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New Politics For Clean Energy
by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
The diplomats have done their job, concluding the Paris climate agreement in December. And political leaders gathered... at the United Nations to sign the new accord. But implementation is surely the tough part. Governments need a new approach to an issue that is highly complex, long term, and global in scale.
At its core, the climate challenge is an energy challenge. About 80% of the world's primary energy comes from carbon-based sources: coal, oil, and gas. When burned, they emit the carbon dioxide that causes global warming. By 2070, we need a world economy that is nearly 100% carbon-free to prevent global warming from running dangerously out of control.
The Paris agreement recognizes these basic facts. It calls on the world to cut greenhouse-gas emissions (especially CO2) to net-zero levels in the second half of the century. To this end, governments are to prepare plans not only to the year 2030 (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs), but also to mid-century (the so-called Low-Emission Development Strategies, or LEDS).
The world's governments have never before attempted to remake a core sector of the world economy on a global scale with such an aggressive timeline. The fossil-fuel energy system was created step by step over two centuries. Now it must be comprehensively overhauled in just 50 years, and not in a few countries, but everywhere. Governments will need new approaches to develop and implement their LEDS.
There are four reasons why politics as usual will not be sufficient. First, the energy system is just that: a system of many interconnected parts and technologies. Power plants, pipelines, ocean transport, transmission lines, dams, land use, rail, highways, buildings, vehicles, appliances, and much more must all fit together into a working whole.
Such a system cannot be overhauled through small incremental steps. A deep overhaul requires system-wide re-engineering to ensure that all parts continue to work effectively together.
Second, there are still many large technological uncertainties in moving to a low-carbon energy system. Should vehicles be decarbonized through battery-electric power, hydrogen fuel cells, or advanced biofuels? Can coal-fired power plants be made safe through carbon capture and storage (CCS)? Will nuclear energy be politically acceptable, safe, and low cost? We must plan investments in research and development to resolve these uncertainties and improve our technological options.
Third, sensible solutions require international energy cooperation. One key fact about low-carbon energy (just like fossil fuels) is that it is not generally located where it will ultimately be used. Just as coal, oil, and gas must be transported long distances, so wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower must be moved long distances through transmission lines and through synthetic liquid fuels made with wind and solar power.
Fourth, there are of course powerful vested interests in the fossil-fuel industry that are resisting change. This is abundantly clear in the US, for example, where the Republican Party denies climate change for the sole reason that it is heavily funded by the US oil industry. This is certainly a species of intellectual corruption, if not political corruption (it's probably both).
The fact that the energy system involves so many complex interconnections leads to tremendous inertia. Shifting to a low-carbon energy system will therefore require considerable planning, long lead times, dedicated financing, and coordinated action across many parts of the economy, including energy producers, distributors, and residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. Policy measures such as a tax on carbon emissions can help to address some – but only some – challenges of the energy transition.
Here is another problem. If governments plan only 10-15 years ahead, as is typical in energy policy, rather than 30-50 years, they will tend to make poor system-related choices. For example, energy planners will move from coal to lower-carbon natural gas; but they will tend to underinvest in the much more decisive shift to renewable energy.
Similarly, they may opt to raise fuel standards for internal-combustion automobiles rather than to push the needed shift to electric vehicles. In this sense, planning 30-50 years ahead is vital not only to make the correct long-run choices, but also to inform the correct short-term choices. The UN's Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project has shown how long-term plans can be designed and evaluated.
None of these challenges sits easily with elected politicians. The decarbonization challenge requires consistent policies over 30-50 years, while politicians' time horizon is perhaps a tenth of that. Nor are politicians very comfortable with a problem that requires large-scale public and private financing, highly coordinated action across many parts of the economy, and decision-making in the face of ongoing technological uncertainties. Small wonder, then, that most politicians have shied away from this challenge, and that far too little practical progress has been made since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992.
One key step, I believe, is to remove these issues from short-term electoral politics. Countries should consider establishing politically independent energy agencies with high technical expertise. Of course, key energy decisions (such as whether to deploy nuclear energy or to build a new transmission grid) will require deep public participation, but planning and implementation should be free of excessive partisan politics and lobbying. Just as governments have successfully given their central banks some political independence, they should give their energy agencies enough leeway to enable them think and act for the long term.
With the Paris climate agreement now in force, we must move urgently to effective implementation.
*This content has been updated to be published by the Sanders Institute.
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written by Michael Lee February 10, 2022
I'm a sucker for romantic comedies, especially the ones where the underdog who is entirely out of his league gets to be with the love of his life. While most are formulaic and predictable, all have the cheesy goodness that we crave, whether we like to admit it or not. So whenever a rom-com like "Marry Me" comes along, we recognize the pattern and the character trajectory. But one of the surprising things about Kat Coiro's film is that it rewrites that narrative while weaving in some new hit songs from Jennifer Lopez and Maluma. And that average Joe charm can only come from a guy like Owen Wilson.
Pop sensation Kat Valdez (Lopez) is minutes away from marrying fellow pop idol and fiance Bastian (Maluma) before thousands of her fans. The two wrote and sang the international hit "Marry Me," hence what brings these two together for the most prominent wedding ceremony the world has ever seen. But before the two could even say "I do," Kat learns about Bastian's infidelity and has a justifiable emotional meltdown. Meanwhile, single dad Charlie Gilbert (Wilson), who was dragged to the same concert, is holding a sign that reads "Marry Me" – one of Kat's signature songs. And in an inspired moment of spontaneity, Kat locks eyes with Charlie and says yes.
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It's actually refreshing to see "Marry Me's" have such a clear perspective on the modern-day idea of marriage. Rather than try to sweep things under the rug and pay Charlie off, Kat is interested in seeing things all the way through to the end and spontaneity of the moment because, at this point in her life, nothing else has worked.
As for Charlie, a single father with plenty of charm and personality, he's the perfect everyman. But's he clueless when it comes to the game of love and very out of touch with pop culture, social media, and technology. In an effort to show that he's still hip and cool to his daughter, who is at that phase where she doesn't want to be seen with him, Charlie begrudgingly joins his daughter (Chloe Coleman) and friend/guidance school counselor (Sarah Silverman) to a Kat Valdez concert. A spirited Coleman acts as a counterbalance to Wilson's calm and relaxed demeanor. At the same time, Silverman brings in some added comic relief.
