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The result of this "balance" were stories like those we critiqued at the end of July, when Obama gave a talk in Florida about vouchers and Romney quickly followed up in a radio interview contradicting the president. We reported that New York Times coverage of the Florida visit gave readers dueling quotes from the candidates, plus a lot of filler that "added nothing to people's understanding of the Medicare issue." There were too many stories like that one.
On the "$716 billion cut" to Medicare—Romney's charge—the press did inform the public but failed to educate it. As we and many others have written; The Affordable Care Act did reduce government payments to healthcare providers—mostly to hospitals, the result of a bargain between the hospitals and the administration. And it did cut the fat out of payments to Medicare Advantage plans that policy experts agreed wasted taxpayer dollars. Over time these cuts also may well cause some plans to eliminate some benefit frills, like gym memberships. But the ACA did not cut hospital and medical benefits, the guts of Medicare coverage. The cuts, according to the administration, were meant to slow the growth in Medicare spending and preserve the life of Medicare's hospital trust fund. Beneficiaries did not comprehend that. Instead, they worried that they would not get medical care. The specter of rationing and death panels appeared once again, resurrected by health providers anxious about their incomes. Romney himself raised the issue in the first debate, claiming that 50 percent of doctors say they won't take any more Medicare patients because of the Obama cut. To us, the figure sounded absurdly high, but the notion lived on.
Nuanced and lengthy pronouncements from the fact-checkers may also have muddied the waters, because their own evaluations of the claims were muddy. When PolitiFact rated a Ryan claim that Obama was really raiding Medicare as "mostly false," and then rated the claim by a group opposing Medicare saying that Medicare 'cuts' in the healthcare law will hurt seniors as "barely true"—and later "mostly false", when PolitiFact changed its naming scheme, what are seniors to think?
"The truth squads played right into the agenda of opponents of Medicare," says Altman. "When you do that, you respond to the agenda set by politicians and they are very artful about it." The challenge, he says, is to think about what needs to be covered and not just to check this fact or that.
In other words, did their coverage educate? Bonnie Burns, a policy specialist with California Health Advocates says, "no." Medicare seniors, she said, still have no clue what Medicare Advantage plans are, even if they have one. Despite the zillions of words written about these plans, Burns says, many seniors still don't understand that it is private insurance they have, not traditional Medicare, and insurance companies can do what they want when it comes to hiking rates and dropping coverage.
It's not totally fair to blame the press for failing to educate voters about Medicare and the choices the candidates presented about the program. Politicians themselves share some of the blame. They have not done a good job explaining what Medicare is, and is not. Democrats never made the case that sometimes the government can do things better than the private market, says Nancy Altman, co-director of the advocacy group Social Security Works. Republicans never were pushed to make a case that the reverse is true when it comes for insurance for the elderly.
In September, WNYC, a New York public radio station, along with the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, conducted a poll to see what New Jersey voters thought of healthcare. When voters were asked whom they trusted more in matters related to health insurance, 44 percent chose the private market; 35 percent said the government. But when they asked voters if they wanted to continue with the current government-provided Medicare system or move to a voucher plan, 69 percent preferred Medicare, with only 25 percent choosing the voucher system. Voters under 30 expressed similar preferences.
"Oh, how we are conflicted about healthcare," WNYC's premier talker, Brian Lehrer, told his listeners.
Indeed we are, and therein lies a tall task for the media—to dive into the education part of the beat, as implementation of healthcare reform and the fiscal cliff loom ahead.
Related stories:
Medicare and the $716 billion "cut"
Medicare: Paul Ryan and beyond


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Levitate wall walking in Wotlk. Was pretty amazing tbh.
Wall jumping in vanilla was pretty cool too. I loved that 'feature'.
Levitate wall walking in Wotlk. Was pretty amazing tbh.
Wall jumping in vanilla was pretty cool too. I loved that 'feature'.
Don't Talk to Strangers
Snake Trap glitch/exploit back in BC.
80's solo'ing LK 25 heroic, until some idiot took it into current raids and got vengeance nerfed.
I find it utterly laughable that people are having ZERO issues with android monks, cyborg dwarves, and shadow-warping gunplay assassins, but they throw absolute FITS if you suggest a timejumping tomboy might be gay or that a walking artillery-platform might self-identify as female.
Apparently, the superintelligent jetpack gorilla from the Moon makes perfect sense, but chrono-displaced lesbians and transgender automatons is just ridiculous!
The Paladin seal proccing bug back in Cata, where a coder had misplaced a decimal point.
Additional. instances. cannot. be. launched. ALL MY HATE! TAKE IT!
one of the more fun ones though, and we still joke about it, THE ICE STONE HAS MELTED! Many puns have been created since then..
Around Ulduar / Naxx times there was a Dancing Rune Weapon bug where it would cast a blood boil for every mob that the dancing rune weapon blood boil hit. I remember casting blood boil game freezing for 5 seconds then every trash mob being dead
When Kazzak came to Ironforge, all the hordes on my server created level 1 gnomes, and ran in, got killed, made him more powerful.
Needless to say, there was no one alive on the server about 3 hours later.
1) Load the amount of weight I would deadlift onto the bench
2) Unrack
3) Crank out 15 reps
4) Be ashamed of constantly skipping leg day
I remember very fondly the Lunar Festival where Blizzard introduced the ability to make and place your own fireworks launcher. It was a collidable object, it could stack on top of another of itself, and it had a long duration such that people used it to wall off the inns in Dalaran. People inside the inn with their hearthstone also in the inn were imprisoned with no way to get out except to spam and get a warlock summon out of the inn.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
Blood Plague.
Pulling the Green Dragons to random cities. ( I actually really miss this one)
Blood elf male capes disappearing for a month or two.
Alright, maybe not up there with Corrupted Blood, but still...
Same as the Human females getting Tauren male sized weapons for a while (as if they were not big enough already lol). There was also the glitch where Obsidum Executioners sheathed on your characters hips instead of back when DW'd as Fury for a while.
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The insta repeated proccing Censure?
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Highlander (film)
Highlander | |
Original style-A poster[1]
Directed by | Russell Mulcahy |
Produced by | Peter S. Davis E.C. Monell William N. Panzer |
Screenplay by | Gregory Widen Peter Bellwood Larry Ferguson |
Story by | Gregory Widen |
Starring | Christopher Lambert Sean Connery Clancy Brown Roxanne Hart |
Music by | Queen Michael Kamen |
Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
Edited by | Peter Honess |
company |
Distributed by | EMI Films (UK) 20th Century Fox (US) |
Release dates
Running time
110 minutes[3] |
Country | United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $19 million[2] |
Box office | $12,885,193[4] |
Highlander is a 1986 British-American cult fantasy film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart. The film depicts the climax of an ages-old battle between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and present day storylines.
Despite having enjoyed little success in its initial U.S. release, the cult film launched Lambert to stardom and inspired a franchise that included film sequels and television spin-offs. The film's tagline, "There can be only one", has carried on throughout the franchise, as have the songs provided for the film by Queen.
In 1985, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), who is going by the name Russell Nash, is attending a professional wrestling match at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Overcome by a strange sensation, MacLeod exits to the stadium parking lot, where he is confronted by a man called Iman Fasil. Despite MacLeod's reluctance, the two engage in a sword-fight which concludes with MacLeod beheading Fasil, at which point a powerful burst of electrical energy destroys the parking lot and surges into him. Hiding his katana, MacLeod attempts to escape but is surrounded by the New York City Police Department and taken into custody.
In 1536, MacLeod—appearing to be the same age as he is in 1985—rides with his fellow clan members into battle against their rivals, the Clan Fraser, in Scotland. The Frasers have hired the services of the Kurgan (Clancy Brown), a sinister mercenary, to defeat their rivals, with the Kurgan's only demand being that MacLeod is to be left to him. MacLeod senses the Kurgan's presence before he is attacked, but he is no match for the Kurgan and is mortally wounded before his fellow clansmen can rescue him. MacLeod receives the last rites and appears to die of his injuries away from the battle field, but when he miraculously returns to life shortly after dying he is accused of witchcraft. Although his fellow clan members demand his execution, his cousin Angus takes pity on him and instead exiles MacLeod from the clan.
Back in 1985, MacLeod is questioned over the murder of Fasil and several other similar murders. It becomes clear that New York has seen an increase in violent beheadings, and although MacLeod is a chief suspect, the police lack the evidence to hold him. Brenda Wyatt (Roxanne Hart), a police technician, is fascinated by the case, particularly when forensic dating on fragments of MacLeod's katana found at the scene date it as being over 2000 years old, far older than other katanas. Intrigued, she begins to follow and investigate "Nash", but is rejected by him when she approaches him in a bar. At the same time the Kurgan, who has also not aged since his confrontation with MacLeod, arrives in New York under the alias Victor Kruger.
