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Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
"I grew up very conscious of the fact that I was Jewish," said David S. Goyer, the screenwriter behind Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "The Dark Knight" trilogy and the author of the highly anticipated Superman reboot "The Man of Steel" as well as the creator of the new historical fantasy "Da Vinci's Demons," premiering on STARZ on April 12. "There weren't many Jews in our neighborhood in Ann Arbor, Mich., and I heard slurs like, 'You killed Christ.' "
And so, he said, one of his favorite superheroes was the Incredible Hulk, whose alter ego, Bruce Banner, was like the young Goyer, "small and picked on," but then could burst out of his clothes as he transforms into a ferocious green giant. "And while there weren't many monsters or ghosts in the Jewish religion, I latched on to the few that existed, like the dybbuk and the golem, who for me was like the Jewish Hulk," Goyer said during a recent interview at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles.
He was drawn to fictionalize Leonardo da Vinci, because the great painter, inventor and futurist was also, in his own way, an oppressed outsider: "He was a bastard, born out of wedlock, which meant he wasn't allowed to inherit wealth or land, and thus as a young man was excluded from many areas of society," Goyer said.
The show is a fantasy set during the time when the artist was in his mid- to late 20s, before he painted his iconic "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" and became a seminal figure in the Italian Renaissance.
Like the real da Vinci, the character on the series — produced in collaboration with BBC Worldwide — is a genius with almost superhuman powers: He scribbles prototypes for the machine gun, the tank and diving suit in his prolific journals; he is tall, handsome, a swashbuckling swordsman (and ambidextrous to boot); and is said to be able to bend iron bars with his bare hands.
Da Vinci is also a vegetarian, a freethinker ensconced in secret societies and a wheeler-dealer who shamelessly promotes his military designs to the ruling Medici clan while romancing several Florentine beauties. "Some people said that da Vinci was homosexual, some that he was bisexual, and others that he fathered a number of illegitimate children," Goyer said, adding that the term "Renaissance man" was coined for the polymath.
Goyer enjoys the character, in part, because the historical da Vinci was an unabashed rogue: "I like antiheroes, like Bruce Wayne of 'Batman,' and da Vinci was a bit of a jerk," Goyer said. "He had a big mouth; he was very outspoken, and he was critical of anyone and everyone. He famously said that Botticelli's backgrounds and perspectives were inadequate. He mouthed off about the pope, and he constantly got in trouble and was thrown in jail a number of times. He overcharged his clients, and was famous for not finishing his projects. He could be a flake, a dilettante who didn't give a s--t. He drank a lot, and he may have smoked opium."
Goyer's da Vinci is also presented as a member of a reviled minority group: "A couple of years ago, researchers were doing fingerprint analysis on some of his paintings, and there are apparently whorls in his fingerprints that are found in 95 percent of people of Arabic or Turkish descent, and are rarely found in Caucasians," he said. "That led to a theory that his mother may have been a Turkish slave, and so we go with that on the show."
Executive producer David S. Goyer. Photo courtesy of Starz
On the series, da Vinci's ragtag gang includes fellow rapscallions who are Jewish as well as Abyssinian and Turkish: "We deal with minorities, both ethnic and religious, quite a bit," Goyer said. "There's even an episode where da Vinci and company hope to break into the secret archives of the Vatican, and they hide out in the Jewish quarter because they know no one will look for them there — and because the Jews are no friends of the Vatican."
Goyer, 47, is the son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father who divorced when he was 8. He attended Hebrew school and was thrilled to discover that most of the top comic book authors of all time were Jewish (think Bob Kane of "Batman" and Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of "Superman"). "It was a kind of wish fulfillment for a hero to come and save the world from evil, especially for those who were creating characters in the 1940s before the Nazis were defeated," he said.
While still studying at USC at the age of 22, Goyer sold his first action movie script, which became the Jean-Claude Van Damme thriller "Death Warrant." In 1998, he wrote his breakout film, "Blade," based on the Marvel comic book about a legendary vampire hunter, which became one of Hollywood's most successful superhero franchises.
Goyer has reimagined da Vinci as a 15th century superhero of sorts, but he was initially reluctant to take on the project when the BBC approached him several years ago. "I didn't want to do some dry historical drama," he said.
He changed his mind when BBC executives assured him that they wanted "a "superhero-y, 'Batman Begins' kind of approach," Goyer recalled, adding that a highlight of his research, which included reading translations of the artist's 6,000 existing journal pages, was perusing some of da Vinci's drawings at the British Museum.
"When you look at his journal pages, they're filled with sketches and notes and even shopping lists; he spilled wine and food on them, and there are grease stains," Goyer said. "You can literally smell him. And for me, that made history come alive."
"Da Vinci's Demons" premieres April 12 at 10 p.m. on STARZ.
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March 28, 2013 | 5:17 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
It was the first day of spring, and Jeffrey Tambor was sitting in his car in the snow near his New York home, conducting an interview while his 6-year-old daughter — one of his four children, ages 3 to 8, including twin toddlers — was taking her piano lesson. "Daddy is tired, but I'm a lucky guy," he said in his signature baritone. Life is good for the 68-year-old actor, not only in terms of his family but also in the realm of his career: In May, Tambor will reprise his role as George Bluth Sr., the Machiavellian patriarch of a dysfunctional Jewish clan when "Arrested Development" makes its much-anticipated return with 14 new episodes on Netflix.
And, on HBO through April 27, he's appearing in the TV biopic "Phil Spector," playing the flamboyant lead defense attorney in the legendary music producer's murder trial, a project written and directed by Tambor's hero, David Mamet, and starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren.
The film opens in 2003, when a past-her-prime B-movie actress named Lana Clarkson is discovered dead in Spector's gothic Alhambra mansion. Spector (Pacino) insists she put one of his many guns in her mouth and pulled the trigger, but the police suspect murder. Enter attorney Bruce Cutler (Tambor) — who is as known for his dapper two-tone shirts as he is for having defended Mafioso John Gotti. Cutler insists that Clarkson, a depressed celebrity wannabe, committed suicide, but he's stumped as to how to shape Spector's defense, fearing the jury may convict the eccentric, wig-coiffed producer because he had previously threatened women with guns — and simply for being, in their eyes, "a freak."
And so Cutler brings in another star attorney to help — Linda Kenney Baden (Mirren), who initially thinks Spector committed the murder but after a time comes to believe that he is innocent. Even so, their best efforts result in a mistrial, and after a second trial, in 2009, Spector was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison, where he now resides.
Mamet has described his movie as a "mythological" version of the events, and the film opens with a disclaimer stating that the film is "a work of fiction … not based on a true story" — which is startling given that the script uses real names as well as some dialogue from real court transcripts.
A media backlash has ensued, critiquing what one reporter called a "mealy mouthed" approach to the truth and the wisdom of fictionalizing a notorious court case — especially since the film insinuates that Spector was convicted despite Mamet's suggestion there was a generous amount of reasonable doubt.
