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Unraveling the Ribbon: Breast Cancer Awareness Month isn't just about pink.
It's breast cancer awareness month again: Rite-Aid is selling pink TicTacs, rosé is on sale at Whole Foods, and Sephora is hawking a "Breast Cancer Awareness Makeup Palette."
If you're suffering from awareness overload, you're not alone.
When it comes to breast cancer, we're inundated with what health studies professor Samantha King calls a "tyranny of cheerfulness." Rather than addressing the more complex issues of inadequate health insurance, environmental pollution, and stalled research, the public face of breast cancer advocacy veers toward to what Barbara Ehrenreich calls "the breast cancer cult," an ultra-feminine, consumer-driven approach drenched in sentimentality and good cheer.
The ubiquitous pink ribbon often overshadows the actual achievements of breast cancer organizations.
Far from being pawns of a corporate fundraising campaign requiring them to share the color of their bra or accumulate a house-full of pink tchotchkes, many breast cancer activists are politically savvy women who have helped change the way medical research is funded, agitated for tighter environmental restrictions, and made significant improvements to the US healthcare delivery system.
"When you mention breast cancer, people think of Race for the Cure and support groups," says Sue Wittewer, an active member of Iowa Breast Cancer Edu-Action. "When I tell people that I'm learning to lobby for better healthcare coverage, they're surprised. You have to explain it to them, since they don't know anything about it."
Angela Wall, the communications manager at Breast Cancer Action, an advocacy organization based in San Francisco, agrees. "You can't get the real issues out there for all the pink noise," she says. "Juggernaut pink organizations like Komen and Avon have the pink mouthpiece and and that makes it hard to get a word in edgewise to talk about the real issues that will actually address and end this epidemic."
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was started in 1985, the brainchild of the American Cancer Society and AstraZeneca, a multi-national pharmaceutical companyas an initiative to promote mammograms. But the first woman to come up with a ribbon for breast cancer awareness was 68-year-old Charlotte Haley, who made peach ribbons in her living room. She distributed them with a card that read: "The National Cancer Institute annual budget is $1.8 billion, only 5 percent goes for cancer prevention. Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon."
In 1992, Self magazine and cosmetics giant Estee Lauder had the idea to create a breast cancer awareness ribbon. Haley wanted nothing to do with this campaign, seeing it as too commercial. Estee Lauder chose to pursue the ribbon idea anyway, and decided to use a different color.
They chose pink.
At the time, this was almost revolutionary: research about the disease was underfunded, and women were often ashamed of having had mastectomies. Tens of thousands of women died of breast cancer every year, but nobody talked about it in public.
Eventually, other companies jumped on board and soon the pink ribbon was plastered on everything from cologne to corn chips.
This Komen Foundation Perfume was discontinued because it contained a chemical classified as toxic. You can still buy the chips though.
At the same time corporations were discovering they could improve their image with women by slapping a pink ribbon on their merchandise, thousands of breast cancer survivors were coming together to create political change.
The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) lobbied to increase federal funding for breast cancer research which resulted, improbably, in the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program. The program, administered by the Department of the Army, funds innovative research proposals which consumer advocates help select. "It was important to us that women have a seat at the table," says Visco. "It wasn't enough to just be raising the money."
To make sure that advocates were prepared, the NBCC started an intensive science immersion course for survivors called Project LEAD. Since its inauguration, over 2,000 women have been trained in the program. "The project really stands out as a model for developing activists who ask relevant and important questions, and acknowledge their power when working with the scientific community," says Dr. Kay Dickersin, a longtime faculty member with Project LEAD.
Healthcare coverage is another major issue for women with breast cancer, which is rarely addressed by the pink ribbon contingent.
Until 2000, free breast cancer screening was available for uninsured women, but treatment was often out of reach. Activists affiliated with the NBCC lobbied to make treatment more accessible, resulting in the The Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act. The legislation gave states the option to offer Medicaid assistance to women who were screened through the program.
While it's all good and well to fund research for a cure and help women with cancer get treated, even better would be to stop the disease before it starts. "We need to reduce the number of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer, not celebrate the number who are getting mammograms," says Wall.
To that end, BCA has lobbied Eli Lilly to stop producing rBGH, the growth hormone that is present in dairy products and which may increase the risk of breast cancer. The organization was successful in its campaign to have methyl iodide, the pesticide that scientists called "one of the most toxic chemicals on earth," pulled from the U.S. market by its manufacturer, Arysta LifeScience Corporation. And they've been a party in a lawsuit against Myriad Genetics that challenges the company's patents on breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, patents that were ruled invalid in 2010.
You don't hear about these things in the mainstream media, but surely they are just as important as a pink-handled gun or rose-colored football jerseys?
Every year, Christine Norton helps organize the Race for the Cure in her hometown of Minneapolis. She wears a pink ribbon, but she's also a longtime board member of the NBCC and she's acutely aware of the problems with the symbol. "Pink ribbons can be counterproductive to the larger issue," she says. "Some people think it's enough to just put the pink ribbon on, but really, at this point in time, that's doing jack squat."
Angela Wall believes that more and more women are coming to the same conclusion. "Women are not stupid. We're incredibly savvy. Our bullshit detectors ring loud and clear. We know when something isn't working."
Jill Moffett, PhD, MPH is a freelance writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She blogs at Women's Wellness Watch.
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great article. Pink Ribbon
great article. Pink Ribbon Inc is a must see
Hi Dee, Thanks for the
Hi Dee,
Thanks for the recommendation. I've read about the documentary (created by my beloved National Film Board of Canada!) but haven't had the chance to see it yet. Soon I hope!
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The sad thing is that so many
The sad thing is that so many pink products that are supposed to create breast cancer awareness ( like the perfume) actually contain cancer causing chemicals! http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?page_id=13
Yes, the case of the perfume
Yes, the case of the perfume is particularly interesting! It just goes to show what's on Komen's radar and what's not!
Cancer is NOT Pink
Thanks for this writing article. I am one of the women whose "bullshit detectors" is sounding off loud and clear this month. I am all for breast cancer research to find better treatments and cures, but the pink boas, and tic tacs, and football cleats... we see right through that.
