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The 1955 film was the second-to-last in Dreyer's career (his final work, Gertrud, came out nine years later), and it is the unmistakable product of a mature artist who was at that point as well-versed in how films are made as anyone else in the sound era; and yet he refuses all ownership or artistic claim over the picture, which has no closing credits and no opening credits but these:
"Kaj Munk
For it was based upon a 1932 play by Munk, a Lutheran pastor whose dramatic works retains considerable cachet in his native Denmark; he was assassinated by the Nazis in 1944 and is regarded as something like a national hero. What, if anything, Dreyer meant for his ideal audience to take from all this is beyond guessing, though I suppose we're meant to understand that he, as screenwriter and director, along with his uncredited cast and crew, were devoted rather more to the task of bring Munk's own ideas to the screen rather than put their own stamp on the material.
And, indeed, Ordet is on the most basic surface level quite a descriptive movie. The performances are, each and every one of them, excellent, and yet there's not any kind of showcased "acting" that makes it possible to make qualitative judgments of the "this person was better than that, while the third guy was Best in Show". Not because of any trumped-up realism - in fact, the film is undoubtedly arch and stylised - but at times it doesn't feel like what we're watching is acting at all, just the most perfect expression of the characters as written and conceived, the actors serving as vessels and conduits rather than artists of themselves. Most cinematic adaptations are, on some level, an analysis of their source material, and though I speak in the ignorance of having no firsthand experience of this or any other Munk play, Ordet doesn't really give that impression; like it's an embodiment of the piece rather than an interpretation.
As for what is described: it is a relatively simple scenario about a small community in 1925, where some degree of religious feuding would appear to have taken root. Virtually all of our time is spent in the main rooms of the Borgen farmhouse, the home of the proud patriarch Morten Borgen (Henrik Malberg), who claims at one point to have been the first man to establish a rich sense of (theoretically Lutheran) godliness among a population of former agnostics and heathens. Now widowed, Morten fathered three sons: Mikkel (Emil Hass Christensen), the eldest, has abandoned faith completely and adopts an agnostic stance apparently of the "God is dead" school rather than the "God never was" one; the middle child, Johannes (Preben Lerdorff Rye), was a bright theology student driven to madness by the work of Søren Kierkegaard, and now patters about thinking himself to be Jesus Christ; the youngest, Anders (Cay Kristiansen), doesn't necessarily have strong religious convictions in any particular direction, given that he's presently courting Anne Petersen (Gerda Nielsen), the daughter of the tailor Peter Petersen (Ejner Federspiel), the community's leading proponent of a much severer, fundamentalist Christianity than the warm but doctrinally non-specific flavor of the Borgens. Morten and his three sons all live together, along with Mikkel's fiercely devout wife, Inger (Birgitte Federspiel), and their two daughters.
The film breaks neatly into two almost equal halves. In the first, the main topic is on Anders's love for Anne, with Morten initally railing against the match on religious grounds, and then immediately supporting it with all his passion when it becomes clear that Peter also opposes the pair on religious grounds. It's a pacey, quiet life study, in which the religious mores of the Borgens are mixed and contrasted within the family and against the community at large - there are irresistible, though entirely superficial resemblances to The Brothers Karamazov in all of this. Then, in the second half, the very pregnant Inger goes into a difficult labor, and I need to take a moment's pause: there's not much point in discussing Ordet without going on ahead and talking about the ending, but at the same time, it's not a movie in which knowing the ending actually changes it that much. Anyway, if you feel that way about spoilers, I'd stop here: rest assured that the movie is brilliant and worth your time, even if the phrase "the great movie about religion" doesn't sound interesting to you (I'm hardly in the cheering section for organised religion).
That being said: Inger loses the baby (Mikkel states with forced sternness in one of the finest line deliveries of the 1950s that Morten's first grandson is in four pieces in a bucket), and then dies. She is mourned; her death even brings together Peter and Morten. And then, Johannes, who has been missing for days, shows up with his mania completely cured, and asks his family with withering contempt why they didn't pray to God to restore Inger's life. Which he then does, and sure enough, the dead woman rises from her coffin on the very morning of her funeral, spiritually piercing and a masterstroke of filmmaking; it is the first moment in a film buzzing with subdued ambient noise (birds, clocks, creaking wood, breathing, talking) that is totally silent, and her rise itself takes place in the whitest shot in the entire picture
The simplicity of the plot I've just sketched out, which takes a bit over two hours to play out, goes hand-in-hand with such richness of philosophy, spirituality, and morality that one feature hardly seems enough to contain it. I imagine much of this is Dreyer's inheritance from Munk, for much of it is buried so far into the bones of the story that it's unimaginable to separate it into parts: there is, for example the conflict between the fundamentalists' fervent embrace of a dead Christ and the Borgens' more friendly, living religion, disdained by Peter as "bright, happy", despite the fact that the fundamentalists seem perpetually cheerier than the family does; this culminates of course in Inger's resurrection. And this is in direct response to Peter's glib but chilling suggestion that he'd be fine with Inger's death if it were part of God's plan to shake Morten into the "right" sort of religion; contrasting with mad Johannes's confusion that modern Christians seem far too concerned with the safely dead and gone 2000-year-old Jesus and can't stand the idea of a present Jesus in their daily reality. I could and would like to go on, but it's too easy to turn a review of the film into a laundry-list of themes that it does a very fine job explicating on its own.
