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Jonah Hex (2010)
Critics Consensus: Josh Brolin gives it his best shot, but he can't keep the short, unfocused Jonah Hex from collapsing on the screen.
Critics Consensus: Josh Brolin gives it his best shot, but he can't keep the short, unfocused Jonah Hex from collapsing on the screen.
Movie Info
1970s-era DC antihero Jonah Hex makes his way to the big screen as co-screenwriters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer) team to follow the disfigured gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter on his biggest adventure yet. Supernatural elements combine with Western aesthetics to take viewers on a wild and bloody ride, with Josh Brolin leading the way as Hex and John Malkovich stepping into the villainous role of Turnbull. Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who) directs. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, disturbing images and sexual content)
- Genre:
- Western , Drama , Action & Adventure , Horror
- Directed By:
- Jimmy Hayward
- Written By:
- Mark Neveldine , Brian Taylor
- In Theaters:
- Jun 18, 2010 Wide
- On DVD:
- Oct 12, 2010
- Box Office:
- Runtime:
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It's popcorn-chomping fun rooting for the soul-stripped Hex as he battles his way toward redemption and sweet, sweet payback.
It's a little too brief to get bored exactly, but it's certainly long enough to get frustrated at the lack of the essential ingredients to get the audience engaged in its story.
It's a standard Western revenge tale dressed up with supernatural elements.
The mark of a good actor is being good in a really bad movie. Josh Brolin is a really, really good actor, because most of the time he's on screen speaking you can almost forget what a loathsome, irredeemable, turd of a film Jonah Hex is.
When it works, which it does quite often, it's one of the better comic book adaptations of recent years.
Seems almost calculated meticulously to suck the life out of its audience as much as humanly possible...
The film is simply too brief, too befuddled and too delirious to do the comic book legend justice.
An awful excuse for cinema that ultimately fails in nearly every way possible.
...remarkably two-dimensional, showing evidence of having been edited down from something more complex.
To quote Clint Eastwood's Monco in For A Few Dollars More, you people need a new sheriff.
Jonah Kex, Jonah Wrex, Jonah Hax, Jonah Kax, Jonah Thix, Jonah Crox, Jonah Sux.
The film shows its comic-book origins in good ways (stylish settings) and bad (too many scenes end in a gigantic conflagration).
Whether it's the director's fault or the result of studio meddling, this is a mess of a movie that's been cut to pieces.
It just gets louder and more nonsensical as it progresses, with Fox shoe-horned into as many scenes as possible.
Almost everything is wrong with it.
Having already bombed big-time in the US, our search for the biggest turkey of 2010 ends right here.
At least it's relatively short.
It's a loud and subtle-as-a-sledgehammer assault on the senses, though, at 81 minutes, mercifully short.
[A] dull and messy ride through supernatural Clint Eastwood territory.
An object lesson in how not to adapt a comic book. A crushing disappointment.
Audience Reviews for Jonah Hex
It is what it is. Nothing too spectacular here. Just decent action. Okay acting. Just well what it is.
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I'll start by saying that I've seen my faire share of bad film, and to be honest, Jonah Hex wasn't that bad of a film. Of course it's a ridiculous affair, a film that is shallow in its story, but is somewhat entertaining despite its significant flaws. I didn't hate the film, but I felt that it could have been much better as well. I've seen my fair share of bad films, and I got to say that Jonah Hex is nowhere near the ineptitude garbage that films like Movie 43 and Texas Chainsaw were. This is somewhat entertaining, albeit it doesn't do anything really good with its ideas, and it does squander its potential. The film is mindless popcorn action, and it's decent at best, but it's definitely not great. I liked some aspects of the film, and the comic book vibe the film had was quite good, but the script was just empty, and the film's ideas never really took off. Jonah Hex for me anyways, isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it's not a good film either. The film should have been much better than this, as there were some appealing things about it, however due to a lacking script, the film's ideas never come to fruition and it does make you wonder how good this film could have been if the screenwriters would have reworked the story a bit more. For metal fans, you'll probably enjoy Mastodon's soundtrack, and the cameo by the band's guitarist Brent Hinds as a Union Soldier. Not as bad as what I expected, but it does leave a bit to be desired, however I must say that I have seen far worse films than this one. At least this film had a few entertaining action scenes, if only the plot had been reworked, then this film really could have been something special.
MoreSuper Reviewer
The premise based on the comics has potential: a gunslinger who was so close to dying that he can now talk to the dead, while trying to stop a megalomaniac terrorist. The most pleasant surprise of the supernatural Western mix is the cast and how many well-known people show up in rather small and surprising roles. They may feel a tad underused but on the other hand it's fun to see them all come together. The less pleasant surprise is the kind of film they joined in. It does have it's moments and is rather entertaining, but also pretty damn shallow when it comes to dialogs and action. The shootouts are always rather short (and with the type of shredding metal guitars, that seem to imply speed and excitement but are just annoying), the characters remain flat. The short running time of the film implies that the creators were not that happy with it, either and tried to make it out alive as fast as possible.
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Jonah Hex Quotes
- Jonah Hex:
- War and me took to each other real well. It felt like it had meaning. The feeling of doing what you thought was right. But it wasn't. Folks can believe what they like, but eventually a man's gotta decide if he's gonna do what's right. That choice cost me more than I bargained for.
- Adelman Lusk:
- Sure hope you succeed. I would surely hang if you didn't. And that's something I'd like to avoid.
- Quentin Turnbull:
- [shoots Lusk in the head] Consider it avoided.
- Burke:
- Tell me, what's it like to go through life with a face like that?
- Jonah Hex:
- Let me show you! [punches him]
- Jonah Hex:
- I'm about out of wise-ass answers, friend.
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Even if Jaco didn't get killed by luc Jaco would've evuntually die because of bipolar disease. And those people who threatened luc are hypocrites. Killing him cant bring jaco back
Rutherford, an unassuming man in his early 30s (he won't give an exact number), is skinny, ponytailed, and bespectacled. He works in a local printing shop and lives just blocks from where his idol grew up.
The young jazz fan an uncommon animal, to be sure appears to have little influence with local city leaders. He does have a few web skills, which he used to produce jacopastoriuspark.org to promote his idea. The website has motivated 199 people to sign an online petition endorsing the park. Rutherford has also taken advantage of his position at a print shop to churn out some Jaco-themed fliers, guitar picks, and buttons.
It's not quite a groundswell. But Rutherford, the well-meaning, worshipful fan, is hoping that his grass-roots campaign will persuade an uptight collection of city officials to name a sliver of a park after a man who, in the 1970s, briefly became a jazz god, forever changing the way the electric bass was perceived and played, and just as quickly was overtaken by mental illness and alcohol abuse and finally died at 35 after a beating inflicted by a Wilton Manors nightclub manager one night in 1987.
In other words, Rutherford probably doesn't have a prayer.
