as summers die is a 1986 american made-for-television drama film starring scott glenn , jamie lee curtis , bette davis and beah richards , directed by jean-claude tramont .

the film is loosely based on winston groom 's 1980 novel of the same name about greed , bigotry and justice in late 1950s segregationist southern louisiana .

it was filmed in valdosta , georgia and premiered on hbo on may 18 , 1986 .

it was later released on vhs .

as summers die

as summers die by winston groom - hardcover * * brand new * * .
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as summers die is a 1986 drama film directed by jean - claude tramont . it was filmed in georgia as a made for hbo original movie and later released on vhs .
buffy was born to hank and joyce summers on january 19 , 1981 , in los angeles , california .
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as summers die was produced as an
hbo premiere
attraction . set in the segregationist south of the 1950s , the film pits the wealthy but decadent members of a landed - gentry white family against a feisty old black woman , on whose property oil has been discovered . idealistic attorney scott glenn bucks the family - - and the inbred prejudices of the community - - to protect the woman ' s interests . he finds himself with two unsuspected allies in the forms of young jamie lee curtis and ancient bette davis , two
renegade
members of the very family that wants to grab the oil - rich land . as summers die had its cable - tv debut on may 17 , 1986 .
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recommended : definitely for an engrossing , addictive , original read , this is not a test is the book you’re looking for . also , if you’re already a summers’ fan , you’ll like the narration and barren / harsh / hurting summers - style protag .
what i loved about this book was how sucked in i got . made an awesome reading experience . i truly love courtney summers for that .
in the film , buffy says she plans to “graduate from school , go to europe , marry christian slater , and die . ” her television counterpart achieves three out of four .
this was my first book by courtney summers , but i will definitely be checking out more of her books . i was really impressed with this one .
. nihlistic and dream - like - - summers has challenged us with a narrator clearly suffering from post - traumatic stress disorder , depression and suicidal tendencies .
“i wouldn ' t have left you like that . not like she did to me .
i swallow hard .
she always said i ' d die without her and she left anyway .
but you didn ' t die ,
he says .
i did ,
i say .
i ' m just waiting for the rest of me to catch up . ”
overall , this was a really great read and this is the first book i ' ve read by courtney summers but it certainly won ' t be the last .
movie . stated by joss to be
pretty much accepted as canonical
.
the courage and die - hard work ethos of bette davis shows the whole while shes ' s in many scenes of this , her last tv movie . she ' s the great aunt , . . .
it only took me a few pages to remember how much i love summers ' unique style of writing : punchy , direct , achey , intense . minimal words conveying maximum impact .
despite failing and quitting with cheerleading in the tv series , buffy is sometimes still mentioned as so . darla references her as “that cheerleader” in
dear boy
, and twilight calls her “that goofy little cheerleader” in
last gleaming
. although , this may be a reference to her past as a cheerleader in hemery high school , as explored in
the origin
.
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buffy is referred only two times over the course of the series as
buffy the vampire slayer
. the first time is in
anne
, and the last one in
help
. she’s usually referred only as
the slayer
. glory identifies her as
a vampire slayer
.
packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store , unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non - retail packaging , such as an unprinted box or plastic bag .
when dawn enrolled in the recently rebuilt sunnydale high as a freshman , buffy was offered a job as guidance counselor by principal robin wood , which she gratefully accepted . [ 83 ] initially , she found it to be an unfulfilling experience , as she was unable to connect with any of the students that came to her for advice , while others had trivial reasons . she soon became concerned when a girl with psychic powers , cassie newton , came to her claiming she would soon die . buffy at first thought she was suicidal , but after learning it was an upcoming event , she saved her from being sacrificed by a group of demon - worshiping students . afterwards , buffy discovered it was actually because of a congenital heart condition that cassie would die from . cassie would be the first of numerous young women buffy wouldn’t be able to save in the following months . [ 84 ]
as the main character in the franchise , buffy has also appeared in the majority of buffy expanded universe material .
scooby gang summers family hemery high school sunnydale high school watchers council class of ' 99 uc sunnydale angel investigations ( ally ) the initiative doublemeat palace slayer organization pick me up deepscan s . f . p . d . magic council safe zone
“she always said i ' d die without her and she left anyway . ” “but you didn ' t die . ” “i did , ” i say . “i ' m just waiting for the rest of me to catch up . ” this isn ' t a typical zombie book . let me say that first . don ' t write this off because of the zombie - book think , or the dystopia thing . and don ' t add it because you like zombie books , either . i don ' t think i ' d class this as a dystopia . so why should you read this ? this is going to sound weird , but i think you should read this if you like and then there
courtney summers was born in belleville , ontario , 1986 . at age 14 , she dropped out of high school . at age 18 , she wrote her first novel . cracked up to be was published in 2008 , when she was 22 and went on to win the 2009 cybil award in ya fiction . since then , she’s published four more critically acclaimed books : some girls are , fall for anything , this is not a test and all the rage , as well as an
after i read the review written by
moviola - 8 ,
i was immediately inspired to buy
as summers die
on ebay . i was hoping that this movie would show the brilliance that writer , winston groom , showed in
forrest gump ,
but i ' m just not feeling it . . . not even close . this movie didn ' t make the same impression on me that it did on the other reviewers , and i was disappointed . the story meandered along and did not bring up any feelings in me . i didn ' t feel indignant , outraged or anything else . nothing . maybe something was lost in translation between the book and the screenplay ( by a different writer ) . as long as we ' re talking about old movies that are hard to find , but worth the viewing , i ' d like to find
the traveling executioner
starring stacy keach , but i don ' t think it exists on dvd or vhs . now that is an original and very different story - as is
forrest gump .
the gnashing of teeth . the desperate creation of mcgyver implements and traps . the fighting to survive . it ' s been too long since i read a zombie novel and i ' ve been missing the sense of butt - kicking hopefulness they can bring . unfortunately , while summers is stellar at character development , this isn ' t the book to assuage the craving for fighting the undead and affirming life . this is holden caufield meets lord of the flies . nihlistic and dream - like - - summers has challenged us with a narrator cle
as for me : i really enjoyed the reading experience , but didn’t end up loving the book . does this make sense ?
urltoken forbidden passion and burning prejudice ignite in the heat of the deep south . emotions are riding high in a small southern town . a lawyer , willie croft ( scott glenn ) , is trying to defend an ageing black woman against the holts clan , a powerful and greedy family . a family with a dark and sinister past , whose evil schemes and plots are safe in their incestuous past . that is until lawyer willie croft finds an unlikely ally in whitsey ( jamie lee curtis ) , a wayward cousin of the holts . the pressure ' s on and nothing ' s going to stop the holts from winning , especially their own kin . as summers die is the sensational story of love and hate , power and passion .
i honestly don ' t know what to review . thank to may , i ' m officially courtney summers trash . this book is not about zombies , why they mutated , finding a cure , or having some badass fighting scenes with them . it just has zombies in them . this book is about survival , difficult decisions , loss and heartbreak . this is the second book i ' ve read by courtney summers and i wasn ' t dissapointed . her first book i read was a realisitic contemporary about rape and bullying and this book is totally different from
find all of my reviews at : urltoken 3 . 5 stars
this must be what dorothy felt like , i think . maybe . if dorothy was six scared teenagers and oz was hell .
when i saw alllllll of my friends reading all the rage recently i figured i would end up reading it wrong ( see exhibit a ) and opted for summers’ version of zombies instead . . . what can i say ? i’m not interested in being the oddball again this week but i enjoy brain - nomming stories . * shrug * however , being that summers
however , i was ultimately unsatisfied . i didn’t really connect to the characters . i was curious about what would go down , but not affected by any of it . i felt very disconnected to sloane , who is disconnected to herself in many ways . sloane is just as messed up ( if not more ) than any other of summers protagonists : abused , broken , closed - up , suicidal , distanced from other characters .
