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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Black">Folks: I was in such a hurry to get ahead of the
game and send the newsletter last night instead of today, the standard
Thursday, some errors sneaked in! Here is the corrected one. Sorry to bug ya'.
S.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><U><FONT face=Impact size=6>AVON THEATRE NEWS
& VIEWS</FONT></U> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG><EM><FONT
face=Papyrus>Showtimes, Programs, Erudition and Miscellaneous
Folderol</FONT></EM> </STRONG><FONT face=Papyrus><BR><FONT
color=#008000><STRONG><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><EM>"All of Life's Answers
are in the Movies!"</EM></FONT> <FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><EM> </EM><FONT
size=2><EM>-Dr. Skippy P. Huston</EM></FONT></FONT></STRONG></FONT><FONT
face=Papyrus><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Papyrus><FONT face=Impact
size=5><STRONG>WEEK OF FRIDAY,</STRONG> <FONT color=#ff0000>NOV.
7th</FONT> <STRONG>thru THURSDAY,</STRONG> <FONT color=#ff0000>NOV.
13th</FONT> <STRONG>ONLY!!</STRONG> </FONT> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT face=Papyrus><FONT face=Arial size=4><STRONG>Check
out our cool website at: </STRONG></FONT><A href="http://www.theavon.com/"><FONT
face=Arial size=4><STRONG>www.TheAvon.com</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>OPENING FRIDAY:
</STRONG><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><U>TRANSSIBERIAN</U> (R)
</STRONG><STRONG><FONT size=2>An Overlooked Thriller!!
One-Week-Only!!<BR></FONT>
<U>BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA</U> (PG)</STRONG><FONT size=2><STRONG> FRI, SAT &
SUN ONLY!!<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000
size=4><BR><STRONG>CONTINUING:</STRONG><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>
<U>CHANGELING</U>
(R)<BR>
<U>THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES</U> (PG13)<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>COMING NEXT WEEK:
</STRONG><STRONG><FONT color=#000000>JAMES BOND IS BACK in "<U>Quantum of
Solace"</U> (PG13) starring DANIEL CRAIG<BR></FONT><BR>SPECIAL
EVENT: </STRONG><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Movie/TV star BRUCE CAMPBELL
IN-PERSON WITH HIS NEW MOVIE "My Name is Bruce" DEC. 1st @ 8 PM ONLY!! $20
TICKETS GOING FAST!! HURRY!!<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#ff0000><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR></STRONG></FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG><U>CHANGELING</U> (R) </STRONG></FONT><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG><FONT size=3>Here is internationally-known film critic
Leonard Maltin's review of our exclusive film, CHANGELING, the
new powerhouse film from Clint Eastwood, <U>and ONLY at the
Avon</U>!!<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>CHANGELING — Clint Eastwood
adds another feather to his cap with the direction of this emotionally powerful,
well-crafted film, while Angelina Jolie reminds us that she’s more than must a
tabloid darling with a beautifully modulated performance in the leading role.
