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Spellbinder: A Love Story With Magical Interruptionsby Melanie Rawn
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There is magic in the big city…literally. New York City has a small, and by preference discrete, population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Holly McClure is one of them, a successful writer who tries to ignore her heritage, except when the local Magistrate needs her special gift in his coven. Holly is far more
There is magic in the big city…literally. New York City has a small, and by preference discrete, population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Holly McClure is one of them, a successful writer who tries to ignore her heritage, except when the local Magistrate needs her special gift in his coven. Holly is far more interested in Evan Lachlan, the handsome federal marshal who works with her best friend, assistant district attorney Susannah Wingfield.
But trouble is coming to the City in the form of a black coven run by a murderous psychopath, and deputy marshals and ADAs are powerless to deal with that kind of crime. The danger to Holly is extreme, for her special gift is the power of her blood to strengthen and bind any spell, for good or for evil. Holly's passionate love affair will be derailed by those who want to drain her for their own purposes. In the end it will be magic against magic, and Holly McClure will have to risk all for life and love.
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- Tom Doherty Associates
- Publication date:
- 08/28/2007
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AS HE SET HIS THIRD Corona down after taking a long swallow, Evan Lachlan felt Elias Bradshaw looking at him across the table. When he glanced over, there was a quizzical smile on the judge's face. Lachlan arched a brow in query.
"You really don't know, do you?" Bradshaw asked.
"Know what?" He returned his gaze to the fascinating sight of Holly McClure dancing with Susannah Wingfield--yeah, two women, like this was a dyke bar or something. A Bonnie Raitt CD was thundering from the sound system while the band took a break at what Holly swore was the only halfway decent blues bar in New York. And whoever would've thought they'd run into Bradshaw and Wingfield at a place like this? An upscale restaurant or exclusive club was more their style--or so Lachlan would have said before getting a good look at Susannah.
The prim attorney was surely a sight to behold, a Friday night fantasy (the last thing he'd ever admit to Holly) in black miniskirt, black stiletto heels, and crimson silk shirt with three--count 'em, three--buttons undone. As for the black leather biker-chick jacket that draped the back of her chair ... incredible. He'd seen her legs before, of course, but never this much of them, or in black silk hosiery. And they were well worth looking at.
Susannah Wingfield, off-duty. Lachlan shook his head in amazement. He would've bet good money that this blonde carbon copy of Audrey Hepburn could never laugh and toss her long hair and sing and shake it like--well, better not go there. He had to work with the lady, after all.
Besides, he preferred watching his own lady. Holly was dancing with as much abandon as Susannah, but her moves were sinuous as a cat's. Above boots with three-inch heels and tight faded Levi's she wore the blue-and-white baseball jersey that had been Evan's congratulatory gift on publication of her VillageVoice article, "Property of U.S. Marshals Service." Three inches taller than Susannah's five-seven, and outweighing her by at least twenty-five pounds, Holly looked chunky by comparison. Then again, anybody but Gwyneth Paltrow would look chunky next to Susannah--who was, to Evan's discerning eye, too skinny. He liked a woman he wasn't likely to pulverize in bed if he shifted wrong in his sleep. On the Evan Liam Lachlan Scale, Holly McClure rated an eight in most departments. Plus a ten for the eyes.
"You have no idea who she is," Bradshaw's voice said.
"Why, who is she?" Evan asked. Besides the slinkiest thing in this bar.
"I'm surprised the subject never came up. I thoughtyou'd been seeing her for several weeks." Bradshaw drank Scotch and leaned back, watching Susannah.
"So?" Lachlan prompted.
"What? Oh. We had quite a chat about it when she came to the office regarding her research."
The judge was enjoying this. The marshal was not. But Lachlan's voice was silken smooth as he said, "Holly went to that ritzy college with Susannah. You saying that puts her out of my league, Your Honor?"
"Not at all," Bradshaw assured him, taking another swallow of Scotch. He looked amused. Lachlan hated that expression on anybody, but especially on Elias Bradshaw.
This was not the couple he would have chosen to double-date with. As a U.S. Marshal assigned to judicial protection, Bradshaw was Lachlan's duty--and sometimes his cross to bear--three days a week. It was Lachlan's Irish luck that the judge's clerk was a woman well worth looking at who, moreover, had interesting friends. The weird part was that from a couple of hints Holly had dropped, Susannah and Elias had become an item about the same time he and Holly had. Lachlan knew how the women had met: Susannah the pre-law and Holly the history major were sopranos who had stood right next to each other in the Women's Chorale.
"Susannah can sing?"
"Like an angel with a solid gold halo,"Holly affirmed digging her hands into the pockets of her coat. Cold wind off the Hudson ruffled her hair and burned bright color into her skin, emphasizing the freckles across nose and cheekbones.
He shook his head in disbelief, then eyed her. "What about you?"
"Me? A halo?" She grinned.
"God forbid! C'mon. Prove you can sing."
"Right here in the middle of Central Park?"
He stood back from her, arms folded. "I dare ya."
"That, my dear Marshal, was a mistake."
And right there in the middle of a frosty Sunday afternoon stroll she ran through the scale up to a note that hit the bare treetops--and then soared on into the sky.
Lachlan, aware that people were looking curiously at them, made a grab for her. "Exhibitionist," he growled, and she broke off to laugh as he whirled her around, catching her back against his chest. She leaned her head onto his shoulder, chortling. Wrapping his arms around her, lips buried in russet hair, he hefted her a few inches off the ground. "McClure, behave yourself!"
"Oh, do I have to?"
He smiled to himself as he drank beer and watched the two women. They shared the same taste in music--and maybe in men, too. Though Lachlan couldn't see it himself, women did appreciate Bradshaw: the frank appraisal he gave them, the honest enjoyment he took in watching them, the intent way he listened to them. Susannah had certainly fallen for it. She was directing a genuinely fiendish shimmy at her boss right now, laughing.
