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Starwood Says Hotel Conversion Opportunities in North America Expected to Rise in 2012 with Uptick in Portfolio Transactions
Dépèche transmise le 24 janvier 2012 par Business Wire
Starwood Says Hotel Conversion Opportunities in North America Expected to Rise in 2012 with Uptick in Portfolio Transactions
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From the American Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) in Los Angeles, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that it opened 27 hotels in North America in 2011, more than it had predicted this time last year with the addition of several high quality conversions that were signed and opened during the course of the year. In addition, in 2011 Starwood signed more new deals than in the previous two years. In fact, Starwood's North American division – the company's largest with 550+ hotels – led all of its global divisions in new deal signings last year. Looking ahead to 2012, Starwood is slated to open 20 new properties in North America, not including late breaking in-the-year conversions which are expected to result in additional new hotels this year.
"We ended 2011 with a renewed sense of momentum in the North American deal environment and, as we enter 2012, we've got a close eye on several transactions which may lead to an increase in conversion opportunities"
"We ended 2011 with a renewed sense of momentum in the North American deal environment and, as we enter 2012, we've got a close eye on several transactions which may lead to an increase in conversion opportunities," said Allison Reid, Senior Vice President of Managed Development for North America for Starwood.
Conversions continue be the primary driver of new hotel growth in developed markets. In 2011, 75% of Starwood's openings and 63% of its new deal signings in North America were conversions.
"Our nine unique and differentiated lifestyle brands are all conversion friendly and Starwood has an unsurpassed ability to match the right brand with the right development opportunity in the right market to drive results for our owners and shareholders," said Simon Turner, President of Global Development for Starwood. "We continue to be pragmatic in our approach to conversions, ensuring we maintain our brands' standards while at the same time balancing the needs of our owners."
According to Denise Coll, Starwood's President of North America, owners are attracted to Starwood's best-in-class brands, its powerful distribution systems and experienced management teams. Starwood's loyalty program, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), also continues to be a key advantage, and today drives nearly 50% share of occupancy to Starwood's hotels in North America.
"Creating value for our owners is the lynchpin of Starwood's strategy," said Coll. "Whether its investing in systems to make hotels more profitable, continuing to make our nine brands ever more distinct and compelling or relentlessly driving the world's most high value customers and guests to our hotels, our interests and those of our owners are aligned, and its all about mutual success."
(Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities regulations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and involve risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated at the time the forward-looking statements are made. These risks and uncertainties are presented in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained or that results and events will not materially differ. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.)
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1,071 properties in 100 countries and territories with 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, and the recently launched Aloft®, and Element SM. The company boasts one of the industry's leading loyalty programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), allowing members to earn and redeem points for room stays, room upgrades and flights, with no blackout dates. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.
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The new movie "Divergent" stars Shailene Woodley as a brave young woman who challenges the rigid social order of her dystopian society, in which people are categorized into factions based on their personality types.
Many film reviewers, however, are saying that for a story all about daring to be different, "Divergent" hews closely to the conventions of its young-adult genre.
"Divergent," like the blockbuster "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" films, is based on a popular book series, in this case by Veronica Roth. As The Times' Kenneth Turan writes, "the hottest phenomenon in publishing these days is young adult fiction about risk takers who dare to go their own way. So it's more than a little ironic, if predictable, that films made from these books are completely risk aversive."
Turan adds, "When you start with the story of a girl worried about not belonging who discovers that only the best people don't fit in, mix it with the twists and turns of a 'is that cute guy really looking at me' high school romance and set it against the backdrop of a world in peril, you've really hit the pop culture jackpot."
USA Today's Claudia Puig similarly writes, "'Divergent' covers well-trod turf that brings to mind 'The Hunger Games,' 'The Matrix' and a slew of other post-apocalyptic tales. Ironically for a film about non-conformity, it adheres to the playbook rather slavishly."
Puig adds that Woodley and co-star Theo James "have substantial chemistry," but "despite two strong lead performances and a welcome dose of female empowerment, this somber tale feels too familiar and formulaic."
Carla Meyer of the Sacramento Bee says that "originality and this film are strangers to each other." She continues: "Who are we kidding? This film exists because of 'Hunger Games' ' success. Roth's book and this movie touch on the same ideas of self-determination and finding one's self through extenuating circumstances that 'Games' does. Then it adds a dash of 'Twilight' with a brooding, mysterious figure [James] who takes a shine to the heroine."
"But 'Twilight' offered a one-of-a-kind moony romanticism impossible to re-create in a dystopian setting, and 'Games' brings a sociopolitical resonance (1-percenters pitting the other 99 percent against each other for sport) that 'Divergent' lacks."
The Boston Globe's Ty Burr says, "'Divergent' is almost good enough to make you forget what a cynical exercise it is on every possible level." It's also "an improvement on the novel for much of its overlong running time, because [director Neil] Burger and his team spackle over the novel's implausibilities, change the bits that need to be changed, and generally create a tighter, more believable fantasy future."
But, Burr adds, "there's not much Burger can do, unfortunately, with the film's overwrought final act."
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal calls "Divergent" "as dauntingly dumb as it is dauntingly long."
