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No. 1 — Wes Anderson and "Wes Anderson" are not the same guy.
Let me tell you about my book, The Wes Anderson Collection. These are some of the things I learned while reporting it.
1. Wes Anderson and "Wes Anderson" are not the same guy.
"Wes Anderson" is the nattily dressed impresario who relishes his public role as an artist and filmmaker. "Wes Anderson" appeared in an American Express ad as "himself," in a long tracking shot modeled on Day for Night, a film by his favorite director, Francois Truffaut. But the actual guy — whom I first met about twenty years ago in Dallas, when he was starting out as a filmmaker and I was starting out as a journalist — is more reticent. Odd as it might sound, given that his name appears above the title of his movies, he's not crazy about being the center of attention for very long. The Wes Anderson Collection was conceived in late summer of 2009, but it took almost a year to get Wes to agree to sit for a book-length interview about his work, not because of the time commitment, but because he was skittish about participating in a whole book focused on his films.
2. He will happily discuss the technical or structural aspects of his movies, or the history of cinema or popular music, but when it comes to interpreting his own work, he clams up.
There are parts of the book where we go off on long tangents about the structure of the screenplay to Rushmore, or the evolution of his particular style of tracking shot, but almost every time I'd propose a theory about the unifying themes of his films, he'd either respond noncommittally (his "Hmm" responses in the book are already infamous) or else give the barest hint of agreement or disagreement.
3. It is important to him that viewers imprint their own values and experiences on his films and not worry too much about what he personally is trying to communicate.
Back in 2010, I did a video essay on The Darjeeling Limited for the movie's Criterion Blu-ray edition. Wes' only note was that he wondered if there was some way to make the narration sound less authoritative, because he didn't want people thinking that my interpretation of his work was in some sense the "official" or "approved" interpretation. It was important to Wes that every viewer feel that his or her own take on the film was equally valid. So I re-recorded the audio track of the video essay to make it sound more extemporaneous—as if I was just making up the thoughts off the top of my head and they were just one guy's opinion. The finished piece expressed exactly the same thoughts as the first version, but the tone was warmer and more casual, and hopefully communicated to viewers that it was just one way of looking at the movie.
Similarly, during the writing of The Wes Anderson Collection, Wes repeatedly told me it was important to communicate to readers, through tone and design, that the seven critical essays were my take on his work, that he himself neither approved nor disapproved of their observations, and that readers should feel that their own take was just as valid.
4. He doesn't find reviews terribly useful, whether they're positive or negative.
"There's one thing you can absolutely, 100 percent rely on," he told me, when we discussed reviews, "which is that if you show five different people the same thing, they're all going to have a different complaint or compliment. Each is going to have a different response, and you'd better know what you're gonna do, otherwise you're going to get confused... [H]ow much good can come from putting any time into studying how people are responding to your movies? The best case scenario is that it makes you feel flattered for a certain period of time, which doesn't really buy you much, in life: and inevitably, it's not going to just be the best-case scenario, so learn to spare yourself that experience, I'd say."
5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was sparked partly by Anderson's childhood fascination with Jacques Cousteau, but also by "an idea about a boat that's been cut in half."
6. The story of The Royal Tenenbaums was inspired by the chance purchase of a CD of Maurice Ravel music in college.
Listening to Ravel's "String Quartet in F Major" prompted a fantasy about "...an F. Scott Fitzgerald-type New York story. I pictured it being set in the 1960s, though. It was probably a bit like Good Night and Good Luck, something like that!" Anderson fantasized about using that quartet in the film's opening credits, in "the scene where Margot is coming off the bus, and the tennis court scene where Richie has his meltdown." He ended up using the second movement in the sequence where the major players are introduced.
7. His favorite Alfred Hitchcock film is Rear Window because of its point of view.
Wes was introduced to Hitchcock via a bunch of reissued films on Betamax video in the eighties. He latched onto Rear Window because it never leaves the hero's apartment. "Some of the other people who live there, you never see them close at all — you just see them from across the way." Anderson's movies often include images of voyeurism, particularly Moonrise Kingdom, whose heroine Suzy Bishop carries binoculars with her everywhere she goes.
8. He was introduced to the concept of video piracy by his childhood doctor.
"The idea of a pirated anything was introduced to me by the fact that Star Wars was playing on the TV set in my doctor's office," he told me. "Somehow he got hold of Star Wars. I think that would be frowned upon today." Or maybe not!
9. His fascination with tree-houses probably comes from The Swiss Family Robinson.
In The Royal Tenenbaums, Margot writes a play called The Levinsons in the Trees. The idea of characters living in trees is central to The Fantastic Mr. Fox and a treehouse figures in Moonrise Kingdom. In interviews, Anderson said he wasn't entirely sure where this obsession came from, but that he'd long been fascinated by Johann David Wyss' 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson, about a family that gets wrecked in the East Indies and builds a number of structures, including a treehouse, to survive.
10. He became close friends with Owen Wilson because Owen Wilson just suddenly started acting as if they were close friends.
Anderson and his frequent leading man and sometime screenwriting collaborator took a playwriting class together at the University of Texas at Austin, but they didn't hang out or talk. Then one day Wilson came up to Anderson in the corridor of a building in the English department. "We were signing up for classes and he started asking me to help him figure out what he should do, as if we knew each other. As if we had ever spoken before or knew each other's names. I almost feel like he was taking it for granted that if we didn't know each other yet, soon we would."
