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Case Name U.S. v. Tennessee ID-TN-0003
Docket / Court 2:92-cv-02062 ( W.D. Tenn. )
In December of 1990, the United States Department of Justice, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et al, investigated the Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) in Tennessee. The investigation revealed that conditions in the facility seriously ... read more >
In December of 1990, the United States Department of Justice, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et al, investigated the Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) in Tennessee. The investigation revealed that conditions in the facility seriously threatened the health and safety of its developmentally delayed residents. The Department of Justice found that residents were subject to abuse and neglect, inadequate medical care, an unsafe physical environment, and lack of educational services.
On January 21, 1992, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the State of Tennessee pursuant to CRIPA in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, alleging that the state had failed to provide humane conditions and adequate treatment at Arlington Developmental Center. The case was styled United States v. Tennessee, Civ. No. 92-2062. (W.D.Tenn.1992)(''the United States case").
The case followed a similar action that was filed against the ADC by private plaintiffs, styled People First of Tennessee v. Arlington Developmental Ctr., No. 92-2213 (W.D.Tenn.1992)(''People First case'') (See ID-TN-1 of this collection).
On August 7, 1992, the District Court (Judge Jon Phipps McCalla) denied the state's motion for summary judgment in the United States case. U.S. v. Tennessee, 798 F.Supp.483 (W.D. Tenn. 1992).
A lengthy trial in the United States case began on August 30, 1993 and continued through October 1993. On November 22, 1993, the Court (Judge McCalla) made issued an oral ruling against the defendants, finding that the conditions at ADC violated the due process rights of the residents. Written findings of fact were issued by the Court on February 18, 1994. On September 2, 1994 entered a detailed remedial order to correct the violations the Court found. The order called for the appointment of a monitor. Linda R. O'Neall, Ph.D. was subsequently appointed to that position.
On June 30, 1995, Judge McCalla issued an emergency order after the monitor reported that a state of medical emergency existed at the facility. After the state failed to comply with the emergency order, the court entered a preliminary injunction on July 21, 1995 required the center to hire a Developmental Medicine Physician, additional physicians for overnight coverage, additional nurses, and a full-time psychiatrist. On August 9, 1995, Judge McCalla found the state in contempt for failure to comply. In a reported opinion dated November 6, 1995, the court described the state's history of noncompliance in this matter and approved appropriate sanctions. United States v. Tennessee, 925 F.Supp. 1292 (W.D. Tenn. 1995).
On September 27, 1995, the Plaintiffs and the Intervenor in the People First case (ID-TN-1) were named as Intervenors in the United States case.
Defendants remained in contempt and on June 26, 1996 the court entered a stipulation and order whereby, in lieu of sanctions for contempt, the defendants agreed to develop three comprehensive plans addressing compliance with previous orders, downsizing the facility, and community placement of residents.
The court approved the State's proposed community placement plan on August 21, 1997. On June 28, 1999, the court ordered the creation of workgroups to facilitate implementation of the plan but later suspended the workgroups. The parties appealed the order suspending the workgroups and submitted a mediation settlement agreement. The District Court (Judge Bernice Bouie Donald) denied a motion to approve the settlement agreement on February 24, 2003. U.S. v. Tennessee, 256 F.Supp. 2d 768 (W.D. Tenn. 2003). The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr.) vacated and remanded the decision of the district court on June 23, 2005. United States v. Tennessee, 143 Fed. Appx. 656 (6th Cir. 2005).
On May 16, 2006, the parties submitted a proposed settlement agreement to resolve various pending matters. The goal of the settlement, reached pursuant to the state's decision to close ADC, was to "ensure an orderly and careful closure of the ADC, the safe transition of Class Members presently living at ADC to community residences, and the accelerated development of a comprehensive network of services and supports for Class Members as they enter and live in the community." The court approved the settlement on Feb. 15, 2007. The settlement set out provisions relating to the transition of class members in light of ADC's closure, including the need for a specific closure plan and transition plan, support resources for families and class members, the development and improvement of community-based services and supports for class members, and improvement of individualized services provided to ADC residents. The settlement also provided for monitoring.
Over the next several years, litigation continued over the scope and enforcement of the settlement. On January 17, 2013, the court approved a joint exit plan. If the state completed the plan's requirements by the end of 2013, the court would dismiss the case with prejudice. The court dismissed the case and vacated all injunctive relief on December 3, 2013, finding that the state had complied with the exit plan.
Over the course of the litigation, People First were granted attorney's fees periodically. In total, the court awarded them over $4.4 million.
The case is now closed.
Angela Heverling - 04/08/2007
Assault/abuse by staff
Food service / nutrition / hydration
Habilitation (training/treatment)
Neglect by staff
Developmental disability without intellectual disability
Indv. w/ Disab. Educ. Act (IDEA), Educ. of All Handcpd. Children Act , 20 U.S.C. § 1400
Defendant(s) Arlington Developmental Center
Nature of Relief Attorneys fees
Source of Relief Litigation
Case Listing ID-TN-0001 : People First of Tenn. v. Arlington Developmental Center (W.D. Tenn.)
ID-TN-0002 : People First of Tenn. v. Clover Bottom Devel. Center (M.D. Tenn.)
ID-TN-0004 : U.S. v. Tennessee (M.D. Tenn.)
W.D. Tenn.
04/06/2015 92-2062
ID-TN-0003-9000.pdf | Detail
Memorandum: Recommendation for Investigation of Arlington Developmental Center
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section
Memorandum re: Arlington Developmental Center Proposed S.10 Investigation
Notice Letter re: CRIPA Investigation of Arlington Developmental Center, Arlington, Tennessee
Findings Letter re: CRIPA Investigation of Arlington Developmental Center, Arlington, Tennessee
Order Denying Motion to Dismiss or in the Alternative Summary Judgment (798 F.Supp. 483)
ID-TN-0003-0017.pdf | WESTLAW| LEXIS | Detail
Opinion of the Court
Supplemental Findings of Fact
Remedial Order
Order on Contempt Petition
Emergency Order
Contempt Order
Order on Defendants' Compliance with Emergency Provisions and on Defendants' Motions to Find Partial Compliance and Lift Sanctions (925 F.Supp. 1292)
Stipulation and Order
Opinion (260 F.3d 587)
Opinion (2001 U.S.App.LEXIS 29309)
ID-TN-0003-0019.pdf | LEXIS | Detail
Source: LexisNexis
Order Denying the Approval of Mediation Settlement Agreement (256 F.Supp.2d 768)
Opinion (143 Fed.Appx. 656)
Joint Motion Combined with memorandum in Support to Set an Informal Status Conference to Plan for the Hearing; to Set an Evidentiary Hearing on This Motion; and to Approve Settlement Resolving Various Pending Matters [ECF# 2085]
All-Party Consent Order to Motion to Approve 2006 Settlement Agreement [ECF# 2174]
Order Denying Defendants' Amended Motion to Vacate and Dismiss [ECF# 2901] (986 F.Supp.2d 921)
Exit Plan [ECF# 2941]
Agreed Order [ECF# 2942]
Order Granting Joint Motion to Vacate All Outstanding Injunctive Relief and Dismissing the Case with Prejudice [ECF# 3019]
Supplemental Judgment and Vacatur of Outstanding Injunctive Relief [ECF# 3020]
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Johnny Depp Quotes
Birth Date: 1963-06-09 (Sunday, June 9th, 1963)
In your teens and your 20s, you're immortal, you're untouchable. It's only later that you begin to realize you are mortal. (2004)
It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about inebriates 20 or 25 years before. 'Man, I got eight hours last night - it was fantastic.' Happily, I haven't found golf yet, but I'm sure that's just around the corner. (2004)
Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go. (2004)
'I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.' (2003)