"Okay," Lachlan said, dragging his attention away from the women. "Who is Holly, anyway? Homicidal wacko? Notorious embezzler? Convicted felon?" He spoke with no little amount of sarcasm, knowing none of these was true. Bradshaw's amused little smirk was really beginning to annoy him.
"No, as you're doubtless aware. I mean you don't know what her work is, do you?"
"She writes." He paused for a swig of beer. "Articles for magazines." Like the ones she'd been doing when she walked into the federal courthouse and his life.
Susannah had brought her into chambers about a month ago and introduced her around. The implication was that every cooperation should be given her college friend, who was researching two articles--one on the U.S. Marshals Service (How original, he'd thought--until he read it in the Village Voice) and one on Irish Gaelic (linguistic holdovers from the Old Country, slang and the like). Lachlan had taken Susannah's hint, and was even willing to be nice about it--Holly McClure was a good-looking woman, after all. But he'd been last on her list.
The day Susannah brought her in happened to be Lachlan's birthday--there were cards and gag gifts all over his desk--and he'd thought this would earn him first interview. But Ms. McClure went to lunch with Sophia Osbourne, Bradshaw's secretary. On Tuesday she lunched with Bradshaw's other marshal, Pete Wasserman (who preened like a peacock when he left the office and grinned like an idiot when he got back, flatly refusing to reveal what--or whom--they had discussed). Susannah and Judge Bradshaw had also been interviewed, presumably over lengthy meals at pricey restaurants.
Lachlan's venue had been a hot dog stand at about four on a snowy afternoon. Somehow they got to talking about a thousand other topics besides being Irish and being a cop, and moved on to a little cafe for dinner. And then to his apartment.
Not that he got anywhere. At 10:30 she fell asleep on his couch while he wasin the kitchen brewing up a pot of coffee. He spent a couple of minutes deciding whether or not to be insulted, then shrugged, covered her with Granna Maureen's afghan, and went to bed alone. The next morning she was gone before his alarm went off. As he showered and shaved, he wondered if he'd have to chalk her up as One That Got Away. Then his doorbell rang. Not Holly: a delivery boy from the bakery down the street. Bemused, Lachlan accepted a bag of cinnamon-raisin bagels, a gigantic coffee, and a note: Sorry I faded out, but it was a long day and you must be the only person in New York with a comfortable couch! Will you, meet me for dinner tonight so we can finish our interview? You pick the restaurant--my expense account is buying.
Tired though she'd been that night, she'd been paying attention to what he said; he'd read the manuscript of the Irish article, and a lot of it had come from him (or, more accurately, Granna Maureen, born in County Meath). By the time Holly showed him the article, they'd been seeing each other for two weeks and sleeping together for one.
Not that this had been easy to accomplish.
He'd canceled his Friday night date that week even though it was a sure thing, finding himself more interested in a redheaded writer than a blonde graphics designer (even though their last session had been pretty damned graphic). He had every faith he could charm Holly McClure into a sure thing anyway. But when they parted outside O'Kelley's at one in the morning, he didn't even rate a good-night kiss. This irked the hell out of him.
On Sunday he used the cell-phone number Holly had given him and asked her out dancing for the next evening. First kiss--but nothing else. Not even a second kiss. He signaled his displeasure by not calling her on Tuesday. Wednesday she showed up at Judge Bradshaw's chambers around quitting time and took him to dinner and a jazz club--a night that ended outside the club at 1:30 a.m. with two discoveries. First, she had a fantastic mouth and incredible hands and knew how to use them. Second, he'd been right--she didn't wear a bra and didn't need one. But the fantasies this conjured up went unfulfilled. So did he. And it was really beginning to piss him off. A case of the best-planned lays, he supposed.
That Thursday was Thanksgiving at his sister's house, a yearly event that reminded him why he hated this time of year: his birthday, then Thanksgiving, then Pop's birthday, then Maggie's birthday, all featuring too much food, too much booze, and way too much family togetherness. Or what passed for it with Clan Lachlan.
Friday he and Holly were just finishing salads at Da Marino's when his pager went off, damn it to hell. Holly insisted on coming with him. He'd let her take a look, then sent her home in a cab, thinking glumly that the scene of a triple homicide at a Protected Witness location was a hell of a way to enda date. But when he'd phoned her late that night (or early the following morning, depending on point of view), she'd been wide awake and waiting for his call. No tap-dancing, no Oh-you-poor-baby, no How-do-you-cope-with-your-horrihle-job, no You-still-owe-me-a-decent-meal. She listened, asked a few questions, and told him she'd pick him up at 7:00, her turn to buy.
And Saturday night, just as he was starting to think he'd never get anywhere, he nailed her. Or maybe she nailed him. Because he wasn't quite sure about this, he decided it had been mutual.
Sunday she took him to brunch. After some gorgeous food there arrived a tarte tatin with a lighted candle in it. A belated happy birthday, she told him, producing a brace of cigars to go with their coffee. Like him, she'd quit smoking years ago; like him, she still enjoyed a fine cigar.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph--did she ever enjoy it. Watching her smoke the thing damned near gave him a coronary. Her eyes were wickedly blue above moist satiny lips that caressed the cigar and freckled velvety cheeks that hollowed as she inhaled. His conversation--fluent and wide-ranging during brunch--became somewhat constricted. So did the fit of his slacks.
Lachlan hadn't done more than glance at any other woman since.
Bradshaw had pulled a folded paper out of his overcoat pocket. "She writes a lot more than newspaper articles." He laid the newsprint on the table: The New York Times Review of Books.
"One of her pieces is in here? Great! She made the Times!"
Bradshaw smiled. Lachlan was peripherally aware that he didn't like this particular variation on the usual smile, but he was too intent on searching for Holly's article.
"I was going to leave this at the office for you, but I might as well show it to you now. Page four."
Evan found It--not a bad photo of her, but she had the kind of face that always looked best when in motion. No still picture could ever capture the quick play of wit and humor across her features. The photographer had caught the sharp intelligence but none of the laughter--or the lascivious turn of mind hiding behind those big blue eyes.