11. His breakthrough, the short film "Bottle Rocket," was originally meant as the first section of a feature to be shot piecemeal
"We wrote it as a feature," he told me. "We started shooting it in 1992. I want to say: When we made the short, we felt we were making installments of the feature." Then James L. Brooks got Anderson and the Wilson brothers a deal at Columbia to shoot the whole story in color, with James Caan in a supporting role...'Bottle Rocket' the short was never meant to be a short. We always meant to just keep shooting. We were never thinking, 'Let's throw out what we've already done and start over form the beginning with more money."
12. Anderson and Wilson technically never attended the Sundance directing lab with Frank Oz, Michael Caton-Jones (Rob Roy), and other established filmmakers, as some journalists (including yours truly) had mistakenly written; they actually audited the class.
"It was a directing lab," he told me almost two decades later. "But I probably didn't tell you at the time that we were in the lab. I probably choose not to accentuate the fact that we were kind of second-class citizens. ... No one explained that to us. We arrived there and it was like, 'OK, now you two go over there and talk about your scene while everybody else is doing something a bit different."
13. Bottle Rocket, the feature, was rejected by every festival Anderson submitted it to.
"We didn't get into Sundance. We didn't get into Telluride. We didn't get into New York. I don't remember what other festivals we tried to enter it in, but those were the big ones, the ones we were really hoping for. And we didn't get in...Well, the whole thing was a disaster...By then, the Cinderella story was long over. Once we screened the movie for an audience and eighty-five people walked out, we knew the coach was about to turn back into a pumpkin."
14. The idea for Rushmore predated the idea for Bottle Rocket.
Anderson and Wilson submitted treatments for both movies with their film school applications. They thought of Rushmore first, but it ended up being Anderson's second film as director.
15. Rushmore was originally going to be scored entirely with the Kinks.
"They seemed to be kind of a good model," Anderson told me. "They're in blazers but they're more like sort of lunatics, which is also our character [Rushmore hero Max Fischer]. Eventually, it became more of a British invasion idea."
16. Bill Murray worked on Rushmore for scale.
He got a piece of the profits, but his day rate was Screen Actors Guild minimum. By Anderson's estimate, Murray made about $9,000 from acting in Rushmore.
17. When Disney didn't want to pay for a helicopter shot for Rushmore's "A Quick One While He's Away" montage, Murray wrote a check to cover the costs of chopper rental.
The helicopter shot ended up being cut from the film anyway, but Anderson still has Murray's un-cashed check for $25,000, $16,000 more than he was paid for acting in the movie.
18. The role of Royal Tenenbaum was written for Gene Hackman "against his wishes."
Hackman told Anderson, "I don't like it when people write for me, because you don't know me, and I don't want what you think is me."
19. Royal's line in Tenenbaums, "I know you, asshole!" is lifted from Witness.
Harrison Ford says it to Danny Glover — a future Tenenbaums co-star, as it turned out — in the scene where he gets shot.
20. When young Richie Tenenbaum releases Mordecai the Falcon from the roof of his house in the prologue of The Royal Tenenbaums, you're actually looking at two birds, a falcon and a hawk.
There were three falcons used in the falcon sequences, plus a hawk. The hawk was a rehabilitated bird authorized to be released into the wild again. "That's what flies away at the beginning," Anderson told me, "A hawk. The actor releases a falcon, but then we cut to a hawk."
21. The tracking shot through the train at the end of The Darjeeling Limited, ending with the tiger in the bushes, was all shot on a real train traveling through actual countryside in India.
The film crew gutted a railroad car and built a set with multiple rooms, filled the rooms with actors, and moved the camera among them, ending with a pan from Bill Murray to reveal the movie's resident Grim Reaper figure, a man-eating tiger (actually a puppet created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop). At one point, the camera seems to move between cars so that you can see that it's real countryside in the background.
22. Anderson's first spectacular tracking shot was a reaction to bad weather.
Anderson's first elaborately choreographed tracking shot is the aquarium groundbreaking in Rushmore. It was originally meant to be a more subdued shot facing the athletic field. The day before shooting there was a torrential rain that turned the field to mud. Anderson turned the camera around and shot toward the bleachers instead, and compensated for the less attractive background by moving the camera in an intricate pattern and filling the background and foreground with action. Anderson liked the result so much that "after that, I kept doing it. More and more, I'd say, 'I'd like to do this on a train track.'"
23. The very first member of the Star Wars fan club was Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson's screenwriting collaborator on Moonrise Kingdom and The Darjeeling Limited.
Coppola's dad, Francis Ford Coppola, produced Star Wars creator George Lucas' American Graffiti and worked with him on many other projects, so Roman had the inside track.
24. Anderson is comfortable admitting that classical storytelling is something he's neither good at nor particularly interested in.
"I read some of Roald Dahl's notebooks and journals and things, and he would have a sentence that says, 'Idea for story where a husband's cheating,' and it lays it out, and you see there's a whole story there," he told me, by way of discussing Rushmore. "I've never had any of those. I don't have any gift for that. Every movie I've done is this accumulation of information about these characters and who they are and what their world is, and slowly figuring out what's going to happen to them."


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One of the iOgrapher's strengths is the fact that you can use different lenses on your mobile device. Face it, mobile phones and tablets create better pictures than some of my old digital cameras, but their lenses are limited. The iOgrapher comes with a lens that widens the device's field of view without much distortion. If you like your mobile lens, you can take off the iOgrapher's lens and use the case without it.
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iOgrapher comes with cold shoes (little slots to put attachments). On my iPad case, there are three slots to put anything with a standard photo shoe option. It's a great place to put a light. Sure, your iPhone may have a flash, but if you're filming something that requires additional light, this is a great place to put a camera light source. (Yes, iOgrapher sells an inexpensive rechargeable light that is good for your small holiday gathering).
