ERIKA FREDRICKSON
The Pulp
Influencers come and go, but Grizzly 399 seems to have no trouble staying on top of the social media food chain. The famous grizzly bear, who lives in Grand Teton National Park, started hanging out on the park’s roadside in 2006, and has returned with her cubs year after year (she’s had 18) to the delight of park visitors and wildlife photographers. In the film “399: Queen of the Tetons,” filmmaker Elizabeth Leiter captures 399’s unique place in both the park and social media scene. Leiter (Jane Goodall: The Hope and The Abortion Divide) tells 399’s story through the eyes of people connected to her and as a way into the bigger policy controversies.
Leiter talks with The Pulp about the role 399 plays within the context of delisting and human encroachment, and how 399’s intriguing life offers an opportunity to examine our own behaviors.
This interview has been lightly edited for length.
The Pulp: You have made films on such a variety of subjects, how did you end up deciding to make a film on 399?
Elizabeth Leiter: I met the photographer
Tom Mangelsen working on the film about Jane Goodall, and they’re friends. And anybody who’s talked to Tom for more than five minutes hears about 399, right? Because he’s been documenting her his whole life. And so my partner on that Jane Goodall film, Kim Woodard, who’s my executive producer on this film, got really interested because Tom is so passionate. So that was sort of the origin of, ‘Let’s go out and start exploring this story.’
Did you know anything about 399 when you started?
I’d never heard of 399. I live on the East Coast and I’ve been to the Tetons before, but not since I was a kid. The narrative of the film evolved from there in the sense that it was like, OK, well, what’s the story? Is it just a man and a bear? This photographer who’s obsessed with this bear?’ That felt like a simple and straightforward approach. But pretty early on I felt like there was much more here. Her story is so much more intimate than I realized. I knew it would be intimate with Tom, but I didn’t realize how intimate it would be for a whole collective community. That was kind of surprising.
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TOP: Grizzly 399 and cub of the year emerge from hibernation on May 16.
ABOVE: Teton Range from Blacktail Butte with sagebrush and new snow.
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“The Stones and Brian Jones” (March 14)
A deep-diving profile of the founder and lost creative genius of The Rolling Stones, this captivating documentary features candid interviews with the Rolling Stones and truly incredible never-before-seen footage. The film explores how Brian Jones, the genius founder of the greatest rock band in the world, was left behind in the shadows of history.
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Featuring a panel of celebrity chefs and culinary influencers, including Aarti Sequeira, Gina Neely, Leah Cohen, Rocco DiSpirito and more, this series continues the hunt for outrageous eats as they sample the most delicious and extravagant spins on familiar dishes.
With new episodes airing weekly, the seventh and final season of this procedural drama follows a group of heroic Seattle firefighters as they put their lives and hearts on the line. The series takes viewers inside the tough, tight-knit and sometimes heartbreaking world of the city’s bravest first responders.
Keke Palmer has been successful in revising her television career, and she now has a Primetime Emmy to prove it.
After briefly being a talk show host by joining Michael Strahan and Sara Haines in ABC’s now-defunct “GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke,” the actress is now fronting a game show — a revival of one of the most popular in TV history, and the one that earned her the Emmy recently. Palmer returns to preside over the Jimmy Fallon-produced “Password” when it starts its second season on NBC, Tuesday, March 12 (also streaming the next day on Peacock).
Fallon participates as one of the celebrities who either provide or respond to their playing partners’ clues to guess secret passwords. Among other personalities slated for the new episodes are Fallon’s ABC latenight rival Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”), “Gilmore Girls” and “Parenthood” alum Lauren Graham, “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel, musician Chance the Rapper, skiing icon Lindsey Vonn and some returnees from Season 1, including singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor and actor-comedian Joel McHale (“Animal Control”).
The “Password” Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host was the second one Palmer won, having gotten her first a year before for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for Facebook Watch’s “Keke Palmer’s Turnt Up With the Taylors” (in which she played all of the characters). She’s no stranger to honors in general, having picked up an NAACP Image Award in 2007 for the movie “Akeelah and the Bee,” then four more for the Nickelodeon children’s series “True Jackson, VP” and another for her voice performance in the animated Disney-Pixar film “Lightyear” (2022).
