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2013 Oscars Live Commentary Transcript
Okay, so I didn't intend to do this and had no plan on writing a live commentary transcript of the Oscars…but a few friends surprised me and apparently we've found a live stream via ABC.com and Oscar.go.com. I believe the actual show will livestream and not just this pre-show stuff.
So, since we're going to watch it anyway I might as well comment on it.
If you want to watch too, you can click HERE for the stream
This is really shocking to me because I didn't think that ABC and Disney were with-it enough to livestream this on computers…because I thought they were obsessed with ratings on the tee-vee Nielsen "boxes" out there. But, frankly, more and more people are moving away from having tee-vees and just livestreaming. I've been doing that since 2009 and will never go back.
702pm CST — Hilarious. George Clooney is there with some random woman on his arm. He always has "some girlfriend" with him who is always gorgeous and has a very tentative grasp on English, but trademarked deer-in-headlights looks. I love that straight women can't tell he's gay…like he's cast some magical spell that blinds them. The same spell, incidentally, that Rock Hudson and even Liberace cast in the past.
Anne Hathaway comes off so classy and charming in interviews. She's a lovely young lady. And then moments later that Jennifer Lawrence takes the microphone and says, "Yo, yo, yo, whaddup, yo!". And pretends to be a street person from a ghetto". I'm sure she's a nice girl too…but, really? No one has taught her how to behave like a lady in public. One day, years from now, she'll cringe at how stupid she made herself look.
The feed we're watching is the "Backstage Pass Red Carpet" thing. There's some young girl and a gay guy talking. Which is kind of the only people who care about this show.
I have to say something…and I almost can't believe it because I think he's such a jerk in real life…but Ben Affleck is looking hot these days. I love him in the beard, and the wig he's been wearing the last year looks great on him. You can't even tell it's fake hair. I just wish the guy would stick to being an entertainer and would keep his political views to himself.
708pm CST — Another gay man who women think is straight…Hugh Jackman. He has both a wife and a longtime boyfriend in Australia.
Honestly, I think I am going to note every single one of these guys in this transcript as they pop up on the screen tonight. See how many you can spot yourself.
The reason I think it matters is because these guys get involved in political activism…and they have agendas that they don't reveal to their fans. I think anyone involved in politics needs to be upfront with people, and to acknowledge all of their allegiances. Guys who are closeted in Hollywood need to toe certain lines and do things that the Gaystapo Dons force them to do. And when election season rolls around these guys head out as foot soldiers for the Left's messaging department…which makes me believe that they need to be open about who they really are and where their loyalties rest.
Guys like Aaron Shock and Lindsay Graham and Dan Rutherford also need to come out of the closet too, because they're actually elected officials…but actors who moonlight in the political sphere have the same responsibility to be out and open. And I don't think we should keep their secrets.
713pm CST — It's kind of fun to be watching this and not giving a damn who wins anything. I have no emotional vested interest in any of this.
I must note that I really like Seth MacFarlane. He's the kind of straight guy that I have always thought was cool. He's juvenile and crass sometimes, but he's just so cute it's endearing…and I love how well he enunciates and how he delivers lines. He's a great impressionist and voice talent…and it's amazing what he created in terms of a tee-vee and animation empire using his imagination.
If you don't know this already, MacFarlane also almost died on 9/11. He was scheduled to fly from Boston to LA on one of the hijacked flights…but something his assistant did kept him from making the plane. And the guy really seems to always make the most of life after that near-miss.
What a nasty, rude, and snobbish woman Halle Berry appears to be. She just totally snubbed the people who wanted to interview her on the red carpet. Anne Hathaway and others were very nice, but not her.
In case you've never been there, the theater they host the Oscars in is right at Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood. It's a really great complex that was built on a corner…and it's just ingeniously designed. There's a mall in there and a big open courtyard and it's really stunning. The rest of the area around Hollywood is pure trash…but that Hollywood and Highland development is great.
720pm CST — they aren't switching over to the show feed, it's still the red carpet stuff even though everyone is inside. I'm starting to get scared they aren't really going to show the awards, but will just keep showing people standing there outside…which is kind of funny.
It's amazing how big Twitter has become, and I still don't really understand it. They have this whole metrics thing happening where people are predicting the winners based on Twitter feed activity. I should really take that as the final nudge that makes me take time to really figure out how to use that and appreciate it.
It seems to be a great resource for polling and market research.
Apparently, while the show is on they're going to have random people talking…and I think they will show the people right after they win but not the show itself.
So I might have to take back that thing I said about ABC and Disney being smart about streaming this show…since they might actually still be stuck in the past after all.
That obnoxious Sherri Shepherd from The View is going to be on. She's the one who said once that she doesn't know if she really believes the Earth is round because she's never seen it from space with her own eyes.
725pm CST — Okay, on Oscar.Go.Com camera they actually let you play director and you can choose the veiws from different cameras….which is interesting. They just showed Reese Witherspoon rubbing her shoulder and complaining about her dress itching, but she didn't know she was on camera. I kind of love when that happens.
They're also trying to get some of these fools to use the "Thank You Cam" feature…so that they can leave the stage and then go backstage and thank all the people they want to read off a list, starting at childhood and then working their way through everyone who works at the talent agency that represents them. This is another thing that's supposed to get these people to stop using their time on the stage to read off boring lists of names.
Honestly, if you have one chance to stand up before a billion people and say something…talk from your heart and say something about love and life and being a positive person and working hard at things that mean something to you. Don't read a list of names. Be original and memorable, even it's the first and last time in your life.
731pm CST — this is so surreal and random. This Backstage Pass Award Show thing is ABSURD…it's totally not allowing us to see the actual show, but instead we get to see Sherri Shepherd and some guy talk about what they are seeing on the show. It reminds me of being in a foreign country and someone is telling you what's being said on tee-vee there, because the people on the screen are talking in gibberish. And then I tell you what I'm hearing these people say. This is either the dumbest thing ever or it's super-fun. I can't decide yet.
That Sherri Shepherd has a big bop of hair on the top of her head…can't decide if it looks like a tumor or some kind of pastry she keeps up there. They're showing the audience reacting to Seth's monologue. You can almost hear Seth talking, but he's drowned out by Sherri. "Seth's telling a joke. They're laughing. Nicole Kidman looks kind of amused but doesn't get the humor. She's Australian". It reminds me a little of being in a movie theater in Florida where someone is saying 'What are they talking about?' and another older person shouts back "SHE SAID…blah blah blah".
Sherri: "They are listening intently. They are concentrating".
The other man is unknown to me, so I'm just going to call him something. His name is Larry now, since he's sitting there with Sherri.
I just realize how much Sherri looks like Star Jones before she went on that crash diet.
Sherri: The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!
I have no idea what she's talking about. She just said someone won "The Bathroom Award" for something. What???
739pm CST — they are talking about Best Supporting Actor.
Something that's always bothered me about Hollywood is that they pick certain people and then fawn over them forever. Like Tom Hanks or Robert DeNiro. Sherri and Larry are fawning over DeNiro now. That means they will save fawning over Tom Hanks for later.
The thing with "movie stars" is that they really just play the same part over and over again…and usually they are just playing a version of themselves.
People are loving Seth MacFarlane as host according to Sherri and Larry. I have no idea if he's really funny, because ABC is not streaming that. They keep saying on this Backstage Pass Show that "If you have access to a tee-vee you would know…" and the like. I think it's kind of hilarious that in 2013 I don't have a tee-vee and that 80% of my friends don't either.
They now have Jess Kagle from EW.com on…who I think invented those exercises for ladies. I think almost every man who works for EW.com is complete garbage but the women who write over there are pretty funny. The guys are just tools, though, especially the gay ones.
