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HERE IS CRAIG MCCRACKEN IN HIS (fairly) new office, full of toys and piñatas and picture books, in a (fairly) new building in the city of Burbank. Shaggy-haired, droopy-eyed, amiable, low-key, casual, a regular-guy sort of guy. He hardly seems 29, for that matter, which might have something to do with the toys and picture books, might have something to do with his line of work. You would not suspect his power: It is the power of the pen, or the pencil, which in either case is mightier than the sword (especially if its one of those spy pens thats also a gun). Mightier than death rays, meat rays, dog rays. Mightier than the power of your grown-up skepticism, your classical aesthetics, your pathetic sales resistance. Foolish humans! Resistance is futile.
Craig McCracken is 29 years old, and the whole second floor of the Cartoon Network building has been set aside for him, for him and his three superpowered little girls.
The official story is that they were created by a certain Professor Utonium from a mixture of sugar and spice and everything nice, with the accidental addition of Chemical X. Thus, as it is said, the Powerpuff Girls were born! But the truth is that McCracken made them up himself. He was 20 then and an animation student at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and they were called the Whoopass Girls, which is not really as good as Powerpuff Girls; it certainly doesnt travel as well. With their horizontally oriented oval heads and eyes as big as dessert plates, their fingerless hands, their feet drawn to resemble, according to McCrackens instructions, "socks filled with wet sand," they are not your average little girls, not even your average cartoon little girls, not even your average cartoon little girl superheroes. Theyre littler, for one thing: Theyre only in kindergarten. They dont much like bugs. Bubbles wouldnt mind the hall light being left on at bedtime, once they are done saving the day.
"I wanted to do a superhero show," says McCracken, "where you really felt these characters being strong and tough and heroes and kicking ass and what better contrast than to have them be three cute little innocent-looking things? Thats basically the heart of the show, this cute little girl punching a bad guy and his teeth flying out. Thats the visual soul of the show."
THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE, AS NARRATOR TOM Kenny begins every episode of The Powerpuff Girls, is where the Powerpuff Girls kick that ass. They kick a lot of ass, a lot of monstrous villain ass. Sometimes they kick nonmonstrous ass just because they get carried away. (Though they always apologize when they do.) They never walk when they can float or fly, they rarely use a door when theres a wall they can break through, and they have many times razed the (amazingly resilient) city of Townsville in order to save it. By Rugrats standards its a violent cartoon, but its cartoon violence, because its, you know, a cartoon. As Tara Charendoff Strong, the voice of Bubbles, says, "I think all children love to watch cartoons because its a fantasy world where anything can happen if someone gets mad at someone else, they throw them off a cliff or pull off their head or whatever."
The PpGs (as they are commonly abbreviated) may not offer children the most desirable model for conflict resolution, but history has shown that you cant reason with giant flying eyeball monsters, giant inflatable pond-things, alien broccoli, smog monsters, snot monsters, the Gangreen Gang, the Amoeba Boys, the frightfully territorial Fuzzy Lumpkins, the creepy androgynous devil-headed thigh-high-spiked-heel-boot-wearing Him, or their favorite foe, the mutated supermonkey Mojo Jojo, whose huge and powerful brain was produced by the same laboratory accident that created the Powerpuff Girls. Cruel irony! Notwithstanding Mojos claim that "Evil geniuses are made, not born," the fact is that even before he was an evil genius he was a naughty little monkey. ("You were the worst lab assistant I ever had," remembers the Professor.) In the universe the Powerpuff Girls inhabit, villains are with few exceptions naughty by nature, and heroes are congenitally heroic.
"Were going to fight crime," says Blossom.
"Thats what we do," says Buttercup.
"Duh!" says Bubbles.
And when they cant fight crime as when bad little rich girl Princess Morbucks became mayor and declared crime legal, or when Sedusa disguised as Ima Goodlady worked womanly wiles upon the Professor and got the girls grounded so that she could steal the Mayors jewels undisturbed they get fidgety and cranky and sad. "And the worst thing is we wont get to save the world anymore," Bubbles lamented when they were thrown in jail (victims of a villainous plot, I assure you). Once, when it was raining out and there was no crime to fight, they resorted to playing at being themselves, humming their own theme music and pretending to fly through the house, though nobody wanted to be Bubbles who has a reputation as "the scarediest," though she can kick your ass except Bubbles.
Of course, the ass kicking is only part of it; the rest of the story, or much of the rest of the story, is one of sisterhood, which is powerful, of teamwork, loyalty, duty, responsibility, chores, homework, slumber parties, hide-and-seek, coloring and ý tooth care. The girls squabble and tease, as sisters do, but at the end of the day they sleep together in one bed, and they have one anothers back when the death rays, the meat rays, the dog rays start firing.
IT IS TWO YEARS AGO THIS MONTH THAT THE POWERPUFF GIRLS bowed on Cartoon Network. Its been five years since the first fully realized pre-series shorts were seen on the networks World Premiere Toons program, eight years since Craig McCracken finished Whoopass Stew, his three-minute proto-Powerpuff student film, and a decade since he first got the idea.
Yet for a long time, I had thought them somehow my personal property, my own thing, my secret discovery, a phenomenon known only to me and "the well-meaning but often imperiled people of Townsville." And then one day I looked around, and it had become without my noticing a Powerpuff World. I went to a pop festival and saw their faces multiplied on Mylar balloons. I went to a toy shop and saw their image graven in PVC and squeezable plush. I went to Dougs house, and his little daughter Franny showed me the Special Product Preview of Puff Stuff that came with her already dog-eared first issue of The Powerpuff Girls Powerzine. In the window of a gas station in South Carolina I saw a plush Buttercup for sale. I went on the Internet, where the Powerpuff Web Ring lists 192 member sites with names like Welcome to Townsville, Blossoms Crime Fighting Palace, Powerpuff Hotline and Pokey Oaks Fanfic Library (named for the school the girls attend), where the rules for submission include "no extreme, realistic violence," "no excessive blood," "absolutely no mutilation of children or animals," "no swearing" and "no sex." Their official Web site, powerpuffgirls.com, logs upward of 4 million page views a month. Their audience includes children of all ages. Says Cartoon Network vice president of animation Linda Simensky, "I think the official breakdown is two-thirds kids, one-third adults, but since there are no Nielsen homes in college dorms, I figure theres another decent percentage of college students watching."
Their profile is international. The latest broadcast technology and the frightening reach of the Time Warner infotainment empire Cartoon Network is now available in 14 languages and 145 countries have sent their image around the globe. In France theyre Les Super nenas, Belle, Bulle and Rebelle, et elles ont pour mission de protéger le monde des vilains et cela avant lheure du dodo. In Spain theyre Las Supernanas; in Latin America, Las Chicas Superpoderosas, Bombón, Burbuja y Bellota (Chocolate, Bubble and Acorn). In Italy, quando il pericolo incombe su Townsville, the authorities do not call for Hercules; no, it is for Lolly, Dolly and Molly, Le Superchicche, that the hot line rings. In Poland they are Atomówki: Bójka, Bajka and Brawurka.
