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Movies have given us some of the most memorable car chases and action sequences, leaving some of the movie cars from Hollywood and TV shows left in higher regard as the movies themselves. Some of these movies were made into classics simply by the cars they featured and others would be forgotten altogether if it weren't for the hot rods. Whether it's a classic muscle car, hot foreign import car, or beat up old rust bucket, the iconic cars in movies are the ones that stick out for their uniqueness and overall personality. Here's a list of the coolest movie cars we could think of in no particular order (unless you consider alphabetically by movie title an order). Feel free to comment on any movie cars that we may have missed or ones that you think shouldn't be in our list and we will get all defensive and bitchy.
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1932 Ford Coupe Hot Rod from American Graffiti
John Milner's screamin' yellow '32 Ford brought new life into street-rodding and drag racing. This 5-window coupe paved the way for hot rod enthusiasts all over the country.
1964 Lincoln Continental "Deathmobile" from Animal House
Flounder's brother's jet black Continental was the perfect canvas for the crazy Delta Tau Chi fraternity brothers to create their "Deathmobile" for the film's climax.
1983 GMC G15 Van from The A-Team
Every fugitive mercenary needs a competent getaway vehicle. It should be subtle and inconspicuous, like a giant black hot rod van with a big red stripe, driven by a large black man with a mowhawk. Perfect!
1982 Delorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future
Doc and Marty get into a whole mess of trouble when they hitch a ride in Doc's tricked out Delorean. Who knows where they're heading once they get that baby humming at 88 mph.
1993 Porsche 911 Turbo from Bad Boys
Director Michael Bay loaned his own Porsche for the lead vehicle in the movie. Now Will Smith probably has 10 of them just to make a statement. Martin Lawrence may have a Boxster.
1955 Ford Futura Concept Car "Batmobile" from Batman
What started as a concept car from Ford, the Futura was the perfect starting point for the original Batmobile. The Batman TV series only ran for two seasons, but paved the way for a bunch of blockbuster Batman movies.
2005 Tumbler "Batmobile" from Batman Begins
Although not really capable of jumping buildings and whatnot, the 2005 Tumbler in Batman Begins is still pretty sweet in real life. It's lines were supposedly modeled after a Lamborghini and drives like a tank on steroids.
1967 Chevy Camaro SS from Better Off Dead
Nothing speaks the international language of love like a black Camaro, especially when you're a high school dork. John Cusack became the king of dorks in this classic muscle car.
1968 Ford Mustang GT390 from Bullitt
This thing was beat up and dented even before the legendary car chase at the finale, which made it even cooler in our opinion. Steve McQueen drove it like a man possessed in this classic car movie.
1964 Chevy Impala "Lowrider" from Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
This pimped out lowrider was the setting for a random meeting of two hilarious pot heads. With smoke billowing out of the windows and a license plate that read MUF-DVR, it was only a matter of time before they found trouble.


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I am pretty sure we are one of the last families in the United States to not own a tablet. Our house is iPad and Kindle Fire free. It's not that we don't want one. We have considered it about a half dozen times. I could use it for travel instead of lugging around my laptop. My kids could use it for education and entertainment.
Still, we haven't pulled the trigger on the purchase.
The more and more I think about it, I like the idea of my preschooler having a "computer" type device that he can play on, practice his letters and do math problems. The question then becomes do I spend upwards of $200 on something just for him or do I spend a little more and get something the entire family can use.
After a bit of research I found a surprising number of options that I had no idea even existed. Here are seven tablets that are perfect for games and learning:
I'm still not 100% convinced that my kids need their own tablet. If we go this route, I think we'll probably ask the grandparents to chip in with us.
Does your child own a tablet? Which one?

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ChocolateRichmond Restaurants — By David Mattera on May 11, 2010 8:06 pm
Once again, I feel it necessary to stray from food and talk a little about that top space on the food guide pyramid.
Chocolate come from cacao beans—another bean that has to be imported from the far reaches of this planet to be processed and made into either Hershey's milk chocolate on one end—with only about 11 percent being made of pure cacao—or on the other side of the spectrum a dark 85 percent cacao bean bar from Lindt.
Just like coffee, chocolate is best served up dark–brutally dark. Milk chocolate is mostly milk and sugar so if you want to try something that is really the essences of the cacao bean, it has to be dark. In terms of percentage of cacao, I go for the 70's, 80's and above for mine. A good dark chocolate won't be unpalatably bitter. Start at a classic dark, usually 54 percent and work your way up as high as you can go.
The aforementioned Lindt line, called Excellence, is a great example of a very dark chocolate that isn't overwhelming in any dimension but endlessly complex and delicious. You'll find those in the chocolate isle at the grocery store. My mother even credits 85 percent chocolate bars for helping her lose weight!
