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Where Did The Left Go Wrong?
The Article: Has the left blown its big chance of success? by Andy Beckett in the Guardian.
The Text: Surprisingly, perhaps, the mood at Marxism 2009 was animated rather than feverish. Photograph: Frank Baron
It is a rare sunny summer morning and I am on the bus from Stoke Newington to Bloomsbury in central London. In these old, slightly earnest parts of the capital, leftwing politics runs deep: from Karl Marx writing in the British Library to communes in the 70s to today's dogged socialist flyposters. This morning's bus ride does not disappoint. Seated in front of me, en route to Marxism 2009, the pre-eminent British gathering of the international radical left, are a clean-cut man and woman in their early 20s. He is wearing a crisp new T-shirt that reads "Revolución Bolivarana". She has a large rucksack. They are speaking German, but the word "socialism" recurs.
The papers today are full of the recession as usual. On the Today programme, David Cameron has been talking about emergency cuts in government spending, and a union leader has been fiercely defending the wages of public sector workers. It could almost be the heady days of the mid-70s, when capitalism seemed to struggle for breath and all political bets appeared to be off.
At Euston station, the couple get off the bus. I follow them, past the looming tower of Network Rail headquarters – once the chaotic private-sector Railtrack, until it was nationalised – and into the complex of meeting rooms hosting Marxism 2009. But the atmosphere inside comes as something of a shock. It is the final, supposedly climactic day of the conference. The speakers are reasonably intriguing and diverse – the radical playwright David Edgar, the dissident Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, the rising young union boss Mark Serwotka. And yet, Marxism 2009 feels little different from most such leftwing summits in Britain over the last quarter century. The corridors are animated rather than feverish. Attendees greet each other as old friends and comrades rather than eager new converts. The pavement outside has moderately busy stalls for the usual causes: opposition to Israeli land occupations, opposition to the British National Party.
At one table, a weatherbeaten man sits alone selling DVDs of "activist news" and collecting names and addresses. The sky above turns overcast, then steadily darkens. It starts to pour, but he does not move. As the rain soaks his hair and jacket, he sits still and erect, impressively defiant but a bit absurd. The ink on his list of names starts to run.
The last year should have been a happy one for the left. The great global lab experiment in unfettered finance capitalism has blown up. Bankers have become pariahs. Taxes on the rich have gone up. The pages of the financial press have had a frequent air of panic. New Labour has fallen out of love with the free market. Above all, the rightwing economic and political ideas first popularised by Margaret Thatcher in the 70s have, finally, lost their air of impregnability.
"These are the best circumstances to make the left case we've known for an awful long time," says Neal Lawson, head of the leftwing pressure group Compass, "since way back before 1979, since back to the 30s." Geoff Mulgan, the former Labour strategist and a longtime observer of the left, agrees: "This is a moment that should be incredibly propitious for the left. Capitalism is collapsing. You don't get more propitious than that."
There is also the widening recognition that free-market countries have deep social as well as economic problems. Earlier this year Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, at the time almost unknown outside academia, published The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. Its findings about the failings of the most fiercely capitalist countries, such as Britain and the US, in everything from obesity to violent crime to mental health, received overwhelming acclaim in both the rightwing and liberal press. Wilkinson says he is now "absolutely deluged with invitations to speak: to religious groups, to civil servants, to government". In academia he senses an intellectual tide running leftwards: "In a lot of different subjects there's a move towards a fundamental recognition of how social people are. In neurology, epidemiology, social psychology, child development, there's lots of evidence that humans do better if they're collaborative."
And yet, in Britain and most comparable countries the left is not thriving. Quite the opposite. The Brown government's mild tilt to the left has made it no more popular. At the European elections in June, left-leaning parties, whether in office or opposition, cautious or militant, were trounced across the continent. Votes went instead to mainstream conservative parties or far right and anti- immigration groups. Over the summer the broader political debate, particularly in Britain, has shifted in the same direction: "The crisis of the financial markets has become a crisis of public spending – it's incredible!" says Hilary Wainwright, editor of leftwing magazine Red Pepper. "Public servants are going to be scrutinised down to the last paperclip, while bankers are not going to be scrutinised down to the last million they have received from the government."
Has the left missed its moment? The radical American writer Rebecca Solnit fears so. "It felt like last October [the peak of the banking panic] was the golden moment to put forward an alternative vision," she says. "What's been dismaying is that there has been so little coherent response from the left since." Lawson wonders whether the sheer size of the political opportunity presented by the financial crisis has induced paralysis: "All our Christmases have come at once, but we don't know what to do about it."
At Marxism 2009, the best-attended session of the morning is "Where is the radical left going?". The main speaker is Alex Callinicos, for decades now one of the key theorists in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the tirelessly agitating British fringe party that has organised the conference. In the airless main hall, in front of a stage backdrop reading "Capitalism Isn't Working!", Callinicos, concise and dapper in a black shirt, delivers a strikingly downbeat speech. "The forward march of the radical left in Europe has been halted," he says. "We're in a situation that is in a sense quite problematic . . . It's not a uniform picture of stagnation or retreat. The left bloc in Portugal got 10% of the vote in the European elections . . . But the ruling classes are desperately grabbing bits of Keynesianism. So a left economic policy based on Keynesianism, when Keynesianism has entered the mainstream, isn't very powerful."
