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Imagine a murky, mysterious, misty part of the world where dying, large blackish trees grow among pools of clear water. In this land nothing is impossible. And reality is ignorance; a game merely fools play. Time never ends, and Time never begins. Nothing is as it seems, but yet, nothing is as it should be. Wade through this river, and you will soon believe: Fate is real. Fate is real…
Black dust reeks through the air and nothing is as it seems. Nothing is here, and yet, nothing is out there. A pathway illuminates through the smoke. Are these the halls of memory? Going through it, we see shadowy faces smiling, no, laughing chained to walls. Or is this just a trapped soul? They are everywhere and nowhere at once. Thick red pierces through the smoke. Fate is laughing. Fate is laughing.
The red substance seeks into the walls…drip. These stained partitions morph, morph, and morph. A woman's forehead is nailed; blood runs down her face, and she is alone. A shadow loams over the carcass. Dark tendrils exit; they greet this soul. Wiping the bloody makeup, something shadowy leans closer, and they ask, "Are you scared yet, Kent?"
This sinister asylum rips open the realm of reality. Black fire burns every wall and face, and what do we see, nothing…
A young boy ferociously shoots up. Voices reach out to him.
"Kent… Kent…"
Red walls close in on him, and these voices come closer. Closer and closer, they never stop. Mimicking his breath, they sing the same sad tone over and over. Having enough, the child, terrified, clutches his bed sheets, and cries out.
"How do you shut this broken radio off?"
Another shrill works its way up. But something is stopping him from screaming. These walls morph again, and the boy's mouth is stitched shut. Drip: water is falling from the ceiling. The bed and the bed-sheets he was sleeping on shakes. Fangs rip through the edges, and he is not alone. These black serpents sliver into the bed. The boy braces himself. Moving backwards, he uses his pillow as a shield. His eyes shut just like his mouth. Behind the covering, he still hears the water falling. And then, it stops. One eye peeks behind the cover, and he sees, nothing…
Black sticks stand in desert sand, an isolated necropolis. They evict the sentiment of death and decay. At the end of these sticks a man stands. No one dares to roam this forgotten land without water. But this man hopes his death will be delivered soon. But he knows it is only when Fate will deliver. In his hands, gripped tightly, he holds a small picture frame. On the back, a small nameplate, "Inza, my love" it reads. The man shuts it, and he looks outward into the desert. A golden mask sits there as if it has been there forever.
"You added an interesting twist this time, Nabu."
His eyes close, and he begins roaming through his nightmarish memories. Death everywhere, blood written on the walls and no-one in sight is all he can see.
"Part of the past I rather forget."
But then like those images from before, his memories morph into a time when everything seemed wrong, but somehow felt right. His father, his Pistol, and his life: all the things taken from him.
"But I'm not ready to die, yet."
His eyes open, and he holds his hand out into the desert. The wind picks up, and the mask is gone. And then, there is nothing else but Fate.
Disclaimer: I neither own Doctor Fate nor Nabu. Only thing I own is my adaption to the story.
A/N: I never realized this site had a fan-fiction site. So, I had to post this story that I wrote about an hour ago as I was editing my first submission I am planning to send to 2000 AD Online. Hopefully, there is no grammar mistakes as I didn't check over it much. However, I had to write my first story of Doctor Fate, one of my favorite heroes, which surprisingly, I never wrote a fan-fiction for. Enjoy xD


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Knob of butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
150g chestnut mushrooms, chopped
1 tsp ground turmeric
100g freshly cooked basmati rice
Bunch of fresh dill, chopped
Bunch of fresh parsley, chopped
1 tbsp capers, rinsed and chopped
Zest of 1 lemon
2 large free-range eggs, hard-boiled and chopped, plus 1 beaten free-range egg, for glazing
Plain flour, for dusting
2 x 500g packs fresh puff pastry
800g piece salmon tail fillet
1. Heat the butter and oil in a pan over a low heat and cook the onion for 5-6 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5-8 minutes. Stir in the turmeric and cook for 1 minute, then add the rice, herbs, capers, zest and chopped egg. Season and cool.
2. On a floured board, roll out 1 piece of pastry to pound coin-thickness and trim to a 30cm x 20cm rectangle. Put on a large baking sheet and place the salmon on the pastry. Season, then arrange the rice mixture on top. Brush the pastry edges with beaten egg. Roll out the remaining pastry, so it will generously cover the salmon, and lay over the top. Trim, leaving a 2cm border, and press the pastry together to seal. Use any pastry trimmings to decorate the top. 3. To eat now, preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6 and bake for 35-40 minutes. To freeze, wrap cling film around the pie and baking sheet and freeze for up to 3 months. To serve, preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Bake from frozen for 1 hour 5 minutes. Turn the oven to 220°C/fan200°C/gas 7 and cook for a further 10 minutes, until it is cooked.
