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19 November 2015 5:49 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Momentum Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to bullying drama "Milton's Secret," starring Michelle Rodriguez, Donald Sutherland and William Ainscough.
The movie, currently in post-production, is based on the 2008 children's book "Milton's Secret: An Adventure of Discovery Through Then, When, and the Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle and Robert S. Friedman. Ainscough plays an eight-year-old who's bullied at school with Rodriguez as his teacher trying to lift his spirits while his grandfather (Sutherland) shows him the secret to finding true happiness.
Buck Productions and Hulo Films are the production companies. Producers are Sean Buckley for Buck Productions, Fred Fuchs for Riverside Entertainment, as well as Stephen Huszar and Ryan Lockwood for Hulo Films.
Barnet Bain directed from a script he wrote with Donald Martin and Sara B Cooper. David Sutcliffe, Mia Kirshner, Sheila McCarthy and Hays Wellford also star.
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- Dave McNary
16 October 2015 7:36 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
Days after cancelling fantasy drama Dominion, Syfy has cancelled sci-fi series Defiance. Our page of Defiance's season three ratings tells most of the story. Defiance lost viewers from season to season. For season one, Defiance averaged 0.7 in the 18-49 demographic and 2.09 million viewers. Season two averages were 0.46 in the demo and 1.56 million viewers. Compare those to season three: 0.25 in the demo and 1.13 million viewers.
Defiance is set in the year 2046. It's a new Earth and there are new rules. It's been more than 30 years since various alien races started arriving on our world. The landscape has been completely altered — terraformed nearly beyond recognition. The Defiance cast includes: Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Jaime Murray, Tony Curran, Graham Greene, Mia Kirshner, and Fionnula Flanagan. Read More… »
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16 October 2015 6:39 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
Network: Syfy
Episodes: 38 (hour)
Seasons: Three
TV show dates: April 15, 2013 -- August 28, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Jaime Murray, Tony Curran, Graham Greene, Mia Kirshner, and Fionnula Flanagan.
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This TV series takes place in the year 2046. It's a new Earth and there are new rules. It's been more than 30 years since various alien races started arriving on our world. The landscape has been completely altered -- terraformed nearly beyond recognition.
The mysterious Nolan (Grant Bowler) and his charge, Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas), come to the town of Defiance (which used to be St. Louis). As they settle into the town, events begin to unfold that threaten the fragile peace this border town has fought for.
Defiance is overseen by Mayor Amanda Rosewater »
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8 October 2015 9:50 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Michelle Rodriguez ("Furious 7") will join Donald Sutherland in the film adaptation of Eckhart Tolle and Robert Friedman's children's novel "Milton's Secret" for Buck Productions, Riverside Entertainment and Hulo Films.
Rodriguez will play a school teacher lifting the spirits of a young boy (William Ainscough) who is bullied by fellow students. Sutherland will play the boy's grandfather who helps him discover his obsession with his preteen fears will prevent him from finding true happiness.
David Sutcliffe, Mia Kirshner, Sheila McCarthy and Hays Wellford also star in the film which Barnet Bain directs. Stephen Huszar, Ryan Lockwood, Sean Buckley and Fred Fuchs will produce and shooting is underway in Hamilton, Ontario.
Source: THR »
- Garth Franklin
8 October 2015 4:26 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
After spending time on screen this year with Fast cars and hulking heroes, Michelle Rodriguez is switching gears for a new role. She's joined the adaptation of kid's book Milton's Secret.Rodriguez will become part of a cast that already includes Donald Sutherland, David Sutcliffe, Mia Kirshner, Sheila McCarthy and Hays Welford. Barnet Bain is in the director's chair, working from a script he adapted alongside Donald Martin and Sandra Cooper.The book, published in 2009 by The Power Of Now author Eckhart Tolle and co-writer Robert Friedman, was an attempt to translate his live-in-the-moment philosophy for a younger readership. The Milton of the title is the story's young protagonist (William Ainscough), who learns to overcome his fear of bullies and other childhood nightmares by living in the moment, and ceasing to "project his past fears into the future". Sutherland is his grandfather and instead of packing »
16 July 2015 10:29 AM, PDT | Rollingstone.com | See recent Rolling Stone news »
It was the summer of 1995. Bill Clinton was president, Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, and Oj Simpson was on trial. That summer's youth-oriented movies included Pixar's first movie Toy Story, the Disney musical Pocahontas — and Kids, in which wayward, stoned teens fuck each other senseless and head-stomp random strangers.
It might be hard to remember just how notorious Larry Clark's indie-skater odysey was. The movie grossed a modest $7 million at the box office that summer — a wild success when you account for the fact that it »
14 May 2015 6:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Netflix's new original series Bloodline centers around an affluent family in the Florida Keys, well regarded in the community for the inn and charter tour business run by Robert (Sam Shepard) and Sally Rayburn (Sissy Spacek). Their business, and indeed world, is turned upside down with the arrival of family black sheep Danny (Ben Mendelsohn), which sends his hometown siblings John (Kyle Chandler), Meg (Linda Cardellini), and Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz) scrambling to figure out what to do with Danny. It's the first heavy-hitting Netflix original that seeks to fill the juicy drama void between seasons of House of Cards.
But House of Cards is lush in its characterizations, plumbing the diseased actions of complex characters as well as being a fun, hyperbolically cinematic power fantasy. Bloodline plays more like a prime-time soap that would be at home on CBS airing after an NCIS spin-off. Creators Glenn Kessler, »
- Charlie Sanford
7 May 2015 8:48 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Scarlett Johansson Oscar dress Scarlett Johansson at the Oscars Looking great in a long purple dress, Scarlett Johansson displays her tight-fitting costume and bare back at the 83rd Academy Awards held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Oscar 2011 co-host and Best Actor nominee James Franco (for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours) thus introduced Johansson and fellow Oscar presenter Matthew McConaughey: "I am six degrees of Kevin Bacon away from our next two presenters. Figure it out on the Internet." Well, if you're lucky. Some have remarked that Franco was a more effective Oscar host online, where he tweeted some of the evening's to-dos, than on the stage of the Kodak Theatre. His fellow equally panned Oscarcast host was actress Anne Hathaway. Scarlett Johansson movies Scarlett Johansson has been featured in more than 40 films since her debut at age 10 in Rob Reiner's North, back in 1994. Johansson, in fact, »
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12 April 2015 3:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written & Directed by Atom Egoyan
Canada, 1994
Atom Egoyan's serpentine erotic thriller, Exotica, is a flawless exercise in understated urgency. Flashbacks, arresting visuals, and Mychael Danna's score slowly reveal a web of strangers inextricably linked by one man's suffering. It's less a cinematic puzzle than an organic realization. When all of the mysteries are unraveled, you know a little bit more about the Human condition. Though many consider The Sweet Hereafter to be Egoyan's masterpiece, Exotica is fearless indie filmmaking at its best.
From the very first images of Exotica—a languid tracking shot across an artificial tropical landscape—we have the unsettling feeling that something terrible is lurking in the weeds. "You have to ask yourself what brought the person to this point," an unseen narrator advises us. Egoyan then spends the next 100 minutes re-constructing the events that irrevocably shattered each of his characters. »
- J.R. Kinnard
10 February 2015 7:05 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
A trailer has been released for the new Netflix Original Series Bloodline, which stars Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek. Check it out below after the official synopsis…
On March 20th, Netflix audiences around the world will meet the Rayburns, a contemporary American family who are hard-working pillars of their Florida community. But when the black sheep and eldest son, Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.
