#annette cannes

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Perfection

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Ya’ll hear me out….

Adam Driver in Annette…… I feel like I haven’t heard enough people talk about him in this film (yea he is a murderer in it but his hair in it is just so 😍)

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278 - Annette

Coming out of the COVID-led doldrums of 2020, the Cannes Film Festival loomed large as a "movies are back!!" starting gate for global cinema. Its opening film, Annette, was a long-in-development rock opera with music by cult fave Sparks and directed by visionary auteur Leos Carax, returning to the Croisette with his first film in nearly a decade. With Adam Driver at the helm as a batboy shock jock comedian who falls in love with opera star Marion Cotillard to disastrous results, the film is a bizarre fantasia about destructive creative ego and features a puppet as the titular baby singer. Though the film drew raves and buzz around Driver and Sparks' score, Annette was alas too freaky for the Academy.

This week, we talk about Driver's career and how his unique physicality makes him a worthy successor to Carax's usual collaborator Denis Lavant. We also talk about the other famous castings while the film sat in development, the 2021 Original Song contenders, and Simon Helberg's supporting performance.

Topics also include Baby Annette in the gay stan wars, Carax's filmography, and the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

The 2021 Academy Awards

The 2021 Cannes Film Festival

Vulture Movies Fantasy League

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Anette with Keith Moon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975 💜

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As bad as it may sound, it really seems to me that N!Isaac and N!Annette have both been written as Perfect Minorities™.

OG Isaac was the perpetual second one. Not incompetent by any means, but you know the deal, he was salty as hell that Hector was just a tiny bit better :P In the show, the dynamic is flipped: it's Isaac who is Dracula's special babyboy. But he is the special babyboy to such an exaggerated degree that he makes Hector's inclusion not only completely useless, but even detrimental: why would Dracula bother to hire an average Devil Forgemaster, without a shred of physical prowess, who he considers to be "a child in a man's body", and who he had to resort to lie to (Hector literally shouts in the war room that he doesn't enjoy the needless suffering Dracula is causing)... when Isaac by all means is strong, smart (allegedly), much more efficient in Forging, and 100% on board with Dracula's extermination plans to the point of being the only person Dracula can trust?

The story would improve if Hector, again, was the better Devil Forgemaster, even with his pesky morals. But we can't have that, can we? They were absolutely adamant, for whatever reason, that Isaac had to be black, despite him being probably the worst character to make black and Muslim. And black people can't be inferior, right? They can't need the help of a white person lesser POC, right? So Isaac in the show has become literally untouchable by the narrative. He gets everything he wants. He gets all the sympathy, because boohoo don't you feel bad that the guards are a bit mean to him, of course he should kill them all and turn them into monsters. He gets all the badass scenes, hell he literally gets wounded once in the whole show. He gets to be Enlightened.

And Annette... well, we talked about it plenty of times. Annette has Special God Powers. Annette gets coddled by total strangers. Annette has the right to hurt Richter where it stings the most without anyone calling her out. No one dares to point out Annette's genuine mistakes or bad behavior, even the most confrontational character after herself, Maria. Annette gets to make a Rousing Revolutionary Speech to the same French people she looks down upon. Annette gets to have the most prominent character arc, while Richter is left bumbling around and gets one (1) cool scene.

Representation in NFCV seems to be limited to three characters: 1) the narrative's darlingest babies who can do no wrong because they need to be popular on twitblr, 2) cardboard cutouts with barely a speaking line to pretend our world is more complex than it actually is, and 3) jesus christ please think more than three seconds next time.

Let's be perfectly real here:

both Isaac and Annette are the way that they are to appeal to a very specific,wide and vocal crowd on social media, the same crowd who cries for representation, by which they usually mean utterly perfect characters who can do no wrong and can easily vent their frustrations on other cast members because people, through these characters, can feel vindicated for their own frustrations. Frustrations that can be justified in a way, especially where racism is involved, but it essentially means that characters like Annette and Isaac are not really characters, but rather they are meant to be power fantasies of sorts. They're there to be black characters who are very strong and look down on the white oppressors etc. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with power fantasies, but only as long as they're written competently. Otherwise you don't really have a power fantasy. You have a weird amalgamations of Mary Sues mixed with social media discourse

This is especially blatant with Annette since, at least with Isaac, I don't think he ever uses the color of his skin as a justification for his attitude (he uses his religion but that's another can of worms).

