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FIVE FOLKS In honor of a Kite Festival taking place in Nuangola this weekend, we asked: “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU FLEW A KITE?” “Five or six years ago, at the shore.”

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“When I was in seventh grade, at Cape May, N.J. Gianna Cordasco, 21, East Brunswick, N.J.

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“It was probably about 10 years ago, in a big, open field in my hometown with my father and brother.” Alex Heavilon, 20, Easton

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“I worked at a camp last year, and I helped the kids with their kites.” Emily Dishong, 21, Lebanon

THE ALLAN P. KIRBY LECTURE SERIES IN FREE ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

“Never. I’ve never flown a kite.” Mike Carleo, 20, Floral Park, N.Y.

JONAH GOLDBERG “THE TYRANNY OF CLICHES” 7:30 p.m. • THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 2013 DOROTHY DICKSON DARTE CENTER

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Reach for the sky

Leave the iPads at home and chase the wind along instead MARY THERESE BIEBEL mbiebel@timesleader.com

Last May, Rich Evans visited a full-blown kite festival in the Lehigh Valley and was enchanted. “I felt like I was 30 years younger, to see everybody so happy. You can’t believe how wonderful it is, with all that activity and energy and happy people, everyone smiling. It’s a wonderful thing.” Tomorrow, Evans hopes to re-create the charming scene in the field by St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church in Nuangola. The day will be one of fun for all ages, he predicted, explaining members of the Pocono Kite Symphony kite club will be on hand, ready to help at least 100 children build and fly a new kite. Teens and adults are welcome to bring their own kites or to purchase a kite from the club. Kites will be free for the younger children. The church hopes to raise some money by selling refreshments, including kite-shaped cookies. “That’s kind of whimsical,” Evans said with a laugh. But the most important part of the day will be the building of fellowship, he said, adding participants will have a chance to enjoy the outdoors in a relaxing way. “Kite flying has not been one of the growth activities with youth, what with iPods Times Leader File Photos and iPads and video games,” Evans said, sounding nostalgic. “It’s one of those retro ABOVE: Xan Mayrson and his cousin Alex Fischer enjoy a past afternoon flying a kite in Kirby Park. activities, one that’s relatively unstructured. There are so many rules with other activities, like soccer. But we’ll let them design their kites, and then they can go out and have BELOW: A parent watches as a child flies a kite on a windy day. fun in the field.” Andy Gelinas, founder of the Pocono Kite Symphony, agrees it will be fun and said it doesn’t even matter if there is wind. Gelinas, who lives in East Stroudsburg and estimates he’s built or helped build more than 32,000 kites in his life, said the kites his group will bring are called ram-air jet sleds. These three-piece kites, each about 28 inches wide by 20 inches tall, have been designed so they can fly with or without wind, and compressed air holds them rigid, so there’s no need for sticks. “We’ll have everybody from little kids sitting on laps to junior-high kids making kites,” Gelinas said, explaining it’s safer not to use sticks. The festival will include a bounce house, face painting and other activities, including such kite games as racing into the wind with a parachute on your back. So why is the kite club called a symphony? It has nothing to do with musical instruments, Gelinas said. “A symphony means playing together. In unison.”

IF YOU GO What: Kite Festival When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Where: St. Martin in the Fields, 3000 Church Road, Nuangola More info: 570-8686895 Admission: Free

The Pocono Kite Symphony has many colorful banners in its collection, as well as kites.

Flags, kites and banners decorate a previous Pocono Kite Symphony event.

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EvEnTS THIS WEEK: Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 2013 Bloomsburg Fair, the annual agricultural event with more than 1400 animals, amusement rides, carnival midway, Big Cat Encounter, Sky Ride, helicopter rides, concerts with Austin Mahone and Justin Moore, monster truck show, truck and tractor pulls, demolition derby, harness racing, fireworks, Cinderella carriage rides and more. Fairgrounds, 620 W. Third St., Bloomsburg. 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and Saturday. 387-4145 or bloomsburgfair.com. Fall Film Festival, the 11th annual movie fest showing 19 films in 14 days.Through Thursday with a Post-Festival Film Discussion 1 p.m. Oct. 4. Films include“The Way Way Back,” “Blue Jasmine,” “20 Feet from Stardom,” “Still Mine,” “Stories We Tell,” “Unfinished Song,” “Before Midnight,” “Museum Hours,” “The Hunt,” “Hannah Arendt,” “Austenland,” “Renoir,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “The Attack,” “Fruitvale Station,” “A Hyjacking,” “Blackfish,” “The English Teacher”and“Fill the Void.” 996-1500 or dietrichtheater.com. Egypt Before the Pyramids, the second in an 11-part series titled“Uncovering Secrets from the Sands of Ancient Egypt”with Stephen Phillips of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Plymouth Public Library, 107 W. Main St., Plymouth. 2 p.m. today. Free. 779-4775. Celtic Classic Highland Games and Festival, the 26th annual celebration of Celtic culture with a Pipe Band Competition, the U.S. National Highland Athletic Championships, the“Showing of the Tartan”Parade, whiskey tasting, fiddle contest, Celtic Marketplace, Kids Crafts Tent, border collies, Haggis Bowl and entertainment by the Kilmaine Saints, Glengarry Bhoys, Dublin 5, Burning Bridget Cleary, Blackwater, Barleyjuice, Seamus Kennedy, Slainte, Poor Angus, Emish, Runa and more. Historic Area of downtown Bethlehem. 5 to 11 tonight, 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Free. Schedule at celticfest.org. AACA Car Cruise, sponsored by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Regional AACA Car Club.Anything with wheels is welcome to participate. Public Square,Wilkes-Barre.Tonight, 6 to 10 with awards at 9. Free. Black, White and a Touch of Pink Gala, a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Northeast Pennsylvania.With cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and dance music by What’s All the Hoopla.Woodlands Inn and Resort, 1073 Route 315, Plains Township. 6 to 9 tonight. $75.Tickets: 820-1670. Horror Hall, a walk-through haunted house with 20 hair-raising minutes of chills and thrills. Plymouth Township

Fire and Rescue Tilbury Station, 11 E. Poplar St.,West Nanticoke.Through Oct. 27: 6 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays; 6 to 10 p.m. Sundays. $12.50. Info at horrorhall.com. Gravestone Manor, the annual theatrical haunted house fundraiser with an all-new production“Nightfall.” Trion Warehouse, 1095 Route 315, Plains Township.Through Oct. 27: 7 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 7 to 9:30 p.m. Sundays. $10. Proceeds benefit the United Way. 821-6500 or gravestonemanor.org. Ghost Walks in Old Mauch Chunk, a lantern-lighted, one-mile walk around Jim Thorpe to hear stories of ghoulish encounters by a costumed guide. Meet at the Inn at Jim Thorpe, 24 Broadway.Through Oct. 27: Fridays through Sundays beginning at 7 p.m. Reservations recommended. $10. 325-2346. Apple Festival, with apple pie and dumplings, flea market, silent auction, book and bake sale and a variety of foods. First United Methodist Church, 408 Wyoming Ave.,West Pittston. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 655-1083. SAFE Autism Walk and Resource Fair, with food, raffle baskets, music, bounce house, face painting, merchandise and more. Hazleton Area High School Track, 1515 W. 23rd St. Saturday with registration at 9 a.m., walk at 10 a.m. and fair until 12:30 p.m. 822-7259. Zen Meditation Training, all-day instruction for the beginner including zazen meditation, Zen practice form and style, keisaku stick, outdoor walking Zen, chanting, Dharma talk,

The Dietrich Theater’s Fall Film Festival continues through Thursday with showings of 19 films including ‘The Way Way Back’ with Rob Corddry, Amanda Peet, Liam James, Toni Collette and Steve Carell.

formal vegetarian lunch and tea. Endless Mountain Zendo, 104 Hollow Road, Stillwater. 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Donation plus $10 for lunch. Registration: 925-5077. Fall Intertribal Pow Wow, the ninth annual Gathering of All Nations with dancing, drumming, storytelling, children’s dances, Native American food and crafts and entry of all dignitaries in full regalia. Noxen Fire Company, 3493 Stull Road, Noxen. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 947-2097.