And anyway, having established a false binary, I'd like to respond to myself, when I suggested that much of Ordet is Dreyer's attempt to present Munk's play as itself, and not his own spin on the material. In fact, Ordet in its cinematic form is so intimately tied to the visual language of film and Dreyer's particular approach to visual storytelling that the theatrical basis of it has been burned completely away, and without any obvious "opening up" - most of it does still take place in a small number of locations, and frequently we only see three walls in any given space, suggesting not so much a filmed play as a play in which the camera and thus the audience is right on stage interacting with the characters.
For the interaction of the camera and the characters is at the heart of Ordet. If Dreyer's best-known (and best) film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, is his film "about" close-ups, Ordet is "about" camera movement, dolly shots and pans especially. If there is a characteristic "type" of shot in the movie, it is one that occurs at least four or five times, in which we are watching a situation play out, only to have the camera twist to the side to watch someone else respond, and then back to the first set-up, locking that character back out of the shot; it is exactly the sort of thing that is typically done in an insert shot and has been since the silent era. So why, then, would Dreyer and his cinematographer, Henning Bendtsen, do such a thing, which after all calls so much attention to itself? - for if editing is the "invisible art", then not editing, but including obvious and jarring camera moves, is the very opposite of invisible. And part of me imagines that Dreyer specifically wanted us to notice how he moves perspective in these moments, or in the dozens of other places where everything about a shot calls maximum attention to whatever the camera is doing, because he wants to comment on the nature of point-of-view. To remind us, that is, that we occupy a certain perspective relative to the characters and their beliefs, and that this perspective is mutable and to a certain extent beyond our control.
While I like that - the formation and alteration of belief/perspective is the innermost theme of the picture, and it is well to have it called out in the visuals - I think that this is at best a secondary effect. I do not recall who said it that the difference between a dolly shot and a zoom is that the zoom closes a physical space off to us while a dolly expands it, and that is true regardless of whether we're moving towards or away; this might seem pointless to mention in a film with no zooms, made before the right lenses for such zooms were even available, but the point remains that a physically active camera turns the flat space of a film screen into a dimensional space that we can occupy, and in Ordet this means that the Borgen house is "real" to us in a very substantial way. And even that's not quite it. What the movement of the camera is doing, more than anything, is supplying a particular kind of sinuous rhythm to to the environment we're watching - we read tracking shots in a special way, as being "fluid" more than other shots. It's not the case that they represent our own perception: look to your left, and then back. Did it feel like a camera pan? Only if you did it extremely slowly. It probably felt more like a cut.
So, lots of camera movement lead to a certain heightened, artificial, flowing feel; and these flowing, gliding movements in and out, back and forth, leave the whole of Ordet with a gentle waving motion to it, almost like the film itself is breathing, expanding and contracting. It is a film about life - life as opposed to death in the literal and metaphorical resurrections depicted; celebrating life in the form of the humane Lutheranism of the Borgens in contrast to celebrating death, suffering, and sacrifice that goes on in Petersen's clutch of fundamentalists - and the film itself feels a bit like a living thing, moving slowly and to rhythms that become familiar to us intuitively rather than because they are insisted upon or pointed out. If it is a philosophical masterpiece, that is in no small part because it is a cinematic machine of the tightest, smartest construction, in which every last shadow and every twitch to widen from a two-shot to a three-shot has been placed with precision to make us feel one specific thing in one specific moment, so that after the whole 126 minutes of it, we have not simply watched a movie but been taken in hand by a great hypnotist and carried from despair to bliss solely on his word that it should be so. And so it is. When Ordet ends, it is on one of the most uplifting final moments in the movies, a moment of grace on par with City Lights and maybe nothing else.
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- Helena said...
Tim, I look forward to what you will say about this when you're 80 as you've done a fine job of cracking open the themes and execution of this extraordinary film. I think there's something about this film that just shakes you to the core, whether or not you have a faith or not. The ending seems so right, so deserved, and yet so utterly shocking and challenging to one's thought processes that I'm still thinking about it weeks after seeing the film.
- StephenM said...