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said on Wednesday he will unveil a "no surprises" Republican budget next week that reaches balance in 10 years with only modestly deeper spending cuts than those he proposed a year ago.
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The conservative budget blueprint will retain tax increases on the wealthy that were approved in the January 1 deal to resolve the "fiscal cliff," said House Budget Committee aides.
The plan also will make adjustments for an expected decline in war spending, a move that could shave up to $600 billion from expenditures over the next decade.
"So I wouldn't expect big surprises from us next week," Ryan told reporters. "We're making some additional modest changes to get to balance."
Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" budget last year did not achieve balance until around 2040, but that did not include any tax hikes. In fact, it aimed to cut the top tax rate to 25 percent, while eliminating a number of prominent tax credits and deductions.
At the same time, that budget made deep cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs, and other domestic benefit programs and education funding. The document's prominence as a Republican policy tool, however, helped propel Ryan to be chosen by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate.
After four straight years of deficits over $1 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the fiscal 2013 gap will fall to $845 billion. As the economy improves, deficits will to around $430 billion by 2015, CBO said, but they are projected to rise after that, nearing $1 trillion again by 2023 as the massive "baby boom" generation ages and draws more retirement and health benefits.
Both Ryan and his committee aides declined to discuss specific budget policy items in the forthcoming budget plan, but it will again include changes aimed at shoring up the popular but increasingly expensive Medicare program for the seniors.
These changes are expected to be similar to Ryan's budget plan from last year, which proposed turning Medicare into a voucher-like program that offered seniors subsidies private health insurance or coverage through the traditional Medicare fee-for-service-plan.
One committee aide last week said the subsidies, known as "premium support" last year, would be rebranded as "competitive bidding" in this year's budget.
Other congressional sources said that Ryan has decided to back off a proposal he recently floated that would have imposed the Medicare changes on Americans 56 and younger. He had pledged during his vice presidential campaign last year that he would not touch benefits for those 55 or older in a bid to allay the fears of senior citizens who depend on Medicare benefits.
The age tweak would have entailed significant political cost, as Democrats were poised to pounce on a broken campaign promise, and it would not really help balance the budget in 10 years because the today's 56-year-olds would only just be starting to enter the Medicare system when they turn 65.
A Budget Committee aide on Wednesday declined to discuss specific changes related to Medicare, but said they were designed to "make sure that we can protect and save this critical program."
Ryan's budget is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday, with approval by the House Budget Committee on Wednesday.
U.S. Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray is expected to unveil a rival Democratic budget next week as well. Her plan is widely expected to shield Medicare and other social safety net programs and make investments in education and research while raising significant new tax revenues from eliminating tax deductions, credits and other loopholes.


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Nintendo sold more than 1 million hardware units over the last week, the company has confirmed to CNET.
Good start, for a launch week. But Nintendo needs to get as many Wii U's as possible to retailers right before the holiday shopping frenzy starts. Shit's gonna explode then. :P
Not a bad start, but as we all know the first week sales of a system (whether good or bad) are no indication of how it will do in the future. How the system keeps that sales momentum going along with a steady flow of good games will determine it's success.
That being said I'm glad the 8th gen of home consoles has finally started. Can't wait to see what Sony and Microsoft are cooking up as I believe this gen is going to a be a quite an interesting one. All the best to them all.
Pretty good i would have to say.
I wonder how it compares to previous launches of past systems? Which i bet we will see an article about that soon enough.


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CINCINNATI (AP) — A video showing a paralyzed shooting victim blinking his eyes is expected to be key in a murder trial as jurors consider whether the blinks were intentional responses to detectives' questions.
Jury deliberations resumed Wednesday and stretched into the afternoon in the trial of 35-year-old Ricardo Woods of Cincinnati. The panel began deliberating Tuesday afternoon and called it a day after about two hours.
Woods is accused of shooting David Chandler in the face and neck on Oct. 28, 2010, as he sat in a car. Chandler was left paralyzed from the neck down and hooked up to a ventilator, dying about two weeks later.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have argued about whether Chandler knew what he was doing when police questioned him about the person who shot him and told him to answer by blinking three times for yes and twice for no.
Prosecutors told jurors in closing arguments Tuesday that Chandler clearly identified Woods as his shooter, while the defense said the blinks weren't conclusive.
Prosecutors said that Woods was a drug dealer and that Chandler knew him and purchased drugs from him in the past. Prosecutors said Woods threatened Chandler the day before he was shot because Chandler owed him $400.
Jurors were shown the video interview that police conducted with Chandler, who was unable to speak. Police have said they went to interview Chandler after his family told them that he was able to communicate by blinking his eyes and that he knew who shot him.
Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Jocelyn Chess told jurors that Chandler clearly blinked three times in response to questions about whether he knew the shooter, whether he could identify him and whether Woods' photo depicted the shooter.
Chandler also "clearly, intentionally and decisively" blinked three times when the detective asked him if he was sure Woods shot him, Chess said. She also stressed that a doctor who treated Chandler testified that he didn't have a traumatic brain injury and that "his cognitive ability was intact."
But Woods' attorney, Kory Jackson, told jurors that the blinks were inconsistent and unreliable and that Chandler's condition and the drugs used to treat him could have affected his ability to understand and respond.
In the video, Chandler "isn't answering the questions 50 percent of the time," Jackson said.
Jackson also said that showing Chandler only a photo of Woods instead of presenting a lineup of photos was "suggestive" and that the case against Woods was about misidentification and "a misguided investigation."
Adding that there was no DNA evidence, no fingerprints and no weapon to tie Woods to the crime, Jackson told jurors that if there is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt and they aren't convinced that Chandler made an accurate identification, "you must find Mr. Woods not guilty."
