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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jan 17, 2008
|Filing date
|Jul 17, 2007
|Priority date
|Jul 12, 2001
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Theodore Bowers, Dean Ilijasic, Shelley Sanders
|Original Assignee
|Jpmorganchase Bank, N.A.
|Export Citation
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|Referenced by (4), Classifications (10)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to a method for providing customers with transparent access to information from various partnered service providers while maintaining an environment of a single service provider.
Various service providers often form business alliances or partnerships in which one service provider will "brand" its services to match the appearance or message of a partner's service. An example of such a relationship is branded credit cards, which are issued by one service provider, but are branded to present the name or logo of another service provider. In such a relationship, the two service providers typically operate within related, but non-overlapping market sectors. The partnership provides mutual benefits to both service providers, because whenever a customer uses the branded services, both partners are involved in the transaction, and the customer can be said to be using both services in unison. In addition, branded services bolster customer loyalty to both service providers.
Service providers are increasingly turning to the Internet, or World Wide Web ("Web"), as an additional outlet for providing their services. In the Internet context, a customer of the service provider accesses the service provider's services using a networked computer. The customer typically must "log in" to a service provider's system by submitting login data (usually a user name and password) to verify the customer's identity. If the user name and password are approved, then the customer may access the service provider's system resources during the ensuing login session. The login session ends after the customer stops using the resources for a predetermined period of time, or when the customer triggers a "log off."
A customer of one Internet-based service provider may wish to access resources provided by a second Internet-based service provider. In the context of the Web, the service providers host websites (also called "sites," "web pages," or simply "pages") that present an easily accessible user interface between a user and the service provider. The current inter-page access model is to "jump" from one service provider's website to the next using graphically selected hyperlinks, by typing a destination site, or by other means. Each different provider typically requires a different login data set, so in order to switch from one provider to another, the customer must enter the login data associated with the next provider. This can be a cumbersome process, as the customer must memorize or record many different sets of login data.
Several methods are known for reducing the inconvenient process of logging in to multiple service providers. These systems allow the customer to operate within a "Single Sign On" (SSO) environment. The SSO provides "seamless" or "transparent" access between Internet resources wherein the customer only has to log in once to access all of the service providers with which he has an account. Once logged in, the customer may jump from website to website without having to re-enter login information.
The SSO's provided by the prior art use a traditional inter-page access model, in which a user of one page simply jumps from one website to the next without experiencing any inter-site interconnectivity. Although each website may have related or similar-looking pages, each separate website may have differences in appearance and functionality. Under the current inter-page access model, the content of one service provider's website is typically uninfluenced by and unrelated to the content of previously visited service providers' websites. This is typically true even when the service providers have a business partnership. This type of inter-page access is "non-discriminatory" in that when a customer requests a second web page, neither the owner of the first web page nor the owner of the second web page discriminates whether there is a relationship between the first and second web page owners.
A drawback with the current non-discriminatory inter-page access system is that it can have a negative impact on business partnerships. For example, a customer may have a credit card that is provided by a bank, but that is branded with the markings of a stock broker as part of a business relationship between the bank and the stock broker. In addition, the bank and the stock broker may each have an Internet website. When the customer accesses the stock broker's website to make a stock transaction, he or she may wish to check his stock broker-branded credit card account. Using conventional inter-page access, when the customer rag accesses the bank's website the customer will see an entirely different web page, which may not appear to be affiliated with the stock broker at all. This lack of brand continuity can weaken the customer's inclination to use the two service providers in unison, and may lead to customer confusion.
Conventional SSO systems do nothing to solve this problem. Although there is continuity of access between the websites, which is provided by the SSO system, there is a discontinuity between the service providers because the branded relationship between the two service providers does not exist in the web context.
In addition to weakening the customer's brand association and loyalty, non-discriminatory inter-page access between service providers can also directly interfere with business partnerships by providing conflicting services to customers. A central service provider may have a partnership with many partner service providers that compete against one another in the same market. To continue with the above example, a single credit card issuer may offer various stock broker-branded credit cards pursuant to partnerships with several competing stock brokers. The credit card issuer may wish to advertise the availability of all of these different stock broker-branded credit cards to potential customers on its website. When a customer accesses the credit card issuer's website by way of a link on his selected stock broker's website, he will see advertisements for the services of competing stock brokers. An individual stock broker would be opposed to presenting advertisements for its competitors' services to customers who have already become affiliated with that stock broker, and this would create a disincentive to enter into a business partnership with the credit card provider. Although such advertising may be beneficial to the credit card provider, it would, in effect, facilitate competition between the various stock brokers, which may strain the business relationship between the partnered companies.
The problems presented by the traditional inter-page access model increase as the complexity of the business partnerships increases. These problems also increase as users of various service providers employ SSO systems to obtain seamless access to various service providers. In the developing environment of the Internet, users may become less loyal to partnered groups of services because these partnerships are very hard to distinguish. Other problems with conventional inter-site access and SSO systems exist.
It would therefore be desirable to provide a system and method of providing discriminated system resources to users of multiple partners' systems, and to provide other improvements.
The present invention addresses these and other problems caused by traditional non-discriminatory access to multiple service providers and other systems and methods of Internet access. The present invention, in one regard, provides a method and system for providing discriminated system resources to a user during a single login session.
The system and method of the present invention help maintain continuity of appearance and message between visited websites, provide a secure connection between websites, and assist in fostering business partnerships.
In an embodiment of the present invention, a partner system receives a request to access system resources that are provided by the partner system from a host system, which is being used by a user who has logged in to the host system. In addition to this request, the partner system receives host system data and user data. Using the received data, the partner system identifies the host system and the user and determines whether access to the partner system resources is authorized. If access is authorized, then the partner system selects discriminated partner system resources that are associated with the particular host and the particular user and transmits those resources to the host system, the user, or both the host system and the user.
