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FILM Now that "train wreck" is an official celebrity category popular media ignores at its peril, certain people and projects are deemed doomed automatically. Lindsay Lohan can't redeem herself — she'd lose her entertainment value by regaining any respect. Ergo, The Canyons — the first theatrical feature she's starred in since 2007, the year of triple A-bombs Georgia Rule, Chapter 27, and I Know Who Killed Me — was earmarked as a disaster from the outset.
How could it be otherwise, with the now-disgraced former Disney luminary co-starring opposite porn superstar James Deen in an envelope-pushing screenplay from literary bad boy Bret Eaton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho)? Its apparent rejection from the Sundance and SXSW festivals, plus Lohan's widely reported difficulty on set — not to mention Ellis' dissatisfaction with the "langorous" final results — only heightened a sense that The Canyons would be a pretentious, full-frontal crapfest. Even US distributor IFC has been highly reluctant to let anyone see the film more than a week in advance of its opening dates, as if assuming any reviews would be damning ones.
We live in a reality-TV-dominated world of sharply divided winners and losers now. Now that she's typecast as an off screen fuckup, Lohan's professional endeavors must follow suit. They have to be bad, because we enjoy her failing so much.
But The Canyons isn't exactly bad, despite the gloatingly negative publicity rained on it. (And despite the fact that we do, eventually, catch a glimpse of Deen's famous johnson.) Instead, it's a middling exercise in upscale erotic-thrillerdom, beautifully crafted (on a Kickstarter dime), clever yet superficial in terms of psychological depth. Its indictment of jaded LA life centers on glamorous couple Tara (Lohan) and Christian (Deen). The latter is a producer slash trust-fund brat who's pushed an "open relationship" credo onto his trophy spouse, yet turns pathologically jealous once it's clear she's cheating with wannabe actor Ryan (Nolan Funk), the boyfriend of his former assistant Gina (Amanda Brooks).
This isn't headed anywhere pleasant. Ellis trades on his usual themes of corrosive privilege, sex, and violence to deliver a rather simplistic if sardonic lesson in Hollywood amorality that director Paul Schrader angles toward credibility. His sleek feature is the latest for an important American filmmaker who wrote the scripts for Scorsese milestones Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), as well as writing-directing such less generally heralded yet admired titles as Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), and Affliction (1997).
No one would call the serious-minded Schrader a sexploitationist. Yet many of his films cast sexuality in a queasy, predatory light — the runaway daughter sucked into porn in Hardcore, TV star Bob Crane's sex addiction in Auto Focus (2002), those murderous-when-aroused Cat People (1982), and the decadent wealthy couples preying on younger specimens in both The Comfort of Strangers (1990) and The Canyons. Schrader turns the latter into a stern, chilly, minimalist exercise in psychological suspense. A little underwhelming at first (in part because Lohan's performance is little wobbly, Deen's a tad one-note), it actually improves with repeat viewings.
I caught up with Schrader in a recent phone interview. He said the project came about because funding for another Ellis screenplay he was going to direct fell through. "I said, 'What you do, Bret, writing about beautiful people doing bad things in nice rooms, is something we can do for much less money.'"
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Alice Mae Hill, 89, died April 23, 2011 at Oasis Health & Rehabilitation.
Funeral services were Saturday at King Solomon M.B. Church with Rev. Benjamin Hall Jr. officiating. Burial followed at Glenwood Cemetery under the direction of Shaffer & Collins Funeral Home.
Mrs. Hill was born Feb. 6, 1922 in Holmes County.
Survivors include a son, Noble Brooks Sr. of Yazoo City; three brothers, James Hill (Addiel) of Kansas City, Robert L. Smart (Gussie) of Pickens and Anthony Smart Jr. of Chicago; and three special nieces Lela Mae Martin of Chicago, and Gloriacean Knight and Susie Hill Epps, both of Yazoo City.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Miami cornerback Brandon McGee pondered the irony of the Hurricanes being picked by the media to finish next to last in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division, but now atop the division battling for supremacy with Duke, the team projected to finish last.
"That's human nature,'' McGee, a senior, said. "You can never live up to other people's expectations. If we did that, we'd have been wherever they had us — fifth. We control what we can control.''