Tambor strongly disagrees with the media criticism: "There's the disclaimer," he said, "and I think David has been acutely truthful about what he is trying to do. We're not trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes. But then again, I'm an actor, not a politician, and I'm so proud of the movie and the questions it raises. I'm not saying whether Spector is guilty or not guilty, but I'm wildly against prejudice of any kind, and I believe that Spector experienced prejudice [in his trials] for being, essentially, a weirdo."
Tambor didn't always feel that way. Back at the time of the trial, he said, "I assumed Spector was guilty because I saw all his freakishness." But participating in the movie, he added, has opened his eyes to the possibility that jurors were so turned off by Spector that they may have ignored any reasonable doubt raised in the courtroom. "I know the prejudice that was in me at the time of the trial, and if was in me, it was in other people," he said.
Tambor traces his feelings about prejudice to an incident when he was a boy in San Francisco; he was driving in a car with his mother when another driver shouted out that she was a "kike." "I didn't know what that meant, and she told me and I was horrified," he recalled.
Then there was his trip to Auschwitz some years ago, when Tambor was so overwhelmed, he said, "every nerve was just deadened and I felt numb. Much later when I was actually therapizing over this, I really hit a grief point. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it," he added.
Tambor grew up with Orthodox, Yiddish-speaking grandparents from Kiev and a Hungarian-Jewish father who, according to family legend, was a boxer who once sparred with Joe Louis, "which is why he could only breathe out of one nostril," the actor said.
As a boy, however, Tambor was ambivalent about his Judaism: "I was bar mitzvahed at gun point," he joked. "My cantor was great except he chewed cottage cheese sandwiches for his snack while he was teaching me my Torah portion, and every time he made a 'chuch' or a 'chech' sound, curds would go flying and I would walk out looking like one of those speckled ceilings in a new house."
Even so, he said, "I've always been Jewish, and I always feel my roots."
He's played a number of Jewish characters in a career that has spanned half a century — ever since Tambor was first drawn to the stage while watching theater rehearsals in the drama department of San Francisco State University when he was a boy.
One of his iconic characters is Hank Kingsley, Garry Shandling's buffoonish sidekick on HBO's acclaimed "The Larry Sanders Show," from the 1990s. But Tambor is even better known for another character, who becomes observant for dubious reasons: George Bluth Sr. on "Arrested Development," who finds religion for a time after he is sent to prison for security fraud during the show's previous three seasons on the Fox network from 2003 to 2006 — he even crafted a yarmulke from his shoe. "Every day George has a different scheme," Tambor explained. "I wouldn't call him spiritual unless he has to be; I would call him a Darwinist."
Bruce Cutler, the real defense attorney Tambor plays in "Phil Spector," also happens to be Jewish. ("If I played the pope, he would be Jewish, Tambor quips — and in fact an Internet piece comparing him as a doppelganger for the new Pope Francis recently went viral.)
But per Mamet's instructions, Tambor did not research Cutler, sticking to whatever nuances he found in the script to create his character. "David told me, in a text message, that if he had wanted the real Bruce Cutler, he would have hired Bruce Cutler," Tambor said.
For encore episodes of "Phil Spector," which premiered on March 24, check HBO listings.
March 20, 2013 | 7:26 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Two minutes into a telephone interview, actor Jeremy Piven riffed on his Jewish background: "I grew up Reconstructionist, so my father used to joke that we prayed to 'To whom it may concern,' " he said, then paused as if for a rim shot. "I'm waiting for the laugh to die down," he quipped. "That's how hams work."
Throughout the eight seasons of HBO's hit series "Entourage," Piven played one of the most outrageous hams ever to appear on TV, stealing practically every scene he was in. His character of Ari Gold, the manic, merciless pit bull of an uber-agent to a young Hollywood A-list movie star and his posse of libidinous pals from Queens, N.Y., made him an iconic image of Hollywood excess.
The mercurial Ari also hammed up his Judaism, throwing a lavish bat mitzvah for his daughter; sneaking a cell phone into synagogue on Yom Kippur (to his wife's chagrin) in order to close a lucrative deal; and proclaiming in another scene, "It's all gonna be fine … the Jew has arrived."
No wonder Ari's aura has been hard to shake for the 47-year-old Piven, who is still approached by fans who affectionately attempt to grip him in an Ari-style headlock and spout Ari-isms such as, "Hug it out, bitch!"
Even when Piven met Britain's Prince Harry at a recent polo match, Harry, an avid "Entourage" fan, kept calling him "Ari." "It was cute," Piven recalled, sounding not too convinced.
The actor said he is grateful for the chance to return to TV in a very different, albeit equally larger-than-life role, this time in the "Masterpiece Classic" eight-episode period drama "Mr. Selfridge," about the wheeling-and-dealing entrepreneur who pioneered the modern department store, premiering in the United States on PBS SoCal on March 31. Looking dapper in a top hat and tails, Piven portrays Harry Gordon Selfridge, the exuberant, Chicago-born retail magnate and womanizer who in 1909 had the chutzpah to open a palatial (some said crass) shop in the oh-so-proper milieu of Edwardian England.
"Harry's goal was to make shopping as thrilling as sex, and he was all about glamour and razzmatazz," said Piven, adding that the idea of going shopping as a leisure activity previously did not exist. "One of his heroes was P.T. Barnum, and he thought of himself as a bit of a performer and his theater as his shop."
Selfridge invented the idea of ornate window dressings and browsing, which at the time was considered uncouth, as well as the saying, "The customer is always right."
"It was his idea to move makeup, formerly considered only for showgirls and prostitutes, to the very front of the store," Piven said. "And he even convinced Louis Bleriot, the French hero who was the first person to successfully fly over the English Channel, to display his airplane in the shop."
On display, along with the lavish merchandise, are all of Harry's flaws, which Piven compared to those of his "Entourage" character. "Both Ari and Harry ruled with an iron fist, but Harry's bite ultimately was much worse than his bark, whereas Ari's bark was much worse than his bite," Piven said. "Ari was a monogamous guy who was seemingly a pig, while Harry was a man who could be so inspiring in business, but also had this other life where he was a risk addict and loved his gambling and his women."
Although Selfridge was said to be very much in love with his wife, Rosalie, he famously bedded the burlesque actress Ellen Love, as well as the dancers Isadora Duncan and Anna Pavlova, among myriad other mistresses. But his fortunes eventually waned, and after the death of Rosalie in the 1918 influenza pandemic, he spiraled downward into financial and personal ruin, ultimately dying virtually a pauper in 1947, at the age of 83.
"Harry's is a true story, and yet it feels Shakespearean," Piven said.
And there's another bonus to playing the part: "Being on 'Masterpiece' is like telling your Jewish mother that you're going to become a doctor," Piven said. " 'Entourage' was a male wish fulfillment show, so, did my own mother have fun watching the boys trying to get laid because their best friend is famous? I don't think so. Does she enjoy a turn-of-the-century period piece about an American entrepreneur with all of his beauty, warts and eccentricities? She saw the pilot and was intrigued, so I'm pretty proud of that."
