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The Supreme Court healthcare opinion: The individual mandate survives as a tax. You can read the full opinion here.
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You can kiss your healthcare good bye. In 2 to 3 years employers will start dumping their employees onto the national exchanges, and you and I will find ourselves in a DMVish type line trying to figure out why we have been deleted from the system but still keep getting charged for premiums that we can never make claims on.
But isn't that what the Obama administration argued that it was not???
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This is also going to create a bubble in the insurance industry. First it will drastically increase their earnings, but as the subsidies for consumption kick in, soon claims will overpower what they can charge in premiums, and in 5 yrs or so we will have bailouts for the insurance carriers. Then it will be proclaimed that free markets have failed with regards to health insurers, and they must be nationalized. The Supreme Court will uphold this nationalization as a "tax", and presto the single payer system that was always desired will be in place.
"When you call to complain about the type of health care you receive, you will receive a similar experience that you get when you call the IRS with a problem."
"certainly easier than my health insurer's billing office"
"Then the rising costs due to the subsidies for consumers and restrictions on supply will bankrupt the insurance carriers. "
Isn't it hilarious. The people who have advocated a welfare state that is based on the very foundations of not taking responsibility for yourself suddenly now preach personal responsibility.
"The people who have advocated a welfare state that is based on the very foundations of not taking responsibility for yourself suddenly now preach personal responsibility."
Well then, if your not advocating for that, then lets dispense with gov interventions in the economy all together. Such interventions are just consumption subsidies, and people who earn what they get don't need any subsidies at all.
I love the emerging USA Euro-nannystate. Why bother to work? The less I earn, the less i pay for healthcare. The less I work, the more I can exercise and go on bike tours, thus being more healthy, trim, and fit. No rent, either. i don't append the suffix 'scholar' for nothing......
Soon the government will be telling us what we can drive, what we can eat, what we can own, and what we can say. We will not be allowed firearms and freedoms will be greatly limited to protect the people from the Constitution loving Conservatives who are a thorn in the flesh of the liberal progressive UN loving people.
The Supreme Court is worthless and will not follow the Constitution...
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Both business and individual will opt out and pay the penalty, business because it saves them money not to provide coverage and the individual because they cant be denied coverage so they pay the fine until they need to have insurance for illness, keep the coverage until they no longer need it. Anyway thats the way it seems it will be.
"...individual will opt out and pay the penalty...because they cant be denied coverage so they pay the fine until they need to have insurance for illness, keep the coverage until they no longer need it. Anyway thats the way it seems it will be."
This will turn out like every other liberal endeavor, which is exactly why it was created and passed by vote-pandering liberals. The 50%, who pay no taxes, will just get another freebie that will be paid by the 50% who do pay taxes. If it's not obvious already, when the regulations to implement this law are written, it will be.
"it was created and passed by vote-pandering liberals"
Well Hoop, the logical conclusion of your argument would be that the Border Patrol, FBI, the Federal Elections Commission (which oversees the election process to prevent fraud), the FAA (which keeps planes from crashing and burning), and the military should be abolished. Because those services are funded by tax money, which automatically (in your view) makes them a form of tyranny.
" the US gov doesn't put people in prison for not contributing to the HSA. The advocates of tryanny always must leave out the important facts."
Now you are just rationalizing. T
I just don't see how this motivates uninsured to get insurance. For my family, buying insurance probably will cost around $7200 vs. $2000 penalty / yr. And now that pre-existing condition is covered, there really is no incentive for personal responsibility. Are you saying that premiums will go below $2000 / year?
Then if there are no penalties for not paying taxes, then there are no point in having them. In fact, this position should be rolled out for all taxes collected to transfer wealth. Let's have no penalties, or jail time for anyone that doesn't pay taxes that is a transfer of their wealth to someone else.
This law provides for those with low incomes a security. They aren't going bankrupt if their son gets leukemia.
Low income families are already fully covered by medical cards. Since when is the goal "free healthcare?"
This is a free market society that pays for goods and services that we use.
The only things this does is hurt lower middle income families that are now forced to pay for something they don't need.
Insurance is legalized extortion. The biggest protection racket in the world and now its is being mandated by our government. You will pay one way or another. When did we elect Al Capone?
lol lol - we have a bipolar nation to say the least, a breakup will be an interesting experiment.
"What Obama inherited was the mess Bush left us with"
"Overall good step into reaching our goal of free healthcare. "
"it just institutionalized the free care under a different name"
Nope. Its not personal responsibility when force is used at the end of an IRS agent's gun. At that point it is merely called 'survival'.
" if we could move the goal posts in the other direction for once and say that 'personal responsibility' meant that those on welfare actually had to work to get their check."
Physician on the front lines. Have followed this closely.
Feeling pretty bummed out right about now. More than that...... actually considering retiring if Bummer is reelected. It's agonizing on the front lines of healthcare. Enduring all the socialist policies, mandates, regulations, procedures and payment methods of the failed European model now. Only combine that WITH all the stress, risks and costs associated with the mighty legal system of tort here in the US on the other end.
Doctors now burned on both ends and squeezed in the middle.
You are now officially a public employee yellowlab, sorry to say. You have just been told, by someone called a president, that you are a utility for someone else. Your entire existence is now not your own. You exist and live for the good of someone else.
I know one thing for sure: Nearly everyone on here is just so sure this legislation will DESTROY AMERICA! I'm quite confident that no one has any idea what the healthcare dynamic will look like come 2016 and beyond.
Do you understand what it entails?
What are you guys whining about? You should be happy, now all the supposed freeloaders that have been getting medical treatment in emergency rooms will have to buck up and pay their fair share.
I am a little guy and I am certainly not cheering about this. These "freeloaders" will still be getting free medical care. Working men and woman who don't get free care paid for by the government and so ultimately by everyone will be forced not only to continue paying for those programs but will now be forced to pay private companies for insurance or higher taxes. There is no scenario where this is a win for any working class United States citizen.
Its time to start the revolution. When the government tries to over tax me if I do not pay some private insurance company for coverage then clearly we are worse off then the original colonies when they drafted the declaration of independence.
The supreme court basically just gave congress the power to tax us if we do not do what they want us to do. they can't make laws to force us to comply but the IRS can take all of our money if we don't do as we are told.
I suppose in the end that works out because when the IRS takes all my money and I have nothing left then I can get on all the wonderful government programs and have everything paid for. Of course I have to do as I am told and be a good little slave if I want to eat.
A) The healthcare "mandate" will affect less than 6% of Americans who currently do not have healthcare.
