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Masters of Horror Volume IV (US - BD RA)
Gabe takes a high definition re-glance at the series' best and worst episodes...
For the forth collection of Masters of Horror episodes on Blu-ray disc Anchor Bay and Starz have put selected four episodes, two of my favourites ( Imprint and Home Coming), an episode I missed the first time around ( The Haekeler's Tale), and the worst episode of the entire first season ( Chocolate).
Christopher (Billy Drago), an American journalist, travels the far-reaching corners of Japan in search of Komomo (Michie Itô), the lost girl he promised to rescue from her life of prostitution with a trip to America. His quest brings him to an island of prostitution and excess. No one seems to have heard of or seen Komomo, but Christopher decides to spend the night anyway. He asks only for the company of a mysterious prostitute (Youki Kudoh) who lurks in the shadows. That night the disfigured woman tells him a disturbing story of her own childhood and her possible connection to his lost Komomo.
When Takashi Miike makes a romantic drama the result is Audition, when he makes a comedy the result is Ichi: The Killer, and when he makes a family film the result is Happiness of the Katakuris. You don't ask the man to make a balls out horror film if you aren't expecting something that pushes buttons and generally shocks the system. When Showtime got Miike's Masters of Horror episode they ceremoniously dumped it straight to DVD, refusing to air it. The shock of the stupidity and chicken shit nature of the dump made the episode an instant classic among fans site unseen.
The episode is a bit of a disappointment overall, but mostly because so much was expected from the director. Imprint is the most impressive looking and most originally structured episode. It's also the most genuinely disturbing episode, which accounts for its 'banned' status. The problems beyond expectations are in Miike's characterization of himself and his films. The torture scene is very much tacked on, and which grinds the already slow narration to a stop. The commentary track experts bring up the fact that Miike appears to be running down a checklist of perversions and taboos. I'll go one further and say that Miike was trying to make the movie he thought American audiences expected him too.
Miike has only made one genre specific feature length film, One Missed Call, which was a director for hire gig made to emulate the Ringu mould. This short and Miike's final episode of Three…Extremes, Box are the only other films in the director's cannon that can be called 'horror' directly. Box is a strangely effective dream of a movie, and more of what one should've expected from this Masters of Horror episode. Imprint is a case of a director trying to make the film he thinks his audience wanted him to make, rather than a film that pushed him as a craftsmen.
Basically Imprint doesn't work until it hits the forty-minute mark (it's just over an hour long), when Miike seems to stop fulfilling our expectations, and starts being Miike. The imagery is horrifically poetic, the story rolls quickly from stark realism to insane fantasy, and most importantly the director plays humour against horror. It isn't a smart movie, which Miike can make, the acting is really terrible, and it isn't as unrelentingly horrifying as we were lead to believe by the Showtime execs, but Imprint is a half special episode, and one that is hard to shake.
The Haeckel's Tale
Young Mr. Ralston comes to an old Necromancer seeking the revival his deceased wife. The witch chooses to tell the lovesick man the story of Ernst Haeckel as a warning before she agree to the revival. Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil) is a young doctoral student following the footsteps of Doctor Victor Frankenstein. He's found his attempts at scientific revival unsuccessful, and though he doesn't believe, he seeks the knowledge of the local Necromancer. Later, Ernst learns his father's illness has taken a turn for the worse, and he decides to travel cross-country to meet him. On the road he encounters Walter Wolfram and his lovely wife Elise, a couple with intimate knowledge of the evil of corpse revival.
The Haeckel's Tale starts as one of the series' best looking and acted episodes. Comparable in its treatment of period pulp to Stuart Gordon's season two entrée The Black Cat, director John McNaughton's feature, based on an original story by Clive Barker, is the Masterpiece Theatre episode, for its first two thirds at least. McNaughton, a skilled director mostly known for his dark and dreary debut feature Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, but also famous for the shiny excesses of Wild Things, commands his modest budget with genuine power. His actors are some of the best the series has ever seen, and his sets and lighting are reminiscent of classic Hammer horror features.
Problems begin to arise when the last act roles around and structurally one realizes that they're watching an entirely different movie. The twist in the tale should come as a narrative or emotional shock, but it's much more of a stylistic shock. The episodes relative class and wit is dampened by a silly and bawdy climax that just doesn't mesh with the rest of the tale.
It's a well known fact in the horror community that The Haeckel's Tale was scheduled to be George Romero's series entrée, but conflicts with Land of the Dead prevented his involvement. Though I adore Romero's zombie films ( Dawn of the Dead very well may be my favourite film of all time), I would've been disappointed to see him pigeonholed. The episode is a stylistic change up for McNaughton, and for the most part impressive, for Romero I imagine it would've been another Creepshow styled exercise in comic book visuals.
Jamie (Henry Thomas) is a lonely, depressed, and divorced young man who creates artificial flavours for food companies. One night he awakens from a dream tasting chocolate he hasn't eaten. Later that night he hears classical music while attending a rock concert, and almost crashes his car when he suddenly sees through someone else's eyes. Jamie realizes that he is psychically linked to a beautiful young woman that he has never met. When a series of violent image shake him, Jamie decides to track down the woman and finds that her life is not all that it appears to be.
Mick Garris gets to be a member of the Masters of Horror by default because he got the guys together. There aren't many genre fans that would mistake him for a master. Garris made a name for himself through Stephen King television adaptations, his two most successful being The Stand and The Shining, which both still suck. I've personally never been a fan of the man's work, which includes his ridiculous Sleepwalkers adaptation, and Riding the Bullet, one of the most boring King films I've ever seen.
Because he started the show, Garris gets to direct an episode, and it's only fair. I was rooting for him, really I was, but Chocolate is easily the worst episode in what can only be described as an overall disappointing season. The biggest bone of contention is the fact that the concept of a man receiving the sensual input of a beautiful woman would work much better as a porno gimmick than a horror story, a fact that doesn't seem to have fully escaped Garris, who includes a scene where Jamie experiences the mystery woman's vaginal penetration in front of his family, a shower masturbation scene, and the start of a female/male/female three-way.
Henry Thomas is a great actor (we've all seen E.T.), but under such ludicrous circumstance even he's unable to come away with any dignity. The only parts of the film that work are the scenes between him and his estranged family, and the cut back scenes to his interrogation (the story is told to a cop by Jamie, who's already covered in blood, very E.C. Comics style). Any time Garris tries to introduce the supernatural elements the audience finds themselves in late night cable soft-core territory again. It's all too damn silly.
David Murch (Jon Tenney), a spin-doctor for the current presidential administration is confronted on a live TV talk show by a distraught parent who asks why her son had to die in the feudal war the administration started. It being an election year, Murch tells the woman that if he had one wish he'd wish her son back to life so he could explain to her what he died for, in true faux-passionate spin doctor fashion. The next day Murch's wish comes true, and solders start rising from the dead. But these zombies aren't looking to chow down on human flesh, they just want to vote in the upcoming election.
