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Movie Review: Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2014)
People who don't know Gore Vidal should check this out. For the rest of us? Which I guess is about 100 now? (See: this.)
Sure, it was nice to finally check out footage of a 10-year-old Gore flying that airplane for his father and the newsreel cameras, which he'd written about in "Screening History." I knew about Jimmie Trimble, of course ("Palimpsest," "The Smithsonian Institution"), but I didn't know much about Vidal's longtime companion Howard Austen, so it was nice getting that. Vidal was closer to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward than I'd realized. I was also unaware of the Christopher Hitchens angle: How Hitchens was the heir apparent, in both is own mind and Vidal's, and then 9/11 and Iraq happened. Hitchens pumped for war, Vidal blamed America. He wrote a book without a trace of wit in the title, "Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta." The Bushies were so bluntly preposterous they stupefied us all—even Vidal.
But otherwise what was new here? We got his love for his grandfather, his hatred of his mother, his WWII service; then "Williwaw" and acclaim, and "City and the Pillar" and the New York Times homophobic reaction. Years in the wilderness. So TV and teleplays, "The Best Man" and Hollywood. The friendships: Tennessee Williams, the Newmans, the Kennedys. The rivalries, on air and otherwise, in the '60s and '70s: Capote, Buckley, Mailer. The house on the Amalfi coast. Myra Breckenridge. The history books and the religious books and the declining health and the return to the states.
It's basically the Cliff's Notes to Gore Vidal. But in this bluntly preposterous world, he's still nice to come home to.
Add another quote and make it a gallon
Vidal, with Mailer and Baldwin, was the last of the great novelist-essayists of the 1950s; now they're all gone and haven't been replaced by newer models. Novelists don't do long think pieces on history and culture anymore, and essayists don't do fiction.
On the day Vidal died, I combed his books on my shelf and posted about 20 or so quotes that I liked. The doc also liberally sprinkles his quotes throughout. Interestingly, I don't think we have any matches. That's how much wit you had to choose from. Among the quotes here:
- "Love is a fan club with only two fans."
- "In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler."
- "A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it, and a politician must never give the game away."
- "Since the property party controls every aspect of media, they have had decades to create a false reality for a citizenry largely uneducated by public schools that teach conformity with an occasional advanced degree in consumerism."
(Although they really shouldn't have missed this one: "Put bluntly, who collects what money from whom in order to spend on what is all there is to politics, and in a serious country should be the central preoccupation of the media." Or this one on Reagan. Or this on Kennedy/Clinton. Or...)
He often went far afield. He was a conspiracy theorist on FDR and Pearl Harbor, but not, thankfully, on Bush and 9/11, since he didn't believe the Bush/Cheney team was actually smart enough to pull such a thing off. (My view.) Early on, he says of JFK, "He was really the most enjoyable company on Earth—terribly funny," but later dismisses his presidency as one of the worst ever. But he said this in the 1970s before the great turnaround. He was brutal on Reagan. And on Bush, Jr.? "We've had bad presidents in the past, but we've never had a goddamned fool," he says here.
He was the great class traitor. He grew up in D.C. amid power and wealth, was trained at St. Albans, saw himself as a man of the people although he never was. He wanted a new U.S. Constitution. The doc doesn't go into that. He felt the great betrayal was codified in 1947 with the creation of the national security state. We gave up a Republic, he felt, for an Empire.
His grandfather, Thomas Gore, a blind U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, and one of only a handful of men who didn't vote for our entry into World War I, told his constituents, "I will never rob your cradle to feed the dogs of war." He was promptly voted out of office.
That's the disconnect, isn't it? The thing doesn't work no matter what. A new U.S. Constitution, which would be the greatest roll of the dice ever, and we'll still wind up with us, the propagandized masses. "We forget everything," he says here—hence the title—but Vidal seems to forget this. Or he dismisses it for better game: the ruling classes; his people.
Someone to laugh at the squares with
At the end, you get the feeling everyone wanted one more bon mot. They waited on it like they waited on the toothless insult from an elderly Groucho. Vidal obliged. "The four most beautiful words in the English language," he tells the camera at the end of this doc: "I told you so."