This is not health care reform. This is insurance reform. The tax imposed on those not paying an insurance company is going up to a little of $2000 in 2016. My wife paid premiums over $3000 for insurance with a $2500 deductible. We ended up paying $5500 for her medical treatments ($2500 for actual medical bills and$3000 to an insurance company for the privilege to pay our own medical bills.) Under this new insurance reform bill, I can save about $500 by electing to pay the tax.
So in the end, the guy who doesn't have insurance pays a $2000 higher tax, gets a $20,000 ER bill and saves $18000.
Financially the plan makes no sense and further more the government does not have the right to force me to buy things.
In order to really modify our out of control health care cost, the cost needs to be reduced. There is no reason for me to end up owing $3000 because I had to spend 2 hours in an ER (2 hours of actually taking up bed space.) This insurance will do nothing to effect those outrageous cost. It will simply take more money from my pocket and I will still end up paying $35.00 a month until my insane ER bill is paid off, because whatever insurance I am forced to take will likely have a high deductible so I can still afford to put food on the table and gas in my car.
"So in the end, the guy who doesn't have insurance pays a $2000 higher tax, gets a $20,000 ER bill and saves $18000."
I think you've all missed a very important point, or several points. I think the Court, Justice Roberts in particular, is crazier than a fox. Roberts opinion, in part, was reached by his belief that congress can make laws that do not stop citizens from doing what they already have a right to do. That is, it can impose buying healthcare, but can't force us to buy or not buy vegetables. The court thereby put a limit on congressional meddling.
Far more important is the basis of upholding the statute under the tax provisions. Most respondents here seem to think it's go to jail and don't collect $200. However, the penalty imposed for non-compliance is has virtually no power of enforcement. The Act prohibits the IRS from using any of it's criminal enforcement powers. In fact, the penalty can only be enforced from a tax refund. All one needs to do to opt out is increase exemptions or pay less estimated tax. You may incur a small underpayment penalty, but it will be far smaller than the opt out penalty.
Which brings up the issue of unintended consequences. If enough healthy people get wind of this HMO's could be affected by lower premiums to cover all the new mandates. Those without insurance can buy it when they get sick because of the pre-existing conditions clause.
How this will all play out is impossible to predict. One thing is certain. There will be dramatic changes in healthcare costs and administration.
No one seems to have qualms about requiring that drivers have auto insurance. This act does not even force anyone to have health insurance. It exerts a reasonable pressure since people who do not have health insurance impact health case costs for all of us.
In the words of the Supreme Court on this ruling, "The payment is not so high that there is really no choice but to buy healthinsurance; the payment is not limited to willful violations, as penalties for unlawful acts often are; and the payment is collected solely by the IRS through the normal means of taxation."
Another example of why tens of millions of jobs and manufacturing facilities are being transferred to Mexico, India, China, Philippines and other countries with less taxes, regulations, fees and fines compared to the USA! The cost to employ an American is as high as 1,000% more when compared to these other countries and I blame our city, county, state and federal governments 100% for this!
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WARREN - Area youths were honored for their accomplishments during the seventh annual Inspiring Minds gala, "Inspired Tastes International Street Fair.''
The sold-out event was attended by nearly 400 people Saturday at St. Demetrios Community Center and featured food from New Orleans, India, Germany, Egypt and Japan.
Scholarships were presented to five high-school seniors: Javier Smith, Danyo McGhee, Sa'Tima Smith, Darian Rucker and Denzel Stevens.
Stevens said, "I'm really touched right now," after hugging Warren City Schools Superintendent Michael Notar, who announced the recipients.
"This is a surprise. I really wasn't expecting this," McGhee said.
Notar recognized Inspiring Minds for donating more than $40,000 in college scholarships with help from fundraisers, donors and corporate sponsors, adding that founder and executive director Deryck Toles is helping to create a culture of education to guarantee success for every child.
Fact Box
Students who were presented scholarships at the Inspiring Minds gala:
Danyo McGhee
Darian Rucker
Javier Smith
Sa'Tima Smith
Denzel Stevens
"We have to invest in education. We have to invest in our youth," Notar said. "The children are truly blessed to have him."
Checks from General Motors and BP America were presented to Toles, including a $5,000 grant from General Motors and $25,000 donation from BP.
Also recognized during the event was Warren G. Harding High School Principal Dante Capers, who was presented with a Community Achievement Award, which recognizes individuals who have provided much-needed inspiration and support for students.
"I'm overjoyed at this award. I'm proud of our city, I'm proud of the opportunity that is here, I'm proud of our district," he said. "This is a great program. It's a necessity.''
Warren Mayor Doug Franklin was on hand to kick off the award presentation, reaffirming the city's support for the program, including funding to help continue the Inspiring Minds Summer Enrichment Program.
Inspiring Minds is a nonprofit outreach organization that works with traditionally underrepresented youths in the community.


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Problem Child (film)
|Problem Child
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Dennis Dugan
|Produced by
|Written by
|Scott Alexander
Larry Karaszewski
|Music by
|Miles Goodman
|Peter Lyons Collister
|Edited by
|Distributed by
|Universal Pictures
Release dates
Running time
|81 minutes[1]
|United States
|$10 million[2]
|Box office
|$72.2 million[3]
Problem Child is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Robert Simonds. The film stars John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, Michael Richards, and Michael Oliver.
The film opens with a woman leaving a bassinet on the porch of a fancy home; the baby, Junior, promptly pees on the woman who picks him up. From there, he is repeatedly discarded at various homes throughout many years by guardians who have grown tired of his destructive behavior—which includes throwing a rattle at the window, giving a cat soap to eat, using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the fish tank, and demolishing a mobile home with a bulldozer in retaliation for his favorite toys being stepped on—until he is eventually deposited at a Catholic orphanage, where he continues to wreak havoc on the strict nuns.
Benjamin "Ben" Healy is a pleasant but brow-beaten husband, yuppie, and baseball coach working for his father, Big Ben, a tyrannical sporting goods dealer who is running for mayor. Recently, he has discovered that his father intends to sell his store and the land to a Japanese company rather than leave it to him; when he asks why, Big Ben reveals that it is because his son "stubbornly refuses to follow his example" by adopting an honest work ethic instead of a ruthless drive to usurp. He would love to have a son, but his selfish, gold-digging wife, Florence ("Flo" for short), has been unable to conceive. Ben and Flo are never invited to parties because they do not have a kid. Eventually Ben is able to convince Flo into adopting a child. They then approach a less-than-trustworthy adoption agent named Igor Peabody with the dilemma, and Igor presents them with Junior.
