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Emily Lenzner has been working in media and politics with an expertise in strategic communications and media affairs for nearly two decades. Before joining SKDK in 2010, Emily served as the Executive Director of Communications for ABC News in Washington, where she was responsible for all public and media relations for This Week with George Stephanopoulos Nightline, and ABC's Washington Bureau. As the PR representative for the two news programs, Emily served as the primary publicist for ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Christiane Amanpour, and Jake Tapper, as well as for Ted Koppel at Nightline and the program's current anchor team. Emily took a year off from ABC to run media relations for NPR in Washington, where as the number two communications executive for the network, she overhauled the company's media relations efforts to be more streamlined and effective.
Emily returned to ABC In 2007 to serve as George Stephanopoulos' editorial producer on This Week during the 2008 presidential cycle before returning to ABC's communications department. Prior to her first tour at ABC, Emily's career took her to New York, where she worked for PR firms Fenton Communications and Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery and served as the press secretary for Independence Party candidate for NY Governor Tom Golisano in 2002. From 2000-2002 Emily ran communications for instant messaging software tools company, ActiveBuddy, now a Microsoft company.
The early part of her career was spent on the West Coast, where she was a producer for KIRO-TV in Seattle (1995-1997), after which she moved south to Los Angeles to work with Diane Keaton's production company, for which she assisted the actress/director and her executive producer with script and project development. She returned to the East Coast for a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Emily's first experience in politics was in the White House as a staff assistant to George Stephanopoulos, when he was senior advisor to President Bill Clinton (1993-1994). Emily was an original founder and board member of the International Organization for Adolescents, an NGO committed to the health and well-being of adolescents around the world and with a focus on stopping adolescent trafficking. In addition to her full-time work, Emily is actively involved with several advocacy and non-profit organizations. She currently serves on Running Start's Board of Directors and as the Chair of Outreach and Engagement for the Impact Center, a premier leadership development organization for high-impact individuals and institutions. She is also the vice president of the board of directors for City Dance, which works to enrich the youth of the Washington metropolitan region through dance education and appreciation. Emily received a B.A. in English from Vassar College and lives in Washington, DC with her husband, son and three bonus children.


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- Sports is always a hot topic with the male audience, but these books strive for equal coverage of women (where appropriate). Minority players are featured prominently wherever possible.
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planpdx.org: Interview with Richard Ivey
Dick Ivey could rightfully be called the initiator of the goals and guidelines for Portland's Downtown Plan. Dick passed away recently, but left us his recollection of the events and personalities surrounding the early days of the downtown planning effort, in an interview conducted by Ernie Bonner on January 13, 1995 from his bed in Good Samaritan Hospital where he was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer.
Date of Interview: January 13, 1995
Interview By: Ernie Bonner
Location: Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland
Retiring from CH2M Hill: I retired at retirement age. Since I was sick, I got out 3 months early. They paid me. I wasn't doing anything. I was hooked up to the machine and not coming in every day, and the office said, gee, Dick, we'll pay you through April. This was January, I think. We'll pay you through April, your retirement date. But forget about coming to work. You can't take on anything new. I had my replacement hired the year before I retired which is the policy in the firm. But I was ready to go. I wouldn't have stayed anyway. I had enough money to retire and wanted to do other things with my life.
How the Downtown Plan Came About: Well, let me tell you what I remember without going back and looking up stuff. There was... the downtown merchants were concerned about parking. That was their principal concern, in 1968, 1969. And a Tacoma developer (Rod can give you a little of this history) proposed a high rise... building a high rise garage on the two-level Meier & Frank parking lot that had been created some years earlier by tearing down the old Portland Hotel, a beautiful landmark building that should never have been destroyed. Meier & Frank leased it to, I think, the Union Oil Company and it was painted blue and orange, the Union Oil Co. colors. It was absolutely the ugliest block in downtown and it was also one of the most central and most visible. People began to protest.
Citizens and, I believe, the architects, began to protest the idea of a high-rise garage there. I had joined CH2M Hill in 1964 and by 1968 I was tired of traveling around the state and the northwest. I had projects in Idaho and Washington State, southern Oregon. I'd been pretty successful but I had never done anything on the scale of the downtown plan for Portland. But Lloyd Anderson was then the manager of the Portland office of CH2M Hill. I went in to Lloyd one day and I said, Boy, there is a lot of agitation about the parking garage downtown. You know, this would be a good time for the City of Portland to have a real plan for downtown.
Now I may have known that Lloyd Keefe had the same idea and was trying to resurrect his reputation after he left the city and went to work for Downtown Portland Inc. and got his old job back. He had been back probably a couple of years, as City Planning Director. Lloyd Keefe wanted to mount a real effort to do a downtown plan, to the point of advertising widely (in national publications) for a downtown planning staff. He didn't have any budget for it, but he was advertising anyway, hoping to force Commissioner Ivancie to fund it. Really, quite independently I got the idea that this would be a good thing to do, and a possible project for our office.
And I said to Lloyd Anderson, you know, Craig Kelly who was the manager of the building owners and managers association for downtown Portland, and an old school classmate may have some ideas for us. I didn't know Craig very well, but I called him up and Lloyd and I and Craig had lunch at the Arlington Club and discussed the possibility of the downtown plan and what help BOMA could give us in initiating contacts, etc. and it seemed to me that we needed a project that heavily involved the downtown business community as well as the general citizens. Craig didn't tell me that he had just resigned from BOMA, and had set up a separate organization called the Portland Improvement Committee, which was being funded by the Downtown Property Owners and the merchants--people like Meier & Frank and Lipman's, and some of the smaller businesses like Miller's Store For Men, Oregon Typewriter. Craig had a budget and a small salary, it wasn't very much. They were sort of paying him a fee and he operated from free office space in the American Bank Building which had been made available by Bill Brewster, who was a part of what became the Downtown Committee. Craig then arranged for me to meet Glenn Jackson. Paul Murphy owned the Pacific Building but was also, I think, Chairman of the Executive Committee of PP&L. He had, some years before, brought Glenn Jackson up from the power company in southern Oregon to head PP&L. And I think Ed Steidle of Meier & Frank and a few other people who were active and influential in downtown. And I sat down in my office and wrote out a program for developing a plan.
Lloyd Anderson appointed to City Council: Now, Lloyd Anderson at the same time (and I don't know which days came first, exactly) got a call I think from Ira Keller asking if he wanted to be the Public Works Commissioner for Portland. Bill Bowes had just died. Lloyd called me in and said he had this opportunity and what did I think? He said I don't want to be the Public Works Commissioner for the rest of my career. I want to do something more. I said, well, you can be Mayor. This was before Neil showed up on the scene. Neil wasn't even appointed (elected) to the Commission yet. And I said I don't think you ought to be Governor. I don't think that's what you're good at, but I said your sense for public policy, etc. and your ability to work with people I think you'd be a swell congressman. Edith Green's about to retire. Why don't you set your sights on going to Congress. This is one way you can get visibility in the First District. And Lloyd looked out the window and he said, I'll do it. So Lloyd left the firm.
We divided Lloyd's job (Lloyd was also the director of planning for CH2M Hill and Portland Regional Manager). I became director of planning. Les Wierson, an engineer, properly, became head of the office, the regional office, which is basically an engineering office. And that created a problem for me because I knew that Lloyd who had higher ambitions would not want CH2M Hill to be involved in a contract with the city immediately after his appointment. We couldn't do that, politically. And I had always suspected that there should be some funding (how much funding was an issue, because we didn't want the downtown people to think that this was their plan, that they had paid for it and it was just looking after their own interests. I felt the City needed to be involved.
