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After her Oscar-nominated performance in 21 Grams and super-hyped appearance in the hand of the giant gorilla in Peter Jackson's King Kong, Naomi Watts must now be added to the growing list of Australian actresses who've risen to Hollywood prominence. For a long time, though, it really looked like she wouldn't make it. Having failed to match the success of her friend and early co-star Nicole Kidman, she spent years struggling in minor roles and B-movies, watching the inexorable rise of compatriot Cate Blanchett, hearing the rumour-mills heralding the arrival of fellow Aussies Frances O'Connor and Miranda Otto. But finally, breaking through in David Lynch's bizarre and beautiful Mulholland Drive, she had the opportunity to exhibit an emotional intensity few actresses can match. She would not look back.
Though Watts claims to be an Australian, there are several nations keen to claim this new superstar for their own. She was born on the 28th of September, 1967, in Shoreham, Kent, just to the south-east of Greater London and very much in England, thank you very much. Her father was Peter Watts, a real name within the music industry, who'd worked as tour manager and sound engineer for The Pretty Things for four years before taking on the same duties for the fledgling Pink Floyd. He'd join the Floyd in 1967, some 6 months before early leader Syd Barrett was sacked and Dave Gilmour enlisted. There is a photograph in drummer Nick Mason's book Inside Out that shows Peter enjoying life on the beach at St Tropez with his new baby - Naomi.
To see Peter Watts in his element, one can also peruse the back cover of Floyd's 1969 live album Ummagumma. There he is amidst the sound gear, much of which he invented himself in order to allow the band to reproduce their extraordinary studio sound onstage. Indeed, the equipment he made would allow the group extra licence in the studio, too, to the extent that some aficionados believe Watts to've been directly responsible for the sound and sound-quality that would make Floyd such a monster success. That's his laugh you hear during Speak To Me and Brain Damage on Dark Side Of The Moon.
Naturally, her father's position would see young (very young) Naomi attend some of prog-rock's most memorable events, though not as many as her older brother Ben (later a well-known photographer). Sadly, these good times were painfully fleeting. In 1972, when she was 4, her parents would divorce, leaving her in the care of Myfanwy, her half-Welsh, half-Australian mother. Myfanway's father Hugh Roberts had met mother Nikki while serving in the Far East during WW2 and together they'd set up home in Shoreham. The hard-up Myfanwy, still very young, would take the kids to stay with her parents, with her three sisters and with several poorly-chosen boyfriends, the family's travels taking them all over the south - Kent, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and more.
If this was disorientating for Ben and Naomi, what happened next must have sent them into a spin. Just as Peter and Myfanwy had enjoyed a reconciliation and were considering making a second go of it, disaster struck. Peter had left Pink Floyd in "mysterious circumstances" in 1974. Now, two years later, in August 1976, he was found dead in his Notting Hill flat, a heroin overdose being suspected. He was only 30. Myfanwy was hit hard and, now desperate for support, she successfully used emotional blackmail on her parents, who'd since moved back to Hugh's original home in Wales. If they wouldn't let her and the kids stay, she said, she'd have to have the children fostered.
And so it was that Myfanwy, Ben and Naomi relocated to Llanfawr Farm, near Llangefni on the island of Anglesey, north-west Wales, within view of Mount Snowdon. The kids would attend primary school at Ysgol Henblas in Llangristiolus (they'd return years later when Ben renewed his marriage vows at Llangristiolus church) and would study Welsh. Once more they would have to find a new voice, new ways of fitting in with a new bunch of peers.
Perhaps this continual need to adapt would serve Naomi well in her later career. What's certain is that even at this tender age she had been bitten by the acting bug. Myfanwy was a designer by trade (she started as a window dresser for Burberry's then moved into film) but was also a keen amateur dramatist, having dumped her thespian ambitions to raise the kids. Back in Shoreham, at the age of 5, little Naomi had seen her star as Eliza Doolittle for a local troupe and had been thrown by her mother's costumes and odd accent. Throughout the show she'd waved at her mum and was disturbed by the lack of reaction. But then, when Myfanwy did finally acknowledge her with the briefest of waves, she suddenly understood this new world of make-believe. Believing she'd been let in on a special secret, she would eventually join the same group and take part in many different skits and plays. She'd also have her interest in performance further piqued by Deborah Harry from the band Blondie (Naomi would choreograph dance moves for all their hits) and the movie Fame, released in 1980. Here was a behind-the-scenes explanation of what it might take to become an actress for real - classes and hard work. She'd see plenty of these before her breakthrough came.
When Naomi was 10, Myfanwy would remarry. Her new husband was the singer in a band and, being of good English stock, was careful about the children's education, sending them off to decent boarding schools. Here Naomi proved to be smart but lacking in concentration, preferring to dream rather than study. What she craved was experience, choosing to spend much of her time with older kids and ultimately being grounded for sneaking out at night to seek such company. The strict boarding school regime was not really for her. After all, she came from a truly bohemian background, where her mum baked their bread and made their clothes, and parents and guests thrived on music, art and pot.
Come 1982, things would change radically. Having scored work in Australia and with England mired in the ugly and destructive first years of the Thatcher administration, Myfanwy returned convinced that Down Under was the Land of Opportunity. Much to the distress of Ben and Naomi, she shipped the family off to Sydney where she proved to be absolutely correct in her decision. She found plenty of work as a stylist on TV ads, moving into set-dressing and prop buying, then becoming a costume designer on the glamorous soap opera Return To Eden. Naomi's stepfather, meanwhile, enjoyed reasonable success with his band - unfortunately, his marriage to Myfanwy would end in divorce.
By now keen to perform, Naomi was enrolled in acting classes by her mother, quickly moving to more advanced lessons. This was good for the young girl who, with her brother a fine cartoonist, her mother a designer, her stepfather a musician and one of her aunts an artist, had worried that she lacked a creative spark. With her mother's commercial work opening new doors, she auditioned for a series of TV ads. At one, she was one of three girls who had to sit around all day nervously waiting to discover which of them would be chosen for a bikini ad. Naomi lost out but gained a great deal more when, sharing a cab home with the other failed candidate, the pair struck up a strong friendship. The other girl was Nicole Kidman.
Naomi was not a great success at school, failing to graduate. Instead, she concentrated on an intensive drama course and outside work. To fund herself, she was a papergirl and a negative cutter, then managed a deli on Sydney's North Shore. Still unconvinced of her creative potential, at age 18 she moved into modelling, signing to an agency and spending the next year in Japan. This was a bruising experience for the young girl, an endless raft of auditions, often ending in her being told she wasn't pretty enough. She returned to Sydney where, following in her mother's footsteps, she was hired to work in advertising for a department store who wanted to appear more youthful and stylish. So successful was she that she was quickly poached by Follow Me, an arty fashion mag competing with Vogue, where she was given the post of Assistant Fashion Editor. She was then poached again, whisked away to become full-on Fashion Editor at another magazine. It was looking good.
But it had to change. Though she'd more or less given up on acting - and how attractive a career in the glamorous fashion industry must have seemed - at 20, she was persuaded by one of her former drama class buddies to make up the numbers at a weekend drama workshop. So revelatory was the course that she walked into work that Monday morning and resigned. It was a courageous move that was almost immediately justified. Two weeks later she was invited to the Australian premiere of her friend Kidman's Dead Calm and met John Duigan, director of Kidman's next picture, a sequel to Duigan's indie hit The Year My Voice Broke, to be called Flirting. Duigan would ask Watts to call his casting director asap. She did and was hired.
