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The Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Age Eligibility Rules: Evidence from Women's Professional Tennis
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Age is often used in law and public policy as a low-cost proxy for competency, maturity, and ability. Age is also used in numerous sport (and non-sport) labor markets to determine workplace eligibility. We exploit the enactment of the women's professional tennis minimum age rule (AR) in 1995 to estimate the effects of ARs on short-run and long-run labor market outcomes. We find very limited evidence that the AR has had any systematic beneficial effect on players' career longevity or success. Our results suggest that sport governing bodies should (re-)evaluate the efficacy and necessity of "one size fits all" age eligibility rules.
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- Title
- The Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Age Eligibility Rules: Evidence from Women's Professional Tennis
- Journal
Journal of Labor Research
Volume 32, Issue 2 , pp 181-198
- Cover Date
- 2011-06-01
- 10.1007/s12122-011-9108-7
- Print ISSN
- 0195-3613
- Online ISSN
- 1936-4768
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Age rules
- Labor policies
- Tennis
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Ryan M. Rodenberg (1)
- Daniel F. Stone (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Sport Management, Florida State University, 139 Chieftan Way, 1006 Tully, Tallahassee, FL, 32306–4280, USA
- 2. Department of Economics, Oregon State University, 303 Ballard Extension Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA


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The Tampa Bay Rays won the opener of this three-game set behind an impressive effort from one of the game's most promising young pitchers.
Rays fans have plenty of reasons to be excited about Alex Cobb, too.Looking to build on Matt Moore's performance, Cobb takes the mound for his season debut as the Rays host the Cleveland Indians, who try to avoid a third straight loss Saturday night.Moore appeared in midseason form during Friday's 4-0 win, striking out eight over six innings of two-hit ball. Tampa Bay's bullpen, which had compiled a 10.13 ERA over the first three games, followed with three perfect innings as the Rays (2-2) held Cleveland (2-2) off the basepaths after the fourth."It feels good for us to have a combined shutout like that," Moore said. "It's something we really work towards every game, and to have the first one of the year on my night feels nice."The Rays now turn to Cobb, who enters 2013 with high expectations after compiling a 7-1 record and 3.09 ERA over his final 11 starts last year. The right-hander also turned heads in six spring training, posting a 2.81 ERA and striking out 28 over 25 2/3 innings."Cobb has been Cy Young himself," reigning AL Cy Young Award winner David Price said. "Cobb's been pitching the ball extremely well for us, hopefully he can just keep his confidence going throughout the regular season."Cobb, who went 11-9 with a 4.03 ERA in 2012, has to be excited about debuting at home. He went 4-1 with a 1.75 ERA over five outings there down the stretch last season.Cobb went 1-1 with a 4.82 ERA over two July starts against the Indians. He has held Cleveland newcomers Mike Aviles and Mark Reynolds hitless in a combined 11 at-bats.Cobb faces an Indians team that, aside from an 8-for-17 effort with runners in scoring position during Thursday's 10-8 loss at Toronto, has gone 3 for 27 in such situations in its other three games, including 0 for 5 on Friday.Cleveland will get a chance to see what it has in highly regarded 22-year-old Trevor Bauer. Acquired from Arizona as part of a three-team trade in December, Bauer will be called up to start in place of former Rays ace Scott Kazmir, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained rib cage.Bauer was knocked around in four major league starts last year, going 1-2 with a 6.06 ERA. The right-hander struck out 17 over 16 1/3 innings but issued 13 walks."There's a pretty bright future, a lot to like," manager Terry Francona said. "With most young pitchers, consistency of command is probably the thing that comes last. (He's) got tremendous arm speed, got a really good change-up."With Carlos Carrasco expected to return from suspension next week, Bauer will be sent back down to Triple-A Columbus following Saturday's start.Bauer will need to be wary of Ben Zobrist, who's gone 7 for 15 with a homer and seven RBIs thus far. The right fielder stayed hot Friday with two doubles and three RBIs."He went to the WBC, and I think that's a real important part of his start right now," manager Joe Maddon said. "He really takes that kind of thing seriously, so he came to camp ready to play."Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
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Cleveland | Tampa Bay | |
Night | 59-50 | 62-47 |
Grass | 89-67 | 36-37 |
Current Streak | W10 | W2 |
Last 10 | 10-0 | 8-2 |
Pitching Matchup
Gameday Lineups
NO. | Cleveland | Tampa Bay |
1. | M. Bourn, CF | D. Jennings, CF |
2. | A. Cabrera, SS | M. Joyce, RF |
3. | J. Kipnis, 2B | B. Zobrist, 2B |
4. | N. Swisher, 1B | E. Longoria, 3B |
5. | M. Brantley, LF | J. Loney, 1B |