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In girls' lacrosse, a late-night victory by Souhegan of Amherst over Exeter on Saturday set up a Division I final showdown with Pinkerton Academy of Derry. Earlier on Saturday, Bedford and Hanover earned their way into the Division II final.
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DIVISION II: In last spring's Division II boys' lacrosse semifinal, a pesky Bow team took Bedford down to the wire before eventually falling. This year, the Bulldogs brushed off the Falcons early. Top-seeded Bedford won its 60th game in a row, beating Bow 15-4 on Saturday night in a game that was pretty much over by halftime.
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2010 saw extremely high quality viticulture in many parts of the world, with an exceptionally long and hot summer providing huge benefits for wineries across many countries, especially in the southern hemisphere. The northern hemisphere and Europe saw something of a cooler summer and flowering period, but this was by no means as disastrous as it could have been. France, especially, had a fantastic year in 2010, with the world renowned Burgundy region proclaiming that their white wines of this year are ones to look out for, and despite yields being relatively small across much of the country, the quality was exceptionally high. Spain, too, received some cooler weather, but Rioja and the rest of central Spain are hailing 2010 as a very good year indeed, again as a result of smaller, finer yields. California also received similar climatic conditions, but again, wineries are highly positive about the overall effect this had on their produce, as the slightly challenging conditions resulted in smaller yields of much elegance and distinction. 2010 was really Australia's year, and in South Australia and across the Mornington Peninsula, Chardonnay vines produced good yields with a lower sugar level than in previous years. As such, the majority of South Australian white wines from 2010 are superb, and packed full of character. Shiraz also had a great year, and most Australian wineries have been proclaiming 2010 one of the great vintages. Both the Argentinian and Chilean wine industries benefited from some ideal climatic conditions this year, and are reportedly ecstatically pleased with the fact that their 2010 wines ended up with lower alcohol levels, and were beautifully balanced wines packed full of flavor.
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- Genre: Role-Playing Console-style RPG
- Release Date: Apr 22, 2007
- ESRB: Everyone
Ultimate pokemon team
Go to bebe after completing the elite four. she will give u eevee. then put eevee into the daycare w/ a ditto, and w8 till u get an egg. hatch it, then repeat. Next, turn your eevee's into wateva evolve form u want it 2 b, and carry around those eevee evolutions. now u have a beastmonger team. good luck ownin all!!!
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Shawl Collar Jacket (Petite)
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- A seamed front waist accentuates the smartly fitted silhouette of a tailored jacket with a single hook-and-eye closure in front.
- Three functional cuff buttons.
- Approx. length from shoulder: 21 1/2".
- Fully lined.
- Polyester/rayon/spandex; dry clean.
- By Anne Klein; imported.
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- Topstitched pockets front ideal workday pants in a classic wide-leg silhouette fabricated with a hint of stretch.
- Zip fly with hook-and-bar closure.
- Approx. inseam: 30".
- Unlined.
- Polyester/rayon/spandex; dry clean.
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Paisley Print Blouse (Petite)
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- A genteel paisley print lends vintage romance to a slightly sheer blouse with twin ruffles cascading down the front. Ruching pushes up the sleeves to further soften the look.
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Now added to my list of top-10 time capsule houses of all time: This mind-blowingly exquisite 1955 midcentury modern home in Minneapolis — the William and Irma Dale/Victor House –designed by acclaimed architect Carl Graffunder for his sister and family, who were owners of a local tile shop. And their tile shop must have been something indeed, because for this home, they created some of the most beautiful tile installations I have ever seen. Tile is featured in every room — beautifully — complemented by glowing woodwork, including loads of pecky cypress. This house is going on the market today — co-listed by Scott Acker and Bruce Erickson of Coldwell Banker Burnet. It's not even on the MLS quite yet! AND: Thanks to our wonderful friends at Spacecrafting, we have 69 photos to show you. Get ready — this one is amaaaazing!Heck yeah there is more →
First GE Partio Cart of the season — our Retro Renovation official sign of spring
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Andy Harman – The Owl
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This one is pretty darn awesome: A vintage bathroom vanity — with an ancient Greek-themed design inlaid into the sparkle laminate surface. Or so we think. I recall that in my college Philosophy 101 class I learned from Plato that, "The rare is the good." This one appears to be oh-so-rare. So this one is oh-so-good. And: Oh-so-appropriate that it is Plato who tells us so.Heck yeah there is more →
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I am in the mode: Cranking out a new 1940s style kitchen design board each week until I get them all done. I think there will be five in total. Here is #3: A retro kitchen inspired by a vintage American Kitchen ad. It's dominated by the color red — via the ruby red mother of pearl laminate countertop — and anchored by a green linoleum that I'd describe as, yes, drab. But also, restful, which allows your eye to rest on the sharp colors elsewhere in the room. Remember: Every element of a design doesn't need to "scream." I hesitate to say "shouldn't" scream but there, I said it anyway.Heck yeah there is more →
Better Homes & Gardens '1958 Idea House of the Year' by Omer Mithun
Back in the day, actual house plans were widely promoted in the nation's largest shelter magazines. Today: A time capsule house for sale that was originally featured in Better Homes & Gardens as one of Six Idea Homes of the Year for 1958. And yes, it's quite a beauty — inside and out!Heck yeah there is more →
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'Spider-Man' Cast Fires Back at Critics Who Call the Show 'Embarrassing'
The stars of Broadway's long-plagued Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark are defending the show's production.
