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Inorganic mulches include such material as gravel, plastic, landscape fabrics, and rubber pellets made from recycled tires. Inorganic mulches are relatively inert so they do not break down over time. Plastics and certain landscape fabrics will break down in sunlight. Often a layer of organic mulch is placed over these materials to reduce sunlight exposure. This both prolongs their life in the landscape and improves the attractiveness of the material. Consider the long-term implications when applying an inorganic mulch. Gravel is impossible to separate from the soil once mixed and may become a nuisance on paved walkways and in adjacent turf areas. Chipped limestone will make soils more alkaline and should not be used.
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The Post once again showed why it is known as "Fox on 15th Street," running an editorial with the subhead, "tackling the specter of structural unemployment," which essentially offers nothing to address the problem.
The piece got off to a bad start early, telling readers:
That is what the projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) imply. And, just to be clear, this is the additional waste that CBO projects would result from running the program through private insurers. The figure does not include roughly $5 trillion in expenses that would be transferred from the government to insurers.
The $34 trillion figure comes to $110,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. It is almost 7 times the projected Social Security shortfall. While the Post has devoted endless space (in both its news and opinion sections) hyping the need to fix Social Security, it has never once mentioned this much larger cost to the country projected by CBO. Instead its articles on the Republican Medicare plan have been entirely of the he said/she said variety and discussions of its political prospects.
A serious paper would discuss the substance. The Post's readers don't have more time to look into this issue than its reporters.
Laura Tyson, the former chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, had a column in the NYT today urging patience in addressing the over-valuation of the dollar relative to the Chinese yuan. The heading of the piece identifies Tyson only by her role as a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and her former position in the Clinton administration.
The NYT's identification did not mention that Ms. Tyson is also currently a member of the board of directors of Morgan Stanley. She received almost $350,000 in compensation for her work in this position last year.
This is relevant to the piece because Morgan Stanley has extensive business dealings in China. It is likely that Morgan Stanley would benefit from having the dollar remain high against the Chinese yuan, since this means that its dollar assets will go further in China. In other words, the position being advocated by Ms. Tyson in this piece happens to coincide with the interests of the company on whose board she sits.
It is entirely possible that Ms. Tyson came to her views on the dollar and yuan without any consideration of its impact on Morgan Stanley. However, the NYT should have informed readers of this potential conflict of interest.
As far as the substance, her argument that there is little link between the value of the dollar against the yuan and the U.S. trade deficit with China is weak. When China raised the value of its currency against the dollar in 2005, many other nations followed suit. This led to a substantial decline in the U.S. trade deficit measured as a share of GDP. (The only relevant measure.) It matters little to workers in the United States whether the improvement in the deficit came in trade with China or other countries.
Also the plea for patience must be seen in a context in which tens of millions of workers are unemployed or underemployed with little hope for any improvement in sight. Deficit hawks in both political parties (including many of Ms. Tyson's former colleagues in the Clinton administration) have closed off the option of further fiscal stimulus. The current political context also seems to offer little hope for more expansionary monetary policy.
Given the options, an improvement in the trade balance seems the best hope for a more rapid increase in employment. It is understandable that those struggling to get by in a downturn that resulted from a combination of Wall Street greed and incompetent economic policy may not be as patient as Ms. Tyson.
Reporters have full time jobs reporting the news. This means that they are supposed to have the time to learn about the issues on which they are reporting. This is in contrast to their audience who generally have full time jobs doing something else.
This means that reporting both sides of an issue does not mean writing "Joe said the X" and "Jane said not X." It means that reporters are supposed to take a few minutes to find out whether or not X is true, and then share this information with readers.
This issue comes up with regard to Republican plans to "drill here, drill now" in response to the recent run up in gas prices. The Republicans claim that if we just allowed the oil companies to drill everywhere they want, it would get the price of gas back down to an acceptable level. Environmentalists and some Democrats have argued that given the size of the world oil market, any additional drilling can only have a minimal impact on oil prices.
The NYT, WAPO, and NPR have all reported this one as a he said/she said leaving it to their audience to determine who is right. By contrast, the Huffington Post did a bit of homework. They talked to some experts in the field. These experts told their audience that even if we make very generous assumptions about the potential increase in domestic oil production it will take at least 5 years to notably increase output and that it would have minimal impact on gas prices.
This is the way a real news organization deals with issues.
