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LIGHTING THE FIRE Ceramic Education in the American West The Herald Journal
OCTOBER 21-27, 2016
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October 21-27, 2016
COVER 6 Exhibit at Utah State art museum features the work of ceramics educators
THE ARTS 3 ‘Brother Brigham’ set
to come to Utah Theatre
4 Music Theatre West
presents ‘Diamonds and Demon’ murder-mystery
4 ‘You Can’t Take It’ ready to wrap up at the Old Barn 4 USU library unveils a new Shakespeare exhibit 5 David Archuleta coming
to perform at Logan High
5 Utah State acting troupe presents ‘Next to Normal’
MOVIES 8 Affleck’s ‘Accountant’
tops box office in first week
9 One a half stars: Sequel to ‘Jack Reacher’ misses Christopher McQuarrie
TELEVISION 8 ‘Tower’ documents mass shooting at Austin, Texas
CALENDAR 11 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley
This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows, from left, Jon Hamm, Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot in “Keeping Up With The Joneses,” which hits theaters today. (AP Photo) On the cover: Created by Laura Andreson in 1982, this porcelain bowl is currently on display at the “Lighting the Fire” exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art on the USU campus.
FROM THE EDITOR So, if you had to guess, what would you say is Utah’s favorite Halloween candy? I wanted to say fry sauce- and green Jell-O-flavored M&M’s, but since I’m pretty sure that hasn’t been invented yet, I would have thought maybe those eversmaller, fun-sized Snickers bars? Or — judging by what was tossed at USU’s Homecoming parade — perhaps Tootsie Rolls? But according to the good folks at Candystore.com, Utah’s No. 1 Halloween candy is, believe it or not, Jolly Ranchers. The explanation from Candystore.com
on how they come up with their numbers: “To find this data, we looked at sales from 2007–2015 — focusing on the three months leading up to Halloween. Since we sell candy to all 50 states (and Canada), it was easy for us to see a state-bystate breakdown of candy trends and top orders. And we have relationships with all the major candy companies, so they helped us verify as well. Based on this analysis, we determined the Halloween best-sellers that people all over the country love to use in Halloween crafts and treats and give out to trick-or-treaters.” And by crunching those numbers, Candystore.com said Utah’s No. 1 candy was Jolly Ranchers, at a whopping 469,590 pounds. Second and third on the list is Reese’s peanut butter cups (260,883
pounds) and Tootsie Pops (139,137 pounds), respectively. While I was certainly surprised to find that Utah’s go-to Halloween candy was Jolly Ranchers — although I admit to having a soft spot for the hard candy when it’s watermelon or green apple — I was more disturbed to discover that Arkansas was the only other state to have Jolly Ranchers as their No. 1 candy. And that even though the two state’s populations are nearly identical at around 3 million people, those Razorbacks consume a mere 245,850 pounds’ worth of Jolly Ranchers to our 469,590 pounds. Read into that whatever you like. But we’re clearly a more ... umm ... Jolly state. — Jeff Hunter
LDS prophet comes to the Utah Theatre stage Nov. 3-5 Actor and writer James Arrington presents the award-winning, one-man show “Here’s Brother Brigham” at the Utah Theatre Nov. 3-5. This is the final season and 40th anniversary of the play that has been performed for more than 405,000 people. “Brother Brigham” transports the audience to the Salt Lake City office of Governor Brigham Young, one of America’s greatest colonizers and leaders of the 19th Century. Arrington’s main goal is to “give people a more accurate view of this great forgotten American,” he said. “He was a powerful leader—a colorful man of wit and wisdom who actually had a very endearing character and a wry sense of humor.” Young was the first territorial governor of Utah, a controversial polygamist, prophet, statesman, writer, missionary, carpenter, joiner, glazier, humanitarian, lieutenant, city planner and a peacemaker to the American Indians. He led the largest migration in American history. During the performance Young (played by Arrington) recounts the major events in his life and comments on polygamy, tobacco, the American Westward trek and many
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Acclaimed actor and writer James Arrington brings the one-man show “Here’s Brother Brigham” to the Utah Theatre Nov. 3-5.