6. | C. Santana, C | Y. Escobar, SS |
7. | L. Chisenhall, 3B | S. Duncan, DH |
8. | R. Raburn, RF | J. Molina, C |
9. | L. Marson, C | K. Johnson, LF |
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Live Lobster Prices - Old topic, but a new year. Do you know this from your visits to the stores, or do you ever see them advertised in their fliers? I thought I used to see them advertised, but it's been some time. |
Live Lobster Prices - Old topic, but a new year. Thanks all for you're recent intel. Again, I've scanned all of the weekly in store circulars, but no mention of lobster. I have to go to SMSF today for some unrelated Items. Shouldn't be anyone else there, which is good news. ;) I'll report back with prices later. |
Live Lobster Prices - Old topic, but a new year. Excuse me if I missed them, but I'm looking for current prices and vendors for live (Maine of course) lobster's. Latest thread on the subject was almost a year ago and since we're coming into that holiday time of year again... I've searched/called the usual suspects (SMSF, Gelson's etc) but at the moment, the prices are thru the roof. $16 - $18/lb. That, coming off of what I understand was a banner year for the lobstermen. Haven't done all of my homework (LAX Fish Co, 99 Ranch etc) but if you happened to have noticed the prices or recently purchased, any intel would be great. Thank you all. Cheers |
Scopa Italian Roots, anyone been ????? CB, As I live in Venice I go quite often, but make no mistake, this restaurant has little in common with "NYC Italian". Having said that, the food is just ok as is the service, the menu limited, ambiance comfortable, but prices that are not so comfortable. |
ok, where on the westside can i find a GREAT baked potato with sour cream? Yes on the tin foil. This I can attest to, as I was there just last night. Had a baked potato, but the servers and ambiance are what we go the Galley for regularly. |
I was at H & B's just yesterday by chance. Cajun Popcorn All good, and the only real creole game in town. |
I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to update. As someone replied earlier, Seesaw Cafe (433号 Yuyuan Rd, Jing'an, Shanghai, China) was really good. They're quite obsessive about their brews etc. Single Batch beans and all of that business. No. & east of Jing'an Temple maybe 5 mins. by taxi. |
Sunday mid-afternoon Italian - As in THIS Sunday. Yes you all are correct. I had a feeling that a little gem of a place like that, doesn't go unnoticed for long. I made the mistake of mentioning to the owner, the scene of the bread bakers shop in film "Moonstruck". Trust me, he's heard it before. |
Sunday mid-afternoon Italian - As in THIS Sunday. Clearly you know me well, too. I was going to use "OpinionatedChef" as my handle here, but you beat me to it. So we did have our Friday lunch at Neptune's, and enjoyed the usual offerings of raw, crudo and others. Consistent as always. After lunch we shoehorned ourselves into Mike's fow a pastry, and then grabbed a couple of espressos next door. Found a couple of seats in the Boston sping sunshine, and had a very special afternoon. While in the No. End, we happened to stumble upon what i thought was a very charming and special little Panateria (photos below), that's fairly new (at least new to me), hidden down a tiny alley off of Hanover St. and tucked into a downstairs basement of a space. I looked here for info on it, but didn't seem to find any. Today being Sunday, I think that Coppa sounds nice, and has the general consensus across this board, as being worthy of what we we're seeking. We'll let you know how we fare. Thanks for the input that you all provided. |
Sunday mid-afternoon Italian - As in THIS Sunday. I do appreciate the input, and have to say, you must know me well. Lunch tomorrow is of course at Neptune's (you'll recognize us, as the 1st ones in the door at 11:30am) and we always order a Regina pie to go, for the flight home. So clearly you know I mean business. ;) Getting that out of the way, we're still looking for that Sunday lunch. Sure is quiet in Boston today, no? |
Sunday mid-afternoon Italian - As in THIS Sunday. Flying out of BOS at 6:00pm this Sunday (5/19) and was hoping to find a nice place for a mid-afternoon Italian lunch. Not strictly pizza. I've found that many are closed on Sunday (2:00pm-ish) afternoons, but I've come up with a few options that come recommended on this board. Coppa, Pasta Beach, Antico Forno to name a few. Bella Vista? North End is more friendly due to the mildly festive atmosphere, and proximity to BOS. Can I do better? Thanks in advance |
MEATBALLS - LA Dish of the Month (May 2013) Sunday's Supper- Lamb meatballs with fresh mint and basil. |
Lunch Along the CicLaVia Route At 2:00am, I may have passed you, however I wasn't fit for bike riding at the time. Well we didn't really land any meccas of gastronomic note, mostly due to the hordes of people on Venice Bl. We did stop at Oldfield's, a pub near overland that unbeknownst to me, has been there for some time, which had a really great vibe, fun DJ, and some nice craft cocktails. In their parking lot however, was a guy who set up a pretty solid pop-up taco stand, with some far better fare than your average. The selections of proteins for your tacos were pretty standard, but he had some really creative salsa's and such. One being a nice Mango and Cilantro, w/ a nice contrast between flavor and a really nice heat. Another was a Tomatillo and Nopales salsa that was smokey and quite fiery. Went really well with an icy Whiskey Sour. I guess I had different visions of what that ride was all about, so probably not the best time for extended sit down lunch. But a great time was had, for sure. Thanks to all who gave their input. |
