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Fringe FAIL: Kirk Acevedo Fired!
By Dennis Email Post 5/20/2009 01:54:00 PM Categories: Cast, Fail, Fringe, Kirk Acevedo, WB
While this is not "officially" official, I have confirmed this with an inside source. Details are scarce at this point, but Kirk is likely another victim of the WB's cost-cutting measures. The move to Canada has caused quite a shake up on the show, with numerous behind-the-scenes people leaving as well. More info to come...
* Thanks to TheODI for the screenshot
46 Comments:
- Anonymous said...
wow. unexpected. this sucks.
- May 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
I can't believe this. I guess I won't be watching the second season after all.
- May 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Is this why he filmed an episode for next season before season 1 wrapped?
- May 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
I heard Josh Jackson wanted him off the show... hope that's not true.
- May 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM
- Unknown said...
WOW! I think the viewers will miss him more than the show producers think! Can I have his Ford Flex that he always drives around? Very cool car!
- May 20, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am so horribly disapointed! I was really warming up to Charlie. Of all the people to get rid of...why not Gene the cow?!
- May 20, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
Okay - not really a sad moment. Sorry for him, but his character was boring.
- May 20, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Well its safe to say the show is done first the move to Thursday and now this. I may not watch anymore I'm one who hates when shows does this
- May 20, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- Brian said...
He was a good character, and will be missed. I hope they at least write him out in a good way.
As for not watching the show anymore just because a not-so-main character is gone...I don't think I'll be getting on that band wagon, sorry. That's being a little dramatic. - May 20, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- xMort said...
I like his voice :( Too bad...
- May 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have to agree - it sucks that he's gone, but the loss of one character isn't enough to stop me from watching a show.
- May 20, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
@Brian re: "not watching the show anymore just because a not-so-main character is gone"
It's a little different when it's your favorite character and the only reason you bother to watch in the first place. - May 20, 2009 at 5:20 PM
- Sam said...
Sheesh. D***ed economy. I love Charlie. He's such an unexplored character. I agree with the above, fire Gene. I'm sure it costs a pretty penny to keep the bovine there and his handlers. Don't get rid of good cast members.
That being said, there's no way I'd stop watching the show over this. - May 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- Dani said...
Oh my god.
This is....
This is just sad... :'(
I think I need a box of TISSUES...
Oh no... :'( - May 20, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Varo said...
Is this serious??
No... Please... - May 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- Chris Tilton said...
I searched facebook and find no evidence that kirk acevedo even has a facebook account. I smells of FAKE. It's not that hard to do a little search to find out that he doesn't seem to have a facebook account before you start splattering FRINGE FAIL everywhere.
- May 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- Dennis said...
Chris, it's also not that hard to actually read my post and see that I have confirmed that the news was true before I posted it.
As for not being able to find Kirk's Facebook page... maybe that's the point... it's private. - May 20, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
You can only find his Facebook on the NY network. Nowhere else, Chris.
- May 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Are they out of their minds? I really liked this character, he was like a link between Fringe division and real world to me ;( Made the show more realistic, it reminded that they are indeed working among normal people. I will miss him ;(
- May 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Chris Tilton said...
Fair enough, and yes it seems as though he keeps his Facebook page private, which is probably why he thought he could post what he did. Looks like he needs to do some cleaning house on his "friend" list.
I would be interested in a take from this on the other side. Nevertheless, bummer :( - May 20, 2009 at 7:37 PM
- Andrew said...
Just when I was starting to be interested in his character. Oh well. I hope he at least gets written off in a good way.
- May 20, 2009 at 7:39 PM
- Unknown said...
this is really unfortunate. charlie seemed to be useless in the beginning of the season, but his story was really just starting to be fleshed out and will be sorely missed from the show. Anna Torv is still a little dry, and I found he was able to liven up the scenes they were together in.
- May 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- crafty madam said...
"Fair enough, and yes it seems as though he keeps his Facebook page private, which is probably why he thought he could post what he did. Looks like he needs to do some cleaning house on his "friend" list."
Kirk is on the New York, NY network with no restrictions. If you are on that network, you can see his full profile. So, therefore, you can see his status updates, and that's how the screenshot was taken. If he didn't want anyone to know, he would have upped his security, or, better yet, not posted it on a place like Facebook.
PS, he took down the status. Hope it didn't get him in trouble. - May 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
Likely the best casting on te show... hard to believe!
- May 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- Trekkie Boy said...
They're casting for a female FBI agent to replace him. Looks like Fringe is going in a new direction.
- May 21, 2009 at 5:44 AM
- gninadz said...
according to ausiello questions
it looks that's confirmed
it's so bad news
we will miss him but only if we khow why fired ?
Question: Kirk Acevedo has apparently been fired from Fringe, according to his Facebook status. This is so sad, Charlie was just getting interesting. Do you have any info on that and what it means for his character? --Caroline
Ausiello: It means his character won't be back. - May 21, 2009 at 5:48 AM
- tallone said...
OMG..who would have thought this would happen. I thought he was a real asset to the show.Too bad he will be missed.
