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The 2013 Legislation Session has just come to a close. It has been an extraordinarily productive and exciting one. We passed some truly historic bills in these 120 days, including bills to accelerate the economy, increase renewable energy, improve the election process, authorize civil unions, propose sustainable school finance, improve criminal justice, further civil rights, promote wild land fire safety and many other bills to protect families and children.
Altogether, the General Assembly heard 613 bills. Of those 613 bills we sent 441 bills to Governor John Hickenlooper's office to be signed into law, and 91 percent of those bills were passed with bipartisan support. I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to email me with your thoughts and opinions throughout the legislative session. I always appreciate your feedback.
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House District 18: In this district, which includes parts of Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, we think incumbent Pete Lee, a Democrat, deserves a second term and would better serve the district than Republican Jennifer George.
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House District 18, Pete Lee (D) vs. Jennifer George (R): Lee has proven an effective first-term lawmaker, though Republicans clearly were intent this year on killing his bills in committee as part of an effort to unseat him… We have admired Lee for his long-standing commitment to restorative justice (also the area of his biggest legislative accomplishment), in which first offenders are prompted to understand fully the impact on their victims and society, and allowed the opportunity for restitution. It's effective in reducing recidivism and the high cost of avoidable incarceration, both of which offer tangible benefits to society…
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Sen. Bob Corker continued Republicans' pressure on Democrats to pass a federal budget, pointing out in his party's weekly address Saturday that the Democrat-led Senate has not done so in three years.
"Last Sunday marked three years since the Senate has passed a budget," Corker said. "The federal government, which spends more than $3.5 trillion a year -- much of it borrowed from outside the United States -- has no guideline for how that money is spent."
But a budget passed by both houses and signed by President Barack Obama seems unlikely in an election year, especially considering Sen. Harry Reid's February assessment that "we don't need to do it" this year because the debt ceiling deal set federal spending levels.
Reid, the body's top Democrat, would schedule a vote on a budget favorable to Democrats such as the one published by the Obama Administration in February.
That $3.8 trillion plan -- which is unpalatable to Republicans -- includes a tax increase on the rich and prioritizes jobs and infrastructure over deficit reduction.
Democrats are no fans of House Republicans' plan -- a $3.5 billion measure that would replace $55 billion in defense cuts with cuts to other programs, modify funding for Medicare and Medicaid, and slash federal spending below the caps agreed to in last summer's debt ceiling deal.
Some Republicans have characterized the caps as ceilings, rather than an agreed upon level of federal spending.
Both the president's plan and the House Republicans' plan -- which passed along party lines in March and is closely associated with the chamber's Budget Committee chair, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin -- are seen as election-year political documents.
The last budget to pass both houses was a $3.4 trillion plan that survived along a party line vote. That was April 2009.
"Failing to accomplish even the most basic responsibility of government is a total failure of leadership and represents everything the American people hate about Washington," Corker said in his address. "Washington's lack of courage to deal with out-of-control spending is only adding to the sense of uncertainty among investors and potential small businesses owners."
To the government, budgets are policy blueprints. It has continued to function -- and spend -- without one because the authority to spend happens through appropriations measures.
Since the era of modern budgeting began in 1983, both houses of Congress have not enacted a budget four times, according to the nonpartisan fact check group PolitiFact. In three of the four cases, Republicans controlled both houses, and once, the Democrat-led Senate did not pass a plan.
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This week´s tourist of the week is actually not really a tourist anymore; he has moved to Sweden! But we love his blog and wanted you to meet him so here we go… ;o)
Hey Dean, we think you´re great. Fancy telling us a bit more about yourself?
Sure, no problem! I am originally from Bristol, England but lived in London ten years before moving to Sweden a year ago.
So, why Sweden?
Good question! Well my initial answer is that I moved to be with the one I love, but I was also curious about Sweden. I have lived in Australia before and the challenge to move to a new country was appealing. Sweden is a country that not many really understand beyond the stereotypical misconceptions of Abba, Ikea etc. So I wanted to use my writing to really let the world know just what an amazing and beautiful country Sweden truly is.
Amazing, what made you fall in love with this country?
The relaxed atmosphere, the ridiculous price of a beer, but more importantly I fell in love with a society that always put its family at the forefront of social activity. Back home in the UK I often felt lost with how we had isolated ourselves when families get together. Family is important and I want my family in Sweden to have the best life possible. It took time to get used to Sweden! You cannot see it all or live it all in one month let alone a year, it´s a country you need to explore from North to South and it's a never ending journey.
Wow, you really seem to love it here!
I love a lot about Sweden. Though I am not longer a "tourist" it has taken a while to adjust from moving from the UK to Sweden. I moved during the late winter if 2011 and it was, in Östergötland the worst winter in 90 years. So I had to get used to snow once more. The things I love most about Sweden are the love of the outdoors. We may have several dark short winter days but in the summer there are many places to visit and enjoy that are not just subjected to Stockholm and Gothenburg. Sweden is a BIG country compared to the UK, yet has less population than London. A country with many hidden secrets.
So where's your favourite place in Sweden?
During the summer many will say Gotland. Stockholm and Göteborg are always going to be the most visited places. But every part of Sweden has its own initial beauty. For me the best place I have been to in Sweden since I moved here is Västervik. It has a stunning Archipelago and the scenery is just phenomenal. Linköping and Norrköping are also great places to visit all year round.
How would you compare Swedes to the Brits?
Always an interesting question! Most people tell me that Swedish people are cold and unapproachable. This is so no true! Swedish people are polite, courteous, and respectful just like they are back home in the UK. If I had to compare both I would say the biggest difference would be that Swedish people place more of an emphasis on spending time with family more than we do back in the UK. But, of course, I am speaking from personal experience. Of course there are cultural differences that I still need to get used to, mainly Fika, expensive beer and Melodifestivalen.
Hehe… So, your blog is very popular! What is it about?
My blog is going well. It's a small window to my world and I have links to my blog about moving to Sweden and also my Twitter and Facebook pages. Being a writer I like to be creative and blog as much as I can but sometimes it's not always possible to do so. My Swedish blog has made me friends here and has also helped those who are considering moving to Sweden a possibility. My main work is in the books and movie scripts that I write but blogging is always a great way to meet new people. If you ever want to move to Sweden, my blog is just one of many out there that can offer advice and help in moving to this amazing country!
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Sat, Sep 01, 2012 | 04:35 BST
Sacred 3: first screens show RPG combat, spells
Sacred 3 has received a new batch of screens that show off Keen Games' RPG, which is heading to PC, PS3, PS Vita and Xbox 360 at an undisclosed date. The game also has a confirmed co-op mode.
Sat, Aug 25, 2012 | 15:12 BST
Dead Island: Riptide and Sacred 3 to debut at PAX Prime next weekend
Dead Island: Riptide and Sacred 3 will be on show at PAX Prime in Seattle Labor Day weekend, according to an announcement from Deep Silver. Exclusive demonstrations of Riptide will be shown by the title's senior creative producer Sebastian Reichert, and live multiplayer walkthroughs for Sacred 3 will be handled by senior creative producer Issac Parakhen. Sacred Citadel, will also be playable at the event. PAX Primes takes place in Seattle, Washington August 31through September 2. Thanks, Gematsu.
Tue, Aug 07, 2012 | 23:31 BST
Sacred Citadel to grace console networks ahead of Sacred 3
The Sacred series is taking a temporary turn for the light-hearted with side-scrolling beat-'em-up Sacred Citadel.
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Ascaron still working on Sacred 2 add-on
Ascaron still owns the license to Sacred, and it was not part of the IPs that Kalypso recently purchased from the troubled company.
According to the Sacred message boards, community manager Anca Adelina Finta stated:
"Studio 2 (subsidiary company of Ascaron) has the license for Sacred 2 and the devs will continue working at the add-on as they did before. In a nutshell, the add-on is not affected by anything and will come as planned."
