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Birthdays 9.11
Beer Birthdays
Vince Marsaglia (1908)
Geno Acevedo (1961)
Martin Dickie (1982)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Brad Bird; animator, actor (1957)
Harry Connick Jr.; singer, actor (1967)
Elizabeth Daily; actor, pop singer (1961)
D.H. Lawrence; English writer (1895)
Tommy Shaw; rock musician (1953)
Famous Birthdays
Bernardo Accolti; Italian poet (1465)
Juhani Aho; Finnish author (1861)
Hiroshi Amano; Japanese physicist (1960)
Philip Ardagh; English author (1961)
Richard Ashcroft; English singer-songwriter (1971)
William Boyce; English organist and composer (1711)
Paul "Bear" Bryant; Chicago Bears coach (1913)
Stefano Cagol; Italian artist, photographer & director (1969)
Jesus Christ; religious leader (3 BCE)
Cathryn Damon; actress and dancer (1930)
Roxann Dawson; actress (1958)
Brian de Palma; film director (1940)
Pierre de Ronsard; French poet & author (1524)
Betsy Drake; actress (1923)
Andre Dubus III; novelist & short story writer (1950)
Lola Falana; singer, actor (1942)
Gianluigi Gelmetti; Italian composer (1945)
Richard D. Gill; English-Dutch mathematician (1951)
Tony Gilroy; screenwriter, film director (1956)
Mickey Hart; rock drummer (1943)
O. Henry; writer (1862)
Taraji P. Henson; actress (1970)
Elizabeth Henstridge; English actress (1987)
Thomas Hill; painter (1829)
Earl Holliman; actor (1928)
James Jeans; Engllish physicist (1877)
Leo Kottke; rock guitarist (1945)
Tom Landry; Dallas Cowboys coach (1924)
Ludacris; rapper (1977)
Amy Madigan; actor (!950)
John Martyn; English-Scottish singer-songwriter (1948)
Virginia Madsen; actor (1961)
Kristy McNichol; actor (1962)
Jessica Mitford; English writer (1917)
Moby; pop singer (1965)
Vjenceslav Novak; Croatian author & playwright (1859)
Mungo Park; Scottish surgeon and explorer (1771)
Ariana Richards; actress (1979)
Ed Sabol; film producer, co-founded NFL Films (1916)
Mick Talbot; pop musician (1959)
James Thomson; Scottish poet & playwright (1700)
Mary Watson Whitney; astronomer (1847)
Carl Zeiss; German lensmaker (1816)
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La América sombría de Samuel Fuller
Basta recordar sus películas, o echar un vistazo a una filmografía: ni Humphrey Bogart, Fred McMurray o Edward G. Robinson, ni John Garfield, Sterling Hayden o Paul Muni, ni Dana Andrews, Dick Powell o Burt Lancaster, ni George Raft, Orson Welles, Robert Mitchum o James Cagney, aunque sí –dentro del género, cada uno una vez, los dos últimos juntos en La casa de bambú (House of Bamboo, 1955)– Richard Widmark, Robert Ryan y Robert Stack, más un puñado de desconocidos, a veces ilustres, a veces realmente anónimos (como el excelente Frank Gerstle); tampoco, entre las mujeres, Gene Tierney , Lizabeth Scott , Ava Gardner, Joan Bennett, Rita Hayworth, Yvonne De Carlo o (salvo en un western que su intervención ayuda a teñir de "negro") Barbara Stanwyck honran con su presencia el cine de Sam Fuller, carente, además, de "vampiresas" y femmes fatales y traicioneras, salvo la Silvia Pinal de Arma de dos filos (Shark!, 1969); encontramos, en cambio, a las muy leales y francas Jean Peters –en Manos peligrosas (Pickup on South Street, 1953)–, Victoria Shaw –en The Crimson Kimono ("El kimono carmesí", 1959)–, Constance Towers –en Corredor sin retorno (Shock Corridor, 1963) y Una luz en el hampa (The Naked Kiss, 1964)–, o Kristy McNichol –en Perro blanco (White Dog, 1981)– , por poner algunos ejemplos ilustrativos.
Más que claramente adscribibles al género llamado, primero en Francia y luego en toda Europa, "negro" –que en América no existió nunca, salvo a posteriori: para críticos, cinéfilos y cineastas recientes, en todo caso posteriores a Fuller, y que se denomina, en francés, film noir–, lo que hay es bastantes películas de Fuller que en Variety –es decir, en Hollywood, en el seno de la industria– calificarían indistintamente de thriller o de "melodrama". En España, más que cine "negro", debiéramos considerarlas como muestras de cine "policial" o "criminal".
Sin bases literarias de los diversos subgéneros (mystery, hard-boiled, thriller, whodunit, chiller) que han solido alimentar este tipo de cine, ni referencias a los autores más o menos "clásicos" –Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, W.R. Burnett, Raymond Chandler, Bill S. Ballinger, Vera Caspary, Dorothy B. Hughes, "Geoffrey Homes" (Daniel Mainwaring), Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith, Ross Macdonald, Donald E. Westlake, Ed McBain, Richard Stark; sólo, muy tardíamente y "en Europa", ha adaptado al marginal David Goodis en Calle sin retorno (Sans espoir de retour, 1989)–; sin vocación o aspecto semidocumental –como tantas películas Warner de los años 30, o Fox de los 40, y sobre todo, entre estas últimas, las producidas por Louis de Rochemont– ni apoyo en sucesos reales-históricos o de "palpitante actualidad", como las diversas campañas contra el crimen organizado, la delincuencia juvenil, el narcotráfico–, carecen de la imaginería mítica que fundamenta el perenne atractivo del género, sobre todo para los europeos, y también –consecuentemente– de protagonistas carismáticos –detectives privados o policías ejemplares– o bigger than life –pintorescos y truculentos villanos, melómanos y megalómanos, crueles y omnipotentes–, todo lo cual es, en el fondo, bastante lógico, ya que en las obras completas de Fuller no abundan los héroes ni los antihéroes, sino que predominan la ambigüedad de las "medias tintas" y los comportamientos contradictorios de la esquizofrenia latente o rampante.
La ausencia casi total de estrellas características del género –junto a la ocasional aparición de sus más destacados secundarios– no puede atribuirse meramente a la falta de presupuesto, cuya insuficiencia se ve siempre con creces compensada a fuerza de imaginación y astuta economía narrativa –es decir, como en la serie B, pero sin que por ello las películas de Fuller dejen de ser obras netamente personales e identificables a simple vista como exclusivamente "suyas", y por tanto ajenas a toda idea de "serie" o de sistema de fabricación–, ya que a menudo empleaba a actores de no menor cotización, pero desusados o sorprendentes en el género.
De hecho, son el propio individualismo y la muy deliberadamente buscada originalidad de tono, planteamiento y estilo que caracterizan el cine independiente de Fuller lo que hace sumamente dudosa y conflictiva la clasificación de su obra por "géneros". Como luego el de Godard, el cine de Fuller constituye "un género en sí mismo", que aprovecha algunos aspectos de los modelos o patrones genéricos preexistentes y establecidos, pero sirviéndose de ellos como de un repertorio o un muestrario, y de un modo tan libre, anticonvencional, personal y antiacadémico que, por ejemplo, sus westerns son todos ellos "aberrantes", sus películas de guerra poco tienen que ver con las habituales, y su cine "negro" en nada se parece a El halcón maltés (The Maltese Falcon, 1941), El sueño eterno (The Big Sleep, 1946), Retorno al pasado (Out of the Past, 1947) o La jungla del asfalto (The Asphalt Jungle, 1950), y guarda más relación, en todo caso, con "anomalías" como Persecución en la noche (Ride the Pink Horse, 1947), La dama de Shanghai (The Lady from Shanghai, 1947), Almas desnudas (The Reckless Moment, 1949) o Sed de mal (Touch of Evil, 1958)... o las prefigura, como A quemarropa (Point Blank, 1967) de John Boorman, para mí claramente tributaria de Underworld USA ("Bajos fondos USA, 1960), hábilmente cruzada con Código del hampa (The Killers, 1964) de Don Siegel, o, más todavía, Manhattan Sur (The Year of the Dragon, 1985) de Michael Cimino, que debe mucho también a La casa de bambú, y no poco a The Crimson Kimono.
