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Upon request, our inspector will come to your office or home and perform a free risk assessment of your property. Each of our experts specialises in the maintenance, monitoring and installation of burglar alarm systems in Shacklewell E8, so you will receive a qualified advice on the security of your premises. Based on the viewing and discussion, you will receive a price estimate.
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Locksmith Earl specialises in home and business security alarms in Shacklewell E8. We offer wireless alarms, monitored alarms, emergency alarm repairs, updating existing alarms, installing extra sensors and detectors, and servicing existing alarms. All our alarm system technicians are insured and experienced. Our surveyor will visit your property and perform a free risk evaluation. He will discuss with you what is the most suitable security system for your case. We work with high-quality HCK, Menvier or Honeywell alarms. Some of the other security alarms in Shacklewell E8 we can supply, repair, maintain and install are from Pyronix, Visonic, Texecom and Scantronic.
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Well being banished to my craft area was such a great way to spend a weekend. I made this card with left over things lying about! I cut the heart out using the silhouette and edged with green ink and added the gemstone. The scrap of green was embossed and sanded and mounted onto mirri then the lace ribbon stuck on and the white ribbon tied around it.
The green leaf paper was my inspiration for this card. It is from the first TSV I got from QVC around 4-5 years ago! I decided it was time to use up all the old stuff I have that I don't tend to reach for. I folded the front of the card in half and covered the part that shows with the green leaf paper and edged with the same green ink pad. Added the topper by laying the card flat (to make sure the top of it stayed within the size of the card!) and stuck on the heart with foam pads. Stamped the happy birthday in white, tried to emboss it at first but it wasn't readable! Trial and error but not a very good stamp to be honest and I wish I'd changed it but it all works together so I didn't want to pull it all apart!
Mounted all the layers using foam pads under the mirri layers and added it to the bottom of the card so it would hold up the front and added the card candi with foam pads. Done!
I was also completing some secret stuff that I can't put on here yet! And I can now share a birthday card I made for a friend at work who kindly requested I made her card! She loved it :0)
I used an A4 card, covered in Tim Holtz paper which I had stamped and heat embossed. The Happy Birthday topper was all cut out with my silhouette and I added the glittered star wire ribbon.

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Main features of the deposit protection scheme in Montenegro
Protected deposits of private citizens, entrepreneurs and legal persons
The deposit protection scheme covers deposits of private citizens, entrepreneurs and legal persons, both resident and non-resident, in all banks in Montenegro. All types of deposits of account holders are protected, including giro accounts, current accounts, and savings deposits. All exclusions from the scheme are prescribed in Article 6 paragraph 2 of the Deposit Protection Law, in accordance with the common practise in the world
Guaranteed coverage of 50,000 €
In case of a bank bankruptcy, the Deposit Protection Fund guarantees the reimbursement of up to 50,000 € per depositor, regardless of the number and type of deposits held in such a bank, provided that a transitional solution is introduced whereby the guaranteed deposit coverage is to be gradually increased, starting from 20,000 € in 2010 and 2011 and up to 35,000 € in 2012.
The amount to be reimbursed is calculated by adding up balances in all accounts held by a depositor in the bank and reduced by the depositor's matured liabilities to the bank as at the bankruptcy initiation date.
Calculation of the guaranteed amount:
All balances in a depositor's accounts held in the failed bank are added up, including any accrued interest (as at the bank bankruptcy date), and reduced by the depositor's matured liabilities to the bank. The obtained amount (balance) may be lower or higher than 50,000 €. If the remaining balance does not exceed 50,000 €, the depositor shall be reimbursed the entire balance, yet in case of a higher amount, the depositor shall be reimbursed the guaranteed coverage of 50,000 €.
The aforesaid is subject to the transitional solution whereby the guaranteed deposit coverage is to be gradually increased, starting from 20,000 € in 2010 and 2011 and up to 35,000 € in 2012.
Guaranteed deposit payout
The guaranteed deposit payout from the Fund's resources shall begin no later than within 20 business days following the protected event date, that is, the bank bankruptcy date, with the possibility of extending this period for additional 10 business days upon the bankruptcy administrator's request. The transitional solution is introduced to be in effect until 31 December 2011 and it envisages the payout period to commence within 45 business days following the protected event date (bank bankruptcy date).
The Fund shall inform depositors about the exercising of their right to guaranteed deposit payout, including the payout bank, place and date of the payout commencement.
Deposits covered in all banks
All banks licensed by the Central Bank of Montenegro are automatically included in the deposit protection scheme, which means that deposits in all banks in Montenegro are protected, including those in branches of the Montenegrin banks operating abroad.
Deposits insured by the Deposit Protection Fund
The Deposit Protection Fund is in charge of deposit protection and it guarantees the reimbursement of deposits in case of a bank failure up to the prescribed guaranteed coverage and within the specified time period.


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Movie Quote of the Month Archive:
May 2011:
"I hated being on that movie so much I was glad when it bombed. These roles are destroying a generation of boys, who think we'll forgive any kind of assholey behavior."
-Anna Faris on her role in My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) and by implication, any number of other recent comedy films. "Funny Like a Guy" by Tad Friend in the April 11, 2011 New Yorker.
April 2011:
I also had a great interation with Harrison , who was almost my age. I liked his style of working, too, as his approach was like that of a stage actor. I found him to be such an approachable man with whom I could talk about my theatre experiences. That is how we gelled and struck a great rapport. He was so methodical and amenable. I had not seen any of his films earlier than that. The way he used to prepare himself, there was no nakhra (airs) and he would be ready for the take. This seems to be a general trait amongst all world-class actors. All great people do not behave like that, but all such people who behave like that are great...Once Harrison asked me about my other films that I was doing simultaneously in Hindi. On being told that I was working in as many different films in India, he literally fell from his chair and acted as if he was fainting, "How the hell are you doing that?" I told him, "Being a theatre artiste, and if time is at disposal, acting is no problem. I know I have to do away with my leisure and forego other hobbies." He countered, "But what about the quality?" I said, "If your heart is into it, the quality remains intact. It may vary by one or two per cent, but then that is negligent." He agreed with me, appreciated my involvement and said that there are certain things that they as actors had to learn from us, too. He did not have any idea about Indian cinema, but it seemed he liked Indians, as he was very affable. I was quite impressed by his gentle behavior.
--Amrish Puri, the great Indian character actor, speaks of his experience working on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in his autobiography, The Act of Life pp 204-5.
March 2011:
"Alverna" said Joe.
He seemed to Ralph strangely noncommittal.
Ralph looked at her anxiously. As the motor was shut off and they floated through the placid shallow water, dark, yet clear in the shadow of the wharf, he saw that Alverna was surprisingly all that Joe had painted her. She was young; she was slim and radiant. There was no perozide to that honey-colored fluff of hair, bobbed and curly. Her white skirt and low linen sailor blouse were crisp. Her eyes were babyish, childish her straight little nose--very face of a child--and her cheeks were unpainted; her voice was caressing as she hailed them:
"Joe, I've been terribly lonely for you!"
Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis (p114-115) Soon to star Clara Bow.
February 2011:
"As much as any part I played, Ellen has meaning for me as a woman…She believed herself to be normal and worked at convincing her friends she was. Most emotionally disturbed people go through such a stage, the equivalent of the alcoholic hiding the bottle."
--Gene Tierney quoted in Dark City by Eddie Muller, p. 91, discussing her role in Leave Her to Heaven.
January 2011:
"My son and his 10 year old sister can now intelligently debate the relative merits of the three modern Doctors of "Dr. Who" but they do not (choked sob and how did I fail them?) know who Abbot and Costello are.
Mary McNamara in a syndicated Los Angeles Times article bemoaning the fact that old movies are no longer regular fare on television. (In the Raleigh News & Observer 12/12/2010)
December 2010:
"Firth draped an arm over the banquette and suggested that the idea of the repressed Englishman is an outdated cultural stereotype. 'It's not as common in England as is perceived,' he said, 'Certainly not in my generation. We grew up wanting to be Jimi Hendriz or Keith Richards--we didn't grow up wanting to be a Conservative Member of Parliament.'"
--Lizzie Widdicombe's profile of Colin Firth in the December 6, 2010 The New Yorker.
November 2010:
"A similar phenomenon is at work in an experiment run by a group including the economist George Loewenstein, in which people were asked to pick one movie to watch that night, and one to watch at a later date. Not surprisingly, for the movie they wanted to watch immediately, people tended to pick lowbrow comedies and blockbusters, but when asked what movie they wanted to watch later, they were more likely to pick serious, important films. The problem , of course, is that when the time comes to watch the serious movie, another frothy one will often seem more appealing. That is why Netflix queues are filled with movies that never get watched: our responsible selves put Hotel Rwanda and The Seventh Seal in our queue, but when the time comes we end up in front of a rerun of The Hangover."
James Surowiecki in "Later: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves" in the October 11, 2010 New Yorker.
October 2010:
"Gunslingers are not samurai."
--Akira Kurosawa, when asked if he had seen The Magnificent Seven the remake of Seven Samurai, quoted in The Emperor and the Wolf by Stuart Galbraith III p. 196.
