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Comcast Corp. CMCSA -0.45 % said it agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for about $45.2 billion in stock, in a deal that would combine the nation's two biggest cable operators.
The boards of both companies have approved the transaction, which was announced Thursday morning.
With the proposed deal, Comcast almost certainly ends an eight-month takeover battle for TWC waged by fourth-largest cable operator Charter Communications Inc. CHTR -1.19 % and its biggest shareholder, Liberty Media Corp. LMCA 0.78 % , whose chairman is cable pioneer John Malone.
By negotiating the deal, Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts ensures his dominance of the U.S. cable industry will be maintained. But the transaction would face lengthy regulatory review.
Charter's pursuit of TWC, which began after Liberty bought a 27% stake in Charter about a year ago, had raised the possibility that Mr. Malone would emerge as a rival to Mr. Roberts. Mr. Malone once led the U.S. cable industry but sold his previous cable firm, Tele-Communications Inc., to AT&T T -3.00 % in 1999.
In the deal, Time Warner Cable shareholders will receive $158.82 a share in stock for their shares, about $23 a share above where TWC has been trading. Time Warner Cable shareholders will own about 23% of the combined entity. Charter has made three offers, the most recent of which was valued at $132.50, all of which were rejected by TWC as too low. Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Rob Marcus had said TWC wanted $160 a share.
The new company will be led by Comcast President and CEO Neil Smit.
Comcast also said it is going to expand its buyback program by an additional $10 billion at the close of the transaction, which is expected at the end of 2014.
To reduce competitive concerns, Comcast is prepared to divest systems serving about 3 million managed subscribers and will, through the acquisition and management of Time Warner Cable systems, net about 8 million managed subscribers in this transaction.
News of the deal comes just a couple of days after Charter ratcheted up the pressure on TWC by nominating a group of 13 people as candidates for TWC's board, ahead of this spring's annual meeting.
In a statement late Wednesday, Charter said it "has always maintained that our greatest opportunity to create value for our shareholders is by executing our current business plan, and that we will continue to be disciplined in this and any other M & A activity we pursue."
Time Warner Cable had long seen Comcast as a preferred partner. Last year, Time Warner Cable approached Comcast about a deal, hoping to ward off Charter. The two companies had talks off and on. But until a week ago there were signs that Comcast was leaning toward striking a deal with Charter instead.
Comcast and Charter were in talks about a deal where it would endorse Charter's bid in exchange for an agreement where it would buy some East Coast Time Warner Cable systems from Charter if it were successful in buying TWC.
But last Tuesday Comcast and Time Warner Cable re-initiated talks, when Mr. Roberts reached out to Time Warner Cable's Mr. Marcus, one of the people said. Comcast was very uncomfortable with the idea of a proxy fight that Charter was gearing up to wage, another of the people said.
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Comcast approached Time Warner Cable last week with an offer to buy the entire company at about $150 a share, a person familiar with the matter said. As the offer was much closer to the $160 a share TWC was looking for, it sparked the renewed talks. Comcast's Mr. Roberts at times negotiated with top Time Warner Cable brass including Mr. Marcus and Chief Financial Officer Artie Minson on the phone from Sochi, where Mr. Roberts has been visiting for the Winter Olympics.
On Wednesday evening, Time Warner Cable's board met around 5 p.m. to discuss the deal, around the same time Comcast's board was meeting. By about 8 p.m., the boards had approved the deal.
The deal faces high regulatory barriers. Comcast not only serves more pay TV customers than any other company in the U.S., nearly 22 million video subscribers, but it also owns the entertainment company NBCUniversal, parent of the NBC broadcast network and several big cable channels as well as Universal film studio. Time Warner Cable serves about 11 million video subscribers. Comcast is prepared to divest three million subscribers, the people said. Those divestitures will keep its ownership of the pay TV market below 30%, the people said.
Comcast hopes to convince regulators that because cable companies don't compete, their deal should go through.
Any bid for Time Warner Cable would have to be approved by both the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department, which hasn't been shy about bringing antitrust enforcement actions against would-be mergers that it believes will harm competition. Last year, the department's antitrust chief, Bill Baer, challenged major mergers in the beer and airline industries, though both cases ultimately settled and the deals were allowed to proceed after the companies made several concessions.
