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From the Archives: A Review of Raymond Arroyo's Mother Angelica Biography
The death on Easter Sunday of Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal Word Television Network, has received coverage both in the United States and abroad, with obituaries both brief and lengthy, along with remembrances, accounts of her last days, and articles on everything from her legacy as a "female broadcasting titan" to her impact on tourism in Alabama, where EWTN is headquartered.
In 2005, Michael O. Garvey reviewed Raymond Arroyo's biography of Mother Angelica for Commonweal. Some excerpts follow.
The most conspicuous concern of Arroyo's narrative is what he describes as Mother Angelica's "public and private war for the future of the Catholic Church." [His] reconnaissance of the battlefield is as predictable and prepackaged as anything else on big network news: on one side are Our Lord, Mother Angelica, and EWTN. On the other are "recreant bishops and theologians" and the "liberal church in America," an amorphous conspiracy promoting eucharistic irreverence, gender-inclusive liturgical language, and altar girls. ... What readers make of the story will likely depend on which side they choose to take in this war, or whether they believe such a war is going on to begin with. ...
[Mother Angelica's] relations with other sisters were, as her relations with so many of her coreligionists are now, tumultuous and overly susceptible to what she describes as "my Italian temper." … [T]his shrewd woman with a sense of divine mission [had] an eye for the main chance. She had a quick wit, a gregarious manner, and an evangelical bent. Calling herself "a conservative liberal who happens to be charismatic," she had become a popular speaker on prayer and the spiritual life. ...
The rags-to-riches growth of EWTN composes the background of the rest of the story, while the foreground concerns Mother Angelica's ongoing battle against the encroachments of (American) ecclesial bureaucrats, her enlistment of more highly ranked (Vatican) bureaucrats, and her jeremiads against the dreaded "liberal church in America." Nobody in these pages comes off very well. If Mother Angelica occasionally seems little more than a foul-tempered old harridan who confuses the promptings of her ego with the imperatives of the Holy Spirit, her opponents just as often seem little more than disingenuous defenders of their own institutional prestige.
You can read Garvey's full review here. On Friday, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput will preside over the funeral Mass for Mother Angelica; it will be broadcast live from the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama, on EWTN.
Messiahs & Temptations, Sandals & Centurions
Readers of a certain age may remember the original airing in 1977 of Franco Zeffirelli's miniseries Jesus of Nazareth on NBC. It immediately became reliable, parent-approved Easter-season fare, running several times up and into the 1980s -- appointment viewing, which was the only choice in those pre-on-demand days.
It was also familiar viewing, with its magisterial theme music and earnestly emoting players, its sandals and robes and desert settings. Some predictable casting -- Ernest Borgnine as The Centurion! Rod Steiger as Pontius Pilate! -- provided another sturdy bridge from Hollywood's then-still-not-so-distant past. While the presence of Anne (The Graduate's Mrs. Robinson) Bancroft as Mary Magdalene, Claudia (Fellini's 8 1/2) Cardinale as The Adulteress, and Olivia (Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet) Hussey as Mary, the Mother of Jesus, lent a little cinephilic cred, make no mistake: this was safe, straightforward entertainment all the way. Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman were considered for the title role, but it went to the lesser known Robert Powell, whose penetrating blue eyes, Zeffirelli and others involved in the production believed, would better match the perception of Jesus held by the American public. In fact, he looked like Eric Clapton. Our family tuned in for every episode, every year, the way you might expect: religiously.
Jesus of Nazareth still shows up now and then on cable, and it's also available on YouTube. If you're looking for something on the big screen, there currently are two feature films dramatizing the life of Jesus. In one, you can "experience your faith through the eyes of the child" (The Young Messiah, whose moppish title character speaks in a delightful British accent); in the other, you can "experience the event that changed the world through the eyes of a nonbeliever" (Risen, whose brooding, stubbled protagonist wields a sword). Stubbornly making do with my my own middle-aged eyes, I chose to experience things through two films that come at faith in less familiarly broad fashion: The Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!, and the period horror movie The Witch.Read more
The End of 'Mad Men'
In the lingering aftermath (or afterglow, depending on your degree of fandom) of the Mad Men finale, it's worth recalling The Paris Review interview of show-runner Matthew Weiner a couple of years ago. In it he explains his method of plotting and the influence of certain films (Apocalypse Now, North by Northwest, Days of Heaven) that resisted or flouted narrative convention.
People [like] to talk about "act breaks" and "rising action" leading to a climax, but what about Apocalypse Now? Someone's on a journey, and sure, we're heading toward a climax, but there are so many digressions. To me, those digressions are the story. People would say to me, What's holding this together? Or, How is this moment related to the opening scene, or the problem you set up on page 15? I don't know. That's where the character went. That's the story. So many movies in the seventies are told this way, episodically, and they feel more like real life because you don't see the story clicking.
Celia Wren, writing in our current issue, raises valid points about the occasionally frustrating aspects of Mad Men's seven-season unspooling. While the creator of a work should not be let off the hook for its shortcomings, I think some should be seen in the context of the general challenges of television production – actors leave, schedules are delayed, budgets and salaries change, as do perceived business needs – and to the particular production of Mad Men: ninety-two period-piece episodes engaging to lesser or greater degree the cultural, political, and historical issues of a decade, filmed over eight years about a half-century after the time depicted.
