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This was a slow moving but interesting story about a 50 something bohemian
photographer named Connie Fitzpatrick (Stephen Rea) who is a serial
of impressionable young women. His seduction is not really about sex,
although that is part of it. Instead, it is more of an emotional
that involves his creating a symbiotic mentor/protégé relationship that
him in control while feeding his ego. His latest conquest is Harper
(Sarah Polley), a recent college grad from a wealthy family who is all set
to go to Harvard Law School. Clearly lonely and vulnerable and not used
the attention of men, she falls prey to the charms of this free spirited
older man and eschews law school to run off with him and live the artsy
Director/writer Audrey Wells, whose best previous writing credits were for "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" does an excellent job bringing this story to the screen in her directing debut. Her shooting of the scenes was sensitively done and brought forth a lot of the emotional elements of the story and the characters. It is clear that this was a labor of love for Wells, but as is often the case, directing one's own work takes away the objectivity about the script leaving most of the plot problems intact.
It is believable that an insecure girl could be lured into a relationship by a charming older man who overtly appreciates her and believes in her abilities. May/September romances (or more aptly in this case April/August) are common and usually happen for all the reasons depicted here. The biggest problem with the story was the introduction of Billie (Gina Gershon), one of Connie's earlier alumni, so early in the story. Billie warns Harper of the specific manipulative lines that Connie uses repeatedly with each of his love interests, almost by rote. She gives great detail right down to the way he touched her and the fact that he calls them all Guinevere.
At that point, Harper does exactly what one might expect, she leaves him. Shortly thereafter, the story loses all credibility as she eagerly goes running back to him, knowing full well that she is being totally and impersonally manipulated. The entire relationship after that waits for an emotional explosion that never comes. The whole thing just sort of withers away with the eventual breakup being no more than a fait accompli. The breakup scene was weak and cowardly, which detracted greatly from the dramatic potential. If Wells had put Billie's scene closer to the end of the story to create the last straw it would have been more effective.
Wells also misses a great opportunity to add fireworks by not emphasizing Harper's relationship with her mother (Jean Smart). There was a natural emotional tension between the two and she was the one character who had complete clarity about the relationship. Finally, without giving too much away, the gathering of the five Connie alumni at the end was a bit goofy and highly implausible given the gravity of the situation. However, Wells does eventually redeem herself with a good ending and some of the best imagery of the film.
Sarah Polley was well cast in this film and exuded the pure naivety of a young woman inexperienced in the ways of love. She was wonderfully awkward and vulnerable and it was very believable that she could fall prey to the ministrations of an older man. Polley has a Winona Ryder quality about her and has excellent potential as an actress. It remains to be seen if she can break out of the role of quirky teen.
Stephen Rea was hopelessly miscast in this role. He didn't have the emotional horsepower to play this character. His acting is somewhat stoic and wooden and this character needed to be charming, passionate and obsessive. The part required an actor more like Michael Caine.
The best performance of the film goes to Jean Smart as Harper's outspoken and gregarious mother. She completely steals the movie with her confrontational scene with Connie, explaining to him why he can't make it with women his own age. She is terrific in every scene she is in and the fortune cookie scene is fantastic.
Overall, I rated this film a 7/10. This film will probably be most appealing to men over 50 and women under 25. None of the flaws were fatal, but the pace was slow and the plot implausible in parts. That detracted from an otherwise engaging story and some very good technical filmmaking.
The young Canadian actress Sarah Polley can sizzle in character parts--she
burns a hole in the screen in her tiny bit in Cronenberg's EXISTENZ, and she
was luminous as the princess in the wheelchair in THE SWEET HEREAFTER. But
in leading roles, she seems both brittle and amoeboid. As Harper, the
insecure and overlooked daughter of a family of cutthroat lawyers, she has
one amazing scene--being seduced, her reactions fry out her speakers,
sending from giggly hysteria to overdrive lust. Harper is seduced by an
aging bohemian wedding photographer (Stephen Rea)--a lush who talks a big
game, pontificates in bars with his low-rent cronies, and makes a sport and
a pastime of mentoring (and groping) avid young women. But we don't see any
hunger, any passion or obsession in Harper. When the photographer, Connie,
tells her she has talent it's an obvious pick-up line--not because she
hasn't done any work, but because she shows no interest in anything but
being noticed.
The writer-director, Audrey Wells, doesn't show much interest in anything else, either. The author of the scripts for GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE and INSPECTOR GADGET, her first indie feature has more than a whiff of the dilettante. Like AMERICAN BEAUTY, GUINEVERE likes to flirt with the idea of having an "edge," then shies away from it. Both of these movies are just too damned clear. The pleasure of that seduction scene is that Harper responds in ways that are messy, funny, unprogrammed; every other scene in the picture makes its point in letters so bold the thickest member of the audience couldn't miss it.
You can take the girl out of the studio, but ain't no way you're taking the studio out of the girl. The lechy photographer's big sin--the thing that makes him evanesce in Harper's eyes--is that, at fifty, he's still stumping and hustling for cash. Can Audrey Wells really intend that it's okay for Connie to be a serial phony, an ego-inflating come-on artist, but his real Achilles' heel is that he never made real money? (Wells' point seems to be: Connie gets Harper's tender young flesh--he could at least pay the bills.) Every scene is so blandly overdetermined it reeks of falsity--especially the much-applauded one where Harper's bitchy mom (Jean Smart) comes into Connie's loft and undoes their relationship with a single cutting observation. (Would these lovers react with such shock to such an obvious accusation?)
For someone making a movie about the romance of the artist's life, Wells seems to have no clue how artists talk to each other, or even behave--she seems to think that's egghead stuff the audience won't care about. But it's that, not sex, that's supposed to be the fundament of Connie and Harper's relationship. Despite Rea's and Polley's efforts, the movie drowns in big-movie timidity. And the ending--a Felliniesque princess fantasy where all of Connie's sweet young things gather for an All That Jazz adieu--maybe intended to be tender. It comes across as a final, passive-aggressive flipping of the bird to a half-forgotten, dirty-minded teacher.
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I'm putting this in here not so much for the purposes of explaining or
reviewing, but for 1) giving other haters of Guinevere a place to check
in, and 2) entertaining those who love to read negative reviews of
movies they know they're going to see anyway.
Poor, pathetic Harper, literally hiding in the closet at her sister's wedding, her hair mussed and her bride's-maid dress sagging off her shoulders. "You've obviously mistaken me for someone with potential," she barely manages to squeak to the wedding photographer, in one of the multitudinous lines of on-the-nose dialogue in this self-conscious, overwrought clunker.
Somehow this bright, beautiful 20-year-old has managed to get through her entire life, including four years of college, without once meeting a person who has affirmed her intelligence and her creativity, even though she's smart enough to have been accepted into Harvard Law. Similar ironies occur in real life--the beauty who thinks she's ugly, the overachiever who thinks she's not doing enough--but at some point you lose interest in a character who's either got some serious personality disorder or whose creator (the writer) imagines that weird gestures and speeches can take the place of psychology.