Or he didn't, at least until he got the endorsement of a key backer, who has unequivocally given her blessing to his efforts.
That angel, who has been instrumental in what little momentum Rutherford has been able to generate, is Ingrid Hornmüller Pastorius, Jaco's second wife and the mother of his twin sons, Felix and Julius, who have also made it plain that they want to see Rutherford's idea succeed.
But even with the support of Pastorius' own sons, Rutherford knew he'd run into resistance at City Hall, where at least one commissioner has voiced her opposition because of the famous musician's ignominious final years.
What Rutherford didn't expect, however, was that the biggest resistance to his idea would come not from squeamish civil servants but from a buzzsaw of criticism from Jaco's two older children, John and Mary, and the bass player's longtime friend, a man named Bob Bobbing.
Rutherford, it turned out, had unwittingly stepped into the middle of a feud between Pastorius family members and friends warring over the man's legacy.
And very soon, he got the message: Remember Jaco. Appreciate Jaco. Revere Jaco. But don't mess with Jaco Pastorius Inc.
Sunday afternoon behind Calder Race Track, the South Florida Jazz and Heritage Festival has infused a hot afternoon with chicory coffee, gumbo, and jazz.
A couple of horn players from CB Pope's Dixieland All-Stars file offstage in matching outfits of navy slacks and powder-blue shirts.
"That's got to be Jaco's kid hanging backstage," one of them says, nodding toward a tall, thin dude with wise brown eyes, his eyebrows, lips, and mustache as iconic as his father's. They stroll over.
"Excuse me... are you Jaco's son?"
Sure am, nods Felix, sporting two gold rings in one earlobe and a Caesar haircut.
"I played with your dad!" they both gush at once.
Dennis Clouse, probably in his early 50s, looks like he rides a hog. Mike Petrozzino wears bifocals and beignet crumbs on his blue polyester shirt. They stare in amazement at Felix, not just because he's six-foot-seven with snake-like arms but because he's the spitting image of Jaco.
Clouse and Petrozzino used to sit in on jam sessions at Pirate's World, a tiny Dania Beach club on Sheridan Street, they explain. Petrozzino pumps Felix's big hand again. "I'm honored," he says. Felix's twin brother, Julius, half a foot shorter but with a similar stark charcoal outline, elicits the same response from the two horn players. They sit and wait for the acclaimed outfit Way of the Groove with Felix on bass and Julius on drums to perform.
As the band stretches through two softly rendered Herbie Hancock numbers, it's impossible to watch Felix play and not be reminded of his father. Outlandishly long fingers work up and down the neck of the instrument, and the physical resemblance is uncanny.
"His dad was the same way like the bass was part of his body," Clouse raves.
Nearly 20 years after his death, one of South Florida's most famous products is still the legend he himself always insisted he was. The first thing most people new to the legend learn about Jaco pronounced "Jocko," which is also the way he spelled it until he was about 23 years old was that he began to call himself "The World's Greatest Bass Player" before the rest of the music world had even heard of him. But the label stuck after he proved that it wasn't an idle boast. To many jazz fans, Pastorius, the brash Oakland Park kid who grew up by the Florida East Coast railroad tracks, really was the World's Greatest Bass Player.
Until he arrived, the electric bass had been a steady if unexciting backing voice in jazz ensembles. But Jaco turned it into a melodic instrument with the explosive power and subtle feeling to lead an orchestra. Some compared how Pastorius transformed the jazz bass to what Charlie Parker, another jazz icon who died young, had done with the saxophone. Pastorius himself encouraged comparisons to Jimi Hendrix, who redefined the guitar before his own life ended too soon.
Or, as biographer Bill Milkowski put it, "Jaco was to the electric bass what Paul Bunyan was to the lumber industry."
In other words, a mythic figure among mere mortals. Revered the world over, Jaco's records are considered sacred texts, his rare videotaped shows living memorials. And the stories of his epic performances and wild offstage antics still fuel websites and Internet forums like he'd never left. His presence is also still felt by the musicians who came later; Jaco's playing paved the way for physical, wild perfectionists like Flea and Les Claypool.
"My father," Mary Pastorius says, "was a rock star."
After the Pastorius family moved from Pennsylvania to South Florida in 1959, Jaco played sports and took up drums, then switched to bass after breaking a wrist playing football. He began playing in local bands in 1966 and 1967, which is when Bobbing, another teenaged local bass player, first ran into him at a performance on the beach near Las Olas Boulevard.
It was also Bobbing who gave Jaco a key break early in his career. In 1972, a slot for a bassist opened up in Georgia soul singer Wayne Cochran's backing band, the C.C. Riders. Offered the job but unable to take it because of a prior commitment, Bobbing told Cochran about Pastorius, who burned up his audition and then spent the next several months traveling the country and impressing audiences.
By that time, Pastorius was married to his first wife, Tracy, and had a young daughter, Mary. His second child, John, was born in 1973. And it was in the next few years that Pastorius really blew up, with two particularly explosive years in 1975 and 1976, when he joined the jazz-fusion juggernaut Weather Report, released a solo album that killed, and also recorded with Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell.
Overnight, Pastorius and his trademark double-jointed thumbs had become the force of nature that musicians like Metheny and Mitchell sought out to help them explore new sonic territory.
And Bobbing, as well as Mary and John Pastorius, were around for those years of stratospheric success. So it's not hard to understand why after Jaco's rise was followed by a precipitous fall, generating just as many stories not about his musical prowess but about the bizarre and manipulative behavior of his later years the people who feel they must protect Jaco's legacy guard it with surprising tenacity.
While his fame was still peaking in 1977, Pastorius began an affair with Hornmüller, a Sumatra-born former Eastern Airlines flight attendant who was the daughter of an Indonesian woman and a German man and who had been raised in the Netherlands. Pastorius divorced Tracy in 1978, and the following year, he and Hornmüller were married.
The twins, Felix and Julius, arrived in 1982. And by then, Pastorius, who earlier in his life had made a reputation as a rare teetotaler among musicians, was already being consumed by a steady diet of alcohol and cocaine. That mix only made worse his undiagnosed bipolar illness, which furthered his decline. He and Ingrid divorced in 1985.
When Jaco performed in his later years, he was notoriously unpredictable genius or insanity, with nothing seemingly in between. After a voluntary stay at Bellevue Hospital in New York in 1986, Pastorius returned to South Florida the first week of 1987. Known for being an obnoxious drunk, he pissed off one too many people later that year. On September 11, he had a run-in with nightclub manager Luc Havan, a 25-year-old Vietnamese-born French national who had previously warned Pastorius about coming into his Wilton Manors bar, the Midnight Bottle Club. Havan, a martial arts expert, claimed that Pastorius struck him and that he hit him back only once, causing Pastorius to fall and strike his head on the pavement. But a witness and Jaco's condition suggested that Havan had actually unleashed a furious assault on the hapless drunk. After spending several days in a coma, Pastorius' heart stopped beating on September 21. Havan was later convicted of manslaughter but served only a few months in prison.
