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Interleague play seemed to be just what the doctor ordered as the Boston Red Sox beat Atlanta for the second time in as many nights with a 6-3 victory.Boston used a 4-run seventh inning highlighted by a Jackie Bradley Jr. 2-rbi single. David Ortiz and Grady Sizemore also drove i a run in the inning which accounted for the final runs of the game. Dustin Pedroia collected three hits on the on the night as the Sox out hit the Braves 12 to 10.
Jon Lester earned his 5th win of the season going the first six innings with 7 strikeouts, 8 hits, and 3 runs. Koji Uehara closed out the game for his 11th save of the season.
The two teams head north an will play the next couple nights at Fenway Park with John Lackey facing Gavin Floyd.
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to Present LA Premiere of SLIPPING, 4/6-5/5
The Los Angeles Premiere of Slipping will begin on Saturday, April 6, and run through Sunday, May 5, 2013, as Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's first LA production. The show will play Elephant Stage's Lillian Theatre, 1076 Lillian Way in Los Angeles, Calif.
Slipping follows the emotional trajectory of 17-year old Eli, after the violent suicide of his beloved father. Alone, numb, and friendless after this tragedy, the jaded high-school senior moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco to a fresh start in Iowa. A new relationship with a boy at school exposes Eli again to the possibility of closeness and the danger of being swallowed by it. Written and directed by Daniel Talbott.
• Eli - Seth Numrich (Golden Boy, War Horse, The Merchant of Venice on Broadway; Iphigenia at Signature; the New York production of Slipping)
• Jake - MacLeod Andrews (Slipping in New York; Too Much Memory at piece by piece/Rising Phoenix Rep)
• Chris - Max Hamilton (professional stage debut; UCLA productions of RENT and Neon Boneyard)
• Jan - Wendy vanden Heuvel (Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller at the Guthrie Theater; Counting The Ways/Talk To Me Like the Rain... at the Magic Theater; A Movie Star Has To Star in Black and White at Signature)
Slipping was originally workshopped and developed at The Royal Court Theatre and Rattlestick. It was given its world premiere in Chicago by The Side Project, directed by Adam Webster. In New York, the play premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater under the direction of Kirsten Kelly. The New York production of Slipping was named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate.
The limited Los Angeles engagement opens Saturday, April 6, 2013 and closes on Sunday, May 5, 2013 with performances running Thursdays through Sundays.
• Previews - Thursday, April 4 & Friday, April 5
• Opening Night - Saturday, April 6
• Closing Night - Sunday, May 5
Ticket prices will vary up to $34, with discounts available for theater artists, students and seniors. Advance ticketing will be available online through http://rattlestick.org starting in February.
Based in New York's West Village, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents diverse, challenging, and often controversial plays that otherwise might not be produced, in order to foster the future of American theater. The multi-award-winning company is the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award, which recognized the organization for its work and mission: developing and producing innovative new plays.
Well-known as one of the edgiest Off-Broadway venues, Rattlestick is a playwrights' theater, which seeks out unique voices and excellence in the craft. The organization's focus is on getting bold new works up and out to the public. Rattlestick is interested in stories that are edgy, human and honest. While not everyone will always like the plays, at a minimum, audiences will be provoked to think. Rattlestick seeks out writers who are working ambitiously and fearlessly for their art. By guaranteeing a second production, Rattlestick gives its playwrights permission to take chances and, potentially, even to fail. In creating an atmosphere that fosters risk-taking, Rattlestick encourages playwrights to challenge themselves to realize their full creative potential.
With a core operational focus of launching mainstage Off-Broadway productions, Rattlestick has produced over 60 world premieres in the past 17 seasons. Now in its 18th season, Rattlestick continues to introduce new writers. Playwright and artist mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, and Adam Rapp. Highly acclaimed past productions include: Volunteer Man (OBIE Award), Saved or Destroyed (OBIE Award), Faster, The Last Sunday in June (GLAAD Award nomination), The Pavilion (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play of 2005) God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny (Drama Desk Award nomination), Lady (Drama Desk Award nomination), That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, The Amish Project, Slipping, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, and The Aliens (OBIE Award).
Rattlestick's 18th season features daring new works by Adam Rapp, Jon Fosse, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Tolins, Mando Alvarado, Jessica Dickey, and Lyle Kessler.
In bringing productions to Los Angeles, the media capital of the world, Rattlestick is exploring ways to creatively collaborate with the local theater, film and television communities. Screens are ubiquitous in our culture; video has replaced printed text as the main mass communication mode for many Americans. Rattlestick sees this as a great opportunity for talented playwrights. After all, some of the best new art now happens on television, and, as a medium for storytelling, it shares many characteristics with theater. Writing for television also enhances a writer's facility, which, in turn, helps them write better plays.