However, Junior is hardly a model child; apparently mean-spirited and incorrigible. He leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with Martin Beck, a notorious serial killer called the Bow Tie Killer. He sets his room on fire using a clown lamp and throws Fuzzball, the family cat, at Big Ben and he falls down the stairs. He messes up a camping trip with the neighbors by peeing on the campfire, and manipulating a practical joke played on the kids by their father, Roy, Ben's obnoxious friend who greatly enjoys rubbing his good fortunes in Ben's face, by luring a real black bear to the campsite. He makes Ben believe a bear is attacking when it is really Roy in a bear costume who gets hit with a frying pan. Hearing Junior laugh, Ben finds out he is responsible for making him hit Roy.
Next day at a birthday party, Lucy - the snobby birthday girl - and her friends are very cruel to him and ban him from watching the magic show. However, he wants revenge and sneaks a water sprinkler into her room, forces a boy to pin a tail on a woman's butt instead of the donkey, cuts off another girl's braid with scissors, puts a frog in the punch bowl, replaces the piñata candy with pickles including the juice, throws all the presents in the pool, and replaces the birthday candles with firecrackers. This leads Ben to punish him and take away his allowance. Seeing Junior upset, Ben gives him his most precious possession, a dried prune that belonged to his grandfather (he thought it resembled Roosevelt), telling him it signifies a bond between two people.
Finally, Junior displays his effective but unethical method for winning in a Little League baseball game where he beats up rival players with a bat after they tease him. Ben is having serious doubts about him, and decides to take him back to the orphanage. However, upon hearing he was returned thirty times, he decides to keep and love him — something no one has ever done. However, Junior becomes upset that his parents were going to send him back; despite Ben stating that he will not, he drives Flo's car into Big Ben's store, and Ben's bank account is wiped out in order to pay for the damage. He is on the verge of cracking until Martin (believing that Junior is the criminal J.R.) arrives at the house, posing as his uncle, and decides to kidnap his faithful correspondent, along with Flo, for ransom.
While Ben first sees this as good riddance to the browbeating Flo and the trouble making Junior, he soon notices signs that the latter is not the monster he appeared to be. In his drawer is the prune carefully wrapped up, and through a series of pictures he drew, he depicts Big Ben and Flo as deformed monsters with hostile surroundings, but Ben as a happy person in a pleasant background, revealing that he really did value him as a father figure all along. Realizing that his behavior was simply a response to how he himself had been treated, and that it has simply been bad luck that he has dealt with too many cruel and selfish people at such a young age, Ben undertakes a rescue mission to retrieve him back from Martin.
He then confronts Big Ben (who is preparing to make a TV appearance for his mayoral campaign) to loan him the ransom money. When he callously refuses, Ben quits his father's job and activates the camera that unknowingly puts Big Ben on live TV in revenge for the store and the land his father is selling the Japanese company, where he ends up revealing his true nature on the news.
Afterward, Ben steals Roy's car and goes to rescue Junior. He catches up with Martin and Junior at the circus. Junior is rescued after escaping from Martin through a trapeze act and calls Ben "Dad" for the first time. Martin drives away, but the Healys are now on his trail. After a collision, Flo (who was stuffed in a suitcase) is thrown into the air and lands in the back of a farm truck loaded with pigs; Ben remarks as he watches her being carried away that she had always wanted to travel.
Martin is arrested, but while being led away, he grabs an officer's sidearm and fires at Junior, but Ben shields him and takes the shot. Thinking he is dead, Junior apologizes for all the bad things he did, and tells him he will never be naughty again and he loves him. He wakes up and tells Junior he loves him, too, and realizes the bullet ricocheted off his good-luck prune, which was in his pocket. Junior asks Ben if he really believed that he was going to stop misbehaving, but Ben tells Junior he wants him to be himself. Junior then removes his bow tie and throws it over the bridge, perhaps as a sign that he has changed his ways not to be like Martin, but be himself, and is then carried home by his new father.
The film ends with Flo in the truck looking out from the suitcase, only to be met by a pig's rump, and the title track to the film, performed by The Beach Boys, plays over the closing credits.
- John Ritter as Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr., a caring person who wants to have a child. He adopts Junior and bonds with him. He is hated by his wife, neighbors, and father.
- Michael Oliver as Junior, the main protagonist and the mischievous and crafty prankster in the film. He was returned to the orphanage thirty times as he causes colossal trouble wherever he goes. To make matters worse, he is often surrounded by selfish and mean people, not to mention selfish and bratty children, which makes him punish them with his pranks, thus making himself despised by those around him. He has a devious, but inventive mind and is good with electricity and machinery. He wants to have a family and eventually meets Ben, who he bonds with as Ben is the only one who is ever nice to him.
- Jack Warden as Benjamin 'Big Ben' Healy, Sr., Ben's wealthy but selfish, unsympathetically blunt father. He hates Junior, calling him the devil upon their first meeting. He runs for mayor of Cold River but loses due to insulting the citizens on TV when Ben purposely turns the camera on when Big Ben refuses to help him rescue Junior. He serves as a minor antagonist.
- Gilbert Gottfried as Igor Peabody, the adoption agent at the orphanage who at first thinks Junior is an angel and cons Ben and Flo into adopting him. Later he reveals Junior was returned to the orphanage 30 times.
- Amy Yasbeck as Flo Healy, Ben's wife. She only wanted to adopt a child to get invited to neighbors' parties and dinners. She is quite selfish and unfaithful to Ben as she makes love to Martin in the kitchen. She serves as the secondary antagonist in the film.
- Michael Richards as Martin Beck, an escaped convict who goes by the moniker "The Bow Tie Killer" for his affinity for a bow tie. He has cravings for a clown-themed snack called 'Smiley Pies', even though like Junior he hates clowns. He serves as the main antagonist in the film.
- Peter Jurasik as Roy, Ben and Flo's neighbor, who thinks he is a Super Dad due to his wife being pregnant with their 6th child. He scares the kids with a bear costume, is mistaken for a real bear by Ben, and is hit with a frying pan.
- Colby Kline as Lucy, a selfish, mean, and spoiled 6-year-old daughter. She begrudgingly invites Junior to her birthday party at her mother's insistence. She tells him he is not allowed to watch the magic show for touching her presents, but Junior gets revenge by ruining the party.
- Dennis Dugan (cameo) as All American Dad
The film was shot on location in the state of Texas, from October to November 1989. The cities that were used for filming were Dallas, Farmers Branch, Fort Worth, Irving, and Mesquite.
