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I stripped the wallpaper off our plaster walls in the living room and dining room a few years ago and fixed the ceilings in both rooms. What was left was a nice light surface but had some darker areas. I primed them before painting just to be sure it covered the dark areas and because I was afraid I didn't get all the glue off from the wallpaper. I had no problems painting those rooms.
Fast forward to last week.
This kitchen is like the devil. It's evil. It's HOT! It is very small and has 4 doors with a bunch of decorative crowns on top, a full wall of hoosier-like cupboards with the crowns on them and 2 large windows with crowns. I decided against taping the woodwork because it would take days (exaggeration) going around all that molding. Old plaster ceilings don't have perfectly straight edges and previous taping was a waste of time and it always bled under or stuck and took the finish off the woodwork. And even when it didn't, the lines didn't look straight. Now I know why the old houses have crown moldings, to hide the uneven seams between plaster ceilings and walls. Our kitchen doesn't have them. Crowns on everything else in the kitchen, though. And I can't even reach the ceiling where the counters are because the ladder doesn't get my short arms close enough. Good thing for husbands with long arms.
We are on day, what is it now? Day 5 ? and we still aren't done. Our tiny little kitchen doesn't have room to walk with the refrigerator and stove moved out so a ladder could fit near the wall. We are so tired of scooting sideways to get by anything. We can't find anything. We put plastic down on the floor and I trip on it, we drip paint and I step in it. There is no room to work. Elbow to elbow, "excuse me", "excuse me!" There is no air conditioning downstairs and the temperature near the ceiling has to be close to 90 or higher. It's easy to get cranky when it's so hot and you can't move. I've been working on the dining room floor and the kitchen stairs during the day and when my husband comes home we work painting until we can't do it anymore. The other rooms were a pleasure, this certainly is not.
Yellow must be a color that doesn't cover other colors very well. We paint and paint and the green still shows through. The paint can says one-coat coverage. LIAR!! We bought extra to give it 2 coats just in case. Two coats still doesn't completely cover the green underneath. I always thought the kitchen's old green was a very light shade but against the light yellow it looks like a darker dull olive.
I went to the store today to get some kind of edger (and another gallon of paint) because we were having such a time up against the woodwork. I was looking for miracles. I saw one that looked like it really would work, I was sure of it. I bought two so if it worked, we could both be cutting in at the same time. We tried one of the edgers to see how it worked before we opened the other one, that way we could return the unused one if it was junk. It was junk. My husband told me before he doesn't like "gimmicks" and it certainly turned out to be just another gimmick and just made a mess and dripped paint on everything. So besides paint, I had egg on my face because I wasted $15 but I can return the other one. He did not rub it in and he could have. I also bought a rather expensive cut-in brush as a back up. I figured I could return it if the edgers worked good, if they didn't I would use the brush. I ended up using the brush and it worked much better than anything else. I guess you can't beat the old standards.
Soooo…what we should have done in hindsight is buy and apply tinted primer and then paint. It would not have helped the temperature and sweating and it would not have helped doing miles of cutting in around the wood work but it probably would have made a more even color which we'll get, eventually. At least we got the one wall done (woohoo!!) and were able to put the appliances back against the wall tonight. Now there will be room for two ladders.
I must have used a full tank of hot water each night washing out all the trays and rollers and brushes. It also take about 1/2 hour to clean everything. No more. Tomorrow I'm lining the roller pan with one of my recycle bags. When we are done, we'll pour the extra back in the can and just throw the plastic away instead of washing the pan and having paint going down the sink into the water supply. I'm throwing the roller away, too. I'll scrape off the excess paint, let it dry and stick it in a plastic grocery bag. They should be dried by garbage night. Good riddance. They aren't that expensive.
It blows my mind that this one room is so hard.


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MARTIN, Tenn. – Scoring has not been a problem for the University of Tennessee at Martin women's basketball team as of late, tallying triple digits for the third consecutive game, picking up the 103-84 victory over defending Ohio Valley Conference champion Eastern Illinois.
The Skyhawks (16-6, 9-0 OVC) remained undefeated in conference play with their ninth consecutive win. During the stretch, the Skyhawks have tallied four 100-plus scoring outputs including three games in a row. With five triple-digit victories on the year, the Skyhawks become the first team in program history to accomplish the feat in a single season.
For the fifth time this season the Skyhawk defense made a stand by forcing 20 turnovers or more. Despite winning the turnover battle, Eastern Illinois shot an impressive 60 percent from the floor, including a 70 percent second half to keep the margin within reach.
Offensively, the Skyhawks shot 58 percent from the floor as four players reached double figures. Senior Heather Butler led the way with a game high 28 points and career best nine assist performance. Freshman Ashia Jones tossed in a career best 27 points while registering three steals on the defensive end. A career high 15 points by Katie Schubert compounded with 13 points, seven assists and six steals from Jasmine Newsome rounded out the Skyhawks.
"I was impressed with how we started the game, jumping out to a quick advantage and seemed to click on all cylinders," said UT Martin coach Kevin McMillan. "I thought that we began to give them glimpses of hope and we could not put them away effectively. We're looking through the lenses of being a great basketball team, and tonight I thought we were just a good team. We can be a great team, but we are trying to get past settling with good."