The beautiful, bright girl proves utterly vulnerable to the seducements of the wedding photographer: an older, less-promising, often insolent, and lecherous man who says things to her like "You can do it" and "You must learn to detest the bourgeoisie." Oh, I don't remember if he actually said *those* things, but his utterances are so much hogwash that only an impression of nonsense remains. Harper is introduced to . . . coffee houses! She listens to . . . jazz! Someone actually asks her about her ideas for the first ever time in her whole entire life! To go back to the biographical thing, how did this girl ever get the liberal arts education required to enter Harvard Law without someone at least once eliciting her opinion on something? And probably admiring it? Without ever having a lively conversation with intellectual and creative types? Without ever laughing? Without going through that whole fascinating-older-man thing about ten times? Without getting a glimpse outside the world she came from?
Unlikely, weird scenes get slapped on, one after the other, without any progress in character or conflict. She throws herself on him hungrily. She moves in. He insults her, she runs away, she insults him and then comes back, they insult each other and reunite. When he's at his lowest, she goes into a frenzy of taking his picture, presumably off a roll of film with about 200 exposures on it. Then she gets him into focus and relents with a whimper.
Ultimately, the photog turns out to be every bit as bad as he promises, and perhaps a little better since he's principled enough to send her away when it's at the point where the relationship can do nothing but drag her down. Fast-forward to so many years later and she's giving him the last and only thing she can: her best wishes for a good death. The scene drags on and on, and ends with his dissolution into heavenly white light. Why? Whose story was this? "He was the worst man I ever met. Or the best man I ever met." This ham-fisted summary, I suppose, is supposed to be a specimen of brilliant, tortured, complex ambiguity. To me, it's a failure to make a stand, an excuse for the writer to dump a truckload of contradictions into a character then sneak away without explaining any of it. And why end with him? Again I ask, whose story was this?
Audrey Wells, you're a fraud.
I suspect the theme of this movie is a relatively common fantasy among
"mature" single men. Namely, find a very young woman who needs guidance
and love, attach no strings, and plan on her leaving as she grows up.
"Guinivere" is hard to watch in places, especially as the couple
arrives in L.A. and it becomes crystal clear to her what her man really
is all about. However, it is a well-done study of human needs and
conflicts. And ultimately, resolutions.
Guinivere's mother's analysis is spot-on, mature women just don't have "awe" of this dysfunctional photographer, and that's why he is always with a much younger woman.
I gave this movie "8" of "10". Not because it is fun to watch, but because it does such a good job of exploring family relationships and individual growth.
Oct 2006 addition: Seeing part of it again today, I realized something which escaped me on first viewing. The first time he asks her to pick which of two photos is best, he was just setting up the rest of his ruse. He used it as a trick of sorts to make her believe she had a photographic talent.
I just saw of this film at the Montreal World Film Festival. Stephen Rea
and Sarah Polley were in attendance. You could not ask for two better
actors. Rea plays a 45-50ish photographer who seduces 20 yr. old Sarah
Polley to give up her law school career and become an artist and his
live-in- lover.
The director and writer, Audrey Wells, also directed and wrote The Truth About Cats and Dogs. I intensely disliked that film because it was implausible, not grounded in any reality, and because even the luminous Jeneane Garafalo couldn't save it. Audrey Wells also wrote Inspector Gadget; clearly, her writing leaves something to be desired. In this film she manages to put interesting situations (May-September romance / high vs. low class) forth but whenever they approach any hard edges here comes the soft humour or easy way outs or just plain ambiguously unrealized character motives. Polley's character would get to say one disturbing or strong thing, then have go on acting so obviously well below her & her character's intelligence.
I consistently thought scenes were misdirected and that the writing gave up on itself and fell into cliche, sapping it of any force it had. And with the potential force between these two great actors never realized it was a sad loss. This is no Lolita or Educating Rita. Consider even the ballyhooed scene were Jean Smart, in a good job, takes down Rea's character in front of her daughter (the 'awe' scene.) The camera focusses intently on Smart's malice. Think how much better that little diatribe would be if we were watching *Polley's* reaction while hearing the *mother's* words. That would be a real dislocation. Then we could see the full range of which Polley is absolutely capable.
Also, the soundtrack music was very synthetic and touchy-feely and it worked completely against the (potentially) creepy aspect of the film, until the white-light hogwash of the end. But if you liked all that white-light business in "Kissed" & if you could tolerate the preposterous situation of Cats & Dogs, then maybe you will like this film. As it was, I found it singularly unconvincing, the moreso as it went along.
ps. Sandra Oh is very funny with the two minutes of screen time she gets. Sandra Oh is always excellent. If you want to see a good Sarah Polley & Sandra Oh film, rent "Last Night". It's brilliant. For Stephen Rea, look forward to his next Neil Jordan film.
Guinevere: Harper Sloane (Sarah Pollack) is a painfully shy young woman
trapped in a household of lawyers lorded over by an alpha-mother (Jean
Smart) who treats her like a servant. Destined to attend Harvard law school
and join the pack, Harper finds her salvation in Connor Fitzgerald (Steven
Rea), part-time photographer/philosopher, full-time con-man Svengali.
Connor actually listens to what she says and offers her escape into an
exciting bohemian lifestyle. Will he be her salvation or
There are shades of Leaving Las Vegas in this film - it is dark and at times
unpleasant - one scene in particular made me so uncomfortable I turned away
from the screen. To its credit, Guinevere, like Leaving Las Vegas, is also
a very good film.
Sarah Pollack is outstanding as the withdrawn Harper (in stark contrast to
her brazen, street-wise savvy Ronna in Go!). Although she's actually twenty,
she looks fifteen, which helps to convey a believable vulnerability and
Rea is truly manipulative as Connor, more pathetic than sinister, who preys on young women - you're never quite sure if you should loathe or pity him. Finally, Jean Smart does an excellent job as the hard-as-nails matriarch, miles away from her smarmy character on Designing Women.
Well worth the price of admission.
All of the characters were honestly portrayed and I think that Ms. Wells has put together a very moving and appropriate piece. The dialog is witty and very natural. Plot and dialog aside, this film is worth watching for the performances alone! Stephen Rea and Jean Smart are both amazing and anyone who had doubts that Polley is bound for greatness should see this film!
A young woman living in San Francisco, who has just been accepted to
Harvard, decides upon another path after meeting and falling under the
influence of an older man, an artist, in `Guinevere,' written and directed
by Audrey Wells. Sarah Polley stars as Harper Sloane, who lives with her
career oriented, rather self-absorbed family-- her parents, Alan (Francis
Guinan) and Deborah (Jean Smart), and her older sister, Susan (Emily
Procter). Rather self-conscious and unsure of herself, Harper has allowed
her parents to plan her future-- a career in law, though it is decidedly
against her own wishes. Then at Susan's wedding she meets the photographer,
Connie Fitzpatrick (Stephen Rea), an artist, who quickly gains her
confidence and lures her into his own bohemian lifestyle. She moves in with
him (unbeknownst to her parents, who think she's staying with a friend for
awhile), and he becomes her mentor; she is his `Guinevere,' and the only
demands he makes of her is that she `create' something every day. The
choice of her artistic endeavors is entirely up to her; photography,
painting, writing, dancing. but she must create.
Inevitably, of course, their relationship develops beyond the mentor/protege stage, and she learns some things about him that ultimately lead to complications. And she discovers that her reign as Queen Guinevere may not be all that she had expected it to be.
