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Winter Fest
Weekend offers welcome for Paducah Ice Rink
BY ADAM SHULL
[email protected]
The Paducah Ice Rink is here.
The new seasonal ice skating rink’s opening ceremony will be at 4:30 p.m. Friday in
the Farmer’s Market parking lot downtown.
All systems are go for the 120-foot long,
50-foot wide oval rink offering a 3-inch slab
of ice for your slip-sliding pleasure.
But now that you have the only ice skating rink within 90 miles, what are you going to do with it?
Check out our extensive preview and
guide to all things ice rink so that an embarrassing fall isn’t the only excitement
you’ll have on the ice this winter.
We cover everything from the days with
lower admission prices to its construction
to when Dr. Seuss and friends will lace up.
In all the weekend hubbub, don’t miss
downtown and Lower Town’s celebration
complementing the ice rink opening.
Winter Fest on Saturday will have live
music, showcase new downtown businesses,
and allow artists from the art district to
show their work that could serve as holiday
gifts.
Also inside is an interview with Craig
Sims, owner of Hooper’s Outdoor Center at
its new downtown location, and everything
else going on at Winter Fest.
Adam Shull can be contacted at 5758653.
Want to go?
What: Grand opening of the Paducah Ice Rink.
When: 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Where: The rink at the Farmer’s Market parking lot downtown.
Cost: Free to attend, $5 to rent skates.
More: www.ci.paducah.ky.us/paducah/paducah-ice-rink
And don’t forget...
What: Winter Fest, downtown celebration with music, grand openings.
When: 3-7 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Throughout downtown, starts at the garden at Max’s Brick
Oven, 112 Market House Square.
Cost: Free.
More: www.paducahrenaissancealliance.com
This week’s
reason to ...
Cheap or Splurge?
Get out!
Kids bugging you for the latest $60
video game? You’ll want to check out
these three free online games.
Don’t be left out in the
cold! Paducah Ice Rink
opens Friday.
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What was the last song you got stuck
in your head?
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Carrington was so funny,
I lost the urge to laugh
Editor’s note: The quotes
in italics come from Adam
Shull’s Nov. 4 interview of comedian Rodney Carrington.
Suzanne Clinton:
Patience Renzulli:
Mary Thorsby:
Not a question suited for
a card-carrying member of
Over-Thinkers Anonymous.
My thoughts are constant,
random, and probably considered scary by the “normal.”
At any given time? I’m
thinking:
... pay that electric bill!
Chicago! call Chase about
the dental appointment, good
Lord, we bombed Syria?! I’ll
write about Homer Hickam,
so what IS half of a third
study, dang those shoes are
cute...
Si mu ltaneously? T here
are music snippets, movie
quotes, lyrics; even stuff I
memorized during childhood pops in and out.
And all THAT is going on
while I’m, say, writing an
essay.
The last song that stuck?
That one aria from Carmen.
Sung by Maria Callas.
Be afraid. Be very, very
afraid.
“Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show
again?
My my, just how much I’ve
missed you.”
I always have a song playing
in my head. And it’s frequently stuck there. It’s a sickness.
I walk my dogs with a friend
who happened to mention Oh
Brother Where Art Thou.
Sigh.
Two solid months of
“In the highways, in the
hedges,
In the highways, in the hedges,
In the highways, in the hedges,
I’ll be somewhere a’workin’
for my Lord.”
Girlish, nasal twang and all.
And I will never, ever forgive
the editor of this space for [whispering] the dreaded Honkytonk
Badonkadonk.
Never.
“Hung Up.”
Have you seen the video?
Have you seen her? At 50,
Madonna looks better than
ever. And “Hung Up,” her
biggest selling single to date,
has been hung up in my
brain all year long. I’m an
Internet addict. Web sites,
blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook — I love it all. So when
it comes to choosing between
surfing the Web and a good,
sweaty workout, I often go
to YouTube and gawk at Madonna for inspiration.
As she prances around in
that hot-pink leotard and
heels, I make my not-nearlyso-stylish jammies-to-sweats
transition and prance on
down to the treadmill.
If I can slog through the
San A ntonio Rock-n-Rol l
half marathon this Sunday
without crying, it’s because
of Madonna.
About Suzanne: Suzanne
is currently over thinking
her latest blog post that she’s
writing on her trusty laptop,
Pinky, in her newly re-arranged home office. Read
it at www.bizzyblogging.
blogspot.com
About Patience: Patience
is writing her third book, surrounded by her nine whippets
and one tolerant husband. They
all moved to Lower Town as part
of the Artist Relocation Program.