Eastern Illinois (8-12, 3-6 OVC) garnered career nights from a pair of players as Katlyn Payne and Arnisha Thomas set new personal bests. Payne led the Panthers with 26 points, making 7-of-16 three-pointers. Thomas tossed in 16 points, scoring all of her points in the opening half. Junior Sabina Oroszova finished with 22 points and seven rebounds to cap the Panthers.
Jones got the game started by forcing a quick turnover before capping the sequence with a three-point play at the other end of the floor. The Skyhawks would nail back-to-back threes off the hands of Schubert and Butler, causing the Panthers to call a timeout less than two minutes into the game. Forcing three quick turnovers while shooting over 67 percent from the floor would give the Skyhawks the 16-9 lead at the first media.
The Skyhawks would push their lead out to 21-12 at the next media after outscoring the Panthers 5-3. Schubert knocked down her second three-pointer of the game before Tiara Caldwell finished a drive with a turnaround layup.
The tandem of Jones and Butler continued to pace the Skyhawks, combining for 10 of the team's 13 points during the ensuing four minute span. With six points during the span, Jones continued her double figures streak to seven games as the Skyhawks led 34-17.
The Skyhawks would continue their defensive effort, forcing their 12th turnover right before the 3:55 media mark. Outscoring the Panthers 10-6, the Skyhawks would push their lead 21 with a 44-23 advantage.
The Panthers would look to close the gap in the final minutes of the first half, putting together a 12-7 run. At the halftime break, the Skyhawks would lead 51-35 as both Jones and Butler with in double figures with 13 and 12 points, respectively. The Panthers were led by Thomas who tallied 16 first half points, exceeding her career high in the first period.
The second half began much like the first as Butler knocked down a quick field goal before setting up Schubert for a three-pointer following a steal in the backcourt. The duo of Butler and Jones teamed up again to score five points each as the Skyhawks outscored the Panthers 13-7 in the opening minutes of the second.
A pair of Panthers joined Thomas in double figures as Payne added six points off a pair of three-pointers and Oroszova tallied four points. With the Panthers 13-9 run, EIU trimmed the Skyhawk lead to 73-55 with 11:21 to play in the second.
The Panthers continued to cut the margin by knocking down a trio of three-pointers, including a pair of Payne. Outscoring the Skyhawk 11-7, EIU brought the game within 14, trailing 80-66 with less than eight minutes to play.
The Skyhawks would respond with a 15-9 run over the next four minutes of play. With four players in double figures for the Skyhawks, the home team held a 95-75 advantage with just under four minutes to play.
In the closing minutes the Skyhawks would reach triple digits for the third consecutive game. The Skyhawks are the first team in program history to score 100-plus on four occasions in a single season. With the final score of 103-84, the Skyhawks remain undefeated in conference play.
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kylito Posts: 17Anybody out there have problems with a 2000 300M such as the following: When the car is cold the temperature control center makes a motor noise when the car is off, when the brake pedal is released there is a clanging noise from the brake booster, loud noise under the hood after getting the serpentine belt was changed, and when the accelerator is backed off the RPM's fluctuate. please respond
bigmike5 Posts: 960The small motor noise you can hear when the engine is turned off is a fan motor behind the dash that is supposed to bring air across the sensors on the A/C /vent system. It is totally normal [although initially it can be disconcerting to hear this little motor running, but it is not a problem.
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naatz1 Posts: 188Thanks for this tip on the HVAC area noise!! My wife usually drives the car but I have noticed it on quiet nights when I went out to put something in the car.
I have noticed this noise since we picked up our new 300M 7 months ago...it seemed to quit when I turned the fan control off on off (but may be in my head, it's real quiet). Since I never mentioned it to the dealer, I didn't "count" it as even thinking it was something wrong under warranty and now it appears to just be normal. No warranty problems after 7000 miles either, let's hope that keeps up (my Jeep Gr Cherokee did not either but then a rash of bugs from 20-35,000 miles so we bought the 70k extended warranty only to use it once with 58k on that vehicle). -
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bigmike5 Posts: 960See previous messages about starting problem. Mine would hesitate when I turned the key and then after several times it would turnover and start. It was not churning and failing to catch, it would just not do anything until the 2nd or 3rd turn of the key. As it started to get more frequent I first ditched the 4.5 year old battery, then shifted to the ignition relay and starter switch. One of the latter was the problem. I changed em both since the relay was so cheap[$10]. See above for part numbers.
tayl0rd Posts: 1,938Has anyone tried to insulate their Ms from rattles? My '02 Special rattles from the rear deck and possibly the interior door panels over really rough roads. It's not constant rattling, mind you. It happens when I hit substantial road imperfections.
I'm also having an annoying squeak from the sunroof. I'm positive that it is the seal drying out. Anyone had to have the seal changed? -
seeburg222 Posts: 242 years ago I was getting squeaks around the doors on my 2000 M. I put Armor All on the black door gaskets and carefully sprayed CRC 556 (similar to WD40) around the edge of the door trim panels where they meet the painted metal part of the door so that it penetrates under the trim panel where it rubs on the paint. Then wipe off the excess that dribbles down. It really quieted things down and is still quiet today. Try the Armor All on the sunroof seal too.
intrepidspirit Posts: 662A clicking noise usually indicates a run down battery, especially in cold weather. Where are you located? Did you replace your battery with a new one or a used one? Did it turn over at all with the replacement battery or did it beginning clicking immediately?
