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Masculinity, Credibility, and Gene Kelly: A Scotsman's Quandary
Being a fan of Gene Kelly, and film musicals in general, has burdened me with two formidable dichotomies since my childhood: how to defend my masculinity as a heterosexual male and my credibility as a student of Scottish history.
The film musical genre, as I am told constantly, is the forte of gay men, a more potent defining characteristic, it would seem, than any lifestyle choice. Stand-up comics and a host of poorly written situation and romantic comedies regularly endorse this understanding; I seem to remember a joke of this ilk in every other episode of Will & Grace (right; note the Judy Garland memorabilia on the wall). That is quite enough to contend with. However, it is a film musical, and a Gene Kelly film musical, that is held mostly, if not wholly, responsible for what is known as the 'tartanification of Scotland:' the cultural dismantling of the nation into the Highland jigging, kilted, and tartan clad land as portrayed on the front of shortbread tins around the world.
Unlike every other Gene fan I have encountered I can't remember when I first saw him, I have absolutely no memory of the period B.G. (Before Gene). He's always just been there. And I don't mean in a spiritual sense; he hasn't shone forth and bathed me in the ethereal light of his perpetual magnificence…
I cannot accept the current trend from some virtual devotees who attempt to portray Gene as some kind of beatific, infallible demigod, and easily dismiss as errant nonsense negative assessments of him like "tyrannical" (Debbie Reynolds) and "egotistical" (André Previn) simply because they contradict the preordained idolatrous image they have contrived to create. Not for them the young, fiery hoofer who propelled himself into low-rent audiences to teach hecklers lessons in humility with his fists, or who retained a romanticised notion of Irish Republicanism late into his life, or who revelled in a bawdy, and sometimes cruel, sense of humour. I don't recognise their Gene Kelly and I doubt very much whether he ever existed at all. It is his humanity, with all its flaws and contradictions, which makes his achievements all the more astonishing.
My love of Gene Kelly became common knowledge at school when I was 9 years old. We were asked to name our favourite film stars; Steve McQueen was a popular choice for the boys, as were Sean Connery and Roger Moore (Bond was huge in the 70s), and I seem to remember that even Elvis Presley got a mention (he had just passed away and all of his films were shown on television). As you have probably already anticipated my choice was met with particular derision. Two things allowed me a modicum of redemption for this unforgivable betrayal of collective manliness: football and humour. If you can play the national sport well and are also perceived as funny then the respect and freedom from your contemporaries can be invigorating. Mostly. It can also, however, engender resentment in those who feel that all the skill and comical flair in the world can't, and shouldn't, compensate for the pathetic admission of "poofyness" (his word) that a love of Gene Kelly musicals reveals.
Barry Floyd was his name, a tall, stocky bully with a huge mane of blonde curls: an anti-Harpo, if you will. He made the next six months of my young life, a very long time to a nine year old, an absolute misery and would punch, kick, and spit on me with every opportunity that presented itself. Despite a visit to the school by my mother and admonishment from teachers the bullying continued. My father's advice, doled out early on in the period of persecution, seemed to me like a last resort: "There's only one way to deal with bullies, son… You hit them right back." I had never hit anybody in my life and the thought of any kind of violence abhorred me.
On the final day of school before the summer break my tormentor cornered me in the library and advised me that he was going to give me "something special that would get me through the summer." The experience of what had gone before allowed me to understand that something thoroughly unpleasant, not to mention extremely painful, was imminent. I can only imagine that a combination of fear and the subconscious recognition of a breaking point are responsible for what happened next.
Barry Floyd had hardly advanced when I caught him square on the jaw with my right fist and sent him sprawling into a portable trolley of cheap paperback Westerns. Fitting, I thought. He stared up at me from the floor with an expression of pained incredulity, but said nothing more, while I turned and walked out of the library followed by, I like to think, the spirit of an athletic dancer in t-shirt and chinos who leapt into the air and triumphantly clicked the heels of his loafers. Barry Floyd didn't bother us again; he never laid another finger on me, nor did he ridicule Gene after that, well… not in front of me, at least.