However, recent events may give Comcast a better shot at securing regulatory approval.
Purchasing Time Warner would give Comcast roughly a third of the national cable market, raising concerns over whether the combined company would have too much leverage over content providers in negotiations. However, the deal may benefit from the perception of some regulators that cable is a natural monopoly whose primary competition comes from satellite providers and telephone companies like Verizon and AT&T. The FCC previously tried to impose a 30% horizontal ownership cap on the cable industry, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out that limit in 2009.
Since then the commission approved Comcast's purchase of NBCUniversal, giving it a strong foothold in the content industry and control over one of the four broadcast networks. Comcast agreed to a wide range of conditions as part of that deal, including a promise not to discriminate against third-party content traveling over its networks for seven years. Having recently lost a court challenge to its Open Internet rules, the FCC could force Comcast to agree to extend its net neutrality agreement as part of any review.
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- Beach has some of the softest sand and calmest waves in the D.R.
- 3 clean pools, including a separate activities pool (great for kids), as well as one children's pool
- Superb scuba diving center
- More attentive service than most mega-resorts
- Name-brand liquor included, and party scene lasts until midnight
- Small but well-equipped kids club with English-speaking staff
- Dated, poorly lit guest rooms
- Less tasty food than at similarly priced all-inclusives
- Gym has rusty equipment and no air-conditioning
- Beds feel like trampolines
- Basic spa with overpriced services
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Located on the D.R.'s softest and calmest stretch of beach, the highly active Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus is a pretty solid family option -- three clean pools, attentive service, and excellent scuba diving (though for a cost). But because the rooms are dated and poorly maintained, and the food is only good (not great), the newly renovated Dreams La Romana is a better option for the same price.
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Beautiful beach, pool toys, and constant activities for kids and adults. There's an overall fun vibe, minus the so-so food.
Non-stop activities for kids and adults alike -- bachata, water aerobics, water polo, beach volleyball, quiz games, you name it. This place is definitely fun, but it can be hard to relax with upbeat Dominican merengue music always playing somewhere in the distance. Still, Hacienda Dominicus feels a little more subdued and manageable than the giant Iberostars in Punta Cana (Dominicus has 498 rooms, while the entire Iberostar complex in Punta Cana has 1,202 rooms). Another big plus: The Hacienda Dominicus has a nicer beach than Punta Cana. The water here isn't quite as turquoise, but the sand looks and feels like flour, and the water is much calmer because a natural reef is a few hundred feet from the shore.
Hacienda Dominicus is one of six Iberostars in the Dominican Republic, all of which are extremely popular. It attracts a broad range of guests, mostly European families who come back to the resort year after year. However, Dreams La Romana, which is roughly the same price and just a few minutes down the road, has significantly nicer, newly renovated rooms, and better food. Scuba diving is a major draw here, and though it's not free, families are always training in the pool and working on their breathing techniques before an afternoon dive.
A 30-minute taxi ride from La Romana airport, and 10 minutes from the Chavon River. There's not much in the small town except other all-inclusives.
The Iberostar is on the beaches of Bayahibe, a former fishing village close to La Romana in the southeast D.R., and is one of a handful of all-inclusives along the resort-laden street of Dominicus Americanus.
Until the 1990s, Bayahibe was just a little fishing town where locals from La Romana and nearby villages caught crabs on the beach. Since then, a deluge of development has hit the area, with six mega-resorts cropping up in recent years. Still, its small-scale nature is the draw: It's not as insanely jam-packed with tourists as Punta Cana. There's a few restaurants dotting the waterfront, but not much else.
However, a 30-minute drive from the resort is the beautiful Altos de Chavon, an exact replica of a 16th century Italian village with beautiful views over the Chavon River.
Most guests fly into La Romana airport, which is 30 minutes away (even though it doesn't have direct international flights). But the resort is 90 minutes from Punta Cana International Airport and about two hours from Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo. For the price of the taxi ride, however, it might be worth paying for the connecting flight.
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Clean, calm beach that's great for kids -- one of the D.R.'s best. Partiers should note that there's only one beach bar.
