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Now in Chicago

MSI’s Christmas Around the World.

Happy Holidays

What’s happening around St. Louis.

Explore the arts SWIC offers many options.

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What’s Happening Friday, December 22 Winter Wonderland, Tilles Park, Runs until January 1, 2018 Holiday in the Park, Six Flags, St. Louis, Runs until January 1, 2018 The Polar Express Train Ride, St. Louis, Union Station, St. Louis, Runs until December 30, 2017 Steinberg Skating Rink, Forest Park, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m., Runs until February 24, 2018 Winterfest at the Arch, Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until December 31, 2017 U.S. Bank presents Wild Lights, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Runs until December 30, 2017 Saint Louis University Men’s Basketball Game, Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Jazz St. Louis Big Band plays Ellington’s Nutcracker, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tear Out The Heart, Final Drive, For The City, Make Room, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m. Drew Michael, w/Andrew Frank, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m. El Monstero – The Definitive Pink Floyd Experience, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. Colin & AJ’s, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. A Very Manley Christmas feat. Jim Manley’s Mad Brass & Rhythm, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis The Nutcracker, William D. Purser Center, Chesterfield, 4:00 p.m. Currents 114, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2018 Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 21, 2018 The Rep. presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until December 24, 2017

Garden Glow, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs Until January 1, 2018 Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2018

Saturday, December 23 Winter Wonderland, Tilles Park, Runs until January 1, 2018 Holiday in the Park, Six Flags, St. Louis, Runs until January 1, 2018 The Polar Express Train Ride, St. Louis, Union Station, St. Louis, Runs until December 30, 2017 Steinberg Skating Rink, Forest Park, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m., Runs until February 24, 2018 Winterfest at the Arch, Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until December 31, 2017 U.S. Bank presents Wild Lights, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Runs until December 30, 2017 Bud Light Braggin’ Rights, Scottrade Center, St. Louis El Monstero – The Definitive Pink Floyd Experience, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. Frost Money’s Toy Drive Extravaganza, Pop’s, Sauget, Doors 8:00 p.m. A Very Manley Christmas feat. Jim Manley’s Mad Brass & Rhythm, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis The Nutcracker, William D. Purser Center, Chesterfield, 4:00 p.m. Currents 114, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2018 Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 21, 2018

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More than 50 trees represent traditions from all over the world, including a Native America tree.

MSI’s Christmas Around the World Exhibit open in Chicago through Jan. 7 For The Edge Feel the warmth of family, friends and tradition at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago’s (MSI) 75th anniversary of Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light. Guests are invited to celebrate dozens of holiday customs with trees and displays, including three new additions, decorated to represent cultures from across the

globe. This one-of-a-kind celebration returns to MSI November 16, 2017 and will run through January 7, 2018. Christmas Around the World began in 1942 as a United Nations Day salute to the Allies during World War II. In its first year, a single tree was newly decorated every day for 12 days to represent the countries fighting alongside America during World War II. Today, the exhibit has grown to more than 50 trees and

displays, offering insight into the holiday customs celebrated by families around the world. Now in its 23rd year, Holidays of Light highlights the holidays that honor light or enlightenment with decorated vitrines containing symbolic objects that showcase these celebrations. Holidays of Light focuses on the traditions of the Chinese New Year, Diwali, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Visakha Puja Day, and St.

Lucia Day. Holidays of Light is located among the trees throughout the Museum’s Main Floor. At the center of it all stands the 45-foottall Grand Tree, adorned with more than 30,000 twinkling lights and ornaments. Guests can also enjoy festive holiday music and “snow” falling every half hour on the Museum’s Main Floor. New Trees and Traditions Continued on Page 4

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Guests can enjoy snow falling indoors every half-hour.

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This year, guests will notice three additional trees in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Christmas Around the World—Assyria, Australia, and Nigeria: Assyria: Assyrians come from modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. The theme of this tree is brotherhood, and is celebrated with decorations that include photos and ornaments that represent khigga, a folk dance in which people form a line by holding hands.