745pm CST — Okay, this is really funny. Whenever the telecast goes to commercial, they turn out the lights in the auditorium. Then people race from their seats and go running to the bathroom. You can see all this on the "Audience Cam" on this Backstage Pass Show. When someone gets up and runs, a "seat filler" comes and takes that person's place so there's no bald spot in the audience.
It's really enjoyable to watch these weirdo feeds like this. Much better than the actual show.
They are pushing some kind of Oscar APP that has all sorts of things on it…Oscars.com and download something on backstage pass. I don't know how to do any of this stuff because Justin's in charge of all this tech.
So they are showing a little of Seth's opening number. He's so cute. He reminds me of Justin, actually. Justin can sing and dance and has a beautiful voice…he'd be great on the radio, too, but he has stage fright.
749pm CST — Okay, I kind of like Sherri a little more now. She just told a story about how nobody can tell Octavia Spencer and her apart, and that in Hollywood she gets mistaken for her all the time. She said that last year a very big star came up to her and said "You are going to take this Oscar home tonight" and Sherri hugged her and was crying and saying "And when I do I am going to hold it in the air and you will know it will all be because of you". I kind of love that. I love messing with stupid people like that.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR = Christophe Waltz for that Django movie.
I'm never going to see that thing. Too violent. It's like that Inglorious Bastards movie. I just don't want to watch blood and hear swearing and deal with any of that. If I want to experience it, I can ride the Red Line train here in Chicago.
The audience is clapping and I guess that Christophe is giving his speech. Sherri just called Samuel L. Jackson an "Uncle Tom", but I think it's in relation to his role in the movie and not her personal feelings of him.
That Christophe Waltz guy is talking and he stutters and stammers in real life. Not sure if he's nervous or if he just does that. He seems so weird.
754pm CST — so, they are in a commercial break again and everyone's sitting in the dark.
They're showing the backstage areas that people walk through after they win…and it looks like just another hotel ballroom area/conference setup. Sometimes I don't know how I feel about everything really being not all that special behind the scenes…because really all of this celebrity stuff is fake and everything ends up being no different than a setup at a local hotel near you. Politics is like that too. All of these elected officials are really just people, and ultimately their offices are no different from the office you work in. The same personalities exist and the dynamics are the same.
757pm CST — they are showing Helena Bonham Carter, who just dresses like a slob all the time. She's the new Cybil Shepherd. That classless Jennifer Lawrence was just talking and laughing loudly while someone was talking on the stage. Apparently she was raised by wolves or something.
They are talking about Seth MacFarlane's movie Ted…which is really funny. It's course and vulgar and I never thought I'd like it…but I watched it when I was sick and it was so funny it made me feel better. And, during one part of the movie, they showed local newscasts from around the country in the 80s and they had one broadcast set in Cleveland…with a period-perfect 80s background of the skyline, which I thought was a fun shoutout.
800pm – that Christophe Waltz guy speaks little English…he's German…and he's being interviewed by that Jess Kagle from EW….who looks just like Christophe. So Jess made a joke about them being "bookends" and Christophe had a very harsh, Teutonic response of "Vee are not ends. I must read book to now first how am end". Totally lost in translation.
I've never much liked foreign people. I find them grating. The media LOVES them because the media likes to indulge them like small children…but I don't like all the fumbling and the accents and the nervous laughter because they don't understand. It's such a time waste. Learn English, and then let's talk.
803pm CST — some cartoon people were talking about the cartoon that won, but they're not telling me what the cartoon was. Was it Wreck it Ralph? I like that movie. Justin loved it because it was about video games.
They have George Clooney on now and he brought a flask and is drinking from it. He's such trash. What's hilarious to me is the guy is wearing a full gray beard tonight…and he brought another beard in as his date.
Hilarious…but Octavia Spencer actually dressed like Sherri Shepherd and vice versa tonight. They really do look like twins.
808pm CST — I actually really like watching the show via this "Backstage Pass" thing on ABC. It makes me feel like I'm in the control room working the event. I've never felt comfortable being in an audience…I prefer being backstage at an event, working it. So this is kind of the experience I am used to with stuff. Sitting in a seat and just watching is weird for me. It's so much more fun to be on staff at something and to be part of putting on the event…not just being a guest sitting there.
Watching it this way also minimizes all the things that are grating about the show when you watch the actual broadcast. You're seeing all the backstage stuff but none of the actual show.
Paul Rudd is there now…looking super hot. He's such a nice guy.
That Melissa McCarthy is horrible though. She's the female Chris Farley. I just can't stand her. All she does is make gross-out jokes and use her weight as a humor crutch. Apparently, years ago she played a sweet classy character on Gilmore Girls…but now she's reduced herself to just being the loud, pig in movies for comic relief. Like the parts that Chris Farley would be playing if he was still alive and had a sex change.
Like the Pie has won a few awards now…which was apparently about a bakery somewhere.
815pm CST — that Larry guy who is there with Sherri is annoying. He's one of those typical "California guys" who are entertainment reporters. Such a tool.
Sherri and Larry are plugging the Samsung Galaxy tablet products now. Justin and I have a Kindle Fire that his mom gave us after she got her new one…and it is nice to read books on it. I never thought I'd like that, but it's really fun. And when I was on bed rest I played the Angry Birds Star Wars and the Plants vs. Zombies games and enjoyed those. It's such baby steps withe me and technology though. It's just hard for my brain to get into this new stuff.
That Larry guy is so dumb…he just said the Oscar statues are solid gold. Dummy, they are plated. A solid gold statue that size would be a million dollars in gold.
Apparently Larry's real name is "Cameron", which is so fitting. But I'm going to keep calling him "Larry".
821pm CST — they have a video playing of some guy who does the abridgement of books. John Carr, best animated short, was his name. It was so random.
They're playing the JAWS theme to get people off the stage when they are rambling.
Nicole Kidman looks HORRIBLE. People, don't ever get plastic surgery. You never look right afterwards.
She's not as bad as Melanie Griffith or Meg Ryan these days, but she's getting scary.
823pm CST — now they are doing a "Bond retrospective".
I actually miss the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies. Those were silly and fun. I don't like the Daniel Craig ones. They are too bleak and dull to me. It's just like the new Batman movies that Chris Nolan made. I like the Tim Burton cartoony movies…but not too cartoony like the Joel Schumacher ones.
Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy are up on stage with the people who won for Brave…so I guess that Brave won the animated movie award. I don't think I will ever watch that. Cartoons are so hard for me to sit through. The only reason we saw Wreck it Ralph was because Justin loves video games….and I remembered games from NES and the arcades when I was a little kid. The Brave animator wore a kilt and Sherri keeps asking what's under his kilt. Honey, if you need to ask then you won't know what to do with it.
The Avengers guys are going to come out. Chris Evans is a total babe. He has a gay brother too, who is even more handsome than him.
Man this show is funny. Sherri and Larry have no idea what's going on and they have no real idea who is winning either. I love it.
I think someone is singing on the stage now.
"Do something crazy!'…the photographers are shouting at the people who have the statues after they win. The photographers always want people to make weird faces or kiss the awards, etc.
There's an announcement, and then the people come out so the photographers can be prepared.
Sherri is talking about how she wants to have relations with Channing Tatum, but that Robert Downey JR. is sexier because he went to prison and prison is sexy to her. We're learning a lot about this Octavia Spencer lookalike tonight.
Larry says he needs ice water so they have to have a break now.
830pm CST — Samuel L. Jackson wore a red velvet jacket…..and the guy who won the visual effects award is with him. That guy has freakishly long white hair like a monster. One Avenger is missing, Chris Hemsworth. Sam Jackson looks like a pimp according to Sherri.
Man, can Chris Evans wear a suit. Robert Downey Jr. is the luckiest man alive. He has had so many second chances. He's like Hollywood's patron saint of do-overs.
