Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday November SHERMANS LAGOON m i row nnoaous ! CWCP ! COFFtt HURT INSTINCT fair missy if m pnnv mm kNCWOSK r mur vow l HtHROPfWLm rou ve UTTie COULP OVER A COP worn vow NOJHCR mine rmocwsi DmiGfemos 21 2003 — C5 ffraotra ‘©©SCnnCsa’ By David Germain AP Movie Writer CATHY NO UmwiWClGttt OHsNTMiNED ' UNIIL AFTER THfcN ONE GAIN I HE SIM) SWaiEO OOtNfr UP BEFORE THE THEN THE PAPER FULL OF IT THE KEN fjCREAAWNO ' HALLOWEEN HOUDN HEAOUNES Mu) HAVE WERE AU UIAMCK ALL NEAR! WI6HT CRISIS THIS !“ "WElbHT CRISIS THAT?" EATlNh SEASON HASN'T EVEN STARTED AND ' EllERNONE'S AIKEAI") ' NELL INS "REOU-riON- fmn t COULD take SVj Off UN THIfrrtS WORE CHRISTINAS ! Ail Ilnur of broody atmosphere aiul half an hour of silly revelation pretty much sum up Halle Berry's supernatural thriller "Gothika" A decent 'east a creepy setting anil an intriguing story idea ultimately go to waste with "Gothika" devolving into a muddle of Iw ists ami turns as the movie desperately ' searches for a third act and comes up empty "(iothika" is'a step up in ambition Idr Joel SiKer and Robert Zemeckis’ hoiror outfit Dark Castle Entertainment which previously produced the cheesy fright flicks "House on i iaunted I lill” "Thirteen Ghosts" and "Ghost ' ' "Ship" AP Photo Movie review Robert Downey Jr and Halle Berry star laughable supernatural thriller “Gothika" While the movie aims for class early nn w ith the promise of it thoughtfully understated ghost story in the manner of "The Sixth Sense'! or " The Others" "(iothika" eventually falls back on a cheap- thrills payoff and not a very good ' or scary one at that' Berry plays Miranda Grey a psychologist who treats violent criminals at a prison psychiatric ward run by her hubby Douglas iCharles BEETLE BAILEY S HAGAR THE HORRIBLE PAY StHl PEANUTS " NO MA'AM 5HE PIDNT school ujant !t£ come TODAY SHE SAID PROBABLY NOT FOR A LONS TIME YESMAAMWE60TTME ' A ill novel by David J Hawkes : With a quick l(Kk at thc men rapidly using up iheir alollcd ahimunilj(mr:Moroni 'said' "Sergeant take two priyatc'S and head hack t) the quartermasters Help some of the wounded back on your way and liurryl" Turning the Irish sergeaiir grabbed (wool the closest meii l help lake some of lire wounded away"It hoks like they're gcitrng ready io come at uS ugain” lt was Liculenanl Clark at his side now "They have brought up cannon and a' hit to soften :Us up they'll probably sheil I dw the wlurlc regiment was Tiring wilfand a dense cloud oTsmokc wias settling in Moroni found it wits hard to o very far at all but he could hear the whine oT bullets as they passed by and Ihe shiiuJs screams and of iiien op both sides ''groans Walking down the fine (if his ineni he could see hi s brother Charley was crtiuched down MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM : Shoshono Trail to BIND6HOFF HER HEAP YES I HAD TO PO SOME SNIPPING WITH A 5CISS0R5 ' ' behind ti ihick wooden fence post of freshly ' scarred wiKtdihul clearly had been hit several times by rifle bullets At least he has the sense ' 1o get hcliindsomcthingMomni though (grimly Here I util parading about like some njoving target But he knew that walking down the line giving LMieciurageiiKhitiind orders to the com- pany was his job Reaching Charley Moroni ' gave his brother a squeeze on the shoulder! Moroni look at a Charley yelled Sparing ’Careful brother you need to find something iff r ' behind" get ’ " ’ then down the Moroni glanced at O’Toole REAL LIFE ADVENTURES DO YOU HONC Yt HON LON KCCP 66V& TH HOSPITAL ? YOu THYA TO DAVf MOHM THAN HAD CLOSE TO HOME THINK YOU IN THT TtVV HOOKf AOOANO X COULD USC A LITTLC HCtP AT HOMe 2 MCANX DOnY KNOW HOW 70 TUAN ON TNT OA MlCAOWAUe OA WASH VJln s homa not aowsM the social game Two hooks that address a couple of popular tournament methods are “25 Steps to Learning 21“ by Paul Thurston and “Double!" by Mike Lawrence Each is recommended if the topic interests you but make sure your partner reads it (them) too Thurston does a thorough job See tomorrow's Herald Journal 'of Doubles work all the time iwo-bver-o- bidding which rules the dupli- calc world in this country Lawrence does his usual ' : - ! for the next installment thlory' : of explaining - Some phyers compete in duplicate tournaments' others only stK'ially In this country the bidding methods of these two groups arc further apart than anywhere else Normally social players use a simple subset of the more scientific methods employed in competitions Not here Only very slowly have bids like