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Katie Holmes is leasing a $25K a month penthouse apartment in the Chelsea area of NYC, the New York Post reports. She isn't new to the neighborhood, though! Following her split from Tom Cruise three years ago, the actress rented a pad nearby, but for half the price of her current digs!
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Michelle Williams In Contract To Buy $2.45 Million Brooklyn Fixer-Upper Mansion
July 2, 2015 2:41 PM
It's not Dawson's Creek, but it will do!
Michelle Williams is in contract to buy this Brooklyn mansion for $2.45 million, Real Estalker reports. Known as "the Tara of Prospect Park South," the home definitely needs some massive renovations, but the structure itself is straight out of Gone With The Wind.
The 6,480 square-foot residence was designed by architects Robert Bryson and Charles Pratt and was built in the 1900s. It boasts 8 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, as well as wood burning fireplaces and original tile work and mantles. Design details like the grand "bridal" staircase, Corinthian columns, and the stained glass skylight make the home completely charming.
The best feature of the home is its multiple balconies and terraces, but there's not that much room in terms of land, as it sits on a mere .3 acres.
The Golden Globe winner will reside there with her daughter Matilda, 8. The blonde beauty recently parted with her other Brooklyn town home in Boerum Hill, which she sold for over a million more than the asking price! We'd say that gives her more than enough cash to polish up her new estate!
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June 30, 2015 11:35 AM
Johnny Depp has listed his gorgeous estate in Plan-de-la-Tour, France for a whopping $25 million. So what exactly does $25 million buy you? A whole lot of land (37 acres to be exact), a Pirates of the Caribbean-themed wine cellar and get this -- Dirt reports that the spread includes an entire 19th-century hameau (a small village) with more than a dozen structures.
Depp and former partner Vanessa Paradis purchased the property in in 2001, and though it's not known how much they paid for the place, they reportedly dropped $10 million to restore and update it.
The main house has approximately 4,300 square feet of living space with five bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, and the guest cottages on the property bring the total square footage to 10,376.
One of the guest houses used to be a church, and the estate has a courtyard that looks like a town square. In fact, the garage and laundry facility were designed to look like actual stores, and there is another spot that looks like a restaurant which is apparently used as a dining room. There are two pools and a full gym on the property, along with a private skate park and half-pipe.
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After selling their Hancock Park home for a record breaking $15.9 million, the former couple have listed their Aspen, Colorado estate for $9.9 million. The property spans 12.3 acres of land and it includes a main house, a guesthouse and a rustic log cabin.
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I also liked the use of piercings/jewelry. I can imagine that those would be used to signify rank or enemy kills.
I don't think they'd do that. Klingons have never worn rank insignia of any kind, since they can be trusted to be exactly the rank they say they are - it would be grossly dishonorable to lie about your rank or how many enemies you killed.
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Quick: Spent over the cap.
Projected 2015/16 Cap Space: $0-$31.6 mil, depending on the cap holds of LeBron James, Kevin Love and J.R. Smith.
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- Mid-Level Exception: $5,464,000 (in July)
- Bi-Annual Exception: $2,139,000 (in July)
- Trade Exception (Keith Bogans, expiring 9/27/15) — $635,816
- Room: $2,814,000 (in July)
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- Bird: Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Tristan Thompson (restricted), Iman Shumpert (restricted)
- Early Bird: Matt Dellavedova (restricted)
- Non-Bird: LeBron James, James Jones, Shawn Marion, Kendrick Perkins
Amnesty: Used on Baron Davis
- 6/22/15 — Opted Timofey Mozgov into the final year on his contract.
- 6/25/15 — Kevin Love opted out of the final year of his contract.
- 6/25/15 — Traded Tyus Jones (2015-24th) to Minnesota Timberwolves for Cedi Osman (2015-31st) and Rakeem Christmas (2015-36th) and a 2019 second-rounder.
- 6/25/15 — Selected Sir' Dominic Pointer with the 53rd pick in the draft.
- 6/29/15 — Tendered a qualifying offer to Iman Shumpert.
- 6/29/15 — Tendered a qualifying offer to Tristan Thompson.
- 6/29/15 — Tendered a qualifying offer to Matt Dellavedova.
- 6/29/15 — J.R. Smith opted out of the final year of his contract.
- 6/30/15 — Mike Miller opted into the final year of his contract.
- 6/30/15 — LeBron James outed out of the final year of his contract.