In 1541, MacLeod is married to Heather (Beatie Edney) and has settled in Glencoe, working as a blacksmith. Their peaceful lives are interrupted when MacLeod is approached by Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez (Sean Connery), who claims to be the Chief Metallurgist for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. He identifies himself and MacLeod as "Immortals", a race of near-invulnerable and long-lived beings who wander the Earth concealing themselves from mortal humans; Ramírez himself was born in Ancient Egypt and has lived in Japan in 593 BC, where he acquired his katana. Ramírez explains to MacLeod that Immortals can sense each other through a form of extrasensory perception called "The Quickening" and can only permanently die if they are beheaded. As such, they participate in what they call "The Game", an eternal contest between Immortals that will only end at the time of "The Gathering", when the final Immortals are drawn together to battle each other until only one is left standing. The final Immortal, in turn, will receive what is only known as the Prize, the combined power of the Quickenings taken from each Immortal as they are killed. The prophecy about the Prize is worded in such a way that makes it clear that the Gathering is taking place in 1985 New York City.
Ramírez begins to tutor MacLeod in the ways of the Immortals in order to prepare him for the Game, and the two become friends. Ramírez advises that MacLeod abandon Heather, informing MacLeod that Immortals are sterile. Drawing upon his own tale of lost love with a Japanese princess, Ramírez also reminds MacLeod that Heather will eventually grow old and die, leaving him alone. MacLeod refuses to leave his wife, but one night while he is away the Kurgan returns, attacking Ramírez and Heather, as well as destroying much of the castle keep. Ramírez battles the Kurgan, but is decapitated, and when MacLeod returns he finds Heather suffering mental trauma from the experience. They remain happily married, but Heather eventually dies of old age. Devastated, MacLeod buries his wife and burns down their home, abandoning his old life and wandering the world throughout the centuries that follow. He takes Ramírez's katana as his own. MacLeod progresses throughout the centuries, with one point in the Second World War saving a Dutch girl from being murdered by an SS soldier, who is aghast to see an unscathed MacLeod despite being shot in the heart. MacLeod kills the SS and becomes caretaker to the girl, Rachel Ellenstein, who grows up to become his secretary.
Back in 1985, Brenda witnesses a confrontation between MacLeod and the Kurgan that is in turn interrupted by the police. Intrigued, she attempts to get closer to MacLeod, but MacLeod turns her down, thinking that she is trying to set him up for the police. Despite the fact that he is gradually falling in love with Brenda, MacLeod is also still devastated over the death of Heather and refuses to let any mortal woman get close to him, certain in the knowledge that they will grow old and die while he will not.
The Kurgan battles and defeats Sunda Kastigar (Hugh Quarshie), a fellow Immortal and old friend of MacLeod's, taking his Quickening and making himself and MacLeod the last remaining Immortals. The Kurgan becomes unstable with the power he has acquired over the centuries, believing that winning the Prize will make him all-powerful and capable of ruling the world. The Kurgan confronts MacLeod in a church as MacLeod is engaging in his annual remembrance of Heather. As Immortals cannot fight on holy ground, the Kurgan taunts MacLeod with the knowledge that he killed Ramírez and raped Heather, and MacLeod vows revenge.
Having learned that the real "Russell Nash" died in infancy, Brenda confronts MacLeod; MacLeod reveals the truth. He proves his statement of immortality by having Brenda stab him only for him to return to life moments later. The two make love. As Brenda returns home afterwards, however, she is kidnapped by the Kurgan. Using Brenda as bait, the Kurgan draws MacLeod to an abandoned film studio, where he and the Kurgan confront each other. Although the Kurgan is powerful, MacLeod is able to decapitate him, winning the Game and claiming the Prize—a complete psychic connection to everyone and everything in the world.
As the Kurgan was earlier witnessed battling Kastigar, the police assume that he is the murderer and that "Russell Nash" is the final victim, allowing MacLeod to change his identity once again. MacLeod—now mortal, and capable of having a family—returns to the Scottish Highlands with Brenda, where he explains that he is one with all living things, and that his new powers enable him to understand everyone's thoughts and help bring them together. The two engage in a loving embrace, and the film ends.
Actor | Role |
Christopher Lambert | Connor MacLeod / Russell Nash |
Sean Connery | Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez |
Clancy Brown | The Kurgan / Victor Kruger |
Roxanne Hart | Brenda Wyatt |
Beatie Edney | Heather MacDonald |
Alan North | Lieutenant Frank Moran |
Jon Polito | Detective Walter Bedsoe |
Sheila Gish | Rachel Ellenstein |
Hugh Quarshie | Sunda Kastagir |
Christopher Malcolm | Kirk Matunas |
Peter Diamond | Iman Fasil |
Billy Hartman | Dougal MacLeod |
James Cosmo | Angus MacLeod |
Corinne Russell | Candy |
Celia Imrie | Kate MacLeod |
Production and development[edit]
Gregory Widen wrote the script for Highlander, then titled Shadow Clan, as a class assignment while he was an undergraduate in the screenwriting program at UCLA. Widen sold the script for US$200,000.
According to William Panzer, joint producer with Peter S. Davis of the Highlander franchise:
Gregory Widen was a student at film school, and he wrote this as his writing class project. (...) He was apparently travelling through Scotland on his summer vacation and he was standing in front of a suit of armor, and he wondered, 'What would it be like if that guy was alive today?' And that's where everything fell into place – the idea that there are Immortals and they were in conflict with each other, leading secret lives that the rest of us are unaware of...
Widen also used Ridley Scott's 1977 film The Duellists as inspiration for his story.
Widen's original draft of the script differed significantly from the movie version. The initial story of the film was darker and more violent. Connor is born in 1408 rather than 1518. He lives with his mother and father. Heather doesn't exist; Connor is promised to a girl named Mara, who rejects him when she learns he's immortal. Connor leaves his village instead of being banished. His alias is Richard Tupin and his weapon is a custom broadsword. Ramirez is a Spaniard born in 1100 instead of an ancient Egyptian born more than two thousand years earlier. The Kurgan is known as the Knight, using the alias Carl William Smith. He is not a savage, but a cold-blooded killer. Brenda is Brenna Cartwright.
Other elements were changed during the rewrite. Initially, immortals could have children; in the draft Connor is said to have had 37. In a flashback in the first draft, Connor attends the funeral of one of his sons. His wife (in her 70s) and his two sons, who are in their mid 50s, see him revealed as an immortal. Also, there are no quickenings in the first draft. When an immortal kills another, nothing special occurs. Nor is there mention of a "prize". When Connor finally kills the Knight, he feels a sharp burning pain. The viewer is then not told if he remains immortal.
The entire budget was put up by Thorn EMI.[2] Filming began in April 1985 and ended August 30, 1985.[4] It took place in Scotland, England, and New York City.[5]
Director Russell Mulcahy filmed it using music video techniques including fast cutting and pacy music.[6]
Director of photography Arthur Smith actually filmed the scene in which fish fall out of MacLeod's kilt, but Lambert's kilt proved to be too short. Smith said, "I stuck part of a drain pipe above Chris's kilt out of camera range, and fed live trout down the tube." Smith also had difficulties shooting MacLeod meeting the Kurgan. It was raining that day and the crew had to use umbrellas and hair dryers to prevent water from hitting the camera lenses and appearing on the film. Smith also remembered that Lambert, who was near-sighted, "kept forgetting to take off his glasses as he came over the hill on his horse."[7]
The filming of the parking garage scene took place in two different places. According to New York location manager Brett Botula, "the garage exterior is Manhattan, across from Madison Square Garden, and the interior is 'somewhere in London.'"[8] The pro-wrestling match in the opening scene featured The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell and The Tonga Kid.[9]
The scene where the MacLeod clan sets off to battle is supposed to take place "in the village of Glenfinnan, on the shore of Loch Shiel" in the Lochaber area, but was actually filmed at Eilean Donan Castle, which is in the same general area but is really on the shore of Loch Duich, a sea loch near Kyle of Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye.
According to the DVD commentary, the film's climax was originally intended to take place on top of the Statue of Liberty. Then it was changed to an amusement park and finally changed to the rooftop of the Silvercup Studios building.[5] The opening sequence was originally intended to take place during an NHL hockey game. But the NHL refused to allow the crew to film there because they were intending to emphasize the violence of the match.[5]
The scene in the alley where the Kurgan beheads Kastagir and then stabs the ex-Marine, followed by an explosion, was filmed in an alley in England even though it was set in New York. The director was reluctant to set off the explosion in the alley because the windows were full of Victorian glass, but he was given permission to do so because that particular site was going to be destroyed in a few months anyway.[citation needed]
The opening voice-over by Connery has an echo effect because it was recorded in the bathroom of his Spanish villa (where he had been working with a voice coach in order to perfect the Spanish accent he used in the film). It was played for the producers over the phone and they approved of it because they could not discern the quality of the recording that way.[5]
The Highlander original orchestral score was composed by Michael Kamen, and the soundtrack includes several songs by Queen, such as "A Kind of Magic" and "Princes of the Universe" (the latter also being used for the Highlander television series title sequence).[10] Queen wrote many of the songs specifically to match the mood of the scenes when the songs play, notably Brian May's "Who Wants to Live Forever", concerning the doomed love of Connor and his wife Heather.