I'm rather fascinated by this film's appeal to the non-religious, because I don't know if I can imagine a more deeply Christian film. Supposedly Dreyer himself was agnostic, which again I find rather amazing. While there is a lot going on in the film and the way it is made, the whole point of the ending seems very clear to me: God is real, his power to work miracles is real, and all the petty denominational squabbles of people down through the centuries only reveal a lack of faith and a lack of devotion to the truth, here exposed by an undeniable supernatural act of God. Heck, you could interpret it (I'm not sure you should) as a rebuke to theological liberalism and an affirmation of charismatic fervor. So I'm not quite sure what atheists would get out of that, outside an appreciation of filmmaking artistry.
My listing of most deeply Christian films would go something like: 1. Ordet 2. Diary of a Country Priest 3. Au Hasard Balthazar 4. Andrei Rublev 5.The Gospel According to St. Matthew
There are a lot of others out there, though (last year had Of Gods and Men, and I would argue The Tree of Life was very Christian). Just for the record, and in case anyone is curious, there's a great list here of spiritually significant films, chosen by Christians who actually appreciate film and art: http://artsandfaith.com/t100/2010/
- franklinshepard said...
Thanks for that list, Stephen. A lot of interesting choices, although none more interesting than Breaking the Waves. I understand why it's on there, but I can't help but imagine most Christians not liking any part of that movie.
- Kevin J. Olson said...
The best films about religion are made by those who question it the most. Bergman, Dryer, and Pasolini all have something in common: they wrestle with the nature of God. Some have more religious backgrounds than others, but the fact remains that the agnostic or atheist has generally been the best type of artist to create a film about religion.
Hell, I would argue that if you're religious, the way to get the most out of life and to make the most sense of things is to continue to question and wrestle with the big ideas. I think that's why I respond so much to the aforementioned filmmakers and their takes on religion.
Another great piece, Tim. I always appreciate that you can bounce around from a variety of new releases to Nicholas Sparks to Dreyer to Leprechaun movies. Impressive.
- franklinshepard said...
Something that Dreyer and Bergman have in common is that they were both raised Lutheran, and reacted very particularly to one tenet of Lutheranism - Luther's rejection of the Roman Catholic concepts of venial and mortal sins.
Luther said, "All of my actions are mortal sins; any one of them is enough to make me worthy of damnation." And in saying that, he realized that he couldn't help to redeem himself at all, and only through faith could he be saved.
It would seem that the austerity of the Lutheran communities that Bergman and Dreyer grew up in emphasized how no one was worthy of salvation, and both of them reacted strongly against that.
Bresson, on the other hand, is a great example of a believer who is also a great artist. But of course he never stopped wrestling with his faith and exactly what he believed. Kevin, I completely agree with you that questioning should never stop, even if you are a believer.
- Tim said...
If I may dodge the broader idea of questioning and self-examining one's faith, I think there's a good, solid pragmatic reason why the best films about religion come from a place of doubt: there's no obvious way to tell a story about someone who is quite happy and secure in their faith and receives strength from it, because happiness, security, and strength just aren't very dramatic. Even the best retellings of the life of Jesus always emphasise his moments of self-doubt (e.g. the entirety of The Last Temptation of Christ).
That being said, there's no subject as simultaneously personal and cosmic as religious belief, and it's thus something of a natural topic for a movie, though perhaps only the really bold (and thus really interesting) filmmakers choose to do such heavy intellectual lifting out in front of everybody.


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With Tuesday marking the 35th anniversary of the shooting death of John Lennon, take a look back at Lennon's life and career, from The Beatles and beyond.
Born on Oct. 9, 1940, Lennon had recently turned 40 when he was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980. He's seen here in the 1960s.
Lennon (center) stands with George Harrison and Paul McCartney outside McCartney's home on Jan. 1, 1960, in Liverpool, England. Ringo Starr didn't join the band for another two years.
The Beatles (left to right) Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison wave to fans July 2, 1964, as they return to London from a tour of Australia.
Lennon (far right) is seen here on the cover of The Beatles' debut album "Please Please Me," which was released on March 22, 1963. Of the album's 14 songs, eight were written by Lennon–McCartney, and Lennon sang or shared lead vocals on songs such as "Love Me Do," "Twist and Shout" and the title track.
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Lennon on the set of the TV special "The Beatles" in 1964.
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This John Lennon statue was unveiled outside the Cavern Pub in Liverpool, England, on Jan. 16, 1997. The statue's pose is a representation of the cover of Lennon's 1975 album "Rock 'n' Roll."
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A sculpture of Lennon's face as part of the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 12, 2012.
Another look at the Strawberry Fields memorial to Lennon in New York City's Central Park, this time on July 17, 2012.
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Home List of Titles Mean-field study of itinerant ferromagnetism in trapped ultracold Fermi gases: beyond the local-density approximation
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- Mean-field study of itinerant ferromagnetism in trapped ultracold Fermi gases: beyond the local-density approximation
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- Dong, H.; Hu, Hui; Liu, Xia-Ji; Drummond, Peter D.
