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[T]he party's main problem … is who delivers [the Republican] message and how, not the message itself. "We don't need a new pair of shoes; we just need to shine our shoes," said … committeewoman Melody Potter.
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But Republican advocates of marijuana moderation don't have an easy task. Just because GOP voters might accept the state-rights frame provided by a poll question doesn't mean that the frame would prevail in a debate. The exit polls in Colorado and Washington, as well as recent Quinnipiac polls, suggest that about 65-70 percent of conservatives, white evangelical Christians, and Republicans are opposed to marijuana legalization. If the Obama administration allowed Colorado and Washington to violate federal law, moderation might become even more difficult as conservative media launch a crusade against a lawless administration.I didn't think it was quite this bad, though I'm not surprised. Of course, opinions can change, sometimes very rapidly. The Democratic Party went from being strongly for gun control to being indifferent to it on an institutional level, for all the good it did them. But it looks as though engineering this sort of shift would take a enormous amount of effort on the part of party actors, to such an extent that a canny operator would probably be inclined to try something else. This is less "quick fix" than "long-term project," which makes the likelihood of Democrats getting scooped on the issue much smaller. I feel like, with resepct to Washington and Colorado, what matters most is that the initiatives passed, more so than what the Administration does in reaction to them. The idea that legalization is imminent is more real than it was a few months ago.
Since this is a beat that I usually follow, I'm posting a little something about the Blue Dogs. As we know, the 2010 elections severely depleted the numbers of conservative Democrats in Congress, and this cycle did so again. It's looking like about fifteen Blue Dogs are going to be in Congress next year, maybe a few more if some of the incoming freshmen decide to join up, but probably not much more. The end is definitely drawing near. Still, it's worth spending a moment reflecting on why this group used to be powerful. Aside from their numbers, the clout the Blue Dogs had came from a claim–not inherently implausible–that their group was the one group that was able to really hold onto bipartisan support. There was some basis for this–after all, the 2009-2010 session included quite a few Democrats from very Republican districts. Gene Taylor and Chet Edwards both represented R+20 districts. Arkansas had three of four Democrats in its House delegation, Tennessee five of nine. Democrats held House seats in solid-red states like Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Dakotas. This added up to a lot of Democrats accountable to Republican electorates, and many of these Democrats were of long seniority, seeming as if they weren't mere flashes in the pan.
This was somewhat remarkable, but it turns out that it had little to do with political philosophy, and everything to do with inertia and incumbency. Pretty much all these guys got wiped out in 2010, and what remains are essentially conventional Democrats whose iconoclasm is held in check by the fact they represent districts that could send liberal Democrats to Congress. Mike Thompson identifies as a Blue Dog, but the district he currently represents could easily send a Nancy Pelosi-style liberal to Congress (he literally represents Humboldt County! i.e. Marijuana central), so Thompson has to avoid moving too far to the right lest he draw a tough challenger. This is true of virtually every current Blue Dog. The likelihood that Jim Cooper of Tennessee or Mike Michaud of Maine be replaced by someone to the right of them is astronomical, Cooper represents pretty much the last progressive seat in the state and Maine is a blue state. Sure, there are a few of the old-school Blue Dogs left, like Jim Matheson and John Barrow, but the former was most likely saved by having a last name that is golden with voters of his state (and both are exceptionally good campaigners). Rather than being a body whose electoral incentives pulled them to the right of the Democratic consensus–and who could throw down a "take it or leave it" challenge if they didn't like how, say, health care reform was looking–the current Blue Dog configuration is a bunch of people whose electoral incentives are not to get too far to the right lest they lose primaries in more Democratic districts. It's difficult to imagine, for example, David Scott of Georgia telling President Obama to shove his health care plan and then going back to his African-American district and that going really super-well for him. And for someone like Thompson or Jim Costa, going too far off the reservation means the fun wouldn't end with a primary–because of the "top two" system that makes the top two vote-getters in the primary the general election candidates regardless of party, the fun wouldn't end in June. Since Barrow is presumed likely to run either for Senate or Governor of Georgia in 2014, we're looking less at an independent, center-rightish Democratic faction and more at a "Jim Matheson and a bunch of intramurally-vulnerable Democrats" faction. In any event, the influence of this group is pretty much done.
The differences between the two major political parties in America are so massive that it can be hard to fathom sometimes, but every once in a while something happens that shows an illuminating difference between them. Consider two U.S. Representatives who served in office nearly a decade apart, Cynthia McKinney and Allen West. Both are African-American, both are from the South. The former was a Democrat, the latter is a Republican. Both tended in their terms in office toward conspiratorial thinking, bellicosity, and utter legislative uselessness. Can anyone name a bill with either of their names in it? Admittedly, West has spent only one term in office, but he is quite a visible freshman, influential among Republicans, and could probably have some influence on legislation if he wanted to. Both were/are corrosive agents in the House, scorning debate and exacerbating tensions for no real reason. Both think the rules are for little people (West's election challenges and McKinney's thinking that she could rush past a metal detector without her lapel pin are both signs of this), and honestly West's conspiracy theories and McKinney's are so dully similar there's almost no need to comment on them, only the characters differ, not the plots. Both are in short, gadflies. And how did the two parties react to these characters:
- McKinney was primaried out of her seat twice and by the end had almost no admirers left, aside from the late Alexander Cockburn. She wound up becoming a Green, running for president, and now who knows.
- Allen West was not primaried. In fact, Republican donors saw fit to give him somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million worth of help in winning his primary and general election races. This is after West ditched his old district for one that was more Republican.
That kind of tells the tale, I think. Lots of wealthy Republicans thought that having Allen West around was deeply important to their movement. Indeed, West was one of the biggest fundraisers this cycle, personally raising four times what his opponent did. And yet he lost, like a true Goliath in a Republican district. If he moved to a more Republican district, he'd probably lose there, too. For the life of me I can't figure it out, this support for the guy. West could have exactly the same impact on the discourse as a talk radio host, which is probably the inevitable next step for him. And yet Republicans paid dearly to have him lose a seat they shouldn't have lost. I get that Tea Partiers think that having vocal, energized people like West and Michele Bachmann and Steve King really helps them, but I guess I don't see how that's supposed to work out. They don't have the seat, the Congressman, or $20 million. Maybe it's time to rethink that governing strategy a little, guys.
