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Pioneer CT-F1050 Cassette Tape Deck For Parts or RestoreUp for your bidding is a fairly rare Pioneer CT-F1050 cassette tape deck, for parts or restoration. Serial numberAJ9300336. This deck was at the top of the Pioneer line when it was made. Its feature list is about as long as my arm but I'll mention the ones that caught my eye. It features automatic reverse, auto repeat functions, a highly reliable 2 motor tape transport mechanism and a hyperbolic recording/playback head. T is a 3 position tape selection switch for metal, chrome and regular tape. It uses LEDs for function indicators and the level meter. The deck was originally set up for 220 volt European operation but converted to 120 volts for US operation via the voltage selector switch on the deck's back panel. The remote control is not included in this auction. I obtained this tape deck several years ago from a friend who purchased it new from the Army-Air Force Exchange System in Germany about 1982. It was used for several years but eventually required a new drive belt. My friend obtained the belt and installed it himself. One small spring was omitted from the reassembly operation and not wanting to disassemble the deck again, he retired it to storage. It has been stored for at least 20 years. The spring is still taped to the top of the deck. I intended ... read more


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Courtesy of Marvel Comics, here's a preview of Deadpool Team-Up #894, in stores Wednesday, 04/14/2010!
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A DAME TO GET KILLED FOR. When a widow hires Deadpool to avenge her husband and kill The Punisher, Wade Wilson follows a trail that leads him under the city of NY and headfirst into an army of monsters lead by the animated remains of his prey. What he finds is that FrankenCastle is already dead... but that doesn't make him any less deadly. Parental Advisory …$2.99
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2017 Summer Music Camp
Augustana's Summer Music Camp is June 5-10 and led by Dr. Lisa Grevlos, director, and Dr. Christopher Unger, assistant director, along with professors from the Augustana Department of Music.
Music Camp T-shirts
Extra Music Camp T-shirts will be available for $10 at the 1 p.m. Saturday concert (in limited sizes and quantities) at the Chapel.
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When you join your friends (both old and ones you'll soon make) at the Augustana Summer Music Camp, you'll find the finest in musical instruction, performance opportunities and fun for six days. Make one of our Residence Halls your home for the week, enjoy dining in our Morrison Commons, swim in our pool, dance in our hallways, dabble with an instrument you've always wanted to play, learn how to shine in an audition, and make beautiful music while creating lasting memories!
Who can attend?
- Students entering grades 7-12.
What will be offered?
- Large ensembles: Band, Choir, Orchestra
- Small ensembles: Jazz Band, Jazz Choir, Opera Theatre Academy, Brass Choir Academy, Percussion, Piano Trio
- Enrichment ensembles: Beginning/Intermediate Piano - Beginning/Intermediate Guitar
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What would my days be like at Summer Music Camp?
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Monday, June 5
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6:30 p.m.: Recreation, programs, recitals, and social activities
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Injury may have kept Rowan Barrett off the court last night, but his absence didn't injure JDA Dijon, as the team defeated JA Vichy by 18 points.
Three defeats this week alone and Barrett's absence would be enough to unnerve any team, but any nerves the team might have had didn't last long. Derrick Davenport dove in, scoring the teams first five points, and the end of the first quarter saw Dijon holding the lead 23-20. Davenport led the team in scoring (21 points) and in rebounds (14).
Bruno Hamm added to the total with two field goals in less than one minute, bringing Dijon to a 32-22 lead. JA Vichy fought hard, but Dijon's defense fought back, not letting their oponents break 34 by the end of the second quarter. However, Dijon reigned in more points, leaving the quarter with 45 points to their name.
Jerome Monnet's nine assists, eight rebounds and one block helped hold off Vichy. Entering the fourth quarter, Dijon was leading 71-62. With a strong momentum and any notion of nerves miles behind them, Dijon ploughed through the fourth quarter, leaving Vichy trailing 96-78.
Nicolas Faure, Coach, JDA Dijon:
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Discussion in 'College Tennis Talk' started by Tayytennis, Sep 12, 2013.
Post your age, name ranking and rating to see if anyone knows anyone
What are yours?
I'm a 4.2, 15 and ranked 150 in open. Play mostly men's. Yours?
We're opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm a 4.2 and 40. I'm probably your dad's age!
Only played a little this year after a longish break due to injury, will play more seriously next year. I will play opens and some itf vets events.
Edit: just realised this was in the college section!
Hahaha, ok cool. Good luck with your vets!
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The spring book festival season is underway. As a public service, here is a list of bad behavior I've observed and/or had to contend with.
Panel Moderator:
- Wait to contact panelists till two days before the event—or not at all.
- Be unfamiliar with panelists' work: Not read author's book (at least the first few chapters and website); not know who the literary agent represents; not know titles the editor has worked on.
- Have no agenda for the panel, or a vague one, e.g., "I will read brief introductions, and each of you should speak for 12-15 minutes. Then we will take a few questions."
- Let panelists talk for so long that there's no time for audience Q&A. (This happened with the panel in #3.)
- Talk a lot about yourself or read from your own book. Your job is to help the panelists shine. If they look brilliant, so will you.
- Cancel at the last minute because you just realized that the finances won't work for you. Or cancel due to "family reasons"—but keep the plane ticket the organizers paid for.
- Author: Leave book at home, or not have a reading figured out—and practiced!—beforehand. Agent/editor: Leave business cards at home.
- Read for 15 minutes when you're asked to read for five.
- Monopolize the conversation and/or interrupt other panelists.
- Belittle the moderator ("If you'd read my book…"), other panelists ("I can't believe you'd say such a stupid thing!") or audience members ("If you'd been listening, you wouldn't need to ask that question.")
- Leave your cellphone ringer on.
- Give copies of your manuscript or self-published book to panelists.
- Pitch your book during Q&A session.
- Ask self-serving questions instead of general ones. ("Why didn't you answer the query I sent you six months ago?" vs. "What should a writer do if an agent hasn't responded to their query after six months?")
- Engage a panelist in lengthy conversation afterwards, when there's a line of people waiting behind you.
After more than a year of silence, I thought my father's 106th birthday would be a good day to start posting to this blog again. Especially since I acquired this photo yesterday.
One would think that the headline for the caption that ran with the above photo would be something like "Oh, You Kids!" But one would be very wrong. Here's what's on the other side, date stamped Aug 6 1940:
Why would such a story run four years after the divorce and some two years after my father had married again? Dad was still appearing on radio but his movie career had plummeted since 1938, when Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn called him a "Red sonofabitch" and said that any studio that renewed his contract should be fined $100,000. Consequently Dad was in just two pictures in 1940, down from eight in 1936. What an odd coincidence that just eight days after the above photo was stamped, "secret" testimony about him was leaked to the press in Los Angeles.MOVIE COMEDIANS CAN'T STAY MARRIEDLIONEL STANDER divorced Mrs. Lucy Stander in 1936. He charged she was hostile and belligerent and would call him names in the presence of their friends. She also told him, according to his complaint, that she was tired of him and regarded her marriage as a handicap. The Standers had been married eight years.