Anybody know where you can buy a whole pig? Check out ReRide Ranch on Google and FB. There's been some press in the recent past about them. L&G actually sources some of their pigs from them, so you'd be saving a ton, off their crazy retail markup. They're local (Santa Clarita) and they're raising healthy sustainable products. |
Yah, I went. Happened upon it by chance and went in for a bite. Had a trio of sliders that were OK at best. They'd only been open for a few days at that point, and the output was proof of that. Even so, I don't see as a destination place. |
Lunch Along the CicLaVia Route Assuming you mean at Helms Bakery, not a bad suggestion. Some may be riding from the east, and some from the west, so I'm trying to keep it fair. I can hear the whining already. I'll put it on the list though. |
Lunch Along the CicLaVia Route Trying to come up with a decent lunch spot, for a small group meet-up along the route of this Saturday's LA bike ride. http://www.ciclavia.org It runs from Downtown to Dogtown along Venice Bl., so maybe somewhere around the mid-point. It's a bit tough, being that Venice has some pretty desolate stretches. - Fairly casual Guelaguetza Thanks |
If you ask me, you answered your own question... |
Thanks for the reccomendations. I always order the Special Hearts, whenever available. I know more than a few chickens, that would say they're "to die for". |
Last night was "the" birthday dinner, tonight I intend to get down to Torihei, to right that wrong. And I just Googled Chantilly, and it looks really top shelf. Cooler in hand I go... |
Oh and bright note last night. I was able to make it up the street to Beard Papa's just before closing time, and scored a 1/2 dozen cream puffs. Of which I proudly ate 4. Hey, it was my birthday, right? |
Alas, were flying solo last evening, which I was not, there'd be no distance I wouldn't have traveled to hit the right spot. Case in point, I once drove 2 1/2 hours, into the dark of the South Carolina Low-Country, for the "right" spot. That spot being, Sweatman's BBQ. Even on my birthday, I was shouted down, by the vocal majority, so I went with the flow. Which I might add, is not my M.O. Actually, I quite often make the drive to SSG (Torrance) from Venice, just for lunch, so I somewhat versed on their scene. It just wasn't in the Taro (pun intended) Cards last night. So I chalk last night to what is was, whatever it was. Any guesses where I going to dinner tonight? Need to feed the monkey. |
Thanks all for your input and insights. So largely due to proximity, and the advice of a few here on this thread we landed on Morinoya. Website is still down, so we couldn't make a resi VIA that portal. They're not listed on Opentable of any other resi websites, so couldn't reserve there either. They finally answered their phone sometime after 5:30pm, and was able to get a table for six, at 8pm. We arrive and all is well. There may have been 10 people combined at maybe 4 tables and the bar, on a Friday night. We ordered some hot pots, fried chicken, assorted pickles, grilled sausages, Yakitori, some sashimi and crudo amongst others. Most of the plates came out (when they finally did) in a somewhat haphazard and abstract manner, with no particular order or flow. Some only came when we reminded the server of what we ordered. It turned out to be just kind of a whatever, kind of evening and experience. I must say that the menu (not the quality of inegredients, or preperation) feels something like that of a Denny's or one of those Chinese-American restaurant menus you find up in the desert in some small town. Japanese here, Chinese there. A little bit of everything. Noodles, hot pots, yakitori etc. trying to be all things to all people, instead of honing it down to the items they do best. Of the plates we had, most were perfectly nice, if a bit uninspired. All in all, we had a satisfactory evening, but in the end, the server had to be litteraly chased down to get the tab. Food: adequate So again, thanks. Looking forward to Torihei. |
Ate there just yesterday. Had 2 pies myself. Sort of like the old saying about Martinis and women's breasts (no misogyny or objectification intended). One's not enough, and three's too many. Is it the best Neo. Pizza in town? Nope. I too worried about their business, as I was the only one the at 11:45am, but things got rolling shortly after that, so good for them. |
Thanks thus far for all of your responses, but the "but" after the Morinoya is for their website... that's down. I guess I need to call and see what's up. |
I'm planning my own birthday dinner... because! Thought a small group, Yakitori / Izakaya might be a decent source for some casual fun. Problem is, who is still good, and even more to the point, still open? Yakitori Bicho- Morinoya- Torihei- Also Ran- Then again, Korean BBQ might fit the bill Anyone have an opinion? |