Bloodline features a cast that also includes Norbert Leo Butz, Jamie McShane, Jacinda Barrett, Enrique Murciano, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Pasquale, Mia Kirshner and Katie Finneran.
- Gary Collinson
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12 Days of Christmas: Sonos S5Pocket-lint
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me Seven Sonos A-swimming. Well hopefully they won't be swimming, but one thing you can be guaranteed is that you will be swimming in music once you've set up a Sonos S5 in your home.
Back in the real world and Christmas is fast approaching (less than 17 days to go) and so here are on day 7 (said in a Big Brother narrator voice) giving you the kind of solid gift ideas that not only get you out of hot water but are the kind of stuff that'll get you a better present next year in return.
Sonos S5
- What is it?
- Streaming music system
- Who is it for?
- Anyone who likes music
- How much is it?
- £335
- Delivery speed?
- 2/3 days
You'll never have to buy any music again
Plug it in, load up the app on your iPhone or iPod touch and start to enjoy music from the internet straight away, it really is that easy. Sonos supports a number of music services including Last.fm, Napster, Spotify, Deezer, and that's before you start asking it to play music from the thousands of Internet radio stations that it has on offer.
You can bring your own music to the party easily
If you've got a hard drive and a router that lets you connect it, you can load it up with music and start sharing the tracks to your new speaker with little to no fuss. The benefit here is that you don't need to have a computer running in the spare room for it to work.
You can add more zones when you like
The Sonos system actually lets you add up to 42 zones to your Sonos S5, all controlled via your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or dedicated remote (none of which are in the box). That means it's a system that will grow with you over time allowing you to add more zones as your house gets bigger (you are bound to move at some point aren't you). The beauty of the zones is that you can play different music in different zones at the same time, or have all of them playing the same thing so wherever you are in the house you can hear that favourite tune.
It comes in black or white
Originally only available in white, the Sonos S5 now also comes in black, giving you no excuse not to match it in with your décor.
It's incredibly easy to set up.
Plug it in, press the button on the front and away you go. Adding more zones is that easy too.
It sounds great
So it's easy to set up, lets you stream music from around the world, oh and it sounds great too giving a well rounded sound and plenty of it to easily fill a room.
It can be wireless
Out of the box you will need to position it somewhat near your router and connect if via a cable, but adding a Sonos Zone Bridge into the mix (another £60) and you don't even need to have it anywhere near the router, all you need is a power socket.
You still get to have your iPhone in your Pocket
One of the biggest bug bears of an iPod or iPhone docking station is that you have to have your phone or MP3 player in the speaker when you want to listen to it. That means it's not in your mitts to read emails, browse the web, or check Twitter. Because your Apple device is a the remote control you still get to do other things. The controller app doesn't even have to be running once you've set the Sonos into action.
You get Spotify and Napster in the UK
UK owners of the device also get access for £10 a month to Spotify. That means access to millions of tracks for you to listen to without actually having to buy any albums or wait for them to download or your next shopping trip to the high street. Search the artist you are after press play and away you go. Lovely.
You get Pandora in the US
That's right everyone's favourite internet music streaming service is here and its without adverts. Perfect.
Sonos is expanding the system
Aside from the S5 there are two other Sonos boxes you can get, an iPod dock if you really must dock your iDevice and the promise of more speaker options in the future. This is a company that has great ambitions and is just at the start of its lifecycle giving you plenty of options in the future when it comes to expanding it.
It plays most file formats
Ok so we admit that it won't play all file formats under the sun, but it will play most of them. That means support for compressed MP3, iTunes Plus, WMA (including purchased Windows Media downloads), AAC (MPEG4), Ogg Vorbis, Audible (format 4), Apple Lossless, Flac (lossless) music files, as well as uncompressed WAV and AIFF files. Native support for 44.1kHz sample rates. Additional support for 48kHz, 32kHz, 24kHz, 22kHz, 16kHz, 11kHz, and 8kHz sample rates.
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Plex now lets you play music on any Sonos device from the Sonos app
Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7NC headphones review: Make some noise
- The future of sound: KOAR Bone Conduction Bluetooth headset delivers audio to your inner ear
- Harman Kardon Go + Play review: Post-retro design, powerful audio
- Plex now lets you play music on any Sonos device from the Sonos app
- Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7NC headphones review: Make some noise
- Deezer launches in the US: How does the music-streaming service work?
- Zemi Aria speaker review: Majors and minors
- Magnetic Bluetooth 4.1 Wireless Sport headphones deliver 5 hours of clear music and podcasts (37 per cent off)
- Cambridge Audio SE1 earphones give you Beryllium drivers for under £100, profits go to charity
- Devialet Gold Phantom is an insane 4,500W Bluetooth speaker, yours for £2,190
- How to make the B&W Zeppelin Wireless even more sexy, produce it in white
- Pokemon Go Gym tips: How to battle, train and win
- Pokemon Go: How to find and catch rare Pokemon like Charizard, Blastoise and Alakazam
- This is how much space PlayStation VR requires for you to play
- Apple iPhone 7 vs iPhone 7 Plus vs iPhone 7 Pro: What's the rumoured difference?
- 13 secret WhatsApp tricks
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- Windows 10 free upgrade ends 29 July: Here's how to get it now
- Motorola Moto G4 vs Moto G4 Plus vs Moto G4 Play vs Moto G (2015): Which should you choose?
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Posted on 05/18/2012 7:27:58 PM PDT by jimbo123
President Obama is enlisting the help of "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker to raise money for his re-election bid.
A new fundraising solicitation from the campaign invites supporters to donate and be entered into a raffle to win an evening with the president, First Lady Michelle Obama and Parker at the actress's New York City home.
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Did you have to post pictures of both ends of the horse?
I just knew she reminded me of "someone" else.
Laz would hit it! I hear he should trade mark that phrase.
Someone could say that shows like Sex in the City are just shows... whats the big deal with hanging around actors of such garbage? Frankly, Id be disgusted if I knew anyone who rubbed shoulders with someone who promotes or behaves in the manner that that the characters of Sex in the City carry on......soft porn is what it is and having anything to do with it is not much different than rubbing shoulders with hardcore porn actors.
Ferris is a fairy. She's his beard and a scraggly one, at that.
oh isn't she cool and awesome..............not
Well, with straight hardcore porn actors, anyway...
I wouldn't want to be with any of them. As far as parker... geee. I'm so impressed. NOT
I wouldn't want to be with any of them. As far as parker... geee. I'm so impressed. NOT
Gee Sarah, why the long face?
Will someone please go out and find the poor jackass she stole those teeth from!!
No, I mean the horse!
Did you ever get your mother out of poverty?
The Hollyweird commie libs sure do love their Barry. They won't be making the money they are making now if Barry is successful with his implementation of communism.
She will be serving carrots and sugar cubes.
Dog-gone! I thought I would be the first with a horsey picture..
But I pretended to be, to get into Columbia and Harvard."
(That's my story and I'm sticking to it until I evolve further.)
Just blarg.
Sarah Parker said:
For me, this election is even more important than 2008.
As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success.
