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Jason Ritter Movies
Since actor
Jason Ritter
hails from a long line of successful entertainers, it seemed only natural that he would eventually try his hand at performing. The son of late
Three's Company
John Ritter
and the grandson of Hollywood Western star
Tex Ritter
, young
has proven more than capable of carrying on his family's impressive showbiz legacy with roles in such features as
Freddy vs. Jason
. Born in Los Angeles in February of 1980,
made his screen debut opposite father
in the 1990 made-for-television
L. Frank Baum
The Dreamer of Oz
. Though he remained relatively inactive on the screen for much of the 1990s,
continued to train as an actor at both New York University and London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts before founding New York City's Irreputable Theater Company. Subsequent roles in the MTV series
and the fantasy-flavored CBS drama
Joan of Arcadia
quickly elevated
to teen-icon status. A segue into feature territory followed with parts in
Freddy vs. Jason
(2003) and
(2002), with his continuing role on
Joan of Arcadia
serving well to balance his feature and television careers. Unfortunately, personal tragedy struck in 2003 when his father died suddenly of a previously undetected heart condition. Performances in the made-for-television Who's Your Mama? and the
Hilary Duff
Raise Your Voice
were quick to follow, and
could also be seen opposite such screen heavies as
Steve Coogan
Tom Arnold
, and
Maggie Gyllenhaal
in director
Don Roos
' ensemble comedy drama
Happy Endings
. Meanwhile, the rising star continued to rack up impressive credits on both stage and screen, including tackling a sitcom role in the short-lived CBS series The Class (2006-07) and headlining the NBC action thriller The Event in 2010. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Perfect Family
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A woman tries to pass her unconventional family off as a wholesome churchgoing household in this comedy. Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) is a devout Catholic housewife who is a tireless volunteer at her church, ready to help with a fund-raising effort or deliver meals to shut-ins at a moment's notice. Eileen's pastor, Monsignor Murphy (Richard Chamberlain), is impressed enough to nominate her for the honor of "Catholic Woman of the Year," and when she learns that full absolution of all her past sins is one of the perks that comes with the honor, she's determined to win. However, Eileen also finds out that there's a hitch -- the nominees are expected to invite the Archbishop to their home for dinner, and her household hardly seems like the picture of moral well-being. Her husband Frank (Michael McGrady) struggles with a drinking problem, her son Frank Jr. (Jason Ritter) is in the midst of a divorce and is involved with a woman who is not Catholic, and her daughter Shannon (Emily Deschanel) is a lesbian who is about to marry her partner Angela (Angelique Cabral) and is already carrying their child. Does Eileen stand a chance against her longtime rival Agnes Dunn (Sharon Lawrence), who is also in the running for the title? The Perfect Family was the first feature film from director Anne Renton. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
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An egocentric rock star retreats to his hometown to recover from the humiliation of a major career misstep, and begins to reassess his priorities after reconnecting with the childhood friend who helped launch him to stardom. Spyder's (Kevin Zegers) first album was an unqualified hit. But when his follow-up bombs with fans and critics alike, he decides to go back to the place where it all began. Once there, the humiliated rocker quickly reconnects with his former best friend and songwriting partner, Eric (Jason Ritter), who now teaches music to middle school students. Later, as the two former friends begin some serious soul searching, they are given a second chance to reclaim their rightful place at the top of the charts. In order to do so, however, they must get to L.A. and lay down some hot new tracks in just two weeks. Piling into a massive RV with their feisty manager, Rose (Taryn Manning), and a rock legend August West (Peter Fonda) at the wheel, Spyder, Eric, and their band begin to make preparations a comeback that will make rock 'n' roll history. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Dry Land
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A soldier comes home from the war but can't find peace in his heart and mind in this independent drama. James (Ryan O'Nan) returns to his hometown in Texas after serving a long hitch in Iraq, and is warmly welcomed by his wife, Sara (America Ferrera), and best friend, Michael (Jason Ritter). However, his homecoming party is awkward and it's clear James is not the same as he was before he left. Sara's father, David (Benito Martinez), arranges for James to get a job working beside Michael at a meat processing plant, but when an argument with a co-worker turn violent, James' life goes into a tailspin and Sara leaves him. James still hasn't come to terms with his experiences in Iraq, and a reunion with one of his Army buddies, Raymond (Wilmer Valderrama), convinces him he needs to make contact with Henry (Diego Klattenhoff), a fellow soldier who was part of an incident that scarred them both. The Dry Land was the first feature film from writer and director Ryan Piers Williams, and received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Oh My Soul
A woman stranded between two worlds finds an unlikely guide in this arty supernatural thriller. Abigail (Catiah Li) is a woman in her twenties who suddenly has nowhere to live following the death of her parents. Abigail pulls up stakes and moves to Chicago, where she has an aunt; however, there's no familiar warmth between them, and Abigail rarely speaks to her aunt and has to contribute to the rent. The stress begins to take its toll, and as Abigail is troubled with insomnia and strange visions, she can no longer tell where her nightmares end and the real world begins. When her aunt unexpectedly passes on, Abigail needs a boarder, and she takes in Hector (Gonzalo Escobar), a Colombian immigrant who has learned he only has a short time to live. While Hector only wants a place where he will be left in peace in his last weeks, Abigail discovers he understands the otherworldly visions that have been haunting her, and he becomes her companion in the netherworld between life and death. Oh My Soul was the first feature film from writer and director Nicholas Monsour. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Paper Heart
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Real-life sweethearts Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi star in a fictionalized version of their romance in this indie semi-documentary comedy, written by Yi. Playing themselves, Yi and Cera embark on a scripted version of their own story. In the movie, Yi has agreed to be the subject of a documentary about her quest to discover if love really exists, since she's never experienced it. As part of her participation in the project, she has a film crew follow her around throughout every new development in her love life -- which gets complicated when she starts dating fellow comedian Cera. This portion of the film is all narrative, and was written into the script, but also as part of the documentary, Yi travels the country interviewing various people about their opinions and experiences with love, and these portions of the film are real -- the interviewees are not actors. Melding truth and fantasy, Paper Heart uses equal parts comedy and realism to resolve the ultimate question of whether love is fact or fiction. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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The Deal
