What Sarah Palin means - Joan Walsh - 8/29 Salon.com
The contrast of age and gender means McCain and Palin didn't look like running mates standing together today in Dayton, but the McCain team is betting that's a good thing in a year when voters crave change. Palin is so unknown it's impossible to judge yet whether this was a smart pick for McCain. Certainly it's a great narrative: She's a gun-toting, motorcycle-riding, basketball-playing mother of five whose husband is a steelworker; you can see her talking kitchen table issues much more naturally than McCain or his wife, Cindy. McCain said as much today, noting that "she understands" the problems of rising gas and food prices. She lets the GOP continue to dream of making inroads among Hillary Clinton's female constituency. But the pick was really intended to wow the Christian right. Palin is a staunch antiabortion Christian conservative; every story about her notes that she chose not to abort her fifth child, now 4 months old, even after she discovered he had Down syndrome. (The fact that the decision is newsworthy creates a weird implication that a Democratic woman would make a different decision.)
I think choice is too central to the concerns of Democratic women to make Palin anything more than an attractive, interesting conservative politician, one they might admire, but never vote for.
The biggest question about Palin, though, is her lack of experience, especially in any role that gave her foreign policy perspective. She'll have a lot of work to do before debating Joe Biden.
Still, I can't help being a little pleased at the social change the pick makes real. A night after watching the first African-American accept the Democratic nomination, we woke to find the first woman had been chosen to be the Republican vice-presidential nominee. The race just got a lot more interesting.


8/30 from myyahoo page:

Salon:

• McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism - 7 hours ago Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?
• John McCain's female card - 19 hours ago By choosing an X-chromosome cipher, McCain is trying to beat Obama at the identity politics [race v gender] game. But it's dangerous to fight on your opponent's turf.
• Who's that lady? - 21 hours ago Did McCain just pick a woman to win the Hillary crowd? Members of Salon's Table Talk community weigh in on the female vote.

NY Times:

• Campaigns Shift as McCain Choice Alters the Race - 1 hour ago Both parties are trying to gauge the risks and opportunities of having a young, relatively inexperienced woman on the Republican ticket.
• Drawing Women’s Attention, Maybe Not Allegiance- 2 hours ago Some women see Sarah Palin as a winning choice, but others say she lacks experience and is on the wrong side of the issues that matter most to them.
• Unity Deferred: Can You Cross Out ‘Hillary’ and Write ‘Sarah’?- 1 hour ago Sarah Palin’s selection unleashes gender as a live issue again, just when Democrats thought they had it under control.

Open Sarah Palin Thread — Crooked Timber:

-If the GOP is going to try to claim that by associating with an old Weatherman, Obama has dirtied himself, than we’ve got to hang every single filthy Republican around the ex-Miss Alaska’s neck.

-All the lefties here miss the point that Palin has more Executive experience as Governor than anyone else running. If I were Obama—or even Biden—I wouldn’t go down that road very far. Foreign policy experience? McCain’s got that and besides, Alaska is only State in Union whose border is next to Russia. On a practical every day level—Barrents Sea and Arctic fishery and oil rights, air-sea rescue, military bases whose orientation is to Russia, BEMEWS sites and the State’s logistical support for them, negotiating oil sales to Japan. etc ., she has far more hands-on Foreign policy experience than either Obama or Biden.

implicit.harvard.edu Debriefing:
Thank you for your participation. In this study you answered questions about yourself and about the 2008 United States Presidential election. You also completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) measuring associations between 'good' and 'bad' and John McCain and Barack Obama. Your results for the IAT are reported below. click e or i for photos of McCain & Obama, & for words (glorious, wonderful, terrible, horrible, awful, failure) as good or bad - lined up with on side of screen with one candidate then the other. I think this does not factor in preference for right vs left, which seems possibly important; and for e vs i (with each press I think 'e' or 'i'), which okay seems improbably important; and for the configuration given first (McCain on left, paired w good; Obama on right, paired w bad) versus second, which seems probably important - but, it occurs to me, maybe this actually was factored in, by having you do the candidates and words separately for each side before doing together.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Barack Obama compared to John McCain.

Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic associations may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'.

It is interesting to ask how much IAT-measured candidate preferences agree with self-reported preferences. The agreement tends to be relatively strong for political attitudes. One topic of particular interest for the 2008 Presidential campaign is whether self-reported candidate preferences agree or disagree with implicit associations. Were yours consistent? If not, why might that be, and what consequence does it have? These are some of the questions we are addressing with on-going research.

You are welcome to try additional demonstration tasks, and we encourage you to register (easy) for the research site where you will gain access to a continously updated group of our newest studies. There are currently dozens of studies about social groups, pop culture, personality, and more.


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via Althouse: "Can't decide between Barack Obama and John McCain? Chances are your brain already has."
-To state the obvious, it seems as though many conservative Althouse commenters think that you're "in the tank" for Obama, while most of the left-leaning commenters think that you're a stealth McCainiac.
Since you've already actually voted for Obama once, and you've stated that you're leaning toward Obama with a probability of voting for him at around 70%, I'll take you at your word.
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YouTube [FREE WOMAN -"for first time: We can vote as we believe." - 10:43 min - Obama Rally at UCLA, February 3, 2008 ] : op-ed by Caroline Kennedy "spoke to wh I was feeling, wh so many Amers hv bn feeling. We too have not had a president who inspired us, the way people say they were inspired by your father President John F Kennedy. Until now. We are excited. We are fired up bcs of one man, Barack Obama. who has been able to touch our hearts & touch our hope. ..that is why you came out here in the rain, bcs can feel it. can feel the spirit & th energy & th intelligence he has *already* brought to this election process. /y/ and just imagine what he will do when he is president. ..this election a victory for womens rights & civil rights. now we are free. and for the first time, we can just vote as we believe." ..re woman told her she's a traitor to her gender: "I have been a woman all my life. & every part of me believes in the empowerment of women. but the truth is I'm a FREE woman. so I say, no, I am not a traitor, I am just following my own truth and that truth has led me to Barack Obama." ..re ppl say she's supporting for Obama bcs he's black: "Don't play me small. I am voting for Obama not bcs he's black. I'm voting for Obama bcs he's brilliant. He's brilliant."
Republican friends watching a Republican debate, three year old son said "Where is Rock O Mama?"

youtube sidebar information:
Legendary novelist and editor Toni Morrison's endorsement of Barack Obama [quoted by Oprah here] is obviously not significant for her ability to move voters at the polls, which is not proven and probably not likely to be proven. But given her perceived attachment to the Clintons—Bill, she famously once called America's first black president; and Hillary she has been close to in the past—we thought it worth printing in full the letter of endorsement she sent to the Illinois senator, as released by the Obama campaign:

Dear Senator Obama,
This letter represents a first for me--a public endorsement of a Presidential candidate. I feel driven to let you know why I am writing it. One reason is it may help gather other supporters; another is that this is one of those singular moments that nations ignore at their peril. I will not rehearse the multiple crises facing us, but of one thing I am certain: this opportunity for a national evolution (even revolution) will not come again soon, and I am convinced you are the person to capture it. yes.
May I describe to you my thoughts?
I have admired Senator Clinton for years. Her knowledge always seemed to me exhaustive; her negotiation of politics expert. However I am more compelled by the quality of mind (as far as I can measure it) of a candidate. I cared little for her gender as a source of my admiration, and the little I did care was based on the fact that no liberal woman has ever ruled in America. Only conservative or "new-centrist" ones are allowed into that realm. Nor do I care very much for your race[s]. I would not support you if that was all you had to offer or because it might make me "proud."
In thinking carefully about the strengths of the candidates, I stunned myself when I came to the following conclusion: that in addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity yes,you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates. That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it. Wisdom is a gift; you can't train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace--that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom.
When, I wondered, was the last time this country was guided by such a leader? Someone whose moral center was un-embargoed? Someone with courage instead of mere ambition? Someone who truly thinks of his country's citizens as "we," not "they"? Someone who understands what it will take to help America realize the virtues it fancies about itself, what it desperately needs to become in the world?
Our future is ripe, outrageously rich in its possibilities. Yet unleashing the glory of that future will require a difficult labor, and some may be so frightened of its birth they will refuse to abandon their nostalgia for the womb.
There have been a few prescient leaders in our past, but you are the man for this time.
Good luck to you and to us.
Toni Morrison

B Obama is a movement*

youth movement
new unity movement

(homeowners, working ppl not part of - therefore having speeches from - show we are a group of ppl)

this is me listening to radio. and now it's 9pm, time to turn on the tv.

