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I only discovered this board after I already had my son. In all honesty, I don't know if I would've asked for other people's opinions, but I am happy to offer up my own when you all ask (haha).
Anyway, I was just wondering how you chose names for your kid. Just one you like? Family names? Looked through names of your ethnicity (or another you liked)? Envisioned what he/she might be like as an adult?
For us, I don't like boys names that get a y at the end, i.e Billy, Tommy, Danny. And since I have one of the most popular names in the past 30 years, I wanted something not on the top 100. DH and I talked about Waylon Jennings on one of our first dates and came back to that for a boy (we were Team Green). Some people love it, some people hate it, but it definitely fits him.
Anyone else?
I looked through lists, threw them out as they came to mind... it was clear we would have diffiiculty for a boy name. Eli was the first name we both liked and then we stuck with it. I did of course have doubts towards the end and worried we picked too soon, but the only name H would budge on Eli for was Jackson and that was a big N-O for me. H wanted to be able to use a nn like EJ or CJ and I agreed to it but I wasn't going to pick a name solely for that.
H is more picky on boy names and wouldn't pick a name if he knew anyone with that name already, but again , only for boys. We now have another definite boy name but are back to the drawing board if we ever have a DD.
We thought we had our names picked out and when we found out DD was a girl, the name we picked didn't feel right.
We considered a few names and tested the ones we liked out for a few days. We thought we had it with Alice, but it didn't feel right. We had never even considered Abigail before, and don't remember how it came up, but we gave it a shot for a week and it stuck. It just felt like her name.
We wanted the middle name to be a family name and DH suggested using my middle name, since she was getting his last name. Again, we tried it, we liked it, it stuck.
We kept the name private until she was born. The decision was our own.
Mozzy24:Biblical first name, Family middle name. I like name meanings a lot too. Or at least some sort of personal attachment to a name. But ultimately we ended up on the one name we both agreed with ;
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My parents live about 90 minutes away from us. In 2009 my dad died, and DH and I started driving up every Friday after work to spend the weekends with my mom. We spent A LOT of time in the car. To kill time, we often discussed baby names - the good, the bad, and the ugly. During these discussions we came up with our favorite names for both boys and girls.
When I got pregnant in 2011, we revisited those names and decided we still loved them. And we decided to use my dad's name for my son's middle name.
We had a boy name picked out by the time I was 8 weeks (family name), but we had trouble with agreeing on girl names. We had a list of names with both liked, but my H came home and suggested Madeline and I really liked it. The more I thought about it the more I loved the name. At our A/S when we found out she was a girl I blurted out "Madeline" and he looked at me strangely as we hadn't "settled" on it yet. Her middle name, Rey, is my middle name (and my poppy, and aunt's also).
If this baby is a boy we'll use our original boy name. Porter James - Porter is my FIL's family's last name, but not the last name my H was given at birth. James is my H and FIL's middle name. If this baby is a girl I've fallen in love with the name Lydia and told my H we are using it, end of story. Middle name if it is a girl would be Marie, my sister and my MIL's middle name.
With DS we went with names that honored family origins and happened to just love the first name as well. This time we are just doing a first name we like a lot (whatever that may be) and the middle name will honor my father.
If we ever have a third we will do a first name we like, and another family middle name.
We have a strong family tradition for naming after relatives who have passed away, but not always using the same exact name and sometimes only keeping the initial. Middle name for a boy was automatically going to be DH's grandfather's name. For the the first name, we had a few initials to work with based on other relatives we wanted to honor.
I looked at name lists for those letters, especially at Hebrew, Russian, German, and Scandinavian names, and saved ones that I liked. I also looked at name meanings and made note of names I liked with the same meanings as the names of the relatives.
One stood out to me as a name that I really liked that would also work very well for honoring DH's grandmother, who he was very close to. I ran the idea by him. He took a few days to think it over and decide if he liked it. It grew on him, so we're probably just going to stick with that name unless one of us finds something else that would be just as meaningful.
I was such a tomboy as a kid and always appreciated that I could shorten my name from Samantha to a more androgynous"Sam", so I always knew if I had a girl, I would want the same opportunity for her. (my mom also did that - Phyllis to Phyl)
So when DH and I found out we were having a girl, we picked a strong first name that could carry her from childhood into adulthood with the option for a nn. Raegan "Rae" was our choice.. As for her MN, we wanted a slightly more feminine/sweet name to balance out the strong first name, and we happend upon Claire.