But why would a writer of articles rate a photo?
He began to read.
After a three-year absence, H. Elizabeth McClure has returned--not to the artistic community of Renaissance Italy, scene of her previous best-seller, but to the considerably less civilized yet no less fascinating environs of ninth-century France and a tale of Norse invaders.
McClure's previous work--scholarly biographies and historical fiction--has earned her a loyal following and critical acclaim. Dragon Ships delights again with vivid characters, lively action--
He felt his guts roil and stopped reading. He looked back over at the dance floor, where Holly and Susannah were gleefully bumping hips in time to the backbeat. This was definitely not the same Susannah--and all at once it wasn't the same Holly, either.
"Don't kill the messenger," Bradshaw said suddenly, and Evan realized his emotions were scrawled all over his face. Hastily he smoothed his expression as Bradshaw went on, sincerely puzzled: "I thought you'd be pleased. She's quite a catch, Marshal."
The deejay didn't give the dancers any breather--another song came up, slower but with a driving drumbeat. Holly and Susannah went on dancing, the rhythm of hips and shoulders and flying hair provocatively emphasizing the drums.
From somewhere Lachlan dragged up a crooked smile and the words, "Yeah, Ma always told me not to bring a girl home unless she was brainy, beautiful, and rich." Which happened to be true, which was why he'd never even tried to do it. Pleasing the late, unlamented Patricia Lachlan had never been high on his list of priorities--more like down with scrubbing the mildew from the grout in his shower. He leaned back and drained the Corona down his throat before signaling the waitress for a fourth. He wasn't yet numb--and he wanted to be.
"So tell me, Your Honor, before I reel her in--she any good? You read any of her books?"
"A biography of Christine de Pisan--a medieval poet. Yes, she's very talented. And, in certain circles, quite well-known."
Holy shit. "Gee, I'll have to run out and get a copy. And a dictionary to go along with it, for all the words of more than one syllable."
Bradshaw's dark brows arched. "Are you about to make a fool of yourself?"
She's already done a pretty good job of it. He gave the judge stare for stare and said nothing. His Corona came; he put a five on the table and squeezed the lime wedge into the bottle. As he took a large mouthful of ice-cold beer, he had the feeling he wouldn't be able to drink this one fast enough.
"Do yourself a favor and think first," Bradshaw continued. "She comes from where all of us come from. Susannah, me, you, HoHy--we all worked our way through college and fought to establish careers. No free rides from rich parents. The town she's from in Virginia is smaller than the one Susannah was born in--and that's saying something. So if difference in social status is your problem--
"Problem? I got no problems."
Lachlan drained the bottle in four long swallows and stood, threading through the sparse crowd to where Holly was laughing with Susannah. The look those blue eyes gave him went straight to his chest. And then lower.
"Have this dance?" he asked, appropriating Holly's hand, spinning her once under his arm before drawing her possessively close. It wasn't exactly a slow song, but he had no trouble easing her into a swaying, clasping, intimate dance.
"Oooh--smooth, Lachlan, very smooth," Holly commended, eyes full of laughter and promises. Dancing wasn't quite vertical sex, but it was definitely public foreplay.
Her head bent to rest comfortably on his shoulder, and he indulged himself with the feel of her in his arms. So sweet, and so sensual, the way they moved together, as attuned in this as in bed. From their first night together she had sensed his every move telegraphed through his muscles, following his lead so perfectly they might as well have been one person. He gritted his teeth. God-dammit, she smelled so good, and her dark russet hair was soft against his cheek, and her fingertips did their own delicate dance on the nape of his neck. He could feel the warmth of her slowly turn feverish as his arm involuntarily tightened around her back and his hand slid south down her hip. At least her body had never lied to him.
"When were you gonna tell me?"
"Tell you what?" She tilted her head back to look at him, shoulder-length hair glinting gold and copper along every loose, lazy curl.
"'New McClure Novel Enchants,'" he quoted acidly.
Her quick, expressive face went blank for a moment. Then she tossed her hair back and said, "I never believe my reviews."
"I got one for you now. Headline goes 'Rich Writer Makes Jerk of Mick Cop.' Like it so far?"
Scowling, she began, "Evan, don't be an asshole--"
He dipped her seductively, making it look good for Susannah and Bradshaw. He tried not to react as her thigh slid between his; he tried not to see the line of her throat or the tender hollow at its base. He lost his battle against his own body as her thigh nudged deliberately higher, taunting him. Her head came back up, her body tense and cold in his arms. Angry eyes blazed at him, one hand taloning into his shoulder and the other rigid within his palm. She was mad at him? What the hell right did she have to get pissed off? He was the one who'd been lied to.
He righted her again and pulled her close. "Now I know why we never go to your place. Why I never even get to pick you up at your place. Almost a month of this musta been a kick for you, slumming with the big dumb Mick who can barely read, let alone read anything literary."
The song ended and she yanked herself out of his arms. He tried to hang on,but she was tall and strong--and furious. "You are a big dumb Mick if that's what you think!" she snarled. "And if it is--well, fuck you, Marshal, and the horse you rode in on!"
Holly stalked right past Susannah, who was returning to their table from the ladies' room. Snatching up her coat and scarf, Holly flung a furious glare at Bradshaw. "Any more little revelations tonight, Your Honor?"
"Holly," Susannah exclaimed, "what's--?"
"Read all about it in my next eachanting novel!" After casting one scathing backward glance at Lachlan, she pushed her way out of the bar.
Susannah turned to him with a disgusted expression. "Nice work, Lachlan."
"Never occurred to you to tell me, did it?"
She didn't pretend not to know what he meant. "She asked me not to."
"Yeah, I guess the joke was too good. You were havin' too many laughs--"
Green eyes ignited. "We weren't laughing at you and you know it!"