A time that many can remember first-hand, and that many more have relived or experienced second-hand, and vividly, through innumerable and infinitely replayed documentaries and TV programs. The audience thus viewed it through their own filtered stores of memory and recall – as well as with the expectations cultivated by deeply internalized notions of television convention. Unhappiness with the show was inevitable, and there were suggestions of it in how energetically the final-season prediction mill churned. Would Don Draper commit suicide? (Based on what – an opening-credit sequence that showed a suited man falling? Then what about his safe landing on an office couch in iconic draped-arm pose, cigarette dangling from fingertips?). Would he prove to be seventies myth-folk figure D.B. Cooper? (Why? This would be completely outside the dramatic universe Weiner so carefully constructed). Would Peggy find love, would Joan and Roger get together, would Sally become a Patty Hearst-like figure? There was an observable method to Weiner's Mad Men, and it was not to go out with a shocker, address a nostalgic yearning, or tidy up storylines. Though some of that was delivered after all, which proved too much for fans like The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum: "There was nothing wrong with those other, often very pleasurable stories, in aggregate, although for a person like myself, who tends to like her finales like her men, without too much closure or wish fulfillment, the fan-service element made me twitch a few times." You can't please everyone, not even those who like you.Read more
Wolf Hall: The Modernity of Thomas Cromwell
Flickering candle flames in chiaroscuro-drenched rooms. Sunbeams that stream through castle windows, casting clear patterns on the floor. Innumerable shots in the engrossing six-hour miniseries Wolf Hall seem to scrupulously define—even call attention to—to the sources of natural light that the tale's 16th-century characters depend on. Of course, resonant visuals and careful historic touches are what you'd expect from pedigreed programming like Wolf Hall, an adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize–winning novels that airs April 5-May 10, as part of PBS's Masterpiece programming.
But the meticulous lighting here amounts to more than just pretty cinematography and check-the-boxes historical verisimilitude: It contributes to one of the salient themes of the miniseries, which chronicles the rise of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith's son who becomes the chief fixer for King Henry VIII. Amidst the power struggles and religious turmoil of Tudor England, Cromwell (Mark Rylance) is a lawyer whose level head and supreme competence become essential to Henry (Damian Lewis), especially when the monarch decides to get rid of Wife # 2, Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy). In the larger scheme of things, Cromwell is essentially a forerunner of the modern era. He is a capitalist—a player in an information economy—living amidst the dying embers of feudalism. He is a self-made man, surrounded by people accustomed to a rigid social order.
The luminous candle flames and daylight-channeling windows in the televised Wolf Hall, directed by Peter Kosminsky, underscore the contrast between Cromwell and his environment. Surrounded as we are by bulbs and glowing screens, it is hard to imagine functioning in the years before electricity. For Cromwell, such a dispensation was normal—and yet, in this telling, he is able to analyze financial and legal realities as efficiently as any accountant-turned-lawyer living in calculator-and-legal-database times.Read more
The New Detectives: Dazed or Crazed?
We don't watch TV shows; we watch DVDs of TV shows on TV. As a result, we are working our way belatedly through a mess/mass of mystery/crime shows with detectives that are...that seem either dazed or crazed.
Last night it was "The Bridge," a girl detective in the El Paso police department is definitely dazed and obsessive (aspergers?). Finished with "Homeland" (season 3) where our heroine is crazed (bi-polar). Before that, puzzled over "True Detective's" "hero," an alcoholic with intuitions; more dazed than crazed.
Since our chronology is not "real-time" watching, are the dazed and crazed copy-cat portrayals? Or is this a trend?
UPDATE: Alessandra Stanley has something to say on this subject. See Comment @10:21, 1/22
Route 66 (and a Former Self) Revisited
Recovering TV addicts have no business pining after those shows that got them hooked in the first place.
Yet for more years than I care to admit, I would periodically burden my long-suffering wife with my memories of one series in particular: Route 66, which debuted in 1960. She'd listen patiently and nod as I waxed rhapsodic about the "breakthrough" program. Then one day recently, out of an abundance of love and understanding (and perhaps to test the efficacy of aversion therapy), she presented me with the complete DVD set of the show's first two seasons.
Created by Academy Award winner, Stirling Silliphant, and producer Herbert B. Leonard, the show followed the lives of Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and Buzz Murdoch (George Maharis) as they traveled the country in a Corvette convertible in search of themselves and a rapidly evolving social and political landscape.
Buzz and Tod were a study in contrasts and had interesting back-stories. Raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Buzz worked for a Hudson River barge business owned by Tod's father. Tod was Yale student who worked summers on the barges. When his father died after Tod's junior year, leaving his son a pile of unpaid debts and the Corvette, Tod was forced to leave school. Their worlds upended by the failure of the business, the book-smart Tod and the street-smart Buzz decided to hit the road and "catch a star," in Buzz's words.
What they discovered about the country they traveled around and the lives of those they encountered along the way made for compelling watching.
The series was groundbreaking in so many ways. The hour-long episodes were filmed almost entirely on location throughout the U.S. The episodes tackled difficult issues head-on: racism, xenophobia, drug addiction, mental illness, nuclear annihilation, neo-Nazism. Heady stuff for a young teenager with intellectual pretentions (and, alas, pop-culture sensibilities).
The scripts, a great many of them written by Silliphant, were literate and populated by memorable characters who were brought to life by an interesting mix of actors. Some were at the end of successful careers: Ethel Waters (who was nominated for an Emmy for her role, the first African-American woman so honored), Lew Ayers, Akim Tamiroff, Everett Stone, Regis Toomey, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Some were virtual unknowns who would go on to stardom: Robert Redford (who had auditioned for the Tod Stiles role), Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, James Caan, Ed Asner, Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Keir Dullea. And others were in the prime of their careers: Lee Marvin, Susan Pleshette, Jack Warden, Anne Francis, Peter Graves, Tuesday Weld, Nehemiah Persoff, Nina Foch.
