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Period Piece as a "Complete Romp": Mira Nair Brings Her Own Vibrancy To "Vanity Fair"
by Wendy Mitchell
Mira Nair is the last person you would expect to take on a stuffy adaptation of English literature of the early 19th century. Which is exactly why her witty and vibrant take on Thackeray's classic "Vanity Fair" isn't stuffy at all — it's filled with the more colorful aspects of pre-Victorian life. Nair even manages to work in a bellydancing routine for her heroine, Becky Sharp.
Nair started her filmmaking career with documentaries before wow-ing Cannes 1988 with her debut narrative feature "Salaam Bombay!" (which later garnered an Oscar nomination). Her numerous other films include the interracial love-story "Mississippi Masala," the immigrant family saga "The Perez Family," and the sensuous period tale "Kama Sutra." Her most recent projects have included HBO's "Hysterical Blindness" and the 2001 smash "Monsoon Wedding," a swirling ensemble piece about the complexities of a contemporary Punjabi wedding. That $1.2 million feature grossed more than $13 million in the U.S. alone.
Working with Focus Features on their $23 million period drama "Vanity Fair," with an A-list cast including Reese Witherspoon and Jim Broadbent, may seem like a departure for Nair. But this Indian-born, New York-based director insists this is "pure and simple independent filmmaking…If you make a film with Hollywood money that doesn't mean that the fire in the belly of an independent filmmaker is gone."
"Vanity Fair" follows Becky Sharp, a charismatic young orphan determined to climb up London's social ladder. Becky (Reese Witherspoon) makes an important friend in Amelia (Romola Garai), briefly ingratiates herself with a wealthy spinster (Eileen Atkins), marries a dashing would-be heir (James Purefoy), fights off the advances of Amelia's slimy husband George (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), and finds her entrée into the inner circle with a marquess who may have ulterior motives (Gabriel Byrne).
Sitting down with Nair — even in a generic hotel room during a press junket — you immediately see why her films are so vibrant — she is dressed in an emerald green sari, with large, captivating eyes and a quickness to laugh uproariously. She spoke with indieWIRE's Wendy Mitchell about how she avoided making a "silly frock movie," why Becky Sharp has been one of her favorite heroines since she was a teenager, her next film plans, and her new film lab in Uganda. Focus Features releases "Vanity Fair" on September 1.
iW: How did you get involved in this project?
Nair: Focus, which was distributing "Monsoon Wedding" at the time [as USA Films], thought of me while they were putting this together. They didn't know that I had a complete, passionate history with this book since I was 16. I was born and raised in India, and I went to an Irish Catholic boarding school where I was steeped in English literature: Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, the whole gang. And I discovered "Vanity Fair," which I kind of read under the covers at night. I never left it; I dipped into this novel every few years.
iW: What was the attraction to the novel, was the India connection part of it? [Two of the English men are making their fortunes in India.]
Nair: That was part of the attraction now. But initially, when I was a kid, I just loved Becky Sharp. She was just me. Not me per se, but women like us, completely modern women who had no time for what society of expecting of them, who wanted to create their own way. Against all odds, I might add. The fact that she was such a survivor and a character that Thackeray just enjoyed fully. Because I think of him, too, as this ultimate outsider in his own society. He was born in Calcutta and sent away to school. So he always looked at his own society from the eyes of someone who was both inside it and outside it. Which is how he created Becky Sharp.
So first it was that. And then when I was offered the film and read the novel and really worked on my version, looking at the screenplay, I loved the intersection of colony and empire that Thackeray wrote so brilliantly about. It was this intersection in time when this money that was coming from the rape of the colonies into the English middle class at home, that created the Osbornes [a family in "Vanity Fair"] of the world who now had the money of the aristocrats but not the titles and the status. Everybody wanted that which they could not have. I think Thackeray was fantastically observant. And satiric but affectionate too. Exposing. That intersection gave me the aesthetics in terms of the color, the costuming, the music, the dance. He provided the foundation for all of that. It's just that I took the ball and ran… because you couldn't drag me to see a silly frock movie, with the woman in crinoline waiting for the guy to show up. Forget about it. Becky Sharp isn't that way, and she never has been.
iW: Were you scared to take on this great work of literature that you were so passionate about?
Nair: I was so brilliantly supported with this film. At first with Julian Fellowes, who was my first and only choice to re-work the script on my terms. And he was an equally helpless fan of Thackeray. We weren't learning it for the first time. We had both internalized this novel over the years of ourlives. And fortunately we saw eye to eye. I wanted to preserve and bring back the democratic swirl of the novel. I wanted to drag as many interior scenes into the exterior, so I could populate the streets and really make a "Salaam Bombay!" in London, where you could see the cacophony, and the pigs, and the filth, the coal mongers, and the army of the working class who had to fuel the upper classes… I wanted to make a very visceral film.
Also, Becky rises from the gift of song, and because I come from a film tradition where song sequences and music and emotion are so inextricably interwoven, I wanted to explore that fully. The song sequences, the music, the dance, and of course with the costuming, that should feel as far from a history or homework lesson as possible. It should be a complete romp. We also have this nice Indian street slang expression in Bombay that means "give me my money's worth." When I take your money to see a film of mine, I want to give you your money's worth. I want to transport you into a place that's full and rich and crazy and also has resonance for you and I today. Thackeray is asking a philosophical question about vanity: Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us having met our desire is satisfied. That is the question.
iW: And that's a modern question.
Nair: That's a timeless question. I ask that question of myself honestly, often. When I evaluate what I want to do next, that's the question — What is valued? What is contentment, what am I desiring, really? Those are questions that are deep and totally timeless. Every time you visit it, there is something new, and something more relevant to your life today.
iW: Were you drawn to the character of Becky especially because she's not always likeable? Thackeray said that this is "a novel without a hero."
