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Cache Magazine A COWBOY CHRISTMAS

Bar J Wranglers make annual holiday visit to Cache Valley The Herald Journal

DEC. 26-JAN. 1, 2015

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Dec. 26-Jan. 1, 2015

COVER 8 Popular Bar J Wranglers make annual trip to Logan from Jackson Hole, Wyo.

THE ARTS 4 Cache Valley Fun Park

to host Mascot Challenge

4 Brigham City Museum showcases ‘Our Lives’

4 USU professor featured

in new book, ‘Global Voices’

5 Paula Poundstone to

perform show at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan

MOVIES 3 Jolie’s new ‘Unbroken’ is beautiful but impersonal 6 Two stars: Don’t bet on remake of ‘The Gambler’

7 Film version of ‘Into the

Woods’ boasts strong cast

COLUMN 10 Dennis Hinkamp finds

best way to slow down time is on exercise equipment

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

Donnie Cook of the Bar J Wranglers plays the banjo last Saturday at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. On the cover: Based out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Bar J Wranglers perform in Cache Valley every year during Christmastime. (John Zsiray/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR I feel bad.

Cache movie critic Aaron Peck was so excited about all the new movies coming out this week that he couldn’t help himself. Whereas he usually does one — and occasionally two — movie reviews an issue, Aaron planned to take on four this week ... at least before coming down with an incapacitating illness.

So, rather than viewing and reviewing “Into the Woods,” “The Imitation Game,” “Unbroken” and “The Interview,” well, it sounds like Aaron’s just hoping to feel strong enough to

open presents on Christmas morning.

In his absence, we’ve still got some AP (that’s Associated Press, not Aaron Peck) reviews of “Into the Woods,” “Unbroken” and “The Gambler” for you to read over the holidays. And I actually could have included one of “The Interview,” as well, but since my Mac suddenly died on me just as I was thinking about possibly putting it in — can North Korea read our emails and our thoughts? ­— I decided I’m gonna follow Sony’s lead and not include it this week.

However, while I am not a movie critic, I would like to take this opportunity to strongly suggest that you go see “Unbroken” if you’re headed to the movie theater.

And if you’re not going to the movies, find a copy of “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand. And if you don’t have time to

read a book, just Google the name “Louis Zamperini.”

As a World War II buff and a sports fan, I was a little embarrassed that I didn’t know Zamperini’s amazing story of triumph and survival until Hillenbrand’s book came out in 2010. Now I can’t get enough of it, and while I have yet to see Angelina Jolie’s new film, it’s clear to me that she also has a passion for the story and certainly did her best to present it as well as she could.

But having written stories myself on war veterans who miraculously survived similar situations, I also know that it’s difficult to truly do justice to incredible stories like that.

Happy New Year, Cache Valley.

— Jeff Hunter

Story of an ‘Unbroken’ life

Jolie’s film is beautiful, but a little impersonal

– Cache columnist Dennis Hinkamp (Page 10)

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By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer

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“Unbroken” is a story about Louis Zamperini that seems to have little interest in Louis Zamperini. The film painstakingly details his harrowing wartime experience and every brutal assault against his person. But don’t expect to walk away with a deep understanding of the Olympic athlete who survived not only 47 days in a raft in the middle of the Pacific but also two years as a POW in a Japanese detention camp. “Unbroken” floats on the surface.

And it’s fine. “Unbroken” isn’t a bad movie; it’s just safe to a fault.

Director Angelina Jolie has made a beautiful film based on Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling book.

Her respect for Zamperini’s story is evident from the start. By the end, though, the gaze turns reverential and distant as his experiences become more foreign and obscured.

“Unbroken” kicks off with a bang. A gorgeous air battle places the audience in the middle of World War II, not caring to introduce you to the boys in the B-24 bomber. In fact, Jack O’Connell is such a new-

“If you watch ‘The Voice’ with your pet in the room, can I call the ASPCA on you?”

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

AP Photo/Universal Pictures

Jack O’Connell portrays Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini in a scene from “Unbroken.”

★★ ‘Unbroken’ Director // Angelina Jolie Starring // Jack O’Connell, Garret Hedlund, Finn Wittrock, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courney, Miyaviº Rated // PG for for war violence including intense sequences of brutality, and for brief language

comer and looks so different in this film with his distractingly jet black hair that the first few minutes are a little disorienting as you try to figure out just who is the star of the movie. That’s a strange handicap when you cast an unknown.

From there, the film fades in and out of flashbacks to Zamperini’s Torrance, Cali-

fornia, childhood and his unlikely ascent to athletic greatness. There, in “Godfather” sepia, we see a very young Zamperini smoking, drinking, looking up girls’ skirts and not paying attention at church. But his brother pushes him to focus, and soon enough, his family realizes they’ve got a star on their hands.

Zamperini, before enlisting in the Air Force to fight in the war, was a track star who ran in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Though fairly straightforward, his racing scenes are among the most exciting of the movie. He’s a guy who saves his best for the final moments. It’s immediate and thrilling.

The wartime “present,” however, has the feel of a lengthy montage, especially when Zamperini and his fellow mates are stranded after their plane crashes in the Pacific. He and two crewmates survived on a raft at sea for 47 days, only to be captured by the Japanese See LIFE on Page 5

Pet: Ahri From: Cache Humane Society Why she’s so lovable: Hi! My name is Ahri, and I am a lovely cat with a sweet personality. I am good with other cats, and I am always happy to play. I love getting attention, and I am eager to run around when I get the chance. I would be a nice addition to a home where I can have a spot of my own to sleep in and a loving caretaker. Will you be my family? Contact the Cache Humane Society at 792-3920 for more information.

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all mixed up Mascot Challenge coming to Fun Park The Cache Valley Fun Park is hosting the Mascot Charity Challenge from 9 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 10, at 255 E. 1770 North in North Logan.