Various techniques for selecting discriminated partner system resources may be used with the present invention. In one embodiment, the partner system identifies the user's partner system account information, selects a predetermined web page that is associated with the host system, and integrates these into a discriminated host system resource. In another embodiment, the partner system modifies an existing web page to create a new discriminated web page which imitates the graphical appearance of the host system's web page and incorporates information that does not conflict with the host's business into the discriminated host system resource.
In a second method, the host system receives user data, such as a user name and password, from a user and determines whether the user is authorized to use the host system. If the user is authorized to use the host system, the host system provides the user with host system resources. The host system resources include an option to access partner system resources, which may be in the form of a hyperlink. When the user requests access to partner system resources, the host system transmits some or all of the user data to the partner system, along with host data that uniquely identifies the host.
The partner system then transmits the partner system resources to the host system. If the partner system resources are discriminated, then the host system forwards them to the user. If the partner system resources are not discriminated, then the host system discriminates the partner system resources according to the host's requirements before sending them to the user. Such discrimination may be in the form of adding, removing, or manipulating information that is being provided by the partner system.
A system is also provided for carrying out the above methods. The system comprises instructions for carrying out the steps of the methods of the invention.
The present invention may be better understood when described in conjunction with the following exemplary figures:
The present invention provides discriminated system resources to a user. In general, a user accesses a system provided by one of two or more partnered entities, then requests to access information or resources provided by another of the partnered entities. At this point, the partner through which the user makes this request becomes the host. These resources may include any information transmitted over a communication network, such as financial information, advertising, special offers, news items, press releases, hyperlinks, or any other information or promotional material related to a user, host, partner or third party. In addition, the specific resources sought by the user may comprise only a portion of the total resources that will be made available to the user as a result of the request.
These resources supplied by the partners are discriminated. Discrimination is performed supplementing, modifying, filtering, or otherwise selectively retrieving resources to support and bolster the business relationship between the partners and provide other benefits to the partners, a user, third parties, or all of these entities. Different criteria for discrimination may be used between each pair of partners. For example, one partner, when acting as a host, may discriminate against advertisements for goods or services competing with that partner's services, but allow other information to be provided in an unmodified form. Discrimination may also include modifying the partner system resources to comport with the host system's requirements. For example, the partner system resources may be "branded," either by the partner or the host, so that they appear to be provided by the host system. This may be accomplished by using specific color schemes, text fonts, by incorporating specific graphical images or by other means.
The invention is generally described in terms of an Internet-based credit card provider partnered with several other Internet-based service providers. However, it should be appreciated that this embodiment is exemplary only and that the invention is applicable in any situation where an Internet-based entity wishes to maintain continuity of appearances with a partnered Internet-based entity. "Partner" herein means any entity that provides goods or -services by means of a communication network, and that is in a business relationship with other partner entities. "User" herein means any entity that is a consumer or user of the goods or services provided by more than one partner. When a user accesses the services of a partner, that partner becomes the "host" for the ensuing login session relative to any partners accessed directly from that "host." Thus "host" and "partner" are relative terms, and a host in one situation may be a partner in another situation, depending on which partner the user accesses first. A partner to one host may also be a host relative to any partners accessed through that partner's system. For clarity, a single partner system has been selected as an exemplary host, and another single partner has been selected as an exemplary partner, however this is not intended to limit the present invention. Herein, a "system" means any means for accessing and communicating through a communication network, storing information, or maintaining system resources.
Also, for illustration purposes only, the invention is described in terms of the existing Internet. It should be appreciated, however, that the present invention could be implemented through a variety of networks such as a telephone network, a satellite or cellular connection network, an electro-optical network, or any other communication network. The skilled artisan will also recognize that the invention could be implemented in variations of networks, such as the so-called Internet Protocol Next Generation (IPng) or any other variations of networked packet-switched or other technology.
The methods of this invention may be embodied into a system. Such a system may use suitable computer systems or combinations of computer hardware and computer software. As indicated herein, a system of the present invention may be practiced using a networked communication system.
Those skilled in the art should appreciate that computer-operable programs defining the methods and functions described herein can be delivered to a computer in many forms; including, but not limited to: (a) information permanently stored on non-writable storage media (e.g., read only memory devices within a computer or CD-ROM disks readable by a computer I/O attachment); (b) information alterably stored on writable storage media (e.g., floppy disks and hard drives); or (c) information conveyed to a computer through communication media such as telephone networks. It should be understood, therefore, that such media, when carrying such information, represent alternate embodiments of the present invention.
The system resources provided by the host system 110 and the partner systems 114 may be any information that is useful to the host, partner, or user. In one embodiment, these resources comprise information such as financial information regarding the users of the user systems 114. In another embodiment of the invention, these resources comprise non-financial information such as news, advertisements, and graphical information. In yet another embodiment, these resources comprise incentive reward information, such as frequent flyer mile account data. These resources may also be a combination of the above embodiments, and may include other information. Each partner system 114 and host system 110 may store these resources on its own system, or on other systems to which it has access.
In one embodiment, the host system 110 is an Internet website maintained by a partner that may be a provider of services or goods, such as a stock brokerage, and the partner systems 114 are websites maintained by business partners of the host who may be providers of related goods or services, such as a credit card provider that offers credit cards branded with the host's logo. Internet websites are generally known in the art, and a skilled artisan will be able to implement such websites in conjunction with the present invention.
Referring now to
Before providing partner system resources to the host system 110, the partner system 114 receives host system data 204. The partner system 114 uses the host system data to identify the host 206 so that the correct discriminated partner system resources may be transmitted to the host system 110 of the user system 112.
