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Kit and Kate become scooter racers in the Great Race down Willy Nilly Hill!
Kit and Kate become scooter racers in the Great Race down Willy Nilly Hill!
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Kit and Kate become sailors, headed for yummy blueberry pie island!
Kit and Kate head off to a medieval village in search of the legendary "dragoon".
Kit and Kate go on a photo safari to get a picture of the Sneaky Sneaker Monkey.
Kit and Kate become magicians, and set out to perform in the amazing Hocus Pocus Show!
Kit and Kate become deep-sea divers who want to make a pearl necklace for their mom.
Pirates Kit and Kate set sail to look for a buried treasure, but when it is time to pick the digging tools they'll need, the kittens choose the pretty shovels instead of the strong ones.
Kit and Kate go to Dinosaur Valley to help a baby dinosaur make a present for his mom.
Kit and Kate go to an amusement park to ride the world famous Linguini Loop de Loop.
Kit and Kate fly to planet Zoltron to locate the source of singing being picked up by Mission Control.
Kit and Kate go to fly a kite in Gusty Gulch, but when a gust of wind gets the kite stuck in a tree Kate gets hysterical and can't stop crying. She cries so hard she ends up flooding the whole gulch!
To be like "real" firemen, Kit and Kate search for a fire to put out. Finding none, they convince a young dragon to start one for them, but the fire spreads out of control.
Kit and Kate become doctors who want their patients to have fun. The "Fun Doctors" are put to the test when Quick, Quack, and Quake arrive too sick to perform in Duck Lake that night. Will the kittens' fun treatment cure the ducks in time?
Kit and Kate become hair stylists in Poodleville for Woofy and Poofy, two celebrity poodles competing in the Woofminster Dog Show. But their dream job turns into a messy disaster when Kit refuses to share the styling supplies with Kate.
Kit and Kate get invited for lunch at Hansel and Gretel's gingerbread house, but after too much candy, they can't eat a special meal Hansel and Gretel made for them, which causes hurt feelings.
Kit and Kate become detectives, assigned to catch a jewel thief who robbed a museum, but the criminal gets away when the kittens rush to make an arrest before gathering all the clues.
Kit and Kate go to work at the airport packing supplies that need to be delivered by a cargo plane. But the supplies get all mixed up when the kittens start playing around and run out of time to sort them properly.
Astronomers Kit and Kate plan to stay up to watch a rare meteor shower that night, but they sleep through the amazing event after they refuse to rest up for it with a nap.
Kit and Kate go to play at a waterpark. Kit, disappointed by the dilapidated park, damages it more out of frustratioin -- setting a terrible example for the ducks in the process.
Kit and Kate hike with a group along Twisty Trail. Getting separated from the group, they get even more lost when they try to find them -- rather than staying put like the group leader had instructed.
Kit and Kate play hide and seek with the ducks, but soon Kate and the ducks quit, when they realize Kit must be cheating.
Kit and Kate want to build a house for the ducks, and Kit wants to be in charge. But the house ends up sinking into the lake when Kit refuses to try anyone's ideas but his own.
Movie directors Kit and Kate shoot a film starring a comical elf. But after the kittens break their promise to let the elf perform his special dance, they find their film mysteriously ruined
Kit and Kate are archeologists at the ancient pyramid of King Kat. They are given the job of carefully putting together an ancient statue, but Kit wants to finish as quickly as possible so he can go swimming.
Kit and Kate would like to become friends with Linda Lamb, the assistant at a laboratory. Unfortunately, Linda is afraid of playing the same games as the kittens, so Kit and Kate decide to change her and make her brave… maybe TOO brave.
Kit wants to join the circus with his sister, but Kate isn't interesting because she thinks it is boring. When it is time to show the Circus Master what they can do, Kate won't try anything because she is in a bad mood.
Kit and Kate go to Magicville to become wizards, but they end up destroying the town when they mix up all of the Magic Gems and no longer know which gem turns what into what.
Kit and Kate are the royal tailors of Buglandia in charge of making a new outfit for the six-legged Prince. But the outfit does not come out as they hoped after they use measurements they never double checked.
Kit and Kate want to ride Robo-Ponies at Pony Park just like the other kids, but they never get the chance when they find it too difficult to blow the trumpets that turn on the Ponies.
Kit and Kate win a car race against the ducks, but the crowd thinks the kittens are losers when they discover that Kit and Kate won after leaving the ducks stuck in the mud without checking to see if they were alright.
Kit and Kate head off to build a see-saw they can play on together. Kit builds the see-saw all by himself and won't let Kate help at all. Now Kate doesn't want to play with Kit and Kit doesn't understand why.
Kit and Kate go the North Pole to wrap presents for Santa Claus. But Christmas is ruined when the kittens decide to keep one of the presents they want for themselves instead of the boy it was made for.
Kit and Kate want to fly a jet airplane, but first they need to find its keys inside a very messy office at the airport. The kittens think the mess is simply too big to clean up little by little, and so they try a series of unsuccessful shortcuts until it gets too dark outside to fly.
Kit and Kate are dancers scheduled to perform the Kitty Kitty Bop on "Who's Got Talent?". But their performance is a disaster after Kit doesn't give his sister enough time to learn the dance.
Kit and Kate plant chocolate chip cookie trees and harvest the cookies to enter them in a dessert contest. But the kittens throw out all of the cookies and their chance to win the prize when they suddenly find themselves with bad stomach aches after eating some of the cookies.
Kit and Kate are bored with their toys and think it would be fun to get a pet instead. But their new pet fuzzicle runs away after the kittens forget to brush, clean, and feed it.
Kit and Kate become engineers on a train. They are so excited to shovel Vroomium into the train's engine that they skip breakfast. Soon they find themselves too tired to handle the work.
Kit and Kate go to work at Woofie's Restaurant cleaning the dishes. The kittens would rather be cooking and so they let Woofie's robot helper do all of the work. Everything goes fine until the robot runs out of power.
Kit and Kate set off on a row boat to boogie-woogie board at Boogie Woogie Beach! They get stuck in the rocks along the way and start blaming each other until their boat sinks.
Kit and Kate go to a theater to see Korny Kat's Kid's Komedy Kalvalcade! But they run away before the show begins after hearing one of the other kids describe a strange creature he saw behind the stage. What could it be? Maybe a monster that could eat them all!
Kit and Kate take a cruise to visit wonders of the world in lands of heat, cold, rain and wind. But the kittens end up sick in bed after Kit decides it is more important to wear clothes that look good instead of clothes that are right for the weather outside.
Kit and Kate form a marching band to play in Friendlyville. But the kittens don't find the folks their very friendly after they try to play their music in the town's library, police station, and nursery school.

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One Man Hopes to Lick the Record for the World's Longest Tongue
Two tongues enter, and only one tongue leaves with the world record for the longest tongue.
Stephen Taylor, left, currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest tongue with a whopping licker of 3.86 inches. However, stand up comedian Nick Stoeberl, right, claims he has beaten it according to RecordSetter.com, a competing record measuring agency, at 3.988 inches.
