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As I have stated before, surrounding your child in images of horror and vampirism from an early age will result in long term mental problems and psychological problems. By terrifying your child and brainwashing them into the darker side of life you are setting them up for a lifetime of pain. What is wrong with giving your child a real childhood filled with joy and laughter and happy images? The way Goths are bringing your children up is wrong, and should be considered child abuse. Yet the laws are not in place to protect children from the Goth lifestyle yet. This is something we are trying to change.
My point is that a mother who looks and dresses like a sick circus freak, who self harms in front of her child, who is obsessed with death and suicide, who holds BDSM parties that consist of bondage and rape, is hardly a fitting role model for children. That is why we are campaigning for all Goth parents to be investigated by the child protection authorities.
We believe that Goths are not fit to be parents in any way. Goths should have their children taken from them after they are born, and given to good clean-living Christian families who have decent morals and a good standing in the community.
And now we are finding websites that sell gothic clothing for children as young as kindergarten age. So that their sick gothic parents can dress their kids as Halloween freak-shows just like themselves. Sites that sell 'bondage' clothing for babies. For babies? Don't you find that wrong and sick? Not just from a Christian point of view, but also a common sense objective. Goths who subject their children to this sort of abuse are just sick in the head.
I am willing to bet that every Goth parent owns at least one horror film that deals with witchcraft or vampirism, or has a Harry Potter novel, or book on Wicca or the supernatural, or has clothes of a perverse nature. It is not difficult to let Lucifer into your home. The Bible teaches us that having anything in your home that glorifies, or discusses or shows the occult, or anything related to the darker side of life in any shape or form, is nothing short of taking your first step down the slippery slope that leads to Hell. You may find this hard to believe, but even allowing your child to watch a mere 5 minutes of a Harry Potter movie is enough for you to damn their souls to Hell for an eternity. This is something you should think long and hard about. Is it really worth it? Before many of these kids can even walk they are lost because of their upbringing.
From our studies on this matter there are 5 types or levels of gothic child abuse. As we believe all Goths abuse their children in at least some way or another, be it meaningful or not. Goths are a walking monstrosity, and we believe unfit to bring up Children. Children need the support of good Christian homes with families who will love and nurture their children, not rape and mentally scar them.
We believe that many Goths are child molesters, mainly due to the fact that they themselves have been sexually abused as Children. We are seeing more and more children coming onto our forums every year telling us of their abusive life, telling us they are all rape victims. Well what do they expect if they dress like a common whore? If you dress like trash, men will think you're easy and treat you like trash. It's really no ones fault but their own. You play, you pay.
And what is even more worrying is that many of these Goths ignore important Biblical teachings regarding their salvation. Instead of marrying the man who has raped them, as the Bible instructs they MUST do if they seek to please God (see Deuteronomy 22:28-29), they choose to turn their backs on Christianity. They will end up burning for all time because of it.
But back onto the subject in hand, it is a well known fact that child abuse runs in the family. As Children accept they way they were brought up as the 'norm', when they grow into adults they think this is the way parents are supposed to act, and so the sorry cycle goes on. We estimate that at least 45 % of Goths have raped or been raped or abused in some way, and at least 10% have molested children. Be it their own, or friends. What do they expect when they get into a seedy sexual world of bondage, torture and BDSM parties with their children present. Many clothing stores sell bondage clothing for children.
Also known as 'ritual abuse', this type of child abuse can take the form of sexual abuse, also infant human sacrifice is not unheard of. Satanic child abuse covens in the world of witchcraft and Wicca is very common indeed, many taking the form of abortion clinics as fronts for their depraved ritual sacrifice.
See also these various articles on this subject.
Many gothic parents are drug addicts. Who looks after the children when they are hooked on crystal meth or crack cocaine?
No-one, they probably lie screaming for attention when their parents lie stoned and incapable.
All Goths abuse their children mentally, and they don't even realize it. Surrounding their kids with images of horror and the darker side of life, leaving razor blades, books on Satanism, horror movies lying around in plain view of their children. What sort of a life is that? To be brought up by a freak who parades around dressed as a whore, wearing bondage and fetish clothing around their kids. Men cross-dressing, wearing make-up, eye liner and nail polish. Playing them loud abusive metal music with lyrics about murder and rape when these children should be listening to nursery rhymes. Subjecting them to the evils of MTV when they should be watching Looney-tunes and cartoons appropriate for children. How will the children grow up?
We are trying to help parents understand that their children are in danger everyday they allow them to continue living the sick gothic lifestyle. This site has been were set up to educate parents and help Goths understand their sickness. It is not just a matter of faith, it is a matter of common sense. If you hang out with drug addicts and losers and suicidal freaks who think self harming is cool and dress like a whore what do you expect but abuse? Parents need to do everything in their power to change their children, instead of accepting this vile culture. When their children end up dead, hooked on crack or violently raped it will be no ones fault but their own.
We were first made aware of this problem around six years ago. At this time a sick gothic couple moved to our town. Obviously we were horrified! These people were quite repulsive, and from what I'm told they weren't even married. Their child was the same age as my eldest daughter, and because of this they ended up in the same class at our local elementary school. I remember distinctly the first day that sick little freak attended the school, because my daughter came home in quite a state. She told me she had a witch in her class. Naturally I went to the school to see what was happening, and my worst fears were realized. This child was dressed up like a Halloween horror show. It was obvious she was being abused. I mean, what parents in their right mind would dress a child like that?
I was up at school everyday making sure my daughter was safe. I complained to the head teacher every day about this matter until the girl was asked to dress in the appropriate attire. I also told my daughter to steer well clear of this disgusting child, as she probably had aids or other diseases and was a whore. Her parents were garbage, and they were making her into garbage too. I don't want my child turning out like that too. And that was when the trouble started.
At first everything was fine, but then after only a week this twisted little monster started making false accusations against my child. It was obvious her parents put her up to it. These Goths hate Christians, and will go to great lengths to make us look bad. We have found this out to great regret on our online forums. Goths on these forums spread lies about our peaceful Christian organization. They call me a lunatic, they accuse my followers of hacking their computers, attacking online gothic groups, sending them viruses, and other slanderous lies about our peaceful Christian Church. We really don't want to be labeled a "church of hate".
Anyways, this little bitch first accused my daughter of burning her schoolbooks, shouting obscenities, harassment, and calling her "the whore of Babylon", then her accusations just got worse. At one point I thought my daughter was going to be kicked out of her own school because of the severity of the accusations against her. That little bitch told the school that my daughter assaulted her, then she tried to convince them that daughter had tried to set her on fire while yelling "burn the witch!" Ha ha. Like the daughter of a good upstanding pillar of the community and a Reverend such as myself would act like that. These people are fucking pathetic. Her parents were probably junkies anyway. I was quite pleased when they moved to another town.
The way I hear it, after a few hundred anonymous letters were sent to all the homes in their area, telling them the father was a convicted child molester, things got a little crazy. Rocks and shit were thrown at them in the street, and it was really only a matter of time until they left. It was fucking beautiful. It's good to know that when we have God on our side nothing can stop us. Hallelujah!


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In our family first - did you know that 37% of children in our country start school without basic pre-reading skills?
That's according to the experts from "Parenting" magazine.
And that's why events like "Read Across America" day are so crucial.
It's a celebration of Dr. Suess' birthday and dozens of people like me had the honor of reading to kids at school.
The kids in Miss Rothering and Mr. Woz's second and third grade class at Olson elementary in Madison were excited about books, proud to tell me what they like to read.
But the study on kids who don't read *before they enter school shows that the children who enter kindergarten without pre-reading skills never catch up.
Here are the simple steps to success when you read to a young child.