Despite a mention in the end credits, to date a complete soundtrack album for Highlander has not been released. However, Queen's 1986 album A Kind of Magic features most of the songs from the film (although sometimes in different arrangements). Songs from the film that appear on the album are "Princes of the Universe", "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" (the album version includes snippets of dialogue from the film), "One Year of Love", "Don't Lose Your Head", "Who Wants to Live Forever", and "A Kind of Magic". The album and single edits of "A Kind of Magic" feature a different mix from the one in the film; a 2011 re-release of the album includes the long-unreleased Highlander version of the song. The album does not include Queen's recording of "Theme from New York, New York", which features briefly in Highlander."Hammer to Fall", a Queen song heard playing from a car radio in one scene, was from an earlier album, The Works.
The 1995 CD Highlander: The Original Scores includes five cues from Kamen's Highlander score (along with six cues from Stewart Copeland's Highlander II score, and four cues from J. Peter Robinson's Highlander III score). Furthermore, a rearrangement of an excerpt from Kamen's score (specifically, the beginning of the track "The Quickening") was used as the theme music for New Line Cinema's logo indent in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Alternate releases[edit]
Lost scenes[edit]
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A number of scenes were lost in a fire. They included:
- A duel sequence that introduced an Asian immortal named Yung Dol Kim was cut from the film. The footage for the scene, along with certain other deleted scenes, was later destroyed by fire, although a few stills from the sequence, some in colour and others in black and white, survived.
- Connor, Kastagir and Bedsoe partying at a bar. The scene expanded more on Kastagir and Connor's relationship and revealed that they met during the American Revolutionary War.
- One scene in which Connor shows Brenda his katana after the sex scene.
Proposed duel in the ending[edit]
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In the scene following Connor beheading the Kurgan, Mulcahy had originally envisioned an animated dragon with the Kurgan's battle helmet emerging from his decapitated body and challenging Connor again. Only after Connor had defeated this ghost-dragon would he have received the final Quickening and subsequent Prize. This idea was eventually cut due to budget constraints.
Alternate versions[edit]
The European version of the film contained scenes not found in the American version. The director's cut is based upon this version, and it runs eight minutes longer than the US version.[11]
The additional scenes include:[12]
- MacLeod having a short flashback about his first battle in Scotland during the wrestling match
- A longer fight scene between Connor and Fasil, mainly Fasil doing backflips through the garage
- A scene showing Connor's first love, Kate, bringing him flowers before he goes to battle
- A flashback to World War II that further develops the character of Rachel Ellenstein
- Longer sex scene between Connor and Brenda
- A scene where the Kurgan can be seen in the background trailing MacLeod and Brenda at the zoo
- Much longer fight scene between MacLeod and the Kurgan at the end of the movie
There are several changes in dialogue from the theatrical version:
- Whooshing sounds whenever one Immortal senses another
- When Connor and Ramirez jump into the water during training, Ramirez (in the theatrical version) shouts, "MacLeod, this is the Quickening!"
- When Connor is talking about the 1783 bottle of wine (in the theatrical version), after he says, "Brandy, bottled in 1783", Brenda's head can be seen moving but she speaks no dialogue. In the new release, she says, "Wow, that's old."
- After Connor wins the Prize and is being comforted by Brenda (in the theatrical version), he looks up and says, "I want to go home." This is missing in the new release.
The new release is also missing a short scene of Detective Bedsoe spilling coffee on himself while staking out Brenda's apartment.[13]
The French theatrical version of Highlander is mainly the same version as the U.S. theatrical. It includes the World War II flashback but it removes the interior shot of Detective Bedsoe in his car while on a stakeout. This has been issued on 2-disc and 3-disc DVD sets in France with French dialogue only.[citation needed]
Release and reception[edit]
Upon initial U.S. release, it was not well-received, but it gained wide and persistent popularity in Europe and on other markets, as well as on home video. It has since obtained status as a cult classic film in both domestic and non-domestic markets, leading to four sequels, a television series, and various other spin-offs.
The film grossed $2,453,021 on its opening weekend and ended with $5,735,847 domestically.[4] Internationally, the film grossed $12,885,193.[4]
Highlander currently holds a 67% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews.[14]
Danél Griffin of Film as Art awarded the film four stars (out of four), saying: "The key to Highlander's success is in its approach to its subject matter. What could have been a premise that breathes cliché is given a fresh approach due to Mulcahy's unique directing style and a cleverly-written script. [...] Highlander is certainly a classic film that will continue to be cherished and watched as the world of movie making continues to grow and change. It is a triumphant example of the art of cinema, and watching it reminds us all of why we like going to the movies in the first place."[15] Christopher Null of FilmCritic.com gave the film four and a half stars out of five, writing: "Highlander has no equal among sword-and-sorcery flicks."[16] Null later called Highlander "the greatest action film ever made," saying that it features "awesome swordfights, an awesome score, and a time-bending plotline that only a philistine could dislike."[17]
Matt Ford of the BBC gave the film three stars out of five, writing: "From the moody, rain-soaked, noir-ish streets of late 20th century America to the wild open spaces of medieval Scotland, Mulcahy plunders movie history to set off his visceral fight scenes with suitably rugged locations. [...] What the film loses through ham acting, weak narrative, and pompous macho posturing it more than compensates with in sheer fiery bravado, pace, and larger than life action."[18] Dean Winkelspecht of DVD Town also gave Highlander three stars out of five, writing: "The film's slow pace and dated look will turn away many a new viewer [...] However, there is a certain appeal to the film that brings back many for a second or third helping. I have learned to appreciate the film over the years, [and] the film's story is unique and entertaining."[19]
Also giving the film three stars out of five, Adam Tyner of DVD Talk wrote, "The screenplay spots a number of intelligent, creative ideas, and I find the very concept of displacing the sword-and-sorcery genre to then-modern-day New York City to be fairly inventive. The dialogue and performances don't quite match many of the film's concepts, though. The tone seems somewhat uneven, as if Highlander is unsure if it wants to be seen as a straight adventure epic or if it's a campy action flick."[13] IGN, awarding Highlander a score of 8 out of 10, wrote: "This 80s classic has a lot going for it. The hardcore MTV manner in which it was filmed is common these days, but was groundbreaking then. This movie features some of the best scene transitions committed to celluloid. [...] To this is added some fun performances by Connery and especially Clancy Brown."[12]
Leonard Maltin gave the film one and a half stars: "Interesting premise made silly and boring... Former rock video director Mulcahy's relentlessly showy camera moves may cause you to reach for the Dramamine."[20]
Home video[edit]
The video was a hit in the United States.[21] The theatrical release of Highlander II: The Quickening in 1991 significantly increased the rental activity on Highlander even though the sequel was not a box-office success.[22] Highlander was first released to DVD in the United States in 1997, in a "10th Anniversary Edition" Director's Cut that contained the international uncut version of the film.[12] A "15th Anniversary" edition was released in Australia in 2001, which also contained the International cut of the film.[23]
Highlander was again released in 2002 in two editions: a special "Immortal Edition" with several extra features (including several Queen music videos and a bonus CD containing three Queen songs from the film) and a standard edition, both of which contain the International uncut version.[24] On the June 17, 2009 French distributor StudioCanal issued the film on Blu-ray[25] with identical releases following in Germany,[26] UK,[27] Holland, Australia and Japan.[28] The U.S. director's cut is currently available on DVD in North America from Lionsgate under license from the film's current owner, StudioCanal. 20th Century Fox, the theatrical distributor, remains the television rights holder.
A novelization of the film was written by Garry Kilworth under the pen-name "Garry Douglas". It expanded more on the movie by: Telling how the Kurgan met his first death and describing his training with an Immortal Arab known as "The Bedouin," whom he eventually kills. The novel also reveals how the Kurgan gets his customized broadsword and his battle with an Immortal Mongol before meeting MacLeod in 1536. The novel also introduces an alternate scene showing Conner and Kastagir meeting in the Subway before meeting at the Bridge. One really interesting thing about the novel is that it portrays Conner and Kastagir's relationship very differently from in the film. Here they are just simply two Immortals who are simply not enemies and are just passive friends who can talk about anything without fighting.
The novel also reveals how Heather came to find out about Conner's Immortality from Ramirez, the ending of the book is also expanded by revealing that Conner went back to his Antiques store to say his final goodbye to Rachel before leaving for Scotland. Once he and Brenda arrive in Scotland, they tour for two months, and then open an antique shop in Camden Alley. On one occasion, he returns to the Scottish Uplands alone and stares at the remnants of his home with Heather. There is no croft there, but he finds a few stones from the fallen tor and locates the burial place of Ramirez and Heather. He finds two timbers and fashions a crude cross, telling Heather that she would like Brenda. "She is much like you.".
