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The following films from the beginning of cinema to 1996 were voted on and out of the thousands of possible selections, the top 100 films were as follows:
Note: I have highlighted films I recommend you watch only once in this paper.
#1 Citizen Kane, 1941 (Welles starred, directed, produced, and co-wrote with Herman Mankewitz---as we proceed to list the 100 top films you will note that a significant number of them will have one person serving more than one responsibility for the creation of the product. You will also notice that certain names keep popping up as they are significantly over-represented in the creation of these 100 films. Citizen Kane was nominated for best picture but lost to How Green Was My Valley which in my opinion was the superior film. So how in the world did they make Kane #1 and didn't include Green anywhere in the list of 100? Kane was the more innovative film and one that helped change the way we make movies. Green was a great film that told a far more honest and meaningful story. That helps explain why Kane is #1 but doesn't begin to explain why Green is left off the list. This is an excellent example of how any list will inevitably rank some films higher than others because opinions as to greatness will always vary. Green not only beat out Kane that year, it also beat out The Maltese Falcon! So, go see How Green Was My Valley and judge for yourself.)
#2 Casablanca, 1942 (Bogart and Bergman starred…we will see that Bogart's name pops up in film after film as we go through the 100. However, the following are great films of Bogart's that didn't make it on the list: The Caine Mutiny, 1954; Sabrina, 1954; and Sahara, 1943. All three of them are better than some of the ones that did get on the list. Casablanca won for best picture and the director, Curtiz, also won the Academy Award.)
#3 The Godfather, 1972 (Brando and Pacino starred, F.F. Coppola Directed and Co-wrote. Brando got the Academy Award as Best Actor and the film was given the award as best film of the year. We will see both Brando and Pacino popping up again and again on this list of 100. Great films of Brando that don't show up on the list are: Viva Zapata!, 1952; and Last Tango in Paris, 1972. Brando was born in 1924 and after being expelled from military academy, he attended the Dramatic Workshop in New York and began acting on stage. "In 1947, Brando exploded into Broadway stardom with his forceful l portrayal of the brute Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' His naturalistic style of acting and his casual, mumbling delivery, under the guidance of Elia Kazan, also heralded the arrival of 'the Method' as a fashionable style of acting." Film Encyclopedia, p., 167.).
#4 Gone With the Wind, 1939 (Gable and Vivien Leigh starred. It won as best picture and best director. To win as best picture it had to beat out Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights---all of which made it on the top 100 list! Clark Gable was born William Clark Gable in 1901 and died in 1960. "He left school at 14 to work in a tire factory in Akron. There he saw his first play and began working evenings backstage as a call boy for no pay." Film Encyclopedia, p. 540. He worked his way up to bit parts but then his father, an oil driller, took him off to the oil fields to do "real" work for a living. When Gable turned 21 he left his father and started acting. But He didn't get very far and had to become a lumberjack to survive. But he stuck with his dreams and continued to act whenever he could. He finally in 1930 got a screen test at MGM! But, they didn't think much of him and turned him away. Within a year of this disappointment, he had worked in a dozen films and was on his way to becoming one of our most famous stars. Some consider his finest movie to be The Misfits in which he did most of his own stunts and helped bring on a heart attack which ended his life before the movie opened. Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley in 1913, married Laurence Olivier, one of the greatest stage and screen stars of all times. Leigh, as we will see, won an Oscar for Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. She was a great actress but was plagued by poor health due to tuberculosis, physical exhaustion, and manic-depressive/bipolar disorder through much of her career.)
#5 Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 (O'Toole, Guinness, & Sharif starred with Lean Directing. It was voted best picture and Lean won as best director. Peter O'Toole, born in Ireland in 1932, grew up in England where his father was a racetrack bookmaker. At 14 he quit school and worked as a messenger and copy boy for a newspaper and eventually worked his way up to being a cub reporter. At 17 he made his stage debut and eventually started making movies. However, he was relatively unknown when he was picked for the lead in Lawrence of Arabia, which made him a star at age 30. Other great films that he made include Becket and The Lion in Winter. Sir Alec Guinness was born Alec Guinness de Cuffe in 1914 in London. He passed away in 2000. He started out as an advertising copywriter and made his stage debut in 1934. My favorite film by Guinness is one he starred in and wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay for: The Horse's Mouth. As you will see from the number of times he appears on this list of 100, Guinness was one of the greatest actors ever to grace the stage and screen. If you care to know more about him you can read his autobiography Blessings in Disguise. Omar Sharif was born Michael Shalhoub in 1932 in Egypt and was a star of Egyptian movies when he was picked to star in Lawrence of Arabia. He is also a world famous bridge player who has won many international tournaments.)
#6 The Wizard of Oz, 1939 (Judy Garland starred. If you have not seen this wonderful movie at least two times, then I would wonder what cave you have been hiding in? Judy was born Frances Gumm in 1922 and made her stage debut at 3 and was a seasoned performer by age 5. "When she sang 'Over the Rainbow' in her distinctive trembling, emotion-choked voice with a built-in throb, an instant legend was born. She won a special Oscar as "the best juvenile performer of the year" for the role that had originally been intended for Shirley Temple." The child star was made into a drug addict by the studio when they put her on pills to deal with the stress and her weight. She married five times and spent a lot of time seeing psychiatrists, attempting suicide, and living an often miserable life. So sad that her personal life had little of the joy she gave her audiences both in the films and through her songs. Her death in 1969 was related to a drug overdose. Her daughter is Liza Minnelli.)
#7 The Graduate, 1967 (Hoffman and Bancroft starred with Mike Nichols directing. Nichols won as best director. The top movie that year was In the Heat of the Night (starring Rod Steiger who also won for best actor) which didn't make it to the list of 100 even though it beat out three films that did make it---including Bonnie & Clyde and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Rod Steiger is one of our finest actors. He starred with Brando in On the Waterfront and with Sharif in Doctor Zhivago, which both made the list of 100; but the film I loved the most that he made was The Pawnbroker. As we will see, Dustin Hoffman will show up on the list of 100 more than once as he is rightfully considered one of our greatest actors. Besides the ones of his that are on the list, others that I particularly admire include: Straight Time and Kramer vs. Kramer. He may very well create additional great films as he continues to turn in outstanding performances. Anne Bancroft, born Anna Maria Louse Italiano in 1931, has been an actress and dancer since the age of four. Married to comedy director, writer, and producer Mel Brooks, she has made a number of fine films including: The Pumpkin Eater, The Miracle Worker, The Turning Point, and Agnes of God.)
#8 On the Waterfront, 1954 (Brando again with Eva Marie Saint starring and Kazan directing. Brando and Kazan both walked away with the Academy Award that year. Elia Kazan appears on our list of 100 more than once but some of his greatest films didn't make the list but should have. They include such wonderful movies as: Gentleman's Agreement, Viva Zapata!, Splendor in the Grass, East of Eden, and the marvelous semi-autobiographical America, America based on his own novel about this life of his Uncle. Kazan was born Elia Kazanjoglou in 1909 in Istanbul. He was four when his Greek parents emigrated to the US.)
#9 Schindler's List, 1993 (Speilberg directing and co-producing. He won the Academy Award for directing and it was voted the top film that year.)
#10 Singin' in the Rain, 1952 (fabulous musical starring Gene Kelly who also co-directed. It has the most joyful dance scene ever filmed where Kelly is singing in the rain. It lost the award for best picture to The Greatest Show on Earth, which did not make in onto the list of 100.)
