Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday February 6 2004 — C3 SHERMANS LAGOON FtUMteMl WO VOOLPYWRAfE MO AMUR moon WO ASAFRIfNP? MOVING Theron a ravelatlom in harsh bold ‘Monster’ ' 0 By David Germain AP Movie Writer ' With “Monster” Charlize Theron becomes starlets eclipsing queen of the Nicole Kidman in last year’s “The Hours" in which she concealed herself behind a prosthetic schnoz to simulate plain-Jan- e author VirWoolf ginia It certainly wasn’t the nose that earned Kidman the Academy Award though And it’s not the splotchy makeup protruding false teeth dark contact lenses and extra 30 pounds Theron packed on that earned her a Golden Globe award for best actress' and an self-effaci- CATHY DOB IT IMG A Rite INK? WOULD WANTED m be 3F XM XHAIE IT TO rr me?? WOULD ABOUT A X? 00 MCK! ME IF X HAOKfT FtMU-DECIDED TO MNC OH?? WOULD X? RACK' BEING-ASKE- QUESTIONS - best-actre- RING SHOULDMTT THERE BE SOMEONE ELSE ikI THP Bflom ?? : WOULD! ss Academy Award nomination ' Movie review Theron gives a revelatory performance in “Monster” as prostitute Aileen Wuomos Who was executed in 2002 for the slayings of several of her johns Until now Theron has given some decent performances often in bad movies with “The Cider House Rules” arguably her best showcase But she’s mostly coasted on her striking looks without giving a dear clue to how deep' the serious thespian in her really runs “Monster” obscures Theron’s beauty but reveals a fearless actress who comes about as close to a descent into hell as a cinematic fiction can take a performer Theron is a herky-jerk- y dynamo of rage despair longing false cockiness and misplaced hope amid a last desperate stab at love with a woman (Christina Ricci) she meets at a gay bar Always in motion as Wuomos Theron moves with an awkward fluidity as though her body wereone big nervous tic Her voice is like a thousand others you’ve heard in dive bars: Loud boastful angling for attention straining to be heard above the indifferent hubbub Patty Jenkins makes a bold film debut giving Theron’s Wuomos enough slack to elicit twinges of empathy even as her actions provoke deep horror The result is muci like Robert Blake’s pitiful “In Cold Blood" killer: Repugnance for these murderers cannot help but mix with pathos amid the glimpses both films provide into their tormented souls “Monster” opens with Wuomos contemplating suicide after a life of physical abuse and existence turnneglect and a tricks men for who pick her up scummy ing hitchhiking The film only hints at Wuomos' harsh upbringing which her attorneys said included sexual abuse as a child But a powerful scene-t- urned-serial-killer BEETLE BAILEY HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HOLPH& ri w y Writer-direct- sure-hand- PEANUTS ALONE IN THE CAR SEE 73- - Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuomos in ‘Monster” Based on a true story of a highway prostitute who driwas convicted for the murders of six semi-truc- k vers in Florida ' in which she recollects her siblings’ shabby renunciation of her goes far to establish the character’s heartache When Wuomos decides to give the world one last chance to toss her a bone lesbian wall- flower Selby Wall (Ricci) approaches her at the gay bar whore Wuomos has taken refuge to spend her last $3 on cheap beer Selby is a Iqst sheep trying to escape a domir neering family and she latches onto Wuomos as a potential savior provider and soul mate ' Wuomos so long accustomed to rejection eagerly assumes the role her infatuation with Selby driving her to justify killing and robbing her tricks to support them both as Wuomos' one true Bruce Dem rs Vietnam a vet and drinking buddy pal scruffy who accepts her as a kindred crushed soul ' Ricci infuses a cloying neediness in Selby that makes a fine dramatic counterpoint to Theron’s brash bravado And Selby’s feigned ignorance of her lover’s killing spree establishes an air of complicity that suggests Wuomos is not' the only monster in this little domestic unit “Monster” a Newmarket Films release is rated R for strong violence and sexual content and for pervasive language Running time: 1Q9 minutes Three and a half stars out of four ' or ed lowest-of-the-lo- SOhJERE RIPIN6 AP Photo co-sta- w - - Shoshone