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The St. Louis RV Vacation & Travel Show coming next month ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis RV Vacation & Travel Show will return to America’s Center in downtown St Louis, Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 9 to 12. Going Places is the theme for the show, which will feature John Holod and his Roads to Adventure films. Holod’s films on Alaska, the Rocky Mountains and Route 66 were popular at the 2013 show and he will expand his offerings for 2014 to show films
featuring the Gulf Coast, Southeast and Northeast Coasts. New features at the show include talks by Missouri authors and information on traveling the Ozarks Region, and various hills, forests and streams of Missouri. Also, a representative of Dealer Resources Group, a national RV parts distributor, J.D. Overstreet, will be giving talks and answering questions about RV products.
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Little Egypt Arts Association Arts Centre, downtown Marion; hours, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; through December; 618-559-7379 New Work Of Richard Cox: Weaver’s Cottage, 1904 Bass Lane, Carbondale; new weavings, painting and art quilts; through December; 618-457-6823 Cedarhurst exhibits: Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 Richview Road, Mount Vernon; Shrode Photography Competition and Michelle Stitzlein: Second Nature; Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock ‘n Roll Photography and Cedarhurst and 40 Years of History; through Dec. 31; www.cedarhurst.org; 618-242-1236 Art-Official Carbondale: Original art and illustrations by Steven W. Garcia, Carbondale Public Library, 405 W. Main St.; hours, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. MondayThursday; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday; through Jan. 1; 618-457-0354 Holiday Extravaganza show: Little Egypt Arts Association Art Centre, square, Marion; handmade, refurbished, original works of Christmas art; fiber pieces,
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Organist Paul Jacobs performs in memory of Marianne Webb CARBONDALE — The renowned organist Paul Jacobs will present a concert next month in honor of the late esteemed organist Marianne Webb. The performance will start at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17 in SIU’s Shyrock Auditorium. Ms. Webb served as a professor at SIU for almost 50 years and was credited with creating a rich and thriving environment for organ music performance in the region and across the United States. Jacobs, who was a friend of Ms. Webb, said “Marianne has influenced countless individuals throughout her long career as a teacher and performer. I was especially fortunate to develop an intimate friendship with this extraordinary person, one who gave so much to so many people. Marianne understood the spiritual dimension of the human condition, and how music is a gift to be used to care for the soul. Remembering her gracious, wise, and joyful spirit will continue to inspire me, and countless others.” The program will include works by Bach, Schumann, Stanley, Boulanger, Elgar, Mozart and Guilmant. Described by “The Economist” as “America’s leading organ performer,” Grammy award-winning organist Paul Jacobs has performed to high acclaim
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with the San Francisco Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony, among others, and has appeared at such venues as London’s Westminster Cathedral, Lincoln Center, and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Jacobs’ recording of Messiaen’s Livre du Saint Sacrement, released by Naxos in September 2010, was awarded the Best Solo Instrumental Grammy of the Year — the first time a disc of solo organ music has ever received this honor. The concert is free and open to the public, courtesy of the estate of Marianne Webb, which offers the concert as a gift to Southern Illinoisans and all who supported her during her long career. —The Southern
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TOP 10 MOVIES BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
This has been one of those years that makes you think whatever Oscar does, a consensus has pretty much been reached among critics and various critics’ groups about which films will pull down best picture Oscar nominations. With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences now delivering as many as 10 best picture contenders, you can pretty much bet that this year will feature a full house and that the listed films will jibe with that consensus. But there weren’t just 10 good movies, most of them released at the tail end of 2013. Films from “Inside Llewyn Davis” to “Blue is the Warmest Color” or
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“Blue Jasmine” have their champions. Not me. “The Dallas Buyers Club”: The tragedy of AIDS, as experienced by a workingclass Joe who refuses to be written off or killed off by a medical establishment that doesn’t treat him as a person, this is the first movie on this subject with a swagger. Thank McConaughey. Dude deserves the Oscar. Give it to him. “Gravity”: A serenely cerebral space accident thriller that hangs on stateof-the-art effects, George Clooney’s voice and Sandra Bullock’s decades of audience empathy. The state of sci-fi effects will change but this one will still be touching people, years down the road. “Captain Phillips”: A lean,
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perfectly pitched thriller about a merchant ship hijacking from the director of “United 93,” starring this generation’s EveryAmerican, Tom Hanks. It took guts to give us a taste of the hijackers’ point of view. Director Paul Greengrass and co-star Barkhad Abdi gave us that. But Hanks makes us care. “Fruitvale Station”: Ryan Coogler’s film of the last day of the life of a young man killed by a cop at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station is a moving depiction of a mistake-prone person (Michael B. Jordan) who had the empathy to change. He just never got the chance to. The year’s most touching drama. “Her”: The year’s best romance was about a man and his sentient operating system. Spike Jonze made this sci-fi trope fresh and heartbreaking, thanks to Joaquin Phoenix and the sexy, empathetic voice of Scarlett Johansson.