‘Chef’ Steven Thomas will serve up music and spaghetti at the Arcadia Chorale’s Annual Pasta Dinner Saturday at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Scranton.

International Model A Ford Day, a collection of 30 locally owned Model A Fords on display, sponsored by the Steamtown A’s. Gateway Ford, 156 E. Tioga St.,Tunkhannock. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 333-4011. Pet Activity Day, with a rabies clinic, pet photos with Dracula, a yard sale, Dog Scouts demonstrations, basic obedience for dogs, K9 police dogs and various pet-rescue organizations. Village Pet Supplies, 2301 Sans Souci Parkway,Wilkes-Barre. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. 735-5905. Knit and Crochet Group for all ages. Osterhout Free Library, 71 S. Franklin St.,Wilkes-Barre. 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. Light refreshments. 8230156. Back Mountain Wine Festival, with samplings from Pennsylvania wineries, food stands, handcrafted items, apparel and jewelry along with live entertainment by High Falls Duo and The Look. Konefal’s Grove, Chase Road, Shavertown. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. $20 advance; $30 at the gate; $5 designated drivers. 8365253. Fork & Cork Festival, the 7th annual premier food and wine tasting event, co-sponsored by igourmet.com.With sampling of gourmet foods, wine, beer and spirits in a street-fair ambiance throughout Mount Airy Casino Resort, 312 Woodland Road, Mount Pocono. Saturday with Grand Tasting event 2 to 6 p.m. ($10) and hot-air balloon rides 4 to 7 p.m. ($15). 877-682-4791. Lanterns of Hope Launch, a fundraiser for the Hope Center with food, bake sale, basket raffle, live music and release of lighted lanterns at dusk. Beach Club at Sandy Beach, Harveys Lake. 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday. $5 per lantern. 362-4576.

Cancertacular Golden Ball, a “royal event”to celebrate the organization’s fifth anniversary with dinner, dancing, music by Brewster’s Sound Sensations, silent auctions, magic and a custom cake from Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken.The Regal Room, 216 Lackawanna Ave., Olyphant. 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday. $75; $45 children. 466-0658. Arcadia Chorale Annual Pasta Dinner, with singing servers delivering madrigals along with a spaghetti dinner. Covenant Presbyterian Church, 550 Madison St., Scranton. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $8, $4 children. 871-0350. Zen Meditation Gathering, with beginner’s instruction, chanting, walking Zen, Dharma talk and tea. Endless Mountain Zendo, 104 Hollow Road, Stillwater. 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Sunday. 925-5077. Bike Run and Car Cruise, a benefit to raise funds to cover medical costs for the Riccuitti Family. Evans Roadhouse, Route 309, Drums. Sunday with registration 10 to 11 a.m. followed by the ride and post-ride party with food and entertainment at 2 p.m. $15 riders; $5 passengers; $10 party only. 956-4673. Car Show, with vendors, trophies, basket raffles and a 50/50 drawing. Sponsored by the Dallas Knights of Columbus at Back Mountain Bowl, 120C Memorial Highway, Dallas. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. 237-0575. Archaeological Open House at the Conrail archaeological dig where former dwellings once stood. Explore the site and participate in some excavating, if desired. Sponsored by the Frances Dorrance Chapter of

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Events From page 4 Introduction to Zen Meditation, a description of Zen followed by a practice session. Mercy Center, Misericordia University, 301 Lake St., Dallas. 7:30 to 9 p.m.Tuesday. Donation. Registration: 675-1872. Make Your Own Pasta, preparing homemade pasta dough with Art Valli and MaryAgolino followed by a pasta dinner.West Pittston Library, 200 Exeter Ave. 6 to 9 p.m.Wednesday. $20. Registration: 654-9847. Diversity Film Festival, a free screening of“Glory,” about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unit of the U.S.Army made up entirely of African Americans to fight in the Civil War. Burke Auditorium, William G. McGowan School of Business,West Union and North River streets, King’s College,Wilkes-Barre. 7 p.m.Wednesday. 208-8021. Covered Bridge & Arts Festival, with 350 craft vendors, more than 35 food booths, selective Knoebel’s amusement rides, live music, the Knoebel’s Lumber 5K Race (Saturday), antique and classic cars (Sunday), covered-bridge bus tour, Agritourism Fair and a Fun Auction (Saturday). Knoebel’s Amusement Resort, Route 487, Elysburg. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Oct. 5; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6. 784-8279. Greek Food Festival, with eat-in or take-out foods including baklava, pastitsio, gyros, spanakopita, souvlaki and more.Annunciation Greek Catholic Church, 32 E. Ross St.,Wilkes-Barre. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.Thursday through Oct. 5. Free local delivery within two miles for purchases over $30. 823-4805. An Empty Place at the Table, the annual event to raise awareness of domestic violence with keynote speaker Cecilia Galante, author of “Hershey Herself,” about her brief stay at a battered-women’s shelter in Long Island. Rotunda of the Luzerne County Courthouse, 200 N. River St.,WilkesBarre. Noon Thursday. 800-424-5600. Let’s Be Frank About Francis: A Wine & Spirit gathering sponsored by St. Andre Bessette Parish in Wilkes-Barre. With speaker/facilitator the Rev. I. Michael Bellafiore of the University of Scranton leading a group discussion about the papacy of Pope Francis so far. Uptown II, Courthouse Square Towers, Wilkes-Barre. 7 p.m.Thursday. $5 admission includes appetizers. Drinks at individual expense. 823-4988 for reservations. Feast of Saint Francis Lecture, with David Andrews of the Food and Water Watch speaking on“Catholic Social Teaching and Energy Policy: Fracking, Tar Sands, Climate Justice.” Burke Auditorium,William G. McGowan School of Business,West Union and North River streets, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre. 7 p.m.Thursday. 2085900.