In my teenage years my love of Gene is something I really only shared with those closest to me. I found it easy to conceal that part of me from everyone else because I always had a love of contemporary music, films, and sport that identified me as 'typical.' However, with my family and my best friends I can lay claim to having spread the word of Gene with wonderful success: when I taped On the Town (1949) on betamax video in 1982 and played it constantly it had such a profound effect on my brother that years later when he began his career as a carpenter he would regularly walk onto building sites singing "I feel like I'm not out of bed yet;" when I taped Singin' in the Rain (1952) a year later I caught my other brother watching the titular number (right) after, falsely, denouncing its merits, and after showing it to my friends for the first time they didn't need much persuasion to literally dance around in puddles in the street afterwards.
With the women in my life it's something I ensure to reveal as early as I possibly can, in fact the dvd of Gene's AFI Tribute (below) was something I used in my courtship of a woman in the late 90s with whom I would soon embark on a nine year relationship; she had told me previously that she had never liked Gene Kelly, but admitted after watching it that she had found him funny, talented, and humble. The next woman I was involved with in 2007 not only fell in love with Singin' in the Rain after I showed it to her, but also bought it as a present for her little girl who similarly adored it and showed it to her friends. And the woman I am currently seeing watched Singin' in the Rain with me at Christmas and let's just say she's a work in progress…
In my adulthood I have never tried to conceal my love of Gene, on the contrary it is something I wear on my sleeve with pride — an adornment of muscular, joyous, and inventive brilliance. Equipped with an extensive knowledge of his work, gleaned from a lifetime of admiration and love, and opinions formulated after years of viewing and reading, I will, and have, gone to figurative war in Gene's defence. I am more than aware, and the first to admit, that not everything he did was marked with brilliance and I recognise his limitations both as an actor and singer, but a handful of his films and a plethora of his numbers meet with no resistance.
However, it is an irony not lost on me that it should be one of Gene's films that is regularly accused of perpetuating the myth and image of Scotland as a primitive country driven by an almost supernatural thirst for whimsy, legend, whisky, dancing, quaintness, outdated custom, and tartan… acres of tartan… swathes of tartan… huge, billowing, terrifying mounds of tartan. If I am in the middle of a Gene rant to disbelievers, be they friends or otherwise, and they know that I am not only a fan of his, but a student of Scottish history at the nation's oldest University, they simply bide their time before dropping into the debate a word that has as devastating an impact on my argument as an alien beaming in to a Christian pilgrimage: Brigadoon (1954).
Derision in Scotland, and the wider UK, for this hopelessly set bound travesty was instantaneous and the fact that it followed hard after Walt Disney's equally ludicrous Rob Roy (1953) a year earlier, in which an Englishman (the ignominy) portrayed one of Scotland's, and the world's, most celebrated outlaws, compounded the resentment tenfold. Some reports suggest that Gene came to Scotland to scout locations for the film in 1953, and there are photographs of him outside Glasgow Central Train Station and of him receiving an award in Edinburgh, but this seems rather implausible given that the film musical was on the wane and MGM no longer had faith in the genre. Furthermore, if An American in Paris (1951) wasn't shot on location during the genre's zenith, then what would have compelled the studio to embark on a location shoot in a country notorious for intemperate weather and difficult terrain?
I'm not sure exactly where in the Gene pantheon I would place Brigadoon. It doesn't make my eyes and ears bleed like 1947's Living in a Big Way (right) or Summer Stock (1950), easily the worst, in my opinion, of Gene's musicals. But then again, it doesn't possess any flashes of individual brilliance that can be found, albeit fleetingly, in both of those films. The soft shoe shuffle of "Go Home wi' Bonnie Jean" is almost endearing, but Gene's rendition of the score's most celebrated song, "Almost Like Being in Love," is lacklustre and the routine as a whole somewhat under whelming. The film's most historically, and culturally, inaccurate sequence, the Highland wedding, is, paradoxically, my favourite scene and I only wish it went on for longer before Harry comes in and starts groping 'Bonnie' Jean; some ruthless editing of most, if not all, of Gene's interminable pas de deuxs with Cyd Charisse would have provided the scope for that. Cyd, a woman I have desired since the 80s, is woeful throughout and her Highland lilt almost rivals Dick Van Dyke's Cock-er-ney chimney sweep from Mary Poppins (1964) for the worst accent in cinematic history: her execution of the line "the kindest man in Scotland" is beyond risible.
