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Grandma Helen’s Country Café — Rejuvenated and delicious as ever BY JOE SZYNKOWSKI
re-opened Grandma Helen’s in October 2012. Hooker, who also owns Fish Tales Pet Shop, said Mothers everywhere Sunday will be deservedly the decision to rejuvenate the restaurant was an easy showered with flowers, one. love, jewelry and hugs. “We have been really Grandma Helen’s Country pleased with how business Café in Energy has a gift has been going since we for mom, too. opened,” she said. Fried chicken. Grandma Helen’s had The cozy, downhome been closed for the past restaurant on Illinois 148 will be generously serving two-and-a-half years before Hooker re-opened up its popular all-youcan-eat fried chicken meal it. Established in 2007, the restaurant built quite a with a special dessert for local clientele for its just $12.99. Perfectly buffet-style lunches. breaded and crisped to Hooker has gone away perfection, the dish will show mom how much you from the buffets, but offers daily specials, care about her — and her homemade desserts, and taste buds. Owner Linda Hooker has an assortment of salads. She has noticed a big been delivering excellent customer service for years carryover of longtime loyal customers. in Southern Illinois, and
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“We kept the name because we thought we’d get some recognition,” she said. “We have seen a lot of customers who say they used to come in a lot.” Grandma Helen’s new summer menu includes a barbecue pork steak with roasted potatoes and seasonal veggies. Sandwich-lovers can dig into the chicken Philly hoagie, while fry fanatics can find their fix with Cajun waffle sweet potato fries. Other popular menu items include the Italian beef, chili mac, spaghetti and meat sauce, and country-fried steak. But it is the boneless catfish fillet platter with hush puppies, fries, and coleslaw that fills the seats at Grandma Helen’s on Friday and Saturdays. “It has definitely been our most popular special,” Hooker said. Salad choices are seemingly endless at Grandma Helen’s, with Cobb, fruit, iceberg wedge, taco, chicken, tuna tomato and cucumber, and strawberry pecan all available options. And for whatever
number of calories you save by opting for a salad, you can make up for with ice cream sundaes, floats, cones, and shakes. Grandma Helen’s has space for groups of 50 for your next party, business function or club meeting. Customers are urged to call ahead for carry-out orders.
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All-motor poker run to benefit St. Kateri chapels
Thebes courthouse museum open for new season
Old bottles will help illustrate region’s history MOUNT VERNON— Mary Jane Chesley will present a program on the history of Mount Vernon and Jefferson County by focusing on historic bottles. She will use bottles from businesses in operation from 1880s to 1970s to help illustrate the history of the area. The program will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16 in the C.E. Brehm Memorial Public Library at 101 S. 7th St. Attention will be focused on bottles from local dairies, pharmacies, soda companies and other businesses. Chesley will point out that bottles are pieces of history that have outlasted the businesses and the buildings. For more information, call the library at 618-242-6322 or go to www.mtvbrehm.lib.il.us.
THEBES — The 1848 courthouse and museum in Thebes has reopened to the public after being closed for the winter season. At the intersection of Fifth and Oak streets, the historic structure overlooks the Mississippi River. Regular hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Private tours for groups can be arranged at other times by contacting operators at www.thebescourthouse. com or on the Thebes Historical Courthouse Facebook page. An annual Memorial Day weekend celebration is planned for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 25, through Monday, May 27. The event will feature a community worship concert, raffle, tours, crafts vendors, live music and more. — Adam Testa
Heroes & Horsepower Car Show is May 18 ZEIGLER — The Heroes & Horsepower Car Show is set for May 18 on the Zeigler Circle. Registration begins at 9 a.m., followed by judging at noon. Trophies will be handed out at 3 p.m. The first 50 vehicles registered for the event will receive a free dash plaque. The event is sponsored by the Zeigler Fire Department. Judging classes include Chevrolet, Ford, Mopar, Import, 4x4, Street Rod, Truck, Motorcycle, Emergency Service
Vehicle, Chief’s Choice and Best of Show. Entry fee is $15 per vehicle. The fire department will sell hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips and drinks the day of the show. Proceeds from the show support the ongoing Raise the Roof fundraiser series for a fire station addition. To enter the car show or for information about setting up a vendor tent, call city hall at 618-5966475 or firefighter Aaron Wyant at 618-751-5086.
– The Southern
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worst poker hands. Tickets are $30 per person, which includes two poker hands, refreshments during registration and barbecue. Tickets may be purchased until Friday, May 17, by contacting Jane Baglio at 618-841-0362 or rte1bnb@gmail.com. Proceeds go to the St. Kateri building fund.
RIDGWAY — An allmotor poker run will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 25 in southeastern Illinois. The poker run will begin with registration from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Joseph’s Gym, 211 W. Edwards St., Ridgway. All vehicles will report back to the gym by 4 p.m. for a barbecue meal. Cash prizes will be awarded for the best and
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‘Oklahoma’ coming to Anna Arts Center ANNA — The Anna Arts Center will present its spring musical production, “Oklahoma,” May 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26. Friday and Saturday performances begin at 7 p.m. Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. All performances will be in the Masters Center, located at 117 W. Davie St., Anna, The musical is the first in a series of successful musicals written by Rogers and Hammerstein. “Oklahoma” was written in 1943 and the original production ran for 2,243 performances. The story revolves around the traditional conflict between farmers and ranchers. The play is being directed by Vanessa Holloway of Carbondale. Joey Johnson of Murphysboro is the assistant director. Abbi Karcher of Cape Girardeau plays Laurey Williams and Johnson is cowboy Curly McLain. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Call 618-697-0009 for advance tickets. —The Southern
Unique dinner theater offers entertainment
coming to terms with the realization that he is in love, although it may be a couple of years too late. The film is written and directed by Piatt and stars Robert Brettenaugh and Kim Curlee. “The Diaries” tells the story of a woman who finds an exact copy of a treasured family heirloom, her grandmother’s diary, but things quickly begin to take a turn for the weird. The movie is directed by Nylen and written by Jonathan Klemke and Nylen. “The Diaries” stars Susan Harrocks.