Pastorius had left behind a large body of work, some of it transcendent, some of it incomplete, a steady if modest stream of royalty income, and two sets of children from different eras.
Mary and John, his older children, receive more income than Felix and Julius for their father's work up to 1979. For works produced after that time, the children split proceeds equally. The four of them, with Jaco's brother Gregory, make up the five directors of Jaco Pastorius Inc., which manages Jaco's estate.
But it's Bobbing, holding no official position in JPI, who actually seems to be the man calling the shots.
Taking a very hands-on approach, Bobbing has fashioned himself the source of All Things Jaco. Certainly, no one can rival Bobbing in terms of acquiring artifacts (he reportedly even owns Jaco's high school diploma). And he has spent a couple of hundred thousand of his own dollars shoring up the image of the estate, he says, putting out reissues like the double-disc Portrait of Jaco in 2002 (with JPI's official blessing). Spanning 1968 to 1978, it offers hardcore and casual fans a view inside Jaco's most lucid period. Undoubtedly, it's a labor of love (a double disc that couldn't have been cheap to produce, Bobbing says it's sold fewer than 5,000 copies). "But without these things in the stores," he says, "Jaco's legacy is destined to fail."
On it, vintage recordings of Jaco's early years are interspersed with anecdotes from friends and family. Bobbing procured reminiscences from Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul from Weather Report, Metheny, and even the elusive Mitchell, with whom Jaco had a brief affair ("It was as if I dreamed him").
Ingrid, Julius, and Felix don't warrant a mention on Portrait of Jaco. There's nothing, for example, about the fact that Felix and Julius are becoming well-known local jazz musicians in their own right and play just about every week in the same neighborhoods where Jaco first started to make a name for himself.
Bobbing, in fact, has never made it down to Alligator Alley in Oakland Park to see the twins perform with Way of the Groove and can't understand how watching Felix and Julius would be informative to the man who gives the impression that he is curator for everything Jaco-related.
"Why would you want to waste your time with them?" Bobbing says. "[They're a] couple of knuckleheads."
Mary Pastorius has also been involved in music, leading a hard-edged modern-rock quartet, Queen Mary, until she recently started raising a family in Melbourne, Florida. Her brother, John, isn't involved in the music business. And for many years, Mary has taken the lead among her siblings in keeping her father's memory alive, writing remembrances and monitoring his estate as a director of JPI.
But the former figurehead of Queen Mary can also be a little, well, imperious.
Felix and Julius found that out recently when they encouraged Rutherford to pursue the park, as well as a concert to raise funds for it. Rutherford conceived of an annual Jaco-themed jazz festival that would fall on Jaco's birthday, December 1, and that would feature the twins as attractions. But when Mary got wind of it, she sent the twins an exasperated-sounding e-mail.
"WTF!" it began. "Just so there's no misunderstanding The 'First Annual' Jaco Jazz & Music Fest is out of the question. If you guys want to have another 'Jaco tribute' concert to promote yourselves that's one thing, but when it comes to deciding something as big as when and where an annual festival is going to be especially in South Florida that's a decision for JPI (which consists of a 5 member board) NOT your mother. Why do you let her continually drag you into such drama when things could simply be discussed?"
And if Mary was perturbed by the festival idea, it isn't really surprising that she assumed Ingrid Pastorius was really behind it, pulling the strings of Rutherford and the twins. In fact, that seems to be what Mary, John, and Bobbing assume about anything regarding Jaco that doesn't actually come from them.
Ingrid, if you listen to the three of them, is not a very nice person.
Well, actually, they pretty much think she's a blood-sucking harpy.
"Like a gypsy grifter, [Ingrid] wants to control [the twins'] lives," Bobbing says in a conversation that contains dozens of angry references to Ingrid. "They're her props. She's a nemesis to the family a divorced wife with her own agenda."
The feuding may have started years ago over archive recordings and how they should be released or marketed. Ingrid has long maintained that her boys aren't seeing enough money from their dad's earnings. They receive $550 a month, plus an annual lump sum that has varied from about $2,500 to $7,500. The estate also pays for their health insurance and for the use of cell phones.
When the twins turned 18, Bobbing invited former Warner Bros. executive (and longtime Jaco benefactor) Ricky Schultz to meet with the family. His idea was to license the back catalog and use his distribution connections to sell more records, maybe even posters and T-shirts. "There's a lot of ways to generate revenue from a quality catalog," he says. "They could have raised Jaco's profile and profited from it." Ingrid, Schultz recalls, told Julius and Felix to nix the idea.
"It's a sad situation where this quarreling and feuding has cost everybody. It's really a shame." A substantial amount of money "a couple of hundred grand for each kid," Schultz maintains remains unclaimed. And the more the record industry changes, he says, the more the family loses out.
If Ingrid spoiled a deal that might have paid off nicely, her kids still don't understand the vitriol from their older siblings. unclu
Julius, in his reply to Mary's e-mail, returned none of her venom. "How can we ever have a strong relationship and company if you keep saying these nasty things about my mother?" he wrote. "I am not looking forward to being there [at a JPI board meeting] because of how you always talk about my mom, and accuse Felix and I of using our father's name to promote ourselves, when we were asked to perform at the event in my dad's honor, without getting paid. I don't want to be at any meeting where I know we will be yelled at and wrongly accused, and degraded more... Bobbing constantly speaks bad to anyone he meets about my mother, Felix and I as if he is the corporation... When we ask for accounting we are asked why and why we don't trust you... How can we have a meeting when you continue to be so ugly to us, sometimes I feel like I want out of this whole situation."
Naturally, Bobbing tells New Times he believes Ingrid wrote the whole thing.
Bobbing and Mary also seethe when the issue of websites is brought up. JPI, largely through Bobbing, runs jacopastorius.com, a slick, reverent site that features extensive forums where fans come to discuss their icon. But a few years ago, Felix and Julius learned HTML and produced a Jaco tribute site as a class project, which Ingrid then decided to maintain and update. The site, jacop.net, promotes the Bobbing-produced Portrait of Jaco and contains no criticisms of JPI or Mary or John.
Still, Bobbing nearly bursts a blood vessel when he brings it up. "It's a publicity stunt," he says. "Ingrid is just using it to get traffic to her website," he adds, as if she were somehow profiting from the Jaco fans who find their way to it. (There are no ads on her site, and traffic alone could hardly make her money.) Bobbing also claims that a barrage of nasty posts on the official site has been traced back to Ingrid's computer.
"She's a virus!" John exclaims during a lunch at Mangos on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Says Bobbing: "She's what has been keeping Jaco's legacy from flourishing!"
And although Ingrid very prominently includes a disclaimer that her Jaco site is not the "official" version and also not a product of JPI, that's still not good enough for Mary.