Will it start with a boost? If not, it may need mechanical attention --could be the starter motor.
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eric22054 Posts: 2I replaced the battery. I then tried to start the car and it was making a clicking noise. I then jumped the car and it started. I left it started for about 20 minutes and all of a sudden it shut off. I tried to start it and no power at all. I think it is the altenator, but what dou you think?
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intrepidspirit Posts: 662Believe me, I am not an expert on these matters...
I think a new replacement battery should have started your car in the first place. However, in my experience, a weak battery will gain power if the car is left running and the alternator is working. A bad alternator will drain the battery and the car will stop running.
I would guess it to be a bad alternator (or whatever they call them these days), but I would have thought you would have gotten a dash light if it wasn't charging properly.
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bigmike5 Posts: 960Change the ignition relay [$10] and then go to the starter switch. [$36 + Labor=$110]. If those fail, and the battery is not a bad one off the shelf, consider the alternator, but do that as a last resort. I don't know if there is a solenoid in there somewhere, but in the old days a clicking noise usually meant a bad solenoid. I do know that the relay and starter switch replacement solved a failure to start problem for me.
angel_girl_252 Posts: 1Hey did u ever find out what was wrong with ur car!! I have a 99M and when i turn it on and take off the speedometer dont move, it makes a funny sound, the check engine light is on, and the car turns off every time i stop, ie: at a light, turning corners, stop signs, but not the fwy, so i took it to the dealership and they cant find out whats wrong with it. they said it might be in the wiring or a sensor or something. Can anyone plzzzzzzzzzzzzz. help
tayl0rd Posts: 1,938What has the dealer done?
I suggest having the fuel delivery system checked (filter, injectors), check the air filter, and check the throttle position sensor.
Are you getting any rough vibration before it stalls? If so, I'd also recommend having the transmission checked. Get up to normal speed, put it in Autostick mode, then come to a complete stop to see if it automatically shifts all the way down to first gear. -
mgb564 Posts: 1I have 2004 300M Special. Have experienced same problem at about same mileage (8500 KMS) Took to 5* dealer. They removed complete front cowling, wiper assembly etc. Found poor weld and repaired.
Have not had a relapse and KMS at 18000. This is not a common problem as suggested by dealer. I know a number of 300M Special owners here in Canada and they have not had this problem. Hope this helps -
jchambers Posts: 12001 Chrysler 300M w/ 78,000 miles
Here's the problem; this has shown up mainly since the weather has gotten colder. When cold starting and attempting to back out of a parking space, when the car is placed in reverse the accelerator pedal cannot be depressed. If its put back in Park and the pedal => forced <= down, it will free up and you can return to reverse and drive/back normally. This has happened a few times now. I've searched TSBs and don't find anything similar. Anyone else experience this or know what the problem might be. It will go to the dealer, but would like to be informed. -
tayl0rd Posts: 1,938You've got ice forming in the line that holds the accelerator cable. With the engine off, squirt some WD40 in it from the engine end and work the accelerator several times. Do it after you've driven the car for a little while, but after the engine has cooled down a little bit and before the cable has time to freeze again.
stpost Posts: 4I have a 2000 300M, the shift lever seems to be off a little to the right so that the Autostick downshift move to the left travels very slightly. It works, but I wondered if anyone has experienced anything like this before. Dealer or tire shops haven't mentioned anything out of line during alignments or other checkups.
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I'm in love with the flavors of Fall and try to incorporate them in just about every meal during the season. This salad is light and refreshing yet filling enough for dinner.
1 lb. of shrimp (peeled and de-veined)
salt and pepper
1/4 teaspoon of rosemary (if you have fresh on hand you can use it)
1/2 teaspoon of ground all spice
1 – 2 Bartlett pears
1/2 a cup of crumbled blue cheese
1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds (toast them if they aren't roasted already)
1/4 cup of dried cranberries
your favorite salad greens (I used a mix of baby romaine and Mesclun)
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1 1/2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon of fresh orange juice
1/2 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup of olive oil
3-4 teaspoons of honey
Season your shrimp with salt, pepper, rosemary and all spice. While that is marinating prepare your vinaigrette by whisking together all the ingredients. Thinly slice your pears (they don't have to be fully ripe the grill will caramelize and sweeten them), grill them on a very hot grill till you get nice grill marks. Grill your shrimp till they pink up. Toast your pumpkin seeds in a hot pan for about a minute with salt (if the seeds you purchased are unsalted) In a large salad bowl layer your greens, cranberries, pumpkin seeds and shrimp and about 1/4 of the vinaigrette. Gently toss and add the grilled pears and crumbled blue cheese last and drizzle the remaining vinaigrette.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Genzyme, a Sanofi Company, today congratulated John Zawacki, MD, of UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, the recipient of the 2012 Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award, for his display of extraordinary compassion in caring for patients and families. Sanofi Oncology and Genzyme were the co-sponsors of the award, which was announced Thursday, November 8th, at the 17th Annual Kenneth B. Schwartz Compassionate Healthcare Dinner at the Boston Convention Center.
