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Matt Reeves has landed a bungalow in... THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Hey folks, Harry here... well it seem Matt Reeves... the man behind CLOVERFIELD and LET ME IN has landed the directing reins of a very coveted project... THE TWILIGHT ZONE... a film about obsessions with boys that use hair paste. No, it's based on Rod Serling's brilliant series (now, completely available on Blu Ray! And so bleeding worth it!) Apparently the script was written by the former Production Office Coordinator for JULIEN DONKEY-BOY. But given the job that Reeves did on LET ME IN, I'm betting he gets the material to his own particular sweet spot. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing... If they do this right, we shouldn't learn a single thing about the film until the screen opens. Honestly. Just announce the cast, no loglines... it's THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it'll either be great or it won't. But I for one am always there for TWILIGHT ZONE, because I know even if I don't like it. I have a shit ton of great ones right here! I hope the publicity for the film gets people to really go back and take in the classics. They're just the best! VARIETY broke the story moments ago, when they read Michael Fleming's story on DEADLINE and didn't source their story properly. They do that all the time. Sigh.
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...Nolan, but this is at least a step up from Michael Bay.
journeyman hack
Oct. 15, 2011, 1:30 p.m. CST
Cool,it will be interesting to see what he does with it
by lookylookymoontard
i'm game
Oct. 15, 2011, 1:34 p.m. CST
The best moment sin Matt Reeves's LET ME IN were copy and paste jobs from the original swedish movie.
by AsimovLives
Matt Reeves is not bad, but he's not the marvel boy that AICN makes him out to be. He's still a thousand times better then his former ass-boss Jar Jar Abrams.
That is all.....
Oct. 15, 2011, 1:36 p.m. CST
jimmy_009, a bucket fukll of shit is a step up from Michael Bay. Anything is a step up from Michael Bay.
by AsimovLives
That's hardly a point you made. You damned Matt Reeves with very faint praise indeed.
And he will drink a slusho bottle instead of smoking a cigarette during the movie introduction.
Yoko took me to the Hollywood Tower of Terror - or whatever it is called. I'm not a huge fan of the "DROP RIDES" just because I really do get HOLY SHIT on those. But when i suddenly realized it was a Twilight Zone - and that Rod Serling was interacting with us - and that we were all being transported to THE TWILIGHT ZONE. It was the best. Just saying.
And he had the best segment.
well first of all the ride is infinately better and you actually drive around dark ride style through the twilight zone before doing the elevator thing. You pass all the eyeball and e=mc2 stuff. Then when you drop it's complete anti-gravity for several drops. You can get water in a cup to form a perfect ball. There's no wind. Hold out a cup of water and try it. You can float anything in front of you for a few seconds. Things people that live in theme parks know. Like how the flux capacitor is built into a prop in the Frankenstein set area of universal studios ca. It's just a walkthrough spookhouse deal. The actual flux capacitor is churning away in there with millions of hapless people never knowing it while they pass.
Oct. 15, 2011, 1:55 p.m. CST
Harry, I loved taking our Dad on ToT. My Dad introduced me to TTZ, after all. Second favorite moment after taking him to see John Williams in concert. :)
by Kamaji
Oct. 15, 2011, 1:58 p.m. CST
The big question is: will we get some new Twilight Zone stories, or rehashes?
by Kamaji
I hope it's more of an anthology than just one guy going through multiple adventures of TTZ. The one thing that would suck for me is if you have this guy who is a scientist, who claims he's discovered a strange dimension called 'The Twilight Zone,' and sets out to investigate it...and then he wanders into every other set piece we've seen before...before finding out he's trapped inside the still living brain of Rod Serling, unable to escape from his dead body.
I mean, I thought it'd probably be too good to be true that Nolan would actually get the gig, but the list that was published before of the possible candidates, I don't recall Reeves being on there. That said, I'm just still glad it isn't Bay.
It wasn't a "cut an paste job" you lying piece of Iberian goat shit. Christ on a crutch you need to write down the lies you spew to keep track of them you chicken molesting fucktard.
I forgot about that movie. A souless copy, indeed. Anyway, Cloverfield was pretty good.
Oct. 15, 2011, 2:52 p.m. CST
Brian Cox played the ambulance driver in the original Twillight Zone movie.
by JohnWayneWasGay
the ToT segments using whiz-bang state of the art 1994 Forrest Gump technology. Still when Serling's voice changes to the impersonator halfway though, it's about as convincing as John Mclean saying Yippie Ki-yay Mister Falcon.
Oct. 15, 2011, 3:56 p.m. CST
cuervojones, CLOVERFIELD is a pretty good movie on first watch. But after that, the negatives come crashing in pretty hard.
by AsimovLives
And the fact that save for the character of Marlena the rest of the cast was made of unberable fucking snobish fart-asses yuppies i couldn't wait for them to die doesn't help the rewatch value of the movie either.
The very mention of his name gives me gastritis. Fuck that fucking fuck.
I think he will do a good job, but I also would love a Cloverfield sequel. But I want to see more of the Monster. I agree that not showing the monster too much built up the tension but it really cuts down on the re-watching level of the movie.
wannabe pseudo intelectual oh I'm so cool I hate yuppies dumbass points out flaws in movies but has to watch them multiple times loser what the fuck pretty much everyone here with their Brian Cox jokes and FACT! statements we hate Michael Bay because we're smart and Drive is the best movie out there although real viewers were bored quickly... Make a movie and let's see how well it does, you losers.
What a pathetic remake. It was not as good as the original film and it was not nearly as good as the book. It was just crap. Bored me to tears. The Twilight Zone Movie came out not long ago. It was called INCEPTION and it was awesome.
Oct. 15, 2011, 5:18 p.m. CST
cloverfield needed more cox and less stupid hipster yuppies
by JohnWayneWasGay
I'm not one of those that say that Christopher Nolan is perfect and shits gold, but first saying that Nolan was almost a done deal for the TZ movie and then giving it to Reeves, WTF??!!, Nolan with all his shortcomings (a matter of opinion) would have still done wonder with this franchise...
Oct. 15, 2011, 5:50 p.m. CST
Man, I was just wondering what ever happened to the production office coordinator on JULIEN DONKEY BOY...
by fustfick
...hmm...imagine that. By all accounts, this won't be an anthology film. Which seems like a huge fucking mistake. Of course, what creepythinmanlives says makes a lot of sense. A new retro-styled TZ show would be awesome. And with all the Mad Men-influenced retro 60s style bullshit hitting the airwaves now...it actually seems like a feasible proposition.
... have some veterans from famous episodes of the original series who are still around (Shatner, whoever) show up either in the script(s) or as some form of "watcher" in the background who somehow "tells" the story. Too bad Burgess Meredith is gone. He'd have been perfect too.
Oct. 15, 2011, 6:54 p.m. CST
The big reveal at the end of the Twilight Zone remake will be...
by locke815
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
and even though it was very similar to the original - I liked it a bit better. Can't wait to see Twilight Zone woo-hoo!