Michelle Obama in DNC video: I don't think we ever had a conversation about being senator, being president. It is always about moving people.

Toby on The West Wing: "Government can be a place where people come together."

*_______________________adding 10/18/08
month & half after this post, now having read & watched, ~ d n think NPR was right to say a movment. this seems right to me:
July 1, 2008: Obama not running as movement - Roger Simon - Politico.com | Barack Obama is a different kind of Democrat. He is one who actually intends to win. :
He has made a key decision, to run as a candidate for president & not as the leader of a movement. photo cptn: Obama, showing intends to win this election, rejects the Dean example of campaigning as ldr of a movement. In 2004 Howard Dean was supposed be leadingg a movemt designed to “empower” citizens wh felt locked out of th process. His slogan, & title one his books,“You Have the Power.”
Obama's first general election ad stressed his love for ctry & 'heartland' values, & how he has a 'deep & abiding faith' in Amer. His second ad talks re how he fought for workers’ rights, moved people fr welfare to work, wants to end tax breaks for companies th export jobs, & will “never forget the dignity th comes fr work.” The ads are clearly not movement ads. not angry, threatening or in your face. are calming. are meant to introduce Obama to the nation. 10/17 keep thinkg of this, in cnvrsatn w IOF, rdg Lizza re Obama's yrs in Chgo politics [Making It. pgmrk 10/16: item-archv print a]

The Master Has Arrived [As for Bill Clinton's speech, halfway through I thought: The Master has arrived.] Declarations - By PEGGY NOONAN, August 28, 2008 - WSJ.com

This was Deft Political Pro Bill doing what no one had been able to do up to this point at the convention, and that is make the case for Barack Obama.

The Hillary speech was the best of her career. Toward Obama she was exactly as gracious as she is capable of being. .. "Sisterhood of the travelling pantsuits" – funny and self aware. She normally doesn't use the teleprompter – actually it's rare for her to use one -- but last night she did, and she proved herself the most gifted pol on the prompter in current political history. huh.
Her statement from the floor during the rollcall? Fabulous. The decision to put Obama over the top and ask for acclamation? Masterly.
Mrs. Clinton's actions this week have been pivotal not only for Obama, but for her. She showed herself capable of appearing to put party first. I also believe she has come to appreciate both emotionally and intellectually The Importance of Being Teddy. She will not be the president of the United States the next four years, but she can ease herself into the role of Teddy Kennedy-esque fighter for her issues in the Senate. And that I think is exactly where she means to go, and what she means to be. And that, for her, is a brilliant move. Really: brilliant. Here's one reason: Teddy is, throughout his party, beloved. Beloved would be something very new for Hillary.

Michelle Obama's speech was solid, but not a home run. First impression: She is so beautiful. Beautifully dressed, beautifully groomed, confident, smiling, a compelling person. But her speech seemed to me more the speech of a candidate, and not a candidate's spouse. It was full of problems and issues. I continue to be of the Dennis Thatcher School of Political Spouses: Let the candidate do the seriousness of the issues, you do the excellence of the candidate.


The general thinking among thinking journalists, as opposed to journalists who merely follow the journalistic line of the day which is not this?, is that the change of venue Thursday night to Invesco Field, and the huge, open air Obama acceptance speech is…one of the biggest and possibly craziest gambles of this or any other presidential campaign of the modern era. Everyone can define what can go wrong, and no one can quite define what "great move" would look like. It has too many variables to guarantee a good tv picture; the set, the Athenian columns, looks hokey; big crowds can get in the way of subtle oratory. My own added thought is that speeches are delicate; they're words in the air, and when you've got a ceiling the words can sort of go up to that ceiling and come back down again. But words said into an open air stadium…can just get lost in echoes, and misheard phrases. People working the technical end of the event are talking about poor coordination, unclear planning..
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe suggested the power of the stadium event is in this: it's meant to be a metaphor for the openness and inclusiveness that has marked the Obama campaign. Open stadium, 60,000 people – "we're opening this up to average Americans."


the needy v the taxed:
Democrats show little expressed sympathy for those who work to make the money the government taxes to help the beset-upon mother and the soldier and the kids. They express little sympathy for the middle-aged woman who owns a small dry cleaner and employs six people and is, actually, day to day, stressed and depressed from the burden of state, local and federal taxes, and regulations, and lawsuits, and meetings with the accountant, and complaints as to insufficient or incorrect efforts to meet guidelines regarding various employee/employer rules and regulations.
At Republican conventions they express sympathy for this woman, as they do for those who are entrepreneurial, who start businesses and create jobs and build things. Republicans have, that is, sympathy for taxpayers. But they don't dwell all that much, or show much expressed sympathy for, the sick mother with the uninsured kids, and the soldier with the shot nerves.
Neither party ever gets it quite right, the balance between the taxed and the needy, the suffering of one sort and the suffering of another.

What Makes the Different Social Networks Tick? « I’m Not Actually a Geek - bhc3.wordpress
I want to map several social networks to understand them a little more. Not th technical ins-and-outs. More in sense of why people use the different networks. y cool: wh I want to know.
I picked four:
Facebook [everyone's social graph], MySpace [hipsters, hookups], LinkedIn [find a job], Ning [roll yr own - can create own networks w more control, ideal for areas interest].
Facebook’s best social interaction: core lifestream stuff w people you’ve known for years.
Clean interfaces, heavy alumni basis, & a relatively safe feel are key to its wide appeal.
It works well for keeping up w friends, social acquaintances, friends fr past. I think y make a decisn w Facebk: intend to use it to keep up w people to whom you really have a connctn? Or as a communicatn broadcast venue? I use it only for people w whom I have a relationship in th offline world. What makes Facebook great for friends makes it not good for business. There's the personal & goofy stuff you do on Facebk: blog about yr kids, talk politics, post party pix, family pix, throw sheep.

z0808 web a-before a-before - int re facebook, maybe make a tag. did start a tag 'lifestream' - when read about before ~ z0703 tagged as 'orginfo.' am int in facebook being distinguished by its news feed. (which, I am told, is actually very new). seems a good way to make the site feel very active. and your 'home' is not your profile page, but a page that shows what your friends are up to. better than logging in to a page about yourself, over & over.


August 26
Maria Christina joined Facebook. 6:58pm

FAME vhs videotapes

'FAME' written on dark yellow sticker
no notes on case. tape begins with beginning of movie Family Ties Vacation, which after 30 or so min is recorded over by Fame episodes:
-Holmes Sweet Holmes S5 #14
-Double Exposure 15
-The Inheritance 16
-Savage Streets [S5 #6
-His Majesty Donlan #7]
-The Comedian 17
-Stagefright 18



'FAME 2' written on grid fold-around insert - back says:
Fame - channel 5,
6 o'clock on Sat.
8 o'clock on Sun.

1. Self defense 4/3/85
2. Broadway Danny Amatulo 12/4/85
3. Ebeneezer Morlock 4/20/85
4. W.S.O.A. - 4/26/86
5. A new challenge contects 5/3/86
6. ? Leroy's niece II 5/10/86
Crazy teacher

so that's Self-defense S5 19
Broadway Danny Amatulo [S5 #8
Ebeneezer Morloch #9] huh these are in squence with the 6 & 7 on other tape, interrupting the later episodes
W.S.O.A. 20
Contacts 21
Such Good Friends 13 I think - did not watch to confirm - Tina burns down Leroy's place when she's making Ravioli-os - but maybe this was recorded over? my name 'Leroy's niece II is crossed out but lightly
The Incident 24


'Fame 3' written in red on the front of white case, no marking on tape. but, inside, a yellow post-it note:
1.Bill Cosby on Tonight Show
2.Hulk Hogan Videos
3. Say Yes! (Fame)
4.Anorexic Holly (Fame)
5. Nicole's mom (Fame

6.Kids Incorporated
7.Top Ten Christmas
8.Solid Gold Christmas
Fame #3

so that's 'The First Time' from season five like the other tapes, episode # 11. watched it so confirmed. funny that 'say yes' is my title. sad I do not have the preceding episode 'Choices' where Holly has left and Nicole takes a part outside school.
and then two from season four, the only ones I specially remember, so it's nice it's these two:
Reflections S4 # 22 about Holly. and 'Who Am I, Really?' about Nicole meeting her birth mother Diane the photographer.