Visit her blog for stories about
life with dogs.
Blog: http://patience-please.
blogspot.com
About Mary: Mary Thorsby
promotes good things through
ilistpaducah.com, Paducah’s
free community events calendar, and its accompanying
blog. She also writes The Internet column for the Four
Rivers Business Journal.
Blog: ilistpaducah.
blogspot.com
That Rodney Carrington is
raunchy.
Just foul.
Did you see the cover of his
most recent comedic album
“King of the Mountains?”
Never mind the parental advisory sticker on the front; his
image is stuffed in the cleavage of a chesty woman.
His funny, sexual song lyrics make Larry Flynt blush.
The Texan’s big hits include
dialogue between him and his
reproductive organ and a chorus saying, “Show ’Em to Me.”
And don’t get me started
on that ABC show he had for
two seasons, which he taped in
L.A., called “Rodney.”
His wife of 13 years and
three boys ages 7 to 12 stayed
in their hometown of Bixby,
Okla., while he was in L.A.
filming the show.
Can you imagine what kind
of family man Carrington is?
“I was used to being home
with my wife and kids. I’ll never
do that again. I’ll never do anything again that takes me away
from my family like that. It ain’t
worth it.”
I bet jokes around the Carrington dinner table set a great
example for his boys.
“I joke around in the proper
way a dad jokes with his kids.
Main thing I teach my boys is to
be accountable and responsible
...and to work, nobody wants to
work these days.”
I know Rodney didn’t have a
Adam Shull
problem going on network television. Integrity and Rodney
just don’t fit.
“I don’t need to be going to
work where people are telling
me what I need to be doing ...
(executives) want to change
everything because they got to
stick their fingers in it and in
the process they just (mess) it
all up.”
While I’m on the subject
of character, I wonder if Carrington knows what being a
true friend means. I bet he’d
cut and run on a guy just for
one look at a lady’s chest.
“A lot of people want to tear
Toby (Keith, country star) down
because he has lots of opinions
on things. But he’s just a regular guy like all the rest of us.”
What kind of background
would produce such a deviant
comedian?
“I had three sisters growing
up and we didn’t have much
of nothing. I remember as a
kid we’d have jelly sandwiches
and bananas for dinner and
me and my sisters would leave
the refrigerator door open when
our mom wasn’t looking so
we could have some light. Our
mom kept the lights off at night
to save money. I don’t look at
it as a bad thing, it was just
the way things were. You don’t
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If you can stand all the
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pong and bowling.
■ Crazymonkeygames.
com
Numerous games with
one great for Monday
mornings. It’s called “Mad
Adam Shull is the Sun’s entertainment writer. He can
be contacted at 575-8653.
Want to go?
Who: Rodney Carrington, comedian
When: 7 and 9:30
tonight
Tickets: First show
is sold out. Good luck
getting the last ones
for 9:30.
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What landed that dirtyminded comedian all these
sold-out shows and prominence anyway?
“Hard work. There’s no hidden secret. Thing is I’ve been
doing this for 20 years. That’s
a lot of sleeping in my truck,
driving 15, 16 hours to travel
here and there. Comedy for the
first couple of years is like ‘How
much humiliation can a fellow
withstand?’ I mean I had a lot
of quiet nights, people staring.”
To listen to those offensive
comments he makes is bad
enough. I can’t imagine him
off stage.
“If people expect me to be the
way at home like what they see
on stage they would be very disappointed. What I do for a living doesn’t define me at all. One
of the most important things to
me is being a husband and a
father.”
Disappointed, that’s it.
When I think of Carrington
and his work I just get so disappointed.
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more to its list of potential new
shows.
The cable network has ordered a pilot for a fantasy series based on the “Song of Fire
& Ice” series of novels, and has
started to work with Red Hot
Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis on a show about his
unconventional upbringing.
The Kiedis project is tentatively titled “Scar Tissue,” and
will focus on the relationship
the young Kiedis had with his
father, Spider, a fixture on the
Sunset Strip rock scene in the
1970s who, legend has it, supplied the likes of Led Zeppelin
and others with drugs.
Marc Abrams and Michael
Benson (”Entourage,” “The
Bernie Mac Show”) will write
the script and executive produce with Kiedis, who may
provide narration for the show
as well.
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John Tate looks to classic acoustic for inspiration
BY ADAM SHULL
Want to go?
[email protected]
John Tate’s regular acoustic gig at Doe’s
Eat Place on Broadway really got going when
he started reaching back.
Back to Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the
“Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo.”
