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Illusions of Normalcy
By Matt Mansfield
Staff Writer
“Arlington Road,” the latest film from
director Mark Pellington, explores the
dangers that can lurk beneath the sur
face of idyllic suburbia.
This thriller delves into the psyches
of paranoid people and government
subversives while challenging the audi-
ence to look
beyond what
lies on the sur
face, and
reminding the
audience that
when some
thing looks too
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good to be true, it probably is.
This is a film about suspicion, para
noia and trust. It also explores to what
lengths humans will go both to protect
their loved ones or to protect their own
interest.
Dealing with right-wing domestic ter
rorism, the film portrays a problem that
has become a chilling reality in today's
society.
When Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges)
makes friends with his neighbors the
Langs (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack)
after rescuing their son, he feels that his
life and his son's have finally calmed
into suburban normality after the death
of his wife, an FBI agent.
Both families appear to regard family
values as the quintessential ingredient to
a rich life, and the families quickly
become friends.
However, Michael grows suspicious
of the Langs' superficial politeness, of
the secrecy behind Oliver's family his
tory, and the seeming inconsistencies
with his present identity. Michael is
intrigued by Oliver’s harsh criticism of
the government.
Asa professor teaching a course on
the history of terrorist groups, as well as
his wife's death in the line of duty, and
his friendship with an FBI agent,
Michael’s suspicions of Oliver's possible
clandestine activities are warranted.
The movie’s use of paranoia keeps
the audience guessing as to whether
Michael's suspicions are true or whether
he just needs to quit his unhealthy fasci
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“The study discovered that there are
teens that leave home without parental
permission,” she said.
“We do have a problem in Orange
County and Chapel Hill with teenagers
who are homeless.”
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County Commissioners create a County
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nation with terrorist groups. The
answers to these questions eludes the
audience to the very end.
Throughout the film, Michael lec
tures about former terrorists actions and
bombings. This technique both conve
niently gives historical information on
the behavior of terrorists to the audience
and hints that Michael could be unjus
tifiably obsessed with his neighbors.
However, the information from the
lectures is unstimulating and trite, which
makes the college professor an unbe
lievable role.
Bridges gets a bit melodramatic in his
lectures, which seems uncharacteristic of
the typical college professor (at least of
those I’ve seen at the University).
Bridges' acting elsewhere in the
movie is also melodramatic, and he
takes away from the movie's substance.
However, he portrays a paranoid neigh
bor well and for this reason logs a per
formance that can be characterized as
halfway decent.
Robbins' performance produces
mixed emotions also. He conveys his
shady behavior well, but his emotional
outbursts at poignant points in the
movie seem awkward and unnatural.
Cusack, although lacking a major
part in the movie, puts forth the best
performance. She conceals her shadi
ness well with obviously contrived
smiles like a perfect soccer mom, and
the audience continually wonders
whether her niceness is really a facade.
The movie's conclusion ties all the
plot elements together excellently and is
definitely its most impressive aspect.
The movie’s logical consistency
refreshingly leaves few holes in the plot,
giving this movie respectability among
the myriad Hollywood films produced
without regard for motives and the laws
of physics.
Asa psychological thriller the film
scores points because it does not get
bogged down in showy action scenes or
improbable leaps of logic.
Rather it relies on a strong, subtle
plot to build the tension that carries the
film.
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Youth Commission to satisfy the needs
of county youth and collaborate with the
Juvenile Crime Prevention Council.
In addition, the committee recom
mended that the county pay a youth
coordinator $34,000 annually to plan
and develop programs for 16 to 18 year
olds for whom services are most needed.
A final recommendation called for a
collaborative effort between the pro
posed youth coordinator, the Juvenile
Crime Prevention Council and the pro
posed Youth Commission to seek local
out-of-home placements for teens with
and the department.
Gless said Barranger s leadership and
work would continue to show through
out the Department of Dramatic Art and
Playmakers.
“The University is proud of its dra
matic art department and Playmakers
and will sustain the directions both have
been taking under Professor Barranger’s
leadership,” Gless said.
University & City
Cape Fear Festival Sings the Blues
The Cape Fear Blues Festival
kicks off tonight and will
continue throughout the
weekend with various acts.
By Verna Kale
Arts & Features Editor
When it's summertime and the livin'
is easy, it strains the imagination to pic-
ture a more pleas
ant way to spend a
summer evening
than listening to
the blues in one of
North Carolina’s
most picturesque
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That opportunity presents itself this
weekend at the 1999 Cape Fear Blues
Festival in Wilmington, N.C.
UNC Faces Hefty IRS Bill
From Staff and Wire Reports
The UNC system could have to pay
more than S2O million to the Internal
Revenue Service as the result of a mas
sive audit, a newspaper reported.
Tax collectors spent almost two years
poring over thousands of payroll stubs,
foreign visas, income receipts and other
billing records in the inquiry, part of a
nationwide crackdown on universities
and other tax-exempt organizations, the
Raleigh News & Observer reported.
The end result is a $20.5 million bill
that university officials are trying to
negotiate into a more reasonable settle
ment.
“This is by no means a certainty,"
said Susan Ehringhaus, vice chancellor
and general counsel at UNC-Chapel
Hill,
“1 don’t know whether we're going to
be close or miles apart,” Ehringhaus
said.
“What is certain is the adverse effect
on campus finances.”
A review of documents by the News
& Observer reveals that the IRS left few
at least ten emergency beds.
Council member Flicka Bateman said
she had worked closely with this com
mittee.
“It was my pleasure to serve on this
committee sort of sporadically," she
said. “I think that the county is long
overdue for those placements.”
Pryor-Cook said the group did not
recommend a teen drop-in shelter
because the number of homeless teens
varied.