Fame Forever
Main > Series > Q & A > Michael McGreevey

Was the episode "Savage Streets" supposed to be a tribute to "Carmen" by Carlos Saura or something else? Was there some special meaning behind this episode compared to any others?

Yes, this episode was based on "Carmen." We often did episodes based on classic stories -- "The Incident" was based on the Kurosawa film, "Rashomon"; "Double Exposure" was a homage to "Jekyll and Hyde"; "Danny DeBergerac" was formed from "Cyrano DeBergerac"; "Not in Kansas Anymore" paid tribute to "Wizard of Oz"; "Ebenezer Morloch" was modeled after Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"; "To Tilt at Windmills" was derived from "Don Quixote"; "Holmes Sweet Holmes" was a send-up of "Sherlock Holmes". The "Savage Streets" episode had no special meaning. Patricia Jones, one of our Executive Producers, had always loved "Carmen" and felt that it was a perfect story-telling template to tell a story about Jesse's battle to survive in the streets of NYC. I think this episode was personally very dear to Patricia's heart. "The Incident" (which I wrote) was very special to me because I've always been a big Kurosawa fan.

Why was Nicole "killed" off? (She could have just left which would have made it possible for a return).

I think this was the biggest mistake we made during my four years on the series. We really blew it! I realized the extent of our blunder when I sat down to write the last episode, "Baby, Remember My Name," and was confronted with the fact that I couldn't bring Nicole back for the reunion Nia Peeples had been one of our most popular cast members and I couldn't put her in the last show (even though she was engaged to Carlo Imperato at the time and really wanted to come back). (I later realized that I could have "brought her back" in Jesse's mind, his memories of Nicole). In retrospect, I think the decision to "kill" Nicole was made for the wrong reasons. We were developing the story for "Go Softly into Morning" and we all felt that the impact of the issue of teenage drunk driving would not be felt or communicated to our audience strongly enough unless we had somebody die. In our research, we discovered that many of the victims were not drinkers themselves. They made the fatal mistake of getting into a car with a drunk driver. We liked the idea of killing off an "innocent." But would killing off a Guest Star have enough impact? Would it shock the audience enough? Would our audience identify enough with this character to have his/hers sudden death mean something to them? As we were struggling with this writer's dilemma, we got news that Nia Peeples was leaving the show. I don't remember who first came up with the idea, but somebody suggested that we use Nia's departure as a way of solving our story problem. Kill off Nicole. Great! Nobody would ever expect it and the message of the show would be driven home with an emotional sledgehammer. At the time, we all loved the idea, but we knew that we had to check it out with Nia. I truly believed that Nia would say no, but, to my surprise, she endorsed he! r character's untimely death. Nia actually felt good about the idea that her exit from the show might "save some lives." Typically, Nia was cooperative in order to make the show work. For three years, she had been the most hard-working and selfless member of the cast -- always on time, brimming over with talent and enthusiasm, willing to make any sacrifice for the good of the show. Looking back, I regret that we didn't give her a better send-off. She deserved a huge "Thank You" and a positive "Good Bye." But we killed her off instead. I will always regret it. Actually, I thought "Go Softly into Morning" was a pretty good episode. But the mail from our audience was mostly negative. They were damn mad that we had so recklessly killed off America's Sweetheart, Nicole Chapman. It was a daring move at the time, but I think the whole thing backfired on us.

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About Fame | TV Shows | Fancast

Carried over from the movie version were
Debbie Allen (who also directed and choreographed several episodes) as no-nonsene dancer instructor Lydia Grant,
actor-composer Albert Hague as bearded, imperious music teacher Benjamin Shorofsky;
Lee Curreri (who wrote most of the series' original songs huh) as music student Bruno Martelli
and Gene Anthony as dance student Leroy Johnson, who in later years joined the school's faculty.

Among those introduced in Season One who appeared on the show for the longest period were
Erica Gimpel as singer-dancer Coco Hernandez,
Carlo Imperato as aspiring stand-up comic Danny Amatulo
P.R. Paul as drama student Montgomery McCall,
Valerie Landsburg as wannabe actress-writer-director Doris Schwartz,
Carol Mayo Jenkins as strict English teacher Elizabeth Sherwood
and Ann Nelson as ditsy school secretary Mrs. Gertrude Berg.
Several of the earliest episodes were told from the viewpoint of new student Julie Miller (Lori Singer), a cellist.

Though a favorite of teenage viewers and extremely popular abroad--as witness the many "Kids from Fame" concerts performed all over the world by the leading players--Fame tanked in the ratings during its season and a half on NBC (ironically, it received five Emmies in this period, four in its first season alone). Cancelled by the network on August 4, 1983, it was brought back by popular demand on a locally syndicated basis by home studio MGM and LBS Communications in the fall of that same year, remaining in production for the next four seasons.

Most of the regulars from the network Fame first season and a half were retained for the syndicated version, with the exception of Lori Singer.
Erica Gimpel (Coco) was active in the earliest syndicated episodes, but left midway through Season Three, returning for a handful of guest appearances later on.
Inasmuch as the series was set in a high school, there was quite a bit of cast turnover over the next few years. Among the regulars who were most prominently featured were Cynthia Gibb as Holly Laird, Janet Jackson as Cleo Hewitt, Nia Peeples as Nicole Chapman, Jesse Borego as Jessie Velasquez, Billy Hufsey as Christopher Donlon, Page Hannah as Kate Riley, and Carrie Hamilton (the daughter of Carol Burnett) as Reggie Higgins. yes these were my people.
Because it was deemed necessary to add a "menace" to the syndicated version, Ken Swofford joined the cast as the school's obstreperous, rule-bound vice principal Quentin Morloch. Other "adult" characters seen in the non-network version were Dick Miller as Lou Mackie, owner of the kid's favorite hangout, Lou's Lanes where the girls sing Someday Someway; Graham Jarvis as Morloch's replacement, Principal Dyrenforth; and Eric Pierpoint as drama teacher Paul Seeger, the successor to previous drama instructors Mr. Crandall (played by Michael Thoma, who died at the beginning of season two) and Mr. Reardon (Morgan Stevens).

The format of the series adhered closely to that of the original movie: Straightforward dramatic plotlines, punctuated by exuberant musical numbers and elaborate student-staged productions (never mind that the real High School of the Performing Arts never put on such productions, much less "starred" the same students week after week!)
At first, the series was fairly realistic, dealing with the genuine triumphs and heartbreaks of show business; gradually, the stories grew more and more exaggerated and fantastic, incorporating broad broad takeoffs of "The Wizard of Oz", "The Prisoner of Zenda", "Cyrano de Bergerac" and the "Sherlock Holmes" yes this one I remember canon. Many of best-received episodes were plotless documentaries, culled from actual "Kids from 'Fame'" concert footage. The last first-run episode of Fame was telecast in 1987. I moved to Germany in fall 1986 so did not see the sixth and last season.

Ten years later the property was briefly revived by another syndicated series, Fame LA; and in the early 21st century, the show was reformatted as an American Idol-style talent show, with Debbie Allen returning to host the festivities huh. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


Fame TV Show All Seasons Episode Guide at Fancast p5 of 5 - this page lists last five episodes of my season 5 and then the episodes season 6. got my hopes up. but no, not available to watch. only season 1 available to watch.

Out Here on My Own (From the Original Motion Picture)
Irene Cara as Coco
and that is Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli both as here in the film and in the tv show

Hot Lunch Jam - From Fame

I Sing The Body Electric (From The Original Motion Picture)

FAME season five episodes

Season 3
Two new students Christopher Donlan, a dance major, and Holly Laird, a drama major, immediately find difficulty being accepted most notably by their more seasoned competition, Leroy and Doris. Quentin Morloch, the new vice-principal, takes over with the intent to rule with an iron fist.


Season 4
Janet Jackson, Nia Peeples, and Jesse Borrego join the cast in the roles of Cleo Hewitt, Nicole Chapman, and Jesse Velasquez.

