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ARTS & COMMUNITY
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Smithsonian film captures Nepal earthquake
found two women whose lives
were saved because they hap-
pened to hike out of a village in
the Langtang Valley hours be-
fore it was flattened by a land-
slide.
By David Bauder
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK — It’s now a
given that most every natural di-
saster, even in a location as re-
mote as Nepal, will be captured
by gripping amateur video. The
challenge for the Smithsonian
Channel was taking this materi-
al and making it mean some-
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landslides caused by earth-
quakes in the mountains sur-
rounding the valley, sending
boulders tumbling to the
ground below.
Besides the personal stories,
filmmakers tried to establish the
science behind what happened,
explaining that about 200 years’
worth of what is normally grad-
ual movement between two geo-
logic plates was unleashed at the
moment of the quake. Mount
Everest, the world’s tallest
mountain, shrank by an inch.
Scientists can’t predict earth-
quakes, but they can forecast ar-
eas where they are likely to oc-
cur, and this was the case here,
the documentary said.
“Obviously, this is one of the
important stories of the year,”
Royle said. ‘We felt we could
provide context and nuance and
greater understanding.”
Network executives also
wanted to keep the story in the
public’s mind because the
Smithsonian Institution is in-
volved in trying to preserve
some of the historical buildings
and artifacts damaged in the di-
saster, he said.
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The network’s one-hour spe-
cial, Nepal Quake: Terror on
Everest,” airs Monday at 8 p.m.
More than 8,700 people
were killed and thousands more
injured in the April 25 earth-
quake and a May 12 aftershock.
Finding video evidence of the
disaster wasn’t hard. Two Nepa-
lese teenagers were recording
material for their YouTube
channel on a Kathmandu street
when the earthquake struck,
and they turned their camera
around to capture buildings top-
pling, birds flying franticafly and
people trying hard to stay on
their feet with the ground con-
vulsing beneath them.
Video taken from a Mount
Everest base camp showed a
wall of crushed ice and snow
rushing toward hikers, eventu-
ally killing 19 of them. Since
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The Smithsonian Channel, “Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest,” a one-hour special airing on Monday, includes images from the ruins
of Kanjin Gompa, a village in the Langtang Valley destroyed by a landslide.
the full story. What we were able
to do is tell the fuller story.”
That was because there were
hardly any moments when
somebody didn’t have a mobile
phone out with the video button
pushed. Documentary makers
acquired video from a hiker who
kept the camera running as he
tary tells stories of how hikers
were airlifted off the mountain,
including one American who
nearly died because of fluid in
his lungs caused by high alti-
tude.
some 25 million times, said Da-
vid Royle, executive vice presi-
dent of programming and pro-
duction at the Smithsonian
Channel.
“That is how people experi-
enced this story in many ways,”
Royle said. “What was impor-
tant to us is that nobody has seen
rushed into a tent and crouched
under a table when the wall of
ice hit, then emerged to see the
chaotic aftermath. Hikers tried
to help one man keep warm
when he was caught without a
coat.
Besides the Everest story,
which dominates about half of
this documentary, filmmakers
Through the video and eye-
witness accounts, the documen-
CBS’ Dickerson prepares
for ‘Face the Nation’ debut
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sio. He’ll also speak with the head
of the House Homeland Security
Committee about efforts to fight
terrorism.
“That was Bob’s mantra and
advice — stick to whatever the
news is, figure out who you can
have on who can illuminate that
and ask the kind of questions that
people want asked,” Dickerson
said.
week was the show’s biggest audi-
ence in four months. Dickerson is
the second rookie in the space
heading into a presidential elec-
tion, with Chuck Todd of NBC’s
Meet the Press. Dickerson appre-
ciates the timing of the torch-
passing, giving him the summer
to get settled in before the cam-
paign begins in earnest.
He’ll keep his job as political
director, believing it necessary to
report stories during the week to
ask sharp questions today, and
hopes to be in touch with viewers
through social media and conver-
sations on the road.
Schieffer was a true Washing-
ton insider, but his Texas twang
reminded viewers he was from
elsewhere. Dickerson grew up in
Washington.
“I’m not exactly from the more
interesting part of the country” he
said. “So I spend a lot of time talk-
ing to people and trying to figure
out what I’m missing and under-
stand what they think is happen-
ing in Washington. I want people
to see that reflected in the show. I
want them to see things that are
interesting and important to their
lives going on in the show, and an-
swer the questions that people
care about.”
