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The New and Improved Leading Man
Heard all the Hollywood hand-wringing about the death of the movie star? About how the only things that can get people to the box office are comic-book heroes and animated sequels? The people who say this definitely haven't seen Magic Mike or Argo. The thing is, the leading man isn't dead, but he's evolving into something a little more complicated. Mark Harris explains the rules of leading men and tells us who is one (Channing Tatum), who isn't (Taylor Kitsch, at least not yet), and why
The ten highest-grossing movies of 2012 included the following: Three adaptations of young-adult novels. Three adaptations of comic books. Two cartoons. One installment in an action series. And one original, non-franchise, live-action movie that was, technically, aimed at adults.
Nine of the ten movies were, or were intended to generate, sequels. The movie aimed at adults was about a man whose teddy bear talks to him. None of this is news. We're all pretty familiar by now with the not-so-brave, no-longer-so-new world of franchises and the adult children who make them. What's most jolting about this list is what's missing from it: movie stars.
I don't mean that they're literally absent: Recognizable men are cast in lead roles. What's missing is, rather, the value stars bring to a movie—a quality long thought to be one of the most reliable and precious commodities in Hollywood. The twenty-first-century movie business, judging by this list, appears to be one in which Skyfall's Daniel Craig counts for neither more nor less than Twilight's Robert Pattinson or The Hobbit's Martin Freeman. It's a business in which you can get to $200 million or $250 million by hiring Andrew Garfield (for The Amazing Spider-Man) or David Schwimmer (for voice work on Madagascar 3). And notably, it is a business in which you will not get to that top ten on the back of someone like Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt, unless they get there on the back of something like Pirates of the Caribbean 5 or Ocean's Whatever.
It's hard to escape the logical conclusion: Movie stars just don't matter anymore. Financially, sociologically, culturally, they're either obsolete or doing a damn good job of pretending to be. Whether it's because they stopped doing what movie stars are supposed to do or we stopped wanting them to do it, here we all are, apparently, in a post-movie-star universe in which the movies seem to be doing just fine without the presence of an entire category of people who have been, for the better part of the past century, the main reason a lot of people went to the movies. And we shouldn't be surprised. If, in 2013, our primary allegiances are to genres and concepts and properties rather than to people, if our biggest modern movie stars are Batman and Bourne and Wolverine and James Bond, and if the most a flesh-and-blood actor can hope is to be chosen to serve as the temporary avatar for one of those characters, then what meaning can the term movie star possibly have?
Plenty, it turns out. We still need movie stars. And perhaps more surprisingly, we still have movie stars—lots of them, and arguably a more talented and interesting variety than at any time in the past thirty years. But they play by new rules, and they have to navigate an industry that often seems hostile to their very existence.
To make sense of the new movie star universe, it may help to acknowledge that the very words movie star now seem like kryptonite to half of Hollywood's A-list (and A-list aspirants). From Johnny Depp, who is, lest there be any doubt, a movie star: "That 'movie star' stuff, I just don't buy it; it just doesn't make sense to me." From Steve Carell, who has worked very hard to try to become a movie star: "I don't think of myself as a movie star... I'm an actor, and I love my job." From Armie Hammer, the star of the hugely expensive big-studio franchise-wannabe The Lone Ranger: "I personally don't see myself...as a movie star."
This may all come under the heading of protesting too much—the way the second somebody says, "I don't consider myself wealthy," you know they're a lot closer to it than you are. But you can't blame actors for running away from a term that reeks of greed and compromise. Ever since the Reagan-era Wall Street boom infected Hollywood with a bigger-is-better aesthetic and box-office performance became a routine part of plugged-in chatter, the industry and the press have welded the idea of stardom to money so completely that it has been dumbed down all the way to the level of elementary-school math. According to Hollywood and its observers, a star is someone who can open a movie.
But to equate stardom with mere bank-ability ruins the fun—unless your definition of fun is long and tortured analytical discussions of whether Tom Cruise is "still a star," even though nobody wanted to see a man that short play Jack Reacher or, for that matter, see a movie titled Jack Reacher. Beyond that, it misses the truth. For one thing, some actors can indeed open movies every single time and yet are not what we think of as movie stars (specialty acts like Tyler Perry and single-niche performers like Jason Statham), just as there are actors whose box-office records may be spotty but whose stardom is indisputable (Pitt, for one). By the numbers, Adam Sandler is a movie star, but only when he makes an Adam Sandler movie. His stardom, like Abbott and Costello's in the 1940s and Burt Reynolds's in the 1970s, is extraordinarily consistent, but also dependent on satisfying rather than challenging the modest expectations of his target audience. When Sandler tried to break those chains, as he did in Punch-Drunk Love and Funny People, he won over critics but lost his base. Stars shouldn't be constrained by the fact that they do one thing well—nor should the designation of movie star be subject to such casual revision every time the grosses roll in. All stars have flops; real stars survive them.
The reductio ad absurdum of the financial approach to stardom was exposed when Forbes, crunching the numbers, declared that our three biggest male stars are Daniel Radcliffe, Shia LaBeouf, and Robert Pattinson. If this is what stardom has come to, why continue the discussion? Radcliffe, Pattinson, and LaBeouf carried three of the last decade's biggest film franchises, but subtract their signature roles (as you must, because those sweet rides are over) and you've got three young actors—average age: a still-too-soon-to-tell 25—ranging from very promising to very problematic who are still working to prove they are more than the sum of their parts. Nobody ever wants to be seen as this sort of "post-movie-star movie star"—competent, handsome, and untroublesome to the corporation bankrolling your franchise. The guys who get those jobs always feel quickly compelled to prove that they're not just on-screen because their costumes fit nicely. Chris Hemsworth wants to be known as more than the guy in The Avengers people also like, after Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, and Samuel L. Jackson but before Chris Evans.
So let's take weekend grosses and franchise successes out of the equation for the moment and assume that something remains aside from the usual airy-fairy horseshit about "star quality" and "magnetism." Some leading men come to a pivot point at which we in the audience stop thinking, "Oh yeah, that guy again," and start thinking of someone simply as a name: Clooney. Hanks. Clint. Jack. Modern male movie stars—the ones who are more than just amalgamations of sex and money and slick catchphrases—have something in common with their forerunners all the way back to Hollywood's golden age. It's what film critic Ty Burr called "the impact of coherent personalities...behind individual roles," that particular, recognizable quality that doesn't overwhelm or rewrite those roles but makes them richer and deeper. To understand who makes the cut and who doesn't these days, it might help to have a case study of would-be movie stars.
At the beginning of last year, there were two particularly strong candidates to become a one-namer: Channing Tatum and Taylor Kitsch. For one thing, they were the right age: Tatum is 32; Kitsch is 31. That works, because, with rare exceptions (Travolta in the '70s, Cruise in the '80s), we don't usually want male movie stars to be in their twenties. We'll watch them, we'll like them, we'll go to their films, but being handsome (or pretty) and devoid of life experience—the age at which your clear, healthy, unlined face is a map of nothing but optimism untouched by personal history—that's not quite the look of a movie star. Stardom is something you have to grow into. The beginning of your thirties is a good time to make the jump, and it should be a jump, an ascension, an unexpected upsurge that makes people feel that even though they've seen you before, they're now seeing into you for the first time.
Tatum spent the past five years serving as the most ingratiating element of unmemorable movies like G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Step Up 2 the Streets. Kitsch's main credit was five seasons on Friday Night Lights. As résumés go, these were modest but promising, the kind of credits that often precede an official moment, that tick of the career clock when ecutives and directors and producers and media people all start to ask, "Yes or no?"
Kitsch got to don the armature of two oversize, very expensive would-be franchises, John Carter and Battleship. About half a billion budget dollars—serious money even in a profligate industry—rode on the bet that he could be the dude at the center of the trailer. Tatum, meanwhile, worked in two less costly subgenres—the romantic melodrama (The Vow) and the TV retread (21 Jump Street). Besides those lunges for popular acceptance, each guy took an ass-baring chance on artistic credibility—Kitsch pounding away atop Blake Lively in Oliver Stone's Savages, Tatum reprocessing his own past as a stripper for Steven Soderbergh in Magic Mike.
If we're grading these guys, money matters. You can't be a movie star if nobody sees your movies. But even the stats start to crumble when you look at them closely. All three of Tatum's films were hits, not huge but solid, each grossing between $100 and $140 million in the U.S. Moreover, they represented an undeniably efficient return on investment. (Magic Mike, for instance, was made for just $7 million.) Kitsch's movies were not hits; they earned too little domestically—between $50 and $75 million apiece—and, except for Savages, they cost too much. But the movies are a worldwide business and, globally, Kitsch's three pictures took in $669 million, substantially outperforming Tatum's. What, therefore, does the math add up to? A wash.
Still, there's no mistaking the outcome. The dust clears. We survey the landscape. Channing Tatum is now a movie star. And Taylor Kitsch is not. How did this transition, not particularly predictable a year ago, happen for one of them? Why did it fail to happen for the other?
The thing that breaks the tie between Tatum and Kitsch—the sense that one of them beat the system and the other got beaten up by it—is the key difference between movie stardom now and movie stardom in Hollywood's golden age. From the dawn of talkies to the end of the studio system—roughly the early 1930s to the mid-1960s—MGM and 20th Century-Fox and Paramount and the like erted some control not only over who got to be a movie star but also over the idea of what a star was supposed to be: a handsome young man plucked from the crowd and then reinvented from the ground up. A squadron of professional image-remakers would give actors new names and looks and voices and teeth—transforming Marion Morrison into John Wayne or Archibald Leach into Cary Grant.
There were always some stars who were groomed by the insiders and then accepted by the public (Gregory Peck, Rock Hudson) and others who became stars despite the fact that studios initially didn't know what to do with them (most famously, Fred Astaire and Humphrey Bogart). You could be a conformist or a rebel, Mr. Nice Guy or a tormented brooder (or both if you were Jimmy Stewart). With enough clout, you could lobby for better roles, better scripts, better directors. But whatever you did, you did it within a single cosmos defined by the output of a half dozen studios. And you would never escape what Jeanine Basinger has called the star machine, a system designed to identify the elements about you that worked best for audiences and to reward you for successfully retailing them in movie after movie. If you didn't like it, there was no alternative path, no indie movement, no Plan B.
Star Power is a Finite Resource
No one is a movie star forever. Here, a look at the life spans of a few of our most iconic leading men and their career sweet spots
1. Robert Redford
Was a movie star from: 33 to 57
Prime: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ('69) to Indecent Proposal ('93)
Arty movie that proved he wasn't just beefcake: The Candidate
2. Harrison Ford
Was a movie star from: 37 to 52
Prime: The Empire Strikes Back ('80) to Clear and Present Danger ('94)
Arty movie that proved he wasn't George Lucas's bitch: Blade Runner.
3. Denzel Washington
Was a movie star from: 35 to now
Prime(s): Glory ('89) to Devil in a Blue Dress ('95); He Got Game ('98) to Flight ('12)
Arty movie that proved he was a better villain than hero: Training Day
4. Tom Cruise
Was a movie star from: 21 to 42
Prime: Risky Business ('83) to War of the Worlds ('05)
Arty movie that proved he could convincingly deliver the line "Respect the cock": Magnolia
6. Robert Downey JR.
Was a movie star from: 22, 27, 43 to now
Prime: Erratic; possibly The Pick-Up Artist ('87), then Chaplin ('92), but definitely '08 to present
Beefcake movie that proved he wasn't just arty: Iron Man
Today, Plan B is so essential that it's the name of Brad Pitt's production company. Actors who are interested in curating their stardom over the long haul have to do it with one foot in the system and one foot outside it, because we as moviegoers crave a kind of genuineness and individuality—or at least a simulacrum of it—that isn't consonant with being a willing corporate tool whose career is to be shaped by paycheck gigs and studio needs. (This is what LaBeouf was moaning about when he recently said, "If I could give the money back and get all the credibility...that I'm seeking, I would do it tomorrow. In a heartbeat.") A George Clooney who made only neo-Rat Pack movies would look like a lazy underachiever despite the films' success, but a George Clooney who makes those movies in order to gain the power to traffic in the serious, the small-scale, and the adult (Up in the Air, The Descendants, etc.) looks like the master of his own fate and a shrewd player, a man who knows how to navigate the realms of both commerce and art.
The modern male movie star needs to be fluent in the ways of Hollywood—but as a second language, the first being his own passions and convictions and interest in his craft. When Christian Bale finally came to the cowl and cape in the Dark Knight trilogy, it was as a visitor to the mainstream, not as a product of it. And when he chose The Fighter and a Terrence Malick double-feature as his non-Batsuit projects, it seemed personally and professionally in character for an actor who pours what seem like barely containable levels of rage, defiance, charisma, and commitment into his work; one reason Bale was such an ideal Batman is that, in Christopher Nolan's hands, the character is constantly struggling to hold onto his integrity despite having a split identity.
All stars, to a degree, end up playing brand extensions of themselves. Look at Robert Downey Jr. in his current post-Troubled Genius phase. Whether as Iron Man or Sherlock Holmes, the fast-talking, fast-thinking, cocky, damaged, preening, never-quite-fulfilling-his-potential guy he plays is proof that movie stars can turn even franchises into meta-autobiography. More than any other A-lister, Downey seems to suggest that he's winking at the mainstream even while making sure the check always clears. Michael Fassbender, only 35 but craggy and worn and already a little roughened by experience from the day we met him, is someone who is equally mesmerizing whether he is walking toward the camera titanically, confrontationally naked in Shame or uttering the precisely clipped syllables of a disembodied robot in Prometheus. That constant awareness of how to calibrate your performance up or down, a knowledge of how to break through the clutter or to own the quietness, is a sure mark of stardom. It is evident in the work of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who won raves in The Dark Knight Rises for forcing a huge movie to meet his gentle, unforced, human-scale performance halfway. And it's even there in the career approach taken by James Franco, who can, depending on the project, seem like a movie star, a movie star in air quotes, an actor tapping into his inner movie star, or a grad student doing a doctoral thesis on the idea of stardom.