This November's election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we're forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden - while people like me, who don't need tax breaks, get extra help.
If she wants to support a Marxist/Communist like Obama, then she needs to lead by example. Why not live like a true communist, and give up every dollar, property, and everything else she owns, and "redistribute the wealth"! She can work for free!!! But, no, she's just another empty headed limousine liberal who's massively confused.....
No doubt Obama will use the occasion of the fundraiser to continue his "evolution" and support legal recognition of human-horse marriages.
Sarah's career is taking off, she just got the lead role in the upcoming "Mr. Ed" movie.
I'm laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes!
You guys are awful! LOL!
This entire thread is a hoot!
She is an idiot.
She'll be serving roast of horses' a$$ followed by leg of dog.
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- Abundant natural resources (oil, gas and metals)
- Skilled labour force
- Low public debt and comfortable foreign exchange reserves
- Assertion of regional and energy power
- Increased rentier nature of the economy
- Lack of competitiveness of the industrial sector
- Weak private banking sector
- Weak infrastructures
- Declining demography
- Persistent deficiencies in the business climate
Economy to shrink again in 2016
The recession in Russia is expected to continue but will be less severe in 2016. Private consumption, the main activity driver, is likely to remain constrained, at least during the first half, by the high level of inflation and a slower increase than in the past of nominal revenues. Investment will remain limited by the lack of business owners' confidence, high interest rates (11% in December 2015), as well as by ongoing restrictions on financing in foreign currency imposed as part of western sanctions. Budget constraints will limit the support for domestic demand and public investment. Spending increase in the hydrocarbon sector and defence may slow down.
Inflation could slow slightly but is expected to remain high in 2016. The depreciation of the rouble, together with the consequences of the embargo placed on the purchase of certain products in Europe and Turkey will drive up the prices of imported goods, especially food.
Worsening fiscal and current account balance
The fiscal deficit is expected to deepen in 2016. Low oil prices are likely to continue to put pressure on hydrocarbon revenues (50% of total), while weak activity will curtail non-oil revenues. The draft 2016 budget includes a slow increase in pensions (4%) and a freeze on public sector wages, with a view to limiting the deterioration in the public finances and State indebtedness. The defence budget is, nonetheless, likely to continue to rise moderately. Spending could be higher than planned, with the prospect of parliamentary elections to be held in September. However, the State has comfortable foreign exchange reserves to cover this thanks to (reserve and sovereign) funds already called on to the value of USD 27 billion between January and November 2015, but still totalling almost USD 140 billion (12% of GDP) in November 2015.
The current account surplus is expected to fall slightly in 2016. Exports, largely dominated by hydrocarbons (2/3 of revenues), are likely to remain constrained by low export prices and volumes, which could decline further. The weak competitiveness of Russian products could, moreover, limit non-oil exports, despite the fall of the rouble. However, depressed domestic demand, the maintenance of sanctions and embargos on certain European and Turkish products, should keep imports in check. FDIs are not likely to rebound in the absence of a real improvement in the situation in Ukraine and in governance.
Distrust regarding the country's economic and political development is encouraging capital flight (more than USD 55 billion at end October 2015). The stubbornly low oil price (to which the rouble exchange rate is strongly correlated) and due dates for external debt repayments (about USD 77 billion in 2016), are expected to maintain downward pressure on the rouble, the volatility of which has increased since the introduction of a floating exchange rate regime since the end of 2014. Russia's external debt (90% bank and business debt) is sharply lower (-23% between Q3 2014 and Q3 2015) and the high level of foreign exchange reserves (10 months of imports in November 2015) limits the risks of default, without ruling this out for some businesses and/or banks.
The banking sector's solvency and liquidity risk has increased significantly as a result of the worsening quality of the portfolio in a context not only of an economic crisis, but also the high cost of financing associated with the international sanctions which stop the major banks from accessing the financial markets.
A political situation expected to remain stable and persistent shortcomings in the business environment
Vladimir Putin's popularity nationally increased with the Russian intervention in Crimea in March 2014. There is however, discontent within the population and the tensions could rise further in a context of economic downturn and high inflation. The regime's increasingly tough stance reflected, notably, in the State's increased control of the media and the Internet, nonetheless significantly limits opposition movements' ability to organise and express themselves. The parliamentary elections in September 2016 are expected to confirm the dominance of the presidential party, United Russia.
Shortcomings relating to the protection of property rights, weak governance and lack of corporate transparency significantly weaken the business environment. Despite some progress, Russia is ranked 168th (out of 215) on the World Bank's governance indicator, the corruption perceptions index, which is a recurrent weakness.
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In the Valley of Elah
- Studio: Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
- Release Date: Sep 14, 2007
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It's the first Hollywood Iraq movie to remind me of a Vietnam film like Coming Home, and it does more than disturb. It scalds, moves, and heals.
Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah is built on Tommy Lee Jones' persona, and that is why it works so well. The same material could have been banal or routine with an actor trying to be "earnest" and "sincere."
For the most part it is an effective, disturbing and - a rarity for Haggis - subtle exploration of the stateside war story.
Tommy Lee Jones is marvelous in the film. He has one scene in particular, a simple two-person encounter, that's as good as it gets in the realm of American screen acting.
A rare blend of emotional content and intelligent material that makes it simultaneously gut-wrenching and thought-provoking.
Theron is very good as a woman struggling for respect in a sexist environment. There are also small but telling performances by Susan Sarandon as Hank's worried wife, and Frances Fisher as a topless bartender who aids in the investigation.
Transcends politics and forces us to consider just what it is we ask of young people who answer the call to duty.
No one could mistake the movie for a documentary, but the picture has some of the rectitude of a good documentary--a tone of plainness without flatness.
This is a sad, subtle and very good movie, designed not so much to make you think, but to make you feel the impact of large events on little lives.
One of the best films of 2007 but I wonder if it's difficult message will turn away filmgoers. Haggis has constructed a very bitter pill that needs to be swallowed, especially by hardcore pro-war Americans.
Tense, powerful and considerably less crass than "Crash," Elah may be jammed with ideas that don't all connect, but Jones' devastating performance makes this a compassionate and very human look at the Iraq conflict.
Haggis' earnest and eloquent film about the impact of the war in Iraq on U.S. soldiers, and by extension, their nation, is human-scaled. And as deep and harrowed as Jones' crevassed face.
Where "Crash" relentlessly pushed every conflict to a fever pitch, Elah takes its cues from Tommy Lee Jones' low-simmering lead performance.
Haggis drops exclamation points after his symbolic gestures, but in the rush to drive home his message on the confused mission in Iraq he offers a queasy revisionism that all but denies the legacy of Vietnam. Considering Deerfield is a Vietnam vet, it feels doubly false.
Though the portentous title is taken from the Old Testament -- Elah is where little David took on Goliath -- the film's concerns are painfully timely and forcefully articulated.
As a narrative, it's clunky. As a whodunit, it's third-rate. As the drama of a closed-off man's awakening, it's predictable. But Haggis has got hold of a fiercely urgent subject: the moral devastation of American soldiers serving in (and coming home from) Iraq. At its heart are deeper mysteries--and a tragedy that reaches far beyond anything onscreen.