Australia: Guests will see home-made paperchains, decorations representing native Australian fauna and flora, and sheep. Plus, several ornaments are created by indigenous Australian artists which reflect the multicultural nature of the country. Nigeria: This tree will include traditional Nigerian holiday decorations, including handmade, m u l t i - c o l o re d N i g e r i a n l a c e f a b r i c and garlands created from black-eyed peas and beaded jewelry, highlighting the rich family customs shared by all Nigerian people at Christmastime. These trees join the more than 50 trees and displays in the exhibit, inviting guests to celebrate the rich history surrounding the holiday traditions of cultures from nearly every continent. Festive Performances and Other

Holiday Fun Guests can enjoy lively performances from all corners of the globe during C h r i s t m a s A ro u n d t h e Wo r l d a n d Holidays of Light. Local cultural groups will perform native dances in the Museum’s Main Auditorium inside the West Pavilion. Performances will take place on November 18-19, 24-26; December 2-3, 9-10, and 16-17. A full schedule and times will become available at msichicago.org in November. Stop by Yesterday’s Main Street where Santa will be making special visits during Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light. Children can meet Santa before his epic Christmas journey on November 18-19, 24-26, 30; December 1-3, 7-10, 14-17, and 21-23.

Guests are also welcome to take photos with our 45-foot-tall Grand Tree. Don’t forget to make a stop at the H o l i d a y S h o p , f u l l o f g re a t g i f t s and festive trinkets for family and friends, including unique ornaments representing cultures around the world and a one-of-a-kind snow globe sold exclusively at MSI. C h r i s t m a s A r o u n d t h e Wo r l d and Holidays of Light are included in Museum Entry, as are all cultural performances. Christmas Around the World photos are available for download online. Please credit “Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.” Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light are sponsored by GATX Corporation.

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Looking for some holiday fun? For The Edge Looking for something different for Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve? Here are some events happening in the St. Louis area. Lucky Dan & Naked Mike – December 29, 7-10pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 No Cover http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ Enjoy “Southern Roadhouse Hospitality” while listening to the -acoustic folk/rock/blues of Lucky Dan and Naked Mike. Hwy 61 Roadhouse is a Memphis and New Orleans dining experience right here in Webster Groves. Laissez le bon temps roulez, “Let the good times roll” Kwanzaa Celebration & Performance in The Delmar Loop – December 30, 1pm Create Space, 6323 Delmar Blvd in The Delmar Loop https://visittheloop.com/ Join the students from the Bertha Knox Gilkey Pamoja Prep Academy, as we come together as a community to celebrate Kwanzaa with live music, dancing, art exhibits…..and more. New Year ’s Eve Brunch – December 31, 9:30am-1pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 Adults: 14.99 / Kids 3-12: 6.99 / Kids under 3: 1.99 http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ Hot Buffet includes the best of breakfast: biscuits and andouille sausage gravy, hash browns, cheesy grits, andouille sausage, beignets, chicken and shrimp jambalaya, red beans and rice, cream corn souffle and much more! Make to order eggs, omelettes, pancakes, and eggs Rockefeller. And don’t forget to check out our delicious dessert table and tasty cocktails

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Lucky Dan and Naked Mike will perform on Dec. 29 at the Hwy 61 Roadhouse in Webster Groves. including Mimosas and Sangria and our $3 build your own Bloody Mary bar. New Years Eve at Hwy 61 – December 31m 6-12:30am Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 $10 cover without package purchase includes midnight toast & party favors; $37.18 + tax/tip http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ 2 dinner seatings at 6-8pm and 7:30pm-12:30am. Each seating includes any entrée and either a cocktail or a house salad, gumbo, jambalaya or an appetizer tasting from our special New

Year ’s Eve menu (see attached graphic for menu). Cocktail includes a hurricane, margarita or any liquor up to premium. Paul Bonn and the Bluesmen 8:30pm-12:30am. Call 314-9680061. New Year’s Eve at Kemoll’s – December 31, 8pm-Midnight Kemoll’s / Top of the Met, 211 N. Broadway, 63102 $110/person + tax https://www.facebook.com/ events/195758694304957/ Kemoll’s Restaurant invites you to join us as we ring in the New Year with dinner and dancing to the Everyday People

