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A 12 step program for those who wish to stop drinking and get sober and stay sober. It is not run by anybody but is a democratic group of fellow drunks. It is not religious, but there is a spiritual aspect to the program for those who want it. It's a great program where its members often find lasting deep friendships with other sober folks. It works!
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Alcoholic Anonymous, an organization established to help people recover from alcoholism through 12 steps and spirituality.
A A is a program for people who cannot handle their drinking.
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African American, espescially used in personal ads.
Divorced AA female seeks divorced AA male, any age.
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1) an oft-forgotten bra size implying itty-bitty but quite cute boobs
2) a person of said size
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1) Jenny has trouble finding AA lingerie.
2) Monica is a petite and sexy AA.
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The most commonly used type of battery
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Alcoholics Anonymous...a place where drunks go to recover from their addiction.
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Katie Holmes
- 1992
A Manager Makes it Official
As a student at Margaret O'Brien's Charm School in Toledo, Holmes studies both modeling and acting. After attending a talent convention in New York City, she signs with a manager in L.A.
- 1997
Taking Hollywood by 'Storm'
While still a senior in high school, Holmes lands a role in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. She plays opposite Toby McGuire (left), and her part calls for her to pass out in his lap. The performance catches the eye of Kevin Williamson, who wants her to audition for his new show, Dawson's Creek.
Priorities, Priorities
In her mother's sewing room, Holmes records a home-video audition for Dawson's Creek. Williamson asks her to fly out to L.A. for a screen test, but Holmes declines; the trip coincides with her performance in her high school musical Damn Yankees. Williamson reschedules, and Holmes wins the part of girl-next-door Joey Potter, opposite James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams and Joshua Jackson.
- 1998
Joey Steals the Show
Dawson's Creek debuts on the WB. The show's creator intends for title character Dawson, played by James Van Der Beek, to anchor the show. However, Holmes steals the spotlight as witty and charming tomboy Joey Potter and is the only cast member to appear in all 128 episodes.
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During filming of the first season of Dawson's Creek, Holmes and her Dawson's Creek costar Joshua Jackson, who plays Pacey Witter, have a brief romance. She considers Jackson her "first love." "It was something so incredible and indescribable that I will treasure it always," she tells Rolling Stone.
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Holmes takes top billing in David Nutter's Disturbing Behavior as a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. She wins a MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance Female in 1999 for her role.
- 2000
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Holmes starts dating American Pie's Chris Klein, a fellow Midwesterner. He is based in L.A., and the distance, combined with the pace of their film careers, proves difficult. "We don't see each other as much as we'd like," Klein tells PEOPLE.
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Onscreen for six and half minutes in Wonder Boys, Holmes plays a coed temptress trying to seduce her aging professor played by Michael Douglas, who calls Holmes "a natural." She continues to break her wholesome image with her first nude scene in The Gift opposite Greg Kinnear (right). "I thought it was important to the scene and to the character," she tells GQ. "I just hope there aren't a lot of pauses on DVD players."
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As the lead in Pieces of April, Holmes plays the black sheep in a family she eventually reconciles with over Thanksgiving dinner. The film is a critical success and earns raves. That May, Holmes leaves Joey behind as Dawson's Creek ends after six successful seasons, and in December she becomes engaged to Klein.
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Holmes and Klein call off their engagement, and by April, the 26-year-old actress secretly goes out with 42-year-old movie star Tom Cruise. They have been dating for several weeks when they make their first public appearance in Rome at the David di Donatello Awards, the main national film awards in Italy.
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Todd Sherman was born in the Territory of Alaska. He has lived inĀFairbanks since 1974, excepting the years spent in New York City when heĀwas a graduate student at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and in Spain when heĀwas on sabbatical with his family. He has a B.A. in Art from theĀUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks and a M.F.A. in Printmaking from Pratt. ForĀmore than 30 years he has been an exhibiting professional artist, withĀworks in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. For the past twelveĀyears he has worked as a curator and coordinator of public local,Āstatewide and regional art exhibits, involving hundreds of artists in allĀmedia, from photography to ceramics. A few of these exhibits are WorkingĀInspirations at the University of Alaska Museum, Relics, Artifacts & otherĀMysteries at the Fairbanks Civic Center Gallery and the Anchorage MuseumĀof History & Art, and Fairbanks Prints at the Well Street Art Company.
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A Ferry-Fillmore District police officer has been suspended without pay, and the chief of the district demoted, in an investigation over allegations that the officer stole a Cane Corso mastiff puppy from a Herman Street residence earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday.
Officer Kristen W. Russo allegedly went to the dog owner's home at 6 p.m. Dec. 3 and demanded the puppy from its owner, Tommy Degree, who initially refused but said that he felt intimidated when other officers arrived and he reluctantly told Russo to take his 4-month-old pet, named Boo Boo Baby.