The movie, he says, "is not only a waste of time for anyone safely out of adolescence, but a waste of Ms. Woodley's special gifts. She's a lovely actress, given the sort of good material she got, and elevated memorably, in 'The Descendants' and 'The Spectacular Now.' In the unavoidable now, however, she'll be constantly compared to Jennifer Lawrence — they're almost the same age — because of this new film's surface similarities to 'The Hunger Games.'"
And Manohla Dargis of the New York Times says that while it's "easy to breeze past the plot holes" in Roth's book, "It's harder to ignore those flaws in the movie, partly because [Burger] gives you little to hang on to — beauty, thrills, a visual style. The script, or what's left of it, doesn't help, because someone … has made the familiar blunder of thinking that the most important thing in adapting a book to the screen is the stuff that happens rather than to whom it happens."

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How To Negotiate a Lost Library Book Fine
by Her • April 23, 2006 • Tagged: fees, negotiation  • Comments
Many college libraries charge a HUGE fixed fine ($500 at my college) per lost library book. If you don't pay, they'll hold your degree and transcript hostage. So what's a poor college student to do? Negotiate your way out of this nightmare!
In college, I worked at the library for about 3 years. During that time I was exposed to all the inner workings of the library. They actually do have valid reasons why the lost book fine is so high:
1. They have to re-purchase the book. Often, it's not as simple as going down to Borders. These books have to withstand heavy usage, so they often purchase a library edition. This edition has a thicker hard cover and a sturdier binding. These editions can be quite expensive. If the book is old, it may be out of print. This adds cost (if the library can get it at all).
2. They have to log the new book into the collection. They have to pay an acquisitions employee to enter the book's information into the database and remove the old book's information from the database. If the publication date or company has changed, they have to update the card catalogue as well.
3. They have to add security devices to the book. This can include the magnetic tags like they put on drugstore items or a magnetic strip buried in the spine. The library has to purchase the supplies then pay someone to add them to the new book.
4. They have to add tracking information to the book. Often, the date of acquisition or other information will be hand written in the book. The check-out card and envelope must be added to the cover. The Dewey Decimal (or equivalent number) must be added to the spine of the book.
5. A durable plastic cover may be added over the book jacket.
All these supplies and staff time adds up. The book fine must cover all the expenses, not just the cost of the book. So simply arguing over the fine isn't going to get you anywhere. But, armed with this knowledge and empathy, you can negotiate your way out.
First, determine who can help you. Skip the check-in chick at the desk and ask for the reference librarian. She is typically the senior staff member on the floor and can pull some strings for you. If she can't help you, ask for the acquisitions department. The staff there may take pity on you, and since they are the ones who do most of the tasks listed above, they have some leverage with your fine. If you can't get anywhere, start at the beginning again. See if an alternate staff member is available at a different time.
Second, find out what's at stake. Ask if they can tell you whether the book was a soft cover, hardcover, or special library edition. Find out when it was published, and if it's still in print. Ask if it had any special value, like if it was signed by the author or donated by a prominent donor.
Third, make an offer. If the book is still available, ask if you could purchase the book and donate it rather than pay the fine. If it's out-of-print, offer to do the legwork and obtain a copy from a used book dealer. Offer to do some of the tasks associated with adding the new book to the collection. You could offer to volunteer to spend an afternoon adding security device to all their new books, for example.
If all else fails, you could always try to negotiate from the inside. During finals week, the libraries are often understaffed for two reasons: 1) They stay open late to allow students to study for exams, and need to staff the front desk. 2) Everyone returns their library books at the same time when their class is over. These books need to be shelved. The library often offers temporary work during finals week. Apply for a temporary position. After working there for a few days, introduce yourself to the reference librarian and explain your problem. Ask for her help. Since you work there, she may view you as an ally instead of a nameless book thief.
If nothing works, resign yourself to paying the fine and try not to lose any more books.
What NOT to do:
1. Don't just purchase a replacement and throw it in the book return. Since it is obviously not a library book, it won't get shelved and you won't get credited for its return.
2. Don't ignore the fine. They may tack on late payment fees or bar you from graduation. It's not worth it.


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This is something we've gone over before, but as July is trade month, who will be a free agent after this season?
Free Agents following 2009 season
Geoff Blum
Tim Byrdak
Darin Erstad
Mike Hampton
LaTroy Hawkins
Matt Kata
Jason Michaels
Russ Ortiz
Humberto Quintero
Miguel Tejada
Ivan Rodriguez
Jose Valverde
Of this list, who do you see the Astros resigning?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Trade them now, or forever hold your peace
Labels: Free Agent
2 comments:
- Andrew said...
Wandy won't be a free agent--he will, however, be arbitration eligible for the second time.
- June 30, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- The Constable. said...
Correct. I initially had a list of everyone the Astros would need to resign, and then changed it, and left Wandy on the list. Thanks for the heads-up, it's been fixed.
- June 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM
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A trash-talking, Scrabble-playing gamebot with a goofy back story and an animated face is helping researchers at Carnegie Mellon University understand more about how people and robots interact. Victor the robot was developed in the university's Robotics Institute as one of a series of "social robots" to explore human-robot engagement.
