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As the daughter of legendary director John Huston and granddaughter of Oscar-winning actor Walter Huston, it was no surprise that actress Anjelica Huston found success and acclaim in Hollywood. Repres...
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Year | Sort Order |
Bastard out of Carolina | Director | n/a | 2 | |
Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories | Voice | Narrator | 5 | |
The Mists of Avalon | Actor | Viviane, the Lady of the Lake | 1 | |
Riding the Bus with My Sister | Director | n/a | 2 | |
Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Iron Jawed Angels | Actor | Carrie Chapman Catt | 1 | |
Buffalo Girls | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Lonesome Dove | Actor | Clara Allen | 1 | |
Family Pictures | Actor | Lainey Eberlin | 1 | |
And the Band Played On | Actor | Dr. Betsy Reisz | 1 | |
The First Bite is the Deepest | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Family Pictures (1991-1992) | Actor | Lainey Eberlin | 1991 | 1 |
Addams Family Values | Actor | Morticia Addams | 1 | |
Horrid Henry: The Movie | Actor | Miss Battleaxe | 1 | |
Do You Hear What I Hear | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Labor of Love: The Making of "Bastard Out of Carolina" (1995-1996) | Actor | Interviewee | 1995 | 1 |
A Cornfield Grows in LA | Actor | Dr. Lena Marlova | 1 | |
Intimate Portrait: Anjelica Huston (1996-1997) | Actor | Interviewee | 1996 | 1 |
The Witches | Actor | Miss Ernst -- Grand High Witch | 1 | |
Buffalo Girls (1993-1994) | Actor | Calamity Jane | 1993 | 1 |
The Grifters | Actor | Lilly Dillon | 1 | |
The Mists Of Avalon (1999-2000) | Actor | Viviane--High Priestess of Avalon/Lady of the Lake | 1999 | 1 |
Lifetime Women's Film Festival (1997-1998) | Actor | Host | 1997 | 1 |
The Addams Family | Actor | Morticia Addams | 1 | |
A Walk With Love and Death | Actor | Claudia of Saint Jean | 1 | |
Agnes Browne | Actor | Agnes Browne | 1 | |
The Real Cleopatra (1997-1998) | Narrator | Narration | 1997 | 1000005 |
The Irish Gala (1999-2000) | Actor | Host | 1999 | 1 |
The Dead | Actor | Gretta | 1 | |
The Royal Tenenbaums | Actor | Etheline Tenenbaum | 1 | |
Choke | Actor | Ida Mancini | 1 | |
Wicked Game, Part I | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
The Worst Stan | Voice | Superintendent Ellen Riggs | 1000006 | |
Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic (1990-1991) | Actor | n/a | 1990 | 1 |
So ...What Brings You to Armageddon? | Actor | Dr. Lena Marlova | 1 | |
John Huston & The Dubliners | Actor | Herself | 1 | |
Phoenix | Actor | Leila | 1 | |
The Perez Family | Actor | Carmela Perez | 1 | |
Ever After | Actor | Rodmilla | 1 | |
Wicked Game, Part II | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Gardens of Stone | Actor | Samantha Davis | 1 | |
Lonesome Dove (1987-1988) | Actor | Clara Allen | 1987 | 1 |
Captain Eo | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Iron Jawed Angels (2002-2003) | Actor | Carrie Chapman Catt | 2002 | 1 |
A Cat in Paris | Voice | (English version) | 1000006 | |
When in Rome | Actor | Celeste | 1 | |
Material Girls | Actor | Fabiella | 1 | |
Ladies in Lavender | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories (1995-1996) | Narrator | Narration | 1995 | 1000007 |
Blood Work | Actor | Dr Bonnie Fox | 1 | |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou | Actor | Eleanor Zissou | 1 | |
The Crossing Guard | Actor | Mary | 1 | |
The Making of Disney's Captain EO (1985-1986) | Actor | n/a | 1985 | 1 |
These Foolish Things | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Kaena: The Prophecy | Actor | Voice of Queen of the Selenites | 1 | |
Seraphim Falls | Actor | Madame Louise | 1 | |
But For the Grace of God | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Enemies, A Love Story | Actor | Tamara | 1 | |
Which Lip Is the Cervical Lip? | Actor | Dr. Lena Marlova | 1 | |
The Golden Bowl | Actor | Fanny Assingham | 1 | |
Reel Comedy: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2003-2004) | Actor | Interviewee | 2003 | 1 |
The Barbara Walters Special (11/05/91) (1990-1991) | Actor | n/a | 1990 | 1 |
Season: 3 | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Crimes and Misdemeanors | Actor | Dolores Paley | 1 | |
Manhattan Murder Mystery | Actor | Marcia Fox | 1 | |
A Handful of Dust | Actor | Mrs Rattery | 1 | |
The Ice Pirates | Actor | Maida | 1 | |
Used, Abused and Unenthused | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Spirit of the Forest | Voice | Mrs. D'Abondo | 1000008 | |
Burn Baby Burn | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Mr. North | Actor | Persis Bosworth-Tennyson | 1 | |
50/50 | Actor | Diane | 1 | |
The Big Year | Actor | Annie Auklet | 1 | |
The 18th Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Sir David Lean (1988-1989) | Actor | n/a | 1988 | 1 |
Burn Baby Burn - Part II | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
Lifetime Women's Film Festival (1996-1997) | Actor | n/a | 1996 | 1 |
The Man From Elysian Fields | Actor | Jennifer Adler | 1 | |
The Postman Always Rings Twice | Actor | Madge | 1 | |
Faerie Tale Theatre (1981-1986) | Actor | ("Beauty and the Beast") | 1981 | 1 |
John Huston: The Man, The Movies, The Maverick | Actor | Herself | 1 | |
Swashbuckler | Actor | Durant's Woman | 1 | |
The Kreutzer Sonata | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Buffalo '66 | Actor | Janet 'Jan' Brown | 1 | |
American Heroes & Legends (1991-1994) | Narrator | Narration("Rip Van Winkle") | 1991 | 1000011 |
Smash (2010-2012) | Actor | Eileen | 2010 | 1 |
And Then | Actor | Cynthia Keener | 1 | |
81st Annual Academy Awards (2007-2008) | Actor | Presenter | 2007 | 1 |
The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1983-1984) | Actor | Sonja | 1983 | 1 |
Prizzi's Honor | Actor | Maerose Prizzi | 1 | |
Models Uncovered (1997-1998) | Actor | Interviewee | 1997 | 1 |
The 2007 Film Independent's Spirit Awards (2005-2006) | Actor | Presenter | 2005 | 1 |
The 60th Annual Academy Awards Presentation (1986-1987) | Actor | n/a | 1986 | 1 |
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | Actor | Herself | 1 | |
The 18th Annual American Fashion Awards (1997-1998) | Actor | n/a | 1997 | 1 |
Art School Confidential | Actor | Art History Teacher | 1 | |
Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor (2004-2005) | Actor | President Elanor Castilla | 2004 | 1 |
Showgirl Stories (1997-1998) | Narrator | Narration | 1997 | 1000014 |
The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston (1981-1982) | Actor | n/a | 1981 | 1 |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (1999-2000) | Actor | n/a | 1999 | 1 |
Daddy Day Care | Actor | Miss Gwyneth Harridan | 1 | |
The Darjeeling Limited | Actor | Patricia | 1 | |
The 59th Annual Academy Awards Presentation (1985-1986) | Actor | n/a | 1985 | 1 |
And the Band Played On (1992-1993) | Actor | Doctor Betsy Reisz | 1992 | 1 |
Tinker Bell | Actor | Voice of Queen Clarion | 1 | |
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills (1999-2000) | Actor | Interviewee | 1999 | 1 |
The Last Tycoon | Actor | Edna | 1 | |
The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money (1997-1998) | Actor | Interviewee | 1997 | 1 |
Pixie Hollow Games (2010-2011) | Voice | Queen Clarion | 2010 | 1000022 |
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston | Actor | Herself | 1 | |
The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1990-1991) | Actor | Presenter | 1990 | 1 |
ABC 50th Anniversary Celebration (2002-2003) | Actor | Presenter | 2002 | 1 |
This Is Spinal Tap | Actor | Polly Deutsch | 1 | |
Hamlet | Actor | Court Lady | 1 | |
49th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1990-1991) | Actor | n/a | 1990 | 1 |
The American Television Awards (1991-1992) | Actor | n/a | 1991 | 1 |
The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1989-1990) | Actor | Presenter | 1989 | 1 |
