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OCT. 28-NOV. 3, 2016

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Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 2016

COVER 6 Find your way to the Corn Maze on the Farm

THE ARTS 3 ‘Brother Brigham’ set to come to Utah Theatre 4 Music Theatre West presents ‘Diamonds and Demon’ murder-mystery 4 USU library unveils a

new Shakespeare exhibit

4 David Archuleta coming

to perform at Logan High

5 Utah State acting troupe presents ‘Next to Normal’

MOVIES 8 Tyler Perry bests Tom Cruise at the box office

8 Mel Gibson’s new film

‘Hacksaw Ridge’ tells the story of World War II medic

9 Two stars: Howard and Hanks team up again for Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’

COLUMN 5 Gather your friends and

relatives together for a few hands of ‘misery poker’

CALENDAR 11 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley

Mason Madsen rings the bell on the train with the help of conductor Farrell Layne at the American West Heritage Center. On the cover: Roxie Denton rides atop her father, Adam Denton, as the Lewiston family wanders through the corn maze. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR If you’re reading this and you’re a schoolteacher, well, please accept my sympathies in regards to the first of next week.

In your situation it’s hard to imagine a worst day for Halloween to fall on than a Monday. Children will be coming back to school from the weekend, already worked up over attending corn mazes and harvest festivals while also anticipating a huge candy haul on Halloween night itself.

So, keeping their focus on Monday is obviously going to be a challenge, while Tuesday … well, I can only imagine what kind of challenge trying to teach exhausted and potentially sugar-crashed kids who can’t wait to get back home to their candy bag must be like. Which means

Wednesday may be questionable, as well.

But if you’re not a schoolteacher, then this almost-three-day-weekend should be a good one in Cache Valley as we turn the calendar over from October to November. In addition to the high school football playoffs and Utah State’s game against Mountain West powerhouse San Diego State on Friday, there seems to be no shortage of entertainment opportunities to enjoy through the weekend and into Monday.

In this issue of Cache Magazine, Herald Journal writer Garrett Faylor and photographer John Zsiray take us to one great place to enjoy autumn activities – the American West Heritage Center, which will continue to host the Corn Maze at the Farm through Saturday.

Of course, there will also be a lot of fun events on Monday, Oct. 31, including the 87th annual Halloween Festival at the Whittier Community Center. A family-friendly gathering with the focus

making sure children enjoy themselves, the festival at 290 N. 400 East will run from 3 to 6 p.m. and include games, treats, face painting, home root beer, spook alley and a cake walk.

Admission to the Halloween Festival is free, but activity tickets are 25 cents and most games cost one to three tickets to play and win a prize. Attendees can also get three tickets if they bring a can of food to donate to the Logan Community Food Pantry.

For more information on the festival at the Whittier Center and other events around Cache Valley over the next few days, visit the calendar on the Herald Journal’s website (hjnews.com), the Logan City Library calendar (library. loganutah.org) or the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau website (explorelogan.com).

But most importantly, make sure all those candy-crazed kids get home safe on Monday night.

— Jeff Hunter

‘Brother Brigham’ coming to Logan 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 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 letters, 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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One-man show takes stage Nov. 3-5

Photo courtesy of James Arrington

Acclaimed actor and writer James Arrington brings the one-man show “Here’s Brother Brigham” to the Utah Theatre Nov. 3-5.

Local ‘Great War’ authors featured at Utah State lecture Friends of Merrill-Cazier Library, a support group for University Libraries at Utah State University, presents its fall 2016 lecture which takes a look at a topic and individuals close to home — Cache Valley during what is described as the “Great War.” Authors E.B. Wheeler and Jeffery Bateman’s lecture

is based on their novel “No Peace with the Dawn.” They will present “Aggies in the Great War” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101. The lecture is free and the public is invited.

