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Pierre Trudeau Is Dead at 80; Fighter for Canadians´ Unity
Published: September 29, 2000
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There was the time, for example, when he referred to a Washington bureaucrat as "a pipsqueak." There were protests in America when he tried to limit American investments in Canada, particularly in the oil industry. And when he urged NATO to make a dovish retreat from its first-strike nuclear strategy, the Reagan administration thought him to be naïve, dangerous and presumptuous.
Still, like all Canadian leaders, he remained preoccupied by his country's relationship with the United States and even charmed critics with comments like those he offered in 1969 after meeting President Richard M. Nixon in Washington: "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
And when Mr. Trudeau retired 15 years later, James Reston wrote in his column in The New York Times: "Some of us down here think he was a good neighbor and a good friend. We liked his crusty arrogance and the rose in his lapel. He gave us his truth as he saw it, even if we didn't always like it."
Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau was born on Oct. 18, 1919, in Montreal.
His father, Charles-Émile Trudeau, the son of French-speaking Quebec farmers, was a lawyer then on his way to wealth as the owner of a chain of gas stations. He also acquired profitable mines, the Belmont amusement park in Montreal and the Royals, the city's minor-league baseball team.
His mother, Grace, was of mixed Scottish and French descent.
The family spoke mostly French at home, but Mr. Trudeau could not remember a time when he did not also speak English.
At a Jesuit high school where he studied Latin and Greek, he systematically tested teachers in contrarian debate.
"I realized that I must never interrupt a teacher to make an impertinent remark, because that would be certain to infuriate him," Mr. Trudeau wrote in 1993 in a book he called simply "Memoirs." "But if I waited until he paused and then I slipped in a wisecrack, the class would burst out laughing before he had a chance to get angry."
He said the pleasure of such moments led him to a lifelong habit of "opposing conventional wisdoms and challenging prevailing opinions."
In 1940 he entered the University of Montreal, only vaguely aware that the war in Europe "might constitute the most dramatic adventure the men of my generation would ever confront."
But as he also observed, "If you were a French-Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940's, you did not automatically believe that this was a just war. We still knew nothing of the Holocaust, and we tended to think of this war as a settling of scores among the superpowers."
In any case, he did not enlist; he even rallied against conscription of French-Canadians. In 1943 he graduated with a degree in law, and after clerking in a law office he went to Harvard for graduate study in political economy. At Harvard, he recalled, he was made to understand the parochialism of Quebec, meeting professors, refugees from Europe, who did make him aware of "missing one of the major events of the century."
Until he was 30, he spent his time in study and travel. He left Harvard for École des Sciences Politiques in Paris, where he roared across the city on a motorcycle and tasted from a rich and fashionable intellectual menu: the Christian left, the worker- priest movement, orthodox Marxism, classical liberalism, existentialism and particularly personalism, an attempt associated with the writer Jacques Maritain to reconcile the needs of individuals and society.
A year later he was studying at the London School of Economics, principally with Harold Laski, the eminent professor of political science who was also the chairman of the British Labor Party. Mr. Trudeau has written that his basic philosophy of government was established there, at a time when Britain was on the verge of instituting the welfare state.
Girdling the Globe To Learn About Home
In the spring of 1948, Mr. Trudeau set off on a slow voyage of discovery, ostensibly to do research for a doctoral dissertation, never completed, on the interplay of Christianity and Marxism in Asia. Actually, as he later explained, he was embarking on a different odyssey, eager to mix with local people and to see and sense the world.
He was arrested in Arab Jerusalem on suspicion of being an Israeli spy. He was detained when he crossed the new and tense border between Pakistan and India. He hitchhiked across an Indochina already rent by warring factions. He was in China during the 1949 revolution there.
His presence at a lawyers' meeting in Moscow led to instructions to American immigration officials in the anti-Communist 1950's to deny him admission if he tried to enter the United States.
After two years, Mr. Trudeau returned home dismayed that the authoritarian government of Maurice Duplessis and the local ecclesiatical establishment that had ruled Quebec since his childhood were still in firm control. He committed himself to work for a "democratic revolution" in the province, seeking separation of church and state, electoral reform and educational changes. He founded an intellectual quarterly, Cité Libre, and used its pages to call for a coalition of democratic forces against the Duplessis regime.

