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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
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In the News
(Answers are on page
below)
What position was Rep.
Willie Talton just named to
in the Georgia House of
Representatives ?
Who received this year’s
Charlie L. Jones Memorial
Award from the Warner
Robins Chamber of
Commerce?
What sport does HCHS
junior Katie Carpenter excel
in?
Know your Houston
County
We’re going to try keeping
you in suspense. This week
the answers to the quiz
won’t be listed below.
Instead, as with the Literary
Quiz and Bishop’s Bafflers,
we’re asking you to send
your answers to
cperkins@evansnewspa
pers.com or call Charlotte at
(478) 987-1823, ext. 234.
Those who get any of the
three right will be listed in
next week’s quiz.
This question comes from
Barry Kaigler. When was
the last time a Perry fooball
team won a state champi
onship?
Which current county
commissioner formerly
served in the Georgia House
of Representatives.
How many exits from 1-75
are there in Houston
County?
Charlotte's Literary Quiz:
Give the source of these
lines:
For some we loved, the
loveliest and the bet
That from his Vintage
rolling time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup a
Round or two before,
And one by one crept
silently to rest.
Last week's cognoscenti:
Helen of Troy had ‘the
face that launched a thou
sand ships and burned the
topless tower of Ilium.” The
specific line quoted was
from Christopher Marlowe’s
“Doctor Faustus,” but since
Marlowe was referring to
Homer’s Iliad, and I got sev
eral answers crediting
Homer, I’m going to accept
both Marlowe and Homer.
Getting it right were Jerry
Wall, Bill Harrison, Jim
Worrall, Betsy Bazemore,
Jolene Pierson, Laurie
Jones, Mike Stanley and
Terry Everett.
Bible Quiz:
Joe Bishop has other com
mitments this week, so we
don’t have his quiz or his
list of who got it right. We’ll
be back to you next week
Bishop’s Bafflers.
To keep you busy, howev
er, here’s a quiz that is
intended to send you look
ing through your Bible.
What we want is the book,
chapter and verse for each
line of scripture below. Send
your answers - using the
subject line “Bible Quiz” - to
cperkins@evansnewspa
pers.com Or drop them by
the Perry office in writing.
The names of those getting
all five right will be in next
week’s paper. (These are
from the King James
Version)
1. Man that is born of a
woman is of few days, and
full of trouble.
2. How beautiful are thy
feet with shoes, 0 prince’s
daughter!
3. For God hath not given
us the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a
sound mind.
4. And round about the
throne were four and twenty
seats: and upon the seats I
saw four and twenty elders
sitting, clothed in white rai
ment; and they had on their
heads crowns of gold.
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Anwers
PHS students create their own anthology
Class visits
Evergreen
Cemetery and
writes poems
inspired by
Edgar Lee
Masters
From Staff Reports
PERRY - Back in
November, Amy Fouse’s
10th grade Honors
Literature class of Perry
High School visited
Evergreen Cemetery in
Perry.
“The purpose of this visit,
“ Fouse explains” was to
learn about Perry’s past
through its past genera
tions in order to compile an
anthology of poetry in the
style of Edgar Lee Masters’
Spoon River Anthology.”
The students were guided
by Elbe Loudermilk and
Mable Collins, both of
whom are members of the
Daughters of the American
Revolution. They have done
extensive research on the
Evergreen Cemetery and
created a walking tour of
the cemetery.
As the students were led
around the graveyard,
Loudermilk and Collins
shared stories and facts
about the deceased and the
time period in which they
lived. They told the stu
dents about the changes in
Perry through the many
decades and made many
connections to well-known
landmarks, citizens, and
events.
With this information,
*‘ip
By ROBERT DENERSTEIN
Scripps Howard News Service
THE ASSASSINATION
OF RICHARD NIXON (C+)
Sean Penn plays another great
loser, this time a hapless sales
man who fails in his attempt to
fly a plane into the White
House. Penn’s character
becomes a quintessential loser
and the performance has Oscar
nomination potential, but direc
tor Niels Meuller isn’t able to
raise the story to tragic levels.
