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....I... HROMCLE 2j[\\y/ Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community tor Over 60 Years VU/\_! VOL.63 NO.35 , AUGUST 29,1985-ELUL12 Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals. LI BRAKY', OH 10 HlSTOR |.CA^ *><tff^ 190H VELMA AVE. . COLo, Or 43211 EXCH ■ * Rabbi Proposes Summit Conference Of F|||i^)_l8nPln*^-:-lH«ttV Leningrad Hebrew Teacher Sentenced To Three Years In Labor Camp NEW YORK (JTA)-Roald Zelichonok, a 49-year-old Hebrew teacher from Leningrad who has sought to emigrate to Israel since 1979, has been sentenced to three years in a labor camp on charges of allegedly "defaming the Soviet state and social system," it was reported here by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). Religious Leaders From Around World Two Remembrance Memorials Erected In East Berlin EAST BERLIN, East Germany (JTA)--Two major Gedenkstatten (remembrance memorials) have recently been put in place here, the capital of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), that specifically commemorate the great Jewish leader, philosopher and mathematician, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), and those "thousands of Jews" who were deported from Hitler's Berlin to their deaths in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt. Israeli School Teachers To Work In New York TEL AVIV (WNS)—Thousands of Israeli school teachers ■ registered here to teach in New York public schools for a year or two in response to an advertisement in Israeli newspapers placed by Richard Wollin, principal of the Taft Public School in The Bronx. Wollin said he interviewed about 1,000 applicants for 100 jobs. AH of them said they,would like to teach in New York for a year or two and then return to Israel when.the economic situation improves. . WASHINGTON (JTA) - Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, proposed last week a summit conference of religious leaders from throughout the world to help - stem the spread of religious fanaticism which is causing intolerance, terror and persecution. "The purpose of such a conference would be not to discuss theology but rather tolerance and respect for differences — how to seek it, how to teach it, how by precept and example, to practice it," he told reporters at a breakfast meeting at the National Press Club. "The growing polarization of faiths and peoples and nations that afflicts our world today thrives on intolerance," Schneier declared. "We need ways to stop it. It leads to bloodshed. We need ways to prevent it." Schneier said , that the Appeal of Conscience Foun- Temple Israel Announces Guest Rabbi And Cantor To Assist At High Holy Day Services Robert Aronson, president of Temple Israel, announces that Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks will be assisting' Rabbis Sanford Akselrad and Jerome Folkman during the High Holidays and that Sheila Akin Pearl will serve Tem ple Israel as guest cantor. years before moving to Temple Israel in Omaha. While in Omaha, Rabbi Brooks received numerous awards and recognition for his leadership and spiritual guidance. He was presented the Plaque of Integrity and Excellence by the Omaha Metropolitan Association of Churches, received the Humanitarian Award from the National Council of Christians and Jews and the George Washington Award of Honor from the Freedom Foundation. ' Rabbi Brooks' present ac-. tivities include serving on . the National Pulpit Placement Commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis; director of the Omaha Institute on Judaism for Christian Clergy; board member of the Boy's Club of Cantor Sheila Pearl Omaha, Omaha Food Board and Planned Parenthood; (CONTINUED ON PAGE 17) Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks. Rabbi Brooks has been senior rabbi at Temple Israel in Omaha, Neb., frdm 1952 to the present. .: ' ; Rabbi Brooks is no stranger to the state of Ohio. Originally from Buffalo, N.Y., he earned his B.A. in English literature from the' University of Cincinnati and later was ordained as rabbi from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. His first pulpit was as an assistant rabbi in Richmond, Va!, but he soon became senior rabbi at Temple Shalom in Springfield, Ohio, where he served for six Gerald Cohn Appointed Chairman Of Alzheimers Disease Commission Gerald N. Cohn, executive vice president of Heritage Village, has been appointed to the chairmanship of the . newly formed Ohio Advocacy Commission on Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders. Cohn, who also serves on the National Commission on Nursing Homes and Health Care Facilities of ADRDA and is vice president of the Columbus Chanter, announced the eight goals for the coming legislative year include strengthening support for medical research, Federal disability programs, meeting Jong term care needs, respite care services to families, incentives for home care, consistent policy towards veterans," meeting training needs and promoting education and awareness. Alzheimers Disease is the fourth leading cause of death among older Americans!-In one third of all American (CONTINUED ON PAGE 17) dation, which seeks to promote religious freedom throughout the world, would set up a 12-member steering committee by the end of the year to organize the conference which he hopes Woiild be held in 1986. ' "I believe such a religious summit is urgently necessary, now more than ever," he said. ''From it, I would hope, will come a cry demanding a halt to the killings and bombings and acts of terrorism that are being carried out daily in the name of religion." 'An American Selihot Service' To Premiere At Tifereth Israel "An American Selihot Service," a new musical work for synagogue by Broadway composer Gary William chose to call the work 'An American Selihot Service' because we think that it has succeededin fusing the melodic upbeat feel of the American musical theatpe with the deep lyricism of tradi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 17) He added that if the conference succeeds, it "could become a permanent institution in the . international political landscape, meeting perhaps once every five years, to deal with new issues and speak out on new crises that arise." Schneier, an Orthodox rabbi who is spiritual leader of the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, said "that there is a religious revival throughout the world partly because of "the fear of nuclear destruction." While he welcomes this trend, he said it has also sparked an increase in religious fundamentalism' which he noted always means "less tolerance." . FCC Ruling On Kansas Radio Station Is Assailed By ADL Cantor Jack Chomsky Friedman, will have its world premiere at Selihot , services at Congregation Tifereth Israel on Saturday night, Sept.- 7. The composer > will conduct the performance during the service, which begins at midnight, and will also discuss the work in a coffee hour which begins at 10:30 p.m. The work is scored for bar-" itone, choir, violin, cello, bass, clarinet, harp and . vibes and percussion and will feature Cantor Jack Chomsky and the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Choir along with other area music professionals. "We are very excited about this musical service and hope that many members of our community will be able to share in this beautiful .event," commented Cantor Chomsky, who has worked closely .with the com-, poser from the beginning of the project six months ago. "Ina sense, this began as a community project, since my first exposure to the music of Gary William Friedman came when I was asked to sing the premiere of his Haskalah Suite in 1983 at the Jewish Center with the Cor Iumbus Symphony Chamber Orchestra under Gary Sheldon's direction. I came to know Gary William Friedman through Gary Sheldon, and it was natural that when • we chose to seek a new work fbr 'Selihot, we would approach Mr. Friedman. We i ■ .'. .; ■ . NEW YORK (JTA)-The Federal ; Communications Commission ruled last week that the license renewal hearing involving a Dodge City, Kansas radio station, KTTL-FM, will not include consideration of the station's anti-Jewish anti-Black, broadcasts in 1982 and 1983. Kahane Quits As JDL Chief - NEW YORK (JTA) - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, and presently a member of Israel's Knesset, has announced his resignation as head of the JDL. He said he had named as his successor Irv Rubin, who lives in Los Angeles where he has been JDL West Coast coordinator: A splinter group, the Jewish Defense Organization, was * formed here and has been hostile to Rubin and his followers. Kahane, in announcing his resignation here, said he did so partly because he could not give enough time to'the JDL and partly because he felt his resignation would .make it easier for him to visit the United States, should he be required to. give up his United States citizenship. He said legislation is under consideration in Israel declaring that no member of the Knesset can have dual citizenship. The 54-year-old Brooklyn- born Orthodox rabbi moved to Israel in 1971 and later formed the Kach Party. He was elected to the Knesset last year on a platform of driving all Arabs out of Israel. The FCC ruling was immediately assailed by the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, whose director, Ttfa- than Perlmutter, said the FCC's decision "strains credulity. By any standard of public interest, of democratic fairness, of plain common sense, KTTL does not merit a broadcast license." The FCC ruling was a formal order, and reiterated the Commission's April 26 action that broadcasts such as Uiose aired on KTTL-FM fall within the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. The next step will include a hearing before an administrative law judge. The hearing, for which no date has yet been set, will in- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 19) Cracow To Celebrate First Bar Mitzvah In Thirty-Five Years NEW YORK (JTA)-On Sept. 7, the Jews of Cracow, Poland, will celebrate their first bar mitzvah in 35 years. The bar mitzvah boy will be Eric Strom, an eighth- grader from Stamford, Conn. Eric, his family, and their rabbi will make the journey to Cracow because of a request from the'leader of the Jewish community there: "Send us a bar mitzvah, Send us life," the Cracow Jewish leader said. That was in April, when a group of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies trustees and leaders visited Cracow on a UJA-Federation Campaign of New York trip. "I (CONTINUED ON PAGE 151 "V ■'-•SSI &L
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Boy, 3, Finds Loaded Gun, Shoots Self in Cheyenne
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy in Cheyenne found a loaded handgun in a bag and shot himself in the leg.
Laramie County Sheriff's officials say the boy was treated at the Cheyenne hospital and released later in the day Wednesday.
Sheriff's officials got the report around 7:45 a.m. They say the boy shot himself once in the calf while he was playing with the gun inside a house.
They say they don't expect to file charges but are still investigating.

