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On Monday, 9 August 2010 at 4:00p.m. the American Center will host Mrs. Misty May-Treanor, a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in beach volleyball. Mrs. May-Treanor has enjoyed tremendous success in volleyball, beginning in college when she was awarded the NCAA Championship co-MVP in 1998 and NCAA Athlete of the Year. She continued to receive prestigious accolades, including Best Offensive Player and Best Defensive Player for several years in a row. She then pursued beach volleyball, quickly achieving several wins and a spot in the 2000 Olympics Games. Then, along with her new teammate, Kerri Walsh, Misty won gold at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She currently holds the most wins of any female to ever play volleyball.

***Directed by David Sington.Genre:Biography/History/Space Exploration. Running time 110 min.*** IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time.***Tuesday, July 27, 5:00 p.m.***

On Tuesday, July 20, at 6pm the American Center will host a lecture entitled "Entrepreneurship in America's Heartland: Small Family Farms." Nathan Christiansen, an American undergraduate student of Brigham Young University, will talk about his experience working on a small family farm in New Sweden, Idaho. Nathan is a native Idahoan and has been studying Russian for 3 years, starting with a two-year service mission to Siberia from 2007 to 2009. Native is currently majoring in Russian and interning at the American Center in Moscow.

** Monday, July 19th, 5p.m. Running time: 129 minutes. ** Directed by Ridley Scott, this thriller focuses on the lives of two women: Louise (Oscar Award winner Susan Sarandon), who works in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend, Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road; and Thelma (played by Geena Davis), who is married to a husband who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day Thelma and Louise decide to break out of their normal life and jump into the car and hit the road. This movie shows their journey and its twists and turns with the police and other characters. Also stars Harvey Keitel and Brad Pitt (in his first major Hollywood movie).