Stoeberl has submitted his claim to the Guinness people for official verification. He told the Huffington Post that he has no doubt the record will be verified since he and Recordsetter followed the same criteria for measuring as Guinness's requirements. That includes measuring the tongue from the middle of the tip of the closed upper lip with the average of three measurements submitted as the official length. The measurements also have to be taken from professional medical personnel. A Guinness rep said they would have to see it "first hand" to confirm the record.
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12:30 pm
French In Action "A Matter of Chance II" Mireille and Robert have won the lottery. Robert wants to look at camping equipment for a trip around France, and they hail a taxi. The man in black, tries to pull Mireille in.G
1:00 pm
Unfinished Nation "The 1920s ... Beyond The Glitter" The culture of the 1920s. America's economy and the labor force. Prosperity and consumerism vs. abject poverty. Political and cultural conflict: immigration legislation and Prohibition. Harlem Renaissance, the Scopes trial. The three conservative Republican presidents of the era: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.G
1:30 pm
Unfinished Nation "Hard Times" Events leading to the stock market crash and Great Depression. How the Depression affects various population segments. Unemployment and relief efforts. Herbert Hoover's attempts to alleviate the Depression. Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.G
2:00 pm
Biography of America, A "FDR and the Depression" Professor Brinkley continues his story of twentieth century presidents with a profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Brinkley paints a picture of America during the Depression and chronicles some of Roosevelt's programmatic and personal efforts to help the country through its worst economic crisis. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is at FDR's side and, in many respects, ahead of him as the decade unfolds. D
2:30 pm
Biography of America, A "World War II" America is enveloped in total war, from mobilization on the home front to a scorching air war in Europe. Professor Miller's view of World War II is a personal essay on the morality of total war, and its effects on those who fought, died, and survived it, including members of his own family. D
3:00 pm
Design Squad "Ds Unplugged" The teams take a crash course in pre-industrial building techniques as they compete to build 20-foot bridges - without the aid of power equipment.G
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Fundraising Can Be Fun" Have a worthy cause? Then host a worthy fundraiser. This episode shows how to organize volunteers, choose the right venue, get the word out, and keep expenses low. Learn the right way to do the right thing. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "War of the Words" When Hector is chosen to give a presentation on stamina to Jessica and Keith's health class, the pranksters work overtime to keep Hector from getting some much needed rest. Will Hector have enough stamina to make the presentation?. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Measure for Measure" Hacker's mysterious machine is finally revealed - "The Transformatron"can change anyone into anything! He learns the kids have the Network Interface Card - the final piece he needs. But the kids have also found a map that leads them to Coop, Slider's long lost father. They are shocked to discover Coop has been a victim of magnetite. D
5:00 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "Lip Smacking Roman Style Saltimbocca" Lidia makes Italian- American favorites: Mozzarella Sticks, Veal Saltimbocca and Zeppole. She heads to Eataly in New York City to learn how mozzarella is made. D
5:30 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Chicken for Everyone!" NULL
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Tijuana Taco Crawl" People are passionate about their tacos in Tijuana. Ask any local and they'll tell you their favorite - complete with mouthwatering details. Three local Tijuana foodies take Rick on a taco "crawl" starting with arrachera (skirt steak) tacos at El Yaqui. D
6:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Spanish Fiesta" Joanne sets the stage for a Spanish Fiesta with a twist on the classic Spanish Gazpacho, turning sweet peas into a refreshing soup. She teaches her student Ron, the perfect party meal, Shellfish Paella. Recipes: Sweet Pea Gazpacho, Shellfish Paella. D
7:00 pm
This Old House "Cambridge Project, Part 2 of 15" The crew removes a central chimney brick-by-brick so the bricks can be re-used on another job, host Kevin O'Connor visits an "eco" resale store, and landscape contractor Roger Cook removes a sick Norway maple with the help of an arborist. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "The Majesty of Madrid" Rick tours the Royal Palace, enjoys art-packed museums, is mesmerized by flamenco dancers and munches on pigs' ears.G
8:00 pm
Travelscope "Cruising Alaska's Inside Passage" Cruising with the PTV at Sea group on the luxurious Regent Seven Seas Mariner, Joseph travels through Alaska's Inside Passage with stops in Prince Rupert, BC, Juneau, Skagway and Sitka, Alaska for scenic and cultural experiences. D
8:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "Lip Smacking Roman Style Saltimbocca" Lidia makes Italian- American favorites: Mozzarella Sticks, Veal Saltimbocca and Zeppole. She heads to Eataly in New York City to learn how mozzarella is made. D
9:00 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Chicken for Everyone!" NULL
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Simply Ming "Making Sausage with Guest Chris Cosentino" On this episode of Simply Ming - how to grind your own meat and make your own sausage with the help of a man who can teach most butchers a thing or two, Chef Chris Cosentino. Ming and Chris cook on the fly together creating two very different dishes: San Francisco Sausage and Peppers and Chicken Mushroom Sausage Patties with Orange Snow Pea Salad. D
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Triple Torta-Thon" Over a breakfast of tortas - Mexican sandwiches filled, in this case, with Rick's quick Mexican scrambled eggs, beans, and avocados - Rick and his daughter, Lanie, plan an all-day torta marathon in Mexico City. Their quest beings at the city's charming Sunday flea market, Lagunilla, where they check out some simple, yet mouthwatering tortas, with a succulent filling of salt cod bacalao. Next stop: Don Polo, a gleaming 1950s-style chrome and neon diner, famous for its menu of griddled tortas. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "The Majesty of Madrid" Rick tours the Royal Palace, enjoys art-packed museums, is mesmerized by flamenco dancers and munches on pigs' ears.G
11:00 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Si Supieras...." In Mexico, Raquel and Angela come to the aid of someone with a surprising connection to Don Fernando.G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Exito" The Castillo family deals with a number of problems, including the hospitalization of don Fernando.G


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A pair of second-half runs following a back-and-forth opening frame powered the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to a 61-52 victory over MIT in a NEWMAC women's basketball game on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Sabrina Drammis (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) led all players with 18 points and added nine rebounds and five steals for the Engineers (7-11, 4-9 NEWMAC). The Bears (14-3, 10-3 NEWMAC) saw four players reach double-digits in scoring, paced by sophomore Torrie Sutherland (Houston, Texas) with 14 points who also had eight boards.
After two ties and seven lead changes, a layup by junior Osheiza Otori (Metairie, La.) put MIT in front 22-20 with 3:15 left in the first half. Sutherland's three-pointer gave Coast Guard a slight edge while two free throws from junior Brittney Zimmerman (Lewistown, Pa.) gave the Bears some breathing room with just over two minutes to go. During the final 49 seconds, a pair of layups by senior Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) sandwiched two Sutherland free throws resulting in a 27-26 deficit for the Engineers at halftime.
Like the first half, Drammis opened the second stanza with a layup to put the Cardinal and Gray in front. Coast Guard responded with a 13-2 run during the next four and a half minutes to reclaim the lead at 40-30. A Zimmerman trifecta started the rally and she later added two shots from the charity stripe while senior Kaitlin Ward (Saline, Mich.) capped it with back-to-back baskets.