22 Reflections 4 May 85
It's the end of the year and Prom is near. Doris has decided on a Hawaiian theme for the Prom to the disapproval of the rest of the kids. I remember, hawaiian decorations and her in a tizzy. With her parents' recent divorce, Holly deals with the stresses of her failed home life by starving herself. A recovering anorexic herself, Miss Grant, recognizing the signs, offers some helpful words of advice to which Holly ignores. It may take severe consequences to expose her to the dangers of anorexia. she's hospitalized. I remember being with Whit in her house in the kitchen at the top of the stairs leading down to the basement where I guess there was a freezer with ice cream sandwiches and bcs I said I d n want one she was serious w me about whether I was anorexic like Holly.
Tomorrow Morning - sung by everybody

23 Who Am I, Really? 11 May 85
The School of the Arts welcomes Diane, a visiting photographer who's arrived under the pretense of working on a project involving the kids. Nicole has always known that she was adopted and through a sense of connection that she feels with Diane, Nicole discovers that Diane is in fact her biological mother. oh I remember. Nicole gets hurt dancing, I think, in the studio, and Diane rushes over, and Nicole's voice saying something about the heat of Diane's touch, recognizing her as her mother. Diane and Nicole begin hanging out with each other much to the dismay of Nicole's parents and Jesse.
Expected to deliver his annual State of the School address, Mr. Morloch enlists an unwilling Chris, when he loses his voice, to present his speech for him.


List of Fame (1982 TV series) episodes - Wkp - Season 5 (1985-6)
& song info from Fame Songs - geocities - Season 5
see also Fame Forever Episode Guide and Fame Forever Message Board - Season 5 Index


1 A Place to Belong
Dusty (played by Loretta Chandler) is new.
veteran and recent graduate Leroy Johnson, who has just been asked to be Miss Grant's assistant, feels he doesn't belong as he's no longer a student and not quite a teacher.


2 Leroy and the Kid
With an unexpected visit from his feisty eight year old streetwise niece Tina I remember Leroy reluctantly allows her to stay with him at his apartment while her father, Leroy's brother Lamar I remember that name has taken off without a trace.
YouTube - FAME (EVERYBODYS GOT A ROAD TO GO DOWN) Leroy & Tina
With Miss Grant and Mr. Shorofsky trying to put together a show with the help of a backer, Stanley Beckerman, and with Lisa's behaviour getting her suspended from school, Leroy is forced to take her to school with him where Jim Parker, Beckerman's assistant, decides that without Tina there will be no show. With Tina unenthused with the idea of being featured in the show to help her uncle out, she uses the desperation of the faculty to bribe Leroy, Miss Grant, and Mr. Shorofsky
Danny finds out that he can't get actors’ equity because there is already a Danny Amatullo registered.
Christopher struggles to understand his role as Hamlet. Christopher must be the curly-long-haired guy then. I remember him trying to understand who Hamlet loved (Ophelia? - was Ophelia played by Holly? or Holly was dating Christopher?) and just before goes on stage, realizes Hamlet loves only himself ~


3 Bronco Bob Rides Again
While in Central Park, Danny encounters his favourite old western actor Bronco Bob and his partner in the classic films, Prince the Miracle Horse and is star struck. no memory stirred by this, might be the only S5 episode that d n esp stir any memory


4 Selling Out
With inspiration from his grandfather's teachings to him as a child in his native Mexico, Jesse wins the competition with a heart-felt original piece.
Brother - Jesse tries to find inspiration for a song in his neighbourhood I remember: Brother!
Though initially excited, Jesse discovers a popular downside to the entertainment business when music business big shots, Alan Stewart and Mitch Randall, decide to change many of Jesse's original ideas.
The Other Side of the Road - Jesse sings his song the way it was meant to be written I remember: on the other side of the road, there's a chance I'm gonna take it, I'm gonna make it! to the other side of the road -
Mr. Shorofsky struggles with "selling out" as well when he auditions a mediocre violin enthusiast and former football jock Bradley Elliot, Jr., whose father is willing to make a generous donation that could reform many budget-related deficiencies at the school. yes I remember this, I think the kid though not talented was nice. so what did Mr Shorofsky do? I don't remember.


5 White Light
When Christopher falls for Julie Chandler, a beautiful, talented student, the two feel like finding each other was the best thing that's happened for either of them. yes! this is my main memory re Christopher, he & this new girlfriend in hall, saying "no, you're the best thing that ever happened to *me*." but then turns out something wrong with Julie ~ drugs or sth? After a noticeable decline in Julie's performance at school, Chris discovers that Julie is secretly a coke addict. ah. Although he insists she quit, she tells him she needs a boost to better her academia and he helps her by making deals with her supplier Hunk Pepitone. When Chris attempts to put an end to her abuse, Julie refuses to end her drug use. In a battle between her and the drug, the drug may come out on top.
After his parents' separation, Danny feels uneasy when his mother, Gina Amatullo, starts dating Lou Mackie.


6 Savage Streets 16 November 85
There is an eruption of gang warfare in Jesse's barrio (neighborhood) and when local gang rivals, The Ravens and The Skulls rehash and old fuel with the return of The Skulls' tough leader, Popeye, The Ravens' leader, George, uses threats to make Jesse join their gang. Nicole, having "visions," senses danger and tries to dissuade Jesse but her warnings go ignored. When Popeye kills Jesse's good friend father figure who ran grocery where Jesse worked, Hector, Jesse joins the gang to avenge Hector's murder.
Back On The Savage Streets - Nicole - Part of the street version of Carmen I stand on my own two feet, once again
Your eyes. - Jesse - Part of the street version of Carmen cut like a knife, with your eyes FAME (CUTS LIKE A KNIFE)
Outrun the Night - Nicole - Nicole sings in the dance room and has a vision of Jesse in a knife fight.


7 His Majesty Donlon
Prince Frederic "Freddy" (Played by Billy Hufsey in addition to his regular role as Christopher) of Vatonia has arrived in New York to make a speech for an important United Nations' event. Upon learning that his life is being threatened and upon the discovery of a perfect look-a-like Christopher, by his assistant William, an arrangement is made for the two to switch identities for 48 hours. yes this is familiar. Christopher is willing to go along with the charade until he is attack by two gunmen, disguised as Freddy’s guards, attempting to kill the prince. Nia Peeples also plays double roles as she plays her regular character Nicole and the prince's fiancé Maryanne of Gimblestien. right.


8 Broadway Danny Amatullo
Upon learning that a noteworthy agent, Moe Starkey, attends a local restaurant regularly, the kids head to the restaurant to get his attention headed by Danny disguised as a waiter. After the gang performs Prince's "Baby, I'm a Star," ooh I remember that Moe decides that Danny would make a great agent despite Danny's life-long aspiration to be an actor.
Baby I'm A Star Danny, Jesse, Nicole, Dusty


9 Ebenezer Morloch
With Mr. Morloch's usually strict nature, during the Christmas holiday, his enforcement of school board regulations has everyone thinking of him as a "Scrooge." On the eve of Christmas, while working on the school's budget, Mr. Morloch falls asleep in his office where he dreams he is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come who come to show him the importance of Christmas cheer. When he awakes, Mr. Morloch has clearly had a change of heart and embraces the holiday spirit. (This episode marks Ken Swofford's final appearance as Quentin Morloch)


10 Choices
It's time for mid-year auditions and with the arrival of the new principal, Bob Dyrenforth (played by Graham Jarvis), we learn that Mr. Morloch has left the school to coach a semi-pro ball team in Buffalo. Holly reveals that she's leaving school because she's been offered a role on a soap opera that will be filmed in Hollywood. oh yeah. and later we see her playing a nurse I think. Nicole is particularly upset by Holly's departure. When Holly suggests that Nicole go to auditions like she did right I remember, Nicole does just that and gets a small role in a Broadway show. When Mr. Dyrenforth unknowingly receives tickets to the same show, he discovers that Nicole is breaking an important school rule and he forces her to choose between attending the school or doing the show.oh yeah. so she leaves I think. maybe this has the scene I remember where she makes it to the school too late to see the show, and is sitting in the empty auditorium where Jesse joins her...
Auditioning dance hopeful, Henry Lee, tries to use his neighborhood connection with Leroy to get into the school with mediocre talent. (This episode marks Cynthia Gibb’s final appearance as Holly Laird; while Carrie Hamilton, Page Hannah, and Graham Jarvis officially join the cast as Reggie Higgins, Kate Riley, and Mr. Bob Dyrenforth).
I wonder if this episode is the one I'd most like to see. The costumes ones - Incident (based on Kurosawa), SavageStreets (Carmen), Holmes - are vivid memories, but this one as a whole poignant, Holly leaving, Nicole almost leaving... performing on Broadway and Leroy comes to see her backstage.
YouTube - FAME (YOUR LOVE HAS BEEN SO GOOD TO ME) in the library everyone dancing and singing but Nicole who holds her book up ignoring them
FAME (ONLY IN MY DREAMS) Prompted by Holly's leaving,Nicole begins to audition and lands a role,when the new prinicipal Mr. Dyrenforth finds out, Nicole argues that the rule preventing students from performing professionally shouldn't apply to her,as her role is small and is in an Off Broadway play. I remember. Never the less she is told to make a 'Choice' and opts for leaving School. We are introduced to two auditioning students , Reggie Higgins and Kate Riley. And in a final twist when Nicole has to fill in for the lead, she realizes it isn't all she thought it would be , and is made to re-audition before knowing if she can come back to the School.


