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Falling In Love with "Mr. Wrong" Over and Over Again
The title of this blog post could easily have been "Falling In Love with Ms. Wrong Over and Over Again."
A Recurring Pattern of Choosing "Mr Wrong" or "Ms. Wrong"
Whether you are a heterosexual man or woman, bisexual, or gay, the pattern is often the same: You leave a relationship where you feel you've been mistreated (or that person leaves you). You vow not to get into another relationship like that again.
Some time goes by. Then, you meet someone new and it's love at first sight again. You're "head over heels" about this person. You go out for a while. Everything seems wonderful at first. Then, gradually, over time, the same pattern emerges.
After a while, you find yourself wondering how you ended up choosing someone with the same problems as the last person. The relationship ends. You feel disappointed in yourself and very reluctant to meet someone new. After that, you take some time to yourself. Then, you meet someone new that you think is wonderful, and the pattern begins again.
It's not unusual for men and women to begin psychotherapy to find out why they keep falling in love with people who are not right for them. Usually, people come to therapy after they've gone through several cycles of the pattern that I described above. At that point, many people don't trust themselves to enter into another relationship because they're afraid that it will be another disaster. The problem is that they don't want to be alone either, so they're stuck between wanting to have someone special in their lives and being too afraid to open their hearts again.
Why Do People Keep Falling In Love with "Mr. Wrong" or "Ms. Wrong"?
Choosing a partner can be complicated, especially if you grew up in a dysfunctional family. There are so many unconscious feelings that are operating just under the surface when you feel attracted to someone. Often, these unconscious feelings affect your ability to choose someone who is right for you. If you have a pattern of choosing people who are wrong for you, you're probably repeating old patterns from your family of origin without even realizing it.
The following vignette which, as always, is a composite of many different cases with all identifying information changed to protect confidentiality, illustrates how someone continues to repeat the same pattern of falling in love with people who are wrong for her:
Marla:
When Marla began psychotherapy, she had just gone through the most painful breakup of her life. She met Neil at a friend's party. She noticed him immediately from across the room and he was already looking at her. She felt an instant "rush" and attraction before she even talked to him. They began dating shortly afterwards, and Marla fell in love with Neil very quickly. She felt that he was so kind and considerate, so much nicer than any man she had ever been in a relationship with before. All the other men in her life had cheated on her and those relationships ended in disaster.
She felt this relationship was different. This time, Marla felt that she had met "Mr. Right." Neil was so sensitive to her needs, so attentive to her, not like the other narcissistic men she had been with before who cheated on her. She and Neil also had similar values, and sex between them was very passionate.
Within a couple of months, Neil moved in with her. She said they were both very excited about taking their relationship to the next level. Everything was wonderful at first, according to Marla. They spent all of their free time together and had lots of fun. She had never felt so loved before.
Then, suddenly, things changed: Neil began spending a lot of time at the office. He said he had critical deadlines that he had to meet. Marla was very understanding at first. But when Neil said he had to start working weekends too, Marla was disappointed because they were hardly spending any time together any more. Even when Neil was home, he was tired, irritable and emotionally distant. He blamed it on his work. Marla missed being close to Neil and the good times they had together.
One day, Marla tried reaching Neil on his cellphone on a Saturday afternoon when he said he was at work. The call went directly to voicemail, so she tried him at his work number. But he didn't answer that phone either, and that call went to voicemail too. Since the office was not far from their apartment, she decided to go there to surprise him with a picnic basket for lunch. She missed him and she thought it would be a good way for them to spend some time together for an hour or so. But when she got to the office, the security guard told her that no one had gone up to Neil's floor all day. Marla thought there must be some mistake, so the security guard accompanied her to the floor and she saw for herself that the office was locked and lights were out.
Marla walked home slowly, feeling dejected and with a growing sense of unease. She tried Neil a few more times on his cellphone, but her calls continued to go to voicemail. She waited for Neil to come home that night. When he got home, he seemed very preoccupied and emotionally distant. He said he was tired and just wanted to go to sleep.
Marla wasn't sure how to talk to him about the fact that she went to his office and he wasn't there. But she summoned her courage and broached the subject with him. Neil had his back turned towards her at first, but when he heard her words, he whirled around and began shouting at her, "Are you checking up on me!?!"
Marla was very startled by his reaction. She had never seen Neil lose his temper. Before she knew it, she was on the defensive, trying to reassure Neil that she was not checking up on him, that she had only gone to his office to surprise him with a picnic lunch. But he was so angry that he refused to talk or even listen to her. He gathered a few articles of clothing in a hurry and stormed out of the apartment, leaving Marla in tears. He didn't even tell her where he was going or when he would be back.
Marla's head was spinning. She couldn't understand what had just happened. Then, she noticed that Neil had left his cellphone behind. Part of her didn't want to invade Neil's privacy by looking at his phone, but a bigger part of her wanted some answers. So, she looked at the phone and, to her shock and dismay, she found several sexually explicit text messages from another woman and Neil's equally explicit responses to this woman.
Marla felt like she could hardly breathe, but she felt determined now. After she read the text messages, she decided to check his email. She had never known before that his email was password protected. After a few tries, she figured out the password and got into Neil's account. She was heart broken to find dozens of sexually explicit emails to and from several other women, including nude photos of these women and emails making arrangements to meet at hotels during the same times that he had told Marla that he was at work.
All Marla could think at that time was, "Not again. I can't believe this is happening to me again." Every other man that she had ever dated cheated on her. It was the same pattern over and over again. In the past, there were some obvious signs that these other men were "ladies' men." Marla thought she could change each one of them. But it never worked. After several experiences like this, whenever she met a man where there were obvious signs that he cheated, she stayed away. But she thought Neil was different. He had been so kind and attentive to her. She felt like she was in a nightmare and kept hoping she would wake up.
All that night, Marla cried and tossed and turned. She couldn't sleep. She couldn't believe that Neil turned out to be like her other boyfriends. And the worst part was that all of them were just like her father. When she was growing up, she vowed to herself that she would never be like her mother, who passively put up with the father's numerous affairs. But here she was again, back in the same situation.
When Neil came back the next night, Marla felt desperate to talk to him. Even though her rational mind knew that he was cheating on her, she still hoped that he would say something that would make all of this go away. But Neil behaved as if he was the one who was betrayed. He said he could never forgive her for invading his privacy and he was through with her. Once again, Marla found herself on the defensive. She knew that she shouldn't have looked at Neil's text messages and his emails and she acknowledged this to him, but she felt that he also owed her a big explanation about his behavior. Neil refused to talk to her. He just gathered more things and, despite Marla's pleading with him, he left again.
When Marla came home from work the next day, all of Neil's things were gone. It was obvious that he came during the day while she was out and took all of his belongings. He didn't even leave a note to say good bye. All he left was the apartment key on Marla's dresser. There was no other sign of him in the apartment. It was as if he had never been there. He never returned any of her calls. She waited for him outside his office building, but she never saw him. A couple of weeks later, when she tried to reach him on his cellphone, she got a message that the number was disconnected. And she never heard from him again. When she phoned the friend who had the party where she met Neil, her friend was very sympathetic, but she told Marla that she didn't know Neil well, she had not heard from him since that party, and she didn't know his whereabouts. When Marla called his friends and family, she was shocked that all of them said that they didn't know where he was.
By the time Marla came to therapy to sort everything out, she was at a very low point. She told me that she had gone through bad breakups before, but this was the worst by far. She just couldn't believe this was happening. She also couldn't understand how Neil went from being so kind and loving towards her to cheating on her and freezing her out of his life. She came away feeling that, since she had been in so many relationships where men cheated on her, somehow, it must be her fault. She thought, "Maybe I'm doing something that causes men to cheat on me."
With the help of once-a-week psychotherapy and the emotional support of her friends, Marla began picking up the pieces of her life again. Over time, she realized that she had not done anything to actively cause Neil or the other men to be unfaithful to her. She began to realize that, even though she never wanted to be with a man like her father, unconsciously, she kept choosing the same "Mr. Wrong" who was so much like her father.
It was true that, by the time she met Neil, she had gotten better at not choosing men who were obvious "ladies' men." But her unconsicous mind could still get attracted to a man from across the room who was a not-so-obvious "ladie's man."
This is an interesting phenomenon that occurs to many people with the unconscious mind. It's not only about infidelity. Instead of infidelity, you could also see this same unconscious process happen with regard to alcoholism, domestic violence, people who have problems making a commitment, and so on. It doesn't matter what the particular issue is, the unconscious mind often works in the same way to cause you to feel instantly attracted to "Mr. Wrong" or "Ms. Wrong."
How Does the Unconscious Mind Keep Choosing "Mr. Wrong" or "Ms. Wrong" Over and Over Again?
You might ask, "How could the unconscious mind know, without even talking to someone, that you're choosing the same type of person?" I don't think anyone knows for sure. But I've seen it happen countless times. Somehow, the unconscious mind picks up the nonverbal signals. Some people call it "a vibe." Whatever you call it, it's a common occurrence.
In Marla's case, at that point in her life, if her unconscious mind could talk, it would have said, "There he is! I'm really drawn to him. I must meet him. This time it'll be different. I'll change him." But, more often than not, the person in Marla's shoes doesn't change someone like Neil. What usually happens is that things seem wonderful at first. That heady in love feeling can sometimes cause us to lose our sense of discernment and good judgment. Also, people who engage in infidelity are often good at hiding what they do. Maybe they'll even be faithful for a while but, sooner or later, if they don't get psychological help, they usually go back to their old ways.
It's not that they're "bad people"--they're usually repeating their own old unconscious patterns too. So, the two of you come together in such a way that your unconscious patterns mesh in a dysfunctional way. It took a while before Marla was able to feel emotionally safe enough to start dating again. We did a lot of family of origin work, and Marla learned to make the emotional connection between 1) her childhood trauma of being with a father who was usually unfaithful and often seemed on the verge of leaving the family for another woman, and 2) the unfaithful men that Marla was choosing as partners who engaged in the same patterns as her father.
Marla also needed to do a fair amount of grief work to work through her childhood trauma related to her father so that she wouldn't continue to repeat this pattern in her adult life.
We also spent a lot of time exploring her pattern of falling in love with "Mr. Wrong." It was a gradual process. She learned to take her time to get to know new men in her life. In addition to seeing the problem signs with new people, she also learned to recognize her own internal cues, especially if she felt that someone was immediately very compelling to her when she first met him. At first, she was afraid that she would be relegated to having only "dull" relationships because the heady feeling was missing. But, gradually, she learned not to go for the big, immediate emotional "rush." She learned to get to know men over time and not to get into a committed relationship before she knew a man well.
When she finally met a new man that she really liked, she was a little disappointed at first that she was not "head over heels" immediately. She missed that feeling. But she also knew that the immediate "head over heels" feeling had gotten her into trouble every single time. As she got to know this new man, Steven, her feelings for him deepened over time. By the time, they decided to move in together a year later, she experienced a deep, mature love that she had never felt before. She also felt confident that Steven was someone that she could trust and, over time, this turned out to be true.
If you find yourself continually choosing partners who are not right for you and you don't understand why this continues to happen over and over again, you could benefit from working with a licensed psychotherapist who has experience in this area.
It is possible to make healthier relationship choices for yourself if you are committed to doing the work in psychotherapy.
I am a licensed NYC psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and EMDR therapist who works with individual adults and couples.
To set up a consultation, call me at (212) 726-1006 or email me.
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Chef Niven Patel, the former Chef de Cuisine for 3 ½ years at Michael's Genuine, has opened not one, but two restaurants in the last year, both serving Indian food. The original was in Kendall and won rave reviews. Building on this success, he has opened his second location in May 2017, in the former home of his former boss, Michael Schwartz's Cypress Tavern location, at 3620 NE 2nd Avenue. Ghee means pure and has a symbolic meaning both spiritually and in the kitchen. Ghee Indian Kitchen is Miami's finest Indian restaurant, elevating traditional Indian cuisine to a new level. He owns a 2 ½ acre farm called Rancho Patel in Homestead, where he grows much of the food that he serves in both his restaurants. Otherwise, he gets produce from local farmers and fishermen. The menu changes daily and will feature freshly ripened and recently picked ingredients.
The restaurant is casual, seating about 50 inside and another 20 outside. He has a few Indian knickknacks throughout the room. The bar displays shelves of numerous bottles of Indian spices, plus on display at the open kitchen, you will see containers full of sauces and spices that the kitchen uses nightly. Chef Patels' wife Shivani worked the front of the house. And my favourite server Natalie, from Pinch Kitchen was taking excellent care of us. The chef de cuisine is the talented Pushkar Marathe.
The menu is divided into snacks, grill, basmati rice, curries, vegetables and breads. I recommend going with a larger group so you can try many dishes, or you can do a three-course tasting menu at $55 per person. We tried the charred ribs that are fall-off-the-bone delicious with an amazing cranberry chutney on top. I am embarrassed to say I licked my fingers clean. The turkey kofta, with turkey meatballs in a spinach sauce, dotted with cranberries, is a good choice if you want something mild. The kitchen will not alter the spice and will not do anything mild for you when asked, so beware and ask about spice levels. We also had some okra in a cucumber and curry sauce. The last two dishes were perfect with the amazing naan bread to lap up the sauce with. We also tried a buttery white truffle paratha bread. Our rice dish was a brown basmati rice and quinoa with cinnamon, cashews and lentils. I didn't taste the cinnamon, but I did taste an excess of salt.
For dessert, we had a sticky toffee pudding topped with a lovely artisanal, ginger ice cream, made by Sweet Melody Ice Cream. We washed this down with a non-alcoholic drink of lemongrass and citrus with soda. There was a nice selection of these handcrafted sodas as well as wine, beer and cocktails. There are so many other dishes that I wanted to try so we will just have to make a return trip. The chef's food is lighter and veggie-forward, and not based on the rich, buttery and deep fried food that I had when I was in India. The focus is on strong, bright flavors and farm fresh foods. Chef Patel is bringing something fresh and unique to the Design District. Recommended.


