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Educating Citizens About Senator Campbell's Anti-Environmental Voting Record Continues
by Brian Mohr, Sierra Club SW Regional Office
Distributing "voter guides" in October will help educate citizens about the comparative environmental positions of Senator Campbell and Dottie Lamm
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February 27, 2008
Robert Walser: The Assistant
I was wondering recently about the difficulty publishers have in getting their books noticed. This must be a particular problem for those who are reissuing old titles. Certainly there are people like me for whom the badge of (say) Penguin Modern Classics or Pushkin Press is recommendation enough; but how do these books get wider attention when they're rarely reviewed, don't trouble the 3-for-2 tables, and aren't written by thrusting young lovelies (or not ones that are still alive anyway)? Penguin have pushed the boat out a little with Robert Walser's The Assistant (1908), newly issued in the Modern Classics range. The cover is one of the most stylish yet of their new look:
But watch out, because when you see it in real life it will be swagged with a vivid removable sleeve, like so:
Well, it's a start. But, a modern masterpiece, you say? The obvious response is that if it really is a masterpiece, then someone might have seen fit to treat us to a translation some time in the hundred years since it was written.
I hadn't heard of Walser until I read Adam Thirlwell's Miss Herbert a few months ago. He earns a couple of pages (and a photo) there, Thirlwell considering him the progenitor of a particular type of plotless, flâneur-based story, an influence on Kafka, an underrated modernist and "one of the first people to develop the story as a place for linguistic delicacy and experiment." However that assessment came from Walser's later stories of the 1920s, and doesn't seem strongly applicable to The Assistant. In fact Walser wrote three novels in quick succession – the last and best-known being Jakob von Gunten (1909) – and his career as a novelist was over at the age of 31. He would live another 47 years, but first restricted himself to short stories, then to no writing at all.
This is worth expanding on. Walser had mental illness all around in his family, and the About the Author blurb in this book is a mini-novel in itself:
After a suicide attempt in 1929, Walser's depression was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia and in 1933 he entered an asylum in Herisau, where he remained for the rest of his life. There he occupied his time with chores like gluing paper and sorting beans. He remained in full possession of his faculties but, after 1932, he did not write. 'I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad,' he told a visitor. Robert Walser died of a heart attack on Christmas Day, 1956. He had been walking in the snow not far from the asylum where he had been living for 23 years.
After that, The Assistant has a lot to live up to. It's a semi-autobiographical novel, largely free of the modernist effects we might expect. Its protagonist, Joseph Marti, is a young man who goes to work for, and live with, the inventor Carl Tobler and his family. Tobler's inventions are simultaneously banal and bizarre: the Advertising Clock – a railway station type clock with wings out the sides to carry ads – or the Marksman's Vending Machine – a six foot tall vending machine which dispenses small packs of bullets. As one might imagine, the business is not destined to blossom, and the progress of the story lies mostly in the tragicomic despair of Tobler to come to terms with his complete lack of the qualities needed in either an inventor or a businessman.
Marti meanwhile has his own trials, mainly in dealing with the predecessor to his job whom he usurped: Wirsich, a young man who had been sacked and reinstated many times by the Toblers, mainly because he was "an extremely precise individual, but only in a state of sobriety." Marti also wonders how he can bring himself to ask Tobler to pay him his wages at some point… There is some interesting analsyis of power and the master-servant relationship:
People do, by the way, tend to cherish those upon whom they have been able to impose their power and influence. Wealth and bourgeois prosperity like to dispense humiliations, or no, that's going too far, but they do have a fondness for gazing down on the humiliated, a sentiment in which we must acknowledge the presence of a certain benevolence, and of a certain brutality as well.
The spiralling difficulties of the Toblers are sometimes touching and often dramatic, particularly when Herr or Frau Tobler put pen to paper and write to one of their many creditors: or would-be creditors ("Dear Mother! I am sitting here in my house like a bird trapped by the piercing gaze of the snake – already being killed in advance…").
Adam Thirlwell believes "Walser was fascinated by the decrepitude of language … the writing frames clichés – which are trying to cope with impossible or unmentionable realities." Walser claims to have written The Assistant in six weeks, which doesn't seem implausible. It meanders in a fluid and leisurely way to its conclusion, and must be of importance as a precursor to his later, apparently more radical work, as much as for itself. So bring on the stories, Penguin: red sleeve optional.
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The humor seems subtle.
Thanks for letting us know about this interesting novel.
I love the cover also.
Funny, in the small world of publishing, a never-before-translated work is often considered "brand new!"—not really an oldie. Often these books are done in hardcover, and get the sort of review attention that is usually reserved for new offerings.
As far as the assertion that "if it really is a masterpiece, then someone would have translated it a long time ago,"—I expect better from you, Mr. Self! You know that there are plenty of "marketplace failures," to use a euphemism. In Walser's case, the neglect of his books has an even more direct explanation: He wrote much of his work in a minuscule shorthand of his own. It's only recently that many have been decoded.
You can see an example of one of the MS pages here: http://tinyurl.com/2otdy2
John — worth keeping an eye on the excellent Chicago-based blog http://goldenrulejones.com/ if you want to know more about Robert Walser. Sam, whose blog it is, is a Walser nut!
In the UK, Serpents Tail publish "Institute Benjamenta" and "The Walk"
Now, about the drawers on the front of the cover. I have recently been quite taken with these things and am thinking of ways to have them in my house. I was actually inspired while watching the wonderful animated movie Spirited Away where the arachnoid character Kamajii has floor to ceiling drawers, a bit like in a Chinese herbalist shop.
So the plan is to find out who supplies the Chinese herbalist on the high street an get them to install a set in my house.
Now, just need to win big on the horses this month to be able to afford them.
Oh, and the book sounds good too.
Aren't there any libraries trying to get rid of their old card catalog drawers? Maybe you can get them for free if you haul them away.
John—my note was also in jest! And you needn't try try to get "back" into our good graces—you have a permanent spot there!
John, I'm afraid it highlights the rather limited following Walser enjoys in the States to confess that I'm responsible for review you flatteringly mention, and the image of the MS page you cite, and website Mark kindly recommends, and (if I guess correctly) the other Walser oriented blog you noticed. Kind of embarrassing, actually.:)
On my Walser blog, the in-progress translation of a memoir by Walser's friend Carl Seelig may be of interest, as well as the bibliography of Walser translation in English or the maps of Berlin and Zurich showing Walser's many residences.
I personally consider the short prose pieces the pinnacle of his art (and also the funniest), but the complete arc of his work, from the early, more conventional novels like Assistant to the late, densely difficult Robber, is rewarding in its own way at each stage.
I had been expecting that the UK publication of The Assistant would spark some interesting responses, so I was delighted to find this post (and comments). Your review is wonderfully thoughtful. Thanks too for the images, and also for the Thirlwell citation (which I wasn't aware of previously)!