No real significance with meaning or ethnic background, but just a good strong-yet-sweet name that she can shorten if she so chooses.
DD's first name is very similar to my grandma's name, and her middle name is my great-grandma's name.
If we ever have a son, his middle name will definitely be my late dad's name. If we decide we are on our last child and and it ends up being a girl, then she will get my dad's name for her middle name.
Other than that, I'm not sure if I have any intentions of naming any more children after family members. I try to avoid family member names in my generation or my children's generation, so I avoid names of my cousins and their kids.
In all honesty, I don't know if I would've asked for other people's opinions, but I am happy to offer up my own when you all ask (haha).
Same here.
My DH picked DD's name. LONG before we were even ttc, he randomly said, "Hey, if we ever have a girl, I'd like to name her Tabitha." Not thinking about it, I said, "Eh -- I'd be okay with that." Several years later, when I was actually pg, and team green, he said, "well, we already know it's Tabitha for a girl." Then, I had second thoughts about the name, but I came around to it. Now, 13 years later, I can't imagine her being anything else!
In return, I got to name DS. Since DH, DD, and I all happen to have names with 7 letters, we thought it would be cool to use a 7 letter name for the final family member. But since this severely cut down on the choices, we waited to work on names until after we knew whether we were having a boy or a girl. DS was not modest during his 19 week u/s, so we only had to pick a boy name. I went with Timothy, a boy name I have always loved. DH wasn't in love with it at first, but it grew on him.
I was a little hesitant to use the same first letter, but I think Tabitha and Timothy make a nice sibset!
Basically, all the girls have fn we just liked and mn from family. I have a really popular name for my age so it couldn't be too popular. It needed to be easily sight read. We're a really athletic family, so the name had to flow if announced at a sporting event.
For our first, we had baby name books and just tossed around names till we found ones we liked. We went in to L&D with 2 top names, one being the front runner and the other "just in case she doesn't look like a X". For DD2 we used the back-up name. DH wanted it as DD1's mn but I still liked it and wanted to give family mn's.
We were at a loss initially for DD3 since we had 2 boy names ready to go. DH wanted something that went more with our traditional Irish last name. I found it on a St. Patrick's Day Irish name blog post.
My kids have family names, first middle and last.
Even though I was on this board before ever getting PG, I 've never asked for opinions on the names we chose. It didn't matter what anyone else thought. However, we would have been stumped coming up with a 2nd girls name.
I'm Jewish and my DH isn't, so we were definitely going to use a deceased family members name (or the first letter).
With DS, I always knew the mn would be Lawrence after my uncle who passed away when I was 9. We both just liked Everett, merely coincidence that DH has a distant relative with that name.
With DD, we used Piper for my grandfather Philip (the only P name we could agree on). We decided on Helen a few weeks before she was born for my DH's great-aunt (he wanted his grandmother,'s name, Martha, but then the initials would have been PMS, so that wasn't happening).
With my first son I just knew it was the name I wanted. I didn't look too much at any books because nothing sounded as good. The rest of his name are names that I liked that happen to be in the family as well.
My second son was named after I saw a name in a baby book and loved it. He also has family names for the rest of his name.
Years ago I thought of a girl's name just in case. I was never sure if I would use it one day or not but it happens to be the only name my husband likes. The rest of this baby's name is undecided. I'm 37 weeks so any time I guess I'll decide.
All of our childrens mn's are family names. For the first names we each made a list and then narrowed down and combined our favorites. We did ask for opinions online but it didn't really change our ultimate decision. We did like getting the feedback though and found it helpful. Once we had our top three we threw the names around for a few weeks. Just to see how they sounded out loud.