Except he didn't. He told them, but without the "so." In his lifetime, most things—save racial matters, gender matters—got worse. How sad to hear him in the 1960s argue with William F. Buckley on the unfairness of a system, our system at the time, in which the top 5 percent owned 20 percent of the wealth. Would that we were still there. By 2007, the top 1 percent owned more than 34 percent of the wealth, and the top 10 percent owned 80 percent of it. And they continue to rob the cradle to feed the dogs of war. Because we let them.
I met him once, in 1999, during a book promotion for "The Smithsonian Institution." I'd interviewed by fax and met him before the event at Seattle's Town Hall. He was taller than I'd anticipated, but heavier, and with halitosis. I had trouble conversing with him because of that. Also because he was Gore Vidal and I was a too-polite kid from Minnesota. But even then he was in his elderly Groucho phase. Everyone was ready for the bon mot. Everyone was ready for some dry, acerbic culture. Why not? The alternative, what we normally get, the blunt stupidity of the Bushies, leaves you feeling hollowed out. Gore, he was someone to laugh at the squares with.
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Movie Review: Citizenfour (2014)
As the world was learning about Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden was trying to fix his hair.
It's early June 2013 and he's in his Hong Kong hotel room, where he's been holed up for days giving information to both Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian, who then slowly report that information to the world. The story has gone from the NSA getting metadata from Verizon, to the NSA getting metadata from ISPs, to, yeah, there must be a whistleblower out there. And here he is.
But while the world talks about Snowden, Snowden tries to fix his hair. First he puts too much gel in it. Then he wipes some of it off with a towel. Does he wipe off too much? Is he simply frustrated? Is he trying to distract himself from the fact that his life has irrevocably changed? He thought he knew what he was getting into, but now he's in it, and it's irreversible, and he's having doubts.
Up to this point, he's been pretty straightforward. He's got chin stubble, an embarrassed, almost pained Seth Rogen smile, an air of an Andrew Garfield character—which it to say, a brave, sometimes failed attempt to stay within himself: to be doing the thing for the thing and not the perception of the thing. He's coming forward, he says, because it's no longer the elected and the electorate in America; it's the ruler and the ruled. We're the latter, and the former is lying about what they're doing. The U.S. Patriot Act lowered the threshold for domestic surveillance without court order, but a threshold existed; and the NSA, under both Bush and Obama, obliterated that threshold. They're spying on all of us.
Snowden wants the story to be about the story (what the NSA is doing) and not about him (the whistleblower), but he knows the media, playing to our need for personality, will make it about him. At the same time, he doesn't want to appear afraid to come forward. Fuck skulking, he basically says. He wants it out there. On June 9, they finally reveal his name. And the world goes crazy.
Once the world begins to close in, once The Wall Street Journal is metaphorically banging on his door, a look comes into his eyes. Not fear, exactly. More like dread. Documentarian Laura Poitras notices and asks how he feels. He shrugs. "What happens, happens," he says. "If I get arrested, I get arrested." Almost everything he says is repetitive in this manner. His language turns back on itself, as if trapped. The look of dread in his eyes doesn't go away.
White Knight
When I remember "Citizenfour" I'll remember the silence of it—the background almost thrums with silence—and the whiteness.
Snowden, who's tech-geek white, and whose name itself implies whiteness, is first filmed wearing a white T-shirt and sitting on a bed with white sheets and leaning against a white cushiony headboard. Poitras says she initially hated all the white but now feels it works. George Packer compares Snowden here to "a figure in some obscure ritual, being readied for sacrifice." Me, I was just hoping it wasn't some precious arty thing: that he starts out wearing white and gradually gets dark. Which is kinda what happens.
The white T-shirt is his uniform for the first few days of interviews. Then, as stories break, we see him in a gray T-shirt, then a grayer dress shirt. By the time he leaves the hotel room, a hunted man, he's wearing a black shirt and a black jacket.
Intentional? God, I hope not.
I know. Snowden didn't want this to be about personality and here I am talking hair gel and T-shirts. I'm part of the problem.
I was part of the problem earlier, since I was somewhat dismissive of Snowden's revelations. The NSA is gathering data on all of us? So safety in numbers, right? Right. Unless, of course, the federal government decides to target you and glean what info they can from that metadata. According to Glenn Greenwald, who has a new NSA whistleblower, 1.2 million (Americans or anyone?) are on the NSA's watchlist.