During a 2014 interview on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski revealed that the story was inspired by the 1988 LA Times article "An Adopted Boy--and Terror Begins"[4] about a married couple suing an adoption agency after they were not informed that their adopted son had severe mental health issues with violent tendencies and had been previously returned to the agency multiple times.[5][6] While other writers pitched the story as a horror film in the vein of Bad Seed or The Omen, Alexander and Karaszewski thought it had potential as a comedy, envisioning a dark, adult satire of the then-popular trend in films where cute kids teach cynical adults how to love, as seen in Baby Boom, Parenthood (directly spoofed by the film's poster[7][8]), Look Who's Talking, Uncle Buck, Mr. Mom, Kindergarten Cop and 3 Men and a Baby. However, the studio insisted upon turning it into a children's film, a conversion which necessitated numerous reshoots and rewrites, leading to a difficult production that left all involved disappointed and anticipating it to bomb. The film defied these expectations, becoming a surprise hit and Universal's most profitable film of 1990 but was still so embarrassing for Alexander and Karaszewski (Alexander even cried after the cast and crew screening) that the two tried to distance themselves from the film, which proved difficult. Studios were initially reluctant to hire them or take them seriously based on their work on such a prominent disreputable film but, as the years went by, they would eventually come to work with executives who were children when it first came out, grew up watching its frequent TV airings and were excited to be meeting its writers. Looking back, they still feel it is "a mess," but take some pride in being involved with one of the "very few [PG-rated] children's films THAT black and THAT crazy" (citing the scene where Flo commits adultery with an escaped serial killer while her husband is catatonic and contemplating murdering his seven-year-old son in the next room as an example) adding "and it's funny."[6]
On 2015, director Dennis Dugan revealed he was hired for the movie, his first theatrical release after a decade of television directing, once in his audition for Universal, he jumped on the executives' coffee table and said "You're looking at me like I'm fucking nuts, and this is what we want. We want this kind of chaos." Dugan suggested John Ritter, with whom he had worked in his actor career, for the role of Ben Healy. The studio was initially reluctant, feeling they needed a more famous actor, but eventually relented. For the role of "Big Ben" Healy, Jack Warden first refused the role, and then Dugan offered half his net points. Warden was so touched he accepted the work while not taking Dugan's payments. Amy Yasbeck was cast as Ritter's wife, and both fell in love during production, eventually marrying in 1999. During production, both Ritter and Gilbert Gottfried were allowed to ad lib, making Universal complain at Dugan for shooting too much footage for Gottfried's scenes. The first test screening was disastrous, with 70 percent of the audience walking out, verbal complaints from viewers, and a score of only 30. The studio forced two weeks of reshoots, including a retooled ending and the addition of key scenes like the girl's birthday party.[9]
Box office[edit]
The film debuted at No. 3.[10] It went on to be a commercial success at the box office, grossing $54 million domestically and $72 million worldwide.
Critical reception[edit]
The film received widely negative reviews upon its release. On the film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, it received a critics' rating of 4% based on 28 reviews, and an audience rating of 41%.[11] On Metacritic, the film has a 27/100 rating based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[12]
Although the film was rated PG, it is still heavily censored when shown on television due to the remarks made about adoption, which critics saw as insensitive.[13] Problem Child was not screened for critics prior to its release.[13] Surprisingly, it managed to acquire a PG rating instead of a PG-13 rating, in regards to a scene where you briefly see backside nudity (a man mooning a camera), not to mention another scene that briefly reveals snapshots Junior took of people on toilets and in showers.
Hal Hinson, writing for The Washington Post, noted "Dugan has a brisk, imaginative comic style; he sets up his gags well, so that there's still some surprise in the punch lines when they come. Essentially, the problem here is the same as the problem in Gremlins 2. It's basically about tearing stuff up, and after a while you grow tired of seeing variations on the same joke of a cute kid committing horrible atrocities."[14]
Protests over posters[edit]
One of the posters for the film showed a cat in a tumble dryer, with the implication being that Junior had put it inside.[13] A group named In Defence Of Animals organised protests against the posters, and some cinemas took them down in response.[13] The group also objected to a scene in the film in which Junior splinters a cat's legs.[13]
For the film (as well as The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Look Who's Talking Too), Gilbert Gottfried was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Donald Trump in Ghosts Can't Do It.
Home media[edit]
The film was more successful on home video.[15] The VHS version adds an extra bit just before the closing credits, in which Junior interrupts the film, to tell the audience that he'll be back next summer for Problem Child 2. Then he disappears and a loud flatulent noise is heard, followed by Ben shouting "Junior!", him laughing, then the closing credits roll. The VHS version was released on January 31, 1991.
The first DVD release was released by GoodTimes Entertainment on May 1, 2001. Problem Child and Problem Child 2 were released together on DVD in the US on March 2, 2004, as a package entitled Problem Child Tantrum Pack. These films were presented in open-matte full screen only.[16] However, no home video release thus far features the deleted footage shown on TV airings of the film.
The film was re-released on the Family Comedy Pack Quadruple Feature DVD (with other comedy films like Kindergarten Cop, Kicking & Screaming, and Major Payne) in anamorphic widescreen (being the film's first widescreen Region 1 DVD release) on August 5, 2008.[17][18]
The film inspired two sequels: the first, Problem Child 2, was released theatrically in 1991; the second, Problem Child 3: Junior in Love, was a television film aired on the USA Network in 1995. The first one brought back the original cast in their original roles and picked up where the first film ended. However, Yasbeck was given a new role with a new dynamic totally opposite to her original character. Junior in Love, the third and final film, recast Ben and Junior with William Katt and Justin Chapman, while Gottfried and Warden reprised their roles as Mr. Peabody and Big Ben and does not follow the storyline of the first two films.
Animated series[edit]
There was an animated TV series that aired in 1993. Gottfried was the only original cast member to be featured as a voice-over actor, making him the only cast member involved in all three films as well as the cartoon (Warden was in all three films, but not the TV series). NBC has ordered a pilot for a TV series based on the film.
TV version[edit]
Twelve minutes worth of deleted footage were featured in most, if not all, television airings of the film. None of the following scenes have ever been available on DVD.[19][20] The first TV version aired on September 15, 1991, on NBC-TV. The profanity in it was re-dubbed with milder obscenities and phrases.
- A scene where Ben and Flo are leaving for church and their neighbor scolds them for the mess Fuzzball made in her yard and he is forced to pick it up. This also explains why he intentionally drives over there near the end of the film, on his way to rescue Junior, fixing a plot hole. This is then followed by an extra establishing shot of the orphanage. This would have taken place right after Flo agrees to adopting a child, and says "Okay! Let's get a kid."