Good to Go | Actor | Charlemaigne | 1 | |
The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1991-1992) | Actor | Presenter | 1991 | 1 |
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (1998-1999) | Actor | Presenter | 1998 | 1 |
Martian Child | Actor | Mimi | 1 | |
The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1996-1997) | Actor | n/a | 1996 | 1 |
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1988-1989) | Actor | n/a | 1988 | 1 |
Inside the Actors Studio (1993-2013) | Actor | Interviewee | 1993 | 1 |
What Is This Thing Called Love? (1991-1992) | Actor | n/a | 1991 | 1 |
The 61st Annual Academy Awards Presentation (1987-1988) | Actor | n/a | 1987 | 1 |
The Player | Actor | Herself | 1 | |
Frances | Actor | Mental Patient | 1 | |
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure | Actor | n/a | 1 | |
Agnes Browne | Director | n/a | 2 | |
Bastard Out of Carolina (1995-1996) | Director | n/a | 1995 | 2 |
Riding the Bus with My Sister (2003-2004) | Director | n/a | 2003 | 2 |
Agnes Browne | Producer | n/a | 3 |
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Played a woman in a loveless marriage in John Huston's final film, "The Dead"; screenplay was adapted by brother, Tony from the short story of the same name by James Joyce |
First starring role, "A Walk with Love and Death"; directed by her father (who also co-starred as her uncle) |
Re-teamed with Nicholson to play an estranged couple in Sean Penn's "The Crossing Guard" |
Career received a boost when she was cast as an Amazon with guns in "The Ice Pirates" |
Made feature acting debut with an uncredited appearance in her father, John Huston's "Sinful Davey" |
Auditioned for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of "Romeo and Juliet" |
Guest starred as an unorthodox psychiatrist in a four episode stint on the Showtime series "Huff" |
Re-teamed with Coppola in her first leading role, "Gardens of Stone" |
Portrayed Doctor Betsy Reisz in the acclaimed HBO movie "And the Band Played On" that followed the course of the AIDS crisis |
Played the matriarch in a family of failed geniuses in Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums" |
Cast in Terry Zwigoff's adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comic story "Art School Confidential" |
Cast in the comedy feature "The Big Year" opposite Owen Wilson, Jack Black, and Steve Martin |
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
Acted in Danny Cannon's mediocre crime film "Phoenix" (HBO), portraying Ray Liotta's love interest |
Played Vincent Gallo's Buffalo Bills-crazed mom in Gallo's "Buffalo 66" |
Offered a strong performance as the mother of an autistic child in the ABC miniseries "Family Pictures" |
Co-starred with Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan in the western "Seraphim Falls" |
Cast as the tenacious producer of a Broadway musical on NBC's "Smash" |
Cast as as Clara Allen in the CBS miniseries "Lonesome Dove" (adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel); received an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Miniseries |
Re-teamed with Woody Allen for "Manhattan Murder Mystery" |
Acted in first film with director Woody Allen, "Crimes and Misdemeanors," playing the desperate mistress of Martin Landau |
Co-starred with Hilary Swank in the HBO movie "Iron Jawed Angels," about the American women's suffrage movement during the early 1900s; received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress |
Cast as Sam Rockwell's mother in the film "Choke," based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk |
Made directorial debut with "Bastard Out of Carolina" (originally filmed for TNT, but they would not air it due to its content; later aired on Showtime); received an Emmy nomination for Directing |
Directed, co-produced and starred in "Agnes Browne" as a widowed mother of seven in 1960s Ireland |
Played the curator of the Guggenheim and Kristen Bell's boss in the comedy "When in Rome" |
Appeared in James Ivory's "The Golden Bowl" (based on the Henry James novel) |
Joined Michael Jackson and Dick Shawn in Francis Ford Coppola's 17-minute, 3-D musical "Captain Eo" (produced for the Disney theme parks) |
Acted the part of the Grand High Witch in Nicolas Roeg's "The Witches" |
Appeared in Rob Reiner's feature directing debut "This Is Spinal Tap" |
Moved to NYC after mother's death and was an understudy for Marianne Faithful in the Broadway production of "Hamlet" |
Moved to Los Angeles, CA to live with off-screen love Jack Nicholson |
Portrayed gothic matriarch Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family" |
Portrayed the evil stepmother in Andy Tennant's take on the Cinderella story "Ever After" |
Starred opposite Clint Eastwood in "Blood Work" |
Made TV-movie debut in "The Cowboy and the Ballerina" (CBS) |
Moved to Ireland as a young child and lived in an estate in Galway |
Received a Best Supporting Oscar nomination as a Nazi concentration camp survivor in Paul Mazursky's "Enemies, a Love Story" |
Portrayed Calamity Jane in the CBS miniseries "Buffalo Girls" (adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel); received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries |
Portrayed the Lady in the Lake in the TNT retelling of the Arthurian legend "The Mists of Avalon" |
Received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Lily Dillon in "The Grifters" |
Moved to London at age ten |
Acted in half-brother Danny Huston's "Mr. North"; co-adapted by father, John Huston |
Second film with Nicholson, Bob Rafelson's remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" |
Landed breakthrough screen role as the Mafia princess in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor"; third onscreen collaboration with Nicholson |
Played title role in the Los Angeles stage production of "Tamara" |
Appeared as herself in Robert Altman's "The Player" |
Modeled for photographer (an old friend of Huston's mother) Richard Avedon in a 30-page fashion shoot for Vogue magazine |
Directed Rosie O'Donnell and Andie MacDowell in the CBS movie "Riding the Bus With My Sister" |
Played a missing persons investigator in a six-episode story arc on "Medium" (NBC); received an Emmy nomination for Guest Actress in a Drama |
Cast opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen in "50/50" |
Co-starred with Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" as Zissou's (Murray) estranged wife |
Returned to the screen in Elia Kazan's "The Last Tycoon"; first film with Jack Nicholson |
Acted on episodes of "Laverne and Shirley" (ABC) |
Reprised role of Morticia for "Addams Family Values" |
Born on July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, CA, Huston was the daughter of famed director John Huston, who helmed such Hollywood classics as "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948), "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) and "The African Queen" (1951). Her mother, Enrica Soma, was a prima ballerina. Though born in America, Huston spent her formative years abroad, growing up in Galway, Ireland, where her father moved the family after falling in love with the country when preparing to film "The African Queen." While in Ireland, she attended Kylemore Abbey, a prestigious all-girls boarding school in Connemara. When she was 10, her mother moved the children to London, where Huston continued her studies at the Holland Park School, where the gangly young woman participated in protest marches and set her sights on acting. She took her first professional steps when her father cast the young actress in "A Walk with Love and Death" (1969), a historical romance set during the Middle Ages that put on painful display Huston's inexperience with her craft. Derided at the time as a vanity project, Huston received the brunt of criticism because of her father's insistence that she perform a role she later revealed that she objected to at the time.
