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Celebrating 33 years of independence

 

New interim UK police chief named

Doug Scott
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The UK Police Department ap-
pointed a new interim police
chief Tuesday, relieving UK’s
public safety director. Ken Clevi-
dence, of the post after 9 months.

Capt. Kevin Franklin will
serve as acting chief of police
until a permanent chief is named
later this fall, according to a UK
press release.

Franklin, who has spent 21 of

his 22-year career in law enforce-
ment with the UK Police Depart-
ment. has said he is not interest-
ed in the permanent position and
will not be a candidate for the po-
sition of permanent police chief.

He will return to his duties as
captain of police operations once
the new chief is hired.

“It‘s common to have an inter-
im who is not a candidate for the
permanent position. so as not to
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a variety of Shakespeare's wor s as well as t ose of other playwrights.

interest." said .Jay Blanton. Exec-
utive Director of Public Relations
at UK.

UK has enlisted the aid of an
executive search firm to find the
best qualified candidates to serve
as a permanent chief of police.

“It's a pretty common practice
when you‘re looking for people
on the national level,“ said Blan-
ton.

Blanton said that the search
firm would be able to do more

thorough background checks and
give the police department more
choices.

(‘levidence stepped in as in-
terim police chief last fall when
former UK police chief Fred ()tto
Ill resigned in November.

(‘levidence in addition to his
duties as interim police chief and
director of public safety. also
manages the departments of En-
vironmental Health and Safety.
Parking and 'l‘ransportation. and

Real Property at UK as vice presi-
dent of auxiliary and campus
services.

()tto, who had served as police
chief since July 2003, stepped
down from his position after be-
ing reprimanded in October for
getting a UK police employee to
help him with coursework for his
doctoral degree at Eastern Ken-
tucky University.

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Lexington Shakespeare Festival

When: “As You Like It," July 6 - lO, “Cyrano De Bergerac,"
July 13- 17, “Fiddler on the Roof," July 20-24.

Gates open at 7 p.m., pre-show starts at 8 p.m., and shows start at
8:45 pm.

Where: UK Arboretum

How Much: General admission tickets cost $8 and may be
purchased at the gate with cash or check, reserved chair seating
costs $12, reserved blanket seating for four costs $48 (blanket not
provided). Reserved seating is available through the Singletary
Center Ticket Office.

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Former Vice admiral, Perot running mate dead at 81

Ly Martin Weil
THE WASHINGTON POST

James B. Stockdale. 81. the re-
tired Navy vice admiral. teacher
and thinker whose heroism in Viet-
namese captivity won him the
Medal of Honor and who later ran
for vice president, died July 5 at his
home in Coronado, Calif.

A statement released by the
Navy said he had been suffering
from Alzheimer’s disease.

Embodying the virtues of both
warrior and philosopher, Stock-
dale, an aviator. credited the tenets
of Epictetus. one of the ancient
States. with helping him survive 7
1/2 years of abuse as the highest.
ranking US. Navy officer to be held
captive in Vietnam.

As Stockdale's character and
conduct in desperate circum
stances became known after the
war. he won praise as a national
hero who transcended the divisive-
ness of the times.

When he was selected as the
vice presidential candidate on the
third-party ticket headed by Ross
Perot in 1992. expectations were
high.

“The brainy. selfless and dis-
tinctly unegotistical Stockdale, will
make both Vice President (Dan)
Quayle and Sen. Albert Gore Jr..
the Democrats’ No. 2 man. seem
like callow youths" in their debate.
David Broder wrote in The Wash-
ington Post.

However. Stockdale‘s debate ex-
perience reminded many of the

dangers of the format.

“Who am I?" he asked. "Why
am I here?“ The rhetorical nature
of those questions Were lost; they
seemed amusing rather than in-
structive.

If anyone was suited to with-
stand such a setback. it may have
been Stockdale. Before going to
Southeast Asia. he had taken a phi-
losophy course at Stanford Univer
sity. learning from it. he once said.
that man must reconcile himself to
a life in which evil often is reward-
ed while virtue is punished.

