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The other day I was reading a story about how the focus ofthe U.S. Olym pic Festival, which was held in Colo rado the past few weeks, has been lost. And a Gumpism comes to mind in my agreement. The Festival has become like a box of Major League ball-babies (oh, I mean Major League Baseball play ers). You get a money-grubbing, bad 'taste in your mouth, no matter what game or event you choose to watch. I’m sorry about the misnomer to America’s pastime, but I don’t have much sympathy with players who aren’t satisfied with multi-million dol lar deals to play a game they should love. They should be willing to get paid half of the amount that O.J. somebody’s lawyers or Hugh Grant’s Ladies of the Night are getting. Once again, I apologize. Hugh Grant was only making a down pay merit on his advertising for his new show Nine Months, which worked out as an almost wise and cheap invest ment. But enough of the lecture to base ball players I would like to lecture both of my readers. PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS NOW. READ THIS LATER. All right, my lecturing to everyone is over. I digress to the original sub ject. The story discussed how the Festi val was becoming a disaster because we are losing millions of dollars every year it takes place (which is similar to what the MLB players must feel like after going on one of their strikes). This year the Festival sufTered a $ 1.9 million loss. The story discussed that NFL pre season football and MLB games have taken attention—and money—away from the Festival. Tony West I agreed that more than a million dollars was quite a bit to lose, but one of my friends luckily straightened me out to the real focus of the Olympics. The focus of the Olympic Festival was originally to get the U.S. athletes a chance to participate in an Olympic type atmosphere. The focus was not making sizable profits off of showcas ing their talents. We should all know that sizable profits can’t be made off of amateur Third in trilogy glows radiant “Red” Film: “Red” (Mary Riempa Ross Film Theatre) Stars: Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant Director: Krzystof Kieslowski Rated: R Grade: A Five Words: Robust finale of vibrant tricolor. By Chad Johnson Staff Reporter “Red” is the final part of Kies lowski’s color trilogy that has ex amined rebirth in “Blue”, revenge in “White” and in the final install ment, he examines redemption. Kieslowski has a knack for cast ing incredibly beautiful lead ac tresses (Juliette Binoche, “Blue”, Julie Delpy, “White”). Irene Jacob is perfect as Valentine, a Geneva fashion model whose face appears on a building sized mural, but is still strangely anonymous. Valentine is in a long-distance relationship with a guy who is able to generate hostility from the audience over the phone (he never appears on screen). She becomes a prime mover in a series of events that are repeating themselves in a kind of Karmic pat tern. Valentine encounters a retired judge who has been puttering away his free time by electronically tapping his neighbors’ phones. Jean-Louis Trintignant is- hauntingly perfect as the retired judge; his expression and carriage allow the viewer to witness externally the forces that at work on his internal being. Through Valentine he is able to rediscover a life that he has allowed to pass by unchallenged because of a secret loss earlier in his life that oc curs again in similar circumstances to a neighbor of Valentine’s. Kieslowski proves his ability to handle an essentially European art house film and make it appealing to American audiences. While this isn’t a blockbuster in terms of financial reward (i.e. “Batman Forever”), it is a visual blockbuster. The rich, red tones that permeate the film seem to have a life of their own. Kieslowski maintains his tra dition of the color in the title ap pearing throughout the film. His grace and style of including the color natural ly make the film visu ally relaxing, not glaring or leap ing out at the viewer in unnatural contexts. The film is a thought-provok ing challenge to the viewer, it is subtitled which is far better than dubbing, the only drawback is that in readingthe subtitles, attention is diverted from the beautiful cin ematography. Fans of the trilogy should be on the lookout for a neat cameo series by the leads of the other two tri color films. Also playing with “Red” is a fantastic short (tied for Best Live action Short at the Oscars thisyear) called “Franz Kafka’s it’s a Won derful Life,” a hilariously twisted tale of Kafka having writer’s block on Christmas Eve as he tries to figure out an opening for “Meta morphosis.” A very funny film that looks as if Frank Capra and David Lynch teamed up to film it. ^WHEW!^ I^sHQTout there! L.I.— -T - -..w«t w/ IN. Student D Just 5 minutes from campus on west "O street in the Westgate Shopping Center athletes. Just take a look at MLB in the past year and a half. My friend brought up the sugges tion that the athletes wouldn’t care if anyone watched and they would even pay to perform. Well, I agree that the athletes wouldn’t care if anyone watched, but I don’t know about them paying to perform. Get your minds out of the gutter. I’m talking about performing their respective SPORT event! The fact that there are some money grubbing people try to exploit the tal ents of our athletes to make money is not all that bad. But the fact that these same money grubbing people are now complaining because they aren’t making enough money is bad. Maybe these people can join up with MLB players and form a union of their own. I would even like to suggest another name to replace MLB. How about Money-grubbing Losing Ball babies union? The U.S. Olympic Festival is a great idea and should never be lost. But instead of working so hard on making money, maybe they should just try to cut back on some of the i expenses so they can break even. Maybe even ask the athletes O’ust as long as they aren’t baseball play ers) to donate some money to the cause. Hopefully the original focus of the Olympic Festival will return someday. But until then, I would like to voice my support of the good ole’ Red, White, and Blue. Just try to remember that green is not one of our national colors. West Is a Junior news-editorial major and a Summer Daily Nebraskan sports colum nist. 02 Appliances 05 Bicycles 10 Books 13 Clothing 16 Computers 20 Furniture 30 Jewelry 40 Misc. 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