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Kate Segal
Kate Segal | ||
Michigan House of Representatives District 62 | ||
Incumbent | ||
In office | ||
2009-Present | ||
Term ends | ||
January 1, 2013 | ||
Years in position | 6 | |
Party | Democratic | |
Leadership | ||
Minority Floor Leader, Michigan State House of Representatives | ||
2011-present | ||
Compensation | ||
Base salary | $71,865/year | |
Per diem | $10,800 yearly expense allowance | |
Elections and appointments | ||
Last election | November 2, 2010 | |
First elected | 2008 | |
Next general | November 6, 2012 | |
Term limits | 3 terms | |
Prior offices | ||
Commissioner, Calhoun County | ||
2002-2007 | ||
Education | ||
Bachelor's | Kalamazoo College | |
Websites | ||
Office website | ||
Campaign website | ||
Rep. Segal is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology, with a concentration in public policy and urban affairs. She lives in Battle Creek with her husband, Mike, and their daughter, Elise.
Campaign Themes
Segal's website highlights the following campaign themes:[1]
The Michigan Youth ChalleNGe Academy (MYCA)
- Excerpt:"While Kate and her team won the last fight to preserve this outstanding program, another tough budget year awaits us. It will take continued leadership in Lansing to ensure that the MYCA can move forward with its work offering the troubled youths of our community an opportunity to become productive citizens."
Saving jobs and encouraging growth in Calhoun County
- Excerpt:"Kate knows that the government does not create jobs. However, she believes we can create an environment that supports businesses and entrepreneurship through strong leadership and sound policy decisions."
Doing More with Less in State Government
- Excerpt:"In Kate's second term as your state representative, she will oppose cuts that threaten good programs and with them our state's recovery."
Strong Schools and High Quality Education
- Excerpt:"In light of budget cuts, Kate will ensure the efficient allocation of education dollars. Kate knows that we will only have a strong Michigan when we provide our children with the education they need to thrive."
Previous offices held
Prior to being elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, Segal served on the Calhoun County Board of Commissioners from 2002 to 2008, serving as chairwoman in her final term.
Political campaign history
- 2008 General Election for State Representative - Michigan's 62nd District
- Kate Segal (D), 62%
- Greg Moore (R), 38%
- 2008 Primary Election for State Representative - Michigan's 62nd District
- Kate Segal (D), 68%
- Tim Nendorf (D), 32%
Voting record
Key votes of 2009-2010
- Click below to see how this representative voted.
- Super Speedway, Lawmakers voting on whether TO EXTEND A SPECIAL TAX PERK for a super speedway.
- Driver Responsibility Fees, Lawmakers voting on whether TO IMPOSE 'driver responsibility fees.'
- Crony Capitalism, Lawmakers voting on whether TO RESTRICT THE RIGHT of shareholders to sell their own stock.
- Right to Work, Lawmakers voting on an amendment SUPPORTING RIGHT-TO-WORK zones.
- Dept. of State Cost-Saving, Lawmakers voting on whether TO SLOW DOWN PROGRESS ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S COST-SAVING CONSOLIDATION PLAN.
- Golf Carts, Lawmakers voting on whether TO SUBSIDIZE the production of electric vehicle batteries.
- Home Court Disadvantage, Lawmakers voting on whether TO GIVE MORE TAXING POWER to local government in Kalamazoo so it can finance a taxpayer-subsidized sports arena.
- Fire Safe Cigarettes, Lawmakers voting on whether TO BAN the sale of cigarettes that are not "fire safe."
- Balancing Act, Lawmakers voting on a budget to CUT REVENUE SHARING PAYMENTS to local governments as a way to balance the state budget without raising taxes.
- Balancing Act 2, Lawmakers voting on a cut of less than 3 percent to K-12 school aid payments so as to balance the state budget without tax increases.
- A Good Tax Gone Bad?, Lawmakers voting on the Michigan Business Tax.
- It's From the Children, Lawmakers voting on whether to RAID $90 MILLION from the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority.
- Left Behind, Lawmakers voting on whether TO FINANCE "No Worker Left Behind" with a 59.9 percent increase in general fund spending in the 2009 DELEG budget.
- First Class Schools, Lawmakers voting on whether to keep Detroit Public Schools' "first class" status even though the district no longer meets the population standard.
- Politically Correct Capitalism, Lawmakers voting on whether to INCREASE SUBSIDIES for plug-in traction battery packs used in electric cars.
- Politically Correct Capitalism 2, Lawmakers voting on whether to GIVE SUBSIDIES for Michigan film production.
- Politically Correct Capitalism 3, Lawmakers voting on whether to INCREASE ELECTRIC CAR SUBSIDIES for a subsidiary of a Korean battery company.
- Secret Ballot, Lawmakers voting on whether to keep a SECRET BALLOT for union elections.
- Property Taxes Assaulted Again, Lawmakers voting on whether to allow public schools to EXPAND THE USE OF SINKING FUND property tax spending.
- Sneak Attack, Lawmakers voting on whether to allow public schools to EXPAND THE USE OF SINKING FUND property tax spending.
- Grapes of Wrath, Lawmakers voting on whether TO BAN home shipment of beer and wine to Michigan consumers.
- Subsidize Manufacture of Electric Cars, Lawmakers voting on whether to authorize a refundable Michigan Business Tax credit for makers of plug-in traction battery packs used in electric cars.
- Authorize Special Tax Breaks for Ethanol Gas Stations, Lawmakers voting on whether to authorize a non-refundable Michigan Business Tax credit equal to 30 percent of the costs incurred by a gas station to convert existing pumps and tanks, or acquire new ones that deliver E85 ethanol or biodiesel fuel.
More voting record details
- List of all of Kate Segal's roll call votes, bills introduced, and floor amendments from MichiganVotes.org (use site's "advanced search" to narrow by date range, issue category and/or keyword).
- List of Kate Segal's 2 missed roll-call votes
Committee assignments
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Segal has been appointed to these committees:
In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Segal served on these committees:
Segal ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on August 7. The general election is November 6.[2]
Segal won re-election to the District 62 Seat in 2010. She had no primary opposition. She defeated Steven Mobley in the general election on November 2, 2010.
