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These days, wide receiver is a premier position in the NFL. Next to quarterbacks, it is the wide outs who get the most attention, scrutiny, and criticism when things go both right and wrong for a team. And over the years, there have been many WRs with big personalities who have become stars and even prima donnas in the league. Even today, wide receivers such as Odell Beckham and Antonio Brown continue to generate headlines and serve as the face of their team and often the NFL shield. With all this in mind, we thought it time to look at the 10 best NFL wide receivers of all time, regardless of era. Enjoy!
10. Marvin Harrison
Team: Indianapolis Colts (1996-2008)
What would Peyton Manning's career have been like without wide receiver Marvin Harrison? It's a fair question to ask, and many sports writers have spoke on the matter. That's because Harrison was the reason for much of the Indianapolis Colts' success in the 2000s, when Manning was at his peak. Known for his ability to get open in any type of coverage and catch literally any ball thrown his way, Harrison was a force to be reckoned with during his 12 years with the Colts. Albeit a quiet force — no one will accuse him of being a diva wide receiver. And so it shouldn't surprise anyone that Harrison has already been inducted into the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Throughout his playing days, Harrison was as consistent a wide receiver as has ever laced up a pair of cleats. His career took off during Manning's second year in 1999; from that season until 2006, he posted 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns every single year.
9. Larry Fitzgerald
Team: Arizona Cardinals (2004-)
He's never won a Super Bowl and has often been saddled with less-than-great quarterbacks, yet Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald has still managed to standout on the gridiron and have a Hall of Fame worthy career. He's not retired just yet, though he has been musing about calling it quits as he approaches his mid-30s. If he were to call it a career, Fitzgerald would leave football ranked as one of the top 15 wide receivers in terms of receptions (1,018), yardage (13,366) and touchdowns (104). Adding to his impressive resume is Fitzgerald's work in the postseason. It has been during the playoffs when Larry Fitzgerald has shined the brightest. He's averaged more than 100 yards per contest when the Cardinals have been in the postseason, and at least one touchdown per playoff game. His 2008 playoff run rivals any span by any player in NFL history: four games, 30 catches, 546 yards and seven touchdowns. Impressive!
8. Steve Largent
Team: Seattle Seahawks (1976-1989)
Steve Largent is a bit of an unsung hero in the ranks of wide receivers. Praised and appreciated in his time for his consistency and football IQ, Largent has been forgotten a bit in the march of time. When he retired, he held the league records for career receptions, yardage, and touchdowns. These stats are even more impressive when you consider that Largent's prime years were spent catching balls from quarterbacks such as Jim Zorn and Dave Krieg. It's not like he was playing with Tom Brady or Drew Brees. Largent, who spent 13 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, posted eight 1,000-yard seasons despite playing through two NFL strikes. Also keep in mind that in the late 70s and '80s, the passing game wasn't the same as it is now, with most teams employing a run first offense. Largent was named to the Hall of Fame's All-Decade team for the 1980s.
7. Raymond Berry
Team: Baltimore Colts (1955-1967)
We are really going back in time here to get a new appreciation for Raymond Berry, the celebrated Baltimore Colts wide receiver who electrified the league and its fans in the late 1950s and into the 60s. Many football purists credit Berry with transforming the wide receiver position and paving the way for what it is today. That is because Berry approached the game with a more cerebral attitude, calibrating the proper steps and spacing needed for modern running routes. Every receiver in the game today owes a small debt of gratitude to Berry. The former Baltimore Colt was a two-time NFL champion and a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Known for being a stickler with details, Berry played wide out with extreme precision. He also happened to have Velcro hands, which is always good for a receiver.
6. Calvin Johnson
Team: Detroit Lions (2007-2015)
Calvin Johnson, also known as "Megatron," might be higher on this list had he not decided to retire after nine seasons catching balls for the Detroit Lions. Plagued by a nagging back injury, Johnson decided to retire suddenly after the 2015 campaign. He left football as the best wide receiver the Lions ever had, and one of the most electric in the history of the NFL. From 2011 to 2013, Calvin Johnson was considered the best wide receiver in professional football, and perhaps outside of quarterbacks, the best overall player in the NFL. He was named first-team All-Pro all three of those seasons, where he averaged more than 110 yards per game, while almost eclipsing 2,000 total yards in 2012. How Johnson managed to post 1,331 yards and 12 touchdowns on an awful 0-16 Lions team in 2008 remains a mystery. But he consistently proved he was an MVP caliber player during his career, despite often being the lone bright spot in Detroit.
5. Terrell Owens
Teams: San Francisco 49ers (1996-2003); Philadelphia Eagles (2004-05); Dallas Cowboys (2006-08); Buffalo Bills (2009); Cincinnati Bengals (2010)
Yes, Terrell Owens was a pain in the butt during his NFL career. He was known for driving coaches, general managers, and teammates crazy with his prima donna attitude and antics, both on and off the field. This is one of the reasons Owens played for five different teams in 14 seasons. However, the antics and crap that T.O. brought with him often overshadowed the fact that he was an extremely talented and versatile wide receiver. Currently, T.O. sits second all-time in yards and third in touchdown grabs. Had it not been for his big mouth and bluster on the sidelines, as well as his scraps with coaches and fellow teammates, Owens may be remembered as possibly the best wide receiver of all-time. In his prime, T.O. dominated the league and the wide receiver position. It's just too bad that his ego overshadowed his talent.
4. Lance Alworth
Teams: San Diego Chargers (1962-1970); Dallas Cowboys (1971-72)
Lance Alworth was the man back in the 1960s. A wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys back when the rules enabled defensive backs to hit receivers all the way down the field, Alworth managed some very impressive accomplishments. Affectionately known as "Bambi," sports writers described Alworth as a "home run hitter." His 1965 and 1966 seasons still might be the best back-to-back campaigns a wide receiver has ever had. In those seasons, Alworth averaged more than 110 yards and exactly one touchdown per game, at more than 20 yards per catch. No surprise that Lance Alworth was the first true AFL player to be elected to the Hall of Fame.
3. Don Hutson
Team: Green Bay Packers (1935-1945)
For the first 50 years of the NFL's existence, the consensus was that Don Hutson was the league's all-time best player. Not just the best wide receiver. But the best player, period. Hutson's name was frequently mentioned alongside other classic era players and all-time greats such as Sammy Baugh and Otto Graham. And why not? Hutson's NFL record of 99 career receiving touchdowns was not surpassed until 40 years after he retired. When he hung up his cleats in the mid-1940s, Hutson had posted nearly twice as many receptions as the next closest player. Known as gentleman on and off the field, Hutson also had a reputation as one of the earliest ambassadors for the sport of football, and for helping to popularize the league during the Great Depression and World War II.
2. Randy Moss
Teams: Minnesota Vikings (1998-2004, 2010); Oakland Raiders (2005-06); New England Patriots (2007-10); Tennessee Titans (2010); San Francisco 49ers (2012)
Has any player proved to be as electric as Randy Moss was during his prime? After wowing fans in Minnesota at the start of his career, Moss saw his career hit the stratosphere when he landed in New England and started catching balls from quarterback Tom Brady. It was during his first season with the Patriots that Moss helped the team to a perfect 16-0 regular season. During his first six years in the NFL, Randy Moss posted more than 8,000 receiving yards and 77 touchdowns. That's incredible! Equally impressive though is the fact that defensive coordinators throughout the league admit that they were more afraid of Moss than any other player in the NFL during his career. And they had reason to be fearful, as Moss was as good out of the gate as any player in league history. When he retired in 2012, Randy Moss held more than a dozen wide receiver records.