Playing the game without appearing to be a pawn within it is hard. So hard that a number of very good actors bend over backward to avoid any choices that could suck them into the movie star maw. Joaquin Phoenix— who, of course, made I'm Still Here, a nervous breakdown of a meta-documentary about the grotesquery of celebrity—is as talented an actor as any in his generation. But when he makes a studio movie like Walk the Line, it feels like it's only because whatever fascinates him happens to intersect briefly with the mainstream. One reason Phoenix is so mesmerizing in The Master is that the character's violent, wounded, animal qualities are so in line with what we as moviegoers feel about the actor—he's emotionally naked but at the same time impenetrable. That's part of the reason Oscar voters went ahead and nominated Phoenix's performance even after he called the whole awards process "total utter bullshit"; if you're an actor whose entire public persona is built upon being almost defiantly true to yourself, you don't get penalized for it.
It's not an easy needle to thread. Nobody—despite all of their protestations and demurrals—ever becomes a movie star without wanting it. But appearing to want it too much can also endanger you. Jeremy Renner's 2010 Oscar nomination for The Hurt Locker brought him right to the edge of the main- stream. Renner isn't typical movie-star material—Paul Rudnick brilliantly described him as "Daniel Craig with the mumps," which is a brutal but not inaccurate reminder that hotness matters; being not very tall, slightly squinty, and squashy-featured is no impediment if you at least look like sex incarnate when you emerge from the surf in skintight swim trunks. Still, all stars are, in some way, exceptions to the rule, and Renner's compactness and physical grace give him a center of gravity that makes every shot feel as if it's designed around him; his watchfulness makes you lean in. But when, following stints in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and The Avengers, he stepped into the Bourne franchise last summer, The New Yorker's David Denby was moved to ask, "Is Renner a star? I'm not so sure... We rarely know what he's thinking; we don't feel close to him."
The ability to connect with audiences that way is certainly one component of stardom (and always has been). But I think what Denby was reacting to was the fact that Renner leapt perhaps too quickly at roles in three franchises without one moment in any of them in which he played an actual human being. Given the chance to play a cipherlike action hero, he cast aside much of the particularity, nuance, humanity, and power of his earlier work in order to run and jump and shoot and scowl, and what's left is...a cipherlike action hero. This doesn't mean Renner isn't a movie star. But it might mean he doesn't know his own strengths—and that's one quality that separates the top tier from the ranks of the almost-there. Can the definition of movie star be broadened so generously that it includes Bale and Franco, Phoenix and Renner, or are they just, you know, good actors?
It helps to remember that stars are not born but made. To some degree, self-made: Their talent, skill, looks, and instinct about exactly what it takes to break from the pack all matter, and sometimes, when those qualities coalesce perfectly, an actor can will himself to transcend the merely appealing, the just ordinarily likable, and become one of the elect. From then on, we're invested in their journey through years and even decades. We're excited or touched or even moved by the possibilities they show us. Their lives, on-screen, seem to tell us an ongoing story in addition to the story we happen to be watching at that moment. Calling someone a movie star is a kind of confession, a way of admitting that there are certain people on-screen we don't just watch but actively follow.
What do those guys have that the others don't? Here's the list. This is what it takes.
The right balance of relatability and mystery. It's the Renner Conundrum (to put it Ludlumesque-ly): Movie stars need to seem like people you could know and, at the same time, people you could never fully know. Matt Damon looks like somebody you knew in college, or maybe the dad of the kid with whom your kid rides the bus, but his reserve suggests a personal moral code and an ability to keep things close to the vest—a privacy that can make him read as both ordinary and unknowable; his Bourne was the perfect mating of character and actor.
Overexposure—a constant hazard in an era of omnivorous media coverage—destroys mystery, which is why so many celebrity profiles you read are ercises in evasion. But too much caginess, or worse, public grievance about the fact that people are curious about you, destroys relatability.
Performers who project relatability but have nothing elusive about them do better as network-television stars, or maybe morning-show anchormen. (Exception: Hanks.) On the other hand, if all you're capable of projecting is mystery and you're a quart low on relatability, you are probably a douchebag. (Exception: Fassbender.) You can tilt heavily in one direction: Channing Tatum is unquestionably more everydude than enigma, but his performances still suggest there might be a thing or two about him you don't know yet.
Sex appeal. Movie stars have wide latitude in this area. You don't necessarily have to be hot, or handsome, or muscular, or young. It's amazing how little any of those things have ever mattered when it comes to movie stars. You don't have to swagger in a way that suggests your between-the-sheets résumé involves several pages of single-spaced typing. You don't have to make love to the camera (and probably shouldn't try). You can even, if the movie and the moment are right, expand America's definition of sex appeal to include you, the way Cagney did, the way Bogart did, the way Dustin Hoffman did. But you've got to have something.
There's a complicated corollary to this, which is that male movie stars have to appeal to straight men, too, not just women and gay guys. And there is a straight-guy equivalent to Date/Marry/Shag, which is Someone You Could Have a Drink With/Someone You Could Cry in Front of Who Wouldn't Bust You for It Later/Someone Whom You'd Want on Your Side in a Bar Fight. Men offscreen relate to men on-screen somewhat skittishly; we want them to be like us, but also better than us; we want them to convince us that they're the people we could be if we just worked out some of our issues and went to the gym a little more often and didn't have lower-back problems and were taller and handsomer and...you get the picture.
A sense of humor. There are very few characteristics that can be described as vital for a male movie star. This is one. An actor who comes off as so unironically alpha that he makes you feel worse about yourself is never, over the long haul, going to be a true movie star unless he can wink at his own macho shtick a little and demonstrate that he gets the joke. When Ryan Gosling went on MTV and consented to do some dramatic readings of the "Hey girl" Internet meme seen on Tumblr ("Hey girl, sometimes I get so sad when we can't watch Golden Girls together"), he demonstrated a kind of humility that, even if it's carefully stage-managed, is essential. If you're incapable of presenting yourself on-screen in a way that suggests you find anything funny, ever, you are probably Vin Diesel too self-protective to be a movie star. Or maybe you're just stupid, which is not an ideal long-term professional asset, either.
The ability to keep surprising people. There was a time when stars stayed stars by doing the same thing over and over again—Bob Hope and Bing Crosby and Roy Rogers probably never lost a night's sleep over their desire to show greater range. But for most modern movie stars, shaking up public expectations is the job that never ends. It requires self-knowledge, because in order to surprise people, you have to know not just who you are, but who they think you are. It involves arrogance, because you have to believe that you can do something nobody yet knows you can do, and then keep finding the next thing that fits that bill. And it takes an ability to recognize your own perceived deficits, because the most effective surprises lead audiences to say, "I didn't know he had that in him."
Being a movie star requires maintaining a complicated balance between the unchanging (that recognizable identity that you carry from role to role) and the elastic (the ability to reshape yourself for each new part without completely vanishing). Channing Tatum did not become a star in The Vow, in which he plays a love-struck husband so dumb he decides that his amnesiac, brain-injured wife would probably enjoy a surprise party. That role cemented a certain image of Tatum as a guy who can play well-meaning, jockish, hopeless dolts. We already knew that. Instead, Tatum started to become a star in 21 Jump Street, because he played a well-meaning, jockish, hopeless dolt who was also a narcissistic tool, and he did it with a kind of charm and modesty that let us know he was completely in on what we thought of him and one step ahead of us. Surprise! We didn't know he had that in him.
Similarly, think of Bradley Cooper, who for years has seemed to live right on the edge between movie star and not. On an international promotional tour for The Hangover II (which was not, in any way, going to push him over the top), he busted out some fluent French in a couple of interviews, and the Internet collectively fainted. That YouTube video and its effect served as a kind of ideal dress rehearsal in miniature for the impact of his Oscar-nominated performance in David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. His work in that film served to quiet skeptics— particularly those who had conflated him with his characters enough to file him under "handsome jerk." "Handsome jerk" is a niche; "handsome funny vulnerable jerk" is something it usually takes a movie star to play. Showing up naysayers isn't enough to get you all the way there, but it's an essential career-building step.
The intelligence to recognize your moment—even if that means waiting for it. Every male movie star has a different magic number—an age at which his attractiveness and ability and maturity all come together. Before that, a star may not feel fully formed; after that, if he has talent, he seems to become more assured, complicated, and real with every passing year. Tom Hanks's ideal age was about 36—when he made Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. How can you tell, besides the two Oscars? Because, for one thing, Hanks looked 36 when he was 26, and he looked 36 when he was 46. Once he found himself at the crossroads where his age linked up with how we felt about him, he hit his stride and, some bad choices notwithstanding, has never really lost it. Once we knew who he was, we were in for the whole ride.
Sometimes, you have to ripen. Stars evolve on-screen at about the same pace as we evolve offscreen. So in many ways, the later you peak, the better for the fragile egos of your audience. Clooney's ideal age seems to have been about 45—the Syriana-Michael Clayton period. He needed the gray hair and extra years because his whole "I've done things with women you only dream of" vibe required some visible baggage—creases, texture, a little sag. Clooney, it turned out, was much more interesting as a guy too old to be Batman than he was as Batman. Middle age suits him, and he ennobles it.
Tom Cruise is about Clooney's age; unfortunately, Cruise's ideal age was about 25—the Top Gun-Color of Money moment of maximum cocksureness. I don't mean to suggest that it was all downhill from there—Cruise is a much better actor now than he was then and, several cubic tons of personal history notwithstanding, a more connected screen presence. But we, as moviegoers, are less forgiving of stars who peak young—for whom aging can read as erosion—than we are of stars who make us feel a little better about the passing years. Cruise's refusal to age on-screen—the carefully managed news drops about doing his own stuntwork, the "can- did" photos showing off his trainer-chiseled torso—has come to seem distancing, even alienating. When he turned 50 last summer, it felt like a prank someone played on him. When Clooney turned 50, by contrast, a lot of guys thought, "I hope I look that good when I'm his age" (or, "I'm his age. Holy crap, where did I go wrong?!").
Indispensability. This is it. The final dividing line. The quality that separates actors we like, or even love, from those we feel are irreplaceable. A star convinces us that he's filling a void we didn't know was there; he makes us believe that until he came along, the movie world of which he is now at the center was somehow incomplete. Which brings us back to Taylor Kitsch. Leading-man gigs in expensive films that are designed to be blockbusters are, for emerging stars, the devil's temptation. Last year, Kitsch won two of those roles, and then discovered that a big opportunity is not the same thing as a good part. As fans of Friday Night Lights can attest, Kitsch isn't just good-looking; he's a talented actor with a specific set of gifts behind the dreamy eyes and the baked, Costner-ish drawl. No, he's probably not the first guy you'd cast as Wernher von Braun, but he was born to play the redeemable bastard, the near bum who might or might not—depends on the role—summon the moral courage to do the right thing (a quality Savages tapped into nicely). The soulful loner who gets in his own way: If you don't think that's a rich vein for a movie star to mine, go take a tour through the fifty-year career of Paul Newman.
But movies like John Carter and Battleship pull an actor away from the specific and toward the generic. I don't know where Kitsch ranked on the casting wish lists for those parts, but the point is, those lists very likely existed, and they probably weren't conceived with much attention to anything but physical fitness, youth, nice bone structure, and the ability to form words. The lead role in that kind of movie is the Guy, just like the other roles are the Girl, the Bad Guy, the Sidekick, the Crusty Guy, and the Funny Guy. The Guy is a terrible thing to be. Nobody becomes a movie star by playing the Guy, because there are lots of guys who can play the Guy. You don't want people leaving your film, even if it's a hit, feeling that you were interchangeable with half a dozen other people on the posters in the multiplex lobby. You want them to believe that anyone else in the role would have represented a disappointing compromise. There's your litmus test: If they want you, and they can't get you and, as a result, they have to rethink the part, you're a movie star.
Which brings us back to Channing Tatum, and Magic Mike. (Remember the other guy in the movie? You know, the young guy who played...you know, the Guy? What was his name again?) If Tatum ends up being someone we're still writing and talking about thirty years from now, then this movie, in which he played a young, decent guy who didn't mind temporarily retailing his body on his way to bigger and better things, may be seen as his Rocky. In the film, Tatum did the whole movie-star job: He gave us a piece of who he was while making it clear that it wasn't the only piece. He took a chance. He wove something about himself into the work without ruining its shape. He not only risked ridicule, he owned the risk. He commanded the screen but played well with others. He exposed himself in new ways while making sure to hold something back for later. He laughed at himself and made you laugh with him. And he made it clear that nobody else could have done the job quite the same way. Well done. Now let's see what his long game looks like.
_Mark Harris the author of _Pictures at the Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood.