Nair: Of course. Which of us is always sweet and pretty like they want the romantic comedies to be? That's only in the movies, and that's not my kind of movie, frankly. That's what I love about Thackeray. He presents the paradox and presents the contradiction. He revels in the nuance of Becky… There is a truthfulness in her character that I love, with all its edges. Precisely because of its edges. And the complicatedness, the enigma of her. There are these mistakes that come alongside ambition, which is what Thackeray was showing us. That's also life. We all make mistakes, that's what makes us compelling and sexily human.
iW: Why did you think Reese would be the right person to play Becky?
Nair: Because of her extraordinary intelligence and her minx-like quality. And the fact that she's such a skilled actress that she's going "clickety clack" and five different things can be happening in her face and you know each one of them. That's pure and simple Becky Sharp. And she has this irresistibility with audiences, I could retain the complexity of Becky because I knew I wouldn't lose the audience because Reese is so appealing. As a director, I like to reinvent people, I like to show sides of actors that they have never been asked to play before. For me, it was a chance to bring to the world Reese Witherspoon as a completely full-grown woman… she's such a spiritually layered person that she brought all those levels to Becky.
iW: This is the largest budget that you've ever worked with — did you enjoy that or was it daunting?
Nair: I don't want to sound jaded, but mounting an epic is mounting an epic. The machinations are the same whether you have $7 million to do a 16th-century epic in India, as I did in 1995 with "Kama Sutra," or when you have $23 million to do an essentially $80 million epic in the 1800s in England, Europe, and India. It was always the same old story of planning so brilliantly and being prepared so fully that we could capture the epic as well as the intimate in the same fluid, visual way.
iW: What is the planning process like with Declan [Quinn, her long-time cinematographer]? Do you storyboard?
Nair: No, we don't storyboard. We talk about the look. We bring to each other paintings and photographs and other films. In the case of "Vanity Fair" it was more about what we would NOT do that what we WOULD do. Because we knew that we would not make the usual frock movie, the usual stately period movie. This was to be a modern, jugular approach. And yet not a ridiculously modern one, we wanted to be faithful to the period. There's an unsung English painter named Atkinson Grimshaw who painted the streets of London and evokes that damp light. We looked at Grimshaw's work a lot, we looked at a lot of paintings about street life at the time. We looked at Delacroix and British orientalism. The way the British saw India and the way they saw themselves. Filmically, one film that really helped me regard it all as not so precious was "The Duelist," Ridley Scott's first film. It's also set during this time period and the realism is very palpable in it. And I looked at Emir Kusturica's "Time of the Gypsies," and then I made the English crew see my great Indian director Guru Dutt, his film "Pyaasa" (1957), which was known for its very lush song picturizations.
iW: How did you go about choosing the songs in the film?
Nair: I looked at poetry from that period. The first song, "She Walks in Beauty," is a Byron poem, and the second song, "Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal," is an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem. I chose lyrics that would be closest to what Becky would be singing about. And then Mychael Danna, my brilliant composer, would put the melody to it. We hired Custer LaRue, this great Southern singer, because I felt her voice matched Reese's body. And then we recorded the songs before we started shooting the film. And we gave them to Reese, who just completely nailed the lip synching and the inhaling. She really got the breath of a singer. She's just flawless. I was joking with Reese that she has a major career in Bollywood now [laughs].
iW: This seems on the surface as a big departure for you, but do you see it fitting into the thread of your past work?
Nair: I think so. I don't sit around thinking about things like that because I go where my heart really takes me. But "Vanity Fair" is about the circus of life, and that's what my films generally are about. And I love these sprawling sagas, I love working with ensemble casts, I love multilayered stories. And I love the ellipses it requires in cinema to tell about the passage of time. I always tell my crew my next film will be about two people eating sushi in a hotel room in Paris, but it will never be that! [laughs] I'm always going to be on the streets. iW: What are you going to be working on now?
Nair: I am committed to do two films ["Homebody/Kabul" and "The Impressionist"] but I read a novel on my way to shoot the last shot of "Vanity Fair," which completely moved me to my bones. That was Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake." She's an Indian writer, she did "Interpreter of Maladies," a book of short stories, and this is her first novel. Like "Monsoon Wedding" was my personal film about my life in Delhi, "The Namesake" is completely about the life that I've traveled. It's about a couple who leaves Calcutta in the '60s to come to Cambridge, Mass. And their son grows up in New York City today.
So it's another intimate epic that I want to make with two Indian superstars and a very well known Hollywood actress, who plays a young lover of the boy — I can't say names right now. We start pre-production on September 15th. With "Vanity Fair" being my biggest release — 800 screens and so on — I don't want to be terribly bothered by the vicissitudes of the box office. I've done my work and I've served it and I must keep myself humbled by work while the hoopla (or non-hoopla) is going to happen. I'm fielding a lot of major offers, so I've got to keep my head screwed on right. I put all of my energy onto the screen and I can't fritter it away.
iW: And you have your new filmmaking lab…
Nair: It's Maisha. Tomorrow the architect is arriving in Kampala [Uganda]. My husband and I took our savings and bought this land and we are building this kind of tabernacle, this space that will eventually become like an artists' colony. But August 1, 2005 is our first lab. We've funded about 70 percent for the five years I want to get started. It will be 12 candidates from East Africa and South Asia, and eight mentors from all over the world. We hope to create a film culture about a part of the world you never see anything about.
iW: Will participants actually be shooting projects as part of the lab?
Nair: The first year is just a screenwriters' lab because we have such a huge theater tradition and a huge writing tradition, but not the film tradition. So people can't even imagine they can make a film about their life. Then the second through fifth years will be screenwriting and directing. The first year we have to keep it simple — first you have to get the script right!
