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Shake and move for number fun - it's musical learning for your little one! With the Learn & Groove Counting Maracas, children can shake the maracas for lights, sounds and counting from 1 to 10. They can also play musical activities in both English and Spanish and move and groove to the learning rhythm.LeapFrog is a leading designer, developer and marketer of innovative, technology-based educational products and related proprietary content and learning toys and learning games. LeapFrog is 100% focused on developing products that will provide the most engaging, effective learning experience - for all ages, in school or home, around the world. LeapFrog puts learning toys first with online technologies, including the LeapFrog Learning Path. The LeapFrog Learning Path lets you see the skills your child is exploring with LeapFrog, see time spent playing, challenge level and more, find learning ideas to match your child's passions, and discover your child's favorite activities. The LeapFrog learning toy experience is brought to life by LeapFrog's highly specialized teams who unite the three key elements that truly set LeapFrog products apart: a rigorous, proven learning toy methodology, compelling multi-layered content, and delivered content and learning toy experience through the use of technology that is intuitive, invisible and engaging. Leapfrogs Learnings Toys include, Leapster, TAG, TAG Jr., DIDJ, Zippity, My First Leap pad, Learn and Groove and my Puppy Pal. Legal Statements: "CAUTION: Wire ties are not part of this toy For your child''s safety, remove and discard the wire ties before giving this toy to your child"
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my daughter, 11 mo now started using them at 9 mo, likes them but only for a minute or two. they dont really keep attention. there is only 1 of them that actually changes color and makes the sounds, the other just makes a rattle sound. the colors part is pretty cool but the music one... will drive you insane if they leave it down and on, it will keep going and going and its pretty annoying sounds. i found that when she seems bored with it, if i switch it to spanish (not our spoken language) she likes it because well its different and the colors do sound cool in spanish. if you have the money they are an okay thing to buy but the oh [$] could go toward something else...the drum by the same compnay is GREAT and you can sometimes find them as a pair so that would be worth the buy!
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baby loved it music,colors,songs and English and Spanish a perfect way for little ariannie to learn :)
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My son loves this toy. It really helps him learn and he loves shaking them.
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My one year old loves this toy! It would be cool if both maracas lit upon the same color at the same time one was saying the color. Just one lights up and sings. But to keep the price lower that's ok. Its cool because you can put it in english or spanish! I love,love,love that!!!!
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We love the Learn and Groove maracas! We purchased them for our 9 month old daughter and she loves playing with them. The top of the maracas have a colorful light display that resemble our PlayStation Move controllers and she is very engaged by the lights on the maracas. It is easy for her to play with since you only need to shake them for music, lights, and learning!!
GREAT TOY!! (Makes a great gift too!!)
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My toddler loves music and loves to walk around shaking and banging these toys. They are strong and durable.
Would by again & again
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Speaks Spanish & English, very educational (colors, numbers). I bout the first one 4 yrs for my 1st child, it still works
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My 11 month loves them. She likes to shake shake shake. One lights up And makes music the other rattles. It would be nice if they both rattled so when music mode is off they both make noise.
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The counting maracas was one of the first gifts 1-year old granson picked up. And he actually shook it enough to activate the light. The jury is still out about the educational aspects of this toy. It would have gotten 5 stars except only one of the shakers lights up (I thought both would). At our house, grandson picked up other maracas (not a leap frog learning toy) and still had fun so I guess we haven't spoil him too much!
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Necrosis - renal tubular; ATN; Necrosis - acute tubular
Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is usually caused by a lack of oxygen to the kidney tissues (ischemia of the kidneys). It may also occur if the kidney cells are damaged by a poison or harmful substance.
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ATN is one of the most common causes of kidney failure in hospitalized patients. Risks for acute tubular necrosis include:
Liver disease and kidney damage caused by diabetes (diabetic nephropathy) may make a person more susceptible to the condition.
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Clarkson MR, Friedewald JJ, Eustace JA, Rabb H. Acute kidney injury. In: Brenner BM, ed. Brenner and Rector's The Kidney. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 29.
Molitoris BA. Acute kidney injury. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 121.
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any review on Carlton Kinesis? Please help me
Hello all,
I'm seriously thinking of buying Carlton Kinesis but it is just sooooooo hard to for me to find any reviews. There was a gentleman on here that was kind enough to give me some information from his first hand experience but I would like to find out more about this racket.
I already have nanospeed 9000X (which i'm trying to sell) and Yonex Z Force (Which i just bought). So basically i think that Carlton Kinesis will fall somewhere in the middle of these rackets. Nanospeed 9000X is very easy to use, light but I find it quite difficult to get good power out of it. Z force is great for single ....good smash but my arms just get sore after awhile.
So basically i think (hope) that Carlton Kinesis will give the best of both worlds. Light but still pack a punch. Over here in UK, it will cost me about 140 pounds so I just want to make sure that i make the right choice. I don't know anyone who owns it therefore i can't try it. I live in Milton Keynes and there are no stores around here that carry Carlton Kinesis so I don't really know if i will like it or not.
