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Skip to comments.Elizabeth Edwards: scared of "rabid, rabid Republican" neighbor
Posted on 04/08/2007 3:25:28 PM PDT by HoldFast
MIKE BAKER Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. - Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home - and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.
Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, particularly recalls the time neighbor Monty Johnson brought out a gun while chasing workers investigating a right of way off his property. The Edwards family has yet to meet Johnson in person.
"I wouldn't be nice to him anyway," Edwards said in an interview. "I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me."
(Excerpt) Read more at myrtlebeachonline.com ...
Is she vowing to stay away from Webb and the rest of the democrats that also carry guns, or is it really neighbors that she's afraid of...or republicans?
LOL. What a dingbat. She's never met him... but she knows he's a rabid Republican.
And she wants sympathy?
The guy posted a "Go Rudy Giuliani" sign on his fence, so I guess he's really a RINO. </s>
He's not a Republican, he put up a Rudy sign.
The Edwardses are still putting the final touches on the property, which they purchased in 2003.
"I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."
This guy is my new hero.
Is this the two Americas Edwards talk of? Poor Republicans taxed into the poor house by limousine liberals so they can spend the money of entitlements that ensure a voting majority that enables them to stay wealthy and in power.
More likely those 'investigating' guys were looking to clear cut even MORE land around the 'neighborhood'—don't blame the neighbors for getting a bit upset myself!
LOL...I guess if a real republican were her neighbor she'd have a bomb shelter built.
The gave enough information to identify the guy specifically. Colloquium? Check. She called him "rabid." Capable of defamatory meaning? Check. Miss Edwards seems like an otherwise decent and interesting person, but she wronged someone here, and it wouldn't be unjust for her to get sued.
This phrase cracks me up.
Whenever I hear or read, "gun-toting", I always get an image of some young dandy prancing about with his nickel plated Colt Python .357 magnum slung over his shoulder in a mauve gun cozy, properly accessorized with a few buckles and sequins.
I live in NC. All their neighbors hate them
Rabid? (we are moving into new territory here)
What's the difference between a rabid Republican and a rabid Democrat?
NickatNite2003 did win the 2005 EB White award for literary genius, so don't judge his writing style.
She has also made claims about the irresponsible use of a firearm. I wonder where she is getting this information from?
Rabid democrats have extra foam?
more tea and sympathy, please...
Of course she only is "afraid" of republicans, the rest of the loons agree with her and it's OK for them to own guns. It's the good for me but not thee thing.
Sounds like the Edwards are using "hate speech".
Whatever, Elizabeth.
"I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."
Nope. For the Rats, poor people are good only for their votes.
It seems to me that by definition, it is impossible to be both "rabid" and "Republican." Rabid moonbat? Certainly.
28,000 sq ft? It must make al-Gore's carbon footprint look tiny. Is anyone else tired of limo libs?
OOOOGA BOOOGA! That mean-old Republican is going to eat the kids!
A. How does she know he didn't "like" the people in question?
B. How does she know it was the first thing he did.
C. Maybe the trespassers were working for the Edwards.
D. Like it or not Mrs. slandering lawyer this man has a right to own a firearm & protect his property.
E. Do you really have cancer? After reading this article I'm starting to have my doubts.
F. Are you a rabid anti-gun limousine liberal?
Assuming that he has a good name in the community to begin with, her statement implying that he is the type who would shoot first and ask questions later would certainly be injurious to his standing in the community. I'd say he has the elements of a case.
If someone is trespassing, having the gun handy when you confront them is what we country folk call smart. Of course the Edwards' favorite course of action is to sue you.
G. In which America is this house located?
Sounds like they need to speed up construction on that little house they're building. Doesn't look like there will be any neighbors close enough to worry about. Otherwise they can just move. It's not like they can't afford it.
That's the ticket I'm hoping for!
Or is that ok now. I can't keep up.
Maybe she just has a bad neighbor.
why mention the "gun toting" except as to create peril.
This is not reporting this is play writing. Who is the author who said if a gun is mentioned in a play it means the gun must be used later.
This is BS to set up an expectation of violence whre there is none.
Why not just call the neigbor "thought criminal double plus ungood."
The media is incompetent.
Why does this remind me of Cindy Shehag camping out next to GWB's property in Texas? I guess what goes around, comes around!
I see he wants to sell his property. Sounds like a great place for a gun range or a used trailer lot! No! Wait! A Gay Bar would be fitting, & Mrs. Edwards could then rest easy about the safety of her kids.
The Edwards clan are scared of many things. The Breck Girl is scared of Fox News and now the old lady is scared of a neighbor who's Republican and owns a gun.
Thank goodness this clan will never live in the White House.
This is what happens when you believe your own propaganda.
Hmmmmm....so there are no "gun toting" guards guarding the Edward's family while on the stump....or at home.....I find THAT hard to believe.
"Whats the difference between a rabid Republican and a rabid Democrat?"
One really is diseased. It's not the 1st one.
If she scared she should send the SilkyPony over there to protect her.
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Dog owners have flagged concerns about proposed changes to dog exercise areas in Busselton and Dunsborough.
The City of Busselton is calling for submissions on its plan, which restricts certain sections of beach in summer and opens up other areas.
Geographe dog owner Silke Rothkamm said the restrictions made it impractical for people with busy lifestyles to exercise their dogs properly.
"The proposed unrestricted areas are too far away or too small," she said.
"I'm not against having restricted areas, but this is going too far."
Mrs Rothkamm said limiting dog exercise areas to certain sections of beach and certain times over summer would create more dog traffic.
"When you consider how many people will move here in the future, many with dogs, it's even more impractical," she said.
"Most dog owners are responsible, cleaning up after their dogs and avoiding causing nuisance for beach goers. We are willing to compromise, but these proposals are unfair."
Last week the City of Busselton posted rangers on street corners to collect feedback on the changes and so far the response has been mixed.
Ranger and Emergency Services manager Tim Wall said many dog owners did not abide by restrictions which was exacerbated in summer.
"There is still confusion or lack of compliance relating to animal exercise areas as in most areas you are not currently permitted to have your dog off lead," he said.
The changes would allow people to enjoy Busselton's beaches during peak hours over summer, he added.
"This process is about finding a balance for all – not just about securing convenient locations for small groups of people.
"I really encourage members of the public to give their feedback through the submission process."
Dog owner Jo Principe said she would be making a submission.
"I'm disappointed the City wants to restrict so much of the beach east of the jetty to Geographe, as even in the height of summer there's hardly anyone there," she said.
Fellow dog owner Vicki O'Brien said the restrictions should be from January 1, not December 1.
Submissions are open until December 21.
For more information visit www.busselton.wa.gov.au.
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In Killing Them Softly, Dominik's first feature since The Assassination of Jesse James, Pitt once again plays a quietly powerful sociopath, and once again the screen vibrates.
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
The movie is more concerned with conjuring an aura of meaningfulness than with actually meaning anything.
A.O. Scott - New York Times
Languorous to the point of rambling, the story of double-crossing and vengeance is darkly funny, graphically violent and gorgeously shot.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
Possesses a modicum of swagger and style, even as it perpetuates some of the crime genre's more tedious cliches, from slow-motion savagery to facile cynicism.
Ann Hornaday - Washington Post
A bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year's "Drive."
Ty Burr - Boston Globe
It's a movie that shows, and then tells, tells, and tells again, its vibrant conjuring of contemporary cynicism felled by Dominik's lack of faith in his audience's ability to connect thematic dots.
