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Stargate Universe | |
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Genre | Military science fiction |
Created by | |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | Joel Goldsmith |
Country of origin | |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 40 (Episodes) 34 (Webisodes) (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Running time | 43 minutes |
Production company(s) | MGM Television |
Distributor | MGM Television |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | Syfy |
Picture format | 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
Original run | October 2, 2009 | – May 9, 2011
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Stargate Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis |
External links | |
Website |
Stargate Universe | |
Title card | |
Genre | Military science fiction |
Created by | |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | Joel Goldsmith |
Country of origin | |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 40 (Episodes) 34 (Webisodes) (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Running time | 43 minutes |
Production company(s) | MGM Television |
Distributor | MGM Television |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | Syfy |
Picture format | 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
Original run | October 2, 2009 | – May 9, 2011
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Stargate Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis |
External links | |
Website |
Stargate Universe (often abbreviated as SGU) is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny over several billion light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe. The series, created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, premiered in the United States on Syfy on October 2, 2009. The series featured an ensemble cast and was primarily filmed in and around Vancouver, BC, Canada. A second season of 20 episodes was announced by Syfy in December 2009.[3]
The first 10 episodes of the second season were aired in the United States beginning on September 28, 2010,[4] and the final 10 were shown beginning on March 7, 2011.[5] Syfy announced on December 16, 2010 that it would not be picking up Stargate Universe for a third season.[6] The second season of SGU ended as a semi-cliffhanger.[7] To resolve this, a movie was planned; however, due to timing constraints, Stargate writer and executive producer Brad Wright announced on April 17, 2011 that the SGU movie had been cancelled.[8]
The Stargate program has founded Icarus base on a remote planet whose Stargate is powered by large naquadria deposits throughout the core. The team, led by Dr. Nicholas Rush, postulate that the power from that core could allow them to use a 9-chevron code to "dial" into the Stargate, allowing them access to locations far remote from their galaxy, but lack the means to translate the writing of the Ancients to understand how to dial this properly. Dr. Rush designs a video game used across Earth to find brilliant minds to interpret the puzzle, which Eli Wallace, a young mathematics genius, is able to solve. Eli is reluctantly brought to Icarus base along with a contingent of guests of honor aboard the Hammond, a Daedalus-class starship battlecruiser; the guests include Senator Armstrong, who funds the Icarus Project, and his daughter Chloe. They are introduced to the base's military staff, led by Colonel Everett Young, Colonel David Telford, First Lieutenants Matthew Scott and Tamara Johansen, and Master Sergeant Ronald Greer.
Dr. Rush and Eli work together to discover the means to dial the ninth chevron, just as the base is attacked by members of the Lucian Alliance. Colonel Telford aids in an aerial assault of the ships with the Hammond, while the base starts dialing Earth into the Stargate, finding that the planet's power core is about to explode. Dr. Rush realizes that the explosion would follow them through the base back to Earth, and instead redials the Stargate with the ninth chevron, successfully opening a wormhole. The surviving Icarus Base members flee through the wormhole before the planet explodes. They find themselves aboard an old abandoned spacecraft made by the Ancients, which Dr. Rush finds was named Destiny. The eighty-some survivors begin to assure the safety of their team, Senator Armstrong injured and realizing he might not have long, sacrifices himself to seal an air leak in one of Destiny 's shuttles.
As the rest of the team works to make the ship hospitable, Dr. Rush, Eli, and other scientific members of Icarus Base start to understand the function of Destiny; they are not able to directly control the ship, and find that it will drop out of faster-than-light travel to allow its Stargate to connect to a number of nearby worlds for a fixed period of time before it continues; it fuels itself by diving into the outermost layer of a nearby star and collecting energy from it; the first time the Destiny did that, the crew feared the worst, until they understood why it happened. The crew is able to remain in contact with Earth via a set of Ancient communication stones that Dr. Rush brought, and are told to continue the Stargate mission of exploring that galaxy, while searching for a way to return home.