SPARTA— The Gathering Place has been described as a one-of-akind dinner theater. The venue offers an intimate setting in a relaxed atmosphere for patrons who can enjoy entertainment while also eating a delicious meal. Some of the entertainment scheduled in May includes Mandy Heinemann at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11; a variety show featuring Pamela Wegener and Bryan Curran at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17 and SrQ barbershop quartet at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25. The Gathering Place is at 290 S. Burns St., Sparta. To see a schedule of entertainment or for more information, go to www.thegatheringplace offbroadway.com; email thegatheringplaceob1@ yahoo.com or call 618-965-3726.
The Tempest, which has been called Shakespeare’s most magical comedy, will be presented by Stone Soup Shakespeare at three locations. The performances will be Thursday, May 9, in Marion Carnegie Library; Sunday, May 12, at Carbondale’s Attucks Park; and Sunday, May 19, at Carbondale’s Evergreen Park. All shows begin at 6 p.m. and are free to the public. Stone Soup Shakespeare presents the plays of Shakespeare as if they are brand new stories. The performances are intended to make the audiences’ first experience with Shakespeare lively and entertaining. For those already acquainted with Shakespeare, they will see these plays as new stories told again for the first time. For more information, contact Carbondale Community Arts at 618-457-5100, email info@carbondalearts.org or go to carbondale arts.org.
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Two short films to make premiere at AMC Showplace CARBONDALE — Two short films will premiere Sunday, May 12 in AMC Showplace 8 in University Mall. Jack Piatt and Nick Nylen will be premiering their short films, “All Summers Fade” and “The Diaries,” respectively at the theatre in the mall. Show time is 2:15 p.m. Admission is free. Ushers will be outside of the ticket booth at AMC to guide theatregoers into the theater to see the short films. “All Summers Fade” is a film about Tom, a heartbroken soul who is just
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SEMO to host ‘An Evening of Storytelling’ on May 17 CAPE GIRARDEAU — Storytelling magic occurs as one story plays itself out in the mind of each member of the audience based upon their own unique life experiences. At 7 p.m. Friday, May 17, you’ll get a chance to experience that for yourself at on the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University. “An Evening of Storytelling with Regina Carpenter and Jim May” will be presented in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall.
Carpenter’s diverse repertoire of stories are heart-warming, with lessons that are never far from the surface, while May tells stories in the fine tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Longtime Cape Girardeau storytelling fans will recognize the names of these two tellers, as both have performed in Cape Girardeau before. Carpenter made her debut Cape Girardeau performance at the October 2011 Ghost
Storytelling event, and Jim May stepped in for Sheila Kay Adams when she couldn’t make it to the 2012 Storytelling Festival. Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for children younger than 10. Call 573-651-2265 or visit the Special Events page at www.rivercampus events.com. There will be other activities connected to the storytelling weekend. The Glenn House is hosting a Plein Aire Art event Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19; there also will be
a winetasting on Friday. Crisp Museum, Fort D., Old St. Vincent’s, the Red House Interpretive Center, Glenn House and the River Heritage Museum will be open for tours. — The Southern
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Cache River Nature Fest this Saturday CYPRESS — The annual Cache River Nature Fest is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Cache River Wetlands Center, 8885 Illinois 37 South. The program will feature live animal exhibits, hands-on activities for individual of all ages with the theme “Keepers of the Cache.” The program will focus on the future of the Cache River Wetlands. Resource staff will provide area information, guided tours and wildlife watching opportunities. The event includes four areas of interest such as fish of the Cache River, birds, native plants and reptiles and amphibians. Each area will include live exhibits and hands-on activities. The morning of the program will feature hummingbird banding demonstrations and presentations on Prothonotary warblers and wild edible mushrooms of Illinois. During the afternoon, staff from FreeAgain Wildlife Rehab will provide close-up views of live owls and hawks. Participants may also view or touch a live fish, snake, turtle and frog, climb into a life-size eagle’s nest or take a taste of Asian carp. There will be guided hikes, canoe and bike tours scheduled throughout the day with trips on designated trails featuring the natural and cultural history of the Cache. For more information call Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge at 618-634-2231 or the Cache River Wetlands Center at 618-657-2064. More information may be found at www.cacheriver naturefest.org. — The Southern
Jesse Berlin: University Museum, SIU; sculpture; Contemporary Fiber Art & graduate student exhibit; Sculpture: Southern Illinois through May 10; www. Art & Artisans Center, 14967 museum.siu.edu; 618-453Gun Creek Trail, Whittington; 5388 contemporary quilts by Catherine ‘CJ’ Niehaus: Illinois artisans and narrative University Museum, SIU; ceramic sculptures by Robin ceramics; graduate student Power; through July 14; exhibit; through May 10; hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-629-2220; www. 618-453-5388 museum.state.il.us Lindsey Zmroczek: Robert Paulson: The University Museum, SIU; Gallery Space, 1008 Walnut ceramics; graduate student St., Murphysboro; 9 a.m.exhibit; through May 10; 5 p.m. Monday-Friday; www.museum.siu.edu; Paulson is an SIU Emeritus 618-453-5388 professor in painting; St. Andrews Quilters through May 31 exhibit: Carbondale Karen Linduska Community Arts Civic Center Marshlands: University Corridor Gallery; more than a Museum, SIU; fiber artist; dozen quilts on display; through May 10; www. through May 13; 618-457museum.siu.edu; 618-4535100; info@carbondale 5388 arts.org The Artist’s Story Book: Carolyn Hollabaugh: University Museum, SIU; Watercolor exhibit, First students from Cobden, Presbyterian Church, 310 S. Eldorado, Elverado, ZeiglerUniversity Ave., Carbondale; Royalton high schools and hours, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. MondayShawnee Community College Thursday; through May 15; create illustrated books 618-565-1180 reflecting their personal Recent Watercolors: By stories; through May 10; Mary Pachikara, Carbondale www.museum.siu.edu; Public Library, 405 W. Main 618-453-5388 St.; hours, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Rachael Huszar: Monday-Thursday and University Museum, SIU; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fridaythrough May 10; SIU Saturday and 1-6 p.m. undergraduate student Sunday; through May 15; exhibit; www.museum.siu. carbondale.lib.il.us; 618-457edu; 618-453-5388 0354