The show won an Emmy this year for art direction. Next month production begins on the reported $25 million Powerpuff movie, the first Cartoon Network theatrical feature, produced in collaboration with corporate kin Warner Bros. and slated to arrive in theaters sometime in 2002. They are a DC Comics comic book. They are a Little Golden Book, written and drawn by Craig McCracken himself, with his drawings painted in classic Little Golden Book style by Team Powerpuff member and old school chum Lou Romano. "Those were big influences on a lot of us," says McCracken. "When we were at CalArts, everybody discovered the great design from those books." In February a Powerpuff-sponsored car raced in the Daytona 500. There was a Powerpuff presence in the Ladies Lounge of this summers Vans Warped Tour, and at the Boarding for Breast Cancer snowboarding festival in Lake Tahoe. Since July, Delta Airlines has been flying a Powerpuff 737, with the girls painted large upon its flanks and tail. That same month, Rhino Records (an "internal partner," in the corporate parlance) released The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes & Villains, a "sonic adventure" produced by Devos Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale and featuring contributions from Devo, the Apples in Stereo, Frank Black, Cornelius, Komeda, Shonen Knife and (on a hidden track) the Dresden Rooms Marty and Elayne, who cover "Love Makes the World Go Round," which the girls themselves performed in "Mime for a Change" to bring color back to Townsville. And there is an extra-long version of the superpowerful Powerpuff theme, by Scotlands Bis:
Blossom, commander and the leader
Bubbles, she is the joy and the laughter
Buttercup, yeah, shes the toughest fighter
Powerpuffs save the day
Craig McCracken knew it was a Powerpuff World the day he was driving along and saw Powerpuff piñatas for sale on the roadside. He pulled over, not to say "Cease" or "Desist" but to buy some. He was excited! It was a pop-cultural seal of approval. When he found a fan selling homemade Powerpuff Pez dispensers, he was excited again. Because its one thing to sign contracts with toy makers and clothing manufacturers to commercially exploit your images, but its a whole other thing, and in its way a cooler thing, to be ripped off, to have ones copyright violated. Piracy is the sincerest form of flattery. Its the free-market reflection of the voice of the people. "The weirder, more bootleg obscure stuff is always my favorite," says McCracken, who likes all the official, less weird stuff as well.
"Everything we do really starts with the show," says Bob Bryant, who as head of Cartoon Networks Off-Channel Commerce group is the man in charge of all the official stuff. He speaks a secret professional language made up of phrases like "character branding," "awareness opportunities" and "creative integrity model," but he also says "neat" and "cool" a lot and, like everybody else connected with the show, talks about "the girls" as if they were real. "Its really just collectively being out there as ambassadors to the show and the girls themselves. You just hope for any given piece you can pull off the shelf that anybody who is really a real core fan would either want it or understand it or certainly not be turned off by it."
Notwithstanding that todays Powerpuff Girls PVC Figurine Gift Set may be tomorrows nonbiodegradable landfill, the PpG product is unusually smart and attractive and, for the moment, irresistible. There are dolls of different sizes, some with Velcro strips that let them hold hands, a Style Salon Blossom with heart-shaped comb and mirror, backpacks in vinyl and canvas, blankets, a sleeping bag, a pink pearlized handbag, metal boxes (rectangular, star-shaped) for keeping stuff or carrying lunch, T-shirts, embroidered jeans, socks, underwear, pajamas, talking key chains with squeezable foam heads, mouse pads, luggage tags, beach towels, a beanbag chair, umbrellas, foaming bath crystals, coin purses, alarm clocks, animated watches, picture frames, pencil boxes, diaries, calendars, magnetic memo boards, books, comic books, coloring books, sticker books, videos, posters, a board game, an Ultimate Art Studio, videos and DVDs Nintendo has just released Bad Mojo Jojo for Gameboy, with Painting the Townsville Green and The Powerpuff Girls Battle Him set for December and January. There is a Pokey Oaks Kindergarten play set with a little chalkboard and real chalk and a breakaway wall for breaking through, and there is a Professors Laboratory complete with sugar, spice, everything nice (hearts, flowers, bunny) and a beaker of Chemical X. There is a plush Talking Blossom who, when you squeeze her squeezable plush stuffed stomach, says, "Cmon, girls, Townsvilles in trouble," and a Talking Buttercup who says, "Yeah, yeah, but all the fun stuff happens at night," and a Talking Bubbles who says, "And I wouldve kissed his little boo-boo" and "But then I remembered he was a bad monkey so I kicked in his face." Oh, Bubbles! Sales of Powerpuff product are projected to exceed $300 million this year, not counting piñatas.
CARTOON NETWORK'S NEW ONE-STOP ANIMATION studios commenced operations in May in a three-story building as unassuming as a superheros hideaway the Burbank Police and Fire building across the street is twice as flamboyant. In the lobby, theres a Powerpuff Girls totem pole, a big poster for Dexters Laboratory, furniture you might find in a cartoon, and Red Vines and pretzels for the taking. The interior might be called rough-hewn office-industrial with subtle atomic overtones. The walls of the back stairwell are covered with animator graffiti, which had to be redrawn when it was mistaken for ordinary graffiti and painted over. Here and at Rough Draft Studios in Korea, the third season of The Powerpuff Girls is being finished; the fourth is in process, and when its completed sometime next spring, says McCracken, "well just be full-on on the movie."
"Everybody here kind of has their own world," says Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Dexters Laboratory and director of many Powerpuff episodes, whose own office is on the third floor, "but were all friends, and everybody loves each others shows, and Ive never been in a studio where everything thats being made is great and you cant wait to see it."
"Cartoon Cartoons," which is not redundant but specific (the first word modifies the second), is the slogan of the network, which went on the air in October 1992, the year after Turner bought Hanna-Barbera and four years before it merged with Time Warner, creating an empire of animation that pools the cartoon libraries of Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. and MGM and makes strange bedfellows of Bugs Bunny and Fred Flintstone, ý Scooby-Doo and Droopy. Says Linda Simensky, "I think the main difference between us and other studios is that what were making really are cartoons they use all the elements of cartoon making, right down to the occasional lapses of logic, where a character can pull out something enormous from behind his back or a tiny character can beat up an enormous character. Their logic is cartoon logic. I think the other networks cartoons are a little more about real kids and real kid issues."
Cartoon cartoons are without redeeming social content, except in the sense that they are funny and exciting and sometimes beautiful. The Powerpuff Girls are daily engaged in questions of right and wrong, but they are pretty simple questions, and the cartoon isnt made to teach anyone a lesson. (Just as Popeye wasnt about the nutritional value of green vegetables.) When Craig McCrackens mother told him that the little girl across the street started flossing her teeth after she learned that the Powerpuff Girls did, his response was, "Really? I didnt mean to be responsible for that."
