vagrant bus ( russian : бродячий автобус , translit . brodyachiy avtobus ) is a 1990 soviet drama film , filmed at the studio lenfilm by the director iosif kheifits .

vagrant bus

singapore - a singaporean man was mistaken for a vagrant when welfare officers picked up several people for loitering in muar , johor .
when at the bus depot , candy edwards from the later vice case
the set up
can be seen purchasing a bus ticket to an unknown location .
if you begin to chase the bus then give up without actually catching it , phelps will still mention the bus driver ' s statement in subsequent interrogations . the case report , however , will state that you ought to have interviewed the bus driver .
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the bus stop at mott st . and beach channel dr . where the man was fatally beaten .
the bus driver who delivered theresa to her death might have liked a chance to testify .
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welfare officers initially thought he was homeless , but investigations showed that he had missed the last bus to malacca .
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during the drive while trying to locate the bus driver , rusty and phelps will initiate dialogue unique to that scene .
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but with the help of ikea and an army of cleaning supplies i was able to get the bus into livable condition .
welfare officers initially thought he was homeless , but investigations showed that he had missed the last bus to malacca . - tnp
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as we know , bus drivers can sometimes be a problem . now , don ' t get me wrong - i rarely have wrong words with bus drivers , mainly because i can ' t understand what they ' re shouting at me , and i recognise that it ' s only the badly - behaved majority that tar the rest with the same brush - but we rather like the novelty of having a friendly encounter with a bus .
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a group of illegal immigrants are brought to stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports , and then runs away .
the man , in his 40s , was found sleeping at a bus terminal along jalan maharani at about 3 . 40am on saturday , the star reported .
one of the
vagrant male suspects
will be at the bar ( richard bates ) . the barkeep will point him out , but bates will try to flee . you ' ll have to chase him on foot as he starts to run .
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a 57 - year - old man was beaten to death by a homeless man as he stood at a bus stop in queens early thursday , police said .
original story 14 / 01 / 2014 : yasumi matsuno , best known as the director of vagrant story and final fantasy tactics , has partnered with mobile developer playdek to launch a kickstarter campaign for a new tactical rpg entitled unsung story : tale of the guardians .
they were found sleeping at various spots , including a bus terminal , pedestrian walkways and inside a shopping mall . some were also seen begging for food during the day .
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at the bus depot , you ' ll get the name of the bus driver from last night . turns out he ' s out driving the 74 route now . the route is now marked on the map . drive the route counterclockwise until you find the bus , then pull it over by blocking the front left of it and talk to the driver , frank zeferelli . he ' ll confirm that the sailor was telling the truth , however it seems that theresa was confused and lost . she was dropped off near a hobo camp .
through some incorrect answers to questions , the player can not learn the bus lead . yet cole will still mention this during the stuart ackerman interrogation seemingly without prior knowledge of it .
rusty : no , no , no ! you should ' ve gone the other way . we ' d have found the bus by now if you ' d gone the other way .
in case you had forgotten , guy’s and st thomas’ nhs trust spent over £10 , 000 of nhs funding in an attempt to prevent ‘floating’ bus stops being built on we . . .
which brings us to unsung story , a game that raised $ 660 , 126 on kickstarter in january of 2014 . it was supposed to be a spiritual successor of sorts to final fantasy tactics , and developer playdek even name - dropped game designer yasumi matsuno , the creator of fft and vagrant story .
the victim was found unconscious with head trauma laying at a bus stop on mott avenue near beach channel drive in far rockaway at around 4 : 30 a . m . , cops said .
in the spirit of waiting for guffman and spinal tap , das bus combines real and staged events alongside archival footage as viewers experience
bus culture
in the
bible belt
metropolis of kansas city . with guest appearances by crime novelist james ellroy and rap star tech n9ne , das bus is a thought provoking romp that will confront everyone ' s attitude about public transportation . you will laugh , you will cry , you will empathize , you will say
no way
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head to the bus depot location next . on the way , cole will have a patrol car pick up lars ; as for bobby ross , dispatch reports that his poker game ended around midnight .
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in the colourful and variegated background of camden town , miss mary shepherd seems in some respects not unusual . she was a vagrant but a stationary one , resident for the last 15 years of her life a few feet from my front door where there was a paved area – the architect had wishfully called it a patio – just big enough to take a car . or , as it transpired , a van .
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, a double - decker bus converted into a mobile cafe . it serves top coffee and cakes , and hearty german sausages , and is currently doing a season in mile end park every week ( by the art pavilion at the end of ashcroft road ) from thursday to sunday .
the isolated status of refugees in this film harks back to the issue of the representation of space in allamezadeh’s movies . claustrophobic spaces , as a recurrent feature of transnational cinema ( naficy , phobic 211 ) , are present in both films . in a few simple sentences the bus exhibits a closed space and , through the suspicious looks of its travelers , takes on the role of a mobile courtroom . here the function of the claustrophobic space is different from that of a shelter –as opposed to the guests of hotel astoria . throughout the bus sequence there is only one shot taken from the outside . panning camera movements accentuate the limits of this closed space and therefore intimate ali’s entrapment within a network of gazes . the idea of suffocating space is augmented through the analogy of the pigeon and ali , which encourages us to read the bus as a symbolic cage for ali .
after the interview , officer isaac kelly will come up and say that he ' s got news on the hobo . he ' s been sighted and he ' s wanted in connection with two other female assaults . rusty will mention a bus depot that you can check to confirm the sailor ' s story .
on the way to the bus depot , you ' ll get a message about bobby ross ' card game . rusty asked to have lars taraldsen picked up and brought to central , but if you go into the room with the holding cells after interviewing jessop , lars is in the first cell when you walk in .
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anyway , three weeks ago i took the equivalent of three months’ rent and bought an old red bus . it’s a 1969 vw camper van with a hole in the floor and a family of spiders that has more of a right to be here than i do ( sleeping in your car on public land in california is illegal ) .
as i sit in darkness writing this , i’m trying to keep my typing quiet , lest a real inhabitant of the neighborhood i’m parked in should walk by and wonder about the sounds coming from the rusty bus loitering on their block . yes , you understood that correctly : today , i work in a multi - million dollar office complex , and i live in a van .
overall , i’m proud of the way my project turned out . but of course this living situation wouldn’t be possible if i didn’t already have a job that feeds me and allows me to shower and do laundry at work . i also have a network of friends who are ready to step in should a crisis emerge and offer me a temporary bed . and i am a young , white woman , which gives me the immense privilege of pulling up a creepy van and parking it without being harassed . people don’t report me ; neither do they assume i’m a vagrant . they smile and ask if i need anything .
but most importantly , crowdfunding changes the dynamic between consumers and content creators in an unhealthy way . yes , there can be more participation and some sense of
democratization
of the game development process . but i question whether that ' s actually a good thing to begin with . and in the case of unsung story we have what appears to be a very opaque development process that threw the entire point of the original project under the bus .