So, there I was, boxes in hand, a bit giddy at the prospect of binging on all 64 episodes. After tearing off the shrink-wrap, I cued up Disc 1 and invited my wife to sit with me to watch the first episode. She dutifully complied, but at the conclusion of the show (about a small backwater town in Mississippi with a dark secret) she politely excused herself. I expected as much given the amount of squirming she did during the show's last half-hour.
Although I sat still for the entire 51-minute running time (the commercials were excised), I wasn't enthralled. In fact, by the time Nelson Riddle's hypnotic score began to play over the closing credits, I felt somewhat hollow. And that feeling, along with an embarrassed self-consciousness, continued through the remaining 63 episodes. The story lines were as topical and hard-hitting as I had remembered, but too many of the treatments now seemed ham-fisted and didactic. The guest stars all turned in credible performances, but many of their characters, along with those of the two leads, exuded an earnestness that my former self thought noble, but my present self found naive.
Truth be told, it was I who was really naive. Going in I knew full well what to expect of '60s-era drama, even the "breakthrough" ones. The U.S. was transitioning from the post-war era to the New Frontier. Issues that incubated during the Eisenhower years emerged fully formed in the early '60s, affecting all levels of society. Bravo Stirling Silliphant for taking on those issues in the spirit of the times. And shame on me for not using that historical lens when evaluating the show's scripts and performances and production values and the tastes and conceits of a certain Catholic school ninth grader.
For those considering a trip through the TV or cinematic past to re-create a fondly remembered time or experience, be forewarned: nostalgia ain't what it used to be and a former self deserves loads of empathy. And don't forget the popcorn.
'The Rockford Files': Secret to a marriage?
A couple of decades on, my wife and I still find ourselves telling people about our Pre-Cana experience, held at a parish in a Brooklyn neighborhood known then, with implied notoriety, as an Italian-American enclave. The catechist couple spent much of the Saturday session enumerating (in colorful Brooklynese) the ups and downs of their own lengthy marriage, though dropped in among the anecdotes were tips targeted at the mostly very young couples of the community. Girls, admonished the wife, make sure you've put on some lipstick and nice clothes when he comes home from work, since the last thing he wants to see after a long subway ride is a tired, washed-out woman at the stove. From the husband: Guys, go easy on your daughter, if you're blessed with a daughter, because they can't help but choose losers for boyfriends and they're going to get into trouble.
Whatever works, we've since come to understand.
If up to my adolescence I was convinced that every argument between my parents augured divorce, I was equally reassured of the marriage's endurance by their weekly viewings together of "The Rockford Files" on Friday nights. I was reminded of this habit of theirs after the actor James Garner died last Saturday. It was the one hour they would set aside for themselves after a week of demanding work for my father and the arguably more demanding job my mother had in overseeing a house overrun by four boys. It might not rise to the level of the "date nights" that some magazines today prescribe for the harried-parent demographic, since it consisted only of a frozen eggplant parmigiana and a decanter of Carlo Rossi burgundy, set out on a dinged-up coffee table in front of the nineteen-inch black-and-white TV, the only one the house. But for the mid-1970s, in a rural town twenty country miles from the single-screen movie theater, it seemed to work.
Probably because they worked to make it happen—my mother feeding us early and hurrying us to bed before the program began, my father making sure to get home in time (and to pour the wine). From my bedroom I could hear the show's famous ringing-phone opener and the unmistakable instrumental theme, if not very much of the dialogue. Eventually, as we got too old to be forced to bed early, we were grudgingly allowed to watch along with them, as long as we stayed quiet and sat far away from their private table. They loved watching James Garner as Jim Rockford—together—and they weren't going to let their night be taken away.
It was probably inevitable that I grew to love "Rockford," too, and some of the other things in which Garner appeared (his turn as the white-turtlenecked Scrounger in The Great Escape is a favorite). He not only famously did his own driving in movies and television; he also drove the pace car at the Indianapolis 500. He did Polaroid commercials. He liked to say he met his wife at an Adlai Stevenson rally, in 1956, and he was still married to her when he died. This last detail stuck out for me, not just because I tend to expect multiple spouses listed in celebrity obituaries. I guess it also seemed sort of appropriate. I've probably long since bored my wife, and more recently my kids, with stories of my parents' "Rockford" nights; it was a bit of simple modeling on their part, I guess, and even if done unwittingly, has maybe been more valuable than whatever I could have taken from Pre-Cana. In October, they'll have been married fifty years. Whatever works?
Cheever to Weiner to Draper
The final week of May brought the confluence of John Cheever's birthday and the final-season mid-season finale of Mad Men, whose creator Matthew Weiner has lately been speaking on the record about the writer's influence on his show. Easy connections have been made from the beginning--1960s suburban setting; middle-aged malaise; alcoholism; adultery--the identifying of surface-level similarities tracking well with the general tendency to reduce Cheever's work to nothing more than a critique of post-war, upper-middle-class bedroom-community mores. But anyone who spotted the street sign reading "Bullet Park" (the title of Cheever's third novel) outside the Draper residence in one early episode probably knew to start looking for deeper links. One of the best came at the close of last season, when Don Draper went way offscript in a major presentation, recalling the ad-copy-writing narrator of Cheever's "The Death of Justina" turning in the Twenty-Third Psalm as his swan-song submission. Anyway, it's been fun hearing Weiner speak more directly to some of these ideas.