Karina Longworth - Village Voice
Pitt, entering his third decade of fame, continues to show how there was always a deadly serious actor in him all along.
Joe Neumaier - New York Daily News
The film, for all its visual felicities, comes to life only sporadically.
Joe Morgenstern - Wall Street Journal
Ultimately, as crafted as Killing Them Softly is, it's less satisfying than either The Sopranos or Goodfellas. Still, Dominik and his cast cruise some very mean streets indeed.
Lisa Kennedy - Denver Post
And at the end, when that character collides head on with the election theme Dominik tends to overstate throughout, it all leads up to a punch line so thoroughly anti-inspirational and mordantly funny and just about perfect ...
Glenn Kenny - MSN Movies
One of the best things in the movie is a conversation between Pitt and Jenkins, on a torrential day, seated in a nondescript car beneath a bridge.
Anthony Lane - New Yorker
It seems as if I've been seeing versions of this story since forever.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
This is a talkative picture, allowing time and space for comically preoccupied and quirkily pathetic exchanges between all sorts of strays and losers.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
The Louisiana locations are appropriately cruddy, and the occasional scenes of violence are frightening, visceral, and beautifully photographed.
J. R. Jones - Chicago Reader
Jolting, suspenseful, full of twisted sympathy for its goons' row of characters, and wickedly amusing to boot, Killing Them Softly summons up the ghosts of Goodfellas and a whole nasty tradition of crime pics.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
Clever dialogue can make up for one-dimensional characters, and amped-up action can disguise a thin plot. Here, we get too little of either.
Kristin Tillotson - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Let's just call it DOA.
Tom Long - Detroit News
The point of this vile, cynical and ultimately preposterous film is that America is reeling from spiritual numbness and ethical paralysis, and optimism is a game for fools.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
Trading in pleasures of a deliberately rarefied sort, writer-director Andrew Dominik's talky, character-rich genre piece largely short-circuits thrills to sketch a grimly funny portrait of thugs taking care of business, in every rotten sense of the word.
Justin Chang - Variety
It isn't much of a movie. I might forgive the slow start if it weren't for the slow middle and slow end.
Kyle Smith - New York Post
This is a deeply cynical movie, with not much to say but a lot to feel.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
a humdinger of a cinematic exercise
Jordan Hoffman - Film.com
Dominik brings a sleek pulp sensibility to the material and melds its topicality to a strange form of scathingly anti-capitalist entertainment.
Eric Kohn - indieWIRE
A stylish, brutal affair that delivers grim atmosphere and punishing violence but loses impact in telegraphing its political punches.
Liam Lacey - Globe and Mail
It has a weird, buzzing, intense quality that has burrowed its way deep into my brain like some invasive sci-fi organism.
Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com
It's hard to deglamorize the criminal life when you can't resist showing a bullet leaving a gun barrel in stylized super-slow motion or scoring the anti-hero's first entrance to a Johnny Cash song.
Dana Stevens - Slate
Killing Them Softly is 2012's answer to Mean Streets.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
A juicy, bloody, grimy and profane crime drama that amply satisfies as a deep-dish genre piece, Killing Them Softly rather insistently also wants to be something more.
Todd McCarthy - Hollywood Reporter
An incredibly stylish genre exercise set in the world of mobsters, junkies and lowlifes, but it's also trying incredibly hard to be About Something.
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
Despite enough pummeling to flatten Rocky Balboa in all six movies, the only thing that truly rewards your attendance is Pitt in another effortless star performance.
Richard Corliss - TIME Magazine
The acting is aces, especially Pitt mixing it up with the superb James Gandolfini, as an assassin losing his game to hooch and hookers. They make this movie a potently nasty provocation.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
'Killing Them Softly' collapses under the crushing weight of the director's narcissism.
Richard Roeper - Richard Roeper.com
The writer-director becomes so intent on hammering home the parallels between economic decay, political disappointments and petty criminals, there is nothing soft, or subtle, about it. He should trust his audience more.
Betsy Sharkey - Los Angeles Times
This physical world is malleable, the means to disconcerting loveliness and expressive power... all under cover as a political parable in the form of an urgent, restless gangster picture. Rain falls, words tumble, violence erupts. Lyricism ensues.
Ray Pride
With such a strong cast, it's hard to imagine how things went so wrong.
f you find Dominik's unsubtle political statements too obvious, there is still plenty else going on in Killing Them Softly to marvel at with its familiar, and yet fresh, genre elements.
Jack Giroux - Film School Rejects
Ain't nothin' new about it, but it's a cool 97 minutes of seedy amusement.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
Dominik wears his nihilism as a badge, but that's not what it is at all: It's a crutch, and an awfully flimsy one.
Will Leitch - Deadspin
It's a middling gangster film, but belabored with too much Sturm und Drang, particularly in banging over the audience's head the constant reminders of the fiscal cliff.
Elias Savada - Film Threat
Andrew Dominik's follow-up to 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' too often fails to engage with its uneven mix of guns and gab.
Al Alexander - The Patriot Ledger
Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly is a potent and miraculously-shot film that captures America's recent financial collapse through a criminal lens.
Jeremy Lebens - We Got This Covered
A noir-ish crime drama with a brain, and despite its flaws and inconsistencies, a film worth seeing. Dominik remains a filmmaker to watch.
Dan Jardine - Cinemania
Complex and problematic in a rather wonderful way, Killing Them Softly has flaws more interesting than some film's perfections.
Catherine Bray - Film4
Brad Pitt excels amongst an incredible ensemble cast in this gritty crime thriller.
Tom Glasson - Concrete Playground
There are many cinematic cardinal sins, but the latest film from Aussie director Andrew Dominik commits two of the big ones - Don't Be Boring and Don't Waste A Great Cast.
Matt Neal - The Standard
A top-notch, viscerally powerfully mobster movie with a view of free-market enterprise as practiced at its most harrowingly basic, last-man-standing level.
Neil Pond - American Profile
Australian director Andrew Dominik mixes conventional mobster mayhem with an unconventional take on gangsters caught up in the Great Recession. And with Brad Pitt as his ideologically enraged male muse hitman, as if wandering in from Occupy Wall Street.
Prairie Miller - WBAI Radio
While Dominik flourishes when it comes to the picture's excessive violence, he seems to be unable to balance those sequences with the drawn-out scenes of dialogue, which, while delivered nicely, kill any momentum the film might have had.
Jeremy Wheeler - TV Guide's Movie Guide
Good actors and unimpeachable source material hampered by faulty chatter, leading to thumb-twiddling.
Kelly Vance - East Bay Express
Director Andrew Dominik controls the clock
Marty Mapes - Movie Habit
Weary and familiar foray in to gangster turf
Robert Denerstein - Movie Habit
It's a rollercoaster: long talky tete a tetes, punctuated with shocking violence (both of which are masterfully presented).
Staci Layne Wilson - StaciWilson.com
Killing Them Softly finds its own rhythm and eventually its own way of building dread, punctuated by bravura cinematic moments that won't soon be forgotten
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
The completely obvious comparison to the mobster world and our American economic system is a welcome, straight-forward surprise for storytelling.
Jeff Bayer - The Scorecard Review
The pace is deliberate, yet that simmering sociopolitical undercurrent gives Killing Them Softly more weight than its rather conventional concept might suggest.