[…] its way to readers and producing the expected (by me at least) informed and interesting responses. John Self — whose Ireland-based blog Asylum is one of those highly discriminating, compulsively […]
John, the Serpents' Tail "Institute Benjamenta", is the same translation of "Jakob von Gunten" by Christopher Middleton, but minus the translators' introduction and with the title changed to tie in with a film by the Brothers Quay, based on the book. The Serpents Tail edition of "The Walk", is also the same as the NYRB "Selected Stories"., but lacking a postscript by Middleton for some reason.
That's the ones…there's also a short by them called "The Comb", available on the BFI DVD, "Quay Brothers, Short Films", based, loosely, on Walser works. They're American twins, masters of pixilation animation, living in London and influenced by, largely, European literature of the Kafkaesque variety, for example, their wonderful "Street of Crocodiles", is based on the Bruno Schulz work of the same name, (originally tittled "Cinnamon Shops"), also on the same DVD.
"Selected Stories", or the Serpents Tail equivalent, "The Walk" is a great place to start with the shorter work..read the story "The Walk" itself and tell me that you're not moved by it…one of the great 20th Century authors, in a small way, as he would have wanted it, probably…IMO.
My wife and I went to see " Institute Benjamenta", and, although she liked their short films, she fell asleep during this film and declared it to be the most boring film she'd ever seen…I had to nudge her a couple of times, because she was snoring..I thought it was great however, I think it helps if you've read the book first.
Do read the short works though, Walser is a sadly neglected figure, in English at any rate.
[…] inextinguishable longing for elsewheres." There is also an annoying number of footnotes in Robert Walser-sized text, detailing the political and cultural history of the Dominican […]
"and this excellent review of The Assistant which, as is so often the case, made me droop my head in despair at how much I had failed to get across the essence of the book in my own review."
True. No avoiding a drooped head there. That review is extraordinary. Somehow I only read it for the first time today. Here I was thinking I'd read every Walser review that exists in English. Sam was probably too modest to ever point it out to me. Unless I just forgot about it.
"densely difficult Robber,". Don't scare the gentleman! I'm over-inclined to make that comment because I'm reading Herman Melville's Pierre, and the language is absurdly complex. The Robber is dense in how many flights of fancies Walser gets onto a page, but the prose and manner is pretty breezy. It should be read last out of the novels though. (I just grabbed my copy off the shelf to test whether I should go out on a limb and say that it's like a secular bible in that you can stick your finger to any random page and find some insightful passage about a miscellaneous aspect of life or society– my blind finger just hit on a hilarious description of the modern changes and failings of the schooling system. So the answer is yes.)
'one of the great 20th Century authors, in a small way, as he would have wanted it, probably…IMO.'
That's true. His presence and spirit though, when we come across it while strolling down some new street, is so curious and evasive and small that it ends up having a more powerful and striking effect than all the imperial mechanized giants that were ever ordered out of the gates by Mann and Hesse and the rest of them.
The Quay's Institute Benjamenta was putting me to sleep too, even having read J.V.G and holding Walser as my favorite author (I only watched parts on YouTube though). I constantly envision a screen adaptation of The Assistant, but what I see is the opposite from what the Quays did with J.V.G. Just me though. (I've read two Calvino books too, and liked the covers besides, so I can still chalk some points up to the Q's.)
Lastly can I say that the exchange up there between John and Sara was remarkably adorable and warm-hearted? It was laced with more mutual charms and tender congeniality than anything I've ever seen on the web. Good god. (Yes I'm a Yank.)
Let me wrap up here. Listen: Walser's shorts "The Dinner Party" and "Food (I)" in the collection 'Masquerade' are the ones that I put my foremost seal of approval on.
>the Walser fans are really coming out of the woodwork
Yes, and you've attracted the most dedicated ones here! (Thanks for the good words, Dali.:)
>The Robber is his first novel, is that right?
In fact, The Robber is Walser's last novel. It was never published in his lifetime, and was taken from the "microscript" manuscripts he created in the last decades of his life.
His first novel, Geschwister Tanner, or The Tanner Siblings, isn't yet available in English. However, Susan Bernofsky, who translated The Assistant, is translating it now and we should be seeing it from New Directions in the US sometime over the next couple of years. Sadly, that's the last one we'll see – he wrote several more, but they are lost to the world!
Just to correct myself: it's my understanding that Walser wrote nothing in the last decades of his life (say, 1933-1956). He began writing in microscript sometime before 1924-25. So it's more correct to say that he created his "microscript" manuscripts in the last decade of his career, rather than, as I say above, "last decades of his life."
Well John, it seems that after Stefan Zweig and book design, we've found some more common ground, as I have been somewhat obsessed with Robert Walser for the past couple of years. It all began a few years ago when, during an interview on France Culture (I think it was this one), Elfriede Jelinek mentioned that Walser is one of her all-time favourites, and that she always inserts one of his sentences into each of her books.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I started with the brilliant Jakob von Gunten in the Christopher Middleton translation from NYRB Classics, and never looked back. Sadly, aside from a few collections of stories (Speaking to the Rose [trans. C. Middleton, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2005], Masquerade and Other Stories [trans. S. Bernofsky, Johns Hopkins U.P., 1990] and Selected Stories [trans. C. Middleton et al., NYRB Classics, 2002; including The Walk, one of his greatest works]), I wasn't really able to find anything in English. I ended up buying everything else in French, and have slowly been working my way through ever since.
I first bought Der Gehülfe (The Assistant) in the attractive Poches Suisse edition of the Lausanne translation (L'homme a tout faire, 2000), then bought it again in the Paris translation from Gallimard (Le commis, 1985). Since they don't have the same title, it was only when I started to read the second one that I realised they were the same book. Despite this, I hesitated all of one week before importing the beautiful Penguin Classics edition of the Susan Bernofsky translation from the UK. French translations are all well and good, but when your German is nowhere near up to snuff, nothing beats reading something that's been elegantly rendered into English.
The previous two comments mention that Bernofsky is working on a translation of Geschwister Tanner and a biography of Walser; good news indeed. For those interested in reading more about Walser in English, you can check out the following publication: http://dalkeyarchive.com/review/?c=1992-1
In French, the many fascinating books about Walser include:
The French just seem to 'get' Walser. There was even a Robert Walser Week that was broadcast on France Culture in January 2007.
Sorry to have been so long-winded once again. Sometimes I get carried away…
Penguin publishing Robert Walser seems like a milestone in his rediscovery.
Has anyone seen a list of Walser's personal favorite books? I wonder if he still read once he stopped writing.
I've been reading some of the more obscure German Romantics, and they always make me think of Walser. I mention some of these writers at my site, along with images of old Walser translations.
John Self, I think everyone posting above would agree that in about six months you will be a raving Walser fanatic.
