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In: The Donald.
Out: Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Rachel and Chandler.
In: Being mean.
Out: Making nice.
In: Relationships of convenience.
Out: Friends.
There is an unmistakable symmetry in NBC's decision to replace Friends next fall with The Apprentice as the new star of its Thursday night lineup of "must-see" TV.
The Friends finale, which airs this Thursday, marks more than the departure of one of the longest-running and most successful sitcoms in television history. Passing with it from center stage in American popular culture is one of the most enduring and uplifting themes that prime-time TV has ever offered: the celebration of community.
Situated at the heart of hundreds of series during the last half-century was the guarantee to young adults that there is a community of like-minded people out there somewhere with whom they can find fulfillment. But that message, sounded consistently on network TV since the 1950s, has been replaced with its virtual opposite.
The new message is part of a meaner, narcissistic, prime-time vision that says fulfillment is found only in winning the game and making more money than anyone else. Forget community, everyone is on his own, and anyone who doesn't know that is begging to be hustled. In the new world of prime-time television, people don't even try to make friends any more. Instead, they form alliances week to week in hopes of not being voted off the island.
No series showcases this new vision better than Donald Trump's The Apprentice, the mega-hit reality series of the television year. Talk about a changing of the guard: At its peak in 2001, Friends had an audience of 28 million viewers (including one out of every three young adults) a week. That is exactly the size of the audience that tuned in for the finale of The Apprentice last month.
And it isn't simply a matter of genre, with reality TV inherently offering different messages than sitcoms or dramas. The same dark vision at the heart of The Apprentice or CBS' Survivor can also be found in the medium's finest drama, HBO's The Sopranos.
To stay on top, not only does Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) have to ruthlessly police his crew to guard against informers, he also has to diligently monitor his own family. Remember when his mother (now dead) was talking to his uncle about having him killed at the end of the first season? Tony is the ultimate survivor, willing to kill to keep his seat at the tribal council.
'Just nice people'
"Narcissistic meanness" is the term Dr. Lawrence E. Mintz, professor of popular culture at the University of Maryland, uses to describe the vision that defines the Nielsen Top 20 these days. "And it is such a big change from the messages of community, friendship and people simply being nice to one another found in the tradition to which a show like Friends belongs," he says.
Matthew Perry, who plays Chandler Bing, located Friends in that tradition when he tried to explain the appeal of the show by saying, "Basically, they are just nice people that you want to be around."
David Crane, the co-creator of Friends, took it a step further, saying, "Friends is about that time in your life when your friends are your family. There's a lot of heart in that idea."
It's hard to miss the echo in Crane's words of the closing speech by Mary Richards in the teary-eyed, 1977 finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS). Remember how new management was brought in to revamp WJM-TV, the Minneapolis station at which Mary worked, and how everyone was fired except Ted Baxter (Ted Knight), the incompetent and narcissistic anchorman? In the wake of the takeover, Mary and the gang gather together in the newsroom to say goodbye.
"I tell myself the people I work with are just the people I work with - and not my family," Mary begins. "But last night, I thought, 'What is a family anyway? They're just people who make you feel less alone and really loved.' And that's what you've done for me. Thank you for being my family."
Martha Kauffman, the other co-creator of Friends, said the writing team for Thursday's finale watched the final episodes of three series as they prepared to write their swan song: Newhart (CBS), The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
"That's the gold standard," she said of The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
The Friends episode that best articulates the notions of community and friends-as-family aired on Thanksgiving of 2001. After a season of slumping ratings, as well as critics complaining that the series was creatively exhausted, Friends shot back up to its highest ratings ever in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Thanksgiving episode featured guest star Brad Pitt joining the six friends for holiday dinner. It was the highest-rated show on TV that week.
There are a number of reasons for the size of that audience, ranging from the way it tapped into our use of television as holiday ritual, to the power of celebrity and our People magazine knowledge of Pitt and Aniston as real-life husband and wife. The episode itself was a delight, with Pitt showing a deft touch for comedy in his role as a former high school classmate whom Monica (Courteney Cox Arquette) invites to dinner without telling the others. Pitt's character has changed considerably since high school, having lost 150 pounds for starters.
But one thing has remained constant: his intense dislike for Rachel Green (Aniston). In fact, he co-founded the "I Hate Rachel Green Club" in high school. His co-founder, we find out at dinner, was Ross (David Schwimmer), the father of the child Rachel is carrying. Happy Thanksgiving.
It's handled with a wonderfully light touch, and, of course, everything works out more than all right around that holiday table, right down to Joey (Matt LeBlanc) somehow managing to finish a 19-pound turkey mostly by himself - a fable of abundance if ever there was one. But the narrative of the outsider finding a moment of community among these friends goes beyond sitcom laughter.
Imaginary New York
The New York City within which Friends was set is an imaginary place in the American psyche where some of our most powerful mythologies intersect. One of the most resonant myths features New York as a place where young people who might not feel comfortable in their home towns can find community and blossom, just like these sitcom characters. As the song "New York, New York" says, it's a place where they can lose their "little-town blues."
As much as the series has been criticized for its lack of social reality in terms of diversity, cost of living, crime and gridlock, it was that very lack of reality, along with its promise of safe harbor among friends, that gave it a second life after 9/11. This was a New York where people loved each other and made babies, not a New York where hate-filled zealots crashed planes into towers.
Perhaps Friends was too safe and nice to ever be considered a great sitcom. But it captured the promise of community as well as any series in TV history, stretching back from Seinfeld (NBC), Cheers (NBC) and M*A*S*H (CBS) to Our Miss Brooks (CBS), a pioneering 1950s sitcom staring Eve Arden as a high school teacher. And just as Mary Tyler Moore did it for baby boomers, so did Friends do it for Generation X.
As Friends comes to an end, that is what makes the change in the core message of Top 20 TV series from community-nice to narcissistic-mean so striking. What does it say about changes in the culture out of which it grows?
The shift onscreen is a reflection of what's happening in the larger society, says Mintz. "We're living in an age of narcissistic meanness. I know that's a big generalization, but this extends beyond prime-time television series. The end of Friends is part of something larger."