As a commentator, from time to time I like to make predictions about things. But unlike most commentators, I always like to share with you how I did after the fact. It's a twisted kind of fun for me, and it (hopefully) keeps the whole enterprise honest. Just wait for Dick Morris to write an article about why he is wrong about everything in the entire world…
So, here's how I did (prediction post is here):
- My electoral map was exactly correct, though it wound up resembling Nate Silver's exactly by election day. I should note that when I put it up, Silver had Florida as slightly red, so I was at least slightly out on a limb.
- I sure was off on the House number–I said the over/under was 15, where the Dems look to net about half that. Still, I made a number of specific calls too, for seats thought to be Republican-leaning: "Mack, West, Barrow, Tierney, Guinta, Hayworth, Canseco and DesJarlais [will] all go the Dems' way." And guess what. Aside from Scott "pro-life with an exception for personal embarrassment" DesJarlais, who merely proves that there is nothing Republicans won't stomach to hold onto power, I got each and every one of these right. I was debating with myself whether or not to put Utah Democrat Tim Matheson on the list–I thought he was going to win despite awful polls just because he's such a survivor, but I chickened out. Damn, that would have been an impressive prediction!
- My guess for the Senate was essentially right: I said 55 seats for the Dems, and I was right. Shelley Berkeley lost, but due to some 80,000 Obama voters going for someone else. Lousy candidate, lousy campaign, and Berkeley was just no prize ideologically either (she is one of those Democrats who wants to shred the estate tax, incidentally). And she nearly won. This ought to convince Sen. Heller that he's living on borrowed time, and that moving to the center is absolutely necessary if he wants to avoid catastrophe in six years. I don't expect that Ryan-loving jerk to do so, though. Seriously, though, the Heitkamp win is incredible. Turns out those Pharos polls that everyone dismissed were exactly right–since they tracked everywhere else I was inclined to trust them, but since all the smart numbers people pooh-poohed them, I figured they must know something. She was closing the race near the end. Impressively done.
- State level: "I'll predict Democrat wins in the Oregon and Colorado Houses (both are presently split), the Michigan House, the Maine and Minnesota House and Senate, and the New York Senate just barely." Got Michigan wrong–the Dems made big gains there but fell four seats short overall. The rest were on the money. Didn't see New Hampshire coming, though I probably should have. And Democrats are a stones' throw away from winning the Arizona and Pennsylvania Senates, just two seats down in either one, which is cool. "Democrats will narrowly hold onto the Wisconsin Senate and the Iowa Senate, thus respectively constraining Scott Walker and preventing an antigay Constitutional amendment." Respectively, they narrowly didn't and did. "I do believe Democrats will finally get to 2/3 here in California…" Yup. The only other miss was the Nevada Senate, which Democrats narrowly held onto. What does it mean to you? Well, aside from a bunch of states no longer dominated by wingnuts, I would fully expect Colorado and Minnesota to join the marriage equality club in short order.
- Oh, and I also said this: "The four marriage equality initiatives will go in the direction of equality…" They did, which is something that not all that many people predicted.
And thus we close the book on this election cycle.
Here's what he said:
Incest is so rare, I mean it's so rare. But the rape thing, you know, I know a woman who was raped and kept the child, gave it up for adoption and doesn't regret it. In fact, she's a big pro-life proponent. But, on the rape thing it's like, how does putting more violence onto a woman's body and taking the life of an innocent child that's a consequence of this crime, how does that make it better?
This is pretty wrong, but I'd argue, quite a bit less offensive than Richard Mourdock, and vastly less so than Todd Akin. The last part, funny enough, is easily the most defensible. I don't agree with it, but it's a fairly logical conclusion for a pro-lifer to draw. If you believe that a fertilized egg instantly becomes a person, then it follows that children conceived by rape are people and shouldn't be aborted. Most pro-lifers do not advocate this stance because it is politically unpopular, but it's the only reasonable conclusion that follows from the premise. After all, if you manage to get abortion banned for everything but rape and incest, quashing those last vestiges ought to be easy enough.
The rest of it though…like, wow. Incest is rare? I think Koster is making the mistake of separating out child abuse from this definition, though it very much counts, and is highly prevalent. The real problem with "rape and incest" exceptions is that the connotations are tricky: people know basically what rape is, but incest typically carries a more voluntary connotation, specifically since it's included in this particular cliche as something separate from rape, even though the voluntary variety is, indeed, quite rare, and outside of the Phillips family, more known for fictional portrayals in A Game Of Thrones and other series. Assuming he actually means the voluntary kind of incest (to the extent that can even exist, given how complicated consent can get with an older, stronger, male family member), it's unclear why a child created by this process ought to be an exception for pro-lifers at all. One suspects that these exceptions are generally made because of how heinous the specific offenses are considered, rather than through any sort of logic. Of course, my basic belief is that the entire mainstream pro-life position is arbitrary and a made-up, phony position. I have no idea when life begins and neither does anyone else, but as with many issues, it comes down to one group's desire to remove any ambiguity and to wax self-righteous and maximalistic versus another group's acceptance of difficulty, nuance, and different viewpoints in coming to a decision. There's more to it than that, but not all that much.
What one gets from this answer, and from much of the rhetoric and action on the part of pro-life men these past two years, is how much they don't want to engage with these questions. Koster's friend who had the baby is a red herring, as she'd still be able to do so under a pro-choice regime. Because of, you know, choice. It's just a daydream of a world where women just bear whatever children they're supposed to without any complaint. But does anyone read this quote and come away with a sense that the guy has engaged deeply with these deep, weighty questions?