It's the casting of Iraq vet and non-professional Jake McLaughlin as Specialist Bonner, who fought alongside Deerfield's son in Iraq, that strikes a deeper emotional chord. His scenes with Jones, fraught with a complicated mix of bitterness, concern and guilt, are the best things in the movie.
Searing drama that uses the police procedural to explore the moral and psychological devastation of the Iraq war for U.S. soldiers (and, incidentally, for Iraqi citizens).
So instead of a nice, clean movie about parental regret we're forced to suffer through an unnecessary biblical metaphor stretched way past its limits of applicability and a bit with an American flag that turns Deerfield from a human being suffering a crisis of conscience into a hollow symbol of a country in a state of political disenchantment.
As the movie moves through its murder mystery mode and begins racking up political points, Hank becomes a stand-in for all those Americans bewildered and beleaguered by the war. He becomes a Symbol.
Journalists have a saying for someone who neglects or downplays the most important part of a news story: He buried the lead. That's what Paul Haggis does with "In the Valley of Elah," which submerges two important storylines beneath a pointless, unsatisfying whodunit.
In the Valley of Elah dearly wants to be the Iraq war's counterpart to "Coming Home," documenting the tragic domestic legacy of a misguided foreign conflict. Wants to be, but isn't.
The last scene of In the Valley of Elah may be the most ridiculously ham-fisted and over-the-top moment in all of 2007's supposed prestige cinema.
What Haggis obviously wants to explore is what the war in Iraq is doing to the humanity of our soldiers there. By approaching it indirectly, he simplifies it to a degree that I expect will anger many Iraq veterans.
Paul Haggis switches from the problem of racism to the problem of Iraq. The war is a better fit. None of the exasperating guilt on display in "Crash" has made it into In the Valley of Elah, a solidly made genre movie: the Army mystery.
However you judge the movie's politics, and whatever its flaws, there is something inarguable, something irreducibly honest and right, about Mr. Jones's performance.
In the Valley of Elah is too inept and diffuse to be a howl against the war in Iraq. At best, it is a manly whimper.
Great actors can do more than carry a movie on the strength of their performances: They can also elevate it to a height it does not necessarily merit, and for much of In the Valley of Elah, Tommy Lee Jones does exactly that.
Too self-serious to work as a straight-ahead whodunit and too lacking in imagination to realize its art-film aspirations.
Elah comes packaged as a feverish murder mystery groaning beneath too many subplots and the added weight of a strained David and Goliath allegory.
The more I thought about it, the less I liked what it turned out to be -- a vague promise unkept.
The characters in this somber film have the glum look of individuals delivering a Very Important Message to the world. And though this film in fact does have something crucial to convey, this is not the way to go about it.
In my cut of the film, it ends after Jones opens the parcel from his son that's been sitting on his kitchen table since shortly after he left. I recommend viewers leave the theater at that point. You won't be sorry that you did.
The movie chickens out. In the Valley of Elah could have been really interesting -- and really daring -- if it had focused on Hank's realization that his own child, supposedly a good kid, had perhaps committed the kinds of atrocities that would make any decent human being recoil. The movie (which Haggis also wrote) dances around that territory, but doesn't dare to march straight into its terrifying maw.
Haggis also appears to have no respect for his audience. At its crudest, the film settles for agitprop...it's no Hollywood guy's call, particularly as he's extrapolating from a single case that could have occurred anywhere, at any time.
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LanceD.Feb 26, 2008Intriguing yet disappointing. Haggis did not explore Tommy Jones realization that his "good boy" son had morphed into a man performing Intriguing yet disappointing. Haggis did not explore Tommy Jones realization that his "good boy" son had morphed into a man performing unspeakable deeds while serving in an Army which he had influenced his son to join. The ending with the flag and the school janitor made me LOL so hard. It was so indignant and ungrateful to our troops and country. I have completely lost hope for Hollywood drama movies. If they cannot realize that the problem is the PRODUCT and not the buyers for the slumping movie industry than they are truly disconnected and have a mental disease. Enough with the Anti-America, Anti-War, Anti-Republican movies. We get it, Hollywood is overflowing with liberals.… Full Review »
CydneyB.Sep 14, 2007Except for Tommy Lee Jones' performance, this is a predictable piece of Hollywood schlock. Treachly music at end... Charlize Theron is Except for Tommy Lee Jones' performance, this is a predictable piece of Hollywood schlock. Treachly music at end... Charlize Theron is just plain boring, and Susan Sarandon is wasted. What a snore.… Full Review »
Feb 14, 2014I think that people are generally mistaken when they label a person as pro-war. War is a terrible, but sometimes necessary thing. SomeI think that people are generally mistaken when they label a person as pro-war. War is a terrible, but sometimes necessary thing. Some people have written that this is an anti war movie, which is a very simplistic view and does not do the movie justice. This is a movie about the sudden transition from battle to being home and the consequences of that sudden transition. My father was in WW2 and saw battle. The transition time for him between battle and being home was longer due to the logistics of being home so many solders. He, and most solders in WW2, came home via ocean. I think the one month or so transition time between battle and being home helped by being a buffer time in which he could share experiences with others who had similar experiences and decompress. Was this a cure? No. Was it better? I think so. I don't think this movie questions the awful necessity for war, but it addresses our unrealistic expectations about soldiers reintegrating into a home atmosphere. As with most movies it focuses on the extreme visible edge of what can happen. While most soldiers do not display this type of behavior, the impact on their lives can be devastating for years. We all need to step back and treat our returning soldiers with respect and realize that while we will never understand their trauma, we can help them reintegrate into society with kindness and respect.… Full Review »


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FEMA said in a phone interview I quote: "anyone North of the LIRR tracks in Massapequa are going to be called 'North of the tracks trash".end quote!
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We always called the kids that lived in mass Pk, North of the Tracks Trash. LMAO thats so funny.
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Not sure why??
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The area between Sunrise and Merrick is the same as north of the LIRR. So I guess you think the people that live there are trashy too!! I paid 675k for my house north of LIRR and 13k in SD 23 tax and have a very very good career so trashy I am not and my kids are going to go to great colleges and will graduate without student loans and have great careers, how trashy!
#5 Sep 11, 2010
Let's all home Massapequa gets flooded on the next big storm. Right past the track.
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I hpe the next flood wipes out the Massapequa trash, along with all the drug dealers, scammers, people scamming the us goverment in Crack-A-Pequa.
Most Massapequa residents to know about the 7th pct fight on Heroin and Crack in Massapequa LMAO
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Wow! This is one Lame statement ...watch your back and mark this down you will get hit! Just a fact by the words you speak ! do you see any children suffering??? You must have been born with a silver spoon ? Repent for your sake! Your statement... is evil
#8 Sep 11, 2010
They are immature people to make such a statement and are So Evil! God is in Control no worries
#9 Sep 13, 2010
I am assuming your are referring to the statement posted on 9/4?
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I just looked on MLS I see houses priced from $220,00 to $900,000 in Massapequa! I know exactly what the price of a house (Private idiott) means in a neighboehood
Drugs effect all areas, usally and 80% of the time,they do effect the more middle class areas becuase there is money,so it does make plenty of common sence that Massapequa a middle lower class neighborhood has a drug problem with it's kids.
Massapequa does have a large Heroin problem according to on-line recorded and the police crime report.Kids, hey when you get a lot of kids in a middle lower class area like Massapequa there will always be a ton of drugs.