He told The Buffalo News that the next day he went to the Ferry-Fillmore Police Station to file a complaint that the dog had been taken against his will and that Chief Michelle R. Kubala told him the dog had run away.
Police officials say the investigation is ongoing, but they discounted Kubala's arguments that Russo was trying to rescue the dog from being groomed for dog fighting with suspected injections of steroids. Russo, the officials said, made a serious error when she turned the dog over to a family in the suburbs.
"The bottom line is you do not take someone's property and give it away," a police official said. "We found no signs of foul play with the dog. Procedures call for taking the dog to the SPCA or the city's Animal Shelter."
Russo may face felony grand larceny charges as the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division and the Erie County District Attorney's Office review the case, authorities said.
The puppy was retrieved from the Southtowns family last week by police and returned to Degree on Friday.
"The officer asked to see the dog's papers," Degree said, recounting his encounter with Russo. "I told her I had some of the papers, but the rest were at my other house. She picked the dog up and started kissing it and then said, 'This is my dog and I'm taking it.' I said, 'No, you're not. It's my dog.' She said, 'You haven't got any paperwork.' "
When other officers arrived at his second-floor apartment on the 300 block of Herman, he said, he felt intimidated and told Russo to take the puppy.
"I've been in trouble with the law before, and I didn't want any problems, but the next day I went to the police station and filed a complaint, and the chief told me my dog jumped out of a car and ran away. That's bull. It's a little puppy. I went to the SPCA to look for it, but it wasn't there," Degree said.
Kubala, who has returned to her civil service rank of lieutenant, offered a different account of events.
"Officer Russo was driving down Herman and heard the dog yelping and crying. The dog was chained to the upstairs porch. She asked to see the dog. She asked for paperwork, its record of shots. He told her he didn't take the puppy to the veterinarian. He said he gave the dog shots and pointed to empty vials. He said the paperwork was at his girlfriend's house with his other dogs," Kubala said.
The Stewart Avenue address where Degree said the paperwork was located, Kubala said, is the site of a suspected dog-fighting ring.
Kubala added that efforts to reach the SPCA and city dog control officers were made that evening.
"We tried to get city dog control officers, and Officer Russo was told they were not working. I contacted the SPCA emergency line and told them we had a dog that we suspected was being injected with steroids, and we were concerned about the welfare of the dog," Kubala said, adding that she asked the hotline worker to call Russo, but a return call was not made until the following day.
Placing the dog with the Southtowns family, Kubala said, was seen as a temporary solution.
Kubala also said that she told Degree the dog ran away because she did not know where it was when he came to the station Dec. 4.
"He told me he bought the dog for $800 and who was going to pay him back. He stated he was going to contact his attorney, and I told him after he spoke with his lawyer to call me or have the lawyer call me. I gave him my card and said, 'We will try and rectify the situation.'"
Kubala said no blood tests had been performed on the puppy to determine if it was given steroids and that the vials seen in Degree's apartment had not been taken into custody as evidence. Kubala added that officers were on extra alert because a block away, on the 200 section of Herman Street, a Jack Russell terrier puppy had been doused with lighter fluid and set on fire Oct. 29. That puppy, which was later named Phoenix, continues to recover.
Kubala criticized the department for taking away her rank as chief.
"I feel this is a poor excuse for a demotion, and I feel Officer Russo is being unjustly punished," Kubala said, but added, "I take full responsibility for the events that have happened."
Degree, an electrician, said he is grateful to police officials who oversaw the return of his puppy and now he would like to let things settle down.
"I love my dog," he said.
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Ever find food past its "sell by" date in the fridge and just throw it away without looking at it? If so, you're almost certainly throwing away perfectly good food, according to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic.
There's a temptation to treat the dates on food as infallible predictors of when food will go bad, but in a lot of cases they're basically bologna. Many dates aren't based on food safety, but on when the manufacturers thinks the food will taste best. That causes a lot of retailers and consumers to toss food that's perfectly fine to eat.
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On the VHS release of Ghost in the Shell there is a manga promo reel for various titles. My question is this what is the name of the song that plays during this promo reel? If anyone can tell me it would be greatly appreciated. MANGA!!!!!
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FREDONIA – An administrator from the University of Wisconsin system has been tapped as the new provost at Fredonia State College.
Terry Brown will take over as the college's provost and vice president for academic affairs – the second-highest position at the college – on July 1, the school announced Friday.
Brown, who was chosen as Fredonia provost after a national search, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Virginia Tech, as well as a doctorate in English from the University of Florida.