Michigan House of Representatives, District 62 General election (2010) | ||||
Candidates | Votes | |||
Kate Segal (D)' | 14,188 | |||
Steven Mobley (R) | 11,719 |
On November 04, 2008, Kate Segal ran for District 62 of the Michigan House of Representatives, beating Gregory Moore. [3]
Kate Segal raised $178,049 for her campaign.[4]
Michigan House of Representatives, District 62 | ||||
Candidates | Votes | |||
Kate Segal (D) | 25,029 | |||
Gregory Moore (R) | 15,426 |
Campaign donors
In 2010, Segal received $183,238 in campaign donations. The largest contributors are listed below.[5]
Michigan House of Representatives 2010 election - Campaign Contributions | |
Top contributors to Kate Segal's campaign in 2010 | |
Michigan House Democratic Fund | $53,463 |
Michigan Education Association | $5,000 |
Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association | $4,750 |
Michigan Auto Workers | $4,000 |
Michigan Trial Lawyers Association | $4,000 |
Total Raised in 2010 | $183,238 |
In 2008 Kate Segal collected $178,049 in donations. [6]
Her five largest contributors in 2008 were:
Donor | Amount |
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | $5,000 |
Progressive Womens Alliance | $5,000 |
Michigan List | $5,000 |
Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters | $5,000 |
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 333 | $5,000 |
Campaign contributions
Contributions Report from Michigan Secretary of State
Rep. Kate Segal
N0996 House Office Building
P.O. Box 30014
Lansing, MI 48909-7514
(517) 373-0555
Recent news
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Tea Party Scorecard
The Independent Tea Party Patriots, a Michigan Tea Party group, grades the votes of this and every other Michigan legislator on "core tea party issues" in a regularly-updated scorecard. 100% is considered an ideal rating.[7]
January 2011 - March 2012
Kate Segal received a 12% rating on the January 2011 - March 2012 Tea Party Scorecard.[7]
External links
- Kate Segal's personal website
- Michigan Legislature - Representative Kate Segal official government website
- Legislative profile from Project Vote Smart
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Michigan Votes - Kate Segal
- Campaign Contributions: 2008
- Kate Segal on Twitter
- ↑ "katesegal," Official Campaign Website
- ↑ Michigan Department of State, Official 2012 Primary Results
- ↑ Michigan House of Representatives official election results for 2008
- ↑ Follow the Money's report on Segal's 2008 campaign contributions
- ↑ Follow the Money - 2010 contributions
- ↑ 2008 contributors to Kate Segal
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michigan Votes, "Tea Party Scorecard Jan 2011-Mar 2012," accessed June 25, 2012
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Nebraska's Film Heritage presented by Leo Adam Biga: Tuesday, Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m., Durham Museum
Join me for-
Nebraska's Film Heritage Lecture
presented by Leo Adam Biga
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m.
Durham Museum
PLEASE NOTE: Reservations are required. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 402-444-5071.
Here is how the Durham is promoting my talk:
*Nebraska's Film Heritage
presented by Leo Adam Biga
Tuesday, February 17, 6:30PM
Stanley and Dorothy Truhlsen Lecture Hall, Durham Museum
Omaha author Leo Adam Biga highlights the story of Nebraska's rich legacy in cinema. Several native sons and daughters have made significant contributions and established major careers in the industry, both on screen and behind the camera. To this day, Nebraskans continue to make their mark in virtually every aspect of the industry and have received many honors, including Oscar recognition. Many hometown products are regarded as leaders, innovators and trailblazers, including the Johnson Brothers and their Lincoln Film Company, Harold Lloyd, Fred Astaire, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marlon Brando and Joan Micklin Silver.
Leo Adam Biga is an Omaha-based nonfiction author, award-winning journalist and blogger. His 2012 book Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film is a collection of his extensive journalism about the Oscar-winning filmmaker. Additionally, Biga is the coeditor of Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Mom and Pop Grocery Stores and the author of two e-books for the Omaha Public Schools. As a working journalist he contributes articles to several newspapers and magazines. His work has been recognized by his peers at the local, regional and national levels.
*Due to limited space, reservations are required. Please call 402-444-5071 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve your spot.. Cost of admission applies and members are FREE.
Join selected scholars for a special tour and commentary of Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen.
*March 7, 2015, 9AM and 11AM
Rachel Jacobsen, Executive Director, Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater
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Saturday, March 28, 2015, 10AM-3PM
Bring your friends for a day of boot camp…Hollywood style! Walk the red carpet, learn expert tips in costuming and make-up design, star in your own movie and much more. Plus, get your own star on The Durham Walk of Fame!
Regular Museum Admission Rates Apply
Free to Members
Katharine Hepburn Movie Series
Now – March 30
The Durham Museum is proud to partner with Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater for a series of movies that coincide with the costume exhibit, Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen.
All screenings will occur at Film Streams' Ruth Sokolof Theater (1340 Mike Fahey Street). For details and showtimes visit http://www.filmstreams.org.
Leo Adam Biga to deliver Nebraska Film Heritage lecture at Durham for Katharine Hepburn exhibit
My talk will touch on some of the figures from here, past and present, to have carved out successful cinema careers behind the camera and in front of the camera. These include household names and more obscure but no less important names. Far more Nebraskans than you think have made significant contributions to the industry or established themselves as solid working film artists. I will also discuss some of the significant films made here and premiered here. Additionally, I will highlight some of the legendary film artists who have passed through Nebraska. Finally, I will give props to some of the individuals and organizations that have enhanced the cinema culture here.
The Durham Museum is pleased to present Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen, an exclusive exhibition of Hepburn's personal costume collection organized by the Kent State University Museum. The exhibit features more than 35 costumes worn in 21 films and 6 stage productions spanning Hepburn's illustrious career. Among the items on display will be an ensemble of her signature tailored beige trousers and linen jackets, vintage posters, playbills, photos and other Hepburn-related artifacts, as well as stage costumes from The Philadelphia Story and Coco and screen costumes from Adam's Rib and Stage Door. From classic Hollywood dresses to Kate's personal "rebel chic," the exhibition highlights how Hepburn's sense of style influenced countless women and fashion designers. It helped to create the informal, elegant approach to American style seen on today's runways. Come see how this true icon of American culture came to epitomize the modern woman of the 20th Century.