Art Exhibits
Robert Paulson: The Gallery Space, Law Office of Joni Beth Bailey, 1008 Walnut St., Murphysboro; hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayFriday; through May 31 North Window Artist of the Month: David Brewer, photography, The Little Egypt Arts Association Arts Centre, downtown Marion; hours, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. TuesdaySaturday; through May; 618-559-7379 Paulette Aronson and Friends: anthill gallery, 102 N. Front St., Cobden; uses cast-offs from the world around her to create; students from her classes at anthill gallery will share in the exhibition; through June 2; hours, noon to 4 p.m., Sunday and Wednesday; noon-6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday www.anthill gallery.com Tom Bell: Luna Gallery, Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; Digital photography painting; Bell is an international awardwinning fine art photographer; through June 2; www.anthillgallery.com Vickie Gingrich: Works in acrylic and watercolor on canvas, Harrisburg District Library; also, storytelling dolls; through June 30; 618-253-7455
Carbondale students, others honored in Congressional High School Art Competition U.S. Rep. Bill Enyart, D-Belleville, has announced the winners of the Congressional High School Art Competition and two Carbondale students have received honorable mention. The grand prize was given to Sarah Bradley of O’Fallon Township High School. Her winning pencil artwork, “Freckle Face,” will hang in the U.S. Capitol Complex for one year. Second Place in the overall competition went to Carrie Shea of Belleville West High School for her silver print photograph, “Through the Eyes of the Broken and third place went to Ryan Kemp of O’Fallon Township High School for his colored pencil artwork, “Wood, Not Wood’s.” The second and third place overall winning artworks will hang in
Enyart’s Belleville District Office for the remainder of the year. The artists received an award ribbon and a Congressional Certificate of Recognition. Honorable mention awards were presented to: Yoonjoo Moon, Carbondale Community High School in the painting category; Haley Schmidt, Carbondale Community High School in the photography category; Annie Parkinson, O’Fallon Township High School in the drawing category; Pauline Cabrera, Belleville West High School in the collage category; Justin C. Fash, Belleville East High School in the mixed media category and De Robinson, Belleville East High School in the computer generated art category. — The Southern
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Here they come ... BY ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN
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here’s no denying this year’s summer movie season started off hot. “Iron Man 3” opened last weekend to the continuous sound of the cha-ching of movie theater cash registers. The superhero sequel brought in more than $175 million in its first three days, bested in the record book only by “The Avengers,” opening the same weekend last year. In many ways, it’s fitting the Robert Downey Jr.-led franchise had the honor of launching the movie season. It will be followed by numerous other sequels; forays into science fiction, television and comic book adaptations, and bigbudget films. Many blockbusters will be chasing “Iron Man 3’s” nearhistoric opening, but it will definitely be a daunting task for “Star Trek” or “Man of Steel” to find the success of Tony Stark. The real winners this summer, though, may be the fans, who have a plethora of entertainment options waiting in the wings. Here is a preview of what’s coming, courtesy McClatchyTribune News: “The Great Gatsby” (May 10): “It takes two to make an accident,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his Roaring Twenties novel. Let’s hope Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann hasn’t made a gigantic, expensive accident with his 3-D, Jay-Zsoundtracked spectacle. The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio (Gatsby), Carey Mulligan (Daisy), and Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway). This is the fourth adaptation of the 1925 classic, the fifth if you count the 2000 TV movie, and none has pulled it off. PG-13 “Star Trek Into Darkness” (May 17): No punctuation, no “the,” just “Star Trek Into Darkness” can’t get more streamlined than that. J.J. Abrams is back in the
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Summer movie slate to bring blockbusters, comedies, sequels and more
‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’
‘Man of Steel’
‘The Hangover Part III’
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director’s chair, Chris Pine ‘The Lone Ranger’ back in the captain’s chair, and Zoe Saldana (Uhuru), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Simon Pegg (Scotty) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov) all back on the Enterp-rise’s bridge. Benedict Cumberbatch is the new nemesis, although Trekker rumors abound that he actually is playing Khan, the wrathful superhuman of the 1982 “Star Trek” film. PG-13 “Fast & Furious 6” (May 24): “You’re talking vehicular warfare,” Vin Diesel says, as only Vin Diesel can, in the trailer for the fifth sequel in the ridiculously successful stunt-driving series. This time, Dwayne Johnson needs Dom and crew to squash a rogue specialops team. And Letty MCT (Michelle Rodriguez), who final installment in the malewas killed two movies ago, bonding screwball nightmare miraculously returns. finds Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, PG-13 et al, back where it all began in “The Hangover Las Vegas. And then they’re off to Part III” (May 24): We know from Tijuana and other places where the trailer that a giraffe meets a the Wolfpack can run wild, and grisly end. And we know that run amok. R Zach Galifianakis is just plain “After Earth” (May 31): grisly. The third and promised