The host system data may be also used for additional purposes. In one embodiment of the invention, the partner system 114 uses the host system data to determine whether the entity accessing the partner system 114 is an authorized host 208. This verification process prevents unauthorized access, use, or manipulation of the partner system resources. In one embodiment, the partner system 114 receives host system data 204 from the host system 110, with which the partner system 114 can positively identify the host system 206. For example, the host system 110 may send an identification code to the partner system 114, which the partner system 114 compares to a database of host identifiers. As another example, the host system 110 may access the partner system 114 through a portal designated specifically for use by that host system 110, in which case the partner system 114 identifies all communications through that portal as being from a particular business host. The partner system 114 may also require independent verification of the host system's identity before proceeding. Such verification systems are known in the art, and a skilled artisan will be able to implement a verification system without undue experimentation. If the partner system 114 fails to identify the host system 110 as an authorized host, then the partner system 114 will not transmit partner system resources and may transmit an error message 210.
The partner system 114 also receives user data 208. The partner system 114 uses the user data to identify the user 214 so that the partner system 114 can locate the particular partner system resources associated with that user for transmittal. The partner system 114 may also require user authentication to ensure that the user is not an impostor. In order to provide seamless access to the partner system resources, however, the user of the user system 112 should not have to provide any input during this authorization step. Seamless user authorization may be accomplished by employing any number of existing Single Sign On (SSO) systems. One such system is discussed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/591,687, filed by Rosko et al., which is hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes and in a manner consistent with the present invention. Another solution is provided by U.S. Pat. No. 5,684,950 issued to Dare et al. Such solutions may provide a universal database of correlated user names and passwords to which all of the partners have access, or may have a trusted third party or authentication server verify the user's identity. Other SSO systems may provide for a universal session manager to control login operations. The present invention may employ these or any other means for seamless access provided by the art. Preferably, when the seamless access system will provide "secure" access to the various systems, that is, a level of security between websites, such that the risk of data theft, loss, or damage is substantially reduced compared to unsecured access systems. Regardless of the particular SSO employed to authenticate the user, the partner system 114 determines whether the user is an authentic user 216, and if the user is not properly authenticated, the partner system 114 will not provide partner system resources and it may transmit an error message 218.
After the host and user have been successfully identified and authorized, the partner system 114 determines whether discriminated resources exist 220. Existing discriminated resources may comprise, for example, a pre-established web page that is specifically designated for that particular host and bears that host's indicia and color schemes, as well as other information that may be approved by the host or consistent with the host's business. Existing discriminated resources may also comprise financial account data for a particular user. If discriminated resources exist, then the partner compiles the resources, such as by populating a host-specific web page with a user's financial information, and transmits the discriminated resources 222.
If discriminated resources do not exist, then in one embodiment, the partner system 114 may create discriminated resources 224. The partner system 114 may create discriminated resources in a number of ways. In one embodiment, the partner system 114 identifies graphical information regarding the host system's web page and recreates this information when transmitting the partner system resources, providing the appearance, to the user, that the discriminated resources originated from the host system 110. For example, the partner system 114 may analyze the color schemes, shapes, sizes, and brand labels of a host's website, then incorporate these into the discriminated partner system resources. Such analysis may be facilitated by providing for a universal language or decoding key to be used by all of the partners. In another embodiment, the partner system 114 identifies and selects discriminated resources from a larger pool of resources according to a previously established agreement between the host and the partner. For example, the host and partner may agree that certain classes of resources, such as particular types of advertisements, may be transmitted, but others may not. In one embodiment, the partner system 114 classifies each host system 110 according to that host's type of business, selects advertisements that do not compete with that host's type of business, and incorporates these advertisements into the discriminated partner system resources.
The partner system 114 transmits the discriminated partner system resources 222 to either the host system 110 or to the user system 112.
In another embodiment, depicted schematically in
The discriminated partner system resources may be displayed to the user in a number of ways. In one embodiment, in which the user accesses the host and partner systems 110, 114 through a computer terminal attached to the Internet, the discriminated partner system resources are displayed on a separate web browser "window" that is invoked when the user requests access to the partner system resources. In another embodiment, the discriminated partner system resources are displayed in a frame within the same web browser window that displays the host system resources. The host system resources and the discriminated partner system resources may be viewed simultaneously, or they may be viewed separately. In a preferred embodiment, the user may seamlessly move back and forth between views of the host system resources and the discriminated partner system resources.
Referring now to
Authentication procedures have been described herein, and any suitable authentication process may be used. If the host system 110 determines that the user is not an authentic user, the host system 110 will not transmit host resources to the user and may transmit an error message to the user 406. If the host system 110 determines that the user is an authentic user, then it will transmit host system data to the user. Among this data will be an option to access partner system resources 408. This option may or may not indicate to the user that, by selecting the option, the user will be provided with resources originating from somewhere other than the host system 110.
If the user requests partner system resources 410, the host system 110 attempts to retrieve partner system resources from the partner system 114. The host system 110 sends host system data 412 and all or part of the user data 414 to the partner system 114. The user data and host system data transmitted to the partner server may comprise information necessary to identify the user and the host system 110, and may further comprise information necessary to authenticate the user and the host system 110. In one embodiment, the host system 110 provides the partner system 114 with information that has been received from a third-party authentication server. Such authorization methods are known in the art, and any suitable method may be used with the present invention to provide the user with seamless access to host and partner system resources.