FUTURE Octoberfest, with live music,vendors of produce, pumpkins, desserts and more along with tours of the Masonic Village. Irem Clubhouse, 64 Ridgway Drive, Dallas. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 4. 675-1866. Big Band Dinner Dance, with music by King Henry and the Showmen. Sponsored by the Big Band Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania at Genetti Hotel and Convention Center, 77 E. Market St.,Wilkes-Barre. Oct. 4 with doors at 5:45 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. $30. 586-5359 or 654-6454. Fall for the Osterhout Gala, the annual fundraiser for the Osterhout Free Library with dinner, open bar, live auction, New England trip raffle, special guest author Catherine Gourley and music by the Deja Groove Party Band. Westmoreland Club, 59 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre. 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 4. $135. Reservations (by Sept. 28): 823-0156. WACtoberfest, sponsored by the Wyoming Area Catholic Parent Volunteer Organization with live music, food, beer tasting, tours of the brewery and a silent auction. Susquehanna Brewing Company, 635 S. Main St., Pittston. 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 4. $30. 6547982. Flaming Foliage Festival, the annual juried craft show and sale sponsored by the Craftsmen of the Endless Mountains.With a quilt show, book sale, pony rides, hayrides, alpacas, live music, demonstrations and food vendors. Sullivan County Fairgrounds, 4430 Route 154, Forksville. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 5 and 6. 637-0897. NEPA BlogCon, a daylong conference and networking event for bloggers of all experience levels as well as those interested in marketing, social media and using new media as a tool for business. Luzerne County Community College, 1333 S. Prospect St., Nanticoke. Oct. 5 beginning at 9 a.m. $35. 262-9644. The Endless Mountains Rendezvous, with displays and demonstrations of antique firearms including guns, knives, powder horns and tools of the Colonial Era along with Indian artifacts.American Legion, Black Walnut River Road 1, Laceyville. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 5 and 6. $3. Proceeds benefit The Oldest House in Laceyville. 499-6758. Airing of the Quilts, the 12th annual outdoor quilt show with quilts hanging from buildings, homes, storefronts and porches throughout downtown Tunkhannock.With a lecture on “19th-CenturyApplique: An American Tradition”11 a.m. at the Dietrich Theater, 60 E.Tioga St. and indoor quilt exhibits at the Father Nallin Parish Center, the Wyoming County Courthouse and the TunkhannockArea Middle School. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 5.

Stop by Annunciation Greek Catholic Church in Wilkes-Barre for some food specialties at the Greek Food Festival beginning Thursday and running through Oct. 5.

836-7575. Fall Foliage Weekends, with food and craft vendors, live music at four venues and seasonal specials at restaurants and shops. Downtown Jim Thorpe. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays from Oct. 5 to 20. Schedule at jimthorpe.org. Hawley Harvest Hoedown, a fall street festival with children’s games, arts and crafts vendors, food live music, farmers market, hayrides and family fun. Downtown Hawley. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 5. 226-4064. 19th-Century Appliqued Quilts: An American Tradition, an illustrated talk on these family heirlooms in conjunction with the annual“Airing of the Quilts”festival.Also: An exhibit of “Civil War Era Quilting”and a sale of hand-painted pumpkins, scarecrows and desserts. Dietrich Theater, 60 E. Tioga St.,Tunkhannock. Oct. 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.with lecture at 11 a.m. Oct. 5. $5. 996-1500. Tailgate Get Together, a day of food and football with a picnic menu, beer on tap and games including horseshoes, beanbag contest and table pong. Sponsored by the Dallas Lions Club at the Checkerboard Inn Pavilion, 385 Carverton Road,Trucksville. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 5. $30. 675-4360. Hillside Fall Festival, with tractor hayrides, pony rides, games for the kids, antique automobiles,vendors, barn tours, fall foods and music by Audio Affair and Will Williams.The Lands at Hillside, 65 Hillside Road, Trucksville. Noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 5 and 6. 696-4500. Fall Foliage Train Excursion, a round trip from Scranton to the Pocono

town of Moscow with a stopover at its restored 1904 train station. Steamtown National Historic Site, 300 Cliff St., Scranton.Oct.5,13,19,26 and 27 with a 12:30 p.m. departure and approximate return at 3 p.m. $24, $22 seniors, $17 children. 340-5205. New England Contra Dance, with music by the duo Unbowed and calling by Bob Isaacs. Church of Christ Uniting, 776 Market St., Kingston. 7 p.m. Oct. 5. No partner or previous experience necessary. Pay what you wish. 3334007. Fall Foliage Train Excursion, a round trip from Scranton to Gouldsboro with a brief stop at the Tobyhanna Train Station. Steamtown National Historic Site, 300 Cliff St., Scranton. Oct. 6 with an 11 a.m. departure and approximate return at 2 p.m. $24, $22 seniors, $17 children. 340-5205. Monthly Bingo, with cash prizes and door prizes. Sponsored by St. Faustina Kowalska Parish at St. Mary’s School, 1010 S. Hanover St., Nanticoke. Oct. 6 with doors at 12:30 p.m. and games at 1:45 p.m. 829-1154. Bingo and Card Party, with cash prizes and door prizes, refreshments and raffles. Sponsored by the Ladies of Charity at St. Robert Bellarmine Church, 143 W. Division St.,WilkesBarre. 2 p.m. Oct. 6. $2. 868-3959. Taste the Local Harvest, a casual event with foods from eight local farms prepared by Chef Michael of the Huntsville Golf Club, locally produced brews, televised football games and music by the Coal Town Rounders. Sponsored by the North Branch Land Trust at the Huntsville Golf Club, 1334 Market St., Dallas. 5 to 9 p.m. Oct. 6. $50. Reservations: 696-5545.

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the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology.The dig is on a dirt road off Coxton Road, Duryea. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. 842-2708. Colonial Harvest Festival, with blackpowder firearms demonstrations, colonial herbs,wheat weaving, inkmaking, basket weaving, Colonial crafts for kids,wooden musical instruments, period clothing, Colonial gunmaking, textile spinning, food, cider and desserts. Free pumpkins for children under age 12. Nathan Denison House, 35 Denison St., Forty Fort. 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. $5, $3 children. 288-5531. Forty Fort Meeting House Tours. Explore the 1807 historic religious edifice with its original box pews and elevated pulpit. 20 River St., Forty Fort. 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. $2, $1 children. 287-5214. Vendor Bingo, including gifts by Vera Bradley, Longaberger Baskets, Pampered Chef,Thirty One Gifts, Mary Kay Cosmetics,Avon, Lia Sophia, Partylite Candles and more. St. Jude School, 422 S. Mountain Blvd., Mountain Top. Sunday with doors at 1 p.m. and games at 2 p.m. $25. 4745803. Tailgate for Amy, a fundraiser for medical costs of Amy Simmons Kizis, a Kiwanis member.With a buffet, games, prizes, music and football on the big screen.West Wyoming Hose Company #1, 926 Shoemaker Ave. 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday. $20. 407-0173. Suzuki School for Strings Open House, with games, refreshments and musical performances. Cross Valley Centre, 667 N. River St., Plains Township. 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. 2089191. Celebration of Food, a benefit for the St.Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen with gourmet courses from regional eateries, a silent auction and entertainment by the Diamond CityTrio.Woodlands Inn and Resort, 1073 Route 315, Plains Township. 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday. $30.Tickets at celebrationoffood.org. Sunday Vesper Service with Rabbi Larry Kaplan at the historic Forty Fort Meeting House, 20 River St. 5 p.m. Sunday. Free. 287-5214. Remember the Hotel Sterling, a special dinner with foods inspired by menus from the Hotel Sterling along with photographs and memorabilia from its golden years. Stegmaier Mansion, 304 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre. 6 p.m. Sunday. $63. Reservations: 947-5785. The Titanic and Its Pennsylvania Passengers, stories of fate, heroic rescues and personal tragedies with historian William Lewis, area resident Mae Thomas and veteran newsman David DeCosmo.West Pittston Library, 200 Exeter Ave. 6:30 p.m. Monday. Free. 654-9847.