"Why the hell not? Seems pretty funny to me." He tried to hang on to his temper. This was no time to feel like a ten-year-old from the wrong side of town who took the same French classes and wore the same St. Thomas Aquinas blazer and played on the same softball team as the rich kids--who never let him forget where he came from.
Susannah latched on to his arm, nails digging in. "Don't be stupid. Do you know what kind of man she usually meets? They're interested in her money, her connections--"
"But I'm the perfect toy boy. I get your drift, Counselor."
"Oh, for Christ's sake, Evan!"
He grabbed his leather coat from the back of his chair just as Susannah was turning on Bradshaw to demand, "Goddammit, Eli, what the hell did you say?"
It was piercingly cold outside on the street, and raining. Holly was gone, of course--long gone. Probably in a limo, he thought bitterly. Oh, but she was slumming, remember--hiding the Rolls and the platinum credit cards and the diamonds and the penthouse--
It hurt much more than he thought it should.
It was just that he'd let himself begin to think there might be something to this one besides a good time in bed and out. A few rousing arguments about life, politics, religion, whatever. Sharing popcorn at the movies, trading off paying for lunches and dinners--and making breakfasts at his place, which was his task because the woman couldn't cook worth a good goddamn.
He liked her. She was smart, sassy, sexy, and let him get away with no bullshit whatsoever. His particular brand of bullshit had gotten him just about every woman he'd ever bothered to want. So why did he have to want some lying rich bitch who probably lived in one of those huge high-rises off the Park, or a three-story brownstone, or a Gramercy Park place, or--
She didn't act it. Not really. Okay, she dressed it right enough. When he met her for dinner last Friday she'd been incredible in sapphire silk and pearls. Her mother's, she'd told him, necklace and earrings and bracelet; it might even have been true. The jewelry was one thing; the clothes were another. In a month of seeing her four times a week, she'd never worn the same outfit twice. The labels he'd noticed as he helped her on with coat or jacket were DKNY, Ralph Lauren, Armani, and others of that expensive ilk. All he'd thought was that, like many another woman, she spent way too much on clothes, and he was glad he didn't have to foot the bills. Which she probably had her accountant pay, never even seeing them.
Fuck it. He didn't need her. There were plenty of other women, dozens of 'em, ones who'd fall all over themselves to get into his bed the first date, not make him wait, the way Holly had. Ones who wouldn't lie to him, the way Holly had.
Ones who, within a couple of days or a couple of weeks, would bore him witless--the way Holly never had.
Fundamental fairness compelled the admission that she'd never actually lied to him. Not directly. But she always had some excuse not to go to her place. The living room was being painted; the heat was off; she was near the courthouse so why didn't she meet him for dinner if his desk permitted--
He could have found out a lot from the prefix of her home phone, but she hadn't given it to him. Clever girl. "Feel privileged, Lachlan--only the people I want to talk to get my cell-phone number." As for her work--she'd downplayed it, just saying that she'd had some stuff published, and was working on a novel. " ... loyal following and critical acclaim ... ."
"Fuck!" he snarled to the streetlights.
Uptown girl, slumming around with a Lower East Side Mick cop. He hoped she'd gotten her jollies.
He dug his hands into his pockets, heading for the subway and home.
Copyright © 2006 by Melanie Rawn
Meet the Author
Melanie Rawn is the bestselling author a dozen previous fantasy novels, who lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. SPELLBINDER is her first novel in eight years.
MELANIE RAWN is the three-time Locus Award–nominated author of the bestselling Dragon Prince trilogy, the Dragon Star trilogy, and the Glass Thorns trilogy, including Touchstone, Elsewhens, and Thornlost. She graduated from Scripps College with a BA in history and has worked as a teacher and editor. Rawn lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Melanie Rawn his simply outdone herself with this book. Her characters breathe, her scenes live and her Celtic Wiccan is finally understood and written by someone who must know. I laughed outloud in public places and cried as well. A must read for anyone who loves magic, myth, love and fantasy (or is it?) I have read everthing she has written and this ranks either number one or two - can't decide. NO MATTER how you got here, Ms. Melanie, I for one am very glad you 'came out of the tunnel'. Really look forward to more about Holly and Evan (our second son is an Evan) Thanks so much from an avid fan now living in Wisconsin.
Witches exist and are spread out all across the world in small numbers with each area having a magistrate who administers justice to the witches in his coven. In New York City hidden in plain sight is Elias¿s coven. He is also is a federal judge guarded by U.S. Marshal Evan Lachlan. Elias also has one of the few spellbinders in existence as part of his coven, a witch whose blood guarantees someone else¿s spell will work. In addition to being a spellbinder, Holly McClure is also wealthy and a well known author.--------------- Through a mutual friend, Holly and Evan are introduced and it isn¿t long before the pair fall in love. They plan to get married until an action Evan takes shatters his career and he leaves Holly. It takes a tragedy to bring them together but their lives are unsafe because a practitioner of the dark arts will do whatever it takes to bring the spellbinder to him. Holly, who has virtually no power of her own, somehow find a way to strengthen her prowess to save the man she loves and her friends in the coven.-------------- This is very different than anything Melanie Rawn has written but fans who love Mercedes Lackey Diana Tregarde tales or the urban fantasies of Kelly Armstrong will love SPELLBINDER. This is one of the best romantic urban fantasies of the year and readers will hope they have not seem the last of the spunky, eccentric and larger than life heroine who can always be counted on to help her friends and family.------------- Harriet Klausner
I am thrilled that Melanie Rawn has written another book,but very sad that it is not the 3rd book in the Exile series. I feel like I have been waiting over 3 years for a book that has no sign of being written. If anyone knows anything please let me know.