1. Jerry Rice
Teams: San Francisco 49ers (1985-2000); Oakland Raiders (2001-04); Seattle Seahawks (2004)
Most football fans won't not be surprised to see Jerry Rice at the top of this list. In a 2013 poll by the NFL, Jerry Rice was named the greatest wide receiver of all-time, as well as the greatest football player ever regardless of position. Not too shabby for a kid who grew up catching bricks from his father, who happened to work as a stone mason. As a wide receiver who played in the NFL for a total of 20 seasons, Rice is so far ahead of everyone else on this list in terms of career receptions (1,549), yards (22,895) and touchdown catches (197). Most pundits agree that Rice's records will never be surpassed due to his insane productivity and longevity in the NFL. Really, who lasts 20 seasons in the league these days? Rice's most impressive accomplishment might have been his 22 touchdown campaign in 1987, which he accomplished in only 12 games. His combination of work ethic, explosiveness at the snap, a perfectionist's attitude, and personal drive led Rice to become the very best wide receiver in NFL history.


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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- One of oil's most prominent bulls is starting to sound like a skeptic.
The global crude market has "materially worsened" and prices may be stuck around $50/bbl or below, storied hedge fund manager Andy Hall said in an investor letter this week, reversing the optimistic tone he'd taken for months.
Crude prices are down 16% for the year, amid signs that rising U.S. output will undercut production cuts ordered by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies. After a rally last week, futures for West Texas Intermediate oil slipped 4% on Wednesday after Russian officials said they were opposed to deeper reductions.
"When the facts change... " Hall wrote to investors in his Stamford, Conn., hedge fund, Astenbeck Capital Management LLC, in a July 3 letter obtained by Bloomberg News. "Not only did sentiment plumb new depths but fundamentals appear to have materially worsened."
U.S. shale drilling is expanding "at a surprisingly fast rate, thus raising the odds for significant oversupply in 2018, even if OPEC maintains its production cuts."
Hall's career stretches back to the 1970s, including stints at BP Plc and legendary trading house Phibro Energy Inc., where he was CEO. This year, he's consistently pushed against the bearish tide, arguing in investor letters that data showing rising oil supplies was incomplete and that a sustained rally was on its way.
U.S. producers have ramped up output and lowered their own costs faster than expected and growth in demand seems set to be lower than anticipated going forward, Hall wrote in the latest letter. While oil prices may recover somewhat in 2017, they look to be "rangebound for some time to come."
"At the start of the year, the anchor was thought to be about $60" for Brent crude "and rising over time," Hall wrote. "Today, it appears to be closer to $50 (and possibly still falling.)"
A message seeking comment from Hall wasn't immediately returned. Astenbeck managed $2.4 billion as of the end of 2016, according to a previous investor letter reviewed by Bloomberg. The most-recent letter doesn't mention the size of the Astenbeck fund or its latest performance.
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Running simple errands in your vehicle can be dangerous. As a nurse practitioner in the emergency department on the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses of Children's Minnesota, I've witnessed my share of preventable injuries. Give yourself one less thing to worry about while on the road and take the time to ensure that you're following the laws and recommendations regarding child automobile restraints.
It's a scary fact that in 2013, 638 children died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes, and more than 127,250 were injured. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that correct car seat use reduces the risk of death by 71 percent for children younger than 1 year old, and by 54 percent for children ages 1-4. Booster seats, meanwhile, reduce the risk of serious injury by 45 percent for kids 4-8 years old when compared to seat belt use alone. Correctly securing children saves lives.
The good news is that information is readily available and there are many resources Minnesota residents can utilize to keep their kids safe. For those who are hands-on learners, the Office of Traffic Safety, a division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, offers free car seat checks by appointment. Visit and find your county to schedule an appointment near you. The same link provides information about free car seat distribution centers in every county if you or someone you know is in need of a booster or car seat.
The recommendations for child automobile restraint are specific and detailed. Always consult your child seat instruction and vehicle manuals to ensure you're installing your seats the way the manufacturers intended. The tips below are meant as general recommendations only. For complete details, visit buckleupkids.mn.gov. Here, drivers and parents can get official, up-to-date information on Minnesota laws, as well as car seat, booster seat and child passenger safety.
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Rear-facing seat
- Includes infant or convertible seats
- The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children stay rear-facing until at least age 2.
- Rear-facing is recommended until 30-35 pounds. Be sure to check the seat's height and weight limits, which usually are printed on the labels attached to the seat.
- Rear-facing seats should be reclined 30-45 degrees.
- Keep the harness snug at or just below the shoulders with the chest clip at armpit level.
- The safest place for any car seat is the rear seat of the car in the center position.
Forward-facing seat
- Includes convertible or combination seats with a harness
- Recommended after your child outgrows your seat in its rear-facing position.
- A forward-facing, harnessed, convertible or combination seat should be used until a child outgrows its weight limit (typically 40-60 pounds), or is too tall for the seat (typically when the top of their ears are above the top of the car seat, unless otherwise specified by the manufacturer).
- The harness straps should insert into slots at or above the child's shoulders with the check clip at armpit level.
Booster seat
- After children outgrow a forward-facing harnessed seat (usually 40-60 pounds, depending on the manufacturer), they can use a booster seat.
- Most vehicle belts fit properly on a person who is 4 feet 9 inches or taller. A booster seat helps ensure the lap and shoulder belts are properly positioned.
- Required by law until age 8 or 4-foot-9
- Both the lap and shoulder belts must be used for the booster to be effective. Your automobile's existing belts are designed for an adult and will not protect a child adequately in a crash.
- Designs come with or without a high back. Those without high backs can only be used in cars with a head rest.
Adult seat belt
- To be used once your vehicle's belts fit your child properly
- Your child is ready for an adult seat belt when they can sit with their back against the vehicle seat, knees bent over the vehicle seat edge and feet touching the floor.
- The safest place for any child younger than 13 is the rear seat of the car.
If the worst should occur and your car seat is involved in an accident, it needs to be destroyed and replaced. Unseen damage may make it less effective in a second crash. Check with the child seat manufacturer, as well as your car insurance company, about replacing the seat.
Travel safely!
Erin Martin is a nurse practitioner in the emergency department at Children's Minnesota.


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Overcoming harrowing physical and emotional fears is a vital element of life that people in all circumstances should strive to achieve. The upcoming sports film, 'Tri,' is an influential proponent of people conquering their anxieties, as the inspiring story follows a medical technician, who has a history of not finishing things, as she suddenly becomes inspired by a cancer patient who's for her first Triathlon. To help promote the emotionally-charged drama, actress Kelly Spitko generously sat down for a video interview to discuss her encouraging character of Christy.
During the interview, Spitko spoke about taking on the role of Christy at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, where the sports comedy-drama had its world premiere. While talking about 'Tri,' the performer revealed that Christy's a tough athlete who's in remission from cancer, and she was drawn to showcasing the character's struggles to retain her physical form that she had before her diagnosis.
The actress, who then noted that she instantly knew she wanted to play the role of Christy when she first read the script, which director Jai Jamison wrote with Theodore A. Adams III and Monica Lee Bellais, was also attracted to the physical aspect of the character. While she has been a runner since she was a child, Spitko has never participated in a triathlon before. So while the performer added that filming the race was difficult at times for her, she loved the overall experience. The performer also revealed that she plans on participating in a triathlon in the future, and she appreciates that everyone in the community has supported and encouraged her journey.
