Image provided by: Upper Left Edge; Cannon Beach, OR
About The upper left edge. (Cannon Beach, Or.) 1992-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1993)
Cftn«- C^r> ysy 1 o r ifw a d j o i n i n g o n e n » a n d I o l < h d o h a v e t h e i r p ro b lem * » . *otn<'body c o n v i n c e s th e m t i r u t i t ’ s b< l t d to ta l-c a b o u t t h e p r o b l e m s t h a n k e e p th« m c o r k e d i n s i d e , a n d w o rd h a s K O tt.c n a r o u n d a l t e i n« a t l y a g e n e r a t i o n t h a t D o lly i s ju s t m ay b e t i n b e s t l i s t « in i y o u c o u ld in ia fiin . . rriaw ay k i d s , a b u s l v « p a r e n t s , d e p t« • •■« ! w id o w s . . . " t r c rib I <■> .it« t r o u b h s " D o ily s a y s , an d sh e l i s t e n s so w e l l t h . i t p e o p l e com« r i g h t n u t a n d t e l l t h e m s e l v e . th» t r u t h . D o l l y s a y s m o st f o l k s a l r e a d y know w h at t h e y hav« t o «lo t o m ake th in g s b e t t e r , She ju s t a l o n g w i t h th«sit w h ile - ■ t h e y e x p l a i n i t t o tu e m s e 1 vt s . A nyw ay, t h i s p a r t i c u l a r g o v e rn m e n t ty p e d i d n 't say any m o it about tin good o f t h e cotntnuni t v , o r t l i t V i s i t o r ’ s I n t o r m at i o n C e n t e r . Sur< , t h e r e w as a h u b u b - - t h r u * a r e som e f o l k s h e r e who g e t h u n g r y l o r m o re m o n e y , b u t t h e y ’ r e f o l k s who a l w a y s h a v e m o re t h a n e n o u g h t o g e t l y . S o , th e h u b u b d i« d dow n, and a c o u p l e o l m o n th s L i t e r , h o l l y g o t a l i t t l e s u r p r i s e a t tlie P ost ( J f i c e . Now t h e r e ' s a v e r y f a n c y c e r t i f i c a t e in a v e ry n ic e f r a m e o n t h e w a l l by t h e phon« I n t h e R a in b o w . D o lly i s th e D ir e c to r u t th e S t a t e ’ s D e p a r t m e n t o f P e a c e a n d Goo«l k i l l . A nd h e r o f f i c e w a s f u n d e d w i t h j u s t en o u g h to buy a sn u g l i t t l e t h r e e b e« tro o m h o u s e j u s t a b i t p a s t t h e v i« ‘w p o l n t t h a t D o l l y ' d b e e n s a y i n g w o u ld m ake a w o n d e rfu l " s a f e h o u se" fo r p e o p l e w ho c o u l d n ' t o r s h o u l d ’ n t go hom e. A nd t i i a t ’ s t i l l s m o n t h ’ s s n a p s h o t fr o m C a m e ra B l u f f . Margi Curtis COLD TURKEY b CLOWNS N ov cun.e the region of the yearly cycle which prompts those </ us with shirt term amnesia to make the proverbial New Years Resolution January I st that magical day which holds itself out to the forever mnu cent as the grand beginning a clean slate a fresh start the promise of (setter days more self control and an absolute reversal of Murphy s Laws When I am tem pled to indulge in some form resolving at this time ci year a New Years party I attended several years ago comes to mind It was a really fun party w ith lots of lively banter and everyone getting rather loose as is the custom on New Years Eve Throughout the evening I found myself in deep conversation three separate limes with a person confiding in a somewhat pleasant drunkenness but nonetheless sincere honesty their New Years Resolution, to me All Ihree U4d me separately that they were once and fur all going Io quit smoking The It 1A1 on their (ace* reminded me </ a student who is trying to impress the teacher with the right answer They each vowed to smoke their last ixsc at midnight and then QULO TURKEY I tried to cifer cheering parental coach like words (o them and if I could have I would have made tile if tasks easier This all luok place in a small town where everyone sees everyone at intervals if only in the gi utery store So il was not two weeks befire I came upon each i t my stalwart Q 4 1) TURKEY friends Each time I sen lured to ask the outcome of their New Years resolutions the rcsulis were as follows One had lasted two days one had lasted one and one half days and one had forgixten tlsey had ever meniioned it I This i t course having nothing to do with alcohol I None it them had any plans to begin again and I sensed the magic i t a New Year had somehow dissipated The question looms What does motivate people to change? And how can we use I he natural cycles of the calendar or environment to give us the inspiration we need to combat daily tedium and human inertia? I remember a resolution 1 made