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Humankind has relocated to a new planet after an apocalypse lays ruin to Earth. But then Will and Jaden Smith, sometime in the 31st century, crash-land back on the old orb, now seemingly devoid of human life except for moviemaker M. Night Shyamalan, telling the movie-star fatherand-son duo what to do from his director’s chair. PG-13 “This Is the End” (June 12): Adapted from the post-”Knocked Up” short “Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse,” a squad of comedy stars Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel,
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Michael Cera head over to James Franco’s house for a giant party, then have to face the end of the world and “Harry Potters’” Hermione Emily Watson, wielding an ax. R “Man of Steel” (June 14): Superman gets an epic reboot from Zac (“300”) Snyder, with Henry Cavill as the new Clark Kent, alias you-know-who, and the whole Krypton-to-Earth origin story retold, with Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner as the respective patriarchs. PG-13 “Monsters University” (June 21):
mask who partners with Tonto to tame the West. Gore Verbinski, Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” collaborator, directs. PG-13 “Pacific Rim” (July 12): Of all the summer’s sci-fi apocalyptic disaster pics, this (from “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo Del Toro) looks the most promising. The alien invasion this time comes from “a portal between dimensions in the Pacific Ocean.” Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba and Ron Perlman star. PG-13 AP “The Wolverine” (July 26): The sixth installment in “The X-Men” series finds Jean Valjean make “The Heat” (June 28): Sandra Pixar’s prequel to “Monsters, Inc.” that Hugh Jackman paying a visit finds Mike (voice of Billy Crystal) Bullock and Melissa McCarthy to Japan, where the mutant with join forces in this distaff buddyand Sulley (John Goodman) on a the retractable claws and the cop comedy from the director of college campus, and not exactly superhuman ability to heal “Bridesmaids.” Bullock’s an FBI the best of buds. Then the himself meets up with the Silver agent, McCarthy a Beantown bromance begins. PG Samurai and a wild bunch of police detective. Neither has any “World War Z” (June 21): Brad Yakuzas. PG-13 social skills, or friends. R Pitt’s zombie pandemic epic, “2 Guns” (Aug. 2): Denzel “The Lone Ranger” (July 3): adapted from the Max Brooks Washington and Mark Wahlberg books, has been plagued with bad Johnny Depp has long claimed to are DEA and Naval Intelligence, press from the get-go. So, maybe have American Indian blood, so respectively undercover agents the idea of the rapscallion star it’ll surprise us, and maybe who don’t know the other guy is wearing war paint and feathers Glasgow really does look like an undercover agent. Crazy Philadelphia (for which it doubled isn’t entirely ridiculous. Armie heists, shootouts, car chases, and Hammer is the lawman-turnedin this Marc Forster-directed outlaw in the white hat and black wisecracking follow. R flick). PG-13
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‘Gatsby’ is good, but DiCaprio is great; see the review on Page 10. “Elysium” (Aug. 9): It’s the middle of the 22d century, and the rich and powerful have moved on from the rubble and ruin of Earth to settle in a place with no war, poverty or disease. Which leaves everybody else to
fight among themselves, until Matt Damon comes along to start some trouble. From Neill Blomkamp, director of another haves and have-nots sci-fi allegory, “District 9.” Not yet rated.
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Here they come ... BY ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN
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here’s no denying this year’s summer movie season started off hot. “Iron Man 3” opened last weekend to the continuous sound of the cha-ching of movie theater cash registers. The superhero sequel brought in more than $175 million in its first three days, bested in the record book only by “The Avengers,” opening the same weekend last year. In many ways, it’s fitting the Robert Downey Jr.-led franchise had the honor of launching the movie season. It will be followed by numerous other sequels; forays into science fiction, television and comic book adaptations, and bigbudget films. Many blockbusters will be chasing “Iron Man 3’s” nearhistoric opening, but it will definitely be a daunting task for “Star Trek” or “Man of Steel” to find the success of Tony Stark. The real winners this summer, though, may be the fans, who have a plethora of entertainment options waiting in the wings. Here is a preview of what’s coming, courtesy McClatchyTribune News: “The Great Gatsby” (May 10): “It takes two to make an accident,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his Roaring Twenties novel. Let’s hope Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann hasn’t made a gigantic, expensive accident with his 3-D, Jay-Zsoundtracked spectacle. The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio (Gatsby), Carey Mulligan (Daisy), and Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway). This is the fourth adaptation of the 1925 classic, the fifth if you count the 2000 TV movie, and none has pulled it off. PG-13 “Star Trek Into Darkness” (May 17): No punctuation, no “the,” just “Star Trek Into Darkness” can’t get more streamlined than that. J.J. Abrams is back in the
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Summer movie slate to bring blockbusters, comedies, sequels and more
‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’
‘Man of Steel’
‘The Hangover Part III’
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director’s chair, Chris Pine ‘The Lone Ranger’ back in the captain’s chair, and Zoe Saldana (Uhuru), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Simon Pegg (Scotty) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov) all back on the Enterp-rise’s bridge. Benedict Cumberbatch is the new nemesis, although Trekker rumors abound that he actually is playing Khan, the wrathful superhuman of the 1982 “Star Trek” film. PG-13 “Fast & Furious 6” (May 24): “You’re talking vehicular warfare,” Vin Diesel says, as only Vin Diesel can, in the trailer for the fifth sequel in the ridiculously successful stunt-driving series. This time, Dwayne Johnson needs Dom and crew to squash a rogue specialops team. And Letty MCT (Michelle Rodriguez), who final installment in the malewas killed two movies ago, bonding screwball nightmare miraculously returns. finds Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, PG-13 et al, back where it all began in “The Hangover Las Vegas. And then they’re off to Part III” (May 24): We know from Tijuana and other places where the trailer that a giraffe meets a the Wolfpack can run wild, and grisly end. And we know that run amok. R Zach Galifianakis is just plain “After Earth” (May 31): grisly. The third and promised
