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First conceived 18 years ago, it took 15 people four years to write and cost a rumoured $100 million to make. On 27 July, The Simpsons Movie finally opens simultaneously in the UK and America, following a premiere in Springfield, Vermont (population 9,300), which won a competition of 13 other Springfields to host the event.
This is the most significant change in the lives of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and the other animated citizens of Springfield since they first made the jump from scratchy, one-minute animations filling in between sketches on the Tracey Ullman Show, to a regular halfhour slot on the Fox network in 1989.
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Al Jean was one of the first writers that the Simpsons' original creator, Matt Groening, hired to develop his dysfunctional cartoon family, and he is both executive producer and chief writer of the new movie. He is also phenomenally tight-lipped.
Nobody outside the Simpsons' inner sanctum has seen more than the opening 10 minutes of the film. Here we see the rock band Green Day pelted with stones and then drowned after hectoring their audience about pollution during a free concert. Homer and Bart dare each other to wilder and more stupid acts which culminate in a flash of Bart's penis as he skateboards naked to Krusty Burger.
Grandpa Abe Simpson, meanwhile, suffers a disturbing visionary paroxysm in church, while Lisa meets the ideal Irish boy of her dreams. The internet is raging with rumours that, beyond this point, the film surges into a story about global warming (with Homer setting off a nuclear accident in Monty Burns's power plant) and religious fundamentalism.
"Both of those are a little wide of the mark," says Jean, 45. "But there is an environmental and a religious theme. There are also storylines in which Bart realises Homer may not be the ideal father, and in which Lisa meets her perfect man, except that complications naturally ensue. I will say that the main theme of the movie is that Homer should listen more to his wife." Which is pretty much the theme of every Simpson's episode, let's face it. But some further details can be revealed.
Groening let slip recently that Homer falls in love with a pig, and Jean tells me that the film sees Arnold Schwarzenegger become president ("We didn't want to make Bush the president, because in two years that'd mean the film was out of date") and that there is a cameo from a "very special, very popular guest star". Who? "I'm not gonna say." Is it Madonna? "Well I will say it's not Madonna, but I won't say any more." Since the Simpsons TV show has already bagged Michael Jackson, Tony Blair and Stephen Hawking, the mind boggles.
There will also be some two-dimensional cameos in the film as well. Jean tells me that, when a mob prepares to lynch Homer, the camera pans across the face of almost every small character or bit player to have appeared in the TV series. That's more than 320. It's an animated tracking shot to rival the recordbreaking live-action ones of Welles and Altman.
Which is one of the fun things about making a film rather than a TV series. "We knew we could do fuller stories, go deeper into characters, and we were adamant that it had to be entertaining for someone who had never, or only rarely seen the show," says Jean. "But also, y'know, I think we just all really liked the idea of making a movie."
Not that it was easy. Groening says that a joke has to amuse the creators around 350 times before it makes it into the TV show, and that for the film it was three times that. "It's TEN times that," insists Jean. "We started in November 2003, talked about the story for six months, then wrote a first draft, and that has been rewritten at least 100 times, right up to about a week ago."
The rewrites took account of test readings and screenings, and also time: to keep the film to a trim 87 minutes some celebrity cameos (probably those of Minnie Driver and Erin Brockovich) have hit the cutting room floor. But each rewrite also had to conform to the essential lore of The Simpsons: "That Homer does inconsiderate things but he would never consciously hurt Marge, while Marge thinks Homer is the handsomest man who ever lived." And the final script had to appeal to adults and children in equal measure.
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Although rooted in slapstick, The Simpsons has always been extremely sophisticated: I can't think of another show enjoyed by children that also has openly gay characters (Monty Burns' assistant, Smithers), deals with death (Ned Flanders's wife, Maude), or satirises religion almost as often as it pokes fun at its parent company, Fox.
"We have always assumed that kids will watch it because of the form, but after that we just wrote it for ourselves," says Jean. "We've never said, this is too smart for a kid to get, don't put it in. I'm sure that's one of the keys to the show's success."