"The issue is that she's portraying herself as an official entity," she tells New Times. "It's sad. It's embarrassing. Especially when we're trying to raise my father's image and keep his legacy up."
Bobbing has, in other ways, shown that he resents any Internet tribute other than the official jacopastorius.com. Recently, a Puerto Rican man named Angel Vicen contacted jacopastorius.com after he put up his own, very amateur-looking website so that he could share with the world the five days he spent with Pastorius back in 1984.
Vicen, learning that Pastorius would be giving a bass seminar on the Caribbean island of Martinique that year, enrolled in the class and not only took photographs but also obtained Pastorius' permission to audiotape the sessions. On Vicen's modest website, jpbasslessons.com, he shares with readers what it was like to learn from the (then-fading) superstar, and he made MP3s of the recordings downloadable.
There is no bravado in Vicen's website. He asks for no money. He makes no claims to the prominence of his recordings.
But to Bobbing, the nerve of Vicen is beyond the pale.
"Angel Vicen, seemingly with a clear conscious, [has] elevated his rather ordinary encounter with Jaco into an historical event of Biblical proportions," Bobbing fumed on the jacopastorius.com forums. "Now, for those of you who cannot recognize a self-serving opportunistic maneuver when you see one, this is a prime example. But this in itself is nothing new. Check out Ingrid's Jaco Pastorius Park publicity stunt... Angel, you are not doing Jaco any favors here believe me. Do you really think your cassette is important enough to build a shrine around?... It is blatantly obvious that you are using Jaco's name for personal gain... The fact that you managed to hang out with Jaco for a minute and even record him, although it might seem special on some personal level, was no major accomplishment."
In response, Vicen wrote, "I have nothing to gain except the satisfaction of sharing the Martinique experience."
But sharing isn't something that Bobbing seems very interested in. And with Mary, John, and their uncle Gregory forming a three-person majority on the JPI board, they get their way.
Into that toxic cloud of resentment and strife, Robert Rutherford blindly strode.
Mary Pastorius and Bob Bobbing both insist that they are not opposed to Jaco's hometown naming a new park after him. It was the way Rutherford went about it that has them hacked off.
By getting Ingrid's blessing and the enthusiastic endorsement of the twins and by getting a few city personnel tentatively interested in the idea, Rutherford all but doomed the project. By aligning with Ingrid, Rutherford is toast.
"That's just the way it is," Mary explains. "Because JPI is the sole source of control and copyright. Because this is our business. It's our property, our assets." Rutherford, say Mary, John, and Bobbing, has been a nuisance.
"Robert knows just enough to blow his nose," Bobbing says. "If I could sit with him for ten minutes, I'd make him feel like a mosquito."
And he'd apparently be squashed like an insect by Bobbing for, well, wanting to name a city park after his hero.
"There's one person getting lost in all this," Rutherford says. "Jaco."
"A park just helps the cause," Julius says. And for JPI to mount any resistance, he says, "is ignorant."
"Bob Bobbing is the one who is very disconnected from the people who are truly in love with my dad and his music," Felix adds. "I never saw him as looking out for my best interests. The music will just continue to grow forever, people will keep falling in love with my father's music, and nothing will get in the way of that."
Ingrid, meanwhile, says she doesn't understand the controversy about the park and an associated concert. "I had nothing to do with it," she says of the initial idea, though she supports what Rutherford is doing. "It's such a beautiful, lovely thing to do."
For now, the plot of land in Oakland Park at NE 38th Street and Dixie Highway that is slated to become a park is still just a dirt lot. At his website, Rutherford collects ideas for the park, which might include a basketball court (Jaco's favorite sport), a council oak, an amphitheater for live performances, or a mural reflecting Jaco's legacy.
But Seigi Constantine, director of Oakland Park Main Street, an urban revitalization project, feels chafed after dealing with the rival families. "I had no clue," she explains, "and stepped in it with both feet." A jazz fan herself, Constantine's enthusiasm took a hit the moment she received a letter from JPI signed by Mary Pastorius. "We exist, and you are not doing anything without our blessing," Constantine remembers.
At the same time, Rutherford has run into opposition from commissioner Suzanne Boisvenue. "She's hesitant. She's harping on the drug use at the end of his life, saying she'll never name a park for a junkie," Rutherford says.
"I don't know anything about it," Boisvenue tells New Times. "I'm neither opposed nor in favor until I see backup materials."
So far, the park idea hasn't even been up for a vote before the commission.
Says Bobby Thomas Jr., who played with Jaco in Weather Report: "The guy affected the whole planet, and his sorry-ass town hasn't done anything."
Ed Bell, a producer with local public FM station WLRN, says: "He was such a legendary figure, his music is still consistently played around the world, and his influence is still heavily felt. A park would be an incredible tribute to him."
To Rutherford, the issue is too important to leave in the hands of a corporation he sees thwarting every grass-roots celebration of Jaco's life. "It's been 19 years, and they've done nothing."
Mary counters, however, that JPI is "100 percent for... dedicating a park in our father's honor. The notion that JPI is against the proposed Jaco Pastorius park is absurd."
But Holly Spillane, Julius and Felix's aunt, who spent years with the family before and after Jaco's demise, says: "The corporation has the responsibility to control decisions about the park, that's understood. But they're not really collaborating with the project, so it seems like they're trying to prevent it."
Constantine still hopes for success. A park mural painted by a local artist with images of Jaco. A dedication ceremony and concert with the Pastorius kids reunited. "I know when we do this event," she says, "all four will be here."
The Martial Artist
For the first time, the man who ended Jaco's life speaks about it.
Last year, in a web forum, a Jaco Pastorius fan revealed that he'd tracked down Luc Havan, the man whose punch killed Jaco and who subsequently served only a few months in prison for manslaughter.
Now a real estate agent in Palm Beach County, Havan says he is occasionally contacted by the curious and the angry. "I had people ask me if I was the guy," he says over the phone from his office. "I didn't want to add fuel to the fire, so I just disregarded [them]."
But Havan says he doesn't get harassed, despite the notoriety of his past. "In all these years, I've never run into anyone who's come up and said, 'You're him.'"
Earlier on the night of September 11, 1987, Pastorius had climbed onstage during a Santana concert and was escorted outside. According to Bill Milkowski's biography, Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, the bass player had also engaged in a drunken confrontation with his ex-girlfriend, Teresa Nagell. Later, he was in Wilton Manors, stumbling into the Midnight Bottle Club.
"I just said, 'Listen, you're too drunk. You can't come in,'" recalls Havan, who says he also extended a peace offering. "But come back tomorrow night, not all drunk like tonight, and everything is on me."
Havan says he told employee Cristy Eaton to cover Jaco's tab the next time they saw him sober. "Because I knew who he was, and I'd heard how he gets when people don't recognize him and things."
With that, Havan says he turned around and walked away. "But he started to hit me, and I had a knee-jerk reaction, and I hit him. I tried to tell him to leave it on a good note, but, you know..."