First, experts say to focus on print concepts - showing that you read words and not pictures, plus the direction you go in when you read.
Number two is alphabet knowledge. The letters and the sounds are key.
Three is phonological awareness, preschoolers need to understand the sounds in words like the "c" sound in cat.
Number four - oral language.
Talk to your child about what you're reading and ask basic questions about the story line.
Finally, writing. Experts say to encourage any drawing or scribbling from the very beginning.
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1) Dolce & Gabbana's embracing of bloggers and all things interactive!
We arrived to plasma screens showing arrivals (our faces that big at that time of day, we didn't really need to see), and exclusive backstage footage, while A-list bloggers were set up on the front row complete with internet and laptops. Then of course there was the collection of glorious tailoring, tropical prints, corsetry (of course, this is Dolce and Gabbana) and pure unashamed glamour!
2) The Prada Concept Store
You want to customize a Prada jacket, trench, puffa or boots? You got it! This bespoke store in
'Room with a View' soundtrack that almost had us weeping from beginning to end. Yes we are that soft.
4) The new Jimmy Choo collection
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5) Jil Sander's Porn!
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6) Tod's Presentation Setting
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Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.
Mexican officials were quite capable of stopping one of the world's largest corporations on their own
U.S. authorities suspect a Mexican vegetable grower with business ties to the Symingtons is involved in drug trafficking
How Governor Symington misused state resources to further the cross-border business interests of his friends and family.
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Clifford Bruce as Gypsy Leader
Donald MacKenzie as Blinky Bill
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Eleanor Woodruff as Lucille
Pauline is a young woman who inherits a lot of money after her rich uncle passes away. She is not entitled to the inheritance until she is married, as well as being watched over by her uncle's secretary who is now her guardian. The guardian and his associates do everything possible to make sure Pauline doesn't ever see the money.
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The 4pc bonus isn't very strong to begin with, I wouldn't be concerned with dropping it.
I have been passing on upgrades such as Hauberk of the Towering Monstrosity because taking that piece would cause me to lose the 4 piece bonus.
My question is, when does an upgrade become big enough to permit losing the 4 piece bonus?
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The 4pc bonus isn't very strong to begin with, I wouldn't be concerned with dropping it.
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In comparison with the other available pieces? Nothing.
There is very little reason to reduce the CD unless you are a frost tank that uses the ability every time it's up. Otherwise, with the way encounters and boss ability timers work, you gain nothing.
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Generally speaking it depends on your spec, you are blood so the 4 set is worth:
Without bonus: 10/60 = 0.166667
0.15*0.166667 = 0.025
So if used on cooldown (which is doubtful) Vampiric Blood is worth 2.5% extra health.
With bonus 10/50 = 0.2
0.15*0.2 = 0.03
So if used on cooldown with the bonus VB is worth 3% extra health.
0.5% extra health for the 4 set, keeping in mind this is IF you use it on cooldown. When tanking I rarely find myself doing that, depending on the fight I save it for when healers are under the most pressure (ie Jaraxxus somebody gets debuff, and there are infernals stomping around the raid) There are times when the 4 set is indeed handy. If Patchwerk was a boss in ToC, then it would be great.
NR Beasts: Non need for it, the cooldown is up whenever you need it for tanking on Gormok, and you can alternate AMS and VB for Acid Spits.
Jaraxxus: Generally saved for important times, so cannot be used on cooldown.
Faction Champs: More health is bad for tanking these, don't use it unless you are in real danger. Their AI is more likely to go for low HP and low Armor targets. I swap to BP for this fight.
Twins: Generally saved for times when needed, don't see the lower cooldown really helping if it goes unused for 30+ seconds.
Anub: You might be able to squeeze out a 2nd VB once per burrow phase, but upon reaching Phase 3, VB should not be pressed. Just to avoid unwanted Leeching Swarm healing.
All in all, not the greatest bonus, though it does have a place. If you can get 245 Beasts chest and Jaraxxus leggings, drop the bonus.
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Provides a strace/truss-like runtime call monitor for Perl applications.
Note that, while strace/truss only dumps system calls, Devel::STrace
dumps all calls to Perl subs on the application's stack. Also note that
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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Devel-STrace/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install devel/p5-Devel-STrace
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Support STAGEDIR.
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Fairfax County coloring the forest for animal health
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FAIRFAX, Va. - Hey, deer, you look great in pink.
A research study to control ticks in Fairfax County is creating a bizarre sight: deer with pink stripes.
But it's not the optics that scare off the ticks. It's the pesticide that goes along with the pink dye.
The pilot study has deployed deer treatment stations at 20 locations in the county.
Giant bait feeders hold up to 250 pounds of corn. On either side of the storage compartment, two troughs are guarded by two rollers.
"The rollers are actually paint rollers -- literally," said Vicky Monroe, a wildlife biologist for Fairfax County.
"We spray each paint roller with a pesticide. It's specially formulated to kill ticks," she said.
The non-toxic pink dye fades after three or four days.
In order to get to the corn, deer have to touch their heads against the rollers, which apply the pesticide and pink stripes to the head and neck.
During normal grooming, the deer spread the pesticide to the rest of the body.
So why do deer get singled out for being worst-dressed in the woods?
Well, deer are the primary host of adult black-legged ticks which transmit diseases, such as Lyme disease, to humans, according to the Wildlife Biologist Office.
The three-year study is way to analyze how technology can reduce tick infestations.
"Ultimately what we're hoping for is that there are...reductions in the tick densities in the area, and the reduction of ticks on the body of deer that travel into people's backyards," Monroe said.
The feeding stations have been set up at Sully Woodlands Park and Hemlock Overlook Regional Park.
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In keeping with Dashiell's insistance to buy toys to take as gifts to birthday parties, we have compromised by me making custom bags to wrap said toys in. :)
For Audrey, I actually put a pocket on a pink tote bag. I stitched the I2S TuTu Cute Bunny design on fabric first, and then made it into a pocket on the front of the bag:
8CP's Web applique and Spidey fonts. I completely forgot to take a picture of Rex's until we were at the park, so all I have is a phone pic:
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'I Am Angus' features UNL feedlot management interns
Like many occupations, a career in agriculture evolves with experience--up-close, hands-on, real-life experience that builds student appreciation and knowledge in a field of study. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln provides that through its one-of-a-kind Feedlot Management Internship Program.
The internship prepares students to meet a growing need for trained, responsible feedlot managers. And interestingly, many of the enrolled students are women.
In a recent episode of "I Am Angus," a documentary series produced by the American Angus Association, five UNL women are featured in a discussion about future leaders in the cattle industry.
"The business of producing beef requires a number of steps--from the ranch to the retailer, and everywhere in between," said Galen Erickson, UNL animal science professor. "And we need talented people involved to provide a quality product for consumers. That's why young people are fundamental to this industry."
UNL students involved in the Feedlot Management Internship Program and featured on "I Am Angus" Dec. 5 are: Stephanie Moore, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Caitlin Swartz, Winchester, Ky.; Kaylee Reedy, Maryville, Mo.; Meredith Bremer, St. Edward, Neb.; and Feedlot Internship Recruiter Kari Gillespie, Kevin, Mont. For more information visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl4P3IeSeVQ.
"I Am Angus," focuses on the heart of the Angus cattle business--its people, their heritage and why they are involved in agriculture. The hour-long documentary series explores each corner of the beef industry, Angus heritage and how animal agriculture meets the challenge of feeding a growing population.
Sponsored by the Angus Foundation, "I Am Angus" broadcasts on RFD-TV. The channel is distributed by more than 625 cable operators, and can be found on DirecTV channel 345 and Dish Network channel 231. Check local listings for more information.