Members of the community are invited to come out and cheer for their favorite team or corporate mascot and enjoy some fun play in the process. Spectators pay $5, while for only $15, kids and adults can enjoy unlimited bowling, roller skating, laser tag, billiards and soft play, with proceeds

going to support the Special Olympics.

This past year, the Special Olympics has seen its funding reduced and need our support so their athletes can compete in future events. Numerous mascots are volunteering their time and efforts to showcase their skills and give the Special Olympic Athletes some much needed support.

“Our purpose for creating this event stemmed from learning that funding

for Special Olympics was reduced this year, and caused them to eliminate some of the athletic programs they have usually held, including bowling,” Bill Knopp of the Cache Valley Fun Park explained. “We felt that by bringing local mascots together to compete, it would be a fun way to raise money for the cause.

The mascots scheduled to appear are: Utah State’s Big Bluye, the Chick-Fil-A Cow, the Liberty Tax Lady,

Logan High’s Grizzwald, Sky View High’s Paws, Girl Scout Cookies, MMA’s Tiger, Lee’s Marketplace’s Badger, Bowling Pin Man and Cache Valley Pediatric Dentistry’s Giant Tooth.

The Mascot Charity Challenge will use the Olympic scoring method (7 points for first place, 5 for second, 3 for third and 1 point for everyone who competes), and includes the following events: the Jungle Gym Obstacle Course, Scooter

‘Our Lives, Our Stories’ Exhibit continues through Jan. 10 in Brigham City A generation that came of age during the darkness of the Great Depression and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific lived through these turbulent years by standing tall and united. The magnitude of the personal challenges and the national commitment is currently illuminated in the Brigham City Museum’s national traveling exhibit, “Our Lives, Our Stories: America’s Greatest Generation” which opened Nov. 11 and will continue through Jan. 10.

Admission to the exhibit is free.

The museum is located at 24 N. 300 West in Brigham City. The entrance is on the west side. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday.

For further information, please call (435) 226-1439 or visit brighamcitymuseum.org.

The Greatest Generation’s rendezvous with destiny is explored through photos, artifacts, panels,

Photo courtesy of the Brigham City Museum

Brigham City native (and longtime Logan resident) Capt. Airus E. Bergstrom flew 72 combat missions in World War II.

life-size installations and personal histories. Some of the photos depict a farewell to the Marines at a train station, children waiting to see a movie and a vaudeville act at a Minneapolis theater and a soldier

hanging out at a soda fountain after his return from the war.

Artifacts from the 1920s through the 1950s include a wicker baby See LIVES on Page 15

Race, Musical Chairs, Lazer Tag Battle and No-Tap Bowl. Following the final event, the scores will tallied, and the top scorer will be crowned “King of the Fun Park Mascots” for 2015 and will receive a trophy from Al’s Trophies.

Please help us help the Special Olympics by coming to the Fun Park on Jan. 10, or make a tax deductible sponsorship contribution by calling Knopp at the Cache Valley Fun Park at 792-4000.

USU’s Tainter lends voice to ‘Global Chorus’ If you need some inspiration, along with frank advice, for the coming year, take a look at “Global Chorus,” a newly published collection of 365 quotes from some of the world’s top minds, including Maya Angelou, Stephen Hawking and Utah State University professor Joseph Tainter.

“I feel like crawling under a rug when I see my name placed with such genuine luminaries,” says Tainter, faculty member in USU’s Department of Environment and Society. “I’m touched that editor Todd E. MacLean reached out to me.”

A freelance writer based on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, MacLean came up with the idea for the book project – described as “365 voices on the future of the planet” – some four years ago.

“I had this profound question in my head about what kind of hope do we have to get through the environmental crisis,” MacLean said in a Nov. 12 interview with Canadian media. “I wanted to read a book like this. (I thought) someone should put together a global roundtable on where we’re headed as a human species – one person per page, per day, 365 people a part of it.”

See VOICE on Page 5

of Gingerbread Comedian coming to Eccles Theatre on Jan. 17 Parade With the holiday season here, it’s time again for the Comedian Paula Poundstone will take the stage at the Ellen Eccles Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17.

Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased online at cachearts.org, by phone at 752-0026 or in person at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts box office at 43 S. Main St. Poundstone climbed on a Greyhound bus 25 years ago and traveled across the country — stopping in at open mic nights at comedy clubs as she went. A high school dropout, she went on to become one of the great humorists of our time.

You can hear her through your laughter as a regular panelist on NPR’s popular rascal of a weekly news quiz show, “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me.” She tours regularly, performing standup comedy across the country, causing Bob Zany of the Boston Globe to write: “Poundstone can regale an audience for several hours with her distinctive brand of wry, intelligent and witty comedy.”

Audience members may put it a little less elegantly: “I peed my pants.”

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Life Continued from Page 3 and put into a brutal prisonerof-war camp.

Early on in the first ordeal, we get a glimpse of Zamperini’s selfless leadership as he tries to calm a panicked peer and tend to a wounded other, but it’s fleeting.

Then it becomes a series of moments — flashes of misery on a boat as we peek in on the men in various stages of decay. It strips the experience of any arc or thrill. Jolie even plops us down in the middle of a violent storm.

This should be electrifying to watch and experience along

annual Parade of Gingerbread Homes.

Starting on Saturday, Dec. 6 and running through Dec. 31, everyone is invited to stroll around downtown Logan to vote on their favorite gingerbread creations.

This year, the site locations and their associated architects of the gingerbread homes are: Anderson’s Seed & Garden, Cache Volunteer CenterTEAM Mentoring; Coppin’s Hallmark, Emily Susan Pack; SE Needham Jewelers, Daniel & Leah Kennedy; Stork Landing, Jennifer, Anna Marie, Katherine, and Ashley Erickson; The Book Table, Pam Headley; The Sportsman, Linette Hlavaty; and U&I Furniture, Robyn Rusch and Emma Hammer.

For more information, visit logandowntown.org.