At the time, Jaco had made himself unwelcome at almost every other watering hole in the area. "That's probably why he got mad at me telling him I couldn't let him in," Havan guesses. "I'd heard he was living on the street."
Havan remembers throwing a punch that hit Jaco's left temple. "That's where I admitted to hitting him, and that's where he got hit. But his major fracture was on the right side when he fell. The other side of his head hit the ledge by the door."
It's the story Havan has maintained from the beginning. But another witness told police Havan had actually pummeled Pastorius, and the man's injuries his teeth had come through his lips were too ferocious to have come from a simple fall.
Jaco was hospitalized in a coma for days before he died on September 19. Havan faced a second-degree murder charge, which could have earned him 25 years in prison. "At the time, I was 25; I'd never been in trouble, so it really scared me." Havan instead got two years for involuntary manslaughter. He explains that he spent just under eight months behind bars, then served five years' probation.
"A person who wasn't an alcoholic or drug addict but was of average health would have recuperated, because it wasn't that bad of an injury," Havan says. "But because he was in bad health living on the street and not eating a good diet, it made it worse."
Havan hasn't made an attempt to apologize to the family since his time in court, saying he doesn't want to bother them after his first attempt was rebuffed.
"The apology is as much to apologize to them as to make me feel better," he says. "Dealing with life after being involved with this is as important as their loss."
Editor's note: This version of "Jaco Incorporated" includes several corrections: the date of Jaco Pastorius' death (September 21), the fifth member of the JPI board of directors (Gregory Pastorius), and descriptions of Pastorius estate royalty payments.
Even if Jaco didn't get killed by luc Jaco would've evuntually die because of bipolar disease. And those people who threatened luc are hypocrites. Killing him cant bring jaco back
Luc needs his head bashed in with one of jaco's basses, or maybe yet strangled with one of jaco's bass strings. Then and only then will justice be served.
Holland people= Nazis???
Goovaert VanBanning have a name like a colonialist in South Africa during the Boers "domination" (of stupidity) and the Apartheid... Back in France nazi bastard and I will be very happy to meet you for a savage meethead. Goovaert what a stupid name for degenerate underraced people like this country of assholes lol
Luc Havan you're the scumest piece of rat shit on earth so fuck you, crawl into a hole and died like the bitch you are. You have killed Jaco you have to paid for what you did. Four months wasn' enought. Now you have to committed suicide if you don't want to rot in hell for eternity.
To the stupid boer monkey Goovaert Van Banning: All the France said fuck you to you and your dirty country son of a bitch! You're just a stupid colonialist who deserve to be slashed and bashed until death in Africa where you put your stupidity. So crawl with Luc Havan in to a hole and die old mother fucker of boers. All people fuck you! All Africans fuck you! And all France fuck you and your insignifiant country. You deserve to die WE pissed on your dirty pig face. DIE SCUM!
Hermanos yo soy Creyente, y como tal les digo que con las oraciones tambien puedes conseguir el castigo de Dios a tu enemigo, y veo que muchos al igual que yo odian a este bastardo asesino de havan, y creo que el mejor castigo debido a su NO arrepentimiento, sería el sufrimiento de los seres que el más quiere (si conocerá el significado de esta palabra), porque creo que la Ley Divina de victima por victima no es suficiente para este caso, este sujeto y los que de su familia apoyan su actitud o su defensa frente a este asunto merecen ser castigados de la forma más dolorosa.
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Idiots posting racist remarks and empty threats! Get over it, it's tragic a man died but it happens every day, over 20 years passed. Nobody will ever know what happened
friends, family, and the worlds greatest bass player CANT GET ALONG because a 3 foot jackdonkey beat him so bad his teeth went through his lip, his eye essesntialy popped out, his shoulder was dislocated, and the list goes ON. WHY? because this little slant eyed fool out to destroy a homeless drunk mentally ill guy had to beat him into a coma (yeah luc you half pint pussy) did not "hit him and he fell on a curb". YOU KILLED HIM. NOW YOU DIE!!!
luc you midget killer. i am an ex-military sniper. i know where you are. justice will be served within one year. enough said.
French men cannot hold their in their pockets. God created France, beautiful, but he made his biggest mistake by creating the french people! In Holland he would never ger away with it, people are put in jail for less!
All you idiot morons who live in fantasy world, it was EXACTLYhis intention to inflict as much pain and hurt upon him as possible. He couldhave subdued him and waited for the cops but he enjoyed beating him and now themaggot is walking free. I can't believe the low life has not been taken out bya Good Samaritan. He will do it again and enjoy it again.
Doing your Job? I always hated bouncers for being abusive. They won't go anywhere with that attitude. You should be getting out of jail by now. You've taken out from this world my hero you piece of bouncer...
Im sure it was not Luc's intension to kill him. He was simply doing his job. Take it easy and lay off until you hear both sides of the story. I knew Luc for a very long time and he is NOT a killer unless he is threatened.
jaco blew it....that's all....just like Jimi, Belushi, Elvis, johnny CAsh....michael Jackson and all the other dope feens......so they are talented artists....well they are dead now...
I don't feel sorry for any of them.......you play with fire....you get burned....
Luc Havan - you had a scummy job as a bouncer with so little power that you had to take out your frustrations on a drunk sick man and killed him. Jaco was a helpless man under the influence but I think it is you who was the sickest man that night. You got 4 years but it's your karma and your reality that you will serve a lifetime with his name on your head. You took the life of another human being who was weaker than you and who you thought was dispensable. Jaco was human - you are now a Realtor - the 2nd worst profession in the world next to being a lawyer. I don't think you can sink any lower and that you wanted to apologize to his family after you murdered him and walked out a free man. You condemned them and him to a fate that perhaps you have sidestepped but karma is a bitch, Luc good luck in dodging your eventual fate.
@ FredThis Havan-guy did not just kill a man with children. He, a useless bouncer, killed a musician and only got 4 months jailtime!This guy should get every cancer there is and have a verry long and painfull death.
I find Luc Havan's comments in this article repulsive. You killed a man, Luc. This man had family and friends and deserved to live. You had no right to take his life, no matter how you try to explain it away; you are responsible for your own actions. Have some respect for those thousands of us that loved him, even with his illnesses. Stop making excuses for your cowardly act of brutality, and stop rationalizing your violence by blaming the victim (he hit me first, he was a drug addict, he was not eating right, etc). It's been 23 years. Grow up and apologize to the family at least. That is the very least you can do. Your "suffering" does not equal the loss of Jaco Pastorius--are you delusional? Why don't you do something like try and prevent others from using violence to kill people? Instead of selfishly focusing on your own self pity, do something good for those who are suffering.