The removal of the finest song from the score, Come to Me, Bend to Me, is a bewildering decision – perhaps Gene and Vincente Minnelli thought that it slowed down the narrative, such as it is, but Brigadoon is not blessed with the kind of score that can survive without its best song. Those of you who have watched the DVD extras will surely agree that Jimmy Thompson's rendition of the song is delightful. Van Johnson is excellent as the cynical Jeff Douglas and it is a mystery why he doesn't have a song of his own; a funny and derogatory number denouncing Brigadoon and everything it represents would have gone down a treat… or maybe a song at the end about how his best friend has left him to disappear into the Highland mist forever and he has to return to New York and explain to his fiancée, and the police, why he's coming back from Scotland alone, that he doesn't know where the body is, that he didn't kill Tommy he's just asleep, that he didn't mean to kill the guy he actually did kill, but it's just as well he did because if he'd made it across the bridge all the Brigadonians would have disappeared into the Highland mist forever and Tommy's love for Fiona wouldn't have been able to wake them up this time…
I place myself firmly in the Jeff and 'Hothead' Harry camp. Brigadoon's insular and pointless little world is as attractive to me as Tasmania must have been to British convicts in the nineteenth century. In his Film Guide Leslie Halliwell described Brigadoon as 'Lost Horizonish.' I can't agree with that. The lamasery of Shangri-La in James Hilton's novel was a Utopian ideal of contentment, long life, perfect health, and cultural preservation, but the village of Brigadoon has none of that… just some sheep, a market, men walking around aimlessly with bales of hay, heather ale (what is that?), and candy… Sorry, 'candy?'
Caledonian condemnation of Brigadoon is not unanimous, however: a popular Glasgow DJ of the seventies and eighties admitted that he "loved it" and I can remember my own grandmother insisting, when Gene and Cyd turn to face the Highland landscape after desecrating its majesty with their ghastly "Heather on the Hill" routine (right), that it must have been filmed in Scotland because of how beautiful the scenery was… Extraordinary – and this was a woman who had seen the real landscape in all its glory. It remains a popular choice for amateur musicals and a multitude of examples are but a click away on You Tube; I saw one myself a few years ago and silently cheered as the American accents of the actors playing Tommy and Jeff ensured that the linguistic atrocities perpetrated by Cyd Charisse were finally avenged.
For most of us, however, Brigadoon is the watchword for the trite, whimsical, and patronising manner in which the country of my birth has been portrayed in popular culture; and, dismayingly, it is happening still as the recent execrable Made of Honour (2008) testifies. When Simon Callow is met by the sight of kilted dancers at the Scottish wedding in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) he exclaims: "It's Brigadoon, It's bloody Brigadoon!" This is perhaps the greatest example of Brigadoon's impact; that people need not have seen the film, nor the Broadway original, to understand the reference.
I used to describe my own hometown, unfairly, as a cross between Brigadoon and Salem's Lot, and people always got the joke. And yet, despite all of its faults, what Brigadoon has been held responsible for is rather unfair, at least when compared to other interpretations of Scottish legends and myths; Brigadoon is a fictional tale of fantasy and claims to be nothing more than this, whereas Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995) presented a woefully inaccurate account of the life of William Wallace and whipped the nation into a collective frenzy that even saw a political party adopt Gibson's painted face on their literature and quote directly from the film in their parliamentary speeches. Which is the greater crime?
The biggest gripe I have with Brigadoon is one of missed opportunity. A little more research would have provided Mr Forsyth with a more worthy excuse to ask God for a 'miracle.' In the story the year is 1754, only eight years after the annihilation of the forces of Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie, if you must) at Culloden. A defeat so crushing in its one-sidedness and so devastating in its impact on the national psyche that Scotland not only saw her last chance of a governing monarch evaporate, but the resilience and defiance that had kept the English at bay since the Middle Ages quietly ebbed away and was eventually replaced by the intellectualism of the pro-Union Scottish Enlightenment. As a patriot, I can think of no better reason to disappear into the Highland mist for centuries…
- Hirschorn, Clive, Gene Kelly, A Biography (W.H. Allen, London 1974).