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By David Bauder
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK - For his first
week as moderator of CBS’ Face
the Nation today, John Dickerson
has no intention of playing
around with a format consistent
for more than half a century.
The CBS News political direc-
tor replaces Bob Schieffer, who re-
tired last week after 24 years at
the Washington-based public af-
fairs program. Unlike some peo-
ple who enter a job in a whirlwind
of new ideas, Dickerson is being
cautious and has no qualms ad-
mitting it
“I want to put my own stamp
and touch on the show,” he said.
“But I don’tknowwhatthatis yet”
Dickerson, a former Time
magazine correspondent and a
Slate writer who joined CBS six
years ago, saw in the archives that
Sen. Joseph McCarthy was inter-
viewed on the first Face the Na-
tion in 1954. That illustrates a sig-
nature he wants to maintain, of
booking the most important
newsmakers he can each week
and diving right in to questions.
His first week’s guests include
three men with national aspira-
tions for themselves or their ideas:
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Players run around and “shoot” each other in the colorful game of “Splatoon,” available on Wii U.
At least initially, he won’t do a
weekly commentary. A reporter’s
roundtable this week will feature
Susan Page of USA Today, Ja-
melle Bouie of Slate, Ron Four-
nier of National Journal and
Nancy Cordes of CBS. Dickerson
plans to rotate different panelists
each week.
Dickerson, 46, has a CBS heri-
tage. His mother Nancy Dicker-
son was CBS News’ first female
correspondent Her son’s book
about her, On Her Trail, is com-
ing out in paperback this summer.
Schieffer left Face the Nation
in strong shape: It often wins a
tight ratings competition among
the Sunday morning public af-
fairs shows and the nearly 4 mil-
lion people who saw his finale last
‘Splatoon’ brings colorful
glee to online shooters
per Smash Bros, will also miss
the ability to set up offline mul-
tiplayer matches with friends in
your living room.
There is one two-player
mode available, but it’s a mun-
dane balloon-popping challenge
that doesn’t capture the frenzy of
the online turf wars. Splatoon
does include a surprisingly
meaty single-player adventure
with some clever twists, like in-
visible pathways and expand-
able platforms.
Still, the heart of Splatoon is
those three-minute online me-
lees, and they are a blast. Even
inexperienced players will feel
like they have something to con-
tribute, as long as they can keep
their paint guns loaded and
avoid the tornadoes of color re-
leased by more powerful foes.
Even when you lose, you feel en-
ergized enough to jump right
back into the fray.
Splatoon could use more
arenas and more varied goals
within the online fights.
But its lighthearted ap-
proach is a refreshing change in
a genre that’s gotten bogged
down in gloomy, kill-or-be-
killed hostility.
GAME REVIEW
By Lou Kesten
Associated Press
Online gaming may be dom-
inated by shootouts like Call of
Duty and Halo, but they’re not
exactly family-friendly. It’s not
just the copious gore; the explo-
sive profanity that passes for
trash talk has driven many a par-
ent to unplug the game console.
Splatoon is Nintendo’s noble
attempt at creating a multi-
player shooter everyone can en-
joy. Gone are the graphic head-
shots and flying body parts. And
Splatoon doesn’t even allow on-
line chat, so if you want to get
cursed out by teenagers, you’ll
probably have to drive over to
the mall.
The main attraction of Spla-
toon is its four-versus-four
paintball matches. Each player
is armed with a paint gun or
some other paint-spraying de-
vice. The object of each “turf
war” isn’t to kill your opponents;
instead, you and your team-
mates want to cover most of the
arena with your color.
Your character is a lanky hu-
man “Inkling,” and Nintendo lets
you adjust gender, skin color and
eye color. Each Inkling can trans-
Splatoon
★★★
$59.99, Wii U
form into a squid that can swim
under any painted surface as long
as the squid and the paint are the
same color. Switching to squid
mode lets you move much more
quickly, climb walls and hide from
enemies, and the controls are so
smooth that it’s a blast just to
swim around the environment.
It’s easy to join an online bat-
tle, and I never had to wait more
than a minute to find seven oth-
er combatants to play with. The
matchmaking is a little rough:
Even on launch day I found my-
self facing off against players
who had already advanced a
dozen levels ahead of my Ink-
ling, and Splatoon doesn’t try to
balance each team’s roster be-
tween newbies and veterans. So
far, you can’t create your own
team or set up private battles for
just you and your friends, though
Nintendo has promised such
functions for later in the year.
