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A good beginner alpine route. [The] first half is forgettable, but the last two pitches are perfect for their grade. Stay to the left of the ridge to find the last two pitches. Expect 8-10 pitches depending on your rope, your belay spots. From Charles Vernon: To approach Spearhead, park at the Glacier Gorge junction trailhead and hike up the trail about 5 miles to Black Lake. From there, head east up an unmarked trail to tree-line, then contour over to the base of Spearheads NE face. The [North] Ridge route begins at the NW corner of the mountain. Be careful to chose the correct line at the start; parties have gotten off-route here onto much more difficult terrain. Look for a pronounced groove above a slab. Climb up through that and continue up easier grooves and slabs for several hundred feet, angling to the left. At that point you should reach the very crest of the ridge, and the prominent flake/pillar of the Barb should be visible down and to your left. These initial pitches are often simul-climbed, but most parties rope up here. Climb a shallow corner on beautiful rock right of the crest, traverse somewhat right and head up more cracks and corners to a belay (5.6). The final pitch head for an awkward, acute dihedral, also 5.6. The route-finding can be confusing on the upper ridge, although many lines are probably climbable. Mountaineering judgment is essential. The summit, a short [scramble] up to your left, is absolutely spectacular and totally worth a visit if the weather is good. Descend significantly to the southwest, to avoid getting cliffed, down slabs and scree until you can contour around to the base of the climb.
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This is a fun climb in a great setting. The route finding is tricky in several areas. Look from below for what appears to be some kind of chimney above a slabby area. The steep chimney comes on the second pitch, and is easier than it looks since there are a lot of stemming possibilites. The middle third is lower angle and slabby, it doesn't matter much where you go here. On the top third as the angle increases, you will probably be forced right of the crest, and then find an easy ramp which leads left back to the ridge crest. The final pitch with the 6" crack goes straight up from the ridge crest. Don't be too worried about the crux 5.6 offwidth. In fact you can reach past the wide part to good holds above. You don't actually have to do any OW moves. There are also several other ways to do this last pitch, of similar difficulty.
Try to find the 5.8 start to the left of the usual start... Great dihedral with good pro. Highly recommended. I remember climbing off the ground, angling left across a slab, through a slot/chimney, then stepping left to a belay ledge below the corner. Make sure you do the final scramble to the spectacular and precarious summit.
Obviously there are several ways to skin this particular cat. We started by climbing a slabby area, trending left to a series of 3 fairly vertical chimneys offering excellent 5.4 and 5.5 climbing before reaching the slabby area. From the slabby area we kept to the left until reaching the Barb Flake. We also stayed left at the Barb Flake, with an excellent 5.6 traverse out over the face, up through a slot, and then slightly right to a very nice 5.5 hand crack. A short third-class section then led to the 5.6 OW mentioned by George. Other than the middle slabby section, I thought all of the pitches we climbed were excellent for the grade, and you can't beat the summit.
Jake Martin-- After the third pitch, when climbing up and left to the top of the Barb Flake, many options obviously exist, although climbing the cracks/gully/chimmney that are the backside of the barb flake protect well (use caution--many of the flakes are loose!) When reaching the apex of the barb flake, sling a huge horn (a good belay) and head up the thin , exposed crack/hand traverse. Watch rope drag here. Also, when I climbed the route (9/24/01), there were several new looking pitons at the top of the pitch before the belay. I am not sure if the last pitch was OW or 5.6, but many great options exist here to make the summit. DESCENT NOTE: The guidebook describes the descent as "northwest corners", but it seemed like to me the descent was southwest in nature (from the summit block). A great route.
I'd have to recommend staying out of the Barb flake/gully. The slabs to the right are bullet granite, 5.2-5-4, with enough pro. You'd need a chisel to find a loose rock there. Have to reiterate what others have said about the spectacular summit--I've scrambled up the descent route several times just for a day hike! RE/descents: the most common does trend SW, but there is also one that heads SE.
This is what George and I did that fateful day after retreating from the Chief's Head. I recall distinctly simul-climbing the whole route and placing 11 pcs of gear. I believe the ascent took us just under 1 hour. It's like a high-altitude granite Flatiron. Your experience may differ.
Did this route and agree that route finding is somewhat subjective in a few places but still interesting. On P4 rather than going around a block to the R as Roach describes, I stemmed over the block which was slightly overhanging but had a nice seam up high (9ish) and was more fun for me and not too difficult to protect with .4 cams. One of the airiest summits anywhere. Very high on the WOW!!! scale.
I think we wandered a bit right just before the slot at the top when i did this route. It put me under this glorious 5.8ish finger crack that was sooooo fun. Anyone else done this variation?
Climb the 5.8 start! the middle part of the route is good simulclimbing terrain even with an inexperienced partner. Makes for a great day a long way from the trailhead.
Peter Spindloe led me up this route on 8/18/02, 20+ years after I first climbed it. It remains one of my all time favorites. The bivy sites are among the best anywhere. A Dutch couple from Boulder joined us for much of route and made for enjoyable companionship. The pitch above the Barb Flake is just super at its grade. The summit is truly one of the most interesting I have been on in Colorado. Its very unsettling to look straight down the face from the backside of the top block! As described in the overview notes, it is important to trend left to avoid cliffing out on the descent.
For the 5.8 start, there is a double crack version that may replace the arete on 5.7 pitch that is fun but might be 5.8. Also, don't stretch out that pitch because you rope will catch on that monster flake of the belay. Chews up those nice, thin, double ropes....
Hmmm, I know this is a "classic" but 3 stars seems misleading. Maybe, just maybe, for its length or position at the end. IMHO, seems that in the difficulty range, NE Ridge of Sharkstooth is better, the old Northcutt-Carter was far better, South Prow on Sharkstooth is equivalent, S Face of Petit Grepon (save 10 feet in that dihedral - for difficulty) is better, S Face (with the S Face finish, 2B from Rossiter's) of Zowie is better, Love Route of [Hallett] (save the 5.9 pitch - for difficulty) is equivalent, & Stettner's to Kiener's is better.
Route finding warnings on this climb may be a little overblown. Check out Feaver's pic of the face below. If you want the easiest passage locate the prominent left anglilng crack system over the lower third of the face. Start the climb up the left side of the slab below this and into the left chimney at the bottom of the crack system. Up the crack system and then anywhere up the flakes above as it's all pretty easy. Higher up the ridge crown forces you to the left into the crux pitch, not a lot of other options possible, at 5.6 anyway.