Flirting was not Watts' film debut. That had occurred three years earlier, in 1986, when she'd won a small role in For Love Alone, where a woman had sought social and sexual freedom amidst the rampant conservatism of 1930s Australia. The movie had starred Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill, now Kidman's co-star in Dead Calm. Flirting, though, would be a new beginning, with Naomi now dedicated to the thespian cause. As said, it was a sequel, the original having told the tale of a prepubescent boy in rural Oz in the early Sixties, suffering as his first love fell for someone else. Flirting saw the lad, still played by Noah Taylor, in his teens and attending an all-boys boarding school. Across the lake is an all-girls equivalent where Thandie Newton waits. She likes the boy's oddness and refusal to conform, he likes her intelligence, her African exoticness and, well, she's Thandie Newton, for God's sake. And so rules are broken and boundaries are crossed, with Kidman and Watts standing out as Newton's best friends and co-conspirators in the sweet affair.
Kidman would soon be off to Hollywood and Days Of Thunder, and into the arms of Tom Cruise (coincidentally, Watts had earlier starred in a well-known ad where she turned down a date with Cruise in favour of her mum's roast lamb), proving to Naomi that Hollywood was an attainable destination. Refusing a role in the long-running soap A Country Practice as she didn't want to get stuck for years, she kept at her classes and instead scored a peachy part in the miniseries Brides Of Christ. An Aussie-Irish production, this was set in Sydney in 1962 and followed the stories of a small group of nuns and their students as they dealt with love, promiscuity, divorce, teenage pregnancy and abortion, exploring the upheavals in Catholic doctrine caused by the Vatican II council. Naomi would star in the second episode as a boarding pupil dealing with the divorce of her parents and remarriage of her mother, then she'd feature heavily in the fifth episode as, along with a liberal nun, she struggled with the notorious birth control encyclical Humane Vitae. With Brenda Fricker as the domineering Sister Agnes and a part for a young Russell Crowe, the series was critically lauded, with Watts getting a good share of the attention.
The same year, 1991, would see her go back on her soap promise and appear in Home And Away. What no doubt won her over was the challenge of playing Julie Gibson, a paraplegic. In the show at the same time was another bound for overseas success, Guy Pearce. Later cast members would include Danielle Spencer, now Mrs Russell Crowe, and Heath Ledger, Watts' boyfriend for two years once stardom had come her way.
To achieve stardom, though, she would have to cross the Pacific to Los Angeles. Clearly, it would make sense to call Kidman in search of advice or support as Kidman, aligned with Cruise, was now a powerful player in Tinseltown. But Watts was loth to abuse a friendship that was not nearly as strong as it would become. Eventually, it took Rebecca Rigg, an actress and mutual friend of both Kidman and Watts, to make the call herself, advising Kidman that Watts would soon be on the blower. Kidman reacted like a good Aussie girl should, and a trip was soon arranged whereby Watts found herself sitting beside Emilio Estevez on a private jet to Montana for a weekend in the company of Kidman and Cruise as they filmed the frontier epic Far And Away.
Kidman didn't just offer cool holidays, though. Her connections saw Watts being seen by all manner of industry powerbrokers. Indeed, they were all over her, and she decided to move to LA. But the only concrete result of any of it was a small part in Joe Dante's Matinee, a charming homage to monster flicks and 1950s cinema entrepreneur William Castle, starring John Goodman. Naomi would play a starlet in a film within the film, a parody of Disney flicks.
Despite the Kidman connection, work was simply not forthcoming in Los Angeles. So, when jobs were offered back home in Oz, Watts leapt at the chance to work and widen her experience. First would come The Custodian, a tense thriller where Anthony LaPaglia would play a burnt-out policeman who joins his friend and colleague Hugo Weaving (earlier the star of Naomi's film debut) in crooked ventures in order to betray him, Watts forming a tempting part of the seamy cityscape. She'd next rejoin John Duigan for a small part in Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Jean Rhys's feminist prequel to Jane Eyre. Boldly erotic with much nudity (though not involving Watts) this would chart the downfall of the first Mrs Rochester, a Creole estate owner in the Caribbean, gradually broken and driven to madness by male-dominated politics and, possibly, voodoo.
Watts would find a far meatier part in Gross Misconduct, directed by George Miller, who'd earlier produced Flirting. The role would also see her very nude and engaging in the kind of rampant rumpo she'd missed in Wide Sargasso Sea. Here she played a college student of Jimmy Smits, seducing him and proving to be a passionate and very adventurous lover. When the affair's discovered, though, she cries rape, sending the movie into a strong court drama where her hugely dodgy relationship with her father is gradually revealed. Some praised the film as a taut drama. Others, concerned by its shameless scenes of sex and masturbation, condemned it as exploitative.
Returning to Los Angeles for good in 1993, Watts was disappointed to find that the agents, producers, directors and casting directors who'd been all over her before now didn't recognise her. All of that initial Kidman-inspired good will had seemingly evaporated. She was going to be in for a much harder time than she thought. There were so many acting classes, so many auditions, so many failures. Now people were finding it too much of a bind to even fax her scripts. She later recalled having to drive for hours into the Valley to pick up three sheets of absolute rubbish, then drive back the next day to see a casting director so uninterested he couldn't make eye contact with her. On another occasion she won an audition with a big-name director and flew back to LA from New York, where she'd been visiting her brother. She couldn't really afford it, but could not let the chance slip - thus she was doubly disappointed when, looking up halfway through her reading, she realised that the director was asleep.
Times were tough. Though she was never so broke she had to take a job outside the industry, she did get thrown out of her apartment for falling behind with the rent, and at one point lost her health insurance. Most of all she missed the high of acting and the intimacy of the film set's surrogate family. She calmed her nerves with yoga as she endured the endless classes and failed auditions. Kidman remained a good and supportive friend but her continuing success only placed Watts' struggles into harsher relief.
Eventually, of course, her efforts would begin to pay off. 1995 saw her in Tank Girl, a crazily ambitious adaptation of the cult comic strip from Deadline Magazine. Mixing live action with cartoons, explosive violence with song and dance routines, it was marked by wild prosthetics and manic energy. On a future Earth turned to desert by a meteor strike, Lori Petty would take the title role as the cynical mercenary who refuses to work for water magnate Malcolm McDowell and is imprisoned in his fortress (Scott Coffey, who'd become a fairly regular collaborator with Watts, would appear too). Here Petty meets Naomi's shy and also ill-treated Jet Girl, and together they escape and wage war on McDowell, aided by obscenely large weapons and mutant kangaroos. As mentioned, it was ambitious, ambitious to the point of lunacy and, though Petty and Watts made for charming kick-ass heroines, it, er, tanked.
1996 was a far busier year for Watts, seeing no fewer than four appearances. First there'd be Bermuda Triangle, intended as a pilot for a series but not taken up by the networks. Here two married physicians take their kids on a holiday cruise, only to be caught in a storm and, along with their boat's dishy captain, trapped on a desert island. Here they discover many other marooned characters who've formed their own town (you can see how the series was planned to work) and discover they're actually in the 27th Dimension - a problem as their son is running out of insulin. Naomi would appear as a documentarian from Chicago, who frolics with the young captain but, being married, she cannot sleep with him, a decision for which she apologises profusely. It was wholesome stuff, indeed.
Next, for the horror film is the last refuge of the unemployed, came Children Of The Corn IV: The Gathering. Part of an increasingly silly Stephen King franchise, this saw Watts in heroine mode as a medical student returning to her small town home to care for sick mum Karen Black. Working at the local infirmary she notices that all the town's kids are falling sick then miraculously recovering. What she doesn't know is that they're being possessed by the spirit of a murdered boy preacher who wishes to wreak revenge on the adult world. Perhaps prophetically, the movie would see Naomi discover a child's body in a well. Six years later she'd encounter another evil dead kid in just such a watery grave - the result being far more successful.
Naomi's next appearance would be in Timepiece, Hallmark's follow-up to their earlier hit The Christmas Box. In a story told in flashback, Watts would play a pregnant Englishwoman arriving in the US during WW2, taking a job as a secretary and marrying the boss. Of course, there'd be trouble along the way, what with the baby not being the boss's, plenty of family tragedy and friend James Earl Jones being accused of murdering a racist who'd been persecuting him. But, this being Hallmark, there'd be brave smiles through the tears and a beamingly happy result.