September 2010:
If someone would rather watch The Night of the Hunter on Hulu or YouTube instead of a restored 35mm print on a big screen, then I'd argue that they're not really interested in seeing the movie (and probably mentally deranged).
--Jim Healy, Assistant Curator at George Eastman House in the Spring 2010 Cineaste
August 2010:
Q: Do have any advice for younger actresses?
A: I'll use what Bette Davis used to say when she was asked by younger actresses how to get to Hollywood. She said, "Take Fountain." If you don't live in Hollywood, it's helpful to know that Fountain is the direct street that you should take because it has the least traffic on it. So young actresses, take Fountain.
--Betty White, quoted in an interview in (I think) the Chicago Sun-Times, July 17, 2010
July 2010:
"The first film that made the difference in my mind between a movie and film, if you can use those terms, was Brief Encounter. This was after I got out, after the war. I remember going to the Fairfax in L.A., going over by myself for some reason. I remember thinking, "What is this about?" This girl, Celia Johnson, was not pretty. She wore those sensible shoes. And suddenly, I'm in love with her. I walked out of that movie and I went for a long walk. I realized the difference, and from that point on I started looking for those kinds of experiences in films."
--Robert Altman in Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff (p.55).
June 2010:
"But few scientists have a burning desire to rule the world, typically, they don't even enjoy managing people and research budgets."
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science and the End of the World (p. 171) by Sidney Perkowitz
May 2010:
"As many of us attempt to nurture, defend, and promote the traditional modes of exhibiting and viewing cinema, we also participate in a faux film culture, bu pretending that we have 'seen' (and heard) a film when we have merely consumed a degraded version of it, in the delivery systems you identify in your question (NB: DVD, download, streaming, etc.)...Is cinema art or is it information?"
--James Quandt, Senior Programmer at the TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto,Canada, quoted in the Spring 2010 Cineaste, in the "Repertory Film Programming" symposium article (p. 51).
This is now my constant refrain when folks ask me why the NC Museum of Art does not show on DVD. The museum would not hang a reproduction of a painting in the place of an original, no matter how excellent the copy.
March-April 2010:
"Love scenes are also difficult from married actors' point of view. When your wife sees a film—and you can be playing anything from a serial killer to an SS officer—she will complement you on a wonderful performance. If you put the same realism into a love scene, she will say, "You're not that good an actor, you must have fancied her!" In my own defense, I've learned to be slightly bad at love scenes."
--Michael Caine, What's It All About, p.481
February, 2010:
Fortified by a Tom Collins or two, Mother decided that this would be the night that Jack Barrymore would get to see her little son's Hamlet act.
She grabbed me by my tiny shoulders and thrust me forward at the feet of the legendary star. "Go ahead, Robert," she prodded. The circle around Barrymore grew still; the great man himself leaned towards me, an indulgent smile on his face. All eyes were on me. It was a feeling I was already learning to recognize...and to like.
Leaning against a bar stool, I struck a dramatic pose and launched into the great speech with all the dignity and pathos a six-year-old could muster:
To be, or not to be: that is the question...
When I concluded with the words "And lost the name of action," my small audience burst into applause, and Barrymore himself rose to his feet, and, at the top of his mighty lungs, roared, "More, lad, more!"
--From Robert Vaughn's autobiography, A Fortunate Life (4-5).
January, 2010
"Holmes, in this interpretation, is an intellectual with a vast knowledge of arcane matters, but he's also a brawler and a prankster, and he's formidably street-smart. (Robert) Downey, like Johnny Depp, has found a way of remaining hip in the most grossly frivolous and commercial projects--a quick wiggle of the eyes, a half smile, a beat or two of silence, and he conveys that he realizes it's all nonsense. His attitude is: Yes, I know, but why not come along for the ride?"
--David Denby on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes
December, 2009
"Like the spy film, which provided a release valve for the pressures of the cold war with its update of the knight-hero as playboy, so the caper film glamorizes crime as a stylish adventure, complete with fashion, romance and sex, to function as vicarious escape from the hypocritical structures of consumerist capitalism and the institutionalized heterosexual relationship"
--"A Caper of One's Own: Fantasy Female Liberation in 1960s Crime Comedy Caper Film" by Robert von Dassanowsky Journal of Popular Film and Television Fall 2007.
November, 2009
"The old Star Trek may have pondered the immediate future, but the movies always reminded me what the future meant on a personal level: hair loss, weight gain, sagging flesh and the grave. (Our 80-year mission: to boldly go where everyone has gone before.)"
from J. R Jones' review, "Star Trek Babies" from the May 7, 2009 Chicago Reader.
October, 2009
In his biography, Gary Cooper: American Hero, Jeffrey Meyers writes of Akim Tamiroff's performance as General Yang in The General Died at Dawn (p. 122):
"Yang was played by Akim Tamiroff...although he laid it on rather thick, he was nominated for an Academy Award. Like many others who worked with him, Tamiroff assumed that Cooper's minimalist performance would not register on the screen and was astonished by the effect he produced: 'For three days I've acted rings around him. I've got him stopped. Against my acting, he can do nawthing (sic). I have every scene. So I look at the rushes. On the screen I am there. Everybody else is there. But what do I see? Nawthing! Nawthing that is but Gary Cooper.'"
September, 2009
As a live star, (Jean) Harlow's worth was unlimited. As a dead star, she was still worth a bundle. Dead? What movie star was ever really dead? Harlow could be faked; she herself didn't matter all that much. (This issue is compounded today, with digital imagining. As Isabella Rossellini said about a filmed image of her mother, Ingrid Bergman, being marketed in television ads: "Poor mother. Dead nearly twenty-five years and still working.")
Jeanine Basinger in The Star Machine, a wonderful look at the Hollywood studio era (p. 135).
August, 2009
"We made the coat with real (meaning bound?) buttonholes. He had some gold buttons he gave us with his initials on them, four on each sleeve. After the second fitting, he said, 'This is nice," which was rare because Cary Grant took eight fittings. All of a sudden, he tore a button off one of the sleeves and we all said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'Now, it looks like its used a bit. People will get a kick out of saying, 'Mr. Astaire, you are missing a button, and we will have a little conversation.' So, one sleeve had three buttons instead of four. It worked remarkably. If he was gonna look casual, he was gonna look very casual. I loved the idea."
One of Fred Astaire's tailors, Bernie Schwarz, remembers his client in the most interesting chapter of Peter J. Levinson's new Astaire biography, Puttin' On the Ritz (p. 245).
July, 2009
"If Rose (Kennedy) felt isolated as an Irish Catholic in Brookline, she had to admit that, relatively speaking, Los Angeles was an open society. Almost everyone came from somewhere else and many had experienced some kind of prejudice. As the writer Anita Loos pointed out, it was a town where the wealthiest and most prestigious social leaders were the 'peers (of their hired help) in everything but sex appeal.'"
--Cari Beauchamp in Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years (p.103)
June, 2009
A flash forward: In 1974, twenty four years after Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson returned to Paramount once more to narrate a television documentary about the studio's greatest movies. For the film, she asked to wear a remake of the black velvet and white ermine suit that Edith Head had designed for Norma Desmond when she returns to Paramount to visit DeMille. Not only had the ensemble vanished, but no one could locate a peacock feather to decorate the new ermine toque made for her. Swanson was aghast. "Imagine," she said. "not one single white peacock feather in all Hollywood!"
--from Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard by Sam Stagg (p. 130).
May, 2009
"What you wear when you are in your own house is like a costume for the role of yourself."
--New York fashion designer Valentina, subject of a fab exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
April, 2009
"(Director John M) Stahl takes the trouble to feel his way into the implications of three-strip Technicolor, and thus into the more vivid hues of the heart...the new technology reached its astounding apogee in the lips of Gene Tierney, as red as a witch's apple. Each frame of her seems hand-tinted, as if she had ordered it. Her soft voice dies to a low whisper at the close of every phrase. "I don't want anybody else to do anything for you," she tells her husband. And with that, the great conservative promise of postwar domesticity--the man, newly arrived or returned, waited upon by his woman--tightens into a threat."
Anthony Lane in the March 9, 2009 New Yorker, reviewing the gorgeous new print of 20th Century Fox's Leave Her To Heaven. I was lucky enough to see this at Film Forum in NYC, a film both stunningly gorgeous and extremely creepy.
March, 2009
"Comedy is more difficult than tragedy. Good comedy techniques are harder to acquire. The shadings of meaning and character are subtler, the timing is everything. A flick of a finger can be important—if it's flicked in the right way, and the whole gesture is small. Once learned, comedy techniques can be used for drama merely by slowing them down. An actress who can do comedy can do drama, the the vice versa isn't necessarily true. Big emotional scenes are much easier to play than comedy. An onion can bring tears to your eyes, but what vegetable can make you laugh?"
Irene Dunne quoted in "Irene Dunne" by James C. Madden in the December, 1969 Films in Review
February, 2009
"Particularly once they reach 30, these women are the most "review sensitive." A chorus of critical praise for a movie aimed at older women can increase an opening weekend's gross by $5 million. In other words, older women are discriminating, which is why so few films are made for them."
--an analysis of movie goers' habits in "The Cobra" by Tad Friend, in the January 19, 2009 New Yorker.