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Charles Carreon Still Dishing Out Threats & Intimidation... While Hiding From Court Summons
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While Carreon eventually dropped his lawsuit against Matthew Inman at The Oatmeal, it wasn't before one of the parody bloggers he had threatened filed for declaratory judgment, claiming that his blogging was legal. Carreon quite clearly was threatening the blogger, and had even suggested that he would wait until the attention died down to sue -- which clearly gives the blogger grounds for seeking a declaratory judgment. That, of course, is a separate lawsuit, initiated by the blogger, so Carreon can't just drop it. But what he can do, apparently, is everything possible to avoid being served. The judge's own summary of the situation (via Popehat):
Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment that his satirical website does not infringe the trademark defendant has in his own name. Prior to filing a complaint, plaintiff's counsel was in contact with defendant via email. After filing the complaint, defendant and his wife publicly discussed the pending litigation. Plaintiff's counsel mailed defendant a request for waiver of summons to his address in Tucson, Arizona, which defendant did not execute. Instead, the entire envelope was mailed back to plaintiff, unopened, inside a second envelope. This same sequence of events was repeated after plaintiff filed an amended complaint. At plaintiff's request, the Court issued a summons, and plaintiff hired an Arizona process service company to serve the summons at the residential address. On the first visit, the server announced himself and was told "No thank you," and left with the papers. On the second and third visits, nobody answered. The process service company then tried to serve the summons and complaint by certified mail, but the package was never claimed.Of course, during this time that Carreon was hiding out from officially being served, it didn't stop him from continuing to find ways to intimidate the blogger in question. Again, from the judge:
During this time, defendant contacted the general counsel of Walgreens, plaintiff's employer, stating plaintiff had used Walgreens' computer equipment or internet access to create the allegedly actionable website, and implying he might make Walgreens a party to the litigation under a theory of respondeat superior. The demand letter sent to Walgreens contained the same Tucson, Arizona address and email address that plaintiff had been using to attempt service on defendant.Following that, the blogger's lawyers once again emailed Carreon a copy of the summons, complaint and amended complaint -- including sending it to the address Carreon used to threaten Walgreens... and Carreon ignored that too.
Unfortunately, Carreon seems to be working the system effectively. Because even with all of these obvious attempts to avoid having to actually deal with the lawsuit against him, the judge is asking the blogger and his lawyers to "try harder:"
The process server could easily wait outside the fence for defendant to enter or leave the residence and could then leave the papers in the defendant's presence. Alternatively, the process server may choose to wait near a location defendant is thought to frequent, such as an office or grocery store. If the defendant still refuses to accept the papers, it will be considered sufficient if the "server is in close proximity to the defendant, clearly communicates intent to serve court documents, and makes reasonable efforts to leave the papers with the defendant."And with that, the judge refuses to allow the emails to constitute proper service. Public Citizen, who is handling the case pro bono, is asking for donations to help pay for hiring someone to "sit outside Carreon's house until Carreon appears," noting that he's "carrying through on his promise to run up the cost of litigation."
It's unclear what Carreon thinks he's accomplishing here, as he's going to have to face these charges eventually. But, as once again seems clear, his response is to... just keep digging.


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The Rolling Stones at Coachella? Not Likely. . .
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Despite nearly overwhelming evidence to the contrary, sources close to the Rolling Stones have told Rolling Stone magazine that an appearance by the band at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April was out of the question.
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I spotted an Amazing Race envelope station in downtown Vancouver (Canada) yesterday. Unsure when contestants were scheduled to visit but the box was secured to a lamppost and padlocked. Specifically, it was near the steam clock in historic Gastown on Water Street.
LOL, its Area 51 for sure! Rob
eveningChannel Surfer Jul 11, 2005 @ 02:58 PM Anchor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I've been waiting for weeks to post this! When Survivor announced they would be shooting the next season near Tikal, there was a lot of chatter on the Belize chat boards due to the proximity/affinity... A friend/travel arranger I know in Belize (who was formerly involved in TV production in NYC) commented "they will be here in July." I shot off a personal email to her asking if she was working on Survivor Guatemala. She replied that she couldnt go into detail because she had signed a confidentiality agreement, but that no, she was working on "the other one."Unless she's talking about Road Rules, I figure TAR 8 has to be cruising through Belize at some point this month.oh, and re: the Disney spoiler... somehow I doubt CBS would be promoting ABC's parent company
AntennapediaJust Tuned In Today @ 02:41 PM Anchor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oooh! Spoiler!Don't know if anybody cares, but I just got word from a friend of mine doing field work in Panama that he was accosted by several Americans in white vans, cameras in tow, looking for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's boat dock. Evidently, CBS invaded Panama with a vengeance. Also, the person asked him if he spoke English, IN FRENCH, which I find VERY amusing.
Thursday July 7 , NewYork City Friday July 8, Washington's Crossing PASaturday July 9,Lincoln MemorialSunday July 10th,Dulles airport (outside Washington D.C.), Monday July 11thCharleston, SC Tuesday July 12, 'Amazing Race' makes pit stop at Space Center Wends July 13,Talladega possible other location New Orleans
To address the TAR family season. From what I hear, they are having a lot of problems with it and it may actually not be a rumor that it all gets canned. (I can't tell you my sources so don't even ask!haha) Personally, I think it would be a blessing in disguise because TAR is not meant for children!
-As far as TAR family, I most certainly did not say it was cancelled for sure...just that it was having problems and it is possible that it could be canned. As far as I remember, the producers have the right to tape the whole thing and NEVER air the show. If it doesn't air, they do not have to pay the teams a thing. In the case of TAR family, if they run the whole race it will most likely air - but logistics may make it so they can't even run it. Think about it...there are a lot of potential problems that they may not have thought about that hard. My biggest problem with the idea happens at the end of the race. Picture it: an eight year old that lost..."Now Johnny, you signed a contract and that means you can't tell anyone who won the race," says CBS. Johnny, who is now very upset and jealous, goes to school and says, "guess what [best friend] don't tell anyone but I was on The Amazing Race and I know who wins!" Next thing you know the entire 3rd grade knows. Or, the next situation is that 10 year old (which is still about 4th or 5th grade in case you have forgotten) who has won a million and wants to tell his best friend. Next thing you know, the entire junior high school leaks it. That problem is probably not even the biggest on their mind!
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Moyers & Company "Ending The Silence On Climate Change" Even as sadness turns to outrage over the Newtown tragedy, and powerful coalitions of leaders and celebrities speak out, those who value guns over lives continue unfazed and unabated. On the next Moyers & Company (check local listings), Bill reports on how the NRA and gun merchants continue to strong-arm Congress and state legislatures into keeping any and all discussion of sensible gun control off the table. Also on the show, remember climate change? For the first time since 1984, the issue didn't even come up in a presidential debate. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Salmon River Lodges & Legacies" This special travels the Salmon River, stopping each night at a historic lodge to meet the people, who continue in the footsteps of hearty pioneers in the wild heart of Idaho. Each stop reveals a rich history. Rafters, guides, boat operators and residents all reveal how they are drawn to the river repeatedly - or permanently.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Bryan Bates, Surfer, Devil's Staircase, Hagg Lake" Committed surfer Bryan Bates faces cold water, fierce waves and harsh weather on the Oregon Coast. The 30,000-acre Devil's Staircase area redefines off-trail adventure. Plans to expand Hagg Lake in Oregon's Washington County have hit an expensive snag.G
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Secrets of Highclere Castle The castle's architect worked on Britain's Parliament building with construction beginning in 1838. When completed, it becomes the social epicenter of Edwardian England. This film shows how the aristocrats lived with an army of servants in the pre-World War I years, how the home becomes a hospital for wounded servicemen during the war, and how the current inhabitants, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, spend $1 million in annual upkeep funds in their fairytale castle.G
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The Great Interrogator
Ask film buffs for a list of the greatest living American directors and you may hear the name Errol Morris, the documentarian who created an entirely new way of conducting interviews, made classics like The Thin Blue Line (which helped get a man out of prison), and this month gives us the fullest, most honest look yet at the people who took part in Abu Ghraib
It was in April 2004 that news broke about a series of photographs taken over the final three months of the previous year at Abu Ghraib, a jail under the command of American forces in postinvasion Iraq. These were weird, shocking, shameful, unthinkable photographs: a naked prisoner on a dog leash, a prisoner with a cement bag on his head forced to stand on a box with electrical wires attached to either hand, a line of naked prisoners being forced to masturbate, a prisoner chained in a stress position with panties over his head, a female American soldier smiling and giving a thumbsup as she is photographed with a swollenfaced Iraqi corpse, seven prisoners compelled to form a naked human pyramid, and on and, degradingly, on. People articulated and channeled their disgust, wrote essays about what it all meant, argued over who was culpable, and for the most part, saw what they wanted to and what they needed to. Broadly speaking, for those on the right these were the actions of a few bad apples who had shamed America, and for those on the left it was evidence that revealed the true ugly face of the war and the secret policies of the BushCheneyRumsfeld triumvirate. Seven soldiers from the 372nd MP company involved in the acts shown, or in their documentation, were tried as a result; the longest sentence handed down was ten years.