For more information or to watch segments from past shows, visit the association's website at www.angus.org or YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/apicreativemedia.
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Daley to lose half his bodyguards
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter email@example.com September 13, 2011 2:10AM
10-19-10 Mayor Richard M. Daley arrives at Marshall HS before he takes part in the Marshall High School campus park ribbon-cutting. He was asked about his wife Maggie's getting released from a hospital after their trip to Washington D.C. He dedicated the new 10 million rehabbed football field , track running course and revamped sports complex at Marshall HS. Al Podgorski - Chicago Sun-Times
Updated: November 9, 2011 4:23PM
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is cutting in half — from six active-duty Chicago police officers to three — the bodyguard detail that accompanied former Mayor Richard M. Daley into retirement.
Starting Thursday, Daley and his wife, Maggie, will be protected by the scaled-down detail of three active-duty officers, while the other three officers are returned to street duty, sources said Monday.
The new detail will continue to have access to two city vehicles, but only when necessary. When the vehicles are not needed, they will be returned to the Police Department's motor pool.
Two of the officers will be on call to take Maggie Daley to and from the hospital. Chicago's former first lady has suffered from a string of recent setbacks in her nearly decade-long battle against metastatic breast cancer.
Weeks before Daley left office, he requested around-the-clock protection by at least five police bodyguards — and at least two vehicles at his disposal — to provide security for himself and his wife in retirement.
After a Secret Service evaluation of Daley's security needs, Emanuel authorized a six-officer detail and left it untouched even after cutting the security assigned to Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) in half — from four active police officers to two retired ones.
The Burke and Daley bodyguards became a sore point with Chicago taxpayers, who suggested ending both details in ideas posted on a budget website set up by Emanuel.
It also became a flash point for the Fraternal Order of Police after a two-year hiring slowdown that has left the Chicago Police Department more than 2,300 officers-a-day short of authorized strength.
Emanuel's mandate that Police Supt. Garry McCarthy cut at least $190 million from the Police Department's $1.3 billion budget — a move that's likely to force the elimination of 1,400 police vacancies — added further fuel to the fire.
On Monday, Fraternal Order of Police President Mike Shields criticized Emanuel for not going far enough.
"Will the remaining detail still be making trips to the Daley summer home in Michigan? At some point, Chicago needs to stop treating politicians like royalty. Mayor Daley is a very wealthy man who can afford his own valet service. Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for it," Shields said.
"Whether it's 10 or six or three [Daley bodyguards], it's too many. CPD is down 2,000 officers. We can use every available officer out in the field."
Better Government Association President and CEO Andy Shaw called the mayor's move a "good start" that would "save taxpayers money and put more cops on the street."
"Some people won't be satisfied until the ex-mayor has no bodyguards. Others will wonder why the ex-mayor isn't paying for his own security. They'll point out that he may still be the only ex-mayor in America with police protection," Shaw said.
Daley has angrily defended his request for around-the-clock bodyguard protection — a courtesy that former Mayor Jane Byrne never received and considers unnecessary.
"There's been threats all through my career. … The safety of my family comes first," Daley said, days before leaving office.
"I've been mayor for 22 years, and my wife has made a commitment [to the city]. Former mayors received security appropriately. It's appropriate for every former mayor. Yes, it's always appropriate."
Figures released by the Emanuel administration this summer show that Burke's detail cost Chicago taxpayers nearly $600,000 in 2009.
The highest-paid officer made more than $150,000 that year. The other police officers on Burke's detail made $147,000, $140,000 and $133,000. A part-time officer got $25,000 that year — for a total of $595,000 in salary and overtime. The total did not include health and pension benefits.


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Table of Contents
Statement of Purpose
A Battle with Both Sides Using the Same Tactics
Eudora Welty Losing Battles (1970) [fiction]
Exaggerated Realism
Charles Burnett Killer of Sheep (1977) [film]
Burying the Dead
Alfred Hitchcock The Trouble with Harry (1955) [film]
Distribution and Equilibrium in Stein's Three Lives
Gertrude Stein Three Lives (1909) [fiction]
Between Heaven and Hell
Richard Bruce Nugent Gentlemen Jigger (2008) [fiction]
Screwing Things Up
Robert Rauschenberg Canyon (1959) [art]
Archetypal America
Thornton Wilder Our Town (1938) [drama]
Capote's Cold Blood
Truman Capote In Cold Blood (1965) [non-fiction novel]
The Poetics of In and Out
Toby Olson The Bitter Half (2006) [fiction]
The Novel Against Itself
Gilbert Sorrentino Aberration of Starlight (1980) [fiction]
The Voice from the Body Lying Face Down in the Pool
Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard (1950) [film]
Common and Uncommon Sense
Thomas Paine Common Sense (1776) [essay]
Up in Smoke
Leonard Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti (1952) [opera]
A World Detached
William Carlos Williams Spring and All (1923) [poetry/manifesto]
A Way Out
George Abbott, Douglass Wallop, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross Damn Yankees (1955) [musical]
In the Middle of Nowhere
Budd Boetticher The Tall T (1957) [film]
Hiding Out
Don DeLillo The Body Artist (2001) [fiction]
Anatomy of Self
Bernadette Mayer Eruditio ex Memoria (1977) [autobiographal writing]
A Necessary Remedy
Jane Bowles In the Summer House (1953) [drama]
Three Children of the Fifties
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951) [fiction]
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (1955) [fiction]
James Purdy Malcolm (1959) [fiction]
The Dreadful Hollow
William Faulkner As I Lay Daying (1930) [fiction]
State of Uncertainty
Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers Oklahoma! (1943) [musical]
Life Force
John Hawkes The Beetle Leg (1951) [fiction]
Abandonment, Involvement, and Surrender
Djuna Barnes Ryder (1928) [fiction]
A War Against Death
Marianne Hauser The Collected Short Fiction (2004) [fiction]
Creatures Afire
Jack Smith Flaming Creatures (1963) [film]
What Have We Reaped?