January, 2009
"William Shatner is, forty years after the end of the original 'Star Trek' a ham that has only got more delicious with time. As much of him as there is out there--Priceline ads, the ABC series 'Boston Legal' (which just finished its run last week) the public squawking about whether or not he was invited to George Takei's wedding, or how he felt about being left out of the new 'Star Trek' movie--is there ever enough? I think not."
--Nancy Franklin in the December 22 & 29, 2008 New Yorker. Who could have believed 'Star Trek' would have boldly gone on for so long? Not these actors, as the original series ended.
December, 2008
"While the Mouseketeers are undoubtedly talented, they are not particularly ambitious, says director (Sidney) Miller. Only a few have dreams of becoming great entertainment stars...How does one become a Mouseketeer? 'Only by auditioning for us,' says Miller, 'and we've auditioned thousands of children all over the country. Actually, we ran across many kids who have as much or even more talent than our present Mouseketeers. But, we were looking for something more than talent--personality. You can't learn that in dancing school...No single one of them has star starus; thus the pressure has never become heavier than the kids can carry.'"
--"No Mothers Allowed," an article without a byline in the December 1-7, 1956 TV Guide. Corporate policy for over fifty years! Words to contemplate by the present day High School Musical Mouseketeers, as they are replaced at the end of HSM3 by the next generation.
October-November, 2008
Never to have sailed the Spanish Main with Errol Flynn, never to have ridden the King's Highway with Louis Hayward, never to have fought the Cardinal's Guard with Douglas Fairbanks is never to have dreamed, never to have lived, never to have been young. For at their best, the swashbuckling films brought to life the heroic dreams and romantic fancies that are the heart of the folk tradition of the English speaking world. To see them today, their power undimmed by years, is to recapture not just the golden, carefree days of childhood, but also lost ideals and vanished virtures, swamped by the cynical rat-race reality of the modern, white-hot, technological world--chivalry, gallantry, patriotism, duty and honor.
--Jeffrey Richards in Swashbucklers of the Screen
September, 2008
"Little repressed fears and anxieties grow into monstrous terrors in our dreams and our true selves become so uninhibited. I use the word 'uninhibited' pointedly because melodrama is always aligned as something sort of grotesque or a tasteless exaggeration of real life. If that's all melodrama were, it would deserve that slag; but, I think a melodrama isn't a true life exaggerated—that would be bogus—it's true life uninhibited, just like our dreams."
--Director Guy Maddin's introduction to Lon Chaney and Tod Browning's The Unknown at the 2008 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
July, 2008
"Thanks to the imminent arrival of Star Wars, science fiction--at least as represented by film and television--was changing in 1977. K9 (NB: in Dr. Who) made his debut too early to be considered an imitation of R2D2, but he is one of a horde of allegedly cute robots--Twiki of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-81), Metal Mickey (1980-3), Muffit (another robodog) in Battlestar Galactica (1978-9), Bubo in Clash of the Titans (1981)--soon to become as obligatory as black precinct captains on American cop shows or camp gay best friends in films about neurotic single women looking for Mr. Right."
--Kim Newman in BFI TV Classics: Dr Who
June, 2008
"By today's standards, the old stars weren't paid very much--three, four or five thousand dollars a week, and they almost never got a share of a movie's profits. But these wage slaves were well looked after. The studio functioned for them as business manager, publicist, doctor; as excercise room, sexual playpen, and probably a lot else. There's little reason to think that the stars picked up many checks. The smart ones invested in land or art and became rich. Yet, the system of paternalistic domination was enraging to many...However unhappy, the stars who put up with the indignities and stayed in harness accomplished a lot, and gave moviegoers enormous pleasure, and who's to say that our pleasure doesn't matter as much as their independence?"
--David Denby, "Fallen Idols" in the October 22, 2007 The New Yorker
May, 2008
"When you sit down in a dark theater, it is always with the hope that whay you see will be that unknown movie that you carry in your heart, that movie you want to see more than anything in life, a movie that will speak to you."
--Director Randa Haines (Children of a Lesser God) in Private Screenings: Insiders Share a Century of Great Movie Moments, published by the American Film Institute in 1995.
April, 2008
"Are you much of a film buff?"
"Oh, I love film. D.W.Griffith. Hitchcock. William Wellman. I mean, should I go on? I know my movies."
--Keith Richards, interviewed by Clark Collis in the April 11, 2008 Entertainment Weekly
March, 2008
"The silent era has never ceased to surprise me. Just when I felt I have seen everything, a film comes from left field that upsets all my assumptions. Sometimes, the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy will act like an alcoholic's cure, and after a couple of days, you may see so many boring films you feel you never want to look at another frame. But, persevere, and you will inevitably see something so extraordinary that you faith will be renewed and your enthusiasm increased."
--Kevin Brownlow, in his introduction to the superb new book Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture by Peter Kobel and the Library of Congress.
February, 2008
The most prominent woman (in this 2007's films) was Katherine Heigel, round bellied from her drunken rumpus in Knocked Up, a film that under the cover of its filthy patter marked a dismal retreat, cranking back the cause of women--not so much thier social or sexual status as their raison d'être--to a stage so primitive that Hollywood sought to outgrow it decades ago. Carole Lombard would have taken one sip of a film like that and tipped it down the sink.
--Anthony Lane in the January 14, 2008, New Yorker
January, 2008
"There are more Zampanos in the world than bicycle thieves, and the story of man who discovers his neighbor is just as important and as real as the story of a strike."
Federico Fellini defending his desertion of Neo-Realistic subjects and Marxist reform philosophies in La Strada, his tale of a circus strongman, quoted in La Strada by Peter Bonadanella and Manuela Gieri.
November, 2007
...And no doubt the cutting can cover up what mistakes I've made in continuity (which worry Lucienne, my script girl, to death). Too much care, no door left open to chance, and poetry, which is difficult enough to trap, will certainly be frightened away. Whereas a little improvisation makes it come a bit nearer. To find trees where there are none, or something where it shouldn't be, such as a hat off a head in one shot but on again in the next, are, as it were, cracks in the wall through which poetry can penetrate. Those who notice such spelling mistakes are the real illiterates and cannot be moved by fantasy, anyhow. Such details have no importance.
--Jean Cocteau in The Diary of a Film (La Belle et La Bête).
October, 2007
"My goal was to make the Beast so human, so likeable, so superior to man that his transformation into Prince Charming would be for Belle, a terrible disappointment, and would oblige her to accept a marriage of reason."
--Jean Cocteau on La Belle et La Bête (Beauty and the Beast)
September, 2007
"It is almost impossible to get anything over to the producers when the issues already raised (as if they were the main issues) have dealt with a phrase or triviality. How, for example, can you raise the question of a seduction scene that colors a whole drama even though it is not shown in actuality while the censor is thinking only about the elimination of the word, 'lousy.' and is not in the least sensitive to the fact that the audience is compelled to do its own dirty thinking on inferences that if cannot escape."
--Censor Alice Ames Winter complains (accurately) that the Hays Office censors are missing the big picture during the Pre-Code era, quoted in Lea Jacobs The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942.
August, 2007
All over the city projectors are rolling and screens are flickering into life. In cinemas across Chicago, couples fall in and out of love, kids see their first murder, their first sex scene, insomniacs stare at 2 am features with glazed eyes, cowboys chase dreams, kings still reign; portals to other world gape wide. Each cinema is a world unto itself; from movie palaces to parks, every venue is an experience as unique as the film shown. This is a city of home away from homes, places of respite or horror where, for a few hours time, you can be someone else and live another life. This is Chicago--the city that never closes its eyes for fear of missing the next big scene.
--Brenna Ehrlich in the Fall Winter 06/07 Northwestern University Day for Night program guide.
July, 2007
"Sure, DVDs have changed things, but I believe in my heart that repertory programming will never die...At the end of the day, regardless of how great your flat screen tv is, or how great your Blue-ray discs are, you want to see movies with a community of people, to go out and make a night of it."
IFC Center Programmer Harris Dew, quoted in the June 15, 2007 New York Sun
June, 2007:
Last month, we outlined a new benevolent organization that we are sponsoring, to be known as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Movie Audiences. Since then, the following additional film atrocities have been brought to our attention, and requests that the Society take appropriate and drastic action:
Comedy drams in which the neglected wife, by the simple expedient of donning a blonde wig and a adopting a French accent, so thoroughly disguises herself that her own husband fails to recognize her and tries to engage in a new affaire d'amour to his subsequent chagrin; Ugly duckling themes in which the homely little heroine after one lone trip to a beauty parlor emerges looking like a delirious combination of Cleopatra, Helen of Troy and Miss America; Comedy scenes in which the ultimate height of subtle wit is attained by dropping half a quart of ice cream down the back of a lady's evening gown; and long winded subtitles whose linguistic mazes would make even a cross-word puzzle addict take it to the tall timber in utter defeat.
--Pictures Magazine, June 1926 (Well, audiences no longer have to read title cards...)
May, 2007:
"Who wants to see realism? People in the West! There's always some bright aspect, even to a poor man's life. I'm saying that there should be humour in a film. These art filmmakers think humor is a sin, it's a cardinal sin for a person to laugh in an auditorium, according to them. What's wrong with a person having a bit of enjoyment in the theatre?"
