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Special Events • Millerstown Community Success Inc. will sponsor the 26th annual Holiday Craft Show on Nov. 17 from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. The craft show will be held at Greenwood Elementary School in Millerstown. Call 589-3598 for more information.

• The Employment Skills Center will celebrate its 9th annual “Carlisle’s Own Iron Chef” fundraising event at Letort View Community Center at Carlisle Army War College from 2-5 p.m. on Nov. 18. Admission is $65 and includes hors d’ouvres and door prizes. There will also be a silent auction.

• Dance classes at Iron Forge Elementary School (Boiling Springs). Remaining dates: Nov. 15 and 29. There is a beginner class at 6 p.m. that covers Swing, Tango, Cha Cha, Foxtrot. The advanced class is at 7 p.m. and covers advanced Swing, Waltz, Rumba, Mambo, Two-step. Cost is $35 resident; $41 non-resident. Email parksprograms@smiddleton.com to sign up. For more info email fhancock@comcast.net or call 2414483 or visit www.hancockdance.com.

• Dance Classes at Dickinson College. The Beginner Class is at 6 p.m. Third Timer Class at 7:15. Remaining dates are: Nov. 20, 27. Cost is $30 a person. Contact devwell@dickinson.edu to sign up. For more info call 241-4483 or email fhancock@comcast.net.

• Misty Simon, local author of humurous mysteries and romance, will be signing her books from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 24 at Carlisle Country Market, 1446 Holly Pike in Carlisle.

• Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever! is coming to Hershey Theatre at 4 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1. Tickets for this show are $28, $50 and $65. Tickets are available at Hershey Theatre Box Office, they can be charged by phone at 534-3405 or online at www.HersheyTheatre.com or www.TicketMaster.com. For more information visit www.PhineasAndFerbLive.com.

cepting entries to its annual poetry contest.

There are three categories in the contest – poems about families and pets, humorous poems that rhyme or limericks, and poems about everyday miracles. The contest is open to all poets, including members of the group. For more information, contact Susan Vernon at snvernon@ comcast.net.

• The Shippen Squares Square Dance Club will be hosting “new dancer dances” at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays at Elmcroft of Shippensburg. For more information call Dennis and Karen Statler 3693831 or Klstatler@centurylink.net.

• Bosler Memorial Library will present “Afternoon Classic Movies at Bosler” at 2 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of every month at the library. For more information visit www.bolserlibrary.org.

• The Mystery Discussion Group hosted by Ruthe Greiner meets at 10:30 a.m. every first Thursday of the month in the dining room of the New Cumberland Public Library, One Benjamin Plaza. Call 774-7820 for more information.

• The Great Books discussion group meets from 6 to 8 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of each month in the browsing room of the New Cumberland Public Library, One Benjamin Plaza.

Call 938-3494.

• The Good Time Dance Club holds dances from 7:30-10:30 p.m. on the second Saturday of the month - September through May — at the Stuart Center on Franklin Street in Carlisle.

Dance lessons begin at 6:30 p.m. with guest instructors. The cost is $20 per couple or $120 for an annual membership. For information, visit www.carlislepa.org.

• Open mic comedy night begins at 8 p.m. every Thursday at Doc Holliday’s, 110 Limekiln Road, New Cumberland. Sign up before 7:30 p.m. to perform. For more information, call 920-JOKE.

• Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet will host a Sugarplum Fairy Tea Pary from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 8 at the Hilton Harrisburg.

Meet the Sugarplum Fairy before seeing her dance in CPYB’s production of The Nutcracker Dec. 8, 9, 15 and 16. For more information visit www.cpyb.org.

• The Green Door, 14 E. North St., Carlisle, hosts Tuesday and Saturday night swing dances sponsored by Central Pennsylvania Swing Dance Club. Swing lessons begin at 7:30 p.m., and open dancing continues until midnight. Partners are not necessary. Cost is $5 at the door. For more information, visit www.centralpaswingdance.org.

• The Stars on Ice “Now & Then” Tour will be at the Hershey Giant Center at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 31 for a special New Year’s Eve performance featuring Olympic Gold Medalist Dorothy Hamill.

Visit www.starsonice.com for more information.

• The Gettysburg Big Band holds a dinner 6-9 p.m., a cash bar until 10 p.m. and dancing 8-10 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of every month at the new Gettysburg American Legion, 528 E. Middle St., Gettysburg. Admission is $5 per person at the door, and the dance is open to the public.

• The Carlisle Poets Workshop has begun ac-

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Music • Dickinson College will present a Noonday Concert featuring students in the performance-studies program at noon at Nov. 15.

• The West Shore Symphony Orchestra will play a child-friendly concert at the Carlisle Theatre Nov. 17 from 11:15 a.m. to noon. Admission is free.

• Beck & Benedict Hardware Music Theatre will present Sunny Side Bluegrass and The Circa Blue Bluegrass Band at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17. Admission is $13, children under the age of 12 are free. For more information call 762-4711 or visit beck-benedicthardware.com.

• Dickinson College Choir and Orchestra will present a concert at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 and at 4 p.m. on Nov. 18 at the Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts.

• The Shippensburg University Community Orchestra, conducted by Mark Hartman, will present “An 18th Century Musical Feast” at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18. This free concert will feature Baroque and Classical masterpieces by Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn. For more information visit luhrscenter.com or email or call the Shippensburg University Department of Music and Theatre Arts at KSReat@ship.edu and 477-1638.

• The West Shore Symphony Orchestra will play a concert of “Audience Favorites” Nov. 18 at 3 p.m.

The performance will be held at the Carlisle Theatre. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $5 for students. Children under 12 are free.

• The Susquehanna Chorale will host the annual Youth Choral Festival on Nov. 18 at 4 p.m.

The event will be held at the Forum in Harrisburg.

Call 533-7859 or visit susquehannachorale.org for more information.

• The Machine, a Pink Floyd tribute band, will be performing at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 21 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. For more information visit whitakercenter.org or call 214-ARTS.

• Folk icon Arlo Guthrie will be performing at 8 p.m. on Dec. 1 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. For more information visit whitakercenter.org or call 214-ARTS. • Dickinson Collegium Holiday Concert will be held at the Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. at Dec. 1 and 4 p.m. Dec. 2 at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

• The Greenwood Community Brass Band will present its annual concert at 3 p.m. on Dec. 2, in the Greenwood H. S. Auditorium in Millerstown. For additional information, or for inclement weather information, call Lois at 570-374-9533 or 570-8980576, or Jane at 717-589-3213, Bill at 570-4905119, Gene at 463-3417.

• Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Harrisburg Area has announced that the popular “Home for the Holidays” concert presented by the Eaken Piano Trio will return for the 23rd consecutive year. This year’s show will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral, 221 N. Front St., Harrisburg.

• Beck & Benedict Hardware Music Theatre will present The Scott Brannon Bluegrass Band and Buck & Paul The Bluegrass Travelers at 7 p.m. on Dec. 8. Tickets are $13, children under the age of 12 are free. Call 762-4711 or visit beck-benedicthardware.com.

• The H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University presents Clay Aiken’s “Joyful Noise Tour 2012” at 8 p.m. Dec. 8. Reserved tickets are $57, $52, $45 & $39 and are now on sale. A group discount is available for groups of 20 or more. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Luhrs Center Box Office at 477-SHOW (7469) or online at luhrscenter.com.

• The Susquehanna Children’s Chorale and Messiah College Concert Choir will appear with stuart Malina and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra for a holiday musical celebration at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 and 3 p.m. Dec. 9 at The Forum, 500 Walnut St., Harrisburg. Tickets are $20 for adults and $8 for students. For tickets or more information call 6916036 or visit susquehannachorale.org.

• Messiah College’s Student Activities Board • American vocalist and two-time Grammy winhosts a free weekly concert series titled “B-sides,” the schedule is as follows: Nov. 28, Ami Saraiya; ner Rita Coolidge will be performing at 8 p.m. on Dec. 14 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Dec. 5, Fort Lean.

Arts. For more information visit whitakercenter.org • Jake Shimabukuro, a Ukulele virtuoso, will or call 214-ARTS. perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at • A cappella group Straight No Chaser will bring the Sunoco Perfomance Theater at the Whitaker it’s fall tour to Hershey Theatre at 4 and 8 p.m. on Center, 225 Market St., Harrisburg.

Saturday, Dec. 22. Tickets for this show are $29, • Dickinson College will present a Noonday Con- $39 and $49. To order tickets visit www.Hersheycert featuring students in the performance-studies Entertainment.com, www.LiveNation.com or www. program at noon at Nov. 29.

TicketMaster.com.

Event information can be submitted via email to frontdoor@cumberlink.com, by mail, 457 E. North St., Carlisle, PA 17013 or by fax at 243-3121.

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A guide to area events Art • Paxtang Art Association will celebrate 60 years in the arts with an art show and sale Nov. 16-18. The show will be held at the Paxtang Firehouse. Admission to the show is free, and a “Meet the Artists” reception will be held Nov. 16 from 6-10 p.m. For more information visit www.paxtangart.com.

• The Whitaker Center and The Art Association of Harrisburg will present a free art exhibition, A Celebration of the Seven Lively Artists, Nov. 16 through Jan. 25. The works from this popular painting group, “The Seven Livelies,” will be located along the curved lobby walls of Whitaker Center and available to the public during regular hours of operation.

• Camp Hill Presbyterian Church will host Kathryn Calley Galitz, curator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a lecture on Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. The illustrated lecture is entitled “The Shock of the New: Impressionism and Modern Life.”

• Haverstick Gallery and Studios, 12 N. Hanover St., third floor, will hold a benefit art show, “An Art Cause for Little Paws 2012,” from Dec. 1 through Dec. 29. Artists interested in submitting art work must do so by Nov. 27. Ship or deliver art work to The Garden Gallery, 10 N. Hanover St., Carlisle PA 17013. Half of the proceeds from the sales will be donated to The Humane Society of Harrisburg Area and half will go to the artist.

• Dickinson College will present Senior Studio-Art Seminar: Works in Progress Nov. 27 through Dec. 7 at the Goodyear Gallery in the Goodyear Building on campus. The gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.

• A Holiday Fine Art and Crafts Show will be held at Art Center School and Galleries, 18 Artcraft Drive, Mechanicsburg from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 1 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 2. Snow dates are Dec. 8 through 9. For more information on The Art Center’s upcoming events or courses, call 697-2072 or visit www.mechanicsburgartcenter.com.

• Lisa Bennett and Jay M. Johnson will display their work, knitted sculptures and ink drawings, from Dec. 11 through Jan. 13 at the Yellow Wall Gallery at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 10 p.m. on Dec. 21.

• Aesthetic paper constructions of Christine and Donald Forsythe will be on display at the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery at Messiah College from Dec. 3 until Jan. 17. The exhibition is free and open to the public during normal gallery hours. Located on the lower level of the Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on Messiah College’s Grantham campus, the M. Louise Aughinbaugh Art Gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Garden Gallery in collaboration with the Carlisle Comfort Suites Hotel will present the Carlisle Art Showcase featuring Carlisle and area artists work in the hotel’s main lobby. The show will run through Jan. 30.

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Out & About

The Scene

Inside MUSIC | D4-5

A look at local nightlife

The Rolling Stones show no sign of slowing down as they celebrate their 50th anniversary. See a review of Christina Aguilera’s new CD.

Alibis Eatery & Spirits

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10 N. Pitt St. Carlisle, 243-4151 www.alibispirits.com Thursday, Nov. 15: DJ 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16: Band Night with “Route 74” 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17: DJ Trey 10 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 20: Team Trivia 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21 : Open mic 8 p.m.

Sinbad is bringing his comedy to the Luhrs Center in Shippensburg Friday. Bring the whole family to see the long-time performer live.

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Appalachian Brewing Company 50 N. Cameron St. Harrisburg, 221-1080 www.abcbrew.com Friday, Nov. 16: Colebrook Road, 9 p.m., $7 cover Saturday, Nov. 17: Robert Earl Keen, $8 p.m., $25 advance.

Toys for Tots Benefit Show, 5 p.m., $10 or new unwrapped toy cover. Monday, Nov. 19: Badfish - A Tribute to Sublime, 8 p.m., $15/$18 cover Wednesday, Nov. 21: Quagmire Swim Team, 9 p.m., $8 cover. Friday, Nov. 23: Nate Myers & The Aces, 9 p.m., no cover.

Market Cross Pub & Brewery

See reviews for Joe Wright’s newest film, “Anna Karenina.” Daniel Day Lewis heeded inner ear to find Lincoln’s voice in the film “Lincoln.” Also see what is playing at area movie theaters this weekend.

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Sinbad

113 N.Hanover St. Carlisle,258-1234 www.marketcrosspub.com Thursday, Nov. 15: Thirsty Thursday Open Jam with Gary Brown, 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17: The Willys, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 18: Ajay Shugart CD release party, 4 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 21: Thanksgiving Eve Bash with Dem Guise, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Comedian set to perform at the Luhrs Center Friday

On the cover: Sinbad to perform at Luhrs Center Friday.