Stargate producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper conceived Stargate Universe as "a completely separate, third entity" in the live-action Stargate franchise[25] – as opposed to Stargate Atlantis, which was created as a spin-off from the first series Stargate SG-1. They wanted to produce a stylistically and totally different TV series with a more mature and fresh story approach so as not to get too repetitive.[26] Wright and Cooper originally planned to write the pilot script for Stargate Universe during the summer of 2007, making a 2008 premiere possible.[25] Since their ambitions with the previous live-action Stargate series were often restricted by the low budget and risked coming across as silly,[26] they pitched the show as "an expensive series" to the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy) in the last quarter of 2007. Although the pitch was well-received,[27] the project was put on hold because of the on-going work on Stargate Atlantis and Stargate: Continuum, and the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.[25][27] The series was given the official greenlight for a 2009 debut by Syfy on August 22, 2008, shortly after the cancellation of Stargate Atlantis had been announced.[28] Joseph Mallozzi explained that a new series would have lower salaries and licensing fees than a new sixth season of Atlantis would have had.[29] MGM co-funded the project.[30] According to co-star Robert Carlyle, each episode had a budget of $2 million US dollars.[31]
Brad Wright pitched the series and its first five episodes to the Stargate Atlantis writers and producers in mid-September 2008.[32] Wright, Cooper, and Carl Binder produce the show, while Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie serve as writers and consultant producers.[33] Stargate Atlantis writers Martin Gero and Alan McCullough contribute scripts, but are not part of the regular writer staff.[34] New writers were initially sought for freelance scripts and possible staff positions.[30] Author John Scalzi was hired as a creative consultant, "a background rather than foreground sort of job".[35] Most of the Stargate Atlantis crew, such as stunt coordinator James Bamford and composer Joel Goldsmith, have moved over to Universe.[36]
Short character breakdowns for the series regulars (created for casting calls) leaked on the internet on September 17, 2008.[15][37] Joseph Mallozzi explained the largely negative initial fan reaction[14][32][33] as a passionate response to the preceding cancellation announcement of Atlantis.[33] Brad Wright dismissed negative comments as a sole reaction to the wording of the network; character breakdowns are written to aid casting directors and agents in the selection process, and "always sound shallow, and if they're written to appear 'deep' it's just ridiculous".[14] Robert C. Cooper replied to concerns of young age that the SG-1 cast was also quite young in their first season. The producers were "looking for people who are a little more identifiable and contemporary," with an "everyman on the street point of view" after being challenged by the situation.[37] Martin Gero considered Stargate Universe as an ensemble show, more than the previous two Stargate live-action series were.[38]
Auditions were held in Los Angeles.[39] The producers were looking for well-known names for the lead roles, but intended to mostly cast "either new faces, or people you've seen in other stuff but maybe aren't as aware of".[37] BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor Robert Carlyle was the first announced series regular in mid-December 2008.[13] The casting of Louis Ferreira, David Blue, Brian J. Smith, and Jamil Walker Smith as series regulars was announced in mid-January 2009.[40] The casting of Alaina Huffman and Elyse Levesque was announced in late February 2009, along with other actors whose status as regular or recurring cast has not been established.[24] The cast is American (Blue, B. Smith, J. Smith, Ming-Na), Canadian (Ferreira, Levesque, and Huffman) and British (Carlyle).
The writers started drafting stories for the first season in mid-November 2008.[10] The United States Air Force and Marine Corps reviewed the scripts.[34] The projected film start of Stargate Universe was initially slated for February 4, 2009,[41] but was moved to February 18, 2009.[42] The show is filmed on stages 2, 4 (Destiny set) and 5 (Icarus Base set) at The Bridge Studios [43][44] (SG-1 and Atlantis had been filmed at stages 5 and 6) [42] and on location in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.[41] "Air (Part 3)" was filmed in and around Alamogordo, New Mexico from late April through early May 2009.[45] Stargate Universe will show computer-generated worlds filmed in digital sets.[14] Stargate Universe will have a markedly different shooting style for more reality and immediacy with inspiration from Cloverfield, as if "a documentary crew were to ride along on this adventure to outer space".[26]
Sci Fi Wire published concept art of the Destiny in October 2008.[46] The first promotional picture of the cast (out of costume and in casual clothing) was released on March 20, 2009.[47] The same day, Syfy began airing thirty-second trailers of Universe, showing various clips of the Universe team aboard the ship and the SG·U Stargate with the first visual effects.[48] MGM revealed its revamped Stargate Universe website on July 8 with an interactive virtual set tour of the Destiny, interviews with the cast, character profiles and videos.[49] Joseph Mallozzi began posting concept art and behind-the-scenes photos of the SGU set on his blog afterwards. Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper and most members of the main cast appeared at an SGU panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 24, 2009. Behind-the-scenes material is shot for future online and DVD use.[16]
Stargate Universe is set on the spaceship Destiny, which was launched by the race known as the Ancients from the Milky Way galaxy several million years ago.[50] Several ships were sent ahead of it to seed the universe with Stargates. The Ancients had planned on using the Stargate aboard Destiny to board that ship when it was far enough out into the universe, but they eventually abandoned the project after looking into ascension amongst other things. To reach this ship, an address would have to be dialed consisting of nine chevrons, a possibility that had been unknown in the previous Stargate series, due to energy constraints.[27]
The series begins when a team of soldiers and scientists from present-day Earth escape through the Stargate and arrive on the Destiny after their base is attacked.[51] Many of its primary systems are damaged or failing, and they are unable to return to Earth or even maneuver the ship. However, the Destiny periodically stops to dial the Stargate to planets with necessary supplies to repair the ship, and sustain human life.[18][26] The writers have discussed the possibility that each season represents a voyage of the Destiny through a different galaxy.[52]