Some commenters have helpfully picked up the conversation, noting how Mad Men's central conceit--the conflicted selves of Don Draper/Dick Whitman--explicitly reflects what's central in Cheever's short fiction, namely, characters (usually men) like Neddy Merrill and Johnny Hake trying somehow to reconcile their warring halves and yet hold everything together on the work- and home-fronts, all while battlefield glories fade and the familiar metrics of success and happiness are challenged on something like moral grounds. (Others have inevitably touched on the "warring selves" the conflicted bisexual Cheever himself tried unsuccessfully to manage, which, fine, I guess; it's probably hard not to take up this obvious thread, so, why not?)
With the yearlong mid-season hiatus of Mad Men's final slate of episodes here, you could take a fresh look at Cheever's collected stories in light of what you know about the show. You could also turn to the novel mentioned above. Bullet Park, from its complementary/oppositional pair of main characters, Hammer and Nailles, to the lyrically conjured suburban setting and paens to better pasts that might never have been, seems to inform Weiner's work even more than some of the stories. Its opening page reads like something directly from the brain of Don Draper:Read more
Forensic Toxicology and the Inner-Circle Thrill
If, like me, you are counting down the hours to Masterpiece Mystery!'s "Sherlock" Season 3 (launching later this month), you may appreciate the whodunit quotient in "The Poisoner's Handbook," a very interesting documentary airing tonight, Jan. 7, 8:00-10:00 pm ET on PBS (check local listings) as part of the American Experience series. A tale of the birth and maturing of forensic chemistry in New York City beginning in 1918, "The Poisoner's Handbook" chronicles a series of murders and suspicious deaths that were solved by two scientists of Holmesian genius and rationality: Charles Norris, a groundbreaking New York City medical examiner, and Alexander Gettler, the pioneering toxicologist who was Norris's colleague.
Over several decades, starting around World War I, the two men worked on cases that had to do not only with cold, calculating homicide, but with Prohibition, Standard Oil and leaded gasoline, poverty during the Great Depression, and a notorious case of radium poisoning at a watch factory. According to the documentary, directed by Rob Rapley, the two men built forensic science into a respected institution—without them, there would have been no "CSI," no Patricia Cornwell novels.
It's a suspenseful yet educational documentary, packed with old film footage and shots of sensational early 20th-century newspaper headlines. It does use reenactments—a technique I usually find annoyingly cheesy. But these reenactments are atmospheric, and appear carefully done (lots of glimpses of early 20th-century laboratories and primitive-looking morgues). When I interviewed Rapley about a year ago about his fascinating documentary series "The Abolitionists," he told me that he had initially hesitated to use reenactments, but ultimately had decided that they added a needed visual dynamism, and that an abundance of reliable written records allowed for scripting the reenactments with great accuracy. I haven't spoken to him this time round, but after watching "The Poisoner's Handbook," I would assume that the rationale for reenactments in this case was the same.
The perennial popularity of police, detective and hospital story programs on television demonstrates that audiences love to get behind-the-scenes glimpse of professional procedure—the kind of detail that abounds in "The Poisoner's Handbook." The attraction is partly voyeuristic thrill, but I think procedure-heavy stories also give us the comforting illusion of being part of a team or select professional circle. In an era that often seems increasingly impersonal, when people telecommute, and text instead of talk, and work in specialized fields that others can barely comprehend, enthusiasm for behind-the-scenes police lab and medical diagnostic stories—stories that provide an illusion of professional companionship and inner-circle reassurance—will surely only increase. (Mystery fans will be interested to note that Dr. Marcella Fierro, a forensic expert interviewed in "The Poisoner's Handbook," is the former chief medical examiner for Virginia who inspired the figure of Kay Scarpetta in Patricia Cornwell's novels.)
After tonight's airing, "The Poisoner's Handbook" will be available on DVD or for online viewing on pbs.org, according to the press release. There is also a related "interactive online graphic novel."
Breaking Bad #516: "Felina"
Yesterday, as the final episode of Breaking Bad approached, Samantha Bee (of The Daily Show) raised a good question:
Now that #BreakingBad is ending, are there any other shows I can make people feel bad about not watching?
— Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) September 29, 2013
I'm sure we'll think of something. If you are among those who never caught up, now you can feel free to do so on your own time. And to help you in your journey I'll keep all the spoilers in our discussion of the finale after the jump...Read more
Breaking Bad: Death closes in on Walter White
The Breaking Bad commentary has reached a fever pitch, with everyone weighing in with their predictions and last-chance-for-relevance think-pieces before Sunday night's series finale. The Twitter account Pour Me Coffee imagined the president offering his own take (instead of the expected remarks on Iran):
"My fellow Americans, Walt has no obvious beef with Lydia. I don't think the ricin is for her. Gretchen has always been a problem..."
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) September 27, 2013
And Emily Nussbaum -- whose Twitter feed is a great source for worthwhile Breaking Bad commentary -- wrote this week,
Some days it feels like we're all taking an ambitious graduate school course in Breaking Bad together, with a ton of required reading.
— emilynussbaum (@emilynussbaum) September 24, 2013
Television this good is actually pretty exhausting. And so it's with some relief, as well as the familiar sense of dread, that I approach the final session of this not-for-credit course.