“I played ‘Rock And Roll Hoochi Koo’ from
memory,” Tate said. “The place went nuts.
That’s the stuff that kind of crowd wants to
hear ... I mean, most of them were young in
the 70s.”
The veteran musician has spent the last 42
years, since he was 10 years old, on the guitar making his style and sound fit into what
would get him on stage.
The southern Illinois native has been in a
rock band, played mandolin in a family bluegrass band and played up the classic rock
from 2001-2008 for a band hired by NASCAR
to play infield shows at Midwest tracks.
“I’ll always play in some venue,” Tate said
by cell phone as he rode in a car across Illinois.
Because if someone ever caught the music
bug and didn’t want to let it go, it’s Tate.
Tate calls his link to music “a life-long
connection. Something I’ve committed most
of my life to.”
And unlike some artists who wear out
their welcome, people still want to listen to
Tate.
Tate said only four years out of his life
passed without a heavy musical influence.
That’s when he got his degree from Southern Illinois University in graphic design and
commercial art.
The degree helped him into a job with IVS
in Paducah but didn’t scratch the performer
itch.
When Paul Signa, Doe’s owner, caught Tate
Who: John Tate, acoustic performer
part of Winter Fest
When: 3 p.m Saturday
Where: Max’s Brick Oven, 112
Market House Square
Cost: Free
perform an acoustic set in a downtown coffee
shop and then nagged him to play at his restaurant, Tate resisted.
“He’d tell me, ‘Just think about it. You
should do it, just think about it.’ ”
Tate promptly folded.
Since February he’s been busy tailoring
his personal bank of songs to the dinner
crowd at Doe’s.
“I’ll take a bunch of requests and then play
blues for a while, some soft jazz,” Tate said.
“People want to get a break from you sometimes while they finish up their salad. They
don’t need you hollering for them to put their
hands up and get into it.”
While the one-man show is different for
Tate, he doesn’t mind it much.
“I don’t think it’s anything with my ego,”
Tate said. “I just get to have more control
over what I choose to play.”
And it’s not like he had much choice anyway to give it another go-around.
“I mean I don’t have aspirations to be some
undiscovered solo act out of Paducah,” Tate
said.
“But I do enjoy the fact I have a little bit of
a following and the fact I can still entertain. I
don’t think I’ll ever really give that up.”
Adam Shull can be contacted at 5758653.
The Paducah Sun • Thursday, November 13, 2008 • 3C
Sex-change operations result
in higher earning potential
Recent research in the
Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy sheds light
on the thorny social issue
of why females continue
to earn less money than
males, even in similar jobs.
Competing hypotheses
have been advanced: It’s
either gender discrimination
or simply that more women
than men de-emphasize
career aggressiveness in
favor of family. The recent
research suggests discrimination. Researchers found
that females who were
established in jobs and
who then underwent sex
changes actually increased
their earnings slightly, but
that males who became
females lost about onethird of their earning power,
according to an October
summary of the research in
Time magazine.
Cultural Diversity
■ The chairman of a
Nigerian development company was charged in August
with stealing what is now
the equivalent of $5.5 million, and burning $2 million
of that in cash so he could
smear the ashes over his
naked body in a nighttime
“fortification” ritual in a
cemetery.
■ Four people were ar-
News of the
Weird
rested in October after a
family gathering in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, when a
Ramadan-ending ceremony
turned into the fatal beatings of two relatives, who
were being administered an
aggressive ritual, supposedly to stop their tobacco
habit.
■ Wrestling in Turkey (I):
Villages in western Turkey
traditionally hold camelwrestling matches during
gala weekend festivals in
winter, which is mating season and the only time bull
camels will fight (and even
then, not always). There is
at least one professional
league, and sometimes,
camels embody the pride of
an entire village. A female
is paraded in front of two
males, then led away, and
the supposedly frisky bulls
tussle but only occasionally
reach a resolution in which
one subdues the other by
sitting on him, according
to a dispatch in Germany’s
Der Spiegel. Usually, judges
have to pick the winner on
style, and sometimes the
decision is easy, as one
camel has simply run away.
■ Wrestling in Turkey
(II): Camel-wrestling is a
winter celebration, but the
summers are (and have
been for 650 years) for
Kirkpinar, the country’s oilwrestling celebration and
tournament, during which
a thousand men, slathering on two tons of olive
oil, fight matches until one
man earns the solid-gold
title belt. Several months
of regional tournaments
lead up to Kirkpinar, which,
incidentally, has recently
experienced the same doping controversies as mainstream world sports.
