Fri, Nov 24, 2006
November 22-26, 2006
Campus Takes a Holiday
UNL's Thanksgiving Break starts Wednesday, November 22 for students (UNL offices are open). All offices will then be closed November 23-26 for the holiday. Regular classes and office hours are set to resume November 27.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
ANDERSEN HALL, NOON-2PM
CoJMC Hosts Rodgers Book Signing
Heisman Trophy winner and new author Johnny Rodgers will have a book-signing event from Noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 24 at Andersen Hall, 15th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus. His new book, "An Era of Greatness: Coach Bob Devaney's Final Four Seasons in University of Nebraska Football (1969-1972)," is in bookstands now.
Alumni, fans, students and others are welcome to meet Rodgers and have him sign books at the event sponsored by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, of which Rodgers graduated with a degree in advertising in 1997.
CoJMC
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
'Alice's House' Continues at UNL's Lentz Center
"Alice's House: Chinese and Japanese Art from the Collection of Alice V. Abel" will open Sept. 9 and will run through Dec. 22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture. An opening party will celebrate Abel's collection and the Lentz Center's 20th anniversary. The party will take place in the center from 1:30-4 pm Sept. 10. Brief remarks will be made at 2:30. The public is invited.
A well-known Lincoln resident and distinguished graduate of the University of Nebraska (class of 1946), Abel was a philanthropist with many contributions and honors, including being a board member of the University of Nebraska Foundation and chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Nebraska Wesleyan University. Among her gifts to the city are Hazel Abel Park and the Alice Abel Arboretum at Nebraska Wesleyan. She died in March 2005.
"We at the Lentz Center are very fortunate to have been loaned 22 items from her collection," said Barbara Banks, curator/director of the Lentz Center. "The Lentz Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary in September and we have purposely chosen this time to show Alice Abel's collection. Her collection demonstrates her devotion to Asian art. In the tradition of Don and Velma Lentz, she has been willing to share her collection with the public." more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Fast Food Nation, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Keeping Mum Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Fast Food Nation, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and Keeping Mum. All films will be showing through December 7.
When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The big screen version Fast Food Nation is a dramatic feature penned by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and Oscar® nominee Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: "The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
Passionate cinephiles can be found casting quizzical glances at the erratic and often conflicting decisions made by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as they slap ratings onto movies. So in an attempt to make sense of their working methods--which, until now, have remained shrouded in mystery--one of those cinephiles, Kirby Dick (Twist Of Faith), has made this full-length motion picture about the inner workings of the MPAA. Entertaining and informative, Dick's movie is everything a documentary should be. Revelations come thick and fast throughout, and the director skillfully creates a palpable feeling of injustice that will leave many viewers feeling the MPAA is in urgent need of a drastic overhaul.
Keeping Mum stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet, grey-haired old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house. One by one, the family members find that Grace is able to solve their problems, but they don't realize that her means are leading to a lot of ends and the population of their sleepy hamlet is rapidly diminishing.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | FAST FOOD NATION | THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED | KEEPING MUM