Chocolate, along with coffee and wine make for great pairings with all sorts of foods and drink. A deep red wine and a dark chocolate, perhaps with raspberries will hit the palate in a combination of flavors and textures like acupuncture for the tongue.
When we conjure up images of chocolate, what usually comes to mind is a sweet, fun, childish candy to be eaten to the point of stomachache. We think of chocolate bars, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake with chocolate icing, or chocolate milk but the uses for cocoa powder—the refined version of the cacao bean without the part which is fat or cocoa butter—spread well beyond traditional sweets.
Next time you make tacos or black beans with spicy foods, add a generous portion of cocoa powder. It will give dishes especially beef but really anything spicy or Mexican a little more complexity. Mole sauce anyone? Cincinnati chili is made with cocoa powder as one of the primary ingredients.
"Okay I'm convinced. Chocolate is something special. What do you recommend, David? What's the next step? Where do I go? You're so handsome."
Your first stop has to be For the Love of Chocolate in the heart of Carytown in the shops at Cary Court. My former employer, as a matter of fact, For the Love of Chocolate stocks the shelves to the ceiling and beyond with anything chocolate or candy related.
Whether you're looking for a serious chocolate bar with a high cacao percentage or a rare fair trade African chocolate mixed with hot peppers or even if you just want something fun and sweet that will make your kids hyper so they will pass out, For the Love of Chocolate has you covered. The staff is knowledgeable and will point you in the right direction. Mention my name and you might get a discount!
How about a local business that actually makes chocolate? Gearharts Chocolate in the near west end at Libbie and Grove makes upscale designer chocolates. Originally from Charlottesville, Gearharts uses fine Venezuelan cacao and has been rated one of the "Top 20 Artisan Chocolatiers" by Chocolatiers Magazine. I can't say that I've visited Gearharts but I will soon.
Again, Richmond holds her own for selection at For the Love of Chocolate and even offers something uniquely Virginian with Gearharts. So get into some real dark chocolates. Understand and appreciate the complexity and properties of this second rare, bitter bean that you only think you know so well.
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WASHINGTON – Lourdes in Silver Spring has a slimy problem. She writes: "Please help me get rid of the slugs that feed on my hostas. The plants look so perfect, healthy and strong when they emerge in the spring, but once the slugs start feeding they look like they're in a war zone!"
Hostas are slug candy, Lourdes. And the fact that they're shade-loving plants makes them easy prey for these moisture-loving slimers, who only hunt at night and prefer damp, shady spots.
Put half-pint containers filled with fresh beer out at dusk, the slugs will crawl in and drown overnight. Don't use the often-recommended stale beer. Slugs like stale beer less than I do. And don't put the beer traps out until the sun starts to go down so it will still be nice and fresh when the slimers come out to play.
There's also a great non-toxic granular slug killer available that's very effective. Sold under brand names like "Sluggo" and "Escar-Go!," the active ingredient is iron phosphate wrapped in a yeasty bait. The slugs are attracted by the yeast, but can't metabolize the iron, which kills them. But the bait is totally harmless to people, pets and wildlife.
Tom in Huntingtown writes: "Ants are coming into the house from a shady area under our deck. Is there something I can plant or apply down there to keep them away? I've heard that mint does wonders, and I'm trying to avoid using pesticides."
Good for you, Tom!
Now, plants don't repel insects by just growing in the ground, but their leaves and essential oils can be used for that purpose. And mint is a popular ingredient in many non-toxic insecticides designed to control ants, so try spraying an organic insecticide whose active ingredient is mint around the door and other entry areas.
Or use bay leaves – they're reported to be highly repellent to ants. Just crush up a bunch of the leaves and spread them around the invaded area.
But the sure cure for ant invasions is boric acid bait traps. Harmless to us, boric acid is deadly to ants if you use it correctly. The traps, which use a very low dose of boric acid in a sweet bait, are widely available. Look for boric acid, sodium tetraborate or some other form of the element boron as the active ingredient. Then you must allow the ants to come and go after you set out the baits. Don't kill any of the ants. The low dose of boric acid will take several days to sicken the first ants, but by then those workers will have fed the bait to the queen – and that will wipe out the entire colony.
Bill in Woodbridge has an all-too-common complaint. He writes: "How can I keep the neighborhood dogs from 'using' my yard? Are there chemicals or something natural that will make them walk right on by?"
There are repellants designed for this purpose, Bill but I wouldn't bet on their effectiveness – and repellants have to be applied weekly and/or after every rain, which can be tedious and darned expensive.
If the dogs are running loose, call animal control.