Getting the Money for the Downtown Planning Effort: I then decided to get all the money from downtown and, using Craig Kelly's new organization (PIC) and their board, I made a couple of presentations. One I remember with color slides that I had taken downtown. Bill Brewster, who was the treasurer of that group felt that they could collect about $100,000, which was the number that I took to them. So we held a meeting at the old First National Bank board room and I went through my presentation again and Julian Cheatham, Owen Cheatham's brother, the founder of Georgia Pacific, went around the table and extracted $10,000 from 10 people--a remarkable performance, I thought. So we had the money. Then I went to Frank Ivancie (I may have been in touch with Frank earlier) and explained this and Frank said he didn't have any money to put into Lloyd Keefe's program. And he said I don't know why Keefe is advertising all over the country for planners when we have no way to pay them. So I said, will you make a comparable contribution of staff time, assign up to 3 or 4 of your planners to work with us? But, I said, Lloyd Keefe is so negative. I had talked to Lloyd and told him what I was going to do. The very first thing I did was to go to Lloyd and tell him what I had in mind. and Lloyd said, Dick, we're so far ahead of you you'll never catch up with us. Well, he was--in terms of putting ads in the paper and trying to hire people and thinking about it himself. But he didn't have any money. Then I went to Frank and said, I had the money and Frank said, well, if you can get the money you can have the project. And I said Lloyd is so negative about this that I thought we ought to work outside of his office. I said, would you be willing to have City people come up and work at CH2M offices? And he said, sure, he didn't see anything wrong with that. He was pretty down on Lloyd anyway. And Lloyd wanted Dick Lakeman to head that group, with two other young people. Dick at the time was promoting a big parking garage at the foot of Morrison Bridge. I think it was a 2-block garage and the street was going to go under it. It was a huge, big block of parking. I think the bridgehead was a good location for parking, but that was an enormous project and it was also 3 or 4 blocks away from the core where people wanted to go, which would have brought the retail core down but not easily, given the plant which was in place. And, also, I didn't have much regard for Lakeman as a planner. He later left the planning commission and has had a long career as an architect.
I did have a lot of regard for Rod O'Hiser and I asked Lloyd if he wouldn't assign O'Hiser to the project. I knew O'Hiser was very interested, probably because I had talked with him. July Galantha who was chief of our graphics group had worked for the planning commission some years before and was a close friend of Rod's. Lloyd wouldn't go along with that and, at that point, I thought, gosh, Lloyd is just not the guy to be part of our team. And he has this long negative history of working with the downtown. The downtown building owners and property owners had expressed to me their concern that Lloyd would be a problem for us, because they had worked with him on that earlier assignment. And it failed basically, and the group broke up, and Lloyd went back to the city.
So, I thought well, Bob Baldwin is a good guy. Let me talk to Bob and see if we could get him to sort of take some time off from his job as Multnomah County Planning Director and join the team. Lloyd Anderson helped me there. He went to Mike Gleason who he knew better than I did. Mike was Chairman of the County Commission and asked if Bob could be relieved basically of his planning commission duties and work full time with us. And Bob pretty much did that. Lloyd then got a call from Terry Shrunk. We also met with Terry Shrunk and explained what we were up to, or Ivancie did. I don't frankly remember talking directly with Terry about this. Terry Shrunk, the Mayor, called Lloyd over and said, Lloyd, what's wrong with you? He said, I want Rod O'Hiser to go to work today and whoever you want to assign, John Shipley and another fellow. So that's what happened.
Harbor Drive as a Downtown Issue: Now at the same time, there was the other big issue besides parking--Harbor Drive. Tom McCall as Governor wanted to close Harbor Drive, which was part of the freeway system. He had hired DeLeuw-Cather to do a study as to how to close Harbor Drive. And he announced the formation of a Harbor Drive Task Force. I went to a meeting of that and Glenn announced to the task force and to those sitting... this meeting was in the council chamber... that he had hired DeLeuw-Cather to do a downtown traffic study with the purpose of recommending how to close Harbor Drive. This was Glenn Jackson, then the Chairman of the State Highway Department. Glenn was a very strong guy and he made his own judgments about who to hire. So I was dismayed, thinking that gosh, DeLeuw-Cather also was a big planning firm. I didn't personally know Glenn Jackson, so I enlisted the aid of Cliff Alterman. Cliff was Ray Kell's Partner and Ray had a long history of advising city council on different issues. He was Chairman of the Dock Commission and was what someone once described as kind of a bag man for city hall, for the Mayor and the commissioners. Cliff Alterman was his young partner. So I invited Cliff to lunch and we talked about it, and Cliff said he would discuss the issue with Jackson. And the next thing I knew Jackson had agreed to provide the resources of DeLeuw-Cather to our downtown plan, and that would be the State's contribution to the downtown plan. DeLeuw-Cather then became our traffic and transportation consultant on this downtown planning.
DeLeuw-Cather sent a man by the name of Israel Gilboa to Portland. He had recently been studying rail for Seattle and Gilboa is an aggressive marketer. We didn't see much of him after they got the job. They brought in a younger planner named Carl Buttke, who still lives and works in Portland and Carl joined our team and when we had our weekly meetings Carl was there. Gilboa may have attended from time to time but I don't remember that. They had a deadline on their study for the waterfront program, and recommended tearing out Harbor Drive as the Governor proposed and substituting a couplet which would be built on 1st and 2nd avenues, or possibly Front and First, I've forgotten. But the couplet included Skidmore Fountain. I was surprised at that. I didn't think that putting traffic on two streets through downtown, through traffic of the sort that the freeway was carrying made sense to me. That was the end of their study on Harbor Drive. We never incorporated that concept into the Downtown Plan. Carl Buttke never joined the team, in the sense that he participated in conversations. He mostly sat there listening and then went his own way. So we effectively did our own traffic and circulation planning ourselves.
Downtown Plannning: A Job for Planners or Architects? At the outset, local architects were very concerned that downtown planning was being turned over to an engineering firm, CH2M Hill. Who was the Dean at Oregon who moved up to Portland?... He wrote a long, full-page story in the Oregonian, on the Op-Ed page with a headline across the top "Who's in charge of the Downtown?" The thrust of his article was that architects ought to be in charge and that it looked like the city was about to hire an engineering firm, CH2M Hill to engineer the plan for downtown Portland. Terry Shrunk called me up and asked me to draft a reply for him to send to the Oregonian. I did. I wrote that the City Council is in charge, not the engineers or the architects. Only the city council could adopt a plan and that this would have broad participation by the general public. The architects would have plenty of opportunity to present their views and the downtown property owners and merchants would have opportunity to present their views, since they were paying for it, largely. They were also going to have an opportunity to organize themselves in a way that they could present a point of view to us, independently of the general public. I think that rubbed some people the wrong way, maybe the architects and some members of the general public be cause it was beginning to get a lot of press. But it was never my intention not to have citizens committee and, in fact, I thought the citizens committee should have a paid director or assistant to help them organize and present and so forth, which they did.
The Field Office at PGE: We worked in our office for a couple of weeks and then moved to Portland General Electric Company property. On the bottom floor on the street front Howard Glazer had an architectural office, which was then empty. it was a nice office. It wasn't very large, but it was painted white and had a nice front and a tree growing out of the doorway into the street and going up into the air... it was very livable. We could tell people who wanted to know where we were that, well, we're right where you can see the tree running out of the building. We put a great big sign up: Downtown Planning. PGE paid the rent and we moved into that and did all of our work there where it was very accessible to people off the street. And we kept it open and Valerie Peurasaari-- who became the staff person for the citizens committee, the general citizens committee had an office--there and that worked out very well for us. Again, I think there was some concern that, well, the rent's being paid by PGE. But, I think that dissipated. The fact is, all PGE ever contributed was their money.