other topics. He illustrates the qualities that made him a powerful leader, endeared him to his followers and caused him to be both feared and misunderstood by his enemies. The performance finishes with Arrington taking questions in character from audience members. “He’s such a deep and fascinating man,” Arrington said. He wrote the script after researching 30,000 of Young’s personal let-
ters, seven biographies and countless sermons and autobiographical writings. A reviewer for the Idaho Statesman wrote, “The show must be seen, for whether the audience is Mormon or not, there are gems of truth and wisdom for everyone.” The show has been performed in 19 states and four countries. Arrington’s other well-known works include “The Farley Family Reunion” series and
one-man shows about early Mormon leader J. Golden Kimball. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for youth under age 18. Tickets will be available at the Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., the night of the show. Get tickets in advance online at theutahtheatre.org, by calling 750-0300 or visiting the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre Box Office located in the Dansante Building at 59 S. 100 West.
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‘Brigham’ coming to Logan
“We’re in the Ben Affleck business, and we’re proud of it. We’ve had a lot of movies with him, and we have a lot of movies coming up with him”
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ALL MIXED UP
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all mixed up Delve into ‘Diamonds and Demons’ Music Theatre West presents their second annual, high-class dinner theater production in the murder-mystery style. This year’s production of “Diamonds and Demons” will take you on safari into the African Jungle in the 1930s on a quest for diamonds and a brush with African gods. The show, written by local playwright David Sidwell, is full of witty repartee, quirky characters and delightful physical comedy. It also includes a mix of original music and classics from the early 1900s, all choreographed by the talented Stephanie White. Come
prepared to laugh and even sing along. The costumes, designed by Maren Lyman, add the finishing touches to Marianne Sidwell’s directing, and the evening would not be complete without Jay Richards on the piano. To add to the ambiance of the event, audience members are invited (not required) to dress up in the style of the evening. Links to costume ideas will be included in the ticketing email. The dinner theater show will run select dates from Oct. 14-29, and the ticket price is $38. There will also be dessert-only shows, priced at $20, on
Monday nights, Oct. 17 and 24. The venue for this show is the newly renovated Church Street Event Center at 155 Church Street, across from Caffe Ibis). There is plenty of parking with a ramp and elevator for easy access. Almost all seating is wheelchair accessible. The buffet-style dinner, catered by Justin Hamilton’s Off-Premise Catering, is gluten-free, except the rolls and one of the dessert options, so don’t let that stop you from coming and Photo courtesy of Music Theatre West enjoying the evening with us. For more information, visit music“Diamonds and Demons” will be presented on select dates from Oct. 14-29. theatrewest.org.
Celebrate Shakespeare USU library opens up ‘Unruly Women’
The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. In commemoration of this significant event, the Utah State University MerrillCazier Library has mounted an exhibition entitled “Unruly Women: Women in Shakespeare’s World.” The Library will also have on display its original 1632 partial “Second Folio,” along with other 17th-19th century printed works. Unruly Women explores both the roles women played and the perceptions of women during Shakespeare’s time. Covering topics such as women rulers, female martyrs, midwifery and witchcraft, the exhibit addresses Shakespeare’s incorporation of many of these themes into his own plays. The USU Library’s partial “Second Folio,” purchased through the Stanford O. and Shirley A. Cazier Program Endowment Fund in 2014, includes four of Shakespeare’s tragedies: “Titus Andronicus,” “Troilus and Cressida,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Coriolanus.” It is bound in modern leather with marbled paper and is housed in Special Collections and Archives.
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Utah State Univesity’s University Libraries has opened a new exhibit that looks at Shakespeare’s “Unruly Women.”
In addition to the “Second Folio,” other works on display include John Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” (1641) as well as Henry Holland’s “Heroologia Anglica” (1620). The USU University Library’s exhibition is free and open to the public. The “Unruly Women” panels are located in the Merrill-Cazier Library’s atrium. The rare books are on display in the Hatch Room,
located in the Library’s Special Collections and Archives Division on the lower level of the building. These works are available to view from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with late hours until 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 5. For more information, contact Jennifer Duncan, books curator and interim associate dean for Special Collections, at 797-8148.