Anywhere in LA to find macaroons like Whisk LA made? Personally, I wouldn't know the first thing bout passover macaroons, nor communion wafers for that matter, but I'll certainly try them. |
As a matter of fact I did like it. Being only one of the 3 or 4 paatrons in the place, I Owned it. I started with one (well maybe more than one) of there signature cocktails made with Gin and some other ingrediants that somehoh slip my mind this morning. I Mostly went down a self imposed small plate route starting with the Pimento Chees plate. A room temp cheesy, pimento studded concoction served with crispy dill pickles and Ritz Crackers. A higher elevated version than the southern hollar variety I've had in other, well southern hollars. Shrimp-n-Grits came next which albeit pretty straight forward, yet really served well as a warm "welcome" to the south. Et en suite, the Surry Sasage plate. A very nice, well spiced split sausage served with collards tweaked by a zippy vinegar, mustard seed, and mustard punch. Looking back, I should have ordered another. At this point the server was growing slightly weary of all of my queries... where's thencheesenfrom? What far are you all sourcing your pork from, blah blah blah. She finally went to fetch the chef to deal with yet another annoying diner. Chef Travis, aka Milton, proceeded join me at the bar. For the next hour, yammered on about food, love and life, only to discover we shared friends and interest, common to both of us. Finished with a nice simple salad with a bacon vinagrette, which I knocked over onto the bar. But that was remedied by the cocktail that the bartender pleased onto the bar. You know, Gin makes a really nice grease cutter. So I'm writing this from The SubRosa Bakery where I've enjoyed a nice cafe and croissant. And am about to continue my enjoyment, by ordering a croissant, stuffed with Olli Salami made with a Sangiovese. So I must say, that this is the power of this board. Years ago, I would have flown into town, floundered around for a couple of hours, looking for a good meal, only to be steered to the nearest Morton's, by a concierge on commission. Thanks for your help. My last question is... so what have ya done for me lately? I've have a couple of days business to tend to down in, wait for it, Deltaville. Wherever that is. My wuestion is, Do they eat food there, or just their young? |
Well that's what I'm talking about... So Edo or Comfort it is, but I think Comfort may edge out Edo tonight. Landed at the Linden Row, and a delightful reception by (Niles sp?) concierge, and a foodie* in her own right is leaning towards the latter, and I can walk there. And as a matter of fact, I do have spare time in the morning ( after all it is the south-ish) so lamplighters it is. 10am - Cafe & pastry on me. Thanks Mid-Atlantic. Come west and we'll repay in spaids. Ad nausea, may be a more accurate description. *Maybe the most overused, and abused label of the decade. Thanks to all. Cheers |


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According to NFL.com insider Ian Rapoport, the team "will express interest in a possible trade" for San Francisco 49ers QB Alex Smith. However, as Rapoport notes, the Cardinals are "VERY pessimistic" that the 49ers will trade with a division rival.
They have good reason to be, as out of the 25 trades made in 2012, not one was between division rivals.
Smith, who was supplanted by Colin Kaepernick during the 2012 season, has been a rumored trade candidate ever since. A 28-year-old who really came into his own the last two seasons, Smith completed better than 70 percent of his passes for 1,737 yards and 13 touchdowns last season while being intercepted just five times. He had a QB rating of 104.1.
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CARSON CITY, NV - A teenage boy suffers serious injuries after being struck by a car on Fairview Dr and Gordon St, according to an official with the Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP).
NHP officials say the 15-year-old boy was using the crosswalk to cross the street when Elvira Madera struck him with her car.
Careflight transported the boy to Renown Regional Medical Center, according to an official with NHP.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
NHP officials say the accident happened around 6:30 a.m. on Monday, October 14, 2013.
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"The task set before the cinema today is one of contributing to people's development into true communists … This historic task requires, above all, a revolutionary transformation of the practice of directing." – Kim Jong Il's "On the Art of the Cinema" (1973)
"What a wretched fate," Shin Sang-Ok, now 77, remembers thinking after the meeting with the pudgy man in the gray Mao jacket. "I hated communism, but I had to pretend to be devoted to it to escape from this barren republic. It was lunacy."
Shin is a film director of legendary stature in his native country — the Orson Welles of South Korea. He modernized movies at a time when people hungered for art, for escape, following the Korean War. He and his wife, the well-known actress Choi Eun Hee, were among Seoul's celebrity set. But in 1978, he ran afoul of the frequently repressive government of Gen. Park Chung Hee, who closed his studio. After making at least 60 movies in 20 years, Shin's career appeared to be over.