I am almost certain that characters like these are inserted partly because it's a no-lose scenario, because you absolutely cannot criticize them without being accused of bigotry. This is made all the worse by many ACTUAL bigots chiming in and making any actual discourse impossible. I'm sure that big corpos like Netflix know this by now: create a character who's a minority who the US public cares about (I need to specify that last part because I get the feeling that people would not get nearly as uppity about, oh I dunno, Roma characters? Native American characters? Because social justice is only about those "cool" minorities that the public has been taught to think are worth it, anyone else barely even registers on the radar), write them in a way that satisfies the social media pseudo activist crowd, wait for the bigots to show up in order to easily paint any detractor as a racist, thus creating a very easy equation of "show has representation= good. Bigotry= Bad. Hate the show= You're a bigot"

I say "almost" because there's always the possibility that the guys behind the wheel genuinely think they're doing a great job

This may sound crazy, but look at all the praise they get, look at how much encouragement they get. And all this goes beyond NFCV, this sort of phenomenon is very widespread so it wouldn't surprise me if even the Deats brothers think they're masters of representation who can do no wrong because if enough people keep saying one thing without pause then you're bound to think it's the truth.

For instance I am pretty certain that Deats and the gang genuinely don't think that Alucard's threesome is not rape, or Lenore's treatment of Hector. Because they're not conventional depictions of rape and if you go ask most people on social media, hell even on the street across your own home, they'll most likely tell you the same.

I hate NFCV but what I think I hate more is the overall social climate that lead to its creation

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Ester Exposito - "Annette" screening & opening ceremony - 74th Cannes Film Festival - 7/6/21

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A drawing of Simon Helberg during an interview about Annette at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival

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Adam Driver by -ᴛᴀɴɪᴀ ᴠᴏʟᴏʙᴜᴇᴠᴀ- attending the Annette world premiere red carpet at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival, July 6, 2021.❤️

[leitch]

Get to baseball games, it's good for the soul.

Here are this week's stories:

MONDAY The Ramifications of Ronald Acuna Jr.'s Injury (MLB.com) This Week's Power Rankings (MLB.com)

WEDNESDAY New York Magazine Piece (New York)

FRIDAY The Best of Baseball in May 2025 (MLB.com) This Week's Five Fascinations (MLB.com)

PODCASTS

Grierson & Leitch (subscribe in iTunes) Grierson is back from Cannes. We discussed his time there, as well as "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga."

Seeing Red (subscribe in iTunes) Bernie Miklasz and I discuss ... the hottest team in baseball?

Waitin' Since Last Saturday (subscribe in iTunes) Time for a pre-summer check-in show.

It's summer, people. Have a great week, all, and remember: This may be the most entertaining comedy on its summer schedule, a quirky little gem filled with good music, a lot of laughs and proof that Annette still knows how to make a polka-dot dress seem ageless.

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“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… THE NICEST KIDS IN TOWN!”

IF I HAVE one regret in life, it's that I wasn't a Buddy Deaner. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on this Baltimore show. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of "The Buddy Deane Show") at a local country club.

But I was never a Deaner. Not a real one. Not one of the Committee members, the ones chosen to be on the show every day—the Baltimore version of the Mouseketeers, "the nicest kids in town," as they were billed. The guys who wore sport coats with belts in the back from Lee's of Broadway (ten percent discount for Committee members), pegged pants, pointy-toe shoes with the great buckles on the side and "drape" (greaser) haircuts that my parents would never allow. And the girl Deaners, God, "hair-hopppers" as we called them in my neighborhood, the ones with the Etta gowns, bouffant hairdos and cha-cha heels. These were the first role models I knew. The first stars I could identify with. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore.

I'm still a fan—a Deaner groupie. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. So you can't imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later.

"The Buddy Deane Show" was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. While the rest of the nation grew up on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" (which was not even shown here because Channel I3 already had "Buddy Deane"), Baltimoreans, true to form, had their own eccentric version. Every rock 'n' roll star of the day (except Elvis) came to town to lip-sync and plug their records on the show: Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon and Fabian, to name just a few.

You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. If you couldn't do the Buddy Deane Jitterbug (always identifiable by the girl's ever-so-subtle dip of her head each time she was twirled around), you were a social outcast. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. It was maddening: the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and, most important, the Madison, a complicated line dance that started here and later swept the country.

Although the show has been off the air for more than twenty years, a nearly fanatical cult of fans has managed to keep the memory alive. The producers of Diner wanted to include "Buddy Deane" footage in their film, but most of the shows were live and any tapes of this local period piece have been erased. Last spring five hundred people quickly snapped up the $23 tickets to the third Buddy Deane Reunion, held at a banquet hall in East Baltimore, to raise money for the Baltimore Burn Center. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. All on tacky Pulaski Highway.