Rattlestick seeks to create a satellite home on the West Coast comprised of both Los Angeles and New York artists. The company is also looking to the Los Angeles playwriting community for compelling new works to produce in both New York and Los Angeles. Artistically ambitious Southern California playwrights are encouraged to submit work for consideration by email in PDF format to firstname.lastname@example.com, along with a cover letter and resume.
David Van Asselt, the artistic director and a co-founder of Rattlestick, has extensive experience in the theater. He is a playwright (Dog Daze, Incident at Irving's Pet Place [a radio play], A Trip to the Beach, Winning, and The Messenger). He has also directed plays, led a playwrights' group, and taught playwriting, as well as designed and built sets. His plays have been produced in New York, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Arizona. Van Asselt has a B.F.A. from NYU Film School as well as an M.A. in Philosophy from NYU.
Daniel Talbot is an actor, director, playwright, producer, literary manager of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award). His most recent play, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait, was commissioned by Rattlestick and Encore Theatre Company, was presented at A.C.T.'s Costume Shop in San Francisco this past summer, and is being further developed by both companies. His play Yosemite premiered last season at Rattlestick, and other plays include Sam and Gus, What Happened When, and Slipping (published by Dramatists Play Service, named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate, and a 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist for drama). His most recent work as an actor includes the Theatre for One project in Times Square and around NYC, and a recurring role on The Big C for Showtime. Recent directing work includes Follow (Balancin' Productions), Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait (Rattlestick/Encore), Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang), Lake Water (Neighborhood Productions), Eightythree Down (Hard Sparks), Squealer (Lesser America at Theater for the New City), and The Umbrella Plays (the teacup company/FringeNYC, where it won the Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play; also presented at The Tank). Recent producing credits include the Off-Broadway productions of Elective Affinities with Zoe Caldwell, Too Much Memory, and the Cino Nights series. He received a 2011 Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship and was named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre's ATP, and teaches at Primary Stages/ESPA.
"Rattlestick is not only thrilled to bring some of its innovative New York productions to Los Angeles audiences," says Rattlestick Artistic Director David Van Asselt, "We are also seeking to collaborate and intercross with the remarkable theater and media communities in Los Angeles."


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Episodes: 15 Episodes
Genre: Romance/Drama/Horror/Period
Atichart Chumnanont (Aum) as Prince Siriwong (Chao Noi) / Suriyawong
Chatayodom Hiranyatsathiti (Chai) as Prince Siriwattana
Jason Young as Thanin
May FeungArom as Lady Bua Ngern (young)
Pisamai Wilaisak (Mee) as Lady Bua Ngern (old)
Sakaewan Yongjaiyuth (Pingpong) as Kamtiang (young)
NamNgern Boonnak as as Kamtiang (old)
Pimolrat Pisalayabut (Kob) as Wongprajan
OrnAnong Panyawong (Orn) as Wandara
Rachanee Siralert as Panwarin
Jaeng Warapan as Maimae
Chudapa Chanthakhet as Mei
Kriankrai Aoonhanan as Srapan
Rerin, the textile professor goes to take vacation in Chiang Mai because she wants to have time to think over about her relationship with Thanin, her fiance.
On her vacation, she meets Suriyawong, the food designer and the restaurant owner who descends from the prince and Grandma Bua Ngern. Suriyawong falls in love at first sight with Rerin and feels like she's someone who he has longed for. However, Wongprajan, Suriyawong's relative comes in to obstruct their love and declare herself as his fiancee.
And then, the mysterious thing begins when Rerin hears a mysterious guy calling for her from outside her room in the guesthouse. She wonder who he is and how he knows her.
Rerin wants to learn more about the textile, so Suriyawong takes her to talk to Lady Bua Ngern, his grandmother. But when Lady Bua Ngern sees Rerin, she acts like she hates Rerin and calls her Maneerin. Rerin also sees a spirit of Mei, Lady Bua Ngern's servant ghost in that place, but when she tells anyone, no one believe her.
One day, Rerin goes to visit the textile museum. She sees the unfinished fabric on the loom which belongs to Princess Maneerin in the past. In that place, she meets a mysterious guy who she has ever seen in the guesthouse. He actually is the spirit of Prince Siriwattana, the prince from the past, who has been there to wait for her for so long. He asks her to finish weaving the unfinished fabric and Rerin is willing to do it.
