Full Metal Jacket reject

Brian Atene, born August 16, 1963, is a former student in the Juilliard School of performing arts, who became an Internet phenomenon in 2006 when an audition tape he had made in 1984 for the film Full Metal Jacket was posted on YouTube. The video attracted considerable attention because of the apparent hubris ("You will find in me the finest actor of the lot, the most beautifully trained, the most capable"), and comical over-acting displayed by the 20 year old aspiring actor while attempting to attract the attention of director Stanley Kubrick. The video features Atene performing a "cutting" loosely based on S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. Atene acts out the role of Johnny Cade, whose back has been broken.
The video was mentioned on prominent web sites such as Boing Boing and Gawker and Defamer and spread in classic viral fashion, inspiring numerous remixes.
Three days after the breakout of the video, an individual posted a video response on YouTube, claiming to be Atene, now 43 years old, heavier and "still acting". A debate broke out, within the comment sections of YouTube, and on many other blogs and sites hosting the two videos, as to whether or not this was in fact the "real Atene."
Further confusing matters, a number of days later, another individual claiming to be Atene created a user id on YouTube called "juilliardropout". He claimed that he would post a video sometime in the near future and that the original video, although real, was done partly tongue-in-cheek. On November 17, 2006 juilliardropout posted a video on YouTube where he said he is Brian Atene and said that the original tape was one of two and it was the other one that was actually sent to Stanley Kubrick; he also asked people to visit christopherreeve.org and buy Superman items to support "The search for truth and justice" and promised to post new videos on YouTube. While Atene explains the choice of this charity with a story about how Reeves visited Juilliard while he was a student there, some YouTube commenters wondered whether this was a sly reference to his "I ain't gonna walk again-- not even on crutches" audition for Kubrick from The Outsiders.

Wapner 3:30

"I would like to send my condolences out to The Little Walnut, Lindsey Lohan's Brain , as well as all of it's immediate organs, close nerve endings, fan club, and all of its inner working bits of stuff.

"I feel as if I've just had the Brain knocked out of me and my head cavity aches.

God Bless, peace and love always.

Thank You,

"BE ADEQUITE"

Rain Man

Romper Bomper Stomper Boo...

In 1971 I was placed into The wonderland Nursery School. It was in the United Methodist Church at Franklin and Highland.
I was 5 years old. The things that I can remember about that time were my teachers were Miss Penney and Miss Nichols. Mrs Penney was the Sally Field looking one while Miss Nichols was the blonde Vegas looking lady. I hated playtime because there was this guy Kelly Shipley who would punch you if you got within arms distance.

I remember they used to make all the boys and girls use the bathroom at the same time and I couldn't do that so they made a big deal about me having "privacy."
Freaks.
I remember one day we went on a field trip. They piled like 20 five-year-olds into two white passenger vans and drove us about 2 miles to KCOP channel 13. It was and still is just off of La Brea at Willoughby. After we piled out of our seatbeltless vans we were herded into the huge rolling tan metal doors of the TV station into the ROMPER ROOM set. We were the featured school of the day. I remember saying the pledge of allegiance and watching the show from the bleachers. I do remember when MISS MARY ANN looked thru her mirror I fully expected her to say my name. She still did not say my name and I was right in front of her. I was mad and I guess part of me has never forgiven her.

For ten years, between 1966 to 1976, Miss Mary Ann was the pre-school teacher of choice for many Los Angeles children. Running KCOP-TV's "Romper Room", Miss Mary Ann engaged children with imaginative games, stories and songs, along with positive life lessons.

Miss Mary Ann explained safety lessons by having her young viewers turn on their pretend sirens and answer emergency calls in their "safety chief cars". Children who appeared on the show were guest students and along with the at home viewers, learned of many places and things by galloping around on their stick horses. But probably the two most cherished things (besides Miss Mary Ann!) that a "graduate" of Romper Room would remember would be her "magic mirror" and "Do Bee". Were you a "Do Bee" or a "Don't Bee"? I'm sure if you watched Miss Mary Ann you are all "Do Bees" having learned manners and conduct.

(no sixties drug influance there!)

Whether you were a "Do Bee" or a "Don't Bee", by the end of each show you would have a chance for Miss Mary Ann to see you, as she would peer through her magic mirror, and into the homes of her viewers, calling you by name.

"Romper, bomper, stomper, boo.
Tell me, tell me, tell me do.
Magic mirror, tell me today.
Did all my friends have fun at play?"

With the chant spoken, the Romper Room hostess gazed through the empty mirror frame and recited the names of the lucky children whom she pretended to see watching the program (a different list of names each day). For example, "I see Tommy and Susan and Hannah and William and Mary and all you boys and girls out there." Of course, the hostess really couldn't see the children, but to the kids at home, as they listened for their name to be mentioned, they knew that they were someone special, at least in the World of Romper Room.

Former Romper Room hostess Mary Ann King (in Los Angeles from 1966-76) was mugged in the parking lot of a Hometown Buffet in the City of Industry on December 17, 2003. The encounter gave King, 70, a broken arm, rib and punctured lung. Besides her injuries, the thieves stole a black taffeta bag that contained the original Magic Mirror (white plastic mirror frame) used on the Romper Room program so many years. King began carrying the magic mirror around with her to satisfy the wishes of people who confronted her with the allegations "you never said my name." In the case of the criminals who stole the item, King confessed "I'm sure those hoodlums who did this just looked at the mirror and said, 'What in the world is this,' and just discarded it."

Now she'll never say my name.

I wanna grow up to be a HOBO! hobo.... hoBo with a "B"!

Hobo Kelly is probably one of the most beloved and well-known Children's show hosts for kids growing up in the Los Angeles area in the 1960's.

