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An epic conversation on 'Bridesmaids,' 'The Office' and 'Dumb Jock' with Paul Feig
The Golden Globes and SAG Awards nomination announcements are right around the corner and one film that could be a major surprise is "Bridesmaids." Sure, Melissa McCarthy seems like as shoe-in for a best supporting actress nomination for SAG and possibly the HFPA, but a best ensemble (SAG) and best picture - comedy or musical (Golden Globes) could also be in the works too. Screenwriters Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo may also find their way to a WGA Awards nomination in the original screenplay category. This all comes after McCarthy has already been lauded today by the Boston Society of Film Critics and the New York Online Film Critics. It seems appropriate then, that I share a long and intriguing conversation I had last month with the film's director, Paul Feig.
Friendly, candid and energetic, Feig took some time off from working on his next project, currently titled "Dumb Jock" (and also starring McCarthy), to talk about his big movie hit. The creator of "Freaks and Geeks" and regular director of such TV shows as "Nurse Jackie," "The Office" and "Arrested Development," Feig didn't have much luck on the big screen ("Unaccompanied Minors," "I Am David") until "Bridesmaids" because the surprise hit of the summer beginning in May. Feig made it no secret he would love to see his actors rewarded and was keen on discussing Melissa McCarthy's breakthrough role (for more on McCarthy and Feig's "SNL" sit in click here). Our chat also focused on "Dumb Jock," the chances of a "Bridesmaids" sequel, directing Steve Carell's final episode on "The Office" and much more.
Awards Campaign: Let's talk about 'Bridesmaids.' Did you ever in a million years think it would explode at the box office the way it did?
Paul Feig: Not really. I mean, we always hoped it will, but I think my benchmark was like if I could just do something and make $100 million, I'd be so happy because I've had so many things bomb and lost people money and not done well. So, that was really the figure I had in my head. And so, when we sailed to pass that, it was like, 'Holy shit.' Then you start creating new benchmarks, like 'I hope we beat this movie.' It's almost like being at the table at the casino. 'O.K., if I could just win $500 I'm going to walk away from the table.' 'Well, maybe I can turn it into $1,000.' But, it was really exciting.
Paul Feig: When we were doing it, it felt like we were onto something just because the girls were so funny and the cast was so great. But you just never know if people are going to show up for it. When we did our first test screening -- we did eight test screenings over the course of editing -- even that first test screening went really well. But then my last movie – we made this Christmas movie ['Unaccompanied Minors'] because we didn't have any money. I mean, [that movie was] testing in the mid-90's. So you're like, 'Shit, we're a hit, but people didn't show up.' So, you can make it as good as you want, but [that doesn't mean it's gonna do well in theaters].
Awards Campaign: Most of Judd's movies do tons of multiple takes. Was that the same for you on 'Bridesmaids'? Did you hit the editing room with lots of options for each scene?
Paul Feig: In a way, but you get through that by knowing it's all about the story. So, when we cut the first version of the movie, we don't even worry about the comedy. I mean, if the comedy in a scene comes in it comes in, but it's all about make sure this works, that we're buying every beat. The hard part is being controlled enough to say, 'This joke is so fucking funny, but it's hurting the scene. It's throwing off the build of the scene.' I mean a perfect example is when Annie [Kristen Wiig] meets Lillian [Maya Rudolph] at the party when then Annie meets Helen [Rose Byrne] for the first time. Lillian's like, 'Oh, there's Helen,' and then you see her turn around and we shot so much stuff of Helen taking kind of pot shots at Annie, but in this kind of very sweet way of like, 'Oh, did you just come from work?' And everyone had opinions about wanting that set to be funny and people had their favorite jokes and the execs at the studio had things that they liked. But, very specifically, Bill and I, Bill Kerr, the editor and I said, 'You know what? As funny as all these moments are we're just about to go into a scene where they get into this weird contest like of each other. And if we go into that knowing there's already a weird competition between them, then we're just getting the same information just in a more outrageous way.' Let her meet Helen and then [think] 'Oh she's so nice, but she's so pretty, that's perfect.' And she's you know kind of being nice and gracious and then to hear your best friend go, 'She's great, isn't she?' And like, 'Yeah, she's awesome.' You just want to lay that groundwork like her going like, 'Uh oh, something's wrong.' But that takes a lot of self-control as a storyteller because it's going to be so easy to put this hilarious runs like 'So you own a jewelry store?' 'No I work in one.' 'Oh, you work in one that you own?' 'No, I work in one.' 'Oh, what's the name of it?' 'I think I've heard of that.' But also, to an audience, Helen is villainous no matter what she does. She's not doing anything that bad. She's just invested in Lillian the way that, you know, Annie is.
Awards Campaign: One of the things I always hear about the film is that Rose Byrne a surprise and many people did not know or forgot she can do comedy. And, only a couple weeks later she was excellent in 'X-Men: First Class' where it's 180 degrees from 'Bridesmaids.' Where did you guys even get the idea that she would be someone who could come in with these other ladies who are all comedy sort of veterans and click with them?
Paul Feig: You know what it was? The one thing I was always scared of in the film, because I hate arch characters and stereotypes, was always walking that line of 'Oh, she's perfect,' [but not sympathetic]. So, we saw a lot of really funny women for that role and no matter what they did, no matter how well they played it, it always came up just villainous. It just came up too arch and I just kept going, 'I think we got to get like a real' -- no, I wouldn't say a real actor.
Awards Campaign: A dramatic actor.
Paul Feig: Yeah, a dramatic actor could do this, who can just ground it. And Judd had just done 'Get Him to the Greek.'
Awards Campaign: Oh, that's right. She was in 'Greek.'
Paul Feig: Yeah, But I don't know if it was Judd's idea or Nick's idea to put her in that. So, they really did the legwork. She could be funny because he Judd was like, 'Go downstairs to the editing room and ask Bill,' who was editing, Bill Kerr, our editor, was editing 'Greek' at the time and he said have him pull up Rose's scenes for you. 'Cause I love Rose Byrne but I was like, 'Could she be funny and grounded?' I watched her do that role and it was so funny that I was like, 'Holy shit.' Okay, this is great. She seemed like she likes to create characters. Then I got together with her for a lunch. And she started talking about some friends she had who were very similar to Helen. And them see started creating this character with an American accent, but I wanted her to use her own Australian accent just how I make Chris O'Dowd do his real Irish accent and Matt Lucas do his real English accent. I don't like when people put on an accent because I think they lose some part of themselves. But, she so wanted to play it American 'cause I think she likes to really create and inhabit a character and I'm so glad she did just because you have no idea she's Australian. It was the perfect accent.
Awards Campaign: Now that I think about it, dramatic actresses have played this sort of role before.. Rachel McAdams is not a comedic actress but she was the villain in 'Mean GIrls.'
Paul Feig: Right.
Awards Campaign: But in that movie, she plays the, the evil sort of bad girl but you actually have a little bit of sympathy for her because she's not so arch that you think she's a caricature.
Paul Feig: That's what you need. You need them to be redeemable. I mean, it's the theory I go from and everything I write, everything I do is the George Bernard Shaw quote, 'All men mean well.' That's the key to everything. The worst villain in the world has some well intentioned interests [even if it's their own]. So, you have to face everybody from that point of view and for me it was always, 'O.K., Helen's issue is that she liked Lillian so much that she's looking at Annie as like one of those old friends that drags you down, the toxic friend. The person who won't let you get to the next point in your life.' So, she and her very kind of hidden ways decide, 'I'm just going to try to phase this friend out of her life in a very nice way and just kind of push her off.' That's where the battle comes, but it's a very pure reason. It's not, 'I'm going to [expletive] over her friend.' Having that motivation -- it's always going to play villainous because she's against our hero. But, that's how you're able to redeem her in the car when she just breaks down. You're like, 'Ah, it's cool.' That's why I love the moment that we put it early in where you're kind of wanting to hate her and then the kids tell her to fuck off. There's that moment of, 'Oh, oh, O.K.. That seems hellish.'