Fans of Nintendo party
games like Mario Kart and Su-
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Tonys
“That was my first lesson
that, wait a minute, why do we
think they want to see it in New
York and they don’t want to see
it in their hometown?”’ she said.
Naturally, more mainstream
shows like The Sound of Music
or Wicked are popular, but she
said there’s always a place for
edgy and provocative, too.
“The presenters really do try
to balance their seasons out.
Having an entire season of old
classics or revivals, their audi-
ences are going to be bored,” she
said.
that was nice.’ That’s not chang-
ing lives. That’s not changing at-
titudes. That’s not changing
your community.”
Gold said he’s often ap-
proached by people stunned
that they connected with Fun
Home, despite its very specific
story. “It’s not because everyone
has a closeted father who kills
himself. It’s because everyone
has a father,” he said. “Everyone
has a crazy family.”
At the moment, the road is
full and several shows are pull-
ing in $1 million a week. The
coming season promises new
tours of Finding Neverland,
On the Town, The King and I,
Into the Woods and The Body-
guard, as well as shows already
out there, like Motown, The Li-
on King, Jersey Boys, Pippin
and Cinderella.
Good reviews are nice, but
they don’t guarantee a hit, as
Honeymoon in Vegas learned
this season. “The road responds
more to the box office in New
York than they do the reviews,”
Blair said. “If you’ve got both,
man, it’s a home run.”
Fun Home got both, and its
creators and producers are
proud that a musical with a les-
bian character as its lead — un-
precedented for Broadway —
will tour the nation.
“Many people asked us, ‘Is
this commercial?’ ‘How are peo-
ple going to respond to this?’ We
felt that as much as it was Ali-
son’s unique story, there was also
universal ideas and themes at
work here,” Caskey said.
“What’s been incredibly grat-
ifying is that those universal
themes are resonating, and
that’s why the show is getting the
response that it’s getting.”
Laura Kepley, the artistic di-
rector of the Cleveland Play
House, said theater profession-
als have to be bold and provoca-
tive or risk losing audiences to
film, TV and video games.
“As a producer, I always
think, ‘Why aim for the middle?’
I don’t want people to go, ‘Oh,
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King
The New York Supreme
Court ruled in Richards’ favor,
allowing Richards to join the
women’s pro tour in 1977.
King said she called the play-
ers together after meeting with
Richards for four hours and re-
ceiving confirmation from doc-
tors that she was a woman.
“I said We’re going to have
her on the tour, so get used to it.’
Some were unhappy, some were
trying to figure it out. But it
worked out fantastic,” King said.
“The players ended up loving
Renee.”
King played doubles with
Richards, who reached the U.S.
Open women’s doubles finals in
1977 with Betty Ann Stuart.
Richards, who was also a re-
nowned ophthalmologist, later
coached Martina Navratilova
and “really improved her back-
hand,” King said.
King marvels at how atti-
tudes about sexual identity have
changed since the early 1970s.
“Being educated, learning,
having knowledge is so much
better,” she said. “Usually things
become less shame-based the
more you know. An unknown is
what people usually fear the
most.”
great role model,” King said.
While Richards fought
through the courts for accep-
tance, Jenner introduced Cait-
lyn via Twitter and was immedi-
ately named the recipient of the
Arthur Ashe Courage Award for
the upcoming ESPY Awards on
July 15.
King, who was outed as a les-
bian in 1981, won the award for
individual contributions that
“transcend sports” in 1999.
“Caitlyn’s in for a whirlwind.
She already has been, but it’s go-
ing to be crazy,” King said. “I
think it’s really appropriate that
Caitlyn’s won the Arthur Ashe
Courage Award.”
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Vaughn
video for the song here and in
Colorado as a show of support
for Alexis Bortell. Meanwhile,
his song is available for down-
load for free. He’ll perform a
fundraising show for Team
Alexis at 9 p.m. July 17 at Andy’s friends share his frustration
Bar on the downtown Denton with lawmakers.
Square.
Vaughn said hip-hop produc- are taking the power out of peo-
er Tony Snow plans to include pie’s hands and putting it out of
‘We the People” on a mix tape of reach. That’s atrocious,” he said.
Texas rap recordings. A release
date hasn’t been announced.
His frustrations won’t give
way to apathy, though.
“I will always vote,” he said.
To listen to “We the People,”
or to download the track for free,
‘It seems like the lawmakers visit http://rvrb.fm/lcCzvL5.
Vaughn said a lot of his
Richards is still King’s eye
doctor and “one of the best peo-
ple I’ve ever known. She’s been a
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