*Nebraska's Film Heritage
Presented by Leo Adam Biga
Tuesday, February 17, 6:30PM
Stanley and Dorothy Truhlsen Lecture Hall
Omaha author Leo Biga highlights the story of Nebraska's rich legacy in cinema.*Katharine Hepburn: Master of her own Image
Presented by Amy Henderson of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Thursday, April 9, 6:30PMSCHEDULED TOURS
Join selected scholars for a special tour and commentary of Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen.*Backstage with Kate
February 7, 2015, 9AM and 11AM
Jean Druesedow, Director, the Kent State University MuseumMarch 7, 2015, 9AM and 11AM
Rachel Jacobsen, Executive Director, Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof TheaterApril 4, 2015, 9AM and 11AM
Dr. Barbara Trout – Professor – Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, College of Education and Human Sciences University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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February 6, 2015
6:30PM Lecture, Reception and exclusive preview of the exhibit to follow
Join the Durham Museum's On Track Guild and Honorary Chairs Gail and Mike Yanney for "An Evening with Kate." Jean Druesedow, Exhibition Curator and Director of the Kent State University Museum will discuss the exhibit, collection and Kate's life.
Tickets: $75
For more information or to make a reservation, contact the museum at 402-444-5071.
Hollywood Bootcamp
Saturday, March 28, 2015, 10AM-3PM
Bring your friends for a day of boot camp…Hollywood style! Walk the red carpet, learn expert tips in costuming and make-up design, star in your own movie and much more. Plus, get your own star on The Durham Walk of Fame!
Regular Museum Admission Rates Apply
Free to Members
Katharine Hepburn Movie Series
February 14 – March 30
The Durham Museum is proud to partner with Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater for a series of movies that coincide with the costume exhibit, Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen.
All screenings will occur at Film Streams' Ruth Sokolof Theater (1340 Mike Fahey Street). For details and showtimes visit http://www.filmstreams.org.
Visit The Durham Museum Hitchcock Museum Shop, Old-Fashioned Soda Fountain and the Photo Archive for 10% off Katharine Hepburn related gifts, treats and photos as part of your membership!
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Omaha couple Mauro and Christine Fiore forge a union based on film and family
Here is a short profile piece about an Omaha couple whose lives revolve around film and family, Mauro and Christine Fiore. He's an Oscar-winning cinematographer who works on A-list projects. She's a costume designer and the producer of an in-development indie feature based on the best-selling novel The Persian Pickle Club. They met on the set of a film they both worked on. They have three children together. Whenever the film Christine is producing ends up shooting, Mauro will light it. That's keeping it in the family. Mauro is a native of Italy who moved to the States with his family when he was young. Christine is a native Omahan. The couple have made their home in Omaha for the last several years even as Mauro's career blew up. She and the kids often travel to his far-flung sets. They also travel as a family to his small hometown in Italy, where he has many relatives and where they regard him as a kind of hero and superstar. It may surprise some folks to know that Mauro is one of three Oscar winners living in Omaha. He won his for Avatar. Then there's recently retired editor Mike Hill, an Omaha native who won his for Apollo 13. And then there's Omaha native Alexander Payne, who won his writing Oscars for Sideaways and The Descendants. This article never made it into the local magazine it was written for, so I'm publishing it here for the first time.
Omaha couple Mauro and Christine Fiore forge a union based on film and family
©by Leo Adam Biga
The metro's small but robust cinema community includes Film Streams and the Omaha Film Festival along with several working industry professionals, among them Oscar-winning cinematographer Mauro Fiore (Avatar). He's among three Academy Award recipients residing here. The others are editor Mike Hill (Apollo 13) and filmmaker Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants).
Fiore's most recent director of photography feature work came on The Equalizer last summer in Boston, The projected 2015 release reunited him with Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington from Training Day.
But Fiore, originally from Italy, isn't the only film pro in his own household. His wife Christine Vollmer Fiore, a native Nebraskan, is a costume designer and the producer of an in-development feature adaptation of the best seller, The Persian Pickle Club. Mauro's slated to light it.
The couple actually met in 1997 on an independent picture largely shot in Neb., Love from Ground Zero. At the time each lived in L.A., traveling wherever projects called them. Christine finds it "ironic" the film that brought their itinerant lives together happened in her home state. They settled here after marrying. He regularly goes off to do commercials and features.
They are the parents of three children – Olivia, Tessa and Luca. The Fiores view Neb.'s as a healthy grounding from the hustle, bustle and hype of L.A., where they also have a home.
"We knew we didn't want to raise kids in L.A.," Christine says. "It's kind of nice to be here and have blinders on and not be affected by what's out there."
It's a stable sanctuary the can count on.
"It's nice to have a firm place and not really worry about Christine when I'm gone because her family's here,' Mauro says. "I feel really safe there's somebody here to support her. I've come to really appreciate it because when I'm here it's all about the family and helping Christine any way I can."
During his absences Christine runs a tight ship.
"I'm very schedule and routine-oriented," she says.
She purposely doesn't make a big deal of his departures.
"It's kind of no-nonsense, no tear because it'd be too much tough emotionally. It's like, 'Dad's leaving but he's going to come back and now I need help around the house from all of you.' Then when Mauro comes back home we still have the same routine. Dinner's at 5:30. I think it makes it easy for Mauro to kind of slide back in."
The family visits his far-flung movie locations, such as Puerto Rico.
His Hollywood colleagues are surprised he lives far afield from film industry centers.
"They find it very odd," he says. "But with Alexander Payne Neb. sort of has a mystique. They appreciate it's a different way of living, more old fashioned or traditional."
That normal, laidback lifestyle is what appeals to the Fiores.
"Omaha is manageable," Christine says. "It's easy to go to the airport and to the zoo…"
"It's easy, it's familiar," Mauro adds. "We've found several friends around the community of schools the kids attend."
They enjoy, too, how much more house they can afford here. They lived in Hawaiian Village before moving into their present home last year. The ranch-style in Elkhorn sits on a 6-acre lot with a view.
"We really love the property," Mauro says. "It has a piece of land that stretches out to the river. You don't really find that too much anymore."
