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Debbie Imogen Poots
Fiona Tamsin Egerton
Jean Anna Friel
Tony Chris Addison
IFC Films presents a film directed by Michael Winterbottom. Written
by Matt Greenhalgh. Running time: 101 minutes. No MPAA rating (adult nudity and sexuality). Opening Friday at Gene Siskel Film Center.
Updated: August 13, 2013 6:07AM
Double-billing comic and tragic tones, the biopic "The Look of Love" follows a father and a daughter over three decades in London's swinging Soho. Nudie impresario and real estate mogul Paul Raymond (1925-2008) and indulged druggie Debbie Raymond (1956-1992) are not characters in a moralizing melodrama, though. Director Michael Winterbottom and writer Matt Greenhalgh instead offer understated sentimentality and pop sociology.
A month after Debbie (Imogen Poots) died of an overdose, Business Age magazine ranked Paul (Steve Coogan) the richest man in Britain. "The Look of Love" opens with Paul's chauffeur taking him home to his London penthouse after her funeral. Alone in shadows, he views a documentary videotape about himself. Winterbottom's drama is structured as flashbacks from this viewing. Raymond attracted notoriety for his private strip clubs, sex farces and porn magazines. Re-creations of television interviews and press conferences supply exposition for his career.
Raymond once advertised his bawdy shows with a bad review: "Arbitrary Displays of Naked Flesh — Daily Express." He copied Playboy and launched magazines that got more explicit than what Hugh Hefner and his daughter Christie published, yet somehow managed to dodge London police's Obscene Publications Squad.
Raymond hired daughter Debbie to help run his empire. He bought up buildings in the West End. "Nothing confers more respectability on someone than property," he observes.
Winterbottom sometimes frames his fact-based dramas with self-conscious touches, such as characters addressing the camera. "My name is Paul Raymond — welcome to my world of erotica," Coogan announces in the film's opening credits. Known for his randy puns and biting asides onscreen, Coogan slips easily into the role of Raymond. Coogan of course also played the protagonist in Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People" (2002), based on an actual Manchester TV personality, who later turns up in "The Life of Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story" (2005). There he interviews Coogan, who is playing himself as an actor making that very film.
Screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh shares Winterbottom's interest in British pop culture. As a teen, he reviewed the historic club scene depicted in "24 Hour Party People." He also scripted two biopics about U.K. rock musicians: "Control" (2007), which chronicled the brief career Ian Curtis, the singer of Joy Division, and "Nowhere Boy" (2009), which dramatized John Lennon before the Beatles.
After editing a book of interviews with the prolific director, Damon Smith concludes that Winterbottom is "loath to psychologize his characters or intellectualize the artistry behind his craft." That assessment also applies to "The Look of Love," which never dissects or critiques Raymond. Insisting that he is "an entertainer," not a pornographer, he fails to make a key distinction between wealth and well-being when he tells the press: "Debbie has all the money in the world. I don't understand."
On a 1975 TV show, Raymond once admitted, "I think financial disasters are more important to me that personal disasters." In "The Look of Love," Greenhalgh and Winterbottom only imply their subject could self-indict himself this way.
In a recent interview, Coogan told the European TV station Film 4 that he did not want to judge Raymond "in that kind of American way." In his press notes, Winterbottom adds: "We didn't make the moral too obvious, or too heavy-handed." And they don't. But the bottom line is unmistakable.
Bill Stamets is a locally based free-lance writer and reviewer.