- McArthur, Colin, Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots – Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema (I.B. Taurus & Co Ltd, London 2003).
- 'Gene Kelly,' The Hollywood Greats, BBC, 30 April 2001, Television.


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Sen. John McCain said .... Sen. Barack Obama's willingness to sit down with the president of Iran shows "naiveté and inexperience and lack of judgment" -- and indicated he will make the issue front-and-center in the general election if Obama becomes the nominee. Link
May 19, 2008
Obama's willingness to sit down with the Iranian president demonstrates Obama's lack of understanding of international relations, McCain said during a speech in Chicago, Illinois.
"Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama's inexperience and reckless judgment," McCain said. "Those are very serious deficiencies for an American president to possess." Link
"Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama's inexperience and reckless judgment," McCain said. "Those are very serious deficiencies for an American president to possess." Link
May 26, 2008
McCain said. "He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq." Link
June 4, 2008
''Americans ought to be concerned about the judgment of a presidential candidate who says he's ready to talk, in person and without conditions, with tyrants from Havana to Pyongyang,..." McCain said last night in Louisiana. Link
John McCain repeatedly states, and will make "front and center" during the general election campaign, the assertion that Barack Obama is the candidate in the race who lacks "knowledge", exhibits tendencies towards "reckless judgment" and is simply full of "naivete" concerning foreign policy and Iraq.
McCain is, I'm taking it as a given, serious about these criticisms of Obama.
The knowledge that John McCain gained from his 20+ years in Washington, quite a bit of it concerning military and foreign policy matters, led directly to the Maverick's enthusiastic endorsement of the attack and occupation of a sovereign country posing no threat to America. Armed to the teeth with military experience, girded with decades of serious and grave governmental decision making experience in that bastion of wise judgment, Washington D.C.....John McCain unflinchingly, and without regret yet today, relying upon all that wisdom and seriousness,.... boldly voted in favor of the most dishonest, bungled, act of naked military aggression in our nation's history.
McCain's superior judgment, based on all that knowledge and decades of experience that only he possesses, revealed itself not only in his vote to take our eye off the enemy of al-Qaeda and go to Iraq, but also in the Arizonan's total embrace of the extremely radical Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive wars of choice. McCain's impeccable judgment reveals itself in his embrace of neo-conservative ideology that states America must attack other countries, even if they haven't attacked or threatened us. Never in American history have our leaders resorted to such a unilateral-minded, "we start the wars now" foreign policy. In the superior judgment of George W. Bush and John Sydney McCain III, all that has changed.
"Reckless judgment", ask almost any American, is now synonomous with attacking and occupying Iraq. McCain went all in on that recklessness.
McCain said an American president needed,....judgment, knowledge, the absence of naivete,...and without those qualities a candidate would prove to have "serious deficiencies". Ironically, John McCain is admitting that he has these deficiencies. The wisdom and judgment which led McCain and others to vote for military aggression against a country which never threatened America, which led to a quagmire lasting longer than WW2, completely equipped with a staggering price-tag.....is wisdom and judgment that's "seriously deficient". That is why Barack Obama has said repeatedly that he is anxious to have exactly that debate with the "seriously deficient" John McCain.
What about talking to all foreign leaders.....McCain says it's "naive"...
June 2, 2008Gallup Poll Link that shows 67 percent of Americans polled say this kind of diplomacy, Obama's, is a good idea.
Naive is trusting in George W. Bush to do the right thing. Naive is believing that George W. Bush and Richard Cheney tell the truth and had the best interest of America in mind when they unscupulously propagandized Congress and the American people, lying their way to a premeditated war of choice. That's what "naivete" is. And that's what John McCain demonstrated, in spades, by his full-throated support for a war in Iraq that America should have never started.
Perhaps two thirds of Americans are naive now. Perhaps, just like with how Americans don't believe Iraq was worth it and want it ended.....the American people have moved way beyond the serious deficiencies in judgment by self-proclaimed, non-naive presidents and would-be presidents claiming expert knowledge and impeccable judgment. Perhaps John McCain is just out of touch with the American people. Perhaps John McCain is out of historical touch with some of our greatest presidential leaders.
