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A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, August 30, 2007 Page 15 CONTINUED from 16 WILLOUGHBY EXHIBIT Troupe Of Friends Presents for an artist – she holds a master’s investigator,” she continued. degree in biochemistry from Trinity Ms. Willoughby has exhibited her College in Dublin, Ireland. She also paintings and drawings locally at the Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night worked in biochemical research at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Harvard University and biological Summit, the Arts Guild of Rahway, WESTFIELD – Under the spon- in love. He, however, loves Olivia data computer support at Merck in the Freeholder’s Gallery in Elizabeth, sorship of the Westfield Recreation and sends Viola to woo her for him. Rahway. and at WAA Members’ Shows. Department, Troupe of Friends, Inc., Olivia, in turn, becomes smitten with “It is true that our western educa- She has won various awards for her a non-profit Westfield theater com- his messenger. Confusion and hilar- tional system tends to categorize in- art and her work is held in many pany, will perform William ity ensue as this love triangle works dividuals depending on whether they private collections. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night this com- itself out. have scientific or artistic ability... Despite previous accolades, Ms. ing weekend. This play follows on The performances are Saturday and For me it has never been a problem, Willoughby feels exhibiting at the heels of their first two produc- Sunday, September 1 and 2, Labor as I often pursued art as a side inter- UCOCHA casts her work in a new tions of Comedy of Errors and Wait- Day weekend. Curtain is at 4 p.m. on est, while my day job was in sci- light. ing for Godot. the ball field at Memorial Park in ence,” she explained. “I feel it made my work seem more Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s Westfield. In case of rain, the produc- “One thing I enjoy about art is that important than it did before,” she said. most popular plays, is a comedy about tion will be in the Westfield Town there is no one true way of doing it,” According to UCOCHA, Union love, mistaken identity and confused Hall Community Center on East she said. “There are as many ap- County artists interested in exhibit- gender. Broad Street. proaches to artistic creativity as there ing in the Pearl Street Gallery are Disguised as a boy, Viola, a woman Both shows are free, open to the are artists, and if a piece of artwork welcome to apply. separated from her twin brother fol- public and suitable for audiences of all pleases the viewer, it works, regard- For more information about the lowing an accident, enters the service ages. Lawn chairs and blankets should less of how it is made.” Pearl Street Gallery or to learn about of Duke Orsino, with whom she falls be brought for outdoor seating. On the other hand, “In scientific other UCOCHA programs and ser- research, to get reproducible results vices, please contact the Union … the methodology must be rigor- County Office of Cultural and Heri- Symposium Picks Best Of ous… which requires a very disci- tage Affairs, 633 Pearl Street, Eliza- plined approach on the part of the beth at (908) 558-2550. NBC Photo: Justin Lubin Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca ™ WELL ‘BEE’HAVED...Former Westfield resident Pamela Gross participates on POPCORN NBC’s “Singing Bee” hosted by former ‘N Sync band member Joey Fatone. Ms. MOUNTAINSIDE – Starting Sep- tions made by September 4. Gross walked away with $10,000 after showing off her skills at recalling lyrics and tember 17, Filmmakers Symposium Confirmed films and those under Superbad: Gets Down singing along karaoke-style with popular music. will run for 12 weeks in New Jersey at consideration for the upcoming ses- CONTINUED from 16 NBC’S “SINGING BEE” AMC Loews Mountainside and AMC sion include: Charlie Wilson’s War With Separation Anxiety Loews Monmouth Mall. This series with Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, di- fellow contestants backstage. two mistakes. Ms. Gross won $5,000 has hosted 1,198 movie premieres rector Mike Nichols; The Diving Bell “It was heaven because I have this for each of the two songs she sang with 792 live guest appearances over and the Butterfly with Mathieu One Popcorn, Poor • Two Popcorns, Fair • Three Popcorns, Good • Four Popcorns, Excellent big karaoke geek side, and no one I’m correctly, but a third mistake during the past 16 years. Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, di- By MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGER he doesn’t look anywhere near friends with in normal life really likes Rick James’ “Superfreak” prevented “The program will always be flex- rector Julien Schnabel; Elegy with 3 popcorns twenty-five, as the bogus credential it,” Ms. Gross said. “My birthday is her from proceeding any further. ible in order to take advantage of Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, direc- Sex, sex and more sex. It seems to be claims. And it makes no sense that he really the only time I can drag my Because the episodes were taped opportunities as they arise,” said Sym- tor Isobel Coixet; Leatherheads with the only thing on Seth’s mind in chose only one name—McLovin— friends out to do it, so it was really fun weeks in advance, Ms. Gross wasn’t posium director Chuck Rose. “Won- George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, Superbad, director Greg Mottola’s hu- to adorn the document. Fogell, er, to hang out with all these people who allowed to share her good news with derful surprises and fantastic celebri- director George Clooney; Lions for morously raunchy, teen angst farce. McLovin, will score the booze. like to sing.” friends or family immediately. ties can pop up out of nowhere, so I Lambs with Tom Cruise, Meryl Shades of George Lucas’s masterful The odyssey afoot, Fogell enters She was also happy to learn she’d “It was really hard, but I just kept try to keep the schedule as fluid as Streep, director Robert Redford; No American Graffiti (1973), it’s a valid the liquor store. It looks like all signs been selected for the 1980’s-themed telling everyone they just had to watch possible. In the past two years, we Country for Old Men; with Tommy update of that timeless, rite of passage are go. But then, just as he is about to show. it,” she said. “My closest friends are premiered 71 films that later earned a Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, direc- rigmarole, sans the innocence, of course. make his coup, a bandit dashes in to “I would’ve been much more un- from Westfield and were all really total of 18 Oscar, 16 British Acad- tors Coen Brothers; Sweeney Todd Well, not quite. Virtue does have its rob the till, sucker-punching our point comfortable with more current stuff excited.” emy, 18 Spirit and 17 European Film with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham representation. While Evan (Michael man in the process. The cashier is like Pink or Maroon Five,” she said. She believes the only other time Award nominations.” Carter, director Tim Burton; and The Cera), Seth’s best friend, might not hysterical. The cops arrive. Instead, Ms. Gross sang along with she won a prize was years back at a Oscar winners and nominees Danny Orphanage with Belen Rueda, care to put it in so many words, he But while it appears to the frightened music from bands like Blondie and WHS pep rally. Aiello, Alan Arkin, James Cromwell, Fernando Cayo, director Juan Anto- timidly exemplifies its last remnants. lookouts that Fogell is being arrested, ZZ Top. “I was called out of the audience Frank Darabont, Ethan Hawke, Jean- nio Bayona, produced by Guillermo It is with pretty much the same cha- the truth is that officers Slater (Bill She recounted how the judges are when Allie Manville drew my name, Pierre Jeunet, John Sayles, Marc del Toro, the director of Pan’s Laby- grin that Superbad soft-pedals its Hader) and Michaels (Seth Rogen) have really sticklers for detail, such as in and I made a basket into the net across Shaiman, Howard Shore and David rinth. nonetheless touchy-feely core. taken an immediate liking to the be- the latter group’s lyrics to “Sharp the gym,” she said. “It was so amaz- Strathairn have joined Dylan Baker, Which is why Mr. Mottola’s con- spectacled geek. Adopting him as their Dressed Man.” ing, and I won a gift certificate to the Al Franken, Famke Janssen, Delroy New Theater Group tained explosion is far more gratifying mascot and confessor, he’ll ride the “I sung ‘every girl’s crazy about a Music Staff and bought a Jackson Lindo, Derek Luke, David Morse, than the scads of movies hoping to cash night with them. They are nuts. sharp dressed man’ and got it wrong Five CD!” Viggo Mortensen, Connie Nielsen and Presents Godspell Jr. in on the bad behavior of young folks in Meanwhile, through a subsequent because it’s ‘every girl crazy…’” she Ms. Gross has bigger plans for her Kevin Smith as guest speakers who SCOTCH PLAINS — A new the- search of a good time. Indeed, the out- series of mishaps and prompted by said, chuckling that the actual lyrics Singing Bee prize money. She re- have come to share their insights with ater group will present Godspell Jr. landishness and fantasy are there. Still, the promise of alcohol, Seth and Evan aren’t even grammatically correct. cently began publishing a new maga- Symposium participants. on Friday, August 31, at 7 p.m. and the characters are recognizable, their link up with a few screwballs of their But Ms.

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