Despite the critical drubbing she received for her first film, Huston had bigger issues to contend with - namely the sudden and shocking death of her 39-year-old mother in an auto accident. Completely unprepared for the tragedy, Huston was dealt the single greatest blow of her lifetime. At the time, she was the understudy to Marianne Faithfull for the role of Ophelia in a London production of "Hamlet" (1969), which moved across the pond to the United States. Wanting to get as far away from where her mother was killed as possible, Huston followed. But once she was through with the play, her acting career was seemingly finished, too. In 1971, Huston was asked by her mother's friend, famed photographer Richard Avedon, to model for a Vogue fashion shoot in Ireland. With nothing else going on in her life, she quickly agreed. Little did she realize at the time that she had launched a modeling career that saw her become a favorite of heavyweight photographers like Avedon and Helmut Newton. Two years later, she met actor Jack Nicholson and soon afterward moved in with him, embarking on a high-profile romantic relationship that ended almost two decades later in heartbreak.
Though she still had her mind set on becoming an actress, Huston spent the first half of the decade finding her footing in the acting world. Eventually, she re-launched her screen career with a small part in "The Last Tycoon" (1976), directed by Elia Kazan, which she followed by appearing as a lion tamer involved with Nicholson in Bob Rafelson's remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1981). Thanks to her friendship with Penny Marshall, she landed a couple of guest appearances on "Laverne and Shirley" (ABC, 1976-1983), followed by a role as a swaggering, tough-talking Amazon in the harmless space romp "The Ice Pirates" (1984). But it was her performance opposite Nicholson in "Prizzi's Honor" (1985) that transformed her from being John Huston's daughter into an Academy Award-winning actress. Directed by her father, the film allowed her the opportunity to bring both intense sexual voltage and blissfully coarse tenderness to her role as Maerose Prizzi, the longtime squeeze of a Mafia hit man (Nicholson) who is tossed aside for a paid killer posing as a tax consultant (Kathleen Turner). Her electrifying performance as the vengeance-minded mob daughter earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, making her the first person in Academy history to win the award when a parent and grandparent - Walter Huston for "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948) - previously had as well.
After playing a witch opposite Michael Jackson in Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D fantasy short "Captain Eo" (1986), Huston tackled her first leading role in Coppola's disappointing "Gardens of Stone" (1987), portraying an independent, politically-aware Washington Post reporter who falls in love with a career Army sergeant (James Caan) whose beliefs about the Vietnam War are dramatically opposed to her own. Meanwhile, father and daughter - who had been brought closer together by "Prizzi's Honor" - continued their collaboration on his final directing effort, "The Dead" (1987), a moving coda to the director's distinguished career. Based on the final short story in James Joyce's Dubliners and adapted by brother Tony, the somber period drama starred Huston as a romantic Irish wife trapped in a loveless marriage who recounts her lost love to a young boy who may have died on her behalf. The moving film drew critical raves, though limited box office. Most significantly, however, was John Huston finally succumbing to his long battle with emphysema, which had required him to wear an oxygen mask on the set of "The Dead." The filmmaking maverick died on Aug. 28, 1987.
Now completely on her own career-wise, Huston forged ahead, co-starring in half-brother Danny's directorial debut, "Mr. North" (1988). Co-scripted and produced by the elder Huston, the fantasy comedy traded on her aura of sophisticated authority for her role as a mysterious wealthy widow. Over the next several years, Huston established herself as a terrific character actress, putting glamour on hold to honestly explore a series of visceral parts. In Woody Allen's excellent "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), she delivered an appropriately shrill turn as the desperate, neglected mistress of a prominent eye surgeon (Martin Landau) who becomes a problem that the good doctor's Mafia-tied brother (Jerry Orbach) helps make go away. Huston next earned another Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as a delightfully cynical Holocaust survivor whose return complicates the life of her re-married husband (Ron Silver) in Paul Mazursky's "Enemies: A Love Story" (1989). She next joined an all-star cast that included Robert Duvall, Diane Lane, Danny Glover and Tommy Lee Jones in the sprawling miniseries adaptation of "Lonesome Dove" (CBS, 1989), which earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special.
Around this time, Huston's long on-again, off-again relationship with Jack Nicholson came to a permanent close when it was revealed in the media that he had impregnated actress and model Rebecca Broussard. Mortified by what her longtime boyfriend had been up to, the ever-classy Huston ended the relationship and refused to discuss it. Meanwhile, she had one of the best roles of her career when she delivered a tour de force performance in Stephen Frears' neo-noir, "The Grifters" (1990), playing a hardened con-artist who runs afoul of her ruthless bookmaker boss (Pat Hingle) when she visits her two-bit hustler son (John Cusack) in the hospital instead of lowering the odds at the track. Earlier the same year, she was superb as an evil witch with an over-the-top performance that complemented the wizardry of Jim Henson's creature shop in "The Witches" (1990), adapted from the book by Roald Dahl. Landing her most high-profile role to date, Huston moved into lighter territory as the elegantly ghoulish Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family" (1991) and "Addams Family Values" (1993). Reuniting with Woody Allen, she helped inflame Diane Keaton's Nancy Drew streak in a more comic second venture with the director, "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993). That year she also had a small role in the acclaimed AIDS chronicle, "And the Band Played On" (HBO, 1993), as well as playing the mother of an autistic son in the made-for-television movie, "Family Pictures" (ABC, 1993).
Despite her romantic split from Nicholson, Huston starred opposite him in Sean Penn's "The Crossing Guard" (1995), a somber drama in which the two played a married couple torn apart when their daughter is killed by a drunk driver (David Morse). She brought some of the same conflicting passion from "Prizzi's Honor" to her role as a Cuban wife separated from her husband (Alfred Molina) for 20 years in "The Perez Family" (1995). Transporting back to the West as envisioned by novelist Larry McMurtry, Huston earned her second Emmy Award nomination for her starring turns as the cantankerous Calamity Jane in the two-part miniseries "Buffalo Girls" (CBS, 1995). Following in the family tradition, Huston stepped behind the camera to direct the film adaptation of "Bastard Out of Carolina" (TNT, 1996), originally shot as a made-for-television movie. Although the picture revealed her almost maternalistic talent for coaxing performances from children, network head Ted Turner refused to air it, deeming its harsh subject matter - rape and child abuse - inappropriate for television. When he did allow Huston to shop the film around for another distributor, several other basic cable channels passed, echoing his concerns. After its debut at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival elicited a mixture of shock and admiration, Showtime, which had developed the project prior to TNT's involvement, reacquired the project, hyping the drama as " the movie no other network would show you." She ultimately earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Special.
Huston was back in front of the camera, playing Vincent Gallo's Buffalo Bills-obsessed mother in the actor-director's "Buffalo 66" (1998). She followed up as the evil stepmother in Andy Tennant's take on the Cinderella story, "Ever After" (1998), after which she the love interest of Ray Liotta in the mediocre crime pic "Phoenix" (HBO, 1998). Huston returned to the director's chair for "Agnes Browne" (1999), an old-fashioned melodrama about a young Dublin widow struggling to support her large family in 1967, which again showcased her remarkable facility for working with children. She upped the ante this time, starring as the titular widowed mother of seven - the kind of role an actress of her generation seldom found in feature films. Co-adapted by Brendan O'Carroll from his best-selling Irish novel The Mammy, the picture provided a perfect showcase for an accent born of the actress' Irish upbringing, while the realization of Agnes' simple dream to buy a ticket to an upcoming Tom Jones concert unfolded like a warm-hearted, whimsical fable. Huston's best moments opposite Marion O'Dwyer as her best friend were full of affection and unexpressed emotions, while her feisty, likable performance made up for the over-sentimentality of the story.