During that time, Prince Siriwattana takes her turn back time to see her past life. In the past life, Rerin is Princess Maneerin. She is sent to get married with Prince Siriwattana for the relationship between the states, but Princess Maneerin falls in love with Prince Siriwong, Prince Siriwattana's brother (reincarnated as Suriyawong in the present lifetime). When Lady Bua Ngern who falls in love with Prince Siriwattana knows, she tells Prince Siriwattana about it. Prince Siriwattana is very angry and accidentally killed Prince Siriwong. However, no one knows that in the fact, Ghost Mei possesses Prince Siriwattana's body and tells people to sink the boat of Prince Siriwong.
After Prince Siriwong dies, Maneerin is very sorry. She refuses to eat or do anything, but just weave the fabric in her room. Prince Siriwattana is very angry and tells her to finish this fabric before the wedding day and wear it in their wedding. But Maneerin intends to finish it and use it to strangle herself to death in her wedding day. During the time she weaves the fabric, Lady Bua Ngern comes in to attack her. Maneerin doesn't have strenght to fight back, so she dies in front of Prince Siriwattana and her fabric is left undone.
After that Prince Siriwattana gets married with Lady Bua Ngern, but they have never slept with each other in the same room until Prince Siriwattana is dead from grief later. Lady Bua Ngern is very angry and vengeful for that.
In the present life, when Rerin knows the story, she tries to finish this unfinished fabric to release the spirit of Prince Siriwattana to be in peace. However, Lady Bua Ngern still has grudge against Maneerin or Rerin in the present, so she tries to kill Rerin. Suriyawong can come to save Rerin's life in time, but she becomes paralyzed because of brain stroke.
...Follow up to watch what will happen next in lakorn.
Song: Piang Dai Kiang Thur (Just to be with you)
Artist: Srisalai Suchatwut / Atichar Chumnanont
Song: Garn Dern Tang Khong Hua Jai (The journey of the heart)
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Older Adults and HIV: A Special Report and Action Plan
November 2010
Table of Contents
Aging and HIV: An Overview
By 2015 a majority of people with HIV in the United States will be over age 50.1,2
This population is growing in both size and complexity. ACRIA's landmark study, Research on Older Adults with HIV (ROAH)3 brings into sharp relief the emerging medical and psychosocial challenges confronting older adults as they age with HIV. Challenges arising from the early onset of age-related morbidities, high levels of depression, and low-functioning social networks are compounded by a service delivery system frequently hampered by the stigma and discrimination associated with homophobia, ageism, and HIV-phobia.4
To ensure that older adults with HIV are able to lead healthy and full lives and remain actively engaged in their communities, researchers, providers, service organizations, and policymakers must examine their assumptions about what will soon be the majority of Americans with HIV.
For example, how should health and service providers respond to a 58-year-old with HIV who presents physical or mental health conditions usually associated with people in their 70s? How should the Social Security Administration (SSA) treat the disability status of a 61-year-old with HIV whose health conditions permit only intermittent work? And how should providers coordinate the care of someone for whom HIV-related health challenges are less pressing than other conditions, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and depression?
For too long, the needs of older adults with HIV have been neglected or overlooked. The failure of the federal government to fund and mount a bold, large-scale national study of these older adults, many of whom are long-term survivors, leaves us without the data needed to inform effective policies and programming. Primary care providers routinely fail to test older adults for HIV or to screen for behavioral risk factors, leading to high rates of concurrent HIV and AIDS diagnoses.5 AIDS service and aging service organizations have often not recognized this change in the HIV epidemic, have little knowledge of each other, and have rarely if ever worked together. Moreover, they often do not have the competencies or capacities to build the kind of integrated service delivery model that can provide this population with the critical care, supportive services, and health information they need. And the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (the Strategy) makes little mention of prevention and treatment issues related to older adults.
At the same time, the Strategy is moving our collective efforts in the right direction. Its call for a more highly coordinated, integrated, and responsive HIV and AIDS service delivery model signals a turning point. Its call for targeting resources toward the most highly affected communities is also welcome. Allocation of resources according to disease burden and level of risk is certain to advance the goals of reducing new infections, increasing access to care, improving outcomes, and reducing HIV-related disparities. But these goals can be achieved only after indicators of health and quality of life of the over-50 population are explicitly and consistently incorporated into the Strategy's definition of the problem, its goals and objectives, and its implementation plan.
Older Adults and HIV: Recent Findings
This new approach should be informed by the growing body of literature that is defining the unique challenges faced by someone aging with HIV. Key findings include:
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Legendary character actor and cult director LQ JONES would like you to post and let him know what you think about the film he produced called THE WITCHMAKER. He wants to know if you hated it, loved it, if the film needs editing, or any other random thoughts you have about the movie. Feel free to post and Code Red dvd will forward your message to him!
13 comments:
- The Vicar of VHS said...
