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By Pamela Zoslov
In 2008, Woody Allen said that he isn't an intellectual. "I'm
basically a low-culture person," he said to a group of film
critics, including me. "I'm not saying I'm an insensitive Neanderthal. But basically, I'm the guy who's watching the playoffs and drinking a Beck's. I'm not at the opera. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of people thinking I'm an intellectual." Here is what I wrote at the time:
fans have mistaken a beer-drinking, Knicks-watchings shlub for an
intellectual, it's understandable: Allen's movies are studded with
references to Kafka, Freud and Tolstoy, and his filmography includes
homages to Bergman and Fellini. But beneath it all, he insists,
beats the heart of a comedy writer. During his nightclub days,
audiences assumed, based on his bookish appearance, that he was an
academic type, and the persona stuck. When he wrote jokes, he says,
it seemed funny to drop names like "Kierkegaard." "I
learned to utilize the intellectual patois," he says. "It's
just a skill. People think of me seriously than I really am."
(Sadly, many people — myself firmly excluded — now have darker
opinions of Woody Allen.)
new film, his 50th
by the way, is Irrational
It gives voice to Allen's lifelong philosophical questing, while also
laughing at itself for doing so. The screenplay doesn't merely drop
the names of Kierkegaard and Kant and Heidegger and Nietzsche, it
wrestles extensively with issues of ethics, existence, morality and
seeker is Abe Lucas, a philosophy professor played by Joaquin
Phoenix. Lucas joins the faculty of Braylin, a liberal-arts college
in Rhode Island, and his reputation precedes him. Dark, moody and
handsome, Abe is said to be haunted by a divorce, or the death of his
friend in Iraq, who was beheaded or, alternately, stepped on a land
mine. Abe drinks to excess and broods ceaselessly. Jill (Emma Stone),
a gifted undergraduate, is particularly taken with the troubled
professor, to the annoyance of her boyfriend, Roy (Jamie Blackley).
Roy predicts, accurately, that Jill will fall in love with Abe.
however, has competition for Abe's affections. Rita (Parker Posey),
an unhappily married science professor, determines to get Abe into
her bed. Rita also wants to run away with Abe to Spain, a destination
she considers "romantic."
as a writer and as a lover, Abe is too tormented to perform sexually
with Rita, who offers to "unblock" him. For a while, Abe even
resists becoming more than friends with his smitten student, Jill.
The college community witnesses the depth of Abe's gloom when Jill
and Roy take him to a party, where he plays a one-man game of Russian
Roulette, spinning the cylinder and pulling the trigger not once, but
behavior is alarming, but it's catnip to Jill. "He's so
self-destructive, but so brilliant," she muses. "There's
something about his pain that's exciting. He's truly an original
thinker." Allen winks at the romantic naïvete of young women, but
also makes Jill the smartest person in the film, the only one who
sees what's going on.
a diner one day, Abe and Jill overhear a conversation that inspires
Abe to consider something radical: committing a murder. With echoes
of Crime and Punishment, Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors
and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, the plan to commit a
seemingly motiveless murder rejuvenates Abe. Suddenly he has a zest
for life and love and sex and hearty breakfasts. He even wins a prize
for Jill at an amusement park (that setting also recalling Strangers
on a Train). Like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, Abe feels like an
extraordinary man, one whose act of killing will make the world a
better place. He's thrilled to be making transition from "man of
thought" to "man of action." He stalks his prey, feeling fully
alive while planning to take a life. What seemed like genius now
looks like madness.
comedy" is something Allen does well, notably in the Marshall
Brickman collaboration Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). This
latest dark comedy is a little thinner, and a bit abrupt in its
ending, but it's beautifully made, as always with Allen, whose basic
filmmaking craftsmanship is often taken for granted. The plot is
brisk and absorbing, the casting is perfection, and the music —
classic mid-'60s jazz by the Ramsey Lewis Trio — could not be more
Friday, August 7, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
"He Didn't Have No Weapon"
On Friday afternoon, March 20, people slowly trickled by the Parkwood Grocery store in Cleveland's Glenville neighborhood, where Brandon Jones, 18, was shot and killed by police early Thursday morning after a reported theft. Standing next to a makeshift utility-pole memorial, his aunt, Michelle, talked of the pain of losing her nephew, and the shock of learning of his death. "My family were all screaming and crying, saying, 'It's him!'"
"He was wrong," she says of the young man who was known by his middle name, David. "But they didn't have to kill him. He didn't have no weapon." Her children are missing their cousin. "How do I tell my kids? They keep asking, 'Where's Dave? Where's Dave?'"
(Photos and text by Pamela Zoslov)
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Movie Review: The Wrecking Crew
Coming of age in the '60s meant experiencing a lot of disillusionment. Cigarettes, it turned out, weren't good for you. Leaders weren't murdered by lone gunmen. Nobody attacked our ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. A president, despite his denials, was a crook. And, your favorite bands did not all live together in a house, and they didn't play on their own records.
Anyone over the age of nine knew that the Monkees, the made-for-television group, didn't play the instruments they mimed on TV, but what about the Byrds, a group revered for its musicianship? Wasn't Dennis Wilson banging the drums on the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations"? What about the Association, Jan and Dean, the Mamas and Papas, Simon and Garfunkel and Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass?