To the author of this book: who are you and what have you done with the real Melanie Rawn? Ms. Rawn has been one of my top five favorite writers for a very long time. I've read the Dragon Prince and Star Scroll series three times. On the strength of those books, I purchased 'Spellbinder,' and never been so disappointed in a book. I understand the desire to write in a different genre or sub-genre. Ms. Rawn may have been bored with fantasy and wanted to write something more contemporary. Great, but what happened to the idea of a book having a plot? I got about 120 pages into 'Spellbinder' and finally gave up. By that time, the book had spent only about 20 pages on plot development and the rest on the two main characters. Too much 'ooh, I love you, and I never thought I would ever fall in love, and you're such a big strong man,' and way too much 'I hate that you have so much more money than I do, but marry me anyway, and by the way, no wife of MINE is gonna use any last name but MINE so there!' etc etc etc ad nauseum. When you don't even LIKE the main characters, why bother continuing to read a book? I'll re-read 'The Ruins of Ambrai' now, so I can remind myself of what good writing is. It certainly isn't 'Spellbinder.'
Hi! In answer to your plea for information, I have looked around online and apparently she has begun the third Exile book and promises that it will be written although I can't really give you a time frame. Hang in there!


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Life has been good to Sam Waterston. He's an award-winning actor with a hit television series. He has traveled the world. He's financially secure. He has a close, caring family.
Even with all that, though, the easygoing Waterston confides he wanted more. One simple treasure he truly coveted was the chance to work alongside his eldest son, James, in a play.
Appropriately, Sam and James spent Father's Day playing father and son on stage.
"I was worried that it might not happen," Waterston said during a break in rehearsals of Eugene O'Neill's classic, "Long Day's Journey Into Night," at Syracuse Stage.
"There are lots of stage families that don't get to work together. We almost missed this," said Waterston, the star of NBC-TV's "Law & Order."
James, 31, said he and his father had often discussed performing together, and the Syracuse production proved a perfect fit. "It's a luxury that we have that we get to play father and son ... so we wanted to choose our moment wisely and spend that privilege wisely."
It was a convergence of timing, luck and desire that brought the Waterstons together in Syracuse, where O'Neill's story of the tormented Tyrone family runs through July 2.
Sam is on a summertime hiatus from shooting "Law & Order." James, a professional actor who lives in Los Angeles and does regional theater around the country, had taken time off to prepare for his wedding in late July.
"Jamie suggested we could squeeze it in. I didn't think there was time to do it," said Sam. Especially since most theaters had completed their seasons and the Waterstons were striking out trying to find a stage on which to perform on such short notice.
That's when luck stepped in.
"We were standing around after one of our last performances just exchanging theater gossip when our lighting director asked if anyone had heard about Sam Waterston going around New York trying to peddle this play with his son. My ears perked up," said Robert Moss, Syracuse Stage's artistic director.
So Moss made a blind call to Waterston and offered his playhouse.
"I could hear the delight in his voice when he said, 'You will?' " recalled Moss. Moss then called his longtime friend, actress Elizabeth Franz, who agreed to join the cast. Franz won the 1999 Tony Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Linda Loman in "Death of a Salesman."
While father and son have long had the ambition to work together, the idea of doing O'Neill's introspective masterpiece came after Sam saw James play Edmund Tyrone at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in 1999.
"There's a scene in the fourth act. It's just Edmund and his father, James," said the younger Waterston. "I don't know when it happened, but sometime during that, I was thinking what a scene to have with Dad. It's an extraordinary scene that's at the end of a very rough day. They are both kind of drunk and letting it all out."
O'Neill, who won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, drew on his own life to write his searing, unsparing portrait of the Tyrones. Patriarch James Tyrone was modeled on O'Neill's father, James, one of the most prominent stage actors of the late 19th century. Edmund, the son, was based on O'Neill himself.
In the play, O'Neill revealed his family's self-absorption, cruelty, fury and outrageous thirst for alcohol for all the world to see. It was a soulful examination of what reviewers called the American tragedy: loss of faith.
It also was O'Neill's way of confronting the ghost of his father. Although father and son loved each other, they utterly failed to communicate that devotion until the very end of James O'Neill's life when reconciliation and understanding finally came.
The roles are challenging, even for the talented Waterstons, who say they have enjoyed a much different relationship.
"It hasn't been a conventional life. But we've always been close," said the elder Waterston, who first attained acclaim as a Shakespearean actor and later starred in "The Great Gatsby" and received an Oscar nomination for best actor in "The Killing Fields" before turning to television.
Despite his success, Sam Waterston has eschewed the glitter of Hollywood and instead raised his four children at his farmhouse home in Connecticut. Still, life was different for the Waterston children, James said.
There were no family vacations per se. Instead, Sam found opportunities to take his children on location when doing a film.
It was one of those trips that provided the Waterstons with their only other experience working together as actors. It was a BBC film made for public television on atomic bomb builder J. Robert Oppenheimer.
"I was 10 years old. I remember we moved over to London for three months for the shooting of it. They needed a kid, and I was available. I had no lines. I was a glorified extra," said James, whose biggest professional role was a part in "Dead Poets Society."
"I remember there was a scene where he came in and had a very dramatic moment ... and I just kept laughing," James recalled.
"Hopefully, those days are gone," said Sam, trying to manufacture a stern look for his son, then chuckling.
During rehearsals, there was little evidence of the Waterstons' relationship, beyond their strong physical resemblance and an occasional "family" joke. The cast was strictly professional as it worked to capture the powerful emotions of O'Neill's play and learn nearly four hours of dialogue, said Moss.
Afterward, at dinner or over coffee or beer, is when father and son talk. They have been in Syracuse rehearsing since early May, living in separate apartments in the same building.
"I have distinct memories of calling Dad from sets or after rehearsals and asking, 'This is what's going on in this scene. This is what I don't understand. This is ...' Now we are talking about the same play. He is in the rehearsal hall with me all day, and I'm there with him. Now the conversations are more frequent and more intense," James said.
"I think we talk more freely as father and son than if we were just two actors beginning to get to know each other through this play. It's made it a lot more fun," added Sam.
After this, there is another experience Sam and son hope to share - one that's far from any stage. They want to take a long canoe trip.
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The departure of the only black senator prompts a revealingly clueless commentary.