“9-1-1” - Season 7 (March 15)
With new episodes airing weekly, this series explores the high-pressure experiences of first responders — including police officers, firefighters and dispatchers — who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. They must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.
Palmer’s journey into the adult phase of her career also has included stints in MTV’s “Scream: Resurrection” and Fox’s “Star” and “Scream Queens,” plus her hosting of a 2022 episode of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” that featured SZA as the musical guest. Now, with “Password” a clearly beneficial showcase for her, that journey seems destined to keep progressing before viewers’ eyes for some time.
Birthdate: Aug. 26, 1993
Birthplace: Harvey, Ill.
Current residence: Los Angeles
Marital status: Single; she has a son
Movie credits include: “Under the Boardwalk,” “Lightyear,” “Hustlers,” “Ice Age: Collision Course,” “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” “Brotherly Love,” “Joyful Noise,” “Shrink,” “The Longshots,” “Cleaner,” “Madea’s Family Reunion,” “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Barbershop 2: Back in Business”
Other television credits include: “The Afterparty,” “That’s My Jam,” “Human Resources,” “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Legendary,” “Insecure,” “Big Mouth,” “Singled Out,” “GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke,” “Scream: Resurrection,” “Star,” “Berlin Station,” “Grease: Live,” “Scream Queens,” “The Trip to Bountiful,” “Masters of Sex,” “Just Keke,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Family Guy,” “Key & Peele,” “90210,” “Winx Club,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” “True Jackson, VP,” “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “ER,” “The Wool Cap,” “Strong Medicine,” “Cold Case”
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1. Talking bear sitcom
4. Neighbor of Lucy and Ricky
9. Fr. title
12. Bemoan
13. Music’s Mars
14. Old Mideast inits.
15. Tax form info: Abbr.
16. Beyonce has won the most of these
18. Clive Owen detective series
20. “Halt ___ Catch Fire”
21. Not bold
22. An Allman brother
25. Pre-Revolution leaders
28. Place to enter a PIN
29. Buddy
30. Some jazz
33. Port-au-Prince is its capital
35. Toward one side of a ship
37. Tic-tac-toe loss
BY JAY BOBBINDiane Keaton has been serviced well by the vast majority of her movies, and “Baby Boom” ranks high among the ones that have suited her best.
Within its main mission of being amusing, the 1987 film (which Turner Classic Movies shows Friday, March 15) addresses many themes that remain relevant more than three decades later ... relationship commitment, professional vs. personal life, the entrepreneurial spirit, and responsibility to oneself as well as others. And in this case, the main “other” is an adorable infant named Elizabeth.
Workaholic businesswoman J.C. Wiatt (Keaton) is shocked to become the immediate — as in, “handed off during an airport layover” — guardian of the child, whose parents have died. Able to handle everything previously, including her at-arm’s-distance live-in boyfriend (Harold Ramis), J.C. is certain she can balance her very active career with surrogate motherhood.
However, her boss (Sam Wanamaker) warns her, “You can’t have it all.” And much sooner than later, he’s proven right, with J.C. caught up in moments such as having a restaurant hostess try to mind Elizabeth during a business meeting ... and eventually, J.C. is maneuvered out of the firm she served so totally and forced to reinvent herself.
She does that successfully, though it takes a while, by moving out of fast-paced New York to relaxed and scenic Vermont — where she gets inspiration from her newly inherited child to develop a baby-food brand that she labels Country Baby. Applying her savvy to marketing it eventually makes it a hit, catching the attention of her former employers, who want to broker a deal to buy it for a very tidy sum.
38. Alternate history show where the Soviet Union landed on the moon first
44. Ansel Elgort Max show
45. Zen garden swimmer
46. Record producer Brian
47. Hospital work
48. PC key
49. Indian bread
50. Fancy tie
51. Word of support
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1. Quick cut
2. Mark’s replacement
3. Campus bigwig
4. Tailing off
5. In a tough spot
6. Largest Rwandan ethnic group
7. Provide with weapons
8. Stocky
9. “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” author Haruki ___
10. Safety org.
11. Gaelic
17. “Planet of the ___” (1968)
19. Hang loosely
22. Shoot the breeze
23. Numbered hwy.
24. Begin, as a journey
26. Backstabber
27. Ecol., e.g.
31. Big name in skin care
32. Another name for jai alai
33. “It’s true!”