The Downtown Committee: I honestly can't remember that Frank Warren or Hib Johnson, who replaced Frank on the committee, ever really had much to say beyond asking whether we were getting paid on time, etc. They didn't know enough about what their interests were or how downtown ought to be planned and, frankly, the chief executives of those different groups didn't seem to have a whole lot of interest with the exception of Bill Roberts. Bill owned Lipman-Wolfe and before that, Roberts Brothers, which was no longer in business and was a major giver to the Art Museum, etc. Bill liked to run things. And he was running Tri-Met. Apart from that, I don't recall the downtown committee ever did much more than listen as we made presentations along the way. I think Glenn Jackson chaired the meetings.
Nor can I remember them making any presentations to the City Council or the Planning Commission. Most of our meetings in the early months were with the Planning commission and they were reporting sessions. The planning commission, of course, could offer advice.
An Economic Study? One of the issues... Lloyd Anderson (who was then Public Works Commissioner) wanted us, sort of, kept at arms length. Frank Ivancie was the commissioner in charge of planning. Lloyd did want us to include an economic study. That's the only time I can remember Lloyd interfering, he felt we should hire an economist. I made the case that we had a bunch of economists on the powerful downtown committee and I can remember telling Glenn and the rest of them at a meeting that I thought they were pretty good economists and I didn't want to spend any money for an economic study because I don't think an economist can tell us anything. I think that what happens downtown is what you make happen. An economist can make some assumptions, etc. based on what's happened in the past but he isn't going to be able to test a plan which hasn't been prepared yet. If you want to hire an economist, hire him after we get through, after we have been able to do our own projections. And that's what happened. But we didn't spend any money on an economist.
CH2M Staff on the Project: CH2M had some great staff working on the downtown plan. Brainard was my principal assistant. Judy Galantha, who worked closely with Dick and shared office space, was hired to head our graphics group. Judy was untrained but she is a really a good site planner and she's very, very bright. She's just untrained and therefore, in the eyes of a lot of people, unqualified. But she was important in the development of ideas--a bright, imaginative woman. Dick (Brainard), certainly. We had several other people in the office I hired just ahead of the downtown plan--a man named Roger Osbaldeston, who had worked for Dan Kiley in Vermont and for Larry Halprin in San Francisco and had been brought over here on a scholarship by Ian McHarg and got a master's degree at Penn. He had about 10 years of experience and I thought that Roger would probably be our lead urban designer. As it turned out, he was something of a bust and I let him go. We got urban design help, really, informally through the architects.
The Transit Mall: We did propose as part of the transit mall concept that we have this central spine of tall buildings relating to the two block transit mall. I remember that Bill Roberts felt very strongly that all the buses should go by his store, and he wanted all of the buses to go by his store, which was on fifth. I felt that the transit mall (what I called the transit mall--it didn't have a name then), should be routed on two streets, as a couplet, which would strengthen the mall and also I thought that that was too many buses to put on one street. So we worked all night, Judy and Dick and I, Rod may have been there, and had an early morning meeting with Bill Roberts. We asked him to come up, and we demonstrated to him--using numbers--that we needed both streets. I don't know that Bill agreed with us especially, but the issue died. He also wanted to buy the Mead Building which was the old JC Penny store and create a half-block parking garage that would benefit his store and we objected to that strongly, because we didn't want parking that close.
Parking Garages in Downtown: We wanted four full block parking garages serving the retail core, all on the perimeter. Two of those were built: the Meier & Frank garage on the Blue Mouse block (the block containing the old Blue Mouse Theater) which Meier & Frank agreed to build. And Bill Naito built one next to his Galleria store on Tenth. I preferred to have it across the street, but Bill was able to get that property better, so he put it sort of inside what we drew as the retail core. And the Meier & Frank garage was on the other side of the street. We proposed two more, the north and south which were never built. We also proposed a second level pedestrian walkway linking some of the stores, similar to what you find in Minneapolis-St.Paul. And, in fact, after Neil was Mayor we took the whole city council back to Minneapolis and we toured St. Paul and Minneapolis. We were entertained by the city planning director and some of their downtown people. Bill Roberts had sold his store to Dayton Hudson at that point and Dayton Hudson entertained us at a reception. It was a useful trip. And we saw Nicolet Mall. That's what Bill had in mind for 5Th. Avenue. All of the buses run on Nicolet Mall, but they're not big buses, as I recall, they are smaller. But they weren't just designed, as in Denver, for the mall project. Whereas we didn't think that was as doable and convenient.
The architects proposed that we develop a retail spine east and west going down to the river, picking up the Galleria on Morrison, creating a Morrison Street Mall. There may have been some attempt to do that in the concept plan but I don't recall that. We felt that it ought to be concentrated... that it ought to be related to the Transit Mall, picking up the Galleria but keeping it compact and walkable--with the parking garages on the periphery, and that it be a simple, strong statement that shoppers could understand and keep in their mind. I can remember using my mother as an example. She shopped at Lloyd Center and lived in Laurelhurst. She was old, but she knew exactly how she was going to get there. She knew which on and off-ramps to take to get into the Lloyd parking garage. She knew exactly where she was going to go and it made her feel comfortable. I wanted all of the parking garages to be designed the same way--to be uniform, simple structures. And I used the existing city parking garage that had just recently been built, designed by Zimmer Gunsul as an example--a good looking structure, as opposed to what Pete Mark put up and, I think, as opposed to the double helix system in the Meier & Frank garage, I think that's confusing to people.
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Dick Ivey's History: You mentioned Carl Abbott's fine book. I read it with great interest, partly because I have worked so long at the planning commission. I started working at the city planning commission when I was a high school student. I was 16 and my father arranged for me to get a job at the city planning department. He was a deputy city auditor and the reading clerk of the city council, and he knew I was interested in things like that and was trying a little bit to encourage my career. In those years, the city council, the city planning department, the city hall were open on Saturday mornings until noon. City officials worked a 44-hour week. So, after school I worked a couple of hours and the 4 hours on Saturday mornings. Arthur D. McVoy had just been, this is in 1944, Arthur D. McVoy was the planning director, replacing Ted Hauser. Arthur was wonderfully trained--he was an architect and planner. When he left Portland he became planning director in Baltimore, and died early, I think of a heart attack. He published quite a bit and was quite a remarkable man. I worked there until I went off to college and then when I was at Reed College I wrote my senior thesis on urban renewal. This is in 1949 and 1950 and the urban redevelopment act had been just passed and I used that as the basis for taking a piece of Portland (actually old south Portland) and proposing a renewal project there. I got help from the planning department and from Glenn Stanton, who was chairman of the planning commission and a long-time Portland architect and others.
I was drafted into the army and spent two years in the service, came back and went to graduate school in Berkeley and kind of lost interest in city planning. At one point, I went over to talk to Jack Kent, who originally admitted me to his program before I went into the army, and I considered changing horses and getting my degree in city planning or even in architecture. But I was married then and decided I would opt for a career in journalism. I pursued that for a couple of years until I decided that I really wanted to be a city planner, and sort of learned on the job at the Bureau of Governmental Research and Service in Eugene. It had become the state planning agency for the administration of 701 planning assistance funds and I was providing planning services to the smaller cities and counties throughout the state.
So that's my background--a little bit of newspaper writing and public administration and city planning. My degree in Reed is in political science and my degree from Berkeley, my Master's degree, is in political science. I was born and brought up in Portland and I graduated from Reed College.