Waived Players: None
Unsigned Draft Picks
- First-rounders: None
- Second-rounders: Cedi Osman (2015-31st), Rakeem Christmas (2015-36th), Sir'Dominic Pointer (2015-53rd), Ilkan Karaman (2012-57th), Milan Macvan (2011-54th), Sasha Kaun (2008-56th), Ejike Ugboaja (2006-55th), Edin Bavcic (2006-56th)
Roster Count: Five guaranteed, one non-guaranteed
Depth Chart*:
PG: Kyrie Irving
SG: Joe Harris
SF: Mike Miller
C: Timofey Mozgov, Anderson Varejao, Brendan Haywood
*Note: Teams often adjust their depth chart throughout the season, sometimes game by game.
Head Coach: David Blatt (signed in 2014 for four years, up to $20 million, fourth year team option).
Basketball Executives:
- David Griffin — General Manager
Pick Swaps:
- 2016 — Owed second-rounder (top-55 protected) from Los Angeles Clippers (Rasual Butler, Alonzo Gee).
- 2016 — Owe first-rounder (top-10 protected through 2018, unprotected in 2019) to Phoenix Suns (Tyler Zeller, Isaiah Thomas).
- 2016 — Owe second-rounder to Boston Celtics (Keith Bogans).
- 2017 — Owed second-rounder (top-55 protected) from Sacramento Kings (Marquis Daniels, Keith Bogans).
- 2017 — Owe second-rounder to Boston Celtics (Keith Bogans).
- 2018 — Owe second-rounder to Philadelphia 76ers (Keith Bogans), may go to Brooklyn Nets (Andrei Kirilenko).
- 2019 — Owed second-rounder from Minnesota Timberwolves (Tyus Jones).
- 2019 — Owe second-rounder to New York Knicks (Dion Waiters).
Cash Paid ($3.3 million max): $1.3 million to Utah Jazz (John Lucas III)
Cash Received ($3.3 million max): $0
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 11:42 PM
Hi, I have had a special photo emailed to me and it is in pdf, adobe format, that you open to view. Can someone please tell me if there is a way to convert it to normal format, so i can back it up to usb drive and have it printed. I'm not sure how to do it, thankyou
Posted 01 January 2013 - 06:59 AM
I think you need adobe software to do that Im afraid. Otherwise try save as, and then use the drop down menu to select the way you want to save it. Im not sure itll work though.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 07:15 AM
Why not just print the pdf? The whole idea of pdf is that it prints as displayed. You can save the pdf to a usb drive and you should be able to get it printed in the shop, although I haven't come across many places that will let you upload a pdf for online printing.
You could also try taking a screenshot (using alt-Printscreen), then copying it into Paint or similar, cropping, then saving as a jpg.
However, you will probably lose the image quality and come up with something that won't print nicely. Really, the best option is to ask for the original image.
Often people will provide images and documents in pdf format specifically to make it difficult to copy the content and use elsewhere. Maybe it's deliberate.
Edited by KRT, 01 January 2013 - 07:24 AM.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 07:18 AM
You can copy the picture and paste it in a publisher document.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 07:39 AM
Do you have Photoshop Elements (or Photoshop)? You can open a pdf in that and save as jpg.
Other photo editing might have similar, or PS may be special since its Adobe.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 07:50 AM
I would probably take a screen shot of either just the photo or the whole thing and crop it and save as a jpg
Posted 01 January 2013 - 01:01 PM
Thanks for youre suggestions, I did actually manage to save it to a jpg. now on windows live, but the trouble it its very small, so it appears it has been compressed to sent via pdf. I havn't printed one out yet so i dont know if a 6 x 4 photo would be clear or not. I think to get a good quality image i will have to see if i can find out who took the original photo.
At its a special photo a a close family member we sadly lost recently, so id really like a copy of it.
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Thanks for youre suggestions, I did actually manage to save it to a jpg. now on windows live, but the trouble it its very small, so it appears it has been compressed to sent via pdf. I havn't printed one out yet so i dont know if a 6 x 4 photo would be clear or not. I think to get a good quality image i will have to see if i can find out who took the original photo.
At its a special photo a a close family member we sadly lost recently, so id really like a copy of it.
Hi if you'd like to send me the pdf I will see if I can extract the image as a jpeg for you in photoshop. Send me the largest version you have. PM me with the pdf attached if you'd like me to help you out. It's totally no trouble.