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- We theoretically investigate the itinerant ferromagnetic transition of a spherically trapped ultracold Fermi gas with spin imbalance under strongly repulsive interatomic interactions. Our study is based on a self-consistent solution of the Hartree-Fock mean-field equations beyond the widely used local-density approximation. We demonstrate that, while the local-density approximation holds in the paramagnetic phase, after the ferromagnetic transition it leads to a quantitative discrepancy in various thermodynamic quantities even with large atom numbers. We determine the position of the phase transition by monitoring the shape change of the free-energy curve with increasing the polarization at various interaction strengths.
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A three-time captain with the Patriots, Mankins has earned six Pro Bowl berths and five All-Pro selections in his career. He also was selected to the New England Patriots All-2000s and 50th Anniversary teams.
In 2012, he won the Ed Block Courage Award, given annually to players who are voted by their teammates as role models of inspiration, sportsmanship and courage.
"Logan Mankins is everything we would ever want in a football player," Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said in a statement. "It is hard to imagine a better player at his position, a tougher competitor or a person to represent our program.
"He is one of the all-time great Patriots and the best guard I ever coached. Logan brought a quiet but unmistakable presence and leadership that will be impossible to duplicate."
The 6-foot-4, 300-pound Mankins was a first-round pick out of Fresno State in 2005. He has started all 130 games he has played in during his nine-year career. He has made 17 postseason appearances, including two Super Bowl appearances.
Wright played in all 16 games for the Buccaneers last season, starting eight. He compiled 54 receptions for 571 yards and five touchdowns.
Wright joined Tampa Bay as an undrafted free agent after the 2013 NFL Draft. He gives the Patriots insurance as Rob Gronkowski and Michael Hoomanawanui recover from injuries.
With the acquisition of Mankins, the Buccaneers moved quickly ahead to trim the roster to 75.
Tampa Bay placed cornerback Danny Gorrer on injured reserve, waived (injured) tackle Matt Patchan, cornerback Deveron Carr and tackle J.B. Shugarts. They also were awarded defensive back Marc Anthony and offensive lineman Jeremiah Warren off of waivers.
New England also got down to the 75-man limit by releasing six players and placing two others on injured reserve.
Rookie RB Tyler Gaffney and rookie LB Cameron Gordon were put on injured reserve. The Patriots also cut DL Ben Bass, DB Travis Hawkins, WR Derrick Johnson, LB Deontae Skinner, DB Jemea Thomas and WR Wilson Van Hooser.
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Being There (Part I)
Yes, I was. Yes, he did. Go crazy, folks! Go crazy!
As my friend, Mr. Lung, mentioned yesterday, I was indeed present at the inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama. And honestly, the only way I can describe the event is by comparing it to an early (or possibly late, although I have no experience with that) season baseball game. You know the kind of game I'm talking about, where you think you're wearing plenty of layers but you figure out 30 minutes into it that you will never be warm again. But at the same time, you don't care about a couple of numb fingers and toes because moments like this don't come along every day.
Even now, I'm trying to sort through all the emotions that come along with an occasion like this. Of course there's pride in knowing that for all our faults as a nation we always find a way to overcome them. And there's hope, echoed in the words of the inaugural address, "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America." There's also a little bit of uncertainty because, let's face it, these are not easy times in which we live and, as the President said, we all share in a "collective failure to make hard choices."
But I guess what I feel most of all right now is relief. Relief that the unwashed hordes will soon leave my city. Relief that almost all disasters were averted. And relief that the stewardship of the country has passed into the hands of President Obama and his team.
At the same time, there were also events that left me conflicted. I freely admit that I am no fan of former President Bush and I'm sure I've written many scathing criticisms of him in these pages. But, the man was still our democratically elected President and because of that he deserves respect. Perhaps his opinions and his decisions don't always deserve respect but the man and the office do. That's why it left me a little unsettled today to hear people booing whenever President Bush's face was shown on the screens. I understand the atmosphere and I understand the strong feelings. But, even if the inauguration felt like a sporting event and even if President Obama is the Michael Jordan of politics, there's no excuse for booing his competition.
So, there you have my initial, unvarnished thoughts. And I'll bring you more along with a roundup of the absolutely ridiculous coronation, uh, I mean concert I attended on Sunday.
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Wow…that had to be something! My daughter went to the rally in Wilm. on Saturday and got some nice photos…posted those a few days ago. Thanks for posting the ticket…I wondered what that looked like :O)
I think that it is right that you didn't feel right when people booed President Bush. The people, whether you think they were right or wrong, elected him and he was our leader. And he LOVED baseball so how bad could he be! Hope you warm up and and good luck President Obama!