For example, the shift from the kind of vision offered by Friends to the one featured on shows like The Apprentice is also apparent in commercials, according to Mintz.
"Remember when the beer commercials used to be the guys lugging a cooler of beer together and then sharing it on the beach? Now the commercials are about how to screw your roommate out of getting a beer - placing a bodyguard in front of the refrigerator to deny access, or tunneling through the wall to steal beer out of a refrigerator in another apartment," he says, ticking off half a dozen commercials with the same theme.
Soft drinks ads have changed in a similar way. Compare the Coca-Cola commercials of an earlier era that were built around the hope of teaching "the world to sing in perfect harmony" with the current one that features a young man eating the dinner and drinking the Coke that had been left for his roommate by the roommate's mother.
Sense of community
Like the TV series, most of these commercials are directed primarily at young adults. What hit prime-time TV series will preach community to them after Friends is gone - particularly those of college age who are in the process of shaping world views that will guide their adult lives?
Even in series that have contestants living together during the course of the show - such as Survivor or The Apprentice - they never form a true community based on friendship or trust (despite the fact that two or more of them often decide to have sexual relationships with each other). It is always about being the winner, the last one standing, the one who gets the prize. Those who trust or help others in the TV household are defined as losers.
"We are living in a culture where the stuff that is aimed at young people is very confrontational, in-your-face and nasty," Mintz says, tracking the theme in other realms of American life, from rap music to presidential rhetoric.
"It's not like saying everybody in the country has turned nasty. But a very significant portion of the culture, particularly in the younger age groups, has really come to value meanness, toughness, looking out for number one, and winning is everything.
"Those things have been around forever. They're not new inventions. But I think they are more prominently displayed in our popular culture than ever before - to the exclusion of messages about friendship, community and caring about each other."
That is something worth mourning as we come to the end of Friends.
Tuning out
What: A one-hour retrospective, followed by the finale of Friends.
When: Thursday, 9 to 11 p.m.
Where: WBAL (Channel 11)
In brief: Prime time becomes a less friendly place as the Thursday night hit ends its 10-year run.


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JMU Seniors Present Research at National Geology Conference
By Alex Sharp VIII ('10), Public Affairs
Holly Polivka (left) and Elizabeth Weisbrot presented their research on the stability of soils between the Shenandoah River and Massanutten Mountain at the 2009 Geological Society of America annual conference. Dr. Scott Eaton, associate professor of geology and environmental sciences, was their adviser.
Elizabeth Weisbrot and Holly Polivka felt a bit out of place surrounded by more than 4,000 working geologists.
"Everyone was wearing flannel and hiking boots like they had just gotten out of the field, and there we were trying to dress nice," Weisbrot, a JMU senior geology major said of her first day at the 2009 Geological Society of America conference. Weisbrot and Polivka represented JMU at the annual geological summit Oct. 18-21 in Portland, Ore.
The two seniors' research involved analyzing soil between Massanutten Mountain and the South Fork of the Shenandoah River to assess the stability of land near mountain ridges.
"All mountain ranges, once they stop growing and building up, are going to erode down eventually," Weisbrot said.
With funding from Matthew Heller of the Virginia Geological Survey, the project began in summer 2008 when four test pits were dug in an area between the Shenandoah River and the side of a Massanutten ridge. Over the next year, Weisbrot and Polivka evaluated physical features within each pit, including grain size and shape, clay content and soil color to determine whether the observed erosion was the result of gradual alluvial flow or torrential debris flow caused by large storm events.
"A debris flow is like a landslide almost, with less water," Polivka said. "So if you see an outcrop of it, it'll be a bunch of boulders and poorly sorted stuff, because it all came down the mountain at one time."
The students observed significant debris flow near the Massanutten ridge, indicating instability and potentially devastating erosion in the near future.
"Settling near a ridge: not the best idea," Polivka joked.
Polivka and Weisbrot presented their findings and methodology in poster form, answering tough questions from an experienced cast of professional geologists and professors over the course of the weekend. They also attended a number of lectures and presentations by fellow geologists that piqued their interest.
"It was really helpful having our poster on display because we got really constructive feedback," Polivka said. "Now we want to do other things like age date: getting the exact ages of the soil; we just haven't had the time. I think we're going to get more funding in the Spring, so we'll probably be doing that."
The students plan to dig deeper. These mountains are some of the oldest in the world, and formerly the biggest. They are wearing down little by little each year. Erosion isn't going anywhere.
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Published: Thursday, January 1, 2009
Last Updated: Thursday, October 20, 2016

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Proverbs 5
My son, if you listen closely to my wisdom and good sense,
you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say.
The words of an immoral woman may be as sweet as honey and as smooth as olive oil.
But all that you really get from being with her is bitter poison and pain.
If you follow her, she will lead you down to the world of the dead.
She has missed the path that leads to life and doesn't even know it.
My son, listen to me and do everything I say.
Stay away from a bad woman! Don't even go near the door of her house.
You will lose your self-respect and end up in debt to some cruel person
for the rest of your life.
Strangers will get your money and everything else you have worked for.
When it's all over, your body will waste away, as you groan and shout,
"I hated advice and correction! I paid no attention to my teachers,
and now I am disgraced in front of everyone."
You should be faithful to your wife, just as you take water from your own well.
And don't be like a stream from which just any woman may take a drink.
Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.
Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.
She is beautiful and graceful, just like a deer; you should be attracted to her
and stay deeply in love.
Don't go crazy over a woman who is unfaithful to her own husband!
The LORD sees everything, and he watches us closely.
Sinners are trapped and caught by their own evil deeds.
They get lost and die because of their foolishness and lack of self-control.