"As long as you share your feelings and have good intentions, the words will come. It [being a doctor] is not a scripted experience."
Dr. Zawacki is a gastroenterologist who cares for patients with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome. He has also taught and mentored hundreds of medical students, residents and fellows, telling them, "As long as you share your feelings and have good intentions, the words will come. It [being a doctor] is not a scripted experience."
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and their healthcare providers, established the award in 1999 to honor healthcare providers who practice compassionate care, which includes effective communication, emotional support, mutual trust and respect, involving patients and families in healthcare decisions, and treating patients as people.
Debasish Roychowdhury, Head of Sanofi Oncology, and David Meeker, President and CEO of Genzyme, warmly praised Dr. Zawacki and this year's other nominees for embodying Ken Schwartz's deeply held belief that what matters most during an illness is the human connection between patients and their caregivers.
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare (www.theschwartzcenter.org) was founded in 1995 by Ken Schwartz, a Boston healthcare attorney who died of lung cancer at the age of 40 and found that what mattered to him most as a patient was the compassionate care he received from his caregivers. He established the Schwartz Center just days before his death to ensure that all patients and families receive compassionate care.
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The national champion will be crowned at the end of this week. The winner will join a team of four to fly in the world paragliding competition.
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In what appears to be an ongoing offensive against Tennessee Williams, the Roundabout opened a second front last night with its production of "Summer and Smoke."
Hostilities began last winter, you may recall, with their assault on "Night of the Iguana," in which only Cherry Jones was left standing, sort of. Enlisting the services of director David Warren, employing scorched-earth techniques, Roundabout has successfully obliterated the admittedly weaker "Summer and Smoke."
The play starring Mary McDonnell, Harry Hamlin and Roberta Maxwell is set before World War I. The story is quite simple. Alma Winemiller, a minister's daughter, is the embodiment of Victorian repression and gentility. She longs, however, for the handsome boy next door, a doctor with resolutely post-Victorian attitudes toward love and sex. Her background and her delicate disposition make it impossible for her yearning ever to be fulfilled. Alma's frustrated idealism is transformed into a generalized hunger for men. When we last see her, Alma, who is often at pains to remind people her name means Soul, picks up a traveling salesman next to a fountain with a statue of an angel labeled Eternity. For such symbolism not to be embarrassing, the actors must exude poetry. In this production, they range from prosaic to grossly comic. Because many of the actors have done fine work elsewhere, I can only place the blame on the director, whose specialty is stylized comedy. He has directed "Summer and Smoke" as if it were one. The only charitable way to approach this mess is to suppose that Warren, who teaches at Brooklyn College, is "deconstructing" the play. That, at least, would explain why everything thwarts the playwright's intentions. Alma's father, for example, is an Episcopalian minister, which has upper-class connotations. Warren has Ken Jenkins play him as if he were a folksy Baptist. Alma's mother has lost her mind, which ought to be a poignant suggestion of Alma's own possible fate.
Warren has Roberta Maxwell play her as a shrieking fool. Had I not seen Mary McDonnell in "Passion Fish," I would question whether she had any talent. She conveys none of the pain of Alma, none of her fragility, none of her soul. Much of the time she wears a supercilious grin and is so mannered you feel no sympathy for her. Nor does her voice suggest delicacy it is hard and unmusical. Harry Hamlin plays the difficult role of the doctor without any nuance. A camera might pick up something going on beneath his largely impassive features. But I couldn't. The best performance of the evening is Nathalie Paulding, who plays Alma as a 10-year-old and captures more of her nature in 10 minutes than McDonnell in the succeeding 160. Even the set, which follows Williams' instructions, lacks poetry. The angel, which ought to dominate the play, is, like the production, featureless and graceless.
Fles and the spirit - battling counterparts not exactly unfamiliar in the works of Tennessee Williams - resumed their conflict at the Roundabout Theater last night with its new and modestly persuasive production of "Summer and Smoke."
This early Williams play - it dates from 1948, a year after "A Streetcar Named Desire" and three years after "The Glass Menagerie" - is little more than a slight and clumsy variation on themes taken from these earlier successes.
Alma (her name, we note, is Spanish for "soul," and, if we haven't noted it, the playwright goes to pains to point it out) is a near-repressed near-spinster, a minister's daughter who has had, since childhood, a neurotic obsession with the boy next door, John Buchanan Jr., the son of the local doctor, who eventually follows in his father's footsteps.
The play is set in the southern town of Glorious Hill in the 16 years before World War I. Apart from the occasionally impenetrable accents, there is little particularly Southern about the setting - not a solitary black in the whole town - although the magnolia-frail Alma is herself a typical example of Williams' essential view of fragile but sensitive womanhood below the Mason-Dixon line.
Alma and John are, in part, reworkings of Blanche and Stanley in "Streetcar" - Alma being Blancher in her early days (and later nights), while John, the object of her ambiguous desire, suggests a cross between the coarse Stanley and more compassionate Gentleman Caller of "Glass Menagerie."