Went up to do Syke's, but there was a very slow party on the route so decided to see if we could make the North Ridge interesting. The route we did follows an obvious weakness and broken crack system from the bottom to the top (see picture below). It is a good option if Sykes' isn't available and you are not feeling 5.11 or 5.6. We did the climb in 5 long pitches (all 185-200 ft), but it is probably a good idea to break up P1 and P5 in to 2 pitches each due to rope drag. P1 was done as one due to poor belay protection at the bottom of the 5.8-5.9 section. P1: I believe this is what is described as the direct start. Begin up the dihedral about 100 ft right of the face. Angle left across an unprotected slab to a steep finger and hand crack. Work up the crack (9) to another slab, then move up and left across the slab to below at the base of some clean broken flakes (185 ft. 9). P2: Go straight up the flakes into a wide crack and stay in or near the crack for about 190 ft. (7). P3 and P4: 5.5-5.6 ground. Try to stay in line with a shallow crack system that turns into a short fun hand crack on P4. (370 ft.) P5: As you head up the shallow cracks and face look up for a wide left angling crack. You want to head toward the right, or lower end of the crack. From this feature move up right via stemming and finger crack (5.8). At the top this feature head left to the continuation of the crack system. Work up more hand and finger crack on excellent rock (5.8) to top (see picture below).
Soloed this today again and I can't say enough good things about this climb. If it's within your ability, I suggest to do it. I tried the Dr. Dan version as suggested above and found no move harder than 5.7? The direct start begins down and further left of the standard start and is definitely 5.8.
Did this route recently and maybe am missing something, but seemed like an awful lot of work for a minimal amount of quality climbing. The first 3 pitches are forgettable, the middle section is class 3 scrambling. Then you get two or three pitches of reasonable climbing, (the last being very good) and then it is back to scrambling again to get to the summit. The downclimb is a bit long and tedious as well though I suppose that comes with the alpine experience. I guess it is what you are looking for. If you want to hang out in a spectacular place, it doesn't get much better, just don't count on stellar climbing.
Dude, for 5.6 in the mountains this is about as good as it gets. The climbing maybe easy but the rock is great and the summit is amazing. Are you spoiled or what?
Did this route last week. The biggest bivy cave, or as the rangers call it ,"the hotel", is a few hundred yards due south of the small pond on the shelf. Thoughtful people have even built some additional stone walls around it to try and keep out some of the wind. After a relatively comfortable night, and an evening of watching shooting stars and satellites go by, we made our way up to the base of the climb which was not that hard to find. After the third class gully managed to get off route too far to the west and ended up one some pretty run-out but moderate rock, but still a little disconcerting. My partner led a tricky long 200 ft traversing pitch to get us back on line (we think) and then i finished it off with a variation (another party was on the main line) that probably was about 5.7 or maybe one move of 5.8 which landed us promptly on the final scramble section. Easy scramble to the summit. There is what looks like an easy direct class 3 gully down to the lake on the west, but don't be fooled. It will cliff you out. Instead find cairns that lead you south west along the ridge. Thus it is farther back to your bivy then you might think. Just something to factor into your time. A fun, but long day. In terms of route-finding, basically if you are comfortable with leading 5.6 and dont' mind some run out you will eventually find you way up by following your nose. All part of the alpine experience!
Climbed on 8/20/5. Dr Dan has a great photo below, but it's a bit misleading. His P1 starts as for the classic route, but takes a crack right of the slab. P2-P4 in his picture are the classic route (not harder than 5.5). Our "classic" route is based on Rossiter's guidebook. There seemed to be a lot of variations in the 5.6 range. I'd give it 3 stars for the setting, length, and rock quality. The moves aren't as aesthetic as you can find 40' off the ground in Eldo, but this route gives you 100's of feet of quality climbing/scrambling on the way to the best summit around (I haven't been on the Petit yet). Our semi-athletic team made it car-to-car in about 10 hours, with about 2.5 hours for the approach. It was nice not carrying bivy gear. Try to get done early, because it doesn't look easy to retreat from. Speaking of retreating, we found a rope (fixed/mangy) along with some nuts and biners that someone used to bail off the route. Check the lost and found page if they belong to you.
Tim, reflecting his true generous nature, only posts our find of the rope and gear, but neglects to mention the troubing loss of his convertible pant's left zip-off leg somewhere along the descent. Fellow readers, I implore you to return this lonely piece of nylon to him, should you chance upon it. The poor guy was inconsolable once he realized he lost it. Our semi-athletic team was slowed considerably by 3 factors. 1) Tim's athletic and I'm not. 2) On the hike out, Tim threatened to set fire to the new hiking mascot I had strapped to the outside of my pack. This forced me to stop and hide the mascot in the depths of my pack. We lost at least 30 seconds due to this. His aggression was most likely due to the loss of his pant leg (inconsolable...).3) Also on the hike out, we paused to answer questions from day-trippers like "How will we know we're at Black Lake if there's no sign for it?" We promised to bring this obvious oversight to the attention of the Park Service. Another loss of a minute or two. Best of luck to future parties. Don't worry about route-finding; the various slings and nuts left in the rock will help direct you to the summit. That is, if you're able to find Spearhead at all without a sign....
On 7/30/06 our apparently very unatheletic team did it in about 15 hours car-to-car but included at least an hour of dorking around on the summit. We also missed the correct descent and floundered down the most miserable talus slope I've ever encountered. We were able to follow Roach's description to the letter (though we combined is first three pitches into two and divided his last pitch into two). Photos: www.leachfam.com/securearea/subcategory.php?subcategoryid=14>>> Movie: www.leachfam.com/securearea/1movie.php?movieid=20 Trip Report: www.leachfam.com/securearea/1story.php?storyid=54
Did this route today, and I believe we were the only party on all of Spearhead. I guess going up during the week can have its benefits. We did what sounds pretty close to the Dr. Dan variation, and this added some very enjoyable and challenging climbing to the North Ridge and makes for a far more direct line. I give this climb 4 stars for its superb location, the quality of climbing, and the overall alpine experience. Yes, it's a hump, but that's part of the experience! By the way, the only downside to the whole experience was the dowclimb to the SW and then down the horrific scree gully. It seemed to work best to stay along the bottom of the cliff bands (when present) to help one in balancing and preventing any scree surfing.
Don't let the rating dissuade you, there is no 5.7 (or 5.9) on the standard route. The 5.7 rating derives from one fellow who took a different route. I climbed this when I was still scared of 5.6 leads and felt it was easy. There are a couple (and one hugely exposed) moves of 5.6 though followed by a whole lot of easy and well protected climbing. Fun climb in a beautiful setting but not (IMHO) worth repeating.