Awards Campaign: You immediately have sympathy for Helen in the scene and that starts to build in the film because before then you sort of been like, 'Oh, I know that bitchy girl.'
Paul Feig: Yeah. Because I wanted it to be a little bit like as an audience member you're like, 'Is she bad or is she not bad? Did she just say something fucked up to her or did she say nice?' I liked that. I almost don't even like that we have some moments where you kind of see behind the mask a little bit as far as [when] she is mean, because Annie's coming from such a bad place where you can just create enemies where they don't exist.
Awards Campaign: Well as great as Rose is it's funny that Maya is, for most of the film, is playing this straight woman, like the 'straight man.' She doesn't get many jokes at all and she's perfect in that sort of way. But at what point did you know, 'Oh, these other actresses can steal the movie.'
Paul Feig: We knew we had something great when we went into the rehearsal process. Honestly. The auditions, too, but it was especially in the rehearsal process because they're just like 'Holy shit. What is she doing?' And everything was kind of blowing our minds. The biggest physicalization of this was the scene where [Melissa McCarthy] beats the shit out of Annie on the couch to kind of straighten her out. It wasn't in the script when we hired her. There was this plot line where Annie kept getting these calls from this collection center based out of Mumbai. So just any one would keep calling her up like, 'You owe this' and she's hanging up or saying, 'Oh, I'm sorry, nobody's here.' And then when she's just down and out living at her mom's house the woman from the collection company calls up and Annie tries to hang up and the woman goes, 'Don't you dare hang up!' and she kind of gives her this lecture. 'You think your life is bad?' And tells this terrible story about her life and how she pulled herself out. And it was kind of funny, but it was always, 'Why are we giving this huge epiphany scene to a third-party character that we don't really care about?' And so, I remember we were all sitting around going 'Megan's got to do it. Megan's the character.' Melissa helped create this kind of tough badass. This character who's physically imposing. So, it was like, 'It makes perfect sense.' So, that was kind of when we realized, 'We've got something and we'd be crazy to not kind of squeeze as much of the juice out of Megan as we can.'
Awards Campaign: So, I'm assuming you never shot the other scenes. You just went with it.
Paul Feig: No.
Awards Campaign: The reaction to Melissa's performance was one of the most remarkable things I've seen in the industry. I cover the movie biz, but I've never seen someone have a hit movie and then, no offense to the great work she does in TV, but it's probably why she won the Emmy this year. I mean, that's what a lot of people think and it's sort of like this Betty White-ish type of universal adoration. When did you realize -- I mean, obviously the box office was substantial -- but when did you realize it might have touched a nerve even in the industry?
Paul Feig: The movie in general or…?
Awards Campaign: The movie in general and her.
Paul Feig: I mean, pretty early on. On the set we just knew. We just were like killing it. Really killing it. And then it just became, 'Can we assemble it correctly?' And then the test screenings. People just love her and she would test super high. Her scores always tested like as high as Kristen's.
Awards Campaign: Oh, wow.
Paul Feig: Yeah. Like they would always belike neck and neck. So you kind of knew but at the same time, she doesn't look like your typical movie star.
Awards Campaign: Absolutely.
Paul Feig: So you kind of go, 'Well, I hope people realize how great she is and I hope people can look past needing these standard looking woman to be stars of stuff.' And Hollywood is smart enough to know if somebody's beloved. And same with Zach [Galifianakis]. Zach's not your typical, you know, with a beard -- I remember when I was an actor -- characters just can't have beards. People will not watch people with beards. They hate people with beards. And suddenly, boom, here it is. So it was nice that it just kind of took off, but it's such a showy part and she is such a showy -- I don't mean that in a bad way -- it's just like it's a very -- what's the term? Not in your face. It's undeniable, you know, you can't watch that and not go like, 'Wow! That's amazing.' To the point almost where I wish Kristen would be getting more award buzz because what she did is so hard. To make that character funny and likeable and real because that character doesn't [expletive] up stuff. And there's an audience. Fuck, you hate that. But she pulled off this balance of like you just like her so much and she pulls you in and she pushes you away, pulls you, and pushes you away. It's the same reason why Steve Carell didn't win the Emmy because he makes it look easy.
Awards Campaign: Yeah, that's a good point.
Paul Feig: I mean, I always really wanted to be the one to help make her a star because I'd see her in these Indie films and she's always great but I'd get really mad when they didn't use her, all her skills.
Awards Campaign: Have you seen 'Friends with Kids' yet?
Paul Feig: No, no. I'm dying to.
Awards Campaign: You would be very happy because even though it's a supporting part, she has a pretty intense arc with Jon Hamm's character. They really pull it off.
Paul Feig: Oh, good.
Awards Campaign: I'm sort of bummed that that movie isn't coming out sooner because I think it would help your argument for how great she is as an actress overall.
Paul Feig: Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Awards Campaign: But let's say we just step back further. The other thing that I'm always surprised with is how did it even get made? It's all female and it's written by two inexperienced female screenwriters. It's about 'Bridesmaids.' It must be a chick flick. I mean, when Judd was pitching to Universal or Sony they must have been like, 'No, sorry.'
Paul Feig: Oh, yeah, totally.
Awards Campaign: What do you think made Universal say, 'Okay, we're going to take a chance on whatever the budget was for this, $30 million, whatever, to make it happen.'?
Paul Feig: I don't know what the flaccid point was because my history with it was [further down the road]. After 'Knocked Up,' she was so funny that Judd said 'Write your own vehicle,' which she did. And then back in 2007, I went to the first table read of it because Judd said this might be something you'd be interesting in directing and I really liked the script. It needed a lot of work, but I thought it was really great and a great showcase for her and I think at that time Universal was into it very much, A, because of Judd -- they trust him. And B, she was so funny in 'Knocked Up.' Judd then says 'And I think she could carry her own film.' Just like he did with Segal. I mean, he tried to make Segal a star for years and it was finally Universal taking the chance. I think it was that same thing. It had paid off so many times that I think they were just willing to kind of take the runner at it, but it disappeared after 2007 for awhile. I lost track of it and I remember calling Judd up like 2009 or 2008 going, 'What's up with Kristen's movie?' And he was like, 'Eh, it's dead.' I was like, 'O.K.' But then it popped up again at the beginning of last year and I honestly don't quite know why it popped up other than I think there was a bit of 'Let's make this movie now, her breaks coming up. It seems like it's time.' But I don't quite know. I'm actually not quite sure why they suddenly go like, 'Now's the time to make a women's movie,' 'cause I would go like, 'O.K., what made money that was similar to it?' And I can't think of anything unless it was 'The Hangover's' kind of about a wedding.
Awards Campaign: And so they re-pitched it?
Paul Feig: Well, 'The Hangover' for women. Which I hated, yeah. I mean, I didn't mind it because if we're going to be compared to something I'd love...
Awards Campaign: Yeah, after I saw the movie I would tell people who asked if it was that, 'Not really.'
Paul Feig: But I think, Judd he's created such a great thing for himself and for all of us, which is his name is the above the title and stars. And that's all you need to get a movie off the ground, is you need some name that people go, 'Oh, I like that person.' And generally it's a star but, when you hear about a Judd Apatow movie you'd know what you're going to get. 'It's going to be really funny and it's going to probably have people in i I don't know, but who I'm going to end up really liking and following later.' That is so freeing because then it allows me to do my favorite thing in the world which is to just cast the best people for the role just like we did in 'Freaks and Geeks' to throw open the door. It doesn't matter what people look like. It doesn't matter anything about them. Let's just find who is awesome and then adjust the script to them and get their skills. And so that's why it works. Kristen and Annie and then the development that Judd and I did really gave them the best showcase to do stuff in a way that the audience would engage in it. It's such a hard to define math putting together a movie that works and it's impossible to figure out solidly or every movie would be great. It's just a weird dance and sometimes the balance goes right, but I think you have more in your favor when you get a great cast and you let them inform the script as much as your writing does. You know, we don't go to a cast, we don't cast until we have what we feel is a very strong script and story. So we work the shit out of that for a long time, but then we'll hit a point where we'll go, 'It's working well. It's good. So, now let's start casting and see who we get and then that will be phase two of the writing. Once we have those people we'll start rehearsing. We'll start improvising with them, letting them discover the characters and they'll inform the characters for us and then we'll start adjusting the script to them and we'll get ideas from them. There's never an end point to where you go, 'We're locked, everyone.' It's constantly moving, all the way until we do the final cut and lock the final cut because there's so many alternate things we can try different things in the editing room. Do all these test screenings.