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His career in an uncontrollable downward spiral, a hapless Hollywood producer cons a major studio into financing a $100 million action film following the adventures of 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, only to find his swindle taking a sudden turn for the worse when his star is kidnapped and the production is shut down. Now left with few other options for resuscitating his flat-lining career, the producer aligns himself with a well-connected Hollywood studio executive in a clandestine attempt to finance another, wholly different film by utilizing the blocked studio funds. William H. Macy and Meg Ryan star in The Wool Cap director Steven Schachter's comic look at the twisted side of Hollywood politics. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Peter and Vandy
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One couple's stormy relationship is examined out of chronological order in this drama written and directed by Jay DiPietro, adapted from his play. Peter (Jason Ritter) and Vandy (Jess Weixler) meet when both are college students; they fall in love and live together for a while, but on a certain fundamental level they're never fully comfortable with one another, and eventually they go their separate ways. But rather than tell their story from beginning to end, Peter and Vandy jumps back and forth in time, with the couple midway through their romance before we've seen their first date. DiPietro allows us to see how the flaws in their relationship -- Peter's discomfort around Vandy and their habit of bickering about petty things -- were present at the beginning, lurking around the corner even in their happiest moments. Peter and Vandy received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Education of Charlie Banks
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A young man is faced with a dilemma when a threatening figure from his past returns in this drama, the directorial debut from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst. Charlie Banks (Jesse Eisenberg) and his best friend, Danny (Chris Marquette), grew up in a rough section of New York, where they both knew Mick (Jason Ritter), a kid whose was much admired for his cool and equally feared for his talent for violence. When Mick got into a fight that left two teens nearly dead, Charlie was a witness, and when he was approached by the police, Charlie told them what he saw, though he later refused to testify against Mick in court for fear of his own safety. Several years later, Charlie and Danny have left the old neighborhood behind and are students at a prestigious private university when Mick pays them an unexpected visit. Charlie has no idea if Mick knows that he informed on him to the police, and is afraid to find out, but in the meantime, Mick aggressively reintroduces himself into Charlie and Danny's lives. As Mick starts dressing like a wealthy college boy, reading F. Scott Fitzgerald, and dating a girl Charlie has a crush on, he seems to be transforming himself into someone who can be all Charlie is and more, but in time Mick learns he can't completely turn his back on his past. The Education of Charlie Banks had its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Full Count
The time has come for five lifelong friends to leave their familiar hometown and part ways for college, but in their final summer together these lifelong friends will grow closer than ever as they band together to protect and redeem the reputation of one of their own in director Jason Wiles' feature film debut. Though their current actions may have negative repercussions on each and every one of their futures, the bond of friendship drives these close-knit friends to drastic measures in maintaining their good name. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Michael Beach
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Good Dick
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When a lonely young girl named Anna walks into her local independent video store in search of an erotic film, the clerk behind the counter vows to transcend her emotional barriers and win her heart in this quirky relationship comedy written, directed by, and starring Marianna Palka. Though the lovelorn clerk in question (Jason Ritter) is a bit of a creep and perhaps even a potential stalker, the contentious relationship forged between the pair as he repeatedly seeks Anna's affections (and is continually shot down) eventually leads to an unusual, yet wholly unavoidable, confrontation that offers offbeat insight into the state of modern romance. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Class [TV Series]
It was reported that CBS okayed the weekly sitcom The Class sight unseen when its producer, Friends' David Crane, assured the network that everyone in the cast was 28 or younger. The eight main characters were all graduates of the same third grade class (Mrs. Klingers', at Woodman Elementary School), reunited some twenty years later at a surprise anniversary party thrown by straight-arrow Ethan Haas (Jason Ritter) for his live-in fiancée Joan (Kasey Wilson). Some things hadn't changed at all in the intervening two decades; others had changed dramatically, especially in terms of relationships. The ensemble included Heather Goldenhersh as incurable romantic Lina Warbler; Lizzy Caplan) as Lina's sarcastic but goodhearted twin sister Kat; Jon Bernthal as former class clown Duncan Carmello, now a professional musician but still living in the basement of his mother Tina's (Julie Halston) house; Jesse Tyler Ferguson as self-effacing ex-"geek" Richie Velch; Sean Maguire as every girl's "dream date" Kyle Lendo, who in adulthood had come out of the closet and was living with another man; Lucy Punch) as class "brain"-turned-news anchor Holly Ellenbogan, who had never gotten over being jilted by Kyle at the high school prom and was now wed to the gormless Perry Pearl (Sam Harris); and Andrea Anders) as Tina Carmello, the most popular girl in the third grade, who had once been in love with Duncan but had since become trapped in a dull marriage with ex-NFL star turned commercial spokesman Yonk Allen (David Keith). Opening to some mighty impressive ratings, The Class debuted September 18, 2006. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Wicker Man
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A young child has gone missing and it's up to a haunted but determined policeman to travel to the remote island community where she was last seen and solve the lingering mystery of her disappearance in director Neil LaBute's updated reworking of Anthony Shaffer's 1973 cult horror classic. Upon receiving a letter from his one-time fiancée, Willow (Kate Beahan), imploring him to search for her missing daughter on the secluded island of Summersisle, Policeman Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) quickly makes his way to the island to locate the girl and seek an answer as to why Willow suddenly and inexplicably disappeared shortly before their wedding date. Once there, Malus is troubled to discover that although there are traces of the child to be found in such locations as the local schoolhouse, the residents of Summersisle seem reluctant to offer any specific details as to the girl's apparent death. His investigation effectively stalled by the highly secretive Wiccan community, Sheriff Malus soon discovers that there are still some cultures that have their own unique beliefs about humankind's relationship with Mother Earth, and refuse to adapt to the rules of modern society. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Happy Endings