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text: Then that is of course "target" archery as is all the IKCAC style shooting, not combat archery. No authorization is required. My offer still stands. Either for IKCAC style Target shooting with Combat Equipment or for a true Combat Archery Tournament, for the next year I'll provide a set of materials for 2 dozen Combat bolts to be given out a a prize as seen fit by the MiC. Regards, -EA On 3/23/2011 1:09 PM, Jean Paul de Sens wrote: > I personally was thinking of running it more as a static combat archery > against targets than an active combat scenario. > > JP > > Qui mieux fait, mieux vault. > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Doug Copley<doug.copley at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I like the contest and it looks like it would be fun to compete in! >> >> I do have a concern about it being used for a Baronial Championship. Since >> it requires that each participant be fully armored and authorized as a >> Combat Archer it would seem that it would limit the field of those that >> could compete significantly. >> >> At the Barony of Namron's Championship that is held at Beltane we have in >> the neighborhood of 38 to 40 (in the adult tourney) that compete for the >> title and with this restriction that number would drop to less than 15 that >> could compete. >> >> Is there a way to run it that does not require Combat Archery >> authorization? >> >> Have other baronies run it with this restriction and if so how did it >> affect the participation and the reception? >> >> YIS, >> Vincenti >> >> >> On 3/22/2011 4:57 PM, B Scott Mills wrote: >> >>> One suggestion for format... >>> >>> http://www.companystsebastian.net/files/boxtourney.htm >>> >>> We have run this a couple of times including at the last Squires Cadets >>> & Arcarius event quite successfully. It's also the format used for years >>> in An Tir to select their Royal Protector. >>> >>> To further entice people to these endeavors if the MiC contacts be at >>> the same time they contact His Excellency then I will provide the >>> makings for two dozen combat bolts to go along with his crossbow. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -EA >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/22/2011 4:33 PM, Jean Paul de Sens wrote: >>> >>>> So, our armoured archers did awesome this year, but Trimaris will feel >>>> the >>>> sting, and they will be back next year in greater numbers unless we do >>>> something about it. And I'm a "put my money where my mouth is" kind of >>>> guy, >>>> so here's the deal. >>>> >>>> If at an event, >>>> >>>> a) the archery Marshal in Charge (MiC) will run a combat archery >>>> competition >>>> (rules totally up to the marshal in charge) >>>> and >>>> b) let me know at least two weeks before hand >>>> >>>> I will provide a single combat crossbow to be given out as a prize. >>>> The MiC >>>> can give it to the top scorer, or the most promising newcomer, or >>>> whatever >>>> they wish. I leave it up to the MiC. >>>> >>>> Comte Jean Paul de Sens >>>> >>>>


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Legal Seafood?
Opinions, please, about dinner at Legal Seafood. I know nothing about it. Thanks!
Twice we had office dinners there and I would say the quality has gone way downhill in recent years. I would characterize it as typical chain food, but with higher prices. Definitely not recommended.
Good consistant quality, plenty of choices and preparations on the menu, nothing great or rememberable, I prefer Turner Seafood.
Having eaten there twice, relatively recently, I would say that the food is fresh, the service is OK, but it is a horrible value...good chowder, though...
We eat at the Framingham and Chestnut HiLl Legals fairly frequently. WE have NEVER had a bad meal. The fish is fresh, the preparations simple but nice and the service excellent. The oysters are very fresh and many varieties. The mixed greens with balsamic tomato vinaigrette is excellent. Crabcakes, sole with leomon caper butter and Rhode Island Style calamari all excellent. Also, the fisherman's platter is great. Very good wine list which is reasonably priced. At least you should try it and make your own judgment.
re: emilief
the ones up near boston, kind of the originals, are much better than the chains throughout the country. they are not worth the money, imo.
re: meb903
Legal Seafoods is decent chain. I agree with meb903, the restaurants in Boston are better than the outposts.
IMHO McCormick & Schmick's is a better (although more upscale and more expensive) seafood chain than Legal Seafood.
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I would third that, but the last experience at the one nearest the Theatre District was disappointing. Still it's the only chain seafood resto i'd consider going to, even if only in Boston. I'm not at all fond of McCormick & Schmick's schtick and I find their owners to be less than ethical when entering new markets.
re: Panini Guy
i know this reply is a year after your post, panini guy, but if you are still reading, would you please explain your statement: "I find their owners to be less than ethical when entering new markets."
re: emilief
agree with all of this, but I'm from Boston as well so maybe I have only tried the "good" Legals
I think it's definitely gone downhill in recent years, but I still frequent it because it's one of the few places I can rely on for bluefish during the season (not now). That being said, their kid's menu is one of the best in the industry. Lots of fresh fruit and veggies, great healthy options. Can't be beat.
