A long-unseen thriller starring a Randall Patrick McMurphy-era Jack Nicholson and directed by legendary Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni? We're hella there, no matter what the plot is!

The duo's 1975 flick "The Passenger" casts our Jack as a celeb television journalist who gets mixed up with some bad elements after taking on a dead man's identity. The film is challenging to sit through, has a beyond-way-cool seven-minute climax that took 11 days to shoot, and originally went by the chill title "Professione: Reporter."

Pass the popcorn. 1 and 7:30 p.m. today, Doris Duke Theatre. 532-8768.

— Derek Paiva

FREE FINANCIAL-AID WORKSHOPS BY LOCAL-BOY AUTHOR AND WIFE

Parents of college-bound students know it's crunch time when those dreaded financial aid forms are due.

To help the document-challenged, Waialua High grad Gen Tanabe and his wife, Kelly, the Harvard-educated authors of Sallie Mae's "How to Pay for College," are giving free workshops. O'ahu workshops: 6:30 tonight at the Nanakuli High cafeteria and 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Farrington High's auditorium.

Information: http://gearup.hawaii.edu or 956-3879.

— Mary Kaye Ritz

FINAL WORD

"I caught a guy on the airplane try to secretly snap a picture on his phone while I was putting my stuff in the overhead compartment. That was uncool."

Jorge Garcia | the "Lost" actor responding to the question "Is fame creepy?" on www.TheFuselage.com, the official Web site of the "Lost" creative team