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Arts
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NORTH TEXAS DAILY
Denton band Joe K competes
for record deal through MTV-U
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Katie Farnam
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ilm documents civil rights activist 's murder, a termath
By Christi Hang
Staff Writer
She was one of the thou-
sands of people behind Martin
Luther King, Jr. marching toward
Montgomery, Ala. And days
after her death by klansmen the
government slandered her char-
acter with vicious rumors.
"Home of the Brave" is a docu-
mentary about Viola Liuzzo, the
only white woman killed by the
Ku Klux Klan during the civil
rights movement, and how her
death impacted her family. The
film was shown noon Friday at
Research Park.
According to the documen-
tary, Liuzzo was killed after
attending Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s 1965 march to Montgomery,
Ala., to deliver a petition to Gov.
George Wallace. After her death,
four klansmen, one of which was
an FBI informant, were brought
to trial for her death but were
found not guilty.
"Home of the Brave" also
covers FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover's slandering of Liuzzo
after her death because her
husband was on the board of
directors for Jimmy Hoffa's
Teamsters Union. The FBI
released information stating
Liuzzo left her five children at
home to have sexual relation-
ships with black civil rights
activists, took drugs and was
part of the Communist party.
"It was really interesting how
she died in such a honorable way
but they slandered her and made
her look bad," said Stephanie
DeTamble, Mesquite junior.
Jim Beard of the English
Courtesy of UNT
Viola Liuzzo
faculty Beard also said everyone
attended the remembers only the good parts
screening of the era but not the fear of
Friday and people possibly being killed for
said the era their beliefs.
taught his The documentary also looks
generation at the Liuzzo's children and their
to not trust adult lives. Director Paola di
the govern- Florio follows Liuzzo's daughter,
ment and Mary Liuzzo, on a road trip as
presently she traces her mother's final
he tells his days in the South.
students The other child focused on
not to rely is Liuzzo's son, Tony Liuzzo, a
on informa- memb er of the Michigan militia,
tion given to who withdrew from society and
them. went underground because of
"You have his mistrust of the government
to learn after his mother's death.
about this Beard said one of the most
stuff your- interesting things about the
self," Beard documentary was howit affected
said. Tony Liuzzo.
"What a scarring effect it had
on him and how he never got
over it," Beard said.
Beard said although it was
ultimately good that the cause
received press coverage, the
violence against civil rights
workers had been going on for
about 100 years but it only started
to receive attention when white
people started to get hurt.
"The movie showed how
things were back then not just
for African-Americans, but for
everyone," DeTamble said.
Beard said he was living in
Seattle when he heard about
Liuzzo's murder, but at that time
murders of civil rights activists
happened more frequently.
"The beginning of the movie
said no one remembers her,"
Beard said. "I remember her."
Sean MDiddy Combs
charged with assault
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawsuit
has beenfiled against Sean "Diddy"
Combs, alleging the music mogul
punched and pushed the plaintiff
and his girlfriend at a Hollywood
nightclub.
Gerard Rechnitzer is seeking
unspecified compensatory and
punitive damages in the suit,
which was filed Friday in Los
Angeles Superior Court.
An attorney for Combs called
the suit "completely baseless."
Rechnitzer, 27, claims he and his
girlfriend ran into Combs at the
club, Teddy's, inside the Roosevelt
Hotel in the early morning hours of
Feb. 25. According to the lawsuit,
Combs was talking to Rechnitzer's
girlfriend when Rechnitzer
approached. Combs, 37, then
yelled at Rechnitzer "in a threat-
ening and ominous matter," the
suit claims.
The rap star and clothing
designer then "intentionally, will-
fully, knowingly and unlawfully
attacked, assaulted and battered"
Rechnitzer, according to court
documents, causing him to "fly
backward several feet" and hit a
parked car. The suit further alleges
that Combs pushed Rechnitzer's
girlfriend and "attempted to spit
on another female member" of
Rechnitzer's group. Rechnitzer
then called police, the lawsuit
says.
Rechnitzer's attorney, Michael
Marzban, would not elaborate
on the lawsuit Monday, saying,
"Everything you want is in the
complaint."
Benjamin Brafman, an attorney
for Combs, said the case would be
"vigorously defended."
"It's just another example of an
opportunist seeking to fabricate a
lawsuit based on a flat-out lie to try
to take advantage of Mr. Combs'
celebrity status," Brafman said in
a statement. "Mr. Combs did not
hit anyone and Mr. Rechnitzer
suffered no injuries or damages
whatsoever. There is no case. It is
that simple."
C espite cool visual e :ects, 300 is
overbearing, laughably sel -serious
(AP) - The ultraviolent action
extravaganza "300" is based on
Frank Miller's graphic novel, but
did it have to be so cartoonish?
Director/co -writer Zack Snyder
(the "Dawn of the Dead" remake)
painstakingly recreated the
comic-book panels by placing
actors in front of virtual back-
grounds, similar to the technique
used in the superior film version
of Miller's "Sin City" in 2005.
Clearly, he's not aiming to reflect
reality on any level. But Snyder's
depiction of the ancient Battle
of Thermopylae, in which 300
Spartans fought off a much larger
Persian army, is so over-the-top
it's laughable - so self-serious, it's
hard to take seriously.