The host system 110 then receives partner system resources 416 from the partner system 114, and determines whether the partner system resources are discriminated in a manner acceptable to the host system 418. If the partner system resources are discriminated in a manner acceptable to the host system 110, then the host system 110 transmits the partner system resources to the user system 420 to be viewed by a user. If the partner system resources are not suitably discriminated, the host system 110 may create discriminated resources by modifying the partner system resources 422, or adding to the partner system resources 424. For example, a host system 110 may modify the color scheme of a web page received from a partner system 114 to match the host's web page, and may also add extra material such as advertisements or news items. The host system 110 may also selectively remove material from the partner system resources 426 to produce suitable discriminated resources. For example, the host system 110 may remove an advertisement for a competing service that was received as part of the non-discriminated partner system resources.
After the host system 110 has created or modified the resources to be suitably discriminated, the resources are transmitted to the user 420. A schematic diagram depicting the flow of data and resources in this embodiment is depicted in
Although the present invention has been described in terms of certain preferred embodiments, it is not limited to these embodiments. Alternative embodiments and modifications which would still be encompassed by the invention may be made by those skilled in the art, particularly in light of the foregoing teachings. Therefore, the following claims are intended to cover any alternative embodiments, modifications or equivalents which may be within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the claims.
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High Port Count Gigabit Ethernet Switching 48-port Blade Switch
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The PowerConnect™ M6348 delivers increased port density valuable to blades utilizing virtualization in today's data centers.
- 32 internal Gigabit Ethernet server ports (two per server blade)
- 16 external integrated RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- Stacking for up to twelve systems
- Supports CX4 and SFP+ 10GE uplink connections
Port Attributes
- 48 auto-sensing 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet switching ports:
32 internal server ports
16 external RJ45 Ethernet ports
Two 10GE SFP+ uplink ports
Two CX4 / 32Gbps Stacking ports (each port can be configured as either CX4 or 32Gbps stacking. 16Gbps in each direction)
Auto-negotiation for speed, duplex mode and flow control
Auto MDI/MDIX
Port mirroring
Flow-based port mirroring
Broadcast storm control
- Switch Fabric Capacity 184 Gb/s
Forwarding Rate up to 160 Mpps
Up to 32K MAC Addresses
512MB of CPU SDRAM
64MB of Flash Memory
Layer 3 Routing Performance
Up to 10K IPv4 Routes
Up to 3K IPv6 Routes
Up to 512 RIP Routing Interfaces
Maximum OSPF V2 LSAs is 25165
Maximum OSPF V3 LSAs is 16992
Up to 32 routes for ECMP Routing; up to 4 next hops per ECMP
Up to 128 VLAN Routing Interfaces
Up to 2K Multicast Forwarding Entries
Up to 400 NDP entries
Up to 8K IPv4 ARP Entries
Up to 4K IPv6 ARP Entries
- Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1D) and Rapid Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1w) with Fast Link Support
Multiple spanning trees (IEEE 802.1s)
Supports Virtual Redundant Routing Protocol (VRRP)
Cable diagnostics
Optical transceiver diagnostics
- VLAN support for tagging and port-based as per IEEE 802.1Q
Double VLAN tagging (QinQ)
Up to 1024 VLANs supported
Dynamic VLAN with GVRP support
Voice VLAN support
Quality of Service
- Layer 2 Trusted Mode (IEEE 802.1p tagging)
Layer 3 Trusted Mode (DSCP)
Layer 4 Trusted Mode (TCP/UDP)
Advanced Mode using Layer 2/3/4 flow-based Policies, including metering/rate limiting, marking and bandwidth guarantees; up to 100 ACLs can be used for QoS flow identification via Class-maps
8 Priority Queues per Port
Adjustable Weighted-Round-Robin (WRR) and Strict Queue Scheduling
Port-based QoS Services Mode
Flow-based QoS Services Mode
- Static IP Multicast
Dynamic Multicast Support – 1024 Multicast groups supported in IGMP Snooping
IGMP snooping for IP multicast support
IGMP and MLD snooping Querier
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM-DM, PIM-SM)
- IEEE 802.1x based edge authentication -- supports single and multiple host access, guest access, and voice authorization.
Switch access password protection
User-definable settings for enabling or disabling Web, SSH, Telnet, SSL management access
IP Address filtering for management access via Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS/SSL, SSH and SNMP
RADIUS and TACACS+ remote authentication for switch management access
Up to 100 Access Control Lists (ACLs) supported; up to 12 Access Control Entries (ACEs) per ACL
SSLv3 and SSHv2 encryption for switch management traffic
Management access filtering via Management Access Profiles
Other Switching
- Link Aggregation with support for up to 48 LAGs total, up to 18 of which can be dynamic, aggregated links, 8 dynamic aggregated links per switch and up to 8 member ports per aggregated link; LACP support (IEEE 802.3ad), LLDP-MED
Support for unicast NLB (multicast NLB not supported)
- Supports a simple switch mode to allow auto configuration of complex network settings
- Web-based management interface
- Industry-standard CLI accessible via Telnet, SSH or Local Serial Port
- SNMPv1, SNMP v2c and SNMPv3 supported
- 4 RMON groups supported (history, statistics, alarms and events)
- FTP, HTTP, FTP, SFTP and SCP transfers of firmware and configuration files
- Dual Firmware images on-board
- Multiple Configuration file upload/download supported
- Statistics for error monitoring and performance optimization including port summary tables
- BootP/DHCP IP address and configuration management supported
- Syslog remote logging capabilities
- Temperature sensors for environmental monitoring
- 267 x 258 x 31mm (W x D x H)
10.5" x 10.2" x 1.2"
Approximate weight: 2.7kg, 5.8 lbs
- 512MB of CPU SDRAM
64MB of Flash Memory
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Storage Temperature: -20º C to 70º C
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Storage Relative Humidity: 10% to 95% non-condensing
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The Cannes Film Festival is always fertile ground for emerging, fashionable, and talented starlets to showcase their on-screen work and off-screen style. Naturally, we watch the proceedings very carefully, as the competition always makes us aware of international trendsetters. During last year's festivities, we noticed that one young woman stood out as the cream of the proverbial crop: Mélanie Laurent. Since this first sighting, we've followed her closely and were very pleased to discover that she is much more than a pretty face. She is, in fact, an accomplished actress, writer, and director who is about to make a cinematic splash on this side of the pond. And while we were initially smitten with Laurent's dressier ensembles, what truly solidified her sartorial standing as our Girl Of The Month was the triple-threat's personal panache off the red carpet-it's bold, quirky, and impossibly chic!