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- August 22, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
- August 22, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- Allen w/ Code Red Facebook Fans said...
Ugh, I haven't seen the movie, but I just shared this with the Facebook group. We're up to 508 Code Red fans! Hopefully, many of them will chime in. I'm curious how LQ will respond to the feedback.
- August 22, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
Have seen the movie before. Liked it then; like it now. Please don't mess with it!
- August 23, 2011 at 12:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
Yeah, it's a great film. Any film can be critiqued but uh...please tell me you're not trying to re-edit the original, because that would be an awful idea.
As it stands, it's a diamond in a rough. Beautiful filmmaking.
- August 23, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- P L Barr said...
Just watched the Code Red DVD last week. I had never seen this movie before...I don't know, maybe it had something to do with the fantastically beautiful women filling the screen, but I enjoyed it quite a lot. Visually, I loved it. There were some fantastic shots throughout. The characters were interesting. The performances were engaging. The story was straightforward, but never dull. I can't think of anything that could improve this film. It was an entirely pleasant experience for me, one that I'll be repeating in the near future.
- August 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- LorriLives said...
LQ, really enjoyed The Witchmaker! The only thing I would have changed were the positioning of the blonde chick's hands when she is running naked during the initial rock spell scene. Lol.
Loved you in THE BEAST WITHIN(and many other great films)!!!!
- August 24, 2011 at 5:12 AM
- venoms5 said...
I thought it had an incredibly vivid plot that wasn't fully realized in the finished product. It was still a fun little movie the type that used to play on television at all hours of the morning years back. I did a review for it if you'd like to share it with L.Q.
- August 24, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- carl2000 said...
Hi LQ. First off, I must tell you that I've been a fan of this movie since I was a kid. It used to pop up every now and then on our local Creature Features TV show and even better, it was shown uncut!
Most independent horror pictures at the time were slow, badly made affairs with amateurish acting, poorly written screenplays and indifferent direction, but THE WITCHMAKER clearly aspired for much more and was a welcome breath of fresh air.
I think my favorite scenes (next to Thordis Brandt running around in her bikini, that is), are the ones between Luther and Jesse. There's a wonderful camaraderie between these two villains that's often funny and surprisingly good-natured. They're definitely not your average, run-of-the-mill , one dimensional horror movie bad guys!
I recently bought the DVD through Amazon and was impressed all the more. What a pleasure it was to see WITCHMAKER in its original widescreen glory! It's a bit of a shame that the film print had the alternate film title, but hey, that's a minor quibble.
By the way, I also have BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN on DVD as well, another personal favorite.
- August 25, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Saw this film at the drive-in many years ago and loved it. Beautifully Shot, Hot Chicks, Great Storyline.
After watching the DVD, I loved it even more.
LQ, I would not change a thing.
Mark S.
- August 26, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Lord Summerisle said...
Hi Folks, Hi LQ
I have nothing which is not thine. Code red is great and they did a good job releasing the witchmaker in an as clean as possible copy. It's my favorite witchcraft movie. LQ Jones is awesome and "a boy and his dog" and the witchmaker are great gems of independant cinema, some movies shouldn't be remade. Friendly from France
- August 26, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
Saw it projected a couple of months back here in Los Angeles. Interesting little movie. Wanted more of the satanic/secret society weirdness. Good film overall, not great.
- September 2, 2011 at 6:29 PM
- Erich Scholz said...
I just watched this for the first time last nite. I really enjoyed the film - although I wish there were more nekkid ladies in it (hee hee). The Code Red disc utilized a fairly worn print but the color was nice. I really enjoyed the performances and the atmosphere. The film is a nifty little time capsule - it could use a little tightening but why bother? I would recommend this to my friends who have a little more patience w/ older, slower films.
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Mayor Chris Beutler today released a new budget planning document outlining City goals and priorities and encouraged the public to get involved in the process. The report - Taking Charge: Progress Measures and Program Prioritization" - is now available on the City Web site (lincoln.ne.gov). Mayor Beutler said it is the next step in the City's transition to an outcome-based budgeting process.
"Outcome-based budgeting is an innovative approach to answering the big questions: what services should the City provide and how much should we pay?" said Mayor Beutler. "The process challenges us to consider what we want to be as a community."
Beutler said one advantage of the new process is that it is goal-oriented. "With the old budget process, the starting point was simply what we did last year," he said. "With the outcome-based approach, we start with ideas as to what we want to accomplish. Each year as a community, we decide what our goals are for the next year. Looking ahead, rather than behind, helps us provide programs that solve the most pressing problems."