April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in World War I. According to the speak-

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ALL MIXED UP

ers, an interesting aspect of this period are the military enlistment “frenzies” that swept American universities — including the Utah Agricultural College. Many young men, and a few women, left the safe and privileged confines of college life for the war-torn fields of France to “do their bit.”

Why did they go? How were

their lives changed? How did life in Cache Valley change?

Those are among the questions the speakers will pursue in their lecture and more extensively in their novel which is forthcoming from Cedar Fort Press in November 2016. The novel weaves real-life and compelling fictional characters into a tale of war, romance,

self-discovery and sacrifice.

The speakers have connections to USU. Bateman served in the U.S. Air Force for 32 years, retiring as a colonel in 2010. Wheeler attended BYU, majoring in history with an English minor, and earned graduate degrees in history and landscape architecture from USU.

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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.

Photo courtesy of Utah State University

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.

Archuleta coming to perform at LHS 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 angelic 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 “Meet The Mormons” 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.

bluffing. So, in case you forgot, here is the hierarchy of misery poker hands in ascending order: Pair: Somebody took your regular parking spot.

You forgot to set the alarm clock. Your dog pooped in the kitchen on the tile.

There was a 15-minute wait in line at Starbucks.

Or you sat on your Dollar Store sunglasses.

Two pair: Your dog pooped in the living room. You sat on your Dollar Store reading glasses. You forgot to buy coffee filters and had to

Jazz Kicks Band concert

use a paper towel instead.

You forgot to charge your The Jazz Kicks Big Band is presenting a “Latin cell phone. Or you just found out that gluten-free Jazz” concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the was an expensive hoax. Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University.

Admission is $10 for adults; all students free.

Three of a kind: Led by Larry Smith and featuring Northern Someone at the café Utah’s best jazz musicians, the Jazz Kicks Band accidentally gave you will play Dizzy Gillespie’s “Tanga”, a jazz samba decaf instead of your featuring tenor saxophonist Mike Reeder and usual French roast. Your trumpeter Alex Meibos, and his “Groovin’ High,” a cell phone battery is on 2 modern jazz classic played in Salsa rhythm. percent. Or your doctor Vocalist Monica Fronk will sing Jobim’s “No says you have to lose 10 More Blues,” a jazz samba, and Bronislaw Kaper’s pounds.

“Invitation,” played in Afro-Cuban rhythm.

Straight: There is a tiny crack in the corner of your cell phone See POKER on Page 10

USU offers ‘Next to Normal’ Musical continues at Lyric Theatre through Saturday

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.

The production includes adult themes and language.

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USU Wind Orchestra

The Utah State University Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Thomas P. Rohrer, will perform its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 at the Morgan Theatre on the USU campus. Admission is free.

The concert, entitled “Musical Drama for Theater and Film,” includes two halves: the first featuring guest saxophonist, Nathan Mensink from the University of Miami, and the second half dedicated to music from the stage and screen. Mensink is a Miami-based saxophone teacher and performer active in both classical and jazz styles.

The Wind Orchestra, the flagship ensemble of the USU Bands, is a 50-member ensemble of the finest wind and percussion players in the school.

The ensemble has earned at outstanding reputation in the region by performing at three of the College Band Directors National Association Western/ Northwestern Division conferences since 2002, as well as the Utah Music Educators Convention.

Please call 797-3004 for more information.

Mothers Conference

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. For more information, call Diane Weese at 881-0872.

Downtown Ghost Tours

Photo by Andrew McAllister

Utah State University’s production of “Next to Normal” continues Friday and Saturday at the Caine Lyric Theatre

Haunted structures, nighttime spirits and eerie stories await your arrival this Halloween season in Historic Downtown Logan. 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 28-29. Tour reservations required online at logandowntown.org.

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DENNIS HINKAMP

In the early days of the Internet, my friends and Slightly Off I used to throw around the term “misery poker” Center to describe the daily cacophony of whining.

For sure, a death in the family, divorce, cancer or move across the country are all trump (no, not that guy) cards, but day-today misery can become a poker game.

