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Forward thinking
An entirely subjective look at the week ahead
By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published February 21, 2005
GREEN SCREENS
In honor of the Academy Awards on Sunday, we begin this week's all-movie edition of Forward Thinking by directing your attention to Eckerd College's six-day Environmental Film Festival, featuring a roster of films too directly related to the real world to make it onto Oscar's radar. The festival begins Saturday on the Eckerd campus and includes C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, Blue Vinyl, Thirst and The Edge of America. For a schedule and more films, go to www.eckerd.edu/film/index
EVEN COOLER
With its sequel Be Cool opening in theaters March 4, what better time for a special DVD edition of Get Shorty? The sequel will have to be cool indeed to live up to this 1995 caper about a small-time mobster's foray into the movie business. With an inside-joke script based on the book by Elmore Leonard, arguably the world's coolest author, and John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Dennis Farina as sharp as a Rodeo Drive sushi chef's blades, Get Shorty is pure pleasure. The new DVD, out Tuesday, includes featurettes, outtakes, a party reel and, in some packages, free tickets to Be Cool.
KISSES FROM INDIA
See a movie for a good cause at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Sunrise Theaters in Tampa, when the Tampa Bay Film Society and University of Tampa Communications Department will screen A Peck on the Cheek by Indian director Mani Ratnam. Focusing on a young couple's romance and a family's relationship with an adopted daughter, the movie is "one of the most enjoyable and emotionally fulfilling feature films I have seen in years," says Rob Tregenza, a UT film professor who programmed it. Tickets are $10, $5 for students and seniors, and proceeds benefit the UNICEF fund for tsunami victims.
BEFORE THEY TURN SIDEWAYS
In what we are sure must be a coincidence, Sunday is both Oscar night and the beginning of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week information at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org Tune in the awards ceremony at 8 p.m. on ABC to spot this year's poster children.
FAME ON FRANKLIN STREET
If you prefer getting dolled up yourself for the Oscars to critiquing the stars' fashion choices from your sofa, the place to be is Tampa Theatre. Its officially sanctioned Academy Award evening includes a live telecast of the show on the big screen at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35; if you want to schmooze with the locally famous at the 6:30 VIP reception and "red carpet engagement," you'll have to spring for $85. Call (813) 274-5507.
NO MUGGLES HERE
It's still nine months until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is due to be delivered, but this week several cast members from the movie series celebrate birthdays. Today Alan Rickman, the slippery Severus Snape, turns 59. On Tuesday, Julie Walters, who plays ubermom Mrs. Weasley, will be 55. On Friday, James and Oliver Phelps, the rapscallion Weasley twins Fred and George (or is it George and Fred?), will be 19. And on Sunday, Timothy Spall, a.k.a. ratty Peter Pettigrew, is 48.
By COLETTE BANCROFT, Times staff writer 727 893-8435 or bancroft@sptimes.com
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