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Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway
His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
- By Valerie Hemingway
- Photographs by Robert Wallis
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A norther was raging over havana, bending and twisting the royal palm fronds against a threatening gray sky. My taxi splashed through the puddles along the Malecón, the majestic coastal road that circles half the city, as fierce waves cascaded over the sea wall and sprayed the footpath and street. Nine miles outside the city I arrived at what I had come to see: Finca Vigía, or Lookout Farm, where Ernest Hemingway had made his home from 1939 to 1960, and where he had written seven books, including The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast and Islands in the Stream.
The Finca Vigía had been my home too. I lived there for six months in 1960 as Hemingway's secretary, having met him on a sojourn to Spain the previous year, and I returned to the finca for five weeks in 1961 as a companion to his widow, Mary. (Later, I married Ernest's youngest son, Gregory; we had three children before we divorced in 1987; he died in 2001.) I well remember the night in 1960 when Philip Bonsall, the U.S. ambassador to Cuba and a frequent visitor, dropped by to say that Washington was planning to cut off relations with Fidel Castro's fledgling government, and that American officials thought it would be best if Hemingway demonstrated his patriotism by giving up his beloved tropical home. He resisted the suggestion, fiercely.
As things turned out, the Hemingways left Cuba that summer so Ernest could tend to some writerly business in Spain and the United States; his suicide, in Idaho on July 2, 1961, made the question of his residency moot. Shortly thereafter, Mary and I returned to Cuba to pack up a mass of letters, manuscripts, books and paintings and ship them to the United States, and she donated the finca to the Cuban people. I visited Cuba briefly in 1999 to celebrate the centennial of Ernest's birth and found his home, by then a museum, essentially as Mary and I had left it almost 40 years before. But recently I heard that the Cuban government had spent a million dollars to restore the villa to its original condition and that work on the grounds, garage and the author's fishing boat was in progress. I was curious to see the results.
Havana, ever a city of contrasts, was showing her age when I visited last spring, yet signs of renewal were faintly evident in the old city, La Habana Vieja, and in the once-fashionable Vedado section. The City Historian's Office has plowed some of the profits from Havana's hotels, bars and restaurants into the restoration of historic buildings.
Surprisingly absent from radio, television and even the lips of the people I talked to was the name of Fidel Castro, who was still recovering from his intestinal surgery of July 2006. But Ernest Hemingway, dead 46 years, was almost as palpable a presence as he was during the two decades he lived and wrote at Finca Vigía. Between these two towering figures of the late 1950s, who met only once and briefly (when Castro won a Hemingway-sponsored fishing tournament in May 1960), Havana seemed to be caught in a time warp, locked into that fevered period of Hemingway's physical decline and Castro's meteoric rise to power.
Except now it was Hemingway who was ascendant, more celebrated than ever. Festivities were in the works not only for the 45th anniversary of the Museo Ernest Hemingway's opening, this past July, but even for the 80th anniversary, next April, of Hemingway's first footfall in Cuba (when the author and his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, spent a brief layover in Havana on an ocean liner sailing from Paris to Key West in 1928).
The Hemingway I encountered on my ten-day visit was both more benign and more Cuban than the one I knew, with an accent on his fondness for the island and his kindness to its people. There seemed almost a proprietary interest in him, as if, with the yawning rift between the United States and Cuba, the appropriation of the American author gave his adopted country both solace and a sense of one-upmanship.
The director of the Museo Ernest Hemingway, Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales, was waiting for me in her office, which had once been Finca Vigía's two-car garage. Surrounded by a staff of about half a dozen, a team of especialistas with pencils poised, tape recorder and video camera rolling, I fielded a barrage of questions about the finca and its former owners. Did I remember the color of the walls? Which important people had I met in the spring and summer of 1960? Those notations on Ernest's bathroom wall—could I identify who wrote the ones that aren't in his handwriting? After a while, I began to wonder whether it was my memory or my imagination that was filling in the gaps.
As we walked over to the main house after the interview, tourist buses were pulling into the parking lot. The visitors, about 80 percent of them foreigners, peered through the house's windows and French doors—their only option, since a special permit is needed to enter the premises. (Even so, I was told this is the most popular museum in Cuba.)
Inside, I felt distracted, not by the objects I was trying to identify, for I had taken little notice of them when I lived there, but by my memories. My Finca Vigía is not a museum but a home. Looking at the chintz-covered chair in the living room, I saw Hemingway's ample figure as he sat holding a glass of scotch in one hand, his head slightly nodding to a George Gershwin tune coming from the record player. In the dining room, I saw not the heavy oblong wooden table with its sampling of china place settings, but a spread of food and wine and a meal in progress, with conversation and laughter and Ernest and Mary occasionally calling each other "kitten" and "lamb." In the pantry, where the seven servants ate and relaxed, I recalled watching Friday-night boxing broadcasts from Madison Square Garden. For these matches, every household member was invited, and Ernest presided, setting the odds, monitoring the kitty, giving blow-by-blow accounts of the action.