the last chapter was just as intense as the first . i was feverishly turning the pages wanting to know what was going to happen next . this chapter was action packed and seemed to fly by so quickly my head was spinning at the end . i am so happy about sloane ' s personal ending
throughout most of her career as the slayer , buffy functioned as a reluctant hero . she constantly wished for nothing more than a normal life , an attitude that was particularly prevalent during her high school years . however , as time moved on , buffy slowly became more accepting of her slayer duties , particularly after kendra helped her to understand that being the slayer was part of who she was and not simply a burden forced upon her shoulders against her will . after her meeting with the first slayer and battle with dracula , buffy finally came to terms with her role as the slayer . despite her ever - present reluctance to be the slayer even in her later years , buffy has been depicted as having an incredibly strong sense of responsibility with the people she saved and the world as well . this was shown in her disagreements over faith’s impulsive and careless attitude and her self - righteous stance on many other things .
other important relationships of buffy’s have included pike , parker , riley finn , and satsu . pike was her friend and love interest when she first began her journey as the slayer , but the pair broke up before she moved to sunnydale . in college , she dated riley in the hopes of having a “normal” relationship , only to discover he was an initiative soldier . satsu was buffy’s fellow slayer , as well as her first and only same - sex liaison
he’s constantly hot headed , but the only reason he’s not lashing out as much is because he still has his twin sister grace . grace , despite just
buffy then led her classmates in a climactic battle against the ascended mayor and his minions , which culminated in an explosion that destroyed the mayor as well as sunnydale high school . after the smoke cleared , angel left for los angeles so that buffy could try to have a more normal life without him . [ 45 ]
buffy became a supernatural consultant to sfpd , working alongside spike and dowling . she assisted in jean anthony ’ case , who was attacked by an incubus . this made buffy revisit spike’ attempt rape , as well as many difficulties through her life , and the couple finally talked and came to terms about their turbulent past . [ 139 ]
buffy anne summers was a slayer that was activated in the late 20th century . born on january 19 1981 , she was called to be the slayer in 1996 at the age of fifteen . buffy was originally living in los angeles ; but , due to an incident involving a gang of vampires at hemery high school , she moved to sunnydale with her mother . there , she acted as guardian of the hellmouth for seven years before the town’s destruction in mid - 2003 . initially a reluctant hero who constantly wished for nothing more than a normal life , buffy eventually grew to embrace her destiny . buffy is unique as a slayer in many ways ; she refuses to sacrifice her ordinary life for her supernatural destiny , often operates as part of a team with her friends the scooby gang , and has maintained several romantic relationships , two of which were with notorious vampires angel and spike .
as the mayor relied on faith to help him prepare for his ascension , buffy worked first to thwart his plans , then to organize a resistance . faith impeded these efforts by
buffy’s relationship with riley slowly began deteriorate as she repeatedly failed to give him the emotional intimacy he craved . riley began visiting a vampire brothel where he would allow vampires to bite him ; when buffy discovered this as a result of spike’s interference , she destroyed the brothel and confronted riley , after which he left her and returned to the military . [ 64 ] buffy dealt with riley’s departure as best as she could , but remained emotionally sensitive . buffy’s pain over having had two failed relationships caused her to take an interest in ben wilkinson , a handsome medic . however , an encounter with the love - struck robot girlfriend of one of her former sunnydale high classmate warren mears made hers realize that she was overly dependent on men and decided she needed to be by herself for a while . this proved to be greatly fortunate as ben was secretly glory’s human vessel . [ 65 ]
i don ' t know how i ' m going to do this , move through the hours like someone who wants to still be breathing when i had so firmly made up my mind to stop . wow . this little book has completely floored me . i was not expecting something so deep , so very melancholic yet shot through with the irrepressible human need to hope . not just irrepressible , summers shows us that hope is irreducible . stripped to its basest core , hope just might be the evolutionary urge that has kept us going as a species for
if counting archive footage as an appearance , buffy , cordelia and angel are the only characters that appear in both the first and final seasons of buffy the vampire slayer and angel .
i feel as happy reading a book all day as i am happy staying all afternoon with a dear friend . i could tell you 11 / 02 was a normal day , that i went to college , talked to friends , drank coffee , studied a little , played just dance and slept . but what i will remember of today is this wonderful book .
3 - 1 / 2 stars , rounded up . but i ' m really not sure how to rate this book . as everyone probably already knows , this is courtney summers ' zombie book , and on the surface it ' s got the familiar elements : zombie apocalypse occurs , nearly everyone is infected almost immediately , small bands of survivors hole up and hope for the best while knowing they ' re probably going to meet their doom . sloane price is one of those survivors . by sheer accident , she ' s fallen in with a group of five students who make it
she and her friends were able to move to a haunted building in tenderloin , with discount on their rent after exorcising the place . [ 136 ] buffy shared the apartment with willow and dawn , while neighbors to xander and spike’s , as well as giles’ apartment . both in a better place than their previous encounters , buffy and spike began a relationship . [ 137 ]
meanwhile , a younger sister , dawn , had mysteriously appeared in the summers’ household ; her existence had been seamlessly integrated into the memories of all those she had ever known . [ 61 ] after casting a spell on herself in the hopes of discovering the mystical source of an illness she believed her mother was blighted by , buffy discovered that dawn was not her sister at all , but rather a ball of magical energy known as the key capable of opening interdimensional portals . a group of monks had influenced the key to take human shape in order to protect it from a mentally unstable higher power known as glorificus ; they had chosen to put the key in the slayer’s care , as a sister , in the hopes that she would protect it with her life . though buffy was understandably skeptical of dawn when she learned that she had been fabricated and integrated into her life without her prior knowledge , she quickly came to accept her responsibility as dawn’s protector , not because she felt obliged to carry out the monks’ wishes , but because she slowly realized that she truly did love her sister , regardless of the circumstances of her existence . [ 62 ]
harrowing . i sincerely never thought that i could ever be so fascinated by a zombie post - apocalyptic story before , but there’s a first to everything , isn’t there ? however , it’s definitely more focused on the psychological elements than the world - building , since it underlines the theme of survival and how precious and fragile life is . courtney summers , you’re writing terribly tearful stories . please don’t stop .
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having moved back in with dawn and xander , she realized that she had recognized this strong vampire that had bested her but could not remember where she had seen her before . buffy hangs out with dowling and billy as well as xander and dawn , seeming to be somewhat happy that she had finally managed some semblance of an average night . however , she was ripped away from it just as quickly and teleported to the magic council , courtesy of none other than the old one , illyria . she abruptly forced her to join this council , much to buffy’s great confusion and indignation . [ 125 ]
find all of my reviews at : urltoken 3 . 5 stars
this must be what dorothy felt like , i think . maybe . if dorothy was six scared teenagers and oz was hell .
when i saw alllllll of my friends reading all the rage recently i figured i would end up reading it wrong ( see exhibit a ) and opted for summers’ version of zombies instead . . . what can i say ? i’m not interested in being the oddball again this week but i enjoy brain - nomming stories . * shrug * however , being that summers is summers , this book had a lot less of this . . . with a lot more of this . . . the premise seemed familiar – the zombie apocalypse began a week ago , leaving a brain , an athlete , a basket case , a princess , and a criminal six students no choice but to work together in hopes of surviving the danger that potentially lurks around every corner of their former high school where they are holed up . . . the only thing that separates them from the undead is a chain link fence . . . * dun dun dunnnnnnnnn * okay , so while the basic concept has been done a time or twelve before the delivery was 100 % unique . if lord of the flies and the walking dead had a baby you might end up with something along the lines of this is not a test . if you like your zombies with a lot of gore and a high body count you should probably look elsewhere . on the other hand , if you’re looking for a “zombie” book that deals more with questions of mortality and morality , this is the book for you . summers is quickly becoming a ya fave .
the gnashing of teeth . the desperate creation of mcgyver implements and traps . the fighting to survive . it ' s been too long since i read a zombie novel and i ' ve been missing the sense of butt - kicking hopefulness they can bring . unfortunately , while summers is stellar at character development , this isn ' t the book to assuage the craving for fighting the undead and affirming life . this is holden caufield meets
buffy has been accused of being violent following her calling as a slayer . buffy denied that she was but when questioning xander of this , he said
the important thing is , you believe that .
