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Speaking from a statement titled "Zuma's Sona Record: Big Ideas, Little Detail, No Action", Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said that Zuma's presidency had "been characterised by inaction, political expediency, and scandal".
He had "kow-towed" to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in an effort to get himself re-elected as ANC president, and had spent last year focused on "factionalism, cronyism, and ANC machinations".
Responding to a question on whether she though 2013 might be better, she said Zuma appeared more concerned with "staying at the top of the pile" in the ruling party than with running the country.
"As President Zuma delivers his fourth State of the Nation address [on Thursday], many South Africans have little confidence in his ability to deliver on what he promises," Mazibuko said.
Most of the key pledges he made last year "barely got off the ground, or have not been given effect at all".
Turning to the economy, she said Zuma's 2012 plan to address South Africa's infrastructure backlog through 18 major projects had been "slow off the ground", with little progress.
His government's policies, the ruling party's "aggressive rhetoric", and Cosatu's "bullying", had also scared off investment in the country's mining sector.
"The mining sector is now shedding jobs and failing to attract investment," Mazibuko said.
Party colleague and caucus chairman Wilmot James said Zuma's call last year for school teachers to be "in class, on time, teaching for at least seven hours a day" remained a pipe-dream.
"He continues to allow himself to be bullied by Sadtu [the South Afrca Democratic Teachers' Union]," he said.
The recent backing down by government on declaring teaching an essential service was a case in point.
On combating corruption, DA chief whip Watty Watson said Zuma's government had failed to regulate the business interests of state employees.
"The draft public sector integrity framework, apparently before Cabinet, has not been adopted, while Chancellor House continues to be allowed to tender for big contracts, despite it being an investment arm of the ANC," he said.
The DA called on Zuma, in his address on Thursday, to show leadership, "put South Africa's interests ahead of his political career", and provide clear deadlines for implementation of promises made.
"To put South Africa back on the track to economic growth, job creation, and optimism, he must tackle the major challenges of unemployment, crime, a failing education system, corruption, as well as become the key defender of the Constitution."
But Mazibuko said Zuma's record spoke for itself.
"This isn't a president of action and delivery. It is a presidency more concerned with political game-playing and maintaining the support of 4000 ANC delegates," she said.
FF+ voice expectations
Meanwhile, Freedom Front Plus (FF+) leader Pieter Mulder said that Zuma must use the address to bring South Africans certainty and hope for the future.
"Unemployment, slow economic growth, lack of foreign investments, and corruption are some of the most serious crises in South Africa at the moment. The government sends confusing messages on all these terrains (sic) which have to be corrected," he said in a statement.
The consequence of these confusing actions was uncertainty about government's policy directions and negativity about the future.
"When a minister threatens to withdraw mining licenses, and it appears as if government doesn't know how to act against violent protests, it frightens foreign investors away."
When government made strong comments against corruption, but there were daily reports about ANC leaders and public servants committing corruption, voters doubted government's seriousness about combating corruption.
"When government increases wages in the middle of the agricultural season with 52%, it leads to great job losses instead of greater job creation in rural areas," said Mulder, who serves as deputy agriculture minister in Zuma's Cabinet.
He said Zuma, in his address, needed to assure his audience that investments and property rights in South Africa would be safe, and that his government was prepared "to again look at economic measures which at present are dampening economic growth".
The president also needed to make a clear statement and demonstrate "daring new thinking" on job creation, economic growth, labour legislation, and combating corruption.
Mulder called for greater economic freedom for the private sector and intensive infrastructure development by the state.
"This was the winning recipe in other developing countries and the president can give hope by moving in that direction," he said.
Zuma is set to deliver his State Of The Nation address from 7pm on Thursday. – Sapa.


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|2012-09-20, 08:57
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I wish noitaminA wasn't on break for several weeks until the fall shows start. I wanted my WAIT FOR xx.xx trailer today.
1. Because ratings don't even matter that much anymore. At this point, I'm not even sure the current ratings should even be considered as placing noitaminA in 'danger' - sure, they still do count as Fuji TV still places "normal" advertising during the broadcast and nothing too anime-related, so some profit's still made there. But it's most likely turned into a small share of the money compared to disc sales, which is what noitaminA has come to bank on like your average anime production, and which hasn't worked out too badly for the past few seasons (leaving this summer aside, I suppose). Even though a major hit like AnoHana has yet to be recreated, Aniplex must certainly still be trying (noitaminA does maintain better visibility than your other average slot, in spite of the dwindling ratings), and as long as there'll be producer demand for the second timeslot, it'll be maintained. We might have to start getting worried the day Aniplex has a streak of 4 Natsuyuki Rendez-vous-level sales.
2. I think they're aware that going back to a half-hour timeslot wouldn't even work to bring the ratings back at this point. They've tried going back to "noitaminA-like" shows for a bit, which didn't work out at all, in the sense that ratings haven't moved one bit. Going the "otaku-pandering" way (sorry for the ugly shortcuts, but they get the point across) even for a bit was an irreversible choice, it would seem. Maybe it'd work if they announced huge adaptations such as, say... Sangatsu no Lion, or Gin no Saji - but then creating a new timeslot to start afresh might just work better.
|2012-09-20, 09:00
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Great post. It's basically a case of how once you commit to one path, it's very hard to go backwards. While it might be better if the decision was never made to begin with, once it was made, that was it.
So far for that slot and region, noitaminA is still the strongest. Even though it has slipped sooooo much.
|2012-09-20, 09:27
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Of course, the only reason I'm really concerned about ratings, and sales to a lesser extent, is because I'd like to continue to see the kind of josei/seinen adaptations noitaminA has traditionally supported. Even if this timeslot goes away or gives up on them, hopefully there'll be somewhere else that carries them in the future.
|2012-09-20, 10:21
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|2012-09-20, 10:59
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That's really the issue, they could make and bring out as many shows as they want, be them adaptations of huge titles or Originals with A-list staffs, but they can't really guaranty that the same people from the past seasons will still be watching when they bring it out due to how diverse the viewership of the slot is. Sometimes I can't help but think that is noitaminA's greatest strength is also it's worst weakness.
For starting a new time slot, I honestly think that wouldn't work as well at all. Anime no Chikara got the axe only 3 shows in when none of them managed to be a hit, so I would imagine that the pressure for success with a new time slot, where it has no history, brand power or record of past hits, would be far greater than with noitaminA, which even though it's struggling, is a proven quantity and can justify, even to a little extent, putting in enough faith and effort to try different things.
For better or for worse, I think what they are trying to do here and sticking with noitaminA is the best course of action, even if the decisions themselves end up not being correct.
I do think that some of it has to do with the idea that the idea that the slot had been ''contaminated'' by slipping into more typical anime shows (or to be more exact, including elements from popular anime into their shows and programing, since outside of maybe BRS and GC, I think that they had been at least trying to balance things between both components) had made it lose a bit of it's brand power, but from the looks of it they really didn't have much choice in the matter. They needed the money to balance things, otherwise it wouldn't have made much sense or been practical to continue the block any longer if they were running a loss with it. In some ways, the decision for the 1hr increase could be seen as an alternative solution to them going into catering to otaku's, but when that didn't pan out (and in fact made things worse) they ended up having to swallow the bitter pill and try and go down that road further.
Personally though, I don't think that it's as bleak as it looks. At the moment, the producers look like they are grasping at straws and trying their best to make sure the slot survives, but even then I think that there is a lot more life in noitaminA to see it go away anytime soon.
|2012-09-20, 11:14
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noitaminA is currently split into two halves - one primarily backed by Fuji TV and the other (typically the better funded one) primarily backed by Aniplex. There's crossover in terms of planning and financing, but it seems that each partner generally aims for a dedicated half-hour.
|2012-09-21, 04:11
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the main stockholder of TBS(and tv tokyo) is MBS if I'm not mistaken?
Yeah, it seems noitaminA is indeed divided into 2 parts... One normal and one aniplex show...
I guess fuji tv is to blame since they're not being "nationalistic" or anime is just not profitable nowadays. Being beaten by Asahi and NTV...