This theme – that governments everywhere have borrowed the left's traditional tools for taming capitalism to deal with the financial crisis, thus stealing the left's clothes – is repeated often at the conference. It is met with looks of resignation but also grim satisfaction from the audience. The infinite deviousness of "the ruling classes" and the immense difficulty of the left's task are a given in these halls. In 2004, Solnit published a much-praised book, Hope in the Dark: the Untold History of People Power, challenging the instinctive pessimism of many leftists. "A lot of activists," she wrote, "specialise in disappointment." She adds now: "Despair is a black leather jacket that everyone looks good in. Hope is a frilly pink dress that exposes your knees."
It is quite hard to imagine Jon Cruddas in a frilly pink dress. The prominent leftwing Labour MP for the raw suburb of Dagenham in east London is all shirtsleeves and strong handshakes when we meet in Westminster. But he is one British socialist who still sees the recession as an ongoing political opportunity. Crisis on the left or not, his own trajectory seems upward: elected as an MP in 2001, he won the most first-preference votes in the Labour deputy leadership contest only six years later (Harriet Harman won via second preferences), and is spoken of by some as a potential party leader if Labour, as is quite possible, moves truly leftward after a general election defeat.
"The 15th of September 2008, the day Lehman Brothers went bust, could be the day the world turned," he begins with characteristic confidence. "The whole politics of Blair and Cameron looks like the product of more benign times." Cruddas, unlike some on the left, supported the subsequent bank bail-outs – "you couldn't let the whole system collapse" – and does not think the apparent amelioration of the financial crisis that has followed means a return to economic and political business as usual. "This is the early knockings of this crisis. You've still got trillions of pounds of debt around. The assumption in here" – he nods impatiently towards the House of Commons – "is that we tinker with this economic system, and then go back to 60 consecutive quarters of growth. But out in the country people know different. There is no economic status quo any more. There is a hunger for political ideas. I helped do an e-book on the crisis. Cost £250 to produce, put it on the web, 50,000 copies gone – bang. There is a space for a populist left politics – around [opposition to] ID cards and Trident, around taxes, tax justice – that wasn't there a year ago."
But Cruddas says people wanting this politics to crystallise will have to be patient. Rightwing ideas have been so dominant for so long in western politics and economics that they may only slowly loosen their grip. "This is going to take years. There was a long lag between the Wall Street Crash in '29 and the New Deal [the first effective left-of-centre response to it]." In the meantime, he warns, "There could be a different new form of politics, much more populist, dangerous, fascistic, like the BNP." With only the faintest hint of ostentation, Cruddas, who has a philosophy PhD, quotes part of a famous passage by the Italian Marxist thinker of the 20s and 30s Antonio Gramsci: "The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
To less upbeat observers than Cruddas it is the left that displays "morbid symptoms". Mulgan says: "A lot of the left literature feels like it's just words, just rhetorical. [Groups such as] Compass don't feel like they're part of a real social movement. It's very different from a generation ago."
Until well into the Thatcher era, the left in Britain was a complete and vigorous political world. It had a mass membership through the unions and the Labour party. It had credibility and charismatic figures: even establishment papers such as the Times feared and sometimes respected Tony Benn or the National Union of Mineworkers. And it had potent ideas from the likes of Gramsci and Marx and Keynes. All of these elements have decayed since the 80s; but none so damagingly, especially in the light of the financial crisis, as the left's thinking about the economy.
"The left just gave up on economics," says the economist Paul Ormerod, who retains sympathy for the cause. "Marx and Keynes cast such long shadows. There was too much of the left saying, 'It's all there in the old masters.'" Marx died in 1883 and Keynes in 1946; by the 80s – some would say much earlier – the world economy had changed sufficiently to invalidate some of their ideas. Yet the left was more interested by then, Ormerod argues, in other issues such as race and gender and sexuality. Lawson agrees: "We've had a hollowed-out generation of economic thinkers."
Since the 80s, Ormerod says, rightwing economists "have taken over in treasuries and central banks all over the world". Western universities, too, have become production lines for rightwing economics graduates – and for graduates who do not even consider a complete faith in the free market to be a political position at all. Meanwhile, the left has suffered a broader crisis of confidence: as Lawson puts it, "We've had the intellectual stuffing knocked out of us – the fall of communism, the fall of postwar social democracy."
By the early 21st century, even fresh and successful leftwing books such as Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine or Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri assumed that global capitalism was immensely strong, "in the midst of conquering its final frontiers" in Klein's words. Most of the left, just like most other political schools of thought, did not see the great financial collapse of 2008 coming. Since the recession set in, the left has not been able to play what should have been its electoral trump card: "We told you so."
Solnit considers this picture of universal leftwing retreat too bleak. She sees signs of radicalism in Barack Obama's administration, for example on green issues. She points out that anti-globalisation and left-leaning environmental groups across the west remain energetic and creative, and that some have paid attention to economics. "I do feel like there are a lot of small alternatives out there: community agriculture, people living by barter, people living off the grid. That revolution is slow and incremental. It's been going on since the 60s. That continues." In Hope in the Dark, she criticises those who "expect . . . a punctual reaction" from the left to big political or economic events "and regard the lack of one as a failure". The way politics works, she writes, "is more complicated than cause and effect".
At Marxism 2009 there is the occasional reminder that leftwing politics still has potential. In the conference bookshop, for the most part a well-visited mausoleum of nostalgic volumes – Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain 1972 – there is a brief, more forward-looking pamphlet on sale for £1. Visteon: How Workers Occupied and Won is an SWP account of the factory occupations in Northern Ireland and England this spring at the car component manufacturer Visteon. It is written in the usual overdone party style – "Now we have the template for resistance" – but suggests that the left's response to the global slump may not be completely toothless.