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and if it ' s sunny you can nip down to the palm tree pub just by the canal here which is also a bit of an east end bike mecca when the weather is fair . many happy hours spent there getting quietly tiddled on the grass before pushing my bike home . thanks for the tip rob ; i hadn ' t spotted this bus cafe . old routemasters becoming eating establishments seems to be quite the thing these days ; there ' s one in brick lane / truman ' s yard and another in soho too . rather there than trying to overtake me on the holborn circus roundabout any day !
this is a very harsh movie about people who immigrate to a modern society with the hope of finding a job and earning money . it tries to focus on the disparities between the cultures . this movie presents the point of view of nine immigrants traveling with a bus from very rural areas of turkey directly to one of most modern societies . they find themselves tricked by a passer who took their money and passport with the promise of finding them a job in sweden . as they arrive to stockholm , being completely foreign to the city and to the culture , having no where to go to and no money to buy food , the only place they can find refuge is their bus , parked in a very central and crowded spot in stockholm during the cold winter time . the fear of being caught by the police forces them to hide in bus during day . and during night the harsh fight for the survival starts . during these nocturnal excursions , we come to see how these rural farmers perceive the everyday night life in the town . the movie presents nicely how socially acceptable aspects of the daily life ( such as alcohol consumption , nudity , sexuality and homosexuality ) , appear as perversions to people who are foreigners . and this is why i think nearly all of the local citizens are pictured unfriendly , pervert , racist , vain , arrogant , cruel and merciless . on the other hand , all the nine victims are presented as naive , rough , nearly completely unintelligent . this is the reason why i think this movie doesn ' t gain a deeper meaning . it stays like cruel story without being completely unfolded in different directions . therefore , even though this movie takes its starting point from the topic of immigration , it doesn ' t really deal with it in a deeper sense . however i think it is a very interesting movie worth to be seen .
there are many people who are forced to live in their cars because they really cannot afford to live in the bay area . i am not technically one of them , and in doing this by choice i am inevitably appropriating their hardships . however , i am also saving hard , trying to pay off my debts , and learning a few invaluable life skills—like carpentry and how to be a fairly competent mechanic—in the process . also , i get to flood social media with updates that basically equate to “ha . told you i’d do it . look at me now . i’m in a bus . you’re going to have to pay up on the $ 5 bet you made that i would never go through with it . ”
she uses an example of a boy that suddenly discovers himself as the subject of the gaze when he is on bus –not dissimilar in set up to ali’s story in a few simple sentences . to describe this case , sobchack writes : “johnson describes how the epidermalizing gaze locks his consciousness out of a body that no longer is his ; its sense and its meaning possessed and devalued by another” ( 54 ) . sobchack attempts to describe how through perceiving to be perceived by an external gaze –even a gaze that belongs to the person’s own reflection in the mirror– one’s relation with his / her own body gets disrupted and that such a disjuncture brings about uneasiness and awkwardness . based on her argument , this external gaze forces its object to see him / herself through “the eyes of the other” ( sobchack 54 ) and turns him into a “victim of vision” ( sobchack 55 ) . she also mentions the balance and gravity of any individual crushed under the weight of the “pathologic gaze” . sobchack then extends this gaze to the function of what she calls the “normative practices” which according to her : “phenomenologically estrange us from our bodies and make us strange and hateful not only to the others , but [ … ] to ourselves” ( sobchack 54 ) .
miss s’s funeral , which in life ( or in death ) was at our lady of hal in arlington road but in the film is at st silas’s at the foot of haverstock hill . we also film miss s at mass , with maggie smith at the communion rail . but not just kneeling . after miss s’s death i had a letter from father cormacrigby , who was 20 years an announcer on radio 3 before leaving the bbc and being ordained a priest in 1985 , when he was sent to live at our lady of hal , miss s’s local church . he told me how , seeing her in the congregation , his heart would sink as he had a bad back and miss s’s exigent ( though not ostentatious ) piety required her virtually to prostrate herself when receiving the host , with the priest thus having to follow her right down in order to post the wafer into her mouth . maggie does this too , on her knees , four or five times without complaint or assistance . she’s a few months younger than me but i couldn’t kneel like this , or if i went down i couldn’t get up again . she does both , and on camera . then she goes into the confessional box to unburden herself for the umpteenth time to the long - suffering priest ( dermot crowley ) , telling him about the motorcyclist she thinks she killed in an accident years ago . he has heard it all before and has absolved her many times . “absolution , my child , is not like the bus pass . it does not run out . ”
in his short movie allamezadeh presents an instance of epidermalizing gaze at work , but to the detriment of any normative process . here ali , the young immigrant is in the process of integration through learning the native language , but his experience on the bus and his awareness of being looked upon as a stranger negate this procedure , as shown through his reluctance to learn dutch . what ali experiences is a fear of being seen and judged . the hostile reaction ali receives is rooted in his situation as a stranger , a stance perceived through his different external physical features . here the term “epidermalizing” finds more resonance : the hostile glance not only perceives the other through the apparent external traits but also reduces him / her to that superficial picture . this superficial apparition serves as a basis for passing a judgment which , as the film clearly states , could be completely unfair . the “epidermalizing gaze” literally hurts its subject ; the bloodstain on ali’s shirt graphically represents the wound inflicted upon him and reinforces the parallel between him and the bird . in depicting this hostile glance , the film goes to the extent of projecting it onto the dog of the beholders , as it initially directs others’ attention to the boy by barking at him . ali’s awkwardness in confrontation with this cruel glance is presented through his inability to speak fluently . speaking is the bodily presentation of the mental process of forging an idea . in ali’s case , his lack of language skills impedes this connection between mind and speech , and by extension between the mind and the body . however his unfortunate experience discourages him from re - establishing this connection through learning language and eventually makes him refrain from recounting the whole story in the class .
for a few simple sentences the idea of accent emerges similarily . allamezadeh’s short film also follows the model of kanoon’s pre - revolution children movies in its use of symbolic language . masoud mehrabi in his history of iranian cinema hints to rumours that circulated around the intentions of the royal regime within the centre . according to him some people believed that the ultimate intention was to persuade the dissident intellectual artists to get involved with purely cultural –and so non - political– activities ( 352 ) . even if it was the case , the output of filmmakers proved this policy didn’t always go according to plans , since some filmmakers took the opportunity to convey their opposing voices by undercutting the seemingly harmless images of children movies sponsored by the government itself ! as mehrabi quotes from zarrinkelk , one of the major animators of kanoon , “ in some cases under the guise of children movies , messages were thrown at the grown - ups” ( 356 ) . deploying an array of symbols made this secondary level of address possible ; for example , a number of kanoon movies before the revolution were constructed around a relation between a child and an animal –which in some cases took up a symbolic role . despite the fact that a few simple sentences was made in a free society , allemzadeh used the same symbolic trope to accentuate the situation of his hero . in some respect , the hurt pigeon and its desperate flight in the bus mirrors the defenseless status of misunderstood ali . also worthy of mention is the fact that daar was similarly about the relation between a child and a bird , albeit in opposing poles . so in this case , we are facing a filmmaker in exile who launches the new chapter of his career by resorting to his previous oeuvre . this adaptive strategy is simultaneously conducive to the creation of accent in a way closer to the linguistic definition of the term .
although such a politically charged fear is not the initial problem for the heroine of the film , poori , she does get involved with it along the way . it is worth noting that unlike the examples naficy utilizes to define this second category , in the guests of hotel astoria , the terror originates not merely from the refugees’ country of origin but also from the place they lead their life of liminality . allamezadeh’s movie demonstrates the ill - defined boundary between the discussed categories . naficy believes that movies belonging to both rubrics of “panic” and “transition” tend to follow a classical narrative structure and therefore are not very innovative in terms of style . he also believes that because of the casting of iranian actors and the use of farsi as the main diegetic language , the film addresses a narrower iranian audience , ( an accented cinema 80 ) . of course this idea that the guests of hotel astoria is targeted or limited to an iranian audience can be subject to further debate , but the prominence of farsi among other spoken languages clearly differentiates it from a few simple sentences . this latter title carries more signs from the category naficy dubs as “liminal cinema” ( liminal being something that defies easy categorisation into one category or type ) . we can sense the broader appeal of movies in this category , for based on his definition they are not overly concerned with the ethnic background of the hero . these movies , citing from naficy , concentrate on exhibiting “ . . the life and clash of clusters in exile” ( an accented cinema 76 ) . a few simple sentences conforms to this model inasmuch as the bitter experience of the child stems from his situation as a stranger who could virtually come from any country in the middle east . his nationality is brought up briefly in the bus scene , but does not play a crucial role in the plot ; this more resembles the signature of a director interested in adding a personal touch to the story by pointing to his origins .
