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Vietnamese film captures longing beautiful imagery
By Elissa Harris Kansan critic
The sun rises for some of the world's people, and the shadows they create are inhabited by all others. Three Seasons is set in richly colored and extremely hectic modern-day Saigon, Vietnam. To call it a foreign film insinuates that it is different from our lives, when it is actually a movie about a place we are all looking for. No main character is the focus of this gentle, even somewhat lazy, tale of people searching for a sense of the past and a beauty for the future.
Hai (Don Duong), a cyclodriver (bicycle carriage), who spends his off time reading, falls in love with Lan (Zoe Bui), a young prostitute whom he transports from hotel to hotel. His desire is to see her from behind her mask of "whore" yet she pushes him away telling him she is unable to be anything but.
Woody (Nguyen Huu Doc), a little street boy whose eyes have lost their childhood, sells cigarettes and other brightly colored trinkets from a wooden box, yet the world rushes by not noticeing his little body standing in the pouring rain. James Hager (Harvey Keitel) an American veteran who spends his nights drinking with prostitutes is there to find a daughter he left behind and the peace he believes she carries with him.
Finally, a young girl Kien An (Nguyen Ngoc Hiep) is hired as a lotus seller and is discovered for her beautiful songs by a dying old man
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who has been looking for his own voice.
In the tradition of Asian films, Three Seasons is rich in images. It is astounding. From a blue fog rising from a lotus pond as a boat, lit by orange paper lanterns, is quietly rowed to a majestic old temple, to the sensuality of the elegant white lotus bud, the touch of lovers' feverish skin, and finally to the thirty years of sadness on a father's face when he finds his daughter in a place he never imagined.
According to Hai's fellow cyclo-drivers, the people for whom the sun rises are the people who live in the fancy hotels, the high-rising air-conditioned buildings that are believed to hold riches behind glass doors. A lot of those people are Americans.
This isn't a tale of morality, but of discovery, and I left the movie theater with a message of my own. Vietnam has been left behind in a shadow of our memories as a place where we once fought a war, as a place where many Americans lost their lives or their peace of mind.
In Three Seasons, people are looking for a peace before a war, and despite a looming shadow, are looking for peace within themselves.
Three Seasons was written and directed by Tony Bui. The running time is 110 minutes, and the movie is rated PG-13. Now showing at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts. Call the theater at 749-1912 for show times.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — To make it in Hollywood, he had the look and the talent. But did he have the patience?
Five years ago canine sensation Scruffy was celebrating a measure of fame: He was starring in national television commercials and corporate training videos. Hallmark put his furry mug on greeting cards and calendars. He was a Kansas City Star Magazine cover story.
Hollywood beckons Kansas City canine
Not overly glamorous, but it was a long way from life at the pound.
That's where animal trainer Mike Reynolds met Scruffy, hours before the dog's scheduled demise. Reynolds took in the 68-pound bearded collie mix and quickly discovered his star qualities.
The break came earlier this year after Reynolds pored through The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety and began a new round of contacts.
Five years of success has given them a taste for Tinseltown, and now Tinseltown has come calling. Scruffy and Reynolds head to Los Angeles next month to film a romantic comedy titled PAP. Reynolds was told the coastars are Jeff Goldblum and Daryl Hannah, but the production company is hush-hush about the other talent. In his film debut, Scruffy will play Steak Bone.
"We got three responses out of 225 mailings." Reynolds said.
But, as they say, all it takes is one. Reynolds knew Scruffy had the talent — he's learned 156 behaviors, such as crazy dog, in which Scruffy runs around in tight figure eights.
And he has the look, including his trademark, mobile left ear that first attracted Reynolds. Reynolds taught Scruffy how to lift the ear on command.
Scruffy is familiar with photo shoots and film sets, although it will take a little practice to get him to work smoothly with the actors. Reynolds said. Filming is scheduled to start in mid-July and may last through August.
"I can't get him to cry on command but almost anything else." Reynolds said.
They will go a few days early to get the long-haired Scruffy accustomed to the climate. Reynolds said Scruffy will have an air-conditioned trailer, a necessity in the southern California summer heat.
The movie, scheduled for a November release, is the story of obstetrician Gordon Tyler, occupied morning and night with his starlet clientele, and his wife, Kay. They are a couple in marital turmoil.
Scruffy appears in more than 50 scenes, responding to the new name Steak Bone. Actually, said Reynolds, dogs don't really learn their names for movie parts. Instead, they hit their marks directed by trainers and helpers off-camera.
"The whole key is to make it look like he's doing it on his own." Reynolds said. "It can't look like he's looking at someone off-camera. That spoils the whole scene."
Scruffy hasn't just been waiting tables while hoping for his first movie part. In fact, he can be seen with Reynolds in a recent video, "Close Encounters ... of the Canine Kind," about dog-bite prevention. In the video, Reynolds demonstrates how to safely approach a dog and what self-defense postures to use if a dog approaches.
At 7 1/2 years old, Scruffy has three or four years of acting in him. Reynolds figures. And with lots of face time in a new movie, "one thing can lead to another," Reynolds said.
Local theater group brings dark comedy to stage
Mr. Rogers, played by Josh Meyer, Lawrence junior, checks a candy bar for radiation during the play "White Plague." The play opens June 17 at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Photo by Joseph Griffen/KANSAN
E. M.U. Theater, a local not-for profit organization that produces locally written scripts, is presenting its first full-length production June 17, 18 and 19 at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building.
By Marta Costello
Kansan staff writer
White Plague is a dark comedy set in a bank vault following a nuclear explosion. Six people who were in the vault at the time of the explosion survive, and their continued survival depends upon their ability to work together.
Nathan Cadman, a co-founder of E.M.U., said the plot includes cannibalism, sex and drugs.
"There's no rock 'n roll, but you can't have everything," Cadman said.
The action takes place during a three- to four-month period of time in which all six characters remain trapped in this post-apocalyptic setting.
The show runs approximately two hours.
E. M.U. is a community-based theater collective devoted to producing theater written by local residents.
They are currently accepting script admissions from any local writers, actors, directors, and designers.
Trevor Ruder, director of White Plague, said that the initials E.M.U. contained no specific meaning, but rather conveyed the group's irreverent outlook. Ruder said the meaning depended on who you asked, and Cadman quipped, "It's a big bird that doesn't fly."
White Plague is E.M.U.'s fourth production. A fifth production, Living Pleasantly with Others, is expected at the end of July.
E. M.U. celebrates its one-year anniversary this August and has two other theatrical events planned for this summer.
Shows are at 8 all three nights with 11 p.m. shows on June 18 and 19.
White Plague is written by Greg Felke.
— Edited by Derek Prater
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