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Show A7 WWW.NETXNEWS.NET MONDAY • JANUARY 23 * 2006 .:.-. V. k ',',. Sundance SUNDANCE 06 Luke Hickman Movie Editor O, therthan the LDS church, Utah's number one icon is the Sundance Film Festival held in Park City every January. Since Robert Redford created Sundance in 1981, it has been known for showing off the new creative and "independent" talent in the film industry. For the past few years, unfortunately, the festival has become more about the celebrities than the new talent « mostly highlighting films staring already-known actors, such as the 2004 sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher. However, according to officials, this year it's going to change back. What we're hoping to find this year is a new batch of creative directors whose futures look bright. Their hopes are very tangible, given the many directors whose films have been picked up from Sundance in the past. Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi; Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs; Zach B raff's Garden State: Saw; Supersize Me; Open Wafer; The Jacket; New York Doll; Layer Cake; Hustle; Motorcycle Diaries; and Napolean Dynamite. You never know what's going to come next. Most of the festivities will be held in Park City, although there are now even more screenings of films taking place in Salt Lake City. The Rose Wagner Center and the Broadway and Tower Theaters Sundance Film Festival The 2006 Sundance Film Festival is going on now! Screenings will be held in Park City and Salt Lake City. Although most shows are already sold out you still may have'a chance. Check the main box offices first or get on a waiting list at the venue. Top 5 Albums I The Breakthrough- Mary J. Biige 2 Unpredictable- Jamie Foxx J Some Hearts- Carrie Underwood will be hosting screenings throughout the week. Supposedly, if you want to catch an almost guaranteed screening, your best bet would be seeing one of the SLC shows. How do you get tickets? Well, even though most of the showings are sold out, it's not impossible to get in. Sundance's advice is to check the main box offices first. If they are sold out, head over to the venue and place yourself on the waiting list. You'd be surprised at how many people gain entrance to the shows they want to see by adding themselves to the waiting list. Even if you don't get into a screening, it is always a fun time to be out. And, who knows? You might see a celebrity or two. Courtesy photo/sxehu X| Curtain Ca//: The Hits- Eminem Duets: The Final Chapter- The Notorious 8./.G 'I Am My Own Wife' top ten John Ditzler -Nazi Germany and communist Russia - in women's clothing. With minimalist producDavid Spencer stars in the tion and props (including one-man production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer miniature antique furniture Prize winning play I Am that the audience is to imagMy Own Wife. Written by ine in life size form) the Doug Wright (award win- play touchingly relies on an ning author of Quills) and intimate script and compelpresented by The Salt Lake ling thematic content with Acting Company, I Am My versatile acting to boot. Own Wife is currently playActor David Spencer loses ing Wednesdays through himself in the eccentricities Sundays through January of his characters, not an easy 29th at Chapel Theatre. thing to do when switching I Am My Own Wife is the between 40 different charstory of real life Charlotte acters of different genders, von Mahlsdorf, Germany's ages, and cultures. Take for most famous transvestite. instance the character John Born Lothar Berfelde, a bio- Marks, a German correlogical male, Charlotte von spondent who speaks shaky Mahlsdorf survived the 20th German with a steady Texan century's two most bru- drawl. tal and totalitarian regimes I Am My Own Wife celExecutive Editor Signs we are all sick of winter 1 ^ ^ You switched your MM Starbucks order from Hot Chocolate to Iced Mocha 5 All the beautiful people at UVSC are un-naturally tan... wait, that's normal 9 Your MLK day picnic backfired You took the top off your Jeep last weekend to drag State 8 After trudging in from the snow you slip off of your wet flip-flops .y The demin mini and "*Ugg" boot trend has recently abandoned the ••;_ Your "Brilliant You've been check-, ing limo prices for •-"• your girlfriend'sV^-: Junior Prom : • •'•:. I 7 6 :••• Brunette" conditionerran out.,, time to switch back to "Sheer Blonde" The seasonal aisle at Walmart is red, white, and blue I Courtcsy photo/Scott Peterson David Spencer as Charlotte von Malhsdorf playing in am my own wife. ebrates our common humanity through one unique individual amidst cross generational time spans, horrific repression, and conflicting versions of the truth. I Am My Own Wife doesn't demean queer people by packaging stereotypical characters to a straight audience. It treats von Mahls- dorf as a human being who is also queer, not the other way around. A beautiful life story that explores the ugliness of WWII and Cold War East Germany via the warmth of personal narrative. 'God's Favorite' at the Ragan PaulJudd Life Writer Neil Simon's "God's Favorite," a comical play based on the life of the Biblical figure Job, will play in the Ragan You used your ' : Theatre January 24-28, 30financial aid money 31, and February 1 at 7:30 to buy a wakeboard PM. The play, set in the 1970's Oyster Bay in Long Island, New York, is about the wealthy but pious cardboard manufacturer, Joe Benjamin. Benjamin (played by Spencer King) lives in a large house with his family consisting of his shallow wife Rose (Ashley Grant), his prodigal son David (Tom Fernland), and his twin daughter and son, Sara (Bailey Jones) and Ben (Addison Leake). Also living in the house is Maddy the cook (Rene Huggins) and \ Top 5 Movies in Theaters fc; * • . 'I j • Underworld: Evolution i • Brokeback Mountain { lasf Holiday Hoodwinked Glory Road Courtesy photo/UVSC Theater Department Ashley Grant and Spencer King star as Sarah and Job Benjamin in Neil Simon's 'God's Favorite.' Morris the butler (Gary Reimer). In the play, Benjamin is told by God's messenger, Sidney (Joel Petrie) that he is the subject of a bet between th.e Lord and the Devil, and that he can either renounce his faith or suffer every stroke of misfortune and bad luck imaginable. Immediately following his refusal to renounce, Joe's house and factory burn down to the ground. Afterward, everything becomes a test of religion, as Joe's unluckiness bears him an itch, neuralgia, and even hemorrhoids before his faith is decided, recognized, and rewarded. UVSC Professor Randall King, veteran theatre director of over sixteen years, predicts that 'The audience will find 'God's Favorite' to be very funny, yet poignant." He also commented that he is excited about the play because "the story of Job is painful to read or study" and the play is a "comic way of handling a difficult situation. It celebrates that beliefs are important." Tickets are available at Campus Connection, and the cost is $8-$ 10, or $6 with a valid student ID. |