For those viewers who missed the world premiere of 'Tri' in Boston last week, where it won the Indie Spirit Best Story Line Award from the Boston International Film Festival, they have a chance to get another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated sports film tomorrow at 7pm. It will screen at the Angelika Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia, as part of the Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival. The comedy-drama is then set to be released nationally by Red Zeppelin Productions over the summer.
'Tri' follows Natalie (Jensen Jacobs), an ultrasound tech with a history of not finishing things, as she becomes inspired by a cancer patient to sign up for a Triathlon. Natalie is introduced to the strange (and aerodynamic) world of triathletes and meets a colorful cast of characters as she signs up for the Nation's Triathlon. With the support of her new teammates, she digs deep to discover just how far she can push her mind and body.
The sports comedy-drama is the first scripted feature narrative about triathlons that has been developed for theatrical release. Triathlon is the fastest growing endurance sport in the world and was the fastest growing of all sports in the UK in 2014. There are over 600,000 athletes registered with USA Triathlon, and over 3.2 million worldwide. Although the film uses triathlon as a backdrop, the niche target market for the film is female runners. Of the roughly 20 million finishers of running events in 2014, 60 percent were women. The concept of 'Tri' is to raise awareness and hope for those who are seeking compassion or understanding while dealing with cancer as a caregiver, a patient and a survivor.
Watch the video interview with Spitko below. For more information on 'Tri,' visit the sport comedy-drama's official website, as well as its Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Newcomers to PR, including students thinking of taking up PR or communications in college as well as experienced PR pros, can learn a lot from browsing in O'Dwyer's PR Library, a collection of 700+ books, periodicals, studies and databanks assembled over the past 45 years.
Especially recommended are ten books:
1. You're Too Kind; A Brief History of Flattery, by Richard Stengel
2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini
3. Celebrity Leverage, by Jordan McAuley
4. Edelman and the Rise of Public Relations, by Franz Wisner
5. Always Live Better than Your Clients, bio of Ben Sonnenberg by Isadore Barmash
6. The Tylenol Mafia by Scott Bartz, ex-Johnson & Johnson
7. The Power House, bio of Robert K. Gray, by Susan Trento
8. Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter, ex-Cigna
9. Army of Entrepreneurs by Jennifer Prosek
10. No Such Thing as Over-Exposure (for Donald Trump), by Robert Slater
Books Written by Knowledgeable Authors
The books have been written by those who know what they are talking about and who don't pull punches.
Wendell Potter, for instance, worked 20 years in PR at Cigna. Scott Bartz worked more than seven at J&J and has extensive knowledge of its distribution channels.
Stengel notes that flattery "thrives in hierarchical settings" such as companies and institutions.
Psychological ploys are rampant in PR and selling and are well catalogued by Cialdini in Influence.
You're Too Kind says there is an "epidemic" of flattery in business and private circles and that those who don't practice some of its techniques can be left in the dust. He urges "smiling a lot" at superiors and others you want to impress because smiling means "I like you." Dressing extra special for someone, listening intently, using their name a lot, and spending time with them are also techniques.
Influence describes numerous psychological tricks used on consumers. Residents of a California town were asked to sign a petition to "Keep California Beautiful." Next week they were asked to put a big sign on their lawns saying, "Drive Carefully." Half the signers agreed while almost no one else did.
The signers had unwittingly defined themselves as public-spirited and couldn't bear to be inconsistent. A clerk was told to mark down paste jewelry from $25.00 to $2.50. Instead he put the decimal in the wrong place (making them $250) and the entire case quickly sold out. People equated price with value. Toy makers heavily advertise a toy prior to Christmas but then run out. Parents must buy a substitute toy and later must also buy the original toy.
Celebrity Leverage is an excellent book on the celebrity mania gripping the country with plenty of good advice and tips for newcomers as well as veterans. More than 100 websites of use to PR people are provided. Denizens of this book are on good terms with reporters and wouldn't dream of ducking a call. They send written thank you notes to reporters whenever a client is mentioned. Their advice to those looking for a PR firm is to check what recent placements have been made by that firm for a similar product or service.
Edelman is a must-read book because it is a biography of the founder of what is now the world's largest PR firm, more than five times as big as the next independent. Daniel Edelman built his firm on commitments to ethics and transparency. He has reported his fee and employee totals, office-by-office, since 1970, and practice-by-practice, since 1992. Following the details of his life and those of other successful PR people builds knowledge of PR that cannot be captured in textbooks.
Sonnenberg became the single richest person in PR in the 1940s, 50s and 60s by serving clients' personal as well as business needs. He was a creative fountainhead, often showering clients with up to 100 ideas for improving their businesses. But he was also close to them personally, not hesitating to get up in the middle of the night and visit a client who called him. One client was worried that a son was going into show business. Sonnenberg correctly said the son would soon give it up. Doing favors for children of clients was a favorite activity of Sonnenberg.
The Tylenol Mafia is 719-pages of details about J&J and the 1982 Tylenol poisonings. No press conference was ever held and J&J only offered a $100,000 reward even though seven people died taking its product. It went right back on the market with easily-spiked capsules in "tamper-resistant" (hah!) bottles. Diane Elsroth, 23, became another Tylenol victim in 1986. Only then did J&J pull the capsules.
The Power House provides a detailed look at how Robert Gray became a power broker in D.C., working closely with the President Reagan Administration. Gray took his firm public and later sold it to Hill and Knowlton, his former employer. Gray sued author Susan Trento but lost. Time did a major piece on Gray.
Deadly Spin covers how PR is used by Cigna and other healthcare giants. It notes that many of the activities of the industry are cloaked in secrecy. Donors to non-profit trade groups, for instance, don't have to identify themselves in tax forms or elsewhere.
Army of Entrepreneurs by Jennifer Prosek, who heads a $15 million New York firm, tells how she has trained her employees to be on the lookout for potential new clients almost wherever they are. The book captures the "go-go" atmosphere of PR firms which is almost completely different from the defensive posture that is common at companies and institutions.
Trump biography is a must because The Donald is Exhibit A on how notoriety can bring riches. Trump described his slam-bang approach to business to the PR Society of America national conference in 2004. Never trust another businessperson and if one of them does you any harm be sure to respond with a double dose of harm to them, he advised. Students thinking of a PR career must know the tooth and claw nature of business competition.
PR Was Much Friendlier, Open
The hundreds of books on PR, publicity and marketing, bios and speeches of PR leaders, and O'Dwyer and other PR publications dating back to 1968 reveal a PR world that up until the early 1980s was much more open, friendlier, and less stressful than it is today.
Virtually every major company, ad agency and PR firm had a person dedicated to mingling with reporters, visiting them at their desks if lunches could not be arranged. Ad agency and PR firm presidents hosted reporters in their corporate dining rooms.
In New York, more than 20 PR groups flourished topped by the New York chapter of PRSA which each month held a lunch for nearly 300 practitioners in the Waldorf-Astoria.
Serial party-givers included Sonnenberg who regularly hosted up to 200 at his five-story townhouse in Gramercy Park, ITT's Ned Gerrity, who hosted an annual dinner for the press at the St. Regis and a picnic in Nutley, N.J., and PR News founder Denny Griswold, who hosted an annual dinner for 300 in the Pierre and countless private dinners.