In March, with the motor industry in free-fall, Visteon, a spin-off of Ford, abruptly closed its UK plants and sacked all its workers. Staff reportedly received "six minutes" to clear their lockers, and redundancy terms far inferior to those they had been promised when Ford created the company nine years earlier. Kevin Nolan, a Unite union official at the Visteon factory in Enfield in north London, was one of those fired.
"I've always been a middle-of-the-road working man," he says. "I always voted Labour but I wouldn't say I was too leftwing." Yet the mass sackings radicalised him almost instantly. "I started thinking, we've got to come up with something. This was a corporation which had decided to use the recession to walk away. The initial plan was to ram a car through the main gates. Then we found a gate round the back of the factory open – no one knows the plant better than the worker – and we could just walk in." Once inside, Nolan and between a third and two-thirds of the Enfield workforce (accounts vary) blocked up the entrances to the plant with plastic crates, climbed on to the roof and fire escape, and announced that they would occupy the premises until they were offered satisfactory redundancy terms.
Nolan and many of his colleagues had never been on strike, but they made beds out of cardboard on the chilly shopfloor and dug in. Local people, some with no connection to the plant, brought them food and blankets. Members of the SWP arrived. "I said to them, 'I used to think you were a bunch of nutcases,'" says Nolan. "But they were very, very helpful." The Enfield occupation acquired a revolutionary tinge: "Don't Need Politicians, Don't Need Bosses, Workers Take Control," read one placard prominent in the TV and web coverage.
The Visteon sit-ins led to pickets of Ford dealerships and the threat of walkouts at Ford factories. In May, after less than five weeks' campaigning, the Visteon workers were granted redundancy payments close to what they had originally demanded.
Other British factory occupations have followed, most recently at the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight. But the ability of such well-publicised local episodes to restore a lasting momentum to the left is far from obvious. Over the last 20 years, there have been intermittent waves of leftwing militancy – the huge and vivid anti-globalisation protests of the 90s, for example – while the underlying political assumptions of Britain and similar western countries have continued to move rightwards. The modern left, its internal critics say, has become too fragmented, too utopian and divorced from how most people live. Wainwright asks: "What is the underlying social force that's going to be the basis of the left? In the mid-20th century it was the factory worker and the union member. There are far fewer of them now." Solnit says: "I don't see the networks in which great ideas circulate."
Other people think the left has just run out of ideas. "The feeling is still around that the left doesn't have any solutions," says Wilkinson. "Actually, our society is full of alternative ways of organising things" – he cites the success of the Co-operative Bank, built on ethical investments – "but the left desperately needs a developed ideology . . . an analysis of society." When capitalism had its last great crisis of confidence in the 70s, the British right had a set of remedies and a whole alternative worldview – later called Thatcherism – ready and waiting, decades in the making. Neal Lawson refers provocatively but also enviously to the early Thatcherites' political and intellectual "brilliance".
This time, perhaps the real challenge to the tottering status quo is not from the left at all. "The greens share a lot of the ideas of the left," says Mulgan, "but they are not in coalition with it, they are suspicious of it." Climate change is almost certain to make environmentalism more powerful. "The dominant sectors of the economy in 10 or 20 years' time," Mulgan predicts, will not be banking and property but "environmental services, health, education. This will be good for the left."
Maybe. Yet the left used to aim to change society rather than wait for society to change in its favour. For the bankers, who seemed to be facing near-extinction less than a year ago, the prospect of much more slowly losing their dominance over western economies to Mulgan's caring capitalists may not seem such a bad deal.
At the closing rally of Marxism 2009, with all the seats eagerly taken but the air stale as ever in the main hall, the SWP's national organiser Martin Smith interrupts his speech to read a short poem by the radical American writer Langston Hughes called Dream Deferred. It is an odd but stirring interlude, at least at first. The hall goes completely quiet; the heavyset, middle-aged Smith switches from bare-fisted rhetoric to the ambiguity – half defeatism, half defiance – of Hughes' verse: "What happens to a dream deferred?/. . . Maybe it just sags/Like a heavy load/Or does it explode?" But Smith rushes too quickly through the words and the moment is gone.


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Yes, time really flew so fast. I became so busy here in Singapore. The last post that I had mentioning about my Singapore life was during Mother's day (which I think is not mother's day, nagkamali yata ako). My husband was already here last March, he is struggling with the approval of his pass here in SG that time. Through constant prayers, na-grant ang kanyang pass at nakapagwork sya ng April. When he started working nung April nagplan na kami na dalhin na si baby dito nung May.
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What I will be sharing to you now is a summary of what had happened for the past 4 months. I will share to you next time our struggle when we were looking for a job. I also want to share to you how we survived two months of being alone as a family. I actually have lots of things to share with you. What I think is our purpose here in Singapore. Ciao!


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Out in the UK this week, Will Ferrell and director Brad Silberling are venturing into the
Land Of The Lost
But, like so many recent Hollywood productions, it's an update of a 1970s TV show from across the pond, a kids' adventure series that many of us in Blighty have never seen.
So just what is Land Of The Lost? And how did it go from nostalgic, low-budget telly to summer blockbuster?
Our story begins in the 1950s…
1. Kicking Off With The Kroffts
Land Of The Lost was grown in the brain-garden of Sid and Marty Krofft, a pair of brothers who developed a flair for puppetry at an early age.