- May 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM
- fringeobsessed said...
Obviously someone higher up is ignorant. The character of Charlie is like one of the "control group," a normal, functioning person among the many abnormal, variably-functioning ones.
And I enjoyed Olivia having a mentally-balanced male confidant to watch her back and keep her grounded.
And what about the fun occasional tension between Charlie and Peter?
We'll lose all of that by replacing Charlie with a female FBI character! - May 21, 2009 at 7:40 AM
- Gil_cdn said...
"Can we have a box of tissues, please?"
sob! sob! (blowing my nose) sob! sob! - May 21, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
Not sure why everybody is so upset, the show isn't the "Charlie" show.
- May 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Dani said...
No, but he was a great character,Anon.
- May 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
Jeff Pinker sounds like Bill Clinton debating the definition of 'is.'
Dude. Pinkner used to be an attorney. He is very careful with his language. He does not like the word "fired" because it sounds harsh, which it is. He keeps insisting Kirk is not fired, but that his option was not picked up for the second season. Potato, pah-tah-to. Phrase it however you like, the end result is the same. Acevedo is not returning as a main character. I'm sure Bad Robot wants him to return for an episode or maybe even a few more. This is just to tie up loose strings within their story lines. Boo Jeff Pinkner. Boo Bad Robot. Bad robots indeed.
Has anyone seen Kirk in the past 24 hours? Because I feel he could be in grave danger: tied to a chair in Jeff Pinkner's pool room with the likes of WB's tv and Fox executives hosing him down with water and yelling in his face, "Now here's what you're gonna say Puerto Rican..." - May 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM
- DocH said...
So many sad bloggers. Why don't we write his exit for them. They cut two episodes this season - I imagine they used those two to 're-craft' the start of next season.
So. Charlie is not better after the monster attack in 'Unleashed' - and he has to be taken down by the science team. Exit Agent Francis.
How do the Feds move to Vancouver. They don't. They move to the Pacific NorthWest and move into the Fed building in Seattle. The Fringe Comics have an Alaskan storyline. Not hard to move all of the New England Pattern crimes to a "Pacific Rim" pattern of crimes. (?) It will look a lot like Stargates, X-files, Dead Like Me, Dead Zone, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, etc... But we get a new Charlie - who has to be a Canadian actor - so Bad Robot gets the tax credits.
Good News! Torv and Noble have five hours loped off of their visits home to Brisbane and Sydney, AU. - May 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM
- Elliot Williams said...
Female agent, has to be Canadian? Kristin Kreuk! Or Katherine Winnick! Or Missy Peregrym! Too bad about Charlie, he was a good character.
- May 21, 2009 at 7:20 PM
- DocH said...
Alt choices would be
2) Suleka Mathew
3) Anne Heche
4) Sarah Strange - May 21, 2009 at 7:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
apparenty he wasn't fired - May 21, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- gninadz said...
http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/fringe/fringes-kirk-acevedo-was-not-fired-1215.html - May 21, 2009 at 10:59 PM
- Observer101 said...
He was not fired. - May 22, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
Totally fired!! The producers just didn't realize that Kirk had such a fanbase in a culture outside of their own. The article means nothing and I wouldn't read it unless you wanna hear Jeff Pinkner glub glub glub a nice backstroke for you. It's spin at this point. They'll try to bring him back for an episode or two to quell the swelling masses but at the end of the day homeboy just got assed out of a year's work.
- May 22, 2009 at 2:34 AM
- Anonymous said...
Sad sad news. This totally ruined the rest of my day when I found out this afternoon. I really hope they find a way to write him out, cuz it would be an EPIC FAIL if they re-cast another actor for the character.
Seriously, I would rather have ASTRID replaced than agent CHARLIE FRANCIS...unless they have something special in-store for Astrid. Acevedo was way more active in Season 1 than her. - May 22, 2009 at 2:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
Apparently they have plans for Astrid...
- May 22, 2009 at 7:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
The entire thing is an intelligence test.
What's odd is that it's now bi-directional. - May 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
Why the move to Canada??!!! I liked the fact that the show was being filmed in the US. I get so sick of seeing 'this movie/show' and 'that movie/show' being made elsewhere (Canada, New Zeland, etc.) Main audience and income will be from the US, oh but let's go make it (and spend our money doing so) somewhere else. It really pisses me off that all everyone thinks about anymore is getting the lowest price on doing something, to hell with loyalty to their home country, where they will make their profits!! That's part of the problem that we are having with this whole economy due to other businesses moving everything offshore!! ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Wake up people!!!!
- May 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- Anonymous said...
No Way! I just cancelled it out of my DVR line up. Too many changes going on.
- May 26, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Oh come on!? Don't do that! He needs to continue to be Charlie!
- June 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Nellie Hall said...
Come on people. It's one character, and a rather boring one at that. The show could do well not only without Charlie but without a "replacement character" for him as well. It just needs Walter, Peter, Olivia, Astrid, their boss and the crew from Massive Dynamics. Add in a few guest stars and Mr. Nimoy and you've got a show.