“12 Years a Slave”: The grim subject matter and the “history we need to know” label take nothing away from this black man’s eye-view of slavery in the years just before the Civil War. Any arguments over the allegedly “benign” nature of this “peculiar institution” are silenced by this unflinching depiction of its horrors, with Oscarworthy performances by Chiwitel Ejiofor and Adepero Oduye. “Nebraska”: A Midwestern odyssey that follows a single-minded — and a little simple-minded — old alcoholic as he undertakes one last confused quest for himself and his legacy. Bruce Dern’s Woody is the performance of a lifetime, set off by hilarious June Squibb as the sort of woman any man would walk away from, given the excuse. “All Is Lost”: Robert Redford does his best acting in decades as an old
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man, struggling with the sea and the small boat that is sinking underneath him. Call it exciting or call it existential, this J.C. Chandor picture is drama at its most elemental and most human. “American Hustle”: The cast to this ABSCAM comic-caper picture is so good that burning all the attention and Oscar buzz on Jennifer Lawrence is a crime. Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper are just as good. And Amy Adams is better, nothing short of
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brilliant — her grasping, needy but never bitter turn is the heart and soul of the picture. “Saving Mr. Banks”: Emma Thompson is gloriously brittle as the author of “Mary Poppins,” a temperamental tempest who descends on Burbank, Calif., utterly immune to the charms of Walt Disney — and Tom Hanks, who plays Walt. Sentimental? Yes. Earnest. And overlong. But witty and ambitious and sympathetically acted by the leads.
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TOP 10 TV SHOWS, EVENTS BY FRAZIER MOORE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Even after all these years, TV in 2013 continued to surprise us. What a fine surprise was “The Returned,” a Frenchlanguage zombie series aired by Sundance Channel. And Tatiana Maslany was startling in BBC America’s eerie series “Orphan Black,” in which she played nearly a dozen varied clones of her main character. It was a year that shocked “Glee” fans with the death of cast favorite Cory Monteith, whose passing was marked in a surprisingly sappy memorial epidsode. Syfy’s silly horror spoof “Sharknado” triggered a Twitter phenomenon last summer. AMC’s “The Walking Dead” continued to defy all expectations, averaging 13 million viewers this fall as the highest-rated scripted series in cable TV history. And “The Bible” miniseries on the History channel demonstrated anew there’s a TV audience for the Good Book. “Downton Abbey” (PBS): It was reliably delicious and also pretty deadly in its third season, which began last January. Lovely Lady Sybil died in childbirth. Then, in the season conclusion, Matthew Crawley, heir to Downton and Lady Mary’s beloved, perished in a car crash, leaving her a widowed mother. Hankies were sopping as viewers faced a long wait for Season 4 (starting next month). “House of Cards” (Netflix): This Beltway adaptation of the 1990s British political thriller,
with Kevin Spacey as its slithery pol, would have been good viewing on any network. “Behind the Candelabra” (HBO): This splashy and poignant portrait of “Mr. Showmanship,” Liberace, proved a dual career triumph for Michael Douglas, who portrayed him, and Matt Damon, who was no less impressive as the Vegas superstar’s tempestuous lover. “Breaking Bad” (AMC): This drama series retired undefeated as TV’s best ever. And in the final dose of eight episodes, it was never better, concluding the five-season-long saga with near-perfection. From start to finish, was there ever a more unlikely series, more successfully executed? How long must viewers wait for anything that rivals it? “Sons of Anarchy” (FX): If there’s anything darker than black, this motorcycle drama
remained hell-bent on finding it. In its sixth season, “Sons” was as gory, complex and absorbing as ever, populated with characters who were brutish, bloodthirsty and yet somehow commanded our respect and affection. It made crime seem thrilling but never worthwhile. “The Good Wife” (CBS): Last season, it seemed to be losing its way. But with its fall return, this brainy, sexy legal drama roared back to life with the latest twist of its recombinant recipe. On “Wife,” there’s no reliance on car chases, gun play, salaciousness or even crime. It’s a series about high ambition and shifting alliances in a grown-up world. And yet it still manages to be lusty, soapy fun, while boasting a splendid cast and a parade of great guest stars. “Alpha House” and “Betas” (Amazon): Just a few months after Netflix’s entry into original