They appreciate the open floor plan, banks of tall windows and homey features.
He says, "It's just the uniqueness of the place and the fact we can really grow into this and make it our home."
"It's not like a builder's model home," Christine says. "It's different, it has personality."
They're now updating the downstairs to accommodate a craft room for the sewing Christine and the kids do.
In her spare time she wears her producer hat trying to get Persian Pickle Club financed. Setting up a film is a new experience for them.
"It's been a great learning process to see the inner workings because I never really knew what it took. I'm never on that side of it," he says.
He admires how "Christine's done it all from here – figuring out ways to push it along."
They're admittedly anxious to start production because making films is what they know best.
Mauro eagerly shares his expertise. He photographed an Omaha Film Festival promo. He's served as a panelist-presenter at OFF and Film Streams. The couple support the opera, the symphony, Kaneko and other local arts-cultural offerings they find on par with anywhere.
Follow her project on Facebook or at http://www.thepersianpickleclub.com/.
Review his credits on the Internet Movie Data Base at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278475/.
Gabrielle Union having it all between her own series, new film, producing, marriage and family
Native Nebraskans' own many Hollywood-made-good stories. One of the best belongs to Gabrielle Union, who sort of fell into acting by way of modeling and hasn't looked back since in building a significant career in television and film that shows no signs of slowing down and that in fact appears to be getting richer and deeper with time. Here's a preview of my new story about her for The Reader (http://www.thereader.com/). It will hit newsstands and the paper's website Dec. 10-11. The Being Mary Jane star talks about her popular BET series, the hot new Chris Rock film Top Five she has a supporting role in, an upcoming Lifetime movie she produced, the impactful documentary series Half the Sky she participated in. Now married to longtime boyfriend NBA superstar Dwyane Wade, she is loving being a step-mother in addiiton to being a doting daughter and sister. You can find on my blog my earlier stories about Gabrielle, whom I've been covering since the early 2000s.
Gabrielle Union having it all between her own series, new film, producing, marriage and family
©by Leo Adam Biga
Soon to appear in The Reader (http://www.thereader.com/)
My, how time flies. It seems only yesterday Omaha's own Gabrielle Monique Union first caught our attention on the big screen with her scene-stealing turn as the diva rival to Kirsten Dunst in the wickedly funny high school cheerleader comedy Bring It On.
Hard to believe that was 15 years ago.
Now 42 and firmly established as a Black Hollywood star, red carpet fashion plate and natural beauty spokesperson, Union's at a career apex few native Nebraskans ever reach in the business. In 2014 alone she starred in her own hit BET series, Being Mary Jane, co-starred in the successful film Think Like a Man Too and produced a Lifetime movie. Oh, and on a personal note she married longtime boyfriend, NBA star baller Dwyane Wade in an American royals-style wedding.
A definite presence at her hubby's Miami Heat games, she caused a buzz when she jokingly interrupted a recent live post-game interview Fox Sports did with him. He'd returned from the injury list to score 27.
"It was OK," she deadpanned about his performance to the bemused sideline reporter and to viewers, while styling a black fedora over her long black locks to match her basic black dress. "I mean, a hamstring pull, wow, to come back with 27 points. We're going to talk about the free throws (he was 5 for 9) later. But he did good for an old geezer."
Wade appeared to take the upstaging and teasing in stride.
She's lately been propping her new film, the acclaimed Top Five from Chris Rock. which has opened to strong box-office.
"I shot that movie last summer in New York right after we did Think Like a Man Too," she says.
Originally titled Finally Famous, its story centers on Rock's character Andre Allen, a standup comic-turned actor who, ala Joel McCrea's idealistic director in the Preston Sturges classic Sullivan's Travels comes unhinged after going all serious. With Allen's pretentious new film a dud, he feels dislocated from his true identity. The recovering addict feels pressure, too, from a reality TV crew covering him and his celeb fiance Erica, played by Union, as their planned televised wedding draws near. Then there's his instant relationship with a reporter, Chelsea (Rosario Dawson), with whom he finds In the space of a few hours more truth than the surreal media circus his life's become.
"It's really the story of the upside and the downside of fame and chasing fame," says Union, who sports blonde hair, big glasses and gaudy bling in the role. "The story follows a day in the life of Chris' character and it just happens to be when he's got to kind of look at some hard truths and decide how does he really want to live and why that is and he kind of gets lost in himself.
"It sounds really deep and at times I think it very much is but it's also really, really funny."
Tracy Morgan and Cedric the Entertainer co-star and Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler and Whoopie Goldberg make cameos.
Despite going way back Union and Rock never worked together before the project.
"I mean, Black Hollywood is pretty small, so we all kind of run into each other and know each other and definitely Chris and I do. With him being such a huge Knicks fan I've run into him many times over the years (at Heat games). We have a lot of mutual friends as well," says Union, who among basketball wives is the queen bee now that Eva Longoria and San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker have split.
Seeing Rock at work on the set gave Union a new appreciation for him.
"Chris was not only acting but he wrote it and directed it as well, so watching him put all those hats on was amazing and very inspiring. But honestly I felt bad for the man because it's like he never got off work. But he handled it all very, very well."
She says the the spirit of Rock's free-wheeling, anything-goes standup act infuses the film, which has received glowing reviews since its September Toronto International Film Festival premiere.
"I think people are going to be surprised. It's a different kind of role for him, even though it might seem playing a standup comedian would be easy for him. But I really watched him blossom as an actor and as a director as well on the set."
She feels he brought out in her emotional notes and layers she hadn't accessed before on screen.
"Sometimes when the leader's been where you've been as an actor they know the right things to ask, they know how to finesse a situation, they know how to get the best out of you as an actor because they've been an actor. That's really what Chris was able to bring to me that was unique from other directors. He had a different perspective of each scene I found very, very helpful. He also challenged me in a way other directors haven't."