IN THE BEGINNING there was Arlene. Arlene Kozak, Buddy's assistant and den mother to the Committee. Now a receptionist living in suburbia with her husband and two grown children, Arlene remains fiercely loyal, organizing the reunions and keeping notebooks filled with the updated addresses, married names and phone numbers of all "my kids."

She met Winston J. "Buddy" Deane in the fifties when she worked for a record wholesaler and he was the top-rated disc jockey on WITH — the only DJ in town who played rock 'n' roll for the kids. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-fifties. Chaseman had this idea for a dance party show, with Buddy as the disc jockey, and Buddy asked Arlene to go to work for him.

On the air "before Dick Clark debuted," the show "was a hit from the beginning," says Arlene today.

The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. To be selected you had to bring a "character reference" letter from your pastor, priest or rabbi, qualify in a dance audition and show in an interview ("the Spotlight") that you had "personality." At first the Committee had a revolving membership, with no one serving longer than three months.

But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. So the rules were bent a little; the "big" ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay.

And the whole concept of the Committee changed. The star system was born.

If you were a Buddy Deane Committee member, you were on TV six days a week for as many as three hours a day-enough media exposure to make Marshall McLuhan's head spin. The first big stars were Bobbi Burns and Freddy Oswinkle, according to Arlene, but "no matter how big anyone got, someone came along who was even bigger."

Joe Cash and Joan Teves became the show's first royalty.

Joanie, whose mother "wanted me to be a child star," hit the show in early 1957 at age thirteen (you had to be fourteen to be eligible, but many lied about their ages to qualify), followed a few months later by Joe, seventeen. Like many couples, Joe and Joan m* through the show and became "an item" for their fans. Many years later they married.

"I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself," remembers Joe. "I was aggressive. I wanted to get into the record business" —and years later he did.

Joe started working for Buddy as "teen assistant" and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules.

You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. Eating the refreshments (Ameche's Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangout's forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only.

Or dancing with other Committee members when you were supposed to be dancing with the guests (a very unpopular rule allowed this only every fourth dance). And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner.

"I got a little power-crazed," admits Joe. "I thought I was running the world, so they developed a Board, and the Committee began governing itself." Being elected to the Board became the ultimate status symbol. This Committee's committee, under the watchful eye of Arlene, chose new members, taught the dance steps and enforced the demerit system, which could result in suspension or expulsion.

Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. They are still referred to, good naturedly by some, as "the Ken and Barbie of the show." Gene, a member of "the first Committee, and I underline first," later became president of the Board. Linda reverently describes her Committee membership as "the best experience I ever had in my life." They later became members of the "Permanent Committee," the hall of fame that could come back to dance even after retiring. "That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner," says Gene. "It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother."

Even today Gene and Linda are the quintessential Deaner couple, still socializing with many Committee members, very protective of the memory, and among the first to "lead a dance" at the emotion-packed reunions. "Once a Deaner, always a Deaner," as another so succinctly puts it.

The early "look" of the Committee was typically fifties. And although few will now admit to having been drapes, the hairstyles at first were DAs, Detroits and Waterfalls for the guys and ponytails and DAs for the girls, who wore full skirts with crinolins and three or four pairs of bobby socks. Joe remembers "a sport coat I bought for $s from somebody who got it when he got out of prison.

I was able after a while to afford some clothes from Lee's of Broad-way" (whose selection of belted coats and pegged pants made it the Saks Fifth Avenue of Deaners).

One of the first ponytail princesses was "Peanuts" (Sharon Goldman, debuting at fourteen in 1958, Forest Park High School Chicken Hop), who went on the show because Deaners were "folk heroes." She remembers Paul Anka singing "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" to her on camera as she did just that. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen magazine.

"On the show you were either a drape or a square," explains Sharon. "I was a square. I guess Helen Crist was the first drapette: the DA, the ballet shoes, oogies [tulle scarves], eye shadow—eye-liner was big then—and pink lipstick."

Helen Crist. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. Debuting at a mere eleven years of age, taking three buses every day to get to the show, wearing that wonderful white DA (created by her hairdresser father) and causing the first real sensation. She was one of the chosen few who went to New York to learn how to demonstrate the Madison and was selected for the "exchange committee" that represented Baltimore's best on "American Bandstand." She was the only one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board ("They had power; a lot were disliked because of it").