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On first inspection, DryShips (NASDAQ:DRYS) and Ocean Rig (NASDAQ:ORIG) appear to be very cheap, safe investments. But when investigated fully, it becomes much clearer that the investment is not quite the deal bargained for.
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The 2012 world economy growth estimates are currently rather low at most sources. The World Bank is currently estimating world Real GDP growth of 3.2%, which is down about a half percent from 2010's growth (nearly complete). Of note, both the US and China are expected to have slower growth, and the Middle East and Japan are going to flirt with recessions. World trade is expected to have slower growth as well for the next three years. Oil prices are expected to rise in 2011, then fall slightly in 2012 and 2013, signaling no shortage in oil for the long term. Commodity prices such as coal and iron ore are expected to do much the same.
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Shipping rates are the best indicator of the industry's current prospects. Dry bulk shipping uses an indicator or index called the BDI. This index represents the rate of daily spot rates for shipping companies looking to lease out their boats. A chart is shown below. The index is down badly over the prior years, and even of late it has taken new weakness due to very recent developments with banks getting tougher and demanding more certain cash flows. This means that all of the companies are expected to have decreasing revenues for the near future, but some worse than others.
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DryShips (DRYS) deserves the sector's lowest valuation due to such horrible corporate governance procedures. Don't take that as an accusation of fraud; just get honest and admit companies with poor internal control deserve to be priced with more risk. Beyond the serious corporate governance issues, DryShips technically still offers significant equity per share. At this time the book value is around $9.70 per share. It is hard to say exactly because the share count is an issue. There are 408 million shares outstanding, but there are contingencies in place which could add tens of millions of shares if the stock price rose enough. Using an average of 420 million shares is probably a good estimate at this time, and that results in $9.42 of equity per share.
Then, we have to account for end-of-year impairments that are sure to occur. My sources show that drybulk ships are selling for conservatively 20% lower than last year. It depends on how the Ocean Rig subsidiary consolidated accounting is done (equity method, available for sale, trading securities, etc.) but I think the most accurate way to value Ocean Rig is to just mark it to market using the stock price. Conveniently, Ocean Rig is trading for roughly 20% lower than its IPO price.
Because the accounting will likely not use mark-to-market accounting, DryShips will likely see a 15% impairment charge, but a 20% impairment charge should be used to accurately value Ocean Rig's effect. When we multiply the $9.42 in equity per share by 80% we get about $7.54 in equity per share. As a final piece to the puzzle, I'm expecting some moderate swap losses and possible acquisition costs to essentially wipe out fourth quarter profits, so the equity value should stay roughly the same in that regard.
DryShips has another issue to deal with in 2012 because eight dry bulk ships and five tanker ships are due to be delivered. These ships will likely have to operate at an operating loss during 2012. In addition to this, DryShips convertible debt is trading with an extremely high yield, roughly 18%. This means that DryShips is likely going to find it nearly impossible to issue any bonds in 2012 because interest expense would be too expensive unless the balance sheet is cleaned up. DryShips will have to continue to get favors from banks in the form of short term lending facilities or it will run into a liquidity problem. Ocean Rig has several ships due to be delivered in 2013, but none that I see due in 2012.
In closing, I think the $7.54 book value is a relatively accurate number to use at this time, but should probably be discounted by another 30% due to horrendous corporate governance. This gives DryShips a true current book value of $5.28 in my eyes. Although this means that DryShips is trading at a discount to book value, it does not mean DryShips is undervalued one cent. The market is pricing in a bad 2012 and 2013 which could possibly destroy the company.
With the BDI where it is lately, I am personally expecting mild losses to the bottom line all 2012. And with such a severe oversupply of ships due to be delivered in both 2012 and 2013, it would not be at all surprising if this time next year there are significant impairment charges again which cut down book value even lower.
So those who argue that stocks which are trading below book value are a buy, are missing the bigger picture in this case. The market believes that the book value will continue to be cut down for the foreseeable future, and I agree. At first look, DryShips often appears to offer a real opportunity for a great long term investment because of good fundamentals, but on closer inspection one finds that the so called value is continually shrinking.
2012 will probably be the year which determines if DryShips will be able to survive as a publicly traded company. It may survive, but if it makes even one more large questionable transaction that destroys shareholder value, I think it is all over. There just isn't any more room for mistakes. Because I think the value in DryShips is eroding, and because the entire sector will see several bankruptcies in 2012, I have recently opened a very small short position in DRYS.
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After posting here last week about Roger "Riceman" Lee's upcoming re-creation of the Masters & Richter Top Fueler, it didn't take me long to get the expected reply about whether it was the ex-M&R car that "Big John" Milner drove in More American Graffiti, and the answer came from Lee himself, who also supplied the handful of photos in the gallery below.
"The Masters & Richter Fueler was never in More American Graffiti," he emphatically wrote.
Masters and Richter bought the car from McLennan when McLennan had his hands full running Fremont Raceway, Half Moon Bay, and Champion Raceway (an eighth-mile strip in Brisbane, Calif.), even though at least one prominent writer in the weekly drag racing newspapers had opined that M&R's big 392 Chrysler would never work in the car. The duo commissioned Fuller to reinforce the 112-inch chassis with more uprights and diagonals for the new engine, and by the end of 1963, they'd tuned the car to bests of 7.89 at 196.92 at Fremont.
The chassis was lengthened by crewmember Lefty Hay before it was sold to Tom Walsh and Hay, who raced it as the Wailer until 1968. In 1990, the car was resurrected and raced -- still painted as the Wailer -- with an alcohol-fed blown 392 by Mark Smith. The car was sold three more times and then reportedly was backhalved and raced with an injected big-block Chevy/Powerglide combination. The car owner passed away, and his son has it now, but the car is not for sale, although probably not much of the original car is still in it.
Thom Roy came to a similar conclusion just looking at photos of the movie car and the original, noting differences between, among other things, such items as length, tail extension, windshield, the channel of the bodywork, and the rear support of the roll bar.
I also heard from regular Insider commenter Dave LeRoy, who actually worked for the M&R team. "They had their shop in San Leandro, Calif., which housed the car in two bays. The other bays were for the 52 Kenworths they leased to Watson/Wilson trucking. We had a guy that worked for them in the shop that would go to all of the wrecking yards to find 392s a couple of days a week! I would mix fuel among other things; we would run some mixes that no one else ran. The car always sounded different than most fuel cars; ask Ivo. We held the top speed record for a long time and held the No. 2 Mr. Eliminator spot for a long time and took on several challengers, including Prudhomme and Ivo. Lots of great stories from those days!"
Friday's column about Top Fuel seasons brought a great email from one of the subjects mentioned, Bob Gibson, who won Top Fuel at the 1970 Springnationals in Dallas while driving for the famed Carroll Bros. team, thanking me for not forgetting him. This is an all-too-common response from some of the early heroes, and it pains me to think that they think they have been relegated to the dark corners of the NHRA history book, never to see the light again.
There's no driver photo file for Gibson as there is for many, many drivers, and the reason is simple: His driving career spanned only five years.