It's not a list of favorites, but here are some authors that Robert Walser had good feelings about, according to Carl Seelig, if I remember right. I'll include a book by each author in parentheses, but I'm not sure which books if any were mentioned by Seelig/Walser:
Kurt Tucholsky (castle gripsholm)
Gottfried Keller (green henry)
Joseph Von Eichendorff (life of a good-for-nothing)
Hans Jakob Christoph Von Grimmelshausen (Simplicissimus)
I got the author's names from Carl Seelig's conversations with Walser, which you can read in English at http://goldenrulejones.com/walser/
Most fascinating of all is Ulrich Braker, even though Walser or Seelig never mentioned him that I know of. I posted some Braker excerpts and info here:
I've never heard of Walser mentioning Braker directly. Instead, a (German) professor I knew who liked Walser once asked me if I knew Ulrich Braker. I checked out some of his books, which are hard to find, and noticed that they were great and also the closest thing to a Walser continuity or precursor that I've ever seen.
I feel like such a zealot, combined here with Sam and James, swooping in on conversations about Walser like this and releasing my bundle of information from my claws.
[…] John Self over at The Asylum reminds me that I really should delve into the depths of the classic and previously published and he as a few words on reissued classics when he looks at The Assistant by Robert Walser. […]
[…] a magic of life that weaves itself through the routine banter and the changing seasons. *** Read a good review here, and via the same site, a wonderful blog dedicated to Robert […]
Re Stewart's news, the online magazine Words without Borders will be hosting month-long discussions of several of the titles selected for Reading the World, starting with The Assistant in June. The schedule hasn't been announced yet, but it should appear in early May at:
Hope to see some of you there!
Hi everybody,
My name is Noga and I'm a Walser's "fan" from Israel. Two of his novels (Jacob… and The Assistant) were masterpiecly translated into Hebrew. The short stories, though, were not translated at all so now I read some of them in English. Unfortuneately I don't read German.
Can any of you recommend me of a good Walser's biography in English?
Another thing I wanted to ask: what is "Institute Benjamenta" you were mentioning above?
Thanks, John.
No bios in English yet Noga, but one is currently being written by Susan Bernofsky. I don't know the pub date – I expect it will be a couple years. In the meantime if you can muddle your way through French (I'm definitely a muddler), Catherine Sauvat's bio is worth looking at. Other nonfiction I'd recommend is the Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. XII, #, which is the best collection of essays on Walser.
Thanks, Sam, for your answer!
Well… French will not do, not even as a muddler. But regarding your second recommendation, did you mean this title which I've found in Amazon:
" The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 1992): Robert Walser by John O'Brien, Susan Bernofsky, and Tom Whalen (Paperback – Nov 18, 1992) " ?
And another question: "Robert Walser Rediscovered" (Mark Harman editor) – is it stories or essays collection about Walser's work?
Thanks again.
My pleasure! Yes, that's exactly the title I mean. You can also order it here:
"Robert Walser Rediscovered" is actually both – it includes a dozen or so previously untranslated prose pieces, some poems, two plays, a few early critical responses (Kafka, Musil, Benjamin) and more recent ones (Canetti, Martin Walser, etc. Another valuable volume, though long out of print I think.
Thank you.
I think the volume "Robert Walser Rediscovered" is avaliable on the Amazon site.
The Walser discussion on Words Without Borders started today:
I also put up a link to John's wonderful review, and by extension this excellent discussion thread, at the end of my introductory essay.
Here's the event home page.
Just stopping back to this page, I see that John asked me if my question back in March (about Walser's favorite books) was rhetorical. It wasn't! Thankfully Sam posted a great list on the WWB book club page.
This week I'm going add excerpts of the German Romantics I've been reading on my site. At least something from Brentano (I dug up a few stories in English) and an Eichendorff quote that goes well with The Assistant.
[…] my prejudice by issuing the book in their fine Modern Classics range. As with Robert Walser's The Assistant, they've pulled out the promotional stops by wrapping the book in a vivid red sleeve, […]
On the off-chance that any of these Walser lovers check back in, or more arrive, I'll share my feature/review of "The Robber," the first Walser novel my former classmate Susan Bernofsky translated.
It's a must-read. The novel, not my piece, but you can start with me, if you like!
What an enthusiastic reaction on behalf of Walser! This is great! I've read his novels and definetely recommend Jakob von Gunten (and The Tanner brothers as well as The promenade). It's strange that his works are just now being translated (in Spanish there's more availability). Somebody mentioned Bruno Schulz: what a great constellation: a reading group going from Schulz to Walser, to Jelinek, Bachmann, Bernhard, Handke…
How pl;easing to find The Assistant reviewed here! Thank you too to all the links and suggestions. Wonderful wasn't it? I wrote about it here:
[…] doesn't like to draw attention to the fact – I wrote about Robert Walser's novel The Assistant. It attracted a surprisingly high number of page views and comments, though perhaps not so […]


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25th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala – Awards Presentation. Meryl Streep and Margo Martindale
By ROBERT W. WELKOS
It's no mirage.
After a quarter-century, and some early struggles, the Palm Springs International Film Festival has seen its visibility and star quotient rise significantly by tapping into Hollywood's hotly contested movie awards season.
The festival's success—it now draws about 130,000 attendees—has come without a lucrative television deal for its black-tie gala similar to ones enjoyed by the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Awards.
The festival was the brainchild of the late Palm Springs Mayor Sonny Bono, who rose to stardom as half of the pop singing duo Sonny and Cher and later became a U.S. congressman representing the Coachella Valley. Bono died in a 1998 skiing accident.
Harold Matzner, a local businessman and philanthropist who was a close friend and tennis partner of Bono's, eventually took over the financially struggling festival and improved its bottom line.
A patron of the arts, Matzner not only chairs the film festival but also chairs the McCallum Theatre, is vice president on the board of trustees at the Palm Springs Art Museum, and his other philanthropic efforts include Desert AIDS Project, Stroke Recovery Center, Temple Isaiah and Animal Samaritans. He owns Spencer's restaurant in Palm Springs.
Matzner has credited the late Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen for helping him get Hollywood studios to send movie stars being mentioned for the Oscars to be honored at the Palm Springs festival's black-tie gala. Chasen was murdered in 2010 in a drive-by shooting in Beverly Hills as she drove her black Mercedes-Benz and police concluded it was a random attack carried out by a transient riding a bike.
Matzner chairs the tax-exempt organization behind the festival—the Palm Springs International Film Society.
The film society's Form 990 tax returns that are filed annually with the IRS show that the nonprofit has achieved success as the film festival has become more popular.
The tax filings show that:
*The film festival had more than $26 million in total support from fiscal years 2005-06 to 2012-13.
*Revenues totaled $3.9million and expenses totaled $3.3 million in fiscal 2012-13.
*No grants were listed from fiscal 2009-10 to 2012-13.
*Chairman Matzner and other board members received no compensation for their work on the festival.
*The nonprofit paid Spencer's restaurant $117,525 for catering and use of its facilities in fiscal 2012-13 and $113,912 in fiscal 2011-12.