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Three loosely interrelated stories of dysfunctional relationships are played for edgy laughs in this dark comedy drama from writer and director Don Roos. An unexpected assignation between stepsiblings Mamie and Charley results in Mamie becoming pregnant, with the child being put up for adoption shortly after birth. Twenty years later, Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) is approached by Nicky (Jesse Bradford), an aspiring filmmaker with an abrasive personality who claims to know where her long-lost son is living. However, there's a catch -- Nicky wants to shoot the reunion for the student film he's working on, and won't tell her about her child unless she agrees, though her lover, Javier (Bobby Cannavale), attempts to work out a compromise. Meanwhile, Charley (Steve Coogan), now out of the closet, has a longstanding relationship with Gil (David Sutcliffe), and the couple are involved in a legal battle over whether or not Gil's donated sperm produced a baby who has been adopted by a lesbian couple they know (Laura Dern and Sarah Clarke). And finally, Jude (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a bohemian malcontent who becomes involved with Otis (Jason Ritter), a sexually ambiguous rock musician. Otis has a difficult relationship with his father, Frank (Tom Arnold), but when Jude meets Frank, she likes him fine -- in fact, she soon falls in love with him and leaves Otis for his dad. Happy Endings had its world premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Our Very Own
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The directing debut of actor Cameron Watson, Our Very Own chronicles the daily hopes and dreams of high schoolers and their parents in a small Tennessee town, circa 1978. Shelbyville is the real-life birthplace not only of Watson, who wrote the script from his own recollections, but also of actress Sondra Locke -- or as the townspeople know her, "our very own Sondra Locke." The events take place in the days leading up to the town's annual horse show, where it is rumored Locke will return as a special guest. Melora (Autumn Reeser) has dreams of following Locke's path to stardom from meager beginnings, and hopes to meet the actress to pick her brain/get discovered. Her best friend, Clancy (Jason Ritter), has enough real-world problems to worry about, between falling in love with Melora and watching his parents (Keith Carradine and Allison Janney) fight over their impending bankruptcy and his father's drinking problem. Their friends Ray (Derek Carter) and Bobbie (Hilarie Burton) just want to get a car to find something to do in Nashville, while musical theater aficionado Glen (Michael McKee) begins wondering if he is coming of age differently than his friends. As the town starts to buzz with the excitement of the festival, the characters must face the decisions that will affect their futures. Cheryl Hines and Beth Grant also appear in supporting performances. Janney was nominated for a 2005 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
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Raise Your Voice
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A teenage girl learns that reaching for your dreams isn't always easy in this heartfelt drama with music. Terri Fletcher (Hilary Duff) is a small-town girl with a great love of music and a fine singing voice. Already one of the lead vocalists in her church choir, Terri has also appeared at local nightspots with some help from her older brother. When he tragically dies in an auto accident, Terri becomes all the more determined to make the most of her talent, and she's elated when she's accepted as part of a summer study program at one of California's most prestigious music schools; however, Terri attends over the stern objections of her father. As she tries to hold together her relationship with her family, she finds herself falling for one of her fellow students, Jay (Oliver James), and competing for attention against dozens of kids whose talent rivals her own. Raise Your Voice also features Jason Ritter, Rebecca De Mornay, Rita Wilson, David Keith, and John Corbett. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Joan of Arcadia: Season 02
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An average 16-year-old, Joan is going through the growing pains typical of any teenager. But after she and her family (Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Ritter, Michael Welch) relocate to Arcadia, her life gets especially interesting when God starts paying her visits.
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Freddy Vs. Jason
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Rumored and anticipated for years, the two biggest icons of the slasher genre finally meet in Freddy Vs. Jason, the eighth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street saga and the 11th film in the Friday the 13th series, though with Jason X taking place in the future, it should be noted that the events of this film take place after the ninth film Jason Goes to Hell. And it is hell where Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) and Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger, donning the hockey mask for the first time in a controversial snub against series veteran Kane Hodder) finally become acquainted. Banished there for eternity, Freddy devises a plan to manipulate Jason into continuing his work, hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street. All goes well at first until Jason realizes he's been duped by "the dream master" and is none too pleased. Coaxed by surviving teenagers Will (Jason Ritter), Lori (Monica Keena), and Kia (Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland), Jason and Freddy descend upon Crystal Lake for a mano a mano battle royal. Helmed by Hong Kong director Ronny Yu (Bride of Chucky, The Bride With the White Hair), Freddy Vs. Jason features the director of the first Friday film, Sean S. Cunningham serving as producer. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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Joan of Arcadia: Season 01
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Being "the chosen one" isn't exactly a barrel of laughs for teenager Joan Girardi (Amber Tamblyn) during the first season of the critically acclaimed CBS drama series Joan of Arcadia. For one thing, poor Joan never knows when God will choose to have one of his many conversations with her -- nor is she ever quite certain in what guise God will appear (a little boy, a street person, the school lunch lady, etc.). Also, the things God asks Joan to do don't always make sense; sure, she understands his motives when he persuades her to volunteer to work with underprivileged, but why in his name does he want her to join the school debate team? Finally, Joan has a tough time keeping her celestial chit-chats a secret from her police-detective dad, Will (Joe Mantegna); her art-teacher mom, Helen (Mary Steenburgen); her nerdy brother Luke (Mike Welch); her paraplegic older brother Kevin (Jason Ritter); and her somewhat befuddled artist boyfriend, Adam (Christopher Marquette). In the course of season one, Joan tries to help her dad Will capture a serial killer; she is shamed by God into enrolling in an advanced-placement chem class; she learns to play chess, a move that is linked with her dad's investigation of a missing child case; her brother Kevin ever so gradually adjusts to life in a wheelchair, though mom Helen never gives up hope of a miracle (the one issue that God hasn't entirely broached yet!); Will later lands a newspaper job, possibly via divine intervention, possibly not; God sees to it that Joan comes out of her shell by prodding her to try out for the pom-pom squad; Joan becomes mighty uncomfortable (one might say hot under the collar) when certain parties draw comparisons between her and another Joan of "Arc" fame; an acquaintance of Joan's dies, leading to some very pointed queries during her next conversation with the almighty; a cryptic request leads Joan to believe that God wants "something more" from their relationship; and in the season finale, Joan's mood swings lead her parents to wonder just where she goes and whom she's with when she's not at home -- and in so doing, realign their own attitudes toward faith in a greater power. ~ Rovi
