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Dusan Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism on Criterion
Did you know that fucking is the best way to resist totalitarianism?
Did you know that fucking is the best way to resist totalitarianism? Me neither but I like the sound of it. In his schizophrenic and hilarious WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), Dusan Makavejev gleefully presents sex as the greatest of all revolutionary acts. The film wears its 60s radicalism with pride, so expect to hear a lot about, you know, revolution, communism, sexual liberation, censorship, and youth. Dated? Preachy? To an extent. But its message is presented in such an entertaining manner that the film remains one of the more worthwhile artifacts of the counterculture.
As to what WR is about, it's complicated. I could say "it's a documentary and a collage based around the life and theories of Austrian-American psychologist Wilhelm Reich, a Communist-turned-Eisenhower-supporter who was jailed in the fifties over his controversial theories about 'orgone energy' by the typically open-minded U.S. government," but that wouldn't quite cover it. The Reich documentary occupies most of the first half and Makavejev provides warm and amusing interviews with Reich's friends, associates, followers, and the residents of the small town he called home, including a hulking beast of a man who served as both town sheriff and town barber. Reich's theories revolved around "orgone," a life energy, uniting us all, which one properly harnesses through sexual intercourse and emotional release. He invented the "orgone accumulator," which appears to be a big wooden box lined with tin foil that people sit in to cure cancer and various other illnesses. From what I understand, orgone energy is basically like the Force, only in this case you don't have to be a Jedi to wield its power, you just need to get laid.
The rest of WR is a fragmented mess of absurdities, wonders, and segments that are supposed to represent Reich's theories. The most noteworthy is a long fictional narrative involving a young Slavic girl, her sexual awakening, her political monologues, and her short-lived romance with a narcissistic, loveless, and murderous Soviet ice-skating champion. In addition, there is the following: footage of poet Tuli Kupferberg, of satirical sixties band The Fugs, dressed as a soldier and taunting affluent New Yorkers with a plastic gun he handles in an appropriately masturbatory manner; interviews with Jackie Curtis, a glitter-faced transsexual of the Warhol crowd; a scene in which Jim Buckley, co-founder of the porno mag Screw, lets a woman make a plaster mold of his erect penis; clips from the ridiculous Stalinist propaganda film The Vow; an interview with Betty Dodson, an artist who paints portraits of people while they masturbate; a severed head which continues to lecture us about revolution; and hey, there's even a musical number at the end, part of which is sung to a horse.
A good many people might find WR shocking even today, so don't watch it with grandma unless she has a passing interest in Marxism and pornography. The film's rallying cry is "fuck freely!" and while that activity isn't explicitly depicted onscreen, it is certainly being discussed. Of course, the frequent images of nude bodies frolicking and humping are not meant to shock or upset. They instead serve as a reminder that no matter what ideology we follow or what the governments around the world bark at us, underneath our respective costumes we are all human. And I don't know about you, but living in a country in which a televised image of a nipple can provoke widespread rage and mayhem, that's still a reassuring thought.
Image/Sound/Extras: WR: Mysteries of the Organism has been unavailable on DVD for quite a long time, so thank the Gods of Cinema who have used their holy prophets at "The Criterion Collection" to get it to you. The transfer is smooth, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and supervised by Makavejev himself. An audio commentary features Daniel Stewart reading from Raymond Durgnat's 1999 book on the film. There are two interviews with Makavejev, one from 1972 and the other from 2006, the latter being more comprehensive. The disc also includes Hole in the Soul (1994), an autobiographical film made by Makavejev for the BBC. It features some very amusing scenes of an older Makavejev wandering around Hollywood, buying some hip new clothes, and staring in bemused confusion at a billboard for the Schwarzenegger flick Last Action Hero. There are also clips from the "improved" version of WR, a result of the BBC asking Makavejev in 1992 to censor certain scenes so they could show the film on television. Makavejev responded by placing psychedelic computer animation over any scene featuring private parts. The accompanying booklet includes an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Makeup and Hairstyling
There doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
We couldn't really say it any better than Odie Henderson, who recently scoffed: "Who wins the Costume Design Oscar for Joker? The Goodwill? Who wins the Makeup Oscar for Joker? A blind Mary Kay consultant?" While we think the Academy will stop short of awarding the motley threads of Todd Phillips's risible throwback machine in the costume category, the fact that they were nominated at all over, say, the imaginatively garish '70s finery that Ruth Carter created for Dolemite Is My Name indicates a level of affection for Joker that no one who doesn't use the word "snowflake" on a daily basis seems prepared for.
While, to us, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker looks like nothing so much as Marge after sitting still for a makeup gun, as Homer put it best, "Women will like what I tell them to like." From his lips to the Academy's ears (and face). And given this category's expansion didn't add more multicolored prosthetic creations along the lines of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but instead more invisible character augmentation along the lines of Judy and Bombshell, there doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
Will Win: Joker
Could Win: Judy
Should Win: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: International Feature Film
Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time.
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time. As I write this latest prediction for Slant's rolling Oscar coverage, the top article on the front page of Rotten Tomatoes is a ranking, by Tomatometer, of the nine films nominated for best picture this year. Number one? Parasite. Immediately next to that article is a callout to readers to vote for their favorite film of 2019 that uses Song Kang-ho's face from Parasite's poster as the featured image. Regarding that poster, in simply placing black bars over the actors' faces, it succinctly, eerily, perfectly underlines the film's obsession with social strata. And you don't need to look far beyond the aggregate site to land on some article praising the perfectly lit and designed architectural purgatory that is the film's main setting.
Perfect. That's a funny word. There are no objectively measurable criteria for perfection, but given how many times I've heard Bong's film described as being "perfect" since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or, you'd think that there were. Still, the impulse to use it to describe this particular film, so balanced and attuned to the ties that both bind and separate us, evident in everything from the dimensions of Bong's aesthetic, to his actors' faces, to their words, makes a certain kind of sense. Quick, can you name the other four films nominated in this category? How apt if you can't, as this is a film profoundly obsessed with the subterfuge that can be weaponized during class warfare. Or awards campaigns.
Will Win: Parasite
Could Win: Pain and Glory
Should Win: Parasite
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Original Score
John Williams is in no danger of winning, but a case could be made for any of the other four.
That one of the five films nominated for original score this year is not a best picture nominee nor had any shot at being one almost makes this category an outlier among this year's Oscar races, which seem otherwise fixated on frontrunners. John Williams already had the record-setting strength of 51 previous nominations leading into this week's announcement, so his nod for the third Star Wars installment, or sixth, or ninth, or…does The Mandalorian count? Anyway, suffice it to say that the only thing that could've been more knee-jerk than to select nominations solely from among this year's best picture probables would be to rubber stamp Williams uploading yet more variations on intellectual property.
Williams is in no danger of winning, but a case could be made for any of the other four. Alexandre Desplat already has two wins here, both in the last six years, but Little Women is finally picking up momentum at just the right time. His richly romantic cues, which are practically wall to wall throughout the film, come on like a crushed-velvet dust jacket, binding Greta Gerwig's shifting timeline together in a way that makes just about everyone who isn't Sasha Stone want to clutch the entire thing to their bosoms.
Arguably, another film that's still reaching its crest stage is 1917, and unlike Desplat, composer Thomas Newman is still waiting for his first win, and now holding the category's longest losing streak. It can't be said that Newman doesn't pull out all the stops, piecing together a work that feels inspired by both Hans Zimmer's pulsating Dunkirk score and Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," most memorably used in Oliver Stone's Platoon. And yet, we're kind of with Bilge Ebiri, who after the nominations were announced, tweeted, "You didn't give it to DUNKIRK, you're not allowed to give it to 1917. Sorry, we're very strict on this matter."