The effects are extremely cool
at first; with the help of cine-
matographer Larry Fong, visual
effects supervisor Chris Watts and
a team of many others, Snyder
has very much created a unique
world _ dark, dramatic and visu-
ally gripping, with increasingly
imaginative foes along the way.
(A giant rhinoceros, an armada of
elephants - sure, why not? Bring
'em all on.) But the gimmick
wears off quickly and ultimately
becomes overbearing; Tyler Bates'
pounding score and the profuse
use of voiceover certainly don't
help.
Gerard Butler, who's buffed
up significantly since starring
in the corny film version of "The
Phantom of the Opera," comes
off as a poor-man's Mel Gibson in
"Braveheart." As King Leónidas,
he leads his meager but muscular
troops into battle with repeated
roars of "This is where we fight!
This is where we die!" and such,
ad nauseam. (Kurt Johnstad and
Michael B. Gordon also worked
on the script.)
Leónidas has trained his entire
life for this fight, as we see in
the film's beginning, where he's
taken from his family as a boy and
taught to survive in the wild in a
pure, driven, almost animalistic
manner. By the time we reach 480
B.C., he rules Sparta alongside
the beautiful Queen Gorgo (Lena
Headey in a series of plunging
ensembles that manage to stay on
her body although the film takes
place centuries prior to the inven-
tion of double-stick tape).
Once the Persian army
threatens to overtake Sparta,
led by the megalomaniacal
Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro in eye
liner, gold chains and piercings),
Leónidas must assemble his men
into action (but first, a good-bye
romp with the wife that's straight
out of late-night Skinemax).
Despite their comparatively
small numbers, the Spartans are
a model of unity and organiza-
tion. That stuff about duty and
honor and dying a beautiful death
- they buy into all of it. (This is not
exactly "Flags of Our Fathers.")
What they lack in size they make
up for in solidarity, so when the
sky turns dark with a storm of
Persian arrows, they're ready for
it, having turned their shields into
a wall of unbroken metal.
The violence is inventive,
almost balletic in the way it's
dragged out and sped up to
emphasize its rhythms. Spears
pierce the thick, brownish-gray
haze, blood splatters, an arm or
a leg goes flying - all visceral,
intense stuff. After a while,
though, you can only see so many
slo-mo beheadings.
Leónidas also faces an enemy
from within: a deformed Spartan
named Ephialtes (Andrew
Tiernan) who begs to join the
fight but is turned away because
he isn't physically up for the chal-
lenge and reacts vengefully by
giving away secrets to Xerxes.
P"
motion
hickory creek 16
Amazing Grace (PG)
1:45pm, 4:40pm, 7:25pm,
10:10pm
Astronaut Farmer (PG)
1:55pm, 4:35pm, 7:15pm, 9:55pm
Because I Said So (PG-13)
2:15pm, 4:45pm, 7:20pm, 9:50pm
Breach (PG-13)
1:25pm, 4:05pm, 6:45pm, 9:20pm
Bridge to Terabithia (PG)
1:40pm, 2:25pm, 4:25pm, 5:05pm,
7:00pm, 7:35pm, 9:35pm,
10:05pm
Ghost Rider (PG-13)
2:30pm, 5:15pm, 8:05pm
Ghost Rider (PG-13)
1:30pm, 4:15pm, 7:05pm, 9:45pm
*no passes accepted
() matinee shows
Hannibal Rising (R)
3:00pm, 5:45pm, 8:40pm
The Messengers (PG-13)
2:50pm, 5:25pm, 7:55pm,
10:15pm
Music and Lyrics (PG-13)
2:00pm, 4:30pm, 6:55pm, 9:30pm
Norbit (PG-13)
1:35pm, 4:10pm, 6:50pm, 9:25pm
The Number 23 (R)
2:20pm, 4:20pm, 4:55pm, 7:30pm,
9:40pm, 10:20pm
Reno 911!: Miami (R)
2:10pm, 2:55pm, 5:20pm, 7:10pm,
7:45pm, 10:00pm
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls
(PG-13)
1:10pm, 3:30pm, 5:50pm, 8:20pm
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runt Thursdays
Go see a flick for only $3.50 at
any time on any Thursday when
you present your valid UNT ID at
the Rave box office.
1-35 @ Swisher Road Exit
(940) 321-2788
www.ravemotionpictures.com
Tuesday
College of Business Career Fair I0am-2pm
Operation Graduation II: Career Success
I2pm-lpm
[ FILM] Home of the Brave 6pm-7:15pm
Abolish the "N" Word 7pm
Wednesday
UNT Career Fair for All Majors 10am-2pm
Part-Time Career Fair 10am-2pm
Operation Graduation III: Debt & Student
Loans 12pm-lpm
[FILM] Home of the Brave 6pm-7:l5pm
Thursday
President's Sack Lunch ll:30am-2pm
[FILM ] Home of the Brave 6pm-7:15pm
Friday
Research park Coffee Social 8:30am-10am
International Colloquium on Quebec
8:30am-6pm
he Cripple of Inishmaan 8pm-1 lpm
Saturday
International Colloquium on Quebec
8:30am-6pm
The Cripple of Inishmaan 8pm-1 lpm
Sunday
The Cripple of Inishmaan 2:30pm-5:30pm
Ft. Worth Regional Science Fair 8am-1 Opm
Give Yourself Some Credit 7pm-8pm
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