Sally Schurman was raised on the north side of Chicago where she worked hard to eliminate her neighborhood trademark, a pretty Irish brogue that reveals a family history of Irish roots that go back through 12 generations to the county of Cork.

Sally began her children's show in Peoria, Ill around 1960-61 before moving out to California. She appeared with her show on a UHF station in San Bernardino that ran for a year just prior to her stint on KTTV.

Hobo Kelly and Her Puppets began on KTTV in 1965 and was wildly successful. She started out weekday mornings from 7:30 to 9 am on channel 11 and in her first 11 months on the show, received some 350,000 pieces of fan mail. Hobo Kelly received more fan mail than all the other KTTV shows on at that time combined. Many children maintained a running correspondence with their young Hobo friend who magically "sees" her audience through oversized glasses that she dons from time to time.

After being on the air for14 months, she was asked by Mayor Yorty to raise the Irish flag over City Hall for St. Patrick's day. She was the reigning TV Queen of the City of Angels, passing her special brand of Hobo Magic on the kids of Los Angeles.


Sally Baker (married to another broadcasting original; Walt Baker) was truly a pioneer for women in broadcasting by producing, writing and starring in her own show on a daily basis. One of the first women in television to really control the content of her show and what went out to the kids, her husband Walt Baker was the director on the show making it a truly family affair.

In a sea of cowboys and skippers, came her lovable character of Hobo Kelly, a stand out from the start.

Many will remember her huge toy machine that she would fill with junk and then miraculously as she cranked it the junk would turn into fantastic toys to be given to a lucky mischief maker from her viewing audience pulled at random from a large turning tub.

The magic paint that she used to paint the screen and expose pictures with was a popular feature on her show. It stressed a creative magic spark for all children and carried on to her later show, The Froozles.

The Hobo Kelly make-up would take about 45 minutes to put on and almost as long to get off. "It's like cleaning a carburetor," she says. "I use endless chemicals."

Preparation of some 175 different sound effects went into the show each week. By 1971, the Hobo Kelly Show is seen on KCOP channel 13 in Los Angeles, KPTV channel 12 in Portland and WTCN in Minneapolis.

Hobo Kelly made many personal appearances in the LA area, handing out little gifts and winning even more hearts. Living in North Hollywood with her husband and two daughters, Kelli and Kathleen in 1966, she would often do local shows as well. During Easter week of that year she would rush from her show at KTTV studios in full costume to the Valley Music Theater for two performances daily with Les Poupees de Paris puppets. (Hopefully she didn't have to hop a freight from KTTV to Woodland Hills.)

After her run as Hobo Kelly, you could still catch Sally Baker in the very popular and delightful (not to mention award winning) show from the mid to late 1970's called "The Froozles" where she used some of the very same effects she had perfected at Hobo Junction. The Froozles remained in syndication for quite awhile proving that Sally Baker's talent was appreciated and exceptional.

BUT SCOOTER SMOKING IS SO COOL!

If you grew up watching T.V. in the 70's it's probably been awhile since you've scrambled up to Dusty's Treehouse.

You may remember the oldest and loudest member of Dusty's little group. Maxine the Crow is more than a little selfish and vain, a bossy self-proclaimed expert with tons of energy. Maxine wants to be a movie queen, is highly incorrigible, a little on the lazy side, independent, highly creative, a bit incompetent except when it comes to hare-brained schemes that seem to get everybody else in trouble.

And then there is the cute little blue squirrel named Scooter. Scooter really loves baseball, recess, and sometimes even his little brother. Just like any typical eight to nine year old, Scooter is mischievous but willing to learn from his mistakes.

Wide-eyed innocence and unquenchable curiosity rounds out our little group in the form of a 4-year-old spider named Stanley.


Stanley the Spider is everybody's little brother. An inquisitive redhead, wearing three pairs of tennis shoes on his six feet, he once informed Dusty that he had heard all about policemen. "Policemen are scary," Stanley reported. Of course, Dusty set him straight via a filmed trip in a police helicopter to see how the officers help people in trouble.

And then there's Dusty himself. Dusty and his pals visited us atop an old oak tree in a comfortable clubhouse. When he wasn't busy conversing with the treehouse menagerie, he was taking us on filmed trips to bakeries to see how bread is made.

Dusty must have been a captain of "in-dust-tree" since we always had plenty of field trips to various plants and factories to see how a variety of things were made.

We also learned a lot of different crafts up in the clubhouse, learning how to construct things like party hats or a picture-box theatre. Children's fables like Hans Christian Andersen's "Princess and the Pea" and the story of the acorn that became a great oak were enacted using shadow puppets along with an occasional original musical.

Dusty discussed everything with his pals, from microwave ovens, antique banks, and the history of clocks, to what happens to a letter once it is dropped in a mailbox.

Dusty was an involved, caring friend and guardian for the puppet characters in his treehouse, always ready to help them untangle life's problems. No problem was too difficult to work out, no curiosity too far out to be explored.

Dusty's Treehouse was created, coproduced, and hosted by Stu Rosen as Dusty.

Tony Urbano was the talented puppeteer who gave life to Maxine, Scooter and Stanley and also designed, sculpted and painted all the marionettes, collaborating with Rosen in the development of the three principal characters.

Dusty's Treehouse enjoyed major market success as a local Los Angeles series for over a decade and five years of simultaneous syndication before the show's introduction on cable television. Originally an offshoot of "Dusty's Attic" (KCET,1966-1967) a twenty-two week local Los Angeles PBS program that began October 5, 1966. Staged in a cluttered garret, Stu Rosen related stories from a magical book to a shoe named Scuffy and a lamp called Shady Lady, a pair of puppets operated by Jan MacAlister.