Over the past 24 years, Brown has served in a variety of administrative positions in the University of Wisconsin system, including provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls – both of which are similar to Fredonia in enrollment.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - The Penn State women's basketball team rewarded the fourth largest home crowd in the team's history with a victory worth celebrating.
Maggie Lucas scored 15 of her team-high 21 points in the first half, and the No. 7 Lady Lions held off a second-half rally to beat Michigan, 68-57, on Sunday and clinch at least a share of the Big Ten championship.
Alex Bentley, Mia Nickson and Ariel Edwards each added 11 points for Penn State (23-3, 13-1 Big Ten), which saw a 19-point lead cut to four midway through the second half.
Kate Thompson scored 25 points to lead Michigan (19-8, 8-6 Big Ten).
The Big Ten title is the second straight for Penn State and the seventh in the program's history. The Lady Lions can clinch the outright championship with a win in their final two games or a loss by second-place Nebraska. Penn State finishes the regular season with games Thursday at Minnesota and next Sunday at Nebraska.
The clinching victory came before a crowd of 14,173. Penn State's home finale was also its seventh annual "Pink Zone" game, which helped to raise money for breast cancer research. At halftime, 621 breast cancer survivors were recognized.
"I always tell people that the Pink Zone is my favorite game of the year," Bentley said. "The crowd and the atmosphere are amazing. Obviously, tonight was even more special with senior night and clinching the Big Ten."
Seniors Nikki Greene, Marisa Wolfe, Gizelle Studevent, Bentley and Nickson were honored before their final home game. All five started for the Lady Lions, including Wolfe, who played less than a minute after missing the entire season with concussion-like symptoms.
"She had earned and deserved the opportunity to wear her uniform one last time," Penn State coach Coquese Washington said. "It was senior night. She is as much of a key as the rest of them, even though she hasn't played this year."
With the victory, Penn State finished 14-0 at home for its fourth undefeated season at the Bryce Jordan Center and first in eight years. The Lady Lions have won 20 straight games overall at home.
Penn State, which won its sixth straight, pulled away early behind an 18-0 run.
A sluggish start gave the Lady Lions only a 5-4 lead five minutes in. Penn State rebounded over the six minutes by connecting on six of seven shots from the field, including two 3-pointers, and all four from the free-throw line.
Lucas scored 10 points during this stretch. Her 3-pointer made it 8-4 and another three at the 12:14 mark pushed Penn State's lead to 11 points. Dara Taylor's lay-up finished the run and gave the Lady Lions a 23-4 lead with 9:26 left.
"It was big, getting off to a good start," Washington said. "It gave our team a lot of confidence. Obviously, the breathing room helped."
Penn State, which led by 14 points at halftime, saw Michigan cut into its lead at the start of the second half behind Thompson's 3-point shooting.
Thompson, who entered the game leading the Big Ten in 3-pointers made, had five against the Lady Lions. Three of those came during the first 10 minutes of the second half and help cut Penn State's lead.
Another 3-pointer, this one from Michigan's Rachel Sheffer, pulled the Wolverines to within 52-48 with 11:07 left.
Michigan got no closer the rest of the way.
Greene hit two free throws three minutes later to push the lead back over 10 points and Lucas' jumper with 1:43 left made it a 12-point game.
"Teams are going to go on runs," Lucas said. "We knew they were going to go on a run. It was just going to be on us to weather their run and play our style down to the end."
MICHIGAN (19-8): Thompson 7-17 6-7 25, Elmblad 1-4 0-1 2, Jordan 5-10 4-5 14, Ryan 0-3 2-2 2, Sheffer 4-12 1-2 10, Harris 1-3 0-0 2, Ristovski 0-0 0-0 0, Arnold 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 19-54 13-17 57.
PENN ST. (23-3): Bentley 4-13 2-2 11, Nickson 5-8 1-2 11, Studevent 1-3 0-0 2, Wolfe 0-0 0-0 0, Greene 3-4 2-6 8, Agee 0-0 0-0 0, Taylor 2-7 0-0 4, East 0-0 0-0 0, Edwards 3-7 3-3 11, Lucas 7-17 4-4 21, Waldner 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-59 12-17 68.
Halftime-Penn St. 40-26. 3-Point Goals-Michigan 6-20 (Thompson 5-13, Sheffer 1-5, Arnold 0-2), Penn St. 6-18 (Lucas 3-11, Edwards 2-2, Bentley 1-2, Taylor 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Michigan 32 (Jordan 10), Penn St. 43 (Greene 9). Assists-Michigan 13 (Ryan 9), Penn St. 15 (Bentley 5). Total Fouls-Michigan 18, Penn St. 17. A-14,173.


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quote:If you turned off all browser functionality within the OS did it negatively effect any application that needed the OS to provide that functionality? Of course, yes. That functionality was no longer there! That was the point of removing it. Did it cripple the OS itself? No.