Not to say that we expect 1917 to roll snake eyes on its 10 nominations. Only that any nominations for the film related to things that Dunkirk already did better two years ago are a tough sell, despite the draw of Newman's increasingly amplified Oscar backstory. That's presuming that the narrative doesn't wind up over-shadowed by the sidebar-friendly cousin's duel between Thomas and his cousin, Randy Newman, whose jaunty, Terms of Endearment-esque Marriage Story score appears to have as many detractors as it has fans.
Until the nominations were announced, we admit to assuming that Hildur Guðnadóttir's Golden Globe win for Todd Phillips's Joker was going to go down the same way as Justin Hurwitz's did a year ago: with an Oscar snub. We reasoned that Guðnadóttir, who also perked ears up and won an Emmy last year for her work on HBO's Chernobyl, was still too fresh a talent for the more cliquey AMPAS musicians' branch. But now that she's there, Globe in hand and attached to the film that, by the numbers, the academy loved best this year, she offers even conscience-wracked voters the chance to hand a feature-length 4chan fantasy a guilt-free win by also awarding one of the film's few female nominees.
Will Win: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker
Could Win: Thomas Newman, 1917
Should Win: Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
Tags: Academy Awards, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker, Thomas Newman, 1917, Alexandre Desplat, Little Women, Randy Newman, Marriage Story, John Williams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Review: Dolittle, Like Its Animals, Is Flashy but Dead Behind the Eyes
Dolittle's inability to completely develop any of its characters reduces the film to all pomp and no circumstance.1
Stephen Gaghan's Dolittle begins with a just-shy-of-saccharine animated sequence that spins the tale of the eponymous character's (Robert Downey Jr.) adventures with his wife, who one day dies at sea during a solo voyage. It's something of a more condensed, less moving version of the prologue to Pixar's Up, underscoring our protagonist's upcoming fantastical journey on behalf of Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley) with a tinge of melancholy.
As soon as the film shifts to live action, we immediately sense the loss felt by Dolittle in the overgrown vines and shrubbery that surround the famed doctor and veterinarian's estate, as well as in his unkempt appearance. But any hopes that the film might follow through on its promise to explore Dolittle's emotional turmoil are quickly dashed once he begins interacting with the animal friends who keep him company. Their banter is ceaseless and mostly ranges from corny and tiresome to downright baffling, as evidenced by a pun referencing Chris Tucker in Rush Hour that may leave you wondering who the target is for half of the film's jokes.
The tenderness of Dolittle's prologue does resurface sporadically across the film, most memorably in a late scene where the good doctor shares the pain of losing a spouse with a fierce dragon that's also enduring a similar grief. But just as the film seems primed to say something profound about the nature of loss, Dolittle shoves his hand into the dragon's backside—with her permission of course—in order to extract a bagpipe and an array of armor, leading the fiery beast to unleash a long, loud fart right into the doctor's face.
That moment is crass, juvenile, and, above all, cheap in its cynical undercutting of one of Dolittle's rare moments of vulnerability. But it serves as a ripe metaphor for the filmmakers' incessant need to respond to a show of earnestness with a dollop of inanity, as if believing that their young audience can't handle anything remotely sincere without a chaser of flatulence.
But worse than the film's failure to truly probe Dolittle's emotional landscape is how it surrounds him with a series of uncompelling character types. While the film seems to mostly unfold through the eyes of young Tommy Stubbins (Harry Collett), who becomes Dolittle's apprentice after witnessing the doctor communicate with animals, he serves little purpose aside from drawing the man out of his shell. And Dolittle's arch-enemy, Dr. Blair Müdfly (Michael Sheen, chomping on every bit of scenery within reach), has little motivation to justify his ceaseless quest to stop his rival from attaining an elixir that will save Queen Victoria's life.
Despite repeatedly paying lip service to notions of grief and opening oneself up to the world, Dolittle ultimately plays like little more than an extended showpiece for its special effects. But even the CGI on display here is patchy at best, with the countless animals that parade through the film's frames taking on a creepy quality as their photorealistic appearance often awkwardly clashes with their cartoonish behavior. The film's notoriously troubled production, which went so off the rails that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles director Jonathan Liebesman was brought on board for reshoots, is evident in its clumsy staging and lifeless interplay between humans and animals, but it's the film's inability to completely develop any of its characters that reduces it to all pomp and no circumstance. Like the CGI animals that inhabit much of the film, Dolittle is flashy and colorful on the outside but dead behind the eyes.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Harry Collett, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland Director: Stephen Gaghan Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand Distributor: Universal Pictures Running Time: 106 min Rating: PG Year: 2020 Buy: Soundtrack
Review: Bad Boys for Life Is a Half-Speed Echo of Michael Bay's Toxic Formula
In the end, the film's perpetuation of the franchise's endorsement of police brutality comes back to bite it..5
From its parodically overused low-angle and circling tracking shots to its raw embodiment of Michael Bay's unique brand of jingoism and adolescent vulgarity, Bad Boys II arguably remains the purest expression of the director's auteurism. Bay doesn't direct the film's belated sequel, Bad Boys for Life, leaving one to wonder what purpose this franchise serves if not to give expression to his nationalist, racist, and misogynistic instincts.
Intriguingly, Bad Boys for Life is helmed by the Belgian team of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, whose streetwise, racially focused crime films, from 2014's Image to 2018's Gangsta, represent positions that are nearly the polar opposite of those of Bay's work. Except the filmmakers do nothing to shake the franchise from its repellent roots, merely replicating Bay's stylistic tics at a more sluggish pace, losing the antic abandon that is his only redeeming quality as an artist. At best, the half-speed iterations of Bay's signature aesthetic reflect the film's invocation of too-old-for-this-shit buddy-movie clichés, with Miami cops Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) forced to contend with growing old and obsolete.
The film is quick to establish that Marcus, newly a grandfather, longs to settle down, even as Mike continues to insist that he's at the top of his game. It's then that the partners are thrown for a loop when Mike is shot by Armando (Jacob Scipio), whose drug kingpin father Mike killed and whose mother, Isabel (Kate del Castillo), he helped get imprisoned in Mexico. Both men are left traumatized by the event, with a horrified Marcus forswearing a life of violence, while Mike seeks brutal revenge for his wounded sense of masculine security. And for a brief moment, Bad Boys for Life finds fertile ground in the emotional chasm that opens between the two pals, with Mike's single-minded rage leaving Marcus morally disgusted.
Almost immediately, though, the film turns to gleeful violence, showing how grotesque the consequences of Mike's vigilantism actions can be, only to then largely justify his actions. When Mike violates orders during a surveillance assignment to abduct a possible lead, that source is left dead in a gruesomely elaborate shootout that's played for satire-less kicks. Partnered with a new unit of inexperienced, tech-savvy rookies (Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, and Charles Melton), Mike can only express his dismay at the new generation resorting to gadgets and nonlethal, perhaps even—dare one say—legal, measures of law enforcement. Each one gets a single defining characteristic (Hudgens's Kelley is a trigger-happy fascist in the making and Ludwig's Dorn possesses a bodybuilder's physique that belies his pacifism), and they all exist for Smith to target with stale jokes about old-school justice.
Likewise, the surprising soulfulness that Lawrence brings to his character is ultimately just fodder for jokes about how the weary, flabby new grandpa isn't getting laid. Unsurprisingly, then, Marcus only reclaims his virility as a man by lunging back into a life of chaotic police action. Even his turn toward faith and a vow of peace is mocked, as when he finds himself in possession of a machine gun during a hectic chase and Mike reassures him that God gave that to him in a time of need. "Shit, I do need it!" Marcus exclaims, but the humor of Lawrence's delivery only momentarily distracts us from the film's flippant take on his spirituality.