It's November, and the Hurricanes (5-4, 4-2 ACC), who meet Virginia (3-6, 1-4) at Scott Stadium on Saturday, are relevant again.
Amazing what one win after three consecutive losses can do for a team's outlook.
Then again, the Cavaliers just won their first game after six losses in a row.
The difference: The Canes go into their final three regular-season games with plenty on the line — bowl eligibility for one, and their first shot at winning the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference since joining the league in 2004.
"It's a lot of fun for us,'' said UM quarterback Stephen Morris, "because we know what type of offense we have and the defense has been playing extremely well, as [have] special teams. We're playing a complete game right now, which is something we've been preaching forever.
"The team wants to finish strong. We've had a pretty good season and everyone around this program is eager and excited. They know what's at stake.''
The Hurricanes are one win ahead of North Carolina (6-3, 3-2) in the Coastal Division and a full game ahead of Duke (6-4, 3-3). But because of NCAA sanctions, UNC is not eligible to play for the Coastal Division title.
A win Saturday would make Miami bowl-eligible for the fifth consecutive year, with one major caveat. The Hurricanes, who self-imposed a bowl ban the day after qualifying for one last season, might do it again after their next victory in an attempt to lessen pending NCAA sanctions related to former booster Nevin Shapiro.
Last year it came the day after they qualified.
"Personally, I'd definitely have mixed emotions to it,'' Morris said. "I'm not in control of that and no one on this team is, and that's really up to the athletic director and whatever they feel is best for this team. We really leave that into Coach [Al] Golden's hands and the people above us.''
Receiver Phillip Dorsett tried to look at the positive, should it happen again.
"I'll understand,'' Dorsett said. "I'd be upset at first, because we're so close, but I think next year we can be better.''
Other than possibly being a spoiler, the Cavaliers are not in the hunt for a Coastal title. Three victories in their final three regular-season games would qualify them for a bowl, however.
Miami has lost two in a row to Virginia and four of its past six against the Cavs. Saturday's matchup marks the five-year anniversary of UVA's 48-0 victory in UM's final game at the Orange Bowl, though Golden wasn't around for that one.
Golden's first college coaching job was as a graduate assistant at UVA from 1994-96. He was the UVA defensive coordinator from 2001-05. He is still close with Cavs coach Mike London, an assistant with Golden for four years at UVA.


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Drake High's John Lawson won a cross country state championship in 2011, so when he had to settle for second place in the state meet this year, he was naturally disappointed.
Fortunately for Lawson, he did not have to end his high school career on what for him was a down note.
Competing on a national stage, Lawson finished ninth overall at the Foot Locker Cross Country championships in San Diego this month. His time of 15 minutes, 31 seconds on the 5K trail at Balboa Park left him smiling and helped him earn All-America status from the National High School Coaches Association.
"I felt like redemption after the state meet was something that really needed to happen for me," said Lawson, who has verbally committed to run at UCLA next fall. "I learned a lot this season about myself as a runner and I learned a lot about racing strategically. Although I was really disappointed about my state meet performance, it taught me a whole lot and I believe that my pain really paid off and showed what I was capable of at Foot Locker."
Lawson's senior season included several highlights before the Foot Locker competition. He was fourth in the highly regarded Stanford Invitational, took first in the Mt. SAC Invitational. He closed the season by — in a five-week span — repeating as champion in the MCAL and North Coast Section meets before running in the state meet, the Foot Locker regional and the Foot Locker championship.
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other renegades paraded by Nazi handlers, including Jerusalem's Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husayni.
Indian opinion was at first hardly more favourable. Nehru's communist sympathies led him to oppose the alignment of Indian nationalism with the invaders of the Soviet Union, while Gandhi deeply distrusted Bose and resisted any alignment that might involve bloodshed. The 1942 Quit India movement – and the ferocious British clampdown that landed all the Congress leaders back in jail for the rest of the war – changed all this and played straight into Bose's hands. As the only Congress president still at liberty to plead the cause of Indian freedom, his stance began to command respect and his movements to attract interest. The enigma was about to be recast as a legend.