The truth is complicated, and has more to do with the record business in the '60s than with the bands. Time is money, and producers, rather than herding the squabbling, less experienced band members, would hire the top studio session players, who not only could play the music brilliantly, but could also improvise and arrange, adding that catchy bass line, for instance, that would ensure a hit song. (Think of "Windy" and "The Beat Goes On.") The practice harmonized with the music business' migration from New York to L.A., the land of swaying palm trees and illusion.
The top players, an anonymous crew of about 20 versatile virtuosos, became known latterly as the Wrecking Crew, supposedly because it was said their rock-and-roll playing would "wreck" the music industry. The group included some future solo stars: guitarist Glen Campbell, who played on "everything," and keyboardist Leon Russell, who says playing on demos earned him $10 a song, which meant "I got to eat that day." The talented session players are the focus of The Wrecking Crew, a marvelously entertaining documentary by Denny Tedesco. The film was completed in 2008 but delayed from general release because of record companies' exorbitant fee demands for the song excerpts.
Tedesco is the son of the late guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and the film is in part a tribute to his father, a humble, affable fellow shown in home movies giving funny musical talks about his session-playing days. Tedesco, known as the "King of L.A. guitar soloists," had a long career even after the Wrecking Crew days, playing music for innumerable TV shows and films. His son's film features illuminating interviews with the musicians (many who have since died), producers and recording artists. Like Dorothy's Toto, it pulls back the curtain on the cynical machinery behind popular music. It is a companion piece to the documentaries Standing in the Shadows of Motown, about the Motown house band the Funk Brothers, and 20 Feet From Stardom, about backup singers.
No one should be surprised that singing groups like Sonny & Cher, the Righteous Brothers or the Fifth Dimension were backed by studio musicians on their records, but with rock bands, there was sometimes wounded pride. Cheery Micky Dolenz, an actor before being recruited for the Monkees, always recognized that the group was a TV act, but Peter Tork, a musician, was disillusioned when he showed up at a recording session with his guitar and was told to sit in the corner. He was naïve then, Tork admits, adding that now he would do exactly what those producers did. (The Monkees did eventually learn to play their own live dates.) The Beach Boys were a chimera that might be better described as "The Brian Wilson Project." Wilson relished working with the Wrecking Crew players, who could execute his visionary arrangements. When he was just Jim, the Byrds' Roger McGuinn was a session player, and he loved playing with the facile Wrecking Crew on the Byrds albums. That's Glen Campbell, by the way, playing the distinctive solo on "Mr. Tambourine Man."
The film profiles the individual Wrecking Crew musicians, many of whom are on hand to reminisce. There is Carole Kaye, the ensemble's only woman,who is one of America's most talented, prolific and least known bassists. She started out as a bebop jazz musician and contributed her genius to scores of records by the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Joe Cocker, Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Frank Zappa and many more. Think of her when you hear her distinctive bass line on "Wichita Lineman," a song she says "meant a lot to me."
Saxophonist Plas Johnson, a New Orleans-based jazz player, was recruited by Capitol Records in the mid-'50s after backing B.B. King and Johnny Otis, and played on countless records and movie soundtracks (that's him on the "Pink Panther Theme" and "The Odd Couple"). Guitarist Bill Pitman, now 95, a session man discovered and brought into rock and roll by Phil Spector. Pitman is known for the distinctive ukulele on "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" as well as his work on numerous rock albums, TV shows and movies. Drummer Earl Palmer, an influential New Orleans jazz musician with a low regard for rock and roll, backed Fats Domino, Little Richard and other NOLA artists before joining the Wrecking Crew, playing and recording nonstop during the ensemble's heyday and going on to work continuously in film and TV. (Palmer died in 2008.)
Life on the Wrecking Crew had its benefits, including steady work and high pay; Carole Kaye recalls that at one time, "I was making more money than the president of the United States." But the nonstop session work also wreaked havoc on family life, leading to divorces and children rarely seen. Then there was the record companies' cupidity. A great many instrumental albums of the Wrecking Crews' music were released, bearing the names of fictional groups like The Marketts. The session musicians received no liner credit, and the album jackets featured photos of clean-cut young men purported to be the artists.
The revelations of studio legerdemain might be surprising, but the essence of the hit song is the song -- the gorgeous lyrics of the Byrds' Gene Clark, Jimmy Webb's transcendental poetry, Brian Wilson's aching yearnings for eternal summer. The studio polish just enhanced their expression. Many of the bands of the era were accomplished players -- just not up to the one-take perfection producers demanded.
The early '70s were more artist-driven, and such fakery was no longer acceptable. Musicians began bringing their own sidemen to recording sessions. The golden decade of the Wrecking Crew came to a close. "It was never meant to last, this magical bubble," songwriter Jimmy Webb says wistfully. -- Pamela Zoslov 2015
Friday, March 28, 2014
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story
Michael Lee Nirenberg says he had no idea his dad, Bill Nirenberg, had been "a pornographer." The senior Nirenberg worked for many years as art director of Hustler magazine, and is one of the sources for Michael's excellent documentary, Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story, playing this weekend as part of the Cleveland International Film Festival. The film provides a riveting history of Hustler's raunchy empire, from a four-page black-and-white newsletter to a multimillion-dollar media enterprise, and an insiders' view of what it was like to work for the mercurial, volatile and very shrewd Larry Flynt.