34. Thumbs-up response
36. Little people
37. Kind of knife
38. Fighter plane
39. Talisa portrayer on “Game of Thrones”
40. Catchall abbr.
41. Big furniture retailer
42. Like a busybody
43. Monopoly equipment
BY JAY BOBBINQ: I’ve been watching repeats of early “Chicago P.D.” episodes that have Sophia Bush as Erin Lindsay. How did the character leave the show?
A: Toward the end of the NBC drama’s fourth season, Lindsay lost her cool while interrogating a suspected pedophile and made a very threatening move with her gun that definitely wasn’t by the book. Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) — who eventually became Lindsay’s successor on the squad — was there at the time and tried to dissuade Lindsay, who wasn’t having any of it. The latter woman came under investigation by the Internal Affairs Division, and she was on a path to her police career ending, but a job offer from the FBI saved her from going full through that process. Interest in her becoming a federal agent had been expressed earlier, but her boss and mentor Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) stepped in to help get her the opportunity at that time.
Leaving Chicago for New York and the FBI position also meant Lindsay breaking things off with her professional partner Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer), with whom she was involved romantically. She also left town when her mother (who was played by the late Markie Post) was a murder suspect, and Voight knew that Lindsay going elsewhere would spare her much of the pain of enduring that situation.
Bush later returned to series work in the Hulu drama “Love, Victor” and the CBS medical show “Good Sam.” She also produced the latter program, and a notable episode reunited her with her former “One Tree Hill” co-stars Hilarie Burton Morgan and Bethany Joy Lenz, with whom she also does the podcast “Drama Queens.”
“Boat Story” (March 12)
This action miniseries follows two strangers, Janet (Daisy Haggard) and Samuel (Paterson Joseph), who can’t believe their luck when they stumble upon a shipwrecked boat full of cocaine. With each of them desperate for a fresh start, they agree to sell the drugs and split the cash. But on their tail are the police, masked hit men and a sharp-suited gangster known only as “The Tailor” (Tcheky Karyo). When two ordinary people are pushed to the very edge, can they trust each other and get away with their lives and money?
Based on the groundbreaking comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, the story revolves around 18-year-old Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven Yeun), who’s just like every other guy his age — except his father is (or was) the most powerful superhero on the planet. Still reeling from Nolan’s (J.K. Simmons) betrayal in Season One, Mark struggles to rebuild his life as he faces a host of new threats, all while battling his greatest fear — that he might become his father without even knowing it.
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo, her story is told through her own words for the very first time, drawn from her famed illustrated diary, revealing letters, essays and candid print interviews. Brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork, this directorial debut from acclaimed editor Carla Gutiérrez posits a striking context as to why the artist – and her art — remains as powerful as ever.
An intimate story of Charlton “The Kid LAROI” Howard, who went from an unknown musician living in Australia to a teenage global superstar selling out his hometown arena in three years. Directed by Michael D. Ratner, cameras began rolling before the massive success of “STAY” and continue as Laroi navigates the pressures of rapid fame, all while gearing up for his first world tour and studio album.
“Palm Royale” (Apple TV+ — Mar. 20, Series Premiere)
In this true underdog story, Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) endeavors to break into Palm Beach high society. As Maxine attempts to cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots, the series asks the same question that still baffles us today: “How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to get what someone else has?” Set during the powder keg year of 1969, the show is a testament to every outsider fighting for their chance to truly belong.
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Gyrokinesis — Bozeman Public Library sincerely enjoys providing movement classes for the community free of charge taught by local people. Gyrokenisis with Erin Groth is a 45 minute gentle movement class held every Thursday in the Community Room, full of rhythmic, flowing moves that release tightness in the joints and stimulate the nervous system. The Gyrokinesis Method addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, increasing range of motion and creating functional strength. It is an original and unique method that coordinates movement, breath and mental focus. The Gyrokinesis Method is practiced
on a mat and chair without equipment. Bringing a mat to class is recommended. There is no registration required. For more information, please visit bozemanlibrary.org or contact the Information Desk at 406-582-2410.