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Let vs. Where
From HaskellWiki
Haskell programmers often wonder whether to use
In contrast, in the first function,
This seems to be only a matter of taste in the sense of "Declaration vs. expression style", however there is more to it.It is important to know that
is an expression, that is, it can be written wherever expressions are allowed. In contrast,
let ... in ...
is bound to a surrounding syntactic construct, like the pattern matching line of a function definition.
1 Advantages of let
Suppose you have the function
and later you decide to put this into the
f :: s -> (a,s) f x = y where y = ... x ...
However, transforming to
will not work, because
f :: State s a f = State $ \x -> y where y = ... x ...
refers to the pattern matching
, where no
f =
is in scope. In contrast, if you had started with
, then you wouldn't have trouble.
f :: s -> (a,s) f x = let y = ... x ... in y
This is easily transformed to:
f :: State s a f = State $ \x -> let y = ... x ... in y
2 Advantages of where
Because "where" blocks are bound to a syntactic construct, they can be used to share bindings between parts of a function that are not syntactically expressions. For example:
In expression style, you might use an explicit
f x | cond1 x = a | cond2 x = g a | otherwise = f (h x a) where a = w x
f x = let a = w x in case () of _ | cond1 x -> a | cond2 x -> g a | otherwise -> f (h x a)
or a functional equivalent:
f x = let a = w x in select (f (h x a)) [(cond1 x, a), (cond2 x, g a)]
or a series of if-then-else expressions:
These alternatives are arguably less readable and hide the structure of the function more than simply using
f x = let a = w x in if cond1 x then a else if cond2 x then g a else f (h x a)
3 Lambda Lifting
One other approach to consider is that let or where can often be implemented using lambda lifting and let floating, incurring at least the cost of introducing a new name. The above example:
f x | cond1 x = a | cond2 x = g a | otherwise = f (h x a) where a = w x
could be implemented as:
The auxiliary definition can either be a top-level binding, or included in f using
f x = f' (w x) x f' a x | cond1 x = a | cond2 x = g a | otherwise = f (h x a)
4 Problems with where
If you run both
fib = (map fib' [0 ..] !!) where fib' 0 = 0 fib' 1 = 1 fib' n = fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2)
you will notice that the second one runs considerably slower than the first. You may wonder why simply adding an explicit argument to
fib x = map fib' [0 ..] !! x where fib' 0 = 0 fib' 1 = 1 fib' n = fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2)
(known as eta expansion) degrades performance so dramatically. You might see the reason better if you rewrote this code using
fib = let fib' 0 = 0 fib' 1 = 1 fib' n = fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2) in (map fib' [0 ..] !!)
In the second case,
fib x = let fib' 0 = 0 fib' 1 = 1 fib' n = fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2) in map fib' [0 ..] !! x
is redefined for every argument
. The compiler cannot know whether you intended this -- while it increases time complexity it may reduce space complexity. Thus it will not float the definition out from under the binding of x.
In contrast, in the first function,
can be moved to the top level by the compiler. The
clause hid this structure and made the application to
look like a plain eta expansion, which it is not.
- Haskell-Cafe on Eta-expansion destroys memoization?