John O'Keefe Reapers (2005) [drama]
Answering the Sphinx
David Antin i never knew what time it was (2005) [talk pieces/performance]
Out of Step
Donald Ogden Stewart Aunt Polly's Story of Mankind (1923) [fiction-satire]
Starting Over
Stacey Levine Frances Johnson (2005) [fiction]
Making the Mind Whole
Charles Bernstein Controlling Interests (1980) [poetry]
A Homespun American Proust
William Christenberry (1954-2006) [painting, photography, sculpture]
Love, Guilt, and Consolation
Martha Graham and Aaron Copland Appalacian Spring (1944) [ballet/music]
Independent Dependents
Tennesse Williams (1947)/Eliza Kazan (1951) [drama/film]
The Gang's Still Here
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee The Gang's All Here (1959) [drama]
Between You and Me
Edward Albee Me, Myself & I (2008) [drama]
Reasonable Doubts
Reginald Rose and Sidney Lument 12 Angry Men (1957) [film]
I'm Still Here: Two Valentines
Betty Garrett: Closet Songwriter and Elaine Stritch: At Liberty at the Carlyle (2007 and
2008) [revues]
Our Wonderful Lives
Harry Mathews My Life at CIA (2005) [fiction]
Pondering the Struggle
John Singleton Copley Paul Revere (1768) and Watson and the Shark (1778), Gilbert
Stuart Paul Revere (1813) and Grant Wood The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931)
On Alien Land
Violet Kazue de Christoforo May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow—An Anthology of
Japanese-American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku (1997) [poetry/cultural history]
Between Visions
John Wieners Ace of Pentacles (1964) and Selected Poems (1972) [poetry]
Mirror Image
George Axelrod (screenplay, based on a novel by Richard Condon), John Frankenheimer (director) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [film]
Flags and Letters
William Broyles, Jr. and Peter Haggis (screenplay, based on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers), Clint Eastwood (director) Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Iris Yamashita (screenplay), Clint Eastwood (director) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) [film]
Wearing the Grin
Michael Maltese (story), Chuck Jones (director) Rabbit of Seville (1950), Wearing of the Grin (1951), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Duck Amok (1953), and One Froggy Evening (1955) [animated cartoons]
Looking for Love
Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) [fiction/satire]
A Torn Curtain
Brian Evenson The Open Curtain (2006) [fiction]
Thomas Eakins and Cathy Opie
Thomas Eakins Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins and Cathy Opie Figure and Landscape (at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (2010) [art]
Beverly Hills Housewife
Betty Freeman (1921-2009) [philantrophist and photographer]
Flopping Around
Preston Sturges The Palm Beach Story (1942) [film]
Six Degrees of Insanity
Alice Goodman, Peter Sellars, and John Adams Nixon in China (1987) [opera]
The Company Way
Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert, and Frank Loesser How ot Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1961) [musical comedy]
Anything for Love
Frank Pierson and Sidney Lument Dog Day Afternoon (1975) [film]
Born Again
George Seaton and Valentine Davies Mircale on 34th Street (1947) [film]
Locked Up
Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein (based on the play by Moss Hart and George S. Kafman), William Keighley The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) [film]
The Dark Side of the Moon
Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail (screenplay), Alfred Hitchcock (director) The Wrong Man (1956) [film]
On Credit
Eleanor Antin (Eleanora Antinova) Before the Revolution (1979) [performance]
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Monday, April 9, 2012
on creditby Douglas Messerli
Eleanor Antin Before the Revolution, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, January 29, 2012 / I saw the matinee performance of this work
Of these works, perhaps the most significant was the 1979 Before the Revolution, in which, performing numerous characters—from Antinova, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Nijinsky, to balletic beings such has Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI—Antin develops her "Historical Prophecy and an Interlude and an Interruption." Although I have seen most of Antin's performances when they first appeared, I did not witness the 1979 premier of Before the Revolution at The Kitchen in New York and its later manifestation at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. So I was delighted to be able to attend what she has described as a "re-performance" of the piece, this with several actors, on January 29, 2012.
The work is divided into six sections: I. The Lesson, II. The Argument, III. The Vision, IV. The Rehearsal, V. The Interruption, and VI. The Truth, each loosely connected with the actions conveyed in their titles. The overall arc of this disjunctive narrative is Antinova's insistence that she dance a major role in the Ballet Russes instead of playing merely ancillary and exotic figures such as Pocahontas, etc., her arguments with Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and others about permitting her these roles, her insistence on choreographing her own ballet—wherein she plays a ridiculously overstated Marie Antoinette—her rehearsals for that performance, and her personal relationships with other figures of the company, particularly the disturbed Nijinsky.
At the heart of this work, however, is Antin's personal "Interruption," wherein Antin states the major themes of her piece, and argues for an art that not only "borrows" or builds upon the past, but, in a Brechtian manner, creates a space between the artist and the figure she portrays, that must be joined through the imaginations of the audience. Beginning with a discussion of Diaghilev, accused by several as being a borrower, Antin brings several of these issues together in a monologue that might almost be stated as a kind of manifesto of her art:
Sometimes there is a space between a person and her name. I can't always reach my name. Between me and Eleanor Antin sometimes there is a space. No, that's not true. Between me and Eleanor Antin there is always a space. I act as if there isn't. I make believe it isn't there. Recently, the Bank of America refused to cash one of my checks. My signature was unreadable, the bank manager said. "It is the signature of an important person," I shouted. "You do not read the signature of an important person, you recognize it." That's as close as I can get to my name. And I was right, too. Because the bank continues to cash my checks. That idiosyncratic and illegible scrawl has credit there. This space between me and my name has to be filled with credit.
What of me and Antinova? I borrow her dark skin, her reputation, her name, which is very much like mine anyway. She borrowed the name from the Russians, from Diaghilev. I borrow her aspirations to be a classical ballerina. She wants to dance the white ballets. What an impossible eccentric! A Black ballerina dancing Les Sylphides, Giselle, Swan Lake. She would be a "black face in a snow bank!" The classical ballet is a white machine. Nobody must be noticed out of turn. The slightest eccentricity stands out and Grigoriev hands out stiff fines to the luckless leg higher than the rest. So Antinova designs her own classical ballet. She will dance the white queen Marie-Antoinette. She invests the space between herself and the white queen with faith...."
This profound statement of the separation of art and artist who must be given credit by both the artist herself and the viewer to make meaning, is at the heart of Antin's oeuvre, which, like a Kiekegaardian leap into faith, transforms simple desire into an almost sacramental act.
The "Interruption" was even more poignant at the Hammer Museum performance I witnessed because Antin read these words on a small I-pad whose images disappeared as she spoke them, forcing her to ask her son Blaise to help her recover the message she was attempting to repeat.
It was also interesting to have Eleanor Antinova played throughout by a Black actress (Daniele Watts), who certainly frees Antin from being seen as a white actress in Black face which some critics accused her of being the first time round.
Actor Jonathan Le Billion was also very effective as the slightly mad Nijinsky railing against
as the great dancer did in real life. But overall, the acting was mixed, with
some figures unable to completely realize their roles. In part, that is simply
due to the fact that in life these personalities were exaggerated and that
Antin's work is not, at heart, a drama. To say what Before the Revolution is, exactly, is difficult. Perhaps it is
easier to say what it isn't: it is not truly a play, an historical performance,
a monological statement, a ballet-in-the-making, a personal encounter with a
Black ballerina. It is all of these, but in its radical genre-bending elements,
it is so much more!
Although, as I mentioned previously, I did not see the original, it seems to me it is essentially a work for one person. Eleanor may not have been a greatest of actresses in that original, but given the "credit" we must grant to bring her art into life, the slightly mad ramblings of a single person, sometimes hiding behind cut-outs of her characters, seems the most appropriate rendering of this fascinating performance. Despite the separation of name and character, Antin becomes Antinova, becomes even the figures inhabiting Antinova's imagination in the original, and that, it seems to me, is the true miracle of this art. What we witness is a kind of madness, a madness, like Nijinsky's, that becomes transformed into something of significance. The artist in this work is almost like a child, a child so intent upon imagining other existences, that she truly creates them, bringing viable others into that envelope between the creator and the creation. If that act demands credit, it reflects back upon the audience for their commitment to the creative act, coming as a kind of unexpected reward for their faith. Art, for Antin, is almost always—despite its seeming focus on the various aspects of self—a communal act. Her King of Solana Beach could never have been a king without willing (even if unknowing) subjects. Antin's Nurse Eleanor Nightingale could not have survived the Crimean War without her imaginary patients, just as Eleanora Antinova is nothing without her willing claque. So too did the audience of Before the Revolution enthusiastically applaud this dramatic presentation of the dilemmas of Antinova's life.
I was at Eleanor Antin's side after the 1981 performance, Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev at the Museum of Modern Art, when an enthusiastic attendee, with great reverence and respect, gushed, "Tell me, being so close to Diaghilev, what was it really like?" Eleanor was a bit abashed; she would have had to be in her mid-70s (she was currently in her 40s) to have actually performed with Diaghilev's company. Yet I perceived that never before had "credit" been so innocently and completely proffered!
Reprinted from USTheater (March 2012).
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the dark side of the moonby Douglas Messerli
It is strange to think that only two years after making one of his greatest films, Rear Window, and in the same year that Alfred Hitchcock directed The Trouble with Harry—perhaps his most joyful film of this period—as well as the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, that the 1956 black and white movie The Wrong Man, was a dismal box office failure.