Junior Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) ended MIT's seven-minute scoring drought with a three-pointer as the hosts eventually narrowed the gap to six (42-36) on Otori's free throw at the 9:05 mark. This was as close as it would get as the Bears generated a 10-2 spurt in the next 4:20 to establish their largest margin of the day (52-38). The Engineers continued to attack down the stretch, coming within nine points twice during the last 1:20, both times on layups by sophomore Maya Ramachandran (Fremont, Calif.) as her second effort came with three ticks left.
Ramachandran finished with 12 points and five boards as Hunt totaled eight points and three blocks. Junior Michelle Battipaglia (Katonah, N.Y.) grabbed five rebounds and two steals while freshman Liana Ilutzi (East Hanover, N.J.) dished out a game-high six assists.
Zimmerman recorded 13 points as she went 8-of-11 from the free-throw line and tacked on four assists and two steals. Sophomore Meghan Fornaro (Charlton, Mass.) posted 12 points as junior Jamie Waterman (Jasper, Ga.) tallied 10 points, eight boards, and two steals. Junior Dani Knox (Centreville, Va.) chipped in seven rebounds and six points while Ward collected three steals.
MIT returns to action on Saturday, Feb. 1 with a road trip to NEWMAC foe Mount Holyoke College while Coast Guard continues conference play on Wednesday, Jan. 29 with a home game against Clark University.


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SANFORD — Once again, Goodall Hospital has been honored with an "A" Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits.
The "A" score was awarded in the latest update to the Hospital Safety ScoreSM, the A, B, C, D or F scores assigned to U.S. hospitals based on preventable medical errors, injuries accidents, and infections. The Hospital Safety Score was compiled under the guidance of the nation's leading experts on patient safety and is designed to give the public information they can use to protect themselves and their families.
"We are extremely pleased with our score and accredit our continued success to the hard work and dedication of all Goodall providers, employees, and volunteers," said Patricia Aprile, FACHE, the president and CEO of Goodall Hospital.
Leah Binder, the president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said hospitals like Goodall Hospital have demonstrated their commitment to their patients and their community.
"I congratulate Goodall Hospital for its safety excellence, and look forward to the day when all hospitals will match this standard," Binder said.
To see Goodall Hospital's scores as they compare nationally and locally, visit the Hospital Safety Score website at www.hospitalsafetyscore.org, which also provides information about how the public can protect themselves and loved ones during a hospital stay. People can also check their hospital's score on the free mobile app, available at www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.
Calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group's nine-member Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single score representing a hospital's overall capacity to keep patients safe from infections, injuries, and medical and medication errors. The panel includes: John Birkmeyer (University of Michigan); Ashish Jha (Harvard University); Lucian Leape (Harvard University); Arnold Millstein (Stanford University); Peter Pronovost (Johns Hopkins University); Patrick Romano (University of California, Davis); Sara Singer (Harvard University); Tim Vogus (Vanderbilt University); and Robert Wachter (University of California, San Francisco).
The Leapfrog Group (www.leapfroggroup.org) is a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large purchasers of health care to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality, and affordability of health care for Americans. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey allows purchasers to structure their contracts and purchasing to reward the highest performing hospitals. The Leapfrog Group was founded in November 2000 with support from the Business Roundtable and national funders, and is now independently operated with support from its purchaser and other members.
Goodall Hospital is a national award-winning community health system that includes a 58-bed acute care hospital, four eldercare sites and services, and primary and specialty care services in Sanford, Kennebunk, and Waterboro. Founded in 1928 by the Goodall family, the hospital today offers state-of-the-art health care services and serves as the primary health care resource for its community.
Goodall Hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, licensed by the state of Maine, and is a member of Southern Maine Health Care and the MaineHealth System. To learn more, visit www.goodallhospital.org.


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He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Undead
Two years ago, Robert Pattinson was a forgotten extra in a 'Harry Potter' movie. Then he got cast as a blue-balled vampire in 'Twilight,' the year's kazillion-dollar movie franchise, and every woman in America over 14 wants him. Too bad he's not sure he wants them
A few days after we meet Robert Pattinson for the first time, we will call up his Twilight costar Kristen Stewart, who will say this about him:
"He can't lie," she says. "It makes things a little scary for him sometimes. But it's my favorite thing about him."
Funny—by then, it would be our favorite thing about him, too. We spend a Tuesday afternoon with Pattinson, in a little bakerycafé on Doheny Drive, in West Hollywood, and the whole time, he seems to be telling the truth compulsively, heedlessly, helplessly, as if he'd been shot with a sodium pentothal dart while parking his car.
Pattinson's other problem—he admits this early on—is that he can't abide a conversational lull.
"I just say the first thing that comes into my head," he said, "out of nervousness. During interviews I'm literally shitting my pants. I don't want there to be a silence, because I'll start crying."
It's December; Twilight, in which Pattinson, 22, plays an adorably tortured permateenage vampire too principled to drink human blood, has been in theaters for about a month. Long enough for it to gross more than $150 million, long enough for the studio to pull the trigger on the first of three potential sequels by replacing director Catherine Hardwicke with one of the guys responsible for the American Pie franchise, not long enough for Pattinson to grasp what any of these developments mean for him, or the importance of dissembling in the presence of reporters.
He slides into his chair, dressed all in black, with a weeksold beard, hair crammed under a wool cap, looking like Justin Timberlake researching an offBroadway turn as Terry Malloy. His clothes smell like he has recently purchased them off the back of someone less fortunate than he. He's just come from a bigtime meeting with a director and can't wait to tell us how weird it was. Some guy offering him a part, maybe, in a movie so double top secret he couldn't tell Pattinson what it was about. "He wouldn't say anything," Pattinson says, "and he also wouldn't leave," so Pattinson sat there and talked about himself for three hours and drank enough coffee to make a rhino's heart explode.
"God, I don't remember the last time I ate," Pattinson says.
In a vampire movie, he'd have said this with a suggestive eyebrowwiggle, and then they'd cut to our pallid corpse tumbling out of a Dumpster. Stupid journalist. Instead, Pattinson goes on, filling dead air. He explains that the place he's staying at in L.A. has a microwave, and that he's never had a microwave before, and that he spends a lot of time looking for new things you can microwave. Those frozen cheeseburgers, from the store. A carrot. Did we mention that he's had about nineteen cups of coffee He asks the waiter about the soup. It's chicken vegetable. He orders a Coke.
Here is what Pattinson says about getting the part of Edward the vampire in Twilight:
"I took half a Valium and then went into this thing—and all this stuff happened."
Okay—to be fair, that's not all he tells us. He was on the verge of quitting acting, he says. He'd followed up what was, back then, the biggest role of his career—in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as Cedric Diggory, sort of the haughty blond Iceman to Harry's Maverick—by getting fired from a play in London, where he grew up. He was in Los Angeles, crashing on his agent's couch, looking for an American job.