Satisfying her taste for literate scripts, Huston appeared in the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala production, "The Golden Bowl" (2000), a period drama about love and infidelity based on the novel by Henry James. After earning praise for her supporting role in the much-admired indie "The Man From Elysian Fields (2001), Huston was memorable as the mother of an eccentric family in director Wes Anderson's acclaimed seriocomic take on dysfunctional families, "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001). Huston next gave a luminous performance as Viviene, the Lady of the Lake, in the two-part fantasy miniseries, "The Mists of Avalon" (TNT, 2001), which earned her an Emmy nod for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. Following lesser roles in the crime drama "Blood Work" (2002) and the hit comedy "Daddy Day Care" (2003), Huston was again seen at the top of her game with another Emmy-nominated turn in the telepic "Iron Jawed Angels" (HBO, 2004), in which she played Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the leaders in the women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century. Huston reunited with Wes Anderson for "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), delivering an alternately brittle and warm turn as the estranged wife of an eccentric oceanographer (Bill Murray).
In 2005, Huston won her first Golden Globe Award in eight tries for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her performance in "Iron Jawed Angels." Turning to series television, she had a short recurring guest starring role as an unorthodox psychiatrist in the cable comedy, "Huff" (Showtime, 2004-06). After supporting turns in "Material Girls" (2006) and "Seraphim Falls" (2007), she had a six-episode stint on "Medium" (NBC/CBS, 2005-2011) as a missing persons investigator, a role that earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2008. Following her third go-round with director Wes Anderson in his uninspired dramedy, "The Darjeeling Limited" (2007), she was the mentally ill mother of a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) who scams money at restaurants by pretending to be a choking victim in "Choke" (2008). Huston lent her imperious voice to the character of Queen Clarion for Disney's animated spin-off "Tinker Bell" (2008) and its direct-to-DVD sequel "Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure" (2009), followed by a turn as the curator of the prestigious Guggenheim museum in the Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel romantic-comedy "When in Rome" (2010). The following year, Huston wowed critics with a bravura performance as the caring but overwhelmed mother of a young man diagnosed with cancer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in the comedy-drama "50/50" (2011), for which she earned a Best Supporting Female nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards. Far less successful was the box-office bomb "The Big Year" (2011), a comedy about competitive bird-watching, starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin.
Name | Role | Comments |
Robert Graham | Husband | Married May 23, 1992 until his death on Dec. 27, 2008; couple resided in Venice, CA; Graham died on on Dec. 27, 2008 |
John Huston | Father | Born in 1906; worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter before directing "The Maltese Falcon" (1941); earned Oscars for directing and scripting "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948); directed daughter Anjelica in her Oscar-winning performance in "Prizzi's Honor" (1985); died from emphysema in 1987 |
Tony Huston | Brother | Born in 1950; mother, Enrica Soma; wrote screenplay for "The Dead" (1987), directed by father and starring sister Anjelica; married to actress Pat Delaney |
Walter Huston | Grandparent | Born in 1884; played leading roles in many important American films of the 1930s and 40s; directed by his son John in his Oscar-winning role in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948); died from an aortic aneurysm in 1950 |
Allegra Huston | Half-Sister | Born in 1963; mother, Enrica Soma; father was a titled Englishman; adopted by John Huston and raised by him after his wife's tragic death |
Danny Huston | Half-Sibling | Born in 1962; mother, Zoe Sallis; formerly married to Virginia Madsen; directed "Mr. North" (1987), John Huston's final film (as executive producer and co-screenwriter), which also starred his sister, Anjelica |
Jack Huston | Nephew | |
Jack Nicholson | Companion | Lived together from 1973 until 1983, when she moved out and bought a place nearby; Relationship ended in 1989 when she learned Nicholson was having a child with another woman |
Robert Richardson | Companion | Met at a fashion shoot when Huston was still in her teens; According to Richardson, they maintained a relationship until the early 1980s |
Enrica Soma | Mother | Born in 1930; married to Huston from 1950 until her death in 1969 at age 39 from an auto accident; they lived apart from 1962 until her death; also had child, Allegra, from a different relationship, who Huston raised as his daughter |
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Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle |
Kylemore Abbey |
Holland Park School |
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"He was 6-foot-3; his voice was big. He was devastatingly attractive - even to his daughter as a child. I remember watching him get dressed sometimes. He would ask me about his ties - rows of ties. I would pick out something, and he would never follow my advice. He had a sort of contempt for vanity, but he knew exactly the kind of impact he had. "He had a cruel streak - made him interesting. He liked his fun. It was certainly sometimes at the expense of others. I think he was sometimes reckless, and at worst thoughtless, but I don't think he was ever a man of bad intent. I think that he regretted things later, after he'd had time to consider. But I think if there were sin there, it was that he was very much preoccupied with what he wanted to do, which didn't necessarily coincide with his having a wife, or having children." - Huston remembering her father, to The New York Times, Feb. 12, 1989 |
"I bought it when I was told beauty came from the inside. When you become older, it's an act of faith to believe beauty is inside. Do I like my looks? Sometimes. I'd say I'm one of those people who's handsome rather than beautiful. I have the same duality my father had. He could look wrinkled or child-like within hours. Feature-wise I'm more like him than [my mother]. I think I'm like a tall Englishwoman." - Huston quoted in The Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 1990 |
"I was surprised that a television network would embark on this. But since the script had been sent to me directly by TNT, I assumed they knew what they were getting into. "As we made the film, I was left blissfully alone, and I received only good reports when I sent back my dailies. By the time I handed in my director's cut, I was feeling quite in the clover." - Huston on her directorial debut, the controversial "Bastard Out of Carolina," to The New York Times, Dec. 15, 1996 |
"I'm more terrified by technology than I should be, but I'm pretty good with people, and certainly still better in front of the camera than behind it. "I've been on sets a long time, so there's not a lot people can tell me about what goes on. I basically do what's honest to me, and rely on my cameraman [Anthony B. Richmond] to keep it on the right side of the line and to watch over me when I get so far into the acting discipline that I can't be objective." - Huston on acting in and directing "Agnes Browne," to Premiere magazine, Women in Hollywood issue, 1999 |
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The Turas: Extreme Adventure, Extreme Landscapes, Extreme Fun!
Ireland's first World Series Adventure Race, The Turas, hits the West of Ireland from 14th - 21st June 2008
This Summer some of the world's toughest athletes will be pushed to their limits and beyond as they take part in The Turas, a gruelling expedition-style race across some of the world's most iconic landscapes – the Kerry and West Cork Peninsulas.
Participants will compete non-stop, day and night, for over 90 hours across 12 disciplines - including trail running, mountain biking, horse riding, navigating megalithic monuments, rafting, rope courses, rowing and kayaking on sea, lake and river. They'll rely entirely on their own strength and stamina, with no outside to assistance allow and access to food ONLY at certain points along the route or where provided by the organizers. If they need to sleep, they'll do so unsheltered along the way - and only when absolutely necessary!