11 The First Time 11 January 86
A series of unlucky events has Mr. Dyrenforth convinced that he is jinxed. Mrs. Berg and Miss Sherwood try to encourage him to remove himself from his pessimism.
With evident tension between them, Nicole and Jesse re-examine a sensitive topic. Jesse is upset because Nicole is unwilling to have sex with him. ah this is the episode with "Straight to the heart" Fame - Straight to the Heart
The two decide to split up due to the disagreement on the topic and with a school dance approaching both need a date. Jesse goes with Kate and Nicole goes with Joe Douglas who? jealously erupts and causes a mild brawl which inadvertently leaves Mr. Dyrenforth soaked in punch. The two reconcile when Mr. Dyrenforth has a talk with Jesse about his jealous outburst and suggests that he wait for Nicole. this is the talk I remember, with Jesse never saying straight out anything about sex, just talking re girls who are good and girls who are more fun. The two make up and plan to spend the night together in a mountain cabin but a series of unfavorably events leaves the two with whiplash oh yeah! I remember a scene in the end in the cafeteria maybe where they have on the big white collars (my formative view of 'whiplash', making Nicole realize that it’s best they wait. Danny and Reggie go to the dance together and find that they share a liking toward each other.


12 A River to Cross
In a dream, Leroy encounters Jim, the slave from "Huckleberry Finn" who tells him that it’s his job to, in his portrayal of Jim, show that his character isn’t a fool.


13 Such Good Friends Leroy and Lydia Grant (Debbie Allen)
Tina, Leroy’s visiting niece, arrives at the School of the Arts to tell Leroy that she accidentally burned down his apartment while making Ravioli-Os oh yeah. I remember her talking about the Raviolos. When Leroy learns of the damage Tina has caused, he seeks a temporary care giver for Tina. Mrs. Berg volunteers to put Tina up while Leroy stays in Miss Grant’s spare room at her place. When Lydia is asked out to dinner by her old boyfriend, Carl, she asks Tina to tell Leroy to see if he can stay with a friend for the night. Tina instead tells Leroy that Miss Grant is expecting him to make dinner. Waking up the following morning, after being stood up, Leroy bumps into Carl in the kitchen. Leroy tries to reprimand Tina’s actions when he learns of her scheme but Mrs. Berg saves her from the spanking. When Carl comes to the school to pick Lydia up for a date, Tina tells him that she went out with another man. Lydia and Leroy practice their dance; Leroy kisses her; Lydia is dismayed. Tina encourages Leroy to pursue Lydia in hopes of her adoption and a marriage between them while warding off Carl. Guest starring Caryn Ward (as Tina)


14 Holmes Sweet Holmes 15 February 86 Allan Arkush Carol Mendelsohn
After a rehearsal for the school’s production of "Sherlock Holmes," a pipe in the dressing room bursts. Mr. Dyrenforth makes arrangements for repair with Artie Horowitz, a contractor, who's also the father of Miltie Horowitz I remember this name - Miltie Horowitz - a bad guy, a villain? < , but the board is unwilling to fund the expensive repair work and Mr. Dyrenforth is forced to close the school relocating the students to another building. Danny discovers that the broken pipe was sawed deliberately and figures that Ralph, the Janitor, is trying to sabotage the school in order to build a parking garage in its place. After seeing Miltie paying Ralph off, Danny is convinced of a father-son swindle. They get Page hmm who was Page?, Miltie's reluctant love interest to distract him while Danny checks out the janitor's space in the boiler room. After being knocked out by a fallen panel from the room, Danny discovers Ralph's dead body and is knocked out by someone when tries to escape. Danny wakes up convinced that he is Sherlock Holmes and sets out to solve the mystery. Just as Danny proves that Ralph is responsible for the entire ploy, Ralph hits him over the head...
Guest starring Robert Costanzo (as Artie Horowitz/Ralph), Paul Bartel (as Claude Hunsicker), and Robert Romanus ah ha! he's the guy in FastTimesAtRichmontHigh, I knew him here first (as Miltie Horowitz) and playing Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes play right? Featuring Thor Nielsen (as The Mysterious Stranger)
Moriarty - Danny - Part of the Sherlock Holmes play
Is There Anybody Out There? - Nicole - Part of the Sherlock Holmes play Fame - Is Somebody Out There


15 Double Exposure 22 February 86 Bill Duke Paul & Sharon Boorstin
With auditions for a presentation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" underway, competition heats up between Danny and Jesse for the lead role, but in order to make the cut for the play, all students have to pass the Biology midterm. The yearbook money goes missing twice and Dwight has enlisted his fellow hall monitors to get to the bottom of the theft. While developing shots that Reggie took for the yearbook, Nicole and Reggie discover Jesse going into an office cabinet where the now missing yearbook money was stored. oh yeah I remember the grainy photo of Jesse - my feeling in the memory is that this is very serious drama, When Nicole confronts him thinking he took the yearbook money, he admits that he took the answers to the test. He throws the answers away only to retrieve them from the trash later. He gets the part and all is well until Nicole discovers the answers in his jacket. oh yeah.
After Danny discovers the truth about the test, he vows to make Jesse suffer. In his assertion, he discovers he’s got his own case of a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" split personality.
FAME (COME WHAT MAY) she believes and that faith is something I've never known


16 The Inheritance
Tina’s father, Lamar returns but only to borrow money from Leroy under the pretense of establishing a life for Tina. Tina’s nanny, Mrs. Castillo, dies and Tina is revealed to be the sole beneficiary in Mrs. Castillo’s will. When Lamar learns of the $22,000 estate that has been passed on to his daughter, he returns for her offering to use the money to get him and his daughter a house. Leroy doesn’t trust that his brother will do right by Tina with the money and when Lamar’s conscious gets to him, he opts to leave admitting that he only came for the money.
Dwight is directing a play about the Dewey Decimal System in which his inspiration for the lead character’s wife, Anna Dewey, is based on his love interest and former School of the Arts student Holly and his directorial vision and obsession is driving Kate, who’s been cast as Anne Dewey, and the rest of the cast up the wall. Cynthia Gibb makes a voice-over appearance as Holly over the phone. oh yeah. she's gentle with him. he's been trying to make Kate be like Holly, I think.


17 The Comedian 22 March 86 Reza Badiyi Adam Leslie
Comedian Sandy Webb is running a comedy workshop at the School of the Arts .. Danny is dumbfounded when he realizes that Sandy stole his act from him .. Danny begins to take his anger out on his peers which prompts the break-up of Danny and Chris' act. Danny decides to change his major to music until while making his mother feel better about her pending divorce he rediscovers why he wanted to do comedy in the first place.
Reggie, a naturally funny person, is upset with the fact that she can't help being funny even when playing the serious role of Lady Macbeth. this part I remember.

18 Stagefright
After jumping on stage early during a 1950s-style play I think it might have been Grease!, Chris develops severe stage fright. I remember. He keeps his problem a secret while poring his heart out to his hero, Elvis (portrayed by Robert Firth), who only he sees.
Jesse attempts to beat the record for the longest tapping duration but he's got some competition with Dwight's cousins Leonard.
Kate wants to transfer into Miss Turner's class because she can't take Miss Grant's rough teaching style.