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Ryan L. Adkins, 52, of Bourbonnais, died unexpectedly Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 14 at the Atkinson Congregational Church, Atkinson. The Rev. Mike McBride officiated. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery, Annawan. A visitation and video tribute was held Sunday, Jan. 13 at Freitag-Reeves and Baskerville Funeral Home, Wilmington. Memorials may be made as gifts in Ryan's memory to the Diabetes Association.
He was born on Feb. 9, 1960, in Geneseo, the son of Larry and Arlene Morton-Adkins of Atkinson. He was raised and educated in Atkinson and graduated from Atkinson High School. He currently was employed with Target of Bradley, where he worked as a store facility technician. It was through Target that he was active in volunteering throughout the community. He enjoyed fishing and drawing; loved his Jeep and had many great times four-wheeling. He will be remembered for his Winter video gaming and could regularly be found watching horror films.
Survivors include his fiancée, Tina Howard of Wilmington; parents, Larry and Arlene Adkins of Atkinson; daughter Jennifer Binstock of North Dakota; grandson, Dillon; brothers, Ron (Theresa) Hansen of Princeton and Wade Adkins of Davenport, Iowa; and two nephews, Dan and Nick Hansen. He was preceded in death by a sister, Ramona, in infancy.
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Santaris Pharma obtained an exclusive license from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for intellectual property related to the regulation of miR-33 for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders. Santaris Pharma will utilize its locked nucleic acid (LNA) drug platform to develop a compound targeting this miRNA, which regulates HDL levels.
Last year MGH researchers published data in Science suggesting that the miR-33 family of miRNAs suppresses a protein known to be important for generation of HDL and for the removal of cholesterol from peripheral tissues including cells that form atherosclerotic plaques. They found that turning off miR-33 raises HDL levels.
"Current treatments for such cholesterol abnormalities as low circulating HDL levels are only modestly effective, and there is an urgent need for new therapeutic strategies," notes Anders Naar, Ph.D., of the MGH Center for Cancer Research, who led the Science study. "Our discovery of miR-33 as a key regulator of HDL has provided a novel therapeutic target for antisense-based technologies to ameliorate cardiometabolic disorders."
Santaris' LNA drug platform utilizes single-stranded LNA chemistry. The most important features of LNA-based drugs include excellent specificity providing optimal targeting, increased affinity to targets providing improved potency, and favorable pharmacokinetic and tissue-penetrating properties that allow systemic delivery of these drugs without complex and potentially troublesome delivery vehicles, according to the firm.
Santaris has one LNA-based drug into clinical trials. In September 2010, Santaris advanced miravirsen, which targets miR-122, into Phase II studies in patients infected with hepatitis C. The firm expects to move two mRNA-targeted drugs, SPC5001 targeting PCSK9 and SPC4955 targeting apoB, for the treatment of high cholesterol into Phase I in the first half of this year.
Founded in 2003, Santaris' R&D activities focus on infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. Partnerships include therapeutic areas like cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious and inflammatory diseases, and rare genetic disorders. The company has collaborations with miRagen Therapeutics, Shire, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Enzon Pharmaceuticals.
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I was on a date with this really dumbass guy, and he said he had to go to the bathroom. I said, OK, don't eat the big white mint.
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LONDON – Queens Park Rangers boss Harry Redknapp says the club's senior players are firmly behind his decision to drop Jose Bosingwa.
The Portuguese full-back infuriated Redknapp after it transpired that he refused to take his place on the substitutes' bench for their game at home to Fulham earlier this month and he was subsequently left out of the match at Newcastle .
Redknapp says that the squad is firmly behind the stance he has taken with Bosingwa.
"The good lads have not got a problem with it," he said.
"The good lads would be sick. The Ryan Nelsens and Clint Hills and all them good lads all thought it was a disgrace.
"That's the first time it's ever happened to me as a manager and I've managed some pretty temperamental players. I've never known anyone to do that. It was something new to me and not something I like."
Bosingwa has again been left out of QPR 's squad for their game with West Brom on Boxing Day and Redknapp admits it will be tough for him to get back in.
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"When you are down you need help. When you are playing Fulham at home you need help. We were desperate as we hadn't won a game all year.
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This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Mean Girls's release, and everyone — yes, everyone, even the North Shore burnouts — is using it as an excuse to indulge in their obsession. Daniel Franzese, who played your favorite Mean Girls showboat, Damian, understands. "The script was the funniest script I had ever read," he told Cosmopolitan.com. "We were the first one of those [high-school] movies that also had the Internet. I mean, Mean Girls is dissected on the Internet."