I would never be disrespectful to my country, to the people, especially the kids who are over there serving in the armed forces. My uncle was wounded in Vietnam, paralyzed from the neck down. I would never say those things the way they claim I said them. (2004)
I essentially said the United States is a very young country compared with Europe. We're still growing. That's it. I wouldn't say anything anti-American. I'm an American, and I love my country. (2004)
I would never insult the American people. I used the metaphor of a puppy dog, but I never said ignorant puppy dog. I said it's a very young country compared to old Europe, or Asia. It was misinterpreted. I was talking about the government, and especially the current administration. Never about the troops, even if I was not particularly enthusiastic about going to Iraq or whatever. I love my country. But fuck, if want to say that I don't agree with the president's choices or words or intentions, so what? Even if I had said what they printed - which I didn't - what's the big deal? Some actor blurts out this thing - who gives a shit? He's an actor! (2004)
I called them, three or four people, and I said, 'It's very easy for a publication to print whatever they want to print as a representation of me, but it's not me. If you would allow me just a moment to represent myself ... if you still feel like I'm a shithead or a schmuck afterwards, then fine. But at least hear me out.' These were heavy, right-wing, military people: one was a cop ... one had a nephew who'd been wounded in Iraq. I told them, 'What was printed was ugly, but this is what I meant...' And each one of them said, 'I understand.' [response to hate mail and calls he received following the Stern article] (2004)
I thought it was funny - I had to go to jail for assaulting a picture frame or a lamp! (1995)
The rags said, 'Well, he was drunk and he was having a huge fight with his girlfriend.' Complete bullshit! But, you know, let's say the guy over here in the bar, he's having a hard day, man, and eventually - one more stubbing of the toe - the guy's gotta hit something. So you punch a wall or do this and that. Fuck it, I'm normal and I want to be normal. But somehow I'm just not allowed to be. Why can't I be human? (1995)
It was a bad day. It was just feeling on display, feeling like a novelty, really. And it was being around people who only talked about the work and the money and you just think, Fuck you. Fuck you. And then you walk into this hotel you've never been at, that someone's booked you in, and you go, Blaaaagghh - I can't stand it anymore, man. I hate it! I would have been much better off in a barn with a bottle of wine and some hay. There was a part of me that was just like, Fuck it. I don't want to be stared at, I don't want to be poked at, I don't want to be prodded. You just want to live simply and not be fucked with. So it just mounted and mounted and I socked a vase or something. It felt good, felt right. It just seemed like the right thing to do, smash a couple of things. And it was. (2003)
The owner approached my publicist about two years after the incident and thanked her. Said, 'It was so great for us that Johnny got arrested at our hotel and sent to jail. You can't imagine the business we got out of it.' (2003)
Very simply, I had a bad day. I'd been chased by paparazzi and was feeling a little bit like Novelty Boy. Obviously something wasnt working in my life: So it built up, and I lost it. It was the culmination of many things, a bad spark, and I went off. I did what I felt was necessary. Thank God it wasn't a human being but a hotel room that I took it out on. It was a weird incident. There was a hotel security guard who was really kind of pissy and arrogant. I wanted to pop him. But I knew that if I did it. I did my business, and they came up to the room. By that point I had cooled down. I said, I'll of course pay for any damages. I apologize. That wasn't enough. The guy got snooty and shitty. The next thing you know, the police were at the door. As dumb as the incident was, I don't have any regrets about it. I don't think it merited the amount of press it got, and I certainly don't think that I needed to go to the Tombs in New York City in handcuffs. I was in three different jails that night. But it was all part of my education, you know? (2004)
We were at a restaurant, and Vanessa was extremely pregnant. All they wanted were photographs of me and Vanessa and the belly. At that point I thought, 'Man, I'm not one of those whiny actors who says, 'Oh, the paparazzi, they wont leave me alone.' I could give a fuck about it. However, on this particular night I just decided, Look, this is my girl. This is our first baby. I'm not going to let you fucking people turn this into a circus. You ain't turning this deeply, profoundly beautiful, spiritual, life-changing experience into a novelty. Not without a fight. I went out and talked to them. I said, 'Look, guys, I know what you're after. I understand you have a job to do. But you're just not going to turn this into a circus. Just give us a break. You're not going to get what you want tonight. I'll see you another time.' They were very aggressive: 'Fuck you, Johnny.' That kind of shit. I swung around and told Vanessa, 'Go out the front door, get in the car so they don't get us together or get your belly. She did. She was in the car, so everything was going to be cool, but they were so shitty. One guy was trying to hold the door open. He had his hand wedged in there. I looked down at the ground, and there was a 17-inch wooden plank, a two-by-two or something. Instinct took over. I picked it up and whacked the guys hand. I went outside and said, 'Now I want you to take my picture, because the first fucking guy who hits a flash, I'm going to kick his skull in. Let's go. Take my picture.' They didn't take my picture. I was livid. They walked backward down the street. I walked them away from Vanessa in the car and down this other street. It was beautiful. It was well worth it. It was kind of poetic. The next thing I knew, I saw flashing lights on the buildings around me. And a paddy wagon. It was brief. It was around 11:30 or midnight, and I was out by five or six the next morning. No one filed charges against me, because they didn't want their names exposed. Had they filed charges they would have had to give their names and would have lost their anonymity. The cops were actually terrific, real sweet. As I said, I didn't mind as much before I had kids. Everything changes when it comes to my children. (2004)
There's one of [Jean-Michel Basquiat's] paintings called Riding With Death. That's my favorite. (1995)
I like the idea that I can make a drawing or I can make a painting or I can write notes, write my sort of journal thing, and someday my kid will have that. (1999)
I don't want to be limited by other people's opinions. (1988)
I don't necessarily want to always play the leading man - I'd like to shave my head and sew my eyeballs shut. (1988)
I want to keep growing and learning as much as possible. I want to fill myself in on all aspects of the industry - acting and directing. (1988)
I was broke and Nic [Cage] asked me if I needed a job. I did and he told me I should try acting. (1988)
I don't want to make a career of taking my shirt off. I'd like to shave off all my hair, even my eyebrows, try it that way. (1988)
I'm not a Blockbuster boy, I never wanted to be. (1999)
I never really had an interest in it in the beginning. Nicolas Cage -we had some mutual friends - introduced me to his agent. She sent me to a casting director, and I auditioned for the first Nightmare on Elm Street. I got the job. I was stupefied. They paid me all that money for a week. It was luck, and accident. I did it purely to pay the rent. I was literally filling out job applications at the time, any kind of job. Nic Cage said, ' You should try being an actor. Maybe you are one and don't know it.' I began acting, and I thought, Well, this is an interesting road; maybe I should keep traveling on it. I didn't know what the hell I was doing, so I started to read everything about acting-Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen, Michael Chekhov. I started soaking it up.
I actually feel as though I make choices with my kids in mind. It helps me to be clear about what I will and won't make. I want to have my kids say, 'My pa did only the things that he felt he should do.' I don't want them to be embarrassed. I think maybe they can be proud of some of the work I do. Maybe they will be proud that I decided to go against the grain a little bit and fight the good fight. When you're older, drooling, and your children are changing your diapers, they will know that there was integrity.
