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Beijing choked by pollution at dangerous levels
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:46 UTC
The municipal environment warning centre issued an alert advising the elderly, children, and those suffering respiratory or cardiovascular illness to avoid going out or doing strenuous exercise, Xinhua reported.
Those who did venture out wore facemasks for protection, with visibility low, the skyline shrouded, and the sun hidden in the smog.
Air quality in Beijing showed airborne particles with a diameter small enough to deeply penetrate the lungs at a reading of 456 micrograms per cubic metre, the warning centre said.
The quality is considered good when the figure stands at less than 100.
But a reading shown on the United States embassy website in Beijing was above 800. Beijing only measures up to a maximum value of 500, with the US embassy tweeting that their own readings were "beyond index".
Last year Beijing said it was illegal for foreign embassies to issue their own air quality readings, but the US said its diplomatic missions in China would not stop tweeting levels, which were useful to its citizens living abroad.
The heavy pollution is expected to last another three days, with weather conditions preventing pollutants from dispersing, the warning centre said, according to Xinhua.
Fog also covered vast swathes of east and central China also closed numerous highways and delayed flights in several provinces, it added.
China's air quality is among the worst in the world, international organisations say, citing massive coal consumption and car-choked city streets in the world's biggest auto market.
Beijing choked by pollution at dangerous levelsDense smog shrouded Beijing on Saturday, with pollution at hazardous levels for a second day and residents advised to stay indoors, state media said. The municipal environment warning centre...
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The original is a classic, I guess that's why there's a copy of it at the
Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Taken as a remake, this is a good film. The story was different enough to keep me guessing, the characters were, uhhh, fleshed out a little more. While the original at times seemed like a documentary, this one was a straight-up horror movie, though without too many of the cliches that make modern horror movies tedious.
On it's own, this was a very good horror movie. Well-filmed, well-acted, suspensful, with good characters. The kids in this movie are not all just obnoxious kids--they get into trouble because of a good deed, so I found myself rooting for them, even the annoying one or two. The casting of Lee Ermey as the sheriff is icing on the cake; he definitely brought the movie up a few notches.
While not a classic, this remake is worth seeing.
On August 18th, 1973, in Texas, the youths Erin (Jessica Biel), her
boy-friend Kemper (Eric Balfour), their friends Andy (Mike Vogel) and
Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) and the hitchhiker Pepper (Erica Leerhsen) are
returning from a vacation in Mexico to a concert of the Lynnard
Skynnard. Kemper is driving his van, when they see a disturbed young
woman dangerously wandering on the road. They decide to help her, and
the woman commits suicide inside the vehicle. They decide to look for a
telephone to call the Sheriff, and they end in the house of Thomas
Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski), where their lives are threatened by the
sick Leatherface and his deranged family.
I was quite reluctant to see this remake. The original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is a classic, and as I have already written in other reviews, I do not see any reason to release remakes of movies, mainly classics. However, and although unnecessary, this remake is very good. The cast, leaded by the delicious Jessica Biel, have good and convincing performances. The cinematography is great, being very nasty in the property of Leatherface. In the end, I liked this version and I even dare to recommend it. I believe the fans, like me, of the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" will not be disappointed. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Massacre da Serra Elétrica" ("The Chainsaw Massacre")
Horrors have a bad reputation for poor sequels and bad remakes, which
is why when people heard there was a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
the general thought was that they would be butchering the
classic(excuse the pun).
However this is a terrifying, shocking, emotional thrill of a movie. It may not be up to the standards of the 1970s version, but to be fair, nothing is. The acting is quite well done. The film takes advantage of the time its being made in and the budget, with this version having much better production values, its much more gory but not at the cost of story telling.
The realism is superb and the movie is, at times, as sad as it is scary due to the emotional torture of the characters, i'm sure many people will say its not as good as the original but it could have been a lot worse
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
TCM is an adequate horror film in its own right but will play better if you have not seen the original. The makers of the 2003 remake have stripped the original of its dusty, dirty intensity and its blacker than black humour and replaced them with a few Hollywood conventions so as not to challenge the audience too much. The problem is that 30 years later the remake is just so much more conventional than the visceral original. The directors do copy some of the original shots but see fit not to try to copy the nasty humour that made the original stand up to repeated viewings. Remember the scene in the original where Sally wakes up, tied to a chair, surrounded by the nightmare freakshow of a family and screams her very soul out whilst the camera zooms into extreme close up of her tear filled eyes as her tormentors laugh and taunt her? One of the great moments of 70's shock cinema. Well, here, its a lukewarm rehash where she comes to on the floor with all the horror of waking up with a bit of a hangover. Other pointless changes include trying to normalise some of the originals quirkier moments; originally they wanted to find out if their granparents bodies had been dug up by graverobbers; in the remake, they are on their way to see Lynyrd Skynard. And what happened to wheelchair bound Franklin? Here the nearest thing to a disability is that one of the characters wears glasses. And whats the deal with water? The house in the remake should have floated away the amount of leaky pipes it has. OK its not a BAD film despite using all the old tricks but it seems to me that if you want to see a great film you may as well watch the original and see some really good film-making
This Is One Hell Of A Horror Film!!! I have to say too that the acting was very good, though I wonder how hard it is to fake fear when you see some of the scenarios the actors were in, but even the background actors (especially the actor portraying Leatherface and the wonderful R. Lee Ermey as the sheriff) are very good and add an element of paranoid fear to the film. The thing that shocked me most was how brutal and graphic the film was, the gore being very realistic, and used very well. Instead of buckets of blood, we get moments of horror that end in a very bright splash of red. And like the first, the most brutal killings are shot in a way so that you see what is happening to the victim but yet DON'T see it at the same time. This is not a perfect film. It is too decadently dark and a lot of people will hate the film for that reason, and it will be hard to see this as being a movie you will want to watch over and over and over again. But in saying that, I admit that that is why the film succeeds so well they nailed the mood perfectly. They didn't grave-rob it from the original but created their own. As a horror fan I cannot recommend this film enough. It stands just behind 28 Days Later as the second best horror film in a year that has turned out pretty darned well for the genre. Yes, it is a remake, and yes, the original is better, but having said that, I also must tell you that this is a very well crafted horror film and a wonderful spook show ride. I dunno if I am happy that it is going to do well at the box office or not (it won the box office battle its opening weekend) because I don't know what that means for all the other propose remakes. But if nothing else, at least they didn't screw this one up.