The U.S. Senate now has no black members. Illinois's Roland Burris, appointed to replace Barack Obama when the latter moved on to bigger if not necessarily better things, opted not to seek election to the seat, setting up a contest between two persons of pallor. Yesterday Republican Mark Kirk, who won a special election as well as a full six-year term, was sworn in as the Land of Lincoln's junior senator.
This prompted Edward McClelland of Chicago's WMAQ-TV to pen a post for the station's website titled "How Mark Kirk Re-Segregates the Senate." McClelland disclaims, "This is no slur against Kirk," apparently meaning the headline to be provocative but realizing that it is obnoxious:
It's not a slur against Illinois, either. It shouldn't be our responsibility to provide a black senator. It's a slur against the other 49 states, who refuse to elect a black politician to the U.S. Senate.
McClelland notes that of the four blacks who've served in the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, three of them held what is now Kirk's seat: Carol Moseley Braun, Obama and Burris.
More interesting is what he leaves out: that the difficulty blacks have in getting elected to statewide office is an unintended consequence of the Voting Rights Act. In the interest of increasing minority representation in the House and state legislatures, the act mandates the drawing of "majority minority" districts.
On its own terms, this has worked very well. The size of the Congressional Black Caucus relative to the House is within a few percentage points of the black proportion of the population. Seats in state legislatures and the House frequently are stepping stones to statewide office. But because black politicians need not cultivate a transracial appeal to win office in the first place, they are at a disadvantage when they consider a statewide run.
Moseley Braun and Obama are exceptions. (The unelected Burris is irrelevant to this analysis.) Before being elected to the U.S. Senate, both served in the Illinois Legislature from Chicago's Hyde Park, which, although a decidedly left-wing constituency, is one of the most racially integrated in the nation.
In fairness to McClelland, this is just a little blog post, and it's possible he covers these points in his recent book, "Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President." But what really caught our attention in his post was this non sequitur:
I hope Kirk will be conscious of the historic nature of his Senate seat. Based on an interview published in the Tribune on Sunday, I think he is. Kirk spoke about the need for the Republican Party to avoid cultural issues, and focus on economics.
"We should stay away from some of the more divisive issues in which we don't have consensus," he said.
What are those "divisive issues"? The Tribune story doesn't enumerate them, but the reporter uses this formulation: "social policies that traditionally have created rancor between moderates and conservatives."
What does any of this have to do with race? There are "social policies" on which blacks tend to be more liberal than whites--crime, welfare, racial preferences--but these are not the ones that divide moderate and conservative Republicans. Plainly Kirk is referring chiefly to abortion and also, perhaps, to same-sex marriage and other matters involving homosexuality. On these questions blacks tend to be, if anything, somewhat more conservative than whites.
Kirk, a five-term House member, is no social conservative. In 2008 he had just a 17% rating from the Family Research Council. His views were well-suited to his suburban district, where a social conservative probably would have been unelectable. But his district is less than 5% black. McClelland, who by the way is white, shows his own prejudices when he imagines Kirk to be some sort of racial conciliator because the new senator holds views that are congenial to social liberals who are mostly white.
Well, Obama Did Promise 'Change'
"Staggering Election Day losses are not the Democratic Party's final indignity this year," the Associated Press reports from Atlanta:
At least 13 state lawmakers in five states have defected to Republican ranks since the Nov. 2 election, adding to already huge GOP gains in state legislatures. And that number could grow as next year's legislative sessions draw near.
The tally so far: four in Alabama, six in Georgia, and one each in Louisiana, Maine and South Dakota. Thanks to the switches, the GOP now has a majority in the Louisiana House and a supermajority in the Alabama House "that allows them to pass legislation without any support from the other party."
It reminds us of a joke:
What do you call a moderate Democrat?
A Republican!
The Phantom Menace
From Corvallis, Ore., the Associated Press delivers the latest variation on a familiar story:
Patrols around mosques and other Islamic sites in Portland have been stepped up as Muslim leaders expressed fears of retribution, days after a Somali-American man was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during the city's Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
Portland Mayor Sam Adams said Sunday that he beefed up protection around mosques "and other facilities that might be vulnerable to knuckle-headed retribution" after hearing of the bomb plot.
The move followed a fire Sunday at the Islamic center in Corvallis, a college town about 75 miles southwest of Portland, where suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud occasionally worshipped, prompting an FBI arson investigation and concern about the potential for more retaliation.
The AP quotes Yosof Wanly, imam of the Corvallis Islamic center: "We know how it is, we know some people due to ignorance are going to perceive of these things and hold most Muslims accountable."
We see the same two themes in the news coverage of every terror attack: the playing down of the terrorists' religious motives and the playing up of the threat of retaliation against innocent Muslims. The motive of the terror defendant is treated as a great mystery, whereas the motive of an action like the fire at the Corvallis center--about which, in fact, we have nothing to go on beyond speculation--is assumed to be anti-Muslim enmity. Can't Americans expect the same presumption of good will and innocence that journalists and public officials go out of their way to extend to the Muslims among us?
The Heat Is Off?
"In a series of papers published by the Royal Society, physicists and chemists from some of [the] world's most respected scientific institutions, including Oxford University and the Met Office"--Britain's equivalent of the National Weather Service--"agreed that current plans to tackle global warming are not enough," London's Daily Telegraph reports.
Wow, that's a surprise!
The report continues:
In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.
This would mean a drastic change in lifestyles for many people in countries like Britain as everyone will have to buy less 'carbon intensive' goods and services such as long haul flights and fuel hungry cars.
Prof Anderson admitted it "would not be easy" to persuade people to reduce their consumption of goods
He said politicians should consider a rationing system similar to the one introduced during the last "time of crisis" in the 1930s and 40s.
This could mean a limit on electricity so people are forced to turn the heating down, turn off the lights and replace old electrical goods like huge fridges with more efficient models. Food that has travelled from abroad may be limited and goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.