The most elaborate series produced locally at KNXT, videotaped on the outlet's most expensive set, Dusty's Treehouse was an exchange program for several summers starting May 22, 1971, on the CBS O&O stations.

One of the most honored of local series, Dusty's Treehouse received 8 Emmy Awards, 6 of them consecutively 1970 through 1976 and 1980. It was also a recipient of the 1973 George Foster Peabody Award and 1979 Ohio State Award for its contribution to educational programming. Selected from the programs, fifty-two of the best episodes were syndicated in 1975 and shown for twenty-six weeks in barter syndication in 1976.

Sometime back in the late 1980's, Dusty's Treehouse was shown on Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon was desperate to find any childrens programming to fill 24 hours a day. They scoured local outlets and found outdated sometimes questionable programming. Dustys Treehouse was one of those buy ups. I doubt that will ever air again.

stop tapping on the glass!

More sweeties.
This time they take a field trip to the bakery. It reminds me of the crappy field trips Dusty used to take on the show DUSTYS TREEHOUSE.

The Sweeties go to the LaBrea Tar pits

AND THERE"S DA PIT!

God loves William S Burroughs

A thanksgiving prayer from the dead.

AH yes ...the repugnicans

Thank you Jerry W. for this wonderful list of Republican achievements. Marvel at its length.

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.



Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.



Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.



Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.



Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.



Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.



Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.



Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.



Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.



Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.



Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.



Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.



Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.



Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.



Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.



Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.



Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.



Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial.



Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.



Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.



Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.



Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.



Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.



Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.



Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.



Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.



Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.



Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.



Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.



Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.



Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.



Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.



Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.



Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.



Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.



Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).



Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.



Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.



Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.



Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.



Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.



Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.



Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.



Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.



Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.



Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate



Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.



Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.



Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.



Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.



Republican serial killer Ted Bundy was hired by the Republican Party



Republican activist Matthew Glavin, who preached family values, was caught masturbating in public and fondling an undercover park ranger



Republican Party Chairman Sam Walls, who is married, was urged to drop his candidacy for Congress when it was found he likes to dress up in women's clothing



Republican Congressman Edward Schrock resigned from Congress after he was caught searching for sex on a gay telephone service



Republican Mayor Jim West Republican voter Timothy McVeigh bombed Oklahoma City championed an anti-gay agenda, but was later found to be gay himself



Republican preacher Jimmy Swaggart preached fidelity, but cheated on his wife with a prostitute



Republican Congressman Bob Livingston was about to vote for impeaching President Clinton for sexual improprieties until it was disclosed he was an adulterer



Republican Congressman Henry Hyde denounced President Clinton's extramarital affair, but was later found to be an adulterer himself



Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.



Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.



Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.



Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.



Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.



Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.



Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.



Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.



Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girl.



Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.



Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.



Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.



Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.



Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.



Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.



Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.



Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.



Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.



Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.



Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.



Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.



Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.



Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.



Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.



Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.



Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.



Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.



Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.



Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.



Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.



Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.



Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).



Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.



Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.



Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.



Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.



Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.



Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.



Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.



Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.



Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.



Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.



Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.



Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.



Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.



Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.



Republican Mayor John Gosek, 58, of 275 West 7th Street, Oswego, was arrested for the federal offense of "using a facility in inte-state commerce (a telephone) to knowingly attempt to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce an individual under the age of 18 years to engage in sexual activity for which he could be charged with criminal offenses, that is, rape in the third degree and criminal sexual act in the third degree" in violation of the New York State Penal Code.



Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.



Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.



Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a minor and sentenced to one month in jail.



Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges.



Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.



Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.



Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a minor working as a congressional page.



Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.



Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.



Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of delivering the drug LSD.



Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks, an advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.



Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.



Republican preacher Stephen White was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.



Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.



Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.



Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.



Republican St. Louis Election Board official Kevin Coan was arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.



Republican politician Andrew Buhr, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.



Republican politician Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative, was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).



Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15 year old girl.



Republican legislator, Richard Gardner, a Nevada state representative, admitted to molesting his two daughters.



Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.



Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.



Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.



Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.



Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.



Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. Of course it's no contest! How could he even get a fair fight against those activist judges!



Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. - That's the culture of life we all know and love!



Defense contractor, Mitchell Wade, admitted that he paid California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (republican) more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for millions more in government contracts.



Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his 9 yr old daughter.



Republican Mayor Philip Giordano serving a 37-year sentence for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.



Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge sentenced to 3 years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. I'm sure he had a good explanation.



Republican racist pedophile and esteemed US Senator Strom Thurmond fathered a chiled with a 15-year old black girl.



Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to sexual relations with a juvenile. Praise George!



Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having inappropriate relations with a 13-year-old girl.



Republican activist Lawrence E King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.



Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens found guilty of sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.



Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.



Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on 6counts of child sex crimes.



Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. Look, he didn't actually do anything. He only TRIED! You can't fault a republican for trying!



Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.



Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. Prai$e the lord!



Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28. I love this country!



Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Now I'm sure he can give us a good explanation for this.



Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Obviously a liberal conspiracy!



Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. He was obviously trying to help this woman! Do you liberals no shame!



Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography. Look! It was his own son. Geez you liberals are SICK!



Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. He was trying to explain to her what NOT to do when in a difficult situation!



Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.



Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. She could have turned away.



Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her. Liberal jury of course.



Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. Now how could anyone rape their daughter 6 times! Can you say Liberal psycologist!



Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. Obviously set up by a liberal computer hacker. These hackers no NO SHAME!



Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.



Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). You see, actually he happened to be changing out of his bathing suit when these kids walked by.



Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.



Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child. He pleaded guilty only to keep his family out of the liberal media's spotlight.



Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl. She was eighTEEN. That's still a teenager!



Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters. He only had their interests in mind. Why don't you liberals see that!



Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl. No comment.



Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women. Philanthropy at it's finest!



Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. That boy was a liberal trying to corrupt his mind. He did the right thing.



Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. He did the honorable thing and did his time.



Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000. Lies. Lies! All liberal lies!



Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession. Obviously set up by that liberal media!



Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. Who said republicans were sexist!



The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested

Tuesday, April 04, 2006, for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage

girl, authorities said. Rep. Brian J. Doyle, 55, was arrested in Maryland where he lives

on charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of harmful material

to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk County, Fla.



Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to having sex with a mule.

A judge on Wednesday, 04-05-06, allowed a lawsuit to proceed against Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide who posted details of her sex life on the Internet. The case brought

by REPUBLICAN Sen. Mike DeWine's former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Robert Steinbuch, alleges that Cutler engaged in an invasion of his privacy in 2004 by publishing sexually explicit facts about a relationship with Steinbuch.



REPUBLICAN Otis O'Neal Horsley (born 1944) is an American political figure of the far REPUBLICAN right. He is the author of christiangallery.com, a website devoted to his advocacy of militant anti-abortion, secessionist, and anti-gay views. Last night, May 09, 2005, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program. The topic was an interesting one - whether or not an internet service provider should allow Horsley to post the names of abortion doctors on his website. Horsley does that as a way of targeting them and one doctor has been killed. In the course of the interview, however, Colmes asked Neal Horsley about his background, including a statement that he had admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex, including having sex with a MULE!



Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison. If you do the crime, you do the time + 1.



Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter. He just wanted to keep an eye out for those girls...and his daughter. He even had pictures to prove it!



Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.



Rev. C. Stephen White -- better known on Penn's campus as "Brother Stephen" -- will face trial on charges of soliciting sex from a 14-year-old boy, according to the West Chester District Attorney's office. At a preliminary hearing held Aug. 12, White pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal solicitation, criminal attempt to lure a child into a motor vehicle and corruption of minors. All charges will be held for court, according to WestChester Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Callahan, who will prosecute the case. White is married and has three sons and is a Republican fundraiser in the area.



Republican Jack Burkmana reportedly has been caught allegedly offering to pay $1,000 for sex with two homosexuals ... Republican operative Jack Burkmana former lobbyist for "Family Research Council" The council and Mr. Burkmana support and donate money to the Bush administration and the GOP.



A South Texas jury has found a 44-year-old REPUBLICAN political consultant guilty of four counts involving the sexual molestation of children. The 44-year-old CARY LEE CRAMER was convicted of one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, two of indecency with a child by contact and one of indecency with a child by exposure. Cramer, who now lives in Tucson, Ariz., gained national attention during the 2000 presidential election. His McAllen company created a TV ad accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology to China in exchange for campaign contributions. Cramer faces a maximum of 149 years in prison for the four felony charges. (June 28, 2006)



Republican Lou Beres denied sexual-molestation allegations when the Oregonian newspaper first reported them in October. Beres acknowledged sexually touching a 16- or 17-year-old friend of his daughter in 1976 or 1977. But a local Police Department report released as part of a lawsuit said Beres "readily admitted sexually touching" one girl when she was 13 or 14 years old. The longtime leader of the Oregon Christian


Coalition and staunch opponent of gay rights admits in a newly released police report that he sexually touched three underage girls.



August 30, 2006 A Texas pastor accused of raping a church member after telling her she was possessed by a lesbian demon at his house last year has been indicted. Republican, Leonard Ray Owens, 63, who is free on $25,000 bail, is now awaiting trial on a charge of sexual assault, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison. He was arrested in November, 2005.Police began investigating Owens last year after a 22-year-old woman reported that Owens raped her twice at his Fort Worth home. The woman told police that in July, several months after she began attending the Prayer House of Faith, she went to Owens' home for counseling following a miscarriage. Owens told her that a sex spirit and lesbian demon were inside her and needed to be cast out, police said. The pastor then asked her to lie on the floor and began yelling at her as if she were a demon, saying, "Loose her in the name of Jesus," according to an arrest warrant affidavit.



Christian bookstore owner, cop admit sex with boy Pittsburgh, PA, August 30, 2006 A former college administrator, a former Christian bookstore owner and a former policeman admitted to sexual misconduct with a teenage boy. They were among five men arrested in March as part of an ongoing investigation of men who meet boys through Internet chat rooms, authorities said.William Gillin, 53, republican and Paul Skiles, 63, republican, both of Johnstown, pleaded guilty yesterday to corruption of minors, indecent assault and unlawful communications with minors. Mr. Gillin is the former alumni relations director at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Mr. Skiles owned the now-closed B&K Christian Bookstore in Richland Township.Some of the incidents occurred when the boy was 16, prosecutors said. He is now 17.



Donald Lukens, Republican Congressman, was found guilty of having sex with a minor - a girl he was accused of sleeping with since she was 13. Time Article



Pat McPherson, Douglas County Election Commissioner. Arrested for fondling a 17-year-old girl. Article



Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17. Source: ABC News



Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee's Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that "Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee." [8] [9]



Jim Wesr, Spokane Mayor. supported a bill, which failed, would have barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that "any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person" among teens be criminalized. Had a sexual affair with an 18 year old boy.Source: Spokesman review



Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative (R), was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). Tennesean Article



Stephen White, Republican preacher. Was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. Daily Pennsylvanian article | Daily yale News Article



Nicholas Morency, Republican anti-abortion activist, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor The Dallas Morning News article.



Sue Myrick, Congresswoman (R-NC), describes herself as a "devout Christian." Committed adultery with a married man.



Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harrassment by his producer.



Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.), resigned in 1995 under a threat of public senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual harassment.



Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing what experts call "some of the most offensive material in the child pornography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Daily Record News Article



John Paulk, lied about prowling for gay sex while running a fundamentalist group to cure gays.



Brent Parker Utah State Representetive. Arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a male prostitute. KSL News Article |Deseret News Article



John Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."



Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos.





George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife, while serving as president of Hillsdale College, which "emphasizes the importance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while recognizing the importance of religion for the maintenance of a free society."



Beverly Russell, County Chairman of the Christian Coalition, sexually molested his step-daughter, Susan Smith, who later drowned her two children. Herald-Journal Article |Commentary on Newsweek Article



Jack Ryan, 2004 Republican nominee for US Senate from Illinois, pressured his wive, actress Jeri Ryan, to have sex with other men. Tricked her into visiting sex clubs, where he asked her to have sex with him while others watched.



Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern,


Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."



Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were circulated.



Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.



Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.



Jean Schmidt, OH-2, though not herself implicated, employed a campaign manager (Joe Braun) in her 2005 election who once wrote an article condemning gay men for running sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile called for "submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have hot wax dripped on them. DKOS Diary



John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had had his committee chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because his baby was admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around his penis that it was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children. Wikipedia article



Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, fired after child pornography was found in his possession. Rocky Mountain News article With his political career over, he went to work in the hard-core pornography industry for Platinum X Pictures, owned by his daughter, porn starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany Schwarz). Wikipedia article



Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in "family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit againt Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times. Article



Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Eventually admitted to an affair with a woman 30 years younger than him, after she accused him of physical abuse and attempting to choke her. Post-Gazette article



Tom Shortridge. Republican campaign consultant, was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. LA Times article



Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman, pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Sex Offender Registry



Craig J. Spence, Republican lobbyist, organized orgies with child prostitutes in the White House during the 1980s. Full page including Washington Times article Discovery Channel documentary



Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, said during a sermon "I'm trying to find the correct name for it ... this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. ... I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died." Had an affair with a prostitute.



David Swartz, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Rocky Mountain News Article



Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue, involved in the Terri Schiavo protests.


Once imprisoned for sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel is gay; his daughter Tila had sex outside of marriage, became pregnant, had a miscarriage - she is no longer welcome in his home; his daughter Ebony had 2 children outside of wedlock and became Muslim. He has campaigned against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed mothers. Terry himself was censured by his church after committing adultery.



Bill Thomas Republican congressman, had an affair with Deborah Steelman, a health care lobbyist who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war chest.



Strom Thurmond, republican senator and racist, raped and impregnanted a 15-year old African American maid. (BBC Article)



Robin Vanderwall, Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate, director of Faith & Family


Alliance, (a Christian Coalition spin off), former student of Pat Robertson's Regent Universtity, member of Ralph Reed's inner circle who funneled money to from lobbiest Jack Abromoff to Reed , convicted in Virginia for soliticing sex from a 13-year-old-boy[12] and on four other counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. Virginian-Pilot Article



J.C. Watts, Representative (R-Oklahoma), loud champion of "moral values." Has out-of-wedlock children.



Congressman Mark Foley (REPUBLICAN-FL) planned to resign today, hours after ABC questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former Congressional pages under the age of 18. A spokesman for Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on MISSING and EXPLOITED CHILDREN, said the congressman submitted his resignation in a letter late this afternoon, September 29, 2006, to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.



Huffington Post
New York Times


This story has more legs than a centipede. If the MSM media doesn't cover it then every blogger should. Let's organize around this Republican-neo-con-Christian-family values hypocrisy and make sure that it appears in every nook and cranny of the media. And above all make certain that everyone responsible for this be forced to make public statements.

UNWIND WITH THE SWEETIES

God I love public access TV. This is one of my favorite shows.

Introducing Geroge Harrison as Pirate Bob

From Rutland Weekend Television

NEWSFLASH: CASINO ROYALE ROCKS

I know I know I said I liked it but for RIGHT NOW it rocks.
WHY you ask?

It made me pick up the book to find out if there was something I was missing. Now thats the sign of a good movie.

NEWSFLASH: CASINO ROYALE SUCKS

I know I know I said I liked it but for RIGHT NOW it sucks.
WHY you ask?

It made me pick up the book to find out if there was something I was missing. Not the sign of a good movie.

Shirley Bassey does Pink in Bond-esque ad and more Casino Royale.

Yes I did see the damn movie again. its 3:01am and I have to post this crap before I fall asleep and forget. Forgive the mis-spellings. Its late and ... its late.
Hmm. not as bad as I thought. I'll be interested to see the continuation of this story.

I did note that in the opening credits only one woman is depicted. Odd to say the least. Its all Men fighting running falling. You know... The stuff women used to do in the credits.
I'm not keen on the credit sequence. It looks like a Target commercial for bandanas. Product placement is rampant in this feature. While some folks actually make a living placing product carefully in a scene as to not attract attention but still make you aware of the brand, the placement in this film is downright shameful. At one point Heinekin and smirnoff are vying for the same screen time. The shot even looks like stacked credits. Smirnoff in the lower left and hienekin in the upper right so... If you read left to right smirnoff is first but if you read top to bottom it Hienekin in the lead. Ford once again shows that they are Bonds choice of rental car when traveling. Austin Martin , Omega and (of all things) Google get recognition as leaders in the Bond world. Richard Branson makes a nice cameo. If you can believe Branson delivers a more subtle and subdued cameo compared to Michael G Wilson. Wilson is an egomaniac.
Judy Denchers lower rat teeth distract me from the plot early on in the film. I just want someone to hand her a piece of wood so she can file those damn things down.