The press-friendly culture of PRSA in the 1970s is indicated by its policy of inviting reporters (including this writer) to be Silver Anvil judges.
Twin Blights: Congloms & APR
O'Dwyer's PR Library
What happened to turn friendliness into open hostility and alienation?
Those who visit the O'Dwyer Library will find out.
The conglomerates of WPP Group, Omnicom, Interpubic and Publicis, after swallowing just about every ad agency, small or large, went to work on PR, capturing 19 of the 25 biggest firms in the O'Dwyer rankings.
The financiers who run the congloms much prefer to deal with Wall St. analysts, who rarely issue a "sell" order, rather than the press. That attitude spread quickly throughout their PR empires resulting in their PR firms going almost completely dark in 2001. Gone were their account lists, revenue totals and employee counts. Dedicated press contacts were eliminated. Omnicom took its annual meeting out of town rather than face reporters.
APR Blight Wrecked PRSA Culture
The open culture of the PR Society, typified by having a library open to all in midtown and inviting reporters as Silver Anvil judges, ended in 1980 when counselor Patrick Jackson became president. He instituted a policy of only having association career people at h.q. rather than PR people. About 10 such staffers were ditched. Only one PR person, Donna Peltier, worked at h.q. from 1984-94.
The association careerists bonded with supporters of accreditation, a process that started out with good intentions but ended up attracting just under 20% of the membership. Costs of the program ballooned ($2.9 million loss from 1986-2002).
Corners were cut. In place of a grueling exam that required 5.5 hours of writing came a multiple-choice test lasting 3.5 hours. No live writing at all is involved in the new process, instituted in 2003. The number of new Society APRs created in the past nine years is less than half of what it was in the previous ten. The APR-controlled Assembly since 1999 has rebuffed attempts to remove their monopoly on national offices and membership on the Ethics Board.
60+ "PR" books, 34 on Marketing/Publicity
O'Dwyer's PR Library includes more than 60 books with PR in the title; 24 with marketing in the title and ten with publicity in the title. More than 10 books each are in subject categories such as "ethics," "crisis PR," "financial/investor relations, and biographies. A list of nearly 200 of the books is here: http://tinyurl.com/d8f84hu.
There are extensive files, including tax and financial reports and membership lists for more than 15 PR and journalist organizations such as PRSA and its Foundation, Institute for PR, IABC, National Investor Relations Institute, Council of PR Firms, Arthur W. Page Society, (PR) Seminar, New York Financial Writers Assn., Society of Professional Journalists, ProPublica, Assn. for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Poynter Institute, Committee to Protect Journalists, Pew Research Project for Excellence in Journalism, National Press Club and Overseas Press Club.
Also available to users are O'Dwyer Newsletters from July 10, 1968 O'Dwyer magazines from August 1987; PR Week/U.S. from 1998; Contact Directories of PRW/U.S. from 2000; past directories of PRSA, IABC, NIRI and Page Society (such directories are no longer in print); back issues of Tactics and Strategist of PRSA and Communication World of IABC.
Five Major PR Textbooks Available
Current and past editions of the five major college PR textbooks are available: Practice of PR, PR: Strategies & Tactics, Effective PR, This is PR: The Realities of PR, and PR: The Profession and the Practice.
Biographies of PR leaders such as Dan Edelman, Robert Wood and Ben Sonnenberg are available.
The library, which is equipped with Wi-Fi, is open at no charge to anyone for the first visit. After that, there must be at least one $295 subscription at the person's employer. Some books will be available for loaning if security is provided.


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Still not sure about the new slouchy, pleated pant we're seeing everywhere this summer? Take a look at how some of our favorite style bloggers wear theirs and get inspired, after the jump.
Crop top: vintage
Pleated trousers: vintage Yves Saint Laurent
Belt: vintage
Shoes: Topshop
Flower crown: DIY
Krystal writes an awesome style blog called What Is Reality Anyway, and she's always got a unique take on any given trend. The thing with pants like these is, you want to show off that amazing waist! And a cute little vintage crop top is a brilliant way to do it.
Pleated pants: vintage
Pocket tee: Gap
Straw hat: vintage
Purple satin belt: DIY
Sneaker heels: Marc by Marc Jacobs
You may remember The Stylish Wanderer from some of her other incredible outfits we've featured on this blog. She's got a lot of different looks going on here--serious tweed pants, country-fied straw hat, whimsical bright belt--and yet it all comes together to be one chic look.
Boyfriend blazer: thrifted
Pants: from Bangkok
Crop top: Topshop
Necklaces: vintage
Shoes: Aldo
Clutch: Aranaz for Rags to Riches
Little Miss Dress Up's Rosanna also goes for a crop top to show off her hot little pants--I'm really loving this shorter version of the slouchy pleated pant, aren't you? Also: Girlfriend knows how to accessorize.
T-shirt: American Apparel
Pants: H&M
Bow belt: Erin Fetherston for Target
Platforms: Jessica Simpson
Taghrid proves that you can be as of-the-moment in style as possible without spending a lot of cash with this chic take on the pleated pant. Everything she's wearing is affordable, yet she looks like a million bucks. Find out more at her blog!
What do you girls think of how these style bloggers wear the new slouchy, pleated pants? Would you be willing to try out a pair? Have you already? And which version do you like best? Discuss!
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* TSX closes up 23.61 points, or 0.17 percent, at 13,917.10
* Three of TSX's 10 main groups end higher
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TORONTO, May 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock touched a nearly seven-month high on Tuesday as higher commodity prices supported energy and mining stocks, but some gains for the index were pared as financial and consumer stocks fell.
The energy group rallied nearly 1 percent, although some companies are facing renewed disruption to operations from a massive wildfire around Alberta's Fort McMurray oil sands hub.
"The general balance in the oil market ... is healthier for these companies than the negative impact of what's happening in Fort McMurray," said Diana Avigdor, head of trading at Barometer Capital Management.
Oil prices rose for a second straight day, with U.S. futures hitting seven-month highs above $48 a barrel, on expectations of a drawdown in U.S. crude stockpiles and a new wildfire threat on Canadian oil supplies.
"We keep expanding our energy exposure," said Avigdor, who added that U.S. investors have been active buying energy stocks and that strengthening in the Canadian dollar has added to the attractiveness of the sector for those investors.
Canadian Natural Resources added 1.5 percent to C$38.30 and pipeline operator Enbridge Inc rose 1.21 percent to C$52.77.
Suncor Energy Inc advanced 0.4 percent to C$35.12 after saying it had started a staged shutdown of its base plant in the region.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index closed up 23.61 points, or 0.17 percent, at 13,917.10. Just three of the index's 10 main groups ended higher.
The index has rallied more than 20 percent from an almost 3-1/2-year low in January but has yet to climb back above 14,000.
The materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 1.9 percent, with Potash Corp gaining 3.1 percent to C$21.37.
Barrick Gold rallied 2.4 percent to C$24.99, while spot gold was up 0.5 percent.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc surged after it said it would make required securities filings to Canadian regulators. Its shares rose 7.8 percent to C$37.57.
Sectors that dragged on the index included consumer staples, which fell nearly 2 percent and financials, which dipped 0.1 percent.
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Over the last few years, the name Cody Beckett has become synonymous with WMEB and University of Maine hockey. As the current sports director and lead hockey play-by-play announcer, Cody has immersed himself in the sports broadcasting scene at the University of Maine.