By saddling both heroes and villains alike with quests for revenge, Bad Boys for Life broaches deeper thematic possibility than has ever existed in this franchise. Indeed, the film's focus on aging, when paired with a last-act reveal that forces the characters to think about the legacies that are passed on to future generations, places it in unexpected parallel to another recent Will Smith vehicle, Gemini Man. But where Ang Lee's film actually grappled with the implications of violence bred and nurtured in our descendants, this movie merely gets some cheap sentimentality to contrast with its otherwise giddy embrace of carnage.
In the end, the film's perpetuation of the franchise's endorsement of police brutality comes back to bite it. The aforementioned scene with Marcus discovering the machine gun is played as a joke, even though the man, half-blind but refusing to wear the glasses that show his age, fires wildly at gunmen on motorcycles weaving around civilian vehicles. Watching this scene, it's hard not to think of the recent, real-life case of Miami cops firing hundreds of rounds at armed robbers despite being surrounded by commuters, not only killing the suspects but their hostage and a random bystander. This coincidental timing is a reminder that the supposed harmlessness of glib entertainments like Bad Boys for Life plays a part in normalizing the increasing police-state tactics and mentality of our nation's over-armed law enforcement.
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Joe Pantoliano, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Núñez, Kate del Castillo, Jacob Scipio Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah Screenwriter: Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan Distributor: Columbia Pictures Running Time: 110 min Rating: R Year: 2020 Buy: Soundtrack
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Actress
Well hi, everybody, it's nice to see you.
Well hi, everybody, it's nice to see you. Loyal readers of Slant's Oscar coverage know that we don't like to beat around the bush, and this year we have even less reason to do so what with the accelerated awards calendar forcing us to kick-start our rolling predictions earlier than usual. So, as we busy ourselves in the next few days catching up with some remaining blindspots, and being thankful that we don't actually ever have to see Cats, we will be bringing you our predictions in some of Oscar's easier-to-call categories.
Which isn't to say that we're going to be drama-free. Case in point: the revelation that Eric Henderson, my fellow awards guru, made on Twitter this week that "Scarlett Johansson is genuinely better in Jojo Rabbit than in Marriage Story." He also asked us to throw the tweet back in this face four or five years from now, but I say right now is as good a time as any.
No, seriously, shocking as that tweet was to this fan of Marriage Story's entire acting ensemble, that some are already predicting the actress as a possible spoiler in supporting actress in the wake of Jojo Rabbit scoring six nominations, it's gotten us thinking about the ostensibly evolving tastes of AMPAS's membership at a time when it's struggling to diversify itself. And based on how things went down at last year's Oscars, the only conclusion we can come up with is that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Immediately after Glenn Close lost the Oscar last year to Olivia Coleman, Eric sent me a text wondering why AMPAS hates the former so much, to which I offered that there's nothing more unwavering than Hollywood's support for actors playing real-life individuals. Well, that and its support for actors who actually want to be exalted by the industry. Even in a world where Renée Zellweger isn't also being helped by a comeback narrative, and has yet to follow Joaquin Phoenix's savvy lead by getting arrested at Jane Fonda's weekly climate change protest and erasing our memory of her performance at the Golden Globes, she's nominated for a generally well liked performance in a film that has actually performed well at the box office.
On Monday, more outcry was provoked by the Oscar nominations, again for women being shut out of the best director race, but also for the snubbing of several actors of color, most notably Jennifer Lopez and Lupita N'yongo. Some will speculate that Cynthia Erivo, the only actor of color to be nominated this year, is a potential spoiler here, but whether she stands to benefit from a core of protest votes is something that can never be known. This fine actress's performance checks off almost as many boxes as Zellweger's, if not, at the end of the day, the one that matters most: representing a film about the industry itself, in this case one that will allow a reliably backward-looking Hollywood to atone for sins committed against their own.
Will Win: Renée Zellweger, Judy
Could Win: Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Should Win: Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Review: Intrigo: Death of an Author Is Damned by Its Lack of Self-Awareness
The film evinces neither the visceral pleasures of noir nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.1.5
"Surprise me!" demands reclusive author Alex Henderson (Ben Kingsley) near the start of Intrigo: Death of an Author of budding novelist Henry (Benno Fürmann), who's come to him in search of advice. As an audience member, it's difficult not to end up making exactly the same exhortation to director Daniel Alfredson's film. With each plot point being not only easy to predict, but also articulated and elaborated on multiple times by an awkwardly on-the-nose narration, the only shock here is that a film apparently concerned with the act of storytelling could be so lacking in self-awareness.
Henry is a translator for the recently deceased Austrian author Germund Rein and is working on a book about a man whose wife disappeared while they were holidaying in the Alps, shortly after her revelation that she would be leaving him for her therapist. Most of the tedious opening half hour of the film is taken up with Henry telling this tale to Kingsley's enigmatic Henderson, after he meets him at his remote island villa. The pace picks up a little when David switches to giving the older writer an account of the mystery surrounding Rein's death and how this could be connected to his story, which (surprise!) may not be entirely fictional.
Death of An Author is the most high-profile release of the Intrigo films, all directed by Alfredson and based on Håkan Nesser's novellas. Alfredson was also at the helm of two film versions of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, but he still doesn't appear to have developed the stylistic tools necessary to elevate his pulpy source material. Here, his aesthetic seems to be aiming for the icy polish of a modern noir, but it leans toward a safe kind of blandness, evincing neither the visceral pleasures of the genre nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.
While Fürmann's stilted central performance at times threatens to sink Death of An Author, Kingsley always appears just in time to keep the unwieldy thing afloat. Nonetheless, his character's cynical meta commentary, alternately engaged and aloof, is ruinous: As Henderson criticizes Henry's story, he effectively draws too much attention to the film's own flaws.
Death of an Author's mise en abyme framing device has a similarly self-sabotaging effect. It initially promises an interesting push and pull between a writer's literary perspective on reality and their own lived experience, but as so much of Henry's psychology is explained through clunky expository dialogue instead of being expressed visually, no such conflict is possible. The structure ends up just distancing us further from the characters, as well as undermining the tension generated by the more procedural elements of the plot. Ultimately, aside from some picturesque scenery and a satisfyingly dark ending, all we're left to enjoy here is the vicarious thrill of Kingsley's smug, scene-stealing interlocutor occasionally denouncing Henry as a hack, and implicitly dismissing the whole scenario of the film as trite and clichéd.
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Benno Fürmann, Tuva Novotny, Michael Byrne, Veronica Ferres, Daniela Lavender, Sandra Dickinson Director: Daniel Alfredson Screenwriter: Daniel Alfredson, Birgitta Bongenhielm Distributor: Lionsgate Running Time: 106 min Rating: R Year: 2018
Review: Weathering with You Lyrically and Mushily Affirms the Sky's Majesty
Contemporary outrage could've potentially counterpointed the film's increasingly mawkish tendencies.2.5
The lyricism of director Makoto Shinkai's new animated film, Weathering with You, should shame the impersonality of the CGI-addled blockbusters that are usually pitched at children. An early scene finds a teenage girl, Hina (Nano Mori), floating through the sky, at times almost seeming to swim in it. This moment introduces a suggestive motif: In the film, scientists speculate that the sky possesses a habitat that, for all we know, is full of similar properties to the one in the world's oceans. The Tokyo of Shinkai's conception is plagued by rain that sometimes falls so hard as to suggest a tidal wave dropping out of the sky, which is a memorably scary and beautiful effect. Sometimes such rains even leave behind see-through jellyfish-like creatures that evaporate upon touch.
At their best, Shinkai's images affirm the majesty and power of the sky and rain, intrinsic elements of life that we too often take for granted. Raindrops suggest bright white diamonds, and storms resemble cocoons of water. But Hina's new friend, Hodaka (Kotaro Daigo), doesn't take the weather for granted, as he's introduced on a large passenger boat, surveying a storm that almost kills him. Running away to Tokyo from his parents, Hodaka first glances the city as the boat approaches a port, and at which point Shinkai springs another marvel: a city of vast neon light that's been rendered with a soft, watercolor-esque delicacy.