Helen's fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs). "I got all these letters from the Naval Academy," Helen remembers, "so I went there one day, and all the midshipmen were hanging out the windows. It was a real kick!" Her fame even brought an offer to join the circus. "This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldn't let me. I was really mad. I wanted to join the circus."

Two other ponytail princesses who went on to the Buddy Deane hall of fame were Evanne Robinson, the Committee member on the show the longest, and Kathy Schmink. Today they seem opposites.

Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, "I could never get used to signing autographs. Why?' I'd wonder." She wasn't even a fan of the show. "It was a fluke. My mother wanted me to go; she took me down to the tryouts. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines."

But Evanne "used to come right home and head for the TV. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on (the show]. I'm the biggest ham." Although she denies being conscious of the cam-era, she admits, "I did try to dance up front. I wasn't going to go on and not be seen." But even Evanne turned bashful on one show, when Buddy made a surprise announcement. "I was voted prettiest girl by this whole army base. I was so embarrassed. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasn't dressed my best. The whole day on the show was devoted to me."

BEING A TEENAGE STAR in Baltimore had its drawbacks. "It was difficult with your peers," recalls Peanuts. "You weren't one of them anymore." Outsiders envied the fame, especially if they lost their steadies to Deaners, and many were put off by boys who loved to dance. "Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaner's ass," says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio.

"It was so painful. It was horrible," says Joe. "I used to get death threats on the show. I'd get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, you're gonna get your face pushed in?" And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, "Once I was in the cafeteria.

One girl yelled 'Buddy Deaner' and then threw her plate at me. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me."

The adoring fans could also be a hassle. "I must have had ten different phone numbers," says Helen, "and somehow it would get out. There were a lot of obscene phone calls."

And the rumors, God, the rumors. "They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane," remember several. "Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nun-nery," says Helen, laughing. "It was even in the papers. It was hilarious."

Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. Because "Buddy Deane's" competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. "One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didn't like," says Evanne. "Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, 'Do the same eyes.' And the camera got it." Kathy went even further. "I was with this guy named Jeff. We faked a feud. I took off my steady ring and threw it down. We got more mail: 'Oh, please don't break up!' Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. Then we made up on camera."

Romance was one thing; sex was another. Most Deaner girls wouldn't even "tongue-kiss," claims Arlene, remembering the ruckus caused by a Catholic priest when the Committee modeled strapless Etta gowns on TV. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net.

Other vices were likewise eschewed. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. "Yeah, it was Cosenel," says Joe. "They would drive me nuts when they'd come in the door, and I'd say, 'Man, you're gone. You are out of here. You are history.' "

Although many parents and WJZ insisted that Committee members had to keep up their grades to stay on the show, the reality could be quite different. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common.

"I'd hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldn't see me," says Helen. "I had to get up there on time. My heart would have broken in two if I couldn't have gone on." Finally Helen quit Mergenthaler (Mervo) trade school, at the height of her fame. "The school tried to throw me out before. I couldn't be bothered with education. I wanted to dance."

"We had a saying: "The show either makes you or breaks you,'" says Kathy. "Some kids on the show went a little nuts, with stars in their eyes; they thought they were going to go to Hollywood and be movie stars."

Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. And according to Arlene, Buddy encouraged one popular Committee member (Buzzy Bennet) to teach himself to read so he could realize his dream of being a disc jockey. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine.

WITH THE 1960s came a whole new set of stars, some with names that seemed like gimmicks, but weren't: Concetta Comi, the popular sister team of Yetta and Gretta Kotik. And then there was teased hair, replacing the fifties drape with a Buddy Deane look that so pervaded Baltimore culture (especially in East and South Baltimore) that its effect is still seen in certain neighborhoods.

Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head ("I looked like I was taking off"). And Helen, Linda and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs.

Fran Nedeloff (debuting at fourteen in 1961, Mervo High School cha-cha) remembers the look: "Straight skirt to the knee, cardigan sweater buttoned up the back, cha-cha heels, lots of heavy black eyeliner, definitely Clearasil on the lips, white nail polish. We used to go stand in front of Read's Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph."

Perhaps the highest bouffants of all belonged to the Committee member who was my personal favorite: Pixie (who died several years later from a drug overdose). "You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack," recalls Gene. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height.

But by far the most popular hairdo queen on "Buddy Deane" was a fourteen-year-old Pimlico Junior High School student named Mary Lou Raines. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. Every week she had a different "do" —the Double Bubble, the Artichoke, the Airlift -each topped off by her special trademark, suggested by her mother, the bow.