What's really funny is that Sherri and Larry don't have a tee-vee either…so they have no idea what's happening in the auditorium.
They are finding out what's happening based on Twitter. Twitter really is like the big thing now apparently.
When I say that, it sounds like I'm talking about moving pictures or areoplanes.
Samsung sponsors this live feed so every 30 minutes either Sherri or Larry says something like, "I just can't believe how great this Samsung Galaxy is" etc.
Yawn, that Anna Karenena won the best costumes…but you just know that whatever movie has the flounciest period dresses is going to win the costume design award. I just envy people who know how to sew and make things like that. A friend of mine in LA, Leah, met me for lunch once and she stepped out in this gorgeous 1950s coat that was stunning…and she made it. It was so pretty that if you'd have wanted to buy something like this it would be $2,500 easily. But she made it. I wish I could do things like that. But, they don't teach boys to sew in school and I never thought to learn on my own.
841pm CST — Les Miz won best makeup. That's a movie I will never see. Too depressing. When I was in high school, Les Miz came through Cleveland and I ended up seeing it four times because different groups I was in all got tickets and I had to go. That was too many times to see that show in a week. I've had my fill for good on that one.
Sherri said that Jennifer Anniston is wearing a prom dress. I just keep thinking, 'Why is Jennifer Anniston even there?'. She would make more sense being at a prom.
I'm kind of at the point with this where I just want it to be over.
Can I make it through to the Best Supporting Actress award?
Do I even care?
Honestly, I don't. I kind of want to switch this off and put "House of Cards" on Netflix.
848pm CST — they showed this really cute featurette of the "Mominees"…the mothers of different nominees. I really love seeing the moms of these different people, and how they are so proud of the kids. So great.
Sherri was making fun of the little girl's name from "Beasts of the Southern Wild"…Quackzhenloreece Wallis or whatever the heck that is. The girl's mother's name is Qualyindria. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The book Freakonomics has a whole chapter on this, and what names like this do to children…or how the names are the manifestation of the upbringing. Giving a child a name that's hard to pronounce is just stupid…because the kid will have to forever correct people. Why do that to the kid? I've seen a lot of people calling the little girl "Alphabet Soup Wallis"…and who needs that?
Will Smith is actually going to put her in an all-black remake of Annie, which is a shame because there should be new things written with good black characters…not just taking an older story and making "the black version of it". This is more of Hollywood being racist, because they don't see black people as worthy of having their own original characters. Instead, they make "black Wizard of Oz", "black Honeymooners", "black Steel Magnolias".
It's like constantly throwing black people scraps…and the Left just loves it, thinking "that's good enough".
Sad, sad, sad.
900pm CST — You know, I've lived in Chicago for 8 years now…but I still think of time in EST and I have to remind myself that I'm "an hour behind". This is especially funny when watching something broadcasting from LA, because they are two hours behind me and three hours behind Cleveland. I just keep trying to remember how much longer the show will go on…and I think it's over around 11pm EST, which would be 10pm CST….so an hour left of this.
Twitter is apparently loving Seth MacFarlane…and they are happy that "Like the Pie" won awards.
I can just barely hear Jennifer Hudson singing from Dreamgirls. I actually really like her and a friend of mine here in Chicago knew here when she was growing up. There's a truly awful show called Smash on NBC that's a train wreck, but they brought Jennifer on this season and she's so good. She's good in everything she does and appears to remain a nice person. So, I love when she gets kudos. It makes me sad that Whitney Houston never had a big movie career and an Oscar and all that. Whitney's voice was better than Hudson's…and I think Whitney was a better actress…but Whitney had her demons and was brought low. So tragic. Someone is going to get an Oscar for playing her in the next few years too. Just watch.
904pm CST — they are talking about that depressing French movie Amour winning best foreign film. That's another one I'll never see. It's about dying and someone wearing diapers. If ever there's a day when I am feeling too happy and need to be depressed I'll just drive around the southside of Chicago awhile and look at all the neglect and ruin. I just don't like to watch depressing movies.
People are upset that they're playing the JAWS music to shut people up who ramble in their speeches. I remember years ago they actually tried to bribe people with plasma TVs when those first came out. If you went out there and you spoke for under 30 seconds or whatever you got a plasma TV, but if you went 31 seconds or more you forfeited the TV. It didn't work and they never tried that again. People just wanted to read those lists of names.
Personally, I think the second they name more than two names in a row they should turn off the microphone and maybe even open a trap door.
They are talking about that Silver Linings Playbook….which is one I will probably rent for like $2 on Amazon Instant.
I really, really love that streaming video. Instead of going to the movies and dropping like $25 or $30 between Justin and myself, I can watch something for $2 or $3 and can even pause and rewind when Justin talks through parts.
Mark Wahlburg and Ted the Bear are in a little clip. Ted really was funny. Shockingly vulgar, but funny.
There's apparently all kinds of things happening on stage that Sherri and Larry know nothing about…..so it's like watching an alternate universe broadcast of this show.
917pm CST — That Larry is so stupid. He doesn't know the difference between sound mixing and sound editing. Mixing happens on set…but editing is done in post-production.
Halle Berry wore her spacesuit to the Oscars. She looks ridiculous.
It is really funny to hear Sherri talk about Octavia Spencer. They keep showing Octavia in the audience and Sherri narrates like she's having an out of body experience. I love it.
There's apparently a tie for the next Oscar. I think it's Best Supporting Actress? Maybe?
It's a cool story that Anne Hathaway's mother played the role of Fantine in the first touring company of Les Miz.
Anne just won the Oscar…and it was not a tie….so I don't know what Sherri and Larry were talking about with a tie.
I just adore her. I really do. She is a classy, sweet, young lady. And she knows how lucky she is and how charmed a life she's leading. She is so humble and sweet.
You know what's interesting is that many years ago when I worked at a hotel in Cleveland we'd have all sorts of celebrities come through. The ones who ALWAYS were the nicest were the ones who were either old stars who'd had long careers or people who ended up having long careers. All the ones who were snobby and demanding and nasty are nobodies right now. So, when I see Anne Hathaway I see someone who is going to have a very long career and do a lot of interesting things…and I bet she never, ever loses the sweetness.
931pm CST — They're showing Hugh Jackson eating popcorn. It's funny, the show is so long they have to eat in the commercial breaks to keep blood sugar up.
Sherri has succeeded in winning me over. As they were eating the popcorn, she was making munching sounds and saying "Oooh, this is some good popcorn. I gotta eat it all up! It's so good!". It was hilarious.
Argo won for film editing. I actually liked the movie, and not just because Affleck looked sexy all up in that. I got to meet the Empress of Iran once when she was in Chicago years ago and years before that I met an Iranian author who wrote the book Daughter of Persia. I know Argo is mostly fiction, but it was a great and fun story. It's the kind of movie I can watch again and again.
I saw Zero Dark Thirty and thought it was nothing special. I was mainly just shocked it ended up not being an Obama propaganda film. I really thought it would be. And I didn't like that the Jessica Chastain character was made to be like this Buffy the Vampire Slayer figure…and NOBODY wanted to catch bin Laden but her, and everyone was all "Alright, we'll get him…but just shutup about it!". Ridiculous. I saw the movie with a good friend in a GIANT theater though and so it was a fun and memorable movie experience…but I don't think it's worthy of any awards and I won't be watching it ever again.
That Skyfall movie was forgettable too. Justin liked it. We saw that one in theaters too. He plays that Adele song over and over again. I still keep thinking Skyfall is about a satellite, but that was Die Another Day.
938pm CST — Anne Hathaway is very Audrey Hepburn tonight. But with a little more spunk.