It was Sid who first got into making and performing puppet shows, with his father – a clock salesman, not a puppeteer himself, despite their legendary, erroneous biography – joining him on tour around the world.
While they were away, younger brother Marty began to rummage through trunks containing some of the older puppet creations and started to make money putting on his own shows.
In 1958, the pair got a gig working on a show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, opening for Judy Garland, which also went on a successful tour.
Following that, they mixed things up by creating an "adult" puppet show - "Les Poupees de Paris" - at a dinner club in Los Angeles called the Gilded Rafters. Mae West, Richard Nixon and Liberace were in the audience on opening night.
Plenty more work followed, with the Kroffts accepting commissions from fairs, amusement parks and such famous names as Walt Disney. The man behind the Mouse House even gave them some good advice, which is paying off today.
"He told me", Marty recalled to the LA Times, "'The one thing to remember is, don't ever sell anything you create and always put your name above the title, whatever you do. They'll fight you off from doing it, but stick to it...'"
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2. Pufnstuf And Other stuff
In 1969, the brothers scored a contract with US TV network NBC to work on a children's show.
The result was H.R. Pufnstuf, a brightly coloured tale of Jimmy (played by a young Jack Wild, who got the job off the back of his role in musical movie
), a lad who ends up shipwrecked on a magical island ruled by the titular mayor, and threatened by a nasty witch named Witchiepoo.
Given the psychedelic colours and wacky, OTT characters, many people figured the Kroffts were on drugs when they dreamt up the concept and look of the show.
"No drugs involved. You can't do drugs when you're making shows. Maybe after, but not during. We're bizarre, that's all," Marty Krofft has said about their working methods.
"That was our look, those were the colours, everything we did had vivid colours, but there was no acid involved. That shit scared me. I'm no goody two-shoes, but you can't create this stuff stoned."
The show became a hit and the pair would go on to work on more series, including Lidsville (a land of talking, living hats), the Bugaloos and Sigmund And The Sea Monsters.
Then, in 1974, they decided to get a little more serious. Well, as serious as they could get…
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3. "The Greatest Earthquake Ever Known".
For Land Of The Lost, the Kroffts hit on a concept that has fuelled stories from before the show was created right up to the likes of
Jurassic Park
"When I was eleven years old, my dad took me to see
One Million BC
with Victor Mature," remembers Sid.
"It scared the hell out of me, because we'd never, ever seen a Dinosaur moving before. Yeah, in the old
King Kong
or whatever, way back in the '30s, but nothing like
One Million BC
. It made such an impression on me, that every year when we came up with a new show I always thought "Dinosaurs, wow, wouldn't that blow everybody away?
"Especially as kids are so in love with them. And like The Swiss Family Robinson, every single show has a family, or a little boy or a little girl that is lost in a strange world - like
The Wizard Of Oz
. And you just root for them because you love them and you can relate to them and you can't understand why they can't get home."
Land has a basic concept - Park Ranger Rick Marshall and his two kids, Will and Holly, are on a "routine expedition" in a raft when a massive earthquake sends them tumbling over a waterfall and through a portal in time and space to the titular world.
"We were trying to find a habitat that could feature dinosaurs and a family... and those two entities together worked out to be a really good combination," Marty Krofft remembers.
"Great things happen when you have imaginative people aboard, and we had Allan Foshko, who had worked with us on other things, and it was a very collaborative effort. You have a few nightmares and you come up with these wild characters and places."
Of course, given the extremely low budget they had to work with (Marty often jokes that it cost "$1.98 a show"), the series has the air of camp about it, with the actors over-reacting to stop-motion dinosaurs blue-screened in later and plastic props.
But for all the cheese, it became a beloved show in the States and has long since snatched the title "cult classic".
Plus, it attracted some serious talent behind the scenes…
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4. Famous Pen-Wranglers
For what was effectively a kids' show, Land managed to score some hefty talent to write episodes.
Literary SF heavyweights Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon and Ben Bova all contributed episodes, while a number of people who had been involved with Star Trek, including Dorothy "D.C." Fontana, actor-turned writer Walter Koenig and David Gerrold also bashed out scripts.
This might be attributed to the fact that the show was markedly different from the garish colours and weird puppet creatures of other efforts.
It was the Kroffts attempt to break into newer, more epic, and – for them – more reserved territory while still keeping the kiddie appeal.
The three main characters faced danger from the dinosaurs and also from slow-moving, hissing lizard-men creatures known as Sleestaks, who nevertheless lived up to typical bad-guy behaviour by never quite defeating our heroes (or being able to shoot straight with crossbows).
The Marshalls also encountered the Pakuni, a race of ape-like humans, and made friends with Cha-Ka, one of the creatures.
One element that marked the series out was commissioning linguist Victoria Fromkin to create a language for the Pakuni, which she based on the sounds of West African speech and attempted to build into the show in a gradual way that would allow viewers to learn the language over the course of many episodes. Talk about details…
The show went off the air after three seasons in 1976, and lay dormant for a while…
Next: Journey To The '90s
5. Journey To The '90s
In 1991, the Kroffts were approached by ABC, who wanted them to recreate the show with a bigger budget and a lighter tone.
They created the story of the Porter family, who were travelling the wilds of America when their truck falls through one of the show's trademark time portals into the parallel world of Land Of The Lost.