The Prestige is so fucking incredible. Every scene is perfectly important to the story. The cages of canaries foreshadowing the 100 deaths of Robert Angier. Borden's character saying "we were two men at the start of a great career" referring to him and his brother instead of him and Angier. The juxtaposition of Angier and Cutter, Borden and Fallon, Tesla and his assistant, etc. The "twist" that it was sci-fi instead of a period piece. The themes of suffocation (Angier's wife drowning, Angier's drowning; Fallon's near-suffocation, his wife's hanging, Borden's ultimate hanging; their assistant being advised "not to breathe"). The parallels of Angier and Borden's rivalry to Edison and Tesla's rivalry. The little boy pointing out to Borden "What happened to his brother?", thus foreshadowing Borden's secret behind his prestige. The massive consistency where Borden behaves differently towards Sarah depending on which brother is playing Borden that day. The brilliant puzzle of "How could he not know?" which knot he tied, when - in fact - the writer of the diary DIDN'T know which knot it was, since it was his brother who tied it. The narrative technique of the two magicians reading each other's falsified diaries. The fact that the entire movie is built as a Pledge, Turn, and Prestige in its own right. The initials of the characters Alfred Borden Robert Angier spelling "ABRA", for abracadabra. The refusal to seek the sappy Hollywood ending and show that both men are destroyed... Borden hanging dead, his brother never experiencing the joy of the audience's faces (as he is a poor showman); Angier dead 101 times over. And on and on and on and on... Yet people bitch about whether Superman can trim his beard or not. It's pathetic. You people wouldn't appreciate a Nolan Twilight Zone if it were given to you, so be grateful it's Reeves.
It's a cookbook!!!!!!!!
Best. Post. Ever.
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It was good until season 6. If a studio exec could strike season 6 from existence and future generations see the hydrogen bomb at the end of season 5 just reset the timeline such that everyone dies and history repeats itself endlessly, it's a perfect show. Those guys could write a decent Twilight Zone movie. For instance... the scene near the end of season 5 of Lost where Sawyer is explaining to Jack that he could have gone and saved his parents' lives, but didn't; what's done is done. And Jack determining that he needs to destroy an island rather than just go and face the woman he loves who is standing feet away, the fulfilment of his character always running from his problems. And then Miles points out that they are fulfilling a predetermined course of events. I mean, fantastic writing... purely fantastic. That Miles point was a Twilight Zone twist in and of itself.
If I would have known that would be my best post ever I wouldn't have followed it with a weak non sequitur.
Oct. 15, 2011, 8:17 p.m. CST
Needs to be an anthology and filmed in black and white
by Crimson Dynamo
The 80's Twilight Zone movie has an amazing jump in quality if you mute the color on your TV & watch in in B&W
. . . . . . . . . ....coxxed!!!!
Are pretty much feature-length Twilight Zone eps already.
they should have him direct one of the segments, and it should be about a kid who goes back in time, then comes back from the past but then somehow has to go back to the same time in the past and avoid his previous self, and then, for some strange reason he winds up in the old west and then finally come back to his present day. again. oh, and also throw the future in there too. i think it would work.
Certainly there are many great voice actors out there in hollywood-land and beyond, but just for the heck of it, who would be an odd yet intriguing host to introduce new tales of supernatural wonder? First one who comes to mind is actually..... BRAD PITT! Yeah, weird, fer sure, but he does have a good voice for the part and he is a seasoned and well-respected man of talent. Let's NAME NAMES and place the vocals with whatever you imaging to be the new look of a "Rod Serling" like actor.
I'm not quite sold on Matt Reeves but I think this will be more about the writing then anything else. I'd rather see a reboot of the tv show but I'll take what I can get. I could see this film going either way but I'm hopin reeves can knock it out of the park
Jon Hamm, of Mad Men. Maybe a bit obvious, but he has that 60's era swagger and style down, as well as the skills to swoop in and properly deliver his lines while looking cool smoking a cigarette. Definitely needs to be in black & white though.
Oct. 16, 2011, 1:35 a.m. CST
I always thought a cool way to do a new/reboot of The Twilight Zone as a feature film
by lv_426
would be to have one director make a TZ film with three separate acts. Each act would have it's own protagonist, storyline, and twist ending. Then at the end, there would be a closing scene that would have a single mind-blowing twist that would somehow tie into the three different acts of the film. Still have a Serling type host as well. This way we'd get a film that is not a complete anthology film, but one that would still retain the anthology feel of The Twilight Zone.
Love the post for its passion and thoughtful analysis, still doesn't change my opinion that the Prestige kind of sucked though. I appreciate what your saying but I put it too you that it doesn't matter how good a magic trick is if it doesn't entertain. I found the Prestige hollow and empty at it's heart largely because Borden was so truly dull and uncharismatic that I found it hard to relate. I think Bale is a good actor but he was terribly miscast there. He had intensity but he lacks natural flair and that was inherently neccessary for that character. Jackman worked and that just made his story all the more tragic but Borden's arc felt off and to me it ruined the trick. I thought it was a fine effort but ultimately a flawed failure.
Good choice for me. he proved with Cloverfeld and Let me in that he can use two totally different and somewhat opposite styles of film-making which means he can probably handle Twilight Zones changes of gears and do something interesting. I agree that having three seemingly different segments that then turn out to be related would make for an interesting narrative.
I think the Prestige, and not Inception, is Nolan's masterpiece. That film is perfect.
That movie was so good it almost ruined the next year of movies for me.
Oct. 16, 2011, 4:30 a.m. CST
Jesus, these talkbacks are getting hostile. And yes, The Prestige is Nolan's best movie.
by DidntPullOutInTimeCop
And I want Cloverfield 2.
It was the movie that definetly made me a fan of Christopher Nolan. Before i watched it, i was quite skeptical. Battling magicians, really? Then by the five minute mark, i was already compeltly into the movie. I became a fan of Nolan after this movie, and never looked back.
Pseudo-intelelctual, me? Since when i claimed to be an intellectual in here, you fucking cunt? Get real!
Oct. 16, 2011, 4:50 a.m. CST
Problem with LET ME IN is that, like so many american remakes and holywood movies, is so coward about subtlery
by AsimovLives
While Matt Reeves tried to pull the same type of mood the original movie had (which he achieved with some sucess), he jsut made the same bsasic mistake that so many of Holywood's remakes of foreign movies do: they let the subtlery and more morally harsh aspects at the door. And then there was the fucking score, always mickey-mousing the emotional and scary aspects of the story. If shit was supposed to be scary, then the soundtrack would go BAAAMMMM-AHHHHH-AAHHHH! Typical Spring-loaded Cat scare bullshit. The score was beyond anoying, and a pale comparison to the hauting and beautiful score form the original. I urge you guys to listne to the audio comentary for the original LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (which was recorded in english by the director and author-screenwriter, both speak with excelent english) and learn on how much though went to the making of that movie. I can certanly say for sure that the american remake didn't had half the though put to it.
I tip my hat to you, friend. Finally, some intelligence in this place. A proper intellectual, ladies and gentlemen.
I bash LOST. The seeds of it's fall started with Season 1. More specifically, with all the thoughless bullshit that JJ Abrams pulled out of his ass while he was still co-creator and a creative force in that show. The piling up of the detritus of his bullshit is what, many seasons later, eventually crash and burnend the show. No amount of talent could salvage the shit that Abrams put to that show. Funny enough, Abrams bailed out way before. He created the shit, and then he let it for others to deal with it and clean the mess. Typical Abrams bullshit behavior. And people call that cunt a visionary.
Oct. 16, 2011, 5 a.m. CST
troutfish, if Zemeckis directed a TZ segment, it would all be a CGI zombie-eyed crapfiest. Are you sure you would realy want that?
by AsimovLives
Zemeckis stoped being a proper filmmaker. Neither life action nor animation. All he wants now is to play with his over-expensive CGI crayons with somebody else's dollars. He's the precursor of Zack The Hack Snyder, and for that, fuck him.
Oct. 16, 2011, 5:04 a.m. CST
Matt Reeves is not a bad director. I'd say he's a good director.
by AsimovLives
I'm not saying he's exceptional. He's a typical workhorse director, but of the good kind. But he has yet to make a movie where he can actually show his true quality. So far all his movies are still, one way or another, made too much under the aegis of his ass-fuck boss Jar Jar Abrams. Reeves really needs to let go of anything to do with Abrams, directly or indirectly, to actually start to show his real quality as a filmmaker.