Tony Award-winning Alice Ripley recently called the $65 million production -- which has resulted in serious injuries of four of its stars -- "embarrassing to working actors everywhere … Does someone have to die?"
But on ABC's Good Morning America Tuesday, star Reeve Carney said they appreciate "everyone's concern for our safety. It's an athletic event so you know that there's a certain amount of risk involved.
"The people on are crew are amazing; they care for our safety every day … we do trust them," he added.
Said star Patrick Page: "I wish they could be in the building with us and see the care [director Julie Taymor] takes and the care that our producer Michael Cole takes. I think they'd feel a lot better."
He added that Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing American actors and stage managers, has been in the building "virtually all the time" since the "very first day."
Christopher Tierney - who suffered four broken ribs and three cracked vertebrae, as well as several broken bones, from a 30-ft. fall Dec. 20 - said he even hopes to return to the show once his body has healed.
"The moment I feel I am good, I am back in that show," he said. "I can't wait."
T.V. Carpio, who is replacing Natalie Mendoza as villainess Arachne, said she only has one concern.
"I don't have any fear in terms of safety," she said. "I have a great want to step into Natalies's shoes and do the best I can do."
The show - the third-highest grossing show on Broadway the week of the New Year's holiday ($1.88 million) - is set to open officially Feb. 7.
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Below is my (simplified) schema (in MySQL ver. 5.0.51b) and my strategy for updating it. There has got to be a better way. Inserting a new item requires 4 trips to the database and editing/updating an item takes up to 7!
items: itemId, itemName
categories: catId, catName
map: mapId*, itemId, catId
* mapId (varchar) is concat of itemId + | + catId
1) If inserting: insert item. Get itemId via MySQL API.
Else updating: just update the item table. We already have the itemId.
2) Conditionally batch insert into
INSERT IGNORE INTO categories (catName)
VALUES ('each'), ('category'), ('name');
3) Select IDs from
SELECT catId FROM categories
WHERE catName = 'each' OR catName = 'category' OR catName = 'name';
4) Conditionally batch insert into
INSERT IGNORE INTO map (mapId, itemId, catId)
If inserting: we're done. Else updating: continue.
5) It's possible that we no longer associate a category with this item that we did prior to the update. Delete old categories for this itemId.
DELETE FROM MAP WHERE itemId = 2
AND catID <> 2 AND catID <> 3 AND catID <> 5;
6) If we have disassociated ourselves from a category, it's possible that we left it orphaned. We do not want categories with no items. Therefore, if
affected rows > 0, kill orphaned categories. I haven't found a way to combine these in MySQL, so this is #6 & #7.
SELECT categories.catId
FROM categories
LEFT JOIN map USING (catId)
GROUP BY categories.catId
HAVING COUNT(map.catId) < 1;
7) Delete IDs found in step 6.
DELETE FROM categories
WHERE catId = 9
AND catId = 10;
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IASC AND SKATELAB ANNOUNCE THE 2nd ANNUAL SKATEBOARDING HALL OF FAME
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. - October 28, 2010 – The International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) and Skatelab are proud to announce the skateboarding icons that will be inducted for the Skateboarding Hall of Fame: Torger Johnson, Stacy Peralta, Steve Caballero, Eric Koston, Bob Burnquist and the first female inductee, Patti McGee.
This year's invite-only event will be hosted at The Cooper Building in Los Angeles, CA on December 4th, 2010.
In addition to a live musical performance, guests will enjoy cocktails and appetizers and have the opportunity to bid on a large selection of invaluable memorabilia at both a silent and live auction. Proceeds from ticket sales and auction items will benefit the Go Skateboarding Foundation which sends kids to skatecamp on a scholarship and supports skateboarding related charities
"Skateboardings rich culture has been built around iconic heroes that have helped to take skateboarding to another level of progression, inspiration and fun," said John Bernards, IASC executive director.
