#Ted Drury

[politelymenacing]

[ragingphantom666]

DC Dimensions project plan - L.A.W.: Living Assault Weapons (Vol. 1)

This series is not an assured project. It is a concept that can still be changed or scrapped.

Synopsis

King Faraday sends Rick Flag and his new team to investigate a source of strange energy. They are pulled through a tear in the multiverse to an alternate dimension where an ancient druid awoke from his long slumber to rule the world. Now the Living Assault Weapons must stop Blackbriar Thorn before he spreads his roots to other worlds.

Characters

Rick Flag - An A.R.G.U.S. operative who is placed as the leader of the Living Assault Weapons.

Minhkhoa "Khoa" Khan/Ghost-Maker - A vigilante who trained with Bruce Wayne. He is a master of martial arts. He is not opposed to killing criminals.

Ted Carson/Firefly - A supervillain who was put in Belle Reve following his defeat at the hands of Batman. For combat, he is armed with wrist-mounted flamethrower.

Drury Walker/Charaxes - A villain formerly known as Killer Moth. His armor is full of high-tech gadgets.

Mitchell Black/Peacemaker - A veteran who took the mantle of Peacemaker. He wears armor that is full of hidden weapons. Not only is her weapons expert and heavy artillery part of the team, but he is also the brains.

Andre Sinclair/Destroyer - A former Navy SEAL turned terrorist who was defeated by Batman. He is an expert with explosives.

Blackbriar Thorn - An ancient druid with great power over nature.

King Faraday - A British intelligence officer who is currently the acting director of A.R.G.U.S.. He tasked Colonel Rick Flag with reactivating the "Living Assault Weapons" program.

[goalhofer]

2023-24 Carolina Hurricanes Famous Relations

#31 Frederik Andersen: Son of Herning Blå Ræv goalie coach Ernst Andersen, nephew of former Herning I.K. LW Kim Mohrsen-Andersen & former Leksands Idrottsförening LW Hans Nordström, brother of Rögle Bandyklubb Kvinnors D Amalie Andersen, former Herning I.K. D Sebastian Andersen & Herning Blå Ræv G Valdemar Andersen and cousin of Hvidovre II D Victor Mohrsen-Andersen & Hvidovre II LW Karl Mohrsen-Andersen. #18 Jack Drury: Son of former Krefeld Pinguine C Ted Drury and nephew of New York Rangers president/GM Chris Drury. #71 Jesper Fast: Nephew of HV71 president Agne Bengtsson and cousin of HV71 goalie coach Adam Bengtsson & Rögle Bandyklubb C Anton Bengtsson. #82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi: Grandson of tv director Pentti Kotkaniemi & actress Kirsti Kotkaniemi, son of Finland A17 national hockey team head coach Mikael Kotkaniemi, nephew of actress Saara Uusivirta & singer Olavi Uusivirta and brother of Porin Karhu Jääkiekkojoukkue G Kasperi Kotkaniemi. #28 Brendan Lemieux: Son of former San José Sharks RW Claude Lemieux and nephew of Les Hockey Des Sénateurs analyst Jocelyn Lemieux. #74 Jaccob Slavin: Brother of Toronto Marlies LW Josiah Slavin. #11 Jordan Staal: Brother of former Florida Panthers C Eric Staal, Philadelphia Flyers D Marc Staal & Charlotte Checkers assistant coach Jared Staal and cousin of former Nottingham Panthers RW Jeff Heerema. #61 Ryan Suzuki: Brother of Montreal Canadiens C Nick Suzuki and distant relative of academic Prof. David Suzuki. #37 Andrei Svechnikov: Brother of K.K. Ak Bars LW Evgeny Svechnikov. #86 Teuvo Teräväinen: Brother of KooKoo D Eero Teräväinen & Kiekko-Espoo Naiset LW Satu Teräväinen.

[screen1ne]

FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA! IN CONCERT AT THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE

Further casting has been announced for RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S OKLAHOMA! in Concert, which returns to its original West End home, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, on Monday 19 August and Tuesday 20 August. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Oklahoma Concert (@oklahomaconcert) Joining the previously announced Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) as Curly and Zizi Strallen (Mary Poppins)as Laurey…

[ragingbookdragon]

Oh my god. I just the superb realization that Drury Walker is to the Supervillain Community like Booster Gold and Blue Beetle are to the Superhero Community.

What am I supposed to do with this information???

[jcchasezdaily]

JC’s acting in television and films (Part II)

Ghost Whisperer (2006) · Las Vegas (2008) · Killer Movie (2008) · 21 and Wake Up (2009) · Red Sky (2014) · Opening Night (2016)

[midlandpansy]

1, 2, 3, 14 (restraining myself from asking 20 since I already know)

booknet ask game.

1 | What are you currently reading? how would you rate it so far? 

Right now, I’m 65% (ish - according to Goodreads) of the way into Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. It’s set in Shaker Heights, follows two families, and delves into the good ol’ topic of privilege at a level that is actually really, really human. So far it’s teetering between 4.5/5 and 5/5 for me! So here’s hoping the last 35% get it up to that 5/5! 

2 | What was the last book you rated 5/5? 

A play by Jackie Sibblies Drury titled *deep breath* We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915. 

It’s a play set up as a group of actors trying to devise a presentation about the Herero of Namibia, but along the way realize that they’re not necessarily equipped to do so. It’s a difficult look at racism and eurocentrism, and what is “okay” and “not okay”. 

3 | What was the last book you rated 1/5? 