Stargate Universe is intended to appeal to both veteran fans and newcomers, being firmly entrenched in established Stargate mythology without relying on it too often.[26][32] It retains the familiar Stargate themes of adventure and exploration,[26] but focuses mostly on the people aboard the ship.[33] SGU is also more serialized than its predecessors, although the writers attempted to resolve each character story within the episode.[26] There was a conscious effort to avoid making SGU too serialized, with the serialization stemming mainly from character development.[16] The industry described the show with the buzzwords "dark and edgy".[26] According to Robert C. Cooper, the essence of the story is "that sort of fear and terror of a tragedy combined with the sense that there is hope for us in the basic ways in which human beings survive".[26] The planned increased levels of drama are balanced with humor to avoid pretentiousness. The differences between good and evil are meant to be less apparent, as the ship is populated with flawed and unprepared characters who are not supposed to go there.[26] According to Brad Wright, the show should "hopefully explor[e] the truly alien, and [avoid] the rubber faced English-speaking one[s]". There are aliens, but not a single dominant villain race like SG-1's Goa'uld and Atlantis' Wraith.[14][26]
Season | Originally aired | Product | Episodes | DVD release date | Blu-ray release date | |||||
Season premiere | Season finale | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | Region A | Region B | ||||
1 | October 2, 2009 | June 11, 2010 | Stargate SG-U: 1.0[53] | 10 | February 9, 2010[53] | N/A | N/A | February 9, 2010[54] | N/A | |
Stargate SG-U: 1.5 | 10 | July 27, 2010[55] | N/A | N/A | July 27, 2010[56] | N/A | ||||
Complete Season 1[57] | 20 | October 5, 2010[58] | July 5, 2010[57] | January 12, 2011[59] | October 5, 2010[60] | July 5, 2010[61] | ||||
2 | September 28, 2010 | May 9, 2011 | Complete Season 2 | 20 | May 31, 2011[62] | July 4, 2011[62] | November 2, 2011[63] | N/A | N/A | |
1–2 | October 2, 2009 | May 9, 2011 | The Complete Series Collection | 40 | N/A | August 29, 2011[64] | November 2, 2011[65] | N/A | N/A |
The episode "Time" won a Writers Guild of Canada Award for best one-hour TV series[66][67] and both "Air" and "Space" were nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series at the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards.[68]
Robert Carlyle won Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for the first season episode "Human" at the 2010 Gemini Awards.[69]
Metacritic summarizes the response as "generally favorable reviews" for SGU's first season, but with several critics showing reservation.[70]
Stargate Universe was well received by several major media publishers upon airing of the pilot episode. Mike Hale from The New York Times was generally positive towards the pilot episodes, saying the Stargate franchise was "catching up" with the long-running Star Trek franchise. Hale also agreed with Syfy's promotion of it being an "edgier" Stargate.[71] The Boston Globe reviewer Joanna Weiss also reacted positively towards the pilot episodes, saying it felt like "early Lost", while the story arc followed the patterns of Battlestar Galactica.[72] Mark Wilson from About.com gave the episode four-and-a-half stars out of 5, saying Universe accomplishes what Stargate Atlantis was not able to, and said it was "exceptionally well made" compared to other shows.[73] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette both praised the show, calling it "intriguing", for not abandoning its premise as Star Trek: Voyager did and criticized it by pointing out that the characters spend "far too much time wandering a desert planet" in "Air (Part 3)". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette summarized their review by saying that, "given time, Stargate Universe may become worth watching if it develops its characters and continues to mine its premise for stories."[74] David Hinckley, a reviewer from The New York Daily News gave the episodes four out of five stars, saying that "Eli's not the only one playing a high-stakes game here."[75]
Among reviewers who were negative towards the new installments was Maureen Ryan from the Chicago Tribune. The reviewer wrote that the "gloomy, underwhelming Universe seems to have ditched many of the elements that the previous "Stargate" shows had, notably camaraderie and a sense of adventure, without adding much in the way of narrative suspense or complexity." The only characters she felt were "worth following" were Eli Wallace and Nicholas Rush.[76] Vince Horiuchi from The Salt Lake Tribune, while not overall positive to the series, said the cast and characters were a "little more likable and interesting" than previous entries in the Stargate franchise.[77] Reviewer Laura Freis from Variety concluded her review with "Sure, SGU is grittier, darker and psychologically deeper than previous versions. But so far, it's also a lot less fun." While negative towards the show, she called Robert Carlyle an "excellent" actor.[78] The Hollywood Reporter noted a lack of "intelligent" and "surprising stories" and was overall negative towards Stargate Universe, and even more so on the previous Stargate franchise releases.[79] The show has also been criticized for its similarities to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.[80][81][82]
In its second season, SGU had declined in viewership ratings.[83] This decline was attributed to its change in timeslot (from Friday night to Tuesday night, and then again to Monday night) and by what series co-creator, Brad Wright, claims:
I don't think if we, for any reason, go away, it is an issue necessarily of the quality of the product that we've been making. I think getting moved on the schedule has hurt us. And the fact that some of the fans that liked SG-1 and Atlantis were so angry that they have deliberately hurt us, which is unfortunate.[83][84]
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Charles Stewart's life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick O'Brien's fictional hero, Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy captain and served longer (63 years) than any officer in American naval history. He commanded every type of warship, from sloop to ship-of-the-line, and served every president from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln.Born in Philadelphia during the American Revolution, Stewart met President Washington and went to sea as a cabin boy on a merchantman before age thirteen. In March 1798, at age nineteen, he received a naval commission one month before the Department of the Navy was established. Stewart went on to an illustrious naval career: Thomas Jefferson recognized his Mediterranean exploits during the Barbary Wars, Stewart advised James Madison at the outset of the War of 1812, and Stewart trained many future senior naval officers—including David Porter, David Dixon Porter, and David G. Farragut—in three wars. He served as a pallbearer at President Lincoln's funeral. Stewart cemented his reputation as commander of the Navy's most powerful frigate, the USS Constitution. No other captain commanded this ship for a longer wartime period or through more naval engagements. Undefeated in battle, including defeating the British warships Cyane and Levant simultaneously, both ship and captain came to be known as "Old Ironsides."
Claude Berube is a Brookings Institution LEGIS Fellow and a reserve officer in the U.S. Navy. His articles have appeared in Maine History, Naval History, and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He has worked in the U.S. Senate and for the Department of the Navy. He is currently an instructor in the Political Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. He lives in Annapolis, MD.