Nirenberg has asssembled many of the prominent players in the skin-mag trade to reflect on Hustler and Flynt, including porn star/mogul Ron Jeremy, photographer Suze Randall, friendly competitor and collaborator Al Goldstein of Screw magazine, a slew of former staff artists, writers and editors, even the Cincinnati prosecutor who brought Flynt to trial on obscenity charges in 1976 and still thinks the 25-year sentence Flynt received – since overturned – was fair. A news clip of anchorman Tom Brokaw contemptuously pronouncing Flynt a "smut peddler" is retrospectively amusing.
The speakers provide interesting insight into what made Hustler, the unreservedly crude, calculatedly tasteless magazine, unique. Ron Jeremy provides this assessment: Playboy models represented "the girl next door," who the average male reader considered unattainable; Bob Guccione's Penthouse featured the "rich bitch" fashion model, also unattainable; and Hustler proffered a "raunchy, horny," more down-market girl, who might be at home on the back of a motorcycle. "I got a shot with this girl," thinks Joe Average, the one-handed reader.
The magazine built its notoriety on "pink," the spread-legged, gynecological photos the "classier" magazines wouldn't run, as well as the tasteless but admittedly funny cartoons. (A former staffer aptly describes Hustler as "National Lampoon with more titties.") One reason Hustler could publish these pictures, as well as bold political exposés, gross and violent imagery, nude pictures of Jackie O., and scabrous features like "Asshole of the Month," was that Flynt eschewed mainstream advertising, relying almost entirely on adult ads and newsstand sales. He also refused cigarette ads, so was free to print sharp ad parodies like the one that read "Welcome to Marlboro Country" over a photo of patients in a cancer ward.
There is much ground to cover in the story of Larry Flynt, and Nirenberg puts it together in a swift package, interspersing the revealing interviews with fast flips through Hustler's back pages, as well as the many headlines accrued by the notorious Mr. Flynt, Hustler's seemingly immortal clown prince. We hear about Flynt's conversion in 1978 to evangelical Christianity, under the auspices of Ruth Carter Stapleton, in 1977; he remained "born again" only briefly, later declaring himself an atheist. In the film, he says he has bipolar disorder.
There is his marriage to his much-loved fourth wife, Althea, a former stripper who ran Hustler with an iron fist while Flynt was recovering from injuries suffered from an attempted assassination, and died in 1987 of AIDS. Flynt, partially paralyzed, has required a wheelchair since the 1978 shooting. He was in almost constant pain for years, which caused him to become addicted to painkillers; multiple surgeries finally eliminated his pain, but medications caused him to suffer a stroke, which has made his speech slurred. There were insane, coke-fueled years at the magazine, vividly described by former staffers, insane, wildly extravagant photo shoots, explosive editors who threw things at employees. There was Flynt's short-lived run for President. And there are many more astonishing episodes in the life of Flynt, some only glancingly touched on in this film.
The most interesting chapter of Flynt's life concerns his emergence as an unlikely First Amendment champion. His high-profile legal battles made him the subject of famous Constitutional law cases. One argument resulting from the Cincinnati prosecution reached the U.S. Supreme Court, and became the subject of the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson. Another legal triumph was Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, in which Jerry Falwell sued Hustler for libel over a parody ad that described the evangelist as having lost his virginity to his mother in an outhouse. Though the page was clearly labeled "ad parody," Falwell sued, and the Court held that public figures cannot recover damages for emotional distress based on parodies, an important Constitutional precedent that is still, as Flynt points out, taught in law schools today. (Interestingly, Falwell and Flynt later became friends.)
There have been several films, fiction and non-fiction, about Flynt, but Back Issues provides a unique behind-the-scenes view of the stressful day-to-day workings at Hustler — not, save for the "pink" and the fake excrement, so different from other magazines. "It was a lot of fun and a lot of pressure," says Bill Nirenberg, who went on to do other things but, he says, "nothing as exciting."
Late in the film, the interviewees provide a wistful lament for the way things used to be, before the Internet made pornography so easily accessible, and people could still be shocked. "We were lucky," says photographer Suze Randall, "to have taboos to break."
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
By Pamela Zoslov
"Love/hate relationship with Wes" and "Can't stand quirky for quirky's sake" are the titles of two contentious comment threads on the movie website imdb.com. Participants in these conversations vociferously debate the merits of director-writer Wes Anderson, who is known for his quirky, stylized films, the eighth of which is The Grand Budapest Hotel. Set in an aging, once-elegant hotel in the mythical Republic of Zubrowka, it is perhaps the apotheosis of Anderson's stagebound, confectionary style. And, like the Courtisane au Chocolate, the fancy pastry that figures in the movie's Byzantine plot, it may be too cloying for some.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Typecasting: "Populaire"
By Pamela Zoslov
sets off pleasant waves of nostalgia, if, like me, you miss the satisfying sounds and feeling of a manual typewriter. A stylistic and thematic hommage to American romantic comedies of the late 1950s, the movie tells the story of Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François), a shy young woman from a Normandy village who, tired of working in her father's general store and unwilling to marry the son of the town mechanic, dreams of being a secretary. She practices tirelessly on a portable Triumph typewriter. According to Rose, "A secretary means being modern."
sets off pleasant waves of nostalgia, if, like me, you miss the satisfying sounds and feeling of a manual typewriter. A stylistic and thematic hommage to American romantic comedies of the late 1950s, the movie tells the story of Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François), a shy young woman from a Normandy village who, tired of working in her father's general store and unwilling to marry the son of the town mechanic, dreams of being a secretary. She practices tirelessly on a portable Triumph typewriter. According to Rose, "A secretary means being modern."
