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Thursday, AUGUST 20, 2015
GOVERNMENT
EDITORIAL
Former Texas District Attorney Disbarred
Withheld Brady Evidence • Threatened Alibi Witness With Prosecution • Knowingly Elicited False Testimony At Murder Trial
On March 6, 2006 the 3- member
Fifth District Texas Court of Appeals
reversed the judgment against Anthony
Graves for the brutal murder of 6 people
in Somerville, Texas. His conviction was
based upon shoddy police work and the
perjured testimony of a single witness –
Robert Carter, a prison guard and the
actual murderer, who acted alone. The
victims had been shot, stabbed and left
in a house that was burned down, on the
night of August 18, 1992, using gasoline
as an accelerant. A night clerk at the local
grocery store told investigators two black
men had purchased a gas can the night
before. Pamela Colloff reported Graves’
story in the October 2010 issue of Texas
Monthly.
No forensic evidence tied Anthony
Graves to the crime, nor could the state
establish a motive. In fact, the forensic
evidence pointed to Robert Carter, who
knew Graves casually through his wife,
Cookie: Graves was her first cousin. Four
days prior to the killings, Lisa Davis, the
mother of two of the victims, had served
Carter with paternity papers.
The state discounted the alibis of
several people who were willing to speak
in Grave’s defense and their testimony
was left out of the official Texas Ranger
report. Carter testified before the Grand
Jury on the record that he had been
pressured to name an accomplice; contradicting the ‘confession’ he initially gave
to the Texas Rangers. “I said ‘Anthony
Graves’ off of the top of my head,” he
insisted. “They told me they would cut
me a deal, that I could walk if I give up a
name, if I give up a story, and that’s what
I did,” according to the Texas Monthly
story.
Carter was found guilty of the
murders in February of 1994. In the weeks
leading up to Anthony Graves’ trial, the
prosecution offered Carter a deal: “They
would allow him to plea to a life sentence
if his conviction was reversed on appeal in
return for testimony against Graves. But,
on the night before he was scheduled to
appear as a witness, Carter told District
Attorney Charles Sebesta that he had
acted alone.”The conversation then turned
to Carter’s wife. Though Carter protested
that she was not involved, Sebesta said he
eventually stated that Cookie had been
the accomplice. Sebesta finally persuaded
Carter to testify by agreeing not to ask
questions about Cookie when he was on
the stand.” The District Attorney’s office
also threatened prosecution of Yolanda
Mathis, Graves’ girlfriend who could
supply him with an alibi and she then
refused to testify.
Four years later, in February 1998,
Carter wrote a letter to his high school
English teacher, from Death Row, telling
her he had “falsely testified against Graves
to protect his wife: ‘she is totally innocent’.
The D.A. and law enforcement believe
she was involved, so I lied on an innocent
man to keep my family safe... I even
told the D.A. this before I testify against
Graves, but he didn’t want to hear it.”*
District Attorney Sebesta accidentally revealed on camera that
Carter told him he acted alone prior
to the trial, during a Geraldo Rivera
interview about the Death Penalty
and this enabled the defense, aided by
the Innocence Project, to introduce
withheld Brady evidence that exculpated Graves. On October 27, 2010
Graves was finally released from prison,
having served 18 years for a crime he
did not commit and he was fortunate
not to have been executed before the
state of Texas finally declared him to be
innocent.
On Friday, June 12, 2015 former
Texas District Attorney Charles Sebesta
was disbarred for: “eliciting false testimony
from Robert Carter • failing to disclose the
exculpatory evidence of Carter’s statement
the night before trial, clearing Graves’ of
involvement in the crime • eliciting false
testimony from a Texas State Ranger
regarding Carter’s statements about
Graves’ involvement • threatening an alibi
defense witness with prosecution for the
same murders, when he had no evidence
to support her involvement, apparently
causing her to decide not to testify on
Graves’ behalf and failing to disclose that
a prosecution witness was under felony
indictment by Sebesta’s office at the time
of his testimony.” (prosecutorialaccountability.com).
Sebesta’s tactics in this case are appalling, to say the least, but they do sound
oddly familiar to those who have followed
the case of our Publisher, Sam Zherka. A
former FBI Agent knowingly made false
and misleading statements to a judge to
obtain illegal wiretaps on Mr. Zherka and
his business associates. We know a witness
left a meeting with Federal Prosecutors
believing he was being pressured to falsely
plead to a bank fraud charge he says he is
not guilty of and to implicate Mr. Zherka
to get a deal. This person was shown his
wife’s tax returns and he inferred from
this, that if he did not go along with the
prosecutor’s version, his wife would be
prosecuted. This person was treated to an
overview of the prison system that ranges
from camps to “this place in Colorado,” in
an effort to intimidate him and enlist his
cooperation.
When faced with documents that
counter their accusations, the Prosecution
disparages them. Nor have they apparently read all of the emails between Mr.
Zherka and his former business associates pertaining to their transactions,
claiming that there are “terabytes of
information” --too much to read and so
they used search terms to extract some
emails, leaving others unread, which is
really very odd. As a result, the defense
is having difficulty obtaining additional
exculpatory evidence.
Why have they targeted Mr. Zherka
for prosecution? Because he organized a T.
E. A. Party that threatened the power base
of both Republicans and Democrats…
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Editorial.....................................................2
Community...............................................3
Letter to the Editor...................................3
Business.....................................................5
Creative Disruption...................................7
Travel.........................................................8
Arts..........................................................10
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Eye on Theatre.........................................11
Local Lore...............................................12
Calendar..................................................14
Mary at the Movies.................................14
Cultural Perspectives...............................15
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COMMUNITY
Preserving New Rochelle’s History: The Davenport House
By Peggy Godfrey
New Rochelle can
boast of its history in
many ways, but unless
efforts are made to
preserve its unique
heritage, famous landmarks will be lost.
City Historian Barbara Davis has
nominated the Davenport House at 157
Davenport Ave., for official designation
as a local landmark and this proposal
is currently under consideration by the
City Council.
The original structure, a Gothic
Revival cottage, was designed by the
renowned architect, Alexander Jackson
Davis (1803-1892), in 1859 for
Lawrence Montgomery Davenport,
whose family owned Davenport Neck
until 1784. Called Sans Souci by the
Davenports, the house was later sold to
W.W. Evans in 1865.
The north wing, designed by
Frederick Coles, another well-known
architect, was added in 1875, followed
by north and south two story additions
designed by architects Snelling and
Porter.The improvements were carefully
made, keeping the original cottage at the
center of the house intact and the additions did not detract from the original
structure, making the house truly
memorable. Theodore Green, who had
been a New Rochelle City Councilman,
completed “historically appropriate” restoration and the building was placed on
the National Register of Historic Places
in 1980.
The main rooms in this well-preserved house have “intricately designed”
parquet floors, an open staircase and a
red marble fireplace, according to the
National Register of Historic Places.
The unique semi-circular library features
wood paneling on the ceiling, bookcases
and fireplaces.
Ms. Davis listed the certification
of the house on the National Register
of Historic Places in 1980, along with
its history as a one and one-half story
Gothic Revival building in her nomination for historic place designation, to the
City.
Alexander Jackson Davis, one of
the most influential architects of the
antebellum era, designed several other
houses in New Rochelle including the
Italianate Winyah Park for Richard
Lathers that won the first Architectural
prize at the New York World’s Fair
of 1853-54 and sadly, burned to the
ground in 1897.
Davis was later employed to design
four houses for investment: two Gothic
cottages along with “Tudor Villa” and
“Pointed Villa,” constructed in 1859.
Frederic Remington purchased one of
these cottages and used it as a studio for
a great portion of his career as an artist.
The Remington house, and another
house owned by Augustus Thomas have
since been demolished.
A letter from Davis to Lathers suggested they were planning the building
of a residential park thirty years before
Rochelle Park was constructed. Davis
developed the planned community
concept for Llewellyn Park in Llewellyn
NJ and influenced the development of
Tuexdo Park.
Davis is the designer of Wildcliff
at Hudson Park, the Cyrus Lawton
house in New Rochelle, commissioned
by Mrs. Lawton’s father, a member of
the Davenport family. The now vacant
city property was bequeathed to New
Rochelle by the Prince family and in the
past has been used as a nature center and
a performing arts center.
Davis’ most famous building is
Lyndhurst in Tarrytown. He designed
many public buildings including the
Executive Department buildings in
Washington D. C. and the first Patent
Office building that he co-designed
with Robert Mills. Davis designed
the majestic Federal Hall National
Memorial at 26 Wall Street in
Manhattan, built on the site of the old
Federal Hall, Bridgeport City Hall and
influenced the design of many other
buildings including the Indiana State
House and the Illinois State Capitol.
The son of a bookseller and publisher, Davis had a pattern of moving
around to sell his work and he lived for
a time in Alexandria, Virginia, where
he learned the printing trade from his
half-brother.
Local history is remembered in
many ways in New Rochelle: how it
was founded and the important people
who lived here, as well as their reasons
for coming and staying in the community. Back as far as 43BC Marcus Tullius
Cicero said, “History is the witness that
testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides
guidance to daily life, and brings the
tidings of antiquity.”