That's why I'm so excited to support The Gateway for Cancer Research's "Cancer is NOT Pink" campaign. Here are a few more details in case you are interested: http://owl.li/efWOD
Pornhub has recently jumped
Pornhub has recently jumped on the pink ribbon bandwagon. Their newest "thing" is that for every 30 views of a "big boob" or "small boob" clip watched, they will donate $0.01 to a breast cancer organization. You know, cause porn and breast obsession is exactly what people struggling with cancer need.
Wh-what? Awful. Even I am
Wh-what? Awful. Even I am shocked.
I remember a commercial that
I remember a commercial that pictured a very young attractive girl focused on her boobs and the message was basically, "oh noes! If she gets breast cancer you won't be able to feel her boobs!" Because you know, the worst part of breast cancer is that men won't be able to feel them up! Not you know, the suffering and death of the woman.
Oh, they've got
Oh, they've got jokes....boobies are funny! Can you imagine a similar ad for prostate cancer?
Prostate cancer is the 3rd
Prostate cancer is the 3rd biggest type of cancer in men. Just as breast cancer is the 3rd biggest killer of women. I personally would love to see even half the amount of awareness given to breast cancer given to prostate cancer.
Not forgetting, of course, that men suffer from breast cancer too.
A New Kind of Campaign
I recently came across a new awareness campaign for breast cancer that I found incredibly refreshing. It is targeted more at young women. It is called The Scar Project. It features survivors through photograpy. Their tag line is "Breast Cancer Is Not A Pink Ribbon."
You can check it out here: http://www.thescarproject.org/ Be warned though that the images can be triggering, especially if breast cancer is apart of your life, or someone you love.
Link for BCA
Great article- the hyperlink to Breast Cancer Action is wrong, though. Should be bcaction.org.
too much pink
I'm ashamed of having had breast cancer related surgery BECAUSE of all the pink. It's humiliating and unnecessary and a brutal reminder of a bad time in my life. http://dinoiafamily.typepad.com/the_dinoia_family/2012/10/i-walked-into-...
Pink has always been my
Pink has always been my favorite color. 3 years ago when I was told that I had Breast Cancer,my world changed...but not my love for pink. It is now my favorite color for a different reason. When I see a pink ribbon on someones jewelry or clothing, I know that that person ,or someone in their life, is either battling, surviving or resting in peace because of this disease. When I see the pink ribbon on merchandise in stores, I PERSONALLY don't see it as a money making scheme. Again it serves me as a reminder of all women(and men) who have been diagnosed or will be be told those three awful words, YOU HAVE CANCER. If I want, need or like the item ...I buy it. I do beleive that some things need not be pinked. One of the things that upsets people the most about pink ribboned items is that not much of the money goes for research like the companies proclaim. But my way of looking on that is ...Any amount of money towards researching a cure for this disease is better than nothing
The Tuohy Breast Cancer Vaccine (aka, the "Pink Vaccine")
Thank you for the well written article. As a citizen, I walked and ran and bought pink labeled consumer items to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Komen). I raised $2,300 as my entry fee to walk in the Seattle 3-Day. The Seattle take in 2009 was ~ $4.5 million and there were ~ 15 3-Day events across the country that year. However, as a cancer survivor, I was excited to learn that Dr. Vincent Tuohy, Immunologist at the Cleveland Clinic, has discovered a breast cancer vaccine that is 100% effective in preventing breast cancer in mice. He needs $6 million for clinical trials. However, he has been rejected by Komen at least 3 times. There's no profit in prevention, I guess. We don't need more awareness for detection and treatment. WE NEED A CURE! Since 2010, I've been directing my energies to helping Dr. Tuohy raise funds for the "Pink Vaccine". Learn more at: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/giving/where-to-give/tuohy_vaccine.aspx. Write, or better yet, call Dr. Tuohy for an interview. Prevention is the cure.
The Tuohy Breast Cancer Vaccine (aka, the "Pink Vaccine")
Thank you for the well written article. As a citizen, I walked and ran and bought pink labeled consumer items to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Komen). I raised $2,300 as my entry fee to walk in the Seattle 3-Day. The Seattle take in 2009 was ~ $4.5 million and there were ~ 15 3-Day events across the country that year. As a cancer survivor, I was excited to learn that Dr. Vincent Tuohy, Immunologist at the Cleveland Clinic, has discovered a breast cancer vaccine that is 100% effective in preventing breast cancer in mice. He needs $6 million for clinical trials. However, he has been rejected by Komen at least 3 times. There's no profit in prevention, I guess. We don't need more awareness for detection and treatment. WE NEED A CURE! Since 2010, I've been directing my energies to helping Dr. Tuohy raise funds for the "Pink Vaccine". Learn more at: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/giving/where-to-give/tuohy_vaccine.aspx. Write, or better yet, call Dr. Tuohy for an interview. Prevention is the cure.
Komen Foundation perfume
I'm not totally sure, but I believe the Komen Foundation perfume might still be available - I found a few websites selling it when I was researching my article this week: http://marnieclark.com/a-rant-on-pinktober-and-pinkwashing/
Other than that - great article. Appreciated the research you did and the points you made. My absolute favorite part of your article? The part where you say "Women are not stupid. We're incredibly savvy. Our bullshit detectors ring loud and clear. We know when something isn't working." Well said, totally agree!
Keep up the good work - it's up to us to make the change we need to see in breast cancer numbers.
Marnie Clark
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This is a great article.
This is a great article. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month has become very big and very pink. Unfortunately, I think the whole pink idea has turned into a fashion statement during that month so I hope people do not forgot what it really represents. I always promote cancerawarenessribbons and will have one on my shirt every day during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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LAWRENCEVILLE — Attorneys for the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office leaders named in a class action lawsuit have filed their response, denying all accusations of abuse regarding the department's use of restraint chairs against inmates.
In July, a group of former inmates at the Gwinnett County jail filed the federal civil lawsuit against Sheriff Butch Conway, Col. Don Pinkard and Lt. Col. Carl Sims, calling the use of restraint chairs — devices with arm, leg, shoulder and lap restraints, typically used for about four hours — excessive and unconstitutional.
Pinkard is the jail administrator. Sims is the now-former commander of the jail's rapid response team, which, among other tasks, implements the chairs. In a Sept. 9 filing containing 25 separate defenses and addressing each paragraph of the suit, the attorney for all three defendants argued to the contrary.