‘Seven Brides’ coming

The national tour of the hit Broadway musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” will be in Logan for two performances on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Showtimes are at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $39 and are available at cachearts.org, by calling 752-0026 or by visiting the box office at 43 S. Main St. “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” is a high-energy musical combining the classic, physical dancing styles with fun and energetic situations. Not only do the brothers have to dance eloquently at times with their brides, complete with eye-catching lifts and tosses, they also have fun and unique numbers that you would only see in “Seven Brides.”

Photo courtesy of Paula Poundstone One situation includes a complicated and physical Comedian Paula Poundstone will take the stage at the Ellen Eccles Theatre dance with axes and another with blankets as Milly gets them to take a bath. on Saturday, Jan. 17.

with Zamperini. Instead, she shows him bobbing up and down in the black waves, making a plea with God to get him out alive. For such a high stakes scene, it’s oddly lifeless.

There’s also a missed opportunity for an emotional gut punch when Zamperini is separated from his friend.

It seems like Jolie was possibly aiming for subtlety here.

Instead, we just feel robbed.

When he gets to the POW camp, we’re introduced to a sadistic prison guard (played

by Japanese rock star Miyavi) whose sole purpose seems to be to beat Zamperini at every possible moment. But again, without any inquiry into what inspired Zamperini to endure,

the endless brutality falls flat.

O’Connell’s performance is strong and steadfast with moments of greatness and deep vulnerability, but it fails to inspire an emotional response from the audience.

Jolie hasn’t done a disservice to Zamperini’s life, but it’s hard to know what she was trying to tell. It’s Zamperini’s story in fact and circumstance, but somehow, he feels like an enigma. ­­­——— “Unbroken,” a Universal release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “war violence including intense sequences of brutality, and for brief language.” Running time: 137 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

Voice Continued from Page 4 MacLean started by contacting top environmental thinkers in his native Canada, but soon reached out to a diverse group of notables around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, the Dalai Lama and Tainter.

“Todd contacted me in April 2012 with an invitation to contribute to this global anthology on the future of ourselves and the planet,” says Tainter, author of the renowned book, “The Collapse of Complex Societies.” “I thought it was a worthwhile project, with the proceeds benefiting some

admirable causes. I was pleased to contribute a short comment.”

MacLean says responses to his requests were met with enthusiasm, though some of the participants’ insights are more ominous than hopeful. “(The book is) such a treasure trove of wisdom and guidance that poured in from all seven continents,” he says. “I think with Global Chorus, we have a broad conversation and a daily source of inspiration.”

Tainter’s contribution appears on the May 7 page of the book. No spoilers here, but prepare for a thoughtful, concise and honest assessment of challenges our society must tackle to ensure a sustainable future.

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Don’t bet on oddly lifeless ‘Gambler’ remake

By Jocelyn Noveck AP National Writer

“If you’re not a genius, don’t bother,” the English professor played by Mark Walhberg in “The Gambler” blithely tells his students. That should be one clue that you’re not gonna like this guy.

But there’s a bigger problem with that line, because it inadvertently makes us think: If you’re not doing a genius remake of an old movie, why bother? Director Rupert Wyatt’s new version of the 1974 drama that starred James Caan as a self-destructive gambler lacks the bite and heft of the first. It also largely wastes an excellent cast.

At the center is Wahlberg, a talented and appealing actor who is either miscast or misguided here. As Jim Bennett, a professor with a dangerous addiction to gambling,

chance — like his mother (an excellent Jessica Lange), a woman whose pursed lips, icy veneer and dark glasses hide a heart than still cares for this wayward son.

Or like Amy (Brie Larson), the thoughtful student in Jim’s class, who watches him leap through the lecture hall like a swaggering talk show host, telling students they’ll never amount to anything — except her.

Amy, he says, is the only one with enough talent to write. Somehow she accepts this claptrap (which frankly borders on teacher misconduct, though we digress) and decides Jim’s a catch.

We first meet Jim as AP Photo/Paramount Pictures Mark Wahlberg, left, and John Goodman share a scene in his grandfather, a wealthy banking magnate, is on the remake of “The Gambler.” his deathbed. The old man to gambling, and why he’s cool, slick, handinforms Jim he won’t be some — and that’s pretty he’s so pitifully prone to leaving him a dime. He’s self-destruction. much it. We never once on his own.

Moreover, we don’t understand the three most Next thing we see, understand why people important things about Jim’s at a high-end gamkeep giving this infuriatbling den in a mansion him: why he’s drawn to overlooking the Pacific teaching, why he’s drawn ing character another

‘Hobbit’ makes $90.6 million debut vious entry, “The Desolation of NEW YORK (AP) — While Smaug,” even if its actual debut Hollywood continued to wrestle weekend was notably less than with the fallout of the Sony hackboth prior “Hobbit” movies. In ing scandal, the weekend box office offered the solace of a mov- its second week of release overseas, Warner Bros.’ “Five Armies” iegoing truism: Hobbits sell.

Peter Jackson’s final installment added $105.5 million to bring its two-week global total past $350 of his six J.R.R. Tolkien advenmillion. tures, “The Hobbit: The Battle of Jeff Goldstein, head of domestic the Five Armies,” debuted with distribution for Warner Bros., said $56.2 million over the weekend the healthy weekend of moviegoand $90.6 million since opening ing was a welcome respite after an Wednesday, according to studio “upsetting and so disturbing” week. estimates Sunday. For an indus“Not only did we do business in try reeling from the cancellation places that I would expect, like of “The Interview” and terrorist the West Coast, we did business threats against moviegoers, Middle-earth provided reliable refuge. everywhere in the country,” Goldstein said. “We didn’t see that on Aided by popularity on Imax the prior two ‘Hobbit’s.” screens, “The Battle of the Five Another final installment in a Armies” dominated the pretrilogy, “Night at the Museum: Christmas frame with a five-day haul similar to the franchise’s pre- Secret of the Tomb,” opened in

a distant second place. The Fox comedy, which features Robin Williams’ final performance, took in $17.3 million, well off the pace of previous franchise entries. The franchise’s previous debut was $54.2 million for 2009’s “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.”