‘You Can’t Take It’ wraps up at the Old Barn Theatre The Old Barn Community Theatre is proud to present it’s upcoming production, “You Can’t Take It With You.” The play will take to the stage every Monday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. from Oct. 7 to 22. Matinees will also be presented at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 8, 15 and 22. For tickets and more information, visit oldbarn.org or call (435) 458-2276. In “You Can’t Take It With You,” the Sycamores seem mad, at first, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa’s interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn’t believe in the income tax.
ic voice and their 44 million votes made him runner-up in Season 7 of “American Idol.” Soon after, the young Utahan signed with Jive Records and his first single, “Crush,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of its release. Three months later, his self-titled album, “David Archuleta” went gold, selling more than 750,000 copies in the U.S. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Archuleta put his singing career on hiatus in 2012 in order to volunteer for a two-year stint as a full-time missionary in Santiago,
Chile, at the La Misión Chile Rancagua. Archuleta returned from Chile in March 2014 eager to perform and record once again. Since his return he‘s traveled to the Middle East to perform for U.S. troops, recorded the song “ Glorious” for the recently released “Meet The Mormons” movie, and been busy writing songs for a new album. Pacheco is a classically trained tenor who has a passion for reaching out and uplifting people through music. In addition to being a television and recording artist, Pacheco completed his debut solo tour in 2013.
USU offers ‘Next to Normal’ Musical comes to Caine Lyric Theatre Oct. 24-29
Utah State Theatre, the production program in the Department of Theatre Arts at Utah State University presents the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, “Next to Normal” Oct. 24-29. The play, described as an “emotional powerhouse” can be seen nightly at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28. W. Center St. Curtain is 7:30 p.m. The contemporary rock musical, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores the sensitive subject of mental illness in the modern age. Audiences will see how one all-American family navigates the ups and downs of daily life with a mother who has battled depression for 16 years. “In spite of its serious subject matter, ‘Next to Normal’ has connected with audiences because it deals with a very important issue — a medical condition that affects a surprisingly large percentage of the U.S. population,” said Ken Risch, the production’s director and professor in the theatre department in the Caine College of the Arts. “Depression is often a closeted disease because those who have it are often afraid to admit they suffer from it out of fear of personal and sometimes professional consequences.” The show also addresses issues like grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry and suburban life. “‘Next to Normal’ deals with the impact of a mother’s bipolar depression on herself and her family,” Risch said. “The musical does not See USU on Page 11
Pumpkin Walk underway
The 33rd annual North Logan Pumpkin Walk will be held Oct. 20-22 and 24-25 at Elk Ridge Park, 1100 E. 2500 North. Hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is free. This year’s theme is “American Icons.” The Pumpkin Walk is wheelchair accessible. Free shuttle bus service will be available starting at 6 p.m. with the pickup stop at Greenville Elementary, 2500 N. 400 East. Free parking for the shuttle is at the school and next door at Cache Valley Hospital. For more information visit pumpkinwalk.com or facebook.com/ pumpkinwalk.
Downtown Ghost Tours
Haunted structures, nighttime spirits and eerie stories await your arrival this Halloween season in Historic Downtown Logan. Learn about downtown’s most infamous ghosts, poltergeists, and spirits doomed to the realm of mortals. The Historic Downtown Logan Ghost Tour is technically a family-friendly tour, however, it is not recommended for small children or for people who don’t like to be scared. Each guided tour lasts approximately two hours and walking distance is less than a half mile. Tours run nightly between 7 and 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays on October 21-22 and 28-29. Tour reservations required online at logandowntown.org.
Halloween Treat Walk
Get the children dressed up as ghosts, goblins and ghouls, and enjoy a fun celebration of trick or treating during the annual Treat Walk in downtown Logan on Halloween Day, Oct. 31. Many establishments will open their doors and welcome costumed trick or treaters throughout the holiday. No rush for moms and dads; businesses will be open and treating between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Just look for the Halloween Treat Walk poster in their door or window. Businesses participating are between 200 North and 100 South, and along Center Street and 100 North between 100 West and 100 East. Visit logandowntown.org for more information.