Any advice, suggestions, review or any information on Carlton Kinesis will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance for all your help
i recently bought a few carlton rackets. from your description i'm guessing you want something between even balance to head light. basically something that's both quick and yet somewhat powerful?
i tried all three "new" carlton back to back. the vapour trail tour, razor v1.1, and the kinesis. since i favor head heavy racket i love my razor the best. razor also has a version that is head light that you might want to look into.
regarding the Kinesis, you are correct, that the racket itself falls between an even balance racket and a head light balance racket. the interesting thing is that even tho on paper, it's a tiny bit head light. when you swing it, it's actually not too light. as far as weight distribution, i would say it is between my nano9000 and my muscle power 100. swing weight wise, it will feel close to an even balance racket. i believe that the reason why it felt a bit head light when i swing it is due to the frame. i am not sure if the twisted frame has anything to do with it, but the thinness of the frame itself allows the user to swing the racket at a really quick speed. i say quick and not fast because any racket can go fast, it's the quickness, which allows the racket to react as quickly as you can react as a user...a major plus in doubles.
so when i first swung it, it felt head light. and i automatically assume that i won't get as much power from it as i do from the razor v1.1. however, upon actual playing, i was able to generate as much power as the razor while clearing or smashing. of course the factory strings they came with weren't exactly the same tension, so i'll have to restring both of them to have a more accurate analysis, but still....this is my initial opinion about this racket.
i would rate the shaft to be medium stiff to stiff since i didn't actually feel the flex of the shaft like i did with the razor v1.1. however, a lot of people say the superwave is stiff and per my wrist i am rating it medium stiff...so it's subjective.
i actually like the carlton string a lot because the exterior texture felt similar to my favorite victor vs850 string. carlton rackets tend to have a bit thicker grips but that's not really a big concern for me.
the key to remember regarding my review is that when i play doubles, often times i hold it close to the cone. in that sense, it didn't feel as head light as my nano9000 or nano9900 or nanoray 700rp/700fx. but when i am playing in the back and wanted to make an attempt to smash, it felt heavier than the nanospeeds and nanorays. so that is why i say it's right between even balance and head light. and that is why i love it so much as a head light racket. because i'm a weak player, generally i can't generate that much power with a head light racket, and because of the characteristics of this racket, it allows me to play quick double with quite a bit of power
hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions or make any comments, i'll try my best to answer them, or anyone else can chime in too
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thank you so much for a great review. haha I just realised that you were the one that answered me in the other one of my threads as well...so thank you
Because of your review, I think I will buy this carlton kinesis. I guess I won't really know until I actually try it right?
the thing is that I'm so new to this (as you already know) and there are so many rackets that i'm looking at right now. I like Yonex but I just want to try something different, something cheaper that is almost as good or even better than Yonex. So I have been looking at brands such as babolat, victor and yesterday my cousin just told me about Talbot Torro so now i'm looking at that as well...
Hello, I've been playing with the Carlton Vapour Trail Tour over the past few years changing them as the new model came out. Just changed to the Kinesis and I find them significantly more powerful but maintaining good control. Had all 4 restrung to 27lbs in BG65ti by my professional stringer and used the in yesterday's county match against Lancashire. I love them.
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If you could find an old Carlton Aeroblade TI on the internet you could get the same raquet for much, much cheaper.
I might be posting a little too late on this thread :-), but i have used a Carlton Kinesis racquet for almost 3 months now and i can give a little insight into this product.
Kinesis is an even balance racquet well suited for a doubles game. If you are familiar with Yonex naming convention, then i would say this racquet is 3U-G4 type. Though the racquet specification defines it as an even balance, i would say the head is quite light and you can feel that in a fast swing. I had no problem playing forehand or backhand clears with this racquet. Drop shots, net kills and drivers - Kinesis is the king of these shots. It feels like a ArcSaber 10 in terms of playability and is defintely a champion closer to the net and mid court area.
Smash is probably the weak point of this racquet. I have been playing for quite sometime with Yonex ArcSaber 10. Arc10 is slightly a head heavy racquet (though yonex might claim otherwise), moving to Carlton Kinesis might be a problem. I found extremely fast swing with Kinesis and was able to push the game further than usual, but when it comes to finishing off the point, i was struggling. It will take a week or two to settle down this racquet. However it took me close to 2 months and now i feel that my smashes from Arc10 and kinesis are quite comparable.
The factory string used on the racquet is a Carlton Xlerate 67 and the string tension feels like 23 lbs. The string is a very good one (i have never used a Carlton string before) and it gives a tad bit of hard feeling with a balance of repulsion and control. The hitting sound is close to a BG80, but nowhere close to NG98. But for a factory string, Carlton has packed a really good one on this racquet.
Overall - I would say Kinesis is a very good racquet for folks who like super fast swing ! The racquet is sold for $199 in San Diego. Little expensive, but if priced at $90 - $120, i would buy 3 or 4 pieces and stack them. I am officially fan of Carlton Kinesis.
However, there is a new Adizero Tour lurking in my kit bag and it's slowly becoming another doubles favorite racquet !
Thanks for the review.
Thanks for replying but my concerns were more surrounding the racket frame, there have been a number of people with snapped frames without collision. So i was a little worried about buying.
