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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 ™DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Yoga Chick a creative tool for young women Maggie Gyllenhaal takes risks on screen Ryan Pearson Colorado Daily (U. Colorado) BOULDER, Colo. - Maggie Gyllenhaal had perhaps the best reason of all to spend a few days in Utah's Wasatch Mountains during Sundance. She's taking a break from 9/11. Gyllenhaal is in the midst of shooting Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," in which she plays a 7-months-pregnant wife of someone who appears to be lost in one of the towers. "It's really rough," she said offilmingthe movie. "It's incredibly difficult to live in that day." Her role, once again, is that of a survivor—a woman who perseveres. The 28-year-old actress made a career of inhabiting troubled characters struggling with bent emotions. She was an S&M-loving "Secretary" in the 2002 movie by that name— which debuted to acclaim at Sundance and made her a star—and a pained woman with feelings for both a father and his son in last year's "Happy Endings." She gets to hold things together a bit in the 9/11 movie and in the upcoming Marc Forsterdirected comedy "Stranger Than Fiction," where Will Ferrell is the one who falls apart. But the older sister of "Brokeback Mountain" star Jake portrays another just-barelymaking-it woman in "Sherrybaby," which opened at the film festival. Her character Sherry has just gotten out of a three-year prison term and is trying to take care of her young daughter. "Everybody on some level that I've played is a survivor, fighting for then- life,fightingfor a real life," she said. "She's doing that." She said she didn't realize until watching it at a Park City, Utah screening what a troubled person she portrays. "When I was making it, I thought she kind of gets out of prison and in my mind was feeling like: You know what, I had a hard time, I was a drug addict, I'm clean, I served my time, I'm sorry, and I'm gonna be the best momma that you've ever seen. I'm gonna do it like nobody's ever done it. I'm gonna get an apartment, I'm gonna get a job. I'm young, I'm sexy. There's no reason this isn't all going to work out for me." Inside one of the lounges on Main Street, Gyllenhaal smiles a kind of forlorn smile, explaining she'd just left a screening. "I really, really believed that when I was making it. And seeing it now kind of breaks my heart. Because with a little objectivity, you see it is so much more complicated than that, what happens to her. She's just had a really rough time." "I don't think I've met anybody who's got it as hard as Sherry does. When I watched it this time, I really just saw that," Gyllenhaal said. "She's riddled with broken stuff and pain and she's trying so hard to survive." "Sherrybaby" writer-director Laurie Collyer said she thought of casting Gyllenhaal after seeing her in "Secretary." "Clearly she's got a very bold sexuality and so does Sherry," said Collyer. "I knew I needed an actor who wasn't afraid to be kind of a slut." "I could see how people would say 'Oh, this is Maggie Gyllenhaal taking off her clothes,' but it's more than that," Collyer continued. "She gets very deep. I went to her because I could see that in her as an actor: She's interested in taking risks." It's still unclear whether the film will get distribution. For Gyllenhaal, "Sherrybaby" is another in a line of Sundance-style, character-driven movies. The problem with that: They don't pay much. Her solution (besides the role in the higherprofile Forster flick): A recently announced endorsement deal with Reebok. "I think with most of the movies I choose to make, they don't pay me anything. So if I can make some money doing something else, there's nothing wrong with it," she said. Gyllenhaal noted that even before she joined Reebok she'd attended a dinner for the sports apparel company's international human rights awards, and was touched by what she saw. She then shook her head slightly— the picture of an actress balancing fame with a charmingly straightforward attitude. "I need to be honest. Why not be honest? It's business at some level," she said. "Being able to do something like that allows me to do something like 'Sherrybaby,' where I make nothing." U-Wire cuses on the benefits one can receive from practice. From relieving the stresses of life to COLUMBUS.Ohio—Former creating energy, the book chalmagazine journalist, success- lenges the reader to embrace ful public relations executive yoga as a lifestyle benefiting a and ardent yogini, Bess Gal- young woman's entirety. Ianis has been practicing yoga The book is sprinkled with for more than a decade and fun tips on subjects as diverse turns this passion into a cre- as from aromatherapy and ative new book, Yoga Chick: A health to chakras and creatHip Guide to Everything Om. ing a home sanctuary and spa. Yoga Chick speaks to the Useful tips about health are college woman. From "Yoga highlighted through wellness Chick 101" to "Everyday Om," tips and hearty recipes, such the book's sections are weU as fruit power-smoothies. The organized for complete com- author also encourages mental prehension of the various health through journal-writing yoga poses, the importance of and embracing one's creative breathing and the overall life individuality. enrichment yoga provides. Yoga Chick is written with The book can be used by a young women in mind and first-time yoga practicer or a the tone is supportive and enbudding yogini. Its six unique couraging without being consessions are designed to build descending or lecture-like. strength and flexibility and The book encompasses can easily be practiced in the home. Illustrated throughout, the book's pictures are useful for perfecting poses, although it is difficult to understand how to flow from one pose into another. From downward dog to dancer to eagle, each pose includes a description, an illustration and an explanation of the muscles the pose is meant to strengthen. The book is strengthened by its encouragement of a healthy lifestyle, something every college woman needs to remember. Yoga Chick promotes the yoga lifestyle and strongly foCaitlin Chamberlin The Lantern (Ohio State U.) Got news? S&nA Letters to the editor to ga#£afeftfa&K^fc www.saltlakemotorsports.com phone [phone] visit our show room at: 1077 S. 