What soon followed, according to Shin's memoir, "Kingdom of Kim," was an experience that revived his career in a most unbelievable way. Shin and his wife were both kidnapped by North Korea's despot-in-training, Kim Jong Il, who sought to create a film industry that would allow him to sway a world audience to the righteousness of the Korea Workers' Party. Shin would be his propagandist, Choi his star.
Shin, reticent to talk about his experiences to an American reporter, instead allowed a representative to give Salon an English translation of "Kingdom of Kim," which has only been released in his own country in Korean. North Korean apparatchiks have tried to cast doubt on Shin's story, claiming he willingly defected to North Korea and absconded with millions. But Korea experts find Shin's story believable. Eric Heginbotham, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is one of many Kim-watchers who say it's consistent with what is known about the regime. Pyongyang now admits it captured 11 Japanese citizens in the late '70s and '80s to act as cultural advisors. Several died in captivity, some in suicides. "The abduction cases from Japan were a real eye-opener," Heginbotham says.
And one of the reporters who has met with the couple also says he has no reason to doubt Shin. Don Oberdorfer, formerly of the Washington Post and now a respected Korea scholar, says that of the many "questionable" defectors he has interviewed over the years, these two seemed very trustworthy. "I made it a practice not to repeat the various yarns about Kim unless I felt confident from reliable sources they were true," he said. "This one I believed."
But it's certainly as fantastical as many of his movies. Shin writes of being caught trying to escape, and spending four years in an all-male prison camp as a result, left to assume his wife was dead. Then, just as suddenly, he was brought into the inner sanctum of Kim Jong Il, the would-be successor to his father, Kim Il Sung, who ruled the country for nearly 50 years. Shin's talents would then officially fall to the service of North Korea, and he would make seven movies before he and his wife made a breathtaking escape in Vienna in 1986.
Not many have escaped to tell of the habits of the man who is now the most dangerous dictator in the world — armed with nuclear and chemical weapons, and seemingly touched by madness. Shin's stories offer revealing glimpses of the man now threatening to "destroy the world." In fact, there is more than a passing resemblance between Kim and the insatiable Pulgasari, the communist Godzilla rip-off that Shin, at Kim's request, created for North Korean audiences, and which has become a camp curiosity for monster movie aficionados.
Shin says that shortly after arriving in Pyongyang he made several attempts to escape, and was punished with four years at Prison No. 6, where he lived on a diet of grass, salt, rice and party indoctrination — "tasting bile all the time," he writes. "I experienced the limits of human beings." All the while, he received no word about his wife (who was held under house arrest) and so assumed the worst.
Then, in 1983, they were both released, and before long, reunited at a reception thrown by Kim Jong Il. Over soft drinks, the top party official finally, incredibly, explained why they were there.
"The North's filmmakers are just doing perfunctory work. They don't have any new ideas," Kim told the couple. "Their works have the same expressions, redundancies, the same old plots. All our movies are filled with crying and sobbing. I didn't order them to portray that kind of thing." The couple was stunned.
By 1978, Kim had become disgusted with his Mt. Paektu Creative Group, a studio that, as explained in Kim's 1973 instruction manual, "On the Art of the Cinema," was run on the "monolithic guidance" of party groupthink and named after the mountain where, according to state myth, a shooting star soared overhead, giving the universe's fiery approval to the soil of Kim's birth. (Actually, he was born in Siberia.) Kim told Shin he felt a "profound disappointment" with their work.
In the 1960s, Kim Il Sung's propaganda machine had created "Sea of Blood" and "The Flower Girl," films that while regarded as tedious and crude by South Koreans were products the North was quite proud of, and were based on revolutionary operas. "Sea of Blood" is a war hagiography that gives Kim Il Sung exaggerated credit for victories over Japan in the 1930s. Recently it was still being shown widely, says Columbia University professor Charles Armstrong, who calls it a tool for reducing citizen unhappiness in the face of starvation. And like "Titanic" and its schmaltzy "My Heart Will Go On," "Sea of Blood" produced a hit song: "My Heart Will Remain Faithful."
"Films should contain musical masterpieces like these," Kim Jong Il writes in his book: "the fusion of noble ideas and burning passion." He spends most of the book entreating actors and directors, whom he compares to generals, to master their craft. How? Sheer party loyalty.
"Actors must be ideologically prepared before acquiring high level skills," he writes, recommending a kind of Communist method acting. "No revolutionary actor has ever actually been a Japanese policeman or capitalist … To effectively embody the hateful enemy, the actor requires an ardent love of his class and a burning hostility towards the enemy."