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Humankind has relocated to a new planet after an apocalypse lays ruin to Earth. But then Will and Jaden Smith, sometime in the 31st century, crash-land back on the old orb, now seemingly devoid of human life except for moviemaker M. Night Shyamalan, telling the movie-star fatherand-son duo what to do from his director’s chair. PG-13 “This Is the End” (June 12): Adapted from the post-”Knocked Up” short “Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse,” a squad of comedy stars Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel,
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Michael Cera head over to James Franco’s house for a giant party, then have to face the end of the world and “Harry Potters’” Hermione Emily Watson, wielding an ax. R “Man of Steel” (June 14): Superman gets an epic reboot from Zac (“300”) Snyder, with Henry Cavill as the new Clark Kent, alias you-know-who, and the whole Krypton-to-Earth origin story retold, with Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner as the respective patriarchs. PG-13 “Monsters University” (June 21):
mask who partners with Tonto to tame the West. Gore Verbinski, Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” collaborator, directs. PG-13 “Pacific Rim” (July 12): Of all the summer’s sci-fi apocalyptic disaster pics, this (from “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo Del Toro) looks the most promising. The alien invasion this time comes from “a portal between dimensions in the Pacific Ocean.” Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba and Ron Perlman star. PG-13 AP “The Wolverine” (July 26): The sixth installment in “The X-Men” series finds Jean Valjean make “The Heat” (June 28): Sandra Pixar’s prequel to “Monsters, Inc.” that Hugh Jackman paying a visit finds Mike (voice of Billy Crystal) Bullock and Melissa McCarthy to Japan, where the mutant with join forces in this distaff buddyand Sulley (John Goodman) on a the retractable claws and the cop comedy from the director of college campus, and not exactly superhuman ability to heal “Bridesmaids.” Bullock’s an FBI the best of buds. Then the himself meets up with the Silver agent, McCarthy a Beantown bromance begins. PG Samurai and a wild bunch of police detective. Neither has any “World War Z” (June 21): Brad Yakuzas. PG-13 social skills, or friends. R Pitt’s zombie pandemic epic, “2 Guns” (Aug. 2): Denzel “The Lone Ranger” (July 3): adapted from the Max Brooks Washington and Mark Wahlberg books, has been plagued with bad Johnny Depp has long claimed to are DEA and Naval Intelligence, press from the get-go. So, maybe have American Indian blood, so respectively undercover agents the idea of the rapscallion star it’ll surprise us, and maybe who don’t know the other guy is wearing war paint and feathers Glasgow really does look like an undercover agent. Crazy Philadelphia (for which it doubled isn’t entirely ridiculous. Armie heists, shootouts, car chases, and Hammer is the lawman-turnedin this Marc Forster-directed outlaw in the white hat and black wisecracking follow. R flick). PG-13
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‘Gatsby’ is good, but DiCaprio is great; see the review on Page 10. “Elysium” (Aug. 9): It’s the middle of the 22d century, and the rich and powerful have moved on from the rubble and ruin of Earth to settle in a place with no war, poverty or disease. Which leaves everybody else to
fight among themselves, until Matt Damon comes along to start some trouble. From Neill Blomkamp, director of another haves and have-nots sci-fi allegory, “District 9.” Not yet rated.
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Wineries THURSDAY The Bone Dry River Band and Friends: 6-9 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery; Cigars and Guitars fundraiser FRIDAY Ivas John Band: 6-9 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery Patrick Lee Beasley: 7-10 p.m. Walker’s Bluff SATURDAY The Merchant Men: Plus, The Venturis, Saturday, Alto Vineyards, Alto Pass; part of Springfest, noon-8 p.m. Red, White and Blues Festival: Features Rich McDonough & The Rough Grooves and Jeremiah Johnson & The Sliders, Blue Sky Vineyard King Juba: 2 p.m. Saturday, Orlandini Vineyard Todd Pierson: 2-5 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery
Eastwood Frisch: 2-5 p.m. Walker’s Bluff Ol’ Moose: 2-6 p.m., Owl Creek Vineyard Voyaguers: 3-7 p.m. Starview Nyte Flyte Band: 3:30-6:30 p.m., Von Jakob Winery & Brewery Fertile Soil: 4-8 p.m. The Bluffs Southbound: 6-10 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery Fiddlerick Johnson: 7-10 p.m. Walker’s Bluff SUNDAY Blue Afternoon: 1-4 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery Acoustic Feedback: 2-5 p.m. Blue Sky Vineyard Eisenhauer Band: 2-5 p.m. Walker’s Bluff Tawl Paul: 3-7 p.m. The Bluffs Dave Caputo: 3:30-6:30 p.m., Von Jakob Winery &
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BENTON J Dee’s Connection:: Bobby Orr and the Crossroads Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. WANT TO BE LISTED? CARBONDALE Hangar 9: Orchard Lounge; 618-351-5089 Shattered Sound, 10 p.m. brenda.kirkpatrick@thesouthern.com PK’s: Tim Whiteford Trio The Grotto Lounge/Newell The Sentimental Country House: Coulter, Goot and Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Wall, 7-10 p.m. Tres Hombres: AD/CB; Grateful Dead covers, 10 p.m. MARION Williamson County CARBONDALE Fairground Hanna Building: Hangar 9: Barnacle Billy and Big Lake Country Band, the Zebra Mussels, 10 p.m. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Pinch Penny/Copper Dragon: Rod Tuffcurls and The Bench Press PK’s: Slappin’ Henry Blue The Grotto Lounge/Newell CARBONDALE House: Casey James, 9 p.m. Hangar 9: Aaron Kamm and Tres Hombres: Fresh Hops,10 p.m. The One Drops, 10 p.m. Pinch Penny/Copper Dragon: MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Mike & Joe Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m. PK’s: Slappin’ Henry Blue Marion American Legion: Tres Hombres: Nasty Nate, Egyptian Combo, 7:30 p.m. 10 p.m.; Transcendental Eagles: Salty Dog, 7-11 p.m. Cowboys, 5-8 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE DU QUOIN Old Country Store Dance Steve’z Too: Wicked Barn: Lil’ Boot & Classic Redemption, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Country, 7-10 p.m. INA WHITE ASH Ina Community Building: Scarlett’s Music Barn: Swing Friday Night Jam Band, N Country Dance Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 7-9:30 p.m. MARION Youth Center: Craig’s Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Old Country Store Dance MARION Barn: Jeanita Spillman & Eagles: Salty Dog, 6-10 p.m.