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2007 Copain Syrah James Berry VineyardPaso Robles more
6/15/2015 - egh Likes this wine: 94 points
14.2% alcohol. This was firing on cylinders for me this evening. Inky, penetrating, nervy, spicy, brooding, dense, powerful, and complex with an aromatic and flavor combination of blackberry, cassis/fig, melted black licorice, pepper and a menthol/medicinal note. The wine's structure and stuffing is still apparent on the long, gripping, and saturating finish. Terrific wine that is certainly worth a look now if you are sitting on multiple bottles. Be aware this throws quite a bit of sediment.
2010 Copain Pinot Noir Combe de Gres KiserAnderson Valley more
2/28/2015 - Frank Murray III wrote: NR
Forgive the twisted image (inside CT, as I tried to fix it but it loaded sideways, dang it). Drank from 375, opened earlier today. For clarity, this is a special, grafted massale section of Kiser, a sandstone block that is between so to speak between Haut and Bas. It mixes black cherry, blueberry skin and dried cherry all together, with a kiss of vanilla from what I presume is some new oak (I believe the Kiser pinots typically see about 1/3rd new wood). I drank both a 2012 and 2013 Rhys Bearwallow in the past few weeks and this Copain reminds me very much of that wine, most especially with the cherry fruit. What that signals to me is the terroir signature that is beginning to emerge from the best wines from the Deep End pinots, from like Copain and Rhys. And this Copain is 2010, yet that whiz bang great cherry core came from later vintages of Rhys so my conclusion is that we ought to expect the wines to continue to show and reflect this terrific fruit quality across vintages. With respect to this Copain, as it warms, the signature Kiser blue fruit comes forward and there is a decent amount of tannin in the finish that should allow this to age forward. Finally, good acidity here, which energizes the fruit and finish. I'd say this will drink best in another few years, say 2016/2017. I would be geeked to try it against the Rhys Bear, say in a vintage that was lean like 2011, and then with 2013. Very good.
2007 Copain Pinot Noir "En Bas" KiserAnderson Valley more
12/28/2014 - egh Likes this wine: 93 points
13.5% alcohol. Pure, controlled, focused, precise, balanced, and refined with a core of tart yet juicy red fruits - cherry pit, raspberry, and red apple - along with notions of exotic spices, flowers, and a hint of caramel/oak. Beautiful finish that lingers effortlessly. Terrific wine.
2011 Rivers-Marie Pinot Noir Sonoma Coastmore
9/13/2014 - Frank Murray III wrote: NR
No delay here, as I chilled this down a bit and then pulled the cork and started typing this note. As I look at the note from EGH below, he's called this wine spot on. There's a sappiness to the wine, yet an underpinning of cranberry and blueberry, pine needle and a similar meaty note that I flagged on the last note I wrote for the previous bottle I had. Juicy and and a bit astringent, at least with this shortage of air but the fruit does jam up a bit more when it gets a little warmer, more air. Very good, still young and I expect this can continue to age well and develop further.
2009 Copain Chardonnay Brosseau VineyardChalone more
6/14/2014 - Frank Murray III wrote: NR
Chardonnay Blind--CA and France @ Tom Moore's Place (Tom's House): This didn't wow like I hoped it might. Tasted blind, Smoky, nutty nose. Lemon, fleshy, orange oil. Honeyed with moderate intensity.
2012 Copain Chardonnay Brosseau VineyardChalone more
4/23/2014 - Frank Murray III wrote: NR
These came last month so it's a good time to test one out and I'll go first. Listed alc is 13.4% FWIW. This drinks solid and very much to this site's expression via Wells, showing light saline notes, alongside yellow apple, lime and a light note of citrus. At this stage, nothing is out of place and the wine is in good balance. Plenty of acidity in the finish but like the fruit, it's relative to the wines medium weight. No wood, glycerine or tropical notes here, just a balanced chard that drinks pretty terrific right now with an hour of air....at 3 hours open, this is really delicious. The texture expands and the palate becomes broader, with orange rind, lime and some wet stone. This is really a balanced and spot on....I had some left for a 2nd day. This picks up a honeyed, pear quality that really makes it shine, to go with the mandarin orange. Fault me for opening this wine so early but unless we get corks out of these chardonnays to create discussion and support producers that are removing the oak, butter and glycerine, then we'll be stuck with those other wines being in focus. For me, the style like this Brosseau and others like it are where I am putting my chardonnay focus these days. Drink window? Hell, this can be enjoyed now but there is acid and balance that ought to allow this to age for some time.