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The Benefit Of Casting No-Name Actors In Superhero Movies
It was announced yesterday that Israeli actress Gal Gadot would be taking on the role that feminists and fanboys oft-speculate on: Wonder Woman. Immediately, the internet erupted with two reactions—"Who?" followed quickly by "She's too skinny to play Wonder Woman." And so begins yet another cycle of outcry over a no-name being cast as a beloved superhero. But is casting someone with little to no fan following really such a gaffe?
Marvel has achieved a fair amount of success in casting relative unknowns in screen adaptations of their comic book successes—Hugh Jackman had just two minor film roles before being cast as Wolverine in the 2000 release of X-Men, which would go on to launch Jackman's career as a leading man and spawn five more films, with a sixth currently on the way. Similarly, Marvel "rolled the dice" according to Vulture, when casting Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston in Thor, and passing over stars with name-recognition, like Josh Hartnett and Shia Labeouf. Both Thor and its sequel Thor: The Dark World have been box office successes, and pleased both discerning movie critics and fanboys and fangirls alike. It was Hiddleston's panache at making Loki enchanting and hateable in the same breath, coupled with some active campaigning, that made his character such a focal point of both The Avengers and Thor: Dark World.
The curse of expectations can cripple a comic book-based film well before a single frame is shot. Comic book fans—the really hardcore ones that wait with bated breath for even a morsel of information from their beloved fictional universes—are difficult to please, and rightly so. Their vividly color printed worlds are far richer than a two hour film could do justice to, and have existed for far longer than any hype or notoriety surrounding a film might. By casting someone who doesn't already have box office bankability, producers and studios are paying an homage to both the fans and the character being adapted, by letting the story and the superhero take center stage.
As seen with the backlash around the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman, when an actor with considerable fame is put into an iconic role, it becomes immensely hard to separate the actor's public persona and previous performances from the new role. The idea of seeing freewheeling, wisecracking Affleck, who bombed in his last superhero turn Daredevil, take on the brooding hero played to previous perfection by Christian Bale was a choice that's been met with almost universal derision. It's the same reason that despite rumors to the contrary, Johnny Depp would not have been a good choice to play The Riddler in The Dark Knight—no matter what he could bring to the character, it's still hard to separate that Depp is far more than just boozy Captain Jack Sparrow these days.
For studios, casting a big name is usually a measure to ensure profitablity of a film (or at the very least, return on investment). With comic book film franchises, the audience is already built in. No matter how much vitriol the Twitterverse chooses to heap onto Affleck, you better believe Batman fans will be lining up in droves regardless, to see if he was able to do the character justice. Be it excitement or hate watching, the audience is already strongly built into this world, which lessens the pressure on a studio to cast someone that can pull in a crowd.
There are obvious exceptions to the suggestion: Robert Downey Jr. breathed life into an Iron Man franchise that could have been a spectacular failure, though on the flip side, at that point in his career no one was expecting much from Downey to begin with, so the curse of expectations was far lowered than it was for Affleck. Christian Bale was already well-respected before bringing his considerable gifts to the Dark Knight Trilogy. By and large, however, superhero roles have boosted the career of an actor, rather than the career of an actor boosting the role and box office earnings. By casting an unknown, a superhero film is able to take on a life of its own, rather than a life already dogeared by someone famous donning a spandex suit.
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What's News: Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling could see a shorter sentence, Best Buy shares are rallying, and General Motors CEO Dan Akerson considers contingency plans to move workers and production out of South Korea. Photo: Associated Press
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- Code changes per day in 2007-2008 so far
- 4,300 lines added
- 1,800 lines removed
- 1,500 lines modified
- The kernel itself is about 9.2 million lines, and has been increasing in size by about 10% every year since 2.6.0 (when GKH started tracking it). The drivers make up about about 55% of the code, while architecture specific code is second in terms of LOC. The core of the kernel is about 5%.
- Supports more processors and devices than any other OS in history.
- One of the consequences of the scorching pace of the kernel development is that, the kernel is a better place for patches , than for it to be maintained separately. GKH pointed out that it is difficult to keep pace with Linux kernel development and gave the example of Xen; The Xen folks apparently never played nice with the kernel developers and are now trying to get their patches into the kernel. From his tone it sounded as thought it was a tough climb uphill for the Xen guys, and the KVM is already in the kernel.
- The Kernel development hierarchy (it has one !) has developers feeding patches to the maintainers, who in turn feed them to subsystem maintainers (pci, security, usb, etc).Sub-system maintainers maintain their own trees. Steve Rothwell (IBM, Austalia) pulls changes into the "Next" tree every night and does daily builds, while Andrew Morton pulls changes into his tree once a week or so. When Linus says the merge tree window is open, all the sub-system maintainers hit Linus. There is also the stable release tree, which is not maintained indefinitely.
- He likened the patch submission process to a lossy network routing algorithm - it can handle people dropping out . There is no other way to develop at such high speed.If you own a file or subsystem, you have to accept the fact that other people are going to be changing it. Maintainers can always revert changes if they don't like it.
- There is no good way to test the kernel except to run it. The hundreds of permutations of devices and interactions makes it impossible to test it comprehensively. The only way out is for the developers to test the rc releases.
- There are no stable and unstable releases anymore. For the last four years,they have been replaced by releases every 2 and 3/4 months.
- There have been 2399 independent contributors to the Linux kernel in the last year. 50% of the contributors submitted only one patch; half of the half contributed two patches. the top of the curve is getting flatter. Top 30% do only 30% of the work. The number of individual contributors is going up.