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25th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala – Awards Presentation. Meryl Streep and Margo Martindale
The Oscars® were no enormous shame, a few good jokes, no great shocks
I'm a big fan of Ellen DeGeneres and her understated, often brilliant humor. This was most evident when she hosted the 2001 Emmy Awards after the horrific events in New York and Washington that year. The show was postponed twice, and when it finally aired a couple of months later the big question was how it could be entertaining?
Almost from the outset Ellen delivered. To paraphrase what she said, it was something like the terrorists could not break our spirit. Then she paused and deadpanned that only network executives could do that.
It was funny, unexpected yet absolutely true. It related to the events just passed, but broke the ice and allowed the show to go on to its true purpose after the long delay.
The Oscars Rate a B-Minus.
I wish I could say Ellen's performance last night rose to that occasion. Though it generally retained the dignity and glamour that audiences expect, something lost in last year's show hosted by Seth MacFarlane, it was mostly bland with repetitive jokes and occasional good moments. Having said that, I cringed a bit when Ellen repeated out loud and very slowly a compliment to Nebraska supporting actress nominee June Squibb, whom Ellen had termed the oldest Oscar nominee ever, as if the actress were almost deaf and needed careful attention to hear her remarks.
Throughout the ABC show, Ellen drew from a past playbook and redid bits from the last time she hosted in 2007, often appearing in the audience, talking with this celebrity or that and taking photos. In one segment she asked if anyone was hungry, which drew very few responses and went on much too long. However, when a pizza man arrived later in the show, though only with three pizzas, it was amusing to see how many celebrities accepted a slice, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Harrison Ford. And that no one initially responded to Ellen's request for donations to pay the man.
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I'd thought sometime later it would have been funny if the delivery man, denied payment, started taking back the pizza slices from Meryl, Julia and the others. However, they eventually paid the bit off when Ellen passed a hat into which producer Harvey Weinstein threw two hundred dollars and several celebrities forked over twenty or more dollars each. By my count that was over three hundred [...]
Oscars: 12 Years a Slave wins Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards
After months and months of lead up and speculation (not to mention an endless string of precursor awards), the Academy Awards were finally given out, and the results were almost as unpredictable as we'd all been saying. 12 Years a Slave took home Best Picture despite only winning two other Oscars and losing in the Best Director and Best Film Editing categories (both of which Gravity took), normally categories that go to the Best Picture winner. Gravity was the biggest winner of the night in terms of numbers though, taking seven prizes, including the aforementioned Director (for Alfonso Cuaron) and Editing fields.
In terms of the other prizes, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto were once again awarded for their performances in Dallas Buyers Club (McConaughey in Best Actor and Leto in Best Supporting Actor), while Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for Blue Jasmine and Lupita Nyong'o edged out Jennifer Lawrence in the Best Supporting Actress category. Best Original Screenplay went to Spike Jonze for Her (my personal favorite award of the evening) and John Ridley won Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a Slave. Other winners included Frozen (Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song), 20 Feet from Stardom (Best Documentary Feature), and The Great Beauty (Best Foreign Language Feature).
Here now are all of the results from the 86th Academy Awards:
"12 Years a Slave" – WINNER
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity" – WINNER
Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"
Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Christian Bale, "American Hustle"
Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club" – WINNER
Amy Adams, "American Hustle"
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine" – WINNER
Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"
Judi Dench, "Philomena"
Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"
"American Hustle" – Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
"Blue Jasmine" – Written by Woody Allen
"Her" – Written by Spike Jonze – WINNER
"Nebraska" – Written by Bob Nelson
"Dallas Buyers Club" – Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
"Before Midnight" – Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
"Captain Phillips" – Screenplay by Billy Ray
"Philomena" – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
"12 Years a Slave" – Screenplay by John Ridley – WINNER
"The Wolf of Wall Street" – Screenplay by Terence Winter
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" – WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
June Squibb, "Nebraska"
Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"
Sally [...]
Oscars: Get to know the Best Actress race
Best Actress
Nominees: Amy Adams for American Hustle, Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine, Sandra Bullock for Gravity, Judi Dench for Philomena, and Meryl Streep for August: Osage County
Notable precursor wins: Adams wins Golden Globe Award (Comedy), while Blanchett wins BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics, Golden Globe (Drama), and Screen Actors Guild Awards, while McConaughey wins Broadcast Film Critics Association, Golden Globe (Drama), and Screen Actors Guild Awards
Current frontrunner: Cate Blanchett
Next in line: Amy Adams
Dark horse: Judi Dench
Continuing on with my "Get to know" series, we now turn our attention to the Best Actress race today. As you can no doubt see above, the ladies making up this category are Amy Adams for American Hustle, Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine, Sandra Bullock for Gravity, Judi Dench for Philomena, and Meryl Streep for August: Osage County. From the very beginning, it always appeared to be an Adams vs Blanchett race, and that's what's come to pass, though most thought it would be closer than it's turned out to be. Right now, Blanchett looks like a lock to take home the Oscar.
From the start, Blanchett has basically swept the precursors, with Adams really only scoring when the Actress field is split up between Comedy and Drama. There was a brief moment before the awards started coming in where it seemed like someone could step up to beat here, with the buzz mainly surrounding Adams, but time after time when they've gone up against each other, Blanchett has come out on top. That leads me to believe that she's more assured of a win than some claim.
Now, unless somehow Woody Allen's recent bad publicity has an effect, Blanchett is going to win her second Oscar. If she winds up being beaten, the upset is going to come from Adams, though there's a small chance that it could be the late charging Dench that wins, but realistically it's going to be Blanchett. She's a pretty safe bet here too.
Stay tuned for the rest of the acting categories this week, with Best Supporting Actor up next!
"12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle" Win Golden Globe Awards
And the Golden Globe Awards winners are…
"12 Years a Slave," "American Hustle," "Breaking Bad," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Behind the Candelabra" were the big winners at the Golden Globe Awards.
Best Motion Picture, Drama
WINNER: 12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
WINNER:Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Robert Redford, All Is Lost
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet, Labor Day
Best Director – Motion Picture
WINNER: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
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Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
WINNER: Spike Jonze, Her
Bob Nelson, Nebraska
Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan, Philomena
John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer, American Hustle
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
WINNER: American Hustle
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
WINNER: Amy Adams, American Hustle
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her
Best Animated Feature Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER: The Great Beauty (Italy)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Past (Iran)
The Wind Rises (Japan)
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
WINNER:Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
WINNER: Alex Ebert, All Is Lost
Alex Heffes, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Steven Price, Gravity
John Williams, The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer, 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
WINNER: "Ordinary Love," Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
"Atlas," The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
"Let It Go," Frozen
"Please Mr. Kennedy," Inside Llewyn Davis
"Sweeter Than Fiction," One Chance
Best TV Series, Drama
WINNER: Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Masters of Sex
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama
WINNER: Robin Wright, House of Cards
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Best Actor in a TV series, Drama
WINNER: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Michael Sheen, Masters of Sex
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
James Spader, The Blacklist
Best TV Series, Comedy
WINNER: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
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Michael B. Jordan, Sophie Nelisse, and David Oyelowo to be honored with "The Hollywood Spotlight Awards"
Carlos de Abreu, founder and executive producer of the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, announced today that the recipients of this year's "Hollywood Spotlight Awards" are Michael B. Jordan ("Fruitvale Station"), Sophie Nelisse ("The Book Thief"), and David Oyelowo ("Lee Daniel's The Butler'). The honor will be bestowed at the Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony on Monday evening, October 21st, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
"We are very excited that we will be able to recognize acting talents that are on their road to discovery and stardom," said Carlos de Abreu.