That must have been pretty cool to be there! I think the Bush-booing thing was pretty sad. He wasn't that bad…was he?
I wish I could have been there. Then again it did look pretty cold. I feel you on booing Bush. He may have screwed up royally his second term, but as a country, we chose him. I was only starting high school when he was first elected in 2000, but he didn't do HORRIBLY his first term, did he? He got us through 9/11 and its aftermath relatively well. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.) The position and the person we choose to be president should always be respected. The policies and decisions don't have to be, but the person and the position do. It's not an easy job.
I completely agree with you on the booing thing. To me, it's a lot like the Yankee Stadium All-Star crowd last July booing Bud Selig. Now, I truly think that Selig is a spineless leader who will go down in history for letting steroids into the game, but I wouldn't boo him at a live event. Sometimes people just get a little too angry.
I'm with everybody on the booing. I'm no fan of Bush, but booing only makes the boo-ers look small. Which is why it was nice to see the Obamas and the McCains together yesterday, despite the bitter words during the campaign.
They weren't booing! They were saying "Booo-ush! Booo-ush!"! And thanks for sharing your experiences at the inauguration with us, Allen. While I would really like to get excited about President Obama, experience has taught me that politicians are all alike and make a bunch of empty promises they have no intention of keeping just to get elected. I really, really hope I'm wrong, and I do like what I've seen from him so far, but for now I will remain skeptical.-Erinhttp://plunking-gomez.mlblogs.com
I've booed this President's motorcade before, and as a citizen retain my right to do so, but would refrain from booing at an Inauguration. As Senator Feinstein aptly expressed, the occasion honors and celebrates something bigger than any man – the peaceful, and at least on the outside, cordial, transfer of power.
Considering civilization's alternatives, it's an amazing, humbling gift, not lost on our new President, who closed his address with the sobering challenge that this gift be "delivered safely to future generations".
Congrats on being there for such a historic event in history, Allen.
I'm not sure I would have booed or not. I am a little more plugged into politics than most and I had a nasty sticker up until today on my car that I took off because it no longer meant anything. I never voted for the man and always respected the office but lost respect for him many years ago. It was a load off to know at the stroke of noon a new hope could be brought to office. I just smiled as W got on the plane to Texas and democracy could fix itself within itself. If booing was the biggest obstacle the democracy faced in bringing Obama in then I'd say we're doing pretty good.
Me too. Al? What do you think?
How sweet to watch as history unfolds before you and to be connected with the vision of the founding fathers as well as the visionaries to come. I, too, have been a harsh criticizer of the Bush administration, but to "boo" is just wrong. It's like booing a starting pitcher as he leaves the game after getting knocked around for 5 innings. I wouldn't even do that to a Cub. Seriously, I wouldn't.
I think it shows how strong our democracy is that people are allowed to boo the leader of our nation. But, I also think it shows the failures of our educational system that people don't have the proper respect for the office of presidency. To me, at least, the president is the democratically elected head of our government and as such, deserves to be treated with respect. His decisions can (and should) be critiqued and even savaged but the office itself (and by extension, the person who occupies it) needs to be respected. That's what I think.


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The Superstorm Sandy telethon successfully raised $23 million for victims of the natural disaster.
The fundraising effort, broadcast Friday on various NBC networks, featured performances by Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera and others.
The money will be administered by the American Red Cross.
NBC's Hurricane Katrina telethon raised $40 million in 2005.
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On reading the newspaper, it appears that the $2 billion for the water solution from the Rainy Day Fund is a dead item in the Texas Legislature, due to technicalities and points of order. Now what? The HOT funds are still not a sure thing in the Legislature and that would not be enough to pay for the project.
The only thing in our near future are higher property taxes and water rates. We need to have City Council fire everybody involved with the water project and they themselves should run it. There are cheaper ways of drilling for what we need.
I am glad to see the full-page advertisement in the newspaper (Bee-Picayune May 4 issue, titled "Proposed Projects"). What is written there is not what is on the ballot; that is why I have been writing against the supposed project. All we have gotten from the city administration are "ifs" and "maybes" but no definite plans of how to do and no exact payment plan.
You have already inserted a $4.95 to our utility bill; first, you inserted a $0.45 to our trash pickup in January 2013 as a happy new year fee without any notice. Now, we have another fee of $1 for parks, $1 for fire and $2.50 for waste management, and whether you live in the city limits or not, if you use a water meter from Beeville, you are tagged with this fee.
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Generalized seizures involve the entire brain, while partial seizures occur in just one part of the brain. Some people with epilepsy may experience different kinds of seizures, while others may only have one type. According to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, there are four common types:
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She's an airhead folks? Ever see her interviews? She's high or drunk sometimes. When she's elected President of this country, like former president Bush Jr. was, then we have a problem.