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A moment of temptation leads to a high body count and untold regrets for a high-school swimming star in this thriller starring Bring It On's Jesse Bradford and Traffic's Erika Christensen. Despite a shady past involving drugs and the juvenile justice system, Ben Cronin (Bradford) seems to have it all: a loving mother, a devoted girlfriend (Shiri Appleby), and a shot at a college scholarship in California. But the same week that athletic scouts will be deciding his future, Ben finds himself embroiled in a flirtation with Madison Bell (Christensen), a bewitching transfer student who seduces him into supposedly strings-free sex during an impromptu swim lesson after hours in the school pool. When Ben takes Madison at her word and goes about his business as if nothing had happened, she insinuates herself into his life with sinister glee. Showing up at Ben's house, befriending his girlfriend, and sending him naked pictures -- none of her strategies wins his heart. So Madison turns to other, more devious forms of courtship. Soon, Ben finds himself kicked off the swim team for supposed steroid use, suspected of murdering a rival (Clayne Crawford), and rejected by his girlfriend for his sexual indiscretions. Eventually, though, he receives help in uncovering the genesis of Madison's uncanny fixation from an unexpected source. Originally titled "Swimfan85" (after Madison's Internet screen name), the retitled Swimfan hit the top spot at the back-to-school box office when it was released September 6, 2002. Dan Hedaya co-stars as Ben's stern but loving mentor, Coach Simkins. Actor-turned-director John Polson previously helmed Siam Sunset. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Law & Order: Teenaged Wasteland
The owner of a Chinese restaurant is beaten to death. The detectives collar a teenaged suspect, which leads to the conclusion that the perpetrator and his friends killed simply for the thrill of it. The DA's office is faced with the decision to opt for a lesser penalty on the basis of the perpetrators' ages, or to go the distance and demand that the teenaged murderers be sentenced to death. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed this comedy about a young psychologist named Mumford (Loren Dean), who arrives in a small town and sets up a practice. Mumford's style is short on analytic mumbo-jumbo and long on practical advice, and he soon finds that he has a long list of satisfied clients in his new home town, including many of the city's most prominent citizens. Mumford's advice also helps love bloom among the city's single residents. However, the city already had a psychologist, Ernest Delbanco (David Paymer), who is quickly losing business to Mumford. So Ernest starts asking questions: who is this Mumford, and just what are his qualifications? Mumford's supporting cast includes Ted Danson, Martin Short, Alfre Woodard, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, and Pruitt Taylor Vince. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Real Story of Christmas Tree
How does a pine tree manage to stay green all year and who thought up the idea of using a tree to celebrate Christmas? The answers to these questions are explored in Real Story of the Christmas Tree. ~ Rovi
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The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story
This sentimentalized biography of Oz creator L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) stars John Ritter in the title role. Richard Matheson's teleplay accurately depicts Baum as a business failure with the singular gift of being able to communicate with children. In keeping with Matheson's grounding in fantasy and the supernatural, Baum's characters occasionally come to life to palaver with the author and bring him inspiration. Annette O'Toole co-stars as Mrs. Baum, while Charles Haid is seen in the dual role of "Badham" and the Cowardly Lion. Also on hand as a Munchkin is Jerry Maren, who played one of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Hollywood adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. Made for television, Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story debuted December 10, 1990. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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AleishaMerwyn @Larissa__Murphy I watched step up 4 this weekend........... Im gunna be a dancer. Wasnt sure about it before but now im 100% sure :)
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A lot of pressure here. This is my first post on The Suite 16. Do I try to hit a home run on the first swing or do I realize I'm not playing baseball and instead post a Youtube video that's sure to be a crowd pleaser?
Did I mention that this video was a Dog doing the Merengue?
This video, besides making me want to hang out in random parking lots in hopes someone will bring their dog to dance with, represents the exact line between "Impressive" and "Weird". On the one hand: that dog is taking cues, dancing better than most humans, and staying on its hind legs. On the other hand: how long did you practice this with your dog? On the third hand that comes out of nowhere to trump the other two hands: It's a DANCING DOG!
So for my first post, I am testing the theory: You can never go wrong with a Dancing Dog.


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- Judge in Aurora theater shooting case sets hearing dates
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- Hearings on new psychiatric evaluation for James Holmes postponed
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- Fox News reporter Jana Winter relieved at New York court's ruling
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- Prosecutors want hearings on James Holmes' mental health kept open
- NY court: Reporter shielded in Colo. shooting case
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- James Holmes' lawyers want to close hearings about psychiatric exam
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- Aurora theater-shooting survivors denied access to sealed records
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- Judge rebuffs move for more secrecy in Holmes case
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- Judge postpones trial for Aurora theater shooter James Holmes
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- James Holmes' lawyers argue he is too mentally ill to be executed
A lawyer for Jana Winter of Fox News asked a Colorado judge to delay the April 1 hearing while Winter asks a New York state court to overturn the order for her to appear.