Todd Jorgenson - Cinemalogue.com
Jackie Cogan understands his fate in a way that the other smart guys don't quite, an understanding that makes him seem somehow smarter.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopPolitics.com
Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) understands his fate in a way that the other smart guys don't quite, an understanding that makes him seem somehow smarter.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
Killing Them Softly positions itself as a heady piece of entertainment, but it's ultimately no more intelligent than The Pet Goat.
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
It's a pleasure to watch Pitt work in dialogue-rich, subversively comic film noir.
John Wirt - Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Another one of those films that makes you wish Quentin Tarantino had taken up hotel and restaurant management.
Jeffrey Westhoff - Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Ray Liotta gets his butt super kicked in this one. It's actually quite scary.
Bob Grimm - Reno News and Review
Emerging director Andrew Dominick comes out swinging in this nonsensical gangland farce.
Ron Wilkinson - Monsters and Critics
Another misfire for Brad Pitt. This hit man story is overly talkative and lacking in entertainment value
Jackie K. Cooper - jackiekcooper.com
The closing punchline is such a knockout, you might forgive the lack of subtlety preceding it.
Brett Michel - Boston Phoenix
Absent poppy dialogue and a few terrifically well-staged action scenes, the director doesn't seem very alive to the material.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
Pitt's best work in years. His final, show-stopping speech is phenomenal.
Ed Gibbs - The National
Killing Them Softly has jumped to the top of my list of worst movies of 2012
Lori Hoffman - Atlantic City Weekly
More bullets-and-bloodshed that's stylish, cynical - and unappealing.
Susan Granger - SSG Syndicate
You may find yourself wishing these hooligans would raise a little more hell and watch a little less C-SPAN.
Rick Kisonak - Film Threat
Killing Them Softly is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore, but fails to provide an invitation to join the outrage.
Brian Orndorf - Blu-ray.com
A masterclass in precise, auteurist cinema ... Short, sharp, talky, lean, and almost completely inhabited by men, Killing The Softly is cerebral, nasty, and hugely entertaining.
CJ Johnson - ABC Radio (Australia)
Terrific performances, but it too often feels like a referendum on Brad Pitt's disappointment in President Obama, much like George Clooney's "The Ides of March." Unlike "Ides," it strains mightily to Say Something Big about political bread & circus.
Nick Rogers - Suite101.com
[Dominik's] major misstep is grafting this story to modern politics (specifically, the 2008 Wall Street bailout) with a heavy-handed analogy that equates the dumb hoodlums to greedy hedge-fund operators.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
Routine crime drama made gripping by effective acting, great characterizations and a snappy dialogue like in Pulp Fiction.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
"Killing Them Softly" is a package mix of 'The Departed' and 'Pulp Fiction', something you have seen before with very little improvement.
Jolene Mendez - Entertainment Spectrum
The anvils of obviousness rain down so hard and fast in New Zealand-born/Australian-based director Andrew Dominik's meditation on low-rent crime and American decline, that it might as well be a Coyote-Road Runner cartoon
Cary Darling - Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
America's 'just a business,' and business is bad.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Brad Pitt's hit man yarn keeps getting interrupted by political talking points as well as director Andrew Dominik's obsession with Tarantino-style tics.
Christian Toto - Big Hollywood
How about a movie about gangsters set in an unnamed place but they all sound like they are from Boston. Here's the twist, these mobsters will talk a LOT but do very little. Needed less talking, more killing.
Michelle Alexandria - Eclipse Magazine
The degree to which Killing Them Softly ultimately peters out is, to put it mildly, somewhat disappointing...
David Nusair - Reel Film Reviews
Dominik insere o filme no movimento tematico iniciado pelo Cinema norte-americano do pos 11 de Setembro que constantemente enxerga as grandes corporacoes como vilas em funcao da falta de carater e humanidade de seus lideres e lobistas.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
So this is our fate, it seems: the endless bureaucratization of every aspect of life, even down to the illegal.
Pete Vonder Haar - Houston Press
The entire cast is brilliant. But I found the constant background drone of the 2008 presidential election vastly annoying.
Jeanne Kaplan - Kaplan vs. Kaplan
It's not easy recommending a film of this nature. But it would be a disservice to the genre not to.
David Kaplan - Kaplan vs. Kaplan
It's the cinematic equivalent of a comedian retelling the same joke on stage ad nauseam and then taking the last five minutes of his set to explain the joke in great detail.
Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
A convincing allegorical portrait of the recession-era crime business.
Robert Levin - amNewYork
'Killing Them Softly' a knockout
James Verniere - Boston Herald
Nothing soft about Killing Them Softly. Think early Quentin Tarantino in plot and dialogue structure and you get the picture. Gruesome. Yes. But oh, so well done.
Gary Wolcott - Tri-City Herald
This is a movie that literally explains everything, which walks us through every minor detail of life on the wrong side of the law... and none of it is very entertaining or interesting.
Bill Gibron - PopMatters
Talky noir with overbearing political agenda.
Kurt Loder - Reason Online
The movie succeeds in it's comparison of the 2008 economic crisis to the scaling back of wages for even the jobs we wish didn't exist. It is a bit slow and dialogue heavy and because of that I ended up merely liking it when I wanted to love it.
Kristian Harloff - Schmoes Know
An intense little crime thumper from writer-director Andrew Dominik, who excels at sweaty realism.
Clint O'Connor - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pitt's last line of dialogue is a thing of pure beauty, razor sharp and darkly hilarious.
Ethan Alter - Television Without Pity
"Killing Them Soflty" will hold you in it's desperate grip, and ensure that you leave happy about whatever line of work you chose to pursue (killers excluded).
Mark Ellis - Schmoes Know
What with personal problems and a bad economy, mob hitmen are just like us. Only more violent.
Rebecca Cusey - Patheos
Not only is it a mob movie with intelligence, but it oozes modern relevance from its every pore.
Mike Scott - Times-Picayune
Like its source material, the movie is stylish, profane, intelligent, and eminently diverting. But as much as it is a delight that Dominik has disinterred Higgins's work, it is a mild disappointment that the result is not more substantial.
Christopher Orr - The Atlantic
A political harangue with the blunt force of a shotgun stock to the temple, couched inelegantly into a generic tale of gangland justice and revenge; yet recognizing and even growing annoyed with its deficiences, I still sort of loved it.
Ian Buckwalter - The Washingtonian
These fellows are hardened criminals, but they're often darkly hilarious and mesmerizing when viewed from the safety of the big screen.
Dan Lybarger - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
A disappointing, derivative noir that gets its spark from Pitt and Gandolfini's performances. Slight and pulpy, but it's aiming for arty and trenchant.
Caryn James - James on screenS
Everything comes together, the performances turning the stylized dialogue into a just-right blend of gilded grunge, and the scenery serving as a handsome peek at downscale New Orleans.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
He's got the vibe down. Same with the attitude, dialogue, origins and scenery, but he didn't quite get his hands wrapped around the storytelling element.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
Slower and more 'talky' than most mob movies, Killing Them Softly nonetheless offers a lot intriguing visual stimuli and food for thought.
Kofi Outlaw - ScreenRant
For all the guys who get whacked in gloriously grisly and stylized ways, there wasn't one moment when I cared even slightly who came out of it alive.
Alison Gang - San Diego Union-Tribune
A crime thriller that plays comedic in the moment but dark, bleak and fiendishly stylish in retrospect.