Beutler said outcome-based budgeting also breaks down barriers between departments, increases City government accountability and transparency, and makes is easier for the public to participate in the process. "Outcome-based budgeting creates an easily understood list of services, giving citizens the information they need to determine which programs help accomplish our community goals," he said.
Beutler said the process began a year ago when the public was asked to participate in PRIORITY LINCOLN. From that effort, the City established eight citywide "outcomes" - Safety and Security, Economic Opportunity, Healthy and Productive People, Livable Neighborhoods, Effective Transportation, Environmental Quality, Accountable Government, and Identity Lincoln.
In "Taking Charge," goals are identified for each outcome. Programs and services are divided into three tiers based on their importance in reaching the goals. Progress indicators allow citizens to easily determine whether the City is meeting the goals.
Cathy Beecham, past president of the Near South Neighborhood Association, was one of the private citizens who attended meetings to help with the process. "I found this approach extremely effective, especially in light of the current economic situation," she said. "Focusing on this year's outcomes rather than last year's budget encouraged an important exchange of ideas between participants. The resulting dialogue really helped us identify and prioritize the programs we felt were vital to encouraging and maintaining livable neighborhoods in Lincoln."
"I want every citizen in Lincoln to review the document and tell us what you think," Beutler said. "Tell us your goals for Lincoln. Tell us what programs you think best help us get to where you want Lincoln to be. Take charge of your City's budget and tell us what you want to do."
The Mayor is scheduled to make his decisions on the 2009-2010 City budget in May, and the budget is released to the public in June. The City Council votes on tentative changes to the Mayor's budget in July. The public hearing and budget adoption take place in August.


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Cutting back on car travel can be just as effective for losing weight as cutting back on calories, according to mathematics researchers at the University of Illinois.Health experts agree that Americans' reliance on cars, especially for short trips, has contributed to the obesity epidemic because driving or riding in a car expends as little energy as possible. Getting out of the car for just one mile a day would equal two to five minutes of more active pursuits and could be as effective as reducing the daily diet by 100 calories. Such a small lifestyle change at the population level can lead to a reduction in U.S. obesity rates, according to the study led by computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson that was recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine. Jacobson suggests parking in the farthest space in the lot to increase walking distance, or walking to the bus stop to use public transportation. Daily choices matter, he said, with driving as well as dietary habits. The researchers looked at body mass index, automobile miles and calorie intake from national surveys and government data to create a math model on the relationships among food, driving and adult weight. Not surprisingly, an increase in calories consumed results in an increase in body weight. But the number of miles traveled by car can have the same or greater effect. The researchers calculated that the body mass index of the average American (now measuring 27.6) could be lowered by 0.2 after six years of driving one less mile a day. By comparison, cutting the diet by 100 calories a day could reduce the average body mass index by 0.16. While those differences are small, it could mean the difference between healthy and overweight for many people. Even small decreases in body mass index are associated with lower health care costs. Obesity is commonly thought of as a medical problem, but the research points to societal solutions, Jacobson said. His research team previously calculated that the country's obesity epidemic contributes to an additional 1 billion gallons of gasoline consumed, because cars burn more fuel with heavier passengers. "The obesity issue is multi-dimensional, and if we focus purely on medical interventions without taking into account the social issues, we're not fully exploiting our tools to address the problem," Jacobson said. (c)2013 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Visit the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at www.stltoday.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Toronto: A Few Thoughts
It's TIFF hangover-slash-exhaustion, I suspect, but after a week of feeling out of sorts and insomnious, life is thankfully returning to normal. What follow are not 'reviews' but instead a few thoughts sparked by a few films…
I surprised myself in being bowled over by Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine. Not that there's a rule about this or anything but the kind of festival film I'm attracted to generally tends to be short on narrative incident or character psychology and long on formal interest. Secret Sunshine isn't indifferent to form (at all) but it doesn't really foreground it either. Instead the film makes a sustained play for your complete, naked, gut-level emotional involvement. I 'bought' this film; to me, its relentless descent felt true, uncompromised and necessary. If you didn't buy it (as was the case with a few friends I spoke to), I can see how the second half might perhaps have felt repetitive or redundant.
The film experiments fruitfully with genre and tone. Genre is used not as a grid which guides and directs movement within the film but instead as a catalyst inserted intermittently to set off events within the narrative. The results and consequences of those events, however, are non-generic. In other words, genre moves pop up, MacGuffin-like, simply to seed the narrative from time to time.
Secret Sunshine reminded me of Todd Haynes's Safe in a couple of ways: (1) The satire of evangelical Christianity is complicated and nuanced and not at all full-blooded and unambivalent, just as it was with New Age-ism in the Haynes film; and (2) The 'mirror reflection' ending both films share. The two stunning performances I saw at the fest this year were by Jeon Do-yeon in this film and Asia Argento in Catherine Breillat's An Old Mistress.