19 Self Defense
When Mr. Dyrenforth arrives at school, he discovers the first of a series of vandalism attacks that are soon to plague the School of the Arts. Jesse gets angered when he learns that Nicole has a secret admirer who keeps sending her flowers. The destruction orchestrated by two unknown vandals and the unwanted adoration of a secret admirer has Nicole shaken and after seeing Miss Grant show off her karate skills in a "trashy" film, Dusty, Kate, Reggie, and Nicole ask Miss Grant to teach them karate. While the damage to the school continues, the girls become focused on developing as martial artists in their newly established karate class lead by Miss Grant. Following a night out with the girls at Lou's, Nicole is forced to walk home alone and upon presuming that she's being followed, only to learn that her soon-to-be attacker was an innocuous basketball-bouncing passerby ooh I remember - her walking in the dark, the sound of the ball bouncing, loses her confidence – that is until she and Dwight meet the vandals.
Co-starring David Greenlee (as Dwight) listed for many of these episodes and the name if familiar but I do not recall the character oh I think the blond guy and Tony Monaco (as Dale).
FAME (SOME DAY,SOME WAY) - Nicole Reggie Dusty and Kate - The girls serenade Lou after closing time.
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - Nicole in a MaterialGirl style performance "Last night he told me: every thing you said. you asked him if he ever gets lonely. well now get this through your head!" and while she's singing, Jesse & Chris & Miltie & Dwight are all watching w Jesse jealous about the other guys' admiring comments. Dwight: "I love her. (to Jesse) I mean in a professional sense of course." Jesse nods. but I think maybe it turns out to be Dwight (who seems harmless next to Miltie and even Chris) who was sending the flowers? hmm y probably so then he and Nicole have a scene confronting the vandals ~ maybe after she has found him out as her admirer who is scaring her - but this lets him redeem himself


20 W.S.O.A. 26 April 86
As a deejay for W.S.O.A., a radio station at the School of the Arts, Jesse handles many phone calls from listeners – most of which are somewhat trivial. One of his callers, Roberta , requests a song called "You Don't Know Me" daily which he dismisses until she reveals that the request is being made to pacify her pending suicide. Ann Strong, a psychologist for the school board advises Jesse to continue talking to her to appease her depression by assuring her that her pain will pass. Jesse and Roberta arrange to meet, but under the condition that he arrive alone. Nicole comes by and goes to talk to him - I think he's upset by this, she doesn't understand - Roberta sees Nicole and leaves. After not showing up, the kids start a search for the girl in hopes to save her. When she finally calls she reveals that she's taken pills already, Jesse has one final chance to convince her to live.
When Mr. Dyrenforth finds the kids' dressing too revealing, he calls on Dwight to enforce the new dress code.
Meeting in the Ladies Room - Nicole performs this live in the radio station
oooh I remember: I've got a meeting n the ladies room. I'll be back real soon. MEETIN' IN THE LADIES ROOM )
FAME (YOU DON'T KNOW ME) - Jesse


21 Contacts
Christopher and Kate secretly start going out and with her encouragement, Christopher takes a job as a waiter in hopes of establishing contacts. Upon arriving to work for Laura, an agent, she mistakes him for an actor and has him read. His reading impresses her and she offers to set up an audition for him. After kissing Laura, Chris tells her that he and Kate aren't romantically involved. This puts their relationship in jeopardy.
Three Cool Cats - Leroy, Jesse, "Jason" (Shaun Earl") - Leroy and the kids audition for the summer stock producer


22 To Tilt at Windmills
When Miss Sherwood is sent home with a cold, Mr. William Quigley substitutes to teach the class about Don Quixote. When Mr. Dyrenforth questions the sanity of the substitute, he gets the board involved which has Mr. Quigley suspended. Upon learning of his suspension, Mr. Quigley’s eccentricity propels him to make an unusual outburst which puts him in an asylum. It takes Jesse to make him and everyone else realize what he’s done for the school.


23 Losin' It 17 May 86
When Henry Lee returns, Leroy is convinced that Miss Grant is giving favors. While demonstrating a routine, Leroy seriously injures his knee. He goes through an operation and intense rehabilitation to restore his knee but when he returns to teach dance he hesitates fearing that he'll injure his knee again. Instead of dancing Leroy lashes out at Henry. Lydia is determined to push Leroy back into dancing because she's convinced that he'll never dance again if doesn't face his fear. Reggie has a crush on Max but is scared stiff to speak to him even while on a date and incessantly seeks Kaye's company for comfort.


24 The Incident 24 May 86
Jesse is in the hospital unconscious with a concussion. The events leading up to Jesse's hospitalization are a mystery. What is known about the incident involves Mr. Torrence who was excited about putting on a play. Mr. Torrence is the prime suspect and admits to hitting Jesse. He expressed an interest in Nicole to play his lead, Lisa, after seeing her perform. Jesse became jealous thinking that something was going on between Nicole and Mr. Torrence, especially after Nicole received a bracelet from him. What is clear about the night of "the incident" starts with Jesse insisting that she return the bracelet. I remember. I remember this as very dark. Jesse being hit, falling off the stage When Nicole refused he left only to do discover the two kissing when he returned. Somehow Jesse falls off of the stage and with conflicting accounts of what happened from Mr. Torrence, Nicole, Jesse - through Mrs. Berg who claims she's a medium - and Christopher, Mr. Dyrenforth, Miss Sherwood, and Christopher try to figure out what actually happened.
FAME (SLAVE TO LOVE)

Name der Rose, Der (1986) - Memorable quotes
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter is a devilish wind which deforms the lineaments of the face and makes men look like monkeys.
William of Baskerville: Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.
Jorge de Burgos: As is sin. Christ never laughed. ..Chesterton..
William of Baskerville: Can we be so sure?
Jorge de Burgos: There is nothing in the Scriptures to say that he did.
William of Baskerville: And there's nothing in the Scriptures to say that he did not.

rg reading the above to me, reminded of Chesterton, smwhere saying ~ when He walked among us, hid smth, and I like to think it was his laughter.
ggl: Chesteron hid walked.among.us laughter
no ...his MIRTH - ah that got it, found it! end of Orthodoxy:

Yet He restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness. There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.

The Crumpled Press | Publications | Codex in Crisis
An edition of 250, May 2008. Hand-sewn with archival-quality thread, pages: 53
Anthony Grafton sets the digitization of books into a sweeping historical context and explores the implications of new media for the ways we read, write, and store information. From the text: For the last ten years or so... the cities of the book have been anything but quiet. The computer and the Internet have transformed reading more dramatically than anything since the printing press. In great libraries from Stanford to Oxford, pages turn, scanners hum, data bases grow—and the world of books, of copyrighted information and repositories of individual copies, trembles.

Foreword, the Editors
The book you hold in your hands offers an alternative vision: one of print as an enduring, even flourishing medium in an age of digital reproduction. When we created The Crumpled Press, in 2005, we sought to re-animate the pamphlet as an expressive form. But we soon realized that blogs had filled this niche. We began to think more seriously about the specificity and durability of print: we learned the languages of paper, type, and binding. This doesn't mean that we rejected new technologies--indeed, our work would be impossible without the personal computer, the Internet, and the laser printer. Just as photography forced painters to reconsider their art, the Web has forced us to reconsider the possibilities of print.
The Web is hot: consider the links that let you skip from page to page, or the video that's racked up a million hits before you see it. A study by Harvard's Shorenstein Center recently pointed out that while we rarely think of paper as a technology, that's exactly what it is -- one of the oldest and most successful.
yes yesterday reading A Diamond As Big As the Ritz on computer screen - and not actively typing or cut&pasting, just settled in next to my cat reading - and it's not that short - I was aware of the reflection on the screen and I was recalling swhere read how print-on-paper is just a really good technology, hard to beat.
And if print is cold, it is offset by the warmth of paper. Set against the harsh glare of Vistas and e-books, paper draws you in, each page soaking up and softly reflecting light.

next to multi-tasking attention-deficit frenzy of the web ~not int to me ~rather say, the medium is what you make of it. or, someone give nuanced understanding of how we might think in terms of typing, in terms of word processing commands Undo Redo that I am familiar with. but you can read slowly and consider sth online. printed page blissfully disconnected. serene & meditative in world where these qualities ever more scarce. ~
time and resources required to publish a text like this one demand consideration in a way the keystrokes of Post and Send never will. The printed book both refines and celebrates exceptional writing. oh I don't know.