Citizen Input in the Plan: We tried to have as much input from different directions as possible. We had a good citizens advisory committee. They held a number of meetings. Valerie Peurasaari was the staff assistant to the committee. The architects, as I recall, had no special way of participating. I talked to a lot of the architects we knew along the way and they made presentations in public meetings.
Dean Gisvold was chairman of the citizens advisory committee. Dean is a lawyer downtown. Dean was responsible for drafting the goals that were established by the citizens advisory committee. Dean then gave me the goals, which I thought were so badly written (not badly conceived, but badly presented) that I called him up and asked him if I couldn't edit them. He said no. And then I said OK, then I am going to leave them out, because people reading these goals are not going to take them seriously unless they're written in English. I was surprised that a lawyer couldn't do better than that. They were just so left-handed and awkward and I wanted people to see them first, they were going to go right up front in the report. These were the citizens' goals for downtown. And Dean said that if I touched them he wouldn't let me include them. My memory is that I ignored him and included them anyway and rewrote them. I didn't change the substance at all, but made them sound like they were written in English. I wrote most of the report myself. We had some good illustrations, drawings. One of the younger fellows from the planning commission who was assigned to us had a good hand and he did a lot of drawings. Judy did a lot of the work.
On the Road with the Downtown Plan: Bob Baldwin and I were constantly on the run. We made joint presentations everywhere, together. We regarded ourselves as co-directors of the plan. Bob was wonderful to work with: sensible, practical, analytical. The only time Bob got into trouble was when Alan Webber came to a meeting once, pulled out his cigar and Bob said if he didn't put out his cigar he was going to leave. And Alan left... I've forgotten whether Alan left or put the cigar out, but he never appreciated Bob after that. That was a loss to us because Alan is a bright guy and I wished he attended more meetings. He was there as kind of an observer for Neil. But we really worked at getting good input from this broader range of interests. And I was disappointed that the so-called powerful downtown committee (and I think that was our name for them) didn't participate more in a substantive way. They were very good about attending meetings. At the outset I had said that only the principals could come. They could not send a second man. And I think I told you the anecdote about someone stopping Hib Johnson out on the sidewalk and saying he couldn't come because he wasn't Frank Warren. Actually, I intervened and we let Frank off the hook because Frank was traveling so much that he wouldn't come anyway. And Hib was the number 2 guy at PGE and a good head and I had known him a little bit before. He was close to retirement and widely respected downtown. But Ed Steidle of Meier & Frank and the President of US Bank, we had a lot of strong people and they came. I think they were, more than trying to influence the direction of downtown, they were fascinated by the process--and hoping that we could do something about parking. We did not include Doug Goodman, and Doug resented that. He berated me once. I didn't know him, but he knew who I was and he said What do you guys think you're doing? But we didn't want Doug because Doug owned all the parking lots and we knew what his interest was, and I had the feeling that we were going to end up doing something different. He would pick up odd lots, blocks that were undervalued or underused, and turn them into parking lots and that's not the way to provide parking downtown. It's a disorganized and opportunistic way to provide parking.
Council Adopts the Goals and Guidelines: It took us about a year to finish the work. We made a presentation to the council and the council adopted the plan. They accepted DeLeuw-Cather's report on downtown plan parking and circulation. We largely ignored their recommendation. They also had a plan for a huge parking garage in Northwest. Gosh, we made presentations to the Chamber of Commerce, lot of different groups. We got good coverage by the Oregonian. Paul Pintarich did a couple of feature stories, the Oregonian had a full page on the citizens goals and guidelines. We had pictures in the paper. We had a downtown display, I think in the old Bidell Building which has been remodeled, on the ground floor with a big open space we were there temporarily between remodels and reuse; it was very accessible, visible from the sidewalk. We had a big presentation of our plan there with drawings. We used the downtown model. We brought that out of Stanton Yard and up in the space where we could play with it. I hope they're keeping that up, because there is a real investment in that. And the fact that you can take the buildings out, we used that a lot.
The PGE Building: I don't mean there was no urban design element. I mean that we did not have a strong urban designer. There were some issues when PGE wanted to build their 3-block complex. The city invited Rai Okamoto from San Francisco to come up and advise them. It seems to me that I argued for the tower on Front Avenue and Rai wanted it back on the back street. I didn't want a high-rise row of buildings... I tied it to the bridgehead. I felt that the concept of having high rise buildings at the bridgeheads sort of created a framework for downtown. Not high-rise as we proposed along the Transit Mall, but you know up to 5 or 6 stories, right at the bridgeheads and then you would have lower-rise between the bridgeheads--to get some variation so you wouldn't have a wall of low buildings, either. To me, that was a better urban design process. Rai thought otherwise, although he never talked to me and I didn't know him. I think also there was some feeling that I probably wasn't the best person to recommend a site for the high rise. It was originally designed by Frasca to locate the high-rise building on front.
Closing Harbor Drive: I can discuss that briefly. In the wake of DeLeuw-Cather's report recommending a couplet, I felt strongly that was a mistake and that Front avenue should be the new Harbor Drive. I sort of developed this idea in my head driving down the freeway on my way to Corvallis one day I got as far as the Salem turnoff and drove into the Highway Department, walked into Fred Klaboe's office who was then head of the Highway Department and told him what I thought. I wanted to kill off the DeLeuw-Cather report and Fred, a real gentleman, no longer living, but a wonderful guy, very strong and polished, had a huge office with a great big long conference table and his desk. He heard me out and then he took me over to his conference table and, there laid out was a sketch of Front Avenue and he said, I was embarrassed to ask the boys upstairs to do this, so I did it myself. He said, I agree with you. All we need to do is beef it up, improve it so it can carry the truck traffic, the strength of it, and re-design it with a median and with better controls. And he said, I think that can do the job along with what you suggested to Glenn about using I-405 and the freeway and the freeway along on the East side, the Eastbank freeway.
When it came time to figure out how to close Harbor Drive, I got a call from Glenn Jackson, who was over in eastern Oregon. His secretary called my office and when I called in for messages, they said Mr. Jackson wants to see you in the morning. And so I called and she told me I could come at 9 or 9:30. I chose 9:30. Rod called me about 7 o'clock in the morning. He had read the editorial in the Oregonian that day that said that closing Harbor Drive was impossible, and that the traffic engineers in Salem and the traffic engineers in Portland all agreed that you couldn't close Harbor Drive without creating a terrible mess. And Glen Jackson, tough old bird, handed me the editorial and said read this. That's all he said. He said read this. And I read it. But I had already heard it over the phone from Rod, so I had time to think about it a little bit. Jackson shrugged and said, Hell, all I'm trying to do is help the Governor. My boys tell me that you can't close it. What are we going to do? You don't like the couplet. Probably other people don't like the couplet. And so I said well, we ought to firm up Front Avenue to carry heavier traffic, which means repaving it and redesigning it. And then keeping the old Harbor Drive area where the old Journal Building was, there was a park, which was done and it's Downtown Waterfront McCall Park. Wonderful facility for the city. So then I remember I thought I would be there only a few minutes, because Jackson doesn't give you much time, and I think it was 3 hours later that I got out of there and had a parking ticket because I only put half an hour's worth of money in the meter. It was a good session. I said, if I were you... He said, "Look, I've got to go to City Council this afternoon and tell them how we're going to do this. And Don Bergstrom, the Traffic Engineer, is saying that this will back cars clear up to Lake Oswego, if we do this." And I said, "I don't believe that." I said, "I don't believe the numbers." If you let people know well ahead of time that you're going to close Harbor Drive, people who use it now will use I-405 which is under-used right now, some of them will cross the river and take both bridges because they're headed for the Northwest district to go to work. The river is a psychological barrier, but the fact is that the distance involved isn't much more. People cross one bridge and go back over the river on the other and they'll end up right out at Yeon Avenue where they work. And I said, "If I were you, I'd have a map that showed that, to illustrate your point to the city council." So he got Fred Klaboe on the phone and ordered the map drawn and brought up by car by 3 o'clock. And that's what he did.