Mothers Conference
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Utah State University’s production of “Next to Normal” plays Oct. 24-29 at the Caine Lyric Theatre
American Mothers of Cache Valley presents the 27th annual Mothers Conference entitled “We Vote for Families” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Logan Tabernacle. Women of all ages are invited to attend. The guest speaker will be bestselling humorist, author and Deseret Book editor, Emily Watts. This year’s event will also feature The Cache Community Band, The Acafellas, Sarah Jacobs Huff and Brittany Fisher Frank. We also be collecting new children’s book to donate to disadvantaged and ill children this Christmas. For more information, call Diane Weese at 881-0872.
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David Archuleta will stop in Logan on Tuesday, Dec. 13, during his Christmas Tour to perform at the newly renovated theater at Logan High School. The “American Idol” sensation from Murray will be joined by Nathan Pacheco for an evening filled with Christmas classics and originals. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the concert beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets range from $34 to $59 and are on sale now at davidarchuleta.com. Archuleta became a star when he was just 16. In 2008, more than 30 million television viewers fell in love with his angel-
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LIGHTING THE FIRE
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he headlining fall exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art features a subject that rings true to the museum’s origins. Drawing upon the extensive collection of 20th-century ceramic objects for which the museum on the Utah State University campus is well known, “Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West,” looks at the contributions of potters who taught the medium of clay in universities and studios in the West during the mid-to-late 20th century. The exhibition features the work of more than 20 ceramic artists who established themselves as leading teachers of the medium and inspired subsequent generations of artists. Many of the works come from NEHMA’s permanent collection, which is particularly strong in ceramics. “That’s what our museum is known for — its fantastic collection of ceramics,” NEHMA Curator Rebecca Dunham said. “(The show) was a natural fit for us.” Visitors to the show on the museum’s upper floor are greeted with an assortment of about 50 pieces created over a four-decade span beginning in the late 1950s and displayed in chronological order in the gallery. A plaque on the wall explains how ceramics in the United States migrated from the New York and the East Coast out West, particularly California. “Waves of westward migrants following the Great Depression and the arrival of European refugees fleeing World War II also enriched the region by promoting the exchange of artistic practices and ideas,” the plaque reads. “In addition, Southern California’s emerging animation and advertising industries necessitated the creation of art schools ... to train workers. While these institutions began offering ceramics courses to returning GIs for therapeutic
purposes, the schools’ burgeoning ceramics programs soon attracted emerging artists as well.” “Lighting the Fire” is guest curated by Mathew Limb, a Utah native and Ph.D candidate in the Department of Art and Architecture at the University of California-Santa Barbara who completed his undergraduate studies at Weber State University. The show was Limb’s first curating assignment, one he came into as a recipient of the prestigious Windgate Museum Internship. During his four-month tenure at the museum, Limb, with Dunham as a mentor, researched NEHMA’s renowned and exten-
sive ceramics collection. The two combed the collection for works by artists who fit the theme, then narrowed the choices down to create the show. Each piece or set of pieces is accompanied by a short biography explaining the role each featured artist has played in ceramics education. “When you look around the room, you get a sense of the different styles and aesthetics, from eclectic and intricate to simple and beautiful,” Dunham said. “There’s no single common visual element — it’s really about the people, and the art works are just examples of what they are known for.”
The “Lighting the Fire” exhibit at USUs Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art includes porcelain pieces by Laura Andreson (above and right), a stoneware bottle by Antonio Prieto (far top right) and a porcelain pot by Howard Kottler (far bottom right). (Photos courtesy of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art)
She said there is much ongoing debate in the art world about how ceramics should be viewed, and “Lighting the Fire” takes a clear tack in the discussion. “In museums, some consider ceramics to be fine art, while others see it as a craft,” Dunham said. “With this, Matt is treating it like
Art exhibit at Utah State’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum an homage to ceramics educators
fine art.” Many works in show were acquired through support from the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation. Eccles was herself a ceramic artist, and her donation of some 400 pieces from her personal collection helped get the museum off and running in in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. Her gift also helped the museum establish and solidify its current reputation as a premier repository for the ceramic arts. With about 1,400 pieces housed at NEHMA today, Dun-
ham said ceramics remain the most prominent medium in the museum’s entire collection — a distinction that helps it stand out among its peers “That’s unusual,” she said. “In most museums, the focus is on paintings or another medium, but typically not ceramics.” It’s a happy coincidence, then, that USU is also home to an internationally renowned art program in ceramics. “We didn’t plan it that way, but a lot of now-famous artists have come through that pro-
gram,” Dunham said. “Lighting the Fire” began in mid-August and runs through Dec. 10, which is also the last day the museum will be open to the public before closing for a yearlong renovation project. Dunham said that after the museum reopens, she would like to see a “part two” of the ceramics show focusing on more recent works and developments in the medium. “We want to ask people what they think ceramics should look like in the future,” she said.