If thoughtless dog walkers are allowing this, put up a low fence and "Don't poop here!" signage. Some great pre-made signs are available. You'll find lots of free, printable designs online. And here's a company that offers a variety of styles on long-lasting metal.
If that fails, set up a motion-activated sprinkler to chase them off with a blast of cold water. Motion-activated sprinklers are very effective, and also keep deer, cats and thoughtless people off your property. Here's the official website for the model that I use to ward off Evil Squirrels. The sprinklers are also available at retail at better garden centers, and online for a lower price at Amazon (what a shock!).
Tom in Manassas writes: "What do I use for caterpillars on roses? Are horticultural oils safe and effective?"
If they are true caterpillars, you'd spray the plants with Bt, Tom. This organic and non-toxic pesticide (available under brand names like Dipel, Thuracide and Green Step) kills any caterpillars that eat the sprayed plant parts, and it only affects caterpillars that eat the sprayed plant parts, nothing else.
But Bt would not affect the rose sawfly. The larval form of a weird little wasp that looks remarkably like a caterpillar. (Here's a site to help you ID them.) If sawflies are the problem, a light "summer spray" horticultural oil would be a great solution. (Don't use a dormant oil. Those heavyweights are for winter use only.)
But, as with insecticidal soap, horticultural oils work by smothering, and must be sprayed directly on the pest to be effective. Spraying the plant itself would only give you a shiny plant.
Those nasty, tomato-sucking stinkbugs will soon be appearing in area gardens, unless you prevent them. Tape a mirror to the end of a hoe and begin using it weekly to search the undersides of the leaves of your plants for their very distinctive barrel shaped eggs, which are laid in fascinating geometric clusters, like double rows and triangles. Destroy these eggs early in the season and you'll really cut their summertime numbers.
Because, unfortunately, Joe in Middletown's terse email titled "Dream from stink bug central: Wouldn't it be nice if cicadas ate stink bugs?" is just a dream.
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North American stock markets opened mixed and without much direction, as a cautious tone took hold after more than two months of steady gains that has brought the S&P 500 index close to all-time highs.
In early trading, the S&P 500 was virtually unchanged, perched near the key 1,500 level. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 8 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 13,889; and the Nasdaq was down 0.3 per cent at 3,144.
Here in Canada, the S&P/TSX composite index was up 16 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 12,832. It was finding a little additional support from commodity price gains, with West Texas Intermediate oil up 73 cents at $97.17 (U.S.) a barrel and gold up $8 at $1,660 an ounce.
Traders are taking in another batch of corporate earnings today. The earnings season has been positive - with 75 per cent of S&P 500 companies that reported results so far beating profit expectations. Yet, the recent run-up in U.S. stock values has market participants worried about a pullback and waiting for confirmation that the rally can continue.
The S&P 500 snapped an eight-day winning streak on Monday, a signal that some investors are thinking the market is getting a little frothy, at least in the short term. Some may be staying on the sidelines until the Federal Reserve releases its latest monetary policy statement on Wednesday and the U.S. releases January job figures on Friday.
In economic news today, the S&P/Case Shiller index of 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S. showed home price gains of 0.6 per cent in November on a seasonally adjusted basis. On a year-over-year basis, they rose 5.5 per cent, the strongest price increase since August 2006. The data met economists' expectations and didn't sway market sentiment much.
The latest consumer confidence data from the U.S. Conference Board was a surprise, however. The index dropped to 58.6 in January from 66.7 in December, and well below the 2012 peak of 73.1 in October.
Here's a look at some of the stocks moving on news this morning:
Research In Motion Ltd. shares are down about 3 per cent, one day ahead of the unveiling of the BlackBerry 10. Shares had already dropped nearly 8 per cent on Monday. Analyst sentiment has been incredibly mixed. Today, UBS issued a bearish note, saying the "odds remain stacked against RIM," as it maintained a $9.50 (U.S.) price target and "neutral" rating.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. reported adjusted earnings of $1.28 per share, up from $1.11 a year earlier, and in line with analysts' estimates. Shares opened up 1.4 per cent.
Ford Motor Co. reported fourth-quarter earnings per share of 31 cents, beating Street forecasts of 25 cents. Revenues also were ahead of forecasts. But the automaker also forecast a wider loss in its European division, and shares opened down 3 per cent.
Pfizer Inc. reported fourth-quarter earnings per share of 47 cents, 3 cents better than forecasts, with revenues also ahead of the Street view. It also forecast profit for the year higher than analysts' predictions. Shares opened up 1.2 per cent.
Yahoo Inc. late Monday reported a drop in fourth-quarter earnings that nevertheless beat analysts' forecasts and sales were a bit better than expected. Shares opened up 1.5 per cent.