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Journey deep into Antarctica to the home of majestic emperor penguins... The Weddell Sea is a pristine area of Antarctica, reserved only for the luckiest of polar travellers. It boasts huge tabular icebergs, pristine seas and an uncompromising environment reserved for rare and unique wildlife. It was here
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Piranha Plant Pops modeled after the 8-bit Super Mario Brothers enemies. The piranha heads are made from Dark Chocolate and Raspberry truffles. The pots are brownie truffles. They're covered in colored white chocolate, the features were made from fondant.
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You know who believes ice cream should stay between two stupid, boring cookies?
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1. Glazed Doughnut Ice Cream Sandwich
Oh, yeah, and it's dipped in chocolate. NBD. Recipe here.
Source: tastespotting.com2. Waffle Ice Cream Sandwich
1. Toast two Eggo waffles, variety of your choice.
2. Put ice cream in between them.
3. Congratulate yourself on a job well done.Source: passthesushi.com3. S'mores Ice Cream Sandwich
You blend the toasted marshmallows with the ice cream for a magical s'moresy union. Recipe here.
Source: yumsugar.com4. Cinnamon Roll Ice Cream Sandwich
Just slice 'n bake 'n sammich those babies up. Recipe here.
Source: babble.com6. Brownie And Salted Caramel Ice Cream Sandwich
BRB, mopping the drool off my keyboard. Recipe here.
Source: yummymummykitchen.com7. Ice Cream Sandwich "Cake"
Behold, The Biggest Ice Cream Sandwich In The World! Instructions here.
Source: sprinklebakes.com8. Double Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich
Yes, there is ~ Oreo ice cream ~ between those Oreos. This is the best kind of inception. Get the recipe here; you can either make the ice cream yourself or just buy some Oreo-related flavor.
Source: scoopadventures.com9. Patriotic Red Velvet Brownie Ice Cream Sandwich
God bless America. Recipe here.
Source: snappygourmet.com10. Tiny Nilla Wafer Ice Cream Sandwich
Have you ever seen anything so cute, I think I might pass out from cuteness. Recipe here.
Source: tikkido.com11. Candied Bacon Chocolate Chipwich
Okay, sure, those are cookies, but also, bacon. Recipe here.
Source: livelovepasta.com12. "Butterbeer" (Butterscotch And Shortbread) Ice Cream Sandwich
Eat your heart out, Harry Potter. Recipe here.
Source: cherryteacakes.com13. Macaron Ice Cream Sandwich
Macarons are fussy and kind of annoying under normal circumstances, but when you replace the stupid little layer of frosting with a delicious ice cream of your choice…well, son, that's a game-changer. Instructions here.
Source: babble.com15. Rice Krispies Treat Ice Cream Sandwich
Goodbye, dental health! Hello, happiness! Recipe here.
Source: makeandtakes.com16. Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Sandwich
Get the recipe for these biscuits here. The ice cream part is up to you.
Source: acozykitchen.com18. Croissant Ice Cream Sandwich
This one's on a special pretzel croissant from City Bakery, but any old 'ssant will do.
Source: newyork.seriouseats.com19. Cupcake Ice Cream Sandwich
This particular recipe is a Maple Cinnamon Peach Ice Cream Cupcake (gosh!) but the basic principle can be applies wherever cupcakes and ice cream coexist.
Source: cupcakeproject.com20. Pancake Ice Cream Sandwich
Why settle for blueberry pancakes when you could have blueberry ice cream pancake sandwiches? Don't answer that, just make them and eat them. Recipe here.
Source: ieicecream.com21. Scone Ice Cream Sandwich
That there is a chocolate scone and banana ice cream. But the combo possibilities are endless!
Source: labat56.com22. Eclair Ice Cream Sandwich
In retrospect, it seems so obvious. Recipe here
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-089 - Important
Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2590602)
Published: | Updated:
Version: 1.2
General Information
Executive Summary
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, and Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way that Microsoft Word parses specially crafted Word files. For more information about the vulnerabilities, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) subsection for the specific vulnerability entry under the next section, Vulnerability Information.
Recommendation. Customers can configure automatic updating to check online for updates from Microsoft Update by using the Microsoft Update service. Customers who have automatic updating enabled and configured to check online for updates from Microsoft Update typically will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates from Microsoft Update and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating in supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871. For information about automatic updating in supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2, see Understanding Windows automatic updating.
For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update at the earliest opportunity using update management software, or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.
See also the section, Detection and Deployment Tools and Guidance, later in this bulletin.
Known Issues. None
Affected and Non-Affected Software
The following software have been tested to determine which versions or editions are affected. Other versions or editions are either past their support life cycle or are not affected. To determine the support life cycle for your software version or edition, visit Microsoft Support Lifecycle.
Affected Software
Microsoft Office Suite and Other Software | Maximum Security Impact | Aggregate Severity Rating | Bulletins Replaced by this Update | |
Microsoft Office Suites and Components | ||||
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2596785) | Remote Code Execution | Important | None | |
Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions) (KB2589320) | Remote Code Execution | Important | None | |
Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions) (KB2589320) | Remote Code Execution | Important | None | |
Microsoft Office for Mac | ||||
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 (KB2644347) | Remote Code Execution | Important | MS11-072 |
Non-Affected Software
Office and Other Software |
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1 |
Microsoft Office Web Application Companions (WAC) |
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 |
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac |
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac |
Open XML File Format Converter for Mac |
Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions) |
Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions) |
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 2 |
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 |
Microsoft Office Word Viewer |
Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 and Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 Service Pack 1 |
Microsoft Works 9 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update
Vulnerability Information
Severity Ratings and Vulnerability Identifiers
Word Use After Free Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1983
Update Information
Detection and Deployment Tools and Guidance
Security Update Deployment
Other Information
Microsoft thanks the following for working with us to help protect customers:
- Nikita Tarakanov (CISS Research Team) and Alexey Sintsov (Digital Security Research Group), working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, for reporting the Word Use After Free Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1983)
Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)
To improve security protections for customers, Microsoft provides vulnerability information to major security software providers in advance of each monthly security update release. Security software providers can then use this vulnerability information to provide updated protections to customers via their security software or devices, such as antivirus, network-based intrusion detection systems, or host-based intrusion prevention systems. To determine whether active protections are available from security software providers, please visit the active protections Web sites provided by program partners, listed in Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) Partners.
- Customers in the U.S. and Canada can receive technical support from Security Support or 1-866-PCSAFETY (1-866-727-2338). There is no charge for support calls that are associated with security updates. For more information about available support options, see Microsoft Help and Support.
- International customers can receive support from their local Microsoft subsidiaries. There is no charge for support that is associated with security updates. For more information about how to contact Microsoft for support issues, visit the International Support Web site.
The information provided in the Microsoft Knowledge Base is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Microsoft disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages so the foregoing limitation may not apply.
- V1.0 (December 13, 2011): Bulletin published.
- V1.1 (December 16, 2011): Expanded the list of non-affected software and revised the Update FAQ to help clarify that this update may be offered to non-affected software when the vulnerable shared component of Microsoft Office is present.
- V1.2 (February 22, 2012): Revised the bulletin to identify the update package KB numbers for the following non-affected software that this update applies to: Microsoft Visio (KB2553374), Microsoft Visio Viewer (KB2553353), Microsoft Office Web Application Companions (WAC) (KB2553153), and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2553132). See the update FAQ for details.


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Bing Bing is very pretty..What is she doing des day???
bingbing is in Japan attending Tokyo International Film Festival these days, it is said that she will do a movie later this year, just waiting for confirmation on which movie she decides to do, and it's now confirmed that bingbing will only guest-star for Feng Sheng Bang 2 (the legend and the hero) as a deity, Ruby will play the role of fox spirit Da Ji~~
Fan Bingbing's Online Forum (English)
Fan Bingbing's Official Website
She so pretty.......her acting improved a lot..The movie COntract Lover is great..I really love her in there.