Oddly, Watts' decision to take a part in Home And Away now reaped its rewards as she used the experience of paraplegia to good effect in Persons Unknown, directed by George Hickenlooper, who'd helmed the original short version of Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade. Here Joe Mantegna runs a security firm in Long Beach, enjoys a one night stand with Kelly Lynch and wakes to find some vital files have gone missing. Hunting her down, he discovers that, along with her wheelchair-bound sister Naomi, she 's planning a robbery to rip off some Colombian drug lords. Mantegna gets drawn ever deeper into their plans, with Watts becoming ever more central to the movie as she forms a relationship with Mantegna and her secrets and motives are slowly revealed.
1997 would see another shot at the big time. But first would come the sweet Australian indie Under The Lighthouse Dancing. This was a fine ensemble piece involving six friends gathering on an island for the weekend for the marriage of two of their number. The bride, though, is soon to die and she knows it as she grasps her final contact with her loved ones. It could have been unbearably poignant, but Watts was on hand with some leavening comedy as she began a relationship with one of the other friends, making the film hugely emotional but still life-affirming.
Back in the US, a chance had come her way in the shape of Sleepwalkers, a new series for NBC. This saw Bruce Greenwood as a sleep psychologist who founds the Morpheus Institute where a group of dream researchers manage to electronically enter patients' dreams. The idea is to help people make sense of and deal with their nightmares, though Greenwood is also keen to communicate with his comatose wife. Watts would co-star as founder member Kate Russell, a feisty dream operative who cares for Greenwood more than she ought to, but respects that he's married (there's plenty of scope for complication when you're in love with a guy with a comatose wife). It all sounded good, indeed, with such writers as Stephen (Traffic) Gaghan on board, it WAS good. But NBC, fearing that it was just a poor man's X-Files, pulled it after just 2 episodes - though all 9 were eventually screened overseas.
In a way, this may have been a blessing for Watts as a long-running series would surely have damaged her big screen chances. As it was, she was turning in increasingly excellent performances in fairly nondescript features, building herself for the future. Next would come the short A House Divided where she and Gary Hershberger were trapped in a house during the LA riots. Then would come the period drama Dangerous Beauty. Set in 16th Century Venice, this would see Catherine McCormack prevented by her lowly birth from marrying her lover Rufus Sewell. Instead, schooled by her mother Jacqueline Bisset, she becomes a famous courtesan, hob-nobbing with the rich and famous, saving the city and finally being condemned as a witch. Watts would appear as Guila de Lezze, who becomes Sewell's wife in an arranged marriage. Deliberately made to look dowdy and severe, she came on as the direct opposite to the cultured love her husband had lost. When he asks her if she knows poetry, she crushes him with a curt "I know the psalms". Ouch.
After briefly reuniting with Hugo Weaving and George Miller when lending her voice to Babe: Pig In The City, she moved on to The Christmas Wish, another heartwarming product of American TV. Here cynical Wall Street trader Neil Patrick Harris would return to the home of the grandparents who raised him when his grandfather dies, aiming to sort out the family business. However, he and grandma Debbie Reynolds find the old man's diary, which mentions a mysterious woman and a Christmas secret, and they investigate, with the young man's cynicism, as you'd expect, being gradually replaced by Yuletide cheer. Helping in this process would be Naomi, former loyal secretary in the family firm, now a ballet instructor and single mum. You can guess the rest.
1999 would bring two more releases. First would come the miniseries The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer, based on the true story of Ira Einhorn. Watts would play Holly Maddux, a young college graduate in 1972 Philadelphia, who falls for Einhorn, a charismatic radical leader and hippie guru. He's known as a man of peace but she discovers he has a far darker side. She wants to leave him, she tries to leave him, but then her body is found in a trunk and he goes on the run, sparking a 20-year international man-hunt that would only end in 1997 when Einhorn was captured in France and finally extradicted to the States. It was another good, emotionally-testing role for Watts, this time in a more prestigious production.
Next she'd return to Oz to join Claudia Karvan and Hugo Weaving (yet again) in Emma-Kate Croghan's Strange Planet which followed three girls (all roomies just out of college) and three guys (partners in a legal firm) through the course of a year, beginning on New Year's Eve. As they seek to build relationships and careers, the comedy level is high, but so's the existential angst, much of the movie's weight being lent by Watts as she struggles to cope with a devastating break-up.
And now, at last, came the big break, though, this being Naomi Watts, it was tempered by tension and massive disappointment. As is his wont, the great maverick director David Lynch had picked Watts from a pile of photographs to star in his next production, Mulholland Drive (the photo had been taken by her brother, Ben). The film, intended as a pilot for a series to rival Lynch's Twin Peaks, was set in a lurid Los Angeles dreamscape where Watts played Betty Elms a perky wannabe actress from Ontario who finds glamorous Laura Harring, who's just crawled from the wreckage of a car accident and is suffering from near total amnesia, in her shower. Together, they set out to discover who Harring really is and, as realities begin to blur, we come to question who Betty really is.
Watts was not that keen on the finished article, feeling the character of Betty had been sabotaged in the cut. She was too get-up-and-go, virtually slappable. Beyond this, she'd suffered so many rejections and bombs she was unsure if SHE was that good, anyway. Even so, when ABC turned down the pilot (her third series let-down), she and the rest of the principals went to Lynch's house and read him a letter of encouragement they'd written, urging him to go on with the project. Fortunately for them, he did.
Watts would move on to her next project, The Wyvern Mystery, a BBC adaptation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic classic. Set in the 1800s, this saw squire Derek Jacobi feuding with a tenant and, having brought about the man's death, taking his daughter Naomi into his house. Seeking a wife, Jacobi proposes to Watts, but she turns him down, having fallen for the squire's son, Iain Glen. Fearing the old man's vengeance, the young couple go on the run, hiding out in a big, empty and scary manor house where a pregnant Naomi discovers family secrets and is generally terrorized. Again she'd chosen her role well as it allowed her to face birth and death, romance and sex and deliver a peerless scream queen.
Having starred as a materialistic and hypocritical wannabe in the comedy short Never Date An Actress, then taken the lead in another short, Ellie Parker, written and directed by Scott Coffey, formerly her co-star in both Tank Girl and Mulholland Drive, she returned to horror with The Shaft. This saw director Dick Maas remaking his own 1983 Euro-hit De Lift, now setting it in New York City's Millennium Building. As the elevators go mad, killing the occupants in hideous ways, plucky reporter Naomi investigates, aided by and falling for lift repair man James Marshall. Together they attempt to save the day, as the military take over the show and the dodgy dealings of bio-tech companies are revealed.
Despite winning reasonably regular work, Watts was at a real low. The work she was doing outside the States was classy but low profile. Within the States she was nothing, rejected at every turn. Her agents kept sending her to auditions but she didn't like the jobs involved and only went because she needed the money. She was desperate, and came across as such, laughing too hard, engaging too deeply, making casting directors uncomfortable with her intensity, wanting it too much. Her agents called her in and asked her what the problem was. When they asked her if she was concerned about her age she broke down in tears at this gross misunderstanding of her plight. Fortunately, back in her tiny Venice apartment, her visiting mum was waiting, soothing her mind and urging her to take control of her life.
Even more fortunately, it was only two months later that Mulholland Drive premiered at Cannes. Since 1999, David Lynch had been busy. Having secured an extra $7 million from French studio CanalPlus, he'd been beefing up the pilot, rewriting and filming extra sequences. Watts herself had been given a further 18 pages and now Betty Elms could be seen as the dreamstate alter ego of Diane Selwyn, the washed-up and embittered failed actress she'd play later in the movie. She also shone in a memorable audition scene where perky Betty suddenly morphs into a classic femme fatale. Mulholland Drive really was a movie now, complete with a typical Lynch roster of weirdos and, with Watts and Harring laying themselves on the line, some of the most erotic lesbian sex sequences ever committed to celluloid. It was something of a sensation, far more than the cult offering people might've expected, and Lynch was nominated for an Oscar.
