January 31, 2010
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… I was pretty low on the totem pole and I only took part in political campaigns when I had time on my hands,” he says. ”Election cycles in America result in a poll almost every year, which means there are professionals with dozens of campaigns under their belts.”
He is unlikely to gain more campaign experience, saying he is now devoted to his writing. But he is using the Australian premiere of his play as an excuse to escape a harsh New York winter for a summer holiday here. ”My girlfriend and I have never been to Australia, so the production of Farragut was the perfect reason to plan a vacation there.
”I’m really looking forward to seeing the play go up at Red Stitch.”
Willimon is working on other theatre projects, including a show for London’s National Theatre about a Byzantine queen who started life as a prostitute.
See the full article from “The Age”
January 31, 2010
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… Kristin Davis, the madam who ran the call girl service that Eliot Spitzer was so fond of, was escorted to the event by the notorious Republican political trickster, Roger Stone. Ms. Davis is seeking the gubernatorial nomination from the Libertarians.
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My guess is that Stone calculates that even the consideration of Ms. Davis as a ‘celebrity candidate’ will diminish whatever threat the New York Libertarian Party might be this year to the Republicans. While the nomination is improbable, the previous presumed nominee in 2006, William Weld, took a lot of heat from Republican leaders about the Libertarian Party’s stance on prostitution and the legalization thereof. While most libertarian candidates are otherwise well adjusted and often committed family folks, the perception that they favor the exploitation of women by advocating the freedom to do with your body as you please, is a pernicious conundrum indeed. Bring in some trash and let the conservative housekeepers keep the party line busy with indignant chatter.
See the full article from “Examiner.com”
January 31, 2010
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The Times Square inn — voted the nation’s sixth-filthiest hotel and worst in the Big Apple last week by travelers on Tripadvisor.com — is a throwback to the dirty old days of the 1970s, when hotels like this one rented rooms by the hour, not the week.
The beat-up facade on Eighth Avenue, near the corner of West 47th Street, sports a faded blue and white sign, and inside, guests are greeted by a smiling clerk who waves them up a rickety staircase.
In Room 307, The Post found orange mold in the shower, a chipped toilet seat, ill-fitting ceiling tiles stained with water and piles of dust behind the headboard.
“Like drugs, rats and prostitution? Stay here,” wrote “Singo,” an English guest who entered his room to find a hotel cleaner sitting on the bed, smoking and watching TV.
See the full article from “New York Post”
January 31, 2010
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There’s a safe, apparently, where Salinger may or may not have stores of unpublished manuscripts, a safe that may contain works of genius or works of so much gibberish. If you’re a Salinger fan, as I am, you’re afraid to find out which.
I re-read “Catcher” instead. I go back to the riff in which Holden explains why he’s still a virgin — because he feels sorry for the girl and, besides, he’s afraid in the end he’ll get blamed for . . . something. And I re-take Holden’s trip through the city — a trip Ulysses might have taken if he had just been kicked out of yet another prep school that was supposed to take him to Harvard and not to a bar at 4 a.m. for a long chat with a prostitute. I’ve read the stories often enough that they feel like my stories.
See the full article from “Denver Post”
January 31, 2010
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If you are looking for a crude, offensive gift for a friend or even a foe, then perhaps the DVD release of “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” will do the trick.
Based on the Tucker Max bestselling playbook for living the life of raunchy debauchery, this film stars Matt Czuchry as the book’s author, a connoisseur of fast times and faster women who is determined to outdo himself in one night of orgiastic depravity.
Tucker Max tricks his newly engaged buddy (Geoff Stults) into lying to his fiancée so they can celebrate his last days of bachelorhood in proper style. Along for the ride is another friend (Jesse Bradford) bitter about a breakup.
The night of fun takes a big turn when the boys meet a stripper who can match their vengeful behavior.
See the full article from “Lake County News”
January 31, 2010
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One must remember that Green Day started playing house shows before arenas. Bob Dylan played coffee shops before Woodstock, Nirvana played basements before the played on MTV. Bruce Springsteen is famous for the years he and the E Street Band spent on the road playing small clubs (and I would not be surprised if they did a house show in there some where). The Jackson 5 spent five years touring small dance halls and bars before they had a hit on Motown. Michael had been touring for 24 years before Thriller. And most famously The Beatles used to play teen dance halls, not to mention German strip clubs, before they were on Ed Sullivan.
My argument here would be that all the years these artists spent playing small shows are what made them great. It is when they flushed out both their technical ability and refined their artistic style. In the same way no quarterback’s first football game will ever be th …
See the full article from “Phoenix New Times (blog)”
January 31, 2010
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But in actuality, the book is the fictional story of a handful of people who were in New York City on that day, and were affected, directly or indirectly, by Petit`s walk. He is mentioned only briefly in two short sections that describe how he prepared for the walk and how he felt on the actual day. “The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium. … Another kind of awake.”
The real hero — the main character of this book — is New York City itself. “… everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.”
Two brothers, Irish immigrants, live in a Bronx slum. The younger, Corrigan, is a monk who lives out his faith in service to the poor, especially the prostitutes in his neighborhood. Two featured in the story are Tillie and her daughter, Jazzlyn. Corrie`s older brother can`t understand this way of living, but is drawn into it nonetheless.
See the full article from “Broomfield Enterprise”
January 31, 2010
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He concedes the Democrats may find the going difficult in November “given the mood, given how people feel about Washington”, but says he is hoping to concentrate on the issues. That seems unlikely, given that he is already looking beyond the primaries and attacking Mr Kirk’s record of taking contributions from corporations.
Although Mr Obama endorsed Mr Giannoulias’s campaign for treasurer, he was not the president’s top choice to run in the primary. In a sign that he was concerned about Illinois long before the special election in Massachusetts, the president summoned Lisa Madigan, the state’s attorney-general, to the White House last year and asked her to run for the seat.
She declined and several other high-profile Democrats have also ruled themselves out.
Mr Giannoulias has baggage as the scion of a Chicago banking family who lent money to both Michael Giorango, a convicted bookmaker and prostitution-ring promoter, and Tony Rezko, a fundraiser for Mr Blagojevich convicted of fraud.
See the full article from “Financial Times”