Some months later, I ran into Don Bergstrom in a grocery store in Lake Oswego and Don said "Well, Dick, you must be a mighty proud fellow today." And I said, "Why?" -- because I had gone on to other things and had forgotten. And he said, "They closed Harbor Drive today and there wasn't a ripple." Sort of end of story. And Fred Klaboe said to me, "Dick, the numbers aren't anything anymore. It's all politics."
Yes, that was one of the great opportunities we had. We had Tom McCall trying to sort of rescue the river. He wanted Harbor Drive closed, not Glenn Jackson. Glenn Jackson liked Harbor Drive. He was basically closing it for his boss. That's exactly what he said to me. He threw up his hands and he said, "I'm just trying to help the Governor." That's exactly what he was doing. And he did. Because he could pretty much do anything he wanted to--the strongest highway director we ever had. But I don't think that arguing with Tom would have done much good. Tom didn't argue much either. Oh, I think Jackson had pretty good instincts. I remember when he spoke to City Club, he was terribly frustrated by all the environmental stuff that was being thrown up in his way. My memory is that his last statement when he made his formal address to the City Club were, "We've got to start laying concrete." And that didn't set too well with the City Club, who thought he had already laid too much.
Consulting on the I-505 Freeway Proposal: I had hoped that the City would hire my firm to do the rezoning scheme for downtown Portland, but they hired a San Francisco firm (Livingston and Blayney) to do that. I thought they did a good job. The issue of the cap on pollution was important, too. Anyway, we were almost immediately hired by the Highway Department based on our work downtown to be the prime consultants for the re-study of I-505, so I jumped from that to directing the I-505 study. We were hired on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I drove out to take a look around. They were proposing an Upshur-Vaughn couplet and, I thought, Gosh, the obvious way to move this traffic is out Yeon Avenue through the industrial area. There were some problems with relocating railroads, etc. to serve those different areas, but we worked for the next two years on that project and they did it exactly as I felt made sense that Saturday morning. But it took going through the whole process, looking at all the alternatives. Again, we moved our office into the study area. The Highway Department owned a building that they had acquired as part of the right-of-way and let us work there. We hired Mary Petersen, who had been the staff director of the Northwest District Association, and Mary Catherine did a wonderful job for us in mobilizing the citizens and representing the district. We brought her right inside the program and paid her half time (she was only being paid half-time in the district) she needed more money. But she could not be co-opted. I mean, it never occurred to me or anyone that because we were paying Mary that she would in any way be on our side if she and the District thought differently. Very strong personality. She had a doctorate from Yale In political science; taught at Reed; eventually ran off with some religious cult.
Yes, she was very helpful. We opened a special office for her, up more in the residential part of the neighborhood where she worked and we kept an open door. We encouraged at our public meetings, the neighborhood to walk in individually, as a group, talk to our guys as they were working, meeting the engineers and planners and economists, etc. We had a separate traffic consultant, Voorhies and Associates.
The people up in Willamette Heights were up in arms about the Thurman Vaughn, the Vaughn Upshur couplet because it would have routed traffic right along the base of Willamette Heights. I think the Highway Department just didn't want to upset the industrial people with a lot of traffic, and tended to see run-down housing as vulnerable, as easier to grab than going through an industrial area. It actually helped the industrial area very much, I think, the way it set up. Plus we have a very short section of freeway, actual freeway, doesn't go much past the interchange. So I thought it was an excellent solution and Front Avenue now carries more traffic, too. And there's that new railroad overpass which connects Front Avenue, the s-shaped overpass.
Dick Ivey and Lloyd Anderson: Lloyd Anderson and I go back a long way. Lloyd worked at the Bureau of Governmental Research which was then called the Bureau of Municipal Research. He was there for about 5 years, as the director of the 701 planning assistance program, section 701 of the old Housing Act, which provided matching grants to cities and counties throughout the state. Lloyd had been planning director at Multnomah County. But that was only a 2-year stint, I think, before he moved down to Eugene. Before that he had been the Zoning Administrator in King County in Seattle. And had graduated from the Univ. of Washington in engineering and taken a masters degree in city planning. So he brought, in those years, a good background. There weren't too many trained planners around. The rest of us had learned mostly just out of graduate school and not necessarily just in planning. Earl Bradfish, who became Frank Ivancie's assistant, was a part of that early group. He was trained as a geographer, had worked for the Army map service.
What about Frank Ivancie? Frank's a mixed bag, but mostly I think Frank has shown (in his later career) some of the abilities that were evident in Portland--without maybe some of the baggage. Frank is a Republican. I guess that's the worst thing I can say about Frank. But Frank was very supportive of my project, downtown. Frank is a project guy. He's not a big thinker, not a comprehensive thinker. He's not a visionary. He could get his arms around a Powell Blvd railroad overpass, putting Tartan turf on the stadium. He's project-oriented. He supported me because he thought it would help him, more than he thought it would help the city.
And he did support the appointment of the citizens advisory committee, maybe because he felt he had no choice. The first thing we did was sit down with a pencil and paper and write down the names of people who Frank thought ought to be on the powerful downtown committee. Ira Keller was then the chairman of the development commission, and I thought he could participate through the development commission rather than on the board. I got a call from Frank a day or two later saying that Ira wanted to be on the powerful downtown committee also and I'd better put him there. So I did, and it turned out that the next meeting was in Ira Keller's board room, at Willamette Industries. These meetings were high level stuff for me... heady stuff for me, because I had never worked at that level in the city before. It was revealing to me how little these guys understood their business interests, in terms of city planning and downtown planning. They really looked on us as the experts. I thought the contribution they made, quite apart from the money of course, were sound and in the general interest. But at one point they brought in Pietro Belluschi. Paul Murphy, as a young man, had been taken by his family on the grand tour in Europe and Italy especially. Pietro Belluschi, who was then a young northwest architect, and the family took Pietro Belluschi along as a companion for Paul and as a kind of tour guide. The Murphy family had been early real estate pioneers, developed Lake Oswego and Laurelhurst and some of the large projects like that. So Paul Murphy knew Pietro from his childhood and called him up and asked him to come up to his office and asked me (and I think Bob was there too) to make a presentation for Pietro's advice. And Pietro didn't have a lot to say. He seemed to be very positive. He said, he didn't want to feel like a fool, but he didn't know enough about what the alternatives were. He was very gracious anyway. So, from time to time I called him up with specific questions or asking him for ideas after that. I don't recall that he had a whole lot to do, he was retired and well along in years at the time. That was about it.
Participation of Local Architects: Among the local architects, there were several active guys. One was Jon Schleuning. Jon Schleuning was really put out by the fact that we were an engineering firm. Jon was outspoken and he may have been the AIA President or he was Chairman of their urban design committee, and Jon was very articulate about what was going on. I think he got to be President of City Club one year. He was very critical, and he felt responsible for the fact that we had a citizens committee at all, which annoyed me. Having a citizens committee or some vehicle for public participation is essential to the planning process. I've always done that. Politically, there's no way we couldn't do it. Besides that, I would say planning is too important to be left to the planners. It was our way of getting broader support and we had a very good citizens committee.
