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THE comforting idea that Muammar Qaddafi might go relatively gently into that good night like his more conventional autocratic neighbours has been dashed. Instead the Libyan dictator seems determined to follow the poet's advice by burning, raving and raging against the dying of the light. It would be bad enough if Mr Qaddafi were merely determined to kill as many of his fellow citizens as possible before quickly succumbing to his own end. But the prospect is for something even worse: either a stalemate that allows Mr Qaddafi the time he needs to re-establish his authority in the east of the country; or a bloody civil war with an uncertain outcome and the possibility of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Which is why after much pious rhetoric in Western capitals about Mr Qaddafi's growing illegitimacy, there is now urgent discussion of what kind of practical assistance could be extended to the rebels. However, after a flurry of excitement on February 28th when the British prime minister, David Cameron, told parliament that he had asked "the chief of the defence staff to work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone", the following day, Robert Gates, the American defence secretary, warned about the dangers of military intervention in another Muslim country. Mr Gates announced he was sending two naval vessels towards Libya, an amphibious assault ship, USS Kearsarge, and an amphibious dry dock, USS Ponce, but with the aim of providing humanitarian assistance.
At this point there are many objections to the use of force by outsiders to remove Mr Qaddafi. Foreign intervention would not be popular with Libya's opposition. There is so little intelligence about what is happening on the ground that it would be hard to distinguish friends from foes. America has both theoretical and practical objections to using force: it does not want to divert resources from Afghanistan and is in no rush to resume toppling Arab dictators.
Nevertheless, the option of creating a no-fly zone may yet gain ground. Mr Qaddafi's 18,000-strong air force with its 13 bases is a critical element in his bid to hold on to power. The regime's use of ground attack jets against its enemies may have been exaggerated—they are hardly the weapon of choice for street-fighting.
But of much greater use to him are his 30 or so attack helicopters (Russian Mi-25s and Mi-35s) and his substantial aerial transport capacity. These comprise seven squadrons equipped with Russian 23 An-26s, 25 IL-76s and 15 C-130s. He also has a heavy transport helicopter squadron with four Boeing Chinooks and a medium transport squadron with Soviet-era 35 Mi-8s and Mi-17s which can also be used as gun-ships. According to the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the transport squadrons are by some measure the most effective part of the Libyan air force.
Mr Qaddafi's ability to move reinforcements rapidly around the vast country has already proved important. According to intelligence estimates, far from being the delusional loon he affects to be, the Libyan leader has been preparing for the situation he finds himself in today for many years. Unlike the well-equipped, albeit poorly run, air force, the nominally 50,000-strong Libyan army (most of whom are conscripts) has long been distrusted by the regime and kept on short rations. In contrast, Mr Qaddafi and his sons have built up a paramilitary force of some 20,000 well-armed and well-drilled tribesmen loyal to their clan and supplemented by handsomely paid mercenaries from Chad and Niger.
It was tribal militiamen ferried by air from the Sahara who were dropped into the streets of Tripoli on February 21st and who bloodily cowed resistance in the capital. A few days later air transport was crucial again to Mr Qaddafi's plan to recapture the coastal towns close to Tripoli from rebel hands. Both Zawiya and Misurata still appear to be controlled by the opposition after assaults by heavily armed forces loyal to the regime were repelled on February 28th. But Mr Qaddafi's forces have surrounded the towns and cut off the road links to Tripoli.
A further concern for the opposition is that any attempt it makes to move its own forces along the 1,000km coast road to Tripoli from its stronghold in Benghazi will be highly vulnerable to air attack. There were also reports on February 28th of Libyan warplanes flying over Benghazi as if to warn the rebels they could be bombed at any time and of an attack on an arms depot 160km to the south either by jets or helicopters that had been seized by the opposition.
At present, without clear leadership, the rebels appear divided about whether they actually want an American/NATO no-fly zone. Some say that Western help would tarnish their revolutionary credentials and besides they hope (perhaps a little naively) that a combination of defecting air force pilots and planes seized on the ground will soon give them the ability to launch air attacks of their own. Buoyed by their early spectacular gains and the large number of army defections in the eastern province of Cyrenaica, they may, however, have over-estimated the ability of popular momentum to deliver victory over the whole country. Others realise that without help from Western air power they could be sitting ducks. On March 1st, the newly created revolutionary council was reportedly considering a request to the United Nations for air strikes against some of the regime's military assets.
Without a no-fly zone the anti-Qaddafi revolution could yet stumble and fail. However, while the West has plenty of experience in policing no-fly zones, they are neither easy to put into effect nor guaranteed to prevent large-scale killing on the ground. Although Saddam Hussein was deterred from taking terrible retribution on the Kurds after the first Gulf war by the no-fly zone in the north, a similar attempt to neuter the Iraqi air force in the south was much less successful in curbing his brutalities against the Shi'ite population. It is also worth recalling that the no-fly zone over Bosnia did not stop the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, while, if anything, the NATO bombing of Serbia four years later accelerated ethnic killings in Kosovo.