All I have to say here is shame on all of you who are trying to use Jaco to further your own careers and make a name for yourselves, you know who you are. You know that he would never behave like this on your behalf. Jaco is someone whom so meny people admire, appreciate, and respect and for you to use him like this is unforgivable. As to the family, be at peace with each other, and dont let fame and fortune come between whats really important. All the Respect,Chris Chasse
All I have to say here is shame on all of you who are trying to use Jaco to further your own careers and make a name for yourselves, you know who you are. You know that he would never behave like this on your behalf. Jaco is someone whom so meny people admire, appreciate, and respect and for you to use him like this is unforgivable. As to the family, be at peace with each other, and dont let fame and fortune come between whats really important. All the Respect,Chris Chasse
@jungjason99 Man stop with your shit Luc Havan is a bastard killer who ever pay for his atrocious crime. He kills an intoxicated man who didn't could defend himself. I'm hypocrite? And what about you? Give right to bastard murderers like him who never pay their crimes? This animal just did four months in jail cause he was known family of the greatest stupid politician in Florida, Mr Jeb Bush! And he's totally free, without any regreat,... this underraced and untalented fucking pig kill a pure Genius and a real talented man. He can't imagine how his crime is so horrible for people who know music and arts cause this bastard known anything! "He's doing his job doh!". Fucking pathetic moron go to hell with this cock sucker.
You ignorant twat. There were witnesses who KNOW exactly what happened. They said that Luc Havan gave a drunk Jaco Pastorius a fierce and savage beating that eventually killed him. Now go back to Mental Midget Land you useless turd.
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You and all your Holland country of nazis are just deserve to be exterminated for your stupidity and insuffisance. All idiots came from Holland it's not a surprise. Your and your family are just stupids like all people in your country. God create France, and the Godemichet create Holland and his people like you stupid animal you are. So keep your stupid words and insignifiant culture we don't need monkeys and stupid past colonialist like you in our continent so get out and die in to a hole. Die idiot moron!
Luc Havan Lie to Police said Jaco felt down. Being pardon? Felt for few contusions and a right eye pocket and savage brain damage? You can tell to your stupid friend that he's just a little piece of rat shit. He kill's the last 20th century, the greatest bass player in the world, like he kill's Mozart. Hey man! Your animal friend don't kill just a lonely fuck guy: he kill's a genius. What he was your friend? Just a stupid insignifiant bouncer who didn't know anything in arts or others. Jaco was a genius. Luc Havan was? Just an unsignifiant ratshit. For your "good" friend Luc Havan : Just say have a miserable life and go to hell for what you did big fat asshole!
luc haven was a cheap thug who nothing but violence and drugs a cheap pimp whos only claim to fame was to MURDER much loved jazz bass player in his hour of need. my heart goes out to jacos family a true musical genius.this murder sickens me to the depth of my being.JACO IS DEAD LONG LIVE JACO PASTORIUS! .thanks for sharing your talent with us
I just read the biography of Jaco. Truly a sad tale. I also happen to work in the medical field. It is highly improbable that any person could sustain injuries from one single blow and fall that would result in the victim not being able to use his left arm again, his right eye dislodged from its socket, and several fractured facial bones. This is just what eyewitnesses said it was.....a savage beating. When Havan says "he probably would have recovered if he wasn't an alcoholic" further proves he is not being truthful about what happened. By all accounts, Luc Havan was a laid back guy that didn;t go picking fights, and Jaco by alll acounts could be obnoxious and out of control when drinking. I am guessing Jaco did something to make the man snap, but this is mere speculation. Did he spit in his face? I heard Havan was born in Saigon. Maybe a racial insult? Only God and Luc Havan know the truth. I sure wouldn't want to go before my Creator with blood on my hands
That is completely bogus to say! Unfortunately, we will never here both sides of the story, because one side is dead.....I can hear this Luc Havan guy saying "i was just doing my job". So were the Nazis...(Colton) are you waiting to here their side of the story? You think you have somebody's back by saying that. I don't know you (Colton), so i won't call you an idiot, but i will say, you are misguided.
Listen buddy, i've known and witnessed martial artists threatened and actually attacked by obviously weaker individuals and maintained some sort discipline and/or calm demeanor... maybe breaking a leg or a strong enough blow to the jaw just to immobilize or control the person attacking them, but never, ever, ever using their skills to kill a person...dude...one of my good friends who trained for yrs, told me there is no fulfillment in or thrill at all from hurting someone who is a non martial artist, especially one that is obviously inebriated, even early on in his training would never do that...it's like a grown man beating down a kid...what's the point? You don't need to be a martial artist to know that, only an animal would do something so heartless....So stop defending a criminal, He killed a father, a brother and one of the most inspiring figures of our American music heritage. (To Luc Haven) : Man, you fucked-up and will have karmic repercussions that will take many lifetimes to overcome.
I still think it would be nice if Luc Haven got his head bashed in with one of Jaco's basses. Sweet revenge..or maybe strangled with one of his bass strings,
Hey Neut, don't you mean "you play with fire, you get murdered?"
I'm sure Luc was waiting for the day. "Wow I get to finally pummel the hell out of someone." Was Luc's life threatened in any way? If you were the bouncer, would you have KILLED Jaco.
Actually Jaco was really sick. I've lived with a bi-polar person for years and it's horrible what they go through. I DO feel sorry for Jaco. I'm sure you're insensitive for a reason.
As for Luc Haven...I pray you burn in Hell, which I am sure you will.
Just like Jimi, & Johnny Cash? Are you ignorant, retarded or just plain stupid? Jimi was far from being a "junkie". Obviously you know nothing about his death & the casual drug use of the 60's. And Johnny Cash??? Really??? He died of Shy-Drager syndrome, you moron. As for his drug addiction, he was clean the last 11yrs of his life, & before that, clean for periods of 5 years at a time. As for Jaco, Fuck off, ya rancid piece'o shit. He had mental problems.
Whoever this guy is, he can't possibly sleep at night like the rest of us. Funny thing is, most of us never make the mistake he made. Who the Hell cares. Jaco Pastorius could have been some drunken, illiterate hassling jerk off the street, but last time I checked, that doesn't demand a summary death sentence. And it doesn't deserve some schmuck who can barely read to deliver it.
I don't really care who Luc Havan is. Really, he's beneath consideration. But if I ever meet him in person . . . all those caveats go straight out the window.
@mpolo739 Check posting of the SS colonialist Goovaert Van Banning from Holland and you will understand where is the Mental Midget Land...
i concur. i don't know why i even responded to Neut Kiley...you, Neut Kiley obviously know very little about any of the people you mentioned outside of what the mainstream media tells you...dude read some of these artist's memoirs or books written about them, then again it'll probably have very little influence on your narrow perspective. Grow-up, the world is much more interesting when you begin to free your mind, and then maybe, your ass will follow !!!


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48 years ago, she was the opening act for Miles Davis ( well, according to her website, she WANTED to open for Miles but she didn't get the gig).