One thing I never get is Adele. I have nothing against her, but they keep saying "Adele is amazing!". I think she's okay. I wonder if a lot of the media praise is because Adele is heavy-set. And so they feel a need to praise her. This is like how the media feels a need to overly praise anything a black person does…which has the net effect of really lowering the bar and cheapening the really great achievements of talented black people. Don't call Adele amazing unless she really is…and I've just heard better than Adele.
Anne is having her pictures taken…and as she's standing there she's about to tear up…she's so touched. It's very sweet. Sherri is shouting at her, 'Show us your booty girl!'. "That's yours momma". "Lookit your diamond bracelet you are a walk-in mansion".
Oh, Sherri. You are too much. But not in a bad way.
945pm CST — So Larry just did another plug for Samsung and he said something like, "Look at all this great technology that Samsung has provided". Sherri wasn't feeling it but was contractually obligated to say something nice about Samsung so she was mumbling that, "Yah, they hooked us up, all up in here. They sure did. All technological and everything".
So, they just showed Halle Berry chomping on popcorn like a goat.
And then Sherri spotted Bradly Cooper and was talking about "Do you think he is back with Zoe Zaldana"….Sherri, honey, Bradley's gay. Another one that straight women can't seem to spot. Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Zac Efron, John Travolta, Tom Cruise….it's not that hard to spot.
1000pm CST — someone just suggested I checkout Nikki Finke's coverage of the event because she has a tee-vee and can see what's happening (unlike me)…and I just love Nikki Finke. Her site is Deadline.com.
If you don't know her, she's hilarious…and Hollywood hates her, because she calls people out on being stupid all the time. She's really careful in what she chooses to do…but when she goes after something, she can just destroy someone or something. She is a force. And I get almost all my entertainment news from her and her team. LOVE them.
I think I read on Deadline about what a nasty pig Tommy Lee Jones is. Apparently, he's hated in Hollywood…because he is so nasty. He was Al Gore's roommate at Harvard.
Salma Hayek is such a moron. She's wearing a Halloween costume again. One of my favorite things that they ever did as an in-joke at the Oscars was once many years ago when they had Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz present an award together. I think it was for something with sound. Neither of them speak English, despite both living here for many, many years. Salma and Penelope had to read off cards, and I think the cards were written in Spanish…and they had to translate in their heads. Both of them struggled with the segment, and parts of it ended up like "Me think this am good". They sounded like cave people, and they just stared blankly ahead like morons. It was unintentionally hilarious. So much so that it just had to have been done on purpose.
10005pm CST — they're doing the In Memorium part. Back in the 80s and 90s Sigourney Weaver used to host this part a lot. Then for a while they'd play Donna Summer's "Con Te Partiro", but they'd have Andrea Boccelli sing it with Charlotte Church. Andrea Boccelli's gay too, by the way.
Sherri's saying that after Norah Ephron died she sent her a recipe. That's kind of creepy. I hope she meant that she left it to her in a will, not like a ghost sent it. Because would you really want to make something the ghosts told you to make? Maybe it's poisoned because they are lonely and want you to join them.
Sherri said: Oh, that Ray Bradburry. He made some of those science fiction works.
Oh, Sherri.
I just checked Nikki Finke's transcript and she says that MacFarlane is making jokes about Christians. Not cool. And I appreciate not having to listen to that.
1006pm CST — Daniel Radcliffe is on with Kristen Stewart. He's adorable, and I think he is straight but because he is so little that's why he's not an aggressive guy. Plus he's British. I saw him in Equus on Broadway and it was worth every cent. That Kristen Stewart is dreadful. She always looks like she's in such a bad mood. She never smiles and always has dirty hair. I just don't get her.
Apparently Barbara Streisand sang.
I never understood the appeal of that woman…but a friend told me there is some book about her early days that changed his opinion on her. I forget the name of the book, but want to read it.
I still laugh at the legal concept of "The Barbara Streisand Effect"…when Streisand tried to sue someone because she didn't like that he was photographing the California coast, which included her Malibu home. She sued to shut that project down, but only ended up giving the project way more exposure than it would have had if she hadn't sued to stop it. So, the moron ended up hurting herself by lashing out at the photographers. Idiot.
The funny thing is that very rich people or big companies make this same mistake all the time. They get to this place of arrogance where they think they have high paid lawyers and can do whatever they want…but they don't understand the PR nightmare they cause themselves.
I still don't know what "tie" they are talking about. What tie? They keep saying that someone tied for an award…but I don't know who.
1015pm CST — Adele won for Skyfall…and then backstage was talking about how she needed to go to the toilet. She has a surprisingly low-class accent, like a dockworker on the Thames. This is also the kind of thing that are media thinks is so much fun…but I just don't like listening to that, "Allo, Guvna, I fancy a trip to the loo" garbage. It's really great she's comfortable in her own skin and she doesn't feel the need to conform in terms of appearance, but can you not talk about having to use the bathroom in front of a global audience? Do we really need to share all this?
1026pm CST — that means it's 1126 in Cleveland. I remember as a kid when the Oscars would be on I'd be long in bed already, but in high school I'd stay up until 1130…and I'd always be asleep before Best Actor and Actress and Picture happened.
Some weird little guy won something, I think Argo…and he was SO STRANGE….they had him in the backstage Thank You Cam area and he reminded me of a serial killer.
Sherri just made a comment about "Clooney feeling his beard" right at the moment that he put his hand on his date's leg. SO FUNNY.
Tommy Lee Jones is eating candy.
I've been wondering why that Kerri Washington from Scandal is there, but she was in that Django movie. I love the show Scandal, by the way. Forget the weird political stuff that Washington says whenever she can…the show is great.
Tarantino is all disheveled and looks like he's been drinking.
I like Pulp Fiction, but I never liked anything else from him.
Sherri's saying on Twitter that everyone loves that Tarantino was drunk. I can't stand drunk people. They're just exhausting and boring to me. And the worst part is that the next day they refuse to admit how bad they were the night before. I don't believe they don't remember their bad behavior.
Supposedly there is just 36 minutes left in the show.
Richard Gere is getting his picture taken with Adele. It's so weird to see him looking like he's 80 with shock white hair. Remember when he was married to Cindy Crawford? So funny. Straight women believed that one too!
Here's something I didn't know: the Oscars are engraved at the Governor's Ball party after the show. The statues are blank when they are given out…and at the party the people go to an engraver's station and get it engraved, so they don't have to wait to take the statues home. That's interesting.
Ange Lee won for Best Director. He should have won for Brokeback Mountain.
I never saw Like the Pie. There are a bunch of animals in it like Jungle Book. I like animals and everything but I don't want to watch a whole movie about them. Going to the zoo once in a while is enough.
Sherri's reading off Twitter reactions again. Do you know what historiography is? It's the study of how history is recorded and presented…and it's fascinating to me thinking about how Twitter and Facebook are going to affect historians in the future…because more is being documented than ever before.
Adele was holding the Oscar in front of her face and Sherri yelled at her to move it. What's so fascinating is that Sherri and the other media people go out of their way to say how beautiful Adele looks…but it's that thing they do where they really think she's fat but they know they can't say that, so they shift heavily to the other side and compliment her. They did this same thing with that Gabby Siboudebe from Precious two years ago as well. "She's so beautiful! We love her!"…but the tone in their voices give them away.
1042pm CST — Best Actress. They're making fun of Quacktoeticktockshone Wallis' name again. Her, the French old lady, Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts, and Jennifer Lawrence are up for this.
Jennifer Lawrence won. She fell onto the ground. Not on purpose. That must be embarrassing.
Nikki Finke at Deadline is saying that Stephen Spielberg is hated in Hollywood. I've heard that over the years too…that he's just an ass to deal with. He should really have like 8 Oscars by now….but people just don't like him. The Oscars are really a popularity contest and the people who vote hold all kinds of grudges.