The first 45 minutes or so of Weathering with You promisingly merge such visuals with the story of Hina and Hodaka's blossoming romance, while introducing an amusing rogue, Keisuke Suga (Shun Oguri), who offers Hodaka minimal employment as a junior reporter for a tabloid magazine. Suga gives the film a lurid quality that's surprising for a children's fantasy—as he milks the young Hodaka for a free meal and carouses around Tokyo at night—until Shinkai sentimentally reduces him to a routine father figure. And it's around here that the plot grows more and more cumbersome and gradually takes over the film as Hina and Hodaka become typically misunderstood youngsters on the lam, evading the law and the Tokyo crime world. The free-floating visuals are eventually tethered to a metaphor for the specialness of Hina, who's a mythical "sunshine girl" capable of bringing light to Tokyo's endless storms, and for the fieriness of Hina and Hodaka's love. Shinkai over-explains his lyrical imagery with YA tropes, compromising the dreamlike mystery of the film's first act.
The narrative is also an implicit story of global warming, as Tokyo's storms threaten to destroy the city, with Hina representing a potential balancing of the scales at the expense of her own earthly life. That's a resonant concept that Shinkai never quite steers into overtly political territory—and contemporary outrage could've potentially counterpointed Weathering with You's increasingly mawkish tendencies. A free-floating atmosphere, in which sky and ocean are merged, suggesting collaborative gods, is more than enough for an evocative fable. It's a pity that Shinkai overthinks his project, frontloading it with borrowed plot machinery that goes in circles, separating lovers mostly for the sake of separating them.
Cast: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Kana Ichinose, Ryô Narita, Tsubasa Honda, Mone Kamishiraishi, Kana Ichinose Director: Makoto Shinkai Screenwriter: Makoto Shinkai Distributor: GKIDS Running Time: 112 min Rating: PG-13 Year: 2019
2020 Oscar Nominations: Joker, 1917, The Irishman, and OUATIH Lead Field
Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning by Issa Rae and John Cho.
Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning by Issa Rae and John Cho. Todd Phillips's Joker led the nomination count with 11, followed by Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Sam Mendes's 1917, and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood with 10 each, and Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women with six each.
While Joker mostly received attention throughout the awards season for Joaquin Phoenix's lead performance, many pegged Hildur Guðnadóttir's victory at the Golden Globes for her score as a sign that the film would do well at the Oscars. Elsewhere, Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) had to make way for Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell) in best supporting actress and Lupita N'yongo (Us) for Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) in best actress. And both Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) landed nominations for best actor, pushing Golden Globe-winner Taron Egerton (Rocketman), Robert De Niro (The Irishman), and Christian Bale (Ford v. Ferrari out of the way.
See below for a full list of the nominations.
Best Picture
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Best Costume Design
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Little Women
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Best Sound Editing
Ford v Ferrari
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Best Sound Mixing
Ad Astra
Ford v Ferrari
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Best Animated Short
Dcera (Daughter)
Hair Love
Best Live-Action Short
Nefta Footfall Club
The Neighbor's Window
A Sister
Best Film Editing
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Best Original Score
Little Women
Marriage Story
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Best Documentary Feature
American Factory
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Best Documentary Short Subject
In the Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Life Overtakes Me
St. Louis Superman
Walk, Run, Chacha
Best International Feature Film
Corpus Christi (Poland)
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Les Misérables (France)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Parasite (South Korea)
Best Production Design
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
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Review: VHYes Spoofs Late-Night TV Without Exacting Critiques
VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.1.5
There's more inspired satire about how television manipulates an audience's emotions in the original RoboCop's opening newscast scene than in the entirety of Jack Henry Robbins's VHYes. Set around Christmas in 1987—coincidentally, the year of the Paul Verhoeven classic's release—the film opens as adolescent Ralphie (Mason McNulty) has received his first camcorder. Robbins filters everything through Ralphie's camera, giving the film an entirely home-video aesthetic, and after Ralphie's father (Jake Head) discovers the device can be used to record live TV, VHYes morphs into a procession of mostly stale sketch-comedy bits that have been taped during Ralphie's late-night channel surfing.
Throughout, VHYes shuttles from one gag to the next in search of purpose. In one bit, Robbins serves up a parody of The Joy of Painting starring a woman, Joan (Kerri Kenney), whose dry wit and thinly veiled arousal for her work culminates in a painting of her dunking on Dennis Rodman, of which she assures viewers, "There's moisture. Some of it isn't sweat." We also get a spoof of Antiques Roadshow featuring an appraiser (Mark Proksch) who increasingly reveals his lacking aptitude for the position. And on a mock QVC channel, the formerly married hosts bicker as they predominately sell drug paraphernalia disguised as household products.
VHYes is clearly indebted to the gonzo sketch comedy of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, but unlike Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, Robbins homes in on the oddities of people and things as a means to an end, rather than using them as a jumping-off point for unhinged social commentary. The only segment that approaches a distinct comedic take on its material is Conversations with Todd Plotz, in which the host (Raymond Lee) discusses "tape narcissism" with a cultural philosopher (Mona Lee Wylde) who makes obviously prescient remarks such as, "One day the real world will exist to be filmed." Though this exchange might outwardly suggest an attempt to critique global technological influence, a la Videodrome, the sketch lacks a punchline, let alone insight, beyond the host donning a goofy expression, further revealing how the film is a parade of empty nostalgia for its own sake.
The film offers a reprieve from its grab bag of sketch comedy with a series of musical interludes hosted by Lou (Charlyne Yi), who uses the occasion to introduce bands to her interested but clueless parents. The best of these features Weyes Blood performing a haunting rendition of her 2016 track "Generation Why." But lest the music linger for a moment in earnest, Robbins concludes the segment with the ironized, faux-Lynchian imagery of a door, isolated in darkness, opening onto Lou and Weyes Blood doing a slow dance.
The film's climax returns to reality to find Ralphie and his friend, Josh (Rahm Braslaw), obsessed with the documentary Blood Files: Witch of West Covina. The show claims there's a haunted sorority house on the outskirts of the town where the two live and, predictably, Robbins uses this material to spring the boys out of the house and toward danger, Ralphie's camcorder footage all the while guiding us through their ghostly discoveries. As in its comedy, the film proves wholly derivative in its horror, borrowing liberally from The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and V/H/S and, in this stretch, without even the good sense to heavily ironize it. For all the outrageousness that could be concocted from its overarching premise, VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
Cast: Kerri Kenney, Thomas Lennon, Mark Proksch, Charlyne Yi, Mason McNulty, Rahm Braslaw, Jake Head, Christian Drerup, Mona Lee Wylde, Raymond Lee, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins Director: Jack Henry Robbins Screenwriter: Jack Henry Robbins, Nunzio Randazzo Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories Running Time: 72 min Rating: NR Year: 2019


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SACRAMENTO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Stephen Curry struck for 36 points and Andrew Bogut blocked a Sacramento shot at the buzzer Sunday, lifting Golden State over the Kings 115-113.
Curry sank a pair of free throws with 8.6 seconds left for a two-point Golden State lead.
Sacramento's Isaiah Thomas then drove the length of the floor for an attempted equalizing layup, but Bogut blocked it into the backboard and collected the rebound as the horn sounded.
Curry also recorded 10 assists and Klay Thompson fired in eight 3-pointers en route to 28 points for the Warriors.
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Integrated security: Corrent's SR110 SSL VPN Web Security
Consultants and value-added resellers (VARs) can offer customers a confident recommendation of an easy-to-use VPN appliance after reading this review of Corrent's product.