Residents should proudly view
this initiative by the city council
and let their council representative
know they want this bill passed. As
Lorraine Pierce observed, there are
so many reports about young people
not having an understanding of
history. Local history sights not only
show children how things looked and
worked in previous generations, but
also give them appreciation for the
changes that have taken place, particularly improvements in our daily lives.
Landmarking Davenport House is a
wonderful way to keep history alive
for our children.
letter to the editor
Ideas Not Ideology – A New Paradigm Not an Old Paradox
By Warren Gross
If Chicken Little says don’t worry
be happy, it’s time to take her by the
wing and help her cross the street to
the other side. You might not be safe,
but you won’t be sorry. The sunny side
of the street is under assault each day
by wars, pestilence, fire, flood and yes,
we have seen all of these before and in
equal abundance.
What may be different are the
obstacles in crossing the street in
the first place. So many roadblocks,
so many passwords, rites of passage.
Internationally, we have a flying hairpiece suddenly being lionized in some
quarters because many people see him
as a bastion of truth and plain talk. We
have a woman under assault because
many other people see her as a return
of Eve offering the poisoned apple to
people who have a great deal of unraveling what is fact or what is fantasy.
Closer to home, we have a
governor who has discovered a nasty
little secret that being all things to all
people at least guarantees that some
of the offal he throws against the wall,
will stick. Locally, we have the classic
razor’s edge --- the path to tomorrow
seems, at long last to be well lighted,
but how many of these lights are
reflections of the muted lamps of
ideology. This is still up in the air, and
Diogenes and his searching lantern of
truth is still poorly lit and casting little
shadow.
Too much poetry and not enough
prose. We have become seduced by the
poetry of new technology; characters
have replaced words, our news sources
are rich in “breaking news.” Does it
help anyone anywhere to see another
head taken by the assassin’s dagger?
Will the tragic image of the poor man
gasping for breath as he is taken to the
ground by the local authorities bring
forth any further change a year later?
Repetitive cable news represents divisiveness in its most virulent forms. It
enables others to distrust and separate;
while drawing attitudinal lines in the
sand. It nourishes egoistic self-aggrandizement, the growth of the poisons
of “isms or ists” that support separation or at least, apathy.
So, our technological blessings
are more like progressive curses. They
dumb down our thinking, play havoc
with our children’s education and
societal integration, places neighbor
against neighbor, nation against
nation, and weaken any moral imperative or shared values we may have as
world community.
Besides, the plight of the chickens
is devastating. Most cannot cross the
street as pestilence, virus, even ancient
religious traditions are decimating the
flock. No chickens, unthinkable, so
where can we begin.
VOLTAIRE IS A GOOD WAY TO
BEGIN
I have had the good fortune of
being able to make a dent in suggesting the need to replace ideology
with critical and collaborate thinking
given the opportunity to touch upon
the many areas that comprise this
compound and complicated ground.
We can, though, make considerable progress in putting things in a
more stable, and rational way. We can
begin with the process of defining
our terms and coming to an agreement of what we are talking about in
the first place. God knows we must
try – take the current mess relative
to the recent agreement with Iran on
diffusing her nuclear capacity. It is a
difficult situation, full of landmines
and indicative of how our nation
has neglected to proactively develop
within our own political system a clear
Continued on page 6
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Thursday, AUGUST 20, 2015
COMMUNITY
Summer Heats up in Yonkers
By Dan Lipka
Executive Director, Yonkers
Downtown BID
This summer, there
are wonderful free
events happening everyday along the
scenic Yonkers Downtown Waterfront.
World-class musicians, blockbuster
movies, and theater are all part of the
new Downtown Yonkers. Visit the
world famous Science Barge every
weekend or enjoy the brand new art
showcase at the Blue Door Art Gallery.
On Tuesday, August 25th, visit us at 86
Main Street for a special YoFi presentation on a huge 40’ outdoor screen; on
August 28th Philipse Manor Hall will
present The Lego Movie. These free
showings start at 8pm and popcorn is
also free! On Wednesday, one of the best
children’s teaching bands in the country,
the Deedle Deedle Dees will perform at
Van Der Donck Park (1 Larkin Plaza)
as part of Riverwalk Wednesday. This
free weekly series just for kids starts at
5:30pm every Wednesday. And at the
end of each week, enjoy our critically
acclaimed Friday Night Jazz, Blue &
More on the Waterfront concert series.
On August 21st, the Brooklyn Sugar
Stompers and our finale on August
28th will feature fan favorite, the Soul
Synergy Orchestra.
2015 has been an amazing summer
for Downtown Yonkers. Our new children’s series, Riverwalk Wednesday has
been a smash hit. Recently, hundreds
of families gathered in Van Der Donck
for a free Animal Show. Kids and
parents were amazed at the collection of animals, which included snakes,
snapping turtles, lizards, an alligator, and
a 16 ft. Burmese Python. Children and
adults both participated throughout the
entire show, holding lizards and wearing
snakes as hats. Part of the presentation was showcasing animals from our
region and preservation efforts.
“Van Der Donck Park is a unique
natural resource in Downtown Yonkers
and bringing a live animal show to
our kid’s series was a special treat. We
were so happy to share this experience
with so many kids.” said Daniel Lipka,
Executive Director of the Yonkers
Downtown BID.
Yonkers hosted over 50 free events
this summer, attracting thousands of
people to our revitalized downtown and
waterfront. The grand summer finale
will be the 23rd Annual Yonkers Riverfest,
September 12th, 2015. The Riverfest
is the largest event in Westchester
County’s largest city. 20,000 people
visit Downtown Yonkers to see 25 live
music performances, dance shows, play
games, and enjoy international food.
produced by the Yonkers Downtown
BID, with support from Domino
Sugar and the City of Yonkers. You
can find our full summer calendar
and much more information at www.
YonkersDowntown.com.
New Rochelle Project Lifesaver:
Bracelet Emits Radio Frequency That Helps Locate Individuals Who Have Wondered Away Within Minutes
August 4th, New Rochelle, NY:
The New Rochelle Police Department
has instituted Project Lifesaver,
designed to help prevent those suffering from Alzheimer’s, Autism and
other developmental disabilities from
getting lost.
Used in 42 other states, the
bracelet technology employs wristband
transmitters to locate persons who have
wandered off. The personalized device
is powered by a one ounce battery and
emits a tracking signal 24/7 that can be
followed on the ground or in the air,
according to the New Rochelle Police
Dept. The Water resistant bracelet can
be worn in the tub or the shower and
is made of a plastic material that is difficult to remove.
Once a caregiver alerts the Police
via 911 that their family member has
gone missing, the police respond with
a mobile locator tracking system. If
necessary, they are able to enlist the aid
of the Westchester County Aviation
unit to assist in their search effort.
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Headlining our 2015 lineup are the
Motown Legends Leonard Coleman
and Blunt former lead singers of The
Temptations, Platters & Drifters.
Movies on Main Street, Riverwalk
Wednesday, and Friday Night Jazz is
Each bracelet emits a unique frequency
that identifies the wearer and this will
enable police to reduce search times
from hours and days to minutes.
In order to be eligible for the Life
Saver Program children and adults
should have:
a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, Autism
or another Developmental Disorder; a
history of wandering and reside in New
Rochelle with a caregiver who provides
ongoing daily care.
The Police Department will
provide trained staff to work with
families to ensure that the bracelets
are safe and effective. Families are
responsible for checking the bracelets
on a daily basis and recording their
checks in the log provided by the New
Rochelle Police. Additionally, families
are required to attend battery change
appointments with the New Rochelle
Police or their designee every 60 days.
There is a $300 fee for the first year of
usage and an $85 fee thereafter unless
otherwise waived.
Detective Christopher Greco is
available to answer questions regarding the program at 914.654.2362 or
914.494.5946
Those who are already registered
in the Westchester County Lifesaver
Program do not need to reapply and
should continue their service with
the Westchester Jewish Community
Services Center. Contact the New
Rochelle Police immediately to report
any wandering or missing person event
occurring in the City of New Rochelle.
The New Rochelle Lifesaver
Project is made possible through donations from The New Rochelle Police
Foundation, the Police Association of
New Rochelle, Platzner International,
United Hebrew of New Rochelle,
the New Rochelle Chamber of
Commerce, Cliff and Fran Nordquist
and many other private donors. Please
call Detective Christopher Greco if you
wish to make a donation.
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BUSINESS
The Auto Industry Job Sector Rebounds: Half a Million Jobs Created Between 2009 and 2014
the “design, development and manufacturing of innovative automotive
components, more than 72% their
30,000 global workforce is under the
age of 45, according to the company’s
website, and more than 2200 are U. S.
employees. Many college students are
beginning to look at undergraduate
degree programs in Quality Sciences
and in Engineering as the need for this
position to be filled across the United
States will continue to grow.
By Limus Woods
Hi-tech innovations
are driving auto manufacturing at places like
the massive Ford manufacturing plant in Wayne,
Michigan that now produces gasoline
powered, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and
pure electric cars. According to the
current statistics, well over 230,000 carmanufacturing jobs have been created
in the United States, between 2009
and 2014. During the same time frame,
parts and car dealer positions rose by
around 272,000, according to Louis
Jacobson, writing for Tampa Bay Times
Politifact.com on January 20, 2015.