And speaking of judgment, deficiencies, or irony....
May 31, 2008
McCain's advisers see him more likely to win if he can keep the conversation focused on national security, long the Republican Party's strength. It is certainly McCain's; he's a former Vietnam prisoner of war with decades of military experience in the Navy and the Senate. Thus,
McCain is using Iraq to cast Obama as naive, reckless and unprepared to make necessary tough decisions.
But it will be hard to go up against McCain on any national security issue, given the Arizona senator's expertise. Link
But it will be hard to go up against McCain on any national security issue, given the Arizona senator's expertise. Link
Barack Obama's biggest challenge in this campaign won't be McCain's judgment, experience, and knowledge about the military and foreign affairs. When it came to making a "tough decision", McCain allegedly prepared with all his experience and knowledge enabling him to make a sound judgment.... McCain failed America miserably.
Obama's biggest challenge, is to break the unfathomable spell that main media is under about McCain's foreign policy and military "expertise". Claims of "expertise" and "national security strength" being McCain's strong suit are incomprehensible in light of McCain's support of a reckless and failed foreign policy....a policy he promises to continue.
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(MathLink) Correct handling of Messages generated by slave kernel
When working through MathLink with slave kernel I have a problem with
correct parsing TextPackets. In particular when such packet
corresponds to a Message generated by the slave kernel I do not
understand how to handle it correctly at all. I need such Messages to
be printed in the evaluation notebook as if they were generated by
notebook's master kernel (but with some mark to make clear that it
comes from the slave). And I need to separate TextPackets
corresponding to Messages from those just to Print[] commands. The
last I need to parse correctly too, printing them in the evaluation
notebook with a little mark that it is from the slave kernel.
Here is an example of what happens:
link = LinkLaunch[First[$CommandLine] <> " -mathlink"]
Unevaluated[EnterExpressionPacket[Print[a]; 1/0; Print[b]]]]
While[Not@MatchQ[packet = LinkRead[link], InputNamePacket[_]],
The message by default comes through MathLink in the form:
TextPacket[ 1
Power::infy: Infinite expression - encountered.
It looks ugly. The only way to make it better I have found is to
evaluate in the slave kernel
$MessagePrePrint = InputForm;
But I think there should be more straightforward solution. In
particular when dealing this way I get TextPackets with HoldForms
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Geneva, Switzerland
Welcome address by the Secretary-General
Press release: ICT standards needed to green automotive industry
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Arkansas angler Kevin Short — the man in pink — definitely marches to the beat of a different drummer. Just check out those pink-rimmed Costa Del Mar sunglasses if you don't think so.
Fellow Elite Series angler Chris Lane was still shaking his head Friday morning over the newly-pinked "L" in the script lettering on Lane's boat. Short did that while signing autographs during Wednesday night's "Angler's Alley" pre-tournament event.
Short capped a markedly different bass tournament performance Friday by catching a seagull in the Bassmaster Champion's Choice presented by Ramada Worldwide.
"I was throwing a Chatterbait in the milfoil," Short said. "The gull had swooped down a couple of times, going after the bait."
When the Mayflower, Ark., angler made another long cast, the bird made another swoop for the lure and became entangled in his line.
"It got all tangled up," he said. "It was wrapped around a leg and a wing. I had to reel him in."
Short being Short, it wasn't the first bird he'd caught. So he knew what to do, with the help of his co-angler Al Hall.
"You've got to hold the head or they'll peck the hell out of you," Short said. "I held the head while Al got the bird untangled."
But that was only one of the species that Short landed this week on Oneida Lake. The rest were fish species, but they included a yellow perch, a catfish, two different species of drum, a walleye and a pickerel.
This being a bass tournament and all, Short caught a two-day total of 18 pounds, 2 ounces, which left him out of the top 50 cut in 68th place. All the bass Short caught were smallmouths.
Of course, Short was targeting largemouths this week. And that's the only fish species he didn't catch.