But I'm here to offer one more bit of recommended reading before we start our post-mortem on Monday. "The Dark Art of Breaking Bad," by David Segal, from the New York Times Magazine, is actually a few years old, but I missed it at the time (I may not even have been watching the show yet, which would put me in good company; plenty of johnny-come-latelys on this bandwagon). Reading it now sheds a lot of light on what the show has been doing (according to its creator, Vince Gilligan) with the themes of evil and its rewards and punishment, and where it is all likely to end up tomorrow night.
It also offers a good answer to anyone who has been wondering why this show is worth all the fuss:Read more
Breaking Bad #515: "Granite State"
I understand last night's Emmy Awards telecast included some sort of Breaking Bad-related interpretive dance. All I can say is, if you were watching the Emmys instead of Breaking Bad, it serves you right. (I also heard that BB finally won the Emmy for best drama series. Well, duh.)
Here's a Twitter joke that both made me laugh and filled me with now-familiar dread:
Tonight on Breaking Bad: raw footage of your most painful childhood memory.
— Sean Thomason (@TheThomason) September 22, 2013
Not quite. But close. Let's discuss the details after the jump....Read more
Crime and Punishment
God help me, I'm still rooting for Walt.
I'm certainly not blind to the evil he has done: the killings he has committed or ordered, the way that lies--even the ones he tells himself--have come to define his life, the destruction his "product" has wreaked on the lives of thousands of people he has never met. I understand why many viewers are taking, if not pleasure, then a certain degree of righteous satisfaction in the judgment being visited upon him. What goes around comes around. Ye reap as ye sow.
Yet from the beginning of the show, there was something in me that connected with Walt. Not with his choices, to be sure, but with the existential situation that gave rise to those choices.
I've done enough men's ministry to know that the age of 50--Walt's age at the beginning of the show--is often a crisis point for many men. By the time a man reaches that age (and I'm getting pretty close), the trajectory of his life is largely set. From what once may have seemed an infinite array of options, the choices he has made at each stage of his life have progressively narrowed the next set of choices.
It's true that those choices allow you to live more intensively rather than extensively, to go deep rather than broad. There may be less "freedom," but life is generally richer for having made those choices.
But there are times--usually in the middle of the night when the devil does his best work--when the shadow side of those choices emerges from a dark place in your soul. You can begin to feel as if you have lost control of your life, that you are merely reading a script that your younger self has written. You look around and see friends and family members who are no smarter and no more hardworking than you, but who seemed to have grabbed the brass ring while your hand came up empty. Even if you have advanced in your career, this is often the point at which you realize the number of musical chairs is diminishing and there may not be one left for you when the music stops.
Yes, there are stories of people who have radically reinvented themselves in mid-life. But that never seems to be you, does it? Marriage, children, an underwater mortgage, overdue bills that keep your credit rating on the ragged edge of disaster, they all seem like obstacles to the new life you crave and feel you deserve.
This is the point at which many men "break bad" in ways large and small. While Walt's cancer is the spark, it is this broader emotional context that provides the tinder. But in the same way that most college students infatuated with Nietzsche don't bludgeon the local pawnbroker with an axe, most men suffering from a mid-life crisis do not become lords of a multi-state methamphetamine empire. Like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, Walter White is a fictional character whose story is made extreme to illuminate a psychological and spiritual narrative that speaks more universally. Even the character's name--Walter White--suggests some kind of everyman, a symbol of the downwardly mobile white middle class whose anger has done much to shape our current politics.
When I saw that I am rooting for Walt, I want to be clear what I mean. I'm not rooting for him to triumph over his enemies in an orgy of redemptive violence, although I fear that may be where we are headed. To steal a line said to Michael Corleone by Cardinal Luciani in The Godfather III, Walt's sins are great. It is right that he suffers. His sins are great enough to be beyond any meaningful human forgiveness.
Am I suggesting then, that my desired end would be for Walt, like Raskolnikov, to embrace Jesus Christ? If Walt were a real person, that would very much be my wish. Fictionally, though, I'm not sure how Vince Gilligan could pull that off without it seeming false and sentimental. Sentimentality in art does not advance the cause of Christ.
What I am hoping for is that Walt can encounter God's forgiveness in a form he can accept, a form that will allow him to acknowledge the true depth of his depravity without despairing of the possibility of forgiveness and redemption. It is the hope that Walt can, in some mysterious way, make the words of St. Paul his own: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God." (Eph 2:8).
Unprecedented liberal love for the Pope?
Commentary marking six months of Pope Francis has been a love-fest from the most unexpected place: liberal talk show hosts.
Chris Hayes started the series last week with the "Best. Pope. Ever." segment on his show, All In (MSNBC), in which we learned that Hayes's father had been a Jesuit and Hayes is feeling closer to the Church than he has since childhood. Then Melissa Harris-Perry, also on MSNBC, did a similarly positive piece on Sunday morning, highlighting many of the innovative pastoral decisions of Francis's young pontificate. While not Catholic herself, Harris-Perry is married to a Catholic and confesses deep connection with Catholic culture in her native New Orleans. Finally, a couple nights ago on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart joined the cascade of puff pieces about the Pope (though he ultimately redirected the segment to a satire of the possibility of his own successor also being more popular than him).
What's gotten into these liberal TV hosts? A secret cabal of pro-Catholic media executives in midtown? But that wouldn't explain the fact that evangelical flagship Christianity Today has similarly adored this Pope, nor could it account for liberal evangelical columnists on the west coast professing their admiration (e.g., critically-acclaimed journalist Cathleen Falsani).