I have never hated a book enough to give it 1/5! Some honourable 2/5′s, though, include Enchantée by Gita Trelease (which gained a star just because I had so much fun hating it), The Farm Show by Ted Johns, and I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shreya (something about this book hit bad for me, and I’m not sure I remember what - I might give it another chance some day, but I remember feeling really yucky after reading it). 

14 | What’s the oldest book on your to-read list? when did you add it? 

According to Goodreads it’s The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, which checks out! I added it on November 2nd of 2017. 

The book that really propelled me into wanting to read more was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by the same author, so it makes sense that the pseudo-sequel is something I want to pick up. 

(20 | How much do book covers matter? red white and royal blue is so ugly I will not have it in my home) 

Thank you for asking! I love you! 

[jcheechoo]

what’s the drury story? I didn’t get to watch the game ripppp

ohh fuck so around the necas goal john and tripp were talkingn about how jack drurys dad, ted drury,  lives in chicago area and i think tripp said they got dinner with him? and i think it was because jack drury goes to harvard which is where tripp went. 

i don’t remember exactly what happened but apparently svech talked w jack drury on the phone for a while, and also apparently during the prospect camp nečas and svech went out of their way to make sure drury felt part of the team,etc. good boy behavior, it seems.

[catherinegarbinsky]

Resources

It started with a tweet. I asked:

1 - Poets with MFAs & poetry professors: are there specific books (of poetry, on poetry) that you would recommend for writers who may not have access to formal education in poetry?

2- Poets without MFAs — please feel free to add books that have felt pivotal and educational for you in your process. I mean this primarily as a resource and did not mean to suggest that others may not have valuable texts to offer!

Here are some of the responses (I typed up as many as I could, bolded any that I noticed repeated):

Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio’s The Poet’s Companion

Kaveh Akbar’s Divedapper interviews

Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook

Writing Dangerous Poetry by Michael C Smith

Creating Poetry by Drury

The Practice of Poetry by Behn

Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton

A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass

Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Stewart

Of Color: Poets’ Way of Making Anthology (forthcoming)

De-canon

The Volta

The Alabastar Jar (interviews with Li Young-Lee)

Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonzio

On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell

Fictive Certainties by Robert Duncan

The Flexible Lyric by Voigt

Wislawa Symborska’s “Nonrequired Reading”

The Art of series (especially the Art of Description by Mark Doty, especially The Art of Syntax by Ellen Bryant Voigt)

My Poets by Maureen N. McLane

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward

Wingbeats and Wingbeats II by Scott Wiggerman

Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle

Picking one poet per year, reading their ouvre and letters (an extremely helpful and nourishing assignment from a genius prof)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Rigorously study the line, study grammar, and study some kind of oracle system (Tarot, I Ching, astrology, etc) and read as widely in poetry as you can

Poetic Rhythm by Derek Attridge

A Poet’s Guide by Mary Kinzie

The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach

John Frederick Nims’ Western Wind

Poetry: A Writer’s Guide by Amorak Huey and Todd Kaneko

The Making of a Poem (Norton)

Art of Recklessness

Modern Life by Matthea Harvey

Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky

Please by Jericho Brown

Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral

Meadowlands by Louise Gluck

Kinky  by Denise Duhamel

Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz

How To Read A Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch

Carol Rumen’s long-running weekly Guardian column

Poetry 101 by Susan Dalzell

Theory of Prose by V Shklovsky

The Art of Attention by D Revell

Structure and Surprise by M. Theune

Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

Poems - Poets - Poetry An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler

Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips

Upstream by Mary Oliver

The Life of Images by Cahrles Simic

Being Human (anthology)

How To be a Poet

Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield

Gregory Orr book on lyric poetry

WIld Hundreds by Nate Marshall

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Helium by Rudy Francisco

Wind in a Box (or anything else) by Terrance Hayes

Blud by Rachel McKibbens

Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith

Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams, Ted Kooser, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, EB Voigt, Terrance Hayes, John Donne, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound

Read widely. Read more than poetry. Embrace your outsider knowledge.

Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Toby Hoagland

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

A Field Guide to Poetry

Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

The Book of Luminous Things (anthology) ed. by Milosz

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Poets.org and Poetry Foundation websites

Beautiful and Pointless by David Orr

Find or start a writing group!

Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns

American Sonnets by Terrance Hayes

The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner

Poetry Notebook by Clive James

Don Paterson’s 22-page intro to “101 sonnets”

Essays by Barbara Guest

Poetry is Not a Project by Dorothea Lasky

After Lorca by Jack Spicer

The New American Poetry 1945-1960

Helen Vendler’s criticism (The Ocean, The Bird and the Scholar)

Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. By Philip Larkin

The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes

French symbolists

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

The Poets Laureate Anthology

Poet’s House, 92Y Poetry

Singing School by Robert Pinsky

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser

Glitter in the Blood by Mindy Nettifee

Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide by Mark Yakich

All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele

The Collected Poems(1856-1987) by John Ashberry

Viper Rum by Mary Karr

The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland

Rules of the Dance by Mary Oliver

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Jorie Graham lecture On Description (youtube)

Poetry in Theory

How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane (& special guests)

dVerse Poets

Reading Poetry: An Introduction by Furniss and Bath

Poetry: The Basics by Jeffrey Wainwright

The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard

Broken English: Poetry and Partiality by Heather McHugh

The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn

Orr’s Primer for Poets and Reads of Poetry

Penguin’s 20th Century Anthology

The United States of Poetry

Staying Alive: real poems for Unreal Times ed. By Neil Astley

Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason

52 Ways to Read A Poem by Ruth Padel

A Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by David Mason and John Frederick Nims

