Wed, Jul 30, 2008
July 28 - August 1, 2008
Story of Voorhies' Mammoth Fossils Discovery on NOVA July 30
The tangled tusks of two Ice Age mammoths and the quest to unravel the mystery of their deaths is the focus of an NET Television-produced segment for PBS series "NOVA scienceNOW," airing Wednesday, July 30, at 8 p.m. CT on NET1 and NET-HD.
During the summer of 1962 on a ranch near Crawford, surveyor Ben Ferguson stumbled across some unusually large fossils. A crew of University of Nebraska paleontologists, including undergraduate student Mike Voorhies, was working nearby and was called to investigate. The scientists soon realized that what appeared was the remains of a pair of Ice Age mammoths.
These two animals had struggled to their deaths, their tusks locked and intertwined like a pair of twisted tree trunks with one tusk poking into the eye of the other. Why were they fighting? The segment of NOVA scienceNOW follows Voorhies, now retired and emeritus curator of vertebrate paleontology at the State Museum, and forensic paleontologist Dan Fisher as they try to solve the mystery of what ultimately led to the mammoths' deaths.
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Jack McBride
Jack McBride, a pioneer of public television in Nebraska and a national leader in public broadcasting circles, died July 28 in Lincoln. He was 82 and his death followed surgery for a lung ailment.
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LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THU 9PM
Films of the 1960s is Theme of Summer 'Movies on the Green' Series
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the University Program Council will again unspool the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green 2008 series. The theme for this year's series is "Films of the 1960s." All screenings are presented on the lawn north of Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.).
This week's film is the 1962 comedy The Three Stooges in Orbit more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Mongol and Roman De Gare Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Mongol and Roman De Gare. Both films will show through July 31.
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, Mongol transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad's landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (Zatoichi, Last Life in the Universe) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Asano's achievement is matched by those of his co-stars, including the radiant newcomer Khulan Chuluun as Khan's courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (The Road Home) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Khan's dearest friend and deadliest enemy. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages.
True to its title, Roman De Gare ("Crossed Tracks") finds famed French director Claude Lelouch (Un Homme Et Une Femme) jumping between time and loyalties in this suspenseful mystery about fate and fatal secrets. Taking advantage of a superb cast and gorgeous French locations, Lelouch's veteran touch deftly manages the films multiple layers of mystery and romance. The result is a pleasingly chic thriller grounded in a very human belief in the surprising possibilities that come from love.
More information is available at the Ross website.