Well that's quite possible. The twisted aero frame in the Kinesis racquet is definitely a problem. I had this bad experience last week, my stringer refused to string the kinesis racquet. He had doubts that the frame would break if plugged into the stringing machine. He pointed out some cracks in the unit.
I took the racquet to a different stringer and got it re-strung. The racquet apparently had some paint chips (seems like a poor paint job) but no damage to the frame. He admitted that he was concerned about the twisted part of the frame and was a little confused about how to mount the frame in his stringing machine. I think the stringers in my area are quite used to only Yonex & Wilson racquets. So any other brand spooks them :-)
If you are yet to purchase this racquet, then i would recommend looking for other alternatives. Don't get me wrong, its an awesome racquet but considering the bad experiences i had here w.r.t to stringing i probably would retire this racquet or sell it off in ebay.


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What a fantastic day here in Bournemouth – the sun is out, the sky is blue and the air is fresh. If I wasn't working at the hotel today my perfect day out would be a walk or cycle to Hengistbury Head (a nature reserve with sand dunes and a headland overlooking Christchurch harbour and the Isle of Wight).
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Guys, I have a question and I wasn't sure where to put it.
I think I may have gotten some hacked Pokemon in a trade from some Tumblr users. Theyre mostly starters with 6 perfect IV's and every awesome egg move. I did notice my Oshawott was in a great ball though.. I'm not too worried about them being hacked unless its somehow going to mess up my game but..if i breed them and make a baby will the baby pokemon be considered hacked as well? I want to start battling competitively but these Pokemon are stressing me. I would rather just use them to breed and endure the pains of breeding the perfect Pokemon as long as its considered "legit"
I'm confused.
Water - Quagsire, Octillery, Frogadier
Technically, the offspring of hacked Pokemon are legitimate, assuming they don't have an illegal (unreleased) hidden ability, and they have legal egg move combinations. However, many people frown upon the use of hacked parents.
I wanted to actually check the legitimacy of 6 Pokemon.
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Celebi looks legal.
Victini looks legal, but it has most likely been RNG'd.
Shaymin is here, and it also meets all of the requirements for a Japanese Pokemon Center Shaymin. However, it has likely also been RNG'd.
Darkrai is here, and it meets the requirements for the French Winter 2011 Darkrai event. It also looks RNG'd, though.
Arceus looks legal.
Deoxys is here. It looks legal to me, but I'm not really sure because I think it came from Pokemon Ranger. It's also probably RNG'd.
Someone else should double-check my analyses here, because I have been known to be wrong. But just looking at the OTs, moves, balls, stats, etc., they all appear to be legal to me. The one I'm most unsure about is Deoxys.


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Homemade puff pastry is a bit of a contradiction to many home cooks, like me. You see, we all love the light, flaky pastry, but the thought of rolling out the dough, adding butter, folding, resting, adding more butter, just sounds like too much work. So we all opt for the bought version. I don't have a problem with store-bought dough, but the quality is only good if you have a good supplier, otherwise it is terrible….
Last week on RSG, I shared a "slap degie vir menige gebruik" (translated to Easy Batter for many a use). The response was overwhelming and still today, I am answering emails from people telling me what they made with this easy batter recipe. I must say someone made Lamb Shank Pie and my knees went wobbly! Well this homemade puff pastry recipe is again one of those easy, no-mess, no-fuss recipes and also a recipe I got from my mom's old tattered recipe book. Seems like there is still a lot we can learn from our moms and grannies who never thought they were good cooks, they just got on with the job of feeding their families.
I have featured this pastry recipe before, but for the sake of the RSG listeners, here it is again. Just before I get to the recipe a quick story..
Homemade Puff pastry
makes 1,2kg pastry which is enough for 1 family size pie
500g butter, cubed
550g plain flour
5 ml Cream of Tartar
250 ml boiling water.
pinch of salt
Mix flour, salt and Cream of Tartar.
Put butter in a separate bowl, add boiling water and let allow butter to melt completely, but it must still be lumpy.
Add butter mixture to flour mixture and mix well, without over mixing.
Pour out on a plate and leave fridge overnight.
When needed, roll out on a floured surface and then use as indicated on your own recipe. This pastry freezes exceptionally well.


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There's a lot of Michael looks and there's a lot of moments and I think in season -- I hope they give us more you know.
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Santa Rosa County will receive more than $1.7 million in federal funding for the repair of 4.1 miles of damage along Navarre Beach from Tropical Storm Debby.
U.S Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced March 26 that a federal grant will be given to Florida associated with the storm.
Navarre Beach went from being considered a natural beach to an engineered beach after a series of hurricanes in the late 1990s, and in 2005 after Hurricane Ivan struck a year earlier.
In 2006, the beach was renourished at a cost of about $18.6 million. The state covered about 62 percent of the cost, with beach residents paying about 90 percent of the balance, and the county paying the remaining 10 percent.
During a Jan. 24 Board of County Commission meeting, Michael Walther of Coastal Technology Corporation told the commissioners the overall cost for the next complete renourishment, scheduled to begin in 2014, would cost about $10 million.
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Battlefront don't see it as a competitior hence the reason there will be some army lists published for KGN appearing in Wargames Illustrated which of course is owned by Battlefront.