I just don't want to look back in 30 or 40 or 50 years and have my grandkids say, 'You did a lot of stupid shit, Granddad. What an idiot you were, smiling for the cameras and playing the game.' (1999)
Maybe I'm a dummy, but I don't worry that a lot of my films haven't had big results at the box office, because I'm not a businessman. Believe me, I would love for one of my movies to be accepted by a wide audience, but I'm not going to do a film just because it's going to do that. (1999)
There are a number of years where you feel like you have to be a whore, be seen, flap your jaws, make small talk, meet the new hot filmmakers, know who's running what studio, and I couldn't do it. I didn't want to. And finally, you get out and take a breath, and you see what kind of life is available to you, and you go, 'I was right: I didn't have to play the game.' I've been very, very lucky. It's amazing I'm still around and able to get jobs. (2003)
I find it comforting not knowing new films, not knowing what's happening out there. (2003)
What comes to my head is a simple, beautiful line from a Van Morrison song: It's a hard road, Daddy-o. That line always kills me. The shit you put yourself through before you arrive. (2003)
All I can say is for a guy like me, who's been dangling in this business for the last 20 years, to finally have something hit, it's unexpected and very touching. (2003)
Nobody really knows what you're feeling, what you're really going for, what you're really trying to do. Hell, I didn't even know what I was going for. I just knew that I didn't want to be assembly line. (2004)
For a lot of years, I was really freaked out. Maybe I took it all too seriously, you know? I was freaked out about being turned into a product. That really used to bug me. Now, more and more, I enjoy the process. Creating a character, working that character into a scene, into the movie. I mean, the last couple of things have been just a ball. (2004)
Maybe I was just too dumb to sell out. (2004)
Shit, I may be doing TV in ten years. Or doing fucking appearances at a hamburger stand dressed as Captain Jack, you know? (2004)
I've kind of been able to glide through this weird little thing they call a career in terms of the business world and in terms of the industry in many movies that were considered absolute failures, flops. So I've kind of made a career of: failing. (2004)
I guess there have been times when I was on the brink of being bankable. But that's all so weird. All these weird lists - top five star, top 10, 'Let's get this guy because he's bankable.' I don't think about that. You're on the list two weeks and then ' poof - you're gone. It never jarred me that I wasn't on the list. If I'm considered bankable this week, that's great. Next week I'll be totally off. I'm used to that. (2004)
I've never had an allergy to the idea of commercial success. When you put a movie out and it's successful, that's great. I just wanted to get there in the right way, in a way that's not too compromising or demeaning or ugly. (2004)
I began acting, and I thought, Well, this is an interesting road; maybe I should keep traveling on it. I didn't know what the hell I was doing, so I started to read everything about acting - Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen, Michael Chekhov. I started soaking it up. (2004)
During [Edward Scissorhands] I got the phone call saying I was out of [21 Jump Street]. I felt like, 'Ah, possibilities.' I was freed up. I swore to myself that I would never again compromise to the degree that I had. I swore that I wouldn't just follow the commercial road. I wouldn't do what was expected of me or what was necessary to maintain whatever it is - a popular or financially rewarding career. I promised myself that I wouldn't do that. (2004)
I don't regret any of the things I didn't do, and I certainly don't regret any of the thing I did do, down to the dumbest. Everything happened the way it should happen, even ridiculous things that I did in the beginning. I don't regret any of it. (2004)
I just want something different. I want to be surprised. I want something that doesn't feel formulaic or beaten to death. (2004)
Innocence and purity are definitely themes that I've plodded about in over the years. They're themes I'm fascinated with, because for me, growing up in America in the '50s and just into the '60s, there was still some kind of innocence. There was hope. (2004)
[About Tracey Jacobs, his agent]: Tracey's taken a lot of heat over the years. She has bosses and higher-ups, and every time I take on another strange project, they're going, Jesus Christ! When does he do a movie where he kisses the girl? When does he get to pull a gun out and shoot somebody? When does he get to be a fucking man for a change? When is he finally going to do a blockbuster? (2004)
The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the moviegoing consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?' (2004)
I don't want to be 85 years old and have my grandkids go, Ewwww. Grandpa did some dumb shit. I'd rather have them say, Wow, man, you're nuts! (2004)
I like not knowing what's happening out there -- who's doing what, how they were, what the box office was. Even when I'm in the soup bowl of Hollywood, I just play Barbies and hang out with the kiddies. (2004)
I have a lot of love inside me and a lot of anger inside as well. If I love somebody, then I'm gonna love 'em. If I'm angry and I've got to lash out or hit somebody, I'm going to do it, and I don't care what the repercussions are. Anger doesn't pay rent, it's gotta go. It's gotta be evicted. (1995)
I grew up in a very different kind of family environment although I didn't know I was living a weird kind of existence until I would go to other kids' homes and see how they lived. I also felt very alienated and isolated in school and some kids and one particular teacher would love to pick on me. So that made me pretty defensive and angry in some ways and you want to do anything to escape that kind of aggression you're experiencing. (2004)
That was the dark side of me and a pretty dismal time in my life. It's like someone you used to know and wonder why things looked so ugly from his perspective. (2004)
When I was 30 I wasn't that convinced I would make it to 40, but maybe I had to go through all the crap that had built up inside me to get to a point where I could start enjoying life. (2004)
It's too easy to blame other people and things in your past for your own self-loathing. (2004)
Strangely, even when I was miserable in my own life, I usually loved being on a film set and I truly revelled in the atmosphere of working with the director and the actors in creating something. Making films was always a refuge for me because I was totally focused on the work and not thinking about my own problems. (2004)
Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it. (1988)
It scares the shit out of me because I see my nieces and nephews growing up and it's fucking hard. It was hard for me to grow up and it's even harder now with all the scary, spooky shit that's out there. (1995)
Oh man, I wasted so much time. I had great experiences, and a great education from all of it, but what a dumb-ass. I was just confused, and I didn't know what it was all about or what the point of anything was. I was just kind of pickling myself over a period of years. Self-medicating, trying to numb myself, and just being a self-centered prick, essentially. (2003)
Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that. (2003)
[I did] mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't. (2004)
I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain. (2004)
Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing. (2004)
Family and friends sat me down and said, 'Listen, we love you. You're important to us, and you're fucking up. You're killing yourself. You're killing us in the process.' You don't listen right away because you're dumb. You're ignorant. You're human. Finally it seeps in. Finally the body and mind and heart and psyche just go, 'Yeah, you're doing the wrong thing.' (2004)
I could see things turning into a nasty tailspin. And then I thought, Maybe I'm slow, but this is ridiculous. Fuck it, just stop! So I stopped everything for the better part of a year. I guess I just reached a point where I said, 'Jesus Christ, what am I doing? Life is fucking good. What am I doing to myself?' Now I drink a glass or two of red wine and that's it. (2004)
You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act. (2004)
I feel like there was a fog in front of my eyes for 36 years, and the second [Lily-Rose] was born, that fog just lifted and everything became totally clear and focused. To say it's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me is the understatement of the century. Look at me, I've become a cliche. (1999)
[Having a family] gave me everything. A reason to live. A reason to not be a dumb-ass. A reason to learn, a reason to breathe, a reason to care. It gave me everything. (2003)
[Jack's] a hellcat, boy, he's something. The best training you can have for toddlers is having spent a number of years hanging out with drunks. Helping them walk, cleaning up their vomit, putting ice on their head when they fall and smack it on the table; the uncontrollable rage and tears and joy all in, like, ten seconds. He's just a cool little drunk. (2003)
When I've got my kiddies and my girl with me, I'm good. (2003)
Now I'm a daddy and I go to work and the family comes with me on location and things are rather different. (2004)
I think it just wakes you up and kind of gives you the opportunity to be who you really are. Before my kids came along I was freaked out to hold a kid. When I was a teenager and my brother had babies, I was always freaked out to hold them. They just seemed so fragile. I'd hold them for a minute and then, 'Okay, here. Take the kid.' So I was surprised how quickly, almost instantly, I was okay with my own baby. Within 24 hours I was fine with it all the diapers, everything. One of the most amazing moments in my life was holding my brand-new baby, Lily-Rose, just after she was born. She wasn't three hours old, and I was holding her. Her little eyes were kind of half open. She was drifting into sleep. Looking into those little eyes, I thought, 'My God, I'll never be closer to another human being in my life. And you're not, until your second one comes. Before the second one came, there was this strange thing, a snippet of worry. I thought, 'How can I love the second as much as the first? Is it possible?' And when little Jack arrived, it was instant. Instant. They just seem so fragile. (2004)
When I told [my brother] Vanessa was pregnant, he said, 'Congratulations. You'll never sleep the same way again. You'll never have another calm day as long as you live, but it's worth it.' He said it just off-the-cuff, but it was right on the money. (2004)
Having my own children has just ripped away a lot of the confusion and insecurity that had been dragging me down for pretty much my entire life. I never knew what happiness was until I met Vanessa and we had our first child. (2004)
Being with Vanessa and having children has made things very easy and clear for me. There's nothing dark about my world anymore. I watch our son and daughter playing around the house or learning new things and I wonder what on earth could be more beautiful than that. (2004)
I don't have to close my eyes to see [my dream life] because I live with it every day - with my kids, my girl, and my life. It's as perfect as it could possibly be. (2004)
I just kind of stumbled around for 35 years. And then when my daughter arrived, it was like Now, I see. Suddenly everything else is just kind of shavings, morsels, little tidbits. And this is what it's all about. This is real life. Boy, it couldn't have come at a better time. (2004)
More than anything, I love being with my family. I'm like a total homebody, just hanging out with my kids. (2004)
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or someone I love - I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years - but I would eat them. (2006)
It took kind of meeting that right girl, her getting pregnant, and that whole beauty of nine months waiting for the kid and then BOOM - there's your baby and you go, 'My God, there is my life.' (2006)
The same moment your child is born, you're born. You're brand-new, because you are revealed finally to yourself. You're meeting yourself for the first time. And it's about being okay with yourself, not hating yourself anymore. (2006)
Vanessa brings me the joy of living, stability, and-most obviously-love. Thanks to her, I feel like a simple human being, and not like a Hollywood actor known all over the world. She taught me to see life differently. I am more optimistic than before. And especially, she inspires me.