The Citizens' Advisory Committee: They met regularly and participated. And there were other venues for bringing in people, and it was, I thought, a very positive thing. In fact, Ron Cease wrote a report on how to accomplish citizen participation in the downtown planning process. I think that I felt that with the criticism coming from the architects that we needed some independent advice on how to develop a citizens committee. Also, I was interested in what Ron, who was a political scientist, would have to offer. At least, in those days there didn't seem to be too many ways to get citizen participation and the citizens advisory committee was, to me, almost a clich�. But that's what he recommended. I was curious to see whether he wouldn't recommend other things besides that, other ways to do that.
Major Players at CH2M: You asked who were the major players. Well, certainly Dick Brainard, a young man named John McCormick was in the office. John was an architect. John worked on it but not with any independent responsibility. Wayne Stewart may have been in the office. I think Wayne left during the course of the program. I asked him to take on a comprehensive planning study for some small city and he said, well, he had already done that once. It wasn't a high interest of Wayne's. I was always fascinated that every time you got to plan a new city it was a whole new career. Every city is so different and your ability to bring to bear the different principles on a new set of circumstances is a really challenging and interesting and fun assignment. I was always grateful that in my own career I could stay in one or two places (the Bureau and CH2M) for almost 30 years and still find myself in different circumstances, especially as we developed our international practice and moved into the middle east and southeast Asia. That was terribly exciting. Well, I am a great believer in comprehensive planning.
The Downtown Plan Goals and Guidelines: The problem with goals is that they get to be sort of pat, they don't mean much. Everybody can agree. It's sort of like motherhood. Goals ideally should be, ideally, a set of... they should be chosen from among alternatives. And if there are no alternatives, they don't serve much use. I mean, everybody agrees that you ought to be able to move traffic and provide people with water and sewer and services and other services, that kids ought to be able to walk to school, all of those things, and to write them as goals, I prefer to think of them more as a check list, rather than a great thing to do, just as a reminder that when you are doing comprehensive planning there are a whole bunch of things that you look at. And that everybody can agree that, you know, property values ought to be stable and streets ought to be safe. To say having safe streets is a goal seems to be sort of pointless because nobody would argue that they ought to be unsafe.
And goals have got to be more specific. Planners are always trying to differentiate between goals and objectives and policies. To me, goals and objectives are defined in the dictionary as the same thing. But there is a difference between a goal and a policy. A policy is a course of action that you take to reach a goal. And the policies are easier to write, for me, because there is usually more than one way to get to a goal. So you can set criteria for developing policies, based on things like cost and practicality and realities of proceeding along certain lines.
[End of Side B, Tape 1]
Development on South of Downtown Waterfront: I feel that I had an important hand in the way the south of Downtown waterfront area developed. When Davidson Company was first talking about developing that property, Pollin sent his lawyer to talk to me. He said, why are you doing this to us? And I said because you've got such a crappy architect. That wasn't the whole reason, but they were going to put a fake grass roof on it, as I recall. It was supposed to look like a south sea island. It was Red Lion's proposal. Pollin I think was involved in it. When I told Pollin that he had a crappy architect because he was using the Red Lion architect, the guy who designed all of the red lion hotels, he went out and got George Rockrise. So then he invited me to lunch and he had this model that Rockrise had prepared and showed me... we had sandwiches in his office. It must have been 1972 or 1973. I remember that I appeared before the planning commission, which held its hearing in the council chamber. I appeared, and I said I am speaking tonight without portfolio, because I was no longer the consultant. Somebody later asked me what is without portfolio? I said I had no standing as a consultant. But I thought that was a real loss of opportunity to let that go for that purpose. So one thing led to another and, in the meantime, the development commission started to acquire it... we gave them some breathing room to get hold of the property.


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22 December 2011 8:42 PM, PST | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
"Who killed John Boehner's career here?" Rachel Maddow would like to know, making it pretty clear she thinks that Boehner won't still be Speaker of the House this time next year. "This is not John Boehner tripping and falling," she continued. "This looks like John Boehner was pushed." She then compared his lack of support to Will Ferrell's character's one-man streaking fiasco in Old School and showed, like, half the movie as evidence. »
- Alex Alvarez
20 December 2011 11:27 AM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
HBO Renews Enlightened But Cancels 3 Other Comedies
It may not be spring yet, but HBO has apparently decided to clean house in their comedy department, as three shows have been given the ax. The network has gotten rid of cult comedy triumvirate Hung, Bored to Death, and How to Make It in America, all three recently having wrapped up their respective seasons.
However, it's not all doom and gloom, as the Laura Dern-Mike White critical favorite Enlightened has been granted a second 10 episode season following two Golden Globe nominations. Enlightened has also been making several appearances on TV critic top 10 lists, something none of the other three had been able to do. Though it's been the lowest rated of the four comedies in first airing ratings, the show made up for it through other means of watching (HBO Go, On Demand, etc.) and the buzz around it put it over the top. »
- Shilo Adams
9 December 2011 5:07 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Big movie stars are known for doing lucrative commercials in foreign countries, like those Japanese bank ads Brad Pitt and Wes Anderson did. It is, however, very rare to see a star of Will Ferrell's stature shilling on American television.
But there he inexplicably is, in 19 (yes, 19!) 30-second spots promoting Old Milwaukee beer. What kind of big money offer did Pabst Brewing Co. dangle in front of Ferrell to get him pushing their beverage?
Try $0 (zero) dollars.
The Quad-City Times reports that the "Old School" star personally approached the company to write, direct, and star in the ads himself for free, to only be aired in their mid-west shooting locations like Davenport, Iowa and Terre Haute, Indiana.
"Will approached Old Milwaukee because he's a big fan of the beer and thought it would be fun to make the commercials, and we couldn't be more excited that he did, »
- Max Evry
8 December 2011 2:17 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
The Hangover Part II opened to absolutely Huge success in 2011, taking a whopping $255 million at the Us box office alone. Well, now the film is on DVD and Blu-Ray for you all to own, so as you get your backsides down to the shops to pick it up, we thought that we'd take a look at the top ten 'guy' movies that also float our boat, particularly when we've had a few shandys down the boozer on a Friday night; ones that you simply must check out!
Now, this list may be a bit random, and we apologise for the two red herrings that have found their way in at numbers 6 and 3, but we totally back up our reasoning for inclusion – and it's our list.
So hunt these puppies down when you're browsing the shelves at HMV!
10. Revenge Of The Nerds (1984)
Revenge Of The Nerds was »
- Paul Heath
8 December 2011 3:10 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
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Apparently Will Ferrell loves drinking Old Milwaukee beer. The actor was recently spotted in local Old Milwaukee ads in the Davenport, Iowa area. According to BusinessInsider, Ferrell did the commercials free of charge, though there is no official word as to why the comic participated. The ads feature the 'Old School' star's signature schtick, as he goes fishing, diving in the Mississippi and running through the town of Davenport.
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- Moviefone Staff
24 November 2011 5:30 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
There's a great argument that out of all of the star studded names in the superb comedy Horrible Bosses, one motherfucker [Jones] steals the show entirely. Yes, Jamie Foxx is simply awesome in the role of the go-to 'hitman', grabbing the limelight from his A-list co-stars Jason Bateman, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey and a potty-mouthed Jennifer Aniston. To celebrate the release of the film, which hit home entertainment markets in the UK this week, we thought we'd think back and pop up some other movie scene stealers…
Christopher Walken in True Romance (1993)
If Quentin Tarantino were ever to ressurrect a character from one of his classic early movies, then Christopher Walken's Vincenzo Coccotti would be it – and this guy lived right? For me, that whole scene in True Romance is the reason that I watch it time and time again. "I haven't killed anybody… since 1984." Walken managed »
- Paul Heath
18 November 2011 6:43 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Elvis & Nixon just got a little more star power added to it. The film, which will mark Carey Elwes. directorial debut, is already set to star Eric Bana and Danny Huston, playing the the title characters respectively, and now Luke Wilson and Kevin Connolly have joined the cast. Elvis & Nixon tells the story of Elvis Presley.s trip to Washington DC to meet President Nixon in 1970. Eric Bana is already set to play Presley and Huston, who played Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, among other roles, will play Tricky Dick (aka President Richard M. Nixon). The Hollywood Reporter posted the news that Kevin Connolly and Luke Wilson will be joining the cast of the indie film. Wilson (Old School, The Royal Tenenbaums), is set to play Sonny, one of Elvis. .Memphis Mafia.. Meanwhile Connolly, known for playing Eric in HBO.s Entourage, will play a limo driver. While Connolly isn »
16 November 2011 10:38 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
To answer your first question, no, Johnny Depp has already ruled himself out of casting a few years ago, but a Michael Jackson biopic is imminent.
