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ntertainment Last ‘Soprano’ episode of season ends with a bang N.P. Oelzell | The Clackamas Print Doggies and doggettes, you know “The Sopranos” is television glow, and has once again balled out like four-on-four half-court. With an all-out gang sta line-up of characters, episode 77 was able to bring the show back to “Sopranos” old-school fla vor - with death, murder and a little bit of sexual savor. This week’s episode, “Kaisha,” starts out with the bit character and newly appointed capo known only as Carlo taking the head of a rival hood and disposing it in a closed Connecticut shore water well. This was a carry-over from last episode when the murdered hood came over to “bust” Silvio’s (Steven Van Sandt) balls. The rival hood from New York was busted up by Silvio and Carlo, so in good mob fashion they had to take care of business. This sight on television makes even certain parts of mob classics like “Godfellas” and “Casino” look light. The show goes on and New York boss Phil (Frank Vincent) suffers the wrath of the Soprano fam. He is nearly bombed as he walks up to a local store that is a front for Phil’s business. Between family sit downs and revenge, Tony Soprano’s (James Gandolfini) son Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) gets a new love interest, as does Tony’s nephew Christopher (Michael Imperioli). The catch with Christopher is that his new love interest is a crackhead bia-bia and Christopher is in recovery. Does this make fo’ some great television or what suckas? The second catch is that the crackhead is one of Tony’s almost gal-pals, if ya’ know what I mean. There is real talk out of the New York set about Tony and certain people wanting him whacked, and it doesn’t look good. Here’s the thing for all you non-“Sopranos” followers - Tony’s mother and uncle put out a hit on him at the end of the first season, and now with the show going into it’s last season, the New York set drops an attack plan to kill a boss. Here is the hook and bait. Now sit back view ers, lock your door, turn off the phone and get up on “Sopranos” things before the show goes in to its last season. I’m out - with a bang and a bada-bing. The Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Clackamas Prij Student film fest 200 . C.J. Claramella I The Clackamas Print Student-made films will hit the silver screen next Monday, June 12, for the second annual Clackamas Film Festival. Occurring at the recently-ren ovated Mcloughlin Auditorium at 6:30 p.m., the festival will showcase the work of sever al student groups; the groups spent the last two terms devel oping screenplays and adapting them into celluloid. Andy Mingo, who teach es the production side of Screenwriting and Production as well as organizing the festi val, said there was a large pool of movies to draw from this year, and the festival would show, “at least six films.” The subjects and genres of the films will be varied. “For example, the films made in Writing 264 are narra tive shorts,” said Mingo. “But there will also be a couple of experimental films.” Subject matter isn’t the only variable, however. The length of these movies range “any where from three minutes to 30,” Mingo said. One of the longer films, enti tled “Cyber Sting,” is being produced by a more experi enced team of students. “We have an advanced group that took the class last year,” said Mingo, “and they returned to do a bigger film this year.” Jeff Sorensen Clackamai Co-directors Dan Robertson and Kyle Steele work diligently on setting up the boom mic to | shoot a scene for “Cyber Sting,” one of the films that will be shown at this year’s film festii The advanced group is pro ducing “Cyber Sting.” Kyle Steele, one of the students in the advanced group, is confi dent about the movies pros pects. “We’re the all-star group,” Steele said. “All of us have been awesome before, and we’ve come back to be awe some again.” According to Steele, “Cyber Sting” is about “a dude who meets a girl online, but his friend tags along to make sure he doesn’t get hurt.” Steele Students to join CLR E.E. West The Clackamas Print Many instructors at the college have hobbies; some like nature walks, some are musicians and others simply like curling up with a good book. Over the last nine years a few dedicated English instructors have spent free time producing a nationally recognized literary magazine, the Clackamas Literary Review. Beginning next year they’re bringing students into the mix by incorporating it into WR 246. “WR 246 is a class centered on Publishing and Editing,” said Amanda Coffey, English instruc tor and editor for the CLR. “In the past, and when I taught it, students produced Synesthesia, a student literary journal ... Enrollment has been low for this class in recent years, so we are looking for a way to provide sophisticated pub lishing experience to interested students.” English Instructor Andy Mingo, who will be taking the reins as managing editor for the 2007 issue, is enthusiastic about bring ing students into the process. “The kind of writers we publish are nationally recognized poets, fiction and Nonfiction writers,” said Mingo. “It will be a great opportunity for [students] to come into contact with these authors and their work.” “CLR has a history of publish ing a balance of established and emerging writers,” said Coffey. “We have published widely recog nized names like Martin Espada, Ron Carlson, Melissa Pritchard, Judith Barrington, Christopher Howell, Virgil Suarez, Ricardo Pau-Llosa and others.” The first issue of thé CLR was releasedin 1997. It began as the pet project of two former Clackamas English instructors, Jeff Knorr and Tim Schell. They believed that the English Department at Clackamas had the skills to pro duce a top-notch literary maga zine. Reader response seems to support their belief. “We get lots of positive feed back from contributors and read ers living as far away as Hong Kong,” said Coffey. “A wide readership is great for the journal and even better for the College.” “Every year we go to the American Writers and Writing Programs conference. We have book tables, and people just swarm to the CLR table,” said Mingo. “With the right man power it could be even better.” The magazine has always been a somewhat informal affair. From the start the editors have worked on a volunteer basis, selecting from submissions and editing whenever there was a free moment. Due to the frenzy of the school year a backlog of submis sions has been building up. “Reading submissions is a bit like panning for gold,” said Coffey. “We read hundreds of stories, poems and essays each year, and while it takes a lot of time and energy, the reward is evident in the pages of each issue.” Mingo, Coffey and the other editors hope that by bringing stu dents into the process they can help ease the workload while maintaining the high quality that has garnered the CLR its reputa tion. They also hope the students have a fun, educational experi- encei “The editors and the English department hope this class will be wildly popular,” said Coffey. “After all, what could be more fun than working on a nationally distributed literary journal with editors like us?” advises everyone to stick around after the credits for a special “surprise ending.” According to Mingo, the film festival will also be screening “a really great film that’s been put together by Dover Graham.” “It’s called ‘Charlie,’” said Mingo. “And it looks really good.” The event is free for all, but Mingo warned that “due to adult content, viewer expres sion is advised.” Mingo said he plans to keep on holding the film festival every year, as well as keep! in the Mcloughlin Auditorii “We’re looking to mhl the Mcloughlin Auditorium] turn it into a venue for fil he said. Students interested in ma ing a movie for next yea festival should take the fil sequence offered by the Enl Department. This consist! 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