Not bad for a re-make of course it didn't have quite the impact of the
original. It did a decent job building tension and there was a darker
atmosphere to the location, made it seem more nightmarish.
Obviously the film had some advantages from a bigger budget, and R. Lee Ermey is definitely worth watching. As for the family, you had an almost twisted take on 'the dirty south', or in this case southwest, people being more bizarre caricatures, but with the darker and more atmospheric setting it works.
Interstingly, it seems to lack the social commentary of the original, but that is very common with remakes these days. Though there is extensive use of rather effective foreshadowing in numerous scenes.
This movie is meant to be brutal, dirty, disgusting, awe inspiring, and terrifying. It succeeds on being each and evry one. The movie, once it "picks up" is unrelenting, suspensful, and leaves you with an uneasy feeling. There is such a stong sense of hopelesness throughout the second half, such negative emotions are elicited without so much as a second of comic relief. Yes, there is some comedy, but its all in the first third or so of the movie. The movie drags for a bit at the beginning, but once it all begins, its some scary s**t. I am an avid horror movie fan, I watch everything that comes out. Nothing has really scraed me, at least not in years. This movie scared the crap out of me. I actually wanted to turn away at one point. I wanted to run, I had second thoughts, kind of like being on a rollercoaster for the first time. I left the theater with an uneasy feeling. I couldn't stop laughing nervously, I guess I was trying to cope with what I had seen. My girlfriend was absolutely terrified. Two girls behind us were literally crying becuase they were so terrified. All around us people were screaming, jumping, squirming. After the movie, everyone was saying "that was the scariest movie I have ever seen" and "that was nuts." I couldn't agree more. This movie really, actually, truly scared me. It was just so brutal. I felt terrified for the victims; I felt afraid of the villian (Leatherface was awesome). I loved this movie. It obvioulsy has flaws. The beginning was slow, there were like thirty "jump scares," people walked around exploring stuff alone, etc etc. But this movie, if judged based on how much it did what it intended to do, gets a 10 out of 10. Easy. I thought this remake was going to be easy to stomach, I figured it was going to be "hollywoodized." I was dead wrong. This movie was insane, period.
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SPOILERS (not many)
Good news: The 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a chainsaw massacre, and yes, it is in Texas.
Bad news: It's boring.
Gore belongs in horror movies! But excessive gore? That is harder to pull off. Comically camp horrors such as, say, Braindead, The Evil Dead series, and the three TCM sequels get away with gore because theirs is so excessive as to be absurd. But for a serious horror, gore has to serve its story, not the other way round. Used excessively, played too fast and too loose, gore is exhibitionist, immature, and downright boring.
The story of TCM the Original (1974) is simple and straightforward: some dumb kids pick up a loony hitchhiker, visit his loony home, meet his loony family, and wind up at their loony dinner table--some of them as dinner. The violence of the story is mostly implied, occurring off-screen. There is no gore. Had there been gore, TCMtO would have been little more than a snuff film, its audience a passive witness. But horror thrives on an active, not a passive, imagination. By tickling our worst imaginations, the lack of gore only reinforces the horror of the film.
The problem with TCM the Remake is not that it is gory (and it is--far moreso than the original, if not the sequels), but that its gore does not serve the story, instead only underscoring its weaknesses, namely a meandering, cruelly confusing plot with characters and scenes that are at once too many and too similar. While the original is admittedly episodic, the remake is all over the place, rushing from scene to repetitive scene, bouncing from character to competing character.
Just try to digest this indigestible plot: A group of kids are rude to each other on a road trip; then they are rude to a girl they pick up from the side of the road. Moseying on over to a derelict barbecue joint, they are rude to a little old lady. Then it's off to a derelict mill/junkyard/installation art gallery-cum-sculpture garden to be rude to the banjo kid from Deliverance! They split up, rudely, and one group ends up at the derelict Family House (which, with its plantation architecture, is creepier than the original's), where they are rude to a little old man. After several more scene hops and some judicious dispatching of the cast courtesy our old pal Leatherface (who at 260-odd pounds should cut down on his red meats; I don't know how he keeps up with those kids), a lone survivor escapes into the woods to a derelict trailer, is restored to the derelict Family House, escapes again to a derelict shack, hides in a derelict (or at any rate USDA unapproved) slaughterhouse, and finally ends up back at the derelict barbecue joint. All this, while the white trash Family (here inexplicably surnamed Hewitt) behave very rudely to her indeed.
Meanwhile there are subplots afoot!--baby snatching, incest, genetic disease, police conspiracy. The only thing that's missing is the Illuminati. Oh, yeah, and the cannibalism. YES: IN THIS REMAKE OF TCM, THERE IS NO CANNIBALISM. (It's still implied, what with the meat hooks and the slaughterhouse (a nice touch, that, but unfortunately it just meshes together with the other innumerable hide-and-go-seek scenes), but without the original's critical barbecue pit and dinner table scenes the nastiest bit of the horror is lost.)
Confused yet? Bored, even?
I sure was. For as many changes of scenery as TCMtR has, all of them look the same. I understand how that might be intentional--that's part of the horror, right? that there's no escape?--but how many near-identical shots of Jessica Biel running and hiding and shivering and sucking in her breath in terror are necessary to tell the story?
