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High School Musical Comes to the Ice

Feld Entertainment’s latest ice spectacular, Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour, opened in Florida in early September for an initial nine-month run. The show, also produced by Kenny Ortega, is expected to visit over 100 cities with three touring companies. Two companies, which both did their debut shows in Florida, will cover North America including Canada and Mexico as well as the United States. The third company, which opened in Santiago, Chile, will tour South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

The show combines the storylines from the two popular Disney movies, High School Musical and High School Musical 2 into a single ice show featuring the music and stories from both movies. High School Musical has become an international phenomenon since it first began as a Disney Channel movie starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens. The Emmy winning hit spawned a book, stage shows, thousands of high school stage re-enactments, theme shows at Disney parks and of course, the second movie. Both the soundtrack and the movie’s DVD were number one for 2006. The High School Musical 2 soundtrack has topped the Billboard 200 charts becoming the first album to claim the top spot for four weeks straight since March 2005.

The first half of the ice show recreates the plot of High School Musical with and East High basketball star Troy and science nerd Gabriella falling in love and battling with budding diva Sharpay and her brother Ryan. As long as Troy sticks to sports and Gabriella to science, things are fine but when the two decide to try out for the high school musical parts that Sharpay and Ryan believe should be theirs, complications arise. Eventually all the conflicts are worked out as the East High teams win in basketball and the brain bowl and Troy and Gabriella sing a duet in the musical.

In the second half of the show based on High School Musical 2, the students spend the summer vacation at the local country club where Sharpay and Ryan’s parents are members. Hoping to lure Troy away from Gabriella, Sharpay gets Troy hired to work at the club. But he convinces the manager to hire Gabriella and the rest of his and Gabriella’s East High friends. As she works harder to pry Troy away from Gabriella, Sharpay tries to get the other students fired, so she can perform with Troy in a talent show. But Ryan befriends the other teens and helps them develop their own act. Sharpay gets the club to ban the students from the show but is forced to relent when Troy refuses to work with her unless the others can perform. Finally Gabriella and Troy get back together.

The show was produced by Emmy award winner Kenny Ortega, who produced both High School Musical movies. It is directed by Jeff Calhoun, who also directed Theatre of the Stars production of High School Musical on stage in Atlanta. Emmy award winner Charles “Chucky” Klapow, who choreographed the two movies, choreographed the show with well-known skating choreographer Cindy Stuart.

The international tour company features Mexico’s Gladys Orozco as Gabriella, New York’s Victor Ehre as Troy, and Swedish Olympian Helena Grundberg as Sharpay. One of the North American companies stars three U.S. skaters in the lead roles: Lane Walker as Gabriella, Jordan Brauninger as Troy, and Sandy Rucker as Sharpay. Brauninger was the bronze medallist at the 2004 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and finished as high as tenth in seniors at U. S. Nationals. Rucker was the 2006 U.S. Junior Ladies national champion.

The other North American company features Canada’s Amanda Billings as Gabriella, Australia’s Brad Santer as Troy, and U. S. skater Kristen Treni as Sharpay. Among the ensemble members in that tour are Canada’s Matt McEwan, who is an understudy for Troy, and U. S. ice dancer Kimmerly Lauten. Billings finished fourth at Canadian Nationals in senior ladies in 2005, while Santer is a two-time Australian senior men’s champion and three-time Worlds competitor. Treni, who finished as high as 12th in seniors at U. S. Nationals, was the winner of the reality television show “Skating’s Next Star”.

Billings, Santer and McEwan talked with Skate Today after their first week of shows in Florida and described their experiences with the production in comparison to skating competitively. Although Billings and McEwan are new to show skating, this is Santer’s second year as a professional. He turned pro after the 2006 Olympics and scored a principal role as Prince Philip touring with Disney’s Princess Classics in Europe last season.

“That was pretty cool but I was looking for something different and more challenging,” Santer stated. “When I heard about High School Musical, I talked to Judy Thomas about it and went to Las Vegas for the audition. I really wanted the role of Troy because it really suited me. I can relate to the character from my own life when I was torn between school and skating. I could understand the pressure it put on him.”