Cuando se habla de cine "negro", los ejemplos que vienen primero a la memoria son varios interpretados por Bogart –aunque no suelan recordarse películas tan inolvidables como The Roaring Twenties ("Los rugientes años veinte", 1939) y El último refugio (High Sierra, 1941) de Raoul Walsh, The Big Shot ("El gran disparo", 1942) de Lewis B. Seiler o Callejón sin salida (Dead Reckoning, 1947) de John Cromwell–, fundamentalmente la inaugural El halcón maltés (1941) de John Huston y la paradigmática El sueño eterno (1946), que hace que figure en todas las antologías un nombre tan alejado habitualmente del género –a pesar de la precursora Scarface, el terror del hampa (Scarface, Shame of a Nation, 1932)– como el de Howard Hawks. A continuación, se van añadiendo obras de Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Raoul Walsh, Jules Dassin, John Berry, Anatole Litvak... hasta llegar a cineastas exóticos como Jacques Tourneur, John Brahm, André De Toth, Joseph H. Lewis, Phil Karlson o Edgar G. Ulmer, pero muy raramente se piensa en Fuller.
Por eso no acaba de ser escandaloso, aunque a mí me resulte un poco extraño, que el nombre de Fuller ni siquiera aparezca en el índice onomástico de una colección de ensayos tan interesante como el recientísimo "The Movie Book of Film Noir" (editado por Ian Cameron, Studio Vista, Londres, 1992), obra, en general, de críticos admiradores de este cineasta, y que no se estudie en sus páginas ninguna de sus películas (sólo se cita, una vez y de pasada, Pickup on South Street), pese a que veinte años antes Colin McArthur, además de pedirle prestado el no muy original título de "Underworld USA" (Cinema One Series, Secker & Warburg, Londres, 1972), le dedicase un interesante capítulo. Pero estamos acostumbrados a su ausencia, como a que todavía haya diccionarios que le ignoran, y encima durante los últimos años ha caído un tanto en el olvido.
Ahora bien, y en buena medida porque Fuller es un cineasta "disidente" y rebelde frente a las normas –todas, desde las narrativas a las estéticas, desde las que rigen los géneros a las que determinan los raccords, desde las que conforman lo que hoy se llamaría politically correct y antes "progresista" hasta las que definen en cada momento lo que la sociedad entiende por "buen gusto" y está dispuesta a aceptar de buen grado–, una porción considerable de su filmografía, cualesquiera que sean la época en que acaecen los hechos narrados y la fecha de realización de la película, puede asimilarse a la "crónica negra" de la sociedad que describe.
Esta propensión no es rara: para comprenderla, basta recordar que Fuller se formó como reportero "de sucesos", aunque conviene no olvidar que antes de convertirse en guionista y director de cine escribió novelas "policiacas", lo que a su vez explica la facilidad con que sus películas pronto abandonan el realismo de partida –el trampolín de la normalidad– para adentrarse decidida y osadamente en la más pura y descabellada ficción.
El más superficial análisis revela que Fuller antepone la eficacia dramática y "su propia fruición como narrador" a toda idea de "verosimilitud" o de "probabilidad estadística", que presta más atención a la lógica interna de los personajes y las situaciones en que se ven envueltos que a cualquier pauta impuesta desde el exterior, provenga de la tradición o de una moda. Escuchar a Fuller contar o describir una película, tanto ya realizada como sólo escrita o meramente imaginada, o leer las entrevistas largas –en las que se dedica a hacer eso en cuanto le dejan sus interlocutores– demuestra el carácter eminentemente visual y efectista de su inventiva, y lleva a sospechar que se le ocurren las ideas a un ritmo muy superior al que es capaz de contarlas, tanto oralmente como, más tarde, en la pantalla, impresión que sus películas menos conseguidas confirman, en especial algunas de las últimas basadas en sus propias novelas.
El duro aprendizaje periodístico de Fuller es uno de los factores "estilísticos" que fundamentan su forma de entender el cine. Por eso busca el dramatismo, la espectacularidad y el impacto, que le tientan hasta bordear el sensacionalismo. De ahí también su inveterada afición a la polémica y el debate. Si coquetea en ocasiones con lo que peyorativamente suele llamarse "cine de tesis" –aunque al menos las suyas suelen ser propias y originales, cuando no estrafalarias y paradójicas, y siempre se sitúan provocativamente "a contrapelo" de lo que "se lleva" o está "bien visto", lo que las hace especialmente irritantes para los dogmáticos y los propensos a dejarse llevar por la corriente– es porque tiende a introducir comentarios "editoriales", para colmo de una heterodoxia que ningún director de periódico le permitiría, por temor a perder lectores o crearse conflictos. De ahí le viene también, probablemente, una desmedida afición a abordar "grandes temas" amplios y generales, preferentemente ilustrados –casi simbólicamente– mediante pequeñas anécdotas, que se van complicando y entremezclando hasta acabar por resultar de un barroquismo notable.
Es el lado "parabólico", de morality play, con claros antecedentes en el "Moby Dick" de Herman Melville, y en la Biblia, que han comentado a menudo sus exégetas –para ser preciso, sólo los anglosajones, de los cuales los mejores son todos ingleses, y además discípulos más o menos remotos del prestigioso y polémico crítico literario F. R. Leavis–, y que puede chocar con su modestia económica.
Su permanente conflicto con la estrechez de recursos materiales y temporales que impone en Hollywood el afán de independencia impulsa a Fuller, para acercarse a sus ambiciosas metas, a jugar con la confrontación y el contraste; cuando dos personajes se enfrentan, asistimos gráficamente al choque de dos posturas, dos grupos de interés, dos ideologías, que no necesitan de grandes discursos para exponer sus puntos de vista. Se trata, casi siempre, de una lucha a muerte entre organizaciones o individuos de intereses contrapuestos o rivales, pero que se sirven de medios y "métodos" muy semejantes; esta similitud facilita que Fuller cultive la figura dramática más cargada de ambivalencia: la "infiltración" de un grupo por un solitario, cuyo afán de venganza personal es aprovechado por la banda rival –o la policía– para destruir desde dentro la organización enemiga "penetrada". No es raro que un personaje de "infiltrado" atraiga a Fuller, ya que suele ser, por lo menos, un disidente, y además puede convertirse en un traidor, un agente involuntario o un espía a la fuerza. Hay ejemplos de ello en sus westerns –como Bob Ford en Balas vengadoras (I Shot Jesse James, 1949), el sudista renegado (Rod Steiger) y el indio que ha sido scout o guía de la caballería (Jay C. Flippen) en Yuma (Run of the Arrow, 1957), el celoso Dean Jagger de Forty Guns ("Cuarenta pistolas", 1957)–, pero abundan , sobre todo, en las películas más próximas al cine "negro", desde Manos peligrosas y La casa de bambú hasta Underworld USA, sin olvidar Corredor sin retorno y Una luz en el hampa; incluso en películas de guerra –al menos como sospecha, en Casco de acero (The Steel Helmet, 1951)– o a mitad de camino entre ambos géneros –como Verboten! ("¡Prohibido!", 1958)– se dan este tipo de situaciones o de duplicidades de los personajes.
Nada debe la preeminencia de este tema en Manos peligrosas –Richard Widmark, Jean Peters y Thelma Ritter, los tres protagonistas, son traidores o delatores–, por tanto, a la histeria McCarthista con la que injustamente se le ha relacionado; igualmente, cuando se habla de maniqueísmo a propósito de Fuller se está recurriendo a un insulto que no resiste el más somero análisis de sus películas. Como corolario, puede observarse que, aunque su mejor y más activa etapa creadora coincida –como en el cine americano en general– con la doble presidencia de Eisenhower, no hay en su cine el menor asomo de apología del American Way of Life entonces triunfante e imperante ya en medio mundo, que tan corrosivamente diseccionaron los europeos ilustrados instalados en Hollywood –Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Douglas Sirk–, pero que el grueso del cine americano se limitaba a ilustrar y propagar, con excepciones críticas –los melodramas de Nicholas Ray o Vincente Minnelli, por ejemplo–, pero que incluso buena parte del cine "policiaco", sobre todo el que apoya la lucha contra el crimen organizado o la corrupción local, apoyaba implícitamente.
Aunque las imágenes de Fuller son tan llamativas y chocantes que se piensa en él, sobre todo, como un realizador –cuando es, con Nicholas Ray, Joseph L. Mankiewicz y Orson Welles, uno de los pocos cineastas americanos de su generación con "conciencia de autor", totalmente responsable de sus obras–, conviene, insisto, tener siempre presente que Fuller es, ante todo, un escritor, un periodista y un novelista. Eso explica su afición al negro sobre blanco de la letra impresa en las páginas de un libro o de un diario, con lo que ello implica, a la vez, de precisión y de esquematismo –o de predisposición a cargar las tintas–, pero también de afán de abarcar el máximo territorio y de investigar a fondo en sus rincones y recovecos, de mostrar luces y sombras, de ir más allá de la apariencia y de las contradicciones y paradojas, de bucear en la ambigüedad aun a riesgo de no siempre conseguir escapar de ella.