Toward the end of 2005, Errol Morris decided to make a film about these Abu Ghraib photos. This seemed surprising. Though he has made movies about Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) and Robert McNamara (the Oscarwinning Fog of War), over the past thirty years he has most often told tales about those far off the public radar: people, for instance, who run and who patronize pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven); eccentric oldtimers (Vernon, Florida); a topiarist, lion tamer, robotmaker, and molerat expert (Fast, Cheap & Out of Control); and an ecutiontechnology specialist (Mr. Death). "I usually like stories that have no fingerprints on them," he acknowledges, "and this story is covered in fingerprints. They're some of the most widely seen photographs in history."
And yet, perhaps this subject wasn't so different after all. "It's always exciting," Morris notes, "when you find a story that everybody knows about but nobody really has seen." These soldiers—whom he came to refer to, with a certain sense of irony, and hence affection, as "the bad apples"—had been accused, interrogated, tried, imprisoned, vilified, analyzed, quizzed, blamed, picked over, and discarded. But amid all this action and attention, Morris noticed that there was one thing that no one had done. Something so simple and yet, as it would turn out, once the results could be seen, something that would prove remarkable, disturbing, and unexpected. What Errol Morris did—the last thing anyone else had cared to do with these socalled bad apples—was listen to what they had to say.
[This February, in the week after Errol Morris's sixtieth birthday, he and his new movie, Standard Operating Procedure, are invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, where the film, the first documentary invited into competition in the festival's history, will win the grand jury's Silver Bear award. While there, Morris is interviewed more times over a short period than ever before in his life. On the Tuesday morning, he gives twentyfour consecutive TV interviews, each of them between six and ten minutes long.]
Berlin TV interview #3:
"What would you say is the main message of your film"
Morris sighs.
"I don't know. Pick a different place to live than planet Earth"
The first interviews Errol Morris ever did were with mass murderers. Morris wasn't yet a filmmaker, just an unusual graduate student with peculiar interests. It was the '70s. He was at Berkeley, where he had ended up after his first academic career, studying the philosophy of science at Princeton, had been curtailed when the famous philosopher Thomas Kuhn (who originated the term, and concept of, "paradigm shifts") responded to Morris's impudent youthful theoretical challenges by throwing an ashtray at his head. ("I call it 'the ashstray argument,' " says Morris.) At Berkeley he had become interested in the issues surrounding the insanity plea and criminal responsibility. This gave him a reason—or perhaps, as time passed, an excuse—to visit serial killers in prison. The first taped interview of Morris's life was with Ed Gein, notorious for skinning his victims and other bodies he had dug from graves and using the harvested skin to make items of clothing and furniture. Morris, already beginning to develop what he now describes as his "shutthefuckup school of interviewing," didn't ask about any of Gein's atrocities. "I always thought it's untoward when you're meeting someone to talk about the human taxidermy, the grave robbing, the cannibalism," he rationalizes. "It seems a little forward." Instead, he listened as Gein told him about Freud and Radio Moscow.
Morris remembers liking Gein—"he had a kind of avuncular calm"—as he would find himself liking numerous interview subjects over the years that others might reflexively blanch at. As he puts it, "I like all these characters; that's my problem."
Berlin TV interview #11:
"I have this crazy theory that Bush won the election in 2004 because of Abu Ghraib. It's a simple theory. The war was going badly, the insurgency was growing, the war is essentially out of hand, if it ever was in hand. Who to blame You don't want to blame yourself. No one wants to do that. Blame these soldiers. Blame these soldiers for everything. Blame them for the failure of our war in Iraq… Let them carry the stain of war. And then you don't have to blame yourself."
As with many of his previous movies, Morris stumbled into Standard Operating Procedure. He was planning a movie about war photography with a much wider historical scope, and his initial fixation had been on a famous pair of photographs taken in 1855 during the Crimean War. But although Morris visited the Crimea in the fall of 2005 to investigate, he says that he began to think, "Well, I can't just do the Crimean War photographs—because, you know, who is going to go to the multiplex"
Not long after the Crimean trip, Morris's cameraman Bob Chappell saw an interview on CSPAN with Janis Karpinski, the brigadier general who was relieved of her command after the Abu Ghraib scandal, and suggested to Morris that this was someone he might like to interview. Morris flew Karpinski to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has his office and home, and interviewed her oncamera—for a total of sixteen or seventeen hours over two days. His focus began to shift, and soon his film was only about this one set of much more recent photographs. He reached out to the four "bad apples" who weren't in jail. (Three—Javal Davis, Jeremy Sivits, and Sabrina Harman—had been released. The fourth, Megan Ambuhl, hadn't received a custodial sentence.) "If there wasn't a deep skepticism on all of their part, that would be in itself remarkable," he says. "They've been through a media circus, and they are justified in thinking that it's the media, in part, that put them behind bars." But one by one, he persuaded them, and others who had been involved at Abu Ghraib, to appear oncamera, and once they were in front of the lens, he let them talk. There is a school of journalism (and, of course, of warfare, too) that believes that people will only give up the most important truths under great pressure, but Morris is of the opposite school: that people will often easiest lead you to such truths when allowed to speak freely. And, crucially, that when they are allowed to find their own way they will also lead you to far stranger truths—will give you answers the most hardassed interrogator could never get, because these will be answers to questions such an interrogator could never have thought to ask.
As well as doing interviews, Morris looked into the possibility of visiting Abu Ghraib itself, if only to film the perimeter (he was quoted a fee of $50,000 for safe passage to and from Baghdad), and he also considered shooting images in Amman, until he discovered that there were no buildings like Saddam Hussein's showpiece jail in Jordan because, ironically, "Abu Ghraib was built on an American model." Instead, he and his team recreated parts of Abu Ghraib in Hollywood, on the same soundstage where I Love Lucy was once filmed. ("You feel," he says drily, "the presence of Ethel Mertz in every shot.")
To begin with, Morris spent his own money on the project, going "very deep into my own pockets—foolishly deep… unrealistically, stupidly, insanely deep." Even when the movie was financed and well under way, he had a problem. He knew that two of the still incarcerated bad apples, Charles Graner and Ivan Frederick, were unlikely to be released in time and that there was no possibility of the military allowing access to them in jail, but he had hopes for the third. She was Lynndie England, the most infamous apple of all. As far as he was concerned, without her there wasn't really a movie. So he did all he could. Before she got out, his team befriended her mother and her lawyer, and one of his researchers was there in San Diego to meet her, with her family and lawyer, on the day she was released. A month later, England flew to Cambridge with her baby boy, Carter, for two days of filming.
Morris started nearly every interview by simply saying—and you can see this as either a calculating tactic or a kind of generosity—some version of "I don't know where to start." And although it's not as if he never asks questions—there are the moments that occur in most of his movies where suddenly his disembodied voice booms out with an inquiry and it's quite obvious that he can be tough and pointed when he needs to be—he's not just concerned with getting his interviewees to fill in the gaps of a preconceived tale. "I don't know what I'm looking for," he says. "I think that one of the virtues of how I go about doing those things is that I don't have this fid agenda going into it. It's not as though I expect people to tell me what I want to hear. I don't know what I want to hear."
Berlin press conference:
"We don't seem to learn much from history. I have my version of this very famous quote by Santayana: 'Those who are unfamiliar with history are condemned to repeat it.' My version is: 'Those who are unfamiliar with history are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.' "
"I guess it's a way of introducing yourself to Werner Herzog," says Morris. " 'I know a mass murderer who you would be really interested in meeting.' " As he fell out of graduate school, Morris immersed himself deeper and deeper into the Berkeley film world; there he met many of the new wave of German directors, but it was Herzog with whom he formed, for a while, the strongest bond. He took Herzog on a prison visit with Ed Kemper, who had murdered his grandparents at 15, then, as an adult, borrowed his mother's car to pick up female hitchhikers. "Killing them," notes Morris, "and eating them."
Excited to be around Herzog ("I started to think of myself as a filmmaker," Morris says), he shared with Herzog much of his serialkiller material. He told Herzog all about Ed Gein's hometown, Plainfield, Wisconsin, where Morris had begun to conduct interviews about other murders that had taken place there in the decade after Gein's arrest. In particular he told Herzog of a theory he had come up with. He had visited Plainfield cemetery with a psychiatrist friend, mapped out the graves Gein had robbed, and discovered that they formed an approximate circle around Gein's mother's grave. This suggested to Morris that Gein (who was the model for the motherobsessed killer in Psycho) may have exhumed his own mother. He and the psychiatrist had tried to detect any hollowness below by pounding the ground with a pole, their ears to the earth, but to no avail, and it bothered Morris, not knowing. "I dreamed," he says frankly, "of being able to exhume Ed's mother's grave."
Herzog and Morris made a pact. They would meet in Plainfield—Herzog was driving down from Alaska with his German producer—and under cover of night they would together dig up Gein's mother's corpse, or unearth her empty grave. ("This seemed," Morris comments a little wryly, "like, you know, a bonding experience between Germans and Jews.") As Herzog has sometimes tauntingly advertised in the years since, it was Morris who chickened out. He never left Los Angeles, where he was at the time. Partly it was the cost of getting back to Wisconsin, but mostly it was fear. "I started to have these images of me and the Germans, the full moon, the shovels, the squad cars arriving unexpectedly. The looks of horror and disgust. I imagined my mother: 'Errol! How could you What were you thinking' "
Herzog went anyway. He did no digging, but he finally got to see Plainfield, which Morris had told him so much about, for himself. He fell in love with it. Morris was horrified to learn that Herzog planned to use it as the landscape and inspiration for his next movie, Stroszek. "I was outraged," Morris recalls. He asked Herzog to pull back, and was rebuffed. "I thought it was a betrayal of our friendship," Morris remembers. "I was hurt and fuckedup about it, and angry." He told Herzog: " 'For you to steal a landscape is the highest form of plagiarism.…' He understood."