Lorraine Gordon, the owner of the Vanguard- has a deep philosophical connection to Streisand-they both share the same attitude about the causes they believe in and will stop at nothing for what they believe. Two dynamic women who have passions that transcend this business of music.
So, I approach Streisand's return to her acoustic, un- overproduced roots with optimism. Maybe she picked the Vanguard because she is finally ready to allow us to hear her instrument again. You can't hide anything at the Vanguard- Lorraine won't let you.
She has a new album. Diana Krall is on piano. She makes the connection singing Bernstein's "Some Other Time", a song recorded to perfection by Tony Bennett and the Vanguard's house pianist of that other time, Bill Evans. I reserve judgment until I hear it.
I am not going to her concert. I didn't even try to enter the lottery to get one of only 80 tickets. I will watch the video along with the gizillions of others next week, after she has had her chance to make sure that it is up to her standards.
Gee, when we make our monthly broadcast from the Vanguard, you get to hear and watch the artist live. Warts and all. That's jazz.
JD Allen Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard
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New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes readers on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer even the Special Crimes Unit may not be able to stop.Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her dreams—and her life. But she never expected to find herself on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning that he's eluded the best law enforcement could send against him; and so deadly that he doesn't hesitate to kill even a senator's daughter. Or a cop. Dani doesn't want to hunt this killer, but she doesn't have a choice. She alone commands a weapon powerful enough to stop him. And she knows something even Bishop of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit doesn't know. Dani knows how the hunt ends. It ends in fire. And blood. And death. What she doesn't know is who will survive. less
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Prologue I brought to life, Dani thought. The vision.
The smell of blood turned her stomach, the thick, acrid smoke burned her eyes, and what had been for so long a wispy, dreamlike memory was now jarring, throat-clogging reality. For just an instant she was paralyzed. It was all coming true.
Despite everything she had done, everything she had tried to do, despite all the warnings, once again it was all–
"Dani?" Hollis appeared at her side, seemingly out of the smoke, gun drawn, blue eyes sharp even squinted against the stench. "Where is it?"
"I–I can't. I mean, I don't think I can–"
"Dani, you're all we've got. You're all they've got. Do you understand that?"
Reaching desperately for strength she wasn't at all sure she had, Dani said, "If somebody had just listened to me when it mattered–"
"Stop looking back. There's no sense in it. Now is all that counts. Which way, Dani?"
Impossible as it was, Dani had to force herself to concentrate on the stench of blood she knew neither of the others could smell. A blood trail that was all they had to guide them. She nearly gagged, then pointed. "That way. Toward the back. But . . ."
"But what?"
"Down. Lower. There's a basement level." Stairs. She remembered stairs. Going down them. Down into hell.
"It isn't on the blueprints."
"I know."
"Bad place to get trapped in a burning building," Hollis noted. "The roof could fall in on us. Easily."
Bishop appeared out of the smoke as suddenly as Hollis had, weapon in hand, his face stone, eyes haunted. "We have to hurry."
"Yeah," Hollis replied, "we get that. Burning building. Maniacal killer. Good seriously outnumbered by evil. Bad situation." Her words and tone were flippant, but her gaze on his face was anything but, intent and measuring.
"You forgot potential victim in maniacal killer's hands," her boss said, not even trying to match her tone.
"Never. Dani, did you see the basement, or are you feeling it?"
"Stairs. I saw them." The weight on her shoulders felt like the world, so maybe that was what was pressing her down. Or . . . "And what I feel now ...He's lower. He's underneath us."
"Then we look for stairs."
Dani coughed. She was trying to think, trying to remember. But dreams recalled were such dim, insubstantial things, even vision dreams sometimes, and there was no way for her to be sure she was remembering clearly. She was overwhelmingly conscious of precious time passing and looked at her wrist, at the bulky digital watch that told her it was 2:47 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28.
Odd. She never wore a watch. Why was she wearing one now? And why a watch that looked so . . . alien on her thin wrist?
She shook off the momentary confusion. "The stairs. Not where you'd expect them to be," she managed finally, coughing again. "They're in a closet or something like that. A small office. Room. Not a hallway. Hallways–" A flash of endless, featureless hallways, brightly lit . . .
The image in her mind vanished as quickly as it had come, and Dani dismissed it as unimportant because an absolute certainty had replaced it. "Shit. The basement is divided. By a solid wall. Two big rooms. And accessed from this main level by two different stairways, one at each side of the building, in the back."
"What kind of crazy-ass design is that?" Hollis demanded.
"If we get out of this alive, you can ask the architect." The smell of blood was almost overpowering, and Dani's head was beginning to hurt. Badly. Hallways. No, not hallways, two separate spaces, distinct sides . . . She had never before pushed herself for so long without a break, especially with this level of intensity.
It was Bishop who said, "You don't know which side they're in."
"No. I'm sorry." She felt as if she'd been apologizing to this man since she met him. Hell, she had been.
Hollis was scowling. To Bishop, she said, "Great. That's just great. You're psychically blind, the storm has all my senses scrambled, and we're in a huge burning building without a freakin' map."
"Which is why Dani is here." Those pale sentry eyes were fixed on her face.
Dani felt wholly inadequate. "I–I don't– All I know is that he's down there somewhere."
"And Miranda?"
The name caused her a queer little shock, and for no more than a heartbeat, Dani had the dizzy sense of something out of place, out of sync somehow. But she had an answer for him. Of sorts. "She isn't–dead. Yet. She's bait, you know that. She was always bait, to lure you."
"And you," Bishop said.
Dani didn't want to think about that. Couldn't, for some reason she was unable to explain, think about that. "We have to go, now. He won't wait, not this time." And he's not the only one.
The conversation had taken only brief minutes, but even so the smoke was thicker, the crackling roar of the fire louder, and the heat growing ever more intense.
Bitterly, Hollis said, "We're on his timetable, just like before, like always, carried along without the chance to stop and think."
Bishop turned and started toward the rear of the building and the south corner.
"I'll go down on this side. You two head for the east corner."
Dani wondered if instinct was guiding him as well, but all she said, to Hollis, was, "He wouldn't take the chance if he had it, would he? To stop and think, I mean."
"If it meant a minute lost in getting to Miranda? No way in hell. That alone would be enough, but on top of that he blames himself for this mess."
"He couldn't have known–"
"Yes. He could have. Maybe he even did. That's why he believes it's his fault. Come on, let's go."
Dani followed but had to ask, "Do you believe it's his fault?"
Hollis paused for only an instant, looking back over her shoulder, and there was something hard and bright in her eyes. "Yes. I do. He played God one time too many. And we're paying the price for his arrogance."
Again, Dani followed the other woman, her throat tighter despite the fact that, as they reached the rear half of the building, the smoke wasn't nearly as thick. They very quickly discovered, in the back of what might once have been a small office, a door that opened smoothly and silently to reveal a stairwell.
The stairwell was already lighted.
"Bingo," Hollis breathed.