Much of the tropes that you would regularly see in a typical rom-com are here in "Marry Me." There are talks about finding the one in a complete stranger and making a big commitment like marriage. Kat says something about banking a moment on a moment because if you get enough of those, you get a lifetime. At one point, the film embraces the situation's absurdity during a press conference that was quickly put together in response to the impulsive marriage between Kat and Charlie. Journalists berate the two about how the sudden marriage looks frivolous and taints the sanctity of marriage. Sitting through all of that, Kat and Charlie provide cynical and fluff answers, hoping that they can make it all work.
And it goes up from there, as the film also has cheesy lines where Kat asks Charlie to make a wish, with Charlie responding that he already has. These grand romantic gestures where one person reserves Coney Island just for themselves. Those deep soulful looks into each other's eyes as they dance to Robert Goulet. Or the fact that Charlie jokingly doesn't want to presume to have the best night of his life by listening to Goulet. Or how Kat's superstar presence impacts Charlie's social status with his daughter, school, and the entire world. Sure, it's a relationship that is an over-the-top fantasy and very hard to believe. But it's one that you can't help but watch because it moves like a modern-day fairy tale. As such, audiences watching are falling in much in love with the idea of Charlie and Kat falling in love with each other.
But it wouldn't be much of a romantic comedy without a little added drama. And that drama comes with Maluma's Bastian, who uses his Marry Me song collaboration with Kat as a means to get back together. But the refreshing part about all of this is that this doesn't make Charlie jealous. Instead, it gives him the epiphany that he may not be good enough for her because the two live such different lives. But something like celebrity status shouldn't get in the way of true love, right. Don't answer. That's a rhetorical question.
If anything, "Marry Me" is a delightful rom-com that puts a modern-day twist on the classic fairy tale love story. Again, it may be formulaic. It's also very predictable. But Lopez and Wilson make for a terrific on-screen pair. Considering that Lopez has that star power in her name, and Wilson comes off as an average joe who oozes charm and personality, it's easy to see how they fall into their roles as a singing sensation and the single dad/math teacher with very little effort. They all look the part. And it's how they get together, sustain that relationship through all the ups and downs, and see it to the very end with plenty of laughs and maybe a few tears that keep us hooked.
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Well, I'm officially calling the end of a long winter here in Boston. Spring is in the air and everything's blooming and it feels good. Of course I'm listening to the Red Sox game on WEEI radio as I write this and it's about 50 degrees and raw but that's just what spring is like up here. When my son Chris was growing up I spent a lot of time coaching and helping out with his Little League games. When I think about those days, my main recollection is freezing my ass off in the early evening as some poor kid walked the bases loaded while we exhorted him to "just throw strikes". Ah yes, spring in Boston!
Speaking of the radio (an artful pivot if I say so), I just paid for my annual subscription to Sirius/XM radio. I first discovered satellite radio on a family road trip out west a number of years ago. We rented a nice car which came equipped with the magic radio and I was hooked. Nothing like driving around the buttes and mesas of the great American southwest listening to some obscure but cool Led Zeppelin tune on "Deep Tracks". Plus being able to listen uninterrupted while you drive from Lake Tahoe to LA is pretty amazing. These days I listen mostly to Little Steven's Underground Garage, The Loft, and Outlaw Country. Deep Tracks also has one hour shows hosted by Tom Petty and Bob Dylan which are fantastic. It's radio the way I like it; eclectic , challenging, interesting and with knowledgeable and entertaining DJ's.
I also LOVE WFUV-FM in New York City. It's a public radio station broadcast out of Fordham University. Boston has a plethora of great college radio stations; WMBR, WERS and WHRB out of MIT, Emerson College and Harvard respectively are my favorites. But I reserve a special place for WFUV which I listen to regularly on line. The playlist skews toward indie rock and singer song writers with a fair amount of older rock and soul but not the usual fare. The DJ's are all great; they spin their own tunes and know their stuff. One of my favorites is Dennis Elsas who was on perhaps the original and maybe the greatest FM rock station ever WNEW-FM. Dennis still sounds great and he brings such a breadth of rock music history along with an appreciation of the best of what's out there now.
Saturdays at our house means sleeping in and having waffles for breakfast. It also means listening to WMBR; specifically The Lost Highway with Doug Gesler and Backwoods with the inimitable John Funke. Sometimes I will switch to Hillbilly at Harvard on WHRB which I daresay would hold up against any country station in the land. It's a weekend dilemma but there's no bad choice. John Funke is one of the great characters in Boston media and he plays very obscure and sometimes humorous tunes from the very early years of rock and soul. His shtick is pure camp and his use of silly and deliberately corny sound effects along with copious punning wrapped in a droll delivery is how I rock and roll on Saturday mornings. I've been listening for a long time and I can't imagine waking up without him. John also DJ's at Zuzu in Central Square and The Independent in Somerville and spins a more danceable selection of the same tunes to an enthusiastic audience of mostly 20-somethings which is a pleasure to see.
While I have over a thousand songs on my ITunes account and listen to my faves on my Ipod Nano (an older version shaped like a thin BIC lighter - perfect size), I have to have my radio on a daily basis. I was a precocious kid in many ways and I remember listening on my transistor radio with the single earplug to some of the great old AM stations in NY like WABC and WMCA in the very early 1960's. As I became a young teen, I was entranced by the aforementioned WNEW-FM in NYC. I don't know the history but I believe that was one of the first FM rock stations in the country. I remember when it literally first came on the air. There were no DJs; just continuous freeform music of all the great rock of that time. Eventually the DJs came into the picture and they were some of the great ones: Johnathan Schwartz, Scott Muni, Rosko, Alison Steele (the Nightbird!). There was also a local TV personality named Zacherle who did a sort of comical monster show dressed up like Dracula. He had his own shift on the early NEW-FM I believe. I remember listening at night in my bed with real headphones by that time and the only light in the room being the FM dial to bands like The Nice, King Crimson, Humble Pie, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, the Dead and on and on. It was called "progressive rock" and I breathed it in like pure oxygen.