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Does anybody know of a man named Luke who would be seen with Hemingway from time to time when He moved to Cuba. The reason I asked is because He is mentioned in stories about Key West and Havana when He did some work on Papas boat in both countries, I happen to know quite a lot about Him. Thanks
Posted by gb Peevey on October 14,2009 | 05:25 PM
Valerie...TANTO MONTA, so the Royal Spanish Coat of Arms says...This is my first visit to this site which I found most interesting. My name is Hugo… a native "Cojimero" born in 1941.Of course, we do not know each other, but with all due respect, we share a few things in common. Your husband's name Gregory, rung a loud bell, named after Gregorio (Fuentes), Captain or Patro'n of his father's Pilar. That photograph of the Cojimar Castle transported me to my birthplace, where both of my parents were born and and alas, about 13 Generations more, before the construction of the Castle began in 1643. My paternal Great Grandfather settled in Cojimar in 1853, having migrated from central Catalonia, Iberia....so much for my part. ...I had fallen asleep in the open Sun on the wide Sea Wall bordering the seashore and "Big Pier" facing the Lower Park - worn out by the salty Cojimar breeze and pounding surf. One of my friends woke me up yelling that Gregorio called us to give us some Ballyhoos(used for Bait). It was around 1949 - I was about 8 years old. That was my first recollection with Gregory's Father but I had been on The Pilar when Hemingway was not there. Gregorio, a good friend of both of my families would let us on board, starting the engine for several minutes getting it ready for the late afternoon outing...I recall, it was 1953 when the movie crew and Director Zimmermann began filming The Old Man and The Sea. Katherine Hepburn would show up ocassionally to keep an eye on Spencer Tracy (her Platonic love of her life). Several of my uncles and my father were photographed as they played their role in thefilm. After filming finished, the Townspeople pinned the medal on Hemingway's shirt for winning the Pulitzer Prize by the Finca Vigia's Pool side. We left Cuba for the States in 1956 and brought the photographs with us in 1957.caring for them ever since.
respectfully, Hugo L. Alpizar
Posted by Hugo L. Alpizar on August 20,2009 | 03:15 AM
Hi I was wondering if Ernest Hemmingway's 1955 Chrysler was there @ able to be seen i am going to Cuba soon Thank You norm.
Posted by norm frey on January 7,2009 | 12:18 AM
Anne, Did you get a response to your inquiry concerning the Smithsonian providing assistant to Cuban museums? If not, I think that the Cubans may have been confused about the technical assistance that has been provided them by the Finca Vigia Foundation, a non-profit of which I am a board member. We have provided technical assistance ranging from architects to structural engineers to paper conservators to marine architects. You can find more information at our web site http://fincafoundation.org/
Posted by Marty Peterson on September 25,2008 | 12:44 PM
My name is Ruben Santos Claveria and I am American born Puerto-Rican and Guatemalen and I studied Hemingway while I was a student at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. I went to visit the Hemingway musuem in Oak Park, Illinois and was soon recruited to be a tour guide and volunteer. Valerie Hemingway's article is very insightful and shows a very loving side of a man who had four wives. I am very interested in Hemingway's life in Cuba, since Cuba was a commonwealth of the U.S. just like Puerto Rico is now. There are more American tourists to Puerto Rico though because you don't need a passport to travel their if you are American. I still give one day a month for volunteer work as a Tour Guide at the Hemingway Birthplace House, that attracts tourists from all over the world. The Ernest Hemingway Foundation has spent over a million dollars in donations and grants to recreate the house to make it look as it did when the Hemingway and Hall family lived there. It's not fully clear whether Hemingway is partially liberal or completely liberal because of his Cuban experience but this article suggests that Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of his time, inspiring every one who came in contact with him. I wish that relations between Cuba and the U.S. would improve to find partial, temporary solutions if not permenant solutions to social ills like poverty. The Olympics in China made me think the world is ready to respect all forms of government to create a pluristic, democratically liberal world where humanism matters the most. Writers, poets, peacemakers at Nobebprize.org keep renewing my faith in human progress.
Posted by Ruben Santos Claveria on September 24,2008 | 02:33 PM
Is there any information about Hemingway's fishing expeditions (and friends) in Cuba in the early 1940's. I am trying to verify that George T. Northern, who was grandson of William Northern (Gov. of Georgia), went on a fishing trip w/ Hemingway in Cuba during that time.
Posted by Steven Soboroff on March 30,2008 | 01:41 PM
I need to confirm that any type of support was given to any of the museums in Cuba by the Smithsonian. Papers, documents, help in planning and setting of artifacts. This may just be a myth as I have found one cuban says yes, the other says no. Between the museaums of Hemingway and the Capitol of Cuba, did indeed the Smithsonian actually give advisors or any other assistance. Do you have dates and names by chance. Thanks Anne
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John Lennon: Essence and Reality
Part 12: "Cleanup Time"
"Once I accepted the reality of the situation, something greater than me took over and all of a sudden I lost my fear." Thus spake Lennon in 1980. In this blog, we'll look at why Lennon said this, and its context, both personal and musical. They're good words to start with, because they suggest the largeness of Lennon's endeavour when he was working on Double Fantasy, from which album comes "Cleanup Time".
Melodically, "Cleanup Time" is by no means Lennon's strongest song, but it's one of his most lovable, and it's deceptively deep, at least in my view. I recall that at one time I was taking singing lessons from a pleasant, well-fed nun. She was treating me, musically that is, to a diet of her favourites, which were mostly Broadway standards. One day she very kindly asked me to think about what I might like to learn, and so the next week I brought along the sheet music for "Cleanup Time". She had never heard it before: neither had her pianist. But as she came to know the song, Sister started to tap her fingers, and then her feet, and soon she started to do a little jig. "This is a joy", she said. And that sounds right.