It is a minor Williams play and the playwright was never satisfied with it. In fact, in 1965 he produced a total reworking of the script, "The Eccentricites of a Nightingale," which was effectively a new play. The latter version, first produced on Broadway in 1976, is, to my mind, far subtler and markedly superior to "Summer and Smoke," which might now usefully be considered a first draft.
The tragedy of "Summer and Smoke," as the British director Peter Hall once pointed out, "lies in two people missing understanding of one another by a hair's breadth."
For while John - in his own father's words "a waster, a drunkard, a lecher" - supports the needs of the flesh and brain, Alma is drawn to the spirit, and when their roles effectively reverse, it is all too late for them to reach the compromise they needed.
The play is full of obvious symbols (even a stone angel to dominate the scene), and some of the writing now seems too florid. No wonder Williams rewrote it, taking particular care with a freshly envisaged hero.
The Roundabout revival, staged fluidly by David Warren with exceptionally and attractively adaptable settings by Derek McLane, is dominated, as it should be, by Mary McDonnell's Alma.
This is a lovely, febrile performance, choking with lost hopes, yet still radiant with Williams' life force. McDonnell could, however, go a little easier on her body language, which, abetted by the director, seems a dialect of silent melodrama.
Harry Hamlin appears bluff and brutal enough, but fails to convince in his conversion to respectability - but the playwright is here admittedly less than helpful.
Among the other roles, Roberta Maxwell proves outstanding as Alma's dotty but not entirely unperceptive mother who provides the play's object lesson as to Alma's own possible future.
When McDonnell realizes that less could be more, her performance itself will make a Roundabout visit beautifully memorable. But it might have been altogether a better idea to have framed McDonnell in a revived "Eccentricities." Sometimes a playwright's second thoughts are best.
''The pieces don't fit!'' exclaims the crazy, exasperated Mrs. Winemiller, the preacher's wife in Tennessee Williams's ''Summer and Smoke.'' She's talking about a jigsaw puzzle or, if you're thinking symbols (and you don't have much choice but to think that way when it comes to ''Summer and Smoke''), about the eternal rift between body and soul.
But if you're in the audience of the new revival of the play at the Roundabout Theater, you may also be excused for thinking that dotty old Mrs. Winemiller has suddenly turned theater critic. The pieces most definitely do not fit in this shrill, oddly boisterous interpretation of a work that, like so many of Williams's emotionally crippled characters, begs only to be treated gently.
This may seem a bizarre objection about a production of a play that, with its neatly structured pairing of its idealistic heroine and animalistic hero in small-town turn-of-the-century Mississippi, has always been accused of being too schematic.
But under the direction of David Warren, ''Summer and Smoke'' does indeed unfold as an awkward clash of elements that goes way beyond its central paradox. A musical sense of tempo is crucial to playing anything by Williams; here, nearly everyone seems to be following a different orchestral baton.
Consider, for example, the actual music meant to set the mood for the production. John Gromada's lovely piano-based score is plaintive, understated and elegiac, conforming to the traditional reading of the play as a sort of tone poem. The acting, on the other hand, is most often either manic and overwrought or flat and mechanical. Humorous passages stand out like one-liners, and lines that should probably be murmured are screamed.
Add to this the fact that the star performances -- by Mary McDonnell as Alma Winemiller, a repressed, genteel spinster, and Harry Hamlin as John Buchanan Jr., the hedonistic doctor she loves -- are often in direct contradiction of Williams's own descriptions of them. And while their characters may be polar opposites, these actors only seldom suggest the hope of connection that gives the play its pathos.
Even Derek McLane's set is self-defeating, with its ethereal background of cloud-flecked blue sky undermined by clunky, outsize images of the spirit and the flesh (an image of the Virgin Mary is on one side of the stage, an immense anatomy chart on the other).
''Summer and Smoke'' has never been all that easy to make fly. It was widely dismissed when it opened on Broadway in 1948, on the heels of the spectacular success of ''A Streetcar Named Desire.'' (Howard Barnes, writing in The New York Herald Tribune, described it as ''a pretentious and amateurish bore.'') It wasn't until the legendary Circle in the Square revival in 1952, with the brilliant young Geraldine Page as Alma Winemiller, that the work was considered a worthy addition to the Williams canon.
By the time Page recorded her performance for film in 1961, it had started to feel a bit tired (the whole character seems built around her collarbone, over which her restless fingers rove). But it still provides firm evidence of why Williams so loved the vulnerable, gallant and touchingly affected Miss Alma. (He always said she was the character closest to himself; like him, he told Playboy magazine, she was a late bloomer sexually.)
Indeed, his descriptions of her in the play's text exude a courtly sense of protectiveness: ''In Alma's voice and manner there is a delicacy and elegance,'' he writes, adding: ''Her gestures and mannerisms are a bit exaggerated but in a graceful way. . . . the characterization must never be stressed to the point of making her at all ludicrous.''
Would that Ms. McDonnell had followed these instructions more closely. She can be a smart, intuitive performer and is remarkable in her ability to register shades of emotion in her smile. She uses it to project the brittle social armor of a Hillary Rodham Clinton-like First Lady in the hit movie ''Independence Day.'' And here it becomes the affectingly apologetic screen for both Alma's innate shyness and eagerness to be loved.
