Posted on: Thursday, June 16, 2005
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Tickle me pink, Elmo
Advertiser Staff
HAPPENING
The show continues at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. tomorrow; 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. next Thursday; 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. June 24; 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. June 25 and 26.
Tickets: $11, $15; a limited number of $19 premium seats; available at www.ticketmaster.com, (877) 750-4400.
FILM SCREENING
'Shake Hands With the Devil,' from Sundance
The unflinching film revisits Canadian general Romeo Dallaire, who was charged by the United Nations with keeping Rwandan peace but was offered little support to do so. At the Doris Duke Theatre today, at 1 and 7:30 p.m. Call 532-8768 for more showtimes and information.
FINAL WORD
"I grew up in Long Branch, the New Jersey town next door to Bruce Springsteen's Asbury Park, and it was a pretty blue-collar scene. I was teased mercilessly. Finally, I hit one bully in the head with a log and that stopped it. It was so horrible that I want on my gravestone: 'I'd rather be here than back in high school.' "
— B-52s singer Fred Schneider in the New York Post
Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, the Cookie Monster and their Sesame Street Live friends convene in "Elmo's Coloring Book," a colorful stage musical for the wee ones age 2 to 5 (and moms and dads), which premieres at 7 p.m. today at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. There'll be songs, dances and fun as a 17-member cast brings the TV favorites to a larger-than-life production.
The films "Hotel Rwanda" and "Sometimes In April" brought Rwanda's three-month 1994 genocide — in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu moderates were killed by Hutu extremists — to the attention of many for the first time. But for an un-Hollywood-ized look at the tragedy, check out filmmaker Peter Raymont's Sundance 2005 award-winning documentary "Shake Hands With The Devil."