Suddenly, things were looking up for Watts, in work and life. For a year she'd been seeing Stephen Hopkins, the British director of Lost In Space and The Ghost And The Darkness. The pair had actually met back when Naomi was a kid and Hopkins, 10 years her senior, had directed her in an ad. Sadly, they'd only last another year, as Watts' star continued to rise at great pace.
Adding to her newly high profile was her friendship with Nicole Kidman. Amidst crazed tabloid interest, Kidman had split from Tom Cruise and everybody wanted to know about it. Was Penelope Cruz involved, what would happen to the adopted kids, did Scientology play a part? Kidman was engulfed by the press and Watts moved in with her to help support and protect her. When Kidman made her first public appearance after the split, at the premiere of The Others (unhelpfully produced by Cruise), she walked up the red carpet flanked by Watts on one side and old friend Rebecca Rigg on the other.
Having reunited with Scott Coffey and Laura Harring in David Lynch's out-there series of shorts, Rabbits, set in a gloomy apartment where the actors dressed in bunny costumes and spouted bizarre dialogue against a massively inappropriate laughter track, Watts would move on to her first real headlining role - The Ring. Adapted from Hideo Nakata's original Asian hit, this saw her as a newspaper reporter with a young son, investigating the case of a spooky video doing the rounds. When you've watched it, the phone rings and you're given seven days to live. Aided by her son's freaky drawings, her search leads her to a remote island cottage, oddball Brian Cox and, er, evil stuff.
Grainily shot and with Watts providing real emotional depth, The Ring was a huge hit, taking $128 million at the US box office. Better still, when released on DVD it sold 2 million copies in the States within 24 hours. Watts, who'd taken the role only after it'd been turned down by Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale, was on a new high.
But it wasn't this financial success that she'd been striving for all these years. It was the opportunity to play decent parts in interesting productions. It was unsurprising, then, when she chose not to bolster her popularity with blockbusters. Instead, her next release was a black Brit comedy called Plots With A View. Here Alfred Molina played a funeral director in a small Welsh town, in competition with Christopher Walken who's bringing Vegas-style pizzazz to his burials. Molina's had a lifelong crush on Brenda Blethyn but she's married to town big-wig Robert Pugh, a cad who's involved with Naomi, his scantily-clad, gold-digging secretary. Hilariously scheming, Watts is plotting to bump off Blethyn, complicating Molina and Blethyn's plan to fake Blethyn's death and scarper to the Pacific, but everything changes when Blethyn discovers her husband's affair. It was fun stuff, raised above the average by Watts and Walken. Very different would be The Outsider, an American TV movie set in the old West, where Naomi played an Amish woman whose husband is lynched by cattle ranchers. Saving dying drifter Timothy Daly and nursing him back to health, she discovers that he's in fact a gunslinger. When he offers to revenge her and she begins to fall for him, she begins to question her beliefs and her repressed existence. Based on Penelope Williamson's novel, it reconsidered American mythology and history from the female perspective.
Sticking to the outlaw theme, Naomi's next picture would take her back to Australia for Ned Kelly. Here Heath Ledger would take the title role as the Irish farmer battling with racist cops led by Geoffrey Rush. Watts would play the wife of a rich English landowner who hires Kelly when he's first released from jail. She has the hots for the lad but it was a severely underwritten part. Along with Cate Blanchett, Watts was now among the finest Australian actresses of the time and did not deserve to be a simple love interest. More pleasing for Watts was that she became Ledger's love interest in real life. Though he was 10 years her junior the affair would continue for two years. The couple would also, along with Rachel Griffith, appear in the play Proof in Melbourne.
Back on the Silver Screen, Watts would continue with the Merchant-Ivory production Le Divorce. This was a sophisticated comedy aiming to examine cultural differences between the French and Americans in their values and manners. Watts would play an American girl married to a faithless Frenchie. She's pregnant, stressed, about to be divorced and stalked by Matthew Modine, husband of her own husband's Russian mistress, so sister Kate Hudson flies over to Paris to help, only to be drawn into the sexual intrigue of Paris herself. It was interesting stuff but with perhaps a little too much going on.
Naomi's final release of 2003 would be her best. 21 Grams, directed by Alejandro Innaritu, would see her co-star with Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, the stories of the three main characters being drawn together by a traumatic car accident. Penn would be a professor requiring a heart transplant, Del Toro an ex-druggie and jailbird obsessed with a disciplined life, while Watts would play a recovering addict, trying to keep it together for her husband and two daughters. When the accident happens, she shatters, snot bubbling from her nose as she screams out her pain. It was an amazing performance, heartbreaking and gutsy, and deservedly earned her an Oscar nomination. She would surely have won had she not been up against Charlize Theron's efforts in Monster - it was an exceptional year.
2004 would see Watts staying true to herself, veering away from stardom and seeking parts, even small parts, in classy projects. She began the year with We Don't Live Here Anymore, based on the stories of Andre "In The Bedroom" Dubus and concerning two Oregon professors and their wives. One of them, Mark Ruffalo, is married to Laura Dern but has fallen in lust with Naomi, wife of his friend Peter Krause. Krause and Dern discover the affair and embark on a half-hearted affair of their own, and things become ever more seedy, purely because no one has the desire or moral fortitude to stop them.
Watts would next reunite with Sean Penn for The Assassination Of Richard Nixon (Penn is exactly the kind of actor Watts would want to work with), based on the true story of Samuel J Bicke. Here Penn would play an office supplies salesman, and a bad one at that, whose marriage to Watts is over. He gradually slips into madness, continually visiting her and his dogs and daughters, unable to comprehend what's happening. She in turn tries to explain that it's really over, recoiling more and more as his condition worsens. Two fine performances, one bomb - the film did not even take $1 million in the US. Lord knows why.
Naomi would end the year with the oddity I Heart Huckabees, joining a stellar cast including Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law and Isabelle Huppert (it was another role turned down by Gwyneth Paltrow). A philosophical comedy, it saw environmentalist Jason Schwartzman take on the chain-store of the title while employing existential detectives Hoffman and Tomlin to sort out his internal problems. Jude Law would appear as an executive for Huckabees, who's seeing Watts, the company's public face, and they too would hire the detectives to follow them around, Watts deliberately making herself ugly in the search for her true identity. It sounds messy and it was, all efforts to lend some heart to the intellectualism coming to naught.
2005 would be a massive year for Watts. Her first release would be Ellie Parker, an expanded version of the short she'd earlier made with Scott Coffey. This would see her still in the title role, as an actress charging from auditions to therapy and back. We'd see her on the loo, on drugs, on edge in her primal scream-style acting classes. She vomit, whine, struggle to get a part in a Russian-produced Civil War epic and have sex with her stoner boyfriend in the bath. It was dead grungey, few holds were barred and it was no surprise to hear that much of it was based on Watts' own experiences. In fact, at one point during the on-and-off four-year shoot, Watts had been rear-ended (her CAR, that is) and Coffey had rushed over with his Digital Video so they could improvise a scene there and then. When the short version had been shown at Sundance in 2001 it had been a critical smash, with many people buying teeshirts sporting a line Watts spouts during an audition to play a Brooklyn junkie ho' - "I sucked it good".
Next, having signed an unbreakable contract to do so, she starred in The Ring 2, where her character had moved from Seattle to Oregon but not escaped the horror as her son has the ghost of a horribly mistreated little girl trying to possess him. Despite being directed by original helmsman Hideo Nakata, it wasn't that great but still a major hit - a far cry from Watts' next picture, Stay. This saw psychiatrist Ewan McGregor temporarily counselling suicidal art student Ryan Gosling. Meanwhile McGregor's shacked up with Watts, a former patient and artist who's also suicidal. Reality's messed with and confusion reigns as director Marc Foster examines the way we perceive things and order them in order to feel secure.