FM in the mid to late 60's featured strictly classical music. Some of the best rock stations morphed from those. WBCN in Boston is an example. "BCN" stood for "Boston Classical Network" (or maybe "concert network", not sure) in its previous incarnation. I loved BCN in the late 70s and throughout the 80s when I came to Boston. At one point they had Charles Laquidara followed by Matt Siegel followed by Mark Parenteau; what a great lineup!
These days AM radio has become a virtual wasteland. Other than talk and the all news and traffic of WBZ, there's not much there but that's been the case for a while. Talk radio saved AM from oblivion; specifically Rush Limbaugh whose unprecedented success pretty much keeps AM radio viable. FM commercial radio has really gone down the tubes in the past 10 years or so. Most of the stations are cookie cutter formats run by corporate conglomerates that pretty much play the same songs in every market throughout the country. The songs are chosen through focus groups and computer programs and many of the stations don't even have live DJs anymore and the ones that do are there to play the pre-programmed selections. The last commercial station I listened to in Boston was WFNX. Since they've gone, all I listen to is college radio and, as mentioned, we're fortunate to have some of the best around here in Boston.
Internet radio is OK. Pandora can be cool. I haven't tried Spotify but I know that many people like it. I find satellite to be the closest thing to the golden age of radio still going. It's not a surprise that the DJs who are still around from that era are mostly now on satellite. I highly recommend spending the $15 a month to subscribe if you're a radio lover like me. The music business depends on radio and I can say that some of my biggest thrills have been hearing my songs played on the radio. Airplay legitimizes you in a way that few other things do and I've been fortunate to have had some over the years. I hope to hear my latest tunes on some station in the near future along with lots of other new and interesting music. Play on!


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New sales director joins Intergas team
We'd like to introduce you to our new sales director, Manny Puletti. Manny joined us at the beginning of this month, after five years at Vaillant, latterly as its Specification Director – Central & National Accounts. When we asked him what attracted him to Intergas he said: "I'm delighted to be joining a company which has a truly innovative product that punches well above its weight. Its USPs have been creating a lot of noise in the industry over the past three or four years and I'm looking forward to being involved in its future development."
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Santiago 2121: A Case Study of our Urban Future 100 Years from Now
THE ECOTOPIA 2121 PROJECT DETAILS THE GREEN UTOPIAN FUTURES OF 100 REAL WORLD CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE -- 100 YEARS FROM NOW. THIS WEEK, WE FEATURE THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN CITY OF SANTIEGO.
Santiago is a city of five million at the foot of the Chilean Andes. Just outside the city limits is a copper mine. The mine releases a slow trickle of sulfuric acid and arsenic into the outer neighborhoods of Santiago. The residents have kicked up a fuss for years, saying this toxic stuff is getting into their water, their soil, their air. The city government is sympathetic, but the national government says that the factory isn't even in Santiago, so residents there should stop complaining about it.
For years into the future, the two levels of government are likely to argue back and forth over the issue. The city government requests that the city limits be extended to encompass the mine so they can regulate it. The national government defends the status quo, saying the mine provides employment for Chileans from all around the nation and that the mine company pays its fair share of taxes.
They also tell Santiago's environmentalists that they should thank the mine for stopping Santiago's urban sprawl. Because the copper mine is such an economic asset for Chile (a special minister was appointed to handle its affairs), the government and the mine seem tied in lockstep. So the copper mine stays operational, all the while killing nearby forests, poisoning wildlife, polluting streams, and sending a foul stench over suburbs.
One day in 2101, the copper mine finally runs out of copper. It's only at this time — when all the promises about rehabilitation have to be fulfilled — that the national government finally rezones the mine site to be within Santiago city, telling the city that it's now their responsibility. Santiago residents are unfazed. They are just thankful the mine has shut down, and over the course of the next twenty years they work to fill in the tailings dam, clean up the toxic residues, and replant the Andes forests with healthy native trees to make it a place worth living.
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By 2121, a suburban village has been erected for the descendants of those once adversely affected by the mine, and a new railway connects it to the center of the city. The whole thing is judged a success when the first pudú, a beloved native animal usually too timid to descend from the pristine forests of the Andes, is sighted in the village, seemingly at home in the outer suburbs of Santiago 2121.
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Officers from the New York Police Department have decried city officials "get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether," following backlash stemming from a violent confrontation with police over the weekend as officers tried to enforce the rules.
Patrick Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, lambasted city leadership, saying officers have received "nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves."
NEW YORK CITY MOTORCYCLE GANG LEADER KILLED IN APPARENT HIT, REPORT SAYS
As the weather heated up in New York City, the police department dispatched 1,000 officers on Saturday to break up large gatherings and enforce social distancing rules intended to protect against the spread of COVID-19.
Officials said over 112 summonses were issued in the city over the weekend for failing to obey social distancing orders and at least three people were arrested.
The arrests occurred in Manhattan's East Village, where a plainclothes officer handcuffed two people, Shakiem Brunson, 31, and Ashley Serrano, 22, at a deli.
When officers approached a third person, 33-year-old Donni Wright, a confrontation occurred and the officer was caught on camera slapping Wright in the face, punching him in the shoulder and dragging him to a sidewalk after leveling him in a crosswalk.
The exchange was caught on video by a bystander and went viral on social media.
The police response has been juxtaposed with a seemingly milder approach in other neighborhoods across the city, where photos of parks show droves of people less than six feet apart from each other with no masks or gloves on soaking up the sun.
People leave home for the outdoors as the temperature hovered around 70 degrees, even as the stay-at-home order remained in effect with Governor Andrew Cuomo warning that any change in behavior could reignite the spread of coronavirus, Saturday, May 2, 2020, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Wright has been charged with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, but the Manhattan district attorney's office said it would defer prosecution pending further investigation.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident "unacceptable," and that officer has since been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty pending an internal investigation. Overall though, the mayor said police in New York have been successfully encouraging the community to abide by rules set in place due to the coronavirus.
"Just the appearance of the NYPD causes people to correct their behavior," de Blasio said during a press conference on Monday.