Kim's book also suggests that filmmakers draw from real life, avoid creating unrealistic movies about "the colourful lives of flamboyant characters," and reveals: "In the final analysis, a director who pins his hopes on finding a 'suitable actor' is taking a gamble in his creative work. And no director who relies on luck in creative work has ever achieved real success."
During the same period, in South Korea, Shin Sang-Ok's studio, Shin Films, had produced a number of box-office hits. He is best known for a 1968 historical drama called "The Eunuch," about concubines and emasculated servants unable to consummate their secret love. A popular theme in Shin's films — not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s — concerns the plight of women chaffing under the limits of society's expectations, such as "The Evergreen Tree" (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write. "Though this film does not directly express class consciousness, the dedication and faith in the people might be the reason this movie was praised and used as a textbook for acting in North Korea," writes Korean film critic Kwak Hyun-Ja. At 17, Choi had run away from home to pursue her dream of acting, eventually achieving renown in her country as the "Jewel of Actresses."
Ten years after writing that book, the playboy author of "On the Art of the Cinema" sat across the glass table from Shin and Choi, two real filmmakers. He blamed misunderstandings by thoughtless officials for their unfriendly four-year North Korean welcome. He also apologized for taking so long to get back to them personally, saying it had been busy at the office.
The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films. "I thought, 'I've got to bring him here,'" he said. Infiltrating Shin Films with agents posing as business partners, Kim explained how he lured the two to Repulse Bay, Hong Kong. First Choi disappeared on a trip to discuss an acting job. Then, on the way to dinner one night, Shin had a sack filled with a chloroform-like substance pulled over his head. With that, Kim had imported the best film talent the peninsula had to offer.
But Choi had come to the meeting with Kim prepared, according to her husband's memoir. She had purchased a cassette recorder at a nearby market for the party inner circle, and smuggled it past the guards of Kim's lair. It lay in her handbag, and before it came to a stop, it taped 45 minutes of the dictator laying out his plans for the two: to serve as role models for his industry, and claim they came to the North for the creative freedom. "It goes without saying," the leader said, "that you must say your defection to the North was of your own free will, and that the South's democracy is bogus."
To both Shin and Choi, the cassette of Kim's 45-minute talk was the key to a safe return home — but posed severe dangers as well. "It was a matter of life or death," Shin said later, in an interview with a South Korean magazine. They faced execution if the tape was found. In North Korea, there are strict rules against recording or filming the top leaders of the party. After the couple had been released, the tapes were eventually broadcast and discussed in South Korea.
And without the tape, Shin said, "I could not dare to return to [South Korea] without evidence that I had been kidnapped to the North. If [the Seoul government] charged me with entering the North on my own and cooperating with the North Koreans, I would have had no evidence to deny it."
But coming home was a long way away. For now, Shin Films was back open for business — this time in Pyongyang.
"The capitalist cinema, which promotes a few 'popular stars' to curry favor with the audience, is in essence a reactionary art form which reduces the stars to puppets and the film to a commodity. There cannot be a genuine creative spirit, and the beautiful flower of art cannot bloom …" – "On the Art of the Cinema"
"Shall we make Mr. Shin one of our regular guests?" Kim asked the crowd at a birthday party for one of his generals, after Shin's career, and life, was given its new lease. A lot of cognac was being drunk. The general in question was boasting that he could take Pusan in a week, tops. Military men marched in a circular review, saluting Kim. On stage, a bevy of young women jumped up and down screaming, "Long live the Great Leader!" Most jarring of all was when Kim shook his arm and made this aside, pointing at the display of fawning: "Mr. Shin, all that is bogus. It's just pretense."
This puzzling confession, Shin writes, lingered in his mind as he drove in a Mercedes to the new office of Shin Films. Soon he'd be entrusted with an annual paycheck of $3 million for personal or professional use, even as he formulated an escape plan. By following the advice for directors in "On the Art of the Cinema" — "BE LOYAL TO THE PARTY AND PROVE YOURSELVES WORTHY OF THE TRUST IT PLACES IN YOURSELF" — he would hope for some opportunity to escape, maybe during a trip to an Eastern Bloc film festival.
Sometimes resigned to his stay, Shin took comfort in his increasing material well-being, and in making movies again. When it came to choosing subject matter, he told the Seoul Times in 2001 that there were "fewer restrictions than is commonly believed." He said he even introduced the first kiss to the military-centric North Korean cinema.
All ideas, however, were approved by Kim Jong Il as arms of his ideology, and were developed in story conferences with him. The dictator wanted to make crossover movies that would simultaneously project a fearsome image to the world while somehow improving how North Korea was perceived. He wouldn't listen when Shin told him that shrill, anti-Japanese movies would not find widespread appeal.
