Actor scripts a home-grown theater
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- Actor scripts a home-grown theater
- Asharq Al-awsat Interviews Frank Gardner
- LIVING ROOMS REBOUND AS GROWN-UP SPACES.(At Home)
- Braves Have Grown on These Youngsters
- Kathleen Taylor: Thought crime | World news | The Guardian
- A winter of discontent is brewing for Bush team
Actor scripts a home-grown theater
Seattle Times – Oct 8, 2005
“When the community finds out what quality productions we do, we’ll have our audience. ”
Arts groups are gaining a foothold in the upper and lower Snoqualmie Valley, he said. Lee Grumman has started Miller’s Arts Center in Carnation, offering music events and arts classes. Fall City, Duvall and Snoqualmie have active arts councils bringing live entertainment to the area. During summer, Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater produces musicals in an outdoor setting in Fall City… “I decided I wanted to live in a beautiful area and start a theater school. ”
Schwartz teaches theater arts to youth and adults, and the theater gives his students a chance to practice the craft. His teaching method is based on improvisational games, a technique developed by Viola Spolin, whose work is a foundation for Chicago’s famed Second City, home of alumni of such shows as “Saturday Night Live. ” Schwartz worked with Spolin for more than a decade. She was his inspiration, he said, and helped him sustain a successful Hollywood career as a voice-over actor. His movie and television credit list includes “Jurassic Park,” “Quest for Fire,” “Star Trek,” “Abyss,” “Zoobilee Zoo” (he’s Bravo Fox), “You and Me Kid,” “Pet Cemetery II” and “Batman Returns. ”
“It’s my voice on Michelle Pfeiffer’s answering machine.
Asharq Al-awsat Interviews Frank Gardner
Asharq Alawsat – Oct 8, 2005
Q: As one of the United Kingdom ‘s most prominent security analysts, how do you describe the direction of the ongoing investigation into the London bombings going? A: From the very moment that the bombings happened on July 7, the investigation became international; it was never going to be a purely British investigation and the idea that this was purely home-grown terrorism is a misnomer. In reality, there is no such thing as home-grown terrorism; there is usually an international link. When an Al-Qaeda related bomb goes off, in Casablanca , Istanbul , Riyadh or London , it is going to have an international link therefore it is an international investigation. Initially the investigation looked towards Pakistan and there are many leads that have been followed up in Pakistan , and they have caught alive all four suspected members who were involved in 21 July bombing attempts. Now they have an incredible opportunity to gather information about how things were put together, and of course, the arrest of the man in Rome has proven to be very interesting. We know that he made a call to Saudi Arabia , we know of a support network in Britain.
LIVING ROOMS REBOUND AS GROWN-UP SPACES.(At Home)
highbeam.com – Oct 8, 2005
Unless one resides in a studio apartment, it is a room not so much for day-to-day living as it is a backdrop, the place we gather to take pre-prom and holiday greeting card snapshots. Usurped as an activity center by the den, the family room, the recreation and rumpus rooms, the ubiquitous great room (the kitchen-dining-TV and baby-watching space) and, of course, the 21st century home theater, the living room had become something of a dead zone. But reports of the living room’s outright demise have been greatly exaggerated. With interest in home decorating now exceeding the boom.
Braves Have Grown on These Youngsters
Washington Post – Oct 8, 2005
“Hopefully, I can turn the baton over to them,” Smoltz said. The kids have done a good job so far. Aside from McCann’s home run, which was the first time a Brave had homered in his first postseason at-bat, rookie outfielder Ryan Langerhans is 2 for 5 and Francoeur is 3 for 7 in this best-of-five NL Division Series. Francoeur, also an outfielder, was the first to greet McCann at home plate after his home run on Thursday. The two hugged and celebrated, much like they had done as kids. Francoeur then slapped McCann on the head and the young catcher roared in excitement. “You couldn’t write a better script,” McCann said, “for any of this… The kids have done a good job so far. Aside from McCann’s home run, which was the first time a Brave had homered in his first postseason at-bat, rookie outfielder Ryan Langerhans is 2 for 5 and Francoeur is 3 for 7 in this best-of-five NL Division Series. Francoeur, also an outfielder, was the first to greet McCann at home plate after his home run on Thursday. The two hugged and celebrated, much like they had done as kids. Francoeur then slapped McCann on the head and the young catcher roared in excitement. “You couldn’t write a better script,” McCann said, “for any of this.
Kathleen Taylor: Thought crime | World news | The Guardian
Guardian Unlimited – Oct 8, 2005
But that was no consolation in the chaos. The 52 innocent and unlucky dead, from a striking variety of faiths and backgrounds, left many more distraught friends and relatives, more than 700 injured, a city wounded and a nation in shock. And then we learned that the bombers were “home-grown”. That incongruous word, more often applied to talent, or vegetables, seemed completely at odds with the horror of that summer Thursday and what one bereaved father called its “totally evil” perpetrators. Bemused commentators cast about, desperate to understand how young British men – men such as Mohammad Sidique Khan, married with a job and a baby, living in one of the freest and most fortunate societies on earth – could come to turn their hate on their homeland, and blow themselves to pieces to express that hate. Once we would have blamed the devil and called those four young suicides “possessed”. But in 1950, when the United States confronted Mao Zedong’s China in the Korean war, a chilling new word became available.
A winter of discontent is brewing for Bush team
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Oct 8, 2005
John Abizaid and ground commander Gen. George Casey – came to town and let slip the awful truth about our efforts to stand up an Iraqi army and security force. Although the Americans have spent a small fortune training and equipping more than 200,000 Iraqi soldiers and militia and police, the generals concede that only one battalion of perhaps 700 troops is actually capable of operating against the home-grown insurgents and the foreign jihad terrorists. After two years, only one battalion can stand alone without American guidance, backup, direction and fire support. This was the only real hope of beginning to hand off responsibility for Iraq’s future to Iraqis. And it has blown away on those cold winds blowing through the nation’s capital. The president was quick to slap down any thought of reducing the American presence on the roads and streets of Iraq – a presence the generals report is no longer stifling the insurgency but actually feeding it because we are there.