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Affleck’s ‘Accountant’ tops the box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ben Affleck is still a box office draw outside of the bat suit. His new thriller “The Accountant” opened to a chart-topping $24.7 million this weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Gavin O’Connor directed the R-rated thriller, starring Affleck as an autistic mathematician. The film didn’t play especially well with critics, but audiences, who were 58 percent male and 68 percent over the age of 35, gave it a promising “A’’ CinemaScore.
It’s the continuation of what proves to be a long and fruitful partnership between Affleck and Warner Bros. Although “The Accountant,” which cost a reported $40 million to produce, didn’t quite hit the heights of “Gone Girl’s” $37.5 million opening, it is in the range of some of his other R-rated fall openings with the studio. “Argo,” for instance, launched to $19.5 million in 2012, and “The Town,” took in $23.8 million in 2010. “The Accountant” also far-sur-
passed Warner Bros.’ early predictions for the film, which had it in the $15 to $20 million range. “We’re in the Ben Affleck business, and we’re proud of it. We’ve had a lot of movies with him, and we have a lot of movies coming up with him,” said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution. “Audiences just love him.” Affleck’s mob drama “Live By Night,” which he wrote, directed and
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“The Accountant” brought in a chart-topping $24.7 million during its opening weekend.
‘Tower’ tells story of ’66 Texas sniper
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Neal Spelce was scrounging for news to fill his Austin station’s noon radio broadcast when he heard this announcement on the police scanner: “We have a report of a shot being fired at the University of Texas.” That message, on Aug. 1, 1966, didn’t even begin to capture the magnitude of the tragedy about to rock the sleepy college town. Charles Whitman, an architectural engineering major and U.S. Marine sniper, had climbed the campus clock tower and launched a killing rampage considered one of the first “mass shootings” in modern American history. A new documentary film, “Tower,” captures the sense of confusion and carnage that permeates many major acts of violence. But it also illustrates how extremely rare such events were back then — a stark contrast to more recent massacres that have become almost chill-
a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in 2001. Rather than focusing on the sniper, though, the
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In this Aug. 1, 1966, file photo, smoke rises from the sniper’s gun as he fired from the tower of the University of Texas administration building in Austin.
ingly common. Director Keith Maitland tells the story using animation spliced with photographs and footage, radio clips and testimonials provided chiefly by eight survivors. Among them is Spelce, then news director for KTBC-TV, who soon after that initial report was in a station vehicle, broadcasting on radio as he drove toward the sniper. “It was really an unbelievable scene, unlike anything anyone had ever seen before and you didn’t have any frame
of reference,” Spelce, then 30, said in a phone interview. “It wasn’t like today. There was no police tape marking anything off. No authority saying ‘Stand back.’ We were able to go straight onto the campus.” The documentary has begun opening in theaters nationally, five decades after an attack in which Whitman, then 25, killed 13 people and wounded nearly three dozen others. He had killed his wife and mother prior to heading to the tower, one victim died
documentary explores what it was like on the ground during the mayhem. Men, women and a newspaper delivery boy were shot without warn-
ing, before they even knew to be afraid — and some survived. Some scrambled for any cover
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this movie is wholly unimaginative. I mean, Jai Courtney isn’t the greatest actor, but he’s much better in the first movie than whoever they got to play the right-hand baddie this time around. Child’s novels are usually intricate in the way they weave together the overarching mystery. Here Zwick delivers all the answers in handy flashbacks. The first movie let Reacher piece together the clues taking us along for the ride. Here, there aren’t really any clues, just answers. Answers that come way too easily and seem meaningless in the long run because the bad guys are so utterly inept at what they’re doing in the first place. The more I think about “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” the angrier I get. Twentyone “Jack Reacher” novels and counting, a wealth of source material to pull from, and