Case in point: When Franzese posted an Instagram photo from a mini-reunion with Lindsay Lohan back in February, the blogosphere, this site included, had a little meltdown. "I was a little nervous about this interview," Franzese said. "The only bad comment I read when that picture came out was from Cosmopolitan. Like, 'Notice how Damian's balding? It's been ten years. DOESN'T THAT MAKE YOU FEEL OLD?' I was like, 'Ew, you bitches.' You totally Regina George'd me." Did you hear that?? Cosmo had a Mean Girls moment with Daniel Franzese!
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Cosmopolitan: What was your audition like?
Daniel Franzese: I sat in the waiting room in character as Damian, commenting on anything and everything I could. Amanda Seyfried had come in for her test and she was wondering aloud, "Should I wear this beige shirt or should I wear this maroon shirt?" Mark [Waters, the director] and Tina [Fey] had their backs to me, and I said, "I'd go with the merlot." I don't even know where that line came from, but they both whipped around and started laughing. They went on with the audition with Amanda and then the casting assistant said, "Hey, it's your turn next." I walked into the room, and Mark and Tina were like, "You?! We thought you worked here; we didn't know you were auditioning. Now we're excited — we like you!" It was a really great way to come in and [get noticed]. But then, according to the E! True Hollywood Story, (laughs) Mark said my audition wasn't very good but that they just really liked me anyway.
I was also told that there were some people who thought I was too old for the role — I was 26 and the role was 16. So I did everything I could to look as young as possible. There was this trick a friend taught me to get a really close shave, so I did that, and then I wore some kind of racy, funny T-shirt and just got really animated and excited — higher energy than I normally have as a person.
You also auditioned for [Saturday Night Live creator and Mean Girls producer] Lorne Michaels — over dinner. What does Damian talk to Lorne about over an amuse bouche?
I was so nervous. I've always been a fan of Saturday Night Live, so I couldn't believe I was going to meet Lorne Michaels. Then on my flight, I was seated in first class, a couple of seats away from Chevy Chase, which was so weird to me because I was about to go meet Lorne and [Chevy has] the whole SNL connection. I didn't say anything on the plane, but then at the baggage claim I went up to him and I said, "So, I'm about to go to dinner tonight with Lorne Michaels: Do you have any advice for me?" He said, "Well, not really any advice, just tell him I said hi." I thought, OK, this is my great opener. So at the dinner I said, "Hey, you know what's really funny? On my ride here, I was on the plane with Chevy Chase!" Tina was like, "What'd he say? 'I'm a jerk?'" And then the conversation immediately changed and I was like, "Nooo, I messed that one up!"
I also met Lindsay [at the dinner], and Lacey Chabert, too. I hit it off with everyone and I remember leaving, saying, "I'll see you all tomorrow at the table read. I'm the only one who doesn't have the part yet." Although Jonathan Bennett [who played Aaron Samuels] wasn't cast yet either. There was another actor who was playing Aaron Samuels at the dinner. Now, the next day at the table read, this other actor hadn't shaved and he didn't take his hat off; he was playing it really cool. People kept coming over to him like, "You know, you should really take your hat off." And then, right after the table read, he got fired and they called Jonathan Bennett, who I guess was their second choice.
Can you please, please tell us who that actor was?
I don't want to embarrass him, I'm afraid. He has worked consistently, he's a good guy... but, yeah he is somebody who you would've known. Also, Lindsay recently told me that, even before [the actor who got fired], James Franco was considered for the role of Aaron Samuels. I thought that was so cool — Bennett was great but that would've been cool.
You mentioned being older than your character, despite the shaving hacks. Did you ever feel out of place among the cast? Were there cliques?
Slightly. Amanda was 17 and so was Lindsay. Lindsay and I get along way better now as adults than we did when she was a kid; back then I just felt like, "Oh here's this kid," you know? I actually didn't know who she was — to me she wasn't really on the grid yet, except for that whole Aaron Carter thing. I hadn't seen Parent Trap or Freaky Friday, I had only heard about them. It wasn't negative, though. Lizzy Caplan and I really stuck together on that shoot.
Definitely Lizzy and I were a clique — there's no question about that. We were always laughing, always in each other's trailers, always in each other's hotel rooms. Inseparable, really. Amanda and Lacey hung out a lot; Lindsay did her own thing. She had a guardian and two young friends with her and they all hung out a lot. Really, it was Lizzy and I rolling solo.
How about Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Were they the "cool moms" on set?
Tina was still the head writer of SNL so she was back and forth between the set [in Toronto] and New York, and Amy was still on SNL as well. They would come in Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for the film, and go back Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to prep for the SNL broadcast. But when they were in town we did hang out. We hung out with Amy a lot; Tina isn't crazy about flying, so they would drive her in from New York. And Amy would just go on Lorne's jet so she'd get in sooner and just be around a lot more. The wrap party was insane — it was karaoke. I just remember singing "Love Shack" with Amy, and later me and Lizzy doing back up for her on Eminem songs.