Winter's request was made public Tuesday. The judge hasn't said when he'll rule.
Winter reported that suspect James Holmes sent a psychiatrist a notebook foreshadowing the July 20 attack, which killed 12 and injured 70. She quoted unnamed officials.
Holmes' lawyers say the leak violated a gag order. They want to know who was responsible.
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February 7, 2013
Salmon Swim Home Using Earth's Magnetic Field as a GPS
Scientists have long known that various marine animals use the earth's magnetic forces to navigate waters during their life cycles. Such inherent navigational skills allow animals return to the same geographic area where they were born, with some migrating thousands of miles, to produce the next generation of their species.
As hatchlings, sea turtles scuttle from their sandy birthplace to the open sea as if following an invisible map, and, as adults, the females return to that spot to lay their own eggs. Bluefin tuna home in on their natal beaches after years at sea to spawn. Similarly, mature sockeye salmon leave open water after gorging on zooplankton and krill to swim back to the freshwater streams and rivers in which they were born.
But the mechanisms underlying this behavior are not well understood for most species, including the silver-bellied salmon. Previous studies suggest that tiny variations in earth's magnetic field might have something to do with it, but research has been mostly limited to laboratory experiments—until now.
Using fisheries data spanning 56 years, researchers examined sockeye salmon's mysterious sense of direction in their natural habitat. The findings, reported online today in Current Biology, show that sockeye salmon "remember" magnetic values of geographic locations. They imprint their birth location on this map when they leave their freshwater home for the sea, and use it as a compass during their journey back several years later, successfully returning home to spawn.
The salmon in this study originate in British Columbia's Fraser River. They typically spend two to four years at sea, distributed widely throughout the Gulf of Alaska. As ruby-colored adult salmon, they begin their trek home. But on their way, they encounter a roadblock: Vancouver Island, the top of a submerged mountain range that stretches for 285 miles from the Juan de Fuca Strait in the south to Queen Charlotte Straight in the north. To get back to the Fraser River, the fish have to choose—the northern inlet or the southern inlet?
If the fish did possess some internal GPS that uses earth's magnetic field as a map, researchers expected to see the salmon's choice of inlet change in predictable ways over the years. This is because the planet's magnetic field doesn't remain constant; the field's intensity and small-scale patterns change gradually over time through a process called geomagnetic field drift, caused mainly by movement in the Earth's fluid core.
And that's exactly what researchers observed: salmon showed a greater preference in a given year for the inlet that most closely resembled the magnetic signature of the Fraser River when they swam from it two years earlier. Their homeward route reflected how closely the field at each entryway, at the time of their return, resembled the field that the salmon experienced two years before, when they left the river to forage at sea.
Specifically, as the difference in the magnetic field's strength between the Fraser River and Queen Charlotte Strait decreased, a higher proportion of salmon migrated through the northern inlet. Likewise, when the difference in magnetic intensity between the river and the Strait of Juan de Fuca decreased, a higher proportion of salmon migrated through the southern inlet.
For salmon, this ability is important, and in some cases, a matter of life and death. Efficiently navigating from foraging grounds to coastal breeding areas means more time spent feeding in open water, which translates into more energy for the journey home, researchers say. The imprinting capacity also ensures salmon reach their spawning sites at the right time.
Understanding this capacity may have implications for both wild and farmed salmon, a commercially important fish. For the last decade, salmon has been the third most consumed type of seafood in the United States, behind canned tuna and shrimp, with the average American citizen chowing down on two pounds of the fish per year.
"The Earth's magnetic field is quite weak compared to the magnetic fields that humans can produce," said study author Nathan Putman, a professor in the fisheries and wildlife department at Oregon State University, in a statement. "If, for instance, hatchery fish are incubated in conditions with lots of electrical wires and iron pipes around that distort the magnetic field, then it is conceivable that they might be worse at navigating than their wild counterparts."
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Salmon and other animals such as pigeons navigate by magnetic fields. I'm sure many other birds and insects do too. Approximately every 10,000 years, the earth switches magnetic poles (we know this because scientists can analyze magnetic particles in cooled volcanic rock). As of right now, the earth is several thousand years overdue for this event. Some observers suspect that early signs of this shift might be currently appearing in regions of the southern hemisphere. How suddenly this shift happens or what the results are is anyone's guess. Should this shift happen over a short period, even hundreds of years rather than thousands, much of our wildlife may be doomed.
How do we know that the salmon spawn in the same stream where they were hatched? Do the salmon in each stream have identifying characteristics? If the breeding populations in each stream do not mix, then I would expect to see that each stream would be home to distinct races and species.
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British PM David Cameron met Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond on Monday to seal the deal on the Scottish independence vote. Salmond's Nationalist Party wants Scotland to split from the rest of the UK, arguing that Scots would be better off thanks to the country's oil reserves. Salmond has managed to get Westminster to agree to a referendum in 2014, and to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to have their say. But is independence what Scots really want?
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One argument made is that decisons made locally are more often correct. If true, that would mean that voters in Glasgow would not make a decision affecting peole living in Aberdeen. Let's let every city and county in Scotland make their own decision. Smaller can mean more corruption, and fewer resources to combat it. I would bet that if you asked the supporters of independence if they want independence for each city and county, they will say "No." but surely freedom demands that areas that vote to remain part of the England can do so. What else does democracy mean? What right do those seeking "Independence" have to deny citizens independence from their plans for a little country? Maybe they want to be tax shelter, like Monaco or the Cayman islands? Little normanlly means a lack of resources and opportunity.