Climbed this route yesterday, and it was all around, a great climb. We simulclimbed what would probably be equivalent of the first four or five pitches, and then angled right on the steeper slab area. This put us below a left-angling, large flake. After about 25-30 feet of this large crack/flake, we made a 5ft. undercling traverse left, which put us directly below a super sweet 10 ft. finger crack. This was our second to last pitch, and unquestionably the finest. The finger crack maybe went at 5.8 or so and provided several spectacular locks on thin feet. Also. while seconding (while simulclimbing) I ended up missing the main chimney on the left side of the slabs of the first pitch. I went straight up the left side of the headwall to where the first belay typically is. This was certainly harder than 5.6! Finally, the summit should not be missed!
With S. Costello and Karsten Schnatwinkel 9/16/07. This is a good alpine climb in a great setting. We did (I think) the 5.8 start which felt easier than the grade. Simulclimbed the slabby stuff on the next several pitches. Rossiter describes the second-to-last pitch as "a great pitch" and indeed it is...not difficult but the abrupt arrival at the edge of the ridge and the awkward moves above it are not to be missed. This pitch alone is worth the considerable effort involved in doing the route. Numerous variations on the described route are possible. Be creative. Our party of three made the car-to-car trip in about 12 hours, with 4-5 hours on the rock.
On the 6th pitch there's a nice 5.8 crack to the left of the route, short and sweet.
Climbed last weekend, route was dry and in great conditions (I was somewhat concerned about the snowstorm a couple of weeks ago). We did the short 5.8 finger crack variation on accident and it was nice although I knew there was no way it was 5.6.... Long hike but great climb for my first alpine!
Bill Wright and I did this on 7/25. We then continued up and onto the North Ridge of Chiefshead. This is a very obvious link-up; we were shocked there is no mention of it anywhere. Spearhead is essentially a protuberance of the Chiefshead North Ridge, so once you get all the way up there, you might as well keep going. "Spearchief". Chiefshead N Ridge is broken up by talus slopes, but the headwalls turn out to have excellent climbing. The lack of continuous 5th class rock may bother some, but hey, this is what alpine routes are usually like. The climbing is steeper and stiffer than Spearhead but more discontinuous. The position is always terrific, and it all works better if you know how to simul-climb. Getting off Chiefshead takes effort, which IMO, adds to the overall experience. We'd rate what we did on the upper ridge 5.7/8, and it's possible to make it much easier by major zig zagging. A little under 10 hrs car-car.
I did the Dr. Dan variation with K.T. on 7-29-09 in less than desirable weather conditions. It seamed like the line to take. From my understanding we started RIGHT of the standard route to the way obvious hand crack that is 5.9 or so and can be a little wet making it pretty exciting... One pitch through the chimneys at easy 5.7, 400 feet of simul-climbing at 5.5 - 5.6. And the last pitch with a spot of .8 going right over a bulge than traversing left to a great finger crack - 5.8. Just like the picture. Good route to the top.
That alternate dihedral start (left of the normal route) felt pretty sandbagged at 5.8! However, the pro was excellent...I would highly recommend it.
Good route. We climbed it on 7th Sep, 2010. Windy day! Car-to-car 12 hours. The route finding is a little complicated. The crux pitch is brilliant and exposed. See video about almost every pitch.
We climbed the route on July 12th setting out from the Glacier Gorge trailhead at 2.15am. There was a lot of packed snow above 10,000' which made the going slow and trail finding tricky in places, but we arrived at the base of the climb just after dawn. The start is obvious because of the worn rock and bare patches in the grass - get this bit wrong and you probably shouldn't even be up here. Looking up at the tightening chimney above you probably hope the route doesn't go there...but it does and the pitch through the chimney is excellent and well protected. That's more than can be said for the slab leading up to it. We encountered running water across wide sections of this first pitch, but this really wasn't a big problem because the rock is so rough and friction is great...even when wet. Top 3 pitches were outstanding. I think we were a little right of the correct line leading up to the final pitch, but this didn't really matter. The top pitch looks a little improbable from below but is really very straightforward. The crux crack/groove seemed to pass very quickly and had great protection. The descent certainly requires care. Stood at the top of the climb looking down the west face you will see a large, flat block/boulder with a steep track leading down. Drop down this track and then traverse horizontally left (looking out) over the boulder for about 200yds and connect with a definite trail that heads down to an easy downclimb. There is a lot of loose rock on the descent, so be very careful if parties are above or below. We were done by 12.30pm, stopped for lunch, took lots of photos and were back at the car by 6pm. Great weather. A great climb. By the way, we are just a couple of old farts having fun, I'm sure these young rock jocks could do it in half the time.
I linked this up with the N. Ridge of Chiefshead, W. Ridge of Pagoda, and Long's, which made for a great day. Thanks to Buzz for the Chiefshead linkup recommendation.
Partner Joe and I climbed this ridge but stayed @ 70' to the right of the normal route. (North Face / North Ridge) This was a good line and had a few more 5.7 moves as well as an exposed 5.8+ chimney to squeeze through near the top of the climb. Weather was threatening all day but held out just long enough for us to get off the summit. Sometimes things actually work out. Great day!
Don't know why anyone who would write up a route description for this would include a comment that says the climbing for the first few pitches is 'forgettable'. His route description, as we found out yesterday, is anything but memorable - or helpful. Don't let that bother you, though. This route is terrific. The route finding is tricky, especially down low, so find better resources than this route description to find it - or just as good gear up for a mountaineering adventure. The upper slabs offer several great lines of climbing - you can't go wrong! Just understand that the exit 'pitch' described here is useless - but exit lines above the Barb exist that go at 5.6/7. Stay alert and be willing to explore a bit here, and you will likely be successful at finding a workable, topping-out line. We didn't find the classic exit line, but we found one that worked.
A bit of context here: I wrote this route description when this site was just being conceived, long before any of us knew what the site was our would become to be. The only existing routes on this site were buildering routes on the engineering building at CU. There were 6 registered users, and we probably received 10 visits a week or something. The main climbing site on the internet was rec.climbing. I submitted some brief descriptions of routes to Myke on a floppy disk as a sort of quick, general overview of classic routes in the Front Range, hence the one line description. My brother came and added more info later as the site was beginning to grow. His description lacks some of the detail of modern day Mountainproject (thumb catch on the left hand pinch 16 feet up pitch 7), but it is not inaccurate and coupled with the prerequisite mountaineering judgment needed to play in the mountains is more than enough. Want more beta? Scroll down. There is a ridiculous amount of information here submitted by other users to get you up the North Ridge, like the detailed photo topo by Dr. Dan which shows the exact start.