The 2013 Hollywood Film Awards has also announced that it will be honoring the prolific and legendary producer Jerry Weintraub with the "Hollywood Legend Award," Academy award-nominated actor Harrison Ford with this year's "Hollywood Career Achievement Award," actor Matthew McConaughey with the "Hollywood Actor Award," Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock with the "Hollywood Actress Award," Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal with the "Hollywood Supporting Actor Award," Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts with the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award," the cast of "August: Osage County," Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, and Misty Upham with the "Hollywood Ensemble Award," actor Jared Leto with the "Hollywood Breakout Performance Award" for "Dallas Buyers Club," actress Lupita Nyong'o with the "New Hollywood Award" for "12 Year A Slave," director Lee Daniels with the "Hollywood Director Award," director Steve McQueen with the "Hollywood Breakout Director Award," producer Michael De Luca with the "Hollywood Producer Award," and screenwriters Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater with the "Hollywood Screenwriter Award." Other honorees include director Dan Scalon for "Monsters University" with the "Hollywood Animation Award," and the movie "Pacific Rim" for visual effects.
Michael B. Jordan portrays 'Oscar Grant' in his latest film, FRUITVALE STATION (dir. Ryan Coogler). which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to raving reviews winning the "Grand Jury Prize" and "Audience Award." The film also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for "Best First Film".
Next, Michael can be seen in Tom Gormican's THAT AWKWARD MOMENT starring opposite Zac Efron, Imogen Poots and Miles Teller which is being released January 31, 2014. In 2012 alone, he starred in 20th Century Fox's box office hit CHRONICLE (dir. Josh Trank).
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The Cast of "August: Osage County" to be Honored with the Hollywood Ensemble Award at the Hollywood Film Awards
Carlos de Abreu, founder and executive producer of the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, announced today that the cast of "August: Osage County," directed by John Wells, will be honored with the "Hollywood Ensemble Award". The honor will be bestowed at the Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony on Monday evening, October 21st, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
"We are very proud to recognize the ensemble cast of "August: Osage County," for their dramatic and outstanding performances," said de Abreu.
The Hollywood Film Awards honors cherished stars, filmmakers, and up-and-coming talent, and traditionally kicks off the film awards season with the biggest stars and top industry executives in attendance. Past Hollywood Ensemble Award honorees have included the cast of "Argo," "The Social Network," and "The Help."
The 2013 Hollywood Film Awards has also announced that it will be honoring the prolific and legendary producer Jerry Weintraub with the "Hollywood Legend Award," Academy award-nominated actor Harrison Ford with this year's "Hollywood Career Achievement Award," actor Matthew McConaughey with the "Hollywood Actor Award," Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock with the "Hollywood Actress Award," Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal with the "Hollywood Supporting Actor Award," Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts with the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award," actor Jared Leto with the "Hollywood Breakout Performance Award" for "Dallas Buyers Club," actress Lupita Nyong'o with the "New Hollywood Award" for "12 Year A Slave," director Lee Daniels with the "Hollywood Director Award," director Steve McQueen with the "Hollywood Breakout Director Award," producer Michael De Luca with the "Hollywood Producer Award," and screenwriters Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater with the "Hollywood Screenwriter Award." Other honorees include director Dan Scalon for "Monsters University" with the "Hollywood Animation Award," and the movie "Pacific Rim" for visual effects.
Last year's awards show received more than 41 million media impressions, in addition to more than 300 million online and print readers' impressions.
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name made its Broadway debut in December 2007 after premiering at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theatre earlier that year. It continued with a successful international run and was the winner [...]
Meryl Streep and Katie Couric join together against cancer
Academy Award®-winning actress Meryl Streep encourages people to get screened for colon cancer in new broadcast public service announcements (PSAs) that launch in March, in conjunction with National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
The PSAs, which will premiere today on Katie!, are the latest collaboration between the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (EIF's NCCRA), co-founded by Katie Couric, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the CDC's Screen for Life: National Colorectal Cancer Action Campaign. This initiative is a multi-year effort to educate Americans about the importance of regular colorectal cancer screening for men and women aged 50 years and over.
Streep is one of the world's most renowned actors, having won three Academy Awards as well as multiple Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Screen Actors Guild awards, in addition to Primetime Emmys and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. She is the third Oscar-winning actor to appear in the Screen for Life campaign, along with Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton.
Of cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, taking the lives of more than 50,000 Americans every year. Yet the disease is highly preventable through screening. Screening can detect pre-cancerous growths called polyps that can be removed before they develop into colorectal cancer. Screening can also detect colorectal cancer at an early stage, when treatment is most effective.
Streep explains these benefits of screening in the PSA, titled Control, adding that, "For me, screening was simple and quick. It was no big deal, except for the huge sense of relief you feel afterwards."
The colorectal cancer death rate has declined steadily for several years. According to the CDC, half of this decrease can be attributed to more people getting screened. Despite that progress, one third of U.S. adults age 50 and over are still not up to date with recommended screening.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for men and women aged 50–75. (The decision to be screened after age 75 should be made on an individual basis. People older than 75 are advised to ask their doctors if they should be screened.)
The CDC considers Screen for Life one of the most effective campaigns it has undertaken to encourage screening.
Streep said she was motivated to get screened after seeing Katie Couric's [...]
We are back. The 2014 Oscars. Leo DiCaprio will be returning
The next Oscars? The new season begins, like, now, with "The Sapphires" opening on March 22nd. Pencil it in for Golden Globe Comedy/Musical, and if it takes, off, well, who knows what else?
Mainly next winter we will be looking hard at Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in "August: Osage County" and Nicole Kidman in "Grace of Monaco." Streep will probably go into Supporting. Kidman is said to on track to win. Naomi Watts will be back as Princess Diana, and Leonardo DiCaprio will make a bid for Best Actor in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street."
The Weinstein Company has 14 films for 2013, with lots of potential nominees. But Tarantino is off duty this year, so don't count on him. The Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" could bring gold for the bros, plus Oscar Isaac and John Goodman. There's a new Woody Allen movie said to be "one of his greats" like "Midnight in Paris." Pedro Almodovar is back in form with a comedy. Robert Redford directed "The Company You Keep" and stars in JC Chandor's new film. Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling are superb in Derek Cianfrance's "Place Beyond the Pines," which was screened in Toronto.