The Simpsons is now America's longest-running sitcom, and the world's longest-running and most widely syndicated animated show. Not so long ago Homer Simpson was voted by Channel 4 viewers as the greatest television character ever. I'm relieved to reveal that if the 10 minutes I saw are anything to go by, it may also be the first TV show to spawn a movie that equals the small-screen original. And it's not finished yet. Jean confirms the 19th season will begin recording in September, and hopes to make at least one more Simpsons film, if the core voice cast (Dan Castellanata, Harry Shearer, Nancy Cartwright, et al, who get a reported six-figure sum per episode) can be kept on board. Groening has talked about 20-plus years of TV, and a cinematic trilogy.
Groening famously modelled Bart on himself and named Homer and Marge after his own mother and father, then issued an apology to all parents when he had his own two sons, saying he hadn't realised how hard it was. Jean also has two children, aged 16 and two; has fatherhood changed his view of his second, yellow TV family?
"When we started out, we did a lot of Bart-based stories," he concedes. "Then we started doing more Homer stories, which people thought was deliberate, but which was probably down to the fact that we found them easier to think up and relate to. These days ..." - and he makes an all-enveloping gesture that takes in 18 years of producing cutting-edge, hilarious television, and four years and 100 rewrites trying to translate it onto film - "I sympathise more with Grandpa."
The Simpsons Movie opens on 27 July.
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Yankees and Eric Chavez agree to one-year contract
Feb 21, 2012, 8:27 PM EDT
After finalizing a contract with Raul Ibanez earlier today, the Yankees have quickly moved on to the next item on their agenda.
Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports that the Yankees and Eric Chavez have agreed to a contract, pending a physical. Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com adds that it's a one-year, $900,000 deal which includes incentives.
Chavez batted .263/.320/.356 with two homers, 26 RBI and a .676 OPS over 175 plate appearances with the Yankees last season. The 34-year-old missed a large chunk of the year due to a fractured foot and is a poor bet to stay healthy, but he currently projects as Alex Rodriguez's primary backup at third base. Barring an injury, Ramiro Pena figures to open the season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
- rip4gehrig - Feb 21, 2012 at 8:43 PM
- uyf1950 - Feb 21, 2012 at 8:58 PM
…and everyone Cashman wanted under contract for 2012 season is.
- rip4gehrig - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:03 PM
they signed Chavez and Ibanez for 2 mil…..not bad
- paperlions - Feb 22, 2012 at 7:28 AM
The expensive part of that equation is using 2 roster spots for those guys. Teams can always spend more money, but you only have 25 active roster spots.
- urfinished - Feb 22, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Yea…having Ibanez and Chavez as backups is a real problem. Two class acts and great chemistry guys in the clubhouse with experience to play 20 games a year and serve as mentors for the younger players. Stop hating…that makes zero sense.
- uyf1950 - Feb 22, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Roster spots are always important especially for the Yankees. But even after signing signing those 2 players as you say they still have 1 roster spot open on the 25 man roster. Plus the fact when you consider how cheaply both those players are signed for in guaranteed dollars there is nothing stopping the Yankees if they don't perform from letting them go at any point in the season. So really as far as those 2 players are concerned, them taking up a roster spot is insignificant.
- deathmonkey41 - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:21 PM
The most important part of this story was the last part…
"Ramiro Pena figures to open the season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre."
- foreverchipper10 - Feb 22, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Even though he, and everyone else on the AAA squad, will be playing there games everywhere BUT Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The stadium is closed this year for renovations. They say once they are complete it will be the nicest minor league stadium. Something to look forward to I suppose.
- foreverchipper10 - Feb 22, 2012 at 3:18 PM
Damn it. Their games.
- randygnyc - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:55 PM
I feel bad for pen a AND Nunez. Both could play on plenty of teams.
- shanabartels - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:10 PM
It's about time. Watching Nunez attempt to fill in at 3B isn't very funny.