I think.building a new block.is not a good idea... i mean look what happened to Noise...
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|2012-09-21, 23:07
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Animation character design sheets: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=367059853372933
|2012-09-22, 12:24
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After seeing these sheets I can say that I don't think we need to worry much about the anime character designs not carrying Amano's style. It looks much better than any of the magazine spreads.
|2012-09-25, 00:00
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Psycho-Pass cover on TV Bros magazine, out tomorrow.
|2012-09-25, 04:57
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The talk segments of the Psycho-Pass premiere screening event held on Sept. 29 will be streamed on Niconico: http://live.nicovideo.jp/gate/lv109195092 - the people who'll be there are Motohiro Katsuyuki, Shiotani Naoyoshi, Urobuchi Gen, Seki Tomokazu and Hanazawa Kana.
|2012-09-25, 08:08
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I'm kinda torn as to whether I want to stream the event or not. Urobuchi also tweeted that he's also kinda conflicted on how he's going to handle the talk event due to this announcement. The people who attend the event will be watching the first two episodes before the Q&A, so they'll expect questions to be answered about things in those episodes. But anything they talk about would be spoilers for the people tuning in on the stream, since the episodes themselves won't be broadcast.
Hmmm.... might have to give it a miss if they're going to be spoiling stuff.
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|2012-09-26, 08:09
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I like it But the main dude looks like Spike Spiegel to me
|2012-09-26, 08:12
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|2012-09-26, 23:30
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(seriously, crazy hair, dead eyes, suit, gun, and most importantly Urobuchi. I had major Kiritsugu mother's day flash back when i saw it)
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Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (US - BD RA)
Gabe thinks it's about time someone fed this franchise to the inbred cannibals...
The first Wrong Turn, directed by Rob Schmidt and co-produced by Stan Winston, was a slick, reasonably effective horror film, and one of the better Texas Chainsaw Massacre riffs of the early 2000s. The first sequel, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, directed by Joe Lynch, was a surprisingly entertaining gore-fest, and exactly what the lower tier, box office disappointment tuned straight to video franchise needed. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, directed by Declan O'Brien, featured plenty of high-gore hijinks, but the tepid prison escape plot floundered, and the violence wasn't particularly fun or threatening. This third film was ultimately such a chore, and such a drop in quality from the other two films I assumed there wasn't anything left in the franchise. Still, for whatever reason, I really wanted to like Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings. The film works occasionally, in that it fulfills most of the basic inbred slasher movie requirements, and though it never rises above the dimmest expectations, it's a reasonably amusing diversion for at least the 15 minutes of screen time. From there, though, things go a bit south.
The story embraces the utter emptiness of similar genre films. Following a pre-credit back-story, the story boils down to nine college students taking a literal wrong turn during a snow-mobile trip, winding up at a derelict and abandoned sanatorium, and fending off three inbred killer cannibals (apparently the same three inbred killer cannibals from the first film). Things kick off on the right foot, ducking right into the brand of post-'80s simplified grotesquery I want to expect from this hillbilly/cannibal exploitation franchise. The pre-credit sequence is far and away the best thing in the film, and delves into that oft-overlooked exploitation subgenre known as insane asylum-sploitation (as of now) in a cruel fashion befitting 'classics' like Don't Look in the Basement. This sequence also sees returning director/first time writer Declan O'Brien quickly recognizing that his previous film was sorely lacking in comedy. I didn't necessarily find his brand of raunchy, mean-spirited comedy all that funny, but it's nice to see him at least attempting to infuse a bit of Troma sensibility into the mix. The violence isn't jaw-droppingly wet, or too creative in its nastiness, but this one actually earns its unrated status, rather than just being unrated because it didn't bother submitting to the MPAA ratings system. There's even a reasonably graphic soft-core sex within the first dozen minutes, filling a huge exploitative void left by the hugely T&A-less Wrong Turn 3. The lesbian characters (who get a second brief sex scene in case you missed the first) are ridiculous straight male dream-fulfillers, and aren't going to win the film a Humanitus, but as a fan of the offensive I can't help but appreciate the tactless portrayal.
Unfortunately, there's almost nothing memorable in the film outside of the opening madhouse sequence, and a gruesome (but not that gruesome) cannibalism scene. I wanted to respect the purity of O'Brien's story, but ended up missing the pseudo-novelty of the third film's prison break story theme. The characters are mostly defined by their sexual appetites, and their lack of shape and tone wears thin before any of them are iced. I desperately want the standard slasher motifs to continue to work in the modern era, but the entirely un-savvy manner these people mindlessly wander off the trail, find an empty hospital, and then fumble through dark corners is thoroughly frustrating. O'Brien takes the quantity over quantity stance with his walking meat-sacks. His characters are entirely empty and interchangeable, but there are a lot of them, ensuring a lot of death as the film progresses. That's cool, more kills is always great, but this practice asphyxiates any sense of suspense, because we don't give a severed dead college student's head about what happens to anyone. O'Brien's version of development pertains mostly to boring scenes of unlikable characters arguing, which I'm pretty sure were supposed to lend reality to the situation, but ends up sinking some of the best scenes of graphic violence. Minor stabs at moral complexity don't work because there's nothing at stake.
Wrong Turn 4's general look is what I'd like to call 'grindhouse clean'. It's dark, but never dirty. This 1080p, 1.78:1 transfer is mostly better than the included DVD copy because it's possible to tell what the hell is going on in the darkest of the dark scenes. Director Declan O'Brien and cinematographer Michael Marshall (working with mostly Red One MX cameras) utilize the location's fluorescent lighting for most of the film, which leads to some subtle contrast levels, and makes it difficult to differentiate elements in low light. The snow-caked outdoor sequences are generally better looking thanks to the higher contrast levels the severe elements allow. The early asylum sequence is relatively blue-tinged, but the rest of the interiors are usually either softer brown or sickly green in tint, and the general saturation (especially the green) increases as the film progresses. The blood red hues are occasionally lost in the darkness and green tint, but also often pop effectively, and are generally the transfer's most vibrant element. Detail levels are solid, but stylistically not super-sharp, usually due to successfully softer blends (I caught very little in the way of banding effects). There isn't often a lot in the way of complexity to the compositions, but textures are realistic enough, and elements are separated with only minor compression artefacts on some of the edges.
There isn't a lot to this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix outside of a few scare cues, and effectively grotesque gore sound effects. Outside of a handful of creaks and moans during the occasional 'stalking through the creepy unknown' sequences, there's very little in the way of surround channel or directional effects, but even the bulk of the spooky ambience sits in the center channel. Dialogue and basic effects are plenty clean, and even when the bad guys are armed with a noisy electric drill it's easy enough to differentiate between sounds. The mix does clever enough stuff with the music at some points, such as implying it's coming from the room the teenagers are partying in by muffling it as the cannibals check them out from outside a one-way mirror. Otherwise Claude Foisy's score fills out the stereo spread pretty well, and the pop tunes offer a good clean forum for the LFE channel.
The extras begin with a commentary track featuring director Declan O'Brien, and 'behind the scene producer' Brett Levinson (Levingston?). Leving-whatever acts as an interviewer, and does a fine, professional job of keeping the discussion moving, and ensuring the important facts are covered. O'Brien seems like the type that could do a decent job on his own, but he pauses enough that the interview setting seems valuable. As an exercise in information it works (especially if you're the type that wonders what brands of cameras and lenses were used for the film), but O'Brien' has a terrible habit of laughing at his own jokes. And by 'jokes' I often mean 'gore gags' ('Oh that's just wrong, heh heh.'), though at one point he pauses the talking to point out his favourite line, and claps after the actor says it. He claps at a line he wrote. Behind the scenes anecdotes are often amusing, and give a decent look behind the scenes of a modestly budgeted studio production.
