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GOODBYE’ Through February 6 New Village Arts Theatre 2787 State Street Carlsbad, CA 92008 NewVillageArts.org (760) 433-3245


Thurs through Fridays, 8 p.m. Saturdays, 3 & 8 p.m. Sundays, 2 p.m.


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the past to the present and back again, with kinetic speed. The character of Lily Blue is in a state of grieving throughout the play. As a 17-year-old bud- ding photographer who lost her loving father—and last spoke to him as he was freezing to death in a Mount Everest mountain cre- vasse—and lost her mother even before her birth occurred, she tries to make sense of the mo- ments in her life. VanWormer— one of the finest young actors in San Diego—does splendid, competent work with her latest assignment, layering her por- trayal with subtle shadings of character while interacting with the other four ensemble actors. Jeffrey Jones plays the de- ceased Jonathan Blue in flash- backs, often mounting one of the many ladders on the set that are metaphors for reaching heights,


FROM PAGE 7 ELSEWHERE


“The protection of Honduran law extends to all its citizens regard- less of sexual orientation and the Lobo Administration has repeat- edly expressed its commitment to defend the rights of all Honduran citizens,” officials said. Long Island GSA: Valley


Stream South High School in Long Island, N.Y. won the right to start a Gay Straight Alliance after being turned down by principal, Maureen Henry. Richard Marsh, the school superintendant re- versed the decision after receiving letters from students, telling the LI Herald that he and the principal believe in the organization.


Jan. 23 Gay Georgia man target of


arson: Chris Staples, a Carroll County resident, was the target of an anti-gay arson attack at his home. While sleeping, a rock with anti-gay invectives was thrown through Staples window, and af- terward his house was set on fire. The rock read, “We know you’re gay. And God hates gays. You won’t be raping anybody in the county and God’s going to make sure that you burn in hell.” WS- BTV reported that Staples barely escaped his burning house.


Jan. 24


U.K. doctor links gay life- style with social ills: According to Pink News, Hans-Christian Raabe, a Christian doctor from Manchester who is on the U.K. Drug Advisory Bsoard published a paper that says gay and lesbian people are linked to pedophilia,


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physically and artistically. He works hard to define a father who was written as a warm, caring, but one-dimensional character. Kyle Lucy plays Boggy, Lily’s same-age friend who knows the heartache of abandonment, hav- ing a father who hasn’t visited with him for years. He, much like Lily, is an innocent, but carries a worldly view of parental imperfec- tion. The playwright casts him as a overly repetitive, riddle-intoxi- cated young man, who befriends Lily and holds her hand through her latest family crisis. Kristianne Kurner instinctive- ly plays Lily’s mother, Amanda Blue, a sculptor suffering from fear as well as a artist’s block. She’s more an artist and less a


increased drug use and disease. Raabe is the medical coordinator for the Council for Health and Wholeness and writes documents for them making claims such as, “The media and the gay move- ment portray the homosexual lifestyle as happy, healthy and fulfilled. However, the homo- sexual lifestyle is associated with a large number of very serious physical and emotional health consequences.”


High school senior ‘outs’


self: Kayla K, a high school senior at Maria Carillo High in Santa Rosa, Calif. came out to the entire school during a “Breaking the Silence” assembly for Martin Luther King Jr. She used the opportunity to discuss antigay bullying and the importance of diversity saying, “I’m afraid of los- ing friends and losing loved ones. I’m afraid of losing my reputation at this school and the way people look at me. This speech will change my life forever, but I hope that my words can change more.” Doritos will not go gay for Super Bowl: According to the Advocate.com, Frito-Lay will not be airing a pair of gay-themed Doritos commercials. The company was considering airing the commercials, but Frito-Lay Director of Public Relations Chris Kuechenmeister said the ads were part of their “Crash the Super Bowl” contest and that the com- pany received more than 5,000 such ads. The two gay ads were not among the finalists, he said. Students harassing Toronto gay district residents/busi- nesses: High school students from the Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto have been re- peatedly harassing residents and business owners in the city’s gay


mother, but the portrait is of a disturbed visual artist that has difficulty dealing with reality on many levels, possibly suffering from a bipolar disease.