given the fact that both films have been out of the film festival circuit for about two decades , i will spend a few lines delineating their respective plots . the story of a few simple sentences is structured upon the unfortunate experience of a refugee boy whose noble intentions for saving a wounded pigeon are misinterpreted by a group of dutch bus passengers . set across a much broader span of space , the guests of hotel astoria follows the story of an iranian couple among other residents of a cheap hotel in turkey who all have fled their home country to seek refuge in a western country . the couple’s initial plan to move to the netherlands –where the man’s brother lives– fails as their visa application is rejected . in the meantime , poori –the woman– gets involved in an amorous relationship with mohseni , another resident of the hotel who , unbeknownst to her , is a leftist activist . following the advice of mohseni’s friend , poori and her husband obtain a visa for cuba , which allows them to enter the netherlands as the transit point . but the dutch officials , suspicious about their connection with the leftist groups , reject their plea for asylum and return them back to turkey . things get more complicated when the turkish police who have already arrested mohseni learn of his intimate relation with poori . poori gets herself and her husband karimnia released by complying with the accusation of the indecent proposal of giving pleasure to the turkish police officer . as the probable result of her one night stand with mohseni , poori discovers she is pregnant . she is then fooled by a word of mouth that leads her to believe that giving birth to a child in the united states entitles the mother to apply for residency . she goes to the united states to deliver her child , but then realizes the falsity of the information . crestfallen , she eventually loses her life during the delivery . her child however paves the way for karimnia’s entry into the states , even though he is unaware of his wife’s death .
allamezadeh started his filmmaking career by making films for children in the 1970s . at least two of his “children movies” were produced by the institute for the intellectual development of children and young adults ( kanoon - e parvareshe fekri - e koodakan va nojavanan ) , a highly reputed centre for producing cultural products for children and young adults under both royal and islamic regimes . as a governmental organization , it was inaugurated in 1969 in order to produce books and films for a young audience , and experienced a “rapid and steady growth” to become one of the “major producers of film for children” ( sadr 229 ) . working there sounded appealing to the filmmakers affiliated with the new wave of iranian cinema , as its products , to borrow hamid reza sadr’s words , “depart quite radically from the conventions and production values of the studio system of 1960s and 1970s” ( 229 ) . allamezadeh earned his reputation through one of his movies for kanoon , daar ( reza allamezadeh , 1973 ) , which was circulated in various festivals , including gijon film festival where it was awarded a prize . more than ten years later , it was exactly in the same venue that allamezdeh met the dutch producers of his first movie in exile . learning about his background , the dutch producers invited him to furnish them with a subject , and allemezadeh’s contribution was a few simple sentences , the idea of which was conceived through linking two separate images he witnessed in two different places ; a boy boarding a bus in turkey with a pigeon hidden under his jacket , and a pigeon that freed itself from a dog’s mouth in spain . but the influence of the past is not limited to the story behind the production . the story and structure of the film strikes a powerful resemblance to the traditions of filmmaking in kanoon . sadr mentions the common stylistic features of movies made in kanoon as such : “ . . more naturalistic photography , closer to documentary than to studio made fiction film…location shooting and the use of available light” ( 229 ) . it takes little effort to notice that many of these features are applicable to a few simple sentence .
about a year ago , i was having lunch with a friend when i made a throwaway comment : “have you seen the rent in san francisco ? if i get a job in the bay area , i’ll totally live in a van . ”
this summer , after receiving a job offer in silicon valley , i went on craigslist and began sifting through housing listings : “verrrrrryyy cheap bedroom ; ) , ” “great deal on rent ! ” a single room with a shared bathroom ? two thousand per month on the low - end . a small studio apartment , you ask ? if your startup wasn’t recently bought for seven figures , forget about it .
i perked up after finding a listing for $ 1 , 000 per month . now this could work . clicking through to the details section however revealed the offer was for a single bunk in a room with eight people , a set - up referred to as a “hacker house” by an ( evil ) marketing genius .
even if i was to spend the huge majority of my salary on rent , i knew i would likely still be in a grim living situation , resenting every penny i handed over that could have gone towards paying back my student loans . and as a software engineer , i’m one of the lucky ones ! imagine those who aren’t lucky enough to be on the tech payroll .
from certain angles , it even passes for a tiny , $ 1 , 000 - per - month bedroom .
to these insufferable comments my friends reply that it is $ 5 well spent .
you can follow katharine’s efforts at becoming a classic car mechanic at blog . thinkkappi . com . we welcome your comments at ideas @ urltoken .
“the thing that nobody knows about our perfect family is that my husband is a monster . ”
emergency responders rushed the man , whose identity was not immediately released , to st . john’s university hospital where he died about 40 minutes later .
a woman who called 911 told police that the man was standing when deanthony horten , 34 , walked up to him and punched him in the face , knocking him to the ground , sources said .
horten continued to punch and kick the victim before a pair of good samaritans held and scuffled with horten until police arrived , sources said .
cops nabbed horten at mott avenue and central avenue . he was taken to st . john’s university hospital with a laceration to his forehead , which he got while he was being held down by the good samaritans , according to sources .
horten was charged with second - degree murder and first - degree robbery , cops said .
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update 14 / 02 / 2014 : the unsung story : tale of the guardians kickstarter was successful .
overnight it pushed through its $ 600 , 000 target . playdek thanked backers in an update .
fun fact : matsuno wrote the story for platinum games ' wii brawler madworld .
set in the fantasy world of rasfalia , unsung story will cover the full breadth of a 77 year war told from various viewpoints in flashback . each character will star in an episode consisting of several stages . some of these episodes will cover a year of someone ' s life , while others will span over the course of more than a decade . often you ' ll be fighting against forces you were previously tasked with protecting as another character .
combat will be turn - based on a 3d map with a fully controllable camera , and units will be sorted by profession with different class types within each profession . for example , there ' s a polearm knight pioneer and a war mage clergy . one ' s got pikes , halberds and scythes while the other ' s got short swords , daggers and slings . it shouldn ' t be hard to guess which is which .
the first 200k backers to pledge $ 20 will reserve a pc , mac , ios or android copy of unsung story upon its estimated july 2015 release . or you could donate $ 50 and get digital versions of its strategy guide , soundtrack , and poster to boot .
so far unsung story has raised $ 69 , 054 towards its $ 600k goal , which is pretty good when one considers it just launched today . the kickstarter campaign will end on 14th february .
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i used to write a lot about promising kickstarter campaigns for video games . crowdfunding represented a new way of doing business for indie game developers , and a new way for consumers to support games they wanted to play . in some ways , it ' s done just that . we ' ve gotten some neat top - down rpgs like wasteland 2 and pillars of eternity .
at the same time , however , we ' ve seen tons of new problems emerge . major corporate publishers almost immediately began using kickstarter to defer some costs and test the waters of public interest . look no further than the $ 6 . 3 million raised for shenmue 3 . that game is also being funded by sony - - - only now , sony can spend a much smaller sum on the game ' s development . is this really what we had in mind as consumers and enthusiasts ? it ' s more than a little disturbing to see consumers take on so much of the risk and early funding of these types of projects .
thanks to layoffs and other unfortunate financial circumstances at the company . fine . delays happen . what’s more alarming is that playdek seems to have switched focus on
to make it more of a multiplayer game , and that their new development timeline is all about player vs . player combat rather than the narrative - heavy single - player game that the kickstarter initially promised .
this is one of several reasons why i have never personally backed any crowdfunding project . if i ' m going to invest money , i ' ll invest traditionally . if i ' m going to buy a product , i ' ll wait until it releases . and if i ' m going to support a game , i don ' t feel comfortable also writing about it .