The last thing in my head was a relationship, a girlfriend, anything. I remember the first few days hanging out with Vanessa; in the front of my brain I'm thinking, No way. A real guy thing, you know? No fucking way, man. But somewhere in the back is the real truth, and you know you're fucked. It was practically like I'd said 'Never' - and boom. You know? Boom. (2003)
We met briefly years ago. I remember thinking, 'Ouch.' It was just hello, but the contact was electric. That was in 1993. It wasnt until 1998, when I went to do the Polanski film The Ninth Gate and was in the lobby of the hotel, getting messages. I turned around and across the lobby saw this back. She had on a dress with an exposed back. I thought, 'Wow.' Suddenly the back turned and she looked at me. I walked right over, and there were those eyes again. I knew it was her. She asked, 'Do you remember me?' I said, 'Oh yeah.' We had a drink, and it was over with at that point. I knew I was in big trouble. (2004)
After we started dating I worked a long, long day and night, and I came home, back to my apartment in Paris, at three or four in the morning. Vanessa was there, and she was cooking for me. That's not to say that a woman must cook for a man, that's not what I'm saying, but it took me by surprise. It was a whole new ball game for me. I'd never experienced that before. It was like she was a woman not afraid to be a woman. I hope that doesn't sound weird or sexist, because it's not. I'm totally in agreement that women are the stronger, smarter, more evolved sex. (2004)
It would be a shame to ruin her last name [by getting married]. It's so perfect - Vanessa Paradis. So beautiful. It would be such a drag to stick her with Paradis-Depp. It's like a flat note. (2004)
When I met Vanessa, I was still drifting. But being with her has just blown me away and made me a better man. Ten years ago I never would have believed in the kind of life I have now as a father, although I still wonder if it's OK to be this happy. (2004)
For all intents and purposes, we are married. We have two kids together, and she's the woman of my life. If she ever said, 'Hey, lets get hitched,' I would do it in a second. We'll do it if the kids want us to, or maybe when the kids are old enough to enjoy it with us. (2004)
I pretty much fell in love with Vanessa the moment I set eyes on her. As a person, I was pretty much a lost cause at that point of my life. She turned all that around for me with her incredible tenderness and understanding. Very quickly, I realised I couldn't live without her. She made me feel like a real human being instead of someone Hollywood had manufactured. It sounds incredibly corny and phoney, but that's exactly what happened to me and what she has meant to me. (2004)
I was definitely ready to have someone be there for me when I met Vanessa but it was much more than that. She had this incredible self-assurance and naturalness to her whole way of being that it just made me feel so good to be around her. You can't explain it but you can feel it. (2004)
Vanessa and I have considered ourselves husband and wife since the day we moved in together. It's not a big issue for us because we know what we feel for each other and that kind of connection is what's going to keep us together for a very long time. Marriage would just be a formality. (2004)
I've also gotten weird letters, suicide letters, girls threatening to jump if I don't get in touch with them. So you think, 'This is bullshit,' but then you think, 'What if it's not?' Who wants to take that chance? I write them back, tell them to hang in there, if things are that bad, they have to get better. But I'm not altogether stable myself, so who am I to give advice? (1988)
I've known that there have been a kind of select group of people, amazing die-hard supporters, even through some of the more, shall we say, odd films. These people, bless them, have stuck with me the whole length of the road. To say that you appreciate it is not nearly enough. It's part of the essence, or fuel, of what keeps you going. These people are my boss; they're the ones who keep me employed. A couple of times, they could have said, Let's abandon him. And they haven't. You don't want to let them down. (2004)
I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working. (2004)
It's been very good to me, this country. It's been welcoming, and it's given me what I've always wanted - a really cool, simple life. (2003)
Living [in France] has been good for me. It's given me the opportunity that when I do come back to Hollywood I can almost enjoy it. (2003)
[Being in France] was amazing at first, because I didn't speak the language. I loved that, because I didn't have to talk. It was great just to be out among people and not have the responsibility to say anything. I wasn't thrown into the spotlight to be the novelty or to entertain. (2004)
Ultimately, though, what I love about being [in France] is the culture, which is very old. (2004)
They speak French better. [on being asked how French women differ from American women] (2004)
When I was a kid, I was just like any other boy. Boys are very curious, they like to push the walls, you know? (1988)
I wasn't the best kid in the world, but I wasn't an ax murderer, either. (1988)
I was 15, I think, [when my parents divorced]. It had been coming for quite a long time. I'm surprised they lasted that long, bless their hearts. I think they tried to keep it together for the kids, and then they couldn't anymore. (2004)
[My childhood] was strange, though then again, it was normal to us. It wasn't until I started going to other kids' houses and hanging out, having dinner, seeing what a family is supposed to do that I saw that we weren't normal. (2004)
At my house dinner easily could have consisted of a bologna sandwich, and then you'd split. You might come back later and grab a few peanuts, and then you'd split again. That was it. I would go to my buddy Sal's house for dinner. I couldn't understand what was going on with everyone sitting down together. I'll never forget seeing romaine lettuce for the first time. I thought it was weird - I was afraid of it. There was salad and appetizers and soup. I had no idea about that. I grew up on hillbilly food. (2004)
There was this vicious woman [at school], a teacher. If you weren't in her little handpicked clique, you were ridiculed and picked on. She was brutal and unjust. One day she told me to do something, I can't remember what. Her tone was nasty. She got very loud in my face in front of the rest of the class and tried to embarrass me. I saw what she was doing, that she was trying to ridicule me. I turned around and walked away. As I did, I dropped my drawers and mooned her. She went out of her mind. Then of course I was brought before the dean and suspended for a couple of weeks. At that time it was coming anyway. I knew my days were numbered. (2004)
We lived in a small house, and nobody argued in a whisper. We were exposed to [my parents'] violent outbursts against each other. That stuff sticks. (2004)
There are certain elements of boyhood we can't escape. And farts will always be funny. (2004)
You have to be honest with your kids about the world but also do your best to protect them. When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff. (2004)
It's easy to make a million bucks in this business doing stuff that would exploit the piss out of you. It's like fast food. Get in frame, get the product out there, and sell it quick. (1988)
If there's anything I really want, it's privacy. Maybe I should do what Brando did 30 years ago - buy an island. Maybe take my girl and some friends and just go there and sleep. And read, and swim and think clear thoughts. Because you really can't do that here. You can't be normal: you can't just hang out and have a cup of coffee and pick your nose. (1999)
I really, more than anything, despise the competitive thing that just sort of is in this industry: It would be different if it were kill or be killed, but it's not. (2004)
I think Polanski is one of the few filmmakers who nearly did a perfect film, a couple of them. Chinatown is almost perfect. It may be perfect. (2004)
The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job. (2004)
I enjoyed acting and I loved the process, but at the same time I hated the celebrity that came with it even though I know it's part of the game and the recognition you need to have people come see your movies. I just couldn't get my head into the place where I could just enjoy the attention and deal with it on that level instead of feeling stalked and paranoid about it. I'm a lot cooler about it now. (2004)
The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks? [on his reluctance to give interviews] (2004)
When you meet someone like Hunter Thompson and watch him, get to know him - people say whatever they want to say about Hunter and his books - he's pure, he's absolutely pure. There's really not an ugly bone in the guy's body. (2004)
Everybody compares everyone to James Dean these days. If you're lucky, they mention Brando or De Niro or Sean Penn. It's like they have to compare you to somebody. They invite you to put on an instant image. (1988)
Especially in the beginning, they have to be able to label the product. So they just go -'Rebel. This one's a rebel.' Wow, I had no idea! There's that hideous pressure they hit you with initially, based on your image and how you look, and I never tended that garden. I was always scared shitless of that - it's really limiting and very dangerous. (2003)
For many years they said I was a wild man. Now they say I'm a former wild man, former bad boy, former rebel. I guess 'former' because now I'm a dad. The media tries to stuff you into a mold. It happens to everybody. (2004)
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch looking at a lake or something. (1999)
My face - I see it in the mirror when I wash it every morning. It's an okay face. (1988)
[Brando's] maybe the greatest actor of the last two centuries. But his mind is much more important than the acting thing. The way that he looks at things, doesn't judge things, the way that he assesses things. He's as important as, uh, who's important today? Jesus, not many people... Stephen Hawking! (1995)
One of the most important things I learned in the couple of times I worked with Marlon Brando, and just by spending time with him, is it's okay to have a ball. It's okay to have fun and fuck up because, after all, it's only film. If you're able to get to a place where maybe your only motivation in the scene is to make the crew giggle, that's okay too. (2003)