If a no-fly zone over Libya is to be established, it looks as if it will have to be through another "coalition of the willing" rather than with the blessing of a UN Security Council resolution which would probably be opposed by both Russia and China. In the first instance, planes flying from an American carrier, probably the USS Enterprise, could establish the no-fly zone, but land bases, such as the well-positioned US Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily or a similar facility at Souda Bay in Crete, would soon be needed to sustain a long campaign. And while enforcement of a no-fly zone is not especially complicated once everything is in place, it does require both careful planning and adequate resources (a fleet of around a hundred fighter jets, aerial refuelling, airborne warning and control, robust data links between coalition aircraft, rescue arrangements for any pilots shot done).
In establishing the no-fly zone, coalition aircraft would first have to nullify Libyan air defences, which include nearly 100 Mig-25s and 15 Mirage F-1s equipped with still-capable Soviet era air-to-air missiles and a huge arsenal of Russian surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that come in all shapes and sizes. It is unlikely, however, that either Mr Qaddafi's pilots would fare any better than the similarly equipped, but better trained, Iraqis who failed to shoot down a single allied aircraft in 11 years of no-fly zone patrolling. But military experts, including Lieutenant General David Deptula, a former fighter pilot who until recently oversaw air force intelligence at the Pentagon, believe Libya has succeeded in acquiring more up-to-date SAMs in the past few years than were available to Iraq and that these could pose a serious threat to allied aircraft.
Before going ahead with a no-fly zone over Libya, the allies (America and Britain perhaps joined by France and Italy) would have to ask themselves two more questions. The first is how long they are prepared to stick at it if Mr Qaddafi manages to hang on. The second is what degree of "mission creep" they are prepared to contemplate. A no-drive zone to prevent the regime from using the full weight of its ground forces against the rebels might be a next step. The prospect of an open-ended, possibly escalating military commitment without UN sanction is hardly a welcome one.
Getting rid of a burning, raving and raging Mr Qaddafi may prove a lot more difficult both for the brave Libyan opposition and their anxious well-wishers in the West than was hoped only a few days ago.
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Now that the Arab League has called for a no fly zone, this could make matters far more interesting for Europe, NATO and the US.
This western vacillating is driving me nuts. First they bomb him in the 80's, then they're best friends in the noughties, now they're sort of unhappy with him. I'll grant Gadaffi one thing, at least he's been consistent. Oh yeah, the author talks about the Mi 25 & 35 as though they're different machines, they're just different versions of the Mil Mi-24. Wasn't expecting that obvious boo boo from a military blog.
For all those political types full of advice on what military actions might be taken over Libya -- here's a suggestion. Why don't you focus on the political actions that might be taken, the first and most obvious of which would be to rescind recognition of Qaddafi as the legitimate govt. Indeed, why has that not been done, or at least, initiated? The lack of such action would seem to speak volumes.
Does anyone know what is really happening?
I'm somewhat relieved by the absence of a Qaddafi forces air attack on rebel HQ. They know the street address and have at least a few aircraft capable of dropping bombs. Is Benghazi beyond their range? Do they have guided bombs? Do they have pilots trained for this sort of mission? According to news reports their bombing has been inaccurate and from a low altitude resulting in 2 Sukhoi (I think) aircraft claimed shot down by rebels.
Just how far could Qaddafi's tanks travel before being immobilised by mechanical break-downs? Tanks and aircraft require considerable maintenance by skilled technicians with huge stocks of specialised spare parts just to keep them operable.
The effectiveness of the colonel's forces beyond, say 100 kilometers, may be overestimated.
On the non-military front, there is little comment on food and water supplies for both sides.
My guess of the outome is a stalemated civil war which, without outside interference would end in partition, followed by a rush to sell oil to pay for food, water and the weapons which would then be needed for both sides new national defence.
The West should sit this war out and intervene only to prevent massacre of civilians.
@bob woods
Are you sure that there are no desalination plants in the Libyan coast?
almost all of Libya's water comes from wells deep in the south. a few battalions of troops could take and hold these. cut off the water and Mr. Qaddafi will fall.
Bismark111 has the right idea. It was done in Afghanistan against the Russians and will work again.
Also mercenaries could come from Muslim countries to fight against the non-muslim Gaddafi mercenaries and train the anti Gaddafi fighters, while anti air and tank weapons land by sea to Eastern Libya.
If the west does nothing except handwringing and empty plattitudes then the effect will be the same as in Syria in 1973 when some 20,000 were killed in the town of Hama by Assad's armour and air force, and tens of thousands killed in Aleppo earlier. The west never even reported it properly.
I am in favour of a no-fly zone. As an Italian, I think our forces cannot do this alone, but can participate in joint NATO operations, sanctioned by the UN.
It would be a bad idea for any foreign power to use ground troops in Libya. But we are not required to let Gheddafi continue using warships and fighter planes to fire on the rebels. And a signal should be sent by the US, Italy and the EU, among others, that we are NOT supporting Gheddafi. Neither do we wish to see the Libyan economy, one of the only middle-class economies in Africa, destroyed permanently by a long and bitter civil war.
My understanding is that the rebels in Cyrenaica are requesting precisely this.
Operations against what is left of the Libyan navy and air force need not be costly to anybody - neither in money nor lives. We do not pay our militaries merely to parade on holidays, but rather to protect our shores and interests in a competent fashion.
If the Americans feel the Mediterranean is outside of their strategic interest, then Italy should ask US forces to leave their bases on our soil. If Italian military forces should choose not to intervene, then we must pose the question at the next elections: why have we spent so much on acquiring new fighter planes and a new aircraft carrier? Does this mean we are fighting somebody else's war in Afghanistan and unable to assist democratic rebels a few kilometres from our shores?