I think of "Cleanup Time" as being one of the "Yoko Ono songs". It not only paints a humorous thumb-nail portrait of her, but it's inspired by her approach to life: hard-headed and romantic by turns, with positive affirmation, and lots of talk of magic. This is part of Yoko's worldview, that to speak and think and to imagine positively is to make a positive future. She sees the connection between imagination (what I might call "creative visualisation") and reality. This willing of the positive into reality is what she calls magic, which is why in "You're the One" from Milk and Honey she describes John and herself as "a wizard and a witch". This belief that we are making our present and future right now, and can make them better right now is an example of "instant karma".
Now to apply this to "Cleanup Time". At the outset of the song, as a guitar picks at a loose line, Lennon seems to mutter an incantation. It sounds to me like: "Bubble, bubble … toil", a reference to the famous spell from Shakespeare's Macbeth, with its refrain "Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." As Lennon's mumbling fades out, the band comes together and sweeps us into a burbling brook of sound, while Lennon begins, half speaking rather than singing:
Moonlight on the water, sunlight on your face,
You and me together, we are in our place.
The gods are in the heavens, the angels treat us well,
Oracle has spoken, we cast the perfect spell.
The queen is in her counting house, counting out the money,
The king is in the kitchen, making bread and honey.
No friends and yet no enemies, absolutely free.
No rats aboard the magic ship of perfect harmony.
And then with a surge of energy, and even a bit of growl on the words "now" and "let", he sings:
Now it begins, let it begin: Cleanup time!
Cleanup time! Well! Well! Well!
However far we travel, Wherever we may roam,
The centre of our circle will always be our home.
Cleanup time! Cleanup time!
The third verse is shorter, as, instead of the last couplet, a saxophone plays a solo. It is worth listening to it through headphones: the musicians clearly had a lot of fun, and the guitars, in particular, emit almost random screeches in the background, but the randomness of the sound has an effect that is complementary to the song. The piece is only just under three minutes long, it doesn't overstay its welcome, and as it is, it is totally satisfying.
As I've mentioned in a previous blog, it is odd that Sean isn't mentioned. I don't feel that he's excluded, and he does have a song all to himself, so to speak, later on the album, in "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)". But still, the omission is odd: I can't imagine that Lennon left Sean out because he felt that Julian might be hurt.
The real issue is, when Lennon speaks about, cleaning up, what is being cleaned? I think the answer is a large one: it is their lives. I think he means their drug taking, their approach to each other and to others, the food they were eating, and even financially, that they were getting their act together. So the references to the king and queen were humorous but it was the humour of a happy truth. Then, by implication, he was perhaps admitting that in the past he may have forgotten that his home was central, but now he would not. The way he sings "Now" when he sings "Now it begins" demonstrates that he felt he had come to a significant and fresh point. About this time he was writing a song with the words "life begins at 40″, because that was how he felt. Further, the opening references to moonlight and sunlight remind me of his insight in "Oh! My Love" into the transformative power of the simplest and clearest impressions (see the first Lennon blog). He is to remain centred in reality, and reality, as we saw with "God", he identified with "Yoko and me". This is why he sang: "You and me together, we are in our place."
Doggett sees a little dig at Yoko and her tarot readers and psychics in Lennon's reference to an oracle and a spell, (The Art and Music of John Lennon, 297): I must say, I don't interpret those lyrics that way. Given Lennon's habit of travelling all over the world in compliance with the advice these people gave Yoko, the lyrics are more likely to be celebratory (he flew to South Africa and then travelled to Bermuda in accordance with "psychic" advice: see John Lennon: The Life, Philip Norman, 789). Over and above that, I don't sense any irony here. However, Doggett is correct to see in the reference to the king and queen, an allusion to "Cry, Baby Cry" from The Beatles double album. That song had something magical, perhaps redolent of "Alice in Wonderland", and that is what I hear here, 12 years later.
It is funny, but while the line about having neither friend nor enemy and being absolutely free is bracing in its clarity and cleanness, I don't believe it expressed the whole truth, and I never did, even before the assassination. Yet, I feel that this is one aspect of the truth, and was Lennon's genuine experience: he felt that he and Yoko made a self-sufficient pair. It smacks to me of his words from "In My Life" about how his dear memories lose their meaning when he thinks of love as "something new". It isn't cold: there is something impartial about it, but still incomplete. The words "magic ship of perfect harmony" may even have been inspired by an event which occurred not long before the writing of this song.
In 1980, Lennon made an important sailing trip to Bermuda. I will not attempt to retell the account told by Chris Hunt ("Just Like Starting Over: The Recording of Double Fantasy", first published in Uncut Legends, December 2005, by Chris Hunt, retrieved from http://www.chrishunt.biz/features26.html @ 16 May 2009), but it is well worth reading. If, as it seems, the story is true, then when Lennon sailed to Bermuda, he alone of the crew, was well enough to assist the captain get through a six day storm (the story is accepted by Philip Norman). The captain quoted Lennon as saying the following about his feelings when he (i.e. the captain) was obliged to leave Lennon alone to steer the boat:
Once I accepted the reality of the situation, something greater than me took over and all of a sudden I lost my fear. I actually began to enjoy the experience, and I began to sing and shout old sea shanties in the face of the storm, feeling total exhilaration. I had the time of my life. … I was so centred after the experience at sea that I was tuned in to the cosmos – and all these songs came!