"Everything in this lake will hit a Zoom Speed Craw, flipped in the grass," said the seemingly always mischievously smiling Short.
Time to study
Alton Jones Jr., son of the 2008 Bassmaster Classic winner, turned 16 during the 2008 Elite Series schedule, which made him eligible to fish as a co-angler. He took advantage of that opportunity by participating in all seven tournaments that came after his birthday, including this week's Champion's Choice.
But the elimination of co-anglers from next year's Elite Series events may prove beneficial to the young Texan's academic career.
"I'll have time to get a lot of school work done," he said.
Ike's edge
Tournament leader Mike Iaconelli said that years of fishing northeastern waters may not provide a tactical advantage this week. After all, most of the Elite Series anglers have been here before and could find fish even if they hadn't. But Ike believes that his time on Oneida and other similar lakes gives him a mental edge.
"It gives you a little bit more confidence," Iaconelli said. "You understand when to move and change."
Today he demonstrated that he knows what he was talking about. After catching over 20 pounds of largemouths, he inadvertently stumbled onto something else.
"The last hour I was just killing time," Iaconelli explained. "I was just dragging a bait around way out in the middle of nowhere and I caught a four-pound smallmouth."
In a tournament that could be decided by ounces, and could shape numerous anglers' careers, many of his peers would have given their right arm for that "gimme" fish.
Crews ready for a reset
For four-time Bassmaster Classic qualifier John Crews, 2009 has been a completely forgettable season.
"I'm ready to hit the reset button," Crews said.
He plans to clear his mind during the offseason by coaching little league football, but admitted that for a pro angler it's hard to ever get too far away from fishing.
"I'd like to say that I'm not going to think about (fishing)," Crews said. "But you can't ever really get away from it."
"It's tough because you finally feel like you can win one and you go from hero to zero." — Britt Myers, who went from third place on Day One with 16-6 to 95th place on Day Two with a zero.
"I didn't do anything different today and I don't see any reason to change tomorrow." — Rick Clunn, who moved from sixth to fifth Friday with a two-day total of 29-13.
"It hasn't been a problem, not at all. Everybody has been really cool, from the people on the docks to the people in the boats going by." — Dave Wolak, on the pressure of being the local favorite.
"That's what wins." — Dean Rojas, who is second, 5 ounces behind Iaconelli, on why he's fishing for largemouths, not smallmouths.


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Women's Tennis Players in Action This Weekend
Sept. 28, 2007
LOS ANGELES - The UCLA women's tennis team will have two players competing at UCLA this weekend, as both Elizabeth Lumpkin and Andrea Remynse are entered in the pre-qualifying singles draw for the Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships, held next week at the Riviera Country Club. The pre-qualifying action will be held this Saturday and Sunday at both the Los Angeles Tennis Center and the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center.
Lumpkin, seeded No. 2, opens up play against Samantha Van Der Drift of Texas Tech on Saturday at Noon. Also at Noon, Remynse, a 9-16 seed, will face off against Nanar Arapetian of Arkansas. Both matches are at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center.
Players in the pre-qualifying need to win three matches in order to advance to next week's qualifying draw.
Information about the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships can be found on the Tournament Website
Pac-12 Sports Report: Year End SpectacularTOMORROW | 7:00pm PTLive


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Archive for the 'Convertible' Category
The Maserati GranCabrio, the first four-seater convertible in the Trident carmaker's history, will make its world wide debut on September 15 at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show.
The introduction of the GranCabrio – the Trident's third prong – completes Maserati's product line-up that now consists of three different families of models: Quattroporte, GranTurismo, GranCabrio.
Discussion in the Australian Ferrari forums.
Marco records another trackday organised by Ferrari at the Ferrari Challenge event at the Imola racetrack. It was such a sunny and nice day that a lot of Ferraris decided to join the event. First i record them parked, but then they start and rev the engines ready to be pulled to the limit into the racetrack.
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Please check the thread in the Australian Ferrari discussion forums for the latest information or if you have some info, thanks.
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Discussion in the Australian Porsche forums.
Porsche Spyder returns!