Some might say it's just a chance to highlight religiously-grounded progressive causes. Maybe so. But I'll take Chris Hayes and Cathleen Falsani at their word. Falsani has a "crush" on this Pope, in the end, because "He's not fancy. He's a servant. ... He's leading by example." Hayes, for his part, is not holding out for dramatic changes in teaching, especially in the area of sexual ethics, but he nonetheless offered the on-camera encomium, concluding with these words:
Given the constraints of what being pope is, you can operate in one of two ways: you can be a jerk about it, or you can be awesome. And this guy is choosing to be awesome. And not only is that great for the Church, it's great for the world to have a pope talking about what this pope is talking about: grace, humility, peace and compassion for others. Because that is the Church at its best, and the one that some part of me still loves. Amen.
Such closing words are not a normal throw-to-commercial on MSNBC, or any national network for that matter. Note also the relative youth of those praising the Pope in the segments cited above -- and their viewership skews even younger.
One undeniable fact about evangelization -- whether we call it "new evangelization" or not -- is that its outcomes are not entirely predictable. But the most tried and true method is walking-the-talk. Pope Francis has this in spades. And he's teaching us how to do it.
Breaking Bad #513: "To'hajiilee"
Here is how the TV listings in my local newspaper summarized this week's episode of Breaking Bad:
An unexpected turn of events leaves the normally tranquil Walter White struggling to maintain control of the already-chaotic world around him.
I think you'll agree that they really captured the spirit of the episode. But there are a few things they left out, which we'll discuss after the jump...Read more
Standing still with Orange is the New Black
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Sexual orientation wasnt included in I-200 and so its not included in this initiative.
Which is certainly not to say that Tim Eyman supports gay equality. Please. Why even bother defending yourself -- of all places, here, Tim?
Can someone please write an initiative that says that the language of all subsequent initiatives must be standardized so that racist homophobic enemies of the environment can't (get paid to) write initiatives that call themselves "preventing discrimination"?
Am I reading this correctly, btw? Are Eyman and Feit on the same side when it comes to decoupling Sound Transit from RTID? Which horseman of the apocalypse is that?
I initially figured this wasn't about sexuality issues as Eyman bungled that the first time, with leaders in the anti-gay circles stating they wouldn't work with Eyman again.
Still though, some folks are happy to repeat the recent past, so I didn't rule it out. Thanks, Josh, for the update.
Can we get an initiative that declares Tim Eyman to be a horse's ass which I'm sure 99.99% of the voters would approve?
Oh yeah, tried that.
Chopp was with me on decoupling them too. How's that for the apocalypse?
Question: when you get an email from Tim Eyman, do you reformat your hard drive, disinfect your keyboard, and take a shower afterwards?
The most important thing to remember in dealing with Mr. Eyman -- he's a businessman, and for him initiatives are a business; it's how he makes his living now. He will do or say whatever he needs to, write whatever initiative he needs to write, if he thinks his contributors will support it and send him money.
For me, he's just so much hot air.
What a frickin LUSER he is.
None of the above makes the issue wrong.
Disagree with the underlying law if you like, but when the people, either through their elected officials or directly, pass a law mandating X and administrative officials interpreting that law decide it doesn't really mean X, but instead means Y, we tend to call that the Bush Administration.
It's no less wrong just because it's racial preferences being used illegally instead of wiretapping. Follow the law until you get it changed.
"Were exploring various potential initiative proposals."
That's Eymanspeak for "I'm exploring which issue I can get the most money from"
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i used a cc 80a controller for both motors and i let the smoke out of it today. It was doing just what the people said it would do one would start and the other would not unless it was about 1/4...
can you use two speed controllers with a y connection? i was worried that the two different controllers will not allow the zagi to fly straight.
i have beeen trying to run two motors on one esc in a zagi and i let the smoke out of my cc 80 a esc im going to try 2 now but wonder if the plane will fly straight?
second flight today it did not flap and blow up today. i was running 5x5 today its too much for my speed control so im gonna run the 4.7x4.7.
my friend is running a 6x5.5 prop cut down a little...
my friend put one of those in his zagi it is real fast just make sure you got a battery that can handle it. good luck. i put the 2 motors in a 60, with the two motors its faster than the one 700w....
dont do two brushless motors its too fast and will blow apart like mine i lost the esc two motors and the lipo it just desintegrated in the air
i used a couple of HET motors and a 80a esc and a 8000mah 3s2p but i think i need a bigger esc. it is really way to fast for me at half throttle its going as fast as the xs with the stock zagi...
i love this thing i put two 350w het edf2w brushless motors a 80 amp speed controller and a 8000 mah 3s2p battery. full throttle is way to fast and the first few flights have been a learning exp. i...
I have mounted the motor in the wing in two zagis xs and a xt and mine flies fine with the shaft pointing straight back kind of neutral. i got the xt and put in two brushless 350 watt motors and a 80...
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Anyway, while I was there I saw these awesome pieces of graphic activism. Senators and fat cats whisked around Washington, D.C. have to travel in cars donned with these
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And next, from the Big Apple which, when it bakes, smells nothing like apple pie an agitprop wheat pasting. Its a little Adbustersy, which can be insufferably pious, but this is a cheeky goad at New Yorks starfuckers. (The T is missing from the beginning and the e is missing from the end. And, yes, the photo sucks.)


