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Taiko Doramu (Taiko Drum) is the performance arm of the TUUTS, and can be seen at a wide variety of multicultural events and community festivals around Tasmania. We run a schools visit program, and also hold public drumming workshops, and perform at corporate and private functions.
Our group trains three nights a week, with about 50 members attending training sessions regularly, and many others taking advantage of special workshops and other taiko events.
'Taiko' in Japan means 'drum'. Around the world, taiko is fast becoming synonymous with powerful performance and the tremendous energy it exudes.
'Drum', pronounced Dora-Mu in Japanese, was given the kanji reading of 'tiger dream', representing the uniquely Tasmanian story of the loss of our local icon, the thylacine. The presence of its spirit still holds a powerful place in our identity and respects the indigenous custodians of this land.
In Taiko Drum, we encourage taiko enthusiasts to experience the thrill of performing as an essential element of their taiko training. Performing enables members to challenge themselves and their nerves in front of an audience, and thus improve and hone their mental and physical skills.
The Tasmania University Union Taiko Society was formed in 2002 to create the opportunity to train, perform and teach the Japanese Art of the Drum. The TUUTS is affiliated with the Tasmania University Union, and is reliant on their financial and administrative support to provide this opportunity to University students, school students, and the general public.
We were greatly supported by the Australia Japan Society and the Japan Club of Hobart when we first launched our Society, and have continued strong ties to help promote this fascinating Japanese cultural tradition
We have evolved dramatically since 2002, and the demand for Taiko keeps growing across the state, with groups starting in Burnie and Launceston. We are always pushing to create new opportunities and get interesting projects off the ground, so watch this space for great things to come.
Or alternatively join us; we would love to see you at our next practice.
Japanese drumming, known as Taiko, is a visually spectacular art form, which originated in the festivals and rituals of the agricultural society of ancient Japan. Unlike other 'high-cultural' art forms such as the Kabuki, Noh Dancing or Tea Ceremony, Taiko culture is community-based, and the most widely practiced 'popular-cultural' art form in contemporary Japanese society. It is played as part of local festivals in virtually every district throughout Japan, and local Taiko masters have passed on its techniques orally for many hundreds of years. Most performers at such festivals are non-professional, local residents, and many of them are school children. Taiko plays a strong role in promoting a sense of community, and cultivating teamwork skills among the local residents.
Over the last fifty years, Taiko has become internationally recognised as a form performance art, and many contemporary drumming groups have been formed both in Japan and in many other countries. There are more than 8,000 Taiko groups in Japan, and several of them conduct international tours. There are professionally established Taiko groups in mainland Australia, one of which recently performed in Tasmania, sponsored by the Japanese Consulate-General in Melbourne. Their performance at the City Hall in Hobart played to a full house of 300 delighted spectators.
Our co-founder
Simon Vanyai lived in Japan for four years, studying the language, culture and architecture. Simon trained in the way of the drum with Art Lee, a professional Taiko musician and former member of Ondekoza, and Sacramento Taiko-Dan. He also travelled the country in search of the biggest, best, smallest, craziest, loudest, coldest, and generally most intriguing local festivals Japan has to offer, many of which incorporate Taiko drums in the celebrations, and feature rhythms passed on through generations.
A wide variety of members
Some members, including our original President, Hiroko Otsuka, are teachers of Japanese. They are very excited at the chance to introduce Japanese drumming and its merits into their classrooms and schools all over Tasmania. They wish to make a contribution to Tasmanian schools' cultural education, as reflected in the Society's objectives.
Many more members are University students of Japanese or Asian Studies who are eager to learn more about Asian Culture through practical experience. Some have lived in Japan and have come into contact with, or played Taiko before and are eager to keep learning. Others are likely to travel and live in Japan in the future, and it is our hope that we can foster an interest in Taiko which they can expand on later in Japan. When they come back to Tassie they will inject new techniques, styles and ideas into Tassie Taiko and help take the society into the future.
Some members are experienced percussionists or martial art practitioners, and others are simply interested in Japanese drumming and its potential to develop in Tasmania.
The constitution of the Society is available here.
Sponsors include: Tasmania University Union, Australia-Japan Society (Tasmania), Mie Australia-NZ Society, Japan Club.


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[Page 277] As Pip sits by the fire, he begins to worry about his safety this dark, leaden night with the convict just in the other room. He decides to peek in on him and finds him sound asleep. He locks his door and falls to sleep finally in the living room chair. Dickens announces that "this is the end of the Second Stage of Pip's Expectations." Chapter 40 then begins the next morning with Pip deciding to tell everyone that the convict is his uncle from the country, in town for a visit.
[Page 278] In the morning Pip awakens very early (still dark out and in his apartment). He goes out to the Lodge to have the watchman come help him light his fire, since he is unable to find a light in the dark. On his way out, down the dark staircase, he trips over something… a body. (yikes!) Frightened, he runs the rest of the way to the Lodge. Back at the stairs with the watchman, the body/person is gone. Pip then learns from the watchman that his "uncle" (the convict) was not alone when he entered the gate last night. Apparently the other person spent the whole night out on the staircase outside Pip's front door!
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Police in Pakistan have arrested a Muslim cleric over claims he framed a Christian girl who has been held for several weeks under controversial anti-blasphemy laws.
The imam was detained after witnesses said he had torn pages from a Koran and placed them in her bag which had burned papers. She is accused of burning Islamic religious texts.
There have been conflicting reports about Rimsha Masih's age and her mental state. Some media have said she is 11 and suffers from Down's Syndrome.
But what is certain is that her arrest has sparked outrage in Pakistan and abroad. Activists and human rights groups say vague terminology has led to its misuse, and that the law dangerously discriminates against the Muslim country's tiny minority groups.
Several hundred Christians left her poor village outside the capital Islamabad after mosques reported over their loudspeakers what the girl was alleged to have done.
Under Pakistan's blasphemy law, anyone who speaks ill of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad commits a crime and faces the death penalty.
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Aggregation and fibril morphology of the arctic mutation of Alzheimer's Aβ peptide by CD, TEM, STEM and in situ AFM
Norlin, Nils, Hellberg, Magnus, Filippov, Andrei, Sousa, Alioscka A., Gröbner, Gerhard, Leapman, Richard D., Almqvist, Nils and Antzutkin, Oleg N. (2012) Aggregation and fibril morphology of the arctic mutation of Alzheimer's Aβ peptide by CD, TEM, STEM and in situ AFM. Journal of Structural Biology, Vol.180 (No.1). pp. 174-189. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2012.06.010Research output not available from this repository, contact author.
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Morphology of aggregation intermediates, polymorphism of amyloid fibrils and aggregation kinetics of the "Arctic" mutant of the Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide, A beta((1-40))(E22G), in a physiologically relevant Tris buffer (pH 7.4) were thoroughly explored in comparison with the human wild type Alzheimer's amyloid peptide, wt-A beta((1-40)), using both in situ atomic force and electron microscopy, circular dichroism and thioflavin T fluorescence assays. For arc-A beta((1-40)) at the end of the 'lag'-period of fibrillization an abrupt appearance of similar to 3 nm size 'spherical aggregates' with a homogeneous morphology, was identified. Then, the aggregation proceeds with a rapid growth of amyloid fibrils with a variety of morphologies, while the spherical aggregates eventually disappeared during in situ measurements. Arc-A beta((1-40)) was also shown to form fibrils at much lower concentrations than wt-A beta((1-40)): <= 2.5 mu M and 12.5 mu M, respectively. Moreover, at the same concentration, 50 mu M, the aggregation process proceeds more rapidly for arc-A beta((1-40)): the first amyloid fibrils were observed after Ca. 72 h from the onset of incubation as compared to approximately 7 days for wt-A beta((1-40)). Amyloid fibrils of arc-A beta((1-40)) exhibit a large variety of polymorphs, at least five, both coiled and non-coiled distinct fibril structures were recognized by AFM, while at least four types of arc-A beta((1-40)) fibrils were identified by TEM and STEM and their mass-per-length statistics were collected suggesting supramolecular structures with two, four and six beta-sheet laminae. Our results suggest a pathway of fibrillogenesis for full-length Alzheimer's peptides with small and structurally ordered transient spherical aggregates as on-pathway immediate precursors of amyloid fibrils. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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A car that drives itself and glasses that translate a menu as you read it are some of the glimpses of tomorrow on offer at a gadget fair near Tokyo that began yesterday.
The Cutting-Edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition (CEATEC) threw open its doors to thousands of visitors eager to sample the gizmos they will be using in the future.
The highlight for many is Japanese carmaker Nissan, which showcased self-driving cars that allow the driver to kick back and take their eyes off the road.
A series of sensors constantly monitors the carriageway and objects nearby, turning the wheel automatically to avoid obstacles.
"Most accidents are caused by human error," Nissan said in a release.
Vehicle makers are working to integrate automobiles and houses, with the auto able to power the home — especially useful in times of blackouts caused by natural disasters.
Honda is showing off a mock installation in which a motorbike powers a gigantic kettle.
