2A - Friday, October 8, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com a MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Michigan Myths WEDNESDAY: Professor Profiles THURSDAY: Campus Clubs Photos ofthe 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ KATIE JOZWIAK Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 smilovitz@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com a LEFT: Only his second week living in Ann Arbor, J.J. Tyndall juggles while on South Main Street to enter- tain passersby on Tuesday (ERIN KIRKLAND/Daily). TOP RIGHT: Break danc- ers bust a move near the posting wall on the ground floor of Haven Hall Monday night. (SAM WOLSON/ Daily). BOTTOM RIGHT: An Indiana fan helps his sister identify where their mother is in the stadium as Michigan plays against Indiana in Bloomington on Saturday. Michigan won the game late in the fourth quarter with a touchdown by Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson. (JAKE FROMM/Daily). NEED MORE PHOTOS? 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Student slips out of chair WHERE: Shapiro Undergrad- uate Library WHEN: Wednesday at about 1:45 p.m. WHAT: A male student fell out of a chair on the third floor of the UGLi and felt "kind of out of it" after falling in and out of consciousness, Univer- sity Police reported. Car damaged while parked WHERE: 2600 Hayward WHEN: Wednesday at around 6:15 p.m. WHAT: A car was rear-ended while parked in Lot NC53, damaging the car's taillight and giving the car's bumper white scratches, University Police reported. Equipment damaged WHERE: 2200 Bonisteel WHEN: Wednesday at about 4:15 p.m. WHAT: Engineering equip- ment was reported damaged by a staff member, University Police reported. The damage was reportedly accidental. Film screening WHAT: Akira Kurosawa's film "Seven Samurai" will be screened for free. The movie is about a village that hires samurai for protection. WHO: Center for Japanese Studies WHEN: Tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Askwith Audi- torium, Lorch Hall Physiology, phonetics and physics lecture WHAT: The lecture, "Phys- ics Meets Physiology," will explore how ears work and what causes hearing loss. WHO: Department of Physics WHEN: Saturday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: 170 and 182 Dennison Building Dance class WHAT: The Michigan Bhangra team will host a free dance class. WHO: Michigan Bhangra Team WHEN: Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Koessler Room, Michigan League Musical concert WHAT: Tickets to a per- formance of the Mariisnky orchestra, a world-famous ensemble, are being sold for a discounted student rate of $20 per person. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Sunday at 4 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium CORRECTIONS . Please report any errors in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. A group of military sci- entists and entomologists recently discovered that a fungus and virus tag-team is responsible for the "colony collapse" of 20 to 40 percent of honeybee colonies in the Unit- ed States since 2006, The New York Times reported. Michigan leads Michi- gan State head to head in football with 67 wins, 30 losses and five ties. Satur- day's game will be the 104th football match up between the Wolverines and Spartans. *>FORMORE, FOOTBALLSATURDAYINSIDE A recently discovered poem by Ted Hughes reveals the torment he felt over the suicide of his estranged wife and famed poet, Sylvia Plath, The Guard- ian reported. "Last Letter" begins, "What did happen that Sunday night?" 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Get more online at michigandail.com/blogs/The Wire Ralph Williams on his film debut: 'It's hard for me to play myself doing wrong things' From Page 1A degree and returned in 2002 for his master's in near-eastern stud- ies, put together the film with the help of his brother Mike, a co- producer who is the president of production at the humor website Funny or Die. The brothers were granted permission to film on campus and use the the Univer- sity as its setting - a first for any production - and received full cooperation during the shoot that took place in fall 2009. Several persistent e-mails were all it took for Farah to convince Williams to take the role - his first in a film. Farah was not only a former student of Williams as an undergraduate but also a grad- uate student instructor for his class, which led to a role-reversal when it was Farah's turn to direct his former teacher. "It was, as I heard the phrase, a 'fast-learning experience,' " Wil- liams told the Daily. He added that because he was playing a character based so heavily on himself, with his man- nerisms and personality, he occa- sionally had disputes with Farah over the direction his character, Dr. Elliot Tarson, should take. "I can, I think, play a person doing wrong things, but it's hard for me to play myself doing things I would never do," he said, refer- ring to the fact that the character is portrayed trying to exert con- trol over the life of his son (Chris Gorham, TV's "Covert Affairs"). "My great fear, you see, is that my son, who will be here this Friday seeing the film, will say, 'Yup, that's my dad,' " Williams added, laugh- ing. "I would be deeply chagrined." The production was granted access to filming locations previ- ously off-limits to movie crews, like the inside of Michigan Stadi- um during a game. With the help of Lee Doyle, director of the Uni- versity's Film Office, scenes were filmed in the packed Big House during the 2009 season opener against Western Michigan. "I don't know if there's ever a screening when I see that, that I don't get choked up in some capacity," Mike Farah said. The University was also sur- prisingly receptive to scenes in the film depicting certain other student traditions, he said, like sex in the stacks at the Graduate Library. "They actually went for it. That was the one thing that I was worried that they could pro- test," Chris said. "We shot it in the frickin' library ... I'm sure if we had gotten funky or some- thing like that, they would've said something." "I have always been aware that my students go to the library and that some of the things they do there involve study, but I had no idea of the particular range of things," Williams deadpanned, laughing. "So the sex in the stacks, apparently. ... That was new to me." In lieu of an official distribu- tion deal for the film - though the Farahs have already sold the international rights - tonight's pair of screenings is being billed as the "Ann Arbor premiere." It's the first time "Answer This!" will be shown to a paying audience, and test-screening-style ques- tionnaires will be distributed so viewers can play a hand in further improving the film in preparation for its submission to the Sundance and SXSW festivals next spring. "It seemed appropriate - for it to be a Michigan movie - to have Michigan audiences really have a hand in shaping that," Chris said. Asked whether he was worried the film's appeal would be lim- ited to audiences in Michigan, he pointed to the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, an Ohio State graduate, who over- saw "Answer This!" for ratings consideration and loved the film. "I'd like to think that there's kind of a certain Midwestern pride that hopefully the movie plays on a little bit that people from any town anywhere in America would be able to appreci- ate," Chris said. Still, the film is a self-professed "love letter to Ann Arbor," with a crew comprised largely of Univer- sity students, and its promotional campaign is embracing the city. A short film contest also entitled "Love Letters to Ann Arbor" encouraged people to submit their own filmed tributes to the city. The winning filmmaker, LSA senior David Merian, will have his short included as a bonus fea- ture on the eventual DVD. Made under the state of Mich- igan's film tax incentive, the movie is catching the wave of the local movie boom. And thanks to its well connected producers, the story of a University gradu- ate student unwilling to leave the city stands a chance of finding wide success, a rare feat in today's crowded motion picture industry. But first the filmmakers have to find success at home. "If people from Michigan don't like this movie, we're kind of screwed," Chris said. 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