There was one famous final act to the strange '70s MorrisHerzog relationship. (They are now, after many years, on good terms once more.) In 1980, Morris released his first documentary, Gates of Heaven, centered around the contrasting fortunes of two Californian pet cemeteries, triggered by a story he had read in the San Francisco Chronicle. Herzog maintains that, sometime before Morris started filming, frustrated by the way Morris seemed better at complaining about the impediments to making a film than getting on and making one, Herzog had declared that if Morris finished a film he would eat his own shoe.
Morris has no recollection of any such conversation. He concedes it could have taken place—"I don't listen well"—but he has always taken great exception to the idea that anything of this kind played a part in why Gates of Heaven came to exist: "Herzog did play a part, but it was the example he set by the movies he made, my actual love of his art.…" Consequently, Morris had mid feelings when Herzog declared that he was going to make good on his supposed promise. The event, memorialized in the short and accurately titled film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, took place before a screening of Gates of Heaven in Berkeley. Morris was due to fly in from New York to attend and actually boarded the plane, but then he got off again. "I was just angry," he says. "I think it was stupid. I should have done it."
Berlin TV interview #23
[in which Morris gets a little exasperated with the Australian interviewer and by proxy everyone else who has ever asked why he didn't get Robert McNamara in his last movie and these "bad apples" in this movie to say sorry]:
"People imagine movies as some kind of strange church of possible redemption where you go into the theater and the person who's been accused of the crime makes various representations to the audience of how they've received wisdom and recognized the errors of their ways and now would like to make a complete remission of sin through apology. That is not this movie.… If McNamara had suddenly started crying, saying, 'You know those 2 12 million Vietnamese that died, I feel so really, really sorry, I'm a bad person, that was a bad thing to do, killing the 2 12 million people,' and he started crying.… I'm sorry, I (a) never want to see that; and (b) it doesn't bring back those 2 12 million people. Saying sorry is almost like… I mean, I used to joke with my son: You know, you can do anything you want to another person as long as you apologize immediately. Cleave their head off with an ax, light them on fire, put them into some kind of absurd grinding machine that leaves them as a paste—as long as you say 'I'm sorry,' it becomes okay. I'm not interested in 'I'm sorry.' "
"Glad you're not my dad," the interviewer mutters in response.
Once the interviewer has left the room, Morris says to me, "I'm still thinking about 'I'm sorry.' I guess the magic words are 'please' and 'I'm sorry.' It's the elementaryschool view of the world."
Morris had been to the Berlin film festival before, when Gates of Heaven came out. It would turn out to be a doubly humiliating experience. One of the more esteemed guests at the festival that year was Douglas Sirk—not only a legendary director but to Morris, who had programmed a series of his films in Berkeley, a hero. He met Sirk, introduced himself as an admirer and firsttime filmmaker, and somehow persuaded him to come and see Gates of Heaven. Sirk brought his wife. Halfway through, they got up to walk out. "I tried to plead with him to stay, which was completely humiliating," Morris remembers. "He said to me, 'It's not a movie, it's a slide show.' "
Even worse was that evening's public screening. The man who had been assigned to look after him, and introduce him at the movie's end, asked Morris whether he wanted to watch his own movie, but Morris said that he was already depressed, so they went for a beer instead. According to Morris, when they returned fifteen minutes before the movie's end, the theater, which had been twothirds full, was now entirely empty. "Literally empty," he says.
Thankfully there were some who noticed, and appreciated, his achievement with Gates of Heaven. One of those who had seen a rough cut in San Francisco was Wim Wenders. Afterward, Morris asked Wenders what he had thought of it. "Oh, simple," Wenders replied. "It's a work of genius." (In Berlin there is a dinner in honor of Standard Operating Procedure, and when Wenders arrives, Morris gets up to speak with him and makes a point to thank him once more for that initial kindness and encouragement. "I have certainly," he tells me, "never forgotten that.")
Likewise, long after its unheralded release, Siskel and Ebert proclaimed Gates of Heaven one of their top ten movies of the year, and it is Roger Ebert who has become the film's greatest and most enduring champion. When asked to show a favorite movie at events over the years, this is the movie he has often chosen, and has continued to proclaim its wonders.
"He's been fabulous," Morris says. "It's been like having a second mom."
One evening in Cambridge, I go out to dinner at the All Star Sandwich Bar with Morris and his wife, Julia Sheehan, an art historian. The two of them met in Wisconsin in the '70s, after Julia had heard, through the local film community, of this interesting man who had been interviewing mass murderers. They have a 20yearold son who is studying psychiatry, and an 11yearold French bulldog called Jackpot.
During the evening, they reminisce about Morris's years as a private investigator. These came in the period after his second movie, Vernon, Florida, when various film projects had spluttered to a halt and he was desperate to earn some money. A friend recommended him to a top New York private detective whose field was investigating big corporate Wall Street cases. Morris worked for him on one of the first roguetrader scandals, gathering information to help one of the defendants caught in the scandal's penumbra. "I'm not sure I ever understood it, to tell you the truth, but it involved trading in government securities."
For another case, he was sent to London. His newlywed wife came, too, as part of his cover: "Julie and I had our honeymoon posing as diamond buyers at the Savoy."
At a later date, Morris tells me about their wedding, itself not short of unconventional flourishes. A friend arranged for them to be married by a judge in a Brooklyn criminal court between prostitution cases. "Just utterly perverse," says Morris. Their wedding photographs were taken by Tom Waits, whose wife, Kathleen, Morris knew from the privateinvestigation world. (Waits promptly lost the photos, phoning several years later to say that he had just found two on the floor of his garage.)
After Julia has retired to bed, Morris details his current obsession—maybe it'll become another essay (after years of writer's block, Morris has recently been responsible for a series of elegant, eclectic, lengthy, and intimidatingly erudite essays for the New York Times Web site), though right now he imagines it as his next nonfiction movie, the latest product of his interest in entering history through photography. "I took great pride in telling stories that no one else would be interested in," he says. "And I sort of would like to get back to that." This new exploration follows the kind of trail only a man like Morris could find. "You start off with a randomly picked photo in 1892," he says, "and it takes you all the way through these truly insane series of stories, and it ends up in the White House with the first lady holding an albatross." He laughs with delight. "Too good to be true. Murder! Bird poaching! Rabbit cannibalism! Laura Bush! Margaret Mitchell! And more!"
Berlin TV interview #4:
"Every war has its own character. Every war may be crazy, but I think every war is crazy in its own unique way. This war, which I think we only dimly understand, has its own craziness. I often think of it as a war of humiliation…an attempt to humiliate Saddam, and to show Saddam that we are more powerful than you. So much of what happened at Abu Ghraib was planned and thought out in terms of humiliation—stripping prisoners naked in front of, or sometimes having them stripped by, female military police. A way of humiliating them supposedly to get them to talk; an interrogation technique, but I often think it was humiliation in and of itself. We are left with this strange rondelet of humiliation and rehumiliation—the leader of one country's attempt to humiliate the leader of another, a prison in which inmates are routinely humiliated and degraded, photographs taken of this which show American soldiers humiliating Iraqis, the pictures come out and they humiliate the army and the U.S. government, and they in turn try to humiliate the soldiers that have humiliated them by showing pictures of people being humiliated. It's insane,_ all of it."_
It was The Thin Blue Line that allowed Errol Morris a filmmaking career. Initially, he was given money to make a film about a Texas psychiatrist known for his consistently damning court testimony, but Morris's attention soon diverted toward one particular case the psychiatrist had been involved in. On November 28, 1976, a police officer was shot dead on a Dallas roadside by a man in a car. Randall Adams was said to be that man, and was convicted largely on the testimony of a youth he had spent time with earlier in the day who claimed to have been crouching down in the car's passenger seat at the time of the killing. Adams was sentenced to death and came days from the electric chair. Largely due to the evidence unearthed by Morris while making The Thin Blue Line, he would eventually be freed.
Morris had conceived of the movie as "a nonfiction film noir," and it has an ingenious structure in which, amid surreal reconstructions of different accounts of what happened and remarkable interviews with protagonists, supposed witnesses, and officials, the viewer slowly becomes aware that the other, younger man, David Harris, is the killer. When Morris first contacted Harris to persuade him to appear on film, he was yet to come to this conclusion. Harris agreed to meet with Morris to discuss his participation and suggested a bar near his hometown of Vidor, Texas: "in the middle of fucking nowhere," Morris recalls, "this kind of brush swamp country." Morris came alone, and the two of them sat at a table drinking beer. Harris asked whether Adams was still alive and was surprised to hear that he was. "I thought he would he dead by now," Harris commented. The two of them, the filmmaker and the murderer, chatted away, and on one level, Morris remembers, "we're getting along famously.… Harris, there's this kind of a sweetkid aspect—I, of course, ended up liking him."
