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by Ben Falk
Michelle was a traveler, flowing like the wind and water, living life following her dreams. She grew up near the ocean in California-Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Fallbrook, and Oak Park-and also lived in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona. And then she began to have dreams about Santa Barbara and the ocean.
As the month of January drew to a close, I was feeling giddy: the Film Festival was upon us. Never mind that the events of the designated 11 days would leave me sleep-deprived, blistered, and, likely, hung over (or as I call it in my world, overworked); the fun our town’s fantastic Film Festival packs is well worth a couple of sleepless nights and the cost of a pedicure and a packet (or two) of Morning Relief.
Buzz is gathering among our youth for a film that seems unlikely to be the Garden State or even Napoleon Dynamite of this year. It’s titled Thank You for Smoking, a wry phrase coined by the novel’s author, Christopher Buckley, the satirist son of the man who invented conservatism for our time, William F. Buckley.
Still underappreciated after all these decades, film music remains one of those vital aspects of the medium deserving greater love. Part of the built-in problem with the discipline is the fact that good film music, by its nature, is something of a beautiful wallflower, designed to support the image and deflect excessive attention.
Although they don’t make life-or-death decisions, the jurors of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival have a serious job to perform. Selected from a pool of film-industry professionals, with resumes ranging from success to stardom, they show up beneath the radar and perform their tasks under a cloak of modest obscurity. Yet they play a vital role in the success and prestige of the festival.
When Felicity Huffman appears on the Lobero stage on Saturday for the festival’s “Conversations With” program, people will get a chance to see and hear the real-life Huffman, not the overworked, overburdened, pill-popping housewife and mother on Desperate Housewives (although she is admittedly an overburdened mother juggling two young daughters, a famous husband, and a demanding career).
First thing you should know is that Maria Bello is not a Thai boxer. “I can’t believe that story is still going around. A long time ago I was doing this TV series called Mr. & Mrs. Smith and I did some training, but the story obviously stuck.”