Wells convincingly presents the allurement of a lifestyle free of constraints and overwhelming demands, which makes it quite understandable that the indecisive Harper would choose to go with Connie, rather than adhere to the wishes of her parents, who are rather cold and impersonal and altogether controlling (especially her mother). The fact that Alan dotes on Susan and could seemingly care less about Harper, as well as Deborah's apparent lack of actual concern for Harper, qualifies the facility with which Harper is able to effect her plans so readily. And even when Deborah finds out what Harper is up to (which, of course, was inevitable), she seems to take it as a personal affront more than anything, and is content with merely denigrating the relationship into which her daughter has entered, rather than even trying to change it, which ostensibly at least, would be the appropriate reaction of a concerned parent.
Polley is well cast as Harper, as physically and emotionally she is able to fit Harper's profile perfectly, and she gives a credible performance, though given her unassuming manner and fairly nondescript appearance, it says more about Connie than it does about her. And what you have already been able to deduce about Connie from his pursuit of Harper is further underscored during a scene in which Deborah confronts him with her views on the situation (which is arguably the most powerful scene in the film).
Rea is perfectly cast, as well, affecting a patient, reserved manner, touched with an almost forlorn weariness evocative of a certain wisdom-of-the-world attitude that makes Harper's attraction to him believable. And as the story unfolds, he very subtly allows you to see more of what lies beneath the surface until, in the end, you have a concise picture of who Connie really is. It's a fine, understated performance, and a good bit of work by Rea.
In a supporting role that demands mention, Jean Smart gives a smoldering performance as Deborah, a woman of seemingly insatiable needs and an overwhelming desire to dominate. And Smart plays it perfectly, from the look in her eye to the telling way she carries herself, making the most of her limited screen time and making Deborah the most memorable character of the film.
The supporting cast includes Gina Gershon (Billie), Paul Dooley (Walter), Carrie Preston (Patty), Tracy Letts (Zack), Sharon McNight (Leslie), Sandra Oh (Cindy), Grace Una (April) and Jasmine Guy (Linda). Though not a film with which you can get too emotionally involved, `Guinevere' has it's moments and does manage to maintain interest. The characters are real enough, but they evoke a sense of ambivalence; these are not people you are necessarily going to like or dislike. In the final analysis, it's a good film, and worth seeing-- but with the possible exception of Smart's character, there is nothing especially memorable or compelling about it. I rate this one 6/10.
I got roped into watching this drivel by my girlfriend. It was On Demand and I had had a couple of beers so I said 'why not'. Well, if you're interested, here's why not: This galling display of perversion is so caustic to the sensibilities of any thinking person that I cannot believe anyone was truly happy with the film when it was completed. The characters are beyond unsympathetic and venture into the realm of embarrassing. Harper is a pathetic and hopeless individual if she made it as far in life as her storyline says she did without the skills she seems to lack. Worse, the life lessons she is supposedly learning clearly aren't sinking in if,after realizing her love interest is nothing but a lecherous, perverted, no talent, broke, lying loser who preys on naive, helpless girls when he exposes his intentions in LA at his former 'collector' friends' house, she happily goes along for the ride with only a little tantrum. Absurd. The collection of similarly abused women at the finale is just gross ("Class of '85!" Good gawwwwwwwd). This film is such a poorly executed self indulgence that it doesn't even live up to irony. Just plain awful. I can't even say that its worth watching for a laugh, because there's nothing funny about. Characters don't develop in any substantiated way. One second people are one thing, the next moment another, for no reason. We are led to believe that harper becomes successful. How? We never see one piece of work. She never gets any connections to dealers or marketers. Suddenly she just appears, wearing a mournful-yet-put-together looking black dress instead of her usual MC hammer style washed out jeans (in the late 90's? San Fran? really?) and tee shirt. Jesus. Where'd that come from? A hopeless attempt at a heartfelt art movie that subverts its own intentions with its meaningless artifice and sloppy, contrived, indulgent imagery. I never post anything on the internet, but this was so bad I couldn't help it. STAY AWAY!!!!
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I've just watched a film so bad, I am visibly shaken, nearly to the
point of vomiting. I love Sarah Polley. I find her mesmerizingly
beautiful, and I thought she did the best that could be done in this
film, under the circumstances.
That said, the 'Connie' character is just gross. And not even gross in a passive sort of way. Gross in a way that leaves you hoping and praying you can forget these memories, scratching to get the images out of your head.
Can anyone tell me what Connie died of? I mean, it doesn't even say, right? Is it cancer, perhaps related to his constant smoking? Or is it something still more disturbing? I'll tell you, what did it for me was the scene where he bites down on some piece of food, and his f*ing teeth fall out. I mean, what the f*$%?!?! I saw that and nearly threw up in my mouth. Then I went straight to the bathroom and brushed my teeth for half an hour.
Poor Sarah Polley. Someone put her in a good movie. I still liked 'Go,' in which Polley completely steals the entire movie from Katie Holmes.
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When the grievance committee, led by a Copé associate, declared Copé the winner again, Fillon demanded a re-vote; Copé dug in.
In early October, Health Republic allowed me to submit a "grievance claim" which I filed, along with a pile of backup documents.
But the level of anti-American grievance Obama observed and deplored in 2008-2009 has not abated.
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Since falling under Western colonial rule, the Muslim world has developed a narrative of grievance.
He told her the story of his grievance; it may be that he even told her some parts of it more than once.
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The Lehigh Valley Knights' 2003 musical production, "Fantasy — a flight of the imagination," has been created to stir the hearts and the minds of the audience and the performers. The creative team's challenge was to take the Knights into a realm of artistic expression of music and visual deliverance. The challenge would deliver to the performers the highest grades of excellence throughout all of the aspects of performance. This show will certainly do that.
The excerpts of the musical selections that make up the show will certainly be recognizable by the audience, with melody lines that will stay with them long after a show. This will also hold true for the performers. The music creates many moods that the performers can connect with and transfer to the audience. The corps' plan is to deliver a visual production that keeps the audience's eyes close to the field to catch what might come next. The show will be designed with a series of integrations and demands from the performers that are designed to please an audience.
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Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jul 01, 2014
Geologists have discovered three previously unrecorded volcanoes in volcanically active southeast Australia. The new Monash University research, published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, gives a detailed picture of an area of volcanic centres already known to geologists in the region.
Covering an area of 19,000 square kilometres in Victoria and South Australia, with over 400 volcanoes, the Newer Volcanics Province (NVP) features the youngest volcanoes in Australia including Mount Schank and Mount Gambier.
Focusing on the Hamilton region, lead researcher Miss Julie Boyce from the School of Geosciences said the surprising discovery means additional volcanic centres may yet be discovered in the NVP.
"Victoria's latest episode of volcanism began about eight million years ago, and has helped to shape the landscape. The volcanic deposits, including basalt, are among the youngest rocks in Victoria but most people know little about them,"Miss Boyce said.
"Though it's been more than 5000 years since the last volcanic eruption in Australia, it's important that we understand where, when and how these volcanoes erupted. The province is still active, so there may be future eruptions."
The largest unrecorded volcano is a substantial maar-cone volcanic complex - a broad, low relief volcanic crater caused by an explosion when groundwater comes into contact with hot magma - identified 37 kilometres east of Hamilton.
Miss Boyce said the discoveries were made possible only by analysing a combination of satellite photographs, detailed NASA models of the topography of the area and the distribution of magnetic minerals in the rocks, alongside site visits to build a detailed picture of the Hamilton region of the NVP.