Although the role calls for Santer to act like he is playing basketball and golf on skates, he never really played those sports in Australia. “I was into rugby and cricket,” he said. “I don’t think American audiences could relate to them very much.” In a role reversal, his co-star, Amanda Billings, was more of an athlete, competing in track and field in school in addition to playing golf.

Show skating wasn’t a new goal for the 20-year-old Billings. In a 2004 interview, she stated, “I have always dreamed of being on skating shows and I definitely want to pursue a career in professional skating for several years.” After nearly making the podium at Canadians and placing 11th at Junior Worlds in 2005, injuries had hampered Billings and she slipped to seventh at Canadians in 2007.

She was at a point in her career where she felt she had to change focus. “I wasn’t enjoying skating singles any more and I wanted to make a change,” she said. “I was trying to decide whether to train pairs or go pro. I tried pairs for a while and it was fun but not really what I was looking for. So I started to shop around for something else.”

One of her coaches, Scott Davis, a former U. S. national champion, had skated in Disney’s Grease before going into coaching. “He told me I should try out with Disney but I didn’t want to be in anything as an animated character,” she stated. “Then Judy Thomas told me about High School Musical. I saw the movie and thought that it would be really fun to do on ice. I decided really late in May and I didn’t know if I could get on the show, but I sent them a videotape. Fortunately, Judy had seen me skate at Nationals and I got the part without having a tryout.” It didn’t hurt that her choreographer was Cindy Stuart, who was well familiar with Billings’ skills.

Except for the need to don a black wig to hide her long blonde hair, Billings was a natural for the part of Gabriella. Cute and perky, she actually was a science whiz in high school. Biology, chemistry and mathematics were her best subjects and she graduated with an A average. “And I like to sing,” she added.

Except for the character of Kelsi, none of the skaters can be heard singing during the show. Instead, the original cast recordings from the two movies are used. But that doesn’t mean the skaters aren’t singing. “We all sing along,” Billings said. “The songs are peppy. Two other girls from my club are in the show and we got the soundtrack and played it over and over before we came.” “We know all the songs,” Santer added. “We hear them over and over again in rehearsals so we hear them in our dreams.”

In addition to hearing the soundtrack and seeing the original movie, the skaters also got an advance screening of High School Musical 2 before they started rehearsals. They practiced for five weeks in Lakeland, Florida before their first show. Each day, they would work an hour off ice with choreographers Cindy Stuart, Doug Webster and Chucky Klapow to learn the choreography before taking it on the ice for an hour, then repeat the process. Klapow actually learned to skate himself so he could go on the ice with the performers.

“We had an amazing creative team,” Santer said. “It was special to see it go from the floor to the ice. You can really get the feel of the show more on the ice then in the other media. The show is really unlike anything else in the pros or amateur skating. It’s so special, so much fun, just straight funk. Partly it’s because the musical is such a phenomenon. All the kids and their parents are singing along and dancing in the aisles.”

“It’s different from any other skating show because it’s hip hop skating,” McEwan noted. “You don’t see that in competitive skating.” That was a challenge for Billings, well known for her classical skating. “Chucky had a lot of fun imitating my balletic hip hop,” she said. “I’d taken a few hip hop classes, but never skated to anything like it. The music and the dancing and the costumes are exactly the same as in the movies, except for the added skating flavor.”

“We’ll actually be the first to perform High School Musical 2 outside the movie,” Santer said. “There have been thousands of shows of High School Musical but no others of High School Musical 2 yet. That’s so exciting.” “I think of all three media, the ice show will be the biggest hit because it has the biggest canvas,” Billings added.

“One of the biggest transitions was learning to work with all the other skaters,” Santer said. “I had never skated in an ensemble before,” McEwan added. “That took a lot of practice.” The skaters also had to learn pairs moves in addition to their singles skating. “I had done a fair bit of pairs in the other Disney show,” Santer noted. “We got a lot of help from some of the other pairs working for Disney and got to work with Toby Paul.”