10/20 - attending Tokyo International Film Festival
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1-/21 attending the press of Chinese Movies Week
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it looks like fan bing bing lost some weight..she looks lovely...so there is still no news about her next project...
wom, Bing Bing is verry cute
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I think that hairs is pretty cute.
that is the chun li hair. she needs to play chun li
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She got nominated for best supporting actress, Golden Horse Awards. Good luck to Bing Bing.
She's doing very well for herself at such a young age. I like her spunk, she doesn't let the media treat her like crap.
Why is everyone so against her and Wang Xue Bing? I think they're cute together.
She is really beautiful , such a natural beauty.
Bing Bing is my idol, she very pretty, that right ?
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THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 69, NO. 2 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 AUGUST 31,1990 It's over: Loyola finally sells WWL By Charles Lussier News Editor The saga is over and a new era is beginning.Loyola's association with the broadcasting world ended with a note of finality Monday as WWL-TV and Loyola University of ficially relinquished contact with each other. In a final meeting, Loyola representative John Eckholdt, vice president for Business and Finance, and the principals forßampart Operating Partnership, a group made up of WWL-TV employees including station manager and head principal Mike Early Sr., formally transferred properties and a sum of $ 102,850,000, Roddy Wolper, director of University Relations, said. The Rev. George F. Lundy, S J., senior vice president, was unavailable for commentThe process started almost a year ago at a Board of Trustees meeting in September 1989 when the Board voted to put the station up for sale. Loyola signed an agreement with Rampart Dec. 21 to sell the station. United Communications Inc. filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission March 22, 1990 to stop the pending sale. The complaint claimed that the sale violated the Sherman Act and The Federal Trade Commission Act. According to the complaint, several employees of WWL, including Garland Robinette, former news anchor, and Angela Hill, news anchor, threatened to retire en masse if Loyola did not sell WWL to Rampart. Despite these obstacles, the sale has finally gone through. However, Wolper said, one provision of the contract allows Loyola to maintain a 5 percent stock ownership of WWL-TV. The $102 million sum, Wolper said, raised from interested investors and WWL employee contributions, will be reinvested in a wide variety of stocks, property, etc. Loyola, however, kept a clause in the contract allowing the university to keep ownership of 5 percent of the stock. "The action is a little more than symbolic so it's notacomplete divorce," Wolper said. He said the money generated from the sale will be used to maintain and increase the present endowment. The dividends, he said, may be used sometime in the future to offset the drop in directcash funds that WWL supplied Loyola from its yearly profits. The selling of WWL-TV and last year's sales of two of Loyola's radio stations marks the formal exit of Loyola from New Orleans broadcasting. "Loyola started in radio way back in the '305," Wolper said. 'They used to broadcast out of Marquette Hall." Loyola then continued into the television world with the forming of WWL-TV in spring 1957. WWL started broadcasting on Channel 4 and soon picked up a large regional audience.By the 1980s, WWL was a ratings force in the New Orleans area, with longtime news anchors Robinette and Hill becoming New Orleans cultural icons. Despite continually remaining the highest rated station in New Orleans, WWL could not keep up with Loyola's need for funds, and the general recession of New Orleans' economy in recent years proved to be the final blow. The Loyola communications department, Wolper said, may still have some connection with WWL, but the sale will make the prospectof interacting with other stations more appealing. "I guess having the number one rated station in the city made us less likely to look at other stations as options," he said. Wolper said he was certain that the last obstacle had been passed. "It's completely over and done," Wolper said. Loyola is entering a new time, he said. "It's definitely the start of a new era for Loyola," Wolper said. Arroyo assumes provincial duties By Charles Lussier News Editor The General for the Society of Jesus has appointed the Rev. Edward Arroyo, SJ., part-time assistant professor of sociology, the new provincial for the local province. The appointment was announced to the Jesuit community August 24. The General made his choice from a list of prospective candidates prepared for him by the province, Arroyo said. Arroyo will assume the duties of provincial Monday. "Ithinkit'sagreatopportunity,"hesaid. The Rev. Gerald Fagin, S.J., the former provincial, said he resigned the post August 4 after only one year in charge. "I resigned for some health reasons," he said. Fagin would not discuss any specific ailments, but he cited the stress of the job as a reason for his resignation. Fagin said the Rev. Al Louapre, S J., is the acting head of the province until Arroyo relieves him of duties on Monday. Arroyo said he felt excited about taking office. "I feel I have a lot of energy. I hope I can be of service to the Jesuit community," Arroyo said. He cited his experience in higher education, the training of young Jesuits and international missions as qualifications for the position. He also said he had served in the provincial office as assistant for social and international ministries for the past four years. The responsibilities of the provincial, Arroyo said, mostly involve coordinating the interrelations of Jesuits with the lay community. He said the province covers four high schools, two colleges, 14 parishes and 70 individually missioned priests. The provincial, he said, is in charge of the ministry of 320 Jesuits in the province. "The provincial has some say in who runs the individual ministries of the province," Arroyo said. The provincial is also on the Loyola Board of Directors and therefore has some say in who becomes president of Loyola, he said. Fagin said he enjoyed the challenge of the job. "It is really a job of service to the Jesuit community in the province and I enjoyed that," Fagin said. Arroyo said he had to resign his parttime teaching position in order to assume the duties of provincial, but he said his loss would not be a major loss to the university faculty. "I've only taught one complete course in the past ten years," he said. Arroyo said he is leaving Tuesday, only his second day of duty, for Loyola, Spain to attend a conference of the 70 Jesuit provincials in the world. He said he will not return until the end of September, and in the interim, the Rev. Larry Moore, S J, associate professor of the Law and acting rector of the Jesuit community, will assume his duties. Photo by Charles Baker Calm before the storm —The Rev. Edward Arroyo, S.J., relaxes in his Thomas Hall residence Wednesday. On Monday, he will take over as new Provincial. WHERE'S THE
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CHICAGO — Caleb TerBush ascended to the top of Purdue's depth chart at quarterback after Rob Henry suffered a season-ending injury during fall camp.
TerBush had never started for the Boilermakers and had appeared in only one game in 2009.
He ended up starting all 13 games in 2011, helping Purdue to its first bowl appearance since 2007.
TerBush, back for his senior season, enters camp at No. 1 on the depth chart and is looking to build on the experiences from a year ago.
"It was fun being back on the field," TerBush said at Big Ten media day a couple of weeks ago. "I hadn't been able to play for a few years because of academics and because I redshirted. It was good to be back out there and play with my teammates and win some games."
TerBush completed 61.7 percent of his passes (171 for 277) for 1,905 yards and 13 touchdowns.
"He has gained a lot of confidence from playing and playing well," Purdue coach Danny Hope said. "I was really impressed with him last year at the beginning of the season when he became the starting quarterback a week before the opening game. I thought he had a very calm demeanor; he had good composure about him. As the season progressed, he got better. And by the end of the season, I thought he was playing his position very well."
TerBush did not have an interception in the final four games. He only threw six all season.
"I learned you can't really let things get you too rattled," TerBush said.
"Coaches said I've been calm in there when the pressure gets up. I feel like that's a good trait to have. You have to stay calm in those situations because you're the quarterback, you're team is looking at you for leadership."
"He makes good decisions with the football, he does a great job of managing the offense," Hope said.
TerBush prepared for this year by spending a lot of time in the film room.
"A lot of coaches say it, but it's true. You really do need to be a student of the game to be successful," TerBush said.
"People are so athletic, you've got to have that mental edge."
He learned a lot from the film sessions that he will take into the season. He used last year's opener against Middle Tennessee as an example.
"I had some balls that should have been picked off. I was very fortunate that they weren't," TerBush said. "I was like, 'Why did I throw that? I could have easily done this.'