■ In September, despite
an increasing chorus of
complaints, Peruvians celebrated the annual Gastronomic Festival of the Cat in
a village just south of Lima,
serving a variety of feline
delicacies (fried cat strips,
cat stew, grilled cat with
spicy huacatay). For the
most part, according to a
Chicago Tribune report, the
dishes are made with specially bred cats rather than
street prowlers, and are
consumed for their health
benefits, though centuriesold tradition is the likeliest
explanation. Said one Peruvian, such cultural events
“are our roots and can’t be
forgotten.”
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Top Ten DVDs
Your iPod Top Ten
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Paducah
Rentals
These are the Top 10 renting DVD titles at U.S. Blockbuster stores for the week that ended Nov. 9.
1. Get Smart
2. Kung Fu Panda
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth
4. Transsiberian
5. The Incredible Hulk
6. The Strangers
7. Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
8. The Happening
9. Iron Man
10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Sales
These are the Top 10 selling DVD titles at U.S. Blockbuster stores for the week that ended Nov. 9.
1. Kung Fu Panda
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth
3. Get Smart
4. Tinker Bell
5. The Incredible Hulk
6. Iron Man
7. Madagascar
8. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
9. Shrek the Halls
10. The Strangers
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Top Ten Video Games
Rentals
These are the Top 10
renting video-game titles at
U.S. Blockbuster stores for
the week that ended Nov. 2.
1. Fallout 3 — X360
2. Fallout 3 — PS3
3. Far Cry 2 — X360
4. Saint’s Row 2 — X360
5. Guitar Hero World Tour
— X360
6. Midnight Club: Los Angeles — X360
7. Spiderman: Web of
Shadows — X360
8. Fable II — X360
9. Guitar Hero World Tour
— PS2
10. Star Wars: The Force
Unleashed — X360
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1. “Total Hate” – No Doubt with Sublime
2. “The Pusher” - Blind Melon
3. “Soak the Skin” - Blind Melon
4. “Born to Lose” – Bouncing Souls
5. “Black Friday Rule” – Flogging Molly
6. “Filler” – Minor Threat
7. “Everything In Its Right Place” – Radiohead
8. “Hang On St. Christopher” – Tom Waits
9. “You” – Mustard Plug
10. “Battle of Evermore” – Led Zepplin
Visit us online at paducahsun.com/current to
find out why these are Cook’s favorite tunes.
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These are the Top 10 DVD titles at U.S. Blockbuster
Online for the week that ended Nov. 9.
1. Get Smart
2. Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
3. Kung Fu Panda
4. The Incredible Hulk
5. Iron Man
6. Journey to the Center of the Earth 2D and 3D
7. You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
8. The Happening
9. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, November 13, 2008 • 5C
icy good time
Dust off those dreams of Olympic glory ... Paducah’s seasonal ice skating rink opens this weekend
BY ADAM SHULL
[email protected]
Now that the Paducah Ice
Rink is set to open, you’ll
need to know the ins and outs
before lacing up your skates.
From the best days to go to
save money to details on how
to put your next party on ice,
check out our ice rink guide
below.
businesses to back the hype.
A 15-year staple of the retail community, Hooper’s
Outdoor Center, will hold its
grand opening ceremony Saturday and will join around
six other new businesses
looking to cash in on a revitalized downtown.
With each ice rink visitor,
city workers are hoping to
see a new downtown.
Hours for open skating will
be 4:30-9 p.m. weeknights except for Wednesdays which
will have a 7:30 p.m. closing
time. Saturdays will run
from 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Sundays
are 1-5 p.m.
On Dec. 23 open skating is
noon-10 p.m. and Christmas
Eve it’s open noon-7:30 p.m.
The same goes for Dec. 30Jan. 2.
Talking points
Money talk
■ The rink’s total price
was $125,000.
■ Magic Ice USA of Miami
built and will disassemble it.
The company has 15 rinks
set up across the U.S. from
Florida to California.
■ It is 120 feet long, 50 feet
wide.
■ The ice is 3 inches thick.
■ Thousands of feet of
plastic tubing filled with antifreeze will constantly chill
the ice.
■ Below the ice and tubing
is sand.
Normal admission is $5.
But you can catch deals. Such
as Dollar Day Mondays where
each Monday is $1 admission.
Times for Dollar Day Mondays are 4:30-6:30 p.m. and
7-9 p.m. Nov. 17 and 24, Dec.
1, 8, 15.
Noon-2 p.m. 2:30-4:30 p.m.
5:15-7:15 p.m. 8-10 p.m. Dec.
22, 29.