[ 154 ] faith had also once harshly mentioned to her that buffy was
all about control .
[ 55 ] she was also somewhat short - tempered in nature , as it never took very much to irritate her . buffy once described herself as
i am capable of awesome . i’m usually super reliable and conscientious and according to popular report , a little tightly wound .
[ 112 ]
buffy and dawn were then devastated by the death of their mother shortly after . joyce had been experiencing health problems for months , and only recently received surgery for a brain tumor when she died unexpectedly from an aneurysm . [ 67 ] in order to fully take up her role as dawn’s legal guardian , buffy was forced to drop out of college , though she faced difficulties as a result of dawn’s increasingly rebellious behavior . [ 68 ]
as she grew up , she came to idolize olympic ice skater dorothy hamill , and practiced the sport herself . [ 14 ] her father took her for trick - or - treating until she was twelve . [ 15 ]
currently there is also ' ' please remain calm ' ' which is marked as ' ' this is not a test 1 . 5 ' ' and only has 96 pages . it is the continuity of book one , …more
i think it was interesting to read about a zombie apocalypse through the eyes of someone who wants to die . this book is written so beautifully and at times it made me want to cry . i love how each of the five teenagers all had their own stories and their own things to contribute to the story . i liked the brother and sister relationship between grace and trace , and seeing how that affected their decisions . i also absolutely adore rhys , and i totally ship him and sloane so hard . they had some really cute scenes in this book that made me smile .
buffy was aided in the battle against hus by angel , who had returned to sunnydale without her knowledge . when xander accidentally revealed that angel had reappeared , buffy immediately traveled to los angeles to confront him as she was hurt that he had spoken to everyone but her . buffy and angel agreed to remain apart ; just as she was about to leave , they were attacked by a mohra demon . they tracked the demon down into the sewers and succeeded in wounding it before it escaped . the demon’s blood had mixed with angel’s during the confrontation , causing him to become human again . buffy and angel reveled in finally being able to be together , but angel soon discovered that the powers that be had not yet offered him redemption . when angel was almost killed by the regenerated mohra demon , buffy managed to slay it . after angel discovered that buffy would die much sooner if he remained human , angel had the the oracles rewind time to reverse his transformation into a human . buffy was left with no memory of the incident . [ 50 ]
buffy briefly joined forces with the initiative , but her relentless questioning of the organization’s motives , as well as her relationship with riley , began to unsettle professor maggie walsh , who tried to have her killed in action . [ 52 ] walsh was subsequently murdered by a creature of her own creation , the monstrous half - human / half - demon cyborg , adam , who then escaped and began his plan to create an army of super soldiers like him . [ 53 ]
this story has a lot going on for how short it is , but it never feels cluttered . we know that sloane was abandoned by her sister , lily , but the details of what was supposed to happen and how that has affected her come out slowly throughout the book . the main focus of this book is each person ' s will to live . lily was all sloane had left so once she left her she has none . sloane wants desperately to just die . i thought the author wrote this very well . we can feel sloane ' s desperation and hopelessness , but she never seems emo .
set in a sleepy southern louisiana town in 1959 , a lawyer , searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the holts , the first family of the town , after she refuses to sell her valuable land . nobody thinks willie can win the case , but behind its polite facade , the town is waiting to explode , as willie enlists the aid of eccentric hannah loftin and her niece , whitsey , relatives of the holts .
buffy and the others went to santa rosita to deal with the last zompires , and was assisted by vicki and a group of a new breed of vampires , discovering the consequence from the return of magic . as soon as the zompires were extinguished , the vampires turned against the slayer . the scooby gang then counted on the sudden assistance of deepscan , with kennedy , faith , leah , holly , and giles , who revealed himself resurrected in an emotional reunion . [ 134 ]
there comes a time in everyone ' s life when we finally
wake up
and figure out that we don ' t need to be a product of our screwed up past . for some , it takes months , for other ' s it takes years ( i should know ) . if you don ' t come to this realization , there are consequences . . . for some drugs , for others . . suicide , or other forms of escape . sloane wants to die . not because of the zombies . before there were zombies , there was a scarier monster in sloane ' s life . she was being abused by her dad , and was abandoned by her sister . sloane lives through the initial zombie attack but still wants to die . this story is about sloane , and the journey she takes , and the decisions she makes . she has the perfect weapon to kill herself , just walk outside and she ' ll be bitten . so why doesn ' t she do it ? or does she ? some people don ' t ever wake up , maybe this is sloane and maybe not . very emotional read for me , maybe because i can relate but i think even without it being personal to me , it was a great story .
to give summers credit , this is one of the more remarkable first - person stories i ' ve read in awhile . traumatized for years , forced into a controlled shell of a person by her survival strategies , sloan is conflicted between acknowledging her emotions and staying safe in her fatalistic landscape . and what an idea - - take a zombie / apocalypse story with a narrator who doesn ' t want to survive , but has just enough conscientiousness that she doesn ' t want to pull anyone into her death with her .
buffy’s individualistic and rebellious tendencies culminated into developing an extreme distaste of being manipulated and
losing control
, [ 148 ] particularly when it revolved around her life . this was made most apparent in her initial request to have the monks erase her false memories of dawn , [ 62 ] her forced destiny as the slayer , her brief loss of her abilities through giles’ betrayal , [ 40 ] her rejection of twilight , [ 149 ] anger over angel ’s decision to keep his presence hidden while in sunnydale , [ 49 ] as well as deciding to turn himself into a vampire again without her knowledge . [ 50 ] kendra , who had been trained as a slayer from early childhood , told buffy that a slayer did not have the luxury of emotions . buffy responded that her emotions gave her power and she considered them
total assets
. [ 30 ] spike once stated that buffy’s improvisational fighting style was much like that of nikki wood , the second slayer he killed . [ 150 ]
were originally in the running for the role of buffy in 1996 . holmes was joss’s first choice for buffy but she was turned down as she was deemed too young for the role . many others who auditioned for buffy instead got other roles , including
as the senior prom was closing in , buffy expressed excitement in having her prefect high school experience with angel as her date . however , realizing he could never give her a normal life , angel broke up with buffy the day before . despite being extremely saddened , buffy still made it her duty that she and her friends enjoy themselves at the event . she went forth and killed a group of mind - controlled hellhounds released by a dateless nerd before attending prom dressed in formal wear . to her surprise , she was presented with an award , acknowledging the countless times she saved the student body . just as it couldn’t get better , angel arrived in a tuxedo , not wanting to take her back but give her the slow dance she desired . [ 43 ]
after the explosive events of her high school graduation , buffy experienced difficulties adjusting to life as a college freshman at u . c . sunnydale . she was injured during an encounter with a group of on - campus vampires , [ 46 ] and came off as unstable to her friends when she suspected her overly compulsive roommate to be demon ( which she was eventually proven correct in her assumption ) and she began rooming with willow after kathy’s departure . [ 47 ] her troubles were only worsened by angel ’s recent departure . she sought comfort with fellow student parker abrams , and slept with him only a few weeks after meeting him . he then brushed her off as a one - night stand despite making her believe that this was the start of a new relationship .