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"That's sooo funny, Roger," Brooke Shields said to playwright Roger Kumble during a read-through of "Girls Talk," his new satire about Hollywood power moms at the Lee Strasberg Theatre opening March 18. Shields and her co-stars were laughing over the scene in which the character of Scarlett (Nicole Paggi of "Hope & Faith"), a Southern blond converting to Judaism, has flounced into a meeting of fellow moms from the fictional Temple Jerusalem pre-school in Brentwood. "This challah is to die for ... Challah VaChallah," Scarlett gushes, a la Flava Flav.
In a later scene, Jane (Andrea Bendewald of "Suddenly Susan") a failed actress turned ferocious Supermom, badmouths Scarlett to the others. "What kind of idiot mails St. Valentine's Day cards to 4-year-olds at a Jewish school?" she says. "The school was pissed."
Unlike Kumble's previous "Hollywood" plays—sardonic comedies spotlighting male characters – "Girls Talk" features an all-female cast exploring issues important to the mommy set. Besides Scarlett and Jane, the characters include Lori Rosen (Shields) an ex-television writer who has given up her career to parent three children, and who, in the course of the play, must choose between co-chairing the school's annual fundraiser or going back to work (meaning that her daughter may never "do" school in this town again). There's also Claire (Constance Zimmer of "Entourage"), Lori's former writing partner, who is trying to lure Lori back to the writers room—while fending off pitiful looks because she is fortyish and single. "If I wanted a kid that bad," she pointedly tells the moms, I could get sperm from Marc Cherry, Darren Star and Ryan Murphy."
"That would be a very rich gay baby," Lori replies.
Eileen Galindo portrays Lori's $300-versus-$700 a week nanny.
During a rehearsal break, the actresses praised Kumble: "You've written a play for five women, how awesome is that," Bendewald said.
He admitted writing the all-female piece wasn't easy. "I was nervous, but I just didn't over think it," he said. "I just kind of said, 'This could go badly,' and I showed an early draft to female friends just to see if they were going to say, 'How dare you.' But they said, 'This is a solid piece of writing.' I'm sure people could come away saying 'God, these women are almost too masculine,' but I'm a male writer, you know. My challenge to them is, 'go write your play.'"
Story continues after the slideshow.
Here are further excerpts from my conversation with Kumble and the performers about satirizing their own industry, balancing work and parenthood, those dreaded pre-school applications, and more.
Naomi Pfefferman Magid: What makes "Girl's Talk" different from, say, "The Vagina Monologues?"
Zimmer: In L.A. it's very hard to do theater and have people come and see it, especially things that people might have seen other actors do over and over again. So there's something very appealing about an original play by somebody whose work you know and like. And when Roger does plays, they're not traditional plays, they're like events. It's something you [attend] to embrace the industry—the good, the bad and the ugly—more so the ugly that doesn't really get shown very often.
NPM: [to Zimmer] You play the studio executive Dana Gordon on HBO's "Entourage," which does satirize Hollywood.
Zimmer: Yeah, but "Entourage" is even a little sugar-coated.
Shields: It's a little 'nice.' Roger's plays are edgy, but not self-aware like "OK, now we're being edgy." There are so few roles written for women that are complex and funny, heartbreaking and smart. We're very often relegated to props or "The Girlfriend." This play is not just female-centered but a very positive exploration of what it means to be a mother, trying to have a career and being told by society that we can have it all but always feeling that we're falling short. I personally go through [these kinds of issues] on a daily basis; I left my kids this morning and they were sobbing, I don't want to be without them but this [the play] is very important to me. When I was home, I was calling Roger every day, saying "How come you're not writing something for me to do?" That's the dichotomy and the push and pull you feel if you are choosing to be a mother, and what that brings.
Bendewald: People in this town love to see themselves reflected back on the stage, even if it's not so pretty. When I did "d girl" [part of Kumble's hilariously mordant "Hollywood" trilogy], the audiences heard how outrageous it was, and the people it resembled were the ones who were dying to see it.
NPM: Did they not "get" that the characters were supposed to be them?
Bendewald: No, I think they did get it and they loved it. I had many conversations afterwards where people would be like, "I had a boss like that." So when I read "Girls Talk," I had the same kind of reaction of, "Oh, that's me, or that's my friend, that's my situation, I know that."
NPM: There's also the whole satire of the pre-school application process, and the parental hysteria that brings.
Shields: Sometimes you go, "Oh, it's so political," and yet [for your children] you need to find a way to play the game and play the game honestly, to the best of your ability without selling your soul, and yet knowing, "Well, I've got to sell something." Naively, when I was applying to pre-schools here – we've since moved back to New York – there was one essay where they asked, "What can you offer the school?" So I of course launched into this in-depth essay about: a child who's willing to learn and she's a fresh mind and she's energetic and stubborn and the kind of mind we'd want to shape and this is their future. But what they were looking for was a monetary amount. I talked to a girlfriend later—we didn't get in – and she was like, "What did you answer on that question." I [told her] and she was like, you were supposed to put a dollar value down, to say, "For the annual [fund raiser] we can give this." That was a real awakening for me.
NPM: Even in "Entourage," there's that scene where the superagent, Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), is scheming to get his son into the right private school.