The race will take them along the five peninsulas of Kerry and West Cork - through the mountains and waters of the Mizen, Sheep's Head, Beara and Iveragh Penninsulas. The highlight of the race will be the longest zipline ever in Adventure Racing, spanning a glaciated valley in the McGillycuddy Reeks area. Well, it'll be nice for the competitors to rest their legs for a bit won't it?
But if all this sounds a bit too much like hard work, don't despair! You can still head down to the West and soak up the excitement and the unique Turas atmosphere with festivals all along the race route, including Féile na Tine in Gougane Barra, music and dance in the Black Valley near Killarney, concerts in Schull and more fantastic events in Caherciveen and a Full Moon Party in Sneem.
The race finishes on 21st June - the summer solstice - and there'll be a climatic festival at the finish line in the Gap of Dunloe to celebrate with DJs, live music and craic late into the night.
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The Friendship Housing Center says 18 beds could be lost if the problem isn't fixed
GAYLORD, MI -- A Northern Michigan place for homeless to go, get something to eat, and have a good night's sleep is looking for a little help.
A problem with their septic system could mean a big problem this winter, and if it isn't fixed, it could mean fewer beds.
"Nobody wants to be here, but, everybody is thank there is a "here" to come to," said Tammy Mathews, who says at the Friendship Housing Center in Gaylord.
Mathews lost her job in the shop earlier this year, and it didn't take long for medical bills and the cost of life to eat up the money she had banked away. She had nowhere to go, except for the Friendship Housing Center in Gaylord.
"Without this place, I've seen so many who are not going to survive, or don't stand a chance," said Mathews.
But because of a septic tank problem and not enough money to fix it, Tammy, her roommates, and 18 people in total could be set out on the streets again.
"18 beds would be closed if the drain field has failed, had failed, and the state had told us we have to shut that down, but we are going to do everything we can to prevent that from happening," said Friendship Housing Center Case Manager Molly Stewart.
Right now, the Friendship Housing Center is urging residents to work with them until they get a new septic tank. They've put in guidelines, like for residents to take only one shower a day, turn off the water when they aren't using it, and do their laundry elsewhere. They hope this will minimize the problem they already have and help keep the 18 beds in service.
"We hope to have it fixed by the time the ground freezes, we have to, otherwise, we're going to have the issue of closing beds," said Stewart.
The playground at the shelter is empty in anticipation of the new drainage field that could save the beds, but the work comes with a $20,000 price-tag, and right now, the shelter only has $9,000 to put toward it.
"Bottom line, we're going to get this new septic system in place, whether we do it by loan or we can do it with donations, but a loan will cause added interest, and put a strain on our already very strained tight budget," said Stewart.
"Here, I've watched so many get a new life," said Mathews.
And both say it would be devastating to have to close any bed, especially in a year that the need is clear.
The Friendship Housing Center saw 270 different people use the shelter in 2010, and it that many so far this year, so the use is up.
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Low-key consumption is the 2009 trend. The bar business saw a flurry of pub openings--mostly in the suburbs, where foreclosures must be driving homeowners to drink. The City remained fairly quiet on the opening front. But since shopping, dining and drinking remain quasi sports in Dallas there's no sign that establishments will go empty though bar tabs may shrink and happy hour specials may prove the biggest draws. Now, in no particular order, find the 10 best bars and clubs in Dallas this year. (Photo courtesy of Bandera Bar)
In a time when consumers are pinching their pennies, restaurants that manage to thrive during this recession are true survivors. People don't have to dine out unless there's a very compelling draw to lure them there. These restaurants lived up to their buzz and better yet, sustained it. Now, in no particular order, find the 10 best restaurants in Dallas this year. (Photo courtesy of Charlie Palmer at The Joule)
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A dollar doesn't go as far as it used to but there are a few places where it can quench the thirst or sate your hunger. Whether it's $1 octopus sushi or muchos margaritas, check out these scene-worth spots in Dallas that most certainly won't break the bank.
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We're over cosmos but give us an expertly made classic martini or something with a bit of punch (Bloody Martinis anyone?) and we'll gladly belly up to the bar. From martinis for chocolate lovers to fruity, refreshing sips, we've got the martini scene covered in Dallas. Here's where to head for your next indulgence.
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Make Olympic history tonight he is just -- metal side becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Anything clean -- record tonight -- 200 meter butterfly in the four by 200 freestyle relay.
You'll remember the extraordinary eight gold medals Phelps won four years ago Beijing.
But our -- and Liz -- it was curious if the London games feel different for the Olympian she spoke without agent Peter Carlisle.
-- -- this game is -- the punctuation mark on Michael's -- than previous games.
And all of the -- you you've really got to establish brand.
After games and if you don't then.
Don't have much remarkable.
Michael given all the time in the past.
This is had a very different feel it's more of you know legacy means -- and a platform from.
-- where we go for the rest.
What's life really.
-- -- of moons that mean this is the last Olympics for Phelps that was the entire interview with Peter Carlisle today at 3 PM Easter mass slimming six.
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Am I Right To Feel Bad About McDonald's?
Each time I drive past a McDonald's, which happens quite a lot given the ubiquity of their establishments, the following thoughts flash through my mind (read below). And then I feel guilty that I feel so bad about an American institution that has a global presence and employs, directly and indirectly, millions of servers, builders, drivers, farmers, plumbers, electricians, and the like. Am I right to feel this way? You be the judge.
McDonald's is the leader of an industry we commonly refer to as fast food. In McDonald's case, the fast food is predominantly hamburger beef and chicken. The company has created such a huge demand for its beef and chicken that it has encouraged the industrial slaughter of cattle and chickens on an unprecedented scale. These animals are bred, raised and slaughtered in conditions that many of us consider inhumane and immoral.
The raising of so many cattle and chickens has given rise to very serious environmental problems, including the injection of vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere and pollutants into our water supply. Moreover, so many antibiotics are used in the production of the meat, that new strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria have emerged as a result.
All that livestock in turn requires large amounts of corn to keep it fed, and so our nation's farm policy encourages and subsidizes growing corn at the expense of many other crops, fruits, and vegetables. We are drowning in corn, but don't produce enough fruits and vegetables to satisfy our own "healthy eating" guidelines.
Fast food has been linked to obesity and related disorders like diabetes; it is loaded with fats and sugars, and if consumed regularly, will have a detrimental impact on your health and the health of our nation. The health care costs of treating diabetes have soared in tandem with the growth of fast food.
All this for a hamburger and fries. Am I right to feel bad about McDonalds? What do you think?
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Irish woman who brought down Lance Armstrong explains deep affection for him
'I liked him. He was as tough as nails. Mentally...the toughest person I have ever come across'
The Irish woman who exposed the drug doping scandal around cyclist Lance Armstrong has revealed her deep affection for him and her belief that doctors and team managers were most to blame for the heavy doping.
Emma O'Reilly was a team masseuse and senior aide to Armstrong and his team and her evidence to the US Anti Doping agency was critical in revealing the massive doping that went on.
She told the Sunday Independent she was deeply afraid after her allegations first became known.
"I felt kind of threatened from every angle, you're potentially facing being made bankrupt and your reputation being torn to shreds . . . and yet Lance Armstrong could sit there at a press conference when he announced the Discovery (Channel) sponsorship and malign me saying: 'Well yeah, we had dealings with her, yeah she had to go because of you know . . .' I thought, 'Lance, you scum. you know that I handed in my notice and you know what you did.'"
She stated she had deep affection for Armstrong.
"If anything I was incredibly fond of Lance. There was a funny side to him and he had a good sense of humour and I was working very closely with him and yet I was never helping him with a very important part of his training. So it wasn't coercion.