- November 28, 2009 at 9:09 PM
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Conrad Black's statement:
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, the fact that the counts that had survived the trial were under appeal spoke for itself, and I didn't think it appropriate to say much more. As we are now back, one last time, in your court, at the weary end of this very long and fiercely contested proceeding, there are a few things that I think should be said.
The prosecutors have never ceased to accuse me of being defiant of the law, of disrespecting the courts, and of being an antagonistic critic of the American justice system. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have obeyed every order of this and other courts, every requirement of the United States Probation Office, in this and other cities, and while I was its guest, every rule and regulation of the BOP, no matter how authoritarian. I have been and remain completely and unwaveringly submissive to legal authority, yours in particular.
What I have done is exercise my absolute right to legal self-defence, a right guaranteed to everyone who is drawn into the court system of this and every other civilized country. All my adult life I have been a member of the moderate section of what is commonly called the law and order community, and I shall remain in it, whatever sentence you impose on me today. I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.
Your Honour, many years ago when I was a student and licensee in law in Quebec, I read a large number of cases from British and French courts, including the principle established by the eminent British jurist, Lord Denning, that "Parties coming to court must be prepared to practise what they are asking the court to approve." The prosecutors have never ceased in this case to advocate respect for the law, and to accuse me of lacking it.
But since that is an unfounded complaint, the real source of their irritation must be that as chief defendant, I have led the destruction of most of their case, and have successfully protested my innocence of charges of which I have, in fact, been found not to have been guilty. I understand their disconcertion that of the 17 counts they originally threatened or actually launched against me, all were either not proceeded with, abandoned, rejected by the jurors or vacated by a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States. But the problem is not my lawlessness; it is the weakness of their case. I have done nothing but uphold and respect the rule of law and the system of justice, in which my faith has never flagged.
This entire prosecution and a number of civil suits as well, were based on the report of the Special Committee of the board of Hollinger International, directed by its counsel, Richard Breeden, and published in September 2004. That report accused me of having led a "$500-million corporate kleptocracy." The non-competition payments almost entirely legitimized in this case were described as "thefts." And the authors of the report promised to lead the company back to unheard of levels of profitability. They did but not in the direction indicated. I launched the largest libel suit in Canadian history against Breeden and the others responsible for writing and publishing this infamous report.
My libel suit, and several other lawsuits around this case, are being settled, including a sizeable payment to me on the libel claim. This is the ultimate collapse of the Breeden Special Committee report, whatever other interpretation the defendants in the case may, consistent with their notions of accuracy throughout these proceedings, seek to place on it.
The authors of the report were not prepared to defend it where they would not have an immunity for perjury as most of the government witnesses did here. Nor were they prepared to defend their selfdirected largesse of $300-million, as they drove the company into bankruptcy, taking down $2-billion of shareholder value with it.
Over 80% of that value belonged to ordinary people throughout the U.S. and Canada, the type of people Mr. Cramer spoke about at the opening of the trial when he likened us to masked and violent bank robbers who stole depositors' money at gunpoint, because we had supposedly rifled the shareholders' family college funds. And Breeden's original action of January 2004, containing the false charge that I had threatened the Special Committee, repeated just last month by the government in its presentence filings on May 27, has also been abandoned.
Mark Twain famously said that "A lie gets halfway round the world before the truth gets its trousers on." It is very late in this case, Your Honour, but the truth has almost caught up with the original allegations.
I have at times expressed concern about the ethics of some of the prosecutors in this case, Your Honour, but never of the role of prosecutors, or of the necessity to convict criminals and protect society. But I must emphasize that I consider that the prosecutors, too, are victims. If they had not believed Breeden's lies, now effectively abandoned in the face of my libel suit, the U.S. Attorney would surely not have launched such a fantastic assault on us.
And I can assure the assistant U.S. attorney that I did not say on Canadian television that I was like the person checking his own expense account. I said that for the appellate panel that had been excoriated by Madame Justice Ginsburg on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court, when assigned the task of assessing the gravity of its own errors, to resurrect these two counts after a gymnastic distortion, suppression and fabrication of evidence, was like someone reviewing his own expense account.
Your Honour, these are, in any case, very threadbare counts. Is it really conceivable to you that if I were inexplicably seized with the ambition to embezzle $285,000, I would have it ratified by a committee and then, after what the minutes of the meeting described as "extensive discussion," by the whole board? I would have to have been mad.
And obstruction: It is clear from the evidence that I had nothing to do with selecting or packing the contents of the boxes, had no knowledge of any SEC interest in them after complying with five of its subpoenas, and after being assured by Mrs. Maida that it did not violate the Canadian document retention order, and checking with the acting president of the company, whose letter you have, I helped to carry out the boxes under the gaze of security cameras that I had installed. When these boxes arrived here, they were very full, so if I had taken anything out of them, why would I not have put them at any time over many weeks in my pockets or a brief case? Your Honour, again, to remove documents improperly in this way, I would have had to be barking, raving mad, and insanity is almost the only failing of which the prosecutors have not accused me.
