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Cahoon Museum... CONTINUED FROM PAGE C:1 Interpretations of the "World of Words" were left up to the artists. Many of them chose people reading as their subjects. Susan O'Brien McLean shows a mother reading to her daughter.InAliceMongeau's "A Page Turner," an elderly couple loses each other in their books while soaking up sun at the beach. Jack Goldsmith modernizes the old post- man with a letter from home, only this time the teenager's message ar- rives by e-mail. Someone has settled in, snowbound, by reading lamp in a Marieluise Hutchinson Colonial nocturnal. Jayne Shelley Pierce 's contribution is a handsome village of dogs, one of whom reads a book on "training your pet."The dog'shuman master is docile inside a cage but less than thrilled about it. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 3, with music by composer andpianist Silvard.Refresh- ments are to include alphabet soup. Author welcomes audience... LOIS L TAYLOR PHOTO COAST WISE - Author Arthur Clark shares insights about the coastal packet trade that connected Cape Cod to the rest of MassachusettsduringthefirstOstervilleUnited Methodist Church library tea Saturday. CONTINUED FROM PAGE C:1 to a surprise conclusion. Arthur Clark told the audience that in many ways his book is a family history. His lineage con- nects him to the Hallets and Thachers - families that domi- nated YarmouthPort in the days of sail. Clark indicated that his inspiration for writing the book stemmed from his childhood days of hunting and clamming in the marshes and creeks from Sandy Neck to Bass Hole. "It was a time," he said, refer- ring to his youth, "where people were closer to the land. It was a life that none of us will ever see again. We're modern now. But I wanted to keep the memories of what it was like alive in my book. Ihad noproblem withdeveloping the characters or the story line. They are part of who I am." Indeed, even while the novel is a fictional piece, it is well researched and rooted in Cape history. The schooner Yarmouth was a real ship, built in 1841 for Captain Thomas Matthews. Central Wharf stood out 1,000 feet into the bay and was a commercial center for the town during much of the nineteenth century. The shorter nearby SimpkinsWharf wasused bytrap fishermen.The stormsthat Clark writes about did take the lives of a number of Cape sailors and were remembered for decades after by the survivors. Encouraged by Clark's an- nouncement that he has sev- eral more Cape-related books in variousstages of production,the audience left with the anticipa- tion of seeing the author again - -perhaps at next year's second annual library tea. John Waters divesin.., CONTINUED FROM PAGE C:1 "I didn't know that just because I am gay I have to be for gay marriage. Would I marry another man? Absolutely not. I don't have a partner. I have friends I see, but trust me, no one could live in this house but me." Waters is excited about his small- screen series to be shown on the gay cable network Here, Movies That Will Corrupt You. He handpicked 13 films and will introduce them in 13 rooms of his home. Part of the series' appeal is that audi- enceswillbe seeingfilms "no one has ever really seen,"said Waters. "Some of them are pretty horrifying. Some are extreme and important and smart. And all must be seen." Waters hopes the series will appealto "agay audience that is pretty adventuresome, and really cool straight people." He also hopes the series is successful so that it will be renewed. The reason? He laughed. "I need to show off and intro- duce a film in my bathroom." And what sickspirit,what diredysfunc- tion, in his childhood caused him to be so attracted to such tasteless treats? "Idon'tknow,"he confessed. "I've been to a shrink for the answer. I have taken long looks at my parents, but they have always been lovingand supportive. Ican only think that I made a career out of bad taste because Ihad the rules of good taste over-drilled into me." He paused, then laughed. "My mother called the other day and asked ifshe got Herewhere she lived. I said no. She said, 'Good!'" By Michael Rausch arts@barnstablepatriot.com Evolution isthe perfect word to use in conjunction with the latest Hol- lywood horror outing, Underworld: Evolution. After all, the monsters that inhabit the world depicted here are a far cry, and quite a bit evolved, from your granddad's movie blood- suckers. It is astonishing to me that somewhere along the way, between Max Schreck'ssilent yet sinisterNos- f eratu and the clan on display here, vampires and werewolves alike have, in fact, evolved into some manner of hybrid Ninja warrior/Rambo/mytho- logical creature. Black is still the preferred color of choice among the denizens of the night, but the cape and tux, high society manners, and basement-load of coffins filled with native soil have been tossed in favor of skintight black leather, black belt training, and the latest in high-tech military weaponry. The change is certainly under- standable, a reflection of a number of seismicshifts in pop culture -e.g., the ascension of pro wrestling, the greater emphasis placed on more explicit violence in comic novels, and the videogame boom with its own intricate plotlines and startlingly graphic violence. This latter point addresses most directly the specific caseof Underworld:Evolution,aswell as its obvious progenitor, the Blade series, given the video game origins of both. This sequel to 2003's Underworld picks up where the first movie left off, with the centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves continuing to rage. Kate Beckinsale's vampire warrior, Selene, teams with Scott Speedman's Lycan hybrid, Michael, both in search of the truth to their individualbloodlines. Meantime,the renegade vampire, Marcus, is on a personalcrusadeto recover anancient artifact, a medallion that apparent vampire hunter Corvinus, played by Derek Jacobi, is closely guarding. The secret to the medallion, as well as Marcus' desire for it, fall into the category of spoiler so I won't ruin the film's ending here. For all its faults (and it does have many, not the least of which is a pre- ponderance of overactingbyitscast of Shakespearean castoffs) Underworld: Evolution is an interesting hybrid itself of old and new-school vampire film.The film isset insomecold,dank, Eastern European Slavic burg, hear- kening back to the rosary-clutching peasantry of 1931'sDracula and allits forebears.Conversely, as mentioned, paramilitary garb abounds, as does high-tech weaponry in the form of guns,rifles, bombsand grenades,with Corvinus'battalion of vampireslayers looking likethey stepped out of Delta Force or SWAT. At the sametime,Marcus,inbeastly vampire form, is a wildly conceived creature, all gray sinew, with a set of bat wings that gives him more than the power of flight. The skeletal frame acts asapair of deadly lances, pinning foes against walls, or tear- ing through someone's heart. The werewolf transformations employ a human-to-creature transition simi- lar in style to that in An American Werewolf in London, but ratchet it up tenfold. Asfor the old-fashioned methods of killing off a vampire (stake through the heart, decapita- tion) or werewolf (shot with silver bullet), Underworld: Evolution 's battles have no time for such adher- enceto modemmythology.Just blow 'em up and let the chips fall where they may seems to be the order of the dayfor director LenWisemanand screenwriter Danny McBride. The fight scenes will appeal to Underworld' s core fan base, as will the special effects, but this is not a film that will reach beyond that target audience. Kate Beckinsale, a charmer in light romantic fare such as Serendipity, and Sir Derek are terrible wastes of talent here. They bring a certain cachet to the film, but Underworld: Evolution 's lack- luster vision doesn't honor them. TRAILERS: ANNAPOLIS ThinkAn Officer and a Gentleman, G.I. 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