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CNN's JD Cargill takes a look at the biggest buzz-worthy flicks set to appear at the Sundance Film Festival.
Love him or whatever, over the past few years, it seemed like "Rushmore" director Wes Anderson was an acquired taste going stale.
It may seem stranger than fiction, but George Clooney's latest film, paranormal comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats," was inspired by real events.
In the enchantingly original and romantic (500) Days of Summer, Summer (Zooey Deschanel) is a girl -- capricious, alluring, and not entirely knowable -- and Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the greeting-card writer who convinces himself that she's "better than the girl of my dreams."
"The Bucket List," director Rob Reiner's latest, suggests dying could be the best thing that ever happens to you -- just so long as you find a lonely billionaire lying in the next bed.
Owen Wilson took two baby steps back into public life this weekend – first in his MySpace interview with pal Wes Anderson, then over the weekend when he went to dinner at Mr. Chow's in Beverly Hills and attended a party Sunday night at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, PEOPLE has learned.
Owen Wilson has given his first interview since his suicide attempt – to his longtime friend, director Wes Anderson.
Owen Wilson made a public appearance Thursday night – briefly showing up at the Los Angeles premiere of his movie, The Darjeeling Limited.
Had blaring news of Owen Wilson's personal crisis not reached his public so close to the release of "The Darjeeling Limited," Wes Anderson's picaresque story of three brothers (Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody) who carry their emotional baggage on a train voyage across India would still resonate with vivid sadness.
Matthew McConaughey will replace Owen Wilson in the film comedy Tropic Thunder, Variety reports.
Owen Wilson canceled appearances at the Venice Film Festival but is "doing well" and "making us laugh a lot," says his longtime friend Wes Anderson.
Less than a week after his suicide attempt, Owen Wilson is back at home - and being watched around the clock.
For four months, movie theaters have been dominated by a succession of blockbusters from the usual suspects -- Bruckheimer, Spielberg, Disney, Rowling -- supplemented by a handful of newcomers (Seth Rogen and Shia LaBeouf, welcome to the big time).
At the Venice Film Fest, Richard Corliss feels creepy pointing out similarities between Wilson and his character in The Darjeeling Limited. He wishes the movie were better, too
Owen Wilson is doing well as he recovers from an apparent suicide attempt, and is even making colleagues laugh, the director of his latest film said Monday.
Owen Wilson's future?
The alleged suicide attempt by the actor, known for his happy-go-lucky characters, shocks the movie industry
Described as "the coolest man on earth" by filmmaker Wes Anderson, Rio-born musician and actor Seu Jorge has picked up the mantle from the likes of Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and the Tropicalistas as a cultural ambassador for his country.
The bebop cadences of actor Bill Murray and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch are in such key-of-cool sync in the deadpan-tender who's-your-daddy drama "Broken Flowers," it's a wonder that the two hipster silverheads haven't jammed together more often.
"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," the fourth film by idiosyncratic filmmaker Wes Anderson, is the director's most ambitious film to date.
Now would be a good time to stop and take a look at the state of comedy in film.
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Judaism is not a race
Judaism is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry. For instance, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews are both "Jewish." However, whereas Ashkenazi Jews often hail from Europe, Sephardic Jews often hail from the Middle East. People of many different races have become Jewish over the centuries.
Judaism is not a nationality
Although today Israel is often called the Jewish homeland, being Jewish is not a nationality because Jews have been dispersed throughout the world for almost two thousand years. Hence, Jews come from countries all over the world.
Judaism is both a cultural and religious identity
Being Jewish means that you are part of the Jewish people, whether because you were born into a Jewish home and culturally identify as Jewish or because you practice the Jewish religion (or both).
Cultural Judaism includes things such as Jewish foods, customs and rituals. For instance, many people are born into Jewish homes and are raised eating blintzes and lighting shabbat candles, but never step foot inside a synagogue. A Jewish identity is automatically bestowed on babies of Jewish mothers (according to Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) and of Jewish mothers or fathers (according to Reform Judaism). This Jewish identity stays with them throughout life even if they don't actively practice Judaism.
Religious Judaism includes the beliefs of the Jewish religion. The way a person practices the Jewish religion can take many forms and partially for this reason there are different movements of Judaism. The main denominations are Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist Judaism. Many people who are born into Jewish homes affiliate with one of these branches, but there are also those who do not.
If a person is not born Jewish, s/he can convert to Judaism by studying with a rabbi and undergoing the process of conversion. Merely believing in the precepts of Judaism is not enough to make someone a Jew. They must complete the conversion process in order to be considered Jewish. Though the different branches of Judaism have varying requirements for conversion, it is safe to say that the conversion process is very meaningful for whomever decides to undertake it.


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The incident happened Tuesday afternoon.
Rescue crews responding to the scene found 18-year-old Ikechukwu Onwuzurike at around 8 p.m. after conducting a search by boat and aircraft.
The Sheriff's Office was assisted on scene by the US Coast Guard, Michigan State Police-Caro Post, Sanilac County Sheriff's Aero Unit and the Burtchville Township Fire Department.
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PLAYBOY: We're familiar with it. "If anyone's gonna have sex with my sister, it's going to be me."
SHEEN: Right. It's fucking hilarious. I'd never seen it, and I laughed myself into a hernia. That is 100 percent true.
PLAYBOY: So forget Chuck Lorre, forget Warner Bros. and CBS. It's Dave Chappelle's fault that you got fired?
SHEEN: It's his fault. There you go. Dave Chappelle cost me my job.
PLAYBOY: You claimed that you cured your drug and alcohol addictions with your brain. Explain how that works.
SHEEN: There are limits to it. You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage. But we're taught at an early age not to trust ourselves. I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do. But that was kind of an experiment back then. I was just kind of winging it, and it worked.
PLAYBOY: To a lot of people it sounds like denial.
SHEEN: Of course it does. It sounds like you think you're above it all, that you're smarter than everybody else. But it's not about that. I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.
PLAYBOY: But you understand why it's hard to take that seriously. Many alcoholics say things like "I can quit anytime I want." But they don't—and can't.
SHEEN: Here's how I think of it. Someone's in rehab, right? And he's like, "Hey, man, I've got 45 days and then I'm clean." Of course it seems that easy. You're in a place with no drugs and you can't leave. Way to go, man. Try it in the real world.
PLAYBOY: You don't believe in rehab?
SHEEN: I don't. I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again. I'm not saying in all situations it's bad to get help. I'm saying sometimes it's okay to trust yourself. Because that's the one thing they drill into you at these fucking AA meetings: Don't trust yourself. Your brain is broken.
PLAYBOY: Put your faith in a higher power.
