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You Should Not Miss These Mira Sorvino Movies

Mira Sorvino is a popular Hollywood actress. She won an Academy Award in 1996 for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen’s brilliant Mighty Aphrodite. Along with the Oscar-winning performance, she has worked in several movies and impressed viewers and filmmakers with her acting talent and hard work. If you are a fan of Mira Sorvino, you will not want to miss watching her best movies, and if you are not a fan already, you are likely to become one after watching her best films. In this article, we have listed Mira Sorvino’s best movies. Let’s scroll down and find the top picks for you.

Beautiful Girls

Beautiful Girls is one of the most appreciated films that features Mira Sorvino. Ted Demme has directed this story of a group of small-town friends who meet each other at their first high-school reunion, and it gives them a chance to look at each other’s life and their relationships. Along with Mira Sorvino, Natalie Portman (Marty), Uma Thurman (Andera), Timothy Hutton (Willie Conway), and Matt Dillon (Tommy ‘Birdman’ Rowland) are starring in this film. This film has received an IMDb rating of 7.1.  

Barcelona

Barcelona is another beautiful film that features Mira Sorvino. A Chicago-based salesman Ted is the central character of the film. His cousin Fred visits him in Barcelona. The plot of the film unfolds dramatically as they spend days together. Whit Stillman has directed this movie while Chris Eigeman (Fred Boynton), Tushka Bergen (Montserrat Raventos), and Taylor Nichols (Ted Boynton) are starring in this film. This film has received an IMDb rating of 7. Barcelona won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.

Mighty Aphrodite

Mighty Aphrodite has to be there on the list when talking about Mira Sorvino’s best films. This film is the same that won her an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Linda Ash, a porn actress and sex worker with a kind heart. The film’s story revolves around Lenny and Amanda, who adopt a baby, and the kid turns out to be brilliant and talented. They try to trace his biological parents and know that the kid was born to a prostitute, Linda Ash. Mira Sorvino, Woody Allen (Lenny), Helena Bonham Carter (Amanda), and F. Murray Abraham (Greek Chorus Leader) are starring in this film. Woody Allen is the director of the film as well. This film has received an IMDb rating of 7.

Reservation Road

Reservation Road is a story full of drama and mystery, and Mira Sorvino has delivered an appreciable performance in the film. The film’s story revolves around Ethan, whose son, Josh, is killed in an accident at Reservation Road. Ethan hires a famous lawyer Dwight Arno to find the killer of his son. However, Ethan is unaware that it was Dwight only who accidentally killed Josh. Joaquin Phoenix (Ethan Learner), Mark Ruffalo (Dwight Arno), Jennifer Connelly (Grace Learner), and Elle Fanning (Emma) are starring in this film, along with Mira Sorvino. Terry George has directed this gut-wrenching drama. Reservation Road has received an IMDb rating of 6.7.

At First Sight

At First Sight is a beautiful romantic story that features Mira Sorvino in a significant role. The film’s story is about a blind man who goes through a risky operation to regain his sight after his girlfriend urges him to do so. However, he is unaware of the consequences it is going to have on his life. Mira Sorvino (Amy Benic), Val Kilmer (Virgil Adamson), Kelly McGillis (Jennie Adamson), and Nathan Lane (Phil Webster) are starring in this film. Irwin Winkler has directed this excellent film. At First Sight has been appreciated by viewers and critics, and it has received an IMDb rating of 6.

Mira Sorvino is counted among the best actresses in Hollywood. Her acting has been the prime attraction of many films. In this article, we have listed the best of Mira Sorvino’s movies, and you can watch these movies to appreciate the skills of this wonderful actress and have a great time.

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THE FOLK POWER OF JAMAICAN DANCEHALL SIGNS

By Amanda Petrusich

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on discarded slabs of splintering plywood, or on whatever else was freely available—direct passersby toward outdoor lots or indoor nightclubs, and list dancehall performers (Stone Love, Grenade, Beenie Man, City Beat, Super Force) and entry fees (usually between one and ten American dollars). Lettering is done in a vivid red, gold, green, or blue paint on matte black backgrounds, and is sometimes accompanied by a custom illustration, like a young lady, a heart, or a car. The signs promise blessings or guidance or free Jell-O shots. “Bikini Car Wash All Day.” “A Yah Suh Haffi Nice Fish Fry.” “Vibes.”