Piven's parents, both actors who studied with Uta Hagen, introduced him to the stage, courtesy of their Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Ill., where students included John Cusack and Aidan Quinn. In between performing Chekhov and Shakespeare, the young Piven also aspired to become a star football player on his high school team — to no avail. "If you fail in your own eyes early on, it stokes the fires of ambition and led to a lot of my tenacious ways with acting," he said.
That persistence came in handy as Piven toiled for years to make it in Hollywood, playing secondary characters in dozens of films, including "Old School" and "Black Hawk Down." His big break came in 2004, when "Entourage" creator Doug Ellin cast him as the character based on executive producer Mark Wahlberg's real agent, Ari Emanuel. "Ari Gold was a proud Jew, but it was difficult for him to play by the rules, which led to some of our best comedy," said Piven, who won three Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe for his work on the series.
Even so, "Playing Ari was physically exhausting, and it took a lot out of me," said Piven, who relied on his training in commedia dell'arte to portray the volatile character.
"Mr. Selfridge" creator Andrew Davies ("Pride and Prejudice," "Bleak House") said it was Piven's performance in "Entourage" that led him to cast the actor: "All of us are terrific fans of 'Entourage,' and we thought Jeremy showed the kind of energy and outrageousness we needed for our character." Davies said.
These days, Piven said he's thrilled that an "Entourage" movie is in the works, but he also seems glad to take a break from Ari.
"The U.K. has really embraced 'Mr. Selfridge,' and in Britain I don't see Ari attached to my name so much anymore. I've been typecast now as Harry Selfridge, which is really fun."
March 13, 2013 | 4:24 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
The tribes in Nina Raine's comedy-drama "Tribes," now at the Mark Taper Forum, are Jewish, literati and deaf — all as perceived through the lens of one garrulous, even antagonistic British-Jewish family.
The patriarch of this argumentative clan is Christopher, an elitist, politically incorrect academic and writer who not only rejects his membership in the Jewish tribe but also attacks what he perceives to be conformity of any kind. He is thus appalled when his youngest son, Billy, who was born deaf but is expected to read lips, brings home a new girlfriend, Sylvia, who is going deaf and who is introducing Billy to sign language as well as to members of London's deaf community. Christopher retorts that the deaf community is a cult "founded on exclusivity," that the deaf are "the f-----g Muslims of the handicapped world," and that making one's handicap the center of one's personality is ludicrous.
Adding to the raucous discourse are Christopher's wife, Beth; his oldest son, Daniel, who suffers from auditory hallucinations; and his daughter, Ruth, a wannabe opera singer, as power dynamics in the family shift over the course of the play.
Speaking by phone from London, where she was directing William Boyd's new play, "Longing," Raines said "Tribes" is as much about what it means to be a member of a tribe as it is about how we hear each other, literally and figuratively.
Her own family tribe, like the one in the play, is verbal, cerebral and at times quarrelsome. Her father is Craig Raine, the famously acerbic British poet and academic; he is not Jewish, while Raine's mother, Ann Pasternak Slater, is an academic who has taught Shakespeare at Oxford, and hails from a Jewish family — her mother left the Soviet Union to study medicine in Germany, then fled the Nazis to England.
"Some of my cousins are very observant and keep kosher, and some are completely lax, but they all have a slightly sarcastic opinion of each other," said Raine, who is in her mid-30s and was alternately breezy and thoughtful during the course of a conversation. She noted that the fictional Christopher has no patience for a cousin who has become observant after marrying an Orthodox woman: "[Can't his parents] just tease him out of being kosher?" he says.
Raine's immediate family was hardly kosher: "We didn't learn Hebrew, and we eat ham, but my mother felt like after the Holocaust you should be proud to be Jewish, and she named my brothers Moses and Isaac as if to say, 'This is our heritage,' " she said. "And I don't feel completely English, because I feel so connected to my family's refugee history."
Raine was one of only two Jewish students at her all-girls high school in London, during teenage years when "you're quite vulnerable to feeling like you want to belong to something," she said. She found that sense of belonging, in part, by attending synagogue and Shabbat dinners with her Jewish cousins, a practice she continues to this day.
"I also enjoy that game of figuring out whether people are Jewish or not," she said, with a laugh. "It's something I love to do, even though my boyfriend, who is not Jewish, just doesn't understand why that is interesting at all."
"Tribes" began several years ago, when Raine chanced to watch a documentary about expecting deaf parents who were elated to learn that their baby would be born deaf. "I was startled," she said, "but then I thought that if I were to have a baby, and it turned out to have my nose and my blue eyes, it would delight me. There's a kind of joy in putting an image of yourself out there in the world, of furthering your tribe, your family tree.
"Then I started looking around, and tribes seemed to be everywhere," she said. During a visit to New York, Raine was fascinated by the Chasidim she saw walking the streets of Williamsburg, "who all wore a sort of uniform, like an extended family."
"I realized that in the deaf community, everyone has opinions about whether you're being deaf in the best way possible, a bit like I imagine if you decide to become an observant Jew, people are going to have opinions about how 'kosher' you are. It's like intellectuals talking about other intellectuals, or even family members arguing with each other."
It was Raine's family that ushered her into the tribe of the theater; when she was 11, her parents took her to the opening night of the opera "The Electrification of the Soviet Union," for which her father had written the libretto. "I remember meeting the director and wearing a pretty dress, staying up late and being allowed to have a bit of champagne," she recalled. "I was quite young, and I found all that [glittering] stuff very cool and exciting."
Raine began writing plays while studying at Oxford; when she couldn't find a theater to produce her edgy 2006 play, "Rabbit," she opted to direct it herself in a tiny theater above the Old Red Lion theater pub in the Islington section of London. She was rewarded for her efforts with good reviews and the Evening Standard Award — which came with 30,000 pounds — for most promising new playwright. Her play "Tiger Country," which delves into the psyches of young doctors at a busy London hospital, also opened to good reviews in 2011.
It is Raine's parents who have been among her harshest critics: "My mother can't lie, so she's crap at sugaring the pill," Raine said. "But she never says things to deliberately hurt you, which actually is the most gutting thing. And my father is a brilliant editor, so he's used to taking out his red pen."
Raine admits to bringing a bit of her father to the fictional Christopher, but she disagrees with viewers who have perceived the character as monstrous. "Christopher loves his family, but he also worships the individual, and he would never assimilate into any kind of group," she explained. "And he's just a complete contrarian — to the point where if someone told him it was inappropriate to wear a colorful waistcoat to a funeral, he would say, 'F--k it,' and wear it all the same."