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg. The best communicators understand that whenever
we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, fuggedaboutit! Charles Duhigg, author of ‘The Power of Habit’ teaches us the tips and skills we need to connect.
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux. More movement: Paul Theroux writes an historical novel depicting George Orwell’s life in
Burma approximately 100 years ago. The story follows the primary character, Eric Arthur Blair, a quiet, standoffish, nineteenyear-old graduate of Eton who leaves his home and parents in England and navigates the cultural and political landscape of colonial, occupied Burma. Follow the experience that transformed him into George Orwell, the writer.
Where You Came from: and Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali. “Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!” This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown
in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can’t afford rent? Awkward, left-handed, suffering from OCD, and wearing Husky pants, Ali uses his pen with turmeric-stained fingernails to fill in missing narratives, and booby trap racist stereotypes.
Grandma’s Roof Garden written and illustrated by Wei Tang. As if Grandma isn’t cool enough, now she’s built a rooftop garden, and collects compost for the garden and local critters. After feeding them, and everyone else, she talks to the vegetables so they’ll be encouraged to grow. The vibrant pictures bring the story alive in the author’s first book.
“Young Royals” - Season 3 (March 11)
When Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding) arrives at the prestigious boarding school Hillerska he finally gets an opportunity to explore his true self and find out what kind of life he really wants. Wilhelm starts dreaming of a future filled with freedom and unconditional love far away from the royal obligations — but when he unexpectedly becomes next in line for the throne his dilemma is heightened as he has to make a choice. Love or duty.
Beginning with the development of the atomic bomb and the dramatic proliferation of nuclear weapons in the decades after, this docuseries traces Cold War history past the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of Vladimir Putin and into the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Including interviews with current and former world leaders, from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“Irish Wish” (March 15)
“Bandits” (March 13)
A quirky hustler recruits a gang of of skilled misfits to find the Snake King’s treasure in the Maya Riviera. Juan Pablo Medina, Alfonso Dosal, Nicolás Furtado, Mabel Cadena, Ester Expósito, Andrés Baida and Andrea Chaparro star.
When the love of her life (Alexander Vlahos) gets engaged to her best-friend (Elizabeth Tan), Maddie (Lindsay Lohan) puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the pair are set to marry, Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love, only to wake up as the bride-to-be. With her dream seeming to come true, Maddie soon realizes that her real soulmate is someone else entirely. This romcom also stars Jane Seymour, Ed Speleers and Ayesha Curry.
“I spent a lot of my childhood in my grandpa’s garage handing him tools while he worked on cars and I daydreamed about music. But Hot Wheels was my way of connecting to his love of cars. That’s why I was so excited to get the opportunity to work on ‘Hot Wheels Let’s Race’ with Mattel Television Studios.” - Fall Out Boy frontman and composer for Netflix’s “Hot Wheels Let’s Race,” Patrick Stump
“’Ricky Stanicky,’ I think, is just a hilarious movie, and it [has] a great message, not just a bunch of hard-R laughs.” - Peter Farrelly , director of “Ricky Stanicky”
“[Family Guy’s] still surviving and thriving. It still has a sizable audience and is a perfect example of there being an appetite for something. So we continue to feed the beast. There’s no indication that the show is going to end anytime soon.” - Seth MacFarlane , star and creator of “Family Guy”
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4. Rare bills
8. “How I Met Your Mother” role
11. In times past
12. Hacking tool
13. The Greatest
14. Words of encouragement
17. Shed stuff
18. Eastern way
19. Pipe problem
21. Be less than serious
24. Upon
25. Toward
41. Debate position
42. Simple beds
43. Caribbean, e.g.
44. Comprehend
45. “Darn it!”
46. Genre related to goth
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1. Salary
2. Psychoanalysis subject
3. 18th-century hairstyles
19. Away
20. “Do ___ others as...”
22. Recipe directive
23. Strengthen, with “up”
29. “Ready __, here I come!”