Kumble: Coincidentally, Doug Ellin, the creator of "Entourage," has a daughter in my daughter's class at her Jewish pre-school. Doug and David Schwimmer [who starred in Kumble's play, "Turnaround"] and I all came up together. Doug's seen "d girl" and of course I've seen "Entourage." Actually our kids play together – not that I'm saying this in a name-dropping way. It's not like I tell my daughter, "Go play, and tell them to give Daddy a job!"
Zimmer: My daughter is 3 and I'm just getting into the realization that it is such a nightmare to just try and get your child into a school. I actually got so angry and upset that I just stopped looking for a year because I was pissed off. I was going into these meetings with these people and I just thought, "Why are you interviewing me; this isn't about me, I'm not the one coming to school here. I have an amazing child; you want my child or you don't. So I have to come down off that ledge.
NPM: Do any of you worry that your children will never "do" school in this town again?
Bendewald: No, I think that will just be Roger (teasing). I don't think any of us will ever have that problem. Actually the good news is his kids already are in school so he's safe.
Paggi: I'm not a mother in real life. This [play] definitely makes me a little scared to have children.
Bendewald: The discussion about our kids is scaring you?
Paggi: The play scares me because it's very realistic; based on what I hear my girlfriends who have children say, it all seems very true. But it's also just so funny.
NPM: "Girls Talk" revolves around moms at a Jewish school, and there are ways in which the character of Jane, in particular, uses Judaism to undermine Scarlett, who is converting while raising her own son Jewish. Since none of you happen to be Jewish in real life, what did you make of the Jewish content and of characters trying to hurt each other in ways that had to do with their cultural identity, and the Who is a Jew issue?
Bendewald: [About Jane's cruel behavior toward Scarlett]: I recognize her actions as a trait that exists in all of us, which is, wanting to fit in, feeling "less than," and trying to feel better by putting yourself above someone else.
NPM: Do you think Jane is a bigot?
Bendewald: I think the part of it that is true for her is that she feels threatened, so she uses whatever she thinks will work to put this woman, Scarlett, down. I have different ammunition to use against Claire, which has nothing to do with her religion or nationality. I just use whatever someone's weakness is.
Shields: I also think we're not really in a culture anymore where it's easy to find your 'tribe' or clan. I remember growing up feeling so much envy for my friends who were Jewish and had these families that met all the time and had rituals. My ritual growing up Irish-Catholic in Manhattan, was basically guilt on Sundays – or rather guilt all the time, and usually practicing the guilt on Sundays. And I would go to friends houses and feel, 'Oh, this is what it is to have a history and have a family,' because none of our relatives were around at the time.
I can see the vehemence with which one might want to fight for and keep something that is [traditional]. Whether it's a matter of conversion or even if the logic doesn't make sense, the innate history and the desire to hold onto something—you can see what a fire it is.
"Girls Talk" will open on Friday, March 18 and will run through Sunday, April 24 at the Lee Strasberg – Marilyn Monroe Theatre, 7936 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. For tickets, call (800) 595-4849 or visit www.tix.com.
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March 17, 2011 | 3:17 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Michael C. Hall, the Emmy-winning star of Showtime's "Dexter," plays his first cinematic Jewish character in "Peep World," Barry Blaustein's dark comedy about four siblings who come to terms with their monstrous father (Ron Rifkin) on the eve of his 70th birthday.
Hall ("Six Feet Under") portrays the dutiful son, Jack Meyerwitz, who is hiding an excruciatingly embarrassing secret; Sarah Silverman ("The Sarah Silverman Program") is his needy, not-so-nice sister, Cheri; Rainn Wilson ("The Office") is the family sad-sack; and Ben Schwartz ("Everybody's Fine," "Parks and Recreation") is the favored son, Nathan, whose thinly-disguised autobiographical novel mortifies the family.
"To have yourself characterized in a negative way in something you didn't agree to —that must be a real betrayal," Hall said of the idea of becoming fodder for someone else's tell-all.
While serial killer Dexter would have known exactly how to handle "Peep World's" smug novelist, the fictional Jack isn't the blood-splattering type. "It was interesting playing a part where an option to kill them all wasn't there, so I had to do something different," Hall quipped.
Here are excerpts from my conversation with Hall, Schwartz and Silverman, who last spoke to the Journal about her own autobiographical best-seller, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee." "I don't think there is anyone who can say they don't come from a dysfunctional family," Silverman said of "Peep World." "I think that's what makes a family normal." A pause. "But this family is f——d up."
"Peep World" opens March 25 in Los Angeles.
March 16, 2011 | 12:59 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Artist-filmmaker Julian Schnabel understands why some Jews have condemned his movie, "Miral," which opens March 25, as an anti-Israel screed: "It comes out of fear," he told me by phone from New York this morning. "The fear that the Holocaust occurred, that 'We have been [decimated] and we don't want it to happen again;' that 'these people, the Palestinians, are against us having a state of Israel, and we must fight for that no matter what happens.' But I don't believe that's true. I believe a Jewish homeland in Israel is super important, and a great thing, but we must have empathy, we have to be sensitive. I don't think it's a very encouraging way to look at people, as 'us and them.' It isn't us and them. We are all human beings. And what is good for the Palestinians is also good for the Israelis."