Offer your customers a confident recommendation of an easy-to-use VPN appliance after reading this review, which originally appeared in Information Security magazine, of Corrent's SR110 SSL VPN Web Security Gateway with Check Point Connectra 2.0.
Corrent's SR110 SSL VPN Web Security Gateway
with Check Point Connectra 2.0
Price: Starts at $11,700 for hardware and software license
Corrent's SR110 SSL VPN Web Security Gateway, an appliance running Check Point Software Technologies' Connectra 2.0 SSL virtual private network software, offers easy administration, an intuitive client experience and strong security. However, the SR110 is priced in the upper tier of VPN appliances.
The Connectra software provides point-and-click administration through a well-designed Web interface. User authentication may be managed through the internal Connectra user database, but enterprises will prefer to integrate with LDAP, RADIUS and SecurID systems for authentication and authorization. We used Connectra's LDAP interface to perform authentication against Active Directory.
The Web-based process for adding applications is straightforward. For example, to add a Web application, we simply specified the name and location of the application and the desired protection level (a combination of allowable authentication techniques and caching status). The SSL Network Extender ActiveX control, a Connectra Web plug-in, allows the use of any network-based Windows application. It tunnels endpoint traffic over SSL. We used the SR110 to access a Windows Server 2003 file server, an Exchange 2000 Web Outlook server, an IMAP server (using the Connectra integrated client) and several Web-enabled apps.
Clients are presented with the Connectra portal, which provides a consolidated view of authorized apps.
Connectra leverages Check Point's experience in perimeter security by integrating the Smart-Defense network and application security controls. Network security controls include protection against DoS attacks (such as Teardrop and LAND), TCP/IP protocol-based attacks and network probes; application controls include inspection of HTTP and FTP traffic. The controls stopped several of our URL-based attacks, as well as a SQL injection attack against a Web-based form.
The wizard-based installation was smooth, taking about an hour from opening the box to establishing client connections. The installation guide provides detailed instructions for a variety of network configurations, including template firewall rules necessary for installing the appliance in a DMZ. The SR110 has six Ethernet ports, two of which support Gigabit Ethernet.
We were disappointed with Connectra's lack of Firefox client browser support, but Web portal access is available through IE, Mozilla, Netscape and Safari. SSL Network Extender functionality is limited to IE on Windows 2000/XP.
The SR110's steep price may discourage some enterprises. The $3,700 cost of Corrent's appliance combined with the $8,000 cost of a 50-user Connectra license from Check Point (which increases to $30,000 for 250 users) makes the price tag soar far above some established competitive products. For example, a Cisco VPN 3005 concentrator (which supports 50 SSL VPN sessions) lists at $2,995, and $35,000 will purchase a Cisco VPN 3060, which supports 500 clientless Web sessions.
Price notwithstanding, an appliance that incorporates ease of use for admins and users and strong security offered by Connectra merits consideration for secure access to enterprise applications.
About the Author
Mike Chapple, CISSP is an IT Security Professional with the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as an information security researcher with the National Security Agency and the U.S. Air Force. Mike is a frequent contributor to SearchSecurity, a technical editor for Information Security magazine and the author of several information security titles including the CISSP Prep Guide and Information Security Illuminated.
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Parents Worry About Tweens Left Alone
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FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Many parents leave their tweens home alone for an extended period of time, even though they are not confident these 11- to 13-year-olds have the knowledge or skills to stay safe, a new poll finds.
The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health reports that parents it polled fretted over whether their children could safely use the kitchen appliances, know where to go during a severe storm or give out personal information online or over the phone. Still, one in five of these parents admitted they've let their tweens stay home alone for an entire day.
"There is no magic age at which a child can be left home alone. It typically depends on a parent's judgment about how mature that child is, and how ready they are to take on the responsibility of being home alone," Dr. Matthew M. Davis, director of the National Poll on Children's Health, said in a prepared statement. "Regardless, when parents decide to leave their children home alone, there are several common at-home safety concerns they need to consider and address with kids ahead of time."
The National Poll on Children's Health finds:
"We were surprised to find the proportion of parents who are not very confident their children will follow safety guidelines, even though they are having their tweens stay home alone," said Davis, an associate professor of general pediatrics and internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. "This suggests that more parents need to have conversations with their kids about safety before they leave them home alone."
More information
The Home Safety Council has more about children and safety.
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From the perfect roast turkey with wild rice and chestnut stuffing to a rich,
old-fashioned pumpkin pie, good food shared with family and friends is what makes Thanksgiving so special.
Lighted Harvest Garland Decorate the doorway or banister with this bountiful harvest garland that adds a festive touch to fall décor. A grapevine base features pumpkins, leaves, burlap & berries.
24" Outdoor Harvest Wreath Decorate for fall with this perfect outdoor harvest wreath featuring pumpkins, leaves, burlap & berries on a grapevine backing.
Accent your Thanksgiving table, fall mantle, stair banisters and railings, door frames, bedroom windows. ...
Autumn Harvest Garlands
Colorful garlands packed with autumn-colored leaves, pumpkins, acorns and berries
Add an earthly feel to your fall decorating
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Autumn Harvest Leaves Quilt
Amber, orange, burgundy, tan and sage green leaves are lovely against a chocolate brown background, while the reverse side is striped in complimentary colors.
Add a burst of seasonal style to your home
Share a festive feast with those you love
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features three cascading tiers of beautiful natural jute burlap. This rustic table skirt hangs down 30 inches and is 21 feet long.
Use this Tiered Ruffle Burlap Table Skirt for any special event.
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Great Autumn Table Scatters for Thanksgiving, Fall Weddings and Autumn Parties
Artificial Acorn Decorations
These acorns are extremely realistic
Autumn Decorating Kit of Autumn Leaves, Artificial Mini Pumpkins, Acorns and Orange Berry and Leaf Picks
Thanksgiving Tablecloth, napkins and decorative setting in a box, set includes white linens (Natural Burlap Runner)
- 1 white tablecloth measures 120 x 72 inches
- 1 burlap table runner, 10 each 20" x 20" matching white dinner napkins with accenting ribbon ties.
- Fall decorative harvest vegetables, gourds, pumpkins, decorative pine cones, cornucopia basket and maple leaves.
- Proper table place setting instructions included for a polished look.
Add a little burnished Autumn flair to your holiday gathering with pretty decorative table toppers
Features an elegant pattern of leaves and autumn designs
Satin like sheen Jacquard Printed Fabric Tablecloth
Make feast day a fun day
Beautiful, festive, Thanksgiving table cloth.
Great for individual servings of stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and more, these pumpkin-shaped dishes have handled lids to keep the contents warm.
Looks great on the table - both filled with food - and - as a centerpiece
Slow-Cooker Fall Favorites (Seasonal Cookbook Collection)
Fall not only brings beautiful leaves, warm cider and hayrides in the country...it also brings get-togethers and the cherished Thanksgiving dinner.
What a perfect season to put your slow cooker to work, and what better cookbook to use than Slow-Cooker Fall Favorites?
From breakfast to soups, dinners to desserts.
Invite family & friends over
to watch the big game and munch on Spinach Queso Dip and Honey-Garlic Meatballs.
Whip up some Cuban-Style Pork roast with a side of Mushroom & Parsley Stuffing or Veggie Fettuccine Alfredo. Be sure to top it all off with a big slice of White-Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake.
Plus, there's an entire chapter dedicated to those warm, nostalgic memories of autumns past ... sure to get you in the spirit of the season.
So sit back, relax and let your slow cooker do the work while you enjoy the best that fall has to offer.
When not in use, this pretty pumpkin tea set makes a beautiful bench top decoration for fall
So unique and whimsical!
Pumpkin Decorated Teapots
Autumn is a perfect season to stay warm with a nice steaming cup of tea from this pumpkin shaped 36 oz. teapot.
Beautifully hand painted in orange with green with raised flowers and leaves and vines.