Before we delve into the specifics of Laurent's lovely looks, first we'd like to make a proper and professional introduction. Laurent is a lauded actress in France (a recipient of the César Award-the French equivalent of the Oscars-in 2006 for Most Promising Actress) and writer/director (her short film De Moins en Moins was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or in 2008). As for her upcoming projects, she is poised to captivate moviegoers as the young star of this summer's Inglorious Basterds. This Quentin Tarantino-helmed WWII flick is one of the most buzzed-about films to premiere at the 2009 festival and will surely raise Laurent's profile stateside. While we can't wait to see what our GOTM wears to cruise the Croisette alongside her co-stars Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger, until then, we're content to highlight some of her most fashionable recent outfits that put her on our radar in the first place.
As you can see from above images, Laurent's a serious fashion-phile who possesses an insouciant style and understated beauty. During the prêt-a-porter and haute couture shows in Paris, Laurent is always front row at Chloe and Sonia Rykiel and photographed backstage with Nicolas Ghesquière and Marc Jacobs. Seen outside the F/W 09 Balenciaga show (above, second from right) Laurent looked on-trend in a cropped nude motorcycle jacket-we like this seasonal spin on a fashionable favorite-with Balenciaga's Arena Giant Envelope ($995). Pick up Joie's Dolores Leather Motorcycle Jacket ($698) for an equally chic outwear option.
After dark, Laurent turns heads with her signature stylish élan, as well. At the Fashion Dinner for AIDS Fundraiser at the Pavillion d'Armenonville this January (far right), she showcased her unconventional style by wearing a heart-print dress with Sonia by Sonia Rykiel's Multi Color Adjustable Belt ($115). We fell head over heels for our GOTM's patterned frock, so we were beyond thrilled to find Rika's Anastasia Dress ($247), which features a variation on the playful, Laurent-approved print.
While we always focus on off-duty style, we must confess that we're also partial to Laurent's red-carpet ensembles and would be remiss if we didn't spend some time highlighting her ethereal choices. Back on the Côte d'Azur, Laurent opted for a blush blouse and satin shorts for a press junket (far left), a strapless saffron feathered frock (second from left), and a divine, tiered black Jean Paul Gaultier gown (center image) for a star-studded screening of Che. We, of course, don't have to walk as many red carpets as Laurent, but if we did, we would opt for LaRok's La Princesse Dress ($298), which reflects the strapless shape and cascading black overlay of the fancier fare she prefers.
In addition to her artful wardrobe selections, Laurent has also mastered the perfectly tousled hair that the French do so well. When it comes to makeup, her signature look is a smoky eye with black liner, though she occasionally varies her routine and wears a classic blue-red lip. Either way, she's very old-Hollywood glam, yet totally unfussy in her execution of these classic looks.
This excellence in beauty, coupled with her obvious joie de vivre and unconventional flair for fashion have completely swept us away! With a solid resume of quality cinematic gems under her belt, and a growing collection of inspiring outfits on display, we find ourselves breathless with giddy anticipation about what she will wear next. All in all, we love this independent spirit whose star is on the rise, and we can't wait to watch her well-dressed ascension!-Kate Mulling
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with free breakfast and free area shuttle
Situated in St. George, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Fiesta Family Fun Center, St. George Utah Temple, and St. George Tabernacle. Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum and Dixie Convention Center are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
Along with an indoor pool, this hotel has a 24-hour fitness center and a conference center. Free full breakfast, free self parking, and a free area shuttle are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in the lobby, massage/treatment rooms, and a business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 164 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi and LCD TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find coffee makers, free local calls, and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Hotel Amenities
Red Lion Hotel & Conference Center St. George features an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Event facilities measuring 4200 square feet (390 square meters) include a conference center. A complimentary area shuttle within 5 mi is available for guests. This business-friendly hotel also offers coffee/tea in the lobby, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and a fireplace in the lobby. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 164
- Number of floors - 2
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Fireplace in lobby
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Computer station
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Free area shuttle
- Conference space size (feet) - 4200
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 390
- Conference center
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Television in lobby
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Indoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Hair dryer
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
A complimentary full breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
Spa Services
- Massages
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible path of travel
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at 5:30 AM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children stay free when using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No elevators
Optional extras
- Pet fee: USD 25.00 per accommodation, per stay (maximum USD 25.00 per stay)
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Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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The Ogdensburg City School district, in an ongoing effort to combat bullying, invited Kelly A. Zinna, a forensic psychologist who works just outside Washington D.C., to speak at Madill and Kennedy Elementary schools about the harm bullying can do.
Ms. Zinna spoke to students in multiple sessions throughout the day on Monday and again Tuesday morning.
Ms. Zinna, who is originally from Ogdensburg, was on the scene of the 1999 Columbine massacre and has been active in anti-violence advocacy.
If you look at school place violence, bullying is one of the causes, she said Tuesday.
By giving anti-violence and anti-bullying talks at schools around the country, Ms. Zinna said, she hopes her message helps shift the culture at each school she visits.