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Jane's Addiction
Movie Review: Austenland
By Pamela Zoslov
I'll be honest: I never really "got" the obsession with Jane Austen. I read the novels required in high school and college — Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, some others I've forgotten — and found nothing magical in their themes of love and courtship among the landed gentry and genteel poor in 18th-century England. I realize Austen's prose is prized for its ironic tone and wry commentary on marriage as a way of elevating a young woman's social standing, but if I want social satire, I'll take Anita Loos. I have never been a fan of costume drama, and the "Janeite" cult that has spawned innumerable Austen film adaptations and meta-books and movies about women obsessed with Austen, eludes me.
I can understand, though, why Jane Hayes, the heroine of Austenland, is fixated on Austen's novels, in particular the aloof romantic ideal of Mr. Darcy as portrayed by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane (charming Keri Russell of Waitress fame) is in her thirties, unmarried, and all her boyfriends have been disappointing. None of them, of course, can compare to the fictional Fitzwilliam Darcy, a life-size cardboard standup of whom — in the guise of the chin-challenged Colin Firth — stands proudly in Jane's frilly, Austen-bedecked bedroom. So frustrated by Jane's fixation is one suitor that he hauls off and punches Firth's smug paperboard face.
By Pamela Zoslov
|Keri Russell and her would-be suitors.
I'll be honest: I never really "got" the obsession with Jane Austen. I read the novels required in high school and college — Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, some others I've forgotten — and found nothing magical in their themes of love and courtship among the landed gentry and genteel poor in 18th-century England. I realize Austen's prose is prized for its ironic tone and wry commentary on marriage as a way of elevating a young woman's social standing, but if I want social satire, I'll take Anita Loos. I have never been a fan of costume drama, and the "Janeite" cult that has spawned innumerable Austen film adaptations and meta-books and movies about women obsessed with Austen, eludes me.
I can understand, though, why Jane Hayes, the heroine of Austenland, is fixated on Austen's novels, in particular the aloof romantic ideal of Mr. Darcy as portrayed by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane (charming Keri Russell of Waitress fame) is in her thirties, unmarried, and all her boyfriends have been disappointing. None of them, of course, can compare to the fictional Fitzwilliam Darcy, a life-size cardboard standup of whom — in the guise of the chin-challenged Colin Firth — stands proudly in Jane's frilly, Austen-bedecked bedroom. So frustrated by Jane's fixation is one suitor that he hauls off and punches Firth's smug paperboard face.
Austenland is adapted from Shannon Hale's novel of the same title, a breezy "chick lit" story that has Jane Hayes inheriting from her wealthy aunt a paid trip to Austenland, a kind of Jane Austen theme park offering an immersive "Austen experience" at an English country estate, complete with Regency gowns and manners, pheasant hunting, needlepoint, games of whist, and a simulated romantic happy ending with one of several hired actors. The movie was directed and co-scripted (with the book's author) by Jerusha Hess, creator with husband Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite, and the pairing of her absurdist sensibility with the novel's light premise is promising. Humorous energy pervades the opening, which dispenses with the story of Jane's aunt's bequest and has Jane, in romantic desperation, spending her last dollar on the Austenland adventure, with the help of a sleazy-looking travel agent reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite's stuck-in-the-'70s uncle.
Hess' absurdist style surrenders all too quickly to bland silliness as we meet Jane's fellow Austenland visitor, a blowsy middle-aged doyenne calling herself "Miss Elizabeth Charming." Elizabeth, who is looking for sexy fun rather than an Austen experience, is played by Jennifer Coolidge, whose outsize manner and looks have added amusing punctuation to several Christopher Guest comedies. Coolidge's character here, spouting witless lines in a stagy Eliza Doolittle accent, is cartoonish rather than funny, though I did laugh when she gushed, "Look, a car from the 1800s!"
Elizabeth and Jane are whisked off to the estate and Jane learns from the evil proprietess, Mrs. Wattelsbrook (Jane Seymour), that because she's paid only for the basic package, her accommodations are considerably more humble than the others guests'. Each client is given a scripted narrative, and Jane, owing to her lack of funds, is cruelly cast as "an orphan of no fortune." She's dubbed "Miss Erstwhile" — another way of saying "has-been" — and relegated to sleeping in the servants' quarters and wearing drab gray gowns. Jane's experience, it seems, is to be more Jane Eyre than Jane Austen.
The gentlemen who populate this fantasy retreat are Col. Andrews (James Callis), Mr. Wattlesbrook (Rupert Vansittart), the proprietess' old, libidinous husband; and Mr. Henry Nobley (JJ Feild), the supercilious "Mr. Darcy" type. Jane, ostracized by the other guests and players, takes her romantic fantasy where she finds it, in the arms of the stable hand, Martin (Bret McKenzie). Jane thinks she's having a defiant"off-plan" romance as Martin shares with her his love of Billy Ocean songs and enables her to witness the birth of a foal — "the miracle of life" he says in his New Zealand accent that Jane somehow mistakes for British. After enlisting Elizabeth to fancy up her hair and gowns, Jane becomes an object of desire, pursued by some of the other actors, including Mr. Nobley. Who is real and who is acting in what Nobley calls "a dangerous game"? In this story, the lines between fiction and reality are blurred.