"I had a short but sweet career at the top level, driving for John Dodson (A/Fuel 1967-68), Robert Landrum in '69, and the Carroll Bros. in '70 (we also won the Bayou State Championships in Houma that year). I drove Ray Godman's Tennessee Bo-Weevil in '71 (went three rounds at the '71 Gatornationals, IHRA Rockingham, and match races galore), Buddy Cortines ('71 Springnationals, first round), and finished up the year for Peebles & Williams at the '71 World Finals (No. 1 qualifier east and low e.t. of the first round).
"TRW came calling, and I started my automotive sales career for them under a no-more-driving requirement. I worked the NHRA national events for TRW from '72 to '82 as an employee. Still at it today, living on the road and peddling shocks for KYB. I missed my chance to drive a rear-engine car and would have really liked that but did get to run Garlits' new RED trendsetter."
When Gibson won the Springnationals, he was only 22 and had to be NHRA's youngest Top Fuel winner at that point (Jeb Allen, 18 years, 1 month, would win the Summernationals the following year and remains the youngest Top Fuel winner in NHRA history), and I asked him how he was accepted by the era's veterans.
"I may have once been the youngest," he agreed. "Never thought of it until you mentioned it. Speaking of the grizzled old vets, once you outran a couple of them, especially with a holeshot, you were accepted. Some of them I can remember running against were 'the Greek,' Tharp, Nix, Nicoll, Safford, Garlits, Moody, Wiebe, 'the Goose', Bernstein … some of the best at the time; never went up against 'the Snake,' though. The best advice I ever got from one of them -- at least that I remember – two-time world champ, Bennie Osborn, who is a man of few words, came up to me one time after a left front spindle broke on a rough LaPlace track, and the left front wheel promptly departed about 800 feet. Bob here never noticed, just kept my foot in it to 1,320. Pulled the chute followed by a shower-of-sparks stop. On a good run in the Carrolls' old T-Bar FED, the left front always hiked up due to engine torque reaction and just kind of skipped along anyway, not really steering -- the right did all the guiding. Anyway, ol' Bennie just says, 'Boy don't ya know you need four wheels to drive one of these things?' and walks away. LOL. By the way, we won that round and made the final.
"It was a great time to drive; at that age, you didn't even think about the possible consequences. I never went on my head in a car, did get burned around the back of the neck in a blower explosion and fire once or twice, bounced off a guardrail, etc. The worst time I ever had was when the chute failed to open. I just ended up in the sand once at Oklahoma City with a well-bent-up car and a pretty good headache. I sure wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. I certainly cherish my Wally."
Gibson also told me that he's restoring a Cackle car, the last front-engine AA/Fueler that T-Bar chassis built for Cortines in 1971 that Gibson ran at the 1971 Springnationals (pictured above).
"I hope to have it ready for next year's Reunions," he said. "I crewed on Brad Green's Arkansas NTF in '08 and '09 with Texas friends Dave Pace in the seat and John Dearmore tuning, where I found the thrill and attraction to blown fuel racing just as strong as ever."
It's good to have this history out in the light again, and it's always wonderful for me to see when something I have written has touched someone and made him or her remember that some of us will never forget.
With travel to Norwalk later this week for the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, this is the only column this week, and next week's early column may, of course, be delayed, based on travel. I'll see you then.
OK, Insider experts, what do Top Fuel racers Carl Olson, Don Garlits, Chip Woodall, Jeb Allen, Art Marshall, Gary Beck, Jim Walther, and Don Moody have in common? I'll give you some time to think about it as the column progresses.
If you've been following my Pure Nostalgia column in National DRAGSTER this year, you've watched the history of NHRA unfold a year at a time, seen NHRA bloom into a major racing force, and watched how the schedule and the eliminators expanded and how the sport in general grew. I don't like to mix the content here with what's in print, but I can't help myself this week because of the interesting period that we've reached.
This week, I covered the 1970 season -- NHRA's self-titled "Super Season" in which the national event schedule went from four races to seven with the addition of the Gatornationals, Summernationals (York, Pa.), and Supernationals (Ontario, Calif., version) -- and what really struck me as I was recounting the event winners was the list of winners in Top Fuel: Larry Dixon Sr., Dave Chenevert, Bob Gibson, Pete Robinson, Don Prudhomme, Ronnie Martin, and Rick Ramsey.
Consider the following:
Five of those seven winners – Dixon, Chenevert, Gibson, Martin, and Ramsey – scored the first and only wins of their Top Fuel careers that year.
Four of the five – Dixon, Gibson, Martin, and Ramsey – did it while appearing in the only final round of their careers. Only Chenevert, runner-up the previous year at the World Finals to Steve Carbone, had been in a final, and he would not reach another.
Dixon defeated Tony Nancy in the Winternationals final, and Chenevert beat Jim Paoli for the Gatornationals win, and it also was the only Top Fuel final in the careers of those two.
Gibson, a 22-year-old rookie who was wheeling the Carroll Bros.' home-state Texas Whips dragster, defeated Jim Nicoll, who reached three final rounds that season – the only three of his NHRA career – yet lost all of them, including his spectacular Indy loss to Prudhomme.
The 1970 season was one of only four campaigns from Top Fuel's first year in 1963 to present in which no one won more than one event. Two of those -- 1967 (Connie Kalitta, Prudhomme, Garlits, Bennie Osborn) and 1969 (John Mulligan, Hank Westmoreland, Prudhomme, Carbone) – occurred in four-race seasons, so not having a repeat winner isn't all that surprising considering how many cars were competing then.
The last time that there was not a repeat winner was during 1972's eight-race schedule, when the aforementioned Messrs. Olson, Garlits, Woodall, Allen, Marshall, Beck, Walther, and Moody split the season bragging rights eight ways, making that octet an interesting footnote in Top Fuel history that has not been duplicated in the 38 seasons that have followed..
From that point, at least one racer has collected more than one Top Fuel Wally a season. Now, you might think that's a no-brainer because, exponentially, as the number of events increased – to 10 in 1979, 15 in 1986, and 22 in 1997 – there were more chances to win and less cars competing, but you'd be surprised at how it breaks down. Below is a quick box that I compiled that shows the number of events that each champ has won from 1974 on – 1974 being the first year that champs weren't decided by who won the World Finals – as well as the percentage of the champ's wins against the schedule and the number of other drivers to score more than one win that season.
Interesting notes:
1976-77: The only drivers besides the champs to win more than one race in these seasons, Shirley Muldowney and Dennis Baca, respectively, didn't finish in the top 10 those years.
1979: Rob Bruins became the first Pro driver to win a championship without winning a national event; Kelly Brown won four times that season and Don Garlits three but finished second and third, respectively. Only Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle, 2008) has also won a Pro championship without winning an event).
1985: Only Connie Kalitta also won more than one event.
1988: Second-place Darrell Gwynn won six events to Amato's four but still finished second.
1990: Gary Ormsby matched Joe Amato's win total; the season's other repeaters were surprises in Lori Johns (three, in a fourth-place finish behind Dick LaHaie, who only won once) and Frank Hawley, who scored two wins and finished ninth despite beginning his campaign at the eighth race as a replacement for injured Darrell Gwynn.
1991: Pat Austin was one of three repeat winners; he won two of the season's three final events but didn't finish in the top 10 after beginning his Top Fuel career in Indy after Gary Ormsby's death; Kenny Bernstein had six wins to Joe Amato's four and finished second.