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Heh. That is so awesome. The characters are epic cute, but you should try introducing some basic shading into them, since it looks a little basic right now, still, really awesome designs of characters!
Updated to your liking, enjoy ;)!
…Gotta love the shining muffin ;D
Needs a LightSprites Background to be the best thing ever D:.
i agree with sylicas.that would be awesome!
Haha EPIC WIN.You darn`t photoshopien.
Actually this was mostly made with flash ;P, I just shaded it with PS ;D.
And the light on the muffin >:(?
> I just shaded it with PS ;D.
Lighting = shading amirite?
hehe, I like the subject here, it's cute.
Although, yeah, for shading purposes, I'd suggest doing that in flash as well and going tith hard shades for a more cartoony look, the soft brush shading bit is fun But only works with softer surfaces and realism.
Otherwise, excellent pic :)
Yay constructive criticism :D!
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That shading could have been done in flash you know…the blur tool.
Yeah, but Dodge and Burn tools in PS ftw ;D.
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Coming off of three straight wins to finish out their home stand, the Bombers went to East Texas hoping to extend the win streak and earn their first road win. Nine innings later, the Bombers did just that, defeating the Pumpjacks by a score of 4-3.
The game looked to be a pitcher's duel early on, as the Bombers' Andrew Velez and the Pumpjacks' Jamie Niley put goose eggs on the board for the first four innings. The Bombers finally got things going in the fifth inning, as Wes Schill hit a two-RBI single, scoring Robby Graham and John Cannon to give the Bombers the 2-0 lead. Brazos Valley tacked on two more in the seventh to stretch the lead to 4-0 on Joe Craven's RBI double to the right field gap.
East Texas promptly cut the lead in half the following inning before scoring another in the eighth to make the score 4-3. With a runner in scoring position and two outs in the eighth inning, Bombers coach Brent Alumbaugh inserted closer Joaquin Hinojosa into the game to get out of the jam. Hinojosa got Greg Fontenot to ground back to him and got out of the inning with lead intact. Hinojosa, who homered last night, retired the Pumpjacks in order in the ninth to collect his first save of the season.
With the win, the Bombers improved to 4-3 and will look to sweep East Texas with a win tomorrow. The Bombers will return home against the expansion Victoria Generals on Cashback Tuesday. Fans will have a chance to win up to $1100 through a variety of contests and giveaways. The Bombers will round out their home stand with Margaritaville Wednesday the following night, giving fans an opportunity to enjoy


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Noughts are often called blankers by crosses and sometimes other noughts, it is used as an offensive term which is similar to referring to black people as the "n" word in the real world The word blanker etymology is the blank used to mean a waste of space. Even the term nought can be offensive as nought can mean nothing implying that noughts are nothing.
History of rights Edit
Before the first book, Noughts have always lived in England. At some point the Crosses moved to England and kept Noughts as slaves, believing then to be inferior. They were eventually freed but still hated the majority of crosses.
In the Noughts and Crosses series, the first book, Noughts and Crosses, is in the time when Noughts had just started being accepted into Cross schools although their intelligent levels where set higher to be accepted in so fewer were accepted. Many crosses protested outside of schools and they were not treated equally. In Knife Edge, the second book, noughts never gained or lost rights.
In Checkmate and Double Cross, noughts are treated better and have more opportunities but it is still clear that the two races are not equal. Also, in these two books mixed race people are much more common and it is not a scandal for a Nought and a Cross to be friends like it was for Calum and Sephy.
Near the end of Double Cross the equal rights bill is passed making Noughts and Crosses equal in law although it will probably be a long time before people's attitudes change.
Nought Rights Moment Edit
Noughts and Crosses did not have the same rights and were discriminated against. Noughts could be be discriminated in the law, education, employment and housing.
Noughts could be punished more severely for crimes, were given worse jobs and were never in positions of power for example, if a Nought was killed or attacked then it would matter less to the police than if it was a Cross. Until the start of the first book, noughts and cross went to separate school but it was more difficult for a nought to be accepted in to a cross school. Nought's are often poor and live in tiny households. But once in a while, a nought made it into life, and was allowed to be successful but it was more difficult to be successful if you were a cross. Crosses on the other hand nearly always lived in huge houses, and were allowed better jobs.