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A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
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We are a dental office that specializes in getting it all done in one place, in a non-dental like experience. We are very high tech, and have beautiful architecture in our office. We are all about customer service and giving each patient a WOW experience.
Our target market is women ages 20-60 but our t-shirts are given out to each patient when they join the practice. So we want them really fun and energetic but appropriate for all ages and genders. We are located in a little more of a conservative (but modestly trendy) area.
Front and back of a basic t-shirt. needs to be able to be recognizable with our name (we use times new roman in our logo a lot), be fun and erergetic, and be able to be shrunk to a kids small and an adult xxxl without looking strange. We like creativity! :)


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CLEARANCE - Winning with the Reti OpeningProduct Code: CB0052CD
Publisher: Chess Digest
Author: I.Z. Bondarevsky
Year of Publication: 1993
Pages: 129
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
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The Badgers made the Rose Bowl this year because Ohio State was ineligible. Next season, the Buckeyes will most certainly win the Big Ten Championship game, and our Badgers will more than likely be languishing somewhere below the .500 mark. Last season, the team had lost key players to graduation, and that talent drop off will increase as Montee Ball will be gone next year.
Bielema Took Advantage Of The TimingBielema saw the writing on the wall, and took a powder before his stock dropped big time. Why didn't Bielema find a way to recruit well in these past few years, in order to replenish the departing players? Some say it was partly due to the playing and coaching style of Wisconsin football. When a team is focused on the run, hot shot quarterbacks will more than likely avoid the calls from recruits from said teams.
Why spend your college career working under the radar, or in the shadows of a player like Ball, White, or Dayne? Finally, Bielema is a gambler. Most folks know that. Bret took an assessment of the situation in Madison, and decided to go "all in" at Arkansas. Now it's up to Alvarez to find a suitable replacement that will be able to keep the team hot.