I would like to express here my gratitude to you, Your Honour, for sending me to a prison with email access, where I was able to stay in touch with supporters and with readers of my newspaper and magazine columns. And I must also express my gratitude to the originally small but distinguished and often intellectually brave group of friends, but also of total strangers, who never believed I was guilty, when that was a less fashionable position than it has become. Their numbers grew to be an army that now includes many people in every American state and Canadian province, and region of the United Kingdom, and people in many other countries.
And my gratitude to the many friends I made, inmates and correctional personnel, at the Coleman Low Security Prison, whom I shall not forget, is beyond my ability to express today.
I am of the tradition that tends not to speak publicly of personal matters, but Your Honour, I hope it is acceptable to you if I vary that practice slightly, and briefly, in concluding, today. As you would know, or could surmise from many letters that have been sent to you qualified to comment, and as is mentioned in the presentencing submissions, I believe in the confession and repentance of misconduct and in the punishment of crime. I don't believe in false or opportunistic confessions.
It is not the case, as has been endlessly alleged by the prosecutors, that I have no remorse. I regret that my skepticism about corporate governance zealotry, though it was objectively correct and has been demonstrated to have been so in the destruction of these companies, became so identified with the companies themselves that the shareholders all suffered from it.
I regret that I was too trusting of the honesty of one associate and the thoroughness of some others, and the buck has stopped with me. I repent those and other tactical errors and mistakes of attitude, Your Honour, and I do not resent paying for those errors, because it is right, and in any case inevitable, that people should pay for their mistakes.
I concluded many years ago in my brief stint as a candidate psychoanalyst that it is practically impossible to repress conscientious remorse. And I concluded some years later in reading some of the works of the recently beatified Cardinal Newman, that our consciences are a divine impulse speaking within us, as Newman wrote, "powerful, peremptory and definitive." My conscience functions like that of other people, and I respond to it, if not precisely as my accusers would wish. But they are prosecutors, not custodians of the consciences of those whom they accuse.
Your Honour, please do not doubt that even though I don't much speak of it, my family and I have suffered deeply from the onslaught of these eight years. I agree with the late pope who said "Life is cruciform." All people suffer. It is a stern message, but need not be a grim one. We rarely know why we suffer, and only those who have faith even believe there is a reason. No one can plausibly explain in moral terms a natural disaster, or a personal tragedy. I see life as a privilege and almost all challenges as opportunities, and have always tried to take success like a gentleman, and disappointment like a man.
Whatever the reason my family and I have had to endure this ordeal, for our purposes today, in these personal questions, I only ask that you take into account the messages you have received about collateral medical problems in my family. I do not worry about myself, and I will not speak further in open court of the worries I do have for my family. But I most earnestly request, Your Honour, as someone who has shown and expressed family sensibilities several times in this case, that they too be taken into account in your sentence.
And I believe that even if a reasonable person still concludes that I am guilty of these two surviving, resurrected, counts, tortuously arrived at and threadbare though their evidentiary basis now is, that the same reasonable person would conclude that I have been adequately punished. I only ask you to recall the criterion you eloquently invoked near the end of the trial that the justice system not be brought into disrepute by an unjust sentence.
I conclude by quoting parts of a famous poem by Kipling, with which I'm sure many in the court are familiar, and which I had known too, but not as well as I knew it after it was sent to me by well-wishers from every continent except Antarctica. And to the extent I was able, I tried to keep in mind throughout these difficult years, what Kipling wrote, which was, in part and as memory serves:
If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust your own counsel though all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too, If you wait but are not tired of waiting, Are lied about, but don't deal in lies, If some men hate you but you don't stoop to hating; And don't look too good or talk too wise; If you can talk but don't make words your master, Can think but don't make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster, But treat both those imposters just the same.
And I address this directly to the prosecutors and some of the media:
If you can bear to hear the truths you've spoken, Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, And see the work you gave your life to broken, And stoop to fix it up with worn-out tools.
If you can make a pile of all your winnings, And risk it on a turn of pitch and toss, And lose and start again at your beginning, And never say a word about your loss.
And Kipling goes on to say that the reader will then be a man. Your Honour, when I first appeared in your court six years ago and you asked me my age, it was 61. If I'm not a man now, I never will be.
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it. It is now too late to ask for justice. But with undimmed respect for this country, this court, and if I may say so, for you personally, I do ask you now to avoid injustice, which it is now in your gift alone to do. I apologize for the length of my remarks, and thank you, for hearing me out, Your Honour.