limit and raises weak negative doubles filtered into ' ' of the regiment at bridflo By Phillip Alder Wonder where our artillery is?" ’ "That'S probably odr cannon shooting at us'"' Colonel MacLeod had come iip now and was standing' next to Moniiii “As I recall there were several batteries up there where 'the rebs ' ' overran (iur lines" A glance at the colohcl and Moroni ctiuld see that he was limping and there was blood oti one tmuser leg "Have you been hii sir?" Mtmini asked ' they've killed my horse though 'Can--no- n shell Poor beast fell on me Then ruhhi ng his leg "Hurts like' the devil " “How are we doingT Clark asked helping the coloncl sit next to Moroni Wiping his face with a dirty handkerchief the Colonel replied "Not good We have held so far hut the boys in front of us ran—just ran— and left the rehs everything camps food ammunition cannon: just evciything” : ammunition soon or we'll hc line to the center '! i “You're pmhahiy right" Moroni added "L we can hold ‘em rf they don’t shell Us Uni had and we can get some of our own artillery up here to help us But we’ll he needin’ more nK-ks’- aV then charge again"- T Moroni just gave Charley another slap on the hack and eontinued on Several louder explosions to Moroni's right brought him around He could see where an exploding cannon shell had hit the Union line Then another and another exploded into the blue lines cutting down scores of soldiers Sergeant O’Toole was at His side now "Sir FOXTROT the ' ney dadsteps in lo handle her defense There’s potential for a tingly descent into ejoistered madness here hut the filmmakers don’t know where to Turn with the story after a handful of chilling manifestations as Miranda slowly uncovers the identity 'of the burning girl in her vision The movie huijds tension lor a while as sup porting characters waffle from suspects to sym-- ! pulhicrs with most of them petering out to red herring appendages The jailers prove conveniently inept at keeping Miranda confined allowing her to muck about almost lul will before tumbling into a series of laughable disclosures posing as dirty little secrets "Gothika" leaves behind ludicrous loose ' ends in lerinsof who actually did uliai And ' from its tacked-p- n epilogue the mov ie clearly exists in a realm where possession by spiritsfrom beyond is a viable legal defense Befdrehe's snuffed Miranda’s husband tells ' Iter! "The ability to repress is actually a vital survival l(Hl” The key to surviving '(iothika''! Repress the urge to buy a ticket "Gothika!’ a Warner Bros release is rated R for violence brief language tiiul nudity Rum ning time ()K minutes: ( )ne and a half starvout 'of four' ' Dutton) Tandy paced openingseijueTices by director Mathieu Kassovit and screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez skillfully establish the gothic-castl- e feel of the dark hulking prison and the key players: IVte Graham ( Robert Downey Jr ) Miranda’s piippy-eye- d colleague who’s clearly in love with her Sheriff Ryan i John Carroll Lynch) Douglas’ Ashing buddy and Miranda’s pat icntC’hhxM Penelope Crut who rants that Satan stops by her cell id rape and torture her ' Driving home diie rainy night Miranda must take a detiuir over a narrow wiHtden bridge-wher- e she encounters a vision of a mutilated that bursts into flame girl ' Three days later Miranda wakes up in a cell at her own psych w ard accused of savagely killing her husband with unaxii crime about which she has no memory Before you can say conflict! of interest: Miranda’s pul under the care of former co- worker Pete I'ami lypal Ryan litkes the leiid ori the murder investigation and Miranda's altor- - in ' ' CNEA 2003 North A i KJBH (5 mi workmanlike job discussing V A I I I the various doubles giving K J3 pluses and minuses and mak- A3 ing his own preferences dear West Kast Look only at the West hand A 7 S 4 3 2 A A Q What would you lead against 10 7 9 9 85 3 7 5 4 2 10 B six doubled? 4 5 10 8 2 As Theodore Lightncr rec South omme tided many years ago a ' A ID double of a freely bid slam is K J 2 and usually AQ asks for dummy's first-hi- d AAKQ8874 suit Here West must select a Dealer North spade otherwise South has Both Vulnerable: But with a 14(!) winners first lead the East takes West North tM spade A Pass two tricks Then South will 2 Pasa Past regret not bidding six dubs If 4 NT PaM s Paaa East doubles that South (on DM Ptuw 8 NT Pam the basis of his singleton Paaa Pam pass spade) would redouble and Opening lead: ?? make it Not even Lightner no-tru- lead-directi- : 1 If |