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"HOLLYWOOD STARS ACCUSED AS REDS BEFORE GRAND JURY," trumpeted the New York Times on August 15. "The testimony identified the following as Communist members, sympathizers or contributors: Lionel Stander, actor; Jean Muir, actress... The witness who gave the Hollywood names was John R. Leech, alleged former 'chief functionary' for the Communist party in Los Angeles... Mr. Stander, himself, in recent appearances before the grand jury denied he ever knew Mr. Leech or was a member of the party."
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I still remember the day in late 2004 that an unexpected package arrived from St. Martin's Press. Inside was an advanced reading copy of SNOBS, the debut novel of Julian Fellowes. Stephen Fry's blurb on the back cover got me hooked: "A delicious thoroughbred delight, a guilty treat that is awake to every maddeningly and appallingly attractive nuance of English social life."
I gobbled up the book, then snagged a phone interview with Mr. Fellowes courtesy of my new best friends at St. Martin's. The piece ran in Bookreporter.com in Feb. 2005. It seems to have been pulled, but my interview with Mr. Fellowes about his second novel, PAST IMPERFECT, is still there. Fans of Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess in "Downton" will enjoy Lady Uckfield in SNOBS (soon to be rereleased with a new cover, per today's NYT.
At the tender age of 55 [in 2005], Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes has just had his first novel, SNOBS, published in the United States. Born in Egypt, where his father was in the Foreign Office, Fellowes grew up in England and attended Cambridge. After going to drama school, he was a "jobbing actor for ages" and appeared in more than 40 movies and TV shows. Fed up with going to auditions, Fellowes turned to writing and worked for a while for BBC TV, where he adapted LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY and THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER for the small screen. Subsequently he wrote a screenplay for Anthony Trollope's THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS, which caught the eye of producer Bob Balaban, who was looking for a British society insider to write a screenplay for a murder mystery. "And so 'Gosford Park' was born, and so was the rest of my life," Fellowes explains.
In addition to "Gosford Park," Fellowes wrote the screenplay for "Vanity Fair" and the book for the new London musical "Mary Poppins." He also wrote and directed "Separate Lives," a film starring Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson and Rupert Everett, which opens in the U.K. in March. He describes it as "a little art house British movie about middle-class people being unhappily married, and so will doubtless be steamrollered in the Big, Bad World but I love it and I loved making it so I have no sad tales to tell." Never one to sit idle, Fellowes is currently writing a family movie for Columbia pictures; SNOBS is in the works as a three-part series for British TV. He and his wife Emma Kitchener, a descendant of Lord Kitchener and a
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My father died 17 years ago today. November 30 is also Mark Twain's birthday. I imagine Dad would have liked to be linked to Twain, however tenuously. Funny... I just now remembered that I read THE INNOCENTS ABROAD the one time I visited Dad at his home in L.A.
In his early years in Hollywood, Dad lent his voice to various progressive causes, which got him branded as "a Red sonofabitch" (allegedly by Columbia Pictures honcho Harry Cohn), then tailed for decades by the FBI. The sign proclaiming "SCHOLARSHIPS NOT BATTLESHIPS" in this photo from 1937 (below) would have been perfect for an anti-Vietnam War demonstration--or an Occupy rally now. Alas, Dad and the other peaceniks were proved wrong four years later, when battleships became vastly more necessary.
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My latest acquisition (above) is an AP Wirephoto of my father from 1953. Caption:
NEW YORK, May 6--Rep. Harold Velde, left, (R-Ill. chairman of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, points a warning finger at witness Lionel Stander, seated at right, during the actor's testimony here today. Stander refused to tell the committee at an open hearing whether he had ever been a Communist. He said he was not now a Communist, but refused to say whether he was a party member between 1935 and 1948. Rep. Morgan M. Moulder (D-Mo9.) sits beside Velde.
To the legislators of 2011 and most especially the candidates of 2012, I offer this excerpt from Charles Dickens's LITTLE DORRIT:
Containing the whole Science of GovernmentWhatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving--HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be--what it was.
It is true that How not to do it was the great study and object of all public departments and professional politicians all round the Circumlocution Office. It is true that every new premier and every new government, coming in because they had upheld a certain thing as necessary to be done, were no sooner come in than they applied their utmost faculties to discovering How not to do it. It is true that from the moment when a general election was over, every returned man who had been raving on hustings because it hadn't been done, and who had been asking the friends of the honourable gentleman in the opposite interest on pain of impeachment to tell him why it hadn't been done, and who had been asserting that it must be done, and who had been pledging himself that it should be done, began to devise, How it was not to be done. It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. It is true that the royal speech at the opening of such session virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have a considerable stroke of work to do, and you will please to retire to your respective chambers, and discuss, How not to do it. It is true that the royal speech, at the close of such session, virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have through several laborious months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you have found out; and with the blessing of Providence upon the harvest (natural, not political), I now dismiss you. All this is true, but the Circumlocution Office went beyond it.
I kept thinking how much the US Congress dickering over the debt ceiling is just like Dickens's Circumlocution Office, with all the talk of why "it can't be done." So I put aside Susan Isaacs's LILY WHITE, which was boring me, in favor of LITTLE DORRIT, which isn't.
The cinematic opening, which I looked for in vain when I watched the BBC series, fits right in with the breathless weather we're having:
Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes. These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves.This may be the last time I read my Penguin paperback edition, which I bought in 1984, as the pages keep fluttering out of the cracked binding. It's odd to have a book that I remember buying new to be looking--and especially smelling--so old.
There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without. The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed. Boats without awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months.
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The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson's debut novel from Ecco Press, opens with:
Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. "You make a mess and then you walk away from it," their daughter, Annie, told them.And what a mess Caleb and Camille Fang have made of Annie and her younger brother Buster! Labeled "Child A" and "Child B," from infancy they were pressed into service—not always willingly, or even wittingly—as key players in their parents' notorious performance art pieces.
Having attended art school and hung around the Manhattan art/music scene of the late '70s and early '80s, I came of age with people like Caleb and Camille Fang. I was curious how Kevin Wilson managed to capture them and their milieu with such piercing, tragicomic accuracy....
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"No corrupt mind ever understands words healthily."