The funny movie lurking in this premise, suggested by a goofy end-credits sequence set to Nelly's "Hot in Here," is never quite realized. The film is wobbily paced and only fitfully amusing, relying too heavily on Coolidge's malapropisms and heaving bosom. And yet the movie has its charms – a likeable cast, a zesty spirit and a blithe optimism that's balm for the romantically wounded.
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Don't forget to support the Saluda Library fundraiser: renowned artist Bill Jameson donated a lovely oil painting to be raffled off to benefit our library. The drawing will be held during the Hometown Christmas evening at the library.
Bring the kids for the Children's Christmas Workshop at Saluda Fire Department on Greenville Street; it's from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Dec. 15.
The second-annual Christmas Parade with everything from dogs, Santa, and firetrucks is Dec. 15, 3 p.m.
There'll be a special holiday Saluda tailgate market, Dec. 15 from 1-3 p.m. at the West Main Street parking lot.
Saluda Center at 64 Greenville Street will have a reception for Jim Carson and his France-inspired paintings, Dec. 15, 5-7 p.m.
Saluda Dog Society 2nd annual dog show will be Dec. 15 at the tennis courts at Saluda Elementary School. Registration starts at 1 p.m.; show at 2 p.m.
Generous spirits have started the Saluda Welcome Table every Tuesday: dinner is served for anyone who'd like to come enjoy companionship and connection from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Saluda United Methodist Church fellowship hall. The meal is free; donations appreciated; all welcome.
Jeanette Shackelford will play piano for an Advent recital at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Tryon, Dec. 19 at noon. Wanda May will sing.
Saluda School's PTSO needs donations of small gift items for their Christmas Bazaar: students can purchase gifts for family and friends. Drop donations at the school office before Dec. 19.
Please remember Autumn Care residents … many would appreciate a visit, a card or a kind gesture during the holidays. Autumn Care of Saluda is located at 501 Esseola Drive; for more information call 828-749-2261.
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Published: Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 10:32 a.m.
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Four days from now, our beloved Florida Gators will be playing the No. 1 ranked Ohio State in the NCAA Football National Championship game. The big question is what to do in the meantime? How to pass the days waiting for the big game?
Ive got two words for you: Football Movies.
Invincible is the latest pigskin epic to hit DVD and video. It is the best kind of sports movie the kind where a regular Joe overcomes all odds to achieve his dreams. Or, in movie critic shorthand, its a Rudy movie.
Mark Wahlberg stars as Vince Papale, a bartender in Philadelphia who is a stalwart fan of Eagles football. Having suffered a few personal setbacks, Papale decides to show up for an open tryout for the Eagles. . . and somehow, he makes the cut. Although he isnt the fastest or the strongest, Papales heart and passion for the game not only put him on the team, but inspires the entire city.
The story may sound corny and unbelievable, but in fact Invincible is based on a true story. Papale was a real man, and years after his moment in the sun he is still considered a local hero in Philly.
Invincible is a solid, enjoyable football flick. The acting is good, the story is inspiring, and most importantly, the football scenes are good. If youve ever seen a sports movie, Invincible isnt anything you havent seen before, but if you enjoy sports movies, this is definitely one to check out.
And if you want to know why Wahlberg looks so impressive in the smash-and-tackle football scenes, the answer is easy his football stunt double is UFs own Travis McGriff.
Invincible is the best Rudy movie since Rudy, but it still aint Rudy.
Rudy for the uninitiated, is the ultimate underdog sports story. Also based on a true story, it involves a kid who dreams of playing ball for Notre Dame. But hes got even more roadblocks in his path than Vince Papale Rudy has average grades, average athletic skills, and hes way, way too small to play college football.
None of these things stand in his way for long, because Rudy (played excellently by Sean the Fat Hobbit Astin) has the drive of 10 men, and refuses to let anyone dissuade him from his seemingly unreachable goal.
Rudy doesnt try to reinvent the wheel. It is content to be an underdog story that yanks on your heartstrings but that said, this is the single best underdog sports movie of all time. Its so good that it almost makes a person want to become a Notre Dame fan. . . not quite, but almost. And if you can watch the grand finale of this film and not be moved then you are not a real football fan; in fact, youre probably a robot.
There are other types of football movies besides Rudy Movies.
Remember the Titans equates football and race relations, showing the level playing field of the game can bring people together regardless of differences. Friday Night Lights is a gritty drama that shows how serious high school football can be. And Varsity Blues shows us what would happen if Dawsons Creek was not populated with wimps.
North Dallas Forty is a ribald but hilarious look at the locker room antics of a pro ball club. Any Given Sunday is a football epic from Oliver Stone, and although it's interesting, its less of a football movie and more of an Oliver Stone movie. The Longest Yard is a great movie about prison football the Burt Reynolds one, not the Adam Sandler version.
The Waterboy is an Adam Sandler football flick that is funny. And if you look closely at the West Mississippi linebackers, you might even catch a glimpse of former Gator player and local TV star James Bates Jr.
I would be remiss in not mentioning Drumline which isnt about football, per se, but about the marching bands that play at halftime. Its easy to say its the best movie ever about halftime shows, because I cant think of any other movies about halftime shows.