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What is Inclusion?
"Inclusion is an on-going process that aims to increase access and engagement in learning for all students by identifying and removing barriers." (Learning Diversity in the International Baccalaureate)
The International School of Bergamo is committed to meet student learning diversity. The school and its staff pride itself on delivering an inclusive and positive education that aims to maximise the potential of all children. The International School of Bergamo offers an education that is accessible and aims to integrate everybody into a fun and successful learning environment. A positive classroom environment that is conducive to supporting the learning of all students by giving an appropriate level of challenge, with high and realistic challenges. Students are listened to and given opportunities to succeed. Students are given the opportunity to develop the attributes of the learner profile and to understand themselves as learners.
Many children experience barriers to, or factors that affect, their learning at times over their school journey. These can be academic or emotional.
The role of the Inclusion Co-ordinator
At ISB, we are very proud to have an Inclusion Coordinator whose role is to support teachers in understanding and supporting those barriers, and to see any differences as positive.
The coordinator:
• gives advice on classroom strategies and differentiation.
• provides additional support in the classroom, playground, in the canteen and in the sleep room.
• provides small group support outside the classroom, such as fine motor or social skills.
• teaches specialist lessons for children with additional needs, mentoring sessions.
• ensures children have the assessment concessions, such as extra time, they are entitled to.
• ensures all the specialist teachers are aware of the barriers and support strategies.
• provides training to over teachers.
As a school we would like all the children to feel included, happy and supported and we welcome working together to achieve this.
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Simply Privacy
Country Leader, New Zealand, IAPP; Principal and Director
Daimhin Warner is a Principal and Director of Simply Privacy, a NZ consultancy providing privacy advice, strategy and training to business and government, and NZ Country Leader for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). A senior privacy professional with nearly 20 years' privacy and related experience, Daimhin earned his privacy stripes working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for 7 years, ultimately managing the Commissioner's Auckland Investigations Team. Daimhin then moved to NZ's largest life insurer, where he created and headed a Privacy Team and programme, before co-founding Simply Privacy in 2015. Daimhin loves strategic privacy engagements and reflecting on the big picture (to anyone who'll listen, including board directors or conference attendees), but he's also quite comfortable in the detail. Daimhin holds an LLB, an LLM (Hons) in Public Law, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).
Contributions by Daimhin Warner
Notes from the Asia-Pacific region, 10 Dec. 2021
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How to Fix the Notice and Consent Model for the APAC Region
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Developing and Embedding a Privacy Program Across a National Organization
New Zealand Privacy Act 2020... Are you ready?
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Musings of an Outspoken Regulator: A Conversation with the Privacy Commissioner
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With so many things to do in Falasarna, it's important to choose a good Hotel.
Offering a restaurant and a snack bar, Enplo Apartments are 40 metres from the popular, sandy beach of Falasarna. They feature air-conditioned accommodation with views over the Mediterranean Sea or the mountain.