"This one incident is troubling, but there's been thousands and tens of thousands of interactions between police officers and civilians over the last weeks that went very well where the NYPD went and made sure that people were practicing social distancing when enforcement was necessary."
Still, Lynch said in a statement Monday: "Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus."
Tensions between police and de Blasio have been ongoing but officers have taken on an additional and unprecedented role of enforcing measures to protect the public's health.
The mayor announced officers will be a part of an effort to distribute 7.5 million protective masks over the next few weeks.
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Much like the rest of us, T.I. has cut ties with Iggy Azalea
The Australian rapper's former mentor says they haven't spoken in a while
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2015/09/17/much_like_the_rest_of_us_t_i_has_cut_ties_with_iggy_azalea/
Anna Silman
September 17, 2015 10:45PM (UTC)
As society at large has worked to sever its ties with Iggy Azalea in the wake of one too many embarrassing public flameouts, it appears that T.I., the Australian rapper's former mentor, has had a similar idea.
During an interview on radio show "Ebro in the Morning," T.I. acknowledged that their relationship had taken "a bit of a rest stop" and that they haven't "personally" spoken recently. T.I. pointed to last year''s Q-Tip incident as the breaking point, in which the legendary Tribe Called Quest co-founder wrote a lengthy missive attempting to educate Azalea about hip hop history, and Azalea responded with a dismissive tweet.
"After I kind of had smoothed it over like okay, 'What is really meant to be said here is…' After it was cool, everything was cool, and then they kind of came back and undid what I had just [done]," he explained. "I'ma be all the way real, I'm a loyal partner. If I rock with you I'm gon' rock with you … I really do feel that they [Iggy's team] just needed a little more time to adjust, which I feel they can do. They have the talent, they have the charisma."
Still, T.I. recognizes that Azalea has been put through the wringer during her short career. "It's very difficult to be the new kid and to be the butt of the jokes," he conceded. "[Iggy] came at a time where culturally, this nation — which, she's not from here — we were looking for a source, for somewhere to place some pent-up aggression. They just kind of got it for no reason, in some cases — some stuff they brought upon themselves."
It's interesting to note here that T.I. refers to the beleaguered rapper not as "she" but as "they," perhaps a rare public acknowledgment that Azalea isn't an individual artist as much as the face of a business team — Iggy, Inc. simply needs a bit more time in the incubator to revamp its interface so it can jumpstart its appeal to investors, after which a reboot of the product line will be imminent.
Listen to the full interview below. T.I.'s remarks about Azalea begin at 2.18:
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The Inter-Departmental Carrom Tournament organized by Link Natural Products (Pvt) Ltd sports society, was held at the Dompe, Malida Factory Premises recently. This Tournament was held as a men's and women's combined event.
From the eighteen teams that had participated, the men's championship title went to the production and supply section, while the production section bagged the women's title as well. Accounts Sections became runner-ups.
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It's Time to Take Tyler Oakley Seriously
#TeamInternet
The YouTube phenom talks the Streamy Awards, the reaction to the controversial 'Dear Fat People' video, and #TeamInternet's struggle for credibility in the mainstream world.
Kevin Fallon
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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 9:30AM ET / Published Sep. 17, 2015 1:00AM ET
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It's the curse of the YouTube personality. Amass over 20 million fans across various platforms, have an audience with Barack Obama, and appear on the cover of a major magazine and still leave most of the country hearing your name and wondering, "Who?"
But with YouTube supernova Tyler Oakley leading the way—his luminescent shock of white-gold hair and megawatt Cheshire Cat grin surely the guiding lights—#TeamInternet, as he affectionately calls his peers and their loyal fans, is steadily marching towards legitimacy.
The 26-year-old openly gay Michigan native posted his first video on YouTube eight years ago, an awkwardly shot greeting card meant for just his close friends that accidentally amassed around 100 views. Now, he may be the first person to have screamed, "Yaaas queen!" at Michelle Obama while interviewing her with blue hair.
"When I started doing it in 2007, nobody had a million views," he tells The Daily Beast, rambunctious after a flight back home from Australia, where he concluded the international leg of his Slumber Party tour, on which he meets fans and chats with them while everyone wears pajamas. "The most subscribed person I remember when I first started might have had 40,000 subscribers or something. Now you can really be in charge of your own trajectory."
For Oakley, that means an unexpected career as the gay BFF of millions of hashtag-wielding Internet fiends, the majority of whom might be found beaming with their glistening orthodontics at the two "vlogs"—video blogs—Oakley posts each week. It's a following that's led to Oakley being named one of TIME's Most Influential People on the Internet and described by OUT magazine as the leader of "The Cult of Oversharing."
With his name garnering a bit of media omnipresence and Oakley himself appearing on traditional TV outlets and even as a guest on Ellen—Oakley refers to DeGeneres as "my queen and also my doppelganger and we are twinsies for life"—it's hard to shake a feeling that #TeamInternet is on the cusp of a mainstream crossover.
Certainly an indication of this is this year's Streamy Awards, which recognizes excellences in online video and is in its fifth year. This year's lineup is the best example yet of the marriage between this community of online stars and old-school Hollywood entities, with names like James Franco, Weird Al Yankovic, and James Van Der Beek joining Oakley and his Internet famous brethren as nominees.
For the first time, the awards will be broadcast on actual television, with its telecast airing Thursday night on VH1, a curious case of online awards airing on actual TV. Oakley, who won Entertainer of the Year at last year's ceremony, will co-host the proceedings with fellow YouTube-to-mainstream crossover success Grace Helbig.
And the timing of the awards is certainly noteworthy, too, taking place just days before the 2015 Emmy Awards, which honors more traditional television entertainers. Are we on the verge of an old vs. new turf war?
"I think that it's been pretty evident for a while now how traditional [media] has wanted to go a little digital and digital has wanted to go a little bit traditional," Oakley says about the awards shows' timing. "I think we're all meeting in the middle. The lines are getting blurred, and the fact that the Streamys are on TV this year shows how much that audience is there."
As a pure numbers game, it should make total sense that the Streamys are getting a telecast as legitimate as the Emmy Awards. Oakley alone has over 7.5 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, which is multiple times the average viewership for most of the shows that are nominated for Emmys. Mad Men averaged just 2 million viewers in its last season, for example.