"Traditionally, volcanic sites are analysed by one or two of these techniques. This is the first time that this multifaceted approach has been applied to the NVP and potentially it could be used to study other volcanic provinces worldwide."
The NVP is considered active, as carbon dioxide is released from the Earth's mantle in several areas, where there is a large heat anomaly at depth. With an eruption frequency of one volcano every 10,800 years or less, future eruptions may yet occur.
It's hoped that this multifaceted approach will lead to a better understanding of the distribution and nature of volcanism, allowing for more accurate hazard analysis and risk estimates for future eruptions.
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The 24-year-old has not featured for the Addicks this season and scored just five goals last term.
"This is a good chance for me to reignite my career," Jeffers told Rangers World. "The last two years have been a been stagnant for me.
"I am desperate to make an impact. There are good strikers here already and I'll have to prove myself."
Jeffers, capped once by England, cost Arsenal £8m when they signed him from Everton in 2001 but his time at Highbury was blighted by injury.
He moved to The Valley for £2.6m last summer but struggled to make the team on a regular basis.
It has been a busy day at Ibrox, with Italian striker Filippo Maniero also signing for the club.
Full-back Michael Ball was surprisingly snapped up by Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven.
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Hollywood veteran Sir Anthony Hopkins said it felt almost inappropriate
to be in Australia promoting his new film so soon after the devastation
of the Bali nightclub bombings.
Introducing the premier screening of the film, Red Dragon, Sir Anthony also offered condolences to Australia, which has seen a growing number of its citizens confirmed dead following the terrorist attack.
Sir Anthony said it was lovely to be in Sydney for the fourth time and he felt such an attraction to the city that he definitely had plans to return.
He then turned his attention to the Bali situation.
"I know it's a very sad time for everyone in Australia," Sir Anthony told guests at the premiere.
"And my condolences to the families and to Australians."
His comments drew applause from the audience which numbered about 500.
"It feels kind of inappropriate publicising a movie, I know," Sir Anthony said.
"But it is entertainment ... we feel very sad about it (the Bali attack)."
An ecstatic Celine Dion, eager to return to the stage, unveiled her upcoming
Las Vegas show today, a fusion of music, dance, acrobatics and special effects
that moved her to tears.
Dubbed A New Day, Dion and the show's producer and creator, Belgian Franco Dragone, said they wanted to create a Vegas show like no other.
"It will be the beginning of a new adventure, of something incredible," Dion said at the rehearsals.
"I can't wait until the curtains rise. ... I'm so excited."
The 34-year-old Canadian is to appear at Caesars Palace's new $US100 million ($A180.67 million), 4,000-seat Colosseum theatre in Las Vegas.
The show built around the pop diva premieres on March 25 and will run for three years.
Hairspray star Marissa Jaret Winokur has styled a deal
for herself to go from the Broadway stage to the television screen.
Winokur signed a one-year agreement with Touchstone Television and ABC to develop a project after the musical's run ends.
"Marissa is the bright, shining star on Broadway this year. Everyone is talking about her," Gene Blythe, executive VP of casting for ABC Entertainment Television Group, said.
"Several networks and studios were after Marissa, and we are incredibly fortunate to have her in the ABC/Touchstone family."
The actress has won rave reviews for her portrayal of Tracy Turnblad, a pudgy teen obsessed with a TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore. The musical, based on the campy John Waters movie of the same name, is this year's huge hit on Broadway.
Winokur's previous TV work includes appearances on Dharma & Greg, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Boston Public. She's also been in films including American Beauty and Scary Movie.
PR guru Max Clifford said today he had spoken to the man who allegedly raped
Ulrika Jonsson and urged him to publicly deny the claims.
Clifford said he had a telephone conversation with the TV presenter this morning in which he advised him to reveal his identity and clear his name.
Jonsson claims in her autobiography that she was the victim of a date rape in 1988 but has not named the man responsible.
Clifford told PA News: "I had a conversation with him on the phone this morning. He denied that it was true and asked my advice.
"I told him that if he were one of my clients - which he isn't - I would say that `no comment' doesn't sound very good at all.
"From a PR perspective, `no comment' sounds like an admission of guilt."
Alice Cooper promises to make Halloween even scarier this year.
The rock singer, who has been frightening audiences for years with gruesome concert performances that feature guillotines lopping off heads and infant dolls gushing blood, has opened his latest haunted house attraction.
"The whole key of our haunted house is to scare people in many different ways," said house director Steve Kopelman. "And you try to get them when they least expect it."
Alice Cooper's Nightmare: The Breakdown, which opened on October
2 and runs through to November 2, is the sequel to 2001's Alice Cooper's Nightmare.
Cooper is touring and won't actually be at the houses, but there are about 30 actors at each one to handle the task of frightening the roughly 1,000 people who go through each night.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't apologise for wanting more people
to see his latest movie.
"You always think about an audience when you're making a movie," the director of Punch-Drunk Love told the Chicago Tribune. This time, he said he wanted more people to enjoy his film.
The 32-year-old Anderson established a loyal cult following with his first three films, Hard Eight (1997), Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999).
With Punch-Drunk Love starring Adam Sandler, the goal was "to try to make a movie that I would want to watch. I'm very proud of Magnolia, but I really don't want to watch it. But I would like to watch this on a Saturday night," he said.
"I know this movie might not be for everyone. I think that if you like Adam Sandler, you will love this movie because it's really just him as a performer that people love so much."
British rock group Oasis has cancelled a one-night concert in the Philippines
this week due to the recent rash of bombings here and in neighboring Indonesia,
promoters said.
"Due to recent terrorist acts in both Bali and the Philippines, Oasis has regretfully decided not to play its show in Manila on Wednesday, October 23," said a statement issued by the local concert promoter.
"It did not wish to perform under the extreme security precautions that would have to be taken in order to guarantee crowd and band safety," it added.
The band expressed hope that it could eventually hold a concert here.
Manila and the southern city of Zamboanga have been hit by a rash of bombings in recent weeks.
Three people were killed by a bomb on a bus in Manila on Friday while at least 12 people, including an American serviceman, were killed in a series of bombings in Zambonga City this month.
It is not immediately clear if the blasts in Manila and Zamboanga are linked or if the Philippine explosions might be connected with a deadly bombing in Bali, Indonesia on October 12 that claimed more than 180 lives.
US Rapper Nelly was today celebrating after he stormed to the top of
the singles chart.
He teamed up with Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child on his latest single, Dilemma.
They squeezed pop trio Las Ketchup, sisters, Pilar, Lola and Lucia into second spot. The Ketchup Song had swept across Europe scoring a string of number ones and hit top slot in the UK last week.
Big Brovaz come in at number three with their new entry Nu Flow while Avril Lavigne keeps her spot at number four with Complicated.
Actress turned RnB star Samantha Mumba is a new entry at number five with I'm Right Here and Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers come in at number six with There By the Grace Of God.
Holly Valance fell out of the top ten dropping seven places to number 14 with her single Down Boy.
Censors today passed a controversial movie which contains a nine-minute
rape scene without any cuts.
Officials at the British Board Of Film Classification took advice from a psychiatrist before making the decision to allow Irreversible through without any changes.