Congress and the Muslim League. Nehru would take a very different line, insisting on a strong central government even if it meant partitioning the subcontinent to satisfy the League's insistence on self-determination for the 'Muslim nation'. Not appeasing sectarian ('communal') sensibilities was the essence of Nehruvian secularism; but for Bose confessional and linguistic allegiances were facts of life, even a source of strength. The INA set a remarkable example in this respect, with Muslim, Sikh and Hindu servicemen and women eating in the same mess and fighting in the same battalions. Had Bose been around in 1946–7, the disaster of a partition based on severing the subcontinent's Muslim-majority areas – Pakistan – might well have been avoided. Whether the provinces (now 'states') of India would have retained greater autonomy is more questionable. The
His 1941 escape from Calcutta to Kabul in the improbable disguise of a deaf-mute Pathan – improbable for a bespectacled and loquacious Bengali, that is – was now seen as near-miraculous; so was his return to the German soundwaves within days of his supposed death in an air crash in 1942; and likewise his 1943 reincarnation in Southeast Asia as the unifor med supremo of an ar my poised to expel the Br itish by force. 'Delhi chalo' – 'Delhi here we come' – was both Bose's promise and the INA's rallying cry. Sensing an opportunity, Nehru began revising his opinion of the Bengali Scarlet Pimpernel. Meanwhile Gandhi, though noting that INA men might shoot to kill in Burma, somehow persuaded himself that they would be 'non-violent soldiers of freedom' once on Indian soil.
Führer's dictatorial proclivities seem to have rubbed off on Netaji to the extent that by 1944 he favoured a period of 'disciplined' authoritarian rule in India prior to the reintroduction of democratic and federal norms. Sugata Bose concedes this, yet fails to offer an answer to the more obvious question of how a freedom-loving patr iot could have stomached the obscenities and atrocities being heaped on other subject peoples by his Axis sponsors. He was scarcely unaware of them. He had taken Mussolini to task over the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, had expressed a mild interest in the fate of Germany's Jews and would lap up Japanese hospitality in the Yangzi city of Nanjing, the 'Rape' of which in 1937 epitomised the bestiality of the Sino-Japanese war. A suggestion that what he called 'the internal policies' of the Axis powers were none of his business simply beggars consideration.
This was never tested. Alongside the Ja panese, t he INA re a ched I ndia 's northeastern extremity at Imphal but earned greater distinction in the painful retreat that ensued. By the time of Hiroshima, Bose had disbanded his army and was on the move again. Reports of his death after another plane crash, this time in Taiwan, were not much credited – and still aren't, despite overwhelming cor roborative evidence and umpteen enquir ies. In India the legend comfortably outlives the enigma and ensures Bose's unique place in the pantheon of Independence leaders.
Bose taking the salute, Singapore, July 1943
In His Majesty's Opponent, Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard as well as a great-nephew of the man himself, presents an admirably restrained account of this flawed patriot. Making good use of the family archives, he reaches out to the widest possible audience with a compelling narrative that sacrifices none of its author's academic credentials. Of particular interest is the stress laid on Bose's preference for a federal form of gover nment and some power-shar ing between the
Romain Hayes, in a cr isp and judicious account of Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany, does at least try to confront this conundrum. Mining the Nazi archives as well as Bose's output, Hayes finds not a single expression of 'concern or sympathy for the millions who died in concentration camps'. Nor did Bose show any remorse when in early 1945 the horror of the Holocaust became public knowledge. Instead we are to believe that Bose's brand of radical nationalism induced a myopia that blinded him to the plight of anyone but Indians. It also blinded him to the possibility that an Axis 'liberation' of India might have resulted in something worse than the Raj; and it has seemingly blinded his supporters to the fact that Indian nationalism was ser iously tarnished by these wartime associations. A legend in the land of his birth, elsewhere Bose is still an enigma. To order 'His Majesty's Opponent', see LR bookshop on page 16
LITERARY REVIEW June 2011
' Th e C o l l a t e r a l Damage o f P r o g r e s s ' MAKERS OF MODERN INDIA
Edited by Ramachandra Guha (Harvard University Press 500pp £25.95)
By Siddhartha Deb (Viking 253pp £14.99)
DESPITE THE RECEIVED wisdom that almost any observation about India is as true as it is false, the pile of books attempting to 'explain' the country grows ever higher. But i f generalisations about India are too big and specifics too small, what is left for a writer to write?