In an entertainment industry fraught over the splintering of viewers and declining ratings, #TeamInternet has an astronomical reach.
But numbers don't always add up to credibility. (Donald Trump is leading the GOP polls, after all.) Despite his millions of followers, sphere of influence, and validation in various business pursuits—Oakley has a book, Binge, set to be released next month and turned his predilection for Taco Bell into a legit business relationship—there are still hurdles to jump before he's taken seriously, at least in some circles.
Perhaps a modicum of skepticism from "traditionals," as Oakley refers to those who are dubious of the influence of digital media stars, is justifiable when one considers how hard it is to really describe what exactly he and hordes of YouTube personalities like him do for a living.
He's a self-described "professional fangirl," with many of his vlogs dedicated to quick-witted and ebullient gushing over his favorite celebrities, chiefly Darren Criss and One Direction. You know when your mom says things like, "Why would I join Twitter? I don't need people to know what I ate for dinner." Oakley's YouTube channel is, in some respects, just like that.
He's mastered the art of the confessional, and figured out the power of authenticity and dialogue. Oakley's videos alternate between breathless recaps of his week and Q&As with his followers about everything from whether he will see a movie coming out the next weekend to what age he was when he lost his virginity—he was 18 and it was on St. Patrick's Day.
Basically, it's just giddy talking, but with a candor, accessibility, and sunniness that vacillates wildly between silly and serious with nimble ease. It's a quality that online communities clearly crave from role models and weren't getting from the PR-controlled TV and movie stars who stand on glamorous pedestals. It may be all the more powerful coming from Oakley, a person who is unabashed and unapologetic about his gayness.
Sure, it's nice to have the Tiger Beat poster pulled out of the magazine and plastered onto your wall, but it's even better when the person on the poster will talk to you—like, directly to you and share, or at least be willing to talk about, all of your concerns.
In a video uploaded just last week, Oakley posits, "me being me may have even helped some of you guys be you." It's almost insufferably cheesy, were it not completely accurate. (Again, this guy has an international tour to prove this.)
It's an influence he takes seriously, too, having parlayed his YouTube popularity into advocacy for the Trevor Project, not just speaking on behalf of the organization, which fights bullying and prevents suicide of LGBTQ teens, but often fundraising for it through his channels. Two years in a row, he raised $500,000 for the organization.
"I understand that with the audience comes a sense of responsibility," he says. "Although I'm there to entertain, I also want to make sure I'm using my opportunity in the best way possible. Because although I don't have an obligation, necessarily, I feel like it would be a missed opportunity if I didn't try using it for good."
That's especially true when it comes to young gay people. He thinks about being from a small town now versus when he was growing up and coming out. There may have been no opportunity to seek guidance from an openly gay person then. "Nowadays if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story," Oakley's included.
If it sounds a little bit like teenage self-help, it might be just that. The swift rise of Oakley's YouTube channel—and his fame and sponsorship deals (watch how seamlessly he weaves product integration into his videos)—might be simply because teenagers are rabid for self-help, or at least affirmation or acceptance, and thrilled to have found easy access to it on the smartphones their thumbs never leave.
"I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed," he says.
Further proof of this community's influence on the culture at large—not just the thriving online community that turned these personalities into stars—is the conversations the content created by these people are starting.
There certainly was evidence of that with the response to Oakley's "It Gets Better" video, but it's never been more evident than with the current firestorm surrounding YouTube comedian Nicole Arbour, whose "Dear Fat People" video has been criticized for its aggressive fat shaming.
(Sample line: "I don't feel bad for you because you are taking your body for granted…What are you going to do, fat people? What are you going to do? You going to chase me? I can get away from you by walking at a reasonable pace.")
Arbour has since defended the video, which seems a cardinal sin according to the Bible of positivity and anti-bullying that #TeamInternet seems to worship and live by. Oakley himself had just spoken about his own past eating disorder to Seventeen magazine when Arbour's video was published.
"As somebody who has gone through body image issues and who has been pretty vocal about all that and trying to amplify voices in other communities going through that, it's disheartening that somebody could make content like that and deny responsibility," he says.
"I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people," he goes on. "I'm the first to appreciate and accept growth, if that were to come from that creator, but from what I've seen I haven't seen anything like that. But it can take time. Not everyone is born with a sociology degree. It's just disappointing sometimes when people who have a lot of influence are a little bit resistant to growth."
It seems appropriate, particularly with the Streamy Awards—basically the online Oscars—approaching, that Oakley, the event's co-host is speaking a sort of State of the Union on all issues related to YouTube.
The medium is a red-hot conflagration kindled by all the ambitions that seem to drive young people today: confession, community, candor, self-branding, and self-marketing. It's selfishness and selflessness rubbing together like sticks: I'm going to make money by just being me; also, I'm going to help people. And if the community is generating heat, Oakley is the star that is most on fire.
President Obama seemed to have gotten the smoke signals. He invited Oakley to the White House as part of a group of YouTube influencers he hoped would help his administration get more young Americans signed up for the Affordable Care Act.
But more visibility breeds even more criticism, as Oakley has learned throughout his ascent (he says he's been accused of "acting gay and putting on a lisp" for views), and so his White House visit brought even more scrutiny to the idea that he should be taken seriously.
"To me it was like, oh my god, the most powerful person in the world cares about me and my peers and what we do and how we connect with our audiences and is wanting to learn from us? It boggled my mind," he says. "It was a cool moment, but even then people were like, 'Why is he wasting his time with YouTube blah blah blah?' Whatever the success might be, there will always be people that don't get it."
Thursday night's Streamy Awards then, in which Oakley is not just hosting, but hoping to repeat his Entertainer of the Year then, is one more crucial step in that direction.


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Asuran Movie Review: Not Up To Vetri Maaran/Dhanush's Earlier Work, But Still Quite Good
Violence is practically a rite of passage. The screenwriting is cyclical, too — whatever happened in one generation finds echoes in the next.