Jeff Still, who plays Christopher, has even encountered viewers who have congratulated him for convincingly portraying "such an ass----, in their words," he said. "They think they're being complimentary, but I see Christopher differently. He is above all a family man but he has his flaws. He wants to be the star attraction in the room; he's going to speak and he wants you to hear what he has to say, and he's used to being right."
Raine spent several months visiting hospitals in London to research "Tiger Country"; for "Tribes," which debuted at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2010, she not only interviewed members of the city's deaf community, but also attempted to learn sign language — an endeavor she found daunting. "I felt stupid, slow, uncomprehending," she said. "I wondered, 'Is this what it might be like to be a deaf person trying to follow a rapid spoken conversation?' "
In "Tribes," she said, deafness becomes a metaphor: "It's about communication, and what it means emotionally when we hear."
For tickets and information, visit www.centertheatregroup.org.
March 6, 2013 | 5:52 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
You might only know Alex Karpovsky as Ray Ploshansky, the caustic barista who fitfully romances the naïf Shoshanna on HBO's zeitgeist-y hit, "Girls."
But while shooting that show, Karpovsky also has managed to write, direct and star in two independent films that recently premiered at Lincoln Center in New York: "Red Flag," a meta-comedy in which he plays a self-absorbed independent filmmaker named, well, Alex Karpovsky; and "Rubberneck," a psychological thriller about a scientist who becomes dangerously obsessed with a co-worker.
And in December, Karpovsky will appear as a hopeless square (and wannabe bohemian) in the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," a folk music saga set in 1961.
Why so busy? "I just have a restless drive to keep working," said Karpovsky, who begins shooting the third season of "Girls" this month. He does see a thread connecting the roles, however.
"I'm drawn to characters who are lonely, neurotic and on journeys of self-discovery," he said. "Many of them want to become better people, but the road is often tortuous."
Speaking by phone from the apartment he sublets in Brooklyn, Karpovsky, 33, frankly discussed his own neuroses, which he sometimes draws upon to create his characters. "I have an acute death anxiety," he said. " I think about death all the time. It's the root fear that creates a lot of my day-to-day insecurities."
Like his character in "Red Flag," Karpovsky was once dumped by a girlfriend who was fed up by his refusal to propose. "The character feels that if he gets married, his drive and ambition will stagnate, which he sees as a form of death," Karpovsky said. The actor also has had issues with that kind of commitmentphobia, which, he said, has even extended beyond relationships to housing arrangements. Karpovsky said because of this he tends to sublet apartments, sometimes for short periods of time, and to date has never signed a lease.
"I'm hoping to get a place in April, but it's hard because I don't have any credit," he said. No matter that Karpovsky is among the stars of one of the most talked-about shows on television. "Most of the landlords in my area are Eastern Europeans, and they don't watch HBO, never mind 'Girls,' " he said.
The fictional Ray's living situation is even more tenuous: On a recent episode of the show created by its lead actress, Lena Dunham, Ray admitted that he has essentially moved in with Shoshanna because he is homeless and living out of his Mitsubishi.
"I love the fact that all the characters are very authentic, and the relationships are grounded in naturalism," Karpovsky said. "Viewers are much more familiar with comedies expressed in broader tones, with beautiful people, but we're doing something much more raw, and, hopefully, reflective of the world we see around us in Brooklyn every day."
Karpovsky grew up in Boston, the son of a computer science professor, where the décor in his childhood home included paintings of shtetls and other images of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement. His parents are Russian Jews who immigrated from the former Soviet Union in the late 1970s: "They had endured anti-Semitism and the many limits and quotas the Soviets placed on Jews," Karpovsky said. "They left to create a better life for themselves, and also for me."
While in his 20s, Karpovsky assumed he would follow his father's footsteps into academia, but he left his doctoral program in visual ethnography at Oxford University when he discovered his penchant for the theater. Back in the United States, he began making his own movies while working at a film editing company, where he was allowed to borrow the in-house equipment to work on his own projects.
It was while screening his third movie, "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up," at the South by Southwest film festival several years ago that Karpovsky met Dunham, who promptly cast him as a self-centered beau in her acclaimed, low-budget 2010 film "Tiny Furniture."
When Dunham hired Karpovsky to play Ray in "Girls" the following year, the actor immediately grasped what she wanted from the character: "Ray is a contrarian who speaks his mind and calls out the other characters on their b.s.," he said. "He's 33, a bit older than everyone else, and he feels this strange obligation to blurt out his perspective on what others are doing, even if it is misguided and occasionally perverse."
This season has revealed that Ray's cynicism "actually comes from a sad, lonely place," Karpovsky said; viewers have learned that Ray is an orphan, with plenty of abandonment issues.
They've also learned that Ray isn't Jewish: "In a recent episode, someone calls Ray a kike, and he responds by saying that he's actually Greek Orthodox," Karposvky said. "That was a surprise for me as an actor, and from I've read on Twitter, it was also a surprise to some members of the viewing public as well."
What's it like for Karpovsky to be a boy on "Girls"? "I feel like a voyeur at times, when I'm hearing three or four of the female characters talk to each other on the show," he said.
"Every man has the secret desire to overhear the conversations of women, and to know what they're really thinking — and that's incredibly juicy, delicious information to get ahold of."
"Girls" will air the final episode of its second season on March 17.
February 27, 2013 | 8:44 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Jeff Bernhardt is an author, playwright, psychotherapist and Jewish educator who directs social-action programs at Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills; he is also the lead tutor for the b'nai mitzvah program at Temple Israel of Hollywood. But his new play, "Therapy" — opening March 2 at the Secret Rose Theatre in North Hollywood — draws on his experience as a social worker for Jewish Family Service and Occidental College's student counseling center in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Wearing a colorful kippah and a clipped beard during a recent interview at Temple Israel, the intense, affable Bernhardt recalled how the idea for the play began, in part, with a telephone call that shook him to the core: One of his former psychotherapy clients, a man in his 20s, committed suicide about five months after completing some short-term counseling.
The young man had not come to Bernhardt specifically for symptoms of depression, nor had he expressed a desire to kill himself; rather the counseling had revolved around "normal developmental, identity and relationship issues," Bernhard said. So when the news came that he had died, "I was devastated, shocked and paralyzed," Bernhardt said. "I talked it through with the people I had worked with, and we revisited the experience of working with the client, but you don't ever really get over it. There were the inevitable questions of 'What could I have done differently?' "
Bernhardt began mulling over the challenges therapists face, and how therapists themselves often bring their own personal and work-related problems to their own therapists. He also thought about how some practitioners struggle to help patients, even as the patients' crises trigger the therapist's own emotional baggage (Sigmund Freud called this phenomenon "countertransference.")
And so, "Therapy" emerged as a drama revolving around three therapists: Moira, an earthy, motherly social worker who is battling guilt over her mother, whose health is declining in a distant city; Moira's therapist, Sandra, a reserved, rigid practitioner who very much keeps within the rules of traditional boundaries in psychotherapy; and Steven, a novice social worker who comes to Moira for counseling, in part to explore the lingering pain stemming from the death of his brother when Steven was a child.