There were many peaceful protests for nought rights and , but one group, called the Liberation Militia, were terroists, killing and maiming innocents in a desperate attempt to force the government to make noughts and crosses equal. This caused some Crosses to from the stereotype that all Noughts are terroists. The L.M. claimed that they wanted Noughts to have equal rights but many members believed that all crosses should die or at least in nought superiority. These hard core members refused to believe that any Crosses were supportive of Nought rights and distrusted them all. Some L.M believed in equality like Callum McGregor.
Towards the end of Double Cross the equal rights bill is passed, finally treating the two races the same and giving them equal chances in life.


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Central girls can't catch up to Oak Creek in non-conference tilt
Record fell to 2-5 before matchup with Waukesha South
The Brookfield Central girls basketball team continued its up and mostly down season by dropping a non-conference game to Oak Creek, 54-44, on Dec. 21 at Central.
The Knights (5-2) used a 17-10 second quarter to put some space between them and the Lady Lancers at halftime, 30-20, and then played Central even in the second half (24-24).
Senior forward Anna Liewen scored seven of her 12 points in the first quarter, as the Lancers never got the lead back after Liewen nailed a 3-pointer for a 10-9 lead with 2:03 remaining. But Oak Creek's Stephanie Kostowicz hit two baskets and the Knights were off and running.
If there was a player of the game it was 5-foot-6 inch Knights junior guard Morgan Kokta, who nailed three 3-pointers - her only points of the night - in the second quarter. Her last three came at 3:06 left in the half and gave Oak Creek a 28-17 lead.
"She's our point guard, probably our most steady player and she holds us together," Oak Creek coach Steve Hluchnik said. "She hasn't had a lot of opportunities to score. We're looking at ways to get her involved in the offense more and she came through."
Juniors Sarah Fotsch and Debbie Entzminger each scored five points in the third period as the Lancers had a 13-12 edge, but could only cut the lead to 42-33 going into the final quarter.
Central was trailing 36-25 with 4:44 left in the period, when Fotsch scored on a rebound, Entzminger hit a three and Fotsch hit a lay-up to cut the lead to 36-32, causing Hluchnik to call time out.
Then Oak Creek came out of the timeout and Kostowicz, Katie Finn and Tamya Sims hit baskets to one free throw by Fotsch and that was the last of the Lady Lancers' threats.
"We knew they would make a run," Hluchnik said. "Part of it was we gave them second and third chances in the third quarter - that's how they got back in the game. But we shut that down and that was the difference."
Central coach Dan Wandrey was at a loss for words.
"They were more prepared, executed better, played harder. They won the game in every area," he said. "How many times was the ball on the ground and we never got it. In every drill we practice there is an emphasis on rebounding. They must have had eight points off rebounds in the second quarter."
The Lady Lancers (2-5), who played Waukesha South on Wednesday, is off until meeting Brookfield East on Jan. 6.
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So for the first time in a long time i miss him. I dont miss us being together. Just him. his jokes, his music, the way he smells, the way he laughs, his smile, the way he wakes up in the middle of the night to turn of the tv that I am watching without even being awake. I miss him bringing me twizzlers and gatoraid just because he knows i like them. I miss him calling me in the morning to tell me that he hates to go to work at 6 am. I miss him asking how i am before i go to bed. What the hell is wrong with me?!?
It maybe (as much as i hate to admit it) that i just found out that him and the girl he left me for are trying to get pregnant, and that hurts like hell. do i want it to... NO! I really dont want to be with him. for as long as the list i have for why i miss him, i have a longer one for why I cant handle being with him, and why i deserve more. but dang, cant he just rejoyce in Ilana at least for a while before planing for more with someone else?


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Freelance photojournalist Laurent Guérin has worked in Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for the last three years, from the millennium through the continuing Second Intafada. His photographs of the region and the conflict have appeared in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal. Paris-born Guérin, who has lived in the United States since 1984, documented the conflict in Nicaragua (1986) and Chiapas, Mexico during the height of the Zapatista uprising (1994). He first became acquainted with, and was deeply affected by, the war and the Middle East as a member of the international peace-keeping force in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983-84.
Guérin was a contributing photographer for The Foreign Game, an investigative report by the Dayton Daily News, which was nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. He is also co-author with journalist Zelie Pollon of The Baghdad Projet: One Hundred Faces, One Hundred Voices, A Story About War (baghdadproject.com).