Superroni is a movie about flag football. You may think that flag football doesnt count as real football . . . and youd be right. But this little movie was born in the heart of the Gator Nation, filmed in Florida, and features appearances by a handful of Gator grads, athletes, and former Jacksonville Jaguar stars.
Superroni: Flag Footballs Underdogs is a low budget comedy done in the mock-documentary style. It focuses on a flag football team preparing for the biggest game of their lives, playing for the flag championship against Rocky Top . . . despite having never won a game.
Many of the cast and crew for the film are UF grads. Tony Boselli, Kevin Hardy, Dexter Jackson, Chris Luzar, and other athletes with ties to North Florida all contribute cameos.
In the spirit of low budget indie filmmaking, Superroni is a great first effort from a production team that with a little polish and a few bucks could follow in the footsteps of Broken Lizard. And not only is the movie funny, but its also family friendly, with no swearing or nudity (ordinarily, this is a bad thing, but in this case it works). While the film isnt available at Blockbuster or Hollywood just yet, you can check it out at www.SRmovie.com.
The funniest moment goes to an athlete named Bill Dorsey, who was the defensive captain for the Gators in the 1960s, who plays a flag football coach called The Destroyer. As he recounts a tragic tackle he made as a kid, he says I didnt mean the hurt the guy . . . I just meant to destroy him. Thats all.
Which is exactly how I and many other Gator fans feel about the Ohio State game we dont want the Gators to hurt them, just to destroy them. Thats all.
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radvet Dec 3, 2008 4:43 PM
in response to ics2j2kMy macbook pro is 2-3 years old. My battery takes a while to charge and then once charged will only last 40 minutes.
I looked at the power info and under health info, it only has 112 cycles, but under condition it says check battery. When I turn the computer over and push the battery button, all lights are illuminated. When I unplug the computer the computer indicates it only has 68 minutes of charge.
I reset the SMC, but that did not help.
Do I need to replace the battery?
Thanks to anyone with suggestions
jlocalled Dec 3, 2008 6:18 PM
in response to radvetCheck your Full Charge Amperage under Battery in System Profiler. If its under 80% of the original capacity of the battery, get it replaced. ( contact Apple or buy a new one )
radvet Dec 3, 2008 8:20 PM
in response to jlocalledThis is what my computer says for the battery:
Does this help?
Model Information:
Serial Number: Sony-ASMB012-3503-28af
Manufacturer: Sony
Device name: ASMB012
Pack Lot Code: 0003
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 102a
Hardware Revision: 0400
Cell Revision: 0303
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 1878
Fully charged: Yes
Charging: No
Full charge capacity (mAh): 1878
Health Information:
Cycle count: 112
Condition: Check battery
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 0
Voltage (mV): 12462
Julian Solomons Dec 4, 2008 5:52 AM
in response to radvetLooks like you have a very bad battery.
Depending on your actual model and battery, you should have in excess of 5,000 mAh Full Charge Capacity. Yours is 1,800 - very weak. Mine died at 3,400.
You only have 112 cycles, a reasonable life is certainly over 200, and maybe 300.
I think you have a good case for a replacement - best bet to get this achieved is to go to a Genius bar in an Apple store and smile nicely!
kellyandygators Dec 8, 2008 6:44 PM
in response to Julian SolomonsI think I may have a bad battery. I have had it a little over 2 years now. I do have AppleCare and here are the stats for my battery:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 2292
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 2148
Amperage (mA): 591
Voltage (mV): 12568
Cycle Count: 301
It seems that 300 is the magic number and I am going to be frustrated if I am over the limit by 1 or 2 cycles. Would having AppleCare make a difference in getting the battery replaced even though it may have just been through it's normal "life time"?
S.U. Dec 8, 2008 7:50 PM
in response to kellyandygatorsUnfortunately, once you get to around 300 cycles, it's tough to make any kind of a case for a free replacement, whether or not you have Applecare, and especially after 2 years. You're at the point where your battery's performance would be expected to decline as the battery wears out. Sometimes people get lucky and their batteries last longer, but it's not something you can count on. I just don't think that Apple would be inclined to consider a battery that lasted for two years and 300 cycles to be defective.
Matt Chach Jan 16, 2009 8:54 PM
in response to S.U.Does anyone know if having your computer plugged in most of the time diminishes the battery's ability to hold a charge?
My battery/ computer is a year old. It has gone through only 40 cycles. I have been having trouble with the computer shutting off randomly after being unplugged for about 45 minutes to an hour.
I called apple, they said to calibrate the battery, which I can't do since I can't deplete the battery. The computer shuts off after 45 minutes then won't turn on unless I plug it in.
Earlier today my battery said it had 5330 capacity. Now all of a sudden it says 2259. I'm going to have to have a chat with apple again. I was just wondering if having it plugged in frequently could be the culprit. I do a lot of highly draining activities(video editing, watching dvd's, web video) so I am often tethered.


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TORONTO -- The Toronto Maple Leafs traded defenseman Mark Fraser to the Edmonton Oilers for forward Cameron Abney and the rights to restricted free agent Teemu Hartikainen on Friday.
Fraser appeared in 19 games for Toronto this season and hadn't dressed for the past 11. Fraser played in 45 games last season, with eight assists and 85 penalty minutes.