Despite the gains that have been made,
“the industry is still “down 9% over prerecession levels a decade ago, he reports.”
Manufacturing Jobs
So, what type of jobs can you expect
to attain if you were to decide to enter
the automotive industry in 2015? Well,
if you were to come in on the manufacturing end, you could probably end up
working and/or relocating to just about
anywhere in the U.S. For example, if
you like Boston, companies such as
Ranstad Professional (who connect
trained employees with the companies that need them) could get you
a position as a Project Team Leader
for Automotive Radar Design while
Indeed.com recently posted jobs for
Product Engineers at Nuvera Fuel Cells
or Analog Devices.
Motor Vehicles and Parts
Dealers Jobs
Many applicants who are new to
the automotive field have visions of
becoming a mechanical tech, one of
the best-loved and most popular jobs in
the industry. In Marysville, Ohio, home
to a Honda manufacturing plant, the
staffing company Elwood Professionals
offers nine month contracts-to-hire for
mechanical tech positions. And, if you
have two years of experience (such as
troubleshooting skills or circuit configuration) you could be soon have
the opportunity to travel from site to
site all across America. Adecco USA.
com is another good source of auto
manufacturing job leads in Marysville,
with recent postings for Logistics
Representative,
Production
and
Assembly positions, Quality Engineer,
Finance and Insurance Professionals.
There are hundreds of opportunities to enter the manufacturing
sector of the automotive industry in
the southeastern U.S., most notably by
Magna International, “the most diversified automotive supplier in the world,”
according to their website. Cosma
International, a division of Magna,
recently posted job openings for positions such as Quality Engineer at their
Birmingham, AL plant. This is a skilled
job that requires much training in
inspection methods as well as in compliance reporting.
Gestamp, Spain’s largest steel
producing company has six U.S. manufacturing plants and three in Mexico. As
this story was researched, CareerBuilder.
com listed 20 positions available at
Gestamp North America based in
Troy Michigan, ranging from Die
Process, Laser and Industrial Engineers
to CNC (Computer Numeric
Controlled) Programmers, Tool and
Die Technicians, Business Analysts
and Product Managers. Dedicated to
Automotive jobs that have been
created in the last few years not only
include those in manufacturing, but in
the retail/customer service sector as well.
These sometimes tend to be somewhat
more entry-level, and if you have a lot
of sales experience or a history with
working on cars you may be just the
person a retailer needs to help out their
customers. For example, Parts Advisors
distribute accessories to the mechanics
that enter their doors every day. If you
are a great communicator and love cars
and parts, then this could be just the
position for you.
Still, the position that seems to be
growing faster than all the rest is the
one for Dealer Sales. The need for these
motivated people is crucial these days:
in 2014 the United States’ auto manufacturers churned out 11,660,669 cars
and commercial vehicles* in 2014. That
means that, when it all boils down to
it, America simply needs people to sell
all those newly constructed vehicles! In
many dealerships, these positions offer
everything: Dental, Medical, LTD,
STD, FSA, and 401k. And, if you are a
person who is good with staying up-todate on new products in the automotive
industry, constantly communicating
with other tire and car dealers as well
as service stations, and don’t have a
problem doing a few warehouse activities like taking inventory, your love for
cars combined with your customer
service skills could land you this position
or any similar one to it in 2015.
Contributing Writer Limus Woods
can be reached at limusw@gmail.com.
Sources:
Jacobson, L. 20 Jan 2015. “Barack
Obama Says U.S. Auto Industry has
Created about 500,000 New Jobs
in the Past Five Years”. Politifact.
Retrieved
from
http://www.
politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jan/20/barack-obama/
barack-obama-says-us-auto-industry-has-created-abo/
2015. Automobile Manufacturing
Jobs and Motor Vehicles and Parts
Dealers Jobs. Retrieved from http://
www.careerbuilder.com/
Shepardson, D. 5 Jan 2015. Ford
Plant Will Be Closed During Obama
Visit. Detroit News. Retrieved from
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/
business/autos/ford/2015/01/05/
president-obama-ford/21292663/
* http://www.oica.net/category/
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letter to the editor
Ideas Not Ideology – A New Paradigm Not an Old Paradox
Continued from page 3
policy supported by our executive and
legislative branches. The rhetoric is
horrifying. Mike Huckabee, a man
who fashions himself as a true representative of the tenants of Christianity,
says the agreement would march the
Jewish people and nation to the very
gates of the crematories. I am not a big
fan of the content or process underscoring the agreement, but Huckabee
should take a credential check with
his God and His Son. “Render unto
Caesar” is a fine example of the limits
of religion on the roles of Church and
State. Huckabee should take a breath
and reflect further and reflect on what
the role of the Church is; a look at
Pope Francis and his leadership on
persuasive, positive political activity,
would exemplify and enlighten.
Voltaire is also very helpful
here…. He insists that all participants
in the processes that engage our lives;
the political for example, “define their
terms.” Stop for a moment and think
about what that really means. For
example, if you go to a physician and,
with trembling voice, ask her, “what
is my physical issue”? “Why can’t I
do this or why am I feeling that?”
Do you really want her to use Doctor
Youngman’s line of diagnosing your
disease?” Dr. Youngman would ask,”
does it hurt if it hurts when you bend
over?” If you say, it does, does he prescribe the cure by saying simply, well
then “don’t do that.” To add insult to
your injury he adds, “The co-pay is
$50.00.” To complete your imperfect
day, you learn that your insurance plan
does not cover Dr. Youngman.
Too many of our elected officials,
government servants, those talking
heads on the airways, even those
with the bully pulpit in churches and
synagogues, or just friends in the local
coffee shop, are offering opinion, perception, and that is fine. However if it
is too constructive, reflective of proper
critical thinking, and problem solving,
it cannot be divisive. All of these
common occurrences in our lives must
be clearly defined and adequately
described.
Voltaire would lick his semantic
chops if he was with us today and
observed what is going on through
society, where characters trump
(OMG) words, reason is held captive
by sophists, and ideology beats the
daylights out of ideas. Socrates would
have a field day in dissecting discourse
and probe endlessly with pointed
questions. I realize that this is very
difficult given the complexities of
what lies before our world order and
national scene. But, it is not impossible if we factor in the dangers of
ideology and how it ensnares people
who weary of these complexities and
file it under politics at some level and
slip back into apathy or, too often,
divisiveness.
Try this on for size. Do you know
what Dialectics represents? We could
describe it as “what goes around comes
around.” The question is not either
folk wisdom or even safely characterized as being semantic. Many people
have the point of view that something
that is going on now is the same as
something seen earlier in the universe.
Maybe so in part, but it is a fallacy to
accept it simply on its face. Again, it
demands defining terms and describing what they represent. It is driven by
“situation?”
We tend to cluster happenings as
being the same and fail to take into
effect the dynamics of evolution, of the
passage of time and its unique conditions and consequences. Climate, for
example, is not the same in 2015 as it
was in 1015, 1515, or anytime in the
past. There are differences in description and other variables that must be
taken into account, understood before
judgments are made and actions
taken. Good planners are even greater
assessors and great physicians are fact
driven diagnosticians before taking
on active curing. Of course, in all professions, including holding political
office, experience allows for avoiding
some of the rocky paths toward a
solution. However, experience is the
best teacher assistant, a great doctor
and office holder know how to calibrate outcomes based on trust and
verify. The only exception is real emergencies, such as a natural disaster
or horrific act of terror. There is no
excuse for unilateral action within or
without a nation without collaboration and adhering to the rule of law.
Constitution nationally and Charter
locally are not just wallpaper. They are
the rule of law and a derivative of a
collaborating nation and participating
community.
This blueprint serves us on
Dialectics that in some cases define
the path or ideology a nation follows,
a state adheres to, or a municipal
body, obeys. They may not know
this explicitly; nevertheless it is the
case. The problem is that the only
legitimate use of a Dialectic model is
outside of politics. The model is quite
simple. It consists of a THESIS, an
ANTITHESIS, and a SYNTHESIS.
The Thesis describes the current state,
the Antithesis a desired state, a change
or at best, some form of merger
between Thesis and Antithesis, and
the Synthesis is the new end state. The
primary author of this model is Hegel.
Hegelian Dialectic is reasonable
if it is used only to describe and not
prescribe. It has no place in the role
of governmental, intergovernmental
or any major change system. Look at
the parts of the model and you can
see it is implicitly built on conflict;
an Antithesis is provided to change
a System. A good example recently is
the changes in Egypt. Such an explosive change took place two or three
times in the past decade.
If Hegelian Dialectic would
inform and instruct on its principal
“raison d’être”, it would be seen reasonably as an “Evolutionary” model
meaning it describes, it does not prescribe. On the other hand, this has
little value to nations, even down to
local communities where the political scene has essentially become
non-participatory, very ideological,
very self-gratifying. What our times
embrace, often silently, non-communicated to constituents, is another
form of the Dialectic Model, which
I will call the Marxist Dialectic.
Why because it is true to it in terms
of what it seeks; power, pure, pure
power, whether disguised as a voice
of progressivism, or cloaked in the
veil of conservatism. It is an ism, an
ideological mixture of power and
mutable collaboration or cooperation.