BEST ACTOR — Daniel Day Lewis. First Oscar win for an actor in a Speilberg movie. I never liked Daniel Day Lewis. I don't know why, I just don't like him. I have not seen Lincoln all the way through and doubt I ever will. I got like 20 minutes into it and didn't like the special effects and all that vampire stuff.
Plus, Sally Field is still Nora Walker to me and her as Mary Todd is just Nora in a Halloween costume.
I really wish I remember who said they were going to do this, but years ago there was someone who said she was going to wear vampire fangs…and when she lost the award she was going to snarl at the camera…because they make the losers sit there and be polite and clap for the winners. That would have been funny.
Sherri is talking about some move called "Who's Your Cabbie" that she made and all of three people saw.
1053pm CST — Michelle Obama is there….why?
Just think of the taxpayer money that was sunk into this appearance. Inappropriate.
And I think it's hilarious that a lot of straight people can't tell she's wearing a new wig. She's always worn a wig, but the "bangs wig" is the newest one. I actually like it on her, to be honest. She still wears the ugliest clothes I've ever seen…but this wig is nice on her.
Wow, Ben Affleck is hot. And that is an awesome wig on him, better than Michelle's.
Turns out Michelle was not there…just on tape. Sherri and Larry were confused.
BEST PICTURE is coming…
I don't remember George Clooney being in Argo. If you haven't seen the movie, you should watch it…and let me know if you see George Clooney in it. I swear I don't remember him in there, but I watched that when I was sick and so maybe I just wasn't paying attention or was on too many pain meds that day.
I think it's hilarious that everyone hates Spielberg. Apparently, they really like Affleck though…and him not getting a Director nomination was a big oversight because people thought he was a shoo-in, and so they didn't vote for him.
That's it for the show.
I have no idea what the real telecast was like, but the Backstage Pass Award Show was wonderful. It was a lot of fun to watch this like I was in the production booth. Such a neat experience…and in the future I really recommend you try it too. Sherri and Larry were funny…sometimes unintentionally. The last thing I heard her say before I closed the feed was that she always thought that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were brothers, for real brothers. This woman is hilarious.
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Madagascar's protracted political crisis appeared to draw closer to a resolution in September 2011, when all but one of the main political stakeholders signed an amended "road map" to elections within one year. The agreement called for de facto president Andry Rajoelina—who had taken power after a 2009 military coup—to lead a transitional government until the elections. It also stipulated that former president Marc Ravalomanana, who had been living in exile under threat of arrest, be permitted to return to Madagascar "unconditionally," though he had yet to return to the country at year's end.
After 70 years of French colonial rule and episodes of severe repression, Madagascar gained independence in 1960. A member of the leftist military junta that seized power in 1972, Admiral Didier Ratsiraka, emerged as leader in 1975 and retained power until his increasingly authoritarian regime bowed to social unrest and nonviolent mass demonstrations in 1991.
Under a new constitution, opposition leader Albert Zafy won the 1992 presidential election. Following Zafy's impeachment by the National Assembly in 1996, Ratsiraka won that year's presidential runoff election, which was deemed generally legitimate by international and domestic observers.
A decentralization plan was narrowly approved in a 1998 referendum amid a boycott by the country's increasingly fractious opposition. In the 2001 presidential election, opposition candidate and Antananarivo mayor Marc Ravalomanana claimed that he had been denied an outright victory in the first round due to polling irregularities. He declared himself president in February 2002, having refused to take part in a postponed runoff against Ratsiraka. After considerable violence between supporters of the two candidates, the High Constitutional Court announced that Ravalomanana had indeed won in the first round, but Ratsiraka refused to acknowledge the result. Sporadic clashes continued until July 2002, when Ratsiraka left the country. The crisis seriously damaged the Malagasy economy.
Ravalomanana's party, I Love Madagascar (TIM), won a large majority in the 2002 parliamentary elections. Observers from the European Union (EU) said the conduct of the polls was generally positive. Political tensions increased in the run-up to the 2006 presidential election, in which Ravalomanana secured a second term. While most observers agreed that the vote reflected the will of the people, the campaign was marred by opposition claims of a biased administration and electoral irregularities.
A constitutional referendum in April 2007 increased presidential powers, and Ravalomanana's authority was bolstered again in the September parliamentary elections, in which TIM won 106 of the 127 seats. Andry Rajoelina, a young and charismatic opposition candidate, won the mayoral race in the capital, Antananarivo, in December.
In December 2008, the government closed a television station run by Rajoelina, triggering months of violent protests in Antananarivo. Well over 100 people were killed as protesters destroyed property and marched on government sites, and police responded with gunfire. Rajoelina called on Ravalomanana to resign and declared himself president. The political crisis deepened in early 2009, with some army officers announcing their support for the opposition. In March, Ravalomanana handed power to the military, which quickly transferred it to Rajoelina.
Rajoelina proceeded to suspend the parliament, suppress opposition protests, and limit press freedom. These actions, combined with his unconstitutional accession to power and erratic leadership, resulted in prolonged political uncertainty. In August 2009, the various political factions backing Rajoelina reached a tentative power-sharing deal—brokered by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and known as the Maputo Declaration—with former presidents Ravalomanana, Zafy, and Ratsiraka. However, Rajoelina later refused to agree to the formation of a transitional coalition government of national unity, as called for in the pact. Subsequent internationally mediated deals were reached but also collapsed.
In August 2010, Rajoelina announced that he was abandoning the power-sharing agreement. He instead concluded an accord with 99 minor parties and set the presidential poll for May 2011. While Rajoelina stated that he would not stand for the presidency, the main opposition parties and SADC refused to endorse his plan, citing the Maputo Declaration's call for a coalition government to oversee the electoral process. The political climate became further polarized after Ravalomanana, who was living in exile in South Africa, was sentenced in absentia in August to life with hard labor for ordering the killing of at least 30 opposition protesters in February 2009. A national conference sponsored by Rajoelina that was designed to provide an internal solution to the crisis took place in September 2010. It was boycotted by the major opposition parties and did not have the support of the international community. Rajoelina appointed a transitional parliament in October, with some members of the opposition included. In a November referendum boycotted by the opposition, voters approved constitutional changes sought by Rajoelina, including a lowering of the minimum age for the president from 40 to 35. (Rajoelina turned 37 in May 2011.) Continuing unrest within the military led to an unsuccessful coup attempt in November, triggered by the constitutional referendum.
Nevertheless, internationally mediated talks continued, and by March 2011, SADC had shifted its stance, backing a plan that allowed Rajoelina to be recognized as Madagascar's interim president until elections, as long as the opposition was fairly represented in the transitional administration. However, the main opposition parties rejected the plan when Rajoelina reappointed his ally, General Camille Vital, as prime minster, and continued to prevent Ravalomanana from returning from exile. After sustained pressure by SADC and the EU, an amended road map was initialed in September by all the main parties except Ratsiraka. The deal legitimized Rajoelina as Madagascar's interim president, provided for the unconditional return of Ravalomanana, called for elections to be held within one year and a transitional administration that included all parties to lead the country to the elections, and urged the passage of an amnesty law for those accused of political crimes. Rajoelina named Omer Beriziky consensus prime minister in late October, and supporters of Ravalomanana and Zafy in November agreed to join a 35-member unity cabinet. In December, Rajoelina appointed a transitional parliament that included supporters of all signatories of the road map. However, Ravalomanana had yet to return by the end of 2011; some Rajoelina supporters threatened to arrest him if he did, while others pledged to respect the road map.
The 2009 coup and ensuing political crisis seriously damaged Madagascar's economy. Following Rajoelina's takeover, the international community—including the EU and the African Union—levied severe sanctions on the country, but continued to provide humanitarian aid. The September 2011 agreement, if implemented in full, could allow for the lifting of sanctions and the renewal of EU aid.