Annlee Ellingson - Paste Magazine
Dominik ... expertly captures the flavor of his Higgins source material.
Soren Anderson - Seattle Times
As with "The Assassination of Jesse James," "Killing Them Softly" indulges in a hyper-stylish approach that both demythologizes and romanticizes its milieu.
Tim Grierson - Back Stage
An oppressively cynical cinematic Motorhead song about the scum-covered nutsack of society. What it lacks in nuance it makes up for in brutal purity.
Vincent Mancini - FilmDrunk
The dialogue is sharp and so are the performances. Andrew Dominik directed this neo-noir in a low-key comic style that's alternately gritty and fancy. The gritty stuff is best.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
It is a character study set among scumbags -- one of them played with dazzling charisma by Brad Pitt.
Bruce Kirkland - Jam! Movies
...outstanding acting does not overcome the repugnant prolific profanity and excessive graphic violence.
Tony Medley - Tolucan Times
The movie calls to mind ominous Scorsese heavies menacing with their fearless gravitas and quick-mouthed Tarantino featherweights exchanging verbal barbs in a slowly enclosing ring.
Matthew Odam - Austin American-Statesman
If those cynical politics don't fit yours, you can also enjoy the film as simply a bit of stylishly shot, nicely acted, hardboiled noir.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
It's all rather self-indulgent and certainly on-the-nose, but also knows how to keep the viewer's attention. It starts by grabbing for the jugular.
Dustin Putman
"Killing Them Softly" has style and substance but not much soul and no real center.
David Frese - Kansas City Star
...a clever-enough idea - ratty criminal enterprise as the American economy in miniature - but the movie hammers its theme home, repeatedly.
Josh Larsen - LarsenOnFilm
The film is like a lion stalking its prey. It slowly creeps up on you the entire film until it chooses to pounce and show its true colors. Killing Them Softly is a volatile piece of crime cinema that is ferocious and violent as hell.
Chris Sawin - Examiner.com
While he may have captured something of outlaw culture in "Killing Them Softly," Dominik's portrait of America seems myopic, cynical and coldblooded.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Everything about the loaded-with-lowlives crime flick is elongated, extended to the very precipice of its expiration date.
Erick Weber - NECN
While the cast is consistently watchable and on-point, Dominik disappoints as both scenarist and filmmaker.
Alonso Duralde
A black comedy at its most stygian, a parade of sad-sacks, no-hopers, sellouts, screw-ups and basket cases:
Maitland McDonagh - Film Journal International
While it isn't unusual for nasty little genre movies like Dominik's stylish heist thriller to smuggle such themes under the surface, Killing Them Softly makes them startlingly explicit.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
There is not one moment in the film that doesn't represent the director's carefully considered thought, whether we're talking about acting values, camera placement, sound or style of presentation.
Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle
... a procession of shoot-ups and beat-downs filmed with fetish. If you're into seeing people die stylishly messy, this is the movie for you.
Steve Persall - Tampa Bay Times
A crime saga with personality plus.
Matt Pais - RedEye
Dominkiks 2007's Pitt starring Western was a great film. "Killing Them Softly" is minor and disjointed, but fun underneath its pretensions.
Laura Clifford - Reeling Reviews
A character-driven gangster drama exposing the shadow side of America as nothing more than a business ruled by money, power, and violence.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
Pitt dials this hitman down a few notches, keeping the guy as realistic as the movie around him.
Roger Moore
We get it, we get it, the real crooks are on Wall Street and in Washington. Balletic blood spatters juxtaposed with songs are ironic. Or something like that.
Nell Minow - Beliefnet
Finds a pretty creative way to tell a generally conventional gangster story. It's when it moves beyond that that it runs into trouble.
Stephen Silver - EntertainmentTell
It's the characters, and their words, that drive the story here, and Dominik preserves all their scruffy colors ...
Stephanie Zacharek - NPR
Dominik's ideas get the better of his creative handiwork as he throws off his pacing to follow points he has already made.
Marjorie Baumgarten - Austin Chronicle
Movies like this frustrate me. There are many moments of genius to be found here, but the movie is just too uneven for me to recommend as a whole.
Austin Kennedy - Film Geek Central
There is dark humor galore - a scene where one particularly dumb mobster torches a car gets my laugh every time I see it - mixed in with the violence...
Robin Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Its characters may be desperate low-lifes, but Dominik's bold filmmaking sends you out of the theater on an exhilarating high.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
...perfect for those who prefer down-and-dirty crime films to overstuffed costumed productions.
Daniel M. Kimmel - New England Movies Weekly
Killing Them Softly is well made, written, and acted, but the allegorical story and repulsive characters are too one-note and unpleasant to enjoy or recommend.
Jonathan Lack - We Got This Covered
Dominik turns this potentially gritty crime flick into a soggy political metaphor for the 2008 financial crisis.
Rafer Guzman - Newsday
Killing Them Softly is attentive to its characters' driving philosophies ... and challenges those oftentimes twisted principles under harsh, unforgiving circumstances.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
Pitt doesn't do much with his role, poised uneasily between smirking bad boy and implacable, fatal force.
Marc Mohan - Oregonian
Dominik shows an open appreciation for his actors and for the way tough guys, aspiring and genuine, talk to each other - and Killing Them Softly is as much centered around talking as it is action.
Alison Willmore - Movieline
It could have been the start of a new wave of modern era mob movies, but it's merely competent instead of trend-setting.
Jeffrey Lyles - Lyles' Movie Files
Like the politicians it tries to pull into the big picture, "Killing Them Softly" promises more than it delivers.
Joe Williams - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Can be heavy-handed at times, but it's still moodily effective.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
Delivers some striking elements that never add up to a cohesive whole.
Josh Bell - Las Vegas Weekly
The scenes between Pitt and Gandolfini are the highlights of "Killing," with the two actors pivoting off each other with the ease and precision of gymnasts.
Randy Myers - San Jose Mercury News
By making it feel like less of a gangster movie, Killing Them Softly feels oddly more genuine as a result.
Jason Zingale - Bullz-Eye.com
An art film rather than a thriller - but one in which the action is always startling and always packs a punch.
Marshall Fine - Hollywood & Fine
I didn't want it to end. An amazing gangster flick in line with classics like THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE.
Chris Bumbray - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
[T]urns a very American mythology of crime and violence in on itself and from that inversion yanks out a mirror with which to show us a startling reflection of America...
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
Puffed up with cynical pretension ...
Keith Uhlich - Time Out
Grimly amusing then shockingly brutal.
David Edelstein
Though the film has contemporary resonance, the structure is rambling and the audience wonders: who did what?
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
The message is so unrelenting that it soon drowns out all the films' strengths in an ocean of fashionable nihilism and socially conscious outrage.
Tom Clift - Moviedex
The film's cynicism, like everything else, is nothing more than empty posturing, a fashionable pose adopted to ingratiate itself with a disenfranchised public.
Calum Marsh - Slant Magazine
The worlds of Wall Street and Goodfellas collide beautifully in this violent, witty and hugely entertaining film about a crumbling mafia empire.
Andy Lea - Daily Star
One of the ten best films of 2012, Andrew Dominik's cold-blooded satire of American corporate-political-capitalism cuts through its subject like a freshly sharpened guillotine blade.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
A compellingly languorous genre picture that doesn't indict the American system so much as call it out for what it is
Mark Keizer - Boxoffice Magazine
This wily, cliche-averse crime film is far from the blastfest one might expect. [Director Andrew] Dominik proves his sharp ear for dialogue as characters desperately try talking their way through or out of increasingly sticky situations.