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- , John C. LeBlancAffiliated withDepartment of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University
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The objectives of the study were to model the developmental trajectories of physical aggression (PA) from toddlerhood to pre-adolescence and to identify risk factors that distinguish typical (normative) from atypical developmental patterns. Ten cohorts of approximately 1,000 children (n = 10,658) drawn form a nationally representative (Canadian) sample were followed over 6 years. Using a group based trajectory approach, we identified three groups of children with distinct developmental trajectories between 2 and 11 years of age. One third of the children (31.1%) followed a low desisting trajectory, reflected in infrequent use of PA in toddlerhood and virtually no PA by pre-adolescence. The majority of children (52.2%) followed a moderate desisting trajectory, reflected in occasional use of PA in toddlerhood and infrequent use by pre-adolescence. One sixth of the children (16.6%) followed a high stable trajectory of PA. Multivariate logistic regression indicated that children in the high PA trajectory group were more likely to be boys (OR: 1.67; CI: 1.5–1.87), from low income families (OR: 1.4; CI; 1.27–1.67), from families where the mother had not completed high school (OR: 1.20; CI: 1.05–1.38) and who reported using hostile/ineffective parenting strategies (OR: 1.16; CI: 1.14–1.18). In sum, the results indicate that the typical developmental pattern of PA was one of occasional and declining use over time. However, about one sixth of children, mostly boys from disadvantaged families, exhibited an atypical developmental pattern reflected in more frequent and stable use of PA. The results suggest that most children learned relatively well to inhibit PA by the end of childhood and that a minority failed to do so. Family risks traditionally found to be associated with antisocial behaviors during adolescence appear to interfere with the socialization of PA during early and middle childhood.
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- 2. Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 3. Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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This paper involves the multi-mode project payment scheduling problem with bonus-penalty structure where activities can be performed with several modes and a bonus-penalty structure exists at the deadline of the project. In the problem the decisions on when to schedule events and payments, the magnitude of each payment, and the performing mode of each activity need to be optimized. A two-module simulated annealing heuristic is proposed to solve the mixed integer non-linear programming models for the contractor and the client, and a satisfactory solution, which consists of payment event set, event schedule, and payment amount set, may be found through iterations between the heuristic's two modules. The profits of the two parties of the contract are changed significantly by the bonus-penalty structure and the structure may be considered as a coordination mechanism essentially, which may enhance the flexibility of payment scheduling and be helpful for the two parties to get more profits from the project. Through solving and analyzing an instance the insight that the bonus-penalty structure may advance the project completion effectively and improve the profits of the two parties in the meantime can be obtained.
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Geno Auriemma pantomimed the defensive mistakes months after it all happened.
This is not uncommon behavior for coaches -- at least, not for successful ones.
Embedded in their minds are those moments where one slight move in the wrong direction -- or in the right direction, but a split-second too late -- add up to a lost game.
Or, as was the case with Auriemma's Connecticut Huskies in 2008, a lost chance at a national championship.
Not long after UConn had fallen 82-73 to Stanford in the national semifinals, Auriemma sat slumping in a chair, waiting to go into the interview room. He rubbed his hands across his face as if he were starting to feel a bad headache coming.
Those costly little moments were fresh then, obviously. But they aren't stale even now, as he prepares to lead his No. 1-ranked team on the path to what he hopes is a sixth national championship.
"People don't always understand " he starts to say in explaining how three shots that Stanford hit -- and the Huskies did not defend the way Auriemma wishes they would have -- were so pivotal in that game.
He's not blaming his players, mind you. He says his team was in a zone defense, and it was working. Stanford's lead had been cut to one with just more than 13 minutes left. Then, Auriemma knew it was time to get out of the zone. But he didn't communicate it quickly enough.
"I didn't get the message across; I was too slow," he said, acting it out and reliving it as he talked. Candice Wiggins nailed two Stanford 3-pointers. Then the Huskies, scrambling, got burned by another Stanford swish, this one from Kayla Pedersen. There was still a lot of the game left, and Auriemma is used to believing his players will prevail. But this time, after that sequence, he felt it in his gut: The window had closed on the Huskies.
"If they miss those shots, I believe we would have come back and won," he said. "But they deserved to win, because they made those shots."