--THE DECAMERON (c1350), Giovanni Boccaccio
Very quotable. I'm reminded of a good one (I thought) I heard on the radio the other day. Leonard Woolf: "Nothing matters and everything matters". I think I know what he means.
At a Denver riding club on May 1, 2006, Gomez the Thoroughbred threw me into a steel-pipe fence. My first-ever helicopter ride brought me to Swedish Hospital, where I spent a week in the multi-trauma unit. My body and psyche were as shattered as my glasses (see May 1, 2009, post with pic here).
Five years later, I'm finally healed. I think. I hope.
There's a difference between "healed" and "all better." After 3 surgeries on my right arm, I still have to carefully position it when I lie in bed. Three fingers on my dominant right hand remain partly to mostly numb. My right upper lip is numb; so is my right upper eyelid and my right forehead from just above the inner brow to the hairline. That eyebrow also is higher than the left, and doesn't go down when I frown. After rhinoplasty and 3 root canals, my nose and front teeth still hurt.
But the progress outweighs the remaining pain. For the first time in 5 years, the other day I was able to clasp my hands behind my back--and even raise them several inches. Last month my dentist applied a resin veneer to cover the gray on my dead right front tooth. So now I don't have to remind myself to keep my lips closed when I smile.
Even better, I no longer panic when I hear sirens or helicopters, or the news on radio/TV, or squealing tires on ads, or a football scrimmage (I still can't watch, but I never liked football anyway). Nor do I burst into tears when I see photographs of carnage or destruction in the newspaper, though I still have to cover some of them.
My short-term memory has returned. I couldn't remember a string of digits long enough to write down a phone number. I had to listen to a voice mail 3 or 4 times--first for the area code, then the exchange, then the next 2 digits, then the last 2. People thought I was kidding when I pleaded brain damage. I wasn't; 3 years after my accident a CT-scan finding was "traumatic brain injury."
"Time is a great healer," goes the old saying. True, but I wouldn't have gotten this far without the help of my gifted therapist in Denver, Mel Grusing, who practices Somatic Experiencing.
A new therapist just provided the last piece in my healing process. His name is Superstar, and he's a shaggy, battered little rescue horse at Blue Ribbon Farm in Tivoli, NY. After Gomez nearly killed me, I swore I'd never get on another Thoroughbred again. (Funny how my new digs back onto a racing horse farm, pictured at top.) But Superstar, who's the proverbial bombproof horse, made me eat my words. I've ridden him twice and can't wait to get back in the saddle.
Tally ho!
Congrats Bella! What a long journey.
That is amazing news. After all this time and the baby steps needed to feel almost whole again, riding Superstar must have felt like the final stroke of colour on a painting.
I hope you will soon be pain free.
So happy to read about your recovery. I had no idea. You are so brave, strong and beautiful. xoxo/Mo
Wonderful, Bella. Good for you!
I'm so glad to hear about your progress. Congratulations and here's hoping for continued improvement.
You never cease to amaze me. Congratulations on a very large step forward. Indeed, many happy trails ahead!
I laughed out loud when I saw this AP headline:
LOVE the lede:
Newt Gingrich says his passion for his country contributed to his marital infidelity.Yes, and my passion for dessert contributed to my thighs...
What follows is a motherlode of self-serving hypocrisy. Consider this gem:
The twice-divorced former U.S. House speaker has admitted he had an affair with Callista, a former congressional aide, while married to his second wife. It happened at the same time he was attacking President Bill Clinton for his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.Takeaway (via Jon Stewart): There are 3 women who'd have sex with Newt Gingrich!
The piece ends with this emetic tidbit:
He also said former Georgia Gov. Zell Miller, a Democrat who has backed many Republicans in recent years, will serve as a co-chairman of his national campaign effort.
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Above, a group of young men in Tahrir Square, by Moises Saman for The New York Times.
Below, "The Taking of Christ" (c. 1602) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, at the National Gallery of Ireland.
My driveway was plowed early yesterday--apparently after the newspaper was delivered, as I spotted its bright blue plastic wrapper peeking out of a snow bank this morning. I read the "Weekend Arts" section over lunch and hit gold in an article about the Winter Antiques Show, A Smorgasbord of Fine Art, the Strange and the Old:
At Allan Katz, there is a sculpture of two voluptuous nude women, one fondling the other's breast, smoothly carved from a solid block of mahogany. This comical, curiously erotic fusion of autodidactic craft and neo-Classical style is believed to have been created by an unknown artisan about 1920 for a Buffalo sex cult.1920. Buffalo. SEX CULT.
Think of the possibilities: Farce, murder mystery, morality tale, amorality tale...against a backdrop of snow and Niagara Falls.
The mind reels.
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A snowstorm is Nature's way of saying "Stay home!" And I'd gladly hibernate inside, only I have this 64-pound bundle of joy that needs off-leash romps several times a day. So I put on the puffy jacket, pulled up the tall boots and ventured out.
Abby went over to the car, as usual, and was incredulous when I started walking up the street. After a bit of convincing--she didn't understand about the driveway not being plowed--she came bounding through the snow. We trespassed in our neighbors' backyards (nobody else was outside; go figure) then ended up in our own, where I took these pictures.
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My father would have been 103 years old today (the simplest date of all: 1/11/11). My latest acquisition of Lionel Stander memorabilia is a publicity still from The Big Show-Off, released in January 1945. I haven't seen it, but per the synopsis it's a typical Republic Pictures "B" picture. Its one claim to fame is that it stars Dale Evans just before she hitched up with Roy Rogers.
I visited my mom and stepfather in Maine two weeks ago. While I was doing my morning stretches, I suddenly noticed a book, which I'm sure had been on the same shelf for 20 years: BUILDING A CHARACTER. "Huh," I thought. "This might be useful in writing fiction." (I've been working on The Great American Potboiler, in fits and starts, for several years.)
I pulled the book down, and saw that the author was Constantin Stanislavski, inventor of "The Method" espoused by Jacob & Stella Adler, and countless other of Dad's actor friends.
I opened the book and was surprised to find that it was from the New York Public Library's Bloomingdale Branch, on West 100th St. Even more surprising, my father's temporary library card was in the pocket, with our old West End Avenue address and phone number--proof that he had indeed moved back in with Mom and me. The book was borrowed Dec 16, 1961, and due on Jan 26, 1962. The overdue fine is 5¢ "per calendar day." That's almost $900 by now, so this is a very valuable book.
I felt a mental connection with Dad when I started reading BUILDING A CHARACTER: this was a book that he went out of his way to read. The Dewey card is stuck between the first two pages of Chapter Four: "Making the Body Expressive." Did Dad get bored and stop there? That chapter is a bit of a slog. But he was such a voracious reader--usually a book per day--and Stanislavski's work so important that I'd like to think he read all the way through.