) because that ' s the reason i have read this one . i loved it with all my heart and i never read a book like this one . it is sad and heartbreaking but mesmerizing and captivating as well . i recommend this a lot !
there comes a time in everyone ' s life when we finally
wake up
and figure out that we don ' t need to be a product of our screwed up past . for some , it takes months , for other ' s it takes years ( i should know ) . if you don ' t come to this realization , there are consequences . . . for some drugs , for others . . suicide , or other forms of escape . sloane wants to die . not because of the zombies . before there were zombies , there was a scarier monster in sloane ' s life . she was being abused by her dad , and was
now is not about gathering courage , it ' s about staying one step ahead of my fear .
oh my goodness gracious ! what did i just read ? ? ? i have this basic concept about how any story that has to do with zombies is old and funny . sorry i don’t watch walking dead . but i am now completely eradicating that concept from my mind because of this dark but masterfully written prose . this is my first courtney summers read and i am instantly and immediately captivated by the unique writing style via her use of
i get the hype . this is not a test reminded me of lord of the flies meets the walking dead - - the first season when you ' re actually cheering for the humans and not the zombies - - with a dash of the breakfast club . not only was this my first courtney summers book , this was also my first zombie book . verdict ? i ' d like more of both please . sloane , a physically and emotionally abused girl , finds herself barricaded inside her high school along with five other students . while they know each other , they
“you should use it , ” my roommate tells me . she’s an astute , outspoken woman in her early 30s who works as a journalist for one of mexico’s most well - known liberal magazines . “it’s meant to get rid of or prevent infections , ” she said .
currently there is also ' ' please remain calm ' ' which is marked as ' ' this is not a test 1 . 5 ' ' and only has 96 pages . it is the continuity of book one , but from rhys ' perspective this time . ( less )
upon learning that if she were to continue being invisible her molecule structure would break down , buffy sought to stop the trio and made herself visible , not wanting to die despite her current grime state of life . the trio’s scheme’s finally reached breaking point when their leader , warren mears , accidentally killed his ex - girlfriend katrina after a mystical date - rape attempt . with the use of jonathan levinson ’s magicks and andrew wells ’s demon summoning , he manipulated events to make buffy think she killed katrina . convinced , buffy was ready to confess to the police , although this was thwarted when spike dumped the body to save her . in an encounter of grief and denial in her relationship with spike , buffy beat him severely . luckily for her , buffy discovered that she wasn’t actually the perpetrator of the crime and the death was ruled as a suicide ; nonetheless , buffy realized that the trio were becoming too dangerous for her to ignore and resolved to bring them to justice . [ 75 ]
in the ensuing fight , severin told buffy that he had to kill all those vampires because buffy destroyed the seed and that she didn’t deserve her power . eventually , severin overpowered buffy and began to drain her powers , as well as spike’s when he arrived to help her , but just before he could drain the two completely , detective dowling , having been anonymously tipped off , arrived and made the save by shooting severin four times in the chest . having discovered that severin was the real culprit , buffy was subsequently cleared of all charges . [ 115 ]
it only took me a few pages to remember how much i love summers ' unique style of writing : punchy , direct , achey , intense . minimal words conveying maximum impact . it took me only one chapter to be hooked . by the end of chapter one , i needed to read chapter two . by the end of chapter two , i needed to read chapter three . by the end of … and so on . this is not a test is compulsively readable . tightly plotted . intense . addictive . the drama in the pages never seems melodramatic , in spite of the premise .
mystical protection — after becoming leader to the activated slayers , xander commented that buffy had some degree of mystical protection over her now , at least while she slept . to that end , her protection meant even daggers split apart so as not to pierce her skin . [ 191 ]
though she was normally quite aware socially , buffy had proven to have a few lapses in judgment that cost her and others as well . her destructive relationship with spike , for example , was attributed to her own feelings of vulnerability , self - loathing , and unworthiness after the death of her mother as well as her abrupt descent from heaven . despite her powerful sense of responsibility , when in a state of depression or ill humor , she had been shown to procrastinate and put off or otherwise ignore things she should be dealing with . this was most prominently seen in her exile out of heaven , ignoring her role as guardian of dawn and forcing giles to both take care of her [ 158 ] and pay the bills she couldn’t afford . [ 159 ] another example was when she had smashed the seed of wonder and remained indifferent over willow’s pleas of returning magic , hardly thinking of the consequences of the action because she did what she had to do ; in this case , she was finally forced to face the negative consequences of the seed’s destruction when she discovered that without magic , dawn was fading away . [ 160 ]
there are ' breakfast club ' moments where the teens bond as they linger in the school , hoping for rescue , but the infighting is wearing them down . one of the underlying themes is the loss of family , their coping , and whether or not the survivors create their own .
i honestly don ' t know what to review . thank to may , i ' m officially courtney summers trash . this book is not about zombies , why they mutated , finding a cure , or having some badass fighting scenes with them . it just has zombies in them . this book is about survival , difficult decisions , loss and heartbreak . this is the second book i ' ve read by courtney summers and i wasn ' t dissapointed . her first book i read was a realisitic contemporary about rape and bullying and this book is totally different from that . whenever i think of reading some zombie novel , i ' m always like
oh there ' s going to be some fucking zombies , people are going to fight them and they will survive ! yay ,
but this book was nothing like that . i was able to feel emotion while reading this . i was able to feel the panic . i was able to feel their loss . i was able to feel their fear . i was able to feel their need to make it out alive . i was able to feel what they felt . and that says a lot because i ' m a heartless bitch . take all the goddamn stars .
4 1 / 2 stars because i’m a fancy creative post writer , i thought i’d start this off with a quote from someone whose opinion i really trust : “ can you imagine what she ' s going to do with zombie survival ? ! ! i bet it ' s going to be gruesome . : d ” you know what ? i really do love the sound of my own voice . you are so , so right , me of approximately five months ago . of course , this is courtney summers so the “gruesome” part of this book doesn’t arrive with the zombie apocalypse ; it takes place within the grasp
4 . 5 i owe a huge thanks to courtney summers for giving me a second chance to read and review this after my netgalley rejection . it made my day and i ' m so glad this is not a test was all that i ' d hoped it would be . i ' m going to say what i said at the start of my reviews or before i started reading : feed , the forest of hands and teeth , the other life and even the one i was sure would be the exception to the rule - the reapers are the angels , and that is that zombie novels have never been my thing .
that ' s the best description of sloane . but while grace admires her ( as noted in the quote above ) , sloane admires grace , harrison admires trace and it goes on and on . they are just trying to survive the best way they can . they are in a supposedly safe place
buffy’s parents , who had been experiencing marital troubles for years , finally divorced , and buffy moved with her mother to 1630 revello drive in sunnydale , a small town in california . little did they know that the town was located on a hellmouth , and that buffy’s presence there was predestined . buffy enrolled at sunnydale high where she became friends with xander harris and willow rosenberg as well as meeting her new watcher , rupert giles . she also met cordelia chase , a superficial cheerleader reminiscent of buffy before she became the slayer , and angel , a mysterious and handsome stranger who aided buffy with cryptic advice . [ 22 ] buffy at first rejected her slayer duties in favor of a normal life , but was forced into action to stop the vampire ritual known as the harvest by the order of aurelius , a vampire cult under the rule of ancient and power vampire the master , who was trapped underground in sunnydale .
buffy gradually developed an attraction to angel , and was horrified when she came to realize that he was a vampire . though initially reluctant to slay him , she ultimately decided to do so when it appeared that angel had attacked her mother . she relented upon discovering that he had a human soul as a result of being cursed by a gypsy clan as punishment for his vicious crimes . additionally , she found out that angel had in fact been set up by the vampire darla of the order of aurelius , angel’s sire and joyce’s true attacker , who was staked by angel in the ensuing confrontation . [ 25 ]
what an outstanding . . . . odd book . to be honest , i ' m not even sure how to rate it . on the one hand , i just want to praise it , recommend it , tell you it ' s amazing and give it 5 stars . on the other hand , the aspect i didn ' t like is so macroscopic that i can ' t give it what it theoretically deserves . this is the first book by courtney summers that i have read but rest assured i will soon get my hands on her other ones - one i actually already own , cracked up to be . there ' s something really powerful in
if i could give this book more than 5 stars , i would . when my brother asked me what i did today , i told him i started this amazing book at 4 p . m and finished it 10 minutes ago and that today was a perfect day . i feel as happy reading a book all day as i am happy staying all afternoon with a dear friend . i could tell you 11 / 02 was a normal day , that i went to college , talked to friends , drank coffee , studied a little , played just dance and slept . but what i will remember of today is this wonderfu
returning to san francisco , the scoobies discovered the new magic of this world was still undefined , with buffy’s allies learning that they could write new rules for magic in the vampyr book , such as preventing the vampires from using their new powers in daylight , or clem making unicorns real for harmony . [ 135 ]
buffy returned home , only to discover that xander and dawn were at the hospital . arriving there , illyria noted that mystical energy was leaving dawn’s body , continuing on to explain that mystical energy was used to hold the body together and without it , she would die . later at andrew’s , xander admitted he blamed buffy for this . she explained that she had to destroy the seed , but then he blamed her for sleeping with angel and creating all of this . despite her attempts to explain , xander didn’t listen . guilty and miserable , buffy insisted that dawn was still her sister and she would do anything she could to help her . [ 128 ] willow then reappeared in san francisco , and , for much of her relief , buffy realized that the witch had managed to regain her magic . [ 110 ]
“i use it because i’m afraid of getting an infection or some kind of disease , because i’m dating a few different people right now , ” says daniela . two friends told me they use it just because they like the “clean feeling . ” which made me curious as to what , exactly , that feeling was .
