Show (' ' f i ' ' j t- C4 — jHe Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday March 27 2002 ' SHERMANS LAGOON urns ttmxm PHOTO FROM OOH CHS YOU m vtoe box ' i J HlRt QM Of FROM NMN MC FIRST STFRKP PUTINS TNPITSP6 ‘Pami© worthy (QKDGfDQ By Christy Lemlro AP Entertainment Writer ’ CATHY MERE EXACTLY TO WOULD WEAR THE "URBAN COWGIRL' OUTflT? TKE OFFICE?! GROCERY X I TO OOPS NOT I GROCERY 1 THE STORE !f BUND DATE?? CHURCH C lWNBE STORE? AlAWr weu maybe not THt Off ICE HEEHEE! NOT £ David Fincher is entirely too pleased with himself The director who made his name with styl- ish seemingly endless tracking shots in “Fight Club" is at it again with “Panic Room" The camera careens effortlessly through windows and stair banisters across countertops and inside garden hoses and light bulbs Fincher probably should have eased up on the technique just a tad he uses it so many times he’s clearly just showing off But the breathtaking visuals are just enough to distract from the flawed script from David Koepp (“Mission Impossible" “Stir of Echoes") It begins with a weak premise and collapses into an unbelievably ridiculous series of twists Having said that the virtuoso camerawork makes “Panic Room” worth seeing as does Jodie Foster’s characteristically confident con- CHURCH! ' a- AP Photo Jodie Foster plays Meg Altman in the Columbia Pictures thriller Tank: Room " trolled performance Foster — who took the role after Nicole Kidman got injured — stars as Meg Altman who’s recently divorced from her wealthy husband Meg must’ve gotten a huge settlement because she and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) can afford ter move intq a four-stor- y brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side just steps from Central Park The place has six fireplaces hardwood floors throughout an elevator and — we’re told ominously — a panic room an impenetrable ot chamber off the master bedroom for hiding in case of a burglary Who knew panic rooms even edsted? Are they just for the rich? Or Dick Cheney? Except at the White House they call it the Situation Room (The film’s production notes say panic rooms are a variation of a castle keep a or storm shelter — and the White House Situa- tion Room) Meg and Sarah find they need the room sooner than they think — too soon really we should have been lulled a little longer into the contentment of their new life Three bad guys break in on their first night there Junior (Jared Leto) Burnham (Forest Whitaker) and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) show ' up to steal millions of dollars they believe the previous owner stashed in the hidden room HAGAR THE HORRIBLE AHP I ' PEANUTS anyway The rest of the movie consists of Meg and the burglars trying to outsmart each other with a wall of steel and stone between them Impetuous Junior wants to bust his way into the room using a sledgehammer Quiet Raoul wants to gas them out with a propane tank and ' a garden hose But Burnham — the criminal with a heart of gold — wants to talk them out peacefully We don’t know much about Meg’s back- - ground — like what she does for a living for example— but somehow inside the tiny room that initially paralyzes her with claustrophobia she cultivates a MacGy resourcefulness than enables her to counter their every attack Although we’re asked to suspend disbelief we always know in the back of our minds that Meg and Sarah will get out alive if they didn’t if would be an independent film And when they do they’re forced to fight for their lives in an unnecessarily violent attack that’s too cartoonish to be climactic “Panic Room” a Columbia Pictures release is rated R for violence and language Running time: 110 minutes Two and a half stars (out of ver-esq- ue i four) 0 Donnell takes on ’ NEW YORK (AP) — Rosie O’Dorinell says she’s found a surefire way to lose weight: book ' yourself as a guest on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News Channel talk show The twd combative TV personalities from New York squared off in an interview Monday night with O’Donnell contiriuing to plug her bid to change a Florida law restricting adoption by homosexuals 0’Donnellsaid she went on the show against the advice of everyone close to her and her -stomach suffered for it for two days She voiced qualified support for O’Reilly’s ' : MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM rvoowiii ¥ f Hwe crusade against celebrities for not making sure that donations to Sept 1 1 relief funds that they pitched for quickly found their way to the intended hands O’Donnell said she didn’t participate in a 1 1 telethon because celebrities post-Seweren’t required to make big donations them FLOODS FAMINg AMP PIS6AS6 RNSRS OF BLOOD ANDWLL PARISH W A RAIN OF FIRE pt ' KMW THE NOSTRADAMUS FOXTROT1 MAGME THE PLAYFULNESS too Of A MO-TER-M COUPLED VATH THE HOW WAS THEH&' MATH TEST? DtfncuLrr OU- T- of a late ' I clD NB COrOWSSCUR I AND "NUT CASE1 UPSTAOSl Tesh lashes put at Bob Costas NEW YORK (AP)— Tesh seems like a STILL AN HAVE UNE8ETVON JASON O’ Re) I ly selves The day after the terrorist attacks she said she: called six celebrities and asked theni'' 'to join her in making a $1 million donation All refused she said “In America you should expect your mil- liopaires to give millions — especially if they’re going to stand on TV and ask the peasants for pennies’she said The noted Democratic activist said Sept 1 1 had changed her She praised former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a Republican and n said she had gone too far in making statements after the 1999 Columbine High School shooting “Before Sept 111 was definitelymildiy myopic in terms of my political agenda” O’Donnell said “If you were a Democrat you were probably right If you were a Republican you were probably wrong Everything changed anti-gu- forme” Names in the hows HOTLINE TOO KNOW THERE'S A THH most people but just the unbridled drubbing that he drummed up for me it was I’m not a just unnecessary big fan” Tesh 49 is still bitter about comments he said Costas made about his stint as a gymnastics commentator during the 1996 Summer Olympics on NBC “On TheTonight Show’ he said As an Olympic commentator John Teshis a great John mild-manner- ed musician until you him what he thinks about NBC Sports commentator Bob Costas “I think Bob Costas needs a spanking" the former newsman told The Associated Press in a recent interview “I have ' nothing nasty to sky about Rsk X REALLY SHOULD TAKE IT ' - Win much-pann- ed hoping to find partner’s king suit If East takes his four spade ! 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