See an exclusive interview with the performer on Page D6

Theater • The Camp Hill High School Drama Department will present “The Wisdom of Eve” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 and 2 p.m. on Nov. 18 at the Grace Milliman Pollack Performing Arts Center.

presents “The Phantom,” which will run Nov. 8 through 18. Tickets cost $11, or $7 for students and seniors. To purchase tickets, contact the box office at 691-6036 or visit www.messiah.edu/tickets.

• Oyster Mill Playhouse presents its final show for the 2012 season, the comedy “My Three Angels.” The show runs through Nov. 18. Tickets are $14.

• West Perry High School will present “Witness for the Prosecution” Nov. 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door or online at westperry.org.

• The Et Cetera troupe at Carlisle High School will give a public performance of “Tall Tales” in the Barr Auditorium of CHS McGowan building at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18. Admission is the donation of one can or package of non-perishable food for Project SHARE. • Messiah College’s theatre department

• Chambersburg Community Theatre presents the psychological thriller “Bad Seed,” running Nov. 9 through 18. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and $5 for children 5 and younger. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit www.cctonling.org or call 263-0202.

• Center Stage Opera presents a staged production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, Camp Hill United Methodist Church, 417 S. 22nd St., Camp Hill. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students at all venues, and $30 for groups of 15 and more. For more information visitcsopera.org or call 774-4352.

• The Chambersburg Ballet Theatre Company will present “A Candlelight Nutcracker” at 2 and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday Nov. 11 at the Wood Center of the Capitol Theatre, 159 S. Main St., Chambersburg.

The event will feature a suite of dances from the Nutcracker, as well as light refreshments and for young guests, a photograph with the Ballet’s star dancer. Tickets are $10; to purchase, call 264-0308.

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50 and counting

Rolling Stones showing no sign of slowing down agenda, but Richards said the Rolling Stones felt external pressure to mark this one.

“This band is famous for not obeying the rules and bowing to pressure or anything,” Richards said. “But over the course of the year we felt more and more aware that there are folks out there counting on us.

You can’t let them down.

At the same time, you realize that the folks are right.

Playing together over the last five months you realize that there’s this thing out of your life that’s been missing.”

By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press

NEW YORK — The official line is “we’ll see.” But the Rolling Stones seem in such fighting trim, clear-eyed and focused, that it’s hard to believe there’s not more cooking beyond the current flurry of activity surrounding the band’s 50th anniversary.

The archetypal rock ‘n’ roll band is booked for five concerts in London and the New York area over the next month, the last one a Pay Per View event. The Stones on Tuesday released yet another hits compilation with two new songs and HBO is premiering a documentary on their formative years, “Crossfire Hurricane,” on Thursday.

“Without saying yes or nay,” Keith Richards said in an interview this week, “once this starts rolling, I can’t see it stopping.

The band feels good about themselves, they still feel they’ve got something to offer. Obviously there are a lot of people out there who agree. We’ll go along with it.”

Fifty years is hard to fathom (“It’s impossible,” Keith cackles. “I’m only 38.”). The Rolling Stones have been through death, defections and addictions, through classic discs like “Exile on Main Street” and “Some Girls” and forgettable ones, and are still operating with Richards, Mick Jagger and

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From left, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones at London Film Festival American Express Gala for their film, “The Rolling Stones - Crossfire Hurricane” at Odeon West End in London. The archetypal rock ‘n’ roll band is set for five concerts in London and the New York area over the next month, released another hits compilation with two new songs on Tuesday, and will see HBO premiere a documentary on their formative years, “Crossfire Hurricane,” today. Wyman was a member of the band until 1993.

Charlie Watts. Ron Wood, the new guy, joined in 1975.

“I thought it would be kind of churlish not to do something,” Jagger said.

“Otherwise, the BBC would have done a rather dull film about the Rolling Stones.”

Fifty days was a better yardstick when Watts first set up his drum kit. “It was quite normal for a band to last a month,” he said.

The Stones formed in London in 1962 to play Chicago blues, led at the time

by the late Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart, with boyhood friends Jagger and Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and Watts were quick additions.

Anniversaries usually aren’t big on the band’s

They spent several weeks in Paris rehearsing five hours a day for their concerts, including two dress rehearsals before audiences in a club and theater. To mark the occasion, the band has dug back into its catalogue for songs like “I Wanna Be Your Man” and “The Last Time,” although Richards held the line at resurrecting their first single, the Chuck Berry cover “Come On.” Jagger didn’t want the band to take on too much, “ but I thought it was

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Aguilera’s ‘Lotus’ is good, but not great

By MESFIN FEKADU Associated Press

Christina Aguilera is easily one of contemporary music’s best voices. She’s got pipes that music-lovers need to hear at a time when Top 40 radio features studio-enhanced vocals and award shows are full of lip syncing. That’s why her fifth album, “Lotus,” is somewhat disappointing — not because it isn’t good, but because it isn’t great.

Sure, it’s an improvement from 2010’s “Bionic,” a chaotic album that is Aguilera’s only one not to reach platinum status.

“Lotus” is more focused, thankfully, but not as satisfying as her first three releases.

The new 13-track album is the singer’s first music offering since she filed for divorce two years ago. And when she’s emotional, she sounds best.

The title track kicks off the album nicely as Aguilera sings about starting over. On “Best of Me,” she sings: “Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin, my walls crumble within.” And later in the song she sings in a beautiful belt: “I will rise undefeated, I will not let you bring me down.” You just

want to cheer her on. Sing it, girl.

Another standout is the piano tune “Blank Page,” co-written by Sia, whose work with Aguilera on “Bionic” is that album’s highlight. “Sing for Me,” too, is great and sounds like a personal anthem for Aguilera, who has gotten a boost recently as a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.”

Where the singer falls short is on what are supposed to be the “fun” songs, like “Red Hot Kinda Love,” ‘’Around the World” and “Make the World Move,” which features a barely heard CeeLo Green.

The first single, the Max Martin-produced “Your Body,” is also a miss. Martin is a little better on his other contribution, the dance-heavy “Let There Be Love,” which sounds typical of what’s out there, but still feels like a radio hit.

It’s almost like Aguilera isn’t getting the best material from the songwriters and producers on “Lotus,” which includes Alex da Kid (Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie,” B.o.B’s “Airplanes”), Lucas Secon, Supa Dups, Claude Kelly, Bonnie McKee, Tracklacers, Steve Robson and others. Her excellent voice deserves excellent songs.