D.R. Horton Inc, the biggest U.S. home builder, said net income more than doubled due to higher selling prices, and reported a 39 per cent jump in orders. Shares open up nearly 6 per cent.
Harley-Davidson Inc reported fourth-quarter net income slightly below Wall Street estimates. Shares opened up 1 per cent.
Eli Lilly And Co. said adjusted fourth-quarter earnings were 85 cents per share, beating Street forecasts of 78 cents. Shares opened up 1 per cent.
- S&P/TSX Composite$13.63K+0.01(+0.00%)
- Dow Jones Industrials$17.66K+9.45(+0.05%)
- Canadian Dollar / US Dollar FX Spot Rate$0.780.00(-0.13%)
- Pfizer Inc$33.57+0.17(+0.51%)
- Yahoo! Inc$36.94+0.94(+2.61%)
- Ford Motor Co$13.32+0.01(+0.08%)
- D.R. Horton Inc$29.61-0.17(-0.57%)
- Harley-Davidson Inc$46.22-0.56(-1.20%)
- Eli Lilly and Co$75.27+0.40(+0.53%)
- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd$180.16-1.33(-0.73%)
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July 23, 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday "appointed Michel Kazatchkine as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, one of only two regions in the world where HIV is continuing to grow," a UN press release states. "Michel Kazatchkine is an internationally recognized physician who has devoted 30 years of his professional life to the AIDS response," the press release notes, adding that he has served as executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and director of the French National Agency for AIDS Research (7/20).
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It's the time of year when those of use who have not buried our noses in a brandy glass are instead gazing into crystal balls and pondering the year ahead. So here's a few economic predictions for 2013. If they are more than 50% accurate, the author wants the same pay as staff in the forecasting division in the Treasury and in the main banks.
The Big Dry
Its been famously said economic forecasters exist to give weather forecasters a good name – so let's kick this off by seizing two bulls by the horns at the same time.
Summer 2012/13 is shaping up to be a drought. It has already been an unusually dry spring in one of the country's two main dairy regions – the Waikato.
A drought, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's principal economist Shamubeel Eaqub has calculated, usually shaves about 0.5% off annual GDP. If there is a big dry, look for lower growth over the coming year.
So while most of us might want a fine summer – especially after last year's non-event – there's a downside. It's a downside the country pays for in lower growth, lower volumes of exports, not just for that year, but usually the following year as there is less feed over the winter and farmers carry lower numbers of stock. There can on occasion be a repeat in the year after drought: there's a drop in meat production as farmers are restocking their herds and send fewer numbers to the freezing works. All this moves through the country's economy in the form of less money to spend by farmers.
And it also sees fewer people employed. With unemployment now seemingly stuck above 5% for the foreseeable future
Construction to trickle rather than surge
A pick up in construction activity has been long forecast and it should be happening soon, for a variety of reasons. But the pick up may be gradual rather than the usual post-recession surge (and more of that, in a wider context, below)
Confidence in the sector is not as robust as the business mood surveys suggest.
Consents for new buildings have been approved – building consent data is usually one of the more reliable economic indicators because it is not based on surveys of what people say they will do, but on an actual process.
Yet obtaining consents is only the start of the matter, and there has been an unusual lag between consents being obtained and the building work actually starting.
There is enough pent-up demand to suggest construction should be taking off. The most obvious area is the Canterbury reconstruction, which should keep the industry busy for several years' to come.
There is also the Auckland factor. Construction work came to a virtual standstill when the recession hit in 2008 and has been flat since the recession officially ended in 2009.
That, plus migration, is the main reason for house price spikes in Auckland: supply is constrained as population numbers are growing.
Building standards are now higher, due to a mix of post-leaky building regulatory requirements and earthquake strengthening rules. So work is happening, but slowly and tentatively.
Into the valley of debt
The delayed pick up in construction is a sub-set of the wider slow pick up in growth. The economy stopped shrinking in 2009 and has been growing since. Just not very much.
The past three recessions have seen the New Zealand economy come out of the downturn with a hiss and a roar, usually with a burst of 4% plus growth.
The trouble is this has been driven, or at least accompanied, by a surge in debt accumulation, every time.
The two graphs accompanying this story tell the tale. Both taken from Reserve Bank data, they show why this recovery needs to be slow.
The first shows how private sector debt – mostly for housing – has been increasing above the rate of economic growth for much of the period.
The second shows how the actual value of the debt just kept going up, and up, and up, and has only tailed off since the 2008-09 crisis.
But the value of the debt remains high. The most recent 12-month period increase was 3.2% for the year to October, the lowest rate of increase for the entire period the Reserve Bank data covers.
