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12. Others just said this was highway robbery, plain and simple. |
14. How could you do this to us, Europe? |
Australia got robbed here, fam. This is my first #Eurovision and I'm already disillusioned. |
16. Can we have a recount? |
17. We have SO MANY QUESTIONS. |
18. But there's one thing we're sure of: we were bloody robbed. |
20. We will not forget who the "real winner" is. |
21. And if you're not careful, we'll consider taking serious action. |
Thirty-five years after its release, Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls" -- the closest thing to a commercial film that he made -- looks like anthropological documentary. |
The San Francisco Cinematheque will screen this seldom-seen landmark of '60s culture tomorrow and Saturday at the Castro Theatre. |
The complete work has not been shown in the Bay Area for 20 years. |
"The Chelsea Girls" makes a prime exhibit in the right-wing case against the '60s as the decade that glamorized drugs, sexual liberty and antisocial posturing. |
Of course, it offers just as much evidence that glamour, media and the sexualization of everything are drugs that promote antisocial attitudes, but no one sees political mileage in that at the moment. |
At 3 1/2 hours, "The Chelsea Girls" delivers a near overdose of Warhol's insistence on voyeurism as the essence of making and watching films. |
The movie has a flimsy fictional armature: keyhole views into rooms at Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, an idea that goes back at least to the lurid Weimar period drawings of George Grosz. Several of the 12 reels were shot in the Chelsea Hotel. |
Onscreen are the friends and hangers-on Warhol dubbed "superstars": Ondine, Nico, International Velvet, Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar, Eric Emerson, Mary Woronov (Hanoi Hannah) and others. |
"I was the only one who memorized my lines," Woronov complained in a recent memoir, "and no one even noticed." |
One reason: All involved (except Warhol) were drugged most of the time -- we see several injections on camera. |
Viewers of "The Chelsea Girls" also will find it hard to notice, or care, whether anyone has or remembers lines because the movie is projected two reels at a time: Images run side by side, sometimes with sound, sometimes not. The shuttling of one's attention between the two projections, between soundtracks or sound and... |
In effect, no two viewers see the same movie. Hindsight suggests the influence of John Cage, which pervaded the New York art scene in the early '60s. |
Warhol's method was to turn the camera on and let it run until a reel was spent. Whatever happened in that interval was a scene. Scripted or not, the action in "The Chelsea Girls" maintains a pronounced sadomasochistic, and misogynist, tone. |
"I never liked the idea of picking out certain scenes and pieces of time and putting them together," Warhol said in 1980, "because then it ends up being different from what really happened -- it's just not like life. . . . What I liked was chunks of time all together, every real moment. . . . I only wanted to find grea... |
Long stretches of "The Chelsea Girls" define cinematic tedium: Nico trimming her bangs, a bedizened Marie Mencken, looking like Sydney Greenstreet in drag, berating Malanga. |
But watching and waiting brought some amazing performances before Warhol's camera: Emerson's stoned monologue, Ondine's violent, sourly comic rant on being pope. |
References are made to the Vietnam War (by Hanoi Hannah) and the "Johnson menstruation," but the tyranny of the camera is the oppression "The Chelsea Girls" records and imposes. No wonder it still seems radical, despite all we have seen onscreen and off since 1966. |
THE CHELSEA GIRLS: Split-screen projection movie by Andy Warhol. 8 p.m. tomorrow Fri., 2 pm and 8 p.m. Saturday. Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., San Francisco. (415) 822-2885 or (415) 621-6120. |
FORMER Juventus striker and Premier League star Fabrizio Ravanelli has thrown his hat into the ring for the vacant manager’s job at Chesterfield. |
The Spireites are searching for a new boss after the sacking Gary Caldwell on Saturday following defeat at Accrington Stanley. |
That result left them second bottom of League Two – but the ex-Middlesbrough, Derby and Italy goal machine believes he could transform their fortunes and guide them to promotion. |
Speaking to Sky Sport News, the 48-year-old said: "Chesterfield is a good possibility for me but I have not spoken with Chesterfield and they are just rumours. |
"It is a good club with the possibility of going up to League One." |
But he will face competition for the vacancy with the club already receiving over 30 applicants for the post. |
Ravanelli, 48, shocked the football world when he moved to England to join Boro in 1996 just weeks after scoring and helping Juve to win the Champions League. |
A hat-trick on his debut against Liverpool ensured he got off to a thumping start to life on Teesside, but the campaign would ultimately end in relegation and defeats in both domestic cup finals. |
And during that season he actually scored against Chesterfield for the Teessiders in the FA Cup semi-final. |
Rav was known as the White Feather due to his iconic grey hair back in his playing days. |
He has not managed since an unsuccessful spell in charge of French side AC Ajaccio came to an end with his dismissal four years. |
He remains unproven as a coach, but he is keen to get back in the hotseat and prove he can be just as successful in the dugout as he was on the pitch. |
Following his time at Boro, he went on to play for Marseille before returning to the Prem with Derby County and then heading north of the border to play for Dundee. |