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important to do some sort of a show, even if it was just a club gig,” he said.

“I didn’t want it to be too nostalgic and I wanted to be pretty irreverent about it. My idea of the tour is calling it ‘F—- Off, We’re 50.’”

Few people in the concert industry expect the Stones to mount one of the huge world tours that they have done in the past, given ages that range from Wood’s 65 to Watts’ 71, said Gary Bongiovanni, editor and publisher of the trade publication Pollstar.

More live shows wouldn’t be a surprise, however, perhaps as residencies in a number of large cities, he said.

The band’s periodic sabbaticals sometimes stretch so long that Rolling Stones fans can’t help but wonder whether it’s all over now.

The most recent time out lasted five years. If anyone threatened to make it permanent it was Richards, always the most protective and romantic about the band, because of his best-selling autobiography that took some shots at his songwriting partner Jagger. Richards dismissed the idea that it created a barrier.

“Anybody who thinks that doesn’t know the band,” he said. “This band’s sense of humor is basically built upon insulting each other. I’m not saying there wasn’t an issue here and there, but it’s really water off a duck’s back ... You cannot offend a really good friend. I happened to put it in print and everybody else was saying, ‘Oh, my God.’ I thought it was fairly mild.”

(Said Jagger: “I don’t want to talk about

Keith’s book.”)

Wood is often the diplomat if things get rough between Jagger and Richards.

“I still feel that necessary sometimes,” he said.

“They’re getting along so much better than I don’t have to be the referee or the adjudicator.”

Wood said he’s pleased with how the band has shaken off the rust. As Richards’ fellow guitarist, he sees his role as keeping the band tight, and said the Stones have a greater economy in their playing than they used to, getting to the essence of the songs.

“You give Mick a song and have a good beat to it, he can entertain anyone,” Watts said. “He’s the best in the world at it. Now that Michael Jackson’s dead and James Brown is gone, he’s the best in the world.”

Jagger was a driving force as co-producer of “Crossfire Hurricane.” The film focuses on the rise and classic years of the Rolling Stones, back when their shows were considered dangerous and not an institution that you’d take the whole family to see.

Footage shows concerts cut short when enthusiastic fans rushed the stage and made it impossible to play. “We were playing pop songs to 10-year-olds,” Jagger said. “It was very weird. You get used to it in 10 minutes, it’s not that difficult. It’s much easier to play three pop songs to teenagers than two hours of blues music to connoisseurs.”

The film contains interviews from all Stones, including former members Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. None are seen as they are today; Jagger wanted to keep the emphasis on the era and not go back and forth between

the past and present.

For his part, Richard said he barely remembers the cameraman being there for all the backstage scenes. “I’m crashed out in the dressing room with some babe with me,” he said.

From the looks of things, he’s fortunate to remember anything. The thin,

dissolute rocker has given way to a character that children often point to on the streets, recognizing him as Captain Teague, father of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.

The parents will tell them: “Oh yeah, he’s also in the Stones,” Richards said, laughing.

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Sinbad

to entertain in Shippensburg

by stacy brown

the sentinel sbrown@cumberlink.com

Sinbad is alive and well and coming to the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University on Friday.

The comedian said he’s been touring non-stop since 1983 and, at 56, he can’t slow down despite being declared dead prematurely by social media and other outlets.

“I’ve never gone anywhere. I’ve been out on the road all the time,” the comedian, born David Adkins, told The Sentinel.

“I don’t call these tours anymore, I do standup.”

And, Sinbad has done it well.

Some of his success is at-

“Richard Pryor would curse, for sure. But, Pryor and Foxx both didn’t need curses for their punchline. They’d tell you a story whereas a lot of these young comedians today will just curse, curse, curse and that’s their punchline.”

Sinbad

tributed to a healthy lifestyle, he doesn’t drink or smoke.

He doesn’t swear either, at least not on stage.

“When I first started, I had the language. I could have been dirty, too,” Sinbad said.

“One time, though, my dad who is a preacher, came to the show and I cleaned

it up.”

The clean image was a far cry from his idols and predecessors such as Red Foxx and Richard Pryor.

Foxx and Pryor were superstars but both were known for off-color language and a good bit of vulgarity.

Still, Sinbad said the two remain far superior than the

new wave of younger comedians today.

“Richard Pryor would curse, for sure. But, Pryor and Foxx both didn’t need curses for their punchline,” Sinbad said.

“They’d tell you a story whereas a lot of these young comedians today will just curse, curse, curse and that’s their punchline.”

Sinbad is not just a veteran comedian, but also an accomplished star of the big and small screen.

He also tours with a band and said, he “just might bring my guitar to Shippensburg on Friday.”

Following seven appearances on the 1980s hit television show, “Star Search,” Foxx gave Sinbad his televi-

sion break. Sinbad played Foxx’s son on “The New Redd Foxx” show in the mid-’80s.

While the show had a short life span, Sinbad caught the attention of another one of his heroes, Bill Cosby, who helped cast the young comedian in the Cosby Show spin-off, “A Different World,” in 1987.

“I don’t think people got who I really was. When I came into the game, nobody got it,” Sinbad said.

“I wanted to play that college student who never graduated but people saw me as the squeaky clean AllAmerican. I’m a 6-foot5, 225-pound brother and you put me in the category

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Sinbad

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of wholesome? Man, I got fired from every job I had so I was like, let me play a role where I kill somebody.”

Sinbad also served as host for the successful “Showtime at the Apollo” late night show.

He once developed his own show, called “Sinbad and Friends All The Way Live ... Almost.”

He has appeared on the big screen in flicks like “Necessary Roughness,” “The Coneheads,” “Houseguest,” “Jingle All The Way,” and the made-for-television film “The Cherokee Kid.” Sinbad said he’s currently working on scripts of his own but don’t expect him on television anytime soon.

“Man, it’s all about reality television now. You used to write to and about your crazy uncle, but now he’s on reality television,” Sinbad said.

A drummer in high school, Sinbad has long been into music. He regularly hosted and produced “Sinbad’s Soul Music Festival” in the Carribean.

“I’ve got a funk band. I love Parliament and George Clinton, Earth Wind and Fire, The Ohio Players,” he said.

Recently, Sinbad spent time with mega-star Prince.

“Prince is a vampire, he’s up all night and playing,” Sinbad said. “Prince got me to wanting to play music.

He lives to create music and he loves watching others play music.”

When asked what has happened to today’s music where the most popular artists are rappers, Sinbad placed the blame on former President Ronald Reagan.

“Rap was around for a while, but what happened to music was when Reagan

“I’ve heard some dumb things. (The View co-host) Elizabeth Hasslebeck said because Obama won she is not going to have any kids.