To see the hard-working, good family man Manny Balestrero (intensely played by Henry Fonda) be systematically destroyed by the American justice system is so painful that it is a hard movie to watch. In some ways, The Wrong Man combines all of the fears and paranoias of the mid-1950s, a period where the whole country was, in a sense, put on trial, everyday men and women accused of anti-American sentiment and actions. Although I have often suggested that the 1950s was far more interesting than the decade is usually presented, this particular aspect of the period, along with the angst of nuclear destruction, put everyone on edge. It is little wonder, accordingly, that people did not flock to Hitchcock's dour film. Even a critic writing as late as 2004, Christopher Null, describes it as one of Hitchcock's "most forgettable works of his mature era."
Having recently watched the film again, however, I now think it, along with Shadow of a Doubt, is one of his most excellent, if frightening, depictions of American life. Films like Vertigo, North by Northwest, and even Psycho are much closer to European cinema-making than either Shadow of a Doubt or The Wrong Man, the latter of which is as grounded in the streets of New York as many of the 1940s film noir, and, as we now perceive, highly influenced artists like Scorcese in Taxi Driver.
It is not that the police in this film are villains, or that they are even particularly insensitive enforcers. Indeed the dilemma of this film is not that any group of men or women torment Manny, but that—once he has visited the local insurance office to see if he might get a loan to pay for his wife's upcoming dental bills—the whole world order crumbles, truth and memory slipping away into nightmare reality. He is identified by women of the insurance office as a man who twice before held them up, women can hardly bear to look at the accused themselves, one of them almost sickening to even glance in his direction.
The police quickly create a line-up made up of persons, among whom the women might have previously seen in uniform, as justice continues to crack, leaving Manny Balestrero to face the shattering effects upon his life.
In this world turned upside down, coincidences predominate. When asked to write the words that appeared in one of the hold-up notes, Manny makes the same spelling mistake as did the criminal, reinforcing the police's belief in his guilt. His simple statement, "I made a mistake," echoes in a Kafka-like cry of existential guilt, repeated later in his wife's fractured vision of reality that it is she who has made the mistakes by needing dental care or through simply not being a good enough wife. Even Manny's two innocent sons mope about as if they have helped to create the mountain of evidence that appears to insure Manny's imprisonment.
Truth has little significance in this dark world. The fact that during the first robbery the couple had been away on vacation and during the second robbery Manny had a swollen cheek seems to matter little. None of his fellow vacationers can be found, some having died, others disappearing into oblivion. The young lawyer (Anthony Quayle) to whom Manny and his wife are recommended is well-meaning but inexperienced (in this instance, Hitchcock did change the facts, since originally he was a New York Senator at the time of the trial).
As his wife Rose (Vera Miles) slips into insanity, it is as if Manny, a religious believer, were suddenly suffering the trials of Job. The only bit of luck he receives, if one can call it that, is that a juror screams out early in the trial concerning the mundaness of court room details, apparently in the belief that Manny's guilt is obvious, thus assuring a retrial, and giving the defense more time to prepare.
One cannot imagine the final events to be anything but fiction, so perfectly do they fit with Hitchcock's sense of moral outrage against institutional systems and individual fate: quite by accident the head detective in this case encounters another recently arrested man in the precinct hall who looks vaguely like Manny, and turns back from his exit to further investigate, discovering that he is responsible for the robberies for which Manny has been accused.
In the frame of the movie, however, Manny's new freedom seems hardly to matter. His wife, locked away in an asylum, apathetically ignores his claims that everything will now be all right. She, so the doctor proclaims, is still "on the dark side of the moon."
Only a written after-note tells us that two years later Rose recovered, allowing the family, perhaps, to return to some normalcy. But one doubts, after all they have been through, that everyday life was ever possible again.
Reprinted from International Cinema Review (September 2011).
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
locked up
by Douglas Messerli
In short, the Stanley family is locked away in their own house, just as Whiteside is locked up in a small hick town which he has not even wanted to visit ('I simply will not sit down to dinner with midwestern barbarians. I think too highly of my digestive system.") The house, in fact, has become a kind of penitentiary, reiterated by the behavior of the completely flustered Nurse Preen (Mary Wickes) and the Stanley children, who, each for their own reasons desire to leave home, the daughter being in love with a union agitator whom her businessman father detests, and the would-be photographer son desiring new scenes and subjects for his art.
I have very little time, and so the conversation will entirely be about me and I shall love it.
Banjo (inspired by Harpo Marx, wonderfully played by Jimmy Durante) can barely sit still for more than a moment, "Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay," imitating the "I must be going" phrase of Groucho in Animal Crackers. Both visitors conspire to help Maggie to escape Whiteside's grasp so that she might enter matrimonial bonds.
Reprinted from American Cultural Treastures (December 2011).
by Douglas Messerli
Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein (screenplay, based on the play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman), William Keighley (director) The Man Who Came to Dinner / 1942
Every year at Christmas time at our home we watch The Man Who Came to Dinner, the wonderful comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Even though this film takes place at Christmas, however, the movie has very little to do with the holiday, and is almost as far removed from the happiness of the season as it could be.
In fact, this time viewing the film I was struck at just how removed this comedy is from any joy. Although it often howlingly funny, underneath, it is more of dark comedy akin to Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel than it is to the family farce of this play righting pair, You Can't Take It with You! The movie is so popular that I need not, I hope, repeat the plot. Although the film is filled with numerous plot complications, it actually has only one major event, repeated at the film's end: Sheridan Whiteside (inspired by Alexander Woolcott) comes to Medalia, Ohio, presumably to give a lecture, but falls on the ice-filled stoop of the Stanley family's home, whereupon a local doctor declares that he must be wheel-chair bound until he heals some days later.
Although extremely popular in the media, having a weekly radio show, Whiteside (wonderfully played by Monte Woolley in large, campy gestures) is a tyrant who puts his own welfare over concerns for anyone else; so monstrous is his surface behavior that it is almost impossible to imagine how a sweet woman like Maggie Cutler (played against type by Bette Davis) can stand to be in his employ. As she, herself, comments: "You know, Sheridan, you have one great advantage over everyone else in the world. You've never had to meet Sheridan Whiteside." The poor Stanley family, Ernest, Daisy and their two children (the parents acted by Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell) are horrified by the situation, as Whiteside threatens to sue them, and insists upon taking over their library, living room, and front entrance, while they are assigned a back stairs and confined to their own bedrooms.
The theme of imprisonment is played out again and again in this work. Whiteside, it is suggested, is fascinated by criminal activity, and invites several inmates from a nearby penitentiary for lunch—much to the horror, of course, of the locked-away Stanleys. Throughout the movie, Whiteside is sent presents—penguins, an octopus, and a mummy case—the first two contained in crates while the latter is itself a kind of coffin.
Meanwhile, Maggie becomes involved with the local editor of the town newspaper, the affable Bertram H. Jefferson (Richard Travis), and for the first time after years of exciting travel, suddenly seeks to settle down into this small town and marry, another kind of imprisonment—at least to Whiteside's way of thinking. Jefferson has also written "the great American play," which helps Whiteside lure Lorraine Sheldon (Ann Sheridan) from vacationing in Florida to Ohio, hoping she will bollix up Maggie's plans. By the end of the film, having caused a series of disastrous situations, he must also lock away Lorraine and ship her off in a plane.
Finally, the Stanley home has itself another kind of prisoner, Harriet, an aunt who, as a young woman, killed—like Lizzie Borden—her mother and father. She is also imprisoned in the family secrecy of her past.