1992-94 and 1996: Nine of the top 10 won at least one event; the respective exceptions were Dannielle DePorter (10th), Cory McClenathan (sixth), Mike Dunn (seventh), and Connie Kalitta (ninth). There has never been a season in which all top 10 Top Fuel finishers have won an event.
1998: The top four – Gary Scelzi (six wins), Cory McClenathan (six), Joe Amato (four), and Kenny Bernstein (four) – gobbled up 20 of the year's 22 wins. Only Doug Kalitta and Larry Dixon, with one apiece, broke up the stranglehold.
1999: How did Tony Schumacher ever win this championship? He had just one win compared to (in finishing order) three for Gary Scelzi, five for Joe Amato, and four for Mike Dunn. Only Rob Bruins 21 years earlier had won fewer.
2003: Brandon Bernstein won three of the first six events before suffering a season-ending crash at race eight in Englishtown and finished outside the top 10, the last multi-event winner to do so. Dad Kenny jumped into the team's backup car after E-town and won four times.
2008: Years later, Tony Schumacher's amazing season continues to shine. Only Larry Dixon and Antron Brown scored more than one win (two each). Four others won once.
2009: Quite a drop-off for Tony Schumacher and a boost for Larry Dixon (who also won five), coinciding with Alan Johnson leaving Schumacher and teaming with Dixon.
2010: Only Tony Schumacher (six) and Cory McClenathan (three) scored multiple wins; Larry Dixon was a perfect 12-0 in final rounds.
I could look at this chart all day and draw correlations between dominance and parity and performance and technological breakthroughs that made these stats what they are, but that's for another day.
The incredible domination of Tony Schumacher (15 of 24 in 2008) and Larry Dixon (12 of 23 last year) brings me conveniently back to 1970, when their dads both scored their first wins – Dixon, as mentioned, in Pomona, and "the Don" in Indy.
Dixon Jr. was 3 years old and shared the Pomona winner's circle with his dad (he would win the Winternationals 18 years later), and "the Sarge" was only about 9 months old when his dad won Indy, a race that the kid would win for the first time 30 years later (and seven more since!).
This week in ND, it's on to 1971, the debut of Don Garlits' rear-engine dragster (covered here many times), then on to the memorable 1972 season and beyond.
Happy Father's Day to all you dads, and to the forefathers of our great sport.
My recent mention of upcoming topics brought forth a lot of responses and, as always, some great help.
I've been slowly piecing together the story of one of my favorite Funny Cars, Mickey Thompson's Grand Am – "Thompson's Torpedo" as some bemusedly labeled it – and have traced its roots from construction of the body in Ron Pellegrini's Fiberglass Ltd. Shop in Chicago in 1972 to its final rides under the control of Bob Pickett in 1976.
I've interviewed its original handler, Dale Pulde, and gotten the story behind the car and interviewed Mike Broome, who was the crew chief for the late Butch Maas, who drove the car in its first official NHRA competition. I've interviewed both Larry Arnold – who took over the car from Pulde after his second stint with the car – and Pickett, who took over from Arnold.
I've put together a huge collection of images of the car in its different paint schemes (yellow, black, red, U.S. Marines), and I'm pretty much all set to go once I can find the time to piece it all together. Last week, I received great photos from the prolific Bob Snyder of the car when it made its debut – unpainted – at the Last Drag Race at Lions and a bunch of other great photos of the car from Tom Nagy.
I don't know why this car has fascinated me so – probably because it was different – but I'm looking forward to piecing together all of my notes and completing the puzzle with the scores of photos to choose from.
The mention of a piece on "Capt. Jack" McClure of rocket go-kart fame thrilled Insider regular Gary Crumrine with giddiness.
"Oh boy, I can't wait. Of all the nutcase daredevils that have lived and sometimes died during my lifetime, I place 'Capt. Jack' right up there with Evel Knievel at the top on my list," he wrote. "I saw both perform live growing up, with Evel crashing at Kaukauna, Wis., and after tumbling ended up sitting up at the end of the track. Dazed, but alive.
" 'Capt. Jack' was a trip with the kart. I can't believe how much the tires grew to where they looked like 45s on wheels. You had to be quick to turn your head or you would miss him going by."
I've actually had my McClure interview in the can since last winter and was stunned to see him give an almost identical interview to another writer (I don't fault him; he was just telling his story to another eager listener), so I gave myself a six-month moratorium on publishing my version so that no one would think I'd cribbed from the other story.
McClure was full of great stories and had a colorful way of telling them, and I'm also looking forward to piecing that one together this summer. I have about 40 great photos to illustrate it.
After the Norwalk event in about 10 days, I'm done traveling for the summer – until Indy – so that will let me catch up on some of this stuff after attending five of the season's first eight events.
I hope that being home I'll also get a chance very soon to see the completed Tom McEwen hauler that Don Prudhomme and his team have lovingly restored. I first reported on it last July right after Prudhomme and company had tracked it down after months of searching, and to compare it to the images of the truck in its 1972 glory, you'd swear you entered a time machine.
As most of you know, Prudhomme's truck was owned and used by Richard Petty before it became part of the Hot Wheels entourage, and McEwen's truck is an ex-Sox & Martin machine. Drag racing's other factoid-flinging Phil – "Flyin' Phil" Elliott – sent me this great shot he came across while doing other research. "It was so similar to the angle of one you just posted of the nearly completed truck," he marveled. It shows the famed Sox & Martin Duster on the back of the red truck in the pits, location unknown. It's a great shot of the way it looked before it was Hot Wheels-ified.
The clamor over the McEwen truck caused reader Gary LeBoeuf to ask, "Is it open season on ramp-truck pictures again?" referring to the months-long ramp-truck thread that pretty much consumed this column last July and August. If you're a fan of ramp trucks – and who isn't – use the expandable navigation at right to go back to July 2010 and August 2010. Good stuff there. And, no, Gary, we're not driving down that road again (I think).
I heard this week from Roger Lee, whom many of you will recall from the column I did about his 1/16th-scale brass model of Ron "Big Yohns" Johnson's Shubert/Herbert front-engine dragster.
His latest project is of a significantly larger scale: He has been given permission by the families of Sid Masters and Rick Richter to build a re-creation of the famed Masters & Richter Top Fuel dragster, circa 1963. Richter passed away a few years ago at age 91 preceded by Masters and driver "Big Bob" Haines.
Lee, who received approval from Masters' wife, Edna, and Richter's daughter Betty Richter Grandt, previously modeled the car in small scale and is excited about making the full-size version.
"To bring back a Top Fueler like the M&R Special has brought back a lot of great stories already from Edna Masters and Betty Richter Grandt, family history," he said.
Steve Gibbs reminisced, "The Masters & Richter guys were definitely hard-core when they were hitting it. They had a successful trucking business and were not afraid to spend money. When I visited their shop in '61 or '62, they had a stockpile of parts like I had never seen in that era. They were considered 'old guys' back then and probably were compared to everyone else. I'm guessing they were in their 50s at that time. I've been told they would take the car out to Fremont on weekdays and push it as hard as it would go just for the sheer enjoyment of making it go fast."
Throughout the years, there has been a lot of debate as to whether the original M&R car was used in the film More American Graffiti, the drag racing portions of which were filmed at Fremont. I have not heard the definitive answer on this, although the car shown in the bottom photo certainly looks like the photo of the M&R car at Fremont in 1963.