Why reflect so much? Because that night last April in Tampa might have a correlation to a night next April in St. Louis. And there would be some historical symmetry in that, wouldn't there?
In 2001, despite having lost two key players (Shea Ralph and Svetlana Abrosimova), UConn made the Final Four in St. Louis. But then freshman Diana Taurasi had the only "bad" important game of her college career, going 1-for-15 from the field in the Huskies' semifinal loss to eventual champion Notre Dame.
The next season, with a team that was an overwhelming favorite to win the NCAA title, Auriemma did just that. That "perfect" group went 39-0; it's the team I think is the best in NCAA history.
Last season, with another transcendent rookie like Taurasi in Maya Moore, the Huskies again lost two key players to injuries but still made the Final Four. There was a sense that UConn was on an unstoppable roll. So when guard Renee Montgomery spoke cautiously about how the Huskies really weren't as good as they had been before the losses of Kalana Greene and Mel Thomas well, she sounded a bit over-worried. Turns out, of course, she knew what she was talking about. The absence of those two players meant the Huskies did not play Stanford in the Final Four the same way they had in a 66-54 win over the Cardinal in November.
"I think I'm still getting over it," Montgomery said recently of the loss to Stanford. "It's my lasting impression of last year's season."
Said Auriemma: "You can't play Stanford the way we played them. We played them half-court. Tennessee played the next night, and they didn't let them play half-court. So we would have loved to play them the way we played in November: Pick them up full-court and make them have to beat us that way.
"I think our players came out of the Final Four thinking, 'There's a couple of things we have to do a little better. We have to be better at the half-court sets, offensively and defensively."
None of this is to suggest that UConn needs to over-think about last season as fuel for 2009. (The rookies on this UConn team didn't even experience last season, so they couldn't do that anyway.)
Still, for the key returning players -- Montgomery, Greene, Moore, Tina Charles, Kaili McLaren and Lorin Dixon -- knowing how close they were before falling short at the finish line is a good thing to have stored away in the memory bank.
Auriemma sees some parallels between the 2001-02 team and the group he has for 2008-09. But it would be wrong to suggest this team -- while picked by many to win the national championship -- feels like a prohibitive favorite the same way the 2002 team did.
But this team faces different challenges. For instance, everyone's wondering how much the Huskies will be affected by not having the freshman who was expected to be one of the sport's best players: Elena Delle Donne.
Both Montgomery and Moore say, "Not that much." By that they don't mean they wouldn't have liked to have her; they certainly would. But Delle Donne left in June -- deciding to opt out of her scholarship to UConn, citing burnout with basketball, and eventually choosing instead to stay closer to home and play volleyball at Delaware.
The summer had really just begun when she departed. The Huskies weren't around Delle Donne enough to have gotten used to her or to truly miss her now on the court.
"It wasn't hard for me at all," Montgomery says frankly, but not unkindly. "She was only here for a very short amount of time. She never actually was on the team. We still have a lot of great players."
Auriemma said the Delle Donne situation was unlike anything he'd experienced before.
"You're used to kids not wanting us, saying, 'I don't want to come to Connecticut, I want to go somewhere else,' " he said. "Or you get a kid who says, 'I'm not getting enough playing time, so I'm going to transfer.'
"Very rarely -- well, how about never -- do you have something like this happen. So you're not quite sure what to say about it. People back home -- fans or newspaper people -- everybody asks me to give them the inside dope, the scoop on what happened. And I tell them the same thing: 'You've read it all, you've heard it all. It's all been said.' "
The three rookies that are with UConn -- Caroline Doty, Tiffany Hayes and Heather Buck -- are all expected to be important factors. Montgomery sees Doty as player who'll knock down big shots from the perimeter, Hayes as the slasher, and Buck as the one who'll do the so-called "dirty work."
"If the three freshmen can contribute like I think they're going to, I think we have a chance to go one game further than we did last year," Auriemma said. "I think we'll be able to play really fast, especially with Lorin Dixon. She's really improved a lot, and that's another key."
"Somebody like Tina Charles has -- in her mind -- screwed it up two years in a row and now it's time to get it right. Maya Moore is a year older. Renee Montgomery, as a returning All-American, now feels like, 'I'm one of the best players in the country and I can play that way.' Kalana Greene looks great."