"IASC recognizes the importance of honoring the pros that made skateboarding what it is today- without those icons and legends the tricks skateboarders are doing today would not exist. This year's inductees represent the best, most progressive skateboarding from 1960 to 2010 and we congratulate each of them on their accomplishments."
Last year's Skateboarding Hall of Fame's inaugural celebration and fundraiser was held at the Vans Skatepark at the Block in Orange, CA and was joined by hundreds from the skateboard community.
Last year's honorees included skateboarding icons: Tony Alva, Bruce Logan, Danny Way and Tony Hawk. The celebration was created to recognize and honor the history of skateboarding and those influential figures that have significantly shaped the sport throughout the years.
"The goal of the Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Museum is to assure that these legendary skateboarders are recognized by their peers and will be remembered by future generations," said Todd Huber, founder of Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Museum.
Voting into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame is an intensive process by which IASC members and skateboard industry insiders past and present vote electronically for the person they feel is most deserving.
While the ballot has a list of 10 names from each decade as well as a list of 10 females, each category includes a ?ll in blank in order to give each voter the opportunity to vote for their own candidate.
To donate auction items or for more information on IASC, please contact Laurie Bergthold at email@example.com.
The International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC), a non-profit organization that represents the united voice of the skateboard industry to the outside world, was founded in 1994. In 2003, IASC was restructured into the organization that founded Go Skateboarding Day. Driven by skate industry leaders, IASC strives to promote skateboarding and increase participation, educate, and save members money. For further information, please visit www.skateboardiasc.org.
The Go Skateboarding Foundation was founded in 2005 in response to the generosity of the skateboard industry. A donation to the Go Skateboarding Foundation helps fund programs which promote skateboarding and make a positive impact in our society and the lives of young skateboarders.
TheGo Skateboarding Foundation provides young people with scholarships to college and skatecamp and aspires to inspire and empower tomorrow's skateboard community leaders.
Skatelab Skateboarding Museum, located in Simi Valley, educates people about the history of skateboarding worldwide. The museum inside SKATELAB of California is home to the Skateboarding Hall of Fame's inductees' tribute display, which was founded in 1997.
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywoodby Mark Harris
One afternoon in the spring of 1963, Robert Benton went to the New Yorker Theater to see Franandccedil;ois Truffautandrsquo;s Jules and Jim. It was not his first time; it may have been his tenth or twelfth. Benton, then thirty years old and the art director of Esquire magazine, was using the movie both to nurse a romantic injuryandmdash;the painful end of his relationship with his girlfriend, Gloria Steinemandmdash;and to indulge a passion for European films, particularly those of the French New Wave, which was becoming something like a common language among young, smart, city-dwelling moviegoers.
Jules and Jim, with its delicate love triangle, its studied disregard for the moral and narrative strictures of Hollywood filmmaking (Truffaut himself called it andldquo;deliberately boringandrdquo;), and its equal doses of hopelessness and romanticism, was a perfect choice for Bentonandmdash;and itandrsquo;s unlikely that he was the only one to travel that May afternoon up from midtown Manhattan to Dan Talbotandrsquo;s theater on Broadway and 88th Street so he could luxuriate in one more encounter with it. The movie, Truffautandrsquo;s third, had opened in New York more than a year earlier to initial business that was only modest, but its cult was devoted, and the film was still holding on, playing one week on the Upper West Side, then a few days in the East Village on Avenue B, then a week on Bleecker Street. The deep chord of longing the picture sounded in many moviegoers was understandableandmdash;emotional ambiguity and grown-up sexuality were virtually black market items in American movies of the time. And Jules and Jimandrsquo;s calculatedly casual visual aesthetic, its diffused light and gentle nods to flickering silent film imagery, held particular interest for Benton as a magazine designer who always had his eye on the next new thing, particularly when it was an unexpected synthesis of old things.