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A unique blend of puzzle games and Pac-Man. "Life on a tiny earth, the symbolic ages" is a retro arcade puzzle game where you have to avoid opponents in a spherical labyrinthic world, to save species at the edge of existence. 1.0 can be seen as the alpha version and can be purchased "as is" with no support, to get feedbacks and to contribute to the development of the next version(s). The 2.0, closer to a beta version, is under development (game.dominiquedc.com). The game's world is a symbolic representation of earth where the player has to rescue all the species members to win. This game offers dozens of level and many kinds of opponents, with both manually designed and randomly generated levels plus different game modes to renew your gaming experience. This game is available on PC and for those who have a MAC or a Linux, the engine version used, Unity 4.0, can work on these two platforms, depending, especially for Linux, on software versions and hardware. So please try the co
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NWSB Insider and Portland Trailblazers blogger Blair Thomas weighs in with a very sensitive subject. The Sonics fans vs. Oklahoma City Thunder beef. Blair likens this to a bad breakup between a boyfriend and girlfriend, where the Thunder are the hot gf who goes on to make it big in life, and the Sonics fans are the bf who can't seem to let go or get on with his life.
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Nepalese women and children belonging to the 'Magar' community perform a dance routine before the inauguration of The Indigenous Film Festival 2009 in Kathmandu on May 28, 2009. The four-day long international indigenous film festival which has kicked off in Nepal's capital, will showcase 32 Nepali films, 34 international short films and documentaries. A group of filmmakers from Canada will exhibit their oeuvres and will select a few Nepali films to be screened at the Imagine Native Film Festival in Canada. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)


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(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co's (WFC.N) loan book is performing better than many of its peers and better than even the bank expected in the middle of the last year, thanks to factors including higher house prices and tougher loan standards.
In the third quarter, Wells posted its lowest quarterly loan loss rate in at least nine years. The lower losses allowed the bank to dip into funds it set aside to cover bad loans, boosting profits by about $600 million after taxes.
Part of the improvement stems from a 2009 move to tighten underwriting standards for consumer loans, like more stringent requirements for verifying prospective homeowners' income.
Residential real estate loans made since then "have virtually no losses," Chief Financial Officer Tim Sloan said at an investor conference in September.
Another factor helping loan performance: post-crisis loans make up a larger share of Wells Fargo's portfolio overall now, driving quality higher. Nearly half the commercial loans and around 45 percent of consumer loans on the books at the end of the third quarter were made after the financial crisis.
Meanwhile, home prices increased 12.4 percent nationwide in August from a year earlier, according to CoreLogic. That had a big impact on the quality of Wells Fargo's home equity loans, where losses, also called charge-offs, fell by nearly 3/4 since the third quarter of 2012.
Many of these loans are hovering just below or just above the value of the home, so as home prices go up, the losses on the loans can change dramatically, a spokeswoman said. Over half of the decline in loan losses between the third quarters of 2013 and 2012 came out of Wells Fargo's home equity portfolio.
"When you put all that together," Sloan told Reuters in a recent interview, "it makes for a rapid improvement in credit quality."
To be sure, Wells Fargo is not the only U.S. bank to benefit from more of its customers paying their bills. Bank of America's total loss rate declined to 0.73 percent in the third quarter, a level not seen at the bank since 2005, Chief Executive Brian Moynihan told analysts. Bank of America reduced its allowance for bad loans by $1.4 billion in the third quarter.
"I don't think anybody expected charge-offs a few years ago to be as low as they are now," investor Warren Buffett said in a October 16 CNBC interview, in which he highlighted the low loss rates at both Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Buffett is a major shareholder in both banks.
Wells' overall loss rates were even better than Bank of America's at just 0.48 percent of the loan book, a steep drop from a year earlier. The numbers may be better because of its mix of business - commercial loans often perform better than credit card loans, for example.
But credit performance has outperformed even the bank's expectations. Wells Fargo chief risk officer Mike Loughlin said in May 2012 he expected loss rates to be about 1.00 percent through the credit cycle.
These improvements in overall credit have allowed the bank to set aside less money to cover future losses. It stashed away just $75 million to cover bad loans in the third quarter, down 95 percent from the $1.6 billion set aside a year earlier.
As losses continue to decline, Wells Fargo can also dip into funds set aside previously to cover bad loans, known as "releasing reserves." The bank released $900 million of loss reserves in Q3, before taxes, or about $600 million after taxes.
But the extent to which some banks are leaning on reserve releases to boost profits has caught regulators' attention. In September, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said some banks had become hooked on re-purposing reserves in the form of earnings.
Citing some signs of rising credit risk across the banking system, Curry said it seemed like a "singularly bad time for banks to be scrimping on their allowances against their loan losses."
Analysts said the current rate of Wells Fargo's reserve releases might not be sustainable. Jennifer Thompson, research director at Portales Partners, said the money that Wells Fargo set aside for future losses every quarter was coming down faster than its current losses, a process that would bottom out eventually and require the bank to build reserves back up.
Sloan said the bank was mindful of regulators' views, but at the same time was bound by accounting principles that dictate reserve releases. "When your loan portfolio improves as much as ours did, it's appropriate to release reserves," he said.
Even with the release, the money the bank has set aside over time covers four times the losses the bank could expect to have in a year at current rates, up from 3.6 times in the second quarter.
"That's a huge number," Chief Executive John Stumpf told Reuters in a recent interview.
Reporting by Peter Rudegeair in New York, Editing by Dan Wilchins and Krista Hughes


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1.Crash while watching a Custom Battle Replay that ends during a cutscene.
2.Crash when Elephant Artillery fire.
3.Crash killing every enemy unit in Tunis Settlement during Spanish Grand Campaign.
4.User unable to progress in the Battle Tutorial when moving all units to the highlighted area instead of just the cavalry unit.
5.Crash when Auto resolving a siege battle, gaining victory, and repeatedly Right - Clicking the settlement the players army is moving into.
6.Enemy AI Cavalry not attacking spearmen.
7.AI defect on the Battle Map when enemy AI seiges a town with infantry and calvary, and the infantry die and rout, the player still holds the city, and the enemy cavalry do not attack or rout.


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Brown Announces San Joaquin Valley Hispanic Street Gang Takedown
PORTERVILLE--California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today joined the Porterville Police Department in announcing a major takedown of the Varrio Central Poros, a brutal criminal street gang that has "terrorized" the City of Porterville for years.
"Gang activity has infested the streets of Porterville and terrorized the city," Attorney General Brown said. "In response to the rising threat of violence, the California Department of Justice deployed Special Agents to work alongside the police department in cracking down on the Varrio Central Poros and bringing its members to justice. We have seized dozens of dangerous weapons and drugs, effectively draining this gang of its lifeblood."