Little wonder that the captain went on to say that when he returned to the deck several hours later, Lennon was "just enraptured". Interestingly, Lennon was also supposed to have said that the reason he seemed immune to sea-sickness, when three experienced sailors were laid up with it, was that as a former heroin addict who had made it through withdrawal, he had learned to control his urge to vomit.
And I think this is the clue to the deep if subdued joy of "Cleanup Time". Lennon had been through some difficult times, some hard times, and some dirty times. But he had come through. When I first heard Double Fantasy, I formed the view that Lennon had started writing songs more radically original than any in the history of modern pop: he had started writing the songs of the householder. This is Gurdjieff's way of referring to the person who is on a road of spiritual development simply by their manner of living ordinary life.
The concept of the householder is quite important: Gurdjieff said that the spiritual way could not begin at a lower level than that of ordinary and competent life (Miraculous 154). This means that unless you can organize your life: your food, clothing and shelter, in a competent manner, and care for your children if you have any, your chance of organizing anything at a higher level is nil. Of course, this is a principle: there are also issues of accident and even fate to take into account, so that someone, anyone, of whatever level, living in Afghanistan, may find circumstances overwhelming. But Gurdjieff's valuation of the householder is inimical to the romance of the "bohemian" (Miraculous 362-4), or as we might say today, the "beatnik" or "hippie". Bohemians and hippies, according to Gurdjieff would be "tramps" (people with no values). Equally remote from the spiritual way are "lunatics", people with wrong values. Interestingly, Gurdjieff said that we have elements of all three within ourselves, but there is still room for one type to predominate.
Lennon did not put it into these words: so far as I know he had not read or even heard of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. But if he had not, this would make his achievement all the greater. It would mean that he had tried a certain way of life, found it failing, and amended his ways. This is why I think of some of the songs from those last years as being "householder songs". This concept also shows the significance of how Yoko and he became more and more concerned to eat nourishing food, and the importance of Lennon's learning to prepare brown rice and bake good bread. These are good, simple householder tasks.
There is much in the later Lennon which can be explained from this perspective, but I'll close with his statement "something greater than me took over and all of a sudden I lost my fear."
There is something greater than us, and it's manifestation in our lives is related to our acceptance of the situation, whatever that situation may be. It is, ultimately, related to accepting that we are as we are. But that does not mean congratulating ourselves, for as we are we have a possibility of developing, of becoming better, perhaps even more godlike. I would say that a good first step is to remember ourselves more often and more deeply, and perhaps this is what Lennon experienced when he spoke of being "so centred". But self-remembering is only the first step, and few "householders" have ever heard of it or conceived anything like it. No matter, they progress through their own way of life. The goal still abides, the spiritual life, the life grounded in reality for God.
John Lennon 1980
These issues shall all be revisited and new layers of depth will appear. For example, we shall need to consider "Living on Borrowed Time" which also relates to Lennon's Bermuda experience. But for the next blog, I'll go back to January 1970 and "Instant Karma!".
Joseph Azize has published in ancient history, law and Gurdjieff studies. His first book The Phoenician Solar Theology treated ancient Phoenician religion as possessing a spiritual depth comparative with Neoplatonism, to which it contributed through Iamblichos. The second book, "Gilgamesh and the World of Assyria", was jointly edited with Noel Weeks. It includes his article arguing that the Carthaginians did not practice child sacrifice.
The third book, George Mountford Adie: A Gurdjieff Pupil in Australia represents his attempt to present his teacher (a direct pupil of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky) to an international audience.The fourth book, edited and written with Peter El Khouri and Ed Finnane, is a new edition of Britts Civil Precedents. He recommends it to anyone planning to bring proceedings in an Australian court of law.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Federal Grand Jury in Jacksonville has formally indicted John Carver Lester, 61, of Jacksonville with three counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
Lester was arrested at his home on Dec. 20 and is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
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Shane Richie has hinted he would like to step into Sir Bruce Forsyth's shoes on Strictly Come Dancing.
The EastEnders star and TV presenter collected the best soap actor gong at the TVChoice Awards, and took the opportunity to put himself forward to host the show if 85-year-old Brucie ever steps down.
Shane was joining in the banter after Ant and Dec teased he is the dream contestant to appear in gruelling reality show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! on rival channel ITV.
As the Geordie duo accepted the gong for best reality show they quipped: "There are still a few slots for this year so we'll be taking names this evening." Then Ant pointed at Shane and said, "Every year, top of the list!"
As Shane accepted his award he retorted: "And Ant and Dec, I'm not doing jungle, but Bruce when you're ready to retire..."
Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden joined hosts Ant and Dec to accept the best talent show award.
Amanda joked: "Simon [Cowell] can't be here tonight. He's at Mothercare!"
Earlier on the red carpet she revealed she has told father-to-be Simon that he should expect his child to be as "unruly" as him.
Amanda, 42, said she had been quick to congratulate her boss after hearing he was expecting a baby with lover Lauren Silverman.