MAN IS THE ANIMAL THAT UNDERSTANDS cartoons, that can resolve lines on a flat surface into a three-dimensional world one of those little miracles we all take for granted, but which is miraculous nonetheless. "I was just totally drawn toward graphic images," says McCracken, remembering his young self. "I could not look away from them." He was just 3 years old when he started drawing pictures of the superheroes he saw on TV. "I would have an image in my head of, like, Underdog and Superman hanging out," he recalls, "and I would look through the comics or watch TV and would never see an image of them together, and I would want to have it, so I could see it, and I would try to draw it and it was never satisfactory, and so I would ask my dad to draw it for me. And then Id have it, and could look at it. It was almost like my brain was already processing images and inventing things, but my hand wasnt skilled enough to do it myself.
"I was pretty obsessive growing up and would have phases where I would be into a certain character, and I would only be into that character. The first character I was into was probably Mickey Mouse, just visually, and then I discovered Batman and Superman, and then I discovered Underdog, and each character kind of ruled my life at that point, I was totally into them, and drew them all the time." He also liked live-action Japanese imports like Ultraman and Spectreman, whose evil Dr. Gori, "a guy in a monkey suit" with a silvery-green face and long blond hair, "so he looked like this cross between a monkey and Edgar Winter," partially inspired Mojo Jojo. And The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics "was like my bible for years. I would thumb through that every day."
The death of his father, when Craig was 7, and the move of his family from a small town near Pittsburgh to Whittier, California, intensified his picture making. "He was a very outgoing, very positive kid," recalls his mother, Eva McCracken, "and then after his dad died he became a little more withdrawn and started to draw more. Because of course he had to start all over again, because we all came out here and he had to make new friends and things."
In art as in evolution, phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny: The human race and the individual scribbler alike make their way from simple symbols toward an ever more exact and shaded reproduction of reality. But thats only a sort of progress: Citizens of the 20th century learned to see (from cartoons as much as from Real Art) the beauty of abstraction, of regressive simplification, of suggesting a lot with a little, of rendering the world in signs and symbols. The less realistic, more childish, more essential image might be the less technically impressive, but its also the less fixed, the more flexible, the more suggestive, and so often the more powerful.
"Mickey Mouse doesnt look like a mouse, but he represents a mouse," says McCracken. "Ive always liked that type of symbolic design." The first drawing he ever made of what would become the Powerpuff Girls was very small, "just the essence of a character," and so he left out details like fingers. He tried later to give them fingers, but it never looked right. "I tried to define all the characters as iconic images," he says, and because they dont look like anything in the real world, they look more like what theyre supposed to be, and more like themselves. The more like an actual real monkey Mojo Jojo looked, the less hed look like Mojo Jojo. The Mayor, with his sash and monocle and top hat floating a few inches above his head, is, says McCracken, "the visual representation of a mayor [McDonaldlands] Mayor McCheese is the same kind of turn-of-the-century mayor." Professor Utonium partly inspired by Church of the Subgenius avatar Bob Dobbs, whose bland, smiling image McCracken used to see stenciled in spray paint around town "is supposed to be superstraight, and so hes all straight lines; hes not colorful at all, hes real black and white." Miss Sarah Bellum, the Mayors curvaceous, hypercompetent aide, whose face is never seen, is "the typical hot assistant, though her best features her brain but we only represent her by what supposedly everybody cares about."
Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup are identical theyre triplets, after all except for the color of their eyes and dresses, and the color and character-appropriate style of their hair: redheaded Blossoms bow-crowned ponytail, which functions visually as a superheroic cape; blond Bubbles Cindy Brady pigtails; brunette Buttercups severe, helmetlike bobbed flip. Model sheets instruct animators in the girls streamlined physiology: "Think of head as a solid ball. Features are painted on, they should wrap around contour of head." "Keep body and legs short and cute." "Hand ends in slight point (like a butter knife)." "The girls arms are muscle. Theyre solid, not flat." Its the very lack of detail that makes them look substantial and strong.
We assume the nose. We assume the fingers. In fact, we dont want the nose or the fingers, because they would mar the girls particular peculiar beauty. "People have asked if were ever going to do a live-action Powerpuff," says McCracken, "but I wouldnt want to, because then youre defining them theyll have fingers and theyll have noses and theyll be real little girls and it just wont be the same. But as cartoons theyre kind of this symbolic catchall." And then there is the question of the eyes, which no human head could bear, those big eyes that remind some viewers of the big eyes of Japanese anime, but which were inspired as much by the kitschy art of Margaret Keane. (There are Powerpuff Girl dolls on display in the Keane retrospective at the Laguna Art Museum.)
"We both like really flat, iconic, simplistic design," says Genndy Tartakovsky. "We try to create our own universe, not based on life. The trend now in animated feature films is to get as close as possible to doing something realistic, but its completely not interesting to me." By Disney standards, The Powerpuff Girls isnt animated at all, but it is as animated as it needs to be. (When Craig McCracken first went off to CalArts, he was worried it would all be learning "to draw a deer running through the forest.") Speed and power are suggested through dynamic design, extreme poses, whiplash editing, the skittery electronica of the soundtrack. One particularly clever episode, all seen from the Mayors point of view, left the screen black for a couple of minutes (he was blindfolded). "Limited animation" as opposed to the "full animation" of, say, Pinocchio began as an economy, a cheaper, quicker way to produce cartoons, but at its best, as in the short films of UPA or Jay Wards Rocky & Bullwinkle et al., it provides its own elegant shorthand solutions, trading fluidity and complexity of motion for brilliance of color and form and sharp verbal wit.
The Powerpuff Girls incorporates within its deceptively simple aesthetic a kind of résumé of the form. "A lot of that is just from doing your homework and finding out where the best stuff was done," says McCracken. "Its like if you want to study great design you look at UPA and early Hanna-Barbera, and if you want to study great timing you look at Tex Avery and Bob Clampett shorts. For action sequences look at anime they really do it better than anybodys ever done it before. So its just a matter of knowing where the best people are and learning from them, and all those influences are sprinkled throughout all our shows. There seems to be this focus on Powerpuff as just this tribute to anime, but theyre missing the UPA tributes and the Jay Ward tributes." There are references as well, passing or extended, to Star Wars, Diffrent Strokes, The Life of Brian, Monty Python, Spinal Tap, The Karate Kid, The A-Team, Schoolhouse Rock, The Princess Bride, South Park, The Godfather, Star Trek, Pokémon, Batman (the Mayors office is modeled on Commissioner Gordons, from the 60s live-action TV series), Yellow Submarine, any movie where a monster destroys Tokyo, the art of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, and the films of Jacques Tati, who appears briefly as M. Hulot in a beach scene, while the look of the Professors house recalls the boxy modern manse of Mon Oncle.