That's all Twilight was to Pattinson, at first: an American job. He didn't know about the cult, about the fans who'd followed Edward and Bella, his perpetually imperiled mortal lady friend, from the first book—which turned author Stephenie Meyer, a Mormon stayathome mom from Arizona, into the biggest publishingindustry phenomenon since _Potter'_s J. K. Rowling—through three increasingly thickasabrick sequels. He didn't know that as soon as the movie adaptation was announced, those Twilight fans—about 98.999 percent female and 100 percent fervent—started burning up Internet message boards with deeply felt opinions about which actors were right (and wrong, wrong, wr0ng!!!!) for the male lead. All he knew was that he couldn't remember how to do an American accent. He was freaking out. Hence the pill.
"It was the first time I've ever taken Valium," he says after a second, perhaps realizing how this sounds. "A quarter. A quarter of a Valium. I tried to do it for another audition, and it just completely backfired—I was passing out." (Don't do drugs, kids.)
He auditioned in Hardwicke's bedroom; Hardwicke videotaped him and Stewart performing one of the movie's big love scenes. By then, Hardwicke had already met with hundreds of potential Edwards. "I'd seen a zillion really cute guys," she says. "But that was the problem. They all looked like the supercute kid in your high school. The prom king, or the captain of the football team. They didn't look like they were from another world and time."
They did the scene. There was a vibe. Hardwicke waited a day to decide—"No matter how much I fall in love with the person, I make myself review the tape, to make sure I wasn't just overwhelmed by something in the air"—but says Stewart told her, right there in the room, "It has to be Rob."
"Everybody came in doing something empty and shallow and thoughtless," Stewart says. "I know that's a fucking great thing to say about all the other actors—but Rob understood that it wasn't a frivolous role."
Hardwicke still had to convince Summit Entertainment, the studio bankrolling Twilight, that Pattinson was the guy.
"There was a call from the head of the studio," Hardwicke says. " 'Are you sure you can make this guy handsome' "
They sent him to a trainer, dyed his hair and cut it. Pattinson immersed himself in the lore—the novels and Midnight Sun, Meyer's unpublished, unfinished retelling of _Twilight _from Edward's point of view. ("I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I'd smelled in eighty years.") He showed up to shoot the movie with a lot of ideas about how it could be more than a horrortinged tween romance. How Edward could be less like the turtlenecked Prince Charming from the novels—"If you met a guy like that in real life," he says, "you'd think he was kind of dorky"—and more like the edgy dude burning himself with cigarettes in the corner at the high school party. Less hottie, more monster. He thought that at the end of the movie, when Edward and Bella slowdance to Iron & Wine on prom night, they shouldn't kiss. "I thought that would be interesting," he says, "for a teen thing."
In the books, Edward refuses to go all the way with Bella, fearing he'll vamp out in the heat of passion, but because he's a 107yearold vampire, he's got seduction game like no 17yearold alive. The story fuses the bodiceripping True Love Never Dies sensuality of the vampire mythos with the True Love Waits ethos of Bushera abstinence education; it's a heavybreathing romance in which all physical affection represents a slippery slope to horrible undeath.
The movie amps up the lust. Bella and Edward's relationship plays out like a goth remix of Splendor in the Grass, and Pattinson seethes like Warren Beatty driven—forgive us—batshit by a hundredyear case of blue balls.
Twilight got mid reviews but opened huge anyway, pulling down $70 million in three days. By then the screaming had started. Girls who'd been in love with Edward on the page suddenly had a reallive human to focus their passion on. The cast's public appearances occasioned Hard Day's Night hysteria. In London, Pattinson's friends watched in horror as the crowd swallowed him. At a mall in San Francisco, Pattinson was supposed to sign autographs for about 500 fans at a Hot Topic store; a few thousand showed up. Pattinson claims not to remember the chaos that resulted, although he says it in a shaky voice, like someone claiming not to remember shit that went down in Nam.
Pattinson says he's always been hypersensitive about being looked at, that when he was a kid and somebody'd make eye contact with him on the bus or something, he'd freak out. He's one of those tall people who hunch, trying to disappear. Then all this stuff happened. He wasn't ready. His first thought, whenever he finds himself in one of these crowds, is always, Someone could very easily stab me.
He isn't complaining. We don't want to make it sound like he's complaining. But he can feel all of it making him crazy. It's like being a fugitive in your own backyard. The other day, he went out, shook off three paparazzimobiles, hit the drivethru at the InNOut. He was going to eat a burger in the car. He drove around and found a gasstation parking lot a few blocks away, intending to sit there and eat, "just hidden, in the darkness.
"And I turn around," he says, "and in the car next to me, there's a woman giving a man a blow job! Right there, in the car park!"
This is what this kind of attention does to you; to do the things that normal people do, you have to go where normal people go to do furtive things.
Somebody got pictures of him anyway. Hidden in the darkness! Like some kind of Hamburglar!
He tries not to go out if he can avoid it. Stays home, watches movies, microwaves. Mostly, though, he reads about himself on the Internet. According to the Internet, there is another Robert Pattinson out there, living a very different life. A creature of the night, eager to sink his fangs into anything with boobs and a pulse. All bullshit, Pattinson says, but he reads the stories anyway, out of a kind of masochistic narcissism.
And he admits to reading it, which is the really weird part. He reads the gossip blogs and the Twilight fan fiction ("It's surprisingly hardcore. And very well written"). He knows what the fake Robert Pattinson said on the fake Robert Pattinson Facebook page. (The fake Robert Pattinson claimed to have nailed Kristen Stewart. The fake Robert Pattinson was kind of like Chuck Bass, if Chuck Bass were uncouth enough to trumpet his conquests on somebody's Wall.)
Part of the problem is that gossip abhors a vacuum, and for all intents and purposes, Pattinson didn't exist as a public figure until he was cast in Twilight; his celebrity is a movie tiein product, like the Edward action figure or Twilight, the perfume (smells like "lavender and freesia"—as for what freesia smells like, you're on your own).
For what it's worth: He grew up in London. His mom worked for a modeling agency, his dad was a luxurycar importer. He did some modeling as a kid, some amateur theater, some British TV, took a break from a fancy prep school to do Harry Potter. There's so little to know about him that everything he says now becomes hyperimportant, data to be gospelized. A reporter asks him something stupid about his hair, he makes a dumb joke about never washing it, and suddenly his clip file grows fat with stories about his deplorable personal hygiene. Sometimes he doesn't even have to say anything. People make stuff up.
"There's literally not a single [true] story that could be written about me," he says. "I never do anything."
We ask him to cite an example of something untrue that's been written about him.
"There's this thing about my supposed girlfriend," he says. "There's this one girl who's consistently mentioned. It's like, 'He's dating this Brazilian model.' "
Go on.
"Yes," he says. "What's her name—Annelyse. I've never met her."
Annelyse's last name is Schoenberger; after she was spotted with Pattinson at a Kings of Leon concert last October, aggrieved RPatts fans accused her, on the Internet, of having an "alien face."