A new book called “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” which was published by Hat and Beard Press, gathers more than a hundred dancehall signs, all plucked by the collector Maxine Walters, a Jamaican film director and producer who has admitted to climbing “light posts, walls, bridges, down hillsides—I would go anywhere to reach and capture a sign that attracted my attention.” In the book’s introduction, the Jamaican novelist Marlon James writes, “If hip-hop’s visual language is graffiti, then dancehall’s visual language is the sign, the event poster—the notice that big t’ings a gwaan down di street.”

What might a person expect to find, were she to heed a sign’s beckoning? Dancehall, the musical genre, is different from a dance hall, the venue, though one was born in the other, and in the woozy untangling of any vernacular or folk tradition—especially in a country with a history as rich and multitudinous as Jamaica’s—even distinctions as material as these can begin to feel trivial. Musically, dancehall is a splinter faction of reggae, itself an amalgamation of ska, rocksteady, and mento (a playful acoustic folk music that’s often and easily conflated with calypso), along with jazz and rhythm and blues from America, especially New Orleans. It is created by sound systems, or groups of d.j.s and m.c.s with their own proprietary combinations of gear (generators, turntables, massive speakers). The foundational element is the riddim, an instrumental beat or backing track that an m.c. performs over.

Following the election of Prime Minister Edward Seaga, in 1980, Jamaica shifted from a socialist government to a more conservative regime, and early dancehall pioneers, sensing a cultural conversion, disregarded reggae’s themes of resistance in favor of more ribald notions. All the best dancehall songs are deeply lustful, and the genre routinely inspires the creation of new dance moves with evocative names: Wine and Dip, Tek Weh Yuhself, Whine Up, Boosie Bounce, Drive By, Shovel It, To Di World, Nuh Behavior, Skip to My Lou, Gully Creepa, Bad Man Forward Bad Man Pull Up, Pon Di River, Willie Bounce, Screetchie, and Daggering, to name but a handful. The combinations suggest, in literal ways, the various pleasures of the flesh; Daggering, in which rough sex is pantomimed, has been widely banned in Jamaica. Critics have identified misogyny, violence, and homophobia as hugely problematic elements of both the music and the culture, and dancehall is occasionally referred to, derisively and dismissively, as “boom-boom music.”

Periodically, dancehall threads its way into global pop music. Last year, its influence was especially palpable in the singles “Work,” by the Barbadian singer Rihanna, and “Sorry,” by the Canadian pop star Justin Bieber; both releases made it to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The rapper Drake, also from Canada, borrows from it frequently enough to inspire articles with titles like “Is Drake’s Dancehall Obsession Homage or Exploitation?”

In his book “Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica,” Norman C. Stolzoff called the genre “a multidimensional force, at once symbolic and material, that permeates and structures everyday life in Jamaica.” Flipping through “Serious Things A Go Happen,” there is a feeling of being made privy to an alternative but essential history of Jamaican street culture. Some of Walters’s acquisitions—she has now gathered more than four thousand signs—have been shown at galleries in New York and Hartford, Connecticut; in St. Mary, Jamaica; and at the Havana Biennial, in Cuba. It would be impossible for any book or exhibit to capture the true, humid spirit of dancehall events, but the signs, at least, convey some sense of their urgency and wildness.

Last year, powerHouse published “No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Fliers, 1988-1999,” a collection of downtown party posters yanked off staple-pocked utility poles and collated into a similar style of art book. Though both “No Sleep” and “Serious Things A Go Happen” were published by independent, visionary presses, institutional affirmations of folk or street art can still feel fundamentally incongruous. (This is also true of compilations of historical music.) The process of ratification is funny: the objective beauty in a benign or omnipresent object is recognized, and then the source material is curated and recontexualized. When it works best, the object is not just confusedly divorced from its intended utility but celebrated or enhanced in a way that allows it to become a storytelling tool—to help cohere a narrative.

Regardless, this can feel like a strange and high-minded tumble—a regular, everyday doodad denatured, turned into an objet d’art—and the process calls to mind the strange and high-minded tradition of Dada, an avant-garde movement that reconfigured art-making as lawless, petulant. Beginning in 1914, the French artist Marcel Duchamp used mechanically reproduced commercial objects for his so-called readymades, an instantly provocative series of found sculptures. In 1917, Duchamp laid a coatrack on the floor and titled it “Trap”; at its first showing, it went unnoticed as an art work. In a piece from 1964, titled “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” he hung a fifty-two-inch snow shovel from the ceiling of his studio. “An ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist” is how he explained it.