Abney was Edmonton's third-round selection, No. 82 overall, in the 2009 draft. He is with the Bakersfield Condors of the East Coast ...
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Centegra Golf Classic
The 2016 Centegra Golf Classic will take place on Monday, June 6th and feature 18-hole tournaments at Bull Valley Golf Club and Woodstock Country Club. Prior to the event, sponsors at the Tournament Sponsor level and above will have the additional opportunity to participate in the exclusive 5th Annual VIP Event on Tuesday, May 24th. This premier event benefits the Centegra Health System Foundation and helps provide additional community wellness programs and access to quality health care services.
Sponsorship and VIP Event Information
The Centegra Golf Classic is an exclusive opportunity for local businesses and community members to make a meaningful commitment to the health and wellness needs of our community. Sponsorship opportunities are available at a variety of levels and amenities.
The first 10 sponsors at the Tournament Level and above will receive an exclusive invite for 2 golfers to participate in the 5th Annual VIP Event on May 24th at Bull Valley Golf Club. Participants will be paired with Centegra Board of Governors and Executive Team members for a private event and reception to follow.
Tournament Sponsor: $12,000
Foursome Amenities: 1 Foursome + 2 golfers at VIP Event (Sponsor selects course)
Leader Board Sponsor: $6,000
Foursome Amenities: 1 Foursome (Sponsor selects course)
Eagle Sponsor: $3,500
Foursome Amenities: 1 Foursome (Course assigned)
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Raffle Sponsor: $3,500
Dinner Sponsor: $2,500
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Thank you to our partners at Bull Valley Golf Club and Woodstock Country Club that make our premier event possible. Check out these two nationally ranked courses Centegra Golf Classic participants have the opportunity to experience.
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Get your shovels, put on your gloves and smile, because the City Challenge for our Children is on!
The City Challenge for our Children provides an opportunity to unite our whole city by assisting the schools and churches in starting a fall garden, continuing their garden in the spring and hopefully each year thereafter.
Let us teach our children about the nutritional value of locally grown food in a fun, creative and sustainable way. Hands-on gardening will improve children's interest in learning, encourage them to eat well and develop social skills. Introducing children to gardening instills a lifelong passion for plants and respect for the environment. Gardening promotes physical activity and quality outdoor experiences. It also teaches kids to nurture and care for other living things while developing patience.
The City Challenge for our Children kickoff was a great success!
On Sept. 15, the Natchez chapter of Gaining Ground Sustainability Institute had a sustainable gardening workshop at Duncan Park in Natchez. The kickoff started with lectures from speakers GGSIM Executive Director Daniel Doyle, Rodney Burkley, owner of Church Hill Worm Farm, and Preston Sullivan, soil fertility consultant and owner of Serendipity Farm in Meadville.
We continued the workshop outside by building a raised bed, planting the garden and planting a fruit tree. The workshop helped teach the gardening process and help prepare those interested in taking the challenge.
Churches and schools, sign up now! Join those that have already committed to the city challenge in making a difference in our children's lives.
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Hey everyone, check this forum topic to bring your own ideas and suggestions into Pwong 3!
Aug. 14, 2010
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The issue where you couldn't mute the game in the first level has been fixed. Happy muting!
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That's supposed to be like that Muskar. How else could you cross the spikes?
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Thanks for pointing that out guys! I fixed the bug in Sector 17G as well. (Note: You might have to clear your cache and reload the page to play the new version)
I fixed the bug in Sector 14G where the enemy could shoot you through the ground. Check the "Updates" section for more info.
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Nov. 06, 2009
What a great idea. Now I can try the four color theorem for myself :).
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Hey guys, I'm glad you all liked it that much! :). It's now facebook. (become a fan) http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=113291621803&ref=nf
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Pausing gives you a little penalty. So that method won't work :).
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Compare with the upper paddle; Your paddle is bigger, after you upgraded it.
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They don't.
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I don't know of any glitch on normal easy.
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Actually, the regular 100 coins deck gives a pretty decent set of cards. The only difference between the 300 and the 100 one is that the 300 ones does not give "common" card. So I don't see how this takes away enjoying the game. I enjoy it. 5/5
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Is there a way to reset your skills and attributes? 'Cos what if you learned a skill but then you hardly use it so that's one skill point wasted?
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Sep. 23, 2013
I can't put the last spare part in 'cos every time I click on it it disappears! Is it a bug? Or am I doing something wrong? :/
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When you start the campaign the very first screen, paragraph 2 shows what is your class and what does it do.
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May. 17, 2013
I finally found out why sometimes my boats don't fire. It's because you have to select the ship in order to target your enemies. Don't know how I could've missed that.
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I don't mind playing the game over and over. It's that fun. Please make more games like this.
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Apr. 24, 2013
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Why can't the survivors just walk up to my camp when the reclaimed fence thing is right at their doorsteps and I killed all the zombies for them? :[
Apr. 23, 2013
Would be nice if we can rebuild the schools to another building type. 'Cos in the end, I don't need schools anymore.
Apr. 20, 2013
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I think there's mounts? But I haven't seen anyone with one yet... so these mount whip things are just sitting in my inventory.
I find this game enjoyable too! But like everyone else, I wish there is a balance between paying characters and non-playing characters, or at least make a room where it's non-paying characters only so everyone can have a nice time.