[Studying God's Word] Our progam is rooted in our Mission Statement... to "Worship... Disciple... and Send. It is a natural result of following Jesus' command in John 13:34 to "Love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another." It's as simple as that! It is a Christian Discipleship program designed to fit our communities needs today by Divine Design! Our program flows from God's Vision for Gethsemane; to provide a platform for men and women to be empowered by the Holy Spirit, a victorious life through relationship with Jesus Christ. Worship and prayer combined with biblical life application study, spiritual healing and community outreach change the way we live as salt and light. Scripture walking… not just talking.
No Drugs or Alcohol will be tolerated after entry into program.
Smoking in designated areas only during designated smoke breaks.
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A program fee of $400.00 or 1/3 of participants income will be charged.
If participants are indigent, scholarships can be arranged on a case by case basis.
Program fees cover room, board and all food and hygiene items.
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and life studies along with work blessings conducted 5 days per week to help offset finances.
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On A New EP, SayGrace Breaks Down Her 'Defining Moments'
By Sarah McCammon,
Meera Venkat
Published February 2, 2020 at 5:16 PM EST
Although Grace Sewell is just 22-years-old, she is already moving into the second phase of her career. Sewell's first EP under the name SayGrace — The Defining Moments of SayGrace — is out this Friday, but audiences may already be familiar with the Australian singer's soulful voice from her 2015 hit, a cover of Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me."
Sewell, who formerly released music under just her first name, Grace, signed her first publishing deal when she was 14. "You're a young woman trying to figure out your place in the world and you have all these adults attaching their opinions onto you," Sewell says of her early career and writing her new EP. "And it can be kind of confusing — especially when it comes to self-worth. And a lot of this music, for me, was the therapy along the journey of finding who I am and really discovering my self worth."
SayGrace sat down with NPR's Sarah McCammon to talk about changing her name after coming into the music industry at a young age, writing songs for her younger self and what it's like to have a song go viral on TikTok. Listen to their full conversation in the player above.
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Sarah McCammon is a National Correspondent covering the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast for NPR. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion and reproductive rights, and the intersections of politics and religion. She's also a frequent guest host for NPR news magazines, podcasts and special coverage.
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On the streets of Cambridge (and many other places in the UK) Street Pastors patrol every Friday and Saturday night from 10 pm to 4 am in and around the city centre, whatever the weather.
We wear blue caps and uniforms with STREET PASTORS in luminous lettering, so are very easy to spot. All street pastors in Cambridge will be carrying ID cards which identify them as being part of the organisation.
We keep an eye out for anyone in need and we assist anyone in any kind of need without judgement. We respond to calls on the CamBac radio we carry; CamBac stands for Cambridge Businesses Against Crime and the radios link the Street Pastors, Club doormen, police, paramedics and CCTV.
Sick, upset, lost, lonely, worse for wear, need to talk. We stay with people until they are ready to move or until further help arrives, or on a Saturday we may encourage folk along to NightLite to recover or wait in safety. We are in contact with the emergency services including paramedics should they be required.
Our purpose is to be a reassuring presence on the streets - we do not intervene in the fights which occasionally occur but we do believe our calming presence has helped avoid many a conflict and are there to help in any way we can.
We carry information on a range of agencies that provide help of different kinds, and anyone can continue a conversation the next day by contacting the Street Pastors Director via phone or email.
If you need us while we are on patrol ask any door supervisor or police officer who can contact the patrol via their CAMBAC radio, or contact us here.
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Lombardi (Circle in the Square)
By Harry Forbes
Not being much of football fan (as in "not at all"), I had little interest in this bio-drama about legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, but lo and behold, I found it a most enjoyable and worthy theatrical evening, with Dan Lauria and Judith Light truly outstanding as the gruff but soft-hearted Lombardi and his long-suffering, acerbic wife Marie.
The play is set in 1965, albeit with many flashbacks, as Lombardi is about to lead the second-place team to three consecutive championships. In his interaction with three players Dave Robinson (Robert Christopher Riley), Paul Hornung (Bill Dawes), and Jim Taylor (Chris Sullivan), we get to observe his tough love methods of motivating the team.
Based on the biography "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi," by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maranis, playwright Eric Simonson's conceit is to view Lombardi's life through the eyes of a visiting "Look" reporter, Mike McCormick (Keith Nobbs) who moves in with the Lombardis for an up-close look. When Vince is elsewhere, Marie and the players give him plenty of insight into his subject.
And though he comes to view Lombardi as something of father figure, Mike eventually finds himself the brunt of the latter's volcanic temper. The lengthy scene after that blow up is the play's only dullish stretch, coming as it does after a particularly excellent confrontation between Lombardi and Taylor, when the laconic fullback dares to ask for more equitable pay.
Director Thomas Kail utilizes the long Circle in the Square playing area better than the theater's last tenant – the otherwise commendable revival of "The Miracle Worker" – and draws solid performances from the cast, maintaining a lively pace throughout.
Lauria is tremendous, radiating the charisma Lombardi must have had, and always showing the compassion not far beneath the bluster, and Light – with her Lauren Bacall-ish delivery and a cocktail nearly always in hand -- provides a tart and dynamic contrast.
David Korins' setting, Paul Tazewell's costumes, Howell Binkley's lighting scheme are all first-rate.
(Circle in the Square, 50th St., west of Broadway, 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com)
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A Life in the Theatre (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
I'd not seen David Mamet's early paean to the theater since many years ago when Jose Ferrer took over the leading role from Ellis Raab at the Lucille Lortel. I recall going with my parents, both former actors, and thus the seemingly perfect audience for this sort of backstage story.
But despite Ferrer's excellence, I recall we were all fairly disappointed. And I had the same feeling at the conclusion of Neil Pepe's perfectly fine production, one much slicker than what I recall on Christopher Street. But the play remains, well, thin: amusing but never truly hilarious, and occasionally touching without ever rising to poignant heights.
Nonetheless, there's pleasure in watching Patrick Stewart – especially after his last New York outing as Macbeth (recently reprised on PBS's "Great Performances") -- take on such a predominantly light-hearted role. He's Robert, a veteran actor mentoring newbie John (T.R. Knight) with whom he's appearing in rep. We observe the pair in a series of short scenes, some backstage, some in the plays (all Mamet inventions) in which they appear.
Those pastiche excerpts – set in such diverse backdrops as the French Revolution, the Civil War, a hospital operating room, a rowboat at sea, etc. – are amusing to varying degrees, and in any event, stand in contrast to the dressing room sequences where we can see Robert's essential loneliness and how emotionally dependent he's become on his young colleague.
Stewart plays with a refreshing lightness and an assured sense of comic timing, his readings as masterful in their way as his interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish lord.
Knight, for his part, astutely conveys the protégé's initial eagerness and compassion which ultimately morphs into wariness and fatigue towards the increasingly needy older actor. He and Stewart definitely have the requisite chemistry for this two-hander.
Thus, fans of Stewart and Knight should not be disappointed. Despite some passages in the play that are less than Mamet's best, these two pros ensure that the 90 intermission-less minutes pass pleasantly enough.
(Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St., 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com)
La Bete (The Music Box)
Though it was nearly 20 years ago, I remember the original Broadway production of David Hirson's exceedingly clever verse homage to Moliere as a particularly delectable theatrical experience, even as I recall a strong first half, followed by a less brilliant second.
But in director Matthew Warchus's astute present production – gorgeously designed by Mark Thompson in a floor-to-flies 17th century library (the original was a stylish white, spare setting) – I felt no such drop-off. It played beautifully from start to finish with Hirson's satiric points about high culture versus populist entertainment sharper than ever.
As Valere, the incredibly crude, vulgar, gauche, self-centered upcoming playwright with whom the established Elomire, who fancies himself the "next Corneille," must form an alliance by order of their mutual patron, The Princess (Joanna Lumley), Rylance is simply stupendous, and I don't use the word carelessly. With a Tom Smothers-like guilelessness and a free-associating string of non-stop gibberish (some of it scatological and sexual) pouring out of him, he surpasses his hilarious work in Warchus's "Boeing Boeing" revival two seasons ago.
In the face of such a tremendous tour de force, co-star David Hyde Pierce is basically the straight man, but it's a part he takes with consummate skill, and after all, Hirson sees to it that ultimately Elomire gets the upper hand in terms of our sympathy.
The gender change of the patron – originally a Prince – adds variety to the surfeit of male characters, however historically inaccurate it might be, and offers New Yorkers the chance to see the "Absolutely Fabulous" star stretch her dramatic chops in what is basically a classical role, and she is superb. Her entrance amid a flurry of gold confetti is a delightful effect.
It's gratifying to see Hirson's literate, witty play finally get its rightful due in such a splendid production.
(Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St., 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com)
Hereafter (Warner Bros. Pictures)
If there were still double-features, "Hereafter" would surely make a most interesting pairing with Woody Allen's latest, "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger." Remarkably similar thematically in that both deal with spiritualism and the question of afterlife, the approach could not be more different.