It is “Revolutionary” --- the Synthesis
is the replacing Antithesis and, if
modified, only just enough to get it
past the watchman.
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in a future issue.
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Thursday, AUGUST 20, 2015
Page 7
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
I Had An MRI This Morning
By John F. McMullen
I had an MRI this
morning – it was really
no big deal -- no, wait!
In many ways, it was
a big deal. The “no big
deal” was the physical setup – no
incisions into my body, no IV, no
injections – just show up and start
the process. The process itself was
better than it might have been a few
years ago when the whole body had
to be encased in the MRI machine
and, when I had that experience a
number of years ago, it taught me
what claustrophobia really meant.
In this case, I was having my
left knee done. It began to lock on
me a few weeks ago if I would fall
asleep in a lawn chair and hurt quite
a bit to “un-lock.” My orthopedist
and friend ( https://s3.amazonaws.
c o m / b t r. s h o w s / s h o w / 7 / 2 0 4 /
show_7204571.mp3), Steve Small,
had operated on my right knee last
January for a torn meniscus () and
I suspected that this problem would
be something of the same sort. After
all, he had told me years ago to
expect knee problems, explaining “”
The MRI was a big deal first in
what it showed for the explosion
in medical technology. My father,
a New York City Police Officer,
had his knee operated on in 1950,
leaving a six-to-ten inch scar, confining him to the hospital for a week,
and incapacitating him at home for
weeks thereafter. He had slipped on
ice, chasing a miscreant, and “tore a
cartridge,” requiring the operation. I
remember hearing that much of the
difficulty in the surgery was identifying the damage and correcting it.
It seems to me, this sixty-five years
later, that the MRI pinpoints the
damage before Dr. Small even opens
my knee (and that the tools that he
has during the surgery are light years
ahead of what were available in my
father’s time). I certainly do not have
the medical background nor my late
father’s medical records to make
an informed analysis but my best
guess is that his corrective surgery
would be not much more complicated today than mine – after all, he
could have his knee replaced today
and not have a longer convalescence
period than he had then.
Next to the impact of this technology on jobs -- much of the focus
of this column has been on the jobs
eliminated through innovation but
it must be understood that jobs are
also created as technology develops.
Think not only of the MRI but also
of laser surgery, total body imaging,
titanium prosthesis as well as the
amount of both medical and technological knowledge that has been
amassed in the intervening years
and we can only imagine how may
new jobs for engineers, biologists,
neuroscientists, teachers, technicians, etc. have been created.
Additionally, a whole field of
“medical informatics” has arisen to
catalog data on illness and treatment, patient records, and medical
information and the methodology
to both make the information available to physicians and other medical
professionals on a timely basis while
providing patient privacy under
strict government regulation.
Technology, in short, has created
jobs that never existed before in
the medical field but, unlike other
industries, has not eliminated the
positions who deal with the public
– doctors and nurses. While bank
tellers, secretaries, retail clerks,
and others who deal directly with
the public (as well as manufacturing workers, managers, and other
workers) have been adversely
impacted by technological innovation, some jobs dealing with the
public – doctors, nurses, police
officers, cooks, for example – are not
adversely impacted. Those jobs are
still affected as, in every case, there is
much more to be learned now than
in previous years to be competent in
the work. Many police departments
now require college degrees and
officers must know how to utilize
telecommunications
equipment,
inquire of criminal justice databases,
and, now, use the “cop cams” being
employed by many departments.
Nurses and doctors must also keep
current with new regulations and
medical breakthroughs and in the
use of new technologies.
Now, back to today’s MRI – it
was a very weird experience. For
if not a bit annoying, but provides
the almost magical ability to let the
doctor know exactly what to expect
before picking up the knife – a
benefit that my father’s doctor did
not have.
There are many aspects of
“creative disruption”; technological
innovation creates jobs, eliminates
jobs, requires greater education of
workers, provides immeasurable
new benefits for patients, technology firms, and consumers (to name
a few), and great challenges for all
of us. Only time will tell whether we
are up to the challenges!
Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining the impact of
constantly accelerating technology on
the world around us. These changers
normally happen under our personal
radar until we find that the world as
we knew it is no more.
Philips MRI in Sahlgrenska Universitetsjukhuset, Gothenburg, Sweden.. Courtesy of
Wikipedia
those who have never experienced
an MRI, it is very unlike an X-Ray
where the experience is simply to
setup the plates, “Hold still,” “Let me
check them,” “Ok, you’re finished” – an
experience of usually under five
minutes. The MRI is rather “Lie there
and don’t move for thirty minutes.”
Sounds easy, huh? Ok – try it!
I asked if I could read my book but
was told that my turning the page
would disrupt the imaging. I was
sitting in a chair, in a rather square
room, with my leg out in front of
me in a cylinder. I began by trying
to plan this column but had a hard
time focusing because of the strange
sounds of my only companion in
the room, the MRI – total quiet
--- then a machine-gun like “ratatat
ratatat ratatat” then a sound like a
diesel engine surrounding my leg –
all of the sounds and quiet going off
at irregular intervals, making it difficult to concentrate on anything of
import.
So, I tried to sleep – but that
didn’t work either – I actually
seemed to hallucinate, seeing a full
color picture of my car and other
cars in parking spaces in a garage
where I’ve never been (kind of a scary
image). Then I tried to remember
a prayer that I said every week in
church but have been unable to call
to mind – that didn’t work either so
I just concentrated on the “ratatat
ratatat ratatat”s until the technician
came to free me.
The process then was strange,
John F. McMullen is a writer, poet,
college professor and radio host. Links
to other writings, Podcasts, & Radio
Broadcasts at www.johnmac13.com,
and his books are available on Amazon.
© 2015 John F. McMullen
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Thursday, AUGUST 20, 2015
TRAVEL
Head True North For Long Island Day Trips
By JOSEPH P. GRIFFITH
Just as there are two
sides to every story, there
are two sides to the story
of a Long Island summer.
The South Shore is the
ocean, the beach and all that that entails.
But the North Shore is a different place
entirely, though no less nautical.
Some people feel that Long
Island Sound is not an ideal place for
swimming. For those who cherish the
ocean, the water in the sound will not
seem as clean, nor do the waves reach
the heights and intensity of those on
the South Shore. For that matter, many
North Shore beaches are restricted to
residents, so out-of-towners will be out
of luck.
This area is, rather, for visitors and
day-trippers who want a different experience, perhaps a culinary or touristic
one they can enjoy after, or in lieu of,
the beach. The communities, large and
small, offer a variety of cultural and
dining opportunities.
A good place to start,with a step into
the past, is Sagamore Hill, in Cove Neck
near Oyster Bay. This was the summer
White House and home of Theodore
Roosevelt from 1885 until his death in
1919. It has been visited by generations
of schoolchildren and others interested
in one of our most popular presidents
but was closed for renovations for 3-1/2
years until July. The newly refurbished
National Historic Site is a marvelous
look at the life and accomplishments of
the 26th president.
The home has been preserved as
it was when T.R. lived there, and some
of the rooms have the standard look
of other historic houses of the period.
But then there is his den, a large room
that contains memorabilia and gifts
given to him by other heads of state,
as well as numerous trophies he took
on his safari in Africa and expedition
in Brazil to chart the River of Doubt,
where he almost died. Roosevelt was
an expert hunter but later reconsidered
that hobby, preferring to concentrate on
saving wildlife and the wilderness. He
is acknowledged as one of the founders
of the wildlife conservation movement.
Tours of the house and grounds are conducted by the National Parks Service
and on special occasions such as July
4, T.R. himself sometimes puts in an
appearance and gives a speech during
festivities that include re-enactors portraying his Rough Riders.
The Planting Fields Arboretum
is another of the town’s gems. The
National Register property has more
than 400 acres of lawns, gardens and
nature walks, and the 1920s Tudor
Revival Coe Hall residence has impressive furnishings, paintings, stained glass
and decorative arts.
In the town, restaurants include
Canterbury’s Oyster Bar & Grill,
and Wild Honey. Craft beers can be
sampled at the Oyster Bay Brewing
Co. The 32nd annual Oyster Festival,
the largest waterfront festival on the
East Coast, with about 200,000 attendees, will take place Oct. 17-18.
Sunset at Northport Harbor. Photo by Joseph P. Griffith
Cold Spring Harbor is a tiny hamlet
with big charm. It has been known
mainly for the Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, an important center of scientific research, and as the title of Long
Photo By Joseph P. Griffith
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Main Street is crowded with tourists on
weekends, investigating its little shops
and eateries.
Continued on page 9
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Thursday, AUGUST 20, 2015
Page 9
TRAVEL
Head True North For Long Island Day Trips
Continued from page 8
The Whaling Museum &
Education Center of Cold Spring
Harbor documents the history of the
region when it was a center of whaling
in the 19th century. Not as large or
comprehensive as the whaling museum
in New Bedford, Mass., it nevertheless is
informative and entertaining.
As you proceed east, the past comes
alive in other places as well.