But, at the same time, Morris began to realize that he was sitting alone in the middle of nowhere with an unconvicted cop killer whose case he was digging into. Not long after sitting down, he was already fairly sure. Then there was a moment, discussing the night of the murder, when Harris said, "I'll never forget the look in that cop's eyes." By the account that convicted Adams, Harris should never have been able to see the policeman's eyes.
Increasingly uncomfortable, Morris blurted something incredibly stupid. "I said, 'You know, Randall Adams has said a lot of stuff. And I think it's a lie. He said that you're responsible. And I'm really glad I had a chance to meet you because I can tell, having met you, that's it's not true.' " It was the opposite of what he was thinking, and he was pretty sure Harris knew that. Still, he saw the evening through. As they were leaving, Harris gave him a repeated lecture to be very, very careful driving.
Making his way through the dark country byways, cursing himself for not taking the longer way round on the freeway, with Harris's thoughtful warning echoing in his ears, Morris convinced himself he was being followed. When he finally lost the headlights that he imagined were pursuing him, he stopped at a gas station and called his wife. "I said, 'I just talked to David Harris—I think he's the killer and I think he's following me.' And Julie started screaming at me on the phone: 'You fucking idiot! What is wrong with you What the fuck are you doing You get out of there!' "
It would take two more years to get David Harris oncamera. In the meantime, Harris would call him at home in New York, and various appointments would be made and broken. One weekend when Harris didn't show, it turned out that he had quite an excuse—he was busy killing someone in Beaumont. This murder he was charged with. After long negotiations, Morris was given permission to interview him in custody. One of Harris's requests for the interview, which was granted by the authorities, was that he be given some street clothes so that he didn't look like a prisoner oncamera. It was a trick—Harris was using Morris's filming as a way of getting an outfit for an escape attempt, and now, suitably dressed, he disappeared. For two days, the authorities believed he was gone, but after escaping into the jail's heating ducts he couldn't find a way out, and eventually, hungry, gave himself up. But Morris's interview, inevitably, was canceled.
Without speaking to Harris on film, Morris still had plenty of evidence that Adams was innocent, but arguably he didn't have a movie. One final chance came when Harris, by now on death row for the Beaumont murder, was brought to Dallas for a hearing on the Adams case, and the Dallas authorities gave Morris permission to interview him. It was a Friday. Morris slowly built toward the central questions of what happened, and didn't happen, on that night. Harris was charming and strangely honest. Maybe it was the fact that he was already on death row and had less to lose now, but you also got the sense that he was enjoying this, all of it—the getting away with it but also the getting caught—and that Morris was about to get the answers that he needed.
And then, before Morris got to the point, the camera motor burned out. Morris arranged to return the next day, but it was impossible to find a replacement camera in time, so he had to turn up with just a tape recorder. In the finished film, this climactic sequence—a closeup of a rolling cassette tape as you hear Morris's and Harris's voices dance toward the truth—is so staggeringly dramatic that you can't imagine how better the story could have been told, but on the day it occurred, Morris assumed that, whatever happened, without footage of this interview his film was ruined. They talked for less than an hour. "It's probably the best interview I've ever done," says Morris, "or will ever do."
What's most remarkable about the conversation is its restraint. Where any TV interviewer would have been jabbing a finger in Harris's face—Did you do it Did you do it Did you do it (and then, no doubt, Are you sorry Are you sorry Are you sorry)—Morris just edges him toward the information required, never forcing him, never spooking him. (Morris is sort of like a murderer whisperer.) "I asked him at one point, 'Were you alone in the car when you were stopped by the Dallas police officer' and he just gave me this look. It's not in audio. It's just me and him. He gave me this look and smiled and nodded his head. In a way, it's our private moment." Morris never even asks Harris straight out if he did it. He doesn't need to. Harris has said enough.
Afterward, still in the jail, Morris remembers crying.
"Thinking, This whole fuckedup thing, you know. That life is really really really fuckedup."
He didn't speak to Harris for years, but he got back in touch when he heard that Harris was soon to be ecuted. They exchanged emails and spoke on the phone. "I said that I had hoped to talk to him more over the years. I apologized. I said he was always on my mind in one way or another, which was true. And that I always liked him, which was also true. And that if I could help him in any way…" At Harris's request, Morris wrote a letter to the governor asking that his death sentence be commuted, and he also tried to interview Harris again. Harris was keen, and Morris says that he tried everything but the authorities wouldn't allow it, and on June 30, 2004, Harris was killed by lethal injection.
There are people who would wonder how, I ask Morris, you could like someone who had killed at least two people—and was prepared to let another die for a murder he committed
"Yeah," Morris acknowledges. "You know, I don't know where 'liking' and 'fascinated by' begin and end. Hard to know. I mean, would I want him to come to dinner Not really, no. Was I scared of him Yes."
Randall Adams was the man Morris had helped set free, and Morris was there to meet him when he returned home to Columbus, Ohio, after his release from prison. "It was just amazing," Morris says. 'I thought, You actually did this." Quickly, it turned sour. "The aftermath of the Adams thing," says Morris, "was a horrendous thing."
For years Morris has tended to encourage a simple version of the story, in which Adams comes off as a greedy ingrate looking for his share of the (nonexistent) huge profits from The Thin Blue Line. But the core disagreement was less simple. At issue was the contractual agreement between Adams and Morris. The initial release that Morris had Adams sign paid him a dollar for his cooperation. Later Morris had Adams sign a new document—partly, he says, out of guilt (this new document now specified fees of $40,000 and $60,000 if fictional TV or cinematic films were made of Adams's story) but partly, he now concedes, "out of greed," because in the second contract Morris's rights over Adams's story became exclusive. "Let's be clear," he admits, "that I renegotiated it because I wanted to control the story." Morris says that as soon as the liberated Adams took issue with this, he offered to release him from the contract. That is what eventually happened but only after some very unpleasant public legal moves, for which Morris primarily blames Adams's lawyer. "That was so fucking miserable I can't begin to even tell you," he says. He and Adams haven't spoken since, though Morris says that he would now like to do so.
Perhaps he got a little carried away, albeit in the way someone absolutely needs to if they're to make Errol Morris movies. "You get so close to people in doing these things. And you get so connected to their stories. I think there is a danger," he says, "that you forget that it's not your story."
The Thin Blue Line was released by Harvey Weinstein's Miramax pictures. Weinstein listened in to one of Morris's early interviews to promote the film, then wrote Morris a letter. It began:
Dear Errol:
Heard your NPR interview and you were boring. You couldn't have dragged me to see THE THIN BLUE LINE if my life depended on it.
It's time you start being a performer and understand the media.
Let's rehearse:
Q: What is this movie about
A: It's a mystery that traces an injustice. It's scarier than NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. It's like a trip to the Twilight Zone. People have compared it to IN COLD BLOOD with humor.
…If you continue to be boring, I will hire an actor in New York to pretend that he's Errol Morris. If you have any casting suggestions, I'd appreciate that.
When Randall Adams appeared to be after a share of The Thin Blue Line's supposedly abundant profits, what Morris would tell people was, "Well, clearly Randall has never had to deal with Harvey Weinstein."
Berlin press roundtable
[when asked whether he has any "dark hobbies—like computer games"]:
"No computer games. My darkest hobby of all is how I earn a living—I make TV commercials. That's the darkest, darkest hobby of all."
Until he was approached after The Thin Blue Line to make a series of commercials for 7Eleven, Morris says that he had never thought of this line of work. "If I'd known about this ten or fifteen years earlier," he reflects, "the amount of suffering I could have alleviated in my own life…" As far as he could tell, he was approached for the 7Eleven spots—known as the "mobile judge" ads, in which a courtroom on the back of a trailer was taken from town to town so that the mobile judge could give his legally astute but predictably 7Elevenfriendly opinion of local convenience stores—for the absurd reason that, following The Thin Blue Line, he was the director with a passion for justice. No matter. One swift eyeopener was that, while The Thin Blue Line had cost $1.3 million over the three years it took to make, the budget for these "mobile judge" ads and their twoweek shoot was $1.7 million.
It is work for which Morris has shown a great aptitude. His commercial work, and his reputation within that field, built up over time, and recently he has been shooting as many as a hundred commercials a year. The best known are perhaps his long series of Miller High Life commercials and his "switch" commercials for Apple. And on the dark day that David Harris was ecuted, for instance, he was trying to prep a commercial for ATT having just wrapped a Tylenol shoot. He is not one of those directors who feel sullied by such work. "Or if I am sullied," he says, "it's happily so." (I spend a day watching Morris do his day job, filming commercials for the Full Tilt Poker Internet site. Onset, his demeanor veers between that of the supremely assured and selfconfident director and that of an eccentric and rather forlorn academic who has wandered into the wrong building and is desperately hoping that someone will set him straight. Both personae, I suspect, are effective at achieving his ends.)
Reading about Morris before I met him, I had seen him justify his love of commercials in two memorable and ingenious ways. The first was with his theory that while movies always try to sell us the lie that people can be heroes, commercials put forward the far more achievable and believable premise that products are heroes. The second was his notion that consumerism in general, and hence commercials in particular, divert us from our worst instincts as a race. This is how he once argued it: "I love commercials, unreservedly. The haiku of the West. And I like to think of consumerism as the most effective preventative to genocide yet devised. If someone shows up at your door and asks you to hack your neighbor to death with a machete, you're less likely to do it if you have prior plans, say, to go and buy a DVD player."
