This week’s new spotlight DVDs:
Writer-director Wes Anderson’s aesthetically beautiful, emotionally layered fifth feature didn’t get the critical or commercial love that came with his Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Nonetheless, although The Darjeeling Limited ambles with a seeming meditative aimlessness more than its brethren, you can spot that distinctive and fanciful Anderson DNA they all share. The dryly comic director’s now-familiar eccentricities — the flip and deadpan tone, emotionally isolated and foible-rich characters’ jangled blend of feeling and intellect, the slow-mo pop music moments, the architecturally composed widescreen frames, the study of a family that bonds in its disunity — here move the brothers into new geographic and spiritual terrain.
The three estranged Whitman brothers (Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody) have not spoken to one another in a year. So they set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other — to become brothers again like they used to be. (”I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.”) Their “spiritual journey,” however, veers rapidly off-course and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer and a laminating machine. A new, unplanned journey of self-discovery begins, even though “We haven’t located us yet.” Also worth noting here are two other members of Anderson’s hand-woven repertory company — Anjelica Huston as the Whitman mom whose identity crisis has spirited her off to the Himalayas, and Bill Murray in a funny recurring bit.
On the DVD, preceding The Darjeeling Limited is Anderson’s fine 13-minute prequel short, The Hotel Chevalier (a.k.a. The One With Natalie Portman Nekkid). Also here is a behind-the-scene featurette, “The Darjeeling Limited Walking Tour” (21 minutes).

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Park City Mountain Resort celebrates Easter this Sunday, March 23, with an on-mountain Easter egg hunt featuring great prizes, a little kid’s Easter egg hunt in the Kids’ Corral, and free hot beverages for adults. But if you plan to hunt for eggs, you better get on it quick. Those things are swiped almost immediately. They’re pretty much gone by 10 a.m. Resort employees lay them delicately within view of any intermediate skier throughout the hill and the locals make it a game to swipe as many as they can regardless of the rule of one egg per guest. Each egg contains prizes ranging from T-shirts to a season pass. Lifts open at 9 a.m. for the All Mountain/All Ages hunt and prizes are redeemable until 5 p.m. at the information desk located inside the Legacy Lodge. Your little ones might have better luck in the Little Kid’s Easter egg hunt in the Kids’ Corral (ages 6 and under) at 9 a.m. Get there early for your chance to meet the Easter Bunny. He arrives 8:45–9:00 a.m. to give out treats. Lifts open at 9 a.m. for the First Time Easter Egg Hunt (candy inside the eggs for kids) at the First Time lift.
The Easter Bunny also will make stops at Deer Valley Resort, Alta, Snowbird, and The Canyons Sunday, March 23.
DV guests are invited to bring a camera and have their picture taken with him around the Snow Park Lodge from 9-11 a.m.
The Canyons will have Easter Brunch at The Cabin Restaurant from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., so drop in after their kids’ hunt at 11 a.m. at Red Pine Lodge. There are two categories: Infant (4 years old) and 5-10 years old. The Easter Egg Hunt will be complimentary for participants, family, and friends. However, guests will not be able to bring ski or snowboard equipment with them on the gondola. Pick up your complimentary gondola-only passes at the Mountain Concierge. The Easter Bunny also will be hanging out at Red Pine Lodge.

onthesnow.com

Simpsonville — It will be a happy Easter for Cookie Man and Bunny.
The two rabbits, which are the pets of Sharon Richburg, receive proper care and attention, unlike many of the bunnies that are cute and cuddly on Easter Day, only to be forgotten and discarded as they grow older.
“They can be wonderful companions, if you do your homework,” said Ms. Richburg, who is a volunteer at the Rabbit Sanctuary in Simpsonville.
For more than 30 years, Caroline Gilbert has operated the sanctuary on her farm, caring for abused and abandoned rabbits.
The sanctuary has a “home for life” policy for the rabbits. More than 50 rabbits now are at the farm.
Ms. Richburg said thousands of rabbits are sold as children’s pets, and ultimately about 90 percent of the bunnies that join families at Easter end up homeless or dead.
Jessica Medford, assistant manager at Saluda River Pet Food Center on U.S. 123 in Seneca, said proper care will help ensure a healthy pet.
“You need to make sure they have a healthy diet,” Ms. Medford said. “Iceberg lettuce does not have the nutritional values they need. Some fruits and vegetables are good, and a good brand of rabbit food is needed.”
A ceramic or metal water bowl is important because rabbits gnaw on just about everything. Ms. Medford said blocks of wood in the rabbit’s pen or cage will help the rabbit keep its teeth from growing too long.
Nicky Walthall, who also works at the Saluda River Pet Food Center, said rabbits should have bedding of cedar, aspen or North American pine shavings, and a rabbit should have its own pen or cage.
Ms. Medford said a rabbit cost roughly $20 and can be outfitted with cage and supplies for about $100. “That’s for the onetime expenses,” Ms. Medford said.

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