Hors D'oeuvresMany people know that the Panama Canal was a contentious political issue about forty years ago. I was under the impression that conservatives were overwhelmingly opposed to the treaties that ceded the canal to Panama, but having recently read Garry Wills's book about Reagan, I was surprised to learn that this was an issue that split > more ... (0 comments)I didn't actually read what I'll call the "Give us Jeb!" article in the Times, but I immediately and accurately guessed who the writer of it was sight unseen. Hint hint: It's the guy who wrote six hundred fucking pages about Bush and Cheney last year. Keep this in mind. (0 comments)Apparently a new batch of episodes of the show have become available to Amazon customers. I'll just say that I do like this show quite a bit. It avoids the main things that bug me about political TV shows/movies: you know, the introduction of unrealistic pulp elements (imagine a show about realtors that featured the > more ... (0 comments)This is a proper appreciation of an important figure. Also, it is a great excuse to remind y'all to watch The Falcon And The Snowman, as the toppling of Whitlam's Labor government is a major plot point in that fact-based film about a top CIA analyst who leaked information to foreign powers. He was, in a lot > more ... (0 comments)I've been very skeptical of the near-certainty that many people have over a GOP Senate takeover, in large part because I've never believed that the GOP will win Iowa or Colorado. For Colorado we have to rely on pollsters' longtime inability to accurately poll Hispanics and the Democrats' turnout machine, but in Iowa there are > more ... (0 comments)
Literally Saying Anything To Get ElectedIt's worth noting that at this point, Scott Walker has committed multiple heresies against acceptable conservative doctrine in his attempt to win another term, previously on taxes and now on abortion. I'm strongly disinclined to believe that this will hurt him next month, as the Republican Party and its donors are strongly invested in securing > more ... (0 comments)This will be interesting. I mean, the basic problem with rape law enforcement is still that it's one person's word against another, but this law does mean that there's no more gray area with respect to unconsciousness. That's good. The bigger problem is that it is difficult to enforce overall, and the real challenge in > more ... (1 comments)I haven't been traveling, nor have I not been thinking about current events, politics and all the rest. I haven't really been able to think of anything new to say at this time about the big issues. I still think the entire Iraq/ISIS venture is ill-conceived at best, that it will turn out badly, and > more ... (1 comments)
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Microsoft To Pay Billions For One Video GameTalk about an underpants gnome theory of driving mobile device sales: "It seems like Microsoft is looking at Mojang and Minecraft as a way to tap into this enormous cultural phenomenon," said Dave Bisceglia, Chief Executive of independent game studio Tap Lab. "If you look at iOS, Minecraft has been a top-grossing game for quite > more ... (0 comments)It's interesting that the GOP's 2028 presidential candidate sounds…reasonable on climate change. Sort of like many of them sounded in 2008, actually. Ted Cruz seems to think that the party is going to party like it's 2011 permanently. I guess we'll see which one moves farther. (0 comments)
The Ongoing Humiliation Of Scott BrownBuckraking, carpetbagging and then forgetting what state he's running in repeatedly, and now throwing down with the idiots on climate change: Brown continues to be the fraud that some of us pegged him as from moment one, and while the sweetest humiliation would be for him to lose in the GOP primary–which is certainly a possibility given > more ... (0 comments)
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Test Scores and Totalitarianism
Rarely does news coverage break down so cleanly along easy political lines as it did when the dailies responded to the release of the New York state fourth-grade reading tests' miserable results last week. "Private Schools Fare Little Better on New 4th-Grade Test," The New YorkTimes announced. "Private Problem: Their school test results are less than stellar, too," insisted Newsday. "Private School Failures: 56% of nonpublic pupils don't meet standards," blared the Daily News.
And the New York Post? "Private schools a class above in reading tests," the Murdoch paper confidently proclaimed.
Oh, really? But the truth is that none of these papers' coverage of the scores' release redounds to its credit. In the case of the three putatively "liberal" papers, it's evidence of what's by now a quasi-religious commitment to the insipidities of official government education. "And while the scores at private and religious schools were higher over all," wrote the Times' Anemona Hartocollis, "dozens of individual religious schools lagged badly behind nearby public schools, including many in New York City districts where the public schools have been derided for educational failure"—as if the fact that parochial schools in a given district are ineffective somehow excuses that district's wretched public schools.
Newsday, meanwhile, razzed Mayor Giuliani, first reporting on the private schools' "less-than-stellar performance," then mentioning gratuitously that Giuliani, "who sends his two children to private schools, has argued that parochial schools, in particular, provide a better education…"
Then there was the Post, in which Angela C. Allen and Susan Edelman led off by claiming: "City parochial and private school students posted a double-digit lead over their public school counterparts, scores of the fourth-grade reading exams show."
Well, they technically did, but that doesn't mean much after you read the next sentence, which points out that only "43.7 percent of parochial and private school students passed the state's tough new English Language Arts exam." Oh yes, that's really something for conservatives to brag about. But of course the value of parochial schools—as Newsday made clear in its gratuitous way—is a dubious article of faith among many conservatives, Giuliani famously among them. (Now there's an argument for religious education: It created a meek, tolerant Christian like Rudy G.) As any kid who's attended a parochial school can tell you without the help of test scores and sociological data, the schools are usually nightmares: underfunded holding pens for problem kids to a similar extent that public schools are. A parochial school isn't typically a seminary—it's where you're sent when you screw up in public school. Does there exist a Catholic out there who wasn't at some point during his childhood threatened with the prospect of getting sent to St. Teresa's School, or wherever, there to get beaten into shape by nuns and waste good learning time kneeling in the hall reciting the Act of Contrition?
The attentive reader, furthermore, is bound to wonder by what incredible prodigy of fate it is that New York's prestigious private schools managed to score only slightly better than the public dumps. Here's the answer: Except for Trinity, some of the best private schools in the city—Dalton, Chapin, Spence, Collegiate and others—didn't even participate in the test. The Post's always-reliable "Page 6″ pointed that out on Friday, but it's a piece of crucial information that the dailies downplayed in their coverage of the day before. After all, why disseminate information that might impugn the noble experiment of public
Spectacular George. No one ever mistook George for a great magazine, but you can say this for it: For a couple of years it was at least appropriate for its cultural moment. Its post-partisanship; its conflation of politics with celebrity culture; its avoidance of ideology and ideas in the interests of promulgating the dangerous myth that politics is just good, glossy, harmless, consensual fun, even as George editor-in-chief John F. Kennedy Jr.'s reactionary buddy in the White House slashed the welfare roles and rained murder down on the citizens of Baghdad and Sudan; these characteristics made it arguably the quintessential publication of the Clinton era.
After looking at George's July issue, though, it's possible to intensify the above criticisms and say this: George wasn't only a glossy index of the Clinton political nightmare. It's also a good place to watch the American media-political complex happily flirt with the same totalitarian tendency to estheticize politics—to deny reasoned political thought and substitute for it mind-glazing, sentimental spectacle—that they were more inclined to complain about back when it was square old Ronald Reagan doing it rather than one of their yuppie/boomer own.
Thus the July George, which features starlet Salma Hayek on its cover, sexed-up in a red cowboy hat and a red-white-and-blue halter top. Inside the magazine, Hayek poses as a temptress Statue of Liberty; in another photograph, she wears tight red Capri pants, and straddles a giant red Fourth of July rocket. Obviously the text that accompanies the photographs—a straightforward celebrity puff piece about Hayek that discusses her Hollywood success in the context of Hispanic-American
achievement—is inoffensive, stripped of all contention and ideology, bloodlessly summarizing both sides of even the most controversial issues. "Lately, Proposition 187—passed by 59 percent of Californians in 1994 under former governor Pete Wilson—has been yet another cultural dividing wedge," the piece blandly reads. "Prop 187 denies illegal immigrants the right to public school education and eliminates non-emergency health and welfare services… Although Prop 187 was declared unconstitutional last year in federal court, Democratic governor Gray Davis was indecisive on the ruling, and it is now in mediation in a court of appeals."