One word: drones
Egypt might be the only way the US could rationalize its resources in Libya. Operation Bright Star is the joint training operation the US and Egyptian military run in western Egypt every two years, and the only thing stopping Obama is his own lack of willpower, plus perhaps the close relations that Qaddafi has established with Louis Farrakhan and Obama's own 'mentor,' the odious Rev. Wright. Hillary Clinton made a fool of herself in a Senate hearing when she hesitated to recommend force for fear the Arabs might think the US is aiming for oil. After Iraq, why would this second-rater think that, even though the loon Qaddafi would trumpet it from the rooftops?
Bright Star infrastructure and tactics are all in place, but the US is a sad reflection of a world power it once was under previous presidents. I thought now that Biden claimed OBAMA had won in Iraq, we'd get rid of that sort of humbuggery.
Surely Qaddafi has vital points the opposition -- perhaps with the West's aid -- might strike? Surely additional vital points might be created? Opposing force to force is rarely sensible, rarely enables one to attain one's object -- as Napoleon, for instance, recognized. How to fight well, how to strike or create vital points, is rather interestingly laid out in The Principles of Fighting.
I personally I don't think the West should implement a no-fly zone. A better idea would be to sell the rebel's Stingers and they buy training from "consultants" . Reagan gave Stingers to Chad when they were fighting the Libyan army in the late 1980s. It defensive and neutralizes the Libyan Airforce, without having Western forces involved. 250 Stingers will cost $10 Million, and a couple of MIG shot down will effectively ground the Libyan Airforce.
Why does America seem to think its the saviour of the world when in fact they together with other Western nations including Britain sell arms to these regimes? Even during sanctions against Libya,they managed to purchase arms from the West. I really don't see why the Americans feel they must go into Libya. Their only gain is they will make it into big business, just as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And another thing, how come they were able to freeze Gaddafi's $30bn? Am tired of the hypocracy. The West claim Gaddafi is a rogue leader but they are not shy of welcoming his loot in their countries, it seems like double standards period.
I would like the Libyans to deal with their leader just as Tunisia and Egypt. Lets not encourage talk of invasion etc, only the innocent will suffer. The Western media is a machinery used for war propaganda in which the main benefactors are the WEST!!
There is no question that Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi (Al-Qaddafi) is a dictator. He has been the dictator and so-called "qaid" of Libya for about 42 years. But unlike the cases of Tunisia and Egypt, the relationship that exists between Qaddafi and both the U.S. and E.U. is a modus vivendi. Simply put, Qaddafi is an independent Arab dictator and not a "managed dictator" like Ben Ali and Mubarak.
Today, in Libya and the Arab World the ghosts of Omar Mukhtar and Saladin are still very much alive and active. Getting rid of Gaddafi and his sons alone is not the solution. The entire corrupt system of governance in Libya and the culture of political corruption must be dismantled. At the same time, however, foreign interference or domination should also not be allowed to take root in Libya. If the Libyan people are mobilized and steadfast, they can fight such schemes.
I think the US and the West is missing a chance here. Don't overreach. Don't be constrained by your current military doctrine of "overwhelming force" and your "zero-risk, zero-casualties" approach to a possible intervention, which would force you to certify the TOTAL AND COMPLETE neutralisation of Gadaffi's air defences before enforcing a COMPREHENSIVE no fly zone, with all the guarantees that entails...
From the BBC's live news update:
0804: The main Libyan opposition group has said it will not take part in talks to end the conflict until Col Gaddafi gives up power and goes into exile. The National Libyan Council continues to call for the intervention of foreign air forces to prevent Col Gaddafi from using his own military aircraft to stage air raids or move reinforcements around the country. However, it is uncomfortable with the idea of the bombing attacks, which Western air forces would insist on carrying out to suppress ground installations before mounting no-fly patrols.
Instead, "brave it". You have a command and control, technological, training and numerical superiority unparalleled in the history of air warfare. USE IT. Be opportunistic, "playful" even, in TARGETING sporadically Gaddafi's ground attack helicopters, his fighter jets, his military transport planes, his main airbases and his fuel depots.
You don't have to get them all, you don't even have to guarantee that some will not be left for his offensives. Just pummel him hard through surprise air raids and missile strikes. Degrade what little air warfare infrastructure he still has left. Goes without saying, mercilessly shoot down any fighter that ventures anywhere near an opposition-held city... As soon as word got round the Libyan pilots, morale would collapse, or pilots flying on supposed missions would simply take off from their bases and immediately head for the nearest border to exchange their jets for political asylum anywhere...
The US would have NO set objectives, NO responsibility to take or secure territory, NO requirement to guarantee anything. Just targeted strikes, at the locations and times of their complete choosing, to further degrade Gadaffi's already weak and shrinking air power. The US would therefore have a COMPLETE tactical advantage, with unlimited flexibility.
"So many toys and so little playtime..."
I'm with Nschomer. When has any country in that region intervened in to resolve a conflict. They seem more prone to starting or extending them.
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From the Russian-Chinese military industrial complex point of view if all those up-to date SAM's do not given a harder time in "The no fly zone over Lybia" , well that complex certainly will not be able any more to sell even a "Russian" kinife in the Third World!.