Then there's Kristen Wiig in the very funny retitled "Imogene" now called "Girl Most Likely." Wait til you see Matt Dillon steal that show. Sundance will contribute "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" with Casey Affleck. There's Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder" (forget it) and maybe a better one called "Knight of Cups." George Clooney acts in "Gravity" with Sandra Bullock and directs "Monuments Men." Luc Besson could have a good film with Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Cross your fingers.
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2013 Oscars: Congratulations to the Nominees and Honorees
Congratulations to the 2013 Oscar nominees and winners… for complete list of winners pls scroll down.
Best Supporting Actor:
Christoph Waltz – "Django Unchained"
Best Animated Short:
"Paperman" – John Kahrs
Best Animated Feature:
"Brave" – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
"Life of Pi" – Claudio Miranda
Visual Effects:
"Life of Pi" – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Costume Design:
"Anna Karenina" – Jacqueline Durran
"Les Misérables" – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Live Action Film:
"Curfew" – Shawn Christensen
Documentary Short Subject:
"Inocente" – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Documentary Feature:
"Searching for Sugar Man"
Sound Mixing:
"Les Misérables" – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Sound Editing:
"Zero Dark Thirty" – Paul N.J. Ottosson
Supporting Actress:
Anne Hathaway – "Les Miserables"
Film Editing:
"Argo" – William Goldenberg
Original Score:
Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi"
Original Song:
Adele – "Skyfall"
Adapted Screenplay:
Chris Terrio, "Argo"
Original Screenplay:
Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Best Actress:
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Picture:
For the first time, viewers in the U.S. will be able to stream tonight's Oscars show in its entirety across multiple platforms including ABC.com, the ABC Player app, and the free, ad-supported Hulu and Hulu Plus subscription service. The show will also be available via ABC On Demand, the network's fast forward-disabled VOD service.
The Oscars, in its entirety, will be available to stream within hours of its broadcast completion, beginning Monday, Feb. 25th at 6:00 a.m. EST through Wednesday, February 27, at midnight EST.
"Tonight's show included remarkable performances that will surely have people talking. This is an easy, convenient way for anyone who missed the show to catch up and join the conversation," said Karin Gilford, Senior Vice President of Digital Media, ABC Entertainment. "It's also perfect for anyone who just wants to relive the most magical moments of the night."
"Our goal is to give fans as many ways to enjoy and engage with the Oscars as possible and this will provide another great opportunity for them," said Christina Kounelias, the Academy's Chief Marketing Officer.
The full streaming will be advertiser supported with :15 or :30 video spots running intermittingly from Blue Diamond, Diet Coke, Hyundai, JC Penney, Samsung and The University of Phoenix.
Additionally, during the telecast, Oscar.com offered a plethora of "Real Time Oscar Highlights" to viewers almost instantly after they debuted on the live broadcast. Those special moments from telecast as well as numerous highlights from the Red Carpet and backstage during the show, are currently available on the show's official site, Oscar.com.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- M&T Bank Corp. (MTB) was upgraded to "buy" from "neutral" at Goldman Sachs (GS) on Monday based on the firm's belief the holding company's planned purchased of Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK) will add to earnings.
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Select this affordable Columbus hotel and enjoy its' many amenities, helpful staff and being near Ohio Expo Center, Sears, Chase Bank and the Arena District. Traveling on business? The BEST WESTERN Port Columbus is located near the Columbus International Airport. You'll be ensured an efficient trip with so many of the area's corporate offices close by. Ohio Transmission Corporation, Rimrock Corporation, Fed-Ex, Sears, Discover Financial Service, American Standard Trane, Limited Brands, Chase Bank and more are all within a few minutes. Coming and going will only take a short trip with Port Columbus International Airport only three miles away. Those visiting students and faculty in the area will delight in the fact that Ohio Dominican University, Ohio State University, Capital University and Columbus State are all less than 15 miles away. Looking to get out and explore the area? Easton Town Center, COSI Science Center, Ohio Theater, Eastland Mall and Columbus Zoo and Aquarium are near this Columbus hotel. Sports enthusiasts will enjoy visiting Nationwide Arena, Schottenstein Center, Columbus Crew Stadium and Ohio Stadium. If you're in town for it, the Ohio State Fair is just 12 miles away. Downtown Columbus is just six miles away. You'll also have easy access to Columbus Convention Center. You'll feel like you never left home when staying at this Columbus, OH hotel. The spotless and well-appointed rooms all offer cable or satellite television with in-room movies, high-speed Internet access, a coffee maker, a micro/fridge, a desk and much more. Get the perfect fuel for each day with a complimentary hot breakfast. Relax and play after a day of sightseeing or work at the indoor pool and hot tub. Enjoy the convenience of having access to a business center, a 24-hour exercise facility, meeting facilities, free parking and children's activities. Hotel will charge a $250 fee for smoking in a non-smoking room.
BEST WESTERN Port Columbus
Amenities· 24-hour front desk
· Accessible facilities
· Air conditioning
· Air conditioning
· Alarm clock
· All public areas non-smoking
· Bathrobe
· Business center
· Cable television
· Cocktail lounge
· Coffee/Tea maker
· Complimentary breakfast
· Complimentary full american breakfast
· Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
· Connecting rooms
· Data port
· Data port
· Desk
· Elevators
· Exercise gym
· Express check-in
· Express check-out
· Fax service
· Free local calls
· Free parking
· Front desk
· Gift/News stand
· Hair dryer
· Hairdryer
· Hearing impaired services
· Hearing impaired services
· High speed internet access
· High speed internet connection
· Ice machine
· Indoor pool
· Interior corridors
· Ironing board
· Late check-out available
· Meeting rooms
· Microwave
· Multilingual staff
· Non-smoking rooms (generic)
· Onsite laundry
· Outdoor parking
· Photocopy center
· Pool
· Premium movie channels
· Refrigerator
· Safe
· Safe deposit box
· Security
· Sofa bed
· Spa
· Speaker phone
· Steam bath
· Two-line phone
· Voice mail
· Wake-up calls
· Whirlpool
Room Information2 DOUBLE BEDS
Double beds, Non-smoking, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Ironing board, Meal included - continental breakfast
Double beds, Smoking, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Ironing board, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Large desk, Coffee/Tea maker, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Smoking, Large desk, Coffee/Tea maker, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Smoking, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
Double beds, Non-smoking, Coffee/Tea maker, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Meal included - continental breakfast
Double beds, Non-smoking, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Ironing board, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Large desk, Coffee/Tea maker, Internet access, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Meal included: full American breakfast
Double beds, Non-smoking, Meal included: full American breakfast
Double beds, Non-smoking, Meal included: full American breakfast
Miscellaneous Information
· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 3:00 PM
· Check out time is 11:59 AM
· Time Zone is EST
· Opened in 2006
· Renovated in 01/01/2006
· 87 rooms.
· 13 suites.
· 3 floors.