Dh and I had a list of names before we got married. When we found out we were expecting, the girl name felt right but sadly was recently "taken" by a close family member. The boy name suddenly didn't feel right to me. So we started mostly from scratch. I scoured websites like this one and nameberry and suggested everything that struck me (most of which he hated). He just came up with names he liked out of his head (which resulted in the oddest combination of styles haha). Finally, my mom suggested a boy name that at first we both vetoed... but once we found out we were having a boy, I began to come back to it, especially when pairing it with our last name. The last name played a big role. Dh still nixed it, but liked my runner-up. Oddly, we then swapped opinions as I began to think of our baby as having the runner-up name and adjusted to it, while he continued to mull over the #1 suggestion. It took us 8 hours after he was born to decide between the two - Dh kept saying he would be happy with #1 and not taking me up on #2, so I finally just accepted his change of heart as an unexpected blessing. That said, I hope I get to name another boy our #2. And it DID take awhile for the #1 name to feel like "his."
p.s. My "criteria" for a full name was: wanted it to sound strong and distinguished as well as classic - likely a secondary classic to avoid popularity (but wanted to avoid obscure, snobby, kre8tiv).

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Taylor Swift ended her series of shows at The Staples Center in Los Angeles with another surprise guest for the audience. Jennifer Lopez walked onto the stage midway through the show and shocked the crowd. After Taylor explained that J-Lo's hit "Jenny From The Block" was one of her favorite songs she sang to with her hairbrush, as a kid, they sang it together.
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Fellow atheists do you think that the majority of theists online tend to be quite predictable, when it comes to debating religion's effect on society and the lack of proof in their gods?
Have we heard all the arguments at this stage? Have all the scenes been played out like a soap opera with no originality and bad writing?
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The Scot was unable to improve on his 1:46.121 and found himself down in 17th place.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 10, 2008) - A study released today from the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and UK College of Public Health shows the air quality of Lexington bingo halls to be unsafe due to secondhand smoke. In fact, the level of indoor air pollution in Lexington bingo halls is 6.8 times higher than the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for outdoor air. The level of indoor air pollution levels in the bingo halls was 13 times higher than in hospitality venues in Lexington and approximately 5.5 times higher than Georgetown's bingo hall after smoke-free laws took effect.
Indoor air quality was assessed in five bingo halls in Lexington. Fine particulates were measured from February 15 to February 22, 2008 using a monitor to record the levels of respirable suspended particulates in the air. The Georgetown bingo hall was visited on September 16, 2005 before the smoke-free law took effect and January 28, 2006 during the post-law period.
On April 27, 2004, Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government implemented a smoke-free ordinance prohibiting smoking in all buildings open to the public including bingo parlors. A series of legal challenges over a three-year period debated whether Lexington's bingo halls and the high school booster clubs that operate bingo were eligible for the private clubs exemption of Lexington's law. The most recent ruling came on January 18, 2008, when Fayette Circuit Judge James Ishmael affirmed a 2005 District Court ruling that found that booster clubs qualify as private organizations under the Lexington-Fayette County smoke-free ordinance. Private organizations are exempt from Lexington's smoke-free ordinance.
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Currently in Kentucky 19 communities have enacted, and 16 communities have implemented, smoke-free laws or regulations. The most comprehensive ordinances/regulations, which include smoke-free workplace and smoke-free enclosed public place laws (including bingo halls), have been implemented in Georgetown, Morehead, Ashland, Elizabethtown, Hardin County (unincorporated areas), Madison County (board of health regulation) and Louisville. The next most comprehensive ordinances, which include smoke-free enclosed public place laws, have been implemented in Lexington, Letcher County, Frankfort and Paducah. Five communities have implemented partial smoke-free laws, protecting workers and patrons in some public venues: Daviess County, Henderson, Oldham County, Paintsville and Pikeville. Only Daviess County, the city of Henderson, Pikeville and Paintsville's smoke-free ordinances contain specific language that exempts bingo parlors.
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Extremely bad service. Rude bar keep that did not even look any of our party in the face when trying to order.(There was no hostess available) Not what I expected, as I have heard of this restaurant before. Would not recommend.
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The BlackJack Burger is the best you'll ever have. Always juicy and perfect. The service isn't great, but it's a bar by Grand Central, so don't put too fine a point on that. Fantastic burger, awesome fries - the perfect lunch. That's all you need to know.