Today, the California Department of Justice and the Porterville Police Department, with the assistance of other law enforcement agencies, served 23 search warrants and 21 arrest warrants on the criminal hierarchy of the Varrio Central Poros. They made 17 arrests. Agents seized cocaine, meth, and marijuana during today's takedown. They also seized weapons and ammunition for an AK47.
During the investigation which led to today's arrests, agents conducted 94 surveillances, arrested 31 suspects and conducted 266 field interviews regarding the gang's criminal activities. Approximately 18 search warrants were issued and 16 court orders were served. Gang members were also arrested for cocaine possession, carrying loaded firearms, and false imprisonment.
Agents seized 24 grams of meth, 56 grams of marijuana, 34 grams of cocaine, and 62 grams of heroin during the course of the investigation.
The Varrio Central Poros were involved in narcotics trafficking and distribution throughout Tulare County. Investigators found that they used proceeds from drug sales to post bail for fellow gang members and purchase dangerous weapons including rifles, shotguns and several handguns.
The Varrio Central Poros investigation began in October 2007 following a spate of gang-related homicides and violent crimes in Porterville, a town with a population of 51,000. From May 2006 to October 2007, the police department reported 17 homicides in the city, 13 of them gang-related and an increase in drive-by shootings. The violence reached a peak in October 2007 when the city reported 12 shootings within a 5-week period. The gang targeted rivals in the town and often their own members for execution if they were thought to be disloyal.
At the request of Porterville Police Chief Chuck McMillan, California Attorney General Brown dispatched 75 agents of the Department of Justice's Gang Suppression Enforcement Team to Porterville in November 2007 to crack down on the gang. The State Department of Justice joined with the Porterville Police Department, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department, the Lindsay Police Department, and other law enforcement agencies throughout the central San Joaquin Valley.
"This is the finest example of law enforcement agencies pooling their resources to combat the common problem of gang activity," said Porterville Police Chief Chuck McMillan.
The California Department of Justice assists local law enforcement when gang problems have become so severe that the crime is bleeding into neighboring jurisdictions. State agents have recently shut down a Nortenos street gang and a violent Cambodian street gang in Stockton, and a Sureño gang in Atwater. Brown's special agents have also participated in recent crime crackdowns in East Palo Alto and Oakland.
The Varrio Central Poros organized themselves in the early 1990's, originally known as Porterville's Most Dangerous. The gang is affiliated with the notorious northern California prison gang Nuestra Familia and the Northern Structure prison gang. Nuestra Familia, a rival of the Mexican Mafia, was organized in Folsom State Prison in 1968 and operates primarily in the northern parts of California. There are approximately 120 Varrio Central Poros gang members in Porterville, ranging in age from 12 to 40 years.
The Tulare County District Attorney's Office will prosecute the gang members arrested today. The suspects face various felony charges including murder, narcotics trafficking, carjacking, conspiracy to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
The Porterville Police Department will use every lawfully available tactic to extract information from arrestees about recent gang related homicides, shootings and other criminal activities.


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"Couples Therapy" producers are striking while the transgender iron is hot -- on the high heels of Caitlyn Jenner's big announcement ... they're making Carmen Carrera a focal point of the show.
Sources close to Carrera tell TMZ she and her husband Adrian Torres' very unique story will be highlighted during Season 6 ... which is shooting right now.
For those who don't know ... Adrian was married to Carmen before she transitioned in 2012. They separated the next year, but never divorced. They've been back together for the last 6 months, but clearly there are a ton of issues left for them to address on 'CT.'
We're told the producers aren't stupid -- they're well aware of all the attention Caitlyn's been getting, and they're out to get a piece of that pie with Carmen.
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On the toons list today are two videos, one a disturbing audio clip of Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA), making race baiting remarks which insinuate that President Obama has enemies that do not want him to get ahead because of his color.
The second video is entitled: THE VIDEO EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN MUST WATCH AND QUICK.
Essentially the video is explaining how the citizens of Germany allowed Hitler to slowly rise to power without much resistance. The foreshadowing of a similar fate in America is quite an evident and potent message.


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All-new midsize sedan is smooth and refined.
The Chevrolet Malibu is completely redesigned and re-engineered for the 2013 model year and the 2013 Malibu is a winner, delivering a smooth ride, responsive handling, cabin comfort and ease of use. The 2013 Malibu is a midsize sedan with a choice of powertrains, ranging from a low-cost 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine to the sporty 260-horsepower Malibu Turbo to the Malibu Eco mild hybrid that rates an EPA-estimated 25/37 miles per gallon City/Highway.
A quick glance at the 2013 Malibu tells you you're looking at a new kind of Chevrolet. Completely redesigned, the 2013 Malibu has an international look about it while not being either outlandish or overdone. It looks both modern and nicely understated; the stylists resisted the temptation to go Lady Gaga just to attract attention.
The interior, like the exterior, is handsome and, for a Chevrolet, pleasingly elegant. The luxury level of this Chevrolet seems almost Buick, though drawn with a much freer hand. Obviously, having the mission of standing out all around the world has not hurt Chevrolet's styling vocabulary in the least.
But the minute we drove the 2013 Malibu Eco around a fast bend, we knew we were driving a new kind of Chevrolet. It's a family car, to be sure, filled with all the familiar keynotes that define mid-size Chevrolet sedans. But in the same moment, it is a far more roadable vehicle than the Malibus of five or ten years ago. Gone is the vaguely ramshackle ride and the wanton tendency to lean far over when cornering in even the slightest haste.
Also gone is the wayward, numb sense of not knowing what the pavement beneath you is telling you. A proper driver's car communicates precisely what the driving conditions are, and serious lapses in driver feedback have ever been a shortcoming not only of non-Corvette Chevrolets but most American cruisers. Yet very suddenly, the new Malibu is a genuine contender in the world driver's car sweepstakes. It's not perfect; the more expensive sports-sedan marketers, after all, have had decades' more experience at fine-tuning their cars' behavior. But this Chevrolet family sedan has made a truly remarkable move in their direction. It is a genuinely rewarding car to drive. It's handling and ride are comparable to that of the superb new 2013 Honda Accord.