In March 2008, Summit Entertainment announced that it had bought the film rights to the Highlander franchise and is remaking the original film. Originally Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway were writing the script, but Summit Entertainment turned to Melissa Rosenberg to write it instead, with release scheduled for 2011.[29][30][31] In September 2009, Fast & Furious director Justin Lin was announced as director of the film,[32] while Neal H. Moritz was slated to co-produce. However in August, Lin dropped out of the film due to commitments to other projects[33] and was replaced by 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. In June 2012, Ryan Reynolds was announced to play the lead role of Connor MacLeod.[34] Due to creative differences, Fresnadillo left in November 2012[35] and Reynolds also departed in June 2013.[36]
In October 2013, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, visual effects supervisor and second unit director on Snow White and the Huntsman, was hired to direct the film, which will be his directorial debut. Filming is set to begin in 2014 using the original script by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.[37] In February 2015, it was announced that Dave Bautista would play The Kurgan. [38]
See also[edit]
- ^ Highlander Poster. IMP Awards. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ a b c Andrew Yule, Hollywood a Go-Go: The True Story of the Cannon Film Empire, Sphere Books, 1987 p138
- ^ "HIGHLANDER (15)". Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. British Board of Film Classification. June 27, 1986. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Highlander (1986) – Box office / business. IMDb. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ a b c d Feature-length DVD commentary by director Russell Mulcahy and producers William N. Panzer and Peter S. Davis. Located on the 10th Anniversary Highlander Director's Cut Region 1 DVD by Republic Pictures.
- ^ "Running on MTV". Straits Times (Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited). August 8, 1991.
- ^ Foo, Juniper (March 31, 1991). "All the world is his stage". Straits Times (Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited).
- ^ Piccoli, Sean (January 12, 1992). "The Rise of Car Noir – For mayhem and menace, Hollywood pulls into the parking garage". The Washington Times (Washington Times Library). p. 2–D1. ISSN 0732-8494.
- ^ Defino, Lennie. "Where Are They Now?: Buddy Roberts". WWE. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ^ Sounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film p.19. Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ^ Goldsmith, Matt (September 25, 2001). "Highlander 15th Anniversary Edition". DVDown Under Review. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ a b c IGN Staff (June 16, 2000). "Highlander: Director's Cut DVD Review". IGN Movies. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ a b Tyner, Adam (April 11, 2002). "Highlander: The Immortal Edition DVD Review". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Highlander. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Griffin, Danél. "Highlander Review". Film as Art. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Null, Christopher (November 17, 2000). "Highlander Review". FilmCritic.com. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Null, Christopher (July 13, 2004). "Highlander II: The Quickening review". FilmCritic.com. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Ford, Matt (October 5, 2000). "Highlander Review". BBC. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Winkelspecht, Dean (April 22, 2002). "Highlander: The Immortal Edition DVD Review". DVD Town. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Maltin, Leonard (August 2008). Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide. Plume. p. 610. ISBN 978-0-452-28978-9.
- ^ Ryan, Desmond (August 26, 1991). "Och, laddie, Highlander won't die". The Toronto Star. p. D2. ISSN 0319-0781.
- ^ McCullaugh, Jim (April 4, 1992). "Video aims to co-star with film sequels. (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.'s CBS-Fox Video's movie promotional videos)". Billboard (Cincinnati, Ohio: BPI Communications) 104 (14): 4. ISSN 0006-2510. OCLC 1532948.
- ^ "Highlander: 15th Anniversary Edition – DVD Review". DVD.net. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Conrad, Jeremy (April 8, 2002). "Highlander: The Immortal Edition Review". IGN Movies. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ "Achetez le Blu-Ray Highlander en promotion à 14.99 € sur StudioCanal (Studio Canal French Blu-ray release)" (in French). StudioCanal.com. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ "KINOWELT – Highlander – Es kann nur einen geben / Blu-ray (Kinowelt German Blu-ray release)" (in German). Kinowelt.de. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ "Highlander (Special Edition Blu-ray)". Optimum Releasing. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ "詳細 (Highlander Japan Blu-ray release)" (in Japanese). Geneon Universal. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Kit, Borys (May 20, 2008). "Summit takes on 'Highlander' redo". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2008-05-25. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ^ Nix (August 22, 2008). "Kevin McKidd Offered Highlander Remake". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ^ Nix (February 9, 2011). "'Twilight' Scribe Melissa Rosenberg Writing 'Highlander' Remake". HollywoodReporter.com. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
- ^ Brevet, Brad (September 22, 2009). "Justin Lin Remaking 'Highlander' for Summit". Rope of Silicon. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ^ Drees, Rich (2011-08-12). "Justin Lin Drops Out Of Directing HIGHLANDER Remake". FilmBuffOnline. FilmBuffOnline. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Child, Ben (29 June 2012). "Ryan Reynolds takes on Highlander remake". Guardian.
- ^ Fleming Jr., Mike (2013-10-28). "Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Exits Summit's 'Highlander' Remake". Deadline. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
- ^ Snieder, Jeff (2013-10-28). "Ryan Reynolds Exits 'Highlander' Reboot at Summit (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
- ^ Fleming Jr., Mike (2013-10-28). "Summit Sets Cedric Nicolas-Troyan To Helm 'Highlander' Feature Reboot". Deadline. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
- ^ "Guardians Of The Galaxy' Dave Bautista To Play The Kurgan In 'Highlander' Reboot".
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The 2012 NNSA Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Symposium is set for Tuesday, June 12. This year's theme is "Discovery and Innovation for National Security" featuring highlights of game-changing, mission-relevant research supported by the LDRD Program throughout NNSA.
The program includes keynote presentations by:
•Neile L. Miller, NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator
•Charles V. Shank, Senior Fellow, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Former Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
•Norman R. Augustine, Retired Chairman & CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
•Thomas A. Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
The symposium also includes technical talks and poster presentations by NNSA laboratory researchers relevant to national security missions. At day's end, Victor Reis, Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, will lead a panel discussion on discovery and innovation issues for national security.
The Y-12 National Security Complex today held a ceremony in celebration of receiving Voluntary Protection Plan (VPP) Star status from DOE for excellence in occupational safety and health protection. The ceremony marked the start of Y-12 flying a VPP flag over the site's New Hope Center.
Dan Hoag, NNSA acting site manager, said achieving DOE-VPP Star status is a significant achievement for B&W Y-12. "It is a symbol of excellence in the pursuit of health and safety," he said. "VPP represents a strong commitment by Y-12 employees, the unions and management to continually strive for a safe workplace."
Only 28 entities across the United States hold DOE-VPP Star status.
To read more click here.
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B&W Y-12 Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager of Operations Bill Klemm (center) and Atomic Trades and Labor Council President Steve Jones (right) raise the DOE-VPP Star flag as Dan Hoag, NNSA acting site manager, looks on.
Several NNSA employees had the opportunity to meet and mingle with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday on the South Lawn of the White House. The event drew more than 1,000 employees from throughout the federal government. Seen here is Will D'Ercole, son of NNSA Director of Congressional Affairs Jed D'Ercole.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have for the first time simulated and quantified the early stages of radiation damage that will occur in a given material. A full understanding of the early stages of the radiation damage process provides knowledge and tools to manipulate them to the fullest advantage.
Nuclear radiation leads to highly energetic ions that can penetrate large distances within matter, often times leading to the accumulation of damage sites as the projectile passes through the material.
During this process, the energetic ions eventually slow down as energy is lost by friction with the materials' electrons. Like a speedboat moving through a calm body of water, the passage of fast ions creates a disturbance in the electron density in the shape of a wake.
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Model of the electronic wake (blue surfaces) generated by an energetic proton (red sphere) traveling in an aluminum crystal (yellow spheres). The resulting change in electronic density is responsible for modification of chemical bonds between the atoms and consequently for a change in their interactions.
Maintenance Support and Utilities Management personnel at NNSA's Y-12 National Security Complex have taken steps to make sure old utility poles aren't sent to the landfill. The Tennessee Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division and Y-12 staff collaborated to deliver utility poles to Lone Mountain State Forest's parking lots.
Mike Disney, Y-12 Power Operations section manager, said, "It's good that we can help other agencies, save tax dollars, and help save the environment all at the same time. Opportunities like this don't happen very often."
After the old utility poles were inspected and approved for off-site use, six forestry service employees brought five lumber trucks on site in October 2011. Y-12's line crew cut the 90-foot poles into smaller sections and helped load the trucks. The lumber trucks eventually hauled away more than 100 poles.
Cables pass through holes in waist-high sections of the poles, creating a border and confining vehicles and horse trailers to designated parking areas. In the near future, forestry personnel will use some of the poles as structure posts for a much-needed pavilion that will provide cover for Morgan and Roane County wildland firefighting equipment. Other sections of the poles will be used to block motorized vehicles from using the horse trails.