The film's director Gaspar Noe had said he would rather the film were not shown at all than allow cuts.
The BBFC which decides movie ratings and advises on what cuts should be made in order to achieve a certificate, comes down heavily on sexual violence.
It decided the film was "not designed to titillate" and gave it an 18 rating.
Three months after announcing they had separated, salsa star Marc Anthony
and his wife, Dayanara Torres, are back together and determined to stay
that way, reports The New York Daily News.
Recently, Anthony summoned his band members, friends and family to a private dining room of Barca, the restaurant his brother, Bigram, just opened in Manhattan.
Having promised "a big announcement," he and Torres revealed that they will renew their vows in a grand wedding.
Anthony's camp will confirm nothing, but the couple has reportedly booked a cathedral in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the first week in December.
In 2000, they had a civil ceremony at Las Vegas' Desert Inn - without Torres' mother or Anthony's parents.
"They've always wanted a formal, fairy-tale wedding," says one source. "Marc is planning every detail."
Torres, a 26-year-old former Miss Universe, is said to be the inspiration for many love songs on Anthony's CD Mended. But last summer, when she moved out - taking their 16-month-old son, Cristian - friends said she felt her husband's first love was his career.
Now that his tour is over, a friend says, "they never leave each other. If he has to promote something, he brings Dayanara and Cristian."
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Because of a 2004 felony conviction for cultivating marijuana, Dutton - a nephew of Hurricane Mayor Tom Hirschi - is prohibited from possessing firearms.
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The AWU campaign reflects the broader election strategy being pursued by the ACTU, which has identified about 280,000 union members living in 38 marginal seats who will have face-to-face contact.
About 40 per cent of the AWU's membership is aged between 45 and 55 years old.
This week's Fairfax/Nielsen poll showed 61 per cent of male voters disapproved of Ms Gillard's performance, compared to 51 per cent of female voters, while more men said they planned to vote for the Coalition than women.
"We have a lot of our members concentrated in areas that matter, and I think broadly fit a lot of the demographic that Labor has lost over the last little while,'' Mr Howes said.
"A swinging voter in a pub in Rockingham is more likely going to listen to his mate, who lives down the street and happens to be an AWU member, than me writing him a letter or doing a TV ad. That's something we've learned from our counterparts in the States. We have an older membership. It's mid-40s, middle to high income depending on your definition. Essentially, it's people not on Twitter."
Mr Howes would not yet say how many people the union hoped to train for its campaign – or how much it would spend – but dismissed suggestions the union had a huge war chest.
"We will be putting more resources into this campaign than we did in 07 . . . [but] I don't have $5 million sitting around that I can just spend."
The union leader's support for Ms Gillard was instrumental in installing her as leader in 2010 and he has continued to voice public support amid plummeting polls.
He said Ms Gillard "absolutely" could win the next election, predicting she would defy the odds and praising the Prime Minister's "amazing record of achievement".
Unions affiliated with the ACTU have agreed to pay a levy of $2 per member which will raise about $3.6 million based on a national union membership of about 1.8 million workers.
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Joe Kehoskie (born January 18, 1973 in Auburn, New York, U.S.[1]) is an American baseball consultant, executive, and entrepreneur.[2][3] He has worked in professional baseball in a variety of capacities since 1984, formerly working in minor league baseball (1984–1994)[4] and as a player agent (1996–2011).[5][6]
Kehoskie is often quoted in the media on baseball-related topics. He has made national TV appearances on ESPN (Outside the Lines),[7][8] CBC (The Hour),[9] Al Jazeera English,[9] and PBS (Stealing Home),[10] and been interviewed on ESPN Radio,[9] CBC Radio,[9] and NPR (Latino USA).[11]
Early life[edit]
Kehoskie was born and raised in Auburn, New York,[1] a small city 25 miles southwest of Syracuse in the Finger Lakes region of central New York.
He is a 1990 graduate of Auburn High School,[12] from which he graduated in three years.[4]
Professional baseball career[edit]
Minor leagues (1984–1994)[edit]
Kehoskie was hired as a batboy by his hometown Auburn Astros, then the short-season Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros, in 1984 at age 11.[4] He worked for the team through 1991 in a variety of roles including office assistant, official scorer, and clubhouse manager.[13] From 1989 to 1991, he also covered the team as a correspondent for The Citizen, Auburn's daily newspaper.
In early 1992, Kehoskie was hired by the Rochester Red Wings, then the Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, where he was a member of a staff that included Joe Altobelli, Russ Brandon, Josh Lewin, Bob Socci, and Glenn Geffner.[14][15] He worked for the Red Wings until late 1994.[16]
Player agent (1996–present)[edit]
Kehoskie worked in the Minor Leagues for 11 years with the goal of becoming a Major League Baseball general manager.[1] However, he found entry-level opportunities in MLB to be limited in the years during and after the 1994–95 baseball strike, which had caused cutbacks throughout the sport.[17][18] After failing to land a job with an MLB team and wanting to remain in baseball in a job involving baseball operations and scouting, he started working as a player agent in 1996.[1]
Kehoskie has been the president and CEO of Joe Kehoskie Baseball since at least 2000.[19] One of his earliest clients was left-handed pitcher Brad Pennington, who had pitched for the Rochester Red Wings when Kehoskie worked for the team.[20]
In 1998, Kehoskie was asked to represent a group of five Cuban defectors in Costa Rica,[21] who became the first of approximately two dozen Cuban players he has represented to date.
Aside from Cuban defectors, Kehoskie has worked extensively in Latin America, including the representation of players from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Among the notable players Kehoskie has advised or represented are José Bautista and Félix Hernández.
Media appearances[edit]
Since the early 2000s, Kehoskie has been quoted frequently in the media on baseball-related topics including Cuban defectors,[8][10][22] baseball in Cuba,[23][24][25] and the use of PEDs in Latin America.[26][27]
In 2000, Kehoskie accurately predicted a $30 million contract for Cuban pitcher José Contreras more than two and a half years before Contreras left Cuba.[21] More recently, he predicted Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman, who signed a six-year, $30.25 million contract with the Cincinnati Reds in early 2010, would struggle to become an MLB starting pitcher.[28][29]
Print and online[edit]
Kehoskie has been quoted several hundred times in print and online media outlets including the New York Times,[29] Los Angeles Times,[22][25] Washington Post,[30][31] Miami Herald,[6][23] ESPN.com,[28] and Vanity Fair.[5] He has also been quoted in more than a half-dozen books.[32]
Radio and podcasts[edit]
Kehoskie has been interviewed on the radio by, among others, Cindy Brunson on ESPN Radio, Adam Schein on WFAN, and George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC Radio.[9]
Kehoskie was featured in a 2001 episode of ESPN's Outside the Lines series and has made many other national and international TV appearances:[9]
|Stealing Home
|Cuban baseball defectors
|ESPN Outside the Lines Primetime
|"Witness to a Defection"
|Cuban baseball, MLB
|ESPN Outside the Lines Sunday
|"Holding an Ace"
|José Contreras, MLB
|ESPN Outside the Lines Nightly
|"Risky Road Trip"
|2006 WBC, Cuban baseball
|CBC News: The Hour
|March 9, 2006
|2006 WBC, Cuban baseball
|Al Jazeera English
|June 19, 2007
|Baseball in the D.R.