Note that above, Auriemma is not saying he thinks Charles "screwed it up." But he knows she is frustrated by how she ended the past two seasons. She had nine points and six rebounds against Stanford, going 4 of 5 from the field. That's not a bad game, by any means. But did UConn need more from her that night? Yes. And the year before in an Elite Eight loss to LSU, she had just one point and three rebounds.
Charles can handle knowing the truth. So Auriemma doesn't pull punches where they don't need to be pulled.
"I think the coaching staff does a good job of keeping us humble," Montgomery said. "We can play really well, and they'll still have a half-hour of film of things we did wrong."
Things like not-quite-good-enough defense on those three possessions against Stanford at the Final Four last season. The Huskies don't have to dwell on that, but they can't forget, either.
"I like our chances. I like them a lot," Auriemma said. "I don't know that we're going to go 39-0 or 38-1 or 36-2 or whatever. But that doesn't matter. You just have to get to the NCAA tournament -- and go from there."
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'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (Tom Ripley series) by Patricia Highsmith
This charming con man and murderer has led five separate films, adapted from only three of his five novels ('The Talented Mr. Ripley' and 'Ripley's Game' have been done twice), with prominent actors Matt Damon, Alain Delon, Dennis Hopper, Barry Pepper and John Malkovich in the role at different points since 1960. Although these films work okay on their own, it would be nice to see a straight run through the novels with a consistent actor playing Tom throughout.
'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams
Maybe this overly expositional and comically rich science fiction "trilogy" isn't fit for the big screen. The effort by Disney in 2005, as entertaining as it is, might have suffered from an attempt to be too faithful to the fans (the result of being made by fans, perhaps?) while also needing to be stripped thin by the confines of a feature film. If anyone want to give the six book series (continued by Eoin Colfer after Adams's death) a shot, we might suggest reworking a lot of it to stand alone more as a film franchise, rather than going for an impossible direct translation of the material.
'Fletch' (I.M. Fletcher series) by Gregory Mcdonald
Every now and then we hear of plans to bring Fletch back to the movies, following a two-installment run starring Chevy Chase in the 1980s. Kevin Smith was involved in a reboot for a while, which would adapt the second book, "Fletch Won" (which takes place before the first, "Fletch") and star Jason Lee as the investigative journalist with a knack for disguises. The last we heard, Zach Braff was set to star, but Smith is now out. Eventually the character and his twelve books have to come back to the big screen, ultimately leading to a spin-off series, as the books did, for Fletch foil, Frances Xavier Flynn.
'John Carter of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Maybe not anytime soon, but one day someone will have to help us forget about this year's "John Carter" and properly and successfully bring the literary legend and all eleven of the Barsoom novels to life in cinemas.
'The Three Investigators' by Robert Arthur, Jr. and others
Currently more popular in Germany than in the U.S., two recent film adaptations featuring the teen sleuthing trio were shot in South Africa yet star young American actors and have only been released in Europe. They're supposedly not too great either. How about giving us American fans a well-made run with characters Jupiter Jones, Bob Andrews and Pete Crenshaw? And with multiple other movies featuring portayals of Alfred Hitchcock lately, it'd be nice to see the real-life filmmaker brought back into the fold as a mentoring supporting character, if producers can renegotiate the matter with his estate.
Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler
Two separate adaptations of Dirk Pitt novels have been made in the past. The author was so unhappy with 1980's "Raise the Titanic!" that he refused to let another film be made for decades. Then, through negotiations, "Sahara" was made into a movie in 2005 starring Matthew McConaughey. But Cussler wasn't happy and years of legal battles have ensued. It's hard to imagine the car-loving adventurer ever making another cinematic comeback, but we'll see if one day Cussler needs the money or grows suddenly hopeful again.
'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
Moore is notoriously unhappy with the way this series turned out as a movie, and tons of fan and non-fan moviegoers are in agreement. Adapting this ingenious property, which imagines a team of literary characters such as Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo and Dr. Jekyll as a Victorian-era Avengers-type assemblage, should have been rather simple. All of the awesomeness is right there in the graphic pages of the comic book series. But an original story with unfavorable changes was decided upon and it was all wrong. Next time, sticking to the source material would be preferred.