Awards Campaign: You didn't fear the test screening process?
Paul Feig: No, we embrace it.
Awards Campaign: Really?
Paul Feig: You have to. I'm not saying it's the way to do it for all movies, trust me. But it's for insurance. You want to make sure that you have guaranteed laughs. Sometimes it'll kill, sometimes it won't, but it will still get a response. So, we did eight test screenings over the course of months and months.
Awards Campaign: What was the biggest thing you learned about what audiences were responding to?
Paul Feig: Well we were lucky because that first screening went so well. It was kind of like, 'Wow the map worked out.' I had been in other [test screenings for other films] where you go, 'O.K, there's a problem. We got to figure out. We never had that.' That's why the studio is able to be cool and we were able to kind of just go like, 'Hey, let's play around with this and that.' The irony was actually that the first test screening we did out in Woodland Hills.
Awards Campaign: O.K., yeah.
Paul Feig: And then one in Paramus, New Jersey [the same night]. And so Judd and Kristen were at the one in Paramus and myself and then Barry Mendel andBill Kerr, the editor, were at the one here. They started earlier in New York. We're sitting in the theater and we were kind of out of the box, rockin' the house. It was like really rockin'. So I was like 'Holy shit, we're killin'.' And I was really nervous because it was the first time Kristen was seeing it there. So I was like, 'Oh, thank God. It works.'
Awards Campaign: Oh, wow. It was the first time, O.K.
Paul Feig: Then I'm e-mailing to Judd how's it going expecting him to respond, 'Home run.' And he writes back like, 'Not well.' And I was, 'What the fuck?' We got the tape of the audience, really subdued crowd in New Jersey and then so his take on it was kind of like 'We've got problems' and we're back here going 'No we're kind of great.'
Awards Campaign: It's a West Coast movie.
Paul Feig: Yeah. It's good to hear that because sometimes something will work in one region and you got a hot crowd, but you want to make sure, 'No I want to get that crowd rockin. The one that is quiet.'
Awards Campaign: See that's the danger, to me, is it's a recruited audience. It could just be sort of the wrong audience for the movie.
Paul Feig: But that's why you have to do a bunch. If you do one, yes, you're in complete danger. But by doing eight -- and when I say eight test screenings, two of those were double screenings -- it's twelve really. Or ten or whatever. So you just got to the law of averages on your side.
Awards Campaign: Did it make Kristen nervous to see the movie?
Paul Feig: Well the great thing was, actually I think it unnerved Judd more than Kristen because they had tested 'MacGyver' there and had the same kind of response and she was much cooler. She was kind of like,'Yeah, the New Jersey one is just -- the audiences are weird there.'
Awards Campaign: See I would be never go back to New Jersey.
Paul Feig: Trust me, I was like 'Stay out there. But it was great because we just kind of kept refining and just knew, as Bill Kerr, the editor, says, 'You don't want one of your test screenings to be the premier.'
Awards Campaign: Yes.
Paul Feig: A lot of studios don't want to give you the money to do all those test screenings and then some movies are just so big you don't want word getting out but these days I'm not even afraid of that 'cause I think it's not the way it used to be.
Awards Campaign: In terms of what way? You don't think that like...
Paul Feig: It always used to be like one test screening and a million of things come in [on sites on the internet]. People pull back from it. I don't know if they're just pulling back on doing it or people are just kind of getting it more.
Awards Campaign: I think that most moviegoers, they just go on Facebook or they go on Twitter and you're not seeing the response. Maybe their friends hear about it and they find out about it that way.
Paul Feig: You're totally right about that. 'Cause this is the movie that Twitter built a little bit because Universal very, very smartly in the run-up to our release, the months running up to the release, did about 300 word-of-mouth screenings all over the country. I mean, spread out over the course of a month and I have a list of when they were doing it but every time they would do it, when it ended I would type in Bridesmaids into Twitter and that's when I was going like I think we might actually be okay with the crowd because just hundreds [of tweets] like, 'Love this movie.' Maybe 0.1001 percent would be like, 'That sucked,' or whatever. I'd never seen anything like that. So, the word just kind of spread like crazy. And then occasionally I would re-tweet some stuff and Judd would re-tweet 'cause we got bigger audiences and then a newspaper would pick it up here and there.
Awards Campaign: But here's the quandary for you and no doubt Judd. Judd does not like to do sequels.
Paul Feig: Right.
Awards Campaign: And I cannot imagine that after the first weekend that someone from Universal wasn't pitching 'Bridesmaids 2: The Honeymoon' or something. Is that just off the table or..?
Paul Feig: It's not off the table, it's just there is -- Kristen's not --
Awards Campaign: She's not keen on it?
Paul Feig: Not at the moment. But she's also so busy with other stuff. She just made 'Imogene' and she's busy back on 'SNL.' She oddly announced she's going to be in the Sean Penn's movie that he's directing. So, she's busy and there's just a fear of making something that waters down the memory of the first one. If we can figure out a great way to do it, I'd love to do it because those characters are so great. It would be fun to visit them again, but --
Awards Campaign: But that's the one thing Judd's done. Whether it's 'Get Him to the Greek' or the new movie he has coming out he revisits the characters from 'Knocked Up.' Has that been discussed at all? Possibly taking any of the characters putting them in a different context?
Paul Feig: I mean, we've talked about a lot of different things because there some project that he's got that's, you know, just the earliest stages and I occasionally look at it and go, that could be the sequel and it has nothing to do with the wedding or anything. Judd and I could also sit down and write the sequel but nobody wants that. Kristen and Annie wrote this movie and I love that they wrote this movie. And I don't think anybody's like clamoring for it. 'Oh, we want another 'Bridesmaids' written by the two dudes that were involved.' This is a movie that means a lot to women. That's really exciting to me, you know. And so bottom line is, I don't know. Obviously, there's a big financial reason to want to do it but for better or worse it doesn't drive us.
Awards Campaign: But your next picture or one of your next pictures is with Melissa, right?
Paul Feig: Yeah, yeah.
Awards Campaign: And is that soon or...
Paul Feig: Yeah, well I'm shooting that on her break from 'Mike and Molly' next April.
Awards Campaign: In April. It doesn't have a title though.
Paul Feig: Yeah, 'Dumb Jock.'
Awards Campaign: That hasn't really leaked out.
Paul Feig: It's out some places but in others -- 'cause I know at the last minute they got nervous like have we've cleared that name?' but I use it all the time 'cause I like the title.
Awards Campaign: Can you give us the log line?
Paul Feig: I call it an unconventional love story, but it's a story about the building of what will become the world's strongest marriage with two unlikely people.
Awards Campaign: So Melissa is obviously one half of the marriage.
Paul Feig: Yeah. But it's not even the marriage. It's a love story. It's an origins story if you will of how these two people meet and how it takes off from there.
Awards Campaign: And have you cast the other character yet or are you still…?
Paul Feig: I know who I want to play it but it's nobody's locked down yet. I wrote it with someone in mind, but Melissa definitely, even though there's not an official deal, she is on board. She's very excited about it and I've been actually,consulting with her on drafts and when I wrote the first 30 pages I immediately sent them to her to like get her feedback on the character and all that. And then I finished the first draft like a week and a half ago and the studio is really excited about it. So, I'm doing a quick re-write to clean up some stuff and then, you know, hopefully that will get us kind of officially green lit.
Awards Campaign: And is an L.A. set story?