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Meet‘The English Teacher’— she’s from NEPA MARY THERESE BIEBEL mbiebel@timesleader.com

It’s no accident that the title character in “The English Teacher” works out at “Franklin Street Fitness” and drinks tea from “Kirby Park Coffee” — and that Wilkes University, WVIA and even The Times Leader get a little screen time. Screenwriting duo Dan Chariton, a Wilkes-Barre native, and his wife, Stacy Chariton, decided Northeastern Pennsylvania would be a good setting for the story they crafted, which you can watch Saturday evening at the F.M. Kirby Center. The Charitons will be available for a question-and-answer session at the screening, but before you ask, let Dan Chariton assure you the characters are not modeled after anyone, student or teacher, he knew when he attended Meyers High School. “All of my teachers were very well-adjusted and responsible teachers,” he said. “None of them are the basis for this character or that other than Julianne Moore’s devotion to her students.” In the movie, Moore plays Linda Sinclair, a single, fortysomething teacher whose ideas of romantic have been shaped by the literature she loves. “She’s a very romantic soul, and she’s spent her life reading works of great literature that often present idealized versions of what romance should be, what men should be,” Chariton said. “She has limited her romantic options and her connections with people because very often people fall short of her standards.” The character is hard on herself, too. “She holds herself to such a high standard that if she ever slips she judges herself more harshly than anyone else does.” Chariton doesn’t want to talk about the plot too much, to avoid spoiling the show for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. He will say he and his wife, whom he met when they both were studying screenwriting at USC Film School in Los Angeles, are pleased with the performances of the actors, who include Nathan Lane as a drama teacher and Michael Angarano as a former student, back in town with a script he’d love to see produced as a play. “We were blessed to have this wonderful cast,” Chariton said. “To a person, each of them was great and filled each role perfectly, much as we had imagined.” He and his wife enjoy being able to collaborate on projects, he said. “It makes our work so much better. You have a second brain right there.” Because “high school is universal,” the Charitons could have set the story anywhere. But their two brains decided Northeastern Pennsylvania, specifically “Kingston,” as the English teacher’s town is called, seemed like the perfect spot. “What local audiences might recognize is a certain vibe, a certain attitude in some of the characters that may represent some of the charm and local color,” Chariton said. The movie had its world premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. “As glamorous as that was,” Chariton wrote in a statement, “we’re far more excited about the opportunity to screen the film at the F.M. Kirby Center, the first ‘movie palace’ I ever knew. I can’t imagine a more meaningful location to host the NEPA premiere.”

‘The English Teacher,’ starring Julianne Moore, is set in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

IF YOU GO Julianne Moore and Greg Kinnear in a scene from ‘The English Teacher.’

What: Screening of ‘The English Teacher,’ with question-and-answer session When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where: F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre Tickets: $10, $5 students

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ConCErTs THIS WEEK: Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 2013 soul shine and Friends Branching out, Christian music. Ekklesia Christian Coffee House, River of Life Fellowship Church, 22 Outlet Road, Lehman Township. Tonight with dinner menu at 6 and concert 7 to 9. Free. 899-2264. B.L.E.s.T., Christian music group. Voice of Hope Christian Coffee House, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 231 State St., Nanticoke. 7 to 9 tonight. Broadcast live on WVHO-FM (94.5). Free. 899-2264. Austin Mahone, the pop singer and YouTube sensation. With pop-rapper Coco Jones. Bloomsburg Fair, 620 W. Third St. 7:30 tonight. $41, $36. 387-4145. nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the influential country-rock band touring in support of their latest release “Speed of Light.” Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. 8 tonight. 866-605-7325. Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun, the singer-songwriter and guitarist whose trademark licks drove his seminal classic “Hot Rod Lincoln.” With special guests The Lustre Kings. Mauch Chunk Opera House, 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe. 8:30 tonight. $23. 325-0249. Back to Jazz, with the Indigo Moon Brass Band, Nate Birkey with the Jim Ridl Trio and the Marko Marcinko Latin Jazz Quintet along with New Orleans-inspired cuisine and drinks. Sponsored by the Back Mountain Chamber at the Huntsville Golf Club, 30 Hayfield Road, Shavertown. 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. $75. 675-9380. The Great Party, a release party for the pop-rock band’s new music video “Hecho en Mexico,” inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday. With free face painting,

rootsy singer-songwriter rebecca Pronsky will deliver a concert at the Hawley silk Mill on saturday night.

Sponsored by Northeastern Pennsylvania Youth for Christ. $15. 842-4295. FUTURE CONCERTS Chris Cagle, the rock-infused country singer. Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. 8 p.m. Oct. 4. 866-605-7325. simon & Garfunkel retrospective, with duo AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle. Mauch Chunk Opera House, 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe. 8 p.m. Oct. 4. $25. 325-0249. The Evansville Gang, a bluegrass, country and gospel concert. Bloomingdale Grange, Grange Hall Road, Shickshinny. 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 5. $5. 256-7610. Jeffrey Gaines Band, the soulful singersongwriter and his group. Mauch Chunk Opera House, 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe. 8 p.m. Oct. 5. $23. 325-0249. Amy schumer, the actress and comedy star (“Last Comic Standing,” “Reality Bites Back”). Mount Airy Casino Resort, 312

Woodland Road, Mount Pocono. 7 p.m. (SOLD OUT) and 10 p.m. Oct. 5. $50, $35. 877-682-4791. Guitar Music of south America, with classical guitarist Jay Steveskey performing tangos by Astor Piazzolla and Maximo Diego Pujul of Argentina. Dietrich Theater, 60 E. Tioga St., Tunkhannock. 3 p.m. Oct. 6. Free. 996-1500. Excelsior Cornet Band, New York State’s authentic Civil War brass band performing period music on original antique instruments of the 1860s. First Presbyterian Church, 300 School St., Clarks Summit. 4 p.m. Oct. 6. Free but donations welcome. 586-6306 or fpccs.org. swearingen & Kelli, the songwriting duo of A.J. Swearingen and Jayne Kelli performing acoustic folk and indie pop. With special guests the Day Rubies. Mauch Chunk Opera House, 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe. 6 p.m. Oct. 6. $15. 325-0249.