The winner gets the most sympathy in the conversation. It is sort lowing. I suspect that of the opposite of onesome people are cheating, upmanship; rather than but maybe they are just bragging, you are wal-

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Enjoy playing ‘misery poker’ COMING UP

Corn Maze on the Farm: Falli Story by GARRETT FAYLOR • Photos by JOHN ZSIRAY

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took my family of five to the American West Heritage Center last Monday for a spook-tacular evening at the Corn Maze on the Farm. The price was cheap: $6 for adults and $5 for kids over the age of 3. However, I messed up and didn’t take advantage of the $1 discount for students — don’t make that mistake. The discount also applies to seniors (the more experienced kind) and members of the military.

We saw the horse-drawn wagons as we came up, but opted to walk with the 1-year-old in a stroller. We passed some bison on our right and crossed a bridge. Below we could see the makings of the Haunted Hollow — bones piled everywhere — which we did not take part in. On our way out of the park later, my wife pretended she wanted to check it out, but she refuses to sit down and watch even 10 minutes of an episode of “The Walking Dead.”

As the field opened up and the activities came into view, we came upon a string of six ponies, available for children ages 3 to 12 and under 100 pounds — so not me. My 5-year-old strapped on his helmet and climbed up. My 4-year-old, on the other hand, took some cajoling. But in the end, they trotted around in a circle long enough to get at least one or two good photos.

We left the ponies for a more modern form of transportation and entertainment — the train. Times vary for the train and pony rides depending on the day of the week, though, each day, the rides shut down at 7 p.m. We circled a nasty looking bog silted over with a split-pea-soup green, maybe an homage to a horror film too frightening to even mention — there is only one.

We coursed along a track that took us past your typical DIY Halloween headstones with your typical DIY Halloween sayings aside from one that stood out as atypical referring to anorexia and bulimia, which my wife and I agreed was maybe poor taste.

Above, Kyle Lott bounces at the HippityHop Rodeo at the American West Heritage Center. Right, Max Willardson tries out some hay bale bowling.

But the train ride was a grand time for the kids. We circled the track three times, maybe because we were lucky enough to board the train with the conductor’s family. The spook level is low, but for the classic dad, there is an opportunity to spook your kids as you travel briefly through a darkened tunnel for about five seconds before reaching the starting point.

After the train we raced toward the other activities, not because we were extremely excited but because the 4-year-old had to pee. Outside of the restrooms, which were quite clean when we entered and still pretty clean after we left, we tried to better our aim at the BB-gun range. They provided protective eyewear, and we took turns missing empty pop cans strung up against hay bales from 6 feet away.

Oddly enough, the BB-gun range is nestled up next to a duck pond, so I’d suggest keeping a close eye on where some of the older kids might be set-

ting their sights.

Next, we hit the Hippity Hop Rodeo, where the boys and I decided we’d race from one end to the other on the Hippity Hop bouncing balls, and my wife decided to film it. So, of

course, when the 5-year-old got off to a better start than I expected, my 110 percent put me on my back in a pile of straw rubbing a spot on my back that I’m probably still nursing. The 5-yearold won, and my wife got some great

ing for autumn at the AWHC us we didn’t have a whole lot of time, so we made our way to the corn maze.

I really have no idea how my 4-yearold son, who has never been lost in a corn maze, let alone been in a corn maze, developed a fear of corn mazes.

“I like corn, but I just don’t like corn mazes,” he said as we approached the entrance.

He didn’t trust me leading them for one second, and he was right not to. I get bored with corn mazes, and I don’t like following directions — your typical Halloween dad bad boy.

I knew there was no way I was getting us through the maze even with holding that map a foot in front of me. And then when I had to pick up the terrified 4-year-old because he knew each turn was the wrong turn and that we would never get out of there alive, I figured we would probably just wander for a few minutes, fulfill our holiday obligations, take enough pictures to prove that we’re fun-loving and festive parents, and then we’d cut our way through the corn. Then ice cream.