I was married when I was 20. It was a strong bond with someone but I can't necessarily say I was in love. (1995)
I listen to a lot of [Bob] Dylan, who I like a lot. I like Bruce Springsteen. I like T. Rex. I like all different kinds of music. One minute I'll be listening to Benny Goodman and the next I'll be listening to the Sex Pistols! (1988)
I honestly have no clue how to play [piano]. But if you walk into a room with a baby grand, you're kind of obligated to fuck around on it. (2003)
Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, a band out of Texas, they were basically the first psychedelic-rock band, 1965. And if you listen to old 13th Floor Elevators stuff - Roky Erickson especially, his voice - and then go back and listen to early Led Zeppelin, you know that Robert Plant absolutely copped everything from Roky Erickson. And it's amazing. And Roky Erickson is sitting in Austin, Texas; he's just there. And Robert Plant had a huge hit. It always goes back to those guys, you know? I love those fucking guys. (2004)
I was more interested in music than anything else. Music was like life. I had found a reason to live. (2004)
usic was huge for me. I loved playing the guitar and playing in a band and just hanging out with guys who loved music and pretty much felt the same way about school and life that I did. Even though I knew at one point that I would never be a great guitar player, I still loved the freedom that came from playing in a band. My band was good enough to open for Iggy Pop and that was a wild time for us. Music was the thing that got me out of pumping gas and indirectly led me into acting. (2004)
was 12 when my mom bought me a $25 electric guitar. I had an uncle who was a preacher, and his family had a gospel singing group. He played guitar in church, and I used to watch him. I became obsessed with the guitar. I locked myself in my bedroom for the better part of a year and taught myself chords. I'd try to learn things off records. (2004)
My brother] turned me on to Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. I remember listening to the soundtracks to A Clockwork Orange and Last Tango in Paris. I loved Aerosmith, Kiss and Alice Cooper, and when I was older the Clash, the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. (2004)
s a guitarist, I would always look for whatever felt right, something tasteful - and I guess I still do. [I'm] more interested in finding what fits the piece musically as opposed to how many notes I can play quickly. I was never one of those 'look at me' players. (2004)
'm attracted to the people who are considered freaks. Since I was young, I've identified with characters considered by 'normal' society to be outcasts and oddballs. (1999)
do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us. (2004)
never considered myself an outsider. But I definitely didn't consider myself an insider. (2006)
have a few quirks like being interested in insects and odd smells and stuff like that. (2004)
e've always had our run-ins with the paparazzi. That hasn't changed. They are very ambitious. They're looking for God knows what. (2004)
when we're in a public place, like at some opening or a premiere, I don't mind the press. It's the nature of the beast. But when you're shopping for Christmas presents for your kids, I just don't understand the fascination. (2004)
it's ugly. I don't mind so much when [the paparazzi] do it to me, but when it's my kids, that's another story. It's evil. (2004)
I haven't changed my thinking about those guys very much! Even in France, I still have them staking me out and watching our house in the countryside. I don't see the point of guys earning their living by taking photos of me and Vanessa walking our kids to a playground. But I'm trying not to let myself get worked up about it anymore. That just makes them even more money and they know that so some of them try to provoke you that way. So I've stopped playing into their hands. I'm just trying to be a boring family guy so there's no value to taking my photo anymore. (2004)
What's very confusing for them is why there are people who want to take Mommy and Daddy's photograph. So we have a little game where we hide our face in Daddy's shoulder. When we get in the car and we've passed all the photographers, then we can bring our face out. They don't need to be exposed to the absurdity of that frenzy. Lily-Rose asks, 'Why do they want to take your picture?' My answer is always the same: 'I don't know.' Because I don't. (2004)
When I was a kid I used to have these dreams. But they weren't dreams. I was awake, but I couldn't move. I couldn't speak. And a face would come to me. Someone told me it was the spirit of someone who died that was very close and never got to say something that they wanted to say. And I believe it. (1995)
I've stayed at this little hotel in Paris, in the room where Oscar Wilde died. I slept in the room that Oscar Wilde died in and I thought that quite possibly, if I fell asleep too deeply, somewhere about 4 a.m. I might be abused in some obtuse way. Get taken advantage of. At least he had a good sense of humor. (1995)
What can I say [about George W. Bush]? He's somebody's kid. He's somebody's father. God bless him. Good luck. You know what I mean? I don't agree with his politics, and I'm not going to pretend to, but I don't agree with a lot of people's politics. (2004)
I remember being in seventh grade and I was one of the kids that was considered a burnout. I had the most intense crush on this very popular girl. I pined for this girl, like beyond Romeo and Juliet. Shocking. I just chewed my tongue up for her. Eighth grade comes along, we hang out a little at those parties where you end up making out. So we did that and I just couldn't have been happier. Then she goes for the football guy, and leaves me just dangling in the breeze. Years later, after I dropped out of high school. I'm playing a club. I'm on stage and I look out and I'm like, 'Fuck, it's her!' So I finish the set and I go directly to the bar where she's sitting and I walk up to her and it's that face, man - incredible. And I went, 'It's so nice to see you!' And I look at her and she's 250 pounds! She is mammoth! She's as wide as this table, but her face is still the same. And I went, 'Oh my, nice to see you - how many kids do you have?' And she had four kids. And I thought, 'What fitting payback for fucking breaking my heart when I was a little kid.' (1995)
Fidelity is important as long as it's pure. But the moment it goes against your insides - if you want to be somewhere else, if she wants to dabble - then you need to make a change. (1998)
I would hope to think that this is maybe hell. Maybe this is hell because then we could go on to something else. Because this ain't so bad. (1995)
I'm interested in all religion. (2004)
When I grew up my uncle was a Baptist minister, a heavy-duty 'Hallelujah praise God' guy. I was exposed to that and didn't quite buy into it. Not so much the belief in something, more my uncle; it was like he went into character to become the preacher, and even as a kid I thought, 'There's something funny here.' (2004)
We overcomplicate things, if you get down to the real base needs of a human being. We don't wake up every morning and go, 'Thank God, another day.' Yet every time we take in a breath, it's a gift.' (2004)
He made a mistake, you know? And if he hadn't done this particular thing that night, it wouldn't have been... but he was... it happened. (1995)
The thing is, he came with his guitar to the club. You could cut me open and vomit in my chest because that kid... what a beautiful thing that he shows up with his girl on one arm and his guitar on the other. He came to play and he didn't think he was going to die - nobody thinks they're gonna die. He wanted to have a good time. It's dangerous. But that's the thing that breaks my heart, first that he died, but also that he showed up with his guitar, you know? That's not an unhappy kid. (1995)
It was just a nightmare you never recover from. You're watching this thing go down, and you have no arms, no legs, no tongue; you're just an amoeba. There's nothing you can do. (2003)
What a waste. What a waste of a talented, beautiful guy. Obviously, whatever 'it' is, he had it. He was luminous - a brilliant guy with great taste. But on the other side of that, he was a kid, and that can be a dangerous thing to be, especially in that world, being in that position. I was very lucky I pulled out of it, but River - he didn't get out. There was so much ahead for him. Like the beauty and the luxury of making a family. (2003)
It was devastating. I can't imagine the depth of pain that his family and close friends felt. It was rough for me, but for them it must have been unbearable. (2004)
We knew and were certainly respectful of each other. There was always the sort of promise, 'Hey, we'll get together and do something sometime.' I liked him. I liked his work ethic, and I liked his choices. He was a sharp guy. He had so many amazing possibilities before him. Fuck, what a waste. For what? (2004)
I cut down [on smoking], I'll have you know. I cut down drastically. After all these years, I've finally figured it out. It's really pointless. (2004)
It's here on my arm. It was the kind of thing you do on the spur of the moment - Fuck it, lets do it. Then you break up, but it's still there: a girl's name on my arm. (2004)
It can turn a situation a little sticky. I changed it to Wino Forever, which is actually a bit more accurate. (2004)
I used to just draw these. Somehow they mean something for me, a personal significance. I don't understand it totally yet. I think I will someday. (1995)
I'm going to do everything I can - fight tooth and nail - to not be put in some teen-idol category. (1988)
I could do a Bruce Willis thing and make a record now, but it would just milk my teen-boy, pop-idol image. I'd rather do nothing than do that. (1988)
I've got loads of cavities. I had a root canal done eight years ago that's unfinished. It's like a rotten little stub, but I like it. It's like when the Indians would make something beaded, they would always put imperfections on it. (1995)
When I see people with perfect teeth, it drives me up the wall. I'd rather swallow a tick than have that! (1995)
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
I like being confused, I enjoy the look it leaves on my face.