"Any force used was justified because Plaintiffs initiated and exhibited violent behavior so as to be a danger to themselves and/or others," the document said. "All applications of force were reasonable under the totality of the circumstances."
In their suit, the unknown number of co-filing former inmates alleges that the rapid response team, or RRT, abused its power and used the restraint chairs as punishment, the latter of which directly violates the sheriff's office's use of force policy. Led by attorneys John Cicala and Craig Jones, they claim such actions were taken against them "in retaliation for loud, intoxicated or alleged noncompliant behavior."
In many cases, it's claimed that such behavior had ceased by the time the RRT implemented the restraint chair. The response filed on behalf of Conway, Pinkard and Sims argues against that and every other assertion in the suit.
"Defendants further state that any use of force and/or the application of a particular restraint technique is determined on a case by case basis as dictated by the particular conduct of the inmate," the 31-page document said. "No inmate was subjected to unconstitutional force, and each inmate's particular conduct that prompted a particular on-duty, on-scene supervisor (not these Defendants) to activate the RRT and then not terminate that activation of RRT will differ in each circumstance."
"Defendants further state that they have not directed nor become aware of the use of the restraint chair for malicious, sadistic, punitive or retaliatory purposes," the filing said in a separate section.
A total of 129 Gwinnett County inmates were placed in the chair in the first half of 2013, according to documents previously obtained by the Daily Post. The suit is open to inmates as far back as July 2011.
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For-Profits in Florida in the News
The Miami Herald is publishing a host of stories on the Proprietary industry in the State of Florida and the state's regulatory agency. For the most part, these articles paint a not-so-flattering portrait of the industry in the State of Florida.
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A Vets View on his For-Profit Education
First, my apologies for having such a long pause in this blog. The industry got overwhelming there for few months.
The proprietary industry has had to manage many hills and mountains for the years, but lately it has been tough for many to keep their heads above the waterline. With enrollments down for many schools (proprietary, publics, privates and non-pro-fits alike), it is nice hear a story on the positive side of the argument.
This article was published this March in The Stanford Daly as a Letter to the Editor on his experience with DeVry University. He highlights just some of the benefits he found through the school and assistance from the staff on his education and job search. I hope to see more letters like this make main stream media.
Veteran attending DeVry Offers Insight about Higher Education
Can the US Dept. Of Ed prevent another Corinthian type problem?
Everyone is wondering if the US department of Ed can prevent another set of problems like are occurring with Corinthian Colleges, Inc. While all of this is subjective, many in Congress wonder if the US DOE is doing enough monitoring the financial stability of the for-profit sector. There are lots of theories and suggestions, but no real answers these questions.
Read More on the ideas being presented:
Preventing Another Corinthian by Michael Stratford and Paul Fain Inside Higher Ed
And the Battle Begins…..
The battle over Gainful Employment begins… All comments on Gainful Employment will end today. With that, APSCU has begun they battle over the usefulness of the rule with a report stating the proposal as "flawed, arbitrary, and biased". This looks to begin a legal challenge in the making.
Read more detail in these articles:
For-Profit Colleges Decry Gainful-Employment Rule as 'Arbitrary and Biased' – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nowhere to Go by Paul Fain on Inside Higher Ed
No Consensus for the US DOE on Key Issues
Negotiations for Rule-Making by the US Department of Education have ended without a consensus on two key issues: Debit Cards for students and State Authorization. Without a consensus, the Department of Education can now proceed with language they deem appropriate on these issues. The issue of state authorization for distance education programs has long been a contention for higher education. The debate will most likely end up debated in the court system before it is official.
To read more:
Federal Panel Fails to Reach a consensus by Michal Stratford @Inside Higher Ed
Rule-Making Panel Fails to Find Consensus on 2 Key Issues – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Newest Names Jump on the Gainful Employment Train
Democratic Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii & Chris Murphy of Connecticut have joined forces on the front lines in a very vocal Congressional fight in the Gainful Employment arena. These Senators are calling for stronger rules on for-profits. Mr. Murphy went so far as to call out Corinthian Colleges as the "worst of the worst" example of a predatory for-profit company.
The revised rules are open for comment through May 27, 2014. Along with the student advocacy group the Young Invincibles, Senator Harkin held a media event at the U.S. Capitol building. Two students from the Young Invincibles discussed their experiences at proprietary institutions on their overall debt and the institutions' financial practices.
Steve Gunderson of APSCU, the main trade group for the proprietary industry, stated they were working with many Congressional Democrats and the White House for a more fair solution to make sure colleges are accountable. The impact these revised gainful employment rules will have on students is a long way from being determined.
For more on this, please read the following articles:
Senators Call for a Tougher 'Gainful Employment' Rule – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Alert: The US DOE is pushing forward with Rulemaking!
The US Department of Education is once again pushing their agenda on Rulemaking. In this round of stipulations, DOE is once again pushing for all distance education institutions to have to be registered in each state for which their students reside. Under these new rules, States are not allowed to exempted institutions based on most established criteria. While the specifics have not yet been creeded and the panel is still talking, this will be another attempt to establish the similar rules attached to Title IV funding.
Read more: Panel Is Split on Distance-Education Rule – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
And the jokes just keep on rolling along from the Feds….
Yes, the US Department of Education is back in to the rulemaking business and now they have decided to try to force States to create a process to review every institution offering education to their residents. While I am all for making sure institutions are not taking advantage to the students I represent in Mississippi, I'm not sure this is the correct way to go about it. I'm sure this topic will be debated in the courts long before it makes its way to being required.
Here are some of the latest stories floating around on the topic:
Negotiators Tussle Over Proposed Rule to Compel State Scrutiny of Online Ed – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gainful Employment…Yes, AGAIN…..
On Thursday, the US Department of Education sent out their latest version on "Gainful Employment" rulemaking. Here is a collective list of articles that have been published from The Chronicle on Higher Education and Inside Higher Education websites as to their opinions on this newest rulemaking session.