Director: Vetri Maaran
Cast: Dhanush, Manju Warrier, Ken Karunas
The overall arc of Vetri Maaran's Asuran is from Poomani's novel Vekkai (Heat). Somewhere in Tirunelveli (going by the dialect), a teenage boy from an impoverished farming family — Chidambaram (Ken Karunas) — ends up killing a local big shot, Narasimhan aka Vadakkooran (Aadukalam Naren). Pause at the name for a moment. The man is pure evil. How strange that this demon, this asuran, bears the name of a god. Chidambaram's father, Sivasamy (Dhanush), fears retribution, and he flees with the boy to a nearby forest. They remain in hiding, evading the trackers sent by Narasimhan's family who want them alive, so they can do to Chidambaram what the boy did to Narasimhan. The film opens with a tranquil shot of the moon, but as with the novel's title, it's all about heat — the heat inside people that makes the blood boil for violence. This includes Chidambaram, too — for the murder he committed was an act of revenge for the gruesome killing of his older brother, Murugan (Teejay Arunasalam). It's no accident that the film's title and the opening credits appear in red. This soil is steeped in spilt blood.
In short, it's a familiar story of haves and victimised have-nots, with genre toppings. It's a "chase" story, a "revenge" story — and a few minutes in, the main point of interest becomes what the director is going to do with this narrative. In other words, what are the specifics he is going to tease out from this broadly generic material? Is he going to make a "mass" movie, given that he has transformed the title of the novel (which evokes nature, both human and natural) into something that hints at a single, superheroic man? Or is the title just another thing that's red, a herring? Is it meant to make fans think they are in for a movie with Dhanush, the star, while the story is actually something that calls for Dhanush, the actor? After all, Sivasamy, for the most part, is the least superheroic man possible.
Even while fending off a boar, he strides so carefully that he feels a twig with his feet and avoids snapping it. (His impulsive son, on the other hand, does end up snapping a twig.) The first words we hear from Sivasamy are also a variation of "be careful". He and Chidambaram are wading through waist-deep water. He turns and tells the boy, "Vaa… keezha paathu…" This carefulness, we see, is that of a man who has hidden who he really is (cue, a "mass" Dhanush in the flashback), in order to protect his family — and yet, it's all in vain. His wife (a well-cast Manju Warrier) loves him, but she wishes it was her husband and not her younger son who'd avenged Murugan's murder. His sons love him, too, but they also see him as a contemptible creature. Despite his best efforts, the bloodlust he's carefully buried inside him has already been passed on to the next generation. It's not nurture. It's nature.
Manju Warrier, Prakash Raj, Dhanush and Pasupathi in Asuran
There's some expectedly brilliant writing. Chidambaram's actions are foregrounded by a line that appears a throwaway line when it appears. The family's dog dies. His mother consoles him by saying they have another dog. The boy asks how she'd feel if one of her boys dies. Will she be content that at least the other one is still alive? This single scene moulds Chidambaram after his brother's death. And note how Murugan defends (of all people) Narasimhan, who has had him beaten up by the police. I beat up his son. What kind of father is he if he doesn't return the favour? No wonder Sivasamy sighs: Namma veettu paiyanga-laam ippididhaan aambala aaganum nu irukku… Violence is practically a rite of passage.
The screenwriting is cyclical, too — whatever happened in one generation finds echoes in the next. (Cinematographer Velraj bakes both halves in the same pitiless sun.) The older Sivasamy may be able to buy his son a pair of chappals without a thought, unlike his younger version, in whose times footwear was forbidden for members of his caste and class. But the upper classes have upped their game, too. Their fences are now electrified. The divide has become deadlier — though deep down, little else has changed. Both Sivasamys find themselves fighting for land. Both Sivasamys end up on the wrong side of powerful (and privileged) men, and both end up seeking refuge under a Brahmin lawyer (Prakash Raj). Most importantly, both timelines feature a man on the run. Technically (and legally), he's guilty, yes, but did he start it all? In both cases, no!
The star-Dhanush of the second half is fine, but it's the actor-Dhanush — the senior Sivasamy — who gives this film its heat. Sivasamy looks older than his years, his brow constantly creased with worry. He rarely raises his voice. In a lighter moment, he tells Murugan that the way he will treat his wife will be a reflection of how much he respects his mother — it's a beautiful line, but he seems to be mumbling it to himself. He's so… contained that even his screams for a dead son stop rising after a certain decibel. We shouldn't be saying things like "no other actor would have done this role" — it's an actor's job to do all kinds of roles. And yet, in the current Kollywood scenario (and with the exception of Vijay Sethupathi), which other actor can you imagine consenting to be humiliated in front of an entire village and then walking away calmly? Sivasamy is so weak by the time he gets home that he collapses when his wife pushes him. A million macho clichés are shattered right here.
But the character's arc isn't convincingly etched out. One of the film's best editing transitions cuts from the fiery-faced younger Sivasamy to the tired, older man of the present day — but this transition needed more detailing. There's a rousing "mass" stretch at the interval point (further "mass"-ified by GV Prakash's score), where the older Sivasamy, surrounded by killers, picks up a stick and begins to show traces of the fighter he was — and I found myself with a question I wouldn't have during a regular "mass" movie: Would this weakened, middle-aged man really be able to single-handedly fight away so many virile thugs? That's the thing with "Vekkai" becoming "Asuran". When Poomani's "realistic" world is expanded to something as "cinematic" as this action stretch, it feels odd — not because a film has to do everything a novel does, but because Vetri Maaran is himself a fairly "realistic" filmmaker, who prefers understatement even when operating in quasi-masala mode. At the interval point, he seems to be saying, "Okay, so far I made the movie I want. Now I need to do something for fans."
None of the characters feel fully formed, because the timelines feel rushed. We don't feel time and lives weigh down on us the way it did in Vada Chennai or Visaranai. Maybe it's the on/off voiceovers, which feel like hastily applied band-aids over sore spots in the storytelling. But the bigger absence is the lack of set pieces. Vetri Maaran seems to be holding back almost deliberately, as though mirroring his leading man. The scene where Chidambaram lights a match and gives away their hiding place looks like it will lead to a tense stretch. But any sense of danger is snuffed out with an abrupt cut. Maybe it's a good thing that our auteurist filmmakers are trying to move away from convention. For instance, we don't get a full-fledged song between Murugan and his fiancée, which might have "humanised" the man a little more before he dies. (I wished for more scenes with Teejay Arunasalam. The actor has real screen presence.) But what's going to replace these conventions? Why have a lament play over a tired Sivasamy much after Murugan's death, only to cut away quickly from the song, before we've even registered its impact?