There is an element of Dada to “Serious Things A Go Happen”—these signs, lifted from the intersections where they were erected, take on new and more ambiguous meanings. Likewise, it is nearly impossible to identify or credit individual sign artists, just as it is very hard to discern who designed the snow shovel Duchamp carted home from the hardware store and reimagined as high art.

A limited edition of the book includes “a six color screenprinted reproduction dancehall sign on quarter inch plywood, along with a two inch nail for hanging.” The nail feels essential, somehow, to protecting the entire spirit of the thing—a built-in corrective for anyone looking to get too fussy about it. It also reëmphasizes a noteworthy parallel between the signs themselves and the outlaw ideology of the music. (“A session wasn’t a place for decent people,” James suggests in his introduction.) This is also true of Walters’s retrieval of the pieces, itself a kind of bandit scramble. Nothing about either process feels prim. Unapologetic impropriety was a central tenet of Dada; it feels present here, too.

I’ll admit it’s now tempting to eulogize these signs—which are beautiful—as one more casualty of digitization, another shift away from tactile pleasures. Of course, it’s old-fashioned to think this way. (In my more captious moments—during which I believe that the Internet is obliterating the only small but meaningful indulgences left available to us—I force myself to watch a particular “60 Minutes” segment, in which Andy Rooney shuffles around a supermarket produce section, muttering about the sorry state of fruit.) Perhaps several decades from now some enterprising archivist will curate a collection of Facebook invites—“I’m Interested: Birthday Rituals in the New Millennium”—that might prove just as evocative.

In the meantime, it’s important to remember that these sorts of ephemeral histories can be easily lost. The pleasure these signs promise—and what is an advertisement if not a suggestion of self-betterment? Why does anyone go to a party or a concert if not to maybe be changed completely?—is both undeniable and spiritually edifying. “All art attempts to cope with the environment by making sense of it and layering what the eye sees with what the brain interprets—exactly the case with the signs on display here,” the late Jamaican writer Tony Winkler writes in his afterword. “Look at them with both eye and brain. What you discover will surprise you.”

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MLB roundup: A's catch Astros atop AL West

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MLB roundup: A's catch Astros atop AL West

Mike Fiers pitched well for the third consecutive game, and the Oakland Athletics supported their new pitcher with a four-homer, four-double assault on Texas Rangers pitching in an 9-0 romp Monday night in the opener on a three-game series in Oakland, Calif.

Aug 20, 2018; Oakland, CA, USA; Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Mike Fiers (50) delivers a pitch against the Texas Rangers in the first inning at Oakland Coliseum. John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports

Ramon Laureano hit his first two career home runs, and Khris Davis belted his 38th, propelling the A’s to the 15th win in their past 19 games. Davis tied Boston’s J.D. Martinez for the major league home run lead.

The Athletics’ win coupled with the Astros’ road loss to the Seattle Mariners allowed Oakland to move back into a tie with Houston for first place in the American League West.

Fiers (9-6), acquired from the Detroit Tigers in a waiver deal after the July 31 deadline, allowed a leadoff double in the second inning by Nomar Mazara and no other hits over seven shutout innings. He struck out eight and walked one while improving to 2-0 with a 1.47 ERA in three starts for the A’s.

Mariners 7, Astros 4

Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer to break an eighth-inning tie, giving Seattle a victory against visiting Houston.

Cano’s home run was his fifth of the season and first since returning last week from an 80-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. It came off Houston right-hander Collin McHugh (5-2). Cano finished 3-for-5 with two doubles.

Alex Colome (4-5) got the win and Edwin Diaz pitched the ninth for his major-league-leading 48th save. The Mariners’ rally from a 4-2 deficit spoiled a big night by Houston’s Marwin Gonzalez, who went 3-for-4 with a double, a home run and three RBIs.

Red Sox 5, Indians 4

Greg Allen hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to help Cleveland post a victory at Boston.

Allen’s blast was the big blow as the American League Central-leading Indians prevailed in the opener of a four-game set against the AL East-leading Red Sox. The victory was the 10th in the past 12 games for Cleveland.

Aug 20, 2018; Seattle, WA, USA; Seattle Mariners first baseman Robinson Cano (22) hits a double against the Houston Astros during the sixth inning at Safeco Field. Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports

Corey Kluber (16-6) became the third 16-game winner in the majors as he allowed three runs and nine hits over 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander struck out six and walked one while winning his fourth straight decision. Michael Brantley added a two-run blast, and Melky Cabrera hit a solo shot for the Indians.