Come on, that’s just another excuse she’s using not to have sex with her husband.”

cut the music programs from the public schools, we all started using what we could which were the turntables and that changed everything,” he said.

While he, like so many other comedy fans, enjoyed “The Original Kings of Comedy” tour that, in 2000, featured Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey, Cedric The Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley, Sinbad said he didn’t lend too much credence to the title.

“It was a great marketing tool. I was asked to do the tour and I had already

played those same rooms by myself but I wanted to do my own thing,” he said. “My brother (Mark Adkins) and I were busy making a career out of nothing.”

Married with three children, Sinbad said his family inspires him regularly.

His biggest influence was his father, but once he and his wife gave birth to a daughter, “It made me a better man,” he said.

“You don’t become a man until you have children. You can be 56 without any children and what will you be doing? In the club acting

silly, that’s what,” Sinbad said.

For the upcoming Shippensburg show, fans likely can expect Sinbad’s take on politics and the just finished presidential election.

“What will be fun to talk about is how you see people rioting after Obama won,” Sinbad said. “Guess what?

He was already the president. I’ve heard some dumb things. (“The View” cohost) Elizabeth Hasslebeck said because Obama won she is not going to have any kids. Come on, that’s just another excuse she’s us-

ing not to have sex with her husband.”

The comedian said he thought real estate tycoon Donald Trump came off looking foolish and that is not a laughing matter.

“The things Trump said was so far out of pocket that any person with any kind of social acumen about themselves should never stay at any of his hotels and should never watch any of his shows,” Sinbad said of Trump. “Guys like that, you have to hit them in the pocket.”

Sinbad emphasized that

his take on Trump was not a joke. It is one of the rare times the comedian isn’t laughing. He also remains serious about causes he’s dedicated his time to such as the Children’s Defense Fund and the Omega Boys Club. Sinbad also made his bid to increase AIDS awareness with his involvement in the “Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You” video from 1992 Tickets for Sinbad’s 8 p.m. show are $28, $34, $39, and $45. They can be purchased at the box office or at www. luhrscenter.com.

D8 — The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.

Games

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Gaming

‘Medal of Honor’ shooter game takes a bullet

By DERRIK J. LANG Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The punishment of Navy SEALs who worked on the video game “Medal of Honor: Warfighter” is the latest in a series of misfires for the interactive medium’s popular military shooter genre, which continues to face scrutiny as high-definition graphics become more lifelike and gamemakers attempt to create the most authentic experiences possible.

“These games are now trying to portray things and tell stories around current events,” said Casey Lynch, editor-in-chief of the gaming site IGN.com. “When you’re dealing with current topics, there’s a higher level of sensitivity. I think most people would agree there’s not the same level of sensitivity when compared to old World War II or Vietnam War games.”

Navy officials said last week that seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to take down Osama bin Laden, were reprimanded for disclosing classified information to the creators of “Warfighter,” a modernday, first-person shooter from developer Danger Close Games and publisher Electronic Arts Inc. “We worked really closely with more than two dozen operators on the mission objectives, operations, maneuvers and various elements in the game that helped shape our singleplayer campaign, things like the weaponry, the gear, the way these operatives perform door breeches,”

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This undated publicity photo provided by Electronic Arts Inc. shows a scene from the video game “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.” Navy officials said last week that seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to take down Osama bin Laden, were reprimanded for disclosing classified information to the creators of “Warfighter,” a modern-day, first-person shooter from developer Danger Close Games and publisher Electronic Arts Inc. released last month. said Luke Thai, producer at Danger Close Games, ahead of the game’s Oct. 23 debut.

Thai noted that both the gamemakers and military personnel who consulted on “Warfighter” were cognizant about not detailing too much about current conflicts — or making them boring in virtual form. One of the game’s missions tasks players with explosively battling a band of Somali pirates. Thai said the realworld inspiration for that level was far less fiery.

“In terms of the various conflicts that are still going on throughout the world,

we touch upon those, but we don’t replicate them exactly,” he said. “They serve as dotted-line inspiration for things that go on in the game. For instance, our overarching single-player campaign story revolves around a global hunt to shut down a fictional terror network.”

Still, to ramp up the game’s realism, “Warfighter” creators mimicked real-world weaponry and centered the plot on the ripped-from-the-headlines threat of an industrial explosive known as PETN, or pentaerythritol tetra-

nitrate, the same material used in 2001 by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid when he tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight.

The tactic doesn’t seem to have helped fuel “Warfighter” sales. The NPD Group, which tracks sales of new physical products, said last week that “Warfighter” ranked eighth in overall game sales in October, behind such titles as “NBA 2K13” and “Resident Evil 6.” EA noted in an earnings call last month that “Warfighter” had a “weaker than expected performance.”

(EA spokesman Peter

Nguyen said last Friday the company has no plans to recall or alter “Medal of Honor: Warfighter” in light of the SEALs’ punishment.)

It’s not the first time a “Medal of Honor” game has found itself in hot water. Two years ago, military officials opted not to stock the first-ever modern-day “Medal of Honor” title after protests over the game’s multiplayer mode, which allowed gamers to represent the Taliban. The characters were later given the more ambiguous moniker “Opposing Force.”

“Call of Duty,” the most successful military shooter

franchise, experienced its own controversy over a skippable level in 2009’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” that cast gamers as an agent who infiltrates a Russian villain’s inner circle to defeat him but ends up participating in a bloody terrorist attack on an airport while acting as part of his group.

The “Medal of Honor” and “Call of Duty” franchises both began as harmless World War II shooters before EA and Activision respectively shifted their focus to more contemporary — and complicated — conflicts and settings.

It’s paid off for Activision. Last year’s “Modern Warfare 3” smashed records by selling 6.5 million copies within 24 hours, earning $400 million.

EA didn’t experience similar success when it relaunched the “Medal of Honor” franchise in 2010 with a present-day, Afghanistan-set chapter, though it sold a respectable 5 million copies.

It’s unlikely the punishment of the Navy SEALs will affect the creation of future military shooters, which have long employed military personnel as advisers.

“I think there’s still going to be people out there using their expertise and experience in the military that will help bring entertainment products to life, whether it’s in games, movies or other things,” said Lynch of IGN.com. “I imagine after what happened with this situation that people will be a little more sensitive and careful.”

Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa. —D9

Games Game Review

Choices lift latest ‘Call of Duty’ Reviewer: By adding the element of choice, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” has revitalized the brand to become the best “CoD” since 2007’s “Modern Warfare.”