"We really sprayed it," remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. "The more hair spray, the better. After you sprayed it, you'd get toilet paper and blot it. Sometimes you'd wrap your hair at night. If you leaned on one side, the next day you'd just pick it out" into shape.

Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. "We have a tele-gram," Buddy would shout almost daily, "for Mary Lou to lead a dance," and the cameraman seemed to love her. "When that little red light came on, so did my smile," she says, laughing. At her appearances at the record hops, "kids would actually scream when you'd get out of the car: 'There's Mary Lou! Oh, my God, it's Evanne!' Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. They sent cakes on my birthday. They'd stand outside my home. They just wanted to know if you were real. I was honored, touched by it all."

Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. "Oh sure, if you were Joe College (pre-preppie), you just didn't do 'The Deane Show.'" "Did you ever turn into a Joe College?" I ask innocently. "No!" she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills.

But as more and more kids (even "Deane" fans) did turn Joe College, many of the Committee made the mistake of not keeping up with the times. Marie Fischer was the first "Joe" to become a Committee member-chosen simply because she was such a good dancer. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, "there were two classes of people then-Deaners and Joe College. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane," she says, chuckling. "I was a misfit. Every day I'd come to the studio in knee-highs, and I'd have to take them off. You had to wear nylons. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think you're neat. I'm Joe, too.' There was a change in the works."

Part of that change was the racial integration movement. "I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing," says Marie. "To this day, I'm reluctant to tell some of my black friends I was on 'Buddy Deane' because they look at it as a terrible time."

Integration ended "The Buddy Deane Show." When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. But it went something like this: "Buddy Deane" was an exclusively white show. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Ironi-cally, "The Buddy Deane Show" introduced black music and artists into the lives of white Baltimore teenagers, many of whom learned to dance from black friends and listened to black radio. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasn't it. The protesters wanted the races to mix.

At frantic meetings of the Committee, many said, "My parents simply won't let me come if it's integrated," and WIZ realized it just couldn't be done. "It was the times," most remember. "This town just wasn't ready for that." There were threats and bomb scares; integrationists smuggled whites into the all-black shows to dance cheek to cheek on camera with blacks, and that was it. "The Buddy Deane Show" was over. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings.

On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. "Buddy said to me, 'Well, here's my little girl who's been with me the longest.' I hardly ever cried, but I just broke down on camera. I didn't mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup."

IN 1985 THE COMMITTEE MEMBERs are for the most part happy and healthy, living in Baltimore, and still recognized on the street. "They kept their figures, look nice and are very kind people," says Marie from her lovely country home before taking off for the University of Maryland, where she attends law school.

Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. "We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet," says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. "I'm a typical middle-class housewife," says Peanuts, "Girl Scout leader, very active in my kid's school." Mary Lou is still a star. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats and poses with her Mercedes. "When I get depressed, I don't go to the psychiatrist; I go to the jeweler," she says.

Oddly enough, few of the Deaners I've talked to went on to show biz. Joe Cash has Jonas Cash Promotions ("my own promotional firm—we represent Warner Brothers, Columbia, Motown-eighty-five percent of the music you hear in this market")-and Active Industry Research (a "research firm-I'm chairman of the board"). Evanne and her brother run the John Brock Benson Dance Studios and have a line of dancers who appear at clubs all over the state. But most have settled down to a very straight life.

And none are bitter. Although the Committee was a valuable promotional tool for WJZ at the time, and belonging was a full-time job, no one (except teen assistants) was paid a penny. Even doing commercials was expected. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. And who can forget those great ads for the plastic furniture slipcovers that opened with the kids jumping up and down on the sofa and a local announcer screaming, "Hey, kids! Get off that furniture!"? Or the Bob-a-Loop? Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? Or Snuggle Dolls? The Deaners didn't mind. As Marie puts it, "The rewards were so great emotionally that you didn't have to ask for a monetary award."

Many had difficulties dealing with the void when the show went off the air. Gene calls it "a big loss." "It was living in a fantasy world," says Helen, "and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality." "I still have a whole box of fan mail," says Evanne. "If I'm ever depressed, sometimes I think, 'Well, this will make me feel better,' and I go down and dig in the box."

Holding onto the memories more than anyone is Arlene Kozak, who is by far the most loved by all the Committee members. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) "Do you miss show biz?" I ask her. "Not show biz," Arlene answers, hesitating, "but the record biz, the people. Yes, I miss it very much. I don't think I'll ever get over missing it, if you want to know the truth."