Madagascar is not an electoral democracy. The undemocratic and unconstitutional manner in which Andry Rajoelina assumed the presidency in March 2009 demonstrated that the political culture has so far failed to incorporate a rules-based system and the practice of peaceful democratic succession. The 2007 constitutional referendum had continued a trend of steadily increasing presidential power. Among other provisions, it allowed the president to rule by decree during a state of emergency and abolished autonomous provinces. The elected bicameral parliament was suspended in March 2009. The transitional parliament appointed by Rajoelina in December 2011 was intended to remain in place until elections could be held.
Approximately 150 parties are registered, although only a few have a national presence. Parties tend to suffer from internal divisions, shifting alliances, and a lack of resources and clear ideology. Prior to the suspension of the parliament in 2009, ousted president Marc Ravalomanana's TIM party had an overwhelming majority in both houses. Since Rajoelina's accession to power, opposition political activity has been circumscribed through arbitrary and periodic bans on meetings and protests, killings of opposition supporters, and unsubstantiated government allegations of opposition party involvement in a series of explosions in Antananarivo in mid-2009. As part of the road map, members of the opposition participated in the transitional parliament. Prior to the September 2011 agreement, Rajoelina had consistently broken promises to include opposition members in the transitional cabinet.
Corruption remains a major concern in Madagascar. In spite of an April 2010 decree that prohibited the logging, transport, trading, and export of precious woods, the illegal trade continues. In May 2011, the Ministry of Environment announced that it had concluded a 30-day crackdown on illegal logging, seizing more than 1,000 rosewood logs and arresting seven members of a "logging mafia." The World Bank in June approved $52 million for conservation projects in Madagascar, although the funds would be channeled through independent organizations, rather than Rajoelina's government. Madagascar was ranked 100 out of 183 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
The constitution provides for freedom of the press. A 1990 law on press freedom was followed by the introduction of privately owned FM radio stations and more critical political reporting by the print media. However, Rajoelina's transitional government has largely ignored these protections. During the early 2009 unrest, media outlets associated with each side were raided by security forces or ransacked by armed civilians, and a Ravalomanana-owned radio station was shut down by the authorities in April. The independent outlets that have remained in operation are subject to censorship, harassment, and intimidation by Rajoelina's government and practice varying levels of self-censorship. Ten employees of the independent Radio Fahazavana were arrested in 2010 on charges of inciting revolt. They were released after four months in jail, but on the same day the authorities banned broadcasts by another independent radio station. There were no reports of journalists being attacked, arrested, or imprisoned in 2011.
The Malagasy people have traditionally enjoyed religious freedom though religious organizations are required to register with the Ministry of the Interior. There are no limitations on academic freedom.
Freedom of association is generally respected, and hundreds of nongovernmental organizations, including human rights groups, are active. Freedom of assembly was severely affected by the unrest in early 2009, as protests degenerated into riots and looting, and security forces opened fire on demonstrators. In March 2011, Ravalomanana accused Rajoelina's security forces of arbitrary arrests of his supporters, as well as torture and detention without trial.
Workers' rights to join unions and strike are largely respected. The Ravalomanana administration endured a series of demonstrations and work stoppages, mainly over the high rate of inflation. Strikes, often politically motivated, have continued under the Rajoelina regime. Some of the country's labor organizations are affiliated with political groups. More than 80 percent of workers are engaged in agriculture, fishing, and forestry at a subsistence level.
The judiciary remains susceptible to corruption and executive influence. Its acquiescence in the face of Rajoelina's unconstitutional rise to power highlighted its weakness as an institution, and subsequent judicial decisions were tainted by frequent intimidation. A lack of training, resources, and personnel hampers judicial effectiveness, and case backlogs are prodigious. More than half of the approximately 20,000 people held in the country's prisons are pretrial detainees and prisoners suffer from extremely harsh and sometimes life-threatening conditions. Customary-law courts in rural areas continue to lack due process guarantees and regularly issue summary and severe punishments. In the demonstrations and chaos surrounding the change in government in 2009, security forces often engaged in abusive behavior with impunity.
A political cleavage has traditionally existed between the coastal côtier and the highland Merina peoples, of continental African and Southeast Asian origins, respectively. Due to past military conquest and long-standing political dominance, the status of the Merina tends to be higher than that of the côtier. Ethnicity, caste, and regional solidarity are often factors that lead to discrimination.
Malagasy women hold significantly more government and managerial positions than women in many continental African countries. However, they still face societal discrimination and enjoy fewer opportunities than men for higher education and employment. Domestic violence remains common. The U.S. State Department's 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report alleged that weakened rule of law under Rajoelina's government has led to an increase in the number of Malagasy women and children trafficked to the Middle East for forced labor and sex work.

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Buttonwoods Fish & Chips is a popular destination for diners throughout the entire region. Here, you will find not only a long list of hot-off-the-grill items off the breakfast menu, but lunch is just as enticing. You can choose from a large selection of such classic favorites as juicy hamburgers and hotdogs, traditional hot and cold sandwiches like BLTs (stuffed with bacon, bacon, bacon) or turkey melts, or buttery, grilled cheese or any number of chicken, seafood, egg or tuna salad sandwiches. There are summery, crisp salads and mouth-watering sides such as onion rings and salty fries as well. Hungry yet?
On Friday evenings, enjoy a varied menu of hearty and ever-changing American and Italian-style dishes ~ homemade meatloaf, Shepherd's Pie, Stuffed Peppers, Fried Scallops, a tasty seafood platter and, of course, Buttonwood's famous Fish & Chips. Buttonwoods is BYOB, so don't forget to bring along your favorite bottle of wine to share!
Buttonwoods Fish & Chips is located in the Buttonwoods Terrace Plaza at 416 Buttonwoods Avenue. Open seven days a week, their hours are Tues-Thurs, 6:30am - 3:00 pm, Friday, 6:30 am - 8:00 pm, Sat., 6:30am - 3:00 pm, and Sunday from 6:30am -1:00 pm (breakfast only). Sorry, they are closed on Mondays. For more information, order, call 738-7571 or visit them at www.buttonwoodsfishandchips.com.


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Scriptwriting and the French New Wave
I've been re-reading Michel Marie's book, The French New Wave: An Artistic School (1997; translated by Richard Neupert). Marie is professor and department chair of film studies at the Sorbonne and, according to Dudley Andrew, a "legendary cinephile and scholar of French cinema."
Even though it's a slim 140-page text, this book is packed with "bloggable" ideas. Let me focus on one: the role that scriptwriting played in the aesthetic of the French New Wave. I'm often drawing from and paraphrasing Marie below.
In 1948, Alexandre Astruc, in the hugely important essay-manifesto, "The Birth of the Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo," declared that a prerequisite for auteur filmmaking was that "the scriptwriter directs his own scripts; or rather, that the scriptwriter ceases to exist, for in this kind of filmmaking the distinction between author and director loses all meaning." The influence of this essay on the future French New Wave is well known, but was this principle really borne out in practice? As it turns out: not quite.
Some facts. Chabrol's first film, the loosely autobiographical Le Beau Serge, was one of the few early New Wave films written solely by the director. Soon after, Chabrol began a long scriptwriting collaboration with Paul Gegauff. Truffaut's The 400 Blows is autobiographical as well but he hired a professional TV scriptwriter, Marcel Moussy, to collaborate with him. For the rest of his career, Truffaut worked steadily with a small core of scriptwriters. The first features by Rohmer (The Sign of Leo) and Rivette (Paris Belongs to Us) also had help from other writers, Paul Gegauff and Jean Gruault respectively. In fact, Gruault also collaborated with Godard (Les Carabiniers), Truffaut and Resnais (multiple films each).
Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy were exceptions; they wrote their early films alone. Godard used collaborators and pre-existing material that he adapted for his films, but in fact he's the one who took the idea of the director-as-scriptwriter furthest. The source material of his films is usually unrecognizably transformed, and even the classical notion of a script doesn't quite apply to his late 60s films.
Still, it's interesting to realize that the proportion of original scripts actually declined from 1956 to 1963—the period of ascendancy of the New Wave—while that of literary adaptations rose. Marie writes:
Directors, producers, and writers thus continued to adapt novels, but less and less were they the sort of novels by Emile Zola and Stendhal that had typified 1950s French production. By the early 1960s, those sorts of adaptations were gradually becoming the subject-matter for television projects. There was a shift from the dominant naturalist model offered by René Clement's Gervaise or Yves Allégret's movies toward a model more influenced by Balzac, though it was greatly transformed by Rivette, whose Out One, for instance, was inspired by Balzac's Story of 13 and La Belle Noiseuse by The Unknown Masterpiece. Truffaut and Chabrol also cite Balzac in The 400 Blows and Les Cousins. The naturalist model privileged costume dramas, social class conflicts, and a strong "typage" of characters, bordering on stereotyping. The Balzacian model dealt more with a critical description of contemporary society, underlining the contradictions that determined the conflicts that were as much psychological as social.
Francis Vanoye proposes two opposing conceptions of the script: the "program-script" that situates story events in a fixed structure, rendering the script ready for filming; and the "plan-of-action" script that is more open to uncertainties, chance and improvisation. The latter is strongly favored, at least in theory, by the New Wave. Here's Marie:
But, although the program-script dominates "classical" cinema, it is far from absent from some New Wave films, since it governs productions by Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, and Jacques Demy. The films of Truffaut and Chabrol oscillate from one pole to the other, although the program-script clearly dominates their output.
The plan-of-action script is an ideal that the New Wave often attempts to achieve, but it reigns supreme in the aesthetic approach of Jean Rouch and Jacques Rozier. Rouch's experiments, even those that seem less convincing in regards to their outcome, never cease to haunt the creative imagination of Godard, Rivette, and Rohmer. At the opening of The Human Pyramid, Rouch, seated in the grass, explains to the young students he had gathered together that they will write the "script" at the same time as he directs it. In Punishment, the director "unleashes" a young actress whom he asks to play the role of a high school girl who is shut out of school one morning by her teacher and now heads off to Luxembourg Gardens where she encounters three young men hanging out there. While Godard wrote the dialogue for his characters in All the Boys are Called Patrick in a very personal manner, Rouch, by contrast, let his actors improvise their lines completely.
Crucial to this discussion is Truffaut's landmark essay and infamous salvo, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (1954). In effect, Truffaut charged that "Tradition of Quality" filmmakers and scriptwriters didn't trust the original literary material enough. They found visual "equivalences" between the original material and the cinematic adaptation, thus either hiding or trying to 'improve upon' their literary sources for cinematic purposes. He derisively called their works "scenarists' films." A few excerpts from his essay:
In adaptation there exists filmable scenes and unfilmable scenes, and that instead of omitting the latter (as was done not long ago) it is necessary to invent equivalent scenes, that is to say, scenes as the novel's author would have written them for the cinema. […] What annoys me about this famous process of equivalence is that I'm not at all certain that a novel contains unfilmable scenes, and even less certain that these scenes, decreed unfilmable, would be so for everyone.
[…] I consider an adaptation of value only when written by a man of the cinema [sic]. Aurenche and Bost [the screenwriters who were a primary target of Truffaut's attack] are essentially literary men and I reproach them for being contemptuous of the cinema by underestimating it. They behave, vis-à-vis the scenario, as if they thought to reeducate a delinquent by finding him a job; they always believe they've done the maximum for it by embellishing it with subtleties […] When they hand in the scenario, the film is done; the metteur-en-scène, in their eyes, is the gentleman who adds the pictures…
According to Marie, two alternative film adaptations proved to be models for the New Wave: Melville's The Silence of the Sea (1949), and Astruc's The Crimson Curtain (1953). Both films remained faithful to the details of the original texts without attempting to supplant them with 'more cinematic' equivalents; the author of the latter text, by the way, is Barbey d'Aurevilly, who was adapted by Catherine Breillat for her latest film, The Last Mistress.
In addition to this faithfulness to the text, it was also common New Wave practice to draw generously from and pay homage to it in the film by reproducing the text as voice-over commentary, interior monologue, dialogue or intertitles (e.g. the way Jules and Jim alternates Georges Delerue's music with large sections of Michel Subor's voice-over). Marie writes:
The New Wave advanced the notion of a mise-en-scène of the voice. Three decades after the coming of sound, it allowed directors to exploit all the possibilities in the soundtrack, and especially speech. It offered a cinema that was not afraid to speak, helping dismiss the out-of-date myth, imposed by theorists in the 1920s, that located the primacy of the cinema in the image.
Let me conclude with a quick personal detour. The early French New Wave films were my first exposure to foreign (i.e. non-Indian) 'art cinema' and thus formative. I've seen many of them multiple times over the years. But reading the Marie book reminds me that there are a number of films of the era (not just New Wave but also preceding it and related to it) that I've hunted for years without success. That wish list includes: anything at all by Jacques Rozier, Alexandre Astruc, Roger Leenhardt, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast. And the one film from that period I most want to see is Jacques Rozier's Adieu Philippine (1963).
pic: A loose adaptation of a wall-hanging in Alain Robbe-Grillet's "L'Immortelle" (1963)


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November brings with it so much change: from turning back the clocks to turning up the thermostat, from carving turkey to carving out time with family, this time of year brings colder weather, holiday excitement and a connection with our distant relatives that is often lacking during the rest of the year.
And while November might also divide our focus between men with beards, motivated writers and football (you can't forget football!), this month, above all else, is a wonderful time for reflecting on a year that is almost complete. November gives us an opportunity to focus on all that for which we have to be grateful.
Here at eFamilyFun, we are grateful for so much, but mostly we are grateful for the customers and colleagues who have continued to support us year after year. It is incredibly humbling to stop and consider how each of our customers impacts our lives with their kind sentiments and loyalty. It makes coming to work each day something to which we look forward.
Whether you get up early to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade or split your time between browning the turkey and browsing circulars to decide where you'll be doing your Black Friday shopping, we hope you have a moment to reflect on what fills you with gratitude. You certainly give us a reason to be grateful.
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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"Eat your broccoli."
"Wear your gloves."
"Schema qualify your objects."
Your Mom wasn't kidding, and she always gave the best advice. We've already seen how it would have paid off for us to end all T-SQL statements with a semicolon, even though it's not currently required – after all, don't CTEs and MERGE statements have semicolon requirements? But it was always just easier not to bother with typing the schema with every object name. Easier, but not better.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online says:
"Inside a stored procedure, object names used with statements (for example, SELECT or INSERT) that are not schema-qualified default to the schema of the stored procedure."
Well, let's just test that, shall we? This script creates a schema, two tables (one with the new schema, one with the default schema), and a stored procedure. The SP selects data from a non-schema-qualified table.
USE mydb
CREATE SCHEMA JensTestSchema
CREATE TABLE JensTestSchema.Table1 (id TINYINT, say VARCHAR(100));
CREATE TABLE dbo.Table1 (id TINYINT, say VARCHAR(100));
INSERT INTO JensTestSchema.Table1 (id, say) VALUES (1, 'Selected from JensTestSchema.Table1′);
INSERT INTO dbo.Table1 (id, say) VALUES (1, 'Selected from dbo.Table1′);
CREATE PROCEDURE JensTestSchema.usp_test_schemas
SELECT id, say FROM Table1;
exec JensTestSchema.usp_test_schemas
What did we get? "1 Selected from JensTestSchema.Table1″, of course! We didn't specify a schema, so the SELECT pulled data from the object with the same schema as the stored procedure.