"Welcome to the future garage that Honda has designed. This is how automobiles and communities will be connected," Honda president Takanobu Ito said.
Many firms have their eyes on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the possibilities their technologies could offer by then.
Public broadcaster NHK showed off an ultra-high-definition 8K screen, which has about 8,000 pixels on each horizontal line.
"We plan to do experimental broadcasting in 8K by 2016 and we are currently trying our best to be ready to broadcast directly in 8K in 2020," in time for the Tokyo Olympics, NHK senior engineer Hironori Domen said.
Other electronics makers were displaying high-resolution 4K TVs, with Panasonic focusing on 4K devices, including 20-inch tablets.
"We are displaying 20-inch 4K tablets, which make it possible to integrate what we have seen on paper prints, picture images and movie footage," Panasonic president Kazuhiro Tsuga said. "This is a potential that 4K displays have. Manufacturers will have to widen this potential beyond televisions."
Augmented reality, 3D renderings that seemingly exist in the real world, was a big theme at the fair in Chiba. Pioneer showcased new navigation systems that can direct drivers to vacant parking spots with signs that appear in front of them.
Car electronics maker Clarion has a chatty satellite navigation system capable of carrying on a conversation with the driver, and reminding them to take a break.
"You have driven for a long time. How about a cup of coffee? There is a nice cafe nearby that offers tasty sweets," it says.
The system, powered by Google, also finds restaurants by price bracket, offering suggestions when the driver tells it: "I would like a place where I can have lunch for ¥1,000 [US$10]."
NTT DoCoMo demonstrated augmented reality spectacles that can translate a menu in real time.
Its latest development combines cameras, computers and know-how to give the wearer a different view of what they are looking at.
One function of the gadget overlays the wearer's first language onto unfamiliar text, making signs and menus instantly understandable — a boon to travelers in Japan, where foreign-language menus are not commonly found off the tourist trail.
"Character-recognition technology enables instant language translation for users traveling abroad and reading restaurant menus and other documents," Docomo said in a statement.


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The Message And The Messenger
The statement by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in which he gave his score card of incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari's Administration has thrown up a number of issues for debate.
Obasanjo shut down the almost three-year-old Buhari administration, and called for a coalition of Nigerians as a preface to uproot the present government.
In this special report AIT's Ijeoma Osamor x-rays the nexus between the massage and the massager.
A 'yellow card' will perhaps be a most appropriate description of Obasanjo's message to Buhari.
They are both former military heads of state and possibly understand the body language of each other.
Within the last four decades, Obasanjo has become a harbinger of letters and statements announcing the post mortem of an administration.
The first victim of Obasanjo's public scrutiny was Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who was president from October 1, 1979, to December 31, 1983.
shortly after his inauguration for a second term as president in October 1983, Obasanjo did a critical x-ray of Shagari, who succeeded him in 1979, on the poor management of the economy, which in his judgement subjected Nigerians to some level of hardship.
He also complained about the level of corruption in the country.
That same year Shagari's government was sacked by the tag-team of Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon.
Did Obasanjo sound the dooms-day bell?
In the twilight of Ibrahim Babangida's military regime, former president Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a letter in which he described the military president as being consistently inconsistent.
The letter was written in 1992 to general Ibrahim Babangida, in what Obasanjo called, ''whimsical transition program, meant to keep him indefinitely in power''.
The former president went further to say, ''there is the economic crisis, which has received little or no attention in recent times and has been growing steadily worse.
As he put it ''in the social sphere the story is the same: social services and infrastructures are crumbling and the human condition, the quality of life is deteriorating, and nigeria is on the verge of total paralysis''.
Not long after Babangida was forced to step aside.
Again did it have anything to do with Obasanjo's letter?
The dreaded general Sani Abacha was not spared from Obasanjo's Scrurrilous criticism.
While delivering a keynote address at the Arewa house during the reign of Abacha, Obasanjo took the administration down the valley, describing it as a visionless regime.
On January 20, 2010, Obasanjo stirred the honest nest at the 7th annual trust lecture, when he asked the then ailing president Yar'adua to choose the path of honour and morality, since he could no longer serve the Nigerian people.
In December 2013, the former president Obasanjo, in an eighteen page letter to former president Goodluck Jonathan, entitled "before it is too late'' accused Jonathan of driving the country to the precipice and allowing deceit, corruption and mutual distrust to tear at the fabric of the nation".
He appealed to him to forget his ambition for a second term.
Jonathan defied the plea and the consequence was his loss of the 2015 election.
To preface his preference for Buhari in 2015, Obasanjo took a swipe at Jonathan.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has come down hard on president Muhammadu Buhari in a press statement in which he asked him to forget the thought of running in 2019 as his performance since assumption of office was a betrayal of the confidence the Nigerian people reposed in him.
As Nigeria inches closer to the 2019 general elections, Obasanjo, now doctor of theology, hollered again in a statement titled, ''the way out, a clarion call for coalition for Nigeria movement''.
He listed ten reasons to support his position.
These reasons are:
Poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed, lack of national cohesion, poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality
But how evidentially true are some or all of them
The same messages seem to run through all his letters and statements and is of character.
Match them with broadcasts by coup plotters, the messages are the same.
To some people Obasanjo has assumed the role of setting exams, marking the scripts and determining the grades of all Nigerian leaders since 1979 or if you like, he is the prosecution, the defense counsel, the witness and judge.
In this instant statement, he is calling for a coalition of groups just as he wants Buhari to dismount from the horse.
For now, who could be advising Buhari to heed Obasanjo's counsel?
Certainly not supporters like the minister of communication who has already produced Buhari's campaign caps and insignia.


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Rhinoplasty NYC with Dr. Cangello
NYC Rhinoplasty Specialist, Dr. Cangello, considers the nose one of the most defining features of the face. When ideally shaped, it can highlight your natural beauty and promote a sense of aesthetic harmony. But cosmetic imperfections like a dorsal bump, a bulbous or drooping nasal tip or crooked nasal bridge can disrupt this delicate balance. Fortunately, an adjustment through cosmetic surgery can produce a dramatic improvement in your appearance.
This procedure is commonly known as a nose job and is provided to reshape your nose for either medical or cosmetic purposes. Medical nose surgery can improve the function of your nose, while cosmetic treatment can give the nose an ideal shape and structure. It is very common to have surgery to correct both functional and aesthetic issues simultaneously.
Dr. David Cangello understands that rhinoplasty can be a life-changing procedure, which is why he works meticulously to reshape the nose so that it blends seamlessly with other facial features. Whether you're seeking treatment for cosmetic or functional purposes, Dr. Cangello will help you achieve your goals through expertly applied surgical skill and artistic vision.
Contact plastic surgeon Dr. David Cangello today at (212) 644-4416 to schedule a consultation for a nose job in NYC.
Discover Whether a Nose Job Is Right for You
Ideal candidates include men and women who are in good health, but who are unhappy with the appearance of their nose. People seeking this procedure typically present the following concerns:
- Cosmetic imperfection after an injury
- Breathing problems due to a congenital defect of the nose
- Dissatisfaction with the size or shape of the nose
It's important for patients to have reasonable and optimistic expectations about their outcome from nose surgery. While Dr. Cangello can significantly improve the appearance of your nose, the best results are achieved when the shape of your nose is enhanced within the limits of your own anatomy and facial proportions.
Teens seeking surgery should wait until their nasal bones are fully developed and no longer growing, but Dr. Cangello will ultimately determine your candidacy at your consultation. To see what kind of results are possible, feel free to browse the before-and-after photo gallery of prior patients.
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From the moment you're welcomed at Cangello Plastic Surgery's NYC office, you'll understand why so many patients have trusted Dr. Cangello with their plastic surgery care. Dr. Cangello demands excellence from every facet of his practice – from his courteous staff to his state-of-the-art operating facility. He and his staff work tirelessly to ensure patients receive world-class care. You can expect to be treated with attentive, personalized service during every interaction at his office.
In addition to his top-notch patient care, Dr. Cangello remains at the forefront of plastic surgery by staying abreast of surgical advancements and by contributing to publications in the field. He also frequently appears in the media for his sought-after expert opinion on various plastic surgery topics. With his wealth of knowledge, meticulous skill, and compassionate approach, Dr. Cangello ensures patients have a truly exceptional surgical experience.
Dr. Cangello is a member of the Rhinoplasty Society, which is a select group of plastic surgeons who are chosen for their expertise in rhinoplasty, and for their commitment to innovation within the field of aesthetic and reconstructive nasal surgery. Membership of this exclusive group is by invitation only. Surgeons must perform an average of at least 30 procedures per year before even being considered.
Dr. Cangello maintains membership with the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons. These highly respected societies bring together groups of esteemed surgeons who are dedicated to the advancement of plastic and reconstructive surgery, and who are committed to informing the public about scientific developments in the field.
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"I just got out from removing the splint from my rhinoplasty, I'm truly excited and thankful to the staff and the Doctor. They're both truly amazing, he did wonders for my nose and I love the results. He is highly professional and caring while listening to your concerns. Once again thank you so much Dr. Cangello you're the best!!"