Berlin TV interview #3:
"The soldiers got blamed because they took pictures of things that embarrassed the U.S. Army and the administration. They were punished for being photographers. The crime is photography. I don't see it as a crime. Under another set of circumstances, Sabrina Harman would have gotten the Pulitzer Prize. What did she give us She gave us evidence of a murder that we would not have otherwise."
In the early '90s, Morris invented the device known as the Interrotron. It always annoyed Morris that interviewees would never quite be looking into the camera when you spoke to them, but rather just to one side, where the interviewer was sitting. It amazed him that more people weren't bothered by this, and he resolved to do something about it. He realized that you could project the image of an interviewer on a teleprompter screen in front of the lens; his screenwriter friend Judith Rascoe pointed out that for the system to truly work, you would need two cameras with two teleprompters, each showing the image from the other camera, so that both the interviewer and the subject could look directly into a camera and have a conversation with the face they saw there. Its name—the Interrotron—came from Morris's wife, who liked its amalgamation of "interview" and "terror." (There is no actual distinct separate device that is an Interrotron. It can be created from any two cameras and teleprompters, connected correctly.)
The Interrotron has turned out to be the perfect complement to his interviewing style: both the intimacy and eye contact and yet the sense of distance (the interviewer can't be seen directly and so is just a floating head), seem to encourage revelation. (Morris has noted in the past that when people sit in front of the Interrotron they are watching television, which everybody loves.)
He's still annoyed that he never patented the device. By the time he took the notion seriously—"it's my usual style to have absolute contempt for most of what I do and think"—it was too late. Much as he is surprised that more people don't use the Interrotron, his nightmare is a world in which everyone is using his invention while he languishes abandoned and unrewarded: "My recurring fantasy is that I am in a substandard nursing home, tied to some horribly fitted mattress in a pool of my own urine, and all around me there are other patients watching Interrotrons."
Morris is fascinated by why nearly every interview in Berlin began with a variation of the same question: How did you get them to talk to you
"Why is that such an interesting question" he wonders.
I tell him that I am more fascinated by the question that they didn't ask. For all their curiosity in this area, not one single journalist asked, "Did you pay them"
"It is interesting," he agrees. "I don't know if it's a great idea for me to talk about it. I've always felt that if someone specifically asked me, I wouldn't lie about it, because I think that would be incredibly stupid."
It is not the first time he has paid a subject of his films. When he returned to find Fred Leuchter, the subject of Mr. Death who fecklessly becomes a hero in Holocaustdenial circles, several years after first interviewing him, he paid him to continue the project—payments he rationalized in an interview at the time on the basis that he paid actors to act out scenes for his documentaries and he was asking Leuchter to recreate certain images from his life as an actor.
For Standard Operating Procedure, the first of the five "bad apples" Morris interviewed, Javal Davis, asked for a fee and Morris agreed. "The rest just followed in due course." (Only the bad apples. If other subjects refused to be interviewed without payment, Morris didn't pay them.) "In this instance, I justified it—I think that's how the contracts were written—that I was paying them as consultants or advisers to the project. Yes and no. I was essentially, for all intents and purposes, paying them to be interviewed."
He has this further to say on the subject:
"I don't think it influenced in any way the quality or content of the material. Maybe it did—maybe I'm just kidding myself. But I don't… The amounts of money were relatively small, and I just don't see it being a consideration…".
My hunch is that you're right, but my hunch is also that there are people who…
"Oh yes, they would take exception to it, or they would take it as another sign of the erosion of documentary standards or of some kind of journalistic standards. But there's always this dream that somehow you get material that is free from any kind of constraint. That is pure. And of course that notion in itself is illusory. People talk to you for various different reasons—pecuniary reasons can be among them."
I guess some people will simply attack you on the grounds that they think these are bad people and you gave them money.
"People can attack you for so many, many, many, many reasons," he says. The truth is that he feels protective of his subjects, and he finds himself instinctively stepping to their defense: "I have this crazy hope that somehow these soldiers could be understood by more people—maybe it's the hidden social worker in me trying to get out." He believes, and the complex story his film tells echoes this, that much of the blame has been misplaced: "I don't want to absolve my bad apples of bad behavior, but I think it has to be put in some kind of context or perspective. They didn't create this place."
Verlin press roundtable:
"Sometimes I can't believe what people say to me oncamera. I just simply can't believe it."
"You know," Errol Morris says to me one day, apropos of nothing (or at least nothing that could easily account for what he says next), "anytime anybody thinks that I'm halfway intelligent, just remember that I stole my dog's medication and took it. And actually almost drove myself crazy in the process."
I'm a little taken aback, and I wonder whether I have somehow misheard, or misunderstood, him.
This isn't, I check, a metaphor
(I wait, expectantly.)
"I was going to write in to the New York Times ethicist, Randy Cohen, and ask him, 'Under what circumstances is it okay to steal your dog's medication' And I was going to give him the alternatives: 'You steal your dog's medication without telling him but you replace it…. Is it okay, sir' "
When did you do this
"Not so long ago."
What was the medication
"You want me to go into the details"
I think so. Yes.
"Selegiline. Supposedly, it increases the life expectancy of rats by 20 percent. Dogs take it to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's. Senile dementia. It's a cognitive enhancer.…"
Is it licensed for human use
So you sort of knew what you were doing
"I don't think I did, actually, because the effect of it was quite terrible."
There would be an argument that you could have just gone to your doctor and said, I think I should try this.
"That's timeconsuming, as we all know."
You started taking it regularly
For how long
"Not long, because it was doing bad things. It drove me crazy. I stopped sleeping altogether. And you know, it's been a wonder drug for Jackpot—Jackpot functions now so much better." He stops, and sighs. "I think I'm obeying my own rule that if you talk to someone long enough, they will show you how crazy they really are.…"
But you took it for several days
"Yeah. For a week."
Had you told your wife beforehand you were going to do this
"I did, actually. She was really disapproving. She kept telling me to stop. I was afraid to go cold turkey."
And how was that
"Not good. I don't recommend it."
Have you done many things like this over the course of your life
"Probably. Think of it as just desperation… I think it is probably good to feel desperate. It encourages thinking."
_Berlin press roundtable:
"Sometimes, when people ask me about regime change in Washington, I say we need a species change. The species might be no damn good."_
We meet for breakfast two mornings in a row at a Los Angeles hotel. Morris is the kind of man who, even before the first glug of unsweetened black coffee hits the back of his throat and the small hand reaches nine, is prone to start talking about epistemology and ontology and cloacal orthology, or contemplating how it would change the myth of Sisyphus if you told people he was paid for his pointless efforts, or relating how a famous concert pianist called Sviatoslav Richter became unable to perform in public unless accompanied by a plastic lobster, or worrying about how he might track down the audio of the announcement of Hitler's death on German radio (the hardtofind full version, preceded by three thunderclaps), or musing about how a member of the Pythagorean school, Hippasus, was said to have been thrown off a boat by his fellow mathematicians and drowned for the crime of proving that the square root of two was an irrational number, or mischievously wondering if he can in any way compare himself to the niceguy Nazi masterinterrogator Hanns Scharff, who was so liked by some of his subjects that they kept in touch after the war and who went on to make mosaics for Disney World.
"You know," he tells me, "the best answer that I've ever had to the question 'What is real' was provided at the Wisconsin state crime laboratory by a man who was in charge of maintaining the Gein archive. He provided a very powerful and thoughtful suggestion. We walked into the room, and there was this chair where the cane had been taken out of the seat and a woman's buttocks sewn in. He looked at me nervously and, without any trace of irony, said to me, 'You can tell it's real because you can see the asshole.' With due respect to some of the great philosophers who have wrestled with this question over the years, this man was onto something."
Chris Heath is a GQ correspondent.


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Our political discourse suffers from an impasse prohibiting genuine progress. That impasse is political correctness or, more accurately, cultural Marxism. It is the priority of emotion over reason. It is the assertion that, if someone is offended by an argument or the language used to articulate it, the argument is inherently incorrect. It is a retarding force upon intellect.
Political correctness is an effective force because most decent people do not want to offend and will make what seem to be reasonable concessions in order to maintain civility. There is also a tendency to confuse arguments based on emotion with arguments appealing to emotion. For instance, the argument against the Ground Zero Mosque appeals to the emotional impact its construction will have upon survivors of the Islamist attacks of September 11, 2001. That is not the argument's basis, however. If Imam Rauf's claim that he desires to build bridges between the West and Islam is correct, his insistence upon a course which agitates is illogical.
Political correctness is used like a sucker punch to unduly handicap one side of a debate. It is a tactic which emerged from the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School in the early 20th century, with the objective of destroying our existing culture. We must therefore wonder why an ostensibly conservative organization would employ the tactic.
¡Somos Republicans!, a Hispanic group, has taken issue with Fox News Latino's use of the term "anchor baby" in a headline referencing actress Penélope Cruz. She and husband Javier Bardem are opting to deliver their son in the United States rather than in Spain.
