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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, January, 31,1996
A&E
Movies to watch for in 1996 Well-known artists
visit Clackamas
1995 was an okay year for movies, but 1996 looks very promising. Here are
some movies to keep a look out for in the up coming year!!!
BARBWIRE: Pamela Anderson Lee’s newest movie based on the comic book by the
same name, directed by David Hogan, looks to be an action packed ‘badgirl’ movie.
Release date :March 22.
DAYLIGHT: Sylvester Stallone’s new action movie has to deal with an emergency rescue
worker trapped with commuters in the Holland Tunnel after an attack by terrorists,
directed by Rob Cohen. Release datedate summer.
DEAD DROP: Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman star in a action/thriller about an
inventor (Reeves) who must go on the run when he realizes that his former employer-
Uncle Sam-has sinister plans for his high-tech weaponry. Directed by Andrew Davis
Release date:mid-summer.
DRAGONHEART: Dennis Quaid, a knight, enlists the help of a mystical dragon whose
voice is none other than Sean Connery’s. Directed by Rob Cohen. Release Date:July 4.
THE ERASER: Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a border control cop at war with a renegade
colleague. Directed by Chuch Russell. Release date:June. '
ESCAPE FROM L.A.: Kurt Russell stars in the sequel to Escape from New York that takes
place in Los Angeles of the future where an earthquake has made the city an island.
Directed by John Carpenter. Release date:mld-summer.
EXECUTIVE DECISION: Kurt Russell plays an intelligence officer who, with the help of
Steven Seagal, tries to prevent a terrorist hijacking. Directed by Stuart Baird, release
date:early spring.
THE FAN: Robert De Niro plays a deranged man who stalks a baseball player played by
Wesley Snipes. Directed by Tony Scott. Release date: July 4.
INDEPENDENCE DAY: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum and Brent Spiner play in
this suspense/thriller about aliens invading the Earth on the Fourth of July. Directed by
Roland Emmerich. Release date: July 3.
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU: Marlon Brando and Vai Kilmer star in this retelling of H.G.
Wells’ chilling tale of a scientist’s quest to turn beasts into people Directed by John
Frankenheimer. Release date: October 16 ~
MEN IN BLACK:Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are two paranormal detectives sent to
investigate stories of alien visitations. Directed by Barry Sonnenfield. Release date:early
fall
MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE: Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez star in this remake of the
television show. Directed by Brian De Palma. Release date: May 22.
MULHOLLAND FALLS:John Malkovich, Michael Madsen, Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffth,
Chazz Palminteri and Rob Lowe star In. this fact based on the story of four detectives
from the 1950’s. Directed by Lee Tamahori. Release date: March.
SLEEPERS: Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Jason Patrie and Dustin Hoffman
star in this adaptation about four former reform school inmates who get revenge on the
sadistic guards who tortured them. Directed by Barry Levinson and it should be released
late 1996 possibly October or November.
THINNER: Joe Mantegna and Robert John Burke star in this intense adaptation of
Stephen King’s novel by the same name. Directed by Tom Holland. Release date: April.
A TIME TO KILL: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson star in
this adaptation of John Grisham’s novel of the same name. Directed by Joel Schumacher
Release date: August.
TWISTER: Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt play two tornado scientists who are tracking their
prey across the Mid-west. Directed by Jan De Bont Release date: May.
WELCOME TO JERICHO: Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken star in this interpellation
of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Yojimbo. Directed by Walter Hill release date: June 28.
WHITE SQUALL: Jeff Bridges leads a collection of kids on a Caribbean sea voyage that
turns into an oceangoing nightmare. Directed by Ridley Scott.
Release date: February 2. THIS FRIDAY IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW!!!
‘Frogs, Lizards, Orbs and SI in leys’
headline at Imago Productions
Andrew Beck
Staff Writer
“Frogs, Lizards, Orbs and
Slinkys” is the internationally
acclaimed and longest running
production Imago since the com­
pany began 16 years ago.
“Imago, the company has
been here (in Portland) for six­
teen years, mainly as a touring
company,” said Imago per­
former Jim Parson, “we toured
for a long, long time, for six to
nine months at a time.”
The Imago company,
owned and managed by Jerry
Mouawad and Carol Triffle,
originally used the second floor
of its current building at 17 SE
8 Avenue in northeast Portland
as a place to rehearse and form
its productions. Imago eventu­
ally bought the building a few
years ago and turned it into a
theater and home base for tour­
ing productions that run
throughout Imago’s season.
“Frogs, Lizards, Orbs and
Slinkys” is a show that has made
Imago known throughout the
world, the production has toured
through 50 states and three con­
tinents, appearing in everything
from national television specials
to public schools around Oregon.
This current run of “Frog, Liz­
ards, Orbs and Slinkys” includes
three performers, Kimberly
Dahle, Graydon J. F. Kouri and
Jim Parsons.
As the heavy satin-like cur­
tains rise in Imago’s theater the
audience becomes enveloped into
the world of the performers and
artistic directors (also the
production’s
co-creators)
Mouawad and Triffle. The open­
ing act presents the audience with
three human-sized frogs illumi­
nated by the stage light, the Imago
experience is beginning to take
hold. Imago’s audience can see
the creativity and real life quali­
ties of the production as the three
frogs stay completely still for the
first few minutes of the perfor­
mance. It is as if you are watch­
ing a real frog move and react to
its environment in nature.