How about Rachel McAdams? She was the same age as you guys, right?
Yeah, it's funny because Amy Poehler was less than a decade older than Rachel McAdams when she was playing her mom. Rachel's a really humble person. When we would all go out, Rachel would just stay home. Her agents would come to set and she wouldn't go to dinner with them, she was just like, "I'm going to chill." She didn't want to do interviews, she wasn't very Hollywood — she was just an actor. And I remember one time a group of us went out shopping in Toronto, we went to go get a drink, and we walked into this bar and Rachel was just there, chilling by herself. She was like, "Oh, I'm having a beer." Really low-key and normal; a cool, down-to-earth chick.
How long did you guys shoot for?
I want to say it was a little over two months. We all spent Halloween together and we spent Thanksgiving together.
What did you all dress up as for Halloween? Please tell me someone was a sexy mouse.
I know that Jonathan Bennett was Peter Pan.
I don't really remember being fully dressed up, though, because our Halloween party was in a hotel room. And we still had to work every day.
What were some of your favorite scenes to film?
The "I want my pink shirt back" line was one of my favorites from the movie. I came up with it during rehearsal; we were rehearsing driving around the cul-de-sac and I asked Mark if I could say, "I want my pink shirt back, bitch." He said, "Sure, say it twice and real fast like George Costanza in Seinfeld,"and he let me run with it. So that was really fun. I loved the "You go Glen Coco" line when I was dressed in the Santa costume, too. At first, Tina said I should talk in my normal voice, not a "Santa voice," but I said I had to [use a Santa voice] or they'll know it's Damian! I also had a lot of fun with the "She doesn't even go here" moment, from the scene with all the girl students in the auditorium. I just thought that was such a funny line, I could barely even handle it, I was just cracking up. There were so many funny lines to look forward to.
Were there moments where you couldn't even get through the lines because they were so sharp? Are there lots of bloopers we haven't seen yet?
Well, here's one scene: When I sang "Beautiful," when the camera was on me, the only person in the audience was my mom. When [the camera] turns around and you see the back of me and the whole audience, that was filmed the next day.
In fact, my mom actually reminded me that Mark Waters had caught up to her and showed her the fake shoe that they threw at me. It was made out of a kind of Nerf gun pellet-type foam, and he explained, "So, when we hit him in the face, it's not going to hurt. I just want to show you he's not being hurt," to my mom. I didn't really know the song "Beautiful" before I sang it, actually, so they gave me the CD. When I first listened to it, there's that line where Christina says, "Don't look at me" before she starts singing. I thought, Oh my god, I have to do that for real. The idea of that just made me so excited, and when I mentioned it to Tina she just said, "Of course, of course." That moment where I say the line and she looks away at the piano, that all came from when I started listening to the song.
Were there lots of opportunities to improvise?
You know, it's not a common privilege for actors who aren't really celebrities yet. Also, when a studio films a movie, every inch of film rolling costs an extra dollar, so for Mark to be that open and that free with us, it was really excellent. I can't speak for everybody, but Lizzy and I had a lot of freedom. Most of our scenes were together, and we would sit around and come up with the ideas for how we were going to act out stuff. It was a lot of fun.
Are there particular lines or moments that fans tell you they identify with the most?
On social media, I'm WhatsUpDanny, and there's this hashtag #DanFranFans on Twitter. These people are, in the best way, crazy. There are even lines [from the movie] that aren't funny that are made funny by fans. Like, they'll find any way to work a Mean Girls mention into the conversation. And for the past decade, it doesn't matter where I am, it happens. I actually have removed the color pink from my wardrobe completely. I'll be like, "That's really nice, but it's pink so I can't wear it." Because people yell that stuff on the street to me all the time. I adore fans, though; I think that they're awesome. Because I know exactly what it's like to be a fan. I didn't get into the entertainment industry until I was 23 and I've had the fortunate blessing in my career to work with many people who I was a fan of before I met them. So I understand fandom and I embrace it.
My favorite thing that's come out of Mean Girls fans is fan art. Somebody made me a "she doesn't even go here" needle point piece with a little image of my face in the corner.
I met her at a diner in New York City to pick it up, she had hit me up on Instagram, and it was on a Wednesday. She was wearing pink and she ordered cheese fries. I said something like, "There's literally nothing cuter than you right now," obviously, and she was so excited and I just love that. Also, the second best thing is every year — well this past year — I think I counted something like 72 people tweeting pictures at me of them dressed up as Damian for Halloween. They wear the blue hoodie with the glasses; it's like the best instant Halloween costume, and I try to always retweet or favorite people who do that because it's such a blessing that people still identify with this movie so many years later.