Sony Pictures, which on Wednesday shelved the Dec. 25 release of the North Korea satire “The Interview” following hacker threats of violence against theaters showing the film, unveiled its other holiday option. The studio’s “Annie” remake, starring Quvenzhane Wallis as the titular orphan, opened with $16.3 million.

“It was nice shot in the arm,” See DEBUT on Page 15

(Wyatt and screenwriter William Monahan have moved the setting to Los Angeles from the New York) where Amy works as a waitress. It’s clear that Jim doesn’t know when to stop. At black-

jack, he’ll win, and win again, and then bet it all — until he loses.

Soon he’s in debt to the tune of a couple hundred grand to the owner, See BET on Page 15

“Insightful, thought-provoking humor, (Chicago Tribune)

“At the top of her game…”

(San Francisco Chronicle)

“Distinctive brand of wry, intelligent and witty comedy” (Boston Globe)

“Never been funnier…”

(Boston Globe)

PAULA POUNDSTONE HALL OF FAME STAND UP COMEDIAN FEATURED PANELIST FROM NPR’S WAIT WAIT...DON’T TELL ME!

Saturday, 7:30 PM January 17, 2015 $25/$30/$35/$39 Tickets Available at

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Phone: (435) 752-0026 Box Office: 43 S Main, Logan

This is one Disney film that’s definitely not a light fairy tale.

For those unfamiliar with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 Broadway musical, that fact might come as a surprise. Fans, meanwhile, will probably be left wondering where the subversive edge has gone.

Disney has chosen to take the middle ground here, cutting, smoothing and refining to create something more palatable to the masses. Devotees might scoff, but director Rob Marshall, his team and his charismatic cast have created a deliriously dark and engrossing spectacle that seems a worthy addition to the movie musical canon — until the last 45 minutes, when it all falls apart.

“Into the Woods” brings together the stories of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy) when a witch (Meryl Streep) challenges a Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) to retrieve a number of objects -- a red cape, blonde hair, a white cow, and a golden slipper. If they succeed, she’ll regain her beauty and bless them with a child.

A manic opening thrusts you into these disparate lives, but soon the quest of the bumbling Baker and his beautiful wife takes hold and powers the first half of the film with a lively, infectious energy.

Blunt and Corden

either. The beats are still there, just obscured ever so slightly.

So, when Red Riding Hood sings that she “knows things now” following a dramatic runin with the predatory wolf, it is exactly what you think.

It’s hard not to get swept up in the grand production of it all. The film looks timeless with its gothic intricacy and disinterest in being modern or trendy. In 30 years, the costume design is not going to date the film. Also the perpetually present wind AP Photo/Disney Enterprises and sweeping overhead shots of the village and Anna Kendrick stars as Cinderella in a scene from “Into the Woods.” woods makes it feel like tivating in the first part.

Little Girl,” aiming for you are indeed somewhere real.

Apparently the second what sounds like his best But the magic drains David Bowie impression. half is even divisive in the Its brevity is its only sav- theater community. Some as the minutes wear on — that’s the danger productions choose to ing grace.

Director // Rob Marshall of teasing the audience leave it out entirely.

But, the most glarStarring // Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Anna with a false ending.

It’s hard to fault the ing issue with “Into the Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt, James ——— Woods” is the story itself. Mouse House for tryCorden, Christine Barankski, Tammy Blanchard “Into the Woods,” a Rated // PG for thematic elements, fantasy action ing to play it a bit safe.

Just when you think it’s Disney release, is rated and peril, and some suggestive material They’ve got a story that reached an appropriate PG by the Motion Picture involves a mashup of conclusion, you glance Association of America at your watch and realize some their most beloved anchor the film with their likely to meet. for “thematic elements, fairy tale characters, and that there’s still nearly humanity and humor, The only performer fantasy action and peril, also rape, adultery, and half a film left. Things while Streep, sporting a who falters is Disney’s and some suggestive get infinitely weirder and a whole lot of death and ratty, cerulean blue mane, own dark prince Johnny material.” Running time: belts her way out of darker and end up nullify- cynicism. It hasn’t been Depp who slurs his way 124 minutes. Two and a “Mamma Mia” prison and through the sleazy “Hello, ing most of what was cap- completely sterilized, half stars out of four. into our musical goodwill, delivering some of the Action!

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By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer

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Charming cast anchors dark ‘Woods’

BAR J WRANGLERS

Delivering the perfect combination of cowboys, christmas and comedy

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he Bar J Wranglers are a Logan staple around the holidays, and whenever they come to town, which they’ve done for years, they consistently sell out the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

So, what is it about them that makes the 35-year-old group such a must-see?

Founder Babe Humphrey attributes it to their family-friendly shows. “We try to keep it where you’re not embarrassed to bring (parents or kids),” he says. “One of the biggest comments we (get is about) our family show.”

It’s no surprise that their shows are family-friendly with how central family is to the Bar J Wranglers. The group itself is comprised of three family members, Babe Humphrey and his sons Scott and Bryan — though the whole group, which also includes Tim Hodgson and Donnie Cook — is practically family at this point.

Even the newest member, Danny Rogers, has been with the group for several years and moved to Jackson Hole to be with the group.

“We think it’s important to connect with family,” Babe says, noting the importance of supporting and being there for your loved ones. “We spend time with kids. There’s a lot of volleyball games and basketball.”

Though, Danny notes, sometimes being away from home can be difficult.

“Everything’s fine when we’re at home,” he says. “But as soon as we get in the rig to head out on the road, we start getting phone calls from our wives: The hot water tank went out or the horse tank froze up, and she’s gotta go out there

with an ax or whatever. There’s always something.”