The result is an artful movie
about a moral pipsqueak, a
character of too little conse
quence.
Rated: R. Language and a
scene of graphic violence
CLOSER (B) Mike Nichols
returns to old turf (gender war
fare) in this sometimes scalding
look at four predatory singles
living in London. The men
(Clive Owen and Jude Law) find
themselves in a kind of twisted
competition for the affections of
the women (Julia Roberts and
Natalie Portman). In adapting
Patrick Marber’s 1997 play,
Nichols doesn’t approach the
kind of epic malice that
launched his career in 1966
with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” Yet, he conveys a tough
and clear-eyed view of the way a
group of strangers can become
so familiar they’re apt to rip one
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GA 31069.)
Friday, Jan. 28
• Mike Robinson & Plan B,
Shenanigan’s Case, 1291 S.
Houston Lake Road, Warner
Robins, (478) 988-8252
• One Eyed Jax, Our Place,
2132 U.S. 41 North, Perry,
Perry High School students take notes at Evergreen Cemetery.
Fouse’s students wrote
autobiographical epitaphs
in the style of the legendary
Edgar Lee Masters. The
students could chose from
people such as A.C. Dayton,
a school teacher, J.R.
Duncan, a Civil War veter
an, B.F. Tharpe, and many
more.
The students then com
piled their poetry into a
class booklet portraying
what life might have been
like to the selected person,
while he or she was alive.
“ All in all,” Fouse says,
“they learned much about
their history, the city of
Perry.”
The memories of the
The inspiration
The Perry High
School students’
anthology was
inspired by American
poet Edgar Lee
Masters’ most famous
work, “Spoon River
Anthology” which was
published in 1915, and
another apart. Owens gives the
stand-out performance as an
increasingly malicious derma
tologist.
Rated: R. Profanity, nudity.
COACH CARTER (B-)
Samuel L. Jackson is as sharp
as ever in a mildly formulaic
high-school sports movie that’s
not too damaged by our famil
iarity with the genre. We’ve
dribbled down this court before,
but “Coach Carter” has two
things going for it: Jackson’s
bristling performance and a
twist that helps move the focus
off the court. Carter shuts down
his school’s winning basketball
program when student-athletes
fail to maintain agreed-upon
grade averages. Based on a true
story.
Rated: PG-13.
GOOD COMPANY (B)
Aside from an ending that
has more to do with feel-good
fantasy than with reality,
there’s nothing much wrong
with this affable comedy
about an aging ad salesman
(Dennis Quaid) who is threat
ened by a young challenger
(Topher Grace). A decent
mainstream movie built
around a complication:
Grace’s character falls for
Quaid’s character’s daughter
NIGHTLIFE
(478) 218-2299
Saturday, Jan. 29
• DJ-KD, Shenanigan’s
Case, 1291 S. Houston Lake
Road, Warner Robins, (478)
988-8252
• One Eyed Jax, Our Place,
2132 U.S. 41 North, Perry,
(478) 218-2299
Wednesday, Feb. 2
• Tim Chandler, Our Place,
2132 U.S. 41 North, Perry,
(478) 218-2299
ENTERTAINMENT
revealed the secret lives of over 200 dead citi
zens of a fictional small town in Illinois.”
One of the most famous of Masters’ poems
has to do with a real person, Anne Rutledge,
who was engaged to Abraham Lincoln, but died
before they could be married, and was consid
ered by many to be the great love of his life
OUT of me unworthy and unknown
The vibrations of deathless music;
“With malice toward none, with charity for
all.”
CAPSULE REVIEWS OF CURRENT MOVIES
deceased live in their poet
ry-
Here are two of the stu
dent poems, written as epi
taphs for real people from
the past.
William Havis
By Jake Mitchem
Great day, the sun is shin
ing,
Memories come flooding
back,
Hurt engulfs me,
My brothers I remember
dead and dying.