Additional uses for the old poles have been found. The U.S. Department of Energy is using some of the old poles at its secure transportation courier training facility in Oak Ridge. Some of the poles have been used to build a façade for a bunker on a live firing range. Additional poles have been stockpiled, and a combat conditioning course will be built as soon as funding is provided.
Pantex volunteers recently made lunch for 350 honor roll students as part of the plant's ongoing efforts to support academic achievement in area youth, particularly in areas such as science and math. This is the second year in a row Pantex has cooked lunch for the A and A-B honor roll students from Sam Houston Middle School in Amarillo.
Thanks to Sandia technology, radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater have been removed at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power.
Sandia developed a technology that uses crystalline silico-titanate, or CST, as a molecular sieve that can separate highly volatile elements from radioactive wastewater.
The CSTs were developed in the early 1990s response to a need for materials to remove radioactive contaminants from wastewater. During that time, researchers found that a certain class of synthetic zeolite is more effective in capturing some radioactive elements, like cesium, than other technologies.
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Crystalline silico-titanate, or CST, is an inorganic molecular sieve that can capture and separate highly volatile elements from radioactive wastewater.
Members of the B&W Pantex Explosives Technology Division celebrated a significant safety milestone Thursday with a cookout to commemorate working three million man hours without a lost time injury.
Managers from the division grilled up lunch for approximately 150 workers to mark the achievement, which is made even more significant by the nature of the work done by Explosives Technology employees.
According to David Cole, acting division manager, safety is the absolute priority for Pantex and it is something they talk about every day."Explosives operations are a high-consequence area," he said. "If you have a mistake, the consequences can be very grave. We have to make sure we never forget that and never become complacent."
Explosives Technology staff have worked diligently to make sure everyone works safely, said Monty Cates, manager of the Materials and Analytical Services Department. At daily standup meetings, safety is always the first topic, and every month, department safety meetings are held. Explosives Technology staff also participate in the many safety programs that operate plant wide.
B&W Pantex Acting Deputy General Manager Rod Johnson said the fact the Explosives Technology Division was able to achieve such a milestone is testament to the dedication of the staff. "Safety, security and quality are the basis of all of our activities at Pantex," he said.
The hard work of the members of the division led to Pantex being named the High Explosives Center of Excellence for High Explosives Manufacturing by the Department of Energy.
Some 345 tons of steel came tumbling down yesterday as a world record was set at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), when a 1,527-foot steel tower used in above-ground nuclear experiments in the 1960s was demolished.
The BREN (Bare Reactor Experiment -- Nevada) Tower was the tallest structure of its kind ever to be brought down. The tower was taller than the Empire State Building (1,454 feet, to the top of lightening rod) and taller than the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas (1,148 feet).
The tower was brought down due to safety concerns for personnel working nearby and risk to aircraft flying in the area. Contributing factors included lack of use, maintenance issues, and an uneconomical cost of more than $1 million that would have been required return the tower to a usable state.
DEMCO, Inc. of West Seneca, N.Y., partnered with Controlled Demolition, Inc. of Phoenix, Md., to bring down the tower. Because the tower was so tall, highly controlled demolition techniques were employed. Explosives were used to remove a small section of one leg of the tower at ground level and sever the tensioned guy wires and the anchor/stanchions on the opposite side.
See video here.
John Mitsunaga from NNSA's Los Alamos Site Office (LASO) has been named as a New Mexico Federal Employee of the Year by the New Mexico Federal Executive Board. His award is listed in the Professional, Administrative and Technical category.
Mitsunaga, a physical security specialist for LASO, also has a federal role in the lab's Emergency Operations Center where he ensures the security and protection of sensitive assets on lab property.
Additional accomplishments for which Mitsunaga was recognized include oversight for technical security requirements for a sizable construction project that will provide state of the art security protection for the lab's plutonium facility. He was also instrumental in obtaining funding to modernize protective force training facilities necessary to enable them to protect special nuclear material. The funding included construction of indoor and outdoor shooting ranges, a tactical training facility and a fitness track.


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08/21/2014 § 1 Comment
Nadja will be heading out on tour in September around Aidan Baker's residency at this year's Incubate Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. This residency will feature five separate performances from five different Aidan Baker projects. Here are the tour dates:
02-09-14: Nabaklab, Riga, LV
06-09-14: Klub Boro, Brno, CZ
07-09-14: A38, Budapest, HU
08-09-14: Rhiz, Vienna, AT
09-09-14: PMK, Innsbruck, AT
10-09-14: Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, AT
11-09-14: K4, Nuernberg, DE
14-09-14: L'auréole Bethencourt, Tinques, FR (AB solo)
20-09-14: L'an Vert, Liège, BE
21-09-14: Monasterium Poortackere, Ghent, BE
And the Incubate performances, all of which take place at Paradox Tilburg:
15-09-14: Nadja
16-09-14: Aidan Baker
17-09-14: Nadja & Uochi Toki performing Cystema Solari
18-09-14: Caudal
19-09-14: Aidan Baker/thisquietarmy Hypnodrone Ensemble
Aidan will also be doing a reading from his recent book Passing Through (Wounded Wolf Press) at the Consouling Sounds mobile offices. At the festival, Consouling Sounds will also be releasing Caudal's second album Ascension (CD/LP) and the Hypnodrone Ensemble's debut CD, a document of their performance at NK last spring in Berlin:
And in addition to those two releases, Consouling also plans to record Nadja's Incubate performance on the Monday night and release it as a vinyl LP on the Saturday!
Lastly, here is a new digital release from Aidan Baker, an album of droning vaguely ethno-ambient jazzy psych rock, available for free/pay-what-you-want:
Passing Through
07/22/2014 § Leave a comment
Aidan Baker's book of poetry Passing Through (Wounded Wolf Press) has been officially released now and is available from the Broken Spine Webshop. For a limited time, we are selling both Passing Through and Aidan's previous book of poetry, The Shape of Snakes, as a discounted package deal.
We previously posted a printed and an audio sample from the collection here, but here is Aidan's audio interpretation of the Scott LaFaro song "Jade Visions" (originally performed by The Bill Evans Trio), a song which he writes about in Passing Through:
The Imperfection of The Solar System
07/03/2014 § 2 Comments
Our collaborative "doomhop" album with Italian duo Uochi Toki is now available from Corpoc Records:
This is available as a limited, vinyl-only (and digital) release, and comes in a hand silkscreened sleeve, with an 8-page insert. We have copies now in the Broken Spine Webshop and will have copies with us at these upcoming shows in Italy:
16-07-14: Bagnacciuga, Pesaro
18-07-14: Spazio211, Torino
19-07-14: Rock Valley Festival, Santa Maria della Versa, IT
We also have a couple leftover items from our Japan tour with Vampillia, the CD version of Tangled from Tokyo Jupiter Records and a tour-only CD collaboration with Vampillia, ɪmpəˈfɛkʃ(ə)n:
Rising Suns
06/03/2014 § 2 Comments
Nadja will be returning to Japan next week for another tour with Vampillia and, on select dates (Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka), Mick Barr's duo Mossenek. Dates as follows and more info on the FB event page:
20-06-14: O-Nest, Tokyo
21-06-14: Vio, Nagoya
22-06-14: Conpass, Osaka
23-06-14: Crowbar, Tokushima
24-06-14: Caravan Sary, Kochi
25-06-14: Too Nice, Takamatsu
26-06-14: Bar Caezar, Matsuyama
27-06-14: Pepperland, Okayama
28-06-14: Bar Indoyou, Yamaguchi
29-06-14: O-Nest, Tokyo
Aidan Baker will be playing the following solo shows in Tokyo as well, the first by himself and the second with a back-up band of local, Japanese musicians:
15-06-14: Superdeluxe, Tokyo
16-06-14: Koenji Showboat, Tokyo
Nadja's 'grindgaze' EP Tangled will also be released on CD by Tokyo Jupiter Records in conjunction with the tour, along with a Tangled t-shirt:
We have made a few of our leftover shirts from recently past tours available on the BSP webshop, if anyone missed out and would like one:
We also have some long lost vinyl copies of Christ Send Light, our collaborative ep/single with NZ's Black Boned Angel, released by Sound Devestation Records, available in the BSP webshop as well:
The Mind Interrogates The Body
05/12/2014 § Leave a comment
Aidan Baker has a new book of poetry coming out in July with Wounded Wolf Press entitled Passing Through. The collection is made up of 'synesthetic' poems, writings about other media – films, paintings, songs – and is now available to pre-order directly from the publisher. Pre-orders come with a signed and numbered card and a digital print from Uğur Altun who provided also provided the cover and interior illustrations.