Braves 1, Pirates 0

Bryse Wilson pitched five scoreless innings for a win in his major league debut, and Atlanta made Nick Markakis’ first-inning RBI single hold up for tight win at Pittsburgh.

Sam Freeman, Brad Brach, Jesse Biddle, Jonny Venters and Dan Winkler completed the seven-hit shutout, which broke Atlanta’s four-game losing streak. Winkler pitched the ninth for his second save. The Braves moved a game up over idle Philadelphia atop the National League East.

Wilson struck out five and allowed three hits and three walks. He was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett to make a spot start. The right-hander, 20 years and 243 days old, became the youngest starter in the big leagues this season. He began the season in high Class-A.

Brewers 5, Reds 2

Travis Shaw hit a two-run home run to give the Brewers the lead, and Christian Yelich also homered to back the three-hit pitching of Chase Anderson and a shutdown bullpen as Milwaukee dumped visiting Cincinnati.

It was the Brewers’ second straight win after three consecutive losses. Anderson (8-7) gave up only two hits over six innings, both solo home runs. He retired the last 14 Reds he faced before leaving for a pinch hitter, striking out six without a walk.

Cincinnati starter Homer Bailey (1-11) lost his sixth straight decision, yielding three runs on eight hits in six innings. The Reds have lost all but one of his 17 starts this season.

Giants 2, Mets 1 (13 innings)

Andrew McCutchen scored the tiebreaking run on an error, a dropped popup after a collision by shortstop Amed Rosario and left fielder Dominic Smith, in the top of the 13th inning as visiting San Francisco outlasted New York.

The Giants snapped a four-game losing streak. The Mets have won six of 10.

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New York starter Zack Wheeler had his streak of six consecutive winning starts end after surrendering one run on five hits and one walk while striking out 10 over seven innings. Wheeler still has not lost a decision since June 22 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, going 6-0 in a span of 10 starts.

White Sox 8, Twins 5

Matt Davidson homered and drove in three runs, and Jose Abreu had two hits and two RBIs to lead Chicago to victory over Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Lucas Giolito (9-9) allowed three runs on five hits over six innings for Chicago, which won for the fifth time in six games. Max Kepler homered and tripled, and Jake Cave hit a two-run homer and scored three times for Minnesota, which lost for just the sixth time in its past 25 games at Target Field.

Before the game, Chicago manager Rick Renteria was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center for precautionary reasons after complaining about feeling lightheaded. A team official later announced that tests revealed no problems. Bench coach Joe McEwing managed the game in Renteria’s absence.

Blue Jays 5, Orioles 3

Kendrys Morales hit two home runs and had four RBIs to help Toronto beat visiting Baltimore.

It was the second two-homer game of the season for Morales, who hit two solo shots at Minnesota on May 1. Kevin Pillar added two doubles and one RBI as the Blue Jays ended a four-game losing streak.

Renato Nunez homered for the Orioles, who have lost four of their last five and nine of 11.

Rays 1, Royals 0

Willy Adames produced the only run Tampa Bay would need with a second-inning RBI infield single, and four pitchers allowed a combined six hits as host Tampa Bay defeated Kansas City.

Hunter Wood made the start for Tampa Bay and pitched 1 2/3 innings before giving way to Ryan Yarbrough (12-5), who gave up two hits and a walk in 5 1/3 innings while coaxing six strikeouts.

Kansas City lost its second straight game and is now 0-4 against Tampa Bay this season. The Royals had two runners on base in the second, fourth and eighth innings but finished 0-for-5 with men in scoring position.

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MLB roundup: A’s catch Astros atop AL West

Mike Fiers pitched well for the third consecutive game, and the Oakland Athletics supported their new pitcher with a four-homer, four-double assault on Texas Rangers pitching in an 9-0 romp Monday night in the opener on a three-game series in Oakland, Calif.

Aug 20, 2018; Oakland, CA, USA; Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Mike Fiers (50) delivers a pitch against the Texas Rangers in the first inning at Oakland Coliseum. John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports

Ramon Laureano hit his first two career home runs, and Khris Davis belted his 38th, propelling the A’s to the 15th win in their past 19 games. Davis tied Boston’s J.D. Martinez for the major league home run lead.

The Athletics’ win coupled with the Astros’ road loss to the Seattle Mariners allowed Oakland to move back into a tie with Houston for first place in the American League West.

Fiers (9-6), acquired from the Detroit Tigers in a waiver deal after the July 31 deadline, allowed a leadoff double in the second inning by Nomar Mazara and no other hits over seven shutout innings. He struck out eight and walked one while improving to 2-0 with a 1.47 ERA in three starts for the A’s.

