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August 1, 2005Odds and ends from the Film FestivalFROM STAFF REPORTSThe 30-second anti-tobacco public service announcement that the crowd of about 6,000 saw at the Open Space on Friday Night prior to "Jaws" was created by three Northport High School students. The audience cheered after watching the 30-second "The Jaws of Smoking," which was made by ninth-graders Ryan Blessing, 15, Edward Gonzalez, 14, and Basil Stowe, 14. They had the idea for their PSA back in November, and it was coincidental that they chose to do one with a shark theme. It was among five anti-smoking PSAs made by 12 teens from Northport as part of a project working with local photographer and instructor Ken Scott and Tobacco Addiction Specialist Lisa Danto. The project was funded with a grant from the Leelanau Township Community Foundation. Danto said the festival was excited to show it, "not only because the theme was fitting, and because it also was an 'independent' film, but notably, because the organizers decided to make the Open Space a smoke-free outdoor area." - A reader e-mailed to share an experience she had while seeing "The Baxter" at Old Town Playhouse Friday night. Also attending was a well-known local dyed-in-the-wool Republican couple. The reader reports that the couple engaged in conversation with another couple in front of them. Shortly after, the man they'd been talking to turned around and looked directly into the woman's eyes, as if to deliver a compliment, and said, "You look absolutely - liberal tonight!" "It made me laugh and I just couldn't resist sharing it with someone," she wrote.
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