The book will also be available directly at upcoming shows, including the following readings at which Baker will be joined with James Vella, who has also published with Wounded Wolf Press:
27-05-14: Prince Albert, Brighton
28-05-14: Cafe Oto, London
31-05-14: Zabriskie Buchladen, Berlin
As a sample, here is a recording of Baker reading "Jade Visions," a poem about a song by Scott LaFaro and performed by the Bill Evans Trio:
And here is a scan of the title poem from the collection, based on a work by the Canadian artist Betty Goodwin:
In other news, Baker will be performing at the Antwerp Ambient Festival this weekend, Saturday May 17, in Antwerp, Belgium along with Alio Die, Dirk Serries/vidnaObmana, and N-O.
The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
04/24/2014 § Leave a comment
Whisper Room, a trio of Aidan Baker, Jakob Thiesen, and Neil Wiernik, have just released their second album The Cruelest Month, recorded one year ago at The Ambient Ping in Toronto and mastered by James Plotkin. The album is available on CD from Consouling Sounds, directly from the Broken Spine webshop, and digitally here:
Also newly available in the BSP webshop is Nadja's first official CD album Truth Becomes Death, released by Alien8 Recordings back in 2005, and otherwise out of print.
In performance news, Nadja will be playing on May 1 in Wroclaw at a pre-Asymmetry Festival event – more info here.
And on May 2, Aidan Baker and thisquietarmy will be presenting a special 'Hypnodrone Ensemble' performance with two guitars and three drummers in Berlin at NK – more info here.
04/10/2014 § 1 Comment
It is with pleasure to announce that I will be something of an artist in residence at this year's edition of Incubate Festival, in Tilburg, NL performing five times with five different projects: Nadja, Aidan Baker (solo), Caudal, and collaboratively with Uochi Toki and thisquietarmy.
In more immediate performance news, Caudal will be playing at Rhiz in Vienna next week and Nadja will be doing a short tour around an appearance at this year's Dunk Festival – full dates here:
And in release news, I've finally got copies of my collaborative cassette release with Jakob Thiesen CNTNTL available in the Broken Spine webshop.


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My review of Marcy Dermansky's novel Bad Marie is up on The Millions today!
This is my fifth published review, the fourth with The Millions. Two more are scheduled for print journals this summer, one of Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy in Prairie Schooner and of Richard Burgin's Rivers Last Longer in Pleiades.
Bad Marie is really a good book and an excellent read. It's a rare combination of being both literary and a good summer read. Highly recommended, in particular, for any fans of French film. The review goes into this, but its depiction of Paris is very enjoyable.
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Some news to share regarding criticism. My review of Justin Taylor's Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever will be appearing on The Millions early next month! It was just accepted this week.
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It's been surprisingly fun to work on literary criticism again after grad school–albeit in a way that isn't so strictly scholarly. It's a bit nerve-wracking to critique a young writer's work in public way also, but I'm not too afraid of doing so, it turns out. When I started thinking about reviewing books, I promised myself that I'd only review books that I really liked. For one, I wouldn't have to trash another writer. Second, it seemed boring to put that much effort into something that I couldn't connect with. And finally, it didn't make sense to help promote work that I didn't care for when that effort could be applied to promoting work I actually want others to read. Seems like sound logic to me.


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Burglary Foiled By Latino Meat Pies
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A recent event in New Mexico had Chuck Shepard written all over it. A place called Amigo's Mexican Food was robbed by a "slim, masked man" who ended up getting more than he bargained for.
While trying to escape with the cash register, the robber was struck on the back of the head by an Amigo's clerk, and dropped the register. The weapon of choice? A bag of frozen empanadas.
The clerk let out a guttural yell and released the empanadas with enough force to cause the robber to drop the register. If the empanadas had been from Gran Paris Bakery, the blow would have probably resulted in death.
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Okay, it's understood that every classic game can't appear immediately, as that would disrupt Nintendo's releases-every-week mojo, and we're only just now getting excellent titles like River City Ransom. But it almost seems as though someone at Nintendo had all the early NA Castlevania titles pasted to a dartboard, and a few drunken tosses determined which would be released and when. Where's Castlevania III? It's a mystery! You might as well tell us the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, or answer the question of just what a man is.
If we were following any logical system here, Castlevania III should already be out; its predecessors and follower are all present on the Virtual Console, and if we want to look at the timeline for the series, it actually takes place before these other games. One (that one being me) might argue that it is an essentially title and the fact that it has been overlooked is a travesty. But if you're not a Castlevania fiend from the old school, you might be wondering just what the fuss is all about.
Castlevania III is a starting point for a lot of things in the series, including the basic story. The championing of the Belmont family and the conflict with Dracula has its major roots here (though this isn't the earliest title in the timeline). But it's important for other reasons, as well: after Castlevania II took the series away from the platforming and sidescrolling action of the original, Castlevania III brought it back, and added a number of incredible new features.
With Castlevania III, you got the chance to choose your own adventure; at an early point in the game, you have the option of deciding how to proceed. And this isn't just a question of direction -- you've got the option of companions, or spirit helpers, (Sypha Belnades, Grant DaNasty, and the infamous Alucard), and the choices you make here (and later) determine how the game unfolds. It was a fantastic touch that added a whole new level of replayability, and collecting the different endings is a wonderful experience. Using each of the companions and capitalizing on their unique skills added a lot of depth and dimension to what could have been a very simple game.
Of course, you also have series mainstays, such as beautiful (for the time) graphics, and a wonderful soundtrack. The latter isn't quite as strong as that in Castlevania II, but it's still far and away the better soundtrack when compared to many other NES titles. But that's all just gravy; where this particular title really shines is in the aforementioned gameplay. Even now, the game stands the test of time in difficulty and amount of content, and would be a near must-buy for the Virtual Console.
Finally, this game is being adapted into an actually exciting project, and one that Paul W.S. Anderson isn't going anywhere near: a direct-to-DVD animated film adapted by Warren Ellis. But since that film is still in the beginning stages, let's hope no one is waiting for its release before we see this game on the Virtual Console. There are a lot of games we'd like to see added, but this one falls firmly into the category of games we need, and with a quickness.
Virtually Overlooked is a weekly feature that spotlights games that aren't yet on the Virtual Console, but should be. While it is usually written by retro-nut JC Fletcher, this week, Alisha Karabinus whipped him into submission, stuffed a pork chop (from behind a brick, naturally) into his mouth, and hijacked the column. Interested in seeing our other recommendations? You may peruse past editions here.


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Chopper is the doctor and youngest member of the Straw Hat Pirates. He is a reindeer that ate the Human-Human Fruit. This allows him to change into human form and talk.
Tony Tony Chopper was born a deer on Drum Island in the Grand Line. There as a young blue-nosed deer he was already shunned by the others of his kind. One day, he ate the Human-Human Devil Fruit and was changed so he could stand likea human and even speak. This only made him more of an outcast to other deer and humans treated him as a monster. That was until he met Doctor Hiriluk. the doctor took Chopper into treating him and taught him medical science. After the doctor's tragic death, he was further trained by Doctor Kureha.
Chopper was is a major character in the One Piece series, that was created by Eiichiro Oda. The series first began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump on August 4, 1997.
His first appeared in One Piece Volume 15, CH. 134 "Dr. Kureha", and the first anime appearance was in One Piece - Episode 81 "Are You Happy - A Doctor Called a Witch!". His Japanese voice actress is Ikue Otani , but while on maturity leave was filled in by Kazue Ikura (Ep. 254-263). For the U.S. dub produced by FUNimation is done by Brina Palencia.
Chopper is the second member of the crew to have a devil fruit and the only member to have a Zoan fruit. The Zoan fruit allows him to transform between 3 forms. One form is intellectual which is the form he is in most often. One form is for strength which he often uses in combat. The last form is for speed which he uses when traveling. Chopper also invented a pill called a rumble ball which gives him additional forms that come in handy during combat. The pill only lasts for a short time. If he consumes 3 within a short period of time he will lose control of himself and turn into a rampaging monster. Chopper is the youngest member of the crew and a reindeer. A gag however is that most people confuse him with a tanuki. A second gag is that when people give him a compliment he dances with joy but he yells at them trying to pretend he doesn't want their compliment. A third gag is when he tries to hide behind walls, putting his eyes behind the wall while the rest of his body remains visible.
Age: 17 (15 pre-time skip)
Distinguishing Marks: Blue Nose
Favorites: Cotton Candy and Medicine Books
Crew Position: Doctor
Specialty: curing / unarmed combat
Dream: To cure all diseases
First Bounty: 50 (Berry)
Chopper had been working as Kureha's assistant for many years. They had taken over the king's castle when Wapol ran rather than face the pirate Blackbeard. One day, a young man came climbing up the mountain carrying two ill friends. His name was Monkey D. Luffy. Luffy was originally chasing Chopper around trying to eat him, but then wanted him to join his pirate crew after he realized he could talk.