For all the good this doc does, we're still not getting the post-9/11 discussion we need. What I wrote at the end of my review of Jeremy Scahill's "Dirty Wars" is still relevant. It's freedom vs. safety, or, in the language here, privacy vs. security, and the post-9/11 argument is that we can't have both. The deeper argument is: Are we giving up one (privacy) for only the illusion of the other (security)? Or this: Are we simply giving up someone else's privacy (the 1.2 million) for the sake of our own security—real or imagined?
To me, the discussion begins here; I don't know where it ends.
White Russian
Snowden, whose code name is "Citizenfour," picked both Greenwald and Poitras as his contacts because both are on the watchlist. We get maybe 10 minutes leading up to the June 2013 interviews, and then nearly an hour in that claustrophobic hotel room. Then Greenwald drops away—shadowed everywhere by the media—and he's replaced by an international human rights lawyer, who spirits Snowden away. Poitras films him leaving the room, and that's it. Then he's gone. Off to ... where was it again? Brazil? But stuck in Moscow.
There are a few missed opportunities here. I laughed out loud at footage of Piers Morgan grilling a federal official about the awfulness of intruding upon privacy—as if he'd never been an editor for News of the World. Who isn't spying on us? If it's not governments, it's the media; if not the media, corporations. We're being spied on by algorithms. Search for a book on one site and it'll pop up as an ad on another. Maybe the notion of privacy itself will become an outmoded concept in the digital age.
Then there's the ending. We visit Snowden briefly in Moscow, where he's now living with his girlfriend. Glenn Greenwald brings him up to date on all he's learned, but writes down, rather than speaks, the most relevant material, since they all assume he's being bugged. By Moscow? By us? By Murdoch? But the questions I'd like to ask Edward Snowden aren't asked. What's it like being so plugged in—as he was at the NSA—and then being completely unplugged, as he is now? Did he think the reaction of the world was commensurate with the problem as he saw it? I'd ask "The Insider" questions: Was it worth it? If he could go back, would he still come forward? Would he still blow the whistle?
Are we worth it?
These are some of the thoughts I had as I left the theater. Also this: the terrorists won.
Tags: Movie Reviews, Documentaries, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, NSA Scandal, Privacy Issues
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'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Opens at $123 Million, Disappoints
Katniss returns, fewer people show up.
When is a $123 million weekend, the biggest opener of the year, a disappointment? When its predecessors opened at $152 million and $158 million, respectively.
That's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1." And if Hollywood in general and Lionsgate specifically are wondering and worrying over that total, they might want to look to the movie's tri-part title:
- The franchise name
- The chapter within that franchise
- OK, just the first part of that chapter within that franchise
I don't know if we're all getting franchise fatigue, if that's what this year of downward box office has been about (and if so, good), but breaking up final chapters into two parts, as with "Twilight" and "Harry Potter," or three parts as with "The Hobbit," is just being greedy. Cut to the chase, Hollywood. Just tell us the fucking story.
The first two "Hunger Games" movies grossed over $400 million each domestically. "THGMP1" will need good word-of-mouth to do that. The more immediate question is whether it can unseat "Guardians of the Galaxy," at $331 million, as the year's biggest hit. Domestic. Worldwide, it's that crummy "Transformers IV" movie, which grossed $1.08 billion despite massive deflation in the U.S.
Among the runner-ups this weekend, "Big Hero 6" finished second ($20m for the weekend, $135 domestic total), "Interstellar" third ($15 and $120) and "Dumb and Dumber To" fourth ($14 and $57). "DADT" gained 34 theaters in its second weekend but still feel nearly 62%. So we're dumb but we're not dumber.
"Gone Girl" is still in fifth place ($2.8 and $156), "Beyond the Lights" in sixth ($2.6 and $10), and then "St. Vincent," which earned another $2.3 million (including $10 from me) and has now quietly grossed $36 mil, despite mediocre reviews.
After that, a flurry of potential Oscar candidates:
- 8. "Fury" ($1.9, $79)
- 9. "Birdman" ($1.8, $14)
- 10. "The Theory of Everything" ($1.5 and $2)
- 11. "Nightcrawler" ($1.2 and $27)
I'd recommend any of these last ones. Use your brains and all.