Egypt might be the only way the US could rationalize its resources in Libya. Operation Bright Star is the joint training operation the US and Egyptian military run in western Egypt every two years, and the only thing stopping Obama is his own lack of willpower, plus perhaps the close relations that Qaddafi has established with Louis Farrakhan and Obama's own 'mentor,' the odious Rev. Wright. Hillary Clinton made a fool of herself in a Senate hearing when she hesitated to recommend force for fear the Arabs might think the US is aiming for oil. After Iraq, why would this second-rater think that, even though the loon Qaddafi would trumpet it from the rooftops?
Bright Star infrastructure and tactics are all in place, but the US is a sad reflection of a world power it once was under previous presidents. I thought now that Biden claimed OBAMA had won in Iraq, we'd get rid of that sort of humbuggery.
Aiding those seeking Qaddafi's forced retirement is no simple project.
It must be remembered that his paramilitary forces and mercenaries are armed with some very sophisticated weapons. To provide the minimal aid of a no-fly zone over the eastern 'liberated' areas would demand suppression of SAMs over a large section of Libya beyond the protected area. That, in its turn, requires air-to-ground or ground-to-ground destruction of permanent SAM sites and prevention of the introduction of mobile SAMs. Key to evaluating the feasibility of all this is always bearing in mind that, once attacked, Qadaffi's forces will shoot back. Given their arsenal, this factor makes intervention risky for those who intervene. The greater the scale of intervention, the greater the risk.
It would be nice to fire a few rounds into Qadaffi's palace and see him exit, prominent white flag in hand. That seems highly unlikely.
That being the case, before we start we'd best have sound intelligence concerning what we are up against. Otherwise, we may conduct a campaign that will make the botched rescue of the US embassy staff from Iran look like a model of precise, surgical military action.
"Agreed, just let Khadafi and his family keep their billions in loot (Libya can, after all, sell more oil to make it up), and let them go to another country"
Yeah, I think maybe letting him have his whole loot is not politically expedient, the rebels won't agree to it. Maybe he could keep a quarter or a half -- which is still a lot. The real problem is how to guarantee his safety and convince him that he is safe for the rest of his life. It is not easy.
Also, I wonder if the rebels have a leader that has enough gravitas to move the country forward. There has to be a vision and someone focused enough to take advantage of the rare moment of momentum (pun/rhyme slightly intended) and goodwill. If the rebels are divided amongst the leadership and there is going to be bickering and power struggles then the revolution is lost. Libya will become a failed state. In fact, Qaddafi could be missed two or three years from now, just like Saddam was missed by a good fraction of Iraqis when the occupation force fell down on delivering basics like electricity, security, and even stood by when Iraq's antiquities were being looted.
Getting rid of Qaddafi is simple relative to the task that follows.
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David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick | |
Born | David Selznick May 10, 1902 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | June 22, 1965 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
(aged 63)
Cause of death
Heart attack |
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
Political party
Republican |
Religion | Judaism |
Spouse(s) | Irene Mayer Selznick (m. 1930–1948; divorced) Jennifer Jones (m. 1949–1965; his death) |
Children | Lewis Jeffrey Selznick (1932-1997) Daniel Selznick (1936- ) Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976) |
David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902 – June 22, 1965) was an American film producer and film studio executive. He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Early years[edit]
Born David Selznick to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J. Selznick and Florence A. (Sachs) Selznick. Selznick added the "O" to distinguish himself from an uncle with the same name.[1]
He studied at Columbia University in New York City and worked as an apprentice for his father until the elder's bankruptcy in 1923. In 1926, Selznick moved to Hollywood, and with the help of his father's connections, got a job as an assistant story editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He left MGM for Paramount Pictures in 1928, where he worked until 1931, when he joined RKO as Head of Production.
David Selznick's years at RKO were fruitful, and he worked on many films, including A Bill of Divorcement (1932), What Price Hollywood? (1932), Rockabye (1932), Our Betters (1933), and King Kong (1933). While at RKO, he also gave George Cukor his directing break. In 1933 he returned to MGM where his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer, was studio CEO. Mayer established a second prestige production unit for David, parallel to that of powerful Irving Thalberg, who was in poor health. Selznick's unit output included the all star cast movie-Dinner at Eight (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Anna Karenina (1935) and A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
Selznick International Pictures[edit]
Despite his output of successful movies at MGM, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures, Selznick longed to be an independent producer with his own studio. In 1935 he realized that goal by leasing RKO Culver City Studios & back lot, formed Selznick International Pictures, and distributed his films through United Artists. His successes continued with classics such as The Garden of Allah (1936), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), A Star Is Born (1937), Nothing Sacred (1937), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), The Young in Heart (1938), Made for Each Other (1939), Intermezzo (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939), which remains the highest grossing film of all time (adjusted for inflation). It also won seven additional Oscars and two special awards. Selznick also won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award that same year.
In 1940, he produced his second Best Picture Oscar winner in a row, Rebecca, the first Hollywood production for British director Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick had brought Hitchcock over from England, launching the director's American career. Rebecca was Hitchcock's only film to win Best Picture.