Stayed in Boston last September and thought we would head to Legal's since it was walkable from the Westin Waterfront..
Went for lunch and ordered my first lobster roll...it blew...bland and just plain awful.
Had chowder and that was terrible..no hint of salt or pepper or any type of seasoning..
Maybe I got it on an off day but I don't think so..
Their self importance was pretty funny..
re: Steve Green
I always take my mom to the Hungtington, NY location for lunch when I'm back to visit. Service is always good, fish seems fresh and well prepared. A little pricey like some have said but all of my meals have been good. I usually get the special, whatever that is. Good sangria.
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Too bad we can't have a poll here to see what people really think about the company. I find it galling that it is considered the most popular restaurant in Boston based on Zagat.
A big warning about Legals: I worked there a couple of decades ago, and we were told *never* to tell anyone there was more than an hour wait. People -- especially out-of-towners that didn't know where else to go or how to even if they knew where (ever driven in Boston?)-- would wait 2--3 hours. It was abysmal.
Another warning -- whether it's important to you will depend -- is that a dish was sent out from the kitchen the moment it was ready. The stated objective was to get the food out as quick -- and therefore as fresh -- as possible. A diner could easily (and often did) finish their fried clams while another diner waited long after for their order. As a former chef I can tell you that the policy was likely based more on simplifying the organization of the kitchen than on freshness. Other restaurants somehow manage to have more coordination of a whole table's order. They took a negative -- no coordination of a table's order -- and marketed it as a positive -- part of the "Legal experiance" being their focus on "freshness". Gee, why not just hold off making the clams?
I have no idea if they still have the same policies. (And others that would make this post waaaay too long) I'd be surprised if they didn't.
re: Richard 16
Richard, had exactly that happen to us about 20 years ago with a baby in a stroller while visiting in Cambridge. The Hyatt directed us there for dinner and there was nothing else in the neighborhood. We were told an hour which turned into 2 hours. The good news was that they fed our toddler (now at college in Waltham, she must of really liked Boston!), immediately. They brought out some fried clams and FF which they comped for us. They also gave us a Legal Seafoods cookbook. Th lobster was pretty big. Have been back through the years but we frequent Jasper White's place, Turner Fisheries and other seafood places now. Their place in South Florida is not good.
re: Diane in Bexley
I also have eaten frequently at the one in Cambridge, Boston & Framingham - all three were always good (granted it has been about 7 years since I've been to MA), but I've never had a bad meal at either of those. I LOVE Jasper White's Summer Shack in Cambridge (near the Alwife, I know I'm not spelling it right, T stop). If you want you can pick your live lobster/crab/etc out of the big tanks in the dining room. I have also heard that other Legals outside of the greater Boston area aren't as good... but I have not eaten at any other than the three I mentioned above.
I tried the clam chowder and was disappointed. The seafood is consistently fresh and well-prepared at several that I visited across the East Coast.
They've had a succession of Executive Chefs over the years - I don't know who's got the job now. It must be over a decade now, but I once went when Jasper White was creating the menu - I chose a smoked bluefish pate appetizer and a seafood sausage entree that was served with buttered potatoes and a spectacularly delicious braised cabbage side. Certainly not a typical seafood restaurant offering, but a wonderful meal. Several years ago (they might still have it) the menu had a miso-glazed black cod appetizer that was also available in an entree portion. It too was very good. As far as the standard deep-fried seafood choices go, they are no better or worse than others in a range of price points.


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Joyce Johnson is a player. Lucky sevens, triple jacks and cherries get a lot of her attention these days.
"I play here about four days a week," said Johnson, 74, of Boca Raton, poised to make her next bet at the Horshoe Gameroom in Boca Raton.