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"Lionfish is the scourge of the Caribbean. It's eating our reefs, so we're eating it," says John Yearwood. He's the coowner of the Oualie Beach Resort - a beachfront hotel on Nevis, housed in a collection of charming gingerbread cottages - and became so concerned about the introduction of lionfish into the waters around Nevis that he organized a spear fishing tournament to rid the fragile reefs of the pest.
"The lionfish was accidentally introduced into the Caribbean, probably by the owners of exotic aquariums. This species belongs in the Indo-Pacific," says Yearwood, whose family has lived in the Caribbean since 1648, when it was thrown out of England during the civil war there. A former executive with the World Bank, Yearwood built the resort with family members on land that's within sight of St. Kitts, across the two-mile stretch of ocean called the Narrows.
"We started with six rooms and have built it up to 32," says Yearwood, who runs the resort with his sister and three brothers. "We bill ourselves as a 3.5-star resort because we want to exceed expectation." In fact, the rooms, with their four-poster mahogany beds, all crafted on the island, have the luxurious ambience that characterizes Nevis accommodations in general.
There has been a strong effort to make the resort environmentally benign, so solar panels are used to heat water.
But back to the lionfish. It's a poisonous creature with venomous spines. With no natural predators in the Caribbean, it's multiplying at an alarming rate and devastating coral reefs.
"When we recently held our first lionfish tournament, we gave prizes to the person who killed the most, and then we ate the fish. They're light and flaky and taste a bit like snapper," Yearwood said. The tally: 196 of the critters.
While it's served at the Oualie Beach, the resort is better known for its delicious conch chowder and Oualie crab cakes, served in a casual al fresco restaurant.


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Don Quinn Baker, age 64 of Malvern, died unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, September 8, 2013.
His funeral will be held at ten o'clock Wednesday morning, September 11, 2013 in the chapel of J. A. Funk Funeral Home with Brother Ron Parrish and Elder Jesse Stripland officiating. Interment will follow with military honors in the Round Hill Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday evening from four until six o'clock.
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There was a Brandeis Irani
Whose oft-mispronounced name was Dani
He hunched over his screen
So his mirth wouldn't be seen
And typed "That Frank-wah's really funny!"
-- by Barry Werger
Frank-ois was a Quebec-ois guy
Whose muscles make other men shy
He whispered when he'd done
Thirty reps of a ton
"If I had to run fifteen minutes I'd die!"
-- by Barry Werger
Richard was printing a file
but all that came out was bile
With a gripe and a grouse
he threw Em'rald's mouse
and uttered some phrases quite vile.
-- by Barry Werger
Maja stuck her head in the door
and saw Elmer asleep on the floor
She said to the boor
to whom she was giving a tour
"This is our programmer du jour."
-- by Barry Werger
There was a Brandeisian named Barry
Who oft his robots did carry
To where? ...no one knows
For what? ...put on shows
In which the robots do marry.
-- by Dani Goldberg
old ladies of Texas
tell stories of panhandle goats...
dry, skinny, much like themselves,
these animals have cactus spines
in their leathery noses. Do they
give up their bearing to calcium
flows? No, only wool...
old Dani's of Newton
tell stories of Chung Do Kwan
fierce, flexible, forceful,
much like themselves,
these martial moores have bruises
between their webby fingers and toes.
Do they protect one from a nasty fall?
They wear bright white.
-- by Barry Werger


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Steve Lee breaks down the upcoming battle for the Pac-12 hoops title. With teams like Washington, Arizona State and Arizona staying dominant, will newcomers Utah or Colorado make an instant impact?
2011 Preseason PAC 12 Men's Basketball Preview
October 7, 2011 By Steve Lee
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In comments at Tams, some knucklehead mentions that he habitually dry-fires his firearms.Let me now confess that I am one of those knuckleheads.
I'll focus mainly on pistols here, and note that a lot of older deigns (and by older, I mean pre-WWII) may not be particularly amenable to dry-firing; ditto for most rimfires. Others, most notoriously the CZ-52, have issues with the quality of the materials used. It is, however, my considered opinion that the dangers of dry-firing to a modern centerfire firearm in serviceable order are vastly overblown.
In the field of revolvers, there is a subset of the conventional wisdom which states that older S&W revolvers, with their floating firing pins riveted to the hammer, will break when dry fired. If the pin is prevented from floating and is trapped in its downwardmost position by rust or gunk, then this is a possibility. I will also state that in all the untold thousands of job tickets for busted firearms I filled out between 1993 and 2007, exactly four were for broken firing pins on S&W revolvers. I have a few that have been dry-fired many, many thousands of times.
As a matter of fact, my daily routine over a period of several years was to dry-fire my pocket J-frame, at first a 442 and then a 432, fifty times as rapidly as possible with each hand and then, while my fingers were good and worn out, try to hold the dot from the laser steady on the backstop through the normal double action pull. Now, both these guns had the newer frame-mounted firing pin, but still... Call that 150 dry snaps a night, pretty much every night, for a five year stretch, and you have a wheelgun that has been dry-fired well over a hundred thousand times. Last time I was under the sideplate, nothing was out of sorts, although I'll note that the bearing surfaces of the lockwork were shiny.
Similarly, I couldn't tell you how many times my two current carry 1911s have been dry-fired, except to note that I religiously replace the firing pin springs whenever I replace the recoil springs.
But in the end, my experiences are merely anecdotal. And I certainly wouldn't dry-fire another person's weapon, unless given permission, because other people obviously hold differing opinions on the topic.