This is the question that readers of a Washington Post article on the administration's efforts to lower the value of the dollar should be asking. The article tells readers that the Obama administration and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke probably both want a lower dollar to help correct the U.S. trade imbalance and create jobs, but that they can't say so openly for fear of upsetting financial markets.
Since the delay in lowering the dollar to a more sustainable level is causing millions of workers to be unemployed, it would be worth asking how many workers should be forced to suffer unemployment for long, just to keep the financial markets from being troubled. Economists believe that in the long-run financial markets respond to the fundamentals in the economy, so the worst that is likely to result from a bit of concern is a period of excessive volatility in the financial markets. This can lead to some traders losing or gaining large amounts of money; the long-term impact on the economy is likely to be trivial.
It is a very damning statement about the Fed and the administration if, as this article implies, they care so much about financial markets that they are forcing millions of workers to be out of work just to avoid a short period of uncertainty.
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about how manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to find the skilled workers that they need. The problem is that their current workforce is nearing retirement while relatively few younger workers have the necessary skills. The employers featured in the article even talk about how they have been raising wages to get and keep workers.
Of course the wages discussed in the article are not the sort that would sound high to most WSJ readers. According to the article, one of the manufacturers starts workers at full-time jobs paying between $25,000 and $50,000 a year. This is probably a somewhat lower wage than WSJ readers envision for their children.
More importantly, the charts accompanying the article do not show manufacturing wages rising rapidly. In fact, the chart actually shows that average nominal compensation in manufacturing has been flat or even declining slightly. This indicates that real hourly compensation has been falling over the last few years. This means that if the employers discussed in this article really are raising pay, then they are the exceptions. Most employers in the manufacturing sector are cutting pay in real terms, indicating that there is an excess supply of labor, not a shortage.
In policy circles the worst thing you can do to a leading expert is to hold him/her accountable for their views. Remember all those folks who thought the economy and the housing market were just fine in 2006? They're all still there, using their expertise to opine on and guide economic policy. It is considered excessively cruel to point out that these experts somehow could not see the biggest downturn since the Great Depression until we were in the middle of it.
Anyhow, there is a subset of policy types who had been complaining about the rising price of oil and other commodities as evidence of runaway inflation. This in turn was usually attributed to the Fed's quantitative easing policy.
Now that these prices have fallen sharply, these experts presumably fear deflation. Hopefully we will be reading articles in coming days in which these experts insist on the need for more aggressive monetary policy in order to protect the economy against this threat.
David Brooks told readers that:
"Over the past months, there has been some progress in getting Americans to accept the need for self-restraint."
This should have hundreds of millions asking who needs "self-restraint?" Does Brooks thinks that the 14 million unemployed need more self-restraint? Do the 8 million people who want full time work but who can only find part-time employment need self-restraint? Do the millions of people who are facing the loss of their home need more self-restraint?
Brooks isn't very clear on who he thinks needs to restrain themselves but he praises Senator Alan Simpson, Representative Paul Ryan and President Obama for helping to lecture us on this need. Those familiar with the basic economic data know that the richest 1 percent have used their control of the political process to hugely increase their share of national income over the last three decades. The bottom 90 percent has seen little gain from economic growth over this period. Of course Representative Ryan wants to give more tax breaks to the richest 1 percent, so he doesn't seem to be preaching self-restraint to those who have been showing the least in recent years.
If Brooks' concern is making the welfare state sustainable, then he should be talking about fixing the health care system. It is easy to show that if per person health care costs in the United States were comparable to any other wealthy country then we would be projecting huge budget surpluses, not deficits.
If Brooks bothered to take a few minutes to study the issues he writes about then he would know this. Fortunately for him, he has job for which this skill is not required.
Brooks also claims that there is an inherent tension between economic dynamism and economic security, telling readers:
"Republicans still mostly talk about incentives for growth, and Democrats still mostly talk about economic security."
Actually many Democrats have been actively talking about more stimulatory fiscal policy, monetary policy and currency policy (i.e. a lower valued dollar). All of these policies would boost growth. It is remarkable that Brooks is apparently unaware of the large number of Democrats, including several of his colleagues at the New York Times, who have been vigorously pushing these positions.