of course , fans are unhappy - - - but shouldn ' t we know by now that kickstarter and crowdfunding more broadly is nothing more than a huge crapshoot , especially if there ' s very little of the final product on display at the time of backing ? it ' s one thing if a developer comes with game in hand , nearly finished , and crowdfunds the publication costs . that ' s a reasonable - - - and safe - - - bet for everyone . but to fund the majority of a game on donations ? i ' m only surprised there haven ' t been more disasters at this point .
the failed yogventures kickstarter which netted over $ 500 , 000 on kickstarter in 2012 and has nothing to show for it beyond a cancellation in 2014 . the only winners in that debacle were kickstarter ( which still gets its fee ) and whoever ended up getting paid . backers - - - a fun word for consumers who don ' t actually get a product when they pay and are promised
rewards
instead - - - were left high and dry .
neal stephenson ' s kickstarter for
clang
- - - a swordfighting game that used motion controls - - - faced a similar fate . backers received their rewards but the prototype , according to stephenson himself ,
wasn’t very fun to play .
it took just north of half a million in backer money to come to that conclusion .
even the much - praised , much - hyped ouya - - - an android - based gaming console - - - which raised over $ 8 million ended up being a monumental disappointment , and of course backers never saw a penny from the company ' s acquisition by razer recently . because backers aren ' t investors and crowdfunding isn ' t the same thing as investing in a start - up or project .
even success stories like the oculus rift only really serve to show how corporations have taken over the crowdfunding scene . facebook bought that company and its vr headset for $ 2 billion . certainly the kickstarter hype helped spur that acquisition , but there ' s something a bit unsettling about the entire process . it ' s all risk and very little reward .
ultimately , people are going to part with their money and there ' s very little i or anyone else can do to stop them . i ' d just urge backers on kickstarter or on other crowdfunding sites to do their homework . don ' t back something that ' s all promises , and beware of inflated resumes . a crowdfunding campaign should have tons of information , reasonable stretch goals , and a clear and sober timeframe and budget . the majority of the work on a video game should already be done and campaigns should come to backers with lots of the actual game to show off , not just concept art and a snazzy pitch . talk is cheap , and concept art isn ' t much more expensive .
be diligent , gamers . even some projects with all the best intentions in the world fall through thanks to a poor business plan or any number of other unforeseen problems .
and don ' t count on getting your money back . as schreier reports , playdek - - - like many other kickstarter campaigns that have gone awry - - - won ' t be offering refunds . that ' s within their legal rights , even if it is a shameful way to run a business .
you can see the original kickstarter campaign for unsung story here , and read the latest update - - - the first since may - - - here . for more check out schreier ' s article on kotaku .
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muar welfare department officer nazri hussin said the singaporean then told them he wanted to go to merlimau , malacca .
we asked our officers to send him to merlimau aswe did not want him to sleep at the terminal ,
mrnazri added .
the singaporean was among five men - aged 40 to 60 - picked up during the operation by muar authorities to round up homeless people .
it ' s sad to see them living and sleeping on the streets ,
said mr nazri , adding that his department would send them to a shelter while welfare officers checked on their backgrounds .
earlier , the welfare team also checked a park at taman aman , near jalan abdul rahman , following complaints that young girls were sleeping there atnight .
the welfare officers , helped by the local neighbourhood watch group , found a 17 - year - old girl and four boys there at about 1 . 30am .
two of the boys ran away , but the other two boys and the girl were cornered .
when questioned , the girl claimed she was waiting for a friend , while the boys said they merely wanted to hang out at the park .
the girl was sent home and warned that she would be sent to a shelter if she was found loitering in the park again .
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the white shoe slaying is a homicide case in l . a . noire .
james jessop - us navy able seaman seen with victim on night of murder .
this case involves a lot of driving that you have to do yourself . cumulative damage ( $ 3 , 000 + ) from reckless driving is one of the most common causes for not obtaining a 5 star rating on this case . drive slowly and carefully .
detectives cole phelps and rusty galloway are briefed about a murder that occurred on signal hill during a heavy rainstorm over los angeles . the two head over to the crime scene and check in with officer andy brown , who has secured the scene , before meeting with the l . a . county coroner , malcolm carruthers , and ray pinker from tech services . unfortunately , the heavy rain washed away most of the evidence . carruthers tells phelps and galloway that the murder is similar to the others : blunt head trauma and strangling , however , there were no messages on the body and the victim was clothed .
if cole does not examine the laundry label on the victim , he will have to make a call to r & i and ask for
missing white females over the last forty eight hours .
the dispatcher will return three names and their home addresses .
before leaving , officer enrique gonzales will bring catherine barton to the crime scene , as she thinks she can help with the investigation .
use the nearby gamewell to get the laundry services address as well as a large hobo camp address . go to the laundry service .


the reagans is a 180-minute television film about u.s. president ronald reagan and his family which cbs had planned to broadcast in november 2003 during fall " sweeps " , but was ultimately broadcast on november 30 of that year on cable channel showtime due to controversy over its portrayal of reagan .

the reagans

the reagans at the 1960 screen actors guild annual membership meeting . ( corbis )
urltoken - rnc asks to review ' the reagans ' - oct . 31 , 2003
the poster for hellcats of the navy , the feature film which co - starred the reagans .
there are no critic reviews yet for the reagans . keep checking rotten tomatoes for updates !
james brolin as president ronald reagan poses on the set of cbs '
the reagans .
actor james brolin as president ronald reagan poses on the set of cbs '
the reagans .
republicans have expressed concern that the miniseries , titled
the reagans ,
may inaccurately portray the couple .
the reagans churned out their own biographies of themselves , or of what they imagined themselves to be .
quick fyi for those of you awaiting an announcement concerning the reagans . due to a few minor delays that will be explained we have decided to wait an additional day to announce some exciting information concerning the future of the reagans
john sears , the reagan campaign manager in 1976 , told kelley that both the reagans were obsessed with illusions and appearances .
the reagans are headed up the eastcoast for the 2017
score tour
show dates and vip package details will be posted february 24th .
there is no reason showtime ' s version of ' ' the reagans ' ' could not have been broadcast on cbs earlier this month .
when cbs announced that it would not air its miniseries
the reagans ,
the network denied that it was caving in to conservative protests . instead , its statement declared that the show it had produced
does not present a balanced portrayal of the reagans for cbs and its audience .
as the guardian recounted in a history of the reagans’ dark legacy on hiv , the reagan administration long refused to take seriously growing concerns in the lgbt community about the disease .
gillespie said the miniseries might have omissions , distortions and exaggerations that could cause americans to
come away with a misunderstanding of the reagans and the reagan administration .
mounting pressure and criticism from conservatives has prompted cbs to dump
the reagans ,
the network ' s prime - time miniseries on former president ronald reagan .
big announcement concerning some very cool information tomorrow august 22 i think all fans of the reagans will be highly interested , check back tomorrow for complete details .
dr marcus conant , a clinical professor of dermatology emeritus at uc san francisco and one of the first physicians to diagnose and treat aids , recalled the reagans’ dismissal of his concerns .
the new york times , citing unidentified people close to the production of
the reagans ,
reported that cbs executives had previously reviewed the script and viewed the miniseries without raising any objections to the content .
when it canceled ' ' the reagans , ' ' cbs said it was not responding to pressure , but making a ' ' moral call . ' ' but the three - hour version on showtime does little to support the network ' s claim . ' ' the reagans ' ' may not be a cinematic masterpiece , but it is hardly an act of treason .