But even though the Bar J Wranglers do more than 100 shows a year, everywhere from Alaska to Florida (once hitting both those locations within the span of three days), they always make sure to make time for family.

“We travel in the winter, but we’re not on the road,” Babe says, explaining that their shows are spread out enough that they are only gone a few days at a time before getting back home.

And as for the holidays, “We’ll be home for Christmas,” Danny croons, in a perfect example of the authentic spontaneity that the Bar J Wranglers are known for.

It’s another aspect of the group that entices people to come out and see them.

In addition to the cowboy music the group plays, which can simultaneously uplift and entertain, they also constantly ad-libs their interactions with both each other and the crowd — leaving audiences in stitches.

“Our show reveals our personalities,” Scott says.

Indeed, it does. The members are able to dish it and take it, making playful jabs at each other throughout the show. They touch on love, life, growing old and family. They also salute veterans and soldiers at each of their shows and believe that commitment to country and community are important qualities to have. In fact, a couple members of the Bar J Wranglers are veterans, and the whole group takes part in fundraisers and other community See BAR J on Page 13

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Above, upright bass player Bryan Humphrey solicits laughs from the audience during the Bar J Wranglers’ concert at the Ellen Eccles Theatre last week. The Wranglers also include Danny Rogers (guitar) and Tim Hodgson (fiddle). Facing page, Bar J Wranglers founder Babe Humphrey, center, sings with his sons, Scott, left, and Bryan.

kind of indoor exercise equipment that tries to simulate an activity normally done outside. Truth in advertising should require all running, biking, rowing, climbing, ab-crunching, Pilate-ing contraptions to be labeled

“time machines.” And the “endless pool” things?; that’s only a slim bit more humane than waterboarding. These machines can’t actually make you go back or forward in time or stop you from aging but, they can make time move slower than cold mashed potatoes through a cocktail straw. And isn’t that what we all want? A slowing of the increasingly fast pace of life?

I have a pretty consistent history of exercise from age 15 to 58. However, I fail when it comes to the couple months in Cache Valley when there seems to only be about 10 minutes of daylight outside of working hours, and often even that is

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And so begins the end of most of the holiday season, save for New Year’s, which seems to be paradoxically less important the more you see of them. This brings me to the subject of time and how to make it stand still.

Two words: exercise equipment.

More precisely, any

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All the stuff that was wrapped and hung with great care, Is scattered, torn and thrown here and there.

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deemed off limits because of our world-record lethal air quality. To counter this, I have accumulated several of these timestopping machines.

I most frequently use the one that allows me to turn my fancy, expensive triathlon bike into a highly aerodynamic-for-noreason stationary bike. It doubles as an uncomfortable couch from which I can watch TV as time slowly oozes by.

Using an indoor bike, treadmill or other such Guantanamo-like torture devices is the exact opposite of having your life flash before your eyes; life actually creeps by, and you are forced to contemplate every micro-

ing beets is you can’t tell second of your existence when you cut yourself. and wonder whether or • Outside a small vocal not it is all worth it. On the bright side, in addition segment of southern Florida doesn’t everyone to giving me license to want to welcome Cuba into watch bad TV for 30-40 the rest of the world? They minutes a day, my indoor have per capita the best exercise often leads to baseball players, one of the deep thoughts such as: • How do young people most educated populations and an infant mortality way date now without mixed lower than the U.S. Hell, if tapes and CDs in the not for Castro, we’d never mix? Do they just share have Las Vegas. playlists?

Okay, most of these • If you watch “The were actually shallow Voice” with your pet in thoughts, but don’t the room, can I call the judge me until you have ASPCA on you? walked a mile — without • Increasingly I am look- actually going anywhere ing forward to reaching — in my shoes. an age where I don’t think ——— I was a complete idiot Dennis Hinkamp really five years prior. I’m sure does not hate winter as you agree. much as it seems in this • The problem with grat- column.

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Amazon-Hachette feud tops book news in 2014 NEW YORK (AP) — Like a serial for the digital age, the book world’s most dramatic story of 2014 unfolded in installments, often in real time.

A dispute about e-book revenues between Amazon.com and Hachette Book Group led to Amazon’s removing buy buttons, cutting discounts and reducing orders for works ranging from J.K. Rowling’s latest detective thriller to J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories.” The battle lasted for months. Hachette author Stephen Colbert flipped the bird to Amazon, right on camera.

Amazon suggested that frustrated customers might try buying books elsewhere.

You could call the resolution happy, and open-ended. The two sides agreed to a multiyear deal in mid-November and Hachette books were back in full for the holiday season. Amazon and Hachette each declared itself satisfied.

But it’s hard to say what has changed.

Douglas Preston, a Hachette author who became a leading Amazon critic, expressed a common view among writers when he told The Associated Press recently that the standoff demonstrated that the online retailer is “ruthless and willing to sanction books and hurt authors.”

Amazon’s image may have suffered but it still controls some 40 percent of the market, by the estimate of major New York publishers, and still has a hold on those who say they fear it.

James Patterson, a

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Hachette author who has donated more than $1 million to independent sellers and worried that Amazon might put them out of business, said in a recent interview that he likes to shop at the Classic Bookshop near his home in Palm Beach, Florida.

“And I do a little bit (of shopping) online,” he added.

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“I do a little bit online,” he repeated, then said of Amazon.

“I do understand where they’re coming from.”

Here are other highlights from 2014: YESTERDAY’S NEWS: Many of the big fiction books of 2014 were not published in 2014: An Oprah Winfrey pick, Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Invention of Wings”; Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Goldfinch,” a Hachette release so in demand that even Amazon left it alone; and a handful of novels helped by movie adaptations — Gillian Flynn’s

“Gone Girl,” John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars” and Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken.” Phil Klay’s book of contemporary war stories, “Redeployment,” won the National Book Award, but a people’s prize for top literary hardcover of 2014 would likely go to a novel about World War II, Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See,” which has sold more than 180,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks around 80 percent of sales.