Revised 'Gainful Employment' Rule Breaks Little New Ground – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Reactions to the Education Dept
Gainful Employment_ What's New_ What's Missing_ And to Whom Does That Matter_ – Administration – The Chronicle of Higher Education
5 Things to Know About the Proposed Gainful-Employment Rule – Government – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gainful Employment's Partial Unveiling by Paul Fain Inside Higher Education
Proposal Sets Stage for Gainful Fight By Michael Stratford Inside Higher Education
Another Survey on For-Profit Students' View on Their Insitutions
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The Coen brothers are known for being one of the best filmmakers of our
time. They both compliment each other perfectly. When I heard they were
remaking the 1969, John Wayne classic True Grit, I was extremely
excited and had incredibly high expectations of the film. Being a major
fan of Western movies, I was really interested how it would turn out. I
wanted the movie to be more faithful to it's original source material,
Charles Portis novel, than the 1969 film had been. I was also hopeful
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become way too violent that it causes to stay completely unrecognizable
to Charles Portis classic novel.
After seeing the Coen brothers new film, I have to say. My extremely high expectations were surpassed. The movie actually surprised all the hype I had, what an incredible film. The atmosphere, clothing, and the buildings reminded me of the old classic Hollywood westerns they used to make. I had a feeling of nostalgia watching the movie through the end. I felt transported to another time period of the old western. Hailee Steinfeld was amazing in the movie, I truly believe that this is her breakout performance. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin were as usual amazing. But the true star of the film has to be Jeff Bridges, in all respects ( I don't mean to offend John Wayne or anything), I think Jeff Bridges did a better job than John Wayne in portraying Rooster Cogburn. His performance showed much more experience, strength and power, the performance was pretty much unforgettable. Jeff Bridges handily reinvents the iconic role of Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers' back-to-the-book-remake. I congratulate the Coen for bringing back the western genre, that Hollywood has ignored so much the last decade or so. I can't stress enough how much I recommend this movie to people.
Those of you who wonder why someone would remake a good film, need to withhold judgment until seeing this film. It was one of the most authentic westerns I've ever had the privilege of viewing, and I am a die-hard western aficionado, and true-west historian. The costumes, the buildings, the interiors, and the dialogue were so meticulously crafted that I felt entirely immersed in a world long since forgotten, and often misunderstood. The acting was unbelievable as you'd expect from such established, accomplished thespians, but Hailee Steinfeld was a revelation, holding her own, if not carrying the entire film on her relatively small shoulders. The Brothers Coen have justified their choice to adapt Charles Portis' novel, not remake the John Wayne classic. The impact, and visceral reality of life in such places and times, coupled with the abrupt, brutal violence is something you didn't fully grasp in the grandstanding, heroics of the 1969 version. I applaud the Coens for exercising restraint and understatement to allow the scenes and the situations to breathe and take there natural course. Overall, it was an amazing cinematic experience that truly transports the viewer to a very real and fully realized time and space that crackles with fire and true grit.
As is to be expected, the film has all the classic Coen flourishes,
first and foremost its use of language. The Coens have always been
impeccably tuned in to language and accents, from the most creative use
of swear words in The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading to the
colorful, stylized prose of The Hudsucker Proxy and The Man Who Wasn't
There to the very distinct accents in Raising Arizona, Fargo, O
Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old Men. In classic Coen
fashion, the use of language is very much emphasized in True Grit. The
characters have a very distinct use of words, lifted right out of the
novel and, as it feels at least, right out of the time period the film
takes place in. Unlike something like Deadwood which features a very
modernized and stylized version of 18th century speak, the dialogue in
True Grit sounds completely authentic and, along with the impeccable
and accurate-feeling costume and set design, really adds to the realism
of the world True Grit creates. Accents are also very important the
harsh Southern drawl that the Coens have always been attracted to is
very prominent and plays a very large role in the film.
As has become expected of the brothers, especially in recent years, the film looks incredibly beautiful, mainly thanks to regular DP Roger Deakins' stunning cinematography. All of his trademarks are in place: harsh but very naturalistic lighting, washed-out colors, especially in the outdoor scenes, smooth camera movements, and just a generally beautiful palette he uses to paint the world of the film with. Also very prominent in the film is the beautiful score by Carter Burwell. It hearkens back to his more melodic work on the Coen brothers' earlier films, especially Miller's Crossing. Using themes from classic hymns from the time period of the film, the soundtrack, along with the language of the dialogue, helps add a very strong feeling of authenticity to the film. It is a beautiful piece of music: dramatic but not heavy- handed, whimsical but with a hint of darkness to it. These two long-time Coen collaborators, as well as the costume and set designers, with whom the Coens have also worked with many times before, all deliver top-notch work and show once again just how strong the power of long-term collaboration can be.
Other returning collaborators are a number of the cast members. The Coens seem to have grown distant from most of their long-time regular cast members (Jon Polito, John Turturro, John Goodman, Steven Buscemi, and others), but Coen regulars still make appearances in some of their recent work. In this case, it is "The Dude" Lebowski himself, Jeff Bridges, who makes his triumphant return in a Coen brothers film, filling the very large shoes of John Wayne, who gave an iconic performance as Rooster Cogburn in the first adaptation of True Grit, from 1969. Bridges brings his own unique style and sensibilities to the role, combining his drunken goofiness with the demeanor of a serious and very skilled hunter and lawman. It is a wonderful performance playing to all of Bridges' best abilities as an actor, and it is just a joy to watch. Also playing to his best qualities is Matt Damon, who delivers one of the loosest and most fun performances of his career as Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (or "La Beef", as he is referred to, by himself as well, in the film). Damon is clearly having fun with the role, although like Bridges, he, too, manages to find a very excellent balance between the humor and the seriousness and skill his character has. But the standout performance has to be newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, who beat out 15,000 other girls for the part. Open casting calls often provide disappointing results, as nonprofessional actors tend to be just that not professional. 14-year-old Steinfeld proves she is a talent to watch, though she totally commands the screen with her strong-willed, stubborn character, and manages to hold her own against Bridges, Damon and Josh Brolin, who makes a brief but memorable appearance later in the film. It is a fantastic, powerful performance that is an absolute joy to watch. I foresee great things from Steinfeld in the future.