Whatever hardships he experi-
enced in politics. they appeared to
pale in comparison to Vietnam.

On Sept. 9. was. his A-4 fighter-
bomber was hit by antilaircraft fire.
and he ejected over a small coastal

village. A beating on the ground
broke his left knee. It was broken
again in prison. and he never re-
gained its full use. in prison. he
was tortured and suffered other in
juries. He was placed in leg irons
for two years and held in solitary
confinement for four.

As recounted in the citation for
his Medal of Honor. the military's
highest award for valor. he mutilat
ed himself to avoid appearing in
propaganda photography Later. he
managed to slash his wrists. com-
ing close enough to death to con-
vince his captors that he would not
give in. According to the Navy. the
torture of other prisoners then
abated.

Stockdale liked to quote from
Epictetus: “Lameness is an impedi-

ment to the leg but not to the will."

Secretary of the Navy Gordon
R. England said in a statement
Tuesday night that Stockdale‘s
“courage and life stand as timeless
examples of the power of faith and
the strength of the human spirit.“

Stockdale was born Dec. 23.
192%. in Abingdon. 111. He graduated
from the Naval Academy in the
class of 1947. During his career. he
was a test pilot. president of the
Naval War (‘ollege and a fellow of
the Hoover institution. He retired
from the Navy in 1979. He and his
wife. Sybil. wrote a book. “In Love
and War."

He is survived by his wife. four
sons and eight grandchildren.

 

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THEATRICAL RELEASES

Fantastic Four

After an acc1dent during an ex—
perimental space voyage, 1.
friends mutate into the Fantastic
Four Mr Fantastic gains the
ability to bend and tw1st his
limbs like Stretch Armstrong, The
Human Torch gains the ability to,
you guessed it. create fire. The
Thing simply turns into a big 91-
ant rock creature. and the lnv151-
ble Woman can dlsappear and
create force fields. For reasons
unbeknownst to me. Dr Doom
deCides he wants to destroy New
York City. so obviously these as-
tronauts turned superheros are

Murderball

Despite the name, this movie lS in
fact not about a ball that goes
around murdering people. it IS
actually a documentary about a
sport played at the Paralympics
that is essentially rugby. but
played by people in wheelchairs.
The participants know it as Mur-
derball And this isn't your typ-
1calschmaltzy"oh pity me l'm in
a wheelchair" story that would be
an ABC Family movre of the week.
This f1lms pornt 15 more of a
"guess what. we don't need your
help, we're fine the way we are"
story, With the backdrop of
sports

unto may or TIENYIE‘IH cmuuv m
Chris Evans, as the Human Torch of the Marvel dynamic quartet. the Fantastic Four, streaks accross the New York skyline in search of people to
save. Fantastic Four starts this Friday

Grudge (or at least their Japanese
equivalents). A woman and her
daughter move into a small
apartment after a bitter custody
battle, only to discover that they
are being haunted by a former
resrdent (Amityville Horror any-
one?) The ghost makes its pres-
ence known by making the water
dark. Scary stuff here folks.

At Regal. Woodhill. and Reel
Deal.

Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory

This 15 not a remake of the Gene
Wilder cla551c. lust in case you
missed my first sentence. 1 shall
shout it. THIS [5 NOT A REMAKE!

Singing and dancmg, say good-
bye to the golden geese that do
in Veruca, and say goodbye to
those hideous orange-faced Oom-
pa Loompas. Every Oompa Loom-
pa is played by Deep Roy, who
can also be seen in Big Fish.