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Franny Glass, a twenty-year-old college student, meets her weekend date, Lane Coutell, at the train station. She came to town for the big Yale football game at an unidentified Eastern Ivy League college where Lane is an undergraduate. She greets him enthusiastically, despite his spurious, narcissistic detachment. They immediately go to a trendy restaurant for lunch, where Lane digs into snails and frog legs and Franny leaves her chicken sandwich untouched. They smoke incessantly, while Lane speaks at length and with scarcely veiled pomposity of a recent paper he wrote on Gustave Flaubert. Franny grows paler as she tries to listen attentively. She finally explodes in a hushed rant against pedants, section men, pseudointellectuals, and shallow humanity in general. She tells him that she quit the theater group at school, which was her one great love, because she is so fed up with ego. Feeling undone, she flees to the ladies' room where, secluded in a vacant stall, she sobs freely for five minutes. She stops abruptly and clutches to her chest a small green book, as if it is her security blanket. She returns to the table determined to apologize and to salvage the weekend, but Lane notices her little book, The Way of the Pilgrim, and engages her in a discussion about it. Trying to appear casual, Franny tells him about the pilgrim's quest for enlightenment through praying without ceasing. Lane responds with condescending skepticism, which makes Franny angry...
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Franny and Zooey is actually a compilation of two long stories first published separately in The New Yorker, and it indicates an increasing tendency of Salinger to create stories more as vehicles for the expression of religious and philosophical ideas than as pieces of dramatic fiction. The first story, "Franny," describes the emotional collapse of the youngest member of the Glass family, several other members of which appear repeatedly in Salinger's work.
Franny Glass, an honors student in English and drama at a New England women's college, goes to visit her boyfriend Lane at his Ivy League school on the weekend of the Yale game. Lane takes Franny to a fashionable restaurant for lunch, but as soon as they sit down she begins criticizing English professors, poets, actors, and almost everyone she and Lane know. When Lane seeks an explanation for her sudden peevishness, Franny begins talking about a book she has been reading called The Way of a Pilgrim, in which a nineteenth century Russian peasant learns to "pray without ceasing" by discovering the secret of the "Jesus Prayer." Lane dismisses the story as "mumbo jumbo," whereupon Franny leaves the table and collapses in the middle of the restaurant floor. At the end of the story, Franny is lying in the manager's office staring at the ceiling, "her lips . . . forming soundless words"—evidently practicing the Jesus Prayer.
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Just for Laughs callbacks at Red Bar Comedy Club
The Red Bar Comedy Club, which helps fill the void in downtown comedy by bringing stand-ups to River North every Friday and Saturday night, will host callbacks on Thursday 10 for the Just for Laughs festival happening in Chicago and Montreal this summer. Local comics have been slugging it out at the Lincoln Lodge and Beat Kitchen during the last couple of weeks and will appear at Red Bar (157 W Ontario at Ontourage, 8:30pm, $5) tomorrow for the finals.
The show is hosted by Brian Babylon and includes Prescott Tolk, Dan Telfer, Beth Stelling, James Fritz, Tim Harmston, Junior Stopka, Drew Michael, Cy Amundson, Andy Woodhull, Danny Kallas, Adam Burke, Mike Sanchez, Dan Ronan, Sean Flannery and Aaron Weaver. It's a chance to see a heap of the city's best perform in one room on one night. But don't take my word for it. Check out this funny video and offer made by Telfer.
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Well i'm not so new to the site but i just started posting here as most of our reps rolled over to Taurus (still <3 you guys tho), mainly been over on bb.com. This will be my second PH run, decided on p-mag solo run with the addition of I-GH-1 and possibly Ghenerate soon. Just got all the products shipped, was waiting on nutraplanets 1 week shipping (raged). Will post pics of stack and current body pics tonight or tomorrow. Will be logging all facets of my day. Workout, mood, aggression, libido, strength etc. Any help and advice you guys can give will be much appreciated.
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The brand Absolut is known for its interesting advertising campaigns and wide variety of vodka flavors. The latest addition to the Absolut roster? Absolut Brooklyn, a blend of red apple and ginger with a special bottle designed by Spike Lee. I recently got my hands on Brooklyn and asked the mixologists at Absolut to create a cocktail that involves fresh cherries.
The resulting recipe is a delightful blend of fruity and floral flavors. Alone the vodka has a decidedly candy-apple-ish taste, but in this cocktail, it's mellowed with fresh cherry juice and elderflower liqueur. A generous splash of soda water gives the libation a refreshing quality. It's the sort of drink that would be wonderful while sitting on a front stoop in Brooklyn on a hot day. To check out the exclusive recipe, keep reading.
Happy Hour: Sage Lady
In terms of flavored vodkas, I've always enjoyed Absolut's more creative offerings. So naturally I was excited when I got my hands on a bottle of Absolut's newest flavor — Absolut Mango. The brand crafted several recipes to feature the spirit and I decided to experiment with this innovative cocktail that combines sage, cucumber, and lime juice.
While I've had a cocktail with basil and another with cilantro, I've never had any that uses sage. It adds a woodsy, earthiness to the drink — which is delectable and refreshing. The ingredients meld perfectly to make a cocktail that is slightly sweet, tart, and delightfully fruity. For the recipe, read more
In an Absolut World, Affection Replaces Currency
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Absolut vodka has released a new ad campaign, entitled "Hugs," that's all about spreading love. In the commercial, which debuted last night during the Grammys, money is replaced with acts of affection. For tickets to the movies, the buyer gives the ticket girl two kisses. To pay for a taxi, a young girl lovingly caresses the taxi driver's hand.