There's a very good interview online where Kevin Pollak interviews Damon Lindelof. Large section of is about Lost and Lindelof nearly had a nervous breakdown having to write the thing on his own. Abrams came up with basic sf concept (which at that stage amounted to "there's something about the island") and dumped his pal in it. Lindelof came up with conceit of characters back stories etc dominating first series. You can love or hate Lost (I loved it despite, or even because of, it's flaws) but Abrams doesn't really deserve any credit, or even criticism, for it - it wasn't really his show. BTW everyone who praises The Prestige above is right - it is a masterpiece. I saw it the same month as Children of Men, and couldn't believe how bloody good cinema was. Didn't like Let Me In at all - but Reeves is probably better fit for Twilight Zone than a lot of directors in his price range (although I'd still prefer Rupert Wyatt or Duncan Jones).
Thinking about it - there's actually quite a few directors I prefer over Reeves. Richard Ayoade. Vincenze Natali. The list goes on…
Oct. 16, 2011, 6:17 a.m. CST
(Thanks Locke) The first post that taught me alot about a film I love...
by deanmail
I wished I enjoyed Inception as much as The Prestige but by the time Inception connected with me emotionally (after alot of technical exposition on dream infiltration / dream levels, etc. when I started learning more about Cobs wifes suicide it was just too late and I was just watching the film for the visuals)...Locke can you post a breakdown on Inception the way you did for The Prestige please (as I've no doubt there much in Inception which I just turned "off" to). Following repost from Locke: The Prestige is so fucking incredible. Every scene is perfectly important to the story. The cages of canaries foreshadowing the 100 deaths of Robert Angier. Borden's character saying "we were two men at the start of a great career" referring to him and his brother instead of him and Angier. The juxtaposition of Angier and Cutter, Borden and Fallon, Tesla and his assistant, etc. The "twist" that it was sci-fi instead of a period piece. The themes of suffocation (Angier's wife drowning, Angier's drowning; Fallon's near-suffocation, his wife's hanging, Borden's ultimate hanging; their assistant being advised "not to breathe"). The parallels of Angier and Borden's rivalry to Edison and Tesla's rivalry. The little boy pointing out to Borden "What happened to his brother?", thus foreshadowing Borden's secret behind his prestige. The massive consistency where Borden behaves differently towards Sarah depending on which brother is playing Borden that day. The brilliant puzzle of "How could he not know?" which knot he tied, when - in fact - the writer of the diary DIDN'T know which knot it was, since it was his brother who tied it. The narrative technique of the two magicians reading each other's falsified diaries. The fact that the entire movie is built as a Pledge, Turn, and Prestige in its own right. The initials of the characters Alfred Borden Robert Angier spelling "ABRA", for abracadabra. The refusal to seek the sappy Hollywood ending and show that both men are destroyed... Borden hanging dead, his brother never experiencing the joy of the audience's faces (as he is a poor showman); Angier dead 101 times over. And on and on and on and on... Yet people bitch about whether Superman can trim his beard or not. It's pathetic. You people wouldn't appreciate a Nolan Twilight Zone if it were given to you, so be grateful it's Reeves.
This is terrible news, this series needs you to have a level of creativity that this guy doesn't have. More money down the drain, more bland shit presented in the name of the Twilight Zone. Spin in your grave Rod.
Oct. 16, 2011, 6:59 a.m. CST
The Prestige as a 1963 two part B&W Twilight Zone starring Clint Eastwood as Angier, Adam West as Borden
by CARTMANEZ
The problem is that Abrams is milking a whole career on TV and cinema as the creator of LOST. Just see how many adverts of the movies he was involved had the tag "from the creator of LOST". As if he was the sole creator of the thing. and that's how he carried himself around, and that's how the geekry fell in absolutle complete surrender to his bullshit. I guess walking around claiming to be the creator of LOST gives more credence then being the creator of FELICITY, i bet. Or as the writer of REGARDING HENRY and JOYRIDE. Or the script for Superman that was so terrible everybody in and out of Holywood laughed at. I don't lament Linderhoff's owes because he stills slaves his ass under Abrams orders. If the LOST stuff was so traumatic to him, and Abrams had left him on such a bad spot, then why the fuck is he still hanging out with Abrams, kissing his ass? The ass sore must not had been that bad, then. I blame Abrams for the stupid ideas he had that causes a bunch of unresolved impossibilities to the story and structure of LOST. And i blame Lindenoff because the shit he came up with barely made it any better. I sympathise with Lindenoff, but up to a point.
Oct. 16, 2011, 7:39 a.m. CST
Doesn't matter if Matt Reeves' TWILIGHT ZONE movie ends up bad, AICN will still praise the shit out of it. The JJ Abrams connection, you see.
by AsimovLives
Hell, there was fools in here (and by that i also mean the regular reviewers) who actually dared to coment that LET ME IN was superior or more enjoyable then LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Unbelievable madness! Or unbelievable ass-kissing!
Oct. 16, 2011, 8:17 a.m. CST
Twilight Zone will rest on the quality of the script, not necessarily the director
by melonman
As much as auteurism idolises the director this movie will be down to the script. Reeves could turn in a watchable product given the right tools. But it's someone else's story he's making. And it was always the scripts that made the original series so good (although they did have some pretty amazing directors passing through it's doors, using it as a low budget film school much the same way others trained under Roger Corman). If we're going to hold the director up on a project like this I'd at least have liked to have seen a writer/director hired.
Oct. 16, 2011, 8:24 a.m. CST
asi: Lindelof just comes over suprisingly well on the above-mentioned interview
by melonman
He appears modest, amiable and intelligent, and describes pretty well the gruelling experience of working in the TV fodder factory, then having your dream come true of running a show, but then the nightmare scenario of not being given enough time to do it properly. Lost's flaws stem from that psychotic rush into production that made him want to quit through exhaustion and stress. He was in a no win situation, and he made the best of it. It could've been a career finisher if he had walked off. He also talks a little about Prometheus. Just how visual Scott is, and his respect for previous script drafts he read before being brought in.
re bale and borden thats kinda the point. Borden doesnt know how to be a showman. he is intense, but lacking flair (both of him). whereas angier, whilst not as talented, is cleary the man with more presence. If anything, the lack of flair in the performance was right for the character kinda like bale and jackman. bale is the more talented actor, but Jackman has a more natural sense of being a showman.(probably comes from being a song and dance man)
Oct. 16, 2011, 8:52 a.m. CST
Asimov: you have lost all credibility whatsoever. Really? Bashing Zemetkis? Really?
by UltraTron
Let's see. At least 7 of the most watched classic films ever made were lensed by zemetkis. But he doesn't get a pass because he experiments with the latest art tools? Hmm. Ok. Fine. I'll hate him too now. You've convinced me.
I agree that Zemekis has made some classics, but at the same time, he has shown signs of Lucas Syndrome more and more these days. It is not that people don't want him to experiment, but that it would be nice to see Zemekis make a movie with real live people again using good old fashion real cinematography to do so. That would be novel.
I bash Zemeckis any day of the week. Yeah, he made some now class movies inthe past. Allow me to repat that. HE MADE SOEM GOOD MOVIES IN THE PAST! IN THE PAST! THE PAST!
I bash Zemeckis any day of the week. Yeah, he made some now class movies inthe past. Allow me to repat that. HE MADE SOME GOOD MOVIES IN THE PAST! IN THE PAST! THE PAST! ONCE UPON A TIME! ONCE! THE PAST! Nowdays, i bash Zemeckis until the seas boil over. I bash the fuckign hack fuck that Zemeckis have become,the stupid retard fuckign fool and his fucking dead eyed zzombie CGI cartoons bullshit. And the fucking retard bullshit CONTACT piece of shit he made as well. Andthe pointof no return was that shit crap fucking bulslhit called BEOWULF. After that shit, fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass! So yeah, fuck Roberty Zemeckis up his fucking ass! Fuck that fucking fuck! And i use to be his fan. Make no mistake, he used to be one of my favorite. Now i jsut want him to go get fucked and fuck off and never make movies ever gain and just get fucked, the fucking fuck! Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass! Fuck that fucking ass. Fuck him, that fucking fucker!