#11 It's a Wonderful Life, 1946 (Stewart and Donna Reed star and just about everyone has seen it during the Christmas season at least 10 times. Frank Capra directed, produced, and co-wrote this film. James "Jimmy" Stewart was born in 1908 and graduated from Princeton with a degree in architecture. Friends encouraged him to become an actor. "A gawky, gangling young man with a slow, hesitating drawl and a shy country-boy manner, Stewart was an oddity among Hollywood's leading men and a challenge to casting directors. But the oddity was soon revealed as a unique asset." Film Encyclopedia, p. 1307. During World War Two he flew 20 missions over Germany as a bomber pilot and came out a full colonel and rose to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. No other actor has ever matched that feat. He also remained a bachelor until age 41 and remained married for 45 years until she passed away in 1994 and he followed her in 1997. Few actors have ever provided us with as fine a role model for how they lived their off screen lives. My favorite movie of his is Harvey.)
#12 Sunset Boulevard, 1950 (William Holden & Gloria Swanson star with Billy Wilder directing and co-writing. It lost out as best picture to All About Eve. Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. in 1918 and died in 1981. The big turning point in his acting career came with his role as the tough maverick hero of Billy Widler's Stalag 17 (1953) which should be on the list of 100. He won the best actor Oscar for that role.)
#13 The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957 (Holden & Guinness again with another directed by Lean. It was voted best picture, Lean got best director, and Guinness walked away as best actor that year at the Academy Awards.)
#14 Some Like It Hot, 1959 (Wonderful comedy with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder---his co-writer is I.A.L. Diamond. That was the year of Ben-Hur and big budget dramas almost always beat out comedies. However, this was the superior film and it is correctly in spot #14 whereas Ben-Hur is in spot #72.)
#15 Star Wars, 1977 (Another one that just about everyone has seen one or more times. I remember standing in long lines with my two sons when it opened and how it blew everyone away! No one thought that anything like this was possible until Lucas showed us how it could be done. Kubrick had opened the door years earlier but it was Lucas that demonstrated just how exciting a ride you could take in space. Harrison Ford became a star thanks to this one and once again we see Alec Guinness starring with George Lucas directing and writing. It lost the top picture spot that year to Annie Hall but you will notice on this list it correctly wins over Annie.)
#16 All About Eve, 1950 (Bette Davis starred with Joseph Mankewitz directing and writing. It won for best picture and best director. It is hard to believe that this is the only movie of Bette Davis on the list of 100 as she was one of our greatest actresses. Her early career did not lead to instant success. Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in 1908, she decided on an acting career when she was a freshman in high school. She was rejected as a student by Eva Le Gallienne, fired from her first professional engagement with a stock company, and failed her first screen test. "Through her hard work and perseverance "her forceful personality began glowing through her roles." Film Encyclopedia, p. 336. She died in 1989 and was considered by many as the "first lady of the American screen.")
#17 The African Queen, 1951 (Bogart and Hepburn in one of the most glorious romantic on-location films ever made with John Huston directing and co-writing with Agee. Bogart walked away with the Academy Award as best actor. That year was a tough one as all the nominated films found their way on to this 100 list---An American in Paris won over African Queen, A Place in the Sun, and A Streetcar Named Desire. I strongly believe that Queen should have been crowned King that year and I am glad that it is higher on the list than the other three. If I were voting I would have placed it far higher than #17. Katherine Hepburn was marvelous, as was Bogart in this film. Hepburn was born in 1907 and educated at Bryn Mawr. "The second of six children of a distinguished New England family (her father was a noted surgeon and her mother an early crusader for birth control), she was brought up in an atmosphere of complete spiritual freedom and Spartan physical discipline." Film Encyclopedia, p. 620. Her strong minded assertive personality was always in your face when you saw her and loved her in her many memorable roles. She won three Oscars and was nominated 8 more times! Her Oscar for The Lion in Winter was well deserved and that film should have been among the top 100.)
#18 Psycho, 1960 (Janet Leigh is the victim, Tony Perkins the psycho character---the film was considered so scary people ever since have been afraid to take a shower! Hitchcock directed and produced. The Apartment won as best picture that year and is only #93 on this list. I think their places should be switched in the listing.)
#19 Chinatown, 1974 (Jack Nicholson as a detective, Faye Dunaway as the victim, and Director turned actor John Huston as the rich villain with Polansky directing and Robert Towne writing all together created one of the greatest detective love stories of all time. Godfather II beat Chinatown that year but both of them are deservedly ranked among the top films. Nicholson, born in 1937, had an alcoholic for a father who deserted the family. As you will see, he is on the list of 100 a number of times. The great films that he made that didn't get on the list include: Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, and Ironweed---all of which he was nominated for by the Academy. His more recent films, including As Good as it Gets will most likely make future lists of great films as he continues to make outstanding movies. Faye Dunaway, born 1941, is on the list of 100 several times. The movie I most admire her for is Barfly, 1987, where she plays a down and out alcoholic.)
#20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975 (Nicholson again with Milos Forman directing and Michael Douglas producing created out of Ken Kesey's novel the greatest movie ever made about mental illness. Voted best movie, Nicholson won as best actor and Forman won as best director. The film beat Spielberg's Jaws which is another great film.)
#21 The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 (Henry Fonda at his best directed by John Ford based on Steinbeck's great novel bring to you the feel of the Great Depression with all of its injustices and economic oppression. John Ford won the Academy Award for best director. Ford was one of our greatest directors. He was born Sean Aloysius O'Feeney in 1895. He started as a set laborer and appeared as an extra in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915 and became a director in 1917. Besides The Grapes of Wrath, my favorite film of his is How Green Was My Valley. He died in 1973 with 50 years of continually high-quality work to his credit. "When Orson Welles was asked…which American directors appealed to him most, he replied: 'The old masters..By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.'" Film Encyclopedia, p. 475.)
#22 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 (Kubrick directed, produced, and co-wrote this masterpiece. Kubrick, born 1928, died in 1999, and left behind a body of work much admired by other directors. As a child he was encouraged by his physician father to take up photography as a hobby and at age 17 he was a staff photographer for Look magazine. He quit this excellent position in 1950 and began making films. Beside 2001 he has one two other films on the list of 100, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, but I consider some of his other films worthy of being on the list, films such as: Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket and even his more recent Eyes Wide Shut may one day make it to the list along with The Shining.)
#23 The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (The great detective film noir was being shot at the same time as Citizen Kane and in some respects is a greater movie than Kane by a greater director. Bogart stars with John Huston directing and writing.)
#24 Raging Bull, 1980 (The first but not the last pairing on our list of actor DeNiro and director Scorsese. Paul Schrader helped write this one. DeNiro won the Academy Award for best actor. That year the best picture award went to Ordinary People and Redford also won as best director---yet this great film didn't make it to the list! Others that year that were nominated for best picture and should have made it to the list are Tess, Coalminer's Daughter, and The Elephant Man. DeNiro gets on the list a number of times, however, the movie that should have made it in which he starred is The Mission. Other really fine DeNiro films not on the 100 list include Brazil and Bang the Drum Slowly. However, like Nicholson, DeNiro is still making great movies that will add to his considerable achievements and are likely to show up on top movie lists of the future.)
#25 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 (Here comes Speilberg again, this time directing and co-producing. The film lost out as best picture to Gandhi and Ben Kingsley won as best actor in his role as Gandhi---yet here again this great film didn't get on the list? That was the year of Missing and The Verdict which were also deservedly nominated for best picture but didn't make on the 100 list. Tootsie was also nominated that year and did make it on the list.)