I don't care if they take my photograph. I don't care if they take Vanessa's photograph, we're adults. But when they start taking photos of my kids and putting them in their magazines, that I can't support. Just make sure that you're really far away because if I'm able to get my hands on you I'll swallow your nose. I'd bite your nose off and swallow it.
The only gossip I'm interested in is in the Weekly World News- 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured.' That kind of thing.
Lance Hallstrom (the director) and I have been examining many boys for the part of my younger brother, and it was Leonardo (Dicaprio) who was chosen. He's a good kid...
I've always liked everybody. [Laughs.] I'm not sure everybody likes me.
One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me in school. And she said, 'Okay, I'm going to tell you what to do.' She said, 'This kid's bugging you. He puts his hands on you, you pick up the nearest rock, or whatever you can get your hands on, and you lay him out.' And I did! And I felt better. And it worked... So, for me, that was a great lesson because someone had invaded my space; invaded my being, you know, and was doing something against me that I didn't want to be done. So I took control of the situation and ran with it. And many years later, after being turned into a product by a very huge corporation that had their hands all over me and I couldn't escape it, I promised myself that I would continue to move forward and do my best not to compromise in any way whatsoever; not allow anyone to put their hands on me and affect me in that way. So that's the best advice that I could give, is just to keep moving forward, and don't give a shit what anybody thinks, you know. Just keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.
I love our house in the country. I can walk to the nearby village and have a coffee and no one pays any notice. I'm just another dad with my daughter on my knee. The time I've spent in France with Vanessa has solidified my belief that I can keep a major distance from Hollywood and still keep in the game. Acting is my living, but I don't want to live it. Living in France is the first time I can honestly say I feel at home.
I want to do kiddie movies now. I'm fed up with adult movies - most of them stink. At a certain point with movies it becomes all about mathematics: this has to lead up to this, this has to lead up to that - you're always bound by some kind of formula. But since having kids and watching lots of animated cartoons and all those great old Disney films, I think they're better, they're much better. They're more fun and take more risks. Even things like Shrek - it's really funny and well made and intelligent.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, 'I love Captain Jack Sparrow.'
I'm not sure I'm an adult yet.
Ohh yeah.. I play with Barbies all the time.
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' 10 times. I'm a romantic.
I don't pretend to be 'Captain Weird', I just do what I do.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican Party' or 'airplane food.'
So the American Dream - I don't think it exists at all. I think it's propaganda.
If you haven't made some mistakes by 28, it's abnormal.
Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and, in the end, gravity will get us all.
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A second half goal from Simon Lewis was enough for Cosheston to seal the Division Four title, and back to back promotions, despite a nervy finish at Broad Haven today.
Gavin Wickland's team went in needing three points to move above Pennar 3rds on goal difference after the Robins won their final match on Thursday.
But it was Broad Haven who came out flying as Drew Grove put them ahead with an effort that was diverted in by an away defender.
Dalton Boswell levelled matters before half time though, and then ten minutes after the break it was Lewis who turned and hit a half volley into the top corner from 12 yards.
Further drama was to come though with Broad Haven awarded a late penalty that Rob McNaughton crashed against the bar.
"It was a bit of a tense finish," admitted player manager Wickland.
"But we held on and the boys are buzzing. I'm proud of all of them."
His side will go for the double on Wednesday when they play Hundleton 2nds in the Fourth Divison Cup final.


A Big Announcement That Should Really Put PTI On The Map | Professional Testing (EMI), Inc.
We've got some big news over here at Professional Testing. Something so big we really think it will put us on the map.
Yes, that's right. Alongside Austin tech giants such as Dell, IBM, HP, AT&T and ebay, Professional Testing is officially on the Silicon Hills map, now on its 14th iteration.


Disney News and Interviews From The Mouse Castle: Jim Henson, Disney Legend?
Last month, Disney announced this year's Disney Legends Award winners. This annual honor, recognizing "the many individuals whose imagination, talents and dreams have created the Disney magic," will be presented once again during the D23 Expo in Anaheim.
This year's honorees range from the deserving (Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Lea Salonga) to the long overdue (Guy Williams, Jack and Bonita Wrather). There's at least one I think is a bit premature (Anika Noni Rose, loved your work in The Princess and the Frog, but it's far too recent a movie to boost you to Legends status).
And then there's Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets.
Henson is a legend, make no mistake, but is he really a Disney Legend? His best work, creating the characters for Sesame Street and later The Muppet Show, was done years before the Muppets were even a blip on Disney's radar. It wasn't until 1989 that Henson began talking with Disney about acquiring Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang. It appeared to be a done deal with Disney and Henson forming a creative partnership that would eventually produce MuppetVision 3D at the Disney theme parks plus several television specials. After Henson's sudden death in May 1990, however, the deal fell through. Disney kept MuppetVision 3D, but didn't buy the Muppets outright until 2004 (the Sesame Street Muppets remained the property of the Children's Television Workshop).
You can argue that since Henson completed the principal filming of MuppetVision 3D (that's his voice as Kermit), it's sufficient to qualify him as a Disney Legend. I think that's a bit of a stretch. Henson's legacy was with his own company and his famous creations, not with Disney. Disney's eventual ownership of the Muppets does nothing to change that.
Can Disney recognize whomever they want as a Legend? Absolutely. But all this does is make me question their motives. If Walt Disney Pictures wasn't making a big push for their film The Muppets coming out later this year, would Jim Henson even be a candidate for a Legends Award? I think not.
Driscoll was one of Disney's earliest and brightest child stars in the 1940s and 50s, appearing in Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart and most notably as Jim Hawkins opposite Robert Newton's Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1950, Driscoll received a special Oscar recognizing his outstanding juvenile performances. He also holds the distinction of being the first performer to star in a Disney live action film and also voice a major Disney animated character. He provided the voice of Peter Pan in the 1953 film.
Sadly, Driscoll's life is also the tragic worst-case scenario for every child star who couldn't handle the pressures of early fame and outgrew the cuteness of youth. As Driscoll got older, acting roles became fewer. His young adulthood was marred by a spiraling drug addiction and multiple run-ins with the law. He died homeless and alone in an abandoned New York City tenement in 1968. He was 31. Largely forgotten, he was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. It would be more than a year before his body was identified by a fingerprint match.
Whether the nature of his final years or simply the passage of time has kept Driscoll from becoming a Disney Legend, his exclusion is a huge oversight. He should be honored for the remarkable body of work during his early career. Disney needs to make it right.
The passing of Golden Horseshoe legends Wally Boag and Betty Taylor earlier this year reminds us of the other performers Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue shared the stage with. Fulton Burley may be the first name that comes to mind with his 25 years of service to the show (he was named a Disney Legend with Boag and Taylor in 1995), but it was Donald Novis who played the Horseshoe's resident Irish tenor for the first seven years of the Golden Horseshoe Revue. It was at Novis' invitation that Wally Boag even auditioned for the show, earning Boag a gig that would last 27 years.
Novis' signature tunes were "Dear Old Donegal" and "Beautiful Dreamer." If his voice sounded familiar to Disney fans, it was because he also recorded the lovely "Love is a Song" for the 1942 animated classic Bambi--another notch in his belt for consideration as a Disney Legend.
Novis left the Golden Horseshoe Revue in 1962 due to poor health and passed away in 1966.
Her employment with Disney lasted mere months, but oh, what came out of it. Hired by the Studio in the early 1950s for her dancing and pantomime abilities, Margaret Kerry became the live action model for Tinker Bell in Peter Pan. Her physical gestures and facial expressions, acted out on a huge sound stage with over-sized props, inspired animator Marc Davis to create the now iconic pixie. Don't let the urban legend fool you. Marilyn Monroe was never the inspiration for Tinker Bell. It was all Margaret.
In her later years, Margaret has appeared at countless fan expos and memorabilia shows, charmingly preaching the gospel according to Tink. While only a handful of these shows are official Disney events, Margaret has nevertheless become an unofficial Disney ambassador. If you've ever met her in person (her fans are legion), you know the magic she brings. No one sprinkles the pixie dust like Margaret Kerry.
In his 40+ years with Disney, Tony Baxter has gone from serving ice cream on Main Street to being a Senior Vice President with Walt Disney Imagineering. Along the way, he's been the driving force behind the design and construction of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Splash Mountain and the Indiana Jones Adventure, not to mention the resurrection of Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln. He is easily the most recognizable of modern day Imagineers and is hugely popular with fans. It seems every person who's met him has a Tony Baxter story to tell. That discussion always includes how enthusiastic and respectful he is for Disney theme park history. He's a fan, just like us. He's just the one with the really cool job.