ROCK STARS: Readers have been treating young adult writers like rock stars, which is better than how they’ve been treating rock stars — at least those of a certain age. At 48,000 copies, “One Direction: Who We Are: Our Official Autobiography” was more popular than the combined Nielsen sales for books by Carlos Santana, Joe Perry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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There were plenty of great shows in ’14 relatability — plus plenty NEW YORK of laughs.

(AP) — From the • “Fargo” (FX). This extraordinary Maggie deliciously deranged Gyllenhaal-starring series channeled the 1996 miniseries “The Honcrime classic while setting orable Woman” on SundanceTV to Syfy’s off in fresh new tracks across the Minnesota tungoofy “Sharknado 2: The Second One,” TV dra. Its brand-new crop of oddball characters was delivered in 2014 — led by Billy Bob Thornstreaming, on cable ton as Lorne Malvo, a and over the air.

Showtime’s “Home- sotto-voce psycho on a land” roared back from byzantine trail of deadly mischief. Black comedy last year’s muddle with a season of white- never shone so bright. knuckle suspense. CBS’ • “Girlfriends’ Guide “The Good Wife” killed to Divorce” (Bravo). off a main character to Truth may be stranger than fiction, but somegive the show its lattimes fiction is more trueest burst of life. FX’s to-life than truth. Exhibit “Sons of Anarchy” ended its seven-season A: This fine new comedyrun with explosive clo- drama, the first scripted series on a network identisure. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” wrapped fied with reality fare such its saga with a fascinat- as the “Real Housewives” ing season that juggled franchise and “Millionthree phases in the life aire Matchmaker.” Lisa of Atlantic City poten- Edelstein is a how-to tate Nucky Thompson. author dispensing radiant advice for a successful AMC’s “Mad Men” teed up satisfyingly for family life while her own its final round in 2015. marriage is coming apart.

You might call it an adult Showtime’s “The Affair” gave fair warn- variation of “Sex and the City,” full of mature ing against cheating on your spouse, while emotions and challenges making such a misdeed (divorce isn’t for sissies), but also spiced with seem irresistible.

And ABC’s “Scandal” grown-up fun.

• “Gotham” (Fox). The was wackier than ever.

Consider them win- comic book crowd can ning programs, one and embrace it as an “oriall. But here are 10 that gin” series about the lad who would grow up to get a special nod: • “black-ish” (ABC). become Batman. Fans of The diversity of life is noir thrillers can savor the sleek storytelling celebrated within the seeming confines of an and brooding stylishness. upscale African-Amer- “Gotham” has everything: larger-than-life characters ican family whose patriarch is determined completely at home in the free-floating world of this to uphold a sense of crime-ridden city. A terrifcultural identity for ic cast (led by Ben McKhis four kids. Starring Anthony Anderson and enzie and Donal Logue) that plays the twisted narTracee Ellis Ross as his far-less-fretful wife, rative completely straight.

And gorgeous production it’s a smart comedy values. Were it on premithat addresses race, um cable, this broadcastculture and class with network series would be a colorblind brand of

worth the price.

• “Jane the Virgin (CW). Jane Villanueva, a young Miami woman whose eyes are trained on professional success and whose knees have stayed virtuously clamped together, finds her plans upended after she’s mistakenly impregnated with a specimen meant for someone else. After that, the show is as unpredictable as Jane’s life, and as big-hearted as she is.

Based on a Venezuelan telenovela, it stars the effervescent Gina Rodriguez in a multicultural world that feels genuine yet buoyed with wonder.

• “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO). A balm for the imminent pain of losing Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” this weekly half-hour swiftly proved itself with its in-depth looks-pluslaughs at serious subjects that “serious” TV news routinely overlooks.

Employing a style that’s been called “investigative comedy,” Oliver has applied his British brand

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of wry bemusement to gender-pay inequality, anti-gay laws in Uganda, exaggerated claims for Miss America scholarships and net neutrality. In these seminars-cum-sermonettes, he’s hilarious and illuminating.

• “Nixon’s the One” (Online: http://harryshearer.com). At first glance, it might seem like a cheap shot tossed off as a bunch of comic sketches. But, no: Harry Shearer has dramatized the real-life President Richard Nixon

with an eye toward authenticity, not parody. Shearer mimics the man known to detractors as Tricky Dick in bizarre but actual interludes lifted wordfor-word from the White House recordings Nixon secretly made — the very tapes whose revelations wrecked his presidency. In the series’ six half-hours, Shearer has reanimated scenes from Nixon’s Oval Office archive with tender, loving care while exposing them with full comic effect.

• “The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC). What mattered when Jimmy Fallon took over from Jay Leno (and “The Tonight Show” returned to Manhattan after four decades) was this: Fallon just kept doing what he’d done so successfully as host of NBC’s “Late Night” — just bigger and better on this grander stage. He remained funny, gracious, bubbly and muchassured. Instantly “The Tonight Show” became, in effect, “The Jimmy Fallon Show.”

• “Transparent” (Amazon Instant Video).

Any family, no matter how seemingly stable, is just one revelation away from upheaval. The Pfeffermans are no different, especially when its patriarch, Mort, shocks his ex-wife and grown children by coming out as a would-be matriarch re-christened as Maura.

With Jeffrey Tambor starring as a man on the search for womanhood, this transgender comedy is funny, poignant, perceptive and relatable as it explores the complexity of family dynamics as well as the far reaches of sexual identity.

• “True Detective” (HBO). A ghoulish 1995 murder is investigated and solved by a pair of Louisiana State Police detectives. Or was it?

Pressed by investigators in 2012, the by-thenformer partners are forced to relive the case, as well as their stormy relationship, amid growing doubt that the right man was charged years before. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson both were masterful in their bifurcated portrayals, while the tale was as consuming and dark as pitch.