At a time when so many large food companies are using aggressive advertising to put down competitors, I find Absolut's ad refreshing, bold, and wonderfully optimistic. After viewing it, I can't help but wonder what it would be like to live in such an idealized world. Watch it below and let me know your thoughts!
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The other day I made a martini with Absolut's 100-proof, black-label vodka.
I've never considered myself a lightweight, but you could definitely notice the difference in strength!
How about you? Do you ever drink super-strong alcohol? Anyone else tried the Absolut 100?
Are We All Just Too Easily Offended?
I don't know if it's just me, but every news story I read today is another tale of people getting bent out of shape. Have we built a culture of super sensitivity, or are there just so many things to object to nowadays? To the evidence!
- Barack Obama's campaign has just persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for describing her neighbor's children's behavior using the word, "monkeys." The kids were playing in the tree next door to her house. According to police, the woman "came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys." The woman says she didn't want the children to get hurt, and she even calls her own grandchildren "monkeys." Why the ticket and her banishment as a delegate? The children were African American. Obama's campaign called her use of the word monkey "divisive and unacceptable."
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The Big Easy - Absolut New Orleans
Yesterday, at Tales of the Cocktail - an annual New Orleans culinary and cocktail festival - Absolut Vodka announced a new limited-edition flavor appropriately called "New Orleans." Inspired by the Big Easy, Absolut New Orleans combines juicy mango and spicy black pepper. This is the first in a series of limited-edition flavored vodkas named after cities, and this time around Absolut is planning on donating 100% of the profits to charities in the Gulf Coast including Habitat for Humanity, Hands on Gulf Coast, Volunteer Mobile along with a few others. Each foundation will receive a monetary donation in order the help rebuild the area.
The vodka will be available in the usual places (bars, restaurants, stores, etc.) starting August 1st. If you try it let us know what you think of it, the flavor combos sound intriguing, as do the drinks you can make with it. Check out Absolut's website for more details, including a way to vote for upcoming city-flavors. There are 10 cities to choose from, you tell them what it would taste like and why it deserves to be next.
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In An Absolut World: Love It Or Hate It?
Absolut has spent the last 28 years making iconic ads where the focus was the bottle. However, this year they've decided to freshen things up and embrace change. Their new "In An Absolut World" campaign, features photos from a world where everything is as fantastic as Absolut.
Ads portray pregnant men and their beaming female spouses, Times Square as a fine-art gallery, and protesters and police settling differences with pillow fights.
All of this is intended to show Absolut as the ideal vodka in a landscape crowded with luxury upstarts.
Absolut, has fallen to the number two vodka brand in the world, having lost customers to Grey Goose, Belvedere, Ketel One and other upstart luxury brands. They're hoping these ads will push them back to number one.
I'm not sure what I think about these ads. On one hand I like them, but on the other I'm thinking guys might avoid Absolut from now on - I mean who wants to drink a vodka that will make you preggers? What do you guys think, do you like the new campaign?
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United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner
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Jury Trial Convicts Atlanta Man In Forest Service Public Corruption Case
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that John Smithson, 30, of Atlanta, was convicted Thursday of conspiring to defraud the government. The guilty verdict was returned by a federal court jury in Sacramento after a three day trial before United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr.
According to testimony presented at trial, Terry Roberson was an employee of the United States Forest Service in Vallejo, Calif. During the course of her duties, Roberson was issued government convenience checks for official use. Between January 24, 2005 and October 11, 2007, Roberson stole over $250,000 from the Forest Service by writing convenience checks to herself, her family, and her friends for their personal use. Smithson was an intern at the Forest Service in the Fall of 2005 and received approximately $20,000 from Roberson. Smithson received checks both in his own name and in the names of others he recruited to receive checks.
Thirteen individuals previously pleaded guilty before Judges Burrell and Frank C. Damrell Jr., including Roberson.
This case is the product of an investigation by the United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General. Assistant United States Attorneys Steven Lapham and Jared Dolan prosecuted the case.
Smithson is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Burrell on April 27, 2012, at 9:00 a.m.
The maximum statutory penalty for a violation of Conspiracy to Defraud the Government is ten years in prison. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.


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Pub Drub
For Top Hat Entertainment, quiz night is no trivial pursuit
Daren Cassani at Nectar's
At 7:30 p.m. on a recent Thursday, Daren and Jen Cassani are bent over a laptop in the DJ booth at Nectar's in Burlington, putting the final touches on their quiz. They're making sure the PowerPoint pages won't pop up at the wrong time, inadvertently revealing an answer. If the Cassanis were schoolteachers, a slip-up like that might go over well with their students. But they're preparing their lessons for a much tougher crowd: pub quizzers. You don't want to piss off this rowdy bunch.
The Cassanis own Top Hat Entertainment, a company that does everything from DJing parties to providing giant, inflatable boxing gloves to fraternities. They've been impresarios of Trivia Mania for three and a half years, and I've been a regular for three of them. Tonight, as always, my boyfriend James and I are eager to test our trivia mettle, along with our friends Pat and Brian.
Handing out specially prepared answer sheets — which she'll also correct and score — Jen tells me this job isn't all fun and games. "We have a deadline every Thursday, but we also have a ton of other deadlines for the other things we have going on," she says. "It would be great if we [Top Hat] just had trivia, and that's all we had to worry about, but this weekend we have probably 30 gigs happening." With wedding and graduation season in full swing, the couple hasn't had much down time.
The pub quiz, such as Trivia Mania, is a growing international phenomenon. In the mid-'90s, pubs in Britain began using them to drum up business. Quizzes proved a sound investment, a cheap way to bring in a more rarefied clientele who might normally be at home reading. Like the one at Nectar's, most trivia nights take two hours, with seven rounds of 10 questions each. A bar employee or hired MC asks each question over the microphone, and patrons jot down their answers. The winners of each round get prizes such as T-shirts and free alcohol, while the overall winner nets a larger reward. This week, we're competing for free passes to the Harpoon Championships of New England Barbecue.