In Allen's nihilistic view, mediums and such are all charlatans, and it is goes without saying that in his world, there is nothing beyond our earthly lives. In Peter Morgan's script for "Hereafter," however, true communication with those who pass on may just be possible, though yes, as we see in one amusing sequence, there are charlatans to be avoided.
In interviews for this film, director Clint Eastwood isn't saying what he believes, but in any case, his direction is wonderfully persuasive in, at least, leaving the door open. And no matter what viewers may believe, his film is quite absorbing and ultimately extremely touching.
This particularly atypical Eastwood film tells three separate stories about characters grappling with mortality and death, and though it doesn't immediately seem possible, they do eventually converge.
There's Marie (Cecile de France), a French anchorwoman and journalist who nearly dies in Indonesia when she's swept up in tsunami. There's Marcus (George McLaren and Frankie McLaren who alternate in the role), a little English boy who experiences a profound loss. And there's George (Matt Damon), a blue-collar worker with a genuine psychic abilities who wants out of the business that he finds all too painful.
"A life that's all about death is no life at all," he has told his opportunistic brother (Jay Mohr) who hopes to get rich off George's special gift.
All these characters are lonely and hurting, and in their individual ways, all are inextricably drawn to contemplate life beyond this mortal coil.
The film is compelling from the start, and certainly the tsunami quite early in the film that eventually leads to Marie's epiphany is as spectacular as that in any big budget disaster film.
Under Eastwood's sympathetic handling, the performances are all very fine. Damon proves again how excellent he is at portraying an ordinary guy. The scenes of George putting his psychic gifts to use are played with great sensitivity.
De France convincingly conveys a woman who's had a glimpse of something beyond, and can't let it go, even if it hurts her career. And the McLarens are heartbreakingly appealing, as Marcus determinedly searches for answers in an adult world.
The smaller parts are all wonderfully played, including Bryce Dallas Howard as an emotionally vulnerable young woman George meets in a cooking class; Marthe Keller as an Elizabeth Kubler-Ross doctor at a hospice in the French Alps; and Thierry Neuvic as Marie's boyfriend who believes death is simply the "eternal void." Derek Jacobi has a cameo playing himself as his audio book versions of Charles Dickens are favorites of George's character with whom he feels an almost spiritual connection.
The film – largely subtitled in the Paris sequences – has an appealingly European flavor, and may be the most romantic film that Eastwood has ever helmed.
Some might find certain parts of the film hokey – and skeptics may scoff at the overall premise – but I was totally enthralled, and I have a feeling the wide public which could so fervently embrace a movie like "The Sixth Sense" – not to mention anyone who's suffered a loss -- will find it a fascinating and perhaps even comforting film.
(The film has been rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language.)
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Roundabout Theatre Company)
As Mrs. Kitty Warren, Cherry Jones cuts a fine figure of a Victorian madam – even if her Cockney accent is a little dodgy – in Doug Hughes' generally fine production of George Bernard Shaw's once scandalous – and still provocative – play about the repression of women in Victorian society, and the sociological and financial circumstances that might push a decent woman into prostitution.
Sally Hawkins – best known here for her intentionally grating heroine in Mike Leigh's film "Happy-Go-Lucky" – is her Cambridge-educated daughter Vivie. She talks so fast, though, that her lines are sometimes difficult to hear.
But she grows in strength (and verbal clarity) as her strong-willed character, learning the truth about Kitty's brothels, determines to break free of her mother and the men pursuing her.
Mark Harelik is particularly on the mark as one of the latter, Sir George Crofts, Mrs. Warren's smarmy business partner who confidently tries to woo Vivie away from Frank (Adam Driver), son of the local rector (a solid Michael Siberry) who has some secrets of his own. Reliable Edward Hibbert makes a fine Mr. Praed.
Hughes' staging is commendably ungimmicky, and he keeps the play – like much of Shaw, on the talky side – moving at a decent clip, even if he pitches the play's confrontation scenes sometimes too high. The mother-daughter shouting match at the end is the most egregious example of that.
Catherine Zuber's lovely costumes, including the sumptuously red number Jones wears upon her entrance, and Scott Pask's multiple realistic sets, continually please the eye.
(American Airlines Theatre, 227 W. 42nd St., 212-719-1300 or www.roundabouttheatre.org)
The Pitman Painters (Manhattan Theatre Club)
The making of art can sometimes make awfully good theater. Last season's Mark Rothko drama, "Red," proved that point, if occasionally on the talky side. And I'm pleased to report that "The Pitmen Painters" turns out to be an even more accessible look at the creative process.
Lee Hall, the writer of "Billy Elliot," explores another aspect of the Northern England mining country, this time dramatizing the true story of the Northumberland miners who, breaking the stereotypical mold, became painters of some repute and were known as the Ashington Group. And their first exhibition was the first such of working class artists in Britain.
Hall begins in 1934 with art instructor Robert Lyon (Ian Kelly) vainly attempting to teach a traditional art course to the rough hewn Ashington men who have elected to educate themselves on art appreciation. Da Vinci and Michelangelo hold little interest to the men, so Lyon, in frustration, suggests they try their hands with a brush and canvas themselves.
Paintings of mine-related activity give way to other themes with growing expertise and widening horizons. There's crusty George Brown (Deka Walmsley), the head of the group, Harry Wilson (Michael Hodgson), a socialist dental technician, Jimmy Floyd (David Whitaker), a character known as Young Lad (Brian Lonsdale), and the miner with the most promise, Oliver Kilbourn (an outstanding Christopher Connel) who, though this is an ensemble work, is the nearest to what would be considered the central character.
Two female characters add variety to what could have been an all-male talkfest. There's Phillippa Wilson as Helen Sutherland, an empathetic patron of the arts who wants to sponsor Oliver, and Susan Parks (Lisa McGrillis), a no-nonsense art study model who momentarily upsets the men's equanimity. All are superb (and indeed have been playing these roles off and on for three years). Lonsdale doubles most impressively as the Young Lad with a heavy Yorkshire accent and artist Ben Nicholson with a posh upper crust one.
Hall's play – inspired by a book by William Feaver --is never static and he cleverly meshes the artistic and sociological elements. Under Max Roberts' direction, moves fluidly, as the action spans through 1947.
Gary McCann's period costumes and scenic design – including helpful projections of the men's work on three overhead screens – and Douglas Kuhrt's lighting add pleasing visual interest.
(Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47 Street, 212-239-6200 or www.Telecharge.com)
Brief Encounter (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Having seen the Kneehigh Theatre's highly imaginative, impressionistic take on the classic Noel Coward/David Lean film in London, I feared that its transfer to these shores – particularly at a large house like Studio 54 – would result in a loss of the charm and authenticity of the British mounting.
The recreation of a 1930s British cinema with cast members doubling as audience buskers and ushers, serenading the patrons, and then assuming parts in the story is, in fact, slightly diminished simply given the size of the theatre – by all accounts, not a problem at the more intimate St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last year – but thankfully, in every other respect, the impact of this lovely production is undiminished.
Despite the novelty of the multi-media staging – characters stepping out of a black and white movie screen, breaking into song and stylized movement -- and the occasional slapstick (augmenting Coward's original light moments), this isn't meant to be a send-up of the film like that other British import, "The 39 Steps."
The central love story here – a housewife and a doctor (both married) meeting in a train station when he removes a bit of grit from her eye, and in that and subsequent meetings falling more deeply in love, while grappling with increasing guilt – is played with utmost seriousness. Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock as lovers Laura and Alec are as repressed and tenderly impassioned as Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the film.
Director Emma Rice (artistic director of Kneehigh) has adapted the film script – itself taken from Coward's one-act "Still Life," one of the playlets comprising his three-evening "Tonight at 8:30" anthology – and done so in a way that I think would have pleased Coward very much. Her work doesn't distort the source material, in the way of, say, Ivo van Hove's bizarre deconstruction of "The Little Foxes" at New York Theatre Workshop, but enhances it cleverly and movingly.
In fact, with crashing waves and symbolically liberating water projected on the drop, and a pulsating musical score, the romance is heightened to the nth degree.
A cast of merely nine players – many doubling – does stellar work here, including Annette McLaughlin as the refreshment center barmaid Myrtle, Joseph Alessi as amorous ticket taker Albert, and Dorothy Atkinson and Gabriel Ebert as young lovers waitress Beryl and porter Stanley.
The use of music – all Coward lyrics but, in some instances, excellent new tunes by Stu Barker – provides amusing and poignant counterpoint to the action. A gorgeous rendition of "Go Slow, Johnny" accompanies an unconsummated tryst between Alec and Laura, as they undress after getting soaked in a rowboat, and then chastely resisting their impulses, dress again. That sequence is one of many breathtaking moments.
Neil Murray's period sets and costumes, Malcolm Rippeth's mood setting lighting, Simon Baker's adept use of sound, and Gemma Carrington and Jon Driscoll's powerful projections enhance this truly unique theatrical experience, one that should not be missed.
(Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street, 212-719-1300 or www.roundabouttheatre.org)
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Taliban Urinationgate and Vampire Movies
RUSH: According to a report that I saw earlier today, we are not going to let this terrible peeing scandal stop us from negotiating the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan. Some people are starting to call this Urinegate. "Taliban Says Marine Tape Will not Hurt Afghanistan Talks." Now, what does that say? You go back to the Bush years, we had the Abu Ghraib pictures and, "Oh, no, my God, that's the end of the US military. Oh, what a horrible country. Oh, gee, what a great terrorist recruitment tool. Oh, Abu Ghraib, that stupid Bush, oh, no, how horrible." Remember that? Remember when I said, "Ah, it looks like a fraternity hazing prank." But, oh, they got all over me on that. And the left used that to try to destroy the military and its credibility and the mission. You remember.