Jim Schembri - 3AW
Gritty, tense, funny, moving... one of the best, and saddest, of the year.
Matt Glasby - Flicks.co.nz
Irritating as the throughline's lack of subtlety may be, it's still about the least worst thing you can say about a film that is unashamedly designed for the multiplex.
Fiona Williams - sbs.com.au
It doesn't always hit its marks, and its extensive, accomplished cast doesn't gel seamlessly, but Brad Pitt's Jackie is a well conceived centre to the drama, because he remains a riddle.
Jason Di Rosso - MovieTime, ABC Radio National
For me this is the least of the three of his films. And I still think it's pretty good because I thought the others were wonderful.
Margaret Pomeranz - At the Movies (Australia)
Beautifully shot by Australian Greig Fraser, this is a different sort of crime thriller, and a particularly fine one.
David Stratton - At the Movies (Australia)
Dominik's film is bleak but nonetheless perceptive and arresting. Crime still pays, just not like it used to.
Craig Mathieson - The Sunday Age
As a perverse portrait of management issues and the challenges of ''getting the job done'', it is sure-footed, dark and comic.
Philippa Hawker - The Age (Australia)
While the aggression on-screen undoubtedly gets in your face at the time of viewing, there is also a cynical honesty that plays on your mind for some time afterwards.
Leigh Paatsch - Herald Sun (Australia)
While partially empty and mostly cynical, Killing Them Softly is still a solidly produced and visually enjoyable film.
Grant McAvaney - MovieFIX
A blisteringly original take on the American crime movie that's as thrilling as it is sobering.
Erin Free - FILMINK (Australia)
Killing Them Softly is an engrossing vision of hell where status, money and image have become the ultimate goals and human life is just another commodity to be traded.
Thomas Caldwell - Cinema Autopsy
It's dark, it's smart, and it's destined to become a classic piece of cinema.
Alice Tynan - Limelight
Killing Them Softly is a caustic commentary on America's chilly economic climate, and writer-director Andrew Dominik is unafraid of underlining that point repeatedly throughout his movie's taut 97-minute runtime.
Simon Miraudo - Quickflix
A grimy, well orchestrated, coiled-spring crime drama that morphs into a pessimistic disquisition on the systemic nature of corruption in unregulated markets.
Brent Simon - Shared Darkness
With its focus on American capitalism played out in the mean streets of Boston, Killing Them Softly establishes itself as a new crime classic that is as thought provoking as it is visually and narratively absorbing.
Matthew Pejkovic - Matt's Movie Reviews
A movie about crooks and the Mob which presents itself as a hard hitting crime drama, yet it quickly evolves into something of an art movie with dark comedic undercurrent
Andrew L. Urban - Urban Cinefile
Juxtaposes a wry humour as human foibles are bared before the business of slaughter begins. It all starts with relationships
Louise Keller - Urban Cinefile
The dialogue is salty, stylised and beautifully performed. Yet the air of menace is never absent for long and when the violence comes it's sudden and savage.
Jason Best - Movie Talk
A totally enthralling verbal conquest from the word go, complete with some very fine acting from all involved.
Lisa Giles-Keddie - HeyUGuys
Gripping crime drama strained by forced politics
Cameron Williams - The Popcorn Junkie
Killing Them Softly is a brutal and sublimely crafted thriller, elevated by a stalwart ensemble and an insightful, timely social commentary.
Will Chadwick - We Got This Covered
Killing Them Softly may not be a perfect film, but it is something almost as good: thrillingly alive.
Adam Ross - The Aristocrat
Killing Them Softly is visually sublime. The characters collide against each other in powerfully authentic exchanges; political structures echo in criminal establishment; and the violence stings and disgusts, as it should.
Blake Howard - 2UE That Movie Show
Dominik keeps us off-balance with an unexpected structure, which gives the film an exhilaratingly offbeat rhythm
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
Brilliant ...
Philip French - Observer [UK]
Dominik deliver a properly exciting drama that - even without those nods towards the 2008 meltdown - conveys sobering truths about the American experience.
Donald Clarke - Irish Times
The film, shot in wrecked New Orleans, looks great, the killings are lovingly worked, the desperation undeviating.
David Sexton - This is London
There are a few stumbles along the way but with Brad Pitt and the cast in such fine form it is still a pretty memorable ride.
Allan Hunter - Daily Express
Far from the sinuous crime epic we might have expected, it's more like a caustic but thoroughly impressive kick in the teeth.
Tim Robey - Daily Telegraph
At the heart of it all is the phenomenal Pitt. His charm makes what should be an abhorrent character worryingly likeable.
Alex Zane - Sun Online
Brad Pitt is terrific in this super-stylish crime drama that relishes its brutal mob storyline, inner-city locations and oddball characters.
Mark Adams - Daily Mirror [UK]
Sparky dialogue lends the film some fantastically funny moments, but the violence is not for the faint-hearted.
Claudia Connell - Daily Mail [UK]
The film increasingly resembles Hamlet in cockle-headed collision with The Sopranos.
Nigel Andrews - Financial Times
Dominik ... has not only crafted a first-rate gangster noir but reached out to coldly lampoon the morality-free world of Wall Street economics.
Tim Evans - Sky Movies
Impressively directed and superbly written, this is a highly entertaining, pleasingly literate thriller with terrific performances from a note-perfect cast.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
Hopefully it will be the start of enduring partnership because [Dominik] could be Scorsese to Pitt's De Niro/DiCaprio, Soderbergh to his Clooney.
Alison Jones - Birmingham Post
The film places us in a world of creeping failure, a country in irredeemable decline, a country where even the criminal fraternity lack energy, imagination and balls.
John Bleasdale - Electric Sheep
A good, efficient crime thriller, let down by clunky social commentary but lifted by excellent performances, including perhaps Brad Pitt's recent best.
Damon Wise - Empire Magazine
It's this terrific ensemble that offers real bang for your buck here - Mendelsohn's skaghead Aussie is a brilliant creation - as Dominik builds a grimy world of bad men, brutal violence and stylish cinematics.
Jonathan Crocker - Total Film
Dominik's frontal critique of US-style capitalism may be facile, but it gives the movie a bristling anger and a more lasting burn than other recent offerings in the same genre.
Jon Frosch - The Atlantic
Though the references to the unstable '08 economy are a bit heavy-handed, the film's smart script and unique characters about hit men having to take financial hits pays off handsomely.
Kimberly Gadette - Doddle
The film's reference to contemporary politics and the economic downturn gives it a unique and thought-provoking edge...
Gail Tolley - The List
Killing Them Softly has the rigor and poise of the great American crime pictures of the 1970s.
Robbie Collin - Daily Telegraph
Killing Them Softly is an artfully crafted, occasionally very funny satire dressed up in tough-guy leathers and packing a knuckle duster punch.
Simon Gallagher - Film School Rejects
In its own miasmatic way, the film is arresting and original.
Geoffrey Macnab - Independent
It's a much better hitman movie than an economic critique. In fact, Dominik calls it a comedy.
Jonathan Crocker - Digital Spy
Dominik's aim for allegory of American capitalism is not effective: What elevate his tale above its routine plot are the cynical dialogue, nihilistic tone, and Brad Pitt's effortless star turn as a sociopathic hitman.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
Built on dynamic set pieces and jet black humour, it's reminiscent of last year's Drive. It's a shame then, that Dominik saddles the film with a heavy-handed political subtext that would echo much louder if it spoke a little quieter.