- dirtyharry1971 - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:22 PM
smart move, this guy will do a solid job backing up
- proudlycanadian - Feb 22, 2012 at 2:16 AM
He might have to play a lot if Arod continues to get hurt. At third, you have a fine pair of elderly and fragile players who have seen their best years.
- 27xwschamps - Feb 22, 2012 at 1:27 AM
U can't help the club when ur in the tub !! 2 d@mn injury prone !!
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EXPECTATIONS: The mere fact that Hotel Transylvania is a product of Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Factory fills me with dread. Given that it's co-written by Robert Smigel and stars most of the Grown Ups crew, I can't help but think Sandler and Co. finally discovered that if they made a cartoon they wouldn't even have to wear pants to work. My only hope for this film being at all tolerable is that it marks the directorial debut of animator supreme Genndy Tartakovsky.*
REALITY: Boy, sometimes I really do hate it when I'm right. Hotel Transylvania is the very definition of a mixed bag. The jokes are tired and the plot is boilerplate pap, but for every lame gag involving werewolf pee, there is a wonderful bit of animation to offset it. There are a few interesting things going on under the surface, but for the most part this film is little more than an excuse for Adam Sandler to throw a cartoon party that we all have to sit and watch.
After losing his wife, Count Dracula (Sandler) is forced to raise his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) on his own. In order to protect her from the evil, scaaary humans, Dracula builds an enormous castle as a refuge for all the monsters of the world. On Mavis' 118th birthday, Dracula brings the whole gang back together to celebrate: The Wolf Man (Steve Buscemi), Frankenstein (Kevin James), The Invisible Man (David Spade), and The Mummy (CeeLo Green). The party's about to start when suddenly a monster appears; a scruffy backpacking human named Jonathan (Andy Samberg).
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The film's plot takes a page or two from the Monsters, Inc. playbook, and throws in three or four dashes of The Munsters for good measure, so know that what you're getting is a thoroughly predictable story. Actually, if you've ever gotten really high and stared at a box of Count Chocula for ninety minutes, you've basically seen Hotel Transylvania.
What I find interesting about the film - in fact, the only thing keeping me interested as I watched it - is the way the film makes use of its cast. Adam Sandler and his company of stooges have been critical punching bags for a while now, so it's no surprise that they're back together for what amounts to an easy paycheck. But the film intentionally paints Dracula and his crew as a bunch of old-timers. At this point in their lives, they're middle-aged dads who have forgotten what the word 'fun' is all about. It takes a young pup who still has a zest for life to get their party started again, as it were.
Similarly, the presence of Andy Samberg brings a much-needed energy to what would otherwise be a bunch of old comedians standing around failing at telling jokes. He plays up the Guy Dude-Bro voice to an almost excruciating level, but that's only so he'll stand out in a cast of 50-year-olds who never stopped trying to sound like they're twenty-five. Granted, Samberg himself just entered the pantheon of 'SNL Has-Beens', but compared to Sandler and Spade he's the hip, cool, it-guy of the now generation.
Oh no! Hijinks!I would almost say this is a clever way for Sandler to symbolically pass the torch to a younger generation, but this film is less of a torch-passing ceremony and more of a way for Sandler to welcome Samberg into his merry band of idiots. If you think I'm kidding, check out the cast listing for the upcoming Grown Ups sequel.
In the film's favor, it does have an interesting thing or two to say about humans and their relation to monsters. Late in the film, Dracula and Co. encounter a monster festival where they discover that modern nerd culture has spawned an intense love for all things monstrous. What was once a virulent mob of townsfolk carrying pitchforks and torches has bizarrely transformed into a pack of chubby neckbeards wearing plastic fangs and screaming "I'm Dracula! Blah!" The journey that humanity took to get from point A to point B in this scenario is a long and fascinating one that has already been explored more effectively in a number of films (including two versions of Fright Night), but given the target audience, jumping straight from angry mob to horror nerds seems like the right choice.