Many of the Committee members' spouses faced an even bigger adjustment. In "mixed marriages" (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses' pasts. "At twenty-one I married a professional football player," Helen remembers, "and he made me burn all the fan mail. I had trunks of it. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. He just didn't understand."

But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. When Mary Lou's husband gave me the long and complicated directions to their home on the phone, he ended with, "And there you will find, yes, Mary Lou Raines." He later confided that when he first started dating her, he had no idea of her early career. "Everywhere we went, people would say 'There's Mary Lou.' I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary."

THE BUDDY DEANE phenomenon is hardly dead. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) seems bigger than the last. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. Buddy returns on a pilgrimage from St. Charles, Arkansas, where he owns a hunting and fishing lodge and sometimes appears on TV, to spin the hits and announce multiplication dances, ladies® choice, or even, after a few drinks, the Limbo. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. Was it really twenty years ago? Could it be?

Why not do "The Deane Show" on Baltimore TV again? Just once. A special. The ultimate reunion. From all over the country, the Deaners could rise again, congregate at the bottom of Television Hill, and start Madison-ing their way ("You're looking good. A big strong line!") up the hill to that famous dance party set, the one that now houses a talk show. The "big garage-type door" they remember would open, and they'd all pile in, past George and "Mom," the Pinkerton guards who used to keep attendance, and crowd into Arlene's office to comb their hair, confide their problems and touch up their makeup. Buddy could take his seat beneath his famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. "Ten seconds to airtime. . . . three, two, one. Ladies and gentlemen. . . the nicest kids in town!"

John Waters (Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters, 1986)

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Die Geschichte der World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE)

Die World Series of Poker Europe, auch bekannt als WSOPE, ist eine Erweiterung der bekannten World Series of Poker (WSOP). Die WSOPE ist eine jährliche Turnierserie, die seit 2007 stattfindet und die besten Pokerspieler aus der ganzen Welt anzieht.

Die Idee zur Gründung der WSOPE entstand aus dem Wunsch, das Pokererlebnis internationaler zu gestalten und Spielern aus Europa die Möglichkeit zu bieten, an prestigeträchtigen Pokerturnieren teilzunehmen, ohne in die Vereinigten Staaten reisen zu müssen.

Das erste WSOPE-Event fand im Casino at the Empire in London statt und bestand aus drei Turnieren mit Buy-ins von 2.500 bis 10.000 Pfund Sterling. Das Hauptevent hatte ein Buy-in von 10.000 Pfund Sterling und zog mehr als 300 Teilnehmer an. Der britische Pokerspieler Annette Obrestad wurde zum ersten WSOPE-Champion gekrönt.

Seit der Gründung der WSOPE hat das Turnier immer weiter an Beliebtheit gewonnen. Jedes Jahr werden neue Veranstaltungsorte gewählt, darunter Cannes, Berlin und Rozvadov. Das Hauptevent hat sich zum Höhepunkt der Pokerturnierserie entwickelt und erfordert einen großen Buy-in, um daran teilnehmen zu können.

Die WSOPE hat auch einige bemerkenswerte Gewinner hervorgebracht. Phil Hellmuth, der Rekordhalter der WSOP-Armbänder gewann im Jahr 2012 das Main Event der WSOPE und sicherte sich somit seinen 13. Titel. Andere bekannte Pokerspieler wie Phil Ivey, John Juanda und Scotty Nguyen haben bei der WSOPE ebenfalls Erfolge errungen.

Die World Series of Poker Europe zeigt, dass Poker nicht nur in den USA, sondern auch in Europa eine große Anhängerschaft hat. Das Turnier hat dazu beigetragen, den Pokersport weltweit bekannter und populärer zu machen und bietet Pokerspielern aus Europa die Möglichkeit, sich mit den besten Spielern der Welt zu messen und um lukrative Preispools zu spielen. Die WSOPE wird sicherlich auch in den kommenden Jahren weiterhin ein wichtiger Bestandteil der globalen Pokercommunity sein.

Die World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) ist eine der prestigeträchtigsten Pokerturnierserien der Welt. Die Veranstaltung findet jedes Jahr in verschiedenen europäischen Städten statt und zieht die besten Pokerspieler aus der ganzen Welt an. Eines der Highlights der WSOPE sind die verschiedenen Turniere, die während des Events stattfinden. In diesem Artikel werfen wir einen Blick auf die bedeutendsten WSOPE Turniere.