Projective Verse by Charles Olson

Retrospect/A Few Don’t by an Imagiste - Ezra Pound

Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag

Commonplace Podcast

Headwaters by EB Voigt

Olio by Tyehimba Jess

The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds

Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer

The Sin Eater by Deborah Randall

The Art of Poetry Writing by William Packard

The Poet’s Dictionary by William Packard

Freedom Hill by LS Asekoff

Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler

Close Listening ed. By Charles Bernstein

Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant

The Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary by Frances Stillman

The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner

The Way to Write Poetry by Michael Baldwin

Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Lofty Dogmas: Poets of Poetics

Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetics by Stephanie Burt

Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes

A poet needs: grounding in verse and rhyme from nursery lines, a grounding in adult poetic diction by the classic poets (of antiquity, late antiquity, then the mediaeval, early modern and modern periods), and their own poetic vision

Pig Notes and Dumb Music by William Heyen

Satan Says by Sharon Olds

My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe

[stllimelight]

Insight's 'Shakespeare in Love' Has Good Performances But Fails to Froth

Insight’s ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Has Good Performances But Fails to Froth

By CB Adams Contributing Writer Insight Theatre Company’s current production of “Shakespeare In Love” is a play by Lee Hall lifted from an Academy Award-winning Best Picture rom-commy movie screenplay written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman that in turn ganked some of the Bard’s best bits to weave a mildly picaresque tale of the young, horny, broke, writer-blocked playwright.

Young Will needs…

[trascapades]

📰🎭📷#ArtIsAWeapon #Playwrights #StoryTellers In today's @nytimes @tmagazine: T presents #America2024: For T’s 2019 #Culture issue, we asked 15 #playwrights to imagine America five years into the future — in 2024. It’s not a coincidence that we chose #theater as the form of literature that best expressed the anxieties and hopes of the moment. As #TerrenceMcNally, to whom this issue also pays tribute, says, “If you want to change minds, write a great editorial for the Op-Ed page. But if you want to get people to feel differently, reach them through the theater.” T commissioned original plays by Jocelyn Bioh (@jjbioh), Jackie Sibblies Drury (@jaqs1205), Terrence McNally, Paul Rudnick, @JeremyOHarris, Naomi Iizuka, Michael R. Jackson (@thelivingmichaeljackson), Patricia Ione Lloyd (@ionelloyd), Ted Malawer, Mona Mansour (@monamansourplays), @LynnNottage, Adam Rapp, Nassim Soleimanpour (@nassim_soleimanpour), Celine Song (@helloellephanta) and Sharr White. Click the link in our bio to explore the issue, on newsstands inside the @nytimes this Sunday, April 14. Photographs by Todd Hido (@toddhido_), styled by Tracey Nicholson (@tracey_nicholson), set design by @ColinKing. Photographed at United ‪Palace Theater‬ (@unitedpalacenyc). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Cover 1/4: “Muses of Fire” by Terrence McNally, performed by Nathan Lane, John Lithgow (@jalithgow), @KerryWashington, Richard Thomas, Frederick Weller, Terrence McNally and David Hyde Pierce Cover 2/4: “Presidential” by Paul Rudnick, performed by Gideon Glick (@gidglick) and Celia Keenan-Bolger (@celiakb) Cover 3/4: “Various Pre-Apocalyptic Postcoital Scenes” by Jackie Sibblies Drury (@jaqs1205), performed by @QuincyTylerBernstine, Roslyn Ruff (@msroslynr) and @HannahCabell Cover 4/4: “Waiting Room” by Jocelyn Bioh (@jjbioh), performed by @McKenzieFrye, Michael Oloyede (@michaeloloyede_), Angelina Impellizzeri (@angelina.impellizzeri) and Juan Castano. Reposted from @tmagazine. #BlackGirlTheaterGeeks🤓 #BlackWomenPlaywrights #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/BwP54kLFkpO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uyc4qwmieq03

[goalhofer]

Where every player played during the 1994-95 NHL lockout: Hartford

Czech Extraliga: František Kučera (H.K. Sparta Praha) IHL: Ihor Chibirev (Ft. Wayne Komets) IHL (Russia): Andrei Nikolishin (K.K. Dynamo Moscow) Liiga: Geoff Sanderson (Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho) AHL: Ted Drury (Springfield Falcons) & Róbert Petrovický (Springfield Falcons) Didn't Play: Sean Burke, Adam Burt, Jimmy Carson, Andrew Cassels, Kelly Chase, Scott Daniels, Glen Featherstone, Brian Glynn, Oleksandr Hodyniuk, Mark Janssens, Robert Kron, Jocelyn Lemieux, Marek Malík, Byron McCrimmon, Chris Pronger, Paul Ranheim, Jeff Reese, Steven Rice, Jim Sandlak; Jr., Kevin Smyth, Jim Storm, Darren Turcotte, Pat Verbeek & Glen Wesley

[mitchbeck]