So now we have a videotape of some marines breaking the rules and taping it. It's curious why they did that, and now it's gotten out. Snerdley, which do you think is more offensive, a greater transgression: Abu Ghraib photos or the urination on corpses of the Taliban. Abu Ghraib far worse. Abu Ghraib far worse than urinating on Taliban corpses. I know we don't know when this happened. The details are sketchy. So as a discussion matter, we'll take it as it is. But get this Reuters story: "Taliban Says Marine Tape Will not Hurt Afghanistan Talks." Now, what does that tell you? What does that tell you?
All of a sudden you have something that, if they wanted to, the left could exploit as another Abu Ghraib. That goes without saying, Abu Ghraib blamed on Bush, why isn't this blamed on Obama? Nothing can go wrong. This will be blamed on the individuals, not Obama. When a president is Republican, everything that the government does is blamed on him. But the more important question here, the Taliban, those, according to the story, was their people who were dead who were the urinatees. And the Taliban says that that tape is not gonna hurt anything, we're not bothered by that. I'm simply asking, what does that tell you? (interruption) No. It doesn't tell us that they're tired of being hit by drones.
It tells us that they're winning and they're close and if they start raising hell about this, it's gonna delay the ultimate. Karzai is out there saying one thing or another. A senior member of the Afghan government's High Peace Council said, "Such action will leave a very, very bad impact on peace efforts." But the Taliban says, ah, not gonna hurt anything here. Taliban must think they're close to winning. Taliban must think they're pretty close to taking over Afghanistan. There are peace talks going on, and the Taliban must think that we're pretty close to surrendering it to 'em and getting out, and they don't want this to come along and stop that process and delay. That's how I interpret it. This would be my wild guess.
Obviously Urinegate will not interrupt the process of turning the country over to the Taliban. If they wanted to they could go after Obama. They could be out there saying that Panetta should resign. Where is CODEPINK? Where are all these anti-war groups? Where are these people who hate the military compared to way they were around at Abu Ghraib? You remember the fake stories about flushing a Koran down the toilet from Michael Isikoff. They wanted to frog march Bush and Cheney into jail over Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib was on the front page of the New York Times above the fold, get this, for 32 straight days. Urinegate, ah, what's the big deal? No big deal. We can't even pinpoint when it happened. We'll deal with it internally. Panetta gets away with talking about how outraged he is. He won't put up with it. Okay, fine, that's all we need to hear, let's move on, nothing to see here.
RUSH: Prince Frederick, Maryland. Gloria, thank you so much for waiting. Nice to have you here.
CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. (giggling) I'm so ecstatic to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.
CALLER: I just want to let you know I love you, but I thought earlier — maybe I misunderstood — that you had compared Abu Ghraib to what went on with these four kids, these four Marines; and I was going to give you a dusting on it, but I think… (giggling) I don't know. Maybe I misunderstood you.
RUSH: Well, no, I didn't. I talked about them in the same sentence but I didn't. No. I did not equate them.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Other than in the way they're being reacted to.
CALLER: I know. I'm so mad. I just don't want these kids to suffer anything. I don't care if they get a little slap on their hands, but they did nothing wrong. These troglodytes deserved more than just a little whiz on 'em, and it really just boggles my brain that these —
RUSH: Now, my understanding is — and this is from the father of two Marines who has written about this. He wrote about it last night. His name is Michael Ledeen, a friend of mine, and he says that they did break rules; that this is not something that is taught, recommended, or what have you. The thing is, everybody knows it happens on both sides. There is a famous picture of George Patton urinating in the Ryan river before making a march on Hitler. We know this stuff happens. We know they do it and worse. What happened here was videotaping this and putting it out there. We know this. This is war, for crying out loud!
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: We all know they have to take whizzes, like you said.
CALLER: (giggling) Exactly. And what they failed to mention is what the Taliban do to these poor villagers and their women and their children when they go into 'em. Why don't they show those atrocities, and we're worried about our guys taking a little leak on these Taliban?
RUSH: Because… In fact, you know something? This is actually a good point. Do you remember, after Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo…? Now, just stick with me on this. After Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo, all we heard about from Obama himself (while he's a candidate) and all the other Democrats was how this is not America. "This is destroying our values! This is why the world hates us." Remember all that talk about American values? Where is that now? Why aren't the same Democrats concerned about the hit to American values with this? All of is so political and it's always so political. The differences in the way stories like this are covered are so obvious. I was watching a show. I tell you… In fact, if you haven't seen this show, you should watch this.
It's a show called Homeland. It's on — well, it was on — Showtime. It's still available. Showtime On Demand. If your cable company provides it — I know that DirecTV does. (interruption) Comcast? Okay, Comcast has Showtime On Demand. It was 12 episodes, and it ran last fall into December, and it was cocreated by Howard Gordon, who was the show runner for 24, Joel Surnow's good buddy (and Howard's got a couple novels that he's also written). It's an excellent show. It stars Claire Danes as a CIA agent, and it's got a pretty good cast. Mandy Patinkin is her superior and it's really good. I liked it. It's a terrific show.
There's a scene in this show where the male lead is a POW captured for seven years in a Iraq (I don't want to take too much 'cause it's a spoiler), but during the seven years of his captivity they routinely portrayed the guard urinating on him. My point is we all know this kind of stuff happens — and when people start saying, "Oh, how horrible! This is outrageous," and she's right: This is nothing compared to what happens to the innocent women and children of the Taliban, how they hide behind them and so forth and subject them to the drones (the drone attacks), which is what this show's about, interestingly.
But you really ought to watch. It's 12 episodes. The last episode's an hour and a half. The others are anywhere from 52 minutes to an hour, and there are no commercials in 'em, and I didn't know about it 'til it was almost over. Joel Surnow… Well, I did, but I didn't pay enough attention. Joel said to me (I was out playing golf in California), "Have you seen Howard-o's new show?" "No." It's Homeland on Showtime." "Oh, okay," and I hit my next shot and I forgot about it; and then somebody sent me an e-mail or somebody told me about it, and I said, "Wait a minute, I've heard of this," and I remembered, "It's Howard-o's show!" So I started watching and Kathryn and I started watching it.
We had a marathon watching these things while we were in Hawaii. We got the DVDs because Showtime On Demand wasn't available in the hotel. So I had to pull strings and get DVDs FedExed all over the place to get 'em out to the hotel. (interruption) There's no ban on vampire movies. I just don't watch 'em. No, I haven't seen Twilight. II will just tell you this. We all have things that just don't grab us. I'll scan through the guide on the TV screen, and if the description of the show mentions the word "vampire," that's it. I go right past it, don't stop. I have never… The last vampire show I saw was the old black and white with Bela Lugosi, Dracula. It's the last one I saw. I don't read the Anne Rice books. Nothing against anybody that writes or does TV shows about vampires. It's just I don't.
Not only do I not watch it, it's one thing I literally do not understand anybody else being interested in, because where do I live? I live in Realville, and there are no such things. (interruption) Whoa, that stuff's possible! Science fiction/fantasy stuff is all possible. Look at how many of the technogizmo gadgets we have today were in sci-fi movies in the fifties. The iPad goes way back to the Twilight Zone! The iPad actually goes back to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Those two astronauts had an iPad in it. But vampires are just…. Now, see, I'm getting myself in trouble because a lot of people like vampire stuff and think I'm ripping vampires, and we just have enough bloodsuckers with the Democrat Party to deal with here every day to have to go home and turn on the television and watch fake ones; and they're all beautiful people!
It frankly amazes me that television and movie writers and book writers have been able to make such hay out of people biting each other's necks. It's essentially all it is. Why don't we do a show on hickeys? (interruption) Well, I know it's moved beyond hickeys, but I just don't know. (interruption) Vampire sex is a big? You mean two vampires having sex, or the…? (interruption) Yeah, see, that's the thing. That's where I lose it. That's where I lose it! If it was two vampires having sex that's a whole different thing but it's always a vampire going after some innocent, unsuspecting virgin who ends up being corrupted and then you got the werewolf guy that's gonna show somewhere else later in it and it's just all predictable.
RUSH: I just got an e-mail that said, "Rush, you just illustrated your point. I was never more bored listening to you than when you were talking about vampires and you say that you'll sound bored when you're talking about things you don't care about. You talked vampires, you sounded like you didn't care about it, you were very boring."
See? Point made!
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Q: Why are "bollocks!" so often "old"? Prompted by this question (How old is "Bollocks!"?), I wonder why it's so often "old bollocks".
Where I live (South-East England), "giving it all that old bollocks" is a fairly common expression in certain circles. That's probably quite localised dialect, but googling the net suggests that a load of old bollocks, the same old bollocks and other old variants are quite common in the world at large.
When people say "Don't give me that old crap!", it normally means they've heard your line before, and don't want to hear it again. But I don't get that implication of repetition with old bollocks.
With "That's a load of old bollocks!" I can discard "a load of" and/or "old". None of the variants seem to imply I've heard it before. I don't feel quite so comfortable with "That's old bollocks!" though - maybe I only accept it at all because it sounds like "That's all bollocks!"
I hear plenty of "That's balls!", but they never seem to be old. Why is this?