At Regal.
Wedding Crashers

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson
star in this film about a pair of
guys who come up with the ge-
nius idea of meeting Single
women at weddings, whether
they were invited to the ceremo-
ny or not. of course one of the
men falls for a bridesmaid and
alienates the other, and a rivalry
ensues. Expect to learn some se-
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Dark Water

lennifer Connelly stars in a re-
make of the lapanese film Hon-
ogurai mizu no soko kara. which
rust happens to be from the same
writer as The Ring and The

Writer Roald Dahl, who wrote the
book back in the 19605. thought
the original movie was horrible
and denied them the rights to
Director Tim Bur-
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ABC and life without Jennings

By Matea Gold

L05 ANGELES TIMES

NEW YORK — When ABC's Peter
Jennings was forced to leave the an-
chor chair in April to seek treatment
for lung cancer. the already topsy-
turvy world of network evening news
seemed poised foi more chaos.

Dan Rélltllt‘ had retired from the
“CBS Evening News' a month earlier.
replaced teii1poi'aril_\' by Bob Schief
fer. And NB(‘ had just gone through
its own transition. when Brian
Williams succeeded Tom Brokaw in
December.

The shift at ABC
ring.

After announcing his diagnosis.
Jennings immediately took a leave to
begin chemotherapy

With no stilis‘t' of when he will re-
turn. the network has relied on
Charles (lilison and Elizabeth Vargas
as substitutes on the anchor desk.

liespitc the uncertainty caused by
his illness, ’\\’orid News Tonight" has
held its own

The gap

was more jar-

lletween the top—rated
“NB(' Nightly News“ and the ABC
broadcast has remained essentially
the same an (twinge of 224.000
viewers lll June compared with
220.000 in March. according to Nielsen
Media Research.

All the ilt‘\\'si‘iist\ have lost view-
ers overall since last year. which net
work off’ii'1als attribute to an expected
drop-off after a presidential election
year

But the dynamics of the evening-
neWs competition remain largely un-
changed.

NBC continues to lead 111 the sea
son averages. with ABC :1 close second
and CBS a more distant third.

In the last six weeks. “World News
Tonight“ actually won the largest
share of younger viewers. ages 25 to
.34. the key advertising demographic
for news programs. (This year NBC
has held the lead among these viewers
overall.)

That ABC has remained strong has
forced the network into a difficult bal-
ancing act: touting the competitive-
ness of a show that is missing its
leading man.

”It‘s absolutely awkward for
them." said New York-based analyst
Andrew Tyndall. who monitors net-
work news.

“Conventional wisdom would say
that a leaderless newscast v when
people don't know who is going to be
reading the news from one day to the
next would be one that would be.

jeopardized." he said.

“The fact that the ratings have
proved that isn‘t happening is a real
lesson about why people watch ._ for
the news. not the anchor." said Tyn~
dall.

But ABC News officials maintain
that the program's strength is due to
Jennings‘ ongoing involvement. The
anchor frequently participates in the
9 am. editorial conference call and
weighs in with suggestions through-
out the day. executive producer Jon
Banner said.

"We‘re still putting on his broad-
cast." he said.

ABC has not been shy about tout-
ing its standing.

Last month. the network ran a full-
page ad in The New York Times on
the occasion of its latest Edward R.
Murrow Award and proclaimed the
evening broadcast “America's Num-
ber One Network News." (Small print
at the bottom of the page explained
that the title referred to its recent
lead in the key demographic.)

Banner said he believes the show‘s
ratings are the result of changes he
and Jennings began making two years
ago. when he first came aboard to pro-
duce “World News Tonight.“ Since
then. they have put more emphasis on
investigative pieces and stories about
the nation's culture wars.

”Viewers don’t respond to those
changes overnight." he said. “I think
it takes time to build up."

ABC News President David Westin
also stressed Jennings‘ continual in-
fluence on the program. adding that
he is counting on the anchor to return
as soon as he is well enough.

He would not comment on his
prognosis. except to acknowledge the
seriousness of his illness.

“He is an optimist." Westin said.
“He has shown great strength and
grace. but he's battling a very. very
difficult disease."

There's no doubt Jennings‘ pres-
ence is still felt. even though he has
been able to make only occasional vis—
its to the newsroom.

Many ABC employees , .
Westin

including
~ began wearing yellow “Live

Strong“ bracelets after his diagnosis.
And the network was flooded with let-
ters and e-mails from viewers offering
support.