--Manmohan Desai (director Amar Akbar Anthony and Parvarish) quoted in Manmohan Desai Films: Enchantment of the Mind by Connie Hahan.
April, 2007:
"By a Waterfall" in Footlight Parade is "the most staggering water ballet in the history of liquid…neither taste nor logic was a factor by any means in this interminable series of simpering half-naked women, wearing silly rubber bathing caps meant to represent hair, gamboling through an astounding variety of aquacade formations, all in a sequence ostensibly taking place on the stage of a movie theater."
--Richard Barrios in A Song in the Dark
March, 2007:
I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chose to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he'd panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed. If he'd panned an inch to the right, we would see the airport--neither of which belongs in a period movie.
--Sidney Lumet in Making Movies
February, 2007:
"Whenever Westerners don't understand something, they simply think it's Zen." ---Yasujiro Ozu
January, 2007:
" Maybe our own time is too informal for great comedy; (Jacques) Tati was one of the last, lucky artists to operate on the Wildean principle that anarchy is best practiced within the confines of codified behavior."—Anthony Lane.
December, 2006:
"If you give an actor a long rope, he can take you to town. Because we just love the camera, and we love the audience and we love watching ourselves and we love going into all sorts of drama, and unless somebody actually stops us, we just carry on."
--Hindi film superstar Amitabh Bachchan in the January, 2006 Filmfare Magazine.
November, 2006:
"Sometimes I saw the same film four or five times within a month and could still not recount the story line correctly because, at one moment or another, the swelling of the music, a chase through the night, the actress's tears, would intoxicate me, make me lose track of what was going on, carry me away from the rest of the movie."
--François Truffaut quoted in French Cinema From Its Beginnings to the Present by Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
October, 2006:
"I began to note differences of style in the films made by different directors. It was a new stage in my development. I followed the work of Griffith with intense interest. The marvel of marvels was the close up. I have never changed my opinion about this. Certain close-ups of Lillian Gish, of Mary Pickford, and of Greta Garbo are imprinted on my memory for life. The enlargement enables us to delight in the texture of the skin, and a slight quivering of the lips tells us something about the inward life of the idealized woman. I am ready to bear with the most tedious film if it gives me a close up of an actress I like. And in my passion for the close up I have sometimes inserted perfectly irrelevant sequences in my films simply because they allowed me scope for a really good one."
--Jean Renoir in My Life and My Films
September, 2006:
Janet Leigh's autobiography, There Really Was a Hollywood, is a highly entertaining account, particularly of her early moviemaking years. In this passage, she discovers that 19 year old Jeanette Morrison (she refers to herself in the 3rd person before she becomes Janet Leigh) who has never really thought about being an actress until asked to audition for MGM because Norma Shearer saw her photo, and nobody could say no to Norma Shearer, finds out she is going to co-star with her childhood idol Van Johnson in The Romance of Rosy Ridge:
"Then level heads (not hers) took command. She had to get to wardrobe immediately, if not sooner. All of her costumes had to be made and be ready to ship in two weeks. The company would locate in Santa Cruz for three months of exterior shooting and then return to the studio and complete the interiors. Hairpieces had to--
"Jeanette had sunk back down in the chair and had started to sob again.
" 'For Pete's sake, now what's the matter?'
" 'I c-can't go. I can't d-d-do the picture.'
" 'In heaven's name, why?'
" I can't afford to stay in a hotel or pay tr-train fare.'
"She wailed even more violentsly. They gazed at her in utter disbelief, completely dumbfounded. How could she be this innocent, this naive? Her reaction on the onset about the test should have given them a clue. She really was Lissy Anne MacBean.
"Soothingly, lovingly, they all tried to explain at once. The studio paid for transportation for location trips. The studio paid for housing when on location. She would even receive a daily allowance for food, a per diem, it was called. And the studio would provide a round trip ticket for Stan (her husband) as well. Now did she think she could get her fanny over to wardrobe?"
August, 2006:
"He (James Dean) was more than a friend, I think of him as a teacher. We did two films together that took about a year of our lives. He only made three movies in all. We did Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. I was 19. He was 24. It wasn't like we went out and drank beers together or got high or raced cars. We talked about acting. When he died, it destroyed me, because I totally had this belief that people fulfill their destiny. I couldn't understand why James Dean had died so young. He had only been in three movies. He wanted to direct movies. It destroyed my whole concept of destiny and life for years. It still bothers me. I miss him."
--Dennis Hopper interviewed by Terry Gross, from her book, All I Did Was Ask.
July, 2006:
"When I first visited George Eastman House as the guest of George Pratt, I timorously asked if I might be allowed to view a few films. George was too scared of his boss to make the request on my behalf, but when I plucked up the courage to face the infamous James Card, he looked at the screening schedule and summarily cancelled all promised screenings for that week, and allowed me free access to any silent films I might wish to see. That is the way it used to be with many archives. If the curator liked you, there was nothing he or she would not do. If your personality was unappealing, you might just as well look for a new calling in life."
--Anthony Slide in Silent Players, his dishy biographical memoir of selected of silent film actors, most of whom he knew personally.
June, 2006:
"Mabel Normand belonged to the first generation of film actors, the very young men and women who felt their way throught the craft of screena acting helped by the tutelage of directors like Griffith, Ince or Sennett. Frustrated by the anonymity of Biograph and other companies' presentations, they had no compass to orient themselves in the storms of moviegoers curiosity and adulation. They had no predecessors from whose experience they could benefit. This was more difficult for the women, in an age not far past the Victorian. There were, of course, stars of the theater, like Sarah Bernhardt or Eva Tanguay, but they still subsisted at 'ground level,' their greasepaint and sweat palpable to the audience. The idea of screen gods or goddesses existing in the world of shadows and specters...was totally new--giant luminescent faces beaming down upon the great unwashed. Were these people real? In days long before television, at the dawn of radio, only the newspapers could feed the rapacious appetite of fans for the 'true facts' behind the idols of the screen. And the newspapers, then as now, were cannibals."
--Simon Louvish, musing on why so many early movie stars were touched by scandal, in his book about the Sennett studio, Keystone.
May, 2006:
"Not bad for a kid from Brooklyn Heights whose psychologist parents raised him in a house full of live-in patients. 'I grew up in an environment where nearly everybody around me was clinically insane,' says (Akiva) Goldsman, 43, of his childhood. 'It was a lot like Hollywood, except back then the insane people couldn't fire me.'"
--Benjamin Svetkey quoting Oscar-winning scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman in the April 28/May 5 Entertainment Weekly
April, 2006:
"I think I disappointed Hitchcock. I didn't fit his image of the ideal blonde. In my opinion, he was well aware that he'd made a mistake in choosing me, and he decided to go along with that mistake. It's as if he had wanted to put himself in the skin of the James Stewart character, who discovers Judy when he's hoping to find Madeleine and doesn't...Hitchcock was hoping to find in me a Grace Kelly-like blonde, which wasn't the case, all along hoping he could change my nature. As a result there's this resistance on the screen."
--Kim Novak, discussing Vertigo in 1997 as quoted in Le Monde, from Jean Pierre Dufreigne's Hitchcock Style
March, 2006:
"Storytelling is the purpose of costume design. As Adrian, MGM's head of costume design from 1928 to 1942, whose design innovations made fashion history and propelled him to become cinema's first commercially successful costume designer, so declared in 1930 when he said, 'One could line up all the gowns and tell the screen story.'"
--Drake Stutesman in the essay "Storytelling: Marlene Dietrich's face and John Fredericks' Hats" in Fashioning Film Stars, edited by Rachel Moseley.
February, 2006:
One remembers a handbag, a key in the palm of the hand, a crime reflected in a pair of glasses, a windmill with the sails turning the wrong way. One no longer remembers why Janet Leigh stopped at the Bates Motel, nor does one remember the story of Notorious. Neither Ingrid Bergman nor Cary Grant, but only a bottle of wine. This does not happen with Griffith or Welles or me. Hitchcock was really the master of the universe. He had a control over the audience that nobody else has ever had. Through objects.
--Jean-Luc Godard (Histoires du Cinema) quoted in Jean Pierre Dufreigne's Hitchcock Style
January, 2006:
"In an interview that accompanies the Koyaanisqatsi DVD, (Philip) Glass provides his own eloquent definition of the film-music art: he calls it 'observing accurately the distance between the image and the music.' In other words, instead of trying to make image and music serve the same ends, you play one against the other, letting the disparity become an emotional experience in itself."
--from "Sound and Vision" by Alex Ross in the June 27, 2005 New Yorker.
December, 2005:
"I think that if you don't like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don't like cinema. Or, at least you don't understand it. Sure, Sam's movies are blunt, pulpy, occasionally crude, lacking any sense of delicacy or subtlety. But those aren't shortcomings. They're simply reflections of his temperament, his journalistic training and his sense of urgency…There's a great deal of sophistication in Sam's movies, but it's all at the service of rendering emotion. When you appreciate a Fuller film, what you're responding to is cinema at its very essence. Motion as emotion. Sam's pictures move convulsively, violently. Just like life when it's being lived with real passion"
--Martin Scorsese's introduction to Sam Fuller's autobiography Film is a Battleground.