Some of the plot is left unsatisfactorily unexplained, and even more is just plum illogical. For instance, immediately before pulling a gun from--of all places--her bloodied crotch and blowing her brains out in the van, the girl-from-the-roadside tells the kids they're all gonna die. This is what a plucky survivor does when she at long last has a shot to escape her tormentors? Okay, then why not do it earlier, or why not stop the van and do it outside, so she doesn't endanger the kids' lives? Yeah, I know she's supposed to be suffering a breakdown, but her prediction would not have come true had she, herself, not set up the domino effect that made it happen.
The rest of TCMtR is pure Hollywood contrivance. There is the requisite musical score overkill and the squelchy sound effects (remember the creepy, constant drill of the generator from the original? that was rad). There is the snappish MTV editing and direction (compare to the amateurish documentary look and feel of the original). There is the government anti-drug/anti-sex message, and good grief, it is set to "Sweet Home Alabama"!! There is also Jessica Biel in a cowboy hat. Jessica Biel in a wet tee-shirt. Jessica Biel with her head cradled in R. Lee Ermey's naked crotch. (Sheriff Ermey gets to play the best character, a Real Texan who yells and swears and scares the bejesus out of those of us terrified of the South and her reputation for vigilante 'justice' and lynching parties.)
Altogether TCMtR comes across as a well-above-average made-for-HBO movie--it's not bad, really, and often it's entertaining; ultimately, though, it sucks on account of sacrificing story to gore. After two solid hours of nonstop jump scenes and bloody murder, of heaping on the bodies and the body parts and the body fluids, we simply acclimate to the violence. The audience become passive witnesses, and the movie becomes predictable, unscary, and boring.
Also there's no cannibalism. AND DID I MENTION THERE'S NO CANNIBALISM?!
The horror/sci-fi movie critic Richard Scheib coined the term
"Backwoods Brutality" to describe the slew of low-budget movies that
emerged in the 1970s which had as their main theme the violent and
abrupt destruction of middle-class serenity. The concept has
occasionally found expression outside of the horror genre (Straw Dogs,
Deliverance), but since Wes Craven's Last House on the Left (1972), it
has been a mainstay of the horror genre. Even thirty years later, the
basic idea continues to be remade and re-interpreted.
In my view, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is the most successful exponent of the genre. As it often is in the American variations of this genre, the TCM takes the so-called blue state/red state dichotomy to a grotesque extreme: the backroads of the Deep South is another country and its inhabitants exhibit uncontained contempt for every unsuspecting wayfarer. Its use of tension, which is meticulously established in the movie's first 45 minutes, and release -- the last 45 minutes -- is almost elegant in its simplicity. Throughout, violence is used in sparing and sudden bursts until the adrenaline-fueled final act, during which it is mercilessly sustained.
With some minor qualifications, this description also fits Marcus Nispel's 2003 remake. Here the enlarged budget and technical expertise have worked both for and against the film. On the one hand, a variety of new elements have been added to the story. Some, like the mysterious little boy or the ending, are so-so, while others, like Leatherface's skin mask or the "extended family," are effective. On the other hand, the professionalism and attention to detail demonstrated by Nispel and Daniel Pearl (whose cinematography here is magnificent) on down to those responsible for filming locations and set detail, is consistently impressive.
So the basic "tension-release" framework has been lifted from the original but instead of improving on it the filmmakers have saddled it with characters, situations, drama, and violence. (We learn from the DVD extras, happily, that some "tender moments" were left on the cutting room floor.) I give it a 7 because ultimately I think it works as a horror movie on its own terms -- in fact, I don't think a better American horror movie has been made since 2000 -- and Nispel/Kosar deserve credit attempting to revise the concept in minor ways for fans of the franchise. On the balance, however, the original's low-budget guerilla-like realism as well as some of its visceral power has been compromised.
Of note, finally, is the performance of Jessica Biel. Having earned her acting chops on the Christian TV show/cheesefest, Seventh Heaven, Biel has as of late found a niche playing physically tough, but likable and intelligent characters. She's quite excellent here; as it was for the original TCM's Marilyn Burns, Biel's performance is exhilarating and intense -- a kind of endurance test. But one easily believes she has the acuity and toughness to survive the ordeal.
This is the remake of the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I thought this remake was done very well, it was very scary and very brutal. Much better then many recent attempts at horror. Im not saying that this is better then the original or worse, because in my opinion the two films were made very differently. This isnt the exact same movie, there are different characters, and many scenes are different. There are lots of similarities and references. The movie had one of the darkest atmospheres ive ever encountered in a film and was extremely brutal and gorey. A must see for a fan or the original and its sequels and horror films. If you like this definitely check out Wrong Turn, another recent horror film that i was impressed with.
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While at San Diego Comic-Con 2009, 411mania was able to catch up with the folks behind the awesome new Batman videogame, Arkham Asylum. We spoke with game director, Sefton Hill, the co-creator of the DC Animated Universe and writer of the game, Paul Dini, and the definitive voice actor for Batman for the last 20 years, Kevin Conroy. 411mania participated in a series of round table interviews to speak with the dream team. Arkham Asylum, developed by Rocksteady Games, is currently rocking the charts, but here's what the dream team had to say before the game's official release:
Interview with director, Sefton Hill
Batman: Arkham Asylum Director, Sefton Hill.
Jeffrey "The Vile One" Harris: What was the idea for wanting to make Arkham Asylum?