Pumpkin Decorated Teapots
Autumn is a perfect season to stay warm with a nice steaming cup of tea from this pumpkin shaped 36 oz. teapot.
Beautifully hand painted in orange with green with raised flowers and leaves and vines.
Porcelain cup and saucer is 3 1/4" tall and 3 1/4" wide and sits on a 6" green leaf shaped saucer.
These lifelike leaves are completely edible!
Spice up your home for the fall season
Spiced Pumpkin Candles
Smooth blend of comforting spice and the natural goodness of pumpkin has signaled the start of the autumn season in many a home.
This beloved fragrance perfectly captures the inviting scent of pumpkins baked in simmering spices of clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon . . . and sweetened with brown sugar. Irresistible!
A fall classic. The golden hues of the harvest, with "golden" spices, softened and smoothed with the addition of sweet autumn fruits, and musk, come together in an inviting blend.
Cinnamon, cloves, and musk - with a hint of sweet apples and pumpkin - make for a recipe that makes any home instantly cozy and welcoming.
These 4-ounce candles will remind you of all your favorite fall scents. This set of 3 aromatherapy candles features the rich creamy scent of spiced pumpkin, the sweet scent of cranberry and the earthy scent of fallen leaves. Burn your Fall Harvest candles one at a time for a clear, singular scent or light more than one to create a more complex profile.
Cranberry Harvest - Spicy and woody fragrance of tart cranberries, cinnamon & ground cloves. A lovely winder scent!
Winter Spice - a spicy and complex combination of cinnamon bark, nutmeg seed, clove bud, pumpkin fruit, vanilla bean and ginger root.
Three beautiful candle holders lovingly nestled into a bevy of Autumn fruits, berries and foliage. It's the perfect accessory for any holiday décor, from a dinner table to a bookshelf to a warm hearth. Also makes a thoughtful gift that will be welcomed in any home.
Set the festive mood with Thanksgiving tunes
Soft and relaxing bluegrass mountain CD of Thanksgiving songs
- Beautiful background music -
Great collection of instrumental versions.
If you like the old hymns - and you enjoy simple folk-style instrumental music AND you want to feel your gratitude expressed in music ... then this is the album for Thanksgiving and all year round.
The tunes are upbeat but reverent, and you will feel your heart swelling in thankfulness to God for all his gifts as you listen and hum along.
My Tribute "Give Thanks" - add a little relaxing jazz to your holiday
We Give Thanks: 15 Thanksgiving Hymns On Piano
Beautiful background music for celebrating Thanksgiving.
Really helps put one's thoughts on giving thanks to our Creator!
Music selections are varied enough that you will be playing this all year, not just on Thanksgiving.
Keep your front door seasonal and stylish with this decorative door hanger
Thanksgiving stories for the children
Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is about pilgrims and history - and turkey, of course! - but most importantly, it's a holiday all about everything that we are thankful for. Cheerful, colorful illustrations accompany the simple text in this celebration of family, friends, and the holiday that brings them all together.
Turkey Trouble
As Thanksgiving approaches, Turkey fears that he will be the centerpiece of the holiday meal. Thus begins his quest for the perfect disguise so he won't be found when the time arrives. He ties a brush on the back of his head and wears a tiny saddle because surely no one would eat a horse for dinner. But the animals still recognize him. He tries to become a cow, a pig, a sheep, and a rooster. He does not look like any of them. When he hears Farmer Jake tell his wife that if they can't find the turkey, maybe they should eat the rooster for dinner, the protagonist comes up with the perfect ruse.
he Thanksgiving Pennant Banner Picks are great for pies, cakes or wherever you want to add a little festive touch.
The Thanksgiving Story
Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things get a little more cramped when their baby brother Oceanus is born during the passage. However, when they arrive, there are even worse challenges to face as the Pilgrims are subjected to hunger, cold, and sickness that put their small colony in great danger. With the help of the Native Americans though, they might just be able to survive their first year in this strange land - and have a November harvest to celebrate for generations!
The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving
This book is excellent. It is filled with interesting facts and gives you a better understanding of what the pilgrims went through when they journeyed to and settled in this country. It is also very clear about the pilgrims coming to America for religious freedom and celebrating Thanksgiving as a day to give thanks to God.
Create a warm, traditional Thanksgiving table in no time
Madeleine Antique Gold 8-Piece Cupcake Stand, Metal Dessert Cake Display Tower with 3 Candle Holders and Crystals
This gold crystal-draped cupcake carrier stand is perfect to showcase your favorite cupcakes and desserts at any wedding, birthday party, baby shower, anniversary, quinceanera, afternoon tea, and any other event or special occasion. This cupcake stand also makes a great housewarming gift
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The Best of Thanksgiving (Williams-Sonoma): Recipes and Inspiration for a Festive Holiday Meal
Thanksgiving is a cherished time to gather around the table for a feast with family and friends. The traditions surrounding this American holiday are boundless, reflecting personal style and a diverse range of dishes. But it can also be daunting, whether you prepare and host each year, or are new to the experience.
Drinks and Appetizers: maple bourbon smash to sparkling apple punch, mushroom turnovers to shrimp bisque
Main Dishes: a classic roasted turkey to a cider-brined, spice-rubbed turkey, a baked ham with a honey-port glaze to vegetable potpie
Stuffing and Breads: focaccia stuffing with chestnuts, bacon and apples, gluten free stuffing with bacon and kale, buttermilk corn bread to cheddar-chive biscuits
Sides: mashed potatoes and candied sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts and butternut squash with bacon, creamed pearl onions and from-scratch green bean casserole
Gravies and Relishes: Turkey gravy to gluten-free brown gravy, cranberry-orange relish to sweet onion marmalade
Desserts: chocolate ganache tart to pecan pie, pumpkin cheesecake to boozy ice cream
Special additional sections include: leftovers, menus, wine pairings, turkey know-how, and basic recipes. Helpful tips-for staying organized; selecting, preparing and carving the turkey; and putting together a menu, complete with a timeline and beverages-round out the pages of this beautifully photographed book.
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In keeping with international and national efforts to determine the provenance (the history of ownership) of works of art for the period 1933-1945 and to fulfil its obligations as an ethical member of the museum community, the NGA continues to investigate the whereabouts and ownership of every work of art in its collection that is presumed to have been in Europe between 1933 and 1945, the years of Nazi rule and occupation. These works of art are listed on this site.
All known provenance information is shown here, although links in the chain of ownership may be unclear or not yet fully documented. As provenance research continues on these works, this site will be updated to reflect new information. The provenance is listed chronologically, from the first known owner. The date of change of ownership is included when it is established. Images are added when available.
Works of art in the NGA's collection are published as widely as possible. Gaps in the provenance do not imply that any work was stolen, merely that it is not known for certain who held it in the years from 1933 to 1945. The National Gallery of Australia will continue to research the provenance of its works of art.
As a fundamental part of its mission and to fulfil its obligations as an ethical member of the museum community, the National Gallery of Australia researches, documents and publishes information about its collection. This includes ongoing research into the provenance, or history of ownership, of works of art. The Gallery appreciates any information on the history of the art in its collection.
Provenance research is intended to establish an unbroken chain of documented ownership from the time of the work's creation to the present. Even with unlimited time and resources, this goal is not easily achieved as there are numerous legitimate reasons for gaps in known provenance during any time period. It is extremely rare to find an unbroken chain of possession and incomplete provenance does not indicate that a work was stolen.
A provenance charts the changes in ownership of a work of art. It depends on documents such as wills, archives, receipts, auction sales and dealers' records. Otherwise, the ownership can be discovered by research such as tracking down publication in exhibition or auction catalogues, memoirs of the artist, or the recollections of art-lovers. It is extremely rare to find an unbroken chain of possession since, for example, secrecy may be a condition of sale.