Tags: The Hunger Games, Box Office
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Lancelot Links
- #Pointergate update: Earlier this month, KSTP-TV ran a story that Mayor Betsy Hodges, as part of GOTV efforts, had a picture taken with a "known felon" flashing "gang signs." The rest of the world pointed out that they were just pointing at each other. But despite the backlash, KSTP's Stanley Hubbard stands by the story. And according to him? Some of his best viewers are black. So there.
- Anson "Potsie" Williams on how Robin Williams turned the worst "Happy Days" script into the best. Well, "best." I mean, it was still about an alien (and his finger) battling Fonzie (and his thumb) for the soul of Richie Cunningham. Or something. But at least it was goofy. And no sharks were jumped.
- Rare, behind-the-scenes photos from the original "Star Wars"? Again? Yeah, but I didn't know about Lane Loneozner, Camie, and Biggs Darklighter.
- MLB.com has 10 finalists for its 2014 defensive play of the year. Always fun to watch. I was torn between Puig and Kiermaier, and went with Puig.
- Not fun to watch? Kirk Cameron's "Saving Christmas" movie. But it was fun to read Christy Lemire's review about why it was not fun to watch.
- The headline says it all: ESPN suspends Keith Law for defending evolution. At first you think, "OK, but what are the extenuating circumstances?" Here they are: Law was refuting anti-evolution tweets from ESPN's Curt Schilling, who's a bigger name and a bigger doofus. So Schilling fought the Law and the Law lost. World without end.
- Yesterday morning, Nathaniel over at FilmExperience.net alerted me (well, all of his Twitter followers) to the live streaming of the 2014 Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan. (Their Oscars.) I watched a bit of it, understood a few words, caught Chen Shiang-Chyi winning best actress for "Exit." Interestingly, the other actresses in the audience, particularly Tang Wei, didn't quite have the brave face that Hollywood nominees put up during someone else's acceptance speech. They looked a trifle miffed. Best feature was"Blind Massage." Wouldn't mind checking it out someday. Taiwan used to be my home.
- A Colorado rapper writes an open letter to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet on the Keystone Pipeline. He also includes 10 Questions for Sen. Bennet. And for you and me.
- Finally, the long read of the week: Ben McGrath in The New Yorker tells us about the rise of the professional cyber athlete via the Korean-dominated real-time strategy game StarCraft II, and the Canadian girl (Scarlett) who challenged them all. It's amazing the miniworlds out there. It's amazing how nasty people can be in them, too.
The 2014 Golden Horse Awards: I like the huge shot of the actress (Chen Shiang-Chyi) in character (in "Exit").
Tags: Pointergate, Happy Days, Video Games, MLB, Star Wars
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Quote of the Day
"I'm slipping away. I've decided to make friends with it."
-- Writer/director/comedian Mike Nichols during his last lunch with John Lahr in September, as recounted by Lahr in The New Yorker. One of my favorite Mike Nichols stories is here. Nichols died earlier this week.
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At the Birth of the 'Special Rights' Argument
After the death of John Doar, I was looking over my old copy of Taylor Branch's "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963," and came across this story about James Meredith trying to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962, and being prevented from doing so by Gov. H. Ross Barnett. It's a well-known story.
But it brought to mind the way modern conservatives and reactionaries and racists use the term "special rights." And it sheds light on what the term means.
It's 1962. Meredith is trying to become the first black man to register at Ole Miss. Gov. Barnett, looking for votes, prevents him from doing so. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals then threatens both the registrar and the university trustees with contempt, and secures a promise that they will in fact register Meredith. On Sept. 25, U.S. Marshall James McShane and civil rights attorney John Doar accompany Meredith to the Federal Building in downtown Jackson to register him. But no one's there. Gov. Barnett has called them to the legislature to "testify" about the situation.
That evening, after various other machinations, the three men, with the help of U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy in D.C., attempt to register Meredith on campus, but once again Barnett "interposes," makes some jokes at Meredith's expense, and denies the admission. "A Rebel yell went up from the crowds gathered ..." Branch writes. "They hooted the Meredith trio along its path of retreat ..."