The robot consists of a plastic torso topped with an old fashioned monitor-shaped head in which a video screen displays a talking head. He's seated between two computer displays on one side of a table touchscreen showing a virtual Scrabble board. Up to three players can take seats around the table to start the game. Because Victor has no arms, his word tiles are laid out digitally; the other players use touch to move their virtual tiles out onto the board. Victor has a voice, but those who want to converse with him must use a keyboard.
The setup resides near a coffee bar in a student center. Victor is available for play each day for a couple of hours with a research team member hovering nearby to handle problems as they surface. The goal is to allow him eventually to be available to play at any time without supervision.
Victor was created by a team that included collaborators from robotics, computer science, drama, design and entertainment technology. The work was led by Research Professor Reid Simmons.
The robot's backstory, written by Michael Chemers, now an associate professor of theater arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains that Victor is "the precocious son of a pair of Detroit industrial robots"; he's attending the university on a Scrabble scholarship. Chemers also wrote much of his dialogue and maintains Victor's Facebook page, which offers wry commentary on all aspects of robotic life, such as this: "Do you ever have the desire to have the people who built you take you completely apart, dunk each piece in nonoxynol-9, and then reassemble you exactly the same way? Come on, we all feel this way from time to time, do we not? Anyone? Anyone?"
Victor's personality is, said Simmons, "edgy enough to be engaging, but not so much that people don't want to play." When Victor is losing a game of Scrabble, for example, he becomes angry and his mood changes, his expression changes, and what he says changes. "He's much more sarcastic," Simmons noted. "What surprised me is how strongly people react to that. When he starts trash-talking them, they start trash talking back."
And lose he does. The researchers have set his vocabulary at about 8,600 words, compared to the Official Scrabble Player Dictionary's, which features 178,000 words.
When he's playing, the robot will bow his head or look another player in the eyes. A light over his heart will change color and throb at different speeds depending on his mood.
Although the other players can't see Victor's tiles, they can see each other's. What the researchers have found is that the humans will "gang up" with each other when they play against the robot.
Explains Simmons, "They don't care if they lose to each other, but they don't want to lose to a machine."
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A Thought Experiment
Saturday, December 15, 2012
A Thought Experiment
Gerard N. Magliocca
Take an act that is fairly common, generally legal, and is considered by many people to be wrong. Those people argue that the act should be banned or highly restricted. Others contend that the right to engage in the act is a fundamental individual right.
"Morality" is more often used in debates over abortion.
Also, "alternatives to the act" works better when we are dealing with an act (abortion) as compared to something like gun ownership (which is a sort of "act," admittedly, but the word is more forced there).
There is clear overlap and those who want to ban gun ownership often use moral arguments and find guns distasteful in general.
But, on a test, I think "abortion" would be the best answer. Multiple choice tests as we know often have a second best answer that is fairly reasonable, of course.
One could also easily add "drug prohibition" to the list of alternatives. I think that the comparison between abortion and gun regulation is misleading: Those who are anti-abortion (logically) call for its complete prohibition because they regard the act as the equivalent of murder. But, ironically, it is the NRA who accuses all proponents of gun regulation of being secret prohibitionists who would bar the possession of firearms by everyone. Most supporters of further regulation, though, insist (I think sincerely) that they are not seeking prohibition.
I don't see why the same answer has to apply in both cases. It seems to me that the consequences should be treated as a matter of fact, not logic.
The argument is made, jlundell.
If someone, and millions do, think guns are dangerous to the well being of society, it is not really silly to think it is immoral to own them.
The argument can be refuted, but the very making of it is far from silly, imho.
The thing I am thinking of has inherent dangers and risks, many of which can effectively be addressed by regulation and government oversight, which would necessarily impose some conditions and restrictions -- but not an outright prohibition -- on the thing.
"Most supporters of further regulation, though, insist (I think sincerely) that they are not seeking prohibition."
We have reasons for believing that most supporters of further regulation are seeking prohibition.
1. Until the McDonald decision, local prohbitions were in place in some jurisdictions. Did advocates of further regulation ever attack them as going too far? Or did they defend them against attempts to roll them back?
The latter.
2. Many proposed regulations are written in such a way as to be hugely over-inclusive. Bans of supposed "armor piercing" ammo, which would ban almost all hunting ammo, for instance.
3. The fact that the gun control movement started out with a professed aim of prohibition, and only switched to regulation after finding this aim too unpopular.
I'm not seeking prohibition, I want a strict Constitutional solution. Muzzle loaders only. All other firearms banned.
Except for Brett's ex wife. She can carry whatever weapons she wants to carry.
I couldn't have an unloaded, triggerlocked or unassembled long shotgun or rifle in pre-Heller DC and pre-McDonald Chicago?
"most supporters of further regulation are seeking prohibition"
Those who long term support regulation the strongest are more likely to actually support the gun prohibition of the sort Brett is against. This amounts to about 1/3 of the population at best.
Others support various types of regulations, just like many support various types of abortion regulations. The support of, e.g., minor parental notification laws for abortion might be ill advised as policy, but quite a few don't want to ban abortions.