A part of Dani wanted to suggest that they wait, at least long enough for Bishop to check out the other side of the building, but every instinct as well as the waves of heat at her back told her there simply wasn't time to wait.
Hollis shifted her weapon to a steady two-handed grip and sent Dani a quick look. "Ready?"
Dani didn't spare the energy to wonder how anyone on earth could ever be ready for this. Instead, she concentrated on the only weapon she had, the one inside her aching head, and nodded.
Hollis had only taken one step when a thunderous crash sounded behind them and a new wave of almost intolerable heat threatened to shove them bodily into the stairwell.
The roof was falling in.
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Windows Side-by-side (WinSxS) technology is a really shiny piece of technology that is not well enough understood, and often misused. This comes from a variety of reasons, one of which is the documentation—while quite excellent—only makes sense if you actually understand everything about WinSxS before hand. When I started brainstormin' how to make CoApp go, I had an inklin' that WinSxS would solve many of the most painful problems, it was just a matter of me figurin' it out. Like my pappy always used to tell me "It may not be the easy way, but it's the cowboy way." … Well, WinSxS may not be the easy way (yet!), but it will most assuredly be the CoApp way.
A:I'll let the good folks from Wikipedia take a stab at that:
Side-by-side technology is a standard for executable files in Microsoft Windows XP and later versions that attempts to reduce DLL hell. Side-by-side technology is also known as WinSxS or SxS. Executables that include an SxS manifest are designated SxS assemblies.
DLL hell designates a group of problems that arise from the use of dynamic-link libraries in Microsoft Windows. Problems include version conflicts, missing DLLs, duplicate DLLs, and incorrect or missing registration. In SxS, Windows stores multiple versions of a DLL in the WinSXS subdirectory of the Windows directory, and loads them on demand. This reduces dependency problems for applications that include an SxS manifest.
Hmm. I'm not sure that cleared it all up. Simply speakin', WinSxS lets us take a DLL, give it a version number, digitally sign it, and then tell Windows to install it into a little box somewhere, and when we come lookin' for it, it'll give it to us. Now, when we make a new version of that same DLL, we can tell Windows that when someone comes lookin' for the older one, that they should use this one instead.
Now, before some real WinSxS expert rides up and starts tellin' us that it does a wagonload better than that, I'll capitulate and say sure—it most certainly does a heck of a lot more, but we're gonna take pony steps first. This time around, I'm gonna give ya'll the easy explanation. Damn city slickers…
A: Well, technically speakin', Windows can store more that DLLs with WinSxS—and consequently, rather than just call them DLLs, they call them Assemblies. And so WinSxS stores Assemblies for us.
A: Well, that's because .NET assemblies and WinSxS are very similar. Good eye. Now, stop fussin'.
A: There are two implementations of WinSxS, they both work the same for the devleloper, with some minor behind-the-scenes implementation differences that aren't important, and I'll explain the Windows 7/Vista/2008/2008 R2 model. In the C:\Windows directory, you'll find a subdirectory called WinSXS. Inside there is what appears to be an extraordinarily large number of directories, each holding a few files. And it seems a bit massive, and some of it seems redundant—but it ain't.
WinSxS manages the files in there, so you don't go about muckin' with em. On top of that, it's not really using up all the space you think it is, 'cause it's using hard links to manage multiple connections to the same files, so leave em alone. You're not gonna 'save space' by messin' with em.
A: You know, my pappy always used to tell me, "Never squat with your spurs on". Good advice, and here's a bit more, so pay attention. First of all, this ain't 1989—disk space just ain't that expensive. Hell, even if you needed a couple more gigs, you could probably find it somewhere else a lot easier, than muckin' with somethin' you really shouldn't. And all that hard link'n is really hiding the fact that it's not really using that much space.
A: When WinSxS stores stuff in there it stores it by using it's assemblyIdentity. The assemblyIdentity consists of the name, the processorArchitecture (amd64/x86), the version (##.##.##.##), the publicKeyToken that was used to sign the assembly, and optionally the language of the assembly (en-us, fr-ca, etc...).
The publicKeyToken is a 16-character hexadecimal string representing the last 8 bytes of the SHA-1 hash of the public key under which the assembly is signed.
A: Yeah, pretty much. Even though everything else can stay constant, every version of an Assembly is uniquely accessible.
A: By attaching a particular kind of resource to the Assembly called an assembly manifest. The assembly manifest gives the Assembly its identity.
A: By attaching an application manifest to the application, the LoadLibrary API will ask the WinSxS system to load the correct Assembly at run time.
A: By specifying the policy in a publisher configuration file that gets registered along side the Assembly. The publisher can redirect specific versions, or a range of versions of old assemblies to a new one.
A: Yes. But I'm not going to explain that right now. You're trying to solve the wrong problem, and it's a slippery slope of pain and suffering. If you continue down this path, I'm gonna hog-tie you and throw you in another wagon.
A: Yep. It turns out there is a really easy way for us to support multiple compilers (VC9, VC10, MinGW, etc) with the same Assembly name, version number and architecture by using multiple certificates; one for each different compiler. So, the CoApp project will have several certificates, each publicKeyToken will support a different compiler. If that sounds complicated or troublesome, trust me, it ain't.
A: Yep. That's because … uh, well, let's just say I disagree with how they used them. Visual C++ would bind to a very specific version number. They would put something like this in the application manifest:
<assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC80.CRT' version='8.0.50727.42' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' />
Now, as you can plainly see they use version 8.90.50727.42. Let's assume you want to run an app, and it needs the C++ redist files, and what if moments before, you had installed the C++ redistributables for the first time, with the version number 8.90.50727.40 ? When the application didn't work, you'd think to yourself, but I just installed them (and you' really didn't know what version it was), why is it not working? There isn't an easy way for end-users to track this down, and it makes people go insane.
You're probably thinking that well, you need to get the newest build, right? But you know what? The app probably would have run perfectly with the previous version, and if it was that damn important to have the absolute up-to-the-moment build, they should have given you the updated runtime in the app's installer.
A: Well, in my humble opinion, they should have been binding to version 220.127.116.11 and let WinSxS use publisher policies to point to a newer version. If an application has a known problem with an old redist, they should be shipping the latest one with their app, and let WinSxS take care of it all.
A: *blink*. Um… sortof. The VC team stopped using WinSxS for the C++ runtime. I don't really agree with what they've done, but heck, maybe I'm just a back-woods hick who doesn't really understand the problem. After all, how much can you really know about this stuff without one of those fancy college educations?
A: You betcha. WinSxS will work, as long as we are playin' by the rules, and we'll make sure there are some tools for divinin' what's wrong if somebody tries somethin' fishy.
A: No, not by a wide margin. But it's enough for you to get a good grip on what it's for, and why it's so damn central to CoApp.
Hey, rather than commenting here, come join mailing list (join the team at https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers) and continue the conversation!