Sefton Hill: Wow. In terms of the setting, we looked at a number of settings at the start of the game and we were really excited by Arkham Asylum because it was this unique place where we could put so many of Batman's nemesis you know . . . we really felt it was unique opportunity to give fans the chance to go and explore in its entirety one location, one immensely important location of the Batman universe. And the great thing is we could build a whole island as well so rather than just one part of the island, or just one building, we could build the whole of Arkham Island. It is such an immersive, its got this great history to it, a great story of how it first came around. And then over the course of 70 years of how its been changed and manipulated and affected by everyone that's passed through the doors. So as soon as we kind of hit on that story we all are like yeah this is it. This is the story, this is going to be the vehicle that let's us tell so much of what we want to tell and about how the characters have worked in this place.
TVO: I love the smooth and striking and counter striking controls in the game. The fighting also looks like the fighting style in the more recent Christopher Nolan movies. Is that a deliberate stylistic choice?
SH: Personally, one of the things about the style, we kind of wanted to make a game that was authentic and fun. Those were the two touchstones for us; so the authenticity for the fans but also the fun and accessibility. So yeah, in terms of the fighting of the game, the controls are quite simple, but as you play through the game, you'll the fights get much bigger and more spectacular until you're fighting much bigger number of guys and these big spectacular brawls. In terms of the [fighting] style, I'm a massive kung fu fan. I love that Tony Jaa stuff, even going back to the original kind of Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan stuff. So we were sort of looking at everything for inspiration because the greatest thing about Batman is that that's what he does, looks at every area for inspiration for how he would fight. It's so important that we could take from all those areas and put them together to make Batman; he would just use whatever at the time to get the job done.
TVO: In this process, was there anything you learned about Batman you didn't know before?
SH: Yeah, I think, I guess would describe myself as a big Batman fan, but I wouldn't know everything about Batman. And it's great coming in and you kind of realize how deep this character is and how great these relationships are and these driving forces between these characters, so I think that's what really makes him so fascinating. Thinking about specific things, I mean that's kind of perhaps a little bit harder to answer . . . I guess one thing I did learn is that everyone loves Batman. Lots of characters kind of divide people, it's like certain groups like and certain groups don't. But everyone I spoke, this is just a universal character and he reflects something in everyone you know like from younger audiences who like the cool gadgets and stuff to older audiences who like the deep pyschological termoil and edge that makes him feel authentic. Also the fact that he doesn't have any superpowers, perhaps his only power is his vocation to do anything to do what it is to do. So he kind of represents something almost feels achievable to any one of us, that if we have that level of vocation, we can be him. That's kind of that goal we all like to think is possible.
TVO: Did you ever play any Batman games beforehand for research, like maybe Batman Returns on the SNES?
SH: Yeah. I mean that was definitely one of the best ones. I remember fighting on like a playground ride while the Joker keeps throwing bombs at you. We kind of made a deliberate decision right at the start not to sort of look at all the old games because we felt from a personal point of view, you can become quite sort of blinkered and think, well that didn't work in that game therefore we shouldn't try it when sometimes the reason it didn't work can be manifold. Maybe they didn't have enough time to do it properly or whatever, so its not always a simple decision. You don't want to rule out things just for the sake of then doing it. Fear is a big element of Batman so maybe stear clear of the fear, and then its like no the fear is a big part of Batman. You need that in the game, so you need to take that into account.
TVO: Thank you very much for your time.
SH: Hope you enjoy it.
TVO: Oh, we do.
Interview with writer, Paul Dini
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Batman: Arkham Aslyum writer and living legend, Paul Dini.
Is the writing for a script in a game a traditional screenwriting or is there a different writing method for a game or different variations?
Paul Dini: I think everybody approaches it a little different. I found it more effective to work in final draft as if I was writing a script and just do it like that, maybe not add as much description, but Batman runs down corridor. Electrical gate flashes in front of him. Is this a scenario where he talks it out? Or is he yelling at somebody on the other side. It's not as detailed as if I was traditionally writing an animated cartoon. It's a little more like feature writing because the game designer has equal stake in what appears onscreen as well.
Jeffrey "The Vile One" Harris: Sometime back you were announced as a feature writer for the animated movie, Gatchaman, right before the writer's strike. How far along did you get?
PD: What happened was that I was working on it in the fall of 2007, I guess that's when the writer's strike was, and I worked on it from August to December of that year with Kevin Munroe, the director, and a very good art team. And I was contracted kind of a period of around that time, and then we made our presentation to the rights holder and then they said they were undecided on how to go at that point and my deal was essentially up, so they said OK we may call you back, we may go a different way. So I have no idea what if anything of mine is in the movie, the finished picture. I know that Kevin was let go a few weeks after that, and I think the project went into some sort of turnaround development at some point. Toward the end it was getting more and more confused. The more that Kevin and the artists and I were more united in our take on the picture, new producers came in that were less sure of anything and very antsy about everything. So I don't know, the whole thing sort of spun out of control. I left once my deal was up and basically, that was that. We'll see what happens. I think they proceeded with different writers and different producers. Definitely, they got a different director, and we'll see what ultimately comes out of it. I've seen the same trailer that everybody else has seen, and I did recognize some of the same basic setups and scenarios from some of the storyboards that we worked on together, but that's about it.
Was there any dramatic changes that needed to be changed from how it was originally designed due to the gameplay?
PD: Let's see . . . I left myself open to that because early on in the planning stages we had come up with certain plot elements and character elements that were discarded for whatever reason or another because they just either impeded the gameplay or straying too much into the realm of the feature film or the graphic novel. And it's hard to cut those things out, but it must be done. Also in some cases, we were limited by the characters we could build and you know it's like if we're going to bring in certain characters for a line or two; we have to be judicious with how we do that because you have to build the character from the ground up. Whereas you can build a whole variety of enemies and allies for Batman, it's like is the cameo value worth it setting the schedule back a little and the expense involved in constructing these characters. So there were things that we dropped along the way. But we sort of at least in my head, this is a collaborative endeavor, much the same as animation, probably much moreso and this is really a team project and not really the same situation like I'm writing a book and giving it to the artist. And then the artist calls me up and says I can't draw pages 4-9, it's like what's the problem. Well . . . because obviously he can, its one guy working on it; but here you've got a whole team and then you're kind of limited by what the game can do.