Those who thought that the Washington Post (a.k.a. Fox on 15th Street) couldn't get any worse, have just been proven wrong yet again. The Post ran a little primer telling readers about Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
The Post tells readers:
"a GAO report found that total government health-care spending in the United States is somewhere in the middle. In the United States, spending on public health was 6.9 percent of gross domestic product in 2005, while it was 8.9 percent in France, 8.2 percent in Germany and 7.2 percent in the United Kingdom. On the lower end of the spectrum, Australia spent 6.4 percent of GDP on health care and Canada spent 6.9 percent. Some of the countries that spend more have had a demographic shift to an older population sooner than the United States."
Okay, boys and girls, can anyone see the problem with this discussion?
That's right! All the other countries included in this discussion have public health care systems. The figures cited for public health care spending comprise the bulk of their national spending on health care. Only in the United States do we have a large private health care sector that spends roughly the same amount as the public sector.
This means that rather being in the middle of the pack, as this discussion implies, we are way over the top. To pay for most of the health care needs of our seniors and our poor, our government pays almost as much Germany, Canada, and the U.K. do to provide for the health care needs of their entire population.
Of course this point should have been central to this whole primer. The reason that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are projected to "usurp much of the revenue from federal taxes," is that health care costs in the United States are out of control. If the U.S. paid the same amount per person for health care as any of these other countries it would be looking at huge budget surpluses in the long-term, not deficits.
There is one other especially striking item in this piece. It told readers:
"The last major change to Social Security happened in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan raised the Social Security tax rate (the percentage of income under the maximum taxable earnings limit that is subject to tax) and the full retirement age from 65 to 67."
Umm, the year was 1983, not 1984. This primer is not ready for prime time.
Weekly unemployment claims jumped to 474,000 last week, an increase of 43,000 from the level reported the previous week. This is seriously bad news about the state of the labor market. It seems that the numbers were inflated by unusual factors, most importantly the addition of 25,000 spring break related layoffs in New York to the rolls due to a changing vacation pattern, however even after adjusting for such factors, claims would still be above 400,000 for the fourth consecutive week.
This puts weekly claims well above the 380,000 level that we had been seeing in February and March. This suggests that job growth is slowing from an already weak level. This is news that should be reported prominently.
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#1Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:26 PM
I haven't seen anyone having a hissy fit over their kid being told about Jesus at school.
Alien mind control? You be the judge. #2Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:31 PM
Could it be the non-believers gave up complaining about the believers for Lent?
#3Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:33 PM
I suppose. It's just as likely as the believers giving up trying to spread the word for Lent.
Edited by BadCat, 05 April 2012 - 10:34 PM. #4Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:37 PM
The Librarian at school put up pictures and a brief synopsis of The Easter Story in the library (along with eggs and bunnies on the opposite wall) and I thought of you, EB
#5Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:41 PM
LOL, Howdo.
Christians to the left. Bunny fans to the right. #6 Guest_CaptainOblivious_*Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:55 PM
I would be having a hissy fit, except I'm now employed by a religious school and have to be seen to be being 'supportive of the ethos'
Although I had to work not to laugh aloud today when in our end of term church service, a reference was made to the hollow easter eggs representing Jesus' empty tomb. WTF??? What about the pagan roots of the whole thing, spring, rebirth, symbolic CHICKENS etc. Personally, I'm more concerned that my DD1's scripture teacher asked a bunch of 5 year olds 'who wants to go and live with Jesus when they die' and gave the ones who put their hand up a lolly and a sticker. Plus the all important lesson on obedience which extended to doing everything that any adult or older person told you. Um... no, I don't want my DD1 doing whatever some stupid older kid at school tells her to do, or being overly compliant to creepy people with bad intentions. #7Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:06 PM
Too much chocolate already. Too much chocolate.
Thats what Easter is about. #8Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:08 PM
BadCat if your a Catholic bunny fan where do you go? left or right?
CO that is horrible asking 5 year olds if they want to live with jesus. It's kinda mean. #9Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:17 PM
I have noted a few radio ads announcing Easter Friday? Is 'Good Friday' banned this year?
Another Catholic Bunny fan, i'll head to wherever the chocolate is... #10Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:22 PM
I have a sick baby and didn't get to the shops today so I have no idea what we are gonna eat tomorrow. I have a freezer full of meat but no seafood
#11Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:26 PM
Sareley if you have veggies or salad head to the fish and chip shop and grab some grilled fish.
I know in my area all the fish and chip shops have signs out front saying they are open as normal. Oh and most bakers delights are open until 2pm so maybe salar rolls and hot cross buns? #12Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:31 PM
I was thinking of heading to the local fish and chip shop.
