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8 WEdNEsdAy, FEbRUARy 9, 2000 TI he CI ac I camas P rint The bad boys of animation are back and ready to offend. Spike and Mike, the people who were first to show Beavis and Butthead, South Park, Rugrats and Wallace and Gromit are offering 20 animated shorts and a select handful of cult favorites this year at their annual cartoonfest. The festival is showing at Cinema 21,616 NW 21 st Ave. in Portland. Tickets are $7 at the door and in advance through Ticketmaster (224-4400). You must be 18 years old with a valid I.D. to get into the festival. For more info call Cinema 21 at 223-4515. OòTéS èuri ^©VülTiAtéS February Fridays Feb. 18 & 25 7:00,9:15 & 11:30 p.m. Saturdays Feb. 19 & 26 7:00,9:15 & 11:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday Feb. 20-24 & 27 7:00 & 9:15 p.m. Fridays Saturdays March Mar. 3,10,17 & 24 Mar. 4,11,18 & 25 11:30 p.m. 11:30 p.m. PHOTO COURTESY OF SPIKE AND MIKE [above] Bowlin' Fer Souls, by Supergenius, is one of many animated shorts included in this year's Spi ke and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Bowlin'Fer Souls shows Satan patrolling Hell in a hotrod looking for stray souls. Written work wanted Penn fails to save lackluster jazz film alling all writers! The deadline for the Writers'Club SHELBI WESCOTT Contest is Friday, March 3, so hurry up and submit Feature Editor your best and brightest work., You may submit up Woody Alien’s latest film, a to 3 poems, 1 essay, 1 piece of fiction and 1 one-act play. story 4 about fictional legendary copies of each entry are required when submitting your 1930’s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray, could have been powerful, emo work, as well as a cover page for each entry. tional and hilarious. Every entry should also include the title of the work as But it wasn’t. well as your social security number. The cover page for While Sweet and each entry should include the title, the category, your name, Lowdown had moments of social security number, address and telephone number. In humor and moments of dis gust (often a feeling evoked clude an IBM-compatible 3.5" disk with your work saved when watching Alien’s films), on it. All entries will be considered for the literary maga the story seemed to drag zine Synesthesia. Turn in your entries to Allen Widerburg along and repeat itself. I didn’t reprimand my boy in S124, or call him for more information at ext. 2359. friend for falling asleep for a C COVERPAGE ENTRY ITILE SOCIALSECURITY# xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ITILE CATEGORY NAME SOCIAL SECURITY# ADDRESS PHONE# . Morton speaks to Ray and to the audience with her bright eyes and unforgettable expressions. The only negative about Morton’s performance is that she looks like she is twelve-years-old, which seems to be an odd pairing with Penn who looks to be in his early-mid thirties. However, Hattie is adorable (even if in a little girl way) and her char acter is easy to fall in love with. Uma Thurman (Gattaca, Pulp Fiction) plays Blanche, a rich troubled woman look ing for Emmet Ray’s love. Thurman’s performance left quarter of the film., because I something to be desired. She too found places in the Sean Penn and Samantha Morton share an seemed flat, one-dimensional movie worthy of‘power nap intimate moment in Sweet and Lowdown. and melodramatic. I was ping’ through. happy when her character There were, however, some re that Penn did his job well. disappeared and Hattie came back deeming qualities to the film, pri Another actor that carried the into the picture, even if briefly. marily Sean Penn’s (Dead Man film is Samantha Morton. A rela ' I suppose Woody Allen fans Walking, The Thin Red Line) per tively unknown British actress, will enjoy this jaunt back into the formance of Emmet Ray. It is a little Morton is sure to become a famil 1930’s jazz scene. I, not being a unknown fact that Penn, who iar face in Hollywood. Morton fan, probably should have taken never before touched a guitar, plays Hattie, a deaf laundress by money and gone to see Gal learned the hyperdexterous fin whom Ray falls in love with. With axy Quest again. (That was my gering to over 30 virtuoso jazz out uttering a single word, plug for a movie I did enjoy.) ¡Kree Valentine's ©ay @fard' I F rom TI he CI ac R amas P rìnt Cut this freebie out, check the appropriate boxes and present it to your sweetie/boytoy/ | | one-nightstand, and ' get ‘ ready for the fun “ to start. ¡You are... I I I I I I I I L Q| MY TRUE LOVE I I MY SWEETHEART □ AGUY/GIRLIJUSTSAWONTHE STREET AND I REALLY WANT TO MAKE OUT WITH YOU Q MYSECRETCRUSH I am... □ □ □ □ songs. Penn is almost unrecog nizable as Ray and he does a won derful job of combining a melo dramatic guitar player, a woman izer, a kleptomaniac, and a drunk all into one character. Despite Ray’s despicable antics, you sympathize with him, which means DEEPLYDEVOTEDTOYOU INLOVEWITHYOU IN LOVE WITH YOUR BROTHER/SISTER AHOOKER