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Their commitment to fans is also evident. In addition to interacting with audience members throughout their performance, they also take time after their show to shake hands with fans, talk with them and sign CDs. The best part of performing is “the smiles on peoples faces,” says Bryan — with the other Wranglers readily agreeing.

And some fan interactions are truly impactful — just ask Danny.

“I had just started with these guys,” he recalls, “I climb into the rig, my first show, and we’re headed east. We get into D.C. and the next thing I know, we’re walking into the Oval Office in the White House. President Bush looks at these guys and says ‘It’s the Humphrey boys!’”

“We told him it’s downhill from there,” Bryan jokes.

But, for Danny, it wasn’t — recalling his most important interaction from a show: “We were playing in Grantsville,

Continued from Page 5 While there is no doubt that Poundstone is funny, the thing that probably separates her from the pack of comics working today and that has made her a legend among comics and audiences alike is her ability to be spontaneous with a crowd.

Poundstone says: “No two shows I do are the same. It’s not that I don’t repeat material. I do. My shows, when they’re good, and I like to think they often are, are like a cocktail party. When you first get there, you talk about how badly you got lost and how hard it was to find parking.

Then you tell a story about your kids or what you just saw on the news. You meet some new people and ask John Zsiray/Herald Journal them about themselves. Then, The founder of the Bar J Wranglers, Babe Humphrey, sings with the Jackson Hole-based singing cowboys someone says, ‘Tell that story at their annual Christmas concert last week at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. you used to tell,’ and then someone on the other side of the room spills a drink, and Utah, and I met this lovely girl dent, and consistently sold“To me, the greatest accomyou mock them. No one ever over here,” he says, motioning out crowds from coast to plishment is just being able applauds me when I leave to his now wife. coast, what is the Bar J Wran- to do what I love doing for a So with accomplishments living. It sounds cliche, but if glers biggest accomplisha party, though. I think they like 35 years in business, a you love doing what you’re ment? high five.”

Wrangler Tim Hodgson successful show in Jackson doing, it’s a lot less like work. Visit paulapoundstone.com sums it up rather succinctly: Hole, meeting a U.S. presifor more information.

We’re very blessed.”

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of “Lemony Snicket” fame that are more than personal, made an awkward joke about with acclaimed collections watermelon that even Handler from Roxane Gay, Charles later acknowledged was racist. D’Ambrosio and Meghan He apologized and eventually Daum among others. Lesdonated $110,000 to WNDB. lie Jamison, author of the best-selling “The Empathy Woodson, a published Exams: Essays,” wrote in a author for nearly 25 years, recent email that “readers are sees the industry alternating becoming increasingly drawn between cycles of recognito forms of personal writing tion and neglect. Now, she believes, recognition is under- that also look outward at the world: that blend the revway, citing Jason Reynolds elations of memoir with the and Aisha Saeed as among inquiries of journalism and the promising young adult criticism.” writers. Meanwhile, WoodTHE FACTS: With nonficson wants to get around to an tion still essentially a print adult book she’s been meanmarket, and with bookstore ing to write. “My plan for space far smaller than a January is to get quiet again, decade ago, it’s hard these and write.” days to be a historian — GETTING PERSONAL unless you’re Bill O’Reilly.

(AND POLITICAL): Lena Dunham only begins the story. The Fox News host’s latest recounting of a famous death, It was a good year for personal essays, including those “Killing Patton: The Strange

Continued from Page 11 DIVERSITY: BookCon, a self-styled “pop culture” version of BookExpo America, launched in 2014 and immediately failed by only inviting white authors to speak. In response, a social media campaign was born, and a grassroots movement, We Need Diverse Books, soon followed.

One of We Need Diverse Books’ advisers is Jacqueline Woodson, who won the National Book Award for her young adult book “Brown Girl Dreaming.” She also, quite unintentionally, helped raised a substantial amount of money for the organization. After she won her prize, awards emcee Daniel Handler

Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General,” has sold more than 700,000 copies, according to Nielsen. That’s far more than the combined Nielsen sales for the most recent books (both published before 2014) by two of the world’s most famous historians: Robert Caro’s “The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.” and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.”

O’Reilly’s book, co-written

by Martin Dugard, also easily surpassed the combined sales of two of the biggest political books of 2014: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Hard Choices” and George W. Bush’s biography of his father, and fellow ex-president, “41.”

THE CLOUD: Trip Adler

is the CEO of Scribd, a leading e-book subscription service, an emerging part of the digital market. He believes e-books are the future, but is admittedly surprised that print is holding up so well.

Asked why he thinks print has endured, he pauses. “I don’t know,” he says. “I can brainstorm a bunch of reasons. Book technology has kind of lagged behind video and music. Even subscription services came to books last.

Why weren’t the book services first? I can’t say why.”

For himself, Adler likes e-books and relies on Scribd for suggestions. “I open the Scribd app and whatever books are recommended to me I read,” he said. “I have not read a print book in a long time. I’m kind of the Silicon Valley type.”

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41. “The Lord of the Rings” figure 42. In the manner of 44. Big lug 47. Victorian, for one 48. Mister ____, comic strip 49. Object or thing 51. Gave power to 52. Big Apple 57. Getting around 59. Diner patron 60. Blood gp. system 62. Ballroom dance, when doubled 63. Cereal-plant part 64. PGA contestant 65. Noted Downing Street address 67. Prior, in poetry 68. “Chicago” lyricist 70. Great, in Great Britain 71. Like some socks 72. Curtain hardware 74. Art degrees 75. Freud’s “The __ and the Id” 76. Stomach 77. Affirmative vote 78. Cooking abbr.

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106. Filthy 108. Axed down 112. Kenyan export 113. Community character 115. Latches onto something 117. Confesses 118. German soldier in WWII slang 121. Bay 123. Winkle or scope?

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Cache Magazine calendar items are due Tuesday by 5 p.m. They will also run for free in The Herald Journal one to two days prior to the event. Calendar items can be submitted by email at hjhappen@hjnews.com. Any press releases or photos for events listed in the first half of Cache Magazine can be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com. Poems and photos can also be sent to jhunter@hjnews.com and run on a space-available basis if selected.