'Director's Die-ary's' (that's their misused apostrophe on a fake word, not mine, 7:40, HD) is a series of five brief behind the scenes video diaries (that is the correct plural use, by the way) that mix hardy-har-har antics with quick scenes from the final film. 'Making Another Wrong Turn' (12:40, HD) is a little more substantial of an EPK, focused on the difficulties of making an effects heavy film in such little time and with little money, and features interviews with O'Brien, producer Kim Todd, actors Ali Tataryn, Tenika Davis, Jenny Pudavick, Victor Zinck Jr, Dean Armstrong, Daniel Skene, Sean Skene, Scotty Johnson, Kaitlyn Wong and Samantha Kendrick, make-up effects supervisor Doug Morrow, and effects assistants Mike Hamilton, Tamara Harrod and Don Greenberg. 'Lifestyles of the Sick and Infamous' (5:10, HD) focuses on the spooky location the film was shot on, and includes interviews with O'Brien, Todd, production designer Rejean Labrie, and the bulk of the cast. Both Todd and Labrie take credit for discovering the location. The disc also features a music video featuring The Blackout City Kids, a collection of 13 deleted/extended scenes (18:10, HD), and Fox release trailers.
I tried to enjoy Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginning for what it was: a low-concept, high gore stalk and slash horror movie. But even with low expectations and open arms I can't bring myself to recommend this largely frustrating, lowbrow exercise. There are some good bits of graphic violence, so the gorehounds in the house may get some satisfaction out of a rental. It's not a very attractive film, and it has basement level production values (or as far into the basement as a studio film can get), but the 1080p transfer looks quite clear, and the modest sound design sounds just fine in DTS-HD Master Audio sound. Extras are decent, and include a half good, half bad commentary, and a large collection of deleted/extended scenes.
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Review by Gabriel Powers
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
this was better than part 3 but that's not saying much. part 3 was abysmal. i moderately enjoyed this (barely) up until SPOILER SPOILER the few surviors had their chance to kill/burn the 3 psychos and the lead idiot girl pulls a "don't kill them! that would make us like them" morality riff!! WTF?!!! they just brutally killed and ate your friends and will do the same to you but you don't want to "be like them"?!!! after that i checked out. this movie wants to be like the amazing COLD PREY but isn't even in the same universe as that superb movie.
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I applaud your commitment to the job, Gabe. There is no way I could watch this piece of trash. *CLAP*CLAP*
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i just saw this last night and yeah, its just as bad as Part 3. i give em credit for relying less on CGI gore and using prosthetics this time but its still bad. most of them are such bad actors. i can forgive bad acting in little no name low budget c**p but despite being DTV, this is still a major studio movie. i can't believe anyone watched the dailies and was satisfied with such atrocious acting. especially that 40yr old playing one of the teens, he was so bad. lol
its funny that they've now had 3 other actors play Three Finger and none of them even come close to seeming like the same guy from the original. the original actor seemed believable and creepy, they feel like high school play actors trying to copy him.
its funny that they've now had 3 other actors play Three Finger and none of them even come close to seeming like the same guy from the original. the original actor seemed believable and creepy, they feel like high school play actors trying to copy him.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 25th October 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Director's Die-aries, Making Another Wrong Turn, Lifestyles of the Sick and Infamous, Wrong Turn 4 Music Video, Deleted/Alternate Scenes, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Declan O'Brien
Cast: Ali Tataryn, Tenika Davis, Jenny Pudavick, Victor Zinck Jr, Dean Armstrong, Daniel Skene, Sean Skene, Scotty Johnson, Kaitlyn Wong and Samantha Kendrick
Genre: Horror
Length: 93 minutes
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The sub Polidor is at 3800 feet, the men sweating, nervous, and irritable. Nelson calls from the radio shack of Seaview at Nelson Marine Institute where Seaview is docked. Two officials, Dan Case and Nelson's closer friend, Philip James are aboard Seaview. Phil tells Nelson, "Relax Harrimin. Every key man on board the Polidor was hand picked from Seaview." Polidor reaches crush depth--4300 feet. Due to Connors, a helmsman, the sub slides down further. The sub is under control and up to 4100 feet again and the hull is okay. Nelson calls them to change their attitude when some water comes in and a leak is evident. The men panic and try to get out of the sub. Nelson yells for Captain Anders over and over, hearing the screams of the men. The Polidor sinks lower and lower and blows up. Nelson puts the mike down.
Seaview dock; men loading crates; an officer walking with a sailor. Seaview is ready to go. Observation nose: Nelson reminds Chip Morton to reset the gyroscope compass--it will need four hours to settle down. Chip tells him he already has. He is also checking the reassembly of the inertial guidance system which was recalibrated. Nelson barks at Curley not to give him excuses of why crewmen can't make the sail time (he reached the wives of Powell and Lacey and they told him the two men went on a fishing trip). 7 of 9 crewmen on shore leave can make it. Nelson tells him to tell them not to waste any time or they'll be waiting on an empty dock. Nelson tells Crane to tell Lt. Henly to check the air revitalization system but Crane tells him, gently, that Henly was on the Polidor. Nelson's hand shakes, making him drop coffee on it, burning it slightly. He sits down. Phil and Dan are still on board, telling him the congressional committee wants a hearing but Nelson tells them he can't delay. Crane tells Nelson that a few hours won't make any difference to the men of the Polidor now--"you've got to accept that." The committee believes man cannot live and function at deep sea levels due to the emotional strain and the crash of the Polidor shows this. Nelson tells them to abandon the sea is to lay untold wealth, minerals, foods, scientific information to other countries. Dan asks Nelson to forget other countries and asks Nelson if he wants to go as a curious scientist or as a human being wanting to salve his conscience. Phil tries to stop Dan but Nelson wants to answer that. Nelson hopes it is because he is a clinical scientist and as such must know what happened. Phil tells him the committee will withhold judgement if he takes a psychologist observer along, a Dr. Arthur Kenner to determine the stress level and analyze the crew. Kenner will be able to call off the mission on emotional matters, not technical ones. On emotional matters he will be able to countermand the Admiral's orders. Nelson agrees but tells them they shove off at 8 hundred hours, "I don't intend to wait for anyone." Kenner is called as he shows a group of two scientists the effects of a fear gas on a cat and mouse---the cat was given the gas and is afraid of the mouse. (THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FILM IN REVERSE of a mouse chasing a cat). These experiments will help them isolate the elements of fear. Phil calls Kenner who tells him he will be aboard Seaview. Each element of the fear gas was provided by one of each of the three scientists, none of which know the full formula. Martin Davis, Kenner's aide asks about it in humans. Kenner doesn't fully answer--there must be more testing. The other two leave. Kenner tells them fear in lower animals is for survival, but in humans it is much more complex. Martin gets Kenner to decide to take him along as an aide--the committee will let him. At 6 AM they leave. Martin closes a curtain, takes out a screwdriver, and opens the cabinet where Kenner locked his fear gas canisters. He hides it in the back of a tape recorder and puts the recorder in a suitcase. He calls a man in a limo--the Director--one container will turn Nelson and his crew into panic stricken madmen. This gas worked on the Polidor but this time, the sub must return so that Nelson can testify that man cannot function under the sea. Davis finds that knowing what the gas can do limits its fear on the human mind--a sort of immunity--which is why he will be able to go along. The Director wants Nelson to be afraid, leaving the riches of the sea to, "US." Nelson's cabin: there is a giant model of the Polidor--we hear the slow theme song. Nelson tells Crane to tell Sparks to observe radio silence once they are underway. Crane has already told the men to get underway as soon as the guests arrive. Nelson thanks him. Chip brings the two to the cabin. Seaview heads out (Seaview theme). Crane shows Kenner to his cabin; Davis finds and asks about the Air Revitalizing Room. Crane explains about the system which purifies the air and recycles it. The exhaust vents are at deck level. Crane arranges the duty schedule to match the men Davis wants to interview and profile. Davis tells Crane why--short handed since many of your men were on the Polidor. Ski and Pat search his things and while they do, Davis adds an element of fear--talking about possible survivors, asking about Ski's buddies on the Polidor ("yeah, I had a couple" Ski tells him), and pumping Patterson that he might be the only man who makes it out alive since he works near the escape belt and would be the first one out alive. Ski makes Davis open his suitcase and Davis diverts his attention from the tape recorder, which doesn't seem to work at first, by taping Ski's voice. Ski tells Davis, "These guys don't scare easily--you name it--they've been through it." When Davis tells Patterson the man who had his job on the Polidor didn't get off, Ski and Pat leave without any further discussion. Davis turns his back to the door, proud of his work.