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content, Amazon emerged as the latest new outlet for what used to be “TV.” But that’s not why these shows are on a Top 10 (well, Top 11) list. “Alpha House” (a Capital City romp created by Garry Trudeau and starring John Goodman) and “Betas” (with its Silicon Valley antics) were chosen by Amazon viewers to become series. The series that resulted are both fresh and funny. “Mob City” (TNT): Here’s a sassy, two-fisted show inspired by love: creator Frank Darabont’s love for the grand film-noir tradition, which he honors impeccably in this crime drama set in 1940s L.A. Beautiful look. Snappy, smart dialogue. Terrific cast. In the lingo of its era,
everything about this show is Jake with me. “Sound of Music Live!” (NBC): Sure, it was easy to fault Carrie Underwood for her shallow (if fullthroated) portrayal of Maria. Stephen Moyer as the sailor-patriarch seemed lost at sea. Still, this holiday production had much to recommend it — splendid production values and supporting players, a beloved story, incomparable Rodgers and Hammerstein score. “Six by Sondheim” (HBO): A portrait of the legendary Broadway composerlyricist whose works include “Company,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Sunday in the Park with George,” it not only explored such creations (including musical
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z MOVIES z ART z WINERIES z BOOKS z COVER STORY z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z MUSIC z Bars & Clubs THURSDAY Marion: Williamson County Fairground Hanna Building, Big Lake Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Thompsonville: Lion’s Club, The Swing N’ Country Dance Band, 7-9:30 p.m. FRIDAY Carbondale: PK’s, Slappin’ Henry Blue Tres Hombres, Tina Newton benefit w/County Graves, Mudsills, Jenny Johnson, Ol Moose, The Voyageurs Ina: Ina Community Building, Friday Night Jam Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Marion: Youth Center, Craig’s Country Band, 6-9 p.m. SATURDAY Carbondale: PK’s, Slappin’ Henry Blue Tres Hombres, Wild Murphy and the New Year Marion: Hideout Restaurant,
Bob Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m. Thompsonville: Old Country Store Dance Barn, Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m. MONDAY Du Quoin: Derby’s Community Hall, Jerry’s Jammers, 7-9 p.m. Marion: Youth Center, Craig’s Country Band, 6-9 p.m. TUESDAY Carbondale: Hangar 9, V2T2 Cabaret Tres Hombres, Hobo Knife w/Jenny Johnson Herrin: American Legion, The Wingit Band, 8 p.m. Teen Town, Country Ramrods, 7-10 p.m. Marion: Eagles, Salty Dog, 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Hideout Restaurant, Bob Pina, piano 5:30-8:30 p.m. Orient: Just Elsie’s, The Peaces, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Thompsonville: Lion’s Club,
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MOUNT VERNON— Local adults looking for a unique way to celebrate New Year’s Eve might want to sign up for Game Night at CE Brehm Memorial Public Library. Game Night should fit the ticket for a fun and different way to bring in the New Year plus it is free. The event will include board games, card games, role-playing games and miniatures games. The evening starts at
6 p.m. Tuesday and runs until 2 a.m. No alcohol is allowed and the evening is for adults only. No children allowed. Snacks and soft drinks will be provided and game players may also bring refreshments. Also on tap is a special Pathfinder role-playing game run by the Pathfinder Society. Call 618-242-6322, ext. 205 to register. — The Southern
Hospice Red Carpet Gala features performances by local celebrities MARION— The Way We Were is the theme for the 4th Annual Red Carpet Gala set for Saturday, Jan. 25 in The Pavilion of the City of Marion. The Gala will include cocktails, dinner, a silent auction and celebrity performances. Community leaders will entertain the crowd by presenting tributes to famous personalities. Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Hospice of Southern Illinois.