All-new entry-level Porsche will share its platform with the VW Bluesport and takes inspiration from original 550 Spyder
One of the most revered names in sports car history, the Porsche Spyder, is back! And our exclusive illustrations show for the first time how the sub-Boxster two-seater will shape up when it arrives in 2013.
Source: Jack Rix at Auto Express
New baby Porsche helps show off your bald spot
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Discussion in the Australian Ferrari forums:
Ferrari has used the celebrations for its victory in the 2008 Formula 1 Constructor's Championship, the Ferrari World Finals, to launch its fastest ever open top car, the Scuderia Spider 16M, with its name flagging Ferrari's 16th manufacturer's title win.
Based on the Ferrari 430 Scuderia launched last year, just 499 examples of the Scuderia Spider 16M will be produced, aimed at Ferrari's most passionate, loyal customers who demand the unique combination of exclusivity and the remarkable driving experience that on Ferrari can offer.
Discussion here: http://aussieexotics.com/forum/bmw-m-power/bmw-m3-convertible-photoshoot-t2156.0.html
Full set of 26 hi-res photos here: http://ozcarsightings.com/BMW%20E92%20M3.php
From Dingo:
Spent 3hrs this morning with the new E92 M3 convertible out in the Swan Valley/Mundaring/Kalamunda – lucky enough to drive it down Mundaring Weir Rd. Amazing machine, I very much want a German V8 now!
Driven the M3 and M5, passengered in an M6….and despite being the least powerful this is definately my favourite of the lot.
The sound is so addictive, you're forever dropping down gears (7sp dual clutch tranny) to hear it blip and then roar as you accelerate….in the tunnel with the top down is orgasm material! The brakes are great and plenty of grip too, more performance than you'd ever realistically need.
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The Porsche 997 Turbo will be getting it's roof ripped off for a hairdresser-spec version to be available here in October '07.
Fancy breaking the highway speed-limit in less than 4 seconds from a standing start? It'll only cost you about $360k.
Here's a pic of what the new 911 Cabriolet should look like:


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Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of
Lascaux transports visitors to the Lascaux cave in France,
where they'll discover prehistoric cave paintings. Walk through a
full-sized replica of the cave, meet a lifelike stone-age family
and play with interactive displays explaining the life of people
who may have inhabited the cave.
Tickets are included in both Discovery and All-Access passes to
the museum.
Delve into the mysterious world of bioluminescence, from the
glowworms dangling from the ceiling of New Zealand's famous Waitomo
Caves, to the deep-sea fishes that illuminate the perpetually dark
depths of the oceans. Discover the variety of ways in which light
is used to attract a mate, lure unsuspecting prey, or defend
against a predator, and see how scientists study this amazing
ability to glow.
The exhibition showcases more than 100 animal specimens
that have been preserved through the process of
Plastination. From goats to giraffes and octopuses to
ostriches, guests will see the inner workings of some of the
world's most impressive animals and better understand the evolution
of animals and the natural world.
A new exhibit that explores how food connects us to the
natural world and to each other. Sights, smells and tastes
benchmark the story of food as it journeys into our stomachs and
imagination. Includes hands-on interactives, family
activities and active public programs.
Exhibition highlighting the culture of illustration through the
talented cartoonists, illustrators and voice actors connected to
the Geneva community. Features well-known artists such as Daws
Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear and many Hanna Barbera characters,
along with Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy comic
Interactive learning centers include a barn slide, apple
orchard and chicken coop. Maggie, a life-sized
fiberglass milking cow sponsored by Golden Oaks Farm in Wauconda,
will be the focus of the new exhibit. Maggie is over five feet tall
and features a working udder that recirculates the water that
children "milk."
Kids play fun games and make a recycled craft to take home.
Make your own cape; pledge your real (or make believe) powers;
design, build and test customized flying machines; create a super
sidekick in the Kraft Artabounds Studio; and complete the museum's
series of exhibit-based challenges to acquire and wield your many
super powers.
All season, Wonder Works allows children to decorate and plant
their own 6" flowerpots. This special opportunity supports the
Wonder Works Organic Garden.
Clark Street in Lincoln Park is transformed into a vibrant art
exhibition with competing artists onsite with displays, live art
demonstrations, pop-up galleries, retailer presentations, workshops
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