The Buzz
The city’s first goal with
the rink is fun, then it’s fundraising. “We hope this will be
an impetus to bring people
from all over to downtown
to shop, skate and experience the atmosphere,” Mark
Thompson said. Thompson
is director of Paducah Parks
Services, which operates the
rink.
He’s not the only one talking money with the rink. At
an informational meeting
Paducah Renaissance Alliance Coordinator David
Boggs said many are banking on the rink to help ignite
a surge of downtown visitors
and holiday shopping.
PRA, a downtown and
Lower Town development organization, is bringing the
Schedule
The rink will run FridayJan. 3 and will be open daily
except Christmas.
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Special features
■ Character Skate — 911 a.m. on Saturdays. Each
Saturday children’s book or
movie characters come alive
and skate with area children
as well as read to them. This
weekend features Dogs on
Ice followed by Dr. Seuss and
Friends Dec. 13 and Santa
each Saturday beginning
Nov. 29. Admission is $ 3.
For a full list of characters
visit www.ci.paducah.ky.us/
paducah/paducah-ice-rink.
■ Beginner’s Lessons —
Noon-2 p.m. Saturdays.
■ Party — For birthday
parties, party packages cost
$12 per guest. You get a party table under a tent for two
hours, hostess, armbands,
a cupcake and drink, and a
birthday hat. You can also
buy goodie bags ($5), personalized invitations ($7 for 10)
and have a kid’s favorite character join the party ($80). For
more call 444-8508.
■ Rental — Rent the entire
facility for $180 per hour with
225 skates available in various sizes. For $20 you get 24
cupcakes and two two-liter
drinks. Availability: 5-10 p.m.
Sundays. 8-10 p.m. Wednesdays. Weekdays (Nov. 14-Dec.
19) 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Weekdays
(Dec. 22-Jan. 2) 9-11 a.m.
Winter Fest
Downtown and Lower
Town are following the ice
rink’ lead Saturday and of-
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downtown businesses are set
to open, live music will be in
Max’s Brick Oven’s garden
and Lower Town artists will
give demonstrations of what
they do best.
Check out the highlights
New business
Five new businesses get in
on the fun with a big splash
coming from Hooper’s Outdoor Center at 219 Broadway.
Craig Sims opened his outdoor equipment and clothing
store 15 years ago and named
it after his chocolate Lab.
Hooper the dog was as
much of a staple at the store
as the store became to shoppers on Hinkleville Road.
Sims said his business outgrew its former building of
5,000 square foot years ago
and considered a place by the
Kentucky Oaks Mall.
“We interviewed a lot of
our customers and they were
adamant about downtown,”
Sims said. “They were in favor of not going anywhere
near the mall again.”
So Sims upgraded to a
roughly 100-year-old, 12,000
square-foot building in the
heart of downtown.
His crew restored the building to a two-floor heaven for
hikers, mountain climbers
and professionals wanting to
stay warm this winter.
“It just became a real collective effort to figure out a
way to bring retail shopping
back to downtown and Christmas shopping,” Sims said.
Hooper’s grand opening
ceremony will begin at 10
a.m. Saturday. Around 5 p.m.
the store will give away merchandise including a canoe.
Store hours are 10 a.m.-8
p.m. Monday-Saturday. 1-5
p.m. Sunday.
More: www.hoopers.net
Check out the other new
businesses this weekend:
■ SimpLeigh You, 314
Broadway. A one-woman
beauty salon owned by Leigh
Greenwell, who’s been in the
biz for 17 years. “I’ve worked
in the salons with 15 stylists
and then those with four in
a smaller place,” Greenwell
said. “The one-on-one is so
much better because you can
talk about anything, religion,
politics. All the things you’re
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MOVIE REVIEW
Compared with ‘Casino,’ ‘Quantum’ feels too slight
BY CHRISTY LEMIRE
Associated Press
“Casino Royale” came along just as the
James Bond franchise was sinking into a
lazy rehash of all that had gone before. It
jump-started 007 with its seamless mix of
action and emotion, and now “Quantum
of Solace” keeps it humming along — in a
familiar, but forgettable, gear.
The car metaphor is appropriate:
“Quantum of Solace” starts out with a
thrilling chase through the winding,
mountain roads of northern Italy that’s
one of the film’s few highlights. But
this is a very slight Bond movie, and it
feels especially so compared to “Casino
Royale,” easily one of the best of the longrunning series.