- A scene at church where Ben explains his troubles to the priest. This would have taken place right after Martin throws a dumbbell at the warden in prison.
- A longer version of Ben and Flo's first meeting with Igor in his office. In this missing footage, he inquiries as to whether they cared about what hair and eye color the kid they wanted to adopt had. A brief outtake of this scene can also be seen in early trailers for the film. The regular version picks up where it left off, right after Igor takes down a big book and puts it on his desk, following his line "A child that you can take into your home, and love."
- A scene with Junior packing as he talks to the Mother Superior.
- A short scene right before Ben and Flo meet Junior for the first time, where they get ready for him.
- A longer version of Martin's ink blot examination. Normally, the scene plays out with the man who was examining him kicks out the warden for interrupting him, and, after resuming the examination, Martin, out of nowhere, says "I see...BLOOD!", proceeding to strangle the psychiatrist to death. But in this version, after resuming, the camera then does a zoom-in to segue into a hallucination scene from Martin. During it is a flashback from a prior event, in which he thinks he was being blamed for a crime that someone else did. He, accompanied by his priest, is about to be sent to the electric chair, but not before receiving a cake in the form of a bow-tie from "JR" (whom he doesn't know is Junior). On the way to the chair, he grabs the priest, puts a cake knife in front of his neck, and shoves the warden to the chair. He then flees from the chamber, locks the door, and yells at the warden, "Don't wait up for me, warden! I'll get the lights!", as it ends, and the regular film continues afterwards.
- A short scene shortly after Junior exists the house in which Roy yells for Ben to hurry up.
- A slightly-longer shot of the campsite, just before the movie shows Ben and Junior at Campsite #32.
- A scene following the camping trip in which Ben and Junior have a conversation about the latter's painting, depicting Roy being knocked out. This would have taken place right after Ben sees that Junior taught their talking parrot, Polly, to say "Dickhead", and right before the scene at Lucy's birthday party. During this missing footage, we also learn more about how Junior got to know Roy better than Ben, saying to him, "He had it coming. Roy only pretends to be your friend. He doesn't like you, and his family doesn't like me."
- A scene in which Junior causes havoc with a RC helicopter by terrorizing the milkman and paperboy. The copter then crashes into the front door's glass. A photo of this scene is shown on the back of the original VHS release, and also appears in early trailers for the film, as well. It would also explain why, in the next scene, the glass was virtually destroyed, fixing another plot hole. Junior is also wearing an outfit from Big Ben's Sporting Goods, after he crashed Flo's car into it, resulting in a lot of damage. This entire scene is a parody of Apocalypse Now, right down to the use of Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, and Junior saying "I love the smell of spilled milk in the morning. It smells like victory!".
- A scene in which Martin calls up Ben after he finds out Junior and Flo have been kidnapped.
- A scene where Ben arrives at the circus and uses a backpack to pretend $100,000 is inside it. The Mother Superior can be seen here in her actual overall last appearance in the film.
- A chase scene between Ben and Martin. During this scene, the latter bumps into a woman named Cindy from Leavenworth, dressed up as the Bearded Lady, who asks him if he recognizes her. He shoves her out of his way and she calls out to him, saying, "You told me you loved me! You called me your little kumquat!".
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- ^ "Box office / business for Problem Child (1990)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
- ^ "An Adopted Boy-and Terror Begins". Articles.latimes.com. 1988-01-04. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "An Adopted Boy-and Terror Begins". Articles.latimes.com. 1988-01-04. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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- ^ "Problem Child Is Coming Back In This Form". Cinemablend.com. 2014-10-02. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "'Problem Child' Turns 25: Director on John Ritter Ad-Libs, Test Audience Walkouts". Hollywood Reporter. 2015-07-26. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "'Ghost' Hovers Behind No. 1 'Presumed Innocent' : WEEKEND BOX OFFICE". The Los Angeles Times. 1990-07-31. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
- ^ "Problem Child". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^ "Problem Child". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2008.
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- ^ "Problem Child 1 Deleted Scenes". YouTube. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
External links[edit]
- 1990 films
- English-language films
- 1990s comedy films
- American films
- American comedy films
- American independent films
- Films directed by Dennis Dugan
- Screenplays by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
- Directorial debut films
- Films about adoption
- Films set in Texas
- Films shot in Dallas, Texas
- Films shot in Fort Worth, Texas
- Films shot in Texas
- Imagine Entertainment films
- Universal Pictures films


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Best J-Frame Pocket Holster
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> Best J-Frame Pocket Holster
April 28, 2007, 10:27 PM
I have heard a lot of good things about these selections of pocket holsters for the Smith and Wesson J-Frame revolvers but what is your preference and why?
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April 29, 2007, 01:28 AM
I have the De Saints and love it. as a matter of fact my 642 is in one in my pocket right now.
April 29, 2007, 01:33 AM
Robert Mika makes a very comfortable pocket holster which only gets better with time. It does not print and it stays in your pocket when you draw. The price is right too at only $15.95 for either the round or square bottom holster.
A little OT, his IWB holster is outstanding too. (only $21.95 with or without top strap) http://www.frontiernet.net/~akim/index.html He is a nice person to do business with too.
April 29, 2007, 01:52 AM
I like the ones I make called the Rough Out.
April 29, 2007, 10:24 AM
Why are some of these offered in Square vs Round? Is there an advantage to one over the other or is it just dependent on the shape of my pocket?
April 29, 2007, 10:51 AM
You have it correct. Pocket shape.. Robert Mika points out that a round will work in a square pocket but a square won't work well in a round one.
I use the round one in my Levi's every day.
April 29, 2007, 11:37 AM
I have a Kramer pocket holster for my 642 that I like very much. It works great for me.
April 29, 2007, 12:15 PM
I haven't owned my 642CT long enough to even speculate which pocket-holster is "best". What I can add to the discussion is that I absolutely love my Mika pocket holster, (round cut). So much so that I'm ordering a square cut to go with it. At this point, I can't justify plopping down 80-bucks on a pocket holster and don't think I would - even if I could. The Mika does what it was advertised to do - conceal the outline of the 642 when I carry it. It works better in some pants than others. In jeans and my summer shorts it works great. In my deeper pocketed cargo pants, (North Face), it rides too low to be handy, so I may start seeking OWB/IWB when I wear those.
For the money, utility, features and quality, it's really tough to beat a Mika.
April 29, 2007, 01:37 PM
April 29, 2007, 02:13 PM
I've tried all three, and all three will work, though the Uncle Mike's has a tendency to slip out of the pocket along with the gun if you don't draw a certain way. Robert Mika makes an excellent product - definitely worth a try, especially if you wear jackets or coats with big pockets.