Many people will be turned off by the straightforwardness of the storytelling in True Grit. I have already heard complaints that the film lacks poignancy. But that isn't what it lacks. What it lacks is irony. It's actually quite amazing to see a film so completely and utterly devoid of irony such as this one it seems like most films these days, including the Coen brothers' recent output, all carry this air of cynicism about them. True Grit hearkens back to a more classic form of plot and character-driven storytelling, and in that sense, it succeeds immensely. Ultimately, True Grit is a piece of pure entertainment and it is quite an entertaining film: thrilling, engaging, and very, very funny. I have read many opinions claiming that this "doesn't feel like a Coen brothers film," but its storytelling style and techniques actually remind me most of another classic Coen film, Miller's Crossing. That film was also completely stripped of irony and instead focused on telling a good old-fashioned yarn, nothing more, nothing less. So while True Grit is not one of the very best films in the Coen's oeuvre, it is still just a darn good film overall.
Near the end of October, I handpicked True Grit along with Black Swan
and The Fighter as three films that could potentially go on to become
the film of the year. Joel and Ethan Coen were reuniting with Jeff
Bridges after all in True Grit and that was exciting enough, but the
Coens managed to take a remake of a western from 1969 starring John
Wayne and give it a modern retelling without desecrating the original
in the process.
Mattie Ross (Steinfeld) will stop at nothing to gain revenge on Tom Chaney (Brolin), the man responsible for killing her father. She comes across a U.S. Marshall named Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) who is equally as drunk as he is reckless. As Mattie begins to make arrangements with Cogburn, she meets a Texas ranger named LaBoeuf (Damon) who's been tracking Chaney for months and is committed to capturing Chaney alive and bring him back to Texas to collect his reward money. Mattie begins to think she may have chosen the wrong man for the job once the trail to finding Chaney becomes cold, but sometimes fate intervenes and has a way of rectifying a dismal situation; what you so desperately seek is right under your nose.
Roger Deakins did a hell of a job with the cinematography in this film. The atmosphere in the film is just right to make it feel like this was shot forty years ago with the technology of today. The way the film is shot gives an authentic western feel that is impossible to ignore. The opening scene is a great example, as well. We fade-in to a light source slowly emerging on a black screen as the blurry scene slowly begins to focus and we're shown the first tragedy of the film. The lighting was also exceptional. Conversations around a campfire and in candle light have never looked so great. One of the more enjoyable aspects of the film is the use of snow. It always seems to be snowing whenever a character relevant to the story has either died or has been critically injured.
You spend most of the time in True Grit getting to know both Mattie Ross and Rooster Cogburn along with the brief relationship they had. We follow Mattie Ross as it's proved time and time again that she's incredibly intelligent for a fourteen year old and, unless guns are involved, is more than capable of taking care of herself. For her first film, Hailee Steinfeld is impressive in an extraordinary kind of way. Her stubborn attitude is portrayed in a way that makes Mattie come off as a strong woman character who is still too young to be saying or partaking in the events that unfold. Rooster Cogburn is another memorable character to add to Jeff Bridges resume that he portrays to drunken excellence. The one down side is that his rambling is incoherent at times. Imagine having a wad of snuff in one cheek and a mouthful of cotton balls in the other while trying to talk and that's how Cogburn sounds more often than not. But what you are capable of understanding is pretty brilliant whether Cogburn is telling a story from his past and letting his dry humor shine through, trying to convince LaBoeuf to let him rip out his tongue, or drunkenly trying to shoot cornbread he threw into the air to prove that he's a good shot, Cogburn is a rather colorful character that Bridges brilliantly portrays. One man that may get overlooked is Barry Pepper. He doesn't receive a lot of screen time as Lucky Ned Pepper, but he certainly makes a lasting impression with what little time he does have on screen.
True Grit is not chock full of gunslinging action and doesn't really get the adrenaline flowing until the latter half of the film, but what the film lacks in action is made up with longwinded and unintelligible ramblings of a colorful drunk, the heavy detailing of a young girl stopping at nothing to revenge her father's death, and a Texas ranger who spends his time trying to convince everyone that he deserves to be respected. The engrossing dialogue will put off some, but is probably the aspect of the film that drives it the most. Beautiful cinematography and incredible lighting certainly make the film look like a genuine western film while Jeff Bridges gives another performance that could see him get another Oscar nomination as Mattie Ross may get one her first time out. Despite the film being a little slow at times, everything else in the film is so fantastic that it certainly should be considered one of the last must see films of the year.
I am a fierce John Wayne fan. He was really great as Rooster in True
Grit. The new version is not the same movie as John Wayne's. Don't
compare the two. The story line's are similar, but that's it. This new
version is a whole new story than the one written for John Wayne. This
is a great movie, with truly great acting for all involved.
The 1969 movie was driven fully by Rooster Cogburn. This 2010 version is truly driven by Mattie Ross. The performances by Stienfeld, Bridges, and Damon shine. I would have liked to have seen Stienfeld and Damon against John Wayne. Bridges was terrific as Cogburn. The story was far better than I imagined it could have been.
I can't believe I said all this. I am one who absolutely hates re-makes. Like I said this is not the same movie.
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
True Grit is not a remake, but a re-imagining. Narrated by Mattie Ross,
played by Hailee Steinfeld, who makes her feature film debut, we find
Mattie picking up the pieces following the death of her father at the
hands of Tom Chaney (Brolin). A headstrong girl, Mattie isn't looking
for a handout; she's looking for justice. She is directed towards
Rooster Cogburn (Bridges), a Federal Marshall whose reputation for
shooting his prisoners makes him the right fit for Mattie's cause.
She is discovered soon after by LaBoeuf (Damon) who is also looking for Chaney for a crime committed in Texas. Mattie's plan of riding off with Rooster and LeBoeuf are short lived when LaBoeuf refuses to go out into Indian territory with a "girl." Rooster, though reluctant at first, escorts Mattie into the territory.
Though I am not familiar with the novel with which it is based on, I would say that the Coens have done the story justice. Though you can't replace John Wayne's take on Rooster, Bridges gives a different, more rugged approach to the character. It wasn't "The Dude" or Bad Blake from last year's Crazy Heart. He was Rooster Cogburn the way the Coens wrote it. He doesn't step on Wayne's toes, but rather makes the character his own.
One upgrade from the original film (one of several) was Damon's portrayal of LeBoeuf. In the original, Glen Campbell played a much more cooperative LaBoeuf than Damon. Damon is more independent and clashes with Rooster more often. They're chemistry is much more believable and enjoyable.