#26 Dr. Strangelove, 1964 (Nothing dealing with the cold war can touch this great and scary comedy. The film stars Peter Sellers playing multiple roles and George C. Scott with Kubrick directing, producing, and co-writing. It lost best picture to My Fair Lady, which is correctly, ranked #91 way below Dr. Strangelove. My Fair Lady also beat out Zorba the Greek, which I definitely think should have made it on to the list of 100.)
#27 Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 (For better or worse, this film changed the way violence would be depicted in the movies. The film would not have been brought to the screen without Warren Beatty's efforts and he stars along with Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman---this movie significantly enhanced the careers of everyone associated with it. Arthur Penn directed and Beatty produced.)
#28 Apocalypse Now, 1979 (This takes the Conrad novel Heart of Darkness and sets it in the midst of the Viet Nam war. Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, and Brando star and Coppola directs, produces, and co-writes with John Milius. That year Kramer vs. Kramer won as best picture and its director Benton won and its star Dustin Hoffman won. So where is Kramer vs. Kramer on this list? Other great nominated films that year were All That Jazz and Norma Rae.)
#29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939 (Stewart again with Frank Capra directing and producing. Capra won the Academy Award for best director. Capra was born in 1897 in Sicily and died in 1991. At the age of six he moved with his family to California where his father struggled to support his family as an orange picker. He sold newspapers and played a banjo in honky-tonks to help support the family and pay for his education. He graduated as a chemical engineer and went into the Army and when he came out he drifted around selling books door dot door and playing poker for a living. He got involved in the movie industry and went through a number of lean years before becoming one of the greatest directors. His son is a film producer and his grandson is an assistant director.)
#30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 (Bogart again being directed again by Huston. Huston also has his father Walter Huston in this movie. They are in Mexico with gold fever driving them over the edge. It is based on the great B.Traven novel. Hamlet starring Oliver won that year as best picture but Huston won as best director.)
#31 Annie Hall, 1977 (Woody Allen stars, directs, and co-writes this one which is usually what he does. Diane Keaton also stars. Annie won as best picture and Woody walked away as best director. To do that they beat out Star Wars, which we have already seen, is correctly ranked higher in this list than Annie. The Turning Point was also nominated as best picture that year and stars Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine.)
#32 The Godfather Part II, 1974 (This is the only movie that was a sequel that made it on the top 100 list. It stars Pacino, DeNiro, Keaton and is directed by Coppola who also produced and co-wrote. It won as best picture and Coppola won as best director. Besides Chinatown it beast out two other fine films that were nominated as best picture---Lenny starring Dustin Hoffman and The Conversation starring Gene Hackman. Interestingly, The Conversation is another Coppola product that he directed and wrote.)
#33 High Noon, 1952 (Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly starred with Fred Zinneman directing and Carl Foreman writing. Cooper won as best actor.)
#34 To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962 (This is a wonderful movie about racism and injustice. A black man is innocent and Gregory Peck defends him. One of the things that brings this movie alive is that Peck's children are involved in the story. Robert Duvall has a supporting role as he did in the Godfather movies. This film was nominated for best picture but lost to Lawrence of Arabia. Peck won for best actor. Duvall was born in 1931 the son of an admiral. He won the best actor Oscar in 1983 for Tender Mercies and also in 1980 for The Great Santini---both fine films that should be on the list. The Apostle is a film he put together in 1998 and will one day make it on to a list of great films perhaps along with some other fine films he has yet to make as he continues to do outstanding work.)
#35 It Happened One Night, 1934 (Gable and Colbert star in the lovely movie directed by Frank Capra. Capra won as best director.)
#36 Midnight Cowboy, 1969 (Hoffman and Voight in a tragic story set in New York City which helps you appreciate the underbelly of the big city. It won as best picture and Schlesinger won as best director. It beat out Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, which is, ranked #50 in this list. John Voight, born 1938, the son of a golf pro of Czech descent, got involved in acting in high school. Midnight brought him into the spotlight. Other great films of Voight's are: Deliverance, Conrack, Coming Home, and Runaway Train.)
#37 The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 (Frederic March stars with William Wyler directing. Won as best picture and best director and best actor. Wyler was one of Hollywood's most successful directors. He was born in 1902 in Alsace, then part of Germany, and died in 1981. "He studied the violin at the National Music Conservatory in Paris. It was there in 1922 that he met Carl Laemmle, who was the head of Universal Pictures and a distant cousin of Wyler's mother, and who offered him a job with his company….Wyler…apprenticed as prop man, grip, script clerk, cutter casting director, and assistant director…before making his debut as director in 1925, at age 23. A perfectionist and a taskmaster, he filed many takes of every shot until he was satisfied that he had achieved a desired effect or nuance. Many performers who resented his tyranny on the set later found themselves grateful for the Oscars they won for their performances in his films." Film Encyclopedia, p. 1484. )
#38 Double Indemnity, 1944 (Barbara Stanwyck stars with Billy Wilder directing. He also co-wrote with Raymond Chandler. It lost best picture to the pleasant Bing Crosby musical, but relatively insignificant film, Going My Way which didn't even make it on the list of 100 even though it was the big hit of 1944 at the Oscars.)
#39 Doctor Zhivago, 1965 (Sharif again being directed again by Lean in another sweeping story that requires, as does Lawrence of Arabia, a big screen to fully appreciate what Lean was able to do. Lost out in the Oscar race to The Sound of Music, which is listed correctly in spot #55 of this list.)
#40 North by Northwest, 1959 (Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint star in this thriller by Hitchcock who directs and produces as he typically did.)
#41 West Side Story, 1961 (This musical, set in New York City, stars Natalie Wood and is directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It won as best picture and Wise got the best director award. It beat out Judgment at Nuremberg and The Hustler, neither of which made it on the list of 100 and both of them should have!)
#42 Rear Window, 1954 (Suspense and murder as viewed by Stewart and Grace Kelly through his window with Hitchcock directing and producing.)
#43 King Kong, 1933
#44 The Birth of a Nation, 1915 (D.W. Griffith at his best in terms of directing but at his worst in terms of his racism. He directed, produced and co-wrote it so he no one to blame it on.)
#45 A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 (Brando again! Also stars Vivien Leigh and is directed by Kazan and is based on the Tennessee Williams play.)
#46 A Clockwork Orange, 1971 (Kubrick directing, producing, and writing again. The French Connection was the big winner that year but it only made it to #70 on the list.)
#47 Taxi Driver, 1976 (DeNiro teaming up with Scorsese again and this time Jodie Foster also stars and Paul Schrader writes. Schrader makes the list twice but also should have made it a third time for his screenplay for The Last Temptation of Christ, Scorsese's outstanding but controversial film based on Kazanzakis' novel.)
#48 Jaws, 1975 (This is a powerful movie that shows you how three men have very different ways of dealing with their fears. After this film came out people became afraid of the water. It stars Dreyfus, Roy Scheider, and Shaw and is another Speilberg masterpiece. Dreyfus is on outstanding actor and appears on the list several times. Other fine films of his include: The Goodbye Girl, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Tin Men, Mr. Holland's Opus, and The Competition. However, I consider his finest work was the role he played of a quadriplegic in Whose Life Is It Anyway?)