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Treatment begins with a friendly, informative consultation with Dr. Cangello at his Park Avenue office in NYC. Dr. Cangello understands that the decision to undergo cosmetic surgery is a personal one that must be carefully considered. Accordingly, his goal is for you to be as informed and comfortable as possible so that you can be confident in your decision.
During your consultation, Dr. Cangello will address any questions or concerns you may have about your potential surgery, and he will inquire about your reasons for seeking treatment. Next, he will conduct a physical examination to assess the external and internal structure of your nose and nasal passages. Using this information, Dr. Cangello will devise a surgical treatment plan that is fully aligned with your cosmetic goals, preferences, and tastes. He will also provide you with all the information you'll need to adequately prepare for your procedure and recovery.
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Open vs. Closed Rhinoplasty
There are two potential options to consider:
With a closed procedure, all the incisions are made inside the nose. With an open approach, incisions are made inside the nose, but there is also one tiny incision made across the skin between the nostrils. While either approach can produce great results, Dr. Cangello prefers an open approach and believes it produces superior results. Here's why: An open approach to treatment allows the internal structures of the nose to be exposed and completely visualized.
Specifically, Dr. Cangello performs a "Component Separation of the nose" during rhinoplasty which can only be done using an open approach. The nose is composed of seven separate structural components which are held together by attachments called ligaments. In order to attain the most natural-looking results, Dr. Cangello feels that these seven components should be separated completely during surgery. In this way, each of the individual components can be modified and then repositioned in the most proportionate and balanced way. By performing an open procedure, the parts of the nose end up fitting back together harmoniously. It is important to note that although the incision for this procedure is made externally, the resultant scar will be imperceptible. This is in contrast to a closed approach where often the attachments between all of the components of the nose are not separated and therefore the components are not free to move into the most natural position after alteration of isolated areas (such as reducing a dorsal hump). Altering a single part of the nose in isolation but leaving the remaining parts of the nose untouched can lead to results that are disproportionate and unbalanced. Redesigning the nose is best done when the entire structure can be changed and artistically put back together as is the case with Dr. Cangello's "Component Separation" using the open approach.
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Ethnic Rhinoplasty
Patients who'd like to refine characteristics that are specific to certain ethnicities may want to consider cosmetic treatment. Patients are typically of African American, Middle Eastern, Asian, or Latin American descent. Ethnic nose surgery can achieve the following:
- Make a flat nose more elevated and refined
- Enhance the structure of a nose that looks too small (nose augmentation)
- Improve the balance of the nose with the chin, forehead, and surrounding facial features
- Reduce the width of the nasal bridge and the nostrils
- Reduce the length of the nose
This approach to treatment is much different than traditional surgery, and it requires a great deal of care and surgical precision to produce results that look natural. Specialized techniques are required, such as cartilage grafting or nasal implants, so it's important to choose a board-certified plastic surgeon who is qualified to handle this procedure. Dr. Cangello has extensive experience with this particular type of nose surgery, allowing him to produce results that highlight the unique beauty of ethnic traits.
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Non-Surgical Nose Jobs
For patients who prefer a less-invasive option, non-surgical treatment is an excellent alternative. This procedure involves the use of dermal fillers to treat minor cosmetic irregularities affecting the nose. For example, when treating dorsal bumps, a filler can be injected into the surrounding tissue to produce a smooth, even nasal bridge. When injected into drooping nasal tips, fillers can also be used to create lift. While non-surgical rhinoplasty cannot replace traditional methods, it's a great option for patients who want to improve the appearance of their nose but don't feel ready to undergo surgery. Non-invasive cosmetic treatment is a quick, in-office process, and it requires virtually no downtime or recovery.
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Dr. Cangello is among a handful of plastic surgeons in the country to offer preservation rhinoplasty. This meticulous technique takes an innovative approach to preserve as much of the patient's natural bone structure, cartilage, and tissue while reducing bumps and humps. Results are refined and natural-looking with the potential for a quicker recovery than with traditional rhinoplasty. Dr. Cangello is highly experienced in this technique and can discuss whether it may be an option for you at your consultation. Learn more about preservation rhinoplasty.
What to Expect from Recovery After Surgery
After surgery, your face will likely feel puffy and achy. You may also have some drainage of blood and mucus from your nostrils. You will also feel congested. Dr. Cangello will prescribe the appropriate pain medication in case you need to alleviate any discomfort during your recovery.
You will be provided with specific instructions on what to avoid following your procedure. You may be advised to avoid strenuous physical activities, blowing your nose, rubbing your face, and resting eyeglasses on your nose.
Symptoms like bruising, numbness, and swelling around the eyes are very common. These symptoms can be reduced using cold compresses and by keeping your head elevated, even when you are lying down. Bruising will reach its peak on the second or third day, but it should significantly improve within two weeks. Dr. Cangello will remove your splint after the first week, and most patients feel well enough to return to work or school at this time. Some slight swelling may persist for up to six months, but this is usually very minor.
Contact plastic surgeon Dr. David Cangello today at (212) 644-4416 to schedule a consultation.
Rhinoplasty – FAQs
Patients often ask if we must "break their nose" during a nose job. This procedure (called an "osteotomy") is when your surgeon cuts into the bone. The patient's anatomy and the degree of reshaping needed will determine the need for an osteotomy procedure. When an osteotomy is required, Dr. Cangello will explain the process as part of the surgical plan.
Patients often ask if we must "break their nose" during a nose job. This procedure (called an "osteotomy") is when your surgeon cuts into the bone. The patient's anatomy and the degree of reshaping needed will determine the need for an osteotomy procedure. When an osteotomy is required, Dr. Cangello will explain the process as part of the surgical plan.
Nose surgery is often performed for functional purposes and to improve breathing. There are many reasons why patients may have difficulty breathing. Some of the structural problems that make it difficult to breathe include the following: deviated septum, collapsing nostrils on inspiration, enlarged turbinates, and collapsed internal valve(s) of the nose. These can all be corrected with nose surgery.
You may or may not have bruising after your procedure. Usually, bruising occurs as a result of intentionally fracturing the nasal bones in order to reposition them. When bones are fractured, the process may cause some bruising in the soft tissues around the lower eyelids. Sometimes patients do not bruise at all. There is no way to predict who will or will not bruise. When bruising does occur, it is usually completely gone in 10-14 days, and it can easily be covered up with makeup.
Some patients are worried about the potential for visible scars following their open rhinoplasty. However, even the incision made in an open approach heals beautifully when done correctly, and it will be imperceptible over time.
It is necessary to remove tissue to fix a nose that is too long. Typically, part of the septum will need to be removed to shorten a nose. However, there is NO skin removal during the procedure. The skin will contract on its own to conform to the newly shaped nasal skeleton.
Swelling can last for one-to-two years; however, you will still see a noticeable improvement immediately after your surgery. Your results will be noticeable the minute the cast is removed at seven days, but the nose will look a little puffy. It will ultimately look more defined as time progresses.
Usually, the nose looks quite good about a month after surgery, but it will look even better after three-to-six months.
Swelling will continue to diminish after around six months, but at that point, the swelling is quite minimal. You can expect subtle improvement to continue for up to a year or two.
Protecting the fragile tissues of your nose is key during your recovery. Patients should avoid wearing glasses for up to a month. They should also avoid blowing their nose for the first three weeks and prevent themselves from sleeping on their sides or stomach for the first two weeks. Likewise, patients should avoid getting their cast wet. To prevent bleeding or trauma to the nose, patients should not engage in strenuous activity or exercise for the first two weeks of their recovery.
Your rhinoplasty in NYC will be performed at Dr. Cangello's on-site, fully accredited surgical facility. You are encouraged to ask for a tour of the operating facility when you come in for your consultation. Alternatively, if you prefer having your surgery in a hospital setting, Dr. Cangello can perform your treatment at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital in NYC.
Either general anesthesia or local anesthesia with intravenous sedation will be used for your procedure.
Contact plastic surgeon Dr. Cangello today at (212) 644-4416 to schedule a consultation for Rhinoplasty in NYC


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This class has been Temporarily Postponed.
Please email Al if you need more information.
Thank you.
An Introduction to Buddhism and its Practical Application for Abundant Living
A Special Five-Week Course Starting Wednesday, August 17 / 7 to 8:30PM
Facilitated by Upasaka Konchog Shenphen
The Purpose of this 5-week class is to give participants a better understanding of Buddhism and its application in daily life. Sessions will provide a hands-on experience with the facilitator guiding the group to self-discovery, and how Buddhist practice can help them to live a more peaceful and joy-filled life. The sessions Do Not seek to convert anyone to Buddhism, but rather help in understanding how to apply Buddhist practice as a tool for daily living.
Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike are welcome!
Facilitated by Upasaka Konchog Shenphen (known to many simply as "Al")
If you are interested, email Al at: email@example.com
Session 1 – August 17 / 7 to 8:30PM
- Introduction
- Siddhartha Gautama
- The Four Noble Truths
- The Eight Fold Path
- Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayāna, Zen and More, Oh, My!