But politics, to be healthy, shouldn't be uncontroversial. Quite the opposite: A healthy polity is one in which citizens spend significant amounts of time yelling at each other. Don't tell that to the folks at George, though, who feel free to confuse politics with the process of jacking off to Salma Hayek. And why not? Not everybody agrees about welfare, immigration or the defense budget. But everybody masturbates. What's to argue about?
True, it's quite a distance from Salma Hayek vamping in George to the synchronized stormtrooper shovel brigades in The Triumph of the Will. It's such a distance, in fact, that to mention the two in the same sentence seems ridiculous. But the distance from Salma Hayek in George to, say, thousands of Democrats getting off on the coercive spectacle of "The Man From Hope" at the 1992 Democratic convention is a short one. And the difference between "The Man From Hope" and The Triumph of the Will is one of degree, not of kind.
Let's turn now to a feature in the current George entitled "The Best Little Mayor in America," which epitomizes some of George's worst tendencies. The piece, by Lisa DePaulo, is about Nibs Loughney, the mayor of Dunmore, PA, an economically depressed small town near Scranton. But the glory of it, DePaulo makes clear, is that Nibs is a quintessential regular small-town kind of guy: a jeans-and-white-sneakers fellow who's hitched to his high school sweetheart, who thrills the locals when he moonlights behind the local bar in an Elvis costume and who—when he's not performing his mayoral chores—pulls down a middle-class salary working for the state lottery. All of this allows DePaulo (an endnote tells us she's actually a Dunmore native, and attended high school with Nibs) to write about Loughney with great condescension:
"[Loughney] instinctively understands that the pride of Dunmoreans can never be underestimated. His predecessor, Mayor Domnick, started the Dunmore Festival, which is more commonly known as the Sausage and Peppers Festival because that's all anyone serves. But Nibs went one better. Under the Loughney regime, Dunmore now has a tradition called the Buck Drop. A cop named Anthony Cali who also owns Tiffany's, the diner at the Dunmore Corners, came to Nibs with 'a brilliant idea,' says the mayor. 'He felt we didn't have anything on New Year's, you know? Like New York does.' Cali's idea was to get one of those bucks that light up—'like the kind you put on your lawn at Christmas'—and drop it 50 feet from a crane in the middle of the Dunmore Corners at midnight on New Year's Eve. 'Like New York, only it's a deer…'
"The Buck Drop has become almost as popular as the Annual Mayor Loughney Golf Tournament, at which 70 or 80 of Nibs' closest constituents gather on a golf course where kegs of beer are planted at every third hole. One of Dunmore's garbagemen is in charge of driving a golf cart, to which a 50-gallon drum full of more beer in cans is strapped, to be tossed to the participants.
"Basic municipal services."
Those are not basic municipal services in any town a member of the New York media community would care to live in. A police force and ambulance service are basic municipal services. A garbageman wheeling around in a golf cart with a 50-gallon barrel of beer strapped to it is a "basic municipal service" only among the most irredeemably picturesque of the lower middle class.
But onward. "In Dunmore," DePaulo writes later in the article, "there are two local heroes who rival the mayor in stature. One is Miss Buck. She's the young woman elected every year by the Dunmore senior class to represent them on the football field, wearing a football helmet with real dear antlers glued to the top and covered in silver sequins… The other Dunmore dignitary is Louis 'Uncle Louie' DeNaples, owner of the town's two biggest businesses (and employers), the landfill and the 'Auto Recycling Center.' This is where wrecked cars from all over the East Coast are brought to be stripped for parts…"
God love those middle Americans, going crazy for their baton twirlers and their good-guy mayor and the fat guy who runs the landfill.
But what, you're entitled to ask, exactly makes Nibs the "best little mayor" in America? And here's where George stops merely being condescending and becomes politically unsettling.
First, Loughney's the "best" of mayors because he's esthetically perfect for the role. He drinks beer. He's been known to drop a moon out of a car window. He's hung out, in his time, with guys called Homer, Bliff, Koogles, Monk and Dirt. He says "ya" instead of "you." He's a mere 17 years older than his first child. He's got thick arms and a big, square, meaty head. He's ideal: the ideal lummox chief executive for a lummox town far, far away from John-John's Tribeca. George is enamored of Loughney not because he transcends the role of a small-town meathead, but because, unthreateningly, he doesn't. Loughney's a fluffy domesticated animal for the delectation of George's post-partisan media-political mandarins.
Just as importantly, George implies, Loughney seems to be entitled to the job because he wants and enjoys it. See if the following passage doesn't remind you of someone you know: "Nibs had wanted to be mayor of Dunmore since he was a freckle-faced kid with orange hair, lobbing baseballs through the strained-glass windows of St. Mary's Church and mooning the neighbors…
"'I just loved the way,' Nibs says, 'that when the mayor of Dunmore walked into a room, people respected him.'"
This isn't to imply that Nibs Loughney is, on his level, as reactionary and destructive a politician as is Bill Clinton—or even as is Hillary Clinton, whose run for a New York Senate seat is purely an expression of selfish will. Loughney might very well be a great guy and good enough mayor. The point, rather, is that George is inclined to redefine politics in a reactionary, and by now if we're lucky outdated, Clintonite way: as an exercise in ego-fascist boomer gratification and self-fulfillment.
How long can George carry on in an era in which Clintonism's in retreat? In which the selfishness and dishonesty and reaction of Clintonism will, in the near future at least, be confined to Sen. Clinton's New York, and in which even Clinton's own vice president is distancing himself from the White House and ashamedly returning to his former decency? A piece in the June 27 New York Post online edition reported that Kennedy's looking "for more support to boost the magazine to around 600,000 circulation during next year's Presidential election year, which he expects to be watershed for the magazine's advertising."
Which means, realistically, that George might be around for a while. That's fine. It will continue to help pay bills for Ann Coulter and a handful of others, but people will pay it even less attention than they have. In any meaningful sense it will have washed away in the same deluge that will sweep away the rest of Clintonism's mendacities and cruelties and ideological apparatuses.
