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LIFESTYLES FUN STUFF Monday, July 7, 2014 The Modesto Bee modbee.com/life C6 ASK AMY B5 COMICS B4 PUZZLES B5 Find out what Micke Grove like after dark Micke Grove program After resumes Saturday. Sponsored by Du- raflame, the once-a-month program in Lodi will allow guests to discover which ani- mals might be awake and which might be active during the twilight hours. The program is designed for families with children ages 5 or older. The program includes group-friend- ly activities, such as games or craft projects, a flashlight tour of the zoo, and campfire activ- ities, such as stories and Cost per person is $8 for Micke Grove Zoological Society members and $10 for nonmembers, which includes parking fees. Times and dates of the program this year are 8-10 p.m.

Saturday and 8-10 p.m. Aug. 9. The zoo is at 11793 Micke Grove Road, Lodi. (209) 953-8840.

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And she had to face a tele- vised firing squad of angry contestants who wanted to air their grievances. In the end, Robertson won winemaker Ben Flaj- heart and a marriage proposal. They later split up, and Robertson briefly dated run- ner-up Arie Luyendyk Jr. now sharing her story in Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show (It Books, $24.99, 272 pages). The book pulls back the curtain on and maintaining a relationship made on TV.

Since your relationship with Flajnik work out and in the book you detail the problems you had, do you feel vindicated after sharing those things? For me it does feel good to say, this is actually what I think people had this idea I fooled him for 11 months. To me idiotic. It was hurtful but not about being bitter. a huge part of my life story and I just had to tell the truth. Few relationships coming out of or have worked.

Do you think possible to find love that way? If really ready to settle down and find love I really think it can work. I feel like the girls (on pick really well, too. It just takes the right couple. What was reaction to the book? I definitely had a couple emails that were like, I hate to say, they were pretty nasty. I write this book for him.

I stopped making deci- sions with him in mind the day we broke up. Former winner writes of show, finding love By Alicia Rancilio The Associated Press Amy Sussman The Associated Press Courtney Robertson, former winner on has written Come Here to Make I handled badly, of the Planet of the which arrives in cinemas Friday might have ended up a claus- trophobic endeavor. a sequel to a prequel to the franchise of the late 1960s and early which has already produced five movies. of the Planet of the (2011) detailed how the apes get their genetically superior powers, and known for nearly 50 years what they end up doing with them. But to Gary Oldman who plays Dreyfus, leader of the sur- viving humans the movie is a fulfilling bait-and-switch, an emo- tionally gratifying stand-alone tale that still plays to the wider legacy of of the says of the Planet of the on the cover, and then when I started to read it, it was almost an intimate film about family and community.

That was surprising to Oldman says at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, looking a little tired after an unwelcome week in the spotlight brought on by his re- marks in an interview that offend- ed Jews and others. After his comments were pub- lished, Oldman apologized pro- fusely, appearing on Kim- mel to make a public mea culpa a public figure. I should be an example and an inspiration, and an And 56. I should know Oldman said on the show). Today, however, there are less controversial matters to discuss.

To left, Australian Jason Clarke, who plays Malcolm, says of the new film, was able to believe the situation through to the end, and I think you see that in the film. It stays true to its world and its While viewers already know where the story is heading on its way to meet Charlton Hes- Oldman says not a bad thing, the actor surmises. of the Hu- he says. it was (Reeves, the director) feeling that you have to rush to get there, you can take your time answering these questions, about how they got that way, why the ape society was set up like that, how they got to be wearing of the Planet of the picks up 10 years after the end of The virus unleashed at the end of the previous movie has wiped out much of humanity. We find a group of survivors bunking down in the destroyed remains of San Francisco, living in peace across the harbor from a society of genetically evolved apes in Muir Woods.

Picking up on the human and ape societies one in decline, one on the rise, each trying to find a way to move forward made for a uniquely villain-less story, Oldman says. For Clarke, the choices each group has to make give the movie an intellectual heart that puts it above most summer fare. kind of worlds are we trying to he asks. humans, after our civil war and our apocalypse, are we trying to build something more noble and human? For Caesar (the leader of the apes, played by Andy Serkis), got choices in going ahead, too, raising the first generation of apes born totally The aspect of of the Planet of the with humans playing apes acting alongside humans playing hu- mans, made it a surreal movie to film, the actors agree. relationship with Caesar is part of the emotional heart of the movie, and Clarke was tasked with figuring out how to build that relationship and convey it to audiences in a con- vincing fashion with no reference point for how humans and genet- ically evolved apes might bond.

discussed it on set and recognized that no right answer there, which gave us the space to try and figure out orga- nically how that relationship might Clarke says. David James 20th Century Press Andy Serkis portrays ape leader Caesar in of the Planet of the a follow-up to the 2011 hit, of the Planet of the Human, ape societies try to coexist in By James Robinson San Francisco Chronicle Joe Lederer of the Planet of the picks up 10 years after the end of of the Planet of the starring James Franco and Freida Pinto..