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US Tar Sands Operations Challenged By Grassroots OppositionRead time: 4 mins
Laurel Whitney | August 22, 2013
By Laurel Whitney • Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 04:00
While many environmental advocates urge consumers to buy local, in this case, local isn't always better. While the Canadian tar sands are more notorious, developments here in the US are moving forward as local governments issue more permits to allow companies to start mining.
More than half of the U.S. tar sands resources in active play are in Utah. As DeSmog reported previously, the first US tar sands mine was approved in Utah back in October 2012, with plans to seek a few more permits and begin construction in 2013. After the Utah Water Quality Board approved the permit, the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining also gave the operation the green light to move forward with production.
Since then, US Oil Sands Inc., the company developing the land for extraction, is marching forward. According to exploratory analysis, the 5,930 acres under lease contain approximately 184.3 million barrels of oil. That's not including over 26,000 acres that weren't evaluated in the report.
"Based on the [report] and the positive results provided by our exploratory drilling program, we are able to credibly showcase the potential our Utah properties hold for the company and demonstrate that we are one step closer to execution of the first phase of development of PR Spring," announced CEO Cameron Todd in an earlier report, "…detailed pit planning is now underway in these locations."
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Accenture surveyed almost 10,000 people in November 2014 in 13 countries around the globe. Our research findings show many similarities yet many differences in the way people shop by retail segment. Consumers want a seamless experience no matter where they shop; but knowing what the shopper expectations are and how they differ by retailer is important.
Purchasing via mobile device still not as easy as buying online (via a laptop or desktop computer)
While it's clear many apparel shoppers are using smartphones and tablets more frequently to shop, it should be eye opening to retailers that only 42% say it's easy to purchase on a mobile device. And you'd think that buying at a consumer electronics retailer would be well developed via mobile device, only 48% find it easy to purchase via mobile device. There is still much improvement needed on the mobile shopping experience.
Fulfillment options, whether purchasing in store or online, are being utilized
People are online more as part of their overall shopping experience – browsing, purchasing, researching – something they used to do in store. But when they make a purchase, many are taking advantage of the various fulfillment options retailers offer. For example, more than twice as many department store shoppers are buying online and picking up in store more in the past 12 months; but they want the in-store experience improved (i.e. ordering out of stock items while shopping in store). 35% of drug store shoppers are buying online and shipping home (up from 22% last year) and 20% (up from 15%) are using ship from store to home more in the past 12 months.
Busy lives means convenient delivery options are in demand
Grocery store shoppers share the importance of delivery speed and the ability to schedule deliveries when shopping for groceries. However, grocery stores are trailing behind other retailers, as consumers state that they don't find it very easy to shop online or via mobile device. Meanwhile, 41% of home improvement store shoppers are taking advantage of shipping their online purchases home; 28% are shipping their in-store purchases home (compared to 22% who said they did this more last year) and on the flip side, 27% (up from 16%) are ordering online and picking up their orders in store.
Shoppers like the ability to purchase online from retailers that haven't always offered this in the past
Many discount and mass merchant stores haven't offered the ability to order products online. And with 41% of global shoppers doing this more often this past year (compared to 29% last year), it's clear, stores that were typically just bricks-and-mortar are making headway with their online purchasing investments.
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WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY.- The Vitra Design Museum presents Ingo Maurer - Light - Reaching for the Moon, on view through August 10, 2003. No other designer has shown as much commitment and devotion to the design of and with light as Ingo Maurer (b. 1932). To date he has produced more than 120 different lamps and lighting systems, graced countless exhibitions with his installations and artfully illuminated a multitude of public buildings and private homes. Working in close cooperation with the award-winning designer, the Vitra Design Museum is presenting the exhibition Ingo Maurer - Light - Reaching for the Moon from October 3, 2002, through August 10, 2003. Designed by Dieter Thiel, the show gives an overview of Maurers work going back almost four decades, featuring rare prototypes, serially produced lamps and one-off pieces as well as models, photographs and films documenting a number of his outstanding illumination projects. Special highlights are the installations Maurer created especially for the exhibition.
The initial trigger for Maurers self-taught career in lighting design was his fascination with the light bulb as the "perfect union of technology and poetry." Inspired by Pop Art, he designed Bulb (1966), a table lamp in the form of a giant light bulb and homage to Edisons ingenious invention that has established itself as a classic in its own right. With later designs like the programmatic Nofuss (1969) or the simple yet elegant Savoie (1979, with Donato Savoie), Maurer has continued to celebrate the simple beauty of the bare light bulb. Lucellino (1992), the bulb with angels wings made from goose feathers, is one of his most renowned pieces and something of a trademark for the designer.
Working from his adopted city of Munich, the designer is neither a minimalist nor a dogmatist strictly following a rigid design theory. Quite the opposite, Maurers work is characterized by tremendous diversity. For him, design is a joyful science for which he frequently finds inspiration in everyday objects. For the table lamp BiBiBiBi (1982), he used red plastic bird legs he came across in a supermarket; Mozzkito (1996) is based on a standard tea strainer fitted with a halogen bulb; and the chandelier Porca Miseria! (1994) with its collage of white porcelain shards looks like the aftermath of an explosion in a china cupboard.
Seeming rather restrained, even poetic at times, by contrast, are the lamps he constructs from paper. Schooled as a typographer, Maurer has come to appreciate this materials qualities as a light filter and reflector, turning to it again and again in his works and experimentations since the 1970s. Prominent examples include the table lamp Lampampe (1980) with its shade and base in translucent Japanese paper as well as Zettelz (1997), a central lighting element encircled with numerous slips of white paper, some with pre-printed sayings, others left blank to be scribbled on and positioned as desired. A pleasantly warm glow is yielded by the MaMo Nouchies (1998), a lamp series developed by Maurer (Ma) in collaboration with Dagmar Mombacher (Mo) that is reminiscent of Isamu Noguchis akari lamps (Nouchie) yet with an aura that is quite its own. Based on a traditional Japanese textile dyeing technique, the sculptural lampshades made from pleated paper are handcrafted in a process involving up to eight production steps.
With many of these remarkable lamps, their realization hinges on Maurers intense involvement in the process. He not only designs everything himself but - a rare exception among his peers - also produces everything himself in his Munich-based factory. The designers development department - internally given the straightforward name "Designerei," or designery - furthermore often allows Maurer to be ahead of his time in technical terms as well. In 1984, for instance, the company introduced the YaYaHo lighting system based on low-voltage technology. With a pair of conductor cables stretched across the room from which halogen lamps are suspended in any desired combination, its reduction to the essentials offers a maximum of flexibility. To the same degree unfortunately, it has since been copied by a host of imitators. The Touchtronic System developed by Hermann Kovacs for Ingo Maurer Ltd. two years later introduced continuously variable touch-triggered dimming.
Just as halogen lamps - once used exclusively for vehicle headlights - revolutionized lighting design in the 1970s and took residential interiors by storm, LED technology (light-emitting diode) appears destined to conquer the future. For light-emitting diodes are small, durable and extraordinarily efficient. Here as well, Ingo Maurer was at the forefront with La Bellissima Brutta (1997) as one of the first to recognize LEDs potential. The cool aesthetic of Yoohoodoo (1999), Stardust (2000) or El.E.Dee (2001) plays with the experimental character inherent in the pioneering work with this forward-looking technology.
Since the 90s, the MoMA-celebrated Maurer has increasingly turned his attention to development of complete lighting concepts for private and public clients. For the interior lighting of the Westfriedhof subway station in Munich (1998), he created giant dome-shaped ceiling lamps in aluminium with the inside surfaces lacquered in different colors to imbue the light with a unique tone. Another major commission was the collaboration with his friend Ron Arad on lighting design for the Tel Aviv Opera House (1994). With a sky of seemingly floating, small colourful sails, Maurer put Issey Miyakes Paris fashion show in a favorable light (1999). That same year, the lighting artist set the fashion designers London showroom aglitter under a filigree cloud adorned with hundreds of silver leaves that reflect the light and shimmer upon catching a draft. Currently working on a piece for the Toronto international airport among other projects, Maurer is being honored with this years Design Excellence Award from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.