November, 2005:
"Of course there must be subtleties in filmmaking. Just make sure you make them obvious."
--Billy Wilder, quoted in Rosemarie Jarski's Hollywood Wit.
October, 2005:
"At one point, Hepburn--whom some wags in town had by then dubbed 'Katharine of Arrogance'--suggested that she play both roles. (Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots) ' But, if you played both queens,' asked John Carradine, a favorite Ford player who had a supporting role in the film, 'how would you know which one to upstage?' Hepburn found nothing amusing about the comment at the time. Years later, she roared with laughter telling it."
--A. Scott Berg on John Ford's casting of Mary of Scotland (1936) in his memoir Kate Remembered
September, 2005:
"In spite of the cosmopolitan veneer, it's the kind of movie where Arlene Dahl, looking out her hotel window at New York, says, 'This is where I belong,' and you know right away she is unredeemable; where June Allyson, given money by her husband to buy an evening gown, buys an outdoor barbeque instead, complete with chef's hats for the whole family; and Lauren Bacall, looking misty-eyed at her says, 'What an idiotic, wonderful thing to do!' Though Bacall, you're sure, wouldn't be found dead in a chef's hat, she has certainly learned how to deliver this sort of line: with an appropriately wistful inflection."
--James Harvey, discussing Woman's World (1954) in his book Movie Love in the Fifties.
August, 2005:
In his review of The Birds, François Truffaut bemoaned the praise heaped on films like Bridge on the River Kwai "scenes set inside offices alternating with discussions between old fogies and some action scenes usually filmed by another crew. Rubbish , traps for fools, Oscar machines….what an injustice there is in the generally bad reception. I am so disappointed that no critic admired the basic premise of the film 'Birds attack people.'"
July, 2005:
"Taking up a Hobby: Ideally, of course, this should be something evil, such as drug taking (Gary Oldman in Leon) lair-building (various) and torture (everyone). Alternatively, it is good to try to incorporate a harmless hobby into one's work. Bad guys are keen pet lovers, for instance, with snakes, sharks and piranhas always a popular choice. The Batman series, in particular, would never have been possible without the contribution of demented cat, penguin, riddle and coin-tossing hobbyists, among others."
--Leo Benedictus muses on the qualities of the perfect cinematic supervillain in the 06.24.05 edition of The Guardian. Which brings up another unanswered question. Where do megalomaniacs recruit their henchmen, and what do the underlings get out of these doomed, one-sided relationships?
June, 2005:
Giants like these (Independence Day, Godzilla, Pearl Harbor, the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies) continue to stalk through the multiplexes, shaking gold from the heavens with their thunderous, THX Certified footsteps; but inside their high-definition, digitized craniums their tiny brains are dead.
--Louis Menand on the state of the cinema blockbuster in the February 7, 2005 New Yorker.
May, 2005:
"A star is someone you don't mind spending two hours in the cinema with, even if the film is bad."
Director Claude Lelouch, quoted in Hollywood Wit by Rosemarie Jarski.
April, 2005:
"Of all the things written about (Orson) Welles over the years, I lean toward the view of Gore Vidal, who wrote that Welles, 'was a miracle of empathy and he knew all the gradations of despair that the oyster experienced as it slid down his gullet. But the romantic genius aims not for perfection in his art but for poignant glamour in his ruin.'"
--Scott Eyman in his review of Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios by Clinton Heylin
March, 2005:
The very breadth and longevity of (John) Wayne's career has become impossible to achieve ever since the original star system died forty years ago. Fewer and fewer movies are made, the audience therefore unable to attain the familiarity of repeated exposure that personality stars used to have (which explains why so many of today's stars began with the weekly intimacy of the TV series, from Clint Eastwood to Tom Hanks). While a contemporary star is lucky to have two pictures released in a year, audiences of the thirties or forties could see Cagney, Bogart, Gable or Tracy on giant screens four, five or even six times a year."
--Peter Bogdanovich in Who the Hell's in It. Who the Devil Made It? Bogdanovich's previous book, had detailed, thoughtful interviews with studio era directors. His recent "movie stars I have known" essay collection is considerably more self-serving and not nearly as interesting as his previous one.
February, 2005:
"But from the very first film Keaton released as a star, once his association with Arbuckle was ended, was breath-takingly, an explosion of style. To sit through dozens and dozens of short comedies of the period and then to come upon "One Week" is to see the one thing no man ever sees: a garden at the moment of blooming."
--Walter Kerr in The Silent Clowns
January, 2005:
American films used to be an advertisement for life in the states--there was a sophistication, depth, the allure of a cool, complex manner. Now, most big studio films aren't interested in America, preferring to depict an invented, imagined world, or one filled with easily recognizable plot devices. "Our movies no longer reflect our culture," said a top studio executive who did not wish to be identified. "They have become gross, distorted exaggertions. And I think America is growing into those exaggerated images. My fear is that it's the tail wagging the dog--we write the part and then we play the part."
Lynn Hirschberg in the November 14, 2004 New York Times Magazine, an issue on globalization and the movies.
December, 2004:
Entertainment is not, as we often think, a full-scale flight from our problems, not a means of forgetting them completely, but rather a rearrangement of our problems into shapes which tame them, which disperse them to the margins of our attention.
--Michael Wood, America in the Movies
November, 2004:
"Writing for films is just like doing crossword puzzles, except that to do crossword puzzles you have to have a certain knowledge of words."
--Dorothy Parker, quoted in Jeanette MacDonald, Hollywood Diva by Edward Baron Turk
October, 2004:
"If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood; if they had been any better I should not have come."
--Raymond Chandler, quoted in Rosemarie Jarski's Hollywood Wit.
September, 2004:
"I do get offers. But they're nothing to run for...It would be a strictly professional decision. If someone comes to me with an agreeable subject, I'll take it up as just another assignment. What's the big deal? What would an Indian be doing in a Hollywood film? We're the wrong color. I'm not interested in playing a stereotype. They visualize Indians as newspaper vendors, taxi drivers, Patel motel owners or ananchronistic Maharajas indulging in lascivious pleasures with spears in their hands. Sorry, not interested."
--Amitabh Bachchan, India's greatest movie star and living legend, on going Hollywood, quoted on Indiatimes.com/filmfare
August, 2004:
In 1991 I was on a month-long solo tour of the U.K. and spent my off days in the seaside town of Whitstable. One wintry afternoon I was out walking on the beach with my tour manager, when we spotted a lone spectral figure with a dog coming towards us out of the mist. "That's Peter Cushing," whispered my companion. "He lives in a house down the beach." As a longtime horror film aficionado, I could scarcely contain my delight, and walked up and introduced myself. "Mr. Cushing, I'm a huge fan of your work." He graciously shook my hand, then fixed his penetrating gaze on me: "And where do you hail from, young man?" "I live in New York City," I replied. "Ahhh, New York! Dr. Frankenstein smiled diabolically. "They have marvelous electricity there!"
--A letter from Gary Lucas, published in the March 10 (I think!) Village Voice
July, 2004:
"It is depressing to read a list of movies and realize that you missed all of them, but it is just as disappointing to discover that you have seen every one. You want to know that there are still a few truffles left in the box."
--Louis Menand on year-end "ten best" lists in the January 12, 2004 New Yorker
June, 2004:
"Ensconced in a doll's house, Scott becomes even more irrational, claiming that he is becoming 'more monstrous in my domination of Louise.' Although distressed about her husband, Louise's reaction is as much about frustration as pity...Whilst feeling powerless to alter Scott's fate, Louise is empowered to pursue her own existence, knowing that she cannot be challenged. She leaves the house one day, and the cat terrorises Scott in his tiny living room. Following a struggle of lounge dimensions, the cat is instrumental in making Scott run towards the cellar, whereupon Louise returns, the door opens and the draught blows Scott to a prison below stairs. Louise assumes that Scott has been eaten by the cat. The cat purrs contentedly, perhaps even conspiratorially. The man of the house is gone."
--Paul Wells, describing a plot turn in The Incredible Shrinking Man in his essay "The Invisible Man: Shrinking Masculinity in the 1950s Science Fiction B Movie", reprinted in You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim.
May, 2004:
Metropolis is the ur-text of the technological urban machine, complete with compartmentalized social structures, layers of transportation, surveillance and communications and an organic flow of energy linking its various sectors. The eroticized chaos of the narrative and the destructive force of the femme fatale are likewise emblematic of a modern mythology conjoining power, politics, sexuality and technology.
Catherine Russell in a review of Metropolis in the Winter 2003 Cineaste.
April, 2004:
"To my mind, Jimmy was just as talented as Marlon (Brando) with the critical difference that he was also a lot more self-disciplined. He was a pro from the bottom up. Brando was selfish, he never thought of anyone but Numero Uno. It wasn't that way with Jimmy at all. When you'd do a scene with him, he knew he needed you in that scene with him, or else he was going to look a little crazy talking to himself. Marlon, on the other hand, always wanted to talk to himself. When you think about it, he's the one who really should have done Harvey."
--Alex Nicol, who was in the Actor's Studio with Brando and in two 1950s films with James Stewart, quoted in James Stewart by Donald Dewey.