There, the family encounters Sleestaks, Pakuni and sexy cave-girl Christa, a young woman who fell through the portal as a child and grew up alone in the Land.
This new version ran for two seasons, but never quite gained the popularity of the original.
Even back in 1991, the Kroffts were trying to get a deal in place to turn the concept into a movie. But nothing came of it until…
Enter Disney...
6. Enter Disney...
In June 1995, the Walt Disney Company announced that Sid & Marty Krofft Productions had entered into an agreement to produce a theatrical film based on the original 1970s TV show.
Very little detail emerged about the Mouse House's plan for the show, and there was no sign of a script for a long time.
In 1999, Ain't It Cool reported that, "Sid and Marty Krofft have wrestled the
Land Of The Lost
movie rights away from Disney, and have raised finances themselves to make the film, presumably independently, although there's no confirmation of a new studio being involved or if they're shopping it around.
"The Krofft bros. are now working with Adam Rifkin, who co-wrote
Small Soldiers
, on the screenplay, and claim to be in 'active preproduction.'
"They say the film won't be heavy CGI, but rather, a combination of FX techniques, and that the story will be more faithful to the original '70s show than the crappy '90s remake, and will include the Marshall family and the Sleestaks."
They might have broken away, but they didn't get anything going until 2002, when Sony stepped in…
Next: Sony Takes A Stab
7. Sony Takes A Stab
Entering into its own deal with the Kroffts, Sony tried in 2002 to get another version of the movie made.
Sony immediately began efforts to make a
This was intended to keep the same basic elements of the original Krofft show but was geared for an adult audience.
The plans for the movie remake included far more vicious dinosaurs, fierce Sleestaks with claws and fangs who posed a very real threat, and grand, computer-generated environments. Sid and Marty Krofft reviewed the draft script and loved it.
Sony released a synopsis: "Before Mom dies, leaving the Marshall family shattered, she makes one last request that her ashes be brought to a Mayan archaeological site in Mexico, where she was working as an archaeologist to discover how one of the greatest civilizations known to mankind (the Mayans) simply disappeared.
"Once in Mexico, Rick, Will and Holly Marshall stumble into a wormhole, the same one through which the Mayans left our Earth, and journey to an alternate parallel universe, in which the dinosaurs never perished 65 million years ago and have continued to evolve all this time.
"It is there that they are tasked with travelling through this strange world, encountering bizarre creatures along the way (Pakuni and Sleestaks, of course), so that they may find their way back home."
But funding issues meant it never quite found its way to the screen. At least not until another studio picked it up…
Next: Universal Finally Cracks It
8. Universal Finally Cracks It
While Universal bought the rights – with the Kroffts staying cannily aboard as producers – in 2005, it still took a while for the film to come together.
Back when the company first took aim at the property, it attached the Anchorman team of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to develop something that would play to Ferrell's strengths.
It wasn't really a surprise, given that the pair had a habit of sneaking references to the show into Saturday Night Sketches they'd written.
But scheduling – and yet more budget - issues meant that the early incarnation never gelled, and the studio went through several further attempts, including a flirtation with Robert Rodriguez, who was deciding between
and an updated version of The Jetsons.
The Jetsons won, though we haven't seen that film either, which seems to be the director's habit.
But, undaunted, Universal kept trying, eventually snagging Ferrell back again.
Which brings us almost up to 2007…
Next: Silberling Is Announced
9. Silberling Is Announced
In October 2007, Variety announced that Will Ferrell would indeed play Dr Rick Marshall, albeit as a much more bumbling, Ferrell-like character.
The man responsible for finally getting the film off the ground was
Lemony Snicket
director Brad Silberling, who was approached by Ferrell and his manager, Jimmy Miller, a producer on the film.
"When Will told me what they wanted to do, I peeled with laughter because I used to watched the show on Saturday mornings back in its original run and I thought it sounded like a completely brilliant idea if you could be ballsy and take the things that you loved and bring to it this real slant on the humour," says Silberling.
"So I read some material they were playing with at that point and came back and told them what I thought they needed to do to make it a movie and it was all very quick.
"I sat down with the studio and hit them over the head, and said, 'Here's what you need to do, and what you need to secure.'"
With a script provided by Entourage's Chris Henchy and SNL veteran Dennis McNicholas, the film entered production in March 2008 as one of the biggest ever seen at the Universal lot.
Dispensing with the idea of casting kids as Will and Holly, the filmmakers opted to turn them into a redneck attraction operator who gets sucked into the Land with Marshall, and an enthusiastic British research student who idolises Marshall and comes along for the ride.
Tropic Thunder
's Danny McBride nabbed the Will role, while Anna Friel – complete with her proper accent for a change – would play Holly.
And despite the comic tone, Silberling is quick to point out that it's respectful of the original. Well, mostly…
Next: Keeping The Flame
10. Keeping The Flame
"There are people out there who will never be happy. Some people want things fixed in time and space, others want to see a sense of humour about what the experience of the original was," admits Silberling.
"So I'm not worried about it. It works for me and I think it'll work for people who haven't seen the original series. I wanted to build more and not shoot on location to echo the original show. We've improved the lighting, but it still feel handmade..."
The movie's plot features a lot of what made the original show fun – dinosaur characters Grumpy and Alice, plus ape-boy Chaka, played in this version by SNL Digital Short regular and Hot Rod co-star Jorma Taccone.
While the first trailer showcased some distinctly dodgy CGI, the FX improved for the final version - although reviews haven't been exactly hysterical.