Rich(ard Goldstein). I've always considered Frank Rich's opinions a good barometer of what the New York cognoscenti are thinking at any given moment. But given his preoccupation with violence against gays and with gay rights in general, I wonder: Do most middle-aged smart-set New Yorkers really consider gay rights as central to the nation's political life as Rich seems to consider them? In a "Journal" piece on Saturday's New York Times op-ed page, Rich discusses what he calls the "homophilic explosion of '99" that's manifested itself in such developments as the gay James Hormel's appointment to the Luxembourg ambassadorship, the gay content in the new South Park movie and the mainstream GOP's new eschewal of gay-baiting. Oh yeah—and Spike Lee's Summer of Sam censures gay-bashing vigilantes.
I'm glad such expressions of tolerance, if that's what they are, are occurring. But are those developments truly evidence that we're experiencing some fundamental shift in the way most Americans view homosexuality? Rich is in danger of becoming
the new Richard Goldstein, an hysteric who finds implications for gays in every hiccup of political and popular culture. Is it possible that none of what Rich is talking about really means much at all, and that the lives of gay Americans in the aftermath of, say, the South Park film will go on much as they've gone on before?
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Twin Cities Incident. Listen to the following thumbsucking about an upcoming area Bob Dylan/Paul Simon show, from the Stern Publishing-owned Minneapolis City Pages: "The two most dominant and durable singer-songwriters of the boomer generation have little in common but an extraordinary way with words. Simon's popcraft is as well honed as any Brill Building lifer's, with a range that encompasses everything from the gooey 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' to the whimsical 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,' not to mention his inspired appropriations of gospel, reggae, and South African township jive song forms. Dylan is a son of the talkin' blues who evolved into an instinctual spouter of poetic word associations, went on to flip for Jesus, and finally came back full circle to venerable blues covers and blunt appraisals of his own mortality. Few would have pegged either of these guys for professional vocalists when they got started, but they're making new music that's far more compelling than the Stones, McCartney, Lou Reed, and Neil Young put together."
First of all, that homeless guy in the 14th St. F-train tunnel with his unplugged electric guitar makes more compelling music these days than the Stones, McCartney, Reed and Young put together. Second, Dylan and Simon—who were both born in 1941—are too old to be baby boomers. (And hey, did you know that Dylan used to be known for "poetic word associations"? Or that Simon appropriated "township jive"?)
Now compare that piece with occasional NYPress contributor Phillip Guichard's more intelligent Dylan/Simon preview in Seattle's The Stranger, one of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' best papers:
"A Bob Dylan concert is a zombie show that requires self-deception from both the audience and the artist. While the audience pretends the wrinkled man with the scratchy nasal voice up on stage is the Bob Dylan they love, Dylan himself pretends that he's still the guy who wrote all those songs all those years ago. A certain amount of mood-altering refreshment aids both parties."
That's the first paragraph. Here's the last: "As for Paul Simon, that whole 'too smart for the hippies but too disenfranchised for the mainstream' alienated intellectual act looks really naive in retrospect. Still, he wrote some good melodies…and it's said he puts on a good live show. He and Dylan are rumored to be performing a duet… How exciting."
Down in the Hole. We received an e-mail solicitation last week for a syndicated feature that's so bad that it's bound to become extremely popular with alternative papers, most of whom never met a syndicated feature—Tom Tomorrow, "Red Meat," Matt Groening, Rob Brezsny—they didn't take to like a hound to a bone.
"Hi, my name's Bill Childs," the e-mail read, "and I'm a Senior Writer and Head Marketing Scumbot for a website we call HoleCity…
"Ours is a site where cultural guano gets flushed. From tv to sports, from movies to news, we take on the biggest cultural stampedes of the week, put our spin on them, and leave our followers laughing. Think of HoleCity as an unholy alliance between Dennis Miller, Entertainment Weekly and 'The Incredible Mr. Limpet.' We're too cool."
Right. I checked out some of HoleCity's incisive pop-cultural criticism. A bit about the Super Bowl opined that "the big commercial winner was, unsurprisingly, Budweiser, whose lizard-assassinating-frogs bit was genuinely hysterical."
I like Budweiser's lizards too, but what's this "hysterical" stuff? Elsewhere the HoleCity boys offer a mastery of irony as to make Swift himself blush: "The Super Bowl usually blows; America tunes in for the high-rent, big-budget commercials. Ever since 1984, when Apple ate IBM's shorts with that hammer-throwin' production number, we've all been on the lookout for the big winners: the innovators, the satirists, the heart-tuggers.
"Or, contrarily, we watch the Pepsi commercials."
Ho ho. But back to Childs' letter, which continues: "Anyway, I'm writing because in the past few weeks, we've successfully procured spots in a few local or regional entertainment weeklies like yours, and we think some of our features might be a good fit for your paper. Basically, I'm whoring syndication: for [a] little dough, we think we could add something to your paper."
Get a load of that tone of fratboy stand-up-comic knowingness. Then Childs moves in for the kill: "The Hartford Advocate, Atlanta's Creative Loafing, and the Chico News & Review are three papers who presently pick up our TVHole feature (which, on a weekly basis, sticks it to the tubefolks you love to hate). From SportsHole to NewsHole, from MovieHole to FiveHole (our Top Five list would make Letterman blush…), we've got something we think you'll like."
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How To Prepare for a Southern Jewish Experience: Rachel's Top 5 Picks
I'm prepping for the trip: 20 young Jews from across the country are going to meet in New Orleans
on October 19th and travel together through Mississippi and up to Memphis for a week of learning and adventure. During that time, I'll be posting updates of our progress on Twitter and Facebook pages.
But until the TENT participants get here, I'm working hard, getting ready for their arrival – lining up speakers, prepping material, and of course, planning out where we'll eat.
Dr. Eric Goldstein, American Jewish History professor at Emory University, will be our lead scholar, teaching two hour seminars on Southern Jewish history each day. He's working to compile a list of academic readings for each session (I'm happy to share that list with anyone interested!) but to orient the group, many of whom have never traveled South, I'm also gathering some of my own favorite materials—films, books, websites—that explore Southern history and culture.
Curious? I thought you may be. Below are five from the list.
5. Delta Jews and Shalom Y'all
Two documentaries that we will be showing on the bus, Delta Jews and Shalom Y'all. Mike DeWitt's "Delta Jews" focuses on small, rural communities in Mississippi Delta towns. Brian Bain's "Shalom Y'all" covers the diversity of Jewish experience throughout the American South.
4. The Bitter Southerner
The Bitter Southerner is a beautiful website publishing original, insightful stories about the South once a week. This one about Southerners taking photos in front of azaleas is my favorite. And fair warning, this one about the Southern Foodways Alliance will make you hungry.