Then a call to Barnet from RFK, and this conversation:
RFK: He is going to show up for classes tomorrow.
HRB: At Ole Miss? How can you do that without registering?
RFK: I think they arranged it. It's all understood.
HRB: They're going to give him special treatment?
I love that. Special treatment. Special rights.
What are Meredith's special rights? Well, a racist state has done everything in its power to prevent an entire people from the normal course of events. Then, for a period, they focus on one man. The most powerful people in the state do everything they can to prevent this one individual from the normal course of events—the simple act of registering for college. And when the federal government says, "You can't do that," they cry "Special treatment! Special rights!"
Then they spend decades undermining the federal government. But that's another story.
"They're going to give him special treatment???"
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Robert F. Kennedy
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Quote of the Day
"I want to reform our crazy legal system because as a nation we must sue each other less and care for each other more. It has gone too far when these crazy lawsuits keep people from coaching Little League, doctors from delivering babies, or whatever it is. We must put a cap on these outrageous lawsuits, and we've got to stand up to the special interests in Congress who are keeping us from doing just exactly that. Clean House!"
-- Pres. George H.W. Bush on the campaign trail in Oct. 1992. I reprint it, of course, because today the House GOP has filed a lawsuit against Pres. Obama for overstepping his executive authority with the Affordable Care Act. The kicker? The next line in Pres. Bush's above speech is this: "I want to use competition to cut the cost of health care and make it affordable for you and your families." Read 'em and weep, America, at how crazy your country (or your GOP) has become.
In favor of: affordable health care and fewer lawsuits. AKA RINO.
Tags: George H. W. Bush, Health Care
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Trailer: The Age of Adaline
This looks awful:
Jeff Wells is right: "Twilight Zone" ran a similar episode in 1960, "Long Live Walter Jameson," that dealt with the darker aspects of immortality—how we keep making the same mistakes over and over; how we never learn. Basically, those who live through history are doomed to repeat it.
Adaline, played by Blake Lively, doesn't have the centuries of Walter Jameson but she does have a century—a rather monumental century. Born in 1908, she's rendered immortal during a magic-realism car accident in 1935. She's been on the run ever since. Apparently she runs into the arms of men and then away from them again; away from her kids, too. Then into the arms of men again. Modern day, it's a lanky, bearded Brit. I lost all interest in the movie at 1:48 when she drives off in a taxi, he cries, "Wait," and then, worried, "How do we get in touch?" And this look from our 106-year-old:
It's the look of a fucking schoolgirl, not someone who's lived 100 years. There should be wisdom in her eyes. Sadness. Something.
Favorite moment? The actor playing the young Harrison Ford delivering his crooked smile:
How about Adaline as metaphor for the country? She stays perpetually young and learns nothing. She could help the world but it's all about her.
Hope she's not a Cubs fan. That would be cruel.
Tags: Trailers, Love Love Love, Blake Lively, Harrison Ford
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Movie Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
The central joke in "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is how the main character, Albert (writer-director Seth MacFarlane), is really a 21st-century man stuck in the American West of the 1800s. It's not a time travel movie. Albert just reacts to everything around him as if he were, you know, Seth MacFarlane, born in 1973, raised in relative safety and security, allowed to get soft on TV and pop culture. He can't shoot a gun, doesn't have much courage, mopes around a lot. He doesn't hate where he is so much as when he is.
His vernacular is 21st century but his surroundings are 19th. A big block of ice crushes a man transporting it. "Oh, that went South so fast!" he shouts. When he gets a song stuck in his head (the inspired "Moutache Song"), his friend, Anna (Charlize Theron), tells him to think of another. "How?" he says. "There's only like three songs. And they're all by Stephen Foster."
At one point he says, "I'm not the hero. I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt." Which is true. Basically he's the moviegoer or the TV watcher. He's us, suddenly stuck in the movie.
That's the central conceit, the central joke.
Why doesn't it quite work?
I laughed out loud a lot, sure, but then we'd get some scatalogical bit that would just make me wince. Or the plot would pick up unnecessarily and transport us to the obvious place.
The story has a classic, dull structure:
- Boy loses girl (Amanda Seyfried) by chickening out of a gunfight.