Another major upgrade is the music. Though the original has the classic, big, sweeping score by Elmer Bernstein that many westerns of the day were accustomed to, it just didn't fit the story. It made is much lighter than it needed to be. Carter Burwell, whose previous work for the Coens is simply sublime, gives yet another stellar score, creating just the right mood and tempo. Rooster's charge at the end is accompanied by a wonderful piece of music that brings you right in the saddle with Rooster, guns-a-blazing, hollering and rooting for the good guys. Burwell's sense of both the time period and the mood of the film couldn't have been better.
Where would a Coen Brother's film be without some stunning visuals. Roger Deakins, whose work is up there with the best of the day, does a fantastic job capturing the sights of the wild west, in a way that films of the 50s and 60s couldn't do. The way sunlight coats the landscape, snow falling through the trees, and the shadows of a flickering fire are just moments that stand out.
Lastly we come to Joel and Ethan, who might be the finest pair of filmmakers working today. They are gifted in telling a story with images and dialogue. Though not working with an original work, still springs off of the screen. Not to mention the performances they get out of their cast is second to none. Everyone is on board for this picture, and it shows.
True Grit is a better film than the '69 version. The photography, supporting cast, and all around production is better. Still, I have no doubt that Rooster Cogburn will be remembered as John Wayne, I have to hand it to Jeff and the Coens for putting on a spectacular film, both a delight for the eyes and ears.
Few directors working today in America have mastered form like the
Coens, I discover this with every new film they make. True Grit is a
commercial film made to please but I don't see a compromise in the
making and it's still a distinctly Coen film if you pay notice. Try to
take out the Coen character from the film and the film breaks apart,
it's that tightly woven in the fabric of it.
A Coen film works for me in the face of it, but I'm always on the lookout for what goes on behind, for the unseen cogs that grind out the fates of their characters. As with No Country, I came to this film looking to see is there a statement on violence, does it happen in a certain way and is the universe indifferent to it, is life worth a damn?
This one here works very much like the Henry Hathaway film from '69, except everyone's better, where John Wayne played a character, Jeff Bridges plays a man, and even Barry Pepper betters my beloved Robert Duvall's turn as Ned Pepper. This probably won't do it for Jeff Bridges because we've been accustomed to expect a certain degree of po-faced seriousness from a great performance (he snarled and staggered in Crazy Heart but he was serious about it), but he's one of the great actors of our times and I find this again in his Rooster Cogburn. Clint Eastwood also fell from a horse in Unforgiven and couldn't shoot a tin can to save his soul, but Munny "was" a scumbag, Cogburn still is and I like that. I like the courtroom scene where it's gradually revealed that he won't only bushwack those he needs to bring to justice, he will lie to make himself out to be the hero.
Another interesting aspect here is how the concept of the gunslinger and the western with it has evolved. When John Wayne played Cogburn in the Hathaway film the reward for the audience was the smirk of watching John Wayne be that drunken failure. The casting mattered in our appreciation. In the remake, most comments seem to point out that it's a fairly traditional/entertaining western. The dastardly revisit of something that was revisionist in the 70's oddly seems to give, in our day, a traditional western. We've been accustomed to heroes who are not heroes, and maybe the erosion of that heroic archetype says something about the way we view the world now, as opposed to 30-40 years ago. Then we were beginning to realize that wars are not gloriously, justly won but survived and endured, now we know there is no clear struggle between dual opposites and have grown disenchanted as that knowledge has failed to prevent the same wars. Now we know there is stuff about the legends that don't make the print, or we are suspicious enough about legends to imagine them.
Is this a traditional western then? Watching True Grit through the eyes of the brass 14yo girl reminded me of Winter's Bone, another film from the same year. In both cases a young girl is determined to plunge herself in a dark world of hurt and walk a path fraught with perils on all sides to achieve a moral purpose, both films maintain an appearance of realism, but what I get from them is a magical fantasy. This becomes more apparent when Mattie falls in the snakepit, but what about the hanged men who are really hanged high? The Hathaway film, ostensibly based on the same material, missed that note and played out a straight western. The Coen film unfolds as a hazy dream of that West. Although I wished for more open landscapes, it makes sense then that film narrows our gaze and clouds the margins. Perhaps we are even seeing the film as Mattie relives the experience in her old age, an affair shaped by memory and time.
This is the marvellous touch effected by the Coens on the material; the minute recreation of the Old West as a historical place and the odd, incongruous moments found within it annihilate any authority over the material.
The epilogue is important in that aspect.
It's not only that Mattie's revenge didn't accomplish anything, that it was for her merely another practical inconvenience to be bargained, paid for, and settled, like her father's ponies and saddle or the service of the US Marshall before, but that she clings to the memory of it so fiercely. What's horrifying then is not so much the violence of the West but the idealization of that violence. The film closes in a time around the turn of the century, people like Cogburn roosted in Wild West shows for a cheering audience, and Mattie is one of the people who lived to tell the tales. Out of those tales, the western of John Ford and Raoul Walsh emerged to print the legend. In a roundabout fantastic way, the Coens give us the true account, the creation myth behind the western.
Just came back from seeing "True Grit." Now this is the kind of film that the average person goes to the movies to see. It was amazing, highly entertaining, suspenseful, funny, and had a great story line. Jeff Bridges was fantastic, as was Matt Damon. Josh Brolin was good too, the only problem is I didn't get to see enough of him. He is definitely an up and coming actor that I hope to see more of. However, the best acting in the entire film was done by Hailee Steinfeld. Hailee plays the role of Mattie Ross and she is incredible. She really is 14 and held her own with the likes of Damon, Bridges, and Brolin. This film was an excellent western and comedy. There were several times that the theater was filled with laughter. I will definitely see this film again and may even purchase the DVD.
Let's get the comparisons with Henry Hathaway's version of the Charles
Portis novel out of the way. The Coen Brothers certainly knew that,
however much they want to 'go back to the source material,' their film
would play against Hathaway's version.
The Hathaway version, while tampering with details from the Portis original, remains strikingly true to its story and theme. This is most clear in the dialog - the decision not to tamper with Portis' language was decisive for the making of that film. The Coens' tampering with the novel is more subtle than Hathaway's film, but no less an interpretation.