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Drew Barrymore Flashes Peace Sign While Wearing 'War Bonnet'
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A photo of actress Drew Barrymore wearing a feather headdress and a Budweiser T-shirt has surfaced on the internet. Barrymore seems to be having a good time in the picture, flashing a peace sign and laughing, but American Indians aren't quite so happy with the image.
Adrienne K. of Native Appropriations confesses she thought Drew was a "cool chick," which perhaps makes this image that much harder to take. "Not only do you give us the stereotypical war bonnet," she writes, "you give us an association of Indians with alcohol, which is probably right up there with the worst possible stereotypes of Native people in the world ever. Nice work."
The image is watermarked "Flower Films," which is Barrymore's production company (responsible for Donnie Darko, 50 First Dates, Whip It, and the Charlie's Angels movie franchise). Is this a scene from an upcoming Flower Films release?
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Ideally, she'd be hit in the face with a custard pie! Like I said, one celeb does it; (read, Guiliana Rancic, saying "injin" on national tv); someone follows, (Heidi Klum, demeaning a historic native american woman, Pocahontas, for her own personal agenda), and now, a not-so-talented actress, playing a YMCA Indian. It will continue, because no one raises a fuss. People justify such behavior by saying we are "too sensitive". All the while, they know they wouldn't dare make fun of other ethnics. Such people need a custard pie thrown in their face! JMO!


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- Cook Time: 20 min
- Ready Time: 90 min
- Yield: 2 dozen
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
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- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped cooked chicken
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped celery
- 3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped pimiento
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 450ºF. Coat baking sheet with no-stick cooking spray.
- HEAT shortening, water and salt to a rolling boil in a heavy saucepan. Add flour and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until mixture leaves sides of pan and dough is smooth. Remove from heat. Allow mixture to cool several minutes before adding eggs.
- WHISK eggs. Add to flour mixture gradually, beating until thick and smooth. Drop by teaspoonfuls 1 1/2-inches apart onto prepared baking sheet.
- BAKE 10 minutes. Reduce oven to 350ºF; continue baking for 10 minutes. Cool.
- COMBINE ingredients for Chicken Salad. Cut off tops of puffs and pull out any soft moist dough. Spoon Chicken Salad into puffs. Replace tops.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 puff of 24), Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 70), Total Fat 8g (Saturated Fat 1.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 45mg, Sodium 105mg, Total Carbohydrate 5g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 1g), Protein 4g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 4%, Vitamin C 6%, Calcium 0%, Iron 4%.
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I thought the phone was going to be in James Deen's rectum.
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All I can hear is her wheezing. It's very distracting.ReplyCancel
That's where all the pubic lice went!ReplyCancel
@LMAO, remember the NYT article said she refused to change up her make up when they asked her to? She's so delusional.ReplyCancel
Why wouldn't Sundance snap this up?ReplyCancel
I personally loved when she almost knocked the water bottle off the desk. Such gripping cinematography and the acting is just superb. I can't figure out why this wasn't selected for Sundance.ReplyCancel
It's better than Liz and Dick.ReplyCancel
Does she have late-stage emphysema?
Poor James Deen; I hope this doesn't ruin his career.ReplyCancel
c'mon y'all that is some Oscar worthy shite right there Leave this CHILD alone( says Delusional Dina)ReplyCancel
I was really expecting much worse.ReplyCancel
I cannot stress how much I FUCKING loooove James Deen.. Love him, cant ever convince me otherwise. (Ofc unless he fucks kids, animals or beats his ladies or children)ReplyCancel
Omg I didn't remember that kabuki part, now it's even more hilarious.ReplyCancel
OMG, the water bottle! The holding the phone to her ear as if someone were going to answer! Hilarious!
I think the only watchable part of this movie will be the 4 way sex scene with porn stars, Lindsey should just move on to porn Now , it's about her only option left.
why does she even try anymore?? no one wants to see her trashy ass on the screen.ReplyCancel
Why yes, whenever I have sex at someone's house, I wake up in the morning with full makeup, hair and nightgown on.
I can't hate on the acting. She is far, FAR better than she was in Liz and Dick. Now if only they could have edited out the wheezing part.ReplyCancel
He can't act, either.
The heavy breathing is really irritating.
So you wake up scared of your bedmate – that's what it looks like, anyway – and then you call your own phone to make sure he wakes up?ReplyCancel
You guys made me laugh! Now I'm going to have to watch and I wasn't going to!ReplyCancel
This whole mess just reminded me how the writer of this fabulous movie, Bret Easton Ellis, totally shitted on Katheryn Bigelow's good name a few months back on Twitter. Ellen Barkin wasn't having any of it.ReplyCancel
After reading that article, I just feel really bad for the director.ReplyCancel
BTW, were they trying to be "BLOOD SIMPLE"? Good luck with that.ReplyCancel
"This can't be my phone?" What kind of line is that?