When we showed up around 6 p.m., we nearly had the place to ourselves.

By the time I heroically led my family out of the corn maze, night had come, as did hundreds of other spookseekers. By the time we walked back to the parking lot, it was full. We were there for probably an hour and a half. We didn’t get any snacks, and we skipped over a few activities like pumpkin bowling. I definitely felt rushed in that hour and a half. There is plenty to do, and you could probably spend two to three hours easily, especially if you’re the type to brave a corn maze from start to finish.

——— Top, Mason Madsen celebrates riding the train. Above, Xander Denton leads his family through the corn maze.

Left, Brooks Drollinger plays pumpkin checkers with his father, Tyson Drollinger.

attention on her Instagram story.

The boys spent a few minutes in the bounce house, while my wife forced my 1-year-old daughter down

the large PVC pipe slide, set at such a angle that if your 1-year-old doesn’t know she’s supposed to slide down, she’ll just sit there or try to climb back

up before your wife teaches her tough love and an introduction to gravity.

The sunset played brilliantly on the mountains in the distance and warned

The Corn Maze on the Farm and Haunted Hollow at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville will remain open through Saturday, Oct. 29. Activities include the corn maze, Pumkin Patch, Straw Mountain, Hippity Hop Rodeo, Spook Train Ride, pony rides and hay bale bowling. Hours are 3 to 11 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Saturday. Visit awhc.org for ticket prices and additional information.

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Tyler Perry takes out Cruise at the box office LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry bested Tom Cruise at the box office this weekend.

Perry’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” opened in the top spot with an estimated $27.6 million, edging Cruise’s “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” into second place, according to studio estimates Sunday.

It’s the third best opening for a “Madea” movie, behind “Madea Goes to Jail” and “Madea’s Family Reunion” and a sign of the character’s longstanding appeal to audi-

ences.

To market the film, which reportedly cost $20 million to produce, Lionsgate leveraged the social media audiences of Perry and his cast as well as promotional videos like one featuring Jimmy Fallon as Trump alongside Madea that ended up going viral.

“Tyler Perry is a movie star. Tyler Perry is a mogul. The Madea character has provided box office dividends for years. It’s a perfect combination, Madea and Halloween right before

Halloween,” said comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

That timing, along with the promising A CinemaScore, should bode well for the film’s second weekend over Halloween.

“A Madea Halloween” proved to be the strongest of the slew of sequels this weekend, topping even the star power of Tom Cruise, whose “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” took in $23 million for Paramount

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Tyler Perry’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” led the box office with $27.6 million last weekend.

Gibson film features medic’s heroics

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Desmond Doss climbed up Hacksaw Ridge — a 400-foot high escarpment on the island of Okinawa with a wall of dug-in Japanese soldiers at the top — he carried his Bible, his combat medic supplies and the weight of his moral convictions, but no weapon.

When the wounded American Army private eventually came back down for good, he was credited with repeatedly braving harsh enemy fire to treat fellow troops, carry them to the cliff’s edge and lower them to safety. For his heroics, he was awarded the Medal of Honor — a rarity for a conscientious objector.

Now his exploits on Okinawa and his struggles to serve both his country and his conscience have been made into a film, “Hacksaw Ridge,” directed by Mel Gibson. For Gibson, telling the story of a man whose Medal of Honor citation goes on for two full pages and includes a wounded

Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist, felt his beliefs barred him from even carrying a weapon, let alone killing. But he wanted to serve his country and ended up in a combat infantry unit, tending to the wounded under some

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Director Mel Gibson poses for a photo on Wednesday at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans.

Doss giving up his stretcher to another wounded man, the challenge was almost having too heroic of a story to work with.