"I decided to do it. It was more me feeling bad that I wasn't helping him as much as I could. Really and truthfully he kind of let me stay out of the drugs for a long time given the amount of contact we had.
"In hindsight, I can see he really respected my decision to stay out of the (drug) programme.
"I was spending 100 days a year with him, and when I say 'with him' it was very intense. You are in the hotel with him. We do dinners and then you spend 40 minutes to an hour together while I was doing the massage and stuff like that.
"Your job is to look after the riders. It's a very close relationship. So it got to the stage where I was thinking 'well I get you the breakfast cereal you want but the doping programme is more important than the breakfast cereal.'"
The US anti-doping agency says that O'Reilly was present during much of the doping. "Emma O'Reilly was in the room giving Armstrong a massage when Armstrong and team officials fabricated a story to cover the positive test. Armstrong and the team officials agreed to have Dr. del Moral backdate a prescription for cortisone cream for Armstrong which they would claim had been prescribed in advance of the tour to treat a saddle sore.
"O'Reilly understood from Armstrong, however, that the positive had not come from a topical cream but had really come about from a cortisone injection Armstrong received around the time of the Route du Sud a few weeks earlier.
Armstrong told O'Reilly, 'Now, Emma, you know enough to bring me down.'"
The report also details road trips she made to pick up the banned drugs.
O'Reilly repeated her admiration for him. "I liked him. He was as tough as nails. Mentally, he was the toughest person I have ever come across and I loved his attention to detail and I loved the fact that he looked into absolutely everything. In a sense he took complete responsibility for his life and where it went.
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The dining room was intimate and pleasant. The staff is warm, welcoming and attentive. I started with the cauliflower soup, which was excellent. The fish was good, but ordinary. Friends had the Romano salad and Osobuco, which they enjoyed.
The dining room was intimate and pleasant. The staff is warm, welcoming and attentive. I started with the cauliflower soup, which was excellent. The fish was good, but ordinary. Friends had the Romano salad and Osobuco, which they enjoyed.
Went to Malibu for a quick getaway and wanted a nice sit down dinner with the family. The two dishes that stood out were the Veal Marsala, possibly the best I've ever had, and my son had a "melt in your mouth" filet. Service was very good, we will definitely be back.
After going off the rails for awhile by bringing in a chef not right for this cozy Italian restaurant a new chef has restored order and The Sage Room is once again the best place to eat in Malibu. The food and service is consistently excellent and Wilfredo, the manager, is a most gracious and accommadating host, always willing to... More
Just came back from renting a place in Malibu. We tried a number of restaurants; this one was the best we found. We had a lovely dinner there, with excellent food and service. All the dishes, from appetizers/salads/pasta/meat/fish-all lovely. We liked it so much, we ordered take-out, also excellent. Fine service, responsive, not pretentious; not cheap, but worth the $.... More
I had just dropped off a family of seven I'd driven for 8 days. I was craving a nice Italian meal with red wine. Thankfully I got to Sage Room before they closed. The food was exactly what I wanted - I ordered the Ravioli Stili Maria Rosa - and really enjoyed the wine (a simple chianti). I was most... More
Made reservations for my wife's birthday, we arrived 10 min early and were promptly seated...and then completely ignored for 30 minutes....had to go asked if we were could be helped before the waiter showed up. On the good side, the food was well prepared and tasted excellent and the service improved as the evening progressed. Wine prices were restaurant standard,... More
Has good food and nice atmosphere. Not on the beach. Locals go. Not too expensive. Be sure to make a reservation
The Sage Room is a small, truly Italian eatery run by the ever charming Claudio and his family. Sometimes his mother (Mama Rosa) is visiting from Italy and even cooks in the kitchen. A favorite hang amongst the locals in Malibu.
I visited The Sage Rooms on the last day of my vacation in Malibu and it was probably one of the best restaurants I visited. The food actually wasn't anything amazing, but it was only pasta and tomato sauce so what do you expect, but what made it so amazing was the customer service. We arrived quite late (by Malibu... More
We found this gem by accident driving the Pacific Coast Highway between Santa Barbara and Santa Monica. It's well hidden but worth seeking out. Great authentic Italian food in an atmosphere reminiscent of a friend's dining room. It may not be family-run but sure feels like it. The food was excellent and the staff were very courteous and helpful. Get... More
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Why do you need more than 1 Gbps? Your HDD cannot even couple with that transfer speed anyways. And besides, you can count the countries that provide wire at 200Mbps with 1 hand finger only. Btw, 10Gbps adapters are for some time now. To bad they cost 1 kidney to have them..and useless for average user anyway.. The question is, where are the 802.11ac adapters?
1 bit is only 1/8 of a byte, so 1 Gbps is actually only about 125 MB/s. SATA II is 3 Gbps, and SATA III is 6 Gbps. Many newer HDDs and nearly ALL SSDs are capable of exceeding 1 Gbps. (Most SATA II SSDs were capable of at least 200 MB/s) Not to mention, RAM is capable of speeds anywhere from 25 to 50 GB/s, and with DMA, the NIC and the RAM can communicate without even touching the hard drive. This is mostly targeting people who want to transfer files between local pcs, as gigabit internet service is still pretty far off.
Yes, I know that. I was talking about speeds above 1Gbps. And besides, not to many people are using SSD for file storage. What's the point of your comment?
I agree with JTF195 and DTBM - we do need 10Gbit wired. As mentioned pretty much any SSD is able to provide nearly double the speed of gigabit ethernet. I have 2 Gbit ports in my server to help things along, but the server (RAID array) can feed 300MB/sec (~3x what gigabit does) and the SSD in the PC can write at 400MB/sec but a copy operation only manages about 90MB/sec over the gigabit meaning transfers take over twice as long as they would with faster ethernet. I think that was the general point of the posts, we need faster wired connections - and lets face it, most of the time these WiFi boxes are being fed from a wired network/computers so having them (WiFi A/P) faster than the wired port is often pointless.
nemesis.ie, I still don't understand what are you asking for? 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters are already available for a couple of years now, but they are a little expensive. Why don't you buy those for your servers?? You mean are expensive? Well, yeah...
Adapters and switches are cheap... if you're outfitting a large-ist business. 64-port 10Gb switches at $10K, and dual-port adapters for $350. Great deal considering some of the first adapters were $8K upon release The first companies that can put out small-scale 10Gb solutions for data enthusiasts will reap the early adopter money. Say... under $1,000 to outfit four computers with 10Gb and a router or switch to connect them all. Simply, we're waiting for 10Gb to drop to just within reach.
My point was that, while you're always going to have a bottleneck somewhere, it shouldn't have to be your Ethernet/LAN, because we have the technology to make that better.
Don't forget that SATA only recently did 6Gbps to a maximum of one meter. You're asking an Ethernet line to do 10Gbps. To the maximum of 100 meters. For cheap. The higher WiFi bandwidth is probably just to bring latency down. I doubt you'd see the full 1.3Gbps even between two wireless clients. With both wired and wireless, the rated speed isn't so much for cramming maximum speed from computer X to computer Y, it's to provide a higher available bandwidth for all users on a network. The only reason why you should want 10Gbps on a router is if it's providing a link to a switch with a whole heck of a lot of 1Gbps clients. How often are people going to use that on a residential all-in-one router like this?