Joker is the constant antagonist in the game and he's constantly taunting Batman. And in hearing the voice, Mark Hammill's voice is noticeably different than what it was in the animated series. Kevin Conroy said Mark's just getting old.
PD: *Laughs*
Was that intentional on Mark's voice, was he modifying his voice?
PD: He did modify it to match the look of the game. The look is so dark and gritty that his voice went to match that. This guy is a killer, he is a sadist. He plays this very grotesque life and death game with Batman. So, even though his voice had the same shifts and in some cases the same up and down cadence which is what I love about Mark's voice, he did keep it really rooted in the gutter, in the dark almost. This is the voice of a murderer, not a whimsical clown who uses whoopee cushions and stuff like that.
TVO: Did you learn anything new about Batman in the process of making this game, even though you probably already know everything there is to know about Batman?
PD: Yes I did. I learned what is . . . there are a few scenes where I was really able to push him and get inside his head and get to where he lives and see the different defenses he puts up to keep his inner-self from getting out to his enemies, but also keeps his inner-self from himself. And when those barriers are shattered, how he deals with that and how he comes back from that. And I think that's the most intense level of the game, and that's probably the thing that most mirrors the subplot in the movie is where — because you can't go into a situation like Arkham Asylum and be un-changed by it. You have to confront your demons, and you have to confront that line that separates you from the guys you put in there. And that to me is the most fascinating realm of this game.
Interview with Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman
The voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy.
Jeffrey "The Vile One" Harris: Mr. Conroy, are you surprised you were able to play Batman as much as you have, almost 20 years?
Kevin Conroy: Of course. I'm surprise that it's lasted this long. I thought it would a couple years at best as an episodic TV show which is what it was for Fox.
TVO: Batman: Gotham Knight was a lot of fun. Were you surprised when you saw that Bishounen, very young, fresh faced version of Bruce Wayne/Batman in that animation?
KC: *Laughs*.
TVO: You even used sort of a lighter, almost sort of an effeminate Bruce Wayne sort of voice.
KC: It was youthful, it was a youthful version. And yeah, everyone likes to see themselves young, *laughs*. Yeah, I liked it.
TVO: Since this is not the same Batman as the animated universe, and the Batman you play in Public Enemies is also a different Batman, do you ever want to try anything different in your portrayals of the Dark Knight?
KC: No. I think it's important for the actor, the character to be the same because that's what the audience has come to know. So even if he's drawn differently or if he's in a different universe because this is a very different look for Batman [in Arkham Asylum], the heart's the same. It's got to be the same guy. The audience will tell in a second if it's not which is why they hired the same voice. They wanted it to be the same man, even if he looks different a little bit, the style is different. The guy has to be the same guy.
TVO: Do you and Mark Hammill ever get to record together as Batman and The Joker?
KC: Oh always. Oh always. We're always together recording. Warner likes to always have the actors together so there's a lot of interaction. This was unique in that it was done separately. No, Mark and I have worked together for gosh 18 years. We've gotten to know each other.
TVO: So when you record together, it's like a radio play?
KC: Its a radio play, absolutely, that's exactly what we do. And Warner is unique that way. A lot of the other studios don't do that. Disney likes to really control everything, they like everything isolated. I don't think they get as good performances that way.
TVO: Do you have a favorite piece of Batman merchandise like a toy, or a statue, or a drawing?
KC: I have a wonderful collection of cels that I've accumulated over the years that I love. And I have a sculpture that I call the "Poosh" (?) sculpture that was done by a San Francisco artist, and it's a sculpture of Gotham. And its got a pendulum of Batman that swings through the skyline. It's really awesome.
TVO: I loved the idea of Batman together with Wonder Woman, and Batman singing and humbling himself to save Wonder Woman from being a pig. What do you think of that and that idea that Batman can never be happy with a woman?
KC: That's always been the tension about him, who he would get paired up with. There's always been that tension. But, I love to sing and Andrea knew that. So she got Bruce [Timm] to write that in. They were really creative because they knew I like to sing, so that was done as kind of like an inside goof to me.
TVO: Anything new that surprised you in doing Public Enemies?
KC: Well there's a huge surprise in it that I'm not allowed to talk about.
TVO: Looking at all the other characters Batman has interacted with, was there ever another character you would like to get a shot to play as?
KC: No, once you've done Batman, what else are you going to do? He is the man . . . Once you go Bat, you never go back.
The Batman: Arkham Asylum video game is now available on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC from Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive.


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The administrator of Elpida Memory Inc. has postponed the deadline for the second round of bidding to select the failed Japanese chipmaker's rehabilitation sponsor to May 4 from Friday, as initially scheduled, sources said.
By extending the bidding period by one week, the administrator seems to have urged three camps of prospective sponsors to present more detailed rehabilitation plans, the sources said.
The three are major U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc., South Korea's SK Hynix Inc. and an alliance of U.S. and Chinese investment funds.
The administrator plans to pick a party as early as the second week of May and give it preferential negotiating rights.
After a sponsor is selected, the administrator hopes to enter into debt-reduction negotiations with Elpida's creditor banks.
Elpida, the only manufacturer of dynamic random access memory chips in Japan, filed for court protection from creditors under the corporate rehabilitation law in late February, leaving liabilities totaling ¥448 billion, the largest for a failed Japanese manufacturer.
The administrator carried out the first round of bidding at the end of March and narrowed down sponsor candidates to the three.
Though the three parties pledged assistance of ¥100 billion to ¥150 billion each in the first round of bidding, they have tightened some of their terms for accepting the sponsorship, the sources said.