Now let's qualify that table object:
-- Now alter the SP so that the internally referenced table is schema qualified.
ALTER PROCEDURE JensTestSchema.usp_test_schemas
SELECT id, say FROM dbo.Table1;
exec JensTestSchema.usp_test_schemas
Aaaand we get "1 Selected from dbo.Table1″.
Point proven. Now maybe you'll listen to your mom, won't you?
One more excellent reason to follow good coding practices: BOL says something else about unspecified schemas in SPs:
…access to those tables through the stored procedure is restricted by default to the creator of the procedure.
There's nothing like a good, obscure permissions problem to really raise the blood pressure!
Happy days,
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Read through the recipe carefully before you start. Some recipes require seasoning or marinating the food in advance; other recipes suggest you brine the food or take them to room temperature before smoking.
Make sure the smoker parts are clean and dry before you start.
Sprinkle the amount and type of wood chip you have chosen over the center of the bottom of the smoker, covering an area roughly the size of your burner.
Put the drip pan in place. Always line the drip pan with a single layer of aluminum foil. This cuts cleanup time in half.
Arrange whatever item(s) you are smoking on the rack. Newer smoker models have nonstick racks; older racks should be sprayed with vegetable cooking spray to prevent sticking and make for easier clean up.
Be sure to leave space between items on the rack and between the food and the sides of the smoker.
Close the lid about two-thirds of the way and center the smoker over a burner. Turn the heat to medium.
When you see the first signs of smoking rising from under the drip pan, close the lid securely and start timing.
Check the food for doneness at the time suggested in the recipe. Wear oven mitts or protect your hands with sturdy pot holders, grasp the handles firmly with one hand and slide the lid off with the other. Test the food as quickly as possible (with an instant-read thermometer or other methods suggested in the recipe) and slide the lid closed quickly if it needs more cooking time.
When the food is ready, turn off the heat and remove the lid of the smoker, unless a recipe directs you to leave it on for a specified amount of time.
Recipe courtesy of Christopher Styler, Smokin', HarperCollins, 2004


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Featuring some of the best Mojitos north of Cuba, this restaurant knows how to make your taste buds happy.Working and/or living in Silver Spring is as tasty as it is convenient. That's thanks to the brain of Adolfo Mendez, owner of Cubano's, who unveiled a lunch menu at this restaurant. "The idea is to allow for home-cooked meals with quicker service," he said. Which means, essentially, patrons can feel like they've taken a long lunch without having wasted any time. And after having sampled the deliciousness that is Cubano's many months ago, we support this quicker service. It means less time between when we say, "Let's go with the Mi Tierra Sampler Plate," and when our taste buds get to enjoy three different Cubano's specialities. Pictured above, the dish comes with Ropa Vieja (shredded beef in a Cuban-style sauce of tomato, garlic, onion and peppers) Lechón Asado (tender roasted pork in an orange marinade), and Fricasé de Pollo (chicken on the bone slow-cooked and served with a hearty red wine tomato sauce). Vegetarians will love the hearty portions of Moros y Cristianos (spiced rice and beans) and sweet plantains, as well as the Parrillada de Vegetales, a grilled dish chock full of all sorts of healthy treats. But of course, the best vegetarian treat in Cubano's is the Mojito. Hands down, some of the best in the DMV, the Mojitos might not have you going back to work at all.
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Empanaditas Olga, $6.50
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Nov. 5, 2007
Both the Lipscomb Bisons and the Freed-Hardeman Lions were a little touchy.
In the 81-68 win by the Bisons Monday night in an exhibition game at Allen Arena, both teams combined for 60 fouls.
The Bisons shot 26-of-39 from the free throw line. Freed-Hardeman shot 17-of-24.
"Both teams were playing hard and playing aggressive and playing man-to-man," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "We wanted to play at a fast pace, but when the whistle is blowing every five minutes and teams are shooting a lot of free throws it is going to affect the pace of the game.
"Freed-Hardeman wanted to play fast too. They have much better athletes than they have had in the past."
The Bisons overcame an early Freed-Hardeman lead to hold a 37-30 edge at the half. They led by 10 points, their first double figures lead of the half at 29-19 with 5:28 left to play on a dunk by center Jason Hopkins.
Twice in the final 2:07 of the first half the Bisons led by 11 points, with a 37-26 advantage at 1:41 on a jump shot by freshman guard Josh Slater.
The Bisons never trailed in the second half, holding a double figures leads for the final nine minutes.
Center Thomas Pfaff and Slater each had 14 points for the Bisons, tying Freed-Hardeman's Daren Currie for the game-high.
Also in double figures for the Bisons was guard Michael Lusk with 10 points.
"I thought Mike played really well," Sanderson said. "Mike took care of the basketball. He was very good defensively. He made some big shots for us."
Freed-Hardeman placed two more players in double figures with Kristoffer Smith scoring 12 and Tyler Jennings chipping in with 11.
Forwards Eddie Ard and Brandon Brown each had seven rebounds for the Bisons.
Smith posted a game-high 10 boards for Freed-Hardeman.
The Bisons hit 12-of-35 from the field and 10-of-14 from the free throw line in the first half. The Bisons went into their dressing room at halftime with a 37-30 lead.
Freed-Hardeman, an NAIA school, has already played tow games this season posting a 2-0 record. This was the second exhibition game for the Bisons, who beat Tusculum in the first exhibition.
"This is a good game for both teams," Sanderson said. "When you play those guys you know it is going to be an intense game. I think it is a good game to play."
The Bisons open the regular season Friday against Centenary at Iowa State's Tournament. They still have some work to do.
"We didn't execute on either end of the floor," Sanderson said. "They beat us off of the dribble way too much. We can't let people get by us and get into the lane. We have to get that corrected."


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Politico: "Conservative Groups Pay For Talk-Radio Plugs"
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In a June 15 article, Politico reported that several conservative groups, such as the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, pay millions in "sponsorship fees" to various conservative radio shows, including Rush Limbaugh's, Glenn Beck's, Sean Hannity's and Mark Levin's. Politico reported that the "fees buy" the conservative groups "a variety of promotional tie-ins, as well as regular on-air plugs - praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate - often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising."
From Politico:
If you're a regular listener of Glenn Beck's radio show and you wanted to contribute to a political group that would advance the populist conservative ideals he touts on his show, you'd have plenty of reason to think that FreedomWorks was your best investment.
But if you're a fan of Mark Levin's radio show, you'd have just as much cause to believe that Americans for Prosperity, a FreedomWorks rival, was the most effective conservative advocacy group. And, if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity are who you listen to, you'd be hear a steady stream of entreaties to support the important work of the Heritage Foundation.
That's not coincidence. In search of donations and influence, the three prominent conservative groups are paying hefty sponsorship fees to the popular talk show hosts. Those fees buy them a variety of promotional tie-ins, as well as regular on-air plugs - praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate - often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising.
"The point that people don't realize," said Michael Harrison, founder and publisher of the talk media trade publication TALKERS Magazine, "is that (big time political talk show hosts) are radio personalities - they are in the same business that people like Casey Kasem are in - and what they do is no different than people who broadcast from used car lots or restaurants or who endorse the local roofer or gardener."
The groups pay the companies that distribute the hosts' shows, and not the hosts directly, for the endorsements.
While the deals differ, most provide the sponsoring group a certain number of messages or so called "live-reads," in which the host will use a script, outline or set of talking points to deliver an advertisement touting the group and encouraging listeners to visit its website or contribute to it.
Some sponsorship deals also include so-called "embedded ads" in which the sponsors' initiatives are weaved into the content of the show, say sources familiar with the arrangements, while the hosts have been known to feature officials from their sponsoring groups on their shows, though the sources say that's not typically part of the arrangements.
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