The last character in this drama


is the very entertaining Perry Marshall (Amanda Morrow), who plays a manic gallery owner. Although wildly entertaining, this hyper-erratic individual who acts as a conduit to the past and present for Amanda as well as Lily, seems as if she belongs in another play. Without reservation, this


New Village Arts production deserves to be heard. Pachino’ s provocative imagery, poetically- laced writing, and an ensemble of gifted actors, scales remarkable heights.•


district (known as Church and Wellesley), where the student’s school is located. According to the Toronto Star, one of the student’s yelled a gay slur at Paul Windsor, owner of a local floral shop, and then threw a slushy drink in his face. Local resident Enza Anderson, who was nearly hit with a shoe last year, is trying to organize a community meeting to discuss the problem. Another advance in HIV


research: John Rossi, chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, Calif. is the lead author of a new study that used mice to test a new HIV treatment. It attaches itself to the virus like a magnet to stop it from spreading. Rossi has called the new treatment a “smart bomb” against the virus.•


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that Hogancamp delicately pho- tographs, much as a comic book artist would draw a panel and assembles in storyboard form. Ultimately, a documentary about an artist can’t help but be influenced by its subject’s style. First time director Jeff Malm- berg immerses us in Hogan- camp’s meticulously arranged alternate reality and compelling spatial orientation. We’re not told much about Hogancamp’s life prior to the assault. He was married (his ex is conspicuously not interviewed); an alcoholic and a gifted artist whose skill with a pad and pen was also beat out of him. The only positive result of the pummeling was a decrease in his appetite for booze. Some of Hogancamp’s behav- ior is downright unsettling. Not only does the grown man play with dolls, he eats and sleeps under the watchful eye of his polyvinyl chloride friends. When Ed Sullivan kissed Italian hand puppet Topo Gigio goodnight, it was a calculated ploy to attract younger viewers. Hogancamp’s affectionate interaction with his dolls raises the stakes to a level of intimacy that might make the viewer want to look away. But you won’t because his mail order figu- rines ring true in a manner most contemporary narrative features can only dream of. Hogancamp is more than a bit of a perfection- ist. In order to give his models just the right weathered look, he places a handful of characters in a toy jeep and pulls it along behind him on his two mile walk to town.


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It is during one of these jaunts that Hogancamp is “discovered” by neighborhood photographer David Naugle. Naugle brought Hogancamp’s work to the atten- tion of Tod Lippy, editor of the arts and culture magazine, Eso- pus. A subsequent writeup lead to a gallery exhibition and feature length documentary.


The filmmakers ask that one of the subplots—the production notes refer to it as “a sensitive aspect of Mark Hogancamp’s personal life”—not be revealed because “it risks turning off audiences who are inclined to make snap judgments and who might benefit from seeing the film.” Wouldn’t the opposite also hold true? Wouldn’t revealing the so-called “secret” widen the appeal for a certain sector of the audience predisposed to support a film like this? As part of their marketing ploy, critics are encouraged to hint at Hogancamp’s perverse “secret,” just to not put it out there as a point of public discussion. Isn’t telling an audience ahead of time that a film contains a “surprise” pretty much the same as spoiling it? Entering a theater with a precon- ceived notion planted in your head not only tends to disrupt concentra- tion, it generally sets you up for a big letdown. Not unlike “The Crying Game,” by the time the cat is let out of this bag Hogancamp has taken you so far into his world that nothing short of a cellar filled with corpses will make you change your opinion of him. “Marwencol” opens in Feb-


ruary exclusively at Readings Gaslamp 15.•


—Check out Scott Marks website for more reviews, news and film factoids at emulsioncompulsion.com.


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