October 5, 2005
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THAT'S THE POWER OF RED
New Video Series Highlights Campus Accomplishments
On football Saturdays at Memorial Stadium, the Huskervision screens come alive with the big plays on the field. But we also like to take time out to tell fans about the big success stories that take place off the field at Nebraska. It's a chance to brag about UNL's important research, our world-renowned faculty and our outstanding students and alumni. That's the Power of Red.
THE POWER OF RED
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NEBRASKA UNION, 10AM - 3PM
Career Fair Week Draws Over 200 Employers to UNL
Over 200 organizations will be at UNL today to talk with students and alumni about full-time and internship opportunities in all areas. Local and national employers will be on hand to recruit student staff from 10 am to 3 pm. All majors, including undecideds, are encouraged to attend.
For more information, visit the Career Services web site.
FALL CAREER FAIR
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Lied Center Hosts Garrison Keillor Lecture
The best-selling author and host of A Prairie Home Companion presents a one-man show of his musings, poems, and news from the sleepy fictional Minnesota town "where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." Keillor's quirky yarns lovingly depict life in the Midwest with an overstated literary humor that has endeared him to millions. He will be speaking at the Lied Center for Performing Arts tonight at 7:30 pm.
Keillor is the author of fifteen books that have sold over five million copies in the U.S., including The New York Times bestsellers Wobegon Boy, Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home. His work consistently delineates "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
The Chicago Tribune claims, "Keillor's great strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary." His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including National Geographic, Time and The New Yorker. From 1999-2001 he wrote a weekly advice column, Mr. Blue, for Salon.com. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Keillor lives in St. Paul with his wife, classical musician Jenny Lind Nilsson.
Keillor has said, "Writing is pure entrepreneurship and a great way of life. And then, if you do a radio show every Saturday, you have a built-in social life. So it's a pretty good deal."
LIED CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week At The Ross: Aprês Vóus, The Beat That My Heart Skipped
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents French films Aprês Vóus, a comedy starring several of France's most well-known actors, and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, the follow-up film from one of the country's most promising young directors.
In Aprês Vóus, two of France's most celebrated actors, Daniel Auteuil (The Closet, Girl on the Bridge) and José Garcia (Trouble Everyday, Jet Set), team up in a romantic comedy from director Pierre Salvadori (Wild Target) that begs the question: Can it actually be bad to be a Good Samaritan? Set in the most romantic city in the world, where the food is delicious and passions run deep, fate is about to step in and create an unlikely bond between two men. One will snatch the other from the brink of destruction then nearly push him toward it, and the other will take a surprising leap of faith that only a true friend can make.
Director Jacques Audiard and screenwriter Tonino Benacquista, who shared a 2002 Cesar Award for Best Original Screenplay for Read My Lips, team up again in The Beat That My Heart Skipped, a gritty psychological drama set in the dark, dank streets of Paris. The film is based on James Toback's cult favorite Fingers, in which Harvey Keitel played a tortured soul trapped between his love of the piano and his involvement with the mob. In this remake, Romain Duris stars as Tom, a ne-'er-do-well who works with two scheming real estate men, Fabrice (Jonathan Zaccai) and Sami (Gilles Cohen), who have little or no morals. When Tom sees his mother's old agent, he decides to return to the piano, practicing Bach's Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that he envisions could be a life-changing event. He hires a Vietnamese woman, Miao-Lin (Linh-Dan Pham), as his teacher, even though they speak different languages. While struggling to regain his mastery of the piano -- which he gave up after his virtuoso mother's tragic death -- he is called upon by his partners to participate in shady deals and even help one of them cheat on his wife (Aure Atika). He also has a troublesome relationship with his father (Niels Arestrup), who asks Tom to collect money he is owed, putting him in dangerous situations. The Beat That My Heart Skipped is an intelligent, involving film, told in long takes with a handheld camera to heighten the emotional impact of scene after scene.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | APRÊS VÒUS | THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED |
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E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biotechnology / Life Sciences Seminar - "Seeing Herpesvirius Infection and Assembly in 3D by Electron Cryomicroscopy and Tomography"
Dr. Z. Hong Zhou, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas
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