Cocktails, appetizers, a silent auction and preshow by Giovanni Jones will also start at 4:45 p.m. Jan. 25. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. with celebrity performances at 7 p.m. The After Party begins after the celebrity performances. The Pavilion is located at 1602 Sioux Drive in Marion. For more information, call Jennifer at 618-9973030 or email jvinyard@hospice.org — The Southern
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Bowlin, Maring announce shocking split the show, admitting she is in awe of his guitar skill, COUNTRY especially on a tune like SCENE “Allie’s Waltz.” “Sometimes it makes Vince Hoffard me cry because it is so pretty,” she said. The challenge of a obert Bowlin is a professional musician is world-class guitarist. developing a skill level The 58-year-old that allows you to put an Arkansas native was a individual stamp or child musical prodigy, signature on your work having learned and that is instantly mastered the piano, banjo recognizable to the and guitar. He worked for audience, Bowlin says. many of the biggest stars “There is always a in the country music player that is faster and universe, before moving knows more technical to Cobden to forge a moves,” he said. “You professional and personal have to find the essence relationship with Wil of what you do on guitar Maring in 2005. and project it to an Both were rebounding audience. If you do that from failed 15-year as an artist, you can have marriages. a level of success, but it is As a duo, they roamed getting harder all the across the country time.” playing various size house Bowlin was born and parties from coast-toraised in Pocahontas, coast, performing at the same area of many prestigious Northeastern Arkansas bluegrass festivals and that produced country recording a live and duet music giants Johnny Cash album together. After a and Glen Campbell. He riveting nine-song set started playing piano and last week at The Old Feed ukulele as a three-year Store in Cobden, as the old and turned to guitar opening act for rising when he was five. He won British star Callaghan, a statewide piano Bowlin rocked the local competition in Arkansas music scene by when he was 13. He was announcing a suspension proficient on several of activity with Maring. instruments as a teenager “This was a real and received widespread emotional night. We are acclaim for his guitar taking a break. I’m not ability. sure when we’re going to “People would tell me do more shows. It’s time how good I was, and I for some time off,” Bowlin thought I was pretty said, carefully selecting good, but never as good as his words. “Working with the people I emulated, Wil has been an amazing like jazz guitarist Johnny experience. There is Smith and Djanco naturalness to her. Things Reinhardt and Fareed are never forced or Haque of Chicago,” pressured. Watching and Bowlin said. listening to her perform is In 1978, Bowling was a beautiful thing.” runner-up in the National Maring praised her Guitar Flat Pick longtime partner during Competition, held
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annually at the Walnut Valley Festival in Kansas. The following year, he took home first place in the festival’s Finger Style Guitar Championship. Bowling said he played music professionally all through high school and while attending the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. After migrating to Texas and playing in his own band for several years, he joined the band of Irish folk singer Maura O’Connell. Starting in 1988, he had a long run as lead guitarist in the road band of country music star Kathy Mattea. “She started having so many hits and was touring so much that I had to quit,” Bowlin said. “It was taking too much time away from my family, session work in Nashville and other things I was working on. The schedule was too hectic and something had to go.” In 1993, Bowlin took a job playing fiddle for Bill Monroe, the father of Bluegrass music. He was a member of The Bluegrass Boys until Monroe died in 1996. With a stellar reputation in the intercircle of the Nashville music community, Bowling was able to work recording sessions with true legends like Hank Thompson, the Osborne Brothers and Tom T. Hall. He played on the road with Country Music Hall of Fame members Faron Young, Bobby Bare and Ray Price. Bowlin is a founding member of The Time Jumpers, a band that still plays in downtown Nashville every Monday night.