Fuller fue también, antes de llegar a reportero, vendedor callejero de periódicos, y sabe por experiencia práctica la importancia y la eficacia de un gran titular llamativo, de una frase chocante, de una foto elocuente, de un recuadro de opinión en primera plana. Se podría pensar que, además de todo eso, y aunque no he encontrado el menor rastro de semejante actividad, también cultivó el cartelismo publicitario, o el diseño de portadas de novelas de bolsillo, ya que muchos de sus planos tienen la gráfica y algo tosca expresividad de un póster –político o comercial– o de la cubierta de una edición barata, y otros son como pancartas, u octavillas lanzadas a la sala de cine, o como grandes murales, vallas o dazibaos ofrecidos a la mirada del espectador. También debió frecuentar durante algún tiempo las ondas, a la vista de su interés por el sonido y la perspectiva acústica, su empleo de la música y su afición a interpelar directamente al espectador, mediante una voz en off –o un letrero– que le interroga y que a menudo reemplaza el clásico "The End". El colmo de esta tendencia a implicar al público en sus películas lo ilustra la idea delirante de propugnar que en las películas de guerra silbaran las balas sobre las cabezas de los espectadores, a ser posible –sospecho– con munición real.
Precisamente por no ser ni mitificador, ni desesperado, ni romántico, ni documental, ni denunciador, ni ejemplarizante, el cine que –con reservas, aunque no sin cierto fundamento– podríamos calificar de "negro" dentro de la obra de Fuller es mucho más sombrío y más tajante, más crítico e inconformista, menos engañosamente esperanzador que ningún otro, es decir, si se quiere, más "negro" todavía.
Lo que, mediante el relato de una historia particular compleja y dinámica, Fuller describe –como "de pasada", sin anunciarlo– es precisamente el rostro "normal" –cotidiano, ordinario, oficioso, apenas sumergido, funcional, rutinario e insensible– del hampa y de la corrupción.
Y tanto la colectiva –el pueblo fronterizo de Una luz en el hampa, la gran ciudad que alimenta la crónica del diario The Globe en Park Row ("Park Row", 1952), los Estados Unidos representados en un microcosmos que no es ya una diligencia, un hotel, un barco o un avión, sino el manicomio de Corredor sin retorno– como la individual –el pervertido e hipócrita prohombre-mecenas-benefactor de Una luz en el hampa, el periodista que se hace pasar por loco en Corredor sin retorno meramente con el propósito de ganar el codiciado premio Pulitzer–; la lógica implacable de la actuación de las organizaciones criminales –la mafia de Underworld USA, la banda-patrulla de ejército de ocupación que opera en el Japón de postguerra retratado en La casa de bambú, el círculo vicioso de espionaje-delación, fundamentado en la traición obtenida mediante soborno o chantaje, de Manos peligrosas– o policiales; los conflictos raciales y sociales que permanecen latentes en el gran melting pot integrador que es –o debiera ser– América para Fuller: véase, en particular, The Crimson Kimono, aunque es una obsesión omnipresente, desde The Baron of Arizona ("El Barón de Arizona", 1950) a Uno Rojo, división de choque (The Big Red One, 1980) y Perro blanco, pasando por Yuma, China Gate ("La Puerta de China", 1957) o Corredor sin retorno.
Como el no muy apreciado novelista Ross Macdonald –que algún día será revalorizado, tras Hammett y Chandler, y reconocido a su lado como uno de los grandes maestros literarios y éticos del género–, Fuller parece haber comprendido instintivamente que la mejor forma de representar el mundo contemporáneo en tiempos de paz consiste en tratar de describir el permanente y ambiguo enfrentamiento entre las fuerzas de la ley y las del hampa, combate no siempre violento, a veces subterráneo y hasta secreto, en el que ambas organizaciones complementarias bordeaban a menudo la ilegalidad y se servían de medios, en última instancia, no excesivamente distintos.
También comprendió pronto que el empeño del artista –escritor o cineasta, para el caso, daba igual– para abrirse camino entre la maraña de intrigas, relaciones, intereses, sociedades instrumentales y personas "usadas" por unos y otros sin demasiados escrúpulos y en muchas ocasiones a la fuerza –bajo presión o amenaza, con promesas de inmunidad o perdón, con recompensas u ofertas de protección– era, en gran medida, paralelo al trabajo de investigación que tenía que llevar a cabo un detective o un periodista, por lo que tales personajes y su forma de operar representaban un modelo válido para la conducción del relato y para transmitir dramáticamente, y a ser posible con amenidad, al espectador su visión del caos y la corrupción reinantes.
Esto es lo que hace, más allá de discrepancias formales y de su muy superior dureza, que el de Fuller esté claramente emparentado con el llamado "cine negro", siempre que su acción sucede hoy en día y mientras no se trate de un relato bélico.
Y conviene observar que esto ocurre, sobre todo, cuando el escenario son los Estados Unidos: de películas situadas en México (como Arma de dos filos) o, más todavía, en Europa, como la francesa Ladrones en la noche (Les voleurs de la nuit, 1983) o la portuguesa Calle sin retorno, no cabría decir lo mismo, a pesar de que la primera tenga concomitancias –el tipo de mujer que encama Silvia Pinal– con los ejemplos más "míticos" del género y sus diálogos evoquen los de otros thrillers "exóticos", como Una aventurera en Macao (Macao, 1952) de Josef von Sternberg, o las novelas de Charles Williams, de que tiendan a presentar personajes de americanos exiliados, y de que la tercera, producida por el realizador francés Jacques Bral –autor de Extérieur nuit y Polar–, adapte la novela "negra" homónima del escritor norteamericano David Goodis.
Esto indica que no se trata, pues, por parte de Fuller, de una opción formal, ni de aprovechar los rasgos convencionales que caracterizan al género como un envoltorio más o menos "atractivo" o comercial, sino de una concomitancia más radical, interior y esencial, basada en una visión crítica de la realidad moral –más que social– de su país.
Incluso creo significativo que Ladrones en la noche, que podría considerarse una versión actualizada de la historia contada por Fritz Lang en Sólo se vive una vez (You Only Live Once, 1937) y Nicholas Ray en They Live By Night ("Ellos viven de noche", 1948), se parezca mucho menos a Bonnie y Clyde (Bonnie and Clyde, 1967) de Arthur Penn o Thieves Like Us ("Ladrones como nosotros", 1974) de Robert Altman que a otras películas sobre jóvenes desarraigados en París que viven y mueren al borde de la delincuencia, pero que nada tienen en común con el cine "negro" de ningún continente ni con su imaginería clásica, El diablo probablemente (Le Diable probablement, 1977) y El dinero (L'argent, 1982) de Robert Bresson, mientras que Calle sin retorno se convierte en una visión abstracta, fragmentaria, heterogénea y alucinada, más cercana a una pesadilla que a cualquier enfoque de la realidad, por estilizado o distorsionado que pueda ser, y por tanto más emparentada –lógicamente– con Muerte de un pichón (Kressin und die tote Taube in der Beethovenstrasse, 1972) del propio Fuller que con muestras del género perfectamente aclimatadas al continente europeo como El silencio de un hombre (Le samouraï, 1967) o El círculo rojo (Le cercle rouge, 1970), personalísimas obras de Jean-Pierre Melville o con las películas más logradas de José Giovanni o Claude Sautet. De hecho, es el desarraigo involuntario lo que, al convertir en "apátridas" las últimas incursiones más o menos "negras" de Fuller, privándolas de sustento en la realidad, aunque fuera como mero trampolín para su fantasía, las aproxima a una serie de convenciones que le son ajenas y hace que no sean tan "negras" como sus películas americanas más alejadas, en principio, del género, como Park Row.
Miguel Marías
Revista “Nosferatu” nº 12, abril-1993
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“Cardboard Kingdom,” selected for Youth One Book, One Denver 2019
Provided by Denver Arts & Venues
The 2019 Youth One Book, One Denver summer-reading program selection is from first-time author Chad Sell.
A graphic novel with an imaginative, do-it-yourself theme has been chosen as the 2019 Youth One Book, One Denver winner, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Thursday morning.
“Cardboard Kingdom,” by Chicago-based author and artist Chad Sell, will be available for free to children aged 9 to 12 who participate in Youth One Book One Denver (YOBOD), running June through August.
The summer reading program aims to “combat learning loss through events and activities tied to the book’s themes, ” according to a Denver Arts & Venues news release.
There’s no need to formally sign kids up for the program. All parents need to do is check out the book from a Denver Public Library branch and download the activity guide from artsandvenues.com/YOBOD.