In Makers of Modern India, histor ian Ramachandra Guha has chosen to represent the country through a composite thought-map, taking quotations from eminent Indians on a variety of key issues, such as language, economics, gender relations, religious tolerance and civil governance. This does not tell us what India is currently like, but it does make clear what her finest minds wanted her to be. Guha maintains that g reat political thoughts appear at the birth of nations, at times of national crisis, and when political systems change. India has experienced all three of these epochal moments relatively recently, and the book records the effects they have had on nineteen writers, mostly politicians, who lived through them.
Guha has only supplied about a fifth of the text himself, much of it in the form of biographical notes, and he makes little attempt to analyse, criticise or expand the selected passages. His chosen authors are left to explain themselves, while he maintains a neutral stance as editor. Thus he presents both sides of the religious argument, with M K Gandhi and the little-known Hamid Dalwai on the side of tolerance, and the Hindu nationalist M S Golwalkar on the other. Golwalkar is the sole representative of Indian right-wing traditionalism, so, apart from religion, the book has a distinct left-progressive bias, and for the most part covers nuanced shades of egalitarian and socialistic thinking. All the expected big names are here, with Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar the stars. Guha defends the omission of Subhas Chandra Bose and Vallabhbhai Patel by explaining that they were 'doers' rather than thinkers.
The avowed purpose of the collection is to show what India's political experience – her 'national trajectory' – has to offer the modern world. This is a generous notion, but problematic, because the book is much longer on intractable difficulties than snappy solutions. However, Guha believes that there is wisdom yet to be found in the words of Indian politicians who forged a national identity in the face of enormous ethnic and linguistic diversity, and created a functioning democracy despite daunting problems of scale, illiteracy and poverty. Maybe so, but the idea that the canon of writing collected here somehow forms a coherent Indian approach is harder to swallow; the influence of the West is discernible throughout, and it is only Gandhi who can claim to think consistently outside the occidental box. Moreover, the extended nature of the quotations, though very fair to the writers, makes it unlikely that many will want to read this book from cover to cover. But as a convenient quarry for well-chosen words, we will in the end be grateful for it.
Siddhartha Deb has assembled a different kind of mosaic to represent modern India. The product of five years of travel and research, The Beautiful and the Damned uses five personal narratives to explore India beneath her new wealthy gloss. It is a compelling read. The author's experience as a journalist ensures that he hardly wastes a word, his local knowledge gives him depth and empathy,
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Democrats' reform efforts in Washington useless Continuing in the tradition of watered down, pro-corporate legislation that the Obama administration is becoming infamous for, new reports are surfacing that banks and financial institutions may continue to get away with the same risky trading and investment practices that landed us in a recession. The Volcker RulesThe Volcker Rules, intended to accompany the 2010 DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, comprise a list of restrictions on large financial institutions intended to help prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial collapse. Only a handful of Paul Volkers recommendations, however, were incorporated into the final legislation. Of the rules that were finally adopted, one in particular prohibits banks from making proprietary trades meaning using the banks own assets for speculative investments. This would stop banks from taking customer deposits, turning around, and using them to invest in risky financial instruments, such as the short-term trading of asset backed securities. Proprietary trading was singled out as a major policy concern following the financial crisis because it is considered by many economists, including five former Secretaries of the Treasury, to have been one of the leading contributors to the 2008 economic crash. Proponents of the ban argue that by allowing banks and financial institutions to engage in proprietary trading, we were providing bankers with the means to continue funding absurd loans and risky investments. Mortgage backed securities (MBS), in particular, are considered to have financed much of the risky lending which led to the collapse. Creating a bubbleThe concept behind MBSs was straightforward: instead of selling single mortgages on their own, which isnt very attractive to large financial institutions, banks would stick hundreds and thousands of mortgages together into a single package and sell them together. These large securities would offer investors much higher profits, and also make mortgages easier to finance even if one of the mortgages fails now, there are still five hundred others producing a return. This, in turn, encouraged banks and mortgage companies to sell more mortgages even to people who normally would not be able to afford them. As more mortgages were sold, the value of homes in the market skyrocketed, producing more money with which banks could then go out and finance more sales of homes. So, when the housing bubble finally burst, and the value of millions of homes across the country plummeted, banks and financial institutions lost billions, leading to the recession we are in today.