Joyce Johnson is a player. Lucky sevens, triple jacks and cherries get a lot of her attention these days.
"I play here about four days a week," said Johnson, 74, of Boca Raton, poised to make her next bet at the Horshoe Gameroom in Boca Raton.
At 10:20 p.m., Johnson had been playing for almost four hours. Recently widowed, she gets help with her loneliness from new friends at the penny arcade, she said.
Now, Lauderhill may soon get its first penny arcade, all-adult gaming machines that look like slots and spin like slots.
Danny Mancini, owner of the Boca Raton game room, plans to open one in the Oakbrook Shopping Plaza, 7199 Oakland Park Blvd. in Lauderhill, with at least 50 machines. Once Mancini complies with the city's short to-do list, he hopes to open within a month, he said.
Lauderhill City Commissioner Lee Mirsky doesn't think penny slots are good for her city. She voted against the 2,600-square-foot business.
"I went to one in Pompano and thought `This is the last thing we need in our city,'" Mirsky said.
Mirsky is worried about safety and the elderly spending too much time and money in arcades with little regulation.
The state regulates adult arcades like fun centers such as Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Buster's. Winners receive credits or prizes -- no cash.
There are more than 100 penny slots or arcades operating in South Florida, according to the Florida Arcade Association, a group of 36 adult arcades.
About 200 are scattered throughout the state. The Boca Raton arcade, in the 8900 block of West Glades Road, has 65 machines.
"I don't think a lot of young people are attracted to it," said Mancini, who opened the Boca Raton game room more than a year ago. Betting starts at 9 a.m. and goes to midnight. The youngest clients, he said, are about 50, the average age mid- to-late-60s.
He expects a similar crowd in Lauderhill. That game room will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Lauderhill allows game rooms or arcades only in commercial zones. Lots must be set back more than 350 feet from the street, Mayor Richard Kaplan said
Mancini and his partner, Joe Dicicco, must make sure lighting is up to the latest codes for seniors. There's no cooking allowed, noise standards must be adhered to, and if the city receives two or more safety complaints, the owners must provide security services.
Security concerns Sue Jo of the nearby Bon Ju Beauty Salon. "It's very isolated here in the evenings when the other places close," she said. "I think a game room will be nice as long as they have security for the seniors."
There are other concerns.
Although they are labeled penny arcades, some gambling support groups consider them slots and caution that players still can develop gambling problems.
"I think the label of calling them penny slots is to detract from the fact that more than pennies can be risked and lost in them, and that concerns us," said Pat Fowler, director of the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling. Research reveals that players can lose $5.46 in a three-minute span because players can bet more than a penny at a time, she said.
"When you look at a person developing a gambling problem, it's not the amount of money being wagered, it's the loss in other areas of life," she said.
Fowler, however, recognizes that seniors socialize at penny arcades.
The Florida Arcade Association doesn't equate arcades with gambling. The group has been battling pari-mutuel lobbyists who say they steal customers.
Gail Fontaine, president of the group, owns several gaming rooms in Broward County.
"A day in the penny arcade is less than McDonalds," Fontaine said.
In many gaming places, players get a buffet lunch or dinner, snacks and beverages. No alcohol.
"Where else can you get free lunch or dinner and snacks?" Fontaine asked.
The state benefits because it receives 4 percent of the gross earnings, she said. One arcade can pay more than $25,000 to the Department of Revenue, Fontaine said.
At 10:30 p.m., Dawn Schwartz, 36, was the youngest person in the Boca Raton game room. Schwartz, who works with the elderly, was drawn to the arcade one day when she was shopping in the plaza.
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So we are reminded by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's engaging third novel, Americanah. Having spent a good chunk of time living in America as an adult and being a hawkeyed observer of manners and distinctions in class, Adichie is uniquely positioned to compare racial hierarchies in the United States to social striving in her native Nigeria. She does so with a ruthless honesty about the ugly and beautiful sides of both nations.