Mariners 7, Astros 4

Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer to break an eighth-inning tie, giving Seattle a victory against visiting Houston.

Cano’s home run was his fifth of the season and first since returning last week from an 80-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. It came off Houston right-hander Collin McHugh (5-2). Cano finished 3-for-5 with two doubles.

Alex Colome (4-5) got the win and Edwin Diaz pitched the ninth for his major-league-leading 48th save. The Mariners’ rally from a 4-2 deficit spoiled a big night by Houston’s Marwin Gonzalez, who went 3-for-4 with a double, a home run and three RBIs.

Red Sox 5, Indians 4

Greg Allen hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to help Cleveland post a victory at Boston.

Allen’s blast was the big blow as the American League Central-leading Indians prevailed in the opener of a four-game set against the AL East-leading Red Sox. The victory was the 10th in the past 12 games for Cleveland.

Aug 20, 2018; Seattle, WA, USA; Seattle Mariners first baseman Robinson Cano (22) hits a double against the Houston Astros during the sixth inning at Safeco Field. Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports

Corey Kluber (16-6) became the third 16-game winner in the majors as he allowed three runs and nine hits over 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander struck out six and walked one while winning his fourth straight decision. Michael Brantley added a two-run blast, and Melky Cabrera hit a solo shot for the Indians.

Braves 1, Pirates 0

Bryse Wilson pitched five scoreless innings for a win in his major league debut, and Atlanta made Nick Markakis’ first-inning RBI single hold up for tight win at Pittsburgh.

Sam Freeman, Brad Brach, Jesse Biddle, Jonny Venters and Dan Winkler completed the seven-hit shutout, which broke Atlanta’s four-game losing streak. Winkler pitched the ninth for his second save. The Braves moved a game up over idle Philadelphia atop the National League East.

Wilson struck out five and allowed three hits and three walks. He was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett to make a spot start. The right-hander, 20 years and 243 days old, became the youngest starter in the big leagues this season. He began the season in high Class-A.

Brewers 5, Reds 2

Travis Shaw hit a two-run home run to give the Brewers the lead, and Christian Yelich also homered to back the three-hit pitching of Chase Anderson and a shutdown bullpen as Milwaukee dumped visiting Cincinnati.

It was the Brewers’ second straight win after three consecutive losses. Anderson (8-7) gave up only two hits over six innings, both solo home runs. He retired the last 14 Reds he faced before leaving for a pinch hitter, striking out six without a walk.

Cincinnati starter Homer Bailey (1-11) lost his sixth straight decision, yielding three runs on eight hits in six innings. The Reds have lost all but one of his 17 starts this season.

Giants 2, Mets 1 (13 innings)

Andrew McCutchen scored the tiebreaking run on an error, a dropped popup after a collision by shortstop Amed Rosario and left fielder Dominic Smith, in the top of the 13th inning as visiting San Francisco outlasted New York.

The Giants snapped a four-game losing streak. The Mets have won six of 10.

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New York starter Zack Wheeler had his streak of six consecutive winning starts end after surrendering one run on five hits and one walk while striking out 10 over seven innings. Wheeler still has not lost a decision since June 22 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, going 6-0 in a span of 10 starts.

White Sox 8, Twins 5

Matt Davidson homered and drove in three runs, and Jose Abreu had two hits and two RBIs to lead Chicago to victory over Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Lucas Giolito (9-9) allowed three runs on five hits over six innings for Chicago, which won for the fifth time in six games. Max Kepler homered and tripled, and Jake Cave hit a two-run homer and scored three times for Minnesota, which lost for just the sixth time in its past 25 games at Target Field.

Before the game, Chicago manager Rick Renteria was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center for precautionary reasons after complaining about feeling lightheaded. A team official later announced that tests revealed no problems. Bench coach Joe McEwing managed the game in Renteria’s absence.

Blue Jays 5, Orioles 3

Kendrys Morales hit two home runs and had four RBIs to help Toronto beat visiting Baltimore.

It was the second two-homer game of the season for Morales, who hit two solo shots at Minnesota on May 1. Kevin Pillar added two doubles and one RBI as the Blue Jays ended a four-game losing streak.

Renato Nunez homered for the Orioles, who have lost four of their last five and nine of 11.

Rays 1, Royals 0

Willy Adames produced the only run Tampa Bay would need with a second-inning RBI infield single, and four pitchers allowed a combined six hits as host Tampa Bay defeated Kansas City.