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By RYAN PEARSON Associated Press

You’ve always had to play the good soldier in “Call of Duty” games: The only path to the end was to follow orders, from defending a key position to killing off certain enemies.

The restricted approach meant that while the military shooter franchise skyrocketed to massive popularity through immersive graphics and innovative online multiplayer battles, its single-player campaigns got rightly knocked as linear and forgettable.

By adding the element of choice, “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” (Activision, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, PC, $59.99) has revitalized the brand to become the best “CoD” since 2007’s “Modern Warfare.”

The game leaps back and forth from CIA and U.S. military missions in the 1980s to an international crisis in 2025. Your moral decisions and successes or failures in both settings determine your ending — and whether some of the main characters live long enough to see it.

The narrative is framed

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This video game image released by Activision shows a scene from “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.” by conversations between elderly Frank Woods and David Mason, son of his former partner Alex Mason. The younger Mason is out to stop supervillain Raul Menendez, with missions in under-siege Los Angeles, flooded Lahore, Pakistan, and elsewhere. Woods recounts his own history with Menendez in flashbacks to Nicaragua, Panama and an exhilarating Afghanistan level where you fire RPGs on horseback.

The branching narrative is complemented by two more wrinkles. “Strike force” missions add in optional real-time strategy and can end in success or failure,

leading to different outcomes in the endgame. And for the first time in “CoD,” players get to choose their weapons before each mission, including unique perks inspired by the series’ stellar multiplayer options.

What-ifs abound. What if I had disobeyed that “shoot” command? What if I had started that level with a sniper rifle instead of a pistol? What if I’d let invaders blow up that base?

These are the types of questions that elevated the lauded “Mass Effect” trilogy, one of many sources of inspiration for “Black Ops II” creators. There are sticky “frog” gloves as seen in the

fourth “Mission: Impossible” film, flying wingsuits from the third “Transformers” and a superrare element called celerium that reminded me of the unobtanium in “Avatar.” There’s even a feisty computer whiz named Chloe, a la “24.”

So sure, not everything is fresh here. Gameplay is still mostly of the run and shoot-everything-thatmoves variety. Artificial barriers keep you moving in the right direction despite the illusion of open space.

Your allies sometimes still wait for you to kill the last in a wave of enemies, just because.

But after completing the

campaign in around seven hours at a review event, I spoke with a fellow reviewer and was deeply impressed by how different our experiences had been. I had — spoiler alert — saved the USS Barack Obama aircraft carrier while she’d seen it destroyed. Likewise, our endings had almost no overlap: She’d let certain characters die that I had spared or rescued. It’ll be quite difficult to reconcile the separate threads for a potential “Black Ops III.” So for the first time, there’s some replayability in single-player to match the addictive and polished multiplayer, which is where

I traditionally spend most of my “CoD” time. “Black Ops II” adds choice there, too.

You still have to level up to unlock weapons, but the perk and modifications are more customizable than ever. With lead developer Treyarch’s “Pick 10” class system, you can decide not to carry a secondary weapon, for example, and instead layer on extra abilities like “extreme conditioning,” or overload your primary weapon with three attachments. In several hours of multiplayer action, I hadn’t yet picked a favorite combination.

Beyond futuristic rewards like flying minidrones with mounted guns, other multiplayer tweaks include a new “league play” system designed to match you with players of similar skill, three-team battles and live match streaming on YouTube.

Treyarch also added a player-versus-player option to its unforgiving zombies mode, which features cooperative gameplay and its own separate story line and mythology. Teams can’t attack each other but use barriers and bait to sic zombies on opponents.

Despite outselling every other game in recent years, “Call of Duty” publisher Activision isn’t simply resting on its pile of money. “Black Ops II” delivers smart multiplayer modifications and an unexpectedly personal story with weighty choice and consequence.

It’s the first must-have “CoD” in five years. Three and a half stars out of four.

D10 — The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Movies Movies

Day-Lewis heeded inner ear to find Lincoln’s voice

By DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A towering figure such as Abraham Lincoln, who stood 6 feet 4 and was one of history’s master orators, must have had a booming voice to match, right? Not in Daniel Day-Lewis’ interpretation.

Day-Lewis, who plays the 16th president in Steven Spielberg’s epic film biography “Lincoln,” which goes into wide release this weekend, settled on a higher, softer voice, saying it’s more true to descriptions of how the man actually spoke.

“There are numerous accounts, contemporary accounts, of his speaking voice. They tend to imply that it was fairly high, in a high register, which I believe allowed him to reach greater numbers of people when he was speaking publicly,” DayLewis said in an interview.

“Because the higher registers tend to reach farther than the lower tones, so that would have been useful to him.”

“Lincoln” is just the fifth film in the last 15 years for Day-Lewis, a two-time Academy Award winner for best actor (“My Left Foot” and “There Will Be Blood”).

Much of his pickiness stems from a need to understand characters intimately enough to feel that he’s actually living out their experiences.

The soft, reedy voice of his Lincoln grew out of that preparation.

“I don’t separate vocal work, and I don’t dismember a character into its component parts and then kind of bolt it all together, and off you go,” Day-Lewis said. “I tend to try and allow things to happen slowly, over a long period of time. As I feel I’m

growing into a sense of that life, if I’m lucky, I begin to hear a voice.

“And I don’t mean in a supernatural sense. I begin to hear the sound of a voice, and if I like the sound of that, I live with that for a while in my mind’s ear, whatever one might call it, my inner ear, and then I set about trying to reproduce that.”

Lincoln himself likely learned to use his voice to his advantage depending on the situation, Day-Lewis said.

“He was a supreme politician. I’ve no doubt in my mind that when you think of all the influences in his life, from his childhood in Kentucky and Indiana and a good part of his younger life

in southern Illinois, that the sounds of all those regions would have come together in him somehow.

“And I feel that he probably learned how to play with his voice in public and use it in certain ways

in certain places and in certain other ways in other places. Especially in the manner in which he expressed himself. I think, I’ve no doubt that he was conscious enough of his image.”

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Daniel Day-Lewis, center rear, as Abraham Lincoln, in a scene from the film, “Lincoln.” Day-Lewis, who plays the 16th president in Steven Spielberg’s epic film biography “Lincoln,” settled on a higher, softer voice, saying it’s more true to descriptions of how the man actually spoke. “Lincoln” opened in limited release last week, and expands nationwide tomorrow.