The castle came under attack when Wapol returned with his men. He fought using his rumble balls to defeated Kuromarimo and Chess, and Luffy helped in the fight as his friend. Luffy even protected Hiriluk's flag at the top of the castle. After Wapol was defeated, Luffy still tried to pressure Chopper to join his crew. he eventually relented. As they were leaving the island, they were sent off by Kureha revealing that she had finished Hiriluk's dream to show the winter island cherry blossoms.
His first adventure as a pirate was to the kingdom of Alabasta to help Princess Vivi to stop a civil war secretly instigated by Sir Crocodile and his Baroque Works gang. On the desert island, the crew were attacked by Marine officers after the Straw Hats then crossed the vast desert to what they thought was the rebel base. Unfortunately they had moved before their arrival. Once Luffy convinced Vivi to let him go after Crocodile, she led them ti Rain Base.
Chopper and Sanji were the only ones who weren't captured in a trap. Chopper posed as a decoy so Sanji could sneak in and free everyone. Luffy stayed behind to fight Crocodile so the rest could try and head to Alubarna to stop the war from starting. The war still began despite their plan and each of the crew teamed up to fight the Baroque Works officers. Usopp and Chopper paired off to fight Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas. While Usopp was seriously injured in the fight, Chopper used his Brain Point technique to find their weakness to help them win.
Everyone gathered together in the city, and Luffy arrived to fight Crocodile once again after his defeat. The crew were now trying to find the bomb in the town that Crocodile had planted. After the city was saved from he bomb and Crocodile defeated, they stayed in the castle to rest and heal. With Marines hunting the island, the crew had to sneak away. They said their goodbyes to Vivi at the coast as they sailed away.
While leaving Alabasta, they discovered that Nico Robin, Crocodile's right hand, had stowed away on the Going Merry. She wanted to join them and was allowed by Luffy. Almost immediately, a giant ship nearly crushed them from the sky. They had a small clash with salvagers and went to Jaya to investigate about the Sky Islands. The clues they found led them to a man named Montblanc Cricket. While the crew went in search for a South Bird, Cricket prepped their ship for the trip to the White Sea in the clouds.
The impromptu vacation in Skypiea came to an end when Chopper got dragged along with Nami, Zoro, and Robin, aboard the Going Merry, into the Upper Yard by the minions of God Eneru as bait for Luffy. Chopper stayed to guard the ship while the others explored Upper Yard. Chopper tried protecting the ship from Shura, but resorted to blowing the whistle to call for Gan Fal. Soon after Luffy and the others arrived, they formed a plan to raid a lost city of gold. That also when awry as Eneru's forces were battling the native Shandians.
Chopper got separated from the crew and ended up battling Gedatsu. This was Chopper's first solo battle. He won over Eneru's priest, but partly becasue Gedatsu was a complete moron. Chopper was struck down by Ohm, but woke form his injuries just as Luffy was about the defeat Eneru and save Skypiea from destruction. Once the Straw Hats raided the treasure Luffy found inside the belly of a giant python, the crew returned to the blue sea with the gratitude of the locals.
The crew got caught up in a round of Davy Back Fight with the Foxy Pirates partly thanks to Luffy's hotheadedness. Chopper was to take part in the second round Groggy Ball, but the Straw Hats lost round one, due to Foxy's cheating. Chopper was selected to join the Fox Pirates. He was won back when Zoro and Sanji won their match, despite being a man short.
After Luffy defeated Foxy, the crew were attacked by Admiral Aokiji. He froze Robin's entire body, and Chopper and Nami rushed her to the Merry to safely thaw her out. Chopper then also saved Luffy, who was frozen after losing to Aokiji.
Robin was with Chopper in Water Seven when she suddenly went missing. He found her later, but she was saying she was leaving the crew. Things got more hectic when Usopp left the crew, due to a conflict about leaving the damaged Going Merry; and the Straw Hats were wanted for attempted murder of Iceburg, the town's beloved mayor. They staked out the house for the attackers to return, and they did, along with Robin.
The CP-9 threw Zoro adn Luffy from the building, and Chopper saved Nami and Iceburg from the burning building. Iceburg then told them how he learned Robin joined the CP-9 to save them, and they were now taking her to Enies Lobby to die. Chopper and Nami scoured Water Seven to find Luffy and Zoro, Chopper found Zoro stuck in a chimney, and helped free him by giving him the katana he had dropped behind. With Sanji on Nami's train, the rest of the crew hopped on a second sea train to follow.
Luffy had gone on ahead and the Straw Hats struggled to catch up. Once at the top of one of the towers, they confronted Robin with the CP-9. After jumping the gorge on the sea train, Fukuro told them that one of the CP-9 had the key to Robin's sea stone cuffs. Chopper became so desperate in his fight with Kumadori that he violated the risks of using the Rumble Balls and used the Monster Point. He was completely unaware as he went on a rampage across Enies Lobby. He was attacking friend and foe. He was knocked out by Franky using Nami;s plan.
Chopper woke up on a ship, and Robin had been freed, though the crew was still surrounded by the Navy Buster Call forces. The crew fought to buy time while Luffy fought Rob Lucci, and they were able to escape on the Going Merry. Sadly, the ship cracked on the way back to Water Seven. They were forced to give the Merry a viking funeral and get a ride back on Iceburg's ship.
Water Seven erupted in a giant party, but soon after, the crew discovered they all had wanted posters for their part in Enies Lobby. However, Chopper was only deemed a pet of the crew and given a measly 50 berry bounty. Franky did offer to build a ship for the Straw Hats using the money his men had stolen from Usopp, and he joined the crew as the shipwright. The entire crew then sailed away on the Thousand Sunny.
Chopper had the perfect opportunity to meet one of his medical idols, Doctor Hogback, when he, Nami, and Usopp crashed ashore on Thriller Bark, but the island was filled with zombies and another monsters. As they investigated the island, they learned Hogback was creating the zombies with the powers of Gecko Moria, one of the Seven Warlords. With Luffy's shadow stolen to power the giant zombie Oars, the Straw Hats had to combine forces to battle the behemoth with Luffy's power.
It took their combined efforts to break Oars, and Chopper's medical knowledge plays a strategic part in the plan. The crew got their shadows back, and most were then knocked out by the shock wave created by Bartholomew Kuma. Chopper woke up to find Zoro in serious condition. When the crew left Thriller Bark, the living skeleton Brook had become their latest member.
After leaving the terrifying Thriller Bark, the crew came to the Red Line but couldn't find a way down to Fish-Man Island. After Luffy rescued a mermaid named Camei, she led them to a friend who could help them, but he had been captured by the Flying Fish Riders. They fought and defeated their leader Duval. the Hatchan took them to Sabaody Archipelago to get a special coating for their ship that would allow them to head to Fish-Man Island. When they didn't find Hatchan's friend at the bar of Shakky, Chopper went with them to Sabaody Park, an Camei was captured by kidnappers. They split up to find her, and Chopper was with Nami's group that planned to buy Camie's freedom, but she was obscenely outbid by a member of the Celestial Dragons. A major battle ensued when Luffy arrived and decked Saint Charloss for shooting Hatchan. When Rayleigh arrived to stop the fighting inside, they all escaped from the Marines with Camie and Hatchan back to Shakky's Bar.
It was there Rayleigh revealed he was the first-mate of Gold Roger. He gave them a Vivre Card so they could separate and hide while he coated their ship, but they didn't get the chance when a cyborg that looked like Bartholomew Kuma appeared. It took their combined effort to beat one, but more arrived to stop them with Sentomaru and Admiral Kizaru. Rayleigh tried to help, but the real Kuma appeared and started using his powers to make all the crew disappear. In desperation, Chopper used three Rumble Balls at once to use the Monster Point, but Kuma still cast him away from the island.
Chopper woke up and could barely move on Birdie Island in the South Blue. He was either attacked by giant birds, or the tribal people were trying to eat him. He found himself stuck in a conflict between the two. Being able to speak to the birds allowed Chopper to clear up the understanding between these factions. The birds had thought the humans were trying to harm their nests, but they were just trying to get to the herbs in that area for medicine. While Chopper was recovering from the aftermath, news arrived that Luffy had gone to Marineford and got caught into the war between the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates. Though, Ace had died in Luffy's arms.
Chopper had become all set to leave the Birdie Kingdom now that the conflict between the humans and the birds had been settled. He had taken off riding one of the giant birds and he got the paper from the News Coo. The paper reported Luffy had returned to Marineford with Rayleigh to ring the bell there and the picture on the paper revealed a secret message for the crew. They weren't going to meet as soon as possible, but would reunite after two years. Chopper tried returning to Birdie Kingdom in disguise, but the villagers saw through it. He discovered the wealth of information their library had on medicine. He swore to train hard to help Luffy in the future.