But even if Benton hadnandrsquo;t happened to be so personally taken with Truffautandrsquo;s style, he would have had plenty of other places to go that day. The last couple of years had brought an almost unimaginable wealth of world cinema to the United States, starting, always, in New York City and then moving west. Federico Felliniandrsquo;s La Dolce Vitaandmdash;an immense exploding flashbulb of a movieandmdash;and Michelangelo Antonioniandrsquo;s Landrsquo;Avventuraandmdash;stone-faced, elliptical, unsolvableandmdash;had arrived within weeks of each other; Antonioniandrsquo;s La Notte and Landrsquo;Eclisse followed quickly, and that spring, Felliniandrsquo;s 8 1/2 was just weeks from opening. The success of The Magnificent Seven, the American remake of Akira Kurosawaandrsquo;s Seven Samurai, had spurred the release of five more of the directorandrsquo;s moviesandmdash;Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, The Lower Depths, Yojimbo, and Sanjuroandmdash;in the previous eighteen months, and despite mostly condescending dismissals from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times, some of them were finding audiences. People were still talking about Jean-Luc Godardandrsquo;s Breathlessandmdash;and going to see it repeatedlyandmdash;two years after its U.S. debut. The options were so rich and varied: The mysteries of Alain Resnaisandrsquo;s Last Year at Marienbad, the almost punitive austerity of Ingmar Bergmanandrsquo;s Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light, the begrimed, rough- hewn carnality thrown onto the screen from England in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. If Benton hadnandrsquo;t had to get back to Esquireandrsquo;s offices that afternoon, where his colleague and comrade David Newman, a staff writer and editor, was waiting for him, he could have stayed at the New Yorker for the second feature, Luis Bunuelandrsquo;s Viridiana, a portrait of a novice in the Catholic Church that was a long way from Audrey Hepburn in The Nunandrsquo;s Story.
Whatever destination Benton had selected when he chose to sneak away from work that day (a decision that wasnandrsquo;t hard, since Esquire was a place where talent could excuse many varieties of midafternoon misbehavior), itandrsquo;s almost a certainty that he would not have ended up watching a Hollywood movie. In the early 1960s, the American studio film had bottomed out: Even many of its own manufacturers and purveyors felt they had dragged the medium to a creative low point in the sound era. andldquo;It wasnandrsquo;t just that we were sick of the system,andrdquo; recalls the director Arthur Penn. andldquo;At that point, the system was sick of itself.andrdquo; And with good reason: Though a handful of movies, as ever, either transcended convention or executed it with exhilarating skill, what Hollywood was primarily invested in turning out in 1963 were dozens of war movies and westerns (generally with aging stars and increasingly threadbare and recycled plots), biblical spectaculars of great scale and diminishing returns, musicals with an ever more strident sense of nostalgia, tinny, sexually repressive romantic comedies, and huge, unseaworthy battleships like Cleopatra, The Longest Day, and the remake of Mutiny on the Bounty. Many of these films would draw audiences, and every year, at least a couple of them would get Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, in stoic recognition of their bloat and expenditure. But nobody, not even their makers, was particularly inclined to defend them as creative enterprises.
When a filmmaker who was considered serious-minded would take on an adult subject (usually smuggled into Hollywood in the respectable packaging of a Tennessee Williams or Lillian Hellman play or a novel by John Oandrsquo;Hara), his work would be subjected to the censorious standards of the Production Code, which had barely changed in thirty years, and would end up stripped of meaning and sense. When the results arrived on screenandmdash;a Butterfield 8 that was not quite about a prostitute, a remake of The Childrenandrsquo;s Hour that, twenty-five years after the first time Hollywood tried to adapt it, still couldnandrsquo;t refer to lesbianism, an adaptation of Elmer Gantry that had to shield timid sensibilities from the full content of a book that people had been reading since 1927andmdash;smart critics groaned, audiences applauded the actors and forgot the movies quickly, and the directors themselves expressed impotent disgust. andldquo;If you go to France nowadaysandhellip; you are constantly involved in passionate discussions about the creative side of moviemaking,andrdquo; said the veteran Fred Zinnemann. andldquo;Here in Hollywood we are going in circles. We have moved into a trap, a self-imposed, self-induced trap with our dependence on best- sellers, hit plays, remakes, and rehashes.andrdquo;
As it turned out, there was no need for Zinnemann or anyone else to go to France; the French, and the conversations he was envying, were coming to America in the form of the movies themselves. Godard and Truffaut had both written for Cahiers du Cinandeacute;maandmdash;Truffautandrsquo;s reviews in particular were both deep appreciations and youthful, swaggeringly belligerent manifestosandmdash;and the movies they made were themselves implicit acts of film criticism. And ironically, if Zinnemann had gone to France in 1963, the conversation he would have heard was that the French New Wave was now passandeacute;, and the cinematheques he would have visited in Paris were filled with old work by Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and underappreciated Americans like Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, and Anthony Mann, whose movies had been used to lay the cornerstones of the auteur theory that was becoming central to any movie discussion in the early 1960s. Those discussions filled the air at every cocktail party. Were Bergmanandrsquo;s solemn, unsensual new movies a hermetic retreat from innovation or signs pointing toward a new formal rigor? Was Marienbad solvable, or was the whole point not even to try? Had Antonioni left Fellini in the dust with his defiance of narrative convention, and was he the cold-blooded moralist he seemed, perversely, to claim he was? People who cared about culture armed themselves for an evening out with an arsenal of stances, opinions, and positions that thickened the air as fast as cigarette smoke. Ten years earlier, the topic would have been literature or theater; these days, movies filled the agenda. andldquo;When La Dolce Vita and Landrsquo;Avventura opened at about the same time, there were fights!andrdquo; says Newmanandrsquo;s widow, screenwriter Leslie Newman. andldquo;There were Dolce Vita people and Landrsquo;Avventura people and you were one or the other. The average American movie at that time we didnandrsquo;t even go see, except for revivals. We were totally snobs! American movies meant Doris Day and Rock Hudson.andrdquo;
But a hope that the studios could eventually incorporate some elements of European cinema and the French New Wave was very much on the minds of a new generation of directors trained largely in New York television production and theaterandmdash;Penn, John Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet. And the possibility that American movies could, one day soon, break the shackles of old-Hollywood thinking excited Benton and David Newman as well. At Esquire, they made a slightly Mutt-and-Jeff-ish pair, Benton low-key, precise, bespectacled, and single and Newman impulsive, hyperkinetic, unruly, and already, at twenty- five, a husband and father. Newman had arrived in New York from the University of Michigan a couple of years earlier. Despite their differences in temperament, they made an exceptionally effective professional team. andldquo;Heandrsquo;d ask me to design a story he was writing, Iandrsquo;d bring him in to write the text for something I was working on,andrdquo; says Benton. Their friendship became collegial and then personal. And it was fueled, as much as anything, by their compatible tastes.