“i don’t know how much of the moral majority stuff the reagans believed , ” bunch said “but they didn’t fight it … that brand of homophobia lasted because ronald and nancy reagan enabled it . ”
her comments in the interview flew in the face of how many longtime gay rights activists view the reagans – as a couple who deliberately turned a blind eye to the aids crisis , with devastating and deadly consequences .
the early years of the aids crisis – when the reagans were silent and the white house spokesman , larry speakes , joked about the epidemic during regular briefings with reporters – were “what the plague in europe must have felt like .
while the viacom - owned network had no comment monday , cbs chairman leslie moonves told cnbc last week that
there are some edits being made trying to present a more fair picture of the reagans .
advocates in the san francisco bay area – who survived the epidemic and had watched friends and loved ones die in great numbers – consider the reagans , through their inaction , responsible for the death of thousands of lgbt people .
as is well known , barbara bush has challenged the accuracy of kelley ' s anecdote about how she sent the reagans a christmas wreath , which nancy then rewrapped and sent on to one of her california girlfriends .
the reagans
had been scheduled to air on nov . 16 and 18 . november is a ratings sweeps month of special importance to tv networks since it helps to determine how much they may charge advertisers .
hillary clinton outraged lgbt activists on friday with her comments at nancy reagan’s funeral praising the former first lady for helping start a “national conversation” about hiv – remarks that critics say ignore the reagans’ deeply troubling legacy on the 1980s aids crisis .
how balanced is
the reagans
? salon has obtained a copy of the 213 - page screenplay for the miniseries , and we present it here to our readers to allow them to review the primary evidence in this controversy and reach their own conclusions .
although the miniseries features impressive production values and acting performances , and the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script , we believe it does not present a balanced portrayal of the reagans for cbs and its audience ,
cbs said in a statement .
not that “the reagans” needs any additional controversy , but it’s also worth noting this quintessentially american tale was shot in canada . for the most part , it’s a handsome effort , down to the gradual aging of the principals and the re - enactment of the assassination attempt by john hinckley .
on friday , republican national committee chairman ed gillespie asked cbs to allow a team of scholars to review the film in advance for historical accuracy . otherwise , he said , cbs should run a disclaimer informing viewers that the film is a fictional portrayal of the reagans .
los angeles ( reuters ) - - drawing republican fire over the accuracy of its upcoming mini - series
the reagans ,
cbs appears ready to present a kinder , gentler portrait of the ailing former president than originally produced - - if the network airs it at all .
however , if moonves goes ahead with plans to air
the reagans
on nov . 16 , as planned , the final product will differ substantially from the film that reagan supporters have criticized , with many controversial scenes heavily edited or cut from the production , sources said .
producers zadan and meron said they were disappointed that cbs won ' t air their miniseries but added :
we are excited that showtime has agreed to broadcast it and the public will have a chance to judge ' the reagans ' on its own merits .
in real life , allen “was especially fond of the reagans , ” as reported by the washington post . a good friend of allen remembered , “he often talked about how nice they were to him . ” away from hollywood make - believe , there was no mention of why allen chose to retire his three decades of service as white house butler , other than that it was time . and in real life , allen marveled to his wife how they got to enjoy the champagne that he once served—thanks to the reagans’ gracious invitation .
cbs said in a statement it had decided to move the production to cable tv ' s showtime network after concluding that the miniseries
does not present a balanced portrayal of the reagans for cbs and its audience . subsequent edits that we considered did not address those concerns .
“there is no question that they knew many people with aids and were probably very close friends with them , ” he continued . “i haven’t heard anyone say the reagans were homophobic . but it was a political calculation . this wouldn’t sell to republican voters . ”
the furor over the mini - series arose after the new york times reported last month that the film portrays the reagans in a largely unflattering light . in one scene , reagan says of aids patients ,
they that live in sin shall die in sin .
but there is no evidence he ever expressed those views .
as cbs learned the hard way , it’s impossible to divorce the political and creative components in analyzing “the reagans” — an uneven and , yes , unflattering biography that the network tossed to showtime in a game of corporate hot potato . taking score ideologically , the project depicts nancy reagan as a dragon lady and the former president [ … ]
it is important to remember , moreover , that for the duration of their washington reign , until it came to a thudding halt on the afternoon that edwin meese announced that money from the sale of arms to iran had been diverted to the contras , the reagans were treated with kid gloves , not least by the press corps that covered them .
james brolin as president ronald reagan appears in a scene from cbs '
the reagans ,
in this undated publicity photo . the two - part miniseries about former president reagan and his wife , nancy , airs nov . 16 , 2003 and nov . 18 . ( ap photo / cbs , jan thijs )
as cbs learned the hard way , it ' s impossible to divorce the political and creative components in analyzing
the reagans
- - an uneven and , yes , unflattering biography . the project depicts nancy reagan as a dragon lady and the former president as an amiable dunce , yet it is also the story of a couple fiercely devoted to each other .
like any made - for - tv historical saga spanning four decades , “the reagans” makes brutal choices about what to throw away and keep . beyond that , this is billed as a “dramatic interpretation of events based on public sources , ” so no social studies teacher should be tempted to assign this to a class .
undoubtedly , staunch reagan loyalists would have assaulted anything that didn’t present the 40th president as worthy of a place on mount rushmore — something cbs should have recognized going in . still , it’s only fair to note there’s very little here , however pointed , that hasn’t been leveled against the reagans before — including the vitriol they endured during his presidency .
no word on when the miniseries will air on showtime , or how cbs will fill the valuable four hours of november sweeps real estate ”the reagans” vacated . it’s also not clear if moving the movie to a more sparsely viewed pay cable channel will quiet the complaints of historical inaccuracy or quell the boycott calls , or if conservatives will mind having the movie air on the home of ”queer as folk . ”
the only comment from the reagans themselves has come from former first lady nancy reagan , who in a brief statement issued last week to the fox news channel said ,
the timing of ( the mini - series ) is absolutely staggering to me . obviously , it ' s very hurtful .
she apparently was referring to the fact that the 92 - year - old former president is severely ill with alzheimer ' s disease .
there is something splendidly democratic about the
unauthorized biography . ' ' it is premised on skepticism about the official versions of public lives . its real theme is hypocrisy , which cannot be established , of course , without an
invasion of privacy . ' ' about the reagans , surely , unauthorized biography is amply justified ; indeed , it is even a case of just desserts .
from its framing device of a befuddled president reagan receiving word of the tower commission ' s damning report on the iran - contra arms - for - hostages scandal to its portrait of reagan as a leader convinced that god spared him from death by assassination so he could bring the cold war to a peaceful conclusion ,
the reagans
script provides plenty of ammunition for both sides in this controversy .
for kelley has chosen for her subject an evil genius of authorization , of spin control , of image management , of madison avenue - style propaganda . in response to the well - packaged , high - gloss imagery contrived and promoted by the reagans and their admirers , it is only fitting to have the well - packaged , high - gloss trashing of that imagery by kelley . the spinners are being unspun .
those objecting to cbs’ planned november ratings sweeps miniseries ”the reagans” included nancy reagan herself , various conservative organizations and talk show hosts , and the chairman of the republican party , all of whom said the biopic would be a smear job without having seen it . still , in announcing on tuesday that it was pulling the miniseries and licensing it to sister cable network showtime , cbs insisted that it was not giving in to pressure .
tonight ' s made - for - television movie incited conservatives to threaten a boycott , which led the network to cancel it . consigned to showtime , a premium cable channel owned by cbs ' s parent company , viacom , ' ' the reagans ' ' turns out to be neither a liberal screed on reaganomics nor a character attack on former president ronald reagan and his wife , nancy .
for all there is to dislike and debate about “the reagans , ” it remains mind - boggling that a network would pull such a project days before its planned airdate . that it finally gets its day in court on showtime , the pay channel that picked up adrian lyne’s remake of “lolita” after studios balked , is by any measure the kind of victory likely to embolden those who would stifle such material .
while gillespie - - who acknowledged that he has not seen
the reagans
and has formed his opinion of it based solely on news reports - - had a number of complaints , he said he was most concerned about a comment attributed to reagan in one episode . there is no evidence that the president told his wife during a conversation about aids patients ,
they that live in sin shall die in sin ,
gillespie said .