Session 2 – August 24 / 7 to 8:30PM
- What Buddhism is and is not
- Eastern and Western Practice
- The Mystical practices versus Practical
Session 3 – August 31 / 7 to 8:30PM
- Are you the Buddha, for that matter who is Buddha and should you really care?
- Are there Monsters in your attic and should I feed the Monkey?
- Are you a Buddhist or simply "Different"?
Session 4 – September 7 / 7 to 8:30PM
- The Meditation Buffet, What do I want? and will I need an Antacid?
Session 5 – September 14 – 7 to 8:30PM
- Field Trip to Buddhist Temple
About Upasaka Konchog Shenphen:
Upasaka Konchog Shenphen (known to many as simply "Al") has been a member of the Fellowship since 1988 and has blessed us with a rich and diverse background in Interfaith Studies and life experiences.
Al's journey began with his initiation into the Sufi Order of the West, and most especially with his Initiation and Ordination in the Dharma of the Buddhist Way. Al is also an ordained Deacon of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America under the authority His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip (Saliba).
"AL" took his basic Buddhist Refuge Vows in 1990 with the Venerable Khenchen Gyaltshen Rinpoche and later his Bodhisattva Vows under the Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin both of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Since then "AL" has sought a deeper understanding of his vows and received his Higher Precepts under the Venerable Master Chin Kung of the Amitabha Pureland Buddhist Linage.
To this day he has many strong ties to many of his God Brothers and Sisters in these groups as well as the Sikh Dharma, Vedanta Movement, and International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
"Al" is a graduate of the Episcopal Seminary of the Caribbean where he received his M.Div. degree in 1975 and holds a Master's Degree in Counseling from Inter American University of Puerto Rico. He also attended Sussex College of the University of London at Haywards Heath, Sussex where he graduated with honors with a Single honors Degree in Sociology.


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Get NFL Sunday Ticket & NFL Red Zone without a monthly subscription to DirecTV, Satellite or Cable-updated for 2017. By far the best & easiest way to get you local NFL games is to hook up an HD TV Antenna & get your local NFL games in top quality 1080 High Definition for FREE! In Denver CO you can watch every Denver Broncos game in HD for free by installing a HD Antenna. If you want more than just your local NFL games then Streaming is you next option. NFL Red Zone, NFL Network, & ESPN can easily be streamed live & via DVR with any Streaming Media Player. You can use these same SMPs to access NFL Sunday Ticket streaming too-without DirecTV (you do NOT need to have a monthly subscription to any Pay TV provider or DirecTV)-see details below.
- Since once again this is legal and legit offer, you simply go to DirecTV's website where you can scroll down to see all of the details and click on "Check Eligibility".
- After hitting "Check Eligibility", type in your Street Address on the pop up-notice the "address must match your payment method". You need to make sure that the address you enter here is an address that can NOT get DirecTV's regular service (apartment, university, middle of nowhere, etc.), plus the address listed needs to also be your billing address as well. If you happen to meet these requirements you are good to go! If not, it's time to get creative… 😉 Pretty sure this isn't going to be DirecTV sending JJ Watt out to your house to verify you can get service at your address. DirecTV just wants to make some additional money, while at the same time not alienating their existing Pay TV customers that they are gouging on a monthly basis. Do you have a friend or family member that is in an area that can't get DirecTV, maybe it's time to give them a call… Keep in mind you are only allowed 1 login at a time to stream NFL games.
- Remember NFL Sunday Ticket will still have the normal restrictions such as local blackouts. Once again, no big deal since freeTVEE helps you hook up an HD TV Antenna so you can get your local NFL games in top quality 1080 High Definition for FREE.
- Also, if you have Verizon as a Wireless Provider you can subscribe to NFL Mobile for only $5 a month and get the full NFL Sunday Ticket plus NFL Red Zone on your Verizon Cell Phone or Tablet!
What follows is previous years Cord Cutter guide to getting all of the NFL Sunday Ticket and Red Zone games… Get NFL Sunday Ticket Online without DirecTV virtually for free and most importantly you do NOT need any monthly Cable or Satellite subscription! Sounds too good to be true, but I bought this myself and just tested it on several computers and my cell phone and it works! This is 100% legal-you do NOT need to have a monthly DirecTV subscription (or any Pay TV provider) nor do you need to drop an additional $300 (normal add on cost to get NFL Sunday Ticket Max). Just follow this link (click on the tan "shop now" button across from Barry Sanders) and purchase Madden NFL 25th Anniversary with NFL Sunday Ticket Max on Amazon.com. It doesn't matter whether you have a gaming system or not. Inside the game comes a little sheet of paper (on the right) with your User ID and Password plus instructions on where to go and how to login (it's plays a short NFL video once you successfully login). I even left the game box sealed and grabbed the sheet with the codes from the inside by slightly pulling it apart. Since the game is good as new, you can sell it back (minus the NFL offer) and recoup almost all of the money you just spent to buy it-$100 for the Anniversary minus $60 for the Standard=only $40 for NFL Sunday Ticket Online without DirecTV. Heck even if you pay for DirecTV every month this is still the cheapest way to get NFL Sunday Ticket Max. Seems like a good option if you are involved in the TWC/CBS blackout and can't get CBS.
Please realize that without DirecTV this only works on computer, tablet or phone. Don't let that discourage you though since we can help you utilize several methods to get this content from your computer to your big screen TV. Not very glamorous but you can buy a cheap $5 HDMI cable , use Google's new $35 Chromecast Device, or for the solution that will work the best, get a dedicated Media Center PC. It also has the normal restrictions such as local blackouts. Once again, no big deal since freeTVEE helps you hook up an HD TV Antenna so you can get your local NFL games in top quality High Definition for FREE (this also gets you better quality HD than what your Pay TV provider charges you for). This little tidbit comes from the FAQ on the Amazon Product Page:
Do I need a DirecTV subscription to access NFL Sunday Ticket Online? No, it's not necessary to have a DirecTV subscription. Each Anniversary Edition includes a code that can be redeemed to access the full 2013 regular season (17 weeks) of NFL Sunday Ticket on computer, tablet, and mobile devices.
Seems like DirecTV wants to keep this a secret since it isn't really publicized anywhere. Maybe they don't want to piss off their existing customers that pay over $100 every month for TV plus $300 extra for NFL Sunday Ticket Max or maybe they don't want to upset the networks? Either way, we didn't have the budget to hire the Manning brothers to rap F.O.Y.P. (football on your phone), so this blog post will have to do… You can quickly click below to share this post with friends and family, and don't forget to "Subscribe and Connect" with freeTVEE for the latest on how this works and any other future finds in the world of free TV and electronics! I have no reason to believe this will not work come game time since it specifically states on the website that you do NOT need to have DirecTV, but I will be testing this out and will update this blog post on Friday 8/30 (after the cell phone/tablet preseason test run), and Sunday 9/8 (start of the NFL season) to let everyone know how it goes.
UPDATE 8/30-Streamed a few games on the 4G network from my smartphone last night and everything worked ok. I was able to login to the DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket App and choose whatever game I wanted to watch, just like you would expect-F.O.Y.P! For only $40, I am more than happy with this purchase. I will post another update here on 9/8 after logging into the online version as well.
UPDATE 9/8-Streamed like a gem today and looked just fine on the 65″ HDTV connected to the Media Center PC! I would say the HD quality is not quite as good as the 1080 HD from my HD TV antenna when watching local NFL games-this is still the best way to watch your local NFL team live in High Definition. The NFL Red Zone internet stream hooked to my big screen was still pretty impressive, in HD and looked great-probably just as good as if you payed for DirecTV and watched it in HD on your TV directly. Login was as expected, through the normal DirecTV online customer interface-even though I am obviously not a customer… 😉 The Red Zone Channel is awesome, the User Interface worked well to easily switch between games, and I didn't really have any buffering all day. Over all I am very happy with my streaming experience and think this NFL Sunday Ticket and Red Zone deal is the best one I have ever seen. I basically got it almost free after selling the game itself back, and I never paid a dime to DirecTV!
UPDATE 9/8-It appears this awesome deal has sold out on Amazon (unless they get more)-I did see a few filter over on Amazon under the Standard edition as used. I did also see several Anniversary editions on Ebay too. If all else fails I would just sign up for NFL Game Rewind for only $40, which gets you access to all of the games (including Thursday, Sunday and Monday night games), after they air. If you are out of the United States sign up for, NFL Game Pass for live online access to all NFL games. There is also a 100% FREE NFL Fantasy Football offer here or a deal for only $4 to stream the rest of the MLB season online. If anyone else has found a good way to get NFL games please leave a comment so we can update this post!
UPDATE 9/23-Amazon has the Madden game/NFL Sunday Ticket/Red Zone Deal again!!! It now says "In stock on 9/29″, so we are back in business, but who knows for how long-it does seem to switch back and forth between Unavailable and In Stock… I have been using this every weekend now for the last 3 weeks and love it. It is full access via DirecTV's UI to Sunday Ticket and Red Zone, even though you do NOT need to be a DTV customer.


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- Home
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- Recycling Pilot Program
Welcome to the City of Broken Arrow's Recycling site!