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Images: Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn Count Almaviva (Adam Plachetka) |
Vienna State Opera
Count Almaviva – Adam Plachetka
Countess Almaviva – Véronique GensSusanna – Aida Garifullina
Figaro – Alessio Arduini
Cherubino – Elena Maximova
Marcellina – Ulrike Helzel
Don Basilio – Thomas Ebenstein
Don Curzio – Peter Jelosits
Don Bartolo – Dan Paul Dumitrescu
Antonio – Manuel Walser
Barbarina – Maria Nazarova
Jean-Louis Martinoty (director)
Hans Schavernoch (designs)Sylvie de Segonzac (costumes)
Fabrice Kebour (lighting)
Chorus of the Vienna State
Opera (chorus master: Thomas Lang)
Orchestra of the Vienna State
OperaJames Gaffigan (conductor)
Four weeks precisely before
seeing this Marriage of Figaro in
Vienna, I had seen the Royal Academy of Music production at the Hackney Empire. It might sound as if I
am exaggerating for effect, but I can assure you that I am not; in almost every
respect, the RAM performance was superior. We should not become hung up on matters
of cultural 'ownership' – Mozart was not really 'Austrian' at all, whatever the
tourist board might tell you – but that nevertheless gives one pause for
thought. Although I said 'in almost every respect', other shortcomings were
dwarfed by Jean-Louis Martinoty's catastrophe of a production: at least as bad
as, if not worse than, Barrie
Kosky's effort for the Komische Oper in Berlin, albeit in different ways. I
had been going to ask why Figaro, so
long a relatively 'safe bet' with respect to staging – relative, at least, to Don Giovanni – was having such a bad
time of it now. (Janet Suzman's work for that wonderful RAM staging was a
noteworthy exception.) Then I learned that Martinoty's production had actually
been imported from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Why? As French friends have
since told me, it was bad enough then, in the 1990s. Is it not a little odd
that the Vienna State Opera could not create its own new production, even if
the import were of better stuff than this?
It is difficult to know where
to start with Martinoty's incoherent, joyless mess. I am not sure whether the
director is attempting to be 'traditional' or something else. The costumes are 'period'
of a sort, I suppose, but more akin to a Carry
On film idea of the eighteenth century than something into which any
thought has gone. I have no objection to a properly thought-out 'period'
production; indeed, there will often be problems, not insurmountable but
problems nevertheless, when a society of orders is jettisoned for something
else. This just seemed, however, an excuse for opportunities for the mildest,
least risqué of molestations. The politics of Mozart's opera – even Da Ponte's
libretto, shorn of the music – are not those of Beaumarchais, but they are far
from non-existent. Here, it seems, we have something that wants to be a bit of
a farce, but cannot quite bring itself to do what is necessary.
Countess Almaviva (Véronique Gens) |
The direction, moreover, veers
between excessive activity – not quite hyperactivity: that might be too much
hard work – and people haplessly standing around. A servant extra might walk in
but to no apparent end and then – well, just walk out again. Meanwhile, someone
else will be in entirely the wrong place, making a nonsense – and certainly not
in a questioning, let alone deconstructionist way – of libretto, score, logic,
anything really. Something appears, for instance a kneeler for the Countess in
front of one of the many pictures (more on which soon, this from the
Crucifixion), has one think it might actually have something to say, then no
sooner has she knelt down, she gets back up and nothing more is said or done
with it. The prospect of the Countess seeking her salvation in the Church is an
intriguing one, but it is certainly not explored here.
Perhaps the worst of Martinoty's
many lapses – he manages somehow to combine the reactionary qualities and
general intellectual vacuity of Franco Zeffirelli with the downright incompetence
in stagecraft of Katharina Wagner – lies with his 'treatment' of Cherubino and
the chair during the first act. He is not there. The Count reveals all, or
rather does not, because he cannot. A little while later, once music and words
have moved on, someone else – Don Basilio, I think – finds him in what I think
might have been a linen chest. We see nothing for a while, owing to its placing
on stage, and then eventually Cherubino steps out, long after we, or even the characters
onstage, have ceased to care. If this were an attempt to play with, even to
confound, expectation, it fell flatter than a pancake.
Then there are the weird
stage designs. Well, the paintings: there is little else on which to comment.
Lots of them, randomly assembled, often but not always still lives, come and
go. At random points, they come down from the ceiling; at random points, they
go back up. They either bear no discernible relation to the action, or add
nothing to it. Why on earth, for instance, is a selection of cheeses suddenly
brought before us at the beginning of the fourth act, and why does it equally
suddenly disappear? Answers on a Pythonesque postcard, please.
Enough! I do not intend to
dwell on the musical performances, since they were not given a chance. However,
I must say something. It is difficult to know what to say about James Gaffigan;
maybe he was hamstrung by the staging. There was nothing especially wrong with
his direction of the orchestra, which at its best could sound gorgeous, but had
a surprising tendency towards thinness at times. I could not see the pit, but
suspect that, in a house of this size, a few more strings would not have gone
amiss. There was a tendency towards (over-)swift tempi, but less than we have
had to endure from much of the 'authenticke' brigade. He made the same gross
miscalculation I recall Sir
Charles Mackerras – a bewilderingly overrated Mozart conductor – making when
Susanna emerged from the cupboard, needless to say a bit late, in the second
act. No wonder here: instead an absurdly fast tempo, doubtless born of 'performance
practice' dogma, which made it sound as if a horse were released to canter
around the paddock.