Not everyone agrees with Schnabel about "Miral." Mainstream Jewish groups such as American Jewish Committee and The Simon Wiesenthal Center have condemned the film as as one-sided propaganda, and in particular its United States premiere at the United Nations on Monday. "Others have attacked me because the film isn't pro-Palestinnian enough," Schnabel said. "I really can't believe I'm even talking about this because 'Miral' is a movie about a girl and her family," he added. "If the movie had been set in Afghanistan, we wouldn't even be on the telephone today."
"Miral"—which is based on an autobiographical novel by Schnabel's girlfriend, the journalist Rula Jebreal—spotlights a Palestinian girl, orphaned after her mother commits suicide, who becomes radicalized while teaching in a refugee camp during the first Intifada in 1987. In one scene, the fictional Miral (Freida Pinto) is arrested in the middle of the night for her association with activists, then brutally beaten during her interrogation in an Israeli prison. In another, a female terrorist attempts to place a bomb in an Israeli cinema, while the rape scene from Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" plays on the screen. The sequence is a metaphor not only for the rape of Miral's mother – which propels the woman's suicide —but also for the protagonists' perception of the rape of the Palestinian people, Schnabel said.
"Just as if I were painting a portrait, I'm dealing with what is in the frame that is related to Rula, and to Miral's point of view," said Schnabel, whose previous films include the acclaimed "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." "It's not from my omniscient point of view of a 59-year-old Jewish guy who's got all these different facts where I have to explain who attacked whom in the Six Days War. It's Miral's family history as it was told to her, and as it was lived by her. And that's the power of the story. I can't do this inexhaustible summation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are just too many stories."
Not that Schnabel is without his own opinion. "When I shot the movie and lived and worked in Israel and in Palestine, I was pretty ashamed of certain situations that I witnessed," he said. "I felt it was like apartheid over there, and that's very disappointing. There's democracy for Jewish people in Israel but I don't think there's democracy for Palestinian people….When I see a kid with pais and a yarmulke throwing a rock into a Palestinian home and screaming at them, that doesn't seem to be the Jewish way to me."
Schnabel knew almost nothing about Middle East politics until he met Jebreal in 2007 at an opening of his exhibition at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, a former Pope's residence where Mussolini gave his infamous speech-on-the balcony during World War II.
Schnabel had grown up in a strongly Zionistic family; his mother was president of the Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah at the time Israel was founded in 1948, and held many terms in subsequent years. As a child, he remembers how she "sold tickets for the youth aliyah; the B'nai Brith brunches on Sundays and how all the women who came to our house were members of Hadassah.
"My mother very much wanted me to go to Israel after my bar mitzvah, but I didn't want to go—in part because everyone else was," Schnabel said. "I was just more interested in being an artist; it was a point of rebellion in a way."
When Schnabel finally did visit Israel, he arrived, ironically, the day before the first Intifada began in 1987. While Jebreal was teaching children in refugee camps, he was preparing for his solo show at the Israel Museum. Schnabel recognized that there was a curfew imposed, and that he and his sister were the only people dining in an Arab-owned restaurant his second night in Israel.
While in the Jewish state, the artist had hoped to make a painting on a Bedouin tent in the desert, with Arabs and Jews, and then view it from several hills away. That didn't happen because of the Intifadah. "Really the whole trip was more about me being an American artist talking to Israeli art students than me finding out about what was happening with the [uprising]," he said.
At that time, Schnabel was already a superstar of the art world, having achieved international recognition for his brash, large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates. He had also made a splash for his larger-than-life personality (wearing pajamas in public, for example, and comparing his own genius to Picasso's).
In 1996, Schnabel made his feature film debut with "Basquiat," a biopic of the American postmodernist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; in 2007, his Cannes-winning drama, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" was based on the remarkable memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French Elle, who was struck with a rare condition that paralyzed him with all his mental faculties intact.
Schnabel's exhibition at the Palazzo Venezia, also in 2007, was more flamboyant: "There were 40 paintings that I actually installed without building temporary walls, so you could just see modern paintings among the frescoes in these giant rooms," he said. When he met Jebreal at the show's opening, he assumed she was Indian, but was surprised to learn she was, in fact, Palestinian, and an Israeli citizen.
"I could almost see tension for a moment in his eyes," Jebreal told me of that meeting. But the artist and the writer clicked; and when she susequently sent him her novel, "Miral," he was moved and heartbroken by her story.
Pick up the March 25 issue of the Journal for more on Schnabel, Jebreal, their relationship, their collaboration on "Miral," and the public's response to the film.
March 14, 2011 | 8:42 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Remember Yael Naim's quirky, ebullient song, "New Soul," from that omnipresent MacBook Air commercial, which gleaned the French-Israeli chanteuse an almost instant surge of celebrity two years ago? On May 10, the petite, 33-year-old folk-pop artist – who this month was awarded France's prestigious "Victoire de la Musique"award for best female singer – will celebrate the United States release of her new album, "She was a Boy" on the Tôt ou Tard label.