- Top developers by quantity (for the last one and half years)
- Adrian Bunk 754
- Al Viro 698
- Thomas Gleixner 656
- David S.Miller 655
- Bart Zolnierkiewicz 637
- Paul Mundt 610
- Ralf Baechle 604
- Ingo Molnar 596
- Patrick McHardy 554
- Tejun Heo 530
- Top contributors by sign-offs (shows who the gatekeepers are). Note that Linus doesn't sign off on patches from subsystem maintainers.
- Andrew morton 9086
- Linus Torvalds 8960
- David S.Miller 4926
- Jeff Garzik 2960
- Ingo Molnar 2489
- Greg Kroah-Hartman 2098
- Thomas Gleixner 1098
- Mauro Carvalho Chehab 1822
- Paul Mackerras 1675
- John Linville 1461
- Who's funding Linux kernel development ?
- Amateurs 18.5%
- Red Hat 11.6%
- Novell 6.6%
- Unknown individuals 5.5%
- Intel 4.1%
- Oracle 2.2%
- Consultants 2.2%
- Academia 1.5%
- Renesas Technology 1.5%
- Canonical had about 6 changes in the past 5 years; they are in the 300th
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.
- 75% of Linux kernel work is paid for.
- Linus jokes that the kernel is not intelligent design, it is evolution. GKH also added that "We react to stimuli that's happening in the world" and "We don't over plan things".
- As GKH put it, 'We broke all software development rules and we are continuing to break it'.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Linux Kernel Development Stats from Greg Kroah Hartman
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I like those simple stats :-)
The only thing I dont like is that it seems professional coders are overrepresented. Of course, they are probably better than hobby coders, but it also shows that Linux as a whole is less an amateur project and much more a professional project
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:18:00 AM
Amateurs are funding Linux development at a higher fraction than even RedHat? Is this possible? Are they doing this indirectly by supporting free systems like Gentoo or is there a way to fund its development more directly?
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:00:00 AM
Nice stats :)- There are some errors in the blog post:
# 1,800 lines removed
# 1,500 lines removed
two times removed?
And there's "Linxu" instead of "Linux".
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:45:00 AM
"GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'."
The Linux kernel isn't the only community Canonical connects to.
Heck, I've never had a patch accepted into the kernel, but that doesn't mean I've never filed a bug report/suggested an init script revision/pointed out a documentation deficiency.
GKH needs to get over himself.
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:23:00 PM
- Rams said...
Thanks a ton. Fixed both. thanks again.
yes, amateurs are the largest percentage. Greg specifically mentioned that they had asked these guys whom they worked for. It turns out that lots of folks really do it out of interest.
Can you explain what's wrong with what Greg said ?
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:29:00 PM
Another typo, there's "GHK" instead of "GKH".
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:36:00 PM
- Scot said...
Canonical had about 6 changes in the past 5 years
I'm surprised it's that many. Ubuntu has some standard patches, but I don't think there's that much that's Ubuntu specific. And don't forget that Ubuntu is mostly a "humanized" Debian, so Ubuntu would be taking advantage of Debian kernel work and you would think Ubuntu's changes would go upstream via Debian.
In my mind that makes "Canonical does not give back to the community" an unfair statement - they give back to the communities that they're doing active development work. Unfortunately for the kernel folk, the kernel isn't one of those areas.
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:38:00 PM
- Rams said...
Thanks a lot. Fixed.
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:00:00 PM
I just checked from Linus's tree (current HEAD commit 4d3702b6):
$ git log --email@example.com --pretty=oneline | wc -l
Yes, just authors with canonical.com as email domain. It's unreliable, I know, don't flame me. The history of this repository goes back to 2005-04-16 when Linus made the first commit to the git repository (2.6.12-rc2).
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:53:00 PM
The Linux kernel isn't the only community Canonical connects to."
Ok. Show me the stats of the patches for the "community" the Canonical "connects" to. GNOME doesn't get much, Linux kernel - no, KDE - nothing major. What project exactly?
I'm surprised it's that many. Ubuntu has some standard patches, "
What standard patches? Their kernel is full of crappy non-standard patches that they never bother to send upstream or to Debian (because they would never accept those crappy patches anyway)
- Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:41:00 AM
Maybe we want to count commits coming from @ubuntu.com and @canonical.com together? Anyway, here it is:
$ git shortlog --author=@(canonical|ubuntu)\.com -E -ns
65 Ben Collins
11 Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
6 Daniel T Chen
4 Fabio M. Di Nitto
4 Tim Gardner
2 Kees Cook
2 Stefan Bader
1 Amit Kucheria
1 Colin Ian King
1 Scott James Remnant
(The complete history of Linux kernel since 2.6.12-rc2.)
- Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:40:00 PM
Perhaps Canonical did not contribute back to the community via new code, but increasing the profile of Linux in the general community at large must count for something!
I don't believe that Canonical operates in the Kernal domain. It would be like saying the SVN guys did not contribute back the community.
- Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:34:00 AM
The talk was great!
And yours "shorts keys" too, thanks!
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:58:00 AM
- Jacob said...
nice post
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nice post
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If that doesn't whet the gossipy appetite, his death at 29 -- the result of a vicious indoor brawl -- has excited enough conspiracy theories for an Oliver Stone biopic. Just imagine the film in which all motives lead to a fatal dagger plunged above the eye of London's most audacious bad-boy.
But during the tedious, information-larded first act, I couldn't help wishing for a new production of one of Marlowe's own luridly comic tragedies, whose overreaching protagonists charge the stage with a plundering Renaissance determination to crack through known limits. The heavy blank-verse artillery of "Tamburlaine the Great" or "Doctor Faustus" isn't likely to be reverberating in the Taper any time soon.
Yet Marlowe's unbridled theatrical gusto, outlandish as it might seem to a culture weaned on Shakespeare's exquisitely inward art, would make a better introduction to this canonical trailblazer than Whelan's more pedestrian theater-history whodunit.