Personal life[edit]
Kehoskie currently lives in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
- ^ a b c d Michael, Matt (22 December 1998). "From Cuba with Trust". Syracuse Post-Standard.
- ^ Baxter, Kevin (24 September 2013). "To reach major leagues, Cubans face short distance but long process". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ Jeff Passan; Charles Robinson; Rand Getlin (6 December 2013). "Leonys Martin lawsuit details allegations of Cuban baseball player smuggling". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b c Weiman Jr., Dale (15 February 2006). "So, you want to be the next Jerry Maguire?". Westlaw. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b Lewis, Michael (July 2008). "Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b Spencer, Clark (12 February 2012). "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins". Miami Herald. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ Farrey, Tom (11 July 2001). "Paying the price in pursuit of fame, fortune". ESPN.com. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Outside the Lines: 'Holding an ace'". Outside the Lines. ESPN. 10 November 2002. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "IMDb – Joe Kehoskie". IMDb. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Stealing Home". PBS. 18 June 2001. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "Baseball's International Neighbors". Latino USA. NPR. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ "Classmates.com – Joe Kehoskie". Classmates.com. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ 1991 Auburn Astros Official Program. Auburn, New York. 1991.
- ^ 1992 Rochester Red Wings Yearbook. Rochester, New York. 1992.
- ^ 1994 Rochester Red Wings Yearbook. Rochester, New York. 1994.
- ^ Pitoniak, Scott (14 April 1999). "Cubans bank on agent Kehoskie". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
- ^ "Baseball Daily Report". Associated Press. 18 August 1994. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Jamail, Milton H. (2008). Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom. United States: Bison Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-8032-1571-9.
- ^ "Newswire". Los Angeles Times. 14 August 2000. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Michael, Matt (20 May 1999). "Pennington plans to hit the mark". Syracuse Post-Standard.
- ^ a b Fainaru, Steve; Springer, Shira (28 May 2000). "Hardball". Boston Globe. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b Baxter, Kevin (1 July 2007). "Ballplayers from Cuba are now flee agents". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b Baxter, Kevin (21 January 2006). "Cuba can play, but will it show up?". Miami Herald.
- ^ King, David (21 April 2007). "Castro's long shadow still dominates Cuban baseball". San Antonio Express-News.
- ^ a b Baxter, Kevin (19 March 2009). "Cubans take big slide in international baseball standing". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Brown, Maury (20 July 2009). "Maury Brown, Will Carroll, Victor Conte, and Joe Kehoskie Discuss PED Use in the Dominican and Venezuelan Summer Leagues". The Biz of Baseball. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Chass, Murray (10 October 2010). "New Guys Deliver". MurrayChass.com. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b Olney, Buster (5 July 2009). "More on Aroldis Chapman, and a father-son Fourth". ESPN.com. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b Curry, Jack (3 December 2009). "Risks Seen in Signing Cuban Defector". New York Times. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Fainaru, Steve (18 February 2001). "Yankees Are Building an Empire State". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Fainaru, Steve; Sheinin, Dave (3 March 2006). "Searching for a Home Base". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "Google Books – Joe Kehoskie". Google Books. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: Joe Kehoskie
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joe Kehoskie.


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I am a bicycle commuter in Los Angeles, which on the face of it is a pretty tricky proposition. The major boulevards here are designed like freeways, and people use them as such. Pico, Highland, Sepulveda, Olympic- these streets were built for speed and make commuting not a little tricky for your serious bicycle commuter.
A friend introduced me yesterday to rambunctious bicycling advocate Fred Oswald via a recent article out of Cleveland's press. Much debate swirls around his not-so-uncommon opinions. Mr. Oswald's argument can be boiled down to two points: supporting a critical need for much more bicycling education on sharing public roadways with other vehicles, and fighting an industry-borne fallacy that breaking up streets with allocated spaces, such as bike lanes, is good for the biking community. The former is, of course, not contestable. We all agree that safety and training are absolutely critical to developing a strong and healthy bicycling community.


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Editors' Note: This article covers a micro-cap stock. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.
Management of Biolase (NASDAQ:BIOL) has repeatedly tried to mask bad news through the use of euphemistic and creative wording in disclosures and press releases. Biolase has also tried to create a false boogeyman of "illegal naked short sellers" even though there is demonstrably no naked short selling going on with the stock. I will demonstrate this clearly below. The continued weakness in the share price is not due to short selling. Instead it is the result of a complete loss of confidence by long investors who are not being fooled by the continued shenanigans of management.
The continued driver of the share price will be Biolase's liquidity position along with the upcoming stock offering at a discount.
There is nothing illegal or immoral about shorting the stock of a company. Companies who deliver on performance will see their share prices rise. Those which do not will see their share prices fall.
Shorts have done far less selling than longs
I recently wrote two articles on Biolase. At the time of both articles, the share price was around $1.80 and had already plunged by 50% following a moderate earnings miss announced on August 7th after the close. I did not cause this plunge. Instead I was writing about it after it already happened.
The moderate earnings miss was certainly not justification for the steep plunge. Instead it was solvency concerns and the expectation of an equity offering at a discount. As soon as earnings were announced, the stock fell by more than 20%.
The share price continued its steep dive nearly every day and within a week was down by more than 50%. The falling share price triggered a short sale restriction, such that short sellers could only sell upon an uptick. This means that one could only sell short when a buyer chose to lift the price and buy at the ask. Short sellers could not hit the bid.
This means that short selling would not have been able to put any pressure on the share price whatsoever. Instead, it was a rush for the exits by long holders of Biolase stock.
Biolase continues to take the same action over and over again, but each time expects different results. When bad news hits, Biolase has tried to use creative wording and euphemisms to smooth over the issues with shareholders. Judging by the share price, it clearly isn't working.
When disclosing the violation of bank covenants (a loan default) in its 10Q, Biolase chose to trumpet the fact that is was still in "compliance" with its loans covenants … with the exception of just one little default. The market was not fooled and the stock price plunged.
Biolase then re-released identical information in a press release but positioned the news as a very positive statement that Comerica bank had "waived" the default. In fact, Comerica had really given Biolase just a one month deadline to renegotiate the loan and fix the problem. Again, the market was not fooled and the stock price dropped sharply.
Despite the failures of this strategy, Biolase continues to try to spin the facts with creative interpretations. The strategy continues to fail.
In its latest press release, Biolase makes a number of statements which are clearly inaccurate. It also makes a clear attempt to create a false boogeyman out of "illegal naked short sellers" which do not even exist.
A subsequent article on Seeking Alpha entitled "Biolase CEO Takes Dead Aim at Naked Short Sellers - Main Street Cheers" attempts to highlight the wisdom and effectiveness of the Biolase strategy against naked shorts. The author predicted that there would be a "stampede" of buying due to Biolase's savvy strategy.
The only problem is that there is no naked shorting of Biolase going on. As I will show below, author RS Analytics did nothing more than conveniently quote a press release from Biolase. Had the author even bothered to check any data on short sales or fails to deliver (as I have included below), he would have known that there is no naked shorting here. As a result, the notion of a short squeeze is downright wrong.
But it is a very convenient misconception just ahead of Biolase's upcoming stock offering.
These continued efforts at PR spin have only aggravated the frustrations of shareholders. As a result, Biolase shareholders have continued to sell.