But Ms. McDonnell doesn't stop short of exaggeration, either. Miss Alma's laughter here has the whooping, uncontained quality of someone who's just been goosed, and her hand gestures are so busy and expansive she might be rehearsing the macarena.
The character's glacial, repressive dignity and genuine if self-deluding piety don't seem to exist. This Alma is already in an advanced state of thaw, wearing her flustered sensuality close to the surface. The affectations seem less organic than poses recently assumed as a means of attracting her man. (On film, Katharine Hepburn used the same desperate eagerness, to more appropriate effect, as the social-climbing heroine of ''Alice Adams.'')
As a consequence, Ms. McDonnell's performance verges dangerously on the old and inelegant comic type of the man-trap-setting spinster. She can be very funny indeed, but often, alas, at her character's expense.
This is especially unfortunate because this actress has obviously invested a lot of emotional energy in the role, and there are moments when Alma's pain pierces through the production like a surgeon's knife. More misguided than miscast, Ms. McDonnell, in her florid intensity, remains the only thing onstage that commands the attention.
It should also be pointed out that she is acting for two here. The handsome, strapping Mr. Hamlin, best known for the television series ''L.A. Law,'' certainly has the looks for the more limited role of the lusty, cynical doctor. But he is astonishingly short on the pulsing (and necessary) physical presence Laurence Harvey gave to the film. He often seems simply to be feeding Ms. McDonnell her cues, like the unseen voice in a screen test.
It's hard to figure out exactly what the talented Mr. Warren, who has brought spark and wit to plays as different as Nicky Silver's ''Pterodactyls'' and Philip Barry's ''Holiday,'' had in mind. He may have been aiming for the sort of exaggerated comic deconstruction used so effectively in the recent production of Williams's ''Kingdom of Earth'' by the Drama Dept., a new troupe to which Mr. Warren belongs. But like Alma herself, ''Summer and Smoke'' is too fragile to be handled brusquely.
Most of the supporting cast, which includes such pros as Roberta Maxwell as Alma's mother, seldom reach beyond two dimensions. Strangely, the performance that comes closest to capturing the wry, heartfelt wistfulness of the play is given by a very young actress named Nathalie Paulding.
Ms. Paulding plays Alma as a little girl in a prologue that always seemed ungainly and expendable. (Williams wisely dropped it when he rewrote ''Summer and Smoke'' under the title ''Eccentricities of a Nightingale.'') Here, however, Alma's childhood self has a breathlessly naive, earnest idealism that seems an ideal prelude for the heartbreak to come. For more reasons than one, you're sorry she has to grow up.
The early scenes of the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" instill about as much confidence as the nervous cat in the title of that other Williams play. The set seems to be on loan from other recent productions (suspended angel fountain from "Angels in America," doll houses courtesy of "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Carousel"), the child actors are even stagier than usual, and the leading man projects little of the rakish charm demanded by his role.
But as Mary McDonnell glides into her role as one of the playwright's wilted magnolias, any initial flaws in David Warren's production fade as surely as any of Williams' Southern belles. As Alma Winemiller, the sexually repressed spinster hopelessly in love with the hedonistic son of the town doctor, McDonnell rises above her own good looks (she's hardly the plain Geraldine Page type usually associated with the role) to offer a convincing portrait of loneliness, need and (unlike the character's "Streetcar" counterpart) survival, however compromised. Her performance gives the Roundabout production its center, even while the play calls for a more balanced dance between the spinster and young John Buchanan Jr. (Harry Hamlin).
"Summer and Smoke," although too schematic to rank as one of Williams' masterpieces, nonetheless offers enough of the playwright's poetry to merit this first major New York production in 40 years. Warren has staged the melancholy tale on an open, airy set dominated by two large glass-like panes suspended over either side of the stage one bearing an anatomy chart to represent the doctor's office, the other a steepled rectory that's home to Alma, her minister father and snipishly batty mother. That dichotomy the physical vs. the spiritual is the theme of the play and the basis for its characterization. It should be a fairly evenhanded battle, but this production is so dominated by McDonnell's superior performance that the production spins off-kilter. For starters, Hamlin, his handsome face showing some age, is too old for the role. His John, a medical student given to sensual pleasure, seems less youthful rogue than dissipated cynic.
He simply doesn't convince that he's on summer vacation from med school, and the stiff, brooding performance never meshes or sparks with McDonnell's more nuanced turn. The play opens at the turn of the century, with Alma and John as children (a scene rendered all but incomprehensible by the forced Southern accents of the production's two child actors). The prissy Alma's schoolgirl crush on the headstrong John carries over to adulthood, as the action picks up 16 years later when John returns home for a summer in Glorius Hill, Miss. The two resume their odd, opposites-attract acquaintance, each giving voice to the other's barely submerged desires: He represents her repressed sexual desire, she his longing for something more spiritual, or at least emotional. Their encounters, of course, are ill-fated. Alma invites John to a poetry reading, at which even she's embarrassed by the pathetic lonely-hearts in attendance. He, in turn, takes her to Moon Lake Casino, where cock-fighting and an air of casual debauchery all but crush Alma's faith in John's potential.