Hunter Wood made the start for Tampa Bay and pitched 1 2/3 innings before giving way to Ryan Yarbrough (12-5), who gave up two hits and a walk in 5 1/3 innings while coaxing six strikeouts.

Kansas City lost its second straight game and is now 0-4 against Tampa Bay this season. The Royals had two runners on base in the second, fourth and eighth innings but finished 0-for-5 with men in scoring position.

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Wofür steht Martin Schulz?

Berlin. Wie schnell der Ruhm der Welt vergeht, erlebt Sigmar Gabriel am Mittwoch um kurz vor eins. Die Sondersitzung der SPD-Fraktion im Reichstag ist zu Ende, jetzt strömen die Abgeordneten aus dem Sitzungssaal in Richtung Fahrstuhl. Normalerweise hätte er an dieser Stelle seinen großen Auftritt. Kameras, Mikrofone, ein paar Sätze zur aktuellen Politik, ein paar Witze mit den wartenden Journalisten. Aber an diesem Tag dreht sich kaum noch jemand um, als Gabriel den Saal verlässt. Beinahe unbehelligt kann er mit der Masse der Parlamentarier in Richtung Ausgang verschwinden. Der amtierende SPD-Vorsitzende, Wirtschaftsminister, Vizekanzler und baldige Außenminister der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist jetzt einer von vielen.

Als der Fahrstuhl mit Sigmar Gabriel längst auf dem Weg nach unten ist, betritt der neue starke Mann der Sozialdemokratie die Bühne. Da steht er nun also im Scheinwerferlicht, Martin Schulz, 61, aus Würselen, von den allermeisten viel zu lange gnadenlos unterschätzt. Er hat gerade donnernden Applaus von den Abgeordneten bekommen, für eine kämpferische Rede, die mit einem Versprechen geendet hat. In acht Monaten werde er wieder an dieser Stelle sprechen. Und dann sei die SPD-Fraktion nicht mehr nur ein Teil, sondern der größte Teil der Bundesregierung. Und er, Schulz, werde dann Bundeskanzler.

Schulz will Aufbruchstimmung vermitteln

Aufbruchsstimmung zu verbreiten, Zuversicht und gute Laune – das ist in diesen Tagen die wichtigste Aufgabe des Martin Schulz. Und es ist das, was dem scheidenden SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel wohl am schwersten gefallen wäre, wenn er sich selbst zum Kanzlerkandidaten ausgerufen hätte. Insofern hat sich die Nominierung des Mannes aus dem s��dlichen Nordrhein-Westfalen schon gelohnt.

Das sehen sie auch in der NRW-Landesgruppe der SPD so, wo Schulz an diesem Tag ebenfalls seinen Antrittsbesuch abhält. In dem bevölkerungsreichsten Bundesland wird gleich zweimal in diesem Jahr gewählt, im Mai der Landtag, im September die Abgeordneten für den Bundestag. Entsprechend groß war die Sehnsucht nach dem Aufbruchssignal, das viele in der Nominierung von Schulz jetzt sehen. Mit ihm geht ein Ruck durch die Partei. Viele Abgeordnete berichten, dass ihr Handy angesichts der Vielzahl an geradezu euphorischen Nachrichten aus dem Wahlkreis nicht mehr still stehe. Auch so kann sich seine Stimmung drehen.

Würselens SPD-Chef ist begeistert

Andreas Dumke ist Stadtverbandsvorsitzender der SPD in Würselen. Er kennt Martin Schulz, seit der in den Achtzigern die Buchhandlung an der Kaiserstraße führte. Heute gehört sie Dumkes Frau Martina. Der örtliche SPD-Chef ist begeistert von dem Mann, den sie in Würselen nur „unseren Martin“ nennen. „Er ist ein Charaktertyp, er kann die Menschen begeistern“, schwärmt Dumke. „Er kann der SPD eine Seele geben.“ Mit Martin Schulz werde die Sozialdemokratie wieder eine Partei der sozialen Gerechtigkeit, „das steht ganz oben auf seiner Agenda“. Und nicht zuletzt werde mit ihm „der Unterhaltungswert von Politik steigen“. Viele sehen das ähnlich.

