Image provided by: Clackamas Community College; Oregon City, OR
About The Clackamas print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1989-2019 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 2001)
4_________ A&E Traffic explores war against drugs The CI ac I camas P rint WedNEsdAy, J anuary 51, 2001 TAM OLIVER movie, was quoted in The Through these stories, Columbian on Jan. 29 one question stands out. Why saying, "I was shocked are so many people addicted to Traffic is a powerful film that ex and dismayed at the gra drugs, legal or illegal? plores the reasons we are not win tuitous amount of vio An undercover police lence and profanity in ning the war against drugs. man on a stakeout in a Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Traffic." cramped van asks his partner As the film traces the the film features a fine cast of ac why he doesn’t try the patch tors: Michael Douglas, Don war against drugs on to quit smoking as the van fills Cheadle, Erika Christensen, both sides of the Mexi- with smoke. A husband tells Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid and can-U.S. border, it inter his wife that if he didn’t have twines the stories of sev Catherine Zeta-Jones. his nightly glass of Scotch, Traffic scores all of its points with eral groups of people; he’d be bored to death. A effective restraint. A torture scene some rich and some poor, crack addicted teenager who is heard but not seen. Instead, the some morally corrupt and seems to have everything - pri horror is reflected on the face of a others decent, and some vate schools, money, excellent Mexican police officer who hears powerful and some weak. grades and good looks - talks A new American drug his prisoner delivered to a terrible about the fear of not being able czar (Michael Douglas) is fate. to measure up. An overworked Rather than bombard the viewer so busy fighting drugs father throws himself further with blood and brains splattering or and politicking to keep into his work when problems Two Mexican police officers find themselves in trouble in a scene from Traffic. a needle entering a teenager’s youth the financial support develop at’ home. ful vein, the film holds back. In do coming in that he misses Traffic is a thought-provoking ing so, it frees the imagination of the the fact that his teenage daughter tion to United States’ DEA agents nally shocked to discover her hus movie. It hints of reasons for los (Erika Christensen) is becoming an in exchange for lights for a baseball band is a drug lord, takes over the ing the war against drugs, but it audience. Make no mistake, Traffic earned addict. A Mexican police officer park so the children of Tijuana can business when he is imprisoned. doesn’t sermonize. It leaves room its R rating. Senator Orin Hatch of (Benicio Del Toro), who makes play safely at night. A pampered She’ll pay any price to keep from for the audience to do their own Utah, who has a cameo role in the about $300 a month, trades informa California housewife, who is origi being poor again. soul-searching. A&E Editor Spanish, Latino Clubs bring bilingual play to campus MAGGIE JIRASEK Feature Editor To save Earth from an old proph ecy and learn how to live in har mony with our planet is the theme of Profecia, Teatro Milagro’s bilin gual play being performed at Clackamas Feb. 7, 12 p.m. in the McLoughlin Hall theater. The play is set in the year 2012 and the fulfillment of Xutan, an an cient Mayan prophecy, is about to approach. Great earthquakes and floods have been foretold, and our planet’s future lies in the hands of four individuals who can alter the course of humanity. The play, writ ten by Danel with original music by Rodolfo Ortega, is set in the highlands of Chiapas where some of the earliest records of people in the Americas - dating from 2500 BC - have been found. Teatro Milagro, the bilingual touring company of Miracle The- Aries: Recognition for all your hard work should be coming soon, but it may not take the form you expect. Taurus: Cut yourself some slack, Taurus. Don’t set the bar so friggin high you can’t jump it. Gemini: Kindness matters in this worlc, and you have been extremely atre, has toured throughout the West Coast, Mexico and Canada for over five years, addressing im portant global issues in their plays. Past works have included stories about saving the rain forest, immi gration and freedom of artistic expression. Miracle Theater group is the largest Hispanic arts and cul ture organization in the Northwest. With the help of fundraising, the Spanish Club as well as the Latino Club made it possible for Milagro to come to Clackamas. Admis sion to this bilingual production is free. Authorsf Night Soaring Above Adversity: New Memoirs Wednesday, February 7 at 7 p.m. Gregory Forum Larry Colton: Former sports writer and professional baseball player A former professional baseball player and a writer for Sports Illus trated and the TVew Times Magazine, Larry Colton will be reading from Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn. The book focuses on Sharon LaForge, a gifted yet undisciplined Crow Indian who hopes to become the first Indian player from Hardin High School in Mon tana, to win a basketball scholarship. Jennifer Lauck: TV journalist/producer PHOTOGRAPH BY LARA KLINGEMAN Cast members from left to right are Danielle Malan, Francisco Garcia, Maya Malan-Gonzalez, Manuel Hall and Laurel Garcia kind to others. Remember to be kind to yourself too. Cancer: Sorry Cancer'but don’t plan on the road being any smoother for another couple of weeks. Leo: Don’t let your last tumble keep you on the ground. Dust yourself off and try a different way. Virgo: The world is not quite as linear as you might want it to be. Instead of trying to force the world into.your narrow parameters^ widen the parameters. Former TV journalist and producer Jennifer Lauck will be reading from Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. The book travels through the standpoint of a child narrator who experiences the death of first a mother, then a father, and then abandonment at the age of 10 to a church commune in central Los Angeles. Lauck has appeared with her book on the Rosie O’Donnell show and the Oprah Winfrey show. ing bad would happen to you this week, but your skeptical nature would keep you from believing me. hidden message. Don’t read be tween the lines this week, just take things at face value. Scorpio: This is your week to be like the Eggman. Koo-Koo-Ka- Choo. Capricorn: If it feels like you have been beating your head against the wall, it is because you have been. Find a new hobby before you get a headache. Pisces: Dust off those old posi tive affirmations. You are good enough, smart enough, and gosh dam it people DO like you, so quit your whining. Sagittarius: I could tell you noth Aquarius: Sometimes there is no