By and large the beach is clean. However, there is some garbage (I stumbled upon a few plastic cups and some leftover food, but surprisingly few cigarette butts).
The Caribbean Sea is calmer than the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Punta Cana, and a natural reef protects this stretch of coastline from getting too rough or windy, so the beach is a bit safer for families with small children.
One downside is there's only one bar. It's built to resemble a lighthouse. Some guests complain that there aren't enough bartenders when the beach gets packed, but I didn't find this to be the case.
Resort security guards are posted at both ends of its beach, but guests can walk further down the beach in both directions. Though the stretch in La Romana isn't as long as Punta Cana, runners could still manage a decent out-and-back trip of a couple miles or so.
Clean rooms with free mini-bars and deep tubs, but water is lukewarm, beds are uncomfortable, and air conditioners barely function.
Rooms have seen better days. With old beds, outdated décor, lukewarm water, and maintenance problems, they are a far cry from luxury. Though a king bed, couch, chair and dresser fit comfortably enough, the Iberostar's rooms are relatively small by Caribbean standards. The sliding glass doors make the rooms plenty bright during the day but, come nightfall, it's depressingly dark. There are five lamps in the room, two of which can be out-watted by a keychain flashlight.
The king-size mattresses are among the D.R.'s worst -- they feel more like trampolines than beds. Fortunately, the sheets are clean and the pillows firm, but look at nearby Dreams La Romana for a better bed (and an overall better resort) at the same price.
- Bathrooms are small, but they all have deep soaking tubs.
- Free, in-room mini-bars come generously stocked with five bottles of water, four bottles of Brahma beer, and an assortment of soft drinks.
- Rooms come with old tube TVs that have a few English stations like CNN and Fox, but like many rooms in the D.R., there's no alarm clock.
- Housekeeping is very good about keeping the place clean. The tub was spotless, as was the rest of the bathroom.
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Huge, kid-friendly pools, but there's no AC in the outdated gym, and the barebones spa has overpriced services.
There are three pools on the property (one very large), plus a tiny kids pool at the kids club, and the atmosphere is lively. A whirlpool sits on an island in the middle of the main pool, but like all Iberostars, the water is as chilly as in the pool. The pools are largely in good condition, save for some grime around water level at the main pool, and some missing tiles.
The scuba diving on the southern coast is superb -- the resort offers to arrange dives (not included in all-inclusive), as well as an entire array of lessons and packaged dives.
There's a dark, outdated gym on the property with no air-conditioning. Equipment includes treadmills, ellipticals, bikes, several weight machines, and a very rusty set of free weights, but most of the equipment is still useable.
The spa isn't fancy -- the rooms are basic, just a table and a sink, and the products look pretty generic. There are a handful of rooms with several massage beds on the beach that get the job done. However, the services are overpriced.
The business center features four PCs and is open throughout the day. The lobby and main area is Wi-Fi accessible -- guests can purchase a one-day pass from the front desk.
There may not be water slides in the pool, but the Iberostar is a great resort for kids. The biggest draw is the beach, which has much calmer waters than most of the D.R., so parents don't need to worry about aggressive waves or currents.
The main pool's gently sloping entrance into the water is great for young swimmers. For older kids, there's a separate pool dedicated exclusively to activities like water polo and basketball.
At Lucy's Kids Club, open daily, the counselors speak decent English. The club accepts children as young as 5, and teens ages 13 to 16 are also welcome during the high-season from July 1 to Sept. 15. But unlike the Grand Palladium in Punta Cana, there are no separate facilities for older kids. The club is fairly small, but has a huge jungle gym, a very shallow kids pool, a game room with foosball, mini-pool and ping pong tables, and even a nap room (though the counselors say this room is never used). Activities include a "fun dance," free throw contest, volleyball, and a nightly "mini-disco."
The buffet is packed with plenty of kid-friendly options like vats of French fries, pizza, and burgers, and there are also plenty of bite-size pieces of fruit to sneak on their plates. High chairs are available at all the restaurants.
Rooms vary from clean enough to very clean, but the grounds and lobby are generally immaculate (save a few drink rings on the coffee tables).