Paul Feig: New York. I think people will really like this movie. It's a movie that has not really been made in Hollywood that I can think of Maybe in the Indie world or maybe in the foreign world, a similar type of story but not, yeah, not that I know of. And I think it's a story of Melissa that an audience will really want, especially women because it's just a very real story. Real, but funny story about somebody falling in love, finding where they don't think it's going to happen or it doesn't seem like it would ever happen.
Awards Campaign: I'd love to talk to you about Steve Carell's final episode on 'The Office.' Did you get nervous directing that episode? Simply because you knew it was going to be a momentous moment in TV history?
Paul Feig: It was a little nerve-wracking. There was a big responsibility because, I mean, not as nervous as Greg Daniels was, I'll tell you that. I've got such a funny picture in my phone of Greg on the set and he's literally lying on this couch face down. 'Cause it was nerve-wracking and he wrote a great script. But the big balance on that was Steve is the most loved and lovable man in the world. And so the difference between Steve Carell leaving the cast of The Office is 180 degrees different than Michael Scott leaving Dunder Mifflin. What's happening is every scene we go in to, everyone's completely emotional. Everyone would start crying and the tendencies are want to do every scene kind of like this big heavy thing and Greg very heads up realized early on the cast can't be sadder than the audience is. And so that was the math. It was the hardest of like, no, Kelly could care less if Michael left and DJ's character, you know, he doesn't really care. But Jim would care and Pam would care and Dwight would care, but everybody is like, 'Yeah, okay, good-bye.' So, it was really getting that map right. But it was hard. I mean, 'cause everybody was emotional the whole time, but I remember we shoot the talking heads kind of early in the week, generally. And so like, Michael's talking head, that was kind of like the second day in I think and I remember thinking 'This is Steve Carell's last time doing the talking heads on 'The Office'' and we all realized it and I knew Steve realized it and we were all doing it and we got to the last one, finished it and then we were going like, 'I think we got it.' And nobody said anything. We didn't say anything.
Awards Campaign: So was the last thing you shot at the airport or was it on set?
Paul Feig: It was on set. It was when he leaves the office.
Awards Campaign: The office?
Paul Feig: And it was really, you know, I live those for those kinds of moments. It was just like my other proudest moment from the Office is the proposal, which is one of the most expensive shots in television history. And nobody knows it. That was all construction. That was all built. The freeway, everything. Because we wanted to shoot it in New Jersey, but we wanted to have rain and you couldn't rain on a working freeway so, we built that. We had it at giant parking lot in Glendale. We built the entire, gas station, all this up. And then, we has this huge oval track with the freeway lines and sort of the dividers. And we knew it was going to be the one shot we were getting in so, I don't know, like, 20 or 30 cars and trucks cycling around, you know, and we created this whole thing in the rain and then we had to just paint in the trees in the background, but, you know, it was productive.
Awards Campaign: And everyone thought it was so easy.
Paul Feig: But I love working with Greg. Greg and Judd are the two people in Hollywood I trust the most because I trust their quality and I trust the way that they want to tell a story and the way that they want the character to be real and grounded and three dimensional more than anybody else I've ever worked with. And I've worked with great people, but I think it's just we're of the same sensibility. You tend to trust the people that you agree with.
"Bridesmaids" is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Judith Butler & Omar Barghouti - BDS Movement against Israel
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 6:30pm
"No one has done more to build the intellectual, legal, and moral case for BDS than Omar Barghouti. The global Palestinian solidarity movement has been transformed and is on the cusp of major breakthroughs."
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
"Barghouti explains with lucidity, passion, and unrivaled intelligence…that bringing an end to apartheid in Palestine and seeing justice and equality for all the people who live there is not a distant dream but a reality we can bring about in the next few years using BDS."
—Ali Abunimah, author of One Country and cofounder of the Electronic Intifada
"I have been to Palestine where I've witnessed the racially segregated housing and the humiliation of Palestinians at military roadblocks. I can't help but remember the conditions we experienced in South Africa under apartheid. We could not have achieved our freedom without the help of people around the world using the nonviolent means of boycotts and divestment to compel governments and institutions to withdraw their support for the apartheid regime. Omar Barghouti's lucid and morally compelling book is perfectly timed to make a major contribution to this urgently needed global campaign for justice, freedom and peace."
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Those who think they are free to disregard international law because they are powerful… are dead wrong. At the same time it is the tolerance of such behavior that has led Israel to believe that they can literally get away with murder.… Omar Barghouti's book…is timely and responsibly written by a man who understands that creative and relentless nonviolence is the only way out of the dire situation in which Palestine, and our entire world for that matter, finds itself."
—Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, M.M., former president of the UN General Assembly
"For the first time, we have in front of us a succinct and poignant case made for the BDS strategy vis-à-vis Israel. There is no
one better placed to make this case than Omar Barghouti, as this book shows clearly.... This is a must read for anyone interested in, and committed to, the Palestine cause, regardless of their particular stance on the BDS strategy."
—Ilan Pappé, University of Exeter, and coauthor of Gaza in Crisis
"Barghouti reminds us what public responsibility entails, and we are lucky to have his re lentless and intelligent analysis and
argument. There is no more comprehensive and persuasive case than his for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to end the Israeli occupation and establish the ethical claim of Palestinian rights."
—Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley
"Barghouti is the future. He is intelligent, empowered, and nonviolent. He is completely impressive. It would help Americans to see such a picture of Palestinian political engagement when they have such a distorted image of who Palestinians are. Some day they will know him."
—Phillip Weiss, cofounder of Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle East
"The ABC for internationalist support for Palestine is BDS. And the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israeli cruelty and injustice is gaining in significance and scope. Like the anti-apartheid movement against racist South Africa, BDS is helping to make a tremendous difference in what has been a most difficult struggle for human rights and the right of a colonized and dispossessed people to national self-determination. This inspiring book is a weapon in a noble struggle in which all right-thinking people can play a part."
—Ronne Kasrils, author, activist, and former South African government minister
"I commend this excellent book by Omar Barghouti.…It challenges the international community to support the BDS campaign until the entire Palestinian people can exercise their inalienable rights to freedom and self-determination and until Israel fully complies with its obligations under international law. BDS is a call to refuse to be silent in the face of military occupation of the Palestinian people by the Israeli regime, apartheid, and colonialism. BDS is a nonviolent way in which each of us and our governments can follow our conscience and rightful moral and legal responsibility and act now to save Palestinian lives by demanding that the Israeli apartheid regime give justice and equality to all."
—Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate
"When powerful governments will not act, ordinary people must take the lead…. Essential reading for all who care about justice and the plight of an oppressed people."
—Ken Loach, filmmaker
"This is a book about the political actions necessary to hinder and finally to stop the Israeli state machine that is operating every day to eliminate the Palestinian people. It is like an engineer's report, not a sermon. Read it, decide, and then act."
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Liberty City business still putting its stamp on the Black community People often dream about venturing into the business world because they like the idea of being their own boss. But just imagine the challenges that come when many if not all of your co-workers are members of your own family. Here in Miami there are several family-owned businesses, including The Miami Times, that have stood the test of time and extended their reach and impact from one generation to the next. Consider the unique story of one local family clothier that some say is second to none Rasools. Its one example of how hard work pays off and illustrates the concept of giving back to the community.
Rasool recalls the days of hot dogs and beauty supplies
Ronald Malik, affectionately known in our community as Rasool, is the visionary of the Liberty City-based clothing dynasty called Rasools Sportswear [6301 NW 7th Avenue]. But he says things were much harder in the businesss earlier days. Twenty-eight years ago my Dad started out selling everything from hot dogs to beauty supplies said Ronald [Ron] B. Malik, who followed in his fathers footsteps. Then we started selling jelly shoes and God kept it evolving. When asked at what age each child is required to work in the store, Ron replied, It just happens after school you come to the shop. Thats how I fell in love with the business it was fun and its still a lot of fun, he added. We all love it and put our time in. At one point there were three generations at the business all at the same time. No one has been forced to get involved, Ron said. In fact, some of us have degrees and other businesses but we still put time in at the shop. Countless cousins, aunts, uncles and other relatives have all played a role in our success. And its http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_url.aspactually kind of nice to be around members of our family for as many as 12 hours a day Im sure a lot of folks cant say that. As for the inevitable family conflicts that are bound to occur, Ron says the philosophy is, Say what you have to say, apologize if you want to, but move on.