Elpida's bankruptcy is fueling concern the company could be a burden to an acquirer, with shares of SK Hynix and Micron declining on takeover speculation.
Stock prices of DRAM producers Hynix, Micron and Samsung Electronics Co. have shown significant differences since Feb. 27, when Elpida's filing sparked speculation the industry might lose 12 percent of its capacity.
The three rivals all rallied in the first few days, then differences emerged. Hynix has plunged 11 percent starting from March 30, after saying it submitted an acquisition bid. Micron declined 21 percent in New York trading through Monday.
By comparison, Samsung has gained 0.2 percent since Hynix's plan was revealed and about 9.6 percent since the initial bankruptcy filing.


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Snooki's Birthday Sponsored By Lifestyles Condoms
Oh heavens…it seems that Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi is is planning a huge birthday party for this weekend in New York City and lucky for her – or for anyone in attendance – Lifestyles condoms are sponsoring the event. Makes sense.
Nothing says "Happy Birthday…you're going to make a regrettable decision tonight" than having a condom distributor at your birthday party handing out free condoms to all guests. She was spotted over the weekend with her boyfriend Jionni LaValle and dad Andy Polizzi at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom.
"Snooki is an advocate for safe sex, and so was happy to have them as her party sponsor. They'll probably have a booth at the party giving out condoms to guests. But this party is really for Snooki's close friends, and she is personally paying for most of it. She has turned down a lot of liquor sponsors because she doesn't want her friends to drink cheap booze," a source told the NY Post.
The delightful part of this is that I'm sure she's not allowed to have liquor sponsors, considering her numerous moments of public intoxication. Also, I'm not sure Snooki is the brand spokesperson a lot of high-end liquors want.
A rep for Snooki, who turns 23 next week, confirmed Saturday's bash was sponsored by LifeStyles, and added: "Her message is if you are going to have sex, do it safely. It is going to be a great party."


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Posted by George Colony on August 26, 2008
Since I was very young, I have loved cars. I drive a Porsche in the summer and a four wheel drive Audi in the slick New England winters. I love these two cars -- they make my commuting hours bearable and sometimes fun. I often ponder the question -- If you ripped the Porsche shield off my 911 or the four Audi rings off my A8 and replaced them with a Ford oval, would I still drive the cars? You bet I would. The quality, design, history, feel, and experience would keep me happily in those cars, even if you put a Nash Rambler logo on their front hoods. Which roughly proves a point -- it's not the branding that's the problem with American cars, its the cars. Consumer Reports' research verifies this -- in the organization's five categories of 2008 cars and SUVs, none of the top five vehicles come from a domestic producer.
Why can't American companies build a great car? They are designing and manufacturing day in and day out, so what is preventing them from making something great?
Posted by George Colony on August 1, 2008
On Thursday, Forrester announced that it bought JupiterResearch for $23 million in cash. Bringing the two companies together has been a dream of mine since the 1990s -- Jupiter always had incisive analysts, influential clients, and always seemed to be ahead of the next trend -- and it always seemed like a cultural match for Forrester (OK, I'll admit it -- they were probably much cooler than us...)
It's pretty simple why we bought Jupiter. Marketing and strategy executives are probably the most challenged by technology changes. I was with the head of marketing for a major national newspaper recently who said to me: "...given Facebook, blogs, YouTube, Craig's List, we don't know what will be in the future -- we have no idea." Forrester serves these executives -- and adding JupiterResearch's analysts, salespeople, and service people to this effort will help us help our clients even more -- and it will mean that we can grow that business faster.


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The 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls are coming out of the RINO woodwork today. Next up is Louisiana Governor and Republican Governor's Association leader Bobby Jindal who spoke to party members at the Republican National Committee's Winter Meeting this evening. Jindal wasted no time in distancing himself from the group he considers toxic to voters:
"We must stop being the stupid party." "We must stop looking backward." "We must stop insulting the intelligence of voters."
And by "we" he meant – all of you out there who aren't hip and cool and going with the obvious flow of hipness and coolness spewing forth from the White House, like me, BOBBER Jindal. Mean, smelly old republicans, according to Jindal, are paying WAAAAY too much attention to crunching numbers and trying to hold an out of control democrat party from spending our children and grandchildren into permanent servitude. No, Jindal thinks conservatives should close the books and head on out to the GAP with the rest of the 90210 Washington crowd.
"We seem to have an obsession with government bookkeeping," Jindal told the crowd."We as Republicans have to accept that government number crunching – even conservative number crunching – is not the answer to our nation's problems. "
Jindal said that instead of being the "party of austerity," Republicans must "boldly show what the future can look like with the free-market policies that we believe in."
Don't let that faintly familiar word "austerity" slip past you without understanding exactly what Jindal was referring to when he used it:
In economics, austerity refers to a policy of deficit-cutting by lowering spending via a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided.
So let's rephrase Jindal's remark this way, cutting out the fluffery and replacing it with some layman's transparency: Instead of concerning ourselves with reducing the deficit and lowering spending, let's just take a lesson out of the cool democrats club handbook and start being more like them; spend until we puke and have lavish all expense paid trips to Hedonism where we can bathe in tapioca pudding and have our genitals soaked in cucumber juice, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.
More of Jindal's comments, a few of which are really out there in left field:
"We must compete for every single vote: the 47 percent and the 53 percent and any other combination of numbers that adds up to 100 percent."
"The first step in getting the voters to like you is to demonstrate that you like them."
Republicans "must reject the notion that demography is destiny, the pathetic and simplistic notion that skin pigmentation dictates voter behavior. We must treat all people as individuals rather than as members of special interest groups."