At last year's Destination D event at the Disneyland Hotel, Disneyland president George Kalogridis was asked about the chances of bringing the PeopleMover back to Tomorrowland. He acknowledged there were challenges, particularly in complying with current California safety laws, but, he added, "as long as Tony Baxter is thinking, there is hope." That's exactly the type of confidence you'd expect to have in a legend.
Let's take a look at some of Glen Keane's credits as a Disney animator and supervising animator, shall we? Elliot, Pete's Dragon; Professor Ratigan, The Great Mouse Detective; Ariel, The Little Mermaid; Beast, Beauty and the Beast; Aladdin; Pocahontas; Tarzan. Tell me again why this man isn't a Disney Legend?
Another Disney animator with remarkable credits, Andreas Deja has a special knack for villains: Gaston, Beauty and the Beast; Jafar, Aladdin; Scar, The Lion King. He's also a trusted name when it comes to classic characters, animating Mickey Mouse in Runaway Brain and The Prince & the Pauper as well as Goofy in How to Hook Up Your Home Theater. Most recently, he was the supervising animator for Tigger in the new Winnie the Pooh movie opening Friday.
Who else do you feel is deserving of a Disney Legends Award? Please share your comments below.
Your list is a rather good one. I still am surprised that Ms Kerry hasn't been made a Legend as many consider her as one in terms of her part in the history of such an iconic character.
Tony Baxter defines Legend - and the fact that he doesn't have his name on the wall at the Studios yet but the run of "voices of the princesses of the last 30 years" are all getting celebrated as "Legends" - not loving that at all.
At least they didn't make Mandy Moore a Legend--that would've been way too much lol. I'm torn on the whole honor-the-princesses thing. Absolutely, it's a blatant PR ploy to make the Legends event at the D23 Expo more accessible to fans. But, as I said in my post, I still think Benson, O'Hara and Salonga are worthy.
This is an outstanding article. Outstanding. The part about Bobby Driscoll has me an absolute tears. Peter Pan is a really important figure in our home and a beloved character. It breaks my heart knowing that a voice that is so important in our home died in such a sad way. I agree that he deserves to be remembered for what he did for Disney. I also agree on your choices as legends as well as your thoughts on Henson. That one seems way too transparent.


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#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
  class JsonView;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace GuardDuty
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
Contains information about the condition.

See Also:
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   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_GUARDDUTY_API FilterCondition
  {
  public:
    FilterCondition();
    FilterCondition(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    FilterCondition& operator=(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue Jsonize() const;

    /**
     *
Represents an equal  condition to be applied to a single field
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     */
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    /**
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    inline bool EqualsValueHasBeenSet() const { return m_equalsValueHasBeenSet; }

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    inline void SetEqualsValue(const Aws::String& value) { m_equalsValueHasBeenSet = true; m_equalsValue = value; }

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    inline void SetEqualsValue(Aws::String&& value) { m_equalsValueHasBeenSet = true; m_equalsValue = std::move(value); }

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    /**
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Represents an equal  condition to be applied to a single field
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     */
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Represents a greater than condition to be applied to a single field
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Represents a less than condition to be applied to a single field when
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Represents a less than condition to be applied to a single field when
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Represents a less than condition to be applied to a single field when
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Ok first things first, don't blame yourself. Too many people blame themselves, and it's not your fault. Most psychics take advantage of people when they at their most vulnerable. That is how the scam works, believe me I've been there.
Stop talking to the scam artist, or communicating with them in any way.
This is important! If this means you have to change your phone number then do it. If you are still communicating with the scam artist then there is very little you can do.
Cancel any checks you have written that have not cleared the bank yet.
If you gave them your credit card number notify your bank to deny any charges from them. You want to try and recover as much money as you can.
Be sure to mention that phrase to the Police. Sometimes the Police won't be able to help you immediately, but please file the report anyway as it may help someone else in the future, or help the Police put them in jail for a long time when they finally do catch them.
Contact the Internet Crime Complaints Center, if you met the fraudulent psychic on the Internet.
Also tell them what happened, where you found their website and any other information you can recall. Also contact the Federal Trade Commission. If you don't report it other people just like you could get scammed. These are important steps as it again helps bring these criminals to justice.
Con artists are very good at what they do. It's their "job" after all. All of us need a little advice and understanding once in a while, it's human nature. Not all psychics are scam artists, many con-men and women use astrology and the guise of psychic ability to fool unsuspecting victims. Most psychics truly want to help you on your journey through life, so keep searching for that psychic you have a connection with.
what about break up spells and love spells are they real?
Hi Joel. No spells are real. I'm sorry they just aren't. People have a God given gift called Free Will. No spell or potion or words can make someone love you or make them love you again. Free will trumps everything.
Sounds like a scam to me Sharon, don't fall for it. When you find a real Psychic you will realize all that stuff was just made up to steal your money.
Why do all psychics bring about negative energy, and that they can help get rid of all the negative energy. I realized I got scammed, and I feel so disgusted now. Working with crystals? What does that have to do with getting rid of anything. Also, there is no such thing as a curse, correct? That someone knows everything I am up to?
Curses are something fake Psychics use to scare you out of your money. Sorry you fell for a scam but lesson learned. Real Psychics will never try and scare you.
I was scammed out of my savings and into credit card debt by a psychic. I had words with her and now she is surrounding me and my husband with negativity. I was told this by another psychic. If I report her I am afraid she will do even more to harm us, What should I do?
Kathy, report her. No Psychic can "curse" you or cause you problems spiritually. Both of these Psychics are lying to you.
Hello, psychic power network I have been scammed out of thousands over a period of several years. Nothing has come to fruition. Is there anyway that I can get my money back. Please give me a suggestion. I have reported them and nothing.
I'm so sorry to hear that. One of the reasons I don't recommend them is because they don't have a solid money back guarantee. If the charges are recent you could contact your credit card company and see about filing a charge back.
Spot on wijth this write-up, I seriously believe that this site needs much more attention. I'll probably be returning to read more, hanks for tthe advice!
Thank you Dolly! I'm glad I could help!
Hi Angela. I have been scammed by a so called psychic named Esmeralda apparently she is a well known scammer.And still operating too.I was told i was apparently cursed and had to , as funny as it sounds drink garlic soup for 2 weeks and put 2 half onions on my bedside table to remove it.I declined .But my instincts told me to look her up.And i found out yep scam.Cancelled my card and spammed and deleted all her mes s ages.
I'm sorry to hear you were scammed Kel, but I'm happy to hear you found out Esmeralda is a scam before you lost everything to this scammer! Stay vigilant. Best Wishes!
Yeah,I was scammed by her too!
None of this is true. There are no dark spirits holding you back. Run away from this so called "Psychic" and never look back. Report them to police if they have taken money or valuables from you.
I've been scammed of $5300.00 to supposedly cleanse my money to remove a curse. But,I had this person to sign a paper saying she would return it when she was finished. This was last May 2018. I fell on hard times and needed my money and I called and asked for it. She claimed she had put it in her church for them to cleanse it. It couldn't have been that dirty.My husband was going to leave, everyone I loved would go away from me because my ex had put a curse on me.And I was asked to buy an expensive bed dressing for my "marriage bed". I spent over $500.00 on that. I'm gullible I admit , but geez how stupid could I be? What should I do?
Cheryl, I would contact the police. There is a legal term called "crimes of confidence" and this so called fake Psychic committed that crime. Please report it, it's the only way they will be able to do anything. Your money is probably gone but you can help others by reporting this woman so the police can investigate and bring charges against her.
I'm so sorry to here this Any. It sounds like you are a victim of a scam just like myself. None of what this Psychic has told you is true. Please shut this so called "Psychic" out of your life immediately and contact the Police to see if they can help you. This is exactly what happened to me, they will try and scare you to get more money out of you until you are flat broke. Once you're broke they will disappear. Please stop talking with these people, they are scam artists and nothing more.
Thank u Angela …I had hard time to sent u my reply n I think I did it 2 or 3 times ….so disreagatd next ones if u see it ….I have being keeping it quiet because they are sold me if u say to anyone it'll be interference w a problem meaning darkness …evil …n think will go nuts ….when I said I don't wanna wait till it's iver ….evil cleaning ..n want my money ….they say …that need to meditate n see what god show them to do ….to gather my money that they say are in a work ! ,…I was thinking to call my Louer but I don't have money for this .
what about the famous medium/astrologist Jessica Adams? do you consider her real?