Later productions[edit]
After Rebecca, Selznick closed Selznick International Pictures and took some time off. His business activities included the loan of his contracted artists to other studios, including Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh and Joan Fontaine. In 1944, he returned to producing pictures with the huge success Since You Went Away, which he also wrote. He followed that with the Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945) and The Paradine Case (1947), as well as Portrait of Jennie (1948), a vehicle for Jennifer Jones. He also developed film projects and sold the packages to other producers. Among the movies that he developed but then sold was Hitchcock's Notorious (1946). In 1949, he co-produced the Carol Reed picture The Third Man with Alexander Korda.
Gone with the Wind overshadowed the rest of Selznick's career, which, he was convinced, by the time of his death, he had wasted trying to out-do it. The closest he came to matching it was with Duel in the Sun (1946) featuring future wife Jennifer Jones in the role of the primary character Pearl. With a huge budget, the film is known for causing moral upheaval because of the then risqué script written by Selznick. And though it was a troublesome shoot with a number of directors, the film would turn out to be a major success. The film was the second highest grossing film of 1947 and proved to be the first movie that Martin Scorsese would see, inspiring Scorsese's own directorial career.
"I stopped making films in 1948 because I was tired," Selznick later wrote. "I had been producing, at the time, for twenty years....Additionally it was crystal clear that the motion-picture business was in for a terrible beating from television and other new forms of entertainment, and I thought it a good time to take stock and to study objectively the obviously changing public tastes....Certainly I had no intention of staying away from production for nine years."[2] Selznick spent most of the 1950s nurturing the career of his second wife, Jennifer Jones. His last film, the big budget production A Farewell to Arms (1957) starring Jones and Rock Hudson, was ill-received. But in 1954, he ventured into television, producing a two hour extravaganza called Light's Diamond Jubilee, which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously on all four TV networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.
Personal life[edit]
In 1930, Selznick married Irene Gladys Mayer, daughter of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer. They lived in a house designed by architect Roland Coate in Beverly Hills, California in 1933-1934.[3] They separated in 1945 and divorced in 1948.[4] They had two sons, Daniel and Jeffrey Selznick. In 1949, he married actress Jennifer Jones and they had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), who committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.
Selznick was an amphetamine user, and would often dictate long, rambling memos to his directors while on it.[5] The documentary Shadowing The Third Man relates that Selznick introduced The Third Man director Carol Reed to the use of amphetamine, which allowed Reed to bring the picture in below budget and on schedule by filming nearly 22 hours at a time.[6]
Selznick was a Republican. In 1944, he organized a rally in the Los Angeles Coliseum in support of the Dewey-Bricker ticket as well as Governor Earl Warren of California, who would be Dewey's running mate in 1948. The gathering drew 93,000, with Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. Among those in attendance were Ann Sothern, Ginger Rogers, Gary Cooper, and Walter Pidgeon. Despite the good turnout at the rally, most Hollywood celebrities who took a public position endorsed the Roosevelt-Truman ticket.[7]
Selznick died in 1965 following several heart attacks, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. There he joined his older brother Myron Selznick (who had died in 1944) in the family crypt.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, David O. Selznick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd, in front of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel.
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Year | Award | Title of work | Result |
1934 | Outstanding Production | Viva Villa! | Nominated |
1935 | Outstanding Production | David Copperfield | Nominated |
1936 | Outstanding Production | A Tale of Two Cities | Nominated |
1937 | Outstanding Production | A Star Is Born | Nominated |
1939 | Outstanding Production | Gone with the Wind | Won |
1938 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Nominated | |
1939 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Won | |
1940 | Outstanding Production | Rebecca | Won |
1944 | Best Motion Picture | Since You Went Away | Nominated |
1945 | Best Motion Picture | Spellbound | Nominated |
- ^ Selznick, David O. (2000). Behlmer, Rudy, ed. Memo from David O. Selznick. New York: Modern Library. p. 3. ISBN 0-375-75531-4.
- ^ Memo from David O. Selznick, p. 423.
- ^ Pacific Coast Architecture Database: David O. Selznick House, Beverly Hills, CA
- ^ "Mrs. D. O. Selznick Wins Decree", New York Times, January 10, 1948, p. 11
- ^ "Memo From David O. Selznick". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
- ^ Shadowing the Third Man
- ^ David M. Jordan, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011), pp. 231-232
- Thomson, David. Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick. New York: Knopf, 1992. ISBN 0-394-56833-8
Further reading[edit]
- Selznick, David O. (2000 reprint) [original publication 1972 by Viking Press]. Behlmer, Rudy, ed. Memo from David O. Selznick. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75531-4. (Free preview at Amazon.com)
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Laurel Shultz loves to tell stories about student success.
As program director for Communities in Schools of Peninsula, she tells stories about the student who speaks English as a second language and came in two months before an essential algebra test. They managed to pass with the double help of a site coordinator and a mentor.
Or the student at Minter Creek Elementary who came in with reading trouble and left after they rose three grade levels in reading — meeting their grade level and going above.
"This cool flowering of a student," is the way Shultz described it.
CISP is continuing its mentoring program this year. The program is benefitting from new money — a $10,000 grant specifically for the program and a $70,000 anonymous donation. The program recently was singled out on the national Communities in Schools website.
Mentoring is just one of the group's programs, but it's a big investment of time and grant money. The program helps students in reading and math after school by using one-on-one time with a mentor.
At the high school level, the program also addresses goal-setting and future plans. It's an approach that takes in the whole student, not just grades.