He was drawn to Southern Illinois to produce a recording project involving Maring. A working relationship eventually evolved into something more intimate. “When I moved up here in 2005, it was a big step. I had been in Nashville for 25 years. I left a lot of my anchor stuff in town,” he said. “Playing in the duo allowed me to test my dormant musical ideas on an audience. It has been a good run.” Bowlin said he plans on spending more time with his two grown sons and maybe relocating to one of the Carolinas. “I’ve felt uprooted lately,” Bowlin said, sitting at a small table near the front entrance of the Old Feed Store. “Wil and I have been together for eight years. The boulder, or avalanche, that brought us together needs to slow down. I want to be by myself for awhile.” Bowling feels Maring has the potential to take her career to the next level, but he is not ready for the commitment at this time. “We have three agents and several foreign connections that want to help us, but it just doesn’t feel right for me at this time,” Bowlin said. “I’m just taking a step back, searching for some balance.” As a side business, Bowlin repairs violins. Maring and Bowlin will reunite at least one more time. They are scheduled to play at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, N.C., in April. VINCE HOFFARD can be
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Wastelander’s New Year’s Eve Party features art exhibition PADUCAH — The Paducah Wastelanders will be hosting the group’s seventh annual New Year’s Eve Art Exhibition of new artwork and celebration in the Yeiser Art Center located in the Market House, 2nd and Broadway streets, downtown Paducah. The Wastelanders are a group of regional artists who are either native or long-time residents of the Paducah area “We feel that it is important to support The Yeiser as it is Paducah’s official city art facility. It is a great place to host our seventh New Year’s Eve party, since this is where most of us first met decades ago,” says Kristi Hanson, one of the Wastelander artists. “We are honored to have this event at the Yeiser and showcase this great facility, which has for many years hosted fine
artists’ works for our community.” The opening exhibition and reception will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31. Refreshments will be served and music will be provided by Judy Bray Exhibiting Wastelanders are David Brown, Mark Donham, Juanita Gilliam, Kristi Hanson and Lanelle Mason. Pieces on display will include paintings, photograpmixed media, ceramics, assemblages, and sculptures. Guest artists Jane Bright, Susan French and John Paul Henry will also be exhibiting. The exhibition will also be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 2-4 and Jan. 7-11. For more information call 270-442-1985 or go to www.paducah wastelanders.com. — The Southern
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Leo is charismatically loathsome as ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ The Wolf of Wall Street***
Wolf of Wall Street.” This is their greatest teaming, a veritable “Citizen Kane” of Rated R for sequences of the post-”greed is good” strong sexual content, era — three hours of graphic nudity, drug use cocaine and orgies and and language throughout, high-living by the sorts of gauche gamblers who and for some violence; brought that age, and the starring Leonardo world economy, to its DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, knees. Margot Robbie, Matthew It is Scorsese’s “La Dolce McConaughey and Kyle Vita,” a manic, coke-fueled Chandler; directed by stock market “Goodfellas” following the rise and epic Martin Scorsese; now fall of a crook. All that’s playing at ShowPlace 8 in missing are the victims, Carbondale and the outrage. DiCaprio is Jordan BY ROGER MOORE Belfort, an eager-beaver MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS young broker-in-training Leonardo DiCaprio’s who takes the most charismatic mesmerizing patter from performance ever anchors his drugs, sex and makingMartin Scorsese’s robust money mentor Mark and raunchy lowlifes-ofHanna (Matthew high-finance comedy “The McConaughey) to heart.