"Simple reads that I kind of got caught tunnel vision to one side and that comes with experience.
"I kind of got away from that as I got further down the season. That's something I've been working on this season."
The 6-foot-5, 225-pound TerBush said he also worked on his footwork and being consistent with his technique.
"He looks like a whole different guy," Hope said.
"He's a lot bigger, a lot stronger. He has developed into one of the top leaders on our football team."


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The American has contested 19 WRC rallies in Ford Focus and Fiesta world rally cars since establishing his Monster World Rally team in 2010, with eighth place on the 2011 Rallye de France his best result to date.
This year Block is planning a mixed bag of rally inspired events using Ford Fiestas run from new team headquarters in Park City, Utah.
"Once again, I'm trying to fit in as much driving as possible," explained Block. "Unlike most drivers who only compete in one series, I'm very fortunate to be able to race in so many different disciplines. Between competing in X Games, Global RallyCross, Rally America, Gymkhana GRID and WRC, It's going to be an awesome year. I can't wait to get it started,"
"For me it's great to continue racing in the World Rally Championship. Last year I competed in three events and in two of them I finished within the top ten and scored points. I really enjoy being able to stay somewhat competitive in WRC, despite only competing part-time and not being able to log any testing in the car prior to the actual events. Hopefully I'll be running a similar amount of WRC events in 2013."
As well as the new team name, the cars will carry a striking new livery in 2013, as Block explained: "With the name change to Hoonigan Racing Division, we wanted to take the look in a slightly different direction, one that has been inspired by my love of 80s and early 90s skateboarding graphics, as well as Miami Vice-era offshore powerboats and a dash of hair metal and old school hip hop mixed in for good measure."


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In the opening moments of the Warner Bros. movie "Gangster Squad," the audience is introduced to the noirishly lit, bulging muscles of Mickey Cohen (finely sculpted by their real owner, Sean Penn), as Cohen is described in voiceover as a boxer from Brooklyn and "a Jew."
It is the most humane glimpse of Cohen the movie offers. Penn took poetic license with the gangster's myth and chose to personify him as evil incarnate and not the strange, charismatic, enterprising, image-obsessed, lawless germophobe he actually was. So, while critics have had some fun comparing Penn's Cohen to a Batman or Bond villain, in real life, Cohen was less fearsome, more pitiable. Nevertheless, he remains an integral part of a Los Angeles' mob legacy, which includes more than its fair share of racketeering Jews. Having had a hand in almost every major modernizing industry, one could say the Jewish mob made Los Angeles.
Cohen would be thrilled to see a Hollywood movie that hinges on his legacy — that is, this puffed-up, glitzy one that bares a scant resemblance to reality. Harvard-educated former Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Lieberman wrote the seven-part investigative series for the newspaper that formed the basis for his nonfiction book "Gangster Squad," upon which the film is based. According to Lieberman, Cohen wasn't as mythic as he'd have you believe. Although the book "Gangster Squad" has the dark debauchery and dangerous glamour of a James Ellroy novel, it is based on facts drawn from 16 years of painstaking research, which Lieberman undertook after receiving a call from Sgt. John O'Mara, the squad's leader, in 1992.
"What interested me as I got into it is that, in a way, the noir era still defines Los Angeles," Lieberman said during a phone interview last week. He was especially enthralled by Mickey Cohen's reign — his rise to L.A. kingpin and his fall to cartoonish joke.
"In 1949, there was a new scandal almost every week," Lieberman said. "Or a shooting. Mickey was a giant in the headlines. It may sound absurd, but you'd hear stuff like, 'This is an alien invasion' — and that was the police chief talking that language – or 'Los Angeles is a maiden in distress, and you've got to save her!' "
The dramatic headlines were fitting for a man obsessed with his own image and obsessed with Hollywood. Cohen would often boast he knew "half the movie business" on a first-name basis — the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Cary Grant. His notoriety helped cement his status as the king of vice, but his legend is merely one strain in Los Angeles' sordid mobster past.
In his 2006 book "Supermob," Gus Russo writes that "two types of power dominated the twentieth century: the visible, embodied in politicians, corporate moguls, crime bosses, and law enforcement; and the invisible, concentrated in the hands of a few power brokers generally of Eastern European and Jewish immigrant heritage."
Los Angeles had both. There were the "hoods" (tough guys) and the "Supermob" (above-the-line lawyers, bankers and real estate investors), which the investigative reporter Brian Ross once delicately referred to as the "bridge between polite society and criminal society." What they all had in common, according to Russo, was a "shared sense of entitlement regarding tax-free income."
He dubbed them the "Kosher Nostra."
The Jewish Supermob included names like Korshak, Arvey, Greenberg, Pritzker, Annenberg and Ziffren — some of which still command attention today. Although real estate became the ultimate (and legitimate) means through which they cemented their wealth and power, the Supermob's connection to the movie business was another outlet for its influence. In fact, the lure of Hollywood money is what caught the attention of the granddaddy Chicago mobsters who were looking for ways to boost their own bottom line.
"For numerous reasons, Southern California was the ideal place for transplantation of the mob-Supermob alliance," Russo writes of the historic power shift from Chicago to Los Angeles. L.A., he continues, "was known as a city receptive to both hoodlums and Jews."
Russo also points out that when L.A. was incorporated as a city in April 1850, there were only eight Jews in a population of nearly 9,000 (although two of those Jews served on the city council). After the second world war, Russo explains, "Jewish newcomers were so predominant that by 1950 only 8 percent of adult Jews in L.A. had been born here."
The best and worst of them came together at the Hillcrest Country Club, founded in 1920 on Pico Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars (right across from today's Fox lot). Back then, Hillcrest was a playpen for the early Hollywood moguls — including Louis Mayer, Harry Cohn and the Warner brothers, to name a few — a kind of secular synagogue where the movie moguls could rub shoulders with the Supermob. Many became "friends"; everybody got rich.
By the mid 1940s, perhaps no individual more aptly embodied both hoodlum and Jew than Meyer "Mickey" Cohen, the inveterate antagonist in "Gangster Squad" (although Cohen was not a member of Hillcrest, his mentor, Bugsy Siegel was, though he lost that privilege after being indicted and incarcerated in the fall of 1940). Penn's portrayal of Cohen as a ruthless, heartless brute is, at least, indicative of his power. At one point, Cohen was so influential that state and city law enforcement buckled under his authority. "Either they would go along with the program," Cohen once wrote of California's midcentury police commissioners, "or they would be pushed out of sight." Russo also recounts that when Richard Nixon first decided to run for Congress, he demanded Cohen raise $75,000 for his campaign, "to assure Nixon's leniency toward the local bookies."
Cohen came a long way from the Brooklyn-born teenage boxer who wore a Star of David on his trunks. Life hardened him, and he morphed into a sober, somewhat paranoid germ freak who washed his hands at least 100 times a day. Tere Tereba, author of "Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster," observed, "No drugs, alcohol or tobacco touched his lips. He was addicted only to making money and spending it, and to the siren song of his own celebrity."
By the time the Gangster Squad was through with Cohen, "Mickey becomes this self parody, promoting his own image, selling shares of his life story — almost like out of 'The Producers,' " Lieberman said.
But in the movie, Cohen is fabulously wealthy, living in an enviable Brentwood manse. In life, however, he lived in a relatively modest home, which was eventually sold at auction for $40,000 after the IRS launched a tax-evasion case against him. His financial desperation became his downfall: Cohen even went so far as to form a relationship with the Rev. Billy Graham, stringing the Evangelist preacher along with promises that he'd convert, so long as someone could foot the bill for his troubles. And behind the scenes, of course, "He's laughing at these people," Lieberman said.
"By then he was this image-obsessed hoodlum who wants to play up being a hoodlum."