As the play opens, Steven begins treating a new patient, Lance, a disturbed young man who is skeptical about the therapeutic process; Lance's journey will have unexpected repercussions for all the therapists in the play.
"One of the things that all these therapists are struggling with is their feeling of failure — feeling like they didn't, or simply couldn't, give somebody what they needed," Bernhardt said. "The play explores their grappling with 'What am I able to give, and what am I professionally bound to give, given what's going on in my own life?'
Bernhardt, 51, grew up in a Conservative home in New Jersey and attended Brandeis University, where his interest in social work was sparked, in part, by a classmate who confided to him that she had attempted suicide while in middle school. "It was as if somebody shook me and said, 'You're not living in the real world,' " he said. After graduation, Bernhardt went on to co-develop a suicide-prevention program for Jewish schools in Boston and Los Angeles.
In 1994, he earned his double master's degree, in social work and Jewish communal service, from USC and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; along the way, dramatic events in his own life spurred him to become a writer.
"Right after Sept. 11, I was at the Ahmanson Theatre and somebody had a medical emergency, and the show stopped," he said by way of example. "I knew that a friend of mine was elsewhere in the audience who had recently had medical issues, so I felt the anxiety of, 'Is that him?' [Bernhardt later discovered it wasn't.] And at the same time, some friends in Israel had a son who had had a swimming accident and was in a coma. All these things had happened right around the time of Rosh Hashanah and were swirling around in my brain, so I felt I needed to create characters who were struggling with some of these issues."
The result was Bernhardt's dramatic reading, "Who Shall Live…?" which has since been performed around the time of the High Holy Days at synagogues throughout the United States; a recent trip to Germany prompted his 2010 play, "Mixed Blessings," the story of how a straight Jewish college student and his gay German roommate push each other to explore their respective identities.
For "Therapy," Bernhardt said he drew upon "what I, as a therapist, sometimes struggled with, which is how you put your own personal issues aside to help your client," he said.
"I'm interested in writing about people who are human beings, who have vulnerabilities and weaknesses," he added. "I am really interested in how all people struggle."
"Therapy" runs through March 17. For tickets and information, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/322663.
February 20, 2013 | 11:59 am
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Joe Weisberg is an ex-CIA agent and creator of FX's new spy thriller "The Americans," which spotlights KGB agents deep undercover in the United States. But back in 1989, he was a Yale University graduate flying to the Soviet Union on his own clandestine Jewish mission. His goal was to set up secret meetings with refuseniks, Jewish dissidents who had been fired from their jobs and otherwise persecuted by the KGB. Meeting with them in their modest apartments, he handed over the Levis jeans and Seiko watches he had smuggled into the country so they could sell the goods on the black market to augment their incomes.
All the while, Weisberg wondered whether KGB agents were spying on him. "It was intimidating," said Weisberg, who nevertheless went on to join the CIA in 1990 "to become a 'cold warrior' and to do my part to bring down the evil empire."
During his four years at the agency, Weisberg learned learning everything from how to recruit spies to light paramilitary combat — yet he quit before his first assignment abroad in 1994. "I realized I didn't want to recruit other human beings and put them at risk to gather information that seemed dubious in terms of whether it was actually worth anything," he said.
And so Weisberg turned to writing spy novels, such as "10th Grade" (2002) and "An Ordinary Spy" (2008). He was working as a staff writer on TNT's sci-fi series "Falling Skies" when DreamWorks television executives phoned him about "The Americans" in 2010.
The FBI had just arrested 10 Russian sleeper agents who allegedly had been operating in the United States using techniques that seemed right out of a John le Carre novel: exchanging bags as they brushed past one another on the street, sending messages in invisible ink and burying stashes of cash underground, according to The New York Times.
The DreamWorks executives wanted Weisberg to concoct a series revolving around fictional KGB operatives, but the former CIA agent, for a time, was stumped. It wasn't that he was reluctant to make television heroes out of his old nemeses; the fall of the Soviet Union meant that these kinds of agents were no longer a true threat, and even the 10 arrested KGB officers had never managed to extract information of any import to send back home.
From left: Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, producers of "The Americans." Photos courtesy of FX
"My response to these spies was, 'Really? They're still doing this even though the Cold War is over?' It didn't seem that the stakes were high enough to make for a compelling TV show. But then I realized that if we moved the action back to the Cold War, when we were really at each other's throats, that could make for good drama."
Along with his fellow "Americans" executive producers, Joel Fields and Graham Yost, Weisberg set the thriller in 1981, the year after Ronald Reagan was elected president and fanned the flames of the decades-old Cold War.
The show revolves around Elizabeth and Philip Jennings (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys), two KGB agents who were set up in an arranged marriage in the 1960s and sent off to northern Virginia to establish a travel agency and have children as part of their cover. The husband and wife have been forbidden to speak Russian, and even to talk to one another about their pre-KGB pasts or tell their children about their true identities. As the new Reagan administration adds tension to their job, as well as to their marriage, Elizabeth and Philip manage to assassinate a turncoat KGB officer, plant a bug in the home of then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and to elude the suspicious FBI counterintelligence agent (played by Noah Emmerich), who has moved in across the street.
Weisberg said he drew on his recollections of operatives sent abroad to create the fictional Jenningses. "I had been very struck by the fact that these parents can't tell their kids what they do when the children are young, because they'll just go to school and tell all their friends and blow the parents' cover," he said. "It's when they're mature enough to keep a secret that their parents have what's called 'The Talk,' and for some children this can be very traumatic. Spying isn't just about the gadgets; it's about the lies that come into the family and the damage that can do, and I felt that was a very powerful dynamic to bring to the show."
Not that "The Americans" asks audiences to cheer for the enemy. "It's not about wanting people to root for totalitarian socialism, because we know that the U.S.S.R. collapsed and that oppressive communism didn't work," Fields ("Rizzoli & Isles"), 48, said. "The show is asking you, rather, to root for this couple and this marriage, and that the Jenningses can find their humanity in this horrible situation."
Like Weisberg, Fields, the son of Rabbi Emeritus Harvey Fields of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, first learned about the "evil empire" while learning about refuseniks at religious school in the 1970s. During a joint conversation from their New York offices, both men said they were also inspired as children by stories of Jewish agents and covert operatives: for example, Eli Cohen, the Israeli who was caught and publicly hanged in Damascus in 1965, and Yoni Netanyahu, the Israeli assault commander killed in the 1976 top-secret raid on Entebbe. "I got a book of his letters for my bar mitzvah, and his story just bored into me and made me feel like he was the kind of man you're supposed to be — an intellectual and a hero," Weisberg said.
It was Weisberg, the former CIA agent, who vetted the circa-1980s spy craft depicted on "The Americans": "At the time, there was a lot more Morse code and dead drops, where you leave a coded message for somebody in a concealed way," Weisberg said.