Paving the way for the next in line
Meanwhile, baby sister Aquila Malik is in the midst of transacting sales with a few patrons. Her sister Gloria Malik is ringing up another satisfied customer at the register. And Guana Taheerah Malik, who also owns her own bail bonds business, is using her creativity to change some displays. Each of them seem comfortable in their assigned posts. Aquila is our familys most recent college graduate but she still wants to try her hand at human resources outside of the business, Ron says. But she still puts her time in at the shop. The deal we make is simple: we all work hard so that the business thrives and that allows us to take care of the family like putting our kids through college. We all have to do our share to take care of the business that takes care of us. By Tanya JacksonMiami Times email@example.com


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"One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." John 9:25b (NRSV)
On Wednesday, Jan. 4, I went to City Hospital, and Dr. Lawrence Brack, assisted by the fine staff there, removed the old lens from my right eye which was covered by a cataract, replaced it with a new lens, and reshaped the eye to correct astigmatism. As a consequence, I who have experienced the wearing of glasses beginning when I was 4-years-old, am living without a lens in the right eyepiece of my spectacles. The eye that could not see the large "E" atop the eye chart, read four of the six characters on the 20-20 line on the day after surgery, and I humbly give thanks to God and all who helped make this reality!
I anticipate Dr. Brack performing corrective surgery on my left eye on Jan. 18. The procedure is considered routine, but I was buoyed by the prayers of many on Wednesday, and suspect the same will occur on the 18th. I believe God gives humanity the wherewithal to discover and act on the medical technologies from which I benefited, and so I see the procedure I have experienced as an extension of the healing ministry performed by Christ.
I can identify with the blind folks who were healed by the Lord. For all whose lives are reshaped by an encounter with the living Christ, there is inevitably a recasting of their take on life itself and the creation (including their fellows) within which it unfolds. The individual quoted from John 9, in the passage that began this column, was being challenged by the enemies of Jesus to make sense of what had happened to him. He couldn't explain it, or even tell them who Jesus was, but he could share his experience of before and after, and that testimony alone was and is powerful.
New sight or insight is an oft used metaphor for this transformation, though one does not have to literally see to experience it. In the hymn, "Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine," Fanny Crosby, blinded for life by a childhood disease, writes that as a result of her relationship to the living Lord, "...visions of rapture now burst on my sight." In 1895, Clara H. Scott wrote the following prayer hymn: "Open my eyes, that I may see glimpses of truth thou hast for me; place in my hands the wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free. Silently now I wait for thee, ready my God, thy will to see. Open my eyes; illumine me, Spirit divine!
My prayer is that sighted or sight impaired, we all may come to know the new perspective and new outlook (hope) that can only come from a healing encounter with the living Lord!


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If you are looking to leave an abusive church, know there isn't a tidy checklist and it isn't always easy. If you think about it, you have a lot of spiritual warfare going on around you. But how ever you leave the system, the point is to move forward. How you walk out of one season will greatly determines how you walk into the next. Different people leave in different ways. Some walk out, some are kicked out (or excommunicated or "dismissed") and some burn out. Others grow out. Some people find out and learn things and decide they need to leave. Some get counseled out. I have seen people walk out angry during a Sunday service and never return. I've seen others just decide they will never return again, and they don't. I've seen people wait and search for the leader to talk after an eye-opening, upsetting meeting. He never came out to speak with them so they left a message for him to call them. He never called and they never returned. I personally fell into 3 areas…grown out, finding out and kicked out. My kids and I were excommunicated from a church I served at full-time. In the process of seriously leaning on Jesus and how to trust through everything I had "grown out". I also hit a "glass ceiling" (yes, it happens in churches, not just companies) and all I wanted was to serve the Lord and reach the lost without the drama. I also fell under "finding out". I witnessed way too much deception, gossip, slander, double-talk, etc. from leadership. I had really heard and seen just way too much and knew from being around incredible shepherd pastors there was too much that was not appropriate or in line with the character of a Christ follower. And the "can't talk" unspoken rule was heavy (see Characteristics of an abusive church). By the time we were excommunicated the Lord was telling me where to go because I had passed a test and He was about to expand my territory. He had revealed to me I would be going down a different path months prior and a few days before excommunication I knew I would be released. Knowing that helped me walk through the process tremendously. However, during the dismissal meeting the abusive control continued. I can not even begin to put into words how the Lord's presence literally wrapped all around me and I was very aware of Him around me. I was so sheltered, so at peace, I've never had an experience like it or since then. I could see what was going on around me clearer than I had ever seen. The control and abuse continued as they attempted to "shame" me into silence and control me from talking to people about anything after I walked out the door that night. Right after we left meetings were called from the leader to shun us.
Either way, I want to stress this more than anything because it's the one thing that I hear discussed the most: The years you spent in the spiritually abusive system were not a total waste. Like most abusive families, most spiritually abusive systems have both positive and negative qualities. I personally learned so much at the church I had attended. Here were a few major positive things I learned: First, not to believe everything I was told by someone who claims to be a spiritual authority. I learned that while watching the leader lie on several occasions about things he said I said that I hadn't said while I was standing there. Secondly, I learned to test what they say is scriptural and study it myself because scripture was twisted and taken out of context. But the biggest positive was I learned how to trust God in the valley, cling to Him, listen to Him and learn His heart for me. I did come away with some awesome friendships. These were people who were independent thinkers, knew my heart and my kids' hearts. They were willing to go against leadership and continued to keep in touch. They were the ones who helped me get through the transition season and even now it's such a pleasure to run into them or do lunch with them. Looking back, it was the most incredible season and this is when my life became a life of prayer and I learned who my enemy truly is. I love my prayer time and guard my walk and quiet time with everything. That came during affliction, tremendous heart ache and pain during those years and I'm so thankful for it. Sometimes you don't realize that Jesus is all you need until you're walking in the valley and He is all you have.
It really boils down to deciding one thing…fight or flight. Ultimately, you have to pay attention to what's going on around you and inside of you while asking some hard questions: Who have you become while being there? If you came for the first time today, knowing what you know now about the church system in place, would you stay? Can you decide your own limits by yourself and stick with them? Can you stay, and stay healthy, at the same time? Are you supporting what you hate (for example, the leader suggests he will take over a situation for you that involves lying and destroying people. Can you support that)? Listen to what God is telling you to do. Don't listen to everyone around you, listen to Him. If you are considering leaving, think carefully who you tell. If you decide to stay, don't be naive there will be tension and a fight…the biggest battle is inside of you. If you decide to stay the question of going or staying will replay constantly. Here's some tips to help you if you decide to stay: First, decide who you serve….God or man. Second, keep telling the truth!! I wish I had done this and I didn't. I let the lies about me, about others from the leader continue. I did not stand up and keep telling the truth. There is a lot of double talk in abusive systems. There is freedom and strength in truth. Hold fast to the truth. Third, know who your enemy is! People are not our enemy, Satan is. (Eph. 6:12, 2 Cor. 10:4). People hurt you, not God. Fourth, hang on to the Good Shepherd!! Bury yourself in the Word and learn Him. Bury yourself in prayer or just being in His presence in silence until He gives you the next step. Read Matthew 10 and Isaiah 40 and never forget that God is your Defender. The fight is His, not yours…always take the high road that represents Jesus best. Below are the descriptions I named before:
These people simply get angry from the situation and leave. Unless they have a renewing of the mind, shedding the mind control, clear through the lies they don't realize they've been told and get grounded in their faith and learn who Jesus is, walk-outs may lead destructive or fear-filled lives. Some adopt the attitude that since they couldn't measure up to the system's requirements, there isn't any hope for them anyway. Some develop patterns of living that they wouldn't have chosen otherwise. There is a good chance that they will find another abusive church. I have friends that have walked out successfully, reached out to others who had left before them to gain some sanity and moved forward into a healthy church with complete restoration of the relationships that leaders had told them were "bad". As I type this they are doing MAJOR damage to hell. I'm sure Satan can't stand it and I love that!