Shin was free to fly to East Berlin for location shots — though shadowed by ever-present escorts. He recalls walking past the U.S. Embassy with his wife, who tugged at his sleeve and made a face suggesting they run for it.
"What's the matter with you?" he hissed. "I will not make an attempt unless it's one hundred percent certain. If they caught us, we'd be dead."
Besides, he was taking his new career seriously, and was eager to get work done. He even claims that in 1984 he was able to produce the finest film of his career: "Runaway," the tragic story of a wandering Korean family of 1920s Manchuria, coping with Japanese oppression and the dishonesty of their neighbors.
After that, however, came a very different kind of movie. Loosely based on a legend of the 14th century Koryo monarchy, "Pulgasari" owes much to "Godzilla." He invited some monster-movie veterans from Japan to come to his studio, which had swelled to 700 employees, to help with the picture. When Kim guaranteed their safety, they came to work on "Pulgasari," including Kempachiro Satsuma, the second actor to wear the Godzilla suit, who soon dressed up as the lumbering, google-eyed Pulgasari, who scatters imperialists to the winds but also finds time to help carry the people's firewood.
[To view a 45 second video clip of "Pulgasari," please click here. It is available through ADV Films.]
Pulgasari, in fact, is definitely a monster of the people. When the wicked king oppresses the people, a jailed blacksmith molds a tiny character out of rice, declaring he will use the last spark of his creative power to bring the doll to life.
As the farmers are starving under the king's rule, the doll, Pulgasari, eats iron and grows. The cherubic toddler Pulgasari soon grows into a horned beast whose clawed foot is the size of a person. And since this is a movie made under the guidelines of "On the Art of the Cinema," there are seemingly endless shots of the peoples' folk dances. During these, Pulgasari can be seen brooding on the outskirts of the festivities, relaxing against a hill and looking ridiculous.
Finally, Pulgasari leads the farmers' army in an assault on the king's fortress — and against thousands of North Korean military troops who were mobilized and dressed up as extras. Ultimately, the king uses his experimental anti-Pulgasari weapon, the Lion Gun. (It's hard not to think "nuke" when the hammy villain delights in his new acquisition.) But the enterprising Pulgasari swallows the missile and shoots it back at his oppressors. Finally, the king is crushed beneath a huge falling column.
Then the movie becomes curiously ambiguous. The beloved Pulgasari turns on his own people. Still hungry for iron after his victory, Pulgasari begins eating the people's tools. The confusing conclusion seems to find salvation in the spirit of the people. When the blacksmith's daughter tearfully pleads with Pulgasari to "go on a diet," he seems to find his conscience, and puzzlingly shatters into a million slow-motion rocks. Then, inexplicably, a glowing blue Pulgasari child is born, waddling out of the ocean. It's a terrifically bad movie.
The movie can be read in two ways. On one hand, it is a cautionary tale about what happens when the people leave their fate in the hands of the monster, a capitalist by dint of his insatiable consumption of iron. But it is also tempting to read the monster as a metaphor for Kim Il Sung, hijacking the "people's revolution" to ultimately serve his purposes. Wondered a fan at StompTokyo.com, "Were these, as some commentators have speculated, Shin's attempt at subversive editorializing on the conditions in the country?" Now, of course, "Pulgasari," approved and funded by North Korea's even more dangerously unstable current leader, seems eerily prophetic.
Nonetheless, when the movie was delivered to Kim, he saw it as a great victory. Trucks pulled up to Shin Films to unload pheasants, deer and wild geese for the movie crew to feast on. Word came from Pyongyang — "The Dear Comrade Leader was delighted with Pulgasari" — and many of the workers were moved to tears at the praise.
"The feelings must be continually built up into the decisive moment for action is reached, and they can be brought to a head. Only in this way is it possible to generate powerful dramatic tension and emotional excitement. If the emotions … do not come to a head at the right moment, they will fail to make any impression on the audience, because they will lack credibility." – "On the Art of the Cinema"
Genghis Khan, or more specifically, John Wayne as Genghis Khan in the notoriously awful "The Conqueror," was the inspiration for Shin's last collaboration with Kim. ("The Conqueror," meanwhile, had its own grim nuclear coda: During filming in Utah, winds blew radiation onto the set from nearby nuclear bomb testing grounds. Many of the cast and crew — including Wayne — may have contracted cancer as a result.)