The resort is over 10 years old, so some of the infrastructure is starting to show signs of wear. A few tiles are missing on the pool's walls, and there's a bit of grime in the grout. However, the lobby area looks newly renovated. The upholstery is immaculate and the ashtrays, which tend to pile up with cigarette butts and other nastiness at many all-inclusives, are routinely cleaned. Likewise, rooms are perfectly clean, despite the maintenance issues.
Somewhat related to cleanliness, several people slip on the slick tiles inside the lobby as well as the walkways around the pool. Staff mops regularly, but even the faintest drips can bring the steady-footed to the ground.
The four à la carte restaurants and decent buffets are nothing like the Italian spread at Catalonia Gran Dominicus or the buffet at Dreams La Romana.
The omelet, pasta (three different kinds of sauces and pastas, plus an assortment of toppings), and fruit (pineapple, watermelon, papaya, mango, among others) stations are consistently high quality at El Ingenio, the main buffet. The bread selection is superior, with more than 10 different kinds to choose from, including a few whole-grain choices. In the morning, there's a fresh juice bar (though the orange drink is definitely concentrate). There's even a high-quality (and well-covered) cheese selection during dinner with cheddar, blue and Gouda.
But El Ingenio is half the size at Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus than it is at Iberostar Dominicana in Punta Cana. The limited options especially show at lunch, when carrots, cabbage, and beets are all there is at the salad bar.
For kids, lunch and dinner both feature a selection of delicious pizzas (wood-fire oven!), a selection of antipasto salads, and the usual burgers and fries.
There are four à la carte restaurants, including La Hacienda (Spanish), La Goleta (steakhouse), El Colonial (French), and La Geisha (Japanese), where they cook your food in front of you Benihana-style. They have the same menus as the other Iberostar resorts the world over. Quality ranges from bad to good, never great.
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tranny temp between 180-200 during driving
k i think have a problem, my tranny temp gauge gets up to about 180degrees within 10 min of normal driving in 60 degree weather, it doesnt feel like anything is slipping in the tranny and shifts smooth. why would my temps be getting this high??
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low tranny fluid??
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something is causing excess heat... could be a slipping TC or something else.... i would have it checked out by a prof..... it shouldnt be getting that hot under normal driving with 60 degree weather outside
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if its been a wile (more then 30,000 miles) you could have a pluged cooler line from dirty oil. start with a trans service and flush your cooler lines
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I had the same thing on my 99 and it was the torque converter, have seen the cooler lines get plugged also, better find out though or you will be putting a tranny in.
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It is probably your bypass line, they are known to go bad. Some folks eliminate them. Your temps aren't near dangerous levels but they shouldn't be that high in umloaded winter driving. Get the trans up to temp and grab the bypass line. If it is warm the bypass valve is bad and you need to replace the line.
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Definitely check the bypass and make sure the fluid is flowing to the stock tranny cooler. My original tanny ran hot like that. I put a trans go tugger shift kit in it and a 40k Trucool aux tranny cooler on it and that made it last another 3 years and 65,000 miles before I finally smoked it. Changing to a synthetic like Amsoil might also be a good idea.
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To add to what everyone else is saying.. make sure your temp sensor is taking readings from the service port on the driver side of the trans.
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My Mom's 2016 Oscar Picks
Dearest readers, please forgive my lengthy absence from the blog. There are many causes for this: I've been freelancing more, I've been working on my next book project, and perhaps, most significantly, I have come to conclusion that blogging is not going to get me a raise at work or pay for my kids to go to college. In fact, as I recently argued in an essay for Film Criticism , I believe that the academic film blog as a concept is dead or dying.
But don't start the dirge for Judgmental Observer just yet. I still have things to say that can only be said in the loose, informal, ad-free space of the blog, such as my mom's annual Oscar Picks! If you'd like to catch up on my mother's picks in previous years, you can see 2012, 2014 and 2015. As for the rest of you, let's get started, shall we?
Me: Welcome back to the blog, Mom! It's been a year since we heard from you, and your fans eagerly await your picks. Are you ready to discuss the 80th Annual Academy Awards?
Mom: Oh I can't wait!
Me: As always, in the interest of full disclosure, I'd like for you to tell the readers which of the nominated films you were not able to see. Let me give you my list: Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, 45 Years, Trumbo, or Steve Jobs.