Homecoming is undoubtedly my favourite of the entire first season, which is impressive considering my hesitation towards director Joe Dante's involvement in the. Dante is the Tex Avery of the bunch—a childlike director with a love for cartoons and old-fashioned comic book scares who developed his skills while cutting trailers for Roger Corman. The only film in Dante's cannon that might be considered straight horror is The Howling. Though The Howling contains some of the only straight-faced terror scenes in the directors career, the film's underlying themes are comedic. My personal favourites of Dante's are the Gremlins films, which are a perfect mix of Looney Tunes, William Castle, and '50s B-monster flicks. I watch the first film every Christmas, but only consider it a half horror film at best.
Larry Cohen ( Pick Me Up) and Dante were the two wildcards in the Masters of Horror deck. I knew they wouldn't produce boring episodes, but I also knew that their films could easily be the worst of the bunch (well, besides Garris, who we all knew would suck). I immediately knew that Dante had picked the best script concept based on the brief descriptions of each entry when the series was announced. Only a totally spineless and entirely corporate minded director could possibly mess this one up. This isn't to say Dante is lacking in directorial ability, but he did leave himself quite a bit of wiggle room.
Homecoming works because it's so very partisan. Not once does Dante or his actors pretend to be spoofing anything else than the Bush administration and its supporters. Thea Gill's character may be called Jane Cleaver, but we all know the characters real name is Ann Coulter. It's this that polarizes series fans on the episode, and odds are that those who liked the episode are of a left-leaning persuasion, but sometimes this kind of polarization is a-okay, because it gets normally apathetic people talking (or yelling, in most cases). Had the filmmakers at any point lost their venomous edge the entire film would've fallen apart, but Dante and company stick to there guns (no pun intended). It's nice to see some pissed off left-wing entertainment (I'm not including documentaries in this statement) because lord knows we have plenty of classic angry right-wing entertainment (see pretty much anything staring Arnold Schwarzenegger, just don't look too far beneath the surface).
The problem is that I was having so much fun being an impotent angry liberal the first time around that it took a second viewing for me to realize that this was a much bigger idea than a one hour, made for TV film could deliver, not to mention the fact that it's very, very heavy handed. Homecoming is good, but it could've been a classic had it found its way into theatres at a longer length. I also have to also admit Homecoming isn't particularly scary, nor does it really try to be. This is one of those sad cases of the real world situation being one hundred times more horrifying than the version portrayed in a so-called horror film.
I have Homecoming and Chocolate on R2 PAL release, and Imprint on R1 NTSC release, so comparison on those films was possible. The entirety of season one of Masters of Horror looked very disappointing on DVD, especially considering the high definition source, and Anchor Bay's ace handling of older and more damaged material. The R2 releases were especially noisy, and none of the releases ever seemed to get 'fully black' black levels. This Blu-ray presentation is a definite upgrade, and overall much more consistent.
There's still an issue with noise, specifically artefacting on edges and blocking in deep reds, but the image levels are much sharper, revealing minute details not discernable on the SD releases. Edges are hard, and contrast is well balanced. The colours are brighter then the original releases, but do not sacrifice blacks, which remain as deep as my set would allow. Chocolate, which looked terrible on DVD, is still surprisingly grainy on Blu-ray, but the other three episodes are crisp and clean.
I noticed little to no difference between these Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks and the ones that adorn the original DVD releases. The additional PCM tracks probably sounds great, but I was unable to get it to work on my outdated system. Some fans may be upset at the lack of DTS tracks, but it really doesn't matter overall (especially if they were to use the same DTS tracks as the UK DVD releases, which was almost identical to the DD track anyway). The series isn't flatly mixed or anything, but the need for a louder version of the same average tracks is, I think, unnecessary.
Throughout the episodes directional effects are, for the most part, minimal, with some exceptions. The lightning sequence in The Haeckel's Tale is pretty loud and lively, the opening boating sequence in Imprint is subtlety immersive, and the dead screaming at the end of Homecoming is appropriately intense. Music tracks vary from episode to episode in both style and fullness. Most episodes have well centred and clear audio, except in the case of Chocolate), which sounds more like Pro Logic track than a Dolby Digital one.
Even if you must have your Masters of Horror in high definition video, there may be a valid reason to hold onto those old DVDs. Despite the oodles of room available in the Blu-ray format, Anchor Bay has opted to only include the original DVD commentary tracks as extras. Originally the extra featurettes were almost more worthwhile than the episodes, and the additional interviews didn't hurt either.
Every episode does come with an audio commentary, but of the four tracks only Imprint's commentary is particularly stunning. Japanese film experts Chris D. and Writer Wyatt Doyle are engaging and entertaining as they try to contextualize Miike's wacky feature within the realms of their expertise. Neither commentator is particularly fond of the episode, but they still find fascinating links to other Japanese features past and present. Homecoming only features writer Sam Hamm, no Joe Dante, and is generally a bore, and Mick Garris and DVD Producer Perry Martin are just as dull on their track. John McNaughton's The Haeckel's Tale track is pleasant and informative, with a solid sense of humility, but also not much of a thrill ride.
For Volume Four of the Blu-ray re-release we get three solid samples from the first season and one dud. The previous collections have only carried three episodes, so buyers can consider Chocolate a freebee if they want to talk about bang for their buck. The assumption is that eventually we'll get a full Blu-ray collection of each season, but those looking to pick and choose could do a lot worse then three fourths success. A direct breakdown goes a little something like this:
Imprint: 6/10
The Haeckel's Tale: 6/10
Chocolate: 3/10
Homecoming: 7/10
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 11th December 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: PCM 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Extras: Director/Writer/Expert Commentaries
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Takashi Miike, John McNaughton, Joe Dante, Mick Garris
Cast: Billy Drago, Youki Kudoh, Derek Cecil, Henry Thomas, Jon Tenney, Thea Gill
Genre: Horror
Length: 242 minutes
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Wasps flyer Christian Wade has been included in a 42-man squad for next month's tour of South Africa © Getty Images
England coach Stuart Lancaster has named a fresh-looking squad for next month's tour of South Africa with 13 uncapped players getting the nod.
Danny Care, James Haskell and Ugo Monye are all recalled for the daunting three-Test, five-match trip to South Africa while Leicester hooker Tom Youngs has received a surprise promotion to the elite squad.
Youngs, 25, has never started an Aviva Premiership match at hooker, with his experience in the position limited to just 12 appearances off the bench. But with Rob Webber and Chris Brooker injured, Youngs has been selected as one of four hookers.
Care gets a second chance after being excluded from the Six Nations on disciplinary grounds while Haskell was unavailable for the championship because he was playing club rugby in Japan. But with injuries and suspensions in the back-row, Lancaster has said that the tour offers Haskell the opportunity to "put a marker down".
Youngs made his only Premiership starts as a hard-hitting centre before being converted to hooker by the current South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer, during his brief time in charge at Leicester. After two years learning his new craft at Nottingham, Youngs returned to Leicester where he has been George Chuter's regular understudy this season.
Lancaster admitted that Youngs' inclusion may raise some eyebrows but he is backnig the hooker to make an impact in the mid-week matches. "Tom Youngs has huge potential as a scrummaging hooker and as a ball carrying hooker," Lancaster told RFU TV. "He still has areas of his game to work on and we have Simon Hardy coming out with us to help him work on that aspect but he is trusted by Leicester to play in the semi-final and will definitely get some game time in the mid-week games."