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Had dinner here with two friends on Nov. 24. I ordered the Cesar Salad as appetizer and Fish and Chips with a side order of peas as entree. The "Cesar" Salad arrived with tomato slices, no cheese, a completely wrong dressing, and no croutons. When I informed the waitress that I had ordered a Cesar Salad, she said, "That's how we make it!' I asked for croutons, which she brought six minutes later. My friends' appetizer, the fried calamari, was badly done. The fried batter was falling off of it, which means there is something wrong with the basic recipe. My fish and chips were adequate, though my side of peas was cold and undercooked. My friends were not entirely satisfied with their entrees. We ordered apple pie a la mode for dessert. The apple pie arrived very cold. Apparently these people don't know that when served a la mode, apple pie is supposed to be warm. We often did not have the necessary utensils, and so had to grab them from other tables. Prices are too high for what you get. Dining room is very noisy, even when not entirely filled.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/07/2007
I ordered lunch over the phone and came in to pick it up. Their pickup server was decent, not extremely organized though. The food was pretty good, but its hard to say it is worth the expensive price, especially when compared with other pubs in the area. The atmosphere was very nice, although I didn't stay because of work.
Posted by Melissa on 03/05/2007
I ate there for the first time. Tables are close but what do you expect, it's Midtown. Also you can eat alone and not feel completely isolated. I liked the shrimp cocktail which was served the best I have seen. The burger was good too. The service is a bit nonpersonal as the crew is young and hurried. My plates were removed immediately and the wait staff does not have time to chat and smile with you. The owner or manager greets you well at the door and so that will have to do. The rest, they assume you need to eat and leave during the lunch crunch and so they try to accomodate your precious time.
Posted by ILoveIrishmen on 09/27/2006
The burgers are orgasmic. I have brought alot of people there and they never had any complaints. The Irish eye candy 'rrrrrr' is always a plus. Whenever I want to look at men, eat a great burger and drink a pint of my favorite beer, I go here. Erin Go Braugh!
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Being one of man's three basic needs, food is obviously of great importance to our health, growth and development. Nutrition is a huge subject that often leaves people confused and none the wiser. While many of you may require nutritional advice and assistance to reduce body fat levels, it is just as important for some people who are trying to gain weight, muscle mass or avoid feeling drowsy and sluggish.
I tend to look at peoples' eating habits from a realistic view point. Personally I love my food and don't see that as a bad thing. Occasionally I'll indulge in a bar of chocolate or a take away as I beleive that you will develop better long term eating habits if you reduce the less healthy foods rather than trying to cut them out alltogether. Why set yourself up to fail?
What can I do for you? (please see and feel free to download the attached notes )
Firstly to establish what your needs and goals are. Secondly what your diet, daily routine and any exercise consist of. Once we have established this background, I'll help you to find a way of moving closer to your goal and staying there too.
How does it work?
Weight loss or as I'd rather look at it, Body Fat reduction, is best achieved by combining a healthy diet with some exercise. Your body requires a certain amount of energy per day to survive. If you eat or drink more than is required then your body will convert some of that excess into fat. If you eat/drink less than is required then your body will use some of it's reserves to make up the deficit. Muscle tissue (that creates your tone) is also broken down if needed as energy, however some exercise will maintain and regenerate the muscle (and therefore more tone).
Obviously there is more to it than this. Some foods are more readily converted to fat than others, some keep you feeling satisfied for longer than others, some are low fat but high in sugar, some are high in fat but low in sugar. Water is a very important part of your diet but that doesn't mean you need to constantly be drinking bottles of water when your body clearly doesn't need it all.
Some basic household starter points are:
Never keep multi packs of snacks in that kitchen corner cupboard. If you have to have a snack then get in the car or walk to the shop to buy one
Wine and other alcohol should be cut down as much as possible. 1 day per week or not at all would be good.
reduce the amount of pasta, bread, rice, potato with your main meal. Bulk the plate up with more veg, protein or a salad.
Eat slower, don't go for a second helping until 10 mins after you finish the first helping.
Try drinking a glass of water before each meal
Substitute that daily chocolate bar with some dried fruit
Opt for a healthy lunch like a tuna salad or sushi


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Victims on Broadway
Still, however impressionistic Williams wanted stagings of this play to be, it is clear from his further directions (to say nothing of the action of the play) that the design must convey the Wingfields' economic situation, which is both precarious and soul-destroying:
The Wingfield apartment is in the rear of the building, one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units that flower as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers of lower middle-class population…. The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape…. At the rise of the curtain, the audience is faced with the dark, grim rear wall of the Wingfield tenement….