But c'mon, we say to Pattinson. We ask you to deny something and you give us the Brazilian model That's the celebrityrelationshipdenial equivalent of claiming you have a girlfriend in Canada. Did you really propose to Kristen Stewart every day while shooting Twilight
"I said that in some interview, as a joke—'Oh, I proposed to her multiple times.' And then it gets printed: 'On the set, he proposed multiple times.' "
(Later we ask Stewart about this: "He probably proposes to several girls a day," she says, bonedrily. "It's sort of his thing. He thinks it's cute.")
Okay. What about the love triangle between you, Camilla Belle, and Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers
"That's the funniest one," Pattinson says. "No. I mean, yeah, yeah, I'm friends with Camilla."
He starts to explain how Belle, best known for playing a cavegirl in 10,000 BC, dated, or is supposed to have once dated—we have trouble following the thread—his friend, an actor named Tom Sturridge. So you're supposed to have stolen her from your best friend, we ask, before you stole her from the other dude
"From the Jonas brother, yeah," Pattinson says. "I'm completely out of control. It's funny, though, because I met her at her place the other day, and there's a security gate, and even the security woman—I guess she knows that Camilla lives there, and she was like, 'Oooh!' "
Okay, we say. So you're picking her up at her apartment
"Like, once," he says. "But it's like—they always say 'A source said,' and I don't know a single person that could be a source."
But we've seen pictures. You guys were walking in Venice Beach, after lunch.
"That's the extent of it," Pattinson says. "I mean, Camilla's the nicest—she's a saint. And it's funny that she's being portrayed as this home wrecker. She's literally the most unlikely person to be a home wrecker. It's just ridiculous."
So it's a friendship, we ask him, that's been misinterpreted
"I mean—yeah," he says. "I don't see people. I don't even have people's phone numbers. I almost don't want to have a girlfriend, in this environment."
This is maybe the most poorly ecuted denial we've ever heard. This is, in fact, how we would deny dating Camilla Belle if we wanted as many people as possible to believe that we were totally hitting that, while still coming off as an untruthful person. Either Pattinson can't lie, or he can't lie very well.
It's funny, because Pattinson worships Jack Nicholson, who's legendary for giving interviewers less than the time of day. And he loves Brando, citing a YouTube clip of the actor giving a characteristically performancearty and uncooperative press conference in the mid'60s. Brando could do that, of course, because he was Marlon fucking Brando. Brando could show up, burp the alphabet in front of a couple of Associated Press guys, and catch the next plane back to Tahiti. Pattinson understands that this isn't an option for him.
"The only way to establish any kind of mystique," he says, "is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up."
Pattinson hasn't shot anything new since Twilight wrapped. He won't be in front of the camera again until this spring, when he starts shooting the next Twilight movie, New Moon, due out in November. But in the meantime, he'll show up as young Salvador Dalí in a period drama called Little Ashes, about the prefame bromance between Dalí, director Luis Buñuel, and poet Federico García Lorca.
Pattinson auditioned for the movie two years ago, during a post–Harry Potter, pre_Twilight_ career lull. He'd been thinking about putting acting aside to focus on music. (Two of his songs, including the Jeff Buckley–ish ballad "Never Think," appear on the Twilight soundtrack.)
He'd read for the Lorca part, but when they asked him to play Dalí, he said yes. "I wanted to have a vacation in Spain," he says. "But it became just—really, really hard. I'd never done a job that was so hard."
There was no budget. Most of the crew spoke Spanish; Pattinson didn't. He spent a lot of time by himself, trying to figure out how to play the part, worried he'd look like an idiot. (For what it's worth, all that effort is up there on the screen. Pattinson's Dalí starts out as a walleyed, puffyshirted Simple Jack type before morphing into the twirlymustachioed culturehero Dalí of dormroomposter fame. It's one of those movies in which you can tell Dalí's having an aesthetic breakthrough because he starts pressing really hard when he paints.)
"In a lot of ways," Pattinson says, "I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stu__ff_._"
See, Little Ashes contains a fair amount of homoerotic activity, some of which is portrayed artfully and obliquely (Dalí and Lorca dive together in a moonlit sea) and some of which is, y'know, not (Lorca makes athletic, spiteful love to a woman while Dalí masturbates gloomily in a corner). It's the kind of project you could imagine a guy in Pattinson's place taking on post_Twilight_ as a way of telling the world he's versatile and/or fearless. Except it wasn't.
"I thought I'd never get another acting job again," Pattinson says. "So I was like, 'Yeah—why not try to do something weird' There's all these gay sex scenes. And y'know, I haven't even done a sex scene with a girl, in my whole career."
(While he says this, he's pinching the skin on the back of his left hand and sort of twisting it clockwise with his right.)
"And here I am, with Javier [Beltrán], who plays Lorca, doing an extremely hardcore sex scene, where I have a nervous breakdown afterward. And because we're both straight, what we were doing seemed kind of ridiculous."
(Now he's sort of laughing.)
"Trying to do it doggiestyle. Trying to have a nervous breakdown while doing it doggiestyle. And it wasn't even a closed set. There were all these Spanish electricians giggling to themselves."
He's pretty sure the only reason Little Ashes is getting any kind of promotional push is that he's in it.
"It's nothing," he says. "It would never have been released. I mean, that's a terrible thing to say, but this was a movie where we didn't even have standins! We were scrambling, the entire time. We didn't even have trailers."
He hasn't actually seen the finished film. He says he hasn't seen any movie he's been in since the Potter movies—not even Twilight. He took his mom to the American Twilight premiere, squirmed through the first ten minutes, then bolted. "I went out and sat in the car," he says, "having a fullblown panic attack." Ten minutes in, he looked up and realized someone was videotaping him.
He doesn't want to watch himself on film because he's worried he'll look like a fraud. Even before he started acting, he says, "I was constantly thinking that I was faking my emotions. I was constantly attacking myself: You're a fake, you're a fraud."
"I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate—I actually didn't feel anything. I went to some pub and then went crying all the way home. And I got into my dog's bed. I was crying and holding on to the dog. I woke up in the morning, and the dog was looking at me like, 'You're a fake.' "
Was she actually cheating on you
"No," Pattinson says, laughing. "I thought I'd seen her with another guy, but she wasn't even there. I spent three days apologizing to the dog."
Then there are girls, interrupting. Two of them—young, darkhaired, apologetic yet googlyeyed—approach the table to ask for an autograph. One of them hands him a Victoria's Secret shopping bag to sign.
"Victoria's Secret!" he says, brow arched. "What did you get"
"I work there!" the girl says.
Pattinson asks whom he should make the autograph out to.
"Well," the girl says, indicating her friend, "it's her bag, so—Patty. Her name's Patty."
Patty's bag is made out of that stiff, slippery, possiblysuitableforuseasheatshieldtilingontheSpaceShuttle shoppingbag paper, and Pattinson can't make a mark on it. Realizing there's a crisis, Patty—who's been sort of hanging back—steps up, suddenly emboldened, and says, "I have another pen. The movie was really good."
"And you look just like you do on film," the first girl says. "Which is a compliment. Because some people don't. Like, Heidi Klum comes into our store all the time—"
"She looks different," Patty says.