But it remains high – at $307 billion.
The relevance for the coming few years is this: any recovery has to be slow. The world is much more nervous about high debt levels since the crisis and any major pick up in borrowing is going to be punished with either higher lending conditions oar higher interest rates.
New Zealand has maxed out its credit card and now begins the long payback of debt.
That is why economic growth is sluggish, running around 2-2.5% a year for the next few years. More cannot be expected.
The main consolation is most countries are in much worse shape.
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SOCHI, Russia — Russians will benefit from the Sochi Olympic Games for many years to come, deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak said Saturday.
Not only will athletes have winter sports training facilities for the first time since the break up of the Soviet Union almost 25 years ago, the country expects to see an increase in tourism.
"I am sure that all of us will preserve the memory of (the Games) in our hearts; the friendly faces, the warm Sochi sun and the glare of the Olympic gold have broken the ice of scepticism towards the new Russia," he said. "The Games have turned our country, its culture and the people into something that is a lot closer and more appealing and understandable for the rest of the world."
The Russians spent a reported $51 billion US on these Games — although Kozak insisted Saturday that most of it was private money, with just $1 billion US to fall on taxpayers — and in exchange is left with four winter resorts in one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Already popular in the summer due to its sub-tropical climate, the Sochi region now has hundreds of thousands of additional hotel rooms, hundreds of kilometres of railways and roads and a new port that can accommodate up to 50 cruise ships a year.
"Our objective was to transform this unique region, unique for our wintry country, we wanted to transform it into a modern world-class winter resort," Kozak said, adding the plan was in place long before Sochi was awarded the 2014 Olympics in Guatemala seven years go.
"The Olympic Games provided a great impetus and enabled us to accomplish this task in a record-breaking short period of time," he said. "It took six years of hard work and the involvement of thousands — of hundreds of thousands — of people, of Russians, of people from other countries. All of it combined to enable us to build a brand new state of the art city. Russia managed to prove to itself and the rest of the world that we can cope; that we are capable of making the impossible possible."
Kozak acknowldged that not all media reports have been positive. Concerns were raised about some of those hundreds of thousands of workers not being paid and about the lack of readiness of hotels, which Kozak said in some cases were exaggerated. Overall, he said, reports were positive.
"We proved by hosting the Olympics that we are capable of providing services at the highest possible level," he said. "I have never heard anybody speak badly about Russian hospitality once the Olympic Games kicked into gear, once the newsreels were filled to the brim with sporting news."
Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko has been involved in the Olympics since the bid stage, and is still amazed by the transformation he's seen in Sochi, his hometown.
"We have personal experience in witnessing how dramatically it has changed my native city," he said. "(This) was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not only for me and this particular city or entire region, but a unique chance for the country to show to the world. I hardly could have expected at the beginning of the journey that it would be as successful as it is now."
The biggest legacy may be the facilities left for elite competitions and training. The plan is to make this a hub for athletes, similar to Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, with an educational institute aimed at elite athletes.
"Thanks to the Games, it's the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union Russian athletes have a training base for all winter disciplines and sports," Kozak said. "The Olympic venues here in Sochi helped to create a winter centre, an international centre, where they have everything they need: training facilities, hotels and healthcare facilities, in this summer resort that is very popular among the Russians."
Sochi already has a committed to hosting a number of international sports competitions, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2017 world bobsleigh and skeleton championships.


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Slumdog Millionaire and the Ideology of Beauty
This makes me sad and worried for my underemployed colleagues and for my students, who work so hard, are so bright and talented, and love literature so much. Some of them are deft, inspiring teachers, too, who could do a lovely job helping people in other fields appreciate and enjoy the poetry and drama and fiction that can otherwise seem opaque. Well, I'm worried. Fish ends his essay fairly blithely: "I feel that I have timed it just right, for it seems that I have had a career that would not have been available to me had I entered the world 50 years later. Just lucky, I guess." Surely he's being ironic about such self-centeredness, right? Right?
Many thanks to my old friend Jill from Trinity who sent me the link. And for Jill's own post about fat and feminism (which coins the useful terms "sexbot" and "fuckability standards"), click to her blog.
Okay, very quickly: So James and I saw Slumdog Millionaire at The Ross the other night (it's still playing there, oh ye citizens of Star City). I enjoyed it very much--it's sweet, important, clever, heroic, and visually wow, and it managed to make my heart beat fast at the end, even when I knew what was coming--and had various quibbles with various aspects and various admiring things to say as we walked home in the falling snow.
But the one useful contribution I think I can make to the discourse mushrooming in its wake is this.