The production, directed by Bill Alexander (who staged the play for the Royal Shakespeare Company), is attractively arrayed on Simon Higlett's spare wood-paneled set. Design-wise, the invitation to travel back in time is enticingly rendered. Russell H. Champa's dim lighting heightens the sense of uncertain menace, and Robert Perdziola's costumes manage to flaunt both bodies and frippery.
But the drama takes too long to find its stride. The sluggish setup situates us in Marlowe's last months, when the fruits of fame proved to be no guarantee of safety in a society drowned in discord.
Paranoia was rampant in this treasonous urban caldron, and anyone rumored to have been members of "the School of Night," the secret salon in which men such as Marlowe (Gregory Wooddell) and Sir Walter Ralegh (Henri Lubatti) once traded freethinking blasphemies, understood their days of London liberty were numbered.
The cat's-cradle plot, informed by documentary sources and fleshed out by speculative fantasy, makes much ado about Marlowe's irreverent wit in the face of brewing danger. But Wooddell's "Kit," as Marlowe was called, is like a blustering, unsinister Rupert Everett, who offered a fleeting but dashing Marlowe cameo in the 1998 blockbuster "Shakespeare in Love."
Speaking of William Shakespeare, Whelan gives him a prime role in his tale, although there's no evidence that Marlowe and he were buddies. (The most Stephen Greenblatt is willing to concede in "Will in the World," his acclaimed 2004 study, is that "[t]hey must have known each other personally; the world they inhabited was far too small for anonymity.") Here, Shakespeare (John Sloan), operating under the stage alias of Tom Stone, is portrayed as a sponge soaking up the planet's lyrical wisdom. His professional livelihood depends on him being at once politically inconspicuous and opportunistic.
A scene in which Marlowe lectures Shakespeare, his junior by a couple of months but much further behind him in artistic stature (Bardolatry wasn't an overnight phenomenon), signals the problem Whelan has in figuring out whether he is writing a murder mystery or a master's thesis.
The topic under discussion is the purpose of comedy, and Marlowe comes out with such prissy remarks ("I know that we are never more vulnerable than when we laugh") that he seems more like a doomed don than an enfant terrible constitutionally incapable of suppressing unauthorized truths.
Popular historical characters are hard to fictionalize. Indeed, it's easier to go along with the portrait of a lesser-known light such as Marlowe's ex-roommate Thomas Kyd (Michael Bakkensen), famous only for having written "The Spanish Tragedy," than it is to accept a depiction of a quietly cocky young Shakespeare, who by 1592 would have had more reason to be jealous of Marlowe than the other way around.
The second act, launched by a delightful commedia dell'arte routine, deepens in thematic interest as Marlowe's destiny darkly comes to fruition.
This turbulent theatrical golden age in which public and private selves literally bleed into each other is niftily re-created. But Marlowe's "Edward the Second" or "The Jew of Malta" could better reveal why it's worth remembering.


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Thursday was a bittersweet day in Los Alamos. It was the last official visit to the community by Sen. Pete Domenici.
For 36 years he has a been a strong supporter of Los Alamos, New Mexico and our nation. He was a friend to many and a figure of strength to many more.
Now that he is retiring after six terms in the United States Senate, we view his departure with a mix of sadness and fear.
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Domenici was re-elected in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002 and is the longest-serving senator in his state's history.
He is the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. He is also a member of the U.S. Senate committees on Appropriations, Budget and Indian Affairs.
He is an advocate for the mentally ill, having pushed the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 and is an avid proponent of nuclear power and has published two books on the subject: "A Brighter Tomorrow: Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy" and "Advanced Nuclear Technologies – Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate," which he edited.
During Domenici's tenure in the Senate he advocated waterway usage fees, nuclear power and related causes. He announced on Oct. 4, 2007, his decision not to seek re-election to the Senate in 2008 for health reasons.
That gets us to here, today.
His visits here Thursday with the many people who befriended him was touching, he crossed the generations and was a champion of many causes. But at the end of the day he was a fighter for New Mexico and the United States.
His wit, his dedication and his helpfulness will be missed.
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Visit Unveils Shared Education Concernsby Gary Phillips, Dean of the College • October 15, 2011 Share:
Final Posting from Shanghai
The return to Shanghai by Bullet Train brought us to East China Normal University and Fudan University yesterday for a second round of conversations. East China Normal (ECNU) is a comprehensive university with many programmatic opportunities for teaching and research in the humanities, social sciences, economics, law, sciences, engineering, and teacher education. ECNU is ranked as the best Chinese institution for preparing teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. This, of course, is what strongly attracts us to ECNU: anchoring Chinese language study at Wabash is a high priority as we develop Asian Studies. But ECNU offers much more. The Shanghai campus is a beautiful setting, with two rivers running through the campus, home to 4,500 international students as well as 15,000 Chinese undergraduates and 14,000 graduate students. One also finds two national research laboratories and six research institutes, which regularly host liberal arts faculty from various US colleges and universities from around the world who come to attend the more than 20 international conferences held annually, or to collaborate with ECNU faculty. It is a vibrant and inviting place. The combination of student focus and high quality academic achievement makes ECNU, while very different in size, much like Wabash in spirit.
Tuesday we celebrated the formal signing of a cooperative agreement with ECNU officials. Pat White and President Quan Chen inked documents – Pat White literally stamped the name of the College in Chinese characters onto the documents – that will lead to ECNU supplying elementary Chinese language instructors; welcoming Wabash students to pursue Chinese language study in immersion course, short summer, or semester-long programs; and supporting Wabash faculty who seek to expand their own Asian Studies research and teaching capabilities (for example, those faculty participating in the Mellon Grant program).