Normally I am much more organised. I don't even have any alcohol in the house! What am I gonna do? #13Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:49 PM
No alcohol!! that's going to be painful I have some at my house I'll courier them for you lol, dont worry I'm usually never organized but somehow managed to get easter eggs before saturday lol
#14Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:58 PM
I have been too busy stuffing my face with hot cross buns to notice!
Has anyone else tried the Woolies Cranberry and white chocolate HCBuns?? omg they are good and I don't like cranberries. #15Posted 06 April 2012 - 12:00 AM QUOTE (jojonbeanie @ 05/04/2012, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Could it be the non-believers gave up complaining about the believers for Lent? Very good. #16Posted 06 April 2012 - 12:13 AM QUOTE (Chocolate Addict @ 05/04/2012, 09:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have been too busy stuffing my face with hot cross buns to notice! Has anyone else tried the Woolies Cranberry and white chocolate HCBuns?? omg they are good and I don't like cranberries. that packet didn't last 12hrs after I got home from the shops... And I'm the only one who ate them I have got DS liking hot cross buns too. We were in Officeworks and I gave him one to occupy him and the girl on the register said "Oh wow it looks like he i really enjoying that!" #17Posted 06 April 2012 - 12:43 AM
Good one, Bad Cat. Crikey, people will try to weave Jesus into anything! But Easter? Come on, we just had Christmas - isn't that enough?
Leave Easter for the Bunny and chocolate and little marshmallow chickens and keep all that religion to more appropriate times, like, errr, I dunno, maybe religious days? #18Posted 06 April 2012 - 03:41 AM
My sons were taught a bit about Jesus and the resurrection at school.
DS#1 thinks when Jesus rose from the dead he became Santa and DS#2 calls him the Sun God instead of the son of God. Cracks me up, the pair of them #19Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:18 AM QUOTE (Poet in New York @ 05/04/2012, 11:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> BC, I like Jesus AND bunnies. Where do I go? You guys can hang out on the fence over there. QUOTE (greengoddess @ 06/04/2012, 12:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good one, Bad Cat. Crikey, people will try to weave Jesus into anything! But Easter? Come on, we just had Christmas - isn't that enough? Leave Easter for the Bunny and chocolate and little marshmallow chickens and keep all that religion to more appropriate times, like, errr, I dunno, maybe religious days? There are religious days? QUOTE DS#2 calls him the Sun God instead of the son of God Well now that's totally inappropriate. A Sun God would surely just melt chocolate eggs. Totatly incompatible with Easter. Edited by BadCat, 06 April 2012 - 04:19 AM. #20Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:56 AM
Dd is in kinder at a catholic school so this is our first experience of the Holy Days etc....
Mind you I put DS in his jumperoo today and he got upset and her response was "He's just a little baby - why do you force him to do things he doesn't want to... Like making him walk the streets, dragging his cross and then putting it in the ground so you can nail him up and let him hang on it?? That wouldn't be fun would it???" Did have to laugh though... Her class also did a Palm Sunday liturgy and all we were hearing about were 'the dicycles' #21Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:19 AM
My 5 year old DS has been learning about Jesus in school. Think some of it got lost in translation though because did you know Jesus died, was put in a tomb and on the third day some Elves came and moved the rock and let Jesus out again? Too funny.
#22Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:43 AM
I'm missing the outrage too.
DS told me yesterday that "church is where camels go" I can't begin to figure out who's been telling him what. #23Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:58 AM QUOTE (BadCat @ 06/04/2012, 05:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There are religious days? Derrr. Of course there are. I've seen it on the news. Foreign people seem to have them mostly. Overseas, like. #24Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:37 AM QUOTE (Sayerley @ 06/04/2012, 12:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Normally I am much more organised. I don't even have any alcohol in the house! What am I gonna do? Suffer for Jesus. #25Posted 06 April 2012 - 07:53 AM
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The Chinese capital, home to around 20 million people, has been wrapped in thick smog since Friday, reducing visibility and disrupting traffic.
Data posted on Sunday by the monitoring centre (www.bjmemc.com.cn) showed particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter (PM2.5) had reached more than 600 micrograms per square metre at some monitoring stations in Beijing, and was as high as 900 on Saturday evening.
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Early traditions used white roses as a symbol for true love, an association which would later become the hallmark of the red rose. White roses continue to endure and retain their symbolism of innocence, and they are used to express many things.
