![]() It also offers more than what their faltering lives could ever hope to achieve: artistic satisfaction. However, the thrill of the unknown excites them, growing their new hobby into something akin to praying at the altar of a roadside funhouse. Each time the hole spits them back out, augmented in ways neither is prepared to see or understand. ![]() ![]() They test its boundaries, tossing in various objects: a jar of insects, a mouse, a severed hand, a camcorder. Could it be a black hole, an orifice, a fissure, or maybe even a portal? It has many names but only one sticks: The Funhole. Tucked away in the second-floor storage room is a hole that confounds and fascinates their creative acumen. But that would all change when they discover a secret hidden within Nick?s rundown apartment building. And Nakota serves as a barmaid at Club 22, doling out drinks to career alcoholics. Nick wastes his time in the role of assistant manager, longing for the day when his haikus can generate a payday. Would-be poet and Video Hut employee, Nicholas Reid, and his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Nakota, are the apathetic loners of a society indifferent to their artistic aspirations. ![]() ![]() Limited first edition, first printing - new and unread. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Coach orders Boomer, a rough and rowdy player who is antagonistic toward Louie, to take out Washington in a targeted play. During their first football game against Salmon River, Coach Ledensky reacts harshly to the arrival of a new player, Washington, an excellent quarterback and the only black player on the opposing team. ![]() She is a cheerful, positive influence on Louie. Adding to Louie’s enthusiasm for the school year, he asks out Becky Sanders, a smart, attractive cheerleader who agrees to date him. Louie and Carter work out together in order to earn starting spots on the football team Coach Ledensky promotes Louie to starting running back. Carter works out a lot and is idolized by his peers for his brawn. Louie’s friend, Carter Sampson, is a tough-talking jock. ![]() His boss, Dakota, an older man, is a useful sounding board for Louie. Louis, a rising football star, begins practice for the fall football season, in addition to working at his summer job at the Buckhorn restaurant. Louie’s first-person narration is sarcastic but sincere. The football team has been undefeated for three years. Chris Crutcher’s debut young adult novel, Running Loose (1983), features Louie Banks, a senior at Trout High School in Trout, Idaho, a homogenous community where the town’s residents all know one another and high school sports reign supreme. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Screening as part of our series The Films of Studio Ghibli. Morning and afternoon screenings will be screened in the English language version. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE was the second Studio Ghibli film to be nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards.įor all showtimes 6:00pm and later, the film will be shown in Japanese with English subtitles. The main plot of Howl's Moving Castle from Studio Ghibli tells the story of Sophie, a young woman who gets cursed with old age by the Witch of the Waste, and in looking for a cure finds herself working as the cleaning lady for the wizard Howl in his extraordinary castle. ![]() As the true power of Howl’s wizardry is revealed, and his relationship with Sophie deepens, our young grey heroine finds herself fighting to protect them both from a dangerous war of sorcery that threatens their world. ![]() It narrates the adventures of Sophie the Hatter, who one day stumbles upon the wizard Howl. But after this chance meeting, the young girl is turned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste.Įmbarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle. One of those stories is Howls Moving Castle, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. Saturday, DecemSaturday, January 11, 2020 ![]() |