CANTLON: HARTFORD WOLF PACK OFF SEASON VOL 8

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT -  The Hartford Wolf Pack and New York Rangers are working hard developing their roster for the 2022-2023 season but joined other teams in congratulating the Colorado Avalanche for gaining the 2021-2022 Lord Stanley Cup. A few local notables got to grip the Cup. They include ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger Devon Toews, who played at Quinnipiac University. He becomes the first Bobcaever to hold hockey’s golden chalice. He is the third Sound Tiger after Eric Godard (2009 Pittsburgh), who was the first to do it. Carter Verhaeghe (2020 Tampa Bay)s, now with the Florida Panthers, was the second. Ken MacDermid, the son of ex-Hartford Whaler Paul MacDermid, and Bowen Byram, the son of former Springfield Indin, Shawn Byram, also have their name on the Cup. Also as part of the winners is Colorado head coach Jared Bednar. He is a former Springfield Falcons coach. His assistant, Nolan Pratt, is an ex-Beast of New Haven, Hartford Whaler, and Springfield Falcon player and coach. AHL CALDER CUP For the third time in the Chicago Wolves' history, the team captured the AHL title and their fifth minor league title in 25 years (two IHL Turner Cups in 1998 & 2000). The team went 14-4 in the postseason to win the championship in five games over the Springfield Thunderbirds. The Wolves outscored the Thunderbirds 18-4 after losing game one as they plowed through with four straight wins in six days. The championship game was a 4-0 shutout and the first twin shutouts in the finals in 22 years. In the team's championship picture, the AHL suspended Ex-Yale Bulldog Alex Lyon for two games for a two-hand flipping-off of the Springfield crowd, who razzed him all game long. The 29-year-old goalie is a likely Euro candidate. But, should he be signed with another club next year at the beginning of next season, he'll sit out two games after making a Frankie Lessard impression with a two-finger salute done in a late-season game (April 15, 2007) in Portland, Maine, BEFORE the second period started in a scrap with another ex-Pack Trevor Gillies, with then captain Craig Weller at his side. Hartford head coach and GM, the retired Jim Schoenfeld, eventually broke up the battle by wading through a maze of players before a full-scale brawl erupted. MORE ON THE CALDER CUP With 15 goals and 29 points, Josh Leivo won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy playoff MVP with the third highest playoff point total in AHL history. Bill McDougall's unbeatable 52-point performance in 1993 with the Cape Breton Oilers will be forever #1, and Hubie McDonough’s 31 in 1989 with the New Haven Nighthawks, the record McDougall shattered. Jack Drury, son of ex-Hartford Whaler Ted Drury and the nephew of the Rangers President/GM Chris Drury, acquitted himself very well with a 24-point effort (nine goals) in 18 games. The third best on the Wolves team and in the league will get a long look at training camp. Ex-Pack Joey Keane had a good run and deserved a shot up top. Richard Pánik, the ex-Bridgeport Islander, acquired at the trade deadline, got his second Calder Cup (Norfolk 2012) and will likely get another North American offer next year. The Wolves became the third Carolina-affiliated team to capture a Calder Cup. They did it in Charlotte in 2019, as the Whalers affiliate in Springfield, and again in Springfield in 1991, so ironic they won it in Springfield at the Mass Mutual Center, then known as the Springfield Civic Center. This win marked the first Calder Cup awarded in three years because of the pandemic. Former Sacred Heart University player Ryan Warsofsky became the youngest coach to win a Calder Cup. He surpasses Peter Laviolette. It was his second Championship behind the bench. His first came as an assistant in Charlotte. A DEEP TEAM Two players acquired at the trade deadline are both ex-Pack players, Chris Bigras from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Wolf Pack’s Tarmo Reunanen (exchanged for UCONN alum Max Letunov). Unfortunately, he didn’t play one game in the postseason. Reunanen wasted little time after the season ended skedaddling back to Finland to play for Lukko Rauma next year. He played on the third defensive pair in Hartford. Now Bigras will likely be among the next batch to go to Europe. PLAYER MOVES Despite being Florida property, last season, Springfield’s captain, Simsbury resident Tommy Cross (Westminster Prep), was signed by St. Louis the day after the season ended. Despite being just 25 miles from Hartford has never been signed by the Wolf Pack or offered a contract. All his past and present teammates have raved about his leadership skills. He’s been out of the New England area just three times in his playing career as a youth with the Ohio Jr. Blue Jackets (USHL); in his first pro year, he played half a season with South Carolina Stingrays (ECHL) and one season with the Cleveland Monsters (Columbus) as an AHL free agent. He has been a New England regional fixture playing at BC in college and Providence in his early AHL years. MEMORIAL CUP The Saint John (NB) Sea Dogs, the Memorial Cup host team, and a long shot at upending the Hamilton Bulldogs, did so in a 5-3 win. Future Bridgeport Islander William Dufour won the Memorial Cup Stafford Smythe MVP with a goal and an assist in the championship win. 39 days after firing head coach former Pack, Ranger, and Springfield Falcon Gordie Dwyer and his entire staff, including his assistant ex-New Haven Nighthawk Paul Boutilier, after a first-round QMJHL President Cup playoff first-round loss exit to Rimouski, they’re crowned champions. They won with an interim head coach in UNB’s Gardiner MacDougall. He had won the Canadian University championship a few months ago, and he acidly replied after the win, while being interviewed by TSN, "I’m glad I picked up the phone.” The Sea Dogs advanced with an improbable semifinal win against the QMJHL Shawinigan Cataractes. They built a first-period 3-0 lead. Dufour then showed why he was the QMJHL scoring champ firing off a natural hat trick and four total in the first ten minutes of the second period to secure a 5-3 come-from-behind win. Dufour already has signed his three-year entry-level contract (ELC) and will likely start next year in BridgeportHowever, heHe is still WJC eligible and was a finalist for the CHL David Branch Player of the Year Award. Hamilton upended Shawinigan 4-3 in overtime in the semifinal’s victory. He snatched what seemed to be a narrow win by Shawinigan, who scored late before