With hockey season winding down and Cody's college broadcasting career coming to an end, we thought it would be a perfect time to catch up with Cody to get his thoughts on his time at UMaine, his experiences at WMEB, and what he'll remember most (both sports and non-sports related) about his time in Orono.
So, without further adieu, we are proud to present the latest guest in our FTS Q&A; series…Cody Beckett!
FTS: What's your major and year of graduation?
CB: Journalism major, Class of 2014
FTS: Which dorm(s) did/do you live in on campus?
CB: I lived in Androscoggin my freshman year, and Hancock was the place sophomore year. I've been off-campus ever since. My current house has a ice rink in the back yard. It's pretty cool.
FTS: That is VERY cool. Aside from that ice rink, upon your first return to the UMaine campus after you graduate and leave for good, where's the first place you'll visit?
CB: Alfond Arena. There's nothing quite like that place.
FTS: What have been some of your favorite classes while at UMaine?
CB: Digital Journalism taught me a lot. I of course loved Sports Journalism, and surprisingly Astronomy was one of my favorites.
FTS: What made you decide to attend the University of Maine?
CB: I've always loved the state of Maine. My family has gone fly fishing at West Branch Pond Camps just north of Greenville, ME for generations. Despite being born in Massachusetts, I've always loved spending time in the state. I was fortunate to receive enough financial aid to come here. I'd also be lying if I didn't mention that hockey didn't also have something to do with it. I haven't always been partial to the Black Bears, but got a lot of exposure to the program through watching multiple Hockey East Championships at the Garden, including the incredible 2004 final in which Maine defeated UMass 2-1 in three overtimes.
FTS: Speaking of great Maine hockey memories, what is your favorite memory from this year's Frozen Fenway?
CB: Identifying one thing is so difficult. I'd just have to say the entire spectacle. I've been to Fenway Park countless times (including the 2012 Frozen Fenway) but being in the press box and broadcasting a game was a dream come true. Add in the fact that it was a Maine-BU hockey game that also included an hour long rain delay, and I can truly say that it was a once in a lifetime experience.
FTS: How did you and Whitneigh build your on-air chemistry?
CB: The simple answer is experience. We're both hockey-minded, so it was only a matter a time before we began to gel as a broadcasting team. We were both adjusting to new roles, myself as play-by-play guy and her as color commentator, so we were going through the ups and downs together. I'd like to think that we've become quite the well-oiled machine at this point.
FTS: What's the biggest difference you've seen in the Maine hockey team this year over last year?
CB: Compete level combined with discipline. On multiple occasions last year it was easy to see that Maine just didn't want it as much as their opponent. There were strides made at the end of last year, which carried over among the younger crop of players. Combined that with a new emphasis on discipline and accountability, and we've seen a much more consistent effort this season, despite their road record.
FTS: What do you think of Maine's chances in this year's Hockey East Tournament and NCAA Tournament?
CB: I think they have legitimate shot at both. The road to the NCAA's is much more difficult with the losses against Providence to end the regular season, but as Red Gendron proved last year as an assistant with Yale, all you have to do is get into the tournament and anything can happen. But if Maine wants an at-large bid, they're probably going to have to make it to the Garden in the Hockey East Tournament.
FTS: What other sports do you like besides hockey? Who are your favorite pro teams?
CB: I enjoy watching football and baseball. Along with hockey, I played golf and lacrosse in high school. I'm looking forward to The Masters coming up in April for sure. But from October to June, my focus is primarily on the NHL & college hockey.
FTS: What do you hope Karlton Creech's top initiatives are as he settles in to the AD role?
CB: I hope he focuses on boosting the experience for fans at the sporting events, particularly with men and women's basketball. The hockey program is in good hands and will always be OK, and football has been drawing a better crowd in recent years. But there is a big drop-off in attendance and enthusiasm surrounding the Maine basketball program which is a shame. Mainers love their high school basketball, and there's no reason why that can't carry over to Maine Basketball. The easiest answer is to start winning, and with Creech's background at North Carolina he should know what it takes to build a successful basketball program. A trip or two to the NCAA tournament for the men or women would be a good boost in national prominence for Maine athletics.
FTS: Who are your broadcasting heroes?
CB: I grew up listening to Gary Thorne call huge NHL playoff games in the late 90's, and with him being a Maine and WMEB alum, he has to be near the top of the list. Jack Edwards is also someone I look up to. Despite him being a UNH guy, I can't help but enjoy his demeanor on the air, even if non-Bruins fans despise him. Say what you want, but the man has fun behind the microphone.
FTS: What are some of your hobbies outside of sports and broadcasting?
CB: I try my best to keep the rust off my skates, as well as hit the links during the summer. I also spend a decent amount of time playing the latest versions of NHL, FIFA, or Halo video games. All of these activities enhanced by the company of good friends and a frosty beverage of course.
FTS: What's your fondest non-sports related memory from your time at UMaine?
CB: I hate to be cliché, but when I think back to my time at UMaine, I'm going to first and foremost remember the great friends I've made and the great times we've had. The people here in Maine are awesome. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything else, and I'm extremely sad to see it coming to a close.
FTS: What's the most embarrassing moment you've ever had on-air?
CB: Oh, where to start. Our talk show Unsportsmanlike Conduct can get pretty out of hand and into some pretty ridiculous topics that have nothing to do with sports. My first broadcast was a women's basketball game my freshman year. That was pretty brutal. I'm no basketball expert, let alone when it comes to the women's game. But it was a great learning experience. You have to put yourself in uncomfortable positions sometimes. It was a valuable lesson.
FTS: On a more positive note, which of your on-air moments are you most pleased with and proud of?
CB: Frozen Fenway was obviously one of my proudest moments as a broadcaster, but calling Maine Football's CAA Championship takes the cake. To watch that team grow for two seasons and to have it culminate with their first outright title since the 60's was amazing. Unfortunately the season ended on a sour note, but watching that trophy be lifted on the sideline of Morse field was something special.
FTS: What are your short-term and long-term goals after you graduate?
CB: My short-term goal is similar to that of just about every college graduate; find a job. Long-term I'd love to have a job in hockey in any capacity. It's been a lifelong passion for me, and to make it a career would be awesome.
FTS: What are you filling your stein with these days (drink of choice)?
CB: Now that the Olympics are over and I can set allegiances aside, I'm back to drinking one of my favorites, Molson Canadian. I'm hopeful Maine Hockey makes it to the Garden as I hear you can now get Yuengling in Boston.
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Impact Images Production Studios hosted a home fashion bedding photography photo shoot for Giselle Blondet to photograph six comforter sets of her new home fashion product line 'Gi' for Walmart Puerto Rico. The bedding photography photo shoot lasted over two weeks, capturing the six home fashion designs soon to be offered.
The Gi by Giselle Blondet bedding line consists of six designs inspired by themes that invite a peaceful and pleasant night rest: Dream, Harmony, Love, Balance, Tranquility and Infinity.
Our goal for this home fashion bedding photography photo shoot was to create light, airy master bed rooms ranging from Country Garden Rooms to Manhattan City Lofts, each showcasing the delicate details of their designs.
Harmony, the primary design, demanded our full attention. We created the largest room in the bedding series for this comforter set featuring weathered wood propping and a unique soap stone side table crafted in our workshop.