Skin pigmentation, however, does dictate voter behavior in some cases. Barack Obama has enjoyed a record 93-95% African American voter turnout supporting him, much higher than any other president in history, including all previous Democrat presidents. As I wrote in reference to Colin Powell's recent disparaging comments of his previous party and his sheltering, almost farther-like defense of President Obama, I think people do have a tendency to support people from within their own race and I think it's an instinctual motivator, one that we are all guilty of, and I use the word guilty in a very lighthearted way. The problem with that arises when the candidate in question, be it Barack Obama as a half black man or David Duke as a full white man, are supported FOR NO OTHER REASON than their skin color while they do a disservice to our country, and are encouraged by a large chunk of voters – who care less about results than they do about what color a man's skin is – to continue.
Obviously, my black countrymen haven't been doing their homework and voting based on the results of that study into Obama politics because the guys a complete fiscal and foreign policy disaster. I understand their desire to see their own succeed and can empathize with that plight, but their narrow focus is resulting in a devastating end result.
Back to Jindal:
"Republicans have not only lost elections but lost issue arguments with Democrats. At present we have one party that wants to be in charge of the federal government so they can expand it, and one party that wants to be in charge of the federal government so they can get it under control. It's a terrible debate, it's a debate fought entirely on our opponents' terms. We must shift the eye line and the ambition of our conservative movement away from managing government and toward the mission of growth."
Sealing his comments, Jindal insinuated Republicans needed to move away from the notion of "if we can just put together a spreadsheet and a power point and a TV ad, all will be well."
Jindal's remarks were intended for RNC Chairman Priebus in hopes of winning him over to the idea of a Jindal 2016 White House Bid. Priebus has directed a five-member panel known as the "Growth and Opportunity Project" to identify winning political strategies for the future, particularly in the area of minority outreach.
Translated – we must change to accommodate and appease the lesser, weaker groups of people in our country. If it's not white, not straight, not Christian or doesn't have a penis, it's a MINORITY and we must snivel and sells our soles to political satan in order to win their votes just like our hero Obama does. Crude translation, but every word of it is truth, so it stays.
We must also stop nagging the "cool ones" about things like the debt ceiling and spending. We gotta loosen up! Go with the political flow here people!
This douche, and Chris Christie, and Mr. big britches Collin Powell – should all three effectively removed from the Republican party.They're perpetuating it's demise.


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Reader Tom D. offers a Windows 2000 desktop tip:
"I like to keep my Windows 2000 desktop clean and uncluttered,
which means using as few icons as possible on the desktop. Even
with only a few icons on my desktop, I wanted to space the icons
farther apart using the 'Line up Icons' command. I found that you
could change the spacing using the Display Properties dialog box.
To do this, right-click the desktop and choose Properties. When
the dialog box opens, click the Appearances tab. Click the arrow
at the right side of the 'Item' list box and select Icon Spacing
(Vertical). Use the spin box to increase the spacing and then
click OK to close the dialog box, saving your spacing selection.
I used a vertical spacing of 50 pixels and found that it was
adequate for what I wanted to do. However, you can set the
vertical spacing as high as you like."
Thanks for the tip, Tom.
Note that altering the spacing as described changes all icon spacing,
the vertical spacing of icons in folders will also increase. You can
set the vertical spacing from 0 to 150 pixels; of course, zero spacing
is not very usable since icons are placed on top of one another.


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Weaning Your Baby on to Solids
The Department of Health (DH) recommends that all babies should be exclusively breast-fed or given infant formula milk until around 6 months of age. Once they are able to stay sitting, hold their head steady, and co-ordinate their eyes, hands and mouth, they can be introduced to solid foods.
Quick links
The introduction of solids into a baby's diet is known as 'weaning'. The NHS website has lots of useful advice about weaning your baby onto solid foods. This can be found at www.nhs.uk/Planners/birthtofive/Pages/Healthydietweaninghub.aspx
When should I wean my baby?
Babies are more likely to develop allergies if there is a family history of eczema, asthma or hay fever (known as atopic conditions) or allergic reactions to foods, pets etc. New research shows breastfeeding may not protect against allergy as previously thought, although it is still recommended for the first 6 months of life due to other health benefits.
Current research, however, is exploring the ideal time to introduce solids. There is some evidence to suggest that introducing solid foods while breastfeeding between the ages of 5 - 7 months may have a protective effect against developing food allergies. If you feel that your baby does need to be introduced to solid food before 6 months, it is important that you follow the recommendation that the earliest a baby should be weaned is 17 weeks of age.
Delaying weaning beyond 6 months is not advisable for any baby as:
- Babies need additional energy, protein, vitamins and minerals such as iron
- They will miss the window for accepting a wide range of tastes and textures (lumps and finger foods), resulting in food refusal
- It may increase the risk of allergy and other diseases.
What foods should I start with?
Irrespective of when you introduce solid foods, it is important to start with low allergenic foods (foods least likely to cause an allergic reaction).
The following is a suggested order of introduction of low allergenic foods, also see chart on page 4:
First foods:
- Root vegetables e.g. carrot, swede, sweet potato, parsnip, butternut squash (mashed or pureed depending on age/ ability)
- Fruits pureed e.g. apple, pear, banana, plum, peach, apricot, avocado
- Spinach, broccoli, green beans, courgette, cauliflower
- Potato, yam, green banana
After a few weeks:
(Introduce these one at a time to spot any reaction)
- Rice e.g. baby rice, cooked flaked rice
- Ground quinoa
- Cornmeal, polenta (good for finger foods)
- Breakfast cereals and pasta/ noodles based on rice, corn and quinoa
- Red meats (lamb, beef), pork and poultry (pureed or finely shredded and chopped)
- Lentils and pulses e.g. haricot beans, kidney beans, butter beans (mashed)
- Any of the above in cooked tomato or fruit-based sauces.