when I was suleen ah one ghnous n ar before my life gig serious on me told everyone I was going to tie come a clown and |cnn the circus when I turned eighteen At least it made them laugh Twenty years later that memory surfaces and I am left wondering who that person was Yet somethings deep inside me have not changed 1 wanted and still do to make people happy I realize even mrw this i! still possible Anything is at some level possible and at some level we are all clowns in a huge complicated arcus So if I resolve anything it is to be a better clown this year than last year and to pay mure attention to the vide shows Dance and Remembrance 111 ( m r t i I !•«•«•«> • kn«w before | dialed he» numhrr lhal lo have » fiwxl (O fl'ffu tK )» • ilh M r,»ro , leading woman di rector about her new film. fA)»; An. it would be good to draw * ditlm rtion between a feminine perspective and a femmiti one South of the border (and some lime» here). I be latter term reao- naie» with separatist connoia lions " I prefer lo say my Mm presenls the fem inine aide of things'’ Marla Novaro quickly answered referring to her story about a Me«Ko ( ily telephone operator and ifon/An contest champion who take? off lo Vera cruz in tearch of her dance partner Semantics a«ide, for a la tin American woman to complete a feature him. receive acclaim at ( annet. and ace that mo»ie re leased in commercial theater» at home it a true rarity. even in the ‘* h Novaro'« second feature ha» been heralded a« nothing le«» lhan a national phenomenon — there • a , n ’t a respectable paper in Me»KO lhat didn'l have »ome thing positive to say about Dam dn when it opened there in late June and local audience turnout put» the him in competition with the Holt »wood import» that domi nate M encan screen, Novaro teem» to be handling her «ucce»» with aplomb When I reached her in her hometown of Me»rco City, where the wag taking a hcief break between trip« to festival, in Italy and New York. Navoro sounded neither fatigued nor daunted by having lo amwer quesltons about her movie for the umpteenth lime In fact, »be like» to hang around theater« where fMnzAn is plating to watch the retponte and talk to her audience In the course of our converts lion. Novaro esplamed how her politic« and film m a k in g had evolved in the decade »mce »he began her career ai a member of the ( me Muyer collective There • a« a period in the 10». »he not ed. when many women filmmak er» in Meaico, including her»elf. taw it «, their mission to render the lives of urban working-data women as tale» of unparalleled heroism Thu led lo several hagio- graphic documentaries about wamsiresses. prostitutes, and oth er Me»ico City female lumpen "But limes have changed.” she »aid, "and I'm not interested in mystifying women, but rather in eiplonng how we live I want lo deal »uh the contradict »on» we face in life and in ourselves " The world of the w/oncr de bailr (dance hall», turned out to be the perfect place lo eiplore those coniiadit lions Novaro and her sisier Beatriz researched the script they cowrote by immersing ihem»el«rt in that nostalgia laden world found throughout Menco. where a largely working-class cli- Director M aria Novaro l K S I j-A l L R JC H R E L IE E 'IlL E S A Party io r A (.'hange INTEKJOR/EXTEWOK DECORATION OE HOME AND BUSINESS J t I« ( I > w » i ko cunvnurtM atc t. ihr i.J m i ahd V k < P*r»*4r« I toxi < n r * tofetort nrrdiAar «nfM C ki rrmaazt ar tw ^ t i M v r ha» dwi r v r « t o e * v«u«*fr (Ito w tp th«a » rr, »tfrufisani e k e l h m », tu Irl « w » .r» hr hr*z4 u rrm axl .war Mzulrn and l W w )» « i uf uta« h f n (ur . tu r .fr •rwl-rxlrru.M» g »*gte»rrtwnr»a ui U m •»afty ¿rr«r . h«nft *r »zr tfw *hu yiawt'*iw I o A i« r » f flf ’ »Wir arr a f r « «TauKu hr«.»«»r »ua, hg»t nr»rr artyihtfig !aM ihM hrfurv h * < • > » a {«rt». ipaiir,^ t k .I t J (nahe • 4J lr m w r ihr prcMtK« a< (.tkar.fr t» rrwazdartf g/xl hin’ lo fr ih r r » r «.M naM a AfkrffWK« *»,.» u ihr t u n t io i m i ad a cIra/ m rssaff tu .wu -HMstry t kadrrUsaf» « fK ifk a l» ; rrgardan< tfw aarau «od nrc4» ut l latw.$t ( P - U H t| Iff » -I S , ¡I l.u < - t I i s l . w s l ‘t «si t » II« »• t s o x n vr» ( .uuM »n lu -.