The room for Tranquility was designed to over looking a Japanese Tranquility Garden; Boasting the second largest room for the series. Prop choices were based on creating a tranquil foliage room from the wall art to the fern vase.
Dream is set in a Brooklyn Loft featuring the fabulous solid-wood Boerum Headboard. Merging laid-back country living with the cool calm of city sophistication this headboard allowed the comforter set to stand out with all it's glory. The subtle choice of props allow the viewer to Dream of the country seaside life.
Infinity is set in a sophisticated East End Cottage with some traditional props. This set has a comfortable transitional look and feel.
Love is set in a small garden room featuring the delicate pintuck Hayworth Ivory headboard and a whimsical flower vase filled with white peonies. All prop choices create a soft contemporary room for love with a hint of youth and innocence.
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Showings of 'Hecuba' at the Principal Theatre, in Mahon, Menorca, may interest customers staying in Bartle Holidays villas next April. Despite the language barrier, theatre enthusiasts who understand even a little Spanish will not want to miss out on this exclusive production, which hits the Menorcan theatre at a time when it is celebrating its 185th anniversary. It serves as an excellent way to signal this milestone.
Based on a classical text by Greek playwright Euripides, 'Hecuba' opened last year in Merida, at the International Classical Theatre Festival, and achieved outstanding success – amassing over 20.000 viewers in only a few days. This encouraged the team behind the production to take it on the road, initiating a tour of Spain, which now sees the play land at Menorca's Principal Theatre.
Directed by José Carlos Plaza, this version of 'Hecuba' stars renowned Spanish theatre actress Concha Velasco, in her first role in a Greek tragedy. The leading lady, who finally fully takes on the role of Hecuba after previously having recited a few monologues from the play, has already come on record to name this as the most important role of her career.
Written in 424 B.C., 'Hecuba' follows the misadventures of the titular character, a dethroned queen whom the Trojan War turns into a slave. When her son is killed, Hécuba swears revenge, and sets about ensuring her offspring's killers meet with the same fate. This story possesses all the elements that usually make Greek tragedies so appealing, with a revenge plot, pathetic (and empathetic) characters and, of course, a judgemental chorus who takes every opportunity to berate the grief-stricken heroine and the remaining cast of characters for their wrong-doings. Provided the language barrier is not an obstacle, theatre enthusiasts renting villas through Bartle Holidays in April might be interested in attending this deservedly acclaimed production.
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Lichen Simplex Chronicus is an itchy skin condition causing thickened skin at the area of the skin injured by repeated scratching and rubbing. This scratching causes characteristic changes such as thickening and darkening of the skin. These changes are called lichenification. It is actually more of a symptom than specific disease itself.
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5 Ways to Thank a Veteran
Veterans Day will be observed in the U.S. on Saturday, November 11. The same day, the U.K. commemorates in a similar way with Remembrance Day. We are recognizing and thanking all those currently serving and those who have served to protect. We are honored to have former service members in the Adobe family.
In honor of Veterans Day, we asked some of our employees who served to share some meaningful ways we can all take a moment to recognize, support and thank all veterans:
If you know a current service member, help their family while they are away. Family is the top concern for any service member away on deployment or training. Knowing there are people their family can turn to can help ease their mind.
Shop at veteran-owned local businesses. Some veterans struggle adjusting back to civilian lifestyle. Supporting their small businesses not only helps them economically, but aids them in finding a renewed sense of purpose.
Check out the Military Job Networks to empower veterans to transition back into the workforce, and share it with a veteran.
There are countless organizations that are doing tremendous work for veterans and active duty troops. The Wounded Warrior Project seeks to honor and empower wounded warriors. Dog Tag Bakery educates, employs, and mentors veterans and military spouses free of charge.
Visit a veteran hospital or nonprofit organizations that support veterans and active duty members. Veterans Affairs is always looking for volunteers!
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The majority of discussions and insight coming out of today was around how humans will work with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. What does the future look like for agencies and the big concern for many, will we still have jobs?
Lessons Learned
- Many startups and tech companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon and making the industry more complex than it needs to be.
- Agencies and Clients need to gain a better understanding of AI and Machine Learning, not about the tech itself but more about how it will benefit them.
- Programmatic was the start of it with machines taking away the tasks that are labour intensive. When programmatic emerge they were fears of lost jobs however we now have Programmatic companies that are huge with 2000 people managing "automatedprocesses". AI will create more jobs and will free up humans to do other tasks.
- Machines will let us move from audience segment targeting models in which we target masses of similar people to a very micro consumer ID based targeting.
There was a great analogy used today to relating the future of how we work will work with AI to how we interact with a device like Alexa. We ask it to purchase a product, the machine then looks historically at what we bought, what is available in the market, is it the best option for us and the machine finds exactly we want. Soon AI media will be purchased in a similar fashions, we will tell the machine what we want. This will free up the need of planners and buyers from looking through data. Humans are still needed to make the data work, we will still need to interpret the data.
"Worry less about the data and we can do a better job of solving problems" – Dave Helmreich of LiveIntent
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Who can resist a Peter Lorre musical? His dancing is half a beat behind his cohorts; his vocal dubbing is atrocious; and he actually falls with a splat behind the action in his first number—but try and take your eyes off him. This bulbous, bug-eyed creature who was an obvious model for Chas Addams' family patriarch, Gomez, had a long career creeping audiences out in many film classics. As one of three Soviet commissars running loose in Paris, Lorre's casting is a stroke of brilliance, and he might well have stolen the movie, were it not for that certain something called Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse. At the ripe age of 57, Astaire was making this his swan song to film musicals, hopeful for one more major splash. On Bway, Silk Stockings wasn't a big dance show; the leads only sang. But Arthur Freed saw greater potential in telling the story thru dance, and together with Astaire they transformed a decent stage musical into a better filmed one.
Silk Stockings was one of the first Bway musicals ever adapted from the movies—a practice still very rare in 1954. But the 15 year old film, Ninotchka, was catnip to Bway producers Feuer & Martin, who knew a Cole Porter show when they saw one. Whatsmore there was relevance to be mined in updating the story to a post-Stalinist, Cold War Russia. In many ways it's a contemporaneous show, with spoofs of Hlwd and its then-current obsession with largess; mindless celebrity culture; pop songs from classical music; the cha-cha; even an early nod to rock 'n' roll. Taken from Billy Wilder's screenplay (co-written with Charles Brackett & Walter Reisch) SS was adapted for the stage by no less than George S. Kaufman and polished by Abe Burrows. Yet the musical was very near disaster in its out of town tryout. But SS is one of those rare shows that defies all doubts and miraculously pulls together at the very last minute; the surprise smash hit. MGM had first refusal to movie rights, and Arthur Freed grabbed it for his first film as an independent producer. (The studios were all dropping their long term contracts in favor of freelance hires for individual pictures.) But as an indie, Freed felt free to flex his muscle by hiring Rouben Mamoulian (who was persona non grata at MGM since making Summer Holiday, an over-budget flop in 1948), to direct—and making the issue an ultimatum. The studio relented, and happily Mamoulian redeemed himself so well, the bean-counters later declared it the most efficiently produced musical in the studio's history.