#49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 (Disney)
#50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 (Redford and Newman at their best in this great Western directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. It is hard to believe that Redford and Newman only appear this one time on the list of 100 given that they are two of our greatest stars. My guess is that future lists are more likely to list them numerous times. Newman and Redford also were teamed together in The Sting. Some of my favorite Newman films are: The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Absence of Malice, The Verdict (he was nominated for all of the foregoing as best actor), and The Color of Money for which he won best actor. He also directed, starred and co-produced the fine film Sometimes a Great Notion which is based on a Ken Kesey novel. Some of my favorite Redford films include: Brubaker, The Candidate and All the President's Men in which he costarred with Dustin Hoffman. However, one of my favorite films of all time is Redford's Jerimiah Johnson. Redford has also directed a number of fine films, some of which he has also starred in including Ordinary People, The Milagro Beanfield War, A River Runs Through It, and The Horse Whisperer. Goldman is one of the best writers in the business with many credits plus he has been often called in as a script doctor who has the onerous task of trying to fix a screenplay someone else wrote. His credits include All the President's Men, Marathon Man, The Great Waldo Pepper, Heat, The Princess Bride, Misery, Absolute Power, The Ghost and the Darkness. Future lists are likely to have more Goldman movies.)
#51 The Philadelphia Story, 1940 (Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart all at their best under the direction of the great George Cukor. Stewart won as best actor.)
#52 From Here to Eternity, 1953 (World War II story without the emphasis on battle scenes starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, and Montgomery Clift. Voted best picture that year and Zinneman got the best director award. Lancaster only appears once on the list which I feel will be changed in future lists as his body of work is impressive. Lancaster was born in 1913 and died in 1994. "The son of a postal clerk, he grew up in the tough East Harlem section of Manhattan's Upper East Side. Excelling in basketball and other high school sports, he enrolled at NYU on an athletic scholarship but soon after quit college to form the Lang and Cravat acrobatic team with his pint-sized childhood friend Nick Cravat. For several years they toured with circuses and appeared in vaudeville and nightclubs. Bookings were sparse and in 1941 Lancaster took a job as a salesman in a Chicago department store and later as a refrigerator repairman." Film Encyclopedia, p. 781. After serving in World War Two he acted in a stage play and was noticed and began his film career. Other fine Lancaster films include: Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz, Atlantic City, The Rainmaker, and Judgment at Nuremberg.)
#53 Amadeus, 1984 (If you want to begin to understand what it might be like to be a genius, watch this story of the life of Mozart. Milos Forman directs again with Paul Schrader again doing the writing. Voted best picture that year with Forman winning best director and Abraham best actor. Forman was born in 1932 in Czechoslovakia and raised by his Jewish professor of education father and his Protestant wife---he lost both of them to Nazi concentration camps and was raised by relatives. He was making movies in his native land when the Russians invaded in 1968 and since he was out of the country at the time he came to America instead of returning---Europe's loss, our gain. As you have seen by now, American cinema is deeply indebted to Europeans who have come here to perform their art in front of or behind the camera.)
#54 All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930 (This is the greatest war movie ever made and it is so in part because it is based on the hero being a German soldier in World War One. Stars Lew Ayres who became a conscientious objector after this film and wouldn't fight in World War Two. He did serve in the medical corps and distinguished himself under fire. Based on the great Erich Maria Remarque novel, All Quiet won as best picture that year and Milestone won as best director. Milestone was born in Russia in 1895 as Lev Milstein and died in 1980. He came to America as a young man and served in the Army in World War One where he learned to make movies. When he got out of the Army he went to Hollywood.)
#55 The Sound of Music, 1965 (Voted best movie of the year, Andrews sings up a storm and Wise walked away with the best director award.)
#56 M*A*S*H, 1970 (Great Korean War dark comedy that became the long running television show. The movie starred Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould and was directed by Robert Altman. Nominated as best picture it lost out to Patton another war flick. Other Altman films worth examining include Nashville, The Player, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller.)
#57 The Third Man, 1949 (Set in post-war torn Europe this mystery thriller stars Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten and was directed by Carol Reed who also co-produced. It was written by Graham Greene.)
#58 Fantasia, 1940 (Disney)
#59 Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 (This is the film that made James Dean a star and furthered Natalie Wood's career. It was directed and co-written by Nicholas Ray---real name Raymond Nicholas Kienzle and in no way related to India's greatest director Satyajit Ray creator of the fascinating Apu Trilogy.)
#60 Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 (Harrison Ford starred and Spielberg directed and George Lucas co-wrote this rip roaring adventure yarn. It lost best picture to Chariots of Fire which didn't' make the 100 list. Reds was also nominated that year and Beatty won the best director Oscar but Reds also didn't make it to the list of 100.)
#61 Vertigo, 1958 (Stewart again with Hitchcock again directing and producing.)
#62 Tootsie, 1982 (Hoffman in a great comedy with a very serious message about how we are sexists. Jessica Lange won best supporting actress for this film. She should one day get on to a similar list as she is one of our finest actresses. Her other films that you should definitely watch include Frances, which also was a 1982 and she was nominated for best actress for that film but lost that award to Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice a really great film.)
#63 Stagecoach, 1939 (This is the Western where John Wayne became noticed with John Ford directing.)
#64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 (Richard Dreyfus is great in this one which is where we see Spielberg at his very best directing and writing.)
#65 The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins with Jonathan Demme directing. Won for best picture, best actress, best actor, and best director!)
#66 Network, 1976 (Sorry, but this one is way better than a lot of the ones rated above it in this "contest"! Holden, Dunaway, Duvall, and Peter Finch provide us with a wonderful inside view of television amoral behavior. Sidney Lumet directed with Paddy Chayefsky writing a marvelous script. Finch won as best actor. Although Rocky won best picture, the listing correctly puts Network above Rocky giving it #78.)
#67 The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 (Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh and others star in this one which I don't think will be found on future top 100 lists.)
#68 An American in Paris, 1951 (Gene Kelly in a great musical directed by Minnelli and written by Alan Jay Lerner. Won best picture that year.)
#69 Shane, 1953 (Alan Ladd stars in this Western with George Stevens directing and co-producing. This is another that I think will fall off the list over time.)
#70 The French Connection, 1971 (Gene Hackman is great as the detective willing to go crazy to catch the bad guy in the cops and robbers epic set in New York City. Roy Scheider is also in it. Won as best picture, best director for Friedkin, best actor for Hackman.)
#72 Ben-Hur, 1959 (William Wyler directed this epic starring Chuck Heston with Jack Hawkins and others riding chariots and all that jazz. Won best picture, Wyler won for best director and Heston for best actor.)
#73 Wuthering Heights, 1939 (Laurence Olivier directed by William Wyler.)
#74 The Gold Rush, 1925 (Chaplin starring, directing, producing, and writing.)
#75 Dances with Wolves, 1990 (Kevin Costner stars, directs, and produces this wonderfully insightful vision of the frontier and native Americans. Won for best picture and Costner won as best director. It correctly beat out Goodfellas.)
#76 City Lights, 1931 (Chaplin starring, directing, producing, and writing.)
#77 American Graffiti, 1973 (Dreyfus, Ron Howard, Harisson Ford when they were still teenagers with George Lukas directing and co-writing it and F.F. Coppola as co-producer---all of these individual became major players after this film. The Sting starring Redford and Newman won as best picture but didn't even make the list of 100 when it should have as it is a wonderful film.)
#78 Rocky, 1976 (Stallone not only starred, he wrote it as well. So maybe he is not as dumb as he appears to be??? It won as best picture but shouldn't have.)
#79 The Deer Hunter, 1978 (DeNiro again this time under the direction of Cimino who also co-produced and co-wrote. This is an early glimpse of Meryl Streep as she starts to demonstrate just how marvelous an actor she is. It won best picture with Cimino getting the best director award. It beat out the fine film Coming Home which starred Voight who won best actor and Jane Fonda who won best actress.)