The fictional Elizabeth makes use of the notorious KGB poisoned umbrella, created with a spiked tip to inoculate targets, and both of the Jenningses employ the so-called "honey trap" technique, drawing on their sexuality to recruit other spies. "The KGB had very liberal attitudes about sex for both their male and female officers," said Weisberg, who also read former KGB agents' memoirs as research for the show. "For example, they had something called the Secretary's Defensive, when they noticed that many of their officers were having luck seducing secretaries of powerful officials and thus gaining access to their secrets."
Per documents he signed upon leaving the CIA, Weisberg must submit all his scripts to the agency for approval: "They just check them to make sure there's no classified information, and so far they've approved everything," he said.
Will the show draw on Fields' and Weisberg's interest in Jewish spies? "We wrote a great story with a Mossad and a refusenik twist, but ultimately it didn't pan out for this season," Fields said. "Yet it's stuff that's very much on our minds, given both of our backgrounds, and in future seasons, it's fare I'm sure we'll explore."
"The Americans" airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX.
February 19, 2013 | 8:42 am
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Producer Bruce Cohen, a best-picture nominee for his work on "Silver Linings Playbook," has been obsessed with the Academy Awards since he was 8. During a recent interview at his Hollywood Hills home, looking dapper in plaid pants and shoulder-length blond curls , Cohen exuberantly recalled how his grandmothers, who were babysitting at the time, allowed him to stay up late to watch his first Oscar telecast at his childhood home in Falls Church, Va. "It was love at first sight," he said. "I thought it was the most glamorous, most spectacular thing I had ever seen, and I decided that night that I was going to win an Oscar one day."
Cohen — who ran away from home, albeit for only an hour, when his parents refused to let him stay up to watch the Oscars a couple of years later — has more than realized his dream. A place of honor in his office is reserved for his best-picture Oscar for 1999's "American Beauty," the searing story of two generations of a suburban family in crisis. "It was in the living room for a while, but then I thought that was a bit gauche," he said.
Cohen's second Oscar nod came a decade later, this time for "Milk," the much-lauded biopic about the life of gay activist and San Francisco Mayor Harvey Milk, who was assassinated while in office in 1978. In 2011, Cohen produced the Academy Awards telecast along with Dan Mischer.
And now he is up for his third Oscar, for "Silver Linings Playbook," David O. Russell's offbeat comedy-drama about a bipolar young teacher (Bradley Cooper) and his tempestuous relationship with a troubled widow, played by Jennifer Lawrence. But the joy of an Oscar nod never gets old, Cohen said. His response to his own third nomination was "to scream at the top of my lungs," he said.
When the conversation turned to what helped prepare Cohen, now 51, to become a producer in the first place, he said he honed his political and organizational skills while serving as a leader within the National Federation of Temple Youth, and later at Yale, where he headed the campus' United Jewish Appeal drive.
A week after graduating from Yale in 1983, Cohen flew out to Los Angeles to take a clerical job at Warner Bros., where he talked his way into an internship run by the Directors Guild of America and wound up working on the set of Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple" in the mid-1980s.
But he didn't go out of his way to meet the uber-director. "I was a pisher, and what I figured out is that not only didn't he know me, but I didn't want him to know me just yet," Cohen said. "My job was to keep my head down and work for the first and second assistant directors."
But Spielberg did end up noticing Cohen — initially for his work with the children on the set — and a collaboration began that eventually led to Cohen producing "The Flintstones" for Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment in 1994. However, there was one matter of business to take care of before Cohen accepted the job: He felt he needed to come out as a gay man to Spielberg — even though not many people were gay and out in Hollywood back in the early 1990s, Cohen said. Spielberg, it turns out, was nonplussed and said to Cohen, "Why do you think I would care?"
Producer Bruce Cohen Photo by Matt Petit/©A.M.P.A.S.
The following year, Cohen co-founded Out There, which was among the first activist coalitions of gays and lesbians in Hollywood, and it was during the group's early years that he and fellow member Dan Jinks became producing partners and zeroed in on a screenplay by Alan Ball that would become "American Beauty."
"It was the best script I've ever read, to date, in my life," Cohen said. "But all the studios initially thought it was too dark, too weird and controversial." Undaunted, Cohen drew on his relationship with executives at Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG to push the project, which was quickly picked up by the then-fledgling studio and received a green light within months.
"American Beauty" — Cohen's first effort as an independent producer — went on to receive not only rave reviews, but also to sweep the Oscars with five awards, including a screenwriting prize for Ball and a best-actor statuette for actor Kevin Spacey.
"Milk" also seemed like a hard sell when Cohen first signed on to the film in the mid-2000s. "It was gay-themed, and about a gay politician who gets killed at the end, which doesn't fit any of the financial models for a how a movie finds audiences and makes money," said Cohen, who is now president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which is managing and running the California Supreme Court case to overturn Proposition 8. The filmmakers found a solution to that problem by casting the critically acclaimed but bankable Sean Penn in the title role.
Cohen had set up his own production company in 2010 when Donna Gigliotti of The Weinstein Co. invited him to help her produce Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook," along with Jonathan Gordon ("Good Will Hunting"). Cohen jumped at the chance because he was a fan of Russell's previous films, including "Flirting With Disaster" and "The Fighter," and, he said, he also was riveted by the characters at the heart of "Silver Linings' " edgy romantic comedy. "It was 'boy meets girl,' but it was the most f----d-up boy and the most disturbed girl you're ever going to meet — and they're mean to each other," he said. "The characters are uncompromising, and they don't make any concessions to what one might think of as the traditional Hollywood protagonist."
During the 33-day shoot in Philadelphia and beyond, Cohen oversaw both financial and creative choices, including the decision to tone down Cooper's bipolar outbursts early in the film. "We found that a little went a long way," he said.
Cohen said he relates to the marginalized character, in part, as a gay man, in a state where his own marriage is not yet recognized as legal. "On any film, I immediately identify with the characters who are thought of as 'less than,' " he said.
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LONDON A helicopter crashed into a crane and fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour Wednesday, sending flames and black plumes of smoke into the air. The pilot and one person on the ground were killed and 13 others injured, officials said.
The helicopter crashed in misty weather just south of the River Thames near the Underground and mainline train station at Vauxhall, and close to the headquarters of spy agency MI6.
Police said one person had critical injuries. Six were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries and seven treated at the scene, ambulance officials said.
"It was something of a miracle that this was not many, many times worse," police Cmdr. Neil Basu said.
Helicopter crashes in south London
Video on Sky News showed wreckage burning in a street, and a large plume of black smoke rose in the area. The video from the crash scene showed a line of flaming fuel and debris.
The pilot, who was killed, had requested to divert and land at the nearby London Heliport because of bad weather, the heliport said in a statement. Scotland Yard identified the second man killed as 39-year-old Matthew Wood from Sutton, south London.
"The London Heliport never gained contact with the helicopter," the statement said.