31. Do away with
33. Mark permanently
34. Conceal
35. D&D, e.g.
36. Hot blood
37. Cultivate
26. @
27. Popular
28. Opportunity, so to speak
30. At this point
32. Regret
34. Tarnish
35. Sound a warning
4. Structural member
5. Took
6. Hackneyed
7. Lampblack
8. Chevy truck model
9. New Haven collegian
10. Bad-mouth
15. Dances
16. Agra attraction
38. Catchall abbr.
39. “The One I Love” group
40. Warhol subject
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” (March 15)
After premiering in theaters in 2023, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” brought the musical sensation’s sold-out show to fans around the world. The exclusive cinematic experience gives fans a front-row seat to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, as Taylor works her way through her iconic discography, accompanied by larger-than-life performances. Now, this Disney+ exclusive “(Taylor’s Version)” edition introduces four new acoustic songs that weren’t included in the original theatrical cut, including the song “cardigan.”
“Cinderella” (Available Now)
This 2015 live-action adaptation of the classic fairytale stars Lily James as Cinderlla, who winds up at the mercy of her evil stepmother and two stepsisters after the death of her father. When a royal ball in the kingdom gives Cinderella a chance to experience something new, a little magic and some help from her fairy godmother leads her to true love.
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Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius (Jared Leto) attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
“Life Below Zero:
Port Protection Alaska”Season 7 (Available Now)
Port Protection is home to the few who have left behind normal society and chosen a different life in a remote Alaskan community, where survival of the individuals and community cannot sustain without the other. The stakes are high. The land is rugged and unforgiving and the seas which surround Port Protection are cold and merciless.
This all-new series animated series revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future. The voice cast includes Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Alison Sealy-Smith, Cal Dodd, JP Karliak, Lenore Zann, George Buza, AJ LoCascio, Holly Chou, Isaac Robinson-Smith, Matthew Waterson and Adrian Hough.
Questions:
1) Who holds the record as the most frequent host of the Academy Awards? (Hint: It’s not 2024 host Jimmy Kimmel)
2) True or false: Each Oscar statuette is made of solid gold.
3) Who broke his own record in 2024 as the oldest Oscar nominee?
4) Name the only two film sequels (so far) to have won Best Picture.
5) True or false: Until the 1960s, special half-sized statuettes were awarded to outstanding child actors.
6) Which individual has won the most Academy Awards?
6) Walt Disney
5) True
and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
4) “The Godfather Part II”
3) John Williams
2) False (solid bronze plated in 24-karat gold)
1) Bob Hope
Answers:
Solution on page 12
Kevin Bacon’s movie career was still relatively young when he very athletically played one of his signature roles in the original version of “Footloose,” this 1984 musical from veteran director Herbert Ross. Freeform gives the energetic and entertaining film a couple of 40th-anniversary showings Thursday, March 14, and Friday, March 15.
The central character played by Bacon, Ren, loves to dance – but he has moved to an area where such forms of expression are frowned upon, thanks largely to a strict clergyman (John Lithgow) whose rebellious daughter (Lori Singer, in a part that Madonna reportedly tried out for) takes an immediate liking to Ren, and vice versa. Dianne Wiest, Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Penn also star, and the hit-loaded soundtrack includes the Kenny Loggins-performed title song, “Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler and “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” by Deneice Williams. The movie was remade in 2011, and a stage-musical adaptation premiered in 1998.
BY ROBERTO JOZEF playerprofile
In the fifth annual NWSL Challenge Cup, last season’s NWSL champion, Gotham FC, and the 2023 NWSL Shield winner, San Diego Wave FC, face off in a one-off match to get the highly anticipated 2024 NWSL season rolling. All the footy action begins Friday, March 15, broadcast live exclusively on Prime Video from Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
In what’s sure to be a star-studded match, Gotham FC and San Diego Wave FC are going into the 2024 regular season with high expectations, as both teams are coming off incredible seasons with exceptional play from the likes of Midge Purce and Naomi Girma.
However, for Gotham FC, last season’s addition of the league’s only four-time NWSL champion and 2016 NWSL MVP, Lynn Williams, has placed the club firmly as a favorite to win it all after earning its first NWSL championship in 2023. Rounding out the 2023 season, a fantastic final series match saw Williams lead all Gotham FC players with eight goals and three assists, including scoring the opening goal in the 23rd minute of her fifth NWSL final match, ultimately resulting in Gotham FC coming out victorious.