From: Port Columbus Airport. Follow International Gateway to Interstate 670 West. Columbus-Cassady Avenue. Merge onto Cassady Avenue. Turn right at light. The BEST WESTERN Port Columbus is at first right turn. From: The east. Take Interstate 70 West to Interstate 270 North-Cleveland. Proceed to Interstate 670 West to Exit 9 - Cassady Avenue. Turn right on Cassady and right on Airpointe Drive to the BEST WESTERN Port Columbus. From: The west. Take Interstate 70 East to Interstate 670 East-Airport-Stelzer-Johnstown Road Exit off Johnstown ramp. Turn right onto Johnstown Road. At light, turn right onto Cassady Avenue and right onto Airpointe Drive to the BEST WESTERN Port Columbus.
Restaurant InformationPanera Bread
5.00 mile(s) from Panera Bread, American, open for: breakfast, lunch, dinnerFunny Bone Comedy Club
5.00 mile(s) from Funny Bone Comedy Club, Bar/Lounge, American, open for: dinnerCity Barbeque
4.00 mile(s) from City Barbeque, American, open for: lunch, dinnerHamma Japanese Restaurant
5.00 mile(s) from Hamma Japanese Restaurant, Full Service, Japanese, open for: lunch, dinnerSmith & Wollensky
5.00 mile(s) from Smith & Wollensky, Steakhouse, open for: lunch, dinnerHome Town Buffet
8.00 mile(s) from Home Town Buffet, Buffet, American, open for: lunch, dinnerSubway
0.10 mile(s) from Subway, Fast Food, open for: lunch, dinnerMitchell's Ocean Club
5.00 mile(s) from Mitchell's Ocean Club, Full Service, Seafood, open for: lunch, dinnerAbuelo's Mexican Food
5.00 mile(s) from Abuelo's Mexican Food, Mexican, open for: lunch, dinnerGraeter's
5.00 mile(s) from Graeter's, Ice Cream/Dessert, American, open for: lunch, dinnerFado
5.00 mile(s) from Fado, Pub, open for: lunch, dinner, Irish PubBob Evans
3.00 mile(s) from Bob Evans, Full Service, American, open for: lunch, dinnerStarbucks Cafe
5.00 mile(s) from Starbucks Cafe, Coffee Shop, open for: lunch, dinnerWaffle House
Across the street from Waffle House, American, open for: breakfast, lunch, dinnerWendy's
Adjacent to Wendy's, Fast Food, open for: lunch, dinnerDamon's
3.00 mile(s) from Damon's, Full Service, American, open for: lunch, dinnerCafe Bistro
5.00 mile(s) from Cafe Bistro, Full Service, American, open for: lunch, dinnerPF Chang's China Bistro
5.00 mile(s) from PF Chang's China Bistro, Full Service, Chinese, open for: lunch, dinnerMcCormick & Schmick's
5.00 mile(s) from McCormick & Schmick's, Seafood, open for: lunch, dinnerCheesecake Factory
5.00 mile(s) from Cheesecake Factory, American, open for: lunch, dinnerMcDonalds
0.50 mile(s) from McDonalds, Fast Food, open for: breakfast, lunch, dinnerBD'S Mongolian Barbeque
5.00 mile(s) from BD'S Mongolian Barbeque, Full Service, Chinese, open for: lunch, dinnerArena Sports Bar & Grill
5.00 mile(s) from Arena Sports Bar & Grill, Pub, American, open for: lunch, dinnerBrio Tuscan Grille
5.00 mile(s) from Brio Tuscan Grille, Full Service, Italian, open for: lunch, dinnerCafe Istanbul Mediterranean
5.00 mile(s) from Cafe Istanbul Mediterranean, Mediterranean, open for: lunch, dinner
Meeting FacilityAccommodates up to 50
Accommodates up to 50
Recreation Information
Indoor pool - INDOOR POOL
Cardiovascular exercise - EXCKOT
Spa - INRM SPA/OVS TUB
Ocean - 5.00 mile(s) from Mitchell's Ocean Club, Full Service, Seafood, open for: lunch, dinner
Lake - 25.00 mile(s) from Wyandot Lake
Pool - Indoor pool
Steam bath - Steam room
Hot tub - Hot tub
Area Attractions- Newark
35.00 mile(s) from Newark- Sunbury
35.00 mile(s) from Sunbury- Gahanna
1.00 mile(s) from Gahanna- Obetz
20.00 mile(s) from Obetz- Worthington
6.00 mile(s) from Worthington- Upper Arlington
12.00 mile(s) from Upper Arlington- Grandview
15.00 mile(s) from Grandview- Delaware
30.00 mile(s) from Delaware- Reynoldsburg
5.00 mile(s) from Reynoldsburg- Grove City
20.00 mile(s) from Grove City- Groveport
20.00 mile(s) from Groveport- Clintonville
8.00 mile(s) from Clintonville- Marysville
35.00 mile(s) from Marysville- Westerville
5.00 mile(s) from Westerville- Dublin
15.00 mile(s) from Dublin- New Albany
5.00 mile(s) from New Albany- Canal Winchester
25.00 mile(s) from Canal Winchester- Lancaster
40.00 mile(s) from Lancaster- Powell
25.00 mile(s) from Powell- Pickerington
35.00 mile(s) from Pickerington- Cleveland
135 mile(s) from Cleveland- Granville
35.00 mile(s) from Granville- Athens
37.00 mile(s) from Athens- Hilliard
18.00 mile(s) from Hilliard- Cincinnati
100 mile(s) from Cincinnati- Eastland Mall
10.00 mile(s) from Eastland Mall- Chase
5.00 mile(s) from Chase- DFAS
8.00 mile(s) from DFAS- Ross Abbott Labs
5.00 mile(s) from Ross Abbott Labs- Ohio Transmission Corporation
2.00 mile(s) from Ohio Transmission Corporation- DSCC
8.00 mile(s) from DSCC- Million Air
3.00 mile(s) from Million Air- Lane Bryant
5.00 mile(s) from Lane Bryant- Schottensteins
10.00 mile(s) from Schottensteins- Donatos,
10.00 mile(s) from Donatos, Corporate Office- American Standard Trane
3.00 mile(s) from American Standard Trane- Net Jets Inc.