It's rare when I decide to write off an animated film as 'strictly for kids,' but it's probably safe to say that the closer you are to your pre-teen years, the more you'll get out of Hotel Transylvania. Most of the funniest gags come from Tartakovsky's bonkers animation design rather than Robert Smigel & Peter Baynham's script, and your tolerance for the musical stylings of Andy Samberg and an autotuned Kevin James may vary.
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Pianist revives music created in concentration camps
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TRANI, Italy - Francesco Lotoro resurrects the music of the dead.Since 1991 the Italian pianist has traveled the globe to seek out
and bring to light symphonies, songs, sonatas, operas, lullabies and even jazz
riffs that were composed and often performed in Nazi-era concentration
camps."This music is part of the cultural heritage of humanity," Lotoro,
48, told JTA after a concert in Trani, a port town in southern Italy, that
featured surprisingly lively cabaret songs composed in the camps at Westerbork
in the Netherlands and Terezin (Theresienstadt) near Prague.The concert
formed part of Lech Lecha, a week long Jewish culture festival in early September
that took place in Trani and nine other towns in the Apulia region, the heel of
Italy's boot."When I started seeking out this music, my interest was
based on curiosity, on passion," said Lotoro, who was the festival's artistic
director. "I felt that someone had to do it -- and that someone was myself.
Today it has become a mission."Lotoro has collected original scores,
copies and even old recordings of some 4,000 pieces of what he calls
"concentrationary music" -- music written in the concentration camps, death
camps, labor camps, POW camps and other internment centers set up between 1933,
when Dachau was established, and the end of World War II.In the 1990s he
formed an orchestra to perform the pieces, and in 2001 began recording the
compositions. A selection was released earlier this year in a 24-CD boxed set
called "KZ Musik," or "The Encyclopedia of Concentrationary Music." (KZ is the
German abbreviation for concentration camp.) Some of the pieces have long been
known, including music by several prominent composers who were interned in
Terezin. The Nazis used Terezin, a ghetto concentration and transit camp, as a
propaganda tool, allowing cultural life to develop.Other musical pieces,
however, had been long lost or totally forgotten until Lotoro deciphered,
transcribed and arranged them.Many compositions had been jotted down in
notebooks or scribbled in letters or on scraps of paper. In the Pankrac prison
in Prague, the Czech composer Rudolf Karel scrawled music on sheets of toilet
paper."People continued to create despite being in those places," Lotoro
said. "These composers felt that the camp was probably the last place they would
be alive, and so they made a will, a testament."They had nothing
material to leave," he said, "only their heart, only their mind, only the music.
And so they left the music to future generations. It is a great testament of the
heart."Jews who were killed in the Shoah wrote most of the music that
Lotoro has collected. But his collection also includes pieces by Quakers,
Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies), political prisoners, homosexuals and others
held in camps and prisons as far afield as Asia. He also has music written by
German officers and troops in POW camps run by Allied powers and even American
GIs held captive by the Japanese."Everybody made music, wrote music,"
Lotoro said. "Because, you know, music is a social phenomenon. You can be a
musician as an amateur, because you have a good ear, you can improvise, you can
play the harmonica. Of course there are the great composers and musicians. But
music is all of this, from amateur to professional."Lotoro, who lives in
the town of Barletta, near Trani, and teaches at a music conservatory, believes
he is descended from Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity centuries
ago. He was drawn to Judaism as a teenager; he and his wife formally converted
in 2004.But Lotoro said this was not the reason he began his search for
the lost concentration camp music."Of course as a Jew, I now feel that
this is a mitzvah; it is something I have to do," he said. "But I think that if
I had not become Jewish I would anyway have done this."His first foray
to seek out music came long before his conversion. It was a 1991 trip to
Terezin, where imprisoned composers such as Viktor Ullmann and Gideon Klein --
both killed at Auschwitz -- had written works, such as Ullmann's opera "The
Emperor of Atlantis," that already had become part of the international musical
repertoire."I started there because I thought it would be easier,"