- Boy is nursed back to health and some semblance of courage by hotter girl (Charlize) and Native American mysticism.
- Boy gets girl (Charlize) by winning gunfight.
The movie, in other words, still buys into the wish-fulfillment fantasy, and blah for that. Did Woody Allen, in his early films, have his character, his schlemiel, become "brave"? Did Woody's movies begin as parodies of the genre only to buy into the tropes of the genre? When is Hollywood going to stop doing this? You'd think MacFarlane at least would know better.
At the same time, I still thought the movie would be popular. The trailer was funny, MacFarlane ("Family Guy") has his rabid following, his first feature, "Ted," grossed $218 million two years earlier. Instead, "West" was one of the summer's biggest box-office bombs: More than 3,000 theaters, a Memorial Day weekend release, but only $42 million total.
Because the West, I assume. Because we don't know Westerns anymore. Because we don't care for them. The title is about the million ways to die in the West but its box office showed us the million-and-first.
Tags: Movie Reviews, Film Parodies, Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Westerns
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John Doar (1921-2014)
John Doar being presented with the Medal of Freedom by Pres. Obama in 2012.
John Doar died on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. He was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force during World War II but history will remember him—or at least I do—for his service in another war: the war between the states, part II. Or X. Or XXIII. Called "the Civil Rights Movement."
The New York Times has a good obit here, but the better tribute is Taylor Branch's civil rights tome, "Parting the Waters: American in the King Years: 1954-1963," which I read in the spring of 1989. A lot of memorable characters in there: Bob Moses, John Lewis, Bayard Rustin ... and John Doar.
He was a kind of Gary Cooper-type hero. He didn't say much, he wasn't flashy, but he had courage and commitment. He called himself a Lincoln Republican. Branch introduced him on page 331 thus:
John Doar was lanky, taciturn, and plainspoken. In 1960, still building a general courthouse law pratice, he counted it as a small step of success that a client paid him to go all the way to California to work on a paternity suit. He was there when Harold Tyler, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, tracked him down by telephone.
Attorney General William Rogers had hired Tyler for the express purpose of stepping up the enforcement of the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts. It was a sign of the times that not a single politically connected Republican, nor any friend of Tyler's, expressed interest in the high-ranking position of first assistant in the Civil Rights Division ... [So Doar got the nod.]
Doar arrived in Washington in July 1960 and plunged immediately into the two bureaucratic struggles that would mark his career. The first one pitted legal thinking against political calculations. ... [The second was] a sluggish FBI.
Throughout the early 1960s, Doar prosecuted voting rights cases in the deep South, was a witness to the brutal assault on the freedom riders, including John Lewis and Jim Zwerg, in Montgomery, Ala., in 1961, and was the escort to James Meredith as he tried to register at Ole Miss in 1962 but found his way barred by Gov. H. Ross Barnett.
But the main reason I remember Doar is for an incident that occurred in Mississippi in the summer of 1963.
Medgar Evers was the field secretary there for the NAACP, and in the early morning of June 12, at the end of the Birmingham demonstrations and just hours after Pres. Kennedy's famous speech in favor of civil rights, Evers was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson. After the funeral, a small segment of the crowd, hundreds of mostly young people, began to take to the streets; they were met by policemen with shotguns.
The temperature was 103 degrees. Some of the Negroes shouted, "We want the killer! We want the killer!" These were the young movement people ... Even on Flag Day, June 14, pairs of them had been arrested off the streets for carrying little American flags, as Jackson's white officials allowed Negroes no public display of any kind. The police ... brought up pumper trucks and dogs, and they charged when some of the young marchers began to throw rocks at them. They had clubbed several and arrested nearly 30 when, suddenly, the man who talked like Gary Cooper appeared in a showdown scene from one of his movies ...
Doar walked into the flashpoint of a riot, hands raised above his head "with bottles and bricks crashing around him." Shouting his name, he told them this was not the way, and the very sight of him stilled the crowd so that he could be heard. ... "My name is John Doar!" he yelled. "D-O-A-R. I'm in the Justice Department in Washington. And anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!" He walked forward, calling out the names of Dave Dennis and other movement leaders he knew and how many times they had been arrested, saying they too wanted the crowd to disperse. Miraculously, they did.