#80 The Wild Bunch, 1969 (So Bonnie and Clyde in 1967 brought lots of blood and violence to a gangster film and Peckinpah, who directed and co-wrote, showed that he could out-bloody Beatty in this Western. I still can't imagine how this Western got on the list and The Magnificent Seven didn't???)
#81 Modern Times, 1936 (Chaplin again starring, directing, producing, and writing. Paulette Goddard also starred.)
#82 Giant, 1956 (James Dean, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson star in another George Stevens directed and co-produced film. Stevens won best director.)
#83 Platoon, 1986 (Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Wilem Dafoe star in Stone's version of Viet Nam gone wrong. Stone directed and wrote. Won best picture and best director. It beat out The Mission, which I consider a finer film starring DeNiro and which I predict will one-day show up on a list of the top 100.)
#84 Fargo, 1996 (Strange tale of kidnapping and murder. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but doubt if it will be on future lists. It got on this list because it was recently released when the voting occurred.)
#85 Duck Soup, 1933 (Marx Brothers at their wild and funny best.)
#86 Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935 (Clark Gable as the mutineer and Charles Laughton as the Captain. In 1962 Brando was the mutineer and even more recently Mel Gibson was with Anthony Hopkins playing Captain Bligh. Based on a real life event, the Gibson version is by far the more enjoyable to watch thanks to the glorious color and modern film techniques. However, if you are a die hard cinema purist, then go ahead and watch the black and white 1935 version as it is really great and in 1935 was voted best picture.)
#87 Frankenstein, 1931 (The monster story.)
#88 Easy Rider, 1969 (Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, and Dennis Hopper star. Fonda and Hopper were the ones who really put this generation defining low budget film together. Hopper directed, Fonda and Hopper helped Terry Southern write. But it was Nicholson who used the film to help establish himself and his career really took off whereas Fonda, despite the tremendous name recognition, went nowhere and Hopper was locked into support roles or off-beat films. Proves nothing is predictable in this biz.)
#89 Patton, 1970 (George C. Scott play Patton and Patton from then on is more like George C. Scott than he was like himself. This is another great film where Coppola helped do the writing but not the directing. Scott won for best actor and Schaffner won as best director.)
#90 The Jazz Singer, 1927 (On the list because it was the film that helped end the silent film era.)
#91 My Fair Lady, 1964 (Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in this lovely musical directed by George Cukor and written by Alan Jay Lerner. Voted best film of the year with Rex Harrison winning best actor and Cukor best director.)
#92 A Place in the Sun, 1951 (Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor at her stunning best. George Stevens directed and produced. Stevens won best director.)
#93 The Apartment, 1960 (Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star and I would have put this one much higher on the list than #93. Billy Wilder directed, produced, and co-wrote with I.A.L. Diamond. Wilder won best director and the movie was voted best film of the year. That year Burt Lancaster correctly won best actor for his outstanding performance in Elmer Gantry.)
#94 Goodfellas, 1990 (Another gangster film again starring DeNiro teaming up again with Scorsese who directed and co-wrote.)
#95 Pulp Fiction, 1994 (This film helped resuscitate Travolta's career and is just one of many great roles for Samuel L. Jackson. I think in future lists we will see more of Jackson. Quentin Tarantino directed and co-wrote. It lost out for best film to Forest Gump. Another film nominated that year was The Shawshank Redemption, which is one of my favorites starring Morgan Freeman.)
#96 The Searchers, 1956 (John Wayne and John Ford team up again in another Western. The girl Wayne is searching for is Natalie Wood.)
#97 Bringing Up Baby, 1938 (Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn directed by Howard Hawks.)
#98 Unforgiven, 1992 (Clint Eastwood stars and directed and produced. Gene Hackman is the bad guy and Morgan Freeman is Eastwood's friend in this Western. Freeman is an outstanding actor who we will see on future lists of great films. Unforgiven won as best picture and Eastwood won as best director.)
#99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 (Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey are the parents and Sidney Potier is asking their daughter's hand in marriage. Helped people think about their racist attitudes. Stanley Kramer directed and produced.)
#100 Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 (James Cagney, who more often than not played tough guys in the movies, is a song and dance guy here. Walter Huston is also in the movie.)
Well folks, that's all! What a fantastic list of marvelous movies! I hope you start watching those you have never seen and watching again and again those you have seen and need to review. The more you watch a really great film the more you begin to understand why it is great.
This list of 100, like every list, is flawed as is reflected by my comments above. It also was hard to believe that no Sean Connery or Michael Caine or Richard Burton and only one Olivier film found its way on to the list. I assume that this is in part because they were great British actors. However, I strongly recommend that you correct this flaw by watching some of their films. Suggested are: Connery---The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King (with Michael Caine), Outland, The Name of the Rose, and The Untouchables. Caine---Educating Rita, The Ipcress File, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules, Quills, and Little Voice. Burton---Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Equus, and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold . Olivier--- The Entertainer.
Each year the British Academy of Film has an award ceremony and the films they award are often the same as the ones that get the Oscar. However, the differences are important. Films they awarded (and that I have yet to mention above) that the American Academy missed that you should put on your list of must-see films are: The Bicycle Thief, The Lavender Hill Mob, Forbidden Games, Wages of Fear, Richard III, Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, Ballad of a Soldier (a great Russian film), Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Sunday, Bloody, Sunday, Day for Night, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Manhattan, The Killing Fields, The Purple Rose of Cairo, A Room with a View, Dead Poets Society, and The Commitments.
If you have been keeping track, you will now see that I have added 127 films to the list! That shows you how hard it is to limit a list to only 100! As we look over the AFI list above, certain patterns come into view. DeNiro and Stewart are in five films each! Bogart, Kate Hepburn, Nicholson, Dunaway, and Holden are each in four of the films. Then in three films each are Gable, Guinness, Hoffman, Brando, Harrison Ford, Natalie Wood, Cary Grant, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfus, and Chaplin. However, no one will ever find themselves in Chaplin's place because he stars, directs, produces, and writes all three of those top 100 films! The group of actors that were in at least two gets larger: Welles, Vivien Leigh, Sharif, Saint, Janet Leigh, M. Clift, Donna Reed, Gene Kelly, Liz Taylor, Joseph Cotten, James Dean, George C. Scott, Duvall, Keaton, Grace Kelly, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Pacino, Roy Scheider and Jodie Foster (actually several of these people were in more than two but not in lead roles).
When you consider that thousands of films have been made, for just a handful of actors to dominate the top 100 says several things. One, really great actors are rare. That in part explains why they can command such outrageous salaries. But it also says that movies are collaborative endeavors. You get to act in a great movie sometimes because of factors other than talent---you have a great friend who is a director, for example. However, no great director will damage their film by hiring less than the best actor available. As we see from the following listing, patterns also exist amongst directors.
Speilberg is the only director with five films on the list. Billy Wilder has four films on the list as does Hitchcock. Those with three films on the list are William Wyler, Forman, Stevens, Chaplin, Scorsese, John Huston (he is also on the list as an actor as is his father Walter and his daughter Angelica may well get on a future list), Kubrick, John Ford, George Lucas, and Lean. Those with two are: Kazan, Capra, Wise, Coppola (he is also on the list with screenwriting for films he didn't direct), Cukor, and Zinneman. Once again, a rather small number of great directors dominated the list.
We don't see the dominance in the area of writers in part because such a large number of the films on the 100 list were written by their directors. However, Paul Schrader and I.A.L. Diamond each have written two of the films on the list.