ECNU representatives were intrigued by the Wabash all-male student learning environment and are eager to understand better our liberal arts curricular model. The strength of Chinese interest in all-male and liberal arts education was a surprising discovery for all of us. Along with many other Chinese institutions, ECNU is experimenting with general education or liberal arts type programs that focus on development of broad critical thinking and moral reasoning skills.
The data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education got the attention of President Quan, a physicist by training, who indicated his staff needs to understand these data and best practices that strengthen student learning, especially on the part of men. Dean Huang Meixu, my counterpart, and I will pursue conversations about how best to facilitate a visit to the Center of Inquiry and to see how our own Teacher Education program works. Charlie Blaich believes the Center of Inquiry, too, can benefit from a better understanding of the Chinese educational transformation underway. This could be an exciting collaborative opportunity that promises to benefit everyone.
Mutual benefit results from shared respect and trust. Respect and trust emerge from relationships built and sustained. Because relationships are central to Chinese culture, there is no alternative to spending time in China in order to build and sustain them. Electronic engagements are instrumental; they can't replace the face-to-face. To take China seriously you have to engage and that means you have to come to China.
What else have I learned? I realize more clearly than ever from this brief trip that Wabash indeed has much to learn from but also has much to offer to our Chinese colleagues: the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts; our success in educating men to excel and be independent; the Gentleman's Rule that elevates moral character and citizenship; and liberal arts teaching and learning practices that forefront academic excellence, deep human engagement, and diversity of experiences.
At Fudan, UIBE, and ECNU, we found Chinese educators wrestling with many of the same teaching and learning questions Wabash and other liberal arts institutions now face. The issues of internationalization and interdisciplinary education talked about at every stop turn out to be about more than infusing curriculum or co-curriculum with a certain academic content, although that is indeed important. They point to the fact that we share the same human questions about vocation, community, citizenship, education of the young, civic responsibility, and moral purpose. To have a global awareness is to comprehend not only how different we are in the specific ecologies of our home communities but also how profoundly alike in the questions we have about the wellbeing of our children, our environment, and our planet.
The last six days in China have been a blur of travel, meetings, shared meals, short nights, and early-morning tackling of email and meeting preparations. It has been a time of connecting to potential new institutional colleagues; discovering teaching and learning opportunities for Wabash students and faculty; and, for me personally, finding a conversational partner in Fudan's Dean Fan whose research in religion, violence, and culture overlaps with mine. She's invited me to return to Fudan next June to lecture on Judaism and to study the famous Shanghai synagogue, home to thousands of European Jews who fled the Nazi killing machine. I very much want to return.
As our visit draws to a close, I am acutely conscious that this has also been a time to reconnect with familiar colleagues. It is an index of our busy lives at home that you often have to go away to talk with those in the office next door, and to rediscover how good, competent, and caring your Wabash co-workers are. Alas, we take each other for granted this way.
Time spent with Qian, Kay, and Pat as representatives of the College, as close and now closer friends enriched by the bond of a common experience of travel, teaching, and learning in China, makes me appreciate all the more just how good it is to be in such company: in community with men and women devoted to making Wabash a better place to teach and learn.
This dedication was underscored all the more by the time spent with Wabash students: Hoa Liu, Victor Meng, and, just last night, Thomas Schmidt, who is presently studying Chinese at Fudan. Seeing all three Wabash men in China in action — confident, compassionate, and connected to the College and to one another and to us, representing Wabash. W-Nights half way around the world!
This is Wabash liberal arts education making a global difference in the lives of these young men and, yes, even some of us older folk. The really exciting news is that this is just the beginning.
Last Day in Bejing Yields Another Opportunity
It is Monday evening and we are speeding our way toward Shanghai from Beijing at 307 km/h on a Chinese Bullet Train. The CRH Bullet Train is a sleek vessel capable of achieving 400 km/h, but recent high profile mishaps have forced operators to restrain it to a more leisurely 190 miles/hr. A Jackie Chan movie plays on an overhead display as we race past a country side of patchwork family-size garden plots, cotton fields, donkey driven carts, and periodic clusters of high rise construction hovered over by gigantic construction cranes, China's new "national bird" as Kay observes. The contrasts are jarring. But we are discovering that these antinomies are China. The rush forward into the modern age is matched equally by an inseparable anchoring to the past. The Great Wall, we are reminded, is a testament to a long tradition of Chinese construction. It is impossible not to feel the paradoxical continuity of ancient past and new future nearly everywhere we look.
Before leaving Beijing this afternoon we met with and were treated to lunch by the institutional leaders of the University of International Business and Economics. This 60-year-old institution was at one time the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade. Restructured in 2000 as the China Institute of Banking and Finance, which was once attached to the Central Bank, UIBE is now a world-renowned business and economics school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in business, law, statistics, economics, finance public, international relations, public administration, and, yes, even literature. UIBE also offers summer- and semester-long language programs to international students in 14 languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic and has begun experimenting with a general education program that requires undergraduates to take two years of liberal arts-type courses before launching into a major. This is not the norm in Chinese higher education where students typically choose a major before beginning their tertiary studies. Small in comparison to most other Chinese undergraduate and graduate programs in business and finance, UIBE has carved out a niche in producing a strong cohort of local, regional, and national economic leaders. This led Pat to see similarities with Wabash, a small liberal arts College that produces accomplished graduates out of proportion to its size.
Once again Hao Lui '11 was very helpful in helping set up our meeting. We met with UIBE President, Professor Zhao Zhonxui; the Deputy Director of International Relations Xiang Jie; and the Director of the International Education Admissions Office Ms. Peiyuan Du and her Deputy Director Mr. Shao Jiani. Hao works closely with Mr. Shao in bringing his summer program in China. Over a working lunch – a redundancy in Chinese culture – we began the process of identifying common interests and purposes.