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I remember anxiously getting up Sunday mornings and rushing downstairs, hoping that something hadn't gone wrong in my attempt to program my VCR. After a quick rewind to make sure it was there, I would go to the beginning of the tape and watch Saturday Night's Main Event unfold.
It was those memories that popped into my mind when it was first announced that The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event would be coming to DVD. I've been eagerly anticipating this set since that announcement, and the day I received it I was like a kid in Disneyland.
While some will choose to watch the set in order, I instead went back to relive some of my favorite matches from when I first started watching, including the first SNME match I watched -- Hulk Hogan vs. The Big Boss Man in a Steel Cage. Some of my favorite wrestling moments from my youth are on this disc -- Mr. Perfect and The Genius smashing the WWE Championship and later teaming up against Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior, The Rockers vs. The Hart Foundation, and Ted Dibiase vs. Bret Hart.
I then went back and watched some of the angles and moments that up until this DVD I had only heard of and seen clips. The formation and disintegration of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage as The Mega Powers. Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff in a cage. Of course, this set would be incomplete without Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant from The Main Event in prime time in February 1988, a match that saw evil crooked referee Earl Hebner sub out for his brother Dave and cost Hogan the title, which Andre immediately turned over to Ted Dibiase.
Most of the matches on the set are under 10 minutes, which makes it an easy watch. While some of the matches aren't as action packed as what we see today, there is some quality stuff on here.
The three discs left me wanting more. I recall screaming in horror as The Brain Busters upended my favorite tag team Demolition for the tag team championship in July 1989. That match isn't included. Sadly, Demolition is completely ignored in the set; matches against The Rockers, Ultimate Warrior & The Legion of Doom, The Hart Foundation, or The British Bulldogs would have made a nice addition. I recently read results from the shows and what is amazing is not only how much great stuff is on this set, but how many matches that amazed me then are not included.
The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event will appeal to a broad spectrum of wrestling fan. Those that are disenchanted with the current product will love the flashback to the wrestling they loved. Those who have only become fans in the last few years will get a major history lesson. Overall, this is a damn fine set, one that belongs in any fan's collection.


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Happy Mothers day to all of my wonderful mommy friends!
God Bless you all
& Smooches
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Posted by Mrs. Cherry Heart at 12:44 AM
Happy Mother's Day to You! Hope it's a lovely one!
HI Dolly! Happy Mothers day to you too!
Oh I love this post because I used to call my mother "mommy"!
Happy Mother's day to you too!
Happy (belated) Mothers Day Dolly!
You were so right, I can't believe I got the name of that B&B wrong! Duh, glad you said something so I could correct it. We stayed in the blue room too! When ere you there?
A late Happy Mother's Day to you!
Did you ever get my email I sent?
I still have no idea if you and Noelle have ever hooked up. If not I wanted to "adopt" you as my blog sister too .
Hugs, Sue
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Father's Day is coming soon, what do you want to give to your father? Buying him a special gift or thanking him for raising you. If you're a father, what do you want to get from your child? Anyway it's a meaningful day for us all, and if your father is a fan of games, why not let him play games with you? And today I'll recommend you some excellent games, just enjoy them in this Father's Day.
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Mayor Don Wesely today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for September to Charles "Chuck" Turner, a 21-year employee of the Lincoln Water System. The monthly award recognizes city employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the city. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Turner, a Stores Clerk II in the Public Works and Utilities Department, was nominated in the categories of productivity and loss prevention by Robyn Cruse-Miller, also with the Lincoln Water System.
Turner took the initiative to solve an ongoing problem with dirt and debris collecting inside water valve boxes, a situation that required a two-person crew to clean on a regular basis. Turner contacted several manufacturers for samples of gasket seals, but none fit the need or Lincoln's climate. Turner then contacted Michael Gathright of Gathright Marketing Company and suggested a seal be developed for the type of water valve boxes used in Lincoln. After eight months of development, the "Turner Seal" has been manufactured by Ametek. The seal is expected to prolong the life of the water valve boxes and reduce labor costs.
"Chuck went over and beyond his regular duties and responsibilities to find a solution that will result in potential cost savings for the city," Mayor Wesely said. "Chuck's knowledge, creativity and persistence in resolving this problem is appreciated."
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are customer relations, safety and valor. All city employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public.
Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or
the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program. All nominations are
reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative
with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award
winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly
winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings
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Exciting football photos need some experience. No problem for Dierk Kowalke. The professional photographer already shot his first sports photo over 40 years ago. Now he returned with the Tamron SP 150-600 mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD back into the stadium - and he was delighted with the performance of the zoom objective.
Corinna Gissemann loves two things: daylight and food. She conjures up fantastic food photos from both. Recently, she has a new helper: the SP 90mm F/2,8 Di VC USD Macro 1:1. She tells in the Tamron-Blog how she creates her atmospheric photos.
Are successful animal photos usually only lucky snapshots? Or does handiwork matter? And if yes, how do you get it right?
April 18, 2016, Saitama, Japan – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Shiro Ajisaka), a leading manufacturer of precision optics, has announced that its SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD (Model F012) and 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC (Model B018) have both been presented awards with the "TIPA Awards 2016" hosted by the TIPA (Technical Image Press Association).
After the Tamron 45mm f / 1.8 had recently proven itself very well on the Christmas market, I really also wanted to use it for theme shooting. The idea had haunted me for some time. The theme was "Little Red Riding Hood" and a matching outfit was found quickly after a short search found. The most important component was of course the red cape, combined with a white dress and a basket with bread, wine and apples.


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What a luxurious saturday, filled with free time to play games and drink booze. Tonight was less lonely, albeit a bit more stressful as guild runs were a must. We haven't had this many people on in what seemed like months.
Side note: Our guild is....how may I put this lightly.....FUCKING RETARDED. I'm not bashing, I'm just stating truths. Without fail, every night we raid, pvp or...pretty much do ANYTHING. At LEAST half of our guild is drunk, high or tired. Maybe even all 3. Now, I'm not saying this is bad. I'm actually glad we roll like this. No stress, no QQ, aint nothin' but a good time and a party wherever we may roam. HOWEVER. There are times when we have the biggest "DERP" moments that I could even imagine.
Half the time we spend yelling at each other about things that don't make sense. It's not a real thing, but just saying every now and then, someone will yell something like "BITCH, YOU AINT GOT NO HOTDOGS CAUSE I ATE THEM ALL, HOW THAT MAKE YOU FEEL TIT SHIT?!!" soon, without warning, guild chat spirals out of control with the strength of 20 trolls trying to troll each other...nevermind the fact that they are DRUNK.
This usually ends with everyone quitting the guild after or during a raid, while trying to regroup and move onto the next raid.
Like so:
Eventually, everyone is invited back and we move on.
Our raids tend to be a tank and spank affair. We try to include all the people we possibly can who are online. We had a new guildie who was level 60-something, so we decided to do an AQ-40.
Everything seems to be going well. It's a regular tank and spank for the most part. THEN......We stumbled upon the TWIN EMPERORS boss fight. We began to fight like we had been fighting the entire time: Tank and spank. It seems we had underestimated our fight, and none of us knew about it. They were constantly resetting aggro and healing eachother....and soooooooooooooo:
Yeah, we freaked and hearthed. Later on I was informed as to what we had done wrong by a fellow guildie who's vent wasn't working at the time.
NOW WE KNOW THE BATTLE. NOW WE SHALL KICK THEIR ASSES OFF. ....eventually. If we ever feel like doing it again.