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf said she
was pleased with the results of the study
Barranger is editing a book on theater
history which is being translated into
Korean, and completing her biography
of American actress and director
Margaret Webster, founder of the
American Repertory Theatre,
O’Connor said.
Gless said Barranger would be
missed, but the Department of Dramatic
Art would be relatively unaffected
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Fear has scheduled events at several
venues throughout the city, and the
music ranges from traditional blues to
soul and funk.
The festival kicks off tonight. To set
the mood, visitors to the festival can take
Blues Cruises down the Cape Fear river
aboard the paddleboat Henrietta 11.
The festival began 11 years ago on a
small scale. Then the festival consisted
of a talent contest, jam sessions and per
formances by local bands in local water
ing holes.
Lan Nichols, director of the festival
and president of the Blues Society of the
Lower Cape Fear, said that people
began to suggest that organizers expand
the festival to a large-scale event. That
was four years ago.
“Our first year we started with 700 to
800 people. Last year we had more than
1,500 people," Nichols said.
stones unturned in its audit.
In addition to the expected paper
trail created by reviewing all financial
records from 1992 to 1995, the team of
auditors also asked for dozens of com
puter disks to track payroll accounts and
videotapes of commercials airing during
televised Tar Heel sporting events.
The auditors also looked at records of
tours of Finley Golf Course and the
Carolina Inn, which are taxable opera
tions that generate income that are unre
lated to the university’s educational mis
sion.
At Finley, for instance, auditors disal
lowed $510,110 in deductions listed on a
university tax return as net operating
losses over four years.
The auditors said the public course's
consistent status as a money-loser
earned it a label of not profit-motivated
and therefore ineligible for deductions.
The University also failed to pay
$346,312 in taxes on profits from rock
concerts and other entertainment shows
at the Dean Smith Center, auditors said.
According to the News & Observer,
most of the bill involves unpaid income
and encouraged members of the com
mittee to see the proposal through to the
end.
“I think the committee should go
with the recommendations to present
them to the Board of Commissioners,”
she said. The resolution passed by the
council also requires the Youth Steering
Committee to continue meeting in order
to solve short-term programs for home
less teens.
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because of Barranger’s work,
“She has brought a professional staff
of faculty and specialists that will keep
the department of Dramatic Art moving
forward," Gless said.
“We must build upon the foundation
of Barranger’s leadership."
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The event has attracted the attention
of corporate sponsors and big name acts
like LiT Ed and the Blues Imperials.
Nichols said that Lil' Ed and the
Blues Imperials are among the top blues
bands in the world and the highlight of
the festival.
“(Lil' Ed) has a rambunctious and rol
licking sound that gets the crowd going,”
Nichols said.
Friday night the festival continues
with performances from Tom
Donaldson and Mike Schobir as well as
the rockabilly band The Chesterfield
Four and Mojo Collins who is no
stranger to the N.C. blues audiences.
On Saturday festival-goers can expe
rience a more hands-on approach to the
blues by participating in a workshop at
Finkelstein Music.
The workshop features area blues
musicians who come in and discuss the
instrument they play as well as their
taxes on foreign students and teachers.
In 1994, the University gave improp
er tax relief to 269 foreign scholars who
failed to meet qualifications.
The IRS wants $782,564 for that
oversight, said the News & Observer.
The case is now before an IRS
appeals officer in Baltimore, said
Ehringhaus, the top UNC-CH attorney,
The university still has the opportu
nity to appeal the judgment in federal
court after the appeals officer rules,
Ehringhaus said.
“We’ll just see what the settlement is
and decide whether to contest it fur
ther,” Ehringhaus said.
Other universities have fared well in
the appeals process.
The University of Michigan won a
court case reducing its $7.7 million bill
to $124,366,
The University of Wisconsin, pegged
with a $l2O million bill, had its slate
wiped clean.
Twenty-one universities have been
saddled with bills averaging $3 million
since the IRS began its tough review of
nonprofits severed years ago.
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he was not pleased with the results of
the June 30 negotiations and provided
the lone dissenting vote.
Capowski said, “It seems to me that
we as a council have to decide if the
compromise meets our goals."
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musical influences.
“By the time the workshop is over we
have a little jam session going,” said
Nichols. “It lets people see who our local
players are."
Later in the afternoon the festival’s
main event gets under way in Battleship
Park with several performances.
The festival concludes Sunday with
the Blues Talent Showcase, also in
Battleship Park. This free event allows
local .amateur blues artists to compete
for prizes.
As the sun sets on the festival, visitors
can head to the Ice House Beer Garden
for the Blues Jam where attendees can
participate or just sit back and enjoy the
music.
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It was originally slated to have more
than 200 students enrolled in its first
year, now has 150 students signed up.
In addition to the money saved with
fewer students, the program will no
longer renovate residence halls for
classroom use.
Instead, some of the classroom space
in new residence halls slated to be built
during the next several years will be
allocated for the program, she said.
Kitchen also said the University
would save money by combining all
departments that fell under student
affairs onto a single computer server,
eliminating extra time and expense.
The Carolina Parent’s Office will also
be reorganized, Kitchen said.
“But parents and students will not see
any changes in these services," Kitchen
said. “It’s just reengineering to deliver
services differently.”
Heinke said he did not anticipate
problems from the budget cuts.
Heinke said, “As long as we keep
focused on our priorities, we’ll be all
right."
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
The council also voted 6-3 to
approve a permit application submitted
by Winston Hotels Inc. for a 180-room
hotel at the Meadowmont site.
According to town reports, the hotel
should begin construction no later than
July of 2002 and must be be completed
by July of 2009.
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