This is so even if some vocal abortion supporters suggest, ala Brett, that they do.
"I couldn't have an unloaded, triggerlocked or unassembled long shotgun or rifle in pre-Heller DC and pre-McDonald Chicago?"
You could have a non-functional firearm, if it was registered with a city which almost certainly would refuse to register it. If the pre Heller/McDonald laws in D.C. and Chicago are your idea of a policy meaningfully short of prohibition, I don't think you have an at all common understanding of the word.
Bottom line is, the people who "only" wanted regulation refused to say that the absolute most restrictive jurisdictions in the country had gone too far. This provided us with a useful reference as to what they considered "reasonable", and it was nothing most people would use that word for.
Can you point me to some evidence that DC or Chicago 'almost certainly refused to register' rifles and shotguns to be kept triggerlocked in the home?
Marital infidelity. Promiscuousness.
Self defense. Hunting wildlife for sustenance or sport.
An artful poll taking organization could frame a survey that would elicit plurality support for pro or con in either subject area
One function of law is to place limits on the behavioral outliers. Rhetoricians will claim more law will prevent excesses.
But these are old topics, and society ultimately is not going to accept a simple solution. A single law creating an oversimplification will go the way of the laws that created a short-lived era of Prohibition in the US.
Admittedly, the subjective distillations I have offered here to the way the question is posed by prof. Magliocca, disagree with some of the stated conditions, e.g., 'fairly common act that is generally legal'...'fundamental individual right'.
I tend to agree with several commenters' side-discussions, including the direction taken by prof. Levinson.
Heller examined individual right in depth, especially in one of the lengthy amicus briefs. I doubt there ever was an abortion case pivoted on 'fairly common act...that is generally legal'. Though the act that created the life that abortion ends was perhaps 'fairly common', it might not be 'generally' legal.
One difference between the nonlegal realm arguments that would develop around the bearing-arms question, as compared to the abortion rules, is the latter disputes are permeated with a special approach to personal morality; whereas the gun-bearing discussions relate much more to depictions of the external world and personal freedom.
I'm not in a state of mind as yet to comment on Gerard's thought experiment. Media coverage of the recent CT tragedy is wall to wall. Pundits quickly offer their thoughts, too quickly and often not thoughtfully. But what really shocked me were two posts by Eugene Volokh at his VC Blog:
"Do Civilians Armed With Guns Ever Capture, Kill or Otherwise Stop Mass Shooters?" (posted 12/14/12, 3:32 pm, with 757 comments at this time)
""A Thought Experiment Related to School Shootings" (posted 12/14/12 9:29 pm, with 607 comments at this time)
These posts may have been spontaneous or perhaps considered in advance by Volokh to address clamor for gun controls following mass killings by shooters. I did not read that many of the comments. But what seems clear is that Volokh, the VC's usual suspects, NRA and gun rights yahoos continue to make the case that the more people armed with guns for self defense, the safer we all will be.
Meantime, I am preparing for secular peace on earth and goodwill to mankind as I hope my four children, their spouses and my one grandchild will be here for the holidays.
The new. AATF
The Bureau of Abortion, Alcohol, Tobacco anf Firearms.
And gambling? Is abortion like gambling?
Only in the minds of ideologues does abortion weaken the social fabric of society.
Alcohol does more damage, and there's actual evidence to back that up.
Look at the history of arguments for and enactments of prohibition of various acts.
But society chooses which commitments to make and how to follow them. Trying to separate language and politics ends in anti-politics. Does it make sense for a technocratic society with increasing population density to have easy access to firearms?
Gun nuts fantasize the American frontier as most Americans fantasize American exceptionalism and benign hegemony
-Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
60 Minutes (5/12/96)-
Mr. Wiskas, I'm not in a mood to re-litigate the McDonald case. If you've got doubts on this score, I suggest you read the court record.
Yes, it was practically impossible to legally own a gun in either D.C. or Chicago, unless you were politically connected. Establishing that was part of why they won.
I don't want to re-litigate McDonald or Heller at all, and I've read over the records since we've started this discussion. While it seemed impossible to own a handgun unless the powers that be granted you that right, it appears from the record that you could own a rifle or shotgun as long as it was unassembled or trigger locked. My point is that that may not be ideal, but it is not a total prohibition.
And telling people they can only own Bibles would not be a total prohibition on book ownership, either, but more than a few people might consider it an extremist position.
As I said, the claim to only favor "reasonable" regulations might have carried a bit more weight, if the people making it had ever seen a real world regulation they thought was unreasonable.
I don't think your Bible analogy is apt, as the Bible is one book out of very many but rifles and shotguns are entire categories of firearms.
I'm still grieving as my family prepares for what normally is a happy (secular) time of year, an extension of Thanksgiving. But I'm haunted by this portion of an earlier comment::
"-Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."
60 Minutes (5/12/96)-
# posted by D. Ghirlandaio : 11:53 AM
Children are not fungible but they are the future of this world of which our nation is a part, a world that is becoming more and more interdependent. We grieve when our nation]s children are slain as in the recent event. We must also grieve for other innocent children throughout the world who are slain. The price is too high.