Furthermore, the Malibu Eco model's thriftily priced mild-hybrid drivetrain we tested has an impressive new E-Assist electrical torque-boosting arrangement that adds force to the car's very fuel-efficient 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine. The result is vigorous over-the-road performance, achieved while also registering very high highway mileage.
The 2013 Malibu Eco is a sleek new mild-hybrid package that is reasonably roomy, handsomely styled, and most of all, a convincing contemporary American rendering of the world car. The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco mild hybrid is debuting simultaneously in the U.S. and China. That singular fact tells you how completely the world view at Chevrolet and General Motors has changed. Though General Motors has long paid lip service to the concept of world cars, very suddenly in 2012, it is a world car company and will be judged by world-car standards. It's no longer enough to be applauded in Hammond, Indiana; it also has to be craved in Beijing, China and Singapore, Malaysia, and if such a thing be possible, Munich, Bavaria.
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu lineup includes a range of models, starting with the base Malibu LS ($21,995), which comes with the Ecotec 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and 6-speed automatic transmission.
Malibu LS comes standard with cloth upholstery, Sirius XM Satellite Radio (with three trial months), OnStar with six months Directions & Connections. Malibu 1LT ($23,185) upgrades with Premium Cloth seating, 7-inch color touch-screen, Chevrolet MyLink, Bluetooth audio streaming, ambient lighting, projector-style halogen head lamps, heated body color outside rear view mirrors with integrated turn signal indicators, carpeted floor mats. Malibu 2LT ($24,890) upgrades further with dual zone automatic climate control, Premium Cloth seat trim, eight-way power driver seat adjuster, leather-wrapped steering wheel, 8-way power-adjustable driver seat, full-color high-resolution Driver Information Center, remote starter, 18-inch painted alloy wheels, and fog lamps. Options include leather-appointed seat trim, heated seats, Rear Vision camera, Pioneer audio.
Malibu 3LT ($26,600) features the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder with Direct Injection and Variable Valve Timing and is equipped like Malibu 2LT.
Malibu Eco comes with a 2.4-liter DOHC four-cylinder, electric motor generator E-Assist, 6-speed automatic, regenerative braking. Malibu Eco 1SA ($24,985) comes with active front aerodynamic shutters, cruise control, intermittent wipers, OnStar, Sirius/XM satellite radio, AM/FM/CD/MP3 six-speaker audio with color touch screen and hidden storage, USB port for audio, Bluetooth connectivity, dual-zone climate control, keyless entry, express-down power windows, power door and window locks, driver information center, tilt/telescope steering, steering wheel controls, ambient lighting, overhead console, compass, two auxiliary power outlets, rear center armrest. Malibu Eco 2SA ($26,595) adds leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, 8-way power-adjustable driver seat, Pioneer premium 9-speaker sound system, inside auto-dimming rearview mirror, rear vision camera, Universal Home Remote and cargo convenience net, foglamps and body-color bodyside moldings.
Malibu LTZ features heated leather-appointed front seats with vinyl perimeter accents and an auto-dimming inside rearview mirror, 18-inch machine spoke aluminum wheels, LED taillamps, chrome door handles and front grille with silver inserts and chrome surround. Malibu 1LTZ ($27,365) comes with the 2.5-liter Ecotec engine, Malibu 2LTZ ($29,700) boasts the 2.0-liter turbocharged engine and also includes a sunroof.
Options include Navigation Package ($1,020), Power Sunroof ($1,000).
Safety features standard on all models include eight airbags, the mandated dual front airbags plus side-curtain airbags for head protection, side-impact airbags for torso protection, heated power outside mirrors, OnStar, safety-belt pretensioners, tire-pressure monitor, electronic parking brake. Active safety features include anti-lock brakes, grade braking control, panic brake assist, electronic park brake, electronic stability control, electric power steering, grade braking control, brake assist. Rearview camera is optional.
A quick way to understand the new looks of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu is to consider its competition: the midsize Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Ford Fusion, and Hyundai Sonata. Malibu's nicely integrated modernism puts it well in range of them. It has a sleek, coupe-like profile without sacrificing too much rear seat headroom to the sloping roofline, as some higher end sedans do.
The 2013 Malibu is 4.5-inches shorter than the previous-generation version, and its front and rear track are two inches wider, for a more stable package.
At the nose of the Malibu are two main horizontal grille ports and a lower intake containing very advanced aerodynamic shutters, among the first in this economical category. These shutters automatically close to decrease drag and increase fuel mileage at higher speeds. Conversely, they automatically open at lower speeds, when climbing or hauling a trailer, improving cooling. When appropriate, the upper grille closes to redirect airflow over the hood, further decreasing aerodynamic drag. The outside mirrors are also designed for minimum aerodynamic drag, as are the taillights. Finally, heretofore found only on luxury cars, the Malibu has underbody panels that create smooth airflow and reduce drag beneath the car. Chevrolet estimates the Malibu's coefficient of drag at a very low 0.30. First rate.
The Malibu's nose is high in order to meet current European safety standards for pedestrian impact. The idea is for the nose to collapse progressively but not so completely as to direct the pedestrian at the engine's solid cylinder head.
The muscular Malibu's nose flows nicely rearward without an excess of character lines, ending in a concisely modeled tail that is somehow Volvo-like. Not a bad thing. Chrome highlights the side-window frames, brightening the profile, which is punctuated by wide door cuts for easy ingress and egress.
The trunk is opened with a button in the center-high-mounted-stoplight or the key fob and has a high lift-over. Space is severely encroached upon by the battery pack for the engine's E-Assist system. The trunk is, by far, the smallest in its class.
The first impression of the Malibu's interior requires but one word: lavish. The seats are Business Class, with the full range of travel, excellent comfort and firmness, beautiful sable leather, and deluxe lumbar adjustment. It's downright un-Chevrolet. The dashboard and trim are dynamic and modern, with a strongly contrasting dark boomerang of soft-touch dark leather arranged against a broad sable background, the dark leather framing all the functional controls and hardware. Flashes of chrome highlight the door handles and window controls, console and gearshift, but the center stack is framed in understated earth tones. Very grown-up, nicely un-Retro.