Band. Included dinner, gratuity, premium bar, and parking. Doors open at 7:30pm. Menu coming soon! Call 314-421-0555 to make a reservation N e w Ye a r ’ s E v e a t Blueberry Hill – December 31, 9pm-Midnight Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room $40 advance / $50 day of show https://www.facebook.com/ events/1187704551331552/ Kick off 2018 with Blueberry Hill and SuperJam in our Duck R o o m ! Ti c k e t s i n c l u d e a n open bar, party favors and a champagne midnight toast, plus a fun night with an incredible

band. Get tickets while they last! New Year’s Eve at Pin-up Bowl – December 31, 7pm-Midnight Pin-Up Bowl, 6191 Delmar Blvd, 63112 http://pinupbowl.com/ Celebrate New Year’s Eve with a $10 glass of champagne - and you get to keep the glass! Limited supply. Offer begins at 7pm and runs until the last glass is sold. New Year’s Day: Noon-3am JANUARY New Year ’s Day Brunch – January 1, 9:30am-1pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117

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The Gateway Arch Park Foundation has launched a new website ( w w w. A rc h P a r k . org) highlighting the renovated spaces at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Gateway Arch, riverfront, and Kiener Plaza – together referred to as Gateway Arch Park. The new website also highlights public events, the Foundation’s membership program and ways the community can support the Arch. While the previous site conveyed the C i t y A rc h R i v e r p ro j e c t and construction updates, the new site focusses on completed park spaces and how the public can

enjoy and support the n e w A rc h e x p e r i e n c e . Visitors can learn about the legacy of the historic CityArchRiver project on an interactive timeline. P o p u l a r f e a t u re s f ro m the old website remain, such as the interactive webcams. “As we near the grand opening of the new park, museum, and visitor center, this new website shows the transformed and active Gateway Arch Park in exciting ways,” said Ryan McClure, director of communications and activation for Gateway Arch Park Foundation. “We want folks to see that this is their park to enjoy and use with many activities and events all year.” The website makes it easy for visitors to find events in the Gateway Arch Park area and find information on planning their own event – public o r p r i v a t e . Vi s i t o r s

Ticket includes craft beer, soft drinks and chips. The Friends of The Sheldon present the t e n t h a n n u a l Tr i v i a Night at The Sheldon. Phil Donato, “The Trivia Guy,” will serve as host, with questions covering popular culture, music, movies and more! Participants will have the chance to purchase Mulligans, 50/50 raffle tickets and enter minigames. First and second place winners will receive cash prizes, and a consolation prize will be awarded to the last

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People planner Bill Maher coming to The Fox Fox Concerts is thrilled to announce that comedian and Emmynominated talk show host Bill Maher will bring his live stand-up tour to the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Saturday, August 25 at 8 p.m. Ti c k e t s a r e $ 1 2 5 , $85, $65, $55, $45 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office. For more than twenty years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. First on “ P o l i t i c a l l y I n c o r re c t ” (Comedy Central, ABC, 1993-2002), and for the last fourteen years on H B O ’ s “ R e a l Ti m e , ” Maher ’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 38 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008,

this same combination was on display in Maher ’s uproarious and unprecedented swipe a t o rg a n i z e d re l i g i o n , “Religulous,” directed by Larry Charles (“Borat”). The documentary has gone on to become the 8 t h H i g h e s t G ro s s i n g Documentary ever. In addition to his television program – which has featured such visitors as President B a r a c k O b a m a , Vi c e President Joseph Biden, Bernie Sanders, E l i z a b e t h Wa r r e n , K e r r y Wa s h i n g t o n , Michael Steele, Howard D e a n , M i c h a e l M o o re , Eva Longoria, Drew B a r r y m o re , R e v. J e s s e J a c k s o n , G e n . We s l e y Clark, Susan Sarandon, K e v i n C o s t n e r, G a r y Hart and Pat Buchanan.– Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a P ro b l e m w i t h T h a t ? Politically Incorrect’s Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody

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People planner YouTube star to perform at The Fox On the heels of multiple sold out shows and added performances during his debut U.S. tour in June, Right Angle Entertainment has announced new tour dates for YouTube personality Markiplier, whose channel has more than 18 million subscribers and 6 billion video views. M a r k i p l i e r ’ s Yo u ’ r e Welcome Tour (https:// www.youtube.com/user/ markiplierGAME) mixes improv games, sketches and a cast of characters to create an on-stage adventure for audiences. YouTubers LordMinion777, Muyskerm, Tyler Scheid and CrankGameplays all round out the show and join Markiplier on the road for this one-of-a-kind stage show. Markiplier ’s You’re Welcome Tour Live will stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre

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Artistic adventures SWIC to celebrate music, arts You can see student films, enjoy a senior art show, hear the USAF Band of Mid-America and listen to a radio café broadcast… all at Southwestern Illinois College this fall. The college’s arts series, called the Southwestern I l l i n o i s C re a t i v e A r t s Syndicate, features a variety of events ranging from a presentation about Shakespeare in Love by Assistant Professor of Speech and Theatre Julie Willis Feb. 14 to the SWIC Jazz Festival Feb. 24 and the Film and Mass Communication programs’ open house April 24. “There is something for everyone whether you’re into chamber music, love

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“I, Tonya”

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“I, Tonya” is the Tonya Harding film you never knew you wanted: an outrageously entertaining reappraisal of the Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was involved in a scheme to injure her main rival, Nancy Kerrigan. Resurrecting Harding from the yellowed pages of ‘90s tabloids may seem about as necessary as a production of “Lorena Bobbitt on Ice.” But yesterday’s media spectacle has been very good for today’s movies. It’s no surprise by now that the tabloid caricatures sketched in a sensational news stories don’t always do justice to the truth. The more layered truths behind scandals of the past have made for some great documentaries (particularly last year’s “O.J.: Made in America” and “Hot Coffee,” the illuminating story behind the coffee that was “too hot”) and a number of recent dramatic highlights, like Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming “Molly’s Game,” about the woman callously dubbed the “poker princess” by the tabloids. Craig Gillespie’s movie — an “I, Claudius” for less regal times — isn’t a sober reassessment of Harding. It’s a winking, rollicking dark comedy both empathetic and pugnacious. It reframes Harding’s story as an American tragicomedy with some of the unapologetic, this-is-thereal-America sneer of “GoodFellas.” ‘’I, Tonya” is a peek behind a media circus that can’t help going along for the ride, too. “I, Tonya,” written by Steven Rogers, is introduced as: “Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.” RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “pervasive language, violence, and some sexual content/nudity.” RUNNING TIME: 121 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“Disaster Artist”

Who is Tommy Wiseau? It’s a question that has long befuddled and endlessly amused fans of “The Room,” the infamously bad 2003 movie Wiseau directed, self-financed and starred in. Where did this billboard-self-promoting, Terminator-sunglasseswearing Frozen Caveman Lawyer knockoff come from? (He has claimed New Orleans but investigation — and his accent — suggest Poland.) How old is he? (No one knows but older than he has said.) And where did he get his apparent wealth? (The movie cost $6 million to make, partly because Wiseau insisted on shooting on both 35mm film and digital.) It’s also a question that James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist,” a comedy about Wiseau and the making of “The Room,” has no interest in answering. That’s because “The Disaster Artist” isn’t really about Tommy Wiseau. It’s about James Franco. A quick recap for the uninitiated. “The Room” ran for two weeks in Los Angeles (Wiseau wanted it to qualify for the Oscars) and was roundly panned as a singularly terrible movie. But it found a “Rocky Horror Picture Show”-sized cult, with sold-out midnight screenings that continue to run. Devotees thrilled to the movie’s cheesy filmmaking, its strange, woeful imitation of Tennessee Williams dialogue (“You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”), its bizarre narrative incongruities (one character announces having cancer only for it never to be talked of again) and its proliferation of spoons throughout (which fans bring to throw at screenings). RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language throughout and some sexuality/nudity.” RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two and a half stars out of four.