A: It may have something to do with the fact that "bollocks" isn't inherently negative - for instance, "the dog's bollocks" is quite positive. The use of "old" thus qualifies that these are not, er, bollocks of praise, but rather bollocks that have passed their (doglike?) prime.

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Looking to build a vintage car collection? There is a network of experts who can help
Posted by Quick Clarity on 26 Jan 2020
Looks like I'm buying dinner tonight!' Steve Serio grins broadly as his friends slap his back and give him fist bumps.
Across a wide, white tent in dusty Scottsdale, Ariz., a round of applause breaks out in approval. The Boston-based car dealer has just sold his 1958 Mercedes-Benz 220 S Cabriolet for $140,000, beating the estimate that auction house Gooding & Co. had set for the silver droptop to fetch that day.
'It was touch-and-go for a minute there,' Serio says, nodding to a thumbs-up proffered from a buddy across the room. Bidding had stalled momentarily at $100,000, but the irascible British auctioneer up front, Charlie Ross, wouldn't stand for it.
Ross prodded, teased, scolded, and charmed the crowd until bidding regained momentum and sent the price on the screen to $115,000 and then on higher. At that point, Serio knew he had at least broken even. Anything more would be cake.
Welcome to Day Three of the Scottsdale Auctions, an annual event held for the past three decades. It's the unofficial first stop on the premier car-collecting circuit, a route that runs through the Retromobile show in Paris, the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, Monterey Car Week, and the Villa d'Este Concours d'Elegance on Lake Como, just outside Milan.
And Steve Serio, with an entry-level Jeep rented for the occasion, an understated wristwatch, and a genial but reserved manner, is there to work.
Serio is among the top tier of an elite network of consultants and experts who operate behind the scenes to buy and sell most of the world's blue-chip vehicles. Their black books contain the contact details of African billionaires and Swiss banking scions looking to build entire car collections. Lunchtime table banter with this group can turn surreal: 'He wanted to give me $300 million for a five-year play, but I told him that's crazy—let's start with $30 million for now. That will build a great collection.'
Their phones buzz morning, noon, and night with calls from real estate barons searching for a fifth ultra-rare racing Ferrari to buy or media-shy entertainers looking to sell their seven-figure 'plastic' Porsches, a nickname for the very lightweight, very low and slim Porsche race cars from the late 1960s. Pop stars tap them to dispense of Alfa Romeos once they have lost the blush of novelty. Collectors too famous to attend public auctions without causing a scene use them as hired guns to secure the sale of a coveted machine. Pharmaceutical industry titans with neither the time nor the patience—nor, says Serio, the self-control—to bid on classics themselves call on them to do it instead.
For the inside hook on prewar American cars, try Mark Hyman in St. Louis. If you prefer coach-built prewar and touring cars—Alfa Romeos from the 1950s to the '70s, or, say, unusual Italian cars currently being stored in Japan—ask Serio's colleague, Peter Brotman.
But if rare European exotics are your thing, the 60-year-old Serio leads the ranks. He's gone from an automotive dealership owner (Bugatti, Saleen, Lotus, Aston Martin, among others) to independent consultant. Outside Scottsdale, he is most likely found on his back in a dusty barn in Germany inspecting rust on the chassis of an old Porsche or kicking Bizzarrini tires in a climate-controlled collection in Italy on behalf of his exceedingly discrete, even secretive, clients.
'I'm a chameleon,' says Serio, who at one point or another seems to have worked deeply in even the most obscure makes and marques. 'I'll move as fast as I can into [a potential] market, if I can identify it.'
That afternoon at the Gooding auction, Serio quickly notes the difference between a $2 million Mercedes-Benz 300 SL and one worth far less. As a 1958 SL painted the color of a fire engine rolled across the auction block, he notes, '1958 doesn't qualify for any of the major rallies, and red on an SL is the kiss of death.' Two minutes later, it sells for $850,000—a paltry sum in the 300 SL world.
Later, in the viewing area, he wiggles underneath a black car, iPhone flashlight in hand, to inspect how the fenders have been welded on. He might also find signs of repairs that have not been disclosed. The difference between him or another guy doing such minute surveillance is that Serio knows at a glance whether the etching on the headlight is wrong—a clue that it is not period-correct—or if the metal holder encircling the headlight should not have been polished so brightly. 'Over-restored' is a thing, too.
He will also know and call the guy who, he'll remember, owned the car last year, in order to get the real story as to why it's being offered for sale now. You'd be surprised at how many expensive, important cars are offered momentarily on Bring a Trailer and then, as if by magic, are offered later at a prestigious auction. Or vice-versa. It's rarely a good sign—and always a bad look—when a car has been offered for sale on several different platforms or venues. Serio will remember which is which.
The Power of the Game
Along with Brotman, who keeps his own roster of well-heeled clients, Serio spent four days lodged in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright a century ago. They were laying the groundwork for deals that would play out over the rest of the year.
They discussed whether to hold a 911R for Amelia or to sell it before the event; compared notes on a black 1958 Porsche 356 speedster with a dark green interior; and for another client placed a bid on a purple metallic 1991 Vector that looks like it came straight from '90s-era MTV. Tag-teaming, they're even more effective: When they heard from a client who was recently looking for a missing Ferrari 365GTS California Spyder—one of 14 existing today—they located two. It took them fewer than 48 hours.
Serio speaks on several expert panels during auction week as well, including one at the members-only Otto Car Club hosted by Road Scholars, a Pebble Beach award-winning restoration company. It was a meeting exclusive to owners and aspirants of the ultra-rare Abarth Porsches, cars that routinely fetch millions of dollars and are so beloved they're passed quietly from one owner to another, never to be seen at auction. Brotman, who has 30 years of contacts built up in his head, expects to come out of the weekend with two or three big deals gleaned from networking alone: 'It could be a $5 to $7 million weekend,' he says, nonchalantly.
Strategic Diversification
Extracurriculars aside, the main goal this week for Serio is to sell three classic cars, a task he has plotted for the better part of a year. In addition to the silver Mercedes cabriolet, there's a 1956 Jaguar D Type Tempero replica that he acquired by trade from a fellow dealer on the West Coast. (He'd owned a similar model 20 years ago and missed driving it.) There's also a white 1938 BMW 328 Roadster he bought last year on a tip. 'We knew it was a great car and thought, 'Let's just take a shot," Serio says.
He matches each car to the auction house he determines best-suited to sell it—Gooding for the Mercedes, because he knows the charismatic Brit Ross will eke out every last dime he can get on something he's listing with no reserve. He sends the Jaguar to RM Sothebys because the auction house has historically done well selling that particular continuation model. The placement of the BMW, too, works out fortuitously: A similar 328, in an aged minty green color and owned by one family for 75 years, grabs headlines when it appears in the catalogue for the Gooding auction. Serio doesn't want his white BMW to be overshadowed by the green one with its slightly superior pedigree, so he is happy to go with Bonhams on that one.
'I don't negotiate against myself,' he puts it.
A Critical Eye
Typically, auction houses collect 12% of the hammer price from the buyer, up to $250,000; anything above that is on a sliding scale. Sellers typically pay 10% as private individuals. But longtime dealers such as Serio can negotiate smaller fees—or even have them waived entirely—for themselves and their clients. The savviest negotiate different terms with each auction house to their own advantage. Serio typically earns a double-digit percentage from his clients for his troubles, which he splits with such associates as Brotman, if the deal requires.
But the ability to garner favorable terms isn't the primary reason Serio and co. have full date books for sales months in the future and for multiyear long-term plays. The real value is their encyclopedic knowledge of obscure makes and models; a network of collectors, brokers, mechanics, and restorers, mostly gained by word-of-mouth; and old-fashioned common sense.
'I'm used to being disappointed,' Serio says. 'And then, one time, I'll find that 550 A Porsche that had been missing for 50 years in a garage in Dusseldorf. These things still exist, they're still out there. You just need to know where to look.'
More subtly, the job is also about navigating the ethical cesspool of used-car sales, which, after all, is ultimately what auctions are—even if they do serve Champagne swirled with the glitz of red carpet and chandeliers. Car auctions are a largely unregulated business that exist, let's not forget, to enrich the auction houses, not consumers. Sorting through VINs, international registrations, back-end buyback guarantees, and the level of restoration or lack thereof—notoriously difficult to verify—on a million-dollar piece of rolling art is a full-time job. 'I deal with liars, cheats, and thieves on a daily basis,' Serio says with a wry grin.
Those who are not so lucky to have Serio or one of his brethren by their sides might resort to carrying magnets in their pocket for an easy test to see if Bondo has been applied. (If the magnet doesn't stick to the side of the car, it's a sign that a repair or previous collision has occurred.) I saw one man in Scottsdale use a handheld device to detect the thickness of the paint on a red Ferrari Testarossa—which helped him determine how original the paint job was.
On to the Next One
The sale of Serio's vintage Mercedes with the whitewall tires and patina-ed leather seats is especially sweet, considering its timing: It's the only one of his million-dollar bunch to sell this week. Neither the Jaguar D Type nor the BMW 328 Roadster meet their reserve price, for reasons that vary, depending on whom you ask.
'Every year, it's something: devaluing of the euro, Brexit, Harry and Meghan, the election, you name it,' Serio says. 'You can't get emotional about these things. This is just another day in the office—this just happens to be the office.'
The morning after the last auction, we meet for coffee to debrief the sales. Serio is crowing about the veal last night at his favorite Italian spot, where he hosted a dinner for a dozen major collectors. Brotman, saying a quick goodbye, will drive to Los Angeles to visit a valued client.
Later, Serio texts an update: The Jaguar will find its way to Bring a Trailer, and the BMW is being shopped to a buyer of means in the U.K. He has hitched a ride back to Boston in a friend's private jet—another day at the office, this time sky-high. 'Sometimes you throw more than one dart to find the board,' he says.- Bloomberg
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Q: How to Identify the Data Type of Generic Class/Method Here is my code, Which I tried to identify the Generic method data type.