A full 8000-rpm radial tachometer for the 7000 rpm-redline engine is matched to a speedometer that ranges to 160 (but that, of course, is only so it can be switched to 160 kph). The fuel gauge is accompanied by an ECO gauge, which casually tells you whether you're achieving excellent or slightly less-excellent mileage.
The shifter in the console controls the 6-speed automatic, and we mean controls. You can shift it to D and drive it as a full automatic, or move one more notch rearward to M, for Manual. Now you press a toggle switch on the top of the shifter to command the up-shift or down-shift you want. It works well, unless you make an irrational request, which it will reject. Yet there is something not very satisfying, not very commanding, about the fiddly little button. And when you press the detente release button needed to get out of Park and pull the lever back, it goes straight back past Drive to Manual. Most of the time, we think most people would prefer it to stop at Drive. At least that's what we'd prefer.
The nice cocoa leather steering wheel has the usual yoke-mounted controls, and at night the dash has pleasing, deluxe wraparound ambient lighting. The center stack provides wonderfully intuitive audio controls, and pressing a release, the entire touch-screen pops open, revealing a hidden storage space. The climate control is straightforward and flawless. There are handsome elements of French stitching in the door panels, adding another luxury touch. And the front windows are one-touch down, but alas, snail-mail up.
The 2013 Malibu's increased width gives it 1.5 inches more front shoulder room and 3.2 inches rear shoulder room over the previous-generation model, combined with nearly three inches more hip room front and rear. The front feels roomy enough, but the rear is extremely tight for three adults. The rear seats are also flat and rather hard, and for taller adults, headroom is limited. The rear seat does have a nice fold-down center cushion with two cup-holders and a folding compartment. Triple seat anchors are provided for child seats.
Driving Impression
The 2013 Malibu is no BMW, but it's far closer than it's ever been before.
Malibu Eco's highly tuned mild-hybrid Ecotec 2.4-liter inline four-cylinder, though small in displacement, is engineered to produce V6 performance with inline-4 fuel economy. The Malibu Eco uses an electrical battery pack that adds a hearty boost of 15 horsepower through added electric power. This electrical charge, accumulated through regenerative braking, energy that would otherwise be lost, also shuts down fuel delivery during some deceleration conditions. At such times, the engine and electric motor continue spinning, allowing a seamless restart of the Malibu's auto-stop system. The latter, incidentally, has no lurch and surge and is better than BMW's balky auto-stop systems.
In other respects, the Ecotec is engineered to the Nth degree: aluminum block, head and pistons, DOHC, direct injection, with continuously variable intake and exhaust timing, and electronic throttle control. The engine's peak gasoline-generated thrust is 182 horsepower at 6200 rpm. When accelerated, the combined gasoline and added electric boost take a moment to gather up (not unlike the momentary hesitation of an automatic transmission kickdown), but when this is accomplished, the Malibu Eco accelerates well. Coupled to the new Hydra-Matic 6T40 6-speed automatic, it's an entirely adequate performance package. Chevrolet estimates Malibu Eco's 0-60 acceleration performance at 8.7 seconds.
But we mentioned inline-4 fuel mileage. With all its solid performance, the Malibu Eco delivers EPA City/Highway mileage of 25/37 mpg. Right in the ballpark with the hybrid versions of its competition.
Even more startling is the Malibu Eco's handling. As a world car, this Malibu's agility and stability will be judged by standards nobody in Hardy's Corners ever thought of. And we can all profit from that. The minute we put the Malibu through its first high-speed bend, this was clearly like no Chevrolet sedan we'd tested. It corners flat, firmly, fully prepared for the next command. It doesn't yet have the live, bounding-ahead feel of the very best European sports sedans, but this is a mid-size sedan competing with Toyotas and Hondas. There is room for improvement, perhaps, but it's a very, very good start. It could feel more lively, more sporting, but it does the right things in the right way, and for a Chevy sedan, that's huge. This will pay off handsomely in emergency avoidance maneuvers.
At the same time, the Malibu Eco's ride is quiet and very compliant. Our driving was in the rough, rugged northeast, where pavement is like a lava flow. Yet despite the Eco's well-disciplined suspension, it also tuned out the roughness under foot effortlessly. First rate.
The brakes, too, were exemplary: powerful, easily modulated, a silent partner in the act of driving, just as they ought to be.
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu is Chevrolet's first true world mid-size family sedan. It rises to the challenge of competing against the best from Europe and Japan, and as such, excels in areas where no Chevrolet mid-size family sedan has excelled before. It combines efficiency, advanced engineering, agility and style, at a Chevy price, in a way that will startle many.
Ted West filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report after his test drive of the Chevrolet Malibu Eco in the Northeast.
Model Lineup
Chevrolet Malibu LS 2.5 ($21,995), Malibu 1LT ($23,185), 2LT ($24,890), 3LT 2.0 Turbo ($26,600); Malibu 1LTZ 2.5 ($27,365); 2LTZ 2.0 Turbo ($29,700); Malibu Eco 1SA ($24,985), Eco 2SA ($26,595).
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Fairfax, Kansas; Detroit-Hamtramck.
Options As Tested
Leather Package ($1,300) with leather upholstery, front passenger power seat, heated front seats; Crystal red tintcoat paint ($325); Cocoa fashion trim ($150).
Model Tested
Chevrolet Malibu Eco ($26,595).The Chevrolet Malibu emphasizes civilized road manners, quality construction and practicality, with clean, contemporary styling. Newly redesigned for 2013 the Malibu will be offered first as an Eco trim with an eAssist electric motor-generator system to improve fuel economy. The Malibu LS, LT, and LTZ without eAssist will be available in summer 2012. The new 2013 Malibu will be released first as an Eco trim with an eAssist system that enables regenerative braking, start-stop functionality, and electric power assistance. The Eco includes a 182-hp, 2.4-liter direct-injection four-cylinder engine and next generation six-speed automatic transmission. The Malibu LS, LT, and LTZ trims, available in summer 2012, will include an all-new 190-hp, 2.5-liter direct-injection four-cylinder engine, also combined with a next generation six-speed automatic transmission as standard equipment. Safety features include 10 airbags, stability control, traction control, and anti-lock brakes. New standard equipment includes a seven-inch touchscreen radio display and Chevrolet MyLink Touch with streaming audio. The distinctive and classy Chevrolet Malibu is all-new for 2013 and will be available first with eAssist.
