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COMING AttRACtIONS<br />

Movie Nights<br />

Enjoy great current releases in the Vista Ballroom. This is the perfect time to round<br />

up the gang and have fun meeting new residents. Switch off your phone, sit back<br />

and enjoy the show! The cost is only $2 per person. Plus, we will offer free snacks<br />

for all moviegoers… hot dogs, popcorn, pretzels, candy, sodas and water. We<br />

normally feature Movie Nights on the first and third Fridays of the month. You<br />

must sign up by noon on the day of the show.<br />

Moneyball<br />

Friday, March 2,<br />

6 p.m.<br />

Bennett Miller’s<br />

adaptation of Michael<br />

Lewis’ non-fiction best<br />

seller Moneyball stars<br />

Brad Pitt as Billy Beane,<br />

a one-time phenom who<br />

flamed out in the big<br />

leagues and now works<br />

as the GM for the Oakland<br />

Athletics, a franchise<br />

that’s about to lose their three best players to free agency.<br />

Because the team isn’t in a financial position to spend as much as perennial<br />

favorites like the Yankees and the Red Sox, Beane realizes he needs to<br />

radically change how he evaluates what players can bring to the squad.<br />

After he meets Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an Ivy League economics major<br />

working as an executive assistant for scouting on another team, Beane<br />

realizes he’s found the man who understands how to subvert the system<br />

of assessing players that’s been in place for nearly a century. However, as<br />

the duo begin to acquire players that seem too old, injured, or inept to play<br />

major-league baseball, they face stiff resistance from both the A’s longtime<br />

scouts and the team’s manager Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who<br />

outright refuses to allow Beane’s more-nontraditional acquisitions to play.<br />

Moneyball screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry<br />

Seibert, Rovi. Theatrical MPAA Rating: PG13. Running Time: 133<br />

The Rum<br />

Diary<br />

Friday, March 16, 6 p.m.<br />

fear and loathing in las Vegas<br />

star Johnny depp returns to the<br />

wild world of Hunter S. Thompson<br />

in writer/director Bruce Robinson’s<br />

adaptation of the Gonzo journalist’s<br />

“lost” autobiographical novel of the<br />

same name. Dejected over life in New<br />

York <strong>City</strong> and at bitter odds with the<br />

Eisenhower-era conventions of the<br />

1950s, nomadic journalist Paul Kemp<br />

(Depp) flees to Puerto Rico, where he<br />

quickly lands a job as a reporter for a<br />

San Juan newspaper.<br />

Drawing inspiration from author<br />

Ernest Hemingway’s popular theory<br />

about “The Lost Generation,” the<br />

newly liberated journalist develops a taste for rum as he becomes slowly<br />

entangled in the lives of American beauty Chenault (Amber Heard) and her<br />

shady husband, Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), a wealthy real-estate developer.<br />

Later, as Sanderson’s underhanded business dealings begin to emerge,<br />

Kemp’s principles come into focus, and his writing style begins to mature in<br />

ways he never dreamed possible. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi. Theatrical MPAA<br />

Rating: R. Running Time: 120 minutes.<br />

SUN CITY COMPUTER GUY<br />

Jim Davis, the <strong>Sun</strong> <strong>City</strong> Computer Guy, will hold free “Office Hours”<br />

from 9-11 a.m. every Thursday in March, except March 29, in<br />

the Computer Room at the SCAL Community Center. He will be<br />

available to answer your computer<br />

questions and help you with any<br />

computer problems.<br />

Are you interested in transferring<br />

pictures from your camera to your<br />

laptop? Perhaps, organizing your<br />

pictures? Bring your questions<br />

and your laptops. There is no<br />

charge. Jim will also help any<br />

<strong>Sun</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Aliante</strong> resident free by<br />

e-mail at suncitycomputerguy@<br />

cox.net. He maintains a Web site<br />

with free computer help at www.<br />

suncitycomputerguy.com.<br />

Jim has been helping <strong>Sun</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

<strong>Aliante</strong> residents with their<br />

computer problems for over six<br />

years and teaches free classes in the Community Center. Watch for<br />

details in The Breeze!<br />

March 2012 - 19<br />

W W W . S c a l n l v . c O M - T H E B R E E Z E

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