These people are excommunicated or shunned for a variety of reasons, usually related to the fact that they failed to fully integrate into one or all four aspects of controlling (information control, thought control, emotion control and behavior control). These 4 make up mind control. People who are kicked out of churches are commonly filled with tremendous grief and guilt. They are still very loyal to the group's beliefs and its people, even though rejected by the group.
These people have been so abused spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally and financially, that they are barely able to function on a normal basis. They are usually very confused, perhaps even physically ill, unable to trust anyone.
These are people who are given, or stumble onto information which explains the situation enabling them to leave the mind control (the act of turning one's mind, soul and body over to the control of another human being) without fear and guilt. These people usually take several years to work through the adjustment to normal living and attitudes.
I've heard of this but usually God closes the doors while people are going through counseling to leave. Also, those who are born and raised within a highly controlling church or group are often counseled out.
Transition…It's A Season!
Transition is a topic that I love so I have to control myself here. It's painful and it's exciting. It's like a spiritual rollercoaster where you want to puke one second and scream in fear the other and maybe 5 minutes later God does something wonderful and you're on your knees weeping with joy. Lance Wallnau said this about transition in a video that I hold close to my heart:
"Transition is when believers are trying to figure out how they are going to work out the call of God for the next season. Truth is, God is inviting you to explore the transition, that is, the DESIRE that's in your heart." (for more on the Desire of Your Heart-Your Assignment click here)
Transition brings genuine grief and excitement at one time. I personally swung between feeling angry, depressed, sad and excited about the next level. Sometimes all in 24 hours or over the course of a month. Either way it's the time when the dream of your heart is taking shape. Think long and hard over the thing you've had in your heart…chances are it's tied to that. This is why I beg and plead with people who are depressed and struggle with suicidal thoughts during this season…DON'T feel guilty, ashamed or hard on yourself. It's all in how you look at the situation. Are you focused on God or how you feel? Are you focused on God or on what you lost? This is a valley moment on the way to the mountain that God has invited you to. Maybe you have a dream to do more and you couldn't at the church where you were attending. I know a woman who had a desire to be involved more in missions and couldn't where she was at. A young couple wanted to serve more but they weren't part of the inner clique and so they weren't used. Maybe you have a desire to go further with worship ministry and impact more people but can't be done where you are. I personally had a dream of doing more with the youth and getting more into networking area pastors together and taking care of youth leaders. I have a HUGE heart for pastors. I couldn't do either of those at the church I was at. I hit that glass ceiling. So God took me from there while keeping the desire in my heart, and just like a lateral move I crossed over to a safe church home where the Lord sent me to do the desire of my heart that he put it in there to begin with. He put into motion and I was in my sweet spot immediately. Our small group had 15 students grew to 50 with 22 leaders. About a year later the opportunity to start a ministry for local youth pastors in my area came. If I had taken my focus off Jesus after my excommunication, gave into my flesh, called it quits and ended my life after being shunned none of this would have happened. In fact, God is incredible…1 1/2 years later my kids and I had another transition to a newer church closer to home where God took the youth from 30 kids to 425 in 6 months. Wow! What a huge honor that I get to do this and God trusts me and chose me to be part of what He is doing! And my church is SO HEALTHY that the pastors trust the Jesus in each of us leaders to do what's right and not control. They DISCIPLE! And rather than hide what happened to me it became my victory story, which is truly "HIStory" of His goodness as I give God the glory for all he's done. He truly will work together all things to for good to those who love him and trust him.
Transition is an ending at the beginning. It's really truly the valley at the bottom of the mountain. The process of going through the desert to your new beginning. The battle or warfare in the transition is usually us coming up against the spiritual power or principality that is currently occupying the territory of our new beginning. The only way to enter is to go through the desert time and doing battle on your knees in prayer that removes the principality in our territory. It's God ordained and so you can trust Him. The key is to embrace the transition, hang on tight to the Lord and really expect the new beginning!! Look forward to what God is doing! If you're in transition then there are exciting times ahead for you!
What does this ending involve?
Endings typically involve 4 things:
- disengagement
- dis-identification
- disenchantment
- disorientation
Endings bring disengagement; they break apart social ties. It is hard to imagine life and identity apart from these known people. But, this is usually the path to real development.
Endings bring on dis-identification: In transition, we lose ways of self-definition. It feels like the end of me. We experience the feeling of "I'm not sure who I am any more". I was a __________ (vocation, role, etc.), but in this new reality I don't yet own an identity. No longer "being a young person" or "being near the person in power" and it can be source of panic. But, trying to hang on to old identities stand in the way of transformation and personal growth. Hanging onto old mind sets, holding tightly to the things you were told from leadership at the prior abusive church is a major roadblock. If you can let go and give it to God and give people a chance you may not have before, you'd be shocked at what God does.
Endings bring disenchantment. We carry around in us a picture of "the way things were"; revisionist history, or an "enchanted view". Once this is dis-enchanted, we are left, in a process to wait for something new to be born. We tend to view personal growth as purely an additive process, one that means gaining stuff, never loss. But to grow and change, we must confront the part of our old reality that "was only in our head"—and lose it. The perfect church, pastor, spouse, child or job never did exist. We created them as an inner cast of characters and then looked for someone to play the parts. These and other misperceptions are the "enchantments" that were "sufficient for the old reality", but insufficient now. Maybe we really did need to believe that "people are always trustworthy", etc., because it protected us in our immaturity. But with real growth comes truer perception that can be tolerated with mature Christian peace.
Endings bring disorientation. The reality that is left behind in any ending was not just a mirage; some of it was real. To be out of that reality, but to have no clear sense of, or un-failing plan for the future can be disorienting. It leaves us feeling confused and empty, stuck or lost in a non-world. The familiar ways through which we structured our time and space are gone and nothing new has come forward to replace them. Even decisions that you may have made with the help of the leader who you trusted to make decisions for you has changed and thinking for yourself is a new learning curve again. This is a meaningful time of learning faith and trusting in God but a hard time nonetheless.
During an ending, particularly when leaving an unhealthy abusive church, the desire for the old and going back is a temptation. It aborts the process of learning a new way of being in the world. Often God is taking us through a classroom and we can't go forward when were stuck in the past. Before we can find a new something, sometimes we must deal with a time of nothing. No new time of life is possible without the death of the old season. Spring doesn't begin until winter ends. I've never seen spring in full bloom during the middle of winter. To gain, you must first give up. Give up mind sets, give up things you were told before by prior leadership…in most cases you have to sort the truth from the lies anyway. For me it was better to just start fresh and trust when God is speaking to your heart. An ending clears the ground for a new beginning. The ending of an outward situation thrusts us into a season that can seem up and down….we go down before we go up. Being in the valley is that down but trust God through it. Let go of an old way of being before picking up a new one. And before realizing it we are acting out in total faith, trusting God to see us through.
Please browse through the Spiritual Abuse category and check out the Freebies page for more resources…you can get through this season!! Transition and a new season is a beautiful place to be!! Looking to hear some great messages that will challenge you to grow while you search for a healthy church? Click here to Victory World Church. All messages are available to view, download or subscribe to the podcast! Praying for you my friend!!
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Jihad Abu Daqah, 24
I live with my family in a two-story house in the Abu Daqah neighborhood, in Abasan al-Jadidah in the Khan Yunis district. I live on the second floor with my parents, my unmarried brothers and my brother Muhsen, who is married with three young children. In the yard we have a small shed used as an outdoor kitchen, where we store food supplies and baking pans. Our house is next to the Dhaw a-Nurein mosque in Abasan.
This morning we heard planes and, by the sound, they were mainly observation aircraft. My mother, Najwa, age 50, told me that she was going outside to prepare dough in the outdoor shed.