a boot. The movie starts off well enough with a fun little scene reintroducing Reacher to us. “Two things are going to hapAP Photo pen,” he says to a crooked Tom Cruise returns in the title role of “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.” small-town sheriff. “First that phone’s going to ring. through. This movie is a Then you’re going to be cheap fake, for sure, but wearing these cuffs on the it expects us to be just as way to prison.” It’s a great lazy as this TSA agent. Expecting us to shrug our start, but it quickly goes shoulders and let it pass by downhill from there. without a second thought. The biggest problem Director // Edward Zwick Cruise is fine. He’s ham- is how lifeless the whole Starring // Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Robert thing feels. Taking over strung by Zwick’s uninKnepper, Danika Yarosh, Aldis Hodge, Nicole Barré for the first movie’s villain, spired direction, but does Rated // PG-13 for sequences of violence and played magnificently by what he can. Constantly action, some bloody images, language and Werner Herzog, is a corthe movie places him in thematic elements porate-tool type played by scenes that might allow makes this painfully obvi- series Lee Child — and everyday-bad-guy Robert him to shine. You know, hands him the ticket and ous. He walks up to the Knepper. That guy who’s like in the first movie TSA agent — a cameo by ID. Child shrugs, signs the where he told a bad guy a creep in everything? See JACK on Page 11 author of the Jack Reacher ticket, and lets him pass he’d drink his blood from Yeah, even the casting in
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Box Continued from Page 8 stars in, opens on Christmas. He also has the DC comics films with the studio. The weekend’s other new star-driven project, “Kevin Hart: What Now?” narrowly took second place over last week’s champ “The Girl on the Train.” The Kevin Hart concert film, which Universal Pictures distributed, took in $11.98 million. The comedian’s 2013 concert film “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” opened to a similar $10 million
in 2013. “We love Kevin Hart and we love our association with him. This is our fourth collaboration with him this year alone,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. “He is tireless in the way that he promotes his projects and the way that he’s always working. It’s really a pleasure to be part of it.” In third place, “The Girl on the Train” netted $11.975 million for Universal, bringing its domestic total to $46.6 million. With such a minuscule difference, the Universal films could easily switch places when final numbers come
in on Monday. Holdovers “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” and “Deepwater Horizon” rounded out the top five with $8.9 million and $6.4 million, respectively. The weekend’s other new opener, the Mattel-inspired “Max Steel,” bombed with only $2.2 million. Open Road distributed the film starring Ben Winchell, which currently has a zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Overall, the year is still up 3.5 percent, but the fall season is down from last year, according to box office tracker comScore. “In the wake of the summer
season, the fall always seems a little slow. This year is sort of typical in that way. We haven’t had an October breakout hit like we had with ‘Gravity’ and ‘The Martian,’” said Paul Dergarabedian, comScore’s senior media analyst. So far, the fall’s top-grossing film is “Sully,” which has grossed $118.4 million to date. “I’m thinking we’re going to have a renaissance at the box office in a week or two and things could turn around,” he added, noting big upcoming films like “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back,” “Doctor Strange,” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
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The Reel Place Aaron Peck
In case you needed more evidence that Christopher McQuarrie is a great director, just watch 2012’s “Jack Reacher” and then head on over to the theater and see its sequel. Nothing can kill Reacher, except for this movie. It’s styleless and soulless. Style and soul were two things the first movie had in spades. This time around the directorial reigns have been handed to Edward Zwick. For whatever reason, Zwick approaches the material like a generic thriller. McQuarrie focused more on the character of Reacher, the mood, the atmosphere. Zwick is stuck in genre ruts, incessantly spinning his wheels, confining Reacher to a humdrum story where his detective skills are sorely underutilized. Not only that, but his personality is fenced in. This Reacher feels like a phony imitation of his predecessor. One telling scene in the movie ironically reflects this. Reacher (Tom Cruise) steals a man’s ID and then buys a plane ticket. The man looks nothing like him. The photo ID