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White roses are also associated with honor and reverence, which makes them a fitting memorial for a departed loved one. Funeral and sympathy arrangements traditionally incorporate white roses as a part of the tribute. As a symbol of remembrance, the white rose represents heavenliness and is an expression of spiritual love and respect. .
White roses can mean many things to many different people. They can symbolize new beginnings, or be a sign of farewell. They can convey feelings of love, friendship, respect and hope. Underlying all of these messages is the impression of innocence and purity with which white roses are now synonymous.
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Matt Dillon | |
Dillon at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival | |
Born | Matthew Raymond Dillon February 18, 1964 New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, director |
Years active | 1979–present |
Partner(s) | Cameron Diaz (1995–1998)[1] |
Family | Kevin Dillon (brother) |
Matt Dillon | |
Dillon at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival | |
Born | Matthew Raymond Dillon February 18, 1964 New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, director |
Years active | 1979–present |
Partner(s) | Cameron Diaz (1995–1998)[1] |
Family | Kevin Dillon (brother) |
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, and gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s. He has appeared in films such as Little Darlings (1980), My Bodyguard (1980), Tex (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), The Outsiders (1983), Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), Beautiful Girls (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Wild Things (1998), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Crash (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), and Armored (2009). In 2013, he appeared in the comedy film The Art of the Steal as an art thief alongside Kurt Russell.
In 1990, he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for Drugstore Cowboy and in 2006 won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for Crash and the San Sebastián International Film Festival Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award. Crash won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005. In 2011 he received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" at Avvantura Festival Zadar (Croatia) upon his presence at the filmfestival.
Matthew Raymond Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer.[2][3] His paternal grandmother was the sister of comic strip artist Alex Raymond, the creator of Flash Gordon.[4] Dillon is the second of six children; he has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin Dillon,[5] is also an actor and appeared on the hit TV series Entourage, which earned him several Emmy nominations in the supporting actor comedy category. He has Irish, and some Scottish and German, ancestry.[6] Dillon was raised in a close-knit Roman Catholic family.[7][8][9] He grew up in Mamaroneck, New York.
In 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont. Dillon auditioned for a role and made his debut in the film.[10] The film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000.[11] Dillon's performance was well-received, which led to his casting in two films released the following year; the teenage sex comedy Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to a boy from the camp across the lake, played by Dillon, and the more serious teen dramedy My Bodyguard, where he played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes[12] and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.
Another of Dillon's early roles was in the Jean Shepherd PBS special The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters.[13][14] The only available copies of this film are stored at UCLA, where a legal dispute makes it unavailable to the public.
One of his next roles was in Liar's Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich banker's daughter. In the early 1980s, Dillon also had prominent roles in three adaptations of S. E. Hinton novels: Tex (1982), The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983). All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown. The Outsiders and Rumble Fish had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola and Diane Lane. He followed those up with The Flamingo Kid in 1984. He made his Broadway debut with the play The Boys of Winter in 1985.
Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.
Also in 1987 Dillon appeared as a policeman in the video to The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl video Fairytale of New York.
Dillon continued to work in the early 1990s with roles in movies like Singles (1992). He had somewhat of a career resurgence when he played Nicole Kidman's husband in To Die For (1995), as well as starring roles in Wild Things (1998) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which he received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
In 2002, he wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu. In 2005, he starred in Factotum, a film adaptation of an autobiographical work by Charles Bukowski. Two years later he received critical praise and earned a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe along with Oscar nominations for his role in Crash, a film co-written and directed by Paul Haggis. In 2005 Dillon co-starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded and on March 11, 2006 hosted Saturday Night Live, in which he impersonated Greg Anderson and Rod Serling in sketches.
Dillon starred in the comedy You, Me and Dupree, opposite Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson. The film opened on July 14, 2006. On September 29, 2006, Dillon was honored with the Premio Donostia prize in the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Dillon contributed his voice as the narrator, Sal Paradise, in an audiobook version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. In 2006, he narrated Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos.
Dillon appeared in several music videos during his career. He made a cameo appearance as a detective in Madonna's Bad Girl music video which also stars Christopher Walken. Dillon appeared in 1987 in the music video for "Fairytale of New York" by the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues playing a cop who escorts lead singer Shane MacGowan into the "drunk tank". In 2007, the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct the video for their single "Been There All The Time" from the album Beyond. That year, he starred in The Simpsons episode "Midnight Towboy".