set in a sleepy southern louisiana town in 1959 , a lawyer , searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the holts , the first family of the town , after she refuses to sell her valuable land . nobody thinks willie can win the case , but behind its po
when someone sees a zombie book there are two reactions : 1 ) oh zombies , scary and gory ! awesomesauce ! or 2 ) ewww zombies ! icky ! - pass . so this is a warning : as far as zombie books go , this is not a test has to be one of the tamest . it ' s not gory , nor is it an adrenaline filled story . yes there are zombies and it can get intense at times , but funnily enough , it is not about the zombies . it ' s about a girl who doesn ' t want to live in this world anymore . she can ' t keep going with a dad that beats h


buffalo girls is a 1995 miniseries adapted from the 1990 novel of the same name by larry mcmurtry .

directed by rod hardy , the miniseries starred anjelica huston and melanie griffith , with gabriel byrne and peter coyote .

it was nominated for two golden globe and several emmy awards , and won one for sound mixing .

this miniseries was first aired on the cbs network over two consecutive nights during the spring of 1995 .

buffalo girls ( 1995 film )

character portrayed in tombstone : virgil earp born : august 9 , 1944 ; sacramento , california notable awards and nominations : emmy awards : - 1995 best supp . actor in a miniseries nomination for buffalo girls golden globes : - 1991 best supp . actor in a telefilm nomination for conagher - 1995 best supp . actor in a miniseries nomination for buffalo girls
featured in the 47th annual primetime emmy awards ( 1995 ) . see more »
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i first saw buffalo girls when it was on tv back in 1995 , and i enjoyed it then . the story line is good . there is some good acting , especially from sam elliot , jack palance , and anjelica houston . i can therefore recommend the dvd for all western fans .
i ' m a big fan of larry mcmurtry ' s lonesome dove and had high hopes that buffalo girls would be equally good , though i have to say i was really disappointed .
medium : television program : the national magazine broadcast date : sept . 11 , 1995 guest : ovide mercredi host : hana gartner duration : 6 : 46
* miniseries :
buffalo girls ,
cbs ;
children of the dust ,
cbs ;
joseph ,
tnt ;
martin chuzzlewit ,
pbs ;
a woman of independent means ,
nbc .
wild . untamed . legendary . buffalo girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough - talking calamity jane canary and her illustrious cohorts . it ' s the waning days of the wild west and jane , the . . . see more »
wild . untamed . legendary . buffalo girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough - talking calamity jane canary and her illustrious cohorts . it ' s the waning days of the wild west and jane , the . . . see full summary »
anjelica huston ' s connection to the cbs mini - series
buffalo girls
started long before the producers bought the rights to larry mcmurtry ' s 1990 best - selling novel . in fact , it started even before the book was published .
future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film .
i saw this film years ago and thought what a good film it was now i have a great dvd and can watch it any time i please and at a great price too .
newson , janice a .
outstanding contribution award 1994 : alanis obomsawin .
society : société . vol . 19 , no . 2 ( may 1995 ) , p . 37 - 39 .
* supporting actor , miniseries or special : jeffery de munn ,
citizen x ,
hbo ; sam elliott ,
buffalo girls ,
cbs ; ben kingsley ,
joseph ,
tnt ; edward james olmos ,
the burning season ,
hbo ; donald sutherland ,
citizen x ,
hbo .
in 1971 , alanis completed her first film , christmas at moose factory , a film that reflects her attachment to the children of this remote cree village on james bay . she did this by presenting the drawings and paintings of the children and by giving them the opportunity to talk about these images and daily events in their community . her second film , mother of many children ( 1977 ) was a project alanis felt very strongly about from the beginning . in this film ,
* actress , miniseries or special : glenn close ,
serving in silence : the margarethe cammermeyer story ,
nbc ; sally field ,
a woman of independent means ,
nbc ; anjelica huston ,
buffalo girls ,
cbs ; diane keaton ,
amelia earhart : the final flight ,
tnt ; alfre woodward ,
the piano lesson ,
cbs .
it ' s not a sure thing that she knew buffalo bill ,
ms . huston said .
she definitely knew hickok and asked to be buried next to him .
because she is identified with what she called
sophisticated parts ,
the physical challenge of
buffalo girls
was additionally appealing .
i ' ve heard people say that this was an unusual role for me , that it must be a very big jump ,
ms . huston said .
but in a way it was more natural for me than a lot of other roles i ' ve played .
when she finally returned to acting , she did only one small film before she was once again paired with john huston on
prizzi ' s honor .
having watched part of this film on tv and missed the last part i decided to buy the dvd and watch it complete . so glad i did . really enjoyed the film and it came only after a few days of ordering . it does make a change to see how the women lived and worked in the old west .
she also made the film for other children :
i want people who look at the film to have a different attitude next time they meet what is called a ' problem child ' , and develop some love and some relationship to the child — instead of alienating him .
( alioff and schouten levine , p . 12 )
for the record los angeles times saturday july 22 , 1995 home edition calendar part f page 2 entertainment desk 1 inches ; 32 words type of material : correction another nominee - - the listing of emmy award nominations on friday omitted a sixth nominee for best informational special . also nominated was
the united states holocaust memorial museum presents : one survivor remembers ,
hbo .
the cast includes melanie griffith as jane ' s best friend , dora dufran , a madam with a strong romantic bent ; jack palance as calamity ' s seedy trail partner , bartle bone ; sam elliott as hickok , and peter coyote as buffalo bill .
wild . untamed . legendary . buffalo girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough - talking calamity jane canary and her illustrious cohorts . it ' s the waning days of the wild west and jane , the rough ' n ' rugged cowgirl , is searching not only for her long - lost daughter , but the wild west she once knew . jane traverses plains , mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems : dora , the vivacious , gold - hearted madam who ' s been her one true friend all along .
steven , peter .
interviews : alanis obomsawin .
in brink of reality : new canadian documentary film and video . toronto : between the lines , 1993 , p . 176 - 186 .
i was very pleased when the alberta government bought the rights to the film . many social workers in different departments see it now . one time i was in edmonton . . . and a man who had been the provincial ombudsman presented me with two new reports , saying that the richard cardinal film had helped force new policies and laws in alberta . young people in the audience said to him , ' why do you need a film to be made before you change the law ? ' he quickly replied , ' well , sometimes the government waits for the public to make a move , to push , otherwise they don ' t know . ' it was incredible . i was shocked but happy that the film was able to do that . but primarily , i made it for richard .
wild . untamed . legendary . buffalo girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough - talking calamity jane canary and her illustrious cohorts . it ' s the waning days of the wild west and jane , the rough ' n ' rugged cowgirl , is searching not only for her long - lost daughter , but the wild west she once knew . jane traverses plains , mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems : dora , the vivacious , gold - hearted madam who ' s been her one true friend all along . written by echo bridge home entertainment
monk , katherine .
first takes : our home and native land .
in weird sex & snowshoes : and other canadian film phenomena . vancouver : raincoast books , ©2001 , p . 45 - 62 .
wild . untamed . legendary . in this made - for - tv movie , buffalo girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough - talking calamity jane canary and her illustrious cohorts . it ' s the waning days of the wild west and jane , the rough ' n ' rugged cowgirl , is searching not only for her long - lost daughter , but the wild west she once knew . jane traverses plains , mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems : dora , the vivacious , gold - hearted madam who ' s been her one true friend all along .
she had difficulty convincing others to fund the film . the topic was not of interest to the film board , nor did it garner the support of the department of indian affairs ( which had partially financed other films ) . alanis received letters telling her to
forget it
. at one point , she gave up but then reconsidered because of all the energy she had already invested into it . she went to ottawa and started knocking on doors until she came back with funding from the secretary of state . it was necessary for her to do one segment at a time and then go looking for more funding . when the film was finally finished , she received a letter from the secretary of state saying they had
never invested their money in a better way in any film up to that time .
