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April 4-10, 2014
COVER 8 Cache Valley native
Kylee Price turns focus towards a career in music
MUSIC 5 Annual performance of
Handel’s ‘Messiah’ set for April 12 at the Tabernacle
THE ARTS 4 Utah Festival Opera
tickets go on sale Monday
4 Utah State hosts annual International Banquet
MOVIES 3 A sneak peek at the
Kylee Price performs at the Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous on March 1. On the cover: A graduate of Mountain Crest High School, Price is now focused on college and a career in music after competing in dog-mushing events as a teenager. (Jeff Hunter/Herald Journal)
7 Movie critic Aaron Peck
FROM THE EDITOR
summer movie season hands out three stars to ‘Captain America’ sequel
BOOKS 11 New John Wayne
biography hits the target
COLUMN 10 Dennis Hinkamp goes to see the new film ‘Noah’
CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week
Noah is back and bigger (and buffer) than ever. While the new film based on the story of the Old Testament prophet’s efforts to build a massive ark and continue life on this planet has stirred up plenty of controversy, “Noah” did top the box office last week after bringing in more than $44 million (see story on page 6). Last week, Cache Magazine movie critic Aaron Peck gave the film four stars, while this week, our resident humor columnist Dennis Hinkamp shares his thoughts on Russell Crowe’s latest (see column on page 10).
Who knows when I might get around to seeing “Noah,” but chances are, I’ll struggle a little bit with director and co-writer Darren Aronofsky’s non-religious take on the well-known story from the Bible. In order to enjoy it, I’m sure I’ll have to approach it the way I did some of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. You see, when I was young, I was a disaster movie junkie. Movies that should have scared me to death when I was 8 years old were unbelievably compelling. I loved the “Airport” movies, although my parents were wise enough to postpone taking me to see “Airport ’77” until we got back from my first plane trip to Hawaii, since they do crash a 747 into the ocean in that one. And I loved pretty much everything producer Irwin Allen did. Hollywood’s
“Master of Disaster” created classics like “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno.” Allen also made “Flood,” a TV movie about a town wiped out when a dam breaks. “Flood” came out in November 1976, just about five months after the Teton Dam broke and overwhelmed my native Southeastern Idaho. That earthen dam cost about $100 million to build — a number “Noah” is sure to surpass at the box office within the month. Of course, the massive cleanup following the Teton Dam Disaster is what really ended up being costly. Needless to say, it is far better to clean up at the box office, and like it or not, that’s exactly what “Noah” is doing right now. — Jeff Hunter