During the busy school day, one-on-one time is not a luxury afforded to teachers, executive director Colleen Speer said. That's where the mentorship helps out.
Personal mentoring is an opportunity for relationship and the benefits are "empowering," Shultz said.
"We have established our niche," Speer said of the mentoring program.
Students from first grade through high school benefit from a group of mentors and site coordinators who provide an after-school space for student improvement. The program is in eight elementary and middle schools, as well as Henderson Bay and Peninsula high schools.
The program is just booting up for the school year because students are recommended after the first round of tests and parent-teacher conferences, Speer said.
Safeco awarded the program a $10,000 grant specifically for the mentoring program. The anonymous donation of $70,000 covers the mentoring but also emergency needs for students such as shoes and eyeglasses, Speer said. The donation is the largest she's seen in her 10 1/2 years with the program.
Donations and grants help fund the salary of the site coordinators, who, among other duties, train volunteers and assign them to students.
The expansion of the program is down to the strength of the people helping out, Shultz said. The program started in 2000 with just one site coordinator and one mentor at Vaughn Elementary. Now, Speer estimates, there are 150 volunteers in the 10 schools covered.
The aim is consistency. Shultz has been there seven years, but many volunteers have been around for as many as nine.
"We have a common core (of people) at each of our program sites," she said.
Students, once they reach their grade level, can graduate from the program. Some students stay in the program with the same mentor for multiple years. The measure is achievement, not time.
"Sometimes it does take more than one program year," Schultz said.
In the annual report card for 2012, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction showed the graduation rate in Washington schools is about 77 percent. That means about one in four students do not graduate statewide.
CISP aims to improve that number through its programs. This year, the mentoring program, with the donations of money and time, is running again on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas.
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6:00am Friday 3rd January 2014 in Rugby Union By Tom Ambrose
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Former Brentford chairman Greg Dyke believes a new stadium can catapult the Bees' into the Championship – but feels they should already be there.
The League One club were granted permission to build a 20,000-capacity stadium at Lionel Road, near Kew Bridge, by Hounslow Council on December 5 – the same week former manager Uwe Rosler quit the club for Championship side Wigan Athletic.
Dyke, who left his role at Griffin Park in the summer to become chairman of the Football Association, admitted the news could transform his boyhood club.
He said: "Getting permission to build the ground is a big step forward.
"I remember going to the old Swansea ground and if you get it right, a new stadium can transform a club."
He added: "What a weird couple of days, securing a new stadium, but losing your manager.
"Uwe Rosler did a very good job. He's a really nice bloke who will be missed.
"In the end, managers come and go, but a ground is forever."
Brentford, who are challenging for automatic promotion again this season, moved quickly to promote sporting director Mark Warburton to manager – largely continuing where his predecessor left off.
Dyke said he sent his former colleague a good luck message and attended his first match in charge, a 1-0 victory over Oldham Athletic, courtesy of Jonathan Douglas' late winner.
He added: "I went to the game as I was around – we were a bit jammy.
"But if you keep up that sort of luck, you will do very well in this league."
The former BBC director-general spent seven years as Brentford chairman.
And Dyke admitted he would never get over last season's final day drama against Doncaster Rovers.
He said: "If Kevin O'Connor had taken that penalty, we would have gone up as he knew which way the keeper was going to dive.
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"I will never get over it – when we signed Trotta again this season, my youngest son text me saying 'tell me it isn't true' but he has done alright so far."
Now charged with the responsibility of heading up the Football Association, Dyke will always look back fondly on his tenure at Griffin Park.
He said: "An old mate phoned me up after my third game as chairman, when we knocked Sunderland out the cup, and said 'resign now, it won't get any better'.
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This photo of Erin Andrews in a bikini ignited another WAR in the TMZ newsroom ... after one staffer suggested parts of the ESPN reporter were simply too good to be true ... specifically, her massive boobs.
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Of course they're fake. You will never catch a woman with fake boobs lying flat on their back on the beach. They just won't do it.
Tall , long waisted women with wide hips and high waistlines tend to have flat chests. They make the mistake that Erin made by getting double D silicone boulders that don't square with their shoulders, and look fake from the side view despite the droop from the weight. They will suffer from buyers remorse in their 50s, or if they bear a child.
*no need to thank me Tmz morons who have never been exposed to silicone and can only speculate.
Okay, if you don't think those are fake (in the recent shots, bikini pictures) then you have never seen boobs before. Those are not proportional to her body and the shape does not move. Fake all the way!
They are fake. Look back at older ESPN reporting and you can clearly see, she was not that big breasted. She's had implants. Not that getting them is bad but... They've been re-worked. I have a question though.. Erin has done nothing to garner this fame, she is not even a regular sideline reporter for "Major" events at ESPN, so why is she the focus?
Very cool did not know Miami had very little gravity, in these parts those puppies with the weight of them would be down close to her knee caps.
Who cares about her boobs? Most Hollywood types that aren't good looking seem to think getting a boob job will make up for being ugly...that it'll draw attention away from their face. You might have a perfect set but you're still fugly.
They do make push up bathing suits, look how the boobs are filling over on the side, I say real and a push up bathing suit.
The ladies in tmz news room are so bitchy,jealous much Kelly,,Erin has worked hard to get where she is went thru hell and yet never puts anyone down,,grow up ladies envy isn't a good look ..