Mom: Unfortunately, I did not see: Brooklyn, Room, Carol, 45 Years, Joy, or Trumbo.
Me: Let's start our discussion with the Best Actress in a leading role category. What were your favorite performances of the 2015 season?
Mom: I really don't have an opinion one way or another because I wasn't able to see any of these performances.
Me: That's so unlike you! Well, I've seen three of the five nominees (Carol, Room and Joy) and I thought all of the women whose performances I saw were great. So Joy was one of my least favorite films of the year. Normally I'm a big fan of David O. Russell but I found her casting in this film–as a down-on-her-luck single, 34-year-old, working mother–to be completely absurd. Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress but no amount of acting will make that young, fresh-out-of-the-womb face look 34 and tired. I thought Brie Larson was excellent in Room but for me, the young actor who plays her son, Jacob Tremblay, stole the show. So my pick for Best Actress is Cate Blanchett in Carol. I didn't enjoy her performance on an emotional level–I found it icy and severe–but it worked in the context of this film as a stylized melodrama. There are also so few great roles for women, it's always hard to pick "best" performances.
Me: So let's move on to the category I know you've really been looking forward to discussing: Best Actor in a leading role.
Mom: The actor who should win the Oscar…is without question… [takes dramatic pause] WITH…OUT…QUESTION…
Me: Who? Who are you gonna pick? I'm on the edge of my seat…
Mom: …Leonardo DiCaprio! For his role in The Revenant. Now I will tell you why. I was blown away. It was a phenomenal film, and his acting in the film, and what he went through…
Me: But what did he do, exactly?
Mom: To portray someone living in the beginning of our country, going through horrific weather and violence between his own people, hunting for skins and hiding from the Indians–his portrayal of this man was just amazing. But not only that, he also gave you the feeling of getting to know what someone in that situation would go through. It was much more than surviving the violence. It was also learning about a man who wanted to move on to a better place. And he truly loved his son…
Me: Okay but you're not telling me about Leo's performance. You're just describing the plot of the film.
Mom: He just came through as someone who survived the worst conditions. I found it fascinating that Leonardo DiCaprio performed just about every scene himself. Evidently the temperature was 20 below zero. It was a horrific situation for everyone involved in the film and the director just pushed them through it, which was worth it. In my opinion, this was the best film of the year.
Me: Hold on, let me chime in here even though I am woefully underprepared for this category–the only performances I saw were Damon's and DiCaprio's. I thought Matt Damon was fine in The Martian but nothing special. Honestly I'm a little shocked that he was nominated at all for this role. As for DiCaprio, I agree with you, it was a great performance. I will say this though–and I'm not trying to be cynical–but a lot of the role felt to me like it was screaming "Nominate me for an Oscar!!!" And I feel like sometimes actors will take on these roles and then make a big fuss in interviews over all they had to go through to prepare, all the suffering, and I'm kind of over that. I don't care what you had to do to play the role. I just care about what appears onscreen. Having said that, I do think Leo deserves to have an Oscar on his shelf and I do think he will win this year, perhaps as an acknowledgment of his past body of work.
Mom: I see what you're saying, but his performance was incredible. No matter how much people might say that he took on a role to show how tough it was and how he can do all of this stuff, I just don't think that's true. DiCaprio, no matter what role he takes, he is so brilliant. Every film he's been in, and every time he's been nominated, I feel like he should have won.
Me: I think we need to establish for our readers, that you do in fact have a Leonardo DiCaprio bias. I think you heavily favor him anytime he's in a film. Why do you think that is?
Mom: The first role I ever saw him in was The Aviator, then Catch Me if You Can, then Blood Diamonds…
Me: You really liked him in J Edgar.
Mom: That's another one! I cannot believe he did not win for that role…I mean, talk about a difficult role.
Me: Here is something you have said to me in the past: "Leonardo DiCaprio is penalized by the Academy for being a good-looking man." Can you say more about that?
Mom: Absolutely. I still believe that and it's been part of the Academy's nomination process for a long time.
Me: Why do you say that?