Next: I need to see Lee's Oasis and Peppermint Candy.
So, here's a question. The two Red Balloon movies: How do they speak to each other? Specifically, the balloon itself: What function does it perform? What does it activate within the narrative?
In Albert Lamorisse's film (1956), the balloon is always present, visible to all. On the street, people brush past it in annoyance. To them, it's a pesky outsider, a trespasser. The streetcar refuses to allow it to board; the schoolmaster turns a malign eye on it; it's ejected from church; the street kids torture it. The balloon's function in the film is as a public presence—to detail the consequences of its traversal of public spaces.
Hou inverts this function/purpose of the balloon, and renders it private. The balloon is pretty much invisible. Only the boy seems to notice it. The one scene in which it is visible to all is deliberately played in a comic key: its custodian is a man in a green body suit, green because the man can then be easily effaced by the filmmaker's software.
Except in the first shot of the film, in which the boy climbs up to capture the balloon (a direct quotation of a shot from the original film), he doesn't even reach out his hand for the balloon; he doesn't seem to want to possess it. When he spies it through the window, we see little acknowledgment on his face save a mild enchantment (or perhaps I imagined that too). The balloon's simply there as a private, personal companion for the boy, a hovering object of calm that watches over him from a distance and counterbalances the storm the boy's mother (Juliette Binoche) weathers daily in numerous small ways.
One has certain private traditions with ritualistic events like film festivals. At my first TIFF in '99 I stumbled into an utterly winning teen movie (Lukas Moodysson's Fucking Åmål, a.k.a. Show Me Love) and resolved to get a teen movie fix each year at TIFF. This year, I scheduled The Babysitters, with John Leguizamo and Cynthia Nixon, about a suburban prostitution ring of babysitters. But Gus Van Sant's flat-out gorgeous Paranoid Park gave me my fix and then some, and I passed on The Babysitters.
Three interesting things about Paranoid Park:
(1) The sense of dialectical play between the polarities of documentary authenticity (nonprofessional teens; video footage featuring skateboarders who had no 'dramatic' parts in the film's narrative) and an intensely lyricized subjective treatment of everyday activity, often rendered in slow motion.
(2) The witty, complex and multipurpose music scoring, which used a broad range of sources (Nino Rota from Juliet of the Spirits and Amarcord; Billy Swan's "I Can Help"; Cool Nutz; hardcore; swing-era jazz) to express a variety of attitudes and moods at different points (like pathos, irony, playfulness, burlesque).
(3) Despite its scrambled, doubling-back-on-itself chronology, it never felt like a 'puzzle film' that needed to be taken apart and put back together in some linear, 'natural' order. Instead of feeling fragmented, it seemed to exist and unfold unhurriedly in a sort of long, continuous, 'eternal present'.
(Sandrine Marques at Contrechamp posts an arresting pair of images, side by side, from Van Sant and the Renaissance painter Raphael.)
A few links:
-- Shahn at Six Martinis and the Seventh Art offers up a set of framegrabs of film projections within films. Perhaps you'll want to add your own suggestions to her list?
-- Dave Kehr in the NYT on G.W. Pabst's The Threepenny Opera: "Here again is proof of what a fragile medium the movies are, and of how foolish it is for us to condescend to the perceived primitivism of a past that is largely a creation of our own neglect." Also, at his blog, Dave recommends a couple of DVD sources that offer rare films in the public domain.
-- Errol Morris has a blog post at the NYT that has elicited 700+ comments in the last couple of days. It begins: ""You mean to tell me that you went all the way to the Crimea because of one sentence written by Susan Sontag?" My friend Ron Rosenbaum seemed incredulous. I told him, "No, it was actually two sentences.""
-- Dan Sallitt: "In honor of the upcoming NYC screening of Esther Kahn, here is a list of my ten favorite films whose title consists solely of a woman's full name."
-- David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's invaluable blog celebrates its first anniversary.
-- Michael Z. Newman at Zigzigger on "White Elephant Television."


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Wabash, City Partner to Sponsor Talk on Historic Preservationby Kayla Gentry • January 29, 2007 Share:
Many would agree that Crawfordsville's history rests downtown.
Crawfordsville Main Street believes in that so much they are bringing in an internationally known leader of historic preservation, Donovan Rypkema, to share his thoughts on the city with the public.
Main Street, partnered with Wabash College, to welcome Rypkema, principal of PlaceEconomics — a Washington, D.C. based real estate and economic development firm, at 7 p.m. Jan. 31. He will lecture on Downtown Revitalization as Economic Development at Baxter Hall, Room 101, after spending a day in Crawfordsville.