The proposals come, the paper notes, "as the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change." Maybe ideas like this would be a little less difficult to take seriously if the global warmists would begin by rationing their own travel to places like Cancun, Mexico!
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that today is the end of the Atlantic hurricane season:
While extreme tropical weather ravaged Haiti, Mexico and elsewhere, U.S. forecasters are wondering if the nation can make history and extend its luck into 2011. If so, it would be the first time ever that the U.S. escaped a major hurricane for six years.
"That would be a record I would like to break," said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Of course, the last big hurricane season was 2005, the year of Katrina and Rita. Back then, we kept hearing that this was caused by global warming. The words "global warming" and "climate change" appear nowhere in the AP dispatch--demonstrating yet again why global warming is undeniable: Bad weather is always evidence for it, but good weather is never evidence against it.
We Blame Global Warming
"Hip Injury Sidelines Gore for Season"--headline, SportingNews.com, Nov. 30
So Much for the War on Drugs
"Hunters May Have Delivered Fatal Blow to Mammoths"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 28
With DNC in Mind, City Bans Carrying Urine, Feces
- "Administration Vows to Crack Down on Leaks After Document Dump"--headline, FoxNews.com, Nov. 29
- "Clinton: 'Leaks Are Attack on International Community' "--headline, BBC website, Nov. 29
- "Senate Shunts Push for Elimination of Pet Projects"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 30
He May Be a Birther, but at Least He's Not Wearing a Loud Suit
"SCOTUS Won't Hear Birther Suit"--headline, FrumForum.com, Nov. 29
The Senate Has the Hat to This Day
"Members Will Have to Vote to Let Wilson Wear Hats in U.S. House"--headline, Miami Herald, Nov. 29
What Would You Expect Him to Say?
"Russia: Reporter Who Was Beaten Says Media Freedom Is Shrinking"--headline, New York Times, Nov. 30
Never Let a Scientist Drive
"Obese Women Warned of Brittle Bones Risk After U-Turn by Scientists"--headline, Yorkshire (England) Post, Nov. 29
A Fish Needs a Bicycle After All
"Geeks Gain While Feminism Flounders"--headline, Brisbane (Australia) Times, Nov. 25
'Gimme a Drink, It's Been a Long Day!'
"Sunday Liquor Sales Legal Wednesday"--headline, WILX-TV website (Lansing, Mich.), Nov. 30
I'll Drink to--Oh, Look! A Squirrel!
" 'Healthy' Vodka Slammed as Russia Squirrels Away Its Drink Problem"--headline, Moscow News, Nov. 29
Hey, Kids! What Time Is It?
- "It's Time You Got to Know the Debt Situation in Spain, Italy, Belgium, France, Portugal, and Austria"--headline, BusinessInsider.com, Nov. 29
- "It's Time to Choose Civility"--headline, Modesto (Calif.) Bee, Nov. 28
- "On the Front Foot: It's High Time to Remember the Tie That Helped Save Test Cricket"--headline, Independent (London), Nov. 28
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "The Tea Party: A Blessing or Curse for Israel?"--headline, MSNBC.com, Nov. 26
- "Will James Franco and Anne Hathaway Make You More Likely to Watch the Oscars?"--headline, Entertainment Weekly website, Nov. 29
- "Is California's Decline Just More Right-Wing Propaganda?"--headline, Reason.com, Nov. 29
- "Will Proof of Extraterrestrial Life Be Revealed at a Ramada Inn?"--headline, AOLNews.com, Nov. 29
- "The Wall Street Journal Understands History, When Will the Rest of the American Media?"--headline, Puffington Host, Nov. 29
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Why the Wikileaks Drama Is Overblown"--headline, TheDailyBeast.com, Nov. 29
- "Christine O'Donnell Would Vote for Hillary Clinton Over Obama in 2012"--headline, PoliticsDaily.com, Nov. 30
Look Out Below!
"The Fall of India's Katie Couric?"--headline, TheDailyBeast.com, Nov. 30
Someone Set Up Us the Bomb
"Defense, Friends Say Ore. Bomb Plot Suspect Set Up"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 30
News of the Tautological
"Tactile Senses Hold Key to Texture Perception: Study"--headline, FoodNavigator-USA.com, Nov. 29
Breaking News From 79
"Latest Pompeii Collapse: Garden Wall Gives Way"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 30
Breaking News From 2004
"GOP Warns John Kerry: Watch Your Back"--headline, Boston Herald, Nov. 27
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "Rangel Seeking House Leniency"--headline, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 29
- "Crist: I Have No Regrets on Politics, Policy"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 29
The Ego Has Landed
Here's one of our favorite bits from the New York Times WikiLeaks story:
Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of "Let's Make a Deal." Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama.
And if the Slovenians didn't want to meet with President Obama, they'd have to take two prisoners!
Today's Times, meanwhile, reports that "the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as DSM-5) has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition":
Narcissistic personality disorder is the most well-known of the five. . . .
The central requirement for N.P.D. is a special kind of self-absorption: a grandiose sense of self, a serious miscalculation of one's abilities and potential that is often accompanied by fantasies of greatness. . . .
The second requirement for N.P.D.: since the narcissist is so convinced of his high station (most are men), he automatically expects that others will recognize his superior qualities and will tell him so. . . .
Finally, the narcissist, who longs for the approval and admiration of others, is often clueless about how things look from someone else's perspective. Narcissists are very sensitive to being overlooked or slighted in the smallest fashion, but they often fail to recognize when they are doing it to others.
Most of us would agree that this is an easily recognizable profile, and it is a puzzle why the manual's committee on personality disorders has decided to throw N.P.D. off the bus.
Can the timing be coincidental? And don't they mean "under the bus"?