Mom: Two absolutely gorgeous men–Paul Newman and Robert Redford–have been nominated many times. And Newman won once [editors note: Newman received an honorary Oscar for his body of work in 1986]. Redford, another incredible actor, has never won [editor's note: Redford won an Oscar for Best Director in 1980 for Ordinary People]. I think the Academy is absolutely biased against handsome men.
Me: That theory is insane, Mom. Plenty of handsome men have won Oscars!
Mom: I'm talking model-looking, gorgeous men. There have been very many nice-looking men who have won. I just feel it's a bias. When you're that good-looking, they just look at you as a pretty boy actor. But that's not done with women. Just with men.
Me: Last year you threatened to quit my blog if JK Simmons didn't win Best Supporting Actor for Whiplash:
Mom: [laughing] Yes I said that.
Me: And luckily for my readers, Simmons did, in fact, win the Oscar.
Mom: Of course he did.
Me: Are you prepared to never appear on this blog again if Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't win Best Actor for The Revenant?
Mom: AB. SO. LUTELY.
Me: Really? You're willing to give up all this?
Mom: Yes. I'm sorry. I must. If he does not win this year for Revenant, I'm done.
Me: Okay. Before we leave this very contentious category, I would like to talk about a performance I thought was snubbed by the Academy this year: Steve Carrell's performance in The Big Short. I thought he was absolutely fantastic in that movie. There were a lot of characters in that film and a lot of visual tricks–it was a very "busy" movie–and he was the emotional heart of that film. He took what was a very reflexive and theoretical film and he expressed the human toll of the short selling phenomenon. And by the same turn, I was frustrated that out of that entire cast it was Christian Bale who got the Oscar nomination. This brings me back to my earlier complaint regarding Leo: I just hate how performance gets wrapped up in process. We all know that Christian Bale learned how to play the drums for his role as Michael Burry. And he didn't even need to learn how to drum! There was no point to that stupid scene where he drums–the movie would have been the same with or without it. He just wanted to make a big fuss about his process. Then he gets a nomination and Steve Carrell doesn't.
Me: Let's talk about our picks for Best Supporting Actor. Out of all of these performances–and of course I can't speak about the Bridge of Spies actor–I'm gonna have to go with Tom Hardy. I thought he was great in that movie. He's a gorgeous man who you want to stare out but he made himself into such an ugly person in this film–not just physically, but his overall character. He was just so despicable you almost had to look away from him, which is hard because, holy cow, it's Tom Hardy! I did like Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight but that was a more understated role.
Mom: I agree with about Christian Bale. He should not have been the nominee from The Big Short. As for Tom Hardy, I just thought he was so overshadowed by Leo in that film. I can't even remember a lot that he did…
Me: He was the antagonist! He had the second biggest role in the film!
Mom: I just didn't think it was that impressive…
Me: Wow you ride hard for Leo.
Mom: Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight was phenomenal. I'm glad he was nominated. And Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies was so low key and brilliant. I've never seen him before, I don't know who he is. But throughout the film I just kept thinking "This guy! He's got it down." But then I did see Creed and the way Sylvester Stallone portrayed the old boxer trying to help the young boxer, the way he moved his body, his whole persona, I just thought he was terrific.
Me: Was he really terrific, Mom?
Mom: Yes.
Me: Wasn't he just a big dumb guy?
Mom: When you see Stallone you expect to see him in the role of a warrior, of a fighter who wins. But in this film he's a down and out ex-hero and I thought he added a lot of passion to that film.
Me: Let me bring up another role I felt was snubbed this year and that is Oscar Issac's performance in Ex Machina. It was an amazing movie and his performance as this sleazy tech bro–young, thinks he's hot shit–was great. He was the puppet master for most of the movie, until he isn't, and he plays the role very cool and hard to read, yet there's this vulnerability there too. That was my favorite supporting actor performance of the year. Also, that jumpsuit!
Me: Let's talk about our pics for Best Picture. What was your favorite film of 2015?
Mom: The Revenant.
Me: Seriously?!?
Mom: There was so much involved in that film. The one thing I remember while watching it was the beauty of the photography. It was a joy to watch. The realism of the violence, and what the characters endured, their lives were so tough… I just thought it was a beautiful film. No other film from 2015 had such a dramatic effect on me.