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R & R: 8-11 p.m. Friday, Red Corner, Fat Patties, 611 S. Illinois Ave. Carbondale; 618-529-3287 Wil Maring and Robert Bowlin: 8 p.m. Saturday, Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; www. yellowmooncafe.com; 618-893-2233 Mike Lynch: 8-9 p.m. Saturday, Red Corner, Fat Patties, 611 S. Illinois Ave. Carbondale; 618-5293287 Bob Streit: Plus Jessica Jo Jolly, 8-11 p.m. Saturday, Red Corner, Fat Patties, 611 S. Illinois Ave. Carbondale; 618-5293287
MONDAY ELKVILLE Elkville Civic Center: Jerry’s Jammers, 7-9 p.m. MARION Youth Center: Craig’s Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Pina, piano 5:30-8:30 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Mike’s Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT WB Ranch Barn: WB Ranch Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Directions & Digits 14th Street Saloon: 1017 N. 14th St., Murphysboro 618-684-9338 20’s Hideout Restaurant: 2602 Wanda Drive, Marion 618-997-8325 Corner Dance Hall: 200 Franklin St., Whittington 618-303-5266 Elkville: Elkville Civic Center, 405 S. 6th St., Elkville 618-201-1753 Hangar 9: 511 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale 618-549-0511 J Dee’s Connection: 0215 E. Main St., Benton John Brown’s on the Square: 1000 Tower Square, Marion 618-997-2909 Key West: 1108 W. Main St., Carbondale 618-351-5998 Lion’s Cave: South Street, Thompsonville
618-218-4888 Mack’s Lake of Egypt Marina: 12024 Laguna Drive, Lake of Egypt Marion American Legion: Longstreet Road, Marion 618-997-6168 Marion Eagles: Russell and Longstreet Roads, Marion 618-993-6300 Marion Youth Center: 211 E. Boulevard St., Marion 618-922-7853 N-Kahootz Night Club: 115 W. Cherry St., Herrin 618-942-9345 Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, Thompsonville 618-218-4676 Pinch Penny Pub/Copper Dragon: 700 E. Grand Ave., Carbondale 618-549-3348 PK’s: 308 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale 618529-1124
Scarlett’s Music Barn: 207 Potter St., White Ash 618-997-4979 Steeleville American Legion: 303 S. Chester St., Steeleville 618-965-3362 The Grotto Lounge/Newell House: 201 E. Main St., Carbondale 618-649-6400 The Zone Lounge: 14711 Illinois 37, Whittington 618-629-2039 Trackside Dance Barn: 104 Rock St., Spillertown 618-993-3035 Tres Hombres: 119 N. Washington St., Carbondale 618-457-3308 WB Ranch Barn: 1586 Pershing Road, West Frankfort 618-937-3718 Williamson County Fairground Hanna Building: Fair and Main streets, Marion 618-917-5230
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Moore to take stage at HerrinFesta Italiana COUNTRY SCENE Vince Hoffard
Justin Moore 10 p.m. May 26, HerrinFesta Italiana; opening at 7 p.m. is We Got It Covered, 8:15 p.m. Savannah Jack; day kicks off at 4 p.m. with the Texaco Country Showdown; $18 at gate, at herrinfesta.com and other locations Justin Moore had a bright future when he graduated Poyden High School. Supporters were eager to see where the talented Arkansas athlete would choose to pursue his sports career on the collegiate level. He was definitely a big star in a small town. A starting guard, Moore helped his high school team to a 39-0 record and a state championship. As a catcher for the baseball team, he earned all-region honors. Scholarship offers flowed in for both sports, and folks in the town of a population of 272 wondered which sport he would pick to continue on the next level. He turned down several major college scholarship offers and took his talent to
the diamond of a local community college. After two short weeks of misery, he knew he made a bad decision. He had country music running through his veins ever since he first starting strumming a guitar when he was just three years old. Deep down in his soul, he knew he would rather sing like Vern Gosdin than hit like Derek Jeter. Still, local residents were a bit surprised when Moore quit college in 2002, packed his bags and moved to Nashville. He was entering the honky tonk school of hard to become a country music star. His hybrid sound is a stiff cocktail featuring equal portions of John Anderson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Waylon Jennings and ZZ Top. His music is packed full of rural values and celebrating a rough work week with cold beer on the weekend. “I grew up on old-school country and I also played in a Southern rock band,” Moore says. He has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of Music City for more than a decade, learning the value of patience, which would lead to major award nominations and releasing two albums that have been certified gold. Behind the strength of
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major hits like “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away,” “Smalltown USA” and “Til My Last Day,” Moore has been elevated from unknown hopeful to a major force in the industry, signed to the prestigious Big Machine Label Group and part of a stable that includes Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts and Tim McGraw. Moore kicked off 2013 with the Outlaws Like Me Tour, his first attempt as a headlining act and the response was overwhelming. He immediately sold out shows in Kentucky, Ohio and Missouri. The 29-year old singer will bring his brash country twang to our area when he appears at 10 p.m. on May 26 at the annual HerrinFesta Italiana celebration. Opening the show at 7 p.m. will be local act We Got It Covered, followed at 8:15 p.m. by Savannah Jack. The long day of music kicks off at 4 p.m. with the Texaco Country Showdown. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at the gate the day of the show, on line at herrinfesta.com or at 14 area locations. Moore recently released “Point At You,” the debut single from a new album due out later this year. “We are really excited for
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LoCash Cowboys, others perform at benefit LAKE OF EGYPT — Four local acts will join the LoCash Cowboys for BBQ, Bands and Buds of Allen Kobler benefit Saturday at the Elks property at the Lake of Egypt. Food will be served starting at 11 a.m. and music begins at noon. Admission is $15. Those planning to attend should bring their own lawn chairs for seating. In case of rain, the event will be moved to the Black Diamond Harley Davidson warehouse in Marion. The music schedule is: noon, Blue Confusion; 2:30 p.m., Jim Cato; 4:30, Patrick Lee Beasley; 6:30 p.m., Cache River and 9 p.m., LoCash Cowboys. Kobler is terminally ill with an aggressive type cancer. — Vince Hoffard
Nashville under the cooperate umbrella of the Big Machine Label Group. Skillfully using social media to get his name to country music fans, Moore released his debut single “Back That Thing Up” in 2008. The expanded name recognition allowed follow-up , “Smalltown USA,” to soar to No. 1 on Billboard singles chart in 2009, giving his self-titled album enough momentum to climb to No. 3 on the
album charts. In 2011, Moore topped the charts again with “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away,” the first single from his Outlaws Like Me album. The tune was named Mainstream Inspirational Country Song of the Year by the Inspirational Country Music Awards. VINCE HOFFARD can be
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Bill Harper will open the Brown Bag Concert series at noon Wednesday, May 15.