Just as Rock didn't need to research the capricious nature of fame, neither did Union. They both live it. The heat of celebrity for her is more intense than ever now that she and Wade are married. Just last summer, while the couple honeymooned, nude pictures of her and other female celebs were hacked and posted online. Where she's taken a diplomatic stance about intrusions of privacy, she's gone on the offensive this time. She penned a Cosmopolitan essay equating the pandering and profiteering of private nude images to sex crimes and called out feminist groups for not protesting their release. "The silence has been deafening," she recently told Meredith Vieira, adding that celebs like her are subject to "victim-shaming," something she can't abide having survived rape as a college student.
Much like the characters she plays, Union can be bold in speaking her mind. Mary Jane Paul is very close to her in that way. In season one the trials and tribulations of her title character – a successful single black female struggling to balance work demands and romance issues – became the stuff of countless Tweets, chats, blog posts and Facebook shares. After a 5 million viewership pilot debut and consistently strong ratings over its 12-episode run, BET recently renewed the series. Season two premieres February 3.
"I couldn't ask for a better reception to be honest," Union says. "We knew we did great work but it doesn't always translate and to have the audience respond so well and to basically blow up social media every week was awesome."
Mary Jane's the latest in a long line of strong, smart, confident characters played by Union, who is a women's rights advocate.
University of Nebraska at Omaha dean and professor of communication Gail F. Baker says, "Gabrielle Union occupies a unique position among African-American women in media – one she has carved out for herself. She has 'quietly' established an exceptional career across myriad platforms – movies, television, advertising – while playing a smart and independent woman. Union brings a special blend of savvy and sophistication to each role. She¹s a trailblazer on many fronts."
Those qualities are precisely the ones Union says her mother, Theresa Glass Union, instilled in her and her two sisters.
"Having three highly successful daughters is a testament to the job she did," she says.
Union enjoys how Mary Jane's story speaks to her own life and the lives of many women she knows. Just like her character, Union knows what it's like dealing with family pressures and expectations, the ticking biological clock, the dating scene, romantic commitment and standing firm to do the work and to follow the path you want, not what others want. Making the show relevant means a lot to her.
"I'm proud of it," she says. "It's the most I've ever worked in my life being the star of the show and having lots of other responsibilities but I love it, and I love doing it. I love the writing, I love the direction, I love how it looks stylistically. I'm really pleased.
"For us being their (BET's) first original dramatic series we're all sort of learning together and it's been a great partnership. It's not my way or the highway, it's very much a collaborative effort and BET's been pretty patient in launching this as their first dramatic series. So I think we've all kind of handled it well."
She's glad to portray a character and front a series that transcend black women stereotypes, which she feels have limited opportunities for female artists of color on screen and behind the camera She acknowledges "we've seen improvements," noting the breakout success of Shonda Rhimes, producer-creator-writer of mega-hits Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal. But, she says, "it goes in waves," adding, "Like right now we've got a lot of women heading up their own shows" – herself, Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, Jada Pinkett Smith, Taraji Henson – "so it's improving, but if any of these shows fail then next year we'll kind of be back at the drawing board."
Mary Jane marks a major step for Union. For starters, its powerhouse creators Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil (The Game) developed it for her. Now that she and that husband-wife producing team have a popular series together they're likely to collaborate again. Next, the show gives Union her first successful starring platform on TV after the misfire of her previous (ABC) series Night Stalker, in which she co-starred with Stuart Townsend, and her recurring roles in the equally short-lived Life and Flash Forward.
Then there's the fact Union clearly carries this series. Its success rides almost entirely on her performance and on the writing.
"It's tough to turn out 12 episodes of exciting, engaging material and we absolutely have done that. It's been looking good and I'm pleased with the writing for sure."
The key to any episodic series enduring is developing different, deeper shades of its main characters. Union's satisfied she's getting to plumb the depths of one complex sister in Mary Jane, whose tough as nails exterior covers a fragile interior.
"The writers have been absolutely brilliant at pushing her buttons. They give me a lot of different places to go with the character. She's definitely not Johnny-One-Note, which I'm excited about."
Now that Union's proven she can hold an audience week after week network and studio execs may be more willing to have her head-up a future series or movie. That's important because until Mary Jane it'd been a while since she got top billing. She's at an age, too, when actresses get passed over for younger women, though her youthful, glam looks – she's fronted several beauty brands – are an asset.
It doesn't hurt being part of a power black couple who by making it official in August consolidated their mad pop culture currency. During her series hiatus Union and Wade said their I-dos at a lush outdoor ceremony in Miami that saw John Legend perform. A much-seen photo released by the couple, who began seriously dating in 2009, pictured them with his two sons from his first marriage, Zaire and Zion, and a nephew, Dahveon, he's been raising. They looked every bit a family.
Wade authored the 2012 book, A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball. He supports numerous programs for kids and families. Union wrote the foreword to Hill Harper's 2008 book Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny. With both acutely conscious of their role model status, their party days may not be completely behind them but when not working these two are domestics focused on family.
After taking a time-out in their relationship a year ago or so, the couple worked it out and things culminated in the wedding Gabrielle's mother describes as "wonderful, beautiful and poignant – full of both loving personalities," adding, "I was happy that Gabrielle was happy." Long before the marriage, Theresa saw her daughter's maternal instincts kick-in:,
"Gabrielle has embraced the role of the adult female in Dwyane's household to his two sons and to his nephew." Now that Nicki, as her family calls her, is married, Theresa says, "I feel she has taken to parenting as the capable person I know her to be."
Union had no children with her ex, former NFL player Chris Howard. Union's hinted she and Wade plan having a child together.
Besides being a wife and mom, she's branched out into producing. Her first project as an executive producer is the upcoming Lifetime movie With This Ring. Jill Scott, Eve and Regina Hall play three single friends who vow to get hitched after attending the wedding of a mutual friend. The movie's adapted from the book The Vow, which Union optioned five years ago and sold to Sony Pictures Television for Lifetime.
After a long wait to get it made, she found the producing role fulfilling.
"I mean, to finally get things off the ground is very satisfying. Being able to be in a position where you can put talented people to work is incredibly satisfying. It's just a different struggle as a producer than it is as an actor. It's a different conversation. I'm still learning, I'm a novice, so I'm trying to say less and learn more."
Union anticipates developing more projects, perhaps ones to star in. She's only prepared to wear so many hats behind the camera though.
