ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Big worms, other deep-sea secrets
Advertiser staff
"Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," a 2005 documentary that tracks a team of scientists on their odyssey to an underwater world, screens 5 p.m. Sunday, at Spalding Auditorium at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. The expedition dives 8,000 feet to where the Pacific's mid-ocean ridge, an otherworldly place, nurtures a habitat for towering underwater chimneys, giant tubeworms, predators and sulfur-loving life. It's an extreme environment that may hold the key to understanding the emergence of life on earth. "Volcanoes" is followed by "Exotic Terrain: Geological Discoveries in the Pacific Northwest," about coral reef fossils turning up in in eastern Oregon. The program lasts 105 minutes.
'GREASE'
HOT-ROD HEAVEN AUDITION
Dig out those drainpipes and bobby sox. You could be the one that they want when Army Community Theatre auditions for "Grease," the musical with a 1950s pedigree, 7 p.m., Monday to Wednesday at Richardson Theatre, Fort Shafter. The show runs May 10 to 26 as the finale of ACT's 2006-07 season. Coco Wiel will direct, Jennifer Shannon will choreograph and Daren Kimura will conduct the orchestra and cast with those immortal lyrics "Ooooh ooh oooh." Information: 438-4480, www.squareone.org/ACT/auditions.html.
FINAL WORD
"I thought I'd do it like Snoop."
Ryan Gosling | the "Half Nelson" actor on bringing his mother and sister to the Academy Awards, while walking the red carpet