Jan Mysak (Montreal) ended their dreams. Saint John, the host city, was the home crowd favorite. They became the first QMJHL team since Saint John in 2011 to win the championship in thy last hockey game in North America this season. AND MORE Ex-UCONN defenseman Yan Kuznetsov (Calgary), who missed a wide-open net late in the second, a year removed from Storrs, and undrafted captain Vincent Sévigny, the son of ex-Pack Pierre Sévigny, played his very last junior game both got to hoist the Cup and he scored in the first two minutes of the game. At the QMJHL annual holiday mid-season trading deadline, Victoriaville acquired Sévigny. One other CT connection was winger Cameron MacDonald, a Nova Scotia native from the Selects Academy at South Kent Prep U-15 team, and one game with the CT Jr. Rangers (NCDC) scored in the contest. There were several finalists for Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Awards. Incoming Wolf Pack Dylan Garand (Kamloops-WHL) for Goalie of Year won the award. Coach of the Year honors went to former Springfield King Brian Kilrea Award, a legendary OHL coach, one of the finalists was former Ranger/Whaler James Patrick of the WHL Winnipeg Ice. CHL IMPORT DRAFT Before CHL Draft occurred before the NHL made their selections, only 27 players were chosen out of the 120 slots. One move made before the draft was the rights of Brad Lambert, nephew of former Nighthawks player and Sound Tiger head coach and now the Islanders head coach Lane Lambert was traded by the Saskatoon Blades, who took him in the 2020 Import DraftThen, they were traded to the Seattle (WA) Thunderbirds. He is eligible for next week’s 2022 NHL Draft and is likely to be taken in the top ten picks. Next year is his last junior-eligible season for the Finnish forward. His cousin Jimmy is signed to start next year in Bridgeport. PLAYER AND COACHING MOVEMENT The Florida Panthers signed former Whaler head coach Paul Maurice. The Pack’s Anthony Greco signed with Frölunda HC (Sweden-SHL) for next year. Bridgeport Islander Aatu Räty finished the year in Park City with a solid eight-game audition (two regular season and six playoff games). This follows a stellar Finnish season between Kärpät Oulu and Jukerit. He is one of four Islander Finnish prospects invited to the Finnish camp to try to be on the WJC team for the redux event scheduled for August 9-20. The four include Räty, Eetu Liukas, Matias Rajaniemi and a long shot is Aleksei Malinen. The Rangers have forward Kalle Väisänen from TPS Turku. The US will open up against Germany on August 9th. Latvia was added to the tournament to replace a banned Russian team because of the invasion of Ukraine. All players eligible for WJC in December can play even if they have turned 21 in the eight months preceding the tournament. All games will be played at Rogers Place in Edmonton, and the WJC 2023 tourney will be played in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick, next year. All WJC Games will be on the NHL Network. MORE MOVES Ex-Pack Darren Raddysh signs a two-year, two-way contract extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning paying $750K-$775K-NHL/$250K-AHL. Current teammate and another ex-Pack, Sean Day, gets a one-year extension in Syracuse and a nice raise to a two-way deal for $750K-NHL/$200K-AHL. Mathieu Olivier, the son of former New Haven Knights Simon Olivier, was traded from the Nashville Predators to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a fourth-round draft pick. Former Avon Old Farms Winged Beaver, Nick Hutchison, who wandered the hockey map last year with Adirondack (ECHL) and after a brief stay with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and half of a year with the Manitoba Moose and former UCONN Husky and fellow Adirondack Thunder (ECHL) himself, Jarrod Gourley both sign one-year AHL deals with Utica. Ex-Pack Patrick Newell departs Sterjen (Norway-NEL) for Fehérvár AV19 (Hungary-IceHL) next season. Ex-Pack Shawn “Odie” O’Donnell heads from Dornbirner EC (Austria-IceHL) to EHC Freiburg (Germany DEL-2). Ex-Pack Danny Kristo heads from Västerviks IK (Sweden Allsvenskan to HK Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL). He started last year at HC Kladno (Czech Republic-CEL) (Czechia), the Jaromir Jagr owned team he still plays for. Another ex-Pack, Simon Denis, comes back to North America from the Tokohu Free Blades (Japan-ALIH) and signs with Toledo (ECHL). EVEN MORE MOVES Patrick Harper (New Canaan/Avon Old Farms) heads from HPK Hameelina (Finland-FEL) to Mora IK (Sweden-SHL). He started last year in Milwaukee. Phillip Samuelsson, the eldest son of former Whaler/Ranger and assistant coach at Avon Old Farms and the Wolf Pack, leaves Oskarshamn IK (Sweden-SHL) and skates over to Fischtown (Germany-DEL). Ex-Pack/Sound Tiger Joe Whitney, who had the shortest reign as a Pack team captain (two days faster than Cole Schneider) for half a season, hangs them up after a four-year career in Europe with the Iserlohn Roosters (Germany-DEL) after starting in Finland. Ex-Sound Tiger Matt Donovan leaves for Europe again after departing Milwaukee for Adler Mannheim (Germany-DEL) next year. Ex-Sound Tiger Josh Winquist, who split last year between Reading (ECHL) and Allen (ECHL), departs from the Allen (TX) Americans for HC Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL). Reunanen joins 33 AHL’ers that have signed in Europe and the first American or AHL’er to sign in Russia defenseman Randy Murphy from Grand Rapids. STILL MORE D3 college commits Kevin MacKay from Aberdeen (NAHL) commits to Trinity College (NESCAC) of Hartford, and Bailey Irwin of Stouffville and Burlington (OJHL) heads to Albertus Magnus (NCAA I independent) in New Haven. One of the state's most prestigious public high school programs has a new coach. Hamden hired just their sixth bench boss in school history in just retired former West  Haven special education school teacher Bill Reynolds. Reynolds, 70, is a former two-time champion at the school in his youth, and his brothers both played there. He coached at the Division II level at Cheshire and Guilford. He has ALWAYS wanted to coach Hamden and is fulfilling à lifelong goal and dream. He wanted the job when Bill Veneris got the job over thirty years ago. He replaces ex-Pack Todd Hall, who stepped down after twenty years back in April. A usually plumb job in high school circles both in Hamden and West Haven, but both schools are experiencing dwindling player numbers, and both could shockingly become co-op programs in a few years. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