The play's turning point occurs when John's decadent life brings tragedy upon his father, prompting the transformation (not entirely convincing) that brings John around to Alma's way of thinking. But Alma, after something akin to a nervous breakdown, awakens to the desire she's long suppressed, just in time to learn that her beloved John has chosen another woman. "Summer and Smoke" ends on a bittersweet note, with Alma taking a tentative step toward connection and finding herself relying, as it were, on the kindness of strangers. Although the acting is rooted in Williams' lyric naturalism, the production has a vaguely impressionistic feeling. Staying fairly close to the playwright's own stage instructions, bits and pieces of furniture establish place, while at times the entire performance space is awash in sky-blue lights and cloud projections, a pretty display that, like the production itself, adds nothing new or essential to the play.
Unlike Gregory Mosher's recent Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," which for better or worse dared toy with the conventional portrayal of Stanley, the current "Summer" takes no such risks. This despite the text's Mexican stereotypes that beg to be re-imagined. With a few exceptions, the supporting cast is solid, with Celia Weston (as a busybody neighbor) and Todd Weeks (in several roles) the standouts. But this "Summer and Smoke" is McDonnell's show, and if the production doesn't rise to her standard, it certainly benefits greatly.


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India-US Nuclear Deal – Historic Or Hollow?
August 9, 2007 by TMO
By Nilofar Suhrawardy, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS)
NEW DELHI – Should the India-United States agreement "concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy," unveiled last week (August 3) be viewed as "historic" or as "an "attack on nuclear sovereignty and foreign policy options" of India?
The agreement based on "understandings" expressed in India-US joint statement of July 18, 2005 "to enable full nuclear energy cooperation with India covering aspects of the associated nuclear fuel cycle," begins with highlighting its need. For "meeting growing global energy demands," the agreement is to "cooperate extensively in full development and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes as a means of achieving energy security, on a stable, reliable and predictable basis." This "cooperation" is to be developed "on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality, mutual benefit, reciprocity and with due respect for each other's nuclear programs." The text highlights the need to "establish the necessary legal framework and basis" for "peaceful uses of nuclear energy." It is affirmed that "cooperation under this agreement" is between two States "possessing advanced nuclear technology, both Parties having the same benefits and advantages, both committed to preventing the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) proliferation."
The agreement affirms the two countries' "support for objectives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its safeguards system, as applicable to India and the United States of America." In addition to referring to "their respective commitments to safety and security of peaceful uses of nuclear energy," "protecting environment," "preventing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," the text states their being "desirous of strengthening the strategic partnership between them."
The 22-page text, divided into 17 articles, states that agreement shall be (article 2) "implemented in a manner so as not to hinder or otherwise interfere with any other activities involving the use of nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment, components, information or technology and military nuclear facilities produced, acquired or developed by them independent of this agreement for their own purposes."
The agreement, according to article 16, shall enter into force from the day two parties "exchange diplomatic notes informing each other that they have completed all applicable requirements for its entry into force." In addition to 40-year period, the agreement is extendable by 10 years. The conditions to be met before this agreement becomes operational include its approval by United States Congress, International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Suppliers Group. The US, according to article 5, "is committed to seeking agreement from US Congress to amend its domestic laws and to work with friends and allies to adjust practices of Nuclear Suppliers Group to create necessary conditions for India to obtain full access to international fuel market."
The agreement can terminate earlier with a written notice of a year, which can also be withdrawn before the year is over, according to article 14. Prior to terminating it, the two countries "shall consider relevant circumstances and promptly hold consultations" to "address reasons cited by party (country) seeking termination." If cooperation ceases, "either party shall have the right to require the return by the other party of any nuclear material, equipment, non-nuclear material or components transferred under this agreement and any special fissionable material produced through their use."
"The two parties recognize that exercising the right of return would have profound implications for their relations," according to article 14. It cannot be missed that continuance of the deal, in keeping with the agreement's text, refers to development of a "strategic partnership" between the India and US. Discontinuance of the same, as suggested by this article, would have "profound" (apparently negative) impact on their ties. In other words, once the deal becomes operational, if India or US were ever to turn their backs to it, it would also signal a major change in their diplomatic attitude towards each other. Unless India wishes to risk its friendship with US, once the deal comes through, it would apparently have little choice but to adhere strictly to the very text of the agreement.
While the Congress, the party heading the United Progressive Alliance ruling combine, has welcomed the nuclear deal, describing it as a "historic agreement," the leading opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rejected it. In the national and public interest, "India has extracted the best possible deal," Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said. A day later (August 4), BJP described the agreement as an "attack" on India's "nuclear sovereignty and foreign policy options." Demanding setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to examine the deal, the BJP asked the government to suspend all further action on it till JPC submits its report and secures approval of the Parliament. The BJP also demanded "appropriate amendments" to the Constitution and laws to ensure ratification by the Parliament of all agreements which affect country's sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security.
Expressing that these were preliminary comments, senior BJP leaders, Yashwant Singh and Arun Shourie said that party would study the agreement in detail. Though the agreement does not mention nuclear testing, it refers to application of national law, which include the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, provisions of the Hyde Act and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Singh said. "All these, along with intrusive provisions of the Hyde Act are bound to have a stultifying effect on our strategic nuclear program," Singh pointed out.