Americanah is social satire masquerading as romantic comedy. There is mocking, but not without love. Her lovers, Ifemelu and Obinze, fall for each other in secondary school, go off to university together secure, but then part ways when crippling strikes threaten their education in Nigeria. Obinze packs up for London, where he works cleaning toilets under a false name, squirreling away enough cash to make a bid at a sham marriage he hopes will gain him citizenship. Ifemelu sets off for the United States with a partial scholarship to a school in Philadelphia, where she struggles to find a job and must stoop, at her lowest moment, to prostitution.
Obinze and Ifemelu led lives of relative privilege in Nigeria. Their plan is to come back together after making something of themselves. Needless to say, things do not go according to plan.
Adichie is adept at describing her characters' descent in dignity for the gambit of upward mobility. Obinze's attempt to live in England is cursed. In one of the book's most affecting scenes, he's captured and deported, or, as his lawyer's form states, removed like an object. Back in Nigeria, he finds a lucrative job in real estate through obsequious, shady transactions and marries a beautiful woman who bores him.
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That is if the Republicans don´t do something politically stupid like allowing the liberal media to draw them into talking about abortion, contraception, and rape. Of course the Republicans could also facilitate a big liberal Democrat designed amnesty, that would probably do the trick to start the Republicans moving towards political oblivion.
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So now, for the first time, I've made friends with Verizon.com and go in and check texting, phone messages, etc. I've never done that before. I went yesterday to make sure he's not downloading anymore movies to his phone, etc. and he's not. But his texting had reached over 10,000 as of 4/24. i went to check and he's texting all day in school. I mean like every 1-5 minutes, averaging 160 texts during the school day.
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Is texting something new for him? If so, it may be something that runs its course. My DD 15 went crazy with texting from about 13-14. She averaged about 1500 a month which I chose to let go as it wasn't during school or during our family time. However, there was a period we had to take away her phone every night as she seemed unable to stop herself from texting until the wee hours of the morning. This past year though, it's dropped substantially.... she averages about 300 a month now and no more late at night despite her having custody of her phone full-time now.
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I really hope that I'm wrong but I just have a feeling that your DH is right & he's not going to be able to do well. If he can't obey rules that you & your DH have set for him, what do you think he's going to do when he has almost unlimited freedom
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Sabr, I'm either getting crankier and more hard nosed or you are getting softer, because I've been agreeing with you for the past few months!:smileywink:
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LOL - yet another similarity between your ds and Justin! He recently had 6000 texts one month! Mostly to his gf, even during the day while she's at school. At our high school kids aren't supposed to text during class but it seems many teachers look the other way. I guess she did get her phone taken away once last year for the rest of the school day but that's it. My friends who have kids still in the high school say it's pretty common place these days.
I don't blame you for turning his phone off. I assume if he recently got the phone you had to sign a 2 year contract? I know you don't want to give up control on it but you might want to let him just go out and get his own plan and pay for it himself. Kind of like looking at his grades all the time - it just makes you frustrated but it doesn't change anything. I think that - no matter what he may agree to - when he gets his phone turned back on he is going to go right back to the constant texting.
I do hope you prove us all wrong and that your ds turns out to be like fullmom's and is able to go away and succeed but looking at your ds and at our experience with Justin - I just don't think your ds is ready to go away to school. You're not going to be able to keep as close tabs on him as you think, even if he's only 90 miles away. Sure, you can insist he give you access to his grades, but when you see he's doing poorly there's really not anything you can do about it. I'm not even sure making him sign a contract is going to make a difference. We made Justin sign a contract when dh agreed to co-sign for the apartment that he and Danielle moved into in April of his fiasco year at UW-P (don't even get me started on that one - I was furious at dh for days). The contract had things like that he would continue to go to class, give it one final 'best shot' and finish out that school year, that there would be absolutely no drugs or illegal activity in the apartment, etc. He signed it but it didn't mean a thing - I don't think he stepped foot into one of his classrooms after about February, I know he and Danielle were smoking pot A LOT - her uncles grow it on their farm up in WI so they had pretty easy access to it. The fact that your ds is rooming with a friend that is a decent student, unfortunately, doesn't mean anything. If they are friends/classmates in high school and the good study habits haven't influenced him, don't think it's going to magically kick in just because they share a room.