Seaview is undersea. Crane tells Kenner they may spend a week to ten days at a time submerged depending on the mission. Davis questions Pat about how it feels to be at 4500 feet--like an egg shell. Nelson slams paper down on his desk. Chip tells Crane that Nelson ordered silent running and is in his cabin, some of the men are worried since they haven't seen Nelson since they left and are at war alert status. Crane will go see him and does. He finds Nelson deep in thought, playing with a smaller version of the Polidor model and listening to the tape he took of the Polidor call--the men screaming and himself calling Anders. Crane talks to him about the disaster--the specification of the sub were checked--Nelson tells him they took no chances. Crane tells him nothing could attack the Polidor that low and nothing has been planted on Seaview. Davis goes to Air Revitalization, a huge room, with large shafts. He opens the case and plants the tape recorder in a smaller shaft vent. It beeps and periodically releases the fear gas. Seaview is at 3400 feet. Nelson shows Kenner the pathometer which tells them the depth and the precision depth recorder which gives a graphic representation of the ocean bottom so they know what is under them at all times. Davis talks to Nelson, who sees Davis doubts the instruments. Kenner is unusually nervous and wonders if men should function under constant threat of death. He could cancel the mission. Davis eggs Nelson on, wanting to have Kenner stop the mission. Nelson doubts Kenner's judgement. Crane tells Pryor (the same actor who later would play Frank Werden in AND FIVE OF US ARE LEFT in season two) to look sharp and tells him to settle down--he doesn't like this any more than they do. Pat is in the Missile Room. They are at 4500 feet and the manometer tells them what metal is in the area. Davis tells he is a bit nervous himself. Nelson tells him it takes a bit of getting used to. A crewman is not sure what he is hearing, making Nelson angry. Nelson grabs his headset and listens--metal is 300 feet below. "Shape up sailor, you're as much an important part of this mission as anyone else." He is still not sure and Davis sticks up for him; Nelson tells Davis he is not helping. Nelson admits that being afraid is not a crime or a sign of weakness--only a fool would deny there is danger here. Nelson goes on to say, "My biggest fear is not death...that's always with us one way or another--the men are used to it and so am I. My big fear is of failure when I know this mission should succeed." Nelson orders Kenner back to his cabin when the man tries to get them to abort the mission. Chip escorts Kenner out. Crane tells the men the slightest malfunction could be disastrous. Davis tells Nelson he will overlook the incident if they turn back now. He taunts Nelson with the 100 lives. Nelson tells him Kenner is not able to command. Crewman tells them there is contact--metal on a ledge. Curley in damage control tells them there is a pin leak in the Missile Room. Crane wants to level off but Nelson wants to move in closer. Curley points out the wall in the Missile Room---the Polidor is right out there. Pat tells him so is Bently and the other men--so close you can almost hear them. They hear banging--like somebodies out there, Pat says. One of the crewmen who turns around looks a lot like Jay Leno. One of the men yells that his buddy is still alive and out there, "Querle?" Two to three men panic and try to leave their posts. Nelson and Crane push the pilots back. Crane yells to take er up; Nelson stares at him; Crane orders to hold that order; Nelson relents to take her up to 3500 feet and hold. Davis stirs up Crane when Nelson leaves--fear takes many forms and its always destructive he tells Crane. He urges Crane to takeover before Nelson pushes them down to destruction if Crane doesn't. "We're in your hands now, Captain."
Nose: Curley reports number 2 is damaged; he tells Crane the men can't take it and neither can he. Crane angrily dismisses him twice. The radio man looks at him. Crane bursts off, watched by Davis in hiding, to Nelson's room (on the door is B-2-0-1, not ADMIRAL NELSON as in later episodes) and goes in. He wants to surface even though they have only minor damage. He tells Nelson they were lucky so far and he thinks the men can't hold up under another dive. Crane insists they go back down at another time and when the men are in better shape. Nelson yells, "I'll make that decision!" They then discuss, more calmly, the Polidor and the fact that it may have been sabotaged. Crane tells him there is no evidence of that and Nelson may be avoiding another answer--one that may lay the deaths of 85 Nelson's feet. Nelson tells him he wants nothing more than to get out of here and, "put all this behind us but I can't, won't, at any price!" Air Revitalization: Pat finds it clear. Davis talks to Curley and Pat about the strain--that they will be okay if they surface now. Crane announces they are going to go back down. Davis runs out and pumps Kenner, calling the officers madmen. Kenner tells him, "I'm something of a madman myself." He tells him he feels like a victim of his own fear gas...but glad it isn't...it could kill him. When Davis reacts in fear, Kenner tells him the gas turns into a deadly nerve gas that works directly on the brain in humans. It is too unstable to use on humans. Davis pushes Kenner down and the old man hits his head on the wall and the sink. Davis runs to the Air Revitalization Room and tries to recover the tape recorder but (using his jacket) manages only to knock it over a ledge deeper into the sub. He runs to his cabin (filmed in wide angle lens), fearful himself now. He stuffs the vent with blankets and pillows to no effect. He hears lee calling, "Standby to dive." Seaview dives. NOTE: at this point, I thought, perhaps, Kenner and the men of Seaview were playing a MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE on Davis since he was getting his own back on him. Served him right.
4470 feet: Pryor gets up and tells the Admiral it is too far down. Lee tells Clark to take him away (Clark is seen only in long shot and from behind) to Sickbay. 400 feet ahead is a metal contact. It is wreckage which Seaview hits as Nelson wants to prepare the diving bell to salvage what they can. There is a leak and a fire which a fire detail lead by Anderson puts out. Chip calls damage control to the 4th floor tank which is jammed. Without Curley and Pat freeing it by hand, they cannot surface. Crane is told by Curley it can be done but it will take time. Davis, his jacket off, covered in sweat and oil, comes in and tells them to surface now or they'll die. He tells the truth. The gas slipped into a main duct--the 8 hours are up and it will become a nerve gas. Nelson grabs him, "Is that what happened to the Polidor!" He seems at breaking point and crying. Davis tells him yes. Nelson tells Crane to get Davis out of the room. Nelson orders revitalization unit shut off and for them to go on established air. Kenner comes in and tells them that won't be enough--the gas can still kill them. Nelson and he figure if they heat the sub, the gas will rise and cling to the ceiling. Nelson says, "Pass the word, this boat is going to be a sweat box!" Curley and Pat are in the shaft and find the unit (the same one Sharkey found underwater in SECRET OF THE DEEP). Lee tells the men, "Keep down, all of you." He has his shirt open. Lee and the others try to move the steering but they are losing trim. Another man helps Pat and Curley and they use a chain to move the valve. Pat keeps talking about it giving and getting lose. Curley says, "Shud yap and stop using up air." They free it. Curley tells Crane after, he himself, tells Pat and the man it is lose. In the control room, another crewman takes his shirt off (a rare thing on the Seaview where, though informal, all act professional). The nose goes up somewhat and Seaview surfaces. Good "happy" music follows. Conning Tower: pure unrevitalized air, Nelson, Crane and Kenner. In Washington DC the FBI will pick up Davis. Kenner feels guilty==the gas and Davis is all his doing. Nelson says, "Almost your undoing." He tells them fear and humans are a complicated thing...but he didn't realize how. Nelson and Crane, Nelson with his hat on, breath the air as it winds up at them. Nice ending. Nice scene.
REVIEW: Lloyd Bocher, Barry Atwater, Robert Loggia, and Peter Mark Richman all played several times on VOYAGE, all reminding me of one another but all very good guest villains. FEAR makes one feel the "hard to breath" effect of the gas using many claustrophobic sequences and dark angles to make one feel they are actually going to be trapped in an airless coffin sub. I remember the ending on the conning tower being most optimistic after a fairly dark episode. Edgar Bergen was great. The crash of the Polidor was most upsetting, possibly the most upsetting loss of a sub (with THE ENEMIES a good contender). Nelson and Lee had lots of tension to deal with, both with and from each other and the crew, as well as the crew among themselves. The actor who played Frank Werden plays Pryor in this one. Someone named Murdock is credited. Either Bishop or O'Brien is in this one in the background quite a bit and it is difficult to tell which one is which between the two characters.


