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Show r SECTION JDaitjj&lfcralfi SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 EDITOR I Elyssa Andrus 344-255- eandmsOheraldextrs.com 3 "V- .( MM t. $ COUEAUocu(d Piwe Avisitor axamlncs part of artist Wenda Gu's united nations: united colours at Dartmouth College's Baker-Berr- y Library in Hanover, N.H., on Juty 21 The exhibit is made tip of roughly miles of braided hair. . seven-and-a-ha- lf human hair is art Beverly Wang ASSOCIArtD . PRESS The massive banner in Dartmouth College's Baker-Ben- y Library runs the length of the vast foyer, bright green lettering stretching from end to end. Big the gut reactions that artist Wenda Gu's latest .: installation provokes aren't because of its size, but its contents: 420 pounds of human hair. A viewers first impulses are to lean forward and scrutinize the swirling, flattened locks; stealthily sniff (it doesn't smell); and fight the urge to touch it and perhaps quickly recofl. Sophomore Julian Ng has spent a lot of time with united nations: the green house," which hangs Just ' V feet from the information desk where he works. Part of his job involves handing out brochures on the art-- . work and explaining that the unrecognisable green lettering spells the words educations and adver- tises superimposed on each other. Ng says viewer reactions fall into two camps: the freaked out and the fascinated. A lot of people don't understand that Its hair," he aid. When they do, "they get really freaked out. Then again, 1 Ve seen a lot of people try to look . SeeHAIRART, C2 New film aims to increase awareness of prescription drug abuse in Utah Cody dark 2006.'' Williams, 46 and the CEO track to be worse than . ' ; OAHYHEKALO Utah Valley has a dirty little secret. Ron Williams wants to tell you what it is. Welcome to Happy Valley, a new documentary fum that Williams hopes will open the eyes ' of Uah County residents to the trend of addiction to prescription drugs. I think probably like everyone else I was somewhat in denial about the issue we have here in the valley, Williams said. Until I started seeing neighbor- hood kids dropping like flies.' The Rev. Richard Green, chaplain at the Utah County Sheriffs Office, said that a report from the state attorney general's office found that in 2006 more Utahns died as a result of scription drugs, more than 300' fatalities in aU, than were killed in automobile accideitis. Dr. Todd Grey, the state's chief medical examiner, said that not all prescription drug deaths stem from addiction sometimes the wrong drug is prescribed, or an incorrect dosage of (he right one. The problem is, however, becoming more sen-- ......... Heather Svokos MCCLAJCHY NEWSPAPERS Oh, what hath "The Osbournes" wrought? Well, "The Anna Nicole Show, for one (rest her soul). But ever since, TV networks seem to believe that virtu--. whether ally any celebrity life is worth examining (Britney Spears,-- Jessica Simp-soli- ), they're on the the B list (Paula Abdul), the C list (Tom Sizemore) or the D list (Danny Bonaduce, and the DUster herself, Kathy Griffin). But whats new this summer is a cavalcade of male shows, which, at first glance, celebrity train-wrecfeels like one big, sorry midlife crisis. their way into our living rooms are Chachi, the dude from Poison, , two of the Lost Boys," ' r- - A-b- st : k Self-helpi- antfour boy-han- guys d whose names you prob-ably don't remember. n Forget therapists, See CELEBRITY, C5 abuse.-- (A study released by the US. Department of Health and Hu V See HAPFY VALLEY, C4 . , Every year is getting worse and worse, Grey said. Two-thousamtseven is certainly on stars in the new reality show Two Coreys." of Orem-baseorganic whole foods company ForeverGreen, said hes happy to live in Utah and that hes not picking on his home state. We know we could have gone into any dty in North America and done a compelling movie about addiction, he said. Utah just happens to be unique to the world in that we lead ,: the nation in prescription drug man Services earlier this year reveals just that. In 2004 and 2005, IL5 percent of aU Utahns, more than in any other state, took prescription drugs without a doctor's order.) ;. Happy Valley hasn't been seen yet, except at a handful of promotional events (the most recent of them on Aug'. 7) and as: an official entry of the Brecken-ridg- e Film Festival in Brecken-- ridge. Cola People have, how-- , ever, responded to its message. . affairs, red convertibles or cultivating a sudden interest in bungee jumping. 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