"I absolutely don't want to direct. I want to produce though for sure. I'm definitely going to be up for opportunities that challenge me and inspire me and tickle my fancy. So maybe a year from now after we're (Mary Jane) syndicated I can think about trying my hand at something else."
Besides being well-liked in the industry, Union's well-connected. In addition to her association with the Akils, she's aligned herself with another major industry player, Tyler Perry, two of whose franchise films, Daddy's Little Girls and Good Deeds, she's appeared in. Her best friend in the business is actress Sanaa Lathan, Then there are all the ensemble pieces she's been in with Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Taraji Henson and Kevin Hart from the Think Like a Man movies.
Union says it's a bonus "anytime you can work with your friends and we've been friends, the vast majority of the cast, like for well over a decade. We just have a lot of fun. To get paid to do what we want and to hang together, well, it's like stealing from the studio."
In 2012 she stretched herself to serve as a celebrity advocate for the multi-platform PBS documentary series Half the Sky that examined the oppression of girls and women in developing nations.
The title came from the best selling book by New York Times journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sherly WuDunn.
Union spent two weeks with Kristof and executive producer and director Maro Chermayeff for a segment set in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. The actress got close with two girls there, Duyen and Nhi, both of whom contend with barriers to try and further their education.
"Their stories are amazing and their overcoming adversity kind of puts everything in perspective," says Union.
The actress got especially close to Nhi, whose father forced her to sell lottery tickets, a time consuming job that interfered with her education. Union came away inspired by "the perseverance of these young girls, who move hell and high water to get an education. If that means paying for it themselves, they pay for it themselves, if that means living away from their families they do that."
She's discovered that her segment made an impression on people and she leaves no doubt the impact it made on her.
"When people come up to you you never know what part of your work kind of resonates with them or that they connect with. But I'm always pleasantly surprised when people ask me about Half the Sky. They're usually interested in if I know whatever became of any of the subjects. Since I left Vietnam Dwyane and I have sponsored Nhi's education. I know you're not supposed to get personally involved with the subjects but we couldn't help ourselves. There was no way I could leave Nhi there with her dad, so Dwyane and I pay for her schooling.
"She's a bright girl and she's doing well, she's thriving. We're happy about that."
Union's passion for children extends to the new siblings she gained a few years ago when her mother adopted three children a relative could not care for herself. Keira (8), Miyonna (6) and Amari (4) are being raised by Union's mother, who recently moved with the kids from Omaha to Arizona, where one of Gabrielle's sisters lives and where more Union family members have since moved. Gabrielle's enjoying the new family dynamic.
"It's like we're starting over and I've kind of come back to be in big sister mode again, trying to get another set of young people and mold them and try to provide as much as we can. It's kind of like we're going back in time and we get to do it over and fix some of the mistakes we made in the past. My mom very much believes in we are our brother's keeper and you're only as strong as your weakest link, and she refuses to let our family down. Where other people might say that's the next man's responsibility my mom feels like our family is our responsibility and you try to do your best for your family."
Union admits she enjoys spoiling her little sisters and brother.
"The gifts arrive and then my mom kind of filters them out, not as they arrive but sort of as good behavior happens, so they're not fully getting all of my spoiling. They're great kids, I really love them."
About her daughter's generosity, Theresa says, "She does a lot for us as a family. She has smanaged to make the birthdays for each child special. My daughter gave me the Kentucky Derby one year as a birthday present. That is the most marvelous party in the world."
Now that her mother's no longer living in Omaha, it's an open question when Gabrielle might next make it back for the biennial Native Omaha Days or the annual Bryant-Fisher family reunion and its Dozens of Cousins. Union's ridden in the Omaha Days parade. Union and Wade showing up, as they've done, would cause a stir. She says no matter how famous they get though it doesn't change how they roll.
"Not to us, maybe for other people who aren't expecting to see us at a restaurant or something. I'm lucky that my family's really down to earth. They know that when we come to Omaha we don't want to be treated any differently than any of the other cousins. I think it's more how other people perceive us. But for us it's just nice to get out and see family and catch up. We're definitely not trying to make spectacles of ourselves by any stretch."
Nebraska Film Currents
Nebraska Film Currents
©by Leo Adam Biga
Monday night's David O. Russell-Alexander Payne cinema summit got me to thinking about past film royalty visits to Nebraska. In the annals of Neb. film history, precious few notable Hollywood figures have come here to shoot or to make public appearances or for that matter to make private appearances. I don't claim to have an exhaustive history of these cinema drop-ins, but the ones that come to mind, include:
Much of the MGM 1938 classic film Boys Town was shot in Boys Town and greater Omaha, which brought director Norman Taurog and stars Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney here, and all of them, along with studio czars, came for the world premiere here; Read about it at-
Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and other principals from the 1939 film Union Pacifc came for the world premiere here.
Robert Taylor hunted at Ducklore Lodge and may have been a guest at the Storz Mansion on Farnam Street.
James Stewart was also a guest at Storz Mansion parties.
In the mid-1950s Henry Fonda and Dorothy McGuire, both at their peak fame, came to do performances of The Country Girl as a benefit to fund construction of the new Omaha Community Playhouse – each was an OCP alum – and Henry's daughter Jane was part of the cast as well; Henry Fonda came back many times to support the Playhouse and the Stuhr Museum.
In 1965 Betty Grable starred in the national touring company production of Hello, Dolly at the Omaha Music Hall. Another national tour of Dolly starred Carol Channing at the Orpheum Theater.
In 1967 Otto Preminger was one of two guests of honor at a Creighton University film festival – the other was experimental filmmaker Stan Brackhage.
A year later Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Shirley Knight, James Caan and Robert Duvall came for the last few weeks shooting on the road movie, The Rain People, which Coppola wrote and directed; Lucas was along for the ride to document the making of the film; in the ensuing years Robert Duvall returned to Neb. several times to make the documentary We're Not the Jet Set about the rambunctious Ogallala-area ranch-rodeo family, the Petersons; Read about all this at-
Jane Fonda, who did part of her growing up in Omaha, came for the regional premiere of On Golden Pond at the Orpheum Theater; some 30 years later she sat where David O. Russell did for an interview Alexander Payne did with her at the Holland.