I agree with Mark Field above. In fact, the ostensible slyness of the question is very culturally dependent -- the comparison would seem silly in, say Japan, where abortion is legal, guns aren't, and neither issue is contentious.
"Matters of fact?"
When most defenders of choice regarding abortion support controls on guns?
"the ostensible slyness of the question is very culturally dependent "
No sht. But this is our culture. I'd like to think the author of the post was not so naive, but there's no telling.
"Those who are anti-abortion (logically) call for its complete prohibition because they regard the act as the equivalent of murder."
Most abortion opponents would allow it in case of rape or incest. "Abortion is murder" for them therefore is code for something else. Abortion is irresponsible, morally lazy, individualistic etc. But those arguments don't cut much these days, so it's left to stronger language.
Gerard is offering the classical conservative proposition that the government may abuse the law to punish those who do not adhere to the moral beliefs of the political majority. Because the exercise of this proposition is always arbitrary, the distinction between laws outlawing abortion, firearms and drugs is subject to argument.
If instead we use the libertarian proposition that the only proper laws are those which prohibit people from causing substantive harm to one another, but not to themselves, then the distinctions become clear - outlawing abortion is proper if you believe that the unborn child is a human being, while the firearm and drug prohibitions are not.
If instead we use the libertarian proposition that the only proper laws are those which prohibit people from causing substantive harm to one another, but not to themselves, then the distinctions become clear - outlawing abortion is proper if you believe that the unborn child is a human being, while the firearm and drug prohibitions are not.
# posted by Bart DePalma : 10:04 AM
Because people never use firearms to harm other people?
bb: Because people never use firearms to harm other people?
Laws outlawing homicide and assault are perfectly proper.
Laws outlawing homicide and assault are perfectly proper.
# posted by Bart DePalma : 8:58 AM
Does this mean we have to repeal all drunk driving and speeding laws? You would starve to death.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Updating Poirot and Marple
During an interview on Suspense Magazine Radio (listen to it here), interviewer John Raab asked which Agatha Christie sleuth I find more intriguing, Hercule Poirot or Jane Marple. Pressed to choose, I said Poirot. But the truth is that I don't find either of them intriguing.
Christie's protagonists are flat characters who don't evolve over the course of the two long, long series they anchor. We know little about the past or private life of either. Many of us have mental images of Poirot and Marple that are influenced more by actors' portrayals than by Christie's text.
These days, few authors of mystery series could get away with writing such hollow protagonists. Thriller writers may come close – how much does Lee Child reveal about Jack Reacher? – but mystery authors have an ingrained belief that people read their books more for the characters than the plots. Fans want to "keep up with what's happening" in a favorite character's life. They want to watch protagonists "grow and change" over the course of a series. Readers want to know what made characters the people they've become. They enjoy the secrets, big and little, that are revealed as a series goes on. They love stories in which problems from the past show up on the doorstep of the present, ready to cause trouble.
Poirot and Marple are more symbols of justice than living, breathing people.
What do we know about Poirot beyond his appearance ("a quaint, dandified little man... hardly more than five feet four inches... his head was exactly the shape of an egg... his moustache was very stiff and military), his fussy mannerisms, and his high regard for his own "little gray cells"? He "had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police," according to the first Poirot book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In that debut novel, he walks with a pronounced limp, but the disability disappears in later installments. He comes from a large family about which we are told virtually nothing. Poirot himself provides false autobiography in a number of books, the deception always in service of his investigation. Christie said that she envisioned the detective as old from the beginning. At various times, she expressed her dislike of her creation, calling Poirot "insufferable" and a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep" whose popularity seemed to mystify her.
Christie apparently concocted Poirot from bits of other fictional detectives of the early 20th century, including Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.
Christie gives us bits and pieces of Jane Marple's background in the books, and the character in the later novels is strikingly different from the snarky village gossip in the first, The Murder at the Vicarage. However, the change was the author's attempt to make the character more likable for readers, and it wasn't due to any soul-shaking experiences Miss Marple endures on the page. She has never married, never held a job, has some sort of independent income and also receives help from her nephew (and only living relative), the author Raymond West. She grew up in a Cathedral Close, is well-read, and attended an Italian finishing school. She is always described as old, and she continues to age in the novels.
How would today's editors react if they encountered Marple and Poirot for the first time in fresh submissions? A few mysteries with "senior" protagonists are being published, so careful research into niche markets might lead to a receptive editor or two. But most editors would want the characters younger, perhaps a lot younger, and intriguing back stories would be a must.
In modern cozies, maybe messy divorces would be enough to add a little color to both characters' private lives. If the ex-spouses are nearby and keep showing up at inopportune times, all the better. Maybe there's still a spark in both relationships, enough to disrupt any new romances.
A single/divorced woman who has never worked a day in her life is almost unheard of now, so Jane Marple needs a cute job if the books are cozies and something more substantial if they take a turn toward darker traditional mystery. Maybe her husband divorced her because she's never gotten over her love for her first fiancé, who died in car crash three days before their scheduled wedding. Jane, of course, was driving, and she dreams about the accident at least every night, always waking with tears pouring down her cheeks. Give her a couple of cats and she's ready to meet readers.