Variety is moonwalking to the news that John Branca, executor of Jackson's estate, has reached out to Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Picture Company to bring the King of Pop's story to the silver screen. The article states the movie would "only cover certain periods of the late singer's life," which is shorthand meaning the focus would be more on the salad days of The Jackson 5 and "Thriller" and less on what Dave Chappelle termed the "white ghoulish-like creature" period.
Montecito Picture Company is best known for bringing Todd Phillips to the world with "Road Trip" and "Old School," while Ivan Reitman is the director behind such comedy classics as "Ghostbusters" and "Twins." They've hit a more prestigious groove in recent »
- Max Evry
16 November 2011 8:33 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Over two years after the death of iconic pop star Michael Jackson, the King of Pop's estate is now looking to get a biopic off the ground. Not too long after Jackson's passing, a documentary chronicling the final days of the international superstar came in the form of This Is It, which brought us as close to Jackson's final concert as we'll ever get. But this new film would cover other periods of Jackson's life, though it wouldn't be a comprehensive life-to-death biopic. Variety reports John Branca, the executor of the Jackson estate, has gone to Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Picture Company to produce and finance the biopic. Reitman and Pollock's company started out with comedies like Road Trip, Evolution and Old School, but recently they've taken on more dramatic material like Up in the Air and Chloe. If the estate is looking to get the project made, »
- Ethan Anderton
10 November 2011 5:16 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
You've been that person walking out of the theater smiling while the rest of the crowd passing by seem to be throwing their tickets away in disgust. You liked the bad movie. You're not alone. We've all been there at some point, and it's not a bad thing. Everyone deserves to indulge. Even the most hardened of cinephiles have a few skeleton's in their closet – acclaimed critics included.
Roger Ebert liked The Zookeeper, A.O. Scott found "an amazing kind of emotional integrity and intensity" in the Twilight franchise, and Richard Corliss wasn't afraid to say he enjoyed Clash of the Titans. Everyone has standalone indulgences like Zookeeper or Titans. There are hundreds of bad movies filled with just enough nostalgia or fun to keep you coming back for more. The choices become less clear when you start looking for the great guilty pleasure franchises though. »
- Phil Aram
3 November 2011 2:15 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Todd Phillips, the director of Old School and The Hangover brings us the latest in the line of classic raunchy comedies, this time in the form of the Nima Nourizadeh directed Project X.
The film follows the latest Hollywood trend of "documented" films, this time without any terrifying children or noises in the night. Alright, I lied there will be noises in the night as the film follows a group of young friends who try to live the best version of their lives for just one night. The film stars Miles Teller, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Dax Flame, Nichole O'Connor, Thomas Mann, Alexis Knapp and Jillian Reynold.
As far as looks go, the trailer in a sense describes itself. Babes, booze, music, police, babes… whoops sorry about that. The trailer sets off perfectly with almost a dark ominous introduction leading up to Kid Cudi's »
- Tim Shustoff
2 November 2011 7:21 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
I know what you're saying. "Um, what's 'Project X'?" Well, it's a movie called "Project X", starring no one you've ever heard of (but produced by Todd Phillips of "The Hangover" and "Old School" fame, which at this point seems to be it's one big selling angle), shot in "Paranormal Activity"-style, which is to say, another found footage movie. But no, it's not a horror movie. Unless, of course, you consider teenagers thrashing their parent's house just so they can be cool to be horrific, in which case, yes, it's pretty horrific. It's a little hard to get a handle on the film's tone, though the official plot synopsis (below) claims it's an "out-of-control comedy". I see a lot of out-of-control stuff happening in the trailer, but not a whole lot resembling "comedy". There seems to be a »
- Nix
2 November 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Project X Teaser Trailer. Nima Nourizadeh's Project X (2012) teaser trailer, produced by Todd Phillips, stars Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Oliver Cooper, Nichole Bloom, and Martin Klebba. Project X's plot synopsis: "Three high school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things begin to spiral insanely out of control as word of the party spreads."
This looks pretty badass, the party in Old School mixed with The Hangover and MTV.
On testing screenings for Project X and the feel of the film plus a Michael Bay joke:
Reports out of test screenings have called Project X "the new Superbad" and similar superlatives.
So in the '80s and '90s there were the giant staged MTV Spring Break specials, and now we have this vision of the ultimate underage party, enhanced by Central Casting models and a budget that wouldn't feed »
- filmbook
2 November 2011 1:21 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
After "Paranormal Activity 3" scared up a big opening weekend, it was clear that the found footage genre isn't going anywhere anytime soon. The latest addition to the club is "Project X" from producer Todd Phillips, the director of "Old School" and "The Hangover."
This time, the camera doesn't document a demon or a witch or giant monster destroying New York City. The disaster this time around happens to be a giant party destroying a suburban block.
"Project X" follows a group of high school students, the main character played by Thomas Mann, who throw the most out of control party of all time for their one chance to be cool. It's kind of like if the people in "Cloverfield" never left the apartment from the beginning. The trailer shows off a party that doesn't look that much crazier than a relatively big high school party. Everyone is dancing. There are raging hormones abound, »
- Kevin P. Sullivan
2 November 2011 1:09 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
When I was a kid, Project X was a movie starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt about chimpanzees being used as test-subjects by the military. Produced by Todd Phillips (Old School, The Hangover films), the 2012 film Project X is most definitely not a remake of an '80's film about monkeys, although animals do appear in this trailer. Project X follows three high school seniors who are tired of being uncool and decide to throw a party. It seems like they end up over-shooting on making their little get-together a legendary event because things seem to spiral out of control. Based on the trailer, the party looks like the kind of things high school kids might have made up through a lot of gossip and exaggeration, however in the case of Project X things really were that out of control. The strange thing about the trailer is, it starts out »
2 November 2011 11:45 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Over the past year we've heard small news here and there about Project X, a high school party comedy from producer Todd Phillips (director of Old School and The Hangover) and first-time feature director Nima Nourizade. The film follows a high school party that grows to massive size, and eventually gets out of control. Reports [1] out of test screenings have called Project X "the new Superbad" and similar superlatives. Now there is a trailer that suggests that Project X will really be like watching one long high school party. I can't decide if that's a good thing or not -- see for yourself after the break. So in the '80s and '90s there were the giant staged MTV Spring Break specials, and now we have this vision of the ultimate underage party, enhanced by Central Casting models and a budget that wouldn't feed the electricians on a Michael Bay movie, »
- Russ Fischer
2 November 2011 11:13 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
I'm sure shooting Project X was a lot of fun, but I'm still not confident the final project will turn out that way. With producer Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover, Old School), director Nima Nourizadeh, who has worked on Santigold, Lily Allen and Hot Chip music videos, have come together to make a mysterious house party film. We now have the first trailer (with an interview from the director) from Vice, on the film based on a true out-of-control party.