Several free public events tied to the book will also be available for kids this summer, Arts & Venues said, and additional copies of the book — the city purchased 3,000 of them — will be distributed through Boys & Girls Club of America and Denver Parks and Recreation summer programs, said Amber Fochi, program manager for Arts & Culture’s marketing arm.
“(The program) really brings books and reading to life in the minds of our children, and because of it, students gain a life-long love for reading as they participate in the book-related events and activities,” Hancock said in a statement. “Chad’s wonderful graphic novel is especially appealing because it combines the visual and written art to provide a whole new literary experience for every child who will pick it up and dive into its pages.”
The pick for the program’s eighth year — and its first-ever graphic novel — takes inspiration from both the maker movement and the world of comics with activity-based stories told in bold lines and splashes of color. “Cardboard Kingdom” traces the summers of 16 diverse kids “as they transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes and set out on adventures encountering knights, robots and superheroes in their cardboard kingdom,” Arts & Venues said.
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“I never could have imagined that it would be selected for something like the Youth One Book, One Denver program, where thousands of kids throughout an entire city would read these stories and share in the summer-long activities,” author Sell said in a statement, following a Thursday morning event at College View School with Hancock, City Councilman Jolon Clark and others.
Sell will stick around this weekend for the Denver Indie Comics & Arts Expo, which will be held April 13-14 at McNichols Building in downtown’s Civic Center park.
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“Cardboard Kingdom,” selected for Youth One Book, One Denver 2019
Provided by Denver Arts & Venues
The 2019 Youth One Book, One Denver summer-reading program selection is from first-time author Chad Sell.
A graphic novel with an imaginative, do-it-yourself theme has been chosen as the 2019 Youth One Book, One Denver winner, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Thursday morning.
“Cardboard Kingdom,” by Chicago-based author and artist Chad Sell, will be available for free to children aged 9 to 12 who participate in Youth One Book One Denver (YOBOD), running June through August.
The summer reading program aims to “combat learning loss through events and activities tied to the book’s themes, ” according to a Denver Arts & Venues news release.
There’s no need to formally sign kids up for the program. All parents need to do is check out the book from a Denver Public Library branch and download the activity guide from artsandvenues.com/YOBOD.
Several free public events tied to the book will also be available for kids this summer, Arts & Venues said, and additional copies of the book — the city purchased 3,000 of them — will be distributed through Boys & Girls Club of America and Denver Parks and Recreation summer programs, said Amber Fochi, program manager for Arts & Culture’s marketing arm.
“(The program) really brings books and reading to life in the minds of our children, and because of it, students gain a life-long love for reading as they participate in the book-related events and activities,” Hancock said in a statement. “Chad’s wonderful graphic novel is especially appealing because it combines the visual and written art to provide a whole new literary experience for every child who will pick it up and dive into its pages.”
The pick for the program’s eighth year — and its first-ever graphic novel — takes inspiration from both the maker movement and the world of comics with activity-based stories told in bold lines and splashes of color. “Cardboard Kingdom” traces the summers of 16 diverse kids “as they transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes and set out on adventures encountering knights, robots and superheroes in their cardboard kingdom,” Arts & Venues said.
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“I never could have imagined that it would be selected for something like the Youth One Book, One Denver program, where thousands of kids throughout an entire city would read these stories and share in the summer-long activities,” author Sell said in a statement, following a Thursday morning event at College View School with Hancock, City Councilman Jolon Clark and others.
Sell will stick around this weekend for the Denver Indie Comics & Arts Expo, which will be held April 13-14 at McNichols Building in downtown’s Civic Center park.
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“Cardboard Kingdom,” selected for Youth One Book, One Denver 2019
Provided by Denver Arts & Venues
The 2019 Youth One Book, One Denver summer-reading program selection is from first-time author Chad Sell.
A graphic novel with an imaginative, do-it-yourself theme has been chosen as the 2019 Youth One Book, One Denver winner, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Thursday morning.
“Cardboard Kingdom,” by Chicago-based author and artist Chad Sell, will be available for free to children aged 9 to 12 who participate in Youth One Book One Denver (YOBOD), running June through August.
The summer reading program aims to “combat learning loss through events and activities tied to the book’s themes, ” according to a Denver Arts & Venues news release.
There’s no need to formally sign kids up for the program. All parents need to do is check out the book from a Denver Public Library branch and download the activity guide from artsandvenues.com/YOBOD.
Several free public events tied to the book will also be available for kids this summer, Arts & Venues said, and additional copies of the book — the city purchased 3,000 of them — will be distributed through Boys & Girls Club of America and Denver Parks and Recreation summer programs, said Amber Fochi, program manager for Arts & Culture’s marketing arm.
“(The program) really brings books and reading to life in the minds of our children, and because of it, students gain a life-long love for reading as they participate in the book-related events and activities,” Hancock said in a statement. “Chad’s wonderful graphic novel is especially appealing because it combines the visual and written art to provide a whole new literary experience for every child who will pick it up and dive into its pages.”
The pick for the program’s eighth year — and its first-ever graphic novel — takes inspiration from both the maker movement and the world of comics with activity-based stories told in bold lines and splashes of color. “Cardboard Kingdom” traces the summers of 16 diverse kids “as they transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes and set out on adventures encountering knights, robots and superheroes in their cardboard kingdom,” Arts & Venues said.
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“I never could have imagined that it would be selected for something like the Youth One Book, One Denver program, where thousands of kids throughout an entire city would read these stories and share in the summer-long activities,” author Sell said in a statement, following a Thursday morning event at College View School with Hancock, City Councilman Jolon Clark and others.
Sell will stick around this weekend for the Denver Indie Comics & Arts Expo, which will be held April 13-14 at McNichols Building in downtown’s Civic Center park.
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European Rugby Champions Cup: Leicester Tigers v Scarlets
European Rugby Champions Cup: Leicester Tigers v Scarlets
European Rugby Champions Cup: Leicester Tigers v Scarlets
Jonny Could injured his shoulder in a collision with Saints quantity eight Teimana Harrison
European Rugby Champions Cup Venue: Welford Highway Date: Friday, 19 October Kick-off: 19:45 BST Protection: Reside commentary on BBC Radio Wales, stay rating updates on BBC native radio and on the BBC Sport web site.
England wing Jonny Could returns to face Scarlets as Leicester make two modifications from their Champions Cup defeat by Ulster final weekend.
Could injured his shoulder within the win over Northampton earlier this month, however has been handed match after a scan.
Scarlets, who make 4 modifications to their aspect, are with out Wales worldwide Jake Ball.
It had been hoped Ball would get well from a useless leg, however he’s not even among the many replacements.
Tom Worth replaces Ball within the second row, whereas Josh Macleod is available in for for Ed Kennedy on the flank.
Rhys Patchell is absent after struggling a head knock earlier this month with Dan Jones coming into the fly-half function.
Ioan Nicholas is available in on the wing after Johnny McNicholl picked up an damage within the Scarlets’ slim defeat by Racing 92 final weekend.
Nevertheless, Wales backs Leigh Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, Steff Evans, Hadleigh Parkes and Gareth Davies make the journey to Welford Highway.
Will Spencer comes into the second row for the hosts with Mike Williams reverting to the flank. Jonah Holmes, who was referred to as up by Wales for the primary time earlier this week, continues at full-back.
Each side are on the lookout for their first European win of the season and historical past favours Leicester. The Tigers have received eight of their earlier 10 conferences with Scarlets, together with all 4 video games at house.
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Leicester: J Holmes; J Could, M Tuilagi, Okay Eastmond, J Olowofela; G Ford, B Youngs; G Bateman, T Youngs (capt), D Cole, H Wells, W Spencer, M Williams, G Thompson, S Kalamafoni
Replacements: T Polota-Nau, F Gigena, J Heyes, G Kitchener, T Reffell, S Harrison, M Toomua, A Thompstone
Scarlets: L Halfpenny; I Nicholas, J Davies, H Parkes, S Evans; D Jones, G Davies; W Jones, Okay Owens, S Lee, T Worth, D Bulbring, B Thomson, J Macleod, W Boyde
Replacements:R Elias, P Worth, W Kruger, J Helps, U Cassiem, S Hidalgo-Clyne, S Hughes, P Asquith
Referee: Romain Poite
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The moment TV's teen revolution truly began
Claire Danes in My So-Called Life, Lennon Stella in Nashville, and Kristy McNichol in Family. (Photo: Everett Collection)
Back in the late ’70s, a full decade before Marshall Herskovitz and his producing partner, Ed Zwick, would change TV by creating thirtysomething, they cut their teeth as writers on the aptly titled ABC drama Family. Created by Jay Presson Allen and exec-produced by Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling, and Mike Nichols, it revolved around the Lawrences, a family from Pasadena, Calif. whose youngest child was Buddy — the character that would launch Kristy McNichol’s career and, inadvertently, help inspire the most influential teen TV series of all time.