As the frogs move and inter­
act to the audience’s delight a vast
array of characters and experi­
ences are just waiting to be un­
leashed upon the stage. An al­
most life-like lizard finds its way
near the end of stage and contem­
plates eating a member of an au­
dience... A buffed bodybuilder
has problems keeping his velcro
head attached to his body... A
series of slinkys show why they
are the world’s most wonderful
toy, even if these specimens are
a little big. Imago is.not only an
enjoyable experience for an in­
dividual or family, but the con­
tinuing evolution of an art form
native and growing in Portland,
Oregon.
“(Imago) is a latin word that
means imagination, we try to
awaken that child-like imagina­
tion we’ve all had, where your
mind and your eyes are looking
at different things,” said Imago
performer Kouri.
“Frogs, Lizards, Orbs and
Slinkys” will be showing in Port­
land from now until Feb 18, Fri-
days and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and
Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30
p.m., the Jan. 28 performance is
sold out. Tickets are $15 for
adults, $12 for student/senior
citizens and $8 for children.
Tickets can be purchased by call­
ing Imago directly at 231-9581
ext. 1, or at Fred Meyer Fast
Tixx.
Joel P. Shempert
Staff Writer
The Landscape Artists’ Gal­
lery opened at 7 p.m. on Wed, Jan.
10, in the Pauling showing, which
is sponsored by the CCC Art
Dept., features the work of local
landscape painters, all of whom
have an impressive body of work.
For anyone with even a pass­
ing interest in art, the seven paint­
ers, Thomas Kitts, Charolette
Abernathy, Dick Kennedy,
Arletha Ryan, Jack Fellman, Gary
Meachum, and Jack Barber, all
have work that is well worth see­
ing.
One highlight is the vibrant
oil work of Thomas Kitts, who
employs a superb knowledge of
light and its effects. His paint­
ings overflow with bursts and
splashes of color, presenting a
feeling of excitement even in the
most still and inactive scenes.
Kitts, who obtained a Bachelor of
Fine Art degree at the Kansas City
Art Institute, also posesses a
senses of modesty about his work,
and was heard to comment to ob­
servers regarding flaws in his
work.
“I never achieved the contrast
between the two forms ,” re­
marked Kitts, indicating a beau­
tiful painting of two converging
waterfalls. However, though he
may not have grasped the particu­
lar result he wanted, the effects
of both still and rushing water in
the piece are breathtaking.
Actually there was a lot of
modesty in all of the featured art­
ists. Charolette Abernathy, who
works in both oil and acryllic, ex­
pressed mild dissatisfaction in
some of her work, confiding that
she prefers acrylics to oils.
“I do better with things that
dry fast,” she explains. She is also
frustrated by the preparation re­
quired for oil. “By the time I get
excited about a light condition
and squeeze out the paint, the
light’s changed,” laments
Abernathy.
Troubles with art media
aside, though, Abernathy’s work,
whether oil or acrylic, posesses a
simple charm, and is altogether
pleasing to look at. Her pieces
are bright and colorful, make use
of solid design and interesting
perspective, and the alert viewer
can spot many local, rural land­
marks.
The work of Arletha Ryan,
the other female artist in the show,
also conveys a quality that might
be referred to as a “simple
charm,” but is perhaps more ac­
curately described as expert com­
munication of mood. Her paint­
ings make use of large, bold
shapes and color areas, and have
a vagueness which suggests wa­
tercolor, though, they are in fact
oil on artboard.
“I left a lot of detail out,” af­
firms Ryan, whose goal was to
capture emotion rather than the
landscapes’ minutia. The result
is spectacular. The paintings con­
vey various moods with a gentle
beauty, ranging from peace, to
cheerfulness, to melancholy. The
effect absorbs the viewer, softly
wrapping him or her in a shroud
of emotion.
Jack Barberm another of the
more outstanding artists on dis­
play, produces oil paintings that
are very striking and beautiful.
Barber, who held the art depart­
ment chair at Oregon City High
School for twenty years and sports
a Master of Fine Arts degree,
claims to get most of his inspira­
tion from the environment.
“I like the emotions of na­
ture,” he emphatically relates.
“[For instance], in this area, the
sunsets are just beautiful. . .”
Barber’s paintings, which convey
an impressive sense of form as
well as good colors and aerial per­
spective; reveal this beauty with
character and style.
There is much more that
could be said of all the featured
artists, but space prohibits. There
is a solution, however. Rather
than taking my word for it, go and
see the gallery for yourself. The
paintings will be on display at the
Pauling center until Feb. 7, so
there is no excuse for missing out
on this impressive showing of
localartists. Leland John, draw­
ing and painting instructor at the
Art Center, is very enthusiastic
about the event.
“It’s really a spectacular
show,” he asserts. “I recommend
that [everyone] go to see it.”
Whether you are. an art student
seeking to learn, or simply an
observer seeking to admire, there
is really a lot to be gained from
seeing these artists’ work.
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