In late April. Jennings posted a let-
ter on ABC's Web site.

"Thousands of you have spoiled
me rotten with your attention in the
last couple of weeks.” he wrote.

“Whether you have a cancer con-
nection or not. your anecdotes. me-
mentos. home recipes and general all-
purpose guidance and concern have
all been so deeply appreciated."

Jennings“ forced absence came
when he had hoped to be challenging
NBC for its No. 1 ranking. 3 title it
has held since the 1996-97 season.
With Brokaw retiring. many analysts
thought ABC had an opening to climb
back on top this year.

But Williams maintained NBC’s
lead even before Jennings‘ departure.

“NBC Nightly News" has attracted
the largest average audience every
week since he took over the anchor
desk Dec. 2.

“Brian is doing a terrific job“ said
Steve Capus. senior vice president of
NBC News. I see us in a very strong
competitive position when nearly
every expert said we wouldn’t be
here."

He dismissed ABC‘s recent gains
among 25- to 54- --year -old viewers, not
ing that the newscasts have swapped
the lead in that demographic for the
last three years

But Capus admitted to some dis-
comfort about touting NBC‘s wins,
considering the changed landscape.

“All I've thought about in Peter's
absence is that i wish him well." he
said. “I feel the normal competitive
games are secondary"

For his part, Williams had hoped
to measure himself against Rather
and Jennings, “the two lions“ of the
business.

“I would give anything for this
current set of circumstances not to
exist." he said.

The 46-year-old anchor said the
most apt description of his situation
came from a co worker who in an al-
lusion to the changed New York sky-
line reacted to Williams becoming the
dean of network news: “That's a lot
like calling the Empire State Building
the tallest building in New York. It' s
for all the wrong reasons.

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Vanity Fair Legally Blonde and the dis-
mal sequel Legally Blonde 2 (insert obnox-
ious subtitle here). Sweet Home Alabama.

All of these films have one thing in
common: they star sweet, bubbly. pointy~
chlnned Reese Witherspoon.

Well. forget everything sweet and hub-
bly about Witherspoon. This week’s ob-
scure movie selection portrays the regular
romantic comedy star in a much. much dif-
ferent light. The Oliver Stone light.

This week's selection is the demented.
trashy but thoroughly entertaining Free-
way (1996). directed by Matthew Bright and
executively produced by Oliver Stone.
among others. The film features leading
lady Reese Witherspoon as the white trash
princess Vanessa Lutz.

Freeway also includes the acting tal-
ents of Kiefer Sutherland (Bob Wolverton).
Dan Hedaya (Detective Garnet Wallace),
and the surprising Brittany Murphy, who
plays the gas-huffing lesbian, Rhonda.
Now that has to spark your interest in the
movie’s plot.

The story begins with troublesome
Vanessa, an illiterate teen girl with a high-
ly dysfunctional home life and reckless
past. After returning home from alterna-
tive schooling one day, she finds her moth-

order to pay for
her and Vanes-
sa's “stepfa-
ther’s” metham-
phedamine
habit.

After the
cops bust Vanes-
sa’s parents for
drugs and prosti—
tution, she is left
with no place to
go but an equally
dysfunctional (if
not worse) foster
home. So. “little
red riding hood"
begins the long
and dangerous
journey to her

grandmother’s

home.

As you can '-

tell by my bla-
tant comparison
in the previous
sentence, this
film retells the
classic story of a
red-hooded hero-
ine (the red cape
is replaced with

a bitchin‘ red leather jacket) on her way to

Keifer Southerland plays a creepster in Freeway.

rm me.

[fer tire
is it:

On her per-
ilous journey.
Vanessa hitches a
ride with well-
spoken. charis-
matic Bob

(Sutherland). a

counselor at a
boy’s home.

. While riding in

the car together.
Bob gets Vanessa
to spill the beans
about her trou-
bled past. When
Vanessa finds
herself trusting
this complete
stranger. Bob re-
veals his true
identity as the in-
famous “l-5

killer“.