[gramilano]

Nureyev is an important new documentary about Rudolf Nureyev’s extraordinary life which will be shown in cinemas around the UK from 25 September.

BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris have interviewed Nureyev’s colleagues from the dance world – Alla Osipenko, Ghislaine Thesmar, Dame Antoinette Sibley, Clement Crisp, Meredith Daneman – but sensibly don’t fill the screen with them sitting on sofas surrounded by ballet memorabilia, but illustrate their contributions with video clips and photos, enabling them to pack far more into the film’s already generous 1hr 50min running time. There is much to show because the filmmakers have unearthed 16 minutes of unseen video.

The documentary is divided into thematic blocks rather than being a simple chronology and these are interspersed with quotes, the first being from Napoleon, “Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted,” and the film proceeds to show how greatly Nureyev illuminated the dance world.

There is an interesting archival recording of Yehudi Menuhin who says,

There is something in the background of any Russian, whether he be Jewish or a Tartar, which dramatizes a situation; it’s more potent, more intense. It probably comes from the fact that they have such an otherwise difficult life, as it’s always been for hundreds of years between snow and mud, and they are almost harnessed to the earth and the problems of life. It enables them when they are liberated on the stage to live life as they would have liked to have lived it, with all the abandon and the capacity for focusing, for dramatizing, for intensifying the emotion and the thought. It’s as if the sun were shining through a lens and you focus it on something and it started burning. The whole of life, the whole universe, focuses itself through the greatest Russians and they start burning, burning up the audience and burning up themselves.

These neatly connected quotes and thoughts pertinently explain Nureyev’s character, and is typical of the film’s sensitivity and understated reflections on the nature and career of this gigantic influencer. It has no sensationalism but is reflective and full of warmth.

Russell Maliphant has created scenes, sort of dance tableaux, which illustrate the mood of extracts from Nureyev’s memoirs, read by Siân Phillips, and other audio recollections and commentary – dancing in the snow, huddling among the Russian birch trees, folding sheets. Theatre composer Alex Baranowski — who wrote the score for Northern Ballet’s 1984 — has created a suggestive background for these scenes, indeed the whole film, and Lucia Lacarra and Marlon Dino are two of the dancers who appear.

The fascination with the West in the ‘50s drew young Russians to make homemade records of its evil pop music and to dance the jitterbug behind closed doors — including young ballet dancers. The film is outstanding at contextualising this and other periods of Nureyev’s life. While Russia didn’t have teenage dance moves or gigantic American fridges, it did have two powerful weapons at its disposal, the Kirov and the Bolshoi, and what better way to enhance Russian prestige around the world than by having these companies tour abroad.

The Kirov was in Paris in 1961. Alla Osipenko, one of Nureyev’s partners, says,

We were totally into the underground nightlife at the time and it was a real challenge to return unseen in the morning… Rudolf was a free spirit: “This is how I want my life to be and I will live it that way. I don’t want to live the way you order me to. I will walk my own path in life.”

Nureyev defected in Paris in 1961 on Osipenko’s 29th birthday. For this, she, and many others, paid a price.

I was not allowed to leave the country for 10 years. I knew how to block those things out, saying to myself, “It’s not vital to go to America.”

The film focuses on his relationship with Erik Bruhn — Sibley: “All my generation, us girls, were in love with Erik Bruhn.” — and that with Margot Fonteyn, who invited the young Nureyev to dance in a gala at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 2 November 1961. John Tooley, former director of the Royal Opera House has another slant on the story,

He wasn’t exactly invited over here – he arrived. He had written to Margot and said, I want to appear in your gala and I want to dance with you.

A Fonteyn quote:

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

And ‘magic’ was the word used to describe the effect of their partnership on stage.

Fonteyn explains,

I believe that our partnership would not have been quite such a success if it hadn’t been for the difference in our ages, because what happened was that I’d go out on the stage thinking, who’s going to look at me with this young lion leaping ten feet high in the air and doing all those fantastic things. And then Rudolf had really this deep respect because I was this older, very famous, established ballerina. So it sort of charged the performance that we were both going out there inspired by the other one, and somehow it just worked.

Nureyev almost immediately rustled feathers at The Royal Ballet when he modified its production of Swan Lake after Fonteyn had agreed to do it his way. He justified his approach,

We became one body, one soul, we moved in one way, it was very complimentary, every arm movement, every head movement, there were no more cultural gaps or age difference, we were absorbed in characterisation. We became the part.

It was revolutionary and most of the audience loved it. One of the Covent Garden establishment said that Nureyev was like the Great War, wiping out a generation of male dancers on his arrival. The success of the Fonteyn/Nureyev partnership was unprecedented. Sibley says,

Footballers must have this all the time, this yelling and screaming, and it was unbelievable. It was out of all proportion to anything one had been accustomed to before.

Lucia Lacarra and Marlon Dino

A section of the documentary devoted to Nureyev’s often difficult character hears him describing his Tartar blood:

It runs faster somehow, it is always ready to boil, and yet it seems that we are more languid than the Russians, more sensuous — we are a curious mixture of tenderness and brutality.

English National Opera’s master carpenter, Ted Murphy, remembers some of the fights,

Over the years he’d have different people looking after him on stage and he used to kick them, punch them, slap them – I’ve seen all of that happening – but it was all to do about how his performance was really.