When the penguins escape their crate, they are quickly rounded up and impounded once more by the doctor and nurse. When the children both bolt the home, Ernest Stanley quickly tracks them and returns them home. Suddenly one can comprehend, perhaps, Harriet's childhood actions, and may help explain her strange behavior.
Only two people, it appears, can come and go at will, but both these, like Sheridan Whiteside, are so self-centered that they cannot escape themselves. Carlton Beverly (based on Noël Coward, performed by Reginald Gardiner) drops by to see Whiteside, but talks of hardly anyone but himself:
I have very little time, and so the conversation will entirely be about me and I shall love it.
Even the two servants, cook and butler, hoping to escape the Stanley household by taking up service in Whiteside's home, remain locked away, as Whiteside, finally leaving the Stanley mansion, once again falls on the ice. Like the figures in The Exterminating Angel, no one in this work can leave his self-imposed entrapment.
With such a marvelous cast, however, who cares? Even though director William Keighley has done little to transfer this stage-bound work into film, we might wish to watch these poor trapped beings play out their destinies again and again.
Los Angeles, December 18, 2011
Reprinted from American Cultural Treastures (December 2011).
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
born again
by Douglas Messerli
George Seaton (screenplay, based on a story by Valentine Davies), George Seaton (director) Miracle on 34th Street / 1947
I'll begin by admitting that I absolutely enjoy George Seaton's and Valentine Davies' holiday fantasy, Miracle on 34th Street. I have probably watched this film every year of my adult life on Thanksgiving day or during the Christmas season, and I get delight just imagining that I might have been able witness the premiere of this film as a 6-month old baby.
This year, watching it just before Thanksgiving dinner, however, I had a different, more contrarian view of the holiday chestnut, listed in the National Film Registry.
Let me start by saying the obvious, a cliché spouted each year by thousands of religious Americans, particularly, one imagines, by those who describe themselves as "born again:" the Christmas season has increasingly become commercialized, and most Americans have lost the sense of the holiday's true focus, the birth of Christ.
Generally recognized as the emblem of that pagan, commercialized Christmas is Santa Claus, the jolly, fat Dutch gift-giving Sinterklaas. You remember him, the one about whom your parents lied, leading you on to believe that he was the source of all of those lovely Christmas presents beneath the tree until you grew old to appreciate the loving care they had been secretly showing you for all those years? As I have written elsewhere, I came to that realization, almost miraculously one morning, at a far younger age than most of my peers; it didn't bother me one little bit that there wasn't any Santa Claus and that my parents had been so nice to me for all those years. But my revelation of that fact to a school friend, sent her off crying into her mother's arms. I was told that I must never reveal the truth to anyone my age or younger. But even older children, I realized, might not like to hear my discovery.
Seaton's work, however, begins almost at the opposite end of the equation. The young girl at the center of this story, Susan Walker (Natalie Wood), has been told by her level-headed mother, Doris (Maureen O'Hara) that there is no Santa Claus, without any noticeable effect in the child's demeanor. Mrs. Walker, who works at Macy's, coordinating the all-important Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, is apparently a strong-headed and practical woman, who has, one imagines, tried to remove almost all fantasy and myth from her young daughter's life. She has told that there are no giants, and the girl is discouraged from reading "fairy tales." Obviously, the mother has been hurt by what she perceives as the fantasies of her married life. One wonders how she has dealt with Christian myths, including the child born in a stable. But fortunately, for the survival of the film, Seaton has skirted that issue and, indeed, all issues having to deal with the real season's purpose.
The film begins with a seemingly pernickety old man scolding a young window dresser for putting the reindeer in the wrong places in relation to his store's depiction of Santa and sleigh. The man, Kris Kringel (the marvelous Edmund Gwenn), we soon discover, is very particular when it comes to all things about Santa. After all he believes he is Kris Kringel, Santa. It is, as the doctor to the nursing home where Kris lives later assures us, a quite harmless delusion, one that only leads him to do good. But everything is soon made much more complicated when Kris accidentally encounters, during the early moments of the Macy parade, that the man hired to play Santa Claus—the traditional star of the event (even today, as I watched the parade, the bands, floats, balloons, and other theater and vaudeville events, the parade culminated with Santa's arrival)—is absolutely soused! Reporting the man's condition to Mrs. Walker, Kris seems a natural to replace the drunk Santa. After all, he even looks like a well-trimmed and tailored Santa. It is almost inevitable that Mrs. Walker should invite him to portray Santa, since, he declares, he has certainly had experience.
Meanwhile, Doris' daughter, Susan is watching the parade from a neighbor's window, from what we might presume is a Central Park West apartment. Today we might worry about the fact that she is watching this with an adult male, Fred Gailey (John Payne)—although we have been reassured by the Walker's maid that she has been keeping an eye on the girl—who occupies an apartment across the way. The Santa Claus, declares Susan, is quite convincing, far better than the one of the year before. Gailey is a bit troubled by her mature dismissal of Santa, as well as giants, but is not beyond encouraging her to invite him to dinner in the Walker home. Mr. Gailey may be a happy man (the old fashioned meaning of "gay"), but he is represented as bit disturbing in his forward behavior. His "move" on the daughter, clearly, is also a move on her somewhat cynical mother. Nonetheless, he is invited to dinner.
Kris, meanwhile, not only looks the part of the perfect Santa, but is quickly hired by Macy's to become their Department Store Santa. Kris is delighted to be able to return to his rightful place, and everyone seems happy with his "acting," until it is discovered that he has been telling some parents to purchase their children's gifts at competing stores—even Gimbels. The scene where Thelma Ritter (in one of her first film roles) stops to thank the floor manager for their unusual new policy, where they put the spirit of Christmas, so it appears, before their own financial gain, is one of the most delightful of the film.
To back her up, Doris summons their Santa, encouraging him to tell Susan that he is not really Santa Claus, but when he insists that he is, she demands his file, wherein she discovers that he goes under the name of Kris Kringel and declares his birthplace as the North Pole. A visit to the store psychologist is ordered for Kris, who passes all the tests with great aplomb, yet raising the ire of the psychologist, Granville Sawyer (Porter Hall) who throughout the interview pulls at his eyebrows (a trait shared by his secretary), by suggesting that something may be problematic in his home life. In retaliation, Sawyer suggests that Kris may have a latent hostility that could break out at any time. A call to the doctor who heads the Long Island nursing home where Kris has been living, brings reassurances from Dr. Pierce (James Seay), who also suggests it may be easier if Kris can find a place to stay nearer to the store in Manhattan. Before you can say Kris Kringel, Gailey has invited the old man to share his bedroom, further insinuating his being into the Walker's life.
As the old gent speaks to Susan, he is saddened to learn that she does not believe in his existence and that she has been spurned by her playmates for being unable to imagine herself as an animal. "But I am not an animal," she declares, after which he patiently teaches her how to pretend to be a monkey. It is clear that he has taken on the Walkers as a kind of test case:
…Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind…and that's what's
been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do
something about it.
Kris even repeats the sentiments I stated earlier in this essay, disparaging the commercialism of the holiday—a strange thing for that emblem of the commercial to do; but it is clear the director and writer want to both ways.
Soon after Kris discovers that a beloved young janitor, Alfred (Alvin Greenman) has also been seeing the mean-spirited Sawyer, who suggests that Alfred has psychological problems simply for wanting to play Santa Claus at his neighborhood YMCA. Furious with the abuse of this good-hearted boy, Kris charges into Sawyer's office, accusing him of malpractice and hitting him over the head with his cane. The violence Sawyer has predicted has, alas, become reality, and Kris is sent to Bellvue Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation, believing that Mrs. Walker has been behind the decision.