« I» < »r u7U< > Ê P S ( g \ a jva« id ihr w fe t» « b t» • {HMisavt o< ttrfi dvkg*rc« Hr ud stv pruA?4r«n* IW pan» n k t w X i r J far Satufda» Jar»wary 'AK 4 V IN T A G E Ip m fiAfrr fuud' pWaac hnrtf »uw fa»v*w •pprtsarr tu khatr k u k« atrd at C L O T H IN G kM jm i » p» TW W a*a> ( u m m r y C«« mv 1125 A»rmar A P O B o i 699 C a n n o n B each. OR 971 10 brtuftd ihr Sraaaafc l-fga.« Ilw adifif L a * a< rtwgsM tan» a/r featw rd für marrtaMammi and lara w f (503) 4 3 6 0 7 3 7 enleie regularly pthers lo display dance steps that have remained unchanged for generations Ac cording lo Novaro. she was pur pose I y looking foe a popular cul tural space neeped in tradition— lo show how much latitude and comptesity could he found if the rigid surface were scratched So from inside those dance halls No varo shows how modern women despite their independence stiff long al limes for ihe chivalry of the pail N ovaro'« protagonisl Julia (Marta ffoyo). loves following the romantic, traditional rules of mas culine and feminine behavior thal Ihe donz««n dictates Outside the dance hall, however, she is a tin gle m other oL an .adolescent daughter, and manages her inde pendence and her social life with »killed restraint Her dance part ner it only a dance partner, not a (over, maintaining a practical split between art and life Julia's In p to look for her part ner. who's disappeared mytlen ously— lbe first lime she's trav eled alone in her life— lakes her into a female-centered universe lhat allows her lo look at herself and her own desire Those she be friends along Ihe way are No- varo'a m in td e c o n tlru c iio n i of clatstc female aiereotypes Doha Ti (Carmen Salinas), Ihe motherly hotel manager. Chocolate (Blanca Guerra), the warm hearted prosti tute. and Susy (Tito Vasconcelos), Ihe sym pathetic transvestite When the prostitute tries lo figure out if she know» who Julia', look ing for by a,king how quickly he get, an erection, you know thi, i»n'l ju»l any Meiican movie And when Suty in drag gives Julia a makeover and then plead, with her to leach her how to dance like a woman, nol like a man. it', clear Novaro it subverting grnder roles not just for her character, hut for Me«rcan cinema To provide a backdrop foe Ju lia'a adventure, Novaro zeroe, in on vestige, of Meacan popular culture of the '40s and '50s. lin gering on photograph, ol Ihe mov ie «tai,, sentimental ballad, and dance music and even ihe graphic de»ign that are identified wiih her country'» last goldrn agr The ,up porting character, who itrve a, Julia', confidani, are invariably connected wiih that past— the res taurant where her dance partner worked is a veritable shrine lo famous unger, and actors of old Doha l i warhle, Ionia la Nrgia song, in her room And Susy base, her onstage character, on tropical bombshell, like ( armen Miianda and I a fongolele "M y sisier and I con,inn le d the Mm around ihe idea of nosial gia ” reflected Novaro “ Not «mt ply a nostalgia for ihe heyday of Ihe dance hall, and Ihe music, but for a M e tr o lhat is being lost — th a n k , to Ihe p ro c e s , of Americanization we are undeigo- mg I believe that it's Me,ico. and a pnde for »hal i, M e ic a n lhal must be defended “ Foe ihe women in the Mm. there i, also a nostalgia for a lime when they might have fell protect ed. for the romanticism of dial culture the donzdn dancers have a saying— lhat in life, a, in Ihe rfunzdn. the man lead, and ihe woman follow, It may be lhal way in the dance, bui no longer in life ” C om< jo»* ub a» « « erafl • n m a g t ■ lo hend lo our countrG« k a d e rv Pavilion 4 IS • WWWWHSW. o . O Z I 3 U »03 73» 4293 100 Tenth (Street "H» t / W .U H S 4 i.» \» .i> 1 4 M .IIU J 4 Astoria. O f -vvn °710T 003) 3233837 rn .ir y a n n e radrna« hcr hershe^ e a r t h t id e U n J a Kinhan 2 b 3 N lir m h x k I’ O Hnx 1208 ( hrtsirn Allsot» f a n m n Bruch Ok 97110 I v o l a n t c o l o r v r t c u l i n a r y K w rtv w »< w rt> al p r o d u c t , , o r w w lln w B W w rv d t o « l « n c « 436 2910 fropfteke U «r(ln hurle t h e rb a list ! rnoliy siro m h o ll / ow ner ( hriMtn.t Stanley RN, IBCLC Lactation (Consultant Breact Feeding Assistance custom designing qua lify handm ade jew elry SANDPIPER SQUARE UPSTAIRS PO Bo» 101 • Cannon Beach DR ‘«7110 • SOJ 4 t«> 14'«4 Medela Breast Pump Rental Station P.O. Box 201 179 Coolidge ( m non Be.u h. OR 97110 (5O3H16O16I A haiuTifiil wmb / >i rtu ziuj M i ItiuflMje me ïhtek. dk I^ cíí . -Ty’i vrltir "Parker nv? /z/i’ i f . ‘ Hope L. ‘.Hams Licensed Massage 'Therapist S°J/J2S-2S2J