Tom Hardy continues his tradition of playing comic book characters whose main power is mumbling in the latest trailer for Venom. It's a fun-filled 3:14 that extols the virtues of teamwork, appreciating one another's differences and making the best of a bad situation. |
I'm betting the movie'll be just like the Odd Couple, but with more eviscerations. |
HCL Tech, HUL, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Auto and Sun Pharma were among the top gainers. |
Telecom, metal, oil & gas and power indices slipped in early trade. Consumer durables, IT, FMCG and pharma indices were up with mild gains. |
NEW DELHI: Indian equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened with tepid gains but managed to edge higher as the session progressed shrugging off weak macroeconomic numbers. |
India's retail inflation rose to a three-month high of 2.57 per cent in February from 2.05 per cent last month on the back of a modest spike in food and fuel prices. |
Another set of data showed the country's industrial production slipped to 1.7 per cent in January 2019 from 2.4 per cent in December 2018. |
The Indian rupee came under pressure following a rise in global crude oil prices and weak macroeconomic prints. The domestic unit opened almost flat at 69.69 against the US dollar. |
Oil prices climbed on tightening global supply after a Saudi official said the kingdom plans to cut oil exports in April, while the US government reduced its forecast for domestic crude output growth, Reuters said. |
Around 10.00 am, the BSE Sensex was 84 points, or 0.24 per cent, up at 37,625, while the Nifty index was at 11,317, up 16 points or 0.14 per cent. |
BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices traded flat at that time. |
HCL Tech, Hindustan Unilever, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Auto and Sun Pharma were among the top gainers in the Sensex index. |
On the other hand, ONGC, Vedanta, Coal India, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Tata Motors were among the top losers. |
Meanwhile, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) bought Rs 2,477.72 crore worth of domestic stocks on Tuesday, data available with NSE suggested. DIIs were net sellers to the tune of Rs 990.48 crore, data suggested. |
Hailey Grace Johnson was born at 5:19 pm, April 18, 2018 at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, weighing 6 lbs 15 oz. She was welcomed by her parents, Robert and Amanda Johnson, of Esko, along with big brother Hudson (2). Grandparents are Mike and Sue Schwartz of Hibbing, and David and Diana Johnson of Esko. Great-grandpare... |
A nationwide manhunt is underway for a disbarred Georgia attorney accused of killing his mother. |
Richard Merritt had been sentenced to 15 years in prison and 15 years on probation after being convicted of stealing money from his clients and elder abuse. The court found him guilty on more than 30 counts of theft, forgery and elder exploitation. |
He was given until 5 p.m. on February 1 to get his affairs in order before turning himself in. |
Instead, the US Marshal Service says he cut off his ankle monitor and fled. |
The day after Merritt was supposed to surrender, his mother, Shirley Merritt, was found violently killed. Her car was missing, while Merritt's vehicle was found at the scene, the US Marshal Service said in a statement. |
"The vehicle he may be driving is a 2009 silver Lexus RX350, bearing a Georgia tag CBV 6004," the US Marshal Service's statement reads. "He may have shaved his head or otherwise changed his appearance, and should be considered armed and dangerous. Do not try to engage him. If you see Merritt, please contact law enforce... |
Merritt had admitted to settling civil lawsuits on his clients' behalf without their knowledge, forging signatures on settlement checks and documents and keeping money intended for his clients, the Cobb County District Attorney's office said in a statement. |
"The victims came to him for help, and he helped himself instead," Senior Assistant District Attorney Jason Marbutt said. "People ought to be able to trust their lawyer. When a lawyer lies, it has ripple effects on the entire system." |
Merritt was also ordered to pay $454,706 in restitution to his clients. |
"Some of his client-victims were pursuing medical malpractice claims and are now further injured financially because of Merritt's crimes and abuse," the Cobb County DA's office said. "Some other victims are elderly. Merritt lied to the victims, leading them to believe he was still pursuing their legal claims. Meanwhile... |
CNN has reached out to the lawyer representing Merritt in his initial conviction for comment but has not yet received a response. |
New Orleans-based Liberty Bank has partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration to help guarantee loans for black business owners. |
Select Comfort Corp. is putting a technical support contact center in Jefferson Parish this year. |
U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise is in “critical condition” after being shot this morning at a Congressional baseball practice near Washington, D.C., according to a tweet from MedStar Washington Hospital Center. |
U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise’s office says the congressman from Metairie and House Majority Whip is in stable condition after undergoing surgery. |
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana has named Dr. Vindell Washington as chief medical officer. |
An indoor golf simulator center is bringing a new entertainment option to New Orleans-area residents this fall. |
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration says it cost more than $2.1 million to remove four Confederate monuments. |
Property owners are being urged to understand their flood zones and purchase adequate flood coverage. |