Danial Craig is a pussface. The male equivalent to Rene Zelwigger. His mouth is to small and seems to be missing some actual muscles that enable him to speak clearly. I know its cruel to take away his sash and crown but I hope this is the last one he does. I just cant stand his Jim Henson muppet-like duck mouth. I also ... and this is a stretch but stay with me... think Craig is playing it a bit too gay. I mean if he is supposed to be this macho manly man man he seems to fall out of it from time to time and it seems like his manliness is a front.
JB on theDL.
I cant understand the beginning of the film. I know whats going on but Craigs mouth full of pudding delivery mangles the lines. Its like he is talking into a full diaper. I CANT UNDERSTAND YOU! OPEN YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH!
stupid baby huey lipped dork.

...The Aristocrats!

WOW I never thought I'd say this but I think Michael Richards is a dangerous man.
What an asshole.



This better be the end of his career.

Actual notes from Sony to Neal Purvis Re:Casino Royal

Neal, loved the script! James Bond is back! But before he can return, we need you to make some changes to this script.

P. 5
You have James Bond first encountering the villain at the Casino Royale during a “Hungry Hungry Hippos” tournament. That is not a game you would find at a casino. Neither is “Candyland” and people certainly don’t play “Operation” for money. Also, for the record, when three cherries come up on a slot machine, the player doesn’t actually win cherries. You also cannot “buy a vowel” after spinning the roulette wheel. This scene makes one wonder if you have actually ever been to a casino. You need to do more research.

P. 12
We’d like you to think up a new main villain. The one you have here, “Clam Chowder,” is a little over the top for a James Bond film. You indicate you would like him introduced in a song with the same tune as “Goldfinger” but with the lyrics “Clam Chowder, he’s a clam! A clam, with clams for hands!” How he poses a threat to society is also confusing. The script says he has a plot to take over the world, yet all government agents can seem to do is complain about his incessant jaywalking.

P. 22
We don’t think you should be taking the liberty of changing the catchphrases that have made the James Bond movies legendary. For example, so far, instead of Bond being referred to as the traditional “agent double O seven,” you have him repeatedly called the much longer and less punchy “agent zero and then another zero followed by the number seven.” Also, instead of his signature “martini, shaken not stirred,” you have Bond’s drink of choice as “milk and orange juice, mixed together.” We also don’t think it’s appropriate that you’ve changed Bond’s catch phrase from “Bond, James Bond” to the much more confusing “wait till I get my Hanes on you.”

P. 32
We’re only 30 minutes into the film and already James Bond’s “license to kill” has been revoked three times because of late fees. This isn’t like a fishing license, the government does not charge you to maintain it.

P. 44
A cornerstone of the Bond movies is his incredible gadgets. However, the items you have Bond toting are less than impressive. Many of the gadgets are completely pointless, like the “half-eaten bagel with caller ID,” the “glasses with kaleidoscopic vision” and the “chemical compound that makes Diet Dr. Pepper taste more like the original.” Also, other items he is given seem quite outdated, such as the “dual cassette recorder with automatic rewind” and the cell phone that is “small enough to fit into a briefcase.”

P. 50
Why does he keep throwing out his back?

P. 64
It seems inconsistent with the James Bond character to have him “just want to be friends” with the many voluptuous women in the film before agreeing to make any sort of physical commitment to them.

P. 77
In this scene you have James Bond possessing the ability to fly. Then, halfway through, as if you realized this is a mistake and instead of rewriting the scene, you have Bond declare, “Wait a second, I can’t fly.” He then comes crashing to the ground only to be confronted out of nowhere by a robot who “erases the incident from his memory” and then blasts off into outer space unexplained and never to be heard from again.

P. 80
James Bond would never wear a fanny pack.

P. 92
This is the fifth scene that requires full frontal nudity. It adds nothing to the film. Why do you keep calling for it?

P. 102
I know you’re going for an element of realism here, but it is extremely annoying to the viewer that when the villain has James Bond trapped and is explaining his diabolical plot, he keeps getting interrupted by cell phone calls, many of which are from telemarketers. It’s also confusing as to why the villain seems interested in every offer pitched to him over the phone.


P. 110
Part of the charm in the Bond films is watching the hero find clever ways to escape seemingly hopeless situations. However, in this scene we watch as Bond is riddled with bullets and his lifeless body is tossed into a vat of sharks and electric eels. But in the very next scene the hero appears before the villain without a scratch on him. When the villain says “I thought I killed you” the only explanation provided by James Bond is “nope, you didn’t.”

P. 120
What happened to the villain?! The film is over and we haven’t even hit the climax! You have James Bond driving to Clam Chowder’s hideout to foil his plot, but then he looks at his watch and says “we’re running out of time here.” Next thing you know, he’s back at headquarters and when government agents ask Bond what happened to Clam Chowder his only reply is to slyly say “Oh, I’m sure he’ll get his and if he doesn’t, I have a feeling old age will get him.” The agents for some unknown reason seem satisfied with this response, saying “good work Mr. Bond!” That’s it. The audience needs a more satisfying ending.

Once you make these changes, you’ve got yourself a green light my friend.






Oh by the way:

1. Happy Feet ($42.3m)
2. Casino Royale ($40.6m)
Next time I want to bet on the returns I'm calling the Archlight Theater and see what they think!

I can't add. SONY PLEASE HELP ME!

Ok
Casino Royale.
I'll not give any of the film away if you have not seen it so...
you can read on without worry.

First off.
Daniel Craig.
He's a man. A manly man. While this is all fine and dandy I cant help but watch him and think of the ol' cartoon where a beautiful woman is shown from the back and when she turns around she's got some damn ugly face.
AUUUUHHH MHHHAAANN!
He's got an ok body for an old man but his face is butt ugly. I mean a double bagger from behind type o face.
There is something wrong with his lips. He seems to have this duck-like lip problem.