Much has been made of the film's rags-to-riches narrative and the fact that it was released in the United States, manufacturer of the American Dream, before it was released in India, that dream's new heir apparent. Supposedly, the story has appealed to U.S. audiences because we're still lingeringly invested in that dream, which now is slipping away from most people's grasp, as it has always been out of reach for most people of color and most poor people of all ethnicities. (Kudos to the film's producers and investors for planning to funnel some of their profits back to the slums of Mumbai.)
So here's just a small thought. In old versions of the dream, the beautiful, wealthy woman represented the grail, the seal of success on the protagonist's quest for upward mobility. Daisy for Gatsby, etc. Even in the beloved S.E. Hinton novels of her adolescence, laments Michelle Tea in Without a Net, the cool gang boys pined not for their fellow poverty-stricken female companions but for the society girls, groomed and clean in twin-sets and pearls.
In this regard, Slumdog Millionaire takes a giant leap forward, for its hero's only goal--his only reason for competing for the big bucks--is to reconnect with Latika, the impoverished girl he left behind. He is pure, noble, a Galahad of the gameshow. In Slumdog Millionaire, Woman, though goal, does not function as wealth-trophy, not as a symbol of having climbed at last that ladder to the moon or whatever folderol Fitzgerald was so invested in.
Hurray! You don't have to be a rich girl to be desired, loved. Poor girls can be loved and brought along, not left behind forever. Progress! Right?
But in terms of feminine beauty, Latika is just as much a prize.
The young woman who plays her, Freida Pinto, had been working as a model in Mumbai for two years when director Danny Boyle plucked her up for her film debut. Her beauty is the kind people might call "classic" without specifying that they mean "classic within a Western tradition." Her looks have cross-cultural appeal (read: they're not alarmingly Other to white eyes). She was picked for her beauty.
In contrast, Dev Patel, who plays Jamal, the male lead of the title, was chosen as a talented actor, one able to carry a film; he has been drawing attention since high school for his moving dramatic work, which is what he trained in. But he's hardly the looker Pinto is.
In fact, he sort of resembles a British-Indian David Schwimmer: endearing and appealing, yes. A sweet boy. "Classically" handsome? Not so much. Neither is the young man who plays Salim, Jamal's crooked brother. I'm not sure there were any "classically" handsome men populating the screen. (Maybe Irrfan Khan, the police inspector?)
I wouldn't go so far as to speculate about the sexist beauty ideologies of Danny Boyle, the director, or Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the screenplay, or the guy Vikas Swarup, who wrote the original novel on which the film was based, or anyone else involved.
I would just note for the record that Latika is a sweet and passive love-object, a sexualized token passed from one male character to another. She can only be saved by Jamal's cleverness and endurance; she's still a beauty token, the reward at the end of his quest. I would also note that folks are agitating for Boyle to share his Oscar nod with his female Indian co-director, Loveleen Tandan--who's all too happy to step modestly aside. (Hmm, a pattern? Perhaps that's the kind of woman Boyle prefers.) I would wonder how long it might be before a heralded narrative of male transformation includes a woman who is as ordinary-looking as the man himself.
And finally, I would note the film's one notable divergence from fairly straightforward representations of time. Of course, the narrative structure relies on flashbacks to Jamal's childhood, but those are visually straightforward and clearly signaled. Occasionally, a flash of Latika as forlorn child is inserted, in case viewers cannot tell from Patel's milky expression that he is Thinking of Her. But the one moment in which the filmic representation actually moves backward in time is at the very end. At last, the lovers are together. All shall be well. Jamal leans to kiss Latika's facial scar (imposed when she's disobeyed her most recent owner/master, and inflicted--whew!--without distorting any of her features). As the kiss is bestowed, the film suddenly flashes back to the moment in the train station when Latika is recaptured and cut, and then rewinds back through the brief scene to the moment when she is standing in sunlight, looking up adoringly at Patel. She is unmarred again, her skin pristine.
This, I think, is revealing of the director's ideology. The film doesn't rewind to undo Latika's rape by Salim, or her years of forced sexual servitude to the gangster Javed, or her various abandonments and privations as a child. (As if anything could.) Rather, Jamal's kiss, the gift of love, restores her to perfect beauty. Jamal's kiss symbolically restores her to a state that functions for the pleasure and consumption of himself and others, not for the benefit of her own subjectivity.
Hawthorne couldn't have made a creepier statement.
Faye said:
Joy, I wish you the best of experiences with your review...as your former (and hopefully future) student, I feel very privileged to have had you as a teacher.