2007 Littorai Chardonnay Charles Heintz VineyardSonoma Coast more
7/4/2013 - egh wrote: 87 points
13.7% alcohol. Shows similar to the 2007 The Tributary I had a few months earlier with its lavish, richer, rounder mouthfeel and denser, fuller proportions. With this Charles Heintz however, I found the fruit tending too far to the tropical end of the spectrum and the oak signature (manifested in creamy custard, butterscotch, and roasted nut aromatics and flavors) to be too pronounced on the palate, to the point where signs/attributes of freshness, energy, focus, or minerality were cloaked/obtruded by the fruit and oak. Wondering if these 2007 Littorai chardonnay's are in a 'dumb' phase, or if this is simply a reflection/product of the vintage.
2011 Copain Chardonnay Brosseau VineyardChalone more
3/30/2013 - Frank Murray III wrote: NR
Pulled this tonight to pair with ahi tartare and tabbouleh--@R and Kitchen in the OC for those who know the place. Showed terrific. Sea air, snappy green apple, lemon peel and a hint of grapefruit. The texture is smooth and the finish has a nice, spicy note. Pure and delicious, no butter, coconut or vanilla here. Have a good size glass for tomorrow, for a final note...a day later, about 6 ozs left so doing a repeat glass tonight. Seems a little tighter today, the wine have evoled to some different flavors, with dry pineapple in the fruit core this time, along with a good dollop of pear. Finishes with more mineral tonight too, and the same spicy note in the finish and the sea air. This is a really good chardonnay and continues the progression started from 2009, the first release. As a final comment, for those who buy and drink the Louis Michel chablis, this Copain reminds me similarly of what some of his cuvees show, similar profile. Real good.
2010 Rivers-Marie Chardonnay B. Thieriot VineyardSonoma Coast more
1/19/2013 - egh wrote: 91 points
Moderately proportioned with a crisp and invigorating spine of acidity, and more linear and precise than round in terms of its texture and orientation with aromas and flavors of lemon curd, tropical fruit, and roasted nuts with just a kiss of butter/oak. A very successful effort. With that said, based on the aging curve/trajectory of previous vintages, I would opt to drink this over the near term.
2009 Lemelson Vineyards Pinot Noir Thea's SelectionWillamette Valley more
5/20/2012 - egh wrote: 87 points
14.5% alcohol. Stylistically, this is to the riper, sweeter, juicier, rounder, and fleshier side of the pinot spectrum with notions of wild dark berry preserves, red currants, black cherries, spice, and just a trace of heat.


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It didn't take long for Tyrus Capital to get in trouble, but it has taken the hedge fund until now to resolve it.
The Monaco-based firm, the largest European hedge fund launch of 2009, has agreed to pay almost US$5 million to settle market fraud allegations in Brazil. The 10 million real settlement closes the Comissão de Valores Mobiliáros' probe into a "fraudulent operation" at Tyrus.
That operation came in November 2009, just six months after the firm launched its maiden hedge fund with US$800 million. Brazilian regulators had focused on Tyrus' stake in telecommunications company GVT—which accounted for almost the entire Tyrus Capital Event Fund, launched that month, and which was used to help Vivendi take control of GVT.
According to the CVM, Tyrus knew of Vivendi's plans almost a week before they became public.
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I absolutely loved this movie. Ice Age is an animation that I have easily seen 5 times, and have not been bored once. I love watching animation movies, but sometimes they really let you down. Not with Ice Age though. I would really recommend you see this, if you haven't already.
I like the story line and the way they break it up with another characters story. Overall a fun movie to watch, whenever, wherever.


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Github is a good thing.
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Tributes: Carlos Fuentes
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Carlos Fuentes had a rich life in politics – and was the Mexican ambassador to France at one point in the late 70s. But his heart belonged to writing. His novel, Gringo Viejo, or, The Old Gringo, was made into a movie in 1989, starring Gregory Peck. A contemporary of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he himself returned to magical realism in his last novel, Destiny and Desire, which was set in modern Mexico. He just died at the age of 83. And you can hear his interview with Leonard from January 2011, in which he discussed Destiny and Desire, and his life in, and out of literature.