In Centerport, the Vanderbilt
Mansion-Museum-Planetarium
complex offers an intimate look at the
life of the privileged Vanderbilt family
from the Jazz Age through World War
II. William K. Vanderbilt II’s oceanic
expeditions and circumnavigations
of the globe resulted in a fascinating
aquatic and avian museum. You can take
an entertaining tour of Eagle’s Nest, his
elegant Spanish-style home, and meet
docents portraying family members.The
Reichert Planetarium offers seasonal
shows, and the museum stages special
events like dances and antique car shows.
While there is no lack of history
in other places in the region, there is a
more modern feel to other destinations.
Northport has its share of antiques
shops, but it is very much au courant,
with art galleries, restaurants, ice cream
shops, outdoor concerts, the John W.
Engeman Theater and a beautiful
harbor and marina suggestive of New
England. Watching the sailboats at
sunset while listening to a band concert
is a great pleasure.
The nautical motif is everywhere,
for instance in restaurants and shops
like Rockin’ Fish, the Ship’s Inn and the
Clipper Ship Tea Co. The windows of
the Northport Hardware Co. and the
Jones Drug Store display copper weathervanes, model sailboats and other items
of a seafaring nature.
Northport is a good place for
dessert, at the Rocking Horse Treatery,
Lics Ice Cream, the Northport Sweet
Shop and the Copenhagen Bakery.
Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry. Photo by Joseph P. Griffith
Season and The Village Way.
The region’s maritime history
reaches back to the 1700s; a plaque says
sailors “sailed from these shores – for
trade and adventure – as far as the Arctic
and the China seas.” The village has
something of a link to Yonkers. A statue
meant to evoke the sea and its adventure honors John Masefield, the poet
laureate of England from 1930 until
his death in 1967, whose most famous
work was the poem “Down to the Sea in
Ships.” Although he had no connection
to Port Jefferson, Masefield worked for
a time in the Alexander Smith and Sons
Carpet Co. factory in Yonkers.
Live music pervades Port Jefferson,
wafting out from within restaurants or
played on the street. The atmosphere
is that of a jolly seaside town with a
nautical past, present and future.
NORTH SHORE INFORMATION
The First Presbyterian Church,
Northport. Photo by Joseph P. Griffith
Gunther’s Tap Room, a simple bar
with a friendly clientele, takes pride in
pointing out that “Jack Kerouac drank
here” – frequently. The famed Beat
writer departed Greenwich Village for
the village of Northport in 1958, living
there until 1964. Who knows – had
he come earlier, “The Subterraneans”
might instead have been called “The
Suburbans.”
Finally arriving at Port Jefferson,
you will find a whole town having
a good time. The action centers
on the waterfront, where the
Bridgeport-Port Jefferson Ferry takes
Concert at Port Jeff Brewing Co., Port Jefferson. Photo by Joseph P.
Griffith
Oyster Happy Hour at Rockin’ Fish, Northport. Photo by Joseph P. Griffith
travelers and vehicles across the Sound
to Connecticut and its casinos and back
on daily trips, and on special excursions
around New England.The area contains
the Chandler Square shopping walk, the
Port Jeff Brewing Co. and many popular
restaurants, including Danfords Hotel
& Marina, The Steamroom, The Fifth
Statue of John Masefield outside Danfords Hotel & Marina, Port
Jefferson. Photo by Joseph P. Griffith
Sagamore Hill, http://www.nps.gov/
sahi/index.htm
Planting Fields Arboretum, http://
http://
www.plantingfields.org/,
www.nysparks.com/historicsites/24/details.aspx
Oyster Bay Oyster Festival, http://
theoysterfestival.org
Cold Spring Harbor tourism, http://
www.coldspringharborvillage.org/
The Whaling Museum & Education
Center of Cold Spring Harbor, http://
www.cshwhalingmuseum.org/
Vanderbilt Museum, http://www.
vanderbiltmuseum.org
Northport tourism, http://villageofnorthport.com/events/
Port Jefferson tourism, portjeff.com
Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Co., http://88844ferry.com/
Clipper Ship Tea Co., Northport. Photo by Joseph P. Griffith
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THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN
Thursday, AUGUST 20, 2015
ARTS
2015 Taconic Opera Gala Thursday, September 17TH, 2015: Opera Goes Insane
August 10th, Yorktown, NY:
Taconic Opera, now in its 18th season
in Westchester, will present another
unusual fundraiser on Thursday,
September 17, 2015, in White Plains
at the ArtsWestchester Gallery, 31
Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY.
The Gala’s theme, Opera Goes Insane,
will feature the company’s professional
lead singers performing “mad scenes”
from famous operas while guests dine
in total serenity. This event is an entertaining, upbeat, and intoxicating way to
support the continuation of live, professional opera in Westchester County.
This year’s honorees include
amazing individuals that have each
given many years of hard work and
energy in support of both the arts
and artists in Westchester: Carol and
Ray Arrucci, owner-directors of the
Cortlandt School of Performing Arts;
Evaristus Mainsah, arts philanthropist
and IBM General Manger in Global
Financing; and, Rosemarie Ruggiero,
arts philanthropist and President of the
Opera Club of Heritage Hills.
Taconic Opera has been awarded
grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the New York State
Council on the Arts and Arts
Westchester, and was selected as the
2012 Arts Organization of the Year in
the county. All Gala proceeds support
Taconic Opera’s 2015-2016 season: a
double bill of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury
in October 2015; an oratorio- Job based on the Book of Job and composed
by Taconic Opera Director and
composer, Dan Montez in March 2016;
a chamber concert in April 2016 conducted by Taconic Opera Conductor
Jun Nakabayashi, featuring pieces by
Mozart and Schubert; and a semistaged production of Bizet’s Carmen
in June 2016 in which the audience will
be invited to participate in the singing
of the choruses. Full season details are
found on the company’s website.
Attendance at the event will be
by a partially tax deductible donation:
Gold $250; Silver, $200; Bronze $150.
Discounts are available for groups of
two or more and tables for eight. Start
time: 7:00 pm. Tickets and reservations can be arranged online at http://
www.taconicopera.org or by calling
1-855-886-7372. Parking is plentiful
in the vicinity and the venue is handicap
accessible.
Gold-$250; Silver-$200; Bronze$150; discounts for 2 or more
Auditions For Hudson Chorale Cathedral Classics Program Commence September 14th By Appointment
August 14th, 2014, Pleasantville,
NY: Since 2010, Hudson Chorale,
Westchester’s largest chorus, has
been performing in venues throughout Westchester, bringing the best in
choral singing to the Hudson Valley.
The chorus now enjoys a region-wide
reputation among both singers and
audience members for its outstanding programming, superb artistry and
interesting repertoire that ranges from
the great masterpieces of the past to
engaging contemporary compositions.
The Chorale is welcoming new
members in all voice parts (SATB)
beginning on Monday, September 14,
2015, when rehearsals will begin for a
January 24, 2016, concert. The program,
Cathedral Classics, will feature the
Duruflé Requiem along with works by
Poulenc, Ravel and Messiaen that will
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The one truly bad bit of casting is
that of Jacob Ming-Trent, a paunchy
black comedian, as the younger of the
princely brothers, Arviragus, while his
elder, Guiderius, is the white and valiant
David Furr. The outstanding performance is that of Raul Esparza, who
speaks and even sings impressively, and
makes the villainous Iachimo appear a
more fit husband for Imogen than the
shoddy Posthumus.
Riccardo Hernandez, not one of
my favorite set designers (though a
usually economical one), has come up,
doubtless with directorial approval,
with rather circuslike scenery, Flanking
the stage are huge cutouts of an equestrian Napoleon on one side, and a
modern tank on the other. There are also
crates, discarded statuary, and heaven
knows what else; and the stage itself is
dominated by a backdrop like a large
parchment inscribed with “The Story
of Cymbeline.” This, presumably, to
preserve the audience from mistaking
the proceedings for another “Comedy
of Errrors.”
As for David Zinn’s costumes, they
serve largely to emphasize the intended
non-specificity of period, and ranging
from Holinshed’s “Chronicles of
England, Ireland and Scotland” (1578) to
Boccacio’s Renaissance Italy, with some
modern, would-be-haute couture thrown
in. David Lander’s lighting inherits,
equally inappropriately, the colored neon
proscenium outline from the previous
production of “The Tempest.”
Mimi Lieber’s choreography is duly
modest, but Tom Kitt’s dance music
does not inspire anything grander. The
production manages to turn that beautiful lyric, “Fear No More the Winter’s
Cold,” into a kind of part song, throwing
it away like a Frisbee. We even get some
crowd-pleasing audience participation.
Ah, well, Shakespeare has survived
worse things.
I won’t bother much with a
dreadful show called “Delirium’s
Daughters,” except to note that its
hapless author, Nicholas Korn, may
well be misspelling even his last name.
The thing comes across as a bunch of
ill-fated actors competing in who can
tell more unfunny jokes in less time,
with all of them winning in a deader
than dead heat.
EYE ON THEATRE
Cymbeline for Simpletons
By John Simon
S h a k e s p e a r e ’s
“Cymbeline” is not an
easy play to produce. It is a
romantic fairytale requiring a poetic imagination
at work, something mostly lacking in its
current Central Park mounting.