“I loved learning the pairs stuff,” Billings said. “We’re working on sit lifts and drapes and trying to add new lifts and carries. Right now we have side-by-side double axels and we’re working on side-by-side triple toe and triple lutz. In our solos, we got to incorporate a lot of elements which would get points under the code of points like my change edge spiral. I get to do a few jumps and a lot of spins. The combination spin is my favorite.”

“One of my solos is like my Olympic short program,” Santer noted. “I have a level four step sequence, a double axel and a triple toe. I’m also doing a triple flip and a triple lutz in some of my solos.” McEwan, who must learn to skate Santer’s role in his job as the understudy, noted, “I’m hoping to brush up on my triple lutz to use in the show.”

Unlike competitive skating, practice time is limited for the skaters once the tour begins but on ice time increases. “The principals only have a half hour of ice time on show days,” Santer explained, “but we have open ice before and after shows that you can sign up for. I’ve become an expert at time management. It’s quite surprising to be able to fit into a half hour what I used to do in an hour and a half.” “We also have rehearsals once a week, more if we have to learn a certain number,” Billings added. “And there’s a class for all the skaters to do edge work.”

During the shows, the principals are on ice for almost an hour in each half, except for costume changes. Although there are a few slow sections where the East High students are sitting around, most of that time is spent skating. That’s a lot more than the four minutes for a long program. “We always work every show,” Santer said, “unless there’s an injury. Even when there’s an understudy taking over the principal role, we skate the roles they would normally skate. And we watch them and help them out.”

Otherwise, the skaters weren’t fazed by the demands of show skating. “I had to get used to no warm-ups and the lights,” Billings said. “When you go off ice, you’re blind because there’s no light backstage. You have to be careful not to fall over things.” I don’t get nervous going on the ice for the show,” McEwan added. “I just get excited.”

So will audiences as they view the show.

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Preview of the 2016 Rostelecom Cup

2016rostelecomcupThe ISU Grand Prix series continues this week in Moscow, Russia with the Rostelecom Cup. This is the third stop on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series.

The schedule:

  • Friday, November 4: Short Dance (14:45), Men’s (16:25), Pairs (19:00) and Ladies (20:40) Short Program
  • Saturday, November 5: Free Dance (14:00), Men’s (15:50), Pairs (18:05) and Ladies (19:50) Free Skating
  • Sunday, November 6: Exhibition Gala
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Two-time and reigning World Champion Javier Fernandez (ESP) will headline the Men’s event. Shoma Uno (JPN), who won Progressive Skate America two weeks ago, will look to secure his spot in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final. Other contenders include Mikhail Kolyada (RUS), Alexei Bychenko (ISR), Max Aaron (USA), Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT) and Elladj Balde (CAN).

In the Ladies event, the Russians look to sweep the podium with Anna Pogorilaya, Elena Radionova and Julia Lipnitskaya. Other contenders include Zijun Li (CHN), Courtney Hicks (USA) and Kanako Murakami (JPN). Canada does not have an entry at this event.

World bronze medalists Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot (GER) will compete for the first time in the Grand Prix series. Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau (CAN) are aiming for the top spot following their gold medal win at Skate America. Others hoping for a podium finish including Kristina Astakhova and Alexei Rogonov (RUS), Natalia Zabiiako and Alexander Enbert (RUS), and Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek (ITA). Camille Ruest and Drew Wolfe (CAN) make their Grand Prix debut following placing fourth at the 2016 Autumn Classic International, their first international assignment together.

The Ice Dance event will definitely be interesting as Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA) look to build on their silver medal from Skate Canada International last week and Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev (RUS) look to improve their bronze medal from Skate America. The 2015 World bronze medalists Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje (CAN) are also in the mix as they make their Grand Prix season debut. Other competitors include Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri (ITA), Tiffany Zahorski and Jonathan Guerreiro (RUS) and Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen (DEN).