You will also see patterns for cinematographers. For example, one of the great ones was Gregg Toland who was responsible in the short 44 years he lived for creatively handling the cinematography on for films that made it to the list of 100---Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, and The Best Years of Our Lives.
For me, the key message from all of the above is that: If you want to be involved in the movie business, you had better work very hard at developing all of your skills. Read, write, travel, develop yourself into a capable human being that understands yourself and others. Become a well-rounded human being. Cream rises to the top. And, on your way to the top, be nice to everyone you meet, because life as well as the movies is a collaborative adventure.


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- Halve zucchini lengthwise and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick pieces. In a small saucepan of boiling salted water cook zucchini until just tender, about 1 minute, and drain in a sieve. In a bowl toss zucchini with 1 tablespoon sauce and keep warm, covered.
- Pat fish fillets dry and season with salt and pepper. In a large nonstick skillet heat 2 tablespoons oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and in batches sear fish, skin sides down, until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Turn fish over and cook until just cooked through, about 2 minutes more for rouget and about 4 minutes more for snapper. (Add more oil if necessary between batches.) Transfer fish as cooked to a shallow baking pan and keep warm, covered, in middle of oven.
- Wipe skillet clean and heat 2 tablespoons oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. Sauté shrimp, stirring occasionally, until golden brown and just cooked through, about 4 minutes.
- Mound mash in center of each of 6 plates and top with fish. Arrange shrimp and zucchini evenly around mash and drizzle sauce over all.
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- Calories347
- Carbohydrates9 g(3%)
- Fat23 g(36%)
- Protein24 g(49%)
- Saturated Fat7 g(36%)
- Sodium531 mg(22%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber1 g(6%)
- Monounsaturated Fat12 g
- Cholesterol138 mg(46%)

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The blueprints were unveiled for the first time last night at a Northlands Park board of directors meeting.
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A strong business model, a slight competitive advantage over its closest peer Carnival Corp. (CCL - Free Report) , following the latter's Costa Concordia ship grounding disaster, improvement in booking scenario and exposure to the under-penetrated Asian markets, are the major growth drivers for the shares of Royal Caribbean.
Being the second largest company in the industry, Royal Caribbean enjoys a competitive advantage over many of its industry peers. In fact, after the grounding of the industry's leading operator Carnival's ship Costa Concordia in mid-January 2012, Royal Caribbean got a better exposure both on bourse and business, though that tragic incident had a negative impact on the entire sector. After a year of the disaster, the sector has started to revive from shattered passenger confidence and recouped from extreme upheaval.
Although Europe still remains a tough market, overall bookings for the fourth quarter of 2012 and for 2013 across all itineraries remained strong, with year-over-year higher load factors and pricing. Caribbean yields are anticipated to have finished year 2012 on higher note than the 2008-level.
Of late, the Asian market has become the area of focus for the company. The company plans to cater to some under-served ports in China, which have far lower penetration rate compared to cruise markets in the United States and Europe.
Concurrent to its third quarter earnings release, Royal Caribbean increased its full-year guidance that that resulted in an upward movement in estimates for the fourth quarter.
Valuation is Attractive
Royal Caribbean currently trades at a forward P/E of 17.40x, 11.9% discount to the peer group average of 19.75x. Again, its price-to-sales ratio of 1.03x is trading at a 12.0% discount to the peer group average 1.17x. The company's price-to-book ratio of 0.91x is also lower than peer group average of 1.13x.
Hence, we believe compelling fundamentals helped the stock reach its 52-week high score. Having said this, we are expecting the company to report decent quarterly results later this month.
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Discussion in 'Effects [BG]' started by KlystronNoir, Jan 5, 2014.
Line out on amp to DI's line input or DI's intstrument input?
The Line Outs on my amps are unbalanced and made for plugging into things like multitrack recorders, so technically I guess you'd prob use the instrument input on a DI. What amp are you using? Should tell you in the manual if it's unbalanced or balanced.
Bigger question is why are you going into a DI from your line out?
Exactly. But I'm guessing the reason is you want to send the preamp drive/EQ of your amp to the PA/mixer, and your amp either doesn't have a DI output, or its DI out is broken. If I'm right on those, then it makes sense to use the line out. And if you are sending a line out, then of course you would connect it to a line in.
But then we come to another question: what DI are you using, that has a line input?
I mean, there are such things, I use a Focusrite DI/preamp that has line inputs, but really that is pretty uncommon. So the original question is kinda weird.
Well in playing an ashdown abm 500. and I want to send the preamp eq to foh.. the di is an ampeg SVT mic preamp.
Doesn't that amp have the option to go post-EQ on the XLR DI? And it looks like that amp's 1/4" Line Out is made for connecting to other poweramps to drive more speakers, whereas the XLR DI is actually a balanced signal made for going to FOH.
Yeah your best bet is to use a mic cable and connect the XLR out on the Ashdown to the XLR input on the mic preamp.
Also you may find that the soundman prefers the straight tone of the Ampeg without the Ashdown's EQ and preamp stage added on.


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Scholar Manning Marable (pictured, via) has passed away. He was 60-years-old.
Marable served as professor of history and political science at Columbia University. According to The Root, he had been working on the biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention for a decade. Penguin Group (USA) released it today and currently holds the #4 spot on Amazon's biography & memoirs' bestsellers list.
His widow, Leith Mullings Marable, shared these thoughts: "I think he would want to be remembered for having contributed to the black freedom struggle. He would want to be remembered for being both a scholar and an activist and as someone who saw the two as not being separated. He believed that both [callings] went together and enhanced each other."


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SELF-IMPROVEMENT NASA Confirms: People Are Capable Of Super Human Abilities Using These Ancient Techniques!
Ever wanted to be in more than one place at a time? That's right, I'm talking about the super-human abilities that can be gained by those who follow the protocol for what's known as sun-gazing, a valid practice recently confirmed by NASA. Read More


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Chris Spielman was a high school and Ohio State football legend and a four-time Pro Bowl linebacker, but he didn't tackle his toughest opponent until his playing career was almost over. In 1998, his wife, Stefanie, was diagnosed with breast cancer. So began an 11-year journey that brought joy and suffering to the Spielmans, as well as hope and inspiration to thousands of others.
In That's Why I'm Here, Spielman traces his storied career, recalls his courtship of Stefanie Belcher, cherishes the growth of their four children, and invokes the deep spiritual faith that gave their family wisdom and comfort in times of struggle. Though there are plenty of on-the-field tales in the book, it's not just for football fans. It's for people whose lives have been touched by cancer, for people whose own faith has wavered, and for people who want to meet a woman of tremendous beauty, grace and strength.
Though Stefanie passed away on November 19, 2009, her memory and inspiration live on. With laughter and tears, joy and heartbreak, this book reminds us that her spirit is still here.
©2012 Chris Spielman (P)2012 Zondervan
just a great book, moving, poignant, well paced, well written, well performed. I would highly highly recommend this.
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Absolutely, this gives insight in depth of Chris' life and his wife Stefanie's battle. This beyond puts life into perspective and the way they handled it with hope and perseverance is priceless. STRONGLY RECOMMEND whether you are a sports fan or not.
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Treasury to Make TARP Money Available to CDFI Credit Unions
The U.S. Treasury Department will make money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program available to credit unions, banks and thrifts that have been recognized as Community Development Financial Institutions by the Department's CDFI Fund.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and other officials will meet today with members of Congress and the heads of some credit unions and credit union organizations, along with other CDFI executives to reveal the details of the initiative. Among the leaders attending the meeting will be Clifford Rosenthal, CEO of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions and executives from the Latino Community Credit Union, a credit union CDFI headquartered in Durham, N.C., according to a spokesman for the CDFI Fund.