Chess said that if jurors look at all the evidence, she is confident they will find that "the only just verdict is to find the defendant guilty as charged."
Woods is charged with murder, felonious assault and weapons counts and could be sentenced to life in prison, if convicted.


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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The absence of vast swaths of summer sea ice is changing the behavior of Pacific walrus, federal scientists said Wednesday, but added that more research will be needed to say what the final effects might be.
"There is a definite concern for the population," said Chad Jay, a U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist who studies patterns of walrus distribution.
Since 2008, Jay, USGS researcher Anthony Fischbach and colleagues in Russia have used crossbows to attach temporary radio collars to walrus so their movements can be tracked.
In a paper published last month, they concluded that walrus in late summer will increase their use of coastal resting areas, called haul-outs, and feed in nearshore foraging areas because sea ice will continue to diminish. The consequences for the population, they said, was not known.
A decade ago, the future of walrus was hardly a consideration. Their habitat in in a hostile locale off a remote state provided natural protections.
Warming has opened up the Arctic for ecotourism, petroleum development and possibly cargo transport and commercial fishing. Like polar bears, walrus have seen their primary habitat melting beneath their feet or flippers.
Walruses cannot swim indefinitely. They use ice, rocks or beaches as resting platforms.
Walrus females give birth in the Bering Sea, and as temperatures warm each summer, live on the sea ice edge as it moves north through the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea. The ice provides a sanctuary for nursing walrus calves and an ever-changing diving platform for females that hunt along the ocean floor for clams, snails and marine worms. Biologists compare the ice edge to a conveyor belt that carries walrus north and south as ice melts and re-forms with the seasons.
A wakeup call for U.S. scientists came in 2007, when several thousand walrus appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in late summer. Ice had receded beyond the shallow continental shelf to the Arctic Basin, where the ocean floor is 10,000 feet down and too deep to reach by walrus. Thousands more hauled out on the Russian side.
Remnant ice kept walrus offshore in 2008, but they returned to shore in late summer 2009, with tragic consequences: more than 130 mostly young walruses were crushed at Icy Cape in a stampede that could have been caused by a polar bear, human hunters or an airplane.
In 2010, upward of 20,000 walrus were counted near Point Lay, an Eskimo village 300 miles southwest of Barrow. In 2011, 5.000 walruses were spotted north of Point Lay and 3,000 more a short distance away.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last year added walrus to the "warranted but precluded" list, deciding that the animals need additional protections but could not be listed because other species were a higher priority. A legal settlement requires a decision by 2017.
Researchers, meanwhile, will continue investigating whether walrus gathered on the coast will deplete nearshore food resources, which are typically less bountiful for walrus than offshore areas, or if a toll will be taken on the health of females and calves that have to forage farther for food.
Despite record low ice this year, remnant ice floating off Alaska's northwest allowed walrus to stay offshore. As the climate continues to warm, Jay said, walrus are likely to be back on shore in late summer.
"We expect to see this behavior continue and that period of time when walrus are using coastal haul-outs and are forced to forage in these less-productive waters — we expect that period to continue into the future as we experience more climate warming," he said.


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ANKARA, Turkey – Police in Istanbul were scanning security camera footage Monday to try to trace a New York City woman who went missing while vacationing alone in the city, an official said.
Sarai Sierra, 33, was last in touch with her family on Jan. 21, the day she was supposed to fly home after two weeks in Turkey.
A police official said authorities were reviewing footage from around Istanbul's Taksim neighborhood -- the city's main hub where she was staying at a hostel.
Several police teams have also been dispatched to surrounding neighborhoods to find possible clues and witnesses, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government rules that bar civil servants from speaking to reporters without prior authorization.
Turkey's private Dogan news agency meanwhile, reported that police had established that Sierra had traveled to Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Istanbul on Jan. 15 and then journeyed on to Munich, Germany, on Jan. 16, before returning to Istanbul on Jan. 19. Police were trying to determine the reason for her visit to the European cities, the report said.
Police were also trying to find the identity of a person she had been chatting with on the Internet, Dogan reported.
Another police official, contacted by The Associated Press, confirmed that Sierra had made a brief trip to Europe, but refused to provide further details. He also spoke on condition of anonymity saying he was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.
Before she went missing, the mother-of-two told family members that she planned to take some photographs at Galata Bridge, a well-known tourist destination about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away from Taksim that spans the Golden Horn waterway. She was then supposed to begin traveling home and was scheduled to arrive in New York City on Tuesday afternoon.
Her belongings, including her passport and phone, were found in her room. The first police official said authorities were therefore not able to track her by her cell phone.
Sierra's husband and brother were traveling to Istanbul to follow the search. Her two children, aged 11 and 9, do not know their mother is missing, her brother David Jimenez told the AP Sunday.
Sierra had planned to go on the trip with a friend but ended up going by herself when the friend couldn't make it. She was looking forward to exploring her hobby of photography, her family said.
Crime in Turkey is generally low and Istanbul is a relatively safe city for travelers, though there are areas where women would be advised to avoid going alone at night. The Galata and the nearby Galata Bridge areas have been gentrified and are home to fish restaurants, chic cafes and boutiques.


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Boustany Vs. Landry To Be Determined By Runoff
As the voting result numbers began rolling in Tuesday night for the hotly contested 3rd congressional district race, it slowly became more and more apparent that a runoff between the two incumbent congressmen, Republican Charles Boustany, and Republican Jeff Landry would be the most likely outcome.
When all was said and done, Congressman Boustany received around 45% of the vote, and Congressman Landry roughly 30%.