We begin with the usual Miscellaneous round, a potpourri to get everyone in the mood. Questions range from "What are the two most valuable pieces in Scrabble?" to "Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie introduced what product in 1941, a WWII G.I. favorite?" My team of four knows that Q and Z are the most valuable letters. James deduces that Mars and Murrie were M&M, inventors of the candy that melts in your mouth, not in your battle-worn hand. We score nine out of 10, as do a few other teams. Others score only one or two points. Many will leave, frustrated, before the game is over.
Trivia Mania isn't just about what you know, but what you can learn — the M&M question being a case in point. In the next round, which is all about detectives real and fictional, Daren asks, "Bing Crosby was an early choice, but when he said no, Peter Falk inherited what role?" Of course, we know that Peter Falk is Columbo, but who knew that der Bingles had almost worn that storied trench coat?
Most bars with quizzes buy questions prepared by large companies and sent all over the world. When I contacted Church Street's Irish-themed pub, Rí Rá, to ask about the source of its Tuesday-night quiz, the manager was as ignorant as I was. He referred me to the corporate offices, but after talking with three other people, I remained unenlightened.
The Cassanis found their market niche when they noticed a problem with mass-produced trivia questions. "One of them may be, 'What's the capital of Vermont?' — but you can't ask that," Jen says. "Maybe in California or in another country, it would be a hard question." The couple write their own quizzes and have even come up with "Vermont rounds" featuring questions about the minutiae of local geography.
Trivia Mania got going in 2005 when the owner of Nectar's offered the Cassanis a 12-week trial run. Top Hat now hosts four pub quizzes in the Champlain Valley, not to mention trivia quizzes for wedding parties, corporations and schools.
Daren has owned Top Hat Entertainment since 1996, and before that ran a small, independent DJ company. He got to know Jen when she worked across the street from the Top Hat offices at the Vermont Bed Store, so the courtship began surrounded by mattresses. The only small crimp: Daren's father was Jen's high school guidance counselor. Jen says, laughing, "I probably would have made some different choices in life, if I had known he'd be my father-in-law."
The couple soon joined forces, combining the skills Jen gained with her Champlain College business degree and Daren's experience as an entertainer and salesman. In 2004, Jen bought out the other partners, making Top Hat fully Cassani-owned. Trivia forces the pair to take their work home with them in a whole new way. "It gets frustrating when we're here all day working on other aspects of the business, and we get home and realize now we have to work on trivia," Jen says good-naturedly. Stress aside, the couple's interactions are affectionate and display the easy rapport of compatible people.
Jen and Daren both admit it's tough to dig up 70 to 80 new questions each week, but bar patrons would never know. In the recent game, my team is deep into round three — traditionally the music round, in which teams must identify title and artist of songs played over the loudspeaker. This week's theme: "Bad Songs." As the uplifting strains of Europe's classic "Final Countdown" resound, my teammate Brian observes, "Four out of four of these songs are awesome." The other players seem to agree, singing along.
Daren taught himself PowerPoint to add visual appeal to Trivia Mania, and the tool allows him to offer a movie round. One of the most popular features, it showcases clips from 10 films, each with two questions attached. In tonight's round, "Macho Movies and Chick Flicks," we're asked to recall the hometown of Meg Ryan's character in Sleepless in Seattle and name the film in which an obscure Jean-Claude Van Damme clip originates. With close to 180 individual quizzes in the can, the Cassanis have watched plenty of flicks over the last few years. Daren says their aim is "to build an atmosphere. We want movie clips that are going to be recognizable and people are going to enjoy, or [that] bring them back to high school when they saw that movie."
Many teams are 10 or more strong. Tonight, one table of 11 appears to include three generations of one family. One large team of frequent competitors is all lesbian; another is composed entirely of postal workers. I ask Daren what unites these diverse trivia hounds. "It's people who like to get away for a couple of hours," he speculates. "They can't stay out till 2 in the morning, and it's a way to see their friends and have a little break from the job they've been doing all week."
Jen chimes in: "All the postal workers, they tell us all the time, 'We cannot wait till Thursday. We get a break, it's so great.'"
There are more groans of disappointment than squeals of delight after the difficult Literature round. Few people knew that John Tenniel illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Fewer still were aware that E.H. Shepard drew the original pictures of Winnie-the-Pooh. At least, my team didn't know. We merit five points out of 10 and start to worry we could be out of the running for that Harpoon barbecue. (Luckily, here at Nectar's it's the $8.50 all-you-can-eat chicken-and-ribs night, and James and I have torn through two plates of the former and three racks of the latter.)
Winning may be sweet, but trivia night is also about relaxing with friends. When I ask Daren which questions he most enjoys writing, he says comics, baseball and "Star Trek," but he's quick to add: "The kind of questions I like are the ones that get the teams arguing amongst themselves. 'How many presidents have there been after Kennedy?' — and people count on their fingers and argue. I like when people argue about it, decide on an answer, and put it down — and then I read it and they're wrong. We're there to create that atmosphere where people are yelling at each other, but it's really all about the fun of the game."
I can't disagree. Sure, it bolsters the ego to win Trivia Mania, as we do tonight by just one point. But it's not about the buckets of Harpoon schwag and the Jäger shots. (Our home is littered with free T-shirts and shot glasses we will never use.) It's about experiencing the unique culture of pub quiz, united by nerdiness. For autodidacts like us, without degrees, holding our own at trivia night proves we can hang with the doctors and lawyers of the world. They, in turn, can show they know as much about "Magnum, P.I." as the gastro-intestinal system.
In failure, we never forget the answer we missed, and in victory, we never forget our friends.


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