Still, if you've never seen the show (which many of us here in the UK have not), you can find it on DVD. Or just skip it and try the film on its own terms…
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Actress Lacey Chabert is a married woman!
In addition to attending her friend Kaley Cuoco's New Year's Eve nuptials, the former "Mean Girls" and "Party of Five" star revealed that she also tied the knot.
The blushing bride showed off her form-fitting strapless white gown with lace and crystal detailing in a pic shared on Instagram with her maid of honor.
She captioned it, "Here's a pic of my maid of honor and me… my sweet sister Crissy @keekeetaylor I love you!"


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Post-game breakdown: South Florida
UConn did what it had to do during its two-game home-stand.
Not much to say about UConn's performance today.
The Huskies just had a bad offensive game.
SMU's smothering defense was the difference. The Mustangs packed the lane, limited transition opportunities and pressured the backcourt of Ryan Boatright and Shabazz Napier into bad shots and turnovers.
No. 21 UConn (21-6, 9-5) shot a season-low 29.6 percent in a 64-55 loss.
"We won't shoot like this ever again, hopefully," coach Kevin Ollie said.
Here's a post-game breakdown and video:
-- Check out the attached video of former UConn great Richard "Rip" Hamilton talking about the 1999 national championship team.
The 1999 title team and point guard Khalid El-Amin were inducted into the Huskies of Honor during a halftime ceremony. All five members of the starting five – El-Amin, Hamilton, Kevin Freeman, Ricky Moore and Jake Voskuhl -- attended the event.
Hamilton had never attended a game in Gampel until Sunday. He can't believe it's been 15 years since the Huskies won their first title. He vowed not to wait so long before coming back for a visit.
"I'm just excited to be here…,"Hamilton said. Here is special. There's nothing like playing on campus."
Hamilton, who has three young kids, thought El-Amin looked the same as he did during their playing days together.
"Didn't he come into college looking like he was 28 years old already?"Hamiltons aid.
-- An NBA veteran and three-time all-star, Hamilton, 36, looks great. He's on the sidelines right now, hoping to join a contending NBA team for the stretch run.
SMU coach Larry Brown, who had Hamilton on his Detroit team that won the NBA championship, the former Husky can help a team.
"I've been calling people about signing him, because he's never been out of shape a day in his life," Brown said. "Coach Calhoun's guys are so competitive, except for Emeka (Okafor). Emeka is just a talent and the greatest guy and fun to be around.
"But he's not one of those guys that grew up wanting to play every second and every game. But Rip wants to be great. He's such a fierce competitor. I can't believe he's not playing for somebody."
-- Napier looked uncomfortable throughout the game. He didn't score his first points until just over four minutes left in the first half. He converted just five of 16 shots and finished with 15 points and also had five of UConn's 16 turnovers.
Nick Russell's, an athletic 6-foot-4 guard, made life miserable for Napier.
"We have as good a defensive guard as there is in the country in Nick Russell," Brown said. "And we have some length behind him."
In the last two games, Napier's shooting 29.6 percent (8-for-27).
-- Brown and former UConn coach Jim Calhoun are both in the Hall of Fame.
Before the game, Brown waved hello to Calhoun, who sat on the sidelines.
"I'm happy to see him here," Brown said. "He gave me a half-ass wave. I know how competitive he is."
-- SMU (22-6, 11-4) improved to 4-1 against top 25 teams and strengthen its post-season resume.
-- The Huskies came into the game with 13-0 record when out-rebounding an opponent.
Make that 13-1 now. They won the rebounding battle, 36-31. Freshman Amida Brimah and junior DeAndre Daniels shared the team high with eight rebounds apiece.
-- The loss basically pushed UConn out of contention for the regular season title. The Huskies reside in fifth place.
-- UConn took over just over six minutes to score its first basket of the game and never led.
Boatright: "The crowd is supposed to stand up until we make our first basket. It felt like they were standing up forever."
-- Calhoun on UConn's national championship win: "I always thought we were more experienced and we were tougher. … We were just really good."
-- Up next: UConn visits South Florida on Wednesday.
UConn enters today's game sitting in fifth place in the American Athletic Conference.Tulsa (7-0) and SMU (7-1) are pulling away from the pack.
UConn has had issues putting teams away this season. It happened again on Thursday.
UConn begins an important two-game homestand tonight with an American Athletic Conference game against Central Florida.
After its latest damaging loss, UConn faces a long, hard road to qualify for the NCAA tournament.
UConn didn't lose its seventh game last season until March 8.The Huskies (9-6) are trying to avoid suffering their seventh defeat tonight at Stanford.
UConn suffered a major letdown against Tulsa on Tuesday night. Almost nothing went right for the Huskies, who were simply out-played and out-worked for the first time in recent weeks.
Remember when UConn's big conference games used to be against Syracuse and Georgetown?
UConn is heating up at the right time.The Huskies scored an important 62-56 victory over Cincinnati today before a sold-out XL Center crowd of 15,564.
It's too early in the season to place today's game in the must win category.
UConn is one of four American Athletic Conference teams still without a conference win heading into tonight's game against South Florida at the Sun Dome.
UConn worked out at the University of Tampa's beautiful Bob Martinez Athletics Center on Monday.