And it’s unusual in that it’s a sequel
— that’s never happened before. Director Marc Forster’s film picks up right
where “Casino Royale” left off — literally,
an hour or so afterward — with Daniel
Craig’s Bond trying to avenge the death
of the only woman he ever loved, Vesper
Lynd. (The smart and sultry Eva Green,
the rare Bond girl who was truly the super-spy’s equal, is sorely missed here.)
He’s also trying to pin down the mastermind behind a plot to control the water
supply of Bolivia, and maybe, someday,
the world! Mathieu Amalric, star of “The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” plays the
role of Dominic Greene with a calm, coldeyed creepiness.
Yes, “Quantum of Solace” is about water and as convoluted as “Chinatown.” In
theory, it could have had a relevant ecological message. Instead, the water angle
feels like an afterthought in the surprisingly thin plot from writers Paul Haggis,
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who also
wrote “Casino Royale.”
“Quantum of Solace” suffers from an
awful title but marks yet another intriguing entry in Forster’s eclectic filmography. He’s found success with small character studies such as “Monster’s Ball,”
“Finding Neverland” and “Stranger
Than Fiction,” but he might not have
been prepared for the enormity of a 007
actioner.
Along the many elaborate adventures
Forster lays out for him, Bond hooks
up with the leggy, mysterious and dangerous Camille (Ukrainian model Olga
Kurylenko), who is on her own revenge
mission. Then again, you’d have to be
leggy, mysterious and dangerous to be a
Bond babe — except for Denise Richards,
the worst Bond girl ever, in “The World Is
Not Enough.” Kurylenko holds her own
here just fine.
Craig is, of course, sexy and masculine
and formidable as always, and he plays
beautifully off of Judi Dench who blissfully returns as M, the head of the British secret service. They share scenes that
are both teasing and meaty, and their
exchanges provide the movie with some
much-needed substance. They’re enough
to make you wish the two could spend the
entire movie together, solving problems
and sparring.
But despite his innate intensity, Craig
seems a bit ... bored, maybe? Underutilized, despite appearing in nearly every
frame of the film. His visceral combination of physicality and acting ability,
which allowed him to practically burst
through the screen in “Casino Royale,”
seems somewhat subdued here. Part of
what made his first outing as 007 such
a thrill was its back-story nature— the
fact that it was a prequel, that it showed
the iconic character before he’d ever driven an Aston Martin or ordered his first
martini. This time, though, there’s little
to connect the character with his beloved
history. Sure, he kills indiscriminately
when duty calls, loves brazenly without
having to make booty calls, and looks
great in a tux. But it almost feels as if he
functions in a vacuum, as if character
were as secondary as plot.
It certainly isn’t Craig’s fault, though
— he’s more than up for the challenge.
It’s the material, which seems simultaneously truncated and too action-packed.
Similarly, Jeffrey Wright and Giancarlo
Giannini, both returning from “Casino
Royale,” bring grace and class to their
few scenes but get woefully little to do as
Bond’s CIA counterpart and his old MI6
colleague, respectively.
Forster’s film has a couple of standout action sequences as it bounces in
obligatory fashion across Europe and
South America; besides the opening car
chase, there’s a wild fight in which Bond
and a bad guy are beating the hell out of
each other while hanging upside down
from scaffolding. There’s also a coolly
suspenseful cat-and-mouse scene in the
middle of a stunningly inventive performance of Puccini’s “Tosca.” (If you’ve
never been to the opera, it may actually
make you want to go.)
But the climactic showdown — at a
completely empty boutique hotel in the
middle of the Bolivian desert — merely
feels like an excuse to blow up a boutique
hotel in the middle of the Bolivian desert.
“Quantum of Solace,” a Sony and
MGM release, is rated PG-13 for intense
Associated Press
sequences of violence and action, and
some sexual content. Running time: 106 Daniel Craig reprises his role as James Bond 007 in ‘Quantum of Solace,’ opening in theaters Friday.
minutes. Two stars out of four.
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Go Guide
TODAY
Dance. 7 p.m. Gibson
Building, Mayfield.
Max’s Wine Tasting.
5 to 7 p.m. Max’s Brick
Oven, 112 Market House
Square. $5 a glass. 5753473.
Night Moves Dance
Club. 6 to 9 p.m. Chief
Paduke American Legion
Post 31, 425 Legion
Drive. Admission: $3. Jim
and Mildred Loe, 4423186.
Knitiots. 7 p.m. Knitting, sewing and other
handiwork. Etcetera, 320
N. 6th St. 331-5903 or
[email protected].
Rhythm and Poetry.
8 to 11 p.m. Club Plush,
1200 N. 8th St. For writers, poets, musicians and
fans: Free. Darris Shelby,
556-0639.