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Kenneth Visser
Associate Professor
Clarkson University
PO Box 5725
Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
E-mail: email@example.com
Research site: http://www.clarkson.edu/~visser
B.Sc., University of Calgary (1986)
M.S., University of Notre Dame (1988)
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame (1991)
Dr. Visser is the faculty advisor for the the Design, Build and Fly Team and the co-advisor with Professor Jha of the Clarkson AIAA Student Chapter. He is also the advisor for Sigma Gamma Tau, the Aerospace Honors Society. Courses taught include:
AE200 - Aeronautical Engineering Seminar
AE429 - Aircraft Performance and Flight Mechanics
AE430 - Stability and Control of Aerospace Vehicles
AE450/451 - Aircraft Design I & II
HP200 - Honors Sophomore Problem Solving Course
Research Interests
Dr. Visser's research interests are primarily applied experimental aerodynamics and also include such areas as aircraft design, sustainable energy, and experimental measurement techniques. More information can be found on his research web site. Below are several current project areas.
Ground Vehicle Drag Reduction
The aft end of ground vehicles is often a design compromise between functionality and aerodynamics. Traditional transport vehicles have a flat aft end which creates a large drag on the vehicle at highway speeds. The use of extendable flat plates mounted to the truck doors to reduce drag is being studied in the wind tunnel and on full scale vehicles.
Renewable Energy Technologies
Distributed power generation is a viable strategy to complement the present day grid system, especially for rural homes and farms. Concepts for especially for rural homes and farms. Concepts for multi-bladed rotors are being studied to increase the efficiency of small, homeowner sized turbines. Novel tidal energy extraction concepts are also being studied. These projects are part of the Wind Energy Research Group under the Clarkson Center for Sustainable Energy Systems.
Vortex Flows
Wing-tip rollup and formation is a complex process and the design of an appropriate wing-tip to maximize the overall advantage to an airplane design is not always that obvious. Research is focused on optimizing the possibilities of raked wing-tip concepts and investigating the nature of the shear layer that forms the leading-edge vortex structure in a delta wing flow field.
Selected Publications
K. Grover and K.D. Visser, "Over-the-Road Tests of Sealed Aft Cavities on Tractor Trailers," SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibit, Rosemont, IL (Oct/Nov 2006).
B.S. Lazos and K.D. Visser, "Aerodynamic Comparison of Hyper-Elliptic Cambered Span (HECS) Wings with Conventional Configurations," AIAA-2006-3469, 25th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, San Francisco, CA (June 2006).
M.C. Rector and K.D. Visser, "Solidity, Blade Number, and Pitch Angle Effects on a One Kilowatt HAWT," AIAA-2006-0608, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV (January 2006).
M.A. Khan, P. Pillay and K.D. Visser, "On Adapting a Small PM Wind Generator for a Multiblade, High Solidity Wind Turbine," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 20, No,3, September 2005 Bennington, M.A. and Visser, K.D., "Aerial Refueling Implications for Commercial Transports," AIAA Journal of Aircraft , Vol. 42, No. 1 (January-February 2005).
K.D. Visser, Ferrero Ferrero, M. del Carmen and R.C. Nelson, "Physical Considerations of Leading Edge Flows," AIAA 2004-5083, 22nd Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Providence, RI (August 2004).
J.D. Coon and K.D. Visser, "Drag Reduction of a Tractor-Trailer Using Planar Boat Tail Plates," The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles: Trucks, Buses, and Trains, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, Vol. 19, McCallen, Rose; Browand, Fred; Ross, James (Eds.), XII, 567 p.378, with CD-ROM., Hardcover, ISBN: 3-540-22088 (2004).
M.M. Duquette, J. Swanson and K.D. Visser, "Solidity and Blade Number Effects on Small Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines," Wind Engineering, Vol 27, No. 4, pp. 299-316 (2003).
M. Duquette and K.D. Visser, "Numerical Implications of Solidity and Blade Number on Rotor Performance of Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines," Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 4, pp. 425-432 (November 2003).
N.P. Gold and K.D. Visser, "Aerodynamic Effects of Local Dihedral on a Raked Wing Tip," AIAA-2002-0831, Reno, NV (January 14-17, 2002).


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Artist's Photographs Depict Psalm 104
PLAINVIEW – Make your passion your ministry.
Those words hit home with photographer Richard Porter who had just moved back to West Texas in 1993 after working in Georgia for several years. As a member of First Baptist Church in Plainview, he heard Mark Heckles, the singles minister at FBC, encourage people to find a role in ministry.
"One of the big things he emphasized to the singles group was to make your passion your ministry," Porter said. "For years I wondered how you make lugging camera equipment into the wilderness a ministry."
Soon after hearing those words, Porter attended a Sunday School class in which Debbie Meriwether focused on Psalm 104, the "creation Psalm." It was then that Porter hit on the idea to sell his scenic and nature photographs, raising money in order to endow a scholarship at Wayland Baptist University.
Porter's work will be on display in Wayland's Abraham Art Gallery in the basement of the Mabee Learning Resources Center from Feb. 20 through March 24. Each photograph will fit the theme of the Psalm 104 and will be available for purchase as a limited edition print. Proceeds from the sale of the photos will benefit the 104th Psalm scholarship fund.
"For years, I tried to figure out how to use my photography as a ministry to glorify God," Porter said. "I have no artistic ability outside being able to take photos, so that is clearly a gift from Him."
Porter, a 1987 graduate of Wayland, began talking with WBU development officer Martha Cross about setting up an endowed scholarship.
"I hit on the idea of establishing a scholarship for students, like myself, who don't have a lot of other financial resources," Porter said. "Inevitably, you'll have kids each semester who need a little extra money to get what they need to get into school or buy their books. That's what I have envisioned this scholarship as doing … taking some of those students and putting them over the top."
