Organizers going further afield to add events GAVIN JACKSON DISPATCH Ray Dillon throws during a boccie practice. Though rooted in track-and-field events, Special Olympics has grown through the years to encompass a much broader range of athletic com- petitions. Which explains why, when 3,600 competitors descend on Jesse Owens Stadium and eight other venues today through Sunday for the 40th annual state games, some will vie for medals not only in the 100-meter dash and the softball throw but in bowling and volleyball, too. “There are over 32 volleyball teams and 500 bowlers,” program director Marty Allen said. “Things are a lot more spread out.” SPECIAL OLYMPICS By Kristine Gill THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH See EVENTS Page D4 To see a video of a boccie practice, visit Dispatch.com/ multimedia. Indeed, the three-day competition will showcase no fewer than 11 sports. Among those that will crown winners: boccie, powerlifting and roller skating. Who knew? For a few dozen athletes from Franklin County, these events are the most important this weekend: Boccie Ray Dillon won’t let a teammate, or even a competitor, forget her turn. Amid challenges, ComFest future unclear The knife in his pocket was one that Bryan Barbin used to carve sticks, making a mess of shavings on the family porch in Worthington. On the Saturday night of the Community Festival last year — $20 and four hits of acid later — it be- came a weapon that the 18-year-old used to stab his chest so frantically that he couldn’t be stopped. Any of the wounds could have been fatal: Three of the six pierced his heart. “When people hear the circum- stances, it’s easy to say, ‘That could never happen to me,’” said his mother, Lyn Tolan-Barbin. “(But) even smart kids who make 1,000 great decisions can make a bad decision.” His drug-related death led, in part, to security changes for the 2010 ComFest, a free event already challenged by its growth during the previous decade. From today through Sunday, more than 70,000 people are expected to swamp Goodale Park for what was once a countercultural block party and has become, 38 years later, one of the most popular festivals in central Ohio. Columbus police plan to increase staffing and enforcement in and around the park, citing rising attendance, mounting complaints from neighbors and attendees, and two episodes last year: the assault of an officer by a festival-goer and Barbin’s death. “Anytime you have major inci- dents like that at any type of festival, it’s our duty to look at: Are we doing ‘THE PARTY WITH A PURPOSE’ The self-inflicted stabbing death last year of 18-year-old Bryan Barbin, the event’s growth and other factors prompted plans for tighter police enforcement at the 2010 festival — which worries organizers By Amy Saunders THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH BARBIN FAMILY Bryan Barbin in 2008 See COMFEST Page D5 06-25-2010 PAGE D1 D LIFE & ARTS FRIDAY JUNE 25, 2010 Family eager to give back Coming Saturday BOUND FOR ETHIOPIA Dispatch.com/weekender Online SO WHAT’S HAPPENING? Music defines Jackson’s legacy D4 One year later As pop culture goes, here’s what drew the most eyes and ears during the past 10 days: TELEVISION 1. NBA Finals, Game 7: Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers, ABC 2. NBA Finals, Game 6, ABC 3. America’s Got Talent (Wednesday), NBC 4. America’s Got Talent (Tuesday), NBC 5. NCIS, CBS ALBUMS 1. Thank Me Later, Drake 2. Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heart- breakers 3. Laws of Illusion, Sarah McLachlan 4. Now That’s What I Call Music! 34, various artists 5. To the Sea, Jack Johnson SINGLES 1. California Gurls, Katy Perry featur- ing Snoop Dogg 2. OMG, Usher featuring will.i.am 3. Airplanes, B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams 4. Billionaire, Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars 5. Find Your Love, Drake R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS 1. Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready), Alicia Keys 2. There Goes My Baby, Usher 3. Find Your Love, Drake 4. OMG, Usher featuring will.i.am 5. Lose My Mind, Young Jeezy featur- ing Plies DVD SALES 1. The Book of Eli 2. Alice in Wonderland 3. Shutter Island 4. When in Rome 5. From Paris With Love Sources: Nielsen Media Research, Billboard, Rentrak THE TOP FIVE CRITICS’ CHOICES Each week, we consult Metacritic.com to compile aggregate opinions, con- verted to numbers, based on reviews from printed and online sources. Each movie is ranked by its “Metascore,” an average rating from zero (terrible) to 100 (outstanding). — Nick Chordas [email protected]Post-‘SNL’ sampler MOVIE ....................................SCORE Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 78 Good Hair (2009) 72 Grown Ups (2010) 33 The Hot Chick (2002) 29 Joe Dirt (2001) 20 Disney animation MOVIE ....................................SCORE Beauty and the Beast (1991) 92 The Lion King (1994) 84 The Princess and the Frog (2009) 73 Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010) 69 Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) 52 M aking Grown Ups was undoubtedly great fun for its cast, which mixes former Saturday Night Live supporting players with the dynamic comedic pairing that fueled I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. It might have made a better-than-average home movie — or, if edited to three minutes, an amusing way to break up the workday at the website FunnyorDie.com. As a feature-length Hollywood release — one that grown-ups are expected to pay money to watch — the comedy is about as fun as a week- end spent with aging fraternity alumni who have forgotten, or probably never realized, that their MOVIE REVIEW GROWN UPS COLUMBIA PICTURES PHOTOS From left: Kurt (Chris Rock), Eric (Kevin James), Rob (Rob Schneider), Marcus (David Spade) and Lenny (Adam Sandler) Dumbfounded friends All-star cast relies on safe story, weak wisecracks for chuckles By Nick Chordas THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Unlikely lovebirds Rob and his wife, Gloria (Joyce Van Patten) MORE ONLINE To hear Nick Chordas discuss Grown Ups and see clips, visit Dispatch.com/ movies. REVIEWS INSIDE Waking Sleeping Beauty D2 Solitary Man D3 See GROWN UPS Page D2 PubDate: 06-25-2010 Page: 1D Edition: 1 Replate: User: tlemmon Color:C M Y K
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Organizers going further afield to add events
GAVIN JACKSON DISPATCH
Ray Dillon throws during a boccie practice.
Though rooted in track-and-fieldevents, Special Olympics has grownthrough the years to encompass amuch broader range of athletic com-petitions.
Which explains why, when 3,600competitors descend on Jesse OwensStadium and eight other venuestoday through Sunday for the 40thannual state games, some will vie formedals not only in the 100-meterdash and the softball throw but inbowling and volleyball, too.
“There are over 32 volleyball teamsand 500 bowlers,” program directorMarty Allen said. “Things are a lotmore spread out.”
SPECIAL OLYMPICS
By Kristine GillTHE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
See EVENTS Page D4
� To see a video of a bocciepractice, visit Dispatch.com/multimedia.
Indeed, the three-day competitionwill showcase no fewer than 11 sports.
Among those that will crownwinners: boccie, powerlifting androller skating.
Who knew?For a few dozen athletes from
Franklin County, these events are themost important this weekend:
BoccieRay Dillon won’t let a teammate, or
even a competitor, forget her turn.
Amid challenges, ComFest future unclearThe knife in his pocket was one
that Bryan Barbin used to carvesticks, making a mess of shavings onthe family porch in Worthington.
On the Saturday night of theCommunity Festival last year — $20and four hits of acid later — it be-came a weapon that the 18-year-oldused to stab his chest so franticallythat he couldn’t be stopped.
Any of the wounds could havebeen fatal: Three of the six piercedhis heart.
“When people hear the circum-stances, it’s easy to say, ‘That couldnever happen to me,’” said hismother, Lyn Tolan-Barbin. “(But)even smart kids who make 1,000great decisions can make a baddecision.”
His drug-related death led, inpart, to security changes for the2010 ComFest, a free event alreadychallenged by its growth during theprevious decade.
From today through Sunday, morethan 70,000 people are expected toswamp Goodale Park for what wasonce a countercultural block party
and has become, 38 years later, oneof the most popular festivals incentral Ohio.