National Ballet School of Canada’s Betty Oliphant tells the story of her student who was playing a pageboy, excitedly telling her that Nureyev had spoken to him:

I said, “Oh that’s wonderful. Was he nice?” And he said, “Well, he told me to fuck off.”

Drawing by Jamie Wyeth

On love and relationships, the film documents the competitive love affair between Nureyev and Bruhn, which turned sour as Nureyev began to overshadow his former mentor. Pierre Lacotte recalls witnessing tremendous arguments between them.

As he told me one day — says Ghislaine Thesmar — you have to choose between giving your energy to love a human being or to love your art. You have to choose, you can’t have both… If you give yourself to art, nobody can take the place of art, it’s impossible. They can accompany you as long as they can stand it but then if you lose them you lose them, it’s not important.

When talk show host Michael Parkinson asked him if he had a sense of belonging anywhere, he replied simply, “Dance”.

Nureyev was open to newer forms of dance, different ways to move. He admired Martha Graham greatly, who remembered,

Rudolf came to see me backstage and just stood and looked at me and we didn’t talk about anything. Finally, it came out that he has an appetite for the new and he wants to experience everything to its fullest. He said, “I do not mind if I make a fool of myself.”

There is some previously unreleased amateur footage of him in some of the Graham works he performed. Other unseen clips of Nureyev in action show him rehearsing Nutcracker with Claude de Vulpian during his time as the Artistic Director of the Paris Opera Ballet.

The clubbing and cruising part of his life is coloured with moody archive footage of bathhouses and discos. Former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer, Heather Watts, was one of the first artists to join the fight against AIDS in the mid-1980s:

The year is ’82 and suddenly we start hearing about boys dying, just dying, and there’s real fear. The partying stopped, the fun stopped, and we started burying our friends. It was like a war.

  In 1987 when Nureyev was finally allowed to return to Russia to visit his dying mother, his face had started to look slightly gaunt. He had been diagnosed with HIV in 1984.

Margot Fonteyn died in 1981. He said,

It was very lucky for us to have those glorious years. She became a very, very great friend of mine. To me she is part of my family. That all what I have – only her.

His own death came less than two years later.

Ghislaine Thesmar:

I really think this man was exceptional. I don’t mean the Rudolf of photos, making faces or scandals and all these cheapy things, I mean the real man he was… I think he defended the world of ballet. He loved ballet like a child would love a god, it was beautiful to see that.

An emotional Antoinette Sibley chokes as she says,

He was a very special person, and I feel very proud to have been part of it.

  Nureyev, the film, will be launching in cinemas nationwide from 25 September 2018 with daily previews at Curzon Mayfair, London from 21 September.

  Preview: Nureyev the film is a glorious celebration of an exceptional life Nureyev is an important new documentary about Rudolf Nureyev’s extraordinary life which will be shown in cinemas around the UK from 25 September.

[refusalon]