I told her that there were a lot of planes overhead and asked her not to go outside, because the previous night a plane launched a missile at a house and a woman was hit and killed. She tried to reassure me, but I said the planes were not leaving the area and, because it was foggy, everything that moved could become a target. I suggested that I go to the bakery to buy some pita but she told me to rely on God and insisted on going out to the kitchen in the yard to prepare the dough.
A few seconds after she went out toward the shed, I heard a strong explosion. Smoke and dust covered the house. I started looking for my mother and calling her, but couldn't find her. A few minutes later, I found her severely wounded. I began shouting for help. The rest of the family arrived and we took her to the European hospital in Khan Yunis. Now (at 2:00 PM) she is out of surgery. I hope she will be okay.
I don't know what damage the house sustained. Meantime I prefer to remain with my mother at the hospital. The most important thing for me is that she comes through this all right. We live in a residential area and I don't know of any security-related building in our vicinity. When my mother went out to the yard, she was not holding anything suspicious in her hands. The Israeli army should have realized that she was a civilian and not a fighter.
Jihad Samir Abu Daqah, 24, is a resident of Absan al-Jadidah in Khan Younis. His testimony was taken by 'Atef Abu a-Rub, by telephone, on 18 Nov. 2012.


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A great reason to visit Kent's seaside in case you haven't been there before. For a lot of people, it's hard to imagine that there is the possibility of a beautiful seaside life in England. Well they are wrong, because there is such a thing!7 5 Share Tweet
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I had long seen the Salton Sea on the map and wondered what to make of this large sea 35 miles wide and 15 miles long about 50 miles from Palm Springs. Recently, on a long weekend away from LA, I decided to see what this was all about and set sail (with the air conditioning on full blast as temperatures soared to 115 degrees) to the Salton Sea Marina.1 4 Share Tweet
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The Island of Tabarca is a spanish island at the Mediterranean sea. At first called Isla de San Pablo or Isla de Santa Pola, as the cape Santa Pola near by, it's actual name comes from the tunisian island of Tabarqah, from where the first setlers came, at the reign of Carlos III (XVIII century). By that time it functioned as a pirate stronghold and a fort remained until today. It is the only inhabited island of the Comunidad Valenciana.1 2 Share Tweet


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Bowfins are widely distributed over the eastern half of North America. In Pennsylvania, they are found in Presque Isle Bay, on Lake Erie, and in a few other scattered locations in the Delaware, Ohio and Susquehanna River watersheds. Their preferred habitat is heavily vegetated lakes, sluggish rivers and swamps. Bowfins can tolerate very warm water. Their body functions become limited and their activity slows when it becomes too hot. To overcome these adverse conditions, the Bowfin has a swim bladder that opens to the throat. The Bowfin, like the Gar, can go to the surface, stick its head out, and gulp air. Bowfins have also been called "dogfish" and "mudfish."
Identification: Bowfins are robust-looking fish. The body is covered with heavy scales and the head is covered with bony plates. Their color is olive-green on the back, lighter and mottled on the sides, and yellowish on the belly. A single long, low dorsal fin extends over half the length of the body. It is light with lengthwise stripes. The dorsal fin is just barely separated from the broadly rounded tail fin, which shows curving stripes. A pair of short barbels protrudes near the nostrils. The mouth is filled with sharp, strong teeth. Male Bowfins can be identified by the dark spot on the upper side of the base of the tail fin. This spot is ringed with bright-orange or yellow-green during the breeding season. This spot may represent a false eye that could direct predators to the bowfin's tail, instead of the head, thus providing it with an escape mechanism. Bowfins grow to several feet long and nearly 10 pounds.
Life history: Bowfins spawn in the spring. The male uses his fins to clear a round depression in the weedy shallows, into which the eggs of several females are deposited. The adhesive eggs fall on the vegetation and remain until they hatch, in about eight to 10 days, while the male guards them. The male also watches over the young fry. An average-sized female Bowfin, of about four or five pounds, produces 23,000 to 64,000 eggs.
Bowfins are ready to spawn when they are two to four years old. The males then are about 18 inches long and the females are about two feet long. Their lifespan in the wild is about 10 years.
Bowfins are predators, eating mainly fish, but also taking crayfish, frogs, mollusks and aquatic insects. When compared to other fish, the Bowfin's actions are sluggish, but with its size and feeding habits, it may strike an angler's artificial lure or live bait.


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I've put a lot of effort in optimizing Blockmania the last days and tweaked the terrain generators quite a bit. This videos shows about 20-30 Minutes footage in fast motion. And I think I just got some ideas to generate biome like terrain variations… The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.Read More
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I've recently made some changes to the overall terrain and feature generation process. The landscapes are now much more consistent and interesting. But see for yourself… The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later.Read More
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Here's a screenshot of a demo project using the FractalTerrain library. In this example a very realistic and manifold landscape is generated by solely composing FractalTerrain-modules. This demo utilizes ridged multifractal noise, perturbation (using Perlin noise), Voronoi/Worley noise and some basic combiner modules. In addition the thermal weathering filter has been applied to the final terrain. I've also updated the lighting and the procedural texture blending of the terrain...Read More
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For the latest screenshots of my FractalTerrain module I used some skybox I found some time ago. Yesterday I got a myself copy of Vue 9 (the low priced Esprit edition) and rendered a new skybox using its exceptional spectral atmosphere model. I tried to give the sky a very stylized and unique look during post-processing… And because I like the result so much, I have updated the images in my previous post (and added two additional pictures). I'm releasing the skybox under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The package contains the unaltered renderings as...Read More
Status update on FractalTerrain: Mountain features
I've put a lot of effort into the FractalTerrain module in the last couple of weeks and I made good progress since the last post. Since then I've implemented a couple of more Noise generator modules (like a Worley noise module for example) and improved the procedural multitexturing of the terrain meshes. I've also added some simple water shaders and a nice-looking skysphere. Also new is a landscape module, which generates some small terrain chunks (like Blockmania does) to support the fast generation of vast landscapes using multiple cores. For the volumetric part...Read More


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Becca Greene-van-Horn leads a group called "Act Smart" up in New England.
She uses a teen theatre group to illustrate relevant teen issues, but
primarily anti-bullying strategies. We have worked hard to gain some
recognition, so this article means a lot.
Point here is that there are a number of…
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I suggest adding psychodramatic techniques to the repertoire of skills for insight, communications and problem solving for those using applied improvisation approaches in various settings.
It begins with something familiar to most people in this field: Make creativity a value and a possibility, an expectation for people as they address their problems or challenges in life. It's an invigorating myth, a sense of open-endedness that contrasts with the 20th century's education model…
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I am eager to make connections and have you help me make more connections! I want to
1. Help AIN make contacts with other related fields, such as
- drama therapy
- psychodrama (both of which have some people who want to take applied improv into many fields and their vision transcends "therapy" per se
- drama and theatre in education (three organizations)--- but as education moves toward working with college age, adults, and seniors, the method expands in new…Continue
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Hello Adam, I'm not from Georgetown or even from USA, I'm from Brazil, but I work with improvisation, theatre games, psychodrama and sociodrama. I'm part of Improvida - applied improvisation (www.improvida.com). Our wbesite is only in portuguese, but we are working in the translation for english.
Recently I read a realy good article that you wrote about Moreno, Psychodrama and Improvisation, so I decided to get in touch with you. I hope to have a chance do meet you at the conference, in Austin.Congratulations for your excelent work.
Cheers, Markus
Sorry for taking so long. The idea of improv fostering a life philosophy is kind of a really big one. For me it interacts with every facet of my life, whether it be mundane daily interactions with people all the way to political philosophy and being integrated with and informative to my theological beliefs and positions. What I have tried to do is generate an integrated understanding of these things through following through on the implications of what happens when a small group of people do improv together and figuring out what that could mean if its principles and practices are more broadly accepted and applied. That's the very basic version. I'm happy to elaborate further or talk more about it, but it could get pretty long.