THE PICTURES ARE ONLY PART OF THE. . . picture. The voices tell you who the characters really are, and tell the writers, too, who are consistently clever without being showy about it. The Mayor is played by Tom Kenny (also the narrator, and the voice as well of SpongeBob SquarePants and the dog half of CatDog on Nickelodeon) as a kind of cross between Wizard of Oz Frank Morgan and Ruth Gordon. Mojo Jojo, played by Roger Jackson (who is the scary voice on the phone in the Scream movies), would be just another evil monkey without his particular redundant way of talking, inspired by the rhythms of Speed Racers dubbed dialogue and The Superdictionary, "a DC Comics dictionary I had when I was growing up," says McCracken. "It would define words using sentences, but it would reiterate the definition over and over again, and when you read them out loud theyre the funniest things, because they would be defining, you know, laughing, and it would say Crypto made Superman laugh, He made Superman make an amusing sound come from his throat. When Powerpuff came around I just started writing Mojos dialogue that way." For example, from the episode where he turned everyone into dogs with his dog ray: "I, Mojo Jojo, am your master and you shall obey my commands like the dogs you are. Because I am your master, it is I you will obey. Obey commands is what you will do. I will give you commands and you will obey them."
As to the girls: "For Blossom," says McCracken, "I wanted a kind of sincerity and strength and cuteness, and a real uniqueness to her voice. Buttercup and Bubbles are more caricatures, theres the tough voice and the cute voice, but Blossom is this kind of subtle in-between. Catherine was perfect; she is Blossom. E.G. as Buttercup has that gruffness, but theres still a cuteness to it she doesnt sound like a boy. Bubbles was probably the trickiest to cast. A lot of voice actors do the cute-girl voice, but it can become really saccharine and turn you off. And we finally found Tara and she was perfect, and shes also developed this whole thing where she freaks out and screams, and even when she tries to act tough shes still cute. When we were recording the first show, theres a line where Bubbles yells, you callin a biped? And Genndy said, Thats the show, right there, that sound of this tough girl screaming but still remaining cute."
"Bubbles is sweet," says Tara Charen doff Strong (who is also the voice of Dylan Pickles on Nickelodeons Rugrats), "and kind, and willing to do anything for a friend, but she can also be very strong and pigheaded. If someone says she cant do something, shell do anything to prove them wrong. She can be pretty forceful. And she can also be a baby that denies shes a baby. You know, she sleeps with her little stuffed octopus."
Spicy Buttercup, says E.G. Daily (who also voices Tommy Pickles on Rugrats shes Strongs brother there and her sister here), "is feisty. Shes passionate about things, and a little bit aggressive I get to rage out every now and then. You have to be pretty contained a lot of the time, and Buttercup sometimes gets a little leaky."
And of Blossom, the everything nice in the PpG trinity, Catherine Cavadini says, "She means really well. She takes herself a little too seriously, I think. Shes a leader, so its a fine line that I have to play, because I cant go too cutesy with her; even though she is cute, I have to maintain that shes serious and shes smart. Shes the one whos always ordering everyone around. I have to keep that in there, but also make her likable."
ONE NIGHT, WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 12 years old, Craig McCracken said to himself, "Tomorrow Im going to start working on a comic book. Im going to start trying to do it." And he did, coloring it in with Magic Markers. "And from that time, basically until I came up with the Powerpuff Girls, I was always trying to invent the character that was my defining character." He began with "a generic mouse character named Marty Mouse. I was into Tintin comics at the time, and I wanted to try to write those kinds of adventure stories. I had a dream-detective character that was inspired by Will Eisners Spirit, I got into a George Herriman phase and tried to come up with a Krazy Kattype character, I had an angry dog character called Crud Puppy for a while, and right before I did Powerpuff, I had a Mexican-wrestler hero named El Fuego, but I never could really get into it so much."
But comics were too static for the pictures in his head, and so he applied to the CalArts school of animation, the Harvard Law of its field, where he was accepted on the strength of his sketchbook. Illustrious alumni include Tim Burton, John Lasseter (Toy Story), Brad Bird (The Iron Giant), Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and various high-placed players in such Disneyworks as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tarzan.
"It was great meeting a bunch of people who were into the same things I was into," says McCracken. "We could communicate on a higher level than I could with kids I knew in high school. Most of the learning I did there was from other students, cause youd all kind of help each other on your projects. At a certain point I kind of stopped going to class and just focused entirely on my film. I went to design class and a couple animation classes, but most of the time I just stayed up in my cubicle and worked. I was on this rotating schedule where I would be up one or two more hours every night, so I was never either a night owl or a day person, it would fluctuate every week, it would just keep rotating."
"I always used to go by his desk," remembers classmate Genndy Tartakovsky, "and his assignments were just amazing. Craigs one of the first guys who, when I looked at his drawings, I realized how much further I had to go." They got to be friends, Craig helping Genndy with character design, Genndy helping Craig with animation. Tartakovsky whod lived in Moscow until age 7 and learned English from TV and comics had transferred from a school in Chicago along with his friend Rob Renzetti, who would go on to work on Dexters Laboratory and Powerpuff. "I was kind of cocky at the time," Tartakovsky recalls, "because I thought, Here I am after two years at this one college, and Im pretty much the best in the class, and I get to CalArts and I was like the bottom 10 percent. It was very intimidating."
McCracken and Tartakovsky shared a vision. "The details might be different, but the ultimate goal is pretty much the same," says McCracken. "We both wanted to make the cartoons that were what we thought cartoons were like when we watched them as kids. A lot of times, shows that you saw when you were young you see when youre older and youre like, What was ý I thinking? This was . . . terrible. So we wanted to make the cartoons we thought we watched, the memory of what we thought they were."
By the mid-1980s, commercial animation was in sorry, soggy shape. Outside of the sort of small independent productions youd see in traveling animation festivals, there was nothing exciting happening, nothing with a sense of history or irony or mischief. With few exceptions, cartoons as they were produced for television and (rarely) the theaters were cheap, boring, bland, ugly, unfunny, joyless, politically correct and designed not to offend any sensibilities but the artistic. They lacked the true wild cartoon spirit the impertinence of a Bugs Bunny, the unbridled id of Tex Averys wolves, the runaway rage of a Donald Duck, the happy universal anthropomorphism of the world according to Boop.
Then just around the time McCracken and Tartakovsky were starting at CalArts came The Little Mermaid, wherein Disney got its commercial groove back and found a new old-fashioned formula to beat to death, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which celebrated the glorious anarchy and lively design of the mediums golden age, and then The Simpsons, which conquered television and the world. And suddenly cartoons not only looked like good business, but, what was more important, they began to look like cartoons again. A small but exponentially influential new wave of "creator-driven," historically aware, postmodernist cartoons appeared on TV, beginning with Ralph Bakshis Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and breaking big with John Kricfalusis The Ren & Stimpy Show. Hanna-Barbera got back in the game with 2 Stupid Dogs, a Ren & Stimpyized take on the studios early classic Huckleberry Hound style, created by Donovan Cook, a CalArts (and Ren & Stimpy) alumnus, who hired Craig McCracken as an art director on the recommendation of another CalArts grad, Paul Rudish; McCracken, who left school at the beginning of his third semester to take the job, in turn recommended Genndy Tartakovsky to work on the show. Rudish, whom Tartakovsky calls "an overall genius," would help refine and define both Dexters Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls. The first episodes of each series, says McCracken, were "basically made by the same guys, just a different person in charge of it."