The the night's biggest surprise was the over 20% of the overall vote taken by candidate Ron Richard. Richard, the race's only Democratic candidate, was able to command enough votes to force a runoff, despite spending substantially less campaign dollars than his two more well-known competitors.
Whether or not the contentious nature of the campaigns for the two congressmen will continue is yet to be seen.
The runoff is scheduled for December 8th.


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I actually have a red comfy coazy chair at the cookbook/phone ..junk drawer stand here:) It doesn't match anything really but it's got a flounce..is amller than your usual upholstered chair and was goig in the garbage at a friend/client's home..ReplyDelete
I think it is so much happier here..often tempted to recover in a yellow check..but now I think I'll keep it..it has a Paris tea towel on it:)
I love a touch of red..
Sunny here at last!
I will wear my RED jeans today and dream of my return to Paris. My living room is decorated in Pantone 572 and I love to sit there. Your blog reminds me of all of my favourite Paris things.ReplyDelete
Paris is my favorite city & red is my favorite color love the combination.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:56 AM
What a great post! Yesterday my son painted over the RED wall in his sister's old bedroom. It was sort of sad. Later I was looking in Magellen's travel catalog and saw a nice red messenger bag that is supposed to be safe for travel. Maybe I will have to purchase it.It will remind me of Paris! There is room enough for a strawberry tart inside.ReplyDelete
Hi it's me again..are you painting every day on a journal page?ReplyDelete
What a great idea..I started a little journal with wodrs 3 days ago and already skipped a day..
You so good:)
Normally I'm not a huge red fan but judging by this weather in Paris just now, I'm warming to it greatly! Thanks for cheering us up, Carol.ReplyDelete
Caroll ,You have the uk flag as a satchel, l have the same one and its away went of it fairly quick but now l know there using one in Paris l think i will get it out again, am addicted to bags have loads and lots of purses for money to .ReplyDelete
My sofa is red and rug over wood floor is red to. It does cheer you up, also have red glasses like yours
It's amazing how red always stands out, brightening up a miserable day. Loved your paintings from your captured photos.ReplyDelete
Viva la rouge!ReplyDelete
Lovely flashes of red. Just bought my little boy red wellington boots, hopefully maybe he will wear them in Paris sometime!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:00 PM
On the last part about why French people don't get fat, I think that you are definitely onto something. Between being exposed everyday since the stroller to excellent pastries and having good habits ingrained at the same time on top of the absence of GMO's and chemicals, all of these factors add up to the tendency to stay slim. It's only my opinion derived from what I see in the differences between how I ate in the States and how my family eats in France.ReplyDelete
Regardless I am so happy for you that you are experiencing the French way of eating 24/7.
Bon appetit
.. charming post .... love red on rainy days ... cheers, it's raining in NYC all day today as well .....ReplyDelete


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A very eloquent and appreciative Zvonareva puts it all in perspective: it's every player's dream to play Centre Court at Wimbledon, and she got it done!
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Changeover: Back to the drawing boards, Geico. You have Billie Jean King sitting in a linesman's chair in that ad with the Caveman… but she ends up looking like a geriatric in a wheelchair.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse's talks to align with Softbank Corp. have the potential to reshape the U.S. wireless landscape, creating a more viable competitor to Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. and sparking a new round of consolidation.
Sprint's discussions involve Softbank, Japan's third- largest wireless carrier, taking a stake of as much as 75 percent and providing capital for investments, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Nikkei newspaper said Softbank may pay 1.5 trillion yen ($19 billion), without saying where it got the information.
A deal between Softbank and Sprint would disrupt a wireless industry that has been increasingly dominated by Verizon and AT&T, a duopoly that has fueled government concern. The transaction would give Sprint financial support to build a competitive wireless network with a chance to be first to offer the latest mobile devices, plus the means to buy control of Clearwire Corp. to get more capacity for data transmissions.
"This must be causing chills to run down the spines of AT&T and Verizon executives," said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst at Alekstra Oy, a mobile diagnostics company. "They are ripe for an aggressive new challenger to attack."
Verizon and AT&T together control 75 percent of the market for U.S. contract customers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., giving them economies of scale and the first shot at the latest smartphones that draw customers. Overland Park, Kansas- based Sprint has 15 percent and T-Mobile USA Inc. 10 percent.
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A new investor could help Hesse, 58, speed up his $7 billion network-upgrade plan to catch his two bigger rivals, who have begun blanketing the U.S. with 4G wireless coverage. Sprint needs to improve its own technology to lure more users craving mobile video and faster download speeds, its ticket to growth as the wireless voice market has become saturated.
Sprint also could use financial strength from a Softbank deal to gobble up smaller wireless companies, adding more airwaves to increase its capacity as users demand more Internet services.
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But what begins as a life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.
Ann Patchett has written a novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable. Bel Canto is a virtuoso performance by one of our best and most important writers.
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"Blissfully Romantic….A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." — San Francisco Chronicle
"Bel Canto…should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty." —Lloyd Moss, WXQR
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Ann Pratchett's award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other novels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant, the author's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.


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Trial delayed in phony AIDS research case
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The Sept. 2 trial for Dong-Pyou Han is scheduled for Sept. 29 after a judge approved a delay Monday.
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A CONCERT FOR PEACE The Choral Society and Orchestra of Grace Church will feature choral-orchestral masterworks by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Fri., May 11 at 8pm. GRACE CHURCH, Broadway at E. 10th St. $20, tickets available a half-hour before the performance. www.gracechurchchoral.org.