What is "naked" short selling ?
In order to legally short a stock, one must obtain shares by borrowing them. One then sells the borrowed shares with the intention of buying them back at a lower price. At that time they will be returned to the lender and the short seller will profit. If there are no shares available to borrow, then the stock cannot be sold short.
In some cases, less reputable brokers might allow the short sale to go through, with the hopes that the shares to borrow could be located before settlement. If the shares were unable to be located by that time, there would be a "fail to deliver."
We can see from data released by the SEC in August that there have been fails to deliver on just 5,022 shares of Biolase. It is almost nothing. For historical data, the SEC doesn't even bother to track the data if the number is below 10,000 because such small numbers are de minimis.
This should not be surprising to anyone who follows Biolase. When there are borrowable shares, there can be no naked shorting, except when a broker makes a brief oversight. It is often the case that many retail oriented brokerages do not maintain an inventory of shares. For Biolase stock, this typically includes ScottTrade and Ameritrade. It is typically impossible to short Biolase at those firms. But on any given day, Interactive Brokers has had several hundred thousand shares available to short. Fidelity tends to have even more at over 600,000 over the past week. These are just the numbers that are automatically displayed. When these firms run low, it is possible to call them and simply ask for more.
This battle against "illegal naked short sellers" is therefore 100% bogus because there continues to be more than ample supply of shares to short.
I repeat: "Stock dividends have no value to investors"
When Biolase stock plunged to $1.20, the company quickly halted its own stock as it sought to counter the drop with positive news. Biolase needs to imminently issue stock to raise money, so it is important for Biolase to prop up the share price.
One of the measures announced by Biolase was a stock dividend. We can see from message boards and comments that many small investors mistook this for a cash dividend. On the day of that announcement, shares of Biolase soared by over 60% and ended back at $1.81.
Instead, we can see that this is a stock dividend. Biolase has first attempted to make the statement that this stock dividend in some way "rewards" investors. It does not. Period.
Any undergraduate student in Corporate Finance 101 can tell you that from the point of view of an investor, a stock dividend is identical to a stock split. An investor who owns 1% of the company prior to the "dividend" will continue to own precisely 1% of the company after the dividend. Each investor receives a small number of new shares, but the total share count increases by just as much. There is simply no economic benefit or "reward" to shareholders. Anyone who needs further convincing on this subject can simply Google "stock dividend vs. stock split" to find extensive examples and explanations.
Biolase's second attempt at explaining this "dividend" is that the stock dividend creates an audit of shares which helps to prevent illegal naked shorting. But as we can see from the above, there is no naked shorting going on because there is ample stock borrow.
Despite the obvious evidence to the contrary, Mr. Pignatelli has hitched his wagon to the "illegal naked short selling" theory, stating
It is my belief that a large amount of naked shorting is currently in existence in our stock, and therefore by August 30, 2013, such illegal trading will be forced to be covered by purchases in the open market.
Mr. Pignatelli has now made a bold prediction with a very near term deadline. The findings I presented above should serve to demonstrate that this is entirely incorrect. But within 9 more days (August 30th), we will all be able to judge for ourselves.
Mr. Pignatelli made this bold prediction about "a large amount of naked shorting" on Monday August 19th. This is actually a very easy thing to disprove.
The NASDAQ Reg SHO Threshold List posts the names of all stocks which had a fail to deliver of greater than 10,000 shares. There are only 24 NASDAQ stocks listed. Biolase is not one of them. There is no naked shorting of Biolase's stock.
Mr. Pignatelli's statements regarding naked short selling are therefore entirely without any factual basis whatsoever. The data which proves that there is no naked shorting is easy for anyone (including Mr. Pignatelli) to find.
His prediction of an imminent short squeeze is based on nothing at all other than his desire to inflate the share price immediately ahead of a much needed stock offering.
There are already two shareholder investigations underway by two separate law firms. These firms are investigating misleading statements and omissions by Biolase management. Judging by the comments posted on recent articles and the postings on message boards, it is clear that there are numerous investors who have relied upon the predictions of Mr. Pignatelli when buying the stock.
Likewise, Biolase recently ran a paid "infomercial" describing its products on several TV channels. But these ads are targeted towards Fox Business, CNBC and Bloomberg TV. These are all stock market channels, not channels which would boost product sales by targeting dentists. The purpose of the infomercials is to boost the share price in advance of the stock offering. But so far, like the other efforts, it does not seem to be working.
Biolase had previously announced two stock dividends in the first two quarters of 2013. At both times, the share price was under no pressure at all and sat at around $4.00. In the past, there was no mention of issuing a stock dividend in order to thwart "illegal naked short sellers." Therefore there does not appear to be any correlation with short selling in the past.
Biolase's Chairman and CEO Federico Pignatelli stated
I advise management of all small cap companies that are subject to attacks from naked short sellers to uncover such illegal activities and protect their shareholders by issuing stock dividends on a quarterly, or even monthly, basis.
But given the continued plunge in Biolase shares this week, it is unlikely that many management teams will be stampeding to follow any advice from Mr. Pignatelli. What Pignatelli doesn't understand is that there is no naked shorting. The selling going on at Biolase is continued selling by long investors who have lost all confidence in management. The valueless stock dividend will do nothing to bring investors back into the stock.
As management continues to waste time and effort tilting at windmills, the clock continues to tick down towards the September deadline imposed by Comerica bank in regards to the defaulted loan.
For the first 6 months of 2013, Biolase has now burned over $5 million in cash. This is a statement of fact. Yet Biolase management continues to direct investors' attention to what it burned last year ($1.7 million) and what it hopes it will burn for 2013 in total (approximately $4 million).
The fact is that Biolase now has a habit of failing to hit guidance, such that its recent realized performance is very relevant. In addition, the fact remains that Biolase has now confirmed that it will log in yet another year of losing money and burning cash. This also reconfirms that Biolase needs to raise money by selling stock at a discount. Biolase needs to do this within a limited number of days due to the default on its loans. So once again, with Biolase the "good news" is still just more bad news.
In regards to my articles, Mr. Pignatelli also stated that
As the Chairman of BIOLASE, it is my duty to protect the interests of our shareholders as well as the Company's credibility and we will be doing all that we can to thwart these injurious efforts
Mr. Pignatelli clearly believes that his recent PR campaign and a valueless stock dividend is the best use of his time and effort. But the share price is proving that shareholders do not agree.
Rather than wasting time and blaming false scapegoats. Mr. Pignatelli should be focused on finally turning an annual profit and resolving the solvency crisis.
Yet Mr. Pignatelli continues to deny that there are even any concerns over solvency.
Shareholders have now had ample time to evaluate the statements from Biolase management and they have clearly come to a different conclusion. I am not fabricating this crisis to "create anxiety" among shareholders. Instead, I am explaining the crisis even after it is already in midstream.
Biolase's shareholders equity is now down to just $8 million but it owes the bank $6 million. As of June 30th (1 ½ months ago) the company was already down to just $2 million in cash after burning $5 million in the past 6 months. We don't know what the cash balance is down to as of today.
The bank has already taken as collateral all of Biolase's assets. The bank has also taken the dramatic step of placing all of Biolase's receivables in a "lock box" such that Biolase cannot even touch the cash from its own sales until that cash is released by the bank. Biolase now has a limited number of days in which to rectify the situation and renegotiate with its bank. These are not normal operating conditions. It appears that the only ones who are not worried about this situation are the members of management at Biolase.