Tributes: Maurice Sendak
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Maurice Sendak was best known for his books that he wrote for children, including Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and The Sign on Rosie's Door, which created worlds where the regular rules did not apply, bad things could happen, and the characters were often bossy and sometimes unpleasant. While his genre-bending books were sometimes criticized by adults, they have been loved by generations of children. He died this week at the age of 83, and you can listen to his 1992 interview with Leonard Lopate.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
It's somehow fitting that Dick Clark seemed to defy the ravages of time – since he hosted the long-running show, "American Bandstand," which helped bring rock'n'roll into the mainstream. He also hosted the annual televised New Year's Eve party every year since 1973 until 2004 – with a break for a stroke – but then continued in some capacity until this past December. He died at the age of 82. But he still lives on – through the magic of video and radio – including Leonard's interview with him from May of 1997.


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Your toddler's love of the stairs can be used to teach all sorts of new skills such as counting and opposites (up and down). This singing game teaches about musical pitch.
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Skills developed: co-ordination, hearing
What you'll need: a staircase
What to do: Start at the bottom stair. As you stand on it with your toddler, sing the very lowest note you can. Now move up a step together and raise your voice by a single note. Keep going until you reach the top of the staircase. (If it is a long staircase you may be emitting a high pitched squeal by this time). Then turn around and come down the staircase, starting at your highest note and working your way down as you move down the stairs. You can make up your own lyrics for this game if you are feeling creative, but your toddler will be perfectly happy with just "La la la".
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The resolution to the War in the Pacific in 1945 threw a wholly new anxiety onto the shoulders of the world: the heretofore impossible spectre of actual global annihilation. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki culminated a trend begun with The Great War. In that first conflict, the "Christian Century" of infinite moral progress was crushed beneath the violence of technological warfare predicted by the likes of H.G. Wells, George Tomkyns Chesney, and the other writers of doomsday invasion stories. Often they predicted an apocalyptic outcome to the oncoming war, but humanity's execution was blessedly stayed in 1919. Even with advances in tank, aeroplane and explosive technologies, truly obliterating humanity was beyond humanity's power.
Then along came The Bomb.
To make the situation that much more dire, the end of the War in Europe also furnished a new and powerful opponent. No sooner were Germany and Japan brought to heel than the Soviet Union filled the vacuum, being a more expansive and more horrific regime than the two villains of World War II combined. Furthermore, Stalin also possessed The Bomb and, under Khrushchev, the animosity between the USSR and the USA nearly led to Armageddon. While both sides built up their capacity for mutually assured destruction, proxy wars were held in Southeast Asia and in the ideological realm of outer space.
Our ability to smash atoms and potential to harness them for a new technological age, as well as the Space Race and its naive utopian promises, formed the perfect backdrop for what would later be recognized as the Golden Age of Science Fiction in film. The Great War that closed out the Victorian-Edwardian Era also closed out the genre of Scientific Romances; stories of adventure in far-flung places that shared the thrill of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and colonial exploration to a pre-film society, written by the likes of Jules Verne, Garrett P. Serviss, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Camille Flammarion, Edward Everett Hale, and Edward Ellis. Between the wars, the only books of Verne's that were adapted to film were his spy adventures like Michael Strogoff, with a solitary exception in 1929's The Mysterious Island that had more in common with its own time period than Verne's original novel. Science Fiction, properly speaking, took over during the interwar period, in everything from serious meditations on how science and technology may affect society in such works as Metropolis (1927) and Things to Come (1936) down to the Pulpy action-adventure of Flash Gordon (1936) and The Phantom Empire (1935). This nascent realm of Art Deco and radium transformed into the world of Googie and the atom after the Second World War.
Nevertheless, people old enough to beget the Baby Boom were themselves old enough to remember those years before the First World War, or remember the stories told by their own parents. The Gay Nineties resurged as a reassuring nostalgia in film and places like Disneyland. One user of the Tiki Central forum referred to Tiki lounge culture as the "emotional bomb shelters of the Atomic Age," and the same could be said of retreat into bygone days of bustled ladies in feathered hats and suffragette sashes, men in seersucker and handlebar moustaches, horseless carriages, pennyfarthing bicycles, Queen Anne revival architecture, barbershop quartets, and marching bands playing in town square. The authors of the Victorian-Edwardian Era came along with it. In particular, those writers of Scientific Romances became suitable for reinterpretation as modern Science Fiction.
The first film of the time period to retread the Scientific Romances of the Victorian Era was The War of the Worlds in 1953. It did, however, make a fundamental break with its source material. This alien invasion from the planet Mars took place in the present day of the early Fifties. The powers of the invaders were suitably enhanced, the flying machines described only briefly by Wells became their chief technology in Technicolor. It was notable for having demonstrated that there was still life to breathe into those tales from half a century before.