Despairing of the lack of faith she has shown, Kris purposely fails the psychiatric examination, and is destined to be locked away. Almost everyone knows the rest of the story, how Gailey takes on Kris's case, fighting to convince a disbelieving world and court that Kris Kringel is truly Santa Claus. Even Mrs. Walker and her daughter come round to support his cause.
The case is miraculously won due, in part, to the political exigencies of court. As the Pol Charles Halloran (William Frawley) puts it to Judge Henry X. Harper (Gene Lockhart):
All right, you go back and tell them that the New York State
Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers.
The kids read it and they don't hang up their stockiings. Now what
The kids read it and they don't hang up their stockiings. Now what
happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings.
Nobody buys them. The toy manufactures are going to like that; so
they have to lay off a lot of their employees, union employees. Now
you got the CIO and AF of L against you and they're going to
you got the CIO and AF of L against you and they're going to
adore you for it and they're going to say it with votes. Oh, and the
department stores are going to love you too and the Christmas card
department stores are going to love you too and the Christmas card
makers and the candy companies. Ho ho, Henry, you're going to be
an awful popular fella. And what about the Salvation Army? Why,
they got a Santa Claus on every corner, and they're taking a fortune.
So much for Kringel's dismay for the commercialism of Christmas! Perhaps no clearer statement of the relationship of the fat, jolly, fellow and money has ever been made. Harper's children even hate him, and Gailey calls the young son of District Attorney Thomas Mara to testify that his father has told, assuredly, that there is a Santa Claus.
Even more cynical are the US Postal employees, tired of all the unclaimed mail addressed to Santa Claus, who win the day for Gailey and Kris Kringel by forwarding dozens of sacks of letters to the courthouse, providing the Judge with an easy way out:
Uh, since the United States Government declares this man to beSanta Claus, this court will not dispute it. Case dismissed.
So, insists Seaton's film, Santa Claus, despite all evidence to the contrary, is alive and well. Yet Seaton and the original author go even further, demanding of even the adult characters and viewers their utter belief in the commercial emblem. When asked what she might like for Christmas, Susan pulls out an advertisement for a suburban Long Island home. Even Kris Kringel is a bit stunned by her demand, when he suggests, "…Don't you see, dear? Some children wish for things they couldn't possibly use like real locomotives or B-29.s." Her retort is the stubborn insistence of any spoiled consumer:
If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me. And if you can't,you're only a nice man with a white beard like mother said.
Perhaps never in the whole of Hollywood productions was there a more central pitching of consumer products. Even movies with thousands of "product placements" cannot match, Nathalie Wood's answer to Kris' question of where she had found the lovely sweater she is wearing: "My mother got on sale it at Macy's."
During an ad between events of this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Macy's proudly quoted that line among other cinematic mentions of the august department store.
As Susan chants to herself: "I believe…I believe…it's silly, but I believe."
Los Angeles, Thanksgiving 2011
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Frank Pierson (screenplay, based on an article by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore), Sidney Lument (director) Dog Day Afternoon / 1975
Sidney Lument's death this month, on April 9th, sent me back to review his 1975 film, Dog Day Afternoon, a work I remember with great fondness.
For the first half of the film, however, it appears that Dog Day Afternoon might be weighted down with the thematic concerns that are so dominant in his oeuvre, focusing on the moral, political, and social issues as in works such as The Pawnbroker, A View from the Bridge, Serpico, and The Verdict. These films are all admirable, and are well-directed. But for my taste there is something almost lugubrious about many of them, as they slowly uncoil, revealing their characters' moral fibre and the social conditions which define them. In some respects, many of Lument's works never seem to be completely transformed from stage plays into cinematic creations, although that is precisely what I love about his Long Day's Journey into Night.
Dog Day Afternooon begins simply as a badly bungled bank robbery, with one young participant abandoning his cohorts even before the two central robbers, Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino*) and Sal (eerily played by John Cazale) can notify the manager and tellers what they are undertaking. When they do demand to be taken to the vault, they discover that there is no money, it having just been picked up for deposit elsewhere.
The only takings that Pacino has for all his trouble are the teller's drawers, which he carefully empties, making sure that he does not pull all the bills out at once so that he will not trigger an alarm. When offered, by one teller, the wrapped new bills, he refuses, noting that they are marked. Yet for all his carefulness, he is soon called to the phone, where a policeman wants to talk to him, the bank having been already surrounded.
Suddenly we perceive the absurdity of the whole event. The inept robbers are now forced into a standoff with what appears to be, as Sonny later announces, "the fucking militia." Indeed, there are so many policeman, setting up camp across the street, blocking off cars, swarming the roof and the back of the building, and hanging from fire escapes that one would think they were responding to an international terrorist threat. Even though he is now forced to take the tellers and manager as captives, as he himself proclaims: "I'm a Catholic, I don't want to hurt anybody." Even the dense-minded Sal insists he doesn't smoke because "the body's the temple of the Lord."
Before long a large crowd has developed, and the movie appears that it will shift into a work dealing with police brutality, particularly when, on one of his sidewalk discussions with the police coordinator, Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti (Charles Durning), Sonny invokes the Attica prison riots of 1971, when, after days of negotiations, police killed and caused the deaths of over 39 prisoners. Pacino, brilliantly over-the-top, whips up the crowd for his cause—and assured safety:
Tell them to put their guns down! Put the fucking guns down!
Put 'em down! Put the fucking guns down! Put those guns down!
Attica! Attica! You got it, man! You got it, man! You got it, man!
You got it! You got it! (pointing to different individuals in the crowd
as they should ATTICA! ATTICA!)
Moreover, when Lument briefly inserts scenes showing Sonny's mother (hilariously played by theater director Judith Malina) and his overweight, beleaguered, and not very bright wife, we begin to fear that the film may attempt a psychological explanation for his acts.
But even early on, we suspect that the story has something important yet to reveal, particularly when, after being lied to by the Moretti, the two have the following interchange:
SONNY: Kiss me.
MORETTI: What?
SONNY: Kiss me. When I'm being fucked, I like to get kissed a lot.
Everything soon shifts, in a delicious twist of reality, when we discover the wife Sonny has asked for the police to bring to him is another man, Leon Shemer (Chris Sarandon), and the reason for the bank robbery is Sonny's attempt to get enough money for Leon's sex-change.
Even stranger, it is not Sonny demanding the sex-change, who seems to be perfectly in love with Leon as two gay men, but the psychiatrist's idea:
LEON: I couldn't explain why I did the things I did. So I went
to this psychiatrist who explained to me I was a woman
in a man's body. So Sonny right away wanted to get me
money for a sex change operation: but where was he to get
that? 2500 dollars! My God, he's in hock up to his ears
Before long the gays have joined the crowds surrounding the absurd standoff, Sonny becoming a kind of ridiculous folk hero in an era in which police were hated for their abuse. And Lument has sent his film on a loony and, quite frankly, bravely outspoken path where I am sure some members of the original audience had not been prepared to go. One must remember that the only major American film that had seriously and openly dealt with homosexuality was William Friedkin's The Boys in the Band of 1970, a film so based on gay stereotypes that, even after I had served for a few nights as an usher during its New York run, Howard and I, along with other members of the newly formed gay liberation group at the University, picketed the film outside the Madison, Wisconsin theater where it was shown.
Lument was not only taking on the issue of homosexuality in Dog Day Afternoon, but transgender sexuality, and, even more complicated, the subject of bisexuality, since Sonny was also heterosexually married with two children! Yet Lument allows this subject to be treated seriously, by including the scene where Sonny dictates a will, leaving most of his money to Leon, with only a small amount going to his legal wife.
Even though he is, as he admits, "a fuck-up" and "an outcast," Sonny is also a caring and loving man. As he admits to Sal, "I got all these pressures!" and, at another point, "I got to have all the ideas!"