As an investment banker, I helped numerous companies raise money when they had fallen into a state of distress. My job was to advise them on how to ensure the survival of their company.
In times of distress, investors need to see that a company recognizes and takes responsibility for problems. They also need to see a clear and overwhelming plan to eliminate even the remotest possibility of failure (bankruptcy).
Biolase has refused to even acknowledge the severity of its liquidity position. Management has also refused to acknowledge its own role in directly creating this crisis. Instead, Biolase has wasted time and effort in blaming the false scapegoat of "illegal naked short sellers" when there is not even any naked short selling happening whatsoever.
Biolase management has made this inaccurate statements, predicting a sudden rise in the share price due to a "naked short seller" short squeeze, at just the time when it plans on issuing equity and needs a higher share price. Investors should view these statements within that context.
Futile gestures such as a stock dividend do nothing to add value or change the company's situation. Cutting the size of the S3 filing to just $5 million helped to boost the stock for a day, but leaves substantial uncertainty about Biolase's ability to fund itself to the end of the year. This is the exact opposite of what investors need to see during a crisis. And this is why the share price continues to fall.
It is clear that short sellers are not the ones causing these declines. It is even more clear that "illegal naked short selling" has precisely nothing to do with the declines. The current selling is the result of continued disappointment by long shareholders and it will continue until Biolase begins to take steps to fix the company's very obvious problems.
The next significant leg down for the stock will occur when Biolase attempts to raise $5 million from new investors. Given the continued declines in the stock, I now expect that this offering could come at a price of below $1.00 and would require the issuance of at least 5 million new shares. Given the September deadline from Comerica, we will all know for sure in a very short time.
Disclosure: I am short BIOL. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:25:34 -0500, "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
>Cable modems have a fixed speed cap. Whether or not you can actually
>utilize that to its full capacity depends mainly upon congestion in
>any portion of your ISP's network and the speed of the remote server
>(or the connection between the remote server and your ISP). It's
>unlikely, unless your ISP's network is severely mismanaged, that your
>actual connection is varying from 4-11 Mb. The reality is likely that
>whatever you're connecting to can only reach that speed at that given
>time. Another possibility is traffic shaping of some sort on your
>ISP's network.
I would not put it past a broadband ISP to have these types of problems but they
do seem rare. Back when I had cable, I had similar issues where we verified
limited throughput below the link speed which varied over a 24 hour period
caused by congestion close on the ISP side but at the time I was not in a
position to do traffic shaping anyway outside of what the applications I was
using supported.
>You should be able to set that to the actual cap and be fine. If your
>ISP's network routinely gets bogged down and you can't actually reach
>your cap, there isn't anything you can do about it. It would be
>theoretically possible, though difficult, to write something to detect
>changes in your actual maximum achievable throughput in near real time
>and change pipes accordingly, but I don't know of anything that
>permits something of that nature.
I have not had an occasion to try it yet but several people have setup the BSD
or Linux traffic shaping facilities with a monitoring script or program that
measures latency to a close router on the ISP side of the DSL or Cable link and
adjusts the maximum traffic shaper throughput accordingly. I suspect this would
work rather poorly in some circumstances without sophisticated tuning unless the
ISP enforced some type of equal sharing at the point of congestion.


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LONDON (Reuters) - State multiculturalism has failed and left young Muslims vulnerable to radicalization, Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Saturday, arguing for a more active policy to heal divisions and promote Western values.
Cameron, in a speech to a security conference in Munich, will argue that Britain and other European nations need to "wake up to what is happening in our countries" as well as tackling terrorism through military operations overseas.
"It is time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past," he will say, according to extracts from his speech released by his office.
"So first, instead of ignoring this extremist ideology, we -- as governments and societies -- have got to confront it, in all its forms."
His comments echo those made by German leader Angela Merkel last year and reflect a push by European governments to better integrate immigrants, given persistent domestic tensions between different cultures.
Conservative leader Cameron will also deny that cuts to defence spending as part of efforts to tackle a record budget deficit mean that Britain was retreating from an "activist" global role.
"That is the complete reversal of the truth," he will say. "Yes, we are dealing with the deficit, but we are also making sure our defences are strong."
Aides say his comments on multiculturalism and radicalization give a direction of travel for future policy, and it remains unclear how the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition intend to turn his vision into a reality.
Critics point out that Western foreign policy in the Middle East and beyond, not just a clash of cultures at home, has played a big part in stirring up anti-Western sentiment.
"Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream," Cameron will say.
"We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong ... All this leaves some young Muslims feeling rootless."
Some members of Cameron's centre-right Conservative party, activists in right-wing movements and some voters believe that Britain has become a safe haven for people with anti-Western political views.
Others argue this tolerant approach is the lifeblood of any open and thriving democracy, fearing a crackdown on civil liberties would undermine the kind of society the government was seeking to establish.
Cameron said it was time to replace Britain's "passive tolerance" with an "active, muscular liberalism" to send a message that life in Britain revolves around certain key values such as freedom of speech, equal rights and the rule of law.
"A passively tolerant society ... stands neutral between different values," he will say. "A genuinely liberal country does much more. It believes in certain values and actively promotes them."
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Photo Album | Isaiah Robbins' Touchdown Run
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – Highlighted by a 30-yard touchdown run from its newest Team IMPACT member and a special pregame ceremony to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy, the Merrimack football team held its Annual Spring Game on April 27 at Martone-Mejail Field.
Before kickoff, first-year head coach Dan Curran and the entire team held a special ceremony and moment of silence to pay tribute to the four victims who lost their lives as a result of the tragic events during the Boston Marathon.
The family of Sean Collier, a Wilmington, Mass., native, attended the game and partook in the pregame ceremony. As a token of respect and honor to the families of the victims, the Collier family was presented with a commemorative Merrimack Football jersey with Collier's name inscribed on the back.
After the heartwarming ceremony, Team Navy and Team Gold took to the field, pitting Merrimack's first-team offense against its first-team defense.
The offense soared out of the gates and scored two quick touchdowns against the defense. But later in the game, the defense strung together a few big stops of its own and put forth a solid effort through the remainder of the game.
"There was great back-and-forth action by both sides," Curran noted. "The defense played tough after the first two series. The kids competed and got after it this afternoon, and that's all any coach could ask for after they worked so hard throughout the spring."
Finally, the highlight of the afternoon came in the form of Isaiah Robbins. Representing Merrimack's latest join effort with Team IMPACT, Robbins – the football team's signee – got the call for the biggest play of his young career.
Lined up in the backfield next to the quarterback, Robbins took the handoff and benefitted from some tremendous blocking from his offensive line, allowing him to scamper all the way into the end zone for a 30-yard touchdown run to wrap up the day. Robbins was immediately mobbed by all members of the Navy and Gold, who took to the field to celebrate the youngest Warriors' first career touchdown. Click here to watch Robbins' touchdown live.
The Warriors return to campus to open preseason camp on Aug. 15 before making the trek down to Staten Island, N.Y., to face Wagner on Sept. 6 at 6 p.m.
For continuing coverage of Merrimack College Athletics, visit MerrimackAthletics.com and follow the Warriors on Twitter and on Facebook.