Naim—who was born in Paris to Tunesian parents and raised in Ramat HaSharon before returning to France— created her album, "New Soul," with percussionist David Donatien, on a computer in her Paris apartment. Reminiscent of work by Regina Spektor, the CD features songs in English, French and Hebrew sung in Naim's husky, whimsical voice. Apple's Steve Jobs personally selected the "New Soul" title track for his Mac ad – which helped make Naim the first Israeli solo artist to have a Top 10 hit in the United States.
Naim again has collaborated with Donatien to create "She was a Boy;" here's a sneak peak of her new single, "Go to The River."
March 6, 2011 | 2:26 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
In the aftermath of Charlie Sheen's anti-Semitic rants last week, the actor told Access Hollywood that he is MOT. Replied the show's host: "You're getting accused of anti-Semitic remarks; you might want to say, 'By the way, I'm Jewish!'" "I know, I know — stupid me," said Sheen. Now another celebrity who has been disgraced for his own anti-Semitic rants — ex-chief designer John Galliano of Dior, whose "I Love Hitler" remarks were caught on videotape —may have Jewish roots, too.
According to a March 5 profile of the fashionista in Britain's Daily Mail, during his tenure at Dior, "Galliano became a familiar figure on the streets of Le Marais, an area of Paris popular with gays and also — ironically enough — the city's Jewish community.
It was no secret that Galliano shared his Paris home with his long-term boyfriend Alexis Roche, a style consultant.
What is less well known is that — according to a confidant of his, whom the Mail talked to this week — the designer loved to emphasise his own Jewish ancestry.
Perched in La Perle, mojito (his preferred cocktail) in hand, Galliano would tell anyone who listened about the melting pot of his heritage.
He always insisted he had Jewish blood from the Sephardi Jews who came from Spain and Portugal in the 19th century.
Johnny is obsessed with the idea of being descended from Jews,' the confidant, who often drank with him at La Perle, reports. 'He was brought up a Catholic, but has always been aware of the influence Jews have had on his life.
'Johnny was particularly fascinated by the fact that couture in Paris was traditionally a Jewish industry.'
He added that, when sober, Galliano spoke authoritatively about the Holocaust, and particularly about the fact that thousands who worked in the fashion business in Paris were murdered by the Nazis.
'Johnny knows that Paris designers were exterminated systematically by the Nazis in living memory. To me, the freaky language in a Paris bar was just nonsense — an attempt to shock strangers in bars.
'He just didn't want to present them with the image they expected — he wanted to surprise. He does this on the catwalk, so why not in a bar?'
Galliano has attempted to fight back, apologising for the video and said he is not responsible for any other racist abuse.
His supporters are insisting he is not anti-Semitic but simply attention-seeking. However, their protestations are doing little to assuage the anger of his former employer; Dior hastily severed links with its star designer, and its high-profile 'face' Natalie Portman spoke of her 'shock and disgust' at his behaviour."
Now as Galliano has checked into a rehab near Phoenix, AZ, and reportedly could face court proceedings for making racist remarks, one could very well wonder: Is Mel Gibson Jewish, too?
March 4, 2011 | 5:37 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Poor Natalie Portman—who has suffered more than her share of fools this past week—courtesy of Dior's ex-chief designer John Galliano, and now former Arkansas governor and probable 2012 presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.
First there were the alleged anti-Semitic remarks by Galliano of Dior, where the Jerusalem-born Portman is model/spokesperson for the fragrance Miss Dior Cherie. In two separate incidents—one of them caught on videotape—Galliano allegedly spewed statements such as "I Love Hitler" to patrons at Paris' La Perle restaurant. In her own statement, Portman said she was "deeply shocked and disgusted" by the video.
Huckabee aimed his remarks directly at Portman; OK, they weren't anti-Semitic, but they in effect critiqued the actress for showing up to the Academy Awards unmarried and pregnant. (The pregnancy comes courtesy of her fiance, the ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, whom she met while preparing for her Oscar-winning role as a tormented ballerina in "Black Swan.") In an interview on "The Michael Medved Show" on Monday, Huckabee suggested that such a public appearance helps to "glorify and glamorize" the idea of unwed motherhood: "One of the things that's troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, 'Hey look, you know, we're having children, we're not married, but we're having these children, and they're doing just fine.' But there aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie," he said. "And I think it gives a distorted image."
In a statement issued March 4, Huckabee clarified: "In a recent media interview about my new book, 'A Simple Government,' I discussed the first chapter, "The Most Important Form of Government Is a Father, Mother, and Children." I was asked about Oscar-winner Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Natalie is an extraordinary actor, very deserving of her recent Oscar and I am glad she will marry her baby's father. However, contrary to what the Hollywood media reported, I did not "slam" or "attack" Natalie Portman, nor did I criticize the hardworking single mothers in our country. My comments were about the statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death. That's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that society often glorifies and glamorizes the idea of having children out of wedlock."
So who is Mike Huckabee to comment on single/unwed motherhood or any kind of parenting? Dan Savage, the liberal political pundit and sex advice columnist, had some thoughts about this in his recent blog, "Huckabee Bears False Witness Against Gay Families."