And so forth.
All this is important because everything that happens in the play—Amanda's obsessive invocations of her more genteel past and her desperate attempts to find her crippled daughter first a job and then a husband; her son Tom's furtive nocturnal escapades, a reaction to his dreary job at a shoe factory—is both fueled by, and made more poignant when considered against, the squalor in which the characters live. Tom's eventual decision, alluded to in a flashback but never actually dramatized in the course of the play, to leave Amanda and Laura in order to find himself as a poet and a man is so dreadful precisely because of its material rather than merely emotional implications: without the sixty dollars a month that he earns at the shoe factory the two women will be finally pushed over the line that separates genteel lower-middle-class hardship from true, dire poverty. If the audience does not feel this, the play goes slack—it loses its moral and emotional weight.
So it is dismaying to see the Wingfields, in the ill-conceived and clumsy set design you get in David Leveaux's new staging, inhabiting an airy, spa- cious, rather comfortable-looking apartment—something you might find in one of the postwar, white-brick buildings omnipresent on the Upper East Side, with a big, new sofa downstage center around which, alas, Leveaux tends to clump his actors. The fire escape that Williams calls for is dutifully represented, but it's an empty gesture, since there's no sense of the claustrophobia that makes this particular fire escape "a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth," as Williams wrote—no sense of why Tom feels compelled to flee over that fire escape each night en route to the bars (or worse) that he frequents, no sense of what it is he's fleeing from ("The implacable fires of human desperation").
What flickerings and gleamings there are to be seen here come, if anything, from the shiny brass-and-glass furniture that the designer Tom Pye has concocted for his set, which hardly suggests imminent economic disintegration. In Williams's text, Laura's glass animals, tiny and glittering in presumed contradistinction to the drabness of the "old-fashioned what-not" that houses them, are the lustrous yet frangible icons of "beauty," of hopes that will never be realized. But there's so much gleaming glass in Pye's set that you barely notice the play's eponymous fauna. The hideous rectangle of neon (or perhaps fluorescent) white tubing that hovers over the set, occasionally and rather distractingly going on and off, is, I suppose, Leveaux's and Pye's nod to Williams's call for "non-realistic" lighting; but it sheds light on nothing in particular, except perhaps the creators' sense that they ought to innovate in some way.
The healthy middle-class polish of the sets is, in a way, reflected in the performances. Thirteen years after her Blanche DuBois received mixed reviews, the beautiful Jessica Lange has returned to Broadway as Amanda Wingfield. It is possible to admire Lange's ambition without admiring her performance. She has played several deranged Southern women on screen—Frances Farmer, in Frances (1982), and a homicidal mother in the Southern Gothic thriller Hush (1998) —and it may be this that gives to her Amanda a prefabricated quality. But there is nothing in the predictable cute fluttering, the flirtatiously broad Southern vowels, that corresponds to the playwright's instruction, apropos of this "little woman of great but confused vitality," that "her characterization must be carefully created, not copied from type."
Watching Lange's clichéd impersonation of faded Southern womanhood, you realize that she, or perhaps Leveaux, has made the mistake of trying to find the appealing "strength" beneath Amanda's desperation—an interpretation that owes more to (and will undoubtedly appeal to) the current popular culture's investment in the bland ideology of personal self-sufficiency, of "wellness," than it does to anything in Williams's troubled text. Lange is, if anything, a big, beautiful woman—she radiates a feline, almost leonine tawniness and self-confidence, and has been admired by some crit-ics for her "lithe" presence. But for that very reason she has a hard time conveying the "frantic clinging" of Amanda, who, like many other women in Williams's plays, combines a manic repulsiveness with a poignant dreaminess. Far better in the role, last year at the Kennedy Center, was Sally Field, who has the advantage of a poignant physical smallness—just getting around the stage seemed to require a kind of gritty determination, and she used that frenzied doll-like quality to advantage.