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Wednesday January 25, 2012
Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to reunite with her Traffic director Steven Soderbergh in a new movie.
According to reports, the Rebound actress is in the frame for a starring role in upcoming psychological thriller Side Effects.
Jude Law, Blake Lively and Channing Tatum are also in talks about parts in the film.
Catherine, 42 - who has two children with husband Michael Douglas - will play a doctor in the film, which follows a depressed young woman who starts using prescription drugs to help her cope with her husband's forthcoming release from prison.
Jude and Channing have also worked with the award-winning filmmaker before.
The Sherlock Holmes star starred in Contagion, while Channing worked with the director on Haywire and Magic Mike.
Production is due to start in April in New York.
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posted on 2002-08-30 10:25 EDT by Christopher Macdonald
Earns a third of what the Spring Anime Fair earned.
For the first time ever, Toei's Summer Anime Fair has been deemed a box office failure in Japan. This year's Fair, which included Digimon Frontier, Kinniku-Man the 2nd and Crash Gear Turbo, earned a mere 800 million yen (US$6.8m) at the Japanese box office. Last year's Summer Anime Fair and this Spring's Anime Fair earned approximately 2 billion yen each.
Toei has been holding Summer and Spring Anime Fairs, consisting of movies geared towards school children, every year since 1967.
Meanwhile this summer, TOHO's latest Pokemon 5th Movie has earned 3 billion yen at the box office to date.
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Fort Dorchester coach Steve LaPrad knew he had a quarterback that could run. He was less sure about his QB's ability to throw the ball.
A month into the season, LaPrad is convinced junior Kobe Garrett can do both.
Over his last three games, Garrett has passed for 402 yards and four touchdowns, completing nearly 60 percent of his throws. A dual-threat quarterback, Garrett has added 302 yards and four TDs on the ground.
"Kobe is a special player, a fierce competitor and has really turned himself into a great high school quarterback," LaPrad said. "We knew that Kobe had a ton of potential and athletic ability. He's really worked hard to put it all together so far this season."
A year ago, as a sophomore on the Patriots' junior varsity team, Garrett ran through opposing defenses with his speed and athletic ability. He routinely sliced through defenses, scrambling and improvising his way to big plays. But staying in the pocket and finding open receivers was an issue for the young quarterback.
"Blocking at the junior varsity level isn't always very good," LaPrad said. "When Kobe felt pressure, he would scramble around, get outside the pocket and make things happen. That's fine at the jayvee level."
LaPrad counseled Garrett on changing his tactics. While using his athletic ability to scramble away from pressure might have worked at the junior varsity level, it wasn't going to be as effective against varsity players.
"He's realized he wasn't going to get away with that when he came up to the varsity," LaPrad said. "He had to be a smarter player and work on his passing."
He did that all summer, spending countless hours working on his passing skills.
"His throwing motion needed some work, he had a slow release and he wasn't very accurate," LaPrad said. "Kobe really put in a bunch of time over the summer and improved a ton. He's turned himself into a good throwing quarterback."
Garrett has also learned when to stay in the pocket and make a throw and when it's time to use his feet to escape.
"He has that clock in his head, all the good quarterbacks do," LaPrad said. "He's more patient in the pocket. He understands coverages better, and now he'll wait for a receiver to come open before scrambling."
Opposing coaches have learned quickly that Garrett can beat a defense with his arm or his legs. Garrett had 241 yards of total offense, including 114 rushing yards and two TDs, against Stratford.
"(Garrett) is as good a quarterback as Fort Dorchester has had in a while," said Stratford coach Ray Stackley. "He's a magician. He escaped a few times against us when I was sure we had him tackled. As he develops, he's only going to get better and be even more difficult to contain. He's scary."
The Patriots (2-2) take on Wando (2-3) tonight at Bagwell Stadium.
"These are two desperate teams," LaPrad said. "We've both lost two in a row and need a win."


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Famous for both his signature shuffle and verbal sparring, boxer Cassius Clay quickly rose to fame in the '60s, becoming the world's best-known athlete – and eventually its most controversial. After joining the Nation of Islam and adopting the name Muhammad Ali, he was widely denounced for refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, based on his religious opposition to the Vietnam War. Stripped of his title and banned from the sport, the self-proclaimed "Greatest" lost nearly four years of his boxing prime to legal battles. In 1971, his case for being a conscientious objector eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, rooted by tradition and conservative ideals with Nixon-appointed Chief Justice Warren E. Burger at its helm.
HBO Films presents in association with SAF Films West MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT, starring Academy Award® winner Christopher Plummer ("Beginners"), Academy Award® nominee Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon") and Benjamin Walker ("Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"); directed by Academy Award® nominee Stephen Frears ("The Queen") from a script by Shawn Slovo ("A World Apart"); and executive produced by Emmy® winner Frank Doelger (HBO's "Game of Thrones" and "The Gathering Storm"), Emmy® winner Tracey Scoffield (HBO's "The Gathering Storm"), Jonathan Cameron and Stephen Frears.
Debuting SATURDAY, OCT. 5 (8:00-9:40 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, the film goes behind the closed doors of the United States Supreme Court as its nine justices – Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (Frank Langella), Hugo Black (Fritz Weaver), William O. Douglas (Harris Yulin), John Harlan II (Christopher Plummer), William Brennan, Jr. (Peter Gerety), Potter Stewart (Barry Levinson), Byron "Whizzer" White (John Bedford Lloyd), Thurgood Marshall (Danny Glover) and Harry Blackmun (Ed Begley, Jr.) – decide the outcome of Muhammad Ali's landmark appeal. Justice Harlan, a respected jurist with 15 years on the court, finds himself at odds with the status quo after his perspective is challenged by the contemporary ideals of his new clerk, Kevin Connolly (Benjamin Walker). The film explores the intricate politics behind these historic decisions in a time of rapid social and cultural transformation in the American landscape.
When executive producer Frank Doelger at Rainmark Films asked writer Shawn Slovo to develop a film version of some of the events portrayed in the book of the same name by Howard Bingham and Max Wallace, she was immediately attracted to the volatile time period in which the film is set.
"The late '60s, early '70s in American history is the most fascinating period," Slovo says. "It wasn't only that you had the cast of great characters and the great story, but also the context of the times. I seized on this opportunity when Frank gave it to me."
To bring the script to life, Slovo was paired with celebrated director Stephen Frears, whom she credits for attracting such top actors as Christopher Plummer and Frank Langella to the film. She notes, "People want to work with Stephen and for the obvious reasons. And that's a huge asset to this."
Slovo's script called for archival footage to portray Ali. Frears and the other filmmakers agreed with the decision not to cast an actor for the scenes showing the inimitable boxer, who was as bold and outspoken outside the ring as he was inside.
Slovo explains, "Any chance he got, Ali was talking about why he believed in what he believed, why he refused to fight. So we have this brilliant archive footage, and once you see it, you think, 'There is absolutely no point in trying to find an actor to play this man.'"
Despite the extensive amount of information gathered on the justices, the actors were also encouraged by Frears to trust the script and shape their parts from their insights. "The production sent me four books, and out of the four books, I got a paragraph of information on Warren Burger as a person," says Frank Langella. "There is very little personal information about these guys, and I think that's probably something the justices develop, which is not to have them be shining examples of personality, but to be men who stand for justice."
The clerks, as an ensemble, provide an emotional and youthful perspective to the justices, who strive to practice strictly by the law. Justice Harlan's fledgling clerk, Kevin Connolly (Benjamin Walker), struggles not only with his tradition-minded employers, but also with the established clerk system that favors Ivy League students. In the historical appeal of Ali's case, the clerks played an integral role in influencing the reversal of the justices' decision.
Shot in New York City, with additional locations in New York State, MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT went to great lengths to evoke Washington, D.C. in the 1970s.