"I was sickened at seeing that movie," Shin Sang-Ok said in 1999. "I did not like American actors appearing in the movie with mustaches attached beneath their big noses." He had long wanted to make an authentically Mongolian or at least Asian version. In Kim Jong Il he found a producer who shared his enthusiasm for the subject of invading hordes. They agreed that this follow-up to "Pulgasari" would make a good export, even if it didn't meet with the approval of Kim's father as a tool for thought control. As Heginbotham puts it: "By all accounts, [Kim] enjoys movies that his people certainly would never be allowed to watch."
Shin convinced Kim that the film would have more marketability if distributed by a European country, rather than unfashionable North Korea. So plans were made for a joint venture with a company in Austria. Soon, Kim would trust the director to travel to Western Europe for a business meeting.
As a trip to Vienna approached, Shin writes, a plan began to form. They had no doubts about wanting to leave their comfortable lifestyle. "To be in Korea living a good life ourselves and enjoying movies while everyone else was not free was not happiness, but agony," he writes. Then they boarded a plane for Vienna, never to return.
The next month, the New York Times reported that two South Korean film legends had emerged in Baltimore to meet with American reporters, relating "a story they found more bizarre than a screenplay." Shin and Choi first turned up at an American Embassy in Vienna. During a business trip, they'd been able to escape with the help of a Japanese movie critic friend of theirs — who has only been identified in his report by a codename, "K." Meeting him for lunch, they fled by taxi to the American Embassy, shaking off one of Kim's agents in another taxi.
After the embarrassing escape of his star propagandists, Kim Jong Il shelved "Pulgasari" and every other Shin film. The monster movie was not seen outside the country until 1998, when, amid a dawning feeling of openness in North Korean relations with the rest of Asia, another Japanese critic campaigned for its release — as an important work deserving of more attention, and a source of box-office dollars for the North's disastrous economy. It bombed. In Seoul, a total of about 1,000 people saw it during its limited release.
Shin Sang-Ok remains controversial. At the Pusan International Film Festival in 2001, a screening was planned for his favorite work, "Runaway." But the public prosecutor of Seoul halted the showing by invoking South Korea's harsh National Security Law, which bans any action that could benefit the North.
Shin has worked hard to dispel any impression that he remains friends with his ex-executive producer. In an open letter to the South Korean president following the Sept. 11 attacks, he wrote that his first reaction to the World Trade Center collapse was that it was in Kim Jong Il's nature to do the same to Seoul. Protesting a thawing in relations, and contending that Kim had not changed, he warned against being fooled by the North Korean leader. "It is inevitable that North Korea will collapse," he wrote. "Then how will it end? In a suicidal explosion."
Kim Jong Il continues to issue bold words of guidance to his filmmakers. His words are reprinted on a gigantic placard outside the Revolutionary Museum of the Ministry of Culture on the outskirts of Pyongyang. One says, "MAKE MORE CARTOONS." Nearby is an enormous statue of Kim's father, surrounded by filmmakers and a gargantuan movie camera.
His export hopes continually dashed, Kim Jong Il still finds a way to make about 60 films a year. He invites potential distributors to screenings in Pyongyang, the BBC reports, only to be told that the material he's pitched just won't appeal to Western sensibilities. Now, having kicked weapons inspectors out of his country, and engaging in a dangerous game of chicken with the West, he seems to have given up hope that he can sway anyone through the art of cinema. And that, ultimately, might prove an ominous sign of things to come.
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Big Hole: The Mir Mine in Russia is the world's largest diamond mine.
Clear-cut: Industrial forestry degrading public lands, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Computer Dump: Massive quantities of waste from obsolete computers and other electronics are typically shipped to the developing world for sorting and/or disposal. Photo from Accra, Ghana.
Oil Spill Fire: Aerial view of an oil fire following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Gulf of Mexico
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Airplane Contrails: Globalized transportation networks, especially commercial aviation, are a major contributor of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Photo of contrails in the west London sky over the River Thames, London, England.
Fire: More frequent and more intense wildfires (such as this one in Colorado, USA) are another consequence of a warming planet.
A customer walked into his pizza shop and changed Philadelphia with $1 and a single Post-it note.
All the embarrassing things a dad can say to his daughter, corrected.
There's a right way to talk about race, and then there's a wrong way.
They may feel, think, and smile just like us. But it doesn't mean they're happy.
What's happening in prisons is staying in prisons. At least that's the hope of some companies.


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For any UK PRs that are blogging, feel free to use this button - I created it on Adam Kalsey's button maker site, which Simon Bisson pointed me to. As Simon says, fun for all the family.
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I'm keen to add this button - but need advice on how to use it...
Cheers Richard. I think if you use typepad then it shouldn't be too difficult. Save the button onto your PC from my site first. Then in Typepad go into 'files' and save the button onto your typepad account. Then once its there you can upload it into posts and into a typelist. Typepad people might be able to help you more if that's not enough information for you.
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