I also saw Slumdog Millionaire this weekend and really enjoyed the film. Just to make one small point that I did feel was positive about the love Jamal had for Latika...there was never any indication anywhere that her having been raped or horribly used by men throughout her young life made an ounce of difference to Jamal's vision of her as perfect...or necessarily to what she thought of herself. Having lived through such impoverished childhoods, there was never any suggestion that the poverty or evils forced upon them changed who they were as human beings, altered their value as individuals or made a difference in what they deserved in life or their right to be loved. I liked that.February 2, 2009 5:29 PM
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Joy--Excellent post. Those same things bothered me about SlumDog, but I was not able to articulate them to myself the way you have.
Did you read the book Q&A, on which the movie was based? In the book, Latika ends up saving the day as she, having become a high-powered lawyer, swoops in to save Jamal when he's accused of cheating on the game show. But in the movie, Latika is passive. So basically the filmmakers removed her power in the adaptation, and they are being rewarded for that product with talk of Oscars, etc.
I wrote to Feministing about this, also, in a panic. = )
Just one more reason to disdain the Oscars, in my opinion.
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Well hello folks,
As promised it was a very special year. And it's come full circle as we end the year's Vacation Mystery Hour with the final segment. Who knows what will come in the future. In 2 days it seems I'll be disappearing into the wilds of Northern Myanmar to socialize with exotic animal poachers and smugglers. Not my ideal choice of company but my travelling companion will more than make up for that. It appears to be an expensive trip as it stands. We'll see how the old pochette livre holds up.
Here we have a reminisce of about 10 months ago combined with a few new tidbits. My time in Shangrila is interspersed with memories of my youth and present. I hope you enjoy.
Socialized children
A peeping tom's ears: music from an old person's workshop
Chinese Furniture Review 1
Guangchang Dance Indecision
Travelbuzzkill ABaum Ruins the Day Again
Comedy Break
A Trip to the Spa
Quincey Enok – Ugly World
A Quiet Ending
See you all next season.
Confusing Times
Posted by: ABaum
Our dear hero, me, is suffering from age-related issues. Mostly remembering where I am in the VMH Podcast world but that's never really mattered much anyway. What we have here is a pleasant selection of bits and bobs for you to peruse. We hear of ancient battles, and get a bit more of a glimpse in the the crazy past/future world of the present as it was. Come. Enjoy.
Special prizes this week go out to those of you who can tell me what special recording method I used on the song. You'll know the one. If you don't, you lose automatically. If you do, maybe you'll get the prize.
Pheromoans – Kevin Costner's Best
Peter Jefferies – Chain or Reaction
Wooden Wand – The Forgiveness Factory
And a very special sudden ending…
More to come.
Dearest Fans
Posted by: ABaum
I bid you a sweet hello. The time apart has been vicious. The times we have now, so dear. I believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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So unattractive, yet not attractive (more…)
Heavy Weights
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Good evening, everyone.
I trust you're doing well. Here we have the latest in a saga of radio plays. Remember, listener submissions are always welcome.
This riveting tale of romance and bodybuilding brings us into the heart of the soulless box that is the gym, a place to vacate and submit to endless routine.
As we all know, lifting weights for no man, so let's join our hero…
The Vacation Begins
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Good evening. I hope you're all well and good. In this episode, we seem to skip an episode. Why is that? Did I overlook? I haven't a clue but I'm sure I'll get to the bottom of it one day. Perhaps what was missed will be found again or perhaps it was just missed. At any rate, here we find Episode 3 of Season 6 of ABaum's Vinyl Mystery Hour. It's the Vacation series. In this series, I planned to do a little time travel. It is relatively successful and I hope you enjoy. I'm off for the weekend to a far off locale. I hope that you make time in your busy day for such lovely things as a calming glimpse in to the world of vacation.
In this very special episode we can hear:
Quincey's Queer – Sunshine Today
Sandwich – Assisted Living
B-Lines – Social Retard
All this paired with harrowing tales of diving, skullduggery and a sentimental promotion of wedded bliss between two beautiful people.
The Radio Play
Posted by: ABaum
This is my first radio play. It was written by a fan of the show who wishes to remain anonymous. It's not one of the members of anonymous, though. I like radio plays. I always have. I particularly enjoy Wiretap and Getting On more recently. Sometimes I think I copy Urbaniak a little. But then I listen to shows I did before I listened to him and don't think that's the case. Perhaps he'll just encourage me to leave in those pauses that I often delete.
Enjoy this.
Abaum's VMH Radio Play Edition: S01E01 – In Capitalist Canada You Watch the Party
In Capitalist Canada You Watch The Party
S06E01 The Birthday
Posted by: ABaum
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It has been a while and here is almost 2/3rds of a VMH for your enjoyment. I hope you like it. In this episode we have a couple firsts. Enjoy the tantalizing tales of food! Salivate over the interview where ABaum definitely has fewer morals than his unshakable interviewee! Then do some other pretty normal stuff.