Detailing ambitious plans to expand services in a growing Baton Rouge market, Ochsner Health System has announced a $100 million investment to build new facilities to provide more outpatient and specialty care services for the region. |
Take heed, Jxmmi’s friends. And whatever you do, just make sure you’re not in front of your mom if you do get a surprise FaceTime call from him. |
See his racy revelation in the video below. |
Is Now the Time to Load Up on Sin Stocks? |
The bad boys of the stock market have been bad this year. Now might be a good time to buy. |
This has not been a very good year for so-called sin stocks, or companies that populate industries like alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. They operate businesses that some people consider immoral or unethical, and despite their ability to generate substantial profits, some investors go out of their way to ensure they do ... |
Yet one person's trash is another person's treasure, and oftentimes picking up shares in businesses that others cast aside can be good for your portfolio -- if you buy them at the right time. With so many sin stocks trading deep in the red in 2018, this could be a great time to buy in. |
Take a look at how some of these sin stocks are performing this year. |
It's important to realize that not every stock in a particular sinful industry is going to follow the trend down. While mass beer brewers are off by more than 24%, craft beer king Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) is up 42% this year, and gunmakers American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ:AOBC) and Sturm, Ruger (NYSE:RGR) are trading 11% ... |
What makes sin stocks attractive is that they tend to be predictable, profitable stalwarts that often show resilience during a recession. People will largely continue to drink and smoke cigarettes regardless of whether the economy is in the tank, despite the fact that consumption of both has been declining for years (a... |
Sin stocks also tend to pay dividends that offer healthy yields. The dividends of Altria and Anheuser-Busch yield over 5% while CoreCivic's payout is north of 7%. Ruger, which has a dividend based on a constant percentage of net profits, currently yields 2.2%. |
So is now a good time to buy a basket of sin stocks, or just the top industry leaders? You can also invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) like AdvisorShares Vice (NASDAQ:ACT) and USA Mutuals Vice Fund (NASDAQMUTFUND:VICEX). |
There are some reasons why the different sin stocks are performing the way they are, so let's briefly take a birds eye view of the industries to get a sense of how an investor should proceed. |
Mass brewers like Anheuser-Busch and Molson Coors have been trending lower because beer consumption has been on the downswing in the U.S. for several years and shows no sign of reversing anytime soon. While craft beer remains a growth segment, Boston Beer is winning not because of its flagship Samuel Adams beer, but ra... |
World-class casino operators Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts, and Wynn Resorts have been plagued with slowing growth in both Las Vegas and Macau, the biggest gambling center in the world and the only place in China where it's legal to gamble. Wynn is facing additional headwinds because of the sexual misconduct allegations... |
While private prison operators CoreCivic and GEO Group never really seemed to live up to the potential President Donald Trump's administration seemed to promise, financial results for both have improved after his enhanced immigration policies went into effect. Both companies operate detention centers and are building o... |
Smith & Wesson owner American Outdoor Brands had been trading at double-digit losses for much of the year until an earnings surprise in late August sent its stock soaring. Gun buying activity seems to be picking up again, and the results of the coming midterm elections could be a spur to buy more. Nevertheless, it's do... |
Should you own sin stocks? |
Sin stocks aren't everyone's cup of tea, but their historical returns have outpaced the market averages, which makes them worth considering. Still, ETFs may represent the easiest path as they give investors broad exposure and diversification across the full spectrum of sin stocks in the market. |
In Texas, Questions About Prosecuting Truancy : NPR Ed Chronic, unexcused absence from school in Texas often sends students and parents to adult criminal courts. |
Zaid Yassin and his 5-year-old daughter, Fatima, came to Travis County Court in Austin, Texas, to defend Fatima's 23 missed days of school. |
As long as there have been schools and classes, there have been students who don't show up. And educators scratching their heads over what to do about it. |
In most states, missing a lot of school means a trip to the principal's office. In Texas, parents and students are more likely to end up in front of a judge. |
Truancy there is treated as a criminal offense, a class C misdemeanor. In 2013, school districts in the state filed 115,000 truancy cases. The problem is so big, state lawmakers and the U.S. Justice Department are investigating whether prosecuting children and teenagers in adult criminal courts is doing more harm than ... |
Zaid Yassin's case is just one example of the complexity of chronic school absence and the challenges of dealing with it through the criminal justice system. |
Yassin has been summoned by the Travis County Court in Austin because his 5-year-old daughter, Fatima, has missed 23 days of school, all unexcused absences. Yassin says his little girl gets sick a lot. |
"When she's sick, like high fever or stomach pain, normally I write a note the next day when I take her to the school," Yassin says. But he doesn't know why the school considers these unexcused absences. |
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