Me: I agree with you. The cinematography was unreal. Iñárritu is famous for those amazing long takes he uses that last for minutes. The film is filled with those gorgeous landscapes. But for me my Best Picture selection is The Big Short. First, it's incredibly timely–it's talking about the subprime mortgage crisis, which America is still reeling from right now, and which literally impacted everyone in the world. To make a movie where your topic is sort of dry and dull and you make it compelling to a mainstream audience, to non-experts, is so important. I mean, that's how we got into this crisis in the first place–people being uninformed. As a society, Americans (I include myself here) don't know much about how Wall Street or the stock market works. The economic recession was the direct result of a few people who had specialized knowledge and who took advantage of loopholes that no one else knew about. I appreciate a movie that illuminates that to the audience. In addition to that, it was a really innovative film. I love how they illustrated difficult concepts like "synthetic CDO" with Selena Gomez and an economist playing craps. And of course the performances were great, as was the script. For me, The Big Short hits all my Best Picture marks.
Mom: Well my second choice is Spotlight. This was a film highlighting one of the greatest tragedies in this country.
Me: I just watched Spotlight and I did find the story to be equally compelling and horrifying. This crazy conspiracy! It highlights how important good journalism is to justice and truth in this country. In many ways it reminded me of All the President's Men. But overall I wanted a little more from that movie.
Mom: You kept hearing it was wonderful and then you watched it and it let you down.
Me: Yes that's true.
Mom: That's the problem. It's best to see movies cold, before you hear the reviews. Now one film I am very sad to see with a nomination for Best Picture is Mad Max: Fury Road. It was absolutely horrible…
Me: Whoah, whoah. I am delighted that film was nominated. In fact, that film is my second choice for Best Picture…
Mom: [horrified noises] If you like a film that is nothing more than looking at filthy, dirty men with blood coming out of their mouths, and their bodies torn apart…
Me: It sounds like you're describing Revenant, you realize that?
Mom: …and there's this stupid guy, playing the guitar…
Me: Yes, see that's what was missing from The Revenant! We needed a bear playing a flaming guitar!
Mom: Now that's not fair. Mad Max was absolutely disgusting.
Me: How can you praise The Revenant and the Hateful 8 for their violence but critique Mad Max for its violence?
Mom: Mad Max made The Revenant and The Hateful 8 look like a fairytale.
Me: WHAT?! What is the difference?
Mom: There's a huge difference! The violence in Mad Max is pretend and it's over-the-top. I mean one character in Mad Max captures this guy and straps him to the front of his car so he can drain the blood out of him. [shakes her head in disgust]
Me: Well I loved Mad Max…
Mom: LOVED IT???
Me: They took this character who is the star of this franchise, this hero, Mad Max and they put him in the film with the words "Mad Max" in the title. So you're going into this movie assuming Mad Max is the center of the story, the hero of the narrative. The movie starts with him…
Mom: …eating a live lizard…
Me: …and then he is literally pushed aside so that we have these female heroes instead. And it's one-armed Charlize Theron? Come on, that was awesome. It was a feminist action film. I mean, if you're going to praise a movie like Revenant for its intense and realistic depiction of violence, why critique Mad Max for that?
Mom: First of all, The Revenant was about American history. Mad Max is nothing but horrific people rolling through a desert
Me: I see no difference there. Revenant was nothing but horrific people rolling through the woods.
Mom: You're insane.
Me: Okay, let's discuss The Martian.
Mom: I really enjoyed it.
Me: Me too.
Maisy [my 9yo daughter]: Can I say something about The Martian? I thought it was awesome! It was so cool.
Me: Yes, that's why I liked it. It was such a great family movie. I wish there were more movies like that for the whole family to go to.
Mom: It was a very pleasurable movie. I learned about how an astronaut could grow plants in space!
Me: Okay, any final thoughts, Mom?
Mom: Yes, one person who I felt really deserved an Oscar nomination was Samuel L. Jackson in The Hateful 8. He was just great in that film. I can't believe he wasn't nominated.
Me: Well, Mom, as always, it was a real pleasure talking to you about the Oscars.
Mom: Thanks for having me!