Beginning in January 2019, the City will be conducting a recycling pilot program to test the viability of adding curbside recycling, a service not currently offered but recommended by residents in a 2016 customer survey.
If you are a participant in this pilot program or want to know more about recycling and the City's vision for refuse services, we encourage you to explore the site and learn more!
About the Pilot Programs
The City is conducting two separate pilot projects, each with once-a-week pickup. Trash and recyclables will be picked up the same day.
- The Thursday pilot is a two-cart system (Black Cart for trash, Blue Cart for Recycling)
- The Friday pilot is a one-cart system (Blue Cart for Recycling, using our standard bags for trash)
The pilot period will start January 24-25, 2019, and will end on May 24-25, 2019. The two pilot projects will be measured separately, and results of the two programs will be reported to the City Council for their consideration and possible direction for future refuse and recycling service.
For more information about the City's trash/refuse services or to ask a question about the recycling pilot programs, contact:
Operations Division – 918-259-8373
How-to Videos
On December 5th, 2017, the Broken Arrow City Council approved the Citizens Recycling Committee's recommendation of running two concurrent curbside recycling pilot programs encompassing 500 customers each. The first pilot would continue the collection of garbage in trash bags, but include a plastic cart for recyclables. The second pilot would include a cart for both trash and recycling services.
Both pilot programs would reduce pick up to once per week instead of twice. The estimated cost for running the two pilots projects is $300,000, funded by the Broken Arrow Municipal Authority (BAMA).
Current sanitation routes will determine who will be selected for the pilot, which is anticipated to begin sometime in early 2019. Please note that this is just a pilot to determine if curbside recycling is feasible in Broken Arrow, and if it is, recycling would be completely voluntary.
Broken Arrow currently does not offer curbside recycling service, and the pilot program will help guide staff, the Committee and the City Council on future action steps regarding curbside recycling city-wide.
About the Citizens Recycling Committee
The Committee, comprised of 12 members of the public and two Councilors (one as an alternate), was formed in fall 2016 after a citizens survey in Spring 2016 showed a favorable attitude to implementing a curbside recycling program in the City. Committee members were tasked with understanding the opinions of Broken Arrow refuse customers and to serve as a guide for the development of future refuse and recycling services.
Meeting 14 times between November 2016 and July 2017, the committee educated themselves on recycling finance and economics, possible pilot programs, collection systems and recycling as it relates to economic development and sustainability. Several meetings included tours of recycling facilities within the metropolitan area, such as the M.e.t.'s Broken Arrow site, the Covanta Energy plant in Tulsa and the Tulsa Recycling and Transfer Material Recovery Facility.


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"With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
Micah 6:6-7
God has been good, and we long to worship Him. How do we praise the Lord? What does He require?
We can make sacrifices. We can fast, we can give up television, we can even take vows of celibacy or poverty. These can honor Him.
We can give Him things. We can build a prayer garden to encourage ourselves and others to commune with the Lord. We can give Him money to help support missionaries and the poor. This can certainly honor Him.
We can make promises. "God, You've done so much for me, I'm going to raise my children to follow You." That's a good promise.
He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8
God doesn't need your sacrifice, promises you can't keep, and money you don't even own in the first place. He wants you. He wants your life, what you do, who you are.
Because He's given you Himself.
God's requirement is that you respond to His goodness and sacrifice and grace toward you with your whole life - your actions, your emotions, and your character.
Over the next three days I'll be unpacking what it means to respond to God with our whole lives. God knew I needed a reminder because I opened my Bible blindly yesterday, and it fell to this passage. Maybe you need a reminder, too. If so, stay tuned, and I hope you will be challenged and encouraged.
Hello! I'm Faith. I'm a verbal processor who wants to love the Lord and love people with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. I write to think and think to write. I don't drink coffee. I am a dogless dog lover. I enjoy hosting large parties in my home, and I enjoy being alone. Join me in looking to Him and pursuing A Radiant Face.


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Some would argue that Martin Margiela is the coolest man in fashion. He's certainly the most elusive. Since the Belgian wunderkind set up shop in Paris in 1988, no one has seen a picture of him, and no face-to-face interviews have been granted. Margiela sees his role as a philosopher, rethinking the basic premise of clothing -- how it is sized and sold, how it interacts with the body -- with his team of white-coated assistants. Over the years, this has resulted in frayed ball gowns, reversed seams, cloven-toed boots and, when he was designing for Hermès, the most perfectly cut pants and jackets on the planet. Now, with his high-flying partner, Renzo Rosso of Diesel, and a new, industrial-strength business plan, Margiela is hotter than ever. How to scale the ramparts and dispel the mystery? We figured that if anybody could do it, it would be that fashion and music provocateur, Malcolm McLaren. Herewith, the beginning of a correspondence.
Dec. 15, 2004 Dear Martin, We know each other, I believe, but have never met. I certainly don't know what you look like and have even contemplated the thought that you may be a ghost! Do you exist? Sometimes I think not. But with that in mind, I am writing to you to find out.
Let me begin by saying I wear your clothes but can't help wondering if you have ever worn mine. Were you ever in London in the 70's and 80's? Because somehow, I feel we are connected. Your clothes are just a little more grown up, that's all. A more serious, Maoist approach.
I don't know what you think about that.
Wow! Just got back from Hong Kong. No flu, no shopping fatigue, but did buy a cool laser printer.
By the way, how is it working for the Diesel man? I like Renzo. He is a tough, swaggering cowboy who seems to want to do things differently in this postmillennium world of karaoke culture. What do you say?
I like your trousers. They are almost as uncommercial and impractical as mine were with a strap between their legs. I love to feel like an incroyable in his overalls. I like the boiled, mucky sweaters, too. I like your dirt and grunge. I like the fact that it looks like lots of people have stuck their dirty fingers on your clothes and left their marks all over them.
It's a different luxury, not something slick and overly produced. Do you think it's like lo-fi music? Like lo-tech culture? Are you aware of the new phenomenon bubbling across the Web? These lawless kids who convert old computers into music-making machines. Do you remember those sounds that crept out of early video-game culture? None of us cared about the sound of Nintendo back then. We just played the game. But now, I love these chip-music kids. Their icons are hackers, not Elvis. You should love it, given you're a part of that Belgian techno culture. Or are you?
These new musical hackers don't call themselves artists -- they hate that word. They prefer to call themselves reverse engineers. They love the way this antique technology can run wild. I feel this rock 'n' roll outlaw spirit has a kinship with you, or maybe I am wrong? Can you hear it? See it? Hey, are you really there? Or am I writing to no one in particular? Malcolm
Four weeks later, one note ("Did you have a nice Christmas?") and two letters from "Maison Margiela" arrive. The first letter apologizes for the delay and includes the disclaimer that Maison Margiela will be doing all the talking, with input from "Mr. Margiela." Thus the "we." The second missive follows.
Jan. 17, 2005 Dear Malcolm, What a 10-part saga this has been getting back to you and conversing! You must think we are either mad or slack. Neither is true. It's simply been a totally frenetic period. We moved in late November -- fantastic new place -- a huge former convent and design school near Oberkampf in the 11th Arrondissement. Most things have gone really well, yet we seem to be haunted by many technical glitches. So, no, there are no ghosts here -- unless they are hiding in our server, stealing our e-mails.
Of course, nearly all of us know you. Martin knows of you through magazines from when he was a student in Antwerp, but unfortunately he didn't buy designer clothes. At the time, he dressed from flea markets. Listening to your music is another matter, however -- well done! We hear you're in Paris recording an album. Any scoop on the style?
We are really happy you like our clothes. Not at all sure about Mao and his link to what we do, though! Suppose there's a first time for everything. As for our trousers being impractical? That's really strange. We usually hear the contrary. And the dirty fingerprints is also a new one on us. Are you thinking of the garments we rework by hand from used clothing? We refer to this as our "artisanal" production (the label has 0 and 10 circled for men and 0 for women). Everything is always cleaned.
We're often described as serious. This is odd since it's not at all the way we live our work "within our walls." The grown-up bit probably comes from a need we have to question, to take up the gauntlet of an impulse we have, to rethink a garment and then find a stimulating way to show this to others. To be frank, though, it's always a compliment that others perceive us as taking our creativity seriously.
We are very, very happy with the way our collaboration with Renzo is building. Renzo has brought us more stability, financial and spiritual -- we are growing together in the best way possible. (We leave the cowboy analogy up to you though.)
Funny that you mention it, but lo-tech culture is a strong thread of interest that runs through our team and its attitude. We were late to embrace computers; for so long we simply didn't have the money. Today we keep them pretty far away from the creative process.
Of course, we remember early video games. Those early Atari tennis games. Great sounds! Our musical influences tend to be much more grass-roots rock, in all its families -- lo-fi, as you mentioned.
As for the rock 'n' roll outlaw spirit, hmm. The force, conviction, indignation and alienation of youth are thankfully irreplaceable, yet aren't they probably meant to wane with experience and life? They belong to youth -- but when you are no longer young . . . what then?