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Professor Dwight Barry doesn't fight wildland fires anymore, but his latest project has the potential to douse more blazes than by adding him to the county firefighting force.
Barry and students with Peninsula College's Center of Excellence have completed the Web-based version of their Olympic Peninsula wildfire study. It's a user-friendly program using Google Earth that allows peninsula residents - or potential residents - to type in an address and find exactly what kind of wildfire dangers exist for that property.
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And just in time too, as the Olympic Peninsula's wildfire season begins.
Barry, student Chris DeSisto, and others collected data from fire department, county and regional sources to form the "Wildfire on the Peninsula: An Assessment of Hazard, Risk, and Mitigation Opportunities in Eastern Clallam County." It's an in-depth look at various factors contributing to the potential for a fire calamity in Clallam County ("Bound to Burn?" Sequim Gazette, Aug. 20, 2008, page A-1).
The group looked at seasonal temperatures, steep slopes in and near the Olympic Mountain foothills, wind, nearness to fire stations and more.
What they found, Barry says, is a high risk for the kind of fire that torched 1,600 acres of forest near Forks and the Calawah River Valley in the summer of 1951. The risk is particularly high for properties between Olympic National Park and the flat land near the Strait of Juan De Fuca.
These areas often are called wildland urban interface areas, or areas where houses meet or "intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation," according to the college study.
An ever-growing level of dead, dry vegetation and occasional high winds - at least 8 to 10 miles per hour, usually from the east - is a recipe for uncontrolled wildfire.
Although Washington state may seem a less likely candidate for wildfire - compared, say, with Arizona or California - some experts disagree.
In 2007, Headwaters Economics, a social science research group based in Montana, conducted a study that found Clallam County has the fifth-highest existing risk for property loss among 413 counties in the western United States.
"It's a catastrophe waiting to happen," Barry says.
The study fueled the Web-based product, one that does require users to download Google Earth, a program that displays geography for nearly every point on the globe. The college program allows residents to see if their house is in a potentially hazardous wildfire zone.
If so, the accompanying study in "pdf" format offers suggestions to make homes more wildfire-safe, such as:
_ Using fire-resistant materials for roofs and decks
_ Installing double-paned or tempered glass for windows
_ Using cement, plaster, stucco or concrete masonry for exterior walls
_ Keeping gutters clear of dried leaves and needles, and
_ Moving stacks of wood away from the home or other structures.
The Web application should be invaluable for those looking at moving to the region but hoping to avoid buying a home that is a potential wildfire victim.
The project started in 2007 as Barry worked with county officials to try to develop a community wildfire plan.
The challenge, he says, was compiling all of the amounts of data into a single result.
Now Barry is putting the project in front of property owners at home shows and the like, helping citizens become aware of the danger of wildfire.
Barry says the online map may have other uses; now he's working with Sequim police to develop computerized crime patterns.
He's also working with county officials to develop a Community Wildfire Protection Plan - a study necessary for counties wanting to apply for national wildfire funding sources - after recently receiving a grant.
Copies of the wildfire atlas are available online - pc.ctc.edu/coe/pdfs/WUIAtlasFinal.pdf - and at peninsula public libraries.
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I had a pair of Solomons that didn't stand up to two years of climbing thru Montana talus fields. The soles held up fine but the leather uppers wore thru on the outer sides, so I decided it was time to upgrade to a boot w/thicker leather. My makalus are a well made boot but I think that they are going to break me in before the damn boots are broken in. I still get blisters on my heels (I must admit that my heels have always been blister prone) and I get foot sore on the return trip from any day hike (5-16 miles).
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"We've had a lot of people on this show....we've never seen anything like this," Stewart remarked to the "Twilight" megastar about the mass crowd of screaming girls who waited outside to catch a glimpse of R-Patz.
Pattinson seemed relaxed and rolled with the punches as Stewart repeatedly cracked jokes about the star's sex appeal. One of our favorites:
"Did you dabble in music because you were worried you weren't going to get laid enough?"
But the world's most famous vampire did express one of his serious concerns about the possible price of fame.
"The only worrying thing is that when you see your face everywhere all the time, you start to get fears of oversaturation, and that you won't be able to do anything else," says Pattinson. "If I decided not to be an actor and do something else, then everyone's like, no you're the guy from 'Twilight,' I can't really take you seriously."
Of course Stewart had a wisecrack about that: "You can't be my podiatrist!"
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Jon Stewart is a hoot and I LUV ROBERT PATTINSON. :) I'm looking forward to seeing Remember Me.
I very much enjoyed the Jon Stewart interview and I think Rob did too. It made my night to hear him laugh so much. I continue to be impressed with his grace under pressure. Asked the same questions over and over he continues to smile and try his best to say something new and witty and sometimes even serious, such as his concern about over saturation. When faced with the screaming throngs of people, Rob continues to smile and pose and to be gracious to his fans. I am very much looking forward to Remember Me and any other film with which this actor is associated.
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Ceil Fox (pronounced Kyle Fox) is an engineer and fursuiter who lives in Warwickshire, England. His fursona is a blue fox with a grey tummy and muzzle, and black footpaws and eartips.