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Introduction. The Universal Library. Google's Empire. Publishing without paper? Future Reading.

Future Reading: Digitization and its discontents -by Anthony Grafton | Onward and Upward with the Arts, Reporting & Essays, The New Yorker - newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton
Alfred Kazin .. One institution made his work possible: the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. Kazin later recalled, “Anything I had heard of and wanted to see, the blessed place owned: first editions of American novels.."


Jean-Noel Jeanneney two years ago published a sad little volume in which he denounced Google Books as a typical American plot, at once imperialist and boorish, rather like the war in Iraq. .. Only energetic countermeasures, preferably sponsored by national governments rather than corporations, can save European literature and scholarship.

[ Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy
In October the University of Chicago Press published Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe, by Jean-Noël Jeanneney, President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France [1]. English speaking readers should take what Jeanneney has to say seriously (as well as the critique offered in the Foreword by Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada), both because it resonates with European cultural politics – and has succeeded to a significant extent in motivating a movement to digitize European print heritage – and because much of his case against Google Book Search serving as a building block of the digital library of the future is, in fact, compelling. ]

but it would be absurd to join Jeanneney's crusade. Enter word or phrase in any European language in Ggle bks search and see that already contains thousands texts in languages other than English.

Google partners with publishers - Cambridge University Press world's oldest publisher receives 2/3 of its page views via google
second even larger enterprise Google Library Project. drawing on vast collections Stanford, Harvard, NYpublic libraries. digitizing as many out-of-print books as possible.
problems with the scanning, OCR optimal character recognition qualitas qnalitas, inconsistent metadata.
efforts of 1960s-70s to put evth on microfilm - resulting great destruction of newspapers.


Appendix
Many virtual paths lead to the real -and Utopian- digital libraries that are taking shape across the Web. One might start with the biggest projects: Google anticipates questions about its Partners program and the Library Project; Microsoft explains its Live Search Books Publisher Program; and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France rolls out a colorful guide to Project Gallica. But it's also worthwhile to stop by some of the older, plain-vanilla efforts, such as the eminently helpful Project Gutenberg., which offers a vast range of information about collateral projects, e-book readers, much more. ... The Internet Archive sponsors the Open Library an idealistic and elegant effort "to get catalog information for every book" and make it available as a non-profit enterprise, to be complete, using new wiki software, by its own users.
...For now, the best way to get a sense of how scholars and librarians are struggling to sort the gold of the new projects from the pyrite is to visit some of the blogs run by experts, where exchanges can run long and hot. See the historian Robert Townsend's post "Google Books: What's not to like?" and the discussion it sparked.

Someday, someway
Someday, someway
Someday, someway Maybe I'll understand you

I can't stand to see you sad I can't bear to hear you cry If you can't tell me what you need All I can do is wonder why
After all you've done for me All I really want to do Is take the love you brought my way And give it all right back to you!

Marshall Crenshaw

heard on radio in mailroom .. not pgmrkd anyth re this before? 2-3 years ago also heard on radio, and remembered song as if being performed, with gestures, maybe on a tv show: Fame.
but no, no dlcs pgmrk. no dlww.
rg: I think you'll find it. you're not usually wrong about what you've marked. (hmm)

and later, I think of: google's personal search history. I played with it a bit, recorded a few searches, before turning it off ('pausing' it), was this a search I noted there? yes! satisfying:

Google web history: Nov 7, 2005 8:16pm
Searched for: fame someway someday
Viewed 1 result: Fame Songs - geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/fsongs5.htm
season 5 episode 'Self-defense' song 'Someday Someway' performed by Nicole, Reggie, Dusty, Kate.

yes, just as I thought I remembered! got as a result page showing songs from Fame, showed that "Someday Someway" was sung in a season 5 epis of Fame. which pretty well affirmed but left some room for doubt about what I was recalling, was it this song? was I remembering this performance of it?

now, two and half years later, search first hit = youtube video (was youtube around in November 2005? wkp: founded in February 2005), leaves no room for doubt, there it is, wow:

YouTube - FAME (SOME DAY,SOME WAY)

I love it I love it - Nicole - these are the gestures I know: maybe I'll understand you! hands at side in shrug (maybe) hands crossed on shoulders hugging self (I'll) point to head with both hands (understand) straighten arms pointing out (you!) and a kick while body moves back.
Episode Title: Self-Defense. The girls learn karate when a secret admirer starts sending Nicole roses. oh yeah roses .. familiar ... Nicole. and Dusty who I remember singing in a dream sequence wearing sequined gown. and Reggie is the lanky girl w short blond hair familiar, doing most of the solo singing here. & so Kate is the not so familiar red-haired girl.


Nicole I thought was so pretty. wanted to be like her, to go to the school of the performing arts.

"I remember so much..."

Fame - Straight to the Heart*
wake up in the morning, face another day. got to get the walls up that'll keep me safe . but if I stop and close my eyes, I see you in my mind, then I hear you speak my name, it happens every time - - you're always going - straight to the heart - you got a way of getting through.
jesse watching in the wings. I remember that they talk after she stops singing and he says sometimes you either move forward or you stop. and they break up. and Jesse talks to a teacher or someone in this episode about how Nicole isn't as 'fun' as other girls..

FAME (SLAVE TO LOVE)*
Tell her I'll be waiting in the usual place - with the tired & weary, there's no escape - To lead a woman you've got to know - how the strong get weak - and the rich get poor I've been singing this for years, with this dance in my mind, as if has only ever happened there
Nia Peeples (Nicole) Episode Title: The Incident. When a new drama teacher's praise of Nicole arouses Jesse's jealousy, Jesse hits his head and falls unconscious under a series of questionable circumstances

Fame - Is Somebody Out There
wow. I remember this ~themed (sherlock? costumes ~) episode. Nicole singing moving thr hallways.
Where do you go in the dead of the night - better have a weapon when a killer comes in sight - in the night air - is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there who's waiting for me, is there anybody out there? I've got to see! what am I ... what did I say, is there anybody out there to take me away? what am I hungry for, can it be true, is there anybody out there, someone like you -

FAME (COME WHAT MAY) she believes and that faith is something I've never known
Double Exposure. Story: Jesse is caught stealing a copy of his Biology exam. Jesse needs to pass the Biology exam so he can play the lead in a production of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

FAME (CUTS LIKE A KNIFE)
Story: Jesse's old gang connections try to pull him back to the street when an old rival is parolled. Nicole keeps "seeing" visions of bad things happening to Jesse and she doesn't know how to help him. I remember. song 'Savage Streets' also this epis.

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wkp: Fame (tv show, 1982- )
Season 5: 1985-1986. so I was 8 years old.
yes, watching in the basement, green rug, a tv, an atari. matress and trapeze on other side of the basement.
and there were only 6 seasons total? and Nicole died! I d n recall that. on youtube theres a clip of the 'tribute to Nicole' and elsewhere says she & Danny were in car accident. jesse was no longer her boyfriend but reacted ~angry at danny. the last I remember Nicole was working and had left school and came to a show but missed it and sat in the empty auditorium and jesse came out and sat with her.


those youtube clips above, there is just one more in my mind, Jesse at radio station singing "You don't know me" - to suicidal girl who called in and who was sad after seeing Jesse's girlfriend Nicole "she's very pretty." really wasn't the portrayal of Nicole & Jesse's relationship full of subtleties? in my experience of it it was.
yes, here:
FAME (YOU DON'T KNOW ME)*
Jesse Borrego (Jesse) in FAME Episode Title: W.S.O.A. Story: Jesse,while being a DJ for the school's radio station,gets a call from a girl who keeps asking him to play the same song over and over again. He eventually learns that the girl is planning to kill herself.
you put your whole hand in mine, and then you say goodbye. I let you walk away beside a knockout guy. to never never know - the one who loves you so - you don't know me.

not-wanting is endless. whence this endless not-wanting? paradise lost. 'I do not think that they will sing to me'.
wanting only what is already a loss, because? that is what is you know. "do you love him?' 'I know him' "it's not the same' 'it feels the same to me' desire only for what presents its own absence. what takes away as it gives. 'happy but for so happy, ill-secure'

prufrock, iona moon, cslewis surprised by joy quoting milton as epigram to first chapter re childhood

you only need one poem. (chesterton: only need one woman.) is this to confuse a poem with a mother? you only need one, but oh if you do not have even one -
(winnicott: good enough mothering)

any is too much. not what you wanted, not paradise. "that is not it, that is not it at all."

not negotiable. absolute. viable or not viable. I will, I will not. I would prefer not to.
it is okay or it is not okay, no, not at all.