Amato Opera, 319 Bowery at 2nd St., 212-228-8200, www.amato.org: MADAMA BUTTERFLY, This heart-breakingly beautiful piece by Puccini will be presented in Italian with English supertitles. Select Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 7:30pm & Sundays at 2:30pm thru May 13. $35, $28 seniors & kids. 212-228-8200.
Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St., bet W. 4th St. & Bleecker, 212-989-9319, www.corneliastreetcafe.com: Check online for upcoming events.
DEKK Restaurant & Lounge, 134 Reade Street St., 212-941-9401: THE VINSON VALEGA TRIO, Every Monday night from 7:30 - 10:30pm. No cover. THE LAURA DREYER QUARTET, Every Friday night from 7:30 - 10:30pm. No Cover. DOWNTOWN JAZZ, A different band every Sunday evening at 8 & 10pm. $6 cover, plus $10 food or drink minimum.
East Village Music Series, Mimi Stern-Wolfes Downtown Music Productions presents The Four Bs featuring music by Beethoven, Brahms and Nadia & Lili Boulanger. The Downtown Chamber Trio, consisting of Rieko Kawabata (violin), Daniel Barrett (cello), and Mimi Stern-Wolfe (piano), will perform. Sun., May 6 at 3pm. ST. MARKS CHURCH, 131 E. 10th St. at 2nd. Ave. $10. Call for reservations, 212-477-1594.
Giovannis Atrium, 100 Washington St., 212-513-4133: WEEKLY JAZZ PERFORMANCE, Hear jazz vocalist Kathryn Farmer perform every Friday.
Grace Church, 802 Broadway at 10th St. www.gracechurchnyc.org. 212-254-2000: MAY MUSIC EVENTS, Sun., May 6 at 4pm, Choral Evensong by the Choir of Men and Boys. No Ticket required. Fri., May 11 at 8pm, The Annual Spring Concert of the Choral Society and Orchestra of Grace Church. Tickets required and are available through members of the Choral Society.
Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine St.; 212-206-9777: WHIRLED MUSIC, Series presents artists performing Jazz, Blues, New Soul, Bluegrass and more. Takes place nightly. No cover.
Laura Cheadle, The funky and soulful sounds of Laura Cheadle are back in New York City. Fri., May 4 at 9:45pm. THE BAGGOT INN, 82 W. 3rd St., bet Sullivan & Thompson. $5. 21 and over. www.baggotinn.com.
Vision Tonic, Featuring gigs cancelled by Tonic due to its closing. Tues., May 8 at 7:30pm, Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor; at 9:30pm, Andrew Barker, Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen. Tues., May 22 at 7:30pm, Jozef van Wissem; at 9:30pm, Steven Bernstein & Sex Mob. CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ LES GALLERY, 107 Suffolk St. $10 per set, one drink min. www.visionfestival.org. 212-696-6681. Presented by Arts for Art.
Washington Square Music Festival, The 49th season of free concerts in the park. Sun., June 17 at 3pm: A Folk/ Blues concert featuring the Rishell & Raines Trio. Tues., July 17 at 8pm: Gershwin/Weill- Music as Political Statement. Tues., July 24 at 8pm: Music for Piano, Winds and Strings. Tues., July 31 at 8pm: Charles Mingus Orchestra. Takes place in the southeast quadrant of the park, near the statue of Garibaldi. First-come, first-served. Rainspace is NYUs Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th St. 212-252-3621. Presented by the Washington Square Association & the Washington Square Park Council. www.washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org.
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Keara, Kristy and Emma at Rockefeller Center – Courtesy Kristi Yamaguchi
Can it really be 20 years since Kristi Yamaguchi won an Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating?
"I know!" the ever-youthful looking Yamaguchi, now 40, tells PEOPLE with a laugh.
"It's hard to believe, but 1992 in Albertville was a big deal because not only was it the Olympics, but that's where my husband (Bret Hedican, who played for the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team) and I met."
The couple married in July 2000 and have two daughters: Keara Kiyomi, 8, and Emma Yoshiko, 6.
Since becoming the first Asian-American to win gold in the ladies single category on Feb. 21, 1992, Yamaguchi has gone on to become a fitness advocate, a Dancing with the Stars champion and children's author.
Her debut, 2011's Dream Big, Little Pig, made the New York Times best seller list. Next month the sequel, It's a Big World, Little Pig, will be released.
The new book "is a continuation of Poppy the Pig's story," Yamaguchi explains. "She experiences her first international travel and is anxious about traveling outside of her country, and also worried about meeting friends that are different from her. It's all about embracing each other's differences and finding something that they have in common."
The inspiration for the story came from Yamaguchi's own experiences as a young skater. When she was 14, Yamaguchi and her then-pairs skating partner Rudy Galindo, competed at the Junior World Championships in Sarajevo.
"I vividly remember my first international competition and the excitement of meeting skaters who didn't speak English and who were fascinated with Levis because they were so Western," she notes. "It was such an eye-opening experience. It taught me at such a young age to appreciate people from different countries and cultures."
Now Yamaguchi and Galindo are teaming up again — sort of. Last November Yamaguchi's younger daughter, Emma, expressed an interest in following in Mom's footsteps and longtime pal Galindo agreed to teach her.
"I'm not holding my breath or building my hopes up," laughs Yamaguchi. "I told her, 'That means you have to practice and take lessons.'"
Yamaguchi says she and Hedican, 41, have the same philosophy about their daughter taking to the ice.
"We're not going to push her to be competitive. We will take it step by step and let her dictate how involved she wants to get," explains Yamaguchi. "It's a great sport and you can learn a lot from it, even if you're not going to be an elite skater."
The most important thing, she says, is that her daughter has fun.
"I remember the joy I got out of it as a young child," Yamaguchi recalls. "If she wants to compete, I'll support her and encourage her, and if she decides not to, I'm fine with that, too."