In addition to Youngs, the Wasps pair of wing Christian Wade and lock Joe Launchbury have been rewarded for their breakthrough seasons in the top flight with selection. Bath flanker Carl Fearns and Exeter's Tom Johnson will provide back-row options following tour-ending injuries to Tom Croft and Tom Wood, while there are doubts over the fitness of Ben Morgan.
Lancaster revealed that Sir Ian McGeechan's high praise of Fearns helped aid his inclusion in the 42-man party while Johnson has impressed the England coach over the course of the season with his ball-carrying ability and labelled him a "machine".
Other uncapped players in the squad include London Irish centre Jonathan Joseph, Tigers lock Graham Kitchener and Saracens fullback Alex Goode. And it is Goode's versatility that Lancaster will use to utilise. "He offers something different," Lancaster said. "I've coached him many times in the Saxons and can play at both fullback and at fly-half."
There is a sizeable Harlequins contingent with captain Chris Robshaw and Care joined by Jordan Turner-Hall, Mike Brown and the uncapped quartet of centre George Lowe, lock George Robson, hooker Joe Gray and prop Joe Marler.
Lancaster said of Robshaw: "Chris Robshaw was named player of the season on Tuesday night so congratulations to him and it is only right that he continues to captain the team, supported by a strong leadership group."
England play the Barbarians at Twickenham before embarking on their first ever three-Test series in South Africa. The midweek fixtures will be against teams comprised of South Africa's best Currie Cup players.
England squad:
Forwards: M Botha (Saracens), D Cole (Leicester Tigers), A Corbisiero (London Irish), P Doran-Jones (Northampton Saints), P Dowson (Northampton Saints), C Fearns (Bath Rugby), J Gray (Harlequins), D Hartley (Northampton Saints), J Haskell (Otago Highlanders), T Johnson (Exeter Chiefs), G Kitchener (Leicester Tigers), J Launchbury (London Wasps), J Marler (Harlequins), L Mears (Bath Rugby), B Morgan (Scarlets), M Mullan (Worcester Warriors), T Palmer (Stade Francais), G Parling (Leicester Tigers), C Robshaw (capt, Harlequins), G Robson (Harlequins), M Stevens (Saracens), T Waldrom (Leicester Tigers), T Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Backs: A Allen (Leicester Tigers), C Ashton (Northampton Saints), B Barritt (Saracens), M Brown (Harlequins), D Care (Harlequins), L Dickson (Northampton Saints), O Farrell (Saracens), T Flood (Leicester Tigers), B Foden (Northampton Saints), A Goode (Saracens), C Hodgson (Saracens), J Joseph (London Irish), G Lowe (Harlequins), U Monye (Harlequins), D Strettle (Saracens), M Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers), J Turner-Hall (Harlequins), C Wade (London Wasps), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Players not considered due to injury or suspension: Chris Brooker (knee),Stuart Hooper (arm), Calum Clark (suspended), Tom Croft (neck), Louis Deacon (hamstring), Courtney Lawes (shin), Charlie Sharples (shoulder ), Joe Simpson (shoulder), Henry Thomas (knee), Rob Webber (shoulder), David Wilson (wrist), Tom Wood (toe), Nick Wood (chest)
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C.W. Golf, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., will oversee creation of two 18-hole championship courses slated to open next year at Taylor Woodrow's Esplanade Golf and Country Club developments.
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Well considering that Disney also acquired Lucasfilm, who wants to bet that Rocket Racoon turns out to be another Howard the Duck?
I can't watch this movie...don't get me wrong, I love Evil Dead (mostly AOD and sorta Evil Dead 2) but...no...I can't watch this. But that's mostly because I am incredibly squeamish when it comes to horror movies and from what I'm hearing, this is NOT a movie you can watch if you are.
So I'll have to take a pass, despite being an evil dead fan.
In regards to Rocket Racoon, I'm pretty darn excited, but I just wish they would hurry and tell us who is going to be playing him. Since he'll most likely be a CGI mo-cap character, I'm kinda hoping they just let Andy Serkis do it, as I think he'd be insanely good for the part.
Still though, Guardians of the Galaxy has already managed to surprise me GREATLY by announcing Parks and Recs, Chris Pratt as Star-Lord (thrilled about this by the way) and WWE wrestler Dave Bautista as Drax.
So I'm willing to bet whoever ends up playing RR, Gamora, or Groot is probably going to surprise me.
...I am curious how they're going to handle Groot in the movie since all he ever says is "I am Groot!"
EDIT: After just looking into it, supposedly Zoe Saldana is going to be playing Gamora...can't say she'd be my first choice, but she's always been pretty good in things so I'm guessing she'll do fine in Guardians.
I'm not a fan of horror or remakes, so I'm gonna skip this one. Not having Bruce Campbell is a major drawback, so there's no personality. Plus, my faith in Sam Raimi has been shaky lately.
Howard the duck is fucking awesome one of my favorite movies
now this is what i call a horror movie. its not one of those psycho killer clones where all u have to do is figure out who is in which trope roll they fall into. i miss films like this i consider the evil dead series to be one of my top horror movies on any top horror list. its definitely better than the past ones they have been putting out i hate going into a movie and before the movie is to the half way figure out which person will live just because they fall into the old trope of horror movie victim. why more horror movies can't go back to styles like this i do not know, kinda getting tired of the old some insane/psycho person killing random people who happen into the area he is in or abducted.its just resent junk like saw and couple others which try but do not get the horror feel like the old ones do i miss the jump scares, the gore that and the way the old moves who they where shot and what they did to get the scare. now its just gotten to be all about the gore or character development which usually is boring. that's why i start watching Japanese horror movies because they do not go here is a mass murderer killing a group of people that happen to break down in his location or even worse the old its a zombie outbreak thing. zombies kinda feel not scary anymore got too many things with them not scary.
in my opinion i think if they made less horror movies in the old psycho killer trope they would have better horror movies. i mean the classic stuff is good halloween, friday the 13th, nightmare on elm street. its just most resent horror stuffs have been kinda boring and easy to figure who will live or who is going to die next because they do the things you are not supposed to do in a horror movie like walk off alone and so on. but then i wish we had more sci-fi horror movies stuffs.
I wonder if Bruce has a cameo somewhere in there... I feel like he should. I mean, I know the movie should exist in it's own right as a separate entity, but it'd be fun seeing a glimpse of him in the series after all this time.
Even if this movie turned out bad, we're still going to get Army of Darkness II! Which means more Bruce Campbell! Yeeee!
Well, I suppose its time I find out if I am actually a fan of Evil Dead, or just of Bruce Campbell... I think its both.
Yeah, I always figured they started the first half of the movie wanting to be serious, and by the half way point, decided it really was a B-movie, and the only way to save it was hamming it up.
I mean, taking an end table on rollers to barricade a door? That I think was the scene that clinched it for me, and was the transition from serious to satire.