Judging just from the trailer it looks like this may not appeal to anyone outside the demographic of its characters, but in the interview Nourizadeh said it "starts off being funny and progresses into something else. It's sexy, but it gets dark." With a cast of unknowns, many were handed cameras and told to shoot as much footage as possible. It was culled together to the product you see here. »
- firstname.lastname@example.com (thefilmstage.com)
1 November 2011 9:52 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Chuck came back for its final season on Friday and with it came the return of our usual round table, Dan, Dr. Toboggan, and myself. Also along for the ride for this final season? A fresh perspective and webmaster of Sarah Walker Fangirls and new TV Fanatic staff writer, Kris Hekmi.
So enjoy our Round Table 2.0 ad we discuss "Chuck vs. The Zoom."
1. Funniest moment from the episode?
Dan F: Although the Buy More story was slight this week, the single moment that Jeff Barnes slyly stood up out of his wheelchair to put away a box was absolutely hilarious and worth the detour from the main plot.
Kris H: Tickled to the max with Sarah and Morgan's special handshake. Although a close second was the massage scene with Chuck, which reminded me a lot of the Friends gag when Ross had to do it.
Dr. T: I almost agree with Dan. »
- firstname.lastname@example.com (Eric Hochberger)
31 October 2011 6:02 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Long after the dust settles on his career, Will Ferrell will probably be best remembered as the star of Anchorman, or for his perpetual manchild routines in Talladega Nights or Step Brothers or Old School, and his more serious roles like the excellent, underrated Stranger Than Fiction will no doubt take a back seat.
Everything Must Go is a melancholic, bittersweet portrait of man who has lost everything: a relapsed alcoholic, he loses his job at the outset, and subsequently discovers that his wife has left him over his drinking and an implied incident of adultery at a work convention – he is a man cut out of life, in the process of being erased, and unable to fight for his own survival.
Nick isn't necessarily an innocent victim – the film in fact takes great effort to say that he is at fault for almost everything that goes wrong for »
- Simon Gallagher
28 October 2011 9:35 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
The final season of Chuck is upon us. In addition to our Chuck reviewer, Dan, and myself, we brought in the big guns. Sarah Walker fan girl herself, Kris D. So join as we discuss what's been brewing in our heads all summer long as we've been waiting for our Chuck void to be filled.
Remember, not only to read our round table, but to tune into Chuck's new time. Tonight at 8 pm Est.
1. Which of the amazing guest stars lined up are you most looking forward to?
Dan F: My love for Community, Lost and Las Vegas want me to say Danny Pudi, Jeff Fahey, or Cheryl Ladd, but I have to go with Craig Kilborn. I was a huge fan of his on SportsCenter back in the day, and don't sleep on his villainous performance in Old School. The dude might fit right in with this Chuck crew, »
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ANAHEIM – After his team lost, 5-0, to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night, Angels manager Mike Scioscia grimaced, cleanup batter Torii Hunter shook his head and Mark Trumbo shrugged his shoulders.
The Angels had no answers for Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (2-2), who pitched eight showcase innings, struck out nine and walked three. He allowed just one hit, a second-inning single to shortstop by Alberto Callapso, who barely beat the throw to first.
Matsuzaka threw 115 pitches, 78 for strikes that left the Angels batters befuddled. Split-fingered changeups jammed the six left-haded hitters in the lineup. His well-placed sliders and explosive fastballs locked up the right-handed batters such as Hunter, who went 0 for 3 and managed to draw a walk to become one of only four Angels left on base before closer Daniel Bard entered in the ninth.
"We're in a rut because Boston has good pitching," said a baffled Hunter about the Angels' third defeat to the Red Sox in as many nights.
Jed Lowrie doubled to the deepest corner of right field in the second inning and came home on a Carl Crawford single for the 1-0 lead that was all the Red Sox really needed.
Jacoby Ellsbury scored in the third and again in the fifth on cleanup batter Kevin Youkilis' two-run, two-out home run over the right-field wall for the 4-0 advantage.
"That (pitch to Youkilis) was supposed to be inside and it was right in the middle, and to me that was the game right there," said Angels starter Ervin Santana (0-3, 5.51 ERA), who took another loss despite working seven strong innings, giving up nine hits, five runs (all earned) and a walk and striking out nine.
The Angels have lost 12 of their past 13 games to the Red Sox, who have former Angels ace John Lackey on the mound for Sunday's series finale.
"If were 0-19 against Boston, as long as we win that division," Hunter said. "that's all I care about."


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3425?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Hernan Cunico closed GERONIMO-3425. ----------------------------------- Resolved. > Add deployment plan schemas to geronimo web site > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: GERONIMO-3425 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3425 > Project: Geronimo > Issue Type: Improvement > Security Level: public(Regular issues) > Components: website > Reporter: Kevan Miller > Assignee: Hernan Cunico > > I seem to recall this being raised, some time ago. I thought it had been addressed, but does not seem to be the case. > It's really convenient if the xmlns url would actually contain the schemas for our deployment plans. That way some ide's (e.g. Eclipse) will automatically load the schemas. For example http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-2.0 should serve the schema for our application deployment plan. > We should do the same for OpenEJB (e.g. http://www.openejb.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.1). > An overview of our deployment plan schemas at http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/ would also be useful. > See http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd and http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ for examples how other organizations have handled this... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Choco-pan chocolate fondant is great I buy mine from Sugarcraft. HTH
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
The Title Says It All
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The Trip To End All Trips
Have you ever had a trip where so many things went wrong…it got to be comical? I have been scanning some old slides to digital, and this batch brought back a flood of memories.
The statute of limitations has expired, and for the purposes of this article I will refer to my 3 friends as Larry, Moe & Curly. As for me?
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Some Had It Better Than Others
I considered myself very lucky for the brief time I was in the Army in the early 70s. On the "Dream Sheet" I said that I wanted to be a photographer, and stationed in Japan.
I guess that's why they call it the "dream sheet" because I ended up as a radar operator in Germany who communicated with missile batteries.
That assignment was the best of the best because the Army would go by alphabetized names on the roster when filling positions around the world.
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This is the first post I read from Lex…I wanted to read more.
By lex, on August 17th, 2008
It's funny sometimes, the little things. One of the Hobbit's friends is out of town and her daughter – one of the Kat's friends – has been staying with us for the last cuppla. Good kid.
You'd never get the impression from the Kat that she gives a fig about whatever experiences her parents have got in their wake. Any advice based on lessons learned is subjected to varsity eyeball rolling. Please. Things are so different today. And so on.
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"Cobra Mist"
If any of the Lexican `Cold War` warriors ever came across something called "Cobra Mist", here is what's left of it in the UK. A pint says `Virgil Xenophon` could i/d it from the air:
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Politics And Faith
This was requested, among others, by a long-time Lexican. In the coming days, I'll post his requests (what I can find) and some of my own favorites. If others also have requests, just let me know.
Bill Brandt
Politics and faith
By lex, on February 15th, 2004
Been turning things over in my head for a few months, but some of the things I've been reading, hearing and
seeing lately have taken me to the conclusion that for certain secularized elements of the polity, zealous faith
in their political beliefs has filled that spot inside their souls which used to, or ought to, or might have been
occupied by the spiritual.
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Honoring Lex At His Favorite Spot
Last Friday and Saturday, Lexicans from near and far converged on Shakespeare's in San Diego to celebrate his life. I talked with a man who worked with Lex after his Navy time and asked him what Lex would think about all this.
"Well", he said, " Lex would laugh and say you were all crazy. But he would be flattered!"
It wasn't a somber moment but a time with lots of stories and laughter.
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