When Herskovitz and Zwick tapped Winnie Holzman to create My So-Called Life, an authentic early-’90s drama centered on a teenage girl, Angela Chase (Claire Danes), they wanted to upend the rules they had to once abide by.
“We used to get notes [on Family scripts] from Len Goldberg, and there would be a line and it said on it ‘NOB.’ I remember asking, ‘What does NOB stand for?’ and it meant, ‘Not Our Buddy,'” Herskovitz tells Yahoo Entertainment. “They wanted her to be nice all the time, and they wanted her to be a good girl. I think there was this way in which teens, but especially teenage girls, were still seen as voiceless in the culture. And I think that was the thing that most motivated us when we were doing My So-Called Life, was to say, ‘These are people within our lives who need to be heard.'”
If Herskovitz’s memory is correct, one “NOB” scene had Buddy, who he notes was younger than 15-year-old Angela when the series began, talking back to her mother “too stridently.”
“Which is so funny to me,” he says, “because in My So-Called Life, Angela would scream at her mother. Basically, she wanted to kill her mother. So, certainly, there was a change.”
As part of our Why Teen TV Matters series, we spoke with Herskovitz, who’s now co-showrunner of CMT’s Nashville with Zwick, about the other shifts he’s witnessed in his 40-plus-year TV career.
The beginning
Wilson Cruz as Rickie and Danes in My So-Called Life. (Photos: Everett Collection)
Most people agree that the Teen TV genre didn’t even exist until My So-Called Life. “It’s funny, I used to talk about this with Ed Zwick all the time, that I would get very disturbed watching television as a child, because it in no way resembled what my life looked and felt like, and I couldn’t figure out who was crazy,” Herskovitz says, recalling that he found My Three Sons with Fred MacMurray particularly unnerving. “It’s in the nature of sitcoms to basically portray people as clinically insane: like one week they are completely obsessed with something, they start a business and they get the whole neighborhood involved, and it causes some horrible thing to happen, and the next week that’s completely forgotten and they’re doing something else. Because My Three Sons was mostly about these teenage boys, I found it to be utterly perplexing and disturbing.”
When he, Zwick, and Holzman, who had been a writer on thirtysomething, were brainstorming ideas for a new series, it was Herskovitz who initially suggested doing a drama focused on teens. “I had written a pilot for Showtime in the mid-’80s, when Showtime was just beginning, as a matter of fact, about a 17-year-old boy, and I found myself exploring issues that I had never seen on television before,” he says. “Most shows about teens on television [in the early ’90s, like Beverly Hills, 90210] were very exploitative about sexuality and meant to be titillating rather than inside the experience of what it meant to be an adolescent. What I said to Winnie was, ‘This is something that still interests me, what about you?’ And she said, ‘My God, this is something I think about every day.'”
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ABC initially passed on the pilot and then never quite knew what to do with the show, right down to its loud MTV-esque promos. “They completely ignored the fact that the show was so introspective. And we kept telling them, ‘This is a show for grownups. Every grownup was once a teenager. You’re not getting what we have here,” he says. “And they just never believed in the show. In fact, it took two and a half years to do the 19 episodes that we produced. I remember Ed had made an appeal to [then network president] Bob Iger when they were talking about canceling the show, saying, ‘You should keep this show on the air because teenage girls have no voice in our culture and the show is giving them a voice.’ And the irony of that is so incredible now, 25 years later, because teenage girls have such a huge voice in the culture. I mean, look at the Parkland kid [Emma Gonzalez].”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Emma Gonzalez, left, David Hogg, and Cameron Kasky raising their voices. (Photos: Getty Images, AP)
Like every showrunner who’s participated in our series, he’s been inspired by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students. “I’m not the only person to think these kids are incredible. One of the things that strikes me is that, quite naturally, this group is so heterogeneous — there are boys and girls, and people of different ethnic backgrounds — and I find that so refreshing and lovely to see that it naturally happens that way. And also, how together they are, how much solidarity they have, how generous they are with each other. It’s an extraordinary moment, it really is,” Herskovitz says. “They have this extraordinary moral high ground. I mean, no one should have to be in fear for their life when they go to school. And it’s reaching the point now where every kid in this country is afraid for his or her life. You cannot not listen to these people.”
In 1994, My So-Called Life had an episode, “Guns and Gossip,” that deals with a gun accidentally going off in school — a cautionary tale that Herskovitz still sees as current. Gay student Rickie (Wilson Cruz) is being bullied so badly that he’s OK with people believing he’s the one who brought in the weapon because it might make them think he’s dangerous and scare them off. “It was really a multifaceted story about the pressures kids go through in high school, using this gun as the instigating incident, but really it was never about the gun,” he says. “What touched me most about that episode was the storyline about Brian Krakow, played by Devin Gummersall, who the principal decided he was going to browbeat into getting him to rat on whoever it was brought the gun. So it became a different kind of bullying, where the principal was bullying this kid and tried to intimidate him and scare him, and, finally, at the end, Brian stands up to the principal, and says, ‘You’re harassing me, and if you keep doing it I’m going to sue you.’ It was just a wonderful moment that I just love, where the kid found his voice and stood up to the grownup.”
Herskovitz’s favorite episode of the series is “The Zit,” a particularly poetic one written by Holzman based on Kafka’s Metamorphosis. “It’s about Angela having a zit that’s tormenting her the whole time — that somehow her entire life will be ruined by the fact that she has this huge zit on her chin — and, meanwhile, they’re learning about how, in the Kafka story, this guy wakes up as a cockroach,” he says. “It’s about how each kid’s image of themselves is so negative and tortured, and, also, untrue — and how they are being so done in by what they feel they have to be in order to fit into society. It’s such a remarkable piece of work.”
Jason Katims, the future showrunner of Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, and Rise who got his start in the My So-Called Life writers’ room, has cited the episode as an example of their goal: “to tell as little story as possible.”
“Honestly, we did not write that show in any way differently for teens. In other words, we wrote that show the same way we wrote thirtysomething,” Herskovitz says. “It was about teens, and so we were inside the experience of what it means to be a teenager, which means things are felt more intensely. There’s less context in which to help to get yourself off the ledge when you think something is horrible. But, really, it was the same approach, which is to say, ‘How can we honestly depict how people experience themselves in the world?’ And that’s a hard thing to do. It takes a lot of thought, and a lot of self-exploration, a lot of honesty, and I felt that that’s what Winnie was so brilliant at.”
Back to the future
Marshall and Zwick also created the family drama Once and Again, which ran on ABC from 1999-2002. Browse clips on YouTube, and you’ll be reminded of a storyline where teen Grace (Julia Whelan) grew very close to a teacher, played by Eric Stoltz. When we talked with The Vampire Diaries‘ Julie Plec, who worked on Dawson’s Creek for a time, she said someone might have to think twice today about doing a storyline like Pacey sleeping with his teacher. Herskovitz agrees. “But remember, in Once and Again, it never was fully realized. You understood that he had a crush on her and she had a crush on him, but it wasn’t about, ‘Oh, they’re going to have an affair.’ It was more about the idea that two people who are inappropriate to each other would still have feelings for each other, and I might still be interested in exploring that today,” he says. “I mean, I find the idea of exploring what can’t be, but what you still want is a part of human nature.”
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Human nature is also why he’d concur with Holzman, who told us looking back on MSCL through the prism of the #MeToo movement she has “no regrets” about the use of the bad boy trope — Angela’s crush on Jared Leto’s Jordan Catalano, who didn’t always treat her well. If characters are “neatly shorn of their problems, they’re not really gonna feel like people that you’re actually encountering,” Holzman said — and mistakes are how people learn.
“If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that it’s not necessarily the moment in the culture for men to say a lot about the #MeToo movement, so I think I should not say a lot,” Herskovitz begins, “but I will say that there have been many moments in my life where I felt the culture tried to simplify human nature or simplify the way humans should be in this world, and that has never interested me. … Men are complicated, women are complicated, there are bad people in this world, there are confused people in this world, and I’m only interested in exploring the entire universe that exists inside a human being — and part of that universe is dark, and part of it is light. I wouldn’t have any problem talking about a girl’s attraction to a bad boy today because that exists in human nature. I’m not saying it’s good or bad — I’m just saying it exists — and I would want to portray it as part of a developmental process because I think it is.”