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Madrid, Spain (AP Ciaran Giles)--Johann Muehlegg, the cross-country skier stripped of a gold medal for doping, learned Tuesday that the "B'' sample of his urine test had also proved positive.

The result was released by the International Olympic Committee's medical commission and provided to Spain's state secretary for sport, Juan Antonio Gomez Angulo.

The German-born skier was stripped of his 50-kilometer gold medal Sunday _ his third gold of the Salt Lake City Olympics _ after testing positive for darbepoetin, which boosts production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells.

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He had been scheduled to receive a hero's welcome home this week, but the reception with Spain's King Juan Carlos was called off Monday by the royal palace.

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Shrek's fencing feline sidekick finally stands on his own four paws, leading a quest to literally find the goose that lays the golden egg. As ever, Antonio Banderas provides purrfect vocals for the lady-chasing outlaw who hooks up with Salma Hayek's pickpocket Kitty Softpaws and all-round bad egg Humpty Dumpty in an adventure that pits them against criminal wrong 'uns Jack and Jill. Slick visuals and a rollicking crew of cute critters will enchant the nippers in this swashbuckling animated spin-off.

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When Puss in Boots first made his sad kitten eyes in Shrek 2 millions of cat-loving anklebiters found themselves purring in appreciation.

So it's hardly surprising that the Zorro-with-pads-paws'n'claws has now been given his own action adventure which - Shrek-like - plunders the rich history of fairytale lore.

Brought up in an orphanage in the Mexican hilltop town of San Ricardo, he forms a blood bond with Humpty Dumpty (Galifianakis), a bullied loner for whom Puss becomes protector (from the likes of Little Boy Blue).

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Friday, November 23

  • Altair is the brightest star in the west-southwest. (It's far lower left of brighter Vega.) Look above Altair, and perhaps a bit left, for the dim but distinctive little constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin.

    Saturday, November 24

  • Look left of the Moon this evening, by a fist-width at arm's length or a little more, for the two or three brightest stars of Aries.

    Sunday, November 25

  • Some pre-telescopic astronomy: Sometime between 6:30 and 8:30 these evenings, depending on the date and how far east or west you live in your time zone, bright Vega sinking in the northwest and equally bright Capella climbing in the northeast will be at exactly the same height. How accurately can you time this event for your location? An astrolabe would help!

    Monday, November 26

  • As dawn begins on Monday and Tuesday mornings, look southeast to spot bright Venus and fainter Saturn less than 1° apart. As dawn brightens further, look far to their lower left for Mercury.

    As the Moon becomes full, it moves in on Jupiter and Aldebaran. It's positioned here for the middle of North America. European skywatchers: move each Moon symbol a quarter of the way to the one for the previous date. In the Far East, move it halfway. For clarity, the Moon is shown three times its actual apparent size.

    Tuesday, November 27

  • Full Moon tonight and tomorrow night. This evening, look lower left of the Moon for Jupiter and orange Aldebaran. Look upper left of the Moon for the fainter Pleiades cluster (binoculars help), and far left for Capella (out of the frame here).

  • A weak penumbral eclipse of the Moon occurs before and/or during dawn Wednesday morning for western North America. The penumbra is the pale outer fringe of Earth's shadow. The Moon will be deepest in it from 6:18 to 6:48 a.m. PST on Wednesday the 28th (14:18 to 14:48 on the 28th Universal Time). Look for a weak shading on the Moon's north (upper right) side. The farther in from the West Coast you are, the brighter the dawn and the lower the Moon will be.

    The penumbral eclipse takes place high in the middle of the night for the longitudes of Australia and Japan, in late evening of the 28th local date for China and Southeast Asia, and early that evening for India with the Moon still low in the east. More details.

    Wednesday, November 28

  • The Moon shines close to Jupiter and Aldebaran this evening, with the dimmer Pleiades above them. Think photo opportunity! Use a long (or zoomed) lens, and try a variety of exposures to catch the faint stars as well as the bright Moon.