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Tower Continued from Page 8 they could find in the nearly 100-degree heat. Police and ordinary Texans would eventually rush to get their own guns and fire back, in vain, at Whitman from the ground. The sniper’s face doesn’t appear in animation; only his legs are shown after he’s killed by police and a store manager who made their way to the top of the clock tower. Whitman’s name isn’t mentioned until more than hour into the film. “I felt like really every other newspaper article, magazine article, the one bad TV movie and other kinds of basic-cable, true-crime investigations were always about the sniper and trying to
unravel his motivations,� Maitland said, panning a 1975 Kurt Russell madefor-TV offering called “The Deadly Tower.� “We would never know the answers to those questions,� he added. “But what was answerable was what it was like to survive.� When the shooting started, a TV station near to the clock tower rolled a camera close — some say it was onto a balcony, others remember it as by an open window. The footage, which Maitland said hadn’t been previously accessed since the 1970s, appears in the documentary and provides the much of the visceral, seemingly endless sounds of booming gunfire throughout it. Authorities would later say Whitman had 700 rounds of ammunition, though how many times he fired between around
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11:48 a.m., as the attack began, and when he was killed about 90 minutes later is unknown. Claire Wilson James had just finished an anthropology test when she and her boyfriend, Tom Eckman, began walking through campus to put a nickel in the meter where their Volkswagen was parked. The 18-year-old was eight months pregnant and describes in the film being shot and feeling her baby stop moving — then lying on the blistering pavement beside Eckman’s body. Bystanders carried James to safety eventually, knowing they too could be shot at any instant. Another of the documentary’s stars, John “Artly� Fox, said at Austin’s South by Southwest Film Festival in March that the rescuers figured they had
a 75 percent chance of survival since the tower’s observation deck was four-sided. While Whitman was firing from all four, he couldn’t be more than one place at once. James spent seven weeks in intensive care. She resumed classes the following January and said she never felt “horror or trauma� returning to campus — but eventually left school anyway.
“It seems like you’re with the love of your life and I’m going to have a baby in another month or so, and then, all of a sudden, everything’s gone,� James, who now lives in Texarkana, Texas, said in a phone interview. “I just felt a lot of loneliness.� Maitland said many mass killings prior to Whitman’s had clearer motives. What occurred at the University of Texas
was targeting people with no connection to the sniper. “These random public acts are the most terrifying because there’s nothing you can do to prevent them. There’s no amount of vigilance you can have with somebody, especially a long-range sniper,� Maitland said. “That’s where the real turning point is in the story of public crime.�
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Adonis will perform with Lost Pages and Melody Harper at 7 p.m. Friday. Oct. 21, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound.com for more information. The 33rd annual North Logan Pumpkin Walk will be held Oct. 20-22 and 24-25 at Elk Ridge Park, 1100 E. 2500 North. Hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is free. This year’s theme is “American Icons.” The Pumpkin Walk is wheelchair accessible. Free shuttle bus service will be available starting at 6 p.m. with the pickup stop at Greenville Elementary, 2500 N. 400 East. Free parking for the shuttle is at the school and next door at Cache Valley Hospital. For more information visit pumpkinwalk.com or facebook.com/ pumpkinwalk. “A Look Behind the Curtain: Shedding Light on the Cache Water District” will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at the Logan City Council chambers, 290 N. 100 West. The Utah Rivers Council will present a program on the Cache Water District ballot initiative. Come listen, learn and ask questions. For more information, call (801) 486-4776, email info@ utahrivers.org or visit utahrivers. org. The Fall Harvest Festival at the American West Heritage Center will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, and Saturday. Oct. 22, at 4025 S. U.S. Hwy. 89 in Wellsville. Come bring in the harvest the old-fashioned way with activities
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like cider pressing, corn shelling, candle making and steam-engine threshing. Festival admission also includes the corn maze, hay activities and the Haunted Hollow. Admission is $9 for adults, $8 for children 3 to 11. Visit awhc.org for more information. Boo at the Zoo will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, and Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Willow Park Zoo. Admission is $3 to $6. Visit willowparkzoo.wixsite.com/home for more information.