He also seems to be forcing his "Bond" look a little too much.
His Bond is truly a blunt instrument. Whatever happened to "NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU BLEED?" (oh wait that hasn't happened yet. He is told that by "Q" later on in his career. Does that mean "Q" is responsible for Bonds Suave disposition?)There is no hint of the coldwar Bond we know and love. This works for the story but... It does not hold true to the franchise. Since this is Bonds "FIRST" mission I guess I am having a hard time with the character arc that happens between this and all the other Bond films before it (or after it if I am forced to believe this is the first adventure.)


The film is NOT Bourne Identity nor is it Mission Impossible nor is it a Bond film as we know it. It feels like a precursor to another film. Moreover it feels like a first act stretched for 2 hours. The denouement is truly a let down.
I can't say I hate the film so Sony will be pleased to know I will shell out another $13.50 to see it again just to make notes and determine if I truly enjoy this film.
This film may have erased the line between a film with James Bond in it and a James Bond Film. Meaning I may just have to consider Never Say Never Again a real James Bond film if this is to be considered one as well.
Being that it is an EON film is not enough to make it a true Bond Film.
I have a hard time with the Vesper relationship with Bond. There is only one woman for Bond and that is Tracey. We all know it. So... Who the hell cares about Vesper? No one! Oh and the moment Bond names his drink... that was great to see yet I felt like I was watching Ronald name a Big Mac. It was handled incorrectly. The correct way was not to include that in the film. It felt like a mishandled Back To The Future throw-away gag.
Oh yeah... I do have to say this...
There was some crazy expository dialog that reminded me that I only need a 3rd grade education to follow the plot. If you have trouble with numbers have no fear, the film contains math breaks wherein the characters will add outloud for you.
Sony says :
lowest common denominator wins.

M= Rear Admiral Sir Miles Messervy.( The "M" is hardly a random initial selected to hide identity. Since the masculine Dame Judy Dench is playing "M" I still feel "M's" real name could be Rear Admiral Sir Miles Messervy.
In his original Bond novel "The Facts Of Death" Raymond Benson names the Female M as Barbara Mawdsley. "M" is like calling Mrs. Cunningham "Mrs. "C")
Q= Quartermaster.
Remind Michael Wilson again if you see him anytime soon. He seems to have forgotten and allowed a whole new meaning for these initials.
Don't rely on "yes" men to "make" your movie for you.



So...
Yes. I liked the action. Yes the story is close to the book but that alone does not a Bond film make.
I am not happy that this film is considered part of the cannon of Bond.

Was it my imagination or did Bond drive a Ford Focus? Oh...
and does MI6 use google? This is product placement at its worst.

"Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power"

Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers
Incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. November 15th 2006 in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab.
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.
At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.

The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.

It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.


As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.

"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."


Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.

Perhaps these UCLA cops know the fine officer in Hollywood who Punched the crap outta this guy for no reason.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The career of William Bouguereau, unlike that of his contemporaries, the then avant-garde Impressionists, was one of ever-increasing success without significant setback. He was born on the west coast of France into a family of wine (later olive oil) merchants and was given a classical education by his uncle Eugène, a curate, who tutored him in bible study, Latin and Greek, with particular reference to Old and New Testament stories and classical mythology. He also arranged for him to take drawing lessons and such was his ability that after only 2 years of part-time study, he won first prize in the figure-painting class at the Bordeaux Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

With the help of money earned from painting portraits of his uncle's parishioners and financial assistance from an aunt, at the age of 21 William went to Paris to train in the studio of François-Edouard Picot and, after only two months of tutoring there, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Chosen as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in the years of 1848 and 1849 (10 contestants were admitted each year), he was finally awarded the prize in 1850. As was the tradition, the winner was sent to Rome for 4 years to study at the Villa Medici, the seat of the French Academy in Italy, where the techniques of the classical and Renaissance masters were tought. While there he also took the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the country locating and copying many Renaissance masterpieces and visiting towns and lakes which had inspired the landscape artists. The influences from this period are readily apparent in all his future work.

Returning to Paris in 1854, Bouguereau regularly exhibited at the Salon and was awarded many commissions for portraits and decorative series. His work was very popular with both public and the critics and he was soon able to sell through the dealers Durand-Ruel and Goupil, finding enthusiastic markets in England and America.

Throughout his later career he gained much official and public recognition and was awarded an imperial commission in 1856, resulting in the canvas Napoleon III Visiting the Floods of Tarascon. In 1857 he was awarded a first-class Salon medal and in 1859 was made a chevalier (a knight). Awarded the Legion of Honour in 1876, he was at the same time made one of only 40 life members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, the highest official honour awarded to French artists. In 1885 he was awarded the Grand Medal of Honour at the Salon and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in the same year (becoming a grand officer of the Legion in 1903).Official international recognition was also forthcoming: in 1862 he was named an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Artists and in 1866 became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine arts in Holland. He won a first-class medal at the international exhibition in Munich in 1879 and in 1881 became a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold in Belgium, being elevated to the rank of Commander in 1895. 1889 saw him become a member of the Honorary Order of Spain and a Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium.
Bouguereau was also a respected teacher and in 1881 was elected president of the painting section of the Paris Salon. In 1883 he became president of the benevolent Society of Painters, Architects, Sculptors, Engravers and Designers, which promoted and attended to the welfare of new and struggling artists. He also taught drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and also taught at the independent Académie Julian.

Although relatively little is known about it, Bouguereau's private life was less happy. In 1856 he married Marie-Nelly Monchablon (1836-1877) with whom he had five children, three sons and two daughters. They lived together with his domineering mother in a purposely-built large house and studio at 75, rue Notre-Dame des Champs in the Montparnasse, an area of Paris popular with artists to this day. But domestic happiness was short-lived and a daughter, Jeanne-Léontine, died in infancy in 1872; a son, Georges died in 1875 at the age of 16; In 1877 his wife Nelly died, closely followed by the infant William-Maurice. This persomal tragedy was memorialized in two paintings: Pietà in 1876, dedicated to Georges, and Vierge Consolatrice in 1877. His other son, Adolphe-Paul, was also to die of Tuberculosis in 1900, aged 30.