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Every holiday season, millions of parents look for a place to drop the kids (or take a break themselves) between to-do obligations. That's one reason a film like 2003's critically panned The Cat in the Hat could rack up $100 million before audiences coughed it out like a hairball. But the enormity of this market isn't calming nerves just now over at Warner Bros., where preopening jitters about The Polar Express are approaching red-alert levels. The G-rated, $165 million fantasy stars Tom Hanks as the soul of five separate computer-generated characters, including an officious train conductor who looks a little like Groucho Marx. The grapevine says Express isn't the sure thing the Harry Potter franchise has been for Warner in Novembers past and Hanks himself is well aware of a chill in the buzz winds.
''The studio people are running around with cold compresses on the back of their necks,'' says the 48-year-old star, sounding as bemused and unflappable as ever. ''They're feeling their pulse continuously, and every seven minutes they're making a call to Bob Zemeckis [the movie's director and cowriter, who teamed with Hanks on Cast Away and Forrest Gump]. They're saying, 'Are we gonna be okay?' They're petrified.''
While Hanks himself doesn't betray a whit of worry, there's something to be said for the freak-out thing. For one, there's an opening-date pileup at the multiplexes. Polar chugs into theaters Nov. 10, a scant five days after Pixar's computer-animated superhero tale, The Incredibles. (How ironic that Pixar should upstage Hanks, the guiding light of the studio's smash-hit 1995 feature debut, Toy Story.) Paramount horns in Nov. 19 with the hand-drawn, Day-Glo-colored SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
Alongside more familiar styles, Polar's trailblazing brand of CG trickery, christened ''performance capture,'' may also prove a tough sell. Here's how the process works. Actors covered with reflective markers are photographed as they move around a largely blank stage. Infrared-equipped cameras track the markers. Computers transpose the actors' movements into CG bodies, and then technicians manage to drape simulated clothing, hair, and skin around those figures, placing them in completely synthetic settings.
Quite a few videogames have dabbled in these techniques, but never on this elaborate a scale. The results in the movie range from astonishingly lifelike to creepily waxwork-esque though you won't hear a shadow of doubt from Zemeckis or the technical team about the dazzle factor of what they've wrought. They're completely sold on it. In an attempt to inoculate the public against bewildered reactions, Warner has been circulating lots of behind-the-scenes shots of Hanks in a sensor-studded jumpsuit. It's the sort of stuff typically saved for the making-of annex on a DVD. And Hanks wonders if it's necessary. ''If this thing works,'' he says, ''no one's going to care how many reflective dots I had on my face. The best scenario is that the story works well.''


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Let me keep this short and sweet...I posted this before, but it's worth re-posting. First of all, many of you weren't reading back then and secondly the pictures I had were atrocious, and thirdly, well...just because it's delicious and I thought some of you might want to eek just a little bit more tomato out of your summer. (As you can tell from some of my recent posts, I've already gone into the "premature Fall food mode"; this happens to me every year). Anyways- here's one of the last summer recipes; I might have one more in me, as I've been working on a delicious tomato sorbet/granita type thing), but we'll see. We've still got plenty of tomatoes in the garden, but most of them are finding their way into my freezer where they will patiently wait until their day of tomato bisque, black bean chili, and clam chowder glory arrives.Ain't it purdy?
Tomato Tart
- 1 sheet of frozen puff pastry (out of a 17.3 oz. package)
- 2 tbsp. extra light olive oil
- 1 sweet yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 3 large cloves of garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 3 tbsp. dry white wine
- 2 tsp. fresh thyme, minced
- app. 5 oz. good parmesan cheese, grated
- 6-8 large tomato slices (depending on the size)- these must be FRESH AND LOCAL!
- 3 tbsp. fresh basil, julienned
Thaw your puff pastry sheet according the the package directions. Once thawed, place it on a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet and open it gently until it is flat and rectangular (or square, depending on brand) in shape. Take a knife and score the pastry. This involves taking a knife and just cutting slightly into the pastry (not through it) all the way around the perimeter of the pastry, about 1/2 inch from the edge. This just sort of creates a "border" which you can use as a guide to place your toppings within. The edge of the pastry will puff up around the middle part, which has your toppings on it.
After scoring, you will need to take a fork and prick the middle part of the pastry (inside the "border"). It is okay if your fork pierces all the way through the pastry.
Once you've scored and pricked your pastry, place it back in the refrigerator. Puff pastry needs to stay as cold as possible, so try to work quickly and handle it as little as you can.Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.
Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat and add the onions. Cook for about 5 minutes, then add the garlic, turn down heat and cook about 5 more minutes, stirring frequently. Once the onions are very tender and most of the moisture is gone from the skillet, you can add the following: wine, salt, pepper, and thyme. Continue cooking over low for about 5 more minutes, or until the onions are beginning to brown. Remove from heat.
Remove the pastry from the refrigerator. Put about 3/4 of the parmesan on the pastry (staying within the scored "border"). This parmesan creates a bit of a "barrier" on the bottom of the tart and protects it from becoming too soggy with tomato juice. Add the onion mixture over the cheese. Now it is time to place the tomatoes. I used 6 slices of tomato (2 each of 3 different varieties) and overlapped them on top of each other (like shingles) in 2 rows. Lightly sprinkle the tomatoes with a little more salt and pepper. Sprinkle the rest of the parmesan over the top.
Bake for about 20 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with the fresh basil. Let stand for a couple of minutes before slicing. Cut into 4 large squares. Can serve 2-4 people. It's hard to eat just one piece, but probably a wise decision considering the rich ingredients!