So, yes, we can hear it. We can see it (when we can). And we're here! Even if it took us a while. Thanks, Malcolm. All at Maison Martin Margiela
Jan. 20, 2005 Dear Martin & Factory, Just got back from wicked St. Bart's and almost fell into the grave of Susan Sontag at Montparnasse Cemetery -- it was so cold! Poor Susan. I had New Year's lunch with her only last year, here in Paris. I was so sad to read about her passing in the paper over the holidays.
Still, glad to receive your letter. Don't worry about technology. It sometimes goes a little crazy and gets out of control. Wow, well done, now that you've moved to République. I like certain aspects of this part of Paris -- the dirt, the stupid poseurs who hang out in crappy bars listening to funny music. I think this is what Parisians think is their version of downtown N.Y. I go there sometimes to visit the lo-fi thumb tribes that rumble occasionally on Rue Oberkampf with those rock 'n' roll Game Boys.
Yes, you are right. I have been working on a new album in the desolate suburbs, south of Chinatown -- Ivry. Working with hackers and connecting them to the only all-girl rock band from Beijing,
called the Wild Strawberries. They know how to post-karaoke with those chip-music freaks. It's fantastic! Imagine Sonny Boy Williamson or Jimi Hendrix lost in a video game of bleeps and bloops with some deadly-looking, Chinese, guitar-swinging girls "comin' to getcha!" (Totally inspired by the pixelated crude visuals of early video-game culture, I enclose my New Year's card for you to blitz out on. . . .)
I started to dig up all my own history -- old records left over from my shops on the King's Road. Can you imagine beating up Bessie Smith and the Zombies? I did. You can hear the track on "Kill Bill Vol. 2."
It was around this time last year that I met Quentin Tarantino here, and before I knew it, my music found a place in "Kill Bill Vol. 2," just before Uma kills Bill. Did you get a chance to see that movie? It was so good! "About Her" is the name of my track. Check it out. I'm working more and more in film this year. Even inspired to work on a stage musical about fashion -- certainly got the tracks. Maybe we should kick some sounds around your show one of these days? Only teasing.
I know you are serious. Your trousers told me.
My comments about Mao are more about me. He is fast becoming the benign and eccentric uncle in China. Strange how history is always being rewritten.
Sometimes you sound so old, like my great-grandfather! Sensible, and deadly wise. I guess you must all be ghosts. Anyhow, see you at the shows. Maybe? By the way, does fashion end in passion or does passion end in fashion?
And I'd like a picture! Malcolm
Jan. 20, 2005 Hello, Malcolm, and all those at the recording studio. It is indeed very sad that Susan Sontag has left us. "AIDS and Its Metaphors" was such an important work. It shoved us along in our grudging recognition and understanding of H.I.V. and the isolation it brings. It is numbing how that virus has tricked, mutated and infiltrated. We always feared it would become a pandemic, yet who in 1987 could have predicted the desolation and devastation it would reap in Africa? "And the Band Played On" seems so far away today. How great it must have been for you to meet Sontag so recently.
We are so fortunate with our new home. We're just north of République at Rue St.-Maur. It was really weird when we came across the place. The school had been closed for 10 years when we visited it for the first time. We were totally taken aback to see that for all those intervening years everything was abandoned, just as it had been on that last day when the school fell quiet for summer. Exam papers lay on desks, pens stood in inkwells and lessons were still chalked up on blackboards. All was weighed down by a thick layer of dust. You must visit one day.
What a great name for a band, the Wild Strawberries! Your album sounds like a feast! How will the hacking work with the sounds?
When is it out?
On our side, we are forging ahead with our next project -- the 10 and 14 collections for men. To go with them, we've been shooting a video project -- musicians backstage at venues just before they go onstage: crooner, rock, goth, a chansonnier, all over Paris. We're also starting a new line of shoes for men and women called 22 and accessories called 11 -- so a lot's happening! We're also guest-editing A Magazine in Antwerp. We entitled ours, "The past is what bonds us -- the future leads us."
It's true what you say about Mao -- it's as if he has become a smiling, happy parent totally extrapolated from the Cultural Revolution.
He's become like Coca-Cola's version of Santa Claus or Hello Kitty.
Do we really seem so old, wise, grandparentlike? We have never thought of ourselves in that way. We always say that we are too close to the trees to see the wood (or is it wood to see the trees?) to know how we appear to others, and it's true, we are. Better to keep "doing" and leave interpretation up to others, don't you think?
Does fashion end in passion or does passion end in fashion? What about, Does passion end in passion and fashion in fashion? Maison Martin Margiela
Jan. 23, 2005 Hi, Maison Margiela! I'm reading, again, Susan S.'s "Notes on Camp." It is inspirational. It hails the arrival of Andy W. and all that is pop and fluffy. My arrival at art school in 1965 happens about the same time "Notes on Camp" is published. A professor greets us -- "If you think you are all going to be successful, well . . . you're not!"
And, pointing to the door, "If anyone thinks they are, they better leave now!" My head is disappearing into my shoulders. I am 17. Crushed. A year later, a few of us have survived. The old goat reappears. "So, you're still here then? I expect you all to understand failure now." He turns aggressive: "Don't think you can just fail, though. You've got to learn how to fail magnificently." And in a tone that breeds a certain dull confidence, he rasps, "For it's better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success." It shakes me, confuses me and changes my life.
I make myself a blue lamé suit like Elvis Presley and try to get exploited by walking down the King's Road. No one notices.
I fail miserably. I end up looking like a wet, dead rat by the time I reach World's End. It's November. It rains a lot. I start again by tearing my clothes apart. By jumping on them, making them dirty. By bathing them in gray dye. I make ugliness beautiful. I form a gang with Vivienne, and on the King's Road in Chelsea, we inadvertently invent a style that denies commercial application. It proudly displays a "not for sale" feeling. It's 1974. I am deconstructing clothes with Vivienne for an army of disenfranchised youth. I dig in the ruins of a past culture. It becomes my art. It's not nostalgia -- that's simply dead tissue. It's a wickedly old-fashioned, sexy chaos that empowers me and impacts on others.
Sex (and I love it) is fashion ending in passion. And passion ending in fashion is fetishism. Once upon a time, I was accused of being a mere dilettante for managing the Sex Pistols and not sticking to haberdashery. Now, everyone is doing everything for everybody everywhere. Exhausting! Shopping is art. Shoppertainment is the new cultural ideal. The church, back in the Middle Ages, sold salvation, and people didn't need to acquire anything. Today, stores are replacing the museums as the museums once replaced the church. We are all curators now.
The extraordinary power the fashion world possesses lies in its ability to provide identity, and sometimes I think all fashion designers can be characterized by a resistance to living in the present. This displacement appears essential as a designer must always be one season ahead. The desperate passion a new look inspires, though, seems inexplicable once it wanes. I will never forget reading about Christian Dior's life when he remarked he'd like to brand food as fashion and demanded his house brand roast beef with his name: "Dior Rosbif."
Television has been eclipsing all cultural institutions and life itself for some time. But the digital generation has struck a blow to the heart of television, and there is no stopping, now that the Internet is free. No matter how much government and industry try together to control the new media, the Internet's inherent lawlessness is its appeal, its sexiness. We are seizing the automated stuff of our world: I am excited. Love ya, Malcolm
Jan. 25, 2005 Dear Malcolm, Incredible! Isn't the very notion of success and failure entirely relative? Is success fame, notoriety and economic recompense, or is it, in the case of artists, the ability to express one's ideas to whatever public might be touched by that expression? Like many creative ideas, it is not necessarily the originality of the premise that is important or defines its "art" but the means and purity of its expression. No one can refute that what your teacher told you is accurate. But despite himself and his bombastic approach, he had a beneficial effect on you. You were lucky!
Funny, for another project, we recently found ourselves looking for a definition of "passion" -- a lot of what one finds is linked to "The Passion of the Christ." It is interesting that for you, passion, when related to clothing, seems to be linked directly to sex. For us, the passion is in the creation. Without that initial and ongoing passion it would be impossible for us to continue. We really do not feel this pressure to be one or more seasons ahead to remain designers as you describe. A lot hangs, of course, on a definition of "fashion." When one designs clothes, one is automatically a "fashion" designer, but sometimes this can or should simply be "clothing" designer. If we are to view fashion as the tidal wave of trends that we have come to know, the expression of a designer and/or his team can exist entirely parallel to fashion. Our benchmarks are more the evolution of our own creative expression. We try to provide ourselves with new horizons as soon as the need for a new challenge presents itself.
For years, designers -- including us -- were banging on about individual expression, that everyone should be able to find their own means of expression via what they wear. To a very large extent today we have what we were seeking then -- people are more individualistic, they are dressing more for themselves and less for others. Don't you agree? Of course, there will always be that validation some receive through wearing a brand, but there is no longer that idea of a prevailing look; skirts can be any length. You are so right when describing
the Internet. Long may it reign! But for how long? Even though the Internet is presented as a wild and wonderful place of freedom of expression, those who log on today thinking that their views expressed are not being monitored are fools. All of those big brothers following every hit on your keyboard.