The biggest gamble was taken by Walt Disney in creating The Mightiest Motion Picture of Them All. Disney's studios had been trying for some time to film a wholly live-action feature after reaching Hollywood's heights with animation. So Dear to My Heart, a conceptual sequel to Song of the South, was intended to be live-action, but the security blanket of animation was grasped at the last second. On the other side of the Atlantic, Disney used up funds frozen in England during the war to film its first live-action features in British studios. Treasure Island, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, The Sword and the Rose and Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue were sufficiently successful that they prompted Disney to finally take the plunge and build a soundstage for a Hollywood production.
A suitable subject was hunted down. Through the mists of Walt's boyhood, a single name was lit upon: Jules Verne. Disney took the zeitgeist of atomic anxiety and the potential of adapting Scientific Romances to bring 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to theatres. A new soundstage was built on the Disney lot to accommodate the full-size deck of the ship designed by Harper Goff. Unlike War of the Worlds, the conscious decision was made to retain the mid-Nineteenth Century setting of the novel. Though Verne's literary Nautilus was a sleek, hydrodynamic vessel, Goff's was cast-iron and rivets to put the exclamation point on this being a Victorian submarine. This choice to set it 100 years in the past helped to provide a safe ideological distance from which to discuss the pressing concern of atomic power, which forms the philosophical underpinning of the film. The original style might also have been a little too close to the design of the USS Nautilus: the world's first nuclear submarine, launched in 1954. Still, Disney couldn't have bought publicity that good.
Disney trusted his instincts as a filmmaker, altering the novel substantially. It's worth keeping in mind that Verne has suffered from notoriously poor English translations, and the translation that Disney was working off of would have itself been missing about 20% of the original material. The film slimmed it down even more, though it did retain that key sense of wonder that is ultimately what the novel is about. Many scenes were excised that would have made for a phenomenal film in their own right, such as a trip to Atlantis that was, ironically, used for both Walt Disney World's and Tokyo Disneysea's 20,000 Leagues attractions. Robust characters portrayed by charismatic actors James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre and Paul Lukas carried a fairly standard "jail break" plot against a high-stakes philosophical backdrop about how ultimate power should be used. It also had a song and a funny animal, and it was a major hit. Disney has gotten mileage out of 20,000 Leagues for decades, from cinematic re-releases to comic books to children's records to theme park attractions in Disneyland and Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disneysea. It has surfaced again most recently as a drink at the new Trader Sam's Grog Grotto bar in Walt Disney World's Polynesian Village Resort (pulling together two "emotional bomb shelters" in one). It also inaugurated the rehabilitation of Jules Verne and Scientific Romances.
It no doubt helped that Verne's work officially entered the public domain in the early Fifties. Here was an author that Disney proved was bankable, and his works were available at no cost! The next to exploit this fact was Michael Todd, whose 1956 adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture for that year, beating out the likes of The Ten Commandments and The King and I. Not an Atomic Age Sci-Fi film, Todd's Around the World in 80 Days still interpreted Verne's globe-trotting adventure in epic form. To wrangle over 40 listed Hollywood stars for cameo appearances and to film on location everywhere from the bull rings of Spain to the the Great Buddha of Kamakura was a major feat in itself. Around the World in 80 Days was a huge Hollywood event and Todd treated it as such, from the film's introduction by Edward R. Murrow to a first anniversary party in Madison Square Garden. Despite, or even because, it is not a Sci-Fi film, Around the World in 80 Days is one of the best films from a Hollywood studio at the time to capture the true essence of Verne's books. What differentiated Scientific Romances from Science Fiction, and Jules Verne's books in particular from what would come later, was their romantic, pedagogical quality that captured the imagination with both a stirring adventure plot and an educational foray into the wilderness and cultures of far-flung, exotic places. In the words of his publisher, Jules Hetzel, Verne's purpose was "to outline all the geographical, geological, physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and picturesque format...the history of the universe."