But the real hero of this film is the one who will likely receive the least
attention, screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski, best known as the creator and
principal writer of the TV series <EM>Babylon</EM><EM> 5</EM>. A former
reporter, he followed up on a tip from a friend about a forgotten true-life case
that began in 1928. After a year of research in Los Angeles newspaper files,
court records, and police files, he was ready to write a dramatization of this
extraordinary tale, all of which is true. </FONT></STRONG></FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Jolie plays a single mother and
working woman who comes home from her job one day to discover her nine-year-old
son missing. When she tries to report the case the police inform her that they
cannot begin a search until a child has been missing for at least twenty-four
hours. This is the first in a long line of insults to which the woman is
subjected, each one increasingly harsh. <EM>Changeling</EM> turns out to be as
much a story about attitudes toward women as anything else, but it’s to
Eastwood’s credit that he never lapses into melodrama, even when the setting is
a psychopathic ward. It’s that matter-of-fact approach to potentially
sensational material that distinguishes <EM>Changeling</EM> and makes it so
wrenching to watch at times, especially if you’re a parent. </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><EM>Changeling</EM>
is long, like most of Eastwood’s movies, but it earns the right to extend past
the two-hour mark because no time is wasted on superfluous or irrelevant
material. Production Designer James J. Murakami deserves special credit for
convincingly recreating the world of Los Angeles in the late 1920s and early
‘30s, and there is a lovely nod to Eastwood’s longtime collaborator, the
legendary designer Henry Bumstead. A roadside café in an early scene is called
Bummy’s, a reference to Bumstead’s popular
nickname</STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Jolie is surrounded by
first-rate actors, not all of them well-known. Jason Butler Harner is especially
potent as the insane and manipulative serial killer, and Jeffrey Donovan (the
star of cable TV’s <EM>Burn Notice</EM>) is chillingly effective as a heartless
police captain on a corrupt Los Angeles force. I wish I could be as enthusiastic
about John Malkovich in the role of a radio preacher (the real-life rabble
rouser Rev. Gustav Briegleb) but his demeanor makes it difficult to take the
character as seriously as one should. That’s a small quibble about an otherwise
superior film. -Leonard Maltin (used with
permission)<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><U>CHANGELING</U> (R)
</STRONG></FONT><FONT size=1><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#000000 size=1><STRONG>(Showtimes in brackets are $5.50 'Bargain
Matinees")<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000
size=4><STRONG>FRI: (5:00) - 8:00 <BR>SAT & SUN: (2:00) - (5:00) -
8:00<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000 size=4><STRONG>MON, TUES
& WED: 6:30<BR>THURS:
7:15<BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><U>THE SECRET LIFE OF
BEES</U> (PG13) </STRONG></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=3><STRONG>As long
as we are reading Leonard Maltin's reviews, let's take a look at the one he did
for THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, which is now in it FINAL week at the
Avon!!<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES — I love movies that take
me to a particular time and place. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of Sue
Monk Kidd’s best-selling novel takes place in 1964. President Johnson has just
signed the historic Civil Rights Bill into law, but that hasn’t changed
attitudes in the South, as 14-year-old Dakota Fanning learns when she runs away
from home with her black housekeeper (Jennifer Hudson). Fanning has been raised
by her distant, often abusive father (Paul Bettany), who refuses to tell her
about her mother, who died when the girl was four. So Fanning journeys to
Tennessee, to a town she’s certain her mother must have visited. Here she and
Hudson are taken in by a big-hearted woman (Queen Latifah) who lives with her
sisters (Alicia Keys and Sophie Okenedo) and provides the two refugees with
shelter and love. </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><EM>The Secret Life
of Bees</EM> explores the interior world of its young heroine and the sisters
who become her surrogate family, along with the harsh world outside the oasis of
their home, where angry bigots still rule the roost. Prince-Bythewood never
allows her film to descend into cheap melodrama, even though some of its most
vivid episodes are as upsetting as they are inevitable. What keeps the film on
course, aside from a well-written and evocative screenplay, is the skill of its
ensemble. Young Fanning fulfills the promise she showed in her earliest work as
a child, while Latifah commands the screen, filling it with warmth as few actors
can. Hudson is a natural who never seems to be reciting memorized lines, and
another singer-turned-actress, Alicia Keys, acquits herself well as the most
independent-minded of Latifah’s sisters. The other sibling, a fragile and
sensitive creature, is beautifully played by Okenedo, who avoids theatricality
and seems touching and genuine. </STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Like a good novel, <EM>The
Secret Life of Bees</EM> takes us on an emotional journey. It’s a trip well
worth taking. -Leonard Maltin (used with
permission)</STRONG></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><FONT