Brown Bag Concerts Wednesdays in Carbondale CARBONDALE —The annual Brown Bag Concerts are now under way in the Town Square Pavilion. Area musicians play a free concert in the Pavilion every Wednesday. Attendees are invited to order lunch from a downtown restaurant or bring a brown bag lunch. The concerts will start at noon every Wednesday in May, June and September. Some of the groups and individuals performing include Soul Glo, Bill Harper, Rip Lee Pryor,
Giant City Slickers, The Belletones, Kevin Lucas, Little Egypt, The Natives, Candy Davis, Fiddlerick and Christine Bauer. Those attending the concerts may enter a free raffle to win gift certificates to Quatro’s Pizza, The Cellar and other downtown destinations. Organizers suggest concertgoers bring a lawn chair. For more information go to www.carbondale mainstreet.com or call 618-529-8040. — Brenda Kirkpatrick
Cigars and Guitars to benefit foundation COBDEN — Cigars and Guitars Under the Stars will be presented from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at Rustle Hill Winery. The evening is a fundraiser for the FowlerBonan Foundation. The event will feature Yesteryear Tobacconists and music by Bone Dry River Band and Friends. Yesteryear Tobacconists of Carbondale will feature pipes and pipe tobaccos, more than 325 handmade cigars, imported cigarettes and handrolling cigarette tobaccos.
Representatives from the Clothes for Kids program will be on hand with foundation literature. There is no charge to attend the event, but donations to the program will be accepted. Rustle Hill Winery is at 8595 U.S. 51 North in Cobden, south of Carbondale and north of Anna. For more information about the event, call 618-893-2700 or 618-231-3904.
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Friday Night Fair music: The Pirouettes, 6-9 p.m. Friday, May 10, Town Square Pavilion, corner of U.S. 51 North and Illinois 13 West, Carbondale; fair continues through September with the exception of the month of July; www.carbondale mainstreet.com; 618-5298040 Sounds of a Better World: Southern Illinois Children’s Choir, 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, Grace United Methodist Church, 220 N. Tower Road, Carbondale; free Bill Harper: Brown Bag Concert, noon-1 p.m., Wednesday, May 15, Town Square Pavilion, Carbondale; win gift certificates; bring a lawn chair; www.carbondale mainstreet.com Friday Night Fair music: The Rural Kings, 6-9 p.m. Friday, May 17, Town Square Pavilion, corner of U.S. 51 North and Illinois 13 West, Carbondale; www. carbondalemainstreet.com; 618-529-8040 HerrinFesta Italiana; Concerts, downtown Herrin; features Hairbangers Ball, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, advance, $8, at the door, $10; The Guess Who, 10 p.m., Friday, May 24, $13/$15; Papa Roach, 10 p.m. Saturday, May 25, $18/$20; Justin Moore, 10 p.m. Sunday, May 26, $18/$20; Florida Georgia Line, 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 27, $18/$20; www.herrinfesta.com
Kentucky Kentucky Opry Talent Search: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton, Ky.; finals; $19/$18/$13/$10.50; www.kentuckyopry.com; 888-459-8704
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Tobey Maguire (from left) as Nick Carraway, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby.’
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Gatsby’ is good, but DiCaprio is great ‘The Great Gatsby’ ***
outright bastardize, “The Great Gatsby” is constantly at war with a book and a cast that scream “classic.” And Luhrmann isn’t having that. Gatbsy’s orgiastic parties are set to hip hop music. A clumsy, sanitarium-set framing device gives Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) a tad too much Fitzgerald autobiography and too little Nick, the shrewd but passive observer. And some of the supporting BY ROGER MOORE player choices take you right out of the movie. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS Seriously, what Luhrmann and “colorblind casting” Jazzy, fizzy and often quite fun, Baz Luhrmann’s do to the “gambler” and gangster Meyer Wolfsheim “Pretty Good Gatsby” is so far removed from takes F. Scott Fizgerald’s Great American Novel out Jewish caricature or stereotype as to be for a sometimes dazzling, laughable. always irreverent spin. But Maguire is close to The gauzy pictureperfect as Nick, the postcard 3-D production design and superb leading struggling bond salesman, players breathe life into the would-be writer and teller of the tale of his neighbor, Jazz Age novel. But the “Moulin Rouge!” director’s the mysterious, “richer than God” Jay Gatsby, and barely contained of inbred aristocracy that determination to Nick’s cousin, Daisy, was Australianize, if not
Rated PG-13 for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and language; starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher; directed by Baz Luhrmann; opening at 10 p.m. Thursday at Illinois Centre 8 in Marion, ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and University Place 8 in Carbondale.
born into and married into. Carey Mulligan makes for a cannier Daisy than the hapless ditz Mia Farrow turned her into back when Robert Redford played Gatsby in 1974. Joel Edgerton (“Animal Kingdom”) makes the brawny, bigoted Tom Buchanan an understandable, if not remotely sympathetic, guardian of his poloplaying “ruling class.” And Leonardo DiCaprio brings depth, neediness and focus to Jay Gatsby, who has copied the manners, affectations and dress of America’s notnoble nobility, all in pursuit of Daisy. Photographed right, there’s a Wellesian largerthan-life aura about DiCaprio, and Luhrmann introduces him as the character in a grand moment that includes confetti, fireworks and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” a tune composed two years after this film is set (1922), but close enough to be perfect.
z MOVIES z ART z WINERIES z BOOKS z COVER STORY z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z MUSIC z Nick rents a rundown bungalow next door to Gatsby’s Disneyland-sized mansion. He finds himself the go-between in the mysterious millionaire’s obsession, a way for Gatsby to see the woman he loved but who lived totally outside of his income years before. All that’s he earned, all that he’s made of himself in Prohibition-era America, he did for her. Daisy is unhappily married to a bullying philanderer. Tom Buchanan and Nick may have gone to Yale together, and Daisy may be Nick’s cousin. But with her pal, the rich sportswoman Jordan Baker (Elizabeth Debicki, whose athletic pursuits seem limited to catwalks), Nick conspires to get Gatsby in a room alone with Daisy — which isn’t where the trouble starts, but where the tale takes its fateful turn toward the fatal. Tom cheats with Myrtle (Isla Fisher) and uses Nick — just as Gatsby would — as an alibi and coconspirator. Poor Nick is trapped in a daze of booze and sex, mannered courtship and appearances. Luhrmann stages stunningly choreographed parties that suggest a highclass rave with an unlimited budget set to a furious hip hop beat. Long shots are painterly fantasy landscapes, the hazy bright-colored impressionism of memory. Manhattan is a garishly colorized sea of neon and noise. But this movie hangs utterly on performance, and DiCaprio’s Gatsby is mesmerizing. His studied use of the term “old sport,” awkward attempts at poses and occasional lapses dropping the Jay Gatsby facade are exactly right, even if they go beyond the novel’s dense texture of mystery.