2005 would end in spectacular style with Peter Jackson's King Kong, with Watts as Ann Darrow, the 1930s starlet who captures the heart of the enormous gorilla. She was under huge pressure to top the efforts of her predecessors in the role, Fay Wray and Jessica Lange, but managed it with something to spare. She had by now, of course, proven herself to be one of the finest screen actresses in the world. She'd need to be in 2006 when she stepped into the shoes of the legendary Greta Garbo for a remake of The Painted Veil, based on the work of Somerset Maugham. Unhappily married to Edward Norton, she'd engage in an affair that would lead her on a voyage of self-discovery in the Far East.
Continuing to flit between LA, Australia and Norfolk where her mother runs her successful design and furniture business, the renowned House Bait, Naomi Watts now has it made. After years of depressing toil in Los Angeles she can now pick and choose her roles. She'll certainly choose interestingly, though expect the occasional mainstream fare to appear on her CV as she's begun an art collection, specializing in photography. She deserves it, she's worked hard to become one of the best there is.
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The Zone protocol, (as also with Atkins) tends to work better in type O's, this is true. However neither take into effect the individuality even found in type O, such as the special responses to lectins, etc. The Zone diet has some very employable features if you are type O; by the way. I think it can best be described as "if you are type O, you will be more negatively impacted by being out of the zone, than the other types." Other blood types can also use many of the Zone principles to some effect though.
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Momonga Linux is an independent and completely free distribution of Linux designed for Japanese-speaking users who want to replace their commercial and deprecated Windows XP operating system with an open source OS.
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Snow Leopard More Feature-laden Than Expected
After Monday's Worldwide Developers' Conference keynote, we now know that Snow Leopard will cost Leopard users $29 ($49 for the family pack) when it ships in September. In my pre-WWDC OS X Snow Leopard piece, I'd guessed either free or $20 -- so I was closer to right than wrong, though still wrong. But what do you get for your $29? Are there more features than the five big ones I covered last week?
If you watched any of the keynote coverage, you know the answer to that question is "yes, there are more features." In addition to Snow Leopard's already-known features, Apple revealed some very interesting things about the next major OS X release.
On its Snow Leopard page, Apple groups these changes into four major topic areas: Better. Faster. Easier, Next-generation technologies, More accessible than ever, and Exchange support. I dug through these pages Monday, trying to get a sense for what we'll get to see when Snow Leopard ships in September (not quite "about a year" from last June's WWDC, but close).
As I loaded page after page, I was thrilled to find this blurb on an additional page of enhancements and refinements: "Adjust view options for Spotlight results just as you can with any Finder window. Modify the default view as well as the size, labeling, and alignment of icons." This was the No. 1 entry on my list of Leopard annoyances, and it looks like (yes!) it's finally fixed in Snow Leopard.
Beyond that personal-interest fix, what else is new? In my prior article, I covered the Exchange support and next generation technologies, and though Apple provides some more detail on these changes, there's really not a lot more to say about them. There are a lot of very cool new capabilities in OS X's accessibility features, none of which had been disclosed before Monday's keynote.
(Image Caption: The 'rotor' gesture eases navigation through text and web pages.) For vision-impaired users, the track pad in Snow Leopard will now be usable as a virtual screen--pressing on the trackpad will speak the name of the window under the user's finger as if he or she were touching the screen. To move to the next or previous window, users needs only flick their finger. In addition, there's support for more than 40 braille devices, better keyboard navigation, and a new gesture (the rotor) that eases navigation through text and Web pages.
To me, the most interesting newly-disclosed features are on the "Better. Faster. Easier." page. The thing that really caught my eye is that the Finder has been totally rewritten to take advantage of Snow Leopard's new technologies, such as GrandCentral and 64-bit support. Along the way, Exposé gains some really nice new features, including an organized grid arrangement, and showing all of a program's open windows when you click and hold on its dock icon. Stacks now appear in scrollable windows, and you can drill down into subfolders. Performance should be better, too, with Apple claiming that refreshing a PDF icon is 1.7x faster than Leopard, and 1.4x faster for a JPG icon.
Other speed increases include Time Machine--up to 50 percent faster than Leopard in general use--and much quicker wake from sleep, shut down, and when joining wireless networks. These are the kind of real-world speed improvements that users should notice; they're not esoteric benchmarks, but tangible tasks that many people do many times per day.
Another area that has seen speed and efficiency improvements is the OS X installation process. It's now up to 45 percent faster than Leopard, and uses up to 6GB less drive space (depending on how you configure your installation). The installer will also check applications and disable any known to be incompatible with Snow Leopard. If the power happens to go out during install, the installer is even smart enough to start again without losing any data.
iChat's video chat support is better as well--more work is done to address common router incompatibilities, and less bandwidth is needed--only a 300Kbps upload speed--for full 640x480 resolution chats. For anyone whose ever cursed at iChat's somewhat lottery-like ability to start a video chat, these are welcome improvements.
Another area that received a lot of attention in Snow Leopard is the Services menu. I've long lamented the poor Services menu. It holds so much potential, but is cursed with perhaps the poorest implementation possible. Every service on your machine appeared in one long menu, with no way to disable those you didn't need. Chinese text conversion, for instance, doesn't get much use in my household.
(Image Caption: Services in Snow Leopard are now in the contextual menu, and contextual in nature.) In 10.6, you'll be able to individually disable or enable each service, which is a great improvement in its own right. However, you'll also be able to get to services from more places--they'll be available via the contextual menu. What makes this change even better is that the services items themselves are now contextual too. That is, you'll only see the services the are compatible with the selection you've made.
In prior versions of OS X, non-usable services were grayed out, leaving the menu cluttered and ugly looking. In 10.6, the non-applicable services simply won't show at all. Finally, Automator will let you build your own services, making it easy to turn a repetitive task into a simple mouse-click exercise. I think this may be one of the more exciting areas of change in 10.6, for it really turns the Services menu into something that literally any user can take advantage of.
Two other improvements caught my attention as small changes that many users will welcome. The first is related to selecting text in Preview. If you've ever tried text selection on a multi-column document, you know it's not fun--typically, you wind up selecting text across columns, instead of just down your desired column. In Snow Leopard, artificial intelligence is applied as you make your selection, helping Preview select just that text you're interested in copying. I would love it if this technology could make its way across every app that supports multi-column documents!
The second small change is to an area many users may not think twice about, but if you work with a lot of removable media, you'll welcome this one. You know that annoying message that lets you know you can't eject a disk because it's in use? It's annoying because it doesn't tell you anything about which file may be keeping the disk busy, just that it's busy. In Snow Leopard, Apple has made changes so that fewer events will cause the disk to report itself as busy. Beyond that, though, if the disk actually is busy, you'll see a message that--hallelujah!--tells you exactly what it is that's keeping the disk busy.
One final new feature is actually a really old feature. Snow Leopard will have a Put Back command that moves a file from the trash back to its originating folder. The long-time Mac users out there will remember this command from OS 9 as Put Away (Command-Y; it's still in my memory banks), and it's very useful for those times when you change your mind about deleting a file. Score one more for the old timers!
As I read through this list of changes, bug fixes, and new features, and compare it to the list of 300 new features in Leopard, it seems to me that Apple could have easily sold Snow Leopard for $129. At only $29 for current 10.5 users, this upgrade looks to be a real bargain, and I can't wait to try it out this fall.


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SEV, 36", Early Midseason, Recurrent, 8". Narrow form, Burgundy in color with a Black cherry eye, some white teeth and chartreuse throat. This large loud daylily will wake up the neighborhood, demands to be seen! 3 way branching. 18 BC.