As luck would have it, today I found a bit on YouTube from "The Danny Kaye Radio Show," in which Kaye hilariously explains the Stanislavski Method to my father, who was a regular on the show. What I miss most about Dad is his voice, which is like no other. (I've never heard a credible imitation. When I was little my mother took me to the doctor because my voice was hoarse. Turned out I was trying to speak like Daddy.) So it's wonderful to be able to hear him long after his death--and long before my birth. He gets a few lines to set up the bit, then it's all Danny Kaye. Listen:
Someone built a snow(wo?)man at Burger Hill, Rhinebeck, our default dogwalking venue. Abby wasn't having any part of it. After much barking--plus a treat placed at its base--she cautiously approached before going up the hill with me.
She barked at it again on the way down. One can't be too careful...
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Abby 2 days ago after a good night's sleep (note pillow on floor), with her ball & Boy Wonder's gently chewed shoes.
In my July 24 update on Mother's Little Odalisque, I said I'd put heavier furniture on the couch (see above) to keep Abby off. That worked like a charm. Now my Clever Girl is pulling the throw pillows, which I stack on a chair at night, onto the floor to cushion her weary head. One of my next purchases will be a cushy dog bed, which she'd damn well better sleep on.
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Halloween's coming, which means it's time once again for Publicity Horror Stories. Send yours in today! Anonymity strictly guaranteed.
For starters, here's a creepy tale from a book review editor at a regional publication:
I occasionally get these nasty emails from self-published authors or authors whose books don't fit with what we cover. Here's one I got last week, from some sort of Ph.D. guy:
"Well, the books are in. Are you interested or not? I believe I have had enough of a career to merit a response."
It's always men who send these kinds of angry emails. When I was on maternity leave for 6 weeks with my last baby, some other guy was emailing me repeatedly, getting angry that I wasn't answering. Finally when I got back to work I told him that I'd been on maternity leave, he was like, "Oh, sorry. So will you review my book?"
So she just left her work email unanswered for six weeks? No auto-reply saying "I'm on maternity leave?" No backup from anyone else in the office? WTF?
Seated: Brady, Abby, Bumble (our canine host) and Poppy. Standing: Michelle, Marty (holding Clarissa), Polly and Gracious Hostess Colleen (look out, Martha Stewart!).
Abby is the only dog I've had whose real birthday I've known: Nov 7, the day before mine. I told that to my wonderful new friend Colleen, who decided to throw Abby a birthday party. (We met while walking dogs; go figure.) So at 8:00 a.m. today, 5 women and 5 canines met at her Gracious Home (a fabu 1770s farmhouse with 1820s addition) for a wet but lovely walk.
Colleen doesn't do anything by half-measures: afterward there were wheat- and corn-free cookies from Pause Dog Boutique for the canines; coffee, homemade muffins and birthday cake for the humans. Plus a specially decorated cake for Abby to take home, which I'll give her Sunday when I'm hosting a birthday party at my own (much newer, smaller) Gracious Home.
Above: Brady, Bumble and Abby sniff at the goodies offered by Colleen. I'm the astonished one at left; Marty is holding Clarissa.
Below: I give Clarissa a treat while Bumble, Brady and Abby look on. (They'd just had one but of course wanted more.)
Hey, Bella!
Looks like the move really agrees with you!
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My friend Martha asked me to send her my "traditional" recipes for Thanksgiving. In the spirit of giving, I thought I'd share them with you all.
Garlicky Cranberry Chutney
Adapted from Madhur Jaffrey's East/West Menus for Family & Friends (Harper & Row, 1987)
1-inch fresh ginger, peeled
3 cloves finely chopped garlic
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
4 TBS brown sugar
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1 can cranberry sauce with berries or 1 qt homemade sauce (or however much you get from a bag of fresh cranberries)
approx 1/2 tsp salt
a few grinds of ground black pepper
Cut ginger into paper-thin slices, stack them together and cut into really thin slivers. Combine with garlic, vinegar, sugar and cayenne in a small pot. Simmer on medium heat about 15 minutes or until there are about 4 TBS liquid left.
Add cranberry sauce, salt and pepper. Simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes. Let cool, then serve. It will keep for several days--if you don't finish it ALL after the first taste!
Bella's Garden Rice Stuffing
Cook 2 cups Arborio rice in 4 cups water.
Mix with:
1 lg onion, chopped
approx 1 cup toasted pecans, broken in pieces
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 med. carrot, chopped
1 tsp allspice
at least 1 TBS dried oregano
5 large sage leaves, chopped fine
10 lemon balm leaves, chopped fine
leaves from approx 6 sprigs of thyme, chopped fine
40 grinds black pepper
1 tsp salt
When cool enough to handle, stuff in bird. Put remainder in ovenproof casserole and bake in oven 1 hour at 325° (along with turkey, if your oven's big enough)
Turkey with Roasted Garlic Butter
(Washington Post, 1997)
2 whole bulbs garlic
2 TBS olive oil
8 TBS (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 tsp salt
Uncooked turkey at room temperature
Preheat oven to 350°. Cut about 1/2 inch off the top of the garlic bulbs to expose each clove. Drizzle with oil and loosely wrap the bulbs, cut ends up, in aluminum foil. Bake until soft to the touch, 45-60 mins. Let cool until easy to handle.
Squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins. Discard skins. Mix the garlic pulp with butter and salt. Reserve 2 TBS of the mixture. Rub the rest of it under the turkey skin (loosen with your fingers on the back and legs).
Preheat oven to 325 °. Put turkey on rack in roasting pan. After stuffing it, rub the remaining 2 TBS of butter all over the skin.
Roast for about 45 mins, till golden brown. Tent with foil and continue roasting. After 2 more hours, baste with pan juices every 15 mins till bird is done (approx 3-1/2 hrs for 12-14 lb bird). Use juices to make the best gravy EVER.
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My father died 16 years ago today. Unaware of the date, yesterday I rearranged the Dad Wall in my dining area. More than two years after acquiring the above photo (part of a large lot) I read the caption on the back:
Eager to preserve his new furniture as long as possible, eccentric Lionel Stander, most popular of Hollywood comedians, selects this strange pose for purpose of relaxation and reading. Whether the book's more interesting read sidewise is a question only Stander can answer. His latest Columbia picture is "Cinderella Man," directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Lionel recently moved into a renovated farmhouse in the center of Hollywood, modernized for him by R. M. Schindler."Cinderella Man," retitled "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," was named Best Picture of 1936 by the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review. Capra won his second Oscar for directing and Cooper was nominated as Best Actor. My eldest half-sister was 3; my mother was 2.