John Rodgaard has twenty years' experience as an intelligence analyst and is a captain and reserve intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. A contributor to Proceedings and Naval History magazine, he also lives in the Washington D.C., area.
"In this important work of naval history, Claude Berube and John Rodgaard have combined the fast-paced thrill of fiction with the reality of history in their biography of Captain Charles Stewart." Jim Farley in Journal of the Early Republic
"The strength of A Call to the Sea, the first and long-overdue full-scale biography of Charles Stewart, is the balanced treatment it gives to every period of this influential naval officer's distinguished career, from his commissioning as lieutenant during the presidency of John Adams to his death as rear admiral during that of Ulysses S. Grant--while giving due attention to his command of USS Constitution during one of her famous victories in the War of 1812, for which he is best known. Berube and Rodgaard have limned a revealing portrait of a fascinating man in his private as well as public life." Michael J. Crawford, naval historian and editor of The Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner: Christopher Prince and the American Revolution
"No naval officer has served the nation longer or more faithfully than Charles Stewart. His biography is a virtual history of the Navy, from its founding in the Age of Sail to steam power in the Civil War. For more than six decades, this extraordinary officer served his nation, living in the lee of his more famous contemporaries. Finally, Claude Berube and John Rodgaard have given this hero his due. His epic battle against Cyane and Levant, during which he skillfully maneuvered Constitution as if the great frigate was a sailboat on a pond, is a classic in naval history." William Fowler, coauthor of America and the Sea: A Maritime History
"Readers of O'Brien, Forester, and Pope who are unfamiliar with the lives of the great sailors whose lives inspired those novels have much to look forward to. They could well start with Berube and Rodgaard's life of Charles Stewart, an American naval hero whose battles and political dramas spanned the French, Barbary, 1812, and Civil wars.The authors have done the research yet not lost the spirit of a great tale of adventure." The Hon. John F. Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy
"[The authors'] description of Stewart's command of the USS Constitution is essential to understanding the man and the development of the U.S. Navy." Reference & Research Book News
"The book is well written and takes a 'life and times' approach. Not only is there a detailed treatment of Stewart's service in several wars and sea fights--and he was in a remarkable number of both, including the most celebrated of fights of the frigate Constitution--but it also provides an excellent look at the naval service from the age of fighting sail to the onset of ironclad warships. . . . A valuable book for anyone interested in the history of the Navy and America's wars, from the Quasi-War with France to the Civil War." The NYMAS Review
"Authors Claude Berube and John A. Rodgaard are to be highly commended for this splendid book tracing Stewart's life and accomplishments. It is both thoroughly researched and engagingly presented. . . . a major accomplishment . . . An important addition to the literature of the U.S. age of saiI, A Call to the Sea will appeal to all those with an interest in the U.S. sailing navy and, one would hope, to professional naval officers. It belongs in all scholarly collections." The Journal of Military History
"The neglect shown to [Stewart's] story has been resolved with the publication of this fine volume. . . . Berube and Rodgaard's competent biography does Stewart proud. . . . The authors make effective use of primary sources and they judiciously avoid the unnecessary aggrandizement of a worthy figure, a stylistic, old fault still to be found in biographies. . . . A treatment of the book's main subject is long overdue, and historians and other readers will be pleased to have this biography on their shelves." International Journal of Maritime History

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The popular TV show "Storage Wars" - in which treasure hunters bid to buy unseen items in abandoned units - is rigged, with producers sometimes planting valuable items among the junk, a former contestant said in a lawsuit on Tuesday.
David Hester, one of the reality TV show's longest-serving cast members, said producers buried a BMW Mini under trash in one unit featured in the A&E cable series, and a pile of newspapers announcing the death of Elvis Presley in another.
"A&E regularly plants valuable items or memorabilia," Hester charged in his lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday against the cable channel and the show's producers.
When he complained, Hester was fired from the show. He is claiming fraud, wrongful dismissal, breach of contract and unfair business practices, and asking for at least $750,000 in damages.
A&E declined to comment on the lawsuit on Tuesday, saying it did not comment on pending litigation.
"Storage Wars," which made its debut in 2010, is the highest-rated non-fiction program on U.S. cable television, and draws about 5 million viewers per episode. It is also broadcast in Canada, Australia, Britain and other countries.
The show follows a group of modern treasure-hunters who compete at public auctions of abandoned storage lockers in the hope of finding valuable items which they can re-sell for a profit.
Hester said that "nearly every aspect of the show is faked." He said producers regularly place in the lockers "valuable or unusual effects to add dramatic effect" and sometimes stage entire units, according to the lawsuit.
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rocket (n.1) A garden plant of the cabbage family, c.1500, from Middle French roquette (16th C.), from Italian rochetta, diminutive of ruca "a kind of cabbage," from Latin eruca "colewort," perhaps so called for its downy stems and related to ericus "hedgehog," also "a beam set with spikes," from PIE *ghers- "to bristle".
rocket (n.2) A type of self-propelling projectile, from the 1610s, from Italian rocchetto "a rocket," literally "a bobbin," diminutive of rocca "a distaff," so called because of cylindrical shape. The Italian word probably is from a Germanic source (compare Old High German rocko "distaff," Old Norse rokkr), from Proto-Germanic *rukkon-, from Proto-Indo-European root *rug- "fabric, spun yarn." Originally "fireworks rocket," meaning "device propelled by a rocket engine" first recorded 1919; rocket-ship in the modern sense first attested February 1927 ("Popular Science"); earlier as a type of naval warship firing projectiles. Rocket science in the figurative sense of "difficult, complex process or topic" is attested by 1985. Rocket scientist is from 1952.