10Gb has around for 10 years now. It's time to start trickling down The reason to want 10Gb is that we've been hitting that ~100-115MB/s wall for years now. Can't* increase with link aggregation and Infiniband is a solution for only a few. That leaves moving to 10Gb Ethernet. It's not like we think 10Gb will become the new 1Gb overnight. It certainly didn't happen overnight when 1Gb became the new 100Mb. All it takes is a couple vendors to start offering entry-level adapters and switches/routers to take off. Like I said earlier, prices are at $156/port. It's not too much of a stretch to believe that some of the lower-tier network vendors could offer entry-level equipment at $100/port.
True, but so have things like Blu-ray and it's still not a standard in manufactured PCs (or even Apple, who likes to adopt emerging technologies earlier than other manufacturers). On the subject of Apple, they're pushing their Thunderbolt port which does 10Gbps, but that's a maximum of 3 meters. 97 meters short. It seems that most technologies rely on early adopters to take the financial brunt of the initial cost to develop and manufacture early versions of said technology. Essentially, the easiest way to make 10Gbps cheap is for everyone to go out and buy the expensive versions available now. I've experimented with IP over FireWire (bridged with the rest of the network on one of the machines) back in the 100Mbps days. It was fun for a few tests, but impractical unless the machines lived next to each other. Thunderbolt would probably be similar, assuming you can push IP over it.
That's the problem though, I would be tempted to buy in... if I could find any switches under 24 ports. I've seen 8 and 10 porters before in the early days of 10Gb, but not really any more. As for Thunderbolt, possible. Products like the one below exist: Adapter to adapter is also possible, as well as multi-port adapter to cards. But it's all pretty niche (expensive, proprietary) at the moment. Maybe if motherboards shipping with TB increase, someone might work up a TB to TB solution. Optical TB will certainly help with increasing the distance.
The point is these faster ports need to be built into these routers so we can take advantage of the faster WiFi speed. And yes, it's high time the price of 10Gbe came down. I do like the idea of the PCIe external switch. My server is PCI-X though. Maybe if they put link aggregation on the routers it would help things along for now - a lot of the smaller NAS boxes are now sporting 2 x 1Gbit ports. How about link aggregation on all 4 ports.


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Cleft lip and cleft palate
By Mayo Clinic staffOriginal Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cleft-palate/DS00738
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Cleft lip and cleft palate are openings or splits in the upper lip, the roof of the mouth (palate) or both. Cleft lip and cleft palate result when developing facial structures in an unborn baby don't close completely.
Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects. Cleft lip and cleft palate most commonly occur as isolated birth defects but are also associated with many inherited genetic conditions or syndromes.
Having a baby born with a cleft can be upsetting, but cleft lip and cleft palate can be corrected. In most babies, a series of surgeries can restore normal function and achieve a more normal appearance with minimal scarring.
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Usually, a cleft — or split — in the lip or palate is immediately identifiable at birth. Cleft lip and cleft palate may appear as:
- A split in the lip and roof of the mouth (palate) that can affect one or both sides of the face
- A split in the lip that can appear as only a small notch in the lip or can extend from the lip through the upper gum and palate into the bottom of the nose
- A split in the roof of the mouth (palate) that doesn't affect the appearance of the face
Less commonly, a cleft occurs only in the muscles of the soft palate (submucous cleft palate), which are at the back of the mouth and covered by the mouth's lining. This type of cleft often goes unnoticed at birth and may not be diagnosed until later when signs develop. Signs and symptoms of submucous cleft palate may include:
- Difficulty swallowing
- Nasal speaking voice
- Recurring ear infections
When to see a doctor
A cleft lip and cleft palate are usually apparent at birth, and your doctor may start coordinating care at that time. If your baby has signs and symptoms of a submucous cleft palate, such as difficulty with feedings, make an appointment with your child's doctor.
Cleft lip and cleft palate occur when tissues in the baby's face and mouth don't form properly. Normally, the tissues that make up the lip and palate fuse together in the second and third months of pregnancy. But in babies with cleft lip and cleft palate, the fusion never takes place or occurs only partially, leaving an opening (cleft).
Researchers believe that most cases of cleft lip and cleft palate are caused by an interaction of genetic and environmental factors. In many babies, a definite cause isn't discovered.
- Genes inherited from the parents. Either the mother or the father can pass on genes that cause clefting, either as an isolated defect or as part of a syndrome that includes clefting as one of its signs. In some cases, babies inherit a gene that makes them more likely to develop a cleft, and then an environmental trigger actually causes the cleft to occur.
- Exposure to certain substances during pregnancy. Cleft lip and cleft palate may be more likely to occur in pregnant women who smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and take certain medications.
Risk factors
Several factors may increase the likelihood of a baby developing a cleft lip and cleft palate, including:
- Family history. Parents with a family history of cleft lip or cleft palate face a higher risk of having a baby with a cleft.
- Race. Cleft lip and palate are most common in American Indian and Asian children. Black children are least likely to have a cleft.
- Sex. Males are twice as likely to have a cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Cleft palate without cleft lip is more common in females.
- Exposure to certain substances during pregnancy. Babies born to women who smoked or drank alcohol during pregnancy are more likely to develop cleft lip and cleft palate.
- Being obese during pregnancy. There is some evidence that babies born to obese women may have increased risk of cleft lip and palate.
Children with cleft lip with or without cleft palate face a variety of challenges, depending on the type and severity of the cleft.
- Difficulty feeding your baby. One of the most immediate concerns after birth is feeding. While most babies with cleft lip can breast-feed, a cleft palate can make sucking difficult or cause gagging or breast milk to come out through the nose. Your health care team will discuss feeding strategies with you, such as using a special bottle nipple.
- Ear infections and hearing loss. Babies with cleft palate are especially susceptible to middle ear infections. Over time, repeated ear infections increase the risk of hearing loss. Your doctor may refer you to an audiologist or an ear, nose and throat doctor who may suggest regular visits to evaluate your child's hearing. Most children with clefts have tubes surgically inserted in their ears to drain fluids and help prevent infections.
- Dental problems. If the cleft extends through the upper gum, tooth development will likely be affected. Ask your doctor whether your child should see a pediatric dentist who can monitor tooth development and oral health from an early age.
- Speech difficulties. Because the palate is used in forming sounds, the development of normal speech can be affected by a cleft palate. Your doctor may refer you to a speech pathologist who can evaluate your child and provide speech therapy.
- Challenges of coping with a medical condition. Children with clefts may face social, emotional and behavioral problems due to differences in appearance and the stress of intensive medical care. A psychologist and a social worker can help you and your child find ways to cope with the stresses your family encounters.
Preparing for your appointment
If your child was diagnosed with cleft lip and cleft palate, you'll be referred to specialists who can help create a treatment plan for your child. Care for children with cleft lip and cleft palate often involves a team of doctors and experts, including:
- Pediatricians
- Plastic surgeons
- Oral surgeons
- Pediatric dentists
- Orthodontists
- Ear, nose and throat doctors (otolaryngologists)
- Auditory or hearing specialists
- Speech therapists
- Genetic counselors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Nurses
Because appointments can be brief, and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready and what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
- Be aware of any pre-appointment restrictions. At the time you make the appointment, be sure to ask if there's anything you need to do in advance, such as restrict your baby's diet.
- Write down any signs or symptoms your baby is experiencing, including any that may seem unrelated to the reason for which you scheduled the appointment.
- Consider taking a family member or friend along. Sometimes it can be difficult to remember all the information provided during an appointment. Someone who accompanies you may remember something that you missed or forgot.
- Write down questions to ask your doctor.
Your time with your baby's doctor is limited, so preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important in case time runs out. For cleft lip and cleft palate, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
- Does my baby have a cleft lip, cleft palate or both?