Marlon Brando paid a visit to his birthplace and hometown in the 1980s and did an awkward but entertaining television interview with Peter Citron.
Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Crossing Delancey) came back to her home state to accept a Sheldon Film Theater tribute in Lincoln; read one of my many pieces on Joan at-
Peter Fonda, who's been known to pass through unannounced, picked up the same award from the Sheldon.
Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jeff Daniels were in and around Lincoln making the James Brooks film Terms of Endearment; Winger and then Neb. Governor Bob Kerrey became romantically involved and were frequently seen together in Lincoln and Omaha.
Too Wong Foo filmed here with Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo in and out of drag.
Sean Penn filmed The Indian Runner in and around Plattsmouth with principal cast members Viggo Mortensen, David Morse, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson, Sandy Dennis, Dennis Hopper and Co.; Penn returned as an actor for The Assassination of Richard Nixon written by Omaha native Kevin Kennedy.
Alexander Payne has directed four of his six features here and those projects have brought a gallery of notables to Omaha and thereabouts; Citizen Ruth (Laura Dern, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston, Swoosie Kurtz, Burt Reynolds, Tippie Hedren, Kenneth Mars); Election (Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon); About Schmidt (Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates); Nebraska (Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Stacy Keach); Buy my book about Payne and his work at-
Payne has brought Laura Dern, Debra Winger, Steven Soderbergh, Jane Fonda, the principal cast of Nebraska and most recently David O. Russell as the special guest for the Film Streams Feature event; Read my pieces about Payne's latest Film Streams cinema conversations at-
Bruce Crawford has actually hosted more cinema legends in Omaha than Payne, having brought Ray Harryhausen, Janet Leigh, Patricia Neal, John Landis,Debbie Reynolds, Shirley Jones, Patty Duke and most recently Tippi Hedren; Read some of my interviews with these legends at-https://leoadambiga.wordpress.com/…/09/06/unforgettable-patricia-n…/ and https://leoadambiga.wordpress.com/…/hollywood-legend-debbi…/
Gabrielle Union visits her hometown of Omaha now and again but never for any film function; Read two of my profiles of her at-
Yolonda Ross (Go for Sisters) has been getting back more frequently to her shared hometown of Omaha for film related events; Read my profiles of her at-
Nick Nolte made a surprise appearance at his Omaha Westside High School class reunion a few years ago.
Nick Fackler worked with Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn, among others, on his Lovely, Still made in his hometown of Omaha; Read two of my stories about Nick and Lovely, Still at-
EXTRAS: I have interviewed several more film notables who have passed through Nebraska, including Robert Duvall, James Caan, Shirley Knight, Laura Dern, Bruce Dern, Bill Cosby, Mickey Rooney, Danny Glover, Swoosie Kurtz, Marg Helgenberger, Dick Cavett and Jon Jost; my inteviews with them can all be found on my blog, leoadambiga.wordpress.com, with the exception of Rooney and Helgenberger.
And I have interviewed all three living Oscar winners who reside here: Mauro Fiore, Mike Hill and Alexander Payne, whom I've interviewed dozens of times. My pieces about these film figures are also on my blog.
Omaha native goes where his film passion leads him: James Duff and filmmaker wife Julia Morrison shot debut feature 'Hank and Asha' on two continents
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally appeared in Metro Magazine (http://www.spiritofomaha.com/)
Couple's film played to hometown crowd in Omaha Omaha native James E. Duff goes to extreme lengths feeding his film passion. He once went across the country by scooter to make a documentary. He's directed films and taught filmmaking in Africa and Europe. His latest travels resulted in his debut narrative feature, Hank and Asha, a micro indie flick he co-wrote with his wife, Julia Morrison.
He directed and she produced the picture shot in the Czech Republic and on the Lower East Side of New York City, where the couple reside.
The film's been well received at art houses and festivals, winning audience favorite awards. It's now available on DVD,
Duff's cinema journey wend its way here in May when he and Julia presented their movie at Film Streams. The Omaha premiere played to a warm, enthusiastic crowd, including his folks. It marked a special homecoming for Duff, who's followed a long road pursuing his art.
"It was fantastic. I have such a home team here. Omaha supports their own. It's a really special feeling to see friends and family in the theater," he says, adding the celebratory turnout "felt like a wedding."
It was a full circle moment for the filmmaker, whose love of cinema was stoked watching classic movies with his father, Dr. Wally Duff, as a child and habituating the Dundee Theater as a teen.
The filmmaker joins a select group of Nebraskans (Joan Micklin Silver, Dan Mirvish, Alexander Payne) who've directed widely seen features.
This prodigal son spent 20 years honing his craft in far-flung places: Indiana University; the USC School of Cinematic Arts (his thesis film Life is a Sweet played festivals worldwide); New York City, plus those directing and teaching adventures oceans away.
As a kid he collected stamps from foreign countries and now he's made it to some of the same spots he imagined visiting.
"I've always kind of had a wanderlust. When I was 5 and I first knew what a globe was I looked at the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and declared, 'I'm going to go there.' At 19 I studied my junior year abroad and actually backpacked down into the Cape."
Following his intrepid spirit he captured a 1994 coast-to-coast bicycle trek from the back of a scooter. Feeling his Generation X was unfairly stereotyped as slackers he joined fellow recent college graduates for the fundraising bike trip from California to North Carolina to document "people's opinions about our generation."
"We cut right across middle America, biking 80-90 miles a day, staying in these really small towns. We spent some nights at campsites. Churches and families put us up other nights."
He did the 35-days on a Honda Elite. His roommate, who'd never operated a scooter, drove with Duff on the back holding the camera.
By journey's end the scooter was beat up after several wipeouts. "When we'd go down it'd be like slow motion because all I was thinking about was the camera. I was 21 and I didn't think I could get killed." The fragile Ricoh Hi-8 camera was another matter. "A couple times it broke and I thought the trip was over, but I found this amazing repair shop in a little town that fixed it."
The trek complete, Duff found himself in unfamiliar territory with no place to edit. Then he got a grant from a film support group and permission to use a corporate editing suite in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle Park.
"I had 75 hours (of footage) to get down to one."
Working under severe time constraints he endured panic attacks and exhaustion, often laboring through the night.