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Pownal Library Booksale
POWNAL -- The Solomon Wright Public Library will have its annual fall book sale on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4;30 p.m. Donations will be accepted up to the day of the sale during regularly scheduled hours. Sign up for our door prizes and take look through the bestsellers, special cookbooks, history section, biographies, crafts and art history, gardening, travel, poetry and more.
The library is located at 97 Main Street. For info: 802-823-5400.
Women and the vote
POWNAL -- The Pownal Historical Society presents "A History of Women and the Vote in Vermont: Why it Mattered Then, Why it Matters Now" with Cyndy Bittinger, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Pownal Methodist Church. The event is free and open to the public.
"Equal rights means equal responsibility, equal justice to working men and women, equal pay for women who do work equal to that of men; in fact, the conservation of the human race." This is not a quote from Governor Madeleine Kunin. It is a quote from Annette W. Parmalee in 1917 advocating for the right to vote in Randolph,Vermont. Parmalee was a forceful advocate even nicknamed the suffrage hornet! The battle for the vote for women in Vermont was long, up to 1920 and the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Yet the movement was built on prior efforts to prohibit liquor and ban slavery in the nation (Vermont did not allow slavery).
Nowadays, we often hear of the importance of the women voter. Women may in fact sway the national election of the U.S. President. Therefore, as the slogan goes, your vote, your voice. So come and hear the history of those who lighted the way on this important issue.
The speaker, Bittinger, faculty at the Community College of Vermont where she teaches Vermont history and Women in U. S. History.
American Legion breakfast
POWNAL -- The Pownal American Legion Post 90 is offering breakfast on Sundays, starting Nov. 4. During deer season, breakfasts - made to order - will be served from 5 to 11 a.m., upstairs. Thereafter, Sunday breakfast will be served from 7 to 11 a.m. The public is welcome. The Pownal American Legion Post 90, is located on Route 7.


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Check out our list of top 10 laughers of the year -- which, we should mention, doesn't include the divisive 'Invention of Lying,' 'Bruno,' and 'Observe & Report.' While many people laughed, too many yawned (or walked out; cue the 'Bruno' hate in the comments section). Then there's Pixar's 'Up,' which is hilarious, but the trail of tears a viewer walks to get there keeps it off the comedy table. We're still crying. The comedy tide turned a bit in 2009. Titans dropped (Will Ferrell in 'Land of the Lost') while underdogs soared (Zach Galifianakis in 'The Hangover'). Alpha males were KO'd (Vince Vaughn in 'Couples Retreat') while beta males throw punishing right hooks (Paul Rudd in 'I Love You, Man') -- in quality, at least. Box office is another story.
Check out our list of top 10 laughers of the year -- which, we should mention, doesn't include the divisive 'Invention of Lying,' 'Bruno,' and 'Observe & Report.' While many people laughed, too many yawned (or worse; cue the 'Bruno' hate in the comments section). Then there's Pixar's 'Up,' which is hilarious, but the trail of tears a viewer walks to get there keeps it off the comedy table. We're still crying.
10. 'The Proposal'
Critics didn't love this movie, but audiences, especially those of the female persuasion, went nuts for it. That's usually the case for Bullock's vehicles, and while it trudged over familiar romantic-comedy plot lines, it did rise above all others in its ilk. Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, and Craig T. Nelson all turned in their funniest performances in years. One part 'The Devil Wears Prada,' one part 'New in Town,' and one part 'Green Card,' this chick flick invokes true laughs in an otherwise male-dominated comedy year.
9. 'The Slammin' Salmon'
Everyone should give Broken Lizard a standing ovation for discovering the true comedic talents of Michael Clark Duncan. As former heavyweight champion Cleon Salmon, he steals the movie away from the veterans of 'Super Troopers' and 'Beerfest.' The entire film is set in a restaurant and aces the jokes 'Waiting' missed horribly on. Like other Broken Lizard offerings, most viewers may not discover it until DVD. That'd be unfortunate -- watching Duncan scream and punch his way through this one is best done in a large group.
8. 'Extract'
Like 'Office Space,' Mike Judge offers up another great film about a man coming to terms with middle age as well as his personal and professional failures. Jason Bateman plays Joel, the uptight owner of a flower-extract company, while Ben Affleck is surprisingly spot on as his pothead friend. Mila Kunis and Kristen Wiig both nail their roles as Joel's object of desire and object of frustration. Bateman's deadpan performance, meanwhile, ensures he will continue to be in every movie Hollywood produces.
7. 'Funny People'
Finally, longtime friends Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler team together on a very personal project for both of them (and one not called 'Don't Mess With the Zohan'). Playing a slightly fictionalized version of himself, Sandler deals with his own mortality by befriending a struggling comedian (Seth Rogen) and chasing his married ex-girlfriend (Leslie Mann). Apatow's typical bromance and dramedy abound, but he almost bit off more story than the movie can chew (see the film's 146-minute runtime). It's his 'Moby Dick.'
6. 'The Informant!'
After proving his dramatic range, Matt Damon set out to show his comedy chops (we've cleared 'Stuck on You' from our memories). First, he displayed his blue humor alongside Sarah Silverman. Next, he nailed quirky as Mark Whitacre, a chubby, bipolar, undeniably likable FBI informant. Based on a true story, the film reunites director Steven Soderbergh and Damon for a distinctly different brand of caper film than the 'Ocean's' series. Smart, fun, and surprising, 'Informant!' may just land Damon an Oscar nomination(!).