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Tim Zimmerman and his brass quartet will accompany two choirs at the ‘raise the roof Hymn Festival’ on sunday evening at the shavertown United Methodist Church.

custom crafts from Alchemy Home Company, food by Eden: A Vegan Cafe, music-video screenings and an opening set by A Fire with Friends. TwentyFiveEight Studios, 703 N. Washington Ave., Scranton. 6:30 p.m. Saturday. $8 advance; $10 day of show. 335-1242 or thegreatparty.net. Ed Pall, the Shavertown singer-guitarist. The Main Bean, 161 Main St., Luzerne. 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Free. 899-2264. Up and Coming Comedy, with headliner Keith Barany and opener Corey Alexander. Scranton Cultural Center, 420 N. Washington Ave. Saturday with cocktail hour at 7 p.m. and show at 8 p.m. $16. 3441111. Justin Moore, the country-music singer. Bloomsburg Fair, 620 W. Third St. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $35, $30. 387-4145. rebecca Pronsky, the roots and rockabilly sound of the singer-songwriter, accompanied by guitarist Richard Bennett. Hawley Silk Mill, 8 Silk Mill Road. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $16 advance; $20 at the door. 588-8077. The soft Parade, a re-creation of the theatrical and poetic concerts of 1970s group The Doors. Mauch Chunk Opera House, 14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe. 8:30 p.m. Saturday. $23. 325-0249. Freedom Fest: A salute to America’s Finest, a welcome-home celebration to honor the troops returning from deployment. With food, raffles, ceremonies and live music by the Wanabees, Slow Children at Play, Phyllis Hopkins Electric Trio, Hickory Project, the Mountain Sky Orchestra, Chas’n the Dog and more. Mountain Sky, 63 Still Meadow Lane, Jermyn. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. $10. 396-1987. moe. The jamming progressive-rock band with special guests Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds. Sherman Theater, 524 Main St., Stroudsburg. 7 p.m. Sunday. $28. 4202808. raise the roof Hymn Festival, favorite anthems based on hymns with Tim Zimmerman’s Brass Quartet, two choirs and audience participation. Shavertown United Methodist Church, 163 N. Pioneer Ave. 7 p.m. Sunday. 574-7460. Hinder, the multi-platinum hard rockers with alt-rockers Candlebox, Devour the Day and Open Air Stereo. Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. 7 p.m. Sunday. 866-605-7325. In recital with Performance Music Students of the University of Scranton. Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street and Jefferson Avenue, Scranton. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Free. 941-7624. Battle of the Bands, the fourth annual competition with $13,500 in prizes to the top four bands. Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, 1280 Route 315, Plains Township. 8 p.m. to midnight Wednesdays through Dec. 4. 888-946-4672. Audio Adrenaline, the Christian rock band on its “Kings & Queens Tour” with Disciple and Stellar Kart. Downtown Arts, 47 N. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre. Thursday with doors at 6 p.m. and concert at 7 p.m.

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One serving of‘Meatballs’too many

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Manny, voiced by Benjamin Bratt, Steve the Monkey, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, Earl, voiced by Terry Crews, Flint, voiced by Bill Hader, Barry the Strawberry, voiced by Cody Cameron, Sam Sparks, voiced by Anna Faris and Brent, voiced by Andy Samberg in a scene from ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.’

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Hats off to production designer Justin Thompson and art director David Bleich, who conjure up a scary The Herculean task of any sequel is repeating the What: “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2” ♦ ♦ Tacodile Supreme and a syrup bog of slow-motion chasexperience of the original film, or improving on it. That’s Starring: Voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, es through the sticky stuff, where the dead swamp trees nigh on impossible due to the simple fact that you only Benjamin Bratt are actually strips of bacon. Directed by: Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn get to take the viewing public utterly by surprise once. The script is another collection of food puns — “Oh The out-of-nowhere novelty and delight of Sony Running time: 93 minutes no! We’re toast! FRENCH toast!” “There’s a LEEK in the Animation’s “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,” based Rated: PG for mild rude humor boat!” (cut to screaming onion-like vegetable). on Judi and Ron Barrett’s children’s book, is missing in The moral lessons, about science making the world “Meatballs 2.” The design and color palette is as gloria better place (or creating mayhem) and accepting that ous as ever. But the laughs are few and innovations fewer in this generally winded your children will not always emulate you or live up to your expectations, are mudknock-off. dier. There’s a villain rather than a runaway technology to battle here. And the villain Inventor Flint Lockwood’s cuisine-creating weather machine has come to the atten- is bland as oatmeal without the raisins. tion of his idol, corporate scientist and TV science-show host Chester V (Will Forte), It’s all more cynical than silly, the sort of movie you get when the corporate desire who worries that the island of Swallow Falls is too dangerous to live on — for now. for a sequel precedes the creative team’s great idea for a sequel. Which, in this case, The gadget is producing food animals — predators, “Taco-diles” and Cheese(burger) they didn’t have. Spiders, Su-sheep and Shrimpanzees and Fla-mangoes. So Chester persuades the town to evacuate and Flint (Bill Hader) to join Chester V’s “Think-quanauts,” scientists who work in Chester V’s invention factory. Eventually, Flint is commissioned to go back and turn off his errant weather-food machine, and his pals Sam Sparks the meteorologist (Anna Faris), her camera operator/scientist Manny (Benjamin Bratt), former baby model Brent (Andy Samberg), hyper-active cop Earl (Terry Crews, replacing Mr. T.) and Flint’s sardine-fisherman dad (James Caan, replacing James Gandolfini) venture back there to brave “an eco-system of living food.” Swallow Falls is a Jurassic Park of Bananostriches, Water Mellaphants and the like. McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Sam Sparks, voiced by Anna Faris, Barry the Strawberry, voiced by Cody Cameron, and Flint Lockwood, voiced by Bill Hader.

Steve the Monkey, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, Flint Lockwood, voiced by Bill Hader, and Sam Sparks, voiced by Anna Faris, in a scene from ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.’

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Eric Ruggiero, pictured in Wilkes University’s Integrative Media Department, had much to share with students after spending spending six weeks at Sony Pictures Imageworks in California.

and “Hotel Transylvania.” He learned about new software and how the production team worked on 3-D modeling and with computer graphics to create cinematic special effects. They were hired like any other employees and issued ID badges to get through security and assigned parking spaces. The studio had learned the fellowship participants’

areas of interest and set up interviews with professionals in those areas. “My area was mostly compact multi-layering of images to form a ﬁnal product,” said Ruggiero, who also does computer graphics work on the side. “It’s technical, and it’s artistic. That’s always been my specialty.” He said the experience provided him with ﬁrsthand exposure to movie-

making. When moviegoers see a ﬁlm, he said, they are there for suspension of belief. “If the production people do their jobs, it’s seamless.” He was impressed with the organization of labor in the production of special effects and graphics and said hundreds of people are part of the rigid “pipeline process” from beginning to end of production work. The same workers he saw when he went in at 8 a.m. each day were still there working at 6 or 6:30 p.m. when he left, he said. He worked hard, too. “My head was ready to explode,” Ruggiero said, adding he had 93 pages of notes. “We would have lessons to complete.” He was chosen for the fellowship after submitting essays and samples of student and department work.