( alioff & schouten levine , p . 14 )
the film is weaved in the west , and the period , but it is not swallowed up by it which is too oft ' the case . * doffs hat * to the production team and writers for that .
a good tv film . the main characteristic is typical of tv films or mini - series . it is slightly too slow and it concentrates too much on close up shots of characters or faces , and . . .
later , her films covered more political and social issues , beginning with incident at restigouche ( 1984 ) , a film about the two controversial raids by a battalion of 550 quebec provincial police of a small mi ' kmaq reserve on the restigouche river . the reason given for the raids was that the quebec ministry of fisheries needed to investigate alleged salmon overfishing on the reserve . this film was an important one for alanis because it was one of the first to demonstrate her strength of character . gittings calls alanis ' confrontation of the then quebec minister of fisheries , lucien lessard , one of the
strongest scenes
of any documentary film because she points out the
hypocrisy and short - sightedness of his position on national sovereignty
:
obomsawin traces the cycle of life from birth to childhood , puberty , young adulthood , maturity , and old age , through introducing the viewer to girls and women from many different first nations across the country . it is a family album of native womanhood , portraying a matriarchal society which has been pressured for centuries into adopting different standards and customs . . .
alanis obomsawin is the best known of many aboriginal canadian documentary filmmakers , perhaps because she is one of the first , having started with the national film board ( nfb ) in the 1960s . however , she is also well known because of her monumental undertaking of creating an educational film that delves into the complex and historical circumstances surrounding the
oka crisis
in the summer of 1990 . this film , entitled kahnesatake : 270 years of resistance , has been shown at many film festivals and other venues and is studied at schools and universities across the country . it is effective not only because of her style — using interviews that render a sense of subjective sensitivity and integrity — but also because alanis was the only filmmaker allowed
behind the scenes
and able to provide the point of view of the mohawk people . her reputation as an advocate for social justice for native people in canada through her filmmaking certainly garnered the trust necessary to enter into this sensitive and dangerous situation , yet she is much more than a filmmaker or an activist .
yet it was not just the minister of fisheries that alanis took it upon herself to confront . it was also necessary for her to challenge certain people at the film board , who thought she shouldn ' t be interviewing
whites
. she responded to these individuals :
the first time the film showed in edmonton . . . i saw many people i assumed were social workers . their faces were severe and some took notes . they looked very unfriendly . i understood . i knew how they felt . after the film , i ' ll tell you , it was dead silence . but when i started to talk the atmosphere changed totally . i said to them , ' i know some of you think i ' ve made this film to point the finger at you . i didn ' t do that . i want all of us to look at what has happened to this child . i want to force the government to change the rules — to find better foster places for these children . ' . . . i wanted the feeling that this must not happen again .
where are those parts ?
she asked . she was referring specifically to characters like maerose prizzi , the mafia princess of the 1985 film
prizzi ' s honor ,
and lilly dillon , the scheming and ultimately tragic gambler and gangster of
the grifters .
gittings adds that
by the end of the interview and the end of the film , lessard makes a personal apology for any problems his actions may have caused .
( gittings , p . 218 ) this is one of the prime examples of alanis
fighting back
in her adult life .
* variety , music or comedy special :
the 67th annual academy awards ,
abc ;
american film institute salute to steven spielberg ,
nbc ;
barbra streisand the concert ,
hbo ;
a comedy salute to andy kaufman ,
nbc ;
eagles hell freezes over ,
mtv .
emmy - winning , star - studded television movie looking at the legend of calamity jane ( anjelica huston ) , the hard - living , bull - whip cracking heorine of the american west . she teamed up with some of the great female legends of the west as well as starred in buffalo bill ' s ( peter coyote ) wild west show and became the lover of wild bill hickock ( sam elliott ) .
one reason , she said , is her background . not her famous show - business background as the daughter of the great film director john huston and granddaughter of the actor walter huston . ( in truth , she said ,
my father did not direct many westerns ; they were not his signature stuff .
)
alanis obomsawin is a woman of complexity . her native culture is rooted in the beauty of her early childhood on the odanak reserve and the fight against discrimination and injustice of her teenage years . as a young adult , she became a singer , educator and activist . her work with the national film board , though not without its challenges to a woman and aboriginal filmmaker , has allowed her to further her role , through film , as an educator and advocate for social change , thus living up to her name as a
pathfinder
. she is a fighter who resonates with compassion and an understanding of the imperfection that underscores what it means to be human :
obomsawin calls film a ' place ' where native people can talk to each other about their losses , their memories of injustice , their desire to share what is good about their way of life , and with that sharing as viewers of her documentaries perhaps arrive at a better appreciation of how the dispossessed , dislocated , and disoriented try to come out of the abyss . this social realism is what makes obomsawin narratives potent and cathartic ; they are like the axiom which says one has to deal with the poison before a process of healing can begin . to her as director / producer / writer , film must attempt to transform people and society ; it must be an artifice of social reform .
on sep . 11 , 1995 , members of the kettle and stony point band bury anthony dudley george . the 38 - year - old chippewa man was shot and killed during a confrontation between police and a group of indigenous protesters at camp ipperwash . first nations leader ovide mercredi has just attended george ' s funeral . in this television clip , he speaks to cbc ' s hana gartner about how to resolve land claims . mercredi says the events at ipperwash and gustafsen lake made him realize indigenous people have to resolve land claim issues differently .
we don ' t want to walk any more of those distances up the hills to bury our dead ,
he explains .
this film follows the aftermath of the oka crisis , which brought indigenous rights into sharp focus . after the barricades came down , the royal commission on aboriginal peoples was created , and travelled to more than 100 communities and heard from more than 1 , 000 representatives . for two - and - a - half years , teams of indigenous filmmakers followed the commission on its journey .
from this film , obomsawin went on to create another important work , richard cardinal : cry from a diary of a métis child ( 1986 ) , a poignant look at the short life of a métis adolescent who committed suicide after having been shuffled in and out of 28 foster homes and institutions . alanis felt very strongly about what happened to richard , saying ,
i tell the kids to look at the loss that we have , what a poet he was . he ' s gone . it ' s too bad nobody realized , what happened , how he got there .