March, 2004:
"The spectacle was grotesque. Jolson minces, rolls his eyes, claps his hands, swivels his knees and does bird whistles until you scream for Mammy. He is unbearable. He beats you with a stick until you like him, and then the unspeakable moment comes when you have to admit that you do, sort of."
--Mick LaSalle on Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in his book Dangerous Men.
February, 2004:
Joan Crawford brought her Schiaparellis back to Hollywood and threw them like a gauntlet at Adrian, who made their linebacker shoulders and lavish embellishment his own trademarks, and those of nearly every sinewy, flat-hipped, chain-smoking, man-eating, social-climbing, scarlet-clawed screen temptress of the thirties.
--"Mother of Invention" an essay about Elsa Schiaparelli in the October 23, 2003 New Yorker.
January, 2004:
I recently watched (A Dog's Life) for the first time in fifteen years and was stunned that so much of what I remembered as "Chaplin," the scenes I think of as the essence of his work as the Tramp spread throughout his short films, were all in this one movie. There he is stealing a hot dog through a hole in a fence; rolling back and forth under the fence to escape the cop who's seen him; devouring muffins from a plate whenever the food stand owner turns his back, even for a millisecond; always eating dust in the race from the bench to the employment office windows as openings are posted first at one and then the other. I saw A Dog's Life when I was about ten, and this last sequence, with its exasperating dreamlike inevitability, spoke to a basic anxiety in me. I think of the sequence whenever I stand in lines, at the grocery store, the airport, wherever, because it enables me to nurse my low expectations with better grace.
--from Comedy is a Man in Trouble by Alan Dale
December, 2003:
"Fame may be fleeting, but worldwide recognition for that pleated skirt once prompted Travilla to wisecrack, 'When I die, don't have me cremated, have me pleated.'"
--The designer of the white halter neck dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch reflects on his most famous creation, quoted in Hollywood Costume Design by Travilla by Maureen Reilly.
November, 2003:
"Zeta-Jones is merely ravishing, but Clooney owns the film. Ordinarily best at sardonic, man's man confidence, he strides through Intolerable Cruelty with fantastic screwball zest. To see Clooney tenderize, season, grill and serve this ham hock of a role is to see an old-fashioned virtuoso in perpetual motion. His restless artillery of double-takes, baffled winces, fake smiles, stunned glares, tongue-on-teeth inspections, and zealous line readings might make up the ripest lead perf in a Hollywood film since Cary Grant's in Arsenic and Old Lace."
--Michael Atkinson in the October 8 Village Voice
October, 2003:
I think that Bringing Up Baby's failure upon its initial release (it lost $365,000 for RKO) indicates that it isn't just ...older members of the audience who find the aggressive heroine subversive. The younger popular audience did as well, and it is one of the few examples of a fluffy comedy achieving the kind of controlled unease that we usually only get from more ambitious works of art."
--Alan Dale in Comedy is a Man in Trouble
August (and September!) 2003:
All in all, Pirates of the Caribbean is the best spectacle of the summer: the absence of pomp is a relief, the warmth of the comedy is a pleasure. The screenwriter Terry Rossio can perhaps be forgiven for saying (in the press notes), "We wanted it to be a very classic, Jane Austen-style, bodice ripping romance." (Rossio is probably thinking of Austen's most famous work, Pride and Pimpernel.)
--David Denby in the July 28, 2003, New Yorker
July, 2003:
Watching Gallardo triumph as a matador, Dona Sol tosses him a ring in the shape of a serpent that had belonged to Cleopatra, then lures him to her home so they can be alone when she writhes like a boa constrictor. Just as success and the crowd's worship deceived him about what really has value, so now does a conniving vixen. He succumbs to Dona Sol, devouring her with a long, cannibalistic, and very hot kiss. Hovering close to Dona Sol's bare shoulders as she strums a harp, we see him struggling to quell desire, then yielding to it, becoming as powerless to restrain himself as a provoked bull in the ring. He's all animal, deliciously savage. As Jeanine Basinger writes in Silent Stars, Valentino "conveys a passion that is slightly kinky, with a touch of rape and sadism." Turn on the air conditioning.
--Emily W. Lieder in her spellbinding new biography of Rudolph Valentino, Dark Lover. In her meticulously researched and lively, if somewhat purple prose, Valentino comes alive as in no other book.
June, 2003:
In short, this is a study of friendship--the most widespread of human transactions, far more common than love, but treated by the movies with comparative disdain. We get heaps of children and teen-agers becoming friends on film, but adults tend to be shovelled, with indecent haste, into enmity and lust. Is that why we are so heartened, even as love is snapped off at the root, by the final companionable line of Casablanca?
--Anthony Lane reviewing Man on the Train in the May 12, 2003 New Yorker
May, 2003:
Silent comedies can appeal to even the youngest viewers, he (John Flowers, who teaches psychology and film at Chapman University in Orange County) says, "because they're far more physical. You either laugh or you don't. You don't have to explain much. They are literally seeing it for what it is. As soon as a kid develops a sense of what's contemporary, it knocks out the middle ground of older films, because those are too much like what they watch now, but not as good. Silents work because they are totally different from what they watch now."
As one of my son's classmates put it after watching Keaton's One Week: "All the jokes in movies we see now are kind of the same. These were all different."
--Randy Lewis, "Can't Beat Buster, Can't Top the Tramp" in the April 17, 2003 Los Angeles Times.
April, 2003:
The reformed or redeemed prostitute is a sentimental idea, but one need only compare Red Dust to Pretty Woman (1990) or Mighty Aphrodite (1995) to see how much more intelligent and gritty is the social Darwinism of the thirties than that of the nineties. In Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts' character, for all her working girl credentials, is a creature of a fairy tale, not the streets, and she has no real competition for the hero's affection. Harlow's Vantine, hanging around the rubber plantation as if she were still loitering in a brothel off-hours, reminds us where a lot of our wisetalk originates. She also reminds us how hard working girls work, at one point sloughing off the inconveniences of the accomodations with, "Guess I'm not used to sleeping nights anyway." Her stamina (so poignant given how fragile a hold on real life hers proved to be) is a point in her favor."
--Maria DiBattista in Fast-Talking Dames
March, 2003
"...we treasure the offcuts of Bond, and not the whole, the gems prized free from their settings; when it comes to Goldfinger, I like Oddjob's killer frisbee of a hat, I like the laser beam that eats it way towards Connery's crotch, and some of us can even stomach his golfing gear, but I can catch that film on TV, go out to make a sandwich, and walk back in for my favorite sequence without feeling a spasm of loss. When North by Northwest comes on, however, I have to stay with it, and to hell with lunch."
--Anthony Lane, "Mondo Bond" in the November 4, 2002 New Yorker
February, 2003
"I was totally immersed in the Italian films. For me, it was these Latin women, their smoldering power--Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Anna Magnani. There's something so extraordinary about their intense eyes, their hair, the way they moved. When I saw Loren in Boy on a Dolphin, she sang this little song in Greek, Sagapo... I can remember every word. I was in my element. The movies were my church." --Manolo Blahnik in the February 2003 Vogue.
"Mournful was the girl not invited to lurch around the gymnasium--renamed the Spring Serenade or the Apple Blossom Romp, decorated with Kleenex flowers, lit with blue spotlights. Round you would go, to the strains of an eight-piece band in a faint odor of running shoes and sweat, clutching and being clutched by a clammy-handed youth reeking of Old Spice.You'd be wearing, of course, the dress, and along with your accessory The Date, you'd get photographed in it by the dour snapster laid on for the occasion. Why did you never look like Audrey Hepburn in such pictures, but instead like some juvenile delinquent out of Police Gazette? --Margaret Atwood in the December 2002 Vogue.
January 2003:
"His greatest ambition was 'to get out' (of Ft. Wayne, Indiana). The movies of the nineteen-thirties taught him about penthouse life and the quainter locutions of the gentry. He fanned the flames of his escapist fantasies with his mother's back issues of Vogue. Ethyl Blass was a dressmaker and the widow of a travelling hardware salesman. The mother who sews seems to be a folk archetype, particularly in stories of rags to riches. (Wallis Simpson had one. So did Eva Peron.) Her selfless needlework provides her child's--her changeling's--first noble disguise."
--"Noblesse de Robe" a profile of Bill Blass by Judity Thurman in the September 9, 2002 New Yorker.
December 2002:
"Deitch speaks of his love of silent film--'a fascinating form of literature with words and pictures, just like comics!'"
--Underground graphic artist Kim Deitch, quoted in the October 16, 2002 Village Voice review (by R. C. Baker) of his fantasia on the early days of motion picture animation, Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
November 2002:
"Let me tell you about Florida politicians. I make them, I make them out of whole cloth, just like a tailor makes a suit. I get their name in the newspaper. I get them some publicity and I get their name on the ballot. Then, after the election, we count the votes, and if they don't turn out right, we recount them again until they do"
--Edward G. Robinson to Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo
September 2002:
"The whole history of the big studios is a graveyard of stars who got out of control. And the stars had to be completely destroyed with bad pictures so that the exhibitors and the public would accept their obliteration and so that no other studios could reconstitute them. (Joe Schenck) started on Keaton with The General--lousy publicity. I was in Hollywood in 1927--nobody heard of it. Talkies coming in...Why don't these slobs (people like Anita Loos) write the truly tragic fact that talkies killed Keaton? I don't think that father love, wifely support, complete sobriety, the backing of the Schenck and MGM could have reconciled the public to the shock of Buster's pure, austere face combined with the growl of an angry giant."