Das Hauptevent der WSOPE ist zweifellos das €10.000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship Turnier. Dieses Turnier lockt die besten Pokerspieler der Welt an und bietet eine massive Preissumme. Die Gewinner dieses Turniers können nicht nur einen großen Geldbetrag mit nach Hause nehmen, sondern sich auch mit dem prestigeträchtigen Titel des WSOPE Champions schmücken.

Ein weiteres beliebtes Turnier bei der WSOPE ist das €25.000 High Roller Event. Bei diesem Turnier treten die besten High-Stakes-Spieler gegeneinander an und kämpfen um eine hohe Preissumme. Das €25.000 High Roller Event ist bekannt für sein intensives Spiel und zieht sowohl erfahrene Profis als auch aufstrebende Spieler an.

Für die Spieler, die lieber in einer bestimmten Pokervariante antreten möchten, bietet die WSOPE eine Vielzahl von spezialisierten Turnieren an. Dies umfasst zum Beispiel das Pot-Limit Omaha Turnier und das Seven Card Stud Event. Bei diesen Turnieren können die Spieler ihr Können in ihren bevorzugten Varianten zeigen und um Preise kämpfen.

Neben den hohen Geldpreisen und dem prestigeträchtigen Titel bieten die WSOPE Turniere den Spielern auch die Möglichkeit, ihre Fähigkeiten gegen einige der besten Pokerspieler der Welt zu testen. Die Atmosphäre bei den WSOPE Turnieren ist einzigartig und sorgt für Spannung und Nervenkitzel.

Die WSOPE Turniere sind ein Muss für jeden Pokerliebhaber und bieten eine unvergleichliche Erfahrung. Egal, ob man als Zuschauer dabei ist oder tatsächlich an den Turnieren teilnimmt, die WSOPE ist definitiv ein Highlight in der Pokerszene.

Die World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) ist ein jährliches Pokerturnier, bei dem die besten Pokerspieler der Welt um den begehrten Titel kämpfen. Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2007 haben viele talentierte Spieler die Trophäe errungen und sich in die Gewinnerliste der WSOPE eingetragen. In diesem Artikel werfen wir einen Blick auf drei bemerkenswerte Gewinner der Vergangenheit.

Der erste Spieler, den wir erwähnen müssen, ist Phil Hellmuth. Er ist einer der bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten Pokerspieler seiner Generation und hält den Rekord für die meisten Bracelets bei der World Series of Poker insgesamt. Bei der WSOPE hat Hellmuth ebenfalls sein Talent unter Beweis gestellt und im Jahr 2012 das Main Event gewonnen. Mit diesem Sieg sicherte er sich sein 13. Bracelet und demonstrierte eindrucksvoll seine Fähigkeiten am Pokertisch.

Ein weiterer bemerkenswerter Gewinner ist Annette Obrestad. Sie ist die jüngste Spielerin, die jemals ein Bracelet bei der WSOPE gewonnen hat. Im Jahr 2007 sicherte sich Obrestad den Titel im Main Event im zarten Alter von nur 18 Jahren. Ihr Sieg war ein Wendepunkt in ihrer Karriere und machte sie zum Vorbild für viele junge Pokerspieler weltweit.

Zu guter Letzt möchten wir auf den deutschen Pokerspieler Dominik Nitsche hinweisen. Nitsche hat sich einen Namen in der Pokerszene gemacht und ist für seine beeindruckende Strategie und Ausdauer bekannt. Bei der WSOPE im Jahr 2017 gewann er das High Roller Event und sicherte sich damit nicht nur einen großen Geldpreis, sondern auch den respektvollen Platz in der Gewinnerliste der WSOPE.

Die WSOPE Gewinnerliste ist gespickt mit talentierten Pokerspielern, die ihr Können unter Beweis gestellt haben. Die genannten Spieler sind nur eine kleine Auswahl der Sieger, die im Laufe der Jahre das Main Event und weitere Turniere bei der WSOPE für sich entscheiden konnten. Ihre Erfolge haben ihnen nicht nur finanzielle Belohnungen beschert, sondern auch ihren Platz in der Geschichte des Pokerspiels gesichert.

Die World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) ist eine renommierte Pokerveranstaltung, die jedes Jahr in verschiedenen europäischen Städten stattfindet. In diesem Artikel werden die Spielregeln der WSOPE vorgestellt, damit du die Veranstaltung besser verstehen kannst.

Turnierstruktur: Die WSOPE besteht aus einer Reihe von Pokerturnieren mit verschiedenen Buy-Ins und Poker-Varianten wie Texas Hold'em, Omaha und Seven-Card Stud. Jedes Turnier hat ein bestimmtes Preisgeld und eine begrenzte Anzahl von Spielern.