“Wonder Wheel”

The great playwright Eugene O’Neill looms as large over Woody Allen’s latest film as the giant Ferris wheel that dominates the movie’s Coney Island setting. It’s not exactly clear whether “Wonder Wheel “ is an ambitious homage to O’Neill or a blatant theft of his work. Either way, it will be hard going for even the biggest Allen fan. It’s pitch dark, with little of Allen’s signature quirk and plenty of stilted dialogue. “Oh God, spare me the bad drama!” one character wails at the end and you’ll commiserate. O’Neill has always been held in high regard by Allen and he’s evidently borrowed so much from the master that what begins as a period drama set at the Brooklyn seaside just after World War II slowly transforms into O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” complete with a family at each other’s throats, alcoholic numbness and the lady of the house half out of her mind, trying on an old gown. The film directed and written by Allen explores the intersection of four lives — a struggling blue-collar couple played by Jim Belushi and Kate Winslet, and two younger characters, Juno Temple as Belushi’s estranged daughter, and Justin Timberlake as a wannabe playwright and summer lifeguard who becomes a love interest to both women. There’s also a young son who is a firebug — and a cliche. The film feels more like an old play exercise retooled for the big screen. RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America “for thematic content including some sexuality, language and smoking.” RUNNING TIME: 101 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: One star out of four.

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Movies “I, Tonya” sticks the landing By JAKE COYLE Associated Press “I, Tonya” is the Tonya Harding film you never knew you wanted: an outrageously entertaining reappraisal of the Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was involved in a scheme to injure her main rival, Nancy Kerrigan. Resurrecting Harding from the yellowed pages of ‘90s tabloids may seem about as necessary as a production of “Lorena Bobbitt on Ice.” But yesterday’s media spectacle has been very good for today’s movies. It’s no surprise by now that the tabloid caricatures sketched in a sensational news stories don’t always do justice to the truth. The more layered truths behind scandals of the past have made for some great documentaries (particularly last year’s “O.J.: Made in America” and “Hot Coffee,” the illuminating story behind the coffee that was “too hot”) and a number of recent dramatic highlights, like Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming “Molly’s Game,” about the woman callously dubbed the “poker princess” by the tabloids. Craig Gillespie’s movie — an “I, Claudius” for less regal times — isn’t a sober reassessment of Harding. It’s a winking, rollicking dark comedy both empathetic and pugnacious. It reframes Harding’s story as an American tragicomedy with some of the unapologetic, this-is-the-real-America sneer of “GoodFellas.” ‘’I, Tonya” is a peek behind a media circus that can’t help going along for the ride, too. “I, Tonya,” written by Steven Rogers, is introduced as: “Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.” It begins in a mock-documentary style with the characters — Margot Robbie as Harding, Sebastian Stan as Gillooly — giving present-day interviews recalling “the incident.” Their stories sometimes converge, sometimes deviate and the movie — in a well-worn gimmick — playfully pauses at various points with characters turning to the camera to relay their perspective. The approach sometimes spoils the fun of “I, Tonya” but Tatiana S. Riegel’s

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This image released by Neon shows Sebastian Stan as Jeff Gillooly, left, and Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding in a scene from “I, Tonya.” editing is kinetic and the performances keep “I, Tonya” hurtling forward. Especially Allison Janney. She plays Harding’s bitter, abusive chain-smoking mother, LaVona, and her performance is a monument of brutal, caustic wit. In the film’s early scenes at their Portland, Oregon, hometown, she puts a 4-year-old Tonya on the ice and smirks as she skates loops around much older and more wellto-do competitors. But she’s downright mean, too. In one scene, she refuses to let Tonya go to the bathroom. When Tonya pees herself, LaVona declares, “Skate wet!”

