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SANTA MONICA — The ballet thriller “Black Swan” won four prizes Saturday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film, including best picture, best actress for Natalie Portman and director for Darren Aronofsky. James Franco was picked as best actor for the survival story “127 hours,” while the Ozarks crime story “Winter’s Bone” earned both supporting-acting prizes, for John Hawkes and Dale Dickey. All three films are up for best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards, where Portman is considered the favorite to win the best-actress Oscar and Franco is a co-host alongside actress Anne Hathaway.
Instead, she said, it can be rewarding to get to know their world, So, if they see a duck on your head or monkeys outside the window, playing along with “the things that come out of their mouths because the edit button is off” can allow everyone to relax and have fun, “Laugh or sing with them,” she said, “and they see it’s okay.”, Fridley encourages people to view the nonlinear, often fictional dialogues of Alzheimer’s patients with the same expectations they would have of poetry, ballet shoes age 3 “I think that almost everyone agrees that the experience of writing and reading poetry differs from the experience of writing and reading a newspaper,” she said, “Poetry isn’t truth-laden, I think most people see it as playing with language, and people accept it for that and love it for that, because it allows us to connect in noncognitive ways.”..
To register and pay, call the Pacifica Chamber at 650-355-4122, email Jenny@PacificaChamber.com or go to www.pacificachamber.com or drop by, or mail to, the chamber office at 225 Rockaway Beach Ave., Suite 1, in Pacifica. The Horse Fair will feature free rides on the Wells Fargo stagecoach and free pony rides for children; information on local riding programs at the BITS (Back In The Saddle) booth; equestrian fun, music, and hands-on activities for both children and adults. Watch a blacksmith in action, visit the petting zoo, decorate horse cookies, color equine art, and listen to a pony’s heartbeat. Be sure to stop at the Mid-Peninsula Open Space District booth for informative displays, and a ranger to answer everyone’s questions.
A new feature this year is the ballet shoes age 3 Peninsula Channel Commanders and their collection of remote-controlled drones and aircraft that will perform stunts and aerobatics, The anniversary celebration will also see the return of freestyle motocross stunt shows, unimotorcycle drags, monster truck rides, and vintage warbird flyovers, Another highlight will be the inaugural “DRIVE Magazine Dream Machine of the Year.” Beckett Media’s DRIVE magazine editors will choose a winner from the myriad machines on display to be awarded a special trophy at a recognition ceremony held during the show..
While most people will be drawn to “Ella, the Musical” by the music (and, certainly, Cason loves performing it), they also get a lesson on the character being portrayed onstage. “I learned a lot about Ella while I was doing my research,” she said. “I didn’t know she had such an awful childhood and what horrible times she had while growing up.”. Cason insists her performance — the show entails storytelling as well as singing with a backing band — should in no way be considered an imitation of Fitzgerald but rather a tribute that attempts to catch the spirit and style of the performer. And, based on her performance last fall in Walnut Creek, she does that quite well, even at times actually seeming to be the identical image of Fitzgerald.
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