5. 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
The writing team that created 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,' Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, reunited to bring Roald Dahl's book to life. While Anderson's humor has always been somewhat innocent, few guessed it would translate so seamlessly to a family-friendly film using claymation and talking animals. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray lend their vocal talents in what will be the only real competitor to 'Up' for Best Animated Feature.
4. 'World's Greatest Dad'
Bobcat Goldthwait is best known as the crazy standup comic and 'Police Academy' star with the annoying voice. Robin Williams is known as the talented actor with the annoying habit of choosing terrible comedies. Hopefully, this film will begin a sea change for both of them (even if 'Old Dogs' says otherwise). This is hands-down as dark as a dark comedy gets. As a director, Goldthwait brought us beastiality in Sleeping Dogs Lie and an alcoholic children's performer in Shakes The Clown, so we shouldn't be surprised. Still, we were, and you'll be just as surprised with what you laugh at here.
3. 'Zombieland'
Wait a second, another zombie comedy? Didn't 'Shaun of the Dead' already nail that genre? Yes, but first-time director Ruben Fleischer has proven that the world needs at least one more. While apocalypse films are everywhere lately and zombie flicks have lost steam to vampires, Woody Harrelson and company do an amazing of job of keeping things fun and not treading familiar ground. This will be played on-loop at Halloween parties for years.
2.'The Hangover'
Nothing can be written here that hasn't already been written about this film. It dominated the box office all summer and shocked everyone besides director Todd Phillips, who bet his salary on its success. The only eyebrow-raising thing we could possibly do is put it in the number two spot. That's not why it's here. It belongs here. While a hilarious and career-breaking movie, it leaned heavily on shock humor and that weakens it.
1. 'I Love You, Man'
Loved by most critics, unfortunately it wasn't the hit it should have been in the theaters. This is the ultimate "bromance" comedy -- so let's kill that word now, shall we? Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are the new 'Odd Couple' and prove that great comedic male relationships don't have to be all about conflict. Written textbook tight, the movie doesn't lag for a second, and gives Andy Samberg his funniest film role yet. You'll love it.


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Performer of the Week: Steve Burton and Kelly Monaco as Jason Morgan and Sam McCall. Look, we're sure her Vegas show was amazing, and lots and lots of people were entertained. But speaking just for us? We're SO happy to have Kelly Monaco back working more than one day a week on "GH." And just in time for Sam and Jason to hit the road on a good, old-fashioned road trip. Well, "old-fashioned" if you're into detective work, fixing cars, evading cops, and following fugitive teenagers. We've said it before and we'll say it again: We love Jason and Sam together, and Steve and Kelly possess an easy chemistry that communicates their long history without saying much about it. We also like how they're still kind of uneasy around each other, given how ugly their breakup was. But bit by bit, they're growing closer, and we love it.
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Jason and Sam belong together and thatz that!!! Why try to make Sam out to be the bad guy when Jason did a lot wrong also... all iz fair in love and war... these two belong together just like luke and laura... But if the writers Kill Jason off the show I am done with GH I have been watching this show since 1983... The last time jason left I quit watching until they brought him back... Jason iz the heart of the show... I love the new carly finally someone who can play the character very well and I love the story line with Jason and sam... PLZ Don't write Jason off the show!!!
i just wonder what will happen with Claudia and Sonny??? She is awful!!!
I have never seen a couple so right for each other they are exciting and sexy cant get enough of jason and sam
glad gh did the right thing and put them back together
I thank the writters for sam and jason many of us have returned back to gh. they are the best couple since luke and laura, i was so upset when they broke them up i quit watching all together, thankyou gh for bringing back our super couple jason and sam and for listening to the fans never break them up again they are the whole show to me
thank u
jasam is awesome ever since 04
the new scenes are amazing cant wait for more
just like alan and monica
jack and erica from amc
bo and hope from days
you cant keep a supercpuple down for long
it is a soap so anything is possible
and jason has forgiven sam for everything
jizasions need to get over it and stop hating and being so bitter
if they cant get it right in 11 yrs let go
she as a booty call that never left
she was the rebound chick plus her never stopped loving sam so jizasoner cant blame sam
I have stuck by the show through some horrible storylines. I have watched while some of my favorites were written out and backburned. Still I tuned in. I realize this is a soap and it is about entertainment. But there is nothing entertaining me on the show these days. Olivia is the biggest hypocrite to grace the screen. Sonny needs to up his meds because he is definitely losing it. Why is Jerry going after Jason again? Oh sorry to once again throw Sam into a contrived situation with Jason that will resurface buried feelings. Alexis is the worst mother ever and again Sam is the bestest sister. We get it Sam needs airtime. Find her a place of her own she does not belong with Jason it is killing his and many others on the screen's characters. I want to continue to watch but I fast forward more than I watch. Sam has never paid for a single thing she has done and to be honest I hold her and Lucky responsible for the second kidnapping. Not that we were suppose to notice that she was once again somewhere she didnt belong. Anyway I have given my opinion not that it matters because for the last year GH just gets worst and worst and JaSam fans GH is not getting better you have blinders on because you are getting your couple. The show sucks and if we were getting Liason through these storylines I would still say it sucks. Kelly and Steve just dont have and chemistry what so ever. Sam should be with someone new.