Poirot needs a good reason for leaving the police force. (But honestly, can you imagine this man as a cop, even in his youth?) Maybe his partner was shot and he feels responsible. Or he was shot, and now he feels like a coward because he's afraid to risk life-threatening injury again and takes refuge in solving what are essentially mental puzzles. Maybe he drinks too much. Don't all modern detectives drink too much? Ditch the mincing walk, but the mustache might work if it's bigger, bushier, and left unwaxed. To round him off, Poirot needs a big dog who senses his every mood and always lays a fuzzy chin on Poirot's knee at the right moment.
What do you think? With a little updating, could Christie's characters make it as modern sleuths?
12 comments:
- jvdsteen said...
Maybe Ms Marple could be a mystery writer... wait, no... ;-)
- October 24, 2012 at 4:15 AM
Sandy, I read tons of blogs and this is one of the most perceptive pieces I have ever seen in the blogosphere! I hope you will try yourself to do some updates of these two people!!! Thelma Straw, MWA-NY
- October 24, 2012 at 9:01 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Well, thank you, Thelma!
- October 24, 2012 at 10:52 AM
- JJM said...
Although I read the Poirots and Marples as a youngster, the books faded in my memory as, in the end, flat, stale, and unprofitable precisely because the characters were so two-dimensional. As you say, symbols of justice, not living people.
Were they to be updated, though ... well, I can see Miss Marple as writer of a lonely hearts column for the local paper; or, if the mysteries are cozies and remain English, running the local tea shop fronting on the village square. Since her detection skills are so much founded on gossip and knowledge of human behaviour, either would put her in a good position to continue the same course.
Poirot needs something fussy -- how about police archivist? The Leicestershire Police are currently offering a position as such; from the job description: "Archivists in the Criminal Justice department are responsible for filing and retrieving files, which means it is necessary to work meticulously and with great care." Sounds like that would suit Poirot admirably, doesn't it? And it would give him direct access to all sorts of information.
I disagree with you on the dog, though. A cat, just as fussy as Poirot is. Possibly also "employed" at the police archival facility to keep down the vermin population. And, just to work against stereotype, I'd be tempted to give Miss Marple a St Bernard or Great Dane.
--Mario R.
- October 24, 2012 at 10:58 AM
- Elizabeth Zelvin said...
I too find characters who are capable of growth more interesting. We know plenty about Stephanie Plum, but she never seems to learn from experience or make up her mind about those two guys. On the other hand, any analysis of Poirot and Miss Marple has to take the British class structure into account. Go back to Jane Austen--or Georgette Heyer's Regency romances--and you'll find that in the upper classes, people who work for a living are despised. In the 20th century, women who didn't have a job persisted a lot later in British novels than in American novels (crime, mainstream, or literary, from Patricia Wentworth to Iris Murdoch). I'd like to ask PDD's British readers if a woman with a "private income" would be considered implausible even today, whether or not you personally approve of her.
- October 24, 2012 at 11:52 AM
- Marni said...
I vote for the Marple St. Bernard and the Poirot cat! Seriously, adding depth to both of them would be a delight.
- October 24, 2012 at 10:32 PM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Unless the woman is royal or otherwise titled, I think it would seem odd these days for her to have no profession, nothng to occupy her. Someone like Miss Marple would surely be employed in some way.
- October 24, 2012 at 11:50 PM
- Patrick said...
Honestly, I'm not at all fond of the modern trend of giving everyone a detailed, angst-filled backstory. So I wouldn't do a thing to change Poirot or MM. Yeah, they can be flat characters, but I prefer flat characters to dull characters we're forced to spend 200 extra pages with.
- October 25, 2012 at 7:31 AM
- Susanne Alleyn said...
In the era in which Christie was writing (essentially 1930s-50s for Marple), upper-middle-class women like Miss Marple, whether single, married, or widowed, did have a full-time job: volunteer. They were the ones who did the church work, ran the Women's Institute, did the collecting for missions, "visited the poor," all those Victorian duties of the upper classes. They were NEVER idle, just unpaid, because they all had independent investment incomes of some sort, large or small. MM's is definitely on the modest side, but she has enough to live like a proper lady in a small cottage with one, usually very young and not very bright, servant girl, and to do her proper village work with the other village ladies. MM's endless knitting is probably baby clothes or blankets to be given to the poor or to be sold at the church's "sale of work" to raise money for charity. _Noblesse oblige_!
I hated the McEwan version where, in flashback, they gave her a lover who was killed in WWI. There's just no evidence of such a backstory in the books. MM is a Victorian maiden lady, pure and simple, who never married because there was always a shortage of eligible men in her youth, between young men getting killed in wars (more likely the Boer War for MM) or simply that they weren't well off enough to marry. Thousands of such ladies were around in the 30s and some still in the 50s.
OTOH, I like the idea of an updated MM having a dog or cat with a personality. You'd think the real MM would have had a cat. :-)
Now if you want a very Victorian-style spinster in the 1930s who actually has an interesting career, what about the marvelous Miss Climpson in some of Dorothy L. Sayers's books?