"That such a feat is considered within the range of possibility is evidenced by the activities of scientists in Europe as well as in America. Two of them, Prof. Herman Oberth and Dr. Franz Hoeff, of Vienna, are constructing a five-ton rocket ship in which they hope to reach the moon in two days." [Popular Science, Feb. 1927]
rocket (v.) "to spring like a rocket," 1860, from rocket (n.2). Earlier "to attack with rockets" (1799). Related: Rocketed; rocketing. (thanks to etymonline.com)
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Amber's project for 2014: My 52 Weeks of Agatha Christie. Here's her explanation.
This Week: Fandoms
We have three Tumblr blogs, in addition to our regular shop blog:
Books and Decay, maintained by Amber – interesting photos with literary quotes to match
Hardboiled, maintained by JB – pulp covers, film noir and other images of crime and mystery
On This Date
July 5, 1893 – Golden Age author Anthony Berkeley Cox was born. As Anthony Berkeley he wrote one of Bill's favorites, Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929). As Francis Iles, he wrote Before the Fact (1932) filmed by Hitchcock as Suspicion in 1941
July 5 – from Hollywood: Warren Oates (1928, Depoy, KY), Edie Falco (1963, Brooklyn), and Eva Green (1980, Paris)
July 6, 1899 – Mignon G. Eberhart – prolific novelist and MWA Grand Master was born
July 6 – a flock of Hollywood Stars: Janet Leigh (1927, Merced, CA), Ned Beatty (1937, Louisville), Burt Ward (1945, LA), and Sly Stallone (1946, NYC) – yes, Robin is older than Rocky!
July 6, 1937 - 9th of the dozen victims credited to the Cleveland Torso Murderer found. She would never be identified
July 6, 1951 – Lynda Robinson, author of the historical Egyptian series, was born
July 8, 1892 – future Chicago crime boss Dean "Dion" O'Banion was born in Maroa, IL
July 7, 1930 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died
July 7, 1946 – Joe Spano – Henry Goldblume on "Hill Street Blues" – was born in San Francisco
July 8, 1843 – future lawman Virgil Earp was born in Hartford, KY
July 8, 1859 – Fergus Hume, author of what is thought to be the rarest of all mysteries ever written (The Mystery of the Hansom Cab, self-published in Australia in 1886 – only 2 copies are thought to still exist) was born in London
July 8, 1911 – John Ball, creator of Virgil Tibbs, was born in Schenectady. In the Heat of the Night was published in 1965
July 8, 1918 – future TV PI Peter Gunn, Craig Stevens was born in Liberty, MO
July 8, 1942 – future mystery bookseller, editor and man-about-mysteries Otto Penzler was born
July 8, 1947 – Roswell: whatever it was that crashed, crashed
July 8, 1948 – future firefighter and Shamus-winning mystery author Earl Emerson was born in Tacoma
July 8 – of Hollywood royalty, Anjelica Huston was born in Santa Monica (1951) and Kevin Bacon was born in Philadelphia (1958)
July 9, 1775 – English writer William Gregory Lewis was born. His 1795 novel The Monk caused a scandal due to what was viewed as excessive blood, murder and 'immorality'
July 9 – a big day in Hollywood: Brian Dennehy (Bridgeport, CT), Richard Roundtree (1942, New Rochelle, CT. Shaft comes in 1971), Chris Cooper (1951, Kansas City), Jimmy Smits (1955, Brooklyn), Tom Hanks (1957, Concord, CA) and Kelly McGillis (1956, Newport Beach, CA)
July 9 - Lionel White in Buffalo, NY (1905), Nancy Taylor Rosenberg was born in Dallas (1946), Dean Koontz was born in Everett, PA (1945)
July 9, 1945 – Gerald Manson Ford was born in Everett, MA. His friends call him Jerry, the spines of his books say G.M. Ford
July 10, 1875 – E.C. Bentley – creator of the fallible Det. Trent – was born in London
July 10, 1897 – Jack Diamond was born in Philadelphia. Bootlegger and gangster, he'd become known as "Legs" for his dance talent and his ability to escape enemies
July 10, 1914 - Dan J. Marlowe was born in Lowell, MA
July 10, 1923 – the prolific Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes was born in Kansas City. She's most well known for the work under her pen name Stanton Forbes
July 10, 1928 – Hubert Monteilhet was born in Paris
July 10, 1973 – the jet-setting grandson of J. Paul Getty was kidnapped
July 11, 1804 – the Burr/Hamilton duel
July 11, 1910 – pulp writer Hugh B. Cave was born in Chester, England
July 11, 1931 – San Francisco homicide detective Dave Toschi was born. He would later be a lead investigator in the Zodiac case and legend has it Steve McQueen modeled his performance in Bullitt after him
July 11, 1983 – Ross Macdonald died
And Have a Relaxing and Book-Filled Weekend!
Happy Birthday to US!
July 1st is the day we traditionally take as our birthday. This year will mark 24 years since Bill started this outfit. To celebrate and reward you loyal supporters, we're giving you the present: for the first half of the month, July 1st through 15th, all used hardcovers will be 25% off. Whether they're $5 reader copies or $55 million copies of the Gutenburg phone book, they'll all be 25% cheaper to buy for the first half of the month.