On that note, we'd better get back to work. Our men's show is Friday. We're nearly there! All the best from all at Maison Martin Margiela
Feb. 1, 2005 Dear Martin, I never asked you where you spend Christmas; not the whole factory, that is, just you. I did the most decadent thing and landed in St. Bart's on Christmas Eve. Besotted by so many pretty things, I was immediately transported back to the Côte d'Azur in the 60's.
Let's see, Christmas in St. Bart's. Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, Uma Thurman, Tom Ford, Bryan Ferry, Tony Shafrazi, Robert Downey Jr., Quentin Tarantino, a Ukrainian bombshell (running around seminaked with an Asprey backgammon board), Qaddafi's son. Night and day, everybody is doing everything to everyone everywhere. I bumped into Nick Rhodes, a Duran Durannie (you remember "Girls on Film," don't you?), and he's still wearing all his pan stick and eyeliner. Quite a feat in the heat! I do love him, though. He darlings everybody, always with a silent teenage girl in tow. Isabella Blow queened out in her Joan Crawford gold lamé bathing suit and diamanté studded stilettos, with her art-house ex, or not-so-ex. I don't know. Relationships are so complicated nowadays. Detmar Blow sat shrouded in a Philip Treacy sun hat. Detmar is hysterically critical, refuses to be clever, an absolute English invention, extraordinarily funny although he doesn't know it. A part of that fast-disappearing and better side of the English postcolonial tribe. On the beach, Giorgio Armani strolled, in his ever-so-brief black bathing trunks, ultratanned chest and the toned body of a 30-year-old. Astonishing. His gang, smoking profusely with not a hair out of place. Ah! Those Italians! The funniest thing, though: they all had matching black towels and mini canvas directors' chairs, which turned out to be headrests.
It's snowing in Paris. Vive la neige!! It's Christmas all over again. Gotta see Sofia Coppola. I like her new project about Marie Antoinette. Just heard Marianne Faithfull will play Marie's mum. Great choice. She's related to Sacher-Masoch (as in "masochism"). A long time ago, Russ Meyer, better known as King of the Nudies, cast Marianne
as Sid Vicious's mum in "Who Killed Bambi," the proposed movie about the Sex Pistols. I wrote it with Roger Ebert and Rem Koolhaas (yes, the architect! He was in Hollywood then). She had to shag Sid in the script. However, she would only agree to do so on condition he took a bath beforehand. He did have this notorious, dirty reputation.
A sudden thought. Would you like to go to a dinner party for dogs? There will be no barking at the table. By the way, where are all those pictures you were going to send me? Lots of love, Malcolm
Feb. 3, 2005 Dear Malcolm,"Curiouser and curiouser"! What a drama, receiving your last letter, that is. This weekend, we finally got to show our work on the men's collections to the press. We showed them the six small films based on the musicians backstage on the point of going onstage we told you about. The films seemed to please. Of the many that popped in, Gert Jonkers of Butt magazine in Amsterdam passed by. He said that he was busy tracking you down for dinner (did he manage?) and that he was curious as to the correspondence you are having with us. Gert also told us that your letter had been sent. Yet nothing had arrived! Was it happening again? That's when the frantic search began. Our panicked e-mails requesting another copy of your letter all arrived, as did the replies of those who could forward it to us, yet the letter itself was always blank on arrival! It finally transpired -- subject to verification, of course -- that your letter was being blocked, filtered or censored somewhere in the ether between Paris or New York! A tiny symbol in the "Sent" folder, in front of the many attempts to mail, showed that its contents were unsuitable for transmission. Why? Could it be that we are now at the stage where mail of "questionable" content evaporates -- deemed immoral? Is this the next stealthy step of reining in the Net, our thoughts and expression? Was it your reference to Sid Vicious having to to take a bath before doing Marianne Faithfull?? Or was it some lazy spell check that didn't want to get up off its bum and preferred to destroy the evidence? Quick, check Nostradamus! Well, we have your letter now -- it finally arrived, by fax!


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Calamity Jane | DVD | (17/04/2019)
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This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can out-shoot and out-sing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honour, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. Calamity Jane won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman
High School Musical | DVD | (04/12/2006)
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Troy (Zac Efron) the popular captain of the basketball team and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the school's musical. As they reach for the stars and follow their dreams everyone learns about acceptance teamwork and being yourself. And it's all set to fun tunes and very cool dance moves.
Annie Get Your Gun | DVD | (22/04/2002)
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Irving Berlin's classic stage musical Annie Get Your Gun finally reached the big screen in 1950, four years after it had taken Broadway by storm. The irresistible combination of the story of ground-breaking sharpshooter Annie Oakley, fantastic songs like the rousing anthem "There's No Business Like Show Business" and the setting of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, made most people feel it was worth the wait. More than half a century on, the book creaks audibly and the treatment of the "Indians" who make up the bulk of the troupe is inevitably embarrassing. But in glorious Technicolor, this in-your-face spectacular defies you not to get sucked in. Quite simply, the show is a winner. Ethel Merman's performance on Broadway became an immediate show business legend, but she was largely ignored by Hollywood. Here, Betty Hutton's whirlwind Annie is, on its own terms, an explosive and hugely entertaining turn, matched by Howard Keel in his first starring part as Frank Butler. But Judy Garland was the first choice for the role and had already filmed several numbers before MGM fired her for her erratic behaviour. It seems almost cruel to include a couple of her songs as extras; even a 40-watt Garland makes the otherwise incandescent Hutton look merely adequate. They certainly add a frisson to this celebration of all-American entertainment at its boldest and brassiest. On the DVD: Annie Get Your Gun is presented in standard 4:3 format (the original aspect ratio was a similar 1.37:1) and the picture quality is so sharp it blows you out of your seat. Likewise the stereo soundtrack, brilliant for songs which include "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "Anything You Can Do" and the sublime "They Say it's Wonderful". Apart from the Garland numbers, the extras include a Hutton outtake and an introduction to the show from a recent Broadway Annie, Susan Lucci. Overall, though, the show's the thing. --Piers Ford
Mary Poppins - 45th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (02/03/2009)
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Mary Poppins is one of Disney's most enchanting fantasies and the motion-picture hit that made 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' a household word! Julie Andrews stars as the loveable nanny who soars out of the skies and into the hearts of everyone she encounters. Toting a carpetbag full of magical adventures Mary and her fun-loving sidekick Bert (Dick Van Dyke) deliver endless joy and surprises to a troubled family.
Easter Parade | DVD | (17/04/2019)
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If you can't join 'em beat 'em! When his long-time dance partner abandons him for the Ziegfeld Follies Don Hewes decides to show who's who what's what by choosing any girl out of a chorus line and transforming her into a star. So he makes his choice and takes his chances. Of course since Fred Astaire portrays Don and Judy Garland plays the chorine we know we're in for an entertainment sure thing.
The Lady Vanishes | DVD | (18/08/2008)
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Intrigue and espionage and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who during the journey mysteriously disappears from her compartment. The girl seeking an explanation for the disappearance is accused of hallucinating and is nearly convinced that her new friend does not exist.