In 1879 Bouguereau became engaged to the young American artist Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922) who was his neighbour in Montparnasse, but their wedding was initially opposed by his daughter Henriette and also his mother, not until whose death at the age of 91 in 1896 were they able to marry, and they lived together happily for the few remaining years of his life.

Each summer Bouguereau would return to his birthplace of La Rochelle to paint in his studio he had built there and it was there that he died in 1905 after several years of heart disease. He is buried in the famous cemetary of Montparnasse, near where he had lived in Paris. He declared that he was only really happy when painting and indeed he completed almost 700 canvases during his long career. Despite being verbally attacked by Degas and the Impressionists who considered him to be too backward-looking and artificial and to be holding back the progression of French art, by the time of his death he was one of the most respected and loved of French artists. He was a favourite of collectors who found in his scenes of bathers, nymphs and other idylls, the perfect escapism from the pressures of every-day life.

Bouguereau's Pietà


Bouguereau's The broken pitcher

Call to arms (spirit of war)

In 1879 the Conseil Municipal of Paris wanted to commemorate the courage of the city's residents in the defense of Paris in 1870 (during the attack by the Prussian army). They interpreted the heroism of Parisians as laying the groundwork for the birth of the Third Republic. The monument would be erected at the rond-point de Courbevoie in the western suburbs, where the defense of Paris was mounted. The monument would also replace a statue of Napoléon taken down at Courbevoie and thrown into the Seine in 1870. Stipulated by the commission was that the monument should contain two figures. Seventy-eight artists including Rodin submitted maquettes. Although there were three finalists, the judging was thrown into question and the competition was opened a second time. Rodin's work was not selected. Like most of the other entries, Rodin's submission consisted a female allegory juxtaposed with a male combatant. He envisioned her as a fighting Genius of Liberty and the whole monument as a universal idea of death and the hero. But the work had none of the noble beauty of the successful entries -- it jarred with the contemporary sense of decorum.

...has returned

In 1880 Rodin was asked to design a bronze portal and doors for the new Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris. The project became known as The Gates of Hell and occupied Rodin for much of his life. Although the commission was never completed, many of its ideas were developed as separate sculptures.

The Prodigal Son, with its many versions, is an example of Rodin's reuse and adaptation of favourite themes and compositions. It is derived from a figure originally planned low down on the right-hand panel of the doors, where it was combined with a fleeing female figure for the group called Fugit Amor (Love Flees). Rodin explained that it expressed psychological tension and distress: 'I have accented the swelling of the muscles to express distress… I have exaggerated the straining of the tendons which indicates the outbreak of prayer.'

It was first exhibited in 1894 in the Salon de la Plume as a single free-standing figure, with the title The Child of the Age.

The Three Shades

This sculptual group was designed as the crowning element on THE GATES OF HELL Rodin's unrealized project for massive doors for the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The unifying themes for the doors was inspired by THE DIVINE COMEDY, one of the most influential writings of the early Italian Renaissance. The three figures are actual variations on a single pose.
Scholars claim that within the symbolic program for THE GATES OF HELL, The three shades were ment to represet shadow-like spirits of the dead.
In their undulating form and downcast gaze, they embody the pessimistic tensions and frustrattions of life at the end of the 19th century, the result of rapid industrialization and urbanization.
This trio is currently at The Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Reflected in a mirror is Rodin in front of THE GATES OF HELL.

Holocaust golfers

Golfers chat about golfing as they go to the next hole. While the holocaust memorial looms behind them.

The last real Tiki bar in California.

There are several Tiki bars in California but all pale in comparison to the Original King of Tiki, THE TONGA ROOM. San Francisco has a true Tiki bar. The Tonga room features real rude waitresses and yummy Tiki drinks with mummified fruit. Its the Mecca of Tiki. The band plays on a floating barge in the center of a pond that was once a swimming pool. The bar's well known feature is the rainstorm that happens every half an hour. (a loud thundering loop of storm sounds and lightning effects augmented by a shower of "rain" from the pipes overhead.)
Gerggory and I enjoyed the best and the worst of the Tonga room. The best being the Blue Hawaiian and the rainstorm. The worst was the prices and the Banana Daquri.

Green bananas don't make good tasting drinks.

If you want to be greeted by your server with the warm demand of:
"I WILL take your order NOW."
This is the place!


These pictures show Greggory is really good at looking like he is having a good time. It also shows I don't know how to force a convincing smile. I wanted to get drunk but I knew I had to drive in a city that is not known for its fantasic drivers. I had to stay sober. That saddened me so. You can see this was my moment when I realized I cant get sloppy drunk like I wanted.

Shadows of Vertigo

A few Vertigo locations as they were in 1958 and as they are as of 11/11/06.

The portrait of Carlotta.

The place where the portrait once hung for a few days back in 1958.

Scotty Fergusons view of gallery

The same gallery 2006

Scotty Ferguson tails his target into the Museum
The museum as it is 11/11/06

Madeline thanking Scotty Ferguson at the door of Scottie's apartment.


The same location 900 Lombard street where tourists misdirect their cameras to the crookedest street in the world just feet away from this most important location.




Madeline leaving her apartment building in her green Jaguar.


Like the other Scotty Ferguson I longed to see that same Jaguar in the drive and perhaps for Madeline to appear.


Fort point 1958
Fort point 2006. The area in which Kim Novak stood has been blocked off by construction.