Approaching the characters and composition of the Coens' version without reference to the Hathaway film apparently proved impossible. For instance, the shoot-out at the dug-out cabin was re-written for a night-scene, but the camera angles remain pretty much the high-elevation shots Lucien Ballard provided Hathaway, inter-cut with full body shots of people getting wounded and horses running (etc.)also similar to Ballard's.
Two performance stand out as striking examples of reference to the original film. Dakin Matthews seems to struggle mightily not to recreate Strother Martin's interpretation of the horse-trader Stonehill - and fails. Apparently Martin had the character down pat and there's nothing but to reproduce his interpretation. Far more to the point is Barry Pepper's interpretation of the desperate outlaw chief, Ned Pepper - it is pure Robert Duvall. Pepper can only match Duvall's self-aware determination - and he does - but he can't surpass it; nor can he find another interpretation to set off against Duvall's.
As for the Coens' own re-interpretation of the Portis novel, what was most noticeable to me were the minor points simply dropped out of the story telling. The most irritating to me were a pair of lapses that are interconnected and combine to make an important point about the characters. 1. We never get to see Mattie tell Rooster that Chaney has linked up with Ned Pepper (later Rooster does remark the fact, but how did he learn of it?); 2 We don't get to hear Rooster's remarking how he shot Pepper through the upper lip (because he was aiming at the lower lip). These two incidents combine to let the audience know that Cogburn's hidden agenda on the Chaney hunt is really Ned Pepper, he and Pepper have something of a feud going on - which information fills out the background detail for their final shoot-out. Except here we don't have that connection.
Finally, the whole Mattie - Rooster issue: many critics are saying that Mattie is more at the center here than in the Hathaway picture, which focused attention on John Wayne's Cogburn. Not true. When we add up screen time and lines of dialog, we discover that Mattie not only has as much time and dialog in the Hathaway film but it is in much the same proportion to Cogburn's as in this one. If most remember the Hathaway film as a 'John Wayne film,' that is due simply to Wayne's bravura performance.
Well, enough of the comparisons. Does the Coens' version measure up as film worth seeing on its own accord? Yes; we are presented here with a beautiful, frightening, amusing piece of 'Americana.' There are scenes approaching dream-like states, as in the meeting with the bear-man, and during Rooster's desperate drive to get Mattie to a doctor. Hailee Steinfeld is quite engaging, and Matt Damon develops an intriguing complexity that makes one wish he had more screen-time. Bridges' performance is the most problematic - Bridges plays Cogburn as a a kind of whimsical brute - as he rambles on with his life-story on the trail, we get the gnawing sense that, if we were not along for a dangerous manhunt and dependent on his abilities as a master man-hunter, Cogburn would be someone we would not like to know. This develops a distance between the audience and Cogburn that is actually rather on par for the Coens - there are no 'heros' in the Coen universe.
Perhaps that's a good thing here. Mattie in her experiences with the wild men of the old west has encountered something larger than her life on the farm could ever get her. These are men who make their own laws and are not bound to statutory codes or biblical decrees, and adapt their own law to the wilds of the frontier that surrounds them. Mattie is a confirmed church-goer with a good lawyer, and if she weren't so determined on her revenge, she would actually be impossibly small-minded and dull. This is a subtext to the novel that both films attempt to convey, but neither quite captures, because it's difficult for any film maker to admit that the central character of the story is the least interesting.
The age of such wild-men has passed. It is not that wild-men do not exist - wild-men show up quite frequently in Coen Brothers' films in contemporary settings - but now they are corrupted by moving outside the law and outside the commonplace, they grow sick and psychopathic. The killer in "Fargo" feeding the partner he's killed to a wood-chipper is as wild as one could get, but he is no longer larger than life, and evokes only the sickness at the heart of modernity, not any adaptation one would want to live with.
We look back at historical moments like those of the Old West because anything seemed possible to them, whereas very little is possible for us. But that might simply be a wishful delusion - and the Coens' clear suspicion that it is really determines the limits of what they accomplish here. They don't present the West as 'it really was,' nor do they present what we want from it, rather they present a disappointment with it. Rooster Cogburn is indeed 'larger than life,' but we wouldn't want to spend any more time with him than we do.
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Henry Hathaway directed "True Grit" in 1969, a routine western with a
memorable performance by John Wayne as bastard gunslinger Rooster
Coburn. The Coen brothers remade "True Grit" in 2010. That film went on
to become their biggest box office hit.
Much of the new "Grit's" financial success it took over 200 million dollars at the ticket booths - had to do with the name "Rooster Cogburn" having a certain brand recognition. Indeed, polls show much of the film's box office being down to old timers visiting cinemas in droves, desperate to catch a glimpse of the new John Wayne. Cogburn himself is, like Dirty Harry and Paul Kersey, the kind of vengeful, idiotic, super right-wing American hero who shoots first and asks questions later. He's the likable bastard who embodies the American desire for swift, frontier justice. It's no surprise that President Nixon adored the original "Grit" and wrote a loving letter to Wayne praising his performance. Cogburn fits Nixon's fantasy image of himself: the outlaw lawman, an American hero who righteously endures a little White Man's Burden, a little barbarism and blame so that order is restored and wrongs are made right. No surprise too that the original "Grit" was released at the height of the Vietnam War, its "shoot first, fix things later" plot tapping into a kind of cosy fascism.
So much of "Grit's" box-office seems down to nostalgic Americans looking to reconnect to some more Dirty Harry mythology. Like Scorsese's "Cape Fear", another remake which was praised by critics, became the director's highest grossing film, and which time revealed to be total crap, "Grit" perhaps also marks the point at which the Coens moved from being outsiders to insiders. No longer cult film-makers, they're now fully embraced by younger generations. Cue money, prestige and much awards.
Both "Grits" are based on a novel by Charles Portis, and both tell a fairly straightforward tale in which a young girl (Mattie) sets out to avenge the murder of her father. Seeking help she hires Rooster Cogburn - played by Jeff Bridges in this re-adaptation - a hard-drinking Federal Marshal who prides himself on his ruthlessness. By the re-adaptation's end, we learn a message typical of the western genre: an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind and revenge takes its toll on the body and the soul.