'The Destroyer' by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
The little-remembered 1985 action movie "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" was an attempt at a franchise based on "Destroyer" novels, but unfortunately it wasn't very good and so the adventure never continued. But the character, Remo Williams, a Newark cop turned government assassin, needs to begin again. He's an old-fashioned kind of macho man, trained in the fictional martial art of Sinanju, and he fights for freedom by ignoring the U.S. Constitution. Sounds perfect for a post-9/11 world. There has actually been interest in another film adaptation in recent years, and hopefully it will happen.
Matt Helm series by Donald Hamilton
Another property that has seen great interest from Hollywood for a proper reboot lately, this government agent character was previously portrayed by Dean Martin in a series of movies, beginning with 1966's "The Silencers" which wasn't very faithful in tone to the 27-book source material. Apparently the aim then was to compete with the James Bond films by taking a more comedic angle. Just as the 007 franchise has recently gone more serious and realistic than in the past, so shall a revitalized Helm franchise. A few years ago, Steven Spielberg was named as a potential director of Paramount's much-desired return of Helm, but we haven't heard anything more on the project in too long.
'Dot and the Kangaroo' by Ethel Pedley
Nothing against the past films based on Pedley's 1899 children's book, which are classic hybrids of animation and live-action helmed by the great Yoram Gross, but it might be a good time to bring the story of a young Australian girl and her animal friends into the 21st century with modern technology. They could pay homage to the Gross versions, of course, just as Peter Jackson acknowledges his love for Ralph Bakshi's animated "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" films. Maybe have a real girl and real locations with computer-realized versions of Mother (the Kangaroo), Mr. Platypus and the rest of the creatures of the Outback. Australian filmmaker George Miller ("Babe"; "Happy Feet") would be perfect for such a project, at least as a producer.
V.I. Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky
We need more film franchises led by women, and there are plenty of literary sources to choose from, but this is one of the very few that were even previously tried. Kathleen Turner portrayed the female P.I. back in 1991 with "V.I. Warshawski," an adaptation of the second book, "Deadlock." Turner was expected to play the character in further films, but the first was a failure, again possibly due to a comical approach that strayed from the source. With Paretsky still going strong — the fifteenth book, "Breakdown" was published earlier this year — and an ever-growing interest in woman-driven action films, a serious version is long overdue.
Harry Palmer series by Len Deighton
Here's another literary character that was adapted into a film series obviously comparable to the James Bond franchise. In fact, the first Harry Palmer movies were made by the producers of the 007 movies and intended to be complementary rather than a competitor with its more down-to-earth ex-criminal British secret agent. And in the two '90s sequels, which brought Michael Caine back as the character he'd played in the '60s and '70s, Sean Connery's son, Jason, has a prominent role. Again, as long as Bond can keep going successfully, so should his working-class cousin. A retake with a young Palmer should cast Caine in an elder part, possibly as the series' M equivalent, Colonel Ross.
'Not Quite Human' by Seth McEvoy
Previously adapted into three cheap and cheesy TV movies for the Disney Channel, this six-book series about a scientist and his android son could be great fodder for a really interesting film franchise that mixes the teen movie genre with sci-fi and action (perhaps something akin to the 'Spider-Man' series, only with a super-strong robot rather than a mutated young man).
'The Chronicles of Prydain' series ('The Black Cauldron') by Lloyd Alexander
Now that Disney has remade another of its '80s flops involving the talents of Tim Burton (albeit with disappointing results, financially), it's time to finally resurrect their rights to the "Prydain" books, from which the infamous animated feature flop "The Black Cauldron" originated. The five-book fantasy series is so ripe for a live-action version that it's silly there's been no attempt. Maybe Disney's bad luck with adaptations, as is evident from this list, is part of the reason the studio hasn't bothered. So perhaps another studio could give it a try?
Eragon ('Inheritance Cycle') by Christopher Paolini
None of these popular fantasy novels should be disappointments if Hollywood takes them seriously as worthy film stories and not just cash-grabs based on their having a fanbase and their potential to be the next 'LOTR' or 'Harry Potter.' You've got the huge appeal of dragons, now you just need a great director, not some visual effects artist with no experience at the helm of any movie let alone a highly anticipated major holiday season blockbuster. It wasn't even a box office flop, but it was one of the worst-reviewed films of 2006. Give it a couple more years and let's circle back on this one.
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