Chopper arrived on the island after the promised two years. He unfortunately was fooled by several Straw Hat imposters. He did run into the real Ussop and Nami after he ran away from the fakes for not caring about Robin being captured. Once everyone was back together, they set sail for Fish-Man Island at last. Chopper was kept busy during the trip, becasue Sanji was suffering from terrible nosebleeds every time he looked at Nami or Robin. The trip to the bottom of the sea was treacherous as they were attacked by pirates and a kraken. They did reach the island by shot past a group called themselves the New Fish-Man Pirates. The crew got separated as they blast into Fish-Man Island illegally.
Chopper woke up with Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji. They were at Camie's house, and she took them to Mermaid Cove. There, Sanji suffered a nosebleed so massive it could have cost him his life, but no one could give blood toa human becasue of a law. They eventually got him to a town and got him human blood. Chopper stayed with Sanji as he rested, but the royal guard tried to arrest them for some kidnapping charges. They ran into Hatchan, and Luffy arrived on a giant shark with Princes Shirahishi hidden inside. They then gathered up to leave for the Sea Forest. Much of the crew gathered there as Jimbei told them the history of Queen Otohime and Fisher Tiger. After the story, Hody Jones, the new Fish-Man Pirates leader, appeared on a screen announcing his take over of the kingdom and capture of Zoro, Usopp and Brook.
The Straw Hats gathered together to stop Hody's men from murdering the royal family. In this fight, Chopper was able to reveal many of his new transformations as he fought with Usopp to fight Daruma using similar tactics as they did in Alabasta. Though, Chopper used his finally controlled Monster Point to fight and defeat Dosun with ease. There was a giant party at royal palace after their victory, but later Chopper and the rest learned that Luffy had picked a fight with the crew of Big Mom, of the Four Emperors, while in town.
Upon reaching the New World, the crew were distracted by a distress call they intercepted that led them to Punk Hazard. Chopper stayed aboard rather than go on the island covered in flames with Luffy. Though, he and the rest of the crew were knocked out with gas and locked up in a cell on the other side of the island covered in ice. They found a living disembodied head of a samurai in the cell, then a room filled with giant children when they escaped. They took the kids with them, and ran into Traflagar Law, Smoker, and Tashigi at the exit. As they tried to run away, Law used his powers to mix up their minds and bodies. Chopper's mind was now in the body of Sanji. Chopper examined the children while in an ice cave, and he learned that had been given a highly addictive drug.
Franky was in Chopper's body and went with Luffy to retrieve Nami after he was caught by the Yeti Cool Brothers. When he returned, Chopper's body was injured, and Law was with Luffy. They had formed an alliance, and Law put everyone's bodies and minds back. Law carried Chopper back to the lab of Caesar Clown to find a cure for the kids. He distracted Monet while Chopper looked around. Chopper watched from hiding as Law and the rest of the Straw Hats were captured. He rushed off to find and help the children. He was aided by Mocha, one of the girls, as the rest of the kids were rampaging from the drug withdrawals.
Nami and Robin arrived as Chopper's Monster Point wore off. They ran after Mocha, who was trying to keep the drug away from them, but in a desperate move she swallowed all of them herself. They eventually got the kids under control after Sanji and the G-5 arrived, and they rushed to save Mocha's life. They stabilized her and got her out of the facility with everyone else. Chopper saved Mocha's life, and the kids left with the Marines back home. Chopper the the rest left Punk Hazard with Traflagar, Kin'emon, and Momonosuke.
Chopper and Usopp weren't thrilled that they were openly challenging a member of the Warlords as they traveled to Dressrosa to destroy Don Quixote Doflamingo's artificial devil fruit factory. However, Chopper was made part of the team with Nami and Momonosuke to protect the ship.
Chopper is a reindeer who ate the Human-Human Fruit (ヒトヒトの実, Hito Hito no Mi). This is a zoan-type devil fruit that grants the powers of transformation. Each zoan fruit have three forms of transformation. The users original form, hybrid, and animal. Since he's an animal that ate the human fruit, this gives him the ability to change into a human-like form and speak and understand human language. He can also still understand and communicate with animals.
Originally, Chopper required the use of Rumble Ball to transform into various forms, but his training on the Birdie Kingdom had added benefits. Chopper can now transform into any of his alternate forms at will, he added the Kung-Fu point, but he still needs the Rumble Ball to use Monster Point.
Through the use of his medical knowledge, Chopper was able to develop a drug that allows him to have various forms of transformation. He calls it the Rumble Ball. The effects of each rumble ball is temporary, and over use of the drug can have a terrible consequence.
Chopper can now use the Monster Point with the use of a single Rumble Ball. he now has control over himself in this form for three minutes, but he's paralyzed for nearly an hour after it wears off.
Chopper has been a member of the crew since soon after the Straw Hat Pirates entered the Grand Line. His first movie appearance was in a film based around Chopper. It was the third film in the One Piece series, One Piece - Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals (2002). The film was about Chopper being separated on an island filled with strange animals. During the time of the sixth movie, the standard voice actress Ikue Otani , was on maternity leave. Her temporary replacement, Kazue Ikura, performed the voice for Chopper in One Piece - Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (2005). In 2008 a special animated film was produced to be the ninth movie in the One Piece series. It was a remake of the Drum Island story where Chopper first joined the crew. One Piece- Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura. The continuity of events were drastically changed. Though much the story story remained the same, the Straw Hat Pirates already had their second ship, The Thousand Sunny; and crew members Nico Robin and Franky were already among the crew, two character who would not officially join the crew until after Chopper.
Name | Movies | TV Shows | |
Ikue Ōtani | 8 |
242 |
Brina Palencia | 2 |
40 |
Kazue Ikura | 1 |
10 |
Name: | Tony Tony Chopper |
Name: | トニートニー・チョッパー |
Romanji: | tonī tonī choppā |
Gender: | Male |
Birthday: | |
1st manga book: | One Piece #15 |
1st anime episode: | One Piece #81 |
1st anime movie: | One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals |
Aliases | Cotton Candy Lover Chopper |
One Piece '3D2Y' Overcoming Ace's Death! The Oath with Luffy's Crewmates!
A TV special that shows more of Luffy's training during the timeskip and features a new villain, Byrnndi World "The Destroyer of the World". |
Toriko and Luffy Meet Again! Find the Seafood Fruit! (Special)
Toriko and Luffy Meet Again! Find the Seafood Fruit! is the 2nd crossover between One Piece and Toriko. |
One Piece: Giant Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle
The Seventh movie in the One Piece series. The crew searches for the treasure of the King's Crown on a strange island. |
One Piece: Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in Winter, Miracle Sakura
The Ninth movie in the One Piece series. It is a alternate retelling of how the crew met Chopper. It also features Nico Robin, Franky, ... |
One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals
The Third movie in the One Piece series. |
One Piece: Curse of the Sacred Sword
The Fifth movie of the One Piece series. |
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
The Sixth movie in the One Piece series. A chance for a vacation goes horribly wrong as a festival takes a dark turn. |
One Piece The Movie: Dead End Adventure
The Fourth movie in the One Piece series. The Straw Hat crew enter the great pirate competition, The Dead End Race. |
One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase
The Eleventh movie in the One Piece series, and the first to be filmed using computer cell-shading and 3D. |
One Piece Film Z
One Piece Film Z is the twelfth movie of the One Piece series, and the first to take place post time skip. |
One Piece: Romance Dawn Story (OVA)
One Piece: Romance Dawn Story (OVA) is the animated remake of one of the original story pilots that would later become One Piece. |
One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Adventure on Hand Island (OVA)
One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Adventure on Hand Island is an OVA special. |
One Piece Episode of Merry: The Tale of One More Friend
One Piece Episode of Merry: The Tale of One More Friend is a compilation on story arcs from Luffy and Usopp's fight to Robin's disappearance ... |
One Piece Film: Strong World
The 10th One Piece film, due out in December 2009. A pirate from the age of Gold Roger has revealed himself to rise once more, ... |
One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta
One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta is the eighth movie in the One Piece series. A retelling of the Alabasta ... |


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Grace Bauer's books of poems include Nowhere All At Once (Stephen F. Austin University Press) Retreats & Recognitions (Lost Horse Press), Beholding Eye (Custom Words), and The Women At The Well (Portals Press), as well as four chapbooks -- most recently, Café Culture, from Imaginary Friend Press. She is also co-editor of the anthology, Umpteen Ways Of Looking At A Possum: Critical And Creative Responses To Everette Maddox. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Colorado Review, Georgia Review, New Madrid, Ploughshares, Poetry, Rattle and many others. Grace teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she has been awarded the Sorenson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities. She has also taught writing workshops at the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference and been a Visiting Writer at more than a dozen universities. Grace is a Senior Reader for the journal, Prairie Schooner, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize Competition. She is currently working on a new book of poems and a collection of inter-linked essays.
Lincoln, NE
James Crews has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in Columbia, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Best New Poets 2006 and 2009 as well as other journals. His manuscript, The Book of What Stays, recently won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in September of 2011. He currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Fiction Writer, Poet
Lincoln, NE
Immaculate Mulch was short listed for finalist in the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's Novella Prize.


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