I strongly felt that Sam & Jason were done when he witnessed her shagging the rug w/ Ric. They just couldn't admit it to themselves or each other. How is it possible that Jason can forgive all the crap that Sam has done, including putting his own child in danger many times!? When are TIIC going to start redeeming Jason and concentrate a lot less on Sam's redemption???? Maybe the next Sweeps Guza could say, "Gotcha, you've been watching a new version of the Twilight Zone, here's the real General Hospital for your viewing pleasure." And Alan and Emily and Georgie could be back, alive, not ghosts or figments of imaginations and Jason could be with Elizabeth, claiming his family back....*sigh* I really miss the days when General Hospital was less violent and more intriguing. Love, family, romance, good winning over evil....Give me back my General Hospital; and Liason too!!!
OK what is GH trying to do to me? I did not want to fall in love with the pairing of Jason and Sam and the writers, directors and producers are making it hard to resist. There is so much in just these few short scenes. I see friendship building, and knowing that they can always count on each other to cover their backs. They know what each person likes and don't like. It is a nice storyline that we can watch develop on our screens of how these two can overcome all that went wrong. I know Jason's father Alan tried to kill Monica and cheated and Monica did her fair share, so I believe that Jason and Sam can get back what they once had.
Please keep your writers writing this great story. After all is said and done, it is a soap opera and not real life so anything can and will be done. I love the not so good girls and guys. I love the excitement of the mob, the girl fights, the revenge. I don't want an everyday life where you go to work and come home and you and your husband have few problems, you are a happy little home maker and have the perfect life. I get that every day. I want EXCITEMENT. I want what we don't get in our everyday life. Bring the guns and start shooting
I want to see Jason & Elizabeth reunited. There's no way in He!! the REAL Jason Morgan would be anywhere near the woman that intentionally endanger his son's life not once but twice. Women aren't that forgiving when innocent children are put in harms way and there's no way she who shall remain nameless should be rewarded with Jason's love after what's she's done. The viewers will NOT forget and will NOT forgive her for her actions and I am one of them. How can TPTB reward her without even making her pay for her crimes? Why does this woman get rewarded for all her crimes. What are you promoting GH? I will NOT watch this hot mess of a s/l. Give us back our Real Jason Morgan, the one that protects and loves children not condone people who endangers them.
I am definitely NOT enjoying this contrived Jason and Sam storyline. Why must we have the destructions of characters e.g. Jason just to try and whitewash Sam of all the things she has done. this couples time has come and gone I do not want to see Jason babysit Sonny's kids just so that he and sam can have screentime and these so called great adventures have sonny out looking for his kids have him act like a parent for once. I just dont see chemistry between Steve and kelly it is not their and this couple just isnt working. How many more of these little adventures are tptb going to come up with just to try and sell this couple. Give it up it is not working.


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Water welling into southern Manhattan drenched one of the world's densest communications nodes,
taking out popular websites and forcing carriers to reroute international traffic.
As commercial power was cut to the southern tip of Manhattan, data centers and
phone-companies facilities in the Wall Street area were forced to switch to diesel generators. Data
centers that failed to keep running on backup power brought down news and gossip sites Gawker,
Huffington Post and many popular New York-based blogs.
Gawker was still down this afternoon, but Huffington Post was back online. Their webhost,
Datagram Inc., said power was out and flooding in their basement was preventing their backup
generators from pumping fuel. Internet connectivity from three providers was also down, Datagram
Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest phone company in the region, had some of its nodes
in downtown Manhattan flooded, shutting down phone and Internet service.
Further uptown, data centers hosted in a "telecom hotel" that spans a whole block and houses
Google's New York headquarters were reporting outages as well, apparently because backup power
failed when commercial power was cut yesterday evening.
Renesys Corp., which monitors the pathways of the Internet, said the storm caused major
outages in New Jersey and New York. The city is a major transit point for international
telecommunications traffic, and the firm said carriers were scrambling to route traffic around it.
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said it's experiencing widespread outages due to the loss of power. The company said it doesn't yet
know the extent of outages in New Jersey, which bore the brunt of the storm.
Time Warner Cable Inc., the other big New York-area cable company, said it had no reports of
significant damage to its network, but customers without power had no cable service.
AT&T Inc. said there are "issues" in hard-hit areas, and it's in the early stages of
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gcp wrote:.
Todays update in SID of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
does not solve the problem "cannot decode many common video files encoded as AVC 1 Baseline"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/973014
if you have this problem
just move libgstvideoparsersbad.so out of the way.
For 64 bit install:
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak
For 32 bit install:
sudo mv /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak
http://askubuntu.com/questions/126030/t ... s-in-12-04
craigevil wrote:Unless you are using an Ubuntu package bugs on Launchpad are meaningless.
gcp wrote:Download a video from youtube as mp4 with low resolution
and try to play it with totem.
It will not play...
wayne128 wrote:MiniTube does not have video in LMDE tracking SID.