5.00 mile(s) from Net Jets Inc.- Hunington Bank
5.00 mile(s) from Hunington Bank- Ohio Auto Auction
20.00 mile(s) from Ohio Auto Auction- MI Homes,
10.00 mile(s) from MI Homes, Corporate Office- AEP
10.00 mile(s) from AEP- Limited Brands
5.00 mile(s) from Limited Brands- Discover Financial Service
10.00 mile(s) from Discover Financial Service- Rimrock Corporation
2.00 mile(s) from Rimrock Corporation- Fed-Ex
3.00 mile(s) from Fed-Ex- Lucent Technologies
10.00 mile(s) from Lucent Technologies- DeVry University
10.00 mile(s) from DeVry University- Capital University
6.00 mile(s) from Capital University- Denison University
25.00 mile(s) from Denison University- Ohio Dominican University
3.00 mile(s) from Ohio Dominican University- Ohio State University
12.00 mile(s) from Ohio State University- Columbus State
8.00 mile(s) from Columbus State- Franklin University
8.00 mile(s) from Franklin University- Columbus Convention Center,
6.00 mile(s) from Columbus Convention Center, downtown Columbus- Defense Supply Center
3.00 mile(s) from Defense Supply Center- downtown Columbus
6.00 mile(s) from downtown Columbus- Ohio Stadium,
12.00 mile(s) from Ohio Stadium, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes- Ohio Theater
8.00 mile(s) from Ohio Theater- COSI Science Center
7.00 mile(s) from COSI Science Center- Ohio State Fair Grounds,
12.00 mile(s) from Ohio State Fair Grounds, home of the Ohio State Fair- Schottenstein Center,
10.00 mile(s) from Schottenstein Center, home of the Ohio State Buckeye basketball teams and hockey Teams- Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
25.00 mile(s) from Columbus Zoo and Aquarium- Columbus Crew Stadium,
10.00 mile(s) from Columbus Crew Stadium, home of major league soccer team Columbus Crew- Nationwide Arena,
6.00 mile(s) from Nationwide Arena, home of the Columbus Blue Jackets- Easton Town Center
5.00 mile(s) from Easton Town Center


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The Honorable Jim Hughey III
Judge Hughey began his service as a Civil Division Circuit Judge on January 15, 2013. He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama School of Law. While in law school, Judge Hughey served as Editor in Chief of the Alabama Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, he was elected to the Order of the Coif, was named a Hugo Black Scholar and received the Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award.
Prior to taking office, Judge Hughey was a partner with the law firm of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC. During his years of practice, Judge Hughey was listed multiple times in Best Lawyers in America and Alabama Super Lawyers and held an AV-Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He also served on the editorial board of the Alabama Lawyer and as co-chair of the Alabama State Bar's Diversity in the Profession Committee.
Contact Information
Office Staff:
Arrie Moore - Judicial Assistant
Kayla Schoen - Court Attentdant
Jefferson County Courthouse, Room 350
716 Richard Arrington, Jr. Blvd. N.
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
phone: (205) 325-5365


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High sound quality and sophisticated design based on Yamaha's rich experiene and high-end model concepts. A HiFi receiver for enjoying excellent sound.
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big sound modest price!
By wildcat
from Nisula Mi.
About Me Practical
Comments about Yamaha Black 100W x 2 HiFi Audio Receiver:
I listen to clasic rock,R&B,jazz and some clasical havent found anything that the R-S201 didn't do justice to clean sound at any volume level. My only complaint about the reciever would be the antena that was included. I had to buy an aftermarket antena, but now recive FM stations from 150 mi. distant! Easy to set up and use!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great Value-Easy Choice
By bykboi
from Huntington Beach, CA
About Me Practical, Tech Savvy
This is a hi-value, fair-priced product with good performance, good features and a superbly simple industrial design front. Great for a basic first system or as a killer 2d one, as in my case. Well-written user manual and a surprisingly good AM section in the tuner. This has been a treat to own. Can't miss with Yamaha in my experience.
So far so good....
By Don
from Honolulu, HI
About Me Movie Enthusiast, Tech Savvy
Basic receiver for general requirements. Had it for one month. More practical for me than the HTR-5940 I had earlier (didn't need or use most of the bells and whistles on the 5940). R-s201 is quite easy to use.
A good buy
By Bluesfan62
from Texas
About Me Movie Enthusiast, Practical, Tech Savvy
Bought this on the Yamaha reputation to replace another receiver that had gone bad. The Yamaha has sounded great since I got it set up. For now I am just using two BIC America DV84 speakers with it, hooked up to my TV.My only issue is once I went to turn it on, and nothing happened. Had to unplug it and plug it back in for it to work. Could have been the power strip, and has only happened once.
R-S201 is a great value receiver
By Greg
from Cupertino, CA
About Me Tech Savvy
I purchased this receiver as a replacement for a failed one that runs eight speakers scattered around my garage and yard. The installation into my existing rack only took about five minutes. It has adequate power to runs everything. The sound is surprisingly good for such a reasonable price.
First entry-level hi-fi system, a marvel
By Naxos
from mexico
About Me Audiophile, Movie Enthusiast, Practical, Pro Audio / DJ
My first hi-fi audio system....sounds exquisite!!, I must admit I am a newbie. However, this receiver exceeded my expectations. There were other brands to choose from but any single piece of advice stated...."go for Yamaha and forget about all those bloody brands out there!"
Better than I hoped for!!
By Kevin B.
from Saint Bernard, LA
I bought this unit to replace an older stereo system in my shed that had gotten fried by a lightning strike. It also plays over speakers on my back patio. Receiver was very easy to set up. One problem was the "auto stand-by" that shut the unit down every 8 hours. Once I figured out my problem and went into the menu with the remote, I changed the setting for 24 hour continuous play. My other complaint was the weak reception, but I attributed this to the fact of living in a coastal parish outside New Orleans, and more precisely, having the unit inside my metal shed. An outdoor FM antenna (Winegard HD-6010) cured that problem. On the plus side, the sound is great, much better through my outdoor patio speakers than I expected! The Bass and Treble controls help fine tune the sound. Overall, I'm very pleased with the purchase and am considering adding the CD player to "upgrade" the system.
Great Economy Receiver
By merlinxl5
from boston, ma
About Me Audiophile, Pro Audio / DJ, Tech Savvy
Usually you get what you pay for, but this time you get more. This receiver sounds great, has the ability to handle the audio output of three computers AND has a very decent AM/FM tuner.Admittedly, since the inputs are RCA audio, you may need some adapter cords for computer use, but with the money you'll save on this reveiver, you'll be able to afford them.I use this for the audio output of two computers and to listen to classical music on FM.I keep it running 24/7 (the best way to make your electronics last much longer) and it stays quite cool at decent listening levels.True, the lack of advanced HDMI and Optical inputs prevents this from being classified as a modern Home Theater receiver, but that's NOT what it's supposed to be. What it is meant to be and what it excels at is an economy receiver of remarkable quality.It isn't deafeningly loud but with reasonably efficient speakers, it is plenty loud enough for a living room and would also work great in a bedroom.One reviewer mentioned that the speaker connectors couldn't handle decent sized wire BUT I found out this was NOT true; you can connect 14-16 guage speaker wire easily IF you tin-solder the ends OR if you are patient.Definitely worth the money!!
Great for bedroom / TV
By MarkW
from Peoria, AZ
Using my R-S201BL as a bedroom / TV amp through headphones. Working great, and exceeds my expectations.Not a con since it is documented, but be aware that the only balance control is on the remote.
Yamaha receiver, basic
By jt
from california
About Me Enjoys Good Quality Produ, Practical
While it is a basic reciever, it has good, high quality sound with a large amount of headroom to handle loud passages. No clipping for peaks, and clear tones.
Service and delivery comments:
Doubled boxed to prevent shipping damage. Arrived with no problems. Not as fast shipping as, say New Egg, but it is free and no SLS tx. Being patient has it's rewards. Will buy from abt again.
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