I sure don't. after paying monthly fee I started asking questions, she told me stuff that I absolutely didn't find any connection too , I lied and told her she was right on the money….yep the scam continued. She told me she talked to my parents, who told her about a song and object….none of which meant a thing to me.
After asking a very specific question , she refuses to reply with anything but nonsense.
what kind of person who claims to have a real ability refuses to help a person, instead just takes the cash???
I don't have any experience with Jessica Adams but it sounds like you answered your own question. I would steer clear of her in the future it sounds like she was setting you up for a scam.


← LAYING ON OF HANDS: What St. Paul calls an "elementary principle" of Christianity—neglected, forgotten, or rejected by so many Christians today.
1) "Jonah's Fast" may be a misnomer. It was actually originally called the Fast of Nineveh. According to an ancient Arabic manuscript preserved in the Vatican Library, a few hundred years after the fast was instituted, a man named Gregory Bar-Hebraeus called it "The fast of Nineveh" and never once referred to it as Jonah's Fast.
2) It is debated whether the Ninevites fasted 3 days, or 40. We presume the number of days based on the amount of time Jonah says God is giving them to turn from their ways. According to the Hebrew text, Jonah 3:4 says 40. But according to the Septuagint, the biblical translation of the Old Testament known to and used by the apostles and early Christians, the number is 3. Three days makes more sense because no food or water for an entire city for all living beings in it including animals seems much more doable than 40 days.
3) This is a "relatively" new fast in the Coptic Church, only about 1,000 years old, adopted from the Syriac Church by the same Coptic Pope associated with the miracle of the Mokattam Mountain. The fast was originally promulgated by the Maphrian of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the year 536 AD, in resposne to a plague that was occurring at that time. The Coptic Patriarch, Abraham, who was Syrian, and who was the same pope associated with the miraculous moving of the Mokattam mountain, instituted the fast in the 10th century.
5) In Arabic "Jonah's Feast" is also referred to as Jonah's Passover. Christ said that just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and came out alive, so too would Christ Himself be in the tomb for three days and then rise from the dead. This symbolic connection between Jonah and Jesus was brought forward by Christ Himself: "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40). Death did not hold Christ, and likewise Jonah was not held by the figurative death in the great fish. Maybe it is called Jonah's Passover because, for Jonah, death passed over him rather than succumbing to it.
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The region that the Syriac Christians (assyrian/chaldean) are from is the Nineveh Plains. It is in Northern Iraq (not actually Syria). This is where ISIS destroyed what was called Jonah's tomb.


One of the key considerations to beware of when filming is your budget. Now most of my movies are severely low budget and thus are just made on a shoestring with whatever materials are available at the time.
If you plan carefully though you can make as little as $10-100 go extremely far. Jelly can be made into brains, $ store ketchup can be used as blood, friends and acquaintances can be utilised as extras and indeed cheap labour if things need lifting and shifting.
At the end of the day even with relatively little money just so long as you have a camera and are creative you should be able to make something out of almost nothing.


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Why Pixar is Number One
By Katie Kieffer
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Pixar just released its 13th number one opening movie in a row, Brave. Most people associate Pixar with blockbuster animations. Many people don't realize, however, that two of the secrets behind Pixar's success are capitalism and clean fun.
Capitalism is the foundation that allows Pixar films to come into existence. Without a free market—where small film studios can compete with global giants—we would still be watching ho-hum Disney films. Because of capitalism, Pixar (a startup with loads of talent) was able to compete with Disney (a giant resting on its laurels) as an equal.
Steve Jobs (the late billionaire tech entrepreneur and founder of Apple, Inc.) purchased Pixar from George Lucas in 1986. Pixar had not yet made a single movie, so Jobs took a considerable risk. He invested $50 million of his own into Pixar and nurtured its animation group to the point where Disney was willing to distribute its first big-budget film, Toy Story.
A week after Toy Story's blockbuster opening (it was the top-grossing film of 1995), Jobs took Pixar public and his shares (80 percent of Pixar) were worth $1.2 billion overnight. Pixar's ability to merge digital technology with art revolutionized animated films in the way that Walt Disney did when he released Snow White in 1937.
Disney's animation studio was a mess. It was cranking out big-budget bombs and had all-but-abandoned Walt Disney's legacy of innovation and wholesome fun. In fact, Disney almost killed Toy Story by demanding that Pixar animators make one of the heroes, Woody, a mean and jealous character. Woody's voice, actor Tom Hanks, even exclaimed: "This guy's a real jerk!" when he read the initial script. It was only when Disney backed off and let Pixar control the plot that Toy Story came to life.
After Pixar released subsequent blockbusters like Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo, Disney realized that it needed Pixar if it wanted to save its motion-picture business—the revenue source for its theme parks, TV programs, character toys and merchandizing. Disney purchased Pixar and allowed its animators to keep working independently at their own campus in Emeryville, CA. So, capitalism allowed the best animation studio to survive instead of getting squeezed out by the big guy.
Walt Disney World Parade. Image credit: "Toy Story Stars" by happysteve on Flickr via Creative Commons.
Jobs told his autobiographer, Walter Isaacson that Pixar: "… successfully reinvented Disney's business, turning out great films one after the other while Disney turned out flop after flop." Jobs added, "My goal has always been not only to make great products, but to build great companies. Walt Disney did that. And the way we did the merger, we kept Pixar as a great [and independent] company and helped Disney remain one as well."
Clean Fun
I went to see Brave on opening night and I was struck by the diversity of the crowd; young couples holding hands, groups of teens and college students, families with children and elderly people. Pixar movies do well because they attract everyone—not just kids. The "draw" for adults and teens of both genders is the combination of mind-blowing technology with unadulterated fun.
Brave is a story about the tomboyish Scottish princess Merida, a skillful archeress who fights a bear, quarrels with her mother and learns a lesson in humility. The movie is punctuated by humor that everyone can "get," like the pranks pulled by Merida's pastry-gobbling brothers Hamish, Hubert and Harris.
Pixar's hits like Toy Story, Up and Brave retreat from the modern era of Shrek and return us to the time of Disney's Snow White. Instead of plopping random pop culture references and adults-only humor into medieval fairy tales, Pixar relies on clean humor and awesome technology to tell stories.
Shrek is not kid-friendly in the same way that Toy Story and Snow White are. For example, a little boy I know answered his parents' telephone one time by singing: "I like big butts and I cannot lie!" His embarrassed mother explained that he had just watched the swamp karaoke dance party scene in Shrek where Donkey sings Sir Mix-a-Lot's hit single, Baby Got Back. In contrast, after Toy Story came out, I think the catchphrase was: "To infinity… and beyond!"
I think Pixar's technology captivates the mind and the eye more immediately and enduringly than the vision of Shrek's plumpish princess Fiona rolling in the dirt and showing off her green cleavage. As Brave's princess Merida runs through the forest, her locks of red curls sway naturally (even individual, unruly strands are animated) and the sunlight dances through the trees and lands on her face in a true-to-life manner.
Princess Merida doll. Image credit: 182/366 by Nuwandalice on Flickr via Creative Commons.
TIME reports: "Brave is richer and more colorful than any previous computer-animated film" because Pixar keeps pushing the innovation envelope, developing technology to animate non-geometric shapes.
Pixar plays to our best instincts—the playful children we all once were and still are at heart. I think smartphone-loving teens and adults enjoy Pixar movies because they offer a high-tech dose of hope to drown out real-life disappointments. Disney, on the other hand, spent over a decade bleeding hundreds of millions on big-budget films like John Carter, Mars Needs Moms and Treasure Planet that tried too hard to create an edginess that would attract adults while neglecting to innovate in terms of animation.
Today, Pixar succeeds because it leverages the free markets to innovate clean, fun animation in the tradition of two of America's finest entrepreneurs: Walt Disney and Steve Jobs. Now if only Washington, D.C. politicians would emulate these entrepreneurs.
Key pages referenced from Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs:" 240, 286-7, 433-4, 437 & 443.
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You Kieffer Sisters are a beautiful and talented tribute to America. Thanks for your work spreading the "spirit of '76."
Peyton says:
The Pixar-Disney story is very inspiring. Gotta love the free markets!
Lodzia says:
I always enjoy reading your posts. You do take a
great deal of time looking into what you write about,
Katie Kieffer, and that is impressive!
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