UIBE and Wabash will begin immediate discussions about crafting a working relationship between our two institutions. What we find attractive about UIBE are the opportunities for Wabash students to take short or long courses in language study and the full range of business and economics course. President Zhao has invited Wabash Economics Department faculty to come to Beijing to take advantage of UIBE's programs and resources in the city, and Pat has invited President Zhao and his colleagues to visit Wabash and investigate the Center of Inquiry and our own liberal arts program. We see opportunities for students to learn first-hand about the Chinese economic experiment from those teachers and scholars most intimately connected to Chinese economic analysis and development. The immersion and internship possibilities are manifold.
Our time in Beijing has been exceptionally productive. We leave behind our alumnus Hao but come away with new relationships formed and great anticipation of China study opportunities for Wabash students and faculty alike. One of our proudest moments came in describing Hao to our hosts as the kind of Wabash man who takes hold of every opportunity to use his liberal arts education to the fullest extent possible to make a difference. We didn't need to convince our hosts of Hao's capabilities; they readily acknowledged this by the multi-year contract they have awarded him to help them expand their international student education and general education program.
Tuesday is our last full day in China. We will meet with representatives of East China Normal University and have further conversations with colleagues at Fudan. Like the Bullet Train, we have sped through these last days and see much accomplished in a short period of time. None of this would have been possible were it not for Qian Pullen's extraordinarily capable guidance and instruction in the art of relationship building. My thanks especially to you, Qian. And while I'm at it thanks, Hao, for being a teacher to your teachers. Should we really be surprised?
October 16, 2011: Past and Present, China and Wabash
Great Wall of Li — After 72 hours of nonstop traveling, meetings, and working meals with newly made professional acquaintances at Fudan University and the China Educational Association for International Exchange, we shifted gears and traveled to the Great Wall. Situated some 90 minutes from downtown Beijing, the "Wan Li Chang Cheng" or "Great Wall of Li" is one of China's seven most-scenic and most-visited spots. We made the pilgrimage — with Hao Liu '11 graciously arranging the transportation and food — on a spectacular fall afternoon. We chose the late afternoon hoping to avoid the heavy sightseeing traffic and to visit the Great Wall under other than ordinary conditions. We were not disappointed.
Built over a period of 2000 years and completed in the early years of the Ming dynasty in the 15th century, the Great Wall served as a border and barrier to keep the outside world at bay and to safeguard Chinese life and culture from external pressures. The Wall only partially succeeded in doing its job. It is an awe-inspiring structure stretching 5,500 miles across mountain slopes and knife-edge peaks that one can hardly believe scalable much less buildable. I am told it is the only human-made object observable from space. It is a physically challenging experience walking the steep steps and uneven stones. Literally and figuratively it takes the breath away.
Although imposing, its very material presence reminds that the seemingly impossible is made possible when human ingenuity and effort are directed. And it also important to remember that the Wall was built by the conscripted labor of farmers, soldiers, and slaves who had a different experience of its beauty. Human projects are often mixed realities. I take the Great Wall as a metaphor for the College's effort to launch an Asian Studies initiative to enrich the lives of Wabash students: it is a substantial building project that requires lugging people and material great distances up and over mountains in the hope of creating something permanent. One important difference, however, is that our Asian Studies effort seeks not to separate Wabash students and faculty from Chinese people, culture, language, and history, but instead to connect them deeply.
Kay, Qian, Pat, Hao, and I walked the top of the wall until the sunset. For the most part we were alone with the stone and the air and the sky and one another. For anyone familiar with Forster's A Passage to India, it had the feel of the Marabar Caves. We looked out over a vista of ragged mountaintops to see a fireball sun bring into relief sky and land, nature and culture, past and present, China and Wabash. It was a moment of antinomies brought together.
The irony of a Wall intended initially to separate now serving instead to bring together former student and teacher, East and West was impossible to miss. To see Hao and Kay, former student and teacher reunited now both engaged with Qian guiding our group down the thousand steps to our awaiting car in the failing light made me appreciate once again the power of liberal arts teaching: a student/teacher relationship now enriched by the presence of this new Chinese Wabash scholar who will help lead the next generation of Wabash men to the East. This is the new global reality of Wabash teaching and learning, and the excitement — and hard work — that awaits all of us if we are to make this venture succeed.
And there is more immediate hard work ahead. Monday we meet with the leadership of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing about curricular and co-curricular opportunities for Wabash students. Then we take the high speed train back to Shanghai for a second round of meetings with Fudan University officials and representatives of East China Normal University on Tuesday. It will be a return to an intense schedule richly interrupted by an encounter with Wan Li Chang Cheng.
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Have you ever had your current employer ask you for your resume?
Three weeks ago, we had some reorganizing at work, and now my group is part of a different department and reports to a new manager. Today, this new manager asked us all to provide her with a resume by the end of the week. I've never heard of such a thing.
This makes me nervous for some reason.
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12. I work for a fucking BANK! And we're in the midst of a huge merger. That's why I'm nervous.
That, and the fact that everyone on my team was recently demoted from "Analyst" to "Associate" and went from salaried to hourly.
I'm starting to think they're doing me a favor, by motivating me to update my resume!
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There's nothing to worry about if you actually did everything your resume says you did.
Sounds to me like someone might have fluffed up their resume a bit and the new department mamager realizes that this DUmmie can't do the job he says he's trained for.
I've been working at the same place for so long, I'd be suspicious if they suddenly asked for a current resume, as I don't have one. The one I gave them in 1987 was typed on a typewriter, and I don't have any copies left.
I'm not sure if the dummie should be worried. The new boss may be creating a new personnel file, or it might be that they are making decisions about who is going to be promoted.