And while we're on the subject of birthday – we're going to be initiating some changes, in addition to what we've already been doing. Here's an explanation.
And that leads neatly into the beginning of July:
We'll be closed on Friday, July 4th.
That means next week's newzine will be a day early. Back to regular hours on the 5th.
Rest In Peace
The great Eli Wallach died this week. For the last six decades, he's been in everything – TV, stage, movies – and played all sorts of characters, both good and bad, both elegant and grubby. A list of his roles would take up all the space we have, so let's limit it to crime entertainment: The Lineup, The Moon-Spinners, The Two Jakes, The Deep, Mystic River, The Godfather III, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents","Kojak", "Murder, She Wrote", "Batman", "L.A. Law", "Law & Order", to name just a few. He began acting on TV when it was almost all live, and continued up until 2009. He appeared in movies from 1956 to 2010! He won a Tony award in 1951.
Studying at the University of Texas, he met and acted with future governor John Connally and future anchorman Walter Cronkite, who became a life-long friend.
While he's probably most well known for his role of Tuco in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, he related that he received more fan mail for appearing as Mr Freeze in "Batman" than anything else he'd done.
With Wallach's death, only Robert Vaughn is left alive from the stars of The Magnificent Seven.
Eli Herschel Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on Dec 7, 1915, and grew up the only Jewish kid in a neighborhood full of Italians. His parents owned a local candy story – Bertha's. . He served in the Army medical corps during WWII. In 1948, he married fellow actor Anne Jackson and spent the next 66 years with her – three children, 5 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren
He kept his perspective on things to the end. "Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
Mr. Wallach died in his native New York City on June 24th. He was 98.
Vayos con dios! R.I.P.
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Raymond Chandler is being honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame (love to hear his reaction to that – it'd probably be, shall we say… acidic)
How the CIA secretly published Dr Zhivago
Italian police 'solve' the 1909 Petrosino Mafia murder.
Inside Job: 10 Crime Writers Turned Detective
NPR is starting their Summer Mystery series, "Crime in the City". First up, Julia Keller: In Mystery Series's W.Va. River Town, There's No Escape from Terror
Pure fun: time-lapse video of the huge London bookseller Foyle's moving half a million books 100 meters away to a new location.
The Strange Case of the Poisoned Pen Letters: John Mullan explores one of the inner demons of parochial England.
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Wed, July 16, Jacqueline Winspear drops by to sign The Care and Management of Lies (Harper hc, $26.99).
A nonmystery novel of The Great War. Kezia and Thea have been best friends nearly all their lives. But the relationship has been tested by Thea's politicization from the suffrage movement and Kezia's romance with Thea's brother. Kezia does marry Tom and they move to the family's farm in the summer of 1914 as War looms. Tom is soon off to war and the women are left to try to stitch their relationship back together as the world descends into madness and death. [Please note: this will not be a scheduled time. She's coming in as a favor to us while on tour. We HIGHLY recommend reserving a signed copy now so that we know how many copies to have for her to sign and so that you are assured of a copy for later pick-up or to be mailed.]
Fri, Oct 10, noon – Hank Phillippi Ryan signs Truth Be Told (Forge hc, $24.99)
Truth Be Told is part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series. It begins with tragedy: a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home. In digging up the facts on this heartbreaking story—and on other foreclosures— reporter Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big-bucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret. Turns out, there's more than one way to rob a bank. Boston police detective Jake Brogan has a liar on his hands. A man has just confessed to the famous twenty-year-old Lilac Sunday killing, and while Jake's colleagues take him at his word, Jake is not so sure. But he has personal reasons for hoping they've finally solved the cold case.
Jennifer Murphy, June 28
Burt Weissbourd, June 28 (please note 3:00pm)
Ingrid Thoft, July 2
Mike Lawson, July 3
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Generally, I enjoy novels over short stories. I like being lost in someone's world for long stretches.
But sometimes short stories hit the spot, especially when they're set in a favorite world, so I really enjoyed Craig Johnson's Wait for Signs(Oct., Viking hc, $22.00, no idea if we'll have signed copies, but fingers crossed). For years, Craig has gifted his friends with stories at Christmas, and this anthology has brought them together for the first time as a book, along with one entirely new story - you'll love Petunia! - and it's a nice dip into Walt Longmire's world.
I think they'll be a great sampler for folks who want to get to know what Craig Johnson's writing is like, but as someone who's familiar with Absaroka County, I found these little snippets of time spent with favorite characters was like a little vacation, a series of short visits with old friends.
Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and always entertaining, Wait for Signs is a complete delight. With an introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays Henry Standing Bear in the television series, this is a short story collection you're not going to want to miss!
[JB concurs and says that the story "Messenger" is one of the funniest things he's read in ages!]
June 28, 1891 – birth of serial killer, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram. He confessed to killing 21 around the country and died in Leavenworth
June 28, 1909 – future thriller-writer and Edgar-winner Eric Ambler was born in London
June 28, 1926 – funnyman, writer, director, actor and producer Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn
June 28, 1947 – writer of stories for kids of all ages Peter Abrahams was born in Boston. Co-incidentally, at that same instant, Spenser Quinn was born, too!