3. Eyes on the Prize (Part 5)
I had never seen Eyes on the Prize until I moved to Mississippi and started to study the events of the Civil Rights Movement. In Eyes on the Prize Part 5: Mississippi: Is this is America? 1962-1964, what blows me away is the amount of video footage that was captured during monumental events in the struggle for civil rights. I recommend going through the 14 hour documentary, but this hour in particular covers the events of the Freedom Summer in Mississippi 1964.
2. The Provincials
The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli Evans, is the book that I read before beginning my own Southern Jewish experience with an internship at the ISJL seven (7!) years ago. I now recommend it to my own summer interns for a great, personal look at growing up Jewish in the South.
1. The Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities
Well, this one is obvious… but that doesn't make it any less amazing! The ISJL's own
Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities is the best resource for learning about the Southern Jewish experience. Our new historian, Dr. Janet Bordelon, has been hard at work updating our Mississippi entries and sharing some 21st century stories about Southern Jews.
These were my top five, but you should also check out Matzoh Ball Gumbo, ReThink Missisippi, the Southern Foodways Alliance, Garden and Gun Magazine. Clearly this is not an exhaustive lists of all the good stuff coming out of the South these days. If you have a favorite, please share! I've still got a few weeks to add to the list!
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How To Have Your Own Southern Jewish Experience
It's been a busy few months here in Jackson. We've welcomed Jewish visitors from all over the country, arranging experiences for them to discover this place I call home. This fall, I'm looking forward to a new type of tour experience that, through a partnership with The Yiddish Book Center, will bring the Southern Jewish Experience to a new group of explorers.
The TENT program is an incredible idea: a series of week-long seminars that immerse 21-30 year old Jews in full-impact experiences of culture, cuisine and community. The best thing about TENT? In addition to being fun and often profound, these programs are free to the participants.
The ISJL will host Tent: The South from October 19-26, 2014. This dynamic program will be a week-on-wheels, traveling from New Orleans to Memphis, and spending several days in Mississippi along the way. Tent: The South will explore the Jewish experience in one of this nation's most distinctive, complicated, and fascinating regions, discovering the best that the South has to offer. Music, art, food, and visits to Jewish communities large and small will make this a week participants will never forget. (You may even start saying "Shalom, y'all.")
It's special for me to be involved with a project like this because as a Northern transplant to this region, I take my responsibility as a Southern advocate and promoter very seriously. (Just check out my particularly joyful expression in at :40 of this video. If that doesn't make you want to come join me us on bus for week, I'm not sure what will.) Tent: The South is such a great opportunity to gather people here with adventurous spirits, who are curious to experience the South.
I've put together itineraries for many groups, but this trip is especially fun because it's built to engage my own demographic! We will get to stop (and eat!) in some of my favorite places. Po Boys in New Orleans before visiting historic congregations. Fried chicken in Natchez before touring Antebellum mansions. Sweet tea while stopping between Civil Rights sites in Jackson. Local beers on the porch of the Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale. We'll also be experiencing Southern arts culture. Listening to the blues while traveling between small towns like Indianola, Clarksdale, and Greenwood in the Mississippi Delta and touring the homes of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.
For those interested in social justice work, the South is a place with a great legacy of Jewish activism. I've had the fortune of inviting the best scholars and experts to lead sessions– our presenters will be from amazing organizations like the William Winter Institute of Racial Reconciliation at Ole Miss in Oxford, the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University in Cleveland, and the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis. There will be learning. There will be eating.
And dancing. There will certainly be dancing.
Sold? Great! Participants must apply to Tent: The South by August 1st, 2014. Only twenty applicants will be selected for each session. Again, Tent is offered free to accepted applicants– that means program costs, lodging, most meals, tickets, and more! Participants are responsible only for the cost of transportation, from wherever they live to New Orleans and back home again from Memphis. Space is limited, so apply now!
If you are interested and have any questions, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 601-362-2357.
(Not eligible yourself, but know someone who is? Forward this post, share the website, spread the word!)
See you in The South!
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Téa Leoni
|Téa Leoni
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|Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni
February 25, 1966
New York City, New York, United States
|Years active
|Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr. (m. 1991; div. 1995)
David Duchovny (m. 1997; div. 2014)
|Madelaine West Duchovny
Kyd Miller Duchovny
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni (/ˈteɪ.ə pɑːntəleɪˈoʊniː/; born February 25, 1966),[1] better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is an American actress. She has starred in a wide range of films including Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Deep Impact, Fun with Dick and Jane, Flirting with Disaster, Spanglish, Bad Boys, Ghost Town and Tower Heist. Her show Madam Secretary was picked up by CBS for the 2014–2015 season.[2]
Early life[edit]
Leoni was born in New York City.[1] Her mother, Emily Patterson,[3] was a dietician and nutritionist, and her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate lawyer with the firm Fulbright & Jaworski.[1][4] Leoni's paternal grandfather was of Italian and English descent; he was a nephew of Italian economist and politician Maffeo Pantaleoni.[5][6][7] Leoni's paternal grandmother, Polish-American Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, a film and stage actress. was the daughter of musicians Józef Adamowski and Antonina Szumowska-Adamowska.[5][8] Leoni's mother is a native of Texas, and was the niece of actor Hank Patterson.[9]
Leoni attended two private schools, Brearley School and The Putney School. She attended but did not complete studies at Sarah Lawrence College.[citation needed]
In 1988, Leoni was cast as one of the stars of Angels 88, an updated version of the 1970s show Charlie's Angels. In May 1988, Life magazine ran a story on the casting of this new series.[citation needed] After production delays, the show never aired. The following year, Leoni starred as "Lisa DiNapoli" in the TV daytime drama Santa Barbara.
Leoni went on to appear in the women's baseball film A League of Their Own in 1992. Later in the year, she starred with Corey Parker in the single-season Fox sitcom Flying Blind, playing an eccentric, downtown-Manhattan libertine who falls in love with an ordinary Long Island college graduate. In February 1995, she appeared in the sitcom Frasier as the fiancée of Sam Malone (Ted Danson) in a crossover from Cheers, from which Frasier had spun off.
Leoni also landed the lead role in the sitcom The Naked Truth, playing Nora Wilde, a tabloid news journalist. The show ran through 1998. In the 2000 episode of the The X-Files "Hollywood A.D." (season 7, episode 19), Leoni played an actress portraying Dana Scully in a movie under her own name.