“You couldn’t even tell everything the guy did because it becomes almost unbelievable,” said Gibson, speaking Wednesday

before a screening at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. “You’re talking about a man here who really stuck by his conviction and his faith and he went into a situation like hell on earth, an ordinary guy doing extraordinary things.”

of the war’s most dangerous conditions. The movie details how his fellow troops — initially extremely suspicious of Doss — came to admire his moral and physical courage.

In Europe, the war with

Germany was all but over when Doss’ unit arrived on Okinawa in late April.

But in the Pacific, it was a bloody slog against the Japanese to capture island after island.

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coincidental that the man wanting to poison half the AP Photo earth also shares Langdon’s obsession for hisTom Hanks, left, and Felicity Jones appear in a scene from, “Inferno.” tory.

The plot of “Inferno” an elaborate release is so convoluted that method and setting it to it almost lulls you into an arbitrary time? It’s silly, but it’s all concocted an unconscious stupor.

There’s no piecing it in order to put Langdon Director // Ron Howard together because it’s so in the unenviable task of Starring // Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, outrageously constructed tracking down a virus that Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen that it can only be pieced will kill half the world Rated // PG-13 for sequences of action and viotogether for you. Sit back, by using the guide of old lence, disturbing images, some language, thematic don’t think, and let Ron paintings and ancient elements and brief sensuality Howard’s slickly filmed sculptures. The world’s pens to be the Dan Brown can’t remember if the day most dangerous scavenger flashbacks take the place of brain function. All this hunt. method du jour. So here’s was special enough to be to say it’s somewhat excit Well, OK, I’ll concede the gist. Zobrist’s new mentioned, but make no ing to begin with until virus is tied up in a plastic mistake that it’s midnight). that Zobrist’s elaborate it just meanders off into bag somewhere histori If Zobrist was so set on riddle is meant for his cally significant, and it’s putting his plan in motion, followers to solve in case mystifying stupidity. anything happens to him Hanks is going through set to go off at midnight why not just dump the the motions here. Rememand technically not for bag of virus in the water (of course, it is) on a certain day (I honestly instead of going through Langdon, but it’s certainly ber when Hanks used to

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It’s a far cry from Cruise’s successes with the “Mission: Impossible” movies for Paramount, but it did do significantly better than the first “Jack Reacher,” which opened right before Christmas in 2012 to $15.2 million. That film went on to gross $80.1 million domestically and $218.3

Account” and “The Girl on the Train” rounded out the top five with $14 million and $7.3 million.

Less successful was 20th Century Fox’s comedy “Keeping Up with the Joneses,” which launched with a tepid $5.6 million.

The film, starring Isla Fisher and Zack Galifianakis as a pair of boring suburbanites intrigued by the arrival of a glamourous new couple played by Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot was savaged by critics.

In limited release, the critically acclaimed com-

ing-of-age drama “Moonlight” got off to a robust start in four theaters with $414,740 and many sellout showings.

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Coming in third this weekend was the horror prequel “Ouija: Origin of Evil” with $14.1 million — just the latest in a string of highly fruitful and modestly budgeted horror pics this year, including “The Conjuring 2,” ‘’Don’t Breathe” and “Light’s Out.” Holdovers “The

do comedy? He’s great at it. There are moments here where his innate comedic talent shines through only to be snuffed out by the movie’s grim nature.

Following the formula of Langdon stories, he soon meets up with a female colleague. Sienna (Felicity Jones) is an ER doctor who is thrust into Langdon’s adventure through a major coincidence – or is it?

The problem with Brown’s stories is that they’re predictable in their unpredictability.

Like when you expect there to be a twist at the end of a Shyamalan movie because it’s a Shyamalan movie.

You expect that nothing is as it appears in a story about Langdon because that’s exactly what always happens.

There’s no deviating from the formula.

No attempt to create something new for Langdon to confront.

We’re just lucky that the apocalypse left clues for him to figure out.

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The Reel Place Aaron Peck

The Robert Langdon movies make little sense.