"She looks di__ff__erent," the first girl says, then adds, softly, dreamily, "You look exactly the same."
"Really" Pattinson says, frowning. "People always say the opposite. What's your name, sorry"
"My name's Eva," the girl says. "EVA."
"I always thought I could hide," he says. He poses for a couple of pictures with the girls. The wallpaper on Patty's cameraphone is a picture of Pattinson as Edward.
"Did you have that on there before" Pattinson says. "That's hilarious."
Pattinson doesn't know what his first real post_Twilight_ project is going to be. When we ask him about Parts Per Billion, an indie drama he was supposed to star in with Dennis Hopper and Rosario Dawson, he says he doesn't know, that the start date kept moving—"That's the annoying thing about doing little films"—and sure enough, a couple of weeks after we talk, it is announced that he's dropping out of the movie to focus on prepping for the Twilight sequel, New Moon, about which he knows very little, because he's "never told shit about anything."
"I'm completely in the dark," he says. "No one will even give me the script."
They're keeping you in a box.
"Yes," Pattinson says. He mimes opening the lid of a coffin. "Shut up, Edward!"
He has a hard time even thinking of New Moon as a sequel, because it's so unlike the first book. "I don't know how they're going to make a movie out of it," he says, "because _Twilight'_s a love story, and New Moon is just—Bella's manicdepressive throughout the entire book. There's very, very little happiness, and there's nothing teeny about it."
This may be the bestcase scenario, that the Twilight movies will get darker and Pattinson will have a chance to throw some real heat, performancewise. Hardwicke says that back on the Twilight set, before the movie's franchise future was a sure thing, she and Pattinson "talked about a lot of other projects. He's obviously ridiculously photogenic, but he's also so talented and has so much insight. I see him creating stylized, odd, wild, fantastical characters, like what Johnny Depp does."
Which would be great. But the worstcase scenario is that after four vampire movies—or, depending on how they carve up the 754page behemoth that is Breaking Dawn, the last book in the series, five—no one will ever take him seriously as a mortal. There's a chance that Twilight will go down as his 21 Jump Street, and there's a chance he'll be doomed to stalk the Twilight_convention circuit forever like some undead Mark Hamill, signing pictures of his 22yearold self for an endless line of Pattys and Evas grown plump with age. We try to gently raise this issue by asking him if he's got a post_Twilight game plan. He talks about starting a production company, maybe putting out his musician friends' records. We note that he hasn't mentioned any goals that involve acting.
"I'm not massively concerned about doing lots of acting jobs," he says. "If it all just went, right now, I'd be like, 'All right. I don't really care.' That's probably a stupid thing to say. But I don't, really. I think it'd be much worse to do a load of stuff that's really bad. Because then you can't go into another career. If you've made an idiot out of yourself, you're never going to be taken seriously, as a lawyer or something, if you're, like, a joke actor. The only thing I want from anything is to not be embarrassed."
Still, we say. You didn't talk about your acting. We totally gave you the window to James Lipton it up. (Or to try to convince us that you're More Than Just the Sexy Vampire, we think but don't say.)
"I literally have nothing to say," he says. "So I don't think, Oh, I wish they'd asked me about my craft instead of my hair."
Is there anything you wish you'd gotten to talk about in this interview
"Okay," he says. Deep breath. "I fucked Joe Jonas."
We knew it!
"I love him."
Maybe he's lying when he talks about the future, when he acts like he doesn't care. But maybe he really isn't massively concerned about what he's going to do. If you don't commit to a goal, you don't have to worry about what you're doing, or not doing, to make it come true. About what having your name on four or five vampire movies will do to keep you from getting there. About the choices you're making and the ones you're letting time and inertia and other people make for you. Maybe hanging back and reading about your life in the tabloids is less scary than committing, at 22, to something that might turn out to be beyond you. Or maybe he really does think about becoming a lawyer. Who knows.
Pattinson checks his phone. He has no new messages.
"Not a single person calls me," he says. Not long ago, he says, he turned on his English cell phone for the first time in six months; he had two missed calls, from giggling teenage girls asking to speak with Edward.
We ask him what he has on tap for tonight; he mumbles something about "somebody's birthday," then talks about the social circle he's developed in this city. "It's so weird," he says. "It's like, 'You were just my L.A. friend. I didn't intend to have any responsibility for you whatsoever.' "
("Somebody's birthday," incidentally, turns out to be a quasistarstudded dinner at Il Sole on Sunset Boulevard; "L.A. friends" in attendance include girlkissing pop temptress Katy Perry.)
Pattinson offers us a ride to our hotel. As we're getting up to leave, he glances out the window behind him. "Well," he says, "you'll be encountering the other end of it now."
"The 14yearold paparazzo is outside," Pattinson says.
Sure enough—when we get outside, there's this kid, a scowling Dennis the Menace type in baggy jeans, blasting away with a giant camera.
"You look really young," Pattinson says to the kid, who's backing out into oncoming traffic, still shooting. "How old are you"
"Sixteen," the kid says. He looks 14. The moment couldn't be more Felliniesque unless we were being pap'd by a dwarf in a loincloth. For a moment, following Pattinson across the street to his car, we recoil, trying to hide in our sweatshirt hood; then we remember that we're nobody, that the kid could not give less of a crap about us, that if we walk away from Pattinson, out of the kid's field of vision, he'll leave us alone. We imagine what it would be like if this were our life, all the time. It would drive us mad, and we would probably live in fear of it ever stopping, because of what that would mean.
A few days later, the pictures show up on the Internet. It is breathlessly reported that Pattinson was enjoying a latenight snack (it was actually about six o'clock) with a "mystery male" (us) on Thursday (it was Wednesday). We're in a few of the pictures with him. Pattinson looks goofy, possibly stoned, but still handsome, whereas we look sweaty, guilty, and possibly inbred.
We make it to the car and speed off. Pattinson's old '89 BMW finally died a few weeks ago, so he's been driving this rented Audi S4. It's a total juniorEndeavoragentonthemake ride. We point this out. "I think my agent does have this car, actually," Pattinson says. Before we've gone fifty feet, the windshield steams up and Pattinson can't see a damn thing. He hasn't driven the car on a cold day before, and he doesn't know where the defogger button is.
He turns on the heat—"That's supposed to do something, right"—and then merges into traffic, still blind, cursing his way into the left lane. "I think I'm better off on Melrose, because there aren't any pedestrian crossings," he says. "You're going to regret accepting this lift."
Then he hits another button. Success. The windshield starts to clear and at last Pattinson can see where he's going.
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I've had high turnover of Portuguese (read Brazilian) students who worked at a particular local cafe. I still gave them chapter and verse about minimum wage though! Other examples such as a young Bangladeshi who was visiting Uncle but almost certainly working in the family restaurant, and that's just a few examples in addition to those waiting for Home Office clearance for refugee status. Some pretty horrible stories there too, as well as a few my instinct said weren't genuine. 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Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Old Columbus banner featuring, I believe, Antonio Colombo, President of Gruppo S.p.A. (Columbus and Cinelli).