By 1963, Harold Hayes was turning Esquire into the repository of a free- swinging style of writing that eventually became known as New Journalism. It was a place where Norman Mailer could serialize his novel An American Dream, a home for Tom Wolfe, a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who had just started publishing stories in the magazine that year, and a venue in which Gay Talese was reinventing the magazine profile with long takes on director Joshua Logan and the boxer Floyd Patterson that, in their language, their shaping of scenes, and their sense of drama, felt cinematic in precisely the way American films of the time didnandrsquo;t. But beyond its status as a home for influential prose, Esquire, under Hayes, was becoming the monthly exemplification of a way of thinking about what it liked to call andldquo;todayandrsquo;s manandrdquo;: urban, sophisticated, unshy about sexual appetite and a love of andldquo;the good life,andrdquo; but also cynical, suspicious of cant, and contemptuous of mediocrity, conformity, and 1950s-style groupthink (not, however, of hyperbole). The scent of tobacco, Scotch, and heady after-hours arguments wafted off every page. And on many of those pages, style was content, which meant that a collaboration between someone with as keen and witty a sense of presentation as Benton and a writer as sharp as Newman (together, they were largely responsible for the look and tone of the magazineandrsquo;s famous Dubious Achievement awards) was bound to be fruitful. Benton and Newman had jobs to do at Esquire, but also time to spare and energy to burn. In 1963, the two of them spent many afternoons and evenings mapping out their own manifesto for the magazine: a massive, sweeping piece they planned to call andldquo;The New Sentimentalityandrdquo; that would define by brash dictum what was in and out, arriving and over, modern and hopelessly maudlin, in pop culture. andldquo;We were sort of bad kids,andrdquo; says
Benton. andldquo;Anything we could do to get attention, we did.andrdquo; On afternoons when their absence might go unnoticed or be justified with a relatively straight face as andldquo;research,andrdquo; they would run over to the Museum of Modern Art, where their friend Peter Bogdanovich, who was helping to curate a six-month retrospective on the career of Alfred Hitchcock, would run the films for his friends at lunchtime. andldquo;We came away babbling, excited, thoroughly converted believers,andrdquo; they wrote later. andldquo;There wasnandrsquo;t a day spent . . . that didnandrsquo;t include at least one discussion on what he would have done.andrdquo;
Newman and Benton shared other tastesandmdash;an appetite for true-crime books, particularly John Tolandandrsquo;s just published history of Depression-era outlaws, The Dillinger Days, and a ceaseless fascination with Godard and Truffaut (whose second movie, Shoot the Piano Player, was based on an American crime novel and had toyed knowingly with Hollywood gangster-film tropes).
Tolandandrsquo;s book made reference to two of the eraandrsquo;s minor criminals, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Benton had grown up in the small East Texas town of Waxahachie, and their exploitsandmdash;they were killed in 1934, when he was twoandmdash;were more familiar to him than to Newman. andldquo;Everybody in Texas grew up with Bonnie and Clyde,andrdquo; Benton says. andldquo;My father was at their funeral. Youandrsquo;d go to a Halloweandrsquo;en party as a kid and some boy would always be dressed as Clyde and some girl would be dressed as Bonnie. Nobody ever dressed up as Dillinger.andrdquo;
Neither Benton nor Newman had ever read a screenplay, and they barely knew anyone in the movie business; a few weeks earlier, Benton had gone to a party at the comedy writer Herb Sargentandrsquo;s apartment and met Warren Beatty, but neither man had then made much of an impression on the other. Nonetheless, high on everything theyandrsquo;d been watching andtalking about, they decided that summer that the adventures of Bonnie and Clyde would make a great movie. From the afternoon they started working on the script after a midday screening of Hitchcockandrsquo;s Rope, they thought, this could be the movie that brings the French New Wave to Hollywood, andldquo;a gangster film,andrdquo; says Benton, andldquo;that was about all the things they didnandrsquo;t show you in a gangster film.andrdquo; And if we do this right, they told each other, maybe we can get Franandccedil;ois Truffaut to direct it.