Rodney Carrington
Live. 7 p.m. Carson Center. 450-4444.
Tim Jaeger Sneak
Peek Fundraiser. 5 to
8 p.m. Yeiser Art Center,
200 Broadway. 442-2453.
Wine Tasting. 5 to 8
p.m. Pasta House Company. Jordan’s Crossing,
next to Cinemark Theatre.
575-1997.
FRIDAY
The Anythings. 9 p.m.
Fat Moe’s, 902 Broadway.
Information: myspace.
WEDNESDAY
com/fatmoes.
Paducah Writers
Group. 8 p.m. Etcetera,
320 N. 6th St. Area poets
and storytellers perform.
331-5903.
Tabatha & Southern
Fry’d. 9 p.m. Jeremiah’s, 225 Broadway. 4433991.
Wine Tasting. 5 to 8
p.m. Wine Pro, 28th and
Clark streets. Free. 4439463.
Learn to Oil Paint.
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wildhair
Studios, 201 Broadway.
$ 20 a class. wildhairstudios.com.
Knitting, Crocheting
and More. 1 p.m. Market
Square Coffee, 118 Market House Square. 4440044.
Party Gras Karaoke
& DJ Show. 9 p.m. to
1 a.m. Fire & Ice, 3233
Clark’s River Road. 3622524.
Pub Theology. 7 p.m.
Jeremiah’s, 225 Broadway. Grace Episcopal
Church’s Ellen Ekavag
leads discussion on
animism v. hylotheism.
[email protected].
SATURDAY
Precious Metal Clay
Class. 12:30 to 4:30 p.m
Pam Harrison Studio, 615
Monroe. pamharrison-studio.com.
Wine and Beer Tasting. 3-5 p.m. Roof Brothers, 3145 Park Ave. I4436601 or roofbrothers.com.
Wine Tasting. 5 to 8
p.m. Wine Pro, 28th and
Clark streets. Free. 4439463.
Western Kentucky
GRAND RIVERS — Variety Christmas Spectacular. 2 p.m. Badgett
Playhouse, 1838 O’Bryan.
Admission: $14.99$19.99. 1-888-362-4223
or info@grandriversvariety.
com.
Kentucky Opry, U.S. 641
five miles south of Kentucky Dam. $5 to $10.
GRAND RIVERS
— Variety Christmas
Spectacular. 7 p.m. variety, Badgett Playhouse,
1838 O’Bryan. Admission: $14.99-$19.99.
1-888-362-4223 or
info@grandriversvariety.
com.
GRAND RIVERS — Patti’s Festival of Lights.
5:30 p.m. Patti’s, Grand
Rivers. Information: 888736-2515.
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Western Kentucky
DRAFFENVILLE — CD
Release Show Craig
Russell Band. 7:30 p.m.
Western Kentucky
DRAFFENVILLE — Dana
Dowdy & Becky Freeman. 7:30 p.m. Kentucky
Region
TODAY
TUESDAY
Learn to Watercolor.
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wildhair
Studios, 201 Broadway.
$20 a class. wildhairstudios.com.
Open Mic Night. 9
p.m. Jeremiah’s, 225
Broadway St. Music,
spoken word and artist
collaborations on the fly.
443-3991.
not suppose to.” Hours are 9:30
a.m.-last appointment Tuesday-Saturday. Call 556-5010.
Visit www.simpleighyou.com.
■ Paducah International
Grocery and The Concession
Stand food stand within PIG,
620 Martin Luther King Drive.
■ Karson Kelly Salon & Art
Gallery, 132 S 3rd St.
■ Coming soon is the Martin Fierro Argentinean Grill
at 314 Broadway close to
Hooper’s. Workers said the
restaurant should be open by
Thanksgiving. Also Indigo
Imports at 224 Broadway
should by open by next week
according to owner Allyson
Humphrey. Humphrey said
her store will feature 18th
and 19th century primitive
Chinese antiques along with
furniture and lighting accessories from all over the
world.
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An area acoustic performer
and rock band will play from 3
to 7 p.m. during Winter Fest.
John Tate, who some might
recognize from his regular
show at Doe’s Eat Place on
Broadway, starts off. He’ll be
followed by area staple and
classic rock group The Cruisers. Read an interview with
Tate on page 3C.
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Lower Town artists will be
set up in shops, on the street
and all over Lower Town.
From Jeff Spicer doing his
trademark caricatures on
Broadway to Carol Gabany
at The Egg & I gallery at 335
N. 6th St. demonstrating her
delicate egg carving, minglers
will get a feel for the arts in
Paducah and how they could
be good holiday gifts.