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I love a good giallo title. Even though the definitively Italian stalk-and-slash is not my favorite instantiation of the Horror model (I'm much more a Monsters Amok or Satanic Panic kind of guy), there are still few things in the genre that make me smile like one of the really good, really giallo-y film names. Stuff like Four Flies on Grey Velvet, What Have They Done to Solange?, Strip Nude for Your Killer, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key--irrespective of my feelings about the films, those titles roll off the tongue like short poems, beautiful horror haiku conjuring imagery and mystery like almost nothing else in the genre.
The giallo title can be a double-edged sword, however, when the filmmakers (or more often the American translators/distributors) eschew mysterious imagery and evocative sounds for the all-too-literal. Not only does such a title fall flat, but it runs the risk of becoming a spoiler, robbing the film of some of the suspense and uncertainty that is its stock in trade. Such is sadly the case with Sergio Pastore's 1972 giallo Crimes of the Black Cat*, in which spends about the first forty-five minutes to an hour trying to figure out how these baffling, near-impossible crimes are being perpetrated, how a killer could kill and then disappear from a locked room with the only exits much too small for a human being to use...well, thanks to that title (to say nothing of the spoileriffic poster), the audience already knows. Which is a shame, because it takes a little punch out of what is otherwise a stylishly filmed, interestingly plotted thriller rife with the kind of bright-colored groovy ghoulishness Madites know and love.
*The movie's Italian title, Sette scialli di seta gialla, translates roughly "Seven Yellow Silk Shawls." While still not very good as poetry, at least it keeps the killer under wraps.
Manuel De Sica, who 22 years later would score the awesome zombie love story Dellamorte Dellamore [aka Cemetery Man], helps a lot.) Soon our roving camera eye focuses on fashion model Paola Whitney (Isabelle Marchall), a blonde in a fur coat adorned with ACTUAL ANIMAL TAILS. Classee. She seems to be going somewhere, intent on doing something, but what and why we are given no clue.
Cutting from the daylit streets of Rome to a nightclub in the backalleys, we next meet Peter Oliver (Anthony Steffen), an avant-garde pianist and successful film composer by trade, who also happens to be blind as a chronically masturbating bat. Stood up by his date via a Dear Giovanni letter he has to get his manservant Burton to read for him (harshful), Peter drowns his sorrows in scotch and happens to overhear a mysterious conversation from the next booth over, where a strung-out woman is being given nefarious instructions by an unseen (duh) gravel-voiced conspirator. When a hippie chick cranks up the jukebox to go all Goldie Hawn/Laugh-In for a few wonderful minutes, Peter loses the thread and the couple departs.
Françoise (Sylva Koscina) and gorgeous sweatshop seamstress Margot (Shirley Corrigan) are selecting models for an upcoming fashion show. Françoise's philandering toyboy and the firm's half-owner Victor (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is also on hand to lend some feather-haired sleaziness to the proceedings. Preparations grind to a halt when star model Paola finds a wicker basket covered with a yellow silk shawl in her dressing room; donning the shawl (like you do) and opening the basket, the girl screams and drops dead of an apparent heart attack! Rushing to her aid, the other models and designers find the room empty of baskets and killers, the only clue being the silk shawl the girl still has clutched in her cooling dead fist.
Of course everything is connected, as Paola was the main squeeze who gave Blind Pete the old heave-ho in the opening scene. Still seeking closure on their ill-fated relationship, Peter shows up at the murder scene and interrogates Police Inspector Jansen (Renato De Carmine, an intelligent, dumpy bald guy with frankly startling green eyes) about his erstwhile girlfriend's death. Also dissatisfied with the polizzi's "natural causes" theory, Margot joins forces with the sightless Casanova to get to the bottom of Paola's mysterious death.
It just so happens Margot knows a photographer named Harry who Paola was intimate with--much to Peter's chagrin--and they decide to head over to his studio-cum-fuckpad to see what he knows. Alas too late, as after dismissing his nicely topless model and retiring to the darkroom, the shutterbug is visited by a heavy-breathing, black-gloved figure of the sort we just knew was going to show up sooner or later. The photog is slashed but good, and when Peter and Margot arrive they just miss slimy CEO Victor rifling through the dead man's negatives. Is he the killer, or just a rapacious collector of still-lifes-with-boobs? That answer will have to wait, as he escapes undetected but without whatever booty he was searching for. Margot and Peter come in and scope the joint, leading to a nicely filmed "discovery" scene where the blind pianist literally stumbles right into the Harry's body, not realizing it till his sighted companion screams.
Umberto Raho, also helps.) Shirley Corrigan is as gorgeous here as she was in Naschy's Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman, and in fact seems to be wearing the same boots--not that I'm complaining. The plot moves along at a good clip, and I was very into it and wondering what would happen next.
As it turns out, the negatives the deceased pic-clicker was developing were shots of Victor and Paola in bed, which Harry and Paola hoped to use to blackmail the married-to-money man-about-town. When the truth comes out and Victor must explain his presence at the scene of the murder (along with his jail record for a fraud conviction), Françoise is as understanding as only a Eurobabe can be. She departs for a show in Hamburg, but promises to stick with Vic through thin and thick.
the mysterious, strung-out caped woman from the bar back in scene 1 or 2, whose name is Susan Leclerc (Giovanna Lenzi). Susan used to work in a circus--no, really--until her husband was EATEN BY A LION, leading her to hit the smack and hit it hard. Now middle-aged and wasted, she runs a pet shop mysteriously named UNDULATER (?) and takes on the odd assassination job for our black-gloved mastermind. If you haven't figured out her weapon of choice before you sat down to watch, maybe you should give up the crosswords and focus on the word jumbles from now on. Having trained her pet cat to attack yellow silk by spraying it with a repellent only cats and blind pianists can smell, Susan dips the kitty's claws in deadly curare poison and puts it in her victims' room along with the target-marking scarf, like a tiny furry deathbomb. But who is paying her, and why?