Ninotchka is a Greta Garbo classic, one of her greatest roles, so how do you fill those shoes? Feuer & Martin picked a German actress Hildegarde Knef (not to be confused—as she often is—with cabaret chanteuse Hildegarde) and Anglicized her name to Neff--nobody heard of her much before, or after. For the film, with Astaire on board from the start, casting his Ninotchka narrowed the requirement to a suitable dancing partner. Cyd Charisse proved a great match with Fred in Minnelli's Bandwagon, and this was a perfect excuse for a reunion. A tentative, unexpressive actress, Charisse rarely seemed to shine unless she danced—but here those qualities suit the character even if they don't quite fill in the margins. Her accent is studied and inconsistent, her manner cool and brusque, but she warms up in dance. She would later say it was her favorite role. Likely a better actress would have illuminated the character, but I can't think who else was right for it at the time. Surely no one could have danced the part better.
Peter Lorre's two cohorts are Jules Munshin (one of the sailors from On the Town), and Yiddish stage actor Joseph Buloff, but pity them both. No doubt they provide great contrast to Lorre, but that only funnels the focus to him. The trio's centerpiece, "Siberia," (sadly missing an encore) is a delicious piece of Cole candy: a sort of Gulag "White Christmas" Lorre's unique and slithery movements are hilariously inept but perfectly in character—he looks every bit like an escaped Russian lunatic. Too bad the trio's other song, "Hail Bibinski," was cut, tho the lead-in is right there in the film. Who knows what Lorre would have done with that one! The sole holdover from the Bway cast is George Tobias, (best known as Abner Kravitz on Betwitched), as the Soviet trio's superior. And then there's Janis Paige. Freed cast her unceremoniously after catching her nightclub act at the Coconut Grove. As the washed up swimming star, "Peggy Dayton" (forever shaking water out of her ears) she's a brassy American antidote to all the Russian fatalists. Named "Janice" Dayton on Bway, she made another understudy-to-discovery: Gretchen Wyler. But Paige was a bigger name, having been in movies since the '40s, and a Bway star in the '54 smash, The Pajama Game. Freed's offer may have softened the blow of losing her Bway role in that film to Doris Day. But on Bway Silk Stockings had more numbers for Janice Dayton than Ninotchka; who aside from a duet has just a single solo ballad. So Dayton's role isn't subordinate at all. She even gets a number with Astaire, tho on Bway it was hers alone: "Stereophonic Sound," an up-to-the-moment Porter list song (of technical processes, no less) with a nifty foxtrot around the press room as a coda. It always makes me smile. Her seduction number (for composer Boroff), "Satin & Silk" is less fun—a lingerie show drained of all innuendo, just pure bluster—a number that has everything in common with "Whatever Lola Wants," from the later Damn Yankees, except greatness. Her final song, "Josephine" was filmed in its entirety and survives intact on the soundtrack, but was cut short in the movie. It's an especially untypical Porter song in that it's intentional camp—a pop trashing of long-hair music. But this being Porter, the tune's an ear worm and the lyrics are especially juicy:
Why did the great Napoleon fall
For her hot gavotte?
What did the doll have on the ball
Other dolls did not?
Why did the mighty man succumb
To this curvy wench?
Why did he make his little chum
Empress of the French?
The melody in this bridge section is so driven and exciting—you can hear a direct influence on Sondheim for "Lucy & Jessie" in Follies. But Paige, unlike Charisse, has good comic moments in her non-musical scenes; blue furs and dim-witted swipes at Tolstoy. She's always looking for a drink; always foiled by Astaire—unfortunately it's a gag that has no payoff; we never know what she'd be like if she had that drink, or why Astaire has to stop her. And after "Josephine" is halted, she's gone from the picture entirely, tho Boroff still pines for her from Russia. Too bad she doesn't seduce Lorre instead—now that would be a hilarious match. Paige would continue with occasional supporting film roles, but she was seldom given her due. I hadn't realized how much her robotic blanket response: "There's absolutely no truth to the rumors, we're just good friends" had permeated my consciousness. I've been quoting it all my life.
Tho her singing voice was always dubbed (here by Carol Richards) Charisse was given Ninotchka's one solo from the Bway show, "Without Love." It's an unusually poor ballad from Porter, with a jarringly false sentiment, not simply to our post-feminist culture, but even by the standards of Ninotchka's character in 1957; concluding that "without love a woman is "a nothing—a void…
For a woman to a man is just a woman
But a man to a woman, is her life.
The irony here, being the supposed triumph of Western values over Communist ideals, such as sexual equality. It's an unfortunate—and demeaning—song; and a musically dull one, too.
But happily, Charisse was given four big dance numbers that Ninotchka never had on stage. The two centerpiece dances with Astaire are sheer rahadlakum. They don't dance at first; Astaire warns her about the seduction of the West singing "Paris Loves Lovers," before bidding her good night. Once they tour the town (satisfying her curiosity about "municipal works") and discuss biology from differing viewpoints, Astaire pleads "All of You," one of the purest, swinging love songs that Porter ever wrote—I never tire hearing it. But the scene requires more than two sung verses—this is the first melting of the Soviet snow queen, and the dance that follows defines the reason we love musicals. He's frustrated by her lack of feeling, and pulls her into movement. It's the Bench Scene in pantomime, an exquisite pas de deux—that rates alongside their "Dancing in the Dark" in The Bandwagon. It's also gorgeously played by the lush MGM orchestra, Andre Previn conducting Conrad Salinger's expanded orchestrations, (Yet another example of liberal underscoring—the film fairly floats on Porter tunes, some from his trunk, such as "Easy to Love" and "In the Still of the Night," hardly seem out of place. After all, weren't these very songs played by café orchestras everywhere in the 1950s?)
The second, even longer number for Astaire & Charisse is "Fated to Be Mated," a new song written by Porter for the film, replacing "As On Through the Seasons We Sail." It's strictly a showpiece, danced on what's supposed to be a French soundstage with different sets. (This film seems to go out of its way to avoid Parisian landmarks—or clichés). The first pop section which continues the new Porter tune, evolves into a bolero-beat "Paris Loves Lovers," then ends on a dockside platform for a jazz-infused "All of You." It's an exercise that puts all the focus on the two pros; and there's nothing lacking about it. Cyd's solo ballet, set to "Silk Stockings," shows her transformation thru lingerie; an indulgence she must keep secret—her various garments hidden thru-out her hotel suite. Even this late in the '50s, censors used their shears on something as mild as this: Charisse in a bustier. They coyly mask her behind a curtain or a chair. Lyric changes were demanded too: "If Ava Gardner played Godiva riding on a mare…" couldn't finish with "The public wouldn't pay a cent to see her in the bare," and had to be watered down to "…And they wouldn't even care." But they let slip Porter's slyest euphemism in "All of You":
I'd love to make a tour of you
The arms, the eyes, the mouth of you
The east, west, north and the south of you
On stage, the song "Silk Stockings" wasn't Ninotchka's at all, but sung in tribute to her by Canfield (who on Bway was played by fading screen star Don Ameche—Even Hlwd faces don't always get their Bway roles on the screen.) It certainly works well in this new context, but I can't think of any other title-tune from a musical that's played as an instrumental only. (I wish someone would get this song to k.d. lang, to put her magical stamp on it; the way she did on Porter's "So in Love." I'm sure she'd love it. I can just hear her husky longing in the sultry lyrics—it's a perfect love-song for lesbians.)