I think it has always been terribly underrated the visiual quality of the TWILIGTH ZONE show. Yes, it was the inteligent writing that made the differenc,e but man, that show was a visual fiest! Never understimate the important of visual conponent of that show to it's sucess. To prove the point, notice when, in the 1980s, the 80s version of the show reused and remake someof the classic episodes, and how bland looking they were compared to the classics from the original show. TWILGIHT SHOW was a complete show, from writing to acting to directing to visuals. A complete show indeed. I'm not disagreeing with you, i'm just comenting on something i think you failed to adress, that's all.
Seems Lindenoff knows how to talk the talk. sAdly, so many hacks out there know that too. They all know to talk the talk. Sadly, few if any of them know the walk. After readingand listening to so many JJ Abrams bulslhit interviews, i'm more them immune to this type of verbiage, to this talk talk stuff. Do you remember the great talk that McG gave before TERMINATOR CASTRATION was released? How afable, sincere, humble and self-deprecating he was? How he said all the right things? And what a terrible piec eof retard berayal piece of shit the movie was, and how it was proved how insincere he was? I learned my lesson. I'm sorr,y but Lindenoff doesn't convince me at all. All is ee grom his is the same bulslhit i see from his beloved mentor, the master of bullshit Jar Jar Abrams and his two ass-slaves buddies Orci and Kurtzman.
i'd watch that twilight zone film
IMO I like the idea of bringing back the B&W filming, if its done right. I think one of the reasons it worked so well in the original Twilight Zone series in creating that eerie vibe, and even OL for that matter, is that its really Film Noir done well. It added a since of the unkown to the usually tese and or creepy story line already present. As far as this project goes, even though I could be ultimatly proven wrong, I think i'll be something along the line of LOST. And thats not a bad formula necessarily.
No, LOST is not a bad formula, it's a terrible formula. Making a whole Twilight Zone in which stuff would be pulled out of the filmmakers' ass without a though on how to resolve it, a whole thing made of ass-pulls, that, in my opinion, is not a good way to make anything.
For all you've gone over regarding The Prestige, plus the beautiful cinematography and great cast (except ScarJo who can't act worth shit), I like and bought the movie. However, even after everything I couldn't bring myself to love the movie because regardless of the presentation an the show, it failed to do what every great magic trick does; it didn't fool the audience. They broadcast all the twists so much that they neutered any kind of surprise reveal. If you didn't realize that they were brothers and that Angiers was suiciding his clones by the time the final act began, then you didn't pay attention. Unfortunately the script had to be clever and squeeze in all the little clues like the ones that you pointed out that they blew their wad prematurely. The ending wasn't the 'Tada!' that they meant for it, but rather a 'see, the rabbit WAS in the hat all along just like everyone knew it was'. Hell, how many times did Bale's wife have to do that whole 'you don't love me today' shit before the audience was suppose to know it was two men? It was not the perfect film, just better than most. I still think Momento
*Ahem* I still think Momento is Nolans best film. It may be a much simpler film, but it is more effective IMO.
Oct. 16, 2011, 3:04 p.m. CST
Lance Reddick (Broyles on Fringe) should be the Serling-style "host" of the movie
by Nasty In The Pasty
Reddick has that grave-yet-playful intonation that Serling always had in his monologues.
Think it's Nolans best film so far, I guess this news is kind of fair enough as like others have pointed out, The Prestige and Inception could pass as Twilight Zone feature lenghts. What matters now is who they have writing this... still be really interested in a series done right again whether it uses the name or doesn't, as long as the ideas and writing are great, (if the directing did them justice too then, well that would also be nice))
Oct. 16, 2011, 3:29 p.m. CST
by smatt584: "ScarJo who can't act worth shit" LOST IN TRANSLATION would disprove that acessment.
by AsimovLives
Amnd not just that movie. Is she not that strong in blockbusters? She's not alone. She does great in smaller movies.
Oct. 16, 2011, 3:35 p.m. CST
and smatt584, THE PRESTIGE is great because 'see, the rabbit WAS in the hat all along just like everyone knew it was'.
by AsimovLives
A nonsensical twist would had hurt the movie. That the movie is filled with clues that how the end will play out (and which you were smart enough to pick up) also saves the movie from having an ass-pull as an ending. And despiste all that, we are still discussing about the movie. Instead of being just some forgotten movie in a bargain bin. It must mean the movie did something right. Sometimes we don't love grrat movies. Sometimes we are reluctant to accept or love and enjoy great movies at first. I know about that because that's what happened to me with 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY. I can't boast that i loved that movie at first sight because i didn't. Was i not smart enough for it, didn't i payed attention, was i not in the mood, i don't know. But i didn't loved it the first time i saw. But it grew on me. and now it's one of my favorites. I hope my point is coming across in that soemtimes, when we see a movie for the first time, our first impression doesn't mean it will be our final.
Oct. 16, 2011, 3:37 p.m. CST
Nolan's first shot movie he made was called DODDLEBUG. It's description reads like an idea for an episode of Twilight Zone.
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It's such a copy and paste job that it has no real reason to exist, then. The movie redefines the concept of uselessness. And i don't consider it a good copy and paste job. It's really inferior to the original. Where the original was subtle and nuanced, the remake is obvious and screams it all with a blarring obvious mickeymousing score. It's not a bad movie., But just because if takes so much form the magnificent original. A xerox copy with bad tonner.
I didn't want a nonsensical twist, the one they had was perfect as it was, the problem was they took these two great twists and spelled them both out well before the big reveal. And it's a tough argument to say it was Nolans intention to give away the ending ahead of time because of the way he shoots the last act you can tell that he expects the audience to be surprised by it, but things like Bales bad makeup when he was playing the brother were too obvious not to ruin the surprise. Imagine if a little more care had gone into preserving the ending, how awesome it would have been if had been a surprise? Too many 'clues' took away the mystery. And it's too bad too, because they had a killer ending. I'm not saying the movie was 'ruined' by any stretch of the term or that I didn't like or enjoy it (shit, I bought the movie after I had seen it twice). I'm not even saying the movie was not extremely well made in it's own right. Only that it falls well short of greatness because of a fundamental flaw. Hell, the same type of flaw completely ruined Shutter Island for me, but, sad to say, SI didn't have the craftsmanship that TP did to save it.
I wish they would leave it alone. The original series was wonderful. Now Hollywood will crap out a subpar version.
Because then if one film sucks the others might save it. Remember Richard Kelly trying to remake the phone episode whatever. I don't want to see that again.
I understand your point, and you presented it intelligently. It seems obvious to me that i'll not be able to convince you otherwise. It's your opinion, and i respect it. Me, i just think the movie is a whole portait and representation of the concept of the prestige in illusionism. The cleus were all hidden in plain sight. I believe they are supposed to be found out. At second viewing. You, you are like the guys who watch a magic trick and notice the slight of hands that the magicians are doing. We rest of us do not notice, or we deliberatly let ourselves be carried by the showmanship. This doesn't mean we are stupidier, it's just that you are more perceptive.
That´s the reason i like Cloverfield. I enjoy those How I Met Your Mother douches being killed by Godzilla and his crabs.
It's in black and white. Clooney is smoking and saying- picture if you will- one George Clooney- a simple man- a quiet man. A man who has just started introducing segments in- the twilight zone.