SATURDAY Go For Broke will perform with Heartflip at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $7. Visit whysound.com for more information. A Dead Desire will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Cache Valley Eagles will host a charity dinner with bingo on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 170 W. 900 North. Dinner served at 7 p.m. with bingo to follow; cost of dinner is $10. The fundraising event will benefit the fight against ALS and cystic fibrosis. Everyone 21 and over welcome. The final Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market of the season will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, on the grounds of the Historic Cache County Courthouse at 199 N. Main St. Visit gardenersmarket. org for more information.
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who is music director for the production, which is almost entirely sung, Risch said in program notes. The production also includes a live pit orchestra with Shephard conducting and on keyboard. The production includes adult themes and language.
Raven Spirit will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. The Post-Mormon Community is a non-sectarian organization of individuals and families who have left Mormonism. The Cache Valley chapter meets for dinner and socializing at a local restaurant at 6:30 p.m. every Sunday evening. Newcomers welcome. For more information call Jeff at 770-4263 or visit our website at www.postmormon.org/logan.
MONDAY The North Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24. This week’s movie is “Hotel Transylvania” which is rated PG. Popcorn and admission is free. The Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “Connie and Carla,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free. Utah State Theatre, the production program in the Department of Theatre Arts at Utah State University presents the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, “Next to Normal” Oct. 24-29. The play, described as an “emotional powerhouse” can be seen nightly at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28. W. Center St. Curtain is 7:30 p.m. Tickets for “Next to Normal” are $13 adults, $10 seniors/youth, $8 USU faculty/staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of
Tickets for “Next to Normal” are $13 adults, $10 seniors/youth, $8 USU faculty/staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 7978022 or visit cca.usu.edu.
the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu. Music Theatre West presents their second annual, high-class dinner theater production in the murder-mystery style. This year’s production of “Diamonds and Demons” will take you on safari into the African Jungle in the 1930s on a quest for diamonds and a brush with African gods. The dinner theater show will run select dates from Oct. 14-29, and the ticket price is $38. There will also be dessert-only shows, priced at $20, on Monday nights, Oct. 17 and 24. The venue for this show is the newly renovated Church Street Event Center at 155 Church Street, across from Caffe Ibis). There is plenty of parking with a ramp and elevator for easy access. Almost all seating is wheelchair accessible. The buffet-style dinner is catered by Justin Hamilton’s Off-Premise Catering. For more information, visit musictheatrewest.org.
TUESDAY Set Your Anchor will perform with Militant, Genesis Company and Zodiac Killer at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound.com for more information.
WEDNESDAY The Cache Valley Astronomy Society will present a free, onehour workshop entitled “Binocular Astronomy” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the Bonneville Room at the Logan Library. Come and learn how to find and observe the moon, planets, star clusters,
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comets, galaxies and more using ordinary binoculars. The workshop is free and all ages are invited.
THURSDAY Born to Wander will perform two sets on Thursday, Oct. 27, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. The first set will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by a second performance at 9 p.m. Admission is $10. Visit whysound.com for more information. The Haunted Hyde Park Hollow and 1/2 Pint Hollow is coming Oct. 27-29, at the Hyde Park City Office, 113 E. Center in Hyde Park. The scaring hours are 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, and 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Admission is $3. The 1/2 Pint Hollow for the youngsters who don’t care for scare. It will be a fun Halloween alley for kids. Helicon West is an open-mic reading/featured readers series for local poets and writers that will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Jim Bridger Room at the Logan Library. This week’s guest speaker is novelist Karen Brennan. Creative writers are invited to read up to seven minutes of their original work. Arrive early to sign up. Readings are free, open to the public and uncensored. Helicon West provides a regularly-scheduled place and time for members of the writing community to give their work a public voice, with no restrictions on levels of skill and no censorship of ideas or craft. Publication of readers’ work is a main goal.
of those good ‘90s action movies either, one of the mediocre ones. One that you don’t remember anymore. One that you probably forgot about hours after watching it. It’s unfortunate that this will probably be the end of the line for the Reacher franchise. I’ll be surprised if it gets another sequel. Zwick didn’t just firebomb the franchise, he salted the earth so nothing could grow back.
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