And that is, on the scale of things, not the worst of the abuse heaped on Harding. Once she finally flees her mother ’s cruelty, she moves in with Gillooly — a leap from the frying pan to the fire if ever there was one. Their romance is sweet at first, but he soon begins hitting her, especially as Harding’s career blossoms. (She was the first U.S. skater to land a triple axel.) “ I , To n y a ” c a s t s i t s i n f a m o u s protagonist, nicknamed “Trashy Tonya,” as a working-class insurgent in a glitzy and prim sport. She’s proudly “poor

and redneck,” jogging with bags of dog food hoisted on her back and performing skating routines set to ZZ Top. Gillespie (“Lars and the Real Girl,” ‘’Their Finest Hours”) fills his movie with tasteless interiors and period scrunchies, and scores it with a blaring rock ‘n roll soundtrack that plays across Harding’s on-ice triumphs and domestic poundings, alike. Robbie, in her finest performance yet, plays Harding as above all a survivor, smiling through pain and prejudice as she pursues her dream, only to be dragged down by those around her.

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Movies Oldman shines in “Darkest Hour” By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge I came to a frank realization this week that between Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, Season Two of Netflix’s “The Crown”, screening “Darkest Hour”, and Prince Philip’s half-birthday on Sunday that I’m clearly becoming something of an Anglophile. And aren’t we all? Americans, I tend to see, have a clear fixation on the British Royal Family and the customs of our closest allies. If you need further evidence, I would only have to refer you to a snap of the Duchess of Cambridge in a houndstooth coat to start the swooning. Of all these self-illuminating topics, though, only “Darkest Hour” is under the purview of this column. Fortunately, it’s also one of the better films of the year and features a career pinnacle performance by Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill. There’s no doubt in my mind that Oldman will win the Academy Award this year for turning the aging, curmudgeonly Prime Minister into a man again living and breathing

the spirit of an empire on silver screens around the world. If there was a high point in English national pride, it was the rebuilding days after the second World War in which the great island dug itself out from near ruination and came to pass again as a world power. Churchill was instrumental in the victory over the Nazi Reich and the movie is set during the time in which he’s first elected into office and the civilian flotilla evacuation of northern France that was so beautifully captured in this summer’s Christopher Nolan spectacle, “Dunkirk”. For events that are so well documented, it’s important to see them relived for us here. I am an enthusiastic student of history and I love the cravings that a film like this leaves me with to seek more. Gary Oldman is no stranger to sizable and important roles. He was Sirius Black and Sid Vicious and Lee Harvey Oswald and - lest we ever forget it - Dracula! As Winston Churchill, however, he disappears behind a heavy layer of prosthetic makeup and cigar smoke to embody the diplomat so thoroughly that I at times could not see the

man behind the character. Churchill was bigger than real life. He was the Abraham Lincoln of England, if you will. There’s no shortage of top-hatted memories of the bullish politician. What I so loved about this film was its ability to imbue the tenfoot tall image he projected with enough fear and self-doubt to humanize him. Two women helped him achieve great success: his duty-bound wife, Clementine (Kristin Scott Thomas), and his personal secretary, Elizabeth Layton (plucky Lily James), an anchor point for him in this story. He relied on their loyalty and perspective when two of his greatest enemies presented themselves. Here I refer primarily to the scotch bottle, but also the bitter in-fighting in Parliament where rivals Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) and Viscount Halifax (Stephen Dillane) plot mercilessly to discredit and remove him from his position. The movie is ably directed by Joe Wright (“Atonement”) and features several of the director ’s hallmark traits (like extreme overhead shots) and boasts a fantastic score

by Dario Marianelli. Churchill’s first term as PM was at the height of greatest challenge for his country. He had the ear of the King (Ben Mendelsohn) and other prominent members of the society, like Sir Anthony Eden (Samuel West), but one of the final scenes in this movie is tremendously entertaining and educating. Churchill drops into the Tube and rides the train with dozens of Londoners on their morning errands. He scandalizes the place by even setting foot there, but charms the crowds by asking their actual input in how best to handle Hitler and the future of their great state. I felt not just pride for these people, but pride for the same moments in our own history that were taking place on this side of the Atlantic where Roosevelt was driving groundwork for American culture toward this most prosperous period it too would ever sustain. “Darkest Hour” runs 125 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some thematic material. I give this film three and a half stars out of four.

