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"Everybody likes a break," exclaims the fledgling photographer in Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole (1951), imagining that Life magazine might spring for his exclusive shots of a collapsed mine and the poor man trapped inside. "But we didn't make it happen."

No, perhaps we didn't. But, as timing is everything in the media, so tragedy equals opportunity. "And one day I'll be on CNN!" reads the photo caption for CP's review of Ace in the Hole in the July 25 issue. Who'd have thought then that events would bring the cable network's own ace reporter Greta Van Susteren to our fair city a week later?

As luck (both bad and good) would have it, the recently resuscitated Parkway Theater has been screening a fine 35mm print of Ace since before our town's own terrible collapse; tonight is the end of the two-week run (show times at 5:00, 7:15 and 9:30 p.m.). Opportunity abounds. Indeed, might the Parkway ship its print to a theater near Huntington, Utah?