They take the “killer leaves clues” idea to a global extreme. Serial killer movies in which the killer leaves a puzzle to be solved are, by their own invention, a ridiculous notion. These movies, based off of Dan Brown’s best-selling novels, are an offshoot of that genre.

A detective movie is one thing. The investigator follows unintentional clues leading us to an ultimate conclusion. But in the world of Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), monsters hell-bent on destroying the world conveniently leave behind clues for him to figure out. Clues that only he’d understand because they involve obscure bits of antiquity and historical artifacts.

If one really wanted to destroy the world, why leave behind clues in the first place? Why not, you know, destroy the world without letting anyone know your plans?

The psychopath this time around is billionaire biological engineer Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster). He’s obsessed with over-population and gives doomsday demonstrations on what the world will be like if our population continues to double exponentially.

He’s engineered a viral agent that will decimate around half of the world’s population, culling the herd so to speak.

Zobrist is a fan of the black plague – cheery fellow this one – and he’s bringing the plague into the 21st Century.

The reasoning and methods applied by Zobrist to bring about his viral apocalypse defy logic, but that just hap-

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Flush: There is a spider web crack in your cell phone screen. You got somebody else’s order at Starbucks. You lost your prescription sunglasses. Or your dog pooped right in front of the neighbors while you were talking to them.

Full house: Your cell burst into flames in your back pocket and you had to go to the ER to get your butt bandaged.

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and everyone shouted “Demon!” at you.

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Or you have to ask your boss for a standing desk even though you have no interest in the health benefits.

Four of a kind: Your Facebook account got hacked and revealed your browsing history to all your friends. Your doctor tells you you have lose 30 pounds. Or the liquor store calls to ask why they haven’t seen you lately, wondering “Are you OK?” Straight flush: Your dog pooped in your shoe and you didn’t notice until it was too late. The IRS is auditing your last six years of tax returns. Or your cell phone bursts into flames while you were in church

The Corey Christiansen Trio featuring Denson Angulo and Jay Lawrence will present blues and jazz at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at the Brigham City Fine Arts Center, 58 S. 100 West in Brigham City. Tickets are $12 adults, $8 students and $10 seniors. Call (435) 723-0740 or visit bcfineartscenter.org for more information.

The Street Def Hip Hop Showcase will begin at 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 28, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound.com for more information.

SATURDAY Don your Halloween costumes and embark on a magical journey as you wander up the trail to Stokes Nature Center from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, in Logan Canyon. Parents and children will encounter many enchanting characters with stories and treats to share along the way. Cost is $5 per person (children under 2 are free) or $15 per family. Tickets are available at logannature.org. Space is limited, preregistration is strongly encouraged. All ages welcome; stories

Film Continued from Page 8 His unit was trying to take Hacksaw Ridge — formally called the Maeda Escarpment — and push out dug in Japanese troops. Doss’ Medal of Honor citation describes how his unit was driven back down the cliff by a barrage of mortar, artillery and machine gun fire but Doss voluntarily stayed behind, evacuating the wounded by rope over the cliff, all under intense enemy fire.

While the movie focuses mostly on that one event where Doss is credited with rescuing 75, the citation notes how he repeatedly risked his life until he was wounded

and characters will be age appropriate. As a courtesy to young children, please ensure that your costumes are non-violent and non-gory. No toy weapons please.

Dress for the weather, our celebration will be outdoors as long as the weather cooperates.

The American Festival Chorus & Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Craig Jessop, kicks off its 2016-17 season with “Halloween Spooktacular: A Family Pops Concert,” at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Ticket prices are $13 to $22. For ticket information, visit americanfestivalchorus.org or call 752-0026.

tance, accuracy and mechanical design. Admission is free.

Stokes Nature Center’s next Canyon Jams concert will feature Hail the Harvest on Saturday, Oct. 29, in Logan Canyon. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the concert begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 to $10. Hail the Harvest is a bluegrass/folk/americana band from Logan. With the sounds of banjo, upright bass and guitar, their music is sure to have you tapping your toes, and even up on our feet dancing, from start to finish. Visit logannature.org for more information.