Charlie Lyne - Ultra Culture
It pulls off the clever trick of operating as a gangster movie - featuring characters with missions to complete and people to kill - while at the same time sarkily undermining these same folk, attributing them with a heavy dose of incompetence.
Dave Calhoun - Time Out
Dominik's compositional flair and kinetic directorial style make for a visceral, visually arresting pulp noir that is by turns darkly funny and poetically violent. But... Dominik clots his hardboiled parable with stodgy political soaboxing
Adam Woodward - Little White Lies
A deliciously stylish hard-boiled crime drama, Andrew Dominik's violent and bleakly funny film is a grimly nihilistic film that revels in its harsh and brutal urban landscape.
Mark Adams - Screen International
"Killing Them Softly" pleases as an exercise in both surface style and tangy verbiage, but it's the rare genre entertainment one wishes would think a bit less.
Guy Lodge - HitFix
It is outstandingly watchable, superbly and casually pessimistic, a world of slot-mouthed professional and semi-professional criminals always complaining about cleaning up the mess made by other screwups.
Peter Bradshaw


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- Chapter 2 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 2:3 And...
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- Chapter 3 3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3:3 Behold, we put...
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Winter Fest returns with new attractions
Like winter itself, Winter Fest returns. In its second year, the interactive indoor festival geared toward families runs Dec. 26-31 at the Delta Center, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave.
New this year is a zip line and slide; radar recorded snowball pitch; a roller rink with disco ball; a grand prix with cars suited to those 5 years and younger; a Velcro wall so adults and kids can strap on a Velcro-covered suit to run, jump, spring and stick to the wall; a majestic mountain theater stage; a carnival ride for tots and a polar cafe for adults who want to chill out; and more. »Read Full Article
Present Music serves up a musical Thanksgiving
American Indian drummers and a lot of new music filled the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Sunday evening: Therefore, it must be Thanksgiving.
Present Music, under the direction of artistic director Kevin Stalheim, played to a full house, opening and closing the concert as is its Thanksgiving tradition with powerful performances by the Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group. »Read Full Article
'Things Being What They Are' transcends male stereotypes
I'll admit I wasn't doing cartwheels upon learning the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's holiday play, Wendy MacLeod's "Things Being What They Are," involves two middle-aged, avowedly heterosexual men bonding over brewskis. One of the many reasons I go to the theater is to escape such conversations, which are frequently slathered in cliché when they're not conducted in guttural utterances.
But as MacLeod's smartly written, warm and funny play makes clear, such stereotyping isn't fair to men, and it certainly isn't fair to this moving and entertaining production, which marks the talented Michael Cotey's Chamber directorial debut and features winning performances from actors Dan Katula and Ryan Schabach. »Read Full Article
Books for gift giving: Beatles books
On Dec. 1, we're publishing our suggested 100 Books for Holiday Gift Giving list in the Journal Sentinel's Sunday Cue section and at TapMilwaukee.com, with recommendations in a variety of styles, tones, genres and topics.
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State Senate president asks Time Warner to lower bills in WTMJ blackout
Wisconsin Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) has sent a letter to Time Warner Cable asking that it lower the bills of customers affected by the blackout of three stations in the retransmission dispute with Journal Broadcast Group.
"My intention is not to take sides but rather to look out for my constituents in this dispute," Ellis wrote. "It is clear your customers are no longer receiving the service they are paying for" and he urges Time Warner to "reduce their bills appropriately." He notes that Green Bay Packers preseason games are fast approaching and could be blacked out because of the dispute. »Read Full Blog Post(96)
Sneesby's Denoon Saloon in Muskego closes
Sneesby's Denoon Saloon, a bar and restaurant in Muskego with an extensive craft beer list, closed last week.
Owners Jim and Laura Sneesby announced the closing on Facebook, saying, "Thank you for seven wonderful years." No reason was given for the closing. »Read Full Blog Post
Pianist Rick Germanson to play Jazz Estate
Usually, when peripatetic pianist Rick Germanson shows up at the Jazz Estate, he's in town visiting his parents or his wife's parents(her dad is elder statesman, jazz pianist Frank DeMiles).
Friday, the Milwaukee native will perform at 9:30 p.m. at the Jazz Estate, 2423 N. Murray Ave. Cover is $10. »Read Full Article(1)
Forward Theater captures life's humor, sadness in 'Prophet'
Madison — In the program for Forward Theater's moving new production of Stephen Karam's "Sons of the Prophet," director Jennifer Uphoff Gray skips the customary director's notes while offering two quotes from Chekhov, suggesting that because suffering is unavoidable and attempts to make sense of it are probably doomed, we need each other more than ever.
Like Chekhov, Karam clearly understands that sad as all this can be, the human condition also makes for great comedy, of that serious rather than guffawing sort that honors the humor baked into our inevitably flawed efforts to reach out and touch someone in his or her — and our — moments of pain. »Read Full Article
Exclusive Video: See Familiar Looking Strangers perform 'No Love Lost'
Americana band Familiar Looking Strangers, from Liverpool, England, is the latest pet project of K-Nation Entertainment, a young music company in Grafton founded and funded by Kapco Inc. owner Jim Kacmarcik. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo by Bill Schulz. »Read Full Blog Post
Milwaukee bands Alligator Gun, the Benjamins and Subside reuniting for Pablove benefit concert
Last year local alt rock act Northern Room reunited for the first time since 2008 for a special cause--performing at the Pablove Benefit Concert 2013, to raise money for the Pablove Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to fighting pediatric cancer co-founded by Milwaukee native and Elektra Records president Jeff Castelaz.
But at the Pablove Benefit Concert 2014, not one but three local punk bands will reunite: Subside, the Benjamins and Alligator Gun. »Read Full Article
Veterans Day and Kurt Vonnegut
Veterans Day is also the birthday of the late American infantryman and former prisoner of war Kurt Vonnegut. In "Breakfast of Champions" he expressed strong feelings about the change, in 1954, of the name and purpose of this memorial date from Armistice Day to Veterans Day:
"When I was a boy... all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. »Read Full Blog Post
Recovered from cancer-related surgery, Sharon Jones returning to Pabst Theater March 6
After being sidelined by surgery to treat early-stage bile duct cancer this summer, Sharon Jones of soul group Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings is getting back to business, with a tour next year that takes the band to the Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St., on March 6.
The concert will come nearly two months after the release of the Dap-Kings' newest album, "Give the People What They Want," which was delayed from an initial Aug. 6 release due to Jones' condition. »Read Full Article
Restaurants, are you open for Thanksgiving?
If so, send your information to firstname.lastname@example.com with Thanksgiving in the subject line by Tuesday night for publication this Friday, Nov. 15.
Please include hours, whether there's a special menu, price, phone number for reservations and whether reservations are required, as well as your address and any other info you think is pertinent. »Read Full Blog Post
Seeking: Advice for new TV reporter & Bears fan
The new WISN-TV reporter Ben Hutchison is having an identity crisis.
After I blogged that the new hire joining the station Monday from a Rockford station calls himself a die hard Chicago Bears and Cubs fan on his social media accounts he posted the following on Twitter, at @BennyHutch to WISN anchor Jason Newton @JNewt: »Read Full Blog Post(6)
Have a question for John Legend?