Twenty-eight million school days a year are missed due to bullying in the United States, she said, adding that students will frequently skip school out of fear.
Fear, said Ms. Zinna, is the crucial factor that enables bullying to persist.
[Students] are just so afraid to break through that peer code of silence, she said.
Yet its important for students to report bullying when it happens, said Ms. Zinna.
She said her message is one of personal responsibility.
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Ms. Zinna said she was impressed with the Bully Box at Kennedy Elementary school.
Ogdensburg City School Board Member Betty J. Mallott said the box is where students can drop reports in if they are being bullied.
Ms. Zinna said the box, importantly, is anonymous. This empowers students to report when they see a problem without fearing repercussions.
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The St. Lawrence Valley Sportsmans Club will be hosting its seventh annual Walleye Fishing Derby on Saturday, May 4 at Hosmers Marina in Ogdensburg. The entry fee is $20 and weigh-ins will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Signups will be held at Hosmers Marina, Myers Pub, Vinns, Fisher-N-Chips and Sandys Bait and Tackle.
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HUTCHINSON, Kansas (KSNW) -- It's been a medical mystery, but little Mya is home again after doctors pulled a mysterious feather out of the side of her neck.
"As near as the pediatrician could tell, it was in her body for some time," says Aaron Whittington.
Aaron is dad, and says his 7-month-old daughter got very sick. Nobody was sure at first just why.
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Whether it's your first apartment, a starter home or a retirement condo, we can help you find a policy that protects your property - and most of your other important stuff, too. Home, condo and renters insurance takes the worry out of unexpected events, like falling trees, slippery sidewalks and break-ins.
Here are the five most important things to know as you compare prices and coverage:
1. You should buy enough home insurance to cover the cost of rebuilding.
One of the most common mistakes people make when shopping for home insurance is thinking the coverage should equal the home's market value. But home insurance is designed to pay for the cost to rebuild your home if it's destroyed. That amount might be lower or higher than what you paid for the house. In recent years many homeowners who lost homes in disasters found themselves caught short because they were underinsured.
A good home insurance agent can help you estimate, and it wouldn't hurt to ask a local contractor about building costs in your area. Online calculators to estimate the replacement cost are also available through services such as HMFacts and AccuCoverage.
2. Your landlord's insurance won't cover your stuff.
Don't expect the landlord to help you replace anything if disaster strikes. His insurance covers the building -- not your things. Buy renters insurance to protect your belongings in case they're stolen or damaged by fire or other perils. Like home insurance, renters insurance also provides liability coverage in case you unwittingly injure others or damage their property and are held responsible.
3. A good inventory is worth your time.
Conduct an inventory to find out how much coverage you need. Check whether your insurance company offers an inventory app, or use the Insurance Information Institute's free online software at KnowYourStuff.org to help catalog everything. Beware that standard home and renters insurance policies place dollar limits on coverage for valuables and special collections, so you might need to buy additional coverage for those items. Besides helping you determine how much coverage you need, an inventory helps the claims process go smoothly if something unfortunate happens.
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Replacement cost coverage is pricier than actual cash value coverage, and here's why. With replacement cost coverage, the policy reimburses you to buy a new, comparable item to replace the one that was damaged. Actual cash value coverage pays you the current market value of the item that was damaged or destroyed. Say, for instance, a pipe burst and ruined a 5-year-old couch. Replacement cost coverage would pay for a new sofa. Actual cash value coverage would reimburse you for cost of a new sofa minus five years of depreciation.
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From the IT manager's perspective, cloud computing is the infrastructure (hardware and software), the platform, and the applications that work together to deliver the user's experience.
The Promise and the Challenge for IT
Cloud computing holds the promise of helping organizations and their IT departments be more agile, efficient, and able to cost-effectively deliver new services that enable their businesses to thrive. At the same time, IT departments must deliver cloud services to many types of clients (PCs, laptops, mobile devices, and so forth) with the expectation of high security, performance, and ease in management. We believe that it is essential for cloud architectures to incorporate clients (be "client aware") if they are to deliver on these expectations—and provide the user experience and the IT flexibility needed for a successful cloud environment.
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Public cloud: The IT services—including software services, developer platform services, or infrastructure services—that are delivered to an organization (or to the public) over the Internet via a cloud service provider.
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The College of Eastern Utah's Western Energy Training Center will conduct a seminar entitled Utah's workforce challenge: The changing demographics and how to avoid a crisis on Nov. 30.
The event is free of charge and will be presented in two phases; the challenge session, presented by Dr. Pamela Perlich, Senior Research Economist at the University of Utah; the solutions session which will present the tools to soften the impending demographic change will feature Kristen Cox the Executive Director for Utah's Department of Workforce Services.
The Alano Club at 1267 Carbonville Road will be providing a free Thanksgiving dinner to whomever wants one between 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
Harry S. of the club said on Friday that the dinner will be a good one and the club may even provide rides to the dinner for those that need them.
For more information call Harry S. at 630-6540.
The dinner is a potluck affair and those who wish may bring a dish with them to the dinner. The Alano Club is a meeting place for all local support groups and is welcome to anyone.
The senate unanimously approved a seven-year extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), a program created after the September 11, 2001, attacks that help protect American businesses from the uncertainty of terrorist acts.
"I agree with Chairman Dodd that extending the TRIA deadline for 120 days would be a mistake. The chairman has shown strong leadership on this issue, and now congress must send a bill to the president by Dec. 31 to ensure needed certainty in the economy," said Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah), an original cosponsor of the legislation.


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Our town was established in 1759 as a self-sufficient farming community which allowed both Moravian and non-Moravian settlers.