June 28, 1966 - Åsa Larsson (Uppsala, Sweden) and John Cusack (Evanston, IL) were born
June 28, 1970 – future author of the Spenser series Ace Atkins was born
June 28, 1971 - Joe Columbo, head of the Columbo crime family, was shot
June 29, 1908 – pulp and paperback original writer Bruno Fischer was born in Berlin
June 29, 1924 – future Black Dahlia and murder victim Elizabeth Short was born in Boston
June 29, 1930 – producer Robert Evans was born in NYC and we thank him for The Godfather and Chinatown
June 29 –from Hollywood: Slim Pickens (1919, born Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. in Kingsburg, CA), Ian Bannen (1928, Airdrie, Scotland), and Gary Busey (1944, Goose Creek, TX)
June 29, 1945 – Quintin Jardine, Scottish crime writer and creator of Skinner and Blackstone, was born
June 29 – birthday of two of the shop's favorite people: Pat Lee and cookie-lady Gina Williams. Early Happy Birthday to you both!
June 29, 1987 – The Living Daylights, the first Bond movie with Timothy Dalton, premiered in London
June 30, 1901 – future bank robber and prison-escapee Willie Sutton was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
June 30, 1951 – Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train premiered
June 30, 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, star of silver and TV screen, was born in Brooklyn
June 30, 1966 – Margery Allingham died
June 30, 1970 – novelist and screenwriter Derek Haas was born in Houston Happy Birthday, Derek!
June 30, 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published and a phenomenal publishing and entertainment empire began
July 1 – noir master James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, MD (1892), William DeAndrea was born in Port Chester, NY (1952), the delightful and talented Lisa Scottoline was born in Philadelphia (1955)
July 1 - from Hollywood: Charles Laughton (1899, Scarborough, England), Harold Sakata (1920, Honolulu – immortality as Oddjob), Dan Ackroyd (1952, Ottawa) and Andre Braugher (1962, Chicago)
July 1, 1949 – Mankiewicz's House of Strangers, with Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward and Richard Conte premiered
July 1, 1957 – "Richard Diamond, Private Eye", staring David Janssen, premiered
July 1, 1981 – the Wonderland Murders took place
July 2, 1864 – William Le Queux was born. A member of the British Secret Service at the end of the 19th C., he turned to writing thrillers based on his experiences. He needed the income to finance his intelligence efforts. They weren't funded by the government. His stories help lay the foundations of the espionage novel
July 2, 1881 – President James Garfield was shot
July 2, 1927 – rumbly-basso Brock Peters was born George Fisher in NYC. You don't think of To Kill a Mockingbird as a crime story, but it is – courtroom drama of the highest order
July 2, 1931 – German child murderer Peter Kurten is executed. His case was the inspiration for the great Peter Lorre film M (1931)
July 2, 1971 – Shaft premiered
July 3, 1906 – the debonair George Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia
July 3, 1908 – award-winning French mystery writer Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac) was born in Rochefort-sur-Mer
July 3 - William Ard was born in Brooklyn (1922), Evelyn Anthony was born in London (1928) and Gwen Moffat was born in Sussex (1924)
July 3, 1947 – funnyman, columnist and novelist Dave Barry was born in Armonk, NY
July 3, 1945 – future Mod Squad member Michael Cole was born in Madison
July 3, 1961 – future serial killer Westley Allan Dodd was born in Toppenish, WA
July 3, 1962 – Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in Syracuse
July 4, 1776 – a bunch of old white guys put their names to a document that made them all guilty of treason
July 4: two of the biggest mobsters in American history: Meyer Lansky was born in 1902 and Johnny Roselli was born in 1905. Patriotism and crime, skipping hand-in-hand through the 20th Century
July 4 – Scotsman Gavin Black was born in Tokyo (1913), Anthony Oliver was born in Abersychan, Wales (1922), Sébastien Japrisot in Marseille (1931) and Edgar-winner Kay Nolte Smith was born in Eveleth, MN (1932)
July 4, 19XX – Charlotte Elkins was born
July 4, 1969 – 2nd 'official' Zodiak attack
We've taken July 1st to be our birthday, and our 24th is coming up quickly. We've seen a lot of changes over the years, and the time has come for us to make some changes of our own.
First of all, we're having a SALE! That's right, all used hardcovers, from our $5 specials to our high-end collectibles are all on sale at 25% off! From July 1st through the 15th, this is your chance to pick up a great deal on some one-of-a-kind books. Remember, that's used hardcovers, not new. No reserving early!
One of the changes we've already made is that we're ordering fewer hardcovers in general. Remember when we had huge piles of books for signings? Sadly, those days are gone. We've got to be more fiscally conservative, so we're trying to order just what we know we need. What that means for you is that if there's something you really want, signed or not, please let us know in advance. We are building our orders out of these reserve lists, so it helps us to know how many to have on hand. That way, we won't disappoint you, which is something we hate doing.
In general, we're ordering fewer titles and fewer copies of those we do want to have on hand. This is especially true with trade paperbacks which now can cost as much as hardcovers did when the shop opened in 1990. But just because we don't have it does not mean we won't be willing or interested in getting you a copy. If you don't see what you want, for heaven's sake tell us and we'll order it for you. Doesn't cost you anything extra.
We're also seriously discussing closing on Sundays and/or Mondays. We like being able to say we're here seven days a week, and (so far) Sundays have free parking, which has been a bonus. But sadly, the numbers aren't there, the sales don't support us being here, and it's a hard reality that we might have to face, perhaps by summer's end, if not sooner.
