Weekend in
The following list is a brief guide
to weekend events. Please call
venues for more information.
CONCERTS:
Duffy's Tavern, 1412 0 St.
Sunday: Black Dahlias, Tfie
Lepers, Amoree Lovell
Duggan's Pub, 440 5.11th St.
Friday and Saturday: Doug Lynn
Band (compact disc-release
party)
Guitars and Cadillacs, 5400 0
St.
Friday: Karen Briener
Saturday: Brody Buster
Knickerbockers, 901 0 St.
Friday: Paw, Molly McGuire
Saturday: Blacklight Sunshine,
Lowercase i
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
Friday and Saturday: Baby Jason
and the Spankers
Sunday: The Blazers
THEATER:
Joyo Theater, 6102 Havelock
Ave. j
Saturday at Midnight: “Rocky
Horror Picture Show” Live
Lied Center for Performing
Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Saturday: Maureen McGovern &
Lincoln Symphony - a centennial
celebration of George and Ira
Gershwin
Lincoln Community Playhouse,
2500 S. 56th St.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
"Charlie & the Chocolate
Factory”
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theatery 12th & R streets
Sunday: “Four Days in
September”
Star City Dinner Theater,
Eighth & Q streets
Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
“School House Rock Live”
GALLERIES:
Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St.
Through Sept. 27: Oil paintings
by Wendy Jane Bantam
Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth
St.
Through Sept. 27: Recent paint
ings by Tom Rierden
Great Plains Art Collection,
215 Love Library, 13th & R
streets
Through Oct. 14: Beyond the
Horizon: Landscape paintings by
regional artists Robert Sudlow
and Keith Jacobshagen
Film examines lives of farm families
hardships and a difficult marriage. The
miniseries airs on Nebraska ETV
Network on Monday through Wednesday
at 8 p.m.
While some might wonder where the
excitement lies in rural Nebraska,
Sutherland said he was amazed at the
drama he watched unfold before his eyes.
“I couldn’t have written a better script
I mean they’re heroes doing things that
are now considered simple but that once
were heroic, and yet no one cares about
these people,” Sutherland said. “At least
now you’ll have to think about these peo
ple, and if you don’t care about them then
fine, but you’ll have to see their faces.”
To give viewers such an intimate
By Jason Hardy
Senior staff writer
Past the concrete skylines of Lincoln and
Omaha and across fields of com, soybeans and
wheat are scattered a neglected people.
Independent filmmaker David Sutherland
has devoted the past three years of his life to
bring their story to the rest of the world - includ
ing Nebraska.
What Sutherland hopes to preserve on film
are the same qualities revered by hardworking
and humble farm families that struggle to keep
a way of life sacred to them.
It is a way of life passed down through gen
erations of toil and dedication. It is a way of life
increasingly endangered by sprawling urban
populations, an aging agricultural population
and the encroachment of corporate farms.
It is the story of these farm families that
Sutherland sets out to tell. And after taping 200
hours of footage, he’s ready to send the world a
message.
“I just wanted to
put a face on these
people who are
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their dreams,”
Sutherland said in a
phone interview
from his house in
Massachusetts. “I
wanted for people to
see the story of this
family close up and
to put a name and a
face on the people
out there doing it.”
To do that
Sutherland sought
out a family willing
to embrace a crew of
an angci a anu uc
filmed for as long as it took to tell the story.
After a year of searching, he found the
Buschkoetters, with whom he spent the next
three years documenting some of the toughest
times the family of five ever faced.
The resulting documentary, “The Farmer’s
Wife,” is a 6‘/2-hour miniseries that peers into
the lives of Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter.
Shot on location at their farm in
Lawrence, the film follows the family
members as they battle economic
erland said he relied
heavily on a detailed
audio presence.
“My goal here
was to put enough
microphones on all of
them so that you feel
you’re living in their
skin,” Sutherland
said.
While audio and
video saturation was
needed in order to
pull off the project,
Sutherland said, it
was hard for the fami
ly to remain oblivious
to the cameras and crew.
“Of course there’s an influence, how could
there not be? The trick is to minimize it,”
Sutherland said. “I never tried to change any
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At least now you ’ll have to
think about these people and
if you don’t care about them
then fine, but you ’ll have to
see their faces.”
David Sutherland
filmmaker
Chan and Tucker join force with fun
By Todd Munson
Staff writer
The latest addition to the “two
cops who hate each other but must
work together to save the day” genre
hits the screen today re-capsulated in
the easily digestible form of “Rush
Hour.”
Unlike its predecessors “Tango
and Cash,” “Red Heat” and the origi
nal “Lethal Weapon,” to name a few,
the rather odd pairing of kung fu leg
end Jackie Chan and loudmouth
comic Chris Tucker makes for an
entertaining film in a multitude of
ways.
Much like its predecessors, how
ever, “Rush Hour” follows the same
cookie-cutter plot line.
Chan plays Detective Inspector
Lee, a star member of the Royal
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The Facts |
Title: ’Rush Hour’
Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker,
Tom Wilkinson, Tzi Ma
Director: Brett Ratner
Grade: B+
Five Words: A jive and kung-fu
martini.
Hong Kong Police. Tucker, converse
ly, is the laughing stock of the LAPD
as Detective James Carter.
After brief scenes showing the
two in action in their respective
locales, the ball gets rolling when the
daughter of the Chinese consul in
L.A. is kidnapped by the same crime
syndicate that killed Lee’s partner
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CHRIS TUCKER and Jackie Chan play the goofy cop/straight cop bit in the new
action-adventure film “Rush Hour,” opening today from New Line Cinema.