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WILKES-BARRE — Eric Ruggiero, an associate professor and chair of the Integrative Media Department at Wilkes University, was impressed with the complexity and sophistication of animation and special effects he saw created at Sony Pictures during the summer. Ruggiero, 53, was one of four people from universities in the United States and in France who spent time at Sony’s Imageworks under the IPAX Faculty Fellowship Program. He spent six weeks in June and July at the Culver City, Calif., studios, not only witnessing the magic of the high-tech work done by hundreds of production specialists but making more contacts to help his students land internships and jobs. IPAX stands for Imageworks Professional Academic Excellence Program, a venture under three divisions of Sony Pictures: Imageworks, Animation and Interactive. Ruggiero said he witnessed special-effects work done on upcoming releases such as “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2,” which hits the big screen today, “The Amazing Spiderman 2,” “Smurfs 2”

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Pornography addict meets Ms. Right in ‘Don Jon’

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Don Jon’s a dog. He cares only about his car, his pad, his boys, his family, his gym, his church (Sundays only), girls and porn — lots and lots of porn. That is, until he meets Ms. Right — actually two Ms. Rights — and his bro-licious world is turned upside down when he learns that women are people too. That’s the simple premise for “Don Jon,” the feature directorial/writing debut for actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but it’s handled with such a deft sense of humor and pathos that it transcends any rom-com handcuffs anyone might try to slap on it. Like “50/50,” the 2011 ﬁlm in which Gordon-Levitt starred as a young guy who discovers he has cancer but still needs to live his life, “Don Jon” takes what, in other hands, could have been awkward or mawkish and makes it relatable. Gordon-Levitt plays Jon, a working-class Jersey guy cruising through life who

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seems to know what he’s all ing Scarlett Johansson, about. That is until Barbara doing her best future “Real Sugarman (an entertain- Housewives of New Jersey” imitation) high-heels her way into his heart. He’s totally smitten, but the one thing that stands between them and relationship bliss is his porn addiction. It takes a bit of schooling from an older woman he meets at night school (Julianne Moore), who’s dealing with lots of issues of her own, to get him to try to face his problem of treating women like objects. Sure, it’s an obvious point and one that’s not new. Julianne Moore and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from ‘Don Jon.’ Several recent ﬁlms have

dealt with the delicate subject of porn addiction and the dehumanization that stems from it. The powerful “Shame” did it in a much grimmer, darker fashion two years ago, while the breezy, lightweight “Thanks for Sharing,” in theaters now, treads some of the same territory.

But Gordon-Levitt enlivens “Don Jon” with such a sense of swagger, as a director, writer and actor, that the ﬁlm feels fresh. He gets strong performances from his actors, including Tony Danza as his no-nonsense dad and especially Moore as the complicated, conﬂicted Esther. The sud-

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson enjoy more than dinner in ‘Don Jon.’

What: “Don Jon”     Starring: Joseph GordonLevitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore Directed by: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Running time: 90 minutes Rated: R for strong graphic sexual material and dialogue throughout, nudity, strong language, drug use

Tony Danza, left, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in ‘Don Jon.’

denly omnipresent Brie Larson (“Short Term 12,” “The Spectacular Now”) has a small but funny part as Jon’s sister. To top it off, there’s no way anyone’s leaving the theater without Marky Mark’s 1991 hit “Good Vibrations” dancing in their head. Winwin for everybody.

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lies. The virile, impulsive extrovert and the chilly, methodical introvert are kindred spirits, pushing each other to greater glory and ever nearer disaster. It’s a testament to the actors’ abilities that we ﬁnd them partially sympathetic all the same. There are clumsy passages here. We really don’t need a debauchery montage set to Bowie’s “Fame” to grasp that Hunt was publicity-drunk, or a scene of Lauda painfully pressing his crash-scarred head into a racing helmet

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to understand that he was obsessively competitive. Still, “Rush” red-lines the spectacle and exhilaration of the wildly eventful mid-

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“Rush” is a Formula One racing drama of almost irresistible forward momentum. The on-track action is blistering, the filmmaking sure-footed (even as cars fishtail into catastrophic crashes), the characters bigger than life. Even more important, it avoids the stock plotting that turns most sports movies into bland emotional pick-me-ups. It’s one of the best films of Ron Howard’s career, certainly the most surprising. Who knew this competent craftsman had such a furiously exciting, sex-drenched story in him? By granting equal time to two historical figures, devil-may-care English golden boy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and his dark, calculating Austrian rival Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl), the film turns their racing rivalry into a collision between diametrically Chris Hemsworth, left, and Daniel Bruhl in a scene from ‘Rush.’ opposed personalities. Hemsworth is nearly here as he is in Thor mov- rival, seems like a central as glamorous a demi-god ies. Bruhl, his rodent-faced casting villain. He’s an obnoxious know-it-all, doubly irritating because he’s nearly always right. Don’t decide too quickly whom to root for. Our sympathies shift as fast as a racer negotiating a tight curve. The shrewd script by Peter Morgan (“Frost/ Nixon,” “The Last King of Scotland,” “The Queen”) stresses the parallels in the men’s lives. Each came from a family that disapproved of high-risk sports. Each man is petulant and childish. Hunt was a callous playboy, Lauda coldly indifferent to his wife. Each is willing to put his life at risk for a jolt of adrenaline and adulation. They’re deeply selfish, giving little thought to the effect their risky careers have on friends and fami-

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treats such as “Red Dust,” “Bombshell,” “Captains Courageous” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Fleming was born and raised in California, but he had ties to Pennsylvania. His mother, Eva, was born in Buckhorn, a small town outside Bloomsburg. And, according to Fleming’s biographer Michael Sragow, “Fleming’s speech patterns echoed his mother’s Pennsylvania Dutch inflections.” Fleming returned to Pennsylvania — Freemans-burg, to be exact — to shoot parts of “Farmer Takes a Lady,” the delightful 1935 comedy that recently surfaced on DVD for the first time via Fox Cinema Archives. Henry Fonda, making his film debut at 28, is partnered with Janet Gaynor — and future “Oz” wicked witch Margaret Hamilton — for a film set on the Erie Canal in the days before the railroad became the preferred method of shipping goods westward.

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It’s time to go off to see the “Wizard” again. One of MGM’s best musicals turns 75, and you can celebrate by checking out “The Wizard of Oz 3D: 75th Anniversary Limited Collector’s Edition” (1939, Warner, G, $105), a gorgeous ﬁve-disc set that includes the Bluray 3D, the Blu-ray and the DVD as well as shorts, featurettes and a brand-new making-of documentary. Judy Garland is electrifying as the Kansas farm girl who travels to Oz via twister only to realize there’s no place like home. The highlights are many and include Garland’s crooning of “Over the Rainbow,” an eye-popping visit to Munchkinland and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch. It’s pure bliss. If you’re wondering what the local connection is, look no further than director Victor Fleming, the underrated helmer who also oversaw “Gone With the Wind” Amy Longsdorf writes about DVD and Blu-Ray as well as irresistible ’30s and ’40s releases with local connections

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A superhero and super cops top this week’s DVD releases. • “IRON MAN 3,” GRADE B-MINUS: When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. The heart of the movie remains the same: the glib performance turned in by Robert Downey Jr. Even in the face of this new threat, Stark never runs out of quips. Jon Favreau mixed the quick retorts with some

regular dialogue, but Shane Black’s script is so loaded with wisecracks it begins to wear thin. It’s the type of banter that better fits a buddy-cop movie. This film has as much action as the first two outings. But Black isn’t as skilled as Favreau at pulling the audience into the middle of the battles. The big showdown is loaded with firepower, but it is shot with such an arm’s-length approach that it’s like watching a fireworks show rather than setting the fireworks

off yourself. Black’s brought his own voice to the franchise, and it’s a big change. It would have been better had he toned down some of the dialogue, stayed a little more loyal to the source material and not had so many scenes in a movie called “Iron Man” without the character. • “HAWAII FIVE-0: THE THIRD SEASON,” GRADE B: The updated version of the classic TV detective series has settled into a solid rhythm because of