My favorite, though, is the Nemesis, albeit modified. In the default form, it's way too tall for a J-frame, so you have to cut out 3/4" of material and then sew it up to contour to the shape of the gun. After that, though, you have pretty much the perfect pocket holster.
April 29, 2007, 02:57 PM
Thanks Mulliga, I remember a thread a while back where someone detailed, with pictures, how they cut down the Nemesis holster. I tried searching but can't find it. Anyone know where that is?
April 29, 2007, 07:49 PM
Kramer AND Mika. You will use one or the other depending on the pocket in the pants you are wearing. I have found my 340PD/ Kramer to disappear in a pair of dress trousers.
April 29, 2007, 09:41 PM
Kramer without a doubt b/c:
1. The j frame STAYS in the holster until YOU draw. No slipping out when your waist goes below knee level if you sit down too low. Or if you fall down backwards.
2. Other leather models require a wrake across the bottom edge of the pocket - backwards. This is the opposite direction of the draw and adds time. Kramer wrakes across the top/front of the pocket on the way to a retention position. The hammerless design of the 642/340 means you can really wrake the top of your pocket hard to make sure the holster separates and it won't get snagged.
3. square front panel gives a non-gun shape to the blob in your pocket.
April 29, 2007, 09:55 PM
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First I cut across the bottom. Then I cut diagonally, because that big lip is unnecessary for most pockets IMO (my experience is that the tacky material on the outside of the holster keeps the holster comfortably in the pocket during a draw). Then I stitched up the part under the "barrel" part of the holster with some button thread to get a more secure fit to the 642 (remember, the Nemesis is one-size-fits-all). In terms of operation, it fits in regular size pockets, it (kinda) conceals the outline of the gun, and you can draw pretty easily from it. Unfortunately, reholstering in the pocket won't work, but that's not a high priority for me.
I really have to try the Kramer one of these days. I've never had the chance to fondle one in person, and it's hard dropping that much on a holster sight-unseen.
April 30, 2007, 01:22 AM
Mika. Nothing beats the Mika in quickness of draw. It stays in the pocket and does not absorb moisture. I sold all my fancy and expensive holsters at the last gun show.
April 30, 2007, 02:32 AM
I've had J frame pocket holster from Kramer, Alessi, Mika and Hedley. I liked the Hedley the best.
April 30, 2007, 11:01 AM
colubrid: May we see your Hedley J frame holster...Pic? He must have made a special one of a kind for you as everything on his site is auto related.
April 30, 2007, 03:45 PM
very pleased with my Desantis Nemesis. had it for about a month now.
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April 30, 2007, 04:08 PM
Kramer horse hide with the plastic square on the outside to break up the outline and prevent printing is my favorite.
Second is the Desantis Leather pocket holster, which is made for the Jframe.
I use a nemesis for a G26 glock, and its perfect for that gun.
I had bad luck with the nemisis for the J frame, and actually had the gun fall out of my pocket using the nemesis, because the inside is too slick for a Jframe revolver.
April 30, 2007, 04:24 PM
Nothing beats a Robert Mika round-cut (in my not-so-humble-opinion).
April 30, 2007, 06:14 PM
I got this Nemesis in Dec 06. It fits fine. I use this or mika, depends on clothing. I am happy with both.
April 30, 2007, 06:24 PM
No name pocket holster found on ebay. Only $10!!!
It's inexpensive, but not cheap and it works!!!
May 1, 2007, 01:48 PM
I bought one of those cheap brown and black ones when I picked up my 642 and was waiting for my nemesis to come in. I took some thread and stiched it up a bit and it was a pretty decent holster.
May 2, 2007, 09:26 AM
Kramer for me.
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You may have heard someone say this phrase to comfort someone that is going through a difficult time, "God won't give you more than you can handle". Have you ever heard someone say that? Is that true?
I looked through Scripture and couldn't find a passage or verse to validate this statement. However, I did find a passage that seems to be misunderstood that may have led some to make this statement. In 1 Corinthians 10:13 the verse says, "And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear." If you read this verse in context, it appears that Paul is writing to let us know that God will always provide a way out when we are tempted by sin. The context has to do with being tempted by sin, not with trials, tribulations, and difficult times. The promise we have in this passage is that God will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. There will always be a way out when facing temptation.
God may however allow you to experience trials that are more than you can bear on your own. God may allow you to experience difficult situations that are overwhelming and too hard to carry by yourself. God isn't promising a way out when facing trials. In fact Jesus told us in this world we would have trouble. God allows you to go through trials to develop perseverance and maturity in your life. He doesn't want you to try and find a way out during these times. The brother of Jesus, James, understood this and reminded us to "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." Real life teaches you that God will allow you to go through experiences that are more than you can bear or handle on your own.
I have known many people who have been through circumstances that were beyond what they could bear or handle alone, especially involving the loss of someone close to them. I have walked through some of these experiences lately in my own life. This was also true for the early disciples. Tradition has it that Peter was crucified upside down. That is more than anyone could bear on their own. Christians around the world throughout the centuries have been persecuted and gone through circumstances and situations that are unbearable. Moreover, the entire book of Job is about a man who endured a great deal of suffering. All of his children died at the same time. He lost his health. He lost his wealth. His circumstances were so unbearable that his wife told him to curse God and die. So, yes as a follower of Christ you could be allowed, by the sovereignty of God, to go through circumstances that are more than you can bear alone. We have to remember like Job, that God is good and that regardless of what happens in life we can always trust him.
Here are some promises we have from God when we experience unbearable circumstances.
1. God's grace is sufficient for you. The Apostle Paul was experiencing a "thorn in the flesh". We are not exactly sure what the affliction was, but it was tormenting Paul. He pleaded with God to take it away but God responds to Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9 and lets him in on an important truth, "My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness." God's grace doesn't inoculate us from pain but it does give us strength. Paul accepts God's answer and responds by saying he will boast about his weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties. "For when I am weak, then I am strong." Your weaknesses and hardships provide the perfect opportunity for God's power to rest on you and the strength of Christ to be displayed.
2. God's peace will guard your heart and mind when you need it. When you pray and present your needs to God, he promises to give a peace that transcends all understanding that will guard your heart and mind. This is a peace that is hard to describe unless you have experienced it. "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-8).
3. God will be with you, never leave you, and provide for your material needs. The writer of Hebrews quotes these words from Deuteronomy 31:6 when Moses was speaking to the Israelites, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. So we say with confidence, The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" This verse in spoken in the context that God will provide for your physical needs. He won't abandon you. He won't leave you. You are not alone no matter what you go through.