If you've seen the 1969 film, then the Coens' take is dull as hell. Virtually every scene is the same, the plot unchanged and most sequences replicated without an ounce of imagination or surprise. Whilst the Coens' remake of "The Ladykillers" was zany enough to warrant viewing, "Grit's" is a decidedly pointless affair, every scene matching Henry Hathaway's merely competent direction blow for blow.
Even if you haven't seen the 1969 film, this is a sub-par western. The Coen's fail to convincingly evoke the feel, tone and expansiveness of the West, and for a film called "True Grit" the flick is surprisingly spotless, with slick CGI towns, CGI horses, clean, well starched clothes and supremely self-conscious dialogue. Unable to conjure up novel images, the Coens, like Tarantino, also find themselves playing formalist games with words, manicuring every line of dialogue and going to pains to remove all contractions (simple folk of the era used more contractions than we do now).
Bizarrely, the Coen's "Grit" is typically treated as a "serious" and "authentic" western. But like "Fargo", "Grit" is a genre game pretending to be serious but played entirely for laughs. Portis was himself a precursor to postmodernists like the Coens and his novel was itself a work of satire, Portis formalizing western conventions to the point of absurdity. With his flamboyant and purposefully convoluted dialogue, comic business and deadpan humour, Portis took a century of Wild West writing and played prose games with the pieces. But it's been half a century since Portis, the genre now toyed with so much, and the era of sincerity long gone, that modern consumers sadly mistake the Coens' dry retelling as being earnest and Portis' prose as being canonical. But how could anyone miss Barry Pepper's deadpan mimicking of Robert Duvall (from Hathaway's film) and the film's cast of dimwits and buffoons?
More than most Coen brothers flicks, "True Grit" is very verbose, packed with long winded dialogue, a kind of hillbilly Tarantino speak (a guy falls down, says: "I am severely injured") or flowery showing off. As for Cogburn, the Coens erase Hathaway's reactionary ideology almost completely. Where Hathaway offered a traditional revenge movie, the Coens are bound to post-Vietnam genre revisionism. Mattie thus goes through a watered down version of Bill Munny's transformation in "Unforgiven", another supposedly "anti violence", "anti revenge" Western. Elsewhere the film's revenge/hunt themes are treated rather superficially (see the westerns of Budd Boetticher, Anthony Mann, even offbeat westerns like "Rancho Notorious" and "The Bravados"); Mattie looks like she stepped out of a comic-book, not a world which forged a heart of hate.
Of course Bridges is a better actor than Wayne, but his character is nevertheless less interesting and his relationship with Mattie less compelling. Wayne was shown to be violent, mean and alcoholic, but his various ruminations about his wife and past were touching and earned our sympathy. In contrast, Bridges' violence and alcoholism are undeveloped, and he earns no sympathy. He's just another Coen yokel, albeit with added screen time.
6.5/10 Reflexive cinema squared, behind its gloss this is arguably the worst Coen flick. Some great Jeff Bridges westerns: "Wild Bill" and "Bad Company". More interesting westerns: "Open Range", "Shotgun Stories", "Meek's Cutoff", "Lonestar", "Lonely are the Brave", Altman's "Buffalo Bill", "Mccabe and Mrs Miller", "Flesh and Bone" (1993), "Ride With the Devil", "Hombre", "Hud" and "The Long Riders".
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The view from this home was fantastic. We come from an area where the water is BROWN! I had several questions (as I usually do when going on vacation) and Claudia & Richard were great about answering ALL of them. The house is an older house but we had everything we needed and we were told to call if we needed anything. Needless to say, we never called. The beds and couches were very comfortable. The location was the best thing about this vacation home. It always looked crowed up and down the beach except for a few people right in front of the home. You could see the condo beach goes all crammed in their areas but never had to fight for a spot on the beach, mainly because we were always in the water. They did have plenty of chairs and umbrellas and toys for our use. The umbrellas were a bit old but we made due with a piece of rebar that was left in the garage (along with the chairs & toys). Washer & dryer are downstairs in the garage. The 2 upstairs bedrooms had their own bathroom which was great. There are only 2 TV's. One upstairs and 1 downstairs in the living rooms so we brought our own small TV and DVD player for late night movie viewing. There are no cable outlets in the bedrooms but we already knew this (thanks to Claudia). There were books everywhere so if you are a reader, no need for a TV. All kinds..you name the type, it was there. The outside shower was fantastic for rinsing off! A word of warning.....WEAR FLIP FLOPS OR SANDLES. The sand there is extremely HOT! While on deck at night, we saw people with flashlights all up and down the beach. Apparently crabs come out at night, so if you young children, bring a flashlight. There are pails in the garage. From sitting on the deck, the house to you right is obstructed by palm trees so you can't even see those people and the house on the left is farther back so it is like you are out there on your own. Plenty of chairs on the deck and a couple of loungers. We usually bring a canopy for uncovered decks but we forgot but by the early afternoon, you didn't even need it. The only grocery store is the Blue Marlin a few blocks up the road but Wal-Mart is just over the bridge. 10 minutes tops. We walked to several shops from this house. People are walking everywhere at night and we always felt safe when venturing out at night.
I would rent this home again in a heartbeat.
We were greeted right on time and when we entered the house it exceeded our expectations. The furniture in the living room was newer than in the photo and more comfortable. Very spacious and clean. The thing we really liked is that we were never nervous our kids were going to damage something and we had a 2 year with us. Only had to baby proof the cabinet under the sink. The kitchen was roomy and very well stocked, lots of spices and oil etc. We cooked a few times and had everything we needed. The rooms were average with somewhat firm mattresses but at the end of the day we slept like babies. The downstairs is narrow with a small seating area and table but suitable for sleeping and snacking. The downstairs is not accessible to the upstairs and has 2 separate entrances. Our older kids felt like they had their own place and liked that part quite a bit.
The absolute best part was the beach. It is right there down a private path over the dunes. After you watch everyone else lug their stuff from across the street down to the beach a few times you know you made the right choice. Beautiful view from the house and back patio (both levels have a large patio). Lots of lounge seating. We had a great time and both houses on either side are offset so you get the feeling you are all alone.
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The year: 1906; The man: Sri A. Subba Rao Pai; The Mission: Improving the economic conditions of the common people.
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