andldquo;We didnandrsquo;t know how to write a screenplay,andrdquo; says Benton, andldquo;so we wrote an extended treatment. We described a scene, including camera shots, and weandrsquo;d write down what characters were talking about, but we didnandrsquo;t put dialogue in.andrdquo; Some of that writing took place in Esquireandrsquo;s offices, behind closed doors, but much of it happened after hours, with Newman or Benton sketching out a scene at home, then giving it to the other in the morning. andldquo;The next day we would talk about the scene, and say, no, thatandrsquo;s all wrong, and if David had written it, I would take it home and rewrite it, and if I had written it, David would redo it,andrdquo; Benton recalls. They would work together into the night, with Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys playing at full volume on the phonograph and becoming, in effect, the sound track to their experience of writing the movie. andldquo;We had an enormous sense of freedomandmdash;and we didnandrsquo;t have skill, which was a good thing,andrdquo; says Benton. andldquo;If you have enough skill, when you get to a trouble spot, you can use that skill to skirt it, which can be dangerous. We didnandrsquo;t know how to do that.andrdquo;
As they wrote, Benton and Newman tried to give themselves a crash course in both film technique and the gangster era. Theyandrsquo;d return again and again to the Hitchcock retrospective, listening to what Bogdanovich, who at only twenty-four was about to publish a monograph on the director, had to say about the ways in which his movies were constructed. They would read and reread what Truffaut had written on the difference between creating shock and building suspense. Benton would leave the office to browse through used-magazine and old-book stalls on Sixth Avenue in the lower 40s, sometimes returning with treasures like the 1934 book Fugitives, written by Bonnie Parkerandrsquo;s mother, Emma Parker, and Clyde Barrowandrsquo;s sister Nell Barrow Cowan, or vintage crime pulp magazines, including a 1945 issue of Master Detective that included photographs of Parker and Barrow and a story about how andldquo;adventure and bloodshed marked the Lawandrsquo;s long pursuit of the Barrows and their murderous molls.andrdquo; And as a touchstone, they kept returning to a sentence about Bonnie and Clyde from The Dillinger Days: andldquo;Toland wrote, andlsquo;They were not just outlaws, they were outcasts,andrsquo; andrdquo; says Benton. andldquo;That line was what hooked us.andrdquo;
In some ways, Parker and Barrow were natural subjects for a movie. They were youngandmdash;Barrow was twenty-five and Parker twenty-three when they were killed. They had a great hunger and flair for self-invention and self-promotion, taking photographs in which they posed as hardened outlaws as if they were playing dress-up and sending Bonnieandrsquo;s doggerel about themselves to newspapers. And although Barrowandrsquo;s record stretched back to his teens, their history togetherandmdash;a string of robberies that often led to murder, interspersed with periods in which they lay lowandmdash;lasted only about a year and a half, ideal for the compressed narrative of a movie. Parts of their crime spree and relationship had already been appropriated for Fritz Langandrsquo;s 1937 pre-noir drama, You Only Live Once, with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney, and 1958andrsquo;s quickly forgotten The Bonnie Parker Story, which starred Dorothy Provine, had depicted a peculiar version of their lives that turned Clyde Barrow into andldquo;Guy Darrow.andrdquo;
Benton and Newman were interested in all the historical information they could get their hands on, but not in documentary realism. Already, they knew they were going to leave out certain unromantic details: Parkerandrsquo;s early marriage to another man, Parkerandrsquo;s and Barrowandrsquo;s separate stretches in jail, and the fact that Parker was severely and disfiguringly burned in a car crash almost a year before she and Barrow were killed. Their version of Bonnie and Clydeandrsquo;s story would not be a history lesson, but a drama that entangled crime and passion, comedy and bloodshed. If Benton and Newman even knew of the Production Codeandrsquo;s rules that andldquo;crimes against the law . . . shall never be presented in such a way as to throw sympathy with the crime,andrdquo; that andldquo;theft, robbery . . . etc. should not be detailed in method,andrdquo; and andldquo;that throughout, the audience feels sure that evil is wrong and good is right,andrdquo; hewing to those restrictions would have been the furthest thing from their minds. And the Code, which still maintained that andldquo;seduction . . . should never be more than suggested, and then only when essentialandrdquo; and that andldquo;suggestive . . . postures are not to be shown,andrdquo; didnandrsquo;t even have language, other than a general opprobrium on andldquo;sex aberration,andrdquo; that could have adequately expressed the futility of their plan to include a sexual mandeacute;nage andagrave; trois (the Jules and Jim influence at its most apparent) involving Bonnie, Clyde, and their strapping male getaway driver.