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Mad Cow festival grips the Dairy Center
The folks at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts are proud of the building's milk-bottling heritage, though it was long ago transformed into a multi-use venue occupied by fine artists, theater troupes and dance ensembles. Today's Mad Cow Arts Festival will pay tribute to the past while showcasing the building's active present. But why is the cow so mad? "We are the dairy, so we like using the cow and milk themes," Dairy spokeswoman Sarah Leversee explains. "And for this event, we decided to go with a circus/carnival kind of thing, a little wild and crazy. So our motto is: 'Catch the fever and go mad at the Dairy!' We wanted to give people an opportunity to buy art that is more affordable than the stuff that hangs in galleries, and to thank Boulder for being so good to us."
That won't be much of a challenge: Along with the core-event art sale, the fest will feature a bigtop full of free activities, particularly for kids, including belly dancing and hip-hop dance workshops, juggling performances, and mad-cow hat and found-object art projects.
Enjoy it all today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m at the Dairy, 2590 Walnut Street. Go to www.thedairy.org for details. -- Susan Froyd


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By AZoNano Staff Writers
Introduction LVEM5 Microscope How the LVEM5 Helps Miniature Form Factor Resolution and Contrast Accessibility About Delong America
The high contrast imaging offered by the LVEM5 is a key advantage in cell biology. Electron microscopy enables the study of the functions, activities, properties and organization of cells. This offers a deep understanding of organization and function within cells.
Electron microscopy approaches complement light microscopy by offering greater detail. Electron microscopy is the only method with sufficient resolution to localize proteins to small membrane sub-domains within the cell. Researchers can better understand the location and organization of organelles, actin filaments in the cytoskeleton, and molecular complexes such as nuclear pores.
Although there are instances where staining is desirable for diagnostic purposes, the necessity to stain samples in order to generate adequate detailed contrast cannot be viewed as advantageous.
The LVEM5 still enables for staining as an option, yet high contrast result are acquired from samples in their inherent, natural state. This offers images without the side effects often encountered such as staining artifacts or the sample crashing out by chemical reaction with heavy metals.
Electron microscopy conventionally is one of the most challenging techniques to learn. The simplicity of LVEM5 combined with the elimination of the staining step makes it accessible to many more researchers. The versatile LVEM5 electron microscope operates with four distinct imaging modes TEM, SEM, STEM and ED. This provides for comprehensive imaging and finer study.
Whether it's in the fields of pathology or other life sciences, researchers and medical professionals are assured of top notch imaging with LVEM5 microscopes. The LVEM5 in cell biology and pathology can be particularly useful both in routine microscopy and in research.
For routine examination of pathological specimens, the instrument generates images that are identical to those generated by a conventional 80KV transmission electron microscope. The LVEM5 has the benefit of avoiding post-sectioning staining with heavy metals such as lead citrate and uranyl acetate.
Even without counterstaining, the tissue reveals the usual cellular structures as a standard 80KV transmission microscope due to the high contrast generated by the low voltage.
Compared to standard electron microscopes, the LVEM5 has the being of very small size and the time for the examination of a sample is reduced to a minimum. In active morphological research and cell biology of cellular and sub-cellular structures, this instrument opens an entirely new field.
Fixation with osmium tetroxide is not needed anymore to generate contrasted images of cell membranes and cell components. Also, because of the fact that electrons are not highly accelerated, penetration, scattering and transmission of electrons through the section are highly efficient and generate differences in contrasts within cell structures that, till now, were considered quite homogeneous.
Hence, heterogeneities and sub-structures unknown up to now can be revealed within cellular compartment that were considered homogeneous. The LVEM5 carries a great potential for advancing our comprehension of cellular structures and of their composition and organization.
Figure 1. Selected images
The LVEM5 is a suitable addition to any pathology or cell biology laboratory. Its multimodal imaging capabilities makes it a comprehensive imaging tool. The LVEM5 is a 3-in-1 electron microscope. It is not just a transmission electron microscope but can be configured to two different scanning microscope (SEM) and scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM).
With the LVEM5 one can switch between imaging modes without moving the sample. Both surface and transmission images from the same area of interest can be captured. Nanoparticles can be better understood with a single tool.
The only multi-modal electron microscope in a bench-top configuration is the LVEM5. There is no need to send batches of samples to a core imaging facility any more. The compact size of the LVEM5 implies that it can be installed in your workspace, right where you need it.
There is no need for a dedicated facility for installation. No special cooling or power requirements are needed and vibration isolation is generally not a concern.
The LVEM5 may be compact but it can measure resolve objects as small as 2nm in scanning and transmission modes. Furthermore, the LVEM5 can produce better images than a conventional TEM without a need for stain. The LVEM5 easily produces high quality images suitable for presentations or publications.
The LVEM5 is so remarkably simple that anyone can use it. There will no longer be a need for highly trained technicians to take electron micrographs. The controls are intuitively configured on an ergonomically designed remote control panel that can be positioned as required. Feedback is provided directly on the control panel as well as through the LVME5's comprehensive software. Every LVEM5 installation includes personalized on-site training. Users capture meaningful images by the end of training.
The Delong group of companies operates in the high tech, engineering design, manufacturing and sales sectors and span two continents with operations in Europe and North America.
Our facilities in Brno, Czech republic are specialized in the design and manufacturing of precision components and electron optics and vacuum technologies. In the summer of 2007 Delong will open its new building which will be equipped with the latest in design and precision manufacturing innovations.
This information has been sourced, reviewed and adapted from materials provided by Delong America.
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