Then too, we're taking a hard look at which signings we'll be accepting, and we may very well be paring those down. We wish, we truly do, that we could accept every author who wants to sign here, but, like the piles of books from before, those days are gone. We love our authors and we want to do everything we can to help them succeed. We're taking a good, hard look at what makes a signing successful, and so some changes will be in order.
Why are we making these changes? People are buying fewer books. We cannot say if it is due to any one thing - the economy, less disposable income, the higher prices of printed books, or e-books - or a combination of them. Our view is all, and more, of those things are at play. Evolution and adaption is the name of the game for any business and we wanted to mention some of the changes you'll be seeing.
As we've said many times over the years, the health of all small businesses depends on the support of their customers. We have been lucky to have had so many over the last 24 years. We hope to be able to say that again, next year, when we hit 25.
Thanks from all of us -
the Crew


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Back in the 1960s and 1970s, if you wanted information about solar power, you would quite literally write away to some supplier or government agency and request a brochure. Some time later, someone might get back to you.
Or, maybe you'd go visit an experimental solar home in New Mexico. Any way you slice it, the process was laborious and not custom-tailored to your house and climate and conditions.
Now, take a couple of solar services startups: 1BOG and Sungevity.
One Block Off the Grid harnesses the power of online groups to negotiate group deals with solar suppliers. It also does the legwork for you in finding a good supplier and installer. And you can do most of the process right online. It reduces the barriers to entry for would-be solar purchasers.
Sungevity does a similar thing. Using satellite photos, it helps you size and purchase solar panels for your home.
Both companies are doing things that would have amazed the mom-and-pop solar guys of the 1970s.
A host of other energy startups like Efficiency 2.0 are trying to use data about your energy usage to help you save money by cutting your energy usage. Similar companies like Enernoc are hard at work cutting the energy intensity of the industrial and commercial space.
These guys are just the beginning of a much, much bigger movement in the energy industry. For decades, when we needed peak power, we had to place the dirtiest, worst power plants online.
In the future, we'll simply use well-designed systems to shave down that load. And by "well-designed system," what I really mean is "well-designed code that can identify how to cut energy usage."
Everything that can be reduced to data will be reduced to data over the next couple decades.
That's what Wired's been telling us in one way or another since Louis Rosetto was running the place.
The lean-energy startups that will lead the way in green technology will take advantage of that. They'll invent the intelligence of the "smart grid" and make it painless (and maybe even enjoyable) for people to use less energy.
No one's saying it's going to be easy, but last I checked, Silicon Valley likes hard problems.


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13 December 2010 / HEAD PASSES WITH FLYING COLOURS!
The award was presented to Caroline and a record number of other graduates by Admiral the Right Honourable Lord West of Spithead at a special event held at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. Designed to signify a degree-equivalent standard of personal achievement and professional and technical expertise within the cadet forces, the Licentiateship recognises at least five years of volunteering, professional development and youth management experience.
"I'm very proud to have achieved this award," said Caroline, who was in charge of the RAF section of the Combined Cadet Force at Wellington School in Somerset before being appointed Headmistress of Truro High. "I firmly believe that cadet training brings huge benefits and I've thoroughly enjoyed being part of it and helping to develop young people's skills."
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Monday ordered the cancellation of a court sentence of 60 lashes imposed on a female employee of a satellite television channel because of her involvement in a program about sex.
Wire services quoted Information Ministry spokesman Abdul-Rahman al-Hazzaa as saying that the king had ordered the flogging dropped and her case, as well as that of another woman, be transferred from criminal court to a media court run by the ministry.
On Saturday, a court in Jeddah sentenced Rozanna Al Yami, 22, to 60 lashes after finding that she assisted Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) to produce the program in which a Saudi man, Mazen Abdul Jawad, 32, spoke frankly about his sexual adventures. His interview scandalized many Saudis.
"The king has vindicated me. I am satisfied with the king's order and I accept the decisions of the sovereign," Alyami told Reuters after being informed of the pardon.
Abdul Jawad was sentenced to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes after the court found he had promoted immorality in recounting his active sex life. He is appealing.
Today, his lawyer Suliman Aljimaie said that his client's case should also be transferred from criminal court to the media court. If necessary, he said he would approach the king to request that this be done.


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Published on Oct 18, 2012 1:29 PM
The legal tussle between lawyer M Ravi and the Law Society will resume at two pre-trial conferences on Nov 15. This was decided at the High Court on Thursday.
Mr Ravi is suing the Law Society and its representative Wong Siew Hong for defamation, and is also applying for an expulsion of the society's council members.
The tussle centres on an incident in July when Mr Wong entered the High Court several times with a psychiatrist's letter stating Mr Ravi was unfit to practise.
For the defamation case, Mr Ravi has informed Mr Wong's legal team that he plans to subpoena two persons as witnesses. They are senior assistant registrar Yeong Zee Kin, and well-known criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan.
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A graduate of Towson University in Baltimore, Thormann spent many years in the petroleum industry before becoming Michael Andretti's closest business advisor. Thormann owned and operated successful retail sites for Shell, Texaco and Sunoco. He was also the Managing Director for the International Retail Corporation which operated 17 high-volume Amoco, Mobil and Sunoco service stations on the Eastern Seaboard interstate highways.
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