The aircraft, an AgustaWestland 109, was on a commercial flight, said Philip Amadeus, managing director of RotorMotion, an executive helicopter charter business.
"Our main priority now is for the family of the pilot and we extend our greatest sympathy to the friends and relatives of those who have died and been injured," Amadeus said.
The company would not immediately confirm reports by British media that the pilot was Pete Barnes, whose career included flying in films including the James Bond movie "Die Another Day."
The crash unfolded at the height of the morning commute when thousands of pedestrians in the area were trying to get to work. The weather at the time was overcast and misty with fog and poor visibility, according to the Met Office weather forecasting service.
Video from the scene showed wreckage burning in a street, and black smoke in the area, with a line of flaming fuel and debris marking the area where the helicopter smashed down. Witnesses said the disaster unfolded when the helicopter hit a crane atop a 50-story residential building, the St. George Wharf Tower.
"I was 100 percent sure it was a terrorist attack," said Allen Crosbie, site manager for the landscape firm Maylim Ltd., who was working at the scene.
"There was debris everywhere, a ton of black smoke. Parts of the crane, parts of the helicopter. I heard bang, bang - I presume it was the helicopter hitting the crane and then the ground. People were just panicking."
William Belsey, 25, a landscape worker, also said he heard the helicopter hit the crane.
"Luckily the crane operator was late for work this morning. He picked a good day to be late," Belsey said.
Fire department officials said the crane wasn't in immediate danger of collapsing.
Basu said one of the dead was the pilot of the commercial helicopter, which had been flying from Redhill, south of London. No one else was thought to be aboard, Basu said; the other fatality was a person on the ground.
British aviation authorities had issued a "notice to airmen" warning pilots about the crane, which extended to 770 feet above ground. The crane is lit at night, and police said investigators would look at whether the light was faulty.
The area, roughly 10 blocks from the major Waterloo train and Underground station, is extremely congested during the morning rush hour. Many commuters arrive at the main line stations from London's southern suburbs and transfer to buses or trains there.
Aviation expert Chris Yates said that weather may have played a role. Investigators also would look at whether the crane had navigation lights.
"The question then becomes whether the pilot was fit," Yates said.
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- Lindsay said...
What a fun Thanksgiving you guys have planned! I love the tablecloth idea :-)
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- jeana said...
I think these are just about the best Thanksgiving traditions I have ever seen! I just may have to come your way this year haha.
We always go to my parents, stuff ourselves with yummy food, and play games...card games, checkers, and ping pong. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! - November 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- welcome to our wonderland said...
fun looks like a great family thanksgiving tradition
- November 23, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- DelhiBound said...
Oh MaryLea ... the tablecloth idea is PRICELESS! I'm copying that idea NOW (even though we won't have the first years of memories .... we will start in 2010!)
- November 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Sofia's Ideas said...
Yay! We also have the tradition of signing the Thanksgiving tablecloth! It is my absolute favorite! I love seeing how everyone has grown (their handwriting changes, etc.), who was with us from year to year; its a great reminder to call those we've lost touch with, and to share a memory of those who have since passed...
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones! - November 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Jackie H. said...
The turkey bowl is such a great idea! I think we're going to have to start one in my neighborhood. Currently, we have the only level driveway so summer evenings the neighbors come over and play basketball on our hoop... however, one the weather gets cold, I feel like I never see them! I'd love to host the turkey bowl!
Oh, and to answer your question, our tradition is to have a talent show after eating. My mom plays the piano and everyone sings and acts silly.
Happy Thanksgiving! - November 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Em said...
I love the tablecloth idea... do you re-use the tablecloth or start with a new one each year? So cool!
- November 23, 2010 at 3:41 PM
- Rockabye Butterfly said...
I LOVE your home made Fairy House!!!! WOW! Beautiful!
I've been following your blog and it's fabulous, you're mentioned on my blog! :)
<3 Rockabye Butterfly
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Baltimore County officials will make their annual migration to Ocean City next month for the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference but they won't be holding their traditional party.
For the first time since Dutch Ruppersberger was county executive, the county will not hold it's usual reception at Horizons, a bar at the Clarion Resorts Fountainebleau Hotel.
Three of the seven members of the council—Vicki Almond, David Marks and Tom Quirk—told Patch they decided this year to not chip in for the event.
"I felt uncomfortable about last year's event," Marks, a Perry Hall Republican, said. "I have ordinary people who give me $30 or $40 and I don't think they want their money subsidizing a party."
Almond, a Reisterstown Democrat, said she opted not to pay a share of the party because the council has been barred from raising money for nearly a year while it handles zoning requests in the county's quadrennial Comprehensive Rezoning Map Process.
"I quite honestly didn't want to take money out of my campaign funds for a Coke and a crab cake," Almond said.
Quirk, a Catonsville Democrat, is traveling in Norway and was not immediately available for an interview.
In an email, Quirk said simply that he was "not participating in the MACo reception."
Last year, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and all seven council members contributed $1,000 toward the party. The money came from their campaign accounts.
Another $15,000 came from various interests including lobbyists and attorneys.
A Reporter was kept in the lobby outside the event while about 250 people including leaders of other jurisdictions, state legislators, lobbyists and others interested in influencing county decision-makers enjoyed drinks at the open bar and dined on various meats on a stick.
Don Mohler, a spokesman for Kamenetz, told the Baltimore Sun Friday, that Kamenetz had decided to not hold the party this year citing "the economic climate."
Almond said she plans on attending the conference as she did last year. She and Marks were seen frequently at the convention center, taking advantage of the three days of seminars for county leaders.
"I like going to the classes," Almond said, adding that she didn't feel that if she didn't go to the party that she would be neglecting the development attorneys who normally attend. "I have a pretty nice relationship with them but I've worked with them a lot already this year."
11:45 pm on Friday, July 20, 2012
LOL Let's watch Beeler try and turn into the latest conspiracy theory.
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10:34 am on Saturday, July 21, 2012
The Autocracy has the magnifying glasses on them plus election year is coming up. A little late to think responsible, so it maybe the same old tactic prior to elections! If I was a gambler I would bet on it, always bet on a sure thing.
10:10 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
I am not sure what you meant to say, but please know that an autocracy is a country, city, or other area ruled by one person who has total control.
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11:09 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
(Autocracy)One person or group same as Authoritarianism emphasizes arbitrary law rather than the rule of law, it often includes election rigging, political decisions being made by a select group of officials behind closed doors, a bureaucracy that sometimes operates independently of rules,[dubious – discuss] which does not properly supervise elected officials, and fails to serve the concerns of the constituencies they purportedly serve. Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power, a leadership that is "self-appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens' free choice among competitors," the arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties, and little tolerance for meaningful opposition
9:25 am on Sunday, July 22, 2012
You did a fine job copying that definition of autocracy, but I am still at a loss as to how that fits in with your post. Whom do you refer to by "The Autocracy?" and who do they have the magnifying glass on?