The man who "modernized" Dad's house was noted architect Rudolph Michael Schindler, an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra. According to this list, in 1935 Schindler remodeled a house for "L. Stander, 2006 La Brea Terrace, Hollywood" and "Apartments for L. Stander, Los Angeles." Wish I knew the story behind those apartments. The house takes a good satellite picture:
OMG, the house recently sold for $3.75M! Here's the realtor's listing:
COVETED GATED LA BREA TERRACE PRIVATE COMPOUNDLooks like an old farmhouse all right, but the windows were changed:
4 Bedrooms | 4.0 Bathrooms | 3,753 Sq. Ft. | 23,070 Sq. FT. Lot
Rarely are homes available in this private neighborhood. On over half an acre of private gardens is this fine home. Large LR w/ fplc, formal DR, kitchen with best appliances, play room, FR, library w/ fplc. Master with balcony, fplc, sitting area, bath with spa tub. Pecan floors throughout. Pool, outside fireplace, guest house with LR, kitchen, 1BD and 1BA and 2 separate garages for 4 cars. RECENTLY LISTED FOR $5,500,000, CURRENT PRICE MAKES THIS PROPERTY AN OUTSTANDING VALUE IN TODAYS MARKET.
That photo of your father is a classic. The picture looks like "a place in time." Very cool that your dad was in comedy.
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The view from my kitchen window a few minutes ago. Alas, the food fights stop (finches are very scrappy) as soon as I get near the window with my camera.
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Holiday thoughts from razor-witted Patrick Dennis (aka Edward Everett Tanner III), who deserves to be remembered as the author of books beyond AUNTIE MAME.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME (1958) begins with this:
Christmas is nearly here and I look forward to it more and more with loathing. All the shops that didn't have their holiday decorations up by Michaelmas made up for it with sheer ostentation by Halloween. Canned carols bleat from every corner. The clerks at Saks are surlier, the ones at Lord & Taylor lordlier, the ones at Bergdorf's bitchier than at any other season.From THE JOYOUS SEASON* (1964), narrated by a 10-year-old boy:
Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and hold-ups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.*Confession: I've put down THE FINKLER QUESTION twice to reread Patrick Dennis. Interpret as you wish.
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SANTA FE, N.M. {AP} Weeks before he was to leave office in 1986, New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya emptied death row, commuting all five inmates' sentences to life imprisonment.
He could have reached out to one more but didn't: child killer Terry Clark, who faces death by injection Tuesday. If the execution is carried out, Clark will be the first person executed in New Mexico in more than 41 years.
"Legally, I could have prevented it," said Anaya, a lawyer now in private practice in Santa Fe and an opponent of capital punishment.
"As (the execution) gets closer, I continue to second-guess my decision ... wondering if I did the right thing," he said. "It's very personal to me."
Anaya, a Democrat, was governor in July 1986 when a 9-year-old girl in the southeastern oil town of Artesia disappeared during a five-block bike ride to a convenience store.
Dena Lynn Gore's body was later found in a shallow grave on a ranch north of town. Clark, a ranch hand and convicted child molester, was arrested.
Believing that Clark would be convicted and sentenced to death for killing Dena Lynn and with the prospect of a commutation from Anaya if that happened Clark's public defenders advised him to plead guilty in December 1986 and tried to get him sentenced quickly.
But a state district judge refused to set a sentencing hearing before Anaya's term ended Dec. 31, saying he was too busy and the governor's office was meddling.
Clark's lawyers tried to persuade Anaya to grant a conditional pardon before Clark was sentenced, guaranteeing him a life term rather than death, but Anaya refused.
"While a governor has immense powers to commute or pardon, the line has to be drawn somewhere," he said in a speech on his next-to-last day in office.
Critics already were threatening a constitutional amendment to strip the governor's office of pardoning powers, and Anaya worried about a greater backlash if he pardoned Clark.
"There was certainly a high degree of risk," Steve Aarons, one of Clark's original lawyers, said of their strategy. But Clark had told them he wanted to plead guilty to spare the Gore family further pain, he said.
"There were still a lot of reasons to hope when we took that dangerous step," Aarons said.
Gov. Gary Johnson has now refused to intervene, saying he believes Clark is guilty and that his trial was fair. Dave Miller, Johnson's legislative liaison, said Clark may be "the poster child for execution," since he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and shooting the child and told a minister he raped her.
But lawyers have argued most recently in a last-ditch appeal filed a week before the execution date that Clark's guilty plea was based on a false promise of a commuted sentence.
They also say that because of possible brain damage, Clark might not have been competent to plead guilty, and they argue that years in solitary confinement have left him depressed and suicidal, which he disputes.
Clark says he wants to die, that life in prison is "a fate worse than death" and he feels he should pay for the crime.
"I am a man who made a terrible mistake," Clark, 45, wrote to the state Supreme Court from prison two years ago. "I feel the shame of what I did every time I wake up in this place."
He convinced a judge in August, over his lawyers' protests, that he was competent to make the decision to drop his appeals.
But the lawyers are still trying to forestall the execution. They are asking a judge to consider whether the state broke the law by hiring experts from Texas for advice on the execution and by obtaining lethal drugs from a doctor at the New Mexico Health Department.
A statute requires the prison warden to oversee executions, but the warden said seeking guidance from the Texas experts helped the state establish responsible procedures. The state health department also has defended its role in having prescriptions filled for the execution.
Most states where lethal injections are performed get drugs straight from manufacturers to avoid having doctors prescribe the drugs a duty that medical groups have said violates medical ethics.
Anaya worries that Clark's execution will open the door to others.
"I think it's going to begin the process of desensitizing us to the violent nature of killing and the next one will be easier," he said.
There are three other New Mexico prisoners awaiting execution, none with a scheduled date.
The state's capital punishment law is tightly drawn, and juries, especially in the heavily Hispanic, heavily Roman Catholic northern part of the state, have historically been reluctant to impose death sentences.
Since the first state-supervised execution in 1933, seven men have died by electrocution and one in the gas chamber.
Clark's would be the first death by injection and the first in the state since 1960.
The parents of Clark's young victim say they just want the appeals to end and their ordeal to be over.
"I will believe it's over and done when he's strapped into that bed," said Jeff Gore, the girl's father, reached at his home in Chaparral.
Of the latest appeals, Gore said, "It's more games again, some more bleeding hearts getting involved in something they should keep their noses out of. None of them are interested in justice."
Death penalty opponents, meanwhile, are conducting a 41-day vigil outside the state Capitol and intend to protest Tuesday if the execution isn't stopped.
The case will be on Anaya's mind, too.
"I'll probably be saying a prayer for New Mexicans and for Terry Clark's soul," the former governor said.