I will not re-

_ veal what hap-

pens after this
point for sus-
pense purposes.
But. I will say
that the film is
definitely not
over with the rev-

elation of Bob’s true identity. In most

Ihursday, July 7, 2005 l mu

ial killer is usually the climax of the film.
but not with Freeway. This is only a frac~
tion of a twisted plot.

Freeway is Worthy of honorable men-
tion due to great performances (mainly by
Witherspoon and Sutherland) and its many
unconventional qualities. Who'd have
thought to make the innocent. sweet “little
red riding hood" of children's tales a juve-
nile delinquent with anger management
problems? The heroine is not a squeaky
clean teen. and does many bad things to
people in her pursuit of solace.

lt‘s refreshing when the protagonist is
not flawless. but a human being who
makes mistakes. Seeing Vanessa's struggle
with life's everyday problems (and then
some) makes the viewer feel sympathy for
her. although she obviously doesn't handle
her situations with rationality.

l warn readers: if you detest graphic vi-
olence and strong sexual and violent sub-
ject matter. then this movie might not be
your cup of tea.

But. for those of you who love Oliver
Stone films (Natural Born Killers. U-Turn)
and his creative. brutally honest ways of
addressing serious subjects. this movie
will be another addition to your DVD col-
lection.

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Special edition unrated DVDs all the rage

By Patrick Goldsteln
lOS ANGELES TIMES

HOLLYWOOD _ When New Line
had its first research screening of Wed-
ding Crashers in nearby Pasadena last
fall, the studio knew it had a potential
hit on its hands. The madcap romantic
comedy, which stars Owen Wilson and
Vince Vaughn as a pair of lovable
rogues who get their kicks from party-
ing at strangers‘ weddings, got a re-
soundingly enthusiastic reception from
a theater full of young moviegoers.

One of the studio’s only concerns
about the film, which arrives July 15,
was its rating. The film’s director, David
Dobkin, was contractually obligated to
deliver a PG-13 movie, largely because
R-rated comedies today rarely perform
as well as PG-13 films. But when the au-
dience filled out a research survey after
the screening, most of the scenes they
checked off as their favorites*includ-
ing one featuring a furtive sexual act
performed under the table at a formal
family dinner—clearly put the movie
into R-rated territory.

According to Dobkin. when mem-
bers of an audience focus group were
asked what rating they thought the
movie should have, it was not a hung
jury “'l‘wenty out of 20 people said they
wanted the film to be rated R,” Dobkin
recalls. “After that, New Line never
raised the issue again. The scenes peo-
ple liked the best were the R-rated
ones."

New Line’s decision to release a po-
tential summer comedy blockbuster
with an R rating has raised eyebrows at
rival studios — and with good reason.
In recent years, thanks to political and
demographic pressures, the R rating
has been in a precipitous decline. Since
1999, when R-rated movies made up 41
percent of all box office. the R-rated
business has dropped 30 percent, while
PG and PG-l3 films have risen consider-
ably. The drop in R-rated movies has
been especially dramatic since Holly-
wood chieftains were hauled before
Congress in September 2000 following
the release of a scathing Federal Trade
Commission report accusing entertain-
ment companies of cynically marketing
R-rated movies to children.

This being Hollywood, the decision
to pull back is rooted more in market
ing concerns than in moral ones. Even
though Congress has moved on to more
pressing issues. like trying to pass bills
against flag burning, many of the stu-
dios' self-imposed marketing restric-
tions remain. notably that R-rated

 

movies can't be advertised on TV before
9 pm. Wedding Crashers for example.
was able to advertise on “The MTV
Movie Awards" only in a segment of
the show that aired after 9.

The numbers speak for themselves.
According to data compiled by Ex-
hibitor Relations Co.. since the 2000 con-
gressional hearings. 15 comedies have
made more than $115 million at the box
office. Only one. American Pie 2, had an
R rating. 2004 was an especially miser-
able year for R-rated comedies. Eu-
rotrip, The Girl Next Door, Harold & Ku-
mar 00 to White Castle and Team Amer-
ica: World Police were all box-office dis»
appointments, with only Team America
making more than $20 million in its the-
atrical release.