Buy-Ins und Preisgelder: Die Teilnahme an einem WSOPE-Turnier erfordert ein Buy-In, das je nach Turnier variieren kann. Ein Teil des Buy-Ins geht in den Preispool, aus dem die Gewinner bezahlt werden. Die Höhe des Preisgeldes hängt von der Anzahl der Teilnehmer ab.

Regeln und Spielablauf: Die Spielregeln der WSOPE sind denen der World Series of Poker (WSOP) ähnlich. Jeder Spieler erhält zu Beginn eine bestimmte Anzahl von Chips und das Ziel ist es, alle Chips der Gegner zu gewinnen. Das Turnier besteht aus mehreren Runden, in denen die Spieler ihre Einsätze machen und ihre Karten spielen.

Zeitlimit: Jedes WSOPE-Turnier hat ein Zeitlimit, nach dem das Spiel beendet sein muss. Wenn das Zeitlimit erreicht ist und das Spiel noch nicht beendet wurde, werden die verbleibenden Chips der Spieler gezählt und der Gewinner wird entsprechend ermittelt.

Regeln zur Fairness: Die WSOPE hat strenge Regeln, um sicherzustellen, dass das Spiel fair und korrekt abläuft. Jeder Spieler muss sich an den Verhaltenskodex halten und darf keine betrügerischen Aktivitäten durchführen. Verstöße gegen die Regeln können zu Disqualifikation und Strafen führen.

Die WSOPE bietet Pokerbegeisterten aus Europa eine großartige Gelegenheit, ihr Können unter Beweis zu stellen und um beträchtliche Preisgelder zu spielen. Indem du diese Spielregeln verstehst, kannst du dich besser auf die Teilnahme an diesem bedeutenden Pokerturnier vorbereiten.

Die World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) ist eine der prestigeträchtigsten Turnierserien für Poker in Europa. Jedes Jahr treffen sich professionelle Pokerspieler aus der ganzen Welt, um an diesem spektakulären Event teilzunehmen. Doch wie kann man sich eigentlich für die WSOPE qualifizieren? Hier sind fünf Möglichkeiten, um an diesem aufregenden Pokerturnier teilzunehmen.

Online-Qualifikation: Viele Online-Pokerseiten bieten spezielle Qualifikationsturniere für die WSOPE an. Spieler haben die Möglichkeit, sich online für diese Qualifikationen zu registrieren und gegen andere Pokerspieler anzutreten. Die Gewinner erhalten dann die Chance, an der WSOPE teilzunehmen.

Live-Turniere: Neben den Online-Qualifikationen werden auch Live-Turniere in verschiedenen Casinos angeboten. Diese Turniere finden meist vor der eigentlichen WSOPE statt und dienen als Qualifikation. Spieler haben hier die Möglichkeit, sich vor Ort für das Hauptturnier zu qualifizieren.

Ranglisten: Einige Pokerseiten und Casinos bieten spezielle Ranglisten an, auf denen Spieler Punkte sammeln können. Die besten Spieler dieser Ranglisten erhalten dann automatisch eine Einladung zur WSOPE.

Satelliten-Turniere: Satelliten-Turniere werden oft vor der WSOPE angeboten. Diese Turniere dienen als Qualifikation für weitere größere Turniere. Spieler können sich hier für einen Bruchteil des eigentlichen Kaufins in das Hauptturnier der WSOPE qualifizieren.

Exklusive Einladungen: In seltenen Fällen werden auch exklusive Einladungen an bekannte Pokerspieler oder Personen aus der Pokerindustrie verschickt. Diese Einladungen ermöglichen es den Empfängern, direkt an der WSOPE teilzunehmen.

Die WSOPE Qualifikation bietet jedem Pokerfan die Möglichkeit, an diesem aufregenden Event teilzunehmen. Egal ob online, live, durch Ranglisten, Satelliten-Turniere oder exklusive Einladungen - es gibt verschiedene Wege, um sich für die WSOPE zu qualifizieren. Also, schnappen Sie sich Ihre Pokerkarten und stellen Sie Ihr Können unter Beweis! Vielleicht sind Sie der nächste Gewinner der WSOPE.

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Alberta poet Annette Lapointe speaks to Emily Cann about her newest poetry collection. Emily Cann (EC): This book is full of geographical and temporal markers: for example, “lilies on the road to île-à-la-crosse”, “north Saskatchewan”, and “fly-in 1970-74” are all titles in this collection. What about these areas and eras inspired you to write about them? What work do you see this precision of…

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