"We had a difficult time finding neighborhoods in New York City that looked like, felt like, Georgetown, which is a lot older than most of the locations in New York," says production designer Dan Davis. "We stumbled across Schenectady and found this fantastic neighborhood that looked almost identical to Georgetown."
After extensive behind-the-scenes tours of the Supreme Court, the production meticulously built a central courtroom on a stage in Brooklyn, in addition to filming elsewhere in New York City for scenes of the justices' chambers and clerks' offices. Seasoned costume designer Molly Maginnis also came on board to recreate the fashions of the early '70s, working with robe manufacturer Bentley & Simon, which has outfitted many of the Supreme Court justices since 1918.
Christopher Plummer (John Harlan II) is a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® winner for "Beginners" and a Tony Award winner for the musicals "Cyrano" and "Barrymore." His other film credits include "The Man Who Would Be King," "Battle of Britain," "Waterloo," "The Fall of The Roman Empire," "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," "Twelve Monkeys," the Oscar®-winning "The Sound of Music," the Oscar®-nominated "The Insider," the Oscar®-winning "A Beautiful Mind," "Man in the Chair," "Must Love Dogs," "National Treasure," "Syriana" and "Inside Man." Plummer's TV appearances include the Emmy®-winning BBC presentation "Hamlet at Elsinore" and the Emmy®-winning productions "The Thornbirds," "Nuremberg" and "Little Moon of Alban." Plummer has won two Emmys® and received six other Emmy® nominations.
Frank Langella (Chief Justice Warren E. Burger) is a three-time Tony Award-winning, Oscar®-nominated actor for his role as Richard Nixon in the play and film "Frost/Nixon." His impressive list of more than 65 films includes "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Starting Out in the Evening," "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," "Dave," "Dracula," and, most recently, the highly acclaimed independent film "Robot and Frank." He will next be seen opposite Nicole Kidman in "Grace of Monaco" and opposite Kevin Costner in "Draft Day." Langella has been nominated for Golden Globes, Emmys®, SAG Awards and Independent Spirit Awards. In addition to his Tony wins, he has been nominated for Tonys six other times and has won five Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards and the distinguished Drama League Award, and has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Benjamin Walker (Kevin Connolly) starred in the title role of Timur Bekmambetov's "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," produced by Tim Burton and based on the novel of the same name. His other film credits include the Clint Eastwood-directed "Flags of Our Fathers" and the Bill Condon-directed "Kinsey." He performed in the Broadway revival of "Inherit the Wind" and in Roundabout Theatre's production of "Les Liasons Dangereuses," which was nominated for six Tony Awards. Walker played the title role in the Alex Timbers musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." Most recently, he appeared on Broadway in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," playing Brick.
Harris Yulin (William O. Douglas) has appeared on stage in "King John," "Hedda Gabler," "A Lesson from Aloes," "Finishing the Picture," "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and "Hamlet." His film credits include "Looking for Richard," "The Hurricane," "Cradle Will Rock," "Training Day," "Fur" and "The Place Beyond the Pines." On TV, Yulin has appeared in "The FBI Story: FBI Versus Alvin Karpas, Public Enemy Number One," "Third Watch," "24," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Mister Sterling." His guest appearance on an episode of "Frasier" garnered him an Emmy® nomination.
Ed Begley, Jr. (Harry Blackmun) received six Emmy® nominations for playing Dr. Victor Ehrlich on "St. Elsewhere." His film credits include "Whatever Works," "Pineapple Express," "Batman Forever," "The Accidental Tourist," "The In-Laws" and a number of Christopher Guest films, such as "A Mighty Wind," "Best in Show" and "For Your Consideration." On TV, he has also appeared on HBO's "Family Tree," "Recount" and "Six Feet Under," as well as "Arrested Development" and "Boston Legal."
Fritz Weaver (Hugo Black) won a Tony Award for "Child's Play" and received a Tony nomination and Theatre World Award for "The Chalk Garden." His Broadway credits also include "A Shot in the Dark," "A Tale Told," "Angels Fall," "Protective Custody," "Miss Lonelyhearts," "All American," "Lorenzo," "The White House," "Baker Street," "My Fair Lady," "Absurd Person Singular," "The Price," "The Crucible" and "Ring Round the Moon." He received Emmy® nominations for "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" and the miniseries "Holocaust." His other TV credits include "The Martian Chronicles" and "The Twilight Zone." Weaver's film credits include "Fail-Safe," "Black Sunday," "Marathon Man," "Creep Show," "A Walk in the Spring Rain," "The Day of the Dolphin," "Power," "Demon Seed" and "The Thomas Crown Affair." He has been inducted into the Theater Hall Of Fame and the Players' Hall Of Fame.
Barry Levinson (Potter Stewart) is an Academy Award®-winning director, screenwriter and producer who was awarded the 1988 Best Director Oscar® for the multiple Academy Award®-winning "Rain Man," starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. In 1991, "Bugsy," directed and produced by Levinson, was nominated for ten Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director. As a screenwriter, Levinson has received three Oscar® nominations, for "…And Justice for All," "Diner" and "Avalon." More recently, he executive produced and directed the HBO Films drama "You Don't Know Jack," which received 15 Emmy® nominations, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Best Director. His other iconic films include "The Natural," "Good Morning, Vietnam," "Wag the Dog" and "Sleepers."
John Bedford Lloyd (Byron "Whizzer" White) has appeared on Broadway in "Some Americans Abroad," "The Rainmaker" and "Tartuffe." His other theatre credits include Ethan Coen's "Offices" at the Atlantic Theatre Company, "Williamstown," the world premiere of Arthur Miller's "Resurrection Blues," "The Drawer Boy" and "The Best of Enemies." On TV, he has appeared in HBO's "John Adams," "The Bronx Is Burning" and "Remember WENN," for which he received a SAG Award nomination. His film credits include "Super Troopers," "Crossing Delancey," "Tough Guys Don't Dance," "Nixon," "The Abyss," "The Bourne Supremacy," "Philadelphia," "The Manchurian Candidate," "The Hoax" and "Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps."
Peter Gerety (William Brennan, Jr.) has appeared on film in "Get the Gringo," "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," "Public Enemies," "The Changeling," "Leatherheads," "Charlie Wilson's War," "Inside Man," "Things That Hang From Trees," "Syriana," "War of the Worlds," "K-Pax," "People I Know," "Magic Hour," "Montana," "The Legend of Bagger Vance," "Mrs. Winterborne," "Surviving Picasso," "Hollywood Ending" and "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion." On TV, he has appeared in "Brothers and Sisters," "The Bedford Diaries," HBO's "The Wire," "Conviction," "Homicide," "Law & Order," "Ed," "Central Park West," "Third Watch" and "The Return to Lonesome Dove." He is currently appearing in the late Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy" on Broadway opposite Tom Hanks.
Danny Glover (Thurgood Marshall) debuted on Broadway in "Master Harold…and the Boys" and starred in the blockbuster "Lethal Weapon" franchise. His other film credits include the Academy Award® winners "Places in the Heart" and "Witness." He also starred in Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Saw," "Shooter," "Dreamgirls," "Death at a Funeral" and "2012." On TV, Glover won an Image Award and a CableACE Award, and also earned an Emmy® nomination, for the title role of the HBO original movie "Mandela." He has also received Emmy® nominations for the acclaimed miniseries "Lonesome Dove" and the TV movie "Freedom Song," and as a director earned a Daytime Emmy® nomination for "Just a Dream."
Pablo Schreiber (Covert Becker) was nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in the revival of Clifford Odets' classic "Awake and Sing!," directed by Bartlett Sher. Schreiber's films include "Happythankyoumoreplease," which won the Audience Award at Sundance, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "The Lords of Dogtown," "Tell Tale," "Nights in Rodanthe," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Allegiance," "Breaking Upwards," "Into the Fire," "The Mudge Boy," "Invitation to a Suicide," "The Call" and "Fort Bliss." His TV credits include HBO's "The Wire," "Weeds," "A Gifted Man," "Light's Out," "The Good Wife," "White Collar," "The Beast," "Life on Mars," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "Fear Itself," "Dirt," John Grisham's "A Painted House," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "The Black Donnellys." He can currently be seen in the series "Orange Is the New Black."