Öffentlich setzt Schulz an diesem Tag zwei Botschaften. Erstens: Die einfachen Menschen, die Familien und Paare, die jeden Tag zu kämpfen hätten, sollten im Mittelpunkt allen sozialdemokratischen Denkens und Handelns stehen. Und natürlich auch im Mittelpunkt des Wahlkampfes. Zweitens: Die SPD werde die Demokratie verteidigen und eine Schutzmauer gegen demokratiefeindliche Kräfte bilden. Ohne den AfD-Politiker Björn Höcke beim Namen zu nennen, kritisiert Schulz, dass dieser trotz seiner Ausfälle über die deutsche Geschichte in der AfD bleiben dürfe.

Harte Auseinandersetzung im Wahlkampf

Es ist ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf das, was sich Schulz für den Wahlkampf vorgenommen hat. Es wird eine harte Auseinandersetzung geben, ohne Kabinettsdisziplin wird Schulz versuchen, die Kanzlerin vor sich herzutreiben. Und er wird sich scharf gegen rechts abgrenzen, um die eigene Anhängerschaft zu mobilisieren.

Inhaltlich wird es um Politik für die arbeitende Mitte der Gesellschaft gehen. Bei welcher Verdienstgrenze diese Mitte aufhört und die Oberschicht beginnt, das ist eine der Fragen, die Schulz in den kommenden Wochen beantworten muss. Genauso wie die Frage, was er in der Familien-, Steuer-, Renten- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik vorhat. Bislang ist nur wenig über die Positionen des designierten Kanzlerkandidaten bekannt.

Weder ein klassischer Linker noch ein konservativer Sozialdemokrat

So viel kann man sagen: Schulz ist weder ein klassischer Linker noch ein konservativer Sozialdemokrat. Er selbst bezeichnet sich als „Pragmatiker“. Das kann ein Vorteil sein, weil Schulz seine innenpolitischen Positionen noch definieren kann, ohne unglaubwürdig zu werden. Umfallen allerdings darf er dann nicht mehr, wenn er sich erst mal festgelegt hat.

Mit Spannung wird eine Rede erwartet, die er am Sonntag anlässlich der Vorstandsklausur der SPD halten soll. In den kommenden Tagen werde er vor allem an diesem Manuskript arbeiten, sagt einer, der ihn gut kennt. Vor gut gemeinten Ratschlägen wird er sich dabei kaum retten können. „Jeder will jetzt etwas von ihm“, heißt es in seinem engsten Umfeld. Um sich nicht zu verzetteln, werde Schulz vor allem auf die Menschen hören, die ihm schon seit Langem nahestehen. Es soll eine Weile dauern, ehe Schulz Vertrauen zu anderen Menschen fasst. Dann aber soll er eine treue Seele sein.

Der wichtigste Mann im Netzwerk von Martin Schulz in Berlin ist Markus Engels. Mit verschiedenen Titeln war Engels für Schulz zu dessen Zeit als Präsident des Europaparlamentes tätig. Engels Aufgabe aber war immer die gleiche: Kontakte in die deutsche Hauptstadt zu pflegen. Engels war wichtigster Ansprechpartner für Politiker und für Medienvertreter. Alle in der SPD gehen davon aus, dass er im Wahlkampf eine zentrale Rolle spielen wird. Welche genau, ist noch unklar.

Gabriel und Schulz – eine echte Männerfreundschaft

Die zweite wichtige Person im Kosmos des Martin Schulz ist Achim Post. Der Bundestagsabgeordnete der SPD leitete viele Jahre die Internationale Abteilung im Willy-Brandt-Haus und war damit so etwas wie der Außenminister seiner Partei. Als Generalsekretär der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Europas (SPE) verfügt er über ein exzellentes internationales Netzwerk und hat den letzten Europawahlkampf aus nächster Nähe miterlebt.

Andere Menschen, die Schulz als politische Freunde bezeichnet, sind sein früherer Kabinettschef Markus Winkler und sein Sprecher Andreas Kleiner.

Und dann ist da natürlich noch Sigmar Gabriel. Allen Unkenrufen zum Trotz scheint die politische Freundschaft der beiden Männer den Wettbewerb um die Führungsrolle einigermaßen unbeschadet überstanden zu haben. Gabriel hat Schulz versprochen, eine dienende Rolle im Wahlkampf zu spielen. Sein Instinkt und sein Gespür könnten für Schulz noch wertvoll werden, wenn er Angela Merkel erfolgreich die Stirn bieten will.

Dass er das will, daran lässt der Rheinländer keinen Zweifel. Die Sturzgeburt seiner Nominierung will er bald vergessen machen. „Das war ein guter Start heute“, sagt er noch. Der Wahlkampf hat jetzt begonnen.