As a gay guy coming out of high school around the time Mean Girls premiered, seeing Damian own his sexuality was really empowering to me. Do you get a response from LGBT fans in particular?
It's funny that you say that — not to take away from the power that Damian has contributed to that kind of thing, but Mark's whole position on Damian was that Damian probably doesn't realize he's gay yet. I mean, he knows deep down, but he's still going through puberty and figuring it all out. He hadn't dated anyone yet; he probably hasn't kissed anyone yet. And I just think that sweet spot of vulnerability was something that made that character real. That moment of a kid in high school who just didn't care what people thought about him. I like to say I'm the legendary father of the House of Glen Coco. Anything that shines a little light on anyone who's feeling left out in any way, I am just beyond proud to contribute to that in any way — even if it's accidentally.
So where would Damian be today; what's he doing ten years down the line? Is he still fabulous?
Well, Damian is the one character in Mean Girls who's based on someone real. Damian is based off of Damian Holbrook, this writer for TV Guide magazine who was Tina's best friend in high school. So I think he'd be doing something like that, writing pop culture news. There's actually a deleted scene from Mean Girls — the original ending shows what happened to Damian after [junior year], and he was going to audition for American Idol. Simon Cowell was going to call him chubby and then he was going to run up on the stage and punch him.
Can we see that footage?!
No no, we never filmed it. There was actually a complete alternate ending to the movie. In the original script that I read, Kevin G. gets busted by Miss Norbury for selling ecstasy — so when they call her a drug pusher she actually has drugs in her desk, [because] she took them away from Kevin G. Janis and Damian convince Kevin G. to go to the school board when they discuss her punishment to confess that it was him, but Kevin G never shows up. So Damian gets on the podium and kind of bullshits his way through saying it was him to try to protect Miss Norbury.
Were there other changes to the script?
I remember at one point Janice was going to do some deep, meaningful poetry while playing the drums at the talent show. And I know I had another line that I think was so funny that didn't make it in: I was smoking a cigarette when we were walking across the field to go sit on like the grass. Cady says to Damian, "You know, you really shouldn't smoke," and Damian goes, "But it keeps me thin." It was so painful to let that line go, but Mark doesn't like his actors smoking in movies, which is admirable.
Are you still in touch with your fellow mean girls? Do you have plans to mark the anniversary together, maybe with a group outing to a Ladysmith Black Mambazo concert?
There's been talks of trying to figure out schedules for all of us to get together for something, but everyone's so busy. I do talk to Lizzy and I talk to Lacey pretty often. I talk to Lindsay; every time I see Amanda, it's great. We run into each other more than we make plans with each other. Amy Poehler as well, because I'm really good friends with Aubrey Plaza so I've visited the Parks and Rec set a bunch. Diego Klattenhoff, who played Shane Oman, he and I became really close when he was in L.A. before Homeland,so we hung out a lot. Also, I reconnected with Rajiv [Surendra, who played Kevin G.] after I took that infamous Instagram picture with Lindsay a couple of months ago.
How did the reunion with Lindsay come together?
Well, we see each other around Hollywood. Hollywood is high school, it's no different. I went to high school in Fort Lauderdale, for example, and if I went to the waterfront in Fort Lauderdale I would always run into someone I went to school with, and I think it's kind of like that here in Hollywood, too. If you go out to a hot spot you're going to see everyone eventually. So Lindsay and I would bump into each each other over the years and it was always cordial.
Then last fall I went to the Marco Marco fashion show at L.A. Fashion Week, because he's a great friend of mine — and they sat Lindsay on the front row four seats down from me. I hadn't seen her in like two or three years at all; of course all the blogs ran with, "Look, the Mean Girls reunion that almost happened." But we exchanged numbers while we were there — we were texting during the show and then we began a text friendship, which has led to us hanging out again and being friends.
And are Cady and Damian still friends, too? Please tell me she's working in the accounting department at TV Guide or something, so they can get lunch together.
Are you just going to keep throwing this fan fiction at me? I'm kidding, kidding, I love it.
You have a good point. OK, what are your real-life projects at the moment?
I've just directed my first feature documentary, it's called Allee Willis Loves Detroit — there's a sneak peak on YouTube now, actually. We're working on editing, and we're hoping to festival it this fall.