But then you never feel in this staging that either the director or the actress was particularly interested in exposing the character's less appealing side, the way in which her Southern charm has putrefied, during a life of hard knocks, into a vanity and ugliness that will destroy her family. During the play's climactic dinner party, Amanda is meant to dither around, grotesquely, in a pathetically outmoded gown from her girlhood; abetted by an obliging costume designer, Ms. Lange manages to look stunning in this scene. This reflected a lot that was wrong here. The actress seems to want to find something to admire even in Amanda's destructive "power"—the way people admire Madonna, say, for having "control." But Amanda's domineering isn't admirable, it's pathetic—it's admirable only in its scope, its monstrosity.
Watching Ms. Lange's performance, you are not made unpleasantly aware that Amanda is using the search for a gentleman caller for her daughter as a way of reliving her own glorious and more successful young womanhood. Nor, later, do you feel horror at the ugly devil's bargain she makes with the frustrated and unhappy Tom, on which the plot, such as it is, revolves. For Amanda promises her son that she will let him leave the house and join the merchant marine, as he longs to do, if he helps to drum up a suitor for his sister. The disaster that follows is largely owing to the fact that he's in such a rush to get away that he doesn't bother to ask whether the young man he drags to dinner is already taken. Both the mother and the son act with unseemly and selfish haste, and the victim is the innocent sister. If you see Amanda as a proto-feminist heroine, as I suspect Lange and Leveaux wanted to see her, the play can't go anywhere, because there is nothing admirable about the results her "strength" produces.
The casting of the female lead has an unfortunate parallel in another choice Leveaux has made, that of the movie actor Christian Slater as the sensitive and tormented Tom—the role so closely modeled on the playwright himself. Tom, like Amanda, is a character of extremes, but they do not preclude considerable subtlety and delicacy. He is a dreamy poet who drinks hard and stays out late at night doing things Amanda can't bring herself to imagine; a gentle would-be artist who, presumably in order to set himself free, ends up abandoning the two women after the plan to find a gentleman caller for Laura fails so miserably—largely because of his thoughtlessness.
As with Amanda—as with so much else in Williams—the interest lies in the delicately established juxtapo-sitions, in the tensions between extremes—in Tom's case, his gentleness and cruelty, his adoration of Laura and his self-protective egoism. Christian Slater, an actor you rightly tend to associate with wisecracking street toughs, is not someone who conveys gentleness or sensitivity very well: strutting around the set in a leather jacket, he doesn't seem much of a poet, either. What gives Tom three dimensions on stage—what makes his decision to abandon his mother and sister so brutal—is that he is not, in fact, insensitive: he is delicate enough to know what his leaving them will mean, and he does it anyway. Without this sensitivity, he's just a brute, in which case it's not clear why he acts so guilt-ridden in the play's famous epilogue—a short anguished monologue in which a tormented Tom cries out the name of the sister he has abandoned. It's a speech that should devastate you precisely because Tom—like, you are forced to realize, his mother before him—is a delicate soul, who has been hardened by life, has been forced to be cruel by circumstances. That's the tragedy of the play, and it's one this Menagerie cannot convey.
The lack of delicacy of Leveaux's conception of the play extends, disastrously, to the direction of the play's other characters—Amanda's lame daughter, Laura, and Jim O'Connor, the former high school star on whom Laura once had a secret crush, who, she and we realize with horror, is the well-meaning gentleman caller whom Tom drags back for dinner from the shoe factory one fateful night. The two roles are, structurally speaking, brilliantly conceived: the typically Williamsesque conflict that makes Amanda so fascinating, both repellent and pathetic at once—the conflict, that is, between hardened optimism and pathetic incompetence—is externalized, ingeniously, in the disastrous confrontation between Jim and Laura. Yet these are precisely the qualities that fail to come across in Leveaux's production, with the result that the heartbreaking climactic scene, in which Jim's well-meaning attentions to the delicate young woman smash her and her family's illusions forever, becomes pointless.
Of the two performances, that of Sarah Paulson, a fresh-faced and clear young actress, is the more forgivable—you can see what she was up to. Because we know a lot about Williams's life, and in particular because the madness and subsequent lobotomy of his sister, Rose, on whom Laura was to some extent based, are well-known facts of the writer's biography, Laura tends to be presented as a wispy victim—a kind of St. Louis Ophelia. But what makes the character interesting—what gives her the complexity that Amanda, too, ought to have—is that, alone of the Wingfields, Laura is the only realist, the only one who tells the truth. She can admit that she's "crippled," a truth plain to see and which Amanda cannot, until the bitter end, bring herself to acknowledge, and which she covers with the kind of self-deceiving fripperies so beloved of Williams's heroines. ("Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect—hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it—develop charm—and vivacity—and—charm!")