"too much is not enough?"

Alive On All Channels: Humility is Endless:

What the living do -by Marie Howe.
Johnny..
the open living room windows because the heat's on too
high in here, and I can't turn it off. Didion with a cold in the hotel room when first arrived in NY (Goodbye to All That) ~ the AC was on and it didn't occur to me to call & ask that someone turn it off ~ was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that I was.
For weeks now, driving, or dropping a bag of groceries Louise Gluck: All day I have been looking at this elm
in the street, the bag breaking,
I've been thinking: This is what the living do. And and I have understood (it waill make no forms but twisted ones)
yesterday, hurrying along those
wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my
coffee down my wrist and sleeve,
I thought it again, and again later, when buying a
hairbrush: This is it.
Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the cold. What
you called that yearning. Hass: Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances
What you finally gave up. We want the spring to come
and the winter to pass. We want no. winter to stay.
whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss -- we want not call.
more and more and then more of it. less and less and still always already too much.
but there are moments, walking, when I catch a But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread, the thing her father said that hurt her, what she dreamed. There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing.
glimpse of myself in the window glass,
say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm
gripped by a cherishing so deep

for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned
coat that I'm speechless:

I am living, I remember you.

ok. ok. it's too obvious, like a thing written myself and it's too obvious too familiar without being also new, too rhythmically like everything else and too much with the details, the every day, the video store and the coffee spill too too. but I know what it means. I am living I remember you. (this is what is in my mind: I am sorry. ) We want __ . and I think that, that is what I used to think 'all the time': this is what the living do. this? is what the living do? and I recognize the cherishing ~ in the mirror in the room in Kythera ~ when apart from the within, see yourself from without and feel moved


...johnny I am telling you, this can be our own love, if the weather is what happens

I am trying to tell you, I understand,
It’s okay. I couldn’t keep them
Out of the sunlight, and not touching
One another. Who’s to be sorry?

It’s okay I couldn’t keep them.
I keep telling myself this, can we tell
One another? Who’s to be sorry
If the weather is what happens?

I keep telling myself this can, we tell
Anyone we see, this can be our own love.
If the weather is what happens
There will be movement for you and I.

Anyone we see, this can be our own love.
I am trying to tell you, I understand.
There will be movement for you and I
When out of the sunlight and not touching.

.....

auden: my johnny and I. - - down by the river! I lost my baby!

johnny, there's something I have to tell you: _______
[you're adopted.] [ ___]

who's johnny she said, and smiled in her special way.
johnny she said you know I love you

.....

footer of Alive On All Channels: Don't set sail!/Tomorrow the wind will have dropped;/And then you can go,/And I won't trouble about you. -from "The History of Love" Nicole Krauss

desire is endless

no. humility.

"is endless"

T S Eliot. dancer to god.

desire is endless
Desire is one of the Endless, a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Desire is the third youngest of the Endless and the twin of Despair.



The Alchemy Of Robert Hass by Robert Peake
“Meditation at Lagunitas” is a classic Robert Hass poem ...


Robert Hass's Guilt or The Weight of Wallace Stevens | American Poetry Review, The

Many are making love. Up above, the angels

in the unshaken ether and crystal of human longing

are braiding one another's hair, which is strawberry blond

and the texture of cold rivers.

- Robert Hass. "Privilege of Being"'

Perhaps.

After death, the non-physical people, in paradise.

Itself non-physical, may, by chance, observe

The green corn gleaming and experience

The minor of what we feel.

- Wallace Stevens, "Esthétique du Mal"7

Robert Hass's angels recall Rilke's angels. They are pure; they need nothing. In "Privilege of Being," from Hass's third collection, Human Wishes (1989), angels look down on a couple "making love," and they "are desolate. They hate it.'M With their luminous hair and intimacy, the angels watch the mess of sex that lies below: a yearning for total unity performed by the force of bodies. Hass's angels are appalled by the drama beneath them. Like the angels of the Duino Elegies (1923), they live in an ideal world for which humans long, of "cold rivers" that might quench immeasurable thirst. Personal rather than Biblical, the angels project Rilke's desire to transcend the mortal body, to experience total ecstasy. As Rilke imagines them, the angels are complete in themselves, like "mirrors, which scoop up the beauty that has streamed from their face / and gather it back, into themselves, entire."4 When the speaker of the first elegy cries out who will hear me? the implicit response to his call is no one, as Hass himself noted in his 1982 essay on Rilke.5 Hass's angels, on the other hand, are fascinated by the couple's violent self-absorption. Hass deftly reverses Rilke's comparison between angels and humans by figuring the couple's fixation on each other, not on angels: his couple is mirrored in the sexual act, "they look at each other; / two beings with evolved eyes, rapacious."6 Rarely a lone RiIkean wanderer, Hass examines longing's fold back into the world, its origin in other people.

If Hass's humans seek Rilke's transcendence, then they are also shrewdly aware of its limitations, sex that lasts only "for an hour or so."7 As in much of Hass's work-including his substantial, longawaited new volume, Time and Materials: Poems 10.0,7-2005-what the poem seeks is the right relation to an animal drive, a measurement that can be called "human," an understanding of desire that might be found, for instance, in a book. "What are the habits of paradise?" Hass asks in a new poem that wonders about the method and belief of other poets-here, Michael Palmer and Czeslaw Milosz. The end of the poem borrows Milosz's image of the dead disguised as returning birds, eating strewn millet.8 "Privilege of Being" ends with the couple reading magazines on the beach "about intimacy between the sexes / to themselves, and to each other, / and to the immense, illiterate, consoling angels."9 The couple's limitations, however ironic, are still preferable to the angels' illiteracy. In an angelic universe, there is no reason for reading, for there is nothing further to learn. Why then, Hass implies, do we want to live there? Whereas "The Duino Elegies are an argument against our lived, ordinary lives," according to Hass, the poet finds himself rooted more solidly in the partial fulfillments in life, not beyond it.'° Hass's birds return to the earth.

His suspicion about angels comes closer to the position taken by Wallace Stevens, a poet whose influence can be traced in each of the five volumes Hass has published over the past thirty-five years. Emphasizing Hass's interest in "lived, ordinary lives," however, may seem like a surprising way to suggest a shared poetics with Stevens, whose influence on Hass looks less profound than Whitman's, Pound's, or Wordsworth's. Indeed, contrast might seem a first note between the poets. Hass began his poetic career by placing domesticity against a backdrop of social unrest and foreign war, whereas Stevens is rarely read as a political poet." Hass has cultivated a west coast literary lineage-Duncan and Jeffers, in particular-whereas Stevens' roots, despite his love for Florida's "venereal soil," are firmly in New England. Moreover, Hass's language is speech-based, against Stevens' exotic flare and dazzle. But easy distinctions soon come undone. The relationship between Hass and Stevens deserves attention, especially as Stevens has emerged as one of the most important modernist influences on both mainstream and experimental contemporary American poetry.12 Furthermore, reading Stevens through Hass makes Stevens look less abstract, a poet who fiercely engages with the material world, "Black beaded on the rock, the flecked animal, the moving grass," as he writes in "The Auroras of Autumn. "'* This take on Stevens suggests a subtle influence whose reverberations reveal something of T. S. Eliot in their dimensions-"the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past."'4 Hass's handling of Stevens compels a particular reading of Stevens' central preoccupation with here and beyond. While there is no doubt that Stevens could imagine a heavenly existence beyond this one, Stevens' late poems, in particular, are conflicted about the possibility of world stripped of human desire, where frailty and pain do not exist. An unknown place "In its permanent cold," as Stevens writes in "The Rock," ultimately lacks the pull of experiences marked by constant change, by physicality, by the temporality of ordinary life.15

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