‘The Wizard of Oz 3D: 75th Anniversary Limited Collector’s Edition’ is a gorgeous five-disc set loaded with goodies.

the strong cast. Alex O’Loughlin anchors the team as the leaner, meaner version of Steve McGarrett. But, he gets a lot of support from Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park. The show also works because of a strong central villain in Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos). Even when he’s not the center of the police investigation, the character continues to cast a shadow over the island. Add in Christine Lahti as McGarret’s mom with a spy past and the series has

numerous ways to go with stories. The DVD set includes all 24 episodes, plus deleted scenes, a cast and crew gag reel and several short behind-the-scenes features. ••• ALSO NEW ON SEPT. 24: “UNFINISHED SONG”: Music changes the life of a grumpy man (Terence Stamp). “SCOOBY-DOO! 13 SPOOKY TALES: RUH-ROH ROBOT!”: The 12 mysteries include the new

cartoon “Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace.” “DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER”: A look at Cher’s close relationship with her family, including her mother Georgia Holt. “DOCTOR WHO: THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SERIES”: Includes 13 episodes and two Christmas specials. “REDEMPTION”: A man (Jason Statham) sees the efforts to put his life in order fail because of London’s criminal underworld.

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STILL SHOWING BATTLE OF THE YEAR — A huge dance-off attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven’t won in 15 years. Enter a mission bring the trophy back to America where it started. 109 mins. PG-13 for language and some rude behavior.  BLUE JASMINE — Cate Blanchett storms her way through the title role of Woody Allen’s pastiche-y melodrama, about a fallen socialite seeking refuge in her sister’s San Francisco flat. Lifted in chunks from “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and offering wincing blue-collar-type caricatures, the film is nonetheless a wonder. 98 mins. PG-13 for adult themes.  THE FAMILY — Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones revisit some blasts from their pasts in this violent action comedy about a mob family in France thanks to the witness protection program. 111 mins. R for violence, language and brief sexuality.  INSIDIOUS — The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. 105 mins. PG-13 for intense terror and violence and thematic elements.  LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER — Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) embarks on a daunting new job at the Eisenhower White House, which gives him a Forrest

Gump-like view not only of the White House under seven presidents but of the long arc of the civil-rights struggle in 20th-century America. 132 mins. PG-13 for violence and disturbing images, language, sexual material, thematic elements and smoking.  1/2 PLANES — In the worst of the animated blockbusters to come our way this summer, a crop duster named Dusty longs to be more“than just what I was built for.” He longs to get into the round-the-world race and win fame and glory. 90 mins. PG for some mild action and rude humor.  1/2 PRISONERS — This is a mystery told with such skill that just when you think you’ve figured it out, it finds new blind alleys for you to visit.Well-cast and wonderfully acted, it’s a child kidnapping thriller with sorrow, intrigue, psychology and just enough urgency. Then it almost outsmarts itself with a draggy,“let’s explain it all”third act that undercuts the big theme it wants us to ponder. 150 mins. R for disturbing violent content including torture and language throughout.  RIDDICK — The eponymous anti-hero (Vin Diesel), an intergalactic outlaw who can see in the dark, is stranded on a desert planet with no weapons or supplies, seriously wounded and relentlessly hunted by carnivorous aliens. David Twohy creates an involving survival drama. 119 mins. R for vulgar

language, violence, sexual situations, nudity, adult themes.  SMURFS 2 — Turns out those diminutive, blueskinned forest-dwellers have been just fine since their 2011 big-screen outing, but there’s trouble brewing in their new adventure-comedy. 105 mins. PG for some rude humor and action.  THE SPECTACULAR NOW — Zesty, funny, sad, and wise beyond its characters’ years, this offers the most complex and moving portraits of high-school seniors since the final season of TV’s “Friday Night Lights.” The movie tracks an end-of-school romance between a cool guy (Miles Teller) and a shy girl (Shailene Woodley), with surprises that make it distinctive right from the beginning. 95 mins. R for alcohol use, language and some sexuality — all involving teens.  WE’RE THE MILLERS — In this raunchy, hilarious and ultimately sweet-natured riff on the road-trip comedy, low-level pot dealer David is robbed, and forced by his friend and boss to head south of the border and return an RV full of weed. To blend in and avoid suspicion, David recruits a fake family to ride along. 110 mins. R for crude sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, brief graphic nudity. 

Well-cast and wonderfully acted, ‘Prisoners’ is a child kidnapping thriller with sorrow, intrigue, psychology and just enough urgency.

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The wintry set designed for the King’s College production of ‘Almost, Maine’ gives the impression you’re looking into a snow globe.

Peering into a ‘snow globe’ — and a sanitarium MARY THERESE BIEBEL mbiebel@timesleader.com

What: ‘The Curious Savage’ Where: Wilkes University’s Dorothy Dickson Darte Center, West South and West River streets, Wilkes-Barre When: 8 tonight and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $10, $5 students and seniors. More info: 570-408-4540 ••• What: ‘Almost, Maine’ Where: King’s College Theater Department in the George P. Maffei II Theatre, Administration Building, 131 N. River St., Wilkes-Barre When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Oct. 4; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct 5; 2 p.m. Oct. 6 Tickets: $12, $7 students and seniors More info: 570-208-5825

something “magical” crops up in every scene. Here a young wanderer returns, knocking on a door, desperate to ﬁnally answer the question a man asked before she left. He’s been waiting a long time to hear her answer to his marriage proposal, and while his hope has diminished, his appearance has changed as well. Then there’s all the stumbling, the collapsing, the strange force that sends Chad sprawling. He can’t help it, he tells Randy. Literally, he’s falling in love — with Randy. The way the script is written, Reynolds said during an early rehearsal, Chad and Randy’s love could be romantic or platonic.

“It’s pretty vague,” agreed Jarred Stagen, who portrays Chad, as he and Kyle McCormack, who portrays Randy, discussed how they wanted to play it. All the characters in Cariani’s play have a simple, small-town honesty, Reynolds said. “They remind me of ‘Northern Exposure,’ but they’re not as quirky.” ••• Theater-goers will ﬁnd another set of unusual characters at Wilkes University this weekend, where student thespians are bringing “The Curious Savage” to the stage. Here, one Ethel Savage has inherited millions from his late husband, but her stepchildren want the money for themselves — and Ethel in a sanitarium. “There are bars on the windows and a buzzer that tells them when it’s time to go to dinner and to their rooms at night,” director Naomi Baker said. Still, “this particular sanitarium does appear to be a good place to live, especially in the wing they are putting Ethel in. The patients are not dangerous, so they have quite a bit of freedom.” Despite their eccentricities — one patient dotes on a doll as if it were a living child, another has “given up” electricity, a third believes he is horribly scarred — they exhibit more kindness and compassion than Ethel’s stepchildren. “The play is charming,” Baker said. “I ﬁnd it charming and uplifting, and all of it

Wilkes University’s opening play of the season, ‘The Curious Savage,’ follows a character named Ethel Savage into a 1950s-era sanitarium.

is fairly funny. When you think about it, it’s more comedy than social commentary.” Student Janel Naro portrays Ethel with aplomb, the director said. “Janel has a soft and gentle quality to her. She brings that naturally to the part. Ethel is also a very peppy, spry and saucy woman.”