I install it, sound OK but no video. anyone manage to figure out solution?
sudo mv /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak
$ dpkg -l |grep gstreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa:i386 0.10.36-1 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 1:0.10.13-0.2 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386 0.10.31-3 GStreamer plugin for getting the sink/source information from GConf
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:i386 0.10.23-3 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 0.10.36-1 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 0.10.31-3 GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:i386 0.10.19-2+b1 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii gstreamer0.10-x:i386 0.10.36-1 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0:i386 0.10.23-3 GStreamer development files for libraries from the "bad" set
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 0.10.36-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 0.10.36-1 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii phonon-backend-gstreamer:i386 4:188.8.131.52-2 Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend
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System: Host: debian Kernel: 3.3.0-trunk-486 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ sid main non-free
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/ stable main
deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian/ experimental-snapshots main
GeneC wrote:I had temporarily enabled Experimental and upgraded all the xfce packages to 4.10 that I could find. Might have missed something.
Saw no big differences..? Except some panel applets no longer worked.
Reverted to a recent clone.
Decided to wait for them to filter down to SID.
cooleric1234 wrote:I keep hoping to see XFCE 4.10. It's been in experimental for a while now but I have no idea how to tell when it will migrate to SID.
Brian49 wrote:cooleric1234 wrote:I keep hoping to see XFCE 4.10. It's been in experimental for a while now but I have no idea how to tell when it will migrate to SID.
I have had no problems since upgrading to Xfce 4.10 from the Experimental repository.
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Centenary College's Chapter of Becca's Closet Manages Fashion Shows for Local Organizations
Hackettstown, N.J. – Prom season is upon us and with that the Centenary College chapter of Becca's Closet, an organization that provides gently used prom dresses to those who cannot afford them, is involved in fashion show management. Last Friday, students produced the Prom 2013 Fashion Show as part of their assignment for Professor Kristen McKitish's Coordination and Promotion course. This event was held at Rockaway Mall and was part of the Rockaway Mall Prom Exposition.
As part of this assignment, the students selected the garments that were featured, as well as wrote commentary about them, discussed trends and served as models that evening.
In addition, Professor McKitish, who is an Assistant Professor of Fashion and Merchandising, will be serving as an emcee for a fashion show fundraiser for the Catholic Daughters of the Americas at 11:30 a.m. April 14, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. in Somerset, N.J.. The members of Becca's Closet will serve as models and fashion coordinators for this travel through time themed project.
"Students will coordinate three or four looks from different periods and will talk about fashion trends for each timeframe that is covered," says McKitish. "Exercises such as the two that we are involved in will help strengthen the Becca's Closet mission on campus, plus are terrific hands-on experiences for the students."
McKitish started her career at Centenary College in 2002 in the Student Engagement and Services Department. Her positions included Director of Student Activities and Director of First Year Programs. She also served as an adjunct professor and became a full-time faculty member in 2010.
Prior to working in higher education, McKitish was a "seasoned veteran" in the retail world. She has over 16 years of retail experience – 10 of which was spent at Bloomingdale's Department Stores. While at Bloomingdale's McKitish held many positions ranging from Assistant Buyer, Regional Operations Coordinator and Assistant Store Manager of Store Operations and had the exciting opportunity to travel to every store in the country. In addition, McKitish was a recipient of the "Best of the Best" Award – the highest achievement awarded at Bloomingdale's.
In addition, the Becca's Closet Open Houses for high school students is on the following dates: March 16 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; April 6 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; April 13 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.; April 19 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; April 27 from 10 a.m to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and May 4, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Those who attend are invited to select one prom gown in the Becca's Closet inventory for free.
"It is exciting that many high schoolers have had and will have a positive prom experience with a little help from Becca's Closet," says McKitish.
The organization, Becca's Closet, is named after Rebecca "Becca" Kirtman, a 16-year- old who passed away in an automobile accident in 2003. Becca launched a dress drive in her freshman year of high school in Davie, Florida, to provide prom dresses and accessories to high school girls who could not afford to purchase them. During her sophomore year, she single-handedly collected and donated over 250 formal dresses and helped hundreds of girls across South Florida attend their high school prom in style.
To keep Becca's dream alive, countless dedicated people throughout the world have joined with her family and friends to provide opportunities for those who seek them.
There are over 80 active chapters of Becca's Closet. Only six are in New Jersey, and Centenary College is the only institution of higher education in New Jersey that runs a chapter.
In addition, private appointments can be made for individuals to select their own prom dress. Gently used dresses are also now being accepted by the Chapter. Dresses that have stains, holes or zippers that are broken will not be accepted. Donations must be dry cleaned.
For further information, please call (908) 852-1400, ext. 4352, or e-mail email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. .
Visit the Becca's Closet website at www.beccascloset.org. The Centenary chapter also has a Facebook page. It can be found under the group Centenary Becca's Closet.
Founded in 1867 by the Newark Conference of the United Methodist Church, Centenary College's academic program integrates a solid liberal arts foundation with a strong career orientation. This mix is designed to provide an educational experience that prepares students to succeed in the increasingly global and interdependent world.
Centenary College's main campus is located in Hackettstown, N.J., with its equestrian facility in Washington Township (Morris County). The Centenary College School of Professional Studies offers degree programs in three locations: Hackettstown, Parsippany and Edison, and at corporate sites throughout New Jersey. The School of International Programs recruits international students for study at Centenary and Centenary students for study abroad.


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