As for Roger Ebert, much respect to the man, he defined an era, as well as the movie watching experience in general. It's sad he never really saw the value in the gaming medium. As I have nothing good to say about that particular point of his opinion, I'll remain silent.
The man was totally awesome, issuing a mulligan for his review of "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly." It took real guts to say his mindset got in the way of his fun, especially considering this was how he made a living. This is how I was able to respect his reviews, even when I disagreed wholeheartedly.
I think it was mostly just a bunch of guys and gals trying to make a movie, despite not knowing how. But yeah, it's the B-movie of B-movies, I think. It's So B Movie, it's an A-Movie. It's... Yeah, you get the point. It's a B-Movie. A good one, though.
I disagree with almost every single thing Movie Bob says in here and I knew I would, which was the only reason I watched it. For me, this movie was basically every single thing that is wrong with horror movies today and it was basically paint by numbers. Yawn.
It's not a torture porn flick like, say, Saw or Hostel. There's gore in the movie but it's not the whole point of the movie's existence. Would I be a terrible person if I had a wide grin, like a kid on Christmas, during the entire flick? Cuz I did, I really did.
Sam Raimi could.
Seriously, that's why he's got a career. Dude's more like Tommy Wissau than people seem to think.
The Hills Have Eyes remake was kinda awesome, wasn't it?
So I take it this iteration of evil dead lacks verbose, testosterone-injected chainsaw arms and shotguns. That is disappointing and I will mostly stick with Army of Darkness. That's actually the only Evil Dead movie I've seen and I know little of the previous titles, other than they were more serious than Army of Darkness. I might check this out when I can get my hands on the DVD.
Sadly, my only experience with Roger Ebert is that contrived comment he made about videogames' artistic merit. But I think people overreacted to that. He himself admitted to having zero authority on the medium, so why pay it any mind?
i had hoped i could make it through the first page before someone started trying to insult or debate with someone who recently died. a famous person has a different opinion than you about video games. grow up and get over it. do you really think roger ebert or any celebrity is the reason games arent universally considered a form of art? the amount of gamers i saw cheering about his death (on the day it was fucking announced) because he had a different opinion about their hobby than they did, was absolutely sickening
You know Bob, I can tell you love this movie more than you feel you should. You kept slipping into your native accent.
RIP roger.
Also, Whispy wasn't a rapist bob....come on now.
I have to say that the Deadite'd actors do a god job. Then they start talking...
I like Rocket Raccoon.
I wasn't aware that Roger Ebert had passed away until you told me, thanks.
Sadly, I told my mother than he'd died and received a response which boiled down to "Who?" it's kind of upsetting that he's unquestionably the most famous single critic in the entire history of criticism (not movie criticism, ANYTHING criticism) and she's honestly never even heard of him. Then again, that's a good measure of just how out-of-touch my mother is.
No. Plato and Aristotle's theater criticism is undoubtedly more influential.
Also is there a trailer I'm missing or something? Where did Bob get that shot of Rocket Raccoon from?
Huge Evil Dead/Army of Darkness fan here. I'm glad that so far it's looking good from some of the reviews I've seen. Can't wait to watch it.
with a box of scraps you say?
ohhh.. A box of scraps.
i have to see it. i really love that series. i even have seen evil dead : the musical (which was good by the way)
Nana, nanaNOPE *mute*
Great review, Bob. Good to somewhat confirm that the "extreme" scene is still in the movie.
hmmm, I thought the problem was that the energy output was too low for the new suit, not that it would run out. I (mis?)understood in the final fight that the old arc-reactor he plugged into himself was burning out due to the strain of running the suit. Or am I totally off-base here?
Oh, I love suspension of disbelief, just saying that if I've enjoyed iron man(which I have) then R.R. isn't a far stretch.
Okay, that sounds good to me, Thanks!
sorry, double post.
an evil dead remake? when did this happen? talk about flying under my radar...
It's crazy Ebert died just a few days ago they where saying his cancer had sprung up again and a couple days later dead, very sad. It's going to be weird not seeing his opinion at the bottom of many film articles on wiki.
I was hoping evil dead was going to be good; I knew they where going the horror approach of the first film and was excited. I was literally horrified by the first film even though I saw it over 20 years after it came out and noticed just how cheesy it was. I mean those trees everyone can see how badly that was made and yet it was still scary as fuck. A remake of the funny one couldn't be made without an ash character though, it would be interesting to see how they decided to reboot that part.
I think I'm gonna watch the first two evil deads in the next couple days just for the hell of it.
I don't know how you missed the commercials(tv and internet). It's weird it's an evil dead that is completely known commercially. Even on the escapist it's got a lot of news.
Just got back from seeing it. It was a blast. While I'm sure not everybody can be satisfied, I recommend anybody who's even remotely interested to make an effort to see it.
Having previously heard about the drug-kicking spin on the characters, I was worried that the movie would attempt an emotional take that might ruin the fun. No fun was ruined; it added a useful layer to the plot and I found the characters surprisingly involving because of it. It actually reaches for emotions other than "AAAAAAAHFUCK" in a few parts, and succeeds where a lot of these kinds of movies would fail. I agree with Bob that they could even have used a little more time to develop, whereas I normally would not care about that at all in this type of film.
Also, the fanservice nods were cute and appropriately subtle. Blink and you'll miss a pendant lying on the ground in a particular way, if you know what I mean.
Not quite.
Chainsaw: check.
I have an issue with big yellow eyes, they always freak me out. Then you got and put the fucking scene right after the damn black screen, I'm glad it wasn't on full screen, I hate you Bob, you basterd!
One of the only films I've literally been on the edge of my seat waiting for it to come out in a looooong time.
Think I'll make a weekend of it when it hits UK cinemas. Watch the first 3 films and then off the cinema.
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I don't think so, it's a legitimate ad hom, if I am not mistaken.
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You are correct, the literal latin is "to the person", which can be adverse, perverse or just doggerel mush.catmoon wrote:I don't think so, it's a legitimate ad hom, if I am not mistaken.
That's me to a "T".deepbluehum wrote:mean [meen]
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|2012-06-17, 06:39
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She gave Marian the love as a confidant. A best friend I think. And it was going well till she notice what Marian and Charles are up to. It felt like she was betrayed coz Marianne has other plans. and CC wasnt the only one who felt it, so was VV who Charles has a contract too. Thats why she choose to leave.
Well for Mao she was able to show love to him as a parent. Seeing Mao like that became a failure, I mean so obsessed with her. She choose to leave him (when he was 10 or 11yrs old). Why? Lets take into account how CC got his geass and code. The Nun trick her- the Nun showed her love, showed her she can trust her, provide everything she needs etc. And I think that was what she intend to do to the others as well. But she cant find the perfect person to wield her Code. Lets' be honest here, Mao lost both of his parents and who is there to be with him, thats CC. She played the mother role for Mao. But in the end for the childs benefit, she choose to leave also. and for the benefit of everyone she choose to kill him.