Dillon had a three-year relationship with actress Cameron Diaz in the late 1990s.[15]
On December 30, 2008, he was arrested by the Vermont State Police after he was clocked traveling at 106 miles per hour northbound on Interstate 91 near Newbury, Vermont.[16] He was charged with negligent operation of a vehicle. His attorney, Mark Kaplan, entered a plea of not guilty on Dillon's behalf in a January appearance in Orange County Court in Chelsea, and also appeared in court on February 25, 2009.[17] He faced a maximum of one year in jail, and a fine of $1,000. He pled guilty to speeding and paid a $828 fine on March 30, 2009; in return, the negligence charge was dismissed by prosecutors.[18]
Dillon is mentioned on Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-é: Legacy Edition CD. On the fifth track Buckley mentions that he cut his hair because people thought he looked like Matt Dillon. Dillon's name is dropped in the lyrics of "After the Fire", a song that Pete Townshend wrote for Roger Daltrey's solo album Under a Raging Moon:
I saw Matt Dillon in black and white/There ain't no colour in memories/He rode his brother's Harley across the TV/ While I was laughing at Dom DeLuise
Dillon has been mentioned as the source inspiration behind the creation of "Hanma Yuujiro" the father of the main character of the fighting manga series "Grappler Baki" which is denoted to be "The strongest creature in the world"
Dillon is also mentioned in Pencey Prep's "Don Quixote" from the album Heartbreak in Stereo.
I dance the same dance every night / It's only you you're killing / Super glue the queen of hearts and the information she's spilling / Matt Dillon.
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
1979 | Over the Edge | Richie White | |
1980 | My Bodyguard | Melvin Moody | |
1980 | Little Darlings | Randy Adams | |
1982 | Tex | Tex McCormick | |
1982 | Liar's Moon | Jack Duncan | |
1982 | The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters | Ralph | TV movie |
1983 | Rumble Fish | Rusty James | |
1983 | The Outsiders | Dallas 'Dally' Winston | |
1984 | The Flamingo Kid | Jeffrey Willis | |
1985 | Target | Chris Lloyd/Derek Potter | |
1985 | Rebel | Rebel | |
1986 | Native Son | Jan | |
1987 | The Big Town | J. C. Cullen | |
1988 | Kansas | Doyle Kennedy | |
1989 | Drugstore Cowboy | Bob | |
1989 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Regret | |
1991 | A Kiss Before Dying | Jonathan Corliss | |
1991 | Fishing with John | Himself | |
1991 | Women & Men 2 | Eddie Megeffin | TV movie |
1992 | Singles | Cliff Poncier | |
1993 | The Saint of Fort Washington | Matthew | |
1993 | Mr. Wonderful | Gus | |
1994 | Golden Gate | Kevin Walker | |
1995 | To Die For | Larry Maretto | |
1995 | Frankie Starlight | Terry Klout | |
1996 | Grace of My Heart | Jay Phillips | |
1996 | Albino Alligator | Dova | |
1996 | Beautiful Girls | Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland | |
1997 | In & Out | Cameron Drake | |
1998 | There's Something About Mary | Patrick (Pat) Healy | |
1998 | Wild Things | Sam Lombardo | |
2001 | One Night at McCool's | Randy | |
2002 | Deuces Wild | Fritzy | |
2002 | City of Ghosts | Jimmy | Also director and writer |
2003 | Abby Singer | Himself | |
2004 | Employee of the Month | David Walsh | |
2005 | Herbie: Fully Loaded | Trip Murphy | |
2005 | Crash | Sgt. John Ryan | |
2006 | Factotum | Henry Chinaski | |
2006 | You, Me and Dupree | Carl Peterson | |
2006 | Loverboy | Mark | |
2007 | The Simpsons | Louie (voice) | TV series (1 episode: "Midnight Towboy") |
2008 | Nothing But the Truth | Patton Dubois | |
2009 | Old Dogs | Barry | |
2009 | Armored | Mike Cochrane | |
2010 | Takers | Det. Jack Welles | |
2011 | Modern Family | Robbie Sullivan | TV series (1 episode: "Princess Party") |
2012 | Girl Most Likely | George/The Bousche | |
2013 | Pawn Shop Chronicles | Richard | |
2013 | The Art of the Steal | Nicky Calhoun | |
2013 | Whiskey Bay | Jesse Weiland | |
2013 | Sunlight Jr. | Richie |
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