4. Jesus will give you rest when you are burdened and weary. Matthew 11:28 Jesus tells us, "Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." Jesus lets you know that when you are weary and burdened and carrying more than you can bear that you should transfer the burden to him and allow him to carry it for you. He wants you to come to him. He wants to walk with you through your trials. He wants you to lean on him and lean into him as you go through difficult times.
So, God will always provide a way out when you are tempted. However God may allow you to go through more than you can bear alone. God doesn't give you what you can handle, he helps you handle what you are given. When this happens, God's grace will be sufficient for you, his peace will guard your heart and mind as you pray, he will not leave you, and he can give you rest. You don't have to carry your burdens alone.


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With the proper focus, it's sometimes possible to see a business headed for trouble long before it occurs. Last summer, I told readers wireless service provider Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR) was in deeper trouble than Wall Street analysts were publicly conceding. The analysts were carrying "buy" ratings, even when the business was starting to collapse. Since I looked at the stock, it has fallen nearly 80% in just 14 months. And from where I sit, there's another 100% potential downside from here. Let me explain...
In 2010, I noted Clearwire had been making a major bet on the WiMax technology (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) to deliver 4G mobile wireless speeds. The trouble was telecom engineers were increasingly convinced that a rival technology -- LTE (long-term evolution) -- was even better, since it could handle larger volumes of data at faster speeds. Clearwire's management acknowledged that growing sentiment, which immediately raised the question of why the company had borrowed and spent billions of dollars in support of WiMax.
A transition to... what?
Clearwire probably saw this coming. The company had announced plans earlier this year to place LTE technology right on top of its WiMax network. Management figured the upgrade would cost just $600 million -- a mere pittance when compared with the nearly $6 billion that has been poured into the business. Clearwire hoped that would be enough to mollify an increasingly displeased Sprint, which has grown tired of writing more checks to support Clearwire while tackling financial challenges in its own business. And Sprint, apparently, has had enough. It will solely focus on its own business in 2012 and beyond (the company has an agreement to pay for the use of Clearwire's network through 2012).
Where does this leave Clearwire? The company had 7.7 million customers at the end of the second quarter, of which 80% came through Sprint's enterprise-level relationships. Clearwire has also been pursuing retail customers through its direct sales efforts (at a cost of about $300 per subscriber in marketing expenses). This summer, management spoke of a full-year target of 10 million customers. But now, after Sprint's announcement, it's not clear how Clearwire intends to draw the additional 2.3 million customers. In addition, the retail wireless business is fiercely competitive, which is why other Clearwire partners such as T-Mobile are also looking for an exit strategy.
In the wireless telecom business, it's not just about the customers you attract, but the customers you don't lose. Many companies that have services with the Clearwire may now conclude it's simply safer to switch over to a firm like Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) or AT&T (NYSE: T), now that Sprint is no longer fighting on behalf of Clearwire,. You can be sure sales teams at these firms will be asking potential clients "Are you really sure Clearwire will be around in a few years?"
That's actually a good question.
Left solely to its own devices, what kind of business can Clearwire build? And will its debt-laden balance sheet hold up in the weight of further capital-spending requirements? As it stands now, Clearwire's cash flow and spending trends will be without any more funds by next June. Clearwire has already spent $5 billion on capital expenditure in the past three years, and likely still needs to spend another $1 billion to complete its network development. The company has announced plans to raise even more money -- either in stock or debt -- but the Sprint announcement makes this a lot harder to materialize. Without Sprint as a partner, investors and lenders will now question Clearwire's viability.
Analysts at Merrill Lynch, in a just-released report, put it most succinctly:
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Merrill's analysts have a new price target of just $0.50 for the stock, which is well below the current $1.40 price. The reason the stock may not go all the way to zero: Clearwire holds valuable wireless spectrum. But what it would be worth, after debts are repaid, is unclear. Regardless, it appears as if shares would slowly lose steam and drop further form here as the implications of a divorce from Sprint become fully digested.
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God had to create disco music so that I could be born and be successful. I was blessed. I am blessed.
From the mouth of just about any performer, such sentiments would be less blasphemy than nonsense. But they come from disco's indomitable diva, Donna Summer, 31, and if Summer thinks the Lord actually said "Let there be flashing disco lights" on the First Day, well, she's got her reasons.
Blessed, yes, with the most influential set of gospel-rooted pipes since Aretha and Diana, Summer is once again bulleted at the top. She was the dominant woman at the 1980 American Music Awards (she won three), and her Greatest Hits collection is becoming her eighth monster LP (platinum or gold) since 1975, when she roared out of a flagging musical comedy career in Germany with the scorchingly insatiable hit Love to Love You Baby.
That helped launch disco, but Summer's career could easily have been a string of, well, anticlimaxes after the Love gimmick, as the beat ground everything under its platform shoes into producer-dominated formulas. Instead, Donna boogied into a succession of commercial and artistic triumphs, with state-of-the-music hits like I Feel Love, MacArthur Park and Bad Girls. She's had an unheard-of string of simultaneous No. 1 single and LP hits, some composed by her, and her world tours have reaped millions. More significantly, as the disco industry itself is beginning to lag, Summer, the genre's only world-class superstar, has smartly left all its sham one-shotters behind by fusing her music to fad-resistant staples. Her Last Dance won a Grammy and (as a cut in the movie Thank God It's Friday) an Oscar last year and thrust Donna and disco itself into Hollywood. Hot Stuff, more than any other single, brought R&B, disco and rock together at No. 1; and, of course, her dueling divas' shootout with La Streisand, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), included on respective LP releases, carried Donna's On the Radio—Greatest Hits LP far higher than Streisand's all Wet album. Says Summer of their historic duet: "I didn't feel intimidated by her, and she didn't feel intimidated by me. At first she was shy because disco was new," reports Donna. "She said, 'This is your thing. Whatever you want to do I'm willing to try.' There was total compatibility. I loved working with Barbra."
Clearly, enough isn't enough for Donna. Her five Grammy nominations for 1980 are matched by only one other solo artist, Kenny Rogers, and—remarkably—were for top LP and disco recording (Bad Girls LP) and best single in rock (Hot Stuff), soul (Dim All the Lights) and pop (Bad Girls). Then she was scheduled for the ultimate mainstream crossover last Sunday with the ABC special she had long sought. "I'm black first of all, and that has something to do with it," she says of the delay. "They didn't know how they were going to get their money or their rating." She won them over, as it turned out, with a fiery performance at a convention of ABC's station managers.