The name of the game, Hanna purrs, is “moving the money from the client’s pocket to your pocket.” A light goes off in idealistic Jordan’s head. Who cares if the client does well? It’s all about your commissions, your shady deals, getting rich because “money makes you a better person.” A light goes off in the viewer’s head, too. Before anybody starts stamping DiCaprio’s name on the Oscar, here’s old Matthew to remind us that nobody has had a better year acting in the movies — nobody. If Mark Hanna had more than two scenes, McConaughey might have stolen the movie. But this isn’t Oliver Stone’s preachy, good-
man-falls-far opera “Wall Street.” This is about Jordan’s layoff during the financial crash of 1987 and his rebirth as a penny stocks-trading bottom feeder, the sort of smooth, money-printing huckster who lures proteges and followers like a revival preacher. Donnie (Jonah Hill) is the first. Assorted other “guys from the neighborhood” follow. “The Wolf of Wall Street” captures the delusional, undereducated ignoramuses with nothing but hunger who nag clients into buying stocks that might make them money, might lose money. But either way, these guys got paid. DiCaprio brings a religious fervor to this performance.
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Stiller’s ‘Mitty’ is quiet, sweet and ever-so-slight The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ***
dating profile, too shy to reach out to that pretty new hire Cheryl (Wiig) at Rated PG for some crude work. comments, language and He has managed the action violence; starring photographic negatives at Life magazine for 16 years, Ben Stiller, Kristin Wiig, living vicariously through Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine and Adam Scott; the hero photographer (Sean Penn) who still directed by Ben Stiller; now shoots photos on celluloid playing at ShowPlace 8 in in an Instagram world. But Carbondale Life has just been taken over by a company that BY ROGER MOORE plans to close it after one last issue. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS And the meticulous Walter, hounded by the James Thurber’s whimsical short story “The corporate boor (Adam Scott) now in charge, has Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was about a bored, misplaced an image the famous photographer unassuming married man who escapes his humdrum insisted was “the quintessence of Life.” life through wildly Every day, Walter walks adventurous fantasies in through Life’s halls and which he becomes a war loses himself in shots of hero, a test pilot and the mountain climbers in the like. He avoids the Himalayas. He imagines boredom of errands and the witty comebacks that life’s routine that way. would insult the new boss In Ben Stiller’s new film to his core or win the fair based on that 1939 story, Cheryl. He “zones out” in the daydreaming Mitty these fantasies. Everybody becomes a shy notices. 40something who isn’t so And he sees that Life much avoiding reality as motto, emblazoned on the using fantasy as an excuse wall, which begins with for not seizing the day, for “To see Life; see the world.” not asking out the woman (Kristen Wiig) at the office, Which he never has. One of the clever for never traveling and conceits of Steve Conrad’s experiencing the world. He’s not so much avoiding adaptation of the Thurber his dull reality as failing to, story is to incorporate elements from “It’s a as the Latins said, “carpe Wonderful Life” in it. diem.” Walter has been too caught It’s a charming, up in responsibility and his whimsical and ever-soown timidity to live the life slight film, a bit of an of his dreams. overreach but pleasant But that missing photo enough, even when it falls and photographer give him short. purpose. His stumbling Walter Mitty is a methodical man, carefully conversations with Cheryl convince him that he has a budgeting his life, looking mission — to track down after his elderly mother the elusive photographer (Shirley MacLaine), too and find “frame 25,” “the dull to have anything to quintessence of Life.” post on his eHarmony