Trail A novel by David J Hawkes MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM supposed to be on the east side of this mountain?” Moiropi asked Sarah looking ahead' at the butte Shading her eyes she gazed south!' “Yes they call it Franklin” “Let’s go” piped Sam“I'm Cold” “Fine with me chief” Moroni said Then turning he gazed along their back trail Moroni’s heart turned to ice He said one word “Look!” : Looking back Sarah saw in a long' file a mile’ or more back at least a dozen warriors-wit- h another ten a short distance further: behind Stripping the blankets cooking pots! and what little food they had left from the hors- es Moroni and Sarah mounted up “Now we run I just hope the horses hold ” up Moroni said tersely! ' Leading out at a canter Moroni let the grulla go easy at first On the next rise he could see the Indians had spread out and had gained a lit- tie A look at the stallion and he could tell the ' appaloosa was loping along easily but he could feel that the grulla was starting to labor pipping down through a dry stream bed tlte horses had to fight their way through a belly-dee- p drift Topping but again Moroni heard in thedistance several whoops from thfe pursuing ' warriors y y now several of the warriors had dismounted and were gathering up the dead and getting them ready to take back to the village ThenThree Hands spoke again “Painted Horse said that there were many soldiers here and all were killed but him ” : With a snort of disgust No Arrows replied “No there was just one man and he tried to be friends first” Then shaking his head he added “Why is it we cannot get along?” “I don’t know that we should” grumbled Three Hands “All the whites do is bring trouble” Then as some of the warriors helped Strikes Hard onto a pony he added “I aim taking some men to follow this white man and kill him What are you going to do?”: Realizing' that an insult had been buried No Arrows replied “I tiling I will follow along 1 don’t think you tan kill this white man but I will come along to see what happens” A scowl on lus face Three Hands whirled his pony and with a dozen warribrs following him took the frail at a trot : r k REAL LIFE ADVENTURES I AAS Afternoon found Morpni Sarah and Samcloser to the buhe sitting in the middle of the valley Travel had been relatively easy but there had been deep drifts in the tow spots rise Stopping on a small Moroni called a brief halt “The settlement is CLOSE TO HOME sage-CQver- THANK AG THIS tUOUtO AMftr A 6MS4T c6rreMPtATne room Ytu Aovotol books stocrrme Win - AHTH FORNITVA YVtT 6CCGANC THAT BRSPCAKS ts AT TH SAM TfMe INVITING AND SOOTHING at bridgo By Phillip Aider See tomorrows- Herald Journal for'the next installment ed " - o( this story : the 1936 World Par Olympiad In this auction North’s is response of two In almost all forms of ' liaDiral and bridge you rely a little oh v points Then luck If your opponents play v promising 13-where South bids he wants to to are unlikely perfectly you j play You can afford to lose be a winner But there is one ' ' one trump trick but not two event in which the opponents y Luckily there is a safety-plaare irrelevant: a par contest available At trick four lead a The deals are preset and usulow can score side one spade from your hand If ally only West nei- discards go up with deal but each on points ther pair knows who that is at dummy’s king and lead the the beginning The key is to eight back toward ypur hand find die best declarer-playthrough East’s queen-jac- k Here though West follows defense"-: If the eight loses to an honor LookattheNorth-Soud- i in the East hand d suit is hands You (Soutii) are die declarer in four spades West splitting 2 or leads the diamond queen and king and your ace will remove howthose still lurking-Hercontinues the suit You lose ever East discards You cash the first two and tuff the third - How would dummy’s spade king return to you proceed? hand with a heart cash the This layout was devised for no-pu- game-frxci- ng spade ace and concede one-tbWest trump trick ' ' “ - ''V- CNEA 2004 ‘ - North M-0- 13 : s-- a-'- A J4S-:--g' Wert Q J Eart 7 ? 4S-- ' QJISS 10 1 S ' V J IS A T S 3 K 7 5 V 6 5 4 2 A 10 ’ or V W AQ ''a 4-- Dealer South ! 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