Both made their first pre-series appearances as part of Cartoon Networks World Premiere Toons program. Dexters Laboratory, about a suburban boy scientist with an anomalous "foreign accent" who keeps an impossibly large secret laboratory in his parents house, was the first to become a regular series, debuting in April 1996, and would four times be nominated for an Emmy. "Powerpuff was a little shaky originally," says McCracken. "There was one focus group with 11-year-old boys where they basically said, Whoever made this cartoon should be fired, and I was in the room with all the producers and the president of Hanna-Barbera, and it destroyed me."
But the constant inquiries of fans of the two World Premiere shorts, Linda Simenskys love for McCrackens Dexter storyboards, and the desire to keep the production unit working led to a second chance for Powerpuff. McCracken settled executive qualms by further developing the individual personalities of the girls, assembling a "bible" in which he posed the girls 20 questions and had each answer in her own voice. And as Dexter reached the end of its 52-episode run (another 13 go into production this month), the team segued into The Powerpuff Girls, with McCracken taking the lead.
"When I first started working on the show," says Tara Charendoff Strong, "I didnt know it was going to be as successful as it was, cause a lot of the original scripts were very action oriented, and Id just be like Pow! Take that! Ow! Yeah. And Id be like, What is this show?" Says E.G. Daily, "Youre not talking about people who have been doing it forever and forever and they just have this formula down, theyre just sort of these guys who started doing this tweaked cartoon and it happened to work."
It has worked, though, and not by accident, unless you want to consider the distribution of talent accidental. Last year, McCracken and Tartakovsky were named by Entertainment Weekly among the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment: little kids who stared at pictures until they came alive, growing up to make pictures come alive. (And this year the Powerpuff Girls themselves made the magazines list of appropriately the 100 Most Powerful People in Entertainment.) But unlike Mojo Jojos, McCrackens head has not swelled. "My mother keeps telling me that Im famous, and Im like, The show is famous, people know the Powerpuff Girls, but Im nobody, Im just a guy.
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"My agent keeps saying, Youre hot right now, lets shop you around so we can get your price up, and Im like, I dont wanna leave, these people treat me perfectly. They leave me alone and let me do what I want to do. You cant ask for anything more." Tartakovsky, whose new series, Samurai Jack, "a quirky action show," is set to bow next summer, says the relationship with Cartoon Network is "perfect. They just go, We love what you do, so do it. Heres some money and some time, and give us shows."
Its a good arrangement. Everybody benefits. The creators, the corporations, the consumers. McCracken has bought a house and is moving in with his girlfriend, a Powerpuff storyboard artist. Cartoon Network, which owns the characters, reaps the financial benefits of a bona fide phenomenon. I get to own a Pool Party Bubbles. (Well, my wife does, but I get to play with it.)
And there are cartoons! There are Powerpuff Girls cartoons! Its a funny thing to love a cartoon. How can you love a cartoon? Human movie stars are at least real people you can run into them at the supermarket. You can learn all about their private lives and personal thoughts. Mojo Jojo may relax in a bubble bath when hes not fomenting chaos and trying to conquer the world, but when hes not in a cartoon, hes nowhere at all.
And yet they live. They are superpowered on the screen, but theyre magic for real. Pictures that move! Drawings that speak! Impossible things! They are constituted to make you happy, these cartoon kindergartners, even while they are knocking the teeth from a villains mouth. There may not be a five-eyed snot-spewing elephant monster or giant alligator at your door, but who hasnt needed rescue at some time? From the bills in the mail, the boss at your shoulder, the mean kid on the corner, the aphids on the roses, the clog in the sink, and all the various grown-up voices of sensibility nattering in your head? Relief is only a cartoon away. Pleasing colors! Pretty shapes! Hearts and flowers and rainbows and guts and gore! Once again and again and again the Powerpuff Girls save the day!


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In his June 19 column, Congressman Tim Huelskamp claims the Affordable Healthcare Act has "more than 20,000 pages of new regulations coming next January."
This May, Washington Post fact-checkers looked. Mitch McConnell had promoted the claim after searching the Federal Register for Affordable Care Act and finding 897 documents.
McConnell's spokesman later had to admit not all the documents were entirely on "Obamacare." There were final rules and proposed rules, notices for new funding or committee meetings, news releases and pages of public comments.
Calling it "a muddle," the Post concluded, "At the very least, one can point to 10,000 pages of tiny regulatory type regarding the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Frankly, this is to be expected in any large and complex governmental undertaking." (tinyurl.com/k9ob8z6)
More importantly, Huelskamp doesn't know or would rather not tell readers that it's not really businesses with 50 employees, but businesses with 50 "full-time" employees who must provide health insurance -- a significant distinction.
Furthermore, Forbes Magazine found only 4 percent of U.S. businesses have 50 or more full-time employees, and 99.8 percent of them already provide employee health insurance. The real question is whether employers will pay more. We'll see.
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My Harris family has a long history in the mills. Ezekial Harris owned a saw mill in Bedford, NY in the the mid 1700's. Nelson Harris built a saw mill in Cato, WI and then in Forest Junction, WI in the 1850's. It was Forest Junction's first business and was later operated by his brother, Isaac. Nelson's son, Orville, worked in the Cato mill and later was an engineer in at a flour mill in Appleton, WI.
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The Secretary of Transportation shall maintain a National Defense Reserve Fleet, including any vessel assigned by the Secretary to the Ready Reserve Force component of the fleet, consisting of those vessels owned or acquired by the United States Government that the Secretary of Transportation, after consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, determines are of value for national defense purposes and that the Secretary of Transportation decides to place and maintain in the fleet.
(b) Permitted uses
Except as otherwise provided by law, a vessel in the fleet may be used—
(1) for an account of an agency of the United States Government in a period during which vessels may be requisitioned under chapter 563 of title 46; or
(2) on the request of the Secretary of Defense, and in accordance with memoranda of agreement between the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Defense, for—
(3) for otherwise lawfully permitted storage or transportation of non-defense-related cargo as directed by the Secretary of Transportation with the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense;
(4) for training purposes to the extent authorized by the Secretary of Transportation with the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense;
(5) on a reimbursable basis, for charter to the government of any State, locality, or Territory of the United States, except that the prior consent of the Secretary of Defense for such use shall be required with respect to any vessel in the Ready Reserve Force or in the National Defense Reserve Fleet which is maintained in a retention status for the Department of Defense; or
(c) Ready Reserve Force management
(1) Minimum requirements
To ensure the readiness of vessels in the Ready Reserve Force component of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, the Secretary of Transportation shall, at a minimum—
(A) maintain all of the vessels in a manner that will enable each vessel to be activated within a period specified in plans for mobilization of the vessels;
(B) activate and conduct sea trials on each vessel at a frequency that is considered by the Secretary to be necessary;
(C) maintain and adequately crew, as necessary, in an enhanced readiness status those vessels that are scheduled to be activated in 5 or less days;
(D) locate those vessels that are scheduled to be activated near embarkation ports specified for those vessels; and
(E) notwithstanding section 2109 of title 46, United States Code, have each vessel inspected by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to determine if the vessel meets the safety standards that would apply under part B of subtitle II of that title if the vessel were not a public vessel.