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If the bad weather has got you stuck inside, here's 10 tracks to keep you occupied.
1. Carrie Underwood "Blown Away"
Hold on to your hats and bundle up because we are in for some stormy weather and Carrie's "Blown Away" is the perfect soundtrack to wait out the storm.
2. Rihanna "Umbrella"
This is an oldie, but a goodie. "Now that it's raining more than ever/ Know that we'll still have each other/ You can stay under my umbrella," Rihanna sings. We dare you to sing along. With high winds you may need more than just one umbrella to keep you dry.
3. The Wanted "Lightning"
With any storm, there's bound to be some thunder and lightning. While this isn't the exact lightning the Wanted were singing about, their sentiment is there.
"I know that it's a little bit frightening/ We might as well be playing with lightning," the boys sing along deep bass beats.
If you need an escape from all this storm talk, this is just the track to help you through it.
4. Adele "Set Fire to the Rain"
There's nothing like cozying up to Adele's music on a dark, stormy night. Leave it to Adele to make a storm sound beautiful.
5. Taylor Swift "Fearless"
Who says you have to be scared of a tornado? Take back that fear an embrace Taylor's attitude. The queen of writing songs about dancing in the rain, just be careful and don't get blown away!
"And I don't know why, but with you I'd dance in a storm in my best dress fearless," she sings.
6. The Weather Girls "It's Raining Men"
It's a classic '80s dance track that you can get your leg warmers and headbands jam out while the thunder rolls!
7. Florence + the Machine "No Light, No Light"
Unfortunately, thousands are expected to be left without power from the aftermath of the storm. A fear for many, being without electricity won't be the worst case scenario if your iPod's fully charged and you keep this track on repeat.
8. Natasha Bedingfield "Pocketful of Sunshine"
Remember to stay optimistic. After all, wouldn't it be nice if we had a pocketful of sunshine right now?
9. Blind Melon "No Rain"
All we can say is rain, rain go away!
10. Matchbox Twenty "She's So Mean"
While frontman Rob Thomas has said the song is about a toxic relationship, we can't help but compare it to one mean woman: Mother Natures storms.
"Everybody's been in that relationship with somebody that no matter how badly they treat you you just keep coming back like a drug for some reason and you're not quite sure," Rob said. "This is about that kind of a relationship."
The difference between the relationship and these storms: we want her to go away. And the sooner the better.


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I knew it wasn't all wine and roses in the hedge fund industry these days, but geez things seem to have really taken a turn for the worse.
One of Dallas' largest and most respected hedge fund firms, WS Capital Management, announced a few weeks ago that it would turn out the lights because the party was over. The fund, operated by Reid Walker and G. Stacy Smith, managed $550 million in assets, which will be returned to investors.
Dallas is home to more than 100 hedge funds, and there are always new ones starting and old ones closing, but WS Capital was one of the heavyweights. In a letter to investors, the firm cited "increased macroeconomic risks" for stock pickers and "liquidity" demands as reasons for the closure.
No one at WS Capital was available to comment, so allow me to translate: The fund's performance has been lackluster, so investors have been withdrawing their money like there is no tomorrow. At its height, WS Capital had about $1 billion in assets.
When I heard about the closing, initially I just thought that Walker and Smith, both respected and savvy money managers, had simply lost their stock-picking mojo. But, alas, that is not the case.
The entire hedge fund industry has been in the doldrums for the better part of three years. And by doldrums I mean mediocre performance and significant asset outflows have disillusioned investors, and they are pulling out their money.
Nationwide, assets managed by 3,000 hedge funds have declined from $2.4 trillion in June 2008, before the financial crisis, to $1.7 trillion currently — a 30 percent drop, according to TrimTabs Investment Research.
The average return for those funds through August is a paltry 3.1 percent, while during that same period the overall stock market gained 13.5 percent.
Same in Dallas
Precise estimates on asset flows and performance for Dallas funds were not available, but hedge fund experts I contacted agreed that the situation in Dallas mirrors that of the rest of the country.
"I don't think investors have given up on hedge funds, but something has changed for now," said Ed Easterling, who is on the advisory board of SMU's Alternative Asset Management Center. "I don't think all of sudden hedge fund guys lost their minds but they are struggling with performance."
Last year, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index posted a 2.1 percent return (including dividends), hedge funds were down 5 percent. Hedge fund managers typically are more aggressive than mutual fund managers, and their goal is to post positive returns in both bull and bear markets.
They use options, futures, shorting and arbitrage to gain an advantage, but in recent years those strategies aren't working too well. Especially in severe down years in the market, such as 2008, hedge funds are supposed to, well, hedge.
But the average hedge fund dropped 20 percent that year.
"Hedge funds have really been struggling with performance," said Leon Mirochnik, vice president at TrimTabs. "They are failing to do what they were created to do, and that is provide absolute [positive] returns no matter what the market does."
Dysfunctional market
No one knows precisely the reason for this, but Easterling's explanation is as plausible as any I've heard. The marketplace has been dysfunctional ever since the financial crisis of 2008. By dysfunctional, he means the stock and bond markets are buffeted and influenced by outside forces that distort their behavior.
For example, the Federal Reserve is artificially holding interest rates down at record low levels by purchasing trillions of dollars of U.S. Treasury bonds. Bond yields would probably be much higher without this intrusion, but hedge fund managers who bet on higher rates were clobbered.
The European debt crisis has also unduly influenced our markets. Hedge fund managers typically prowl the investing landscape looking for mispricing in the markets. Then they buy or sell based on the mispricing and capitalize when the markets re-value the assets.
Many hedge fund managers believed the weak economic recovery would result in lower corporate profits. Actually, companies have been reporting record profits.
"It's just hard for a hedge fund manager to rationally analyze and evaluate a company with so much dysfunction in the markets," Easterling said.
Be that as it may, Easterling believes this long period of underperformance may be followed by a long period of outperformance. Ultimately, when assets are priced either too high or too low, the markets absorb that information and eventually return them to proper value.
At the moment, though, markets aren't functioning normally, but eventually they will. When they do, expect hedge funds to get their mojo back.


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Hello my tap dancing doves! I hope the winter months aren't getting our friends in the polar vortex zone too down in the dumps. I don't care how much fur you own, too much cold is not cute! I do promise you spring will be here before you know it. Here in Los Angeles it has been crazy warm, and we are in drought (with rainfall, not with vodka... I'd never survive).
It seems that no matter where you are, there is always the need for a friendly ear to bounce questions off of. Lately I have been accused of being too nice to the people writing in with questions. Too nice? In all my years on God's green earth, I have never been accused of being too nice! So I thought this column I would sharpen my forked tongue, and just have at it. I love the questions that people write in, so keep them coming! This well of advice knowledge runs deep my darlings, you don't live to be this old and jaded without learning a few tricks.
