strike may decide to stick with them-an- d the networks, enchanted by the cheaper costs, would be only too happy to accommodate them, putting more writers out of business. Their fears got chilling support from the news that MyNetworkTV, the smallest of the broadcast networks, scored the highest ratings in its history last week with the debut of two reality shows, "Street Patrol" and else." Ward said that when she turned 16 she received a letter along with a prom picture from her biological mother that she had written before Ward was born. Wards biological mother, who got pregnant at 16, said in the letter that she really did love her daughter, but she knew that she couldnt provide the life she knew Ward deserved. Ward said shes glad she was adopted though, because if she hadnt she may not have had the opportunity to sing. I love how when I sing I can touch other peoples lives, Ward said. If Ive done that then I have done my job. "Jail." Both debuted during the previous TV writers strike in 1989. ch Atonement falls short of expectations MOVIE REVIEW BY BRENT WILSON Dixie Sun Staff Writer between Cecilia and Robbie until the two are actually together and by then, there isn't really anything to establish. I was also put off by the abundance of backlight and filtering so soft I thought I was in a dream sequence from a bad 80s movie. If the director .was trying for a dreamy, ethereal look, I'd say he succeeded though I think it detracted from what was going on. The last of the film takes place four years later as World War II is in full swing. Robbie is now a soldier in the British Armed Service, a better option than staying imprisoned. He is in France trying desperately to get back to England and the love who awaits him. Cecilia is a nurse in London and is estranged from Briony, now 18, who has also begun training to be a nurse. She still yearns to write and hides in the attic of her dormitory to have time with her typewTiter. She has begun to understand the impact of what went on and her part in it as she attempts to recsuper-expose- Every December, without fail, an Academy Award movie ' appears. This year's entry is "Atonement, a tale of class, betrayal, regret and two people trying to find love amidst it all. Directed by Joe Wright, the central character is Briony Tallis (an excellent Saoirse Ronan), an aspiring author with a vivid imagination. We first meet Briony when she is 13. She observes from a bedroom window her older sister, Cecilia (Keira Knightley), and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the son of the family's head servant, having an exchange at a fountain that results in Cecilia disrobing to go in the water. Afterward, in an attempt to smooth things over with Cecilia, Robbie sets out to write her an apology. Struck with writer's block, he manages to write very little of consequence before finally getting down on paper what he wants. Unfortunately, one of the discarded letters two very graphic sentences most certainly never intended for anyone other than Robbie is mistakenly placed in an envelope and, d via Briony, given to Cecilia. This leads to a series of very unfortunate incidents that include Robbies incarceration on rape charges based solely on Briony's statements. Too scared to admit she may have been wrong, Briony says nothing as Robbie is taken away The opening third of the film seems sluggish and clumsy The script doesn't do a very good job of establishing the romantic tension two-thir- spend March and April winnowing them down to the five or six they'll pres ent to advertisers in Matas additions to their fall lineups. 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The score, by Dario Marianelli, is one of the best I've heard in years f strike-proo- Press apparently bought into "Atonement" and Sunday night awarded it the Golden Globe for Best five-plu- Redgrave appears as Briony, nearing her 80s. The regret still registers fresh on her face for her e old misnearly step. If the entire film contained the weight that this epilogue-stylconclusion did, I feel it would have been a truly great film instead of just a very good one. From a technical stand- since December." The pilot season maybt salvageable if there's a quick settlement, but just barely. Ordinarily, networks read scores of prospective scripts in December, order dozens of pilots in January, and his eyes seem to more easily convey the hurt, resolve and desperation he felt as he was continuously denied what he wanted. All three actresses who play Briony (Ronan, Romola Garai and Redgrave) are fantastic and are the glue that hold the others in place. The Hollywood Foreign someone typing before I realized what it was. Just as beautiful is the camera work. Setting aside my reservations for the lighting in the first third, I give Director of Photography Seamus McGarvey and Wright credit for pulling off one of the most absolutely amazing shots of the year, a single, uncut Steadicam shot that starts on a French beach when Robbie arrives in search of a way to get back to England. For an s minunbelievable utes he dips and weaves around and through an innumerable throng of idle, injured and soldiers. It must be seen to be believed. The acting was handled well. I was glad to see Knightley finally off a pirate ship. She is no doubt a beautiful, radiant woman, but her emotive acting seems to consist of pouty, pursed lips and not much more. McAvoy acquits himself far better; oncile with Cecilia. The final seven minutes of the film brought the most emotion. Vanessa three or four new episo" of a show that hasn't aire, "'Cops' didn't come about because of the strike-- it was in the works long before it started-b- ut our timing was very good," Langley admits. "The networks were looking for entertainment, and Cops had no writers and no scripts. There's no question that the strike lubricated the sale environment." Anyone who finds that a worrisome portent of things to come, he says bluntly, is absolutely right: "I expect a plethora of bad reality series on the air next fall. ... As we all know, a lot of that is pure crap. "Of course," he adds quickly, "I don't include my own shows in that.") There may still be time to avert that, but not since the writers and studios broke off negotiations a month ago and haven't even sat at the same table since. And the networks show little interest in resuming last fall's season, which generated mediocre ratings without a single breakout hit. 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