Well for Lelouch I think in the first place she wasnt really planning to be his lover some sort. She called it more of an ally. She showed Lelouch that she is someone he can trust, someone that wont betray him. But as you see as time goes by she became attached to him. She couldnt even express what that feeling is. And on Episode 24 or 25 of r2 she said she just want that experience to end. It means she love Lelouch. She didnt plan to fall for him. That was clear from the start. Coz she was planning something and that was revealed to Lelouch in ep 16 (?). She wanted to die and end everything. This is the person she couldnt leave. She even cry at the church. She was there for him till his end.
Well about Renya (this will be canon spinoff as they say), Lelouch look alike tried to stop her giving the guy a curse than a contract. CC says if the contract does ever happen, it would messed that guy's contract with her. So we never know.
From those things we witness right now, it is clear CC is not looking for love. Kallen said she forgot how to be human right? So all I can say CC just want to end her life and passed the code to someone. But as time goes by she cant coz she learn to love all that she met. Not romantic feelings, but a love with care.
|2012-06-17, 07:19
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I don't think C.C. is able to get romantically involved anymore, but she still can experience love without needing to be a lover in the physical sense, considering all she's been through and how long she's lived. Maybe she did plan to pass her code to Lelouch but even though he proved worthy she cared enough for him not to subject him to the fate she's been trapped in for what seems like an eternity.
If they ever did a sequel they could easily place it in the future without any of the old cast and just C.C. showing up to give another Geass. After all, they still left a ton of questions over Gease and C.C. that haven't been answered. Though I'm sure it would still garner some initial hate like Akito and Renya have gotten because it doesn't have Lelouch. I think people got the idea that CG was supposed to be Lelouch's story but only R1 and R2 are his story, while the overreaching story of CG is about Geass and C.C..
|2012-06-18, 08:59
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I think as stated in Renya manga, the past CC never stayed in one place. She said there she is a "nomad" meaning she doesnt just give 1 person a geass at a time, it could have meant every possible person he meets (like when CC decide to travel with the Jesuits and just decide to inspect the person if his/her geass reach its limits - thats the only time she will visit the ones she has contract with). But Renya in the manga was a different case, she said herself, she needs to study the "effects", thats why she stays there for a meantime.
The reason she stay at Lelouch place and didnt roam around anymore was becoz VV and his scientist search for her constantly. She had to hide. And the best place for that for now was Lelouch lair. Its the circumstances that make her stay there. I think she doesnt really planned to be there coz for me CC is the type of just "waiting and seeing". Coz if she really is the type who likes to cling to the person she gave a contract, she should have surprise Lelouch in episode 1. but she decided to stay dead there. And seeing almost every faction of Britania military looking for her, she decided to stay at Lelouch in ep 5.
Anyway nice talking to you. And I'll end this conversation here. I think its not appropraite being this is the Lelouch thread but I guess it has connections anyway.
|2012-08-17, 20:36
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If thats where he getting at.
Only a handful of characters (Rolo, Anya, Gino, Jeremiah, Suzaku, and Cornelia respectively to me) and the battles were interesting in R2. The rest was just.....xD
|2012-08-17, 21:29
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Indeed, the Betrayal was the worst thing of Code Geass. Not even Lelouch epically owning everyone could make up for how much of an ass-pull that Betrayal was when everyone in the Black Knights suddenly became a bunch of bumbling idiots. You know there's an issue when Rolo is the only one left to be the voice of reason. Seriously, Schneziel admits to knowing about the FLEIA and didn't even feel bad that it was used.
After all Lelouch did for them they betray him for the guy that paid for the FLEIA that just killed more Japanese than the entire wars in a single day?
Guess that's why z2.2 was so well received since Ohgi actually used common sense if you choose not to betray Lelouch.
|2012-08-26, 23:03
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I've said this before and got grief for it, but IMO the problem wasn't the betrayal itself but how they did it. They'd had plenty of reasons to distrust Zero lately. He'd been acting awfully suspicious, running off for long periods of time and hiring new recruits without telling anyone about it. And he'd just shown a massive disregard for everyones safety after they'd nearly all been blown up. Plus Todou just learned that he'd apparantly killed his former boss and lied to him about it in order to get him to work for himself.
And everything had been set perfectly to make it look like Lelouch was using him to remove competition for the Britannian throne. He wasn't, but it sure would look like it was if you read between the seeming lines.
But instead it looks like Ougi just wants to kill him so he can get with Viletta, and all the Black Kinghts just agree with him. Well Chiba never liked Zero, and Todou was likely pissed that Zero had gotten most of his men killed, but everyone else just kind of rolled with it.
|2012-08-27, 00:16
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Well they all were idiots and Ohgi was thinking with his lower head, we all ow how badly Ohgi is when it comes to being a leader. So it isn't that hard to believe that he was manipulated so easily. Still makes him a scumbag though.
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Indeed, though Tamaki tends to waste funds... Still at least he knows what he's doing half the tie(Even if he has horrible vision) while Ohgi needs someone to tell him what to do. Ohgi become Prime Minister at the end is bad considering his wife is Britannian and controls him fully.
I'm sure she held off on the night time fun until Ohgi agreed to not trust Zero anymore and to betray him when the chance first arose.
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I'm wondering, did Kaguya figure out ZR? There were some hints that she did in the final episode but nothing was very clear. I don't know if she felt anything for Lelouch that may classify as romantic, but she did have some kind of soft spot for him (or at least-for Zero). She was clearly shocked by his death too (like on the verge of tears-like Kallen).
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It's never confirmed that she did and unlike Kallen, Kaguya loved Zero only and not Lelouch who is a stranger to her for the most part. They never bothered to show if she could love the man under the mask like they did with Kallen who eventually loved Lelouch even if he wasn't the inspirational Zero that she initially fell in love with.
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I'll admit that Kallen initially fell in love with Zero and not Lelouch because she thought that he was an arrogant bastard. It was only after a time that her fellings towards Zero and Lelouch became one in the same.
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Jays deal Buchholz his first loss of the season
September 21. 2013 11:15PM
BOSTON -- Mark Buehrle worked six strong innings and Adam Lind doubled in a run as visiting Toronto evened the series with Boston at a game apiece with a 4-2 win on Saturday.
Buehrle (12-9) allowed one run on five hits while striking out five and two relievers bridged the gap to Casey Janssen, who struck out a pair in the ninth for his 33rd save.
Rajai Davis singled in a run and Brett Lawrie added a pair of hits for the Blue Jays.
Clay Buchholz (11-1) was charged with three runs (two earned) on six hits in six innings to suffer his first loss of the season for the Red Sox, who gave a handful of regulars the night off after Friday's division-clinching victory.
Toronto did most of its damage in the fourth inning against Buchholz, starting when Lawrie delivered a two-out single and came in on Lind's double. Moises Sierra and Davis followed with back-to-back singles and Buchholz's own error allowed a third run to cross.
Jonny Gomes singled in a run in the sixth but Buehrle got Daniel Nava to ground into a double play to kill a potential rally.