[Journalist Christina] Tárrega explained that the actors' wish is for their son to have dual citizenship, and since the two own an estate in Hollywood — and Spain grants citizenship to foreign born if a parent is born in Spain — it is quite a convenient situation.
The citizenship status of Cruz and Bardem is not reported. Their status is relevant toward determining whether or not Fox News Latino's use of the term "anchor baby" is accurate. However, ¡Somos Republicans!' objection is not based on this criteria.
The term "anchor baby" is equivalent to other defamatory terms such as "wetback", "pickaninny" and "tar baby". Media outlets should never use these demeaning terms in connection with precious babies, and it is unfortunate that we have to inform FOX News of this when they are typically viewed as conservative.
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text: Riding the Next Wave of On-Farm Technology February 26, 2014 10:49 AM Tweet "Get ready for a revolution" in farm technology, says New Mexico State University economist Lowell Catlett. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ben Potter AgWeb Social Media and Innovation Editor Email Lowell Catlett, New Mexico State University economist and futurist, goes to Mars and back to look at the high-tech tools coming soon to farming. The next big farming innovations might not even come from the ag industry. Instead, they may come from medical advancements or smartphone innovations, says Lowell Catlett, New Mexico State University economist and futurist. Some are not even of this earth, he adds. For example, remote sensor technology installed on the Mars rover Curiosity employs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), a means to extract chemical analysis from rocks and minerals on the Red Planet. Back on earth, one of Catlett's NMSU colleagues is exploring potential uses for LIBS in several industries, including agriculture. "Get ready to ramp up prescription agriculture," Catlett says. That's because such technology could very well usher in a new autonomous means of easy and instant soil sampling. In fact, get ready to ramp up a lot of new technologies coming soon to the farm, he says. A new wave of on-farm technology is set to crest over the next several years. The ideas coming from the medical community alone should be enough to get any tech-minded farmer excited about the future of farming, Catlett says. For example, fingerprint analysis taken on your smartphone several times a day will soon be a common tool for cardiologists to get exponentially more consistent data from their patients and offer better preventive healthcare, he says. "I go to the cardiologist once a year," he says. "What's better — one data point a year, or five a day?" Extrapolated to the agriculture industry, this technology could be harnessed to monitor livestock or even plants for a level of DIY diagnostics unheard of today, Catlett says. "No more guessing," he says. "Get ready for a revolution." Extrapolation is the simple secret to envisioning the future, says Catlett, who doesn't even refer to himself a futurist ("I let other people use that term"). Rather, he just looks at current trends and tries to imagine the potential future ramifications. Technology can be disruptive in both good and bad ways, and farmers should adapt to new technologies that show value. In the end, Catlett says farmers need to appreciate how they got to where they are now, but at the same time they shouldn't be afraid of change, he told attendees at the Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum in San Antonio ahead of Commodity Classic. He says he is encouraged when he sees farmers with that attitude. Change has driven incredible success stories, Catlett says, citing Amazon as an example. In its humble beginnings, Amazon sold books online. But founder Jeff Bezos foresaw the value of eBooks, so he moved to that forefront immediately. Amazon has since made attempts to live up to its nickname as "the everything store" by selling everything from car parts to groceries to luggage — you name it. Today, the Internet retailer sells more merchandise than its 12 next biggest competitors combined. "[Bezos] built the model and then started tearing it down immediately," Catlett says. "Likewise, farmers should be prepared if they have to change. One of the best good core values is to think positively about the future." Back to news


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Tubular Toby wrote:Wow this was awesome!
Maybe I missed it somewhere, but what did you ultimately do for him as a thank you? There were some great ideas floating around out there, so I'm just curious. =)
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If you're nimble, the next time you see this kind of pin action, Jim Cramer said, you may also be looking at opportunity.
No, Cramer isn't talking about bowling literally.
By pin action, he's referring to the market phenomenon in which shares of one stock take down shares of a rival. Cramer calls it pin action because it's similar to the way in which one falling bowling pin can knock over another pin.
When it happens, sometimes the rival becomes oversold and strategic buyers can profit from the pessimism.


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Honda Marine has received the NMMA CSI Recognition Award for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction for the 2007 program year. Presented by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), this marks the fourth consecutive year that Honda Marine has secured the honor. NMMA President Thom Dammrich will present the award during a special ceremony at this fall's International Boat Builder's Exhibition (IBEX) show in Miami. The Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) Award recognizes companies that actively measure customer satisfaction to pursue continuous improvement. Recipients have achieved and maintained an independently measured standard of 90 percent or higher in customer satisfaction during the past year, based on customer surveys. Honda Marine's outboard engines were recognized for their performance, fuel-efficiency, reliability and quietness-at-cruise - evaluating criteria important to consumers.
"Year after year, Honda Marine customers recognize our dealers for their exceptional customer service," said John Fulcher, senior manager, Honda Marine. "Receiving this honor for the fourth consecutive year illustrates Honda's and our dealers' continued commitment to an outstanding customer experience."
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(By Delegates M. Poling and Paxton)
[Passed March 10, 2012; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §18-5-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to eliminating requirement for county boards of education to meet on the first Monday of July in years in which there is not a biennial primary election.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-5-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§18-5-4. Meetings; employment and assignment of teachers; budget hearing; compensation of members; affiliation with state and national associations.
(a) The county board shall meet upon the dates provided by law, and at any other times the county board fixes upon its records. Subject to adequate public notice, nothing in this section prohibits the county board from conducting regular meetings in facilities within the county other than the county board office. At any meeting as authorized in this section and in compliance with the provisions of chapter eighteen-a of this code, the county board may employ qualified teachers, or those who will qualify by the time they enter upon their duties, necessary to fill existing or anticipated vacancies for the current or next ensuing school year. Meetings of the county board shall be held in compliance with the provisions of chapter eighteen-a of this code for purposes relating to the assignment, transfer, termination and dismissal of teachers and other school employees.
(b) Special meetings may be called by the president or any three members, but no business may be transacted other than that designated in the call.
(c) In addition, a public hearing shall be held concerning the preliminary operating budget for the next fiscal year not fewer than ten days after the budget has been made available to the public for inspection and within a reasonable time prior to the submission of the budget to the state board for approval. Reasonable time shall be granted at the hearing to any person who wishes to speak regarding any part of the budget. Notice of the hearing shall be published as a Class I legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code.
(d) A majority of the members of the county board is the quorum necessary for the transaction of official business.
(e) Board members may receive compensation at a rate not to exceed $160 per meeting attended, but they may not receive pay for more than fifty meetings in any one fiscal year. Board members who serve on an administrative council of a multicounty vocational center also may receive compensation for attending up to twelve meetings of the council at the same rate as for meetings of the county board. Meetings of the council are not counted as board meetings for purposes of determining the limit on compensable board meetings.
(f) Members also shall be paid, upon the presentation of an itemized sworn statement, for all necessary traveling expenses, including all authorized meetings, incurred on official business, at the order of the county board.
(g) When, by a majority vote of its members, a county board considers it a matter of public interest, the county board may join the West Virginia School Board Association and the National School Board Association and may pay the dues prescribed by the associations and approved by action of the respective county boards. Membership dues and actual traveling expenses incurred by board members for attending meetings of the West Virginia School Board Association may be paid by their respective county boards out of funds available to meet actual expenses of the members, but no allowance may be made except upon sworn itemized statements.


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The question doesn't appear to be "if,'' but "when,'' the Mets will deal outfielder Carlos Beltran.
The physical questions that followed him into the season have seemingly been answered in the positive, which means the Mets don't have to think solely about dealing with the American League, although there are several interesting possibilities, including Boston, Chicago and Detroit.
The Red Sox could have inside leverage because executive Allard Baird – who interviewed for the Mets' GM job – was the general manager at Kansas City when Beltran played there. That could help in Beltran waiving his no-trade clause.
In the National League, San Francisco needs offense, as does St. Louis with Albert Pujols injured and out from four to six weeks. Lance Berkman could move to first base to replace Pujols and make room for Beltran in right field.
To move Beltran, the Mets figure to eat a portion of his $18.5 million contract. How much they digest could make it substantially easier to move him. Unless they decide to make a serious run at a wild card – which would have to mean adding players instead of subtracting them – it does the Mets no good to keep Beltran because they would not receive compensatory draft picks as he is not arbitration eligible.
As badly as the Mets want to save salary and add prospects, don't look for a crosstown move to the Yankees for two reasons, 1) the Yankees' priority is pitching, and 2) there should be no inclination on the Mets' part to aid the Yankees.
Should GM Sandy Alderson trade him to the Yankees, it would clearly indicate he doesn't have a grasp on the lay of the land in New York. The Mets are struggling, both on the field and financially, and the last thing they need is to trade a key player that could put the Yankees over the top.
A trading of Beltran would raise a white flag of sorts, but don't trade him to a prime antagonist.


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Wayland honors employees at annual awards luncheon
PLAINVIEW – Wayland Baptist University honored several of its employees Friday at the annual Faculty & Staff Awards Luncheon, noting anniversary years, exemplary service and scholarship and retiring employees.
During the western-themed banquet, faculty and staff from the Plainview campus received awards voted on by their peers. Faculty awards included the University Service Award, presented to Dr. Niler Pyeatt, interim chair of the social sciences division and professor of history; the Community Service Award, presented to Joachim Professor of English Christa Smith; the Scholarship Award, presented to Dr. Kevin Sweeney, assistant professor of geography and history; and the Contribution to the Profession Award, presented to Dr. Geoff Wells, professor of political science.