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I was having this issue too, so I looked and noticed I had Sprint VVM still installed and not from a backup. I opened it and it said I had a new voicemail that couldn't be downloaded. I held the back button to kill the app, ???, profit!, vm notification is now gone...
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That's not the type of notification this mod addresses. On non android phones your voicemail notification comes from a specially formatted text message sent from the carrier to your phone. No its not that funky one you get when visual voicemail isn't installed either. Its a class 0 message in cshp format that triggers your message waiting indicator. Its a relic left over from voicemail systems that were used before we got android phones that were not cleared out. Touchwiz roms ignore them but aosp roms do not because some carriers use them.
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You say they are from an old system. The only phone I have ever had on sprint is android. Yet I still have six phantom vm. So either its still in use or it has carried over from before I was on sprint with the number I was given.
I really don't understand why its there. But ill see if Google can help. If you have direct resource pages I would appreciate it.
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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP: Although no one is contesting PLO Chief Yasser Arafat's landslide victory in the first Palestinian elections over the weekend, allegations of widespread cheating in the parliamentary voting are spreading, as charges of manipulated results, disappearing ballot boxes, and intimidation at the polls are being levelled against administrators of the elections. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank: "The cheating will be the big issue. The story is growing by the hour. In Hebron, ballot boxes were missing and then found. One candidate in Gaza was told she won, then told later she lost. It is not just one person or one candidate; it appears to be wholesale cheating. The general feeling is that the observers were ill-equipped to monitor the elections, and thus made cheating very easy. Most of the reports I have received say that many people voted without registering. If these reports turn out to be true, then the Palestinians have to make an important choice: whether to be just another dictatorial and corrupt Middle East country, or whether to be the second democratic country in the region. They will have to decide this. That is the challenge."


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August 16, 2013
By David Martin
|Carl Weiner, M.D.
One of the most notorious prescription drug debacles in recent history involved the German-developed medication thalidomide. Doctors in Europe first prescribed thalidomide in the late 1950s to treat anxiety, insomnia and, in pregnant women, morning sickness. Thalidomide was withdrawn from the market in the early 1960s when doctors discovered that it caused devastating birth defects. About 10,000 children around the world were born with major malformations because their mothers had taken the drug during early pregnancy.
In the wake of the disaster, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created a "Pregnancy Risk Factor" grading system for medications. Drugs now receive one of five grades — A, B, C, D or X — based on what's known about the risk they pose to a developing fetus. These grades are typically assigned when the drug is first released onto the market.
The system has limits. Two-thirds of all drugs sold in the United States are classified as Category C. The FDA says drugs in this category should be taken if the benefits outweigh the risk — a not particularly helpful recommendation.
In addition to carrying vague warnings, drugs can be slow to find their way into Category X, considered to be the most potentially harmful (thalidomide is Category X). For example, this past spring, the FDA advised that pregnant women should not take the anti-seizure medication valproic acid. But obstetricians have been warning of the dangers of valproic acid for years.
"We've known for decades that this drug causes birth defects," says Carl Weiner, M.D., an obstetrician and expert in maternal-fetal medicine. "We know that there are other drugs that we can use in pregnancy that have a better safety profile from the standpoint of the fetus, but they might not be as effective in controlling the mother's seizures."
Weiner, professor and the Kermit E. Krantz Chair in Gynecology & Obstetrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, says the use of medication during pregnancy is a neglected area of research. Only a few drugs are tested on pregnant women. In fact, in 1977, the FDA excluded all women of childbearing age from early phases of clinical trials. The decision was overruled in 1993. Still, much of the knowledge of a drug's impact on pregnancy — and pregnancy's impact on a drug — is derived from animal tests, epidemiological studies and registries of women who take medication and volunteer to provide information during and after their pregnancies.
"The art of medicine is based on relative risk, and it's no different if we're talking about a pregnant woman," Weiner says. "Because this information has been hard to come by, because it was poorly distilled for use, physicians frequently tell women, 'Stop all your medicine.' But the truth is, many of those medicines were needed and stopping them posed a risk to the mother and the pregnancy."
Weiner has worked to educate physicians about medication use pregnant and breast-feeding patients. He is the co-author of a textbook, "Drugs for Pregnant and Lactating Women," about to enter its fourth edition.
Between updates, Weiner began to think about taking the material in the textbook and making it accessible to a wider audience. He found a professional lay medical writer, Kate Rope, who helped him translate the updated information into an affordable book for patients. The book, "The Complete Guide to Medications During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding," was published this past April.
The A-to-Z directory starts with acarbose and ends with zolpidem. Each entry describes how the drug works, how it affects the mother and her baby, its safety while breastfeeding, any reasons for avoiding it, the potential interactions and a "bottom line" assessment. The guide, for instance, notes that acetaminophen is the "pain reliever of choice in the first trimester if one must be used."
Weiner hopes that women will use guide as a springboard for a discussion with their health care providers. "A book is frozen in time," he says. "New information comes out all the time. But they could use what we are providing them as a starting point to question whether a particular drug was safe for them."
One challenge for Weiner and other obstetricians is that women of childbearing age are more likely to be taking medication than they were in the past. "We live in a far more medicated society than we did 20, 30 years ago," Weiner says.
For instance, one in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication. Drugs that target the neurotransmitters related to mood have been associated with birth defects and behavioral abnormalities. But untreated depression poses risks, as well. "A woman who cannot function because of the depth of her depression needs medication," Weiner says. "She's not going to help her fetus if she's sick."
In fact, very few medications are considered perfectly safe. Less than 1 percent fall into Category A ("possibility of fetal harm appears remote"). With the rest, women and their health care providers need to work to find a balance between the perceived risk and benefit.
Weiner acknowledges the ambiguity can be frustrating. "We have a tendency to think in black and white terms," he says. "At least in my profession, black and white is the rarity. We have a lot of gray."
One sure way to improve the outcomes of pregnancies is to plan for them. Weiner wishes that more women made a conscious decision to get pregnant. With an unplanned pregnancy, the fetus is more likely to be exposed to drugs and environmental toxins that have adverse effects.
An unplanned pregnancy is also a missed opportunity for preconception care, which has been shown to improve a woman's chances having a having a healthy baby. Weiner would be happy if he met more new patients before the pregnancy has begun.
"If we were proactive, we could really change a lot," he says.
Dr. Weiner discussed breast-feeding with other guests on the KCUR-FM program "Central Standard" on Aug. 15. A podcast of the program is avaialable at this site.


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Fitch Ratings said Monday it expects to assign an investment-grade rating to Northrop Grumman Corp.'s new senior notes.
The military contractor's notes, which will be used to refinance debt maturing this year, will most likely be rated BBB+, the ratings agency said.
Fitch, which has investment-grade ratings on Northrop's other debt, said its ratings "reflect the company's competitive position within the defense industry, a balanced defense product portfolio, high levels of U.S. defense spending, financial flexibility, solid cash generation, and good bookings and backlog."
In afternoon trading, Northrop's shares fell 63 cents to $43.28.


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It has been asserted that the U.S. Export-Import Bank is necessary for the U.S. nuclear industry to be competitive, and for success of the South Carolina economy. This is not supported by the facts.
From 2007 to 2014, just 0.8 percent of South Carolina exports were backed by the bank, which shows how robust our state's export economy is without the help of Ex-Im.