That's the best reason to enjoy CLOVERFIELD i ever heard. It's funy that the same reason why the movie can be so unbearable is also why it can be so enjoyable. Sadly, the movie doesnt start with those assholes being killed rigth away, we have to stay with those jerks for 20 minutes until the shit hits NY. What's so hysterical about Cloverfield is that the movie and the filmmakers actually believe this a re a bunch of people we would want to actually be with and feel sympathy for.
Oct. 17, 2011, 8:39 a.m. CST
Harry says Matt Reeves is the man behind Cloverfield. Yet, during the movie's advertizement...
by AsimovLives
... back in the day when it was released, only one single name was mentioned, repeatedly: JJ Abrams, the creator of Lost. So much so there's people, even today, who think he directed the movie, not Matt Reeves. Mention Mattt Reeves and it's like "Matt who?".
Oct. 17, 2011, 10:30 a.m. CST
Matt Reeves was endorsed by the novel's author, because
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Lindqvist liked Cloverfield, and came to find out that Reeves also had a rather lonely childhood. Despite the obvious differences, you've got to give Let Me In credit for spot on casting, photography and direction. Yes, the CGI is a bit cartoony, but the bravura sequence of the car escape with the "father" is a great example of special effects filmmaking to give a realistic feeling.
LET ME IN is not a bad movie, but it's not remarkable either. Adnd compared to the original, it's pretty banal. I have a tendency to not fully believe the words of filmmakers and their acossiates right when the movie cames out. They are contractually obliged so sell the movie, so of course none of the people involved will say they sold the movie rights to this american company because the money was good, they will do the usual "always been a fan of this dude, etc etc". Not everybody are like Alan Moore, in fact he's notorious for how different and an exception he is.
If this Twilight Zone movie is not an anthology, how does it distinguish itself from any other Fantasy movie with a twist ("The Sixth Sense", "The Prestige", "The Mist", "Planet of the Apes")? There were 150+ 30-minute episodes of the 1959-1963 Twilight Zone. Many were hits, many were misses, but all of them had qualities about them that made them Twilight Zones. Rod Serling's presence, a surprise ending, a different cast for every story and they were in glorious black and white. All of these requirements will escape those involved in this latest cash-in attempt because the studio suits will never be convinced it could make "blockbuster" money. And they'd be right because the Twilight Zone is almost other-worldly. It's from another time. It won't work today. This new movie shouldn't be made. DiCaprio is looking to capitalize on the Twilight Zone brand. That is all.
What happened on the Twilight Zone set in 1982 was the most horrific accident ever caught on film. Saw it on You Tube once not thinking they would actually show it uncut in a doco, but I can tell you it is horrific beyond words. The details are not important. Poor Jennifer Jason Leigh losing her beloved dad in such an awful manner.
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An omnium (from Latin: of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats.
The omnium was re-introduced into the World Championships as a five race format for men in 2007 and for women in 2009. The omnium was changed in 2010 by the UCI to include the elimination race and the distances of the events were lengthened to favor endurance cyclists.[1]
The omnium replaces the individual pursuit, the points race, and the Madison at the Summer Olympic Games beginning in 2012. The change received some criticism from cyclist Rebecca Romero, who was left unable to defend her Olympic title.[2]
Current omnium[edit]
Currently, and at the 2012 Olympics, the omnium as defined by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) consists of the following six events:
- Flying lap (against the clock)
- Points race
- 30 km for elite men, 20 km for elite women, 15 km for junior men, 10 km for junior women
- Elimination race
- Individual pursuit
- 4,000 metres for elite men, 3,000 metres for junior men and elite women, and 2,000 metres for junior women
- Scratch race
- Time trial
- 1 km men, 500 metres women[3]
Points are awarded in reverse order. The rider who finishes first in an event receives one point, the second rider will get two points and so on. The rider with the fewest points after all events is the winner. When two riders are tied on points, the combined time of the three time trials will break the tie amongst the riders. A rider must have completed every event in the omnium.
- ^ Birnie, Lionel (17 December 2009). "Olympic omnium format unveiled". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Romero and Wiggins lose out in Olympic cycling shake-up". BBC Sport: Cycling. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "§ 6 Kilometre and 500 metres Time Trial". Part 3: Track Races. UCI Cycling Regulations. p. 21. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
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Despite the small size of the island, golfers will be delighted with the golf courses on Tobago. Two championship 18-hole courses are currently in play, and a third 9-hole course planned.
The Mount Irvine Bay Hotel & Golf Club course is Tobago's original and most established course and the more forgiving of the two, particularly to the less than expert golfer or "duffers" like me. One couldn't ask for more beautiful surroundings. There are stunning views of the Caribbean Sea from every hole. On the downside, the course is set within gently rolling countryside and can be a total sun trap. It is vital to use a buggy and carry lots of drinking water.
There are several highly memorable holes. Reports suggest that standards have slipped over recent years and that the course would benefit from increased investment and a more rigorous maintenance schedule if it is to stay competitive. The good news is that management changes seems to have brought a new focus on the clubs future and there is evidence of considerably increased course maintenance.
The newer 18-hole Tobago Plantations Golf & Country Club course has all the bells and whistles and will definitely suit the more experienced golfer. A new 9-hole course more suited to the novice golfer is planned. It was due to open by the end of 2003, but as of mid-2008, work has not even started. That's Tobago for you. Although not as established as the Mt. Irvine Bay, the Tobago Plantations course is in superb condition and has made best use of existing trees, foliage and mangroves. Being located on the Atlantic coast, the constant cooling trade winds means that this course can be played at any time of day, but once again players are advised to use a buggy and carry lots of drinking water.
A hidden treasure at the Tobago Plantations course is the wildlife. One knowledgeable resident recently described it to me as "mind-blowing" and reckoned that the Lowlands development could become world renown for its wildlife.
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We were thrilled to find this outstanding Amarone from the famous producer Masi. It won in our blind tasting of dozens of wines.
Amarone is made in a very unusual way. First, the grape varieties that are used are generally unknown and only found in this region in north eastern Italy. Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara are the varieties.
Only the ripest and healthiest bunches are picked for ... Read More …
Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, 2011
Alsace, France
There are a handful of truly iconic wineries in Alsace. Zind-Humbrecht stands tall among them.
The winemaker and owner, Olivier Zind-Humbrecht, is one of the few Masters of Wine in France. He practices bio-dynamic farming techniques. This means the vineyard is farmed in an ultra-organic way and the earth's cosmic rhythms guide all of the viticultural practices.
There's no other place in the world that makes better Gewurztraminer than ... Read More …
Billecart-Salmon, Brut Rose
Rose is the signature wine of Billecart-Salmon, a House that is considered to be the benchmark for this style of Champagne.
Pink Champagne is the most difficult sparkling wine to make. The color must be perfect and there shouldn't be a trace of tannin. This requires a high level of skill as a winemaker, given that the wine will not be opened for at least 3 years.
Billecart-Salmon is considered ... Read More …
Jacquart, Brut Mosaique
Champagne, France
Jacquart's Brut Mosaique comes from the famous area of Champagne, just 2 hours north east of Paris. Here, the art of making sparkling wine has been perfected over centuries.
It requires a very particular skill in winemaking to create fine sparkling wine. Unlike with most still wines, the grapes are picked early to retain acidity. This helps keep sparkling wines crisp and refreshing when opened years later. The art ... Read More …
Selbach-Oster, Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Spatlese, 2010
Mosel Valley, Germany
Since 1660 the Selbach family has been producing some of the very finest Rieslings in the Mosel Valley. This is arguably the greatest of all the German wine regions, which is known for the incredibly steep slopes, slate soils, and wines that are capable of ageing for decades.