Mr. Colombo also owns a contemporary art gallery in Milan, read more here.
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|2012-05-01, 20:56
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-> Amata, Mikono, and MIX, were closed off people when the show started. They've since grown out of this, though Mikono has been relapsing because of "Kagura, I don't know!"
-> Andy and Zessica started this show as open and eager, so to speak, and they've since started clamping up little by little because of their new emotions.
I'll throw this out now. Amata has not *messed up*, and has never been in a situation like Andy. He's never done anything wrong to earn Mikono's ire, the man is a walking saint as far as this show has presented him. He's simply caught in awkward moments because of the drama aspect of this show and the personality they decided to hand to Mikono. Andy is not a saint, he's a horny teen and he made a genuine but unintentional mistake, and thinks that MIX hates him now. Andy is stuck and needs to talk, unfortunately, he needed something drastic to snap him out of his wallowing in self-pity. Zessica similarly needed something drastic and got it too.
None of them are identical, but I have a hard time overlapping Amata with Andy, or Mikono with MIX.
|2012-05-01, 23:51
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The problem is that, back in Episode 17, Zessica cut Amata off before he could properly reply to her confession since she (likely correctly) thought that Amata was going to reject her. So partially because of that, there was no proper follow-up between the two over Zessica's confession to Amata. Amata never had a chance to let her down easily which might have been a painful but helpful watershed moment for Zessica.
Zessica figured that Amata was going to reject her, and thought she'd just skip that unpleasant moment entirely, but by skipping it she perhaps made it harder for her heart to move on.
So I see Vena's point here.
However, I don't think that Amata is entirely blameless here. Amata hasn't done anything wrong - he's never really put his foot in his mouth like Andy did, for example. But there's things that Amata's failing to do that he should be doing. I don't know if it's that Amata needs more spine, or if he just needs to learn the art of assertiveness, but his lack of decisive actions has certainly made things much more difficult for both Mikono and Zessica.
|2012-05-02, 00:15
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Amata should just hookup with Zessica.
Mikono must knows how he feels but she allways jumps to the wrong conclusion, runs off, wont listen to him and give him a chance to consider her own feelings.
She also knows that he rejected Zessica because he wants her but she still does nothing.
|2012-05-02, 00:16
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I find it funny how people expect for Amata to go above and beyond for Zessica despite him not even holding her to a high enough regard to do that for her, and it also being incredibly unrealistic for him to try. Amata did his part when he rejected her, now Zessica needs to do her part and get over it. Amata doesn't need to say anything else to her on this matter, the subject is closed. He owes Zessica no further obligations.
Andy and Zessica are not much alike, when Andy realized that he liked Mix he chased after her, but after she turned him down he decided that he wouldn't case after such a cold woman. It was not until after he found out the reason for her behavior that he started to put a real effort into the chasing after her. In the previous episode Andy got upset not because he botched his confession and couldn't get his words across to Mix, who then got mad at him.
Zessica on the other hand was flirting around with Amata, but unlike Andy she didn't have her eye on him, she was just playing around at Amata's detriment, because it amused her. However, once she realized that she liked him she clammed up and kept her distance. She had to be goaded into confessing to Amata, and once she did she fell into denial.
|2012-05-02, 00:40
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Amata didn't do his part because, as Ep. 17 showed, he didn't actually get to finish his part. Zessica was about to run off, he was about to chase her to explain everything and offer a conclusion, but that didn't conclude. No one is expecting Amata to go above and beyond, what is expected is him to finish what he started and he has not done so. The rejection is literally a single word exchange right now with one party having tried to flee, the other to follow and see that everything would be sorted out. This is Amata we're talking about.
When did Andy chase after MIX? I do not recall him actually pursuing her until he overheard about her problems and tried to be a good guy. And I don't recall even talking about any of these details, I mean I could just as easily question why you opt to forget that Zessica clammed up with good reason, she provided in Ep. 9 though the interviews did clarify the meaning. Not to mention you've completely disproportionated the time actually spent on Zessica's flirting for flirting sake (one episode). By Ep.7 when she's gone to him for "protection" from the ghost, some flags should have probably been thrown up that play and affection were already blending in her head/heart. They may as well have had Fudo quote Walter Anderson in Ep. 8:
That said, the point was not that Andy and Zessica are carbon copies, but that in this episode (note the word this) their developments were parallels of one another; they were both sinking ever deeper into depression. There may or may not be other parallels between the characters but I don't want to take the conversation in that direction.
|2012-05-02, 01:58
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Zessica clammed up because she realized that she liked Amata, after half heartedly flirting with him for three episodes. No further reason was given besides that. I'm only judging the Zessica who we've seen in the series so far, not the Zessica who had her behavior explained away by the creators. She played around with him for 3 episodes not 1, so I wouldn't say I'm being disproportionate at all. Again my point still stands she played around with Amata, before she really started liking him.
|2012-05-02, 02:14
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And yet again it's somehow all Amata's fault.
Zessica ran off while Amata was trying to do a proper rejection. How is that Amata's fault? Sure, Amata is probably not at all experienced in stuff like this (neither is Zessica, apparently) and he wasn't as assertive as he should've been, but still, he tried and Zessica didn't want to hear it. How is Amata responsible for finishing the talk, when it was Zessica who ran off in the first place?
I don't really understand why Amata needs to talk to Zessica either. He rejected her* she accepted that he doesn't love her (re: end of ep 17), end of story as far as Amata is concerned. Let's pretend that the Zessica in ep 18 was the result of a natural progression - she had still accepted Amata's decision. No-one forced her to stick around instead of trying to move on. I'm not saying one can't emphatize with Zessica but frankly, she brought this on herself. Amata owes her nothing.
*Unless of course this is again just a big ~misunderstanding~ and after 17 episodes of nothing he suddenly developed feelings for her. In which case the show is trying to insult my intelligence.
|2012-05-02, 02:28
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Amata hasn't spelled out anything concrete. This sort of thing needs to be handled in no uncertain terms.
Amata's failure to act decisively has allowed this situation to get out of hand. Granted that Kagura has interrupted him at many intervals, and so that excuses Amata some. But even so, Amata has had opportunities to resolve the love quad.
Now, the real culprit is questionable writing, of course.
But that's what is victimizing Zessica at least as much as it is Amata, so if you're going to be hard on her...
So in reality Zessica was playing around with Mikono, imo. But after flirting with Amata for a little bit, she started to realize that she was enjoying it for its own sake, rather than simply as a means of teasing Mikono. And I think that it only took her an episode or so to realize that she liked Amata for his own sake. But it did take a few more episodes until her feelings for him became increasingly serious, and less flirtatious.
It wasn't quite love at first sight, but I don't think all of the times she "played around with him" was purely for shits and giggles. I think that a lot of it (all but the first couple of times) was her acting out a crush on him that she herself wasn't fully recognizing as a crush until she started to reflect more on her feelings for Amata.
As for Andy, I don't think he had his eye on Mix specifically at first. Andy was an equal opportunity skirt-chaser at first. In his own way, Andy spent a lot of time just "playing around", like Zessica did. Both of them eventually grew closer to another specific individual.