Ceil is mainly known as the head of the "Acoustic Armageddon" team who provide Sound and Lighting for numerous furry events throughout the country and have provided and run the nightclub sound equipment used by ConFuzzled since 2010.[1] He has attended ConFuzzled, Anthrocon, Eurofurence, ScotiaCon and RainFurrest, Frequently attends the MidFur coffee meets as well as LondonFurs meets. He is on the staff for ScotiaCon,[2] and in 2011 he was asked to join the staff of ConFuzzled.
Ceil spent from 1996 until early 2011 working in the leisure and entertainment industry as an engineer and has been a regular contributor to the Festival circuit within the UK providing his expertise and his own equipment such as generators, lighting, special effects equipment, touring PA gear and Mobile Bars. In early 2011 Ceil undertook a drastic career change and is now a Naval Engineer responsible for drive systems on the Type 45 Destroyer for the Royal Navy incorporating Gas Turbine generators, 6000v DC power electronics and electric propulsion systems.
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Hinder may be short one member when it headlines Saturday night at Rockfest II.
In a message on its website July 4, the Oklahoma rock band announced that lead singer Austin Winkler has decided to temporarily leave the tour for personal reasons.
"However, the band has decided, instead of canceling shows and leaving our diehard fans hanging, we're going to keep the good times rolling on the road this summer," the statement reads. "We have some surprise guests coming to help us out and we promise you won't be disappointed."
But there's a chance that Winkler will be back in time for Saturday's show at Aberdeen's Central Park, said Jered Johnson, president of Pepper Entertainment in Sioux Falls. Pepper books the acts for Rockfest.
Johnson said the other members of Hinder are hopeful that Winkler will be back by Saturday. "He has a medical condition so it's not terribly uncommon that he leaves for a few days during the tour," Johnson said. Hinder hasn't canceled any dates and the musicians aren't planning on it, Johnson said.
While he's gone, the other musicians are having special guests fill in who come from "other relevant bands," Johnson said. The group features "a little bit more of an all-star lineup at that point," he said.
At the end of the day, Hinder is still the headliner, Johnson said. It's unfortunate if Winkler can't make the show, he said. But even if he doesn't, he's not sure the casual fan would know the difference.
Johnson is happy to bring Hinder to Rockfest. "Actually, Hinder was the band we wanted last year. They just weren't available on the date we needed them so we ended up with Hollywood Undead, which was obviously still successful," Johnson said.
A major goal of Rockfest is to draw people from their 20s to their 40s. "So the band is a perfect fit," Johnson said of Hinder.
The other members of Hinder are drummer Cody Hanson, guitarist Joe "Blower" Garvey, bassist Mike Rodden and rhythm guitarist Mark King.
Hanson is a cousin of Aberdeen resident Jonathan DeVries, 22.
Hinder has a track record of success behind it.
The band's 2005 debut, "Extreme Behavior," sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. A single from that album, "Lips of an Angel," shot to the upper reaches of the Billboard pop chart.
The group's second album, "Take It to the Limit," debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 with more than 80,000 copies sold the first week. "Take It to the Limit" went gold.
Hinder's fourth full-length album is "Welcome to the Freakshow."
In addition to "Lips of an Angel," other hit singles were "Better Than Me" in 2007 and "Without You" in 2008.
Hinder's roots are in Oklahoma City. In 2007, the band was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The band's fan club is called Hinder Army. Look for members of the infantry at Saturday's concert.
Hinder will close out the schedule Saturday night at Rockfest, which is presented by The Rock-94.1 FM and Pepper Entertainment of Sioux Falls. Six bands will perform from 4:30 p.m. to midnight at Central Park.
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NEW YORK (AP) - A man accused of fatally shooting a gay man walking with a companion in New York City's Greenwich Village afterward claimed that he opened fire because the victim "thought he was tough in front of his bitch," prosecutors said in court papers Tuesday.
Elliot Morales also allegedly boasted to police "It's the last thing he'll remember," shortly after his arrest in the hate crime case. In later statements, Morales insisted he couldn't remember what happened and doesn't carry a bias against gays.
"I am not gay," he said, according to court papers. "I don't have a problem with gay people. I have lots of gays in my life."
He added: "This is gonna kill my mom. ... I always hurt her and make bad decisions in life and make her cry."
The purported statements were filed with the court after the 33-year-old Morales pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder as a hate crime in the shooting of Mark Carson. He also is charged with criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.
Prosecutors allege Morales began making a scene in Greenwich Village shortly before midnight on May 17 after a worker chastised him for urinating outside a restaurant. They say he responded by going inside, making anti-gay remarks and threatening to shoot diners.
Once outside, Morales encountered Carson, 32, and another man walking down the street and directed anti-gay slurs at them, authorities say. He followed the men around a corner and, after more insults, shot Carson in the head, prosecutors allege.
The slaying occurred a few blocks from the Stonewall Inn, the site of 1969 riots that helped give rise to the gay rights movement when patrons stood up to police harassment.
"This defendant is charged with targeting and gunning down Mark Carson on the streets of Greenwich Village because of his sexual orientation," District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in announcing the charges. "Mr. Carson was murdered as he walked through a neighborhood that has long been a center of the gay rights movement and home to many LGBT New Yorkers, as well as a destination for LGBT visitors from around the globe."
Vance added: "Bias-related crimes have no place in New York City."
There was no immediate response to a phone message left Tuesday with Morales' attorney.
Morales is being held without bail.
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