Daniel Sullivan,a usually able director,
has chosen a facile but ungainly solution
by turning it into a bumpy comedy. This
keeps the groundlings—which is to say
the majority of the audience and not a
few reviewers—laughing and happy, but
causes the informed minority to turn justifiably sniffy.
requires great, beautifully spoken and
physically appealing actors of the kind
that do not grow on park trees, as well
as superior design sometimes stinted on.
The problem, to begin with, is in
the American language: Shakespeare’s
English profits enormously from such
melodiousness as a British pronunciation provides. Moreover, American
actors are—more’s the pity—not
trained in speaking poetry, and prosaism
takes over. Finally, artistic director Oscar
Eustis sets too much stock by a couple
of actors who, in my view, do not deserve
it, calling them “our twin towers of the
Delacorte [Theater[.”
as masculine as Ms. Rabe. Teagle F.
Bougere is a droll Dr. Cornelius, but
not a very noble Roman as general and
ambassador Lucius. Steven Skybell
is a likable servant, Pisanio, though
his butler costume seems to be more
Wodehouse than Shakespeare.
The company of Cymbeline in The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park
production, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Photo credit: Carol Rosegg.
Kate Burton, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linklater in The Public Theater’s Free
Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the
Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Photo credit: Carol Rosegg.
Do not expect me to give you
a summary of the complicated plot,
which, even foreshortened, would usurp
too much otherwise employable space.
It is a complex story with three distinct
plotlines cunningly interwoven requiring patience to unravel. And yet, as one
scholar has observed, “another difficulty
is posed by the play’s characteristic style,
which is heavily metaphorical, often
perverse in syntax, and sometimes
so elliptical as to raise the question
whether we are dealing with a metaphysical toughness of thought and
singularity of expression comparable to
[John] Donne’s.”
As another commentator notes,
“a more practical approach is to imbue
the production with a dreamlike atmosphere turning the play’s absurdities into
romantic fantasies.” Unfortunately, that
Lily Rabe, as the lovely and plucky
heroine, Imogen, has neither her playwright father’s talent, nor her late actress
mother’s feminine charm. Looking
mannish even before she transforms
herself into a boy, Fidele (all too convincingly), her cracked-barrel voice,
heldentenor swagger, and lumberjack
stride successfully defeat empathy. Her
stage partner and real-life squeeze.
Hamish Linklater, is rather drab as her
husband, Posthumus. In his other role,
as the oafish Cloten, who sets out to
possess Imogen, he is too ludicrous with
his clownish wig and lumbering speech.
The others are a mixed bag. Patrick
Page is a suitably gruff King Cymbeline
and forthcoming as Posthumus’s
Roman host, Philario. As the wicked
Queen, Kate Burton may be a shade
too obvious, but manages, as the
banished lord, Belarius, to be every bit
David Furr, Hamish Linklater, and Jacob Ming-Trent in The Public Theater’s Free
Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the
Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Photo credit: Carol Rosegg.
Hamish Linklater, Patrick Page, and Raúl Esparza in The Public Theater’s Free
Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the
Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Photo credit: Carol Rosegg.
John Simon has written for over 50 years on
theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts
for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New
Criterion, National Review, New York
Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard,
Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. He
reviews books for the New York Times Book
Review and previously for The Washington
Post. To learn more, visit his website: www.
JohnSimon-uncensored.com
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LOCAL LORE
Against the Odds: The New York & Erie Railroad 2
By Robert Scott
In 1832, the New
York legislature chartered
a railroad linking the
lower Hudson River with
Lake Erie.The New York
& Erie Railroad ceremoniously began
construction in 1835. Ten years later,
after a succession of dithering corporate
presidents, Benjamin Loder took over
the ailing line. Only a piddling 53 miles
of track had been laid to Middletown in
Orange County. It still had 430 miles to
go--and not much hope of getting there.
Ben Loder was born and died a
Westchesterite, but his greatest achievements were elsewhere. In 1851, he
completed what was then the longest
railroad in America. Yet his name
and his story are virtually unknown,
except to a few railroad buffs. Wags
called his railroad “the weary Erie.” No
wonder. Of all the railroads originating in the Hudson Valley, none took
longer to complete. And none was beset
with more problems. In the words of
Commodore Vanderbilt, it ran “from
nowhere to nowhere”--from Piermont,
opposite Irvington, to Dunkirk, on Lake
Erie. Much of its route was through
mountainous terrain or trackless forests.
It literally created new towns as it went.
In six years, he performed a feat of
prodigious railroad building through
difficult country to reach the shores of
Lake Erie.
Benjamin Loder (February 15, 1801 October 7, 1876)
Meet Ben Loder
Benjamin Loder, the oldest child
of Gerard and Nancy Green Loder,
was born in South Salem on February
15, 1801. After a brief career as a
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 –
October 24, 1852) United States Senator
( MA), Secretary of State and Statesman.
Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Ben Loder had promised residents they
would have train service before 1848,
and he had managed to keep his word.
Loder and his engineers now faced
new problems. The Delaware River
Valley was unlike anything they had
encountered before. Its north bank had
Continued on page 13
The 18-arch stone Starrucca Viaduct near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, as shown on a postcard. Image courtesy of Wikipedia
schoolteacher, he decided to abandon real work had been done, money was
teaching and enter the world of business. in short supply. His first action was to
Directories show that in 1825 he lived call a meeting of some two-dozen of the
at 124 Cherry Street in New York City; richest men in New York City. He asked
by 1827 he had a dry goods store at 95 for contributions to resume work on
Chatham Street (now Park Row). In the Erie, posting a quarter of a million
1833 he was selling dry goods at 88 dollars of his own money. Millionaire
Pine Street and living at 150 Grand cotton merchant Stephen Whitney
Street. We find his dry goods business warned him, “It will ruin you.” Loder
in 1842 listed at 83 Cedar Street, with persisted; the others signed up, and soon
the $3 million was raised.
his residence at 166 Grand Street.
By the age of 43 he had made a
The Erie Tracks Move
fortune as a dry goods merchant and
retired--but not for long. The directors Westward
Loder signed contracts for track
of the Erie Railroad tapped him for
laying
beyond Middletown. By
the presidency the following year. Ben
November
of 1846, the Erie had reached
Loder was an unlikely choice to be a
railroad builder. He had little experience a new temporary terminus at Otisville,
with railroads and even less knowl- nine miles beyond Middletown. The
edge of them. That didn’t matter to the next planned stop was Port Jervis, only
directors of the Erie. They wanted his a dozen tantalizing miles ahead, but the
abilities as a financial conservative and imposing bulk and steep grades of the
hard-driving manager. A quick study, he Shawangunk Mountains presented forimmediately set off to inspect the Erie’s midable engineering challenges.
Tracklaying was also hindered by
route through the largely undeveloped
counties of the Southern Tier, traveling labor troubles--near riots of battling
by stagecoach, on horseback and even Irish track workers, and the need to blast
rock cuts 40 to 50 feet deep. Despite
afoot.
What he uncovered would have these problems, the iron rails inched
frightened a less-determined manager. forward. The first Erie train reached
President Millard Fillmore January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) 13th President of the
Aside from a rail line on which little Port Jervis on New Year’s Eve of 1847.
United States. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
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York: Armadillo, Jerboa, Margay,
Pangolin, Serval and Zebra.
A giant banquet had been
prepared. According to the official
program, it included “chowder, a yoke
of oxen barbecued whole, ten sheep
roasted whole, beef a la mode, boiled
ham, corned beef, buffalo tongues,
bologna sausage, beef tongues
(smoked and pickled), one hundred
roast fowls, coffee, etc.” Pork and
beans were baked in tubs holding fifty
gallons each. The ten-foot loaves of
bread were so heavy it took two men
to carry them. Barrels of cider were
ranged along a 300-foot table stretching from Deer Street to Eagle Street.
After the festivities, President
Fillmore boarded the USS Michigan
for Buffalo, his hometown. Because of
the illness of his son, Daniel Webster
returned to his home in Marshfield,
Mass. A year later the silver-tongued
orator would be dead. The other
members of the party returned to New
York over the same route, receiving the
same excited celebrations at each stop.
New York City’s common Council
hailed completion of the long-delayed
line as “emphatically the work of the
age.” The Erie had not only survived
the bankruptcy of most of its original
backers during the financial panic
of 1837, but its engineers and Irish
immigrant laborers had contrived
to run a double track over a major
mountain system. As Erie director
and ironmonger William E Dodge
jubilantly exclaimed, “The Empire
City and the great West, the Atlantic
Ocean and inland seas, are by this
ligature of iron made one.”
connecting Suffern on the Erie
line with Jersey City, a short ferry
trip from downtown Manhattan.
These additions became part of the
Erie main line, and the trackage to
Piermont became a little-used branch
line. Eventually, the Erie would extend
its rail service to Chicago.
Having worn himself out
building the Erie, Ben Loder retired
in October of 1853 and returned to
his Westchester home in Rye. Despite
ill health, he lived on for another 23
years. In this same period, ten Erie
presidents would come and go. Little
is known about his activities in retirement. In 1857, he presented a bell to
St. John’s Episcopal Church in South
Salem, according to the History of the
Town of Lewisburg. A New York City
directory showed him with an office at
7 Wall Street in 1859. At the start of
the Civil War, he exhorted young men
in Rye to enlist in the Union forces,
according to Baird’s History of Rye,
Harrison and White Plains. He was
then living in a house “on the road to
Port Chester.”