This is part of the reason why I think there's some merit to the Zessica/Andy comparison. Both started lighthearted/playful, and shifted into something much more serious over time.
|2012-05-02, 03:08
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"Zessica I don't love you!!" so that she gets the point?
As far as the narrative is concerned Amata did his part, he rejected Zessica. It's Zessica's fault, that she can't accept it and move on not Amata's.
While Amata's has failed to tell Mikono how he feels, he ultimately is not at fault, for not for either Zessica's or Kagura's position.
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Besides, it's not like Zessica was unaware that he's into Mikono. That's why Zessica had been so depressed until ep 17, because she knew that he was all Mikono all the time. In 18 episodes he never showed any romantic interest in her and kept pursuing Mikono. And Zessica was more than aware of this. Hell, she didn't even try pursuing him except for that one half-sentence when she told him about Apollon & Sylvie and Kagura & Mikono. So it's not like Amata was giving Zessica mixed signals, leading her to believe she had a chance.
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kuromitsu: Triple_R's advice seems like a mix of doing the right thing and hedging one's bets ().
Anyways, I think with Zessica she's just acting as she said she would: she won't give up until she sees Mikono clearly reciprocate Amata's feelings (not just act jealous). I don't think there's much Amata can or should do about Zessica's situation beyond what he's already done, really, and for now the ball seems to be in Mikono's court. At the same time it's not as though Mikono's obligated to act any differently than she did before just because of Zessica. It might be *advisable*, but I don't see there being any obligation, either.
|2012-05-02, 08:59
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When somebody loudly and passionately confesses to you, I think that calls for an equally clear and concrete reply, and not just a simple hint.
You give a hint for a hint, but if somebody gives you a clear-cut romantic confession then I think the right thing to do is to give them a clear-cut response.
Now of course it doesn't have to be "Zessica, no matter what you do, no matter how you change yourself, I'll never love you, so get over me and move on."
Just a simple "Zessica, I really value you as a friend, but I'm just not interested in you that way. Sorry."
You know, just the classic "let her down easy".
Look, you can't put aside the fact that they go to the same class together, and even regularly fight alongside each other in combat together!
Let's say that the Yellow Ranger confessed to the Red Ranger, of the five/six-person Power Rangers team. I mean, that really is like what we're talking about here. This isn't something that can simply be hinted away, the two people are too associated with each other as it is.
I think some people here aren't seeing the team/military side of things here. Would you want to be Pilot No. 3 of a three-way Aquarion Union with Amata and Zessica while their issues remain unresolved in the immediate wake of Zessica confessing to Amata? Amata clearing things up with Zessica wouldn't just be beneficial to her, it would also be beneficial to the entire military-based team that he and her are big parts of.
I truly don't get why you and kuro talk about Amata and Zessica as though they're two strangers to one another. Don't you think that simply being a reliable/trusted friend and combat ally to someone means you owe them a certain level of basic care and concern?
I don't think Amata's done anything wrong here, but I can understand why Zessica might hold some small glimmer of hope inside of her heart somewhere.
|2012-05-02, 09:33
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you know apollo cared about reika/jun/pierre/sirius/tsugumi/rena all just as much as he did silvia. apollo was never obsessed with silvia. he wanted to protect her sure but if reika needed comfort after the whole sirius leaving thing, he gave it to her. it was episode 23 or whatever. he was just a nice guy despite the whole wild animal behaviour.
if amata can't even do that i don't know what kind of hero he is. he doesn't have to say any harsh stuff to let zessica down. all he has to tell her is i am sorry, i like you and consider you my friend. it can't be that difficult to do for him if he doesn't have any feelings for her right?
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Triple_R: it's good reasoning but it's just not consistent with the way the show's inner logic seems to work.
The show's taken its own "military/fighting" angle extremely inconsistently. Mikono's sticking up for Kagura is the best example so far: on the one hand it's enough of an issue that when Amata starts talking to her about recent events, Mikono assumes that that's what he must've wanted to talk about. On the other hand, it's apparently not enough of an issue for Cayenne to ever bring up with her, it doesn't remove her from the active duty list, and at this point no one other than her and Amata are bothered by it.
Same with Zessica's love declaration: despite making Aquarion go berserk, blowing up an island, and damaging one of the vectors (I think that's why they only have 5 in working order right now). If they were writing the military angle more seriously she'd be off the active duty list, or at least barred from further piloting with Amata, but instead Donar gives her a pass. That's just how this show works.
I expect a similar level of inconsistency / "who-cares" to crop up next week with the way Amata paused mid-battle after seeing his mom's hologram floating in the clouds. As-is if I were in charge of neo-deava the three leads would all be off active duty for now: Mikono for sticking up for Kagura, Zessica for being a loose cannon, Amata for questionable mental status...but somehow I'm not seeing that happening.
tl;dr: you can't really get very far applying military/combat/team logic in this show, it's just not something the writers care about even on their good days.
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It's bad writing for sure. The way that scene ends Amata and Zessica are both standing around as Mikono stomps off as per usual.
Regardless of whether or not Amata has some kind of duty to finish his conversation with Zessica, the fact that their conversation seemingly stopped there does seem *really* hard to swallow (especially since Zessica's lunch was on the ground so she'd be unlikely to leave immediately). Like, after she left I guess they just shrugged their shoulders and awkwardly walked in different directions, and didn't speak with each other until they had that banana-milk hot-tub session...sigh.
That much is poor writing that strains suspension of disbelief. It's not an isolated incident, either, it's just more "unable to write certain scenes without tipping the character interactions in ways they don't want to go (yet)".
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Great Performances "The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour" This is the 1967 film with a mostly improvised and loosely plotted script based around a surreal dreamlike coach trip to an unknown destination. The film is a showcase for six classic tracks including "I Am the Walrus," "The Fool on the Hill" and "Your Mother Should Know," and features John, Paul, George and Ringo as themselves. They are joined for a series of episodic misadventures by a cast of eccentric characters.G
8:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Sonic Youth/The Black Keys" Elder statesmen of alternative/indie/punk rock, band members re-create the wall of guitars. Then the Black Keys exhibit the muscular, no-nonsense sound of their minimalist blues-rock.G
9:00 pm
Mormon Tabernacle Choir Presents The Joy of Song with Katherine Jenkins Recorded in July 2012 in Salt Lake City during the 2012 Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert, this one-hour musical special features the talents of the 360-member Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Welsh classical and crossover artist Katherine Jenkins. Jenkins performs a varied repertoire of songs, including "I Could Have Danced All Night," "La Vie En Rose, " and a powerful rendition of the Welsh patriotic hymn "Cymru Fach."G
10:00 pm
Song of the Mountains No One You Know; Darin & Brook Aldridge; The Twilite Broadcasters. D
11:00 pm
Great Performances "Magical Mystery Tour Revisited" This documentary chronicles the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the least known of the films starring the Beatles, and provides context for "the summer of love" era that set the scene for its production. Footage includes contributions from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Martin Scorsese, Peter Fonda and Terry Gilliam.G