    Thursday, November 29

  • After the Moon rises this evening, spot Jupiter and fainter Aldebaran to its upper right, and Capella farther to its upper left.

  • Jupiter's Great Red Spot should cross Jupiter's central meridian around 11:00 p.m. EST (8:00 p.m. PST).

    Friday, November 30

  • The waning Moon rises less than an hour after the end of twilight. Once it's up, look right of it, by a bit more than a fist-width at arm's length, for orange-red Betelgeuse sparkling in Orion's shoulder.

    Saturday, December 1

  • With Jupiter just about at opposition, so are the asteroids Ceres and Vesta in the same vicinity! Vesta has brightened to magnitude 6.6, Ceres 7.2. Spot them in binoculars using our finder chart in the December Sky & Telescope, page 50, or online. They're near the horns of Taurus. The darkest view comes shortly before the Moon rises around 7 p.m., depending on your location.

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Luis Buñuel's The Phantom of Liberty was quickly dismissed upon its release in 1974. Not only did it have to contend with the lingering success of 1972's similarly themed but significantly less abstract The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but it was quickly followed by the dreamlike, bi-polar romantic entanglement of the director's last film, That Obscure Object of Desire. Like Discreet Charm, the plot-free Phantom of Liberty is a patchwork of comedic sketches and sight gags through which Buñuel ravages a complacent European culture and the various sexual hang-ups and historical and cultural disconnects of its inhabitants. This heady, almost off-putting masterwork isn't particularly easy to decipher (maybe we aren't meant to), which is why it's best to approach it as a literal comedy of manners.

Films structured around daisy chains of dysfunction are a dime a dozen; most, though, are as tiresomely long-winded as they are content with their own strained circularity. This isn't the case with Phantom of Liberty, which begins with a shot of Goya's 1808 masterpiece “The Third of May.” The painting depicts Napoleon's army executing a group of faceless Spaniards, and via a reenactment of this struggle, Buñuel depicts how one of Napoleon's captains tries to defile the monument of Doña Elvira only to be smacked on the head by the moving arm of the statue of the woman's husband. (He later intends to sleep with the woman's corpse, and when he opens her coffin, he's amazed by how her beauty has been preserved.) It's the first of many sight gags in the film, each and every one as startling as they are perversely funny. All these moments are possessed by a sense of shocked wonderment and discovery, and they all more or less evoke fragile pasts and characters trying to reconcile their historical detachments.

The film quickly cuts to the present, with Buñuel implying that a confused housemaid (Muni) was reading about the 1808 defilement of Elvira's grave inside the pages of a randy piece of literature. Nearby, the young Veronique Foucauld (I. Carrière) and her friend are shown a series of pictures by a creepy older gentleman (Philippe Brigaud). Buñuel deliberately keeps these photographs sequestered from the audience, fascinating us with the shock that comes over the characters' faces whenever they look at these images. A bored Monsieur Foucauld (the iconic Jean-Claude Brialy) sits in his living room, marveling at the meticulous order of his regal living room. “I'm fed up with symmetry,” he mutters before standing up and screwing with the spatial balance of objects that sit atop his fireplace. Buñuel's cinema forever hinged on chaos, and it's obvious from this scene that he is about to instigate a revolt.

Monsieur Foucauld and his wife (L'Avventura's Monica Vitti) fire their housemaid after discovering the pictures their daughter was given at the park by the lecherous older man. The couple then sifts through the supposed filth encoded in these pictures, simultaneously repulsed and titillated by what they see. Buñuel reveals that they are merely looking at various landscape shots and pictures of famous European monuments (some phallic and therefore more “obscene” than others—or so they're psychologist might advise), including one of the Arch de Triomphe. A literal interpretation suggests Buñuel is concerened with the detachment between man and his cultural past. More significantly, though, the way the past informs the present in our world reflects the way one sketch spills into the next within the film. Sometimes one scenario begins before the previous one has even ended—ended, at least, in any sort of conventional sense. This forward momentum isn't scatterbrained because the anti-aesthetical Phantom of Liberty operates using a meticulous, almost instinctual internal logic. Just as this particular sequence questions our allegiance to prevailing moral codes, Buñuel questions the way stories should be told via the very structure of his film, in effect suggesting that narrative preconceptions are as silly and arbitrary as morality.