This wine comes from the Sonnenuhr vineyard which is close to the village of Zelting. It is made ... Read More …
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, La Grande Dame, 2004
La Grande Dame represents the very finest Champagne made by Veuve Clicquot. It is a luxury Cuvee, and only made a few times each decade. After all, it is a tribute to the widow Clicquot, who took over the management of the House at age 26, and was the driving force behind the success of this international brand.
Tiny bubbles stream though a brilliant pale golden ... Read More …
Domaine Marc Morey et Fils, 1er Cru En Virondot, Chassagne-Montrachet 2008
Burgundy, France
Since 1919 the Morey family has been cultivating a small number of vines in a tiny appellation in southern Burgundy called Chassagne-Montrachet. This is indisputably one of the finest appellations of Burgundy and produces some of the very best white wines in the world.
The Domaine is steeped in tradition. The focus is on winemaking, rather than marketing. It's about extracting ... Read More …
La Crema, Russian River Valley, Sonoma 2009
California, USA
Chardonnay is a chameleon. It comes in a range of styles depending on the growing area and the winemaker's techniques. In the Russian River valley in Sonoma the hot California sun is tempered by the cool coastal fogs that roll in off the nearby Pacific ocean. This creates a style that has the richness of a warm climate and the lively acidity of a cool ... Read More …
Domaine Weinbach, Grand Cru Furstentum, Vendange Tardive 2008
Alsace, France
This stunning wine is made by Domaine Weinbach in Alsace, considered to be one of the finest producers of Gewurztraminer in the world.
The grapes come from a single Grand Cru vineyard called Furstentum. They are picked late in the season, when they have high levels of sugar in the berry and tropical fruit flavors have developed. This results in a sweet dessert wine, ... Read More …
Meritage – Merlot & Cabernet Blend
Chateau Le Bon Pasteur, AC Pomerol, 2006
Bordeaux, France
Chateau Le Bon Pasteur is the home of the world's most famous flying winemaker, Michel Rolland. This is a highly revered property that lies in close proximity to the iconic Chateau Petrus, and just a stone's throw from Cheval Blanc.
Inside Le Bon Pasteur, you will find some of the most revolutionary winemaking techniques in the world. They harvest individual ... Read More …
Langmeil, Valley floor, 2008
Barossa Valley, Australia
The winery was started by a 36 year old German blacksmith named Christian Auricht, who arrived in South Australia in 1838 after emigrating from Europe. When he and his family arrived they had little more than the clothes on their backs. In 1843 he planted his first vines, which were of the classic Shiraz variety, and established the winery.
Over 160 years later and Langmeil is recognized ... Read More …
Domaine Weinbach, Grand Cru Furstentum, Vendange Tardive 2005
Alsace, France
This stunning wine is made by Domaine Weinbach in Alsace, considered to be one of the finest producers of Gewurztraminer in the world.
The grapes come from a single Grand Cru vineyard called Furstentum. They are picked late in the season, when they have high levels of sugar in the berry and tropical fruit flavors have developed. This results in a sweet dessert wine, ... Read More …
Albert Bichot, Domaine du Pavillon, Clos des Mouches, Beaune 1er Cru, 2008
Burgundy, France
Albert Bichot was recently named amongst the "Top 100 wineries in the world" by Wine and Spirits magazine. When Bernard Bichot founded the house back in 1831 it's doubtful that he would have imagined such success.
This wine comes from a single vineyard called Clos des Mouches, which is one of Burgundy's gems. It's located just south of Beaune and ... Read More …
I take my hat off to Antinori. If I had to choose to be a winery owner then Piero's my man.
I've been fortunate to visit Tignanello and others in Tuscany, icons of the wine world, and with stunning wines to prove it. But I'd never been to his Napa estate until recently.
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September 2008 IT News
U ranks third in PC Magazine's "Top Wired Colleges 2008"
The University of Utah has been ranked number three in this year's PC Magazine's "America's Top Wired Colleges." The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kansas State were the only two universities ranked higher. Others in the top 20 include MIT, Stanford, USC, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Boston College and Villanova.
The evaluation was completed by the Princeton Review's data collection team which annually identifies the best 368 colleges in America. The criteria focused on four areas:
1. Academic use of and teaching of IT,
2. IT Services and Resources available to students,
3. Quality and Availability of IT Infrastructure, and
4. Technology Support.
This is a prestigious recognition of a focused team effort by IT staff and faculty in support of President Young's strategic initiative to provide high quality IT services and academic programs. This honor required hard work from many at the U in providing these services and making the University of Utah one of the top three tech-friendly wired campuses in America.
It is a further recognition that the University of Utah is a great place to attend college.
You can read the full article at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329359,00.asp.
U receives ACUTA Honorable Mention for Wireless
Earlier this year, Trapeze Networks nominated the University of Utah for an ACUTA award honoring excellence in communications technology. The U utilizes Trapeze hardware for much of the campus' wireless networks infrastructure. The nomination was based on the recent project to implement ubiquitous wireless coverage in campus buildings.
ACUTA is the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education. The award for Institutional Excellence in Information Communications Technology is ACUTA's most prestigious, recognizing information communications technology excellence and professionalism. While the U didn't receive the main award, we did receive:
Honorable Mention, 2008
ACUTA Institutional Excellence in Communications Technology
For Outstanding Achievement,
Wireless Network Implementation.
Congratulations and thanks to our wireless staff.
University of Utah Hospital and SOM Administrators may pick up 2008 Qwest DEX White and Yellow Pages telephone books at the entrance to the Pavilion hallway on 'A level' (east of the patient elevators) as early as Monday afternoon, September 22, 2008.
Campus departments will have the Qwest DEX telephone books delivered directly to their building as early as Monday, September 22, 2008.
CD-ROMs on order are scheduled to arrive October 2008.
- HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER – September 22-26, 2008, place old telephone books on recycling cart in designated pick-up area in the Pavilion hallway.
- LOWER and UPPER CAMPUS – Custodial crew leader in your building will set-up placement location for the old telephone books.
- HERITAGE COMMONS – Place old telephone books in the blue recycling bins.
- UNIVERSITY STUDENT APARTMENTS – Place old telephone books in the West Village recycling bin by main office.
- RESEARCH PARK – Place old telephone books in the recycling bin at 606 Black Hawk Way.
If you have questions, call Robin Horton, University Information Technology, at 585-7205.
U of U Campus Alert first in the State
by Starlee Holman, ACS
Wouldn't it be nice to know if campus was closed for a snow day - before you get there? Or if a major road to campus was shut down - before you were in the traffic? Wouldn't it be nice to know about any out-of-course events that are happening on campus so you can be prepared?
With the help of Administrative Computing Services, alert messages are now available through voice message, text messaging and email. This new system will "allow us to effectively communicate with the campus community in an emergency," said Les Chatelain, director of the center for emergency programs.
The University of Utah is the first to have this extensive of a program in the entire state. Since it is still new, only about 15 percent of students and staff have taken advantage of Campus Alert, but the enrollment continues to rise. "The hardest thing is getting people to sign up," said Chatelain. "They don't want to admit that they may need it in an emergency."
To be prepared and start receiving notifications, sign up by logging into your CIS homepage. Staff will click the U of U Campus Alert link under the My Human Resources/Payroll menu and students can access it under the Update Student Profile menu.


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Evanvanderploeg stayed here on Jan 12, 2013 during their trip titled: Living in London.
Brugge on Sunday
Made an early start after a delicious breakfast. Went and parked the car outside the old town as the day before. Today was a special day and the town was blocked off to cars. Thought it would be nice and relaxing not having to worry about crossing roads but did not count on the million and a half push bikes! Nearly got bowled over numerous times. Today was a special day, don't really know what was being celebrated but it was awesome. The sun ...