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To start with, I got the Spinach & Feta Salad - the candied nuts were good and I don't normally like Feta - but liked this. A nice salad.
I was REALLY disappointed. The salmon was dry and bland - with little to no seasoning. The apple & cucumber topping was the best part. The pomegranite drizzle was watery and flavorless. The worst was the rice - it wasn't even cooked! It was crunchy for pete's sake! I told the server and he apologized but didn't much care after that.
After dinner - we hopped in the truck and headed home and in the midst of driving - we found out we had a friend along for the ride with us!
Why Should You Go? Meh - I wouldn't. It's expensive and our meal was as inconsistent as you can get. I've tried them before and consistently find the same thing - okay food with a lot of issues.


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Population-based approaches to childhood obesity prevention
The United Nations Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health both identify population-based prevention as being vital to addressing rising levels of noncommunicable diseases, with specific emphasis on childhood obesity.
This document aims to provide Member States with an overview of the types of childhood obesity prevention interventions that can be undertaken at national, sub-national and local levels. The document first outlines guiding principles for the development of a population-based childhood obesity prevention strategy and then describes the approaches for population-based obesity prevention, divided into three broad components:
The first component is the structures within government to support childhood obesity prevention policies and interventions. These are structural aspects such as leadership, "health-in-all" policies, dedicated funding for health promotion, noncommunicable disease monitoring systems, workforce capacity, and networks and partnerships that need to be in place in order to support and enhance the effectiveness of the more direct policy initiatives and community-based interventions.
The second component is population-wide policies and initiatives. These are direct policy actions that help to create environments that support healthy diets and physical activity. The types of policy instruments typically used as part of this component of a comprehensive childhood obesity prevention strategy are laws and regulations, taxes and subsidies, and social marketing campaigns that affect the population as a whole (or large population groups).
The third component is community-based interventions. These are multi-component interventions and programmes, typically applied across multiple settings, tailored to the local environment and implemented locally. Community-based interventions have been demonstrated to be successful when applied in multiple settings, including early childcare settings, schools and other community settings.
In summary, there is a broad range of population-level actions that governments can take to prevent childhood obesity. A comprehensive childhood obesity prevention strategy will incorporate aspects of each of the key components.


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Camp Rich parking, camping under review
Parking along Highway 89 by the Camp Richardson Resort could disappear under the Forest Service's proposal for the popular recreation area.
The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit released the environmental assessment for the Camp Richardson Resort Campground and Vehicle Circulation Best Management Practice Retrofit project earlier this month. According to a LTBMU press release, the project is designed to reduce water quality impacts and traffic congestion on the highway corridor, upgrade campground and day-use facilities and improve parking.
The assessment outlines four alternatives, including a no-action option. Each of the three action alternatives proposes prohibiting parking along Highway 89 in the resort corridor. The Forest Service would build about 100 new spaces for the displaced traffic, LTBMU Landscape Architect Daniel Cressy said.
The project proposes creating short-term parking lots on the south side of the highway near the ice cream shop and expanding existing lots on the north side by the hotel. While the assessment doesn't propose parking charges, Cressy said a fee would be likely at the short-term area.
Existing highway intersections would be reconfigured to decrease traffic congestion in the corridor. A new campground entrance would be built south of Highway 89 and the interior road system would be improved to provide vehicle access to the campsites.
"Part of the goal is to eliminate the need for people to enter the resort core. That would take some of the pressure off the Jameson Beach Road intersection," Cressy said.
Camping capacity under the LTBMU proposed action would decrease from 325 sites to between 230 and 255. The goal is to reduce peak-season camping and encourage people to take advantage of the facilities during the shoulder season. By making the area available year-round, Cressy said overall annual volume should remain the same.
The Forest Service is accepting public comments on the alternatives through March 15 and will take the feedback into account before publishing the final draft. If all goes according to plan, Cressy said construction could begin on the campground north of the highway in summer 2014. Phase two, which includes the new southern entrance to the campground, would start the following year.
Construction on a new day-use restroom could start this fall, while hotel parking improvements might be under way as early as spring 2014.
There will also be more fundraising involved. Cressy estimated that the whole project will cost about $8 million. The LTBMU has about $3 million to work with.
"There's a bunch of moving parts … We're not increasing capacity, we're just better maintaining existing capacity," Cressy said.
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OROVILLE —A cool-thinking 67-year-old pilot from Susanville successfully guided his crippled plane to an emergency landing on Highway 70 at about 8:30 a.m. today.
According to Enterprise-Record photographer Ty Barbour, John Schneider was alone in his Cherokee 180 single-engine plane on his way from Susanville to Oroville to visit an aunt.
Somewhere over Quincy he suffered engine trouble. Schneider told Barbour the Quincy airport was heavily fogged-in and there was no chance of landing there.
He said he immediately began trying to gain altitude and about the time he reached 10,000 feet the engine entirely died.
From then on he was flying a glider continuing in the direction of Oroville.
At one point he reportedly considering trying to land on the Highway 70 bridge over Lake Oroville, but he decided he had enough altitude to continue a little further.
He got to a point where he could see well down Highway 70. He told Barbour when he could see the highway was clear he brought the plane down on the highway in the vicinity of Cherokee Road.
He came through the emergency unscathed.
The plane has been moved from where it landed to a turnout about 200 yards away so the highway is clear.
Schneider said if there had been traffic on 70 he had an alternative plan to land in an adjacent field.
Authorities are currently making plans to remove the plane from the roadside.


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Gov. Rick Perry has asked Texans to join him in a moment of silence Friday in memory of the 26 victims of the Connecticut school shootings.
Perry on Thursday issued a proclamation declaring a moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. Friday to coincide with a day of mourning called for by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy a week after the massacre.
Perry spokesman Josh Havens says the observance is meant for 9:30 a.m. local time in the state's two time zones.
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Perry is also encouraging places of worship and buildings that have the capability to ring bells 26 times to honor each life lost when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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A gripping drama of war, passion and faith, Verdi's Nabucco was a raging success when it was first performed in 1842. Telling the epic tale of the plight of the Israelites and their exile by the eponymous king, the opera is considered to have established Verdi's reputation as a leading composer.
Daniele Abbado's powerful production, which was performed at La Scala earlier this season, explores themes of identity and exile.
'The trailer explores the connection between people and the place they see as home,' explains trailer director Tom Turner.
To produce the film, a small crew – including family and friends filling in as Israelites – braved the wild and wintery conditions of Portland Bill, a rocky promontory on the Dorset coast owned by the Crown Estate.
'It's a disused quarry and the structural form of the rocks reminded me of the stones in the set design,' says Tom. 'The outside facade of the Royal Opera House was also built using Portland limestone, which is a nice connection as it emphasizes this sense of going back to your roots.'
An epic drama in every sense of the word, Nabucco features an enormous chorus that sing iconic choral works including 'Immenso jehova' and 'Va pensiero', the unofficial national anthem of Italy.
'Some of the landscape shots just support the music to give the sense of scale and power,' added Tom. The final shot in particular conveys the size and diversity of the chorus. 'There were only four of us, and so we had to do multiple takes with costume changes and then rely on some innovative editing!'
Nabucco runs from 30 March - 26 April 2013. Tickets are still available. It will also be shown delayed live in cinemas on 29 April.
The production is generously sponsored by Rolex. Generous philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A Olde OBE, Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, Martin and Jane Houston and the Verdi Syndicate.