SHEEN: Exactly. Fuck that. I'm putting my faith in myself, not a higher power. My brain is broken? My brain wasn't broken enough to afford the 100 grand to get in here, you dickheads.
PLAYBOY: You're single, right?
SHEEN: At the moment, yeah.
PLAYBOY: No more goddesses?
SHEEN: Not anymore.
PLAYBOY: You had rules for that relationship: Nobody panics, there's no judgment.
SHEEN: Yeah, park your judgment at the door. Nobody dies. And one more—enjoy every moment! I don't know, it seems pretty simple to me.
PLAYBOY: Was there anything missing from those rules? Anything that would have kept your relationship with the goddesses together?
SHEEN: Those rules were created for a very specific circumstance, but they're still pretty good. It seems like basic groundwork you can build on. The judgment thing is especially hard. My mom offered me $500 when I was 12 years old not to say anything negative for an entire day. I didn't make it past breakfast. And $500 at the time was like a million bucks, but I couldn't make it.
PLAYBOY: Was there anything about the goddesses people didn't understand?
SHEEN: Everything. It was more fodder for them to criticize, more Sheen antics to judge when those same people would have loved to have a similar situation.
PLAYBOY: Do you still think it's possible for an intimate relationship to survive when more than two people are involved?
SHEEN: I think it was a hell of an idea but with the wrong people involved. I don't know, man. I'm kind of old-fashioned in a lot of ways. I prefer mano a mano. Even if you have two girls in the house, it's not like we're together all the time. But I need variety. Every man does. Not everyone will admit it, but that's how we're wired. It's in our ancestral blueprint.
PLAYBOY: So how do any marriages stay together?
SHEEN: It's just impulse control. The married guy looks at the hot chick and thinks, Oh, she's hot. But he doesn't do anything. When you can't control the impulse, you make a decision that burns down the whole kingdom. You can have rules at home that are different from the rest of the world's as long as you're not hurting anyone. People think it's insane up at my place. It's really not. There are always children there; there's always life there. It's just a good vibe.
PLAYBOY: Do you prefer to be single?
SHEEN: At least for now. It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.
PLAYBOY: That's a real thing?
SHEEN: It is, yeah. There are businesses where women are recruited to hook up with famous men, get dirt on them and then sell it. This actually exists. It's fucking heinous.
PLAYBOY: How do you trust anybody?
SHEEN: We take phones and purses at my house, and people have to sign shit. I'm not living in the Pentagon, but I've been burned enough to have to take precautions. It's either that or choose a different type of woman or party guest, because you never know. Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.
PLAYBOY: Is that why you're drawn to prostitutes, because you already know what the financial arrangement is, so there are no hidden agendas?
SHEEN: I don't do that as much anymore. It's just not, I don't know.… [long pause] I always feel I traded my time for something that could've been more valuable or substantial.
PLAYBOY: Meaning what? Actual intimacy?
SHEEN: The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?
PLAYBOY: If it starts as a service, can it ever become more than that?
SHEEN: It can, absolutely. But it's hard. I'm not saying I'll never be with a prostitute again. Parts of it are soulless and parts of it are nourishing. It's always a roll of the dice. There are times when that's the plan, and I'll abort it because the vibe isn't right. Sometimes it's hoping for a different result each time. At some point, you either have to change the players or forfeit the game.
PLAYBOY: Your fondness for prostitutes dates back to your first sexual experience. You lost your virginity at the age of 15 to a Las Vegas prostitute.
SHEEN: I did, yeah. [laughs] Nothing further, Your Honor.
PLAYBOY: And you paid for it with your dad's credit card. How did you not get busted for that?
SHEEN: Oh, I did. It was a bad scene, man. I'm watching TV in our living room, and he's in his office 20 feet away. I'm sitting on the floor with a bag of chips or something, and all of a sudden a piece of paper falls in front of me. I look up, and my dad's already walking away. It's his Visa bill. There's one thing circled, and it's $350. There's an arrow pointing to it and three words: "What is this?" He had gone back into my bedroom and was just waiting for me.
PLAYBOY: He made you come to him?
SHEEN: He did. It was brilliant. That was a long walk. That was longer than giving up a game-seven bomb and having to make the walk back to the dugout. I was like a defense attorney going to trial against video evidence.
PLAYBOY: So what did you say?
SHEEN: I blamed it on my cousin Joey. I said it was Joey's idea. I was like, "You were asleep. We stole your credit card. Sorry, our bad. Uh, Joey went second, by the way." [laughs]
PLAYBOY: He didn't lecture you about having sex with prostitutes?
SHEEN: Not really. He just hoped I understood that it's not love. I was like, "Really? You should have seen her, Dad. That's fucking true love." [laughs]
PLAYBOY: Are you following in your dad's parenting footsteps?
SHEEN: I try to. Even when I don't want to, it's there. We all have that moment of "Oh God, I sound like my dad." That happened to me recently. I remember he used to say to me, "This mess ain't going to clean itself up." I vowed I would never say that to my kids. But a few weeks ago I said the exact same sentence to Sam and Lola [his daughters with Denise Richards], word for word. "This mess ain't going to clean itself up!"
PLAYBOY: Your dad hasn't always been easy on you. He's talked about your drug problems publicly and was involved in at least one intervention. Are you ready to be the bad guy for your kids?
SHEEN: You have to. Hopefully they'll eventually realize you did it out of love and compassion and honoring the truth.
PLAYBOY: Your dad had a wild past and his own struggles with alcohol addiction. Did that make it harder to take him seriously when he lectured you?
SHEEN: Yes and no. I don't remember him being as bad as he remembers. The way he describes his behavior, the drinking and all that, doesn't ring true for me. I don't remember it being that bad.
PLAYBOY: Maybe you didn't see it.
SHEEN: Nah. There weren't a lot of secrets in our family. My parents had fights. They were pretty loud about it. It never got physical, but a dish always got broken somewhere. You could almost predict it. "Wait for it…wait for it.…" Smash!
PLAYBOY: But as far as you knew, there was no partying or drinking?
SHEEN: I don't know. Maybe there was, but it's not my memory of what his life was like.
PLAYBOY: Do you think he's exaggerating, or did it never happen at all?
SHEEN: It's almost as if he's created a history. I don't know why he would do that. Maybe it's shame, guilt, remorse, whatever it is.
PLAYBOY: Remorse for what?
SHEEN: We moved a lot. He lived job to job, so we were always traveling. We'd live in houses for six months with no furniture. Beanbags were a big staple for us. He was doing the best he could. We weren't rich, but because of him I grew up all over the world. When I got home and had grade school geography, I was like, "Been there." That was pretty cool.