It is over like a flash,
What once was is now
gone.
I am back in a sunny day,
I am on the way to pick up
(nicely played by Scarlett
Johannson). Smooth direction,
solid acting and a few laughs
from Paul Weitz of “American
Pie” fame.
Rated: PG-13.
LEMONY SNICKET’S A
SERIES OF UNFORTU
NATE EVENTS (B) A big
screen adaptation of three
Daniel Handler stories about a
narrator (Jude Law) who spins
adventures for three siblings
(Liam Allen, Emily Browning
and Kara and Shelby Hoffman,
twins who alternate playing the
toddler in the group) whose par
ents perish in a fire. Visually
impressive, “Lemony Snicket”
showcases Jim Carrey in a vari
ety of roles and features sup
porting performances from Billy
Connolly and Meryl Streep.
There’s nasty humor and peril
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My wish,
My sdeath wish,
How ironic in a minute
life is over,
I don’t know it but it si
I get through war - war is
hell
Then I lose it.. I lost life,
I am shot,
I am dead
I shot myself with a gun
meant to protect me.
1 will die.
Dr. Rudd
By Sarah Jansen
I sit on my crumbling
wall and wonder-
Where is the devil now ?
Out of me the forgiveness of millions toward
millions,
And the beneficent face of a nation
Shining with justice and truth.
I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these
weeds,
Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,
Wedded to him, not through union,
But through separation.
Bloom forever, O Republic,
From the dust of my bosom!
here, but kids familiar with
Handler’s very successful books
shouldn’t be taken by surprise.
Rated: PG.
NATIONAL TREASURE
(C) Producer Jerry
Bruckheimer (“Armageddon”
and “Pearl Harbor”) goes easy
on the explosives in a story that
toys with American history in
order to build a treasure-hunt
ing adventure. Nicolas Cage
portrays a treasure hunter who
believes there’s a treasure map
on the back of the Declaration
of Independence. He wants to
steal the Declaration to protect
it from thieves. The movie falls
short as either a window into
American history or a crackling
good adventure. Besides, Cage
has had much better outings.
Rated: PG.
WHISKEY RIVER NIGHTCLUB
Live Entertainment Every Wed.-Sat.
Appearing Jan. 26th-29th: BUCK WILD
Join us for Whiskey River’s
SILVER ANNIVERSARY
PARTY
Monster Buffet • Party Favors • Champagne Toast
SlAPef Person
Coming Feb. 25th
CONFEDERATE RAILROAD
COMEDY CLUB “Makin ’ Macon Lass”
Appearing Jan. 26th-30th:
Laugh With SCOTTY K
He’s Hysterical!
A Blend of Stand-Up, Improv & Music
Coming hies., Feb. 22nd: PAULY SHORE
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2005 ♦
Is he hunting me?
Has he found my key?
The key that was throwin
in the river -
Or was it?
Did the pastor - like
Judas - betray me -
Sell my soul to Satan ?
The sound of my dentist
drill
Whirring my ears, bring
ing back nightmares of
Satan!
Paranoia and
Pandemonium consumes
my thoughts these days.
So I sit on my crumbling
wall and
Wonder, watch, and wait
for... the devil?
OCEAN’S TWLEVE (B)
Director Steven Soderbergh
offers an abundantly plotted
sequel to his 2001 hit, “Ocean’s
Eleven.” The new movie is far
from the best heist movie
you’ve ever seen, but it boasts
one of the smoothest casts in
years. George Clooney, Brad
Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia
Roberts return to headline a
movie that’s as much about
celebrity banter as anything
else. But Soderbergh displays
an appropriate and admirable
lack of seriousness, and he
makes sure that the locations
(Amsterdam, Rome and Lake
Como) are suitably glamorous.
Catherine Zeta-Jones joins the
ensemble as a cop on the trail of
Ocean’s gang.
Rated: PG-13. Adult situa
tions.
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