Louise Brooks in a letter to Keaton biographer Tom Dardis, reprinted in the April 1998 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
September 2002:
One of the questions most frequently asked is: What does a director consider to be of first importance? I too, before I learned not to ask too many questions, asked Marshall Neilan, one of the most prominent in his day, what he considered the most important part of directing. Without a moment's hesitation he answered, "Getting someone to let you direct."
One who praises as great art only that which has become popular and about which there can no longer be any dispute is qualified to discuss art only with a child.
--Josef von Sternberg in his autobiography, Fun in a Chinese Laundry
August 2002:
"It's time to become a myth."
--Designer Diane Von Furstenberg on the subject of turning 40
June/July 2002
Few experiences were as thrilling as that of holding in my hands not prints, but original drawings--sheet after sheet of tracing paper, thick with easily smudged charcoal or graphite--used to build Rear Window's courtyard, or 42nd Street's backdrops, or Holly Golightly's town house apartment. At one level it allowed me to enter the minds of the men and women who created these enviroments, to study their choices, to glimpse them at work, as it were. But there was something else about these exquisite drawings, each dated a few weeks before the start of shooting, and signed-off by the art department head--a haunting feeling that one had entered the time and space in which those classic films were still yet to be made, when no one could know that the places they had just drawn up in detail would turn out to live forever in the imagination.
--James Sanders in the Afterward and Acknowledgements to Celluloid Skyline
May 2002
CC: What goes through your mind when you see this picture (of you dancing with Sabrina)?
BW: Well, I forgot that I was showing her how to do it, because she did it very well herself. She was guiding ME, I wasn't guiding her. And, I thought that I was at the ball, I was in a restaurant dancing with her...I was completely forgetful, and then I thought,"Oh my God, the camera! Where would the camera be?"
CC: So, it's like what we talked about earlier in these interviews. You wrote these movies, really, to live all these different lives, to experience the things you weren't able to in real life. And here you are, dancing with your own character, played by Audrey Hepburn. Until, of course, Bogart steps in and actually does the scene.
BW: He does the scene...and I say, "Oh, that's not as good as mine."
from Cameron Crowe's Conversations with Wilder
April 2002
"These cartoons were never made for children, nor were they made for adults. They were made for me." --Chuck Jones, quoted posthumously in the March 8, 2002 Entertainment Weekly
March 2002
What, finally, are movie stars for? Maybe to prove that Desire, writ large up there, is probably the best we'll ever get of Wisdom. To show us how, happier, we might've looked. To make us pay such major money for mere Junior Mints. Stars are meant to keep us from going to bed at 8 p.m., sobbing. Movie stars "stand for us" when we know we were born kneeling and will die crawling on our bellies like reptiles. Movie stars are what we tithe to, wank to, dress like, wish for, doubt would really like us. They are what we would all die for, given the slightest chance..."
--Alan Gurganus in "When I Was Engaged to Ava Gardner" in the Winter 2002 Oxford American "Southern Movie Issue" (which I recommend highly).
February 2002
"(Designer Yves) St. Laurent was nowhere near as radical as the first woman who bought an old rayon dress in a thrift shop and wore it out on the town."-- Lynn Yaeger in the January 22, 2002 Village Voice
(And I bet she did it because she wanted to look like Joan Crawford--moviediva)
January 2002
"You have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone--to share the giddy high excitement you feel--is enough for a friendship.) Our emotions rise to meet the force coming from the screen, and they go on rising throughout our movie-going lives. When this happens in a popular art form--when it's an art experience that we discover for ourselves--it is sometimes disparaged as fannishness. But there's something there that goes deeper than connoisseurship or taste. It's a fusion of art and love."--Pauline Kael in Movie Love, quoted in the September 17, 2001 New Yorker article by David Denby.
December, 2001
"I was nineteen. I had walked into the office to meet Lucas for Star Wars. I read the scene with Harrison. I bought the ticket to ride and rode it to the end. Had I known the film was going to make that loud a noise, I would have dressed better and refused to wear that insane hair."--Carrie Fisher in the December, 2001 Vogue


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Herbert Morley Fletcher was born at Whiston, Lancashire, the second son of Alfred Evans Fletcher, of Liverpool, an inspector of alkali works under the Local Government Board, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Richard Morley of Leeds. He went to Mill Hill and the Royal Liverpool Institute School as a boy, and then read natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining a double first. Having taken the degree of B.A. in 1887, he did his clinical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and proceeded to the M.B, B.Chir., degrees three years later, completing his studies with a visit to Freiburg and Vienna. After passing through the usual junior appointments at St Bartholomew's and one at the Hospital for Sick Children, he was elected assistant physician to the East London Hospital for Children. He served on the honorary staff of his own Hospital from 1904 to 1929, when he retired as consulting physician. There, with Thursfield, he developed the paediatric department; and, indeed, it was as specialist in children's diseases that he became chiefly known, although he remained an able and successful general physician. He wrote articles both for Allbutt and Rolleston's System of Medicine and for Garrod, Batten and Thursfield's Diseases of Children. Fletcher was associated with many hospitals in the London area and worked for King Edward's Hospital Fund for more than thirty years. He served on the staff of the 1st London General Hospital as a major during the 1914-1918 War. He was a Censor of the Royal College of Physicians and examined for the Conjoint Board and the Universities of Belfast, Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow and Sheffield. President of the Cambridge Athletic Club in 1888, he retained his interest in athletics, and his trim, athletic figure, to the end of his days. He was a good shot, and enjoyed fishing, skating and golf. He also excelled as a host. Fletcher was first married to Ethel Frances, daughter of Joseph Crossley of Halifax, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. His second wife, by whom he had two daughters, was Mary Christina, daughter of W. E. Willink of Liverpool and sister of the Rt. Hon. H. U. Willink. His younger brother was Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, F.R.C.P. Fletcher died at Petworth, Sussex, where he had lived for fifteen years.
G H Brown
[Lancet, 1950; B.M.J., 1950; Times, 11 Sept. 1950; Al.Cantab., ii, 520]
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By Peter Sinkamba
The Green Party says it supports the newly introduced monthly national sanitation day under which citizens will be required to dedicate three hours of the last Saturday of each month to clean up the environment. However, the Green Party says the programme which has been dubbed as the "National Day of Cleaning" is likely to flop due to lack of wide consultation on the part of Government. The party has urged Government to rethink the implementation strategy of the programme.
"As the Green Party, we support the National Day of Cleaning because this programme speaks to our Vision Green 2030. Our mission as the Greens is to develop and implement policies, laws and strategies which guarantee sustainable management of our natural resources in order to meet basic human needs unconditionally, and to ensure that present and future generations have full opportunities for personal and collective development," says party president Peter Sinkamba.
"The programme speaks to ecological sustainability which is one of the green agenda strategies. Sustainability is really the heart of Green Party thinking. A sustainable nation is one that considers the welfare of its descendants for at least seven generations. We can only achieve that if we are wise stewards of the earth, which includes cleaning and greening our environment all the time.
"However, to achieve this, we need to secure three pillars. First of all, we must put in place realistic regulations and strategies. Secondly, there must be realistic and sustainable economic resources set aside to drive the green agenda. Thirdly, the majority of stakeholders must buy into the programme. It appears to us, as the Green Party that the three pillars have not be adequately taken into consideration, and for that reason, this programme is likely to flop," Mr. Sinkamba said.
He said in terms of the first pillar, either a voluntary or regulated lock-down strategy must be employed and added that either of the two strategies has pros and cons. He said Government should undertake an impact analysis of the policy or strategy before launching the strategy and enacting laws to that effect.
"I can't remember hearing of a policy or strategy analysis on national sanitation day," he said.
With regard to the economic resources, a nation-wide monthly strategy like the National Sanitation Day requires a budgetary allocation. Mr. Sinkamba said there is no budget allocation for such a programme in the 2018 budget.
"Honorable Mutati never mentioned a programme like this in his 2018 budget speech. So if this programme has to run, it will entail shifting resources from budgeted lines to this project. Such a move would run afoul with the Financial Management Act," Mr. Sinkamba said.
On the consultations, he said that Government did not consult widely. For this reason, the Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale announced that the SDA Church will be exempted from the programme. He said such an exemption would not auger well with other churches and stakeholders as it would be discriminatory, and therefore unconstitutional.
"No person in Zambia should be discriminated against. If church members of one church are exempted from compulsory labour and others compelled to labour, that moves runs afoul with the constitutional imperatives and therefore illegal," he added.


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By Jane Voigt
August 24, 2013 -- ESPN analyst and former player, Mary Jo Fernandez, is right. "Whenever Serena's in the tournament, she has to be considered the favorite." This
U. S. Open is no different.
No matter who landed in her quarter or half, when Serena Williams is on, which lately has been most of the time -- she has won 8 titles this year -- no one has much of a chance. There have been exceptions this year, though.