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Curtis Wardle will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Hardware Ranch WMA offers a unique opportunity to get up close to wild Rocky Mountain elk on a horse-drawn sleigh. Starting Dec. 12 and running through Mar 2, 2015, Hardware Ranch is open noon to 4:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

Tickets are sold in the visitors center and are $5 ages 9 and up, $3 ages 4-8, children 3 and under are free. Visit hardwareranch.com or call 753-6206 for more information.

Michael Faraday began a tradition of giving a lecture for children on Christmas Eve in 1827. He would show the children various experiments that he had been working on during the year at a time when education for young people was scarce.

Many of his basic discoveries make today’s technology possible. Come to the 6th annual Faraday’s Holiday Event from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Whittier Center, 290 N. 400 East. Admission is $2 for kids under 15, $4 for adults and $12 per family. There will be a keynote speaker and exciting, hands-on science activities for kids of all ages. Brought to you

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more information.

SUNDAY 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 Zac Bettinger will perform from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave.

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Continued from Page 6 Mister Lee (Alvin Ing.) Sinking deeper into the quicksand, he accepts $50,000 from another loan shark, Neville (Michael Kenneth Williams of “The Wire,” highly entertaining). Now he owes two people.

It’s up to Mom to bail out her son, and she tries, albeit reluctantly. Jim isn’t even grateful. With poor Amy watching (this is indeed a thankless role, both for Amy and for Larson) Jim loses it all again. Seems he doesn’t like being helped.

As Amy says: “You’re one of those guys who started out with no problems at all, and now you have all of them.”

The movie’s other good lines pretty much all go to John Goodman, who livens up the proceedings each time he appears. Goodman plays Frank, another loan shark, this one an amateur philosopher. One moment he’s a genial adviser, giving a perfectly rational explanation of how owning a home and saving a little money will protect anyone against life’s ups and downs. At another, he’s scary as hell, telling Jim that if he borrows and doesn’t pay back, Frank will methodically erase his entire bloodline.

Somehow, Jim will have to figure out how to save himself, and it’ll be more complicated than borrowing from Peter to play Paul. The ending — a departure from the original, again — is satisfyingly creative and suspenseful.

By then, though, it feels too late. We didn’t really care enough about Jim to be invested in his ultimate fate. They sorta lost us at hello.

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Continued from Page 4 scale, a paratrooper helmet, a Japanese flag, a serviceman’s New Testament pocket Bible, a Tuskegee Airmen’s Medal of Honor, Buck Rogers’ spaceship, a newsboy’s union button, a German mother’s Cross Medal, a countertop radio and a souvenir pamphlet celebrating the start of the United Service Organizations (USO)

“The Gambler,” a Paramount Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America “for language throughout, and for some sexuality/nudity.” Running time: 111 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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English classes for adults begin Jan. 7 and end March 20 at the English Language Center of Cache Valley, 1544 N. 200 West. Registration will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

January 5-6. Class fee is $25.

Beginning, Levels 1-5 classes are available mornings and evenings. There’s also a special class for adults with no formal education who cannot read or write.

TUESDAY Hardware Ranch WMA offers a unique opportunity to get up close to wild Rocky Mountain elk on a horse-drawn sleigh. Starting Dec. 12 and running through March 2, 2015,

which provides programs, services and entertainment to U.S. troops and families.

Since 1941, the USO has been the G.I.’s “home away from home.”

The tumultuous journey of millions of Americans is presented in the following panels: Draftees Taking Physical Exams; Pearl Harbor Attack Scene; Going to War; Maternity Ward Babies; Young People with Prize-winning Lamb; Factory Interior; U.S. Army Soldiers with Captured Nazi Flag; and a crowd on V-J (Victory

Hardware Ranch is open noon to 4:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are sold in the visitors center and are $5 ages 9 and up, $3 ages 4-8, children 3 and under are free. Visit hardwareranch. com or call 753-6206 for more information.

WEDNESDAY A New Year’s Eve Dinner & Dance for Cache Singles 31+ will begin at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at the Willow Park LDS church building, 340 W. 700 South. Casual appropriate attire (LDS standards apply). Admission is $5.

over Japan) Day. Local artifacts from the museum’s collection as well as local stories from oral histories will supplement the exhibit.

Museum Director Kaia Landon says, “We’re excited to feature ‘Our Lives, Our Stories’ because the aura of the ‘greatest generation’ that helped shape the world we live in today has not dimmed for many people. The generation’s adversity and achievement, despair and triumphs are a testament to its extraordinary character.”

that will leave more room for the Disney musical “Into the Woods,” Angelina Jolie’s World War II tale “Unbroken” and “The Hobbit.”

“There’s a huge opportunity there,” said Paul Continued from Page 6 Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for boxsaid Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony, office tracker Rentrak. “There’s enough product who declined to discuss issues related to “The out there to give it a very satisfying, Christmas Interview.” ‘’We’re focused on ‘Annie,’” he said. holiday leading into the new year. Yeah, we are Last week’s top film, Ridley Scott’s Moses down one film, but it’s a nice mix of films out epic, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” tumbled to there.” fourth place with $8.1 million in its second week.

On Sunday, David Boies, a lawyer for Sony, The Fox release slid a dramatic 67 percent. said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “The InterHeading into one of Hollywood’s most lucraview” ‘’will be released.” The studio has been tive weekends of the year, the Christmas box criticized by many, including President Barack office will be without its top comedy option Obama, for dropping the film following data in “The Interview,” directed by Seth Rogen and leaks and intimidations from hackers the FBI has Evan Goldberg. The film had been expected to said came from North Korea. take in about $25-30 million.

“How it’s going to be distributed, I don’t think With one major release now out of the mix, anybody knows quite yet,” Boies said.

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