Laura is, I'd argue, also the only character who deals with the realities of life by resort to a beauty that is real: art. She not only collects her lovely figurines, which give her great pleasure, but (as we learn) spends her idle time at the art museum, the zoo, the "Jewel-box, that big glass house where they raise the tropical flowers." (Her mother and brother, by contrast, withdraw into drink and delusional fantasies about themselves.) It is precisely because Laura is the sanest of the Wingfields, the one whose interest in beauty is neither morbid nor nostal-gic, that the spectacle of her allowing herself to become hopeful about Jim O'Connor is so unbearable.
Still, there's no question that Laura is a victim, and here something is lacking in Paulson's performance. You never feel genuine pathos—you never feel that this Laura is, as she is surely meant to be, ultimately as fragile as her glass animals. The lack of vulnerability in this Laura makes nonsense of the play's principal preoccupation, what Williams always said he thought was the one inexcusable thing: deliberate cruelty by one person to another. (His own guilt about his treatment of his sister, at one point or another, haunts many of his plays.)
Much of the poignancy of the play, its great emotional subtlety, is that the cruelty of which Laura is the victim comes not from the stranger, Jim, but from those who profess to be protecting her—Amanda and Tom. This point is utterly lost because of the misguided performance of Josh Lucas as Jim O'Connor. Lucas, a young actor with toothpaste-commercial good looks, plays O'Connor as a slightly oily slickster who, it's obvious from the moment he swaggers onto the stage, will have no trouble penetrating poor Laura's defenses. This obtuse interpretation misses the point of Jim: he's a heartbreaker not because he's seamy, but because he's simply normal—"an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from," as Tom tellingly puts it in his prologue speech.
The sudden, mystifying flare-up of feelings which Jim didn't even suspect he could have for someone like Laura, and which culminates in an unexpected kiss that is, so typically of Williams, a moment of utter happiness that is also a moment of destruction, is moving precisely because it's genuine, not put on. That Jim then pulls back and declares that he is, in fact, engaged to another girl is not a malicious act but an acknowledgment of confusion, all too human: that's why it's so devastating. The Glass Menagerie can't mean a great deal if Laura is a victim of Jim's narcissism: the far more dreadful reality, which gives the play its characteristic twisted pathos, is that she—and, to some extent, Jim himself—is a victim of her mother and brother, pawns of their selfish fantasies. That terrible truth is crushed if you play the scene as an encounter between a crippled girl and a manipulative suitor—a cliché that fails to arouse any feelings at all.
But then, the night I saw this performance I wondered which emotions could be at stake in a Glass Menagerie stripped of the nuances of character and sensibility that give the play, give each character, a deep pathos; I wondered what genre the spectacle of a gorgeous, competent mother, her tough, streetwise son, and a smug young hunk ganging up on a feisty crippled girl belongs to. Reality TV, perhaps—those spectacles in which public humiliation has become a source of amusement. And indeed, the night I saw the play, I was startled to hear people chuckling throughout that most awkward and shame-filled encounter between Jim and Laura; when Jim admits so devastatingly that he is already engaged—when he acknowledges that he's just being nice to Laura—the man next to me laughed out loud.
As the audience at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre—the theater where Williams's Streetcar had its New York première in 1948—leapt to its feet for the by now ritual standing ovation at the conclusion of this meaningless production of a play that is, more than almost any other in the Williams canon, about the destruction of beauty and the inevitability of failure, I wondered whether the delicate emotions of such a play are beyond current audiences—whether great drama's demand that we identify with the helpless victims, and with the strident suffering made visible to us on stage, makes us so uncomfortable that it can only be played for laughs. As I got up to leave, a teenaged girl sitting behind me turned to her parents and said, "But I thought this was supposed to be sad." So did I. The only heartbreak in the theater that night was that there was no heartbreak at all.
—This is the first of two articles on recent productions of Tennessee Williams's plays.
She Was from Seattle June 23, 2005


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