Surveyor Christian Philip Gottleib Reuter designed Bethania to withstand the challenges and dangers of the often hostile frontier landscape during the tumultuous years of the French and Indian Wars. Borrowing from town designs used in Medieval Europe, Reuter clustered the individual home lots in the center of the 2,500 acres that comprised the Bethania Town Lot and surrounded these residential lots with land segregated into orchard lots, bottom land lots, and upland lots. The town included houses, tradesman shops, a church, school, barns, and gardens. Now more than 250 years later, historic Bethania is the only example of a European style "open field" agricultural village remaining in North Carolina.
This Town Plan, and many of the historic Moravian-influenced buildings of Bethania, has been preserved to the present. An agricultural and trades community by design, Bethania exemplifies Old World planning and New World adaptation. Bethania's 500-acre Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has also received the highly-respected designation of National Historic Landmark.
September 26, 2015
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The Town of Bethania Board of Commissioners meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7pm in the Alpha Chapel, 5385 Ham Horton Lane.


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Feathers Fly and Blood Flows in the Popular Sport of Cockfighting
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Carbon High School will be competing in the annual Southeastern Utah Sterling Scholar competition on March 6. The school has 12 students from the senior class who will vie for the coveted title of Sterling Scholar against 59 other seniors from San Juan, Emery and Grand counties.
The awards program will begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center Multipurpose Room on the USU-Eastern Campus in Price. The public is invited to attend.
The Southeastern Utah Sterling Scholars is presented in cooperation with district officials and high school administrators, as well as colleges and universities who support the program through the offer of scholarships and other financial assistance.
This year's event will be judged by members of faculties from the USU-Eastern, Utah Valley University, and other educational and professional organizations throughout Southeastern Utah.
The program recognizes high school seniors for scholastic excellence in 12 major categories: English; Speech/Drama; Mathematics; Social Science; Science; Foreign Language; Visual Arts; Technology and Trades; Family and Consumer Sciences; Business and Marketing; Music; and General Scholarship.
Nine secondary schools - Navajo Mountain High School, Monument Valley High School, Whitehorse High School, San Juan High School, Monticello High School, Grand County High School, Green River High School, Emery High School, and Carbon High School - participate in the Southeastern Utah Sterling Scholar competition. Similar contests are held in other geographic areas of the state.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) enraptured the royal courts and concert halls of Europe before dying at 38, shattered by the sudden death of his beloved sister and musical soul mate, Fanny Hensel.
His grandfather, Moses, a peddler from Dessau, a city between Berlin and Leipzig, became a renowned Jewish philosopher. But Moses's son, Abraham, a wealthy Hamburg banker, converted the family to Lutheranism, adding a new family name, Bartholdy. Young Felix, who later declined the addition, studied the piano, composing comic operas by age 11 and two of his most enduring works, the String Octet in E flat and ''Overture for a Midsummer Night's Dream,'' in his mid-teens.
Darkly handsome, with sensitive features and a sweet nature, he charmed Goethe, captivated young Queen Victoria and romanced Jenny Lind (along with some other women not his wife, Cécile). He popularized George Frideric Handel and revived a dormant Johann Sebastian Bach; led the renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig; wrote (and rewrote) the symphonies known as the ''Reformation,'' ''Scottish'' and ''Italian''; completed the incidental music to ''A Midsummer Night's Dream,'' with its famous wedding march; wrote chamber music and songs; composed the oratorios ''St. Paul'' and ''Elijah''; and painted and drew some 300 pictures.
While Mendelssohn himself published only 72 works with opus numbers and another 31 minor, unnumbered pieces, his compositions actually total more than 770, according to Stephen Somary, who has devoted many years to the Mendelssohn Project, whose goal is to win Mendelssohn a firmer place in the standard canon. In the view of many scholars, Mendelssohn was victimized by history. A neo-classical Romantic, Mendelssohn fell afoul of other Romantics like Franz Liszt and Wagner, whose judgments were clouded by anti-Semitism. Wagner, five years Mendelssohn's junior and consumed by jealousy, denounced Mendelssohn, after his death, as a bourgeois, a mere note-spinner and maker of drawing room music.
Since Mendelssohn's bicentenary in 2009, some of the composer's works have been performed for the first time.
Review: The Academy of Ancient Music Tackled Mendelssohn at Mostly Mozart Festival
This ensemble, a period-instrument band, was delicate and electric at Alice Tully Hall.
August 11, 2015, Tuesday
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Showcasing a Brother, and Giving a Sister Her Due
The Budapest Festival Orchestra played works by Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny.
January 20, 2015, Tuesday
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A song by Felix Mendelssohn whose whereabouts were unclear for more than 100 years has turned up in a private collection in the United States and will be auctioned.
May 6, 2014, Tuesday
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Fantasy Precedes Melancholy Darkness
The delicacy of the textures of Mendelssohn's Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" work complemented the precision of the scoring in a Britten cycle in an Orchestra of St. Luke's program.
October 25, 2013, Friday
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A Pair of Magnificats Star in a Tribute to Bach and His Fan Mendelssohn
The conductor and organist Masaaki Suzuki led renditions of Bach and Mendelssohn at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday.
March 8, 2013, Friday
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Unfolding a Prophet, With Song
Kent Tritle conducted a student presentation of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" at the Manhattan School of Music.
March 4, 2013, Monday
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The violinist Jaime Laredo was joined by colleagues including the cellists Sharon Robinson and Eric Kim for a program of Schulhoff, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky at the 92nd Street Y.
March 19, 2012, Monday
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The Escher String Quartet's performance at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday was even more impressive given some recent personnel changes.