For her final number, Charisse, back in Russia, leads a whirling dervish of an ensemble thru the paces of "The Red Blues," a tune that has less to do with the blues than a Dixieland Jazz band. Her utilitarian Soviet garb, in shades of brown & gray may not make for a glamorous wardrobe, but her skirt here is of such aerodynamic construction; setting off perfect ruffles as she spins. It's also a swell number, poking fun sideways at the communist idea of living space: the ensemble are her "neighbors," groups of citizens living in "rooms" of curtained partitions. Drapes drawn aside, the neighborhood becomes one large assembly. Taking the joke further, the song stops abruptly, not once, but twice—the group assuming the pretense of a Party meeting while a presumed government spy passes thru. Ah, Russia. The film dares to make jokes about the Soviets; "It's different here (Paris), they don't rent rooms in pieces." Astaire asks how much they would pay in taxes for $50,000 in Russia? The answer, of course: $50,000. They consult Who's Still Who for references. Asked if she's a music lover, the unthawed Ninothcka allows, "Music is essential for parades." Maybe these jokes are corny—I don't know. Perhaps because I'm Russian, and have had my fill of the Russian character, I find them all hilarious.
"Too Bad (We Can't Go Back to Moscow)" might seem like a throwaway opening number, but I've found it merits repeated viewings to enjoy the many layers within it. First off there's Lorre, who barely attempts to lipsynch along, and winds up approximating Russian squat kicks hanging off two chairs. At one point he plops gracelessly to the floor—an accident, I'm sure, that Mamoulian decided to leave in. Front & center, of course are Astaire and the three French beauties he's invited to help seduce the Ruskie commissars. The gals are indeed quite an eyeful, and dressed every bit as glamorous as the Russians aren't. Once the song slips into a cha-cha, Astaire gives each a twirl before finishing up with Barrie Chase. She's the one in gold lame and toothy smile, and her moves with Fred are even hotter than any of his with Charisse. She would prove to be his final recurring partner, appearing in several TV specials Astaire made in the next few years (It was a rather soft retirement). For the most part the great age difference between Fred and his latter co-stars was a non-issue, with Astaire himself perhaps the most uncomfortable. But Barrie Chase brought reality to the fiction of the May-December coupling, and he continued to pull out the dancing shoes with her for another decade. At which point he's recruited by Francis Coppola.
Contextually, Astaire's final number makes no sense at all. He's a film producer, what's he doing performing a night club number? And just how does this relate to his winning back Ninotchka? It doesn't. But symbolically—leaving behind logic—it's cleverly calculated. Astaire asked Porter to write him a "rock 'n' roll" number in a nod to changing times, but also to show a bit of youth still left in the old hoofer. Always true to his fashion, Porter wrote a "Ritz Rock 'n' Roll," which gave Fred license to re-don his top hat & tails, bring on a line of like-dressed men, and a quartet of mink-flapping women, and let 'em rip. It's an eye-popping finale, which ends with Astaire slapping shut his top hat—a symbolic end to his career. That business taken care of, we now return to our story already in progress….before the final fadeout.
The film opened at Radio City on July 18, 1957. It has always seemed odd to me that cultural histories of this period inevitably cite the movie musical as already dying out. This may be true in the matter of quantity—studio production was down considerably from the previous decades. But paradoxically, as the pickin's got slimmer the quality and prestige swelled—as well as the box office. Musicals were now regularly among the top earners of the year. More and more these were filmed Bway hits. The Music Hall certainly seemed to hunger for tuners. In '57 alone they ran Funny Face, Silk Stockings, The Pajama Game and Les Girls—half of the year's bookings. But Hlwd chose this single year to eliminate the category of "scoring for a musical picture," (which deprived sure nominations for all the above) before restoring the field in a less competitive or exciting 1958.
Meanwhile the Main Stem itself was basking in newfound glory: the emergence of the Bway musical as America's premier cultural statement; riding on the shockwave of Class that was My Fair Lady and its satellites; Loesser's Most Happy Fella, Bernstein's recent, later-appreciated Candide. Even your basic musical comedy now followed the R&H model of integration in story, song & dance. The current sellouts, Bells Are Ringing and Li'l Abner, would have long lives ahead for merely that reason. While Silk Stockings played the Music Hall, the latest Bway hit was at the 46h St. Theatre, where Gwen Verdon was sharing kudos with Thelma Ritter in a musical of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie—another classic Garbo vehicle, this one cast with appropriate wattage. They called it New Girl in Town, but I prefer their cheekier original title: A Saint She 'Aint. As for the canard that Where's Charley? was originally to be called His Aunt She Can't: "There's absolutely no truth to the rumors we're just good friends… "
I first saw Silk Stockings on New Years Eve, forty years ago. It came on TV early in the evening, in B&W and pan & scan, which accounts for some dissatisfaction I felt at the time. But there was something also quite compelling to me: the Motherland factor. This wasn't the back-country Jewish peasant Russia of Fiddler on the Roof which we'd all seen on stage by then. No this was the McCarthy-era, Khruschev-dynasty Russia that was in the genes of my parents--tho they had told me virtually nothing about their past even then. But I'd been around Russian émigrés most of my life, had spoken the tongue before English, and had their blood pulsing thru my veins. I knew these people well; how dreadful and oppressive they could be. Making fun of Russians seemed like good sport to me. Curious too, for a film set in Paris, there's scarcely a Frenchman in it. And of course the "Russian" in the music is as American as Cole Porter, which only meant that I could relate to it even more, having long before split from my genetic disposition to the Russian character to embrace my own religion: American musical comedy. In Silk Stockings I was tingled by both sides of the coin. So perhaps I have a stronger bias toward the achievement of this show. Even so, I think SS suffers an unfair & underrated reputation, which stems in great part from comparison to Astaire's previous, and recent picture, Funny Face. Both were set in contemporary Paris; one scored by Gershwin (from his catalog); one by Porter (bespoke to the material). FF has Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson, but a wafer-thin plot and some added second-rate Roger Edens tunes, along with too much travelogue and fashion segments. SS, on the other hand has enuf story without such filler—here's actually one movie set in Paris that hasn't a single shot of the Eiffel Tower, or any songs extolling it. But maybe that's what people really want, for Funny Face has over the years been anointed "classic" status among the two. Yet despite its charms I find it less satisfying. For me FF is a mere soufflé, and SS a plate of blini and caviar—and need I tell you which dish I prefer? Over the years I've actually seen a few productions of the show on stage—a quite delightful rendition at Equity Library Theater in NY; another that unwisely incorporated "The Ritz Rock 'n' Roll"; even more senseless with the stage script. It's a perfect candidate for a full-orchestra Encores production—a great Porter score that needs rediscovery.
Next Up: The Pajama Game
Next Up: The Pajama Game
Report Card: Silk Stockings
Overall Film: A-
Bway Fidelity: B+
Songs from Bway: 11
Songs Cut from Bway: 2
New Songs: 2
Standout Numbers: "All of You", "Too Bad," "Fated to Be Mated," "The Red Blues," "Siberia" "The Ritz Rock 'n' Roll"
Worst Omission: "Hail Bibinski"
Casting: Creative, delightfully apt
Standout Cast: Astaire, Paige, Lorre, Charisse
Cast from Bway: George Tobias
Direction: Smooth, Vigorous
Choreography: The film's main delight
Hermes Pan for all Astaire numbers
Bway's Eugene Loring for the rest
Ballet: A- "Silk Stockings" (Loring)
Scenic Design: Fancy French vs Rusty Russian
Costumes: Parisian couture vs Musovite cloaks
Standout Sets: Regency hotel suites
Titles: Unfolding bolts of colored silk with
Oscar Noms: None


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