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There you have it, folks. We'll be back again in a year to discuss the 2016 nominees, that is unless Leonardo DiCaprio loses the Oscar. Then I'll be on the search for another mom who wants to talk movies with me. Keep an eye out just in case, won't you?
Thirty Seasons of THE REAL WORLD
I know. I know. I haven't written anything here in many months. But here's the thing: work is busy. Also, no one pays me to write for this blog.
But you know who does pay me to write? The New Yorker. God bless them.
Here is my latest essay tied to my larger project on MTV and youth identities, "Thirty Seasons of The Real World." Please read and share so maybe I can make more money writing and then can write some shit for free for you fine folks.
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Consider the Catfish
My dear blog, I truly apologize for my long absence. The summer is filled with family trips and preparations for fall courses and now the fall is here and I am busy with back-to-school meetings and student queries and the endless forms parents must fill out for their kids during the first weeks of school.
But I wanted to pop in to share some most excellent news–that a portion of my book project on MTV's scripted identity cycle is currently live on The New Yorker. Yes, The New Yorker. They paid me and everything, because those folks are civilized. And as I've been published on the online version of The New Yorker (life goals: to get published in the print version), you all can read it for free!
Click here to enjoy.
"Clueless" and the End of Gen X
Did you know that Clueless was released 20 years ago? That's the year I graduated from high school and the year, I think, Gen X was pushed out of the cinematic spotlight. I wrote about this for Salon:
"In an early scene in "Clueless," a close-up reveals the sagging waistbands of a pack of young, SoCal teens, all loping to class in the signature Generation X uniform of baggy jeans, exposed boxer shorts and wallet chains as World Party's cover of Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" blares on the soundtrack. Then Cher Horowitz's (Alicia Silverstone) chipper, California Girl uptalk—surely the vocal fry of the 1990s—cuts through the straining authenticity practiced by the pack:
Here, with a single toss of her healthy blond coiffure, Cher, the "Clueless" protagonist and moral center of Amy Heckerling's 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma," dismisses the entire ethos of Generation X. As Jeffrey Sconce explains: "X'ers have long been regarded as the most cynical, detached and ironic of population clusters. Boomers, the logic goes, got all the good jobs and prime real estate, while Gen Y (aka, "the Millennials") got a renewed sense of earnestness, enthusiasm, and optimism. X marks the spot in between—those pissed off at baby-boomers for their narcissistic entitlement and pissed off at the Millennials for not being more pissed off."
Read the rest here.
When My Daughter Asks Me if She Looks Fat
Last night, I had a rather disturbing conversation with my 8yo daughter. I was in the middle of doing the laundry and she walked into the room and asked me if I thought she looked fat. I've been dreading this question since I became pregnant with her. This is how women destroy themselves.
I decided to write about it over at Medium's Human Parts.
You can head over there to read it by clicking HERE.


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The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
from Edward Hadas:
Surge pricing and the just economy
By Edward Hadas
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
from Edward Hadas:
Greed, justice and deception
Greed contributes to all the economic and financial woes of prosperous societies. The United States and other rich countries produce much more than is needed to support all of their people in comfort, so if desires were all truly modest, there would be few problems. Greed encourages people to decide that their own share is too small. Greed influences the popular desire for GDP growth (more, faster), financial gains (higher house prices as a human right) and total economic security (guaranteed pension, come what may). Voters' greed encourages governments to spend more and tax less.
Pity the pandering U.S. candidate
U.S. House panel probes Muslim radicalization, critics see witch hunt
The U.S. House of Representatives will investigate radicalization in the American-Muslim community, sparking outrage that the probe is a witch hunt akin to the 1950s anti-Communist campaign. With al Qaeda and its affiliates openly trying to recruit Americans and Muslims inside the United States for attacks, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King called congressional hearings on the subject "absolutely essential".


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There are some teams that nobody expected much from at this summer's World Cup. Some had done remarkably well to battle through a months-long qualification process, and their games on the world stage were their reward.
However, there are some teams—and particular players—who carried the weight of expectation on their shoulders. Their names have adorned thousands of shirts, and their nations' hopes rested on their performances—or lack thereof. Here is our team of of pivotal players who failed to perform, in a slightly unconventional 3-4-3 formation.