PLAYBOY: You celebrated your 11th birthday in the Philippines while your dad was shooting Apocalypse Now. Was it anything approaching normal?
SHEEN: It was the craziest time you could possibly imagine. The Philippines was a much different place back then. You could barely get a Snickers bar, much less a cake that wasn't filled with mold or rat shit. I remember one night we were in the bungalows where we lived at the time, and just as we were getting ready to go to bed, a naked Robert Duvall comes racing through the room, screaming at the top of his lungs like an Indian. Then he leaves, and he doesn't poke his head back in to explain. He doesn't say, "I'm out here with Dennis Hopper and he put me up to this." Nothing. To this day I don't know what the hell that was about.
PLAYBOY: How do you feel about Apocalypse Now as an adult?
SHEEN: Everything you need to know about life is in Apocalypse. Everything. When Marlon Brando says, "You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me," that's it, man. That's the world right there.
PLAYBOY: How often do you rewatch it?
SHEEN: At least every six months. I can't talk to people who haven't seen it until they have. I tell girls that if I'm going to date them, they have to watch that movie and they have to listen to Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise." Listen to that song and you'll know a little more about me.
PLAYBOY: You've made three baseball movies, and now you're playing a ballplayer. Should we assume you really like baseball?
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Charlie Sheen is the "BOSS"! I Love this man...He needs to meet me. He's on my level!♥♥♥
Oh god. I never thought I'd like this guy but dammit. I like this guy. He's what I call "a pirate and a bum". Very endearing description, really. He's an 'out of the box thinker and doer'. Yes, he needs to detox, for sure, but there's a lot of truth in this guy and that's pretty refreshing. Oh and his dad is the coolest. Real ballsy man, real confront your shit kind of guy. Doesn't back off. Thanks, Playboy. songbird
No holds barred. Buttocks on the slate. Quality!
He's right about the 'disease model' of addiction. It is pseudoscience. Bad habits are yours to make AND break. Ain't no doctor on this earth that can prove you've got a brain disease.
Love Charlie Sheen he keeps it real
Very good interview and I am glad he is back on TV. He is honest. Media made him look bad. He loves his children like any dad. He has a nice mom and dad who care and i think h will be OK. God bless him in his future endeavours. Jim
you'll never print this but -- As I was reading, I was thinking that he sounds pretty good, intelligent, honest, and maybe he's straightened himself out. But then he started talking about the ghosts...... enough said!!!
I still watch every episode of Men and will try to do the same with Anger. We'll see.
nice interview..and good answer.good luck charlie.
Love the interview and love Charlie Sheen!
That Dave Chapelle sketch might be the funniest, cleverest bit in the history of tv -- the writers on SNL couldn't do that in 100 years
Great interview!
Ya know...even with all the crazy shit he's been through..he still is fairly level-headed and self-deprecating right now. Gotta give it up to the guy... he's living his life.
Its pretty hard to read when there is this beautiful girl looking at me!
two and a half men best show EVER on tv
i use to make a point to catch every episode
Couldn't agree more!
Thank you Charlie for this interview, you are a freaking rock star and don't cheapen your existence.Love you lots and looking forward to Anger Mgt.
Can't wait to see Charlie back to work, he deserves the best. I still watch his reruns every evening and still laugh out loud.
Enjoyed the interview. He is around my age and, likely because of that, I have a special spot for him in my world of celebrity-appreciation. I also like some of the roles that made him famous, plus his "Charlie" on Two and a Half Men. I wish him good health, a long life, and freedom so he can continue to be the only artist for his life's canvas. ~EM
I'm writing a university paper on the disease of addiction, and I've come to the same conclusion Charlie did. It's bullshit. Read Szasz, for instance. I've used Sheen as a sort of case study. Winning!
I dont know why, but Ive always liked Charlie Sheen. Yes, hes rich, out of touch with reality and a real fruitcake. After reading his interview its apparent that he is trying to redeem himself as an actor, as a semi-sane person, and as a father who does still love his children. Its possible to say that his dad (the best President we never had) Martin Sheen was not only a positive influence on Charlies current change, but eventually will be the "sane anchor" for Charlie to use for his full recovery.
Love you forever, Charlie.
Ashton Kutcher could'nt create the same magic as Charlie Sheen, his sense of comedy on"two and a half men" was spectacular
love him
I finally get to realize why i always had a reservation about the way the media portrayed this man. My dad went to rehab also, only for a week. It turned out, it was detox and some counseling. He went to a psychologist after, but it seemed like he had cured his mind already. All the other stuff-the antidrinking pills, the meetings, the talks...he did just for show. You gotta be a strong person to do that, and i completely agree with this man, you gotta be special to be on top, after such long time. And also, f**k bosses:) if half of the people that crucified him did the same thing to their boss, they'd appreciate themselves more, and this world would be a better place to live


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Thousands of motocross fans made their way into town on Saturday to bid farewell to one of the oldest tracks on the national circuit.
The day marked what is likely the final run of the Moto-X 338 National.
Promoters said they were unable to strike a new deal with the American Legion post that owns the track.
The event is the only national event held in New England each year, and it attracts race fans from across the region and beyond.
Those in attendance told CBS 3 that it was a sad day for motocross fans.
"Southwick has always been like the Mecca of motocross for New England," said Brian Beasley, a Maryland resident to made the trip to Southwick. "I don't know the logistics of what Southwick is losing, but I'm sure for this area it will be a great blow to the community."
"It's different from any other track," said Connecticut resident Eric Cooley. "It's a famous track, and it's basically our hometown track. We've ridden here before. I'm a woods man and beat it up in the sand."
The big winner of Saturday's event was Ryan Dungey, who hails from Waconia, MN.
Western Massachusetts native John Dowd finished 24th.
CBS 3 will have more on the Moto-X 338 finale Sunday night on Valley Sports Replay.
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When you think about the most underpaid players in the NFL, your mind probably automatically gravitates toward players making at or near the league minimum. And yes, a player like Dez Bryant, who is signed to a five-year, $11.8 million deal, is severely underpaid.
But in my opinion, the most underpaid player in the NFL makes $18.7 million per season and received $54 million guaranteed with his last contract extension. That player is quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
It sounds ridiculous to say that someone making nearly $20 million every 365 days should be hauling in more, but I believe Rodgers—and players like him—should be making a lot more. A franchise quarterback is so incredibly vital to your team's success that it's highly unlikely—not impossible, as we saw last year, but highly unlikely—to win a Super Bowl without an elite player at the position.