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... told us it. We then drove through France to get the ferry back to England. Once there it was back on another bus to get through to London to the hostel where it first started for the people who had been on the full 29day tour. Sarah and Ben, this awesome couple that actually got engaged in Switzerland during the tour, had decided they would stay in a hotel that night and couldn't get their money back from the hostel so I ended up taking ...
Bruges in Belgium Tour
... the canal ride it was so pretty. National dish of Moules Frites" (mussels and French fries) (served with various sauces : wine, cheese, onions, garlic etc. for the mussels and mayo for the fries) accompanied by Belgian beer. In Belgium, steamed mussels and fried potatoes go together as naturally as fish and chips in England, and a burgers and fries in Canada. So of course Taylor and I had mussels for lunch. They were so good. Also tried Rodenbach beer which s ...
To beer or not to beer
... night, just after 7pm, and we didn't like our chances of getting a table. But we were just in time and a waiter showed us to the very last table. Another waiter came around with menus and asked us if we wanted drinks. Having missed out on raspberry beer earlier, I asked if they had any. He said absolutely, one of his favourites was a raspberry-flavoured beer. Mum decided to have the same and he recommended we each have a different sort, so we could try ...
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Has your heart ever skipped a beat—and not because you're in love? Irregular heartbeats, known clinically as 'arrhythmias,' are not uncommon.
When a heart attack strikes, minutes matter. "The sooner a heart attack victim gets a clogged artery opened up, the better the outcome," says Dr. Robert Kopitsky, the medical director of the cardiac catheterization lab at Missouri Baptist Medical Center. "In addition to surviving the attack, there is less damage and risk of future complications, meaning better outcomes down the road." Ninety minutes is the most widely accepted time frame, he notes, but faster is better. "We do even better than that. Our goal is to get them in and have the artery opened up in less than 60 minutes, and we hit that target about 100 percent of the time."
About 5 million people in the U.S. have some type of an arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, and the most common type is atrial fibrillation, explains electrophysiologist Dr. Karthik Ramaswamy, the director of the new Arrhythmia Center at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.
October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month, and while no one ever wants to experience this first-hand, about seven in 1,000 infants succumb to SIDS every year, according to World Development Indicators.
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Giordano tried to redeem Robyn Gardner insurance policy
Investigators were trying to determine if there was anything unusual or striking about the policy. "If you change the policy around and make it higher or whatever, then it may be of interest to the investigation but we haven't established that yet," he said.
ABC news, citing an unidentified police source, first reported that Giordano had taken out a $1.5 million American Express insurance policy on Gardner and that it was being considered as a possible motive in her disappearance.
Giordano's attorney, Michael Lopez, did not respond to a request to comment on the insurance policy. The attorney has previously said that there is no evidence that Giordano committed any crime and that he should be released.
Giordano, a 50-year-old business owner from Gaithersburg, Maryland, traveled to Aruba with Gardner on July 31 and reported her missing two days later, saying she disappeared while the two were snorkeling.
He initially assisted the search but was detained at the airport as he tried to leave Aruba. Authorities said they had found discrepancies in his story.
Giordano, a twice-divorced father of three sons, has denied any wrongdoing through his attorney.
A judge ruled Monday there is enough evidence to hold him for at least 16 more days on suspicion of involvement in Gardner's presumed death. The woman's body has not been found and Aruban authorities on Thursday were preparing for a new, large-scale search of the island for her remains or other evidence.
Investigators are seeking to collect enough evidence by the next detention hearing to hold him for another 60 days and proceed to trial.
The FBI, which searched Giordano's home in an upscale Washington suburb, has been assisting Aruban authorities with the investigation and has put out a missing-person poster with three photographs of the 5-foot-4-inch blonde, including one showing a jungle-print design tattoo on her left shoulder. The poster urges anyone with information about Gardner to contact the FBI or the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate.
The exact nature of Giordano's relationship with Gardner, who had a boyfriend back home in Maryland, isn't clear but the prosecutor's office has said the couple stayed in a room together at a Marriott hotel in Aruba.
Investigators said they have little information about what the couple did and how they behaved while on the island and have appealed for any witnesses to contact police.
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"I Was Sweating It Out For Democracy": A Conversation with Anna Keesey
"Here is a fine novel, written with grace, about the settling of Oregon and the evening redness in the West. The desert town of Century is about to consume itself with greed and vengeance when a young orphan from Chicago shows up with a moral clarity that outstrips her age, to remind us that characters matters, and that justice is pursuant to conscience. Little Century is a frontier saga, a love story, and an epic of many small pleasures."
-- Joshua Ferris, author of The Unnamed and Then We Came to the End, winner of the 2007 Discover Award for fiction
I'm crazy for Anna Keesey's debut, Little Century, partially because I'm fascinated by stories about the opening of the American West, partially because she's created a terrific voice in the character of Esther Chambers, but really, in the end, because her writing style is simply fantastic: spare and precise, earnest and ferocious. Comparisons have already been made to My Antonia and the film There will Be Blood, but let's also add True Grit, Lonesome Dove, and Deadwood to that list.
Anna Keesey talks about period research, writing about the high desert, and the uglier side of American enterprise -- among other things -- with Discover Great New Writers.
How would you best summarize Little Century?
I'd say this: In the juniper and sagebrush desert of Central Oregon, in the year 1900, a recently-orphaned girl of eighteen arrives in the town of Century to visit a distant cousin, a cattle rancher. Though she's astonished by the austerity of the landscape and would like to flee home to Chicago, the girl, Esther, stays on, partly because her cousin Pick has inveigled her into taking a homestead claim under false pretenses, and she feels she has to keep her promise to him. But she soon sees that the town is in the grips of a range war -- a competition between cattle people and sheep people for grazing land and water -- and as the belligerent factions become more open and more violent in their competition, she becomes as embroiled in the economic, political, and romantic complexities of Century as any of the natives. The hostilities become the fire in which her adult self -- her ethics, loyalties, loves, and vocation -- are forged.
When did you first come up with the idea for the book?
I had messed around with a few ideas for stories set in the high desert, blundering up various pathways and having to retreat because I was essentially still thinking as a short story writer, which was of course the only thing I'd done before. In that form you sometimes need relatively little plot, and the lyric movement, or the movement of the consciousness of a character, can shape the story. At some point, in reading about the history of Central Oregon, I read an account of a famous 1904 case that appeared to be connected to an ongoing conflict between sheep and cattle folks over grazing opportunities, in which a storekeeper disappeared and was later found dead out on the range. It was unclear what exactly had happened, whether it was a murder or a suicide, and if murder, who the culprit, and what the motive. That little mystery, that long-gone gap in the historical record, seeded the book. I just wanted to go into that world and imagine not what DID happen, but what COULD have happened -- making that COULD a version that was full of currents and properties and details that held particular resonance for me. It's world-building, like what a speculative fiction writer does. I suppose all historical fiction -- if not all fiction -- is speculative fiction, and I felt myself totally enlivened, imaginatively, by that opportunity for speculation.
Please tell me about the high desert where the novel is set. What drew you to it as a setting for your novel?
If you've ever been anywhere in the Great Basin of the west, you know some of the radical, hot, demanding beauty I'm describing. But one of the things that's so amazing about Oregon's peninsula of Great Basin, the central and south eastern part of the state, is that it's so different from the western part, the Pacific Ocean side of the Cascades. That's the Oregon of the stories, the rain-soaked fertile territory that drew the initial settlers who farmed and logged. And that's where I grew up, in the wet Willamette Valley, where, as my grandmother used to say, you can stick anything in the ground and it will grow. But when I was a kid my father used to take us east across the Cascades to go skiing, and I was always weirdly stirred by the golden dryness and spicy smell and hairy straight Ponderosa pines and spiky juniper. I was accustomed to bronchial-looking oaks dripping seafoam-colored oak moss, and big dark wet droopy Douglas fir. I just always felt the desert was a kind of magical place. I'm not the only one, of course. It's become rather...richly populated.