I also like that when she's listening hard for her cell phone to ring, she puts her ear closer to the cordless. Makes sense.ReplyCancel
Some of the worst movies I've ever seen were based on Brett Easton Ellis stories. He is like the douchebag nation chronicler of late 20th century America. I'm sure there were nice people among the rich in the 1980's but Ellis didn't know any of them.ReplyCancel
This looked like one of the lower quality SyFy channel original movies. I kept expecting Sharktopus to jump up and grab her from off the catwalk.ReplyCancel
At least half the reason the NYT Magazine bought that piece was because of the connection to Bret Easton Ellis. He hasn't written anything decent for a couple decades, and apparently he's an ass on Twitter. But Ellen Barkin is wrong about one thing — Mary Harron completely destroyed American Psycho when she took it to the screen, turned it into a complete mockery of what Ellis had been doing in that book and utterly refused to deal head-on with why it so disturbed the public, just turned it into a cartoon.ReplyCancel
The real star here is that house! Gorgeous.ReplyCancel
Okay: Yes, cordless thing-waaaay awkward; YES! def syfy low budget everything; Yes, lindsay still rocking that Deep Throat…
Here I go again being that girl that defends her, BUT the end part intrigued me as the role of a make-up whore, starlet wannabe, abused, and victimsied chic playing it cool, could be WONDERFULLY executed by yours hatefully (I mean her not me ;p). If he and the script delivered, I think she could've too…I'm guessing it didn't happen but prob what she thought when she read the script.ReplyCancel
I just lost three minutes of my life to watch that. James Deen might want to go from porn to main stream film. Him sleeping was better acting than LiLo wandering around calling her cell. I mean really people? And whoever said she looked like a dead vic on SVU hit the nail on the head.
this is heartbreaking on so many levels…1, argue all you want, but there was a point when LL had loads and LOADS of talent…wth did it go?! *sads* 2, that opening scene was 2 min. too long. 3, it appears to be an all-arond study in how the mighty have fallen. the director, paul schrader, used to be total GREATNESS…he f*cking wrote 'taxi driver', 'obsession', 'raging bull'…the man's work has been directed by other greats like scorcese and brian de palma. WHAT. THE. HELL. i can't wrap my head around this. the ONLY saving grace in this failure of an opus/opening sequence is that the house is spectacular–albeit w/ dirty floors (bc of course my neat freak side notices this). the rest…i just, i just…can't.ReplyCancel
James Deens blog is interesting .. He's got this childlike enthusiasm mixed with a large loaded weapon and oodles of testosterone .. It's endearing in a way. He adores his costars, kittens and food… That being said he should stick to porn. Between starring, directing and producing he should be set for life.ReplyCancel
The NYT story said he had done 4,000 movies. Four thousand! That's, like, Wilt Chamberlain level stuff.
But still, he's a nice Jewish boy.ReplyCancel
Her body shape looks like shit now. His acting was more convincing tha. Hers got sureReplyCancel
*than hers for sureReplyCancel
I can't stand movies where the main character is a dumbass. Let me call my phone repeatedly so that it rings really loudly and awakens my violent penetrater.
It's like in a horror movie where the girl hides in a closet and makes so much fucking noise breathing and crying, then acts surprised when the bad guy finds her. What did you expect?!ReplyCancel
If LiLo was talented, where did the talent go, why isn't she still talented?
James Deen is the bees knees, his porno for pirates is sexy as fuck, that house is amazeballs, I thought that my computer was on the fritz because I couldn't hear a damn thing. B.E.E. was the pooh, Rules of Attraction is a great fucking movie. The End.
Does anyone else feel like Lilo got punk'd? With all the press leaks, and the interview from behind the scenes, I almost feel like this film was made to show us what a disaster she is! I mean all of her costars are poem stars, it was filmed on a shoe string budget at the direntor's house. Odd.ReplyCancel
I would so watch the shit out of this film!
Yeah it looks bad – but bad in that 'OMG, can't stop watching' entertaining bad.
I would get my best friend round to watch this if it ever comes out on DVD or whatever, and we would get drunk on gin and Jagermeister, all the while laughing at Lindsay's 'acting' and making lewd comments about James Deen that would make even him – a porn star – blush.
Love ya James. You really should do more mainstream. Come to London, UK – I don't work in porn or anything but I can set up some casting coach situation in my house and we can just pretend for a bit, right? ;o)ReplyCancel
I watched this and am just shocked. It seems like it was supposed to be a total spoof, much like the Scary Movies. Other than that, if it were on tv, I'd probably make some popcorn and watch it. I now have a secret crush on James Deen, though, so that may be the best outcome from this movie. Actually, this movie may be remembered for introducing him to mainstream, and for nothing regarding lilo. Which would be great….ReplyCancel
this is totally unrealistic. no one has a HOUSE PHONE anymore. geez!ReplyCancel


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Three layers of almond sponge cake are tied together with sticky apricot jam and topped with chocolate to make these Italian rainbow cookies. The layers are colored green, white and red to represent the Italian flag.