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The Sipan ruins (from whence came the Lord of Sipan, whose remains can be found in the museum in neighboring Lambayeque) are a bunch of mud pyramids that, because of the arid climate in northern coastal Peru, have not washed away totally yet. You can get a tour (in Spanish), and walk to the top of some of the pyramids, as well as check out the museum with recreations of the settlement.
Also, there may be someone on hand to sell you a taste of chicha(corn beer) and let you pet their hairless dog (Chinese?). They claim that there was an indigenous dog breed there that was voiceless, but is no extinct.
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Elevating the Broadway Pit; A Legendary Conductor Shapes Musicals With His Baton
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: April 19, 2000
Part of the reason Brian Stokes Mitchell wanted to play the male lead in ''Kiss Me, Kate'' was that Paul Gemignani would be in the pit.
John Beal, among the most respected bass players on Broadway, left ''Phantom of the Opera'' after more than 11 years with the orchestra to join Mr. Gemignani's team for ''Kiss Me, Kate.''
And Mr. Gemignani was one of the first people contacted by the Broadway producer Roger Berlind once he settled on the idea of a ''Kate'' revival. ''He's kind of the dean of the industry,'' Mr. Berlind said.
On Broadway, a conductor is often as overlooked as so much wallpaper, that nameless fellow waving a stick under the stage. But in addition to wielding the technical skill involved in conducting the orchestra, musical directors play a major role in shaping a show, acting as the liaison between the composer and the cast. As the musical director of almost every Stephen Sondheim work over the last 30 years as well as such hits as ''Crazy for You,'' Mr. Gemignani has become something of a legend, the last of a breed of conductors who elevate musical direction to an art form.
Theater veterans say he is one of the major reasons ''Kiss Me, Kate'' is so musically satisfying.
''The way he infuses himself into an orchestra, and drives them with him and conveys what he's feeling about the music to an orchestra is, as far as I'm concerned, as deeply passionate as Lenny's was,'' said Mr. Sondheim, referring to Leonard Bernstein.
Watching Mr. Gemignani in the pit during a performance as he moves through memorable Cole Porter numbers like ''Too Darn Hot,'' ''Wunderbar'' and ''Always True to You in My Fashion'' yields only a hint of his depth and ardor. There is no sheet music in front of him; he always memorizes the score. Occasionally, at a quiet musical moment, he closes his eyes. In dance numbers his feet move. He can make the music sound bittersweet or buoyant with the pinch of his fingers, the thrust of his fist, the lowering of his palm. It is a language that the uninitiated can never fully understand or appreciate. But the musicians who play under Mr. Gemignani and the actors who sing for him seem to have a clear sense of what sets him apart.
''When he's in the pit and you're onstage, he is breathing with you,'' said Marin Mazzie, who stars in ''Kate'' and worked with Mr. Gemignani on Sondheim's ''Passion'' in 1994. ''We feel each other.''
During her solo, ''So in Love,'' for example, Ms. Mazzie said, she and Mr. Gemignani are always communicating -- without ever meeting eyes. ''The passion, the way his body moves, the expressiveness,'' she said. ''It's in him. It's inspiring.''
Mr. Mitchell said that Mr. Gemignani allowed him to experiment and to explore new interpretations. ''If I want to sing the song a different way, I don't have to tell him,'' Mr. Mitchell said. ''If I'm feeling something different, Paul's going to be there with me because he's connected to me and he's watching me.''
Some conductors take a break between songs and sit down, leafing through the newspaper or joking with colleagues. Mr. Gemignani remains on his feet, watching so he can sense where a scene is going and ensure that the song becomes a natural extension of it.
''I want to know where the actors are so I can put the song there,'' Mr. Gemignani said. ''I memorize everything on purpose because I think my face should be on the stage. I consider myself the other actor in the show.''
The musicians in the ''Kate'' pit, several of whom have worked with Mr. Gemignani on and off for 20 years, say they are also grateful for the freedom he gives them to make the music their own. ''He's not married to the written notes,'' said Mr. Beal, the bassist. ''He trusts the players that he hires.''
And while Mr. Gemignani has high standards, his musicians say, he is not a taskmaster. ''If you make a mistake, he doesn't take you outside and rip your head off,'' said Dennis Anderson, who plays first woodwind for ''Kate.'' ''He never attacks you personally or admonishes you in front of people. He might look at you funny or raise his eyebrows.''
A burly man with slicked-back hair and a graying beard, Mr. Gemignani, 60, was married on Valentine's Day to Derin Altay, an actress. It is his second marriage. He has a 20-year-old son from his first marriage, Alexander, who wants to be an actor.
Mr. Gemignani's air of authority in the pit is balanced by a boyish twinkle in his eye, a playfulness that seems to inspire loyalty and affection. ''You have never seen someone do so many different things with a baton,'' said Suzanne Ornstein, Mr. Gemignani's concertmaster. ''A stiletto, syringe, fishing rod, hand grenade -- it's all very clear.''
Mr. Gemignani's rapport with his colleagues is one of the reasons why the Broadway director Harold Prince made him part of his team three decades ago. ''He's jovial but firm,'' Mr. Prince said. ''It's a very good personality to have around on a show. You want somebody that artistic and dependable whose personality is made for such an intimate collaboration.''


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A civil rights group is asking the Florida Attorney General's Office to enforce a 1994 state law requiring black history to be taught in all school districts.
According to a complaint filed Thursday by the Tallahassee Inter-Civic Council, a 2007-2008 state enrollment report shows that only 19 of Florida's 67 counties provide black history classes.
