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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 />
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