face=Georgia size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT face=Georgia
size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT face=Georgia size=2><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><U>THE SECRET LIFE OF
BEES</U> (PG13) </STRONG></FONT><FONT size=1><BR></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=1><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>(Showtimes in brackets are $5.50 'Bargain
Matinees")<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000
size=4><STRONG>FRI: (4:00) - 7:00 <BR>SAT & SUN: (1:00) - (4:00) -
7:00<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000 size=4><STRONG>MON thru
THURS:
7:00<BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Georgia size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG><U>TRANSSIBERIAN</U> (R) </STRONG><STRONG><FONT
size=3>I wanted to find an "overlooked" film for this week that will give all of
you who see it a sense of discovery. TRANSSIBERIAN is a film you will tell all
your friends about! Here is the review from the Rotten Tomatoes website, which,
by the way, gave it a whopping 92% positive! (That equates to either a 4-star or
3 1/2 star review!)<BR></FONT><BR></STRONG></FONT><SPAN id=movie_synopsis_all
style="DISPLAY: inline"><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>With
TRANSSIBERIAN, filmmaker Brad Anderson proves once again that he has an
exceptional ability to craft a suspenseful thriller. Roy (Woody Harrelson) and
Jessie (Emily Mortimer) have just finished working with children overseas as
part of a church project. Before flying back to the States, they decide to
travel from Beijing to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Express train, where they
meet two fellow travelers, the handsome Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and young Abby
(Kate Mara). The couples bond, but gradually Jessie becomes worried that her new
friends are involved in drug trafficking. At that point, the web has been spun,
and when the intimidating Russian detective, Grinko (Ben Kingsley), arrives, Roy
and Jessie become innocent targets in a dangerous chase. Anderson's script,
co-written with Will Conroy, helps to elevate TRANSSIBERIAN beyond mere thriller
status. It remains a well-executed portrait of a complicated relationship
between two real people. Mortimer is her usual fantastic self, and it's fun to
watch Harrelson play an average, upbeat American guy. Throw the always riveting
Kingsley into the mix and you have a motion picture that is above average in
every way. By the time the film reaches its payoff, viewers will have felt as if
they, too, took a ride on the Trans-Siberian
Express.</FONT><BR></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Georgia size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG><U>TRANSSIBERIAN</U> (R)<BR><FONT size=1>(Showtimes in
brackets are $5.50 'Bargain Matinees")</FONT><BR>FRI thru WEDNESDAY:
7:15<BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ </STRONG><U><BR></U></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Georgia size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG><U>BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA</U> (PG) </STRONG><FONT
size=3><STRONG>Just for fun, here is a weekend-only all-matinee priced reprise
of the huge family hit! Check your brain at the door, and have some real fun
with this one! <FONT size=4>All Shows ONLY
$5.50!!</FONT><BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Georgia
size=2><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=4><FONT color=#000000><STRONG><U>BEVERLY
HILLS CHIHUAHUA</U> (PG)<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=1><FONT
color=#000000><STRONG>(Showtimes in brackets are $5.50 'Bargain
Matinees")<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000
size=4><STRONG>FRI: (4:15) <BR>SAT & SUN: (1:15) -
(4:15)<BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><FONT face=Georgia size=2><FONT face=Tahoma
size=4><STRONG><FONT color=#000000><U>A NOTE FROM
SKIP</U>...</FONT> </STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Georgia><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#000000><STRONG>Don't forget the BOGART MOVIES class for the
Richland-at-the-Avon film classes starts Thursday, Nov. 13th @ 6:30 PM. This is
a special 5-week only class that will end on Dec. 18th (after skipping
Thanksgiving Thursday). Here is a rare chance to see 5 classic Bogart movies on
the big screen, with a discussion afterward with some like-minded film buffs and
just regular folks too.<BR><BR>The list of selected films is not the regular
Bogarts you see all the time, but a carefully chosen sampling of classic films
from all the times of his career in
Hollywood.<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
face=Georgia><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000><STRONG>This special short-form
class is only $50, and you can sign up with Richland, or simply come down a
little earlier than 6:30 on the first night of class. A Richland official will
be there to enroll you.<BR><BR>I hope to see you there for this one!<BR>Then, in
Janury we go into an 8-week "AMERICANA AT THE MOVIES: PART 2", and, after that,
a 6 week series on MARILYN MONROE!<BR>The Richland-at-the Avon Film classes are
great fun and informative
too!<BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR></STRONG><FONT
face="Lucida Handwriting" size=5><EM><STRONG><FONT size=4>Seeya' Soon,
Folks!!<BR></FONT>-Skip Huston</STRONG></EM></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
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