We've seen Rodgers' value demonstrated this year by his absence. With the most efficient passer in NFL history—yes, that's what Rodgers has been—the Packers were a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Without him, they're mediocre at best.
As it stands right now, Rodgers is unlikely to play on Sunday. He did participate in some individual drills on Wednesday, but those around the team think he's less than a coin flip to play. To give you an idea of how the Cowboys' win probability will shift if Rodgers is able to suit up to keep backup Matt Flynn on the bench, I want to compare the two passers, along with Tony Romo, from a statistical standpoint.
There are various ways to measure yards-per-attempt. The blandest form of pure YPA can be a little misleading because it doesn't account for aggressiveness. Tony Romo began his career extremely aggressively, and his YPA was at its highest. The problem was he was throwing a ton of picks, so it didn't do all that much good. Recently, Romo has actually played too conservatively—minimizing interceptions at the cost of running an inefficient offense.
Net-YPA factors sacks into the mix. While sacks are frequently assigned to the offensive line, they're actually more strongly correlated with the quarterback. There's a reason Peyton Manning has "the best offensive line" wherever he goes; he makes them look like that.
Finally, Adjusted Net-YPA (ANYPA) is probably the most predictive stat we have in football right now. If you're trying to predict the outcome of a game and you can look at only one stat, it should be ANYPA. That's because it factors touchdowns and interceptions into the mix, weighting them according to their importance.
Looking at the numbers for each quarterback, you can see Romo is actually last in career YPA. Part of that is because Flynn just hasn't played all that much, but you can see that Flynn's numbers drop considerably once you account for sacks, touchdowns, and interceptions. That suggests that if Flynn were to play a less aggressive style of quarterback, his efficiency (in terms of YPA) would plummet.
Note that Romo has been one of the league's premiere quarterbacks in terms of all three stats. The fact that Rodgers ranks so far ahead of him in two of them is amazing.
Touchdown/Interception Rates
To better track the quarterbacks' ability to lead their offenses without making mistakes, I charted their career touchdown and interception rates.
Not surprisingly, Rodgers has the highest touchdown rate and lowest interception rate. Romo ranks in the middle in both categories. Rodgers' stats have been so impressive over the years because of the fact that he doesn't throw interceptions. Again, it's easy for a quarterback to post a high YPA when he's being reckless with the ball. Not so easy when you're throwing picks as infrequently as anyone in the NFL.
Completion Rate
Finally, take a look at the completion rate for each quarterback.
Although scheme plays a big role in these numbers, there's little doubt that Rodgers is an incredibly accurate passer. At this point, that's probably Flynn's biggest weakness—and the reason I think the Cowboys will take down the Packers if he's their starting quarterback on Sunday.


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Fassbinder died in 1982, at the age of 37, from a lethal combination of painkillers and copious quantities of cocaine. Legend has it he was working right up to the moment of his death, and pages and notes from an unfilmed script were found next to his body. In anyone else's case, this might be mythmaking, but Fassbinder's back catalogue does prove he was a man constantly, constantly at work: in the course of his short lifetime, as if hemorrhaging emotions and ideas, the uber-prolific filmmaker made an astounding 40 feature films, two television series, three shorts and 24 stage plays. Which begs the question, what have we done with our day? However this frenetic pace exacted a heavy toll; his drug-fueled work ethic was beneficial neither to him nor to those he worked with and many of his relationships (most notably with actress Irm Hermann) were complex (Fassbinder's bisexuality a factor here) and borderline abusive. He attracted bitter, personal criticism in the press, but at the same time he was fiercely loyal to his collaborators, often employing the same actors over and over again, at least until he alienated them. He was undoubtedly a difficult man, so incandescent with creative and chemical energy that in retrospect it seems inevitable that, burning so brightly, he would burn out early.
But in the midst of his tumultuous personal and professional lives, he became a great director, in his best moments attaining a level of craftsmanship and deeply felt emotion that rather belies his gonzo, wildchild reputation. His finest films show a filmmaker somehow both compassionate and almost aggressively unsentimental in his unromanticized portraits of suffering, lost souls. A central figure in that generation of German cinema that also produced Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, of course, anyone who made as many films as Fassbinder did wasn't going to knock it out of the park every time -- he himself equated making movies to building houses and some films were plumbing or messy wiring -- but there are several bleak classics in his oeuvre, and it's rare to find one of his films that isn't worth watching to some degree.
Something of an obscure lost classic from the director, the made-for-TV two-part sci-fi film "World On A Wire," is currently being re-released in theaters around the U.S. (read our review here, and check the official site to see when it's playing near you), and we thought we'd use that as an excuse to cast an eye over Fassbinder's back catalogue. It's an intimidating collection -- we're not sure anyone on staff has seen more than 45% of his films -- but we've got a decent spread between us, and for anyone who has yet to discover this fascinating filmography, we hope you'll find a good place to start here. Check it out after the jump.
"Love Is Colder Than Death" (1969)
Booed at Berlin but now evidence of the arrival of a truly talented individual, Fassbinder's debut film offers a personal take on the gangster genre in a French New Wave palette. Thug Bruno (Ulli Lommel, who would become a Fassbinder regular) gets embroiled in a crime syndicate's plan to kill bad-ass pimp Franz (good ol' Rainer Werner in the flesh), only for a friendship to spring up between Franz and Bruno. After a successful operation, the team (complete with prostitute Joanna) decide to rob a bank, though trust begins to waver and things don't go as planned. Like a smash-combination of "Band of Outsiders" and "Le Samurai" with a vague dash of Orson Welles's "The Trial," "Love is Colder Than Death" is passionate filmmaking bursting from a head full of creative, boundary-pushing ideas. Confident long takes are constantly employed, the fourth wall is broken without a wince, and occasionally an ethereal, somewhat dissonant soundtrack coats the scenes (even a trip to the grocery store feels heavenly). Some may decry the very apparent low-budget behavior; the biggest culprit being the lack of gunshot wounds (POP, the murdered fall to the ground). However, Fassbinder makes his lack of scratch work: his characters are so unbelievably nihilist that they couldn't possibly comprehend the weight of their actions. By making the sight of bullet holes and blood seem irrelevant, the director instead focuses on the weight of death -- in a stunningly patient sequence, Bruno kills a man and the camera follows him as he struggles to get the body into the car, drives to a dump, and proceeds to bury the body. Topped off with a sense of humor (the trio draw out their theft of sunglasses just to screw with the saleswoman; an arms dealer operates out of a shoe repair shop), "Love is Colder Than Death" isn't perfect, but it's the kind of first flick that should inspire energy and optimism in this generation's young filmmakers… if they haven't already drowned in student loan debt. [A-]
"Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?" (1970)
Quite possibly the man's simplest feature (not in terms of substance but in style of storytelling), 'Herr R.' attempts to study the circumstances that may (or may not) cause an extremely average person to commit murder. Fassbinder examines the titular character's life down to the most mundane, minute detail, from helping his son with homework to enduring his peers' stand-up routine. These scenes become even harder to swallow during a post-screening (or second watch) analysis, as Kurt Raab's expressiveness yields many complexities -- it would've been easy to play the character empty or neutral, but the Czech actor lumbers around, taking in each moment in a way that suggests that each irritation, disrespect, and awkward moment is slowly piling up, and may be about to break him. Or maybe they're not. One can certainly debate the impact of any given scene and argue about whether it, on its own, flicks the switch; but one can always also look at the other side of the coin and argue for innocence. The way the filmmaker lays out the complicated birth of violence without giving any concrete answers gives the proceedings both a psychological respect and an almost inexplicable horror -- Fassbinder knows human beings are much too complicated for simplistic and reductive labels. His approach is enticing; indeed, Michael Haneke made his bread-and-butter out of it and a more modern take on this slow-burn observation can be seen in Cristi Puiu's "Aurora." It's admittedly a bit of a patience-tester, but there's something undeniably engrossing about it. It's worth noting that the authorship of this one is somewhat controversial: Hanna Schygulla, one of Fassbinder's favorite actors, claims that co-director Michael Fengler was basically responsible for the film. [B+]
Cameren | August 20, 2014 7:50 PM
Nice to see Veronika Voss. That film takes the faded-silver-screen-starlet trope to such a dark place that it threatens to make Sunset Blvd. look trivial.