But even as the prodigal parvenu, Cohen had his values. He loved animals — "he had dogs, not children," Lieberman explained — and he once took a 12-year-old actress named Janet Schneider under his wing, inviting the aspiring Cincinnati native to Hollywood, where he introduced her to his friends in show business.
The girl's father was footing the bill, of course, but Cohen "was very protective of her," Lieberman said, "like a loving uncle." He even sent her an autographed photo of the two of them from her visit, writing: "To my little girl Janet and my little friend, I just know that you can't miss reaching the absolute heights — Love, Mickey."
In the end, Cohen the hoodlum had unforgivably killed at least one person, served two prison terms for tax improprieties, was the target of more than 10 assassination attempts and been beaten in prison with a lead pipe — but, what the movie "Gangster Squad" leaves out is that he was also a human being.
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January 15, 2013 | 10:17 am
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It was almost too much that Mel Brooks and Philip Roth were set to appear together in the same room. It was almost a relief that for their back-to-back press conferences promoting the PBS "American Masters" series, Roth was streamed via satellite into Pasadena's ritzy Langham Hotel from his home in Newark, N.J., and Brooks was running "chronically late," blaming L.A. traffic.
The legendary writer and the legendary entertainer couldn't be more different. Roth is a shy, stern but sweet intellectual with bushy eyebrows and dark, penetrating eyes; Brooks is an effervescent crowd-pleaser, dapperly dressed and still, at 86, deprecating about his size: "I'm not such a comedy giant — I'm 5-foot-6," he said.
They also couldn't be more similar.
"I'm not crazy about seeing myself described as an American-Jewish writer," Roth tells the camera in his "Masters" portrait, which will air on March 29, shortly after his 80th birthday. "I don't write in Jewish. I write in American."
"I think I missed the Jew boat by one generation," Brooks said when asked if he considered himself a "Jewish entertainer." "When I worked in the Borscht Belt, I spoke in English; a generation before me, they spoke in Yiddish."
These two Jewish geniuses get asked about Jewishness a lot. Is it their Jewishness that makes them so special or their specialness that makes Jewishness matter?
"They keep asking me," Brooks continued, " 'What is Jewish comedy? How does it differ from normal comedy?' I say, 'You got it wrong. It's not really Jewish comedy — there are traces of it, but it is really New York comedy, urban comedy, street-corner comedy. It's not Jewish comedy — that's from Vilna, that's Poland."
I asked Roth why the Jewish label bothered him. "It doesn't bother me," he said. "People can call me anything they want." Well, then, what role has it played?
"I'm an American writer. Think of Faulkner, think of Bellow — they're regionalists. They write about the place that they come from. So was Joyce, a regionalist. I wrote about the region I came from, and that particular locale was full of Jews — me, my family and all my friends. So I wrote about them. The 'Jewishness' wasn't so much Jewishness as these are the people I knew, and this is the culture I knew. In my adult life, I have had many friends from many different backgrounds, but by and large, I have followed the lives of Jewish men because I know the most about them — I think."
I couldn't help but wonder what he'd make of Brooks — what inner life he'd ascribe to the zany, jocular, extrovert who has a difficult time going deep. When I asked Brooks about his major struggles, he replied, "getting stuff made." Turns out, his mega-hit movie "The Producers" (1968) was the hardest: "the highest mountain I ever had to climb," Brooks said. "First of all, the title was 'Springtime for Hitler,' " — that got a laugh — "and it got to Lew Wasserman at Universal, and he liked it. He said, 'I'll do it — but not with Hitler. How about Mussolini? He's more likable.' I said, 'Well, you don't really get it ...' "
When the subject of Brooks' late wife, actress Anne Bancroft, came up, he welled up with tears, his voice tremulous. "I can't," he said. "It's a little too painful and private" — though he mustered composure for one anecdote about her learning Polish to sing "Sweet Georgia Brown" with him in the 1983 film "To Be or Not to Be." "I was very lucky for 45 years," he said, "and it is very difficult everyday to go on without her."
Roth was even more reticent in sharing his heart. I asked him about the great loves of his life, expecting he might say "writing," or even "fly fishing."
"Do you want names?" he quipped. Everybody laughed. "I've loved quite a few people. And I think I've been loved back. And it's great while it lasts."
Roth was more forthcoming on the subject of struggle and how difficult it is for him to write. The topic has become an item of recent fascination, ever since Roth announced his plans to retire to The New York Times last November, allowing a reporter to glimpse the now infamous sticky note at his computer that reads, "The struggle with writing is over." In reality, no one was more surprised by Roth's retirement than Roth himself, who said that long before the Times caught wind of it, a French journalist, writing for an obscure publication, asked about his next book and he replied, "I think it's over; I think I'm finished." He was astonished by the Times' front-page splash, suggesting, "Somebody must have gone to a barber shop one day and seen the [English translation of the French] article."
"I don't know where to go after I've finished a book," he said. "I feel barren." What begins with "a character in a predicament" becomes a task of producing "a whole world, a world of language [and] that's a labor. It's laborious to come up with the fullness, the richness of the thing. You build a book out of sentences, and sentences are built of details, and you're working brick by brick to make a structure, and the bricks are heavy!"
But what if you find another character in a predicament, someone asked.
"I don't want to find it anymore. I'm tired," he replied.
Brooks, on the other hand, is seemingly tireless. He is currently developing "Blazing Saddles" as a stage musical, and even after an hour-long Q-and-A session, he didn't want to stop:
"Are there any other questions from any other Jews here?"
January 14, 2013 | 9:37 am
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Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler said it early when they declared: "This was a great year for women," which they promptly followed with a cutting, sisterhood kind of joke.
In an oblique reference to the Academy's snub of Kathryn Bigelow, the director of "Zero Dark Thirty," Poehler quipped: "I haven't really been following the controversy over 'Zero Dark Thirty,' but when it comes to torture, I trust the lady that spent three years married to James Cameron."
Sony Pictures Chairwoman Amy Pascal and 'Zero Dark' best actress nominee Jessica Chastain were so stunned and giddy they nearly buried their heads.
But throughout the night, the comedy duo's charming humor set a relaxed tone, an apt complement to the reported 700 magnums of champagne that were poured throughout the three-hours-plus telecast in which women were the big winners in accolade and in attention.
Just ask former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who reportedly attended the event at the behest of directing nominee Steven Spielberg to laud Spielberg's historical political drama "Lincoln."
"It's a tough fight, to push a bill through a bitterly divided House of Representatives," Clinton said. "The President has to make a lot of unsavory deals -- I would know nothing about that."
But "in this Lincoln," he continued, "we see a man more interesting than the legend and a far better guide for future presidents."
Clinton may as well haven been talking to his wife, who, in Hollywood's eyes, has apparently overshadowed him.
"Wow, what an exciting special guest," exclaimed a goo-goo eyed Poehler after the president's speech. "That was Hillary Clinton's husband!"
"Bill Clinton," Fey gushed. "Bill Rodham Clinton."
Absent Angelina and Brad, Clinton was the night's biggest star, a symbol of America's (or at least Hollywood's) current fascination with behind-the-scenes political drama.
Ben Affleck's film "Argo" about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis won Best Motion Picture Drama, as well as a directing nod for Affleck, even though the Academy left him off its list. "Lincoln," about the politics of passing the bill to end slavery failed to gather any major awards last night, though it is largely considered the favorite to win Oscars.
In television, the political thriller "Homeland" continued its winning streak, garnering acting awards for stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, as well as best TV drama for creators Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and and their Israeli counterpart Gideon Raff, upon whose series "Hatufim" "Homeland" is based.
Lena Dunham, the triple-threat creator of HBO's "Girls" (she writes, directs and stars in the series) also won big, scoring honors for lead actress in a TV comedy as well as best TV comedy series in the same evening "Girls'" aired its second-season debut. Dunham, who is ordinarily spontaneous and articulate, trembled as she thanked her fellow honorees, "women that inspire me deeply, and have made me laugh and comforted me at the darkest moments of my life," she said.