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Hi Sophie- I bought your book. Is there a way to purchase your art?ReplyDelete
THanks for buying my book Wentworth !ReplyDelete
check out anders nilsen's "big questions", awesome comix series, beautifully drawn... im just saying.
Holly shit... the first one...ReplyDelete
You're really good...
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM
I see Maxon Crumb's style in your work. I'm glad that the artistic gene is being passed on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 11:51 PM
Every one of them has a surprise the way good stories surprise you. They're so much fun to look at, so enjoyable. They're elegant, hilarious, and human. Also truthful and sincere. I've just recently been introduced to your work and I'll happily continue to admire it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 4:31 PM
I enjoyed meeting you at a MOCCA show a few years back. I was the guy wearing the Nancy and Sluggo t-shirt. Just became a follower of your blog and I think your art looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
thanks everyone !ReplyDelete
wentworth : maybe you can contact the guys at my gallery show (DCKT gallery) to buy artwork. Right now i dont have that much stuff to sell in my house ; it's all in the show, but im working on more... Talk to me and i'll do what i can, y'know... the blog is the most direct way.
While your dad has been labeled the bruegel of our ages by that art critic, I think the label applies much better to you; your drawings show the ugliness and despair of society, the brutal hopelessness, the lack of awareness, yet with a humor that gives some hope in that your viewers will recognize themselves, and thus perhaps, gain self awareness. Or maybe you just wanted to make some drawings and cash. Still, it works for me.ReplyDelete
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I'm 73 lived in 60s Haight lots of Crumb fans Deadheads Bukowski fans etc..ReplyDelete
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any recognition is Sophie Crumb....would like to see complete book of your sketchbook style with inked lettering...
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Hi Sophie, I just found your blog and it's so great to see your drawings. i am teaching college kids drawing and keep trying to tell them how awesome and important it is to keep a regular sketchbook, but I don't think they ever really believe me... I will make a point to show them this blog and see if that helps. :)ReplyDelete
Your drawings have such a great not perfect/perfect sense to them!
I have an art blog, too, if you want to have a look.
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This is an activity about image resolution. Learners will recreate a solar image taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) using various sizes of building bricks, and discuss how their recreations relate to image resolution. Learners will also... (View More) compare SDO images to solar images from older spacecraft to see how improved technology helps scientists learn more about the Sun. (View Less)
In this lesson, learners will construct a 3D scale model of one of the MMS satellites. After, they will calculate the octagonal area of the top and bottom of the satellites, given the measurements of the satellite. Then, learners will compare the... (View More) octagonal cross-section area of the satellites with the circular cross-section area of the launch vehicle to determine if the eight-sided spacecraft will fit the circular rocket hull. This is lesson one of the MMS Mission Educator's Instructional Guide, which uses examples from the MMS Mission to introduce mathematics (focusing on geometry) in a real-world context. The lessons use the 5E instructional cycle. Note: MMS launched March 12, 2015. For the latest science and news, visit the MMS Mission Website under Related & Supplemental Resources (right side of this page). (View Less)
This is the culminating lesson in the MMS Mission Educator's Instructional Guide. Learners will choose and complete three activities about the MMS mission. Activity formats can include creating videos, composing songs, developing written materials,... (View More) constructing models, investigating current events, utilizing mathematics to explain concepts, and more. Depending on the project(s) chosen by a student, the activity may require student access to internet accessible computers. The MMS Mission Educator's Instructional Guide uses examples from the mission to introduce mathematics (focusing on geometry) in a real-world context. The lessons use the 5E instructional cycle. Note: MMS launched March 12, 2015. For the latest science and news, visit the MMS Mission Website under Related & Supplemental Resources (right side of this page). (View Less)
This is a make-it-yourself planisphere designed to show where Kepler is pointing. Learners can use it to locate exoplanets around stars in the night sky. It comes with two wheels: one with coordinate grid for plotting additional exoplanet stars and... (View More) one without grid that is easier to read; and two holders for varying latitudes (one for 30°-50° and one for 50°-70°). The product is updated approximately annually to incorporate improvements and any newly discovered planets orbiting naked eye stars. (View Less)
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This activity allows participants to build a paper model of the GPM Core Observatory and learn about the technology the satellite uses to measure precipitation from space. Directions explain how to cut, fold and glue the individual pieces together... (View More) to make the model. The accompanying information sheet has details about the systems in the satellite including the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI), the High Gain Antenna, avionics and star trackers, propulsion system and solar array, as well as a math connection and additional engineering challenges. (View Less)
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Learners will investigate how lateral velocity affects the orbit of a spacecraft such as the International Space Station (ISS). Mathematical extensions are provided. This is science activity 1 of 2 found in the ISS L.A.B.S. Educator Resource Guide.
Learners will construct two different types of trusses to develop an understanding of engineering design for truss structures and the role of shapes in the strength of structures. For optimum completion - this activity should span 3 class periods to... (View More) allow the glue on the structures to dry. This is engineering activity 1 of 2 found in the ISS L.A.B.S. Educator Resource Guide. (View Less)
Learners will investigate the relationship between speed, distance, and orbits as they investigate how quickly the International Space Station (ISS) can travel to take a picture of an erupting volcano. This is mathematics activity 2 of 2 found in... (View More) the ISS L.A.B.S. Educator Resource Guide. (View Less)
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In this activity, learners work in teams to construct specific components of a model of the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) spacecraft. Afterwards, the teams make presentations on the results of their effort. Note: HESSI is now named... (View More) the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, or RHESSI. NOTE: The HESSI mission was renamed RRHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscope Imager) after Dr. Reuven Ramaty, who was the original Co-Investigator for this NASA mission, and was a pioneer in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray astronomy, nuclear astrophysics, and cosmic rays. (View Less)