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U-Wire SPRING 2006 TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS Free and open to all * Tanner Humanities Center Work-in-Progress Talks are designated as "WlP"s All Talks are at 3:30 PM, 115 Carlson Hall, 380 S 1400 E, Next Door to the Law School, Lowell M. Durham Jr. Seminar Room Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder Work-in-Progress Talk by Wed.Feb.8,WIP: 1 "Sharing Without Knowing: Collective Identity in Feminist and Democratic Theory" Wed.Feb.l5,WIP: Wed. Feb. 22, WIP: 3:30 PVL Wednesday, February 8, 2006. 115 Carlson Hall Many democratic theorists agree that democracy can only work where citizens are the same in some way; whether what they think we should share is substantial - like a nationality - or minimal - like the legal status of citizenship. They believe sameness is important because they think it facilitates our identification with one another; it helps us to imagine ourselves as a community. This sense that we form a "we" is crucial to democracy because it gives our decisions and laws legitimacy, it motivates us to make mutual sacrifices, and it enables us to trust each other. Where citizens have nothing in common, they fear, we will not be able to generate a sense of civic identity, and so democracy will falter. Many feminist theorists share with democratic theorists the presumption that politics requires a prcgiven subject ("women" or "the people") whose identity is grounded in commonality. Inspired by the similarities between feminist and democratic theory, I draw on Linda Zerilli's interventions in feminist debates to develop an alternative account of collective identity that emerges instead from multiple, overlapping, and discontinuous social practices. This reconcep-tualization of identity demands a corresponding reconceptualization of democracy, characterized by the ongoing contestation of the very subject ("the people") whose existence it presupposes. Michaele Ferguson is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Tanner Center for 2005-06, and an Assistant Professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This talk is based upon a part of her current book manuscript entitled Sharing Democracy. She is also co-editing a collection of essays with Lori Marso of Union College called W Stands for Women: Feminism, Gender, and Security in the Presidency of George W. Bush. Her interests include democratic theory, feminist theory, the role of truth in politics, and the philosophy of language. Her most recent publication explores all of these themes via an analysis of the use of feminist rhetoric to justify the U.S. foreign policy of building democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq: "W Stands for Women: Feminism and Security Rhetoric in the Post-9/11 Bush Administration," which appeared in Politics & Gender in 2005. 115 Carlson Hall, 380 S 1400 E, Next Door to the Law School Lowell M. Durham Jr. Seminar Room This event is free and open to campus and community. The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center is a proud program of the College of Humanities. For more information, see www.thc.utah.edu or call 581-7989. Wed.Mar. 1,TBA: Wed. Mar. 8, WIP: Wed. Mar. 22, WIP: March 30-31: Wed. Apr. 5, WIP: Fri.ApriI,7: Wed. Apr. 12, WIP: Wed. Apr. 19, WIP: Michaele Fergusonj Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Sharing Democracy" Kyeong-Kyu Im, Tanner Humanities Center Graduate Research Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, "Empire and Diasporic Formation of Asian America" Claudio Holzner, Tanner Humanities Center Virgil C. Aldrich Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, "Contrasting Voices of Mexico's Democracy" Fellow Elizabeth Duquette will host Russell Castronovo, Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; joined by Professor Stacey Margolis, Department of English, University of Utah. Professor Casonovo-is the author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States and other works. (Duke, 2001). Elizabeth Duquette, Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellow, English, Gettysburg College, "Loyal Subjects: .Problems of Race, Nation, & Allegiance in 19th Century America" Kathrin Koslicki, Tanner Humanities Center Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, "The Language of Counting and Measuring" Tanner Lecture on Human Values, and discussion panels, Olpin Student Union & Alumni House. The 2006 speaker will be Justice Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, on "Tension and Intention: The American Constitutions and the Shaping of Democracies Abroad". Complete details will be available in early February. Isabel Moreira, Virgil C. Aldrich Research Fellow, Department of History, "Purgatory: Punishment and Mediation in the Early Medieval Afterlife" Public Roundtablc Discussion, "The Diversity of Arab Thought: Democracy, Islam, Modernity," Time and Location TBA; convened by Center Fellow Keith Watenpaugh. Details available in early March. Mark Button, Tanner Humanities Center Virgil C. Aldrich Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, "Democratic Humility and the Virtues of Late Modernity" Margaret Wan, Tanner Center Virgil C. Aldrich Research Fellow, Department of Languages and Literature, "Cultural Literacies: Popular Literature and Local Culture in Late Imperial China" The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center is a proud program (founded in 1989) of the College of Humanities, at the University of Utah. For more information, •> see http://www.thc.utah.edu or call [phone].