Rookie Xander Bogaerts scored on a groundout in the seventh to cut it to 3-2 before J.P. Arencibia's RBI single in the ninth provided some breathing room.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Red Sox gave regulars 2B Dustin Pedroia, C Jarrod Saltalamacchia and 1B Mike Napoli the night off. Will Middlebrooks made his first career start at 1B while John McDonald made his first start for Boston at 2B. David Ross filled in at C. ... The Blue Jays placed CF Colby Rasmus on the disabled list, ending his season. Rasmus was hit in the face by a ball on Friday on his way out to warm up before the bottom of the first inning. ... Red Sox CF Jacoby Ellsbury (broken foot) ran and hit off a tee before the game. He could take batting practice in the cage on Sunday.


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The five lessons we've learned from the Hagel fight… 1) Political betrayal is a worse sin than being a member of the opposing party… 2) Getting 60 votes remains the standard in the Senate… 3) Confirmation hearings DO matter… 4) For Republicans, when in doubt just say "Benghazi"… 5) Hagel has been wounded… Obama travels to GA to press for universal pre-K… The two splits inside the GOP… Building a better "likely voter model"… And don't count on the "six-year itch."
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower
*** Five lessons we've learned from the Hagel fight: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday filed a cloture motion — requiring 60 votes — on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary that appears set for Friday. And it's worth noting that the entire debate over Hagel is upside down: It's Senate Republicans who are opposing a former GOP senator; it's Senate Democrats who are uniformly supporting him; and the former Vietnam War hero has been accused by his detractors of being "cozy" with Iran. The White House remains confident he'll get 60 votes and beat the GOP filibuster — the first time it's ever been used against a defense secretary nominee and only third time it's been used against a cabinet nominee. But the vote is going to be close, and Senate Democrats are bracing themselves for Republicans denying them 60 votes. Right now, whether Hagel gets 60 depends on Hagel opponents like John McCain and Roy Blunt, who both earlier signaled they would NOT participate in a filibuster. Key Republican opponents of Hagel are hoping that the longer they delay the process, there's the chance another shoe might drop. McCain and Blunt are said to be at least listening to folks trying to persuade them for more time and to join the filibuster. So how did we get here? What have we learned from this Hagel fight? We point to five lessons.
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Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be Defense Secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this January 31, 2013, file photo.
*** Political betrayal, getting 60 votes, confirmation hearings matter, yelling "Benghazi," and Hagel has been wounded: One, political betrayal is a worse sin than being a member of the opposing party. (The chief example here is John McCain's tough questions to Hagel on the Iraq surge, which John Kerry — who received so much praise from McCain — also opposed.) Two, getting 60 votes remains the standard in the Senate. (This is a reminder for all the future legislative fights and nomination battles we'll see over the next four years; let's stop pretending this will change anytime soon.) Three, confirmation hearings, while maybe not decisive, do matter. (Just ask yourself why John Brennan and Jack Lew are having an easier confirmation process. Answer: They aced their confirmation hearings. Hagel, on the other hand, was a borderline disaster on style and he struggled on substance.) Four, Benghazi has become a catch-all Republican fallback, with McCain and Lindsey Graham wanting more answers on the subject before they support moving Hagel's nomination along. (When in doubt, just yell "Benghazi." But what's left to debate? The issue has been litigated at two presidential debates, Hillary Clinton's two congressional hearings, and Leon Panetta's one.) And five, Hagel has been wounded by the entire process. (Yes, if confirmed, he has the ability — just like Tim Geithner did — to rehabilitate his image, but there are serious questions about his effectiveness, especially in dealing with Congress. Jack Reed, it's the president on Line 1.)
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee engage in a sharp discussion regarding Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary and his disclosure of personal income.
*** Obama to press for universal pre-K. How will GOPers react? Taking his second trip outside of Washington after his State of the Union address, President Obama today travels to Decatur, GA, where he will tout his universal pre-K initiative in a speech he'll deliver at 1:20 pm ET. As we wrote yesterday, many of these kinds of initiatives are potential a trap for Republicans — they'll oppose them on ideological grounds or as small bore, but they poll VERY well. And they immediately fell into that trap on Obama's idea to raise the federal minimum wage. What will the GOP reaction be to this pre-K initiative? And this begs another question: What are Republicans proposing right now to help Americans at the kitchen table? We saw House Majority Eric Cantor try to present such an alternative last week. But the main GOP voices have been fixed on the deficit/debt and Hagel. Of course, the president has set his own trap of sorts with many of these ideas: The White House doesn't seem to have a legislative strategy to get some of these proposals passed in Congress. Yes, they have a POLITICAL strategy, and for now it appears they hope somehow national popularity for an idea will translate into congressional action. Sounds like the plot to the movie "Dave" not the reality we live in here in Washington.
*** The two splits inside the GOP: Speaking of the Republican Party, we are currently seeing two different splits. The first is the establishment vs. the Tea Party. The examples here are Karl Rove vs. conservative groups, as well as Haley Barbour vs. the Club for Growth. But the second split is Washington vs. non-Washington Republicans. And the best way to illustrate this split is between Marco Rubio (Washington) and Bobby Jindal (non-Washington). As we wrote yesterday, Rubio's State of the Union response was similar to any speech you'd hear from Mitt Romney in 2012, with the exception of Rubio's different background and his personal story. On the other hand, Jindal has argued that his party should stop focusing so much on Washington budget battles and should instead focus on what's taking place in the states. We single out these two Republicans because of the obvious 2016 ramifications. Both are conservatives; both appear to be what the party needs as far as looks are concerned (the party is tired of being defined as the party of white men); but both do represent two different schools of thinking of how to rebrand the party.
*** Building a better likely voter model: As our friend Elizabeth Wilner notes in the Cook Political Report, "likely voter models" for national polls didn't have a good 2012 election cycle. In particular, they seemed to miss some Democratic-leaning Latino and 18-29 voters. So heading into future contests, how do pollsters fix things? NBC/WSJ co-pollster Bill McInturff (R) recently proposed some ideas. One, ensure that polls are surveying enough cell phone-only respondents (who made up 33% of all voters, per the 2012 exit polls). Two, make sure that self-described interest isn't the only factor to in determining who is a likely voter; other factors need to be taken into consideration. Three, try to find ways to enable Latinos and 18-29s to qualify as likely voters. And four, in presidential years, likely voter models should shoot to have a gender breakdown of 53% female, 47% male, which it has been (more or less) in the presidential elections going back to 1992. Folks, take time and read the McInturff manifesto.
*** Don't count on the "six-year itch": Meanwhile, McInturff's partner Neil Newhouse — who served as Mitt Romney's pollster in 2012 — had some advice for House Republicans: Don't count on the "six-year itch" to benefit Republicans in 2014. Roll Call: "At their first political conference meeting of the 113th Congress, held at Republican National Committee headquarters a stone's throw from the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Vice Chairman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and top GOP pollster Neil Newhouse told members to be on guard for Obama's campaign machine… 'I kind of emphasized to the members that second midterm elections have never been friendly to the president,' Newhouse said in an interview. 'You can't count on that. That's not going to happen. We've got to realize that the House Republicans are going to be Obama's top target.'"
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Climate change has been a constant reality for many Filipinos, with impacts ranging from extreme weather events to periodic droughts and food scarcity. The most affected populations are coastal residents and rural communities that lack proper disaster preparedness.