"Girls" has won popularity among audiences (many of whom, it turns out, are middle-aged men) for its frank and edgy portraits of twenty-something life. It made an early fan of Judd Apatow, the show's producer, whom Dunham thanked as "the greatest man and the greatest honorary girl."
"For every woman who has ever felt like there wasn't a space for her, this show's made a space for me," Dunham said.
That turned out to be an appropriate segue for Jodie Foster's receipt of the Cecile B. DeMille award, presented by Robert Downey Jr. and endorsed by Foster's BFF and guest, Mel Gibson, who sat beside her. Foster delivered a raw and rambling speech that finally publicly affirmed her homosexuality, which shocked no one more than her gushy praise of Gibson.
But if the Golden Globes is anything, it's a celebratory spectacle of Hollywood self-love. Minus the prestige and pressures of Oscar, it's a night to hang with friends, forge new alliances and affirm current ones.
Accepting the award for best dramatic actress, "Zero Dark Thirty" star Jessica Chastain delivered special praise to Bigelow, the film's director.
"I can't help but compare my character to you: two powerful fearless women who allow their expert work to stand before them. You have said that filmmaking for you is not about breaking gender roles, but when you make a film that allows your character to disobey the conventions of Hollywood, you've done more for women in cinema than you take credit for."
Lastly, Chastain thanked her grandmother: "For teaching me to always believe in my dreams and this is an absolute dream come true."
January 10, 2013 | 8:33 am
Posted by Danielle Berrin
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," a film about the passage of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery, garnered the most Academy Award nominations of any film this year, including Best Picture as well as nods in three major acting categories, achievement in directing for Spielberg and best adapted screenplay for playwright Tony Kushner.
Upsets this year centered mainly in the directing category, with "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow, "Django Unchained's" Quentin Tarantino and "Argo's" Ben Affleck notably left out.
But don't shed too many tears for the jilted directors: "Zero Dark" and "Argo" still scored Best Picture nods and Tarantino was nominated in the original screenplay category for his "Django" script (all three films, in fact, scored writing nods).
Also worth noting is love for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," the little film that could about a 6-year-old girl and her father as they struggle to survive in the storm-riddled, under-developed Louisiana bayou. Benh Zeitlin, the film's 30-year-old director and co-writer seems to be at the beginning of a promising career, as does his star, the 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, who this morning became the youngest actress ever to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
In the documentary category, "The Invisible War," a searing investigation into the US military's epidemic of sexual assault, received a well-deserved nomination. Producer Amy Ziering is a Los Angeles native.
In an interview last year, she told The Jewish Journal that, as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, she has particular empathy for victims of violence. "I think my father's Holocaust background has always made me acutely interested in, and sensitive to, trauma and second-degree trauma, and working through trauma, and what all that means, so that has been an influence on my life and my preoccupations in work," she said.
The film "5 Broken Cameras," a Palestinian-Israeli co-production, continues to win acclaim. Co-directed by Palestian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi, it is an unflinching portrait of life in the West Bank village Bilin shot entirely from the perspective of a Palestinian farmer (Burnat) who lives there.
So far, "Lincoln" looks to be the favorite on Oscar night with its easy moral and contemporary political currency. The film's focus on the politics involved in the passage of a bill -- to say nothing of that bill's definitional significance in enforcing the ultimate American value -- has given a distant period piece added cultural relevance.
Will this year reward the story of a small triumph or a large one?
Tune in to the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday, February 24 on ABC to find out...
Full Nominations List:
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"
Hugh Jackman in "Les Misérables"
Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master"
Denzel Washington in "Flight"
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in "Argo"
Robert De Niro in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts in "The Impossible"
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in "The Master"
Sally Field in "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables"
Helen Hunt in "The Sessions"
Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best animated feature film of the year
"Brave" Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
"Frankenweenie" Tim Burton
"ParaNorman" Sam Fell and Chris Butler
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" Peter Lord
"Wreck-It Ralph" Rich Moore
Achievement in cinematography
"Anna Karenina" Seamus McGarvey
"Django Unchained" Robert Richardson
"Life of Pi" Claudio Miranda
"Lincoln" Janusz Kaminski
"Skyfall" Roger Deakins
Adapted screenplay
"Argo" Screenplay by Chris Terrio
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi" Screenplay by David Magee
"Lincoln" Screenplay by Tony Kushner
"Silver Linings Playbook" Screenplay by David O. Russell
Original screenplay
"Amour" Written by Michael Haneke
"Django Unchained" Written by Quentin Tarantino
"Flight" Written by John Gatins
"Moonrise Kingdom" Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
"Zero Dark Thirty" Written by Mark Boal
Achievement in directing
"Amour" Michael Haneke
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi" Ang Lee
"Lincoln" Steven Spielberg
"Silver Linings Playbook" David O. Russell
Best motion picture of the year
"Amour" Nominees to be determined
"Argo" Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
"Django Unchained" Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
"Les Misérables" Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
"Life of Pi" Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
"Lincoln" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
"Silver Linings Playbook" Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
"Zero Dark Thirty" Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
Achievement in costume design
"Anna Karenina" Jacqueline Durran
"Les Misérables" Paco Delgado
"Lincoln" Joanna Johnston
"Mirror Mirror" Eiko Ishioka
"Snow White and the Huntsman" Colleen Atwood
Best documentary feature
"5 Broken Cameras"
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
"The Gatekeepers"
Nominees to be determined
"How to Survive a Plague"
Nominees to be determined
"The Invisible War"
Nominees to be determined
"Searching for Sugar Man"
Nominees to be determined
Best documentary short subject
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
"Kings Point"
Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
"Mondays at Racine"
Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
"Open Heart"
Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Achievement in film editing
"Argo" William Goldenberg
"Life of Pi" Tim Squyres
"Lincoln" Michael Kahn
"Silver Linings Playbook" Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
"Zero Dark Thirty" Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
Best foreign language film of the year
"Amour" Austria
"Kon-Tiki" Norway
"No" Chile
"A Royal Affair" Denmark
"War Witch" Canada
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
"Les Misérables"
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Anna Karenina" Dario Marianelli
"Argo" Alexandre Desplat
"Life of Pi" Mychael Danna
"Lincoln" John Williams
"Skyfall" Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice"
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted"
Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi"
Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Achievement in production design
"Anna Karenina"
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
"Les Misérables"
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
"Life of Pi"
Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Best animated short film
"Adam and Dog" Minkyu Lee
"Fresh Guacamole" PES
"Head over Heels" Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
"Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"" David Silverman
"Paperman" John Kahrs
Best live action short film
"Asad" Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
"Buzkashi Boys" Sam French and Ariel Nasr
"Curfew" Shawn Christensen
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)" Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
"Henry" Yan England
Achievement in sound editing
"Argo" Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
"Django Unchained" Wylie Stateman
"Life of Pi" Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
"Skyfall" Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
"Zero Dark Thirty" Paul N.J. Ottosson
Achievement in sound mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
"Les Misérables"
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
"Life of Pi"
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson
Achievement in visual effects
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
"Life of Pi"
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
"Marvel's The Avengers"
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
"Snow White and the Huntsman"
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson
January 9, 2013 | 1:16 pm
Posted by Danielle Berrin
So what if the Les Mis cast of characers are thoroughly Christian and utterly French -- there's still Torah to be found in Victor Hugo's epic tale of redemption, writes Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, a liberal-minded Orthodox rabbi in West Los Angeles. "[A]lthough Jean Valjean's fall and rise is a great Christian drama of grace and self-sacrifice, Jews can easily enough transpose it into a story of profound teshuva, repentance. The sort of teshuva that Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik described as 'redemptive,'" Kanefsky writes.