Digging around for an answer, I came across this page, on the Internet Movie Cars Database, which shows all of the cars used in that film. It's a pretty cool page. They label the car as "custom-built Fuller," and, indeed, the original was crafted by Kent Fuller. This version, however, certainly looks like it has a longer wheelbase than the 1963 car. I'm certain that one of you has the answer.
OK, kids, that's it for today. I'll see you later this week.
Any trip to Englishtown is steeped in history — the names of heroes such as "Jungle Jim" Liberman and Don Garlits and Shirley Muldowney are always invoked. The vast majority of the nitro racers who compete annually always tip their hats to the event's rich tradition and talk about how a win at the event is considered a true feather in the cap. That goes all the way from veterans and students of the sport such as Larry Dixon and Jack Beckman to newcomers on the nitro scene such as Spencer Massey and even native New Jerseyite Paul Lee, the driver of Jim Dunn's Funny Car, who attended his first E-town in the 7th grade, in 1974, just in time to see "Jungle's" full-track wheelie. "That hooked me for life," Lee told me Sunday morning. He won his hometown race in Top Alcohol Funny Car in 2004.
With 42 years of history, the event has been won by some of the sport's biggest names, including Liberman, Garlits, Muldowney, Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen, Bill Jenkins, Joe Amato, Kenny Bernstein, Darrell Gwynn, Gary Beck, Dick LaHaie, Gary Ormsby, Raymond Beadle, John Force, Richard Tharp, Dale Armstrong, Bob Glidden, Lee Shepherd, Warren Johnson, Jeg Coughlin Jr., Greg Anderson, Frank Iaconio, Wayne Gapp, Jeb Allen, Don Schumacher, Pete Robinson, Gene Snow, Leroy Goldstein, Dick Landy, Don Nicholson, and many, many more.
McEwen won the only Top Fuel trophy of his NHRA career at this event in 1991 — he had been runner-up to Allen in 1972 and to Prudhomme in Funny Car in 1976 — and I single him out because of the photos here that Skip Allum sent during the weekend showing the progress of the red McEwen Hot Wheels ramp truck hauler that Prudhomme — a six-time E-town winner in Funny Car (plus wins as an owner with Dixon and Tommy Johnson Jr.) — Willie Wolter, and the team are restoring as a matching bookend to the yellow hauler that Prudhomme restored a couple of years ago.
After an end-to-end restoration, repair, and resurrection, the truck is quickly nearing completion. The ramp bed was finally mounted on the Dodge chassis, and it's really beginning to look like something.
"It's not totally done yet," he cautioned. "We still have to put on all the hinges and handles for the storage bays, run the wiring, install the exterior running lights and turn signals, and some other small details."
Where the yellow truck carries Prudhomme's famed 'Cuda, the "new" truck will carry the McEwen Duster that Prudhomme already owns — a car that was re-created a few years ago to salute the 35th Hot Wheels anniversary celebration — which will lose its current blue paint in favor of red and will ride piggyback on the red truck.
Although an official debut has not been nailed down, Allum said that there's an outside chance that it could be completed in time for the L.A. Roadster Show, where Prudhomme will be the grand marshal again this year.
I spoke this morning to Prudhomme, who had just gotten back from the Midwest Mopars in the Park national car show in Farmington, Minn., where he and the Army Plymouth Arrow made an appearance. "Snake's" lifelong good pal and fellow Mopar icon Roland Leong joined him on the trip.
"It was a fun show," he said. "Since I've been retired, there's all kinds of stuff going on that I never had a chance to do. I find it interesting the amount of people who were Hot Wheels collectors back in the day who remember how I started with Mopar way back then."
The restoration of the Dodge ramp trucks, obviously, has done nothing but further warm their hearts, and he's confident that the McEwen truck will be as warmly received as his own.
"It's been a real fun project that's about completed, and it's over the top," he said enthusiastically. "It was a lot harder than my truck because it was in worse shape, so we had to do a frame-off kind of job and all of the wiring because it really needed it.
"Now that's it's almost done and I see the two trucks together, it's like, 'What the hell have I done?' Before, the trucks were just tools to get us back and forth to the races. Now it's something else; it's almost too nice to drive."
So, what's next on "the Snake's" list?
"Boy, nothing to this extent," he said, laughing. "In fact, I don't really want to grow the collection; I actually want to start weeding it out a little bit."
And, to that end, later this year, the Skoal Top Fuel dragster that Massey piloted in his rookie of the year campaign will go on the auction block at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Las Vegas Sept. 22-24. Prior to the sale, the dragster will be displayed at the Barrett-Jackson Orange County (Calif.) auction June 24-26.
Being as it's also the last race car owned or campaigned by Prudhomme during his Hall of Fame career, it certainly could catch the eye of a collector. On the other hand, it's also a turnkey, ready-to-run race-winning dragster.
"I hope it goes to some collector; I'd hate to see someone race it again," he said. "You just have to know that whatever collection someone has, this will be the first car everyone will walk up to. It's so different from everything else, a great big brute of a car with lines and fuel pumps and gauges and flow controls and computers. You don't realize how unique it is until you walk up to it and see what goes in to making 7,000 horsepower.
"It's the real deal. I know the guys at Barrett real well, and we thought that because Las Vegas was the last place Spencer won with the car, it's the perfect place to auction it, exactly the way it came off the track."
Of course, the car he'd love to get back is the great Army Monza, but that's definitely not going to happen. It's still at the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nev., with the original KB block in it, and they ain't giving it back.
"Believe me, I've tried several times," he said, "but they're not going to let it go."
Prudhomme, of course, famously traded the car to Harrah's for a Ferrari 308 GTB that's long gone. "At the time, I thought I got the best end of the deal. Boy, was I wrong."
And don't look for him to have any interest in a repop. "I'm not big on re-creations; I want the real deal," he said firmly. "That's what gets me going."
Us, too. Can't wait to see the red hauler in person.
Because of my E-town trip and management meetings Thursday and Friday, this will be this week's lone column. I have some cool stuff in the works, including my long-promised story about the Mickey Thompson Grand Am — I finally was able to get in touch with its last driver, Bob Pickett, who also has an interesting career story that I will share in the future — as well as an in-depth look back at Capt. Jack McClure of rocket go-kart fame, more OCIR home movies, and a lot more, so stay tuned.


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Social Aspects of Suicidal Behavior and Prevention in Early Life: A Review
1 Child and Adolescent Division, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 3 Department of Psychiatry, The Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
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AbstractPurpose: The present review summarizes the updated literature on the social aspects of suicidal behavior and prevention in adolescents. Recent findings: The predictive role of psychiatric disorders and past history are well recognized in adolescent suicide, but the role of social and cultural factors is less clear. Studies have focused on the importance of ethnicity, gender, family characteristics, and socioeconomic status. More recently, attention has been addressed to broader social risk factors, such as bullying in adolescents, suicide contagion, sexual orientation, and the popular media. Further empirical evidence is needed to advance our understanding of suicidal youth, develop better assessment tools, and formulate effective prevention and treatment programs. Summary: Suicidal behavior remains an important clinical problem and major cause of death in youth. Social factors may be at least as important as genetics. Advancing our understanding of underlying cultural and sociological issues in youth suicide will help clinicians achieve more efficient prediction, prevention and treatment.
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