Studio marketers say the R rating
puts them at a clear disadvantage.
Many exhibitors are reluctant to play
trailers for an R-rated movie in front of
a PG-13 film. Even worse. R-rated hu-
mor is verboten in TV commercials. so
it’s impossible to show a film’s raunchi-
est scenes on TV. Despite these restric-
tions. the R-rated comedy is beginning
to make a comeback. Wedding Crashers
will be followed in August by Deuce Bi
galow.‘ European Gigolo, with Rob
Schneider. and The 40Year-Old Virgin,
starring Steve Carell. More R-rated
comedies are due early next year.

The reasons for this mini-comeback
are simple. In recent years. the real ac-
tion in the movie business has shifted
from theatrical box-office to DVD sales.
which now make up more than 60 per—
cent of studio revenues. One of the
hottest profit centers is a new genre de-
voted to raunchy “unrated” DVD ver-
sions of R-rated films. As The Times‘
Elaine Dutka reported recently; the un
rated versions of such R-rated come-
dies as Bad Santa, Harold & Kumar and
the American Pie series accounted for
nearly 90 percent of their video sales.

This trend speaks volumes about
the tendency in America to say one
thing but do another. People claim they
want wholesome family entertainment,
but the big money on the Internet and
in pay TV comes from pornography. In
the rare instances when a studio puts
out a feel-good valentine. like Because of
Winn-Dixie or My Dog Skip. the movie
dies on the vine. For all the talk of our
country's obsession with moral values.
nothing succeeds with the American
people like the salacious promise of a
little extra nudity or hanky-panky in
their DVD packages.

This unlikely boom in raunchy
videos has been made possible by the

fact that the Motion Picture Associa-
tion of America. which rigorously reg-
ulates the ratings of theatrical films
(and. just as important. their trailers
and TV spots). has taken a see-no-evil.
hear-no-evil approach to the video mar-
ketplace. Former MPAA chief Jack
Valenti. who still oversees the ratings
board. told Dutka that as long as the
packaging is honest. he has no problem
with unrated movies. Apparently the
same goes with Wal-Mart. which has
long refused to carry hip-hop CDs with
parental advisory warnings but now
happily stocks unrated DVDs. at least as
long as they are assured by studios that
the videos would be rated R if they had
received a rating.

As you might suspect, this boom in
unrated videos is quietly playing a role
in the studios‘ renewed interest in R-
rated comedies. Whatever a studio loses
in theatrical business could easily be
made up for on the home-video end.

in fact. all of those R-rated come-
dies that underperformed at the box-of-
fice last year were big hits in their DVD
release. Kornblau says the American
Pie DVDs. largely on the strength of
sales from unrated videos. are the
biggest-selling home-video franchise in
the studio's history. American Wedding
the third installment in the series. had
a 20-minute "bachelor party sequence"
that was scripted specifically for the un-
rated DVD.

lt‘s always possible that some moral-
ist like James Dobson may someday try
to put the kibosh on this new pot of
gold. shocked by the presence of a
naked girl in a shower or a puppet sex
scene (one of the additions to the unrat-
ed Team America DVD). But the studios
now have a great card to play. In order
to get Congress to stiffen penalties
against piracy, they agreed to legisla-
tion that allows businesses to market
family-friendly censorship devices like
ClearPlay. which allow skittish parents
to edit sex. violence or bad language out
of their DVDs. Having embraced
ClearPlay. studios can spiritedly defend
this new generation of unrated videos.
saying that if some parents have the
right to defang saucy movies. why can't
others enjoy a little extra sex or vio-
lence in an unrated version?

Despite New Line's jitters about
marketing Wedding Crashers, you can
bet the studio will make its money back
selling an unrated DVD of the movie. In
America. if something is forbidden
fruit, you'll always find plenty of people
eager to take a bite out of the apple.

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