By November 1963, Benton and Newman were putting what they thought were the finishing touches on a seventy-five-page treatment of Bonnie and Clyde and, says Benton, andldquo;specifically writing it for Truffaut.andrdquo; The constant presence of the directorandrsquo;s name in their bull sessions represented a combination of hubris, sky-high optimism, and a sliver of actual hope. Though neither writer was particularly well connected, Benton knew someone who knew someone who knew someone. While attending the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1950s, he had become friends with fellow undergrads Harvey Schmidt, an aspiring composer, and Tom Jones, a writer and lyricist. All three went on to serve in the army and then came to New York, where Schmidt and Benton roomed together and occasionally collaborated at Esquire and Schmidt and Jones worked on their first musical. That show, The Fantasticks, opened off Broadway in 1960 to mixed reviews but hung on with remarkable tenacity and was now starting the fourth year of its run. Jonesandrsquo;s wife, Elinor Wright Jones, had gotten to know and admire Benton; she had even produced a short film he had created called A Texas Romance 1909, a chapter of his family history told through the paintings of four illustrators. andldquo;Bob called me one day and said, andlsquo;David and I want to tell you a story,andrsquo;andrdquo; she remembers. Benton and Newman went over to the Jonesesandrsquo; Central Park West apartment, bringing with them their treatment and their yellowed issue of Master Detective.
Jones was dazzled by their enthusiasm and by their conviction that a movie based on their screenplay could bring a Nouvelle Vague aesthetic to as American a subject as Dust Bowl bank robbers. At the time, she was working as an assistant to Lewis Allen, a Broadway producer who was trying his hand at low-budget art films (that year, he had produced a movie of Genetandrsquo;s The Balcony as well as Peter Brookandrsquo;s adaptation of Lord of the Flies), and she was eager to start producing as well. Her younger brother, Norton Wright, then a twenty-eight-year-old production assistant, shared her ambition. andldquo;In the early 1960s, low-budget pictures were being made in New York City for $350,000, and some of them were good movies,andrdquo; says Wright, who had learned the ins and outs of working with a tight schedule and minimal budget as a production manager on a number of those filmsandmdash;andldquo;indies,andrdquo; before the term was in common use. Wright and his sister shared Benton and Newmanandrsquo;s reverence for the French New Wave and had accompanied Benton on some of his return visits to the New Yorker Theater. And the two writers made a good pitching team: andldquo;You kind of had the feeling that Benton had the history and the heart of it, and David, who was very funny, was the sparkplug, the live wire,andrdquo; says Wright.
By the end of the meeting, it didnandrsquo;t seem impossible that, if the two would-be producers got the script into the right hands, they could raise the money to make a lean, no-frills, black-and-white version of Bonnie and Clyde themselves. And they had a well-placed ally: The Jonesesandrsquo; attorney was the powerful entertainment lawyer Robert Montgomery of the New York firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Elinor Jones sent Montgomery the treatment for Bonnie and Clyde almost immediately. Montgomery agreed to send it to another of his clients, Arthur Penn. Penn got the seventy-five pages, glanced at them, turned it down on the spot, and barely gave Bonnie and Clyde another thought for two years.
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© Jacques Delplan
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- Event planned for the month of June 2015 - August 2015
- Address:
Salle St Georges
- MAPS: Google Maps
20 phtographers were selected to display their vision of "Mons as a city to live today and to dream about tomorrow". In June 2015.
This will be the 2nd edition of an event offered by the Mons 2015 Foundation and the City of Mons in collaboration with the Royal Photo-club of Mons and Photography Museum in Charleroi.
For more information call 065 40 52 06
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- "TabletAlfabet" at the Royal Museum of Mariemont
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Newark and the Future of Crime Fighting 172
from the bangalore-across-the-hudson dept.
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Don't bother. It's not notable enough, we're deleting it.
It is Newark.
Keanu Reeves [imdb.com] will (eventually) save the day.
With a little help from Ice-T and his cyber dolphin friend Jones.
If you outlaw shadows then only the outlaws will have them.
So now instead of getting mugged and just losing your wallet, they stab you first and pull your wallet because its faster. Thank the lord im moving to the U.S. next month.
Where you will be shot first, then lose your wallet?
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."