Columbus police plan to increasestaffing and enforcement in andaround the park, citing risingattendance, mounting complaintsfrom neighbors and attendees, andtwo episodes last year: the assault ofan officer by a festival-goer andBarbin’s death.
“Anytime you have major inci-dents like that at any type of festival,it’s our duty to look at: Are we doing
‘THE PARTY WITH A PURPOSE’
The self-inflictedstabbing death lastyear of 18-year-oldBryan Barbin, the
event’s growth andother factors promptedplans for tighter police
enforcement at the2010 festival — which
worries organizers
By Amy SaundersTHE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
BARBIN FAMILY
Bryan Barbin in 2008 See COMFEST Page D5
06-25-2010 PAGE D1
DLIFE&ARTS�
FRIDAYJUNE 25, 2010
Family eager to give back
Coming Saturday
BOUND FOR ETHIOPIADispatch.com/weekender
Online
SO WHAT’S HAPPENING?Music defines Jackson’s legacy �D4
One year later
As pop culture goes, here’s what drew the most eyes and ears duringthe past 10 days:
TELEVISION1. NBA Finals, Game 7: Boston Celticsvs. Los Angeles Lakers, ABC2. NBA Finals, Game 6, ABC3. America’s Got Talent (Wednesday),NBC4. America’s Got Talent (Tuesday),NBC5. NCIS, CBS
ALBUMS1. Thank Me Later, Drake2. Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heart-breakers3. Laws of Illusion, Sarah McLachlan4. Now That’s What I Call Music! 34,various artists5. To the Sea, Jack Johnson
SINGLES1. California Gurls, Katy Perry featur-ing Snoop Dogg2. OMG, Usher featuring will.i.am3. Airplanes, B.o.B featuring HayleyWilliams4. Billionaire, Travie McCoy featuringBruno Mars5. Find Your Love, Drake
R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS1. Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready), AliciaKeys2. There Goes My Baby, Usher3. Find Your Love, Drake4. OMG, Usher featuring will.i.am5. Lose My Mind, Young Jeezy featur-ing Plies
DVD SALES1. The Book of Eli2. Alice in Wonderland3. Shutter Island4. When in Rome5. From Paris With Love
Sources: Nielsen Media Research, Billboard, Rentrak
THE TOP FIVE
CRITICS’ CHOICESEach week, we consult Metacritic.comto compile aggregate opinions, con-verted to numbers, based on reviewsfrom printed and online sources. Eachmovie is ranked by its “Metascore,” anaverage rating from zero (terrible) to100 (outstanding).
Post-‘SNL’ samplerMOVIE....................................SCOREPunch-Drunk Love (2002) 78
Good Hair (2009) 72
Grown Ups (2010) 33
The Hot Chick (2002) 29
Joe Dirt (2001) 20
Disney animationMOVIE....................................SCOREBeauty and the Beast (1991) 92
The Lion King (1994) 84
The Princess and the Frog(2009)
73
Waking Sleeping Beauty(2010)
69
Atlantis: The Lost Empire(2001)
52
Making Grown Ups was undoubtedly greatfun for its cast, which mixes formerSaturday Night Live supporting players
with the dynamic comedic pairing that fueled INow Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
It might have made a better-than-averagehome movie — or, if edited to three minutes, anamusing way to break up the workday at thewebsite FunnyorDie.com.
As a feature-length Hollywood release — onethat grown-ups are expected to pay money towatch — the comedy is about as fun as a week-end spent with aging fraternity alumni who haveforgotten, or probably never realized, that their
MOVIE REVIEW GROWN UPS
COLUMBIA PICTURES PHOTOSFrom left: Kurt (Chris Rock), Eric (Kevin James), Rob (Rob Schneider), Marcus (David Spade) and Lenny (Adam Sandler)
Dumbfounded friendsAll-star cast relies on safe story,weak wisecracks for chuckles
By Nick ChordasTHE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Unlikely lovebirds Rob and his wife, Gloria (Joyce Van Patten)
MOREONLINE� To hear NickChordas discussGrown Ups andsee clips, visitDispatch.com/movies.