“Disaster Artist” is Franco’s masterpiece By JAKE COYLE Associated Press Who is Tommy Wiseau? It’s a question that has long befuddled and endlessly amused fans of “The Room,” the infamously bad 2003 movie Wiseau directed, self-financed and starred in. Where did this billboardself-promoting, Terminator-sunglassesw e a r i n g F ro z e n C a v e m a n L a w y e r knockoff come from? (He has claimed New Orleans but investigation — and his accent — suggest Poland.) How old is he? (No one knows but older than he has said.) And where did he get his apparent wealth? (The movie cost $6 million to make, partly because Wiseau insisted on shooting on both 35mm film and digital.) It’s also a question that James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist,” a comedy about Wiseau and the making of “The Room,” has no interest in answering. That’s because “The Disaster Artist” isn’t really about Tommy Wiseau. It’s about James Franco.

A quick recap for the uninitiated. “The Room” ran for two weeks in Los Angeles (Wiseau wanted it to qualify for the Oscars) and was roundly panned as a singularly terrible movie. But it found a “Rocky Horror Picture Show”-sized cult, with sold-out midnight screenings that continue to run. Devotees thrilled to the movie’s cheesy filmmaking, its strange, woeful imitation of Tennessee Williams dialogue (“You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”), its bizarre narrative incongruities (one character announces having cancer only for it never to be talked of again) and its proliferation of spoons throughout (which fans bring to throw at screenings). Wiseau’s friend and co-star Greg Sestero later wrote the 2013 book, with author Tom Bissell, titled “The Disaster Artist” about the inept making of the movie — framing the film as a nuttier version of classic Hollywood tales like “Sunset Boulevard.” Franco, himself, reviewed the book, concluding that Wiseau wasn’t just a punchline but was an outlandish version

of every fumbling aspirant to Hollywood. “In so many ways, Tommy c’est moi,” wrote Franco. To be sure, “The Disaster Artist,” which is based on Sestero and Bissell’s book, will appeal most to fans of “The Room.” Much of it plays like a prequel. Our first, immediately recognizable shot of Tommy (Franco with a long, jet-black mane) is in silhouette, as if John Wayne is making his entrance. He and Sestero meet at acting class, start reading lines together and are soon headed to Los Angeles to make it big. I can’t say I ever found “The Room” nearly so funny as others. Wiseau is far from an outlier in having misbegotten, even demented delusions of fame. He’s kind of a tragic figure, an immigrant trying to hide his past while making what he hopes will be an “all-American” movie. And large swaths of “The Disaster Artist” play off the joke of a hapless goon trying to cast himself as James Dean. As a movie about Wiseau, “The Disaster Artist” isn’t very good. He remains a mystery

throughout. Aside from a spot-on, “SNL”ready impression of Wiseau, there’s just not much here besides a loose jumble of recreations and allusions to “The Room.” (For a testament to the art of failure, see Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood.”) Yet as a movie about James Franco, “The Disaster Artist” is a smash hit. Franco populates the film with friends and comedians, from Jason Mantzoukas to Seth Rogen (also a producer). Franco’s brother, Dave, stars alongside him as Sestero, making the homoerotic bromance between the characters an outright lark. It’s not a coincidence that the big-name producer Tommy awkwardly approaches at a restaurant (and performs “Hamlet” to) is played by Judd Apatow, who gave Franco his first break on “Freaks and Geeks” nearly two decades ago. The 39-year-old Franco, who has now directed some 18 movies, has long been drawn to all things meta, and, on that score, “The Disaster Artist” is his piece de resistance.

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Yanni to perform at The Fox Legendary performer a n d c o m p o s e r Ya n n i has announced he will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of “Live At The Acropolis” with a world tour that will launch this spring in the United States. The maestro will kick off the “Yanni 25 – Live At The Acropolis Anniversary Concert Tour” on April 23, 2018 at the King Center in Melbourne, FL. The tour will keep him on the road through the summer, hitting cities a c ro s s N o r t h A m e r i c a including a stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Sunday, June 24 at 7 p.m. Additional concerts will be added shortly.

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