Lotoro recalled. "But from Terezin I went on to research other former camps in
the region, and at the end of three weeks I had to buy another suitcase to bring
home all the material I found."Since then he has scoured antiquarian
bookshops, catalogs, archives, libraries, museums, private collections and other
holdings in more than a dozen countries for traces of lost music. Along the way
he has amassed a trove of 13,000 items: scores, notebooks, papers, diaries,
microfilms, photocopies, photographs, recordings and other material that he
continues to sift through, catalog and sometimes reconstruct. He hopes to load
all the pieces he has found onto a digital database for posterity.As
part of his research, Lotoro has consulted with scholars who specialize in the
music of the Holocaust, and also has interviewed some of the few surviving
musicians as well as relatives of those who perished. But he has carried out
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Bil Clinton was the nations 42 president. How does that in any way shape or form qualify him as a psychologist fit to diagnose poverty. He was better than most republicans (all if you ask me), but he was'nt that good. You can't diagnose poverty until you've lived it. It has less to do with choices a child makes early in life & more to do with decisions made for a child without the knowledge to understand them. A child is a child for a reason. They lack the capability of understanding a situation completely, dissecting and diagnosing, & acting accordingly. Someone doesn't make decisions early & create poverty. Poverty is a disease inherited by the poor. In most cases passed down through generations like family heirlooms. Most peoples imaginations aren't strong enough to think of the daily hardships that growing up truly poor can take you through. And though i've never lived it personally, I grew up with it, played with it, gave food & clothes to it, & yes watched it with my own 2 eyes feast on the lives of every living organism in that house, so you or Bil Clinton should speak on it until you've witnessed it 1st hand<quoted text>
YOu are abvoiding the point. You complain about the so-called "poor" that are actually living in luxury. According to Bill Clinton's administration, poverty is directly related to choices people make early in life.
What is not disputable is that the best way for women to avoid a life of poverty is to do three things:
1. Finish high school
2. Do not have children out of wedlock
3. Do not have children before age 20
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#845143 Jan 23, 2013
when the liberals have no ground to stand on ... shout racist.
#845144 Jan 23, 2013
lol, I do believe you nailed that jerk.
"Constitutionalis t"
Since: Dec 10
#845146 Jan 23, 2013
That would make sense if money grew on trees.
However, the reality is, money doesn't grow on trees and the government has to be paid for. To pay for the government, there has to be a source of money to take from.
So, where will the money come from to pay for Obama's government?
About the Benghazi incident, it's uncontestable that the real-time video of Al Qaeda killing Americans was being watched in the White House for 7 hours. And it's obvious orders came from the White House to hang those Americans out to dry and let Al Qaeda kill them. Where was Obama?
Where was Obama during the 7-hour battle between Al Qaeda and the stripped-down American security detatchment in Benghazi while the real-time video was being watched in the White House?
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#845148 Jan 23, 2013
Yes, I champion a person with superior intellect.
You and Carol are matched in your ignorance and distortion of history.
#845149 Jan 23, 2013
Notice the "poodle" flirts last 2days!! How was the inauguration!
"Constitutionalis t"
Since: Dec 10
#845150 Jan 23, 2013
What list? Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank allowed the Democrats' Marxist equal-outcome subprime housing mortgage underwriting program to collapse the economy in just two years of their oversight of the financial institutions that were central to the collapse.
The "list" you are asking for can be summed up with the conclusions of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in 2003 when the Democrats supported the war in Iraq in exchange for no effective oversight of their Marxist subprime housing loan program.
Now, back to the questions you are dancing around like a New Orleans street tap dancer:
Where was Obama during the 7-hour battle between Al Qaeda and the stripped-down American security detatchment in Benghazi while the real-time video was being watched in the White House?
Where will the money come from to pay for Obama's government?
Nobody on Earth has been able to answer these questions so far.