(Dan Hansen Fall 2010)
Evergreen, 32" Scapes, Mid Season, Re-blooms, 6" Flowers, "As the wind changed direction and the temple band took five, the crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive!" It wasn't always cool to like rock and roll, but when you've got a red hot daylily like this one, it reminds you of why it's worth it to be different! This re-curved deep red flower with a ruffled thin white edge and yellow-green throat is like ALL my reds: does not water spot and holds up well to the sun (Florida tested with no shade cloth)! ROCK THE CASBAH is for those who love rock and roll, the armed services and sizzling red daylilies that increase rapidly! Fertile, Bud Count 20, Branching 4
(Seedling X Maroon Mischief)
*ROBIN LEE (Dan Hansen Spring 2010) $60DF
Evergreen, 32"
Scape, Early Season, Re-blooms, 7" Flowers
Look out boys, here she comes! Absolutely radiant in Radical Red or saturated Rose petals this flower has everything: large bloom, clean color, tall scape, bud count and branching! Plump blunt sepals and petals are fringed with an exquisite white edge on the outside and a dark pink halo on the inside followed by a chartreuse throat.
Very Fertile! Bud Count 22, Branching 4 (Geneva Rockin' Robin X Cindy Daniel)
*ROMAN SENATOR (Dan Hansen, 2014) $150DF #8VENE
EVERGREEN, 22" SCAPES, EARLY EARLY SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 5" FLOWERS, 4 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Round with near white petals and wide dark Tyrian or Imperial Purple border, yellow throat. The badge of office of a Roman Senator was a stripe of Tyrian purple on their white toga. Represents 10 yrs of line breeding, first bloomed it 6 years ago! HOLLER BACK GIRL X GIRLS GONE WILD
*RON'S CURLS (Dan Hansen, 2014) $150DF #1PUT
EVERGREEN, 28" SCAPES, EARLY EARLY SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 8" FLOWERS, 4 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Narrow UF crispate, sepals curl and pinch, with a large bright yellow throat purple petaloids and edged in large white sharks teeth! Named by Ron Bonner! PLEASURE SPIKED WITH PAIN X OPAL'S DREAM
(Dan Hansen Fall 2010)
Evergreen, 30" Scapes, Mid Season, Re-blooms, 6" Flowers, Narrow, Emerging from the dust of the earth is a flower with the much sought after speckled effect! A yellow throat grows into consistently speckled rose and white petals and sepals. Powdered midrib pairs nicely with petals that sometimes pleat "origami" style. A unique breakthrough in the texture world,
ROSE AND ASHES is sure to turn heads in your garden. Fertile, Bud Count 18, Branching 3
[(Shallow Water X Lighter Than Air) X (Mandalay Bay Music X Seedling)]
*RUM RUNNER (Dan Hansen 2011 Fall) $50 C Evergreen 28" Early Reblooms 7" Flower. Narrow. Bitone Pink petals with Red band and edge White sharks teeth on petals, Yellow throat and pale pink sepals. SDL X SDL Fertile BC 15 BR3
SAD SACK (Dan Hansen, FALL 2013) $70C
EVERGREEN, 36" SCAPES, MID SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 8" FLOWERS, 5 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, NOT POD FERTILE! sdl# SAD
Narrow melon red with cream teeth and yellow throat. Recurves, lays its petals back like it does NOT care!
*SALACIOUS SMILE (Dan Hansen FALL 2012) $50
EVERGREEN, 34" SCAPES, MIDSEASON, REBLOOMS, 5.75" FLOWERS, 4 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Pale pink with wide pink border and thin cream white edge, lime green throat. Big ruffles, less than round, and sepals recurve. (unkown)
*SAME LOVE (Dan Hansen, 2014) $150DF #1RENE4
EVERGREEN, 28" SCAPES, EARLY SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 6" FLOWERS, 3 WAY BRANCHING, 18 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Always a forward thinker, SAME LOVE shows that edge-no-eyes can be done with elegance and sass. An amazing ruby red edge blazes around the tips of the gay, creamy white petals and sepals, never missing a beat or fading away. This beauty is untainted by any "judging" eye color; mainstream thinking is a thing of the past because as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis would tell you, "Whatever god you believe in, we come from the same one, strip away the fear, underneath, it's all the same love." HOLLER BACK GIRL X ROBIN LEE
*SARACEN BLADE (Dan Hansen FALL 2012) $70C
EVERGREEN, 24" SCAPES, EARLY EARLY, REBLOOMS, 7" FLOWERS, 4 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Narrow dusty Rose petaloids with black band and white teeth, pale green throat. (CHEERY CHARM X (seedling x ROCK STAR))
(Dan Hansen Fall 2010)
Evergreen, 32" Scapes, Early-Mid Season, Re-blooms, 8" Flower, UFO, Like going to the beach on a perfect summer day, this narrow yellow unusual form is sure to make you relax. With great size and plant, the yellow narrow spatulate petals are trimmed with a sandy ruffled edge. For a self, this flower garners plenty of attention! The motion on the sepals is reminiscent of waves crashing onto white sandy beaches. And like driving home from the ocean with sand between your toes SANDY MANDY is a reminder of a balmy summer day!
Fertile, Bud Count 20, Branching 4 (Ocean Front Property X Twisted Mint Julep)
*SAY WHAT (Dan Hansen FALL 2012) $30
EVERGREEN, 36" SCAPES, MIDSEASON, REBLOOMS, 7" FLOWERS, 5 WAY BRANCHING, 25 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Narrow pink with rose band and edge with yellow teeth, large yellow throat. named by Jim Jeffcoat! (seedling x FRILLY LILLIAN) X VORACIOUS VIXEN
*SCRAMBLED EGGS AND BACON(Dan Hansen Spring 2010) $35
Evergreen, 18" Scapes, Early Season, Re-blooms, 6.5" Flowers An American favorite for early mornings, this flower resembles the breakfast entrée with dark pink petals like sizzling bacon, chartreuse throat and "scrambled" edge. Staring at this delicious home cooking will leave your mouth watering! Pollen fertile, no pods, small weak plants. Bud Count 15, Branching 3 (Cool Starlight X Crane Fighting)
(Dan Hansen Spring 2010)
Evergreen, 28" Scapes, Early-Mid Season, Re-blooms, 6" Flowers, No one will be able to keep quiet once they find out about this! Like a juicy piece of office gossip, this flower is lusted after, with ribbed Scarlet Red petals, a risqué white edge and naughty yellow throat. Superb branching and bud count will have any gardener going wild! NO water marks and sun fast! Fertile! Bud Count 25, Branching 5
[(Girls Gone Wild X Fluff and Stuff) X (Hopeless Romantic X tet Grace Pierce)]
(Dan Hansen Fall 2009)
Ev, 26" scapes, E, Re, 5.5" flowers, Named for the veins and sculpting that create "scars" on the petals; this flat flower has a chartreuse throat that bulges out into chiseled rosy-red cheeks. A picoteed yellow edge and obtuse sepals helps accentuate these lovely marks. Increases rapidly! BC 25, BR 5 Fertile both ways!