The next several scenes involve Susan, desperate for a fix, knocking off a couple more models from Françoise's firm, including a stand-out scene in which a lesbian model opens the basket only to have the feline ninja (puppet version) leap out into her face as if shot from a...well, let's just say a "trebuchet." Seriously, if the below were the last thing you saw on earth, I think you'd have to admit you went out in a pretty awesome way:
Breasts are seen, a couple of other people die, and Margot is stalked by the black-gloved killer as Peter desperately tries to place the odd odors he keeps whiffing at every crime scene. Guilt-stricken and depressed, Susan commits suicide, and the final confrontation at a glass factory is very tense if you overlook Peter's rather incredible willingness to put himself in dangerous situations for no good reason. ("I know I'm blind, but let's climb onto this 45-degree-angle conveyor belt and see where it takes me! The glass furnace? Oh, SHIT!") He makes it out remarkably unscathed, though, and the Inspector shows up to bring the killer to swift bloody justice.
Or does he? Margot takes a post-climax shower (IYKWIM), giving us some nice nudity that may or may not actually be Corrigan--and we end with a bit of shocking violence and WTF motivation to go out on that should keep fans of the giallo and the Grand Guignol happy.
MAD there's plenty of blood and boobage on display, not to mention the underused DEATH BY CATS device that's always a joy to see. All of which rounds the flick out as a satisfying viewing experience on nearly all levels.
So despite the spoiler title, Crimes of the Black Cat delivers. 2.5 thumbs, and definitely worth your time if you love a little dangerous pussy. And who doesn't, eh?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Crimes of the Black Cat (1972): or. Sure, Blame the Pussy
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 10:22 AM
Labels: '70s, Deadly Critters, Death By Cats, Giallo, Groovy
5 comments:
- Dark Beige said...
love this site. good work
- August 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Tenebrous Kate said...
There's got to be some sort of cats and blind dudes connection in Italian culture of the early 1970s that's lost on me! Perhaps the maker of "Crimes of the Black Cat" felt that "Cat O' Nine Tails" just wasn't *literal* enough :)
- August 25, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- Michael J. said...
Argh, giallos. Despite their mod 70's settings, their snazzy Eurobabes, their flashy color pallet, and their improbable killers, they never quite hit the mark for me. I mean, when you get down the the meat and potatoes, a good crime thriller needs a tight, logical story, right? But right there -- the heart of the paradox: Italian movies? Story?
Still, giallos have all the aforementioned going for them -- and those crazy titles. In the end, they're kinda irresistible. BTW, if anyone could come up with a widget to translate ordinary film titles into giallo titles... Just a thought.
Oh and Vicar, you referenced Dellamorte Dellamore? Well here's my official nomination for a MMMMM review.
- August 25, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I found this to be a very mediocre giallo and the final murder was really jarring, way too graphic and cruel considering what preceeded it.
- August 26, 2009 at 7:40 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
@Dark Beige: thanks! Glad you found us--feel free to hang around!
@TenebrousKate: CotBC has 100% less crosswords and Karl Malden than CoNT, and about 700% more DEATH BY CAT. I think the scoreboard couldn't be clearer. ;)
@Michael J.: Despite my admittedly AWESOME new user pic, I'm really not the hugest giallo fan either. But some of them are just gorgeous enough, just surprising enough, or just MAD enough to warm the old cockles, and for me this is one. YMMV, naturally. As to Dellamorte Dellamore--it's definitely time for a rewatch!
@Anonymous--that last murder is DEFINITELY jarring, and some folks will be put off by the Scooby-Doo motivations of the killer. ("What, you mean you couldn't TELL I had this unguessable secret fueling my inscrutable revenge?") For me, though, it was SO out of left field as to be kind of wonderful. Different strokes, IYKWIM. :P
- August 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM


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As Lazaro is one of the two behind this challenge, I will post another recipe inspired by his recipe - Pan roasted catfish with black beans. This is a guest post for Patty at Patty's Food. He made a flavorful soup and a sustainable fish. He's like a fish and seafood master to me. I deconstructed it to a sandwich. It tasted delicious! Keith also loves it! I adjusted a few ingredients to the ingredient access on my end. I also breaded catfish with cornmeal as they go well together. Catfish and cornmeal -Louisiana style. It's full of flavor and healthy. The original recipe you can find on his blog here.
For the black beans:
1 can black beans, drained
1 tbs olive oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
1 leek, minced
1 shallot, minced
2 garlic cloves, minced
Sea salt
white pepper
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1 pint of cherry tomatoes, halved
splash of dry white wine
Heat up a skillet over medium heat. Add oil. Swirl to coat. Add shallot, and garlic. Saute until tender. Add onion and cook until it's translucent. Add beans and all the seasonings. Mix well and cook until the bean liquid is almost dry. Add tomatoes and wine. Simmer it for 10 mins. It should become dry enough like paste but still moist. Smash it with fork or wooden spoon.
Catfish fillets, skinned
Dry fish with paper towel. Season with salt and pepper. Dredge the fish in cornmeal. Heat up skillet with oil. Pan fry the fish about 5 mins on each side or cook through.
Assemble by spreading bean paste on toasted breads, mascarpone, chives, fish, and another teaspoon of mascarpone, then top with the other side of bread.