Try later as finger foods:
- Fresh tomatoes
- Other fruits including citrus, kiwi, berry fruits.
How should I introduce foods that commonly cause allergies?
The DH recommends that high allergenic foods:
- Milk, eggs, wheat, gluten, soya
- Fish, shellfish
- Peanuts, tree nuts, seeds.
Can be introduced from 6 months of age. There is no evidence to support delaying introduction of these foods after 6 months. They should be introduced one at a time, with a gap of 3 days in between each new food, so that it is easier to identify any food that causes a reaction. Make sure your child is well at the time of introduction, i.e. not when they have a temperature, just had a vaccination, or have a cough or a cold.
Once your baby has had several attempts at eating the individual foods, you can start mixing them to increase the variety and enjoyment of eating. It may be helpful to keep a food and symptom diary to identify any foods that may have triggered a reaction.
Using jars or packets of food is very convenient, but it is best to try out each ingredient individually first. The ingredients list can be found on the jars/ packets with the 14 most allergenic foods (highlighted in bold). The Food Standards Agency has produced a helpful leaflet on allergy labelling: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/publication/allergy-leaflet.pdf
As time goes on, your baby will hopefully just be eating what you eat, with no added salt or sugar and you won't need to be preparing or buying special foods for them. By the age of 12 months at the latest, your baby should have been introduced to all the major allergenic foods (where appropriate).
Babies at risk of food allergies
Your baby is at greater risk of developing food allergy if there is a history of food allergy or atopy in the family, or if they have developed eczema in the first few months of life. The most common foods that trigger eczema are cow's milk, egg and peanut. If this is the case, parents should consult their GP, health visitor or allergy doctor before giving these foods. Many children outgrow their allergies to milk or eggs, but peanut allergy is generally lifelong. A referral to an allergy specialist is recommended for any baby/child where their allergy-focused history or allergy testing suggests they are at risk of an allergy reaction.
Symptoms commonly caused by immediate (IgE mediated) reactions to food include: hives (urticaria), swelling (angioedema), itchiness (pruritis), eczema and breathing difficulties [rhinitis (runny or congested nose), wheeze, cough]. Delayed reactions to food (usually over 2 hours after ingestion), known as non-IgE mediated food allergy, are more difficult to diagnose. Symptoms are mainly gastrointestinal e.g. loose, offensive poo, mucus or blood in poo, constipation, vomiting, gastro-oesophageal reflux, sore bottom or nappy rash, poor weight gain and eczema.
If you suspect that your baby does have a reaction to a food, consult your GP or health visitor. If it is an immediate reaction, don't test it out for yourself by trying the food again, avoid that food and see your GP as soon as possible.
More about peanuts
The Government revised its advice about peanuts in 2009, based on a review of the evidence which showed there was no clear evidence that eating or not eating peanuts (or foods containing peanuts) during pregnancy, breastfeeding or early childhood had any effect on the chances of a child developing a peanut allergy.
The revised recommendations state that if you would like to eat peanuts or foods containing peanuts (such as peanut butter) during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, you can do so unless you are allergic to them or your health professional advises you not to. Foods containing peanuts include peanut butter, peanut (groundnut) oil and some snacks. Whole peanuts or nuts should not be given to children under 5 years of age because they could choke on them.
Summary table of introduction of appropriate foods and textures.
First weaning
From 6 months
7 to 9 months
9 to 12 months
Serve food as:
Smooth purees
Well-mashed foods
Mashed foods with some lumps and soft finger foods
Mashed, chopped and minced family meals and finger foods
Smooth cereals, eg. baby rice, flaked rice, ground quinoa, cornmeal
Gluten containing foods (wheat, barley, rye) –bread and cereals, oats, pasta, cous cous
Bread, chapatti, cereals, pasta, rice, polenta, noodles, cous cous
Bread, chapatti, cereals, pasta, rice, polenta, noodles, cous cous
Soft cooked pureed/ mashed fruit - bananas, pears, apple, stone fruit, avocado, tomato pureed / sauce, citrus flavours
Soft cooked/ mashed fruit - bananas, pears, apple, stone fruit, avocado, tomato pureed / sauce, citrus flavours
Raw soft fruit and finger foods e.g. banana, melon, mango, avocado, kiwi, berry fruits
Raw soft fruit and finger foods e.g. banana, melon, mango, avocado, kiwi, berry fruits
Soft cooked root and green vegetables, potatoes, yam, green banana
Mashed root and green vegetables, potatoes, yam, green banana
Raw soft vegetables e.g cucumber, courgette and soft cooked vegetables, potatoes, yam, green banana
Raw soft vegetables e.g cucumber, courgette and lightly cooked vegetables, potatoes, yam, green banana
Pureed pulses/ lentils
Mashed lentils/ pulses Finely chopped/ pureed meat & poultry
Mashed lentils/ pulses
Mashed lentils/ pulses Chopped/ minced meat & poultry
Well-cooked egg, Fish
Well cooked egg Fish and shellfish
Well cooked egg Fish and shellfish
Key points.
- Breast feed where possible for the first 6 months of life, introducing solids as recommended by your health visitor
- Recent research shows breastfeeding does not protect against allergy, but has many other heath benefits, so is always recommended where possible
- If you are considering stopping breastfeeding before 6 months, consider replacing breast milk with a partially or extensively hydrolysed infant formula
- Introduce solids, no earlier than 17 weeks of age as recommended by your health visitor
- Don't delay introducing foods after 6 months, even if you are a high risk atopic family
- Then introduce high allergenic foods one at a time, when your baby is well
- Continue to breast feed if possible throughout the weaning process, but especially while introducing new foods
- Parents of children at risk of allergy should ask their GP, health visitor or allergy specialist before introducing foods containing peanuts, if they have eczema or egg allergy.