R&B star John Legend is at the Riverside Theater Nov. 18, touring behind his new album "Love in the Future," and has a phone interview scheduled with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Monday afternoon. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Rick Springfield performing 'stripped down' show at Pabst Theater
Forever immortalized for "Jessie's Girl," Rick Springfield has nevertheless been keeping himself plenty busy with other projects over the past 12 months, including gigs with Dave Grohl's Sound City Players supergroup, last year's album "Songs for the End of the World," and writing a novel slated to be published in 2014.
But he's finding time to come back to Milwaukee for a "stripped down" show at the Pabst Theater. Springfield will share stories and perform songs solo on acoustic guitar. »Read Full Article
On Tap for Today: Honoring veterans and a visit from Amy Tan
Today's events have focus and meaning. It's Veterans Day.
Stephen Lang brings his one-man "Beyond Glory" to the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts today. »Read Full Blog Post


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MONTEREY, Calif. – It's no secret that three-time Emmy Award winner Kathie Lee Gifford loves wine.
However, did you know that her latest wine endeavor has an Eastern Ohio connection?
Partnering 50/50 with Scheid Family Wines, GIFFT is launching two new brands – a 2012 Estate Grown Chardonnay and a 2011 Estate Grown Red Blend.
Scheid Family Wines has been around for four decades in the Monterey County wine growing business in California, having been founded in 1972. The family-owned company has 10 estate vineyards that produce wines to showcase the varietal character of the grapes, the individuality of the vineyard and the exceptional quality of the Monterey Viticultural Appellation. The 10 estate vineyards are located along a 70-mile spread of the Salinas Valley, and SFW is committed to crafting estate-grown wines that express the highest quality of each varietal.
"We met through a mutual friend who liked grapes and we clicked right away," Heidi Scheid, senior vice president of SFW, said of the partnership with Gifford. "Kathie knew exactly what she wanted from the vineyards, and the wines are exactly the style that we love and that Monterey is perfectly suited to produce. From day one, we were on the same page on how to transfer Kathie's vision into delicious wines.
"We are thrilled to have her as a collaborator, partner and friend."
In a release, Gifford said, "It's well-documented that I am a wine lover. So when I started talking to the Scheid family about making a wine, it felt like the most natural thing in the world. I wanted to create wines I would want to drink and serve to friends in my home – an elegant Chardonnay like those I tasted in California in the 1970s, and an easy-drinking, yet balanced Red Blend. And who better to make them with than the Scheids, who have more than 40 years of experience."
The name, GIFFT, derives from Gifford's last name and her belief that friendship, love and laughter are gifts to be cherished. The classically-styled package depicts Gifford's favorite place to enjoy wines with her friends – her garden gazebo at home. The bottles also feature screw-off caps and are available nationally at fine wine retailers and on the GIFFT website, www.GIFFTwines.com. They retail for $20/750ml per bottle.
The 2012 GIFFT Chardonnay exhibits richness, depth and complexity, balanced by a lively acidity and an essential freshness. Featuring the gorgeous tropical fruit flavors that are the hallmark of Monterey Chardonnays, the 2012 GIFFT Chardonnay strikes the ideal balance between rich and refreshing. The wine is 100 percent Chardonnay.
The 2011 GIFFT Red Blend is smooth and favorful, with a core of fruit and structure that carries through from beginning to end. The 2011 GIFFT Red Blend is a blend of 42 percent Merlot, 25 percent Petite Syrah, 10 percent Petit Verdot and a small percentage of other varieties.
Gifford is co-host of the fourth hour of NBC's "Today." She also earned 11 Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her role in co-hosting "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee." She is also a playwright, singer, songwriter, author and humanitarian.
Scheid's father, Al, is a Bridgeport graduate and well-known contributor to the school district. He was instrumental in starting the Bridgeport Educational Assistance Fund, which helps students with their reading.
The state-of-the-art winery has a crushing capacity of 30,000 tons, as well as a smaller Reserve Winery where the small production wines of Scheid Vineyards are crafted. With 4,200 acres of vineyards, the bulk of the production is sold as custom-made wines to other wineries, now totaling more than 80.
Al spends a little less time working and a little more time golfing nowadays, with son Scott heading up the operation as president and CEO, and Kurt Gollnick running the vineyards and winery as chief operating officer.


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Sometimes Lady Luck delivers the invention but not the fortune that should go with it. One day in 1839, a failed hardware salesman was tinkering at his boardinghouse in Woburn, Massachusetts. He'd been hauled off to debtor's prison so often that he called it his "hotel." Even there, he kept doing experiments, doggedly trying to make a useful material out of a substance from Brazil called rubber. People bought it for erasing—"rubbing" out mistakes. Because it became brittle in the cold and melted in high heat, that was about all it was good for. The amateur inventor tried mixing it with numerous chemicals all without success, until that day in Woburn when he blended rubber with sulfur—and happened to drop the mixture onto a hot stove. After he cleaned it up, he realized that the rubber had suddenly become more solid, yet was still flexible.
Charles Goodyear had vulcanized rubber, a process that gives it useful properties, such as strength, elasticity and stability. (Today it is used in everything from automobile tires to golf balls.) But that practical discovery did little to help Goodyear himself. His many patents were regularly violated; when he died in 1860, he was more than $200,000 in debt.
In one common scenario, inventors are hard at work trying to make one thing when accident intervenes to create something else. The first practical synthetic dye was "invented" when an 18-year-old student in London was trying to synthesize an antimalarial drug; the material that led to throwaway tissues was first intended as a filter for gas masks.
In the late 1960s, 3M Company researcher Spence Silver was trying to create a superglue but ended up with the opposite—a glue that wouldn't dry, wouldn't melt and hardly stuck to anything. It could just barely hold two pieces of paper together. What the devil could he use the stuff for? Silver never did come up with a good answer, but five years later a fellow employee, Art Fry, began using the glue on small scraps of paper, making bookmarks for his church hymnal. It took another eight years before "Post-it" sticky notepaper became an overnight sensation.
Another everyday accessory we all take for granted, Teflon, has been called "the greatest accidental invention of the century." In 1938, a 27-year-old chemist, Dr. Roy Plunkett, was working with technician Jack Rebok at Dupont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater Point, New Jersey. Plunkett was trying to create a new kind of refrigerant by mixing a gas called tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) with hydrochloric acid, but one April morning something went wrong.


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In the immediate aftermath of the HealthCare.gov debacle, criticism focused on the government's inability to efficiently procure technology. Even President Barack Obama stated that the government probably needed to "blow up how we procure for IT" and that there was "probably no bigger gap between private sector and public sector than IT."
Around the same time, the blogosphere erupted with the narrative that a small and exclusive set of IT companies win government contracts because only they have the ability to navigate complex procurement rules. Furthermore, Standish Group research found that from 2003 to 2012, just 6.4 percent of large government IT projects were successful.
How did we get to this woeful state of affairs?
Some brief history is in order. In response to a series of acquisition scandals in the 1980s, Congress reformed laws to make it easier for the government to buy consumer products, including IT. In 1996, the Defense Department spent less than 1 percent of its budget on commercial items. By 2011, that number was about 20 percent -- equating to $75 billion. Not all of that was IT, of course, but the trend line is clear.
However, unlike any other customer, the government requires adherence to a rigid set of regulations that prescribe internal business operations for commercial companies -- in an expensive and intrusive way. Worse still, a firm must change its business processes and adhere to those rules simply to seek $1 of government business.