Arbutus Town Crier
6:46 pm on Sunday, July 22, 2012
@ Evets, you must have skipped over the word....One person or "group" political decisions being made by a select group of officials behind closed doors, National; ObomaCare The above comment
"barred from barred from raising money for nearly a year while it handles zoning requests in the county's quadrennial Comprehensive Rezoning Map">>>>>>Because, The Baltimore County Ethics Commission states Under Article 7 ; Public confidence and trust. It is evident that public confidence and trust is eroded when the conduct of county business is subject to improper influence or when there is the appearance of improper influence.
Sean Tully
11:01 am on Saturday, July 21, 2012
I think it is silly myself. Politicians are lead by the nose. This is all because of the GSA "scandal". You know, just because you throw a work related party doesn't mean it is a waste of money. But they can't keep their criminal lobbyists buddies away, so it is probably best they not have the party. But I can see where a room full of honest people might actually have meaningful discussion about policy and often time you have to pay for the room you use.
10:49 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
Exactly, Sean.
We're talking about campaign coffers covering maybe 7% of the total cost of this? I'm surprised none of these Councilmen decided to use the platform to point out what's actually wrong with this picture.
9:24 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
While I applaud this responsible decision let's see how many invites they receive from vendors, lobbyists etc. for their various events??? How many they actually attend is the "real" barometer of their ethical values? What about all of those "goodie" bags?
10:13 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
Funny how few of these sorts of conferences/meetings are held in Catonsville, Essex, timonium, Frederick, Hagerstown, or Dundalk in the middle of February.
10:49 pm on Saturday, July 21, 2012
Who the hell wants to go there in the summer, much less in the winter?
9:19 am on Sunday, July 22, 2012
Maybe that is the point. Get in there, have your conferences/meeting, head home.
11:35 am on Thursday, July 26, 2012
How would local communities house the multitude of people that attend the conference? And why can't there be a conference for Maryland? Other industries have them?
M. Sullivan
5:35 pm on Monday, July 23, 2012
I agree, Evets. Just why in heck does this convention need to be held in a resort town at the most expensive time of the year? Who is paying for the hotel rooms and conference facilities ? I guarantee its not coming out of the legislators' pockets!
Bryan P. Sears
12:32 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012
Baltimore County pays for a contingent of employees to attend each year and that includes the conference fee, hotel room, food and mileage. The County Council pays for its member separately. There are some exceptions but in general, Baltimore County pays for people to attend.
Buck Harmon
12:08 pm on Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Until campaign finance reform has benn fully accomplished our State and Country will continue to get screwed by the money of big corporate interests.... this decision is good and could be a reflection of the need for reform..
1:46 pm on Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Nah, its just a reflection of their greater desire to cover their collective a's because they are actually local politicians (not state or federal) and have to worry much more about the perception/views of their local constitutents then other, higher level politicians.
If we could at least keep our own local county 'clean' that would be a nice start, though.
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OMG! Is there anything else in there? I'll assume the X-Wing series is not on the speccy, the Super Mario RPG not on the speccy, Wipeout not on the speccy...... Get a life man! It is a retro mag that caters for LOTS of retro loving people from different decades that all want stuff written about machines they like. How many times does Darran or any other person have to come on here and state that the mag is NOT JUST FOR YOU x Pi
Come on, the Spectrum is by far the most covered format in Retro Gamer. Fair enough, there has to be one format that gets the most coverage - but to put it as this big amazing headline at the back of the mag:
"Hey guys, looks whats coming up - Spectrum!! Woopee!!"
Well its just silly really, when it getting all the coverage that it has gotten recently, as well as its own book too of course. Could they not have had something else as the main headline? Something a little different that hasn't been covered as much? Its just so repetitive, and arguably lazy.
BTW, I'd like less Speccy coverage - in the 18 months I'm buying the mag I feel like I know more about the Spectrum than I do my own favourite system - the SNES unsurprisingly, but its not the Speccy coverage that will be in issue 102 thats the problem. My issue is the predictability, the mag pushing the forthcoming Speccy coverage as this big deal we should all be getting excited over. Of course its going to be in issue 102 - its in ever issue! There's no need to make a big song and dance about it! Why not headline with the Virtual Boy article which Darren mentioned recently? Its not a system that has been covered extensively after all. FFS lets try and freshen the thing up a bit guys.
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I have owned this aluminum excess cargo carrier for 8 years and it is still going strong. Aluminum prevents rust which is important if you go to the beach on the Texas Gulf Coast. I have also carried a few harvested deer in it with no problems. I've put ice chests in it, firewood in it. The assembly is not too bad. The sides of the rack are higher than others I've seen. Aluminum makes it lightweight. It fits slightly loose in the receiver, but not bad. Overall, I'd definitely buy this same one again if I needed another.
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- On Symmetry and Multiple-View Geometry: Structure, Pose, and Calibration from a Single Image , from the research group of Yi Ma, in International Journal of Computer Vision 2004. Yi Man co-authored a book "An Invitation to 3-D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models".
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- Modeling and Control of Flexible Structures, by J.S.Gibson and D.L.Mingori from UCLA, in 1988. This work is conducted in Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) of Caltech.
- Robust control of flexible structures: theory and experiments, PhD thesis of Gary John Balas, from Caltech, in 1990.
- Vibration Control of Active Structures — An Introduction Third Edition, by André Preumont, head of the Active Structure Lab in Université libre de Bruxelles, in 2011.
- Nonlinear Vibration with Control — For Flexible and Adaptive Structures, by David Wagg and Simon Neild, from U. Bristol, in 2010.
- Compliant Mechanisms — Design of Flexure Hinges, by Nicolae Lobontiu, in 2003.
- Control Technologies for Emerging Micro and Nanoscale Systems , in 2011. It mainly focuses on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) method.
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Hey all what does everyone think about this.
As most of you probably know after 185 nvidia drivers they have included something called ambient occlusion....
Now according to Nvidia this is to add realism to scenes by redusing the intensity of ambient light on surfaces blocked by surrounding objects...
The thing that i am intrested in is are Evenbalance or PBBans going to class this as a kind of cheat because when playing COD4 you can see outlines of the players through the smoke and it could be classed as an unfair advantage...
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Don't the nVidia drivers also have the option to overlay a cross hair though? Surely this must considered a cheat or unfair advantage.
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I've gone back to 186 drivers after trying every release thus far. Every driver after that has given me overheating issues. With 186 drivers, I can run my fan speed at 60-70%. With any higher driver version, anything below 100% fan speed ends up causing temperature related graphic issues.
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No issues with the latest Beta drivers. I chose not to include the part of the download that offered the cross-hairs and occlusion(optional). No heat issues, my 285GTX runs cool at under 70F under load.
How you download is the same, what you install, pay attention too, and install accordingly. Don't just keep hitting the next button.
How you download is the same, what you install, pay attention too, and install accordingly. Don't just keep hitting the next button.
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