Dear Idiot,
My boyfriend and I have been going through a bit of a rough patch. We have been together for three years, we live together, and both work full time, so our down time is limited. At my boyfriend's request we decided to spruce up our sex routine by involving a third and (a few times a fourth) participant. At first I was excited about this, and thought it would help and be fun, but lately it just seems like my boyfriend is more into this then I am. Once and a while is fine, but I'm not sure how to reel this situation back in. It feels more like my boyfriend and I are F.W.B., then a couple. Do you have any advice on how we can get back to normal?
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My Dearest Three's a Crowd,
In what Holy Hell did you think bringing someone new into your bedroom with your boyfriend would solve any problems? I'm trying not to get myself to worked up, but this kind of problem runs rampant in the gay community, even my lesbian friends have jumped on the ménage à trois band wagon. And as for normal, sweetheart, no one is normal, some people are just betters actors.
Putting a Band Aid on a dam isn't going to stop it from breaking. Next you're going to be telling me your having a baby to bring you closer together This isn't the 1950s honey.
It sounds to me like you and your boyfriend aren't spending any quality time together, and when you don't put time aside, the relationship suffers. No one is going to put time aside for you, ever. You have to make the time! Inviting some 20-something gymnast, with an ass like granite, into your already waning relationship is not a stellar move. You boys need to sit down and have a heart to heart.
I may be bit of a prude when it comes to this sort of thing. I mean I'm all for fun, but you can't survive on an all-Nutella diet. I've tried. In a relationship you are building and working towards something. [Ed note: The work is like healthy veggies in this metaphor?]
Between work, and personal time, and the everyday mundane rigmarole, it makes it difficult to keep the fun in a relationship. I would first start off by talking with your partner. Explain why this new set up isn't working for you, and then talk about what you both can do, to add some much needed passion to your relationship and bedroom. Sex is so much more fun with someone you care about, remind your man of that fact and for God's sake buy a French maid costume or something fun like that. Go have sex in a birdbath, or on a riding lawn mower in the middle of a Sears. You may get arrested but you'll have a fantastic story to tell. Good luck and talk and listen to each other, this is no time to be single. Look at poor Sharon Stone.
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I have been dating this new guy for a little over a month. We have a great time and I really enjoy him, but he has started borrowing money from me. It started out very casual, we would be out for drinks and he wouldn't have his wallet.
Now it has moved on to asking for cash here and there. Not large amounts of money or anything, and I don't really mind, as I am established in my profession and have the means, I am just starting to feel like this is going to be part of the relationship. Is there a way to get this to stop, or at least make him more aware that this is starting to bug me a little.
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My Darling Here's a $20,
How can I phrase this gingerly? Tell that free loading trick to get to steppin'.
Now that that's out of my system, ahem. It sounds to me like you are at the beginning stages of being taken advantage of. As a rich white woman who never lets anyone pay for me (except my parents and my very good friends), I know that this can become a relationship problem. It starts with always paying for drinks, then to buying dinners all the time, followed by vacations and then prize sperm from a Kentucky Derby winner (the horse, not the jockey).
You may be headed down a similar path. There are subtle ways you can deal with this, like going out for coffee together and having him pay, you order first, and then walk away, maybe forget your wallet, putting your partner on the spot. I mean usually I'm not the passive aggressive type, but if avoiding confrontation is your handle, you can try that.
But if this is your partner's pattern, then he is going to be a pro at covering his own ass and making you feel bad for asking, and calling him out. We don't get taken advantage without our own permission. Be assertive and standup for yourself. You can always ask in private setting if he realizes he is doing this, and that he's putting you on the spot. Any situation that comes up in a relationship where one of the participants has an issue, it needs to be discussed in an appropriate setting. Or sooner or later the two of you will be having a full on fight in the middle of an American Girl Store, and having security escort you out of the tea room. Don't be a cliché, that's my job.
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With less than a week until New York Fashion Week begins, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has written a letter to its members to encourage diversity of models in the shows.
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The letter stated: "ask model agencies to include models of colour when casting. Do not assume agents will automatically do so. It's good for them to hear the interest and important to see what models of colour are available."
Diversity on the runway is on the rise at New York Fashion Week. In February nearly 31.9 per cent of models were from Black, Asian or minority backgrounds, a 10 per cent rise from the previous six months.
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A CHARITY set up 20 years ago to offer help and advice to residents in one of Scotland's most diverse communities is seeking a new home after seeing a massive increase in the number of people seeking its support.
The Well, which is based in Govanhill, Glasgow, was initially set up as a trial project by the Church of Scotland in 1994 and became an independent charity three years ago. Volunteers help members of the community, particularly people from Pakistan, with benefits problems, job searches and personal issues.
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Last year, more than 10 percent of Atlanta Public Schools students didn't attend school on the first day of classes.
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I'm a 34-year-old black woman with a curvy body type, often believed to be six to 10 years younger than my actual age (due to my baby face). I've done a fair bit of stage acting and was a supporting actress in an independent movie a few years ago, but I'm now desirous to pursue a full-time acting career in film and television. I've been encouraged for years by many actor friends to pursue acting seriously, but I think I was fearful of making the plunge before. I now feel I'm ready to make that commitment and have decided to start by getting some solid training.
However, my biggest concern is the age factor. In a few months, I'll embark on a two-year Meisner training program in New York. That means that I'll be 36 or 37 when my training is completed. Instead of committing two years to full-time actor training, should I choose instead to study part time while pursuing acting work? (The program doesn't prohibit me from accepting acting work, but since it's full-time, there may not be much time for me to attend auditions, or shoots if I do land a job.)
I understand that it's never too late to do anything, including acting, but the reality is that it's not practical to pursue certain things after a certain age. (For example, it's highly impractical to think that one can become an Olympic gold-medal gymnast if one begins to train at 30.) Am I too old to embark on a serious acting career? In an acting career, one can expect to invest at least five years before making any significant dent in the business, if any at all. Hence, my concern is that by the time I have made significant strides, I will be at an age when there are very minimal roles. Also, it seems that age can be a prohibitive factor when trying to get an agent. I've been told, and have read, that agents prefer to invest in talent under the age of 25. No agent equals no work!
I know that I may sound confused, and maybe I am, but I'm about to make a serious investment, and while I am realistic about the industry and know that most people never make it, I also want to make an informed decision, so that I know what my limitations and possible obstacles to success will be.
—Too Old?. New York City
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I think I can shed some light on your questions. First, let's talk about the question of timing. For some actors, starting early is important. For others, it's less important. What determines your optimal timing? It all comes down to type.