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still , balance would have strengthened kelley ' s picture , not weakened it . of course part of the vitriolic reaction to kelley ' s book originates not in sympathy for nancy reagan , but in , well , embarrassment . for the trouble with ronald and nancy reagan between 1980 and 1988 was there for all with eyes to see . kelley ' s book is rudely reminding many people that they preferred to avert their gaze . it is a taxing book , i imagine , for the people who praised the reagans or covered them , who were complicitous with the hype and the illusion , with the condition that garry wills called the country ' s
collective suspension of disbelief . ' ' it is not pleasant , after all , to look back at that materialism and elitism and remember that we called it virtue and style . the american people twice demanded overwhelmingly that the reagans inhabit the white house ; and this is a free country . but in a free country you not only get nancy reagan , you also get kitty kelley .
a few words of caution : this script is undated , and , though it most likely represents a
shooting script
matching the version of the miniseries that was originally planned for broadcast , we cannot be sure that the script itself was not further edited , and it ' s likely that additional changes were made during editing . showtime , the cable network that has acquired
the reagans
from cbs , has announced that it will
collaborate with the filmmaker to create a final film ,
so the showtime version is likely to differ further from this script .
this was a cut up version of the tv miniseries concentrating only on the white house years . the reagans come off very human - totally devoted to each within their hysterically dysfunctional family unit - as the screenplay moves quickly ticking off all the important events during their life in the white house . james brolin gives an amazing impersonation capturing the quivering voice and the president ' s sense of naivety without reducing him to a joke as the media portrayed him . however , the film belongs to judy davis . she takes the part of nancy reagan and runs with it at full throttle playing a ferociously ambitious woman resembling the joan crawford of
mommie dearest
…
according to newsweek , lawyers vetted the miniseries three times , and the ”they that live in sin” line was edited out , but cbs chief leslie moonves , who took over the editing ( director robert allan ackerman quit in protest ) , was apparently still not satisfied . ”although the mini - series features impressive production values and acting performances , and although the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script , we believe it does not present a balanced portrayal of the reagans for cbs and its audience , ” the statement read . ”subsequent edits that we considered did not address those concerns . ”
as cbs learned the hard way , it’s impossible to divorce the political and creative components in analyzing “ the reagans ” — an uneven and , yes , unflattering biography that the network tossed to showtime in a game of corporate hot potato . taking score ideologically , the project depicts nancy reagan as a dragon lady and the former president as an amiable , square - jawed dunce blessed with a gift for gab . yet underneath that harsh glare lurks a humanizing touch , for it is also the story of a couple fiercely devoted to each other — albeit often at the expense of those around them .
although speakes had spent nearly six years enhancing the president’s image , his own unhedged assessment of the first couple undid much of that work . reagan , he writes , was an “inexperienced and sometimes downright disinterested president . ” nancy was a back stabber , obsessed to the point of absurdity with guarding her husband’s reputation . the reagans’ children , the president’s staff—everyone is fair game for speakes : maureen reagan is a “punch - you - in - the - nose type” who intimidates even george shultz ; edwin meese , “an ideologue” who earned the nickname poppin’ fresh for his pillsbury doughboy girth .
even before deciding to pull the miniseries , cbs had agreed to cut one scene in which reagan displayed indifference to people with aids , saying ( in a line that the screenwriter admits reagan never uttered ) ,
they that live in sin shall die in sin .
some media observers have argued that cbs ' s decision not to show
the reagans
represents a low point in the history of the network once considered tv ' s most fearless and independent source of news . ( see salon ' s cover story by rebecca traister . )
while the authors’ styles vary , their portraits of the reagans have a certain consistency . with the exception of nancy’s former chief of staff , james rosebush , whose recent first lady , public wife is a coffee - table paean to the woman he once served , they limn the president and mrs . reagan in a harshly unflattering light . reagan is seen as a cheerfully detached character who has mastered the role , if not the substance , of the presidency . his diminutive helpmate is described as a tireless warrior who uses press leaks , political legerdemain and astrological guidance to protect her husband and dispense with the couple’s enemies .
the decision not to cast younger actors to portray the reagans when they first met is a strange one , since judy davis and james brolin are age appropriate for the white house years , but at least it gives us an opportunity to spend more time with these talents . neither is at the top of the game , to be sure , but they ' re having fun portraying and often times eviscerating the iconic characters . it ' s enjoyable watching the pure mean - spiritedness this has , sometimes brimming on plagiarizing mommie dearest . bad writing , cheap wigs and judy davis ' s over - the - top turn make this the camp it ought to be .
the popular impression , ' ' he writes ,
is that the reagans are so close that they drive everyone else out , even the children . that may be unfair to nancy reagan . her presence gives others an excuse for not being able to get beyond a barrier that was built long before she came into his life . ' ' and she did send a letter to kitty dukakis when she revealed her problems with drugs and alcohol ; and she did drop a note to a washington reporter who learned that she had breast cancer , and even gave her a scoop ; and she was kind to the beleaguered quayles when they arrived in washington .
it is a movie . more precisely , it is a made - for - television movie that squeezes real life characters and historical moments into a convenient dramatic arc : a love story lived out against a backdrop of the cold war , california politics and washington intrigue . ' ' the reagans ' ' is reasonably accurate , at times engrossing , at other times silly and sometimes even dull . it is not a thoughtful look at a critical moment in american history . it is a domestic drama about a loving couple beset by hollywood agents , republican backers , scheming advisers and , most of all , their angry , needy children .
trash , maybe ; but not fiction . kelley ' s books should be read in the spirit in which they are rendered . just as the reagans offered a mixture of show business and politics , so kelley offers a mixture of gossip and biography . the problem with her books is that they fall between the stools . they are neither completely tacky nor completely scholarly . to read them as one would read a tabloid is to miss the instruction that they contain . to read them as one would read a work of history is to risk distorting the record . kelley ' s achievement , i guess , is to have honed the bastard genre of biography in the culture of celebrity . she brings to mind baudelaire ' s advice to readers of newspapers , that you can learn a great deal from them if you read them with the proper contempt .
and another significant misimpression of kelley ' s work should be immediately corrected . she is not any more salacious in her treatment of her subject ( and her subject ' s husband ) than other biographers have been in their treatment of theirs . she does not practice sexual history more than , say , william manchester did in his life of winston churchill , or steven naifeh and gregory white smith did in their life of jackson pollock . her unsubtle and unsophisticated book , in fact , broaches subtle and sophisticated questions . how did the reagans use their power ? how were their personal lives at variance with the conservative morality that was at the core of ronald reagan ' s political philosophy and popular appeal ? to what extent did they sell the presidency and commercialize the white house ? how much political illusion is permissible in a democracy ?
first of all , of recent presidents , the reagans and these bushes—the old bushes it was true of to a certain extent—are really close , tight . the husband and wife are a real team and a real marriage . they talk about things , live their lives together . laura bush , from what i can just reconstruct by studying the record and the biographical evidence , probably was the single person that had the biggest influence in turning her husband into a serious adult with a public sense of mission . she really turned his life around , because he always had leadership qualities in the sense that he was someone who knew how to bring out the best in other people’s performances and had a real gift of dealing with people , but he never really got serious until he gave up some of his extended adolescent habits of conspicuous consumption and whatnot , after she got hold of him . and i’ve got to think that where needed , she will always be there .
the “evil empire
paragraph was in the first draft , the reagan papers show .
the decision to pull the series sparked the same polarized response as the biopic itself , reports cbs news correspondent jerry bowen .
though the national board of review named it one of the top 10 films of the year .
the reagan library documents show that the president - - possibly with advice – removed parenthetical putdowns of the
intelligentsia ,
the
glitter set ,
the
unilateral disarmers ,
the
old liberalism
and the anti - religious sectors of the news media in the united states .