Sabine Lisicki's hard hitting and big serving proved too much for Serena in the semifinals at Wimbledon. And, Sloane Stephens' tight composition of points in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open were enough to oust Williams. In Paris, though, Serena pushed herself mentally and physically. Her reward, a second Roland Garros title. She won her first in 2002.
The other heavy hitters are: Samantha Stosur; Li Na; and Victoria Azarenka who held a match point against Serena in last year's final.
Stosur defeated Williams in the 2011 final, too. Her performance that evening was a breath of fresh air from the Aussie. Her mind was lock tight, and Serena's floated around Arthur Ashe Stadium like an unmoored boat.
Stosur recently parted ways with David Taylor, her coach of 7 years. The split was unexpected, but coincides nicely with her renewed passion for her game. At last, Stosur seems to play for herself. Her game shined against Azarenka in the final of Carlsbad at the end of July. Stosur won 62 63. Earlier in the week she defeated Agnieszka Radwanska, too, continuing her dominance over the Pole when few can figure a way out of her game plans.
Serena Williams is aware of history and wants to be part of it; if she wins New York she will take another step -- her 17th major -- in a quest to be the greatest of all time.
As reminded in a video on Tennis.com's story Fan Club: Venus Williams, Serena has wanted people to play like Serena, be like Serena. She did not want to follow, even as a 12-year-old. She did not want to emulate anyone, not even big sister Venus. Cut from a different cloth, Serena's determination and self perspective are high on a list of assets.
There are other women who are steeped in those characteristics. However, they have not received the amount of attention as have the Williams sisters. We know more about those two women than we do about all the top 20 combined.
Serena and Venus did not play junior tennis circuits. Their father and coach, Richard Williams, thought they should go to school, mature, and remain with their family.
Mats Wilander, in an interview with Jane Voigt in 2011, made similar comments. Packing up kids when 10-13, shipping them off to academies too far away for regular family visits will not serve the child, he said. In the end, they are the ones who must love tennis. They will not continue, otherwise. Pushing, finagling and mapping a course to high stakes prize money is not a super highway without heavy tolls.
Richard Williams did want his girls to get out of the ghetto of Compton, Calif. He discovered tennis was an avenue. Little did he know what would eventually transpire. His faith was sincere. His commitment to the girls was too.
Serena Williams' draw has a scattering of complications. Sabine Lisicki would only face Serena in the semifinals, if they progress on course. Li Na could be a likely semifinalist and another woman with formidable power. Both Lisicki and Li could spell trouble, but consistency in performance is a big negative.
Sloane Stephens lurks as a possible 4th round match-up. Serena is not likely to let the opportunity slip to assert her dominance over the talented, yet raw, No. 15 seed. Stephens can battle the power, but strategically she lacks foresight and tactical acuity.
Jelena Jankowicz, the No. 9 seed, has climbed back to the top of her game. She plays Serena closely, and likes the battle. Their head-to-head is 4-6, Serena with the advantage. Serena last defeated Jankowicz in Charleston, in the final of the 2013 Family Circle Cup. The Serbian has whipped up on Serena three times on a hard court, and once on red clay in the 2010 semifinals.
Agnieszka Radwanska is another potential semifinal opponent. Radwanska's game is the antithesis of Williams'. It's the un-power game, flaunting spin and magical variety and a heavy dollop of fleet-of-footwork.
Radwanska has never beaten Serena in their six matches. The Polish variety master did stretch their 2012 Wimbledon final to three sets, though. Williams fell like many do against Radwanska, into a web of confusion spinning around offense and defense. Once Williams realized the conundrum, she dominated and won the title.
Down The Tee picks Serena Williams to go through to the final, given her draw, history at the Open, and game. She has won four Opens, following Chris Evret's six and Steffi Graf's 5. A fifth, and second consecutive title, would suit her well.
Azarenka is clearly Serena's biggest threat for an upset. They could meet in the final, given Maria Sharapova's withdrawal at No. 2. Azarenka defeated Serena in the final of the Western & Southern Open last weekend. Azarenka did not walk on the Linder Family Court with high expectations. She had not played well throughout the week-long tournament. However, as the minutes passed in the final her game went up and up. Her errors fell. Her serve percentages rose along with her confidence.
There is absolutely no reason Azarenka could not win the U. S. Open. It only takes seven wins, steely nerve, and a healthy dose of self confidence.
All players, though, no matter the experience and record can fall prey to mental lapses. With matches decided by points, the mental side of the game is similar to the glue that binds a book. Watch scores go up and down, as players' minds wander after a bad point or game or set. The ones that back-burner adversity will triumph.


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Fair enough ill be there, Actually can we do it Thurs(ive been lugging boxes of books all morning from a collection I bought and a little beat)
We need forum C O N T EN T. @Mycke any suggestions?
I wouldn't say dead, but more so in a coma. There is activity, but nothing real major to make it seem alive.
Quote from: SomeBK on August 11, 2018, 04:49:09 amWe need forum C O N T EN T. @Mycke any suggestions?The only thing that will help this forum is Ub3r taking control of it, since they have let the trolls take over the place, most normal people dont even waste their time here at all.And ive already suggested to Marc this needs to be done, so... *shrug*
Forums are dead? Good. Now lets move on with our lives.
Please understand that unlike during InDev, we are forced to communicate only once per week at most.
The writing of this reply has taken a bit more than a full man-day.
Remember when ub3r asked if the forums needed moderation then promptly ignored the request from the community for just that, yeah me too.


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Dying Light: The Bozak Horde
I picked up Dying Light a few months back from GameStop as I'd been interested in it for quite some time. But none of my friends had it, and I hadn't really heard anything about it, so it slipped to the back of my mind. I've only had the game a little over a week, but it has already taken its place among my Top 10 favorite video games ever released. This isn't a review of Dying Light itself, though, so I won't go into a full detailed review: suffice to say, I think it's the best zombie video game made to date.
The Bozak Horde is... well, it's unusual. The developers basically take everything you've learned in Dying Light, and turn it upside down. Gone are the sprawling urban streets where you can freerun your way from one corner of the map to the other without ever touching the ground. Gone is the "run when you can, fight when you must" attitude. Gone are the complex, interesting characters; gone is the deep, involving story. I applaud the developers for trying something so drastically different within their game, but unfortunately, The Bozak Horde ultimately feels like a rather big step back.
By far, the most defining feature of Dying Light was its story. It was introspective, dealing with interesting characters and exploring how real humans might react, adapt, and survive in a world overrun by zombies. The story was the package that enveloped, and in a way justified, the parkour and combat elements. It was a vast improvement over Techland's previous zombie game, Dead Island, which felt sloppy, had no real story to speak of, and was presented as a fairly lightweight and brainless (no pun intended) romp through an island resort.
The Bozak Horde, regrettably, regresses to Techland's Dead Island roots. Which isn't really a good thing. When the game strips out the story and forces you to fight, Dying Light's biggest flaw really become evident. The combat system isn't designed to be your first line of defense: going toe-to-toe with a horde of zombies is usually a surefire way of finding your way back to the last checkpoint. It's a fairly clunky combat system, and hand-to-hand combat often feels like trying to slap a zombie with a large kielbasa. But Bozak Horde insists on locking you in a confined space with a horde of zombies (something that rarely happens in the full game), and expects you to do a lot of fighting with terrible weapons. Which means that you, as the player, are constantly fighting the limitations of the combat system—perhaps more than you fight actual zombies.
Additionally, after installing The Bozak Horde DLC, the rest of the game (on Xbox One) suffered from framerate stutters and occasional slowdown. I have not yet been able to determine if the DLC specifically caused these problems, or if it's purely coincidental. As I had a ton of time in the game before installing and playing the DLC, not much time actually spent playing the DLC, and I noticed the lag after returning to the normal game world, it suggests the DLC is to blame.
A lot of people have complained that The Bozak Horde is simply too difficult to be fun. It is very unforgiving, but I don't think it's unreasonable. You will need two things to succeed: (1) a good team of high-level players who know what they're doing; and, (2) a lot of patience to learn where you're supposed to go and what you're supposed to do for each 'trial' in the challenge. Unfortunately for number one, the number of people playing Bozak Horde has dropped significantly: most likely, people thought it was too hard, or that the reward—a bow and arrow—simply wasn't worth the time or effort expended to complete the DLC.
Unfortunately, I would have to say if you haven't already purchased the Dying Light Season Pass, The Bozak Horde isn't really worth buying. It strips out all of the fun of the open-world exploration and pigeonholes you into a dingy parking garage, and leaves you struggling to compensate for its less-than-fantastic combat system.
I don't think I ever won a single fight in Soulcalibur II. Thankfully, I'm marginally better at reviewing than I am at fighting games.


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Castle Cat must be the nastiest cat I've met in my live. This cat shoots everything that moves with the laser gun that's mounted to the castle that's growing from it's head..! ..!
The excuse for this cat's voilent behaviour is that Princess Pussy of Bavaria has been kidnapped by the evil Dungeon Dog. She's being held in Germany.
Well, if you've never been to Germany, this is your chance. I went to Hamburg once, and this is exactly how I remember it, apart from that cat.
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