Right: Daniel Day-Lewis, center, as President Abraham Lincoln, looks across a battlefield in the aftermath of a terrible siege.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Movies

The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa. —D11

Now showing Carlisle Theatre The Master (R)

Thu. 7:30

Digiplex Cinema Center of Camp Hill Argo (R)

Thu. 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50, Fri.Thu. 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Cloud Atlas (R)

Thu. 12:15, 4:15, 8:15 Flight (R)

Thu. 11:15 a.m., 2:30, 6:30, 9:30, Fri.-Thu. 11:20 a.m., 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Here Comes the Boom (PG)

Thu. 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:10 Hotel Transylvania 2D (PG)

Thu. 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:40 Lincoln (PG-13)

Fri.-Thu. 10:50 a.m., 1:10, 2, 4:40, 5:40, 8:15, 9 The Man with the Iron Fists (R)

Thu. 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Paranormal Activity 4 (R)

Thu. 1:35, 3:35, 5:40, 7:50, 10 The Sessions (R)

Fri.-Thu. 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 9:55 Sinister (R)

Thu. 7:40, 10:10 Skyfall (PG-13)

Thu. 11 a.m., 12, 12:50, 2, 3, 3:50, 5, 6:20, 7:20, 8:10, 9:30, 10:20, Fri.-Thu. 11 a.m., 12, 12:40, 2, 3, 3:50, 5:30, 6:20, 7:20, 8:40, 9:30, 10:20 Taken 2 (PG-13)

Thu. 7, 9:40 TCM Presents To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary (NR)

Thu. 2, 7

Twilight Saga Marathon (PG-13)

Thu. 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13)

Thu. 10 p.m., Fri.Thu. 10:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:45, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:10, 7, 8, 9, 9:45, 10:40 UFC 154: St-Pierre vs.

Condit (NR)

Sat. 10 Wreck-It-Ralph 2D (PG)

Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20, Fri.Thu. 10:50 a.m., 1:15, 3:40, 6:05, 8:35 Wreck-It-Ralph 3D (PG)

Thu. 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:25, 8:55

Flagship Cinemas Argo (R)

Thu. 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 10, Fri.-Thu. 12:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 Cloud Atlas (R)

Thu. 12:30, 4, 7:30, Fri.-Thu. 12:20, 6:30 Flight (R)

Fri.-Thu. 12:40, 3:40, 7:10, 10:05 Fun Size (PG-13)

Thu. 7:20, 9:30 Hotel Transylvania 2D (PG)

Thu. 12:20, 2:40, 5 Paranormal Activity 4 (R)

Thu. 1, 3:10, 5:50, 8, 10:10, Fri.-Thu. 4, 10:10 Silent Hill: Revelation 2D (R)

Thu. 2:40, 9:30 Skyfall (PG-13)

Thu. 12:10, 12:40, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7, 9:40, 10:05, Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 12:50, 3:30, 3:50, 6:40, 7, 9:40, 10 Taken 2 (PG-13)

Thu. 12:20, 5, 7:20 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13)

Thu. 10, Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., 12:10, 2:20, 3,

4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 9:50 (PG-13) Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Wreck-It-Ralph 2D (PG) (R)

Thu. 12:30

Thu. 12, 2:20, 4:40,

Thu. 2:30, 4:50, Twilight Saga: Breaking 7:10, Fri.-Thu. 12, 2:30, 4:55, Dawn Part 1 (PG-13) 7:50, 10:15 7:30 Skyfall (PG-13)

Thu. 7:20

Thu. 1, 3:30, 4:10, Wreck-It-Ralph 3D (PG) Twilight Saga: Breaking

Thu. 9:50, Fri.- Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) 6:50, 7:30, 10, 10:40, Fri.Thu. 9:55

Thu. 10, 10, 10, Fri.- Thu. 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Twilight Saga Marathon Thu. 11:20 a.m., 11:50 a.m., Great Escape 12:30, 2:05, 2:35, 3:30, 4:40, (PG-13)

Thu. 11:25 a.m.

Alex Cross (PG-13) 5:10, 6:15, 6:40, 7:15, 7:45, Twilight Saga: Breaking

Thu. 12:10, 2:35, 5, 8:50, 9:20, 9:50, 10:20 Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) 7:25, 9:50, Fri.-Thu. 12:55, Wreck-It-Ralph 2D (PG)

Thu. 10, 10:20, 3:35

Thu. 12:30, 1:10, Argo (R) 3:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20, Fri.- 10:40, Fri.-Thu. 1:40, 4,

Thu. 12:35, 3:55, Thu. 12:15, 1:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40, 5:20, 7, 7:40, 8:20, 10, 10:40 6:45, 9:30 6:45, 9:15 Wreck-It-Ralph 2D (PG) Cloud Atlas (R) Wreck-It-Ralph 3D (PG)

Thu. 1:40, 4:20, 7,

Thu. 12:40, 4:20,

Thu. 11:50 a.m., 7:55 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55, Fri.- 9:40, Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., Flight (R) Thu. 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Wreck-It-Ralph 3D (PG)

Thu. 12:20, 1, 4, 7:25

Thu. 2:20, 5, 7:40, 6:40, 7:10, 10:15, Fri.-Thu. 1, 10:20, Fri.-Thu. 12:20, 2:50 4, 7:10, 10:15 Regal Carlisle Hotel Transylvania 2D Commons 8 Regal Harrisburg 14 (PG) Argo (R)

Thu. 12:05, 2:15, Alex Cross (PG-13)

Thu. 1:10, 3:50,

Thu. 12:55 4:25 7:10, 9:50, Fri.-Thu. 2:10, 5, Lincoln (PG-13) Argo (R)

Fri.-Thu. 11:40 7:50, 10:35

Thu. 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, Cloud Atlas (R) a.m., 12:40, 2:50, 3:50, 6:30, 10, Fri.-Thu. 3:50, 10:30

Thu. 6:30, 10:10, 7, 10:10 Cloud Atlas (R) Fri.-Thu. 12

Thu. 1, 4:35, 8:15 Man with the Iron Fists (R) Flight (R)

Thu. 12:15, 2:40, 5, Flight (R)

Thu. 12:50, 4, 7:20,

Thu. 1:05, 4:10, 7:35, 10, Fri.-Thu. 12:05, 6:35 10:30, Fri.-Thu. 12:10, 3:40, 7:20, 10:25, Fri.-Thu. 12:50, Paranormal Activity 4 (R)

Thu. 12, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 10:10 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Fun Size (PG-13) 7:40, 10, Fri.-Thu. 9:40 Hotel Transylvania 2D

Thu. 1:30, 3:40 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (PG) Hotel Transylvania 2D

Thu. 2:10, 4:30, (R)