(2) Vessel managers
(A) Eligibility for contract
A person, including a shipyard, is eligible for a contract for the management of a vessel in the Ready Reserve Force if the Secretary determines, at a minimum, that the person has—
(i) experience in the operation of commercial-type vessels or public vessels owned by the United States Government; and
(B) Contract requirement
The Secretary of Transportation shall include in each contract for the management of a vessel in the Ready Reserve Force a requirement that each seaman who performs services on any vessel covered by the contract hold the license or merchant mariner's document that would be required under chapter 71 or chapter 73 of title 46, United States Code, for a seaman performing that service while operating the vessel if the vessel were not a public vessel.
(d) Applicability of limitations on overhaul, repair, and maintenance in foreign shipyards
(1) Application of limitation
The provisions of section 7310 of title 10, United States Code, shall apply to vessels specified in subsection (b), and to the Secretary of Transportation with respect to those vessels, in the same manner as those provisions apply to vessels specified in subsection (b) of such section, and to the Secretary of the Navy, respectively.
(e) Exemption from tank vessel construction standards
(f) Use of NDRF vessels for civil contingency operations and promotional and media events
With the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Transportation may allow the use of vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) for civil contingency operations requested by another Federal agency, and for Maritime Administration promotional and media events relating to demonstration projects and research and development supporting the Administration's mission, if the Secretary of Transportation determines such use is in the best interest of the Government after considering the following factors:
(1) Availability
The availability of NDRF or Ready Reserve Force (RRF) resources and the impact of such use on NDRF and RRF mission support to the defense and homeland security requirements of the Government.
(2) Interference
Whether the such [1] use of vessels will support the mission of the Maritime Administration and not significantly interfere with NDRF vessel maintenance, repair, safety, readiness, and resource availability.
(3) Safety
Whether safety precautions will be taken, including indemnification of liability when applicable.
(4) Cost
Whether any costs incurred by such use will be funded as a reimbursable transaction between Federal agencies, as applicable.
[1] So in original.
Source(Mar. 8, 1946, ch. 82, § 11,60 Stat. 49; June 28, 1947, ch. 161, § 1,61 Stat. 190; Feb. 27, 1948, ch. 78, § 1(a),62 Stat. 38; Feb. 28, 1949, ch. 12, 63 Stat. 9; June 29, 1949, ch. 281, § 1,63 Stat. 349; June 30, 1950, ch. 427, § 2,64 Stat. 308; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(157),Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 167; Pub. L. 101–115, § 6,Oct. 13, 1989, 103 Stat. 693; Pub. L. 101–225, title III, § 307(12),Dec. 12, 1989, 103 Stat. 1925; Pub. L. 102–241, § 57,Dec. 19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2234; Pub. L. 102–587, title VI, § 6205(a),Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5094; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title X, § 1014(b),Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 424; Pub. L. 104–239, § 9,Oct. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 3133; Pub. L. 109–364, div. C, title XXXV, § 3503,Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2516; Pub. L. 110–181, div. C, title XXXV, §§ 3513, 3516,Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 594, 595; Pub. L. 112–81, div. C, title XXXV, § 3502,Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1716; Pub. L. 112–213, title IV, § 410,Dec. 20, 2012, 126 Stat. 1572.)
In subsec. (b)(1), "chapter 563 of title 46" substituted for "section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. U.S.C. 1242)" on authority of Pub. L. 109–304, § 18(c),Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1709, which Act enacted chapter 563 of Title 46, Shipping.
2012—Subsec. (c)(1)(B) to (D). Pub. L. 112–213amended subpars. (B) to (D) generally. Prior to amendment, subpars. (B) to (D) read as follows:
"(B) activate and conduct sea trials on each vessel at least once every 30 months;
"(C) maintain in an enhanced activation status those vessels that are scheduled to be activated within 5 days;
"(D) locate those vessels that are scheduled to be activated within 5 days near embarkation ports specified for those vessels; and".
2011—Subsec. (b)(6). Pub. L. 112–81, § 3502(1), added par. (6).
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 112–81, § 3502(2), added subsec. (f).
2008—Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 110–181, § 3513, added par. (5).
Subsec. (c)(1)(B). Pub. L. 110–181, § 3516, amended subpar. (B) generally. Prior to amendment, subpar. (B) read as follows: "activate and conduct sea trials on each vessel at least once every twenty-four months;".
2006—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 109–364added subsec. (d).
1996—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 104–239, § 9(1), substituted "of the Secretary of Defense" for "of the Secretary of the Navy".
Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 104–239, § 9(2), redesignatedsubsec. (d) as (c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which read as follows: "The Secretary of Transportation shall not require bid, payment, performance, payment and performance, or completion bonds from contractors for repair, alteration, or maintenance of vessels of the National Defense Reserve Fleet unless—
"(1) required by law; or
"(2) the Secretary determines, after investigation, that the imposition of such bonding requirements would not preclude any responsible potential bidder or offeror from competing for award of the contract."
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–106added subsec. (e).
1992—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–587amended subsec. (b) to read as if it had not been repealed by Pub. L. 101–225. See 1989 Amendment note below.
1991—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102–241added subsec. (d).
1989—Pub. L. 101–225struck out subsec. (b) as it appeared after a general amendment by Pub. L. 101–115, see below. See also 1992 Amendment note above.
Pub. L. 101–115amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows:
"(a) The Secretary of Transportation shall place in a national defense reserve (1) such vessels owned by the Department of Transportation as, after consultation with the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy, he deems should be retained for the national defense, and (2) all vessels owned by the Department of Transportation on June 30, 1950, for the sale of which a contract has not been made by that time, except those determined by the Secretary of Transportation to be of insufficient value for commercial and national defense purposes to warrant their maintenance and preservation, and except those vessels, the contracts for the construction of which are made after September 2, 1945, under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended. A vessel under charter on March 1, 1948, shall not be placed in the reserve until the termination of such charter. Unless otherwise provided for by law, all vessels placed in such reserve shall be preserved and maintained by the Secretary of Transportation for the purpose of national defense. A vessel placed in such reserve shall in no case be used for any purpose whatsoever except that any such vessel may be used for account of any agency or department of the United States during any period in which vessels may be requisitioned under section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, and that any such vessel may be used under a bare-boat charter entered into pursuant to authority vested in the Secretary of Transportation on July 1, 1950, or granted to the Secretary of Transportation after such date.
"(b) Any war-built vessel may be made available by the Secretary of Transportation to any State maintaining a marine school or nautical branch in accordance with the Act of July 29, 1941 (Public Law 191, Seventy-seventh Congress; 55 Stat. 607)."