Danes and Jared Leto as Jordan Catalano in My So-Called Life. (Photos: Everett Collection)
So many of the producers who’ve participated in this “Why Teen TV Matters” series told us that My So-Called Life was the show that first taught them the impact a series could have. That’s the reason the series may be the one Herskovitz feels proudest of having worked on in his career. “Twenty-five years later, to hear with some regularity how it influenced people, or how they felt in some way empowered by it, or just understood is a remarkable feeling, frankly. And I give Winnie all the credit. I mean, she made that happen, and I am just so happy to be able to help her bring that vision to the world,” he says.
In retrospect, he can even appreciate that My So-Called Life is “like the James Dean of television shows” — that in some way, it’s better that they only got to make 19 episodes. “Because it lives in this perfect memory of each one was a gem,” he says. “I’d like to believe that if we had done five seasons of it, it could have been still great, but there is something about it having died young that just adds to that feeling of specialness about it.”
He’s, of course, also proud of the equally groundbreaking thirtysomething, which ran from 1987 to 1991, and, in his words, “went right up to that envelope of how little story could you have and still fill an hour of television — because the less story you had, the more human interactions and moments of life that you could depict.” But he points to a movie he directed, 1998’s Dangerous Beauty, based on the true story of 16th century Venetian courtesan/poet Veronica Franco, as well.
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“The idea behind this film was to explore the idea of women owning their own sexuality, and not being stopped by the chain and punishments that society so often forced on them,” he says. Though it wasn’t a blockbuster, it became a kind of cult hit on Netflix with women who considered it an anthem. “I was very proud of that, and I was actually very conscious while I was making it that in some way I was making it for my daughters, even though they were too young for it at the time,” he says. “The idea of them becoming women and navigating their own lives, I wanted to create a message of something that showed the possibility of liberation.”
Empowering young women is something he still strives to do on Nashville, with Lennon and Maisy Stella’s characters, Maddie and Daphne. Bringing us full circle, “There’s just an assumption on this show that these kids are going to speak their minds. There’s no pretense that they are going to be ‘ladylike,’ in some old-fashioned sense of what girls are supposed to be,” he says. “They argue with their father, they argue with each other, they just live their lives, and I love that. I love that they are fully realized in that way.”
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My So-Called Life is currently streaming on Hulu. Watch all 19 episodes for free on Yahoo View. Nashville returns for the start of its final episodes June 7 on CMT.
Read more “Why Teen TV Matters” from Yahoo Entertainment:
Why ‘My So-Called Life’ is the most influential teen show ever
‘My So-Called Life’ and ‘Parenthood’ creators on Parkland teens ‘changing the conversation’ on TV and in real life
Show creator looks back at 4 decades of ‘Degrassi,’ from abortion to Drake
Joss Whedon on Parkland students: ‘I’ve been writing about kids like these for a long while. I thought I was writing fantasy.’
Why social media is the biggest issue teen TV should tackle
Why vampires aren’t as sexy in the age of #MeToo
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NBA All-Star Sport outcomes: Historical past of winners and MVPs of each previous recreation
1951
East 111, West 94
Boston Backyard (Boston)
Ed Macauley, Boston Celtics
1952
East 108, West 91
Boston Backyard (Boston)
Paul Arizin, Philadelphia Warriors
1953
West 79, East 75
Allen County Warfare Memorial Coliseum (Fort Wayne)
George Mikan, Minneapolis Lakers
1954
East 98, West 93 (OT)
Madison Sq. Backyard (New York)
Bob Cousy, Boston Celtics
1955
East 100, West 91
Madison Sq. Backyard (New York)
Invoice Sharman, Boston Celtics
1956
West 108, East 94
Rochester Warfare Memorial Coliseum (Rochester)
Bob Pettit, St. Louis Hawks
1957
East 109, West 97
Boston Backyard (Boston)
Bob Cousy (2), Boston Celtics
1958
East 130, West 118
Kiel Auditorium (St. Louis)
Bob Pettit (2), St. Louis Hawks
1959
West 124, East 108
Olympia Stadium (Detroit)
Elgin Baylor, Minneapolis Lakers; Bob Pettit (Three), St. Louis Hawks
1960
East 125, West 115
Conference Corridor (Philadelphia)
Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Warriors
1961
West 153, East 131
Onondaga County Warfare Memorial Coliseum (Syracuse)
Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati Royals
1962
West 150, East 130
Kiel Auditorium (St. Louis)
Bob Pettit (four), St. Louis Hawks
1963
East 115, West 108
Los Angeles Memorial Sports activities Enviornment (Los Angeles)
Invoice Russell, Boston Celtics
1964
East 111, West 107
Boston Backyard (Boston)
Oscar Robertson (2), Cincinnati Royals
1965
East 124, West 123
Kiel Auditorium (St. Louis)
Jerry Lucas, Cincinnati Royals
1966
East 137, West 94
Cincinnati Gardens (Cincinnati)
Adrian Smith, Cincinnati Royals
1967
West 135, East 120
Cow Palace (San Francisco)
Rick Barry, San Francisco Warriors
1968
East 144, West 124
Madison Sq. Backyard (New York)
Hal Greer, Philadelphia 76ers
1969
East 123, West 112
Baltimore Civic Middle (Baltimore)
Oscar Robertson (Three), Cincinnati Royals
1970
East 142, West 135
The Spectrum (Philadelphia)
Willis Reed, New York Knicks
1971
West 108, East 107
San Diego Sports activities Enviornment (San Diego)
Lenny Wilkens, Seattle SuperSonics
1972
West 112, East 110
The Discussion board (Los Angeles)
Jerry West, Los Angeles Lakers
1973
East 104, West 84
Chicago Stadium (Chicago)
Dave Cowens, Boston Celtics
1974
West 134, East 123
Seattle Middle Coliseum (Seattle)
Bob Lanier, Detroit Pistons
1975
East 108, West 102
Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Phoenix)
Walt Frazier, New York Knicks
1976
East 123, West 109
The Spectrum (Philadelphia)
Dave Bing, Washington Bullets
1977
West 125, East 124
MECCA Enviornment (Milwaukee)
Julius Erving, Philadelphia 76ers
1978
East 133, West 125
Omni Coliseum (Atlanta)
Randy Smith, Buffalo Braves
1979
West 134, East 129
Pontiac Silverdome (Detroit)
David Thompson, Denver Nuggets
1980
East 144, West 136 (OT)
Capital Centre (Landover)
George Gervin, San Antonio Spurs
1981
East 123, West 120
Coliseum at Richfield (Cleveland)
Nate Archibald, Boston Celtics
1982
East 120, West 118
Brendan Byrne Enviornment (East Rutherford)
Larry Chicken, Boston Celtics
1983
East 132, West 123
The Discussion board (Los Angeles)
Julius Erving (2), Philadelphia 76ers
1984
East 154, West 145 (OT)
McNichols Sports activities Enviornment (Denver)
Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons
1985
West 140, East 129
Hoosier Dome (Indianapolis)
Ralph Sampson, Houston Rockets
1986
East 139, West 132
Reunion Enviornment (Dallas)
Isiah Thomas (2), Detroit Pistons
1987
West 154, East 149 (OT)
Kingdome (Seattle)
Tom Chambers, Seattle SuperSonics
1988
East 138, West 133
Chicago Stadium (Chicago)
Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
1989
West 143, East 134
Astrodome (Houston)
Karl Malone, Utah Jazz
1990
East 130, West 113
Miami Enviornment (Miami)
Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
1991
East 116, West 114
Charlotte Coliseum (Charlotte)
Charles Barkley, Philadelphia 76ers
1992
West 153, East 113
Orlando Enviornment (Orlando)
Magic Johnson (2), Los Angeles Lakers
1993
West 135, East 130 (OT)
Delta Middle (Salt Lake Metropolis)
Karl Malone (2) and John Stockton, Utah Jazz
1994
East 127, West 118
Goal Middle (Minneapolis)
Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls
1995
West 139, East 112
America West Enviornment (Phoenix)
Mitch Richmond, Sacramento Kings
1996
East 129, West 118
Alamodome (San Antonio)
Michael Jordan (2), Chicago Bulls
1997
East 132, West 120
Gund Enviornment (Cleveland)
Glen Rice, Charlotte Hornets
1998
East 135, West 114
Madison Sq. Backyard (New York)
Michael Jordan (Three), Chicago Bulls
2000
West 137, East 126
The Enviornment in Oakland (Oakland)
Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs; Shaquille O’Neal, Los Angeles Lakers
2001
East 111, West 110
MCI Middle (Washington D.C.)