The group says teachers need better training to teach black history and more inclusive textbooks need to be purchased.
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Put Kuranda on your list, it's a lovely little village to walk around. Surrounded by rainforest.
There is one main street and over the years it has become a tourist town. 20 years ago it was discovered by the *Hippies* and until a few years ago it was a sleepy little village. Now it has bus loads of people arriving daily and businesses selling everything are found along the main street.'
The Old markets are still there,. but now there are markets throughout the side streets.
I personally like to head there when the markets aren't on as there isn't quite as many people.
Kuranda is situated on the Barron River. There is the Barron Falls is just out of town.
You can do a cruise down the river looking for Crocodiles...Yes, DON"T go swimming in the River:)
Kuranda has some of the best kept gardens, all along the paths there are tropical plants and throughout the main st. there are great pieces of art in the form of iron sculptures. Even the rubbish bins blend into the gardens.
The gardens and hanging baskets at the Railway station are wonderful.
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Hi Anne..great page ..hope to visit here and take this train trip after the VT meet in September at Airlie beach..great tips and photos thanks for sharing..
Kuranda, another part of the world that I have not heard of. I have now. Great pages and tips.
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Looks an interesting place. I expect if we ever get out there, it will have grown even more!!! One of these days......
Nice tips, Anne! Hopefully we will make it up there in April. I am still slowly working on my Hepburn page. Will I ever finish??
its a shame we missed Kuranda, I guess we`ll just have to come back lovely page Annie
This place is definately on my huge 'must see' list :o) Awesome page with gorgeous pix matey!! And pecan pie, mmm yummy yummy :o)
This is my kind of place. The rainforest cruise sounds like a "must do". Excellent little page and photos.
OMG I white water rafted on the Baron River...now they tell me about the crocs:)
good page - I loved the butterflies there - even though my camera kept misting up!
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Police said that Gerard Damon was one of six people ejected from a car that rolled over multiple times as officers chased it after a shootout at Pandora's Cabaret on Washington Avenue.
Damon, 31, was hit in the thigh and ankle by some of the 29 shots fired at about 4 a.m. in the club's parking lot. The gunfire followed a fight inside the club, possibly sparked by a dispute over a woman, that escalated after bouncers ejected some of the approximately 150 people inside the building, according to police.
Police also said Monday they searched the strip club over the weekend and found two handguns and a shotgun in a safe. Those guns, which were legally owned, were seized in order for police to perform forensic examinations.
Police suspect that at least three guns, possibly four, were used in the melee that left three people injured.
Damon was one of six people who had piled into a Toyota Camry that officers spotted on Railroad Hill Street, which is near the club. The car came to a stop near the front bumper of a cruiser, but police say the driver, Yusuf Laneq, 32, ignored their commands to turn off the ignition and put the car in reverse.
He drove backwards for about 150 yards, until he turned the car around and drove away from police on Railroad Hill.
The Camry eventually crashed near a curve on Railroad Hill and hit a utility pole, throwing the men out as it rolled over, according to police. Damon was taken into custody along with 21-year-old Josiah Hunter, who had been hit in the left hip by a bullet during the shootout outside Pandora's.
Four other men managed to get up and run into the Naugatuck River after the crash, according to police. Laneq, along with two other men, Dimitri Dlandinz, 20, and Stewart Damon, 24, were detained by officers who found them in a parking lot across the river.
The passengers in the car were charged with interfering with an officer, while Laneq was charged with reckless driving and engaging an officer in pursuit.
Gerard Damon suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds; police found he was wanted for an aggravated assault charge in Baltimore. He also has convictions in Maryland for armed robbery and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
Police say they are continuing to search for the man they believe was the primary shooter, 32-year-old Javier Vazquez, who they suspect instigated the gunfight in the parking lot. A third man, Todd Smith, 21, was hit in the ankle by a bullet during the melee, police reported.
The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m., which is about two hours past when most bars are required to close due to state liquor laws.
The club posted a notice on its Facebook page on Feb. 20 saying it was operating temporarily as a "BYOB" establishment and was open until 5 a.m.
Claudette Carveth, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Consumer Protection, said Monday the club had a provisional liquor license that expired on Feb. 15. Its owners applied for a permanent license, but that application is still pending, she said.
Carveth said a "remonstrative" was filed against the club, which is triggered when at least 10 people sign a petition objecting to the club's permit application.
A hearing for the petitioners was held about two weeks ago and a decision based on that meeting is still pending, she said. When asked, Carveth said the club "absolutely" would need a permit even if it was operating as a bring-your-own alcohol establishment.
The club's president, Lionel Gouveia, did not return a call for comment on Monday.
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Hi, I'm trying to convince my company to purchase an upgrade my older version of SPSS as I lost it completely when moving to a new computer but I'm getting pushback to using it at all by my new boss. We have a very strong Six Sigma group who uses Minitab and they want me to use this, instead, for survey analysis. I used Minitab once or twice in grad school and seem to remember having some problems utilizing it for survey data but can't for the life of me remember what those problems were. I've tried for searching for a comparison of the two products online but have found nothing to support my argument that SPSS is the better investment for the time being (since we already own Minitab). Can anyone help me with this?
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That takes me back to old times! I recall that we used Minitab for the beginning of a stats class in grad school, a LONG time ago.
We went on to SPSS whjen we needed to do something serious.
I didn't know it was still around!
I suggest you go to the group that uses it and get their manual, and/or get someone to demo to you how it handles the things you need to do. This will show whether it does indeed handle them.
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