Dismissing the BJP comments as "hypocrisy of the worst kind," Congress spokesman Singhvi said: "It is irresponsible to say so. We know that the BJP was desperate to have an agreement half as good as this. It also shows they are unconcerned about national interests."
Reserving their comments, Left bloc leaders said that they would hold another round of discussions with government after studying the agreement. "The text has just been released. We will say not anything before studying it thoroughly," Prakash Karat (General Secretary, Communist Party of India-Marxist) said.
"It is a profound subject. We will analyze the text and come out with a considered response in a couple of days," said D. Raja national secretary of India's Communist Party.
Describing the agreement as "hollow," former Prime Minister V.P. Singh rejected it as a "charter for dependence on the US" (August 5). Rather than go for the deal, he said: "We can instead import coal which can be done without any conditionalities and set up thermal power plants along the coastline."
While most atomic scientists have welcomed it as a "balanced document," M.R. Srinivasan, former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, is not fully satisfied. "As part of Full Nuclear cooperation, we expected enrichment technology, reprocessing and heavy water technology would also be part of the 123 agreement and which was possible but in draft it is mentioned that it would be only part of the future agreement," he said. "This is less than what we expected, but I think we have to live with it."
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court declined to entertain a petition (August 3) seeking directions to government to place all details of Indo-US nuclear deal before Parliament for approval and to declare joint Indo-US statement on nuclear deal as null and void, if not approved by Parliament. Describing it as a serious issue, the bench observed: "Courts cannot direct Parliament either to discuss a treaty or have it placed before Parliament. It is for constitutional authorities like Prime Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker to decide."
Against this backdrop, the month-long monsoon session of the Parliament, beginning on August 10, is expected to be stormy with opposition members voicing their stand against the deal!


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Artist – Rob Tornoe of Media Matters
In other news, the Chicago City Council voted to decriminalize small amounts of pot today.
Tomorrow — the GOP hold their phony vote of contempt for Eric Holder and the Supreme Court will rule on the Affordable Care Act. Hold on to your butts.


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Well, this certainly sets a new standard.
Fantastic job. Loved the attention to detail, composition, the hand held touch, and the score as well.
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11-12-2007 01:07 PM"Create like a God, Command like a King, Work like a Slave." - Constantin Brancusi
This film exceeded my expectations in every respect. In production, I think we were all thinking of LMTF as being the true showpiece of the two -- and in terms of art direction, it probably is -- but as the whole package, Unawakening ended up blowing me away. The acting, camera work, directing, makeup, everything, including the found locations, all conspired to make a pretty kick-ass whole.
Yeah, I was worried we'd get arrested when shooting the phone booth scene, with passersby screaming at us about the lights; I was paranoid that we'd damage the model home in some irreparable way, and that the sound of the gun would have cops all over us; I had all the producer's conniption fits that come with the territory, but hey . . . the results are fantastic.
Very pleased with how this came out. And it's not even done yet.
Great job on this guys! Really enjoyable.
David, you mentioned "the sound of the gun". I take it you guys used blanks. How did you manage that situation? (Demolitions guy or just plain being careful?)
I'm very interested in blanks rather than post effects since i like an authentic recoil, muzzle flash, casing ejection, etc. Please do tell.
It was by no means a functional gun. It was, for all intents and purposes, a starter pistol made to look like a real semi-auto. The barrel was filled in with solid lead. It fired 8mm starter blanks, so you couldn't even fit live ammo into it if you wanted to.
Even so, we treated it, as you always should, as a live weapon. It was loaded only when it needed to be fired for the take.
The lead actor, Shaun, also produces a local web series called "Port City P.D.", and he's the prop master for it, so he handled the gun at all times.
very well done. The use of focus and zoom really complimented the leads state of mind. Technically pro in all aspects: writing, editing, acting, lighting. "Norman" was a nod to Hitchcock? I would love to see how you lit the outside shots if you have any BTS?
This film ironically would be well suited for Lovefest as well.
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11-12-2007 03:15 PMWhile we are all justifiably proud of LMTF, I have to say that this is the one that I was looking forward to even more. Jack and I went through the script over and over, trying to make sure that we got what we wanted out of it. Mac did a fantastic job with the cinematography, and we had an even smaller crew for this one. We moved fast, we shot tons, and it really turned out well. The cinematography and art direction aren't as polished as LMTF, of course, but for the time we had and the type of film we were doing, I'm delighted with how this turned out.
Especially that eyeball shot, Jack's compositing wizardry is just awesome.
Glad you guys are liking it, and I'm looking forward to seeing the final version!
I really enjoyed this film.
Amazing that you were able to shoot it all so quickly. I love MacGregor's cinematography and I thought the edit was tight.
Very well done.
You can definately tell the style was different from "A Little Mouth To Feed." It's amazing how much you guys were able to do in such a short amount of time, but that's independent filmmaking to the max. We'd all love to have more time, but when you have quality people around you that know what they're doing you don't always need as much time as you think.
I loved the lighting in the background when the guy was burrying the body. I assume that was that the work of a fog machine and gels, but how many lights did it take to light that area?


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