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Throughout his career, Brown
has played a significant amount
of benefit concerts, and he has
been affiliated with numerous
charity causes, including In Har
mony, an organization formed in
1993 to “create intergenerational
neighborhoods of specially
trained parents.”
Brown said intentional commu
nities such as these are a brave
idea because they can promote
the idea that everyone in the
world belongs to one community
and one family.
He said exercising compassion
in action is important, and this is
one of the few hopeful things in
this world.
“(Compassion) can only be pro
moted by exhibiting it. It’s what
works; it’s what makes our lives feel
more precious and valuable,” he
said. “The leadership has a vested
interest in keeping us afraid and
fearful of other people. People see
compassion in action, and that’s
how it grows. Nothing is more
threatening to the violent leaders
of the world — that’s the end of
their game.”
Brown said he is working on a
new album, and that he enjoys
the WOW Hall because it has a
“good music vibe.” San Francisco
based Box Set will open for
Brown, and the Sunday shows
start at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.. Tickets
are #18.50 in advance and #21 at
the door.
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doubt that this is the kind of love
that lasts. But just as it tends to
do in the real world, life some
how gets in the way.
Paul is not your run-of the-mill
movie hero. Usually, movies about
kids from small towns depict a pro
tagonist looking to the horizon for
something more out of life. Paul has
never even considered the hori
zon. It takes Noel, an innocent vir
gin returning home from years at a
boarding school, to make him
question anything. Ironically, the
only way she can do this is to inad
vertently screw with his notion of
... everything. It’s not Noel’s fault;
her inexperience simply leads her
to make irrational decisions. Paul
is tormented as he struggles to
make sense of her actions. But how
can he do so when Noel can’t make
sense of them herself?
Paul lives with his mother, Elvi
ra (Patricia Clarkson). Some crit
ics have said Green makes Elvira
look pathetic because she dresses
up like a clown to entertain kids
at a local hospital. She’s not pa
thetic. She’s just had her ass
kicked by life and lacks the ener
gy to do anything for herself,
choosing instead to bring a little
happiness to others in dire need
of hope. That’s not pathetic.
That’s true, and even admirable.
“All the Real Girls” is also an exer
cise in atmosphere. Cinematographer
Tim Orr revels in the vistas of North
Carolina, and the music by Michael
Linnen and David Wingo seems to
drift in from the mountains like fog.
Green seems consumed by the
notion of presenting sincere hu
man interaction on screen. The
characters of “Real Girls” don’t
talk in witty, carefully written
movie-speak.' They talk like us.
They stammer. They struggle to
put their thoughts into words —
which often can’t do justice to the
feelings that tear through them.
Green isn’t interested in easily
identified themes or cliche plot
points. He chucks the guise of
script construction with the under
standing that life experiences don’t
unwind in easy three-act struc
tures. And when a movie is imbued
with as much humanity as “All the
Real Girls,” an audience doesn’t
need it to play out this way either.
Green has an emotion in mind for
each scene and simply sets his ac
tors loose to realize it. The two
leads, especially Deschanel, don’t
act. They simply exist.
Eugene Weekly film critic Lois
Wadsworth has criticized some of
the characters of “Real Girls,”
questioning why Noel’s brother Kip
would feel the need to protect his
sister’s virginity. But Kip’s anger is
not about brotherly duty. It’s about
his wariness of facing his own per
ceptions of women. He’s not un
comfortable with Paul and Noel’s
relationship. He’s uncomfortable
with himself.
Deschanel stole the show in
movies like “Almost Famous” and
“The Good Girl” in minor roles, but
this is her first starring role. She has
the charisma of a young Debra
Winger, with perhaps a tad more
sensitivity. If other directors can
tune in to her talents as well as
Green does, she has a great future
ahead of her.
“All the Real Girls” is a revelation
in itself. But it also officially marks the
arrival of Green as one of die more in
triguing young voices in movies. After
his award-winning debut film
“George Washington,” the 27-year
old filmmaker from North Carolina
seems well on his way to something
special. “All the Real Girls” is now
playing at Bijou Art Cinemas.
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A play by Samuel Beckett
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Kim Donahey Mike Hawkins