Allen Iverson, Philadelphia 76ers
2002
West 135, East 120
First Union Middle (Philadelphia)
Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
2003
West 155, East 145 (2OT)
Philips Enviornment (Atlanta)
Kevin Garnett, Minnesota Timberwolves
2004
West 136, East 132
Staples Middle (Los Angeles)
Shaquille O’Neal (2), Los Angeles Lakers
2005
East 125, West 115
Pepsi Middle (Denver)
Allen Iverson (2), Philadelphia 76ers
2006
East 122, West 120
Toyota Middle (Houston)
LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
2007
West 153, East 132
Thomas & Mack Middle (Las Vegas)
Kobe Bryant (2), Los Angeles Lakers
2008
East 134, West 128
New Orleans Enviornment (New Orleans)
LeBron James (2), Cleveland Cavaliers
2009
West 146, East 119
US Airways Middle (Phoenix)
Kobe Bryant (Three), Los Angeles Lakers; Shaquille O’Neal (Three), Phoenix Suns
2010
East 141, West 139
Cowboys Stadium (Dallas)
Dwyane Wade, Miami Warmth
2011
West 148, East 143
Staples Middle (Los Angeles)
Kobe Bryant (four), Los Angeles Lakers
2012
West 152, East 149
Amway Middle (Orlando)
Kevin Durant, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
2013
West 143, East 138
Toyota Middle (Houston)
Chris Paul, Los Angeles Clippers
2014
East 163, West 155
Smoothie King Middle (New Orleans)
Kyrie Irving, Cleveland Cavaliers
2015
West 163, East 158
Madison Sq. Backyard (New York)
Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
2016
West 196, East 173
Air Canada Centre (Toronto)
Russell Westbrook (2), Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
2017
West 192, East 182
Smoothie King Middle (New Orleans)
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Donald Sutherland, finalmente un Oscar alla carriera,
Donald Sutherland, finalmente un Oscar alla carriera,
Donald McNichol Sutherland OC (Saint John, 17 luglio 1935) è un attore canadese.
Attivo sia nel cinema come nel teatro e nella televisione, è padre degli attori Rossif e Kiefer Sutherland. Ha al suo attivo oltre quaranta anni di carriera e la partecipazione ad un centinaio di pellicole, spesso nel ruolo del protagonista. Ha lavorato con registi statunitensi, canadesi, inglesi ed italiani. È…
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‘Hard Knocks’ recap: Did you get a hot dog?
In the season’s second episode, Jameis Winston displays his leadership, Gerald McCoy talks at length about Batman, and Miko Grimes has everyone’s attention except her husband’s.
Recaps that simply regurgitate an episode’s chronology are for children. THIS IS THE PROS, BABY. Here are the six biggest takeaways from the second episode of this season’s “Hard Knocks.”
1 - Jameis Winston owns the locker room
Despite his checkered history in media reports, it’s easy to see why Winston is beloved by teammates; he projects an easy and magnetic leadership in every scene. Before the Bucs’ first preseason game, Winston goes to each of his teammates in the locker room and tells him, “I got your back.” It sounds small on the page, but his passion was apparent as he said it again and again and again.
He brought that warmth and enthusiasm throughout the episode, but the cutthroat business of football is clear to him. In the quarterbacks room, Winston gently broke a hard reality to undrafted rookie free agent Sefo Liufau (below), who displayed naïveté about when players could be cut. Winston: “You can get cut any time. They don’t care.”
Unrelated soccer fashion take: the Sounders’ Pacific Blue jersey would be the best in MLS if they didn’t mess with the color of their crest.
Later, backup quarterback Ryan Griffin took a hard hit from a Cincinnati defender and left the game with a shoulder injury. Winston walked over to some offensive linemen, leaned in, and calmly told them “I’m happy y’all are having fun, but Ryan just hurt his shoulder.” He started to walk away. “But keep having fun.”
The picture of Winston, through two episodes, is of a quarterback quick to laugh, willing to admit his mistakes, and dedicated to something he takes seriously. As a viewer who entered the series critical of Winston’s past, I definitely feel like a sucker for buying into what I’ve seen. On the other hand, it’s a testament to how well the show is made.
2 - Miko Grimes makes terrific TV
Miko Grimes is smart, outspoken, profane, and clearly dedicated to her husband, cornerback Brent Grimes. (If you haven’t read Jack Dickey’s profile of the couple for Sports Illustrated, I recommend it.) It’s easy to see why her personality could be off-putting to NFL front offices or fans, but for a league that attempts to tamp down anything resembling a personality, I find her candor refreshing.
And while I don’t doubt the love that she and Brent share, I do suspect that — like many other spouses throughout world history — Brent occasionally tunes his partner out. Here he is at the beginning of a Miko monologue (Mikologue?), 16 minutes and 6 seconds into the episode:
The camera cuts to some game action of Brent, then back to the couple, where Brent is still staring a thousand yards away, then to more action, then back to Miko talking and Brent is farther away from Earth than any human has traveled. He is hurtling through space with Pioneer 9.
Miko talks about how she always gets a hotel room in the same hotel as the Bucs when they travel. She talks about how sex with him is part of that routine, and when she says “hanky-panky” nothing in his eyes brightens or shows any recognition that he was ever human.
The screencap above is from 16 minutes and 32 seconds into the episode, just before he escapes the Sunken Place. So for TWENTY-SIX SECONDS, Brent’s brain checked out, went to the grocery store, and came back with a gallon of milk. And I’m happy to give any married person the benefit of the doubt when it comes to listening to every word your partner says, but this was for a sit-down, on-camera interview.
The Starry Night. The Godfather. Kind of Blue. There aren’t many perfect works of art in the world, but those 26 seconds of “Hard Knocks” are right up there.
3 - Gerald McCoy is a superstar
.@Geraldini93 is too much #HardKnocks http://pic.twitter.com/gfg0adVOMt
— NFL (@NFL) August 16, 2017
Every scene Gerald McCoy touches turns to gold. He wears socks bearing the likenesses of pro wrestlers. He wears Incredible Hulk cleats. When Ed Hochuli comes to Bucs camp to clarify the rule changes to celebrations, McCoy breaks down the intricacies of what is and is not sexual. There is an entire montage dedicated to his excellence on the field. He hilariously riffs on the customer service at Chik-Fil-A. He has a superhero-themed man cave that depicts him as Football Batman.
Pictured: a $10,000 fine for breaking uniform regulations
McCoy already has the accolades: five Pro Bowls, three first-team All-Pro selections. But he deserves ad campaigns and the adoration of casual fans. This recap is conflicted on Jameis Winston but an unapologetic cheerleader for Gerald McCoy.
4 - Farewell, sweet Berto
Last year, the Buccaneers made one of the stupidest moves in NFL Draft history, trading up to draft kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round. As Kevin Seifert of ESPN pointed out, most of the best kickers in NFL history have gone undrafted, and the difference between the best kicker and the 15th-best kicker in any given year is half a point per game. We can and absolutely should clown GM Jason Licht about this forever: it displays a spectacular misunderstanding of kickers’ value and the variance that can sink them on a year-to-year basis.
*possibly not a real quote
Anyway, Aguayo went from the most accurate kicker in college football history to the worst kicker in the NFL, and Licht and coach Dirk Koetter cut him. And there isn’t much to say about this scene except I hid my head inside my shirt and wanted it to be over. It was an event horizon of discomfort, stretching out into forever like a Brent Grimes stare.
5 - The rookies and fringe players seem pretty safe
Like all teams, the Bucs will have to trim their roster from 90 players to 53. But I’m not sure how many firings -- like Aguayo’s -- we’ll have to endure. Previous seasons of Hard Knocks seemed especially targeted to build the audience’s connection with fringe players, only to break our hearts when they inevitably got cut. This season’s crop, by comparison, feels further from the chopping block.
Third-string linebacker Riley “Joe Dirt” Bullough is way down the depth chart, but his fire and leadership may help him stick as a special teamer. Running back Jeremy McNichols is guaranteed nothing as a 5th-rounder, but his skill set mimics Doug Martin’s; he seems useful. Veteran corner Robert McClain looked more likely to make the team after playing well following Brent Grimes’ leg laceration. Look, Miko took a picture!
still not as painful as Aguayo’s cut
Thanks, Miko. Show it to more children next time.
6 - DeSean Jackson has bad sports takes
Mike Evans and DeSean Jackson remain Adorable Receiver Buds, but their discussion on where Kobe Bryant stands among NBA greats ... WOOF. Evans generously ranked Bryant the fourth-best player of all time, behind LeBron James at two. Jackson, playing on his third NFL team, countered that he didn’t like how LeBron “had to leave” in order to win his championships.
COME ON, Y’ALL. If you don’t support the labor side, you’re never gonna get guaranteed contracts.