*

*First If condition is used to identify the primitive data type.

*Second If condition is used for T is generic type or class.
public T ToObject<T>()
     {
         //T is : int,int?,string,float,decimal
         if (typeof(T).IsValueType)
         {
             //TO DO : Return Value Type
         }
         //T is Generic List<User>
         if (typeof(T).IsGenericType)
         {
             //TO DO : Return List of Object
         }
         else
         {
             //T is User
             //TO DO : Return Object
         }
         return default(T);
     }

A: string is not a value type, so your first condition breaks straight away.
Its really unclear what you are asking and this seems strange to say the least. However, in your first example IsValueType just wont work, what about structs?how are you going to differentiate? You can use the property IsPrimitive, but be careful because there are some types that we can think that are primitives, but they aren´t, for example Decimal, String, DateTime, TimeSpan, and so many more.
if (t.IsPrimitive || t == typeof(Decimal) || t == typeof(String) || ... )
{
    // Is Primitive, or Decimal, or String
}

Yet still, this code wont work for nullable types, they wont be flagged as primitive.
I really think you need to reconsider your design, you are going to have to make so many exceptions and it will break all over the place.
Is generics really what you want here?
FWIW, i think you have a design or architectural problem somewhere else that leads you to need to use a generic method like this, or you have unrealistic expectations about what types are and can be categorised as.
However, if you really have your heart set on this,  you could tentatively use something like the following for "primitive like" types
Updated thanks to xanatos sugestions
private static readonly Type[] _types = {
      typeof(string),
      typeof(decimal),
      typeof(DateTime),
      typeof(DateTimeOffset),
      typeof(TimeSpan),
      typeof(Guid)
   };

public static bool IsSimpleType(Type type)
{
   Type baseType;
   return type.IsPrimitive ||
          type.IsEnum ||
          _types.Contains(type) ||
          ((baseType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(type)) != null &&
           IsSimpleType(baseType));
}

Disclaimer, I take no responsibility for the people you maim and injure with this code

A: Type typeValue = typeof(T);