Bugsy Malone | DVD | (17/02/2003)
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Writer-director Alan Parker's feature debut Bugsy Malone is a pastiche of American movies, a musical gangster comedy set in 1929, featuring prohibition, showgirls and gang warfare, with references to everything from Some Like It Hot to The Godfather. Uniquely, though, all the parts are played by children, including an excellent if underused Jodie Foster as platinum-blonde singer Tallulah, Scott Baio in the title role and a nine-year-old Dexter Fletcher wielding a baseball bat. Cream-firing "spluge guns" side-step any real violence and the movie climaxes cheerfully with the biggest custard pie fight this side of Casino Royale (1967). Unfortunately for a musical, Paul Williams' score--part honky-tonk jazz homage, part 1970s Elton John-style pop--lets the side down with a lack of memorable tunes. Nevertheless, Parker's direction is spot on and the look of the film is superb, a fantasy movie-movie existing in the same parallel reality as The Cotton Club and Chicago. A rare British love letter to classic American cinema, Bugsy Malone remains a true original; in Parker's words "the work of a madman" and one of the strangest yet most stylish children's films ever made. On the DVD: Bugsy Malone's picture is presented non-anamorphically at 1.66:1, with rich colours and plenty of detail. The print is excellent. The audio is stereo only and while full and clear seems to leave a hole in the middle of the soundstage. Extras include an informative commentary by Parker, eight pages of trivia notes by Parker and a very informative 12-page booklet, also by the director. There are three trailers, nine character profiles, two scored galleries, and more imaginatively, a multi-angle option to compare Parker's sketches, their comic-strip realisation by Graham Thomson and the finished opening sequence. Quality over quantity make this a strong collection of extras, though recollections from the stars would have added so much more. --Gary S. Dalkin
The Wizard Of Oz | DVD | (19/06/2006)
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Like the Tin Man's heart, the true test of a real classic is how much it is loved by others. The enduring charms of The Wizard of Oz have easily weathered the vicissitudes of changing fashions making the film one of the world's best-loved, most-quoted and frequently imitated movies. It's now as ubiquitous an American pop-cultural icon as McDonald's, making judging the movie purely on its own merits an almost impossible task. Judy Garland's tragic later life, for example, makes her naïve and utterly beguiling Dorothy seem all the more poignant in retrospect. But this at least is clear: much of this movie's success depends on the winning appeal of Garland's "Everygirl" figure, who creates the vital identification and empathy necessary to carry the audience with her into the land of Oz. We always care deeply about Dorothy, her quest for home and the strength of her friendship with her companions. Garland's assured dancing and singing routines with her ideally cast Broadway comedy co-stars Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley are still endlessly delightful, of course, and the songs and score (by Arlen, Harburg and Stothart) are as good as anything in the Hollywood musical canon. It is Garland's deeply felt rendition of "Over the Rainbow" that is both the film's emotional core and the reason why adults as much as children the world over still respond so strongly to this movie. So long as people long for home and the love of their friends and family, the nostalgic appeal of Oz will never fade. On the DVD: another splendid digital restoration from the MGM vaults keeps this wonderful classic as vivid and alive as it was back in 1939, if not more so. The 1.33:1 picture is clear and defined, bursting with the vibrant colours of Oz (you can even see the wires holding up the Lion's tail). Even more remarkably, because the original microphone tapes have been preserved the soundtrack has been remastered in 5.1 stereo, thereby accentuating the lush tones of the MGM orchestra and Garland's famous singing. The disc is also chock full of extras, including outtakes, audio sequences, composer Harold Arlen's backstage movies, extracts from earlier silent Oz films, clips from the Academy Awards and interviews with the stars among many other fascinating nuggets. The new 50-minute documentary hosted by Angela Lansbury, and irritatingly narrated in the present tense, is oddly the weakest part, with too little hard information and too much padding about how everyone loves the movie. The only gripe is Warners' trademark cardboard slipcase, which is awkward and easily damaged. But this is still an essential disc for the young at heart everywhere. --Mark Walker
An American In Paris | DVD | (02/06/2003)
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The plot of An American in Paris is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of choreographer-dancer-actor Gene Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema. An American GI (Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. The final section of the film comprises a 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film and is breathtaking. Gershwin songs specially arranged for the film include "'S Wonderful", "I Got Rhythm", and "Love is Here to Stay". --Tom Keogh
The Great Ziegfeld | DVD | (16/02/2004)
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Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, 1936's The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr". With admirable accuracy, the film follows Ziegfeld's career from small-time sideshow barker to creator of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the collection of singing, dancing, and comedy vaudeville acts that launched the careers of such luminaries as Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor--all of whom play themselves in the film. In the title role Powell offers a believable combination of ambition and hucksterism, and his Thin Man costar Myrna Loy makes a late appearance as his second wife, but it's large-eyed Luise Rainer who has the showier role (and won an Oscar) as Ziegfeld's first big star and first wife. The musical numbers, however, don't hold up quite as well as the plot, and at some three hours the film is overlong. It's fascinating, though, to see the vintage stars performing and the eight-minute spectacle "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" is an eye-popper with an elaborate revolving set supporting a large cast singing and dancing to the Irving Berlin tune while throwing in some Puccini, Strauss, Leoncavallo and Gershwin for good measure. --David Horiuchi
Bugsy Malone | Blu Ray | (23/06/2008)
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Written and directed by Alan Parker Bugsy Malone is a gangster musical set in New York a world of would-be hoodlums showgirls and dreamers. A world where you never see an adult - kids play the entire film including Scott Biao as Bugsy and Jodie Foster as Tallulah. Bugsy Malone. is totally unique: quite simply there has never ever been a movie like it!
The Wizard Of Oz | DVD | (07/11/2005)
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""We're Not In Kansas Anymore."" We click our heels in anticipation. There's no place like home and no movie like this one. From generation to generation The Wizard Of Oz brings us together - kids grown-ups families friends. The dazzling land of Oz a dream-come--true world of enchanted forests dancing scarecrows and singing lions wraps us in its magic with one great song-filled adventure after another. Based on L. Frank Baum's treasured book series
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (22/05/2006)
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Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls Dorothy the sassy one looking for true love Lorelei the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire with her sights set on Gus Esmond a wealthy nerd stuck under his father's thumb. When Lorelei and Dorothy take a transatlantic cruise to Paris an undercover detective follows to find out if Lorelei is really a gold-digging schemer. Unfortunately the irrepressible Lorelei is a born flirt and
Camp Rock | DVD | (01/12/2008)
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Get ready to sing and dance like never before with the electrifying Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock! When Mitchie scores a job as a cook at Camp Rock her life takes an unpredictable twist and she learns just how important it is to be true to yourself. Join the platinum-selling Jonas Brothers and the hottest cast of performers at the coolest summer camp anywhere!
The Importance Of Being Earnest | DVD | (08/10/1999)
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If you're looking for the definitive example of dry wit, look no further than this 1952 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and you've got a comedic soufflé that's cooked to perfection. Opening with a proscenium nod to its theatrical origins, the film turns Wilde's comedy of clever deception and mixed identities into a cinematic treat, and while the 10-member cast is uniformly superb, special credit must be given to Dame Edith Evans, reprising her stage role as the imperiously stuffy Lady Bracknell. To hear her Wilde-ly hilarious inflections and elongated syllables is to witness British comedy in its purest form. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
It's A Wonderful Life | DVD | (09/11/2007)
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Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton
White Christmas | DVD | (03/12/2001)
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This semi-remake of Holiday Inn (the first movie in which Irving Berlin's perennial, Oscar-winning holiday anthem was featured) doesn't have much of a story, but what it does have is choice: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, an all-Irving Berlin song score, classy direction by Hollywood vet Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood), VistaVision (the very first feature ever shot in that widescreen format), and ultrafestive Technicolor! Crosby and Kaye are song-and-dance men who hook up, romantically and professionally, with a "sister" act (Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to put on a Big Show to benefit the struggling ski-resort lodge run by the beloved old retired general (Dean Jagger) of their WWII Army outfit. Crosby is cool, Clooney is warm, Kaye is goofy, and Vera-Ellen is leggy. Songs include: "Sisters" (Crosby and Kaye do their own drag version, too), "Snow", "We'll Follow the Old Man", "Mandy", "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" and more. Christmas would be unthinkable without White Christmas. --Jim Emerson
The Importance Of Being Earnest | DVD | (30/04/2001)
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If you're looking for the definitive example of dry wit, look no further than this 1952 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and you've got a comedic soufflé that's cooked to perfection. Opening with a proscenium nod to its theatrical origins, the film turns Wilde's comedy of clever deception and mixed identities into a cinematic treat, and while the 10-member cast is uniformly superb, special credit must be given to Dame Edith Evans, reprising her stage role as the imperiously stuffy Lady Bracknell. To hear her Wilde-ly hilarious inflections and elongated syllables is to witness British comedy in its purest form. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Singin' In The Rain | DVD | (24/01/2000)
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Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. Indeed, when Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. It's not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds; it's also an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry's uneasy transition from silent pictures to "talkies". Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood, whose leading lady Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) has a screechy voice hilariously ill-suited to the new technology (and her glamorous screen image). Among the musical highlights: O'Connor's knockout "Make 'Em Laugh"; the big "Broadway Melody" production number; and, best of all, that charming little title ditty in which Kelly makes movie magic on a drenched set with nothing but a few puddles, a lamppost, and an umbrella. --Jim Emerson
Singin' In The Rain - Special Edition | DVD | (25/11/2002)
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Singin' in the Rain is probably the most treasured musical in the history of cinema. It is essentially a satire on the dawning age of talking pictures, but that description doesn't begin to describe its importance in the hearts of film lovers, even those who can't otherwise stand musicals. Given its origins--producer Arthur Freed wanted a framework on which to hang a selection of the hits he'd written in the early part of his career with Nacio Herb Brown, many of which had themselves featured in early talkies--it should have been a mongrel of a picture. But somehow, with its combination of endearing performances, the razor-sharp script of Adolph Green and Betty Comden, instinctive direction from Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen and those delightful songs, it is triumphantly greater than the sum of its parts. Kelly's dance sequence, conceived for the title song, is an undiluted joy and remains an iconic cinema moment. But there is so much more to savour: Donald O'Connor's knockout vaudeville, Jean Hagen's hilarious Bronx-voiced leading lady and the honest charm of underrated Debbie Reynolds, crowned by Kelly's choreography for the Broadway Melody suite. No collection is complete without this. On the DVD: Singin' in the Rain--Special Edition, vibrant in 1.33:1 fullscreen format with a crystalline mono soundtrack, is the crown jewel in the embarrassment of riches on this 50th anniversary two-disc DVD. The extras just keep coming: "Musicals, Great Musicals" (a documentary about Arthur Freed's legendary production unit at MGM), a shorter documentary about the film itself (much of which is duplicated by the audio commentary, led by Debbie Reynolds), outtakes and audio scoring sessions and extracts from films in which many of the songs originated. There's also a hidden feature in which Baz Lurhmann offers his own testimony to the film's enduring appeal, but it's a tad redundant given the primary sources on offer. --Piers Ford


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