The decade rounded out with two more Verne adaptations: From the Earth to the Moon in 1958 and Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1959. The former ponderously belaboured the theme and threat of atomic power, without any notable attempt at levity and only a slight romance. The latter hewed more closely to Disney and Todd, including a funny animal, a song by teen idol Pat Boone and hiring James Mason for his second dance with Verne. Journey is one of the more entertaining of the period and has a wonderfully idealistic moral about the progress of science and the adventure of discovery. Fans of the genre often joke that there is a difference between Science Fiction and Anti-Science Fiction, and Journey to the Center of the Earth has a nuanced, positive view towards what science is and how it is performed, amidst trick photography of pet iguanas in rubber frills.
Trailer for Journey to the Center of the Earth.
H.G. Wells did not rear up again until 1960 with an adaptation of The Time Machine. As Wells was not in public domain at the time (and his novels considerably more pessimistic in general), he was not as fertile a source for films. His heyday was between the wars, with The Invisible Man (1933), Island of Lost Souls (1932), and Things to Come. The only other adaptation of his work from this time - First Men in the Moon - came out in 1964. Between them was a golden year in 1961. Growing legions of children infatuated with Verne were treated to Master of the World starring Vincent Price, Ray Harryhausen's The Mysterious Island, Valley of the Dragons (adapting Off on a Comet), Flight of the Lost Balloon (adapting Five Weeks in a Balloon) and the American import of Czech auteur Karel Zeman's astonishing 1958 artistic masterpiece The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, as well as George Pal's comparable historical fantasy Atlantis, The Lost Continent. A properly-titled adaptation of Five Weeks in a Balloon came out the following year, along with Disney's In Search of the Castaways. Never since has Verne's name meant so much. It was so substantive that when the 1954 Japanese Atomic horror film Gojira was brought to America in 1956 as Godzilla, the trailer declared it to be "more fantastic than any [tale] written by Jules Verne!"
By 1961/62, the formula of Disney's 20,000 Leagues was tested, approved and casting its long shadow. Master of the World, written by Richard Matheson, regurgitated the same plot of unwilling captives on the craft of a genius waging war against war but did so more convincingly than Disney despite the much poorer budget. Whereas Disney's Nemo was driven by conventional revenge, Matheson's aeronaut Robur was a true political visionary ultimately at war within himself. Harryhausen basically replicated Goff's Nautilus for Mysterious Island, which served as an unofficial sequel to Disney's film. This Nemo, played by Herbert Lom, has decided to attack the causes of war rather than the machinery of it, by genetically engineering gigantic crops and livestock to satisfy humankind's hunger for resources. Irwin Allen's Five Weeks in a Balloon had the inventor, a funny animal, a teen idol, a song, several love interests, Peter Lorre, and stock footage of Africa. In Search of the Castaways dispensed with the seriousness in favour of outlandish family musical adventure with Haley Mills and Maurice Chevalier. It was as much a film in keeping with Verne's popularity as it was an heir to Disney's Swiss Family Robinson and Pollyanna (both 1960) and preamble to Mary Poppins (1964).
Such an incredible span of only a few years ultimately served as a climax. Harryhausen supplied the second Wells adventure in 1964 and Vincent Price returned in War-Gods of the Deep in 1965. Diverging and deferring to Verne's idol, Edgar Allen Poe, War-Gods was part of the chain of horror films vehicles for Price that were produced by American International Pictures. The studio enjoyed a great deal of success with the collaboration between Price, Poe and Roger Corman, including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964). War-Gods of the Deep allowed them to parley the cachet of Verne-type films into their Poe cycle, melding the wonder of the Scientific Romance with the rich atmosphere of Gothic Horror (despite it's visibly low budget). A similar film to AIP's Poe series, and starring Vincent Price, was United Artists' Twice-Told Tales (1963). This time based on the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, two of its three anthologized segments feature science gone awry.
More notable in 1965 were a pair of "caper" comedies, stemming from the same tradition as 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Blake Edwards, recently enjoying acclaim for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and The Pink Panther (1963), directed The Great Race starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Jack Lemmon. The Great Race, based on an actual auto-rally in 1908, was a studious homage to silent films but is dated far more for its awkward gender-based humour. It was also, unintentionally, the most expensive comedy made to that point, tallying up a cool $12 million (approximately $90 million today). Worse yet, it was a critical and commercial flop at its time. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, directed by Ken Annakin and based very loosely on a 1910 air race from London to Paris (using real working aeroplanes), fared much better with a larger share of the box office and more positive acclaim. An additional British farce was released in 1967, titled Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon. Diverging greatly from the eponymous Verne novel in its plot but not its satirical tone, Rocket to the Moon centres on P.T. Barnum (played by Burl Ives) and his attempt to dodge creditors by commissioning a rocket expedition around the moon. Lionel Jefferies (First Men in the Moon) and Terry-Thomas (Those Magnificent Men) were cast as the bumbling villains, and Gert Fröbe (also of Those Magnificent Men) played the also-bumbling explosives expert whose genius would make the launch possible. Jefferies and Fröbe would go on to star in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang alongside Dick Van Dyke, a conceptual follow-up to Mary Poppins released in 1968. Set in the Edwardian Era, based on a book by Ian "James Bond" Fleming, with a script co-written by Roald Dahl and music by the Sherman Brothers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang somehow never quite caught the same fire as its Disney predecessor (no doubt because Walt Disney was not at its helm).