As I said - I do hope your ds proves us all wrong and that you're able to come back here and say I told you so! Hang in there!
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I like Rose's suggestions about proving himself by meeting various goals, but I understand that you probably have to start making deposits on the dorm room etc before he will have a chance to prove himself. And I agree with the others who say that sending him away is a recipe for disaster. Maybe a question to consider is how much money you are willing to spend/possibly lose while determining whether to let him go?
I suggest contacting the U to ask about deferring entrance for a year. Some schools will allow it, others will require that he reapply for next year. IF they allow it, ask if they allow him to earn any credits at CC. Some allow it, some require that he be a "pure" freshman. IF they will allow him to defer, then I would have him take a "gap year" to grow up.
The truth is that if your college student is not living at home then you need to let go of the idea of controlling him, except through money. Yes you can require him to give you his log-in info for his student account. At my ds' U they only posted the final grade for each term so there was no way to monitor progress throughout the term; and even if you could see poor grades, what could you do about it, really? Drive to the school and watch him do his homework? There might be a form that allows his advisor to talk to you, but I'm pretty sure that s/he will NOT want to deal with mommy and daddy. They are used to treating the students as adults responsible for themselves. And the advisor will likely not be up on the details of how he's doing. College is sink or swim, unless he's going to a small private school where they are known for being closely involved with each student. If his grades are terrible at the end of first term the U will likely put him on academic probation and give him the next term to bring them up; however you could choose to pull him out at that point. (if that is a plan then check the dorm contract to see how it works if he leaves "voluntarily" rather than getting kicked out.) So a plan to "keep tabs" on an adult living 90 mins away is probably not very realistic.
My ds was an overall good kid with some maturity issues. I wasn't sure if he was ready to be on his own in the dorm, but at the same time I was going nuts with him at home. We knew that he needed the stimulation of a university academic environment, and his U did not allow deferred entrance, so we bit the bullet and let him go. The entire first year was rocky. First quarter the grades were terrible. He had so much fun with no adult supervision in a dorm where somebody was partying every night, that he didn't get around to studying enough. Whoops. When we saw those grades we made a contract that he had to maintain a certain GPA or else reimburse us for the tuition cost of the classes with bad grades. (He had to reimburse us for some low grades in second quarter, it was almost all of his earnings the summer after freshman year. I think that made an impact!) Third quarter he made the dean's list for high GPA, go figure. At least one of his friends was pulled from school by her parents after first quarter, and a few more didn't return after freshman year--I don't know if the parents pulled the plug or the school kicked them out. Ds told us that


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Lineup changes alone can derail even the strongest band -- never mind record label difficulties and personal problems. But Lawrence, Kansas' Appleseed Cast emerged from all of the above tougher for the experience. After six years together and four full-length albums, including 2001's breakthrough double album, Low Level Owl, the band underwent internal problems, and their label for 2003's Two Conversations, the much-missed Tigerstyle Records, folded.
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Although the lineup had a fair amount of material recorded, the EP would end up being their only document. After touring extensively for the EP, the lineup disbanded, with Mike Myers going to drum for The String and Return. Epley, however, decided to recruit a new lineup under the same name, and brought in bassist Eric Abert of Ring, Cicada, and drummer Chris Metcalf to work out new material. The difference is striking - Metcalf's drumming couldn't be further from Myers, laying out metric layers of relentless percussion that when combined with Abert's bass comes closer to Helmet than anything else. For all of the heaviness, though, the songs themselves are prone to developing a shimmering beauty with layers of guitar and processed vocals cascading against the rhythm section, and "Suburban Hymns" goes deeper into the more emotional territory suggested on "Flat End."
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