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A delinquent partial turd which grasps anal shrubery causing smelly brownish crust to accumulate in ones boxers.
My wife tells me that I need to wipe my ass better because my Thanhsons are making my underware a nasty mess, however I like the idea of her down in the basement doing laundry and cleaning up my foul nasty underware.
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And now for a very fitting recipe ....spiced apple cider! It's perfect for this time of year - soothing and filled with holiday flavours.
2 liters of good quality apple cider
6 cloves
2-1/4 inch thick slices of peeled fresh ginger
Peel of 1/2 orange
2 cinnamon sticks
Place all the ingredients in a medium-sized pot and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes. Strain and serve immediately, garnished with cinnamon sticks. Enjoy!
And now for a little holiday joy!
I will be giving a copy of Vegan Holiday Kitchen to one lucky reader. This pretty book is filled with festive vegan recipes to be enjoyed throughout the year - from Thanksgiving recipe ideas to Christmas and Jewish holiday recipes. If you're not familiar with vegan food this book will help give you an idea of the flavourful dishes you can make that just happen to be vegan. To enter this giveaway, just leave a comment on this post or on Chocolate Shaving's facebook page letting me know what your favourite holiday tradition is. If you enter a comment on both pages, your name will be entered in the contest twice. The contest closes December 30th at midnight. Only American and Canadian residents are eligible. Good luck!


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The upside: you would be working with an internationally recognized bunch of curators and publishers, and that you could do so in your pajamas if you have broadband at home. And an internship looks better on a resume than not having any job at all.
The downside: this definition of "job" does not include the part about being paid.
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Istanbul December-30-2009
SUBJECT Editorial Interns
LEA Internship Opportunities
LEA: Leonardo Electronic Almanac is looking for two skilled and enthusiastic recent graduates to join our team. LEA is the international leading publication in art, science and technology part of Leonardo, ISAST and MIT Press family.
We commission new work, produce online and offline exhibitions, publish magazines and special issues as full color PDFs and for Print on Demand. We are also going to be present on Kindle and Tablet.
Sales & Marketing Internship We are looking for an intern to work with our Sales & Marketing Manager to assist in the planning, production and delivery of LEA marketing activities. This will include assisting in the organization and delivery of sales and marketing events, collating online and offline marketing materials, data collection and database management and contacting advertisers. The job will also include contributing to fundraising activities. The candidate should be a graduate or post-graduate interested in arts management and business management or someone interested in working with an international art and science organization.
Project Internship We are looking for an intern to work with our Head of Projects to assist in the planning, production and delivery of LEA projects. These may take the form of commissions, exhibitions, research, education events, talks and special audience development projects.
The suitable candidate should have some knowledge and interest in contemporary art, curatorial studies and the interactions between art, science and technology. An interest in supporting the management of research projects would be welcome.
Both interns will gain practical experience of working within an internationally renowned art organizations and the opportunity to develop transferable skills while working in a stimulating and creative environment.
Please note that these are unpaid positions starting in January 2010, working 2-3 days a week for a 6-month period minimum. The work can be done remotely and international candidates are encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: January 25, 2009 at 5pm.
Interviews will take place via skype in the week beginning February 22, 2010.
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Son of Guillermo Canondo Galicano (born in Carcar to Boholano parents) and Luzanta Alcoseba Dayagro.
Revolutionary general; lawyer; congressman, senator;
With strong ties with the church, his father being the Carcar church fiscal and his mother's brother the very first priest from Carcar, sent to study to for the priesthood at the Colegio y Seminario de San Carlos, finishing his secondary schooling there; wanted to shift to law and was sent to UST but was not admitted due to lack of academic background; had legal tutoring under Mariano Cui but revolution caught up with the plans; rose to General in the Philippine Revolutionary Government in charge of Southern Cebu Sector against the Americans; surrenders in Barili 1901 with 6 officers and 109 men and ten rifles to Capt. Frank McIntyre of the 19th U.S. Infantry; became a lawyer 1906; member of the Philippine Assembly in the 1st and 2nd Philippine Legislatures 1907-1912 representing the 5th District of Cebu; Philippine Senate 1925-1931;
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Quote from: DDKC on June 28, 2013, 03:33:07 PMTime to bust out my blizzard condorSorry Scott, though the Condor is a sweet large disc, it isn't super classy enough to make the list... http://www.pdga.com/files/documents/Super%20Class%20Discs%20Feb%202009.pdf
Time to bust out my blizzard condor
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$10 total then or more for the skins. (That part confused me.)


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It lies along the spine of mountains than run the length of the island and reach a height of 1241 meters (4072 ft) at Uluigalau peak. Its size is difficult to determine with certitude because of the marshlands that surround it as well as the vegetation that floats on its quiet surface, but it is perhaps 500 meters (1640 ft) long and half as wide. Smaller ponds are nearby to the south. From the lake at 823 meters (2699 ft.) above sea level, the almost daily rainwaters pour in lacey streams and veils of waterfalls into the Pacific on either side of the island.
To reach the lake one faces a serious hike of some three or four hours depending on the condition of both trail and hiker, up streams and steep muddy trails. Pandabonium has yet to try it. In Fiji's warm, humid climate, the air can feel heavy and somehow makes one's feet feel the same. The rain forests of Taveuni are protected from logging and other development and are home to many interesting endemic species of plants and animals. One gets the feeling of being in another world.
Another world? Ironically, this is the world the way it was before industrial culture defiled it. This is the true planet earth. The process of destruction has only taken a few hundred years using the energy of ancient sunlight stored for hundreds of millions of years in the earth as coal and gas and oil, the power of which most people, even as they use them, do not even come close to grasping. Perhaps they will very soon as the search for alternatives begins in earnest. It will be unsettling. That much is certain.
It is here, in this mist shrouded, primeval setting and nowhere else on earth that the beautiful flower that shares the name Tagimoucia is found.
Rare though it is, the Tagimoucia flower, scientific name medinilla waterhousei, is a member of the seventh largest family of flowering plants in the world - melastomataceae. The national flower of Fiji, it has been featured on several postage stamps.
Like many things in nature that are unique to a certain area, there is a local legend about this flower's origins. Pacific Island cultures had no written languages so knowledge and history were handed down over milenia - often with surprising accuracy - through the oral traditions of story telling and chanting.
I have heard two versions of this legend, the key points of which are the same. In modern times, local legends are sometimes told in a fasihon that the story teller thinks will be best received rather than the way it was told in the past. I have seen this happen with some Hawaiian stories. It is then retold that way many times making it difficult to discern the original story. I suspect that has happened with the legend of Tagimoucia.
One story is that a young girl was playing when she was supposed to be doing her chores. Her mother kept reminding her of what needed to be done, but the girl ignored her. The mother became so annoyed that she grabbed a bundle of sasas (mid ribs of coconut fronds), which she had been using as a broom, and spanked the girl with them telling her to get out of their bure (house) and never come back.
The girl was so upset that she ran away. She ran and ran with tears in her eyes. She could not see where she was going and after a long while she encountered a flowerless vine hanging from a tree and became entangled in it. She could not free herself and lay down and fell asleep crying. Her tears turned from salt water to blood and fell on the vine where they turned into beautiful red flowers.
When she awoke she was able to free herself from the vine and ran home. She discovered that her mother had forgotten all about their quarrel and so they lived happily from then on.
The other version I heard was a romantic one and goes like this: Once upon a time, a princess was about to be forced by her father to marry her predestined husband.
However, she was in love with another man and, in desperation, she fled from the village into the mountains and, completely exhausted, she fell asleep on the banks of the lake. While she was sleeping, she cried and in her dream tears trickled down over her cheeks and turned into beautiful red flowers. ... And the red flowers engendered the Tagimaucia plant.
Tagimaucia means, "to cry in your sleep". Tagi=cry, moce=sleep.
I don't know which, if either, is the original local tale. Which do you like best? Which do you think is the "original"?
In preparing this post, a funny, serendipitous kind of thing happened. I was having difficulty finding pictures to share and started searching on line. There isn't much there either. I never did find a picture of the lake mainly because it is in the jungle and covered with vegetation. (Well, I found one, but I would have had to pay for it.) Also, most of the few flower photos I found were of the wrong flower! Finally, I found this picture of a Tagimoucia blossom.
What is so funny is that I happen to know the person who took it. Her name is Dr. Angela Kay Kepler. Kay (along with her husband, Cameron) has done decades of research and written many guide books about the botany and ornithology of Pacific islands, particularly the Hawaiian archepelago. Originally from New Zealand, she has lived on Maui off and on for many years. How do I know her? She is a clarinetist and we played together in the Maui Symphony Orchestra. Big ocean - small world.
Wendy of Peceli and Wendy's Blog Babasiga found a brochure that she had saved about this flower and posted it on their blog. It has a really nice picture of the blossoms. Vina'a Wendy!