A scholarship fund must reach $25,000 in order to be endowed. At that point, scholarship money is given out from the interest collected on the funds each year. Porter has yet to set up specific eligibility criteria for his scholarship, but he figures he has a little time before the scholarship becomes endowed. Raising $25,000 can seem quite difficult for someone living on a journalist's salary. However, when breaking the big picture into smaller pieces, Porter said it doesn't seem quite so hard.
"At first, the prospects of coming up with $25,000 were a bit daunting," he said. "But I took the approach I take in back packing. You don't have to start at the top of the mountain."
Porter will have 50 to 60 photos in his show, and he figures that if he sells the show five times over, he should have enough to reach endowed status.
"That suddenly made it seem a little more doable," he said.
Of course, Porter said he wouldn't even be at this point without the help of Cross and Wayland Professor of Art Dr. Candace Keller who suggested he display his work in an art show.
"I don't know 'come here' from 'back up' on art and art shows and things like that, so I called Dr. Keller and asked her how I should price the prints and what people look for when they are looking to buy this kind of stuff," Porter said. "I started talking with her about the project and she just said, 'let's do a show,' and started looking through her calendar."
Dr. Keller suggested working the show around Wayland's homecoming which is scheduled for Feb. 23-25. Porter is hoping the community and alumni will attend the show, if for no other reason than to just enjoy his photographs. He knows raising the $25,000 will take time, but he plans to continue working on it as long as he is able to carry his camera and take pictures. He is also planning on setting up a Web site where prints may be viewed and purchased online.
"This is my chance to do something that will outlive me," he said. "As long as those photos are selling, there will be money coming into that scholarship fund and as long as there is money coming into that fund, it will be helping kids."


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Marshall Sella sits down with William Hurt. PLUS Our five mustown Hurt movies
The first time William Hurt ever stepped before an audience, he was in the eighth grade, portraying George Washington for two quick scenes in a play about Betsy Ross. He had been forced to wear what he recalls as an "awfulfitting, wired white wig" that cut straight into his scalp. The concept that the show must go on, he adds, was not yet in his worldview. So in the second act, he simply removed the offending wig, probably on the logic that, as he was embodying Washington, why should externals matter It turns out that externals did. "The teacher came onstage with the wig during the scene," he says, "and jammed it back on my head."
Things change. The world has turned many times since then, and Hurt, ever a searcher, long ago found a fierce devotion to acting. On the big screen, wigfree, he has killed and been killed, battled a plague and contracted one, regressed into a simian, and rebelled against more tyrants than old Washington ever had the need to. Somewhere in the jagged lines of Hurt's life, all the boundaries between acting and religion have dissolved. And he has become a man with many homes.
One of them, not the best of them, is the Hotel BelAir, in Los Angeles. On a chilly spring day, he shambles into the extravagance of the hotel, dressed modestly in a rumpled Vneck. His hair, a bit thinner than it was in the day, is also tousled. He's so relad that you'd almost think he was in his living room, walking to the kitchen after a nap. He has arrived a scant three minutes after our appointed time and, while no celebrity has ever been this punctual, wildly apologizes for his "lateness."
The BelAir is not his natural habitat. Hurt lives in rural Oregon, on "200 acres of useless land," as he says, in a "tiny, prefab house." Still, he's spent a lot of time here. The staff all know him and greet him as family. He knows them by name, too. "This is all on someone else's dime, you should know," he says. "But I love it here. They have some of the best gardens in the world."
We have met in the outdoor restaurant on Oscar weekend—no huge coincidence, since Hurt has been nominated for his turn as the perversely funny, babyfaced, and murderous Richie Cusack in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.
On this weekend, the restaurant is even more than usually populated by industry types. Around the room, dining off salmon tablecloths and turning their faces heliotropically into the warmth of the torchères, are studio ecs, obscure Eastern European directors, and the odd tourist. Around them are Alhambranlooking exotic plants among the owered camellia trees, though the ferns have gone brown. A gargantuan Chia Swan, also gone brown, has been encased in plastic to brace it against the punishing sixtydegree cold.
Hurt is not simple. At 56, he is generous, angry, laidback, cryptic, and probably a little insane—an intense, and intensely likable, guy. And he doesn't speak in sound bites, ever. Within minutes of arriving, talking about his work, he says that film is not essentially different from theater: "There are principles not obviated by the presence of a camera. You investigate or speak of a truth, in a medium, in different ranges of that medium's abstractions of time and space." A bit later, I ask the hugest question there is—"What do you want"—and without a moment's pause he says, "I want to disseminate the experience of empathy."
To read things like that, it's easy to assume that Hurt is pompous or arrogant, but this is not the case. (The one time Hurt can sound arrogant is, paradoxically, when he is defending "the extraordinary abilities of ordinary people.") He is the first to realize that his discourse can be bewildering. Time and again, he interrupts himself to exclaim, "Oh, I sound so strident!" He'll recite, from memory, long passages from the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, American fiction, or any Shakespeare play. But it's not as though he merely enjoys the sound of his own voice. He bats out long words quickly and without emphasis, as conversationally as one might say, "I'm late." Everything reminds him of several other things, until a single anecdote becomes a double or triple helix. There are no straight lines. Still, after ten minutes or so, he arrives at a surprisingly clear point that somehow brings the full idea into view. This has driven journalists crazy for twentyfive years: He doesn't offer the bitesize fish we have to sell.
Hurt doesn't choose his friends from the Hollywood lists, though it surely would be politically wise to do so. He is adamant, to the point of being prickly, about selecting cronies from all walks of life. As a celebrity who abhors celebrity, he doesn't do cliques. A few years ago, he was kicked off an overbooked ight from San Francisco to Oregon. He decided to rent a car instead of waiting and invited another passenger to come along—and the two have been friends ever since. His closest friends, though, tend to be people he knew thirty years ago. "Old friends," he explains, "don't generalize about me on the basis of something they don't know."
_For the full article, pick up the July issue of _GQ.
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Whether he's turning on the charm or unleashing the smarm, in twentysix years and nearly fifty films, William Hurt never disappoints. In forgiveness for Lost in Space, here are the top five Hurt films you need to own.
Marshall Sella is a GQ correspondent.