( steven , p . 182 ) the film also provided a penetrating look at the child welfare system in alberta at the time , and it brought about change . says alanis :
it is this combination of strength and courage to challenge intermingled with compassion that define her as a filmmaker of substance and integrity . similarly , alanis has never wanted to publicize her own challenges as an aboriginal woman filmmaker in the male world of film . rather than speak out on her personal struggles , her priority is to advocate for social change and to bring the voices of aboriginal peoples to the forefront :
ms . huston wanted to be an actress .
i always wanted that , from the time i was really small . i wasn ' t particularly encouraged .
still , when she was just 15 , her father took the risky step ( for both of them , as it turned out ) of casting her in the lead role in a 1968 film called
a walk with love and death .
since then , alanis has made several other films , including one on an addictions recovery center near edmonton , one on homeless people in montréal , and a film about a day care center in montréal — all about aboriginal institutions serving aboriginal people . then came the events at oka , and the series of films that evolved from behind - the - scenes film footage , including the arrest of one of the individuals involved in the stand - off and a personal look at one of the
warriors
, an iron worker who had worked on high rises in new york city . more recent films include is the crown at war with us ? ( 2002 ) , which depicts the violence and racial tension evident in the political events concerning the new brunswick fisheries near the mi ' kmaq community of esgenoopetitj ( burnt church ) .
this western is my favourite western of all time . an epic and loosely based on facts , this entertaining trip through the chnging of the west is just fantastic . all of the actors fit the characters perfectly . anjelica huston and melanie griffiths are superb . . . and reba mcintyre as fantastic . and you would never know that gabriel byrne was irish . the american accent is spot on . and the bonus is buffalo bill cody . this is a must for anyone who enjoys a good western . ( or just for the time capsule )
obomsawin ' s films represent a corrective to the historical exclusion of native image in film , the vast majority of it has been created without the consent and most often without the control of the native person whose image is being taken and utilized in media . i really believe alanis is using a medium to provide a voice and a story for a lot of people who historically have not had that opportunity .
over four hours and locations ranging from santa fe , n . m . , to bath , england , ms . huston takes calam , as she calls her , through a near miss with the doomed command of gen . george armstrong custer , through an equally doomed romance with wild bill hickok , to a painful parting with a baby daughter she felt she could not care for , to adventures with mythic western figures like buffalo bill cody , sitting bull and annie oakley , and finally to a trip to england with cody ' s famous wild west show to perform for queen victoria .
alanis continues to work for the national film board and has also continued singing and visiting schools , prisons and communities . her best - known recording , bush lady , was released in 1988 . on a more personal note , she has raised her daughter , kisos , who is now in her thirties . she also does etchings , some of which she exhibits publicly from time to time , to help de - stress from the work of the day .
in 1965 , the canadian broadcasting corporation ( cbc ) made a documentary on her performances and her social activism for their telescope program , which brought her to the attention of two national film board producers , wolf koenig and bob verrall . they were working on a documentary on activists and invited her to consult on this and several other projects . by 1967 , she was working on her own projects , including multimedia educational kits for the manowan and l ' hawat tribes .
. . . nobody is going to tell me who to interview or not interview . and if you feel that i , as a native person , cannot interview white people , we ' ll go through everything the film board has done with native people , and see who interviewed them . and i ' ll tell you something else , not you , nor any other person could have faced the minister the way i did . you ' ve got a long walk to do before you can do that .
obomsawin has said that the most important part of her making kahnesatake was that ' there had to be a document that came from us . . . that was crucial . ' less than an attempt to be the definitive voice , kahnesatake was a distinct voice , one among many , and one that , finally , would allow the people under siege and their compatriots to give their side of the story . going so far as to call the film ' s approach demagogic shows a lack of clear understanding of the uses to which obomsawin ' s subjective voice is put .
this movie pulls out the two sides of me . on one hand it is entertaining . on the other hand , it is nearly completely historically inaccurate . wild bill , calamity jane , dora dufran , buffalo bill cody , annie oakley and sitting bull were all real people . there are some portions of this movie that are as close to historically truthful as they can be . if i am being honest , no one really knows the whole truth about these famous people . my love for stories of the old west and the people in them makes this an entertaining show to me . the acting is very good and the sets interesting if again , looking nothing like the actual deadwood and black hills . if you are going to watch this show , watch it for the love of westerns and a decent story , not for the history that you can learn . enjoy it purely for enjoyments sake .
[ she also ] went to see the worst place richard had been and i met the foster father there . the man was very upset and angry and wouldn ' t cooperate . i told him that i was going to make the film anyway . richard ' s diary had already been seen publicly . he said that it ' s all lies . but i also saw that man as human , for who was to know back then when he had richard what would happen ? many native children and white children were in bad situations . then you expose that situation twenty years later . some of these people just didn ' t think . so much has gone on unknown to the public .
three years after alanis arrived in trois - rivières , her father died and she began to rebel against the prejudice and racism :
my life changed when i was 12 . . . my father died and i decided i wasn ' t going to get beat up at school every day by the other girls in the classroom . it was just a decision — just like that i said , ' no more ' . and that ' s all there was to it . it stopped the next day
( monk , p . 60 ) . she also fought against the
indian
stereotype :
i never believed what i was told i was . i knew that there was a lot of wrong there . every time i tried to do something they would tell me , ' oh you can ' t do this , you ' re an indian ! ' the more they said that to me , the more i said , ' well i am going to do that anyway ' . i was just a fighter . i just wanted to make changes .
( harewood , p . 14 )
[ . . . ] the white imagination of hollywood has come to see the american indian as a social victim in much the same way as canadian literature did decades ago . from the cardboard villainy of indians in old westerns from the fifties , to the noble martyrdom of a socially minded effort like little big man , and more recently to such homages as dances with wolves and geronimo , we can see hints of revisionism taking hold , nudging americans into a less divisive and slightly more humble perception of national self vis - à - vis the native peoples who were destroyed in its creation . . . . the most obvious — and most important — improvement is that we now have a body of film work created by aboriginals , instead of white people telling aboriginal stories , in the context of the identity process , this development cannot be undervalued because it puts the power of creation back in the hands of those who are being represented . . .
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based on the novel by larry mcmurtry . hard - drinking frontier free spirit calamity jane and her best friend brothel proprietor dora dufran face adventures and romance in the rugged dakota territory of the 1870s .
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i heard he was doing a book about calamity jane ,
ms . huston said .
i was instantly interested .
how could she not be ? ms . huston added . after all , mr . mcmurtry had written
lonesome dove ,
the book that became the most successful television mini - series in recent years , and she considered it
a real coup in my career
to have been included in its cast .
but this opportunity seemed , if anything , even better .
i mean , calamity jane !
ms . huston said .
i thought , this is right up my alley . i love to ride ; i love the outdoors ; i love westerns .
the result , to be seen on sunday and monday nights , is an epic of the last days of the american west , in which ms . huston plays calamity jane , the legendary army scout , bullwhacker , mule - skinner and wild west show performer .
calamity jane is precisely the kind of huge , dense , demanding , interesting starring role that ms . huston said she and other experienced actresses of her generation almost never encounter in theatrical films anymore .
lilly remains , quite literally , close to ms . huston ' s heart on a cloudy april afternoon in the beverly hills office of her publicist . ms . huston , tall and striking in a way that attests to her earlier career as a model , is wearing faded jeans perfectly matched with a jeans jacket that bears the name lilly in red script right over her heart . on the back of the jacket in much larger letters is
the grifters .
she ' s also wearing what look like snakeskin cowboy boots , much fancier than anything calamity jane would have come by , even if she could have plugged a rattler on the prairie - - which would have been unlikely .
she wasn ' t much of a shot ,
ms . huston said .
she swore and drank like a fish and pretty much lived like a man .
nor does the resemblance stop there , said mr . mcmurtry , who reported that the real calamity jane may have been a hermaphrodite . he gleaned that morsel from an unusual source : sen . alan k . simpson , republican of wyoming , who once wrote a college paper on calamity .
she was certainly very odd - looking ,
mr . mcmurtry agreed .
mr . mcmurtry is an unabashed admirer of ms . huston .
i think she ' s just wonderful in the role ,
he said in a telephone interview .
she basically carries the picture .
ms . huston researched the real calamity jane but was able to discover far less than mr . mcmurtry was able to imagine .