#845151 Jan 23, 2013
The midget from Texas said the shootings in TX don't matter because they were black on black. Yes,that is a racist comment.
#845152 Jan 23, 2013
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#845153 Jan 23, 2013
Get back to the cabbage patch, dummy
#845154 Jan 23, 2013
Hey old grumpy disoriented one. I have a purpose for being here and will remain a couple more weeks. Yea gotta love the name. I will be headed down into real redneck country soon Southwest Va, near Tennessee. I'm having a ball and loving the direction our nation is now headed, thank goodness we replaced most of those un-American right wingers before they could finish their job of destroying our nation and making a theocracy out of us. I'm betting Gov. McConnell will veto the latest sneaky trick by the Republicans here in Va.
#845155 Jan 23, 2013
Indiana 47%'ers....
Starving to death...send them a saviour...
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Help the less fortunate...
Indiana State worker charged with EBT fraud....
#845156 Jan 23, 2013
What do you sound like when you sing this?
'Nowz bodiez iza knowzz da trubblle iza nnow?'
#845157 Jan 23, 2013
so i'm wondering when the hearings begin on our failed Freedom Agenda in Iraq. we need to have an open discussion about all of those people who were killed because Dick Cheney finally got his wish.
so let's talk about how much of the bad news about Iraq was buried right before the 2004 election. then we can talk about lying about the cost of an 'entitlement' giveaway to seniors so they would vote for Bush.
#845158 Jan 23, 2013
On a good day, how many port-o-johns can you vacuum out in a 8 hour shift?
#845159 Jan 23, 2013
Assume it was debil who likes to make as many fools as he can out of all of you. Doesn't much like someone hitting too close to the truth either. And why he's desperate to silence the original carol.
Good morning, Lincoln.
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#845160 Jan 23, 2013
I grew up on a 20-acre subsistence farm in rural Lousisana in a family with semi-literate parents who had 5 children.
Don't try to tell me about working all your life and not having anything.
You equate riding a government gravy train and not doing anything for yourself while everyone who works pays for everything you have with being poor. You actually live in luxury. If you had to actually live in the standard you provided for yourself, instead of having the government steal from people providing for themselves to give to you while you don't do a goddam thing for yourself, you'd actually have a clue about what it is to be poor.
If you want to see what poor people really live like, just follow me around the world. I guarantee you won't see any tourists where I have to go.
Besides, here's some real-world facts:
Poor people dont' have mobile phones. If you see a mobile phone, you don't see a poor person.
Poor people don't have money to buy booze and drugs and stolen guns and tatoos and designer hoodies and Air Jordan shoes and cars and gas and food and... etc., etc., etc. If you see any of these, you don't see a poor person.
Poor people don't have the luxury to be idle all day and play basketball at midnight. If you see this, you don't see a poor person.
If you dont' like being what you ignorantly call "poor", get a fucking job. If you can't find a job, there are 30 million illegal aliens here. Take one of those jobs.
Or, you can use that degree in engineering you earned when you took advantage of the multitude of opportunities available to every goddam person in the country and get a well-paying job.
... didn't do that, did you?
Well, because you won't do a goddam thing for yourself, I just have one thing to say to you:
Work or starve.
We'll review what your choices in life are after you've made a decision on that.
#845161 Jan 23, 2013
only uncontestable on a right wing blog.
where was Obama? where's your security clearance?
money? revenue. higher taxes. happy now?
good thing Obama's not a big spender eh?
#845162 Jan 23, 2013
The inauguration was great, it's a wonderful feeling to be around Americans that are proud of our nation void of all of the hateful racist, bigots and women haters on here. We can only hope that some Republicans will attempt to work with the President on a number of issues that are in our nations best interest. The majority of Americans are now seeing the Republicans as the do nothing haters that they really are...Thank goodness. Their power and greed coupled with their love affair with the filthy rich as their chief motivator is now in the forefront. With the help of most idiots on here, the country is finally awakening.
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