Ben Steinfeld (Sam Edelstein) is an actor, director, teacher and musician. He has been seen on Broadway in "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." Steinfeld has co-directed and acted in all Fiasco Theater productions, including "Cymbeline," which won the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival, "Into the Woods" and "Twelfth Night." His regional acting credits include Center Theatre Group, Portland Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival and ten plays with Trinity Repertory Company. Steinfeld's TV credits include "The Good Wife," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
Kathleen Chalfant (Ethel Harlan) is a Tony-nominated actress for "Angels in America on Broadway." Her feature film credits include "Isn't It Delicious?," "R.I.P.D.," "Duplicity," "A Perfect Stranger," "The Last New Yorker," "Kinsey," "Lackawanna Blues," "Dark Water," "Random Hearts," "A Price Below Rubies," Whit Stillman's "The Last Days of Disco," "Side Streets," "Company Men" and "The Pornographer." She has appeared on TV in "The Book of Daniel," "The Guardian," HBO's "The Laramie Project" and "Lackawanna Blues," the Stephen King miniseries "Storm of the Century," "Voices from the White House" and "A Death in the Family." She had recurring roles on "House of Cards," "Rescue Me," "Prince Street" and "One Life to Live," and guest spots on "Mercy," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Spin City" and "New York Undercover."
Stephen Frears (director, executive producer) made his Hollywood debut with "Dangerous Liaisons" in 1989, which received six Oscar® nominations, followed by "The Grifters," produced by Martin Scorsese, which gained him an Oscar® nomination for Best Director. His other credits include "My Beautiful Laundrette," "High Fidelity," "Dirty Pretty Things," the BAFTA Award-winning "The Deal," "Mrs. Henderson Presents" and "The Queen," which also earned him an Oscar® nomination for Best Director.
Shawn Slovo (writer) wrote her first screenplay, "A World Apart," in 1987. The film won the Jury Prize and the Ecumenical and Best Actress Awards at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and the 1988 BAFTA Best Original Screenplay Award. Her adaptation of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" for Working Title/Universal was directed by John Madden in 2000. "Catch a Fire," an original screenplay for Working Title Films, directed by Phillip Noyce, was released by Focus Features in 2007.
Frank Doelger (executive producer) was a producer on the Emmy®-winning HBO presentations "John Adams" and "Rome." His other HBO credits include the Emmy® winners "My House in Umbria," "The Gathering Storm," "A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story," "Dead Drunk" and "Conspiracy," which also won a BAFTA, as well as the Emmy®-nominated "Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster" and "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story." He is currently executive producing the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones" and is a director of Rainmark Films.
Tracey Scoffield (executive producer) has produced several features for HBO, including "My Zinc Bed," by David Hare, the Emmy® winner "Into the Storm," by Hugh Whitemore and "The Special Relationship," by Peter Morgan, in which Michael Sheen reprises his role as Tony Blair. Her other credits include "Dirty Pretty Things," "Sylvia," HBO's "The Gathering Storm," "Mrs. Henderson Presents" and "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story." She is a director of Rainmark Films.
Jonathan Cameron (executive producer) is principal of Sakura Films, whose core activity is the development of theatrical films and TV series with partners in the UK and U.S. He is also engaged in structuring finance for the production of high-quality, low-budget feature films made for distribution exclusively via the Internet. Previously, Cameron forged a law career as a specialist in media and copyright before producing films beginning in 2009.


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Budget cuts are expected for the Cherry Point air station and Fleet Readiness Center East, but the extent of them is not yet known, base officials said Wednesday in New Bern.
Budget cuts are expected for the Cherry Point air station and Fleet Readiness Center East, but the extent of them is not yet known, base officials said Wednesday in New Bern.
While acknowledging it's unclear whether the cuts will be as severe as a possible 22 weeks of furloughs — equal to a 20 percent pay cut — for nearly the base's 5,000 civilian workers, Cherry Point officials say they are preparing for whatever may come.
Col. Philip Zimmerman, base commander for Cherry Point, and Mary Beth Fennell, production team director for FRC East and its 3,107 employees, were speaking to the New Bern Area Chamber's Military Alliance members Wednesday just as Defense Department officials in Washington were outlining a cost-cutting plan that would be put in place if sequestration is triggered March 1.
"The bottom line is furloughs will not actually start for DoD employees until late April," Robert Hale, undersecretary of defense, said at a press conference. "And we certainly hope that even if sequestration is triggered … Congress will act to de-trigger sequestration, or if they can't accomplish that goal by March 1 as the president suggested, to take some short-term action while they are dealing with the broader issue. Meanwhile, unfortunately, we will continue our planning for furloughs. Frankly this is the one of the most distasteful tasks I have faced in my four years in this job."
"If furloughs are enacted, civilian employees will experience a 20 percent decrease in their pay between late April and September," he said. "As a result, many families will be forced to make difficult decisions on where their financial obligations lie. Key benefits, such as life insurance benefits, health care and retirement, will generally continue."
Cherry Point and FRC East have an annual economic impact of $2.1 billion on the area.
Zimmerman, who is in his fourth year as commander at Cherry Point, said he already knows the base will have $800,000 less baseline budget next fiscal year, but added, "I don't know what sequestration will bring. I have received no guidance on that."
For her part, Fennell said her team has been dividing its focus between the effects of the budget crisis and the workload of warplane and drone repairs, which artisans have to get out the door.
They have not been formally advised a furlough will be implemented, but "the Navy has been very forthcoming about the potential for furloughs — very good, almost information overload," she said. "Employees were notified to begin planning in case that does come."
She said the budget reality for FRC East and similar Navy repair facilities in Jacksonville, Fla., and North Island, Calif., are that "we operate like a business. We come up with a dollar quote, negotiate, contract, and then get the money upfront. Everything we have in house today has been funded and we have the money to pay for the work."
They were advised in January to conserve resources, put a freeze on hiring and "do not contract or purchase anything unless it is mission essential," Fennell said. "Every purchase has to go to headquarters for approval."
"The house is full, there is lots of work and people wanting to do it," she said, but Phase II began last week halting any unanticipated repair service inside or outside the facility. The Navy doesn't have that money, so that work has stopped until April 1."
Local business leaders, including Chamber Military Alliance co-chairman Bill Naumann and Chamber Director Kevin Roberts, said the furlough would be felt by businesses across Craven County and the region.
"It's going to hurt all of us," Roberts said. "Our elected officials are out on recess and this is going to hit home."
Naumann said, "Those employees are going to pay their mortgages and car payments. That 20 percent is money that won't be spent at area restaurants and retail businesses."
At the Washington press conference, Jessica Wright, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel readiness, said, "The effects of sequestration and the Continuing Resolution on our military personnel will be devastating, but on our civilians, it will be catastrophic.
"These critical members of our workforce work in our depots that maintain and repair our tanks, our aircraft, our ships. They teach our kids. They care for our children. They provide medical treatment to all our beneficiaries. They take care of our wounded warriors."
Hale said large bases, where we have our large depots, will be affected, but he does not expect any new contracts to be cut and payments to vendors and employees to remain on time.
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., in a Wednesday afternoon letter dealing with the prospect of the furloughs, said, "Most importantly for families in North Carolina, though, is the fact that more than 20,000 civilian employees at Camp Lejeune, New River, Cherry Point and other military bases in our state face more than $57 million in collective pay cuts."
She said, "Military personnel are rightly protected from sequestration but these indiscriminate cuts would hit our civilian workforce hard. Beginning on March 1 — just about a week from now — the (military) services plan to begin canceling work conducted at military depots, such as Cherry Point. In fact, the Navy proposes canceling $81 million in maintenance at Cherry Point — work that is critical to our local economy and our national security."
"While this could save money in the short-term," Hagan said, "delaying preventive care today can actually increase maintenance costs in the future."