Staff awards included the University Service Award, presented to Julie Bowen, university registrar; Community Service Award, presented to Dean of Students Emmitt Tipton; Campus/Student Involvement Award, presented to Jennifer Beal, director of admissions; and the Excellence Award, presented to database administrator Katrina Smith.
In a special presentation, D. Scott Herrington, professor of music and director of choral activities, received the Maloney Award. The award recognizes a faculty member from throughout the WBU system for academic excellence and leadership, being an example of Christian commitment and making a positive contribution to the lives of students. The honor bears a cash award.
The award was established by Dr. Mary Maloney, associate professor of business at Wayland's campus in Phoenix, Ariz., since 1993, through a foundation she set up in memory of her parents. Maloney spent much of her career at St. John's University in New York, serving in a variety of capacities, notably as vice president of the business school and later as assistant to the president for strategic planning.
Dr. Jeff Tillman, professor of religion and director of graduate studies for the Wichita Falls campus, was honored as the Piper Professor nominee from Wayland, recognizing dedication in teaching and outstanding academic, scientific and scholarly achievement.
Bryan Bishop, vice president of the Association of Former Students, presented Faculty/Staff Alumni Awards to several employees, including Jennie Lynn Hodges, associate professor of music, recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Service Alumni Award. Distinguished Staff Service Alumni Awards were presented to Billie Jean Kimberling, academic advisor and office manager in San Antonio, and Vickie Hughes, secretary in counseling and health services and tutorial services coordinator.
Dr. Paul Armes, president of the university, also presented a special resolution of appreciation from the Board of Trustees to Dr. J. Hoyt Bowers, professor of biology, for his 20-plus years of work with the ASSIST and ASSET programs, summer programs that enhance the skills of science teachers in public and private schools. Specifically, Bowers has done the legwork and paperwork necessary to secure the Teacher Quantity Grants for 20 consecutive years to fund the programs, making Wayland the only university to receive the grant all 20 years of its existence.
Numerous employees received pins for years of service to the university, including Joe Provence, director of alumni services, who received a plaque marking 40 years. Dr. Bill Hardage, executive vice president who died in a plane crash March 25, was honored posthumously for 40 years of service. Dr. Harold Temple, professor of chemistry, and Marilyn Thompson, telephone services manager, received pins for 30 years of service. Noted for 20 years were Dr. Kent Brooks, dean of the Lubbock Campus, and Vickie Hughes.
Also receiving honors were the following: Fifteen Years: Dr. Jeff Anderson of Anchorage, Drilma Handley of Lubbock, Debbie Parker and Tommy Thompson of San Antonio and Plainview employees Sherrie King, Dr. Claude Lusk, Brian McClenagan, and Lena Morphis; Ten Years: Dave Rambow of Anchorage, Dr. Jeff Tillman and Dr. Joselyn Thompson of Wichita Falls and Plainview employees Deborah Lavender-Bratcher, Dr. Dick De Lung, Jean Hart, Virgil Hart, Rosalie Hernandez, Karen LaQuey, and Brad Snellgrove; Five Years: Roylee Accetta of Albuquerque, Dr. Don Ashley and Monique Holland of Anchorage, Lois Barnes, Dr. Donald Knox and Jodi Underhill of Wichita Falls, Sandra Bell, Dr. Thomas Fisher, Kenneth Cruz Reyes, Emma Slifer and Stefanie Slifer of San Antonio, Randy Eckley of Sierra Vista, Ariz., Rosemary Hendley of Lubbock, and Plainview employees Carolyn Andrews, Dr. Paul Armes, Dr. Joel Boyd, Donnie Brown, Martha Cross, Richard Dillingham, Debbe Fikes, Dr. Linda Hutcherson, Jim Marr, Perri McDonald, Teresa Moore, Dr. Sandra Mosteller, Dr. Ralph Palumbo, Barbara Pauda, Debbie Price, Geoffrey Ritchey, Heather Saldana, Barbara Smith, James Smith, and Dr. Kevin Sweeney.
Retiring employees were honored as well, including Dr. Georgia Flanagan, Dr. Joan Franklin, Dr. Albert Long and Joe Provence. Dr. Georgia Flanagan first came on board at Wayland's Wichita Falls Campus in 1990 as dean. She returned to the classroom in 2004, teaching education. Flanagan is a graduate of the University of North Texas and taught school before working at the Education Services Office at Sheppard Air Force Base in 1959, eventually becoming Education Services Officer at Sheppard.
Dr. Joan Franklin has served as a professor in business and education at Wayland's Clovis Campus since 1997. She is a graduate of Texas Woman's University, holding a degree in human resource management. She received the Maloney Faculty Award in 2004 and has presented numerous times in her field.
Dr. Albert Long has served as Professor of Business at the San Antonio campus since 1995. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Long is a native of Mississippi and a member of Northeast Baptist Church in San Antonio. He holds degrees from Memphis State University, Air Force Institute of Technology and the U.S. International University.
Joe Provence first came to Wayland as a student in 1957, leaving for a few years and returning in 1961 to complete his degree and work in the PR office. Since then, he's held several positions, including PR director, student activities director and finally alumni services director, a role he held since 1985. Provence plans to remain at WBU part-time handling alumni relations.


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Before you pour your kid's cereal, you better read this. The Food and Drug Administration has announced that 2.8 million boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size Original and Mini-Wheats Unfrosted Bite Size are being voluntarily recalled for possibly containing fragments of metal mesh. A faulty manufacturing part is to blame; no injuries have been reported.
Plus: Today's Other Recall – Graco High Chairs
Affected products have a KB, AP or FK before or after the Best If Used Before date of between April 1, 2013 to September 1, 2013. Check here for a full list of UPC codes.
If you have a recalled box, call (800) 962-1413.
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Just call me the chicken doctor.
My assistant does not have a very good attitude. It's so hard to find good help these days.
My diagnosis; Pastey Hiney. Dear me, that is just not pretty. Mr. Assistant, please take Miss Pastey Hiney to examination room 1. I need to go get my surgical tools.
Uh, could someone please get the water logged DOG out of the examination room! This is a sterile environment! I don't need my patient getting upset! Geesh! Who is in charge of security around here? Wha?! THE DOG! Oh, Moses smell the roses! What has the medical world come to? And the fly? The fly on Mr. Assistant's arm? Please. People, is this a medical facility or a barnyard? Huh? What's that? It's a barnyard? Oh. Then we're good. Carry on.
Okay, Miss Pastey Hiney, let's take a look. Mmm Hmm, just as I suspected. Yes, your crapolotic has fallen out of your poopmoreola. I'll get you fixed up in a jiffy.
I'm just going to clean you up. You should just feel a little pressure and maybe a small pinch. Isn't that what they all say instead of this is gonna hurt like hell?
Now, I'm preparing the special ointment that was made by millions of tiny buzzing pharmacists.
Okay, I want you to stay quiet for a couple more days and you should work on preening your feathers a bit hon, you're looking a bit shabby and I don't mean shabby chic dahling. And try to keep your pooper shooter inside your body, I don't want to see you back here tomorrow.


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New Movie Releases — 'The Darkest Hour' and 'War Horse'
Movie studios inundated us with releases last week, which meant some were bound to get lost in the shuffle — especially the two that bowed on Christmas Day. Let's take another look at them to refresh our memories in case anyone is thinking about heading to one of the area Marcus Theatres for a New Year's weekend outing.
'The Darkest Hour' is the story of five people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
And Steven Spielberg — who directed another of last week's releases, 'The Adventures of Tintin' — adds to his lengthy resume with 'War Horse,' an epic tale about the remarkable friendship between a horse and the young man who tames and trains him during World War I.
Here's a sneak peek:
The Darkest Hour
Directed by: Chris Gorak
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman
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War Horse
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
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Should RIAA Win Against Jammie Thomas Be Tossed After RIAA Admits It Misspoke On The Stand?
from the one-would-think... dept
When Fisher brought it up, Sherman responded by saying:
"The Sony person who (Fisher) relies on actually misspoke in that trial. I know because I asked her after stories started appearing. It turns out that she had misheard the question. She thought that this was a question about illegal downloading when it was actually a question about ripping CDs. That is not the position of Sony BMG. That is not the position of that spokesperson. That is not the position of the industry."This actually is somewhat believable, as the industry does believe that downloading a single copy is the equivalent of "stealing just one copy," (even if that's questionable in itself). However, Sherman also claims "other reporters and bloggers had called about Pariser's quotes and chose not to write about them after learning she had erred."
It's not clear who those other reporters and bloggers are, but it's a bit surprising that they would then choose not to write about it. After all, it was a recording industry exec admitting she had made false statements under oath -- and those false statements were part of the case that helped Jammie Thomas lose her lawsuit. That has folks like Ray Beckerman wondering if the RIAA had notified the judge that Pariser had misspoke. Considering that we never heard the judge tell the jury to ignore those statements, at the very least, it would appear that the jury was never told that Pariser misspoke -- which certainly would suggest that Thomas has grounds to call into question that original ruling against her.