November 11, 2011, Friday
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performed a new work by Cynthia Wong, a young composer whose piece, "Memoriam," was dedicated to her father.
October 17, 2011, Monday
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New Faces Appear Amid All the Mozart
The Mostly Mozart Festival presented Jérémie Rhorer in his New York conducting debut and Bertrand Chamayou, a pianist, in his United States debut.
August 26, 2011, Friday
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This may well be the worst episode of An Alan Smithee Podcast since the last worst episode. That alone should make for required listening. We are defeated by overestimating the entertainment value of a Hollywood "legend" whose golden years may not have been all that amusing, even in what is considered to be her best film.
The icon is Mae "Come Up And See Me Sometime" West, and the nominally good film is She Done Him Wrong (1933). By the time we get to the more auspiciously dire swan song Sextette (1978) our spirits are already broken and discussing the not-so-fine art of double entendres becomes insult to injury.
West's life would probably make a better film than any films of her own. West worked her way up in vaudeville, rebelling against stuffy social bigotry and sexual repression like every other young punk in the 1920s and crafting the stage persona she came to be known for onscreen: a brassy, wisecracking maneater who dominated and manipulated all those around her and constantly joked between the lines about her sexual prowess. This proto-post-feminist shtick was heady stuff for the time, as were her drag queen inspired fashion choices and shimmy-shawobble hip movements inspired by black nightclub dancers.
What's headier to think of today is that West was thought of as a sexual object of desire and not merely a comedian – which is exactly how she liked it. People come to see her on Vaudeville for the raunchy laughs while her nudity-free act let her revel in skits and songs about her sexual power as a universally irresistible man magnet. She wasn't the most attractive broad in show business but there wasn't yet an official middle ground between glamourous and funny women performers. Women weren't even legally ruled funny by the Supreme Court until 1927. Her breakout Broadway play Diamond Lil was a saucy melodrama set in the "Gay 90s" at the turn of the century, and by the end of the roaring twenties everyone in New York knew of West.
When she arrived in Hollywood, Diamond Lil was prepared for the screen as She Done Him Wrong, much to the consternation of the Hays censorship office who'd already caught wind of West's reputation. This was a big factor in my urging of the film as West's "good" movie for Alan Smithee Podcast – if the Hays office hated it, it must be good, right? Joe Bob Briggs even featured it in his book of essays on sexually liberating milestones in film, Profoundly Erotic. I can't blame him for recognizing the cultural significance of Mae West and her best known work outside of My Little Chickadee with W.C. Fields, but he should have affixed the same warning that he gave Blood Feast in the similar tome Profoundly Disturbing – this film is more fun to talk about than it is to actually watch.
At just over an hour, She Done Him Wrong crawls like a snail. A film so short shouldn't need musical numbers but there's almost as much padding as the inside of Mae's girdle. The story revolves around her headliner status at an 1890s saloon and dancing hall, which means the songs featured were considered kind of corny even in 1933. Mae's songs are about as sexy as a slow ready of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain."
You can count the number of sets on your hand as the obviously stagebound nature of the original play relegates everything to either mustachioed fops onstage or West hamming it up with cocktail napkin quality zingers in her private backstage boudoir. Some of her come-ons are directed at young Cary Grant, who had acted in a few prior films including Blonde Venus with Marlene Dietrich, but whom West would claim "discovery" of for the rest of her life.
Mae West's life after She Done Him Wrong was an experiment in aging timelessness. Far ahead of the cultural curve, West was absorbed into collective consciousness almost immediately by cartoons, quotations and parody. By the 1940s she was already considered old hat and muzzled by stricter Hays Code regulations on the depiction of promiscuity. She left Hollywood, making sporadic television appearances over the years and otherwise supporting herself with live performances around the world. At some point the warm tide of nostalgia that made W.C. Fields and The Marx Brothers hip again revived interest in and respect for her libertine overtones and she returned to film Gore Vidal's other infamous contribution to cinema besides Caligula (previously discussed in this episode), the infamous Myra Breckinridge (1970). At the age of 77, her looks and timing obviously weren't what they once were, which is why it may have taken another eight years before two young, eager and likely homosexual fans from Crown International Pictures approached her about filming her last attempt at Broadway, the 1961 farce Sextette.
There are two forces at work in Sextette which have rightfully qualified the film for previous inclusion on "Razzie Award" lists of "the worst films ever made" and the like. The first is obviously that West is, uh, not well. She's playing herself the only way she can, far past not only the cultural expiration date of her act but that of her corporeal husk. This results in line readings of corny innuendo with pauses so awkward, rumors have persisted for years that she was being fed her lines through earpiece microphones under her wig. This leads to some real ickiness between her and Timothy Dalton, giving his all as her newest husband (the sixth) who can't wait to make the kind of proper Englishman love to West that she hasn't had since Cary Grant.
The film would've been enough of a mess with her running around on Dalton while occasionally stopping for disco-infused songs. Elevating the film the true clusterbomb status is the gaggle of guest stars playing West's former husbands who all happen to be staying in her honeymoon hotel, with great wackiness and misunderstanding. The guest star ensemble method of casting had reached a tacky nadir by the late 70s and Sextette combines vintage 70s celebrity scenery chewers sprinkled with West's geriatric Hollywood pals doing her a favor: Keith Moon AND Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Tony Curtis, Walter Pidgeon, Alice Cooper, George Raft and who else but Dom Deluise as West's right hand man. Some acquit themselves admirably, like Dalton. Deluise sings and dances on a piano.
Unfunny comedies are hard to appreciate even if they're historically significant. Our next attempt to class up Alan Smithee Podcast won't rely so heavily on dated hipness and sultry sirens. Future bad-movie selections, however, will probably include Dom Deluise again at least once.


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