I'm also in a new Broadway show, a musical called FOUND based on Found magazine. It's currently in the workshop stage but it should open some time off Broadway in the fall also. The idea is that there's all these notes, letters, and homework assignments — anything that people have lost that someone else has found, and then they're put into one book together [like they do in the magazine], and we have all these great people singing the different parts as we go along. I'm really excited about it because I went into this business thinking I was going to be in musical theater. Back in 2011, I wrote a musical — based on Jersey Shore — just because I was so sick of not having the opportunity to be in one. And then we won at the New York Fringe Festival. Since then I've been getting all of these offers for [theater projects] and it's just been amazing for me.
But you're still a Mean Girls nerd too, which is important.
Of course! I mean, sometimes it's not the easiest thing to go out — first of all I'm 6-foot-4, so if I'm in a crowd, my head is a foot above everyone else's. It doesn't matter where I am; you know it's me. I don't really blend. And sometimes it's nerve-wracking. I can be talking to someone in a bar and it's chill, and then they're like, "YOU GO GLEN COCO!" I'm like, "Ugh, you just blew up my spot." But the good things way outweigh the problems. It's been such a wonderful experience; it's such a blessing, because when you work really hard at a career in this business and people feel like you've done something that entertained them, there's just no better reward.
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on January 17, 2013 - 12:21 AM
, updated January 17, 2013 at 8:55 AM
By Jerry Sullivan
When Doug Marrone said you can find good football coaches anywhere, even in the high school and Division III college ranks, you figured the standard wouldn't be too high for his first Bills staff.
Russ Brandon said they would leave no stone unturned. Marrone promised to bring in guys with NFL experience. But the assistants they've brought in so far have been largely — here's that word — uninspired.
He hit the bull's-eye on the defensive coordinator. Mike Pettine led four defenses under Rex Ryan that finished in the top eight in total defense. Pettine is the only coordinator who has beaten both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in playoff games on the road. That's a steal, and in the division.
But the rest of the staff is populated with cronies, college guys and recycled NFL failures. Seriously, Danny Crossman? This season, Crossman's special teams in Detroit became the first since 1940 to give up a punt and a kickoff return TD in consecutive games.
Under Crossman, the Lions were 31st in the special teams rankings a year ago and are near the bottom this season. In eight seasons with the Panthers and Lions, his teams have been in the bottom eight five times. Marrone and Crossman played together in the World League and coached together at Coast Guard.
Marrone said he wanted coordinators with solid NFL experience. He meant defense. Nathaniel Hackett, 33, the new offensive coordinator, is said to be bright and inventive. I'm guessing he'll be quarterbacks coach, too. But his NFL experience amounts to two years in quality control with the Bucs.
I felt the Marrone hire was a bold one, reflecting fresh ideas. But I also wanted Marrone to bring in a lot of proven NFL assistants, not eager college guys who wouldn't threaten his dominion over the operation.
On Monday, the Bills announced the hiring of 10 assistants with a combined 20 years of NFL experience. Half of that belongs to defensive backs coach Donnie Henderson, who has a way of showing up on bad NFL teams.
The Jets fired Henderson as defensive coordinator after a 4-12 season in 2005. He lasted a year as DC in Detroit, which went 3-13 with a No. 27 defense. In '08, he coached defensive backs for the Jags, who went 5-11 and let him go. In 2010, Arizona hired him to coach the D-backs a year after making the Super Bowl. They went 5-11 and gave up 434 points. One of Ray Horton's first acts after taking over the Cards' D was canning him.
Henderson coached at Syracuse last season, so there's a comfort level. Did anyone consider reaching out to Gill Byrd, part of the Bears staff that went out with Lovie Smith? Byrd could have joined his son, Jairus, the Bills' top free agent.
Among the coaches hired Monday, Henderson was the only one who had been a primary position coach in the NFL. Jim O'Neil and Anthony Weaver were assistant defensive backs coach and assistant D-line coach, respectively, with the Jets. Samson Brown was a Jets intern. There's the Pettine connection.
When you get a head coach from college, you bring in some college coaches. I've compared Marrone with Jim Harbaugh, who took some of his guys from Stanford to the Niners. A few were new to the pros. But his offensive coordinator, Greg Roman, had 12 years in the NFL.
Harbaugh retained several key members of the old San Fran staff, including the offensive and defensive line coaches and running backs coach. The only holdover Marrone has kept from Chan Gailey's staff is Eric Ciano, the strength coach.
Marrone still needs an offensive line coach. Why not keep Joe D'Alessandris, who has groomed the young talent on the O-line? D'Alessandris has been coaching offensive line for 35 years. An older voice might be a complement to the youth on the staff.
College coaches often fail in their first shot at the NFL. Maybe it's because they're more interested in creating fiefdoms than finding the best coaches on the market. Great leaders want to be challenged by the people underneath them.
There's nothing that says this staff can't win. But after years of hiring second-rate coaching staffs, the Bills don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. You can find good coaches anywhere. You find out soon enough if they're over their heads.
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