1981—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–31substituted "Secretary of Transportation" first three times it appears for "Commission" and last two times it appears for "Secretary of Commerce"; "Department of Transportation" for "it"; and "he" for "it".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–31substituted "Secretary of Transportation" for "Commission".
1950—Subsec. (a). Act June 30, 1950, amended subsec. (a) to provide that a vessel placed in reserve may not be used for any purpose whatsoever except (1) for the account of any Federal agency or department during the period in which vessels may be requisitioned under section 1242 of Title 46 and (2) and any such vessel may be used under a bare-boat charter entered into pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Commerce.
1949—Subsec. (a). Joint Res. June 29, 1949, extended provisions of section from June 30, 1949, to June 30, 1950. Joint Res. Feb. 28, 1949, extended provisions of section from Mar. 1, 1949, to June 30, 1949.
1948—Subsec. (a). Act Feb. 27, 1948, extended provisions of section from Mar. 1, 1948, to Mar. 1, 1949.
1947—Subsec. (a). Act June 28, 1947, extended provisions of section from Dec. 31, 1947, to Mar. 1, 1948.
Effective Date of 1992 Amendment
Pub. L. 102–587, title VI, § 6205(a),Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5094, provided in part that: "The effective date of this subsection [amending this section] is December 12, 1989."
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468 (b), 551 (d), 552 (d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
Vessel Repair and Maintenance Pilot Program
Pub. L. 104–239, § 16,Oct. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 3138, provided that:
"(a) In General.—The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct a pilot program to evaluate the feasibility of using renewable contracts for the maintenance and repair of outported vessels in the Ready Reserve Force to enhance the readiness of those vessels. Under the pilot program, the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations and within 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 8, 1996], shall award 9 contracts for this purpose.
"(b) Use of Various Contracting Arrangements.—In conducting a pilot program under this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall use contracting arrangements similar to those used by the Department of Defense for procuring maintenance and repair of its vessels.
"(c) Contract Requirements.—Each contract with a shipyard under this section shall—
"(1) subject to subsection (d), provide for the procurement from the shipyard of all repair and maintenance (including activation, deactivation, and drydocking) for 1 vessel in the Ready Reserve Force that is outported in the geographical vicinity of the shipyard;
"(2) be effective for 1 fiscal year; and
"(3) be renewable, subject to the availability of appropriations, for each subsequent fiscal year through fiscal year 1998.
"(d) Limitation of Work Under Contracts.—A contract under this section may not provide for the procurement of operation or manning for a vessel that may be procured under another contract for the vessel to which section 11(d)(2) of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 (50 App. U.S.C. 1774 (d)(2)) applies.
"(e) Geographic Distribution.—The Secretary shall seek to distribute contract awards under this section to shipyards located throughout the United States.
"(f) Reports.—The Secretary shall submit to the Congress—
"(1) an interim report on the effectiveness of each contract under this section in providing for economic and efficient repair and maintenance of the vessel included in the contract, no later than 20 months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 8, 1996]; and
"(2) a final report on that effectiveness no later than 6 months after the termination of all contracts awarded pursuant to this section."
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Andy Dooley, chairman of the Bedford Moose Lodge's fireworks committee, came to Bedford Town Council last week looking for money to put on next year's display.
According to Dooley, the Lodge plans to launch them from the National D-Day Memorial and this will raise the cost of the display. Dooley said the fireworks will have to go higher to be visible, and this means bigger shells which, in turn, means that it will cost more.
If you are not already registered to vote, Virginians must apply to register to vote (or update their registration name and current address) no later than October 14 in order to vote in the upcoming Nov. 4 elections.
If you are currently registered to vote, you do not need to re-register unless you have made a change to your name or address, in which case you need to notify the Registrar in writing.
County Administrator Mark Reeter announced, Monday evening, that Gregg B. Zody has been hired as the county's new director of community development. Zody replaces Tim Wilson, who left to take a position with South Boston in June. Zody will take over the job on Nov. 3.
County staff and members of the board of supervisors bid farewell to Deputy County Administrator Frank Rogers at a reception this week. Rogers leaves next week to take a job as Campbell County's county administrator.
At 24, Beckham Stanley is the youngest town council candidate on the ballot. A Bedford native, Stanley graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, near Farmville, with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. He works in Bedford as an insurance agent at Holdren, Eubank and Stanley and does landscaping on a part-time basis.
Why is he running?
"It is very important for Bedford to elect a person who has the time and the energy to put into the job," he said. "I have both."
Walt King, a civics and PE teacher at Bedford Middle School, is seeking a seat on Bedford Town Council.
King was born in Virginia Beach, but has lived in Bedford for 29 years. A job move brought his father here when King was 14. He graduated from Liberty High School in 1988 and earned a bachelor's degree in social science from Radford University and a master's degree in education from Liberty University. He has spent his entire 15-year teaching career in Bedford County Public Schools.
"Several people asked me about it," said Bruce Johannessen, explaining why he's running for Bedford Town Council.
He also believes a citizen owes his community some time and effort.
"I think serving on Council is part of doing something for the community," he said.
This is Johannessen's first bid for elective office, but he's no stranger to government. He's worked for the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) for 43 years.
"This is the third time in three years I've run for election," said Stacey Hailey, who is seeking reelection to Town Council in November.
Robert Carson was first elected to Bedford Town Council in May, 2013 and, like other incumbents, must run for reelection in an election triggered by the annexation of territory in the county as part of the reversion agreement.
"I put a whole lot of thought into it," Carson said of his decision to run for reelection.
Carson said he didn't want the seat if he felt he couldn't accomplish anything.
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As the No. 2 overall selection in the 2012 NFL draft, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III signed a four-year, $21 million contract with a signing bonus of $13.8 million. As the No. 2 pick of the 2010 NFL draft, Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh agreed to a five-year, $60 million deal with a hefty $40 million in guarantees. This ends the good news portion of the RG3 knee saga, which grew in intensity Wednesday morning when ESPN reported the electric rookie was undergoing total reconstructive surgery after injuring his right knee in Sunday's playoff loss to the Seahawks. Hey, Redskins fans, at least your team hasn't committed a minimum of $40 million to Suh! Regardless of the lessened salary-cap implications of rookie contracts in the NFL's most recent collective bargaining agreement, Griffin's injury is a shame. If we could tell he was hobbling from our couches, Mike Shanahan and Washington's team doctors certainly knew Sunday's version of RG3 wasn't the one they had been watching prior to the QB injuring his knee against Baltimore on Dec. 9. Making even more questionable the Redskins' decision to play an obviously hobbled Griffin, whose knee finally gave out while trying to field an errant snap in the fourth quarter Sunday, is the knowledge that he already had suffered a torn ACL in the same knee in 2009. Against Seattle, he completely tore the patella graft that was used to repair the '09 injury, ESPN reported. Now, Griffin is facing a six- to eight-month rehabilitation from Wednesday's surgery, and the Redskins had better hope RG3's recovery at least resembles that of Adrian "At This Point, I Might Not Even Be Human" Peterson. ESPN's Darren Rovell reported last month that Griffin's No. 10 was the NFL's top-selling jersey not only for the 2012 season, but also for any season since the league began tracking such statistics six years ago. Was it worth risking the future of the franchise for an NFC wild-card game? That is up for much debate. I won't pretend to know more than Shanahan about the situation, but I can't escape the memory of watching him hobble around for more than three quarters. If you, me and almost everyone on Twitter thought it was risky well before the fateful play on which Griffin tore multiple knee ligaments, how didn't the Redskins think the same? This wasn't Rex Grossman whose 2013 season was put at risk. It was RG3, the player for whom the Redskins traded three first-round picks and a second-round selection to draft the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner at No. 2 last spring.