 1990 |  Chris Isner  |  Charles Linder  |  E. Tidemann  |  C. Hengst |   S. Scarboro  |  J. Locke |   Rev. Marko Aaron  |  Presley Kennedy  |  23 Degrees (band) |   Nurse Margot  |   Brother Perkins  | Jimmy Lee  |   Sudduth Kyra Nijinsky |  Dennis Shelden  |  KEVIN SUDEITH  |  KEVIN EVENSEN   |  ADAM QUEST ZO’  |  DIANA BARBEE  |   Katrin Sigurdardott | MICHAEL DAMM |  MICHAEL MOORE  BILL DANIEL   |   CHARLES GOLDMAN |  J. Cline  |  M. Fox  |  BEN BUCHANAN  | Robert Heckes   |  CHERYL MEEKER  |   RIGO  NELSON |  HENDEE  |   DAVID NASH   |  GERHARD NICHOLSON  |  DALE CHIHULY  |  TIM EVANS |  RODNEY ARTILES  | PATRICK TIERNEY  | Clay Culbert  | RICHARD LODWIG |  URI TZAIG  | MARLENE ZULLO |  PAUL BRIDENBAUGH |  Mari Andrews | Rodney Artiles | Heather Bruce  | Tim Evans |  Richard Haden  | Douglass Kerr |  Sam McAfee  |   John Muse |   Bob Ortbal  |  Carla Paganelli  |  Stephanie Syjuco  |  Norma Yorba |  DAVE ARDITO | GAY OUTLAW |   Tal Angel  |  Yasmin Guri |  Tuire Helena |  Hamalainen  |  Ruti Helbetz  |  Yehudit Sasportas |  Nati Shamia-Ophir  |  Nurit Tal-Goldwirth | Galya Uri  | SIMON LEUNG |     Pip Culbert  |  Permi K. Gill |  Amy Berk  | Paul Bridenbaugh  |  Castaneda/Reiman  |  Caroline Clerc |  Ben Dean  |  Cirilo Domine  |  Paul Gasper  |  Neil Grimmer  |  Suzanne Kanatsiz  |   Arnold Kemp | Chris Komater  |  John Muse |  Robert Ortbal  |  Hugh Pocock  | William Radawec  |  Martha Schlitt  | Stacey Vetter  | Megan Wilson  |  Martha Benzing |  Charles LaBelle |  Robert Levine | PHILIP KNOLL  |  JSG Boggs | Orianne Stender   |   Ming Wei Lee   |   Eric Jones  |  Graham Gillmore  |   David Hunt   |  Jill Weinstock /Heather Sparks  |  Toland Grinnell  |  Steve Roden  |  Don Suggs   |  TILO SCHULZ  |  Jeremy Dickinson  |  Gilad Ophir  |  Roi Kuper |  IZHAR PAKTIN  |  Joe Bloggs  |  Paul De Marini  |  Lewis DeSoto Gustavo  |   Dough Harvey  |  Guy Hundree  |  Marie Puck Broodthaer |  Scott Williams  |  Vegar Abeslnas   |   Linda Sandhaus   |   Lesley Ruben Kunda   |    Alexandra Bowes  |   Jonthan Fung  | Brandon Labelle  |   Ati Maier  |  Tom Marioni   |   Steve Roden    Steve Peters  |   Heather Sparks  |  Adam Sinykin  |  Totemplow |  Illana Zuckerman |   Jennifer Davy  |  LARRY ABRAMSON |  Jake  Tilson  |  Herman de Vries   |   CHRIS DRURY  |  SAM YATES |    Marcia Tanner  |   Castaneda/Reiman  |  Mary Tsongas  |  Orly Maiburg  |  Michael Shmir  |  Sono Osato   |  Miriam Cabessa  |  Tsibi Geva  |  Adam Berg  |  Shirley Tse    |    Yehudit Sasportas  |  CONRAD ATKINSON |   MARGARET HARRISON   |  Anna Novakov    |    Zadok Ben-David   |  Terry Berkowitz |   Adam Berg  |   China Blue  |   Paco Cao  |  Nicola Cipani  |  Michael Kessus Gedalyovitch  |  GARY GOLDSTEIN | Cheryl  Meeker  |  Luisa Lambri Horea  |  Jim Lutes   |  Ken Goldberg |  Matmos  |   KimPietrowski |   Lucy Puls  |   Rik Ritchey  |   John Roloff   |  Tony Labat  | Julia Scher |   Reout Shahar   |  Esther Shalev-Gerz  |   Anita Sieff  |   Patricia Tavenner  |    Francesc Torres  |   Leslie Johnson  |   Ange Leccia |   Alfredo Jaar  |   Marie-Ange Guilleminot  |   Didi  Dunphy  |      Jason Byers  |   Evelyne Koeppel |   Pam Davis   |  Alfred Spolter   |  Valery Grancher  |   FX C  |    Thomas Buisseret |   SOL LEWITT  |   Margaret Crane/Jon Winet  |   Guy Over  |   Felt Herman de Cries|     Desiree Holman  |  Shu-Min Lin  |  Sonya Rapoport  |  DAVINA GRUNSTEIN  |  John C. Rogers  |   Jay Evaristo    |   Batlle Alex Kahn  |  Slater Bradley |  Andrew Bennett   |  Paul Kos-Linda Fleming|    Madeline O’Connor |   Renee Shearer   |  Rae Culbert   |  Marcy S. Freedman  |   Sally Elesby  |   Naomi St. Clar  |  Naomie Kremer    |  Alen Ozbolt   |  JONATHAN RUNCIO  |   Susannah Hayes   |  John Hoppin    |   Jonathan Hammer |   Bill Fontana |   Christopher O’Conner   |   Helen Mirren |    Will Rogan  |   Matthew Bakkom  |   Douglas Ross  |   Elizabeth Saveri  |   Suzanne Stein  |   Julie Deamer | KIM ANNO  |   Keith Boadwee  |   Yauger Williams  |  Tia Factor   |  Katrin Feser  |   Harrell Fletcher  |   Heather Johnson   |  |  Ted Purves   |  Libby Black |  

Erez  Golan |  Rigo 01  |  Matthew Higgs   | Amanda Hughen  |  Jon Rubin   |   JP Villegas  |   Roman Signer  |  Hans Winkler  |   Paul Bridenbaugh  |   Pam Davis   |   Charles Long  |   H C Westermann  |  MEIN KAMPF    MIEN KRAMPF  |   DJ Polywog  |   Lee Walton  |  Yori Levin  |    Silent  Gallery   |   Janine Gordon    |  FUCKSHITUP  |    YORAM WOLBERGER    |    John Slepian    |  Rebecca Miller    |  Tommy Becker  |   Michael Goedecke & Eric Saks  |   Chris Perez  |  Geof  Oppenheimer  |   Sasha  Baguskas  |    Sarah Hughes  |  Douglas Argue  |  Ori Gersht  |   D3ms  |   Jeremy  Cline |  Jess  |   Brain Goldberg |   PINO SIGNORETO |   JOSEPH DELLAPE|   Tony Labbat  |  Guido Gerlitz  |  Adam Gale   |   Sam Yates  |    NAT WILSON  |   MARCY FREDMAN  |   Mimi Mayer   |  AVI S RAVITI  |   Justin Charles Hoover | Tamir Karta | Elizabeth Atjay, | Alex Bargas | Camilla West | Felipe Dulzaides | Yin-Ju Chen | Ana Teresa Fernandez | Ron Hutt | Jennifer Locke | Allan Gerson | Sabina Ott | Bijan Yashar | Michelle Wasson | Shiri Mordechay | Jack Leamy | Maya Smira | Mie Hørlyck Mogensen | Sandro Chia | Elisabeth Ajtay | Ron Hutt |wexller | Salvador Dali | Menashe Kadisman | David Gerstein |

[jefferyriggins]

In chapter 4, one of the vocab words that caught my attention was spam. Everyone in their life has gotten a spam email. One of the things that I've always wondered was, what were to happen if you responded to one of them? 

Whenever I receive one, even through the Drury provided email, we receive spam emails. James Veitch did a Ted Talk where he talked about his experience responding to a spam email. 

<div style="max-width:854px"><div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://embed.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email" width="854" height="480" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div>