Beautiful young leading men and women are better off diving in while they're the right age for the roles they're most likely to play. As they get into middle age, there may be fewer roles for them. For character types (like me), it's often the opposite. While the early part of a character actor's career can be frustrating, as we age we find more roles for which we're right. I needed to get well into my 30s before I worked with any regularity, playing lawyers, doctors, high school principals, teachers, parents, and so forth.
If you're using the word "curvy" to mean you're on the heavy side, I'm guessing you may find there are more roles for you later on. If you mean you're cast a lot as the hot girl, now might be your time. Look at the parts you're right for; how old are those characters? If you're not yet sure where your TV/film persona will land, that's fine too. But if that's the case, I'd go ahead with your planned Meisner program and keep auditioning. If you find that you're working too much to continue the program, then, like that comedian says, "There's your sign." Go with the work and return to class later. Or you could enquire about evening and weekend classes (some Meisner schools offer them) and ask whether you might be able to switch to such a program if the work takes off.
But what makes me worry about you a bit is your decision-making process as you consider whether to pursue an acting career at all. You seem to be looking for a business model, and in that respect, this profession never fares very well. The projections don't begin to look promising until you're already established. It sounds like you're trying to nail things down, map out a reliable plan, and assess your chances of success or of getting an agent. While I admire your almost scientific approach, you can drive yourself nuts that way. As I point out again and again in this column, our business just isn't that predictable. Yes, starting late could present significant challenges and maybe prove prohibitive. On the other hand, some working actors—even some very successful ones—began careers later in life. There's no telling how it'll go for you.
I would gently suggest that if you're looking for assurances of success before you can feel comfortable committing, then maybe this profession isn't for you—and I don't say that as a putdown. You ask whether you're too old to embark on a serious acting career, pointing out the potential impracticality of that endeavor. My friend, embarking on an acting career is impractical at any age. You write that friends have encouraged you to pursue acting but mention nothing about your own desires.
That's not unlike people encouraging you to marry someone: The recommended individual may be the greatest potential mate in the world, but that person still has to be right for you, since you're the one who's going to have to live with him or her, day in and day out. Your friends are probably right about your talent, but they won't have to face your career challenges, experience your disappointments, or pay your bills while you try to cultivate success as an actor. So before you sign on for this two-year program and invest your time, money, and soul, make absolutely sure this work is calling to you. That calling will sustain you when the going gets tough.
If my concern is unfounded and you do have a yearning to act, then don't allow the impracticality or unpredictability to stop you. Go forward. Learn. Audition. Experience yourself as an artist, and let the showbiz fates take care of the results. Maybe you'll have no success at all. That has to be okay with you before you even start.


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Archive for Thursday, October 11, 2007
Pumpkin growers chase seasonal gold rush
Jason Cundiff is part of a harvest race going on in a West Bottoms pumpkin patch.
The weather is somewhat involved in the race. The pumpkins in the 40-acre field Cundiff is helping landowner John Abel harvest need to be in by the time the first frost puts a prompt end to the growing season.
But the real concern is marketing potential. As gold as their rinds are now, the value of pumpkins plummets to near nothing after Halloween.
But Monday with the temperatures in the low 80s, frost was far from Cundiff's mind as the Eudora man harvested 250 pumpkins. There's been no fancy modern machine invented to harvest pumpkins. It remains a hands-on job with plenty of stoop labor.
Sweat beaded on his face as Cundiff went about the tedious work of cutting the pumpkins from the vine and carried the 20-pound orbs two at a time to a waiting pickup to load them 10 layers high.
"It can be hard work on these warm days," he said, adding that a summer of work weeding and fertilizing went into the patch.
The pumpkins would be sold for $2 each to a Lawrence grocery store, which would sell them all for a uniform price. Because of that, Cundiff said, the store wanted pumpkins of the same size.
Cundiff said he and Abel had been harvesting the pumpkins since early September and want to wrap it up in the next two to two-and-a-half weeks. But there still are plenty of pumpkins dotting the patch and many of the vines still are producing.
Other customers, like Zimmerman's Kill Creek Farm and the Gardner Pumpkin Patch, aren't quite so picky, Cundiff said, and will accept a greater variety.
"We'll take all sizes," said Darrel Zimmerman, who bought 400 "Jack O' Lantern pumpkins from Abel last week for the start of Kill Creek Farm's annual monthlong pumpkinfest.
Like the Abels, the Zimmerman family were Kansas River Bottom farmers and used to grow pumpkins.
"I decided to let John do it. He's younger and stronger than I am," Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman and Cundiff agree the bottomland provided a great growing ground for pumpkins.
"This sandy soil is as good as any in the world for growing pumpkins," Cundiff said.
The Kaw Valley also is home to large numbers of deer, which smash the pumpkins gourds to get to the pulp inside, Cundiff said. But another type of visitor to the fields account for greater losses, he said.
"People think there are so many pumpkins, it won't hurt if they take one," he said. "But it's a lot of work for people just to come out and take them out of your field."
Cundiff feared some pumpkin thefts might be more organized. On a recent afternoon, he spotted a pickup truck with a trailer slowly rolling by the field before stopping to look over the field. Seeing him, it drove off, he said.
"I don't know if they were meaning to take pumpkins or not, but they sure looked it over pretty good," he said.
Most of the pumpkins in the patch will be ornamentation for lawns and porches, many carved to Jack O' Lanterns. Few are destined to fill pies. Commercial pie filling is actually made from a grey squash and not the iconic orange pumpkin, Cundiff said.
Old pumpkin hand Zimmerman appreciates the work involved in preparing a pie from a field pumpkin.
"People ask me what pumpkin makes the best pie," he said. "I tell them 'Libby's.'"
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ARINC DirectSM announced it has deployed a new air/ground communications station at busy London Oxford Airport, serving north-west London and the Thames Valley region. The new VHF Data Link station will help ARINC to meet growing demand for its GLOBALinkSM/VHF service.
Positioned only 40 miles from greater London, Oxford Airport is among the fastest growing business aviation airports in the UK. The new ARINC station will enhance both air and ground coverage for customers of ARINC's GLOBALink/VHF service over a significant portion of the British Midlands.
ARINC worked closely with the Oxford Airport operations team to include VHF data link service as part of a wide-ranging series of communications upgrades at the airport.ARINC is making this investment today to serve a growing base of business and corporate aircraft in EMEA who are now using data link, stated Andy Hubbard, Managing Director, EMEA. We thank the directors of Oxford Airport for the full cooperation they have extended to us. The added coverage from this new station will benefit not only business aviation but many commercial airlines as well.
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