It's a simple economic choice for young innovators: When commercial markets are growing, why bother to endure all the "one-off" requirements to sell to the government? As a result, only IT companies that are already mature or have reached slower growth rates are willing to direct meaningful marketing efforts to the government. Although some of those firms do great work, a cohort of radically innovative disrupters finds the federal market repellent. For many firms, the government is the IT market of last resort.
The extraordinary cost of compliance is exemplified by the General Services Administration's IT Schedule 70. That schedule is probably the easiest way to get a foothold in the government, but it is not for the faint of heart. Its requirements are spelled out in a dense thicket of 129 pages where hardly a single clause would be familiar to even the savviest commercial IT company. Many clauses are uniquely onerous, and none are negotiable.
Furthermore, Schedule 70 business comes with considerable risks. In the past five years, sophisticated vendors Oracle, NetApp, Cisco Systems and EMC have collectively paid more than $400 million in fines for violating terms of the GSA schedule.
It doesn't have to be this way. Rather than ask IT innovators to wear the full cloak of compliance before a single dollar of revenue, the government should allow new market entrants to graduate into compliance. This could easily be handled through a GSA contract vehicle created exclusively for this purpose. If that vehicle removed the most repellent clauses for three years or a sum of $20 million in revenue, it could invite entry for innovators regardless of size or sophistication.
The government has compelling reasons for many of its regulations, which often involve promoting social policies or protecting tax dollars. Nonetheless, by temporarily lowering the barriers for new companies and taking a graduated approach to the most expensive compliance standards, the government could invite innovation with little risk. And young innovative companies could instead look at government as the market of first resort.
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Michael Garland is a former vice president at BearingPoint Technology Procurement Services and senior vice president at Siemens Enterprise Communications, and is currently under contract with the federal government supporting IT acquisition modernization.
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The government's departing top acquisition official said she leaves behind a solid foundation on which to build more effective and efficient federal IT.
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said agencies are missing out on younger workers because of the government's rigidity, particularly its protracted hiring process.
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A short-term funding bill is expected by Sept. 30 to keep the federal government operating through early December, but after that the options get more complicated.
The DOD is opening a new Defense Innovation Unit Experimental office in Austin, Texas, while Congress debates legislation that could defund DIUx.
YOU are the Government; if you do not like the processes in place to protect the taxpayers' dollars, then work to change them instead of bellyaching!
What about all the beltway bandits that deliver incredibly poor solutions that have to be done over and over? It is not all the Government's fault - F-35 program comes to mind immediately.
The culprit is the onerous policies that make industry live down to government expectations. How many companies can say that rigid conformance to NIST Common Criteria actually was a source of growth and revenue for them. Dozens of innovative start-ups are frustrated by the impossible to navigate DITSCAP, DIACAP, FEDRAMP, STIG, ATO, PYP (Pick Your Poison) security mandates. I have been in the Federal and commercial IT space for 48 years and doing business with the government is getting exponentially worse by the day. Government is too big, too cumbersome, unresponsive, and focused on "rule enforcing" rather than "service providing." Government punishes the innovators, rewards the slackers, and is increasingly clueless on how to deliver citizen service and national security. By the way the root cause of the dismal performance of the Affordable Care Act was less an IT problem and more a mission/business problem. A bad web site can doom a good process, but a good web site cannot make a bad process good. I will stop here--the ranting is making me increasingly frustrated with our Federal IT procurement processes.
Michael-- you mention onerous barriers that could be removed temporarily-- which ones, in what order?
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Months after firing prior CEO Carol Bartz and undertaking a strategic review Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced Scott Thompson as its new CEO. Thompson's background is given in the press release:
"Thompson served most recently as President of PayPal, a division of eBay, where he continued his established track record of growing businesses by driving customer engagement built on strong technology platforms. Under his leadership, PayPal solidified its lead as the global online payment service, expanding its user base from 50 million to more than 104 million active users in 190 countries worldwide, increasing the number of merchant partners to more than 8 million globally, and growing revenues from $1.8 billion to $4+ billion in 2011."
The stock has reacted negatively and is down almost 2.5% on the day. I believe this reaction misses the big picture. While some short-term traders hoping for a quick pop may throw in the towel today, anyone with a medium to long-term view should stay the course and even increase positions on this news.
The short-term traders may be interpreting the announcement as negative for several reasons.
First, the probability of an outright sale of the company in the short-term is slim to none.
Second, on the conference call board Chairman Roy Bostock suggested that Yahoo would not "go private." Specifically, Bostock said:
"As a public-private issue, we are a public company. I do not envision us not being a public company going forward with a company with roughly a $20 billion market cap. Just if you want to look at it in a practical way, if you and I were to sit down tomorrow and say let's take this company private, I think we have one hell of a challenge on our hands to do that. And I don't – it is not on the radar screen or in the consideration set. We are public company. We expect to run this company as a public company. We expect to run it for the benefit of the shareholders of a public company going forward. So I think in one way it's a moot issue, frankly, from our point of view. Next question, please."
Of course this statement by Bostock does not eliminate the PIPE deal that has been rumored in the past, but it makes it less likely. It's also less likely if the board has come to its senses, sought legal counsel, or just listened to activist shareholder Third Point who pointed out in a letter to the board that the PIPE deal hurts current shareholders and as Third Point states in their November 4, 2011 letter "makes no sense and its only purpose would be to put substantial equity stakes into friendly hands to entrench management and transfer effective control without payment of a premium or even, it appears, a shareholder vote. Nothing can excuse such an action, and shareholders will not be bought off with a dividend of our own money while value is destroyed."
Third, some investors who are waiting for a monetization of the Asian assets may view this as less likely and/or it will take additional time given that the new CEO will have to get up to speed and take a view on the potential transaction.
However, this timing question was addressed on the conference call. In response to just this question Bostock said:
"Let me take the first question on the Asian assets. That will not be a distraction for Scott. As I said earlier, he will obviously join in, jump on the running board of the car as it's moving along, but there is a team working on that. It's an excellent team, and he will be a part of and then obviously a key decision maker as we move forward. But given where we are and how we have gotten there and the people we have staffing that, there is no way that that will be a distraction to Scott as he moves into his position and as he concentrates on the core business. So I don't think that that's an issue at all, quite frankly."
In the press release and on the call the point was repeatedly made that Scott Thompson will focused on the core business:
""Scott brings to Yahoo! a proven record of building on a solid foundation of existing assets and resources to reignite innovation and drive growth, precisely the formula we need at Yahoo!," said Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Yahoo! Board. "His deep understanding of online businesses combined with his team building and operational capabilities will restore the energy, focus, and momentum necessary to grow the core business and deliver increased value for our shareholders. The search committee and the entire board concluded that he is the right leader to return the core business to a path of robust growth and industry-leading innovation.""
This could suggest that a monetization of the Asian assets is still very much in the cards and Chairman Bostock's statement makes it clear that a team within Yahoo is currently engaged in assessing a deal.
In summary, Yahoo is still very much in play. The only strategic option taken off of the table is a LBO of the entire company. But, the goals of the activist investors to maximize shareholder value are strengthened by having a competent CEO who is respected in Silicon Valley with a mandate to fix Yahoo's core business.
A scenario that involves a monetization of the Asian assets in the next few months with a new CEO focused on reinvigorating the core business seems quite probably and would be value accretive to shareholders.
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