Susanna (Aida Garifullina) and Figaro (Alessio Arduini) |
The finest vocal performance
came from Adam Plachetka as the Count: all heading, it seemed, towards the
emotional turmoil and fury of his third-act aria, and all flowing from that
thereafter. As alert as the production would permit to his character and its
development, this was something one could, in the circumstances, still just
about savour. Véronique Gens sang beautifully as the Countess but her voice
sometimes seemed a little small for the house. I did not especially care for the
ornamentation of her third-act aria, but tastes differ in that respect; if it
is to be done, then I doubt it could have been done better than here. Aida Garifullina
and Alessio Arduini were an attractive servant pair: visually and often
vocally, but they struggled, again perhaps in part from relative smallness of
voice, but above all on account of the production, to burn their characters
into our affection. Arduini's easy way with the text, though, was indicative of something more, which would doubtless have been more fully realised in another situation. We know Figaro and Susanna, and all the rest so well: none
of them fully came into being on this occasion. Elena Maximova and Ulrike
Helzel both seemed at times ill at ease with the vocal demands placed upon
them; Dan Paul Dumitrescu was an excessively bluff Don Bartolo. However, with a
staging such as this, the singers should not necessarily be held responsible.


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Jake Hayes and his family of eight live on a small island off the coast of Washington state, population 5,000. Jake has been in love with the same girl for the last four years, but he's never had the guts to tell her. And when he gets into a car accident after a party involving alcohol, he never will. Not when his vocal cords have been ripped out, and he'll never be able to speak again.
Taylor's novel deals with a very serious subject, one that I wasn't expecting to resound with such depth and poignancy. Jake's loss, all because of a stupid decision to get into a car with his drunk friends, is terrifying. He's lost his ability to speak. He'll never be able to tell a girl he loves her. Of course, this is relatable; almost everyone, I'd think, has regrets about things they didn't say but wish they had. But Jake's pain is all-consuming. His frustration and struggles ring true.
Jake is thoroughly developed as a character. He has a strong voice and, through his trials, his character shows three-dimensionality that makes him incredibly real to the reader. Life as he knows it is, essentially, over. His dream of joining the Airforce? Destroyed. His hobby of flying? Gone. His social life? Over. His difficulties are real. They jump off the page. Samantha, the girl Jake loves, is moderately likeable; well-developed but not in the way that Jake is, which is understandable. When it is revealed that Sam is having some problems of her own, though, that pain is there, too.
This story, through and through, is a powerful one.
Keary Taylor definitely achieves what I believe she hoped to--to create a fictional story, a fictional world, that has words of truth. These things happen. There are people like Jake out there. Taylor herself, she reveals in an added author's note, is one of these people. As a high school student, she had gone deaf in one of her ears. Her life changed. She struggled. She overcame.
Grade: A+
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Vietnam immigration policies regulated that all the Malawi citizens are required a visa for Vietnam for purposes of tourism, business, family visit or study. Those transiting at Vietnamese airports and not crossing immigration area do not need the visa.
From Malawi, the travelers can apply for Vietnam visa by 2 options:
1. Apply for Vietnam visa at the Vietnam Embassy in neighboring countries
Since there is no Vietnam Embassy inside Malawi, the applicants must apply for a visa at the Vietnam Embassy in neighboring countries. This is obviously a costly process which takes you much time and too much anxiety.
The process of Vietnam visa applied at the Vietnam Embassy in the neighboring countries of Malawi:
- Step 1: Complete the visa application form provided by the Vietnam Embassy or Consulates;
- Step 2: Submit the application form, original passport, 01 passport-sized photo, visa fee at the embassy. You can submit the documents in person or send by post;
- Step 3: Receiving your visa at the Vietnam Embassy or by post after 5 – 7 working days;
2. Apply for Vietnam visa on arrival via www.visumvietnamonline.com
Vietnam visa on arrival is a legitimate alternative to obtaining a full visa from the Vietnam Embassy or Consulates. It is beneficial for those who are living far from the Vietnam Embassy or Consulate and traveling Vietnam by air. Learn more how visa on arrival works.
When applying for Vietnam visa on arrival, there is no extra documents or original passport required. The applicants just need to fill out the online application form, conduct payment and receive a letter of approval issued by the Vietnam Immigration Department at given time. A full visa will be stamped onto their passport upon arrival airport in Vietnam.
The process of Vietnam visa on arrival:
- Step 1: Fill out the online application form;
- Step 2: Conduct payment with credit cards (or debit cards), PayPal, Western Union or bank wire transfer;
- Step 3: Get the visa approval letter delivered via email within 2 working days (normal processing) or 1 working day (urgent processing) or even 2 hours (emergency processing);
- Step 4: Pay the stamping fee and obtain full visa upon arrival airport in Vietnam.
There are some differences between Vietnam visa on arrival and traditional visa. However, once issued they have exactly same validity and condition of use:
Description | Visa on arrival | Traditional visa |
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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Things We Be Doin' For Money (Part 2) by Busta Rhymes. Please check back for more Busta Rhymes lyrics.
Things We Be Doin' For Money (Part 2) Lyrics
Artist: Busta Rhymes
Album: When Disaster Strikes
Yo, it's 3:25 in the morning
My baby mom still yawning
Kiss my little daughter on the forehead
'Nuf said, beeper goes off
Five hundred, it's Busta Bust
In God We Trust another one bites the dust
Hey Ramp, fuck that!