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Apr. 08, 2013
Rating: 1
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Mar. 26, 2013
A button to shrink the portrait + hp and mp info please. 'Cos sometimes the thing I want to kill keeps going behind it and so I can't click on it. :/
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I can now click the + button on CoolGuy's comment. I did it without even trying out the levels for size.
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Patrick Hanlon, senior project manager with the engineering firm of Peckham Guyton Albers and Viets (PGAV), brought Russ Volmert, a landscape architect, and Dan Belcher, an urban designer, to speak to a meeting at the Monett Chamber of Commerce office on Tuesday and offer drawings of how to change a few of the downtown buildings.
Hanlon said the DREAM process typically waits until later to talk about reshaping the look of downtown. However, since Monett had already addressed questions about appearance in the study done by the Drury University architecture students and several building owners have already made cosmetic changes, Hanlon felt the facade discussion needed to come now.
Volmert led Tuesday's discussion. Using drawings and photographs from other DREAM cities, Volmert showed how other towns had reshaped their downtowns using ideas proposed by PGAV.
Starting with a section of buildings, the DREAM people will offer visualizations of how to make changes. In some towns, they had been asked for suggestions on spaces where buildings had left holes after fires. Monett was fortunate, he noted, in having few "missing teeth" in the line of buildings downtown.
A discussion followed on what kind of restoration the business owners wanted to see. Hanlon and Volmert stressed that the architectural variety and history of a downtown offered character and a sense of place. The key question became how closely did Monett want to pursue strict restoration back to the original look, which Volmert warned could be very expensive.
The business owners tended to follow John Bruner's preference for any look that brought in more customers.
The business operators leaned toward a combination of modern and classic styling, the kind of looks seen in the chamber office and the facade of Mocha Jo's. Openness to some less traditional approaches allowed the architects the freedom to pursue more options. Volmert said the use of Dryvit, an artificial stucco, would give many choices in color and relief work.
The DREAM approach to facades focused largely on conceptual assistance. Several examples were given of how communities used DREAM ideas as a springboard for larger initiatives on their own. In Chillicothe, for example, a DREAM drawing of using a boarded up building and an empty lot as a plaza became a focal point for a larger vision.
On Wednesday, the team talked to owners in the 300 block of East Broadway as they eyed buildings covered by metal siding. They made hand- drawn renderings of how the buildings might look if the siding came off and lights, depth, color and canopies changed. Their drawings offered a consistent look between the structures, highlighting the existing brickwork with a fresh and appealing update.
The approach made several presumptions, including the integrity of the brick front underneath the siding. In other towns, Hanlon said metal siding had tended to protect the original surfaces. A century of rain, however, and some soft bricks may leave trouble spots.
|Many of the examples cited had been paid for by the building owners. Hanlon touched on some of the other funding options in the discussion. The city of Washington, for example, had established a tax increment financing (TIF) district in its downtown. Property owners in Hannibal established a community improvement district (CID) to raise money to build a flood levee that saved the downtown from a major flood a few months after completion.
|Community Development Block Grant money may be available to work through the not-for-profit corporation established by the Downtown Betterment Group, Hanlon said.
Historic preservation tax credits can come from both the state and federal governments. The process is cumbersome and slow, Hanlon said, requiring the creation of a historic preservation district, getting on the National Registry of Historic Places and seeking approval of plans by the State Historic Preservation Office.
None of the strategies offered an immediate infusion of cash into the downtown. A TIF would provide a pay-as-you-go approach, giving the property owner a property tax rebate for work done as business improved over time. A half-cent assessment of $100 of property in a CID would generate about $21,000 a year, calculated City Administrator Dennis Pyle, enough to help pay for facade improvements.
Volmert stressed that DREAM is a planning process that takes time. The Soulard district in St. Louis took more than 20 years to grow out of a rundown district of pre-Civil War buildings to an area of high property values.
The next step will be for city officials and DREAM representatives to work out a scope of services agreement to guide the next three years of work. The engineering firm of Bartlett and West will look at flooding issues.
At the Wednesday meeting, Hanlon said the general sentiment of downtown business owners was very positive.
"They have a sense of 'if we're going to do this, let's do it now,'" Hanlon said.
What DREAM brings to the process, Hanlon continued, is a way to coordinate streetscape and facade upgrades with marketing, gateway identification and signage. The combination provides benefits for all the businesses, rather than leaving gains to a few buildings or blocks.
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General Motors wants so badly for the upcoming Cadillac ATS to rock our worlds on all markets (i.e., not just in North America) that a source within the automaker has told us that the BMW 3 Series has been a prime focal point for benchmarking the Baby Caddy.
We always suspected this should happen, but then GM hasn't had much of a tradition of reacting quickly until recently. According to our source, teams at GM have basically stripped various 3 Series cars down to bare naked chassis bits and pieces, and fully intend on emulating an awful lot of what they see there, while, it can be assured, making it all correct for the Cadillac brand.
Sounds intensely good to us. Jeez, mega-millions for Bowling Green to hopefully try and finally keep Corvette interiors from smelling like toxic plastic in the hot summer sun, and now a smaller Cadillac that will actually drive and feel like the Standard of the World? Is it too good to be true?Cadillac ATS to show how much GM learned from the BMW 3 Series originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 16 May 2011 13:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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So GM knows so little about cars they reverse engineer the competition? Is this the Chinese influence? Or is this how they've always done business?
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