Trailer for Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.
While audiences of 1965 had to go to theatres to see spectacles like Those Magnificent Men, they could see another variation on the Scientific Romance right at home. In that year, The Wild Wild West television series debuted on CBS. Satirizing and paying homage to Western TV shows and the "Spy-Fi" genre, Robert Conrad played the American Secret Service agent Jim West who worked with the inventor Artemis Gordon to protect the Union from dastardly, moustache-twirling villains in the years following the Civil War. Unfortunately it was cancelled after four seasons, not for any notable lapse in quality or ratings, but as a concession to concerns over television violence in the wake of the assassinations of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. James Bond had already come to define the Spy-Fi genre by the mid-Sixties (and The Wild Wild West was sold as "James Bond on horseback"), but perhaps the most Spy-Fi show was England's The Avengers. Beginning in 1961, series lead John Steed - played by the recently deceased Patrick Macnee - evolved into the archetypal Saville Row, bowler-hatted, Neo-Edwardian English gentleman that re-emerged after World War II. One of the arguably best TV shows ever produced - The Twilight Zone - also dipped into the Victorian setting periodically, in such episodes as the Buster Keaton time-travel comedy Once Upon a Time and the examination of modern angst and nostalgia escapism titled A Stop at Willoughby.
The first episode of The Wild Wild West.
On the dark side of the Iron Curtain, the mantle of Vernian film was picked up by Karel Zeman, whose first film in the series was his aforementioned Fabulous World of Jules Verne, released in Czechoslovakia in 1958 as The Deadly Invention. Prior to this, he filmed Journey to Prehistory in 1955 (released in the West as Journey to the Beginning of Time in 1966) which was based loosely on the little-known 1915 Russian "lost world" novel Plutonia and the prehistory paintings of Czech artist Zdeněk Burian. Fabulous World was an adaptation of Verne's Facing the Flag but drew its biggest inspiration from Édouard Riou's engraved illustrations for Verne's novels. Zeman employed every style of animation and special effect known at the time to achieve this look, to dazzling result. He resumed the style in 1961's Baron Munchausen, which took the German character and mixed him in with Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne. For Baron Munchausen, Zeman took to the style of Riou's teacher, Gustave Doré, who did illustrate a volume of Rudolf Erich Raspe's Baron Munchausen. His final two Verne adaptations came in 1967 with an ode to children's imagination in The Stolen Airship and 1970 with On the Comet.
The last American film that could be said to fall within this time frame is Ray Harryahusen's 1969 Weird Western The Valley of Gwangi. The concept originally came from Willis O'Brien, as one of his many ill-fated potential follow-ups to King Kong. As realized by Harryhausen, it features cowboys down in Mexico attempting to rope stop-motion dinosaurs for a travelling circus. It was also Harryahusen's final film involving prehistoric life. The era was finally closed out by the 1969 British film Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (released in the US in 1970). Though miscast and a decade late, this production did have some good ideas and an underlying question of whether Captain Nemo's utopian dreams ever could translate into a functional society.
Trailer for Captain Nemo and the Underwater City.
After Gwangi, The Underwater City and the Summer of Love, atomic anxiety began to mellow out. The world came close to annihilation in 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis and thereafter proxy wars became the preferred field of combat. Lydon B. Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War was reaching its bloody climax and the Space Race effectively ended with the moon landing in 1969. At home, new social movements and a broadening idea of justice began to emerge, including the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, American Indian Movement and Native American rights, Second Wave feminism, the Sexual Revolution, Stonewall, the anti-war movement, and the wake of Vatican II. Cinema moved on to the very serious, de-romanticized space of spectacles like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Once more Jules Verne - or what had been made of him and his kin during the Atomic Age of Sci-Fi - had become outdated.