the true believers resented the influence of the pragmatists . they saw the pragmatists as trying to remake and restrain the leader they helped elect . the true believers wanted a chance to set reagan loose .
from the beginning . well before the first year , early on—they developed the idea that we’d have a steering committee for the state of the union . that helped .
exhibit a of the journalistic delinquency of those dizzy years , when it was morning in america and washington was a city of flatterers and flacks , must be first lady , a portrait of nancy reagan , a glossy picture book that appeared in 1986 under the name of chris wallace , who is , please recall , a journalist .
the reason she looks adoringly at her husband is because she adores him , ' ' reads the caption above a picture of the reagans , wearing red sweaters and sitting with their tv trays . and there are the testimonials :
nancy ' s anything but frivolous . she ' s very level - headed , she ' s very sincere , she ' s very down to earth , and why she seemed frivolous i don ' t know ' ' ( bonita granville wrather ) ;
nancy reagan has a terrific sense of humor , a terrific sense of style , is very giving , and is very tuned in to the world around her ' ' ( charles z . wick ) ;
she ' s one of the most special people that i ' ve ever known in the world ' ' ( michael deaver ) ; and so on .
in the spring of 1982 , the president already was feeling the reins on his rhetoric . the first draft of his address to the british parliament labeled the soviet union the world ' s “focus of evil . ” he liked the text . but parliament never heard those words .
on march 8 , 1983 , ronald reagan called the soviet union the focus of evil in the modern world . the evil empire speech disturbed the political universe . and yet the critical words almost went unsaid . -
and as the reagan papers show and former reagan aides confirm , the speech was the climax of a continuing debate , in and outside the white house , about how the president should talk about the soviet union .
insight on the news is the name of the publication . in any event , there’s a copy here .
mark joseph is the producer of reagan : the movie . paul kengor is the author of the crusader : ronald reagan and the fall of communism and god & ronald reagan : a spiritual life , the two books upon which the film is based .
gillespie said that if cbs denies the request , he will ask the network to run a note across the bottom of the screen every 10 minutes during the program ' s presentation informing viewers that the miniseries is not accurate .
the first half of the draft was on domestic policy , including abortion and school prayer . the second half was on world affairs , principally the nuclear freeze and the “evil empire .
read the script for the movie that was too hot for cbs to handle .
and yet all the sanctimonious complaining about kelley ' s book misses the point .
at the white house , aram bakshian , the speechwriting director , went over the draft . bakshian saw four references to the soviet union as evil . he particularly liked the term
evil empire .
both the new york times and washington post film critics detected authenticity in the emotions she conveyed on screen . the times declared that she “knows the loneliness of grief , ” while the post critiqued that she “is splendid as the understanding widow . ”
the reagan library papers provide fascinating insights into the drafting of what may have been the most important presidential statement of the cold war . they also reveal that , despite the unremitting influences on him , the president himself decided what he would say .
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this decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final film , not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script ,
the network said .
gillespie said cbs should review the miniseries for historical accuracy , or the network should run a disclaimer that the program is fiction .
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early in john adams presidency , he faced the prospect of war with france after the french navy had increased its efforts of stopping american ships trading with the british empire after the signing of the jay treaty . adams attempted to send delegates to negotiate with the french , but the french minister demanded bribes before negotiations would begin . the americans refused , and the information was leaked to the public , becoming the xyz affair — x , y and z standing for the names of french officials in documents released by the adams administration . american and french naval forces engaged in an undeclared war for several months , known as the quasi - war , before the situation was finally settled . during the period of hostilities , both the federalists and the republican - democratic parties used the events to heavily push their own narratives .
while the vietnam war was controversial during his presidency , it wasn’t until after lyndon johnson left office that the true level of controversy was revealed . the pentagon papers were splashed across the front page of the new york times , indicating that the president had systematically lied to the american people about american involvement and actions in the southeast asian region .
the tv network insisted it was not bowing to political pressure over the script , details of which were revealed in the new york times last month , but said the decision was made after viewing the finished film .
and other phrases slashed from the parliament speech were resurrected in the evil empire speech .
whoever crossed out the section expected it to be deleted before the president saw the draft , but dolan would not allow it .
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this challenge came in the course of the debate over ratification of the inf treaty which the democrats , led by senator sam nunn , decided to use in pursuing their longstanding battle with reagan over whether or not the abm treaty of 1972 permits sdi to be tested in space . thus as the price of ratifying the inf agreement while reagan was in moscow at his summit with mikhail gorbachev , the democrats added the “condition” that treaties must be interpreted according to the “common understanding . . . shared by the president and the senate at the time the senate gives its advice and consent to ratification . ”
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when american military forces defeated the spanish empire in the spanish - american war , the united states found itself with a large naval and marine force in the philippines . the filipinos quickly created their own independent republic , expecting for support from the united states . instead , william mckinley ordered american forces to occupy the philippines , and in the end a brutal and repressive war was waged by american forces against the philippine republic and the ensuing insurgency . the war was so immensely unpopular that citizens offered to buy the philippines from the government to give it its independence .
the m74 northern extension , a five - mile , six - lane motorway on the southside of the clyde river provides a cautionary tale of likely outcomes for the clyde gateway project . the road ' s link to the initiative has been emphasised repeatedly by key catalyst agencies . in the glasgow and clyde valley structure plan , the motorway is described as a
key component
77 of infrastructure for the clyde gateway initiative . meanwhile , scottish enterprise claimed that the m74 was a
vital prerequisite
78 of the clyde gateway initiative , and that their funding for the initiative would not be forthcoming if the road did not proceed . moreover , the clyde gateway business plan clearly states the importance of the m74 to their infrastructure plans , including the east end regeneration route which is dependent on the m74 completion :
the extension to the m74 and the east end regeneration route will make clyde gateway one of the most accessible urban centres in scotland .
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the “evil empire” paragraph was never part of the westminster address . but in the 32 - minute orlando speech , it was the centerpiece . it was the longest sentence - - so long that , on the day of the speech , only one television network , cbs , let viewers hear all 72 words :
instead , i was still doing commentary outside through the campaign and then was contacted after the election when they began the transition activities .
there are some fairly frequent mentions throughout the briefing materials about the idea that a speech deadline often forces the issue with competing actors .
- - also eliminated from the london speech was the reference to the soviet union as a
militaristic empire” whose ideology justifies any wrongdoing . in the evil empire speech , the empire concept returned in a more powerful form .
it was widely reported at the time of the cultural commission that bridget mcconnell wished to exert some influence over the process , with fears being expressed that the commission was a thinly veiled bid to axe the scottish arts council .
the office of speechwriting regularly placed drafts of presidential speeches in piles for circulation throughout the bureaucracy . certain white house staffers were responsible for looking over the texts and routing them to the agencies that might want to comment . if the staffers didn ' t notice the subject matter , the drafts might not go far .
cbs said its decision to cancel the movie was
based solely on our reaction to seeing the final film , not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script .
sven kraemer , arms control director on the president ' s national security council , was asked to review the draft , giving special attention to the section on the nuclear freeze debate .
not surprisingly , the congressional minority opposed to any u . s . aid for the contras began to leak details of the operation . but the decisive leak came in april from an odd source , senator barry goldwater , who was then chairman of the senate intelligence committee , in an odd place , the floor of the senate . the way it happened is a classic cautionary tale of the risks to the secrecy of covert operations in any reporting requirement .
the best known and most scurrilous of them all , the brutalizing of robert bork , also provided the clearest example of white house passivity . 1 the long - term effect of this case on the judiciary and on the level of political debate remains to be seen , but the immediate result was that the senate stopped bothering to hold hearings at all on some judicial nominees who could be described as controversial under the post - bork rules of the game .