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Randy and Chad are sitting down together, pulling pop-tops, swigging beer, crushing cans. And comparing notes. “She said she didn’t like the way I smelled,” Chad says. Can his buddy top that? It turns out Randy can. He was dancing with a woman, dropped her on her face and had to take her to the hospital. She wanted her old boyfriend to take her home, not Randy. So he wins the informal, worst-date-ever competition. Welcome to “Almost, Maine,” a wintry little place in the cold, frosty North where the elation, heartbreak and poignancy of love plays out in a series of vignettes under the Northern Lights. The play will open the theater season this week at King’s College in WilkesBarre, on a set designed to make audience members feel as if they’re peering through the orb of a snow globe into a remote and rustic place. Student designer Amy Brown of West Wyoming said she didn’t have to look far for inspiration. “Around here, we’re surrounded by piney woods and mountains.” The snow-globe effect will enhance the otherworldly qualities playwright John Cariani injected into “Almost, Maine,” director Dave Reynolds said, pointing out

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Woman questions boyfriend’s support as she changes jobs Dear Abby: I am the mother of a 4-year-old daughter and pregnant with my second child. My boyfriend and I live in a nice house and have a comfortable lifestyle. We each pay our own bills, and I pay half the mortgage that is in his name. I am extremely unhappy at my job. The job itself isn’t the problem; it’s the management team and its effect on office

DEAR ABBY ADVICE morale. They treat us employees like dirt, thus everyone is always fighting with each other. I try to stay out of it, but I am unhappy to the core there. I want to find another job after my maternity leave, but I’m afraid my soon-to-befiance won’t be willing to pick up the slack financially while I’m temporarily unemployed.

Isn’t this the normal giveand-take that “married” couples go through? Shouldn’t I expect him to help me if I’m going through a rough patch? Are my expectations unreasonable? — Expecting and Depressed in Texas Dear Expecting: I assume that you have discussed this with your boyfriend and he wasn’t receptive. Your expectations wouldn’t be unreasonable if you WERE married or

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at least engaged. But you’re not. While you and I think he should help you financially over this rough patch, he may feel no obligation to do so. If that’s the case, your not-quitefiance appears to be treating you like a roommate-withbenefits. Because you are not on the title of the house you pay half the mortgage on, there is no guarantee you will ever have anything to show for your contribution. In light of that, of course he should be supportive emotionally and financially if you

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leave your job. Expecting him to step up to the plate is not unreasonable. But whether he agrees with you and me is another matter. Please find out before you invest any more money or he impregnates you again.

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‘Northern Exposure’ is no longer on TV Q. Will we ever get to see “Northern Exposure” again? A. I have not yet found a channel currently replaying the show. All six seasons of the 1990-95 comedy-drama have been released on DVD in a complete-series package and in individual season sets. If you don’t want to own the show, check your library’s collection. Q. I was watching “Rizzoli & Isles” and at the end it said it was in memory of Lee Thompson Young (1984-2013) and then showed pictures of the young black man on the show. Has he died and what from? He was so young. He will be missed. A. Lee Thompson Young, who played Detective Barry Frost on the TNT drama, died Aug. 19; he reportedly committed suicide. Young was 29 years old and had been acting for almost 20 years, notably as star of “The Famous Jett Jackson” for the Disney Channel. A statement from TNT, the Warner Bros. studio (which makes “Rizzoli”) and executive producer Janet Tamaro said in part, “Everyone at ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ is devastated by the news. ... We are beyond heartbroken at the loss of this sweet, gentle, good-hearted, intelligent man.” Writer-director Wes Craven, who knew Young from 2007’s “The Hills Have Eyes 2,” said on Twitter that “he was a pro, gifted and warm. The tragedy of this kind of loss is particularly bewildering and painful.” Do you have a question or comment for the mailbag? Write to me at rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com or by regular mail to the Akron Beacon Journal, 44 E. Exchange St., Akron, OH 44309.

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generous with compliments even when your surroundings aren’t quite praiseworthy. Complaining is bad form unless health and safety are threatened. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). One pace does not fit all. You’ll feel most comfortable and energized around people who match your rhythm. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). When being around people is draining, you find energy in other kinds of connections. For instance, through your special connection with animals you appreciate nature. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your impeccable taste will be called on as you host or assist a friend in hosting a group. The person who controls the details is also controlling the mood.

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believe that anyone’s time is more or less valuable than yours. You prove this by being punctual. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There is much that will go right even though the challenges of the day are steeper than usual. When things come together, it will be because people decide to be agreeable. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 27). You will be increasingly aware of your needs, and next month you’ll courageously get them met. Don’t ignore one part of your life — do what’s best for your overall scene. October and July bring bonus money. November seals a deal. December features happiness through music. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 2, 24, 13 and 49.

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do happen. When you see examples of wondrous things happening for other people in the world, it fortifies your belief that it can also happen for you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Environments matter. It’s easier to study in a clean room, do somersaults in a big stretch of space and practice singing without competing noise. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Sometimes an act of conformity is the polite thing to do, but if you have to disown your

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THE GUIDE STAGE THIS WEEK: Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 2013 The Jungle Book Kids, a musical with Mowgli, Baloo, King Louie and the gang thwarting the ferocious tiger Shere Khan. By children ages 4 to 10 at KISS Theatre Company, Wyoming Valley Mall, WilkesBarre Township. 7 tonight; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. 829-1901. Willy Wonka, a musical journey through the Chocolate Factory as mild disasters befall a group of children. By Phoenix Kids at the Phoenix Performing Arts Centre, 409-411 Main St., Duryea. 7 tonight and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $10. 991-1817. Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, the musical version of the film about working women. Music Box Dinner Playhouse, 196 Hughes St., Swoyersville. 8

tonight and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Dinner served 90 minutes before show. $16; $34 with dinner. 283-2195. Ghost of a Chance, a ghostly romantic comedy about the spirit of a woman’s first husband interfering in her imminent second marriage. By Actors Circle at the Providence Playhouse, 1256 Providence Road, Scranton. 8 tonight and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $12, $10 seniors, $8 students. 342-9707. The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s drama about a Jewish moneylender in Venice who demands “a pound of flesh” from a debtor. By the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble at the Alvina Krause Theatre, 226 Center St., Bloomsburg. Opens Thursday. Through Oct. 20: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays.

Makenna Unvarsky stars as Baloo in the KISS Theatre Company’s production of ‘The Jungle Book Kids’ tonight through Sunday at the Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre Township.

The Phoenix Kids wrap up their run of the musical ‘Willy Wonka’ this weekend at the Phoenix Performing Arts Centre in Duryea.

$12 on Oct. 3-4 previews; $26, $21 seniors, $12 students. 784-8181. FUTURE Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s opera about the fateful romance between lovestruck Tatiana and imperious Onegin with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic finale. A high-def screening live from the Metropolitan Opera. Movies

Dinner Theater, 76 S. Main St., Carbondale. 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Reservations: 282-7499. ANNOUNCEMENTS Auditions for the audio recording of Harry Connick Jr.’s new musical “The Happy Elf.” Needed: singers in grades 7 to 12. Scranton Cultural Center, 420 N. Washington Ave. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. More information at

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