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ms . huston almost did not get a chance to play the role . suzanne de passe , the show ' s executive producer , always wanted her for the part , but when production was due to begin , ms . huston was not available . a delay cleared up that problem , and now ms . de passe says :
anjelica was born to play this role . when you think of her size , her horsemanship , her sense of humor , this role employs the full range of anjelica ' s talent .
rather , she was referring to her upbringing in the west of ireland , a place , she said , that
has a soft spot for the american west .
indeed , she added ,
every boy who grew up there wanted to be a cowboy .
it was hellish to work with my father ,
ms . huston recalled .
a horrible experience . i didn ' t like the script . i didn ' t like the movie .
the movie was not successful , and both of them were excoriated by critics charging nepotism .
ms . huston was put off movies for more than a decade . instead , she modeled .
i don ' t know why it was necessary to be in the public eye physically , but it was ,
she said .
maybe i needed to prove something .
it was very intimidating to come back and work with my father ,
she said .
i was not only working with him ; i was working with jack nicholson , who i was living with at the time . i was very daunted and very afraid .
but the role made her a movie star . she won the academy award for best supporting actress .
after numerous other films , including woody allen ' s
crimes and misdemeanors
and two trips with the
addams family ,
ms . huston said the well of intriguing scripts has grown appallingly dry .
there were maybe four female parts all last year ,
ms . huston said . one was
death and the maiden ,
which she said she considered . but other choices simply weren ' t there .
meg ryan is adorable , but she ' s not the only actress working in america ,
ms . huston said .
i mean , this is the year when meryl streep had to do ' the river wild . ' they ' re trying to make meryl streep an action hero ? she ' s a great actress .
the source of the problem is not hard to identify , ms . huston said .
there ' s not a lot of the human factor in movies anymore ,
she explained .
it ' s all explosions - - and mostly male explosions . most of what i read now is repeats of past successes . things out of the italian - american genre of ' prizzi . ' maybe it ' s happening because we don ' t have enough female writers , or men aren ' t writing for women , or no one ' s interested in writing anymore .
she qualified those points : no one in movies .
television is much better to women than movies ,
ms . huston said . and that is the reason she had no hesitation about returning to television for a second journey with larry mcmurtry .
will she be back on television ? most likely , she said ,
and i think you ' ll see other actresses turning to television as well .
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this short documentary offers a portrait of a group of women who led their community , the largest reserve in canada , six nations of the grand river reserve , in an historic blockade to protect their land .
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many journalists and other writers have attempted to capture the spirit of this well - respected filmmaker . an article in take one presents a captivating description of the enigma that is alanis :
the 70 - year - old writer , director and member of the abenaki nation is considered one of the country ' s most distinguished filmmakers . a pioneering artist , singer , educator , community activist , member [ now officer ] of the order of canada , obomsawin is to her legion of admirers a legend in her own time . obomsawin — one of only three remaining staff documentary filmmakers at the nfb — has moved from the margins to the center of institutional power in canada . while her work is now officially embraced by the repressive state that she lombasts [ sic ] , obomsawin has retained the instincts , sensibility and posture of the eternally alienated outsider . . . . in person , obomsawin is the epitome of dignity , grace and fine manners . she is humble and without affectation . . . . as an interlocutor she can be mischievous , playful and wildly funny . belying her gentle , nurturing nature , she is a formidable force when challenged . able to shift her mood at a whim , she possesses a wholly unique quality that allows her to disarm and charm at the same time . her piercing dark brown eyes host a swirling sea of emotion , at times compassionate , inquisitive , earnest , defiant and wise .
later , when she was nine years old , she moved with her mother and father to trois - rivières , located only 48 kilometres from the odanak reserve . this proved to be a difficult adjustment , as she was the only native child at school and was not fluent in french or english . as well , she experienced prejudice and racism on a daily basis and was regularly beaten up by her schoolmates . in history classes she was forced to listen to
teachings
about
martyred priests being tortured to death by indians .
( alioff and schouten levine , p . 10 ) people often looked down on her and her family . her parents , however , remained true to their native traditions and spiritual beliefs , and often even treated many of their neighbours with traditional herbal medicines .
this fighting spirit is something she brings to her work although she uses more strategy now , which comes with maturation . it was because of her experiences at school that she has become active for social change :
that was my fight from the very beginning , to fight for changes in the educational system concerning our people , and i wanted to see our history being taught and to try and do our own programs and get it in there as part of the curriculum .
( tallon , p . 12 )
alanis left trois - rivières at the age of 22 and , after having learned to speak english in florida , moved to montréal in the late 1950s , where she became part of a circle of artists . soon after , she emerged as a singer ( often traveling the folk music festival circuit but also performing in schools , museums and prisons ) and a storyteller , primarily to help instill a pride in native oral histories and hence a sense of self - esteem in native children .
obomsawin ' s first love centres on aboriginal youth .
( steven , p . 176 )
when you came to restigouche , i was outraged by what you said to the band council . it was dreadful . the chief said ,
you french canadians are asking for sovereignty here in quebec . you are saying it ' s your country and you want to be independent in your country . we are surprised that you don ' t understand us indian people and our sovereignty on our land .
and you answered ,
you cannot ask for sovereignty because to have sovereignty one must have one ' s own culture , language and land .
incident at restigouche also gave the people of the reserve a sense of dignity and a chance to express themselves . it also created a better understanding between members of the community .
for alanis , it was one of the most painful films she has made . she travelled to richard ' s home town of fort chipewyan and visited the cemetery where he was buried .
it is easy to see alanis ' compassion for others , including the foster parents . it wasn ' t her intention to point fingers at people who were struggling , such as social workers , but more to change an ineffective system :
i attended the inquiry into richard ' s death and by the time the last social worker came into the box , i began to feel for him too . he told the judge he had a hundred cases and had to travel two hundred miles . the rule was that they had to see each placement once a month . now , nobody can do a good job with that . . . the government ' s whole system was so bad . but when you look at the immediate situation you blame the first person you can . i didn ' t want to do that .
several writers have offered the analyses of alanis ' distinctive filmmaking style . one strong element is the issue of the authenticity of voice , or the need for aboriginal people to tell their own stories :
the interview , used to shape point of view , becomes a valuable instrument to validate individual biography , make intelligible the ongoing struggles for native self - definition , and contest eurocentric narratives of first nations history . . . . her work subverts the objectifying tendencies of the social documentary by revealing a heartfelt respect for the past and present of the people she has filmed .
her work displays little in the way of stylistic flourish or excess , and usually features explanatory voice - overs . . . however , this apparently simple aesthetic is peppered with a pronounced subjectivity . further , obomsawin ' s work displays a tendency towards lyricism and massive narrative digressions . . . describing her style , obomsawin has said that ' i like to make it as plain as possible , so that the attention has to be on the work and what the people are saying . . . i don ' t like to do fancy things where your attention is on other things ' . . . even though she draws on a semi - minimalist form , obomsawin ' s films are extremely subjective . this subjectivity is most clearly expressed by her own voice . . . the voice - over is far from the voice - of - god variety . . . ; instead , it has the effect of identifying whose eyes are seeing the action .
although alanis has been taken to task for her subjective stance , in general , these criticisms have demonstrated a lack of understanding in what she is trying to do . white further explains :
these passages indicate that alanis has developed her own style , using the interview format and subjectivity in a powerful way to accomplish her role as an advocate for social justice for aboriginal peoples .
i would never even stop going to prisons , and skid row , where you find a high percentage of our people . you watch the drinking , the people sleeping on the sidewalks , being abused , and you hear terrible language . it ' s a snake pit . but i cannot divorce myself from them . there was a time when i was told that ' s where i should be . i fought back and fought back . that ' s why i understand and love all the people down there . they ' re not separate from me . . . . there ' s lots of people that somehow have managed to be strong and do something . i don ' t mean to say that the people who are down there on the street are not strong . but how much can you take and how long do you go on until you finally believe what they ' re telling you : that you ' re no good , . . . that you don ' t have a culture that you don ' t belong . you see your parents who are drinking , who are in a terrible state . and you look in the mirror , and you don ' t like what you see , so you end up fighting your own people . . . and it took me many , many years before i could understand that .
the basic purpose is for our people to have a voice . to be heard is the important thing , no matter what it is that we ' re talking about — whether it has to do with having our existence recognized , or whether it has to do with speaking about our values , our survival , our beliefs , that we belong to something that is beautiful , that it ' s o . k . to be an indian , to be a native person of this country .
alanis obomsawin .
national gathering on aboriginal artistic expression . ottawa : canadian heritage conference june 17 - 19 , 2002 . urltoken ( accessed september 8 , 2004 ) .
allioff , maurie , and susan schouten levine .
interview : the long walk of alanis obomsawin .
cinema canada . no . 142 ( june 1987 ) , p . 10 - 15 .