one group , the media research center ( search ) , asked major advertisers to review the script before buying commercial time during the broadcast .
dolan said he believes a few senior advisers muffled the sterner words of his first draft . the problem , he said , was that “the pragmatists
in the white house were afraid to let reagan be reagan while they steered
the true believers
away from the president .
the leak was unfortunate , but more damaging yet was the reaction of the liberals , led by senator daniel p . moynihan , goldwater’s co - chairman on the bipartisan intelligence committee , who announced that they had never been informed by the cia about its participation in the mining .
sometimes the squabbling even spilled over into the press . in 1982 , for example , there were two alternative drafts of the state of the union address . i never bothered to correct it , but bill safire got this one wrong in the pages of the new york times .
that’s right . i think insight on the news was the name of the feature page or something and that’s where he was writing it .
contributing to the split of the republican party in 1912 was the ballinger controversy . chief of field divisions of the general land office , louis glavis , accused president william taft’s head of the department of the interior , richard ballinger , of interfering in an investigation into coal mining in idaho . taft had glavis fired for insubordination and exonerated ballinger . press scandal followed , and the progressive wing of the republican party would split and join the democrats by the 1912 election .
liberals may still decry the “imperial presidency , ” but the reality is that since the last months of the nixon administration in 1973 - 74 , the presidency has been hampered by two major congressional restrictions on its ability to function . one , involving domestic affairs , is the budget and impoundment control act ; the other , involving foreign policy , is the war powers resolution . both passed despite president nixon’s vigorous opposition , and both vastly expanded the powers of congress at the expense of the president’s . to top it all off , the art of prosecutorial politics , developed during watergate , was perfected by congress during the reagan years as yet another effective weapon in the struggle for power against the executive .
“i told the speechwriters that day , ' look , the freezeniks are making real inroads into the evangelical heartland , and the president needs to address this issue , '
remembered cizik .
as for bin laden , reagan had nothing to do with him . reagan aided the afghans fighting the soviet invaders , demoralizing the soviets and clearly exposing the communists ' fundamentally oppressive goals .
while living apart from her mother created anxiety , being so close to washington permitted the future first lady to at least attend the annual easter egg roll contest on the white house lawn during the years that grace coolidge hosted the event .
, which took its audience . not helping matters were the negative reviews the film got at the time , though the film ' s visuals were praised and influenced the look of many science fiction films for years to come . this became
“but we knew that what the liberal democrat leaders just couldn ' t figure out : the sky would not fall if america restored her strength and resolve . the sky would not fall if an american president spoke the truth . the only thing that would fall was the berlin wall .
incident number two was a meeting with dr edward n brandt jr , the oklahoma physician who oversaw the first federal response to aids as assistant secretary of the department of health and human services . virginia apuzzo , who was executive director of the national gay and lesbian taskforce during the early days of the epidemic , arranged the meeting .
in 1919 , the u . s . navy launched an investigation into claims of homosexual interactions between naval personal and civilians at newport , r . i . , initiated by then - secretary of the navy , franklin roosevelt . the methods of the investigation — keeping it almost exclusively within the navy — drew criticism from the press , and in the end the investigators themselves were accused of homosexuality after the reports were filed . wilson , already facing criticism for his handling of world war i , found himself drawn into the scandal when the inhabitants of newport wrote to him directly , complaining of the navy’s handling of the investigation .
the flap over the $ 9 million miniseries began late last month after the times raised questions about portions of the script that were unflattering to president ronald reagan and former first lady nancy reagan .
pride causes foolishness - - pride in the sense of one of the deadly sins .
the budget act of 1974 was crafted by congress to rob the president of the ability to limit spending , while making it possible for a fragmented collection of congressmen to spend and at the same time to evade the responsibility for doing so .
once again , then , ronald reagan permitted a further weakening of the powers of the presidency .
significantly , however , none of csgs objections related to the main thrust of the article , namely , the harnessing of the citys culture to tourism and regeneration agendas and the intrusion of private interests into what was previously a public sector domain .
hanley recounts the infamous story of cutteslowe walls . cutteslowe was an area of oxford where adjoining council and private estates were built in the early 1930s to accommodate the growing population of the town , then prospering on the expansion of the first generation of motor factories . these two estates were hardly distinguishable but the developer behind the private estate thought differently and without planning permission constructed in 1934 two walls ( topped with metal spikes ) across the main road , pavements and gardens between the two estates to completely isolate the council tenants . this illegal wall stayed put until the late 1950s .
that used to happen occasionally on the plane with spiro agnew , when buchanan and safire were on the plane in 1970 , the midterm elections .
yes , several . most memorably , the one on the economy was very important before the 1982 midterm elections , where he basically managed to hold the losses even though we were in a recession , because his stay the course message resonated .
the crown jewel of presidential scandals , richard nixon’s watergate forever changed the public perception of the executive office . nixon ordered the break - in of the democratic national committee headquarters at the watergate office complex in washington , d . c . while the act itself was bad , it was the ensuing cover - up attempted by the nixon administration that became truly infamous , with nixon’s constant dodging of questions and reluctance to hand over evidence eventually leading to the obvious threat of impeachment and nixon’s resignation , the only president to resign from office .
in short , the senate can withhold its ratification , or it can insist on renegotiation , but it cannot negotiate with the administration over what the senate would like the treaty to have said , thereby binding the u . s . but leaving the soviets free to adopt a less restrictive interpretation .
killing reagan is a slight departure in the book franchise , in that the 1981 attempt on reagan’s life was unsuccessful . the book explores the assassination attempt by john hinckley on the newly elected president , and how it impacted reagan’s time in office .
the merits of the constitutional debate were on nixon’s side , but he was then at the nadir of his watergate fortunes and congress was determined to make the most of the opportunity to increase its own powers at the expense of the presidency . accordingly , the budget law passed in 1974 completely prohibited impoundments and created “deferrals” and “rescissions” in their place . henceforth presidents could only delay spending by issuing a deferral , but either the house or senate could pass a resolution ordering that the money be spent . a president could also rescind an appropriation , but for the recission to be effective , both the house and senate would have to vote their approval within 45 days . absent any action by the two houses , the president would be required to spend the funds after the 45 - day period .
to be sure , no one then anticipated the “criminalization of policy differences , ” as north would later describe the phenomenon to his congressional tormentors . nevertheless , it was clear after corinto and the boland amendments that the procedure - based approach by congress to the real issues raised by the events in nicaragua would handicap the administration’s policy . in the event , congress was able to starve the contras of consistent aid long enough to force them to surrender . this will likely be remembered as the major foreign - policy disaster of the reagan years , and the irony is that the “great communicator” never managed to force the yes - or - no , up - or - down vote by congress that would have established a clear line of responsibility if the contras were forced off the field of battle .
nevertheless , before the vote on the condition , reagan’s chief of staff , howard baker , announced that the white house did not oppose its inclusion , and it passed the senate overwhelmingly . having paid the price in the coin of presidential power and constitutional integrity , reagan was awarded with the treaty in time for a symbolic signing ceremony in moscow .
the sisters of perpetual indulgence performing an ‘exorcism’ in union square san francisco during the democratic national convention . photograph : courtesy of the sisters of perpetual indulgence
the war powers resolution , requiring congressional approval for the commitment of u . s . forces in combat abroad for longer than 60 days , and its progeny ( notably the five boland amendments limiting presidential discretion in aiding the democratic resistance in nicaragua ) have had the same paralyzing effect on foreign policy that the prohibition of impoundments and the evisceration of the veto have had on controlling the budget . to be sure , no president has made the mistake of acquiescing in the constitutionality of the war powers resolution , which was passed in 1973 over the veto of president nixon . but certainly they have all had to condition defense strategy on the possibility that congress might indeed some day try to enforce its provisions .