[(Seedling X Keys to the Kingdom) X Parting The Red Sea]
*SEXY SAMANTHA (Dan Hansen 2012) $50 C
Sauntering into our "SEXY" line of daylilies comes SEXY SAMANTHA; she's round, sultry and totally full of herself! Bright Pink-Rose petals are blushing with the glow from a creamy watermark and gold throat. Voluptuous and ardent with blunt, wide sepals and a passionate bubbly cream edge, this cultivar will let you give in to those cravings for something a bit more provoking in your garden. Evergreen 28" Scapes, Mid Season, Reblooms, 6" Flowers, 3 way branching, 15 bud count, Fertile both ways! (unknown × unknown)
*SEXY SARA $40 C (Dan Hansen – Spring 2011) Evergreen, 25" Scapes, Early-Mid Season, Re-blooms, 6" Flowers, This daylily works well under pressure and is truly a performance daylily! Named for an emergency room nurse from Central Florida, SEXY SARA is sure to ameliorate your garden! Hot pink petals cause a heat wave of fervor from the yellow throat to the ruffled yellow edge. Can get extremely fancy performing under Florida heat, this daylily will have you wanting to see more! 4 way branching, 20 bud count, Fertile both way! (7BR2 X BANGLES AND BOWS)
(Dan Hansen Spring 2010)
Evergreen, 24" Scapes, Late Season, Re-blooms, 5.5" Flowers, You don't have to be from Georgia to enjoy this flirty flower! Sultry coral pink petals are pinched at the ends and flushed with a big coral pink and yellow edge that wiggles on down to the provocative yellow throat. Blunt sepals compliment this fetching flower. Rarely polys. Fertile! Bud Count 18, Branching 4
[{[(Pink Intrigue X Seedling)F2 X Chicks Dig It] X (Julianna's Jewel X Ice Cream Social)} X Cindy Daniel]
*SEXY STELLA (Dan Hansen, 2014) $200DF #9FF
EVERGREEN, 24" SCAPES, MID SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 5.5" FLOWERS, 4 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Strutting her way into my "SEXY" collection of pinks and corals, comes SEXY STELLA! Fluent in the language of fertility and beauty, the soft coral-pink petals invite and welcome you in to their warm, softly sculpted folds and rich sultry golden throat. Ruffled edges and excellent color will have you blushing like you saw your first crush all over again!
*SHAKA (Dan Hansen FALL 2012) $35C UNUSUAL FORM
EVERGREEN, 28" SCAPES, MIDSEASON, REBLOOMS, 8" FLOWERS, 4 WAY BRANCHING, 20 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! Narrow yellow cream with green throat. Hawaiian locals use the shaka to convey what they call the "Aloha Spirit", a gesture of friendship and understanding between the various ethnic cultures that reside within Hawaii, and thus it does not have a direct semantic to literal translation. Depending on context it can also be used to communicate notions such as "thank you", "hi", "howzit", and the like. LOVE COMFORTS THE SOUL X SANDY MANDY
(Dan Hansen 2009)
Ev, 36" scapes, EE, Re, 6" flowers, Noc, Ext, Tall, Round, Red with a white edge on all segments and green throat. Love tall, uniform, clear, hard working, beautiful, branched …. Daylilies! We need more tall, bright, very early DLs. Certainly a cut above the rest. Named after a wonderful young woman from Mass who is very much like the flower and her Mom! Very fertile both ways. BR 6 BC 28 (Sdl X Sdl)
(Dan Hansen 2009)
Ev, 28" scapes, M, Re, 5.25" flowers, Noc, Ext, Flat, Edge-no-eye White and wide hot pink border with yellow to green throat. Perfect flat tear drop shaped petals with near electric border on the purest of white. Tiny sepals. Over ten years of ENE breeding brought this beauty to us without the a "bling" gaudy edge! A quick check of the green foliage tells you this color is indeed real! Absolutely without fault! Very fertile both ways BR 5 BC 24
Sdl X Sdl
*SILLY BANDS $40 C (Dan Hansen – Spring 2011) Named for the silicone bracelets that are being traded and collected among children this French rose flower has a sculpted relief yellow throat that wiggles out to red veins and trails out to the piecrust edges. Maybe some day we can hybridize daylilies with eyes that look like animals and cartoon characters! Evergreen, 22" Scapes, Mid-Late Season, Re-blooms, 5.5" Flowers, 4 way branching, 20 bud count, Fertile both ways! (sdlg x RASTA BEATS)
*SHEILA BEILA (Dan Hansen 2011 Fall) $40 C Evergreen 24" Early Early Reblooms 5.5" Flower. Sculpted Relief. Edge no Eye Dark Pink border, Peach Orange petaloids, long carved ridges on petals, Green throat. Named for Sheila Woo of Savannah, GA who enjoyed seeing this in my garden. SDL X ? Fertile
SKATER (Dan Hansen, FALL 2013) $100DF
EVERGREEN, 36" SCAPES, MID SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 8" FLOWERS, 3 WAY BRANCHING, 18 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! sdl# INTE7 Dark plum eye and border on pink sand yellow throat and abundant teeth near eye, Large tweener (not narrow, not round!) tall scape.
*SMOKIN' HOT $50 C (Dan Hansen – Spring 2011) A red fervor sweeps over the round bloom all the way from the small yellow-green throat to ruffled petals with a thin white edge. SMOKIN' HOT is the best red in the entire garden, which means: water-fast, sun-fast, consistent and true performance! I believe this daylily would have a 40 bud count if you actually fertilize it! Evergreen, 26" Scapes, Mid-Late Season, Re-blooms, 5.5" Flowers, 5 way branching, 25 bud count, Fertile both ways! (sdlg1 × GOOD JUJU)
*SON OF TALON (Dan Hansen Fall
30" scapes, Early, 7" flowers, Re-blooms. Narrow bronzy red bi-tone with paler sepals, yellow green throat and white teeth. BC 22, BR 3.
(LAND SHARK x tet TALON)
SPIRITUAL GIFT (Dan Hansen, FALL 2013) $100
EVERGREEN, 26" SCAPES, MID SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 5.5" FLOWERS, 3 WAY BRANCHING, 15 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! sdl# 1BE6 Round sand color with complex eye and thin edge, lime green throat.
*SQUEEZE BOX (Dan Hansen Fall
Ev, 25" scapes, E, 5" flowers, Re, Like an old-fashioned accordion, this flower has a whole slew of symmetrical creases. The rose-pink sculpted petals, rose eye and chartreuse throat are like music to any gardener's ear! Add round form, re-curved sepals and a ruffled edge for a harmonious performance. BC 18, BR 3 Fertile both ways!
Our Miss Ruby X [((Ed Brown X Bodacious Blush) X Fluff and Stuff) X Seedling]
SQUIRREL BEATER (Dan Hansen Fall 09) $40DF
Ev 28" E RE 5" As quirky as the name itself, this flower is one that will hold your attention, with an orchid colored eye on a linen background. Add a matching orchid edge to the peculiarity, with petals that pinch in at the base and recurved sepals, it cannot be thumped! Small plants. BC 18, BR 4 Fertile both ways! [(Amber Nichole X tet Navajo Princess) X Kansas City Kicker] X Unknown
(Dan Hansen Fall 2010)
Evergreen, 36" Scapes, Mid Season, Re-blooms, 5.5" Flowers, We've heard the story before, about fixing the economy and reducing taxes...well this flower makes none of those claims! But you can energize your garden with this gorgeous flower! Pale pink petals and sepals light up the yellow-green throat and violet veins inflame the lavender eye and matching lavender edge. Great height and branching make this the perfect STIMULUS PACKAGE for any daylily enthusiast! Fertile, Bud Count 18, Branching 4 [{Splendid Touch X [(Chama Valley X Bam) X Visual Intrigue]} X Seedling]}] This flower does NOT have as much blue as the video indicates.
*STRAIGHT SHOOTER (Dan Hansen 2013) $100C
EVERGREEN, 28" SCAPES, MID SEASON, RE-BLOOMS, 5" FLOWERS, 5 WAY BRANCHING, 28 BUD COUNT, FERTILE BOTH WAYS! sdl# 1nR A large chartreuse chamber throat says "put up your dukes" as it aims its gun barrel midrib at the other non-pleated flowers in the garden. I've found that pleated flowers open better on cool mornings than non-pleated flowers do! Straight from the chamber comes red violet pleated petals that are peppered with Annie Oakley style ruffled edges. I learned a long time ago from my dad that honesty was the best policy and to always be a STRAIGHT SHOOTER. SCULPTED PLEATED, red violet. pink watermark, lighter mid rib, and large yellow throat. (PURSED LIPS X ABSOLUTE RIPPER)
STUDEBAKER HAWK (D. Hansen) $9C
SEV, 20" Midseason, Recurrent, 7". UFO. Yellow petaloids and a complex triangular violet eye with plum veins and the smokey to green throat. The triple colored edge of violet, plum and gold knobs and teeth help to complete the picture! Spatulate with touching petals and narrow sepals. Short. 5 way branching. 27 BC. Fertile but pod difficult!