Doar would go on to prosecute the federal case against the killers of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner in 1964, helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and was tangentially involved in the Selma march in 1965. He was also Chief Counsel for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Pres. Obama in 2012.
Lincoln Republican? My kind of Republican.
Doar in Jackson, Miss., in the summer of 1963.
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The story is built through the parallel love stories of Anglitora and her affair with a Chinese cartographer, Shun-Yuan, on the one hand, and the older, sadder, more complex love of Prester John and Hagia on the other. We follow the slow encroachment of reality on the fantastic inhabitants of the kingdom and the narrowing of the unmeasured spaces they survived in. We also read the cartographer's tale, and come to understand the impulse to know the truth, even at the cost of wonders. Prester John and Hagia reconcile as the creatures of the Kingdom prepare to leave the world. When the time comes, Hagia and her step-daughter leave their lovers behind. Prester John's faith in Christ and love of the human world cost him his kingdom and his love, but the parting is bittersweet. The half-bird daughter leaves behind a child for the cartographer to raise in his world of maps and certainty, and that child is the many-times-great grandmother of the monk's guide. The tree of books and the downy hair of the native guide are the only remaining signs that once the Kingdom was more than a story.


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A Canadian committee that formerly worked with the U.S. committee will do the job exclusively, said Douglas Miller, dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, and appointed to implement the new mandate of the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools.
Miller also announced Monday the U of A medical school received a strong accreditation report this spring, making it the last Canadian school to be evaluated jointly by Canada's accreditation committee and the American committee, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
This is the U of A's first full accreditation exercise since the medical school came under criticism in 2006 and was threatened with probationary status.
The school revamped its teaching strategies and tackled a culture of harassment of medical students. By 2010, the school met the criteria.
In the June 2014 report (schools are evaluated at least every eight years), the medical school met all 132 standards and exceeded expectations in some areas, including giving students access to research going on the school, Miller said.
"Our medical students actively contributed to this highly successful medical school accreditation," said Miller.
Despite tough budget cuts last year, the school was able to hold on to its resources for teaching, a key factor in getting good grades.
"We knew that would be reviewed," said Miller.
The school also spent a lot of effort on improving the "student environment" to put an end to the culture of harassment cited last time by the accreditation committee, said Miller.
The school set up a hotline to report unfair treatment and changed teaching methods (for instance, using a more hands-on approach as opposed to traditional lectures).
Students also have a chance to get involved with research by many of the professors at the medical school, a unique program, said Miller.
The school is home to about 100 scientists funded under the former Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
Irfan Khenrani, president of the medical students association, praised Miller's efforts preparing for the accreditation visit this spring, especially in establishing a more positive climate for students.
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Friday, 21 November 2014
Random Spectacular Two: Ultramarine
Some time ago we adapted the artwork we had created for Ultramarine's album 'This Time Last Year' for an article in Random Spectacular Two. The magazine was completed recently and we got our hands on some copies, very glad we are too as it is a super nice publication full of tasty stuff.
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
Paul Rudolph for Architectural Review
This month's Architectural Review just dropped through the letterbox, and on page 115 is our portrait of one of the leading postwar American modernists, Paul Rudolph. Known as the innovative designer of Florida beach houses and monumental, concrete buildings. Rudolph had many reputations during his six-decade long career, ranging from virtuoso to failure to saint.
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Friday, 17 October 2014
Spectral Nation at Beach
Thanks to everyone who came down for the opening of our show at Beach last night. If you couldn't make it, not to worry... it will be up until the 2nd of November. Pop in take a peek. Here are a few pics of some of the pieces on show.
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Friday, 3 October 2014
Heretic at Beach London
Hello thee internet. We are very happy and excited to announce that we have an exhibition of our screen prints later this month at Beach, 20 Cheshire Street, E2 6 EH. We'll be showing selected prints from our on-going project Spectral Nation.
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Dazzeland was a two-storey indoor amusement park occupying the top levels of the REMM Myer Centre in Rundle Mall, a major shopping mall in Adelaide, Australia. The centre was built between 1988–1991, at a cost of $1 billion. Some years later, the centre was sold for $140 million, contributing to the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia.