Zimmerman said, "There is still military construction money in the fiscal 2013 budget for two military construction projects including one to move the current armory from the present location that would interfere with a proposed Slocum Gate 'flyover' from U.S. 70 and another for a Marine Aircraft Support facility, he said. "I just checked with Headquarters Marine Corps and don't think they are going to be a problem."
He said there was $52 million in other facilities restoration and modernization projects and for energy improvements in the current budget, with $22 million of the contracts to be awarded as soon as possible. "I think fiscal year 2013 is about the same."
Both Zimmerman and Fennell reported on the details of a good year at the base and positive plans for the future at Cherry Point, presently clouded by the unresolved budget crisis.


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Easily the most polarizing personality in rock, Courtney Love nonetheless deserves some credit.
As frontwoman for Hole, she created some of the most boundary-pushing music of the alt-rock '90s. Despite being a famous rock widow, she's yet to sell out the legacy of her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain (or so she would say).
And as a woman, she's never been afraid to speak her mind, even if it means at times coming across as the world's most lucid train wreck.
Now, with a memoir reportedly on the way as well as a new album (and, according to some reports, a reality TV series – though we'll believe it when we see it), Love is on tour to promote, well, Courtney.
The Vancouver Sun talked to Love the day after her 48th birthday. She plays the Commodore Ballroom on Monday.
Q: Happy belated birthday, by the way. What did you do?
A: Thanks. I went out with the man I'm dating. We went to The Met (art gallery) and the Carlyle (hotel, both in New York City) and then I went to record and work, and then I went out with my band, and my friend threw a party for me at the Electric Room, which I left really, really early. No cake because I'm on a diet. I have to walk in a runway show in Milan and my weight — I'm fine for rock but I'm a little chunky for fashion. I don't eat that much but sometimes late at night I really have to have a grilled cheese sandwich. I drink a lot of coconut juice. I'm not really in this L.A. space where I want to do a raw diet thing. And I'm not exercising much at all. It was really quite a miracle when I went to the doctor. He called me in shock and said, "You have the lungs of a 28-year-old." I said, a 28-year-old smoker? "No, a non-smoker." And I was like, Wow. And my liver — I mean, I never drank, but I did a lot of other stuff. He was shocked. My liver enzymes were above normal in a positive way. I guess that's something I find in common with a lot of people who do rock for a living. You have to have a really sturdy body.
Q: You're not doing any new songs on this tour, are you?
A: This is supposed to be about a single we were going to release. But I feel like since (publisher) HarperCollins is making this (memoir) a big Christmas book, that we should release the single at Christmas. Which may seem like a long way away but the fact is that it has a much larger guarantee of success. There's only been four alternative rock kind of, if you will, hits in the United States in the last year — QOTSA (note: she actually said "QOTSA", not "Queens of the Stone Age"), Vampire Weekend, Fallout Boy, and one other one I can't remember, three are on the same label. The majors have called me but what the hell do the majors want with me? They're not going to spend any money. I'm not Hova (Jay-Z) and I'm not going to be delivering you millions and millions of kids on my Samsung mobile empire thing. The answer to your question is, I would love to be playing new material, but we aren't. We're looking at really deep cuts like Jennifer's Body and How Dirty Girls Get Clean, songs I haven't played for a thousand years, if at all.
Q: Do you recall being in Vancouver, making a film? I think you were robbed ...
A: (The movie) was called Trapped, with Charlize Theron. We were filming in 2001. Yeah, I got robbed. The whole set got robbed, actually. Charlize lost a Rolex. Kirsten Dunst had been living (in Vancouver) for four films in a row and, no offence to your fair city 'cause it's great, but she was so bored that she was out of her mind. You can't just go to Vancouver and make four films in a row and live in that penthouse. There are these four buildings they put actors in, and I had a penthouse, Charlize had one, Kirsten had one, and Ashton Kutcher had one. At the time Ashton Kutcher was desperately trying to make me do a cameo in some movie called The Boss's Daughter (2003) and I was like, 'It's never going to happen.' But it's a good town for, you know, prostitution ...
Q: Well, we do take pride in our prostitutes ...
A: ... um, heroin ... and doing shows. White Lung is from there. That band White Lung. I like White Lung.
Q: How did you come across them?
A: 'Cause they're chicks. If you're a band with a chick, I don't care — Adele sent me her first demo. I sent it at the time to Perez Hilton, who had a lot of power at the time, and within a few weeks they'd re-recorded this song and it was No. 2 in the U.K. Crazy. I don't even know if Adele knows that. It's not like we hang out. But (White Lung) sent me their thing. It's cute. They're good. It's punk.
Q: What rock memoirs have you enjoyed?
A: The book I really like a lot is Russell Brand's My Booky Wook, in terms of tone and texture. This isn't (Patti Smith's) Just Kids — that's a story, she wrote that herself. I have a co-writer. It's kind of a different deal. It's not cheap. There are salacious bits but there's no kiss and tell, per se. Yeah, you can find out about Johnny Depp giving me CPR. But I've left out who I've slept with per se unless it's a public thing everybody knows 'cause it's a guy-tattle or maybe gets progeny out of it. I kind of come off like the Virgin Mary in that department but certainly not other departments. But there are a lot of high-end things because people seem to think I came from a trailer or something. My mother was so enormously wealthy it wasn't funny. I was sent to shitty boarding schools and then juvenile system in Oregon while my mother was out spending $8 million, which is about 32 million by today's inflation index. But it wasn't so bad.
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July 22, show 9:30 | Commodore Ballroom
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WHO'S MORE popular among Americans right now? Is it President Obama or former President George W. Bush?
The answer is neither.
They're tied.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush have the exact same job approval rating: 47 percent.
Who would have guessed?
In Mr. Bush's case, that's the highest approval rating for the former president since December 2005. Considering that it was just 33 percent in January 2009, Mr. Bush's resurgence is stunning. Like former President Clinton, Mr. Bush has earned the title of "comeback kid."
And he did come back into the spotlight last week for the unveiling of his presidential library in Dallas. That's what former presidents in the modern era do.
These facilities are valuable repositories of information for students of history and for citizens who want to learn more about the men who served in the White House. Most are popular tourist attractions. The Clinton library in Little Rock, Ark., attracted more than 300,000 visitors last year.
The Bush library is the 13th presidential library. But its opening alone doesn't explain Mr. Bush's jump in the polls. It's more complicated than that.
Part of the reason is Mr. Obama's performance. During much of his first term, Mr. Obama blamed his Republican predecessor for nearly everything except faulty teleprompters. The sagging economy? It's Bush's fault. The budget deficit? Bush again. Rising unemployment? Don't blame me, blame Mr. B.
These were magic words that removed barriers, like "open sesame." And reciting them made some sense.
Mr. Obama captured the White House because the majority of Americans wanted change. The young Democratic senator from Illinois clearly was the un-Bush. He could legitimately say that some things weren't his fault.
But when the buck stopped on his desk, he didn't stop the Bush-blaming. Even today, the president is quick to fault others for almost every failing in Washington (just substitute "Republicans" for Mr. Bush). At the same time, he absolves the Democrats who control most of the political machinery (the White House and the Senate) and overlooks his own leadership shortcomings.
Most Americans were willing to cut him a break early on. But not now. So his fortunes have sagged into his second term.
Peggy Noonan, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, suggested last week that America is suffering from "Obama fatigue." That seems an apt diagnosis.
Conversely, Mr. Bush is a man on the rise. In many ways, he's the un-Obama. Since leaving office, Mr. Bush hasn't pointed any fingers or acted like an arrogant professor enlightening the great unwashed. He's been modest. Unassuming.
And funny. As Ms. Noonan wrote last week, when people expressed surprise that Mr. Bush could paint, he responded that "some people are surprised I can even read."
Like all presidents, Mr. Bush had flaws and made mistakes. But he's right when he says history will be the final judge of his presidency. He also seemed to understand that America was split in half politically, so he approached policy-making that way. And now, almost half of Americans have positive thoughts about him.
Yes, polls can be fickle. But Mr. Bush's popularity jump - especially among those who identify themselves as Democrats - should hearten Republicans. It also should encourage Mr. Obama and the Democrats to get down to business.