After tackling Hugo's epic novel and seeing its latest incarnation on screen, Kanefsky penned a lovely note on the Jewish lesson he encountered in the Christian tale, but alas, one that didn't make the Oscar-hopeful's final cut. He writes of a scene early in the story when a bishop treats Jean Valjean with incredible grace, allowing him to keep candlesticks he had stolen before being caught by the French police. Instead of prosecuting the desperate man, the bishop sends him on his way, telling him he is good and that his soul belongs to God. But moments later, Valjean finds himself torn between good and evil yet again, when a destitute child drops a coin and Valjean stomps upon the lucre, ignoring the child's pleas to have it back. Soon enough, remorse overwhelms him...
Kanefsky writes:
Jean Valjean searches frantically for the child, screaming his name like a wildman and asking every passer-by if they had seen him. But all this proves futile, and the child is nowhere to be found.
[Hugo writes:]
"…his legs suddenly gave way beneath him as if an invisible power had suddenly bowled him over with the weight of his guilty conscience. He dropped, exhausted, onto a big slab of rock, his hands balled into fists and buried in his hair, his head propped on his knees, And he cried, "I am a miserable bastard".
He burst into tears. It was the first time he had cried in nineteen years."And the story of course pivots right there. This is teshuva's primal essence.
All of us have felt regret over particular deeds that we've done. But how often do we part the clouds and see that it's not the deeds, but the doer that is twisted and corrupt. How often does our introspection and reflection bore through the layer of specific actions we wish we could retrieve, and touch the heart the matter, the person who we are?
January 9, 2013 | 11:33 am
Posted by Danielle Berrin
My friend Omri Marcus, a writer and content creator based in Tel Aviv has written a clever "TV Guide" of sorts to Israeli politics. It's a fun little map of Israel's copious and distinctive political parties -- with commentary TV buffs will know and understand.
"Here is a news flash," Marcus writes. "[N]othing is going to change after the Israeli elections in a few weeks...The right wing parties will stay in power, and the Israelis will show once again that they want peace, just not with Arabs."
Here is a very quick guide to Israeli politics that will make everything less confusing -- but not in the least bit less crazy.
Likud- Beitenu: A buy-one-get-the-other thing. One ballot for two parties fused together:
(1) Likud (literally "Unification") -- A right-of-center party which, based on current polls, is going to remain the ruling party. In a way, it's the Israeli version of the Republican Party. Representing an ignorant racist center, with a very thin crust of dignity and pretty words on top.
TV show: Honey Boo-Boo(2) Israel Beitenu (literally "Israel is our Home") -- An extreme right wing party and the proud producer of Israel's version of Extreme Makeover: Gaza Edition. Well maybe not the whole show, but at least the first half where you take poor people from their house and tear it to the ground, although apparently taking them out of the house was optional.
Kadima (literally "Forward") -- currently the biggest party in parliament, and the leader of the opposition. This center party made so many mistakes over the past four years that almost all its members left it to other parties and from being the biggest party in parliament, it's now struggling to get a seat in the elections. TV show: The Walking Dead
HaAvoda (literally "Labor") -- It's called the Israel's Labor party even though the only laborer you can find there is the cleaning lady, and she's going to vote for the Likud. TV show: Lost
Yesh Atid (literally "There is A Future") -- a new party, headed by an Israeli journalist. He is sexy, he speaks nicely but never about controversial topics. So far the party is doing great in the polls. People are going to vote for him without ever actually seeing his platform or agenda.
TV show: The VoiceHatnua (literally "The Movement") -- This party was established in such a rush that they couldn't even find a name. It's a central party, composed of leaders of other parties that lost in their primaries.TV show: The Biggest Loser
Habait Hayehudi (literally "The Jewish Home") -- An extreme right wing party with a surprising ecological agenda. They are in favor of transferring all the Arabs out of the country -- but insist this will be done in hybrid trucks.
TV show: Wipe Out
Hadash (literally "New" and also an acronym for "The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality" but no one in Israel knows that) -- An extreme left wing party that supports the complete withdrawal of Israel from all occupied territories, and proposes sending a "So Sorry" card to all the Palestinians. Anything for a peace treaty.
TV show: Two and a half men (this is the amount of voters they have)
Read the rest at The Huffington Post
January 8, 2013 | 11:19 am
Posted by Danielle Berrin
In his review of Herman Wouk's latest book, "The Lawgiver" Julian Levinson writes in the Jewish Review of Books about a genre he calls the "Jewish Hollywood novel." Included in this canon he counts various works from Leon Zolotkoff's 1932 novel "From Vilna to Hollywood" to Nathanael West's "Day of the Locust" (1939) to Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run" (1941) to Leslie Epstein's more recent, "San Remo Drive" (2003).
They each function at some level as fable, Levinson writes, with the underlying moral that "financial success is precarious and often gained at the price of one's soul." Indeed, many of these works feature Jewish characters who abandon their roots for fame and fortune and must ultimately pay a price.
"Jews are not alone in their fascination with the mythical allure of Hollywood, of course, but they have been among the most adept at crafting moral fables that decry its corrupting force," Levinson writes.
He counts Wouk's latest in this camp, since it has overtly Jewish content and is squarely set in Hollywood. The plot hinges upon the wishes of an Australian uranium tycoon named Louis Gluck, a Hasidic Jew, to finance a movie about the life of Moses. Exacting in his vision, he enlists the help of a writer named Herman Wouk to oversee the screenplay. Wouk, meanwhile, is at work on his own Moses project, so rather than guide the young screenwriter hired to write Gluck's movie, (the fictional) Wouk is instead intimidated by her scope and speed. Margot Solvei, it turns out, isn't just any enterprising, young screenwriter; she possesses a "deep intimacy with Torah" which, we are to assume she inherited from her father, the esteemed Bobover Rebbe of Passaic.
Solovei's roots have added significance here because they signal a shift in perception of the Hollywood-Jewish hero(ine). In the past, Jews who endeavored to succeed in Hollywood typically abandoned their roots, so as to become more fully American. But here, though the heroine distances herself from her former religious life, it continues to act upon her psyche, informing and enriching everything she writes without serving as a source of shame.
Margot has absorbed her father's teachings but cannot abide his literal understanding of the text...This rebellion enables her to discover her true calling as a Jewish American screenwriter with a properly ambivalent relationship to tradition. Her first success was an Off-Off Broadway parody of her father's world called "Bobover Bobover." Now she is ready to return to Torah on her own terms, as a creative writer, and her passion for the project becomes the driving force in the narrative.
Levinson is not alone in drawing parallels between Margot, Wouk's 21st century Hollywood screenwriter, and Marjorie Morningstar, Wouk's 1930's aspiring actress (a character that real-life Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson exclaimed to Charlie Rose, "I am Marjorie!"): "Margot is in many ways a more talented and scholarly Marjorie Morningstar," Levinson writes,"or, even better, a kind of Herman Wouk in reverse."
Whereas in real life [Wouk] reclaimed the Orthodoxy of his youth, she's escaped it; whereas he's contemplating mortality, she's filled with guileless verve; whereas he can't write the story of Moses, she can. In the process, Margot also succeeds in rescuing the story of Moses from Cecil B. DeMille, whose The Ten Commandments is pilloried in the novel as a counterfeit, anglicized version of the true story. Margot's Moses is psychologically complex, a believer in God who cannot believe in himself. And her God is properly Jewish, speaking Hebrew, not pompous pulpit English.
In Wouk's version of the Hollywood story, then, we discover the triumph of the Jewish American storyteller: she feels Torah in her bones, but she's free enough from the past to recreate the tradition in her own words. In so doing, she reclaims Hollywood as a space for genuine Jewish self-expression.
...In this Hollywood novel, dreams are realized, parents and children are reconciled, love blooms, and Jews triumph while still remaining Jews.