And strangely and absurdly, he takes those ideas to their logical extension, planning to use the hostages to get an airplane traveling, of all places, to Algeria! When asked to what country he might like to go, Sal replies, "Wyoming." We know, accordingly, that there can now be no turning back, and there will be no way of returning to whatever they might define as normality for these poor, sweet outcasts. The only element of the plot still unrevealed is whether the two will be brutally murdered or simply arrested.
Both happens, as the limousine driver pulls out a gun and shoots Sal, the police arresting Sonny.
In real life, John Wojtowicz served 14 years in prison for the attempted robbery. The $7,500 he received for the movie rights went to his lover, Ernest Aron, for the sex change. Aron became Elizabeth Eden, dying of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987. Wojtowicz died of cancer on January 2, 2006.
Los Angeles, Easter 2011
* I might note that there is a wonderful irony in Pacino's performance, for which he was nominated for Best Actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts. In real life, Wojtowicz and his co-conspirator Salvatore Naturile had seen The Godfather, in which Pacino also played, earlier in the day and planned their robbery based on events in the film. John Cazale performed alongside Pacino in The Godfather as Fredo.
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Google Voice gets going on iPhone
Google Voice has finally become available for the iPhone after 18 months of bickering and an FCC investigation. It's also offering free calls within America and discounted calls elsewhere. Apple has nothing against Google Voice, but it does upset AT&T who can see the voice revenue that pays for the mobile network tumbling. That' …
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Thanks Bill, that's the best summary of the basic differences between US and European mobile charging I've seen:
"In Europe calls to mobiles cost the caller more, and are identifiable by a mobile area code ("07" in the UK). The caller pays a premium for calling such numbers, while the callee pays nothing. In the US mobile numbers use the same area codes as fixed, so the caller pays the same (nothing if it's a local call) and the callee has the minutes deducted from their bundle."
So now you have Google Voice.
3G? Hows the quality? Wi-Fi? The quality is much better.
So one has to ask... why was Google looking for all of the unsecured wi-fi's and mapping them out?
Sure you can argue that they are just using them as reference points as an alternative to SATNAV.
(You can assume that the wi-fi points are stationary and as you drive around, you can triangulate the fixed position based on your known location (SATNAV) and the signal strength. Do this for enough 'open' wi-fis and even if a point moves, you could use them to triangulate your position.
Now IANAL, but that would be a gray area. Actually one shouldn't care of the wi-fi was open or secured, you're just looking at the SSID which is being broadcast.
But Google was mapping 'open' or rather unsecured wi-fi.
If you believe in Occam's Razor, the only reason to do this would be to hop a free ride.
While one may try to justify their own 'freetard' views of 'borrowing' an open wi-fi connection, it is in fact illegal to actually do so.
I realize that this is slightly off topic, but if one were to make a call using Google Voice, using wi-fi would mean no charges to AT&T for data plan usage.
Of course that assumes that the android phone or the google iPhone app would automatically turn on this feature since wi-fi networks tend to offer better throughput than 1G and 3G on AT&T.
I wasn't sure by what the author meant in ... "Google Voice will do that by intercepting outgoing calls and connecting you instead to Google's servers, which then connect to your destination using VoIP for the longer part of the journey. Callers get your Google Voice number on the caller ID and you pay Google if the call goes outside the USA."
Intercepting outgoing calls and connecting to Google's servers? How? Wi-fi/3G data, or routing cell call to a local google voice switch? (That would make Google a telco).
I think that those in charge (FCC) should take a closer look.
It would be interesting to run a 'Honey Pot' and see what happens...
Well done Apple
I say stick it to AT&T, I'm sick of dropping calls with my iPhone. It's not the phone trust me it's the service.
Its not the phone, its the service
Au contraire, try another phone- you might be very surprised (at how much more feature advanced than an iPhone it is- alongside a vastly different build quality). I've certainly got a new phone on my Christmas wish list.......
I did
I've had 3 phones (one iphone) and 2 service providers in the last 4 year.
More dropped call on Orange than O2. Others will have different and possibly polar opposite experiences.
All goes to show location and provider are more important that the handset.
@Daytime. Well done? That depends on whether you are the one with the.....
........vaseline or not. By permitting this Apple is in practice attacking their own business partner's income stream. Whether or not that is such a smart idea remains to be seen. It will of course depend upon just how much money this actually ends up costing AT&T. In the event that it _does_ cost them a shit-load one can imagine that other service providers who until now would have happily sold their grandmothers into prostitution to be able to offer the iPone 4 on contract to their customers might be very wary of becoming involved with Apple. Why would that matter? It would matter if Apple and AT&T had a "falling out" and Apple discovered that their negotiating hand with regard to AT&T was seriously weakened by other telcos being less inclined to do business with iJobs. It could end up under certain circumstances being a classic example of "what goes around comes around" - to Apple's cost. Doing something simply because you now believe that you can is not always the smartest thing to do.
For the record I have absolutely nothing to do with AT&T in any way shape or form and never have.
I had not known the reason why GV might be an issue in the EU. Now when pesky folks ask, I have a valid response as to why I can have GV and they can't (for now). Simple answer, Google would be charged billions in order to let you place free calls, or, they need to come up with a system to pass that billing through (they do have a way to charge for international, but charging in the EU might be complext based on caller recipient locations).
Whats wrong with the European model?
Just what is wrong with the European model?
We are not blitzed with cold calling like users in the states are- as there is a cost associated with outgoing calls. I don't understand what the issue is? While I accept that GV Connect is not a VOIP client in the strict understanding of what this entails, many European users do use VOIP clients on their mobile phones all the time.
Personally I use Mobile Skype, configured to activate in the presence of any of my preferred networks, and forwarding any inbound voice or video calls via 3G when out of range. I pay for the 3G leg of any incoming calls- to Skype, the mobile operator doesn't hit me, unless of course I'm outside of my home network, in which case I pay the termination fees (now capped at 59c a minute, or if you're lucky a one-time connection charge irrespective of how long the call is).
The big difference between the US and EU is in the states- the person receiving the call pays. In Europe- if you want to call someone, you pay. The EU model seems a lot fairer to me tbh- I don't have to screen my incoming calls to decide whether or not answering is going to cost me (financially).
We do have models based on hybrid Wifi-3G cellular for VOIP here- and have had for over 15 years though- so suggesting its primarily a US phenomena is a fallacy.
As a Brit in Canada, I can't understand why they tolerate paying to receive someone else's call. Cold-calling is rife here and bloody annoying. It's kinda like email spam and getting worse all the time.
Glad I paid for GV Connect
I'm in the U.S. and purchased GV Connect (a 3rd party Google Voice app) when it became available a while ago. I'm glad I did. I downloaded and tried the free "official" version, but it has one glaring flaw... When you place an outgoing call, it takes the number you entered and translates it somehow, calling one of Google's inbound lines, then routing it to the intended recipent.
GV Connect, communicates via data connection that you want to place the call. G's servers then call you, and after you pick up, it places the call to the recipient and connects you.
Why is this important?
The Google Voice service can be set to display either the # of the phone calling you, or your Google Voice # when calling you. I have mine set up to always display my Google Voice #. This allows me to add my GV # to my "A List" (a list of numbers you can place and receive calls to/from without using regular air time minutes from your plan. GV Connect lets me place calls so that they are essentially free for me, the official Google app does not.
Google Voice is not a VOIP application in the most well understood sense. It requires a phone, either landline or cellular. The big upside of this is it completely avoids data charges. It also eliminates quality problems due to poor 3g data connections.
iPod touch use would be handy
Not for calls obviously but for sending SMS and/or at least listening to voicemail, when connected to a wifi network. Oh well.
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