The process of making them is not difficult or all that time consuming the way I assumed it would be. They require only one batter that is split up into three equal portions. One is left plain, one is tinted with green food color and the last is tinted red.
They are each spread very thinly over a baking sheet where they take all of 10 minutes to bake. Then they are stacked and layered with apricot jam (or raspberry) and smooshed together. That's right. Smooshed. As in smashed. You put a baking sheet on top of them and weigh it down with cans for a few hours so the spongy, almond-paste-infused cake can soak up some of the jam and flatten into a dense cake.
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Three layers of almond sponge cake are tied together with sticky apricot jam and topped with chocolate to make these Italian rainbow cookies. The layers are colored green, white and red to represent the Italian flag.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour three 15-by-10-inch rimmed sheet pans and line the bottoms of the pans with parchment paper.
- Mix the almond paste and all but 2 tablespoons of the sugar in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium speed until you have fine crumbles. On low speed add the butter, a little at a time and mix until well combined.
- On low speed add the egg yolks, one at a time, and mix until smooth. Beat in salt and flour on low speed until just combined.
- In a separate bowl beat the egg whites until foamy while slowly adding the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar, continue beating on medium speed until stiff peaks form. When the beater is lifted the whites should stay stuck to it.
- Fold about a third of the egg whites into the batter to start then gently fold in the remaining egg whites.
- Divide the batter evenly into three bowls. Leave one bowl plain. Add red food coloring to the second stirring to make a deep-salmon color. Add green food coloring to the last bowl, stirring to make a medium-green color.
- Spread batter into each of the prepared pans with an offset spatula as evenly as you can - it will be very thin. Bake, rotating pans to opposite racks, until cakes are cooked through and just beginning to brown around the edges, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cakes cook completely on wire racks.
- Put the green cake on a large cutting board and spread one jar of jam evenly over the cake almost to the edges. Top with the plain layer. Spread the remaining jar of jam over the plain layer almost to the edges. Top with the red layer.
- Top the red layer with a piece of parchment then wrap the entire cake in plastic. Top with another pan, weighted with cans. Chill in a cool place or in the refrigerator at least 4 hours or overnight.
- Unwrap the cake. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or using the chocolate setting on your microwave until smooth. Stir in the shortening.
- Pour the chocolate over the top the cake and spread it evenly from edge to edge with an offset spatula. Allow the chocolate to set in a cool place or in the refrigerator. If you like you can run a fork through the chocolate when it is halfway set from one end to the other, slightly undulating it so it looks like waves, repeating until it is entirely striped.
- Use a serrated knife to cut into rows then cut the rows into squares or rectangles. Wipe the knife clean with a wet cloth after each cut. Store in a tightly covered container in a cool, dry place or in the refrigerator up to 1 week.
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Author: Olli Heinonen, Senior Associate, Managing the Atom Project
It would soon be a decade since the international community has been faced with Irans nuclear program. Since it became public in 2002-3 that Iran had violated its safeguards obligations and was building an enrichment plant in Natanz and a 40 MWt heavy-water reactor at Arak[1], the EU3[2] embarked on a diplomatic process to stop Iran from moving closer to a nuclear weapons capability. In November 2003, the EU3 and Iran agreed[3] that the latter suspends its uranium enrichment and reprocessing programs, signs and implements provisionally the Additional Protocol, and provides the IAEA with a complete picture on its past nuclear program. In return for Irans disclosures, transparency and co-operation with the IAEA, the EU3 agreed that Irans case will not be reported to the UN Security Council.
In 2005, however, Iran declared the EU3 diplomatic efforts a failure and restarted its uranium enrichment activities. In early 2006, the IAEAs Board of Governors adopted a resolution and referred the matter to the UN Security Council[4].
Since then the UN Security Council has adopted several resolutions asking Iran to suspend its enrichment and heavy water reactor programs and clarify issues related to the military dimension of its nuclear program[1]. Iran has, however, continued to a slow but steady process of furthering its enrichment program and working on other related nuclear sectors, including military aspects of the program. Simultaneously, Iran reduced its cooperation with the IAEA by suspending the provisional implementation of the Additional Protocol, and reverted back to the old Code 3.1. of the subsidiary arrangements without negotiating the provision with the IAEA[2].
Since 2008, the IAEA has practically made no progress in clarifying issues related to the military dimension of Irans nuclear program. Neither has the Agency been able to verify the correctness and completeness of Irans declarations under its comprehensive safeguards agreement[3].
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