"I'd go there and lock myself in with a peanut butter sandwich."
When he previewed the film for backers, he says, "I couldn't watch it, but they really liked it. They put on a big screening for the community." Much to his surprise the film, The Cycle Also Rises, sold to PBS and aired nationwide on the POV series. It confirmed for the Westside High grad his boyhood fascination with film could become a career.
Though documentaries became his forte, he longed to make dramatic films. He tested the waters in L.A. "I wrote a couple scripts that were close to getting made but I got frustrated not working as a director." He relocated to New York to direct theater. When an opportunity arose to go back to Africa, this time to make development documentaries in Senegal for nongovernmental organizations, he took it.
"The work was very West Africa. You'd show up on time and nobody else would come for another hour. Then the equipment wouldn't work. Constant frustration. But when we'd show up to these little villages people would welcome us so warmly. They're beautiful, kind people."
His docs covered such topics as HIV prevention and circumcision. He independently made a film about Senegal's lost 20-something generation. He cherishes his two years there.
"It was a really fantastic experience. The food and music is amazing. There's a lot of artists with a lot to say. My memories are not so much of the work but of these most intense friendships.""
In 2007 he went back to another old stomping ground, Kenya, for a UNESCO project working with aspiring filmmakers.
"I've never taught students so passionate. They all wanted so badly to do this. I found it so inspiring to teach them just simple things. "
In 2010 he went to a refugee camp in the Sahara to teach filmmaking to the displaced and oppressed Saharawian people.
"The camp had no electricity or running water. They'd put up a screen in the bed of a truck and project movies. That was their film festival. They also had a 'film school' where I taught. We were training the people to make films so that the world could know their plight. Some students did make films but they're not getting out."
From Prague to New York with love
Duff then taught at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic. Julia joined him on the faculty. Their students were an international lot. Just as in Africa, Duff learned how film cuts across all barriers.
"The gift of cinema is universal," he says. "To put that tool in people's hands is so empowering. Giving them a camera is such a potent thing."
In 2011-12 the couple enlisted some of their students as crew for Hank and Asha, a story about two aspiring filmmakers, Hank in New York and Asha in Prague, whose relationship plays out entirely by video letters. Inspiration came from the disconnection Duff, Morrison and their students felt far from home and from a friend who courted his wife via video love letters. Watching the friend's videos, Duff says, "felt like we were on the inside of this relationship watching it grow." That intimate glimpse at budding romance and the anticipation that attends it, is what the filmmakers were after in their own project.
To their delight, Duff and Morrison found they make an effective team.
"It's really worked out well in our partnership because we have two different skill sets," Duff says. "Julia came from producing and is a killer producer and I come from a directing background and that's kind of how we blended together. I think that helps in the partnership because we're not looking over each other's shoulder."
"We've had a great experience doing this together as our first film collaboration as a couple," says Morrison, who's produced historical documentaries for the PBS series American Experience and current affairs docs for New York Time Television. "We've learned a lot and we've gone on this great adventure. We've traveled the country and the world with the film. All these things have been terrific. But it's also really hard work to make a movie."
And to get it seen. They feel fortunate the Hank and Asha found both theatrical and video distributors.
Film streams
For as low budget as the all-digital movie is, the filmmakers are proud of how good it looks. Duff credits cinematographer Bianca Butti for that. Because it's a two-character piece, it needed actors who could carry the film and reviewers credit Andrew Pastides as Hank and Mahira Kakkar as Asha with engaging performances. His letters were shot in New York and hers in Prague. The actors never met. The filmmakers say for the storyline's high concept conceit to work the videos had to be as natural as possible. Therefore, no rehearsals were held and the actors improvised from an outline highlighting the arc of each scene. Some found locations were utilized and some shots were stolen.
Duff and Morrison enjoyed great freedom on the project.
"We were blessed to have that. Nobody told us what to do," he says.
"We're looking forward to the next project having a larger budget but still retaining our autonomy," says Morrison.
They hope a new script they're developing attracts name actors.
The couple say whatever films they make will reflect their shared interest in humanist stories that move audiences.
Meanwhile, they're always up for a new far-off adventure.
As Duff explains, "We're on the lookout for opportunities like that because we want to continue to expand our world. It informs everything we do. We'll go anywhere."


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It's been some time since Tuner Mudflap started clogging shelves. In fact, he still does. However, that doesn't deter Hasbro from giving his brother the same kind of treatment.
Oil Pan may have crazy good driving skills, but he's not used to dealing with someone as unpredictable as Autobot Skids. The Autobot is more than happy to cause total chaos on the freeway, as long as it means catching his quarry. The other Autobots might wish he was more careful, but at least he gets the job done.
Like his brother Mudflap, Skids gets some visual enhancements for the Tuner mod. A welcome change is the primary paint job, which is a darker green. He also trades in his splash side panel effects for more earthen ground effects. Other enhancements include black out headlights and color coded hood.
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Separate the front panels and doors from the rest of the car and rotate them down 90 degrees. Pull down the legs and flip out the feet. Fold the door windows into the panels, then wrap the doors around the lower legs, connecting the hole inside the door panel to the peg inside his leg. Pull out both rear fenders, then slightly pull them forward. Fold the hood into the windshield.
It might take some force, but collapse the center roof panel's back into the cockpit while pulling the windshield up above the roofline. Rotate the arms so the fists point back but the wheels stay in position. Point the rear end straight up. You should then be able to rotate it 180 degrees. Flip out the head, rest the front end against the spine of the rear end and rotate the arms down. Connect a tab on the hatchback to the notch just behind his head. Align arms and shoulder panels to round things off.
The robot mode also gets a more tasteful color palette. Gone is the medium green in the limbs, replaced by a copper paint job. His extremities are now done in dark gray versus the light gray in the original. Even the head sculpt, which is unchanged, looks better in the darker green.
If you were looking for any retooling or added features, stop looking. This is merely a repaint. However, it is a well thought out repaint. Where the original stood out as bright and somewhat garish, Tuner Skids is much more pleasing to the eye. Hopefully, he won;t end up clogging the shelves like his brother still does..
There is kibble to contend with, mostly on the lower legs and back. However, he is quite flexible and allows for some good posing.
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