Leoni's film work includes a lead role in Deep Impact, a big-budget disaster film about a comet menacing Earth; and Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Bad Boys, and You Kill Me. She starred as a film studio executive in Hollywood Ending for director Woody Allen, portraying his ex-wife, and in Spanglish as the emotionally unstable wife of Adam Sandler.
She's currently the star of new CBS show Madam Secretary for the 2014–2015 season.[2]
Leoni ranked #79 on the FHM "100 Sexiest Women of 2000" list.[10]
Personal life[edit]
Leoni married her first husband, Neil Joseph Tardio, Jr., a television commercial producer, on June 8, 1991, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Hope, New Jersey.[11]
Leoni married her second husband, actor David Duchovny, on May 13, 1997, after an eight-week courtship.[12][13] They have a daughter, Madelaine West, born in 1999,[14] and son, Kyd Miller, born in 2002.[15] On October 15, 2008, Leoni and Duchovny confirmed that they had been separated "for several months". The media attributed the separation to Duchovny's much publicized sexual addiction. The couple publicly reconciled and were seen frequently together as a family.[16] On June 29, 2011, CNN reported that Leoni and Duchovny had once again split.[17] In 2012, Duchovny declared he was still married but separated.[18] Their divorce was finalized in summer 2014.[19]
Leoni stated in the October 27, 2006 issue of Life magazine that she became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF partially because Helenka Pantaleoni, her paternal grandmother, was the president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for 25 years.[20]
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|Counterfeit Contessa, TheThe Counterfeit Contessa[21]
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|Julie Mott
|Flirting with Disaster
|Tina Kalb
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|Unsold TV pilot
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- ^ a b c "Tea Leoniprofile at". FilmReference.com.
- ^ a b "CBS Picks Up "Madam Secretary," With Bebe Neuwirth and Patina Miller, Plus "McCarthys" Comedy, With Laurie Metcalf". Playbill.com. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ^ https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/person/tea-leoni/biography.html
- ^ "Anthony Pantaleoni profile at". Fulbright.com. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ^ a b LoSchiavo, LindAnn (June 2005). "Take Téa". L'idea Magazine. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ^ Matheou, Demetrios (July 17, 2001). "It's Téa time for T-Rex". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
- ^ Mitchell, Sean (April 28, 2002). "A Habit of Lying Taught Téa Leoni the Truth of Acting". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ^ Helenka A. Pantaleoni (obituary), The New York Times, January 7, 1987
- ^ GertieBeth. "The Articles – Elle Magazine". Leoni Online. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
- ^ "FreeJose.com". FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2000. Archived from the original on September 14, 2008.
- ^ "Miss Pantaleoni, Actress, Marries", The New York Times, June 9, 1991
- ^ Gliatto, Tom (May 19, 1997). "Altared State: David Duchovny and Téa Leoni Tie the Knot". People 47 (19). Retrieved August 10, 2014.
- ^ "David Duchovny and Tea Leoni -- Separated". TMZ.com. June 29, 2011.
- ^ "Duchovnys: Baby Makes 3". People magazine. March 16, 1999. ISSN 0093-7673. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ^ Silverman, Stephen M. (June 18, 2002). "Leoni, Duchovny: And Baby Makes Four". People magazine. ISSN 0093-7673. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ^ ""David Duchovny & Tea Leoni Reconcile"". Dailymail.co.uk. June 22, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ^ "Tea Leoni and David Duchovny split" June 29, 2011, CNN
- ^ David Duchovny talks about Californication and Marilyn Manson. Inquirer.net. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
- ^ Leon, Anya (August 9, 2014). "David Duchovny and Téa Leoni Are Divorcing". People. Retrieved August 10, 2014. News of Duchovny's divorce with Leoni was heard on August 9, 2014, the date that has been presumed to be their divorce finalization. According to the article, TMZ claimed that their divorce was filed on June 2014. Either date has been neither rebutted nor verified by other sources.
- ^ Sophie Schillaci (June 29, 2011). "Tea Leoni: 5 Things About the Newly Single Actress". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
- ^ Hiltbrand, David (April 4, 1994). "Picks and Pans Review: The Counterfeit Contessa". People magazine 41 (12). ISSN 0093-7673. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
- ^ "There's No Fish Food in Heaven (1998)". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
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Dance and academics mix in unique BFA program
By Lisa Okuhn
On an April morning, in an airy San Francisco studio, 14 dancers—students in the Alonzo King's LINES Ballet BFA program at Dominican University of California—surged forward in rows of streamlined sauté arabesques and quickening emboîtés. Their feet flew as teacher and former LINES Ballet member Gregory Dawson urged the pianist to accelerate the tempo of the already spirited petit allegro.
Designed by program director Marina Hotchkiss, the BFA program enrolled its first students in fall 2006 and will soon graduate its third class of seniors. Formerly an instructor in the LINES Ballet Summer Program, Hotchkiss says she and her colleagues began to hear from students, many of them on the verge of making important decisions about their lives and careers. She discovered that many of these dancers were looking for the seemingly impossible trifecta of rigorous professional-level ballet training, a college education, and the unique experience of working with acclaimed choreographer and teacher Alonzo King.
While both The Juilliard School and the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in New York City offer a similarly broad curriculum of dance and liberal arts, the LINES BFA at Dominican program is the only one of its kind on the West Coast. A comprehensive course of study, it enables dancers to get a top-notch academic education as well as high-caliber professional training.
After a short break following Dawson's ballet class, the same group of dancers, all juniors, gathered in another studio for the first day of Sidra Bell's performance workshop. Over the course of two weeks, the New York–based modern-dance choreographer was setting a new work on the group. On their backs, rolling from side to side, legs swinging loosely along the floor, the dancers moved with total commitment to Bell's weighted movement style. Except for a few ballet buns and slippers left over from ballet class, this room full of dancers might have been mistaken for a release-based modern class in a mirror-less Tribeca studio.
The King connection
A wide array of experience is a large part of what the LINES BFA dance curriculum is designed to give its students. Impeccably trained in ballet technique, the students are also offered the far-reaching range of skills and knowledge now needed to make a professional life in dance. The program offers an exceptionally well-rounded dance education, one that includes exposure to teachers and artists, like Bell, who hail from all realms of the dance world. The curriculum also emphasizes extensive exposure to practices like composition and improvisation that are more often associated with modern dance. The program's guiding principles align closely with King's choreographic focus. Its design and aims, says Hotchkiss, are "to reinvigorate classical ballet; to make ballet speak in a modern world."