Though in "The Lawgiver" Margot is the hero and not (the fictional) Wouk, she is the real Wouk's triumph because she is his revelation; the product of his dizzying journey through the labyrinth of Jewish American life. It is through Wouk's own struggle with Judaism that he is able to write such a clear-minded Jewish character, one who learns to use her Judaism rather than forsake it. Between sacred and secular, there need not be such a struggle, Wouk seems to be saying. Deep Jewish engagement -- whether intellectual, spiritual or communal -- has a role to play, even a "place" in secular life. The two need not be separated, but integrated.
At 97-years-old, Wouk has let faith triumph. He is finally able to see it as the core of his character (and his characters). When Vanity Fair recently interviewed him for their famous Proust Questionnaire, he was comfortably self-revealing:
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Betty Sarah Wouk, no contest.When and where were you happiest?
Anywhere with her, while she lived.Where would you like to live?
Ideally, Jerusalem. Realistically, Palm Springs.What is the quality you most like in a man?
Being a mensch.What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Silent, steadfast love.
The poet Marianne Moore once wrote that the deepest feeling always expresses itself in silence. Though Wouk's legacy is hardly a silent one, he has quietly revealed his abiding passion for faith -- faithfulness in tradition and faithfulness in love.
January 7, 2013 | 1:07 pm
Posted by Danielle Berrin
[Read part I here]
The Oscar-hopeful film "Zero Dark Thirty," about the ten-year manhunt for Osama bin Laden, has been the source of intense debate over its depiction of American use of torture.
Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, the film's director and screenwriter Mark Boal have both been accused of promoting the effectiveness of torture, albeit misleadingly, as well as deeper insults such as artistic moral blindness.
The film's impact has reverberated in the press and in the corridors of power in Washington, igniting debate about the role "coercive" interrogation played in the eventual revelation of Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee launched an investigation into the contact between the filmmakers and their sources at the C.I.A., citing "inappropriate" and misleading exchange of information.
But outrage at the filmmakers' depiction of torture, and its questionable usefulness, is misdirected. Though some allege that the U.S.'s controversial interrogation program caused convulsions throughout the halls of government, the compromised behavior of the country during the ceaseless War On Terror was not only evident in its application of so-called "enhanced interrogation."
To truly discern the country's post 9/11 values in action, one need not focus on movie scenes of torture (that may or may not have helped find Osama bin Laden), but on the actual sequence of events that occurred during Operation Neptune Spear, just around Zero Dark Thirty, the night bin Laden was killed.
Since that fateful night almost two years ago, various and often contradictory accounts have emerged to explain the sequence of events leading to the death of the world's most wanted terrorist. Early accounts from the White House, as well as the New York Times, depicted a valorous tale of U.S. bravery in the face of unmitigated danger. But as more information surfaces and more individuals step forward with firsthand accounts, a different, more complicated picture arises.
In his review of Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer's book, "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden" (Owen is a pseudonym for retired SEAL Matt Bissonnette who participated in the raid) Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Steve Coll writes in The New York Review of Books that "there might be more to the subject of bin Laden's killing than a straightforward story of justice delivered."
In his essay, he pieces together numerous accounts and statements that unveil the potential moral hypocrisy of the U.S. strategy -- a strategy carried out by both the Bush and Obama Administrations -- claiming to want bin Laden "dead or alive."
Coll suggests that although the U.S. government had stated its willingness to capture bin Laden alive, even claiming it as a goal, the facts suggest this was a dubious proposition: "a fig leaf created mainly for appearances' sake."
In his insightful and revelatory article, Coll points to the various moral and political dilemmas counterterrorism has imposed on the Obama administration, leading it to wrestle with the perdurability of American values. For example, Coll explains, both the public and political risks of putting terrorists on trial ultimately "led [the] White House to discover that 'killing was a lot easier than capturing,'" a phrase coined by journalist Daniel Klaidman who used it to title his book "Kill or Capture."
How to ethically and responsibly handle the capture of terrorists proved a heavy burden. The failure, for example, of the Obama Administration and Congress to engender enough political will to shutter the prison at Guantánamo Bay is probably the most salient emblem of the its political usefulness, even though its existence exacts a moral cost.
Coll writes:
President Obama...never said publicly whether he favored putting bin Laden on trial or killing him. In early 2009, in a speech at the National Archives, Obama announced that he would end the policy of using interrogation methods judged to be torture by the International Red Cross, and that he would close Guantánamo's prison. He indicated that he would be open to trying some terrorists before military commissions, rather than dispatching all of Guantánamo's inmates to federal courtrooms, but he declared that we "cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values." He promised policies based on "an abiding confidence in the rule of law and due process." He added that "fidelity to our values" is the "reason why enemy soldiers have surrendered to us in battle, knowing they'd receive better treatment from America's Armed Forces than from their own government."
And yet, Coll claims that the values propounded above are inconsistent with some of the actions the government has taken -- particularly on the night Osama bin Laden was killed, a drama that constitutes the climax and conclusion of "Zero Dark Thirty." Here, again, as in the film's early scenes of torture, the filmmakers have chosen to treat certain details with disturbing ambiguity.
Coll does a great service in attempting to reconcile Bissonnette's firsthand account with other "official" accounts. And he goes not shrink from addressing the veracity of Bissonnette's claims:
Typically, the authors of such memoirs submit their manuscripts before publication for official review, to scrub the works of classified information. Bissonnette declined to do so; he writes that he eliminated all secret information from his book on his own. The Pentagon has declared that Bissonnette is in breach of his legal obligations, but so far the government has taken no action against him.
The main thrust of Coll's argument is this: Early reports of the raid claimed that a "firefight" took place between bin Laden and members of SEAL Team 6, that he used women's bodies as shields during a gunfight -- thusly implying there was a struggle and bin Laden was "justly" killed. But revelations from Bissonnette's book depict a scene in which none of that happened; he claims there was no firefight with bin Laden and that he was unarmed when he was killed. Coll recounts: "Bin Laden had stored a gun on a shelf nearby but it contained no ammunition; there has been no evidence that he tried to get hold of it; he was neither armed nor aggressive at the moment of his death."
Nevertheless, the following is Bissonnette's description of how bin Laden died:
The point man's shots had entered the right side of [bin Laden's] head. Blood and brains spilled out of the side of his skull. In his death throes, he was still twitching and convulsing. Another assaulter and I trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless.
Though the SEAL Team commendably held their fire earlier in the raid when a woman exited the compound carrying a baby, their approach to bin Laden was altogether different. It seems this was due to orders.
"Having chosen to go in on the ground," Coll writes, "Obama evidently did not wish to design a mission that precluded the theoretical possibility that bin Laden might surrender. Instead, he approved rules of engagement that made bin Laden's surrender all but impossible."
Coll adds that in Klaidman's book, "Kill or Capture," a Pentagon official is quoted as saying, "The only way bin Laden was going to be taken alive was if he was naked, had his hands in the air, was waving a white flag, and was unambiguously shouting, 'I surrender.'"
Thus, the question about protocol arises, and whether or not that protocol was in line with American values of due process, enemy surrender, and other principles enumerated in Obama's National Archives speech. Furthermore, it makes the issue of torture's efficacy -- and the subsequent Congressional fury over a movie portrayal -- seem beside the point.
Again and again, the filmmakers of "Zero Dark Thirty" have claimed they did their best to recount events as they happened, without offering commentary or critique. It is the film's strength and its weakness. But to blame them for excising a moral debate about torture when the U.S. government's position is frightfully tenuous seems misguided.
In the end, "Zero Dark Thirty's" brilliance is in its blankness. In presenting a decade-long sequence of events that will likely go down in history as the most pivotal and world-changing ten-years of the 21st century, the filmmakers are inviting audiences to think deeply and to reflect; not to garner meaning but to impose their own on the film's morally blank slate. Seen that way, the vigorous responses to "Zero Dark" are quite refreshing, even promising, if in some way they indicate that true values can't be prescribed by politics or presidents, but are gleaned through human instinct.
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