Regarding our nuclear industry, Washington, D.C., should get rid of expensive and onerous regulations currently in place under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and end market-distorting technology programs.
Given that only 2 percent of U.S. exports have Ex-Im backing, is this slush fund even necessary?
Given that 80 percent of Ex-Im subsidies go to large companies such as Boeing, GE and Caterpillar – companies large enough to pay their own lobbyists and to secure private financing – is the taxpayer being properly served?
Given the shoddy accounting provided by the Ex-Im Bank, is another financial "bubble" in the making that will require a taxpayer bailout similar to the housing bubble crisis in late 2007?
Congress should simply let the bank's authorization expire at the end of September, and eliminate this blatant corporate welfare. Big Government needs to break up with Big Business and get our free market back by lifting onerous regulations, and quit picking winners and losers in the marketplace.
Tell your congressman it's time to end corporate welfare, and let the Export-Import Bank expire.
Teri Sullivan
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This company needs shutting down. Their service is dreadful. They let us down an hour before our wedding. We paid for the bus for almost four hours and they got a replacement bus for the last part of the journey, with us less than 45 minutes. When we complained they don't do anything! They are rude, disorganised and usless. The owner of the company is a discrace to say the least. These people should not be allowed to trade. DO NOT BOOK WITH THIS COMPANY
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September 16, 2013
RoadOne IntermodaLogistics' affiliate, QLS Logistic Services LLC, has acquired US Intermodal, Inc., an intermodal trucking and drayage business, which will function as the core of a new, coast-to-coast agent drayage and brokerage business with the name of US IntermodaLogistics.
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Most recently, Pontarelli was owner of US Intermodal, Inc. where he established agent-based intermodal drayage services in key market hubs.
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Today we say goodbye to Leslie Stein, with her fifth contribution to the Cartoonist's Diary column. We also present Ken Parille's newest GRID, in which he evaluates many of the comics of 2011, including Habibi, Holy Terror, The Death-Ray, and many others.
One of the comics Parille discusses is Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve 12, which I happened to finally read just a few days ago, though I purchased it the day of its release. (Not until this past year, after making a sincere effort to read as many comics of interest as possible, have I realized just how many solid comics there actually are being published, and how easy it is to fall behind. I read comics every day, and still haven't gotten to several of the books on Parille's list, for example.) Anyway, this is a very strong issue of Optic Nerve, which I enjoyed enough that it makes me want to go back and re-examine some of his earlier work—his earliest minicomics were raw and very funny, but somewhere along the way, his comics stopped clicking with me on a regular basis. Despite Tomine's obvious artistic command, his characters, plots, and situations seemed so low-stakes, yet were apparently taken so seriously, that I found it hard to relate to what was going on. I wonder now, after enjoying this last issue so much, as well as large portions of Shortcomings, if I was simply misreading him—the story I like best here, "Hortisculpture", is also sort of slight, but the character interplay and dramatic situations are handled so lightly, and his storytelling displays a subtlety so far beyond most of what's being published at the current moment, that the parts end up seeming strong enough to redeem the whole. (Of course, I've only read it once so far, and new facets may reveal themselves on a second or third go-round.)
Parille makes it a point in his column to focus on the key formal aspect of "Hortisculpture": the way its scenes are planned to resemble individual episodes of a daily newspaper strip. This is becoming an increasingly popular strategy — Clowes did something similar in Wilson, Tim Hensley in Wally Gropius, Seth, Ivan Brunetti, David Heatley, etc. — and it produces an interesting effect. In Wilson, portraying the title character's life in discreet strips not only allowed Clowes a formal excuse to experiment with different drawing styles at appropriate moments, but also served to recast the often disturbing incidents of Wilson's life as temporary and humorous situations. A character being sentenced to prison reads differently in the context of a long-running comic strip than it does as the middle section of a more traditional graphic novel. (Is it too early to apply the term "traditional" to graphic novels?) In Wally Gropius, it makes the often perverse goings-on even more unsettling. And in "Hortisculpture" it somehow manages to add a melancholy tone to what is an essential comedic storyline — exploiting not only the reader's natural inclination to fill in the narrative gaps "between the gutters," but also his or her tendency (trained by exposure to so many decades-long strips) to imaginatively extend a comic strip's storyline in all directions. A more traditionally organized story would seem more settled, more complete.
These effects are everywhere in comics these days, and not always created consciously. In their most recent collected editions, Prince Valiant and Gasoline Alley and Little Nemo read differently than they used to–and we see their creators differently because of it. Frank King is revealed as an early graphic novelist; for the first time in decades, readers can begin to experience the wonders inspired by properly printed strips from Foster and McCay, published at or close to their originally intended size.
Of course, we are still not reading these strips as the original readers did. Simply being collected into books changes the strips' context dramatically. When Fantagraphics divides the constantly reprinted EC stories into artist-specific books later this year, it will undoubtedly similarly change our understanding of the work, whether we notice it consciously or not. Sometimes reading the lavish new collections of Terry and the Pirates or Popeye or Dick Tracy or Little Orphan Annie, I wonder what it would have been like to experience these strips as they were published, one daily installment at a time. All of these great proclaimed masterpieces were not intended to be read in large gulps, but in daily sips over decades. Barring accident or disease, I've probably got five or so decades of good vision left, so if I want to try out one of our classics the "real way," I need to get started soon.


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In an attempt to strengthen its presence in the e-cigarette category, Altria Group Inc.'s (MO - Free Report) subsidiary Nu Mark LLC acquired the e-vapor business of Green Smoke Inc. and its affiliates. Per the deal, Altria paid a cash consideration of $110 million and almost $20 million in incentive payment to Green Smoke.
Green Smoke is a well known developer, manufacturer and marketer of e-cigarettes in the United States, which started its operations in 2009. It sells both rechargeable and disposable versions of e-cigarettes in the United States and Israel under the Green Smoke e-vapor brand.
The acquisition is a strategic fit for Altria's e-cigarette business. Moreover, the expertise, experience, supply chain, product lines and customer service of Green Smoke are expected to strengthen Altria's presence in the category. Following the takeover, Altria intends to retain the key management infrastructure of the company.
Altria carrying a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) forayed into the popular e-cigarette category with the launch of MarkTen e-cigarettes in leading markets of Indiana in August 2013. MarkTen can be used both as a disposable as well as a rechargeable device which is helping the brand gain market share quickly.
E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular, especially among youngsters. These battery-powered devices turn a nicotine-based liquid into vapor. These were considered less harmful than traditional tobacco products and, therefore, major tobacco players capitalized on them. Most of the tobacco biggies such as Lorillard Inc.'s Blue E-cig and Reynolds American Inc.'s Vuse also have a strong foothold in the category.
In Nov 2013, Philip Morris International (PM - Free Report) also announced that it would enter the e-cigarette business in late 2015. Moreover, the company announced that it will launch a set of 'Next Generation Product' (NGP) in 2015 to attract adult consumers while reducing the risks related to tobacco products.
Altria's investment in e-cigarettes comes amid growing awareness against tobacco products. 'The New Tobacco Products Directive' endorsed by the European Parliament in Feb 2014 received a green signal from the Council of European Union on Mar 14. The new rule states that e-cigarettes, with nicotine strength of more than 20 milligrams per milliliter, would need authorization as a medicine. Furthermore, curative or preventive qualities of these products need to be proved. E-cigarettes below this level will face the same regulations as conventional tobacco products if their usage as a medicinal product cannot be proved.
We now await the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision on e-cigarettes. The anti-smoking activists have requested the FDA to impose restrictions on e-cigarettes.
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