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Econo Lodge Inn & Suites
23 Gasoline Alley East
Red Deer, AB T4E 1B3
Phone: (403) 346-4188
Fax: (403) 346-8225
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23 Gasoline Alley East, Red Deer, AB, CA, T4E 1B3
- Phone: (403) 346-4188
- Fax: (403) 346-8225
3.4 out of 5 (21 reviews)
62% of guests recommend this hotel
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»Blacksmith Shop Museum
This blacksmith shop dates back to 1902 and is now transformed into a museum by Lacombe & District Historical Society. This shop is still extant and most of the equipment is completely functional.
5020 - 49th Street
Lacombe, AB T4L 1Y2
»Michener House Museum
The Michener House Museum is a house that dates back to 1894. This is popular as the birth place of Governor General, Roland Michener. Now, a house museum, the collection gives an insight into the life of Michener.
5036 - 51st Street
Lacombe, AB T4L 1W2
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Netarts House Rental Photos and Description
House, 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, (Sleeps 8)
Description: Our home is a 3-story oceanfront. There are 1200 square feet on the 3 levels. The beach is in our back yard. There are 2 bedrooms with queen sized beds and 2 bathrooms on the first floor. The whole West wall is glass in the bedrooms. There is a spiral stair to the great room on the second floor.
The great room has a living room, dining room and kitchen. The whole West wall is glass with breath taking views of Netarts Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The living room has an inflatable queen sized mattress. There is a deck off the dining room with patio table, chairs, recliner and gas barbeque. The kitchen is fully furnished. We have a Jenn Aire Range, dishwasher and microwave.
There is a 1/2 bath on the second floor and a stair to a bedroom on the 3rd floor with double bed.
There is a path to our sandy beach with driftwood.
You can rent a boat with 3 crab pots only 6 blocks from our home and go crabbing in Netarts Bay. You can dig for clams in our back yard. Tillamook is only 7 miles away for your shopping needs. We even provide the firewood for the cone shaped fireplace in the middle of the great room.
The following is a letter from one of our renters.
Hi Gary and Pam,
We returned last night from beautiful Netarts. Here's the key to the house, with our gratitude. I signed the guest book but want to reiterate that we loved your warm, cozy cabin with the jaw-dropping view.
We loved the happy spirit you created with the travel photos, and the eclectic touches, like the Apple Pie neon sign, which added a rosy glow to the nights. The amenities you provided were fabulous and welcoming.
You created such a warm, welcoming atmosphere, making the visit extra relaxing....... ..the star-filled nights were dazzling. --you bring enjoyment to all souls who have been lucky enought to accept your hospitality.
Thanks so much, Gary and Pam for letting us rent your lovely home. We adored every minute and hope to return.
Enjoy the summer and be well,
Amenities: Jenn Aire range, dishwasher, microwave, coffee maker and grinder, toaster, blender, fireplace, cable TV, radio, washer and dryer, outdoor gas, deck off the dining room with a gas barbecue, phone.
Activities: Crabbing, clamming, beach combing, bonfires, tennis, golf, deep sea, river and bay fishing and relaxing.
Area: We have 2 small grocery stores in Netarts and Safeway, Fred Meyer, etc. in Tillamook which is only 7 miles away for your shopping needs. There are several restaurants in Oceanside and Tillamook. We also have the Tillamook Cheese Factory, which is the number 1 tourist attraction in Oregon. They have tours of the factory and serve ice cream.
Smoking only outside. Pets with our approvel.
Keywords: House
- Suitability:
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- Low Allergen Environment
- children welcome
- limited accessibility
- non smoking only
- pets considered
- suitable for elderly or infirm
- wheelchair accessible
What makes this house unique
The beach is in our back yard and we have a 180 degree view of the Pacific Ocean
Guestbook comments from the owner
Pam and Gary,
Just a quick note to let you know that the "dry landers" from Colorado were delighted with your rental home. My husband Dave & I have traveled a great deal on the Oregon coast, staying in many B&B's,inns and cottages. We can think of no other that has offered the sights & sounds of the Northwest Coast as well as your home. Our friends, who were on their first trip to the Oregon coast, were equally as pleased. How fortunate you are to own such a beautiful property & how wonderful for us to have found your web info. Thank you again. I know you will hear from us again.
Dave and Lucy