Your main character Esther Chambers is at a major turning point in her life. How much do you identify with Esther, or how much of yourself did you write into her?
Wow. That's hard to answer. She undergoes a kind of brutal maturation that all adolescents go through, which I certainly remember and identify with, in which they move from the relatively protected space of childhood into responsibility, perception, and risk. Not that all children have protected childhoods, because of course they don't, but there's a kind of fluidity, a protection from full consciousness, that children have and have to relinquish for the pleasures and sorrows of adulthood. In the book, Esther makes the better part of this transition in the space of one year -- it takes most of us a lot longer to put it all together, to become a self we recognize as continuous and integrated. I have a strong memory of feeling like I had to figure everything out on my own, without asking questions, and of being embarrassed and full of self-loathing when I was at a loss, and she has some of that. I identify with Esther's loneliness, certainly, and her receptivity to children and animals and funky eccentric people, all of whom I myself find consoling. I have her built physically quite a bit like me -- that may be the telling fact -- tall and broad-shouldered and light-haired. But she's less talkative than I am and more disciplined and meticulous. I would never have the patience to do what she does in the novel -- repairing mistakes on a typed page with little bits of paper!
Little Century takes place at the beginning of the 20th century -- what kind of research did you do about the period in order to tell this story?
I'd read a number of 19th-century and early 20th-century novels and memoirs, and with a bit of historical reading as well, it's not too hard to get a snapshot of that gilded age, turn-of-the-century America. I read a lot of old newspapers -- The Oregonian and various small-town Oregon papers -- and looked at lots of photographs of old Oregon. I did a lot of reading on a need-to-know basis -- that is, I needed to know who the Native Americans were who originally lived in Central Oregon, and where they were at the turn of the century, and how one operated a printing press, and what kind of typewriters were available, and when Robert Louis Stevenson's poems were published in the United States and so on. It's kind of a drag sometimes. Early on I had assigned Esther a particular typewriter sold at the time, with a name that was thematically useful to me: "The National." Through many drafts of the book it was called The National. Then, as I was checking on something else, I realized that the National was actually configured such that the typist could not SEE the words typed -- one had to lift up the carriage to check. And that would not work for my purposes in Esther's typing scenes. That was one of the places where the fiction writer in me rode rough over the historian and I was like, "Screw it! I'll make up my own brand of typewriter!"
While it's a historical novel, Little Century is also very relevant to our present because it is in part about the uglier side of American enterprise. Could you talk a little bit about this aspect of the novel?
Sure. It was certainly on my mind, because I was writing the book mostly during the Bush Administration and the Iraq War, and I was extremely troubled by what struck me as imperialism and self-righteousness and transgression against individuals in name of a larger cause. I was worried about corporate control of the media, about the simplistic "othering" of the "enemy," and the kind of coercion and exploitation -- and worse -- being done in the name of democracy. I mean -- extraordinary rendition? Really? I was sweating it out for democracy -- still am -- and that flows into the book, repeatedly, in the form of the tiny but morally significant tensions in the town of Century. It wasn't so different from now, in 1900. There were plutocrats and robber barons and a wide income gap, and there were ill-advised foreign wars characterized by jingoism. One of the pleasures of the research was reading some of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writing on the Philippine-American War, which was really a disgrace as far as I can see (though I'm no expert), and which Twain rejected in very powerful words. He was a very smart, humane guy, and he knew a misuse of American power when he saw it, and the profound connection between that misuse and corporate interests. After our recent economic crisis, it seems pretty clear that the profit motive, untempered by personal ethics or at least regulation, is a toxin. It makes people delusional, and crappy things happen. I know I felt I was referring to that force in the book, though it may not be readily apparent to all readers.
Who have you discovered lately?
I'm really playing catch-up with my reading because I've been working full-time as a college professor for years, and writing a book and raising a little boy, none of which leaves a lot of time for reading. But this summer, for the first time in years, I'm not writing a book, nor do I have a kid in diapers! I just had the pleasure of reading Madeline Miller's novel The Song of Achilles, and I found it so absorbing and lovely that I rue having to wait a while until she can write the next thing. I also just flinched my way, with great speed, through Gillian Flynn's hilarious and scary Gone Girl. I've read some historical stuff recently -- Mary Hallock Foote's memoir, some writings of the Oregon suffragette Abigail Scott Duniway, and Timothy Egan's book about the Forest Service, The Big Burn. I've been rereading some Alice Munro and W.G. Sebald, always astonishing, both, and I've been repeatedly returning to Christian Wiman's collection of poems, Every Riven Thing, which I think is gorgeous. In the past year I was completely knocked out by Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad, and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger. I'm looking forward to the next book from a number of writers I really admire -- novelist John Brandon, poet Averill Curdy, and the estimable, inventive Peter Ho Davies. Sometimes I look at all these folks and think, Gee whiz, how do people write that well? What river did they drink from as children, because I want to go bathe in it!
Cheers, Miwa
Miwa Messer is the Director of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, which was established in 1990 to highlight works of exceptional literary quality that might otherwise be overlooked in a crowded book marketplace. Titles chosen for the program are handpicked. by a select group of our booksellers four times a year. Click here for submission guidelines.
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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter may only be 3 1/2, but her lawyers are all business, threatening federal judges to either reverse themselves or get ready for a dose of Supreme Court humiliation.
Lawyers for Anna's estate -- who effectively rep Dannielynn -- just filed legal papers with the federal appeals court that shut down the estate's claim for a big piece of J. Howard Marshall's fortune.
In the papers, filed today and obtained by TMZ, Dannielynn's lawyers note that the same three judges who shut them down last month did the same thing years before, only to have their decision reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The new legal docs are a not-so-veiled threat to the entire 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Dannielynn's lawyers want 11 judges on the 9th Circuit to review the case and side with the cute little kid. The lawyers warn ... if the 11 judges don't heed this advice, they will be embarrassed when the U.S. Supreme Court tells them for a second time they're all wet.
Wow so all of the billions of dollars from the old guy are just being held up somewhere as his brother died,who was fighting anna to not get the billions. Does this mean Dannie lynn could get access to it with time
Looks like Larry's gonna hafta getz him a job.
That or disown the kid:
"Uh, there never WAS an actual paternity test."
Amazing how long the Marshall case took. All the participants are now dead, except for this little beauty. Hope the courts rule in her favor.
A threat is still a threat, even if it is a subtle one. Threatening the Judges to reverse their decision will not get the kid a thing and the Supreme Court won't be liking it very much either. This whole thing needs to end for good and not in the kid's favor. The kid is not in any way related to the Marshalls and neither was Anna - the man made it clear when he was alive - he gave Anna enough - he didn't want her to have anymore. Bring it to a permanent end.
I really don't care about this case but would love to see the 9th Circuit humiliated once again. They often make absurd rulings.
Dammit Anna, you should be here to see this beautiful child. Damn you for trusting Howard K Stern. He took you and Danny from this beautiful child's life.
So basically their attorney's shopped the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for Judges who would be sympathic to their case in order to block any further claims to the Estate. Nice.
Hate to make this such a sexist thing but when do you EVER hear about men doing this? The old man's capacity to rationalize was all but gone and he married a vision that sweet-talked him.
Hope the drug-addicted, gold-digging, absolute disaster of a once beautiful woman rests in piece. Hope this little girl is left alone. Hope her lawyers and those other leaches that latched on to her burn in hell. (A little harsh but I am SOOOO sick of this $hit)