(Dan Hansen Spring
Evergreen, 24" Scapes, Early Season, Re-blooms, 6.5" Flowers, As adorable as any sweet innocent child, this flower is sure to make you smile with great branching, bud count, and bloom size! Bubbling chartreuse edge hugs the salmon pink border and skips down to the matching chartreuse throat. Cream petals burst with energy as they curl back next to blunt cream sepals. Named after a precious little girl from Central Florida! Blooms over several months here! Always opens and is very consistent! GREAT PLANT grew in my "wasteland" and PERFORMED. My job is to TEST DLs and THROW AWAY poor performers! Fertile! Bud Count 25, Branching 5 [At First Blush X (Pink Intrigue X Seedling)] X (Fluff and Stuff X Linda's Magic)
Hansen 2009)
Ev, 23" scapes, EM, Re, 5" flowers, Noc, Ext, Frag, Flat, Sculpted, Melon with yellow to green throat. Yellow edge with heavy ruffles and matching surface ridges. Very consistent. This beauty has strong garden presence! Fancy form, tropical colors, big ruffles, dramatic sculpting and great performance draws all to it! It is hard sometimes to quantify attraction. This flower had visitors "ohhing" and "aweing!!!" Very fertile both ways BR 4 BC 22 [(Sdl x SPECTRAL ELEGANCE) X KEYS TO THE KINGDOM]
*SWIMMING DEEP (Dan Hansen, SPRING 2013) $100
BOTH WAYS! sdl# 0FSK
We've all been there, stunned by the amazing life around us, completely
engrossed in our surroundings. As if absorbed with Poseidon's power, the yellow
green throat on this flower is swirling in a sea of red violet petals with deep
relief sculpted "waves". A yellow edge floats carelessly around the curves of
the petals and as it reaches the throat it turns white like the sea foam topping
the crest of a wave. Seeing the depth on this flower will have you SWIMMING DEEP
in a sea of love.
SCULPTED RELIEF, ROUND, flat, red violet, white edge, triangular yellow green throat. (SCARFACE X KNUCKLEHEAD)
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Evergreen Lodge, Vail
- Free parking
Main amenities
- 128 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Ski storage
- Fitness center
- 24-hour front desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Arcade/game room
- Lobby fireplace
- Front desk safe
- ATM/banking services
What's around
- Vail Ski Resort (0.7 mi / 1.2 km)
- Betty Ford Alpine Gardens (1.1 mi / 1.7 km)
- Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater (1.1 mi / 1.8 km)
- Vail Valley Medical Center (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
The Evergreen Lodge is a spectacular year-round destination just a short walk or shuttle ride from the Lionshead Gondola and serves as the ideal setting for a memorable experience in Colorado's beautiful Vail Valley. 193 ski runs and 31 ski lifts are within easy reach. Fine dining and boutique shopping are convenient to guests in Vail Village, located one- quarter mile away. This lodge is adjacent to Vail Valley Medical Center and the Dobson Ice Arena.
Hotel Features.
The Evergreen Lodge is a full-service hotel that welcomes guests into a lodge-style lounge area complete with fireplace and cushioned chairs perfect for mingling. Guests can après ski in The Altitude Café for casual eating while selecting from a menu featuring eclectic dishes and specialty coffees. This café serves breakfast and dinner daily. The Altitude Club sports bar is a Vail favorite featuring homemade chili and several brews on tap, big-screen televisions, billiards and video gaming. Room service is available seasonally during limited hours. Special events are made easy with the hotel's on-site meeting facilities and business services. Guests can rest sore muscles in a heated pool, in one of two cedar saunas or spa tub, or play games in the on- site game room. Parking is available for guests (limited to 1 vehicle per room).
Views of Vail Valley or the Rocky Mountains can be enjoyed from any one of the newly-renovated 128 guestrooms at the Evergreen Lodge. Guests can sink into beds topped with pillowtop mattresses and down comforters, or enjoy majestic views while sipping complimentary coffee from balconies available in select rooms. Expanded cable television is also available in all rooms.
Very friendly staff , two restaurants , clean room.
hotel needs to be renovated. the towels and linens were old and worn.
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Hotel Info: 866-266-9798from $130 CAD
- Standard Room, 2 Queen Beds, Mountain View
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 128 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 7 floors
- Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets allowed
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply *
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free self parking
- Accessible parking
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In the hotel
- Breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Outdoor pool
- Ski storage
- Fitness facilities
- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Conference space
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Fireplace in lobby
- Disabled parking
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Climate control
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Pillowtop mattress
- Shower/tub combination
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
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DiningAltitude Bar and Grill - This sports bar serves light fare only.
On Site
- Fitness facilities
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
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- Snowshoeing nearby
Evergreen Lodge, Vail's small print
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
Pet deposit: USD 25 per night
- Resort fee: USD 10 per accommodation, per night
Resort fee inclusions:
- Pool access
- Fitness center access
- Ski storage
- Bicycle storage
- Internet access (may be limited)
- In-room coffee
- Self parking
- Parking
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for USD 20 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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Write a C program that reads in the Y values of a function provided in data.txt. The Y values correspond to an X domain ranging from -3 to 6 with a step size of 0.01. The program must use a function that performs the numerical differentiation method described below to calculate the derivative of the input data and write the resulting X and Y values to a CSV file. Corresponding X and Y values must be separated by a comma and subsequent data points must be separated by new lines. In our case the size of h is our step size and if we perform this calculation between each data point we will get the derivative of the function. â?¢ A function must be used to calculate the derivative between 2 values, it must accept the 2 Y values currently being evaluated and return the derivative at that point. â?¢ When a file is opened it must be confirmed that the file was opened correctly. â?¢ The lower and upper bound values and step size must be defined as constants Next the produced CSV file must be imported into Microsoft Excel and the X and Y data must be plotted in a chart. The axes must be labelled appropriately and the chart must be given a title. Once the data is plotted a trendline of the appropriate type must be fitted to the data. Finally you must calculate the variance of the Y values imported into Excel without using the built in variance function. You may only use the built in SUM and AVERAGE functions.
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Collier School Board hoping to eliminate, modify civics assessment requirement
Approximately 87,000 eighth graders state-wide could be held back from ninth grade if they do not pass a state-required history assessment.
Using eighth grade FCAT results since 2001, the Collier County School Board predicted that 45 percent of its eighth grade students would not pass the civics end of the course assessment, and therefore would not graduate to ninth grade.
The Collier School Board is hoping to eliminate or modify this assessment requirement during the 2012 legislative session.
"Everyone thinks the subject is important for our students to know, but our plea is that there would be additional testing measures and opportunities for students to move on," Superintendent Kamela Patton said.
Without these modifications, middle schools will have to absorb the large number of students that do not pass. It could affect staffing and classes in both middle and high schools.
The board will recommend that the students be allowed to re-take the test, or allow for "good-cause" exemptions so that students can still move onto ninth grade.
County advocates will represent this and the board's four other legislative priorities during the 2012 legislative session in Tallahassee.
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Former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland has reportedly left her record label Columbia Records.
Rowland's latest album "Ms. Kelly" was considered a commercial flop, and the record label no longer considers her to be commercially viable.
Ironically, Rowland dropped Beyonce's father Matthew Knowles as her manager two months ago. (Click here for more info on her split with Knowles).
Rowland had much success as a member of the R&B group Destiny's Child alongside Beyonce and Michelle Williams.
Since the group broke up, Rowland has failed to reach the same level of success as Beyonce, which might be part of the reason she was let go from her record label.
However, Rowland has had success in movies. She had a major role in the 2003 horror flick "Freddy vs. Jason" which made $115 million at the box office worldwide.
Maybe she should take on more acting roles since her music career isn't panning out.
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