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Here is my contribution to the festival. You might have already seen this 'vogeltjes quilt' before, I posted about it in 2007. But because I still get questions about this quilt I like to show it here again.
The quilt is inspired by work and books of Jean Ray Laury.
I love her drawings, so wonderful to use for applique.
I made this quilt in the late nineties, I just had followed an appliqué course when I found these lovely birds in one of J.R.Laury's books. I started of making one, and another, and one more. And before I knew I had a stash of funny apliqued birds blocks.
I made an appletree for the center. I draw the design for the tree myself. The fabrics I used for the triangles and the border are a replica from an old dutch chintz bought by Den Haan & Wagenmakers
Now I had all those lovely birds sewn around an appletree. I thought it would be perfect to complete the quilt with a beautiful border. I chose this drawing also from J.R. Laury's book als my starting point and went from there.
I did all sewing, applique and quilting by hand. It took my a few years to complete. In 2000 I finaly did. The quilt was a gift for our daughter. I made a cross-stitch label for the back.
Today the 'vogeltjes quilt' still hangs in her livingroom and is often used for


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Despite heavy rains shortly after the crop emerged, Lumax stayed put and did its job on the heavy Arlington Prairie soils. The herbicide has an excellent crop safety profile, and the corn looked tall and healthy. Though we did observe crazy top on a few hybrids that apparently had been submerged by rain shortly after emergence, across the plots it looked as if yields would be very good for both grain and silage hybrids.
At Arlington, the recommended rate of 3 qts./acre provided the best results, and lower rates had correspondingly more escapes. Lighter soils might have achieved equitable results with a lower 2½-qt. rate, which the company recommends when soil organic matter is less than 3%.
Limitations of Lumax are essentially the same as those of the three herbicide chemistries that make it up. It can be applied from 10 days before planting to emerged corn up to 5 in. tall. But weeds should not be emerged. To avoid crop injury or tankmix antagonism, Lumax should not be used where Counter or Lorsban were used, and it should not be tank mixed with an organophosphate insecticide.
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You can replant corn immediately where Lumax was applied, but in Wisconsin, any fields planted after June 10 can be rotated only to corn because of the atrazine. Areas that prohibit or restrict atrazine may not use Lumax, but Syngenta hopes to reach those markets with an atrazine-free formula called Camex. The Camex plots we saw looked relatively clean as well, but the ragweed control was not as good as with Lumax.
Syngenta plans to roll out Lumax and Camex most aggressively in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota. Syngenta spokesperson David Elser says the company hopes to capture 400,000 to 500,000 acres with the new product in Wisconsin alone. Many of those may come at the expense of Bicep and Dual.
"Lumax has great appeal to crop protection retailers because it will come in bulk packaging and is well suited to custom application with large floater equipment," Elser says. "It will appeal to growers because of its timesaving potential and competitive price."
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Larger than compact but not quite full-size, midsize vehicles are some of the most prevalent body types among cars on the road today. Their size, relative economy, and flexibility make four-door midsize cars ideal for families while two-door versions, called coupes, are available in sports models.
About Midsize Cars
It was during the early 1960s were seen the early versions of the midsize. Models such as the Ford Falcon, Pontiac Tempest, and Chevrolet Corvair were all early-1960s compacts that eventually helped define the midsize body style.
Cars in this class also continued to grow in size throughout the 1960s and 1970s. By the mid-1970s, many compact cars were as big as the full-size cars of the mid-1960s. However, things were about to change.
Rising fuel costs and the oil crisis in the Middle East forced the government to take action by changing the criteria for automobile market segment classifications to be based on passenger and cargo space instead of wheelbase. This reclassification led the midsize cars of the era to be rebranded as full-size. Many of the compact cars of the time were thus rebranded as midsize, helping to create the market segment and body size we are familiar with today.
This broad reclassification led to many of the familiar models of the time being rebranded or just replaced by new ones. For instance, the Ford Granada was momentarily rebranded as the LTD before being dropped altogether.
Initially introduced in 1985, the Ford Taurus could be regarded as the car that defined the midsize class as we know it. The predominance of the Taurus inspired top selling compacts such as the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry to grow in size until the mid-1990s when they were also regarded as midsize.
Today, midsize vehicles are the most widely sold class of car in the U.S. automobile market.
Midsize Variations
Perhaps it's because midsize vehicles take up such a large share of the market that there are so many different variations within the market segment. Shopping for a midsize today can mean looking for anything from a sporty coupes to a practical family car.
Economic family cars helped define the midsize car today. Many of the market segment's top sellers like the Toyota Camry fall into this segment of the midsize class.
Midsize luxury cars command another large segment of the market. With most of the same extras and features of the full size models, luxury midsize cars offer style and comfort with a slightly reduced footprint.
Midsize sport models are also available. Four-cylinder engines power many of today's midsize vehicles. However, many vehicles are big enough to accommodate a V-6 or V-8 engine, which you'll find in a midsize sport model. Examples of midsize sport models include the Audi 5 and the (discontinued) Saab 9-5 Griffin.
Midsize Brands
The Toyota Camry is also one of the best-selling midsize car models. Drivers appreciate the Camry for its reliability, usefulness, and excellent fuel economy.
The previous Ford Taurus is now a full-size sedan and has been replaced by the midsized Ford Fusion. The Chevrolet Impala, though is considered a highly recognizable American-made midsize car, has also been replaced by the all-new midsized Chevrolet Malibu sedan.
German auto manufacturer, Volkswagen has introduced a number of very popular midsize vehicles over the years, including the Passat and the Jetta. BMW also has a number of midsize car models including the BMW 3-Series.
Volvo currently features a number of sporty midsize options such as the S60. Audi's A6 sedans are also considered midsize.
Who Drives Midsize Cars?
Midsize vehicles are highly versatile and available in a range of different styles, configurations and variations. Midsize sports models are obviously a good option for drivers who value performance, while luxury midsize cars are better for drivers who value comfort. Many family drivers appreciate the reliability and good fuel economy of the top-selling midsize car models.


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