- October 25, 2012 at 7:47 AM
- JJM said...
"Honestly, I'm not at all fond of the modern trend of giving everyone a detailed, angst-filled backstory," wrote Patrick. Thing is, though, that we needn't have a detailed, angst-filled backstory incorporated into the story at length. What's important is that the writer know it; trust me, that starts showing through in the way the character behaves on the page.
What we're talking about is depth, three-dimensional characters, not cardboard manifestations of Justice. The background is there to be drawn upon, in dribs and drabs, if and when needed.
Real human beings don't tell their entire life's story to everyone around them, and generally reveal only what they need to in order to explain their actions and have them be accepted. I'd like the same for the modern Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, not just surface tics and eccentricities but a sense that there's a human being there, one who has lived, one who has memories, one who behaves and acts in certain ways for a reason, even if the reason is never fully laid out.--Mario
- October 25, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Patg said...
Thanks Susan, most of what you said was in my mind. Frankly, I don't want an updated, younger Marple. Boring to the bone. It is the era she lived through and the way she shewedly handled things that makes Marple perfect as she is on the page.
When I get disgusted with all these angst ridden, whining younger protagonists being force fed to us these days, I sooth my nerves by taking down an older Marple.
I, too, disliked everything about the McEwan interpretation of dear Jane.
Good grief, Do Not give her any animals. Haven't you paid attention? She's a major gardener! Cats or dogs scratching up or doing its business in her garden would have given her palpitations.
And private income is not unusual for her generation. By her time, fathers weren't in a position to handout large sums for doweries, but they could do investments that the woman took as her dowery or lived on as a spinster. Something those modern protagonists should be thinking/worrying about while emptying their coffers on clothes and shoes. Or at least mentioning when they take new jobs or start careers.
Wooo, loved this discussion.
- October 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM
I thought the recent Agatha Christie played by Geraldine McEwan was interesting. PBS gave her a back story of a love affair with a married man who was killed in the war.
A lot of viewers were incensed, but it gave the character more depth than usual.
- October 26, 2012 at 1:20 PM


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Blake Shelton has a lot going for him. He was named Male Vocalist of the Year at Sunday night's ACM Awards, and People recently crowned him country's hottest man. And let's not forget about his nominations at the Grammys and the People's Choice Awards. Still, despite his growing stardom, the part of Shelton's life that onlookers no doubt envy the most is his marriage to country queen and East Texan Miranda Lambert.
You would think that country royalty like Blake and Miranda would be living high on the hog, but in a recent interview, he insists that they are devoted to keeping life simple — even on their date nights.
"Miranda loves to sit on the couch and watch movies and drink all night, and there will be at least four dogs piled up on us," Shelton says about his date nights at home with his honey bee. In a previous interview, he also mentioned that he and Lambert still do their own laundry — even though he hates the chore of folding clothes.
While the country icons gush about their sweet home life, tabloids and eager admirers anxiously wait for the couple to have a baby. For now, though, both country stars insist that having children is a few years away. For the time being, they just treat their four dogs like kids! Although, Miranda has admitted that after watching her man on 'The Voice' she sees a much more nurturing side to his personality.
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by Clark Groome
After Sunday's awkward and, for many, unexpected 38-23 loss to the hated Dallas Cowboys, Eagles head coach Andy Reid was asked at the post-game press conference if the Birds still had a shot at the playoffs.
Always the optimist, albeit not always realistic, Reid said something akin to "you never know what'll happen in this league," and held out hope his 3-6 club would turn it around "when we get it right."
Reid may be the only person alive who believes that there is even a remote chance his team will make the playoffs. The defense is inconsistent, the offensive line can't protect the quarterback or block or avoid unnecessary penalties, and quarterback Michael Vick was sidelined with a concussion and looks doubtful for the game at Washington next Sunday.
And yet the fans still come, and the hope, if not the reality, of having a winning team at Lincoln Financial Field lives on. As that hope diminishes, the vehemence and the anger of the fans, and the pundits, increases significantly.
What's going on? Perhaps the folks had unrealistic expectations going into the season.
Last year the team – called by one player "the Dream Team" – ended with a disappointing 8-8 record, a record owner Jeffrey Lurie labeled as "unacceptable" after the season ended. Before the start of the new campaign he made it abundantly clear that another weak season would be Reid's last after 14 years, some of which brought the team to the brink of winning it all but never quite getting to that promised land better known as a Super Bowl victory followed by a parade down Broad St.
The nine games played so far have been characterized by a variety of problems: poor defense in one game, a lousy offense in another, an unexpected and critical injury, and a quarterback who plays his heart out but may not be as good as advertised.
The Iggles' three victories – against Cleveland, Baltimore and the New York Giants – were won by a total of four points. Four. The six losses have seen the Birds outscored by 69 points.
For the first time in Andy Reid's tenure as head coach, the team has lost five straight.
As either Ike Reese or Hall of Fame writer Ray Didinger said on CSN's "Post-Game Live" after Sunday's loss, the Eagles "even lost the bye week," a reference to having replaced defensive coordinator Juan Castillo with Todd Bowles. The move struck many as strange, considering the general feeling that for all its flaws, Castillo's D was far better than Reid's offense.