Benjamin Loder, forgotten
builder of the Erie, died on October
7, 1876, at Rye, N.Y., survived by two
sons and five daughters. He is buried
in Greenwood Union Cemetery on
North Street in Rye. Acid rain has
eaten away his marble tombstone, and
his name is now barely legible. No
matter. In the end, the Erie Railroad
was the only memorial he needed.
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Against the Odds: The New York & Erie Railroad 2
Continued from page 12
been preempted by the Delaware &
Hudson Canal. Its south bank was a
sheer cliff--solid rock rising a hundred
feet above the river. Despite the charter’s stipulation that the railroad be
built entirely within New York, Loder
and his influential friends eventually
convinced legislators that swerving
briefly into Pennsylvania would facilitate construction and protect New
York State’s considerable investment in
the Erie.
Tracklaying
crews
reached
Binghamton, 202 miles from the
Hudson, at the end of 1848. Eight
million dollars had been spent, and
Dunkirk on Lake Erie Still lay another
250 miles farther west. On April 21,
1851, the last spike was driven at a
summit of the line near Cuba, N.Y.
Ben Loder had built 430 miles of track
in less than six years. He could look
back at the Erie’s checkered history
with a sense of accomplishment.
The Erie’s Official Opening
The opening of the New York &
Erie Railroad on Wednesday, May 14,
1851, was celebrated in grand style.
Invitations had gone out to every
politician and notable up and down
the eastern seaboard. From the White
House, President Millard Fillmore
accepted immediately, as did members
of his cabinet: Secretary of State
Daniel Webster, Attorney General
John J. Crittenden, Secretary of the
Navy W.C. Graham, and Postmaster
General W.K. Hall.
New York Governor William
L. Marcy, (the highest peak in the
Adirondacks is named for him) and
ex-Governors Hamilton Fish and
William H. Seward were joined by
industrialists like Anson G. Phelps and
William E. Dodge. Among the guests
present, the one who most deserved
to be honored was railroad advocate
William C. Redfield, “Father of the
Erie Railroad.”
The celebration actually started
on May 12 at six in the morning,
when a trainload of dignitaries left
Washington. After an hour’s breakfast
stop in Baltimore, the train continued
to Philadelphia for an overnight stay.
The next morning, the party--augmented by citizens of Baltimore and
Philadelphia--set out for New York
William Learned Marcy (December
12, 1786 – July 4, 1857) U.S. Senator,
Governor of New York (January
1, 1833 – December 31, 1838), U.S.
Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of
State. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
over the Camden & Amboy Railroad.
At the terminus in Amboy (now
South Amboy, N.J.) on Raritan Bay,
the celebrants boarded the railroad’s
new steamboat Erie. Already on board
were Benjamin Loder and officers and
directors of the company.
New York Celebrates
A crowd of 50,000 people and
9,000 troops of the New York State
militia waited at the lower tip of
Manhattan. The steamboat Erie arrived
at 2 p.m., and the party was escorted to
Castle Garden, the former fortification
where Lafayette had been welcomed
in 1824 and Jenny Lind, the “Swedish
Nightingale,” had sung in 1850. Bells
rang and cannons boomed as Mayor
Ambrose C. Kingsland orchestrated
the city’s welcome. President Fillmore
and the group went to their respective
hotels “amid such a din of cannon and
tin horns as the city did not hear again
until the Civil War,” an observer later
wrote.
The next morning, the party
boarded the Erie at the railroad’s
Duane Street pier. After a 24-mile
trip, the boat reached Piermont at 7:45,
where the railroad’s massive pier held
two waiting trains. Each was decorated
with flags and bunting from locomotive to rear car.
Over the Rails
Carrying the Presidential party,
the first section started at eight. Daniel
Webster--wrapped in a buggy robe
and clutching a jug of Medford rum-insisted on riding in a large rocking
chair strapped to a flat car so he could
enjoy the scenery. To protect him from
hot cinders, his car was coupled ahead
of the locomotive. Lesser dignitaries
followed in the second section, fifteen
minutes later.
The first stop was Goshen, then
came Middletown, Port Jervis and
Narrowsburg, where they paused
for lunch. Afternoon stops included
Cochecton, Callicoon, Deposit,
the spectacular single-arch wooden
Cascade Bridge and the imposing
18-arch Starrucca Viaduct, built of
stone in 1848 and still standing today.
At Binghamton, President Fillmore
and Daniel Webster gave speeches.
The first section pulled into
Elmira at seven in the evening for
another round of banquets that lasted
until early morning. The first train left
Elmira at 6:30 in the morning, with the
second section five minutes later. More
oratory was heard at Corning and at
Hornellsville, where locomotives were
changed. In the little town of Allegany,
the trains were greeted by Indians from
the nearby Cattaraugus Indian reservation. At the summit at Dayton, the
passengers had their first glimpse of
Lake Erie in the distance.
An accident at Dayton dampened
the gaiety of the occasion. Local citizen
Ebenezer A. Henry had brought an
old cannon from the War of 1812. On
the second salute, the gun discharged
prematurely, causing Mr. Henry to lose
both arms and the sight of one eye. A
collection was hastily taken up for his
benefit, to which the railroad added
$250.
Dunkirk, At Last
The trains arrived at Dunkirk
about four in the afternoon, greeted
by salutes from field artillery and the
guns of the brig USS Michigan in the
harbor. Built in sections in Pittsburgh
and reassembled in the port of Erie,
Pennsylvania, she was the first ironhulled warship in the U.S Navy, and
the first of her kind on the Great
Lakes. Dunkirk was built on land
formerly owned by DeWitt Clinton.
Its streets, named for mammals,
fish and birds, included some exotic
species never seen in western New
Epilogue
In 1834, Benjamin Wright had
estimated construction costs for a
483-mile single-track railroad at
$4,726,260. This included doubletrack grading of the entire length of
the road and double-tracking of the
bridges. When the road was finally
completed, inflation and mismanagement had obviously taken their toll.
The total cost of construction, including 60 miles of double track, plus the
outlay for docks, locomotives and cars,
came to a whopping $23,500,000-nearly five times the original estimate.
Ben Loder always recognized
that the long steamboat trip from
Manhattan to Piermont was losing
customers for the Erie. In 1852,
he arranged to lease two railroads
The Erie
Railroad’s Firsts
First railroad in the United States
more than 400 miles in length.
First trunk line railroad linking New
York and Lake Erie.
First railroad to use a six-foot
gauge.
First railroad to use iron rails manufactured in the United States.
First railroad to construct a telegraph line along its right of way.
First railroad to use telegraphy to
direct train operations.
First railroad to use a conductor’s
ticket punch.
First railroad to use a bell cord to
enable the conductor to signal the
engineer.
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CALENDAR
News & Notes From Northern Westchester
By Mark Jeffers
We are getting ready
to send our youngest
daughter back to college,
the preparation list is quite
impressive, buy clothes,
get nails done, cut hair, pick up supplies,
grocery shop and I thought tuition was
expensive! I needed a break so I wrote
this week’s “back to school” edition of
News & Notes.”
In honor of those whose lives
were lost or forever changed by the
tragic events of September 11, 2001,
Westchester County will host “9/11:
Serve + Remember” at the Westchester
County Center on Friday, September
11th, from 2 to 6pm. Special focus will
be given this year to the everyday heroes
who save lives by donating blood, bone
marrow and stem cells, as well as those
who volunteer as first responders in their
communities. Westchester County’s
formal 9/11 memorial ceremony will take
place September 11 beginning at 7pm at
“The Rising” at the Kensico Dam. The
public is invited to attend both events.
The city of White Plains presents
“Noon Day Concerts: Good Clean
Fun” on Thursday, August 20th, audience
members will be entertained with
pop rock hits at Renaissance Plaza,
Mamaroneck Ave. & Main Street.
If you are an oyster fan, you really
must join The Cookery and Captain
Lawrence Brewing Company in
Elmsford on Sunday, August 23rd at
1:00pm, for another culinary debacle
filled with boatloads of oysters, cold
beer, live music and a “barbaric mother
shucking brunch...of sorts.” This time
they are really getting shucked up, with a
variety of oysters opened to order, bivalves
and other creatures of the deep, a slop
station with boiling chowders, and more.
The Field Library in Peekskill will
present the final Library Live event
“Around the World!” on Thursday
August 27 at 6:30pm. Children 6 and
up are invited to travel the globe without
ever leaving Peekskill. Kids can sample
food from other cultures, learn an exotic
dance, and discover crafts, games, music
and costumes from around the world.
Children must sign up for a passport
(which costs 50 cents). They’ll visit
China, India, Ecuador, France, Ireland,
Puerto Rico and a host of other countries.
It sounds like a world of fun!
