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Good beer and bad movies. It just doesn't get any better than this.
ree State beer and free films.
Free State beer and free films.
That's a combination that Alex Hamilton, manager of Free State Brewing Co., hopes will draw college students to the brewery at 636 Massachusetts on Wednesday nights.
Each week, Joel Sanderson, KU graduate
Where it's at
Wednesday nights beginning at dusk and ending at 11:45 p.m.
Free State Brewing Co..
636 Massachusetts St.
Sanderson, KU graduate and film buff, shows films in Free State's beer garden. The show starts at dusk and ends at 11:45 p.m. The films are free, but the beer is not.
The films aren't your ordinary films.
Sanderson, a collector of 16 mm films, splices pieces from old horror movies, 1930s and '40s cartoons, and manners films from the 1950s.
A film collage could show scenes from "Brotherhood of Satan," part of a Popeye cartoon from
the 1940s and part of a film about the importance of being attentive.
Sanderson said his favorite was a 1970s film called "Killer Fish."
"It's a feature-length film starring Lee
Majors and about every out-of-work actor of the time intercut with a film about taking care of your aquarium," Sanderson said. "This is not high-brow cinema."
Hamilton said. "It's the kind of thing where you come in and have an iced tea or a beer with friends, and you might catch a snippet and laugh about it."
The series, in its second season, is called the M.T. Pockets Film Festival. Last year, Sanderson showed his films from May to October.
Sanderson found many of the films he uses in the trash. Since video came along, no one has much use for 16 mm film anymore, he said.
Sanderson, who works as a projectionist at Liberty Hall, projects the films through a glass-covered opening in beer garden's west wall, shared by the restaurant and theater, onto a screen on the east wall of Liberty Hall's second theater.
Sanderson said his interest in cinema was life-long. As a child, he showed 8 mm films to his friends in his parents' garage.
He began splicing films to make his own creations while working as a projectionist in Emporia.
In 1989, after he moved to Lawrence, Sanderson started showing his films in Vinland, a small town outside Lawrence, on a rented screen placed against the side of an old shop. A nearby house was the projection booth.
"There are only about 10 houses there," he
said. "We just kind of took over."
At first, only a handful of people attended. By the last showing, crowds numbered near 300.
"It kind of outgrew itself," Sanderson said. "I just couldn't manage that many people anymore."
Sanderson said he had wanted to show films in Free State's beer garden for a while, when Hamilton approached him.
"I'd been bugging them for years to let me show the films out there," Sanderson said.
"The beer garden at Free State was originally going to be a theater at Liberty Hall."
Hamilton said that by January 1996 the beer garden would be enclosed and have a glass roof so it could be used year-round.
Robert Parks, Olate senior who works at Free State, said the films didn't seem to appeal to a certain group of people or to have a regular following. The ones who han-
Clip examples
Bad horror movies from the '50s and '60s.
Felix the Cat snippets and other cartoons.
pen to be seated in the beer garden seem to enjoy the films, he said.
Movies about manners and other guides to daily life.
"Free State is such a demographically interesting restaurant," Parks said. "All kinds of people go there."
Of mice and men: leptin more slimming for mice
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A natural fat-buster that made headlines last month for slimming down overweight mice may not do the same for really obese people, new research suggests.
But another scientist who studies the substance disagreed, saying the new findings may just mean that the obese need more of the stuff than other people to control their weight.
Scientists found evidence that very fat people already have high levels of the substance in their bodies, maybe 20 to 30 times the amount found in slender people.
The substance, called leptin, is produced by fat tissue. Mouse studies suggest that it is a messenger to the brain that lets animals keep a relatively constant weight.
So injecting more may not help at all, says researcher Brad Hamilton.
Scientists say many processes, biological and social, influence obesity, and leptin is not the total answer.
Last month, scientists reported experiments with mice that were grossly overweight because they could not make leptin. When the animals were injected with leptin, they slimmed down dramatically.
Leptin injections also work in normal mice, said Stephen K. Burley of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockweller University in New York.
Hamilton and his colleagues compared the gene activity in fat cells taken from 14 people who were more than 70 pounds beyond their ideal weight, with activity in cells from 11 lean people.
The studies looked at levels of activity of the "obese" gene that makes fat tissue create leptin. The more active this gene is, researchers reasoned, the more leptin is being made.
Apparently, the gene is turned on more as fat cells get stuffed with more and more fat. Hamilton said. He estimated that fat people may have 20 to 30 times the amount of leptin that lean people do.
They may be so fat because their brains are not getting leptin's message to slim down, Hamilton said. Leptin would deliver that message by acting on structures called receptors, and maybe receptors in the very fat people can't respond to leptin, he said.
Burley said he believes that an absolute inability to get leptin's message would be rare. The more common problem for very fat people would be reduced sensitivity to leptin, so that they need very high amounts to get the message, he said.
If so, he said, injecting such people with even more lentin would be futile.
It's like a "thermostat that only turns on the air conditioning when the temperature reaches 95", he said. So injections of extra leptin may help, he said.
She said she earned and reimbursed a man had taken a course by her skirt. She said the man run out, but when she heard the click echo, she got more.
"It was stupid, but here we were punishing through the store," she said. "I was velling. 'Stop that seal!'."
Police Capt. Ray Rael said the man was carrying photographers and Scott identified herself as one of several subjects in the photo. Rael said the man was photographing women's underwear. "I went up and pointed to him and said, 'That's my boy.'" Rael said, "It just shows you have to do more than just talk about issues; you have to be pro-active."
Scott did not mention the incident during her lecture at the American Law Institute the next morning.
Her talk was on sexual harassment in the workplace, and "this was more like sexual harassment in the shopping place."
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Cultural Calendar
EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES
Exhibition — Kansas State University Faculty Show, featuring paintings and sculpture, through Sept. 8 at the Art and Design Gallery.
Lecture — When Is It Date Rape? 7 p.m.
tomorrow at the Centennial Room in the
Kansas Union. Sponsored by Emily Taylor
Women's Resource Center.
Topeka Symphony Orchestra will hold auditions for horn, tuba and all strings at 7 tonight at White Concert Hall on the Washburn University Campus, 21st Street and Washburn Avenue.
AUDITIONS
'Rangoon' director hits the mark with his best work yet
By Bob Thomas The Associated Press
"Point Blank," "Hell in the Pacific," "Excalibur," "The Emerald Forest," "Hope and Glory" and his masterpiece "Deliverance" bore the individual stamp of a dedicated filmmaker.
Since the beginning of his 30-year career, John Boorman has proved an uncompromising director.
Boorman confronts another challenging project in "Beyond Rangoon." It is his most accomplished and fully realized work.
An American doctor, Patricia Arquette, is touring Asia with her sister, Frances McDormand, who has urged her to travel following a terrible family tragedy. They land in 1988 Burma.
Arquette loses her passport and must stay behind while the tour moves on. She encounters a tour guide, U Aung Ko, a former professor who has been banned from teaching because of his democratic views. He leads her to his former students, who are zealots in opposition to the repressive government.
Arquette becomes committed to their cause.
She, U Aung Ko and the young rebels embark on an escape to Thailand. Danger is everywhere as the army troops follow them through the lush Burmese countryside.
"Beyond Rangoon" raises Patricia Arquette's stock tenfold. Heretofore known as an accomplished actress in lesser films, she displays an intensity of feeling that could place her alongside Jessica Lange and Meryl Streen.
The Columbia release is rated R for violence including pointblank killings.
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