According to the Center for Global Development, the Philippines is the world's fourth most vulnerable country to the direct impacts of extreme weather events. Averaging 20 tropical cyclones a year, it may be the world's most storm-exposed nation. Last November, Supertyphoon Haiyan, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, claimed more than 10,000 lives, affected over 9 million people, and left over 600,000 Filipinos homeless. With both the oceans and the atmosphere warming, there is broad scientific consensus that typhoons are now increasing in strength.
Like most developing countries, the Philippines plays a minor role in global carbon emissions yet suffers an inordinately higher cost. With over a third of its population living in poverty, the country emits just 0.9 metric tons of carbon per capita, compared to the United States' 17.6 metric tons. "We lose 5% of our economy every year to storms," observes Philippine Climate Change Commissioner Naderev Sano. The reconstruction costs of Haiyan alone are estimated at $5.8 billion.
As the Philippines embarks on a long road to recovery, sustainability is key for post-Haiyan rebuilding. "We must build back better and more resilient communities," says Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Philippines' Senate Committee on Climate Change, who was named a Regional Champion by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. "We must prevent disasters and be prepared for the next natural hazards. This disaster also tells us about the urgent need to save and care for our environment."
It is widely argued that taking early action against climate change through mitigation efforts outweigh the costs and economic impacts of inaction. In the Philippines, transitioning to a low-carbon economy has many challenges, but it also offers strong prospects for growth and development. The country has tremendous mitigation opportunities and is graced with significant renewable energy resources. According to the Philippine Department of Energy, renewable energy already provides 40 percent of the country's primary energy requirements, and much of its potential has yet to be tapped.
To achieve an environmentally secure future, the Philippines must not only rebuild more sustainably but also create a sustainable pathway for future development. With one of the most progressive energy laws in Asia, the country has committed to a renewable energy target of 50 percent by 2030 under its Renewable Energy Act.
In 2013, the Office of the President's Climate Change Commission (CCC), the primary executive office working on climate change, began a partnership with the Worldwatch Institute to lay groundwork for a Sustainable Energy Roadmap for the
Philippines, which aims to shift its electricity system to 100 percent renewable energy within a decade. The CCC also invited Worldwatch to help develop an education and outreach campaign on "communicating climate change" to boost environmental literacy and political support for addressing climate change within the country.
Worldwatch is already working on Sustainable Energy Roadmaps for the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Central America, and 15 CARICOM member states, and is eager to assist the Philippine government in building a sustainable pathway that addresses the country's specific development goals. Many of the world's developing countries have incredible potential to alleviate poverty through accelerated economic growth while also improving people's quality of life through sustainable development. The Worldwatch-Philippines partnership aspires to move the country toward developing and deploying low-carbon technologies in order to achieve the deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that are needed to mitigate future climate-related risks.


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2013 has been a great year for movies, so narrowing down our list of favorites was no easy task. As Cinema Blend has numerous writers with varying tastes in film, we decided to go solo this year in sharing our Top 10 lists of the best movies of 2013. Sean's list is up This is Kristy's list, with some critical darlings, a panned biopic, several deeply dark comedies, and a string of heartstring-tugging coming-of-age tales.
10. Pain & Gain
To me it's a crime that Michael Bay's dark comedy about the insane exploits of The Sun Gym Gang has been deemed "Rotten." For decades Bay has made movies maligned for being (supposedly) just for teenage boys, and then he makes something sharper, smarter and a thousand times more bonkers, and still many critics sneered. Well, not this one.
Bay set up a brilliant satire about those who demand a shortcut to the American Dream, and how they are not just clownish but dangerous. He gave us anti-heroes who were misogynistic, homophobic, and relentlessly greedy, and in doing so offered a criticism of the very ideology he's often been accused of promoting. (And by my count, he did it better than Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street.) Plus, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie crush it in the leads, deftly blending heaps of machismo with humor and a childish short fuse.
Best Moment: Johnson's meat-headed kidnapper is barbequing severed human hands out in public. Just as I thought to myself, "No way," a title card came up reading: THIS IS STILL A TRUE STORY. Well played, Bay.


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Missing Frenchman's body found off Jersey shore
ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK, New Jersey (AP) — Authorities say a body found in waters off the Jersey Shore has been identified as that of a Frenchman who disappeared while trying to swim in the Atlantic Ocean.
Nicolas Guilhot of Lyon, France, was swimming with friends off Island Beach State Park late Friday morning when he began to struggle and slipped under the waves.
On Saturday morning, a fisherman found a body not far from where the 25-year-old Guilhot was last seen. That came several hours after the Coast Guard had suspended its extensive search.
A spokesman for the state's Environmental Protection Department told the Asbury Park Press on Sunday that authorities had confirmed the body was Guilhot. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
Information from: Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, http://www.app.com


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Ghosting Scotland
Status-wise, ghosts fall into two classes: Victorian ghosts, generally the apparitions of former residents who refuse to leave when the lease runs out, and Gothic ones, the brutally murdered lords and ladies that hang around castles from one generation to the next with the stubborn persistence of a family secret. To close our trip, we hit both ends of the spectrum back-to-back.
The pub at the Drovers Inn, in Inverarnan, is the sort of place where the ashes of deceased regulars are kept on a shelf. It's been in operation since 1705 and caters mostly to the climbers that roam the surrounding hills; Inverarnan is big trekking country. I'm not sure why this is, but the foyer is crowded with taxidermy—stuffed bears and birds, mounted deer heads. In America, I suspect it would look hokey and rather Disney, but it works here. Perhaps because the place feels so weathered and rough around the edges. You don't get the impression that they go in much for affect.
When Gillian and I arrived late on the afternoon of our penultimate day in Scotland, after a long slog of driving, we had every intention of grabbing a quick bite before heading back outside for a hike, but as a barfly observed about five hours later, we just sat down and never left. Next to our table were two small ceramic jugs containing the remains of Hector McDonald and George Cumbe.
Eventually, after a plate of fish and chips, bread pudding, and several too many glasses of whisky (it's important, while in Scotland, to taste test as many as possible), I left Gillian at the bar to walk upstairs to our room and turn in early—and then I raced right back down again.
"Kate! You're back! I thought you went to bed!"
"Gillian. I cannot be alone in that room. It is terrifying. Please come with me."
"Kate! Don't be crazy. You'll be fine. I'll be there soon."
At this point, the bartender—a strapping Australian in a kilt—leaned in. "Scared, are ya? I know what you mean. I've been in that haunted room."
Finally, I'd been able to secure a room that actually felt haunted—the very purpose of my trip!—and I was ruing it.
"It's that girl," the bartender explained. "The one in the picture."
On the wall facing the bed, there is an old black-and-white portrait of a round-faced child. She is sitting on a cushioned settee—tiny legs stretched straight out before her—with her left hand petting an especially feral-looking dog. It is a terrifying picture.
"That girl is the ghost," he said. "When her family was staying here she got smallpox and died in the room."
"Gillian!" I said. Imploringly.