Rypkema was discovered through members of the Main Street board attending State and National Main Street meetings, Program Manager of Crawfordsville Main Street Debbie Leech said.
"We felt he had an excellent message to deliver and that our community would benefit from an outsider's perspective on the importance of downtown revitalization as part of a community's overall economic development plan," she added.
Rypkema's work, according to his biography, focuses on the usage of historic structures and reinvigoration of historic buildings, downtown and neighborhood commercial districts. He received his Master's degree from Columbia University and his list of accomplishments and work is lengthy.
He will spend a day observing and meeting people involved with downtown before his lecture. Although Leech says she does not know the particular points he will touch on, she says she hopes he will tie in his visit with his lecture.
Main Street is enthusiastic about the opportunity to bring such a well-known individual to Crawfordsville.
The group's plan, for some time now, is to have an organizational meeting for the community on the significant aspects of downtown revitalization.
"(We) finally decided that Rypkema would be a good choice to show the connection between downtown and economic development," Leech said.
Wabash fits into the puzzle because of its location, adjacent to downtown. A strong tie between the college and the city is needed, Leech said.
"Both of our futures are intertwined by the importance of having such an excellent, well-known college adjacent to our downtown, and for the college it is vitally important that perspective students and faculty see a thriving downtown when they come to visit and make their decisions on where to attend college, or where to take a job on staff," Leech said.
Leech added that Wabash College President Dr. Patrick White hopes Rypkema will have examples from other college communities where he has consulted, which resulted in positive connections between "town and gown."
With a commitment to downtown revitalization, Crawfordsville Main Street works to organize events that bring the significance of a rich and lively downtown to the community's attention. The importance of downtown revitalization is consequential for the community.
It's not just flowers and new paint, Debbie Leech, Program Manager for Crawfordsville Main Street said.
"I think that Mr. Rypkema's lecture, considering his wealth of information and experience in this field, will be eye-opening to many people who feel that downtown revitalization is simply flowers and new paint.
"We need to continue the positive steps that are happening in our downtown and have knowledge of the depth of the significance of downtown revitalization to the future of our entire community," she said.


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The link is to a New Republic article by Ryan Lizza, who goes on to talk about Senator Feingold's censure effort. Read the details. Here's the conclusion:
[T]he partisans on the left cheering Feingold appear to have both the policy and the politics wrong. Censure is meaningless. Changing the FISA law is the way to address Bush's overreach. And the only way for Democrats to change FISA is for them to take back the Senate. This week, Feingold's censure petition has made that goal just a little bit more difficult to achieve. What an ass.Via Scott Lemieux, who thinks Lizza is expressing "TNR center-right contrarianism at its most vacuous." Why? Because if you think it's politically damaging to censure the President -- per Lemieux -- you ought also to be afraid to put stronger, more explicit limits in th FISA law. But I think Lizza's point is that censure is just blowing off steam, incurring political damage without changing anything. Playing it carefully now, in Lizza's view, would help the Democrats win over Congress in the '06 elections, at which point they could amend the statute and have a real effect. Lemieux, nevertheless, asks "And if the Democrats believe that he was breaking the law, why on earth shouldn't he be censured?" I don't quite think he's the best person to be deciding who's "vacuous."


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|Sam Porter of Somerville, a regular at the Monday Club Bar at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, savors the solitude on a recent afternoon. (Essdras M. Suarez/Globe Staff)
Adventures in 'table for one'
Forgo the pity, forget the BlackBerry or the book, and embrace the possibilities
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Cooking for one is all the rage. No fewer than three books published this year are devoted to the subject, such titles as "What We Eat When We Eat Alone,'' by celebrated author Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin, "The Pleasure Is All Mine: Selfish Food for Modern Life,'' from actress-turned-chef Suzanne Pirret, and "The Pleasures of Cooking for One,'' by Judith Jones, longtime editor for Julia Child. Each is about food, but all are celebrations of the self - paeans to the possibilities of solitary food adventures, rooted in the notion that we are our own best company.
But "table for one'' is a loaded phrase - always a little sad-sounding, even when you're not sad in the slightest - even if you are euphoric at the prospect of an hour alone with a glass of wine and a plate of good food. There's a stigma attached to eating out alone, especially dinner in a decent restaurant. All those couples. All those conversations. What do you even look at when you're in a restaurant by yourself?
I've spent much of my working life as a music critic, which means going out a lot at night, often by myself. Many of those nights involve having a meal before or after a show, and over the years I've become a rarity, especially among my female friends: a seasoned solo diner.