Even the messaging is more overt. What was shown in films like Visaranai is told here — but there's no denying the power of the material. Within the broadest of genre constructs, Vetri Maaran still manages to leave traces of a signature. Asuran is not in the league of his earlier films, but even on its own, it's a rare-enough beast in Tamil cinema: a character-driven action movie (or maybe we should call it an action-filled character drama). Films such as Thevar Magan have already asked the question: When will this cycle of escalating violence stop? But for all their strengths, those were glossier products. When Mariamma (Ammu Abirami, who's excellent) is humiliated in the older timeline in Asuran, it's a sharper whiplash. I'm still not convinced that "mass" and social messaging are a good mix, but this, probably, is about as well as it can be done.
Baradwaj Rangan is a National Award-winning film critic. He has authored Conversations with Mani Ratnam and Dispatches From the Wall Corner. His long-form story on Vikram was featured in The Caravan Book of Profiles, as one of their "twelve definitive profiles." His short story, The Call, was published in The Indian Quarterly. He has written screenplays and works for theatre. He teaches a course on cinema at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
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CasinoWare
Tournament Floor
Cash Game Floor
Entrance Security
Display Manager
Runtime Server
Finding Players
Central Service
TeamPoker®
Start CasinoWare
Create First Location
Start Tournament Floor
Create First Tournament
Start Display Manager
Start First Tournament
Run First Tournament
Tournament Control
Pretty Much Empty
When you log into the tournament floor the first time, the window is pretty much empty.
What we see is an empty list on the left side. This list will contain all configured tournaments and presets.
On the right side there's nothing. The right side will show the details of a tournament. This includes all parameters like the name, type of game (e.g. Texas Hold'em), the buy-ins (includeing add-ons, re-buys, etc.), the entries (registered players), payouts and the assigned tables.
The Quick Start will not cover all the available options, parameters and details, but the mandetory ones.
Create New Tournament
To create your first tournament just click the enabled button at the bottom of the list on the left side.
New Tournament
The newly created tournament appears in the list and it's selected. The details will appear on the right side.
A tournament has a certain status. A new created tournamant has the status "Initiation", which means the tournament is inactive and can be configured. An inactive tournament will not appear on any screen to the players, e.g. the Lobby View. The Lobby View will show a list of all active tournaments and cash games, if displayed by the CW-DisplayManager.
Here's the list of states a tournament can be in:
Control Switch
 Initiation (Set up and configure the torunament; Games are not showen to the public)
When the tournament is running the clock is ticking down. There are some intermediate states for the running tournament.
Stop the Clock (Pause the game)
Show Seating
Time-Out (Pause the game for a defined duration, e.g. 5 minutes)
Game Setup
Nearly all parameters for setting up a tournament are grouped in multiple sections. The default setting is more or less for standard tournaments you can find in every casino or club.
To start your first tournament we will not go into details for all parameters. We will concentrate on the most important values for starting your first tournament.
a) Names & Games
Most important data first.
We distinguish between "Name" and "Title". The name is for internal use.
The name can be short and should reflect your tournament. The name is not shown to the players, but shown in all lists, like the tournament list of Tournament Floor or the ports list of the Display Manager.
The "Title" of the tournament is shown to the players, e.g. tournament clock or lobby view of the Display Manager.
The "Short Description" can show some additional detailed information. Maybe the number of allowed Re-Buys or Bonus Chips.
Select the poker game you want. The default value is "Texas Hold'em" which is the most popular once. But feel free to play any other. Usually this value is shown to the players nearly in every view.
Select the limit of your poker game. The default value is "No Limit" which is the most popular with Texas Hold'em. But feel free to play any other. Usually this value is shown to the players nearly in every view in conjunction with the game, like "PL OM" for Pot Limit Omaha.
The color of a tournament may help the players to distinguish between different tournaments when they take place at the same time.
The color is used internally, e.g. in the tournaments list, but also for tournament clock.
The "Type" has three options.
Sit&Go: The tournament will start when all seats are sold (the tournament is full)
Ring: The tournament is running all the time. You can leave or enter at any time. This is a legacy value and not used very often.
Dated: The tournament will start at a particular date and time, which is the default selection.
You can enter a date and time when the tournament will take place if the "Type" is "Dated".
Here's an example how it could look like.
b) Tables & Seating
Tables and Seating are important as well. The selected parameters will effect your tournament.
Table Seats
Before we can register players to a tournament, we need tables. The tables define the number of available seats. Tables have to be assigned to the tournament. Usually the tables have different sizes (number of seats). "Table Seats" is the default value for all assigned tables to this tournament. If you assign a table which is configured with 9 seats, the table will have 10 seats for this tournament.
If you set the value to "*", the number of seats will not be changed. A table with 9 seats will have 9 seats after assigning.
Here we have four different options.
Balance players: By default the option is enabled. Balancing allows to close tables and to use the automatic balance function. If balancing is turned off you run a ShootOut. Each table is a individual game and players will not be moved from one table to another.
Conform number of seats: N/A
Keep seats open: If you are not assigning seats directly on Sign-Up (Direct Seating) the seats will be assigned when starting seating ("Seating" state). That means all your registered players (e.g. 20 players) will get a table and seat when going to state "Seating". If "Keep seats open" is turned on with 2 seats, the seating procedure will try to leave some seats at the tables unoccupied.
For instance, if you have three tables assigned to your tournament with 10 seats each, then you have 30 seats available. If you seat 20 players at once the system will use the first two tables. These two tables are fully occupied and the third table is empty. If you enable "Keep seats open", the system uses all three tables and you have unoccupied seats at all tables. The system will seat 7 players to table 1 and 2 and 6 players to table 3.