Meanwhile, for Wave FC, the team is coming off of a remarkable season that saw the club win the NWSL Shield as regular season champion, with defender Naomi Girma being voted the 2023 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year.
Full name: Lynn Raenie Williams
Birthdate: May 21, 1993 (30)
Birthplace: Fresno, California
Height/weight: 5-8/119 pounds
Position: Forward
What did you make of this strange relationship humans have with wildlife in national parks, where people are preserving wildlife but also often endangering it?
Everybody circles around what the film’s really about, but you just nailed it right there. I still find it really complex because I was a part of it too, right? In documenting the photographers and tourists and air brigade and all the folks that are sort of surrounding her, you become a part of it. I was deeply a part of it even while I’m trying to think about it critically. And I’m still wrestling with it. I wanted as a filmmaker to acknowledge through the film that there’s a lot of beauty in the connection, but that there’s a complexity in it. It felt really, really important to talk about habituation appropriately.
I was wanting to explore what was happening and what was healthy and what was not. And where that line was. And that line is changing all the time.
What did you notice about the reaction to her on the road?
When I would see people connect on this really profound level with nature, it seemed really valuable to me as another human. That we, for one moment, shed this idea that we’re alone in the
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Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister, illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith. When Tom innocently wishes Winter would never end, he gets a little chuckle out of the idea. Winter keeps on going, not unlike this late winter in Bozeman. A mysterious boy shares Tom’s love of Winter. Could he be Winter’s Child? A Frosty the Snowman’ type story with a life lesson vibe.
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ecosystem or that we’re the top of it. And, visually, they’re incredibly beautiful, and to be outside in Wyoming or Montana or Idaho in this most pristine wilderness— very few places are wild enough for grizzlies. So I felt like there was a real connection and respect that can happen from that. And then there was the other more complicated (aspect) of “What is too close? Who gets to decide? What is she putting up with in order to protect her cubs?” Some of this is hard to know because you don’t want to anthropomorphize, right?
That tension felt really present for me throughout almost the entire process, both filming and editing... People can connect with her and that’s really incredible. But, also, hundreds of people by the roadside feels like, “Am I in nature anymore?”
It’s such a weird scene. How is she processing this whole thing?
Exactly. What’s happening for her? And something that kind of emerged for me pretty early on in research was that there are two 399s, in a sense. There’s her and her biological life and her living as a grizzly on the landscape. And I love it when the bear biologists say “making a living on the landscape.” That means all of her biological impulses to feed, to mate, to hunt, to teach her children, to rear them. That’s her real lived
written and illustrated by Julia Patton. Bartelby is a lovable and long Dachsund who lives in a bookstore. He takes lovely (and long but in a different way) walks with his friends through the city. He discovered his back end is destroying things as he passes by and vows never to venture outside again. What will happen to Bartleby?
The Cursed Princess Club by LambCat. The author is a small,
life. And then there’s the story and the ethos and mythos all around her that is a human projection and that says far more about us than about her. I liked trying to ride the line of that tension. But I do have a deep curiosity of what is motivating her and what she understands is safety and threat.
Telling already really contentious stories, like about delisting grizzlies or abortion, seems difficult because there is so much noise around the topics already, so how did you approach finding that nuance?
I was really lucky to have an amazing editor in Colin Nusbaum, who was really always interested in those conversations with me. We wanted to make sure that everything was fair, that we were doing right by that complexity, but at the same time, you still have to make a film that has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it’s entertaining and engaging. You can make the highest minded film you want, but if it’s not engaging and accessible and beautiful … I guess they don’t all have to be beautiful. Some are not supposed to be, but this one had to be. I mean, you’re talking about grizzlies and the Tetons.
And I had an incredible cinematographer who also was interested in the complexity of these ideas. If I said, “Listen, this rancher said we could just show
omnivorous, and easily frightened creature who has burrowed deep into the Pacific Northwest to draw comics and make music. They can be lured out by Bill Evans records and frosted animal crackers. LambCat has created a fabulously drawn graphic novel about a trio of sisters who are not typical princesses.
Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown. Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. It was
up today, and maybe nobody will talk to us, but we’re gonna have to get up even earlier. It’s gonna be dark when we leave and it’ll be dark when we come back.” He was like, “Let’s do it. Let’s go.”
Like in any kind of journalism, there are dead ends everywhere. You start following a particular story, but it doesn’t yield fruit. Or certain people would get cold feet and then didn’t want to talk in the end. Because there was a lot at stake for people here.
How did the story of 399 help you tell the delisting story?
Understanding the recovery of grizzlies was really important to understanding her emergence in 2006 in the Tetons, (which) is massive, right? There had not been grizzlies documented living in that area. Maybe they were coming in and out, but that was a sign of the vitality of the species. Nobody thought she would stay around that long. And here she is, year after year, reemerging, hanging out in the same spots, having all these cubs. And so you needed to understand also what grizzlies had been through. And I felt like that little bit about how there used to be these shows in Yellowstone where they would feed grizzlies … that was really, really crucial to understand that our relationship has been shifting with this species. And in what ways has it shifted and in what ways is it
the perfect game! Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was an instant hit, followed by clandestine trips to Moscow, backroom deals, and outright theft. Read all about it!
Triangle of Sadness. A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise. What could possibly go wrong? Hanging out alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish,
still the same? I also wanted to get to a point in the film where you don’t need all this background context to be able to just be in her story and live in it for a minute and understand, “Wow, it’s really escalating. It’s really reaching the fever pitch of humans and grizzlies interacting.”
The film couldn’t answer any questions about what we are supposed to do. But we could at least explore the moment that we’re in. It’s amazing that we got to this moment — that we didn’t lose them, that we’ve recovered. But what’s next? Because we have less land than we did when they were listed. There are more and more humans everywhere in the GYE. And even though it’s this beautiful and incredibly protected space — which was an act of foresight — what’s next? We still have people who are truly trying to make a living ranching. We have security concerns about living with an apex predator.
The discourse gets flattened a lot, like other issues in both our domestic discourse as well as international. “Save them all.” “Kill them all.” “I’m right, you’re wrong.” And we don’t solve any problems that way. We certainly won’t solve this one that way. In discussing what we should do, I felt like 399 was a really interesting prism, because she reflects back onto us our own beliefs.
an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Daniel Radcliffe is “Weird” Al Yankovic is the unexaggerated true story about Weird Al making his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. Live the dream with Al as he pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
Beth Boyson is a Programming Librarian and Cataloger at Bozeman Public Library. She can be reached through the Library website at www.bozemanlibrary.org.
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“Road House” (Prime Video — Mar. 21, Movie Premiere)
In this adrenaline-fueled reimagining of the ‘80s cult classic, ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to diskover that this paradise is not all it seems. The film also stars Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Conor McGregor, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, B.K. Cannon, Beau Knapp, Darren Barnet, Dominique Columbus, Bob Menery, Catfish Jean, Kevin Carroll, Travis Van Winkle and Hannah Lanier.
BY ALEX HENDRY
Questions:
1) The UEFA Champions League continues with the second leg of the Round of 16 — how many teams will qualify with next season’s new expanded format?
2) Ronaldo has 140 and Messi has 129 — with 92 career goals in Champions League, who sits third alltime in tournament scoring?
3) Which goal keeper made 177 Champions League appearances (a record for all keepers) during their career?
4) Which year did UEFA change the European Cup tournament to its current Champions League name?
5) Which nation has had the most variety of clubs reach the finals of the European Cup/Champions League?
6) Starting with the 2021/22 tournament, UEFA introduced the “Champions League Player of the Season” award. Who was the inaugural recipient of this award?
7) The finals of the 2000 Champions League were the first to feature two teams from the same nation. Who were the two finalists?
8) What is the name of the only French club to have successfully won the Champions League?
9) Who is the only player in European Cup/ Champions League history to have won six championships as a player?
10) Which retired midfielder is the only player in Champions League history to have won with three separate clubs?
10) Clarence Seedorf (Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1998 and AC Milan 2003/2007)
9) Francisco “Paco” Gento
8) Olympique de Marseille (1993)
7) Real Madrid and Valencia
6) Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
5) England (10)
4) 1992
3) Iker Casillas
2) Robert Lewandowski
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