Thu. 7:30, 9:45, (PG) 6:50, 9:05, Fri.-Thu. 12

Thu. 1:20 Fri.-Thu. 10 Jab Tak Hai Jaan (NR) Life of Pi 3D (PG)

Fri.-Thu. 12:20, Sinister (R)

Wed. (Nov. 21)- 4:05, 7:50

Thu. 4:05, 9:40, Thu. 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri.-Thu. 7:20, 10 Lincoln (PG-13) Lincoln (PG-13)

Fri.-Thu. 12:30, Skyfall (PG-13)

Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 1:30, 4:50, 7:10, 8:10, 10:20

Thu. 11:45 a.m., 12:45, 2:50, 3:50, 6:30, 7, 8, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 The Man with the Iron Rise of the Guardians 2D Fists (R) 9:35, 10:10, Fri.-Thu. 12:20,

Thu. 2:30, 5:10, 12:50, 2:40, 3:45, 4:15, 6:50, (PG)

Wed. (Nov. 21)- 7:50, 10:15 7:30, 9, 9:55 Thu. 2:40, 5, 9:40 Taken 2 (PG-13) Paranormal Activity 4 (R) Rise of the Guardians 3D

Thu. 12:15, 2:25,

Thu. 10:10 4:55, 7:50, 10:05, Fri.-Thu. (PG) Silent Hill: Revelation 2D

Wed. (Nov. 21)- (R) 12:10, 2:25, 4:55, 7:50, 10:05

Thu. 3:10, 8:10 Twilight Saga Marathon Thu. 12:20, 7:20

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (R)

Thu. 12:50, 5:30, 10:30 Sinister (R)

Thu. 2:25, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Skyfall (PG-13)

Thu. 1:10, 1:40, 3:20, 3:50, 4:20, 4:50, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 9:40, 10:40, Fri.Thu. 12:10, 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:45 Son of Sardaar (NR)

Fri.-Thu. 1:20, 4:30, 8 Taken 2 (PG-13)

Thu. 2, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30, Fri.-Thu. 9:40 TCM Presents To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary (PG)

Thu. 7 Twilight Saga Marathon (PG-13)

Thu. 11:25 a.m.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13)

Thu. 10 (sold out), 10:01 (sold out), 10:02 (sold out), 10:03 (sold out), 10:04, Fri.-Thu. 10:40 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 12:40, 1, 1:40, 2:20, 3, 3:40, 4, 4:40, 5:20, 6, 6:40, 7, 7:40, 8:20, 9, 10, 10:40, 11:20 Wreck-It-Ralph 2D (PG)

Thu. 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:15, Fri.-Thu. 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Wreck-It-Ralph 3D (PG)

Thu. 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20, Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7;45

West Shore Theater

Hotel Transylvania (PG)

Fri. 7, Sat.-Sun. 2, 7, Mon.-Thu. 7 Paranormal Activity 4 (R)

Fri.-Thu. 9 Pitch Perfect (PG-13)

Thu. 9:10 Trouble With the Curve (PG-13)

Thu. 7

D12 — The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.

Movies

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Movie Review

A gorgeous but distant ‘Anna Karenina’

BY CHRISTY LEMIRE Associated Press

All the world’s a stage, very literally, in Joe Wright’s wildly theatrical adaptation of “Anna Karenina.”

If you thought the director’sfive-and-a-half-minute tracking shot in “Atonement” was show-offy, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (“Shakespeare in Love”) have taken Leo Tolstoy’s literary behemoth about love, betrayal and death among the elite in imperial Russia and boldly set it almost entirely within a decaying theater.

The inspiration comes from the notion that the members of high society conducted themselves as if they were performing on stage. The result is technically dazzling, a marvel of timing and choreography.

“Anna Karenina” is at once cleverly contained and breathtakingly fluid; it’s crammed with rich, intimate detail yet moves with a boundless energy that suggests anything is possible. A character walks across the floor and people dress him as he goes. Sets slide into an empty space at the precise moment to create a cozy surrounding. And the sense of movement is just memorable from a sound design perspective: the rapid flapping of a fan seamlessly transforms into the thundering of horse hooves, for example.

But wondrous as all this artifice is, it’s also a huge distraction. The self-consciousness of the structure keeps us at arm’s length emotionally.

Snow globes and Faberge eggs are just as tidy and ornate but more capable of eliciting a response from the viewer. Rather than feeling the suffering of the adulterous Anna (Keira Knightley), we’re more likely to notice

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Keira Knightley in a scene from “Anna Karenina.” how beautiful the suffering looks — the flattering lighting, her wild mane of dark curls spread meticulously across her pillow case.

And eventually the trickery actually becomes a bit predictable. When Anna’s cuckolded husband Karenin (Jude Law) tears up a desperate letter from his wife and tosses the pieces in the air, you just know they’re going to come down as snowflakes. And they do.

Still, it’s impossible not to have huge admiration for this ambitious, complicated risk.

“Anna Karenina” has been brought to the screen many times over the past century but never like this.

A refresher for anyone who may have forgotten the book since high school. The year is 1874. Anna is a prominent member of St. Petersburg society, the wife of a respected government official and the mother of an adorable little boy. (Knightley, in her third collaboration with Wright following “Pride &

Prejudice” and “Atonement,” looks steely and radiant in an array of elaborate, luxurious gowns and furs, once again the work of Oscar-nominated costume designer Jacqueline Durran.)

Things seem pretty comfortable until she takes a trip to Moscow to visit her philandering brother, Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen), to help him restore his marriage.

Upon arrival at the train station, she experiences an instant spark with Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson in an ill-advised blonde dye job), a handsome, flirtatious cavalry officer. Soon her virtue goes out the window as she launches into a brazen, fullblown affair with this younger, single man. She is, for the first time in her sheltered life, passionately in love.

Given the time and place, divorce was not exactly a process that was easy or forgiving of women. But Anna sooner finds herself consumed from within as jealousy, paranoia and neediness

eat away at her seemingly unshakable confidence. This “Anna Karenina” depicts the tragic heroine as a victim of her own doing rather than society’s; it also elevates the more optimistically romantic subplot involving the sensitive landowner Levin (Domhnall Gleeson) who pines for the young, pretty Kitty (Alicia Vikander), providing some beautiful and inspired opportunities to open up the scenery to the outside world.

The sense of excess that pervades “Anna Karenina” extends to strong supporting cast, including Olivia Williams as Vronsky’s meddlesome countess mother, Kelly Macdonald as Oblonsky’s loyal wife and Shirley Henderson in one late, key scene as a viciously judgmental opera patron. They’re all working as hard as their surroundings — if only all that effort resulted in an emotional payoff.