Von RND/ Andreas Niesmann und Jan Sternberg

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Der Beitrag Wofür steht Martin Schulz? erschien zuerst auf Nachrichten von Heute.

Wofür steht Martin Schulz?

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It is the summer of the night London's eyes be tight shut all but twelve peepers and six hip malchicks who prance the street. This is the Stones new disc within. Cast deep in your pockets for loot to buy this disc of groovies and fancy words.

If you don't have the bread, see that blind man there? Give him a kick in the head, steal his wallet and low and behold you have loot, if you put in the boot, good, another one sold!

— Andrew Loong Oldham for the original version of the disc "The Rolling Stones No. 2".

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Original album cover for 'Beggars Banquet', rejected by Decca. The title of the album as well as all the credits, are hidden under the graffiti, such as: "Peter is a faggot"; "Lyndon (B. Johnson, U.S. President) loves Mao"; "God rolls his own"; "Maharishi were here"; "Ronald Reagan is a sissy"; "Rent-a-cop"; "Strawberry Bob (Robert Fraser) for President"; "Bob Dylans dream"; and just to the left over the sewer pipe is "Spanish Tony where are you?", a supposed distress call from long-time drug addict Keith Richards.

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Best Mick Jagger biography(ies) to read? Thanks!

Sorry in advance, but I love chatting about this! I've read four so far and haven't finished Philip Norman's yet, but I would say his without a doubt. Norman has a lot of insight into the music industry and he is particularly good on Mick's early life, which is what I like. He has some eloquent lines that I loved. He seems to describe things a little more impartially*, although in others he seems like a fan.

Christopher P. Andersen painted Jagger much more negatively; I feel that sometimes he narrates more as an opinion than as a fact, and there was virtually no commentary on music itself (there are many of them in Keith's biography and in Norman's book). His first book is from 1993, so it's not up to date, and the 2012 one (Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger) has some of the defects I mentioned.

Basically, Norman's book is the most thorough and detailed so far for me, so I recommend going with that one first. But I don't discard any of the ones I've already read; they all have a few different details, which is fun to me! I have fun thinking, "Oh, that wasn't in the other book" or "Oh, that's missing something."

When you don't tell your story, someone else will do it for you, and that's what happens with Mick; people are telling his story because he refuses to do it (it's a legitimate decision; he can choose that, but he's been a public figure for over 30 years and a music icon, so... it is what it is).

So yes, someone might come along and say this is all tabloid crap and gossip, but it's not like he's trying to change it. That said, my advice, although not requested, is for you to read, try to draw your own conclusions, and be aware that there are probably inaccuracies. This can be difficult when the authors are biased, and honestly, all these guys are, for better or worse, at least in my opinion. 

The words in these books should not be taken as gospel, not even the autobiographies. Chrissie Shrimpton mentions that Keith Richards was upset when his parents divorced, although he didn't say so in his book. He barely talks about this divorce. He chose not to talk about it in his autobiography.

Another example: Marianne Faithfull said to Hotchner that she talked to Marsha Hunt at some point about Mick, and yet she left it out of her autobiography.

The thing is, even in autobiographies, their central figures can leave out whatever they want, so I don't like it when someone accuses legitimate authors of doing a bad job just because the content has a source other than the person directly involved. 

*In the German book by Willi Winkler about Mick Jagger that I read, as far as I know, there is only one official translation: to Portuguese. This is probably off-limits for you, but it is the shortest biography and the most impartial compared to the others. It's so impartial that it can be a little dry. However, it is very rushed, and there is a huge lack of details. It's more like a summary, which is fine if that's what you're interested in. 

I still have a lot to say (I didn't even properly mention Blown Away! 😩) but I'll stop here, sorry this was so long! Xoxo

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above, a photo of the German version and my edition of the book.

Just a warning (bc I'm very concerned about sources), I will be posting excerpts from the book "Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones" by Willi Winkler. The original German title is "Mick Jagger und die Rolling Stones," and as far as I know, there was no official translation into English. On Amazon, it is only sold in the original language (German), and I didn't find an English version anywhere. In addition to the German version, it was officially translated into my mother tongue directly from German. 

So I will be posting excerpts translated from my mother tongue to English, and there is a possibility that the meaning is a little lost since I cannot check the original material and since I am not experienced in translating.

Willi Winkler is a German journalist, translator, author, and literary critic. He also wrote "Bob Dylan. Ein Leben" and was the translator of the German version of the book "Life" by Keith Richards.