Another issue is the team's heart. For most of Reid's time as chief football guy in Philly, the team was a group of committed players, all of whom were Reid's guys, appreciative of his never throwing them under the bus and always working to keep the "I" out of team.
This year, for the second straight year, many of the players are new to the organization. They have no real commitment to the coach or to the team. They might be pretty good but they're not part of a team. That lack of caring, as many see it, may be due to the reality that this is Reid's last year and so all they really need to do is get through the season unscathed, collect their paychecks, and then see what next season brings.
Clearly there are exceptions to that: Vick and tight end Brent Celek come to mind as perhaps the best examples. The lack of commitment shows the selfishness of the players, to be sure, but it also shows that the coach has, as they say, "lost the room."
If that's the case, nothing short of Divine Intervention is going to save this Eagles' season.
Going back to my premise that maybe expectations were too high at the beginning of the season, it's really understandable. Philadelphia fans are passionate and knowledgeable. Truth be told, the passion more often than not trumps the knowledge. The "what if"s and "if only"s win out over the "Oh, maybe they're really not all that good."
Perhaps we were all a bit overly optimistic going into the season, hoping that the mediocre 2011 team would actually become the winner we ached for. This happened at a time when the city was suffering from the justifiable disappointment of a Phillies season that was much less successful than it realistically should have been.
One of the most exciting things in sports is when a team that is not expected to do well all of a sudden takes off and surprises its fans and its opponents.
The most recent example of that here is the 2010 Flyers, a team that had to win its last regular season game (in a shootout, no less) to get into the playoffs and then had an unexpected run to game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Chicago Black Hawks. Remember how good that felt?
So the bottom line is that we all should keep the passion and the desire in some sort of perspective with the reality. The Eagles are, nine games in, not very good; certainly not a playoff team.
If we had felt that from the season's beginning, the horrors we are now witnessing might not have hurt quite as much.
It's clear that the old saw about "hoping for the best while planning for the worst" is often ignored. Two examples of that last week were Governor Mitt Romney's not preparing a concession speech in a presidential race that was razor thin and Andy Reid saying the playoffs are still a legitimate possibility.
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by Casey Brown '14
This past Saturday, Career Services and the Lewis Center teamed up for the event "Script to Screen & Everything in Between," which hosted over a dozen alumni and industry professionals and a crowd of 120 students.
It wasn't difficult to exit the event determined to go to Hollywood. The panelists' passion for the industry was infectious.
"I would do it [write screenplays] now if I were paid a dollar," said screenwriter David Digilio '96.
The producers and business leaders were no less enthusiastic about their roles in the industry.
"Producing is very right and left brain," said producer Daniela Lundberg '98. "The process of making a movie is very rewarding."
"I just love movies," said Paul Hanson '96, COO of Annapurna Pictures. "The end result is something that's easy to understand and everyone gets it."
Abhijay Prakash '98, who came to Hollywood with a PhD in economics, still remembers his college internship in finance. "I found [it] so stultifying and boring," he said. "I needed to dedicate my career to something I cared about. It's really inspirational work."
"I really love problem solving," said Marissa Griffith '90, who works as an entertainment lawyer. "At the end of the day, it's really fun to go see the movies. It is a very fun industry to be in."
But it's not the easiest or most peaceful industry, the screenwriters readily admit.
"One day everything's great and the next it sucks," said Cormac Wibberly. Writing for TV, he explained, is especially fast-paced. "It's like having a term paper and you're always a week behind," he said.
Nevertheless, the screenwriters spoke to the great rewards of their work. For one, writing is a way to keep learning.
"Writing is an incredibly complex craft," said screenwriter Will Staples '00. "There's always a new lesson and that's really exciting."
"I'm an intellectual A.D.D." said Albert Kim '86, who has worked on scripts set everywhere from ancient Egypt to, currently, the American Revolution with Sleepy Hollow. "I can't think of any other profession where you can just dive into a topic."
The producers offered insight into another role in the industry. This time, the duties were much different, including putting budgets together, bringing in equity, hiring, finding buyers, and putting the film out in the world. But often the role exceeds these administrative duties.
"You have to listen to people's needs," said Howard Gertler '96. "That's a lot of what producing is. … Be the calm at the center of the storm."
"There can be a long part of development where you're a therapist for a writer," said Krista Parris '95. "It's a diverse commitment."
On both the writing side and the production side, there were no magic bullet methods for "making it" in the industry. Instead, each of the panelists seemed to take his or her own path.
"There's no set path to get into the business," said Kim, "but that also means there are lots of ways."
One tip from the writing side: keep writing. One tip from the business side: networking isn't the be-all-end-all.
When it comes to networking versus building a skillset, "I would definitely prioritize the skill side," said Prakash.
One way to build the skills needed to work in entertainment business would be to pursue an internship or further education in business or law, as Griffith advised.
Although the event was specific for producers and screenwriters, it drew a crowd of students with a wide range of interests—actors hoping to pick up tips, playwrights, video journalists, documentary filmmakers, and writers (like me) of various genres.
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