Summer's pop apotheosis has helped her shed any sleazy stigma left over from the protracted (16 min. 50 sec.) vinyl orgasms of Love to Love You. "I used to think I had to live up to the [lurid] way people wanted me to be," she recalls. "Now I allow people to see who I am and believe that they would like that person better. To be my crazy self—just as weak, normal, straight, unstraight as anyone else."
Summer doesn't drink and is now adamantly anti-drug ("I did everything you can do already"). Donna has also become pop culture's most unlikely Christian true believer outside of Dylan. Donna and her three singing sisters read the Bible and pray backstage (or even in the elevator) before concerts ("We hold hands and try to give each other our energy"). She doesn't gamble anymore when in Vegas and says, believably, she is "frightened" sometimes by her stardom. "If someone stares too hard," she says, "I'll punch him in the face. I forget I'm a public figure. I don't want to be worshiped." She is also not the promiscuous lady her material might suggest. "I've never had a one-night stand—without fidelity you have nothing," she believes. "Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I'm not celibate either. I need one man to center my life around."
That one man for two and half years has been Bruce Sudano, 31, her co-composer on Bad Girls and a lead guitarist-vocalist with the Brooklyn Dream, who have frequently appeared as her opening act. For Donna it was "spirit at first sight" when she met Bruce, "but he was cool." Now, though, they are nearly inseparable—in both love and war. "Bruce and I work together, we fight, we disagree. Basically, we're two crazy, neurotic artists." Marriage is a definite maybe. "We don't like living in sin," says Donna.
Eight months ago they moved into society chronicler Earl Blackwell's old 25-room mansion in L.A.'s Hancock Park. With them is Donna's 6-year-old daughter, Mimi, by her Austrian ex-husband, Helmut Sommer (her professional name came from a record label misspelling). Armed with her own interior decorator's card (for the discounts), Donna filled the place with antiques, Oriental rugs, potted trees, a Betamax and other electronic gizmos.
Back in the projects in Boston, where she was born Donna Gaines, the third of seven children, she "always felt like an outsider." Her father, once a janitor and butcher, now works for Sylvania. Her mother toiled in a sneaker factory and taught grade school. Donna—who herself was a switchboard operator and meat packer before her career clicked—is still close to her relatives, and a Summer tour is more We Are Family than Hot Stuff. Mother Mary stays backstage. Sisters Linda, 27, Mary Ellen, 23, and Dara, 21, form the backup trio, Sunshine; and brother Ricky, 32, has worked as her on-tour security guard. Donna even brings Mimi onstage—shades of Chastity Bono—during gigs. "Between my family, Bruce's and people I work with, I don't have time for anybody else," says Donna. "I wanna help the people I love first."
After singing solos in Boston churches and with a white rock group called the Crow ("I was the only black person—get it?"), Summer won a part in a German production of Hair. Her first assigned roommate in the company, Ronnie Williams, turned from a "brother" into a lover for two and a half years. She went on to the Vienna Volksoper and a Godspell road company before she broke up with Williams and clicked with Sommer, an actor, during a ski weekend in Davos in 1972. "I told him if we did it one night, he'd never want to leave me." They moved in together in Italy, and Donna was soon carrying Mimi. "It was the spaghetti. You get so lazy you just lie there," she remembers. They soon married and moved in with his family in Austria. A year and a half later she left him after falling in love with German painter Peter Mühldorfer. "It was very intense," she says of their three years together. "The devil got loose."
It may have been the same devil that made her record Love to Love You in early 1975—a song that stiffed in Europe before helping to catalyze the disco craze in the States. Reminiscent of the story line from her favorite Bette Midler's movie saga, The Rose, Donna says, "I had told my mother that I would never come home to live in America until I was famous." By late 1975 she was home.
Nowadays Donna's limited spare time is spent horseback riding, roller-skating and listening to rock favorites like Ronstadt, Springsteen, Rod, Mick and the Doobies. Donna has also taken up jogging with Bruce at 3 a.m. and is down to a shapely 125 pounds (she's 5'8"). Summer has had both thyroid and ulcer problems, but they are behind her now. Neither a cook nor hostess, she says of the Hollywood party crowd, "Social life, what's that?"
"Motherhood," she says, "is the most important thing that ever happened to me. I got that feeling of responsibility, that I couldn't be a space case the rest of my life." Until last year Mimi lived mostly with Donna's parents, but now the child alternates between Donna's place (where two butlers help out) and visits with her father. Helmut, now studying law, is "fabulous," Donna says. "He's very polite and considerate of Bruce. Mimi knows too that it's okay between them, and so she can be affectionate with either one."
Home has always exerted a strong pull. Though she says, "I can make $400,000 a week on the road," she can well afford to add to that claim: "I don't wanna kill myself for money. It's taken me a long time to get to this level. My priorities now are my sanity, my health, my child, my family, my career. It used to start with my career."
Despite the Dump Disco movements, no one's about to dump Donna now. "I don't think I will be affected if disco dies," she says. The lead role in a Josephine Baker film biography is a possibility, though competitors like Aretha and Diana have pointedly added Baker "homages" to their acts. Summer sniffs that Josephine's son "has sought me" for the role. Less loftily, Donna will begin to merchandise herself this year, predictably, through a line of Donghia manufactured fabrics designed by her called "Summer Nights." She's also building a video studio at home "because I would love to become a producer or director."
Whatever form it takes, her next move won't be timid. "There are lots of sides to my personality that people don't know about, because dealing with an artist is overwhelming," she says. Her dream? "To be the perfect mother and the perfect entertainer. I would make it work 'cause it never works." How will she do the impossible? "Magic, darling, it's all magic."
Disco May Die, but Long Live Its Queen, Donna Summer, Who's Hot Stuff Now in Rock, Film and TV
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"We don't ban hard to trace paper cash because we understand that there's nothing inherently bad about it; it's what people do with it that's can be problematic," said Brito. "Bitcoin should be treated the same way."
Brito says that if the federal government seeks to go after Bitcoin, it won't be able to take down the network. However, the weakest links in the Bitcoin system are the exchanges, like Mt Gox, which allow you to trade your Bitcoins for dollars and vice versa. "At this point, there's not a lot you can buy with Bitcoins, so the ability to trade them to a widely accepted currency is important," he said.
Brito believes there is a possibility for Bitcoin to become part of the legal system rather than be shut down by the DOJ. "What I hope we'll see emerge is a properly licensed and legally compliant domestic exchange that is as committed to fighting money laundering as Citibank," said Brito. "That would certainly help test Bitcoin's legality."