That night, Foucauld can't sleep because his bedroom is invaded by a series of visitors: a rooster, an ostrich, and a mailman who hands him a letter. Buñuel means for us to be baffled by the significance of these intrusions, so Foucauld goes to a doctor in order to find out what they mean. Buñuel, especially in his later years, had very little patience for psychoanalysis. This is not to say that he rejected subconscious imperatives. On the contrary, he seemed to understand these impulses so well that he allowed them to flourish in his films less as symbols needing to be deciphered than concrete details that spoke for themselves. When the doctor in Phantom of Liberty scoffs at Foucauld's dream and suggests that he go waste his time deciphering these visions at a psychoanalyst's office, Foucauld reveals that his dream wasn't a dream at all. And to prove it, he hands the doctor the letter the mailman gave him. But before the doctor can read the letter, a nurse (Milena Vukotic) requests a few days off to visit her sick father in the country. And so the film moves forward and onward, as if grabbing onto the rungs and climbing some cinematic Darwinian ladder. Indeed, if Buñuel rejects psychoanalysis as strongly as he does in this film, it's really only to remind us of our connection to nature and our inherent animal impulses.

After a strange encounter with a group of soldiers looking for foxes, the nurse takes shelter at a local inn. There she befriends a group of seemingly uptight priests who pay lip service to St. Joseph before engaging the girl in a game of poker where various religious icons serve as ante. No one hedges his or her bets and we're reminded of an earlier outburst by one of the film's characters: “Faith succeeds where science fails.” At the inn, the various guests (including a young man in love with his aunt) gather together in the room of a hatter (Michael Lonsdale), and his “associate” Mlle. Rosenblum (Anne-Marie Deschott). They toast to “chance” encounters but the evening ends abruptly when the woman begins to beat the hatter on his bare bottom with a whip. We're supposed to be taken aback by the couple's shocking comfort level and the priests' rank hypocrisy, but we're too busy laughing at the fact that we didn't know all this time that the hatter was wearing assless pants. Something's always going on in a Buñuel film, even when you don't know what that that something is.

At a nearby police academy, an instructor who spent the night at the inn tells his ever-diminishing group of students a bizarre story of reversals that may be one of the funniest sequences in film history. A group of bourgeois friends gather at the dinner table, sitting on toilets instead of chairs (naturally, they pull their pants and underwear down). They smoke, read magazines, and talk comfortably about the approximately 12 million tons of excrement the billions of people in the world are producing each day. When the little girl of the house says she's hungry, she's dutifully reprimanded. And when one of the houseguests rises from the toilet, he silently and shamelessly asks the housemaid for directions to the dining room. In a small cramped room, the man eats and drinks in silence. Throughout this hysterical sequence, Buñuel pokes fun at the rituals of shame and ridiculous rules of etiquette associated with eating and going to the bathroom. Again, if the structure of this scene is arbitrary, it's simply because Buñuel feels the same way about morality.

A student at the police academy goes to see his doctor, who advises the student that he shouldn't smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. After diagnosing the man with cancer, the doctor offers him a cigarette. And after slapping the doctor, the man goes home to discover that his young daughter has apparently disappeared from school. One of the film's greatest extended gags shows the man and his wife going to their little girl's school and then filing a police report for her disappearance. All the while, their little girl stands next to them. Not only are Buñuel's characters disconnected from history and shamefully governed by archaic rules of social behavior, they're also disconnected from one another. This symbolic struggle haunts the rest of the film, which follows the bi-polar police commissioner's attempts to reconnect with his sister. The narrative circles back on itself when the man visits the tomb of his supposedly dead sister, whose hair reminds us of Doña Elvira's from the film's opening scene.