Direct Seating
Direct Seating: "Assign a seat on Sign-Up" will assign a seat when a player registers to the tournament. The printed ticket will show the table and the seat. This is only important during state "Registration". If the tournament is in state "Seating" or already "Running" a player will be seated and get a table & seat at any time.
The protocol for seating is by default "Standard". Currently there are no other seating protocols, but there'll be some others in the future, e.g. for the new Team Poker tournaments.
Buy-In Setup
Here you can set up all the buy-ins and fees. We have several options for bonuses, re-buys, re-entries, guaranteed prize pool, etc.
The workflow is top-down. The basic buy-in is the "Start-Up" buy-in for the primary entry, the first sign-up.
More or less the sections are very similar structured. The first column is your preferred currency or account. If you open the Location-Panel you can change the currency. Go to Menu > File > Location. Select Accounts/Currencies on the left side and change your primary currency (1st row). If your currency does not need or has decimals, set the value to "0" for integer (no fractions).
a) Start-Up
Chips: The amount of chips the player will get for the primary buy-in.
Buy-In: The amount of money which goes into the prize pool.
Fee: The amount of money which does not raising the prize pool.
If you don't select any other options, like Buffet or Bonus, the total is Buy-In plus Fee. The example show 10,000 chips for the primary buy-in. 100.00 Euro will raise the prize pool and 10.00 Euro fee is for the house or stuff. The player has to pay 110.00 Euro for his primary entry.
For a Freeroll set Buy-In and Fee to "0".
b) Buffet or Bonus
"Buffet" and "Bonus" are optional. Al lot of casinos using bonus chips for their staff fee or offering a buffet with the tournament. Now you are also able to do that.
Just enable "Buffet" and/or "Bonus" and enter the values you like. Similar to "Star-Up" enter the chips you want to give to the player, as well as the Buy-In (raising prize pool) and the fee (not raising the prize pool).
The example show another 3,000 chips for 10,00 Euro fee which is only for the house/staff.
c) House Accounting & Guaranteed Prize Pool
With "House Accounting" you can alter the prize pool. You can take some additional fees, take some money for an event prize pool or set the guaranteed prize pool.
As you can see there are mainly two values available. The absolute value, called "Value", and the relative amount, called "Percentage". You can use only one, both or even none.
For the guaranteed prize pool just enter the value you want. A guaranteed prize pool is the minimum payout. If the Buy-Ins reach the guaranteed value the prize pool will continue increasing.
Tables Setup
As already mentioned, you need tables for your tournament. Hopefully you already created some tables with assistant.
The idea of table management is that you create the number of tables you have in your casino, club or venue. This number will usually not change. Tables are reusable and can be used with every tournament and cash game.
To assign tables to your tournament, open the "Tables" window. Go to menu Tables > Show Tables. I already created 10 tables with assistant.
To assign one or more tables, just drag&drop the tables you want to the tournament. You can drop them onto the list of tournaments or on the tables list of the tournament.
For accessing the tables very fast you can show an additional list of tables on the left side of the tournaments' list. Got to menu > View > Toggle Tables List. Now you can see which table is already in use or which table is available. You can drag&drop tables from here as well.
Levels Setup
For your first tournament this will be the last step of the configuration. We need some levels. The tournament structure is very important for each game.
If you look at the "Levels" table you will see several columns, the level itself, small blind, the big blind, duration and some others. That's all you need to give your game a structure.
To add a level, just click the button at the bottom. The first level will appear at the top. For sure you need some more, so click again to create for instance 10 levels.
The duration is by default 30 minutes. You can change the duration for every level. To change the minutes for all level click the duration header.
A popup will appear. You can select one of the default values 15, 20, 30 or enter the value you like. Press <15>,<20>,<30> or to set the value for all rows.
Now we will set the big blinds for all levels. Usually you know your big blinds and we have a function to set the small blind to 50% of the big blinds.
Select the big blind of the first level and change the value you want to have for the first level. The default is "50".
I will make it "100". If you press -key you will go to the next column. If you press -key you will go to the next row. Use -key after each big blind and enter the next. So it's easy to enter all the values fast and easy.
Now we will set the small blind with just two clicks. Click the header of the "Small Blind" column.
A popup will appear. You can select the default values 50% or you can clear the small blinds. Clearing will set the value "0".
If you have breaks during your tournament, just enter the minutes in column "Break". If you set 15 minutes break in level 6, the break will follow the level 8. That means the player are going to play level 6 (400/800) and after that level there'll be a break of 20 minutes.
If you have a color-up (raise for chips), just enter the duration in column "Color-Up". The color-up will follow the level. The break will follow the color-up, if there's one.
The difference between color-up and break is, that color-up is part of the game. Players have to stay at the table until the color-up is done.
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"A Moon for the Misbegotten," "Candide." Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Bette Midler and Liza Minnelli have been chosen to receive special Tony Awards. The presentations will be made at the 28th Annual Tony Awards ceremonies, airing on ABC. Sunday at 9PM. The special Tonys, presented by the League of New York Theatres and Producers, were voted by the Tony Administration Com mittee in recognition of outstanding theatrical achievements which were not eligible for the regular American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards competition.
Eugene O 'N eill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten," a revival and therefore not eligible, will be cited as "an outstanding dramatic revival of a major American play." "A Moon for the Misbegotten" was produced by Lester Osterman, Elliot Martin and Richard Horner. The musical production of "Candide." also a revival, will be honored for "an outstanding contribution to the artistic development of the musical theatre." The special Tony for "Candide" will be presented to the show 's producers, The Chelsea Theatre Center of Brooklyn, in conjunction with Harold Prince and Ruth Mitchell.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the co-stars and co-authors of the smash hit. "Good Evening." an entertainment that doesn't fit into the established Tony Awards categories, will be honored for "a unique contribution to the theatre of comedy." Messrs. Cook and Moore have been seen in New York in " Beyond the Fringe." and in a revue they wrote called "The Establishment."
Bette Midler (who was featured in the original " Fiddler on the R o o f ' cast) and Liza Minnelli (who won a Tony Award for "Flora the Red Menace") will each receive a special Tony in honor of their successful and highly acclaimed concerts at the Palace Theatre this season. Their awards will cite them for contributing to the "superior concert entertainment on the Broadway stage."
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