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Please help how to recover / find back my admin site? Just now I was update the site and the problems happened after I upgrade url in the option function under general section. :-(
Please help how to recover / find back my admin site? Just now I was update the site and the problems happened after I upgrade url in the option function under general section. :-(
You'll have to do a bit of database editing. If you have phpMyAdmin access to your db server, try this tutorial:
problems happened after I upgrade url
The URL doesn't need to be "upgraded". Never touch things that you don't know what they are for :)
Hi HandSolo, Thank You Very Much, it is working now. :-)
Yea, not 'upgrade' - type wrong. I was put wrong URL into the 'Blog Address' .... Yeeeeeee ... Have to be very careful from now on. Thanks
Hi, my site down again, I don't know why this time!! Just now it is back, but now gone again !! Please help..
I see this site fine: http://www.marketingbyann.com/
Is there another one we should look at?
Hi HanySolo,
Thank you. Yea, it looks fine now. But when you go: marketingbyann.com/articles
--> You can see all my articles list, but when I click on each one, the link comes out like this, example,
Looks like it comes under blog, but it should under Main Page 'Articles'. Therefore all the article pages can't find
The correct path should be:
Please help and advise how to fix this problem?
Thank you.
Who put "home" in your permalink structure?
I did before by use Plugin, I set 'Articles' as home page before. but I already changed the post slug from 'home' to 'aritlces'. but don't know why it doesn't work?
It is still not working even after I tried. I don't want to mess up the whole site again before I get any advise from your guys. So please help ...
Thank you.
It probably doesn't work because when you wrote those "articles" - I guess you made them sub-Pages of the Page "home". THat setting is stored in the database.
I'd check every sub-Page whether the 'Parent' is correct in the Edit panel.
Hi Moshu, I checked every article sub-Page in the Edit panel, they are all under "Parent/Articles".
What should I do now?
I'd try (at least with one of them) to re-save it while making sure the parent is "articles". Since that Page (Articles) has been re-named it might show up correctly in the Parent list, but I am afraid the path for the nice permalinks is still stored with the old name.
I did re-save all of them, but it still the same :-(
Okay, I find the problem and I solved it. Now it is working. :-)
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One of the best glaciers in Tirol, because the Hintertuxer Ski area has also difficult slopes in comparison to other glaciers what are mainly very flat. The lifts are very modern and they bring you very quick up on the mountain. Normally you also do not have to wait long at the lift because the people are well distributed over the whole skiing area. You have an incredible view from the top of the mountains. It seems that you can see every mountain of Tirol. The landscape is very beautiful therefore skiing makes much more fun.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom is stepping down from a $110,000 job at Northwest Florida State College.
Sansom took the job at the school the same day he was sworn in as speaker in November. He was offered the position after he put $25.5 million into last year's state budget for the school.
He has been repeatedly criticized for taking the job amid questions of whether he was rewarded for helping the school during tough budget times.
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The Blood Center will be at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, 3897 Bayou Black Drive, Houma, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 25. At the blood-donation event, there will be a drawing for a rocker donated by Boudreaux's Woodworking Shop.
Wilton and Edna Breaux's son-in-law, Noel "Curby" Foret, is in need of blood donations. He was diagnosed with Leukemia last year. He is being treated at Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma. He has had many blood transfusions. If you would like to help or know someone who can, you can donate blood to the Blood Bank at TGMC and give Noel Foret's name. All types are needed.
Bible school: Vacation Bible School for children 4-10 is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through July 23 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, 3897 Bayou Black Drive, Houma. The cost is $10. There is limited enrollment. For information, call the church office at 872-0922. Volunteers are needed.
Officials with St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church are looking for CCD teachers in all grade levels. If you would like to volunteer, call the church office at 872-0922.
CCD registration: All students received registration forms in class with individual information listed. Check the information, make any corrections and return a signed registration form. Registration forms received after May 30 are subject to an additional $10 fee. If your child is new to the program or you cannot find the registration form given to your child, you may pick up a blank form in the back of church or call the parish office at 872-0922.
Officials with First Presbyterian Church of Houma, 414 Barrow St., is collecting shoes for its annual Shoes for Orphan Souls drive. Shoes for Orphan Souls, a ministry of Buckner International, distributes shoes to orphans around the world. Shoes can be delivered to the church on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. For information, call First Presbyterian Church of Houma at 873-8136 or visit www.shoesfororphanssouls.org.
Church news: Bible-study groups meet from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Sundays, and from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church's parish center. Bible studies are taught by Kerry Bueche.
In honor of the Rev. Gerald Hayes' 50th anniversary to the priesthood, officials with St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church have begun a seminary endowment with the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux to assist in paying for the education of current, and future, seminarians to serve in the diocese. If you want to help, place your contribution in an envelope marked for this fund and either place it in the collection basket or send it to the parish office. Make checks payable to St. Anthony of Padua.
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Former Miss North Dakota Found Dead in Minneapolis Home
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As recent domestic and geopolitical events have become increasingly dominated by intolerant forms of religious thought and action, the critical study of religion continues to find itself largely ignored in the public square. Caught between those who assert that its principal purpose is to reflect the perspectives of those who believe and those who assert that its only proper place is to expose these same worldviews as deceptive social and economic mechanisms of power, the discipline has generally failed to find a truly audible voice. Rejecting both of these conservative and liberal modes of knowing as insufficient to the radical subject that is religion, Jeffrey J. Kripal offers in this book another possibility, that of the serpent's gift.
Such a gift hisses a form of gnosis, that is, a deeply critical approach to religion that is at the same time profoundly engaged with the altered states of consciousness and energy that are naively literalized by the proponents of faith and too quickly dismissed by the proponents of pure reason. Kripal does not simply describe such a gnosis. He performs and transmits it through four meditations on the sexualities of Jesus, the mystical humanism of Ludwig Feuerbach, the gnostic potentials of the comparative method, and the American mythologies of the comic book. From the erotics of the gospels to the mutant powers of the superhero, The Serpent's Gift promises its readers both an intellectual exile from our present religious and sexual ignorance and a transfigured hope in the spiritual potentials of the human species.


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Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners has hired Kerry Fitzmaurice as its chief marketing officer, which is a new role at the agency. Fitzmaurice joins the MDC Partners agency from independent Mother…
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