She shook her head. I had no choice but to pull up a chair and continue on with the taste testing. But here's the weird thing: When we finally found our way back to our room, many hours later, I dreamt the most disturbingly vivid dreams, in which dead people from my past whom I hadn't thought about in years appeared to me clear as could be. Shouldn't this count as a kind of haunting?
I'm sure you can imagine how, after seven days of virtually nonstop driving, an overabundance of fried fish and whisky, and a few too many fitful nights of sleep, the prospect of Dalhousie Castle loomed like a refuge. Excuse me: Dalhousie Castle and Aqueous Spa. This time, we'd be rubbing shoulders with high-end luxury ghosts. At the very least, I'd be able to conclude my survey of Castle Chic (see the accompanying slide shows).
A fine-looking fortress on the banks of the river Esk, a few miles south of Edinburgh, Dalhousie Castle is the 13th-century ancestral home of the Ramsay family. In the 16th century, one of the Ramsay wives discovered that her husband was fooling around with a Lady Catherine and had her imprisoned and starved to death in one of the upstairs chambers. Andrew Sharp, the castle steward and pipe sergeant, wrote in a flyer that he's seen the "Grey Lady" (so called because of her dress) rustling up and down the stairs. "It appears she does not like the bag pipe music," he adds. "When seen by me, the bag pipes fail to play a sweet tune." In spite of this, it's a popular site for weddings.
In their promotional literature, the present-day proprietors like to make much of the fact that, in medieval times, their castle was a very stressful place to be—yet now it's a house of extreme relaxation! I can't deny them this; I shuffled down to the spa and received a perfectly serviceable massage. And our four-course dinner in the high-ceiling dungeon was an instance of some extremely fine dining. But I felt altogether too close to the living and not near enough the dead.
Why should it matter? I'll leave that to 19th-century folklorist Hugh Miller, who had this to say about standing next to a corpse:
By what process of thought can we bring experience to bear on the world of the dead? It lies entirely beyond us, — a terra incognita of cloud and darkness; and yet the thing at our side, — the thing over which we can stretch our hand, — the thing dead to us, but living to it, — has entered upon it; and, however uninformed or ignorant before, knows more of its dark, and to us inscrutable mysteries, than all our philosophers and all our divines.


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Former Sen. Rudman remembered fondly at memorial serviceBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
January 25. 2013 6:35PM
CONCORD - The hierarchy of New Hampshire's political and judicial communities from both sides of the aisle gathered Friday to honor former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman.
He was remembered by friends and colleagues as a man of fierce loyalty, integrity and decency who liked to laugh, particularly at himself, but who always put the interests of New Hampshire, its people and America before anything else in his life of public service.
From attorneys general to U.S. senators past and present and from former staff members and law partners to colleagues, they shared personal reflections of the man many said changed their lives.
While the 200 or so people who came to remember Rudman gathered in the federal courthouse that bares his name, his long-time friend Tom Rath said the courthouse is not Rudman's true legacy, it is the people whom he worked with and mentored, who became his friends.
Rath asked them to stand and said "Warren found so many good people who did so many good things for this state and beyond."
Rudman, who died in November at the age of 82 from complications of lymphoma, was a born leader and an inspiration to many of the people who spoke at his service, including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter who read the note he wrote in 1976 when Rudman left the Attorney General's Office.
"We will think of these years as the years with Warren," Souter, who was Rudman's deputy attorney general at the time, read. "They were wonderful."
His U.S. Senate New Hampshire colleague of 10 years Gordon Humphrey told of the professional relationship they had when they worked together and of Rudman's self-deprecating humor.
Humphrey also noted Rudman's vision of the devastation deficit spending would bring to this country and what Humphrey called the wreck ahead.
What better way to honor Rudman, Humphrey said, then a rededication to "Warren's quest to save this country from a financial shipwreck. That would be a fitting memorial to Warren."
Rudman was a founder of the Concord Coalition with former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas, a Democrat from Massachusetts. The group sought to raise awareness of the pending federal debt crisis.
Rudman was best known for co-writing the deficit reduction bill with fellow Republican Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas and Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina.
The bill required "sequestration" of federal funding if deficit targets were not reached. The move helped reduce the federal deficit at the time, but since then the deficit has grown substantially.
Both U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte said if Rudman's formula had remained in place the country would not be in the financial situation it is today.
Ayotte said "He always called it like he saw it,' noting the country is still trying to reach the standard he set for fiscal responsibility today.
Shaheen, Gov. Maggie Hassan and former Gov. John Lynch all praised Rudman for his bipartisanship and his work to find middle ground among different ideologies.
"Warren Rudman did not care about the parties," said Lynch, "he cared about doing the right thing, whether it was the Iran Contra hearings or the investigation of the Keating five" which included Republican senators.
Others told of his dedication, his work ethics and his ability to instill confidence in the people who worked for him to accomplish things they did not believe they could do.
A former legal partner and one-time campaign worker, Manchester attorney Brad Cook said he remembers Rudman in the eastside corridor on the 18th floor of Hampshire Plaza in Manchester where they worked at the Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green law firm.
"He took people and he made them better and he got more out of people than they believed they had to give," Cook said. "I don't know how I got here, but I know Warren had something to do with it."
Rudman entered public service when he became legal counsel to former N.H. Gov. Walter Peterson who died last year. Peterson named him attorney general, where he remained when Meldrim Thomson defeated Peterson in the Republican primary and went on to become governor.
Thomson's son and chief of staff, Peter Thomson, said at first his father and Rudman were like "a pair of bulls forced to share the same pasture over a long winter's chill," but the relationship soon thawed as the two learned to work together for the good of the state.
Rudman went on to serve 12 years in the Senate, stepping down in 1992.
His press secretary Robert Stevenson said Rudman was in Washington to do the work he was elected to carry out.
"He was a man of action," Stephenson said. "He didn't suffer fools and he didn't waste time."
Rudman never attended a State Dinner or an embassy party, Stevenson said, because he believed they were frivolous, but "he loved the idea of America."
Also speaking at the ceremony were state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, and U.S. Court of Appeals First Circuit Judge Norman Stahl, whom Rudman helped become a federal justice.


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Jennifer Aniston: 'We're the Millers' Set with Emma Roberts & Jason Sudeikis!
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis head out of the Albuquerque Airport as they film a scene for their upcoming flick We're the Millers on Friday (September 28) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The 43-year-old actress and Jason, 37, were also joined for the airport scenes by her young co-star Emma Roberts.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jennifer Aniston
In case you missed it, check out Jennifer singing "Hey Jude" in this new PSA to raise awareness for and honor the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for children with cancer.


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Scott County authorities have charged four men in their 70s who they say made $200 in a poker cheating scheme at a racetrack.
The three Florida men and one Michigan man are charged with felony cheating while gambling at Canterbury Park last summer. Authorities arrested 75-year-old Duane Racle of Lake City, Florida, on Wednesday. They haven't found the other three men.
All four have previous convictions for cheating while gambling in other states as far back as 1984.
The charges say one of the men distracted the dealer while two others palmed cards and traded them under the table. The fourth man stood behind the card swappers to block them from a surveillance camera.
Racle is in the county jail on $50,000 bond. Online jail records didn't indicate an attorney.