Dining alone can be all kinds of things: amusing, meditative, sociable. It can also be dull or, worse, discomfiting. The main thing is to avoid the nagging sense that you've got "Friendless'' tattoed on your forehead. And the best way to vanquish self-consciousness isn't to bury your face in a book or tap away at your PDA, tempting though it may be, but to engage. Be quietly bold with your eyes and ears. Wear your independence like a badge of honor.
It's easy at the Monday Club Bar, the more casual of two dining rooms at UpStairs on the Square in Harvard Square. The room is a visual feast: odd, beautiful colors, mismatched chandeliers, and eclectic fabrics - and the staff is as warm as the decor. When I arrive on a recent weeknight, the bar is full. So when an amiable staffer (who I later learn is Matthew Lishansky, director of operations) asks if I want a table, I utter a variation on the loaded phrase.
"It's just me.''
"It's not just you,'' he replies, and promptly fixes me a killer Manhattan, with a dusky red cherry that bears no relation to the sweet neon balls that decorate lesser cocktails.
It's cabaret night, so I welcome a table with a view of the duo almost as gratefully as I welcome my dinner: fava bean risotto with housemade chicharron (crisp morsels of smoked pork), one-hour egg, and shaved Parmesan. The egg is a minor miracle: poached for 60 minutes at very low temperature until the white is cooked to a milky consistency and the yolk is still runny. A gentle stir and the risotto turns downright lush. Supping on this comforting concoction is like having an impossibly decadent breakfast for dinner.
Devra First, this paper's restaurant critic, says that her ideal meal alone in a restaurant is a big bowl of pasta. My ideal meal alone in a restaurant involves a view of the kitchen. By those standards Sportello, a chic diner composed of a single serpentine bar in the Fort Point neighborhood, is pretty close to perfect. The trattoria-inspired menu is filled with handcrafted pasta dishes and every seat has a view of the gleaming, open kitchen. Queried about her favorite dish, my waitress, a young woman with a discreet blue streak in her hair, recommends strozzapreti with braised rabbit, which I graciously decline. I explain that I am a rabbit owner, and it turns out so is her family. We have a lively discussion about the joys and sorrows of life with bunnies, reminding me that given the opportunity, most people like to talk.
From my perch, I observe the cook tending to my mid-afternoon meal of polenta with mushroom ragu as it is portioned, stirred, assembled, drizzled with olive oil, and topped with fat curls of fresh Parmesan. I could be wrong, but I'm thinking a watched chef is a mindful and generous chef. She spoons a bountiful medley of mushrooms in rich brown sauce into a deep bowl of velvety polenta, and it's enough to feed me and the lucky recipient of my leftovers. While eating I take in the restaurant's young crew as they prep beans and sort herbs for the evening meal. It is - no contest - better than TV.
Sushi bars fit the solo dining bill for much the same reason; talk about a front-row view of the kitchen. Bars and counters are generally preferable to tables, particularly in nice restaurants: it's a more casual, less obvious spot to perch alone. It's also where you're likely to strike up a conversation with an amiable bartender or a fellow solo diner. But it dawns on me during a meal at the cozy bar at Il Capriccio in Waltham that a place can be a little too cozy. The crispy trout with spinach, smoked prosciutto, and lentils is sublime - a perfect balance of delicate fish, crunchy flecks of ham, and creamy legumes. The vibe is less so. Everyone there seems to know each other, the host, or the bartender, who chats up the regulars and ignores yours truly. I felt as if I'd walked into a private club of which I am not a member.
Not so at Franklin Southie, the third outpost in the Franklin Cafe's expanding stable of upscale neighborhood restaurants. A rhinestone-studded peace sign dangling from the bartender's neck seems to sum up the aesthetic: slick but laid-back. A family with an infant is tucked into a corner booth, a group of suits is gathered for drinks, and an eclectic mix - including two other solo diners - is seated at the large bar, where I nab the last seat at 6:15 on a Thursday. Sometimes being alone is all about the crowd that surrounds you, and I feel at home here.
Provided you don't mind an extra spoonful or two of dressing on your salad, the black pepper-seared tuna served on field greens is delectable - like warm sashimi with a kick. The fish is crusty on the outside, rare in the middle. It comes with chunky smashed potatoes that aren't listed on the menu, and the smiling bartender, to her credit or her blame, doesn't look at me sideways when I order french fries, which I don't for a moment regret, despite the embarrassment of potatoes in front of me. She is incredibly busy. So are the waiters, one of whom goes out of his way to say hello, nice to see you, as he passes my corner stool.
He has never seen me before. But he will see me again.
Joan Anderman can be reached at email@example.com. Restaurant critic Devra First will return in a couple of weeks.