- What caused my baby's cleft lip or cleft palate?
- What tests does my baby need?
- What is the best course of action?
- What are the alternatives to the primary approach that you're suggesting?
- Are there any restrictions that my baby needs to follow?
- Should my baby see a specialist? What will that cost, and will my insurance cover it?
- Are there brochures or other printed material that I can take with me? What websites do you recommend?
- What will determine whether I should plan for a follow-up visit?
- If I choose to have more children, is there a chance they may also have cleft lip or cleft palate?
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask other questions that occur to you.
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may allow time to cover other points you want to address. Your doctor may ask:
- Does your family have a history of cleft lip and cleft palate?
- Does your baby have problems while feeding, such as gagging or regurgitating milk through his or her nose?
- Does your baby experience any symptoms that worry you?
- What, if anything, seems to improve your baby's symptoms?
- What, if anything, appears to worsen your baby's symptoms?
Tests and diagnosis
Most cases of cleft lip and cleft palate are immediately apparent at birth and don't require special tests for diagnosis.
Ultrasound to diagnose cleft lip and cleft palate before birth
Increasingly, cleft lip and cleft palate are being diagnosed by ultrasound before the baby is born. An ultrasound is a test that uses sound waves to create pictures of the developing fetus. When analyzing the pictures, a doctor may detect an abnormality in the facial structures.
Cleft lip may be detected with ultrasound beginning around the 18th week of pregnancy. As the fetus continues developing, it may be easier to accurately diagnose a cleft lip. Cleft palate that occurs on its own is more difficult to diagnose using ultrasound, since it can be difficult to see inside the fetus' mouth.
If fetal ultrasound shows a cleft, your doctor may offer a procedure to take a sample of amniotic fluid from your uterus (amniocentesis). Analyzing the fluid may reveal abnormalities that indicate the fetus has inherited a genetic syndrome that can cause other birth defects. However, most often cleft lip and cleft palate occur on their own.
Treatments and drugs
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The goals of treatment for cleft lip and cleft palate are to ensure the child's ability to eat, speak, hear and breathe and to achieve a normal facial appearance. Treatment involves surgery to repair the defect and therapies to improve any related conditions.
Surgery to correct cleft lip and palate is based on your child's particular situation. Following the initial cleft repair, your doctor may recommend follow-up surgeries to improve speech or improve the appearance of the lip and nose. Surgeries typically are performed in this order:
- Cleft lip repair — between 1 and 4 months of age
- Cleft palate repair — between 5 and 15 months of age
- Follow-up surgeries — between age 2 and late teen years
Cleft lip and palate surgery takes place in a hospital. Your child will receive an anesthetic, so he or she won't feel pain or be awake during surgery. Many different surgical techniques and procedures are used to repair cleft lip and palate, reconstruct the affected areas, and prevent or treat related complications. In general, procedures may include:
- Cleft lip repair. To close the separation in the lip, the surgeon makes incisions on both sides of the cleft and creates flaps of tissue. The flaps are then stitched together. The repair should create a more normal lip appearance, structure and function.
- Cleft palate repair. Various procedures may be used to close the separation and rebuild the hard and soft palate (roof of the mouth), depending on your child's particular situation. The surgeon makes incisions on both sides of the cleft and repositions the tissue and muscles. The repair is then stitched closed.
- Ear tube surgery. For children with cleft palate, ear tubes also may be placed during the first surgery to reduce the risk of frequent ear infections, which can lead to hearing loss. Ear tube surgery involves placing tiny cylinders in the eardrum to prevent fluid buildup.
- Surgery to improve cosmetic appearance. Additional surgeries may be needed to improve the appearance of the mouth, lip and nose.
Surgery can result in significant improvement in your child's appearance, quality of life, and ability to eat, breathe and talk. Possible risks of surgery include bleeding, infection, poor healing, puckering of scars, and temporary or permanent damage to nerves, blood vessels or other structures.
Treatment for complications of cleft lip and cleft palate
Your doctor may recommend additional treatment for complications caused by cleft lip and cleft palate. Additional treatments may include:
- Hearing aids or other assistive devices for a child with hearing loss
- Speech therapy to correct difficulty with speaking
- Therapy with a psychologist to help a child cope with the stress of repeated medical procedures
Coping and support
No one expects to have a baby with a birth defect. When the excitement of new life is met with the stress of discovering that your baby has a cleft lip or cleft palate, the experience can be emotionally demanding for the entire family.
For the parents and family
When welcoming a baby with cleft lip and cleft palate into your family, keep these coping tips in mind:
- Don't blame yourself. Focus your energy on supporting and helping your child.
- Acknowledge your emotions. It's completely normal to feel sad, overwhelmed and upset.
- Find support. Your hospital social worker can help you find community and financial resources and education.
For the child
You can support your child in many ways:
- Focus on your child as a person, not on his or her cleft.
- Point out positive attributes in others that don't involve physical appearance.
- Help your child gain confidence by allowing him or her to make decisions.
- Encourage confident body language, such as smiling and holding his or her head up and shoulders back.
- Keep the lines of communication open. If teasing or self-esteem issues arise at school, be sure your child feels safe talking with you about it.
After a baby is born with a cleft, parents are understandably concerned about the possibility of having another child with the same condition. While many cases of cleft lip and cleft palate can't be prevented, consider these steps to increase your understanding or lower your risk:
- Consider genetic counseling. If you have a family history of cleft lip and cleft palate, tell your doctor before you become pregnant. Your doctor may refer you to a genetic counselor who can help determine your risk of having children with cleft lip and cleft palate.
- Take prenatal vitamins. Taking a multivitamin before conceiving and during pregnancy may help reduce the risk of birth defects, such as cleft lip and cleft palate. If you're planning to get pregnant soon, begin taking a prenatal multivitamin now.
- Don't use tobacco or alcohol. Use of alcohol or tobacco during pregnancy increases the risk of having a baby with a cleft defect.
- Flint PW, et al. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Mosby Elsevier; 2010. http://www.mdconsult.com/books/about.do?about=true&eid=4-u1.0-B978-0-323-05283-2..X0001-8--TOP&isbn=978-0-323-05283-2&uniqId=230100505-57. Accessed May 24, 2012.
- Kliegman RM, et al. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2011. http://www.mdconsult.com/das/book/body/208746819-6/0/1608/0.html. Accessed May 24, 2012.
- Submucous clefts. Cleft Palate Foundation. http://www.cleftline.org/what-we-do/publications/fact-sheets/submucous-clefts/. Accessed May 25, 2012.
- Dixon MJ, et al. Cleft lip and palate: Understanding genetic and environmental influences. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2011;12:167.
- Wilkins-Haug L. Etiology, prenatal diagnosis, obstetrical management and recurrence of orofacial clefts. http://www.uptodate.com/index. Accessed May 29, 2012.


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Rock Revival
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Established in 2005 and based in Los Angeles, Rock Revival is the epitome of Rock and Roll. Rock Revival has impeccable fits, innovative washes, and holds a superior quality.
- Wash - B6
- 34" Inseam
- 10" Rise
- 100% cotton
- 18" in the knee breaks to 19" at the leg opening
- Whiskering along front pockets
- Fading along front and back of pant
- Back slit pockets with faux button closure
- Decorative stitching and distressed areas throughout
- Styled with Common Projects Summer Edition Perforated in Black.
- Modeled in size 32. See fit guide for model's dimensions.
- Revolve Style No. RREV-MJ60
- Manufacturer Style No. RJ8786-B6


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