I was 'bout to see this cat
Some niggas pulled up in a black suburban jumped out the back
Tried to put it on me while we fighting over the gat
The way them niggas tried to play me son, them niggas is wack
Aeiyo, Ramp, yo, you know it's only right to react
Call the whole squad, let's lay these niggas down - face flat
Aeiyo, Bust, chill, calm down
I'll be there in twenty minutes
Uptown 1-51 at St. Nick
I'm there quick
I tell my baby mom I got's to go
I walked out the do' then grabbed the two nines out the flo'
Driving through South, yo, we takin' niggas war
Still on the run
Always running for cover when its necessary
I'm out numbered for now
But all that shit is temporary
Fuck with the wrong clik, the way we get down
If your violatin', leavin you lost, you never be found
Number whatever on missing persons
Any minute them niggas gon' feel blast of my squads gats bursting
I through the tri-borough bridge
In my fat land with my two nines and my mans
I'ma second from the spot
I cross the street from the parking lot
My trigger finger is hot
I'm seeing Bust in a phone booth
Niggas on the roofs
Spiff Star is in the range
The atmosphere change
Lord's in the forerunner with machine guns, big ones
Now we 'bout to have mad fun
Me and the whole squad meet up,
Know shit about to heat up
Went the whole entire street up
Blast from the car seat-er
My enemies wouldn't even wanna be you
I see you, hunting me down
I knowing that my crew arrive
We gon' see who be the last alive
While we creep all over the place
Looking for space
In case, see him, rinse my whole clip up in his face
As my squad hold they post down
We patiently waiting for them to pass through
Carefully timing the way we put it on their whole crew
Aeiyo, Bust give me the queue
I'm here for you, close to you
Blood in and blood out
We goin' all out, bullets just ringing out
Guns is just spraying out
Yo Bust, hit the dirt layflat
You my nigga to the end I gotcha back
Turn around quick
Oh shit!
You started blasting, grazed me on the hip
Lord Have Mercy dumped five on a nigga
Suck his whole shit, his whole crew busting
Shit ain't going according to plan
Goddamn, my shit jam
Nigga standing right behind me
I think I'm caught up on a creep
I think I need to prayer to Lord, my soul to keep
Dis nigga about to fry my head
My crew burst into a rage
Spliff lifted this nigga, putting two inside his rib cage
Yo, Rampage
Aeiyo, I see them niggas coming, now I'm dumbing
We dead three niggas already the next two we leaving bloody
So much drama over this fucking money
The way this situation end it wasn't even funny
Trying to rob this nigga because I was fucking hungry
But if you try to test let's blast a nigga in a hurry
Me and my squad bounce and left the fucking scene ugly
[Anthony Hamilton & The Chosen Generation]:
Things we be doin' for money
Livin' in the street when you're hungry
The way you start to live it ain't funny, no, no
Living day to day but don't live for tomorrow
Things we be doin' for money
Livin' in the street when you're hungry
The way you start to live it ain't funny, no, no
Living day to day but don't live for tomorrow
Things we be doin' for money
Livin' in the street when you're hungry
The way you start to live it ain't funny, no, no
Living day to day but don't live for tomorrow
Busta Rhymes Lyrics
Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes Lyrics
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Busta Rhymes - C'mon All My Niggas, C'mon All My Bitches Lyrics
Busta Rhymes - Dangerous Lyrics
Busta Rhymes - Get Out Lyrics
Busta Rhymes - Make It Clap Lyrics
Busta Rhymes - Mr. Grinch Lyrics
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If you are looking for a delicious AND easy way to put fabulous potatoes on the table, these grilled potato slices are the best. I had dinner with a friend the other night and she served a chicken dish that I'll share with you soon along with these potatoes.
She gave me a rough idea of how she made them and hers were finished with butter and snipped chives but I wanted to use olive oil and rosemary for my potatoes. Once I scrubbed the potatoes, I sliced them into 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch slices.
I put a large pot of water on the stove and added 2 tablespoons of salt and a heaping tablespoon of sugar and a couple of fresh rosemary stalks. Once the water boiled, I added the potato slices and turned the pot to a slow simmer and set the timer for 15 minutes.
When the timer went off, I used a strainer and removed the potato slices to a plate and brushed them with olive oil and left them to cool. Then I turned the bbq grill on to medium high. Once the grill was hot, I rebrushed the potatoes on one side and put them oil side down. In ten minutes there were lovely char marks on the bottom and the sides were turning a bit brown.
I turned them over for just a few minutes and then to the serving plate. A drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of rosemary leaves and it's ready for the table. While I did these myself, it would be a great job for partners, friends or older kids while you finish getting the rest of the meal on the table. You should consider trying these potatoes.
- 4 potatoes
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar (heaping)
- 5 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- Scrub potatoes and slice in ½ inch to ¾ inch slices.
- Fill a large saucepan with water, the salt, sugar and 2 sprigs of rosemary and place over high heat until water boils, then add the potato slices and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook potato slices for 15 minutes or until fork tender. Remove from water and place on a plate, brush with olive oil, then set aside to cool.