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Australian indie-rockers Expatriate are releasing their debut album, In the Midst of This, in the UK, this very day. The album was initially released in their homeland back in 2007 and it certainly did not go unnoticed. It received enough indie attention to keep the band's gig schedule quite busy and for Rolling Stone to name them "one of the most important new bands of 2007". In 2009 they toured with fellow Riverman band, Placebo, thus being exposed to an even broader audience, which payed off, as shown by this UK breaktrough, as well as by a string of headlining gigs around Europe. As for the album, if you are into rock mythology, you should know it was recorded in Seattle, in the studio where Nirvana did their last sessions. Even though Ben King sings "A dream's a dream, Leave it at that" on Times Like These (maybe the best track on the album), Expatriate keep on working on the architecture of their own dream and, with a second album in the demo phase, they might just become one of those bands who inspire others to dream.


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Lea Michele is one of those actresses with a face destined to appear in a big ad campaign. Over the years she's gained quite the following, for her red carpet and beauty style as much as for her on screen character in 'Glee'. It was only a matter of time then before she got snapped up by a major brand and L'Oréal is the one that has done just that.
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Hey guy's and gal's, just a quick question. I am going to add a rear sway bar and I was wondering what is the best for my truck? How many of you have added one and how was the improvement with the body roll? Thanks in advance for your input. 2002 Silverado LS extended cab with 5.3
05-22-2013, 09:28 PM #2i know hellwig makes a great sway bar, and the price isnt too bad,been considering it myself, but still trying to weigh the pros and cons of adding a rear sway bar for my application. there should be a couple threads on here about rear sway bars
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05-23-2013, 01:32 PM #4I was under the impression you were off-road a fair bit, like I am. I'm not sure a sway bar makes sense if that's the case. That's part of why I went with the Roadmaster Active Suspension ... I got a body roll reduction without adding a sway bar ties the driver and passenger sides of the vehicle together -- allowing for travel I need while off-road that I wouldn't have with a sway bar unless it was one of the hookable types that I could unhook prior to heading off-road. (And that'd be annoying, by the way.)
05-23-2013, 02:12 PM #5thats my concern, though the reality of my "offroading" primarily is in the sand at the beach, or the occasional late night journey with some friends into some backroads and muddy terrain which happens all of about once every two months or so.... which is my dilemma since all of that other time is on the road, i really dont ever get myself in any situation where i need much suspension flex, but i also dont want to ever be in the situation where, lets say, i do need it but i had added a sway bar....
05-23-2013, 10:52 PM #6Thanks guy's, I just ordered my Hellwig rear sway bar. I hope this will tame the body roll......
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Detroit last month became the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the country's history after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and officials said the city can't afford its $11.5 billion in liabilities associated with pension benefits, retiree health care and unsecured debt held by investors.
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Nicol signed off with two goals as Villa made a winning start to life at Earlswood Town whilst work is carried out at their Recreation Ground home.
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I hope, though, that they don't make moves just for the sake of making moves and that anyone they decide to trade for is someone who can play a significant role in filling the holes they have left.
I know there's a palpable feeling of disappointment that the Chandler-Diaw thing didn't get done, and the Barnes thing seems destined to fail but that doesn't mean going out and doing something just to do something.
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Not only won't the USA have any of its top eight players from Beijing, they lost Amar'e Stoudemire to insurance issues earlier this week and David Lee banged up a finger pretty badly on Tuesday and no one knows whether he'll be available.
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No Dirk, I see; and no Pau Gasol or Tony Parker but, for the most part, countries other than the USA will have their top players.
And that's really good for the tournament. There really is nothing like a world basketball championships to bring out the passion in fans – think World Cup on a smaller scale – and having a few teams like Spain, Greece, maybe Argentina, able to challenge the Americans is a good thing.
And while that American team may still be full of recognizable NBA games to think it's a heavy favourite is not the wisest thing to do.
One thing I find quite comical about the whole thing is how they are suggesting that toll of free agency may be part of the reason for guys like LeBron, Wade and Bosh – three mainstays from the Olympics – sitting out.
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The organization may not have been on death's door when he arrived but the Grim Reaper was coming up the front porch and the turnaround since then has been shocking.
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