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Wabash alumni and friends in the bay area welcomed Wabash theater professor Michael Abbott '85 to the west coast for a Wabash on the Road event on Thursday, April 22. Following a cocktail reception Abbott lead a discussion based upon his freshman tutorial, "The Western: A survey History of an American Film Genre."
The discussion revolved around one film in particular, OPEN RANGE (2003). Abbott challenged those attending to view this film before the event and come prepared to discuss how it may be seen as a modern post-9/11 American film. The group viewed a few clips from the movie and discussed how Kevin Costner (director) portrayed events of the world we live in today in the film.
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Worcester could use an extension. The full-high was built on the cheap, but there's no reason they couldn't extend it a bit. Dwell times and auto doors aren't an issue, though, so it's probably low priority. (Same as Lowell).
octr202 wrote:I would guess that it's just not a high priority. Nothing (normally) runs on that line over six cars, since Malden is so short. Wakefield is also pretty short, although not part of the high level discussion.
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All of us are secretly addicted to what celebrities are up to these days, so when we hear about a celebrity moving into the neighborhood, it's easy to get excited. This year in Hamptons real estate we've seen some impressive transactions by celebrities that include television stars and models. You would think all the celebrities of the world already own something out here, but you'd be wrong, and believe it or not, some of them are even renting.
Molly Sims buys in Wainscott
The model and her husband Scott Stuber plunked down $5.5 million for a stunning home in Wainscott that includes a professional chef's kitchen, a 1,200-bottle wine cellar, a pool and stunning views of the ocean. Other features of the home include a stone fireplace, an en-suite staff lounge, custom French doors and it sits on three-quarters of an acre. Molly Sims rose to prominence for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues and her role as Delinda Deline in the NBC drama Las Vegas.
Jay Z and Beyonce's rental in Bridgehampton
Jay Z and Beyonce are arguably the most powerful couple in music today, and last summer they rented Joe Farrell's Bridgehampton estate, known as "The Sandcastle," for $400,000 during the month of August. The estate features a"planetarium like home theater," a two-lane bowling alley, a skateboard half pipe, a rock climbing wall and an entire section dedicated for a children's performing area. It also has a killer sound system. $400,000 may seem like a lot for one month, but not for the American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur and occasional actor. Jay Z is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2012, Forbes estimated his net worth at nearly $500 million.
Kelly Killoren Bensimon's Further Lane sale in East Hampton
The former model, author, jewelry designer and editor of Elle Accessories became an icon after she starred in the Bravo television series The Real Housewives of New York City. The actress cashed out in 2012, selling her home for $5.5 million on Further Lane in East Hampton. The home dropped over 50 percent in value from its original listing price of $12 million. She was quoted in Newsday saying that she couldn't "afford the lifestyle she did when she was married." We hope to see her back soon!
Joy Behar makes some moves
The comedian, writer, actress and a co-host on the ABC talk show The View made a move this year after she sold her Sagaponack home. Joy Behar made an upgrade to a new home in East Hampton after she bought a 4,000-square-foot traditional on Roberts Lane just outside of the village of East Hampton for $2.875 million. The sale was one of the most notable celebrity sales of the year, however, we can't say it was one of the highest.
So long, George Stephanopoulos
George Stephanopoulos and his wife, actress Alexandra Wentworth sold their estate on East Hampton's Dunemere Lane this year. The house is 4,100 square feet with a gorgeous pool as well as little Hamptons details such as a chef's kitchen, a master suite with its own fireplace and a double-sized living room. The gorgeous home went to an unidentified buyer, but we will miss seeing the quick-witted former White House Communications Director and Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategy. At least we can still catch him on ABC where he is the chief political correspondent for ABC News, co-anchor of ABC News' Good Morning America, and host of ABC's Sunday Morning This Week. We're sure he'll be back to visit.


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One man is dead after he was shot during a domestic disturbance in Village Mills, north of Kountze.
According to a Hardin County Sheriff's Office press release, Troy Marshall, 50, forced his way into the home of his ex-wife, Denise Marshall, 47, after he had been drinking and began to choke her.
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BRISTOL — The bridge across the New Haven River at South Street in the Bristol village closed for repairs Tuesday and will not open again until 2012 at the earliest, according to Bristol Town Administrator Bill Bryant.
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CASTLETON — Despite another fine regular season, the Addison County American Legion baseball team came up short in the Vermont tournament for the second straight summer this past weekend, when two upsets at Castleton State College sent AC home early.
On Friday, Southern Division No. 3 seed Brattleboro edged AC, the Northern No. 2 seed, 3-1. On Saturday, North No. 4 Colchester eliminated AC from the double elimination tournament, 12-2.
RIPTON — Middlebury and Ripton officials support further study of a $1.6-million plan to install a series of flood walls and culverts along Route 125 from Ripton to East Middlebury as a way of minimizing washouts and other damage from future flooding.
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MIDDLEBURY — When Pierre Vachon set out to get a pair of tragedy/comedy masks tattooed on his upper arm last year, he had no idea that the venture would lead him to become a business proprietor in downtown Middlebury.
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Amended in the Senate and returned to the Assembly for concurrence, A.B. 2010 adds beer that a brewer considers to have "product quality" issues to the list of conditions under which beer may be returned …More
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Victory Brewing Company's Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet recently hosted two Congressmen at their new 160,000 square foot Parkesburg, Pa facility—small brewery champion Representative Jim Gerlach (R-PA 6th District) and the newest member of the House Small Brewers Caucus, Representative Pat …More
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PETALUMA — The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that a man was killed and three people injured, including two children, Friday night outside Petaluma when a large brick pizza oven towed by a catering van broke loose and careened into their car.
California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Barclay says the silver Honda Accord, which contained two adults and two children, had been waiting to turn onto Lakeville Highway from Old Lakeville Road No. 3 about 7:30 p.m. when it was struck by the trailer carrying the pizza oven.
Barclay says the driver of the Honda, a male adult, died at the scene. A woman and a small boy, who were riding in the Honda, were taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The officer says a young girl, also in the Honda, was airlifted to Children's Hospital in Oakland.
The Press Democrat reports that the CHP would not release the names of the people in the Honda or their relationship.