MONTAGE RANKING, WEEK 2
Gerald McCoy kicking ass montage -- Made even better by the offensive players consoling each other about getting dominated.
Practice montage No. 1 (heat and humidity) -- A pre-opening credits montage! A bold editorial move (don’t wanna blow your montage load too early), but it hooked me.
Practice montage No. 2 — No real theme of this, except to cleanse the viewer’s football palate after an extended kicking battle scene.
Defensive failure montage — Mike Smith’s reactions to the Bengals’ domination of the Bucs’ backup defense upped the comedy significantly.
Quarterbacks sucking until Jameis inspires them montage
Cryogenic recovery montage — Low-energy and lacked context. Needed a team doctor to tell us about the benefits. It’s not like Joe Football Fan has a cryo-chamber he uses at the local Planet Fitness.
Part Shot: Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Secret of Halftime Hot Dogs
(Google “Mark Sanchez hot dog” if you need to)
Great, now I want a hot dog.
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A Cappella Aria by Handel
Sam Robson lives in London and is making hit music videos with choral arrangements of songs, both sacred and secular, in which he overdubs all the parts. https://www.facebook.com/Samrobsonmusic
Here’s his brand-new version of an aria by Handel:
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Italian: Ombra mai fu di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave più. English: Never was a shade of any plant dearer and more lovely, or more sweet.
The aria is in praise of a particular tree, but for this blog post, I’m having it metaphorically sung to the Flowering Cross of Christ:
This “Christ Emmanuel Flowering Cross” icon is by Fr William McNichols. “The Flowering Cross has been a part of Christian iconography at least since the sixth century.” http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/christ_emmanuel_flowering_cross.html
For more, see my previous blog post: ‘Flowering of the Cross Brought the World’s Redemption’ http://globalworship.tumblr.com/post/150452218605/flowering-of-the-cross-brought-the-worlds
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Sam’s song above is the second part of an aria which opened an opera by Handel. A recording of the aria was also the first piece of music to ever be broadcast on radio, in 1906. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombra_mai_fu
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Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings (Sat)
Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings (Sat)
Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings (Sat)
Jonathan Davies suffered a critical foot damage whereas taking part in for Wales in opposition to Australia in 2017
Guinness Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings Venue: Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli Date: Saturday, 29 September Kick-off: 18:30 BST Protection: Stay on S4C and rating updates on the BBC Sport web site and app
Wales centre Jonathan Davies will play his first aggressive recreation since final November when Scarlets host Southern Kings on Saturday.
He had been on account of begin within the opening Professional14 spherical, however pulled up with a hamstring pressure through the heat up.
Scarlets have made 11 modifications to beginning line-up that misplaced 33-20 to Connacht final weekend, with a number of Wales internationals rested.
Southern Kings identify an unchanged facet from their 38-28 house win over Glasgow.
They’ve made three modifications on the bench, with new recruit Tristan Blewett set to make his debut within the backline.
“The facet performed nicely final week and with every passing week we’re enhancing, notably in following the sport plan and gelling with one another,” mentioned Kings head coach Deon Davids.
“We hope to proceed with the great issues that we did final week and study from the areas the place we fell brief.”
Clayton Blommetjies returns to full-back for the Scarlets instead of Leigh Halfpenny, who’s rested together with Hadleigh Parkes, Samson Lee, Gareth Davies and captain Ken Owens.
Blommetjies and Wales wing Steff Evans haven’t featured for the reason that opening spherical loss in opposition to Ulster having frolicked engaged on their conditioning.
Evans is called among the many replacements having performed often for the Scarlets A crew within the Celtic Cup.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac mentioned his facet had been “hurting” from final weekend’s loss and he was anticipating to see a “a lot better efficiency”.
“We noticed the Kings beat an excellent Glasgow crew on the weekend. If that wasn’t a warning shot I do not know what’s,” he mentioned.
“The Kings have most likely given everybody a wake-up name with their efficiency, clearly we play the way in which we did in opposition to Connacht and we’ll discover each match robust. We have now to maintain working laborious and guarantee that we enhance.
“There will be no excuses this weekend.”
Scarlets: Clayton Blommetjies; Johnny McNicholl, Jonathan Davies (Capt), Paul Asquith, Ioan Nicholas; Rhys Patchell, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Wyn Jones, Ryan Elias, Werner Kruger, Jake Ball, David Bulbring, Ed Kennedy, Dan Davis, Blade Thomson
Replacements: Marc Jones, Phil Value, Simon Gardiner, Tom Value, Uzair Cassiem, Kieran Hardy, Angus O’Brien, Steff Evans
Southern Kings: Banda Masixole; Penxe Yaw, Klaasen Harlon, Klaasen Berton, Basson Bjorn; Du Toit Martin, van Rooyen Rudi; Ferreira Schalk, Willemse Michael (Capt), Pupuma Luvuyo, De Wee Bobby, Astle John-Charles, Brown Henry, Ntsila Andisa, Lerm Ruaan
Replacements: Van Rooyen Alandre, Forwood Justin, De Klerk Rossouw, Oelofse Schalk, Velleman CJ, Masimla Godlen, Dukisa Ntabeni, Blewett Tristan
Referee: Sean Gallagher (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Mark Patton (IRFU), Simon Rees (WRU)
TMO: Sean Brickell (WRU)
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Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings (Sat)
Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings (Sat)
Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings (Sat)
Jonathan Davies suffered a critical foot damage whereas taking part in for Wales in opposition to Australia in 2017
Guinness Professional14: Scarlets v Southern Kings Venue: Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli Date: Saturday, 29 September Kick-off: 18:30 BST Protection: Stay on S4C and rating updates on the BBC Sport web site and app
Wales centre Jonathan Davies will play his first aggressive recreation since final November when Scarlets host Southern Kings on Saturday.
He had been on account of begin within the opening Professional14 spherical, however pulled up with a hamstring pressure through the heat up.
Scarlets have made 11 modifications to beginning line-up that misplaced 33-20 to Connacht final weekend, with a number of Wales internationals rested.
Southern Kings identify an unchanged facet from their 38-28 house win over Glasgow.
They’ve made three modifications on the bench, with new recruit Tristan Blewett set to make his debut within the backline.
“The facet performed nicely final week and with every passing week we’re enhancing, notably in following the sport plan and gelling with one another,” mentioned Kings head coach Deon Davids.
“We hope to proceed with the great issues that we did final week and study from the areas the place we fell brief.”
Clayton Blommetjies returns to full-back for the Scarlets instead of Leigh Halfpenny, who’s rested together with Hadleigh Parkes, Samson Lee, Gareth Davies and captain Ken Owens.
Blommetjies and Wales wing Steff Evans haven’t featured for the reason that opening spherical loss in opposition to Ulster having frolicked engaged on their conditioning.
Evans is called among the many replacements having performed often for the Scarlets A crew within the Celtic Cup.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac mentioned his facet had been “hurting” from final weekend’s loss and he was anticipating to see a “a lot better efficiency”.
“We noticed the Kings beat an excellent Glasgow crew on the weekend. If that wasn’t a warning shot I do not know what’s,” he mentioned.
“The Kings have most likely given everybody a wake-up name with their efficiency, clearly we play the way in which we did in opposition to Connacht and we’ll discover each match robust. We have now to maintain working laborious and guarantee that we enhance.
“There will be no excuses this weekend.”
Scarlets: Clayton Blommetjies; Johnny McNicholl, Jonathan Davies (Capt), Paul Asquith, Ioan Nicholas; Rhys Patchell, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Wyn Jones, Ryan Elias, Werner Kruger, Jake Ball, David Bulbring, Ed Kennedy, Dan Davis, Blade Thomson
Replacements: Marc Jones, Phil Value, Simon Gardiner, Tom Value, Uzair Cassiem, Kieran Hardy, Angus O’Brien, Steff Evans
Southern Kings: Banda Masixole; Penxe Yaw, Klaasen Harlon, Klaasen Berton, Basson Bjorn; Du Toit Martin, van Rooyen Rudi; Ferreira Schalk, Willemse Michael (Capt), Pupuma Luvuyo, De Wee Bobby, Astle John-Charles, Brown Henry, Ntsila Andisa, Lerm Ruaan
Replacements: Van Rooyen Alandre, Forwood Justin, De Klerk Rossouw, Oelofse Schalk, Velleman CJ, Masimla Godlen, Dukisa Ntabeni, Blewett Tristan
Referee: Sean Gallagher (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Mark Patton (IRFU), Simon Rees (WRU)
TMO: Sean Brickell (WRU)
For the newest Welsh rugby union information observe @BBCScrumV on Twitter.
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