In his autobiography The Last Sigh, Buñuel beautifully describes the similarities between the unofficial triptych formed byThe Milky Way, Discreet Charm, and Phantom of Liberty. He says, “All three have the same themes, sometimes even the same grammar; and all evoke the search for truth, as well as the necessity of abandoning it as soon as you've found it. All show the implacable nature of social rituals, and all argue of the importance of coincidence, of a personal morality, and of the essential mystery in all things, which must be maintained and respected.” Call Phantom of Liberty a determinist film. It argues that the only way to live freely (to achieve liberty, so to speak) is to embrace the coincidences of the world not as mysteries but as naturally-occurring phenomenons, the first step in rejecting the stringent moral codes that unnecessarily determined such common behavior as excusing oneself to go to the bathroom. Truly, what could possibly be wrong with telling a woman at a bar that one of the symptoms of iliac passion is vomiting excrement? It's the truth isn't it?

20th Century Fox
104 min
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Adriana Asti, Julian Bertheau, Adolfo Celi, Muni, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale, Pierre Maguelon, Pierre Lary, Pierre-François Pistorio, François Maistre, Hélène Perdrière, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Milena Vukotic


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Mills boys' basketball team moves into PAL tourney semifinals
February 20, 2014, 05:00 AM By Julio Lara Daily Journal

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Mills' Daniel Yu drives to the basket during the Vikings' 61-31 win over South City in the first round of the PAL tournament.

Huddled near the foul line before the start of an opening round clash with Mills, the South City boys’ basketball team got in a circle, wrapped arms around one another and repeated “we’re ready” to hype themselves up before tip-off.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, the Vikings showed them that on Wednesday night, they really weren’t ready for what Mills would dish out.

Behind an offense that saw 12 different Vikings get on the score sheet, Mills blitzed South City and cruised to a 61-31 opening round win in the Peninsula Athletic League tournament. Mills moves on to play the No. 1 seeded Half Moon Bay Cougars.

“We shot the ball well on offense and shared the ball well,” said Mills guard Robert Noland, who finished with 15 points despite sitting out the majority of the fourth quarter. “We really take pride in our defense. We have been working on it a lot during practice.”

The Viking defense was their best offense on Wednesday night. Mills jumped out to a 14-0 lead to start the game primarily by either suffocating South City into a turnover or getting out on transition and burning the Warriors that way. The Warriors got on the scoreboard with 38 seconds left in the first period when Eric Watkins knocked down a 3-pointer and looked to build a bit of offensive flow in the initial stages of the second quarter. But every time they pushed, Mills and their transition offense, led by Noland, was just too much for the Warriors to handle.

“They have a couple of good big men and a couple good shooters,” Noland said. “We just had to keep an eye on them and we did fine. We had size on them and used that. When they collapsed, we just shared the ball.”

Mills totally wore the South City defense out by the middle of the third quarter and that’s when players like Tyler Wright took over. Wright scored four points in the first half but added 11 in the last two quarters of the game.

“Look for my offense,” Noland said when asked what the key to his performance on Wednesday was. “Coach told me to look for my shot and I just took advantage of the defense and what they were giving me.”

Mills increased its lead to 20 points at the end of three quarters. From there, it was just putting the basketball machine into cruise control.

“We’re just going to take every game one game at a time,” Noland said, looking forward to his team’s matchup with Half Moon Bay. “We can’t take any time for they’re nothing. We just have to play hard.”

Burlingame 80, Westmoor 35

The Panthers were firing on all cylinders as the blew out the Rams in the first round of the PAL tournament Wednesday night as they led 38-24 at halftime and then outscored Westmoor 42-11 in the second half.

Burlingame, the top seed from the PAL South Division, will face Aragon in a semifinal game at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Capuchino.

Frankie Ferrari paced the Panthers with 24 points, eight assists and five rebounds, while Nick Loew added yet another double-double, finishing with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Of Burlingame’s 17-man roster, 11 made it into the scoring column.

Westmoor was led by Cameron Cook, who finished with 13 points and six rebounds.

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