In this very special episode we can hear:
One Hundred Dollars – My Father's House
Myelin Sheaths – Do the Mental Twist
R. Stevie Moore – Dirty Woman
Ding Ji – Some Chinese song
ABaum – *It's a surprise (not you Quincey)*
It Starts with the Children
Posted by: ABaum
Hello and welcome back.
Perhaps you've missed me. Perhaps not but needless to say, we've got some very special things brewing on the horizon. A ghastly tour of a roach motel, a string of violent beheadings and…well I can't spoil it all at once. Speaking of spoiled, look at this lucky little boy.
S05E05 An Emotional Celebration
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Here it is, folks. The one that you've been waiting for that doesn't quite include everything you wanted. In this special episode, we deal with some troubling issues for myself, personal space in public, and the trials and tribulations of not owning a drum.
Featuring live recordings from around the world…China, Canada, Thailand
A Poetic Preview
Posted by: ABaum
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Sunken, sloshy
The great ogre slumps upon
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the cause of his violence.
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Swollen, flashy
The grave mother smoulders on
the tear, make-up heavy tonight
body feeding smoke, drinks
the child, she's slave, silenced
Dank and, dreary
Sullen, chirpy
The ancient man, shuffles on
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Nicki presents the latest advances in human emotion.
Anyone else notice a recent trend in Nicki Minaj's Instagram photos? Over the past few weeks, the "Lookin' Ass" rapper's selfies have taken a turn for the non-emoting neutral-face. Obviously, she still looks stunning and all (HDU), but we're used to seeing Nicki be a little more…
…expressive? IDK, maybe it's all part of Nicki's new stripped-down look — no more costumes, no more colors, no more crazy faces? Did she change up the emotional game, too? Is simple the new OTT? Is this related to normcore?? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN. #EternalTruther
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An actor friend of mine says he always wants to be the worst performer in everything he's in, because if the rest of the cast is doing stronger work than he is, that means the show is in really, really good shape. With that in mind, any actor worth his or her salt would be thrilled to be the worst performer among these five ensembles.
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Near as I can tell, there are two types of people: those who like Reginald Rose's jury-room drama 12 Angry Men, and those who haven't seen it yet. So speedy and smart, so filled with personality and (mostly) unforced emotion, the work seems practically indestructible, and I actually fall into a special subset of people: those who love 12 Angry Men with a passion bordering on mania. (Between Sidney Lumet's 1957 film version and the 1997 television remake, I've watched it - and this is a conservative estimate - more than three dozen times.) So it was with nearly delirious excitement, and just a touch of dread, that I attended the Playcrafters Barn Theatre's Saturday-night presentation of the show, the first stage production of Rose's piece that I'd seen.
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Okay, I'll admit it. I love marbles. There is something so soothing (and addicting) about releasing a marble at the top of a track and watching it twist, turn, and roll all the way to the bottom. So I was very excited to discover the
Skyrail Roller Coaster
! This 150-piece construction set features nine yards of glow-in-the-dark track (straight and curved), various clips and supports, two different types of marbles (four each of glass and steel), and an instruction manual. The instruction manual shows five roller coaster models, some using extra supports such as books and chairs. The models are clearly illustrated, but they are not shown with step-by-step building instructions such as you would find in a Lego set.
Even after following the instructions to build a roller coaster, children will need to tinker with it a bit to make the marbles run successfully. The first couple of runs will probably send marbles flying all over your living room. But my children seemed to like this part best of all; I think it gave them a feeling of ownership in their creation. Their delight when a marble successfully made it through three loops in a row was contagious, and I simply had to join the fun!
As children build and play with various marble runs, they are investigating the principles of physics and mechanics in a fun and exciting way. They will explore speed, acceleration and deceleration, gravity, centrifugal force, kinetic energy, inertia, and friction. The instruction manual gives some ideas for simple games and experiments to try. All this, and fun too! What more could a homeschooling parent ask for?
Now for some nitty gritty details you might like to know. This product is made in Italy by a company called Quercetti. The pieces are extremely sturdy and have stood up beautifully to the four rambunctious boys in my family. Just about any marble will run on the track, not only the ones provided, so feel free to experiment with different sizes and weights. About the only negative thing I can say about this product is that it has taken over my entire living room and distracted my children from their book studies. Oh well, it is summer!
One final warning: this product is not recommended for very young children who might put marbles in their mouths. The recommended age is six and up, although I suggest that eight and up is more appropriate because of the problem solving required to make the runs work successfully. A fabulous product and highly recommended!
—Product review by: Heather Jackowitz, Senior Product Reviewer, The Old Schoolhouse
Magazine, LLC, June 2008.
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