Is Labor Day weekend (Sept. 5th and
th
6 and 7th ) the last weekend of summer
or the first weekend of fall? Either way
you look at it, you will want to head over
to Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow
and take part in CORNucopia, an
“amazing” CORNival of fun. Feast on a
bounty of corn-centric delicacies and take
part in a bevy of hands-on, corn-related
activities at the Lower Hudson Valley’s
only corn festival. Play games like Konk a
Crow and Ring a Cob. Compete in corn
shucking races and learn how to make a
cornhusk doll. Enjoy both historic and
modern cooking demonstrations (using
corn as the main ingredient, of course),
and discover the irresistible charm of
English country dancing in the barn.
Traverse a kid-sized mini maize maze
and design a one-of-a-kind scarecrow.
Tour the 18th-century Manor House
and Mill, and watch how corn is ground
on a quern stone. Enjoy live folk music.
All visitors receive a free bag popcorn as
they enter. Other maize-inspired food
selections include cornbread, corn salsa
with chips, and corn chili, plus sweet corn
ice cream, and as we all know, I am pretty
corny, so this a must see for me…
Bicycle Sundays on the Bronx River
Parkway from Westchester County
Center in White Plains (Exit 22), south
to Scarsdale Road (Exit 4) in Yonkers
has been extended through the month of
September.
Greg (Rick Springfield) and Ricki
(Meryl Streep perform with the Flash.
Photo Credit: Bob Vergara © 2015
CTMG, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Inc. All Rights Reserved.
hostile, abrasive and evasive.
The family reunites for dinner at a
restaurant to get reacquainted and as a
rule, reunions in public places for families
with this much baggage are generally not
a good idea but their angst does make
for some good laughs. Since they are all
“proximate,” it is a “very special occasion,”
says Peter, Ricki’s ex-husband, in an effort
to calm them down. “Another martini?”
the waiter asks. “Yeah, keep them
coming,” Josh tells him.
Streep, perhaps the most
accomplished actress on the English
speaking stage and certainly one of the
most honored, learned to play the guitar
for this role and she belts out a number
of rock and roll favorites very persuasively
along with boyfriend, Rick Springfield
(Jesse’s Girl / Love Somebody), one of
the guys in the band.
Mamie Gummer certainly learned
from the best and easily alternates
between the flat affect of someone who
is extremely depressed and the persona of
a rage-filled young woman, furious with
the mother who abandoned her.
Audra McDonald plays Maureen,
the uber-confident and organized second
wife, who created a stable home for Peter
and his children; she is everything Ricki is
not and she lets Ricki know, in a very nice
way, that Ricki is not going to undermine
all of her hard work.
If the backdrop to certain scenes
make you feel right at home, this is likely
because this film was shot throughout
Westchester including Numi Salon in
Rye and the Roosevelt Catering Hall
in Getty Square. Untermeyer Park in
Yonkers provided the classic backdrop
The 21st annual “Healthy Living”
conference for Spanish-speaking
seniors will take place on Saturday,
September 12th at the White Plains
Hospital. The free event for people 60
and older will take place from 8:45am
to 12:45pm in the hospital’s Marion
W. Fried Auditorium, located at 41 E.
Post Road in White Plains (entrance
on Davis Avenue). The conference was
organized by members of the Coalition
on Hispanic Aging and is sponsored by
the Westchester County Department of
Senior Programs and Services, White
Plains Hospital, CenterLight Health
System and Visiting Nurse Services
Westchester.
As we mentioned in the opening,
time is ticking away for those college
students heading back to campus; so
parents, don’t forget to feed them well,
check above the mentioned list, but most
importantly spend some quality time
with lots of hugs before they go…see you
next week.
mary at the movies
Movie Review: Rickie and the Flash
By Mary Keon
Middle-aged rocker Ricki Rendazzo
a/k/a/ Linda (Meryl Streep) receives
some upsetting news and books a flight
to foreign country: the family she left
behind many years ago to pursue life as a
rock and roll singer in LA.
This is Meryl Streep as you have
never seen her before, and trust me, she
is not taking fashion tips from Miranda
Priestly for this gig. The beads...the
braids...the rings... the heavy eye makeup
OMG ! .... she is turned out “like a
hooker in night court,” as her daughter so
succinctly puts it.
Ex-husband Peter (Kevin Kline)
is beside himself and needs Ricki’s help
with Julia (Streep’s real-life daughter
Mamie Gummer), whose husband has
just left her for another woman.
Ricki has been gone quite a while
and things have definitely changed for
her family back in Indiana. Ex-husband
Peter is such a workaholic he now lives
behind gates in an elegant stone mansion.
Her three children, now young adults, are
Julie (Mammie Gummer), Ricki (Meryl Streep) and Pete (Kevin Kline) in TriStar
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Director Jonathan Demme on the
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for the Wedding scene. and Confetti
Restaurant in Piermont also served as a
location.
The script, written by Diablo Cody,
offers a lot of laughs and some predictable scenarios as this family strives to
re-connect and put the past behind them.
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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
The Story of Kier
Sherif Awad
Last July, the Karlovy
Vary Film Festival
received German-born
and now Californiabased cult villain actor Udo Kier where
he presented his latest film, “Zero,” by
Hungarian director Gyula Nemes. The
film mixes genres and styles to send a
message about how the world should
respect bees and honey for the sake of
the future of life on Earth. Given the
fact that the film viewers at Karlovy Vary
Festival are usually very sophisticated as
they tend to be film critics and cinema
professionals, Kier tried to lighten up
their readings of the film by explaining
that it has a very simple message and
no political or symbolic innuendos at
all. Kier is also a very simple and down
to earth artist, quite the opposite of the
tense, calculating villain he has played
since 1966, in horror, science and erotic
thrillers.
Udo Kier as Peg Poett the narrator of
Theatre Bizarre
“If bees die, we die… This is the
message of the film… There no need
to say but …but… but… ”, as he put it
when we sat down after the screening
of “Zero”… “People must take notice
that the climate of Earth has shifted:
While there are floods in Texas, there
are restrictions on watering land in
California. We are permitted to water
three times a week otherwise we get a
ticket for 500 Dollars”…
Udo Kier was born 1944 in Cologne,
Germany, during World War II. On the
evening of his birth, the hospital was
bombed but he and his mother were
miraculously rescued from underneath
the rubble. He moved to Britain to
study English when he was eighteen,
took a few acting courses and was eventually offered a role by director Michael
Sarne in “Road to Saint Tropez” (1966).
Kier’s first hit film was also “Mark of the
Devil” (1970) although it was banned
in 31 countries for its extreme graphic
violence and sexuality, according to the
much stricter standards of the day. Kier,
who thinks that luck played great role in
his start, met director Paul Morrissey on
an airplane trip. After Morrissey wrote
his number inside a page of his passport,
Kier got a call from the director who
offered him the lead role in the 3-D
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973). This
film, along with its sister film “Blood for
Dracula”(1974), made Udo a cult figure.
Before “50 Shades of Grey”, there
was “The Story of O,” one of Kier’s
earliest starring roles. Released in
1975, the film was banned in the UK
and not passed by the British Board
of Film Classification (BBFC) until
2000. Meanwhile, it was a big hit in
Paris, playing for 52 weeks in ChampsÉlysées cinemas and people ended up
traveling from the UK to France to
see it there. Kier played the role of the
handsome young man, René, who takes
his beautiful girlfriend O to a remote
house where she is subjected to S & M,
by rich men with strange fantasies. “I
remember there was a lot of objections
from the women’s rights movement
claiming that the film shows women in
an inappropriate way ”, said Kier about
“The Story of O,” now considered a cult
classic. I have not seen 50 Shades of
Grey but I read its reviews and watched
its trailer. I think hot things happen 30
minutes through it; not like in my film”,
laughed Kier.
The Internet Movie Data Base
states that Kier has appeared in approximately 224 movies, filmed around the
world. “After all these movies, I am
more interested now in my private
life: in my land and my animals”, said
Kier modestly. “In cinema, I look for
something I have never done… I have
played The Pope, Adolf Hitler, vampires,
scientists and transvestites. I look for
…I always wish I will
have unfulfilled dreams
because this will keep me
going on.”
– Udo Kier
something to provoke me …, which is
difficult but not impossible… In 2011,
I played a puppet narrating the anthologies in a film called Theatre Bizarre,
which I liked because throughout the
film, the puppet transforms gradually to
a human being when it reaches the final
story… I guess that the film industry has
changed since I have begun. There is too
much technology, to the extent I needed
to adapt myself to perform to cameras
that were getting smaller and smaller
through the years… ”
Although he has been based in the
United States since the 1970s, Kier is
still offered roles in Europe. “Directors
are still having control of their films and
its final cuts till now. A European studio
cannot come to a director like Lars von
Trier and tell him we want to recut your
film”, explained Kier. “In America, especially in big studios, the executives can
still control the fate of a film if they
didn’t like the director’s edited version.”
Only few years ago, Kier managed
to buy the car of his dreams when
he was moneyless young man. He is
keeping it at the entrance of his house
with no intention of driving it. “I like to
watch it every day to know that it was of
my dreams I fulfilled… I always wish I
will have unfulfilled dreams because this
will keep me going on”
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a
film/video critic and curator. He is the film
editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www.
EgyptToday.com) and the Artistic
Director for both the Alexandria film
Festival , and the Arab Rotterdam Festival
in The Netherlands. He also contributes
to Variety, in the United States and is the
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