The Yeiser Art Center at
200 Broadway will open a new
exhibit Saturday. The gallery
will display the abstract paintings of Tim Jaeger, originally
from Paducah, out of Florida.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4
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LA’s Shout! Factory mines pop culture archives
BY JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Richard
Foos never set out to become
the arbiter of retro pop culture.
He just wanted to see those
classic James Brown records
back in people’s hands.
As chief executive officer of
the Shout! Factory, Foos runs
an emporium whose credo
might be: Don’t bother with
historical tomes or archaeological digs. If you really want
to understand the human race,
figure out what it was watching on TV or playing on its
iPod last year — or 40 years
ago. (OK, if you’re going back
that far, substitute eight-track
tape deck for iPod).
Shout! Factory finds and revives moments of pop culture
nostalgia that people grew up
on.
Dying to see that collection
of Johnny Cash Christmas
specials from the late 1970s one
more time? Shout! Factory has
it.
Or maybe you’ve read all
Hunter Thompson’s books and
seen this year’s Johnny Depp
documentary on him. Now you
can actually listen to recordings of Thompson as he describes his lunatic adventures
in real time before writing
them into his books. They’re
available on the CD collection
“The Gonzo Tapes.”
But to get a real bookend
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Richard Foos (left) CEO of the Shout! Factory, stands
with Garson Foos, center, and Bob Emmer at their headquarters in Los Angeles.
look at the evolution of television, you might want to catch
the first season of that gentle,
squeaky-clean 1950s classic “Father Knows Best,” followed by a
viewing of the raunchy Howard
Stern-produced “Baywatch”
spoof, “Son of the Beach,” from
2000-2002.
“In a weird way, these guys
are the ones who are preserving cultural history,” says Paul
Feig, the actor-director-writer
who created the TV show
“Freaks and Geeks.”
“What’s more important
than that?” asks Feig. “To piece
together the real structure of
a society and of a time and of a
people and of a place.”
And it all traces back, Foos
says, to his being a frustrated
R&B fanatic who by the 1980s
couldn’t find songs like “Papa’s
Got a Brand New Bag,” “I Got
You (I Feel Good)” and “Say it
Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”
in stores anymore.
Although he’d grown up in
Beverly Hills, the son of a department store executive, he
had become obsessed with
rhythm and blues as a child
and, as a young man, had
played bass in an inner-city
R&B band for $5 a night.
“Which was more than I was
getting paid, after taxes, working at my dad’s stores,” he recalls with a laugh.
Not so funny, though, was
his discovery that by the early
1980s all of Brown’s classic ’60s
recordings were out of print on
their original labels.
“I couldn’t believe that they
didn’t even think James Brown
was worthwhile!” he says, still
clearly annoyed by the memory
as he sits in his modest office at
the back of a string of low-profile, two-story industrial buildings tucked into a corner of an
otherwise residential West Los
Angeles neighborhood.
Dressed in black, and with a
scruffy salt-and-pepper beard
to match, Foos, 59, looks as
though he could still be playing
the godfather of soul’s songs at
night after work.
In any case, he thought
Brown was so important that
a fledgling company he had
co-founded, Rhino Records,
tracked down the publishing
rights to those songs and issued
“James Brown’s Greatest Hits.”
It was a critically acclaimed album that would sell more than
200,000 copies and transform
both Rhino and the music business.
The company had been
founded in the mid-1970s, getting its start when Foos began
buying and selling old records
out of the trunk of his car. By
the early 1980s it had grown
to include a small record store
and then a small record label
that specialized in, for lack of
better words, weird stuff.
Among its stable of artists
was a Los Angeles street denizen named Larry “Wild Man”
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whether they wanted to hear
him or not, and a music ensemble called the Temple City
Kazoo Orchestra.
But after the Brown breakthrough, the company became
known as the music industry’s
reissue label, the outfit that
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the best old R&B, pop and rock
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In 1998, Foos and co-founder
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the Warner Music Group, but
Foos soon found that collecting stuff that had been either
kitschy or cool was still in his
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And while its founders fall
solidly into the baby-boomer
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a knack for tapping into what
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and hear.
They attribute their success in part to hiring people as
obsessed with pop culture as
they are, to constantly cruising the Internet in search of
what seems to be coming back
into style and to the belief that
whatever you liked as a kid will
always have appeal.
“And then there’s that fortune teller that we have down
on Hollywood Boulevard,” Emmer jokes.
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