Your birthday today:Here’s your winning secret:When you see opportunity,grab it without hesitation.Loved ones celebrate youthrough July. You’ll see newparts of the world in August.There’s a financial bonus inSeptember, or one of yourusual expenses is no longernecessary. � Cancer (June 22-
July 22): It’s your level ofawareness that will set youapart from the amateurs.Even before you make asound, you’ll be tuning in towhat’s happening.� Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You find a purpose that isdifficult and that requiresyou to grow stronger. That’swhy you like it so much. Youwould rather be a force ofnature than a victim of life.� Virgo (Aug. 23-
Sept. 22): Pick a simpleidea, and take it from startto finish in a few hours. Youare someone who can juggleand finish many projectssimultaneously.� Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Your mind will be wrappedup in your latest scheme tothe extent that it will bedifficuly to concentrate onwork. It bores you to do thesame thing repeatedly.� Scorpio (Oct. 24-
Nov. 21): You have a talentfor moving people toward acommon goal. Research anddevelopment will be crucial.� Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): When a loved onetells a story, you’ll listen.When this person dances,you’ll watch, and when heor she writes, you’ll read it.You care. � Capricorn (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19): You do morebecause you see more thatneeds doing and feelresponsible for the way theworld turns out.� Aquarius (Jan. 20-
Feb. 18): Being creative isone of your basic needs. It’sa need that is met onlywhen you carve out time. � Pisces (Feb. 19-
March 20): Though you arefriendly, you are also com-petitive. You don’t want tohurt anyone, but if there’sgoing to be a winner today,you’d prefer it to be you.� Aries (March 21-
April 19): Act with confi-dence. A leap of faith willturn out to be the mostpragmatic thing you couldpossibly do.� Taurus (April 20-
May 20): Your dreams areneither unrealistic nor self-ish. They are right for you.Stop thinking so hard anddoubting so much. You’relaboring over what shouldcome naturally. � Gemini (May 21-
June 21): At the start of thisbusy day, run your plansthrough the projector ofyour mind. When you ex-perience your future in yourmind first, all works well.
The bidding:SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST1� 1� Double Pass2� Pass 5� PassPass PassOpening lead: king of �
Here’s another example from the Eddie
Kantar series “Thinking Bridge,” designedfor players eager to improve their game:
“North’s double is negative. It shows fouror more hearts. If exactly four hearts, thedouble is unlimited, showing a minimum ofseven or eight high-card points because itforces partner to bid at the two level. If thedoubler has five or more hearts, the doubleis limited to 10 high-card points. With 11 ormore, responder bids a direct two hearts.
“A one-level overcall is assumed to be afive-card suit, minimum. With a six-cardsuit and six to nine high-card points, aweak jump overcall is often the choice.With a six-card suit and opening bidvalues, the suit is overcalled at the one leveland repeated at the two level, if possible.As West didn’t rebid spades at the two level,he probably has only five spades. As South,you can use the inference in the play.
“Duck the first spade and win the sec-ond. After you draw trumps and take thelosing heart finesse, East has no spade toreturn, so you can discard your losingspade on a good heart. Had you won thefirst spade, East would have had a spade toreturn upon winning the king of hearts,and down you go. Winning the secondround of a suit holding A-x often cuts thecommunication.”
Today is Friday, June 25, the176th day of 2010. There are 189 days left in the year.
HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY� On June 25, 2009, deathclaimed Michael Jackson, the“King of Pop,” in Los Angeles atage 50 and actress FarrahFawcett in Santa Monica, Calif.,at age 62.� In 1788, Virginia ratified theU.S. Constitution.� In 1876, Lt. Col. George A.Custer and his 7th Cavalry werewiped out by Sioux and Cheyennein the Battle of the Little Bighornin Montana.� In 1938, the Fair Labor Stand-ards Act of 1938 was enacted.� In 1942, 1,000 British Royal AirForce bombers raided Bremen,Germany, during World War II.� In 1950, war broke out in Koreaas forces from the communistNorth invaded the South.� In 1973, former White Housecounsel John W. Dean begantestifying before the SenateWatergate Committee.� In 1990, African NationalCongress leader Nelson Mandelamet with President George H.W.Bush at the White House.� Ten years ago: Philip Morrisannounced it was buying Nabiscofor $14.9 billion. � Five years ago: Hard-lineTehran mayor MahmoudAhmadinejad was declared thewinner of Iran’s presidentialrunoff election.� One year ago: North Koreavowed to enlarge its atomicarsenal and warned of a “fireshower of nuclear retaliation” inthe event of a U.S. attack, as theregime marked the 1950 out-break of the Korean War.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY“Fame will go by, and so long —I’ve had you, Fame. If it goes by,I’ve always known it was fickle.So at least it’s something I ex-perience, but that’s not where Ilive.” — Marilyn Monroe, Amer-ican actress (1926-62)Source: Associated Press
DAILY ALMANAC
Dear Carolyn: My boy-friend and I are moving intogether soon. He men-tioned that he assumed wewould get a joint checkingaccount for “general ex-penses.” Iassumedthe oppo-site.
I’m nottight withmy money,but I’mnervous tosee whathappenswhensomeoneelse starts spending it. I amforeseeing arguments overitemized grocery receiptsand bar tabs.
For what it’s worth, myboyfriend and I have thesame idea of what is rea-sonable spending, and hemakes about 11⁄2 times whatI make. Am I being un-reasonable?
— (Attempting To Stay)Financially IndependentDear Financially Inde-
pendent: The issue here isnot about being tight withyour money; it’s aboutbeing tight with your trust.
And it’s never wise toignore an impulse to with-hold your trust.
Specifically, it’s essentialto identify the source of thealarm and to determinewhether your reaction tosomeone is unhealthy,whether that someone isunhealthy or both. Onlywhen you know the sourceof a problem do you haveany chance of fixing it.
In your case, there aremany possible sources,including differences aboutmoney management, in-security, discomfort withbeing assertive about yourneeds, haste to move in, a
naturally cautious temper-ament and an untrust-worthy guy.
The last is the most obvi-ous — as is the answer:Postpone the move-in dateindefinitely.
If you do trust him im-plicitly with your savingsand you’re just wary ofsurrendering so muchautonomy at once, then saythat to him: “Moving in isalready a big adjustmentfor me. I’d rather notchange the way I handlemoney, at least not yet.”
If the source of yourhesitation isn’t that spe-cific, then you’re due forsome in-depth exploration.
You haven’t said any-thing about a principledopposition to marriage, sopresumably this shacking-up move is part of an incre-mental approach to com-mitment.
You really (really) don’twant to follow this coursewithout careful thought ateach stage about whatyou’re doing, why, whereyou hope to wind up andwhether your incrementalpartner shares your goals.
My stance on cohabita-tion: Don’t do it unlessyou’d marry each othertomorrow.
If you treat cohabitationas marriage and the ex-change of vows as a formal-ity, then, if the cohabitationdoesn’t work out, you’llwalk away from it thinking:Wow, I dodged a bullet.
What you should bethinking is: I can’t believe Iwas so careless aboutsharing myself.
Write to Carolyn Hax —whose column appearsSundays, Wednesdays andFridays — at [email protected].
TELL ME ABOUT IT
Impulses soundfirst warning
CAROLYNHAX
long-running jokes werenever particularly funny.
Grown Ups opens in 1978during a grade-schoolbasketball game — and anyboy or girl who competed inone during the 1970s or ’80swill know that the moviegets the details right (in-cluding the boxy gyms withalmost no space betweenthe sideline and the nearestwall).
The boys win the cham-pionship — and grow up tostrongly resemble AdamSandler and Kevin James(the aforementioned Chuckand Larry) as well as ChrisRock, David Spade and RobSchneider (SNL in the1990s).
When their old coachdies, the adults — or reason-able facsimiles thereof —head to a lake house tohonor his memory. Theytake their families, whichoccupy varying spots on thescale of dysfunction.