In his post about Portman, Savage noted, "Did Mike have anything to say when Bristol Palin got pregnant and made the choice to go through with the pregnancy?....I don't recall Mike saying anything about Bristol glamorizing the idea of having children out of wedlock—nothing from Mike about all those glamorous US Magazine covers featuring Bristol and her baby or her flat-footed stint on Dancing With the Stars. But Portman is to be faulted—a woman with a career, a woman with the means to take care of her child, a woman who, unlike Bristol, is still involved with the father of her child-to-be."
Dan Quayle and "Murphy Brown," anyone?
March 1, 2011 | 1:08 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
The Oscar-winning, Jerusalem-born Natalie Portman has slammed the anti-Semitic remarks Dior's just-axed chief designer John "I Love Hitler" Galliano allegedly made after assaulting a couple in Paris last week, as caught on video. The Miss Dior Cherie spokesperson/model—who pointedly did not wear Dior but Rodarte to the Oscars—released a statement:
"I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video," the "Black Swan" star said. "In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way. I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful."
Dior fired Galliano, a favorite at the company company since 1996, in the aftermath of his rants: "In light of the deeply offensive statements and conduct by John Galliano in a video made public [Monday], Christian Dior has commenced termination procedures against him," one statement reads. "We unequivocally condemn the statements made by John Galliano which are in total contradiction to the longstanding core values of Christian Dior."
Move over, Mel Gibson and Charlie Sheen.
So here's the chain of events to incidents that give a whole new dimension to the term, "Fashion Victim:" Last week, Galliano was suspended from Dior after allegedly spewing a drunken tirade at a couple sitting near him in Paris' La Perle restaurant (sample: "Dirty Jewish face…you should be dead," he yelled at the woman—who reportedly turned out not to even be MOT—while insulting her thighs and eyebrows. And "f—king Asian bastard," he told the man, before threatening to murder him.
Dior suspended the haute fashionista, citing their "zero tolerance" policy toward anti-Semitism and racism; an indignant Galliano filed a defamation suit against the couple. But then that disturbing "I Love Hitler" video surfaced—reportedly filmed last year at La Perle—with Galliano caught on tape slurring about his admiration for The Fuhrer and telling another woman that her family would be gassed and that he wouldn't want peace with "people [such as herself] who are ugly."
Portman publicly voiced her disapproval, as did Dior's President and CEO Sidney Toledano. "I condemn most firmly the statements made by John Galliano which are total contradiction with the essential values that have always been defended by the House of Christian Dior," he stated. "Today, because of the particularly odious nature of the behavior and words of John Galliano in a video made public this Monday, the Christian Dior house has decided to lay him off immediately and has begun firing procedures against him."
So now the question is: Will Dior's fashion show continue as planned for Friday, even though it was conceived by the disgraced designer? If it does, at least one Oscar-winning actress may not be in the audience. However, Portman did film her sexy commercial for Dior's perfume as scheduled last week, directed by Sofia Coppola (see video below).
February 27, 2011 | 11:14 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
There was Aaron Sorkin's win for scripting "The Social Network;" Natalie Portman's for her turn as a deranged ballerina in "Black Swan;" David Seidler's for his original screenplay, "The King's Speech;" Jesse Eisenberg vs. James Franco for best actor, with Colin Firth taking home that prize for his portrayal of the stuttering monarch of "The King's Speech." In between, there were the usual bon mots and faux pas that characterize the Academy Awards—which this year is getting panned by some critics (at least so far) as among the worst ever. Even so, there were some interesting moments:
- Oscar co-hosts James Franco (MOT) and Anne Hathaway in a parody of "Inception's" sci-fi dream sequences—with a dreidl standing in for the spinning top that signals when that film's protagonist is still in the dream state. Hathaway: "What are you doing?" Franco: "I'm just trying to see if we're still in a dream." Hathaway: "With a dreidl?"
- James Franco thanking his grandmother in the audience, who informs him that she just saw "Marky Mark." "No, Grandma," he corrects her. "That's actually Mark Wahlberg."
- Franco's unscripted crack after Melissa Leo dropped the f-bomb while accepting her supporting actress statuette: "Congratu-effing-lations."
- Aaron Sorkin's pithy acceptance speech for best adapted screenplay, in which he informs his daughter: "Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to demand some respect from your guinea pig."
- The elegant David Seidler, 74, on winning the original screenplay award for "The King's Speech:" "My father always said to me I'd be a late bloomer. I believe I'm the oldest person ever to win this particular award. I hope this record is broken quickly and often." Seidler also thanked "her majesty the Queen for not putting me in the Tower of London" for putting f-words in the mouth of her father, George VI, the speech-impaired King of the film. In my interview with Seider, he attributed his stutter in large part to the trauma of fleeing the Blitz with his Jewish family during World War II. The film's critical acclaim has made him feel "I have a voice," he told the Academy. "I have been heard."
- The documentary short "Strangers No More"—which spotlights the multinational students at the Biolik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv—winning the documentary short contest, prompting one of its filmmakers to thank "The children who opened their hearts to us." The students had fled poverty and warfare in 48 countries before arriving in Israel.
- Past Oscar host Billy Crystal inserting a bit of shtick as he joked that the show was running a little long, "so here's best picture"—long before the end of the show.
Here's the trailer for "Strangers No More:"
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