‘Peeples’ takes Fockers formula for an AfricanAmerican spin Peeples **½ Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug material and languate; starring Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier; written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism; opening. Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion. BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
“Peeples” is an African-American “Meet the Parents” that slips funnyman Craig Robinson into the Ben Stiller role. Casting the musically minded Robinson in this formula comedy about screwing up your first encounter with your potential in-laws is like replacing Stiller’s Greg Focker with Jack Black. Yeah, that might work. And here, formulaic or not, it’s funny. Robinson plays Wade, an entertainer for kids who sings songs about learning to “use your words” and not pee your pants. How he ended up with stunning U.N. lawyer Grace (Kerry Washington) takes a bit of imagination. Until you meet her parents. Not that she’s anxious to let Wade meet “the Chocolate Kennedys.” She does her family weekends in Sag Harbor without her live-in lover.
‘Mud’ is as authentically Southern as today’s cinema gets Arkansas. Ellis (Tye Sheridan, terrific) is a poor kid who lives on one of the last houseboats allowed on that stretch of shoreline. He and his buddy Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) have the run of the river and know their way around skiffs and boat motors. But Ellis’ daddy (Ray McKinnon), who fishes for a living, knows they’re one BY ROGER MOORE misstep from being MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS kicked off the houseboat his wife inherited. And The cinema’s leading when Ellis and Neckbone purveyor of Southern stumble across a man Gothic, Jeff Nichols, named Mud hiding out in hands Matthew an abandoned cabin McConaughey his latest cruiser jammed high in a tour de force turn in tree on a mid-river “Mud,” a down and dirty island, that mistake — if entirely-too-long — seems already made. mythic melodrama in the Mud (McConaughey) is “Tobacco Road” in “a tight spot,” he tradition. drawls, “and could use a Nichols (“Shotgun little help.” He’d like to Stories,” “Take Shelter”) fix up this boat, which has cooked up an exotic the boys covet stew that includes themselves. Is he “Night obsessive love, a woman of the Hunter” dangerous unworthy of it, a criminal or “Stand By Me” loyal? on the run and a Huck Mud, it turns out, is Finn coming of age tale waiting on a woman, “a set against a dying way of dream you don’t want to life in backwaters wake up from.” And
Mud ***
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard, Ray McKinnon; written and directed by Jeff Nichols; opening Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion.
because Ellis is in the middle of his first crush, and has a touch of chivalry about him, he agrees to help Mud. Reese Witherspoon is Juniper, a Britney-trashy bombshell who has lived her whole life off how well she fills out a pair of Daisy Dukes. Ellis becomes go-between for Mud and Juniper, and, being a growing boy, learns hard life lessons from them both. Nichols revels in the milieu here, capturing authentic Southern voices and classic, overheated Southern melodrama revenge, betrayal, strained family ties and attitudes toward women that date from the time of Jezebel. And it all takes place in this distinctly indistinct berg on the very buckle of the South’s Piggly Wiggly belt. McConaughey has truly found his place within the film firmament in Southern Gothic movies like this one and “Killer Joe.” Mud is full of folk wisdom and singular in purpose. Michael
Shannon plays a river diver and inattentive uncle to Neckbone. McKinnon, with a physique straight out of the Dust Bowl and a “Fried Green Tomatoes” accent, is the very picture of rural, working-class red state integrity. And Sam Shepard is a mysterious, secretive houseboat neighbor who figures into the story. It doesn’t trivialize “Mud” to label it “Tennessee Williams lite,” at least in its romantic notions. Nichols gets good performances out of one and all, but lets himself get so caught up in his sense of place that this potboiler hangs around more than a few minutes after that pot has come to a boil. But “Mud” is a vivid reminder that for all the changes cable TV and Interstate highways have wrought, there are still corners of the country we hear very little about, places with a voice, vibe and vigor that are still distinctly emphatically Southern.
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Daphne, his wife (S. Epatha Merkerson in a But Wade, egged on by rare comic turn), is a his “doll doctor” brother retired, vampy soul(Malcolm Barrett, singer with substance hilarious) decides to abuse issues. Young son follow her to the Simon (Tyler James Hamptons and surprise Williams of “Everybody her and her folks with a Hates Chris”) is a genius proposal. and a social misfit who The moment he meets acts out by stealing. her father, “The Judge,” Daughter Gloria (Kali he realizes the folly of his Hawk) is a TV reporter plan. Judge Virgil Peeples who won’t tell Dad she’s is played by the criminally in love with her under-employed comic camerawoman (Kimrie David Alan Grier. His Lewis-Davis). And Dad patriarch is a prickly has his own secrets, martinet who so which Wade stumbles intimidates his family of into as he blunders his over achievers that they through a domestic all lie to him rather than situation fraught with upset his notion of family. peril.
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Robinson (“The Office,” “Hot Tub Time Machine”) is in his ease, here, surrounded by funny people so that he doesn’t have to carry the movie. But reacting to every new discovery about the Peeples, and about his girlfriend’s secret past, he’s a stitch. She’s dated a LOT of rich, older men in Sag Harbor. How’d he find out? At the market. “I met Uncle Ben and Bojangles up in here. Who else did you date? George Washington Carver? W.E.B. Dubois?” Writer-director Tina Gordon Chism earned her directing debut with
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Kerry Washington (left) as Grace Peeples, Craig Robinson as Wade Walker (center) and David Alan Grier as Virgil Peeples in a scene from the film ‘Peeples.’