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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Update on event. Angie <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Flotsam and Jetsam [mailto:flotsam-jetsam@sbcglobal.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 12, 2011 7:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> Irwin HOtt<br><b>Subject:</b> Accessible Arts of Central Ohio will audio describe The Help on Saturday afternoon, September 17<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a name="OLE_LINK3">Accessible arts of Central Ohio will audio describe the both serious and humorous movie, The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling book of 2009, on Saturday afternoon, September 17, 2011.<o:p></o:p></a></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It will be held at the Marcus Cinema Crosswoods Theatre located at 200 Hutchinson Avenue, Columbus Ohio, 43085.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The cost of tickets for those in the Accessible Arts group will be $6 per person.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The movie will begin at approximately 3:30 pm and is 2 hours and 36 minutes in length including trailers. Audio description will be provided by Nancy VanVoorhis, one of our local describers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Help from DreamWorks Pictures is rated PG-13 for thematic material.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Synopsis taken from a review by David Edelstein of the New York Magazine:<o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>The Help </span></em><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>is beloved for showing white people the world of domestic servitude through the eyes of black women and reviled, in some quarters, as a white author’s misappropriation of black women’s experience.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> The novel is set in Jackson Mississippi in the early 1960’s, is predictable, heavy-handed, and rich in cringe-worthy Southern Negra’ dialect. But its also rich in evocative detail, in close observation of servants and employers, and the distinctive coping mechanisms of each class.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> From a dramatic standpoint, the most compelling vantage might well be that of the young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, presumably Stockett’s alter ego. She’s wracked with guilt over having essentially been raised by a black woman too poor to stay home with her own children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> If The Help exploits black experience, it does so partly out of a need for penance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Emma Stone plays the 23-year-old Skeeter, an aspiring writer, who returns from college to find her wealthy family’s cherished maid gone under mysterious circumstances, and her friends married with black maids of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> As racial tensions intensify, (Medgar Evers is murdered), other blacks are lynched, and the snooty debutantes reveal their true segregationist selves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Skeeter prevails on her friend, Elizabeth’s maid, Aibilene, played by Viola Davis, to tell her story in a book to be called appropriately enough The Help.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>To reserve a receiver or to let us know if you will need assistance from a volunteer, please call the Accessible Arts Information Line at 614 470-4777. Press 0 to get information about the movie. Then, at any time, press the Pound Sign to leave a message.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Give us your name and number, too, in case we need to reach you because of last minute time changes or other unusual circumstances.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>SEE YOU at the MOVIES!!!</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div></body></html>