victor enyutin | October 31, 2011 4:35 AM
R.W. Fassbinder's "In a Year of 13 Moons" is dedicated to the analysis of the psychological nature of self-sacrificial love that is personified by the main character Erwin whose childhood was mutilated by the fact that he was abandoned by his mother and later on as a boy met with other situations that resonated with the primal rejection. Fassbinder scrupulously describes how Erwin's childhood influences his behavior as an adult (including his decision to make a sex change operation to please the person he was in love with). In US today, sex change operations have become more widespread than before and even a popular topic of TV talk shows. For this reason for us, Americans of 21st century, it's especially important to learn what Fassbinder thought about the readiness to maim the body so as to be in tune with the conventional morals or fashion. Erwin was not able to respect his homosexual desire and in a conformist way blamed his biology for not corresponding to "his true nature". His sex change operation is a result of his inability to take responsibility for his unconventional sexual desire. The wider concerns of the film are the human ability to make genuine existential decisions instead of "choosing" between conventional ones and even more difficult the capacity to judge one's decisions retrospectively as wrong. This film about Erwin/ Elvira's unique destiny can help us to contemplate about human life in general and our personal scripts inside it. Volker Spengler playing Erwin/Elvira impersonates the human soul wandering in between genders, as common denominator of a man and woman. It is an important step towards a new kind of humanity that refuses to be dichotomized into machos and pussycats. As always, in this film Fassbinder manages to make individual problem into a universal issue, and generously uses visual symbolism to make the points about human psyche, life, society and psychology of morality, amorality and immorality. Please, visit: www.actingoutpolitics.com to read about "In a Year of 13 Moons" and other Fassbinder's films (with analysis of the shots), and also essays about films by Godard, Resnais, Bergman, Bunuel, Bresson, Kurosawa, Pasolini, Antonioni, Cavani, Alain Tanner, Anne-Marie Mieville, Bertolucci, Maurice Pialat, Herzog, Wenders, Ken Russell, Ozu, Rossellini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Moshe Mizrahi and Ronald Neame.
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Christopher Bell | July 31, 2011 7:48 AM
That's another one - viewed it last night, much too late to include it. Was a lot of fun, definitely.
hi | July 30, 2011 10:23 AM
I'm really surprised that y'all left out "Satan's Brew"! IMHO, it's one of his funniest and surprisingly easy to relate to.
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Thank you :)
Glass | July 30, 2011 2:01 AM
This is amazing - one of your best retrospectives yet, and I agree with almost every rating. Well done.
The Playlist | July 29, 2011 10:54 AM
i feel bad about excluding the The Merchant of Four Seasons. I saw it ages ago and didn't really feel like i could do it justice and just ran out of time to find the time to rewatch it.
cosmo vitelli | July 29, 2011 10:50 AM
Can't say that I loved Berlin Alexanderplatz, it felt really redundant in places, but the epilogue is the wildest two hours of RWF's career.
The Merchant of Four Seasons might be my favorite overall, and Chinese Roulette is brutal but pretty transfixing.
also I'll rep for Whitey but i think it's generally considered one of his weaker efforts? kind of a slight gothic melodrama set in the old west.
still have alot to see, maybe I'll get around to I Still Want You To Love Me now. These retrospectives are a favorite part of the Playlist. Keep em coming!
Gatsby | July 29, 2011 7:32 AM
Keep these up! The first one I agree with almost all of the ratings.
rotch | July 29, 2011 7:05 AM
I'm a total Fassbinder neophyte. I've only seen Fox and his Friends and Ali. I'm ashamed to say that out loud.
Will use this retrospective as a guide.
Dan | July 29, 2011 6:10 AM
For those interested in Fassbinder out there (why else would you be reading this?), here's a very informative and comprehensive overview of the man's films: http://jclarkmedia.com/fassbinder/index.html
cineman | July 29, 2011 6:06 AM
Extraordinarily prolific for a guy who didn't make it to 40 - the brightest lights burn half as long
TGRubenfeld | July 29, 2011 5:58 AM
Is it possible to ever discuss "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?" without spoiling the ending? Because that's what every discussion of the film does--unapologetically spoil the ending, (more so than the title.) It's a much richer viewing experience if you don't know where it's headed.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Gerald Robinson scored 23 points, Dustin Ware added 13 and Georgia beat Mississippi State 71-61 in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament on Thursday night.
Georgia stretched its lead to 54-41 on Robinson's layup with 8:12 remaining, but Mississippi State had one last rally. Jalen Steele scored nine points in 90 seconds, and his final 3-pointer pulled the Bulldogs within 60-57 with 3:44 remaining.
But Georgia (15-16) -- the tournament's No. 11 seed -- held on for the surprising win. Robinson's jumper with 59 seconds left gave his team an insurmountable 66-59 lead.
Sixth-seeded Mississippi State (21-11) was led by Jalen Steele's 19 points.
Mississippi State has lost six of its past eight. Georgia has won three of four and will face Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals on Friday.