MONDAY

nesses 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.

The Witches Dance will begin around 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, at Center St. and 300 West.

Around 30 witches in costume will dance will circling the Headless Horseman. The dance lasts about two-and-a-half minutes.

We’re all local women of various age dressing up and having fun entertaining ourselves, as well as the Halloween crowd. Call (949) 690-0250 for more information.

een Festival is free, but activity tickets are 25 cents and most games cost one to three tickets to play and win a prize. Attendees can also get three tickets if they bring a can of food to donate to the local food pantry.

TUESDAY Mothersound, The Death In Me and False Witness will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $7. Visit whysound. com for more information.

WEDNESDAY Icarus The Owl will perform with Danny the Skeleton Horse, Farewell, Nick Wan and Aaron M at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $10. Visit whysound. com for more information.

The sixth annual North Logan Pumpkin Toss is scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Elk Ridge Park at 1060 E. 2500 North in North Logan. The event is organized by the Utah State University student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Each year, teams construct a medieval device called a trebuchet that launches pumpkins in a tournament of dis-

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. Enjoy a safe and relaxing outing with the family in downtown Logan. Just look for the Halloween Treat Walk poster in their door or window. Busi-

The Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 31, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free.

THURSDAY

The 87th annual Halloween Festival at the Whittier Community Center will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, at 290 N. 400 East. This familyfriendly event will include games, treats, face painting, home root beer, spook alley and a cake walk. Admission to the Hallow-

The Mountain Crest High School Drama Department will present “The Drowsy Chaperone” at 7 p.m. Nov. 3-5 and 7, at the MCHS Auditorium. Tickets are $7 for general admission; $5 for students. Visit Mountain Crest Drama on Facebook for more information.

nearly a month later.

For Gibson, another challenge was making the movie realistic without being ghoulish.

Referring to the audience, he said: “I don’t want them running out screaming. You want them to stay in there with you, so you have to find a way to temper it, but keep it real.”

The title character of Desmond Doss is played

by Andrew Garfield. Vince Vaughn plays the tough Sgt. Howell tasked with bringing the new recruits up to snuff and leading them into battle.

As Gibson puts it: “This is not ‘Wedding Crashers Vince.’

This is ‘Sgt. Howell Vince.’

Different man, tougher.”

“It was nice to really just be in a movie that’s about

something,” Vaughn said.

“You don’t really get those a lot. I’ve made some really fun movies but it was definitely great for me to get a chance to work with such a great story teller as Mel and then also have a purpose behind the movie that’s actually about people and something that’s inspiring.”

At the beginning of the movie, the tough sergeant he portrays is openly skeptical of Doss and questions whether anyone would “want to be in the foxhole with him.”

“As a sergeant you’re there for the unit, and ... it’s a very odd thing to come across ... someone (who) would want to go into a war without a gun,” Vaughn said. But like the other troops in the movie,

Vaughn’s character comes to respect Doss’ moral courage even before his brave feats on Okinawa.

Vaughn, who has made repeated visits to Afghanistan and Iraq to visit American troops stationed there, said they screened the movie for some veterans who found it “very cathartic” and praised it for bringing awareness to post-traumatic stress disorder through the character of Doss’ father, playing by Hugo Weaving. Weaving’s character is a troubled, heavy-drinking World War I vet who frequently visits the graves of men he served with in France.

Doss’ son, Desmond Doss Jr., was in New Orleans for the movie screening. Growing up he said he heard his father’s

story hundreds of times as the elder Doss, who died in 2006, went to various functions to share it. The younger Doss said his father — like many others who perform heroic feats — often said he was just doing his job. But the son said his father also felt it was for the glory of his God and he needed to share his story.

For Doss Jr., the movie is an “incredible love story” wrapped in carnage.

“It’s about a man that loved his mother. He loved his church. He loved his wife.