Jeff Arterburn
Hi Adam,
Thanks for reaching out here on the AIN site. I apologize for not getting back with you earlier. I hope you make some great connections at the AIN conference. Unfortunately I won't be there -- otherwise I'd make a point of talking with you in person about psychodrama and other helpful methods and experiments! I suppose my BA in psychology was a tip-off that I was intent on adventuring into the mind's depths in one way or another. I see that you have your own website; I'll be sure to take a look at it, and maybe connect with you through it. And hopefully I'll see you at next year's AIN conference, if not before!
Al Caramatti
Hi Adam,
Thank you for your message. I've been starting a family and working to support them so haven't had much time to pursue improv in the last few years. I did a physical theatre program a few years ago and discovered Contact Improvisation, which I fell in love with. I'd love to one day take my interest further but with baby three on the way in December I think there won't be much time between family and work. I'm really interested in what you're doing and tuned in for a few minutes to one of your lectures online. I've found contact improv really freeing and I believe the practice of play with improv frameworks is a great way to free people from negative or destructive constraints of culture or personal blindnesses. I'm really not much of a philosopher so lack the vocabulary to go into great depth, but am certainly interested.
Adam, I got your comment. I guess I have to update my profile here. I've moved back to Pasadena from St. Louis. But I'll be happy to share my thoughts. Perhaps we can skype or something soon.
Hi Adam,
I've found a good deal of information perusing the academic journals and using the academic library search engines. My biggest interest is using improv and theatrical skills to simply be present for the business at hand...whatever it may be.
Hi Adam,
Long time, no chat. I'm now living in NYC where I'm designing and directing interactive performance experiences. Details can be found at www.wirthcreative.com. I'm glad to hear that you are still moving forward with your work. I won't be at the AIN conference this year. Hope you have a good time there.
Hi Adam: I don't even know where Fritz Perls was buried. Yes, we facilitated a few workshops in Singapore and Hong Kong as well as in Europe. I failed to see your post on our website. I have a Hebrew/English website as well:
www.lennyravich.com and my email is email@example.com
Adam, am delighted to hear from you. I have thought of all kinds of creative ways to work with the incarcerated and ex-offenders to enhance their lives and empower them to lead more productive and fulfilling lives. Haven't gotten much support in these endeavors with the adult correctional population in the Chicago area. I have been looking for some feedback and possible collaboration in these areas. Please tell me a little more about what you are suggesting.
Hi Adam: I used to be into the teaching of psychodrama and was well connected. Not so much any more. I have also closed shop on Gestalt in 2004 and have started facilitating workshops on Positive Psychology and applied improvisation. S
ee my global website: www.ha-p.com. How can I be of help?
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...favor only Democrat candidates, and that are springing up like weeds as we get closer to the election. Here's another problem. Last weekend, armed with voter lists provided by the Orange County (CA) Registrar of Voters, I walked through a neighborhood in Fullerton,...
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...and Loathing in Las Vegas chronicles the adventures of journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Dr. Gonzo. They embark originally to cover a motor race for a sports magazine in the dessert. However, they decide to find the American dream and travel to...
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...that suggests Depp's next project will be The Rum Diary, which would see him reprise his role from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and bring Hunter S. Thompson to screen once more… The casting call is for Chenault, the love interest in The Rum Diary, who -...
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Splash! wins Canine Runway- 'The search for Americas most paw-pular pooch' in Las Vegas Nevada. This film is a take off of the movie 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' based on Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream' Sorry Johnny Depp for ripping off your narration, but I thought it worked quite nicely. :) Another example how the clicker training method works! :)
An animated version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on the book by Hunter S Thompson. This was a uni project I made a while ago, this is an edited down version, the full film was 12 minutes long, this has been edited down to trailer lenghth. My adaption is of the beginning of the book and also takes a lot of inspiration from the movie starring Johnny Depp and directed by Terry Gilliam. If you want me to upload the entire movie please let me know. The movie and the book are awesome my crappy cartoon does it no justice, I'm sorry to those dedicated Hunter S Thompson fans for making a crappy animation of one of the greatest stories ever told.
The video with music: www.myvideo.de I think, I'm color-blind now... ;-) Please rate and comment! Thanks :-) song: "purple pills" performer: D12 LYRICS: [Chorus] I take a couple uppers I down a couple downers But nothing compares To these blue and yellow purple pills I been to mushroom mountain Once or twice but who's countin' But nothing compares To these blue and yellow purple pills [Eminem] Cool, calm, just like my mom With a couple of valium inside her palm It's Mr. Mischief with a trick ...
Johnny Depp reads from Hunter S Thompsons classic novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Circa 1995
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This painting was completed in about 2 hours using only the straight line tool and a single brush size. The original art is from the cover of the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas DVD case, and it was done by Ralph Steadman. The song is Wax Simulacra by The Mars Volta. Please comment and subscribe. Thanks! Edit: Apparently buying every release the Mars Volta has ever came out with, and giving them proper credit in the description is not enough to let me use one of their songs for a non-profit ...
Combination of Ray Cooper's "A Drug Score Pt. 1" & the Youngblood's "Get Together" from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Narrated by Johnny Depp as written by Hunter S. Thompson. Enjoy the trip!
The title/logo of the film being drawn from start to finish pen and ink style in the main menu of the Criterion release. Some pretty psychedelic calligraphy, suits the film.
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this clips was taken from the movie Fear and loathing in las vegas,sorry for the poor quality...one of my favv parts in the movie injoy!!! We're all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fuelled the 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America, selling "consciousness expansion"... Without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait...for all those people who took him seriously. All those pathetically eager ...
Heres a virtual movie of Hunter S Thompson reading a segment of his novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" The reading was posted by an anonymous reader at one of my poetry websites and never fails to make me giggle even though I in no way approve of the lifestyle depicted the superb delivery of this reading evokes perfectly the anarchic humour of the piece.and I hope you to will enjoy this.Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video sound recording copyright Jim Clark 2008 ...
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Veg patch volunteers sow seeds to inspire Kids' Club
Children at the Kids' Club in St Mary have been given a helping hand in cultivating their green fingers. Volunteers from RBC Wealth Management last week transformed an empty field at St Mary's Youth & Community Centre into a vegetable garden for the children.
Kids' Club manager Tina Lamar-Taylor said: 'For years we'd been wanting to have a vegetable patch for the children, but with limited resources we never managed to get round to doing it. Now we've got two mini allotments and raised beds for growing fruit and veg. We've planted peas, melons, strawberries and corn, to name but a few. We've even got a scarecrow. The children are delighted and it's a huge opportunity for them to learn new skills.'
The garden is proving so popular that it is being shared by the pre-school and by classes at St Mary's School. Mrs Lamar-Taylor said: 'It's already been a source of inspiration for the children. Some are coming to school early to water and tend to plants. Others are researching crop rotation and growing conditions. And we're planning for the future too – we'd like to install a greenhouse and a water barrel for irrigation. The volunteer team from RBC Wealth Management had such a fantastic attitude – they've really left us with a great resource that will grow and grow for years to come.'
The project was undertaken by a total of 14 volunteers, made up from RBC Wealth Management staff, along with friends and family members. Their efforts were boosted by a special grant for staff who support a registered charity in May with a community team project, as Helen Romeril, Securities Development Manager – RBC Wealth Management explained:
'The RBC Day of Service Grant provides a charitable donation of C$1,000, or just over £600, in recognition of a group of staff who volunteer for at least four hours ahead of National Volunteers' Week. The aim of the initiative is to encourage the spirit of volunteerism and enrich the community by making available resources that wouldn't otherwise exist.
'The project at the Kids' Club was a true celebration of volunteer work – it allowed many different people from across our business to come together and make a difference in the local community. There was a terrific atmosphere on the day and, even though we weren't all expert gardeners by any means, we were genuinely pleased by what we've managed to achieve.'
National Volunteers' Week is marked from 1st until 7th June across the UK. The RBC Wealth Management team carried out the project on 26th May.
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