Never mind that the menconsider a hoops win from30 years ago to be amonglife’s defining moments: Thenotion is sad on many levelsbut crucial to the story aswritten by Sandler and long-time SNL scribe Fred Wolf.
Sandler clearly believesthat repetition is the key tomaking the audience laugh.As a result, the mother ofRock’s character has a recur-ring problem with flatulenceas well as a misshapen toe— which earns her the nick-names Toe-bo Cop and ToeJ. Simpson. The puns, un-fortunately, make up thebulk of Rock’s lines.
Another running gag sees
Schneider’s new-age healercozying up to a woman oldenough to be his mother(Joyce Van Patten). HowSalma Hayek’s fashionistaended up with Sandler’smumbling lug goes un-questioned, however.
Buried beneath the lamejokes and lackadaisical plot-ting — Grown Ups is almostdevoid of conflict — lies afunny story about schoolchums reuniting to compareand evaluate the strangepaths of their lives.
Grown Ups isn’t thatmovie, though.
It’s too busy getting aclose-up of Spade’s facebeing rubbed in animaldroppings — twice.
Grown Ups. Directed by DennisDugan. Written by Adam Sandlerand Fred Wolf. Photographed byTheo van de Sande.Adam Sandler............Lenny FederKevin James ..........Eric LamonsoffChris Rock..............Kurt McKenzieDavid Spade .........Marcus HigginsRob Schneider............Rob HilliardSalma Hayek ...............................
Roxanne Chase-Feder�1⁄2 (out of four)Men behaving sadly.MPAA rating: PG-13 (for crudematerial, including suggestivereferences, language and malerear nudity)Running time: 1:42Now showing at the Arena Grand,Crosswoods, Dublin Village 18,Easton 30, Gateway, GeorgesvilleSquare 16, Lennox 24, Movies 16Gahanna, Movies 10 at West-pointe, Movie Tavern Mill Run,Pickerington, Polaris 18, RiverValley, Star and Westerville 8theaters; and the South drive-in
The engrossing documentary WakingSleeping Beauty goes behind the scenes ofthe Disney animation machine from 1984to 1994 — a decade during which its cogswent from barely turning to spinning sofast they threatened to break apart.
Not surprisingly, artists clash withexecutives, executives clash with otherexecutives, and traditions are unceremo-niously scrapped for better and worse. Afew egos are bigger than Dumbo’s ears.
Many folks in the 1980s thought Disneyanimation wasn’t so much “sleeping” as itwas on the verge of decomposing.
The box-office failure of The BlackCauldron (1985), an expensive movie onwhich animators had toiled for years —coupled with the success of the com-peting An American Tail (1986), directedby former Disney employee Don Bluth —seemed to indicate that Mickey’s housewas, at best, hopelessly behind the times.
Of course, Disney animation wouldroar back, eventually producing hits suchas The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty andthe Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and TheLion King (1994) — inspiring theme-parkparades and lucrative merchandising.
Feuding Disney brass Michael Eisner,Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy E. Disney
provide high-level drama, but it’s the timespent with animators (including TimBurton and Pixar co-founder JohnLasseter, both appearing briefly) thatmakes the documentary more than anexamination of corporate politics.
In a wonderfully odd moment, thestressed animators blow off steam byre-enacting scenes from Apocalypse Now— all captured on grainy video.
Waking Sleeping Beauty was directedby longtime Disney producer Don Hahn(Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) andproduced by former head of animationPeter Schneider, who have replaced talk-ing heads with archival footage, photosand — most amusingly — hand-drawncaricatures.
The fascinatingly true story is conciselyand effectively told.
Waking Sleeping Beauty. Directed by DonHahn. Written by Patrick Pacheco.���1⁄2 (out of four)Becoming the Belle of the ball.MPAA rating: PG (for thematic elements, briefmild language)Running time: 1:26Now showing at the Gateway theater
WALT DISNEY PICTURES
Writer-lyricist Howard Ashman, left, blows up at directors Kirk Wise and GaryTrousdale during a story meeting for Beauty and the Beast (as drawn by Wise).
Disney revival magical to seeBy Nick ChordasTHE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
