By Chris Stringer - Times Books
In their eighth collaboration, Burton and Depp have lost their magic
The Avengers launch blockbuster season with a bang! Pow! Smash!
Jason Segel’s charm, writing chops help lift rom-com above the rest of this week’s field
Yawning over fawning Bob Marley doc, a spark-less Nicholas Sparks romance and a limp chimp
movies / 6 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. The best in B science fictions movies, drive-in classics, psychotronic weirdness and more. Beer and Pizza specials all night long. $5. arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.
Comedy / 8:30 p.m. Cher-ae Heights Casino, Trinidad. Local blue comedy troupe makes with the funny. If you get offended, don't go! This month features Bay Area comedian Matt Gubser. cheraeheightscasino.com. 800-684-2464.
wellness / 7:15 p.m. First Christian Church Eureka, 730 K St. Led by Cindee Grace. Topic: “Enlightenment On Your Own Terms.” Fragrance free, please. $3/$6 free will donation. 269-7044.
dance / 7 p.m. Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, 412 G St., Eureka. North Coast Dance children's recital inspired by fairy tales. $12/$10 kids 12 and under. northcoastdance.org. 442-7779.
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Comment / By Mara / July 30, 2009, 10:37 a.m.
A lot of adoptive parents are angry about one line in this film: It must be hard to love an adopted child like your own.
They are angry about this movie line but are perfectly content that their adopted child has a birth certificate that was permanently sealed from him/her and a falsified “amended” one issued.
Adoptees have to live their lives carrying around amended birth certificates and are NEVER allowed to see their original birth certificates containing their true names and the names of his/her true biological parents. Adopting parents get to have their names placed on the amended certificates as the birth parents! What lies!!!! These violations of a childs rights does not concern the protestors because it works for them! It is not their ethnicities, their heritages that are sealed. No, their newly purchased child will be forced to accept these lies are his/her truth. These self-righteous people own the copyrights to their adopted child’s identity and could care less that it’s FICTION that is on their child’s birth certificate.
It is downright disgraceful and pathetic what people choose to protest.
Getting angry over one-liners and not giving a hoot about our (adoptees) civil rights is laughable.
If you agree with me, you’ll want to sign the petition is support of Esther’s rights: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/orphan-movie-t-shirts-for-open-records because no one should have to kill for their birth records.
I enjoyed the movie. She should win an academy award.