But what makes this BFA program truly distinctive is the students' connection to King. The opportunity for young dancers to work directly—and for four consecutive years—with a renowned artist at the prime of his creative career is one that few if any training programs can offer. King teaches four to eight classes a semester, and all seniors participate in weeklong intensives with him, workshops similar to the one he developed for professional dancers. A good deal of the workshops' focus, according to Hotchkiss, is on "eliminating fear and opening creative channels; helping the dancers to see what's getting in the way. It's both very playful and extremely intense."
King's overarching principles form the basis of the LINES BFA dance curriculum. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop a sense of responsibility and contribution to the creative process and "undertake a deep exploration of the self, in order for them to create a strong sense of themselves as artists, thinkers, people," Hotchkiss says. "It's really training a mind, and an attitude."
The competition
With 16 to 18 applicants accepted in each BFA class, this is a select group of students. For the 2011–12 freshman class, the program auditioned close to 130 dancers from all over the country and even fielded applications from Singapore and Australia. This year's junior class includes two Dizzy Feet Scholarship awardees, Rachel Furst and Jeffrey Van Sciver. Van Sciver is also the recipient of a Princess Grace Award and the Princess Grace Foundation's Chris Hellman Scholarship.
In addition to submitting an academic application to Dominican, LINES requires a dance resume, an audition, and a letter of intent "describing how dance has led to a deeper understanding of yourself and the world."
Although it seeks dancers with a solid ballet foundation, the program also values curiosity, risk-taking, and creativity. The students, according to Hotchkiss, are diverse in multiple ways—body type, ethnicity, and background—but all share an open-mindedness and devotion to intellectual and creative growth.
The demands
The 49 current BFA students spend about 22 hours a week studying ballet, pointe, partnering, modern, dance history, anatomy and kinesiology, music for dancers, composition, improvisation, performance workshop, and Gyrotonic®/Gyrokinesis®. Although a few classes, workshops, and rehearsals are held at Marin Ballet in San Rafael (where Dominican is located), most are held at LINES Ballet's downtown San Francisco studios in an environment surrounded by working professionals, a benefit few college dance students enjoy. Former company members teach many of the classes and—their touring schedule permitting—current company dancers teach ballet and repertory classes, choreograph pieces on the students, and work with seniors on creating their Senior Project solos.
The LINES BFA program is unique in its mandatory and complete Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis curriculum, which was designed by Debra Rose in conjunction with Gyrotonic creator and founder Juliu Horvath. Rose, founder and owner of SF Gyrotonic, directs the program. Each student takes one to two Gyrotonic or Gyrokinesis classes per week, and everyone works with Rose at least a few times every semester. Explaining the role of Gyrotonic in the BFA program, Rose points out the physical and philosophical dualities that both King and Horvath ask students to address: gravity and elongation; striving for a sense of control alongside freedom; being in the moment while having a goal; will and surrender; strength and vulnerability.
"Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion, and humanity." —Alonzo King, "Art Thought," Mission at Tenth
Rose, who is often on hand to observe the students in training and is responsible for observing finals, reading homework assignments, and grading, says the curriculum is demanding. But at the end of four years, with only minimal additional study and successful completion of the three-day exam, graduates can become certified Gyrotonic trainers. Of the first graduating class, fully half are teaching Gyrotonic, some full-time and others to supplement their dance incomes.
When they're done for the day, students take buses to the Dominican campus, where their academic courses are held (typically from 3 to 7pm) and where most underclassmen reside in on-campus housing. The general education curriculum includes courses in math, expository writing, ethics, and a cultural heritage colloquium—a liberal arts menu that complements the breadth and depth of the dancers' professional training.
The results
By all accounts, the LINES BFA students excel. The dancers perform beautifully in their academic work, says Craig Singleton, chair of the Department of Music, Dance and Performing Arts. "Dance students, by their dedication and study habits, have enhanced the academic environment at Dominican. These students have been committed to dance for years. Their work habits have already been formed when they arrive on campus," he says. "Their mentor, Marina Hotchkiss, and their inspiration, Alonzo King, represent the best of arts education."
Religious Studies professor Dr. Gay Lynch is equally enthusiastic about her LINES BFA students: "Within three weeks [of beginning to teach them]," she says, "I was well aware that their program—their dancing—was enhancing their scholarship. Their responses in the classroom did more than impress; their responses reached into our hearts and motivated us and energized us."
Her students, in turn, were so inspired by Lynch's Rhetoric of Belief class that they approached her one day with an "energetic message": that she teach a course in Dance and Spiritual Expression in the fall. Surprised and delighted, she quickly got to work devising the course in collaboration with former Harvard colleague Kimerer LaMothe. Although the class has become enormously popular with students from myriad departments, Lynch has allotted the first spots to senior LINES BFA students.
Preparing for professional life
By senior year, the program's participants are well prepared to embark on a professional dance performance career, says Hotchkiss, and many graduates do go on to join contemporary ballet companies here and in Europe. To prepare for this, juniors and seniors take a class called Creating a Life in Dance, taught by former LINES dancer Nora Heiber. The course covers such necessary skills as resume writing and how to contact companies. "The heart of it, though, is self-reflection," Hotchkiss says, and the course offers students "ways to reflect on what kinds of obstacles they might encounter, including psychological obstacles, to putting themselves forward, or to being able to answer the important question, 'What do I want?' "
The program is designed to train professional dancers, but students have pursued a variety of careers. One is attending law school, simultaneously studying for an MFA and a law degree. Ilaria Guerra, a leggy, six-foot-tall junior from Los Angeles, is pursuing a minor in arts management. She has worked for two years in the LINES Ballet administrative office and for three seasons as the company's assistant stage manager. While fully intending to embark on a performing career, she says these experiences have "opened up a lot of new doors," not only to dance professionally but to work in arts administration and management "when the time comes."
The academic and the dance curriculums work holistically to cultivate a whole artist and person. Aside from technical skills, the dance training is intended to give dancers the openness, confidence, and self-knowledge needed to shape a deep commitment to the dancing life. The academic program enhances the students as dancers and prepares them for a life after dance.
The two sides of the program work perfectly together, says Dizzy Feet Scholarship recipient Rachel Furst. "The academic program goes along with Alonzo's philosophy. It's deep, and meaningful. Even in math class we hear, 'You are math.' It sounds far-fetched, but it's really cohesive.
"This program has shown me a lot more about myself than I ever knew," she adds. "I would not recognize myself. I'm a completely different person, a different dancer. I'm feeling so confident about where I'm going to go."