- Preheat BBQ to medium high heat.
- When bbq is hot, rebrush slices with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt, then place oil side down on the bbq.
- Cook until the potatoes are browned with nice grill marks. Turn over for a minute or so, then remove to the serving plate.
- Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with rosemary leaves.


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The Berlin Airlift
75 years ago the Berlin blockade ended
In Berlin there is an Airlift square, Platz der Luftbrücke. Where you can see a curious monument ascending in front of the former Tempelhof airport. Berliners call it the rake of hunger, die Hungerharke. But what is the Berlin Airlift? When and why did it take place? And why does it still concern us today? The juvenile reporters from the Böser Wolf (Big bad wolves) wanted to know more.
In brief: the Berlin Airlift occurred from 26 June 1948 to 30 September 1949. Berlin was divided into four sectors: The westerly zones were occupied by the United States, Great Britain, and France, while the Soviet Union took the zone to the east.
To disagree with the new monetary reform introduced in the three western sectors, the Russians decided to block all land and navigable access routes to West Berlin. To ensure that the population does not starve and has a minimum supply of electricity, the western Allies organised an airlift which provided this part of the city with food, fuel and other indispensable commodities.
Here you can find a short film that will give you more information about the history of the Berlin Airlift. You will maybe be surprised to learn that planes were landing every 62 seconds in Berlin because the West part of the city could only be reached by air.
It is a beautiful story of enemies becoming friends. Marion Werwoll, Managing Director of Stiftung Luftbrückendank (Airlift Gratitude Foundation), tells us this story in an interview. Of course, the young reporters from the Böser Wolf (Big Bad Wolf) also talked to eyewitnesses, like Mercedes and Horst, who were children back then. You will learn more about the everyday life in a city that is in need. Berlin needed help at that time and got it. It is a good lesson for today. And don't forget to take our quiz, test what you already know!
Text: The redaction
Drawings: Gaïa and Natalia
Text, drawings and photos © Grand méchant loup | Böser Wolf
Videoclip © Stiftung Luftbrückendank
Photos: Children © Landesarchiv Berlin


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Salt River Project's Board of Governors has approved an agreement with Payson Water Co. to sever water rights from the C.C. Cragin Reservoir, formerly Blue Ridge Reservoir, and transfer them for use to the Mesa Del Caballo water service area near Payson.
The agreement is the first of what potentially could be several deals between SRP and smaller Rim Country communities to bring water from C.C. Cragin Reservoir. It is also one of the many benefits that resulted from the passage of the Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 2004, which authorized up to 3,500 acre-feet of water from Cragin Reservoir to be used in northern Gila County.
The town of Payson secured 3,000 acre-feet of Cragin water in 2008 through an agreement with SRP. The remaining 500 acre-feet of water has been designated as a future water solution for the smaller Rim communities. Deliveries to Mesa Del Caballo are anticipated to be made via the town of Payson's future pipeline, which will move Cragin Reservoir water to Payson's water treatment plant adjacent to Mesa Del Caballo. Both the pipeline and water treatment plant are scheduled to be operational in the spring of 2015.
The agreement allows for the severance and transfer of an average of 70 acre-feet per year of Cragin Reservoir water, with a maximum annual delivery amount not to exceed 82 acre-feet.
Steve Westwood, a Water Rights & Contracts senior analyst, said SRP has been working with a number of water providers and community water systems since 2005 to identify opportunities to establish agreements for C.C. Cragin water.
SRP has also been very concerned, he said, that continued well pumping on the Verde and Salt watersheds to meet growing water demand is negatively affecting the water supply of SRP shareholders.
"The opportunity to protect our shareholder's water rights, supplement water supplies in the northern Gila County region and achieve water settlements to provide certainty for a long-term sustainable water supply and resolve water-rights claims has been a major focus of our efforts," said Westwood.
"This agreement sets the stage for a framework for other small water companies to partner with SRP to ensure an adequate and renewable water supply and resolve water-right claims."
The northern Gila County region is located within the Salt and Verde watersheds, which provide the water supply for SRP shareholders. The region, which includes Payson, is a future growth area where surface water is fully appropriated and groundwater is overused, Westwood said.
SRP's acquisition of the Cragin Reservoir in 2004 identified the town of Payson and other Rim communities such as Mesa Del Caballo as potential customers. SRP operates and maintains Cragin Dam and Reservoir for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
"This agreement clears the way for a reliable, long-term water supply for Mesa Del Caballo, which for many years has had repeated water-shortage issues due to unsupportive geology and underperforming wells," said Robert Hardcastle, president of Brooke Utilities Inc., the parent company of Payson Water Co., a private regulated utility. "This agreement also provides the community certainty by resolving any water-right conflicts with SRP."
Payson Water Co.'s agreement with SRP generally covers the allocation and access of water from Cragin Reservoir, while the delivery and treatment of the Cragin water will be made through another agreement with the town of Payson.
SRP is the largest provider of water and power to the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.