He loved the men that he worked with even when they often times didn’t much care for him. He never wavered in coming from this place of compassion, love and forgiveness,” he said.

Dianne Hardy will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Time out?

4. Many New Zealanders 10. Hemingway title pronoun 14. Phish 18. Utah lily 19. Seductiveness 20. Gold 21. Official language of Pakistan 22. What _____, song line 25. Sign of secrecy 26. Vase 27. Extends 28. “To ___ their golden eyes’’ Shakespeare 29. Moray, e.g.

30. Zealot 31. “What ___ is it?”

32. ____ on earth?

35. Seafood dish 39. Slant 40. Guru residence 42. What ____ (transparency) 50. Enchant 51. Haw partner 52. Vintners’ valley 55. Bigger 56. Grassy area 58. Beat 62. Ruler unit 63. Airport on the West Coast of the U.S. 64. Naive types, sometimes 65. What ____ (why so late?)

70. Transaction 74. Lakers’ local rivals, on the scoreboard 75. Aroma 79. Cuban dance 80. Farm area 81. “Bravo!”

84. Textile worker 85. Alien craft 87. Put in hot water, but only for a little bit 89. What____ Tina Turner song 95. Fried-chicken part 96. Do damage to 97. Suit of armor

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100. Ilk 101. Jay follower 104. Measure of the speed the shaft spins 107. Power to inspire fear 108. Jeer 110. “Data quality determines result quality” acronym 111. Retirement account 112. Run producer 114. “What _____” (Nickelback song) 120. Period 121. Medieval accompaniment 122. Reddish-brown 123. One way to turn a ship 124. Formerly 125. Nectar source 126. Make secret 127. Emerald, for one Down 1. 1940s-’60s world leader 2. Broker 3. Superhero punch sound 4. Santana song 5. Stray cat milieu 6. Ford contemporary 7. Gallop 8. Rage 9. Examine 10. Pesky insect 11. Use a grindstone 12. Married John 13. Garfield’s cry 14. Ford Explorer, e.g.

15. Cad 16. “Farewell, mon ami” 17. Cogitates, with “over” 18. Render openmouthed 23. Getting on 24. Flyspeck 32. Knowing 33. Part of a bray 34. Flue residue 35. “Look here!”

36. French vineyard 37. Children’s game 38. Portended 39. Snippet 40. Tucked away

41. Logo for example 42. Tall tale 43. Crude group?

44. 45th admitted state 45. Look after a baby 46. Role in Haydn’s “The Creation” 47. Cup handle 48. I get it!

49. Container weight 50. Special effects, abbr.

53. Diem or cent preceder 54. Google income sources 56. Thai language 57. Jump for joy 59. It may be easily bruised 60. Lot 61. Dress (up) 63. Caustic stuff 64. Wyatt’s Holiday 65. British P.M.’s house number 66. Poem of praise 67. Yours and mine 68. “Hogan’s Heroes” epithet 69. Declare 70. College degree 71. Beam of light 72. Comply with 73. Pea family trees 75. Miss in a Cole Porter hit 76. Senator, Bob 77. Arch with a double-S shape 78. Part of a nuclear reactor 80. Help request 81. Not straight 82. Blood typing letters 83. One to thank 86. Strong and healthy 87. Whittle 88. Automated teller 90. Modern address 91. “Is that so!”

92. Chow down or gobble up 93. “___ me?”

94. WWII general Arnold 97. Brahman, e.g.

98. Proprietor

99. Fosters 100. Even more 101. Passed illegally for financial gain 102. Active 103. Hither’s partner 104. Sort (through) 105. Introduction 106. Foal’s mother 108. Kind of blocker 109. ___ and terminer (criminal court) 110. Helicopter’s predecessor, briefly 113. Clock standard, for short 114. Austrian peak 115. Morgue, for one 116. Milk 117. Took 118. Arrow trajectory 119. Muzzle

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