you could refer to typeof for more detail


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Markedly, the brand opened its second store in the city of Kolkata recently. The store is spread over an area of 2,000 square feet.
With the addition of the new stores, 2Bme expects to record revenue worth Rs. 300 crore by 2022. The brand has already crossed the Rs. 100 crore mark. More EBOs, large format MBO's and e-commerce platforms will help it triple the revenue.
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Prof Kwesi Botchwey goes home
BY: Emmanuel Bonney
Prof Kwesi Botchwey goes home. PICTURES BY EBOW HANSON
Many Ghanaians Thursday converged on the forecourt of the State House to pay their last respects to Ghana's longest-serving Finance Minister, the late Professor Kwesi Botchwey, at a state funeral service.
They included the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia; the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare; former President John Dramani Mahama and his 2020 presidential election running mate, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang; the immediate past Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, and the diplomat, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas.
PHOTO: Dr Kwabena Duffuor, a presidential aspirant of the NDC with some leading members of the NDC
Others were former Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) functionaries, the clergy, traditional rulers, family members and friends of the late Finance Minister, members of the Diplomatic Corps, old students of the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School (PRESEC), a host of dignitaries, as well as past and present government officials.
PHOTO: Archbishop Gabriel Palmer Buckle filing past
Prof. Botchwey was Finance Minister for 13 years from 1982 to 1995.
He also served as the Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) between 2009 and and 2016.
Before his demise, he was a member of the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He passed away on Saturday, November 19, 2022 while receiving medical treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
Prof. Botchwey (a.k.a. Kwesi Tenkorang) was born in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale, on September 13, 1942.
He was the second of his parents' five children and was named after his grandfather, Nana Tenkorang.
As a young boy, he won a scholarship to attend PRESEC, then located at Odumase-Krobo, where he passed his GCE (Ordinary Level) examination with distinction and continued his Sixth Form education at St Augustine's College, Cape Coast.
In their tribute, the bereaved children said although they felt hurt, confused and lost without their father, "we are consoled by the fact that you live on in our hearts and from time to time we catch a glimpse of you in one another's looks and mannerisms".
"We share a love for one another that our differences in language, geography, culture and history can never divide. We thank you for all the gifts and memories you have left us with," they said in their tribute, read on their behalf by Nana Ama Botchwey.
The widow, Gwendy Bannerman, said: "I knew humility, but knowing you meant practising it to a fault."
"You treated everyone with respect, which trait was admired by all. I will miss all the endearing words you used, depending on the occasion," she added.
The Senior Presidential Advisor, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, himself a former Finance Minister, in a state tribute, said as someone with in-depth knowledge of economics, Prof. Botchwey contributed immensely to the economy.
Flanked by the current Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, and a former Deputy Finance Minister, Prof. George Gyan-Baffour, Mr Osafo-Maafo said the late Finance Minister, lawyer and lecturer was a blessing to the nation, Africa and the world at large, playing a major role in enhancing the economy of the country and the continent.
"His death is a very big loss to us," he said.
On behalf of the NDC, its Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said Prof. Botchwey's death was shocking and left many people, especially those of the NDC fraternity and his (Botchwey's) immediate family, reeling with shock.
"Many are still in denial. It is, therefore, humbling to be offered the opportunity to give a tribute in memory of Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, for he was a great man," he said.
In their tribute, read by a former Minister of Information, Kofi Totobi Quakyi, who was flanked by a former Chief of Staff, Nana Ato Dadzie, the deceased's colleagues in the PNDC said he had been there at the beginning.
"You were in the trenches with us the commitment, endurance, sacrifices, fortitude, resoluteness - we were with you, the founding fathers of the revolution, together with the maestro and enigma himself, Ft Lt Jerry John Rawlings," they said.
The Director-General of the NDPC, Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa, said Prof. Botchwey's loss was a shock to not only the commission but the country at large.
Nananom of Agona Asafo, his hometown, said in spite of Prof. Botchwey's numerous engagements in Ghana, as well as with international bodies, he had the time to contribute to the development of Asafo and assist in addressing every issue that concerned the town.
A former Minister of State in charge Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, in his tribute, said: "In our local politics, you cannot be friends across party lines. If you hold a political position, avoid your 'enemies'. If you smile at them, you may be reported. At funerals, check who sits next to you; if he or she is from the other side of the political divide, be careful. In some cases, you may even request that ushers kindly change your seating.
"That's not the case with our little Agona community in the Central Region. The Brothers Yankah, the Ahwois, Kwesi Botchweys, Oduros, Major Donkohs, Goosie Tandohs we are one great family."
For his part, Ato Wright said Prof. Botchwey had always been aware that true inner happiness would not come from the material things of this world but rather from the brothers and the sisters and the friends and the mates that he sat, chatted and laughed with.
PHOTO: Gwendy Bannerman (left), the widow being consoled by family members
In a sermon, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, the Most Rev. Dr Paul Boafo, said the life of the economist touched the lives of Ghanaians and the world at large.
He said tributes in memory of the deceased could tell the immense contributions he had made to the country and society at large.
"What we are experiencing now, we have been there before, and we pay tribute to him for leading us out of it. In the same vein, I believe that we will come out of what we are experiencing, all to the glory of God," he said.
The Most Rev. Dr Boafo said Prof. Botchwey's name was attached to virtually all the programmes that brought the country out of its difficulties in the 1980s and 1990s.
"Today, as he goes home, I have the belief and the hope that the legacy he has left behind will inspire us to work for the <B>citizenry<$> of our dear nation, Ghana," he said.
"Kwesi has left a legacy for us to look at and emulate. As an academic, public servant, politician, statesman, family man, mentor, teacher, in whatever regard you see him, he has left something behind and that is what we are celebrating today," he emphasised.
He said the late Finance Minister served the nation well and gave everything in service for the welfare of the people, adding that he gave, so that life would be meaningful for all Ghanaians.
The tributes, he said, would certainly follow the late Prof. Botchwey, and asked: "What legacy will those living also leave behind as politicians, statesmen, public servants, clergymen and family heads?"
"Our works will follow us," he added.
Seven wreaths were laid. They were from the government and the people of Ghana, the widow, the children, the family, the church, the NDC and the Agona Asafo traditional authorities.
On behalf of the family, one of Prof. Botchwey's sons, Edward Andrew Botchwey, thanked the government and the state for the honour done to their late father.
The body of the late Finance Minister was interred in a private burial.


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Coroner hears missing person Robert Mansell in 'funny relationship' with fishing buddy
By Edith Bevin
Updated February 12, 2019 16:35:58
Photo: Robert Charles Mansell disappeared when he was fishing with Joshua Kennedy. (Supplied )
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A person of interest in the disappearance of a Flinders Island man had pinned him on the ground and was choking him just a month before, an inquest has heard.
The coroner hears relationship between Mr Mansell and Mr Kennedy could be "quite toxic"
Mr Mansell claimed he was pinned to the ground and choked by Mr Kennedy
There was a suggestion that Mr Mansell, Mr Kennedy and a woman were in a "twisted love triangle"
Robert Charles Mansell, 42, was reported missing by his fishing companion, Joshua Kennedy, during a fishing trip on Flinders Island in 2015.
Mr Kennedy has been named as a person of interest in the inquest.
The inquest moved to Hobart this week and has heard from Timothy New, who worked for the Flinders Island Aboriginal Association for about 18 months before the disappearance.
Mr New told the inquest "Robbie" Mansell had rented a house on the island from the association and had also volunteered to work with him every week.
"He was a very reliable worker, he'd had a troubled past, but I found him to be very honest and he was always helping the community," Mr New said.
"There's more to a book than its cover. I think that he appreciated that I took him as he was."
Mr New described Mr Kennedy and Mr Mansell as "buddies" but said there were frequent fights over trivial things, which involved pushing and shoving.
"It was a very funny relationship — at times it was quite toxic," Mr New said.
"They seemed to get on quite well during the day … but in the evening if they were both drinking together then they'd often end up in arguments."
Concern over report Mansell had been 'pinned' and 'choked'
Mr New said he was concerned when Mr Mansell told him Mr Kennedy had "pinned him to the ground", in the living room of his home and was choking him.
Mr New said that was a month before Mr Mansell disappeared while fishing with Mr Kennedy.
Photo: Mr Mansell disappeared on a fishing trip from Flinders Island. (Rose Grant)
He said he had advised Mr Mansell to stay away from Mr Kennedy, and had reported the incident to the manager of Flinders Island Aboriginal Association.
"Josh [Kennedy] had pinned Robbie [Mansell] to the ground and he was choking him," Mr New said.
"I knew they'd been in arguments, but this was the first time that Robbie was really concerned.
"Robbie used to tell me that on a few occasions, there was pushing and shoving, and one would end up going home from whatever premises they were at.
"But this is the one that stands out in my mind, because it was the most serious and the one that Robbie was concerned about."
Mr New said he did not know what the argument was about.
Suggestion two men part of 'twisted love triangle'
Lawyer Grant Tucker, who is representing Mr Kennedy in the inquest, put to Mr New that other witnesses had suggested the two men had been involved with the same woman.
"Various witnesses have come before this court and suggested they may have been [in] some kind of twisted love triangle between Mr Kennedy, and Stephanie Riggal and Mr Mansell," Mr Tucker said.
Mr New said he had asked Mr Mansell whether he was seeing Ms Riggal and he had replied "definitely not".
Ms Riggal was in the inquest, but is yet to give evidence.
Mr New said while Mr Mansell was not afraid of the water, he definitely was not a swimmer and, as far as he knew, he did not even own fishing gear.
"I wouldn't say that he was afraid of the water — I had seen him kayaking just in shallow water — but he certainly wasn't a swimmer," he said.
"I'd never seen him go swimming on the island."
Topics: missing-person, death, tas, launceston-7250, hobart-7000
First posted February 12, 2019 16:18:41
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